[1] Now when the archbishop heard that sentence was in such wise pronounced against him;

What maner of iudgement (saith he) is this? Though I hold my peace, yet the age that shall hereafter follow, will not hide it in silence; for sithens the world began, it hath not beene heard, that any archbishop of Canturburie hath béene iudged in any of the king of Englands [page 71] courts for any maner of cause; partlie in regard of the dignitie and authoritie of his office, and partlie bicause he is spirituallie the father of the king and all his people. This is therefore a new forme and or|der of iudgement, that the archbishop should be iud|ged by his suffragans, or the father by his sons.