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.

Articles seuerally ministred to Cutbert Sim∣son the xix. of March, with his aunsweres also to the same annexed:

FIrst, that thou Cutbert Simson, art at this present abidinge within the Cittie and Dioces of London,* 1.1 and not out of the iurisdiction of the bishop of Rome.

Item, that thou within the Cittie and Diocesse of London hast vttered many times, and spoken deliberately these wordes and sentences following, videlicet: that though thy parentes, auncestours, kinsefolkes, and friendes, yea, and also thy selfe▪ be∣fore the time of the late schisme here in this realme of Englande haue thought and thoughtest, that the fayth and religion obser∣ued in times past here in this Realme of Englande, was a true fayth and religion of Christ, in all poyntes and Articles, though in the Churche it was set foorthe in the Latine tongue, and not in Englishe, yet thou beleuest and sayest, that the faythe and re∣ligion, now vsed commonly in the Realme, not in the Englysh but in the Latine tongue, is not the true faythe and religion of Christ, but contrary and expressely agaynst it.

Item, that thou within the sayde Cittie and Dioces of Lon∣don, hast willingly, wittingly, and contemptuously done,* 1.2 & spo∣ken agaynst the Rites and the Ceremonyes, commonlye vsed here tbrough the whole realme, and obserued generally in the Churche of England.

Item, that thou hast thought, and beleued certaynlye,* 1.3 and so within the Dioces of London, hast affirmed, and spoken dely∣berate••y, that there bee not in the Catholicke Churche seuen Sacramentes, nor of that vertue and efficacie, as is commonly beleued in the churche of England them to be.

Item, thou hast likewise thought, and beleeued,* 1.4 yea and so within the Cittie and Dioces of London spoken, and deliberate∣ly affirmed, that in the sacrament of the aultar, there is not re∣ally, substantially, and truely, the very body and bloud of our sa∣uiour Iesus Christ

Item that thou hast beene, and to thy power arte at this pre∣sent, a fauourer of all those, that eyther haue beene here in this Realme, heretofore called heretickes, or els conuented, & con∣demned by the Ecclesiasticall Iudges for heretickes,

Item that thou, contrary to the order of this Realme of En∣glande,* 1.5 and contrary to the vsage of the holy Churche of this Realme of England, hast at sundry tymes and places, within the Citye and Dioces of London, beene at assemblyes, and conuen∣ticles, where there was a multitude of people gathered toge∣ther, to h••are the Englishe seruice sayed, which was set forth in the late yeares of King Edward the sixte, and also to heare, and haue the Communion booke reade, and the Communion mini∣stred, both to the sayd multitude, and also to thy selfe, and thou hast thought, and so thinkest, and hast spoken that the sayd Eng∣lishe seruice, and Communion booke, and all thinges conteyned in eyther of them was good and laudable, and for such thou did∣dest, and doest allowe, and approue eyther of them at this pre∣sent.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Articles seue∣rally ministred to Cutbert Simson.
• * 1.2

  〈1 paragraph〉〈1 paragraph〉
• * 1.3

  Seuen S••∣cramente••.
• * 1.4

  〈◊〉〈◊〉 of the A••l∣tar.
• * 1.5

  Vsing of Engli••he Seruice.