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Marginalia1555. Maye.prisoner, to be baited of the Papistes, which would needes seeme to haue a certaine hope that Cardmaker was become theirs.
CloseFoxe is rather skillfully obscuring the fact that Cardmaker had promised to recant.
MarginaliaD. Martyn writeth agaynst Cardmaker.Doct. Martin, who bare also a part in those pageants, tooke vpō him to be þe chiefe doer by writing, whose lōg vnsauery letters and simple reasons for Transubstantiation, & such papistical trash, this Cardmaker aunsweared largely, learnedly, & substantially, confuting the same, opening the falshood of his arguments, & deliuering the sētences of the Fathers (whiche Martin abused for his purpose) to their true vnderstāding: which his answeres I would had come to our handes. Thus constantly aboad this man of God all the enemies doinges, as he did also the death which he suffered in Smithfield in London. Wherof ye shal heare more anone: but first we wil surueye the matter and manner of his articles obiected against him by Bishop Boner, with his answeares annexed to the same, as consequently here vnder foloweth.
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CloseThe articles put to Cardmaker, and his answers to them, came from records of Bishop Bonner, probably a separate act book, now lost.
MarginaliaMay. 24. Articles ministred agaynst Iohn Cardmaker, by the B. of London.FIrst, I Edmond Bishop of London, obiect against thee sir Iohn Taylor alias Cardmaker, that thou wast and art of the citie and Dioces of London, and so of the iurisdiction of me Edmund bishop of London.
Item, that thou in tymes past didst professe the rule of S. Frances, and diddest by vow promise to keepe pouertie, chastitie, & obedience, according to the rule of S. Frances.MarginaliaIohn Cardmaker first an obseruant Fryer.
Item that thou in tymes past diddest receyue al the orders of þe Church then vsed, to wyt, tam maiores, quam minores.
Item, that thou after thy said entrie into Religion and profession and orders aforesaid, MarginaliaIoh. Cardmaker maryed.diddest take to wyfe a wydow, and with her haddest carnall copulatiō, and diddest get of her a woman child, breaking therby thy vow and order, & also the ordinance of the Church.
Item, that thou hast beleued and taught, and so doest beleue that in the sacrament of the aultar vnder the visible signes there: that is to say, vnder the formes of bread and wine, there is really and truely the true and very naturall body and bloud of our saueour Iesus Christ.
Item, that the beliefe of the Catholike Church is, MarginaliaThe belief of the popes Catholicke Church.that in hauing the body and bloud of Christ really & truely conteyned in the sacrament of the aultar, is to haue (by the omnipotēt power of almighty God) the body & bloud of Christ ther inuisibly & really present vnder the sayd sacrament, and not to make therby a new God or a newe Christ, or a newe body of Christ.
[Back to Top]Item, that it may stand wel together, & so is the faith of the catholike church: MarginaliaTo speake naturally of the naturall body of Christ, these 2. can not stand together at one tyme, vnles we graunt Christ to haue two bodyes.that the body of Christ is visibly & truely ascended into heauen, & there is in the visible forme of his humanitie: and yet the same body in substance is inuisibly & truely conteyned in the said sacrament of the altar.
[Back to Top]Item, that Christ at his last supper, taking bread into his hands, blessing it, breaking it, geuing it to his apostles, and saying: Take, eate, this is my body, did institute a sacrament there, *Marginalia* That Christ neuer willed, neyther can the scriptures beare it. willyng that his body really and truely should bee conteyned in the said sacrament, no substance of bread and wine there remainyng, but only the accidentes therof.
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CloseThe articles put to Cardmaker, and his answers to them, came from records of Bishop Bonner, probably a separate act book, now lost.
MarginaliaIohn Cardmaker answereth to the Articles.TO the first article he answereth, and confesseth the same to be true in euery part therof.
To the second article he answereth, and confesseth, that he beyng vnder age, dyd professe the said order and religion, and afterward by the authoritie of kyng Henry the eight, he was dispensed with for the same religion.
CloseCardmaker was pointing out, accurately, that when the monastaries were dissolved under Henry VIII, his oath binding him as a Franciscan, was - under English law - voided. He was also claiming that he was entered into the order underage; this would not make the oath non-binding per se, but it provides a moral justification for his subsequent marriage, in violation of his oath.
[Back to Top]To the third he answereth, and confesseth the same to be true in euery part therof.
To the fourth he answereth, & confesseth the first part therof to be true: and to the second part of the same article, he answereth and saith, that in mariage he brake no vowe, because he was set at libertie to mary, both by the lawes of this Realme, and also by the lawes and ordinaunces of the Church of the same.
