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Section VIII: A Supplication and a Petition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

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The Notebook of John Penry, 1593
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1944

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page 45 note 1 ‘most … heaven’ written above, ‘Everlivinge god’ not cancelled.

page 45 note 2 For ‘the’.

page 45 note 3 ‘which are fals’ cancelled.

page 45 note 4 For ‘ev[il]’ cancelled.

page 45 note 5 Some words, including ‘of’ and ‘dread’ cancelled.

page 45 note 6 After ‘maiestie’ Penry wrote ‘and all the’, realized he was getting to the reformed churches too quickly, and, in writing after ‘state’ ‘doth profess and mayntayn, wee agree’, forgot them, and had to cancel the words just written.

page 45 note 7 For ‘befor them in some’ and ‘in some poyntes touching’.

page 45 note 8 ‘wee’ cancelled. Margin : ‘lord holy and true how long lord holy and true thou knowest’.

page 45 note 9 ‘lying in great outward misery in the prisones about London’ cancelled. Six or seven lines here have a marginal line in ink.

page 45 note 10 ‘besides many others of [them] in other prisones of the land’ cancelled.

page 45 note 11 For ‘58’. Perhaps the sentence was intended to read : ‘Thereof towards the number of 56 were taken’.

page 46 note 1 ‘the mo’ is crossed out. The 2 is quite clear : Burrage reads ‘the 4th of this .3. Moneth March 1592’, as does the Notebook on the next page.

page 46 note 2 ‘doing nothing but’ cancelled.

page 46 note 3 Ink at end of line faded, word after ‘actiones’ may be ‘none’ ; Harl. MS. has ‘these holy actions and no other’.

page 46 note 5 ‘and that for. Wee All that wear taken of us being befor the bishop’ crossed out.

page 46 note 5 ‘of us are at’ crossed out.

page 46 note 6 ‘the bishop’ duplicated, one cancelled.

page 46 note 7 Word written between lines difficult, just possibly ‘abbetter’, though last letter looks like ‘c’.

page 46 note 8 ‘will cause’ crossed out.

page 46 note 9 ‘will’ crossed out.

page 46 note 10 Two letters cancelled.

page 46 note 11 Some erasure here ; either ‘and fatherless and motherless’ is intended, or ‘and fatherless’ is repeated.

page 46 note 12 ‘most barberous’ crossed out.

page 46 note 13 Cancellations suggest Penry intended to write ‘scarce can be matched’, crossed out ‘sca’, wrote ‘canot be matched’, and then cancelled that.

page 46 note 14 Three words crossed out.

page 46 note 15 A ‘d’ crossed out suggests ‘domitian’ or ‘diocletian’ was begun.

page 46 note 16 A mark after Maximian may be ‘I’ ; ‘offered’ may be for ‘offer’ or ‘afford’.

page 46 note 17 ‘Bishop Boner’ crossed out.

page 46 note 18 No end to sentence : ‘doe neyther of these’ in Harl. MS. In the margin is a cross in ink covering about seven lines of the manuscript, and underneath seven words scrawled across diagonally : ‘let the punishment be retayned upon our selves’. Stanhope was the Bishop of London's Chancellor. For Young, see below.

page 47 note 1 ‘The’ and the beginning of another word crossed out.

page 47 note 2 Word or beginning of word crossed out.

page 47 note 3 This paragraph is written at the top of the page in seven very crowded lines. It was evidently intended for insertion, but there is no indication where ; it follows naturally at this point.

page 47 note 4 Sentence does not end.

page 47 note 5 Sentence does not end.

page 47 note 6 Perhaps Penry realized in time that it would be unwise to give information the authorities would have been glad to have.

page 47 note 7 Margin : ‘wee may as lawfully as our fathers in Queen Maryes dayes’.

page 47 note 8 For ‘grace’.

page 47 note 9 ‘hir maiestie and’ written above, very tiny.

page 47 note 10 ‘abrod’ written twice, with a cancelled ‘and for’ between them.

page 47 note 11 A sentence cancelled : ‘wee [ ] that but that wee may be permitted eyther

page 47 note 12 ‘nakednes’ crossed out.

page 47 note 13 Ends here.

page 47 note 14 Four times marked in margin. Perhaps the beginning was to be _similar to that of the Supplication.

page 47 note 15 Ink faded at end of line, may be other words after ‘inocent[?]’.

page 47 note 16 ‘spilt’ duplicated.

page 47 note 17 Possibly ‘present’.

page 48 note 1 Preceding sentence written in, very small.

page 48 note 2 Hosea vi. 9.

page 48 note 3 Hosea v. 1.

page 48 note 4 1 Kings ii. 5. These references are given as a reminder of the extent to which Penry relied upon Scripture.

page 48 note 5 The first two lines of the paragraph marked in margin by a double pencil line ; sentence breaks down after ‘1592’.

page 48 note 6 ‘loging’ crossed out.

page 48 note 7 This threat is the kind of direct attack, called courage by his friends and folly by his foes, which characterizes all Penry's writings. He never tones down his opinions when he is writing to the powerful. The threat does not appear in the Harl. MS.

page 48 note 8 Paragraph marked by a marginal ornament in ink.

page 48 note 9 Two parallel pencil lines in margin of this paragraph.

page 48 note 10 ‘wold not’ cancelled.

page 48 note 11 Writing here small and crowded. Word undeciphered.

page 48 note 12 ‘a christ[ian]’ cancelled.

page 48 note 13 ‘princes’ cancelled.

page 48 note 14 For ‘lying’.

page 49 note 1 For ‘tyrantes’.

page 49 note 2 Sentence breaks off.

page 49 note 3 Margin : ‘heathen men deal not after this sort’.

page 49 note 4 Marginal decoration in ink draws attention to the first five lines.

page 49 note 5 Beginning of ‘would’ crossed out.

page 49 note 6 For ‘you’ cancelled.

page 49 note 7 Just possibly ‘persevere’.

page 49 note 8 For ‘eyther’ crossed out.