[Sidenote: Fryth.] ¶ The more your mastershyppe prayseth Doctoure Barnes, the worse men maye lyke your matter. For in many poyntes he doth condempne your dampnable doctryne, as in hys boke appeareth. And therfore yf suche credence must be geuē to hym, then moche the lesse wyll be geuen to you. But peraduenture you wyll saye, that he is to be beleued in this poynte, although he erre in other. Wherevnto I answere, that yf you wyll consent vnto hym, I wolde be well apayed and wyll promyse you to wryte no more in that matter. For in this we both agre, that it ought not to be worshypped, yea and (blessed be God) all the other whome you call heretyckes. And so both of vs do avoyde the Idolatrye which you with so greate daunger do daylye cōmytte. And therfor yf you folowe hys learnynge, then am I content that you dyssent from me. For lette it not be worshypped, ād thynke as yow wyll, for then is the parell paste. And syth we agre in thys poynte, doubte not but we shall soone agre in the resydue, ād admytte eche other for faythfull brothers. And where your mastershyppe sayeth, that he wrote you a letter protestynge that you laye that heresye wrongfully to hys charge, I thynke it was more wysdome for hym twyse to haue wryten to you, then ones to haue come hym selfe ād tell you of it. For it was playnelye tolde hym, that you had conspyred hys death, ād that notwithstondynge hys saue conduyte, you were mynded to haue murthered hym. And for that cause he was compelled both beynge here, to kepe hym selfe secretelye, and also preuylye to departe the realme. ¶ And blessed be God you haue suffycyentlye publyshed your purpose in your answere agaynste Wyllyan Tyndall, where you saye, that you myght laufullye haue burnte hym. Here men maye see how percyallye you are addycte to our prelates. And how prone ye were to fulfyll their pleasures contrarye to our Prynces prerogatyue royall. And thākes be to God which gaue you suche grace in the syght of our soveraygne, that he shortelye withdrewe your power. For els it is to be feared that you wolde further haue proceded agaynste hys graces prerogatyue, which thynge whether yt be treason or not, let other men defyne. But thys I dare saye, that it is prynted and publyshed to our Prynces greate dyshonoure. For what learned man maye in tyme to come truste to hys graces saue conduyte or come at hys graces instaunce or requeste, syth not onelye the spirytualte (which of their professyon resyste hys prerogatiue) but also a laye man promoted to suche preemynence by hys graces goodnes, dare presume so to depresse hys prerogatyue and not onelye to saye, but also to publyshe it in prente: that notwithstondynge hys graces saue conduyte, they myght laufullye haue burnte hym.