*A briefe digression touching the rayling of Hubberdin agaynst M. Latimer.
FOrasmuch as mention hath bene made in this letter of Hubberdin, an olde Diuine of Oxford,* 1.1 a right paynted Pharisey, and a great strayer abroad in all quarters of the realme to deface and impeach the springing of Gods holy Gospell, something woulde be added more touchinge that man, whose doinges and pageantes if they might be des∣cribed at large, it were as good as any Enterlude for the Reader to beholde. Who in all his life and in all his acti∣ons (in one word to describe him) seemeth nothing elles but a right Image or counterfayt,* 1.2 setting out vnto vs in liuely colours the paterne of perfecte hypocrisye. But be∣cause the man is now gone, to spare therefore the dead (al∣though he little deserued to be spared, which neuer spared to worke what vilany he could agaynst the true seruantes of the Lord) this shall be enough for example sake, for all Christian men necessarily to obserue, howe the sayd Hub∣berdin after his long rayling in all places against Luther, Melangthon, Zuinglius, Iohn Frith, Tindale, La∣timer, and all other like Professours,* 1.3 after his hypocri∣ticall opē almes geuen out of other mens purses, his long prayers, pretensed deuotions, deuoute fastinges, hys wolwarde goyng, and other his prodigious demeanor, riding in his long Gowne downe to the Horse heeles like