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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. Hen. 8. A Table of Persons abiured, with their Articles.
| Persons abiured, | with their Articles. |
MarginaliaEx Registro Lond.Robert Goldston, Glasier. 
CloseAn unnnamed glazier did pennace at Paul's Cross on 22 October 1531('Two London Chronicles', ed. C. L.. Kingsford in Camden Society Miscellany XII, third series 18 [London, 1910}, p. 5). This was probably Goldstone. 1531. | Hys Articles: That men should pray to God onely, and to no Saintes. That Pil- gremage is not profitable. That mē should gyue no worshyp to Images. Item, for saying, that if hee had as much power as any Cardinall had, he would destroy all the Images that were in all the Churches in England. |
Laurence Staple, Ser uyng man. 1531. | Hys Articles: For hauyng the Testamēt in Englishe, the v. bookes of Moses, the practise of Prelates, the summe of Scrip- ture, the A. B. C. Item, about the burnyng
CloseJames Bainham was the youngest son of Sir Alexander Bainham, who was the head of the most prominent family in the Forest of Dean and who had been sheriff of Gloucestershire five times. James Bainham's mother was the sister of William Tracy. On the Bainham family, see Caroline Litzenberger, The English Reformation and the Laity: Gloucestershire, 1540-1580 (Cambridge, 1997), pp. 30-31. [Back to Top]of Baynham, for saying: I would I were with Baynham, seyng that euery man hath forsaken hym, that I myght drinke with hym, and he myght pray for me. Item, that he moued Henry Tompson to learne to read the new Testament, callyng it the bloud of Christ. Item, in Lent paste when hee had MarginaliaEatyng of egges made heresye.no fyshe, hee dyd eate egges, butter, and cheese. Also about vi. weekes before M. Bil- ney was attached, the sayd Bilney deliuered to hym at Grenewich, iiij. new Testamēts of Tyndals translation, whiche he had in his sleue, and a boget besydes of bokes, whiche boget hee shortlye after rydyng to Cam- bridge, deliuered vnto Bilney. &c. Item, on Fridayes he vsed to eate egges
CloseThe eating of eggs, like the eating of meat, was traditionally forbidden on Fridays. that it was no great offence before God. &c. |
Henry Tompson Taylor.
CloseThe sentence of life imprisonment against Tomson was severe, but it is confirmed by a contemporary chronicler ('Two London Chronicles', ed. C. L. Kingsford in Camden Society Miscellany XII, third series, 18 [London, 1910], p. 5). 1531. | Hys Articles: That whiche the Priest lifteth ouer hys head at the sacryng tyme, is not the very body of Christ, nor it is not God, but a thyng that God hath ordayned to be done. This poore Tompson, althoughe at the first he submitted hym selfe to the Byshop: yet they with sentence condemned hym to perpetuall prison. |
Iaspar Wetzell of Colen. 1531. | Hys Articles: That he cared not for go- ing to þe church to heare Masse, for he could say Masse as well as the Priest. That hee would not pray to our Lady, for she could do vs no good. Item, beyng asked if hee would go heare Masse, hee sayd hee had as leue go to the galowes, where the theeues were hanged. Item, beyng at S. Marga- ret Patens
CloseIn the following incident, Wetzell was mocking the large rood at St Margaret Pattens, a popular image, particularly venerated by London sailors. a crosse, he sayd to the people, that hee could make as good a knaue as hee is, for hee is made but of woode. &c. |
Robert Man, Ser- uyng man. 1531. | Hys Articles: There is no Purgatory. The Pope hath no more power to graunt pardon then an other symple Priest. That God gaue no more authoritie to S. Peter, then to an other Priest. That the pope was a knaue, and hys Priestes knaues all, for suffryng hys pardons to go abroad to de- ceaue the people. That S. Thomas of Can terbury is no Sainct. That S. Peter was neuer Pope of Rome. Item, hee vsed commonly to aske of Priestes where he came, whether a man were accursed if he handled a chalyce or no? If the Priest would say, yea: then would he replye agayne thus: If a mā haue a shepes skynne on hys handes, meanyng a payre of gloues, he may handle it. The Priestes say- ing yea: well then (quoth he) ye will make MarginaliaPriests set more by a payre of gloues, thē by a lay mans hād.me beleue, that God put more vertue in a shepes skynne, then hee dyd in a Christen mans hand, for whom he dyed. |
Henry Fel don. 1531. | Hys trouble was, for hauyng these bookes in Englishe: A proper Dialogue betwene a Gentleman, and a husbandman. The Somme of Scripture. The Prologue of Marke. A written booke conteynyng the Pater noster, Aue Maria, and Credo in En glishe. The x. Commaundements, and the xvi. conditions of Charitie. |
| Persons abiured, | with their Articles. |
Rob. Coo- per, Priest.
