it
the authority of the Bishop of Rome in England, and I must keep my
oath."

{p.225} The president remonstrated, but without effect, and then
proceeded to address the archbishop, who remained covered:[498]--

[Footnote 498: Exhortation of the Bishop of
Gloucester to Thomas Cranmer: _Cotton MSS.,
Vespasian_, A. 25. A copy, more rounded and
finished, is given by Foxe, in his account of
Cranmer's trial: but the latter has the appearance
of having been touched up afterwards.]

"My lord, we are come hither at this present to you, not intruding
ourselves by our own authority, but sent by commission, as you know,
by the pope's holiness partly; partly from the king's and queen's most
excellent majesties; not utterly to your discomfort, but rather to
your comfort if you will yourself. For we are come not to judge you
immediately, but to put you in remembrance of that which you have been
partly judged of before, and shall be thoroughly judged of ere long.

"Neither our coming or commission is to dispute with you, but to
examine you in matters which you have already disputed in, taught, and
written; and of your resolute answers in those points and others, to
make relation to them that shall give sentence on you. If you, of your
part, be moved to come to a uniformity, then shall not only we take
joy of our examination, but also they that have sent us. Remember
yourself then, _unde excideris_, from whence you have fallen. You have
fallen from the unity of your mother, the Holy Catholic Church, and
that by open schism. You have fallen from the true and received faith
of the same Catholic Church, and that by open heresy. You have fallen
from your fidelity and promise towards God, in breaking your orders
and vow of chastity, and that by open apostasy. You have fallen from
your fidelity and promise towards God's vicar-general, the pope, in
breaking your oath made to his holiness at your consecration, and that
by open perjury. You have fallen from your fidelity and allegiance
towards God's magistrate, your prince and sovereign lady the queen,
and that by open treason, whereof you are already attainted and
convicted. Remember, _unde excideris_, from whence you have fallen,
and in what danger you have fallen.

"You were sometime, as I and other poor men, in mean estate. God hath
called you from better to better, from hig