1570 Edition | Book 8 | Page 1227 
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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. A Table of Persons abiured, with their Articles.
| Persons abiured, | with their Articles. |
Ioh. Hew- es, Draper. 1531. | His Articles: For speaking agaynst Pur gatory, and Thomas Becket. Item, at the towne of Farnsham, he seyng Edward Fren- MarginaliaAgainst kneeling to the crosse.sham kneling in the strete to a Crosse caried before a corse, asked to whō he kneeled? He sayd, to his maker. Thou art a fole (said he) it is not thy maker, it is but a peece of cop- per or woode. &c. Item, for these woordes: Masters ye vse to goe on pilgremage: it were better first that ye looke vppon your poore neighbours whiche lacke succour. &c. Also, for saying that hee heard the Vicar of MarginaliaMuch baudery in Pilgrymage.Croydon thus preache openly: That there is as much bawdrie kept by goyng in Pil- gremage to Wilsedone or Mowsswell, as is in the stewes syde. &c. |
Thomas Patmore Draper. 1531. | This Patmore was brother to M. Patmore person of Hadhā 
CloseSusan Brigden has persuasively argued that the twoThomasPatmores were, in fact, the same person and that Patmore while still vicar ofMuch Hadham, became free of the Drapers's Company (Susan Brigden, Londonand the Reformation [Oxford, 1989], p. 206). She suggests that the purpose ofthis was to remain incognito and that the Drapers were chosen because of a significant evangelical presence in their membership. But Patmore's purpose may simply have been to acquire London citizenship. And the Drapers's Company may have been chosen beecause his father had been a member of the company. [Back to Top]lardes tower for mariyng a Priest, & in the same prison cōtinued 3. yere. This Patmore was accused by diuers witnesses, vpō these Articles: That hee had as leue pray to yon- der hunter, pointyng to a mā paynted there in a stayned cloth, for a peece of fleshe, as to pray to stockes that stand in walles, mea- nyng Images. Itē, þt men should not pray to Saintes, but to God only: for why shuld we pray to Sainctes (sayd he) they are but MarginaliaThe truth of scripture a long time kept from vs.blockes, & stockes? Item, that the truth of scripture hath ben kept frō vs a lōg tyme & hath not appeared till now. Itē, cōmyng by a tree wherin stode an Image, he tooke a- way the waxe
CloseI.e., the candles. Item, that hee regarded not the place whe- ther it was halowed, or no, where he shuld be buryed after he was dead. Also, in talke with the curate of S. Peters, hee defended that Priestes might mary. This Patmore had long hold with þe Bi- shop of London. First he would not sweare infamia non præcedente
CloseI.e., he would not stipulate to the charges against him nor answer them unless his accusers were produced. peale to the kyng, but all would not serue. He was so wrapt in þe Bishops nettes, that he could not get out, but at last he was for- ced to abiure, and fined to the king an C. l. |
MarginaliaA note.* Note in the communication betwene this Patmore, and the priest of S. Peters, that where as the Priest obiected agaynst hym (as is in the Register) that Priestes haue lyued vnmaryed, and without wyues these xv. hundreth yeares in the Churche: MarginaliaThe papists say falsely that priests haue bene vnmaryed these 1500. yeares.he and all other such Priests therin say falsly & deceaue the people, as by story is proued in this volume, that priestes here in Englād, had wiues by the law within these v. hundreth yeares & lesse.
