A67926:1771
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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First this Thomas Harding with Alice his wife, being abjured, and enjoined penance, with divers other moe, by William Smith Bishop of Lincoln, afterward by the said Bishop was released again in the year of our Lord 1515. of all such penance as was enjoined him and his wife at their abjuration, except these three Articles following, and were discharged of their badges or signs of their fagots, &c. Only this penance following, the Bishop continued, Sub poena relapsus. First, that neither of them during their life, should dwell out of the parish of Amersham. 1Item, that either of them during their life, should fast bread and ale every Corpus Christi even. Item, that either of them should, during their lives uppon Corpus Christi day, every year, go in pilgrimage to Asherige, and there make their offerings, as other people did, but not to do open penance. Also they were licensed by the said Bishop to do their pilgrimage at Asherige, upon Corpus Christi even, or Corpus Christi day, or some other, upon any cause reasonable. This penance being to them enjoined an. 1515. they observed to the year 1522. save only in the last year, the foresaid Alice his wife omitted her pilgrimage going to Asherige upon Corpus Christi daye. Also the said Tho. Harding, being put to his oath, to detect other, because he contrary to his oath dissembled, and did not disclose them, was therefore enjoined in penance, for his perjury, to bear upon his right sleeve, both before and behind, a badge or patch of green cloth or silk embroidered like a fagot, during his whole life, unless he should otherwise be dispensed withal. And thus continued he from the year 1522. till the year 1532. At last the said Harding in the year abovesayd 1532. about Easter holidays, when the other people went to the church, to commit their wonted idolatry, toke his way into the woods, there solitarily to worship the true living God, in spirit and truth. Where, as he was occupied in a book of English prayers,2 leaning or sitting upon a style by the woods side, it chanced that one did espy him where he was, and came in great haste to the officers of the town, declaring that he had seen Harding in the woods looking on a book.
First this Thomas Harding with Alice his wife, being abiured, and enioyned penance, with diuers other moe, by William Smith Bishop of Lincolne, afterward by the sayd Byshop was released againe in the yeare of our Lorde 1515. of all such penaunce as was enioyned him and his wife at their abiuration, except these three Articles following, and were discharged of their badges or signes of their fagots, &c. Only this penaunce folowing, the Byshop continued, Sub poena relapsus. First, that neyther of them during their life, should dwell out of the parish of Amersham.