sent unto me his chaplain, Dr. Bray, into the prison, with this
Message following:-

"'Captain BELL,
"'My Lord Grace of Canterbury hath sent me unto you, to tell you
that his Grace hath understood that you have translated a book of
Luther's, touching which book his Grace, many years before, did hear
of the burning of so many thousands in Germany by the then Emperor.
His Grace therefore doth desire you, that you would send unto him
the said original book in Dutch, and also your translation; which,
after his Grace hath perused, shall be returned safely unto you.'

"Whereupon I told Dr. Bray that I had taken a great deal of pains in
translating the said book, and was very loth to part with it out of
my hands, and therefore I desired him to excuse me to his Grace,
that I could not part from it; with which answer he at that time
returned again to his master.

"But the next day after he sent him unto me again, and bade him tell
me that, upon his honour, the book should be as safe in his custody,
if not safer than in mine own; for he would lock it up in his own
cabinet, to the end no man might come unto it, but only himself.
Thereupon I, knowing it would be a thing bootless for me to refuse
the sending of them, by reason he was then of such great power that
he would have them, nolens volens, I sent them both unto him. Then,
after he had kept them in his custody two months, and had daily read
therein, he sent the said Doctor unto me, to tell me that I had
performed a work worthy of eternal memory, and that he had never
read a more excellent divine work; yet saying that some things
therein were fitting to be left out; and desired me not to think