prest_es_ me_n_ of good lernyng and reputation, shuld so testifie of her, w_i_t_h_ whiche gostly father and preest_es_ ye never spake as ye confesse in yo_ur_ lett_er_s. The fyveth vpon the prayse of my late lord of Cant_erbury_, which shewed you (as ye write) that she had many greate visions the sixt vpon this saing of the p_ro_phete Amos, No_n_ faciet d_om_in_u_s deus v_er_bu_m_, nisi reuelau_er_it secretu_m_ suu_m_ ad seruos suos p_ro_phetas by whiche co_n_siderations ye wer_e_ induced to the desir_e_ to know the very certente of this mater, whether the reuelations whiche wer_e_ p_re_tended to be shewed to her from god wer_e_ true reuelations or nott? yo_ur_ lordship in al the se_n_gle[808] of yo_ur_ l_ette_res shewe not that ye made no ferther trial vpo[n] the trueth of her and her reuelation, but only in co_m_monyng w_i_t_h_ her and sending yo_ur_ chapellaine to her, w_i_t_h_ Idle questions as of the thre mary magdalens. by whiche yo_ur_ co_m_mony[ng] and sending, ye tried out nothing of her falshed, nouther (as it is credibly supposed) entended to do, as ye myght haue doen many weyes mor_e_ easely than w_i_t_h_ co_m_monyng w_i_t_h_ her or sending to her; for litel credens was to be gyven to her affirmyng her owne fayned reuelations to be from god. For if credence shuld be gyven to eu_er_y suche lewd p_er_son as wold affirme himself to haue reuelations from god what redyer wey wer_e_ ther_e_ to subuert al co_m_mon we[l]thes and good orders in the worlde. Verily my lord if ye had entended to trie out the trueth of her and of her reuelations ye wold haue taken an other wey w_i_t_h_ you, first ye wold not haue been co_n_tented w_i_t_h_ the vayne voyc_es_ of the peple making brut_es_ of her traunses & disfiguratio_n_ But like a wise discrete and circumspect p_re_late ye shuld haue examined (as other haue) suche sad and credible p_er_sons as wer_e_ p_re_sent att her traunses & disfiguration_es_, not one or two, but a good nu_m_ber by whoes testimony ye shuld haue p_ro_ued whether the brut_es_ of her traunc_es_ and disfigurations wer_e_ true or not And likewise ye shuld haue tried by what craft and p_er_suasion she was made a religious woman. And if ye had been so desirous as ye p_re_tende to enquir_e_ out the trueth or falshed of this woman and of her reuelations, it is to be supposed ye wold haue spoken w_i_t_h_ her good religious and wel lerned gostly father (as ye cal him) or this tyme: and also w_i_t_h_ the vertuose, and wel lerned preest_es_ (as they wer_e_ estemed) of whoes reaport_es_ ye were informed by thaim whiche herd thaim speke[809] ye wold also haue been mynded to se the booke of her revelations whiche was offerd you. of whiche ye myght haue had mor_e_ trial of her and of her reuelations, than a hundred co_m_munications w_i_t_h_ her, or of as many sendings of yo_ur_ chapellen vnto her. As for the late lord of Cauntreburys seying vnto you that she had many greate visions, it ought