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

In the time of King Henry the eight, Anno 1546. there was one John Davis a child of twelve years old,¹ dwelling with one Master Johnson Apothecary in Worcester, who being complained of by his Mistress the wife of Master Johnson, for that he had written something against the six Articles, and had the Ballad called, Come down, for all your shaven Crown. After long imprisonment with bolts of irons on his legs, was arraigned, being holden up at the bar in mens arms before the judges, who were Portman and Meruen, and by the death of king Henry was delivered: else had he been burned for that offence. He endured the prison from the fourteenth of August, till within seven days of Easter.

In the time of King Henry the eight, Anno 1546. there was one Iohn Dauis a childe of twelue yéeres old,¹ dwelling with one Maister Iohnson Apothecarie in Worcester, who beyng complained of by his Mistris the wife of Maister Iohnson, for that he had written something against the six Articles, and had the Ballad called, Come downe, for all your shauen Crowne. After long imprisonment with bolts of irons on his legges, was arraigned, being holdē vp at the barre in mens armes before the iudges, who were Portman and Meruen, and by the death of king Henry was deliuered: else had hée béene burned for that offence. He endured the prison from the fouretéenth of August, till within seuen daies of Easter.

1. 1John Davis a child of twelve years old.Iohn Dauis a child of twelue yeeres old.

Likewise Mistress Roberts by Gods providence escaped danger, dwelling in Hawkhurst in Sussex, Mistress Anne Lucy of Nottingham, &c. Likewise a congregation at Stoke in Suffolk was delivered by Gods merciful providence, but especially that of London was diverse times in peril, and always was preserved of God: in which congregation were sometimes forty,