CloseRobert Cooper (or Cowper) was rhe rector of Hanwell, Middlesex. He later became chaplain to Edward VI, and, while a fellow at Corpus Christi, he had been tutor to Matthew Parker, the future archbishop of Canterbury (Venn, sub Cowper, Robert). 1531. | Hys Article onely was this: for saying that the blessyng with a shoe sole
CloseCooper was charged with saying that a blessing from a person waving a shoe in the was of equal benefit as a blessing from a bishop. good as the Byshops blessyng. &c. |
Thomas Row. 1531. | Hys Articles were, for speakyng a- gaynst auriculare confession, and Priestly penaūce, and agaynst the preachyng of the Doctours. |
William Waltham. 1531. | Hys opinion: That the Sacrament of the aultar is not the body of Christ in flesh and bloud, and that there is a God, but not that God in fleshe and bloud in the forme of bread. |
Grace Pal- mer. 1531. | Witnes was brought agaynst her by her neighbours Iohn Rouse, Agnes his wife, Iohn Pole of S. Osithes, for saying: Ye MarginaliaAgaynst bearing of Palmes.vse to beare Palmes on Palme Sondaye: it skilleth not whether ye beare any or not, it is but a thyng vsed, and neede not. Also ye vse to goe on Pilgrimage to our Ladye of Grace, of Walsyngham, and other places: ye were better tarye at home, and giue money to succour me and my children and other of my poore neigh- bours, then to go thether: for there ye shall fynde but a peece of tymber paynted, there is neither God nor our Lady. Item, for re- pentyng that she did euer lyght candels be- fore Images. Item, that the Sacrament of the aultar is not the body of Christ: it is but bread, whiche the Priest there sheweth for a tokē or remēbraaūce of Christes body. |
Philip Bra sier of Boke sted. 1531. | Hys Articles: That the Sacrament hol- den vp betwene the Priestes handes, is not the body of Christ, but bread, and is done for a significatiō. That confession to a Priest nedeth not. That Images be but stockes & stones. That Pilgremage is vayne. Also for saying that when there is any miracle done, þe priestes do noynte the Images, and make men beleue þt the Images doe sweate in labouryng for them, and with the offe- rynges the Priestes fynde their harlots. |
Ioh. Fayre- stede of Colchester. 1531.
CloseThis is very probably the Henry Fasted who, in 1534, tried to disseminate evangelical books in Colchester and who reported his efforts, as well those who resisted them, to Thomas Cromwell (L&P VII, p. 170). | Hys Articles: For wordes spoken a- gaynst Pilgremage, and Images. Also for MarginaliaA prophesie.saying these woordes: that the day should come, that men shall saye: cursed bee they that make these false Gods, meanyng I- mages. |
George Bull of Much had- ham, Dra- per. 1531. | MarginaliaThree confessions.Hys Articles: That there bee iij. confes- sions. One principall to God: an other to hys neyghbour, whom hee had offended: and the thyrd to a Priest: and that without the two first confessions, to God, and to his neighbour, a man could not be saued. The thyrd confession to a Priest, is necessary for counsaile to such as bee ignoraunt and vn- learned, to learne how to make their cfōes- sion with a contrite heart vnto God, and howe to hope for forgiuenes: and also in what maner they should aske forgyuenes of their neighbor, whō they haue offended. &c. Itē, for saying, that Luther was a good man. Item, that hee reported, throughe the credence & reporte of M. Patmore Person of MarginaliaA welspryng where Wickleffes bones were burned.Hadhā, that where Wickleffes bones were brent, sprang vp a well or welspryng. |
Iohn Hay- mond Mil- vvright.
CloseThis may be the John Hammon of Enfield, Middlesex, who in 1538 wrote to Thomas Cromwell, complaining that his parish priest was persecuting him for reading the Bible aloud to others (L&P XIV, 2, pp. 349-50). 1531. | Hys Articles: For speakyng & holdyng agaynst pilgremage and Images, and a- gaynst prescribed fastyngdayes. That Priestes & religious men notwith- standing their vowes made, may lawful- ly forsake their vowes, and mary. Item, for hauing bookes of Luther, and Tyndall. |
Rob. Lābe a Harper. 1531. | His Article: For that he stādyng accursed ij. yeares together, and not fearyng the cen- sures of the popes Church, wēt about with a song in the cōmendation of Mart. Luther. |
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