MarginaliaA letter.DEare harty beloued
This letter is printed in all editions of Acts and Monuments and in Letters of the Martyrs, pp. 659-60.
In the name of Iesus shall euery knee bowe.
Cutbert Sympson.
This account first appeared in the 1563 edition and remained basically unchanged in subsequent editions. It was based on their answers to the articles alleged against them and these were taken from the records of their trial.
WIth, Cutbert likewise were apprehended and also suffred, as is before mencioned, Hugh Foxe, aud Iohn Dewnesh.
A letter from Foxe and Devenish to other protestant prisoners is BL, Additional Ms 19400, fos. 84r-86v.
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.
[Back to Top]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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