Thematic Divisions in Book 11
1. The Martyrdom of Rogers 2. The Martyrdom of Saunders 3. Saunders' Letters 4. Hooper's Martyrdom 5. Hooper's Letters 6. Rowland Taylor's Martyrdom 7. Becket's Image and other events 8. Miles Coverdale and the Denmark Letters 9. Bonner and Reconciliation 10. Judge Hales 11. The Martyrdom of Thomas Tomkins 12. The Martyrdom of William Hunter 13. The Martyrdom of Higbed and Causton 14. The Martyrdom of Pigot, Knight and Laurence 15. Robert Farrar's Martyrdom 16. The Martyrdom of Rawlins/Rowland White17. The Restoration of Abbey Lands and other events in Spring 155518. The Providential Death of the Parson of Arundel 19. The Martyrdom of John Awcocke 20. The Martyrdom of George Marsh 21. The Letters of George Marsh 22. The Martyrdom of William Flower 23. The Martyrdom of Cardmaker and Warne 24. Letters of Warne and Cardmaker 25. The Martyrdom of Ardley and Simpson 26. John Tooly 27. The Examination of Robert Bromley [nb This is part of the Tooly affair]28. The Martyrdom of Thomas Haukes 29. Letters of Haukes 30. The Martyrdom of Thomas Watts 31. Mary's False Pregnancy32. Censorship Proclamation 33. Our Lady' Psalter 34. Martyrdom of Osmund, Bamford, Osborne and Chamberlain35. The Martyrdom of John Bradford 36. Bradford's Letters 37. William Minge 38. James Trevisam 39. The Martyrdom of John Bland 40. The Martyrdom of Frankesh, Middleton and Sheterden 41. Sheterden's Letters 42. Examinations of Hall, Wade and Polley 43. Martyrdom of Christopher Wade 44. Martyrdom of Carver and Launder 45. Martyrdom of Thomas Iveson 46. John Aleworth 47. Martyrdom of James Abbes 48. Martyrdom of Denley, Newman and Pacingham 49. Richard Hooke 50. Martyrdom of William Coker, et al 51. Martyrdom of George Tankerfield, et al 52. Martyrdom and Letters of Robert Smith 53. Martyrdom of Harwood and Fust 54. Martyrdom of William Haile 55. George King, Thomas Leyes and John Wade 56. William Andrew 57. Martyrdom of Robert Samuel 58. Samuel's Letters 59. William Allen 60. Martyrdom of Roger Coo 61. Martyrdom of Thomas Cobb 62. Martyrdom of Catmer, Streater, Burwood, Brodbridge, Tutty 63. Martyrdom of Hayward and Goreway 64. Martyrdom and Letters of Robert Glover 65. Cornelius Bungey 66. John and William Glover 67. Martyrdom of Wolsey and Pigot 68. Life and Character of Nicholas Ridley 69. Ridley's Letters 70. Life of Hugh Latimer 71. Latimer's Letters 72. Ridley and Latimer Re-examined and Executed73. More Letters of Ridley 74. Life and Death of Stephen Gardiner 75. Martyrdom of Webb, Roper and Park 76. William Wiseman 77. James Gore 78. Examinations and Martyrdom of John Philpot 79. Philpot's Letters 80. Martyrdom of Thomas Whittle, Barlett Green, et al 81. Letters of Thomas Wittle 82. Life of Bartlett Green 83. Letters of Bartlett Green 84. Thomas Browne 85. John Tudson 86. John Went 87. Isobel Foster 88. Joan Lashford 89. Five Canterbury Martyrs 90. Life and Martyrdom of Cranmer 91. Letters of Cranmer 92. Martyrdom of Agnes Potten and Joan Trunchfield 93. Persecution in Salisbury Maundrell, Coberly and Spicer 94. William Tyms, et al 95. Letters of Tyms 96. The Norfolk Supplication 97. Martyrdom of John Harpole and Joan Beach 98. John Hullier 99. Hullier's Letters 100. Christopher Lister and five other martyrs 101. Hugh Lauerocke and John Apprice 102. Katherine Hut, Elizabeth Thacknell, et al 103. Thomas Drury and Thomas Croker 104. Thomas Spicer, John Deny and Edmund Poole 105. Persecution of Winson and Mendlesam 106. Gregory Crow 107. William Slech 108. Avington Read, et al 109. Wood and Miles 110. Adherall and Clement 111. A Merchant's Servant Executed at Leicester 112. Thirteen Burnt at Stratford-le-Bow113. Persecution in Lichfield 114. Hunt, Norrice, Parret 115. Martyrdom of Bernard, Lawson and Foster 116. Examinations of John Fortune117. John Careless 118. Letters of John Careless 119. Martyrdom of Julius Palmer 120. Agnes Wardall 121. Peter Moone and his wife 122. Guernsey Martyrdoms 123. Dungate, Foreman and Tree 124. Martyrdom of Thomas More125. Examination of John Jackson126. Examination of John Newman 127. Martyrdom of Joan Waste 128. Martyrdom of Edward Sharpe 129. Four Burnt at Mayfield at Sussex 130. John Horne and a woman 131. William Dangerfield 132. Northampton Shoemaker 133. Prisoners Starved at Canterbury 134. More Persecution at Lichfield
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1805 [1766]

