Marginalia1558.escaped the stroke of death, were depriued, and committed to prisons: the Catalogue of whose names here followeth.MarginaliaCatholicke Byshops after Q. Maries death depriued and imprisoned. Note that some of these Byshops afterward through the goodnes of Q. Elizabeth were dispersed and suffered to be kept in their frendes houses.

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Nicolas Heath Archbyshop of Yorke, and Lord Chauncellour. Thomas Thurlbye Byshop of Eley. Thomas Watson Byshop of Lyncolne. Gilbert Burne Bish. of Bath & Welles. Richard Pates Byshop of Worcester. Troublefield Byshop of Exetor. Iohn Fecknam Abbot of Westminster. Iohn Boxall Deane of Windsore and Pe- terborough.

In the tower.

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Of Dauid Poole B. of Peterborough, I doubt whe-
ther he was in the Tower, or in some other prison.

Goldwell Byshop of S. Asse. Maurice Elect of Bangor.

Ranne away.

Edmund Boner Bysh. of Lōdon, in the Marshalsee.
Thomas Wood Byshop Elect, in the Marshalsee.
Cutbert Scot byshop of Chester, was in the Fleete,
from whence he escaped to Louane & there dyed.

Henry Cole Deane of Paules. Iohn Harpesfield Archdeacon of Lōdon, and Deane of Norwich. Nicolas Harpesfield Archdeacō of Cant. Anthony Draycot Archdea. of Hūtingtō. W. Chadsey Archdeacon of Midlesex.

In the Fleete.

MarginaliaA note of D. Chadsey.¶ Concernyng whiche Doctour Chadsey here is to be noted, that in the begynnyng of kyng Edwardes reigne he recanted and subscribed to 34. Articles,Marginalia34. Articles of D. Chadsey. wherein he then fully consented and agreed with his owne hand writyng to the whole forme of doctrine approued and allowed then in the Church,MarginaliaD. Chadsey subscribed to the reformed Religion in K. Edwardes tyme. as well concerning Iustification by fayth onely, as also the doctrine of the two Sacramentes then receaued, denying as well the Popes supremacie, transubstantiation, Purgatory, Inuocation of Saintes, eleuation and adoration of the Sacrament, the sacrifice, and veneration of the Masse, as also all other like excrementes of Popish superstition, accordyng to the kynges booke then set forth.

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Wherefore the more maruell it is that he being counted such a famous and learned Clerke, would shew him selfe so fickle and vnstable in his assertiōs, so double in his doings, to alter his Religion accordyng to tyme, and to mainteine for truth, not what he thought best, but what hee might most safely defend. So long as the state of the Lord Protectour and of his brother stode vpright, what was then the conformitie of this Doctour Chadsey, his owne Articles in Latine written and subscribed with his owne hand, doe declare, whiche I haue to shew, if he will deny them. MarginaliaD. Chadsey mutable and inconstant in his religion.But after the decay of the kinges vncles, the fortune of them turned not so fast, but his Religion turned withall, & eftsoones he tooke vpon him to dispute agaynst Peter Martyr in vpholdyng transubstantiation at Oxford, which a little before with his owne hand writyng he had ouerthrowen.

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After this ensued the tyme of Queene Mary, wherein Doctour Chadsey to shew his double diligence, MarginaliaThe egernes of Doctour Chadsey in punishing the poore Martyrs.was so eger in his Commission to sit in iudgement & to bryng poore men to their death, that in the last yeare of Queene Mary when the Lord Chauncellour, Syr Thomas Cornwalles, Lord Clinton, and diuers other of the Counsell had sent for hym by a speciall Letter to repayre vnto London out of Essex, he writyng agayne to the Byshop of London, sought meanes not to come at the Counsels byddyng, but to continue still in his persecutyng progresse. The copy of whose letter I haue also in my handes (if neede were) to bryng forth.  

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Mention was made not long before, of one William Mauldon, who in kyng Henries tyme suffered stripes and scourgyngs for confessyng the veritie of Gods true Religiō.  

It happened in the first yeare of Queenes Elizabeth,MarginaliaW. Mauldon Prentise wyth M. Hew Aparry at Grenewich.that the sayd William Mauldon was bounde seruaunt with one named Maister Hew Aparry then a Wheate taker for the Queene, dwellyng at Grenewich. Who beyng newly come vnto him, and hauyng neuer a booke there to looke vpon, beyng desirous to occupy him selfe vertuously, looked about the house and founde a Primer in Englishe, whereon hee read in a Winters euenyng. Whiles he was readyng, there sat one Iohn Apowell that had bene a Seruing man, about xxx. yeares of age, borne toward Wales, whom the sayd M. Hew gaue meate and drinke vnto, till such tyme as he could get a seruice. And as the foresayd William Mauldon read on the Booke, the sayd Iohn Apowell mocked him after euery word, with contrary gaudes and floutyng woordes vnreuerentely, in so much that hee could not longer abyde him for grief of hart, but turned vnto him, and sayd: Iohn take heede what thou doest: Then doest not mocke me, but thou mockest God. For in mockyng of his word, thou

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mockest him: and this is the word of God, though I be simple that read it: therfore beware what thou doest.

