that as touching the sacramente of the alter, and the masse, he is ashamed to speake of it, or to name it, and that he allowed it not as it was vsed in the church. Against whom the sentence was also redde. &c.

WYlliam Stere of the forsaid parish of Ascheforde, likewise detected and accused, was brought to appere the sayd xvi. day of August where he in the sayd chapter house of Canterb. required to make aunswere to the positiōs laid to him by the iudge, made aunswer again that he should command his dogs and not him: and sayth farther, that he found not the sacrament of the aultar in the scripture, and therefore he would not aunswere therunto. And moreouer þ^e Iudge speaking of the sacrament of þ^e aultar with reuerence therof, and putting of his cappe he sayd that he neaded not to reuerence that matter so highly. And thus saying to þ^e Iudge that he was a blody man. &c. the sentence was pronounced against him, after whiche sentence being red, he said, that the sacramēt of the aulter was the most blasphemous Idoll that euer was. &c.

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And thus these vi. heauenly martyrs & witnes bearers of truthe, being condemned by the blody Suffragane and Archedeacon of Canterbury, were burned all together in the same towne, at thre stakes, and one fyer, about the later end of August.

The copy of their sentence condemnatory, you may finde aboue in the storye of Blande, Page, 1217. for the papistes in all their condemnations, folow one maner of sentence of course, against all that be condēned through their popish tyranny.

AFter the burning of these vi. aboue named, next foloweth the persecution of x. other true seruants and saincts of the Lorde, not suche saincts as the pope maketh, or which ar mentioned in Legēda sanctorum,  

or in vitis patrum,   or in the Fabulous   boke, de vita sanctorum Wallensium. &c.     but such as ar spoken of in the holy Apocalips, of whom it is written: Hi sūt qui sequuntur agnū quocunq; ierit, quiq; lauarunt stolam suam in sanguine agni,   these be they that folow the lambe whither soeuer he goeth, and whiche haue washed their stole in the bloud of the lambe. &c. These saincts be not of the Popes making, or rather to say the truth, they are of the Popes making: of the Popes making I say, in this respecte, not that the sainctes of God are made by the Pope, but that the saincts of God ar tryed and declared by the Pope: so as by afflictions of sathan, Iobs pacience was proued, by Pharao Gods power declared. And by Saluator Tarentū     was won, as Tully   writeth: for except he had

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lost it before, Q. Fabius  

could not haue recouered it:   So in lyke maner, vnles by Antichriste good mē had ben distroyed, otherwise they had not ben tried true Martirs of Christe. The names of these were.

Elizabeth Warne. George Kyng. Thomas Leyes. Steuen Harwod Ihon. Layshe.

Iohn Wade. Robert Smith. William Hale. Thomas Foist. George Tankerfild.

THese x. were sente by foure of the commissioners, with their letter directed to Boner B. of London, the copy of which their letter, with their names subscribed, here foloweth to be red and noted.

AAfter our hartye commendations, to youre good Lordeship, we sende you here Iohn Wade, William Hayle, George King, Thomas Leyes of Thorp in Essexe, Thomas Foist Hosier, Robert Smith, painter, Stephen Harwod Bruer, George Tankerfield, Cooke, Elizabeth Warne, Iohn Laysh of London, Sacramentaries: All whiche we desier your Lordship to examine, and to order according to thecclesiastical lawes: praying your Lordship, to appoynt som of your officers to receyue them, at this bearers hand. And thus most hartely fare your Lordeship well. From Londō, this second of Iuly.

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Your good Lordships louing freds.

Nicholas Hare. William Roper.

Richard Rede. William Cooke.

JN this moneth of August, was burned at Stratforde Bowe, nyghe vnto London, one Elizabeth Warne, widow, late the wife of Iohn Warne, who also was burned, in the ende of the moneth of May laste paste, as appeareth in this history Pag. 1140. This Elizabeth was apprehended, (amongs others) þ^e first daye of Ianuary, in a house in Bowe churche yarde, in London, as they were gathered together to prayer, and at that present was caried to the Coūter, where she laye as prisoner vntil the xi. daye of Iune: at whiche time she was brought vnto Newgate, & remained there in like case, vnto the second day of Iuly, þ^t she was sent by the K. & quenes cōmissioners, vnto Bōner B. of London, as is aboue specified. Who the vi. day of þ^e same moneth, caused her with diuers others (as Robert Smith, George Tākerfield. &c) to be brought before him into his Pallace, and there examined her vpon sondry articles, suche as of comen order he ministred vnto the poore saincts & martirs of god, as ye may more plainly perceaue by other their more large and ample processes, aswel before, as hereafter mentioned.

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The chiefest obiection that he vsed, eyther towards her, or the most of those, was touching the reall and corporall presence of the body and bloud of Christe in the sacrament of the altar: