Marginalia1555. August.the history of Elizabeth Warne, who in thys month of August was burned at Stratford Bow, nye vnto Lōdon, wydow, late the wyfe of Iohn Warne Vpholster, and Martyr, who also was burned in the ende of the moneth of May last past, as before in hys story is recorded, pag. 1751. MarginaliaRead before, pag. 1751.This Elizabeth had bene apprehended amongest others, the fyrst day of Ianuary, in a house in Bow churchyard in London,MarginaliaOf these taken in Bow church yard, read before pag. 1654. as they were gathered together in prayer, and at that present was caryed to the Counter (as is also aboue specified) where shee lay as prisoner vntyll the. xi. day of Iune. At which tyme she was brought vnto Newgate, and remayned there in lyke case vnto the second day of Iuly. Then she was sent by the King and Queenes Commissioners vnto Boner bishop of London: who the first day of the same moneth, caused her wyth diuers others (as Robert Smith, George Tankerfield. &c.) to be brought before him into his pallace, and there examined her vpon sundry articles, such as of common order he ministred vnto the poore Saintes and Martyrs of God, as ye may more playnly perceaue by other more large and ample processes, as well before, as hereafter mencioned.

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MarginaliaElizabeth Warne brought to examination.The chiefest obiection that he vsed, either towardes her, or the most of those, was touchyng the reall and corporall presence of the body and bloud of CHRIST in the Sacrament of the aultar, as the chiefest ground and profitablest foundation for their Catholicke dignitie. Many other matters he obiected agaynst them, as, for not commyng to the Church, for speakyng agaynst the Masse, for despising their ceremonies and new found Sacramentes, with diuers other fonde and triflyng toyes, not worthy any mencionyng. In the ende, when she had bene diuers tymes brought before hym and other his adherentes, and there earnestly exhorted to recant, she sayd: MarginaliaThe wordes of Elizabeth Warne at her examination.Do what ye wil. For if CHRIST was in an errour then am I in an errour. Vpō which aūswere, she was the xij. day of the same moneth of Iuly adiudged and condemned as an hereticke, and so deliuered vnto the secular power (as they terme it) to be by them (yet at the Clergyes appointmēt) put to death, which thyng was accōplished in her the same moneth aboue mentioned.

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MarginaliaA story of D. Story. Written vpon the report of Doctour Martins owne wordes.The chief procurer of this her death was Doct. Story, beyng (as it is thought) of some alliaunce, either to her the said Elizabeth, or els to her late husbād.  

Who, though he was at the first apprehēsion of his sayd kynsman a very earnest suter for her deliueraūce, to Doct. Martin, then one of the Kyng and Queenes Commissioners in matters of Religion (him selfe beyng as yet not made Commissioner) and had by his sute obtayned his deliueraunce for that present, as Doct. Martin him selfe (the author hereof)   hath reported: yet afterwards (vpon what occasion God onely knoweth, except vpon some burning charitie) the said Doct. Story, MarginaliaD. Story persecuteth his Kinsfolkes.obtainyng now the roume of one of þ^e Commissioners, caused not onely the sayd Ioh. Warne, but also his wife, and afterwardes his daughter, to be againe apprehended, neuer leauyng them vntill he had brought them all to ashes. Such was the rage of that deuout Catholicke, & white childe of the mother Church   that neither kynred, nor any other consideration could preuayle with hym, although it did (at his request) with others: who in respect of hym, were but straūgers vnto thē. The Lord, if it be his will turne his hart, or els rid his poore Church from such an Hidra.

