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| Persons abiured, | with their Articles. |
MarginaliaWhy then doth M. More say that Bilne recāted and dyed a good mā, if these here be punished for commendyng hym to dye a good mā?Michaell Lobley, 1531. 
CloseAccording to one contemporary, Bayfield was burned on 4 December 1531. (See Charles Wriothesley, A Chronicle of England during the reigns of the Tudors, ed. W. D. Hamilton, Camden Society, new series, 11 and 20 {2 vols., London, 1875-77], I, p. 17). | Hys Articles: That he beyng at Antwerpe bought certeine bookes inhibited, as þe Re- uelation of Antichrist, the obedience of a Christen man, the wicked Māmon, Frith a- gainst Purgatory. Itē, for speaking against Images and Purgatory. Item, for saying that Bilney was a good man, & dyed a good man
CloseMichael Lobley was a bookbinder (1570, p. 1372; 1576, p. 1162 and 1583, p.1191), who obviously used his professional contacts and activitiesto disseminate heretical literature. Thomas More claimed that Michael Lobley,after he was arrested, informed on those who purchased herteical books from him (Thomas More, The Confutation of Tyndale's Answer, ed. Louis A. Scuster,Richard C. Marius, James P. Lusardi and Richard Schoeck, CWTM 8 [New Haven, CT, 1973], II, p. 813). [Back to Top]Norwiche, that specified that he tooke hys death so paciētly and did not forsake to dye with a good will. &c. |
MarginaliaA ladde of Colchester dyed in prison for bringing to Bayfilde hys bokes.A boye of Colchester. 1531. | A boye of Colchester, or Northfolke brought to Rich. Bayfild, a budget of bookes about iiij. dayes before the sayd Bayfild was taken: for the which the lad was taken and layde in the Counter by M. More Chaun- cellour, and there died. |
William Smith Tay lor. 1531. | Hys Articles: That hee lodged often tymes in hys house, Richard Bayfild and o- ther good mē. That he receaued his bokes into hys house, and vsed much readyng in the new Testament. He had also the Testa ment of William Tracy. He beleued there was no Purgatory. |
William Lyncolne Prentise. 1532. | Hys Articles: For hauyng and recea- uyng bookes frō beyond the sea, of Tyndall, Fryth, Thorpe and other. Item, he doubted whether there were any Purgatory: Whe- ther it were well done to set vp candels to Saintes: to go on Pilgremage. &c. |
Iohn Mell of Bocksted 1532. | Hys heresie was this: for hauyng and readyng the newe Testament in Englishe, the Psalter in Englishe, and the booke cal- led A. B. C. |
Iohn Me- dwell ser- uaūt to M. Carkitte, Scriuener.
CloseFoxe may have obtained this material from an oral source. The detail about the conditions of imprisonment and the lack of specific dates are both atypical of material obtained from official records. Elsewhere in the Acts and Monuments, Foxe mentions that a Richard Carket copied material from the London registers for him (This is a very valuable (and rare) indication by Foxe of the assistance he received in having official transcribed. It also indicates that, even for records in London, Foxe relied on transcriptions of archival documents, rather than examining the documents himself). [Back to Top]1532. | This Medwell lay in prison xxiiij. wekes, till he was almost lame. His heresies were these: That he doubted whether there was any Purgatory. He would not trust in par- dons, but rather in the promises of Christ. MarginaliaHeresie with the Pope, to trust onely to the merites of Christ.He doubted whether the merites of any but onely of Christ did helpe hym. He doubted whether Pilgremages & setting vp of can- dels to Images were meritorious or not. He thought hee should not put hys trust in any Saint. Item, he had in hys custody the new Testament in Englishe, the exami- nation of Thorpe, the wicked Mammon, a booke of Matrimony. Ex ipsius schedula ad Episc. Scripta. |
Christofer Fulmā, Ser uaunt to a Goldsmith. 1532. | This yong man was attached for recea- uyng certein bookes at Antwerpe of George Constantine, and transportyng them ouer in to England, and sellyng them to sondry per sons, beyng bookes prohibited by the pro- clamation. Item, hee thought then those bookes to haue bene good, and that he had bene in errour in times past. |
Margarete Bowgas. 1532.
