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MarginaliaAnno 1556. Ianuary.go from his opinion (which they named heresy) and to persist in the vnity of the Church whiche they were of, MarginaliaThe constant persisting of Ioh. Tudson.but he constauntlie persisting in that whiche he had receiued by the Preachers in king Edwardes time, refused so to doe, saiyng there was no heresie in his aunsweres. For I (saide he) defie all heresie. The Bishop yet still vsed his olde accustomed perswasions to remoue hym, promising moreouer all his offences and errours, (as hee called them) to bee forgeuen hym, if hee would returne. &c. Then said Tudson: Tell me wherin I haue offended, And I will returne. Then said the Bishop: In your aunsweres. No, said Tudson again, I haue not therein offended: and ye, my Lord pretend charitie, but nothing therof appeareth in your workes. Thus after a few words the Bishop did likewise promulgate against him sentence of condemnation MarginaliaSentence read agaynst Iohn Tudson.which beyng red, the Godly and constaunt Martyr, was committed to the secular power, and so with much pacience finished this life with the other aboue named, the xxvii. daie of Ianuary.
CloseThe date of the execution of Whittle, Green and the others has been disputed. The normally reliable London diarist Henry Machyn states that it took place on 22 January (The Diary of Henry Machyn, ed. J. G. Nichols, Camden Society, original 42 [1848], p. 99). The chronicler Charles Wriothesley supports Foxe in stating that Whittle and the others were executed on 27 January. The dates of two of Green's letters further confirm the date of 27 January as that of his execution.
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CloseWent's death was merely listed in the Rerum (p. 634). This account was first printed in the 1563 edition and it remained substantially unchanged through subsequent editions. It was based entirely on official records of Went's trial.
MarginaliaIohn Went. Martyr.MarginaliaIanuary 27.IOhn Went borne in Langham in Essex, within the Dioces of London, of the age of. 27. and a Shereman by occupation, first was examined (as partly is touched before) by Doctor Story vpon the Sacrament of his Popish Aultar, and because the poore man did not accord with him throughly in the reall presence of the body and bloud of Christe, the saied Storie did send hym vp to Boner Bishop of London. Who likewise after diuers examinations vppon the Articles aforesaid in the Consistory, attempted the like maner of persuasions with him, as he did with the other to recant and returne. To whom in fewe wordes the saide Went aunswered again, he would not, but that by the leaue of God, he would stande firme and constaunt in that he had saide. And when the Bishop yet notwithstandyng did still vrge and call vpon hym with words and fayre gloses, to geue ouer hym selfe to their opinion, hee could haue no other aunswere of him but this: MarginaliaIohn Went withstandeth the Byshops persuasions.No, I say as I haue said. &c. MarginaliaIohn Went cōdemned.Wherupon beyng condemned by the bishops sentence, he was committed vnto the Sheriffes (whō that shameles shauelyng at that tyme abused for his seruile Butchers) and so brought to his Martyrdome, whiche he with no lesse constancie suffered to the ende with the rest of that blessed societie of Martyrs aboue named.
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CloseFoster's death was merely listed in the Rerum (p. 634). This accountwas first printed in the 1563 edition and it remained substantially unchanged through subsequent editions. It was based entirely on official accounts, now lost, of Foster's trial.
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Isabel Foster, Martyr.
Ianuary. 27.WIth these fiue persons aboue recited and condemned, were also twoo women in the foresaide companie condemned the same tyme, and likewise burned for the same cause, the one a wife called Isabell Foster, the other a maide named Ioane Warne, or otherwise Lashford.
This foresaid Isabell was borne in Grafestocke in the Dioces of Carlill, and afterwarde maried to one Iohn Foster Cutler, of the Parishe of S. Brides in Fleetestrete, beyng of the age of lv. yeares. She likewise for not commyng vnto the Church, beyng sent vnto Boner, and so imprisoned, was sondry tymes examined by the saide Bishop, MarginaliaIsabell Foster constant in cōfessing Christes Gospell.but neuer ouercome, nor remoued from the constaunt confession of Christes Gospell. At length commyng vnto her finall examination before the Bishop in the Consistory the xv. daie of the said moneth of Ianuary, she was moued againe, whether she woulde yet goe from her former aunsweres. Whereunto she gaue a resolute aunswere in few wordes: MarginaliaThe wordes of Isabell Foster at her laste examination.I wil not (saith she) go from them by Gods grace: and thereunto did adhere, neither beeyng caste downe by the manacyng threates of the Bishoppe, nor yet yeldyng through his alluryng enticementes, promising both life and libertie if she woulde associate her selfe in the vnitie of the Catholicke Churche. Whereunto she said againe in this wise, that she trusted she was neuer out of the Catholicke Churche. &c. and so persisting in the same, continued constaunt, till the sentence diffinitiue was pronounced,MarginaliaIsabell Foster condemned. and then she was committed by the commaundement of the Bishoppe to the secular power, and so brought a fewe daies after to the stake, the 27. daie of the foresaid moneth:
CloseThe date of the execution of Whittle, Green and the others has been disputed. The normally reliable London diarist Henry Machyn states that it took place on 22 January (The Diary of Henry Machyn, ed. J. G. Nichols, Camden Society, original 42 [1848], p. 99). The chronicler Charles Wriothesley supports Foxe in stating that Whittle and the others were executed on 27 January. The dates of two of Green's letters further confirm the date of 27 January as that of his execution.