Then Mauldon fell to readyng agayne, and still he proceeded on in his mocking, and when Mauldon had read certaine English Prayers, in the end he read: Lord haue mercy vpon vs, Christ haue mercy vpon vs. &c.

And as Mauldon was recityng those wordes, the other with a start sodenly sayd: Lord haue mercy vpon me.

With that Mauldō turned & said, what ailist thou Iohn?

He sayd. I was afrayde.

Whereon wast thou afrayde, sayd Mauldon?

Nothyng now, sayd the other: and so he would not tell him. After this, when Mauldō and he went to bed, Mauldon asked him wherof he was afrayde?

He sayd, when you red Lord haue mercy vpō vs, Christ haue mercy vpon vs, me thought the heare of my head stode vpright, with a great feare which came vpon me.

Then sayd Mauldon: Iohn thou mayest see, the euill spirite could not abyde that Christ should haue mercy vpon vs. Well Iohn (sayd Mauldon) repent and amend thy lyfe, for God will not be mocked. If we mocke and ieste at his word, he will punish vs.

Also you vse rebauldry words & swearyng very much: therfore for God sake Iohn amend thy lyfe. So I wil (sayd he) by the grace of God: I pray God I may. Amen said the other, with other wordes, and so went to bed.

MarginaliaA terrible example of Gods iudgement to be noted of all such as be contēners and mockers of God and hys worde.On the next day, about viij. of the clocke in the mornyng, the foresayd Iohn came runnyng downe out of his Chamber in his shyrt into the Hall, and wrasteled with his Mistres as he would haue throwen her downe. Wherat she shriked out, and her seruauntes holpe her, and tooke him by strength and caryed him vp vnto his bed, and bound him down to his bed (for they perceiued playnly that he was out of his right mynde.)

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After that, as he lay, almost day and night his toung neuer ceased, but he cryed out of the deuill of hell, and hys woordes were euer still: O the deuill of hell: now the deuill of hell: I would see the Deuill of hell: thou shalt see the deuill of hell: there he was, there he goeth, with other words, but most of the Deuill of hell.

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Thus hee lay without amendement about sixe dayes, that his Maister and all his houshold was weery of that trouble and noyse. Then his Maister agreed with the keepers of Bedlem, and gaue a peece of money, and sent him thether. It seemeth that he was possessed with an euill spirite, from the which God defend vs all.

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This is a terrible example to you that be mockers of the word of God: therfore repent and amend, lest the vengeaunce of GOD fall vpon you in like maner. Witnes hereof William Mauldon of Newyngton.

MarginaliaGods punishment vpon a young damsell of 12. yeares olde, blaspheming the Maiestie of God.The same William Mauldon chaunced afterward to dwell at a Towne vj. myles from London called Waltamstow, where his wife taught young children to read, which was about the yeare of our Lord. 1563. & the fourth yeare of Queene Elizabethes reigne. Vnto this schole, amongest other children, came one Benfieldes daughter named Denis, about the age of twelue yeares.

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As these children sat talkyng together, they happened among other talke (as the nature of children is, to be busie with many thynges) to fall in communication of GOD, and to reason among them selues, after their childish discretion, what he should be.

Whereunto some aunswered one thyng, some an other. Among whom when one of the children had sayd, that he was a good old father: the foresayd Denis Benfield castyng out impious wordes of horrible blasphemy: what he (sayd she) is an old dotyng foole.

What wretched and blasphemous woordes were these, ye heare. Now marke what folowed.

When William Mauldon heard of these abhominable woordes of the gyrle, hee willed his wife to correct her for the same. Whiche was appoynted the next day to bee done. But when the next morow came, her mother would needes send her to the market to London, the wench greatly intreatyng her mother that she might not go, beyng marueilously vnwillyng thereunto. Howbeit thorough her mothers compulsion, she was forced to go, and went. And what happened? Her businesse beyng done at London, as she was returnyng agayne homeward, and beyng a little past Hackney, sodenly the young gyrle was so stricken, that all the one side of her was blacke, and she speachles.MarginaliaBlasphemye punished. Whereupon immediately she was caryed backe agayne to Hackney, and there the same night was buryed. Witnes of the same story William Mauldon and his wife, also Benfield her father, and her mother, which yet be all alyue.

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MarginaliaA lesson to children and young gyrles.A terrible example (no doubt) both to old and young, what it is for children to blaspheme the Lord their GOD, and what it is for parentes to suffer their young ones to grow