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the which wordes, if he meane, that it is agaynst the determination of the church, to read the holy Scripture, it may therby appeare to be a blynd church. And if they meane, that the holy scripture conteineth any such thyng in it whiche is agaynst the determination of the church, then it appeareth their church to be cōtrary vnto God, seing it determineth one thing, and Gods word an other.
[Back to Top]| Iohn Ba- ker did de- tect | Robert Pope. Richard Nobbis. Ioh. Edmundes. | For speaking agaynst going on pilgrimage, and Image worship. |
| Iohn a Lee denounced. | Iohn a Weedon. | When this Iohn a Lee had told the sayd Weedon, how the B. had sayd in hys sermō these wordes: That all which were of the sect of heretikes bele- ued that God was in heauen, but they bele- ued not that the body of Christ on the aul- ter, was God: to this he aunswering again, sayd: ye be bolde vpon that worde, deridyng the B. in so saying. |
| W. Dorset of kings Langley. | For saying that ima- ges stode for nothing: and that Pilgrimage serued to spend folkes money, and nothing els |
| Ioanne Ste- uenton de- nounced. | Alice Co- lyns. | For teachyng the said Ioane Steuenton in Lent, þe x. Cōmaunde mentes, thus begyn- nyng: I am thy Lord God that led thee out of the land of Egypt and brought the out of the house of thraldom. Thou shalte not haue no alyen Gods before me, neither make to þe any Image graued wt mans handes, that is in heauen aboue, nei- ther in the earthe be- neath. &c. Itē, for tea- ching her þe first chap- ter of S. Iohns Gos pell: In þe begynning was the word. &c. |
| Iohn Harrys. | For teaching her the 1. chapter of Peter. |
| Sir Iohn a priest, and also Rob. Robinson detected | M. Cotis- more of Brightwel: Also Mai- stres Cotis- more, 
CloseAlice Doyly had married three times; first to a John Wilmot, the second time to William Cottesmere, a member of an important gentry family and the third time to Thomas Doyly, the head of one of Oxfordshire's most ancient gentry families. By the time of her third marriage her moveable goods alone were estimated at £1000 (Andrew Hope, 'Lollardy: The Stone the Buiders Rejected?' in Protestantism and the National Church in Sixteenth Century England, ed., Peter Lake and Maria Dowling [Beckenham, 1987], pp. 8-10). Alice would be investigated again for heresy (whether as a result of this testimony or on later charges is unknown) but there is no record of her being convicted. [Back to Top]wise called Maistres Doly. | For speakyng these wordes to one Iohn Baynton her seruaūt: that if she went to her chāber & prayed there shee shoulde haue as much merite as thogh she went to Walsing- ham on pilgrimage. Item, when the sayd sir Iohn came to her, after the death of M. Cotismore his Mai- ster, requiryng her to send one Ioh. Stay- ner her seruant to our Lady of Walsingham for maister Cotismore which in his life tyme beyng sicke, promised in his owne persone to visite that place, she would not cōsent ther to, nor let her seruaunt |
go.MarginaliaCarpenters chyppes. Item for saying þt when womē go to offer to Images or saints they did it to shew their new gaye geare, & that images were but carpenters chips: and that folkes go on pilgrimage more for þe grene way, then for deuotion.
