Marginalia1555. August.MarginaliaIohn Denley gentleman. Iohn Newman, Patrike Pachingham, Martyrs.IN the middest of this tempestuous rage of malignaunt aduersaries  

persecutyng and destroying the poore flocke of Christ, many there were, whiche though they were no spirituall men,   yet thought to helpe forward, for their parts, and as one would say, to heape vp mo coales to this furious flame of persecution, whether of a blynd zeale, or of a Parasiticall   flattery I knowe not. Amongest whiche one was MarginaliaEdmond Tyrrell Esquier.Edmond Tyrell Esquier, and at that tyme a Iustice of peace within the County of Essex, an assister (as it seemeth) to the cruell murtherers of Gods Saintes. Who as he came from the burnyng and death of certein godly Martyrs, met with M. Iohn Denley Gentleman, and one Iohn Newman, (both of Maydstone in Kent) trauelyng vpō the way, and goyng to visite such their godly frendes, as then they had in the sayd County of Essex.   And vpō the sight of them as he yet braggeth, first vpon suspition apprehended, & searched them: & at last, findyng the confessiōs of their fayth in writyng about them, sent them vp vnto the Queenes Commissioners, directyng also vnto one of the same Commissioners, these his fauourable Letters in their behalfe. The copy wherof here may appeare as followeth.

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MarginaliaA letter of detection written by M Edmund Tyrrell to a Commissioner whom I gesse to be Syr Rich. Southwell.SIr, with most harty commendations vnto you, these shalbe to aduertise you, that I haue receiued a Letter from Syr Nicholas Hare and you, and other of the Kyng and Queenes Maiesties Commissioners, by a seruaunt of the Kyng and Queenes, called Iohn Fayles, for certaine busines, about Saint Osythes, the whiche I could not immediately go about, for that I had receiued a letter from the Counsell, to assist the Shiriffe for the execution of the heretickes, the one at Rayleygh,  

and the other at Rocheford,   the which was done vpon Tuesday last.

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MarginaliaMaster Denley and Iohn Newman, by the way mette and apprehended, by M. Edmond Tyrrell.And as I came homeward, I met with two men: Euen as I sawe them, I suspected them, and then I dyd examine them, and searche them, and I did finde about them certaine Letters, whiche I haue sent you, and also a certaine writyng in paper, what their fayth was. And they confessed to me that they had forsaken and fled out of their countrey  

for Religions sake: and sithen they haue bene in many coūtreyes, by their confession, whiche I haue sent you: for the which I thought it good (for that they came from London, and that there might be more had of them, then I yet haue vnderstand) to send them to you, whereby you and others of the Kyng and Queenes Commissioners there, might try them, so that their lewdnes might bee throughly knowen: for I thinke these haue caused many to trouble their consciences. So this hath bene some let to me, wherfore I could not go about these matters expressed in your Letters: but to morrow noone I entend by Gods grace to accomplish your letters, with as much diligence as I may. And this the holy Trinitie haue you euer in his keepyng, I besech you to bee so good maister, to discharge these poore men that bring these prisoners vp assoone as may be. And thus most hartely farewell, from Raimesdon Parke, the. xij. day of Iune. 1555.

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By your assured to commaunde,
Edmund Tyrell.

For so much as in this Letter mētion is made of a certaine writyng in paper founde about them of theyr fayth, what this writyng was, and what were the contentes of it, the copy therof here ensueth.

MarginaliaM Denleyes Notes touching matter of the sacrament.THe difference of doctrine betwene the Faithfull and the Papistes concernyng the Sacrament is: that the Papistes say, that Christ is corporally vnder or in the formes of bread and wyne: but the Faythfull say, that Christ is not there neither corporally, nor spiritually: but in them that worthely eate and drincke the bread and wyne, he is spiritually, but not corporally.

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MarginaliaFiguratiuely.For figuratiuely he is in the bread and wyne, and MarginaliaSpiritually.spiritually hee is in them that woorthely eate and drinke the bread and wyne: but MarginaliaReally.really, carnally, and corporally he is onely in heauen, from whence hee shall come to iudge the quicke and the dead.

