[1] Also in this first yéere of this kings reigne, sir Iohn Oldcastell, which by his wife was called lord Cob|ham, a valiant capteine and a hardie gentleman, was accused to the archbishop of Canturburie of certeine points of heresie, who knowing him to be highlie in the kings fauour, declared to his highnesse the whole accusation. The king first hauing compas|sion of the noble man, required the prelats, that if he were a straied shéepe, rather by gentlenes than by ri|gor to reduce him to the fold. And after this, he him|selfe sent for him, and right earnestlie exhorted him, and louinglie admonished him to reconcile himselfe to God and to his lawes. The lord Cobham not one|lie thanked him for his most fauourable clemencie, but also declared first to him by mouth, and after|wards by writing, the foundation of his faith, and the ground of his beliefe, affirming his grace to be his supreme head and competent iudge, and none other person, offering an hundred knights and esquiers to come to his purgation, or else to fight in open lists in defense of his iust cause.