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1. Persecution in Coventry2. Patrick Hamilton3. Patrick's Places4. Lincolnshire martyrs5. Thomas Wolsey6. Humphrey Monmouth and Thomas Hitten7. Thomas Bilney8. Defence of Bilney9. George Stratford and Simon Fish10. Supplication of Beggers11. Tunstall's anti-heresy edicts12. London evangelical martyrs13. Wiltshire martyrs14. Dovercourt rood15. John Frith16. Thomas Benet17. Bishop Stokesley's persecution18. Henry VIII's divorce19. Royal Supremacy20. William Tyndale21. Events of 1536-822. Edmund Bonner's career23. Royal articles and injunctions24. Bishop Longland's sermon25. John Forrest26. John Lambert27. Murders and martyrdoms28. Henry VIII's letter to Charles V29. Destruction of Becket's shrine30. Act of Six Articles31. Allegations against Six Articles32. Thomas Cromwell33. Great Bible34. Barnes, Garrett and Jerome35. Persecution for Six Articles36. Fire in Oxford37. Katherine Howard and Katherine Parr38. Testwood, Filmer, Marbeck and Person39. Persecution in Calais40. Persecution in 154541. Anne Askew42. Katherine Parr and George Blage43. Proclamation of 154644. Heresies charged against Protestants45. Scottish martyrs46. Archbishop Warham's persecution47. London martyrs in 153948. Papal sentence on Henry VIII's divorce49. Exsurge Domini50. Death of Henry VIII51. Persecution in Orleans in 153452. John Browne
K. Henry. 8. Persecution of simple men, within the dioces of Lincolne.
| Persecuters | Martyrs. | The Causes. |
but fixyng his trust and care in the Lord, did let them say MarginaliaThomas Hardyng put in litle ease the Byshops prison.what they would. Thus at last they sent hym to the By- shops prison called litle ease, where he did lye with hun- ger and payne enough, for a certeine space: till at length MarginaliaTho. Harding condemned.the Bishop sittyng in his tribunall seate like a potestate, condemned him for relapse, to bee burned to ashes, com- mittyng the charge and ouersight of his Martyrdome to Rouland Messinger, Vicar of great Wickham. Which Rou- land, at the day appoynted, with a rable of other lyke to him selfe, brought father Hardyng to Chesham agayne. Where the next day after his returne, the sayd Rouland made a Sermon in Chesham Churche, causing Thomas Hardyng to stand before hym, all the preachyng tyme: Whiche Sermon was nothyng els but the mainteinyng of the Iurisdiction of the Byshop of Rome, and the state of his Apostolicall Sea, with the Idolatrie, phantasies & traditions belongyng to the same. When the Sermon was ended, Rouland toke him vp to the hygh aultar, and asked whether he beleued, that in the bread, after the con secration, there remayned any other substaunce, then the substaunce of Christes naturall body borne of the virgin Mary. To this Thomas Hardyng aunswered: The Arti- MarginaliaThe fayth and confession of Tho. Hardyng.cles of our belefe do teache vs, that our Sauiour Christ was borne of the virgine Mary, & that he suffered death vnder Pilate, and rose from death the thyrd day: that hee then ascended into heauen, and sitteth on the ryght hand of God, in the glory of his father. Thē was he brought into a mans house in þe towne, where he remained all night in prayer, and godly medi- tations. So the next mornyng came the foresayd Rou- land againe, about x. of the clocke, with a cõpany of billes & staues, to lead this godly father to his burnyng. Whõ a great number both of men and wemen did folow. Of whom many bewayled his death: and contrary the wic- ked reioysed therat. He was brought forth, hauing thrust in his handes a litle Crosse of woode, but no Idoll vpon MarginaliaThe paciense death & Martyrdome of Tho. Hardyng.it. Then he was cheyned to the stake, desiryng the peo- ple to pray for him, and forgyuyng all his enemyes and persecuters, he commended his spirite to God, and tooke his death most paciently & quietly, liftyng vp his handes to heauen, saying: Iesus receaue my spirite. When they had set fyre on hym, there was one that threw a byllet at hym, and dashed out hys braynes. Of what purpose hee so did, it is not knowen, but as it was supposed, that he might haue xl. dayes of pardon, as the proclamation was made at the burnyng of Williã Tilse- worth aboue mentioned pag. 917. whereas proclamation MarginaliaXl. dayes of pardon for bringing fagots to burne good men.was made the same tyme, that whosoeuer did bryng a fagot or a stake to the burnyng of an hereticke, should haue xl. dayes of pardon. Wherby many ignorant people caused their children to beare byllets and Fagottes to their burnyng. In fine, when the sacrifice and burnt offeryng of this godly Martyr was finished, and he brent to ashes, in the Dell, goyng to Botley, at the North end of the towne of Chesham, Rouland the Ruler of the rost, commaundyng silence and thinkyng to send the people away, with an Ite missa est, with a loude voyce sayd to the people these wordes, not aduisyng belyke what his tõgue did speake: Good people, when ye come home, do not say that you haue bene at the burnyng of an hereticke, but of a good true Christian man, & so they departed to dyner, Rouland with the rable of other Priestes much reioysing at the burnyng of this good man. After dyner they went to Churche to euensong, because it was Corpus Christi euē, 
CloseI.e., 1520. Foxe was misled by the fact that the Coventry annals dated events by mayoral years which commenced in Easter. where they fell to singyng and chaūtyng, with ryngyng, and pypyng of the Organes. Well was hee that could reache the hyest note: So much did they reioyse at this good mans burnyng. He should haue bene burned on the Ascension euen, but the matter was referred vnto the euen of Corpus Christi, because they would honour theyr bready Messias with a bloudy sacrifice. Thus Thomas Hardyng was consumed to ashes, hee beyng of the age of lx. yeares and aboue. Ex testimonio scripto ciuium Amer- shamensiū. |
¶ I finde in the recordes of Lincolne, about þe same time,
CloseHere Foxe is drawing on a now lost courtbook of Bishop John Longland of Lincoln. in the which the foresaid Thomas Hardyng did suffer, that diuers other for the lyke doctrine, were molested and troubled, whose names with their causes, here vn- der folow. |
| Persecuters | The persecuted. | The Causes. |
MarginaliaAlyce Doly, accused.Elisabeth Wyghthil Doctour London. | Mistres A- lyce Doly.
