her to higher, and never
gave you over till he made you, _legatum natum_, Metropolitan
Archbishop, Primate of England. Who was more earnest then in defence
of the real presence of Christ's body and blood in the sacrament of
the altar than ye were? Then was your candle shining to be a light to
all the world, set on high on a pinnacle. But after you began to fall
from the unity of the Catholic Church by open schism, and would no
{p.226} longer acknowledge the supremacy of the pope's holiness by
God's word and ordinance;--and that by occasion, that you, in whose
hands then rested the sum of all, being primate, as was aforesaid,
would not, according to your high vocation, stoutly withstand the most
ungodly and unlawful request of your prince touching his divorce, as
that blessed martyr, St. Thomas of Canterbury, sometime your
predecessor, did withstand the unlawful requests of the prince of his
time, but would still not only yield and bear with things not to be
borne withal, but also set a-flame the fire already kindled--then your
perfections diminished; then began you, for your own part, to fancy
unlawful liberty. Then decayed your conscience of your former faith,
your former promise, the vow of chastity and discipline after the
order of priesthood; and when good conscience was once cast off, then
followed after, as St. Paul noteth, a shipwreck in the faith. Then
fell you from the faith, and out of the Catholic Church, as out of a
sure ship, into a sea of dangerous desperation; for out of the church,
to say with St. Cyprian, there is no hope of salvation at all. To be
brief; when you had forsaken God, his Spouse, his faith, and fidelity
to them both, then God forsook you; and as the apostle writeth of the
ingrate philosophers, delivered you up _in reprobum sensum_, and
suffered you to fall from one inconvenience to another, as from
perjury into schism, from schism into a kind of apostasy, from
apostasy into heresy, from heresy into traitory, and so, in
conclusion, from traitory into the highest displeasure and worthiest
indignation of your most benign and gracious queen."[499]

[Footnote 499: The address concluded with a prolix
exhortation to repentance, which I omit. It may be
read in a form sufficiently accurate in Foxe.]

When the bishop ceased, the crown proctors rose, and demanded justice
against the prisoner in the names of the king and queen.

"My lord," Cr