CloseMargaret Bowgas had already been forced to find six compurgators to clear her of charges of heresy in Colchester in July 1528 (BL, Harley MS 421, fo. 30v). Her husband Thomas had been forced to abjure his heretical beliefs and do pennance in Colchester in 1528 (Fines). | Her heresies were these: Beyng asked if she would go on Pilgremage, she sayd, I beleue in God, & hee can do me more good, thē our Lady or any other Sainct, & as for them, they shall come to me, if they will. &c. Then Richard Sharples Person of Milende by Colchester, asked her, if she sayd her Aue Maria. I say (sayd she) hayle Mary, but I will say no further. Then sayd he, if she left not those opinions, she would beare a fa- got. If I do (sayd she) better then I shall: addyng moreouer that she would not go frō that to dye therfore. To whō the Priest aunswered and sayd, she would be burned. Hereunto Margarete againe replying, asked MarginaliaTyraūtes make Martyrs.the Priest, who made Martyrs? Tyraunts (quoth the Priest) make Martyrs, for they put Martyrs to death. So they shall or may me, quoth Margarete. At lēgth with much a- doe and great persuasiōs, she gaue ouer to Foxeford þe Chaūceller, & submitted her self. |
| Persons abiured, | with their Articles. |
Ioh. Tyrell an Iryshe- man of Bil- lery key, Tayler. | Hys Articles were these: That the Sa- crament of the aultar was not the body of Christ, but onely a cake of bread. Further- more the occasion beyng asked, how he fell into that heresie: hee aunswered and sayd, that about iij. weekes before mydsomer last MarginaliaM. Latimer preaching agaynst Pilgrimage.past, he heard M. Hugh Latimer preach at S. Mary Abchurch, that men shoulde leaue goyng in Pilgremage abroad, and do their Pilgremage to their poore neighbors. Also the sayd M> Latymer in hys Sermon dyd set the Sacrament of the aultar at litle. |
William Lancaster Taylour. 1532. | The cause layd to this man was: That he had in his kepyng the boke of Wickleffes wicket. Item, that he beleued the Sacra- ment of the aultar, after the wordes of con- secratiō, not to be the body of Christ really, &c. Item, vppon the day of Assumption hee sayd, that if it were not for the speache of the people, hee would not receaue the Sacra- ment of the aultar. |
Roberte Topley, Frier. 1532. | His Articles. He being a frier Augustin, of Clare
CloseI.e., an Augustinian friar from the house at Stoke by Clare, Suffolk. Robert was the brother of Thomas Topley. MarginaliaA fryer maryed.seculare mans weede x. yeares, maryed a wife called Margarete Nixson, hauyng by her a childe: and afterward beyng brought before the Byshop, he was by hym abiured and condemned to bee prisoned in hys for- mer Monasterye: but at last he escaped out, and returned to his wife agayne. |
Thomas Topley Au sten Frier, at Stoke clare. | By the occasion of this Robert Topley a- foresayd, place is offered to speake some thyng lykewise of Thomas Topley, hys bro- ther belyke, and also a Frier of the same or- der and house of Stoke clare. This Thomas Topley had bene conuerted before, by one MarginaliaMyles Couerdale.Richard Foxe Priest of Bumstede, and Myles Couerdale, in so much that he being induced partly by them, partly by readyng certeine bookes, cast of both hys order and habite, and went lyke a secular Priest. Whereupon he was espyed and brought to Cutbert By- shop of London. an. 1528. before whom this confession he made as foloweth. |
MarginaliaThe recantation of Tho. Topley Fryer.ALl Christen men beware of consentyng to Erasmus fables, for by consentyng to them, they haue caused me to shrinke in my fayth that I promised to God at my Christening, by my witnesses. First as touching these fables, I red in Colloquium MarginaliaColloquia Erasmi.by the instruction of Syr Richard Foxe
Richard Foxe was the parish minister of Steeple Bumstead, Essex. He was a leading proponent of evangelical views in his parish and later informed on other evangelicals as part of his abjuration (BL, Harley MS 421, fo. 28r).
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CloseTopley is describing Erasmus's colloquy 'Rash Vows'. See Colloquies, trans. and annotated by Craig R. Thompson, vols., 39-40 of TheCollected Works of Erasmus (Toronto, 1997), I, pp. 36-43.
Moreouer, it fortuned thus about halfe a yeare a goe, þt the said Syr Richard went forth and desired me to serue hys Cure for him, and as I was in hys chamber, I foūd a certein boke called MarginaliaWickleffes Wicket.Wickleffes Wicket, wherby I felt in my consciēce a great wauering for the tyme þt I did read vppon it, and afterward also when I remembred it, it wounded my conscience very sore. Neuertheles I consented not to it, vntil I had heard him preach, & that was vpō S. Anthonies day: yet my mind was stil much troubled with þe sayd booke (which did make the Sacrament of Christes body, in forme of bread, but a remembraunce of Christes Passion) MarginaliaMyles Couerdale.till I heard Syr Myles Couerdale
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