and his two daughters Edmond Tibold and his wife Henry Butcher and his wife William Butcher and his wife George Preston and his wife Ioane Smith widow Robert Smith her sonne Richard Smith her sonne Margaret Smith her daughter Elizabeth Smith her daughter Rob. Hempstede and his wife Tho. Hempstede and his wife Iohn Hempstede his sonne Robert fayre William Chatwals Ioane Smith widow otherwise called Agnes widow Iohn her sonne Thomas her sonne Christopher her sonne Alyce her daughter Ioane her daughter Iohn Wiggen Nicholas Holdens wife Alyce Shypwright Henry Browne Iohn Craneford ¶ All these were of the Towne of Bumstede who being detected by Syr Richard Foxe their Curate and partly by Tibold were brought vp to the Byshop of London and all put together in one house to the number of xxxv to be examined and abiured by the sayd Byshop Moreouer in other townes about Suffolke and Essex other also were detected as in the towne of Byrbroke these following Isabell Choote widow Men women of Essex Suffolke troubled for the Gospell Iohn Choote her sonne William Choote her sonne Christopher Choote her sonne Robert Choote her sonne Margeret Choote her daughter Katherine her mayde Thomas Choote and his wife Haruy and his wife Agnes his daughter Thomas his sonne Bateman and his wife Iohn Smith and his wife Thomas Butcher and his wife Robert Catlyn a spone maker Christmas and his wife William Bechwith his wife and his two sonnes Iohn Pickas and his wife William Pickas his brother Girling his wife his daughter Mathewes wife Iohnson his wife and his son Thomas Hilles Roger Tanner Christopher Rauen and his wife Iohn Chapman his seruant Richard Chapman his seruant and brother to Iohn Chapman Iohn Chapman Who remaineth yet aliue hath bene of a long time a great harberour of many good men women that were in trouble distresse receiued theÌ„ to his house as Tho. Bate Simon Smith the Priests wife Roger Tanner with a nuÌ„ber mo which ye may see reade in our first edition pa. 419. ¶ Touching this Richard Chapman this by the way is to be noted that as he was in his coate and shyrt enioyned bare head Rich. Chapman bare foote and bare legge to go before the procession and to kneele vpon the cold steps in the Church all the Sermon time Cruelty shewed for mercy a little ladde seeing him kneele vpon the cold stone with his bare knees hauing pitie on him came to him and hauing nothing else to geue him brought him his cap to kneele vpon For the which the boy immediatly was taken into the Uestry and there vnmercifully beaten for his mercy shewed to the poore penitent Besides these diuers other were about London Colchester and other places also partakers of the same Crosse and affliction for the like cause of the Gospell in whiche number commeth in these which hereafter follow Peter Fenne Priest Iohn Turke Robert Best William Raylond of Colchester Henry Raylond his sonne Marion Mathew or Westden This Parker was abiured 24. yeares before this Dorothe Long. Thomas Parker Alyce Gardiner Iohn Tomson of Colchester Ioh. Bradley and his wife PersoÌ„s abiured of Colchester Anno. 1532. Iohn Hubert of Estdoneland and his wife M. Forman Bacheler of Diuitie Parson of Hony lane Robert Necton Katherine Swane Master Cowbrige of Colchester Wydow Denby Robert Hedill of Colchester William Butcher whose fathers graundfather was burned for the same Religion Abraham Water of Colchester Robert Wygge of London William Bull. of London George Cooper of London Iohn Toy All these in this table were troubled abiured an 1527. 1528. of S. Fayth of London Richard Foster of London Sebastian Harrys Curate of Kensington Ex Regist. Lond. ¶ All these in this table conteined were troubled and abiured an 1527. and 1528. Ioh. Wyly the elder Catherine Wyly his wife Io. Wyly his sonne Christian Wyly his wife W. Wyly his sonne Margaret Wyly his wife Lucy Wyly Agnes Wyly two yong gyrles An. 1532. These eight persons were accused an 1532. for eating potage and fleshmeate fiue yeares before vpon S. Iames euen Also another time vpon S. Peters euen as Catherine Wyly dyd lye in childbed the other wiues with the two gyrles were found eating altogether of a brothe made with the fore part of a racke of Mutton Item the foresayd Iohn Wyly the elder had a Primmer in English in his house and other bookes Also he had a yong daughter of tenne yeares olde which coulde render by hart the most part of the 24. Chapter of S. Mathewe Also could rehearse without booke the disputation betweene the clarke and the Frier Item the sayde Iohn Wyly had in hys house a treatise of William Thorpe and Syr Iohn Oldcastle ¶ A note of Richard Bayfilde aboue mentioned MEntion was made before of Richard Bayfild Monke of Bury pag 1024. who in these perillous dayes amongst other good Saincts of God suffered death as yee haue heard but how and by whome he was detected hath not bene shewed which nowe in searching out of Registers as we haue found so we thought good heere to adioyne y e same with the words confession of the same Edmund Peerson which detected him in maner as foloweth * The accusation of Edmund Peerson agaynst Bayfilde The accusation of Edmund Pâ—â—rson agaynst Râ—â—h Bayfilde THe xiij day of September at iiij of the clocke at after noone the yeare of our Lord. 1527. Sir Richard Bayfilde sayd that my Lord of Londons Commissary was a playne Pharisey wherfore he would speake with him and by his wholesome doctrine he trusted in God hee shoulde make him a perfect Christen man and me also for I was a Pharisey as yet he sayd Also he sayde that he cared not and if the Commissary and the Chauncellour heard him both for the Chauncellour he sayd was also a Pharisey and trusted to make him a Christen man Also he sayd he was entreated by his frends and in maner constrayned to abyde in the Citie agaynst hys will to make the Chauncellour and many moe perfect Christen men for as yet many were Phariseis and knewe not the perfect declaration of the Scripture Also he sayde that M. Arthur and Bilney were and be more pure and more perfecter in their liuing to God then was or is the Commissary the Chauncellour my Lord of London or my Lord Cardinall Also he sayde that if Arthur and Bilney suffer death in the quarels and opinions that they be in or hold they shal be Martyrs before God in heauen Commendation of Bilney and Arthur Also he sayd after Arthur and Bilney were put cruelly to death yet should there be hundreths of men that should preach the same that they haue preached Also he sayd that he would fauour Arthur and Bilney he knew their liuing to be so good for they did weare no shyrtes of linnen cloth but shyrts of heare and euer were fasting prayeng or doing some
foūd nothyng What nothyng By the fayth I owe to God quoth he to the foremā I would trust you vpon your obligatiō but by your oth I will trust you nothyng Thē sayd some of the Commissioners My Lord geue them a lōger day No quoth he in Lōdon they euer finde nothyng I pray you what say you to Mekins My Lord quoth the foreman we can say nothing to him for we finde the witnesses to disagree One affirmeth that he should say the Sacrament was nothyng but a ceremonie the other nothing but a signification Why quoth Boner did he not say that Barnes dyed holy Thē pausing a while he bad cal the other Iury. Put in your Uerdict quoth he My Lord sayd one we haue foūd nothyng Rafe Foxley 〈◊〉 Iesus quoth he is not this a straunge case Then spake one of the same Iury whose name was Raph Foxley sayd My Lord whē you gaue vs charge we desired to haue the Persons Curates of euery Parish to geue vs instructions Thi◠Recorder 〈…〉 Rog. 〈◊〉 and it was denyed vs. Then stoode vp the Recorder and sayd it was true in deede that he had spoken and therewithall sayd this last yeare were charged two Iuries which did many thinges naughtely and foolishly and did as much as in them lay to make an vprore among y e Kings people therefore it was thought not meete that they should geue information to you Nay nay quoth Boner this was the cause I◠the Person or Curate should geue information according to hys knowledge then what will they say I must tell my confession to a knaue priest and he shal go by and by and open it What sayd my Lord Maior there is no man I trow that wyll say so Yes by my trouth quoth Boner knaue Priest knaue Priest Then sayde the Lorde Maior somewhat smiling there be some of them slipper fellowes and as men finde them so will they oft times report Boner not well contented with those wordes said to the Iurie My maisters what say you to Mekins They aunswered the witnesses doe not agree therefore we do not allow them Why quod Boner this court hath alowed them Thē said one of the Iurie to the Recorder Is it sufficient for our discharge if this court do allow them Yea sayd the Recorder it is sufficiēt said Go you aside together a while bring in your verdicte After the Iury had talked together a litle while they returned to the bar again with their inditement which at Boners hand was frendly receaued so both they and the other Iurie were discharged bidden take their ease Thus ended the court for that day Shortly after they sate for life and death Mekins being brought to the barre and the inditement read Boner sayd to him Mekins confesse the truth and submit thy selfe vnto the Kings law that thy death may be an example to all other This Rich. Mekins being a child which passed not the age of fifteene yeares as Halle reporteth as he had heard some other folkes talke so chaunced he to speake against y e sacrament of the altar Which comming to Boners eares he neuer left him as afore doth plainely appeare before he had brought him to the fire During the time of his imprisonment neither his poore father nor mother for feare durst ayde him with any reliefe whereby he there indured in great misery At what time he was brought vnto the stake he was taught to speake much good of the Bishop of London and of the great charitie he shewed to him and to defie and detest all heretickes and heresies but specially Doctor Barnes vnto whome he imputed the learning of that heresie which was the cause of his death The poore ladde would for sauegard of his life haue gladly sayde that the xij Apostles had taught it him such was his childishe innocencie and feare But for this deede many spake and sayd it was great shame for the Bishop whose parte and dutie it had bene rather to haue laboured to saue his life then to procure that terrible execution seeing that he was such an ignoraunt soule that he knew not what the affirming of heresie was ¶ Richard Spenser Ramsey and one Hewet suffered at Salisbury ABout the same time also a certeine Priest was burned at Salisbury who leauing his Papistry had married a wife and became a player in enterludes with one Ramsey and Hewet which three were all condemned and burned Against whome and specially against Spenser was layd matter concerning the Sacramente of the altar He suffered at Salisbury Although this Inquisition aboue mētioned was ment properly and especially concerning the vj. Articles yet so it fell out that in short space doubts beganne to rise and to be moued by the Quest whether they might enquire as well of all other opinions articles and cases of Lollardy or for speaking against holy bread holy water or for fauoring the cause of Barnes of Frier Warde Sir Thomas Rose c. Whereupon great perturbation followed in all Parishes almost through London in the yeare aforesayd which was 1541. as heere ensueth in a briefe summary Table to be seene ¶ A briefe Table of the troubles at London in the vj. Articles time Persons presented Their causes Iohn Dixe THis Dixe was noted neuer to be confessed in Lente nor to receiue at Easter and to be a sacramentary Rich. Chepeman Chepeman for eating fleshe in Lente and for working on holydayes and not comming to the Church Mistres Cicely Marshall Cicely for not bearing her Palme and despising holye bread and holy water Michaell Haukes Haukes for not comming to the Churche receiuing yong men of the new learning M. Iohn Browne Browne for bearyng wyth Barnes Annes Bedikes wife Bedikes wife for despising our Lady and not prayeng to Saints Andrew Kempe William Pahen Richard Manerd Kempe Pahen Manerd for disturbing the seruice of the Churche with brabling of the new Testament Wylliam Wyders Wyders denied two yeares before The parishe of Trinitye the little the Sacramente to bee Christes body and sayd that it was but only a signe Willi. Stokesley Stokesley for rebuking hys wife at the Church for taking holy water Roger Dauy. Dauy for speaking agaynste worshipping of Saints M. Blage. M. Blage for not comming to his parish Church not confessing nor receauing Wil. Clinch For sayeng when he seeth a Priest preparing to the Masse ye shall see a Priest now goe to masking S. Iohn Baptist in Walbroke Item for calling the Bish. of Winchester false flattering knaue Item for buryeng his wife without Dirige and causing the Scotte of S. Katherines to preach the next day after the buriall Wil. Playne Playne seeing a Priest go to Masse said now you shall see one in masking Item when hee came to the Churche wyth loud reading the english bible he disturbed the diuine seruice Herman Iohnson S. Buttolphs at Billingsgate Hierome Akon Giles Hosteman
