[61] 'Thus he spent his two days of pastime, as he called them.'—_Ibid._ [62] 'Much like to the writings of St. John the Evangelist.'—_Ibid._ [63] Anderson, _Bible Ann._ p. 397. [64] 'Ut quamcunque loquatur, in ea natum putes.'—Schelhorn, _Amœnitates Litterariæ_, iv. p. 431. [65] See _History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century_, vol. v. book xx. chap. iv. [66] The words 'like a good Christian man' are not given in the Strype _Memorials_, i. p. 431. They have been erased in the original, probably by some Roman catholic. Cotton MSS., Cleop. E. 5. fol. 330. [67] 'The bishops incensed and inflamed in their minds.'—Foxe, _Acts_, v. p. 121. [68] 'A comely fellow, like a gentleman.'—Foxe, _Acts_, v. p. 121. [69] 'Having no great confidence in the fellow.'—Foxe, _Acts_ v. p. 122. [70] 'For, said he, I have money enough.'—Foxe, _Acts_, v. p. 122. [71] 'There should have been war between the emperor and the king.'—_Ibid._ [72] 'Which was not done with small charges and expenses.'—_Ibid._ [73] 'Poyntz sitting at his door.'—Foxe, _Acts_, v. p. 23. [74] 'What good meat shall we have?' 'Such as the market will give.'—_Ibid._ [75] Foxe, _Acts_, v. p. 23. [76] 'For in the wily subtleties of this world he was simple and inexpert.'—_Ibid._, p. 127. [77] 'For that he pretended to show a great humanity.'—_Ibid._ [78] 'They pitied to see his simplicity.'—Foxe, _Acts_, v. p. 127. [79] A letter from Poyntz to his brother John, in which he gives an account of Tyndale's imprisonment, and which is preserved among the Cotton MSS., is dated 15th August 1535. [80] 'Tyrannum ac expilatorem reipublicæ.'—Cotton MSS., Galba B. x. 81. [81] Tyndale, _Treatises_, ii. p. 28. (Parker Society.) [82] Foxe, _Acts_, i. p. 19. CHAPTER IV. THE KING-PONTIFF AGAINST THE ROMAN-CATHOLICS AND THE PAPACY. (1534 AND 1535.) [Sidenote: INSTRUCTIONS TO THE CLERGY.] While the Roman papacy was triumphing in the Low Countries, a lay papacy was being established in England. Henry VIII. gave his orders like a sovereign bishop, _summus episcopus_, and the majority of the priests obeyed him. They believed that such an extraordinary state of things would be but of short duration, and thought that it was not worth the trouble of dying in battle against what would perish of itself. They muttered with their lips what the king ordered them, and waited for the coming deliverance. Every preacher was bound to preach once at least against the usurpations of the papacy; to explain on that occasion the engagements made by the pope with the king of England, the duplicity shown by Clement, and the obligation by which the monarch was bound to thwart so much falsehood and trickery. The ministers of the Church were ordered to proclaim the Word of Christ purely, but to say nothing about the adoration of saints, the marriage of priests, justification by works and other doctrines rejected by the reformers, which the king intended to preserve. The secular clergy generally obeyed.