MarginaliaAnno. 1555. October. Marginaliai. Of things gottē by fraude, guile, & deceat, as of thinges gotten by open theft and robbery.partis. Wherfore let not your brother maister N. by cauillation continue in the deuils possession. I wil do the best I can, & wrastle with the deuill, omnibus viribus, 

to deliuer you both frō him. I will leaue no one stone vnmoued, to haue bothe you and your brother saued. There is neither Archbishop nor Bishop, nor yet any learned man either in Vniuersities or elswhere, that I am acquaynted withall, that shall not write vnto you, & in theyr writyng by their learnyng confute you. There is no Godlie man of Lawe in this realme, that I am acquainted withall, but thei shall write vnto you, and confute you by the Lawe. There is neither Lorde nor Ladie, nor yet any noble personage in this realme that I am acquainted withall, but thei shall write vnto you, and Godlie threaten you with their authoritie. MarginaliaGodly threats of M. Latymer to saue the soule of his friend.I will doe all this: yea, and kneele vppon bothe my knees before the Kynges Maiestie, & all his honorable Counsaill, with moste humble petition for your reformation, rather then the deuill shall possesse you stil, to your finall damnation. So that I doe not despaire, but verely trust, one waie or other, to plucke bothe you, and also your crabbed brother, as crabbed as you saie he is, out of the deuilles clawes, maugre the deuilles harte.

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These premisses well considered, looke vpon it, good maister N. that we haue no farther adoe. Gods plague is presently vpon vs: therefore let vs now diligently looke about vs, and in no wise defende, but willyngly reknoweledge and amende what soeuer hath been amisse. These were the capitall pointes of your talke (as I was informed,) after you had perused that my nipping and vnplesaunt letter: and I thought good to make you some aunswer to them, if perchaunce I might so moue you, the rather to call your self to some better remembraunce, & so more earnestly applie your self, to accomplishe and performe what you haue begun & promised to doe, namely the thing it self beyng of suche sorte, as apparently tēdeth both to your own worship, & also to gods high pleasure.

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Thus loe with a mad heade, but yet a good will, after long scriblyng, I wot not well what (but I knowe you cā reade it, and comprehende it well enough) I bidde you most hartly well to fare in the lorde, with good health, and long life to Gods pleasure, Amen. From Baxsterley the. xv. of Iuly.

Duryng the tyme that the said M. Latimer was prisoner in Oxforde, we read not of muche that he did write, besides his conference with D. Ridley, and his protestation at the tyme of his disputation. Otherwise of letters, we finde verie few or none that he did write to his frēdes abroad, saue onely these fewe lines, which he wrote to one maistres Wilkinson of London, a godlie matron, and an exile afterwarde for the Gospelles sake. Who so long as she remained in Englande, was a singular patronesse to the good Sainctes of God, and learned Bishops, as to maister Hoper, to the Bishoppe of Hereford, to maister Couerdale, M. Latimer, Doctour Cranmer with many other. The coppie and effecte of whiche his letter to maistres Wilkinson here followeth.

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JF the gifte of a pot of cold water, shall not be in obliuion with God, how can God forget your manifold & bountifull giftes, whē he shall saie to you: I was in prison, and you visited me. God graunt vs all to do & suffer while we be here, as maie be to his will and pleasure, Amen.

Yours in Bocardo. Hugh Latimer.

Touchyng the memorable actes and doynges of this worthie man, among many other this is not to bee neglected, what a bold enterprise he attempted, in sendyng to kyng Henry a present: the maner whereof was this. 

There was then, and yet remaineth still, an old custome receiued frō the old Romans, that vpon Newyeares daie, beyng the first daie of Ianuary, euery Bishop with some handsome Newyeares gifte, should gratifie the Kyng: and so thei did, some with gold, some with siluer, some with a purse full of money, & some one thing, some an other: MarginaliaM. Latymers Newyeares gift sent to K. Henry.but Maister Latimer beyng Byshop of Worcester then, among the rest presented a newe Testamente, for his Newyeares gift, with a napkyn hauing this posie about it: Fornicatores & adulteros iudicabit Dominus. 

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A letter from Latimer to Mistress Wilkinson of London, quoting from Hebrews, 13. 4.

Foxe text Latin

Fornicatores & adulteros iudicabit Dominus.

Foxe text translation

Not translated.

Translation (Wade 2003)

God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

Actual text of Hebrews, 13. 4. (Vulgate)

fornicatores enim et adulteros iudicabit Deus.

