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The like doth ^cFisher Bishop of Rochester, & ^dCardinal Caietan give us to understand of Indulgences; that no certainty can be had, what their original was, or by whom they were first brought in. Fisher also further addeth concerning Purgatory: that in the ancient Fathers, there is either none at all, or very rare mention ⟨p. 4⟩of it; that by the Grecians it is not believed even to this day; that the Latins also, not all at once, but by little and little received it: and that, Purgatory being so lately known, it is not to be marvelled, that in the first times of the Church there was no use of Indulgences; seeing these had their beginning, after that men for a while had been affrighted with the torments of Purgatory. Out of which confession of the adverse part, you §1may observe: 1. What little reason these men have, to require us to set down the precise time wherein all their profane novelties were first brought in: seeing that this §2is more then they themselves are able to do. 2. That some of them may come in pedetentim (as Fisher acknowledgeth Purgatory did) by little and little, and by very slow steps, which are not so easy to be discerned, §3as fools be borne in hand they are. 3. That it is a fond imagination, to suppose that all such changes must be made by some Bishop, or any one certain author: whereas it is confessed, that some may come in by the tacit consent of many, and grow after into a general custom, the beginning whereof is past mans memory.

The like doth ^cFisher Bishop of Rochester, & ^dCardinall Caietan give us to understand of Indulgences; that no certaintie can be had, what their originall was, or by whom they were first brought in. Fisher also further addeth concerning Purgatorie: that in the ancient Fathers, there is either none at all, or very rare mention