EDmond by the sufferaunce of God, Bishop of London,* 1.1 to all and singular Parsons, Uicares, Curates, and o∣thers, Clerks and learned men, being within our Dioces of London, and specially vnto Richard Clony our sworn Sumner, greeting, salutation, & benediction. For so much as it is come to our hearing by common fame, and the de∣claration of sundry credible persons, that one Iohn Tooly late Citizen and Pulter of London, the sonne of perdition and iniquity, comming to the profundity of malice, in the selfe same time in the which he should go to hanging, accor¦dyng to the lawes of the Realme, for the greate the••e by him lately committed, at whiche time chie••ely he shoulde haue cared for the wealth of his soule, and to haue dyed in the vnity of the Catholique Churche, did vtter diuers and sundry, damnable, blasphemous, and hereticall opinions, & errors, vtterly contrary & repugnant to the verity of the Catholicke fayth & vnity of the same, and did exhort, styrre vp, and encourage the people there standing in great mul∣titude, to hold & defend the same errors and opinions: And moreouer, certain of the people there standing, as it did ap∣peare, infected with errours and heresies, as ••autours and defenders of the sayd Iohn, did confirme and geue expresse consent to the foresayd wordes, propositions, and affirma∣tions: which thing we doe vtter with sorrow and bytter∣nesse of hart.
We therfore the foresayd Edmond & bishop abouesayd,* 1.2 not being able, nor daring passe ouer in silence, or winke at the foresaid hainous act, least by our negligence and slack∣nes, ye bloud of thē might be required at our handes, at the most terrible day of iudgement, desiring to be certified and enformed, whether ye premises declared vnto vs be of truth & least that any scabbed sheep, lurking amongst the simple flocke of our Lord do infect them with pestiferous heresy, to you, therfore, we straitly charge and commaūd, that you cite, or cause to be cited al and singuler, hauing or knowing the truth of the premisses, by setting vp this Citation vp∣on the Church doore of Saint Martines in the field, being within our Dioces of London, and also vpon the Cathe∣drall Church doore of S. Paules in London, leauing there the copy hereof, or by other meanes or wayes, the best you can, that this Citation and Monition may come to theyr knowledge.
All which and singular by the tenor of these presentes, we cite and admonishe that they appeare, and euery one of them do appeare before vs or our Uicar generall, or Com∣missary, whatsoeuer he be in that behalfe, in our cathedrall Church of S. Paul in London, in the Consistory place vp on thursday the second day of May, now next ensuing, be∣twixt the houres of 9. & 10. of the clocke in the forenoone the same day, to beare witnes to the truth in this behalfe, and to depose and declare faythfully the trueth that they know or haue heard of the premisses: and moreouer, to do and re∣ceiue, that law and reason doth require.
Further, we commit vnto you, as before, and straytlye enioyning you do cōmaund,* 1.3 that ye will generally cite the wife of the sayd Tooly that is dead & his children, his kyn∣red by father and mother, his frendes, and his familiars in especiall, and all other and euery of thē, if there be any per∣haps that desire to defend and purge the remembraunce of the person in the premisses, and that ye admonish them af∣ter the maner and forme aforesayd, whō we likewise by the tenor of these presentes, do in such sort cite and monish that they appeare all, & that euery one of thē do appeare (vnder pain to be cōpelled to keep silence for euer hereafter in this behalfe) before vs, or our Uicar generall in spirituall mat∣ters, or such our Commissary at the day, houre, and place a foresayd, to defende the good name and remembraunce of him that is dead, and to say, alledge, & propose in due forme of law, a cause reasonable, if they haue any or can tel of any why the sayd Iohn Tooly that is dead, ought not to be de∣termined and declared for such an heretick and excommu∣nicate person, and his remembrance condemned, in the de∣testing and condemning of so heynous a deed and crime, & his body or carkas to lacke Church buriall,* 1.4 as a rottē mē∣ber cut of from the church, and the same to be committed to the arme & power secular, and they compelled hereafter for euer to hold theyr peace.
And furthermore, to do, receiue, & to suffer, as law and reason will, and as the quality of suche matter, and the na∣ture of themselues do constrayne and require: and moreo∣uer, that you cite and monish after the maner aforesayd, all and euery of the receiuers, fautours, and creditours of the sayd Iohn Tooly that is dead, especially if any of them doe accline and geue consent to th••se wicked and detestable af∣firmations, propositions, and rehearsals aforesaid, that on this side the sayd thursday,* 1.5 they returne and submit them∣selues vnto vs, and to the lap of the mother holy Church: which thing if they doe, we trusting vpon the mercye of al∣mighty