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in the Lord Iesus Christ, I cannot write as I do wishe vnto you. I beseche you with my soule, commit your selfe vnder the mighty hand of oure God trusting in his mercie, & he will suerlye helpe vs, as shalbe most vnto his glory and oure euerlasting comfort, being sure of thys, that he will suffer nothing to come vnto vs, but that which shallbe moste profitable for vs. For it is other a correction for oure sinnes, or a trial of our faith, or to set furth his glory, or for altogether, and therfore must nedes be wel done. For there is nothing that commeth vnto vs by fortune or chaunce, but by oure heauenly fathers prouidence. And therfore praye vnto oure heauenly father that he wil euer geue vs his grace so to consider it. Let vs geue him moste hartye thankes for these his fatherly corrections. For as many as he loueth, he correcteth. And I beseche you nowe be of good chere, and count the crosse of Christ greater riches, then al the vain pleasurs of England. I do not doute (I praise god for it) but that you haue supped with christ at his maūdie, I meane beleue in him for that is the effect), and then must you drinke of hys cuppe, I mene his crosse, (for that doth the cup signify vnto vs). Take the cuppe wyth a good stomacke in the name of God: & then shall you be sure to haue the good wine Christes bloude to thy poore thyrsty soule. And when you haue the wine, you must drinke it oute of this cup. Learne this when you come to the Lordes supper, pray continually. In all thinges giue thankes.

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In the name of Iesus shall euery knee bowe.
Cutbert Sympson.

WIth, Cutbert likewise were apprehended and also suffred, as is before mencioned, Hugh Foxe, aud Iohn Dewnesh. 

Who being brought to their examinations, with the sayde Cutbert, before Boner byshop of London, the xix. day of March, had articles and interrogatories to them ministred by the sayd office, albe it not al at one tyme. For first to the sayde Cutbert seuerall articles were propounded, then other articles in general were ministred to them all together. The order and maner, and also the copy of these articles, both seuerally and ioyntlye to them ministred here followe, with their answers also to the same annexed, to be sene. And firste the Interrogatories and articles layed to Cutbert Sympson, which were these.

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Marginalia1.FIrst that thou Cutbert Simpson, arte at this present abiding within the city and dioces of Lōdon, and not out of the Iurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome.

Marginalia.2Item, that thou within the City and dioces

of London, hast vttered many times and spoken deliberatly these words and sentences following, videlicet: that though thy parētes, aūcestoures, kinsfolkes and frendes, yea and also thy selfe, before the tyme of the late schime here in this Realme of Englād, haue thought and thoughtest, that the faith and religion obserued in times past here in this Realme of England, was a true fayth and religion of Christ in al pointes, and articles, though in the church it was set forth in the latine tonge & not in English, yet thou beleuest and saiest that the fayth and Religion now vsed commenly in this realme, not in the englishe, but in the latine tong, is not the true fayth and religion of Christ, but contrary and expressely against it.

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Marginalia3.Item, that thou within the sayd City and dioces of London, has willingly, wittingly, and contemptuously, don, and spoken agaynst the rites, and the ceremonyes commenly vsed here through the hole Realme, and obserued generally in the church of England.

Marginalia4.Item, that thou haste thought and beleued certenly, and so within the dioces of London hast affirmed and spoken deliberatly that ther be not in the catholicke churche seuen Sacramentes, nor of that vertue & efficacie, as is commenly beleued in the church of England them to be

Marginalia5.Item, that thou hast likewise thought and beleued, yea and haste so within the City and dioces of London, spoken, and deliberatly affirmed, that in the Sacrament of the aultar there is not really, substancially and truly the very body and bloude of oure sauioure Iesus Christ.

Marginalia6.Item, that thou hast bene, and to thy power art at this present, a fauourer of all those that either haue bene here in this realme, heretofore called heretickes, or els conuented and condemned by the ecclesiasticall Iudges for heretickes.

Marginalia7Item, that thou, contrary to the order of this Realme of England, and cōtrary to the vsage of the holy churche of this Realme of Englād hast at sondry times and places within the city and dioces of London, bene at assemblies & conuenticles, where there was a multitude of people gathered together, to heare the english seruice saide, which was set fourth in the late yeares of kinge Edward the sixt, and also to heare and haue the communion booke redde, and the communion ministred, bothe to the said multitude, and also to thy selfe, and thou haste thought, and so thinkest and hast spoken that the said english seruice, and communion boke, and and al things conteined in either of them was good and laudable, and for suche thou diddest & doest allowe & approue either of them at this present.

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