not worship y e images of saints Tredway detecting his owne mother Ioane Bernard detecting her owne father ¶ Likewise Ioane Bernard being accused by Robert Copland was sworne by her othe to detecte Thomas Bernarde hir owne naturall father for speaking against pilgrimage against worshipping of Saints and against diriges and praieng for the dead and for warning his daughter not to vtter any of all this to her Ghostly father Rich. Bernard detecting his owne father ¶ The like othe also was forced to Richard Bernard that he should in like maner detect Thom. Bernard his owne naturall father for teaching him not to worship images nor to beleeue in the Sacramente of the aulter but in God onely which is in heauen and that he should not vtter the same to the Priest The vicar of Iuer and Richard Taylor witnes accused Richard Carder For defending the cause of Ienkin Butler and for saieng that the Bishop dyd hym iniurie Item for sayeng that if he had knowne the Byshops man woulde haue set hym so to the Bishop hee woulde haue giuen hym warning thereof before Item for sayeng that if hee shoulde call him hee woulde confesse nothing although he burned him Agnes Carder wife of Richard Carder detected Richard Carder her husband For sayeng that hee suspected that shee was too much familiare with the Uicar of Iuer And when shee aunswered againe howe coulde hee bee euill with her seeing he sayeth Masse euery day and doth not confesse hymselfe before then her husbande sayde that hee coulde confesse himselfe to a post or to the alter ¶ Where note that the Bishop then examining her of that offence whether she was culpable and whether she was commonly in the voyce of the people diffamed with him or no she confessed so to be Whereupon no other penaltie nor penance for that crime of adultery was enioined her of the Bishop but only this that she should frequent the Uicares house no more Ioh. Clerke of Denham forced by his othe to detecte Richard Vulford of Riselyp Iohn Butler For speaking agaynste Images Pilgrimages Against Images oblations and agaynste the Sacramente of the alter Item when this Iohn Clerke had made a wee le for fish Richard Uulford commyng by asked hym when hee had made hys wee le whether the wee le now coulde turne againe and make hym and hee sayd no. Euen so quoth hee God hath made all Priests as thou hast made the wee le and how can they turne againe make God Iohn Mastall detected The daughter of Iohn Fippe of Hinchenden For sayeng that she was as well learned as was the parishe Priest in all things except only in sayeng of Masse Rob. Rowland William Franke. Thomas Houre Tho. Rowland Ioane Franke. Ioh. Baker all these detected Alice Sanders wife of Richard Saunders of Amersham For geuing twelue pence to Thomas Holmes to buy a certayne Booke in Englishe for her daughter To whome Tomas Holmes answered agayne that a noble woulde not suffice to buy it Another tyme for geuing syxe pence to the buieng of a certaine booke in english which cost fiue markes Another time Thomas Houre commyng from Owburne shee asked what newes and hee sayde that manye were there condemned of heresie and therefore hee woulde leane to that waye no more Then saide she if he did so he would gaine nothyng thereby Whereby hee had no more worke with her husband and after was put from his holy water Clerkeship in that towne Another time for saieng to Thomas Rowland these wordes yee may see how Thomas Houre and other which laboured to haue heretikes detected before B. Smith are broughte now to beggery you may take exāple by thē Ioane Franke William Franke the elder William Frāke the yonger Alice Tredway detected Ioane Colingborne For sayeng to one Ioan Timberlake and to Alice Tredway ten yeares ago that shee could neuer beleeue pilgrimages to be profitable nor that Saincts were to be worshipped and desired them not to tell their Curate Which Alice immediately caused her to be called before the Bishop William Carder vpon his othe was forced to detect Isabel Tracher wife of William Tracher his maistres For that shee beeyng not sicke but in good health and beeing rebuked dyuers tymes of her husband for the same yet woulde not go to the Church but taried at home and kept her worke as well holyday as worke daye the space of three yeares together Isabel Gardiner Iohn Gardiner forced by their othe to detect the Vicare of Wicombe Thomas Raue of great Merlow For speaking against Pilgrimages in the companie of Iohn and Elizabeth Gardiner as he was going to our Lady of Lincolne for hys penance enioyned by Byshoppe Smyth Also the same tyme as hee met certayne commyng from Saincte Iohn Shorne for sayeng they were fooles and calling it Idolatry Also in the same voyage when he saw a certaine chappell in decay and ruine he sayde lo yonder is a faire milke-house downe Item when he came to Lincolne he made water in the Chappell at masse time excusing afterward that he did it of necessitie Item the same time speakyng against the Sacrament of the aulter he sayde that Christ sitteth in heauen at the right hand of the father almighty and brought forth this parable sayeng that Christ our Lord sayd these wordes when he went from his disciples and ascended to heauen That once he was in sinners hands woulde come there no more Also when hee came to Wicomb there to do his penaunce he bound his fagot with a silken lace Also being demanded of D. London whether he had done his penaunce in comming to our Lady of Lincolne he aunswered that Bishop Smith had released him to come to our Lady of Messenden for sixe yeares And three yeares he came but whether he came any more because he did not there register his name therefore he sayd he could not prooue it  The wife of Tho. Potter of Hychenden Roger Benet forced by hys othe to detect The wife of Wil. Tilseworth now of Haukewel For not thinking catholikely that is after the tradition of Rome of the Sacrament of the alter  The wife of Robert Stampe Marian Randall For not accomplishyng her penaūce inioyned by Byshop Smith  Iohn Butler For hauyng of him a certaine booke in English conteinyng a Iewe and a Christian.  His owne wife deceassed  Iohn Clerke of Denham For communing with hym agaynst Images Against the Sacrament of the Altar Pilgrimage and the Sacrament of the aultar  Thom. Geffrey of Vxbrige his wife departed For communyng agaynst the Sacrament of the aultar worshyppyng of Saintes Pilgrimage c. Richard Vulford detected Henry Vulman of Vxbrige For speakyng and teaching agayng the Sacrament of the aultar eleuen yeares agoe and saying it was but a trifle  The mother of William Kyng of Vxbrige William Kyng Robert Carder the elder Iohn Baker of Vxbrige Iohn Scriuener the elder detected Geldener the elder His two daughters For
iudgemeÌ„t vnto the godly and discrete reader Not forgetting yet by the way if that the report shoulde be true vpon so iust an occasion to charge that catholique clergy their wicked lawes with a more shameles tirannie vncharitable cruelty theÌ„ before For if they nothing stay theyr bloudy malice towards such as so willingly submit themselues vnto their mercies what fauour may the faithfull and constant professours of Christ looke for at their haÌ„ds I might here also aske of them how they folow the pitiful and louing admonitioÌ„ or rather precept of our Sauiour Christ whose true and only Church they so stoutly bragge to be who in the 17. chapt of S. Luke sayth Though thy brother sinne against thee seuen times in a day No mercy in the popes Church and seuen times in a day turne to thee saieng It repenteth me thou shalt forgiue him But what go I about to allure them vnto the folowing of the rule and counsaile of him vnto whose worde and Gospell they seeme most open and vtter enemies Wherefore not purposing to stay any longer thereupon I will leaue theÌ„ vnto the righteous reuengemeÌ„t of the Lord whereunto let vs now heere adioine the story of one Iohn Browne a good Martir of the Lord burnt at Ashford about this fourth yeare of King Henry the eight whose story heereunder foloweth ¶ Iohn Browne father to Richard Browne which Richard was in prison in Canterbury and should haue bene burned with two more besides himselfe the next day after the death of Queene Mary but by the proclaiming of Queene Elizabeth they escaped Ioh. Brown burned in Asheforde about the 4. yeare of king Henry 8. THe occasion of the first trouble of this Iohn Browne was by a priest sitting in Grauesend barge I. Brown being y e same time in the barge came sate hard by hym wherupon after certain coÌ„municatioÌ„ the Priest asked him doest thou know said he who I am thou sitst too neere me thou sitst on my clothes No sir said he I know not what you are I tell thee I am a Priest What sir are yee a Person or Uicar or a Ladies Chaplen No quoth he againe I am a soule priest I sing for a soule saith he Do ye so sir quoth the other that is well done I pray you sir quoth he where find you y e soule when you go to Masse I can not tel thee said the Priest I pray you where do you leaue it sir wheÌ„ the Masse is done I can not tell thee sayde the Priest Neither can you tell where you finde it when you go to Masse nor where you leaue it when the Masse is done how can you then haue the soule said he Go thy waies said y e Priest thou art an heretike and I will be euen with thee So at the landing the Priest taking w t hym Water More and William More two Gentlemen breethren rode straightwaies to the Archb. Warham wheruppon the said Iohn Browne within three daies after his wife being churched the same day Chilten of wey a Baily arrant and one Beare of Wilselborough with 2. of the Byshops seruantes set him vpon the horse and so carried him away he bringing in a messe of pottage to the boord to his guests was sent for and hys feete bound vnder his own horse so brought vp to Cant. neither his wife nor he nor any of his knowing whether he went nor whether he should And there continuing froÌ„ Lowsonday to y e friday before Whitsonday not knowing to his wife all this while where he was He was set in the stockes ouer night and on the morrow went to death and was burned at Ashford an 1517. The same night as he was in the stocks at Ashford where he his wâ—â—e dwelt his wife then hearing of him came sate by him al y e night before he should be burned to whom he declaring y e whole story how he was handled shewed told how y t he coulde not set his feete to the ground for they were burned to the bones and told her how by the two Bishops Warham Fisher his feet were heat vpon the whote coales burnt to the bones to make me said he to deny my Lord which I will neuer do for if I should deny my Lord in this world he would hereafter denie me I pray thee said he therefore good Elizabeth continue as thou hast begon and bring vp thy childreÌ„ vertuously in the feare of God so y e next day on Whitsonday eueÌ„ this godly Martir was burned StaÌ„ding at y e stake this praier he made holding vp his hands O Lord I yeeld me to thy grace Graunt me mercy for my trespasse Let neuer the feend my soule chase Lord I will bow and thou shalt beate Let neuer my soule come in hell heate Into thy hands I commend my spirit thou hast redeemed me O Lord of truth and so he ended Ex testimonio Aliciae Browne eius filiae cuius mariti nomen dicebatur strat in paâ—rochia S. Pulchri At the fire the said Chilten the Bayly Arrant bade cast in his children also for they would spring sayd he of hys ashes This blessed Martyr Iohn Browne had borne a fagot seauen yeares before in the daies of King Henry the 7. As it is the propertie of SathaÌ„ euer to malice the prosperous estate of the Saintes of God true professours of Christ so ceasseth he not continually to styrre vp his wicked meÌ„bers to the effectuall accomplishyng of that which his enuious nature so greedily desireth if not alwayes openly by colour of tyrannicall lawes yet at the leastwise by some subtill practise of secret murther Which thing doth most playnly appeare not onely in a great number of the blessed Martyrs of Christes Churche mentioned in this booke but also and especially in the discourse of this lameÌ„table history that now I haue in hand concernyng the secrete cruell murderyng of Richard Hunne whose story here consequently ensueth decerped and collected partly out of the Registers of London partly out of a Bill exhibited and denounced in the Parliament house ¶ The story of Richard Hunne THere was in the yeare of our Lord. Richard Hunne martir 1514. one Richard Hunne marchauÌ„t Taylour dwelling within the Citie of London freeman of the same who was esteemed during his lyfe worthely reputed and taken not onely for a man of true dealyng and good substaunce but also for a good Catholicke maÌ„ This Richard Hunne had a child at nourse in Middlesex in the Parish of S. Mary Matsilon which dyed Anno. 1514. by the occasion wherof one Thomas Drifield Clerke beyng Parson of the sayd Parish sued y e sayd Richard Hunne in the spirituall Court for a bearyng sheete which the sayd Thom. Drifield claymed vniustly to haue of the sayd Hunne for a mortuary for SteueÌ„ Hunne sonne of the sayd Richard Hunne which SteueÌ„ beyng at nourse in the sayd Parish dyed being of
