CCCXV. TO QUEEN MARY? Certain Let- I LeArNED by doctor Martin, that at the day of your majesty’s coronation you took queen, &. an oath of obedience to the pope of Rome, and the same time you took another oath Lene of the to. this realm, to maintain the laws, liberties, and customs of the same. And if your ixi Lana. majesty did make an oath to the pope, I think it was according to the other oaths D Ac, Which he useth to minister to princes; which is, to be obedient to him, to defend his and Monu- person, to maintain his authority, honour, laws, lands, and privileges. And if it be so, 1, 3. Ea (which I know not but by report, then I beseech your majesty to look upon your Contradic- oath made to the crown and realm, and to expend and weigh the two oaths together, queen’s ^ to see how they do agree, and then to do as your grace’s conscience shall give you: for I both tote” am surely persuaded that willingly your majesty will not offend, nor do against your conthepopein^ science for nothing. But I fear me that there be contradictions in your oaths, and that iFoxe] those which should have informed your grace thoroughly, did not their duties therein. And if your majesty ponder the two oaths diligently, I think you shall perceive you were deceived; and then your highness may use the matter as God shall put in your heart. Furthermore, I am kept here from company of learned men, from books, from counsel, from pen and ink, saving at this time to write unto your majesty; which all were necessary for a man being in my case. Wherefore I beseech your majesty, that I may have such of these as may stand with your majesty’s pleasure. And as for mine appearance at Rome, if your majesty will give me leave, I will appear there: and I trust that God shall put in my mouth to defend his truth there as well as here. But I refer it wholly to your majesty’s pleasure’. [Sept. 1555.]
Your poor orator
[[! These notes are pot found in Coverdale.] [^ These and other his smart and learned Omitted in Foxe and Coverdale.] letters, no question, made impression upon the queen, [? Foxe calls this “a piece of another letter to or at least upon those that read them; for they were the queens” and heads it, This was written in delivered by the queen to no less a person than the another letter to the queen.""] holy father cardinal Pole himself; who was advised [ Vid. Letter CCCXIV. p. 447.] to frame an answer to them.”—« By comparing of]
CCCXVI. To a Lawyer
Narumx lex hoc ab omnibus postulat, ut quatenus citra divini numinis injuriam fieri potest, quisque vitam tueatur suam. Quod cum tribus abhinc diebus mihi in mentem venisset, simulque memoria occurrisset appellatio Martini Lutheri a Leone decimo ad concilium generale, constitui et ipse concilium generale legitimum et liberum appellare, ne temere et inconsulto vitam proderem meam. Verum cum appellationis materia ad legisperitos spectet, cujus ego ignarus sum, cumque Lutheri appellatio ad manum mihi non sit; decrevi amico alicui fido et jurisperito consilium meum hac in re pandere, cujus opera in hoc negotio uterer: ac tu quidem unus occurristi, qui mihi in hac academia visus est ad hoc munus idoneus. Sed summam hac res taciturnitatem postulat, ut antequam res fiat, nemo resciscat. Dies mihi dictus est, ut respondeam Rome decimo sexto hujus mensis, ante quem mihi provocandum esse puto, ac post sententiam appellandum. Sed an primum mihi provocandum et appellandum sit a judice delegato ad ipsum pontificem, ac deinde ad concilium generale, an omisso pontifice ad concilium primum appellandum sit, consilio mihi opus est tuo.
Porro appellationis cause mihi multe sunt.
Primo quod juramento astrictus sim, nunquam me consensurum in auctoritatem Romani pontificis.
Deinde cum ego respondere omnino renuerem ad articulos mihi objectos ab episcopo Gloucestrensi judice delegato, responderam tamen Doctori Martino et Storeo cum hac protestatione, quod responsio mea non daretur judici, neque in judicio, sed extrajudicialis esset, et post responsum datum petebam responsionis mez copiam, ut eandem mihi emendare liceret, vel addendo, vel mutando, vel subtrahendo; quanquam hsc mihi promissa sunt, et a Gloucestrensi et a procuratoribus regis et regine, omnino tamen fefellerunt fidem, non dantes emendanda responsionis mea copiam, et nihilominus (ut audio) inter acta judicialia adscripserunt.
