¶Here foloweth the second Session.
* 1.1THE next day followyng (which was the fyrst daye of October) somewhat after eyght of the clocke, the sayde Lordes repayred to S. Maries Churche, and after they were set in a high throne well trimmed with clothe of tissewe and silke,* 1.2 then appeared M. Ridley, who was set at a framed table a good space from the Bishops feete, which table had a silke clothe cast ouer it, the which place was compassed about with framed seates in quadrate forme, partly for Gentlemen which repaired thither (for this was the Session day also of Gaile deliuery) & heades of the Uniuersitie to sit, and partly to keepe of the preasse of the audience: for the whole body as well of the Uni∣uersitie as of the towne,* 1.3 came thither to see the end of these two persons. After M. Ridleyes appearaunce, and the silence of the audience, the Bishoppe of Lincolne spake in maner folowyng.
* 1.4M. Ridley, yesterday when that we challenged you for not vncoueryng your head, you excused your selfe of that whereof no man accused you, in saying you dyd not put on your cap for any obstinacie towarde vs, whiche as touchyng our owne persons desired no suche obedience of you, but onely in respect of them whose per∣sons we beare: neyther (you sayde) for any contempt that you beare to this worshipfull audience, whiche although iustly may, yet in this case require no such humilitie of you: neither for any derogation of honour to my Lorde Car∣dinalles grace, in that he descended from the regall bloud, in that he is a man most noble, both for his excellent qua∣lities & singular learnyng: for as touching those pointes, you sayde you with all humilitie woulde honour, reue∣rence, and worshyp his grace: but in that he is Legate to the most reuerent father in God the Popes holynes (with that the Bishop with all then present put of their cappes, but M. Ridley moued not his) you sayd you ne coulde ne would by any meanes be induced to geue him honor:* 1.5 but for as muche as this is the poynt as we tolde you yester∣day, why we require honour and reuerence of you, we tel you nowe as wee did then, except you take the paynes to moue your bonet, we will take the paynes to cause your bonet to be taken from you, except you pretend sicknesse, as yesterday you did not.
I pretende now none other cause,* 1.6 then I did ye∣sterday, that is, onely that hereby it may appeare that not onely in worde and confession, but also by all my gesture and behauiour, in no poynt I agree or admit any autho∣ritie or power that shall come from the Pope, and nor for any pryde of mynde (as GOD is my iudge) neyther for contempt of your Lordshyps, or of this worshypfull au∣dience, neither for derogation of honour due to my Lorde Cardinalles grace as concernyng those poyntes whiche your Lordshyp spake of, that is, his noble Parentage and singular graces in Learnyng. And as for takyng my cap away, your Lordshyp may doe as it shall please you: it shall not offende me, but I shall be content with your or∣dinance in that behalfe.
For as much as you do aunswere now as you did yesterday, we must doe also as we did then, and forthwith one of the Bedles very hastely snatched his cap from his head.
¶After this the Bishop of Lincolne began the exami∣nation in sense folowyng.
Maister Ridley, yesterday wee tooke your aun∣swere to certayne Articles,* 1.7 which we then proposed vnto you: but because wee coulde not be throughly satisfied with your aunsweare then to the fyrste Article, neyther coulde the Notaries take any determinate aunsweare of you,* 1.8 we (you requiryng the same) graunted you lycence to bryng your aunswere in wryting, and thereupon com∣maunded the Maior that you shoulde haue penne, paper, and inke, yea any bookes also that you woulde require, if they were to bee gotten: we licenced you then also to alter your former aunsweares this day at your pleasure: Therefore we are come nowe hether to see whether you are in the same mynde nowe that you were in yesterdaye, (whiche we woulde not wyshe) or contrary, contented to reuoke all your former assertions, and in all poyntes con∣tent to submitte your selfe to the determination of the vniuersall Churche, and I for my part moste earnestly exhort you (and therewith he put of his cappe) not be∣cause my conscience pricketh me as you sayde yesterday, but because I see you a rotten member and in the way of perdition.
Yesterday I brought foorth amongest other S. Au∣sten, to proue that authorite hath alwayes bene geuen to the sea of Rome, and you wrested the woordes farre contrary to S. Austens meanyng, in that you woulde haue totus mundus to be applyed onely to Europe, whiche is but the thirde part of all the worlde, where as in deede the processe of S. Augustines woordes wyll not admitte that your interpretation. For he sayth not totus mundus Christianus in transmarinis. &c. but first,* 1.9 totus mundus Christi∣anus Romanae Ecclesiae subiectus est: All the Christian world is subiect to the Church of Rome, and afterwarde addeth in transmarinis partibus, beyond the Sea, but onely to auge∣ment the dominion of the sea of Rome.
But M. Ridley still perseuered in his former aun∣swere, saying:* 1.10 I am sure my Lorde you haue some skill in Cosmography, in the whiche you shall vnderstande that there is a sea called Mare mediterraneum, cast betweene Europe and Africa, in the which he ment Europe beyond the Sea, euen as I shoulde say the whole worlde beyond the Sea, exceptyng England in the which I stand: and here many woordes were spent vpon the interpretation of the same place of S. Austen.
After long disceptation, the Byshoppe of Lin∣colne sayde, that the meanyng of S. Augustine myght be knowen by the consent of other the Doctors, and rehear∣sed diuers.
But M. Ridley required the rehersall of the places, and to reade the very wordes of the Doctors, saying, that perhaps those which the Bishop rehearsed,* 1.11 beyng propo∣ned in other termes in the Doctors, would admitte a con∣trary meanyng and interpretation: but in that booke out of the which the Bishop rehearsed them, was none of the Doctors, but only the sentences drawn out of ye Doctors of some studious man: he could not recite the very words of the Doctours.
Then after he came to Cyrillus, which (as he said) made agaynst M. Ridley in the Sacrament,* 1.12 euen by Phi∣lippe Melancthon his owne alledging in his common places, and forthwith called for Melancthon, but in vaine, because all such bookes were burned a litle before, where∣fore he passed it ouer.
Cyrillus also in an other place pro••ing to the Iewes