the least, to my, remembrance, for his pains to recompense him. To the payment whereof every bishop, abbot, and the rest of the clergy were after the rate of their abilities liberal contributors, hoping that this portion should be to his contentation. Whereupon Tunstal Bishop of Durham, Clarke Bishop of Bath, and as far as I can call to mind, Vaysye Bishop of Exeter, repaired unto him, declaring how thankfully for his travails to their discharge in God's cause bestowed, they reckoned themselves bounden to consider him. And that albeit they could not according to his desert, so worthily as they gladly would, requite him therefore, but must refer that only to the goodness of God; yet for a small part of recompense in respect of his estate, so unequal to his worthiness, in the name of their whole convocation they presented unto him that sum, which they desired him to take in good part. Who[1],
- ↑ I will not saye naye but that some good and honorable men of theym [the clergy] woulde in rewarde of my goode will and my laboure against these heretickes, have given me much more than ever I did or could deserve: But I dare take God and theym also to recorde that all they could never feeffe me with one penye thereof, but as I plainly told them, I would rather have caste theyr money into the Temys than take it. For albeit they were, as indeed there were, both good men and honourable, yet looke I for my thanke of God that is theyr better, and for whose sake I take the labour and not for theirs———I am both over proude, and over slouthful also, to be hyred for money to take halfe the labour and business in writing, that I have taken in this geare since I began.—More's English Works, p. 867, col. 1, 2.
