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…

After a number of words without matter / sayings without proofs / accusations without any grounds or likelihood of grounds / as that they be instruments of greedy guts and lusty roisters / to maintain them in their jollity / which notwithstanding speak against patronages / and would have the livings of the church / which are idly and unprofitably spent (for the most part) applied to the right uses of the pore / and of ministers and scholars / & that ⟨p. 157⟩they would be discharged from eyuill and ecclesiastical subjection / which humbly submitting them selves to the Queens majesty and all those that are sent of her / would deliver the churches and them selves for the churches sake / from the unlawful dominion of one / to the end that they might yield them selves with their churches subject to the lawful ecclesiastical government of those which God hath appointed in his word: After I say a number of such and like accusations mixed with most bitter and reproachful words unto all which / it is sufficient answer / that quod Verbo dictum est, Verbo sit negatum. As easily denied as said. He turneth him self to those that be in authority / whom he would make believe that it standeth upon the overthrow of the church / of religion / of order / of the realm / and of the estate of Princes and magistrates / which are by this means established / & whose estates are made this way most sure / when as y• true causes of these clamours and outcries that M. Doctor maketh / is nothing else but the fear of the overthrow of that honour / which is to the dishonour of God and ignominy of his church / and the establishing of that which maketh to the good dispensing of those goods for the aid and help of the church / which now serve to oppress it. As for the court of faculties / the corruptions thereof being so clear / that all men see them / and so gross / that they which can not see may grope them: M. Doctor answereth / that he knoweth not what it meaneth / and therefore is moved of modesty to think the best of it / which is but a simple shift. For besides that the Admonition speaketh nothing of it / but that the streets and high ways talk of: if there had been any defence for it / it is not to be thought that M.