to run to the church to worship dead crosses & images.

Item this deponent being demaunded by the sayde Margery how she beleued touching the sacramēt of the altar, sayed that she beleued the sacrament of the altar after the consecration, to be the verye body of Christ in forme of bread. To whom Margery sayde: MarginaliaThe sacrament is not God.your beliefe is nought. For if euery such sacrament were God, and the very body of Christ, there shoulde be an infinite number of Gods, because that a thousande priestes and more do euery day make a thousand such Gods, and afterward eate them, and voyde them out againe by their hinder partes filthely stinking vnder the hedges, whereas you may finde a great many such Gods, if you wyll seeke for them. And therefore know for a certainty, that by the grace of God it shall neuer be my God, because it is falsly and disceitfully ordayned by the priests in the Church, to induce the simple people to idolatry, for it is onely materiall bread.

MarginaliaTho. Becket a traytour.Moreouer the sayd Margery sayd to this deponent, that Thomas of Canterburye, whom the people called S. Thomas, was a false traytor and damned in hell, because he iniuriously endowed the churches with possessions, and raysed vp many heresies in the church, whych seduce the simple people, and therefore if God be blessed, the sayd Thomas is accursed, and those false priestes that say that he suffered his death pacientlye before the aultar, do lye: MarginaliaTho. Becket slayne not before the altar but in hys flyeng.For as a false cowardlye traytor he was slayne in the church doore as he was flieng away.

Moreouer, this deponent sayth, that the sayde Margery told her that the cursed Pope, Cardinals, Archbyshops, and bishops, and specially the bishop of Norwich and others that support and mayntaine heresies and Idolatry, raigning and ruling ouer the people, shal shortly haue the very same or worse mischiefe fal vpon them, then that cursed man Thomas of Canterbury had. For they falsly and cursedlye deceiue the people wyth theyr false mammetries and lawes, to extorte money of the simple people to sustayne their pryde, riot and idlenes: And know assuredlye, that the vengeaunce of God wyll spedely come vpon them, which haue most cruelly slaine the chyldren of God, MarginaliaFather Abrahā.
William White.
Iohn Wadden.Father Abraham, and William White, a true preacher of the law of God, & Iohn Wadden, with many other godly men: which vengeance had come vpon the sayd Cayphas, the bishop of Norwyche and his ministers, which are members of the deuill, before this time, if the Pope had not sent ouer those false pardons vnto these parties, whych the sayde Cayphas had falsly obtayned to enduce the people to make procession for the state of them and of the church. Which pardons brought the simple people to cursed idolatry.

MarginaliaAgaynst the popes fastyng dayes.Item the sayd Margery sayd to this deponent, that euery faythfull man or woman is not bounde to fast in Lent, or other daies apoynted for fasting by the church, and that euery man may lawfully eate fleshe and all other meates vpon the sayd dayes and times: and that it were better to eate the fragments left vpon Thursdaye at night on the fasting dayes, then to go to the market to bring them selues in dette to bye fishe: and that Pope Siluester made the Lent.

Item the sayd Margery sayd to this deponent, that William Whyte was falsly condemned for an heretik, and that he was a good and holy man, and that he wylled her to folow him to þ^e place of execution, MarginaliaW. White willing to speake at the stake was strokē on the mouth.wheras she saw þ^t when he would haue opened his mouth to speake vnto the people to instruct them, a deuill, one of byshop Caiphas seruauntes strake him on the lippes, & stopped his mouth, that he could in no case declare þ^e wil of god.

Item this deponent sayth, that the sayde Margerye taught her that she shoulde not go on pilgrimage, neyther to our Lady of Falsingame, nor to any other saint or place.

Also this deponent sayth, that the sayd Margery desyred her that she and Ioane her mayde would come secretly in the night to her chamber, and there she shoulde heare her husbande reade the lawe of Christ vnto them, which law is written in a booke that her husbande was wont to reade to her by night, and that her husbande is well learned in the Christian verity.

Also that the same Margerye had talked with a woman named Ioane West, and that the sayd woman is in a good way of saluation.

Also that the sayd Margerye sayde to this deponent: Ioane, it appeareth by your countenaunce, that you intend to disclose this that I haue sayd vnto you: and this deponent sware that she woulde neuer disclose it, wythout the sayd Margery gaue her occasion. Then sayde Margery vnto this deponent, if thou do accuse me vnto the bishop, I wyll do vnto thee, as I did once vnto a certaine frier Carmelite of Yarmouth, which was the best learned frier in all the countrey. Thē this deponent desired to know what she had done to þ^e frier. Vnto whom Margery answered, that she had talked with the sayde frier, rebuking him because he did begge, saying that it was no almes to geue him anye good thyng, except he would leaue his habite and go to the plough, and so he should please God more, then following the life of some of those friers. Then the frier required of the sayd Margery, whether she could teach him or tell him any thing els. Then the said Margery (as she affirmed to thys deponent) declared to this frier the Gospels in Englyshe, and thē the frier departed from her. After this the same frier accused the sayd Margery of heresye, and she vnderstanding that the frier had accused her: accused the frier againe, that he woulde haue knowen her carnally, and because she would not consent vnto hym, the frier had accused her of heresie. And moreouer she sayde that her husband woulde haue killed the frier therefore: and so the frier for feare, helde hys peace, and went hys way wyth shame.

This Margery also sayde that she had often tymes bene faynedlye confessed to the Deane of the fieldes, because he should thinke her to be a woman of good lyfe, and therefore he gaue the sayde Margerye often tymes money. Then this deponent asked her whether she had confessed her sinnes to a priest or not. MarginaliaAgainst auricular confession.And she answered that she had neuer offended any priest, and therefore she would neuer confesse her selfe to any priest, neither obey him, because they haue no power to absolue anye man from their sinnes, for that they offend daylye more greuously then other men, and therefore that men ought to confesse them selues onely vnto God, and to no priest.

MarginaliaAgainst Image worship.Item the sayd Margery sayde to this deponent, that the people did woorship deuils whych fell from heauen with Lucifer, which deuils in their fall to the earth, entred into the Images which stand in the churches, and haue long lurked and dwelled in them, so that the people worshippyng those Images, commit Idolatrie.

Item, she said more to this deponent that holy bread and holy water were but trifles of no effect or force, and that the belles are to be cast out of the churche, and that they are excommunicate whiche first ordained them.

Moreouer that shee should not be burned, althoughe she were conuict of Lollardy, for that she had a chart of saluation in her body.

Also the sayd deponēt sayth, that Agnes Bethem her seruaūt beyng sent to the house of the sayd Margery the Saterday after Ashwēsday, the said Margery not being within, founde a brasse pot standyng ouer the fire with a piece of baken and Otemeale sethyng in it, as the sayd Agnes reported to this deponent.

There were also besides this deponent, diuers other sworne and examined vppon the sayd Margery, as Iohn Grimley and Agnes Berthē seruauntes to VVilliam Clifland, which altogether cōfirmed the former depositiōs.