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The Author of this Book was fled to Tyndale, where he wrote this Book for fear of the Cardinal: when the King had read this, he caused his Wife to send for him home, he was brought to the King, and after he had communed with him, and was afraid to go home, the King delivered him his Signet for a Token, to deliver to the Cardinal, that he should not trouble him. The Cardinal answered; Though this discharged him, yet he had no discharge for his Wife, and sent for her, and had troubled her, if her•Daughter had not been sick of the plague, of which sickness, the said Fish within half a year after dyed, and she married one Baynham, which after was martyred, as followeth in this Story. To prevent the spreading abroad of this Libel, there was a prohibition sent out •y the Bishop of London, for calling in this the New Testament, and divers other Books translated into English: the names whereof, because they are many, I omit, and leave you to the book at large.

The Author of this Booke was fled to Tindall, where he wrote this Booke for feare of the Cardinall: when the King had read this, he caused his Wife to send for him home, he was brought to the King, and after he had communed with him, and was afraid to goe home, the King deliuered him his Signet for a Token, to deli•er to the Cardinall, that he should not trouble him. The Cardinall answered; Though this discharged him, yet he had no discharge for his Wife, and sent for her, and had troubled her, if her•Daughter had not béene sicke of the plague, of which sicknesse, the said Fish within halfe a yeare after dyed, and she marryed one Baynham, which after was martyred, as followeth in this Story. To preuent the spreading abroad of this Libell, there was a prohibition sent out •y the Bishop of London, for calling in this the New Testament, and diuers other Books translated into English: the names whereof, because they are many, I omit, and leaue you to the booke at large.

King Henry, about the twentieth year of his reign, made an Oration unto his Commons, that though it had pleased God to send him a fair Daughter of a Noble woman, and of him begotten to our great comfort and joy: yet it hath been told us by divers great Clerks, that neither she is Our lawful Daughter, nor her Mother Our lawful wife, but that we live together abominably in open adultery: and when our Ambassadors were last in France, motion was made that the Duke of Orleans should marry our said Daughter: One of the chief Councillors said, it were well done to know whether she be his lawful Daughter or no; because he begat her on his brothers Wife, which is directly against Gods Law: Think you my Lords, that these words touch not my body and soul, and that it doth not daily and hourly trouble my Conscience: I doubt not but every one of you would seek remedy when the peril of your soul, and loss of your inheritance is laid unto you. For this cause I have asked Counsel of the greatest Clerks in Christendom: and for this cause I have sent for this Legate, as a man indifferent to know the truth, and settle my conscience; and if the Queen be adjudged by the Law to be my lawful Wife, it would be the most acceptable thing in my life, both to clear my conscience and for the good qualities which I know to be in her, besides her Noble parentage, as almost this twenty years I have tried, so that if I went to marry again, & the marriage lawful, I would choose her before all women, & if the marriage prove unlawful, I shall sorrow the departing from so good a Lady, and loving a companion but much more lament that I have so long lived in Adultery, and have no true heir of my body to inherit this Realm: Therefore I require you to make our mind known to our Subjects that they may pray for us.