bread and wyne, &c.

MarginaliaTo this article he granted, & to euery part therofItem, þ^t he within þ^e compasse of þ^e sayd years and time, did holde, teach, mayntaine & defend, that the Pope is not þ^e head of the visible church here in earth. &c.

MarginaliaTo this article he also graūteth.Sixtly, it was articulate agaynst hym, that he was of the dioces & iurisdiction of þ^e Bishop of Couentry and Lichefelde. &c.

MarginaliaTo this, & to the same likewise he graunteth.Seuenthly that the promises are true, manifest and notorious. And þ^t vpon the same there hath ben and is a publyke voyce & fame, as wel in the places aboue rehearsed, as in other quarters also about. &c.

VPon these articles, & his answeres vnto þ^e same, (as is before in þ^e margent annexed) the sayed Radulfe þ^e Byshop red the sentence, MarginaliaCornelius Bungey condēned. & so cōmytted hym to the secular power. And as touching þ^e wordes of his sentence (which also came to my handes, & here myght be expressed) yet, not to burden this volume to much with things vnnecessary, I thought rather to referre the good reader. For note þ^t all the sentences of the papists, wher or agaynst whom soeuer they were read, kepte one forme & course of wordes. MarginaliaOne forme of sētence cōdemnatorye among the Papistes.In what cause soeuer they did procede, or what soeuer was þ^e qualitye of the person, or of the matter, they had no respecte: one forme of sentence serued for al, which is to be sene pag. 1230 In dei nomine Amen. &c Also al their actes of depriuation, al their articles and positions interrogatory, & al other their proceadyngs were al of course lyghtly. So þ^t al their acts & doings seme for the most part to procede more of order thā of iudgement or reason. &c. MarginaliaRoberte Glouer & Cornelius Bungey suffered to gether at CouentryThus thys foresayd Cornelius falsely condemned by þ^e Bishop before mentioned, suffered at þ^e same stake with the Christiā martyr Master Robert Glouer, at Couentry, about the. 20. day of September.

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MarginaliaOctober 4AFter these. ii. aboue named, next after in the beginnyng of October were. ii. also condemned, and burned by the Bishop & Chauncelor of Elye, whose names were MarginaliaPygotte VVolsey.Thomas Wolsey, & Robert Pygot paynter: These were burned in one fyer at Elye, about the. 4. day of October.

MarginaliaOctober 16.

IN thys moneth of October the 16. daye nexte after these. ii. aboue touched, folowed to the slaughter two other special and singular capitaines, & principal pillars of Christes church, MarginaliaDoctor Nicholas Ridley.Master Ridley Bishop of London, & Master Hugh Latimer, Bishoppe

somtymes of Worcester, of whose famous doings & memorable learning, and incomparable ornaments and gyftes of grace, ioyned with no lesse cōmendable sincerity of life, as al þ^e realme can witnesse sufficiētly: so it nedeth not greatly þ^t we shold stād exactly at this time in settīg forth a ful description of the same: but only to cōprehend brefly touching the order of their lyues so much as necessarily serueth to þ^e dew instructiō of the reader, & maketh to þ^e vse of thys present historye, in declaryng fyrst their begynnyng, bryngyng vp, then their studyes & actes in the vniuersity, their preferments also by their studyes to hygher dignity, at last their trouble and trauayle in setting forth religion, & in mayntenyng the same, to the shedyng of their bloude. And fyrst concerning the life of Master Ridley, the storye of whom here ensueth.

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AMōg many other worthy & sundry histories & notable acts of such as of late dais haue bene manicled, murdered, & martyred, for þ^e true Gospel of Christ in Quene Maryes reigne, the tragical storye & life of Doctor Ridley I thought good to cōmend to cronicle, and to leaue to perpetual memorye: beseching þ^e gentle reader, with care and studye to peruse it, notyng hys race & ende of lyfe, remembryng & depely printing the same in thy brest, who was so well qualifyed, so ghostly 

enspired, & Godly learned, that doubtlesse, he is written in þ^e boke of lyfe, w^t the blessed saincts of þ^e almyghty crouned & throned, amōgs the most blessed cōpany of martirs. This worthy man Nicholas Ridley, came of gentle stock,   & was borne in Northumberlandshire, whoe being a child, learned hys grāmer with great dexteritye in Newcastle, & was remoued frō thence to þ^e noble vniuersitye of Cambridge, where he in shorte space became so famous, þ^t for his singularitye, he was called to the high functions & offices of þ^e vniuersitie, by degree atteinyng therunto, and was called to be hed of Penbroke hall, being crouned with þ^e doctirinal garlande of diuinity: after thys departyng frō thence, he trauayled to Paris, who at hys returne, was made Chapleyne to Kynge Henry þ^e eyght, & promoted afterwards by hym to þ^e Bishoprike of Rochester,   & so from thence translated to the sea & Bishoprike of London in Kyng Edwardes dayes. In which callyng & offices, he so trauayled & occupyed hymselfe by Preachyng & teachyng the true & holsome doctryne of Christ, þ^t neuer good childe was more singularly loued of hys deare parentes, then he of hys flock & dioces. Euery holyday & sonday he lyghtely   preached in some one place or other, except he were other wyse detented   by wayghty affayres & busines, to whose sermons þ^e people resorted swarmyng about hym as bees, coueytyng the swete flowers & holsome buddes, who tasted and sucked most plenteouslye of hys holsome & swete doctryne, whiche he dyd not only preache, but shewed the same by hys lyfe, as a

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