[Back to Top]Symon Smith Mai ster of Arte of Gunvvell Hall in Cā-
CloseFoxe only mentions a crucial fact later in his narrative: Smith was Patmore's curate and Benmore his maidservant. Patmore's activesupport, if not outright instigation, of this marriage was necessary. bridge, and Benore his vvife. 1531. | This Symon Smyth & Benore hys wife were þe parties, whō M. Patmore Person of Had- hā aboue mentioned did marry, & was con- demned for the same to perpetual prisō. For the whiche Mariage, both the sayd Symon, & Benore his wife were called to examina- tion before the Byshop, and he caused to make the whole discourse of all his doings, how, and where he maried. Then, after hys Mariage, how long he taryed, whether hee went beyond sea, where he was, and with whom. After his returne, whether hee resor ted, how he lyued, what mercery ware hee occupyed, what fayres he frequented, where he left his wife, how he caryed her ouer, and brought her home agayn, and how she was found. &c. All this they made him confesse, & put it in their Register. And though they could fasten no other crime of heresie vpon him, but onely his mariage: yet callyng both him and her beyng great with childe to examination, they caused thē both to ab- iure and suffer penaunce. |
This Tho. Patmore a good man, was he þt maried the foresaid M. Smith, & Ioane Benore his mayde together (as is sayd) vppon the consent and earnest request of the parties. For this godly acte hee susteined long tra- uaile in þe bishops court, being many times |
| Persons abiured, | with their Articles. |
Thomas Patmore, Person of Hadham. 1531. | examined of his conscience, whether a priest might mary a wife without offēce to God. Wherin he stucke a great whyle & appealed to þe king. Whē þt would not helpe, he requi- MarginaliaPriests maryage.red to know how Priestes Mariage could be proued heretical by the Scripture. Then Foxford the Byshops Vicare, the great per- secutor, alleagyng generall Councels & de- termination of the Churche, still was vpon him with his interrogatories, askyng whe- ther hee would abiure or heare the sentence read. Hys aunswere was, that hee beleueth the holy Churche, as a Christen man doth, and it passeth his capacitie, and desireth to be instructed, and if the Scripture do teach it, he wil beleue it: and he doth not know by Scripture the contrary, but that a Priest may mary a wife, but by the lawes of the Church he thinketh þt a Priest may not ma- ry. But þe Chauncellour still asked, whether a Priest might mary wtout offense to God. At length he graūted that Priest might not mary without offense to God, because the Churche hath forbyd it, & therfore a Priest can not mary without deadly sinne. MarginaliaRemember here (good reader) to amend the place aboue pag. 1161. where is sayd that Patmore dyed in Lollardes Tower.Item, an other Article was obiected to him, for saying that hee did not set a bottell of hay by the Popes curse. But at last hee submitted him selfe after much adoe, & was abiured and after condemned to perpetuall prison. Neuertheles I fynde in the Regi- sters, that after iij. yeares, hee was released out agayne by the Bishop. |
Iohn Row Bookebin- der, a Frēch man. 1531. | This man for byndyng, bying, and dis- persing of bookes inhibited, was enioyned beside other penaunce, to goe to Smithfield with his bookes tyed about hym, & to cast them in the fire, and there to abyde till they were all brent to ashes. |
Christofer a Dutche man of An- tvverpe. 1531. | This man, for sellyng certeine new Te- mentes in Englishe to Iohn Row afore- MarginaliaChristopher a bokeseller dyed in prison.sayd, was put in prison at Westminster, and there dyed. |
W. Nelson Priest. 1531. | His crime was, for hauyng and biyng of Peryman certeine bookes
CloseApparently Periman was also selling heretical books. dall, Thorpe. &c. and for readyng and peru sing the same, cōtrary to the kynges procla- mation: for the which he was abiured. He was Priest at Lith. |
Tho. Eue VVeauer.
CloseEve is listed inaccurately in the first edition of the Acts andMonuments as the parish clerk of Much Hadham (1563, p. 419). 1531. | His Articles: That the Sacrament of the aultar was but a memory of Christes Passiō. That mē were fooles to go on Pil- gremage, or to set any candle before Ima- ges. Item, it is as good to set vp staues be- fore the Sepulchre, as to set vp tapers of waxe. That Priestes might haue wiues. |
Rob. Hud- son of S. Pulchers. 1531. | MarginaliaA dogge offered to S. Nicolas Bishop.His Article: On Childermas day
CloseThe feast of the Holy Innocents (28 December). Register) he offered in Paules Churche at offeryng time, to the child bishop
CloseIt was the custom for a boty to be chosen to officiate as bishop to the services held on the feast of the Holy Innocents. The boy received small gifts and was sometimes referred to as St. Nicholas (who was the patron saint of children). Nicolas) a dogge for deuotion (as he sayd) and meant no hurte, for he thought to haue offered a halfepenye or els the dogge, and thought the dogge to be more better then a halfepeny, and the dogge should rayse some profite to the childe: and sayd moreouer it was the tenth dogge. &c. Ex Regist. |
Edward Hewet Ser uyngmā. 1531. | His crime: That after the kynges pro- clamation he had and read the new Testa- ment in Englishe: Also the booke of Iohn Fryth agaynst Purgatory. &c. |
Walter Kyry Ser- uaunt. 1531. | Hys Article: That hee, after the kynges proclamation, had and vsed these bookes: the Testament in Englishe, the Some of Scripture, a Primer and Psalter in Englishe hydden in hys beadstraw at Wor cester. |
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