A18078:476
A reply to an answer made of M. Doctor Whitgifte Against the admonition to…A replye to an ansvvere made of M. Doctor VVhitgifte Against the admonition to…
A reply to an answer made of M. Doctor Whitgifte Against the admonition to the Parliament. By T.C.A replye to an ansvvere made of M. Doctor VVhitgifte Against the admonition to the Parliament. By T.C.
printed by John Stroud?, 1573
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Thought you to disguise him with this new name of the book / that he should not be known? •or meant you to occupy your answerer in seeking of a book / which because he should never find / he should never answer. The place which Polidore meaneth / is in the first epistle which he writeth unto James / the brother of the Lord / which is as the rest are both ridiculous in the manner of writing / & in the matter oftener times wicked & blasphemous / which I speak to this end / that the reader through the commendation that M. Doctor hath given to this Clement / in taking him as one of his witnesses in so great a matter / be not abused.
Thought you to disguise hym with thys new name of the booke / that hee shoulde not be knowne? •or ment you to occupy your answerer in seeking of a booke / which because he shoulde neuer fynde / he should neuer answer. The place which Polidore meaneth / is in the first epistle which he wryteth vnto Iames / the brother of the Lord / which is as the rest are both rediculous in the manner of wryting / & in the matter oftner tymes wycked & blasphemous / which I speake to thys ende / that the reader through the commendation that M. Doctor hath geuen to thys Clement / in taking hym as one of hys wytnesses in so great a matter / be not abused.
For answer unto him / although he be not worth the answering / I say that first it may be well said here of the office of the Archbishop / that the father of it was an Amorite / and mother a Hittite / that is / that it cometh of very infamous parentage / the beginning thereof being of the idolatrous nations.
For answere vnto hym / although he be not worth the answering / I say that first it may be well sayde heere of the office of the Archbyshop / that the father of it was an Amorite / and mother a Hittite / that is / that it commeth of very infamous parentage / the beginning therof being of the idolatrous nations.