[Back to Top]To the fift he answereth, & confesseth, that he hath beleued & taught as it is conteyned in this article, but he doth not now so beleue nor teach.
To the sixt he answeareth, that he dooth not beleue the same to be true in any part therof.
To the seuenth he answereth, that he dooth not beleeue
the same to be true in any part therof.
To the eight he aunswereth, and dooth beleue, videlicet, MarginaliaThe first part of this article is true: the second is false.that it is true: that is to saye, that Christ taking bread at his last supper into his handes, blessing it, breakyng it, geuyng it to his disciples, and saying: Take, eate, this is my bodye, did institute a sacrament there. And to the other parte of this article, videlicet, (wyllyng that his body really and truely should be conteyned in the said sacrament, no substāce of bread and wyne there remaynyng, but only the accidents therof) he answereth, that he doth not beleue the same to be true.
[Back to Top]By me Iohn Cardmaker.
Maister Cardmaker callyng to mynd afterwards þe redy cauillynges of þe papistes, & thinking him self not to haue fully and accordyng to his true meanyng answered the latter part of the last eight article, dyd the nexte daye after the foresaid answers, exhibit vnto the bishop in a schedule this hereafter folowyng:
[Back to Top]MarginaliaA more full answere to the second part of the eight article.Where
CloseThe articles put to Cardmaker, and his answers to them, came from records of Bishop Bonner, probably a separate act book, now lost.
This haue I thought good to adde to my former aunswere, because no man should misunderstand it.
By me Iohn Cardmaker.
Next to these articles of M. Cardmaker, I thought best to inferre the articles and answeres likewise of Iohn Warne hys martyr felow, in maner as foloweth.
CloseThe articles put to Warne, and his answers to them, come from records of Bishop Bonner, probably a separate act book, now lost.
MarginaliaArticles agaynst Iohn Warne vpholster in Walbroke.FIrst, that thou Iohn Warne, being of the age of. 29. yeres, & of the parish of S. Iohn in Walbrooke of London, hast beleued & doest beleue firmely & stedfastly, that in the sacrament, commonly called the sacrament of the aultar, there is not the very true and natural body of our saueour Christ in substance, vnder the formes of bread and wyne.
[Back to Top]Item, that thou hast beleued, and doest beleue, that after the wordes of consecration spoken by the priest, MarginaliaAgaynst transubstantiation.there is not (as the church of England doth beleue and teache) the body of Christ: but that there doth onely remayne the substance of materiall bread, as it is before the consecration, or speakyng of the wordes of consecration: and that the sayde bread is in no wyse altered or changed.
[Back to Top]Item, that thou hast sayde, and doest beleue, MarginaliaAgaynst the sacrifice of the Masse.that if the Catholike church do beleue and teache, that there is in the Masse (nowe vsed in England and in other places of Christendome) a sacrifice wherin there is a sacrament conteining the body and bloud of Christ really and truely: then that beliefe and fayth of the church is nought, and agaynste Gods truth and the scripture.
[Back to Top]Itē, that thou hast said, MarginaliaHeresy for laughing at a Spaniell shorne in the head.that where about a twelue moneth agone & more, a great rough water spanyel of thyne was shorne in the head, & had a crowne like a priest made in the same, thou dyddest laugh at it and like it, though thou dyddest it not thy selfe, nor knowest who dyd it.
[Back to Top]Item, that thou, neyther this Lent last past, nor at any tyme since the Queenes maiestes raigne, haste come into the Church, or heard Masse, or bene confessed, or receyued the sacrament of the altar: and hast sayd, that thou art not sory that thou hast so done, but thou art glad, because thou hast not therewith defiled thy conscience, whiche otherwise thou shouldest so haue done.
CloseWarne had already been cited before Nicholas Harpsfield, the vicar-general of the London diocese, in the spring of 1554, for refusing to attend his parish church until the services were conducted in English (Letters of the MartyrsA, DL/C/614, fol. 48v).
Vpon all which articles Iohn Warne beyng examined by the said Boner, in presence of diuers witnesses, the. 23. of May. ann. 1555. dyd confesse and beleue the same, and subscribe hereunto his name with his owne hand.
By me Iohn Warne.
Also it was obiected agaynst the sayd Iohn Warne by the Bishop aforesayd, as foloweth.
MarginaliaAn other addition of Articles.
The articles put to Warne, and his answers to them, come from records of Bishop Bonner, probably a separate act book, now lost.
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CloseThe information contained in this addition is correct: Warne had been arrested as a 'rank sacramentary' in 1546 and was pardoned on 19 December of that year. (See CLRO, Repertory 11, fol. 300r; APC I, pp. 494-95 and L & P xxi (ii), p. 648, no.40). Bonner had been bishop that year, and clearly remembered Warne.
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