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MarginaliaThe story of George Tākerfield Martyr.GEorge Tankerfield of London Cooke, borne in the Citie of Yorke, about the age of 27. or 28. yeares, was in kyng Edwardes dayes a very Papist, till the tyme Queene Mary came in, and then percea-

uyng the great cruelty vsed of the Popes side, was brought into a misdoubt of their doynges, and began (as he sayd) in his hart to abhorre them. And as concernyng the Masse, wherof he had but a doubtfull opinion before, and much striuyng with him self in that case, at length he fell to prayer, MarginaliaTankerfield prayeth to God to know whether the Masse be good or no.desiring God in mercy to open to him the truth, that he might be thorowly persuaded therin, whether it were of God or no: If not, that he might vtterly hate it in his hart, & abhorre it: which according to his prayer, þ^e lord mercifully heard, working dayly more and more in him to detest and abhorre the same: MarginaliaTankerfield how he was first called to the knowledge of the Gospell.and so was moued to read þ^e Testamēt, wherby, (as he said) þ^e Lord lightened his mind with the knowledge of the truth, workyng liuely fayth in him to beleue the same, and vtterly to detest all Papistry, & so he came no more to their doyngs: And not onely that, but also this liuely fayth, sayd he, kyndled such a flame in hym, as would not be kept in, but vtter it selfe by confession therof, reprouyng his owne former doynges to his frendes, exhortyng them likewise to conuert and turne to the truth with him, and thus he began to bee smelled out among them, till at the last he was sent for, as foloweth.

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It pleased God to strike hym with sicknes, whereby he lay long sicke: MarginaliaThe order and maner how Tankerfield was first apprehended by Beard.and on a certaine day to take the ayre abroad, he rose vp and went and walked into the Temple fieldes, to see the shoters.  

In the meane season came Beard home to his house, & inquired for him, pretēding to his wife that he came onely for to haue him to come and dresse a banket at the Lord Pagets. The wife because of his apparell (which was very braue) tooke him to be some honest Gentlemā, and with all spede prepared her selfe to fetch her husband, hauyng a good hope he should now erne some money: and lest this Gentleman should not be noyed with tarying, MarginaliaA false Iudas part of Beard.she fet him a coushen to set him soft, and layd a fayre napkin before hym, and set bread thereon, and came to her husband: who when he heard it, sayd: a banket woman? In deede it is such a banket as will not be very pleasaunt to the flesh: but Gods will be done. And when he came home he saw who it was, and called him by his name, which when his wife perceiued, and wherfore he came, lyke a tall woman, would play Peters part, and in stede of a sword tooke a spit, and had runne hym thorow, had not the Constable which Bearde had sent for by his man, come in withall, who rescued hym: yet she sent a brickebatte after him & hit him on þ^e backe. And so Tākerfield was deliuered to the Constable, & brought to Newgate about the last day of February. an. 1555. by the sayd MarginaliaBeard & Simon Ponder troublers of Gods Saints.Beard Yeoman of the Gard,   & Symon Ponder Peuterer, Constable of S. Dunstons in the West, sent in by MarginaliaSir Roger Chomley, D. Martin.Syr Roger Chomley Knight and by Doct. Martin.

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Tankerfield thus beyng brought to prison by his aduersaries, at length with the other aboue named was brought to his examination before Boner. Who after his accustomed maner, ordered his MarginaliaArticles ordinary.Articles and positiōs vnto him: the copy and tenor of which his ordinary Articles ye may read aboue expressed, pag. 1865.

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To these Articles as aboue rehearsed, he aunswered agayne, constantly declaryng his mind both touchyng auricular confession, and also the Sacrament of the Popish altar, and likewise of þ^e Masse. &c: MarginaliaAuricular confession.First that hee was not confessed to any Priest v yeares past, nor to any other but onely to God, and further denying that he would hereafter be confessed to any Priest, for that hee found it not in CHRISTES booke, and tooke it onely to be a counsell.

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And concernyng the Sacrament, commonly called here in England of the aultar, MarginaliaSacrament of the altar.he confessed that he neither had, nor dyd beleue, that in the sayd Sacrament, there is the reall body and bloud of CHRIST, because that the body is ascended into heauen, and there doth sit at the right hand of God the father.

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And moreouer he sayd, that MarginaliaThe Masse abominable.þ^e Masse now vsed in the Church of England was naught, and full of Idolatry