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And thus haste thou, gentle reader, the whole life, bothe of M. Ridley, & of M. Latimer, twoo worthy doers in the Churche of Christe, seuerally and by them selues set forthe, and described with all their doynges, writynges, disputations, sufferynges, their painful tra-

uailes, faithfull preachynges, studious seruice in Christes churche, their pacient imprisonment, and constant fortitude in that whiche thei had taught, with all other their proceedynges from tyme to tyme, since their firste springyng yeares, to MarginaliaB. Ridley, and M. Latymer brought forth to examinatio.this present tyme and Monethe of Queene Mary, beyng the Monethe of October. Anno. 1555. MarginaliaOctober. 1. In the whiche Moneth thei were bothe broughte forth together, to their finall examination and execution. Wherfore, as we haue heretofore declared, bothe their liues seuerally, and distinctly one from the other, so now ioyntly to couple them bothe together, as thei were together both ioyned in one societie of cause and Martyrdome, we will by the grace of Christe prosecute the rest that remaineth concernyng their latter examination, disgradyng, and constant sufferyng, with the order and maner also of the Commissioners, MarginaliaM. White B. of Lincolne M. Brokes B. of Glocester the Popes deputies.which were Maister White Bishoppe of Lincolne, Maister Brokes Bishoppe of Glocester, with others: and what were their woordes, their obiections, their Orations there vsed, and what againe were the aunsweres of these men to the same, as in processe here foloweth to bee seen.

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MarginaliaThe last examination of B. Ridley and M. Latymer.FIrste, after the apperyng of Thomas Cranmer Archbishoppe of Canterburie, before the Popes Delegate, and the Queenes Commissioners in sainct Maries Churche at Oxford, about the. xij. daie of September, whereof more shalbee saied (by the Lordes grace) when we come to the death of the saied Archbishoppe: shortly after, vpon the xxviij. daie of the saied Moneth of September, was sent doune to Oxford an other Commission 

from Cardinall Poole Legate a latere,   to Ihō White, Bishoppe of Lincolne, to Doctor Brokes Bishop of Glocester, and to Doctor Holiman, Bishop of Bristow. The contentes & vertue of whiche commission was, MarginaliaThe effect of the Cardinals commission sent downe to Oxford.that the saied Iohn of Lincolne, Iames of Glocester, and Ihou of Bristow, thei or twoo of them, should haue ful power and authoritie, to ascite, examine, and Iudge M. Hugh Latimer, and M. Doctour Ridley, pretensed  Bishops of Worcester and London, for diuerse and sundrie erronious opinions, whiche the saied Hugh Latimer, and Nicholas Ridley, did holde and maintaine in open disputations had in Oxforde, in the Monethes of Maie, Iune, and Iuly, in the yeare of our Lorde 1554, as long before in the time of perdition   and sithen. The whiche opinions if the named persones would now recant, geuyng and yeldyng them selues to the determination of the vniuersal and catholicke churche, planted by Peter in the blessed Sea of Rome, that then the deputed Iudges by the said authoritie of their commission, should haue power to receiue the saied penitent persones, and forth with ministre to them the reconciliation of the holy father the Pope: but if the saied Hugh Latimer, and Nicholas Ridley would stoutly and stubburnly defende, & maintaine these their erronious assertions, that then the said lordes by their commission, should proceede in forme of Iudgement, accordyng to the Lawe of Heretickes, that is, degradyng them from their promotion, and dignitie of Bishoppes, Priestes, and all other ecclesiasticall orders, shoulde pronounce them as Heretickes, and therfore cleane to cut thē of from the churche and so to yelde them to receiue punishemente, due to all suche heresie and schisme.

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MarginaliaD. Ridley and M. Latymer ascited to appeare, the last of Septemb.Wherfore, the last of September, the said two persones Nicholas Ridley & Hugh Latimer, were ascited to appere before the said lordes, in the diuinitie schoole at Oxford, at. viij. of the clocke. At what tyme thether repaired the Lordes, 

placyng them selues in an highe seate, made for publicke lectures and disputations, according to the vsage of that schoole, beyng then faire set, and trimmed with cloth of Tissue and cushynges of veluet: and after the saied Lordes were placed and set, the said Latimer and Ridley were sent for: and first appered M. Doctour Ridley, and anon M. Latimer. But because it semed good seuerally   to examine them, M. Latimer was kept backe, vntill Doctour Ridley was throughly examined. Therefore sone after the cōmyng of Doctour Ridley into the schole, the commission was published by an appointed Notarie, and openly read. But Doct. Ridley standing bare headed, humbly expecting the cause of that his apperance, eftsones   as he had heard the Cardinall named and the Popes

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