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An abridgement of the book of acts and monuments of the ChurchAn abridgement of the booke of acts and monumentes of the Church
An abridgement of the book of acts and monuments of the Church: written by that Reverend Father, Master John Fox: and now abridged by Timothy Bright, Doctor of Physic, for such as either through want of leisure, or ability have not the use of so necessary an historyAn abridgement of the booke of acts and monumentes of the Church: written by that Reuerend Father, Maister Iohn Fox: and now abridged by Timothe Bright, Doctour of Phisicke, for such as either through want of leysure, or abilitie haue not the vse of so necessary an history
London: printed by I. Windet, 1589
Volume 1 › Book 5: The fifth Book.Volume 1 › Book 5: The fifth Booke.
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About the 23. of September the same year,1 the king called a parliament for a subsidy: and the Archbishops and Prelates a Convocation, in the monastery of Saint Friswide in Oxford, where in the third day of the assembly, in the presence of the prelates, Philip Repington 2(otherwise called of the brethren afterward Rampington) abjured his former conclusions, and the doctrine of Wycliffe: & immediately after was brought in John Aishton, who refused to answer, ⟨p. 280⟩and afterward, was cited and condemned by Thomas Arundell Archbishop of Canterbury; but what became afterward of him, it is not certain. It is plain by the Chronicle of S. Albans, that the Londoners did hinder the Archb. himself sitting in the city of London, when he would have made process against John Aishton, 3anno 1382. Nicholas Hereford, during the time of this Convocation did not appear: and therefore had the sentence of excommunication against him: against which he put in his appeal to the King, and his Council: the Archbishop would not admit it, but caused him to be apprehended, and enclosed in prison: yet he escaped, and returned to his former preaching in secrete manner. Whereupon the Archbishop thundered out excommunication against him, and wrote letters to the king, requiring his sword to chop of his neck.
About the 23. of September the same yéere,1 the king called a parlement for a subsidy: and the Archbishops and Prelats a Conuocation, in the monastery of Saint Friswide in Oxford, where in the third day of the assembly, in the presence of the prelates, Philip Repington 2(otherwise called of the brethren afterward Rampington) abiured his former conclusions, and the doctrine of Wickliffe: & immediatly after was brought in Iohn Aishton, who refused to answere, ⟨p. 280⟩