Postremo, cum causa defectionis a Romano pontifice et papistica religione in jus vocor, ut jam mihi lis sit adversus pontificem Romanum, et nemo zquus judex sit in causa propria; equum mihi videtur ut concilium appellem, presertim cum jus natura (ut aiunt) appellationis remedium nemini negandum censeat.
Jam cum ad hane rem maxima taciturnitate opus sit, si forsan ob rerum imperitiam aliorum consiliis tibi opus sit, obtestor tum te per christianam fidem ac caritatem, ut cujus causa sit, nemini significes. Et cum jam instet tempus, et mature opus sit facto, hoc me sinas a te impetrare, ut sepositis aliis studiis atque negotiis huie uni incumbas quousque perfeceris. Potissima sane appellationis mea causa est, ut (si ita Deus voluerit) donetur eousque vivendi tempus, quousque coeptum contra Marcum Antonium Constantium responsum absolvero. Quod si veritatis hostes mea appellation deferre nolint, (quod existimo,) fiat voluntas Dei, susque deque fero, modo glorificetur Deus, sive per vitam, sive per mortem. Melius est enim multo mori pro Christo et cum illo regnare, quam in hoc carnis ergastulo concludi, nisi in fratrum utilitatem ad majorem Dei gloriam propagandam liceat aliquamdiu militare; cui sit omnis gloria in evum. Amen.
[this letter of Pole’s with that of Cranmer’s, any one est ac tradidit. Qua epistola eum nec magistrum]
[may see a mighty difference: strength, evidence, and ‘tantimysterii, neque discipulum idoneum esse posse,]
[conviction in the archbishop’s, who had truth on his simulque unde hic ejus error manarit, ostendit, et]
[side; but a flashiness and debility in the cardinal’s, ad penitentiam hortatur.” Strype’s Mem. of Abp.]
[made up of poor shifts, and weak arguings, and im- Cranmer, Vol. II. pp. 547—549. Ed. Oxon. 1840.]
[pertinent allegations of scripture, and personal re- “The answer of cardinal Pole to the above Letters]
[flections, to help out a weak cause.”— To which will be found in the Appendix.]]
[I might have added another letter of the said car- [ Cum ergo talibus prajudiciis valde se gra-]
[dinal to the same archbishop, concerning the sacra- vari sentiat (i.e. Luther) eam ob causam, a ponti-]
[ment, a little after the disputation at Oxford, but fice Romano minus edocto, quantum quidem ad hoc]
[that it would be too prolix, being a treatise against pertinet, provocare se ad pontificem rectius edocen-]
[Cranmer’s book of that argument. This treatise dum, atque hoc ita protestari palam.—He also ap-]
[bears this title: Reginaldi Pole, Cardinalis Legati pealed from the pope to a general council. Sleidan,]
[Apostolici, Epistola ad Thomam Cranmerum, qui De Statu Religionis et reipub. Lib. 1. pp. 9,13. Ed.]
[Archiepiscopalem sedem Cantuariensis Ecclesie te- Francof. 1568. Luth. Op. Lat. 1. p. 219.]]
[nens novam de sacramento eucharistiz doctrinam con- [7 Vid. Letters CCCXIII. CCCXIV; pp.446, 7,]
[tra perpetuam catholic ecclesiaconsensum professus and Examination before Brokes, pp. 212, et sqq. sup.]]
Est et alia appellationis causa, quod cum Romam vocatus sim illic dicturus causam, interim carcere detineor, ut comparere mihi ad dictum diem non liceat. Cum autem de statu et vita mea agitur, et pro defensione mea jurisperitorum consilio mihi opus esset, quum id peterem, negatum est omne advocatorum, procuratorum, et jurisconsultorum consilium et auxilium. “Vale. [Nov. 1555.]