knowe whether hee shall be saued c.  Marian Morden his own sister Also that shee dyd not worship Images And after these little thynges he intended to teache her of the Sacrament  W. Afrike or Littlepage Iohn Afrike or Litlepage Emme Harding or Afrike Iohn Fip Phisition ¶ To thys Iames Morden with other moe abiurers it was enioyned by Bishoppe Smith for seuen yeares to visite the church of Lincolne twise a yeare from Amersham And when diuers had gotte licence of the Bishoppe for length of the iourny to visite the Image of our Ladie of Missenden for the space of v. yeares thys Iames Morden when hee coulde not obtaine licence so to doe yet notwithstandyng for the tediousnesse of the way went with them to the same Image and thereuppon was charged for violatyng the Bishops iniunction Also because to get his liuing hee wrought halfe a yeare out of the dioces when he had bene inioyned by the Bishop not to goe out of the diocesse of Buckingham Fol. 11. This Iam. Morden confessed y t he vsed his Pater noster and Creede so much in English that he had forgot many words therof in Latin and therefore was inioyned by bishop Smith to say it no more in English but only in Latine and because he kept not this iniunction he fell therefore in relaps Roger Benet by like compulsion of his othe was caused to detect these following to be knowne persons W. Rogers Tyler and his wife W. Harding Rog. Harding Ioane Ienynges George seruaunt to Tho. Tochel Th. Gray seruant of Roger Benet Agnes Franke. Ioane Colyngworth W. Smith The wife of Iohn Milsent Rob. Stampe and his wife The wife of Rob. Bartlet The wife of Dauid Lewys of Henley Ioh. Frier seruant to M. Penne. Iohn Tracher  Ioh. Mordens wife Rich. Ashford Wil. Litlâ—page prentise sometime of Iohn Scriuener Emme his wife Ioh. Scriuener Isabel Morwyn For teaching Coplands wyfe her errors Thom Halfaker sworne vpon his othe did detect these names here folowing Ioh. Milsent his wife Rog. Harding and his wife Th. Bernard Th. Afrike his wife W. Rogers W. Harding and his wife Kat. Bartlet the mother of Rob. and Ric. Barlet Th. Harding his wife W. Franke and Agnes his wife This great abiuraâ—ion was anno 1511. Because these comming to the Church and especiallye at the eleuatioÌ„ time would say no prayers but did sitte mumme as hee tearmed it lyke beastes Because Katherine Bartlette beyng of good health came but seldome to the Church but fained her selfe sicke and because William Franke maried Agnes hys wife shee beyng before abiured  Rob. Pope Because hee fled away when the great abiuration was at Amersham Also for hauing certaine English bokes fol. 16.  Emme Affrike alias Emme Harding I. Affricke Henry Milner Hernes wife now the wife of Waiuer William Tilseworth Emme Tilseworth of London Thomas Tilseworth and his wife The wife of Robert Tilseworth William Glasbroke Christopher Glasbroke Milner Thomas Groue and Ioane his wife Thomas Man by Bristow Tho. Holms detected Hen. Miller Counted for a great heretike and learned in the Scripture  Iohn Schepard The wife of Iohn Schepard of Dorney The elder daughter of Rog Harding of Amersham Nich. Stokely Couper and his wife of Henley Iohn Clerke Tho. Wilbey of Henley W. Stokeley Hobs with his sonnes of Hychenden The wife of Iohn Scriuener Smith of Owborne Thomas Clerke the elder Thomas Clerke the younger Wigmer fermer of Hychenden Robert Carder weiuer Iohn-Frier seruant to M. Pen. Iohn Morwen and Isabel his wife Elizabeth Houer wife of Henry Houer of little Missenden Rich. White Fuller of Beckinsfield  Andr. Randal and his wife of Ricmansworth Because they receyued into theyr House Thomas Manne flying for persecution and for reading Wickleffs Wicket  The father of Andrewe Randall Benet Ward Fuller Thys Benet Warde was also denounced by Iohn Merstonne for saying that it booteth no manne to pray to oure Ladie nor to no Sainte nor aungell in Heauen but to God only for they haue no power of mans soule  The wife of Benet Ward and her dâ—ughter For saying that Thomas Pope was the deuoutest manne that euer came in their house for he woulde sitte readyng in his booke to midnight many times The foresayd Tho. Holmes detected Tho. Tailour and his wife of Vxbridge Rob. Quicke Rob. Cosine Tho. Clarke and his wife of Ware One Gâ—ldener about Herford Iohn Bay and Wil. Say his sonne of little Missenden The wife of Iohn Wellys of Amersham Ioane Glasbroke sister to Wil. Glasbroke of Harow on the Hill Tho. Susan Wheler Iohnâ— Lee Smith Iohn Austy Sherman Iohn Frier Edmund Harding Ioh. Heron Carpenter of Hambeldon Henry Miller  Iohn Phips Hee was very ripe in Scriptures  Emme wife of Rich. Tilsworth  Iohn Phip He was a reader or rehearser to the other  Iohn Say of Missenden William Stokeley  Rog. Squire For saying to Holmes Thys is one of them that maketh all this businesse in oure Towne wyth the Byshoppe I pray GOD teare al the bones of him  Roger Herne A certaine Tanner  Ioh. Butler Carpenter Rich. Butler W. King of Vxbridge These three sate vp all the night in the house of Durdant of Iuencourte by Stanes For reading the Scripture in Englishe readinge all the nighte of a Booke of Scripture  Iohn Muklyf Weauer For speaking againste holy bread and holy water  Tho. Man For saying that Christ was not substantially in the Sacrament  Thomas 〈…〉 Butler For receiuing an English booke geuen hym by Carder his father who after his abiuration don before bishop Smith fel sieke and died  Rich Vulford of Riselip Hackar Thomas King  Ione Cocks The wife of Rob. Wywood husbandman For desiring of Durdant her maister that he being a knowen a man woulde teache her some knowledge of gods law and desiring the same also of the Butlers Rob. Carder of Iuer weuer detected these Nic. DurdaÌ„t of Stanes Dauy Durdant of Ankerwike The wife of old DurdaÌ„t The wife of Nich. Durdant These were detected for that olde Durdant of Euyncourte at dinner sitting with his children their wiues bidding a boy there staÌ„ding to departe out of y e house that he should not heare and tel did recite certain places vnto them out of the Epistles of S. Paule of the Gospels  Ric. White Father in law to Benet Ward of Bekinsfield He was detected to be a knowen man because after the death of bishop Smith he was heard to say these words my L. that dead is was a good man and diuers known men were called before him he seÌ„t them home againe bidding them y t they should liue among their neighbors as good Christen men should do And now saide he there is a new Byshop which is called a blessed man and if he bee as he is named hee wil not trouble the seruants of God but wil let them be in quiet
Richard Bartlet Robert Bartlet Thomas Bernard  Iohn Clerke of little Missenden For saying shee neuer did beleeue in the sacrament of the aultare or euer would beleue in it Iohn Gardiner did appeache Iohn Horne of Ambylden His sister Agnes Warde Wardes wife of Marlow Nicholas Stokeley Because that when this Gardiner sayde God helpe vs and our Ladie and all the saints of heauen then she sayd what neede is it to goe to the feete when we may goe to the head  William Stokeley The wife of William Deane Will. Ramsey of Newbery Iohn Symon og Marlow Hys wife of Marlow Iohn Gray of Marlow Dauy Schyrwood William Schyrwood Raynold Schyrwood Iohn Say did detect Christopher Shomaker Ih. Okinden Rob. Pope Thys Chrystopher Shomaker hadde beene burned a little before at Newbery Christoph. Shomaker martir ¶ Byshop Longland seeking matter against Isabell Morwyn of whome hee coulde take no greate aduauntage by examination called and caused Elizabeth Copland her own sister to testifie against her in maner as followeth Elizabeth Coplande witnesseth against Isabel Morwyn her owne sister Firste because in talke together comming from their father being at the poynte of death Isabell sayde to her sister Elizabeth that all whych dye either passe to hel or heauen Nay sayde the other there is betweene them purgatorie Agayne when Elizabeth came from the roode of rest sayd Isabell that if she knew so much as shee hath heard shee would go no more on pilgrimage while she liued for all Saints said she be in heauen Then asked Elizabeth wherfore pilgrimage was ordeined of Doctours and Priestes Said the other for gaine profit Who hath taught you this quoth Elizabeth man or womaÌ„ Your Curate I dare say neuer learned you so My Curate sayd she will neuer knowe so much and moreouer sayd to Elizabeth her sister that if she woulde keepe counsaile not tell her husband she would say more And when Elizabeth answered that she would not tell but sayth the other I will haue you to sweare and because she woulde not sweare the other would not proceed any further Alice Browne forced by her othe too detect Iohn Tracher of Chessham The cause why this Iohn Tracher was denounced was thys for that hee taught her in the Gospell this sayeng of Iesus Blessed bee they that heare the word of GOD and keepe it Also because hee taughte her the eyghte beatitudes in English ¶ Emme Tilseword because she refused to detect other by vertue of her othe and denied such matter as by witnes and by the Bishops actes were prooued against her in paine of relaps the Bishop enioyned her to make certaine fagots of cloth and to weare the same both before her vpper garment and behinde so long as she liued Ex Regist. Longland  Thomas Afrike For asking howe hys cousin Widmore clerke the elder and Iohn Fip did at Hichenden whether they kepte the lawes of GOD as they were woont W. Phippes forced by his othe to detect Roger Parker deceased Ioh. Phip For sayeng that Images are not to bee woorshipped because they are made and carued wyth mans hande and that such ought not to be worshipped  Iohn Gardiner For that to the sayde Wil. this Gardiner sayd that all which are burned for thys secte are true Martyrs  Iohn Stilman  Iohn Butler by his othe was forced to detect Thomas Geffray firste of Vxbridge then of Ipswich Taylor For reading and teaching him in the acts and preachings of the Apostles Item for hauing a Scripture Booke in English whyche Booke the sayde Gefferay gaue to the Byshoppe of London when hee was accused Item that the sayde Gefferay sayde that true Pilgrimage was barefoote to go and visite the poore weake and sicke for they are the true Images of God  Richard Vulford This Uulforde and Thomas Gefferay tolde the sayde Iohn Butler that the hoste consecrated was not the verye true bodye of Christe In proofe whereof they sayde that let a Mouse bee put in the pixe wyth the hoste A story of a mouse put into the pixe and the Mouse woulde eate it vp And for more proofe they declared vnto the sayde Iohn Butler that there were two Priests in Essex which put a mouse in the pixe to a consecrated hoste and the mouse did eate it Afterwarde the facte of these Priestes beyng knowne and brought to the Byshop one of the Priestes was burned for the same  Ioh. Clerke of DeÌ„ham Also the same Uulford and Geffrey told him and Iohn Clerke that holy bread and holy water were but a vayne glorye of the world for God neuer made them but were mennes inuentions and that GOD neither made Priestes for in Christes time there were no priests Moreouer that Thomas Geffrey caused this Iohn Butler diuers SoÌ„dayes to goe to London to heare Doctour Colet Doctor Colet commended  Andrew Fuller of Vxbridge Because this Iohn Butler had an olde booke of Richard Uulford Also an other greate booke of Andrewe Fuller for whiche hee payde sixe shillyngs and foure pence and an other litle booke of Thomas Man which he brought to the Byshop The foresayd Iohn Butler did detect Thomas Man Moreouer this Thomas Man was appeached because hee read to this deponent ten yeares agoe howe Adam and Eue were expelled out of Paradise and for speakyng agaynste Pilgrimage and worshyppyng of Images and agaynst the singyng seruice vsed then in Churches This Thomas Man was burnt and dyed a Martyr of whoÌ„ mention is made before pag. 817.  