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1. Henry VIII's reign2. Dissension among mendicant orders3. Persecution of Lollards4. Richard Hun5. Lollard martyrs6. Persecution in diocese of Lincoln7. Colet, Chaucer and Gower8. Prophecies preceeding Luther9. Martin Luther10. Adrian VI11. Final years of Luther12. Swiss Reformation13. German martyrs14. French martyrs15. Spanish martyrs16. Italian martyrs17. Merindol and Cabriers18. Angrogne
K. Henry. 8. Persecution in the dioces of Lincolne.
MarginaliaAnno. 1521.
Ex Regist. Io. Longland. Lincol.
| Accusers. | Parties accused. | Crimes obiected. |
The wife of Rob. Bartlet. | vse to resort vnto one Ioh. Co- lingworthes house, and there kepe their conuenticle. | |
The wife of Dauid Lewes & her father. | This woman was charged for speaking these woordes: That the Churche men in the olde time did leade the people as the henne doth leade her chic- kines: but our Priestes now do lead the people to the deuil. |
Thomas Rouland put like- wyse to hys othe, did detect | Agnes Franke wife of William Franke. | Because shee turned away her face from the Crosse, as it was caryed about on Easter daye in the mornyng at the resurre- ction. Fol. 10. |
Iohn Gardiner. Iohn Same. Iohn George. | ||
Iames Morden. 
CloseA James Morden was handed over to the secular arm for burning in 1522 (TNA C/185/115/13). | For carying about bokes from one to an other. | |
| Iohn Scriuener, the elder. |
Iames Morden
CloseA James Morden was handed over to the secular arm for burning in 1522 (TNA C/185/115/13). cōpelled in like maner by his othe, did detect | Thomas Rouland | For these wordes following: If I lye, curse, storme, or swere, chide, fyght, or threate, Then am I worthye for to be beate: I pray you good maister mine, Amend me with a good scou- ryng. In the lyke also was charged Thomas Chase. |
Thomas Chase.
CloseThere is no surviving information on Thomas Chase apart from theaccount in Foxe. This account - as Foxe makes clear - is based on testimony from contemporaries to the events and the cruelty with which Chase was treated undoubt-edly lost nothing in the telling. It seems reasonable to accept that Thomas Chase wasarrested for heresy and committed suicide in prison. There is no way of telling whathappened beyond that but claims that he was murdered seem far-fetched. [Back to Top] | Because he heard him twise re- cite the Epistle of S. Iames, begin ning: Iames the seruaunt of God and of our Lord Iesus Christ, to the xij. kindes, &c. Also for these woordes: It was by the dayes of Herode king of Iewes, that there was a priest, Zacharie by name, & he came of the sort of Abias, and his wife of the daughter of Aaron: both they were iuste before God, goynge in all the Commaunde- mentes, &c. | |
William Norton. | ||
Agnes Ashforde of Ches- sham. | The cause layde to this Agnes was for teaching this Iames the wordes following: We be the salte of the earth, if it be pu- trified and vanished away, nothing it is worth. A citie set vpon an hill may not be hidde. Teende ye not a candle and put it vnder a bushell, but set it on a candlesticke that it may geue a light to all in the house. So shyne your light before men, as they may see your workes and glorifie the father that is in heauen. No title nor letter of the lawe shall passe ouer, tyll all thinges be doe: And fiuetimes wente hee to the foresayd Agnes to learne this lesson. Itē, that the said Agnes did teach him |
| Accusers. | Parties accused. | Crimes obiected. |
The foresayd Iames Mordē
CloseA James Morden was handed over to the secular arm for burning in 1522 (TNA C/185/115/13). detected | to say this lesson: Iesus seing his people, as he went vp to a hill, was set, and his disciples came to him: he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: blessed be the poore men in spirite, for the kingdome of heauē is theirs. Blessed be milde men: for they shall welde the earth. And twise he came to her to learne this lesson. Ex Regist. Longl. fol. 11. And these lessons the sayd Agens was bidde to recite before vj. bishops: who straitly injoyned and cōmaunded her, that she should teach those lessons no more to any man, and especially to her children. Ex Regist. fol. 11. | |
| Richard Ashford, smith. | ||
Agnes Ash- ford. Thomas Chase.
CloseThere is no surviving information on Thomas Chase apart from theaccount in Foxe. This account - as Foxe makes clear - is based on testimony from contemporaries to the events and the cruelty with which Chase was treated undoubt-edly lost nothing in the telling. It seems reasonable to accept that Thomas Chase wasarrested for heresy and committed suicide in prison. There is no way of telling whathappened beyond that but claims that he was murdered seem far-fetched. [Back to Top] | Because these ij. did exhort him thrise that he shoulde keepe the things they spake of, as secret in his stomacke, as a man woulde kepe a in prison. | |
| Tho. Tredway, of Chessham | ||
Rob. Pope. Iohn Mor- den, and his wife. | Because the presence of this their nephewe, the x. Cōmanndementes in their house in English. Fol. 15. | |
Alyce At- kyns. | Because of him she learned the Pa ter noster, Aue Maria and Creede in Englishe, and the v. meruels of S. Austen. Also an o- ther peece of an English booke be- ginning: here sueth 4. thinges by which a man may knowe whether e shall be saued. &c. Also that she did not worship Jma ges. And after these litle thinges, hee intended to teache her of the Sacrament. | |
Marian Morden, his owne sister. VV. Affrike, or Litlepage. Iohn Affrike, or Litlepage. Emme Hardyng, or Affrike. Iohn Fyppe, Phisition. |
¶ To thys Iames Morden
CloseA James Morden was handed over to the secular arm for burning in 1522 (TNA C/185/115/13). inioyned by byshop Smyth, for vij. yeres, to visite the church of Lincolne twyse a yeare from Amersham. And when diuers had gotte licence of the byshop for length of the iourney, to visite the Image of our Lady of Missenden, for the space of v. yeres, this Iames Morden, when he could not obtaine licence so to doe, yet notwithstanding for the tediousnes of the way, went with them to the same Image, and therupon was charged for violating the byshops iniunction. |
Also because, to gette his liuing, he wrought halfe a yere out of the dioces, when he had bene inioyned by the byshop not to goe out of the dioces of Buckyngham. Fol. 11. |
¶ This Iames Morden
CloseA James Morden was handed over to the secular arm for burning in 1522 (TNA C/185/115/13). and Creede so much in Englishe, that he had forgotte many wordes therof in Latyne, and therfore was inioyned by bishop Smyth to say it no more in Englishe, but onely in Latyne, and because he kept not this iniunction, he fell therfore in relaps. |
Roger Benet by lyke com- pulsion of hys othe, was cau sed to detecte these follow- ing, to bee knowen per- sons. | W. Rogers Tyler, and his wife. W. Hardyng. Rog. Hardyng. Ioanne Ienynges. George, seruaunt to Tho. Techell. Tho. Gray, seruaunt of Roger Benet. Agnes Franke. Ioanne Colyngworth. VV. Smyth. The wife of Iohn Milsent. Rob. Stampe, and his wife. The wife of Rob. Bartlet. The wife of Dauid Lewes of Henley. Iohn Fryer, seruaunt to maister Pen. Iohn Tracher. |
Iohn
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