Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol. 2, part 2] with an vniuersall history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitiue age to these latter tymes of ours, with the bloudy times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions agaynst the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperours, as nowe lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realme of England and Scotland. Newly reuised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time agayne published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the helpe of Christ our Lord) Iohn Foxe, which desireth thee good reader to helpe him with thy prayer.

The condemnation and Martyrdome of Richard Lush.

IN the Registers of Gilbert Bishop of Bathe & Welles, I finde a certificate made to K. Philip and Q. Mary of one Richard Lush,* 1.1 there condemned & geuen to the secu∣lar power to be burned for the cause of heresy, whose affir∣mations in the sayde certificate he expressed in tenour and effect, as foloweth.

FIrst, for denying the verity of the body & bloud of christ in the Sacrament of the Aultar.* 1.2

2 Item, for denying auricular confessiō to be made to the Priest.

3 Item, for affirming onely to be three sacramēts, to wit, of baptisme, of the supper, and of matrimony.

4 Item, for refusing to call the Lordes Supper by the name of the Sacrament of the aulter.

5 Item, for denying Purgatory, and that prayer & almes profite not the dead.

6 Item, that Images are not to be suffered in the church and that all that kneele to Images at the Church, be Ido∣lators.

7 Item, that they which were burnt of late for religiō, di∣ed Gods seruants and good Martyrs.

8 Item, for condemning the single life of Priestes, and o∣ther votaries.

9. Item, for denying the vniuersall and catholicke church (meaning belike the Church of Rome.)

* 1.3For these assertions, as there are expressed, he was cō∣demned, and committed to the Sheriffes, and also a certi∣ficat directed by the Bishop aforesayd, to the king and Q. Whereby we haue apparantly to vnderstand, that the said Richard Lush, thus condemned by Bishop Borne, was there burnt and executed, vnlesse peraduenture in y^e mean season he dyed or was made away in the prison: wherof I haue no certeinty to expresse.

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