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FOr so much as a rumor is spread abroad of the talk had at my L. Chuancellours,* 1.1 betweene hym with other Commissioners there appoynted, and M. Hooper cleane contrary to the veritie and truth thereof in deede, and therfore to bee iudged rather to be risen of malice, for the discrediting of the truth by false sugge∣stions
and euill reportes, then otherwise, I thought it my duetie, b••yng present thereat my selfe, in writyng to set forth the whole effect of the same: partly that the veritie therof may be knowen to the doubtfull people, and partly also to aduertise them, how vncharitably M. Hooper was handled at their hands: which with all humilitie vsed hymselfe towards them, desiryng that with pa∣tience he might haue bene permitted to speake, assuryng all men, that where I stood in a mammeryng and doubt, which of these two religions to haue credited, eyther that set forth by the kings maiesty that dead is, or els that now mainteyned by the Queens maiesty,, theyr vnreuerend behauiour towards M. Hooper, doth mooue me the rather to credite hys doctrine, then that which they with railyng and cruell words defended, consideryng that Christ was so handled before. And that this which I haue writ∣ten here, was the effect of theyr talke, as I acknowledge it to bee true my selfe: so I appeale to all the hearers consciences, that there were present, (so they put affection away) for the witnesse to the same.
A letter reportin•• the orde•• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 M. Hoop•••• depriuati••••▪