MarginaliaThe beliefe of M. Denley of the sacrament of the body and bloud of our Lord.AS concernyng the Sacrament of the body and bloud of our Sauiour Iesus Christ, my belife is this, that the bread and wyne is appointed vnto a sacrament: and that after thankes be geuen to God the father, then it doth represent vnto me the very body and bloud of our sauiour Iesus Christ: not that the bread is the body, or the wyne the bloud, but that MarginaliaHow bread representeth the body of Christ.I in fayth do see that blessed body of our Sauiour broken on the Crosse, and his precious bloude plenteouslye shed for the redemption of my sinnes. Also in fayth I heare hym call vs vnto hym, saying: Come vnto mee all you that labour and are laden, and I will refreshe you. Esay. 55. a. b. Mat. 11. &c. In faith I come vnto him, & I am refreshed, so þ^t I beleue that MarginaliaThe fruite of Christes death, what it is, and how it is receaued in the sacrament.all that do come vnto the table of the Lorde in this fayth, feare, and loue, beyng sory for their offences, intending earnestly to lead a godly conuersation in this vale of misery, doe receaue the fruite of the death of Christe, which fruit is our saluation.

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I doe vnderstand [spiritually] that as the outward man doth eate the material bread whiche comforteth the body, MarginaliaHow Christ is receaued spiritually in the sacrament.so doth the inward mā (through fayth) eate the body of Christ, beleuyng that as the bread is broken, so was Christes body broken on the crosse for our sinnes, whiche comforteth our soules vnto life euerlastyng: and signifiing thereby, that euen as that bread was deuided among them, so should hys bodye and fruite of his passion be distributed vnto as many as beleued his wordes. But the bread broken and eaten in the supper, monisheth and putteth vs in remembraunce of hys death, and so exciteth vs to thankesgeuyng, to laude and prayse God for the benefites of our redemption.

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And thus wee there haue Christ present, in the inward eye and sight of our fayth we eate his body, and drynke his bloud, that is, we beleue surely that his body was crucified for our sinnes, and hys bloud shed for our saluation.

MarginaliaThe grosse errour of the Papistes in the reall being of Christ in the sacrament.Christes body and bloud is not conteyned in in the sacramētall bread and wyne as the papists haue sayd, and as some yet do say, as ye read in these scriptures following: first read in Saint Mathew. ix. Luke v. Math. xxiiij. and. xxvj. Marke. xvi. Luke. xxiiij. Iohn xiij. Luke. xxiij. in the end Iohn. xiiij. xv, xvj. xvij. Actes. i. iij. vij. ix. Rom. viij. Psal. viij. i. Cor. x. xi. Exo. xij. Col j. iij. Ephe. j. iiij. Phil. ij. j. Thes. j. iiij. Heb. j. v. viij. ix. x. xij. j. Pet. iij. Psal. xi. xlvij. Ciij. x.

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MarginaliaChristes body not in all places at once.First, reade S. Mathew the last, Marke the last, Luke the last, Iohn. xi. xx. xxi. These places of the scripture doe plainly declare, that his body that was borne of þ^e Virgin Mary, can not be in mo places then one, and that is in heauē, on the right hand of God, and not in the sacrament, nor in all places, as the Papists haue affirmed, and yet do affirme.

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Therefore who so euer they be that do worship the creatures of bread and wyne, do commit idolatry, and make abominable Idols of them, and take the glory from God, & geue it to his creatures:MarginaliaIdolatry to the creatures of bread and wyne. which is contrary to the minde of God, as these scriptures hereafter do testify, first in Exodus. xx. xxij. xxiij. xxiiij. Leui. xix. Deut. iiij. vi. xxxij. Psal. lxxx. Esay. xlv. Mal. ij. Math. iiij. Luk. iiij. Act. xiiij. Reuel. xiiij. Psal. xcviij. j. Cor. viij. Ephe. iiij. j. Timo. ij. j. Iohn. v. Reuel. xix. xxij.

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Iohn Denley.

Now to returne to the Commissioners agayne, they receyuing these prisoners afore mencioned,MarginaliaM. Denley and his felow prisoners sent to B. Boner. after they saw they could litle preuayle by theyr own perswasions, sent them vnto B. Boner, to be handled after his fatherly and charitable discretion. Which howe discrete and fauourable it was, as well the hystory of others, as also the sequele of this doth manifestly declare. MarginaliaM. Denley, Newman, and Pachingham, had in examination before the byshop of London.For the. xxviij. day of Iune, then next following, hee caused the said Denly and Newman with one Patrike Pachinkham, to bee brought into his chamber within his house or Palace, there examining them vppon their confessions (whiche Tyrrell had founde about them) obiecting also vnto them certayn other articles of his own. To the whiche they all aunswered, in effect one thinge, although Denly aunswered more largely then the others: and therfore I thought it inough onely to manifest hys, as sufficient, and in no part differyng from the others, except that Pachingham had one article of no great force obiected to him, which the rest had not.

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This done, the Bishop vsed with them his accustomed perswasions, to the which Maister Denley sayd: God saue mee from your councel, & kepe me in the minde that I am in,