aynton: _Letters_, p. 329.
[568] _Letters_, p. 323.
[569] He thought of going abroad. "I have trust that God will help me," he
wrote to a friend; "if I had not, I think the ocean sea should have divided
my Lord of London and me by this day."--_Remains_, p. 334.
[570] Latimer to Sir Edward Baynton.
[571] See Latimer's two letters to Sir Edward Baynton: _Remains_, pp.
322-351.
[572] "As ye say, the matter is weighty, and ought substantially to be
looked upon, even as weighty as my life is worth; but how to look
substantially upon it otherwise know not I, than to pray my Lord God, day
and night, that, as he hath emboldened me to preach his truth, so he will
strengthen me to suffer for it.
"I pray you pardon me that I write no more distinctly, for my head is [so]
out of frame, that it would be too painful for me to write it again. If I
be not prevented shortly, I intend to make merry with my parishioners, this
Christmas, for all the sorrow, _lest perchance I never return to them
again_; and I have heard say that a doe is as good in winter as a buck in
summer."--Latimer to Sir Edward Baynton, p. 334.
[573] LATIMER'S _Remains_, p. 334.
[574] Ibid. p. 350.
[575] "I pray you, in God's name, what did you, so great fathers, so many,
so long season, so oft assembled together? What went you about? What would
ye have brought to pass? Two things taken away--the one that ye (which I
heard) burned a dead man,--the other, that ye (which I felt) went about to
burn one being alive. Take away these two noble acts, and there is nothing
else left that ye went about that I know," etc., etc.--Sermon preached
before the Convocation: LATIMER'S _Sermons_, p. 46.
[576] "My affair had some bounds assigned to it by him who sent for me up,
but is now protracted by intricate and wily examinations, as if it would
never find a period; while sometimes one person, sometimes another, ask me
questions, without limit and without end."--Latimer to the Archbishop of
Canterbury: _Remains_, p. 352.
[577] _Remains_, p. 222.
[578] _Sermons_, p. 294.
[579] The process lasted through January, February, and March.
[580] _Sermons_, p. 294.
[581] He subscribed all except two--one apparently on the power of the
pope, the other I am unable to conjecture. Compare the Articles
themselves--printed in LATIMER'S _Remains_, p. 466--with the Sermon before
the Convocation.--_Sermons_, p. 46; and BURNET, vol. iii. p. 116.
[582] Nicholas Glossop
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