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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. |
Ioanne Franke. VVilliam Franke, the elder. VVilliam Franke, the yōger. Alyce Tredway detected | Ioanne Coling- borne. | For saying to one Ioāne Timber- lake, & to Alyce Tredway, tenne yeares agoe, that shee could neuer beleue pilgrimage to be profitable, nor that saintes were to be wor- shipped: and desired them not to tell their curate. Whiche Alyce immediatly caused her to bee cal- led before the Bishop, |
VVilliam Carder vpon hys othe was forced to detect | Isabell Tracher wife of VVilliam Tracher, his mai- stres. | For that shee beyng not sicke, but in good health, and beyng re- buked diuers times of her husbād for the same, yet would not go to the Church, but taryed at home, and kept her worke as well holy day as worke day, the space of 3. yeares together. |
Isabell Gardi- ner. Ioh. Gar diner for- ced by their othe to detect The Vi- car of Wi- combe. | Thomas Raue of greate Merlow. | For speaking against pilgrimage, in the company of Iohn and Eli- sabeth Gardiner, as he was goyng to our Lady of Lyncolne for hys penaūce inioyned by Bish. Smith. Also the same time, as he mette certeine comming from S. Ioh. Shorne, 
CloseJohn Schorne (or Shorne) was a priest renowned for his personal sanctity and zealous pastoral care of his flocks. Although never canonized, there was a flourishing cult to him and his shrine at Windsor was a popular place of pilgrimage on the eve of the Reformation. fooles and calling it idolatrie. Also in the same viage when he saw a certeine chapell in decay & ruine: he said, loe yonder is a fayre milkehouse downe. |
Item, when he came to Lincolne, he made water in the chappell at Masse tyme, excusing afterward that he did it of neceßitie. Item, the same tyme, speaking against the Sacra- ment of the altare, he sayd that Christ sitteth in heauen at the right hand of the father almightie, and brought foorth this parable, saying, that Christ our Lord said these wordes, when he went from his disciples, and ascended to heauen: That once he was in sinners handes, and would come there no more. Also when he came to Wycombe there to do his penaunce, he bound his fagot with a silken lase.
CloseThomas Rave was sentenced to carry a faggot, as a mark of shame, in pennance. Putting a lace on it made a mockery of his penance. Also beyng demaunded of D. London, whether he had done his penaunce in cōming to our Lady of Lincolne, he aunswered that Bishop Smith had released him, to come to our Lady of Missen den for six yeares. And 3. yeares he came: but whether he came any more, because he did not there register his name, therfore he sayd he could not proue it. |
Roger Benet forced by his othe to detect | The wife of Thomas Potter of Hychenden. | |
The wife of Willi- am Tilse- worth,
CloseThe date Foxe gives for Tilesworth's excommunication is incorrect; the signification of Tilesworth's excommunication and commitment to the secular authority survives and is dated 10 August 1511 (TNA C 85/115/10). But this document - which lists Robert Cosin, William Scrivener, Nicholas Collins and Thomas Man as also being condemned - shows that, in this case, apart from the date, the information from Foxe's aged informants was essentially accurate. [Back to Top]nowe of Hawk- well. | For not thinking catholicquely, that is, after the tradition of Rome, of the Sacrament of the altare. | |
The wife of Rob. Stampe. | For not accōplishyng her penaunce inioyned by Bishop Smith. | |
| Marian Randall. |
Richard Vulford detected | Ioh. But ler | For hauing of him a certeine boke in Englishe conteinyng a Dialo- gue betwene a Iewe & a Christiā. |
| Accusers. | Parties accused. | Crimes obiected. |
| his owne wife deceassed. | ||
Iohn Clerke of Denham. | For communing with him, against Images, pilgrimage, and the Sa- crament of the altare.MarginaliaAgaynst the Sacrament of the altare. | |
Thomas Geffrey of Vx- brige, and his wife departed. | For communing against the Sa- crament of the altare, woorship- ping of saintes, pilgrimage. &c. | |
Henry Vulman of Vxbrige | For speaking and teachyng a- gainst the Sacrament of the altar xi. yeares ago, and saying it was but a trifle. | |
The mother of VVilliam Kyng of Vxbrige. VVilliam Kyng. Robert Carder, the elder. Iohn Baker of Vxbrige. |
Iohn Scriue- ner
CloseJohn Scrivener will be burned in 1521; see TNA, C/85/115/13. der dete- cted | Geldner the elder. His two daugh- ters. | For beyng present and harkening vnto Richard Benet readyng the Epistle of S. Iames in English.MarginaliaFor reading the Scripture. |
Emme, sister of VV. Tilseworth Martyr.
CloseShe was the sister of William Tilsworth. Iohn Lee Carpenter of Henley. |
| MarginaliaIoh. Sparke. ¶ Here is to be noted, that in the towne of Chesham were ij. men: One named Robert Hutton, The other Iohn Sparke. Of which two, the one called the other hereticke: The other called him agayne theefe. Sparke whiche called Hutton theefe, was condemned to pay for his slaunder x. s. But Hutton which called the other heretike, payed nothing. It happened þt the wife of this Sparke not long after, had certeine money stolne. For the which the sayd Sparke her husband sent for the counsaile of two friers, who gaue him counsaile to make ii. balles of clay, and to put them in the water, and in the same balles to inclose the names of them whom he suspected, and so doyng the sayd Sparke came to hys money agayne. And this was detected to Bishop Longland the same tyme by Tho. Clement. But of all this matter there was no inquisition made, nor Interrogatories ministred, nor witnes producted, nor any sentence geuen. Ex Regist. Longland. fol. 50MarginaliaWitchcraft left of the b.shop vnpunished. |
Ioh. Gro sar, being put to his oth, dete- cted | Thomas Tykyll. Thomas Spēser & his wife. Iohn Knight. | MarginaliaFor hauing the Scripture in Englishe. This Iohn Grosar was examined whether he had a boke of the Gos pels in Englishe, who confessed that he receaued such a booke of Tho. Tykill morowe masse priest in Milkestrete, and afterwarde lent the same booke to Tho. Spen- ser: Which Tho. Spenser with his wife vsed to read vpon the same. After that, it was lent to Iohn Knight, who at length deliuered the booke to the vicare of Ryke- mansworth. |
Ihon Fūge for- ced by his othe to de tect | Fraūces Funge & hys bro- ther. Thomas Clerke. | MarginaliaAgaynst the Sacrament of the altare. Fraunces Funge was examined for speaking these woordes to hys brother Iohn, which words he had learned of Tho. Clerke: If the Sa- crament of the alter be very God and man, flesh and bloud, in forme of bread, as Priestes say that it is: then haue we many Gods, and in heauen there is but one God. And if there were an hundreth houseled in one parish, and as ma- ny in an other, then there must nedes be more then one God. I will |
not denye, but it is a holy thyng: but it is not the body of the Lord, that suffred Paßion for vs for he was once in mans handes here, and ill en- treated, and therfore he will neuer come in sin- full mens handes agayne. Also for speaking these wordes: The Pope hath no authoritie to geue pardon, and to release any |
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