Item, that no priest hath power to assoyle a man in the market of penaunce,  

from his sinnes.

MarginaliaRoger Browne.ROger Browne of the same Citie, was also accused to be an heretike because he did hold that MarginaliaAgaynst pilgrymage.no mā ought to worshyp the Image of our Lady of Walsingham, nor the bloud of Christ at Hailes, but rather God almighty, who would geue him what so euer he would aske.  

Item, that he held not vp his handes, nor looked vp, at the eleuation of the Eucharist.

Item, that he promised one to shew him certein bookes of heresie, if he would sweare that hee would not vtter them, and if he would credite them.

MarginaliaFlesh eatyng in Lent.Item, that hee did eate fleshe in Lent, and was taken with the maner.

MarginaliaAgaynst purgatory and confession auricular.Itē, if any man were not shriuen his whole lyfe long, and in the poynt of death would bee confessed and could not, if he had no more but contriciō onely, he should passe to ioye w^tout Purgatory: And if he were cōfessed of any sinne, & were enioyned onely to say for penaūce one Pater noster, if he thought he should haue any punishment in Purgatory for that sinne, he would neuer be confessed for any sinne.

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MarginaliaAgaynst confession and satisfaction.Item, because he said all was lost þ^t is geuē to priestes.

Item, that there was no Purgatory, & that God would pardon all sinnes without confession and satitisfaction.

MarginaliaThomas Butler.THomas Butler of the same Citie, was likewise openly accused to be a very heretike, because he did holde that there were but two wayes, that is to say, to heauen, and to hell.

Item, that no faythfull man should  

abyde any payne after the death of Christ, for any sinne, because Christ dyed for our sinnes.

MarginaliaAgaynst purgatory.Item, that there was no Purgatory, for euery mā immediatly after death passeth either to heauen, or hell.

MarginaliaAgaynste merites.Item, that who soeuer departeth in the faith of Christ & the Churche, how soeuer he hath lyued, shalbe saued.

Item, that prayers and pilgrimages are nothyng worth, and auayle not to purchase heauen.

MarginaliaIohn Falkes.IOhn Falkes was accused to bee a very hereticke, because he did affirme that MarginaliaAgaynste Images.it was a foolishe thyng to offer to the Image of our Lady, saying, her head shalbe hoare or I offer to her: what is it but a blocke? If it could speake to me, I would geue it an halpenyworth of ale.

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Item, that when the priest carieth to the sicke the body of Christ, why carieth he not also the bloud of Christ?

Item, that he did eate cowe milke vpon the first Sonday of Lent.

Item, that as concernyng the Sacrament of penance and absolution, no priest hath power to assoyle any man from hys sinnes, when as he can not make one heare of hys head.

Item, that the Image of our Lady was but a stone or a blocke.MarginaliaIt is heresie to say a stone is a stone, and a blocke is a blocke.

MarginaliaRichard Hilmin.RIchard Hilmin was accused that he was a very hereticke, because he did say and mainteine that it was better to depart with money to the poore, then to geue tythes to priestes, or to offer to the Images of our Lady, and that it were better to offer to Images made by God, then to the Images of God paynted.

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MarginaliaScripture in English.Item, that he had the Lordes Prayer and the Salutation of the Angell and the Crede in Englishe, and an other booke did he see and had, whiche conteined the Epistles and Gospels in Englishe, and accordyng to them would he liue, and therby beleued he to be saued.

Item, that no priest speaketh better in the pulpit then that booke.

Item, that the Sacrament of the altare is but bread, and that the priestes make it to blynd the people.

Item, that a priest whiles hee is at Masse, is a priest, and after one Masse done, till the begynnyng of an otherMasse, he is no more then a lay man, and hath no more power then a mere lay man.

¶ After they were enforced to recant, they were assoyled and put to penaunce.

MarginaliaMargery Goyt.IN the yeare of our Lord. 1488. þ^e iij. of Aprill, Magery Goyt, wife of Iames Goyt of Asburne, was brought before the foresayd Iohn Bishop of Couentry and Lychfield: MarginaliaAgainst the Sacrament of the Altar.who was there accused  

that she sayd, that which the priestes lift ouer their heades at Masse, was not the true and very body of Christe: For if it were so, the priestes could not breake it so lightly into iiij. partes, and swalow it as they do: for the Lordes body hath fleshe and bones, so hath not that whiche the priestes receyue.

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Item, that priestes bying xl. cakes for a halfpeny, and shewyng them to the people and saying, that of euery of them they make the body of Christe, do nothyng but deceyue the people and enriche them selues.

Itē, seyng God in the beginnyng did create and make man, how cā it be that man should be able to make God?  

¶ This woman also, was constrained to recant, and so was she assoyled and did penaunce.

Thus much I thought here good to inserte, touchyng these foresayd men of Couentry, especially for this purpose, because our cauilling aduersaries be wont to obiect agaynst vs the newnes of Christes old and auncient Religiō.  

To þ^e entent therfore they may see this doctrine not to be so new as they reporte, I wyshe they would cōsider both the tyme and Articles here obiected agaynste these foresayd persons, as is aboue premised.

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MarginaliaPicus Mirandula Earle.I should also in þ^e same reigne of king Henry vij. haue induced þ^e history of Ioannes Picus Earle of Mirandula, the mention of whose name partely is touched before, pag. 865.  

This Picus Earle of Mirandula beyng but a young man, was so excellently wytted, and so singularly learned in all sciences, and in all tongues, both Latine, Greke, Hebrew, Chaldey, and Araby, that commyng to Rome booted & spurred, he set vp 90. conclusions, to dispute in the same with any in all Christendome, who soeuer would come agaynst hym. Of whiche conclusions diuers were touchyng the matter of the Sacramēt. &c. And when none was founde in all Rome, nor in Europe, þ^t openly would dispute with hym, priuely & in corners certein of the Popes clergy, prelates, lawyers, and Friers, by þ^e pope appointed, consulted together to inquire vpon his conclusiōs, wherupō they did articulate agaynst hym for suspicion of heresie. And thus the vnlearned clergy of Rome priuely circumuented and intangled this learned Earle in their snares of heresie, agaynst whō they neuer durst openly dispute. He dyed beyng of the age of 32. of such a witte & towardnes, as is hard to say whether euer Italie bredde vp a better. In his sickenes Charles viij. þ^e Frenche kyng, moued with the fame of his learnyng, came to visite him. The furniture of his bookes cost him. 7000. florenes. A litle before his death his mynde was to geue all away, & to take a coule, to go about & preache, but the Lord would not permit him. His story requireth a longer tractation: whiche if place do serue, we will not peraduenture forget. With ij. Popes, that is, with Pope Innocent, and Alexander vi. he had much vexation.  

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62	Iohn Stratford.	viij.
63	Iohn Kempe.	iij.
64	Thomas Burchier.	xxxiij.
65	Iohn Morton.	xiiij.
66	Thomas Langhton.MarginaliaThis Thomas Langhton, was the elected Archb. but died before he was confirmed.
67	Henry Dene.	ij.
	Guliel. Warham.	xxviij.

Here endeth the sixte booke, and the first Tome.