¶The forme and wordes of Boners Articles mi∣nistred to the seuen persons aboue mentioned in his Consistorie.
ANd first to behold the maner of speach in these bishops sittyng in their maiesty to terrifie the eares of the sim∣ple withall, let vs heare the pontificall phrase of this Bi∣shops, beginnyng in this sort.
¶The within written articles, and euery of them, and euery part and parcell of them, we Edmund by the permission of God Bishop of London, do obiect and minister to thee Thomas Whittle, &c of our meere office▪ for thy soule health, & for reformation of thyne offences and misdemeanours, nouri∣shyng thee in the vertue of obedience, and vnder the paynes of both censures of the Churche, and also of other paynes of the lawe, to aunswere fully, playnely, and truely to all the same.
1 FIrst, that thou N. hast firmly, stedfastly, and constāt∣ly beleeued in tymes past, and so doest now beleue at this present, that there is here in earth a catholike Church, in the which Catholike Church, the fayth and religion of Christ, is truely professed, allowed, receyued, kept and re∣teined of all faithfull and true christian people.
* 1.12. Item, that thou the sayd N. in tymes past, hast also beleeued, and so doest beleeue at this present, that there are in the Catholique Church seuen Sacramentes, instituted & ordeined by God, and by the consent of the holy churche allowed, approoued, receiued, kept, and reteyned.
3. Item, that thou the sayd N. wast in tymes past bap∣tised in the fayth of the sayd catholike church,* 1.2 professyng by thy godfather and godmothers, the fayth and Religion of Christ and the obseruation thereof, renouncing there the deuil & all hys pomps and works, and wast by the said sa∣crament of baptisme incorporate to the catholike church, & made a faythfull member thereof.
4. Item, that thou the sayd N. commyng to the age of 14. yeares, and so to the age of discretion, didst not depart from the sayd profession and fayth, nor diddest mislike any part of the same fayth or doyngs, but diddest like a fayth∣full Christian person abide and continue in all the same, by the space of certayne yeares, ratifieng and confirmyng all the same.
5. Item, that thou the said N. notwithstanding the pre∣misses, hast of late, that is to say, within these two yeares last past, within the City & dioces of London, swarued at the lest way from some part of the sayd catholike faith and religion: and among other thyngs thou hast misliked and earnestly spoken agaynst the sacrifice of the Masse,* 1.3 the sa∣crament of the altar, and the vnity of the church, raisyng & malignyng on the authoritie of the See of Rome, and the fayth obserued in the same.
6 Item, that thou the sayd N. hast heretofore refused, & doest refuse at this present to be reconciled againe to the v∣nitie of the church,* 1.4 knowledging and confessing the auto∣ritie of the sayd See of Rome to be lawfull.
7 Item, that thou the sayd N. mislikyng the sacrifice of the Masse, and the sacrament of the aultar, hast refused to come to thy parish Church to heare Masse,* 1.5 and to receyue the sayd Sacrament, and hast also expresly sayd, that in the sayd Sacrament of the aultar, there is not the very bodye and bloud of our Sauiour Christ, really, substantially, & truly, but hast affirmed expresly that the Masse is idolatry and abhomination, and that in the Sacrament of the aul∣tar there is none other substance, but only material bread, and materiall wyne, which are tokens of Christes body & bloud onely, and that the substance of Christes bodye and bloud is in no wyse in the sayd Sacrament of the aultar.
8 Item, that thou the sayd N. beyng conuented before certaine Iudges or Commissioners, for thy disorder here∣in, and beyng found obstinate, wilfull, and heady, wast by their commaundement sent vnto me and my prison, to be examined by me, & Processe to be made against thee for thy offence herein.
9. Item, that all and singuler the premisses haue bene, and be true and manifest, and thy selfe not onely infamed and suspected therof, but also culpable therin: and by rea∣son of the same, thou wast and art, of the iurisdiction of me Edmund B. of London, and before me accordingly, to the order of the Ecclesiasticall lawes, art to be conuented, and also by me to be punished and reformed.