1576 Edition | Book 8 | Page 1041 
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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. |
This Patmore had long hold with the B. of Londō. First he would not sweare infamia non præcedente 
CloseI.e., he would not stipulate to the charges against him nor answer them unless his accusers were produced. he would appeale to the kyng, but all would not serue.He was so wrapt in the bishops nets, thathe could not get out, but at last he was forced to ab- iure, & fined to the king an C. l. |
MarginaliaA note. * Note in the communication betwene this Patmore, and the priest of S. Peters, that where as the priest obiected against him (as is in the register) that priests haue liued vnmaried, & without wiues these 1500. yeres in the church:MarginaliaThe papists say falsely that priestes haue bene vnmaryed these 1500. yeares. he & all other such priestes therin say falsly and deceiue the people, as by story is proued in this volume, that priests here in England had wiues by the law within these 500 yeres & lesse.
[Back to Top]| Simō Smith maister of Arte of Gū- well hall in Cam-
CloseFoxe only mentions a crucial fact later in his narrative: Smith was Patmore's curate and Benmore his maidservant. Patmore's activesupport, if not outright instigation, of this marriage was necessary. bridge, and Benore hys wyfe. 1531. | This Simon Smith and Benore his wife were the parties, whō M. Patmore person of Hadham aboue mentioned did mary, & was condem- ned for the same to perpetuall prison. For the which mariage, both the said Simon & Benore his wife were cal- led to examination before the B. and he caused to make þe whole discourse of all his doings,how, and where he maried. Then, after his mariage, how long he taried, whether he went be- yond sea, where he was, and wyth whom. After his returne, whether he resorted, how he liued, what mercery ware he occupied, what fayres he fre quented, where he left his wyfe, how he caried her ouer, and brought her home againe, & how she was found. &c. All this they made him confesse, & put it in their register. And though they could fasten no other crime of he- resie vpon him, but only his mariage: yet calling both caused them both to abiure and suf- fer penaunce. |
| Tho. Pat- more Per- son of Had- ham. 1531. | This Tho. Patmore a good man, was he that maried the foresaid M. Smith, & Ioane Benore his mayde together (as is said) vpon the consent and earnest request of the parties. For this godly acte he susteined long tra- uaile in the bishops court, being ma- ny times examined of his conscience, whether a priest might mary a wyfe without offence to God. Wherein he stucke a great while and appealed to the king. When that would not help he requi MarginaliaPriestes maryage. red to know how priestes ma- riage could be proued heretical by the scripture. Then Foxford the bishops vicar, the great persecutor, allegyng generall councels & determination of the church, stil was vpon hym wyth his interrogatories, asking whether he would abiure or heare the sentence ead. His answer was, that he bele- ueth the holy church, as a christen mā doth,and it passeth his capacitie, and desireth to be instructed, & if þe scrip ture do teach it, he wil beleue it: and he doth not know by the scripture the contrary, but that a priest may mary a wife, but by the lawes of the church he thinketh þt a priest may not mary. But the Chancellor still asked whe- ther a priest might mary without of- fence to God. At length he graunted that priest might not mary without offence to God, because þe church hath forbid it, and therfore a priest can not mary without deadly sinne. Marginalia Remember here (good reader) to amende the place aboue pag. 993. where is sayd that Patmore died in Lollards Tower. Ex Regist. Lond.Item, an other Article was obiec- ted to hym, for saying that he did not set a bottle of hay by þe popes curse. But at last he submitted himself af- ter much ado, and was abiured and after condemned to perpetuall prison. Ne- uerthelesse I finde in the Registers, that after 3. yeares he was released out agayne by the bishop. |
| Persons abiured, | with their Articles. |
| Iohn Row Bookebin- der, a Frēch man. 1531. | This man for byndyng, beyng, & dispersing of bookes inhibited, was enioyned beside other penaunce, to go to Smithfield with hys bookes tyed about hym, and to cast them in þe fire and there to abide till they were all brent to ashes. |
| Christof. a dutchmā, of Antwerpe. 1531. | This man, for sellyng certeine new Testamentes in Englishe to Iohn Row afore MarginaliaChristopher a booke seller dyed in prison. sayd, was put in prison at Westminster, and there dyed. |
| W. Nelson Priest. 1531. | His crime was, for hauing and bi- yngof Perymā certeine bokes
CloseApparently Periman was also selling heretical books. ther, Tyndall, Thorpe. &c. for rea- dyng and perusing the same, contrary to the kynges proclamation: for the which he was abiured, he was priest at Lith. |
| Tho. Eue Weauer.