William Kyng This William Kyng was appeached because he lodged Thomas Man in his house vppon a certaine holy day at diuine seruice vnto whom resorted Richard Uulford and Ioh. Clerke this Ioh. Butler to whom the sayd Tho. Man declared that pilgrimage was naught that Images were not to be worshypped  Rob. Carder Durdant Rich. Butler his own brother Wil. Kyng To these was layd that Thom. Caâ—der brought this Ioh. Butler to Durdantes house at IueÌ„court by Stanis where was Rich. Butler his brother and William Kyng readyng in a certaine Engglishe booke At whiche tyme Durdant desired theÌ„ not to tell that he had any such English booke in his house least hee should be burned for the same  Rich. Nash or Ashford Also an other tyme that Iohn Butler with Richard Butler his brother and Robert Carder weÌ„t to the house of Rich. Ashford or Nashe to heare the same Ashford read in a certaine little booke but which coÌ„teined many good things Agayne when Elizabeth came from the roode of rest sayd Isabell that if she knew so much as shee hath heard shee would go no more on pilgrimage while she liued for all Saints said she be in heauen Then asked Elizabeth wherfore pilgrimage was ordeined of Doctours and Priestes Said the other for gaine profit Who hath taught you this quoth Elizabeth man or womaÌ„ Your Curate I dare say neuer learned you so My Curate sayd she will neuer knowe
so much and moreouer sayd to Elizabeth her sister that if she woulde keepe counsaile not tell her husband she would say more And when Elizabeth answered that she would not tell but sayth the other I will haue you to sweare and because she woulde not sweare the other would not proceed any further Alice Browne forced by her othe too detect Iohn Tracher of Chessham The cause why this Iohn Tracher was denounced was thys for that hee taught her in the Gospell this sayeng of Iesus Blessed bee they that heare the word of GOD and keepe it Also because hee taughte her the eyghte beatitudes in English ¶ Emme Tilseword because she refused to detect other by vertue of her othe and denied such matter as by witnes and by the Bishops actes were prooued against her in paine of relaps the Bishop enioyned her to make certaine fagots of cloth and to weare the same both before her vpper garment and behinde so long as she liued Ex Regist. Longland  Thomas Afrike For asking howe hys cousin Widmore clerke the elder and Iohn Fip did at Hichenden whether they kepte the lawes of GOD as they were woont W. Phippes forced by his othe to detect Roger Parker deceased Ioh. Phip For sayeng that Images are not to bee woorshipped because they are made and carued wyth mans hande and that such ought not to be worshipped  Iohn Gardiner For that to the sayde Wil. this Gardiner sayd that all which are burned for thys secte are true Martyrs  Iohn Stilman  Iohn Butler by his othe was forced to detect Thomas Geffray firste of Vxbridge then of Ipswich Taylor For reading and teaching him in the acts and preachings of the Apostles Item for hauing a Scripture Booke in English whyche Booke the sayde Gefferay gaue to the Byshoppe of London when hee was accused Item that the sayde Gefferay sayde that true Pilgrimage was barefoote to go and visite the poore weake and sicke for they are the true Images of God  Richard Vulford This Uulforde and Thomas Gefferay tolde the sayde Iohn Butler that the hoste consecrated was not the verye true bodye of Christe In proofe whereof they sayde that let a Mouse bee put in the pixe wyth the hoste A story of a mouse put into the pixe and the Mouse woulde eate it vp And for more proofe they declared vnto the sayde Iohn Butler that there were two Priests in Essex which put a mouse in the pixe to a consecrated hoste and the mouse did eate it Afterwarde the facte of these Priestes beyng knowne and brought to the Byshop one of the Priestes was burned for the same  Ioh. Clerke of DeÌ„ham Also the same Uulford and Geffrey told him and Iohn Clerke that holy bread and holy water were but a vayne glorye of the world for God neuer made them but were mennes inuentions and that GOD neither made Priestes for in Christes time there were no priests Moreouer that Thomas Geffrey caused this Iohn Butler diuers SoÌ„dayes to goe to London to heare Doctour Colet Doctor Colet commended  Andrew Fuller of Vxbridge Because this Iohn Butler had an olde booke of Richard Uulford Also an other greate booke of Andrewe Fuller for whiche hee payde sixe shillyngs and foure pence and an other litle booke of Thomas Man which he brought to the Byshop The foresayd Iohn Butler did detect Thomas Man Moreouer this Thomas Man was appeached because hee read to this deponent ten yeares agoe howe Adam and Eue were expelled out of Paradise and for speakyng agaynste Pilgrimage and worshyppyng of Images and agaynst the singyng seruice vsed then in Churches This Thomas Man was burnt and dyed a Martyr of whoÌ„ mention is made before pag. 817.  William Kyng This William Kyng was appeached because he lodged Thomas Man in his house vppon a certaine holy day at diuine seruice vnto whom resorted Richard Uulford and Ioh. Clerke this Ioh. Butler to whom the sayd Tho. Man declared that pilgrimage was naught that Images were not to be worshypped  Rob. Carder Durdant Rich. Butler his own brother Wil. Kyng To these was layd that Thom. Caâ—der brought this Ioh. Butler to Durdantes house at IueÌ„court by Stanis where was Rich. Butler his brother and William Kyng readyng in a certaine Engglishe booke At whiche tyme Durdant desired theÌ„ not to tell that he had any such English booke in his house least hee should be burned for the same  Rich. Nash or Ashford Also an other tyme that Iohn Butler with Richard Butler his brother and Robert Carder weÌ„t to the house of Rich. Ashford or Nashe to heare the same Ashford read in a certaine little booke but which coÌ„teined many good things  Richard Vulman of London This Uulman was detected vpon this for that he would haue red to this Iohn Butler a certaine english booke and spake against pilgrimage and images  Henr. Vlman his wife of Uxbridge  Radulph Carpenter of London A daughter of Iohn Phip A daughter of William Phip This Rafe Carpenter was detected for hauing certaine bookes of the Apocal. in English Also for that thys CarpeÌ„ter and his wife did bring him and the wife of Henry Uulman to a cornerhouse of Fridaystreete where the goodman of y e house hauing a stumpe foote had diuers such bookes to the inteÌ„t they should heare them read  R. Butler Ienkin Butler his owne breethren The mother of Richard Ashford I. Butler his other brother These were detected partly for holdyng against the Sacrament of the alter partly also because they were reading two houres together in a certayne booke of the actes of the Apostles in English at Chersham in Ashfords house Iohn Phip compelled by his othe to detect The wife of Robert Pope For hauing certaine bookes in English For reading bookes in Englishe one bound in bourds and three with parchment couerings with foure other sheetes of paper written in english conteining matter agaynst the Romish Religion Also another booke of the seruice of the virgin Mary in English Thomas Stilman Tho. Stilman was therefore detected for y t he told Wil. Fip how that he being in lolards tower did climbe vp the steeple where y e bels were and there cutting y e belropes did tye two of them together and so by them slipped downe into Paules Churchyard escaped Tho. Tredway compelled by his othe to detect Iohn MordeÌ„ of Ashly greene Rich. Asheford his brother Agnes Ashford his owne mother These were accused detected because Iohn Morden had in hys house a booke of y e Gospels and other chapters in english read three or foure times in the same In whiche booke his brother Ashford also did rede once Item because I. Morden spake against Images and spake these words our Lorde Iesus Christ saith in hys Gospell Blessed bee they that heare y e word of God kepeth it c. Tredway also detected his mother for teaching him y t he shuld
during his imprisonment was very cruelly handled For almost the space of a fourtnight he lay in the bishops colehouse in the stockes with yrons vpon his legs The cruel handling of BaynhaÌ„ TheÌ„ he was caryed to the Lord ChauÌ„cellors and there chayned to a post 2. nightes TheÌ„ he was caryed to Fulham where he was cruelly handled by y e space of a seuen nighte TheÌ„ to the Tower where he lay a fourtnight scourged with whips to make him reuoke his opinions FroÌ„ thence he was caryed to Barking theÌ„ to Chelsey and there condemned and so to Newgate to be burned ¶ The burning of Iames Baynham The death and Martirdome of M. Iames Baynham Iames Baynham Anno. 1532. At whose burning here is notoriously to be obserued that as he was at the stake in the midst of the flaming fyre which fire had halfe consumed his armes legs A 〈◊〉 and 〈…〉 of God to beholde he spake these wordes O ye Papistes behold ye looke for miracles and here now you may see a myracle for in this fire I feele no more paine then if I were in a bed of Downe but it is to me as sweet as a bed of roses These words spake he in the middest of the flaminge fire when his legges and hys armes as I sayd were halfe consumed ¶ Iohn Bent Martyr AT the writing hereof came to our hands a certeyn notice of one Iohn Bent Ioh. Bent Martyr who about this present time or not long before being a Tailor dwelled in a village called Urcheuaunt was burnt in the Towne of the Deuises Ioh. Bent burnt at Deuise within the country of Wilkeshire for the denying of the sacrament of the altar as they terme it ¶ One Trapnel Martyr ALso much about the same tyme Trapnell Martir burnt at Brodford was one Trapnell burned in a Towne called Brodford within the same County * The History of three men hanged for the burning of the Rood of Douercourt collected out of a letter of Robert Gardner which was one of the doers of the same IN the same yeare of our Lord 1532. there was an Idoll named the Roode of Douercourt Out of a letter of Robert Gardner written to Chapman Londoner and yet aliue The Rooâ—e of Douercourt whereunto was much and greate resorte of people For at that time there was great rumour blowne abroad amonges the ignorant sort that the power of the Idoll of Douercourt was so greate that no man had power to shutte the Church doore where he stood and therefore they lette the Churche doore bothe nyght and daye continually stand open for the more credite vnto theyr blinde rumour Which once beyng conceyued in the heades of the vulgare sort seemed a great maruell vnto many men but to many agayne whom God had blessed with his spirite was greatly suspected especially vnto these whose names here folow as Robert King of Dedham Robert Debnam of Estbergholt Rob. king Rob. Dâ—bnam Nicholas Marsh Martyrs Nicholas Marshe of Dedham and Robert Gardner of Dedham whose consciences were sore burdened to see the honor and power of the almighty liuing God so to be blasphemed by such an Idoll Wherefore they were moued by the spirit of God to trauell out of Dedham in a woondrous goodlye night both hard frost and fayre moone shine although the nighe before and the night after were exceeding foule