[1] [2] Leauing quéene Marie being dead & gone, you are to vnderstand and note, that the same euening, or (as some haue written) the next daie after the said quéens death,The death of [...]rdinall Poole. Cardinall Poole the bishop of Romes legat departed out of this life, hauing béene not long afore made archbishop of Canturburie: he died at his house ouer against Westminster commonlie called Lambe [...]h, and was buried in Christs church at Can|turburie. This cardinall was descended of the noble house of Clarence,The descrip|tion of cardi|nall Poole that is to saie, of one of the yoon|ger sonnes of Margaret countesse of Salisburie, daughter of George duke of Clarence, brother to K. Edward the fourth. ¶ So that hereby you haue a proofe of the noblenesse of his birth, [...] Fl. ex I. F. [...]rtyrologio. but how barba|rous he was of behauiour, and how vnnaturall in the course of his life (which blemished the honour of his descent) it maie appeare by the order and maner of his visitation in Cambridge, with the condem|ning, taking vp, and burning both the bones and bookes of Bueer and Paulus Phagius, as also by the despitefull handling and madnesse of the papists to|wards Peter Martyrs wife at Oxford, taken vp from hir graue at the commandement of the said cardinall, and after buried in a dunghill: so that in his actions he shewed himselfe (as he is noted) ear|nest in burning the bodies of the dead.Cardinall Poole earnest in burning the bones of the dead. And for fur|ther testimonie of his crueltie, it shall not be imperti|nent out of maister Fox, here to adioine and set forth to the eies of the world, the blind and bloudie arti|cles set out by cardinall Poole, to be inquired vpon within his dioces of Canturburie. Whereby it maie the better appeare what yokes and snares of fond and fruitlesse traditions were laid vpon the poore flocke of Christ, to intangle and oppresse them with losse of life and libertie. By the which wise men haue to sée what godlie fruits proceeded from that catho|like church and see of Rome. In which albeit thou seest (good reader) some good articles insparsed withall, let that nothing mooue thée: for else how could such poi|son be ministred, but it must haue some honie to re|lish the readers tast?