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Magister Johannes Bradford, socius perpetuus collegii nuncupati Pembrook
Hall in universitate Cantabrigiæ, oriundus in villa de Manchester in comitatu
Lancastriæ, Cestrensis diocesis."

Page 144, line 5. "He obtained for him a license to preach."]-In the diary of King Edward, Dec. 18th, A.D. 1551 (see Burnet's Reformation), we read:"It was appointed I should have six chaplains ordinary, of which two ever to be present, and four always absent in preaching: one year, two in Wales, two in Lancashire and Derby; next year, two in the marches of Scotland, two in Yorkshire; the third year, two in Devonshire, two in Hampshire; fourth year, two in Norfolk and Essex, and two in Kent and Sussex, &c.: these six to be Bill, Harley, Perne, Grindal, Bradford, and Knox."

Page 144, line 6.]-Bradford's institution to the prebend of Kentishtown, in St. Paul's, is thus recorded in the Ridley Register, folio 312 verso:

&c. Cant

"Vicesimo quarto die mensis Augusti idem Reverendus pater Dominus Prebenda Nicholaus Londinensis Episcopus canonicatum et prebendam in ecclesia cathe- lers alias drali Divi Pauli London. dictam Cantlers alias Kentyshetowne, per mortem Kentyshnaturalem Willielmi Layton, clerici, ultimi canonici et prebendarii eorundem, towne. vacantes, et ad collationem ejusdem reverendi patris pleno jure spectantes, dilecto sibi magistro Johanni Bradford, artium magistro, contulit caritatis intuitu; eumque canonicum et prebendarium dictorum canonicatus et prebendæ, de expressè renunciando pretensæ et usurpatæ jurisdictioni auctoritati et potestati episcopi Romani, ac supremitatem serenissimæ regiæ majestatis juxta leges, &c. fideliter agnoscendo, necnon de fideliter observando statuta ordinationes provisiones ac laudabiles dictæ ecclesiæ cathedralis consuetudines, quatenus eum ratione ipsorum canonicatus et prebendæ tangunt et concernunt, ac quatenus legibus et statutis ac provisionibus hujus regni Angliæ non adversantur, &c. primitus juratum, rite et legitime instituit et investivit, &c. Et recepta ejus obedientia legitima scriptum fuit decano et capitulo dictæ. ecclesiæ cathedralis ac eorum vicesgerentibus, &c. pro ejus inductione et installatione suis."

Page 145, line 19. "Committed first to the Tower, then unto other prisons."]— To the Tower, August 16th, 1553 (p. 230); to the Marshalsea, Feb. 6th, 1554 (viii. 593); to the King's Bench, on Easter Eve, March 24th, 1554 (p. 146, viii. 593); to the Counter, January 30, 1555 (p. 165); to Newgate, June 29th; burnt July 1st.

Page 147, line 15. "The keeper's wife."]-Bradford's keeper in the Counter was Claydon: pp. 183, 190.

Page 147, line 15 from the bottom. "Walter Marlar's wife."]—See a letter to May Marlar, Bradford's Works P.S.E. ii. 181, dated Feb. 22nd, 1555; and a probable allusion to her, ibid. 215.

Page 157, line 19. "The lord chancellor was appalled."]-The Latin Foxe (p. 475) says: "his verbis perculsus fractusque non mediocriter, modestiùs ad hæc respondit." In the separate edition of these Examinations by Griffith, 1561 (P.S.E. p. 481), the reading here is "appeased;" but we ought probably to read "apaused," i. e. checkt. See Philpot's Examinations, p. 647 of this volume, where the Latin (p. 593) is "Paulo mitior factus."

Page 157, line 10 from the bottom. " In the mean time."]-In Griffith's edition, 1561, this "talk" with Hussey and Seton is placed first in order of the prison-conferences.'

Page 157, line 3 from the bottom.]-Griffith's edition says "for old acquaintance sake: for I [Bradford] was at Muttrell journey a paymaster, in which he was, and had often received money at my hands." The siege of Montreuil, in Picardy, was conducted by the Duke of Norfolk, at the same time with that of Boulogne, A.D. 1544.

Page 158, line 9 from the bottom. "But John Bradford kept still one answer."-In Griffith's edition, "But still I kept me to my cuckoo."

Page 162, line 6. "And did deceive his master of seven-score pounds."]— Some writers represent this matter as if Sir John Harington had been the real sinner, and Bradford only guilty of connivance. But the Rev. E. C. Haring

ton, collateral descendant of the knight, writing to the "Notes and Queries " (New Series, vol. i. p. 125), places the subject in a very different light. From the statements of Strype, and even of Sampson, Bradford's intimate friend, he contends that Bradford was guilty of defrauding the king's exchequer, in his master's name but without his knowledge; and that when Bradford, under the stings of conscience, confessed his crime to his master, the knight, on the fraud being proved to him from the books, generously undertook to satisfy the king, and accepted Bradford's security for repayment to himself. Archdeacon Hone, however, in his "Life of Bradford," thinks that the fraud was committed for his master's advantage, not his own. The knight himself, however, seems to have been quite innocent in the matter.