Quene Mary. The Examinations and condemnation of Thomas Haukes, Martyr.

MarginaliaAn. 1555. Iune.sayd that I came to talke with my Lord, and not with any of them.

With that came the Byshop, bringing a letter in his hand the which he had written in my name, and read it vnto me after thys maner: MarginaliaThe Byshop writeth Haukes confession.I Thomas Haukes, do here confesse and declare before my said Ordinary Edmund Byshop of London, that the Masse is abominable and detestable, and full of all superstition, and also as concerning the sacrament of the body and bloud of Christ (commonly called the sacrament of the altar) that Christ is in no part therof, but onely in heauen: this I haue beleued, and this I do beleue. &c.

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Haukes. Stop there my Lord: what I haue beleued, what haue you to do withall? But what I do beleue, to that stand I and will.

Then he tooke his penne, and sayd that he would scrape it out for my pleasure, & so did to my thinckyng. Then he went further with his writyng, and sayd: I Tho. Haukes haue talked with my sayd Ordinary, and with certaine good, godly, and learned men. Notwithstandyng I stand still in myne opinion.

Haukes. Shall I graunt you to be good, godly, and learned men, and yet graunt my selfe to stand in a contrary opinion? No, I will not graunt you to be good, godly, and learned men.

Boner. Ye will graunt that ye haue talked with vs: the other I will put out for your pleasure. Then sayd all his Doctours, if your Lordshyp be ruled by hym, he will cause you to put out all together: and then he read more vnto me. Here vnto this bill haue I set to my hand: and then he offred me the bill and his pen, and bad me set my hand to it.

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MarginaliaTho. Haukes denieth to set his hand to Boners writing.Haukes. Ye get not my hand to any thyng of your makyng or deuising.

Boner. Wilt not thou set to thy hand? It shalbe to thy shame for the denying of it. And then he called all his Doctours, & sayd he would haue euery mans hand to it that was in the chamber, and so he had of theyr handes to it, and sayd: he that will not set his hand to it, I would he were hanged, and so sayd all his Chaplains and Doctours with a great noyse.

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Then the Bishop thrust me on the breast with great anger, and sayd he would be euen with me and with all such proud knaues in Essex.

Haukes. Ye shall do no more then God shall geue you leaue.

MarginaliaBoner in a fume with Tho. Haukes.Boner. This geare shall not be vnpunished, trust to it.

Haukes. As for your cursinges, raylinges, and blasphemynges, I care not for thē: for I know the mothes and wormes shall eate you, as they eate cloth or wool.

Bysh. I will be euē with you, when time shall come.

Haukes. Ye may in your malice destroy a man: but when ye haue done, ye can not do so much as make a finger, and ye be meetly euen with some of vs already.

Boner. If I do thee any wrong, take the law of me.

Haukes. Salomon sayth: God not to law with a Iudge. For he wyll iudge according to hys own honour.  

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This verse is obscure.

Boner. Salomon sayth: Geue not a foole an aunswer.  

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Proverbs 26: 4.

Haukes. What? do you count me a foole?

Boner. Yea by my trouth do I, and so doest thou me to: but God forgeue thee, *Marginalia* And euen now ye sayd you would be euen with him. and so do I.

Haukes. Thought is free my Lord. Then tooke Boner the byll and read it againe, and when he sawe that he could not haue my hand to it, then hee woulde haue had me take it into my hande, and to geue it hym againe.

Haukes. What needeth that ceremonye? Neyther shall it come into my hand, hart, nor minde. Then hee wrapt it vp, and put it in his bosome, and in a great anger went his way, and called for his horse and went to horsbacke: for the same day he rode in visitation into Essex: and so went I to prison, frō whence I came, with my keeper. And this was the second time of my examination. Written by me Thomas Haukes, who desireth all faithfull men and brethren, to pray vnto

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God to strengthen me in his truth vnto the end. Pray, pray, pray, gentle brethren pray.

