handes. For all that is idolatry. She will not come to the church. She wil not heare masse. She will not be confessed of any prieste. She saith that none can remit sinne but only God. She is a froward obstinate hereticke, and willing to burne her olde rotten bones.

Marginalia3.Ihon Iohnson, alias Aliker of Thorp, in the Sokon, and Countye of Essex laborer, where hee was borne, hauynge no wyfe but three young children, xxxiiii. yeares of age, and can reade a litle, indicted of heresy, beinge examined, saith that he will not come to the church nor he will not heare masse. He will not confesse his sinnes to a prieste. He saithe that no priest can remitte sinne. He saith that the Sacrament of the aulter is an idole, and can be but bread and wine, aswel after the consecration as before: he saithe to heare masse, or to worship the sacrament is idolatry. Al this he hard as he saith one Trodgon 

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This is a reference to the itinerant preacher and martyr George Eagles; it is based on his nickname of 'Trudgeover the World' (see 1563, pp. 1613-15; 1570, pp. 2202-04; 1576, pp. 1901-02, and 1583, pp. 2009-10.

Marginalia4.Elizabeth Folkes, seruaunt with one Nicholas Clere of Colchester, Clothier, mayde, borne (as she saith) in Stoke Nailond in Suf. being of the age of. xx. yeares, presented, but not indicted of heresy, being examined, sayth that she wyll not come to the churche. Shee wil not heare masse. She wil not confesse her sinnes to any priest. She sayth that the sacrament of the aulter is no better then breade & wine. She saith that no priest hath power to remyt synne. MarginaliaElizabeth Falkes noted to bee a mayde beutyful.Shee is a talle well fauoured yong wenche, and willinge to bee reformed: whereupon at the request of certayne of her frendes, she is delyuered, and committed to the safe keping of one Henry Ashby of Colchester, a good Catholyke man. Who hath taken vpon hym to reconcile her accordingly, or elles to feede her with barly bread till shee be reconciled. &c.

Here haste thou had (good reader) the depositions which the sayd Boswell sente to Byshop Boner, as is afore said. Now for asmuch as occasion compelleth me to be briefe for sondry consideracions, I wyl therfore returne againe to theorder of our tyme, Anno. 1557. and to go forward with the sayd persecuted in Colchester, with other their poore prison fellowes to the iuste nomber in all of. x. whose names summarily in order hereafter followeth. MarginaliaMartyrs.

ALthough I mighte enlarge thys story with sondry examynacions, and other priuate talke & doings had the. xv. and. xvi. day of March in the yeare aboue sayd, as also at sondry other tymes besides, and before diuers and many persones: yet for prolixities sake, and for that it is none other but in effect that which theyr brethren & sistren before hath confessed, & cōfirmed with their bloud, I wil therfore passe ouer those troublous tymes, & come to the last daye of their examining, which was in Mote Hal in Colchester the. xxiii. daye of Iune. 1557. by Doctor Chadseye, syr Iohn Kingstone, Commissarye, with other priestes, and maister Boswell the Scribe, in the presence of the two Baylyfes of Colchester, Roberte Browne, and Roberte Maynard, with diuers other Iustices both of the Towne and Countrye, and other Gentylmen a great sort, at which tyme and place, and before the sayd persones, they had sentence of condemnacion red agaynst them, chiefly for not affirming the reall presence in the popish sacrament of the altar, the effect of euery one their woordes therin was this or such lyke, as here followeth.

Marginaliawilliam Bongeor.WIlliam Bōgeor of the parish of saint Nicholas in Colchester, Glasier, of the age of. lx. yeares or there abouts, sayde that the sacrament of the altar was bread, is bread, and so remayneth bread: and for the consecracion, it is not the holyer but rather the worse: to this he did stande, as also against all the rest of their papistical doctrine, and so had sentence red agaynste him.

MarginaliaThomas Benolde.Thomas Benolde of Colchester, Tallowe Chaundler, affirmed the like in effect that the saide William Bongeor did, and so had sentence also redde against him.

Marginaliaw. Purcas.William Purcas of Bocking, in the countye of Essex, Fuller, of the age of. xx. yeares, sayd that when he receiued the sacrament, hee receaueth bread in an holy vse, that preacheth the remembraunce that Christ died for hym: to this he stode, and agaynst other their popishe matters, and so also had sentence red against him.

MarginaliaAgnes Siluerside alias Smith.Agnes Siluerside, alias Smith, dwelling in Colchester, widowe, of the age of. lx. yeares and aboue, sayd that shee loued no consecracion. for the bread and wine is rather worse