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Marginalia1555. August.well haue asked for them, as for water: and the water was not coniured, but euē as it was afore. Also Act. x. Then aunswered Peter: Cā any man forbid water that these should not be baptised? &c.MarginaliaActes. 10. Act. 16. And Paul & Silas preached vnto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house: and he tooke them the same houre of the night, and washed their woundes, and so was he baptised, and all they of his houshold straight way.MarginaliaAct. 16. Where ye see nothyng but preaching the word, and the water. The like also is to be sayd of the rest of the ceremonyes of your Church.
[Back to Top]To the viij. article I aunswere shortly, that there be Sacraments no moe, but two: Baptisme & the Sacrament of the body and bloud of CHRIST, except ye will make the MarginaliaThe Raynbow as good a sacrament as some of the Popish sacraments.Raynbow a Sacrament: for there is no Sacramnet but hath a promise annexed vnto it.
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CloseThis article is worded somewhat differently in Rerum, p. 513; this was notdue to Foxe tampering with the text but with his printing different versions of the document in the Rerum and in 1563.
By me Iohn Denley.
The first day of þe moneth of Iuly, þe sayd iij. prisoners were brought into þe Cōsistory in Paules Church, where he proceeded against thē after hys vsuall forme and maner of law, reading fyrst their confessions, articles, and aunsweres, and then tempting them, sometyme with fayre promises, other whyles with threateninges, which were alwaies hys chiefest argumentes and reasons to perswade wythall: MarginaliaMaster Denley, Newman, Pachingham, cōdemned the 5. day of Iuly.in the end, seyng their vnmoueable constancy, vpon the fift day of Iuly he condemned them as heretickes, and gaue them vnto the Shiriffes of London, as to hys common executioners: who kept them vntill they were commaunded by wrytte, to send them to their seuerall places of suffering:
CloseEarly in 1555, the martyrs were sent to be executed in places where they had been active in preaching. But Denley and Patingham had no known connection to Uxbridge. They were being sent there rather than being burned in London where the crowds had become dangerously volatile.
Closementors to hurle a fagot at him, whereupon being hurte therewyth vpon þe face that he bled agayne, hee left hys singing & clapt both hys handes on hys face. Truly, quoth Doct. Story to hym that hurled the fagot, thou hast mard a good old song.
CloseA note recounting this anecdote, written in Foxe's hand, is in BL, Lansdowne 109, fo. 52r. Almost certainly the note was jotted down by Foxe as he listened to what an informant related to him.
After the Martyrdome of M. Denley at Vxbridge,
which was the 8. of August, suffred also not long after, Patrike Pachinghā at the same towne of Vxbridge, about þe 28. day of þe sayd moneth. MarginaliaThe Martyrdome of Patricke Pachingham at Vxbridge. An. 1555. Aug. 28.This Pachinghā was charged of Boner (as ye heard in þe x. article before) for his behauiour shewed in þe bishops chappell: who at the Masse time there standing, woulde not put of hys cap: which was taken for an haynous offence. The said Pachinghā also beyng much laboured by Boner to recāt, protested in these words to þe bishop: that þe church which he beleued was no catholicke church, but was þe church of Sathan, and therfore he would neuer turne to it. &c.
[Back to Top]MarginaliaThe Martyrdome of Ioh. Newman at Saffron Walden. An. 1555. August. 31.Furthermore, as touching þe other, which was Ioh Newman Peuterer, dwelling at Maydstone in Kent, he was burned this last of August at Saffron Walden in the county of Essex, whose confession is in þe former booke of Actes & Monumētes more at large to be seene.
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CloseThere is a note in the Rerum (p. 510) stating that Richard Hook was burned at Chichester in July 1555. Hook was one of a number of Sussex martyrs about whom Foxe never acquired much information.
LIkewyse MarginaliaRichard Hooke Martyred at Chichester.Richard Hooke about the same season, and for the same matter gaue his life at Chichester.
CloseThere are brief notes in the Rerum (on p. 513) that William Coker, Richard Colliar, William Hopper, William Stere, Henry Laurence and Richard Wright were burned in Canterbury on 13 August 1555. (Foxe would later be less certain, stating simply that they were burned in late August). Foxe compiled the core account of these martyrs in the 1563 edition, and it was drawn from Canterbury diocesan records which are now lost. In the 1570 edition, Foxe added quite a lot of detail taken from informants. The account of these martyrs was unchanged in subsequent editions.
[Back to Top]Marginalia6. Martyrs in Kent.MEntion was made a litle before in the story of M. Bland, & Nic. Sheterdē, pag. 1859. of certaine other Kentish men, who being the same tyme wyth them called forth, & examined by MarginaliaThornton, Harpsfield, Rich. Faucet, Rob. Collins, persecutours.Thornton B. of Douer, N. Harpsfield, Ric. Faucet, & Rob. Collins: yet notwithstāding because þe condemnation and execution of thē was differred a litle longer tyll þe latter end of þe moneth of August, cōming therefore now to þe tyme of their sufferyng, we wyl briefly touch some part of their examinations & aunswers, as we finde thē in þe Registers. The names of these were William Coker, W. Hopper, Hen. Laurēce, R. Colliar, R. Wright, W. Stere. What þe articles obiected to M. Blād & thē were, ye heard before, pag. 1852. To þe which articles they answered for thē selues seuerally in effect as foloweth.
[Back to Top]MarginaliaWilliam Coker condemned.FIrst William Coker sayd, he would aunswere no otherwise then he had already aunswered: and being offred to haue longer respite of. vj. dayes after, he refused to take it, and so vpon the same, sentence of condemnation, was red agaynst him, the. xj. of Iuly.
CloseIn the 1570 edition, Foxe took pains to add the dates on which events took place
MarginaliaWilliam Hopper condemned.WIlliam Hoqper first seemed to graunt to the fayth and determination of the catholycke church: after callyng hymself better to mynd, constantly sticking to þe truth, he was cōdēned þe next weeke after, þe 16. of Iuly.
CloseNote that this date was incorrect in the 1563 edition and corrected in the second edition.
HEnry Laurence examined the sayd day of Iuly xvj. and partly differred to the second of August, aunswered to þe Articles obiected agaynst him: MarginaliaThe words of Henry Laurence.fyrst, denying auricular cōfession, & that he had not nor would receyue the Sacrament, because (sayth he) þe order of þe holy scriptures is chaūged in þe order of þe Sacrament.MarginaliaEx Registro.
[Back to Top]Moreouer, the sayd Laurence was charged for not putting of his cap when the Suffragan made mencion of the SacramentMarginaliaPutting of his cap at the mention of the Sacrament. and did reuerence to the same, the sayd Laurence aunswering in these words: what, said he, ye shall not neede to put of your cap: for it is not so holy that you nede to put of your cap thereunto. Farther, being apposed cōcerning the verity of the Sacrament geuē to CHRISTES disciples, he affirmed that MarginaliaChrist gaue his body, as he said hee was a dore.euen as CHRIST gaue his very body to his Disciples, and confessed it to be the same, so lykewyse CHRIST hymselfe sayd he was a doore. &c. adding moreouer that as he had said before, so he saith styll, that þe Sacrament of the aultar is an Idole and no remembraunce of CHRISTES passion, & contrary he knoweth not. At last being required to put to his hand in subscribing to his aunswers, he wrote these wordes vnder the bill of their examinations: MarginaliaThe subscription of Henry Laurence.Ye all are of Antichrist, and him ye fol. And here his hand was staied to wryte any further: Belike he would haue writtē out (folow) &c. And so vpō þe same, sentence was red against him þe 2. of August.
CloseFoxe added this date in the 1570 edition.