The second [seventh] sermon of Master Hugh Latimer which he preached before the Kings…The seconde [seventh] sermon of Maister Hughe Latimer which he preached before the Kynges…

¹So thought I, there be more of mine opinion then I, I thought I was not alone. I have now gotten one fellow more, a companion of sedition, and wot ye who is my fellow? Isaiah ⟨image 51⟩the Prophet, I spake but of a little pretty shilling. But he speaketh to Jerusalem after an other sort,² and was so bold to meddle with their coin Thou proud, thou covetous, thou haughty city of Jerusalem.³ Argentum tuum uersum est inscoriam. Thy silver is turned into, what? into testoons? Scoriam, in to dross. Ah seditious wretch, what had he to do with the mint? Why should not he have left that matter to some master of policy to reprove? Thy silver is dross, it is not fine, it is counterfeit, thy silver is turned, thou haddest good silver What pertained that to Isaiah? Mary he espied a piece of divinity in that policy, he threateneth them goods vengeance for ⟨image 52⟩it. He went to the rote of the matter, which was covetousness.⁴ He espied two points in it, that either it came of covetousness, which became him to reprove, or else that it tended to the hurt of the pore people, for the naughtiness of the silver was the occasion of dearth of all things in the Realm. He imputeth it to them as a great crime. He may be called a master of sedition in deed. Was not this a seditious harlot to tell them this to their beards? to their face?

¹So thoughte I, there bemore of myne opinion then I, I thought I was not alone. I haue nowe gotten one felowe more, a companyon of sedytyon, and wot ye who is my felowe? Esaye ⟨image 51⟩the Prophete, I spake but of a lytle preaty shyllynge. But he speaketh to Hierusalem after an other sorte,²