and rayny It was from the towne of Dedham to the place where the filthy Roode stood x. miles The blinde opinions of the people Notw tstanding they were so willing in that theyr enterprise that they went these x. myles without payne and found the Church doore open according to the blinde talke of the ignorant people for there durst no vnfaithful body shut it Which happened wel for their purpose for they founde the Idol which had as much power to keepe the doore shut Experience of â—â—lle Idolatry as to keepe it open And for proofe thereof they tooke the Idol from his shrine and caryed him a quarter of a myle from the place where he stoode without any resistaunce of the sayd Idol Whereuppon they strake fire with a Flint stone The Idâ—ll set on a 〈…〉 and sodenly set him on fire who burned out so brym that he lighted them homeward one good myle of the ten This done there went a great talke abroade that they should haue great riches in that place Falle surâ—â—â—se alwayes ready but it was very vntrue for it was not their thought or enterprise as they themselues afterward confessed for there was nothing taken away but his coate his shoes and tapers The tapers did helpe to burne him the shooes they had againe The right handling of an Idoll and the coate one sir Thomas Rose did burn but they had neither peny halfe peny golde grote nor iewel ¶ Robert King Robert Debnam and Nicholas Marshe hanged for taking downe the Roode of Douercourt The fourth man of thys companye named Robert Gardner Robert Gardner escaped escaped their handes and fledde Albeit he was cruelly sought for to haue had the like death but y e lyuing Lord preserued him to whom be al honour glory world without ende The same yeare and the yeare before there were manye Images cast downe and destroyed in manye places Ex teâ—imonio ipsius 〈…〉 as the Image of the Crucifixe in the hygh waye by Cogshall the Image of saint Petronil in the Church of great Horksleigh the Image of saint Christopher by Sudburye and an other Image of saint Petronil in a Chappell by Ipswiche Also Iohn Seward of Dedham ouerthrew a Crosse in Stoke Parke and tooke two Images out of a chappell in the same parke and cast them into the water ¶ The storie examination death and martyrdome of Iohn Frith AMongest al other chaunces lamentable there hath ben none a great tyme whiche seemed vnto me more greeuous Anno 153. then the lamentable death and cruel handlinge of Iohn Frith so learned and excellent a young man which had so profited in al kind of learning and knowledge that scarsely there was his equal amongest al his companions and besides withal had such a godlynes of lyfe ioined with his doctrine Iohn Frith Martyr that it was hard to iudge in whether of them he was more commendable being greatly prayse worthie in them both But as touchinge his doctrine by the grace of Christ we will speake hereafter Of the great godlynes which was in him this may serue for experiment sufficieÌ„t for that notwithstanding his other manifold and singular giftes ornaments of y e mind in him most pregnant wher withall he might haue opened an easie way vnto honor dignitie notwithstanding he chose rather wholly to consecrate himselfe vnto the Church of Christ excellently shewing forth practising in himselfe the precept so highly coÌ„mended of the Philosophers touching the life of man which life they say is geuen vnto vs
S. Katherine Colman and when he preached he lefte his matters doubtfull Item for preaching without the commaundemente of hys Parson Item for that he was a Scotishe Frier driuen out of hys countrey for heresie Tulle Bustre his wife and his son in lawe These were noted for comming seldome to the Churche and many times were seene to labour vpon the holydayes Wil. Ettis and his wife Ettis and his wife were noted for maynteining certeyne preachers and for causing one Tauerner being no Priest to preach against the Kings Iniunctions Merifield and his sonne in law Nicholas Russell The goodman of the Saracens head in Fridaystreete W. Callaway Io. Gardiner with three prentises Against thys company presentation was made for gathering together in the euening and for bringing ill preachers that is to say good preachers amongst the people Tho. Plummer This Tho. was presented for saieng y t the blessed Sacrament was to him y t doth take it so to him y t doth not was not so Shermons Shermons keper of the Carpenters Hall in Christes parishe was presented for procuring an enterlude to be openly played wherein Priestes were railed on and called knaues Lewes Morall a seruant Iames Ogule and his wife Noted not to haue bene confessed certaine yeares before Tho. Babam Accused not to haue ben confessed nor houseled in his parish Church The person Curate of S. Antlins For not vsing y e ceremonies in making holywater nor keping their processioÌ„s on saterdayes Lewys Bromfield For not taking his housell and for absenting himselfe from the Church on holydayes Iohn Sempe Iohn Goffe For despraising a certayne Antyme of oure Ladye begynnyng Te matrem c. sayeng that there is heresie in the same Gilbert Godfre For absenting himselfe from the Church on holydayes Th. Cappes priest For saieng these words that the Sacramente of the aulter was but a memory a remembraunce of the Lords death Io. Mailer Grocer For calling the sacrament of the aulter the baken God and for saieng that the Masse was called beyond the Sea Misse for that all is amisse in it Ioh. Hardyman Priest HardymaÌ„ parson of S. Martins in Yremunger lane presented for preaching opeÌ„ly that coÌ„fession is confusioÌ„ deformatioÌ„ that y e butcherly ceremonies of y e church were to be abhorred Also for sayeng what a mischiefe is this to esteme y e sacrameÌ„ts to be of such vertue for in so doing they take y e glory of God froÌ„ him for sayeng that faith in Christ is sufficieÌ„t w tout any other sacrameÌ„ts to iustifie Ex 〈…〉 Christopher Dray Plummer For saieng of the sacrament of y e aulter that it was not offered vp for remissioÌ„ of sins and that the body of Christ was not there but only by representatioÌ„ and signification of the thing Rob Ward Shomaker Presented by three witnesses for holding against the Sacrament of the aulter he dyed in prison in Bredstreete Nicolas Otes For not coÌ„ming to y e housel at easter he was seÌ„t to Newgate HermaÌ„ Peterson Iames Gosson Rich. White Haberdasher For not comming to shrift housel at the time of Easter These were committed to prison in Bredestrete For sayeng that he dyd not thinke that Christ was in the sacrameÌ„t of the aulter within y e sepulchre S. Olaâ—es in the old Jury but in heaueÌ„ aboue Giles Harison Rich. Bostocke Priest Harison being in a place w tout Algate meryly iesting in a certayne coÌ„pany of neighbors where some of them sayd let vs go to Masse I say tary sayd he 〈◊〉 without Algaâ—e and so taking a piece of bread in his hands lift it vp ouer his head And likewise taking a cup of wine bowyng down his head made therwith a crosse ouer the cup and so taking the sayde cup in both hys hands lift it ouer his head saying these wordes haue ye not heard masse now For y t which he was presented to Boner theÌ„ B. of London Against whom came these witnesses Thomas Castell Witnesses agaynst Giles Andrew Morice Witnesses agaynst Giles W. Grene. Witnesses agaynst Giles Iohn Margetson Witnesses agaynst Giles For saying that auricular coÌ„fessioÌ„ hath killed moe soules theÌ„ all the bils clubs halters haue done sithens K. Henry was king of England c. Also for saying that the water in Thames hath as much vertue as the water which the priests do halow Margaret Ambsworth Iohn Leicester For hauing no reuerence to y e sacrameÌ„t at sacring time Item for instruction of maydes being a great Doctresse W. Raynold Christ. Tounesend Tho. Dauid Skinner Tho. Mabs Tho. Starchey Christ. Holybread Martine Donam W. Derby All these noted presented for maynteyning of Barnes such other preachers many of their wiues for not takyng holy bread nor going in procession on Sondayes Aldermanbury Laurence Maxwell Bricklayer For speaking and reasoning agaynst auriculer confession Ioh. Coygnes or Lyuelond S. Martins the great For holdyng agaynst the sacrament of the aulter and not receiuing at Easter Gerard Frise. Presented by two witnesses for affirming that a Sermon preached is better then the sacrament of the aulter S. Clements without 〈…〉 and that he had rather go to heare a sermon S· Katherines then to heare a Masse Dominicke Williams Frenchman For not receiuing the Sacrament of the aulter at Easter Tho. Lancaster priest Gough Lay in the CouÌ„ter in y e Pultrye for compiling bringing ouer bookes prohibited Item Gough the Stacioner trobled for resorting vnto him Frier Warde Layd in the Counter in bred streete for marying one Elizabeth to his wife after his vow made of chastity Frier Wilcocke Wilcock a scottish frier prisoned in the Fleet for preaching agaynst confession holywater agaynst praying to sayntes for soules departed agaynste Purgatorye and holding that priestes might haue wiues c. Ioh Taylour D. in Diuinity D. Taylor presented for preaching at S. Brides in Fleetestreet that it is as profitable to a man to heare masse see the Sacrament as to kisse Iudas mouth which kissed Christ our sauior c. W. Tolwine Person of S. Anthonies Presented and examined before Edm. Boner for permitting Alexand. Seton to preach in his church hauing no licence of his ordinary also for alowing the Sermons of the sayde Alexander Seton whiche hee preached agaynst D. Smith To the sayd Tolwine moreouer it was obiected that he vsed y e space of ij yeares to make holy water leauing out the general exorcisme beginning Exorciso te c. vsing these words for y e same Benedicite Dominus Ab eo fit benedicta a cuius latere fluxit sanguis aqua Adioining therto Tolwins making of holy water commixio salis aquae fiat in nomine patris filij spiritus Sancti The like vsage of making holy water was also vsed in Aldermary Church where Doct. Crome was in Hony lane Agaynst this obiection thus
called Captayn Borthwike Who being accused of heresy as the papistes call it and cited therefore an 1540. and not appearing and escaping out into other countryes was condemned for the same being absent by the sentence of Dauid Beaton Archbishop of S. Andrewes and other Prelates of Scotland and all his goodes confiscate and his picture at last burned in the open market place Whose story with his articles obiected agaynst him and his confutations of the same here ensueth in processe vnder expressed as followeth * The Act or Processe or certayne Articles agaynst Syr Iohn Borthwike Knight in Scotland with the aunswere and confutation of the sayd Borthwike whose preface to the reader here foloweth BY the helpe of a certayne frend of mine there came certayne articles vnto my hand for the which the Scottish Cardinal and such other like of his sect and affinity did cōdemne me as an hereticke Captaine Borthwick◠And for so much as this condēnation should not lacke his cloke or defence they gathered together a great number of witnesses where as besides the bare names of the witnesses they alledged none other profe at all Wherefore I thought good to bestow some labour in refelling these articles which they could not proue partly that I might take awaye from all true Christians the occasion of all euill suspition as though that I beyng vanquished or ouerthrowne by theyr threatnings would deny Christ and partly that theyr errours being thereby made manifest they should euen for very shame repent or els hereafter y e lesse abuse y e furor or madnesse of such wytnesses to shed bloud Therefore I will first confirme by euident testimonyes of the Scriptures those things whiche in times past I haue taught and afterwarde I will refell theyr vayne Sophistication wherby they go about to subuert the trueth of God SYr Iohn Borthwike knight commonly called Captain Borthwike being accused suspected slaundered and convicte by witnesse without all doubt of greater estimation then he himselfe in the yeare of our Lord. 1540. the 28. day of May in the cloister of S. Andrewes in the presence of the most reuerēt Fathers Gawine Archbishop of Glasquene Chauncellour of Scotland William Bishop of Aburdin Henry of Candicatia Iohn Bishop of Brecknock and William of Dumbar Byshoppes Andrew of Mellrowes George of Dunerueling Iohn of Paslet Iohn of Lōdorse