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Most holie father, I doo here come for succour to your audience, lamenting that the state of the church, and the liberties [...]hereof are brought to ruine by the couetous dealing of kings and princes. Wher|fore when I thought to resist the disease approching, I was suddenlie called before the king, to render ac|compts as a laie man about certeine wards, for whom (while I was the kings chancellor) I had not|withstanding giuen accounts; and also, when I was made bishop, and entred into the dignitie of ruling the archbishops sée, I was released and discharged of all reckonings and bonds by the kings eldest sonne, and by the cheefe iusticer of the realme: so that now, where I looked to haue found aid, I was destitute thereof, to my great hinderance and vexation. Con|sider furthermore (I praie you) how my lords and brethren the bishops are readie at the pleasure of the Noble men of the court to giue sentence against me, so that all men being about to run vpon me, I was almost oppressed: and therfore am now come as it were to take breath in the audience of your clemen|cie, which dooth not forsake your children in their ex|treme necessitie, before whom I here stand, readie to declare and testifie that I am not to be iudged there, EEBO page image 73 nor yet at all by them. For what other thing should that be, but to plucke awaie the right of the church What else then to submit spirituall things to tempo|rall? This example therefore once sproong vp, might giue an occasion to manie enormities to follow. The bishops doo say, Those things that are Cesars, ought to be restored to Cesar. But admit that in manie things the king is to be obeied, is he therefore to be obeied in things wherein he is no king? For those belong not to Cesar, but to a tyrant Wherein if for my sake they would not, yet ought the bishops for their owne sakes to haue resisted him. For what should be the cause of such deadlie and vnnaturall ha|tred, that to destroie me, they should destroie them|selues? Therefore whilest for temporall things they neglect spirituall, they faile in both. Weigh then most holie father, my fleeing awaie, and my persecu|tion, and how for your sake I haue beene prouoked with iniuries, vse your rigour, constraine them to amendement, through whose motion this hath chan|ced; let them not be borne out by the king, who is ra|ther the obstinate minister, than the finder out of this practise.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The pope hauing heard his words, tooke delibera|tion in the matter, with the aduice of his cardinals, and therevpon answered the archbishop in effect as followeth:

That the lower power may not iudge the higher,The popes answer to the archbishop. and chéefelie him whome he is bound to obeie, all the lawes both of God and man doo witnesse, and the ordinances of the ancient fathers doo manifestlie declare: Herevpon we (to whome it apperteineth to reforme disorders) doo clearelie reuerse and make void the iudgement pronounced against you by the barons and bishops, whereby as well against the or|der of law, as against the customes of the church, your goods were adiudged forfeit, whereas the same goods were not yours, but the churches of Canturbu|rie, ouer which you haue the onelie cure and charge. But if those that haue violentlie entred vpon the pos|sessions and goods of your church, and haue thereby wronged either you or yours, will not vpon admoni|tion giuen to them, make restitution with sufficient amends, then may you (if you shall thinke conueni|ent) exercise ecclesiasticall iustice vpon them, and we shall allow of that which you shall reasonablie doo in that behalfe. Howbeit as touching the king himselfe we will not giue you any speciall commandement, neither yet doo we take from you any right belong|ing to your bishoplike office, which you receiued at your consecration.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king hauing knowledge by his ambassadors what answer the pope had made, became gréeuouslie offended in his mind, and therevpon confiscated all the goods that belonged to the archbishop and his complices, and seized their reuenues into his hands, appointing one Randall de Broc to haue the custodie of all that belonged to the see, Ger. Dor. which Broc was no|thing fréendlie to the archbishop, being his knowne enimie of old, but fauoured the moonkes, and would not suffer that they should take wrong or displeasure at any hand.