suit to Doctor[1] Fox Bishop of Winchester one of the king's privy council, the bishop called him aside, and pretending great favour towards him, promised that if he would be ruled by him, he would not fail, into the king's favour again to restore him, meaning, as it was afterward conjectured, to cause him thereby to confess his offence against the king, whereby his highness might with the better colour have occasion to revenge his displeasure against him. But when he came from the bishop, he fell in communication with one Maister [2]Whitforde, his familiar friend, then chaplain to that bishop, and afterward a father of Sion, and showed him what the bishop had said to him, desiring to have his advice therein; who, for the passion of God, prayed him in no wise to follow his counsel, for my lord, my master, quoth he, to serve the king's turn will not stick to agree to his own father's death. So Sir
- ↑ Dr. Richard Fox. To this Prelate Bp. Fisher, A.D. 1525, dedicated his book against Oecolampdius, in which dedication he tells the Bishop, That by the breath of his favour ever since he had taken notice of him, he had not only been enflamed towards the study of good letters, but likewise more ardently to embrace Probity of Life.
- ↑ Richard Whytforde who being minded to leave the world and all hopes of Preferment entered himself a Monk of the Order of St. Brigit in the Monastery called Sion near to Brentford in Middlesex.—Wood Athenæ, Vol. I. col. 51.
In his writings he stiles himself the wretch of Sion.
