was to be worshipped.

MarginaliaFol. 40. Some for callyng them fooles which came from M. Iohn Shorne  

in pilgrimage.

MarginaliaIbid. An other for callyng his vicar a poll shorne priest.

MarginaliaIbid. An other for callyng a certaine blynd chappell beyng in ruine, an old faire milkhouse.

MarginaliaFol. 4. An other for saying that he threshed God almighty out of the straw.

MarginaliaFol. 34. An other for saying that almes should not be geuen, before it did sweat in a mans hand.

MarginaliaFol. 35. Some for saying, that they which die, passe straight either to heauen or hell.

MarginaliaFol. 9. Isabell Bartlet was brought before the Bishop and abiured, for lamenting her husband when the bishops man came for hym, and saying, that he was an vndone man, and she a dead woman.

MarginaliaFol. 45. For saying that Christ departing from his disciples into heauē, sayd: that once he was in sinners handes, & would come there no more.

Robert Raue hearing a certayne Bell in a vplandish steple, sayd: lo yonder is a fayre Bell, and it were to hang about any cowes necke in the towne: and therefore, as for other such lyke matters mo he was brought coram nobis.

Item for receiuyng the Sacrament at Easter, & doubting whether it was the very body, and did not cōfesse their doubt to their ghostly father.

Some for saying that the Pope had no authoritie to geue pardon or to release mans soule from sinne, and so from payne, and that it was nothing but blinding of the people, and to get their mony.

MarginaliaThe order of penaunce. The penaunce to these parties enioyned by this Iohn Longland Bishop of Lincolne, was almost vniforme and all after one condition, saue onely that they were seuerally committed and diuided into seueral and diuers monasteries, there to be kept and founde of almes all theyr lyfe, except they were otherwise dispensed with by the bishop: as for example I haue here adioyned the bishops letter for one of the sayd number, sent to the Abbey of Ensham, there to be kept in perpetuall penaunce. By which one, an estimatiō may be taken of the rest, which were bestowed likewise sunderly into sundry Abbeys, as to Osney, to Frideswyde, to Abyngdon, to Tame, to Bissetor, to Dorchester, to Notley, to Ashryge, and diuers moe. The copy of the Byshops letter sent to the Abbot of Ensham, here followeth vnder written.  

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MarginaliaThe copie of the byshops letter to the Abbot of Ensham. MY louyng brother, I recommend me hartely vnto you: and where as I haue, accordyng to the lawe, put this bearer R. T. to perpetuall penaunce within your monastery of Ensham, there to lyue as a penitent, and not otherwise, I pray you, and neuerthelesse, accordyng vnto the lawe, commaund you to receaue him, and see ye order him there accordingly to his iniunctions which he will shew you, if ye require the same. As for his lodgyng, hee will bryng it with him. And his meate and drinke, he may haue such as ye geue of your almes. And if he can so order him selfe by his labour within your house in your busines, wherby hee may deserue his meate and drinke, so may you order hym, as ye see conueniente to his desertes, so that he passe not the precincte of your monastery. And thus fare you hartly wel from my place. &c.

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As touching the residue of the penaunce and punishement inflicted to these men, they do litle or nothyng disagree, but had one order in them all. The maner and forme wherof in the sayd Byshops Register doth procede in condition as foloweth.

MarginaliaEx Regist. Fol 90.
Penaunce inioyned to these adiurates vnder payne of relaps. IN primis, that euery one of them shall vpon a market day, such as shall be limited vnto them in the market tyme, go thrise about the market at Burford, and then to stande vp vpon the highest grece of þ^e crosse there a quarter of an houre, w^t a fagot of wood euery one of thē vpō his shoulder, & euery one of thē once to beare a fagot of wood vpō theyr shoulders, before the procession vpon a Sonday, which shall be limited vnto them at Burforde, from the quire dore goyng out, to the quire dore goyng in, and all the hye Masse tyme to hold the same fagot vpon their shoulders, knelyng vpon the grece afore the hie alter there, and euery of them likewise to do likewise in theyr owne parish church, vpon such a son day as shalbe limited vnto them: and once to beare a fagot at a generall procession at Oxbridge, when they shalbe assigned therto: and once to beare a fagot at the burnyng of an hereticke, when they shalbe monished therto.

