[Sidenote:  Jewes.] In deed such was his condition, that who soeuer would giue, might haue, & that oftentimes without respect, whether their sute was reasonable and allowable or not, in somuch that it is said of him, that being in Roan on a time, there came to him diuerse Jewes who inhabited that citie, complaining to him, that diuerse of their nation had renounced their Jewish religion, and were become christians:  wherefore they besought him, that for a certeine summe of monie which they offered to giue, it might please him to constreine them to abiure christianitie, and turne to the Jewish law againe.  He was contented to satisfie their desires, and so receiuing the monie, called them before him, & what with threats, and putting them otherwise in feare, he compelled diuerse of them to forsake Christ, and returne to their old errors.

There was about the same time a yoong man a Jew, who by a vision appearing vnto him (as is said) was conuerted to the christian faith, and being baptised, was named Stephan, bicause S. Stephan was the man that had appeared to him in the vision, as by the same he was informed.  The father of the yoong man being sore troubled, for that his sonne was become a christian, and hearing what the king had doone in such like matters, presented to him 60 markes of siluer, condittionally that he should inforce his sonne to returne to his Jewish religion.  Herevpon was the yoong man brought before the king, vnto whom he said; “Sirra, thy father here complaineth that without his licence thou art become a christian:  if this be true, I command thee to returne againe to the religion of thy nation, without anie more adoo”.  To whom the yoongman answered, “Your grace (as I gesse) dooth but iest.”  Wherewith the king being mooued said, “What thou dunghill knaue, should I iest with thee?  Get thee hence quicklie, and fulfill my commandement, or by S. Lukes face I shall cause thine eies to be plucked out of thine head.” [Sidenote:  An answer of a good Jew.] The yoongman nothing abashed hereat, with a constant voice answered “Trulie I will not doo it, but know for certeine, that if you were a good christian, you would neuer haue vttered anie such words, for it is the part of a christian to reduce them againe to Christ which be departed from him; & not to separate them from him, which are ioined to him by faith.”  The king herewith confounded, commanded the Jew to auant & get him out of his sight.  But his father perceiuing that the king could not persuade his sonne to forsake the christian faith, required to haue his monie againe.  To whom the king said, he had doone so much as he promised to doo, that was, to persuade him so far as he might. [Sidenote:  A prettie diuision.] At length, when he would haue had the king to haue dealt further in the matter, the king (to stop his mouth) tendered backe to him the one halfe of his monie, & reteined the other to himselfe.