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CloseLashford's death was merely listed in the Rerum (p. 634). This account was first printed in the 1563 edition and it remained substantially unchanged through subsequent editions. It was based on official records, now lost, and oral testimony about Lashford's family.
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Ioane Lashford, aliâs Ioane Warne, Martyr.
Ianuary. 27.IN a certaine place of these Actes and Monumentes heretofore, mention was made of one Elizabeth Warne. pag. 1608. col. 2. who with her housbande Iohn Warne (as is aforesaid) in the beginnyng of Queene Maries Reigne was apprehended in Bowe Churchyarde for beeyng there at a Communion: and bothe suffered for the same, first the man in the moneth of May, then the wife in Iuly after: & now the daughter in the moneth of Ianuary followed her Parentes in the same Martyrdome. Furthermore in the same place and page mencion was made also of Doct. Storie: who there (we said) was somewhat neare vnto the said parties, either in kyndred or alliaunce, albeit as I vnderstād since of some, there was no kindred betwene them, but only that she was his seruaunt. Yet notwithstandyng the said Doctor StorieMarginaliaD. Story first intercessor for Iohn Warne & his daughter, & afterward the chiefest persecutor agaynst them. (as it is aboue specified) before hee was Commissioner, made intercession for the parties to Doctour Martine then Commissioner: but afterward being placed in commission hymselfe, so farre forgate himselfe and his old seruaunt, that he became no smal procurer of their deathes. I wil not here expostulate with the harde hart of that man, nor with his inconstancie. Who yet notwithstandyng, after hee had brought them to death, was rested him selfe for. lx. pound, charged with dette in their behalfe: whiche if it be true, it maye thereby appeare that hee was in some peece of kindred ioyned or allied vnto them. But leauyng that person vnto the good pleasure of the Lorde, let vs returne vnto that we haue in hand.
This Ioane LashfordeMarginaliaIoane Lashford daughter of Elizabeth Warne. borne in the Parishe of litle Hallowes in Thames streete, was the daughter of one Robert Lashforde Cutler, and of the foresaid Elizabeth, who afterward was maried to Iohn Warne vpholster, who (as is said) was persecuted for the Gospel of GOD, to the burnyng fire: and after him his wife, & after her this Ioane Lashford their daughter.MarginaliaThe daughter burned after the father and mother. Who about the age of twentie yeares, ministring to her Father and mother in prison, suspected and knowen to bee of the same doctrine and religion, was sent vp to Boner Bishoppe of London by Doctour Storie (as is aboue in her aunsweres to the articles declared) and so committed to the Counter in the Poultrie, where she remained the space of fiue weekes, and from thence had to Newgate, where she continued the space of certaine monethes.
[Back to Top]After that, remainyng prisoner in the custodie of the said Boner, her confession was, being examined, MarginaliaThe confession of Ioane before the Byshop.that the whole. xij. Moneth before and more, she came vnto no Popishe Masse, Seruice in the Churche, neither would do, either to receiue the Sacrament of the Aultar, or to be confessed, because her conscience would not suffer her so to doe, confessyng and protestyng that in the Sacrament of the aultar, there is not the real presence of Christes bodye and bloud, nor that auricular confession or absolution after the Popishe sort, was necessary, nor the Masse to be good or according vnto the Scripture, MarginaliaSuperfluous and Popish ceremonies.but saide that both the saide Sacrament, confession, absolution, and the Masse, with all other their superfluous Sacramentes, ceremonies and Diuine seruice as then vsed in this Realme of Englande, were most vile and contrarie to Christes woordes and institution, so that neither they were at the begynnyng, nor shall be at the latter ende. This Godly Damosell feble and tender of age, MarginaliaThe worthy constancie of a mayde.yet strong by grace in this her Confession and Faith, stoode so firme, that neither the flatteryng promises, nor the violent threates of the Bishops could turne her, but beyng moued and exhorted by the Bishoppe to returne to the Catholicke vnitie of the Churche, saith boldly to hym againe: MarginaliaThe wordes of Ioane Lashford at here last examination.if ye will leaue of your abomination, so I will returne, and otherwise I will not.
[Back to Top]Whereupon the Bishop yet againe promised her Pardon of all her errours (as hee called them) if shee would bee conformed. To this she aunswered agayne, saiyng vnto the Bishop: Doe as it pleaseth you, and I praie GOD that you maie doe that whiche may please God.
And thus she constantly perseueryng in the Lordes holy truth, MarginaliaThe Sentence and condemnation of Ioane Lashford.was by the sentence diffinitiue condemned, and committed vnto the Sherifes, by whom the foresaide. xxvii. daie of Ianuary
CloseThe date of the execution of Whittle, Green and the others has been disputed. The normally reliable London diarist Henry Machyn states that it took place on 22 January (The Diary of Henry Machyn, ed. J. G. Nichols, Camden Society, original 42 [1848], p. 99). The chronicler Charles Wriothesley supports Foxe in stating that Whittle and the others were executed on 27 January. The dates of two of Green's letters further confirm the date of 27 January as that of his execution.
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