cary a fagot, and stand at Paules crosse with the same.

That the Wednisdaye folowing, hee should cary the same fagot about Newgat market and Chepeside.

That on Friday after, he should take the same fagot again at S. Peters Church in Cornehil, & carie it about the market of Leden hall.

That he should haue. ij. signes of fagots embrothered, one on his left sleue, & the other on his right sleue, which he should weare all his life time, vnles he were otherwise dispensed withall.

That on Wytsonday euen he should enter into þ^e Monasterie of S. Barthelmewe in Smithfield, & there to abide, and not to come out vnles he were released by the Bishop of London.

That he should not depart out of the Citie or dioces of London, without the speciall licence of the Bishop or his successors. Which penance he entred into the. viii. day of May. An. 1529.

And thus much cõcerning his first examinatiõ, which was in the yeare. 1529. at what tyme he was enforced throughe infirmitye as is before expressed to retracte and abiure his doctrine. MarginaliaTewkesbery returned agayn to the truth.Notwithstãding, the same Ihon Teukesberie, afterward confirmed by the grace of God, and moued by the example of Bayfild aforesaid that was burned in Smithfield, did returne & constantly abyde in the testimonye of þ^e truth and suffred for the same. Who recouering more grace, and better strength at the hãde of the Lord, two yeares after beyng apprehended agayn, was brouht before Syr Thomas More, and the Bishop of Londõ,  

where certein articles were obiected to hym: the chief wherof we intend briefly to recyte, for that the matter is prolixe.  

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MarginaliaArticles agayn obiected to Tewkesbery. In primis, that he confesseth that he was baptised, and intendeth to kepe the catholike faith.

Secondly, that he affirmeth that the abiuration, othe, and subscription that he made before Cutbert late Bishop of London, was done by conpulsion.  

Thyrdly, that he had the bookes of the obedience of a Christian man  

, and of the wycked Mammon in his custody, and hath read them synce his abiuration.

Fourthly, that hee affirmeth that he suffered þ^e two fagotes that were embrothered vpon his sleue, to be taken from him, for that he deserued not to weare them.

Fiftly, he sayeth that fayth onely iustifieth, whiche lacketh not charitie.

Syxtly, he sayth that Christe is a sufficient mediatour for vs, and therefore no prayer is to be made vnto anye Saintes. Wherupõ they laide vnto him this verse of the Antheme, Salue Regina, aduocata nostra. &c. To the which he aunswered, that he knew none other Aduocate but Christ alone.

MarginaliaChrist is our Purgatorye.Seuēthly, he affirmeth that there is no purgatory after this lyfe, but that Christ our Sauiour is a sufficient purgation for vs.

Eightly, he affirmeth that the soules of the faythfull departing this lyfe, reste with Christ.

Nynthly, he affirmeth that a priest by receauing of orders, receaueth more grace, if his faith be increased, or els not.

Tenthly, and last of all, he beleueth that the sacramēt of the flesh and bloud of Christ, is not the verye body of Christ in fleshe and bloude as it was borne of the virgin Mary. Whereupon the Bishoppes chaūcelour asked the sayd Tewkesberie, if he could shewe anye cause why he should not be taken for an heretike falling into his heresie agayne, and receaue the punishement of an heretike. Wherunto he answered, þ^t he had wrong before, & if he be condemned nowe, he rekeneth þ^t he hath wrong agayne.

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Then the Chauncelour caused the articles to be read openly, with the aunswers vnto the same, the which the sayd Tewkesberie confessed, and thereupon the Bishop pronounced sentence against him, and deliuered him vnto the shryffes of London for the tyme being, who were Richard Gresham, and Edward Altam, who burned him in Smythfield vpon Saint Thomas euen, being the. xx. daye of December, in the yeare aforesayde, the tenor of whose sentence pronounced agaynst him by the Bishop, doth here ensewe worde for worde.

