1570 Edition | Book 7 | Page 997 
MarginaliaAn. 1521
Ex Regist. Io. Longland. Lincol.
| Accusers. | Parties accused. | Crimes obiected. |
The fore sayd Ro- bert Co- lynsbe?g sworne vpon the Euange- listes, did detecte these per- sons | dells, nor to go on pilgrimage. An other crime against Rich. Colyns: Because hee taught this Robert, that in all such thinges wherin he offended God, he should onely shriue hym selfe to God: and in which thinges he offended m?, he should shriue him to man.MarginaliaAgaynst the Sacrament of the altare. Also for teachyng him, that the Sacrament of the altare is not ve- ry God, but a certeine figuratiue thing of Christe in bread: and that the priest hath no power to c? secrate the body of Christ. Also for that the sayd Rich. did teach him in Wickleffes Wicket: howe that a m? may not make the bodie of our lord, which made vs: and how can we then make him againe? The father is vnbegott?, and vnmade: The sonne is onely begotten and not made: and how hen can man make that, which is vnmade said he? And in the same booke of Wick- leffes Wicket, folow the wordes of Christe thus speaking: If my wordes be heresie, then am I an he reticke: And if my wordes be ley- singes, then am I a lyer. &c. Also an other crime against Rich. Colyns: For hauing certaine Eng- lishe bookes, as Wickleffes Wicket, the Gospell of S. Iohn, the Epistles of S. Paul, Iames, & Peter in Eng lishe, and exposition of the Apoca- lyps, a booke of our Ladyes mat- tens in Englishe, a booke of Salo- mon in Englishe, a booke called, the pricke of conscience. | |
Iohn Ed- mundes, of Burford taylor. | The crime against Ioh. Edm?ds: For hauing a certeine Englishe booke of the Commaundementes. | |
Ioh. Har rys. | MarginaliaFor speaking agaynst Idolatrye. The crime against Iohn Harrys: For communing with him of the first chap. of S. Iohns Gospell: In the beginning was the worde, and the word was with God, and God &c. Also for c?muning of a chap. in Math. of the viij. beatitudes. Item, for co?sailing him not to go on pilgremage to saintes, because they were idols. &c. | |
Thomas Hall. | ||
Rob. Ly- uord. VV. Ly- uord. Bruges, & Io?ne his wife. Harrys, and his wife. Rich. Co lyns. | All these were detected, for that they being together in Bruges house at Burford, were readyng together in the booke of the expo- sition of the Apocalyps, and com- muned concernyng the matter of openyng the booke with seuen clapses. &c. | |
Iohn Ledisdall or Edon of Hungerford. Iohn Colyns of Burford. Iohn Colyns, and his wife of Asthall. Iohn Clerke, of Claufield. The wife of Richard Colyns, of Gynge. |
| Accusers. | Parties accused. | Crimes obiected. |
Tho. Co- lyns, and his wife, of Gynge. | This Thomas was charged for hauing a booke of Paule, and Iames in Englishe. | |
VVilliam Colyns. Robert Pope, of Henred. Hakker, 
CloseJohn Hacker was an extraordinarily influential Lollard with a long career; see J. A. F. Thomson, The Later Lollards, 1414-1520 for details. Hacker will be arrested in London in 1527 and in 1528, he would abjure and give the names of over 40 other Lollards to the authorities (1563, p. 418 and BL, Harley 421, fos. 11r-14r). [Back to Top] | ||
Stacy
CloseJohn Stacy, a warden of the bricklayers company. He will be charged in 1531 for aiding - and having converted - the evangelical martyr Richard Bayfield (1570, p. 1161; 1576, p. 993 and 1583, p. 1021). He will testify against Thomas Phillips and then abjured (1570, p. 1185; 1576, p. 1014 and 1583, pp. 1041-1042). [Back to Top]brickma- ker of Col- manstret. | For hauing the booke of the Apo- calyps. | |
Thomas Philippe.
CloseA pointmaker of the parish of Micheal le Querne, London. John Hacker informed on him in 1528. He was imprisoned and later held in the house of Thomas More (then Lord Chancellor), who turned him back over to Bishop Stokesley (BL, Harley MS 421, fo. 13r; More, Apology, CWTM 9, p. 126). He abjured, but abjured his abjuration and was imprisoned in the Tower (1570, pp. 1185-6, 1576, p. 1014; 1583, p. 1042). He remained imprisoned in the Tower, but working as a gaoler. In this capacity he aided evangelical prisoners (BL, Harley MS 425, fo. 138v). [Back to Top]Laur?ce Wharfar of Lond?. | For readyng the Epistle of Saint Peter in Englishe in the house of Robert Colyns at Asthall. | |
Ioanne Colyns his owne sister, of Asthall. Thomas Colyns his cosine, of Asthall. Maistres Bristow, of London. Iohn Colyns sonne of Richard Colyns, of Gynge. Ioanne Colyns daughter of Rich. Colyns, of Gynge. Henry Stacy sonne of Stacy of Colmanstret. Tho. Steuenton of Charney in Barkeshire. Iohn Brabant in Stanlake. Iohn Baker Weauer, of Wytney. |
Iohn Co- lyns of Burford, appea- ched to the By- shop these persons here na- med | Richard Colyns. | The wordes of Rcihard Colyns were these: that the Sacrament was not the true body of Christ in fleshe and bloud: but yet it ought to bee reuerenced: albeit not so as the true body of Christ. |
Thomas Colyns of Gynge, his owne naturall fa ther | The crime agaynst Thomas Co- lyns: For that viij. yeares past, this Thomas Colyns his father had taught this Iohn his sonne in the presence of his mother, the x. Com maundementes, and namely, that he should haue but one God, and should worship nothyng but God alone: and that to worship saintes & go on pilgrimage, was idolatrie. Also that hee should not worship the Sacrament of the altare as God, for that it was but a token of the Lordes body. Whiche thyng so much discontented this Iohn Co lyns, that hee sayd hee would dis- close his fathers errours, & make him to be burned: but his mother intreated him not so to do. | |
Rob. Co- lyns of Asthall. | The crime agaynste Robert Co- lyns: That this Rob. read to him in a certeine thicke booke of Scrip ture in Englishe. | |
Iohn Ed- mundes and hys wife. | The crime layd to Iohn Edm?ds: For that he read to this Iohn the tenne Commaundementes, and told him that Iohn Baptist sayd, that one should come after hym whose buckell of his showe, he was not worthy to vndoe. | |
| Alyce, wife of Gunne of Wytney. | ||
Ioh. Hak ker,
CloseJohn Hacker was an extraordinarily influential Lollard with a long career; see J. A. F. Thomson, The Later Lollards, 1414-1520 for details. Hacker will be arrested in London in 1527 and in 1528, he would abjure and give the names of over 40 other Lollards to the authorities (1563, p. 418 and BL, Harley 421, fos. 11r-14r). [Back to Top]his sonne of Lond?. | This Iohn Hakker
CloseJohn Hacker was an extraordinarily influential Lollard with a long career; see J. A. F. Thomson, The Later Lollards, 1414-1520 for details. Hacker will be arrested in London in 1527 and in 1528, he would abjure and give the names of over 40 other Lollards to the authorities (1563, p. 418 and BL, Harley 421, fos. 11r-14r). [Back to Top]ming to Burford, brought a boke speaking of the ten plagues of Pha rao. Also after that, an other booke, entreatyng of the vij. Sa- cramentes. |