This Robert Calye hauynge the conductyng of the saide Gentlemanne from the Pultry, MarginaliaIntollerable braggyng of a vile promotor.woulde nedes hale him throughe Chepeside, the Gentle manne desyringe him to turn some other waye. But the more the Gentlemanne entreated the more fierce was this sely Iacke vppon hym: and drawyng and holdynge hym by the arme, woulde needes hale hym through the hygh strete, that al the world might see what he coulde dooe in his offyce. Maister Gibson desirous to bee ledde without holding, willed and entreated him to lette hys arme loose. he would goe quietly of his accorde with him whether he woulde, onely crauynge that he might goe by him freely without notyng of the people.

The saucye and impotent miser, the Promoter hearinge this, who was scarce able to reache vnto his shoulders: naye (saith he) thou shalte not escape me so, come foorth thy waies. thou shalte not choose but come: and so reachynge at his arme, woulde nedes dragge him vnto the Bishoppe. The Gentleman content to goe, yet lothe to bee notified in the Stretes gentlye requested againe, and againe, that refraininge his holde, he woulde suffer hym to goe of his owne free and voluntarye wyll. he shoulde not nede to feare him. for hee woulde not start from him. To whom the caytiffe, looking vppe to his face: Come on thy way, saith he, I will hold thee fast spite of thy beard, whether thou wilt or no.

Maister Gibson seinge and beholdinge the intollerable braggynge of the wretched myser, and moued therewith not a litle, coulde beare no longer, but saide: Wilte thou, sayde he? and addeth moreouer, protestynge with a greate othe, bitterly looking downe towardes him, that if he did not incontinently plucke away his hand (and so stayed withal) he would immediatelye wring his necke from his body. Whereuppon Robin Papiste, the Promotor, was fayne to plucke awaye his holde, and so proceaded they vnto the Bishoppe, there to bee examined againe before him. I should haue declared before how Boner, as his maner was commonlye with diuers, hadde receiued and procured against him for witnesses, Wylliam Woode, Iohn Babington, Thomas Hawes, Thomas Cornishe, Richarde Lawkenor, Nicholas Groue, and Owen Claydon, to whome interrogatories were also ministred to despose vppon against the said Gibson. The tenoure of the interrogatories were these.

Interrogatories ministred vnto the witnesses producted agaynst maister Gibson. 

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The interrogatories of the witnesses against Gibson were dropped in the 1570 edition, undoubtedly to save paper.

MarginaliaInterrogatories. Marginalia1WHether ye knowe of certaintye or els crediblye are infourmed and beleue, that Richarde Gibson nowe prisoner

in the Counter in the Pultrye within the citie and diocesse of London, hath euer at al and sondrye times and places, in prison, or otherwhere behaued himselfe in woordes, behauioure and deedes, in all conditions and poyntes, as all the Catholique and true subiectes of thys Realme oughte to dooe, and to behaue theimselues therein accordingly to their duety.

Marginalia2Whether ye so knowe, or so are infourmed and beleue, that the sayde Richarde Gibson hath, durynge all the tyme of his saide imprisonment reuerentlye spoken of the Pope, and of the Sea and Churche of Rome, and lyke of þ^e whole churche of this realme of England, and of the seuen Sacramentes of the Catholique Churche, and other pointes of the Catholique religion.

Marginalia3Whether ye haue heard the saide Richarde Gibson, at any time during his saide imprisōment, spoken against the said Pope and his authority, and against the churche of Rome, and the faith therof, or against this church of England and the faith and seruice therof, or against any of the saide seuen Sacramentes of the said Catholique church, or against the common order of the ecclesiasticall churche, or any of the ceremonies therof.

Marginalia4Whether ye haue heard the said Richarde Gibson at any tyme induryng his sayd imprysonment, allowe, commende, defende, and lyke any the articles that Cranmer, Latimer, Rydley &c. or any other were condemned for as heretiques, by the ecclesiasticall authoritye and lawes of this realme of Englande.

Marginalia5Whether ye haue heard this said Richarde Gibson at any the sayd tymes, to comfort, ayde or assist by woordes, or otherwyse, anye heretique or any erroneous person, or suspecte person of heresy, to cōtinue or persist in any their hereticall and erroneous opinions.

Marginalia6Whether haue ye heard the sayde Gibson at anye time, in prisone or els where in talke, vtter and saye, that the Religion and fayth commonly obserued and vsed here now in this realme of England, is not good nor laudable, nor agreable vnto goddes woorde and commaundemente: And that he wyll hee contented in all poyntes to conforme him selfe withoute anye murmurynge or grudgynge vnto the same.

Marginalia7Whether ye haue hearde the sayde Gibson at any tyme in prison, or els where, affyrme and say, that the Englishe seruice, and the bookes commonlye called the bookes of Communion set forth here in this realm of Englād in the tyme of Kyng Edwarde the sixt, wer in all partes good and godly, and the same onely to be obserued and kept, and none other.

Marginalia8Whether ye haue heard the sayde Gibson at anye time in prison or els where affyrme or saye, that he being at libertie, is not bounde to