¶A briefe summe of theyr opinions.
* 1.1THe opinions of many of these persons were, that he or she neuer beleued in the Sacrament of the aulter, nor e∣uer would, and that it was not as men did take it.
* 1.2For that he was knowne of his neghbor, to be a good felow, meaning that he was a knowne man.
* 1.3For saying that he would geue 40. pence, in cōditiō that such a one knew so much, as he did know.
* 1.4Some for saying, yt they of Amershā, which had bene ab∣iured before by Bishop Smyth, were good men, & perfect Christians, & simple folk which could not answere for thē∣selues, & therefore were oppressed by power of the bishop.
Some for hiding other in theyr barnes.
* 1.5Some for reading the Scriptures or treatises of Scrip∣ture in English: some for hearing the same read.
Some for defending: some for marying with thē whiche had bene abiured.
* 1.6Some for saying that matrimony was not a Sacramēt.
Some for saying, that worshippinge of Images was Mawmetrey: some for calling Images carpenters chips: some for calling them stockes and stones: some for calling them dead thinges.
* 1.7Some for saying that money spent vpon pilgrimage, serued but to mainteine theues and harlots.
Some for calling the Image in the Rood loft block al∣mighty.
* 1.8Other for saying that nothing grauen with mans hand was to be worshipped.
* 1.9Some for calling them fooles which came from master Iohn Shorne in pilgrimage.
* 1.10An other for calling his vicar a poll shorne priest.
* 1.11An other for calling a certayne blinde chappell being in ruine, an old fayre milckhouse.
* 1.12An other for saying that he threshed God almighty out of the straw.
* 1.13An other for saying that almes shoulde not be geuen, before it did sweat in a mans hand.
* 1.14Some for saying, that they which dye, passe straight ei∣ther to heauen or hell.
* 1.15Isabell Bartlet was brought before the Byshop, and abiured, for lamēting her husband when the Bishops man came for him, and saying, that he was an vndone man, and she a dead woman.
* 1.16For saying that Christ departing from his disciples into heauen, sayd: that once he was in sinners handes, & would come there no more.
Robert Raue hearing a certayne Bell in an vplandish steple, sayd: lo yonder is a fayre bell, and it were to hang a∣bout any cowes neck in this towne: and therfore, as for o∣ther such like matters moe he was brought coram nobis.
Item for receiuing the Sacrament at Easter, & doub∣ting whether it was the very body, and did not cōfesse their doubt to theyr ghostly father.
Some for saying that the pope had no authority to geue pardon or to release mannes soule from sinne, and so from payn, and that it was nothing but blinding of the people, and to get theyr money.
The penaunce to these partyes enioyned by this Iohn Longland Bishop of Lincolne,* 1.17 was almost vniforme and all after one condition, saue onely that they were seueral∣ly committed and deuided into seuerall and diuers mona∣steryes, there to be kept and found of almes all theyr life, ex¦cept they were otherwise dispensed with by the bishop: as for example I haue here adioyned the Bishoppes letter for one of the sayd number, sent to the Abbey of Ensham, there to be kept in perpetuall penaunce. By whiche one, an esti∣mation may be taken of the rest, which were bestowed like wise sunderly into sundry Abbeyes, as to Osney, to Frides∣wide, to Abingdon, to Tame, to Bessetor, to Dorchester, to Notley, to Ashrige, and diuers moe. The copy of the bi∣shops letter sent to the Abbot of Ensham, here followeth vnder written.