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126 Additions to the Biographies of labour, it wilbe Michaielmas next save one before I shall come in it* What trouble it was to me, and how desirous I was, ynoughe can testifye. Not somiche as my litle house there, whiche I paide for twelve monethes agoo, I can get into, unlesse I wille fall at unkindness with Mr. Comp- troller. 1 ' Carlile house, having another house one this side the water, wille serve me for some purpose; as it is now, unhandsom, and over the water, wille doo me no pleasure for diverse causes. Lastly of alle, and which in deade greaveth me most, for it toucheth my love and deutie to God, to whom I owe alle thinges, is that, as I understand, for my judgement they make me a neutralle. A straunge thingc, if in tyme of persecution I was knowen what I was, now I shulde be doubted of! Yf when fewc durst professe, I not only did it myself, but defendid other that professid Clirist, for fire, and bearing of fagotes, in the Busshoppe of Winchester's most ruffe, afore all Cam- bridge, and in a maner against all the doctours of Cambridge, and all the Justices of peax in the shire, and savid many, and so stille contynued, and now in my Lordcs grace tyme d I shulde slirinke. Let cny man say whcorin or how. It is not the furst time these tales hath bene brought to your urace. I remember Trahern c at the first parliament, whom yet I never spake unto of it, for I had rather by dedes convince such men then by wordes. Let them all say if any oone of them in dede hathe done more then I, or with reason gone further; but all these hotlinges, when they come where daungier is, they shrinke ; when none is, they can conic to kneale u|>pon your grace's carpcttcs, and devise common welthes as they like, and are angry that other men be not so hastic to runne streighte as their braynes croweth. For my part, first I regardc my dutie to God, who is judge to my conscience ; and secondly to the Kinges Ma l and my Lordus grace, whom I reconne at this tyme as it were all one, to have regarde to their honour and saufetic. That doone, there is no man will goo farther then I, that to conserve my conscience I meanc, the honour of the Kinges Ma 10 and my Lordes grace I will staie, what haste soever the hotte spurres niaketh, that knoweth not what the matier meaneth. And vet my staie is nothing but as of one man, who can be content to take it, as it is accepted. But I marvclle wliie they steppe not f'urder then I doo then in alle those matiers, or whearin I Strypc states that Smith lived in this house in the reign of Elizabeth, and that this was the house where the commissioners met in the first year of that queen, to consult for the reformation of religion, and preparing the Book of Common Prayer. But Sfrype has overlooked the fact that Smith's " little house" in the same locality, which was let to Mr. Comptroller, was a different tenement to that which he bought of Sir Ralph SadJer. Strype has confused the two, and, as already noticed, has mis-stated the sum for which the little house was let. Oxford edition, 1820, p. 81. " Sir William Paget. The meaning of this passage, put into other words, is, Carlisle House, were it once removed to this side of the river, might be of some use to me: as it is, inconvenient, and ou the Surrey side, it is on many accounts unavailable. d '. . the protectorate of the Duke of Somerset. Bartholomew Traheron, mentioned in a former page as the duke of Suffolk's preceptor. He was made dean of Chichester 1551, though a layman like Smith. See Athenae Cantabrigienses, i. 180.