Rob. of Rillos Wil. of Rulrose Abbots Mācolalyne of Quiterne and Iohn of Pettin vaim Pryors Mayster Alexander Kalfour Uicar of Kitman Rector of Lawe officiall of Sayncte Andrewes Iohn Winton Suppriour Iohn Anand and Thomas Eminghame Chanons of Saynt Andrewes Iohn Tompson with vniuersity of Saynt Andrewes and Mayster Iohn Maior and Peter Capelland Batchelers of Diuinity and doctours Martine Ballfour Batcheller of Diuinitye and of his fellow Pryour of the Fryers Augustynes of the same Cittye Iohn Tulidaffe Warden of the Fryers Mynors and Iohn Paterson of the same Couent and also in the presence of the most noble mighty and honourable Lords George of Huntelo Iames of Arrain William Marshal William of Monnetros Erles Malcolme Lord of Flemming Chamberlaine of Scotland Iohn Lord of Linsey Iohn L. of Erskine George L. of Seton Iames Hamelton of Finwart Water L. of S. Iohn M. Iames of Colinton Clarke to the Kings Register with diuers other Lordes Barons and honest persons beyng called desired together for witnes that he did hold publish and openly teach these errors followyng The first Article That our holy father the Pope as Christes vicar hath not neither can exercise greater autoritie ouer Christians here on earth then any other bishop or prelate Borthwike These holy ones do magnify their Lord by like title as common theeues and robbers are accustomed to preferre the captaines and ringleaders of their robberies and mischiefs calling them in euery place the most honest good men where as likewise it is euidēt y t in the whole world there is no man more geuen to riot which more greedily doth seeke after all kynde of delicatenes and wantonnesse and finally aboundeth with all kynde of vice as treason murder rapine and all kynd of such euils Furthermore where as they affirme him to be the vicar of Christ here in earth it shall be easily conuinced when as it shall be made manifest that he hath not nor cannot exercise more power or autoritie ouer christians then any other bishop or prelate For vnto that office of beyng vicar they referre that great autoritie the which they do so greatly boast and brag of which beyng taken away the office of vicar doth also fall and decay But now to attempt the matter I wil first demand of the mainteiners of this preheminence and autority whereupon they wil ground the same I know that they will aunswer vnto me that Peter had power autority ouer the other Apostles and consequently ouer the vniuersall church the which power by succession is translated vnto the bishops of Rome But how vnshamefastly they do lye herein any may easily perceiue which hath but any small sparke of iudgement in him When as he shal heare the testimonies of the scriptures which we will alleage to confirme this our opinion For Peter in the xv of the Actes In the counsell doth declare what is to be done and admonisheth vs what of necessitie we ought to doe And he there did also heare other speake and did not onely geue them place to say theyr myndes but also permit and receiue their iudgement and where as they decreed hee followed and obeyed the same Is this then to haue power ouer others Furthermore where as in his first epistle he writeth vnto bishops and pastors he doth not commād them as a superior or head ouer them by power and authoritie but maketh them his fellowe companions and gently exhorteth thē as is accustomed to be done betweene equals of degree for these are his wordes I beseech and desire the bishops and pastors which are amongst you for so much as I my selfe am also a bishop and a witnesse of the afflictions of Christ and also a partaker of the glorye which shall be reuealed that they do diligently feede the flocke of Christ which is committed vnto them Why then do they so chalenge vnto them the autority of Peter which he neuer acknowledged in himselfe Truly I do not dout but if that Peter were here present he would with like seueritie rebuke their folly and madnes as Moses in times past did vnto Iosua which burned with too earnest a zeale towards hym I doubt not but that many in this fayned authoritie of Peter do seeke out more vayne helps to maintaine and vpholde the tiranny of Popes rather then to make him ruler and gouernour ouer all other For where as in the 8. chapiter of the Acts he is commaunded by hys fellowes to go with Iohn into Samaria he did not refuse so to do In so much then as the apostles do send him they declare thereby that they doe not count him
Agnes Grebyll Or if no such witnesse at all can be found then are they strayned vpon the racke or by other bitter tormentes forced to confesse theyr knowledge and to peach other Neyther must any be suffered to come to them what neede so euer they haue Neither must any publicke or quiet audience be geuen them to speake for themselues till at last sentence be readde agaynst them to geue them vp to the secular arme or to degrade thē if they be Priestes and so to burne them Ex hist. Cochlaei contra Hussitas And yet the malignity of these Aduersaryes doth not here cease For after that the fire hath consumed their bodyes then they fal vpon theyr bookes and condemne them in like maner to be burned no man so hardy to read thē or keep them vnder payne of heresy The vse and maner how the Papistes draw out articles of bookes after the authors be condemned But before they haue abolished these bookes first they gather articles out of thē such as they list themselues so peruersly wrast wringe them after theyr owne purpose falsely cōtrary to y e right meaning of the author as may seeme after theyr putting down to be most heretical execrable Which being done the bookes then abolished that no man may confer them with theyr articles to espy theyr falshood thē they diuulge and set abroad those articles in such sort as princes people may see what heretickes they were And this is the rigor of theyr processe and proceeding against these persons whom thus they purpose to condemne and burne To the second order belongeth that sort of heretickes whom these Papistes do not condemne to death but assigne them vnto Monasteries there to continue The punishmēt of them whom the Papistes cōdemne to perpetuall prison after their submission and to fast all theyr life In pane doloris aqua angustiae that is wyth bread of sorow and water of afflictiō and that they should not remoue one mile out of the precinct of the sayd Monastery so long as they liued without they were otherwise by the archbishop himselfe or his successors dispensed with all Albeit many times the sayd persons were so dispensed withall that theyr penaunce of bread and water was turned for them to wollward Wednesdaies and fridayes euery weeke or some other like punishment c. The thyrd kinde of heretickes were those whom these Prelates did iudge not to perpetuall prison but onely inioyned them penaunce either to stand before the preacher or els to beare a fagot about the market or in processiō or els to weare the picture of a fagotte bordered on theyr lefte sleeues without any cloke or gowne vpon the same The punishmēt of them which be inioyned penaunce after their recantation or else to kneele at the saying of certain masses or to say so many Pater nosters Aues and Creedes to such or such a Saynct or to go in pilgrimage to such or such a place or els to beare a Fagot to the burning of some hereticke either els to fast certaine Fridayes bread water Or if it were a woman to weare no smocke on Fridayes but to go wolward c as appeareth Regist. fol. 159. And thus much by the way out of the Register of William Warrham aforesayd like as also out of other bishops registers many mo such like matters and examples might be collected if either leysure would serue me to search or if the largenes of this Uolume would suffer al to be inserted that might be found Howbeit amōgst many other things omitted the story and Martyrdome of Lancelot and hys felowes is not to be forgottē The story of whō with their names is this ¶ The Martyrdome of Lancelot one of the kinges garde Iohn a Paynter and Gyles Germane Lancelot Iohn a Painter Gyles Germane Martyrs ABout the yeare of our Lord. 1539. one Iohn a Paynter and Giles Germaine were accused of heresy and whilest they were in examination at London before the Byshop and other Iudges by chaunce there came in one of the kinges seruantes named Lancelot a very tall man and of no lesse godly minde and disposition then strong tall of body This man standing by seemed by his countenaunce gesture to fauour both the cause the poore men his frēds Wherupon he being apprehended was examined and condemned together with them and the next day at v. of the clocke in the morning was caryed with thē into S. Giles in the field and there burned being but a small concourse or company of people at theyr death One Style martyr burned in Smithfield with the Apocalyps In the company and felowship of these blessed Saints and Martyrs of Christ which innocently suffered within y e time of K. Henryes raigne for the testimony of Gods word and truth an other good man also commeth to mind not to be excluded out of this number who was with like cruelty oppressed and burned in Smithfield about the latter end of Cuth Tonstals time Byshop of Londō whose name was called Stile Ex testimonio D. Rob. Outradi as is credibly reported vnto vs by a worthy auncient Knight named Syr Robert Outred who was the same time present himselfe at his burning and witnes of the same With him there was burned also a book of the Apocalips which belike he was wont to read vpon This book when he saw fastened vnto the stake to be burned with him lifting vp his voyce O blessed Apocalips sayd he how happy am I that shal be burned with thee And so this good man and the blessed Apocalips were both together in the fire consumed ANd thus through the gracious supportatiō of Christ our Lord we haue runne ouer these 37. laborious yeares of king Henries race Under whose tyme and gouernance such actes and recordes troubles persecutions recantations practises alterations and reformations as thē happened in the church we haue here discoursed with such statutes iniunctions and proclamations as by him were set forth in causes matters to the sayd church apperteyning Albeit not cōprehending all things so fully as might be yet pretermitting so few thinges as we could of suche matters as came to our handes Pope Leo his Bull agaynst Luther M. Luthers appeale from the Pope to a generall Councell saue onely that certayne instruments with a few other occurrentes somewhat perteining to the course of this kinges history haue past our hands as the false lying bul of pope Leo x. against M. Luther with the forme also of the sayd M. Luthers appeale from the Pope vnto a generall counsel All which w t other matters moe besides omitted we haue differred by themselues hereafter to be exhibited and declared in the sequele of this present story as in his due place shall appeare In the meane season amongst other omissions here ouerpast The sentence definitiue of Pope Clement 7. agaynst the diuorce of king Henry forsomuch
