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MarginaliaAnno. 1557. September.more neare you then Abrahams obedience did, & therfore before God assuredly, is no lesse accepted & alowed in his holy presence: which further the preparing of your shroude also doth argue full well &c. After which talke betwene them, MarginaliaAgnes Bōgeor receiueth comforte.she began a litle to stay her selfe, and gaue her whole exercise to reading and prayer, wherein she found no litle comfort.
[Back to Top]In the time that these foresayd ij. good women were prisoners, one in þe Castle, and the other in Mote hall: God by a secret meane called þe sayd Margaret Thurston vnto his truth agayne, who hauing her eyes opened by the working of his spirite, did greatly sorrow and lament her backsliding before, and promised faithfully to the Lord, in hope of his mercies, neuer more while she liued to do the like againe, but that she would constantly stand to the confession of the same, agaynst all the aduersaries of the crosse of Christ. After which promise made, MarginaliaA writte for the burnyng of Margaret Thurston, and Agnes Bōgeor.came in short time a writ from London for the burning of them, which according to the effect thereof, was executed the xvij. day of September, in the yeare aforesayd.
[Back to Top]Margaret Thurston.
Agnes Bongeor.
Now whē these foresayd good womē were brought to the place in Colchester where they should suffer, the xvij. day of September in the yeare aforesayd, they fell downe both vpon their knees, and made their humble prayers vnto the Lord: which thing being done, they rose and went to the stake ioyfully, and were immediatly therto chayned, and after the fire had compassed
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Closethem about, they with great ioy and glorious triumph, gaue vp theyr soules, spirites, and liues into the hands of the Lord: vnder whose gouernement and protectiō, for Christes sake we besech him, to graunt vs his holy defence and helpe for euer more, Amen.
Thus (gētle Reader) God choseth the weake things of the world, to confound mighty thinges.
CloseThis account, based entirely on information sent to Foxe by individual informants, came to light while the 1563 edition was being printed. Foxe realized that it referred to an unnamed shoemaker whose death had already been recounted in the Acts and Monuments and inserted cross-references to the earlier narrative. But he never integrated the two accounts into one narrative. After the first edition, no changes were made to the narrative of this martyr.
[Back to Top]MarginaliaSeptember. 20IN the story before, in þe pag. thus marked 860. some thing was touched of a certaine Shomaker,MarginaliaIohn Kurde, Martyr. suffering at Northampton, being vnnamed, whom because we vnderstād by a letter sent from the sayd parties, that he suffered in this yere. 1557. and in the moneth of September, therefore we though there to place hym. His name was Iohn Kurde a Shomaker, late of the Parish of Syrsam, in
[Back to Top]Northampton shiere, who was imprisoned in Northampton castel, for denying the Popish transubstantiation, MarginaliaWilliam Bynsley Chauncellour to the Bishop of Peterborough, and now Archdeacon of Northāpton, condemned Ihō Kurd.for the which cause William Bynsley Bacheler of law, and Chauncellour vnto the Byshop of Peterborow, and now Archdeacon of Northamptō, did pronounce sentence of death agaynst the sayd Kurde, in the Churche of all Saintes in Northampton in August. an. 1557. And in September followyng, at the commaundement of Syr Thomas Tresham, Shrieffe thē of the shiere, he was led by his officers without the Northgate of Northeampton, & in the stonepittes was
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Closeburned. A Popish Priest stādyng by, whose name was MarginaliaIohn Rote a Popishe priest.Iohn Rote, Vicare of S. Giles in Northampton, did declare vnto him, that if he would recant, he was authorised to geue him his pardon. MarginaliaPopishe pardon refused.His aunswere was that he had his pardon by Iesus Christ. &c.
CloseThis account first appeared in the 1570 edition and is based on Noyes's writings and on the testimony of individual informants. But John Noyes is very probably the 'Moyse' whose escape from capture is described in 1563, p. 1698. (This is supported by the fact that the sentence condemning John Moyse of Lichfield, Suffolk, survives among Foxe's papers as BL, Harley MS 421, fos. 159r-160r).
[Back to Top]MarginaliaSeptember. 22.IN the moneth of September this present yeare, or (as some reporte in the yeare past, suffered the blessed Martyr Ioh. Noyes, whose story here foloweth.
MarginaliaPersecution by the Constables, Sheriffes, and Iustices of Suffolke.First M. Thomas Louell beyng then chief Constable of Hoxton Hundred, in the Countie aforesayd, and one Iohn Iacob, and William Stannard then being vnder Constables of the aforesayd towne of Laxfield, and Wolfren Dowsing, and Nicholas Stannard of the same towne, beyng then accompted faithfull and Catholicke Christians, though vndoutedly they approued most cruel hinderers of the true professours of Christ and his Gospell, with others, were commaunded to be that present day before the Iustices, whose names were M. Thurston, Syr Iohn Tyrrell, & M. Kene, and Syr Iohn Syllyerd beyng hye Shriffe.
[Back to Top]MarginaliaCharge giuen by the Inquisitours.These sittyng at Hoxtō in the Countie of Suffolke aforesayd, and there the sayd townesmen aforesayd hauing commaundement of the sayd Iustices, to inquire in their towne if there were any that would neglect to come to their seruice and Masse, further to examine the cause why they would not come, and thereupon to bryng the true certificate to the sayd Iustices within xiiii. dayes then next ensuyng: they then cōmyng homeward, beyng full of hatred agaynst the truth, and desi-
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