1576 Edition | Book 11 | Page 1830 
Closeof my lamenes. And so paciently these two good Saintes of God together suffered.
CloseThis entire account first appears in the 1563 edition. In fact, the 1563 account contains information which was never reprinted. (This seems to have happened accidentally; the account of Margaret Ellis was separate from the accounts of Thackvel and Horns in the first edition. When these accounts were integrated in the 1570 edition, some of the information about Margaret Ellis was deleted, apparently inadvertently). This account is based entirely on Bishop Bonner's official records.
[Back to Top]MarginaliaMay. 16.THe next day after the Martyrdome of this lame and blynd man aboue specified, in the sayd moneth of May were brought to the fire three women, with whom also was adioyned an other, who beyng in the same constauncie with them, was likewise partaker of the sayd condemnatiō. The names of these were.MarginaliaKatherin Hutte, Elizabeth Thackuell, Ioane Hornes, Martyrs.
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Katherine Hut of Bockyng, Widow.
Ioane Hornes of Billerica, Mayde.
Elizabeth Thackuell of great Bursted, Mayde.
Margaret Ellys of Billerica, Mayde.
How these with diuers other moe were perscuted and sent vp, especially by Syr Iohn Mordant, and Edmund Tyrrell Esquier, Iustices of peace, this their Letter followyng will declare.
MarginaliaA letter of certayne persecuting Iustices to Boner.OVr humble commendations to your Lordshyp: these shall be to aduertise you, that we haue sent your good Lordshyp, Ioane Potter, the wife of Hugh Potter, Iames Harrys
James Harris, who was seventeen at the time of his arrest, escaped with simply being scourged (see 1563, p. 1694; 1570, p. 2264; 1576, p. 1955 and 1583, p. 2061).
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Your Lordshyps to commaund,
Iohn Mordant. Edmund Tyrrell.
After the receite of these Letters, Byshop Boner entryng to examination of these iiij. women aboue named, laid and obiected the lyke Articles to them,MarginaliaSeeke these Articles before pag. 1585. as after his vsuall forme he vsed to minister,
CloseBy now, the articles put to suspected heretics in the diocese of London followed a set formula. These articles put to Thackvel and Horns are identical to those put to Christopher Lister and his fellow martyrs.
Whereunto the sayd women likewise agreeyng in the same vnitie of spirite and doctrine, accorded in their aunsweres, much agreeyng vnto the other before them.
As first, to the Article in the first place obiected, they cōsented and graunted, beleuing the sayd Article to bee true in euery part therof.
2. To the second, partly they aunswered, MarginaliaThe simple ignoraunce of these women had more neede to be instructed then they to be burned.they coulde not tell what a Sacrament is: Elizabeth Thackuell, and Katheryn Hut addyng moreouer, that Matrimony and Baptisme and the Lordes supper were Sacraments ordeyned in the church: but whether the other specified in this article be sacraments (as they hearde them called) ordeyned by God or not, they could not tell. Margeret Ellys beyng examined seuerally, as the other were, vpon the same, howe many Sacramentes there were aunswered (as a young Mayde vnskilled, in her simple ignoraunce) that she shoulde not tell. Howbeit she had heard (she sayd) that there was one sacrament but what it was she could not tell. &c.
[Back to Top]3. To the Third likewise they graunted, that they were baptised by theyr Godfathers and Godmothers, which godfathers & godmothers (sayd Margeret Ellys) dyd not thē know so much, as she now doth know: Katherin Hut addyng withall, and saying, that she was baptised: but what her godfather and godmothers dyd then promise for her in her name, she could not tell.
[Back to Top]4 To the fourth article, Margaret Ellys, and Elizabeth Thackuell dyd graunt therunto: Katherin Hut sayd moreouer that she beyng of the age of. xiiij. yeares, was of the fayth wherein she was Christened, and yet neuertheles the sayd fayth in that age (she sayd) was but a dead fayth, because she dyd not thē vnderstād what she dyd beleue. Ioane Hornes added that she beyng. xj. yeares of age, begā to learne the fayth set forth in kynge Edwardes dayes, in the which fayth and Religion (she sayd) she hath hetherto, and yet doth and so will hereafter continue, God so assisting her.
[Back to Top]5. To the fift article, they aunswered and confessed, accordyng all in this effect, MarginaliaAgaynst the Masse and Sacrament of the Altar.that as touching the Masse, they knew no goodnes in it, and as touchyng the Sacrament of the aulter, they beleued that Christes naturall body is in heauen, and not in the Sacrament of the aulter: And as cōcernyng the Sea of Rome, they acknowledged no such supremacy in that sea, neyther haue they any thing to do therwith.
[Back to Top]6. In aunsweryng the sixt article, they dyd all generally refuse to bee reconciled or vnited to the church of Rome, or any other Church contrary to that wherein they now stoode and dyd professe.
7. To the seuenth article, they aūswered likewise that they had so done and sayd in all thinges, as is in this article contayned: Katheryn Hut addyng moreouer the reason why: for that (sayd she) neyther the seruice in Latin, Masse, Mattins, and Euensong, nor the Sacramentes were vsed and ministred accordyng to Gods word: And furthermore, that the Masse is an idoll, neyther is the true body and bloude of Christ in the Sacrament of the aulter, as they make men beleue.
[Back to Top]8. Their aunswere to the eyght article declared that they were al and euery one sent vp to Boner by MarginaliaSyr Iohn Mordant Promoter.Syr Ioh. Mordaunt knight, and iustice of peace in Essex (the Lord of hys mercy send vs better Iustices I besech him) for that they could not affirme þe presence of Christes body & bloud to bee truely and really in the Sacrament, and for that they came not to theyr parish popish Church.
[Back to Top]9. To the nynth article, they aunswered and confessed the premisses therof to be true, and denyed not the same: saue that MarginaliaKatherin Hutte.Katherin Hut sayd, that she was of Bocking in Essex of the peculiar iurisdiction of Caunterbury, and not of the Dioces and iurisdiction of London.
After these their aunsweres receiued, they were produced agayne about the. xiij. of Aprill to further examination, and so at length to their finall iudgement, where Katherin Hut widow standyng before the Byshop boldly and cōstantly stode to that which she had sayd before, neyther yeldyng to hys fayre promises, nor ouerthrowne with his terrour. Who beyng required of the Sacrament to say her mynde, & to reuoke her selfe vnto the fellowship of þe Catholicke fayth, openly protested, saying: MarginaliaThe wordes of Katherin Hutte, of the Sacrament.I deny it to be God, because it is a dumme God and made wt mans handes. Wherein þe good & faythfull Martyr of Christ firmely persistyng, so receaued her sentence beyng condemned of Boner to the fire: whiche shee with great constancye susteyned by the Grace and strength of the Lord, and dyd abyde for the cause and loue of Christ.
[Back to Top]MarginaliaIoane Hornes mayde.Ioane Hornes mayd, producted likewise to her iudgemēt & cōdēnatiō, with like firmnes & Christiā fortitude declared her selfe a true martyr folower of Christes testamēt, geuing no place to the aduersary: but beyng charged that she did not beleue the Sacramēt of Christes body & bloud to be Christ
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