together After that by reason of a visitation and certaine Iniunctions geuen in the same time by the authoritie of king Henry the eight he forsooke the same house and casting froÌ„ him the sayd Monkes habite and religion aforesayde tooke vpon him and vsed the habite of a secular priest and returned to Snowhill where hee was borne and there hee did celebrate and sing Masse and taught childreÌ„ their Primer and Accidence about halfe a yeare together Then he went from thence to Ludgate in Suffolke there serued as a seculare priest about a quarter of a yeare and from thence he then went to Stonyland where he taried and serued as a secular priest also vntill the comming out of the sixe Articles and then hee departed from thence and went into Gloucester shiere where after he had made his aboade in the countrey a while at lengthe in Tewkesbury according to Gods holy ordinance he maried a wife with whom he euer after faithfully and honestly coÌ„tinued and after his marriage he taried in Tewkesbury about 2. yeares together W. Flower â—aryeth a â—yfe and then from thence he went vnto Brosâ—ey where he taried three quarters of a yere and practised Phisicke and Surgerie and from thence hee remooued to Northampton shier where vnder a Gentleman he taught children their primers and to wryte and read a good space And so departing from those parties hee came to London and there remained for a certain space After that being desirous to see his countrey he returned to Snowhil where hee was borne W. Flower â—ommeth â—o Lambeth from thence to Branckstrey in Essex then to Coxal where he taught children a space and so came to Lambeth beside London where he hired a house and placed his wife where he and his wife did euer since dwell together till this time howbeit for the most part he was alwayes abroade and very seldome at home except once or twise in a moneth to visite and see his wife where hee being at home vpon Easter day about 10. and a 11. a clocke in the fore noone of the same daye came ouer the water from Lambeth into Sainte Margaretes Churche at Westminster W. Flower â—â—riketh a Popish Priest at the aultar in Westminster where he finding seeing a Prieste called Iohn Cheltam ministring and geuing the sacrament of the aultare to the people and therewith being greatly offended in his coÌ„science with the Prieste for the same his doing for that hee iudged hym not to be a Catholike Minister neyther hys act to be catholike and laudable according to Gods word did strike and wounde him vpon the head and also vppon the arme and hande with his woodknife the Priest hauing the same time in his hande a Chalice with certaine consetrated hostes therin which were sprinkeled with the bloud of the sayde priest W. Flower repenteth his acte in striking W. Flower constant in his fayth In the whych so doing as in deede he did not well or Euangelically so afterward being examined before bishop Boner did no lesse confesse his not well doing in the same submitting therefore hym selfe wellingly to punishmente when it should come Howbeit touching his beliefe in the sacrament and the popish ministration he neither woulde nor did submit him selfe W. Flower layd in the Gate house 〈◊〉 Westminster Wherupon the foresaid Wil. Flower being first apprehended laid in the Gate house at Westminster where hee had geuen two groates y e same day a litle before to the prisoners saying he would shortly after come to them wyth as many yrons as he could beare afterward was conuented before Boner his Ordinarie April 19. anno 1555. where the B. after he had sworne hym vpon a booke according to his ordinarye maner ministred articles interrogatories to him W. Flower brought before B. â—oner But before I speake of the articles firste we haue here to set forth what coÌ„munication passed betwixt him Rob. Smith being then also there prisoner w t hym in newgate concerning his facte done at Westminster the tenor effect of which communication here foloweth A communication or debating betweene Robert Smith prisoner in Newgate and W. Flower concerning his striking of the priest at Westminster Robert Smith The talke betweene Robert â—myth and W. Flower FRend for as much as I do vnderstand that you do professe the Gospell and also haue so done a long season I am bolde to come vnto you and in the way of communication to demaunde and learne a truth at your owne mouth of certaine thyngs by you committed to the astonishynge not onely of mee but of diuers other that also professe the veritie Flower I praise God for hys great goodnesse in shewing me the light of hys holy woorde and I geue you heartie thankes for your visitation intending by Gods grace to declare all the truth that ye shal demaunde lawfully of me in all things Smith Then I desire you to shewe me the truthe of your deede committed on Iohn Cheltam priest in the Church as nere as you can that I may heare of your owne mouth howe it was Flo. I came from my house at Lambeth ouer the water and entring into saint Margaretes Church so called and there seeing the people falling down before a most shamefull and detestable Idoll The zeale of W. Flower in seeing the Lordes honour defaced being moued with extreeme zeale for my God whome I saw before my face dishonoured I drewe foorth my Hanger and strake the priest which ministred the same vnto them whereupon I was immediately apprehended and this is most true as the acte is manifest Smith Did ye not know the person that ye strake or were ye not zelous vpon him for any euil wil or hatred betwene you at any time Flo. No verily I neuer to my knowledge sawe the person before that present neither ought him or any man aliue euil wil or malice for if he had not had it an other shoulde if I hadde any time come where the like occasion had bene ministred if God had permitted me to doe it Smith Doe ye thinke that thing to be well done and after the rule of the Gospell Flo I do confesse all flesh to be subiect to the power of almighty God Extraordinary zeales are no generall rules to be followed whom he maketh his ministers to do his wil and pleasure as in example Moses Aaron Phinees Iosua Zimrie Ihehie Iudith Mathathiah wyth many other not only chaunging degrees but also planting zeales to hys honour against all order and respect of flesh and bloude For as sayeth S. Paule Hys workes are past fineding out by whose spirite I haue also geuen my fleshe at thys present vnto suche order as it shall please the good will of God to appoynt in death which before the act committed I looked for Smith Thinke you it conuenient for me or any other to do the like by your example Flo. No verily neither do I know
not to be bodyly in the Sacrament Ioh 19. Iohn 17. whom he raysed from death euen Iesus which deliuered vs from the wrath to come c. Also Iohn 16. I went out from the father and came into the world Again I leaue the world and go to the father c. Iohn 17. Now I am not in the world and they are in the world and I come to thee And these places of the Scripture with other mo prooueth plainly to them that haue eares to heare that Christes body that was borne of the Uirgin Mary is in heauen and not in the Sacramentall bread and wyne and therefore it is idolatry to worship them c. Agaynst auricular confession To this fift Article I aunswer that I do beleue as I haue aforesayd that auricular confession is not good as it is now vsed Touching my sinnes wherein I haue offended God I must seeke to hym for remission therof for our Sauiour Christ sayth in the xj of S. Mathew Come vnto me all ye that labour and are laden Mathew 11. I will ease you c. The riotous sonne Luke xv sayth I will arise and go to my Father and will say to him Luke 15. Father I haue sinned agaynst heauen and before thee and am no more worthy to bee called thy sonne c. Psal. 31. Psalme 31. I sayd I will knowledge myne offences and accuse my selfe vnto the Lord and so thou forgauest me the wickednesse of my sinne c. Iob. 13. But I will reproue myne own wayes in hys sight Iob. 13. He shal make me whole and there may no hypocrite come before hym Syrach 34. sayth Who can be clensed of the vncleane Sirac 34. And there was but one of the x. Lepers that were clensed that came to Christ to geue hym thanks He asked for the other ix But if I haue offended my neighbour I must reconcile my self to my neighbour Remission of sinnes to be sought onely at the handes of Christ. and if I be a notorious sinner after the first second admonition it ought to be declared to the congregation and the Minister of the congregation hath power by the word to excommunicate me and I am to bee taken as a Heathen person not for a day or xl dayes but vnto such tyme as I do openly in the congregation knowledge my fault then the minister hath power by the word to preach to me or them the remission of our sins in the bloud of Iesus Christ as it is written in the 13. of the Acts of the Apostles Math. 18. Other confession I know none To this 6. Article I the sayd Iohn Denley haue aunswered in the fift c. To this 7. Article I answer that as touchyng the sacrament of Baptisme which is the christenyng of childreÌ„ as it is altered and chaunged for S. Iohn Baptist vsed nothyng but the preachyng of the word and the water as it doth appeare wheÌ„ Christ required to be baptised of him and others also which came to Iohn to be baptised as it appeareth Math. 3. Mark 1. Luke 3. and Act. 8. the chamberlaine sayd See here is water Act. â— what letteth me to be baptised It appereth here that Phillip had preached vnto him for he sayd here is water We do not read that hee asked for any creame or oile not for spettle nor coniured water nor coniured waxe nor yet crysome nor salt for it semeth that Phillip had preached no such thyngs to hym for he would as wel haue asked for them as for water the water was not coniured but euen as it was afore Also Act. x. TheÌ„ answered Peter Acteâ— â— Acteâ— â— Can any man forbid water that these shold not be baptised c. Actes 16. And Paule and Silas preached vnto hym the word of the Lord and to all that were in his house he took them the same houre of the night and washed their wounds so was he baptised and al they of his houshold straight way Where ye see nothyng but preachyng the word the water The lyke also is to be sayd of the rest of the ceremonies of your Church To the 8. Article I answer shortly The Râ—â—â—â—bow as good a Sâ—â—crameâ—◠〈◊〉 some of 〈◊〉 Popish â—â—â—cramentâ— that there bee Sacraments no mo but two Baptisme and the Sacrament of the body bloud of Christ except ye will make the rainbow a sacrament for there is no sacrameÌ„t but hath a promise annexed vnto it To the 9. Article I doe aunswer you that ye haue my mynd written alredy For it was found about me wheÌ„ I was taken and also ye know my mynd in the 4. Article plainly expressed concernyng the bodily presence for christes body is in heauen will not be conteyned in so small a piece of breade And as the wordes which Christ spake are true in deede so must they also bee vnderstanded by other of the Scriptures whiche Christ spake hymselfe and also the Apostles after hym And thus I make an ende c. By me Iohn Denley The Martyrdome of Maister Iohn Denley Then cruell D. Story beyng there present commanded one of the tormentors to hurle a fagot at hym whereupon beyng hurt therewith vpon the face that hee bled agayne he left his singyng and clapt both his hands on his face Truly quoth D. Story to him that hurled the fagot thou hast mard a good old song The sayd Iohn Denley beyng yet still in the flame of the fire put his hands abroad and sang againe yelding at the last his spirit into the hands of God through his sonne Iesus Christ. After the Martyrdome of M. Denley at Uxbridge which was the 8. of August suffered also not long after Patrike Pachingham at the same towne of Uxbridge about the 28. of the sayd moneth This Pachingham was charged of Boner as ye heard in the x. article before for hys behauiour shewed in the Bishops chappell who at y e masse tyme there staÌ„ding would not put of his cap which was taken for an haynous offence The said Pachingham also beyng much laboured by Boner to recant protested in these wordes to the B. that the church which he beleeued was no catholike church but was the church of Sathan therfore he would neuer turne to it c. Furthermore as touching the other which was Ioh. Newman Pewterer dwellyng at Maidstone in Kent he was burned the last of August at Saffron Walden in the Countie of Essex whose examinatioÌ„ and confession of his fayth and beliefe for the which he was cruelly burnt and persecuted here vnder followeth ¶ The examination of Iohn Newman Martyr IOhn Newman first was apprehended in Kent dwellyng in the towne of Maidstone and there was examined before Doctor Thornton Suffragane and others at Tenterden From thence he was brought to Boner and there condemned with M. Denley and Pachingham and burned at Saffron Walden as is before storied But because his
