Throkmorton  is  much  more  brief  and  concise  in  dealing
with  the  Marprelate  accusation.  But  he  is  definite.  He
notes  that  his  name  comes  in  at  the  close  of  Sutcliffe's  list
of  implicated  persons,  although  earlier  holding  him  alone  to
blame.  In  a  better  mood  Sutcliffe  had  only  brought  him
in  '  as  a  candle  holder.'  Then  presently  he  says  that  he  is
willing  to  take  an  oath  'whensoever  it  shall  be  thought  so
good  by  the  State/  '  That  I  am  not  Martin,  I  knewe  not
Martin,  And  concerning  that  I  stande  enlightened  of,  I  am
as  cleare  as  the  childe  unborne '  (Sig.  E  ij.).
He  has  his  own  accusation  against  Sutcliffe  for  his  dis-
honourable methods  of  controversy.  As  an  example  of  this
he  quotes  a  reported  statement  by  Egerton  that  '  though  he
would  be  loth  to  quench  any  man's  enthusiasm  in  so  cold
and  frozen  an  age  as  theirs  .  .  .  yet  he  was  persuaded  that
the  supposed  revelations  of  Copingers  were  but  meere
illusions  of  Satance.'  This  reproduced  in  the  controversial
methods  of  Sutcliffe  becomes  the  following :  That  Egerton's
advice  to  Copinger  was  that  he  should  beware  of  being
misled  by  Satan,  but  at  the  same  time  he  should  be  loath
to  quench  the  Spirit  of  God  in  him  or  hinder  his  zeal
(Sig.  B  iv.  vers.).
(6)  It  was  the  following  year  (1595)  before  SutclifTe
replied  in  An  Answere  unto  a  certaine  calumnious  letter
published  by  M.  Job  Throkmorton  and  entituled,  etc.,  .  ..