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| Ioh. Hak- ker
CloseJohn Hacker was an extraordinarily influential Lollard with a long career; see J. A. F. Thomson, The Later Lollards, 1414-1520 for details. Hacker will be arrested in London in 1527 and in 1528, he would abjure and give the names of over 40 other Lollards to the authorities (1563, p. 418 and BL, Harley 421, fos. 11r-14r). [Back to Top]tect | Tho. Vin- cent of Lō- don. | To Tho. Vincent it was obiected for ge- uing this Hakker a boke of S. Mathew in English. |
| Maistres Cotismore,
Close Alice Doyly had married three times; first to a John Wilmot, the second time to William Cottesmere, a member of an important gentry family and the third time to Thomas Doyly, the head of one of Oxfordshire's most ancient gentry families. By the time of her third marriage her moveable goods alone were estimated at £1000 (Andrew Hope, 'Lollardy: The Stone the Buiders Rejected?' in Protestantism and the National Church in Sixteenth Century England, ed., Peter Lake and Maria Dowling [Beckenham, 1987], pp. 8-10). Alice would be investigated again for heresy (whether as a result of this testimony or on later charges is unknown) but there is no record of her being convicted. [Back to Top] | ||
| Rich. Co- lyns. | For receiuing of the said Hakker
CloseJohn Hacker was an extraordinarily influential Lollard with a long career; see J. A. F. Thomson, The Later Lollards, 1414-1520 for details. Hacker will be arrested in London in 1527 and in 1528, he would abjure and give the names of over 40 other Lollards to the authorities (1563, p. 418 and BL, Harley 421, fos. 11r-14r). [Back to Top]of the ten Commaun- dementes in English. | |
| Goodwife Bristowe of woodstrete in London. |
| The fore sayd Ioh. Hacker
Close John Hacker was an extraordinarily influential Lollard with a long career; see J. A. F. Thomson, The Later Lollards, 1414-1520 for details. Hacker will be arrested in London in 1527 and in 1528, he would abjure and give the names of over 40 other Lollards to the authorities (1563, p. 418 and BL, Harley 421, fos. 11r-14r). [Back to Top] | William Gunne. | For receiuing of Hak ker
CloseJohn Hacker was an extraordinarily influential Lollard with a long career; see J. A. F. Thomson, The Later Lollards, 1414-1520 for details. Hacker will be arrested in London in 1527 and in 1528, he would abjure and give the names of over 40 other Lollards to the authorities (1563, p. 418 and BL, Harley 421, fos. 11r-14r). [Back to Top]plagues sent of God to Pharao. |
| The wyfe of Tho. Wydmore of Chy- chenden. Elizab. the daughter of this Hakker, and Rob. her husband, otherwise called Fitton, of Newbery. William Stokeley of Henley. Iohn Symondes & his wyfe of great Marlow. Iohn Austy of Henley. Thomas Austy of Henley. Grinder of Cookham. | ||
| Ioh. Heron. | For i a boke of the exposition of the Gospels fayre writtē in English. |
| Tho. Groue, and also Io. of Reding put to theyr othe, dyd detect | Richard Grace. | MarginaliaThe Legend of S. Katherine proued false. For speakyng these wordes folowyng: þt our blessed Lady was the Godmother to S. Katherine: and ther- fore þe legēde is not true in saying, þt Christ did mary with S. Ka- therine, and bad Adri an put one hys veste- ment, and say the ser- uice of matimonie: For so Christ shoulde liue in adultery, for marying with his Godsister: Whiche thyng if he shoulde do, he should be thought not to do well. | Item, for saying by þe picture of S. Nicholas beyng newly painted, that he was not woorthy to stande in the Rood loft, but that it better besemed him to stand in the Belfray. &c. |
In this Table aboue prefixed, thou hast, gentle reader, to see and vnderstand: First the number and names of these good men and wemen troubled and molested by the Church of Rome, and all in one yeare: of whome few or none were learned, being simple lobourers and artificers, but as it pleased the Lord to worke in them knowledge and vnderstandyng, by readyng a few Englishe bookes, such as they could get in corners. Secōdly what were their opinions we haue also described. And thirdly herein is to be noted moreouer, the blynd ignoraunce & vncourteous dealing of the bishops agaynst them, not onely in that they, by theyr violent othe, and captious interrogatories, constreyned the children to accuse their parentes and parentes the children: the husbād the wife, and wyfe the husbād.
CloseFoxe is genuinely shocked by Bishop Longland's methods of investigation, which undermined the integrity of both family and community.
MarginaliaThe reasons and probations of their doctrine. Now it remaineth, that as you haue heard their opinions (which principally in number were 4.) so also we declare their reasons & scriptures wherupon they grounded, & after that consequently the order & maner of penance to thē inioyned by þe B. And first against pilgrimage & against worshipping of images, they vsed this text of the reuelat. Apoc. 9.
Rev. 9: 17-20.
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