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1549 Corrected pagination. The original page number is 1537.  
Corrected pagination. The original page number is 1537.
Flower The processe and whole dyscourse concerning the cōdemning, taking vp and burning the bones, and bokes of Bucer, and Paulus Phagius, by the commaūdement of Cardinal Poole, with al the rytes and ceremonies thereunto appertaynyng. editorial commentary  

CArdinall Poole, 3. yeres after hys returne into Englād, hauing somwhat withdrawen his mind from other affaires of the realm, and hauing in all poyntes established the Romish religion (the whyche a certayn yeares past, durying the tyme of Kyng Edward the. vi. was clerely abolished, & worn out of custome) began to haue an eye to thunyuersity of Cambridge, the which it self in especially semed to haue nede of reformation out of hand. For he thought it shuld be to no purpose, to bestow his trauaile in purgyng the residue of the body, if he left that part stil infected with maladies & diseases, from whēce all other mēbers should fetch theyr strength & nourishment.

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Thinquisitors.
To performe this charge, wer chosen Cuthbert Scot, not long before consecrated byshop of Westchester, Nicolas Ormanet, an Italian, Archpriest of the people of Bodolon, editorial commentary in the dioces of Veron, professed in both şe lawes, Thomas Watson, elected Bishop of Lincolne, Iohn Christopherson, elected Bishop of Chichester, and Henry Cole Prouost of the Colledge of Eton. There was good cause why the matter was inespecially committed to these persōs. For as touching Ormanet, it is wel knowen that he was a man of much estimation wyth Iulius the third, at that time Bishop of Rome whose busines they dyd sitte vpon in this Commission, and that for the same purpose he was appointed to come into England with Cardinal Poole, bicause that without his knowlege (as in whō he put his chief trust and confidēce) the bishop would haue nothing done, that was of any importance or weight.

Thinquisitors.

The residue were sent thither eyther for experience in matters of thuniuersity, or els they semed of all others most mete to be put in trust with thandling of that case, because they were taken for most stoute Champions, and ernest defenders of the Romish religion, & of thinges appertayning to the establishment of the same. Some wer of opinion that Scot, Watson, and Christophorson, (because there was grudge betwene thē and diuers of thuniuersity, at whose handes they thought themselues lately before to haue receiued displeasure, & that now tyme and occasion serued to be reuenged vpon them as they listed themselues) busily procured thys iourney of theyr own heades.

These persons thus appointed, (in şe meane while şt they wer addressing thēselues to theyr iourney,) sent theyr letters before to Andrewe

Perne,

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A citation sent before Andrew Perne vice chauncellor.
Vicechauncellor of thuniuersitie for şt yeare, commaundyng hym to warne all the Graduats of thuniuersity in theyr name, to be present the. xi. day of Ianuary betwixt eyght & ten of the Clocke in the church of S. Mary the virgin. The same is the place of resort, when there is any cōmon assembly or metyng of the vniuersity, beyng not farre distant frō the market place of the sayd town of Cambridge, whyther all men are summoned, if at any time ther be any commō prayer, or suffrages to be made or if ther be any man that hath ought to say in open audyence. Willynge hym inespecially to be there himself in a readines, and moreouer to admonysh all the residue to whose charge it belonged, that they should search out al statutes, bookes, Priuileges, and monuments, appertaynyng to thuniuersity, or to any of the colleges, or finally to any of themselues, and ther to present the same before them at the day appointed and euery manne to appeare there personally. For they would not fayle, but be there at the same tyme, to lay before them such thynges as should seme necessary to this charge of refourming thuniuersity, and further to geue charge of all such thynges as should seme most for the profit and behoofe of the same, together wyth such thinges as wer to be done on theyr part, accordyng as should seme most agreable to the decrees of the Canon law.

A citation sent before Andrew Perne vice chauncellor.

These letters editorial commentary şe Vicechauncellor caused to be set vp in places cōueniēt. this reformatiō was loked for certain monethes before.

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The disquietnes of the vniuerstye vpon the tydyngs of the reformation.
But nowe when it was once certainly knowen şt it should be in dede, euery mannes mynd was marueylously moued. Some greatly reioyced that the tyme was come, wherin they thoughte they myght frely not only speake, but also do what they listed against theyr aduersaryes, whiche before tymes had reiected the bables of the Romish Bishop. Other some perceiuyng in what peril they stoode, loked narrowly about them, howe to wynde themselues out of the bryers. Many sought the good wyll and frendshippe of such as wer knowen to be in fauour with the terrible Commissioners. Other certayn made themselues gilty, and desired forgeuenesse of them, at whose handes they themselues had taken wrong before.

The disquietnes of the vniuerstye vpon the tydyngs of the reformation.

Ther were also diuers to be found, which in time past counterfayted to be very earnest embracers of the true doctrine, but in theyr liuyng and conuersation had greatly defaced it, applying to theyr owne fleshly lustes the libertye şt appertayned of ryght to the spirite, so that they thought it lawfull to do what they lysted.

These men supposed there was no way but one to purge themselues of their misbehauior, namely if they became accusers of those whose frendship they had erewhiles embraced. And to thentent to make men beleue şt they professed

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