In case you so can not, what ground haue you to maintayne your opinion, and who is of the same opinion with you, and what conference haue you had therin with any, what comforte also and what reliefe haue you had therin, by any of them, and what are theire names & surnames and their dwelling place?

TO the fyrste article, they beleue that the contentes of thys article is not agreable to scripture.

To the second, they answer and beleue that their parentes and other expressed in the said article, so beleuing as is conteyned in the same, wer deceiued.

To the third, they answer that they so beleued: but they were deceiued therin, as they nowe beleue,

To the fourth, they say that they haue heretofore beleued as is conteined in the said article but now they do not so beleue.

To the fift, they say that yf they so beleue they are deceaued.

To the sixt, they beleue the same to be true

To the seuenth they aunswere and beleue the contentes of the same to be true.

To the eight, they aunswer that he can no whit conforme them selues to the faith & doctrine conteyned and specified in this article, vntyll it be proued by scripture.

To the ninth, they saye that they haue no ground to maintayne theyr said opinions, but the truth, which (as they say) hath ben perswaded by learned men, as Doctor Tailer of Hadleye, and other such.

 

The next day in the morning beinge the ninth day of February, before their open appearaunce, the Byshop sent for William Pigot, and Steuen Knight into his great chamber in his pallace, where he perswaded with them to recant, and deny their former profession. Who answered that they were not perswaded in their consciences to return and abiure theyr opinions, wherunto they had subscrybed. Within a whyle after they were all three (with Thomas Tomkyns, and Williā Hunter afore named) brought openly into the Consistory, & there had the same articles propounded vnto them, which were propounded vnto the foresayd Thomas Tomkyns (as appereth in the discourse of his history) and therto also subscrybed these words. I do so beleue. The Byshoppe vsed certeyn talke vnto Iohn Lawrence onely, wherunto he answered in this manner: That he was a priest, and was consecrated, and made Priest aboute. xviii. yeares past, & that he was sometyme a blacke Fryer, professed: that also he was assured vn-

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to a Mayde, whō he entended to haue maried: And beyng agayne demaunded hys opinion vpon the sacrament, he sayd that it was a remembraunce of Christes body, and that many haue beene deceaued in beleuing the true body of Christ to be in the sacrament of the altar, and that all such as do not beleue as he doth, do erre. After this talke and other faire wordes and threateninges, they were all of them commaunded to appeare agayne at afternone. 

At the which hower they came thither agayne, and there after the accustomed maner were exhorted to recante, and reuoke their doctryne, and receaued faythe. To the which they constantly answered, that they would not, but would sticke to that fayth that they had declared, & subscrybed, for that they dyd beleue that it was no error, which they beleued, but that the contrary therof was very heresy. When the byshop sawe that neither his fayre flatteryngs, nor yet his cruell threateninges would preuayle: he gaue them seuerally their iudgements: & because Ihon Lawrence had bene one of theyr anoynted priests, he was by the Byshop there, (accordinge to their order) solemply disgraded: the maner wherof you maye see and perceyue in the hystory of Maister Cranmer, late Archbyshop of Caunterbury. Their sentente of condempnacion, and thys degradacion once ended, they were commytted vnto the custody of the Shriues of Londō, who sent them vnto Newgat, where they remayned with ioy to gether, vntill they were caryed downe into Essex, and there the. xxviii. day of March the sayd William Pigot was burned at Brayntree, and Steuen Knight at Mauldon, who at the stake kneeling vpon the grounde sayd thys prayer which here followeth.

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O Lord Iesu Christ, for whose loue I leaue wyllyngly thys life, and desyre rather the bitter death of this crosse wyth the losse of all earthlye thinges, then to abyde the blasphemy of thy most holy name, or to obey men in breaking thy holy commaundement: Thou seeste O Lord, that wher I mighte lyue in worldly wealth to worship a false God, and honour thine enemy, I chose rather the tormēt of this body, & the losse of this my life, & haue coūted al thinges but vile dust, & dung, that I might wyn thee: which death is dearer vnto me, then thousādes of gold & siluer. Such loue O Lord hast thou layd vp in my breastes, that I hunger for the, as the deare that is wounded, desireth the soil. Sende thy holy comforter O Lorde, to ayde, comforte and strengthen this

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