CloseAlice Doyly had married three times; first to a John Wilmot, the second time to William Cottesmere, a member of an important gentry family and the third time to Thomas Doyly, the head of one of Oxfordshire's most ancient gentry families. By the time of her third marriage her moveable goods alone were estimated at £1000 (Andrew Hope, 'Lollardy: The Stone the Builders Rejected?' in Protestantism and the National Church in Sixteenth Century England, ed., Peter Lake and Maria Dowling [Beckenham, 1987], pp. 8-10). Alice would be investigated again for heresy (whether as a result of this testimony or on later charges is unknown) but there is no record of her being convicted [Back to Top] | Elizabeth Wyththil beyng brought before Doctour Lon- don, in the personage at Staun- ton Harcourt, and there put to her othe, deposed agaynst Ma- stres Alyce Doly, her mastres, that the sayd M. Doly speakyng of Iohn Hacker of Colmanstret
CloseJohn Hacker was an extraordinarily influential Lollard with a long career; see J. A. F. Thomson, The Later Lollards, 1414-1520 for details. Hacker would be arrested in London in 1527 and in 1528, he would abjure and give the names of over 40 other Lollards to the authorities (1563, p. 418 and BL, Harley 421, fos. 11r-14r). [Back to Top]in London waterbearer, sayd that he was very expert in the Gospels, and all other thyngs belõgyng to diuine seruice, and could expresse & declare it, and the Pater noster in Englishe, as well as any Priest, & it would do one good to heare hym: say- ing moreouer, that she would in no case, that this were knowen, for hurting the poore man, commaunding moreouer þe said Elizabeth, that she should tell no man hereof, affirmyng at the same tyme, that the fore- sayd Hacker could tell of diuers Prophesies, what should hap- pen in the realme. Ouer and besydes, the forenamed Elisa- beth deposed, that the sayd M. Doly her mastres shewed vn- to her, that she had a booke, whiche helde agaynst pilgre- mages: and after that, she cau- |
sed Syr Iohn Boothe person of Britwell, to read vppon a booke, which she called Legenda aurea, and one Saintes MarginaliaAgaynst pilgrimage.lyfe he read, which did speake agaynst pilgrimages, and after that was read, her mastres said vnto her: loe daugh ter, nowe ye may heare as I tolde you, that this booke speaketh agaynst pilgremages. Furthermore, it was deposed agaynst Maistres Doly by the sayd Elizabeth, that she beyng at Syr Wil- liam Barentens place, and seyng there in the closet, MarginaliaAgaynst Images.Images new gilded, sayd to the sayd Elizabeth, looke here be my Ladye Barentens Gods. To whom the sayd Elizabeth aunswered agayne, that they were set for remē- braunce of good Saintes. Then sayd she, if I were in an house where no Images were, I could remember to pray vnto Saintes, as well as if I did see the Images. Nay sayd the other, Images do prouoke deuotion. Thē sayd her mastres, ye should not worshyp that thyng that hath eares, and can not heare, and hath eyes and can not see, and hath mouth and can not speake, and hath handes, and can not feele. Item, the sayd M. Doly was reported by the sayd par- tie, to haue a booke cõteining the xij. Articles of þe Crede, couered with bordes, and a red coueryng: also an other blacke booke, whiche she set most price by, whiche booke she kept euer in her chãber or in her coffer, with other di- uers bookes. And this was about the yeare of our Lord 1520. Ex Registro Lincol. | ||
¶ Note here, good reader, in this tyme, whiche was aboue 46. yeares a go, what good matter here was to accuse and moleste good wemen for.
CloseHere Foxe is highlighting the triviality, at least in his eyes, of the offences charged against Alice Doyly. |
MarginaliaRoger Hachmã, accused.William Smith of North- stoke, in Oxford- shyre. Thomas Ferrar. | Roger Hachman. At North- stoke in Oxford- shyre. an. 1525. | Agaynst this Roger Hache- man
CloseThere is no corroboration for Foxe's list of the charges against Hachman. ons brought in, that he sittyng at the Church Ale, at North- stoke, said these wordes: I will neuer looke to be saued, for no good dede that euer I did, nei- ther for any that euer I will do, without I may haue my saluation by petition, as an outlaw shall haue hys pardon of the kyng, and sayd, that if he might not haue hys salua- tiõ so, he thought he should be loste. Ex Regist. Lincol. |
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