CloseEve is listed inaccurately in the first edition of the Acts andMonuments as the parish clerk of Much Hadham (1563, p. 419). 1531. | His Articles: That the Sacra- ment of the aultar was but a memo ry of Christes Passion. That menn were fooles, to go on Pilgremage, or to set any candle before Images. I- tem, it is as good to set vp staues be- fore þe Sepulchre, as to set vp tapers of waxe. That Priestes might haue wiues. |
| Rob. Hud- sun of S. Pulchers. 1531. | MarginaliaA dogge offered to S. Nicholas Byshop. His Article: On Childermas day
CloseThe feast of the Holy Innocents (28 December). Paules Church at offering tyme, to the child bishop
CloseIt was the custom for a boty to be chosen to officiate as bishop to the services held on the feast of the Holy Innocents. The boy received small gifts and was sometimes referred to as St. Nicholas (who was the patron saint of children). a dogge for deuotion (as he sayd) and meant no hurt, for he thought to haue offered a halfepenye or els the dogge, & thought the dogge to bee more bet- ter then a halfepenye, and thee dogge should rayse some profite to the child and sayde moreouer it was the tenth dogge. &c. Ex Regist. |
| Edward Hewet ser- uingman. 1531. | His crime: That after the kinges proclamatiō he had and read the new Testament in Englishe: Also þe boke of I. Fryth agaynst Purgatory. &c. |
| Walter Ki- ry seruant. 1531. | Hys Article: That he, after thee kynges proclamation, had and vsed these bookes, the Testament in Eng lishe, the Some of Scripture, a Pri- mer and Psalter in Englishe hydden in his beadstraw at Worcester. |
| MarginaliaWhy then doth M. More say that Bilne, recanted and dyed a good man
CloseMichael Lobley was a bookbinder (1570, p. 1372; 1576, p. 1162 and 1583, p.1191), who obviously used his professional contacts and activitiesto disseminate heretical literature. Thomas More claimed that Michael Lobley,after he was arrested, informed on those who purchased herteical books from him (Thomas More, The Confutation of Tyndale's Answer, ed. Louis A. Scuster,Richard C. Marius, James P. Lusardi and Richard Schoeck, CWTM 8 [New Haven, CT, 1973], II, p. 813). [Back to Top]Michaell Lobley. 1531.
CloseAccording to one contemporary, Bayfield was burned on 4 December 1531. (See Charles Wriothesley, A Chronicle of England during the reigns of the Tudors, ed. W. D. Hamilton, Camden Society, new series, 11 and 20 {2 vols., London, 1875-77], I, p. 17). | Hys Articles: That hee beyng at Antwerpe bought certeine bokes in- hibited, as the Reuelation of Anti- christ, þe obedience of a Christen man, the wicked Mammon, Frith against Purgatory. Item, for speakyng a- gaynst Images and Purgatory. I- tem, for saying that Bilney was a good man, and dyed a good man, be- cause of a Byll that one dyd send frō Norwiche, þt specified that hee tooke hys death so paciently & dyd not for- sake to dye with a good wil. &c. |
| MarginaliaA ladde of Colchester dyed in prison for bringing to Bayfilde hys bookes. A boy of Colchester. 1531. | A boy of Colchester, or Northfolk brought to Rich. Bayfield, a budget of bokes about 4. dayes before þe said Bayfield was taken: for the whichlb/>the lad was taken & laid in þe counter by M. More Chācellor, & there died. |
| Wil. Smith Taylor. 1531. | His Articles: That he lodged often- tymes in his house, Rich. Bayfield & other good mē. That he receiued his bookes into hys house, & vsed much readyng in the new Testament. He had also the Testament of William Tracye. He beleued there was no Purgatory. |
| Wil. Lyn- coln Pren tise. 1532. | His Articles: For hauyng and re- ceiuyng bokes from beyond the sea, of Tyndall, Frithe, Thorpe & other. Item, he doubted whether there wer any Purgatory: Whether it were well done to set vp candels to saintes: to go on pilgrimage. &c. |
| Iohn Mell of Bocksted 1532. | His heresie was this: for hauyng and reading the newe Testament in english, the psalter in english, and the booke called A. B. C. |
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