in Christ, to pray, that God for his sōnes sake would go forth with that great mercy, which already he had begonne in them, so that they might perseuer vnto thend, to the praise of the eternall God, & comfort of all their brethren.

MarginaliaMarche.23.These. xiiii. daies (after the condemnation) once expired, they were the. xxiii. daye of this moneth of Marche fetched from Newgate, at foure of the clocke in the morninge, and so led through the city vnto Algate, wher they wer delyuered vnto the shiriefe of Essex, and ther being fast bounde in a cart, were shortelye after brought to theyr seueueral appoynted places of burning: that is to saye, Thomas Hygbed to Hornden on the hil, and Thomas Causton to Rayly (both in the countrie of Essex) where they did most constantly the. xxv. daye of the same moneth, seale this their faith with shedding of their blood by moste cruell fire, to the glorye of God, and great reioysing of the godlye. At which time most of the gentlemen in the shere were commaunded to be present, for feare (belike leaste they shoulde be taken from them.) Thus haue I shewed the apprehension, examination, confession, condempnation, and burning of these two godly and constant martyres of God, whose articles and answeres hereafter follow.

FIrst, that thou Thomas Cawston (or T. Hygbed) hast bene, and art of the Dioces of London, & also of the iurisdiction nowe of me Edmunde byshop of London.

Item, that thou wast in tyme paste, according to the order of the churche of Englande, baptised and christened.

Item, that thou haddest Godfathers, and Godmother, accordyng to the sayd order.

Item, that the sayd Godfathers and Godmother, dyd then promise for thee, and in thy name, the faythe and religion, that then was vsed in the realme of England.

Item, that that fayth and religion, whyche they then dyd professe, and make for thee, was accompted and taken to be the fayth and religion of the church, and of the christen people: and so was it in very dede.

Item, thou commyng to the age of discretion, that is to say, to the age of, xiiii, yeares, dyddest not myslyke nor dysallow that fayth, that religion, or promise then vsed and approued, and promised by the said godfathers and godmother, but for a tyme dyddest continue in it, as other (taking them selues for christen people) did lykewyse.

Item, that at that tyme, and also before, it was taken for a doctrine of the church, catholicke and true, and eueryewhere in Christendome then allowed for catholycke and true,

and to be the profession of a Christen man, to beleue that in the sacrament of the aultar, vnder the formes of breade and wyne, after the consecration, there was and is, by the omnipotent power and wyl of almyghty God, and hys woord, wythout any substaunce of bread and wyne there remayning, the true and natural bodye and bloud of our Sauiour Iesus Christ, in substaunce, which was borne of the virgyn Marye, and suffred vpon the crosse, really, truely, and in very dede.

Item, that at that time thy father & mother, all thyne auncestors, al thy kyndred, acquaintance and frendes, and thy sayd Godfathers & Godmother dyd then so beleue, and thynke in al the same, as the sayde Churche dyd therein beleue.

Item, that thy selfe hast had no iust cause or lawful grounde, to depart or swarue from the sayde religion or fayth, nor no occasion at all, except thou wilt follow and beleue the erronious opinion, or beliefe, that hath beene agaynst the cōmon order of the church, brought in by certayne disordred persons of late, and at the vttermost wythin these. xxx. or. xl. yeares last past.

Item, that thou doest knowe, or crediblye hast heard and dost beleue that doctor Robert Barnes, Iohn Fryth, Thomas Garrard, Ierome, Lassels, Anne Askewe, Iohn Hoper late Byshoppe of Gloucester, Sir Laurence Saunders priest, Iohn Bradforde, Syr Iohn Rogers priest, Sir Rowland Tailour Priest, Sir Iohn Laurence priest, Wylliam Pygot, Steuen Knight, Wylliam Hunter, Thomas Tomkyns, and Thomas Hawkes, haue bene heretofore reputed, taken, and accompted as heretickes, and also condempned as heretiks, and so pronounced and declared openlye and manifestlye: specially in holding and beleuing certayne dampable opinions, agaynst the verity of Christes body and bloude in the sacrament of the aultar, and al the same persons, sauing Iohn Bradforde, Sir Iohn Laurence, Wylliam Pigot, Steuen Knight, Wyllyam Hūter, T. Tomkines, and T. Hawkes, haue suffred paines of death by fyre, for the mayntenaunce and defence of their sayde opinions and mysbeliefe.

Item, that thou doest knowe, or crediblye hast heard & doest beleue that T. Crāmer late Archbishop of Canterbury, & Nicholas Rydley, naming him selfe bishop of London, Robert Ferrar, late bishop of s. Dauies, & Hugh Latimer, somtime bishop of Worcester, haue bene, and are at this present reputed, accompted, and taken as heretickes, and misbeleuers in mayntaynyng and holdyng certayn dampned opinions, agaynst the verytye of Christes body and bloude in the Sacrament of the aultar.