By this letter of bishop Boner to the cardinall (saith maister Fox) is to be vnderstood, what goodwill was in this bishop, to haue the bloud of these men, and to haue past with sentence of condemnation a|gainst them,Bishop Bo|ners crueltie somewhat [...] by the cardinall. had not the cardinall somewhat (as it seemed) haue staied his feruent headinesse. Con|cerning the which cardinall, although it can not be|denied by his acts and writings, but that he was a professed enimie, and no otherwise to be reputed but for a papist: yet againe it is to be supposed, that he was none of the bloudie and cruell sort of papists,Cardinall Poole [...] papist but no bloudie papist. as may appeare, not by staieng the rage of this bishop: but also by his solicitous writing, and long letters written to Cranmer, also by the complaints of cer|teine papists, accusing him to the pope to be a bea|rer with the heretikes, and by the popes letters sent to him vpon the same, calling him vp to Rome, and setting frier Peto in his place, had not queene Ma|rie by speciall intreatie made, kept him out of the popes danger. All which letters I haue (if néed be) to shew: besides also, that it is thought of him that toward his latter end, a little before his comming from Rome to England, he began somewhat to sa|uour the doctrine of Luther,Cardinall Poole halfe suspected for a Lutheran at Rome. and was no lesse suspec|ted at Rome: yea, and furthermore did there at Rome conuert a certeine learned Spaniard from papisme to Luthers side: notwithstanding the pompe and glorie of the world afterward caried him awaie to plaie the papist thus as he did.]

¶And sith I haue waded thus far in portraieng the said cardinall, Ab. Fl. ex concione Cut. Tunstalli [...]oram Hen. 8. I am willing to make you commu|nicants of a report concerning him, vttered by Cut|bert Tunstall bishop of Duresine, in a sermon which he made vpon Palmesundaie, in the yeare of our Lord 1539, before king Henrie the eight, trea|ting vpon these words of saint Paule to the Philip|pians, Cap. 2. Hoc sentite in vobis, quod & in Christ [...] Iesu, &c: See the same mind be in you, that was in Iesu Christ, &c. The ground of whose sermon stan|ding vpon obedience and disobedience, after he had discoursed at large thervpon, he fell into these words in presence of the king, the nobles, and people.

And the bishop of Rome now of late, to set foorth his pestilent malice the more, hath allured to his pur|pose a subiect of this realme Reginald Poole, come of a noble bloud,Cardinall Poole an ar|rant traitor. and thereby the more arrant trai|tor, to go about from prince to prince, and from coun|trie to countrie, to stur them to warre against this realme, and to destroie the same, being his natiue countrie. Whose pestilent purpose albeit the princes that he breaketh it vnto, haue in much abhominati|on, both for that the bishop of Rome (who being a bi|shop should procure peace) is a sturrer of warre, and because this most arrant and vnkind traitor is his minister to so diuelish a purpose to destroie the coun|trie that he was borne in,Cardinall Poole a sedi|tious fellow and an impu|dent. which anie heathen man would abhorre to doo. But for all that without shame he still goeth on, exhorting therevnto all princes that will heare him; who doo abhorre to sée such vn|naturalnesse in anie man, as he shamelesse dooth set forward [...], whose pernicious treasons late secretlie wrought against this realme, haue béene, by the worke of almightie God so maruellouslie detected, and by his owne brother, without looking therefore so disclosed, and condigne punishment insued,Cardinall Pooles trea|sons detected by his owne brother. that hereafter (God willing) they shall not take anie more such root to the noisance of this realme.