Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2, Book 11 · Account 18 · Examination 18
¶The last examinations of M. Philpot in open iudgement, with his finall condemnation by Byshop Boner in the Consistory at Paules.
THe Bishop hauing sufficiently taken his pleasure with M. Philpot in his priuate talkes,The last examinations of M. Philpot in open iudgement, with his finall condemnation by B. Boner in the consistory at Paules. December. 14. and seeing his zealous, learned, and immutable Constancy, thought it now high time to rid his handes of him, and therefore on the 13. and 14. dayes of December, sitting iudicially in the Consistory at Paules, he caused him to be brought thither before him and others, as it seemeth, more for orders sake, thē for any good affection to iustice and right iudgement. The effect aswell of which two sundry their procedinges, as also of one other had ye 11. day of the same month in his chappell, appeare in a maner to be all one. The Bishop therefore first speaking to Mayster Philpot, sayd:
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M. Philpot,M. Philpot called into open iudgement. 3. Speciall Articles layd to M. Philpot. amongest other thinges that were laid and obiected vntounto you, these three thinges ye were especially charged and burdened withall.
The first is, that you beyng fallen from the vnitye of Christes Catholicke Church, do refuse and will not come and be reconciled thereunto.
The second is, that you hauehave blasphemously spoken agaynst the sacrifice of the Masse, calling it idolatry.
And the third is, that you hauehave spoken agaynst the sacrament of the aultar, denying the reall presence of Christes body and bloud to be in the same.
And according to the will and pleasure of the Synode legatiue, ye hauehave bene oft & many times by me inuited and required to go from your sayd errors and heresies, and to returne to the vnity of the catholicke Church, which if you wil now willingly do, ye shalbe mercifully▪ & gladly receiued, charitably vsed, and hauehave al the fauor I can shew you. And now to tell you true, it is assigned and appoynted to geue sentence agaynst you, if you stande herein, & will not return. Wherfore if ye so refuse, I doe aske of you whether you hauehave any cause that you can shew, why I shoulde not now geue sentence agaynst you?
Phil.
Under protestatiō, not to go from my appeale that I hauehave made, and also not to consent to you as my cōpetent iudge, I say▪ touching your first obiection concerning the Catholick Church, I neither was nor am out of the same. And as touching the sacrifice of the Masse, and the Sacrament of the *Here eyther the Register belyeth M. Philpot, or els he ment as not offēding the law, thereby to be accused, for otherwise …all his former examinations doe declare that he spake against the Sacrament of the Altar.aultar, I neuer spake agaynst the same. And as concerning the pleasure of the Sinode, I say: that these xx. yeares I hauehave bene brought vp in the fayth of the true catholick church, which is contrary to your church, whervnto ye woulde hauehave me to come: and in that time I hauehave bene many times sworne (as wel in the reign of K. Henry the 8. as in the reigne of good King Edward his Sonne) agaynst the vsurped power of the Bishop of Rome, which othe I thinke that I am bounde in my conscience to keepe quia teneor reddere Domino iuramentum. But if you or any of the Synode can by Gods worde perswade me that my sayd othe was vnlawfull, and that I am bound by Gods law to come to your church, faith and religion, wherof you be now, I will gladly yeld, agree, and be conformable vntounto you: otherwise not.
Boner then not able with all his learned Doctours to accomplish this his offered condition,B. Boner with all his Doctors not able to satisfie M. Philpots offer. fel to perswading of him, as well by his accustomed vayne promises, as also by blondye threatninges to returne to theyr Churche: to the which he answered.
Phil.
You and all other of your sorte are hypocrites, and I would al the world did know your hypocrisy, your tyranny, ignoraunce and Idolatry.
Upon these wordes, the Bishop did for that tyme dismisse him, cōmaunding that on Monday the 16. day of the same monethmonth,December. 16. betwene the hours of one & three in the after noone, he shoulde agayne be brought thither, there to hauehave the definitiue sentence of condēnation pronounced against him, if he remayned then in his former constancy.