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Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church. [vol.…Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol.…
Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church. [vol. 2, part 1] with an universal history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitive age to these latter times of ours, with the bloody times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions against the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperors, as now lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realm of England and Scotland. Newly revised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time again published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the help of Christ our Lord) John Fox, which desireth thee good reader to help him with thy prayer.Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol. 2, part 1] with an vniuersall history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitiue age to these latter tymes of ours, with the bloudy times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions agaynst the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperours, as nowe lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realme of England and Scotland. Newly reuised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time agayne published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the helpe of Christ our Lord) Iohn Foxe, which desireth thee good reader to helpe him with thy prayer.
London: printed by John Daye, 1583London: printed by Iohn Daye, 1583
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Book 7 › ¶The sentence of the Inquest subscribed by the Crowner.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
¶The sentence of the Inquest subscribed by the Crowner.
The inquisition intended and taken at the city of London in the Parish of S. Gregory, in the ward of Baynard Castle in London, the sixth day of December, in the 6. year of the reign of K. Henry the 8. before Thomas Barnewel Crowner of our sovereign Lord the king, within the city of London aforesaid: Also before James Yarford, and John Mundey Sheriffs of the said City,1 upon the sight of the body of Richard Hun, late of London Taylor, which was found hanged in the Lollards tower, and by the oath and proof of lawful men of the same ward, and of other three wards next adjoining, as it ought to be, after the custom of the city aforesaid, to inquire how, & in what manner wise the said Richard Hun came unto his death, and upon the oath of John Bernard, Thomas Stert, William Warren, Henry Abraham, John Aborow, Joh. Turner, Robert Alen, William Marler, Joh. Burton, James Page, Thomas Pickehill, William Burton, Robert Brigewater, Thomas Busted, Gilbert Howell, Richard Gibson, Christopher Crafton, John Eod, Richard Holt, John Pasmere, Edmund Hudson, John Arunsel, Richard Couper, John Time: the which said upon their oaths, that where the said Richard Hun by the commandment of Richard Bishop of London, was imprisoned and brought to hold in a prison of the said Bishops called Lollards Tower, lying in the Cathedral Church of S, Paul in London, in the parish of S. Gregory in the ward of Baynard Castle aforesaid, William Horsey of London Clerk,2 otherwise called William Heresy, Chancellor to Richard Bishop of London, and one Charles Joseph, late of London Sumner, and John Spalding of London otherwise called John Belringer, feloniously as felons to our Lord the king, with force and arms against the peace of our sovereign Lord the king, & dignity of his crown, the fourth day of December, the sixth year of the reign of our sovereign Lord aforesaid, of their great malice, at the parish of S. Gregory aforesaid, upon the said Richard Hun made a fray, and the same Richard Hun feloniously strangled and smothered, and also the neck they did break of the said Richard Hun, and there feloniously slue him, and murdered him: and also the body of the said Richard Hun afterward the same fourth day, year, place parish, and ward aforesaid, with the proper girdle of the same Richard Hun of silk, black of colour, of the value of 12. d.