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…

And although M. Doctor hath brought neither scripture / nor reason / nor council / wherein there is either name of archbishop or archdeacon / or proved that there may be / & although he show not so much as the name of them. 400. years after our saviour Christ. And although where he showeth them / they be either by counterfeit authors / or without any word of approbation of good authors / yet as though he had showed all / and proved all / having showed nothing / nor proved nothing / he clappeth the hands to himself / and putteth the crown upon his own head / saying / that those that be learned / may easily understand / that the names / archbishop / archdeacon / primate / patriarch / be most ancient and approved of the eldest / best / worthiest councils / fathers / writers. And a little afterward / that they are unlearned / and ignorant / which say otherwise.

And although M. Doctor hathe brought neither scripture / nor reason / nor councel / wherin there is either name of archbishop or archdeacon / or proued that there may be / & although he shewe not so much as the name of them. 400. yeres after our sauioure Christ. And although where he sheweth them / they be eyther by counterfait authors / or wythout any worde of approbation of good authors / yet as though he had shewed all / and proued all / hauing shewed nothing / nor proued nothing / he clappeth the hands to himselfe / and putteth the crowne vpon hys owne heade / saying / that those that be learned / may easely vnderstande / that the names / archbishop / archdeacon / primate / patriarche / be most auncient and approued of the eldest / best / worthiest councels / fathers / wryters. And a little afterward / that they are vnlearned / and ignorant / whych say otherwise.

Here is a victory blown with a great and sounding trumpet / that might have been piped with an oaten straw. And if it should be replied again / that M. Doctor hath declared in this / little learning / little reading / and less judgement / there might grow controversies without all fruit. And by and by / in saying that the archbishops beginning is unknown / in stead of a bastard / which some brought into the church / that hid them selves because they were ashamed of the child / he will make us believe that we have a new Melchizedek / without father / without mother / and whose generation is not known / and so concludeth with the place of S. Augustine / as far as he remembereth in the. 118. epistle to January: that the original of them is from the apostles them selves.