MarginaliaThe sentēce of the B. of Worcester against Ioh. Badby In the name of God, Amen. We Thomas Byshop of Worcester, do accuse thee Iohn Badby beyng a lay man of our Dioces, of and vpon the crime of heresie before vs, sittyng for chief iudge, beyng oftentymes confessed and conuicted of and vpon that, that thou hast taught and openly affirmed as hetherto thou doest teach, boldly affirme, and defend: that the Sacrament of the body of Christ, consecrated vpō the aulter by the Priest, is not the true body of Christ: But after the Sacramentall wordes to make the body of Christ by vertue of the sayd Sacramētall wordes pronoūced, to haue bene in the crime of heresie: and we do pronoūce thee, both to haue bene and to be an hereticke, and do declare it finally by these writynges. These thynges were done accordyngly as is aboue written and are recited in the yeare, indiction, popedome, moneth, day and place aforesayd,MarginaliaA rable of monkes & Friers about the condemnation of Iohn Badby. beyng present the same tyme, Iohn Malune Prior of the Cathedrall Church of Worcester, Iohn Dudle Mōke, and Iohn Haule the Suppriour of the sayd Church, Thomas Penynges of the order of the Carmelites, Thomas Fekenhā of the order of the preachyng Friers, William Pomfret of the order of the Minorites, being professours and maisters in Diuinitie, William Hailes, Gualter of London, Iohn Swippedew beyng publique Notaries, and William Beuchampe and Thomas Gerbris beyng Knightes,MarginaliaQuare fremuernut gentes, Psal. 2. Richard Wishe of Tredington, Thomas Wilbe of Hembury, Iohn Weston of Yewley, beyng parsons of Churches, and Thomas Baleinges, the maister of Saint Wolstone in Worcester, and also Henry Haggely, Iohn Penerell, Thomas Trognorton and Williā Wasseborne Esquiers of the Dioces of Worcester and Norwich,MarginaliaScribes with Pharises. and many other worshypfull and honest men being witnesses and called spiritually to the thynges aforesayd.

And I Iohn Chew Clerke, of the Dioces of Bath and Welles and by the authoritie Apostolicall, publique Notarie of the sayd Byshop: haue in testimonie of the premisses, put my hand and seale to the examination, interrogatiō, monition, and aunswere of the same Iohn Badby, and to his obstinacie: & also to the procedings and all and singular other doynges as is aforesayd, which agaynst him before the sayd byshop were handled and done, in the yeare, indiction, popedome, moneth, day, and place aforesaid, which with the fornamed witnesses was personally present: and the same, euē as I heard them and saw them to be done (beyng occupyed with other matters) caused them to be written and published, and into this publique forme haue compiled the same. I the foresayd Notary am also priuy, vnto the wordes and examinatiōs interlyned betwene vij. or viij. lynes of the beginning of this instrument, which lynes I also the foresayd Notary do approue and make good.

And I Walter London Clerke, of the Dioces of Worcester, and by the authoritie Apostolicall, publique Notarie: to all and singular the foresayd thyngs as afore by the foresayd Notary is recited, & in the yeare, indiction, popedome, moneth, day, & place aforesayd were handled and done, beyng with other the fore recited witnesses personally present: and to all and euery of the same (as I saw and heard them to be done beyng therunto faythfully desired & required.) In testimony of the premisses, haue signed & subscribed accordyng to the accustomed manner. Hæc ex Reg. Cant.

MarginaliaThe aunswere of I. Badby to the articles. And when the articles, in the foresayd instrument contained, were by the Archbyshop of Canterbury publiquely and vulgarly read and approued: he publiquely cōfessed and affirmed, that he had both sayd and maynteined the same. And then the Archbyshop to conuince the constant purpose of the sayd Iohn Badby, commaunded the same articles agayne to be read, often instructyng hym both by wordes and examples, informyng and exhortyng him that thereby he might be brought the sooner to the Religion that he was of. And furthermore, the sayd Archbyshop sayd and affirmed there openly to the same Iohn: that he would (if he would liue accordyng to the doctrine of Christ) gage his soule for him at the iudgement day. And after that agayne he caused those articles in the sayd instrument expressed, to be read by the foresayd Phillip Morgā, and the sayd Archbyshop himselfe expounded the same in English as before: wherunto Iohn Badby aunswered. As touchyng the first article concernyng the body of Christ, he expresly sayd, that after the consecration at the aulter, there remaineth materiall bread, & the same bread which was before: notwithstanding (sayd he) it is a signe or Sacrament of the liuing God.

Also, when the second article was expounded vnto him, that it is impossible for any Priest &c. To this article he aunswered and sayd, that it could not sinke into his mynde that the wordes are to be taken as they litterally lye, vnles he should deny the incarnation of Christ.

