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The true copies of the letters between the reverend father in God John Bishop…The true copies of the letters betwene the reuerend father in God Iohn Bisshop…
The true copies of the letters between the reverend father in God John Bishop of Sarum and D. Cole upon occasion of a sermon that the said Bishop preached before the Queens Majesty, and her most honourable Counsel. 1560. Set forth and allowed, according to the order appointed in the Queens Maiesties iniunctions. Cum gratia & privilegio Regiæ Maiestatis per septennium.The true copies of the letters betwene the reuerend father in God Iohn Bisshop of Sarum and D. Cole vpon occasion of a sermon that the said Bishop preached before the Quenes Maiestie, and hir most honorable Counsel. 1560. Set forthe and allowed, according to the order appointed in the Quenes Maiesties iniunctions. Cum gratia & priuilegio Regiæ Maiestatis per septennium.
London: printed by John Day, 1560
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Reply Sarum.
YE have answered me by saying nothing, which I think ye would not have done, if ye had ⟨p. 98⟩any thing else to answer, from proof in this matter I am sufficiently discharged, by the law of impossibility. For, as ye said, openly at Westminster (and once again I put you in remembrance of the same, because it is your own law) it is impossible to prove a negative. All your help is in the shadow & pretence of learning whereby it appeareth well ye fly disputation. •e were best to get some better cloak to hide you under, for these be but fig leaves, and cover not your shame.
YE haue answered me by saying nothing, whiche I thinke ye would not haue done, if ye had ⟨p. 98⟩any thynge els to answere, from proufe in thys matter I am sufficiently discharged, by the lawe of impossibility. For, as ye sayd, opēly at Westminster (and once agayne I put you in remembraunce of the same, because it is your own law) it is impossible to proue a negatiue. All your helpe is in the shadow & pretence of learning wherby it appeareth well ye flye disputation. •e were best to get some better cloke to hyde you vnder, for these be but fyg leaues, and couer not your shame.