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The Story of the valiant Martyr Master BAYFIELD.

The Story of the valiant Martyr Maister BAYFIELD.

This Bayfield was a Monk of Bury, and for his Religion he was […] in the prison of his house, and whipped with a gag in his mouth, and then ••ocked and continued in the same torments three quarters of a year; and then he was committed to Doctor Barnes to go• to Cambridge with him: when he had been the•e a whole year, he tasted good learning so well that he never returned unto his Abbey again, but went to London to Maxwell and Stacy, & they kept him secret a while, and conveyed him beyond Sea. Doctor Barnes being in the Fleet for Gods Word; This Bayfield mightily prospered in the knowledge of God, and was veneficiall to Master Tyndale, and Frith, for he brought substance with him, and sold their works for them. And at last coming to London to M. Smiths house in ••cklers Bury, he was betrayed and dogged to his Book-•inders house in Mark Lane, & there taken & carried unto Lollards Tower, & from thence taken & carried to the Cole-house; because one Patmore Parson of Much-Haddam in Essex, then living in Lollards tower, was confirmed in the Doctrine of Christ by him; there he was tied by the neck, middle and legs, standing up•ight by the walls, divers times manacled ⟨p. 179⟩to accuse others that had bought his Books, but he accused none, but stood in his Faith unto the end: He was in the Consistory of Pauls put to his trial, whether he would abjure or no: he said he would dispute for his Faith, and so did to their great shame. Stokesley being their Judge with others, he was condemned for bringing over and selling heretical Books, and because before time he was accused to the Bishop of London for affirming certain Articles contrary to the Church: and especially that all land should be given to God, and not to Saints or Creatures; and that every Priest might preach the Word of God, by the authority of the Gospel, and need not to run to the Pope or Cardinals for licence; and that he abjured, and hath since preached the like Doctrines: When they asked him what he had to say, why he should not have his Judgement; He said with a vehement spirit to the Bishop of London, your living of the spiritualty is so evil, that you be heretics, and you maintain evil living, and let that true living may not be known: and that their living, neither their belief, is according to Christs Gospel: