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?
The accounts of the appearances of Pygot, Knight and Laurence before the Consistory Court of St Paul's as well as the articles put to them, together with their answers, are all taken from Bishop Bonner's records, probably from a court book which is now lost.
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 accounts of the appearances of Pygot, Knight and Laurence before the Consistory Court of St Paul's as well as the articles put to them, together with their answers, are all taken from Bishop Bonner's records, probably from a court book which is now lost.
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.
The accounts of the appearances of Pygot, Knight and Laurence before the Consistory Court of St Paul's as well as the articles put to them, together with their answers, are all taken from Bishop Bonner's records, probably from a court book which is now lost.
Judging from the number of surviving manuscript copies of this prayer and the fact that it made its way overseas where Foxe first printed in the Rerum (p. 423), it enjoyed considerable popularity among Marian protestants. The manuscript copies are: BL, Harley 416, fol. 17v; BL, Lansdowne 389, fos. 185v-186r and ECL 260, fol. 250r.
[Back to Top]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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