MarginaliaAn. 1556. Ianuary.and gone away, not in whole, but in part, not from the whole Catholicke church, but from the Church of Rome in speaking against the Masse, the sacrifice therof, and the sea of Rome.

Ione Lashford (alias Ione Warne) graunting with the other the sayd article, addeth moreouer, MarginaliaTo swarue from the corruptions of the sea of Rome, and sacrifice of the masse is not to go from the Catholicke church of Christ.that shee neuer hetherto swarued or went away, nor yet doth, from any part of CHRISTES catholicke fayth and religion: but saith that from the tyme she was. xj. yeares of age, she hath mislyked the sacrifice of the Masse, the Sacrament of the altar, and the authority of the sea of Rome with the doctrine thereof, because they be agaynst CHRISTES catholicke church and the right fayth of the same.

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Bartlet Grene aunswering wyth the other to thys article addeth and sayth, that hee swarueth not from the Catholicke fayth but onely from the Church of Rome. &c.

¶ Concerning the sixt Article, that they refuse to bee reconciled to the vnity of the sayd church of Rome.

MarginaliaTo the 6. article.To the sixt Article they aunswere and confesse the same to be true, rendring the cause therof, because (say they) the same church and doctrine therin set forth and taught, disagreeth from the vnity of CHRISTES word, and the true catholicke fayth. &c.

Whereunto Bartlet Grene added that he is contented to be reconciled to the vnity of CHRISTES catholicke church,MarginaliaThe Catholicke church, and the church of Rome are 2. thinges. but not of the church of Rome.

In the lyke maner added also Iohn Went.

¶ Concerning the. vij. article, that they refuse to come to heare masse, and to receaue the said Sacrament calling it an Idoll. &c.

MarginaliaTo the 7. article.To the. vij. article they aunswere and confesse the contentes thereof to be true, geuing withall the reason and cause of this their so doing, for that the Masse with the sacrament thereof, as was then vsed and set forth in the church of England, MarginaliaThe Masse dissonant from the word of the Gospell.is dissonant to the word and teaching of the Gospell.

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Iohn Went furthermore sayd, as concerning the Masse, that he beleueth no lesse: but the Masse which he calleth the Supper of þ^e Lord, as it is now vsed in þ^e Realme of England, is nought, full of Idolatry,MarginaliaThe Masse full of idolatrie. and agaynst Gods word, so farre as he seeth it: howbeit, he sayd that since the Queenes coronation, by chaunce he hath bene present, where the Masse hath bene sayd, MarginaliaIohn Went repenteth his going to masse.wherof he is sory.

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Isabell Foster also aunswering to the sayd articles with the other before, confessed moreouer that since Queene Maries reigne she hath not heard Masse, nor receaued the Sacrament, but hath refused to come in place where it was ministred: for she knoweth no such sacrament to be. And being demaunded of her beleife in the same, she saith, that there is but only materiall bread and materiall wyne, and not the substaunce reall of the body of CHRIST in þ^e same sacrament: For so shee hath bene taught to beleue by the preachers in the tyme of king Edward, whom she beleueth to haue preached the truth in that behalfe.

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¶ Concerning the. viij. article, that they were sent by the Cōmissioners to the Bishop to be examined and imprisoned.

MarginaliaTo the 8. article.To the. viij. article they graunt the same and the contentes thereof to be so.

Thomas Whittle adding & affirming that þ^e Lorde Chauncellour that then was, sent hym vp to the byshop there present.

Bartlet Grene added, that hee was sent vp to the sayd Byshop, but for no offence herein articulate.

Iohn Went said that Doct. Story Queene Maries Commissioner examined hym vpon the Sacrament, and because he denyed the reall presence he presented this Examinate to the Bishop.

Iohn Tudsonlykewyse examined by M. Cholmly and Doct. Story vpon the same matters and for not cōming to the church, and accused by the same, because he would not agree to them, was sent to the byshop.

Thomas Browne also sayd, that he, for not cōming to the Church of S. Brides, was brought by the Constable to the bishop. &c.

Ioane WarneMarginaliaOf thys Ioane Warne, read before, pag. 1878. cōfessed that she was sent by D. Story to the bishop of London, about. xij. weekes ago, since which tyme she hath continued wyth the sayd bishop.

¶ Concerning the. ix. article.

MarginaliaTo the 9. article.To the. ix. article they confesse and say, that as they beleue the premisses before by them confessed to bee true: so they deny not the same to be manifest, and that they be of the iurisdiction of London.

And thus hauyng expressed their articles, with their aunswers ioyntly made vnto the same, yet remayneth further more fully now to discourse the stories & handlyng of all the. vij. foresaid Martyrs seuerally & particularly by thē selues, first beginning with Tho. Whittell.

IN the story of M. Philpot mention was made before, pag. 1963. of a maried Priest,MarginaliaThomas Whittell, Martyr. whom he found in the Colehouse at hys first cōming thither, in heauines of mind & great sorrow for recanting the doctrine which he had taught in K. Edwardes dayes, whose name was Thomas Whittel of Essex: and thus lyeth hys story. Thys Thomas Whittell after he had bene expulsed from the place in Essex where he serued,  

went abroad where he myght, now here & there as occasion was ministred, preaching and sowing the Gospell of CHRIST. At length being apprehended by one Edmond Alabaster,MarginaliaEdmond Alabaster, after a promoter & persecuter. in hope of reward and promotion, which he miserably gaped after, he was brought first as prisoner before the Bishop of Winchester, who then was fallen lately sicke of hys disease, whereof not long after he dyed most straūgely. But the apprehender for his profered seruice was highly checked and rated of the bishop, askyng if there were no man vnto whom he myght bring such Rascals, but to hym? Hence (quoth he) out of my sight thou varlet: what doest thou trouble me with such matters?   The greedy Cormorant being thus defeated of hys desired pray, yet thinking to seeke and to hunt further, caryed his prisoner to þ^e bishop of London, wyth whō what an euill messe of hādling this Whittell had, & how he was by þ^e bishop all to beaten and buffeted about the face, by thys hys own narration in a letter sent vnto his frend, manifestly may appeare.

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MarginaliaThomas Whittell reporteth of the maner of hys handling with B. Boner.Vpon Thursday, which was the. x. of Ianuary, the bishop of London sent for me Thomas Whittell Minister out of the Porters lodge, where I had bene all nyght, lying vpon the earth vpon a pallet, where I had as paynfull a nyght of sicknes as euer I had, God bee thanked. And when I came before him, he talked with me many thinges of the sacrament so grossely, as is not worthy to be rehearsed. And amongest other thinges he asked me if I would haue come to Masse that morning, if he had sent for me. Whereunto I aunswered, that I woulde haue come to hym as hys commaundement, but to your Masse (sayd I) I haue small affection. At which aunswer he was displeased sore, and sayd I should be fed wyth bread and water. MarginaliaThomas Whittell beaten on the face by Boner.And as I followed hym through the great hall, he turned backe & beat me wyth his fist, first on the one cheeke, and then on the other, as the signe of my beating dyd many dayes ap-

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