A defence of the Apologie of the Churche of Englande conteininge an answeare to a certaine booke lately set foorthe by M. Hardinge, and entituled, A confutation of &c. By Iohn Iewel Bishop of Sarisburie.

M. Hardinge.

Touchinge the matter you haue deuised vpon M. Clemente, he dothe not onely denie it in word, that euer he burnte or otherwise destroied any leafe of Theodoritus, but also declareth by the whole order of his life, and by special regard and loue he beareth to the tonge, which that learned Bishop wrote in, that he hath euer ben, and yet is farre from the wil to burne or destroie any scrappe, syllable, or letter of Greeke, mutche more certaine leaues of the learned Father Theodoritus, where any sutche thinge was written, as you imagin. Nay, Wel ye haue the trouthe? In very dede he saieth, and by sutche waie, as a godly and graue man maie auouche a trouth, protesteth, that he neuer had hitherto any parte of that booke, neither in Greeke, or in Latine in written hand.