Sedis legati, de Lambithe Winton' Dioc. situatum in nostrorum BOOK II. Notariorum Publicorum Subscriptorum, ac Testium inferius Nominatorum, præsentiâ constitutus personaliter idem Reverendissimus in Christo Pater, quandam Protestationem, in scriptis redactam, fecit, et interposuit, ac palàm et publicè Protestatus est, cæteraque fecit et exercuit prout, et quemadmodum quâdam Papiri Schedulâ, quam manibus suis tunc tenens publicè legebat, plenius continebatur; cujus quidem Schedulæ tenor sequitur, et est talis.

In Dei Nomine. Amen. Nos Wilhelmus permissione divinâ Cant. Arch. totius Angliæ Primas, et Apostolicæ sedis legatus, Protestamur publicè et expressè, pro nobis, et sanctâ Ecclesia nostra Metropoliticâ Cantuariensi, quod nolumus, nec intendimus, sicuti neque sanâ Conscientiâ possumus, Alicui statuto in præsenti Parliamento apud Fratres Prædicatores London tertio die mensis Novembris Anno Dom' 1529. et Anno Regni Regis Henrici Octavi xxi. inchoat', et abinde usq; ad Westm' prorogat', & ibidem huc usque continuat', edito, seu deinceps edendo, quatenus statuta hujusmodi, seu eorum aliquod, in derogationem Romani Pontificis, aut Sedis Apostolicæ; vel damnum Præjudicium, sive Restrictionem Ecclesiastica Potestatis; aut in Subversionem, Enervationem, seu Derogationem, vel Diminutionem, Jurium, Consuetudinum, Privilegiorum, Prærogativarum, Præeminentiarum, seu Libertatis Ecclesiæ nostræ Metropolitica Christi Cant' prædict' tendere dignoscuntur, quomodolibet consentire; sed ad omnem Juris effectum qui exinde sequi poterit aut debebit, eisdem Dissentire, Reclamare, Contradicere; ac Dissentimus, Reclamamus, et Contradicimus in his scriptis. Super quibus omnibus, et singulis præmissis, idem Reverendissimus Pater nos Notarios publicos subscriptos sibi unum, vel plura, publicum seu publica, Instrumentum sive Instrumenta, exinde conficere debitè et instanter requisivit et rogavit.

Acta sunt hæc omnia et singula prout supra scribuntur et recitantur sub Anno Domini, Indictione, Pontificatu, Mense, Die, et loco prædictis; Præsentibus tunc ibidem venerabilibus, et probis Viris, Magistris Johanne Cocks, legum Doctore: Rogero Harmam Theologiæ Baccalaureo: Ingelramno Bedill, Clerico:

PART Et Wilhelmo Waren Literato, Testibus ad præmissa vocatis specialiter et rogatis.

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Istud Instrumentum similiter erat subscriptum manibus prædictorum trium Notariorum, with the foregoing Instrument; which was that of the Submission of the Clergy. They were William Potkyn, John Hering, and Thomas Argal. This was copied out of a MS. in my Lord Longvill's Library.

Number 23.

To the King. From Edmund Bonner at Marseilles."

A Letter of Bonner's upon his reading the King's Appeal to the

Pope.

An Original.

Cotton Li- PLEASETH it your Highnes to be advertised, that sythen my

brary, Vitellius,

B. 14.

Fol. 75.

last Letters sent unto the same of the ivth of this present by Thadens the Curror wherein I declared in what Termes were the Proceedings here, I was commaunded by my Lord of Winchester and other your Highnes Ambassadoures here, to intimate unto the Popes Person, if the same were possible to do, all suche Provocations and Appelles which your Highnes heretofore had made unto the Generall Councell, and sent hither to be intimated accordinglie. Whereupon desiring Mr. Penyston to take the Pains with me unto the Popes Palace for the Expeditions of an Acte concernyng your Highnes, and he right glad and very well content to do the same: I repayred with hym thither the viith of this present, in the Mornyng, and albeit that at the Begynnyng some Resistence and Contradiction was made that we shold not come unto the Pope, which as then was in manner full readye to come unto the Consistorie; And therefore not accustomed with other Business to be interrupted, yet in Conclusion we came to that Chamber where the Pope stode bytwene two Cardinalles, de Medices, and Lorayne, redie apparelled with his Stole towards the Consistorie. And incontinently upon my

