Marginalia1555. Iuly.to put of your cap: for it is not so holy that you neede to put of your cap thereunto. Farther beying apposed concerning the veritie of the sacrament geuen to Christes disciples, he affirmed, that MarginaliaChrist gaue his body, as he sayd he was a dore.euen as Christ gaue his very body to his disciples, and confessed it to be the same, so likewise Christ him selfe saide, he was a doore. &c. adding moreouer, that as he had said before, so he saith styl, that the sacrament of the aultar is an Idole and no remembrance of Christes Passion, and contrary he knoweth not. At last being required to put to his hand in subscribing to his answeres, he wrote these wordes vnder the byll of their examinations: MarginaliaThe subscription of Henry Laurence.Ye all are of Antichrist, and him ye fol. And here his hande was staied to write any further: Belike he woulde haue writtē out (followe.) &c. And so vpon the same, sentence was read agaynst hym the. 2. of August.  

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MarginaliaRichard Colliar.RIchard Colliar aboue mentioned, hauing the sixteenth daye of August to appeare, examined of the Sacrament of the Popishe Aultar, aunsweared, and saide, MarginaliaThe wordes of Richard Colliar.that he dyd not beleeue, that after the Consecration there is the reall and substantiall bodye of Christ, but onely breade and wyne,  

MarginaliaOnly in the substance he meaneth. and that it is moste abominable, most detestable, and moste wicked to beleeue otherwise. &c. Vppon this the sentence was read against hym, and hee condemned the xvi. of August.   After his condemnation   he sang a Psalme. Wherfore the priestes and their officers railed at hym, saying, he was out of his wyts.

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MarginaliaRichard Wright.RIchard Wright the same place and daye, beyng the sixteenth of August, appearing, and required of the Iudge what he beleeued of the reall presence in the Sacramente, aunsweared againe, that as touching the Sacrament of the Aultar and the Masse, MarginaliaRichard Wright ashamed to speake of the Sacrament of the Aultar.he was ashamed to speake of it, or to name it, and that he allowed it not, as it was vsed in the church. Against whom the sentence also was read the day and place aforesaid.

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MarginaliaWilliam Stere, Martyr.WIlliam Stere of the foresaide Parishe of Ashford, likewise detected and accused, was brought to appeare the

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saide. xvi. daye of August, where he in the saide Chapterhouse of Canterbury, being required to make aunsweare to

the positions laide to hym by the Iudge, made answeare againe, that he should commaund his dogges, and not hym: and further declared,  

that MarginaliaDicke of Douer: so they termed then Richard Thornton B. of Douer.Dicke of Douer had no authoritie to sit againste hym in iudgement, and asked where his authoritie was. Who then shewed hym certaine Bulles & writinges from Rome, as he saide. William Stere denying that to be of sufficient force, the said Dicke saide also he had authoritie from the Queene. Then the Martyr alleging that the Bishop of CanterburyeMarginaliaHe meaneth D. Cranmer imprisoned at Oxford. (who then was in prison) was his Diocesan, vrged hym to shew his authoritie from the Archbishop, or els he denyed hys authoritie to be sufficient.   And as touching the Sacrament of the aultar, he founde it not (he said) in the scripture, and therefore he would not answeare therunto.

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And moreouer, the Iudge speaking of the sacrament of the aultar with reuerence therof, and putting of his cap, he saide that he needed not to reuerence that matter so highly. And thus saying to the Iudge, that he was a bloudy man. &c. MarginaliaSentence against William Stere.the sentence was pronounced againste hym: after which sentence being read, he said, that the sacrament of the aultar was the most blasphemous Idol that euer was. &c.

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And thus these sixe heauenly martyrs and witnes bearers to the truth, being cōdemned by the bloudy Suffragā & Archdeacō of Cant. M. Collins & M. Faucet,  

were burned al altogether in the same town of Canterb. at three stakes and one fire, about the latter ende of August.

The copy of their sentence cōdemnatorie you may finde aboue in the storie of Iohn Rogers, pag. 1417.MarginaliaRead before, pag. 1417 for the papistes in all their condemnations folowe one maner of sentence of course commonly against all that be cōdemned thorow their vnmercyfull tyrannie.

MarginaliaTen Martyrs sent vp together to Byshop Boner.AFter the burning of these sixe aboue named, nexte folweth the persecution of ten other true seruants & saints of the Lorde, not such saintes as the Pope maketh, or whiche are mentioned in Legenda sanctorū  

or in vitis patrum,   or in the fabulous   booke de vita sanctorum Wallensium. &c.     but such as are spoken of in the holy Apocalyps, of whom it is written: MarginaliaApoc. 22.Hi sunt qui sequūtur Agnū quocūq; ierit, quiq; lauarūt stolas suas in sanguine agni. i.  

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St. John, Revelation, 7. 14.

Foxe text Latin

Hi sunt qui sequuntur Agnum quocunque ierit, quique lauarunt stolas suas in sanguine Agni.

Foxe text translation

These be they that folowe the Lambe wither soeuer he goeth, and whiche haue washed their stooles in the bloud of the Lambe. &c.

Actual text of St. John, Revelation 7, 14: (Vulgate)

hii sunt qui veniunt de tribulatione magna et laverunt stolas suas et dealbaverunt eas in sanguine agni.

These be they that folowe the Lambe wither soeuer he goeth, and whiche haue washed their stooles in the bloud of the Lambe. &c. Thus these saints be not of the Popes making, or rather to say þ^e truth, they are of the Popes making, of the popes making (I say) in this respect, not that the saintes of God are made by the Pope,MarginaliaSaintes of the Popes making. but that the saintes of God are tryed and declared by the Pope: so as by afflictiōs of Satan Iobs pacience was proued, by Pharao Gods power declared, and by Salinator, Tarentum   was won (as Tullie   writeth) for except he had lost it before, Q. Fabius could not haue recouered it:   so in like maner, vnlesse by Antichriste good men had bene destroyed, otherwise they had not bene tryed true Martyrs of Christ. The names of these were.MarginaliaTen Martyrs sent by the commissioners.

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Elizabeth Warne. George Tankerfield. Robert Smyth. Steuen Harwood. Thomas Fust.

William Hale. Thomas Leyes. George King. Iohn Wade. Ioane Layshford.

The Prisons of London beginnyng nowe to be replenished with Gods saintes, and styll moe and moe comming in, the Counsaile and Commissioners thinking to make redy dispatch with the poore prisoners, caused these ten aboue named to be sent with their letter directed to Boner Bishop of London by hym to be examined, and ryd out of the way.  

The copie of which their letter, with their names subscribed, here foloweth to be read and noted.

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MarginaliaThe letter of the commissioners to Byshop Boner.AFter our harty commendations to your good Lordship, we send you here Iohn Wade, William Hayle, George King Thomas Leyes of Thorpe in Essex, Thomas Fust Hosier, Robert Smyth Painter, Steuē Harwod Bruer, George Tankerfield Cooke, Elizabeth Warne, Ioane Layshford of London, Sacramentaries: all whiche we desire your Lordship to examine, & to order according to the Ecclesiasticall lawes: praying your Lordship to appoynt some of your officers to receiue thē at this bearers hand. And thus most hartily, fare your Lordship wel. From London this 2. Iuly.

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Your Lordships louyng frendes.MarginaliaNames of the Commissioners.

Nicholas Hare. William Roper.

Richard Rede. William Cooke.