Also they vsed and alleged the first commaundement, that there is but one God, and that they ought not to worship mo Gods then one. &c.

MarginaliaWickliffes Wicket. And as touching the sacrament and the right doctrine therof, they had their instructiō partly out of Wicklifs Wicket,MarginaliaThe Shepherds Calender. partly out of the Shepehardes Calendar: where they read: That the sacrament was made in remembraunce of Christ, and ought to be receyued in remembraunce of hys body. &c.MarginaliaEx Regist. Io. Longland. fol. 102. Moreouer they alledged and followed the wordes of Christ spokē at the supper, at what time he sittyng with his disciples, and makyng with them his Maundy, tooke bread, and blessed, and brake, and gaue to hys disciples: And sayd, eate ye: this (reaching forth his arme, and shewyng the bread in his hand, and then notyng his owne naturall body and touching the same, and not the bread consecrate) is my body, which shall be betrayed for you: doe this in remembraunce of me: And likewyse tooke the wyne and bad thē drinke, saying: this is my bloud which is of the new Testament. &c.

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MarginaliaFol 45. Item, that Christ our Sauiour sitteth on the right hād of the father, and there shalbe vnto the day of dome: Wherfore they beleued that in the Sacrament of the aulter was not the very body of Christ.

MarginaliaFol. 32. Item (sayd one of them) men speake much of the Sacrament of the aulter, but this will I byde by, that vppon sharethursday  

Christ brake bread vnto hys disciples, & bad them eate of it, saying, it was hys flesh and bloud. And then he went from them, and suffered passion: and then he rose from death to lyfe, and ascended into heauē, and there sitteth on the right hand of the father, and there he is to come vnto the day of dome, when he shall iudge both quicke and dead: And therfore how he should be here in the forme of bread, he sayd, they could not see.

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Such reasons and allegations as these and other lyke, taken out of the scripture, and out of the Shepehards Kalendar, Wickliffes Wicket and out of other bookes they had amongest them. And although there was no learned man with them to ground them in theyr doctrine, yet they conferring and communing together among themselues, dyd conuert one an other, the Lordes hand workyng with them maruelously:MarginaliaThe bishop complayneth to the kyng. So that in shorte space, the number of these Knowen or Iust fast men (as they were then termed) dyd excedingly increase, in such sort, that the Bishop seyng the matter almost past hys power,  

was driuen to make his cōplaint to the king, and required his ayde for suppression of these men. Wherupō kyng Henry being then yoūg, and vnexpert in the bloudy practises and blynd leadings of these apostolicall prelates, incensed with his suggestions and cruell complaintes, directed down letters to his Shirifs, Bailifs, officers, and subiectes, for þ^e aide of the bishop in this behalfe: the tenor of which letters here insueth.  

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MarginaliaThe copie of the kynges letter. HEnry the 8. by the Grace of God, kyng of England and of Fraunce, lord of Ireland, defender of the fayth: to all Mayors, Shiriffes, Baylifs and Constables, and to all other our officers, ministers and subiects, these our letters hearing or seyng, and to euery of them greetyng. For as much as the right reuerend father in God our trusty and right welbeloued Counsailour the bishop of Lincolne, hath now within hys dioces no small number of heretikes, as it is thought to hys no little discomfort and heauines: We therefore beyng in wyll & mynd safely to prouide for the said right reuerēd father in God and hys officers, that they ne none of them, shal bodily be hurt or damaged by any of the said heretickes or their fautours, in the executyng and ministring of Iustice vnto the sayd heretickes accordingly to the lawes of holye Church: do straightly charge and commaund you and enery of you, as ye tender our high displeasure, to be ayding, helping and assisting the sayd right reuerend father in God, & his sayd officers in the executing of Iustice in the premisses, as they or any of them shall require you so to do, not fayling to accomplish our commaundement and pleasure in the premisses, as ye entend to please vs, and will aunswer to the cōtrary, at you vttermost perils. Yeuen vnder our signet at our castle of Wyndsor the xx. day of October the 13. yere of our raigne.

