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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Quene Mary. Notes declaring how the B. of Winchester disagreeth from other Papistes.
MarginaliaAn. 1555. October.¶ Matters wherein the bishop of Winchester varieth from hym selfe.

MarginaliaProposition.THe body of Christ in the Sacrament is not made of bread, but is made present of bread, pag. 89. lin. 9. &c. and pag. 228. lin. 44.  

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Confutation agaynst Cranmer.

MarginaliaContradictiō.Of bread is made the body of Christ, pag. 388. lin. 12.  

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The catholicke fayth hath from the beginning confessed truly Christes intent to make bread hys body, pag. 29. lin. 2.  

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Confutation.

And of many breades is made one body of Christ. pag 165. lin. 2.  

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Confutation.

And fayth sheweth mee, that breade is the body of Christ, that is to say, made the body of Christ, pag. 333. lin. 23. 25.  

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Confutation.

Christ gaue that he made of bread, pag. 292. lin. 34.  

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Marginalia2. Proposition.Christ spake plainly: This is my body, makyng demonstration of the bread, when he sayd: This is my body.  

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In the deuils Sophistry. 27.

MarginaliaContradiction.The demonstration [This] may be referred to the inuisible substaunce, pag. 120. lin. 41.  

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Confutation.

The verbe [Is] was of hys body and of his bloud, and not of the bread and wyne, pag. 284. lin. 43.  

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Illis verbis [Hoc est corpus meum] substantia corporis significàtur, nec de pane quicquam intelligitur, quando corpus de substantia sua, non aliena prædicetur.  

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Marcus Antonius? fo. 24. fac. 2.
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Illis verbis (Hoc est corpus meum) substantia corporis significatur, nec de pane quicquam intelligitur, quando corpus de substantia sua, non aliena predicetur.

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Not translated.

Translation (Wade 2003)

By these words (this is my body) is meant the substance of the body, nor is anything understood concerning bread when the body is announced as being of its own substance, not of another's (??)

[Unable to find in Migne.]

Marc. Antonius fol. 24. fac. 2.  
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This quotation is taken from Marcus Antonius [Stephen Gardiner], Confutation Cavillationem (Paris: 1552).

Marginalia3. Proposition.When CHRIST sayd: This is my body, the truth of the literal sense hath an absurdity in carnall reason. pag. 157. lin. 34.  

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Confutation.

MarginaliaContradiction.What can bee more euidently spoken of the presence of CHRISTES naturall body and bloud in the most blessed Sacrament of the aultar, then is in these wordes: This is my body.  

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In the diuils sophistry. fol. 5.

Marginalia4. Proposition.Where the body of CHRIST is, there is whole CHRIST God and man: and when we speake of CHRISTES body, we must vnderstand a true body which hath both forme & quantity. pag. 81. lin. 5. Mar. An. obiect. 77. Smith fol. 105.  

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These quotations are taken from Richard Smith, A confutation of a certain booke (Paris: 1550?), STC 22819 and Marcus Antonius [Stephen Gardiner], Confutatio Cavillationem (Paris: 1552).

And he is present in the sacrament as he is in heauen. pag. 161. lin. 4. &c.  

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Confutation.

We beleue simply the substaunce of CHRISTES body to be in the Sacrament without drawing away of the accidences or adding. pag. 397. lin. 43.  

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Confutation.

MarginaliaContradiction.CHRIST is not present in the Sacrament after the maner of quantity, but vnder the forme and quantity of bread and wyne. pag. 81. lin. 89. and pag. 101. lin. 22.  

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Marginalia5. Proposition.In such as receiue the Sacrament worthely, CHRIST dwelleth corporally, and naturally, & carnally. pag. 190. lin. 7. pag. 197. lin. 27. pag. 217. lin. 10.  

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MarginaliaContradictiō.The maner of CHRISTES being in the Sacrament is not corporall, not carnall, not naturall, not sensible, not perceptible: but onely spirituall pag. 181. lin. 18. &c. & lin. 25. & pag. 223. lin. 21.  

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Confutation.

Marginalia6. Proposition.We receiue CHRIST in the Sacrament of his flesh and bloud, if we receaue him worthely, pag. 190. lin. 7. pag. 197. lin. 27.  

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Confutation.

When an vnrepentant sinner receaueth the Sacrament, he hath not CHRISTES body within him pag. 256. lin. 18.  

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Confutation.

He that eateth verely the flesh of CHRIST, is by nature in CHRIST, and CHRIST is naturally in hym. pag. 18. lin. 51.  

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Confutation.

MarginaliaContradictiō.An euill man in the Sacrament receaueth in deede CHRISTES very body. pag. 18. lin. 24. 25.  

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Euill men eat verely the flesh of CHRIST. pag. 256. lin. 24. 25. &c.  

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Confutation.

Marginalia7. Proposition.CHRIST geueth vs to be eaten the same fleshe that he toke of the Virgin Mary. pag. 274. lin. 25.  

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MarginaliaContradictiō.We receiue not in the Sacrament CHRISTES flesh that was crucified. pag. 276. lin. 1.  

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Confutation.

Marginalia8. Proposition.Saint Augustines rule in hys booke De doctrina Christiana, pertayneth not to CHRISTES supper. pag. 132. lin. 40.  

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MarginaliaContradiction.Saint Augustine meaneth of the Sacrament. Ibidem. and pag. 10. lin. 44.  

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Confutation.

Marginalia9. Proposition.Reason in place of seruice (as being inferiour to faith) will agree with the fayth of transubstantiation well ynough. pag. 300. lin. 12.  

