Marginalia1557. August.Marginalia3. W. Purcas cōdemned.W. Purcas of Bocking sayd, that when he receaued the sacrament, he receaued bread in an holy vse, that preacheth the remembrance that Christ died for him. To this he stoode, & against other their popishe matters: and so also had sentence red against him.

Marginalia4. Agnes Siluerside cōdemned.Agnes Siluerside, aliâs Smith, sayd: that she loued no consecration. For the bread & wine is rather worse, then better therby, she sayd. Thys good olde womā answered thē with such sound iudgement & boldnes, to euery thing they asked her, that it reioyced the hartes of many, and specially to see the pacience in such a reuerent olde age, against the tauntes and checkes of her enemies. To thys she also stoode, and had sentence red against her in like maner.

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Marginalia5. Helene Ewring cōdemned.Helene Ewring aunswered the like in effecte as the other did, clearely denying all the lawes set forth by the Pope, with her whole hart. Thys good woman was somewhat thicke of hearing, but yet quicke in vnderstanding the Lordes matters (his name therefore be praysed). Against her also there was sentence red.

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Marginalia6. Elizabeth Folkes cōdemned.Elizabeth Folkes the younge maiden, being examined whether she beleued the presence of Christes body to be in the sacrament substantially and really, or no: MarginaliaA substantiall lie. A reall lie.aunswered, that she beleued that it was a substantiall lie, and a reall lie. At which wordes the priestes and others chafed very much, and asked her againe whether after the consecration there remained not the body of Christ in the Sacrament. And she aunswered, that before consecration and after, it is but bread, and that man blesseth without Gods worde, is cursed and abominable by the worde. &c. Then they examined her of confession to the priest, of going to Church to heare Masse, of the authoritie of the Bishop of Rome. &c. Vnto all which she aunswered, that she would neither vse nor frequent none of them all, by the grace of God, but vtterly did detest and abhorre them from the bottome of her hart, and all such lyke trumperye.

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Then red they the sentence of condemnation against her. In which time MarginaliaD. Chadsey wept.D. Chadsey wept, that þ^e teares trickled downe his cheekes. So the sentence being red, she kneeled downe on both her knees, lifting vp her handes and eyes vnto heauen, with feruent prayer in an audible voyce, praysing God þ^t euer she was borne to see that most blessed and happy day,MarginaliaElizabeth Folkes prayseth God at her condemnation. that the Lorde would count her worthy to suffer for the testimonie of Christ: and Lorde, sayd she (if it be thy will) forgeue them that thus haue done agaynst me, for they know not what they doe.MarginaliaElizabeth Folkes prayeth for her enemies. Then rising vp, she exhorted all those on the Bench to repentance, especially those who brought her to prison, as Robert Maynard the Bailiffe, and such like: which MarginaliaSleeping Maynard.Maynard commonly when he sat in iudgement vpon life and death, would sit sleeping on the Bench many times: so carefull was his minde on his office. Further she willed halting Gospellers to beware of bloud, for that would cry for vengeance. &c. And in the end she tolde them all, laying her hand on the barre, if they did not repent their wicked doinges therin, that vndoubtedly þ^e very barre shoulde be a witnes against them at the day of iudgement, that they had there that day shed innocent bloud.

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This Elizabeth Folkes the day before she was cōdemned, was examined onely vpon this article, whether she beleued that there was a Catholicke Church of Christ, or no. Vnto which she aunswered, yea. Then was she immediatly (by Boswells meanes the Scribe) deliuered vnto her Vncle Hoult of the same towne of Chichester, to keepe: who caried her home vnto hys house, and she being there, might haue departed thēce many tymes, if she had woulde:MarginaliaElizabeth Folkes might haue eschaped, and would not. for there was meanes offred to conuey her away. But she hearing that some doubted that she had yelded to the Pope (although it was most vntrue) would in no wise content her selfe, but wept, and was in such anguishe of minde, and terrour of conscience, that (no remedie) she would to the Papistes againe, for any perswasion that could bee,

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and comming before them at Cosins house at þ^e white Hart in Colchester,  

she was at vtter defiance with them and their doctrine: and so had, as ye haue heard, in the end, a Papisticall reward, as the rest of her brethren had.

Marginalia1. W. Munt condemned.WIlliam Munt of Muchbentley in Essex, of the age of lxj. yeares, sayd: that the Sacramēt of the altar was an abominable Idoll, and that if he should obserue any part of their popishe procedinges, he should displease God, and bring hys curse vpon hym, & therefore for feare of his vengeance he durst not do it. This good father was examined of many thinges, but God be thanked, he stoode to the truth, and in the end therefore had sentence of condemnation red against him.

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Marginalia2. Ioh. Iohnson condemned.Iohn Iohnson of Thorpe in Essex, widower, of the age of xxxiiij. yeares, was examined as þ^e rest, and made aunswere in such sort, as the Papistes counted hym none of theirs, and therfore cōdemned hym with their bloudy sentence, as they had done the rest before. This Iohn Iohnson affirmed that in the receauing of the sacrament, according to Christes institution, he receaueth the body of Christ spiritually. &c.

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Marginalia3. Alice Munt condemned.Alice Munt, the wife of the sayd William Munt, of the age of xlj. yeares, being also examined as the rest, sayd and confirmed the same in effecte as her husband did, and was therfore also condemned by their bloudy sentence in like maner.

Marginalia4. Rose Allin.Rose Allin maide, the daughter of the sayd Alice Munt, of the age of xx. yeares, being examined of auricular confession, of going to Church to heare Masse, of the Popishe seuen Sacramentes. &c. MarginaliaRose Allins aunsweres.aunswered stoutly, that they stanke in the face of God, and she durst not haue to doe with them for her life, neither was she (she sayd) any member of theirs: for they were the members of Antichrist, and so should haue (if they repented not) the reward of Antichrist. Being asked further what she could say of the Sea of the Byshop of Rome, whether she would obey hys authoritie, or no: she aunswered boldly that she was none of his. As for hys Sea (quoth she) it is for Crowes, Kites, Owles, & Rauens to swimme in, such as you be: for by the grace of God I shall not swimme in that Sea, while I liue, neither will I haue anythyng to do therwith. MarginaliaRose Allin condemned.Then red they the sentence of condemnation agaynst her, and so sent her vnto prison againe vnto the rest, where she song with great ioye, to the wonder of many.

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Thus these poore condemned lambes, being deliuered into the handes of the secular power, were cōmitted againe euery one vnto the prison from whence they came, where they remayned with much ioy and great comfort (in continuall reading & inuocating the name of God) euer looking & expecting the happy day of their dissolution. In which tyme the cruell Papistes left not their mischieuous attemptes agaynst them (although they would seeme now to haue no more to do with thē) for bloudy Boner, whose throte neuer cried ho, shortly after got a writte for the burning of the foresaid x. good creatures, and to shew the more diligence in the cause, he sent hys owne trustie man downe with it, named Edward Cosin, and with him also hys letter for the furtheraunce of the matter, the xxx. day of Iuly, the next moneth after the condemnation. The writte  

being thus receaued of the sayd Bailiffes, and they hauing then no leysure thereaboutes, appoynted the day of the execution thereof, to bee the ij. day of August next following. And because the faithfull soules were in two seuerall prisons, as the Castell was for the countrey, and Mote Hall for the towne, therefore it was agreed among them, that they in Mote Hall should be burnt in the forenoone, and those at the Castell, by the Shrieffe of the Shiere, in the afternoone, as here thou mayest see

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