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The bishop thus beyng armed no lesse with the authority of the kynges letter then incited with hys owne fiercenes, forslacked no tyme, but eftsoones to accōplish his moody violence vpon the poore flocke of Christ called before him sitting vpon his tribunall seat, both these aforenamed persons, and all other in hys dioces which were neuer so little noted or suspected to incline toward those opinions: of whō, to such as had but newly bene taken, and had not before abiured, he inioyned most straight and rigorous penance.MarginaliaThe cruell falsehoode of Byshop Longland. The other in whom he could find any relaps, yea albeit they submitted themselues neuer so humbly to his fauourable curtesie, and though also at his request, and for hope of pardon, they had shewed themselues great detecters of their brethrē beyng moreouer of him feed and flattered therunto, yet notwithstanding, contrary to his faire wordes, and their expectation, he spared not, but read sentence of relaps agaynst thē, committing them to the secular arme to be burned.

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And first as touching them who beyng brought to abiuration, were put to their penance, long it were to recite the names of all. Certaine I thought to recite here in a Catologue, first reciting the persons, afterward the rigorous penaunce to them enioyned.

William Colyns. Ioh. Colyns. Ioane Colyns. Rob. Colyns. Ioh. Hackar. Ioh. Brabant, the father. Ioh. Brabant his sonne. Ioh. Brabant, the yonger sonne. Iohn Edmunds. Edward Pope. Henry Phip. Ioh. Steuenton.

Ioane Steuenton. Rob. Bartlet. Tho. Clerke. Ioh. Clerke. Rich. Bartlet. William Phip. Ioh. Phip. Tho. Couper. Wil. Litlepage. Ioh. Litlepage. Ione Litlepage. Ioh. Say.

Ioh. Frier. Rich. Vulford. Tho. Tredway. Wil. Gudgame. Roger Heron. Fraunces Funge. Rob. Pope. Roger Dods. Iohn Harrys. Robert Bruges. Iohn Stampe. Ione Stampe.

Rich. Whyte. Bennet Ward. Iohn Baker. Agnes Wellis. Marian Morden. Isabell Morwyn. Io. Butler. Io.Butler. R. Carder. (þe yōger. Rich. Bernard. Ione Bernard. Io. Grace. Io. Frēch. Ioh. Edings.

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MarginaliaThe names of the townes where they dwelled.

Amersham. Chesham. Hychenden. Missendē þe great Missenden the lesseEasthendred. Westhendred. Asthall.

Bekensfield. Denham. Gyng. Betterton. Cherney. Stanlake. Claufield. Walton.

Marlow. Dorney. Iuer. Burton. Vxbridge. Owburne. Henley. Wycame.

Westwycame. Newbery. Burford. Wytney. Hungerford. Vpton. Wynsore. London.

Colmōstret in L. Chepeside in Lō. Shordich by Lōd. S. Giles in Londō Essex, Suffolke. Northfolke. Norwich.

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The bookes & opinons, which these were charged withall, & for the which they were abiured, partly are before expressed, partly here folow in a briefe summary to be sene.

MarginaliaEx Regist. Fol. 32. THe opinions of many of these persons were, that hee or she neuer beleued in the Sacrament of the aulter, nor euer would, and that it was not as men did take it.

MarginaliaIbid. For that he was knowen of his neighbour, to be a good felow, meaning that he was a Knowen man.

MarginaliaFol. 33. For saying that he woulde geue xl. pence, in condition þ^t such a one knew so much, as he did know.

MarginaliaFol. 34. Some for saying, þ^t they of Amershā, which had bene abiured before by Byshop Smyth, were good men, and perfect Christians, & simple folke which could not aunswer for thēselues, & therfore were oppressed by power of the byshop.

MarginaliaIbid. Some for hydyng other in there barnes.

Some for readyng the Scripture or treatises of Scripture in Englishe: some for hearing the same read.

Some for defēdyng: some for marying with them which had bene abiured.

MarginaliaFol. 36. Some for saying that matrimony was not a Sacrament

Some for saying, that worshippyng of Images was Mawmetrey: some for callyng images carpēters chyppes: some for callyng them stockes and stones: some for callyng them dead thynges.

MarginaliaFol. 33. Some for saying that money spent vpon pilgrimage, serued but to mainteine theues and harlots.

Some for callyng þ^e image in þ^e Rood lofte block almyghty.

MarginaliaFol. 37. Other for saying that nothyng grauen with mans hand