A detection of sundrie foule errours, lies, sclaunders, corruptions, and other false dealinges, touching doctrine, and other matters vttered and practized by M.Iewel, in a booke lately by him set foorth entituled, a defence of the apologie. &c. By Thomas Harding doctor of diuinitie.

Iewel. 131.

Pope Zosimus for ambition, and claime of gouernment, corrupted the holy Councel of Nice.

Harding.

You say it, but neuer did any honest man say it from the beginning of the worlde, til this time, neither was the same yet euer proued. For albeit he alleged such wordes

of a certaine Canon, as the other copies had not, yet did no man lay to his charge, that he had corrupted the Coū∣cel. For he alleged that which he found in his own copies. I say to you M. Iewel, there is nothing shewed by this your tale, but that you are a man of il dispositiō, who glad∣ly reporte euil, and besides that you finde reported of o∣thers, inuent your selfe that, which vtterly is false, to di∣minish the estimation of a holy man, that died eleuē hun∣dred yeres past. Marke the point, I say, if it be said of any man that euer wrote in the olde time, that Pope Zosimus corrupted the Councel of Nice, then you, or your fel∣lowes did not feine it: but if no man said it but bawdy Bale, or Illyricus, and suche others the like: then your part is with liers, and sclaunderers, and thereafter shal your iudgement be without you repente, whiche God graunt you. I think it not good, to stād about it here, bicause the matter is wel handled already by M. Dorman, M. Cope, and M. Stapletō. But you dissembling what they say, go on to mainteine the Successiō of lies in your own generatiō.

Notes

• Pope Zo∣simus sclaunde∣red by M. Ievv.
• M. Sta∣pleton in the Re∣turne Ar∣ticle. 4. fol. 30. & sequētib.