Note 59 — Chapter III · BEGINNING OF DANGER FOR THE QUEEN AND FOR TYNDALE. (1534 to August 1535.)
Reading edition
Tyndale, Treatises, pp. 18, 110. (Parker Society.)
[60] Tyndale, Treatises, p. lxi. (Parker Society.)
[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.