An abridgement of the book of acts and monuments of the ChurchAn abridgement of the booke of acts and monumentes of the Church

The xxvij. of June, xj. men and two women were burned in one fire at Stratford the Bow by London: whose dwellings were in sundry places in Essex. Their names were Henry Adlington, ¹Laurence Pernam, ²Henry Wye, ³William Halliwell, ⁴Thomas Bowyer, ⁵Georges Searles, ⁶Edmund Hurst, ⁷Lion Couch, ⁸Rafe Jackson, ⁹John Deryfall, ¹⁰John Routh, ¹¹Elizabeth Pepper, ¹²Agnes George: ¹³unto whom the sixth of June Anno 1556. Doctor Derbyshire Boners Chancellor in form of law ministered articles of Popery, to which they made their answers in simplicity of good conscience. When they were condemned and the day appointed that they should suffer, which was the xxvij. of June, they were carried to Stratford bow, and divided in two parts into several chambers. Afterward the Sheriff came to each part, and told them that the other part had recanted; and should not therefore suffer death,¹⁴ counselling them to do the like, &c. To whom they answered: as their brethren had done before, that their faith was not builded on Man, but on Christ and his sure word. So the Sheriff seeing no hope to prevail, had them to the stake, which they kissed and embraced very heartily. The two women were loose and not tied to any stake,