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IN the name  

of God, Amen. The deseruinges and circumstances of a certaine cause of heretical prauitie, and falling againe therunto by thee Iohn Tewkesberie of the parishe of S. Michaells in the Querne, of the City of London, and of our iurisdiction, appearing before vs sittyng in iudgement, being heard, seene, and vnderstande, and fullye discussed by vs Iohn by the suffraunce of God, Bishop of London, because we doe finde by inquisitions manifestly enough, that thou diddest abiure frely and voluntarilye before Cutbert, late Bishop of London thy Ordinary, diuerse and sondrye heresies, errours and dampnable opinions, contrary to the determination of oure mother holie Church, as well special, as generall, and that synce and besyde thy foresayd abiuration, thou art agayne fallen into the same dampnable heresies, opinions, and errors, (which is greatly to be lamented) and the same dost holde, affirme and beleue: we therfore Iohn the Bishop afore sayd, the name of God fyrst beyng called vpon, and the same onlye God set before oure eyes, and with the counsell of learned men assisting vs in this behalfe (with whõ in this cause we haue cõmunicated of our definitiue sentence & finall decree, in this behalfe to bee done) do intend to procede & do procede in this maner. Because as it is aforesaid, we do finde thee, the foresaid Iohn Tewkesberie of our iurisdiction, to be a contemner of the fyrst abiuration, and moreouer, before and after the foresayde fyrste errors, and other dampnable opinions, to haue fallen and to be an heretike fallen, & to haue incurred the paine of such fallen heretikes: we do pronounce, determine, declare, and condemne thee of the premisses, to haue incurred the daunger of the great excommunication, and do pronounce thee to be excommunicated, and also do declare thee the sayde Tewkesberie so dampnably fallen agayne into heresie, to be in the secular power and in theyr iudgement, (as as the holy Canons haue decreed) and here we doo leaue thee to the foresayd secular power and to theyr iudgement, besechyng them earnestlye in the bowelles of Iesus Christe, that suche seuere punyshment and execution as in this behalfe is to be done against thee, MarginaliaIn wordes they pretend moderation, but their doinges be clean contrary.maye be so moderated, that no rigorous rigour be vsed, but to the health & saluation of thy soule, and to the terrour feare and rooting oute of heretyckes and theyr conuersion to the catholicke faith and vnitie, by this our finall decree, which we declare in these our writinges.

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This forsayde sentence definitiue agaynste Iohn Tewkesberie was read and pronoūced by the Bishop of London, the. xvj. day of þ^e moneth of December, the yeare aforesaide, in the house of Syr Thomas More hyghe chauncelour of Englande, in the parish of Chelsey. AMarginaliaThe death and Martyrdome of Ihon Tewkesbery.fter the which sentence, the Shrieffes receaued the forsayde Tewkesberie in theyr custody, and caryed hym awaye with them, and afterwardes burned hym in Smithfielde, as is aforesayd, hauyng no writte of the king for theyr warrant.  

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MarginaliaThe story of Edward Freese.EDward Freese was borne in Yorke, & was prentise to a Paynter in the same Citie, & by the reason of workyng for hys maister in Bearsie Abbay,  

or by some such occasion, was knowē vnto the Abbot of the same house, for he was a boye of a pregnant wytte, and the Abbot fauoured him so much, that he bought his yeres of hys maister, and woulde haue made hym a monke, And the ladde not lyking that kynde of liuinge, and not knowyng how to gette out, because he was a Nouice, ranne awaye after a longe space, and came to Colchester in Essex, and remayninge there accordinge to hys former vocation, was maryed and liued lyke an honest man.   After hee had bene there a good tyme, hee was hyred to paynt certaine clothes for the newe Inne in Colchester, which is in the middle of the market place, & in the vpper border of the clothes, he wrote certaine sentences of the Scripture, and by that he was plainly knowen to be one of them whiche they call heretickes.   MarginaliaChrist is our Purgatorye.And on a tyme he beyng at hys worke in þ^e same Inne, they of the towne, whē they had sene his worke, went aboute to take hym, and hee hauyng some inclyng therof, thought to shift for hym selfe, but yet hee was taken forcebly in the yarde of the same Inne, and after

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