1576 Edition | Book 8 | Page 1040 
Click on this link to switch between the Modern pagination for this edition and Foxe's original pagination when searching for a page number. Note that the pagination displayed in the transcription is the modern pagination with Foxe's original pagination in square brackets.
1. Persecution in Coventry2. Patrick Hamilton3. Patrick's Places4. Lincolnshire martyrs5. Thomas Wolsey6. Humphrey Monmouth and Thomas Hitten7. Thomas Bilney8. Defence of Bilney9. George Stratford and Simon Fish10. Supplication of Beggers11. Tunstall's anti-heresy edicts12. London evangelical martyrs13. Wiltshire martyrs14. Dovercourt rood15. John Frith16. Thomas Benet17. Bishop Stokesley's persecution18. Henry VIII's divorce19. Royal Supremacy20. William Tyndale21. Events of 1536-822. Edmund Bonner's career23. Royal articles and injunctions24. Bishop Longland's sermon25. John Forrest26. John Lambert27. Murders and martyrdoms28. Henry VIII's letter to Charles V29. Destruction of Becket's shrine30. Act of Six Articles31. Allegations against Six Articles32. Thomas Cromwell33. Great Bible34. Barnes, Garrett and Jerome35. Persecution for Six Articles36. Fire in Oxford37. Katherine Howard and Katherine Parr38. Testwood, Filmer, Marbeck and Person39. Persecution in Calais40. Persecution in 154541. Anne Askew42. Katherine Parr and George Blage43. Proclamation of 154644. Heresies charged against Protestants45. Scottish martyrs46. Archbishop Warham's persecution47. London martyrs in 153948. Papal sentence on Henry VIII's divorce49. Exsurge Domini50. Death of Henry VIII51. Persecution in Orleans in 153452. John Browne
K. Henry. 8. A Table of Persons abiured, with their articles.
| Persons abiured, | with their Articles. |
| Item, beyng asked if he would goe heare Masse, he sayd he had as lieue go to the galowes, where the theues were hanged. Item, beyng at Ss. Mar garet Patens 
CloseIn the following incident, Wetzell was mocking the large rood at St Margaret Pattens, a popular image, particularly venerated by London sailors. armes a crosse, he sayd to the people, þt he could make as good a knaue as he is, for he is made but of wood. &c. |
| Robert Man, Ser- uingman. 1531. | His Articles: There is no purga- tory. The pope hath no more power to graunt pardon then an other sim- ple priest. That god gaue no more au- thority to S. Peter, then to an other priest. That the Pope was a Knaue and his Priests knaues all for suffe- ring his pardons to go abroad to de- ceyue the people. That S. Thomas of Cant. is no same. That S. Peter was neuer Pope of Rome. Item, he vsed commonly to aske of Priestes where he came, whether a man were accursed if he handled a chalice or no? If the priest would say yea, then would he replye again thus: If a man haue a shepes skin on his handes, meanyng a payre of gloues, he may handle it. The priestes saying yea: well thē (quoth he) ye will make MarginaliaPriestes set more by a payre of gloues, th? by a lay mās hand.me beleue, that God put more vertue in a shepes skin, then he did in a chri- sten mans hand, for whom he died. |
| Henry Fel- don. 1531. | His trouble was, for hauyng these bokes in english: A proper Dialogue betwene a gentleman, and a husband- man. The summe of scripture. The prologue of Marke. A written boke conteyning the Pater noster, Aue Ma ria, and Credo in English. The ten Commaundements, and the 16. con- ditions of Charitie. |
| Rob. Coo- per, priest.
CloseRobert Cooper (or Cowper) was rhe rector of Hanwell, Middlesex. He later became chaplain to Edward VI, and, while a fellow at Corpus Christi, he had been tutor to Matthew Parker, the future archbishop of Canterbury (Venn, sub Cowper, Robert). 1531. | His Article only was this: for say- ing that the blessing with a shoe sole
CloseCooper was charged with saying that a blessing from a person waving a shoe in the was of equal benefit as a blessing from a bishop. is as good as þe bishops blessyng. &c. |
| Thomas Row. 1531. | His Articles were, for speakyng a- gainst auricular confession, & priestly penance, and against the preaching of the doctors. |
| Wil. Wal- tham. 1531. | His opinion: That the sacrament of the aulter is not the body of Christ in flesh and bloud, and that there is a God, but not that God in flesh and bloud in the forme of bread. |
| Grace Pal- mer. 1531. | Witnes was brought against her by her neighbors Iohn Rouse, Ag- nes his wyfe, Iohn Pole of S. O- sithes, for saying: Ye MarginaliaAgainst bearing of Palmes. vse to beare Palmes on Palme Sonday: it skil- leth not whether ye beare any or not, it is but a thyng vsed and neede not. Also ye vse to goe on Pilgrimage to our Lady of grace, of Walsingham, & other places: ye were better tarye at home, and geue mony to succour me & my children and other of my poore neighbors, thē to go thether: for there ye shal find but a piece of timber pain ted, there is neither God nor our la- dy. Item, for repentyng that she dyd euer light candles before images. I- tem, that the Sacrament of þe aulter is not the body of Christ: it is but bread which þe priest there sheweth for a to- k? or remembrance of christes body. |
| Philip Bra- sier of Bock sted. 1531. | His Articles: That the sacrament holden vp betwene the priests hāds, is not the body of Christ, but bread, & is done for a signification. That con- fession to a priest nedeth not. That i- mages be but stockes & stones. That pilgrimage is vayne. Also for say- ing that when there is any mira- cle done, the priestes do noynte the images, and make mē beleue that the Images doe sweate in labouryng for thē, and with the offrnges the priests finde their harlots. |
| Persons abiured, | with their Articles. |
| Ioh. Fayre- stede of Col chester. 1531.
