¶ To the Reader.
THou shalt vnderstād most deare Reader that after William Tyndall was so Iudasly betrayed by an Englisheman, a Scholer of Louayne, whose name is Philippes, there were cer∣taine thinges of his doyng found: which he had entended to haue put forth to the furtheraunce of Gods word amōg which was this Testament of M. Tracie expoun∣ded by him self, whereunto was annexed, the expositiō of the same of Iohn Frithes doyng and owne hand writyng, whiche I haue caused to bee put in Printe, to the intent that all the world should see how earnestly the Cannonistes and spirituall lawyers (whiche be the chief rulers vnder Bishops in euery Dioces, in so much that in euery Cathedrall Churche the Deane Chaūcelor and Archdeacon are cōmon∣ly doctours or Bachelers of law) do ende∣uour them selues iustly to iudge and spi∣ritually to geue sentēce according to cha∣ritie vpon all the actes and dedes done of their Diocessanes, after the exāple of the Chaunceler of Worceter, which after M. Tracie was buried (of pure zeale & loue hardly) tooke vp the dead carkasse and burnt it, wherefore he did it, it shall eui∣dently appeare to the Reader in this little treatise, read it therfore, I besech thee & iudge the spirites of our spiritualitie, and pray that the spirite of him that raised vp Christ, may once inhabite them, and mol∣lifie their hartes, and so illumine thē, that they may both see and shew true light, & no lōger to resist God nor his truth. Amē.