A18078:500
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.
Ambrose complaining of the ministers or bishops in those days / sayeth / it a man ask them / who preferred them to be priests / answer is made by and by / that the archbishop for an hundred shillings / ordained me bishop / to whom I gave a hundred shillings / that I might get the favour to be bishop / which if I had not given / I had not been bishop. And afterward he sayeth / that this grieved him / that the archbishop ordained bishops carnally / or for some carnal respect. And this is all the allowance that Ambrose showeth of an archbishop. Your archbishop taketh all things in good part / so that his very dispraise he expoundeth to his commendation. And there is great likelihood / that the archbishop which Ambrose maketh mention of / was no other / then he which for the time ruled the action / wherein bishops were ordained / and after the action ended / had no more authority then the rest.
Ambrose complaining of the ministers or bishops in those dayes / sayeth / it a man aske them / who preferred them to be priestes / answere is made by and by / that the archbyshop for an hundreth shillings / ordained me bishop / to whome I gaue a hundreth shillings / that I might get the fauor to be bishop / whych if I had not giuen / I had not bene byshop. And afterward he sayeth / that this greeued him / that the archbyshop ordained byshops carnally / or for some carnall respecte. And thys is all the allowance that Ambrose sheweth of an archbyshoppe. Your archbishop taketh all things in good parte / so that his very dispraise he expoundeth to hys commendation. And there is great likelyhode / that the archbyshop whych Ambrose maketh mention of / was no other / then he whych for the time ruled the action / wherin byshops were ordained / and after the action ended / had no more authoritye then the rest.
And I am moved so to think. First / because it is not like / that one only ordained bishops / being contrary to the old Canons of the best councils / but that there were other / and that this whom Ambrose calleth archbishop / did gather the voices. &c.
And I am moued so to thincke. First / because it is not like / that one only ordained byshops / being contrary to the olde Canons of the best councelles / but that there were other / and that thys whome Ambrose calleth archbyshop / dyd gather the voyces. &c.