horted þ^t where of late ye did leaue your churches, & went in the time of diuine seruice into the fieldes, & prophane places, to read English Psalmes, & certain English bokes, ye woulde leaue of þ^t, and being out of prison, & at your liberty, comē to your own parish churches, there to heare Mattins, masse, Euensong, after the cōmon order of the churches of this realm, & to make due confessiō of your sinnes to your own curate, & receiue at his hāds (as of the minyster of Christ, hauing therin sufficient authoritye) absolution of your sinnes, heare Masse, receyue the sacrament of thaltar, with a true faith, according to the belief of the catholike churche, & obserue al other the rites, and customes of the said Catholike Churche, vsed in this realme of England, aswel in going in processiō after the Crosse, as also otherwise generally.

Marginalia14Fourtene, ye being so required, haue refused, & do refuse so to do, sayig emonges other vain & light words, þ^t forasmuch as ye wer imprisoned by the space of 6. wekes, not knowing wher w^t ye wer charged, your peticiō shold be & was, þ^t ye might first answer to your former cause, & þ^t then ye wold be ready to answer me the said B. to al þ^t by me should be layd to your charge.

☞ Vnto the which articles, al the fornamed. 7 (only Reynold Eastlād excepted) made answer therunto in effect as hereafter followeth.

Marginalia1TO the first article they answered al affirmatiuely, R. Holland adding þ^t he came not to their latin seruice these. 2. yeres before. Mat. Ricarby added þ^t he came not the church since latin seruice was renued, because it is againste the word of god, & Idolatry cōmitted in creping to the Crosse. Henry Pond added, if he had licence then to go to church, he would.

Marginalia2To the 2. article they al aunswered affirmatiuely, H. Pond adding as in the first article. I. Lloyd added þ^t the latin seruice then vsed, was set vp by mā, & not by the truth, & this he lerned (he said) in king Edwards daies, which he beleued to be true. R. Southā added, that he refused to come to churche, because it is furnished with ydols, and because the sacramente of thaltar he beleueth to be an ydol.

Marginalia3To þ^e. 3. article they al answered affirmatiuely. for they said, that the customes, rites, and ceremonies of the church then vsed, are not agreable to gods word.

Marginalia4. 5To the. 4. and fifth articles they all answered affirmatiuely, adding that they beleue no priest hath power to remit sin.

Marginalia6To the. 6. article 

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Notice that in the 1570 edition, Foxe straightened out the complicated syntax of this article.

Roger Hollād answered affirmatiuely, adding in effect that the sacrament of thaltar is no sacrament, approued by the word of God. &c.

Marginalia7To the. 7. article, they al confessed the contēts therof to be true in euery part, H. Pond adding þ^t he knoweth nor beleueth any such sacrament called the sacrament of thaltar, but cōfesseth þ^e sacramēt of the lords supper, & beleueth þ^t to be approued. I. Lloyd added þ^t those þ^t knele & worship the sacramēt of thaltar, cōmit idolatry. &c.

Marginalia8. 9. 10.To the. 8. 9. 10. articles, they al cōfessed the cōtents of those articles to be true. But I. Holyday, H. Pond, & I. Lloyd added, þ^t they doe allow the latin seruice for thē that vnderstādeth the same, so farforth as it agreth w^t gods word. for some part therof is not agreable to goddes word (as they said:) but to such as do not vnderstād the said seruice in latin, they do not allow it. for it doth not profit thē. R. Southam added and said, that it was a fonde question to aske a simple mā, whether the latin seruice bee good and lawful. Mathew Ricarby & Roger Hollād denied the seruice in latin to be good.

Marginalia11To the. 11. article, they al confesse the same to be true in euery part, sauing H. Ponde, & Mat. Ricarby, who answered in effect þ^t they coulde not iudge therof, but leaueth them to be tryed by the worde of god.

Marginalia12To the. 12. article, they graunted and confessed the same to be true, and desired of god that the seruice wer in English agayne.

Marginalia13To the. 13. article they al graunted and confessed the same to be true.

Marginalia14To the. 14. article they al graunted & cōfessed the same to be true in euery part.

Thus haue ye the answers of these mē to the foresaid articles, saue þ^t Reginald Eastland required to answer therunto refused to do so, MarginaliaAn othe to end a strife lawfull.alleging þ^t he knoweth þ^t to end a strife an othe is lawful, but to beginne a strife, an othe is not laweful, & therfore he now refuseth to take his othe in the beginning of this matter agaynst him. Wherupon being charged by the Bishop, sayde: for his not aunsweringe to the artycles, he was content to stande vnto the order of the law, for his punishmēt, whatsoeuer it shuld be

MarginaliaThe condēnatiō of R. Eastlande,The. 17. day after of the said moneth of Iune, the sayd Eastland appered again before the B. who stāding firme in þ^t he had said before, denied to make any answer in þ^e case. &c. Wherupō þ^e said Eastlād w^t thother. 6. his felowprisoners, wer assigned by þ^e B. to repair again to þ^e same place at after none, who being ther presente, in the foresaid consistory, as thei wer commaūded & stāding altogether before the said B. he beginning thus w^t thē asked thē, if he had cōmitted them to prisō, they said no. But. M. Chomley & þ recorder of Londō cōmitted thē to Newgate. Then being demaunded further by the B. if he had done any thyng or act to kepe thē in prison, or to hinder their liberty frō prison, to this they