1576 Edition | Book 7 | Page 831 
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1. Henry VIII's reign2. Dissension among mendicant orders3. Persecution of Lollards4. Richard Hun5. Lollard martyrs6. Persecution in diocese of Lincoln7. Colet, Chaucer and Gower8. Prophecies preceeding Luther9. Martin Luther10. Adrian VI11. Final years of Luther12. Swiss Reformation13. German martyrs14. French martyrs15. Spanish martyrs16. Italian martyrs17. Merindol and Cabriers18. Angrogne
K. Henry. 8. Persecution in the Dioces of Lincolne.
| Accusers. | Parties accused. | Crimes obiected. |
| Roger Dods of Burford, by his oth was cōpelled to vtter these persōs here named. | Syr Iohn Drury Vi- care of Win drishe in Worceter- shyre | The crime agaynst this sir Iohn Dru- ry was, for that, whē Roger Dods came first to him to be hys seruaunt, hee sware him vpon a booke to keepe hys counsails in all thyngs: and af- ter that hee shewed him a certeine womā in his house whō he sayd to bee his wife, counsailyng moreo- uer the sayd Roger Dods vpon an Im- bryng day, to suppe with bread & chese, saying: that whiche goeth into a mās bo- dy defileth not a mās |
| soule, but that whiche goeth out of þe body defileth both body and soule. Also that the sayde vicarE taught him the A. B. C. to þe entent he shoulde haue vnderstandyng in the Apoca- lyps, wherein he sayd that he should perceaue all the falsehode of þe world, & all the truth. He sayd furthermore vnto him, when hee had bene at the Lady of Worcester, and at the bloud of hailes, whiche had cost him. xviij. pence, that he had done as an ill hus- band, that had plowed his land and sowen it, but nothing to the purpose: For he had worshypped mans hādy worke and cast away hys money, which had beene better geuen to the poore: for he should worshyp but one God, and no handy worke of man. Item, when the people would offer candels, where he was vicare, to Mary Magdalene, hee would take them away and say they were fooles, that brought them thether. | ||
| Elizabeth More, of Easthenred. Robert Pope, of Westhenred. | ||
| Henry Mil- ler or Tuccke, by ware | This Henry dyd shew to Roger Dods a certeine story of a woman in the Apo- calyps, rydyng vpon a red beast. 
CloseThe whore of Babylon; see Rev. 17:1-6. Hēry was twise ab- iured. | |
| Iohn Fyppe
CloseA John Phipp appeared on the list of those in the Amersham area who abjured in 1511. It probably was not the same person, since Phipp was not executed for relapse in 1521, but it could well have been a close relative. Hychendē. | For readyng vnto þe sayd Roger Dods, a certeine Gospell in English. | |
| W. Fyppe of Hychenden and Henry his sonne. | This Williā had ex- horted Roger Dods, that hee should wor- shyp no Images, nor cōmit no Idolatry, but worshyppe one God: & told the same Rog. þt it was good for a man to be mery and wise, meanyng, that he should keepe close that was told hym: for elles streit punishement woulde folow. | |
| Roger Par- ker of Hy- chenden. | This Parker sayd to Iohn Fyppe
CloseA John Phipp appeared on the list of those in the Amersham area who abjured in 1511. It probably was not the same person, since Phipp was not executed for relapse in 1521, but it could well have been a close relative. burnynge of hys bookes, that he was foule to blame, for they were worth a C. markes. To whō Iohn aūswered, that | |
| he had rather burne his bookes, thē that hys bookes should burne him. |
| Accusers. | Parties accused. | Crimes obiected. |
| The fore- sayd Roger Dods of Burford, by hys othe was com- pelled to vtter these persons here an- nexed. | ||
| The wife of Thomas Wydmore, daughter of Roger House, of Hy- chenden. Old Wydmores wyfe, sister to Iohn Fyppe of Hychenden. | ||
| Iohn Ledis- dall of Hun gerford | For reading of þe Bi- ble, in Robert Bur- ges house at Burford vpon holy roode day, wyth Colyns Ly- uerd, Thomas Hall, and other.MarginaliaFor reading the Bible in Englishe. | |
| Rob. Co- lyns, and hys wyfe. | For buying a Byble of Stacy,
CloseJohn Stacy, a warden of the bricklayers company. He will be charged in 1531 for aiding - and having converted - the evangelical martyr Richard Bayfield (1570, p. 1161; 1576, p. 993 and 1583, p. 1021). He will testify against Thomas Phillips and then abjured (1570, p. 1185; 1576, p. 1014 and 1583, pp. 1041-1042). [Back to Top] | |
| Iohn Colyns, and hys wyfe. | ||
| The father of Robert Colyns. | This father Colyns had bene of this doc- trine from the yeare of our Lord. 1480. | |
| Tho. Baker of Whatley. Robert Ly- uored. Iohn Sym- son of Ste- uenton. Tho. Ryley, of Burford. Ioh. Clem- son, seruaūt to the Prior of Burford. Iohn Ed- mundes, of Burford. William Gunne, of Wytney. | To these was layde, that they beynge in the house of Iohn Harrys of Vpton, at the maryage of Ioanne the wyfe of Robert Burges, did read in a Booke cal- led Nicodemus gos- pell, that made the clothe whiche our Lorde was buryed in (as the Register sayth) and in that Booke is the storye of the destruction of Hierusalem. | |
| Iohn Baker, Weauer, of Wytney. The Bayliffe of Wytney. | ||
| Iohn Hak- ker. Iohn Bra- bant, and his wyfe. Iohn Bra- bant hys sonne, wyth his wyfe. Iohn Brabāt the younger sone, wyth hys wife. | MarginaliaFor reading the Scripture in Englishe. For reading in a cer- tayne Englishe boke of Scripture, they beynge together in Ioh. Brabāts house of Stanlake. | |
| Reginald Brabant, of Stanlake. | ||
| Henry Fyppe. | The crime & detectiō against this Henry was, for þt he beyng asked of thys Dods, an. 1515. Whether he would go to Wycomb or not, aunswered a- gaine, that he was chosē Rood mā, þt is, keper of þe Roode loft, saying, þt he must goe & tynd a cādle before his blocke almighty..MarginaliaBLOCKE ALMIGHTY. | |
| Oliuer Smith of Newlyne, and hys wife. | ||
| William Hobbis. | This Williā Hobbis was detected, first by Radulfe Hobbis hys brother, to Byshop Smith, but was de- liuered through the sute of the Curate of Westwycame. |
| Iohn Ed- mundes, o- therwise called Iohn Ogins of Burford, did detect. | Philippe Brabant. seruaunt of Rich. Co- lyns. | MarginaliaAgainst the bodily presence of the Sacrament. For saying, that the Sacrament of þe aul- tar was made in the remēbraūce of Chri- stes owne body: but it was not the bodie of Christ. |
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