The.ix. chapyter

The author shewethe a nother grete token that the translaciō was ꝑyllous / & made for ā euyll purpose.

BUt to thētēt ye shall yet ye lesse doute what good […]ra[…]te was ī tēded by thys trāslacyō / & easyly iudge your self whyther yt was well worthy to be burned or not / ye shall vnderstād yt there hath be synnys ye tyme a nother booke made in englysh & impryntyd as it sayeth ī Almayne / a folyshe rayling boke agaynst ye clergye and mich parte made in tyme / but ye effect therof was all agaynst ye masse & ye holy sacramētꝭ. In thys boke ye maker […]ayleth vppō all them yt causyd Tyndals trāslacyon of the new testamēt to be burned / sayng yt they burnyd it bicause yt yt destroyed the masse. wherby ye may see that he rekenyd that translacyon very good for theyr purpose toward y• destruccyō of the masse. By saynt mary masse quod your frend that boke is a shrewd glose for ye tother. For yt shewed a cause for whyche yt was well worthy to be burnyd and the maker wyth yt / yf yt were made to destroye the masse. But who made that seconde boke? For so[…] q I yt appereth not in the boke. For the boke ys put forthe namelesse / and was in the begynnyng rekened to be made by Tyndall. And whyther yt so were or not wee be not yet very sure. […]ow be yt syth that tyme Tindall hath put owte in hys owne name a nother boke […]tytled Māmona / which boke is […]er[…] māmona iniquitatis / a very tresoury and well sprynge of wyckednes. And yet hathe he sythens put forth a wor[…] also named the obedyence of a crysten man / a boke able to make a crystē man that wolde byleue yt / leue of all good crysten vertues and lese the meryte of hys crystendom. In the preface of hys fyrst boke callyd Mammona he saith y• one frer[…] […]erome made ye tother boke that we talke of / whych frere Syerome gyuyng vp hys order of the frere obseruauntys cam to hym where he was / shewyng hym that he wold caste of his abyte and leue hys relygyon / & assaye now to serue god / and that afterward he lefte hym and wentte vnto Roy / whyche ys as I thynke ye knowe a nother appostyta / by wose counsale Tyndale sayeth that the frere H[…]ero[…]e made y• boke / wherein Tyndall sayeth that he myslykyth hys rymys / and hys ouer mych raylynge. And sayethe also that he fereth leste frere Hyerome shall not well proue all yt he promyseth in that boke. why q your frend is yt all the fere that he fyndeth in hym selfe and all the fawte that he fyndeth in y• frere and hys boke? ye in good fayth quod I euery whytte. Thā fyndethe he q your frende no faut in hys apostasye. No more quod I than I shewe you. Nor findeth he quod your frēde no faute in that the freres boke sayeth that the new testament of Tyndall was burnid bicause it stroyed ye masse? Neuer a whytte q I more than you here. And fereth he quod your frend no thyng ellys but leste the frere shuld […]ayle of performing of sum what yt his boke promysythe That is all quod I And what he promysyth therin I fayth I remember not. But yt semeth what so euer yt be / Tyndall wolde yt were well performed. He had quod youre frende mych more cause as me thīketh to fere leste men shulde re[…]en hygh defaute in hys translacyon / in that he nothynge answereth to those wordys of the […]reres boke / wherin he sayeth that y• new testamente that was bur[…]yd dyd dystroy the masse ye say quod I very trouth in my mynde / and so wold he of lyklyhed yf hym selfe had not mente as the frere sayd. But surely for the translacyon I shall shew you so many textꝭ in suche wyse corruptede / that ye shall not I suppose greately doute what he ment in hys doynge. And therewyth all I shewyd your frēde a boke wyth y• placys redy notyd / whych booke I had by lycence a lytyll before lent vnto me for the no[…]ys. wherein he saw so many corrupcyo[…]s / and of such maner sorte / that albeyt vppon some we somewhat resoned in the way / yet at the laste hy[…] self sayd ho / and verely confessyd y• the boke in such wyse translated was very nought & nothyng metely to be red.