Also, beyng examined of the third Article concernyng Iacke Raker, he sayd: That if Iacke Raker were a man of good liuing, and did loue and feare God, that he hath as much power so to do, as hath the Priest: and sayd further, that he hath heard it spoken of some doctors of diuinity, that if he should receiue any such consecrated bread, he were worthy to be damned, and were damned in so doyng.

Furthermore he sayd that he would beleue the omnipotent God in trinitie, and sayd moreouer that if euery host beyng consecrated at the aulter were the Lords body, that thē there be 20000. gods in England. But he beleued (he sayd) in one God omnipotent, which thyng the foresaid Archb. of Cant. denied not.

And when the other conclusion was expounded. That Christ sitting with his Disciples at supper &c. To this he answered and said that he would greatly maruel: that if any man had a loafe of bread, and should breake the same & giue to euery man a mouthfull, that the same loafe should afterwardes be whole.

When all these thinges were thus finished, and that all the sayd conclusions were often red in the vulgare tong: the foresayd Archb. demaunded of hym, whither he would renounce and forsake hys opinions and such lyke conclusions or not, and adhere to the doctrine of Christ and Catholicke fayth? He answered, that according to that he had sayd before, he would adhere and stand to those wordes, which before he had made answer vnto.MarginaliaThe cōstancy of Iohn Badby before the Archb. Then the Archb. oftentimes required the said Iohn in the bowels of Iesu Christ that he would forsake those opinions and conclusions, & that henceforth he would cleaue to the christian fayth: which thing to do in the audience of all the lords and others that were present, he expresly denied and refused.

After all this, when the foresayd Archbishop of Cant. and the Bishop of London had consulted together, to what safe kepyng the sayd Iohn Badby (vntill the Wednesday next) might be committed:MarginaliaThe bishops make sure worke. It was concluded, that he shold be put in a certayne chamber or safe house within the Mansion of the Frier preachers, and so he was:MarginaliaThe Archb. both Iudge & Iaylor. and then the Archbishop of Caunterbury sayd, that he himselfe would kepe the key therof, in the meane tyme. And when the foresayd Wednesday was expired being the 15. day of Marche, and that the foresayd Archbishop of Canterbury, with hys fellow brethren and Suffraganes were assembled in the Church of S. Paule in London:MarginaliaAstiterunt reges terræ & principes conuenerunt in vnum aduersus, &c. Psal. 2. The Archbish of Canterbury takyng the Episcopall seate, called vnto hym the Archbishop of Yorke, Richard London, Henry Winchester, Robert Chichester, Alexāder Norwich, and the noble prince Edmond the Duke of Yorke, Iohn Earle of Westmerland, Thomas Beauford Knight Lord Chauncellour of England, and the Lord Beamond with other noble men as well spirituall as temporall, that stood and sate by, whō to name it wold be long: Before whom the said Iohn Badby was called personally to aunswer vnto the Articles premised in the foresayd instrument. Who when he came personally before them, the articles were read by the Officiall of the court of Cant. and by the Archb. (in the vulgare tong) expounded, publikely, and expresly: and the same Articles, as he before had spokenn and deposed, he still held and defended, and sayd, that whilest he lyued, he would neuer retract the same. And furthermore he sayd specially to be noted, that the Lord duke of Yorke personally there present as is aforesayd, and euery man els for the tyme beyng: is of more estimation and reputation, then the Sacrament of the aulter, by the priest in due forme consecrated. And whilest they were thus in hys examination, the Archbishop consideryng and waying that he would in no wise be altered, and seyng moreouer his countenaunce stout and hart confirmed, so that he begā to persuade other as it appeared in the same: These thynges considered, the Archprelate when he saw that by hys allurementes it was not in his power, neyther by exhortations, reasones, nor argumentes, to bryng the sayd Iohn Badby from his cōstant truth to hys Catholique fayth (executyng and doyng the office of hys great maister) proceded to confirme and ratifie the former sentence geuen before by the Bishop of Worcester agaynst the sayd Iohn Badby, pronouncyng him for an open and publique hereticke. And thus shiftyng theyr handes of hym, they deliuered hym to the secular power:MarginaliaNote here murdring wolues in shepes clothing. and desired the sayd temporall Lordes, then and there present very instauntly, that they would not put the same I. Badby to death for that hys offence, nor deliuer hym to be punished or put to death, in the presence of all the Lordes aboue recited.

These thinges thus done and concluded by the bishops in the forenoone: on the afternoone, the Kinges writte was not far behynd. By the force wherof, I. Badby stil perseuering in hys constancie vnto the death, was brought into Smithfield, and there beyng put in an empty barrel was