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Also euery one of them to fast breade and ale onely euery Friday during their life, and euery euen of Corpus Christi euery one of them to fast in bread and water during their life vnles sicknes vnfained let the same.

Also to say euery of them euery Sonday and euery friday during their life, ouce our Lady Psalter, and if they forget it one day, to say as much another day for the same.

Also they nor none of them, shall not hyde the marke vpon their cheke, neither with hat, cap, hood, kerchief, napkin, nor none otherwise, nor shall not suffer their beards to grow past 14. dayes, nor neuer to haunt agayne together with any suspect person or persons, vnles it be in the open market, fayre, church or common Inne or alehouse, where other people may see their conuersation.

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And all these iniunctions they and euery of them, to fulfill with their penaunce, and euery part of the same, vnder payne of relaps.

And thus haue you the names, with the causes and the penaunce of them which were at this present tyme abiured. By the which word,Marginalia* Abiured what it signifieth. * abiured, is ment that they were constrayned by their othe, swearyng vpon the Euangelistes, and subscribyng with their hand, and a crosse to the same, that they did vtterly and voluntarily renounce, detest, and forsake and neuer should hold hereafter these, or anye other lyke opinions, contrary to the determinatiō of þ^e holy mother church of Rome: and further, that they should detect vnto their ordinary, whom so euer they should see, or suspect hereafter to teach, hold, or maintayne the same.

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AMong these aforenamed persons, which thus submitted themselues, and were put to penance, certayn there wer which because they had bene abiured before,MarginaliaVid. sup. pag. 750. as is aboue mencioned, pag. 750. vnder bishop Smith, were nowe condemned for relaps, and had sentence read agaynst them, and so were committed to the seculare arme, to be burned: Whose names here follow.

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MarginaliaAn. 1521.

Martyrs.
Thomas Bernard. Iames Morden.	Robert Raue. Iohn Scriuener.   Commentary     Close The signification of the excommunication and relaxation of these four people survives as TNA, C/85/115/13.

Of these mention is made before, both touchyng their abiuration, and also their martyrdome, pag. 750. vnto whō we may adioyne.

Ioanne Norman.

Thomas Holmes.

MarginaliaThomas Holmes. Vide. supra. pag. 797. This Thomas Holmes,  

albeit he had disclosed and detected many of his brethren, as in the table aboue is expressed, pag. 797. thynking therby to please the Bishop & to saue himselfe, and was thought to be a seede man of the Bishop for the same: yet notwithstanding in the sayd bishops register appeareth the sentence of relaps, and condemnatiō written and drawn out against him: and most lyke, that he was also adiudged and executed with the other.

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MarginaliaChildrē compelled to set fire to their owne father. ¶ As touchyng the burning of Iohn Scriuener, here is to be noted, that his children were compelled to set fire vnto their father, in lyke maner as Ioane Clerke also daughter of William Tilseworth, was constrayned to geue fire to the burnyng of her owne naturall father, as is aboue specified, pag. 749.  

The example of which crueltye, as it is contrary both to God and nature, so hath it not bene seene nor heard of in the memorie of the heathen.

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MarginaliaA Note of Tho. Dorman. Where moreouer is to be noted, that at the burnyng of this Iohn Scriuener, one Thomas Dorman,  

mentioned before, pag. 749. was present and bare a fagot at Amershā: Whose abiuration was afterwarde layd agaynst hym, at what tyme he should depose for recouery of certaine landes from the schole of Barchamsted This Thomas Dorman (as I am credibly informed of certen aboute Amershā)   was thē vncle to this our Dorman,   & foūd hym to schole at Barchamsted vnder M. Reue,MarginaliaThis M. Dormā, because he was put to schoole by hys vncle at Barchamstede to M. Reeue, being a protestant, therefore he for the same cause, in the first sentence of his preface, sayth that he was brought vp in Caluins schoole which now so vncharitably abused his pen in writing agaynst the contrary doctrine, & rayleth so fiercely against the bloud of Christes slain seruantes, miscalling them to be a donghill of stinking Martyrs.  

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Well, how so euer the sauour of these good Martyrs doe sent in þ^e nose of M. Dorman. I doubt not but they geue a better odour and sweter smell in the presence of the Lorde: Preciosa enim in conspectu Domini mors sanctorum eius.