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comyng thither, the Pope, whos Sight is incredulous quick, BOOK eyed me, and that divers tymes, making a good Pawse in one place, in which tyme I desired the Datary to advertise his Holines that I desired to speke with him. And albeit the Datarie made no litle Difficultie therein thinking the Tyme and Place not most convenient, yet perceyvyng that upon Refusal I wool have goon furthwith to the Pope, he advertised the Pope of my said Desire. And his Holynes dismyssing as then the said Cardinals, and letting his Vesture fall went to.a Wyndowe in the said Chamber calling me unto him, at what tyme (doyng Reverence accustomed) I shew'd unto his Holynes how that your Highness had given me expresse and strayte Commandment to intimate unto hym, how that your Grace had first solomly provoked and allso after that appealled unto the Generall Councell, submitting your self to the Tuition and Defence thereof, which Provocation and Appelles I said I had under authentike Writinges then with me to shewe for that Purpose. Declaring that your Highnes was moved thus to doo upon reasonable Causes and Grounds expressed in the said Provocation and Appelles, and yet nevertheless soo tempering your Doynges that beynge a good and Catholike Prince, and proceeding thereafter, your Grace mynded not any thing to say, doo, or goo about agaynst the Holie Catholique and Apostolique Churche, or the Authority of the See, otherwise then was the Office of a good Catholike Prince, and chaunsing soo to doo indeed intended in Tyme and Place according, Catholiquely to reforme and await the same. And herewithall I drew out the said Writing shewing his said Holynes that I brought the same for Proof of the Premisses and that his Holynes might see and perceive all the same, adding hereunto that your Highnes used these Remedies not in any Contempt either of the Churche, the See, or of his Holynes, but only upon Causes expressed in the said Writings. Desiring also his Holynes that althoughe in tymes passed it liked hym to shewe unto me much Benevolence and Kyndnes wherbie I must and did accompte my self greatly bounden unto the same, yet considering the Obligations a Subject must and doth of Right beare chiefly unto his Sovereyne Lord, he wood take al my Doyngs in good parte, and not to ascribe any Unkyndnes VOL. III. P. 3.

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PART unto me in this behalfe, but only to consider that a Subject and Servant must do his Masters Commandement. The Pope havyng this for a Brekefast, only pulled downe his Head to his Shoulders after the Italion Fashion, and said that because he was as then fully ready to goe to the Consistorie he would not tarye to hear or see the said Writings; but willed me to come at after noone and he would gladly giffme Audience to all the same, and other things that I would propose or do, whereupon his Holynes departing streyght to the Consistorie, I returned to your said Ambassadors, telling them what I had doon, and what Answer I had. That after noone I and Mr. Penyston (whom I entended aswel in the Popes Answeres, as also in other my Doinge, to use as a Wittnes if the Cause should soe require,) repayred to the Palace, and bycause that Audience was assigned unto many, and among others unto the Ambassador of Millan, I tarried there the Space of an Howre and Halfe, and finally was called into the Pope's Secret Chamber, where (taking with me Mr. Penyston) I founde his Holines having only with hym Godsadyn of Bononie; The Pope perceyving that I had brought one with me, looked much upon hym, and a great deale the more, in my Opinion, bycause that in the Morning I did speak with his Holines alone, Mr. Penyston albeit beyng in the said Chambre, and seying what I did, yet not resorting nye unto his said Holines. And to put the Pope out of this Fantasie, and somewhat to colour my Entent, I tolde his Holynes that the said Mr. Penyston was the Gentilman that had brought unto me Commission and Letters from your Highnes, to intimate unto his Holynes the Provocation and Appeal forsaid; the Pope percase not fully herewith satisfied, and supposing that I would (as I indede entended) have recorde upon my Doyngs, said, that it were good for him to have his Datarie, and also other of his Counsell, to hear and see what were done in that Behalfe, and thereupon called for his Datarie, Symonetta, and Capisuchi. In the mean whyle, they beyng absent, and sent for, his Holynes leaning in his Wyndow towardes the West syde, after a little. Pawse turned unto me, and asked me of my Lord of Winchester how he did, and likewise afterward of Mr. Brian; but after that sort that we thought he would make me believe that he knew

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not of his being here, saying thos Words; How doth Mr. BOOK Brian, is he here now: and after that I had answered hereunto, his Holynes not a little seeming to lament the Death of Mr. Doctor Bennet, whom he said was a Faithfull and Good True Servant unto your Highnes, enquired of me whether I was present at the Time of his Death, and falling out of that, and marvelling, as he said, that your Highness would use his Holyness after such sorte, as it appears ye did: I said that your Highnes no less did marveyll that his Holynes havyng found so much Benevolence and Kyndnes at your Handes in all Tymes passed, would for acquitall shewe such unkyndnes as of late he did, as well in not admitting your Excusator with your lawfull Defences, as alsoe pronouncing against your Highnes: and here we entered in Comunication upon two Poyntes, oon was that his Holynes having comitted in Tymes passed, and in moost ample Forme, the Cause into the Realm, promising not to revoke the said Commission, and over that to confirm the Processe and Sentence of the Commisaries, beyng Two Cardinalles and Legates of his See, should not especially at the Poynt of Sentence, have advoked the Cause from their Hands, reteyning it at Rome, but at the lest, he should have committed the same to some other indifferent Judges within your Realme, making herein that it could not be retayned at Rome: This Argument was Either his Holynes would have the Matter examyned and ended, or he would not: If he would, then either he would have it examined and ended in a Place whither your Highness might personally come, and ellse bende to send your Proctor, or else in that Place whither your Highnes nother couud or ought personally to come unto; Ne yet bounde to sende a Proctor; if he intended in a Place whither your Highnes might personally come, and elles bound to send a Proctor he intended well and ought to have provided accordingly. If he entended that the Matter shuld be examyned and ended in that Place wher your Highnes neither could nor ought personally to come, nor yet bounde to send a Proctor then his Holynes did not well and justly, Seying that ether your Highness shuld therbie be compelled to make a Proctor in Matter of such Importance against your Will; or enforced to a Thing unto you impossible, or elles to be left with