drynke his bloude when we receiue with true beliefe that holye housell That time they kept with them at Easter 7. daies with great worship when they were deliuered from Pharao and went from that land So also Christen men keepe Christes resurrection at the time of Easter these 7. dayes because throughe his suffering and rising we be deliuered and be made cleane by going to this holy housel as Christ sayeth in hys Gospell Verely verely I say vnto you ye haue no life in you excepte yee eate my flesh and drinke my bloud He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my bloude â—ohn 6. abideth in mee and I in him and hath that euerlasting life and I shall raise him vp in the last day I am the liuely bread that came downe from heauen not so as your forefathers did eate that heauenly breade in the wildernesse and afterwarde died Hee that eateth this breade liueth for euer Hee blessed breade before his suffering and deuided it to hys Disciples thus sayinge Eate of thys breade it is my body and doe this in my remembraunce Also hee blessed wyne in one cuppe â—ath 26. 〈◊〉 22. â—arkke 14. Cor. 11. and sayd Drinke ye all of this This is my bloude that is shedde for manye in forgeuenesse of sinnes The Apostles did as Christ commanded that is they blessed breade and wine to housel againe afterward in his remembrance Euen so also their successours and all priestes by Christes commaundement do blesse bread and wine to housel in his name wyth the Apostolicke blessing Nowe menne haue often searched and doe yet often * * Note how Christes words were taken by signification before BereÌ„garius time search how bread that is gathered of corne and through fires heate baked may be turned to Christes body or howe wine that is pressed out of many grapes is turned through one blessing to y e Lords bloud Now say we to such men that some thinges be spoken of Christ by * * A necessary distinction signification and some be thinges certayne True this is and certayne that Christ was borne of a mayd and suffered death of his owne accord and was buryed and on this day rose from death He is sayde to be bread by signification and a Lambe a Lyon a mountayne He is called bread because he is our life and angels lyfe He is sayd to be a Lambe for his innocencie a Lyon for strength wherewith he ouercame the strong deuil But Christ is not so notwithstanding after true nature neither bread nor a lambe nor a lyon Why is then the holy house called Christes body or his bloud if it be not truely that it is called Why is the housell called christs body when it is not so truely Truely the bread and the wine which in the supper by the priest is hallowed shewe one thing without to humaine vnderstanding and an other thing within to beleuing mindes Without they be seene bread and wine both in figure in taste they be truely after theyr hallowing Christes body and his bloud through ghostly mistery An heathen childe is christened yet hee altereth not his shape without though he be chaunged within He is brought to y e fontstone sinfull through Adams disobedience howbeit he is washed froÌ„ all sinne within though he hath not chaÌ„ged his shape without * * The water in baptisme and bread wine in the Lordes supper compared Euen so the holy font water that is called the welspring of life is like in shape to other waters and is subiect to corruption but y e holy ghostes might commeth to the corruptible water through the priests blessing and it may after wash the body and soule from al sin through ghostly might Behold now we see two things in this one creature after true nature y t water is corruptible moysture and after ghostly mistery hath wholsom vertue So also iâ— we behold the holy housell after bodily vnderstanding then we see that it is a creature corruptible and mutable If we knowledge therein ghostly might theÌ„ vnderstand we that life is therein and that it geueth immortalitie to theÌ„ that eate it with beliefe Muche is betwixt the inuisible might of the holy housel and the visible shape of proper nature It is * * No transubstantiation naturally corruptible bread and corruptible wine is by might of Gods word truely christes body and bloud not so notwithstaÌ„ding bodily but ghostly Much is betwixt the * * Difference betwixt Christs naturall body and the Sacrament thereof body of Christ which he suffered in and the body that is hallowed to housel The body truly that Christ suffered in was borne of the flesh of Marie w t bloude and with bone with skin and with sinewes in humaine lims with a reasonable soule liuing and his ghostly body which we call the housel * * 1. Difference is gathered of many cornes without bloud and bone without limme w tout soule * * Not the body that suffered is in the housell and therefore nothing is to be vnderstand therein bodely but all is ghostly to be vnderstande Whatsoeuer is in that housel which geueth substaunce of life that is of the ghostly might and inuisible doing Therefore is that holy housell called a mysterie because there is one thing in it seene and an other thing vnderstanded That which is there * * 2. Difference seene hath bodely shape and that we do there vnderstande hath ghostly might Certainely Christes body whyche suffered death and rose from death neuer * * 3. Difference dieth hencefoorth but is eternal and vnpassible That housel is temporal not eternal Math. 15. * * 4. Difference corruptible and dealed into sundrye partes chewed betweene teeth and sent into the belly howbeit neuerthelesse after ghostly myght it is all in euery parte Many receiue that holy body and yet notwithstandinge it is so all in euery part after ghostly mysterie Though some chewe the lesse yet is there no more might notwithstaÌ„ding in the more parte then in the lesse because it is whole in all men after the inuisible might This mysterie is a * * 5. Difference pledge and a figure Christes body is truth it selfe Thys pledge we doe kepe mystically vntill that we be come to the truth it selfe and then is this pledge ended Truely it is so as we before haue sayde Christes body and his bloude not bodily but ghostly But now here the Apostles words about this misterie Paul the Apostle speaketh of the old Israelites thus writing in his epistle to faithful men Al our forefathers were baptised in the cloud and in the sea 1. Cor. 10. and all they did eate the same ghostly meat dranke the same ghostly drinke They drank truly of the stone that followed them and that stone was Christ Neither was that * * Note this exposition which is now a dayes thought newe Iohn 4.
stone then from which the water ran bodily Christe but it signified Christe that calleth thus to all beleuing and faithful men Who soeuer thirsteth let hym come to mee and drinke and from his bowelles shall flowe liuely water This he sayd of the holy Ghost whych they receiued who beleeued on him The Apostle Paul sayth that the Israelites did eate the same ghostly meat dranke the same ghostly drinke because that heauenly meate that fed them 40. yeares and that water which from the stone did flowe had signification of Christes body and hys bloud that now be offred daily in Gods Church It was the same which we now offer not bodely but ghostly We said vnto you ere while that Christ halowed bread and wine to housell before his suffering Math. 26. Luke 22. Marke 14. and sayde Thys is my body and my bloud Yet he had not then suffered but so notwithstanding he * * Now we eate that body which was eaten before he was borne by faith turned through inuisible mighte the bread to his owne bodye and that wine to his bloud as he before did in the wildernes before that he was borne to be a man when he * * Here is no transubstantiation turned y e heauenly meate to his flesh and the flowing water from that stone to his owne bloud Uery many did eate of that * * Mantua heauenly meat in the wildernes and drinke the ghostly drinke and were neuerthelesse dead as Christ sayd And Christ meant not y e death whych none can escape but that euerlasting death which some of that folke deserued for theyr vnbelief Moyses and Aaron and many other of that people which pleased God did eate that heauenly bread and they died not y ◠euerlasting death though they died the common death They sawe that the heauenly meate was visible and corruptible they ghostly vnderstood by that visible thing and ghostly receiued it The Sauiour sayeth Iohn 6. Hee that eateth my flesh and drinketh my bloud hath euerlasting life And he bad them not eate that body wherewith hee was enclosed nor to drinke that bloude which he shed for vs * * What body the faithful do now eate but he meant with those wordes that holy housell which ghostly is his body and his bloud and hee that tasteth it with beleeuing heart hathe that eternall life In the olde lawe faithfull men offred to God diuers Sacrifices that had * * A signification before Christ. foresignification of Christes bodye which for our sinnes he himselfe to his heauēly father hath since * * A sacrifice in Christes tyme. offered to sacrifice Certainly this housell which we do now halow at Gods alter is a * * A remēbraūce of Christ. Math. 26. Hebr. 10. remembrance of Christes body which he offered for vs and of hys bloud whych he shed for vs So he himselfe commaunded Doe thys in my remembraunce Once suffered Christe by hym selfe but yet neuerthelesse hys suffering is daily renued at thys supper through mysterie of the holy housell Therefore we ought to consider diligently howe that this holy housell is both Christes bodye and the bodye of all * * The housell is also the body of al faithfull men faithfull menne after ghostly mysterie As wise Augustine sayeth of it If ye wil vnderstand of Christes body here the Apostle Paule thus speaking Yee truely be Christes body and his members Nowe is your mysterie sette on Gods table and ye receiue youre mysterie which mysterie ye your selues be Be that which ye see on the altare and receiue that which yee your selues be Againe the Apostle Paule sayeth by it We manye be one bread and one bodye Understande nowe and reioyce many be one bread and one body in Christ. He is our heade and we be his limmes and the bread is not of one corne but of many nor the wine of one grape but of many So also we all shoulde haue one vnitie in our Lorde as it is wrytten of the faithfull armie how that they were in so great an vnitie as though al of them were one soule and one heart Christe hallowed on hys table the mysterie of oure peace and of our vnitie He which receiueth that mysterie of vnitie keepeth not the bonde of true peace receiueth no mysterie for himselfe but a witnesse against himselfe It is very good for Christen men that they goe often to howsell if they bring with them to the alter vngiltines and innocēcy of hart if they be not oppressed with sinne To an euil man it turneth to no good but to destruction if hee receyue vnworthely that holy housell Holy * * No scripture inforceth the mixture of water with the wine bookes commaund that water be mingled to that wine which shall be for housell because the water signifieth the people the * * The wine signifieth Christes bloud wine Christes bloud and therefore shall neither the one wythout the other be offered at the holy masse that Christ may be wyth vs and we with Christ the head with the limmes and the limmes with the head Wee woulde before haue intreated of the Lambe whyche the olde Israelites offered at theyr Easter time but that we desired first to declare vnto you of this mysterie and after how we should receiue it That signifying lambe was offered at the Easter And the Apostle Paule sayeth in the Epistle of this present day that Christ is our Easter who was offred for vs and on this day rose from death The Israelites did eate the Lambes fleshe as God commaunded with vnleauened bread and wilde lettisse * * How we should come to the holy communion so wee shoulde receiue that holy housell of Christes body and bloud without the leauen of sinne and iniquitie As leauen turneth the creatures from their nature so doth sinne also chaunge the nature of manne from innocencie to vncleannesse The Apostle hath taught howe we shoulde feast not in the leauen of the euilnesse but in the sweete doughe of puritie and truth The herbe which they should eate with the vnleauened bread is called lettisse and is bitter in taste So we should with bitternesse of vnfained repentaunce purifie oure minde Exod. 12. if wee will eate Christes bodye Those Israelites were not woonte to eate rawe fleshe and therefore God badde them to eate it neyther raw nor sodden in water but rosted with fire He shal receiue the body of God rawe that shal thinke without reason that Christ was onely manlike vnto vs and was not God And he that will after mans wisedome search y e mystery of Christs incarnation doth like vnto him that doth seeth lambes fleshe in water because that water in this same place signifieth mans vnderstanding but we should vnderstand that all the mistery of Christes humanitie was ordered by the power of the holy Ghost and then eate we his body rosted with fire because the holy