To the same man into England. 39.

THose letters which you sent vnto me y^e 27. of August, I receiued about y^e end of October. Wherefore if I aunswere somwhat late, the fault is not in me e∣specially since for the most part we haue no trusty cariers at Argētiue. Howbeit as tou∣ching Page  122 al y^t matter wherof you now make re∣quest, I know I haue writtē at large in other of my letters: wherefore either my letters went another way, or else when you wrote these thinges you had not yet receiued them. Howbeit because you shall not be disappoin∣ted herein of my trauel & coūsel, I wil repeat those things which I wrote before. As tou∣ching impropriatiōs, * I sée not why you shold trouble your self. For it belongeth not to you whereof & how the Quéene wil pay stipends or liuings vnto Bishops or Curats of Chur∣ches. But & if they shall séeme to hunger, you your selues may intreate & make meanes for thē, or if you do aboūd you may impart som∣what of your alowance. * Also as touching the round cap or habit to be worne out of y^e holy seruices, I think ye ought not to striue more than is requisit: for superstition séemes not properly to take place therein. But of gar∣ments, as of holy things to be vsed in y^e mini∣stery it self, séeing they represēt the forme of y^e masse & be méere relicks of popery, Master Bullinger iudgeth that they shold not be vsed, least by your example y^e thing which causeth offence shoulde be confirmed. Howbeit I al∣though I haue béene alwayes against such kinde of Ornaments, yet because I sawe a present daunger least you should be depriued from the office of preaching, & that perhaps there wilbe some hope that euen as Altars & images are taken away, so likewise shalbe taken away those shewes of y^e masse, if you & others comming to be bishops, will wholly applie your indeuours therunto: which per∣haps would not goe forward, if an other shal succéede in your place who not onelie would not care to put away those relicks, but would rather defend them, norish them & maintaine them: therefore was I y^e slower to perswade that you should rather refuse a bishoppricke than receiue the vse of those garmēts. How∣beit because I saw that offences of that kind must be vtterlie auoided, therefore did I wil∣linglie yéelde vnto his opinion. Verily where Altars and Images are preserued, I my selfe of mine owne accord affirme euen as I haue written in other letters, that yee must not minister. This is as much as I can write of the present matter. And looke you to this that you doe not any thing against your conscience. But I feare lest my letters come verie late: whereof neuerthelesse I am not in fault, séeing I suffered no oportunitie of writing to scape. Finally this I woulde haue you to vnderstande that the questions of this kind are also hard vnto vs, and there∣fore counsell cannot be so easilie giuen. My selfe when I was at Oxford woulde neuer vse those white garments in the Quire al∣though I was a Canon. I sawe a reason for mine owne doing: Wherefore I counsel you also to take good aduise. I knowe that my example ought to be no iust confirmation vnto you. But that which mooued me and yet mooueth me & perhaps may mooue you, is that I should not doe those things which my conscience alloweth not. You willed me to write briefly. I haue briefely written: Take you it in good part, Praie for me, salute my friends, M. Bullinger, my wife & Iulius with his wife salute you. Fare you well my most louing brother and most reuerende Lord in Christ. From Zurick y^e 4. of Nouember, 1559.