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Confutation.

And as reason receiued into faithes seruice doth not striue with transubstantiation, but agreeth well with it: so mans senses be no such direct aduersaries to transubstantiation, as a matter wherof they can not skyll: for the senses can not skill of substances. pag. 307. lin. 11. &c.  

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MarginaliaContradiction.Thyne eyes say there is but bread and wyne, thy tast sayth the same, thy feeling and smelling agree fully with them. Hereunto is added the carnall mans vnderstanding, which because it taketh the beginning of the

senses, proceedeth in reasoning sensually. In the deuils Sophistry. fol. 6.  

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The Church hath not forborne to preach the truth, to the confusion of mans senses and vnderstanding. fol. 15.  

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Marginalia10. PropositionIt is called bread, because of the outward visible matter, pag. 327. lin. [illegible text]  

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MarginaliaContradiction.When it is called bread, it is ment CHRIST the spirituall bread, pag 320. lin 41.  

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Marginalia11. Proposition.And the catholicke faith teacheth that the fraction is in the outward signe, and not in the body of CHRIST, pag. 165. lin. 9. and pag. 392. lin. 42.  

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and in the Deuills Sophistry. fol. 17.

MarginaliaContradiction.That which is broken is the body of CHRIST, pag. 392. lin. 49.  

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Marginalia12. Proposition.The inward nature of the bread is the substance, pag. 323. lin. 14.  

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MarginaliaContradiction.Substance signifieth in Theodoret (he sayth) the outward nature, pag. 404. lin. 40.  

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Marginalia13. Proposition.The substances of bread & wyne be visible creatures, pag. 322. lin. 30. and. 323. lin. 32.  

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MarginaliaContradiction.Accidences be the visible natures and visible elemēts. pag. 406. lin. 16. and 25. &c.  

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Marginalia14. Proposition.CHRIST is our satisfaction wholy and fully, & hath payed our whole debt to God the father for the appeasing of his wrath against vs, pag. 92. lin. 6. 7.  

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MarginaliaContradiction.The act of the Priest done according to Gods cōmaūdement must nedes be propitiatory, and ought to be trusted on, to haue a propitiatory effect, pag. 437. lin. 13.  

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Marginalia15. Proposition.The sacrifice of our Sauiour CHRIST was neuer reiterate, pag. 416. lin. 8.  

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MarginaliaContradiction.Priests do sacrifice CHRIST, pag. 431. lin. 16. &c.  

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And the catholicke doctrine teacheth the dayly sacrifice to be the same in essence that was offred on þe crosse. pag. 439. lin. 11.  

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Marginalia16. Proposition.The Nestorians graunted both the Godhead & māhead alwaies to be in Christ cōtinually, pag. 348. lin. 11. 12.  

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MarginaliaContradiction.The Nestorians denied CHRIST conceiued God, or born God, but that he was afterward God, as a man that is not borne a bishop, is after made Bishop. So the Nestorians sayd that the Godhead was an accessiō after by merite, and that he was conceiued onely man. pag. 347. lin. 47. 50. 51. and pag. 148. lin. 47.  

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Marginalia17. Proposition.CHRIST vseth vs familiarly as he did his Apostles, pag. 93. lin. 21.  

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MarginaliaContradiction.CHRIST is not to be sayd conuersant in earth, pag. 114. lin. 11. &c.  

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¶ Certaine thynges that Winchester graunted vnto.

MarginaliaNotes declaring wherein Winchest. graunted to the spirituall vse of the Sacrament.CHRIST declared eating of him selfe to signify beleuing, pag. 29. lin. antepenultima.  

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Confutation.

CHRIST must be spiritually in a man, before he receaue the sacramēt, or els he cā not receaue the sacramēt worthely, pag. 54. lin. 44. pag. 160. lin. vltima, pag. 196. lin. 3. pag. 205. lin. 32.  

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How CHRIST is present, pag. 69. lin. 29. &c. pag. 81. lin. 12. pag. 181. lin. 26. pag. 65. lin. 15.  

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By faith we know onely the being present of CHRISTES most precious body, not the maner thereof, pag. 70. lin. 15.  

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When we speake of CHRISTES body, we must vnderstand a true body, which hath both fourme and quantitie, pag. 81. lin. 5. lin. 35.  

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Although CHRISTES body haue all those truthes of fourme and quantitie: yet it is not present after the maner of quantitie, ibidem, lin. 8. 9.  

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The demonstratiue [this] may bee referred to the inuisible substance, pag. 120. lin. 42.  

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Al the old praiers and ceremonies soūd, as though the people did communicate with the Priest, pag. 165. lin. 46.  

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The maner of CHRISTES being in the Sacrament is not corporall, not carnall, not naturall, not sensible, not perceptible, but onely spirituall, pag. 181. lin. 19. &c. lin. 25. pag. 223. lin. 21.  

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When an vnrepentant synner receiueth the sacramēt, he hath not Christes body within him, pag. 256. lin. 18.  

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We eate not CHRIST as he sitteth in heauen raigning pag. 276. lin. 18.  

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The word [Transubstantiation] was first spoken of in a generall Coūcell, where the bishop of Rome was present, pag. 284. lin. 11.  

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MarginaliaTransubstantiation first spoken of.

In the sacrifice of the church CHRISTES death is not iterated, but a memory dayly renued of that death: So as CHRISTES offering on the Crosse once done & cōsummate, is now onely remembred, pag. 440. lin. 40. &c.  

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