CloseThis is very probably the Henry Fasted who, in 1534, tried to disseminate evangelical books in Colchester and who reported his efforts, as well those who resisted them, to Thomas Cromwell (L&P VII, p. 170). | His Articles: For wordes spoken agaynst pilgrimage, and Images. Also for MarginaliaA prophesie. saying these wordes: that the day should come, that men shall saye: cur- sed be they that make these false gods meanyng images. |
| George Bul of Much hadham Draper. 1531. | MarginaliaThree confessions. His Articles: That there be 3 cō- fessiōs: One principal to god, another to hys neighbour, whome he had of- fended: and the third to a Priest: and that without the two first confessiōs, to God, and to his neighbour, a man could not be saued. The 3. confession to a priest, is necessary for counsaile to such as be ignorant and vnlearned, to learne how to make their confession with a contrite hart vnto god, & how to hope for forgeuenesse: and also in what maner they should aske forgeue nes of theyr neighbor, whō they haue offended. &c. Item, for saying þt Lu- ther was a good man. Item, that he reported, thorough the credence & re- port of M. Patmore person of MarginaliaA welspring where Wickliffes bones were burned Had ham, that where Wicklifs bones wer brent, sprang vp a wel or welspryng. |
| Iohn Hay- mond Mil- wright.
CloseThis may be the John Hammon of Enfield, Middlesex, who in 1538 wrote to Thomas Cromwell, complaining that his parish priest was persecuting him for reading the Bible aloud to others (L&P XIV, 2, pp. 349-50). 1531. | His Articles: For speakyng & hol- ding agaynst pilgrimage & images, & against prescribed fastingdayes. That priestes & religious men not withstāding theyr vowes made, may lawfully forsake theyr vowes & ma- ry. Item, for hauing bookes of Lu- ther, and Tyndall. |
| Rob. Lamb a Harper. 1531. | His Article: For that he standyng accursed ij. yeres together, & not fea- ryng the cēsures of the popes church, went about with a song in the com- mendation of Mart. Luther. Ioh. Hewes Draper. 1531. | His Articles: For speaking against Purgatory, and Thomas Becket. Item, at the towne of Farnsham, he seyng Edward Frensham kneling MarginaliaAgainst kneeling to the crosse.in the strete to a crosse caryed before a corse, asked, to whome he knee- led? He sayd, to his maker. Thou art a fole (said hee) it is not thy maker, it is but a peece of copper or woode. &c. Item, for these woordes: Mai- sters ye vse to goe on pilgremage: it were better first that ye looke vpon your poore neighbours whiche lacke succour. &c. Also, for saying that hee heard thee Vicar of MarginaliaMuch baudery in Pilgrimage. Croydon thus preach opēly: That there is as much bawdrye kept by goyng in Pilgre- mage to Wilsedone or Mousswell, as is in the stewes syde. &c. |
| Tho. Pat- more Dra- per. 1531. | This Patmore was brother to M. Patmore Person of Hadham
CloseSusan Brigden has persuasively argued that the twoThomasPatmores were, in fact, the same person and that Patmore while still vicar ofMuch Hadham, became free of the Drapers's Company (Susan Brigden, Londonand the Reformation [Oxford, 1989], p. 206). She suggests that the purpose ofthis was to remain incognito and that the Drapers were chosen because of a significant evangelical presence in their membership. But Patmore's purpose may simply have been to acquire London citizenship. And the Drapers's Company may have been chosen beecause his father had been a member of the company. [Back to Top]who was prisoned in Lollardes to- wer for marying a Priest, and in the same prison continued 3. yere. Thys Patmore was accused by diuers witnesses, vpō these Articles: That he had as leue pray to yonder hunter pointyng to a man paynted there in a stayned cloth, for a peece of fleshe, as to pray to stockes that stand in walles meanyng Images. Item, that men should not praye to Saintes, but to God onely: for why shuold we pray to Saintes (said he) they are but MarginaliaThe truth of scripture a long tyme kept frō vs. blocks and stocks? Itē, that the truth of scripture hath bene kept from vs a long tyme & hath not appeared til now. Item, comming by a tree wherin stode an image, he toke away the waxe
CloseI.e., the candles. offred. Item, that he regarded not the place whether it was halowed, or no, where he should bee buried after he was dead. Also, in talke with the cu- rate of S. Peters, he defended that priestes might mary. |
This