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MarginaliaAn. 1555. Maye.kyng Henr. the. 8. and whē Alderman Barnes was Sheriffe, & the Thursday after that Anne askue was burnt in Smithfield,MarginaliaIohn Warne about the tyme of Anne Askew was condemned to be burned, and had his pardon. & therupō thou was sēt as a prisoner to Newgate: to whō Edmond byshop of London did repayre with his chaplaines, to instruct thee in the true faith of Christ, touching the said sacramēt of the altar, & to bring thee frō thy error, which was, that in the sacramēt of the altar there is not the body of Christ, nor any corporal presence of Christes body and bloud, vnder the formes of bread and wyne: but that in the said sacrament there is only material bread & wine, without any substance of Christes body and bloud at al, and because thou wouldest not leaue & forsake thy said heresie therein, but persist and abide obstinately and wylfully therein, thou wert accordyng to the saide lawes condemned to death, and to be burnt: and therupon labor being made for thee to the king and other in the Court, thou haddest a pardon of king Henry the eight,MarginaliaIohn Warne pardoned by K. Henry 8. & so therby diddest saue thy life: Neuertheles in thy hart, conscience & mynd, thou diddest both then & also afore, beleue no otherwise then at this present thou doest beleue: that is to say, that in the sacrament of the altar there is neither the very true body or bloud of Christ, nor no other substance, but the substance of materiall bread and wine:MarginaliaIohn Warne denyeth transubstātiation. and to receiue the said materiall bread and wine, and to breake it, and to distribute it among the people onely is the true receiuyng of Christes body, & no otherwise: So that thy faithe and beliefe is, that in the said sacrament there is no substaunce of Christes material body and bloud: but all the thing that is there, is materiall bread, and the receiuyng thereof, as afore: and that the substance of the natural and true body of Christ borne of the virgine Mary, is onely in heauen, and not in the sacrament of the altar. In which thine opinion thou hast euer hitherto since continued, and so doest continue at this present, thou confessing al this to be true, and in witnes therof, subscribing thy name therunto as foloweth.
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CloseFoxe is clearly following an official record of these examinations which has now been lost. It was probably kept with the articles and answers of Cardmaker and Warne.
MarginaliaThe playne aunswere of Iohn Warne to the articles.Iohn Warne being examined vppon these foresayde articles by the Bishop before certaine witnesses,
CloseFoxe is clearly following an official record of these examinations which has now been lost. It was probably kept with the articles and answers of Cardmaker and Warne.
and fortitude Gods holy spirite wrought in hym, to stande stoutly and confidently to the defence of the sincere doctrine of his sonne.
Wherupon the bishop exhortyng hym with many words to leaue his heresies (as he called them) and to returne to the bosome of his mother the holy churche, cōmaunded him to appeare againe the next day, being the. xxiiij. of the same moneth.
MarginaliaThe second session agaynst Iohn Warne.Who so doing (& aunswering as he did before) was willed to come thither againe at after noone, and so he dyd: where & at what tyme he was earnestly exhorted by the said bish. to recant his opinions. To whom he aunswered, that he would not depart frō his receiued profession, vnles he were therunto thorowly perswaded by the holy scriptures.
[Back to Top]MarginaliaThe third Session. May. 25.Vppon which answeare he was wylled to come againe the next day, being the. xxv. day of the same moneth,
CloseFoxe is clearly following an official record of these examinations which has now been lost. It was probably kept with the articles and answers of Cardmaker and Warne.
CloseFoxe is clearly following an official record of these examinations which has now been lost. It was probably kept with the articles and answers of Cardmaker and Warne.
Vpon the which MarginaliaMay. 30. Cardmaker and Iohn Warne brought to execution.thirty of May, being the day appoynted for their execution, Ioh. Cardmaker with the sayd Ioh. Warne, were brought by the Sheriffes to the place where they shoulde suffer. Who being come to the stake, firste the Sheriffes called Cardmaker aside, & talked with hym secretly, so long, that in the meane tyme Warne had made his prayers, MarginaliaIohn Warne tyed to the stake.was chayned to the stake, and had wood & Reede set about hym, so that nothyng wanted, but the firyng: but styl aboad Cardmaker talking with the Sheriffes.
CloseTantalizingly, a surviving copy of the narrative which was Foxe's source for the execution breaks off here, with three-quarters of the page blank (BL, Harley 425, fol. 68v). But the Rerum account continues down through the crowd crying out in acclamation of Cardmaker (Rerum, p. 443) and the original narrative probably went down to that point also.
[Back to Top]The people which before had hearde that Cardmaker would recant, MarginaliaThe people afrayd of Cardmakers recanting.and beholding this maner of doyng, were in a marueylous dumpe and sadnes, thinkyng in deede that Cardmaker should nowe recant at the burnyng of Warne.
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