¶ The publicke examination of Tho. Haukes.

After all these priuate cōferences, persuasions, & lōg debatinges had with Tho. Haukes in þe bishops house, as hetherto hath bene declared, the Byshop seyng no hope to wynne hym to his wicked wayes, was fully set to procede opēly agaynst him after the ordinary course of his Popish law. MarginaliaThoms Haukes cited to the Bishops consistory.Whereupon Tho. Haukes shortly after was cited with the rest of his other felowes aboue specified, to wytte, Tho. Tomkyns, Ste. Knyght, W. Pygot, Ioh. Laurence, & W. Hunter, to appeare in the Bishops Consistory, the viij. day of February, this present yeare, videlt. 1555.MarginaliaEx Registro. Vpon which appearaūce was layd agaynst him, in like order, as to the other, MarginaliaThe first daies Sessions against Thomas Haukes.first the bill of his confession, written with Boners hand, to the which bill ye heard before how this blessed seruaūt of God denyed to subscribe. After which bill of confession beyng read, and he constantly standyng to the sayd confession, the Byshop then assigned hym with the other v. þe next day folowing, which was þe ix. of February, to appeare before him agayn, to giue a resolute aūswere what they would sticke vnto. MarginaliaThe secōd daies Sessions agaynst Thomas Haukes.Which day beyng come, and these foresayd vj. prisoners beyng seuerally called before the Byshop, at the commyng of Thomas Haukes, the Byshop willed him to remember what was sayd to him yesterday, & now while he had tyme & space, to aduise with hym selfe, what he would aunswere: for he stoode vpō lyfe and death. MarginaliaThe aunswere of Thomas Haukes.Wel, quoth M. Haukes agayne, I will willyngly receaue what soeuer shall be put vnto me.

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Then were certaine other Interrogatories or Articles commensed agaynst hym by the sayd Bishop (in like maner as to the other) to the number of foure: with an other bill also, which Boner brought out of his bosome conteining priuate matters agaynst the sayde Tho. Haukes, which the bishop called heresies and errours, but we may better call them Christian verities. To the which matter being read, the sayd Haukes answered openly againe saying, that it was true, and that he was glad it was so true as it was: with mo wordes to the like effect. And this was on the forenoone, the. ix. day of February.

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In the afternoone againe the sayd Haukes appearing and hearing the foresayde byll of his confession, with the Articles and Interrogatories read vnto hym, with like constancie aunswering againe to the bishop: MarginaliaThe word s of Thomas Haukes at his iudgemēt.My Lord (sayd he) as you being my great friend haue caused these my sayings to be written: so do you cause them to be read: and yet I will neuer go from them. And then being exhorted by þe bishop with many fayre wordes, to returne againe to the bosome of the mother Church: No my Lorde (sayd hee) that wyll I not: MarginaliaThe inuin-ble constancy of Thomas Haukes.for if I had an hūdred bodies, I would suffer them all to be torne in peeces, rather then I wyll abiure or recant. And so continuing stil in the same song, notwithstanding that þe Doctors & Lawyers were euer calling vpon him to come agayne to the vnity of the Church, he euer kept them of with this aunswer, that he would neuer go from the beliefe he was in, so long as hee lyued. MarginaliaThomas Haukes condemned by B Boner.Wherupon Boner at last read the Sentence of death vpon hym, and so was hee condemned the same day with the residue of hys fellowes, which was the. ix of February.

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Neuertheles MarginaliaThe death of Haukes differred.his execution was prolonged, and he remained in prison till the 10. day of Iune.  

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Most unusually Haukes was formally condemned twice; once on 9 February 1555 and once on 25 May 1555 (See PRO, C/85/127, fos. 4r and 9r). It is probable that Haukes had friends who interceded and tried to secure clemency for him. When this failed, the authorities decided to secure another writ for his execution as a precaution.

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Then was hee committed to the handes and charge of the Lord Rich. Who beyng assisted with power sufficient of the worshipfull of the shyre, MarginaliaThomas Haukes brought downe to Essex by the Lord Rich.had the foresayd Tho. Haukes down into Essex, with vj. other felow prisoners (whose storyes hereafter folow) there to suffer Martyrdome, Haukes at Coxehall, the other seuerally in other seuerall places.

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Thomas Haukes by the way vsed much exhortatiō to his frendes, and when soeuer oportunitie serued to

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