A compleat history of Middlesex ... To which is added a ... description of the cities of London and Westminster.

Date:
1730
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Credit: A compleat history of Middlesex ... To which is added a ... description of the cities of London and Westminster. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bring Him to Recantation in vain, Bonner asked him if he had any Thing to fay, why he Ihould not pronounce the Sentence of Condemnation againft him: But he ob¬ jected only the Truth of his Faith, and that there was no Herefy in what he held. So he was condemned, and delivered over to the Temporal Officers. James Aujioo and Margery his Wife, were apprehended af the fame Time } but nei¬ ther the Reafon, Time, or Manner is cer¬ tainly known. Bonner examin’d them con¬ cerning the Opinion they had of the Church, and Religion then ufed, which they afferted to be corrupted, and that thofe who went to it went rather for Fear than Love to it: That they did not believe the Body and Blood of Chrift to be prefent in the Sacrament of the Altar; and that they could not, and would not join with an Idolatrous Church, or in a Temple of Idols. Upon which he pronounced Sen¬ tence againft them at Fulham, on September io. and deliver’d them to the Sheriff to be kept in fafe Cuftody till call’d for. Richard Roth was among thofe alfo that were now apprehended; he was examin’d by Bonner, who took a great deal of Pains to make him believe feven Sacraments, and Tranfubftantiation ; to which he at firft anfwer’d, That if the Scriptures did fo teach, he would fo believe; But upon a fecond Examination, and upon better Thoughts, he declared the contrary, and held their Sacraments a dead God, and the Mafs deteftable Idolatry, from which Opinion he could not, and would not re¬ cede, On Sept. io. the Bilhop obje&ed to him, That he was a Comforter and Bold- ner of Hereticks: And after fome Dif- eourfe had farther with him, he condemn’d and deliver’d him to the Sheriff Divers then prefent would have had him recanted, and have ask’d of the Bilhop Mercy ; but he told them, He would not ask Mercy of him that could not give it. So Ralph AVer- ton, James Auftoo, and Margery his Wife, and Richard Roth ended their Lives in one Fire st ifhngton. Sept, 17, 1557. Robert Mills, Stephen Cotton, Robert Dines, Stephen Wright, John Slade, William Tikes or Pikers a Tanner, being apprehended and taken by the Conftable in a Clofe by the Town of ljlingtm, were carried before Sir Roger Qhohnley, and from thence were fent to Newgate; where remaining feven Weeks, they were at laft examin’d, and had feveral Articles exhibited to them by Thomas Darbyjhire, Bonner s Chancellor, on June the aothj 21ft, 22d and 23d. To which they gave their Anfwers, viz. That their Rites, Cuftoms, and Ceremonies were againft the Word of God, and that they would obferve no Part of the fame: That they would not come to Church fo long as the Crofs was crept to, and Images worlhipped ; That they were not feven but only two Sacraments, Baptifm and the Lord’s Supper; That they could not allow their Service, becaufe in a ftrange Lan¬ guage not underftood by them ; That if they might receive the Sacrament as they did in Edward the Vlth’s Time, they would with all their Hearts. They were order’d again to appear upon July 1 r. where a Recantation, and Return to the Mother Church was required of them, which when they refufed, the next Day Sentence of Condemnation was pronoun¬ ced againft them, and they were delivered over to the Secular Power, who remanded them to Prifon, where they ffaid to the Day of their Death, which happen’d at Brentford, feven Miles from Londonf on ]Hsly 14. 155S, Among thefe that were taken at IjTlngton fome made their Efcape, and fome of them were fcourged by the Hands of Bonner him- felf, as Thomas Hinjbaw and John Willis, who were kept in Newgate fome Time without feeing any of their Friends; then fenc down to Fulham, where they were whip’d, and fet in the Stocks for eight or ten Days,, and handled with great Severity and Info* fence. 4 A DIVINE'
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