Page 165, line 20.]-The process and sentence on Bradford, in Latin, are preserved in Harleian MS. 421. fol. 40, 42—4. The MS. seems to be a transcript from the original register. It is printed, but somewhat incorrectly dated, in the Parker Soc. Bradford, vol. i. p. 585. It thence appears, that Bradford was first brought up for examination" die Martis xxix. die Januarii," 155, and remanded ad comparendum crastina die inter horas viii. et x ante meridiem." Accordingly, "die Mercurii tricesimo sc. die, Januarii," he appeared; when the bishop, finding him immovable, "tulit contra eum condemnationis sententiam definitivam; which then follows, dated "die Mercurii, tricesimo die Januarii, Anno Domini juxta cursum ecclesiæ Anglorum, 1554." See Document No. X. at the end of this volume.

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It may be added, that the same Harleian MS. contains the processes against John Hooper, John Cardmaker, John Rogers alias Matthewe, Rowland Taylor, Edward Crome, and Laurence Saunders.

Page 174, line 10.]-After the words "they departed," the "Examinations" of 1561 add some talk of Bradford with Claydon and others the same day after dinner, occupying three pages in the Parker Soc. Edition, i. 515—

518.

Page 190, line 26. "To be at a point."]-This phrase, meaning " to have made up one's mind," is common in Foxe: we have it at p. 534; also vol. iii. p. 327; viii. 18, 587, 691.

Page 190, note (1).]-See p. 256 of this volume.

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Page 196. "The Letters of Bradford."]-Bradford's Letters have been collected from different sources, to the number of CI., by the Rev. Aubrey Townsend, editor of Bradford's Works for the Parker Society, to which the reader is referred for much valuable information. He discovered the autographs of many of them among the Emmanuel Coll. MSS. at Cambridge. The letters printed by Foxe correspond with those in Mr. Townsend's Collection as follows," aut." indicating autograph:-Foxe, p. 196, P.S. E. XVIII. :—p. 198, P.S. E. vol. i. p. 434:-p. 201, P.S. E. vol. i. p. 441:-p. 204, P. S. E. vol. i. p. 448, aut. p. 208, P. S. E. vol. i. p. 455, aut.:-p. 210, P.S. E., XV. :p. 212, P.S. E. XC., aut. :—p. 214, P.S. E. LIX. :—p. 215, P.S. E. LXVI. :— p. 216, P.S.E. LXV. :-p. 217, P.S. E. LXXVII. p. 218, P.S.E. XXIX.:— p. 219, P.S.E. XIX.:-p. 222, P.S.E. XXXII., aut.:—p. 225, P.S. E. LXXXV.: p. 227, P.S.E. LV.: p. 229, P.S.E. XXXVII.:- p. 230, P.S. E. XVI.:-Ditto, P. S. E. XLI., aut.: — p. 234, P.S.E. LII. :—p. 235, P.S.E. XXXV. :-Ditto, P.S. E. XXV. :-p. 237, P.S.E. LXXI. :-p. 238, P.S.E. XXIV. :-p. 239, P. S. E. vol. i. 407-p. 241, P.S. E. XCVI.:p. 242, P.S.E. LXXXVIII.:-p. 244, P.S. E. XCIX.: Ditto, P.S. E. LXXXII. p. 246, P.S.E. LIII.:—p. 249, XCVIII.: -p. 250, P. S.E. XXVI. :—p. 251, P.S.E. LVI. :—p. 252, P.S. E. vol. i. 375 ::-p. 254, LXXV., aut.:-p. 255, LIII.:-p. 256, P.S.E. XCII.:—p. 257, P.Ŝ.E. XXX. :p. 258, P. S. E. XLII.: p. 260, P.S. E. XXI.:-p. 262, P.S. E. CI., aut. :— Ditto, P.S. E. vol. i. 297:-p. 264, P. S. E. XXVIII. :-p. 266, P.S. É. C. :— Ditto, P.S. E. vol. i. 401 :-p. 267, P. S. E. XLVIII. :-p. 274, P.S. E. XII. :p. 277, P.S.E. II. :-p. 278, P.S. E. IV. :-p. 281, P.S. E. VI.:- -p. 282, P.S. E. VII.:-Ditto, P. S. E. VIII. :—p. 283," P.S. E. X. :—p. 284, P. S. E. XI. :-p. 285, P.S. E. XIV.

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Page 201.]-Bradford's Farewells to Cambridge, to Lancashire and Cheshire.

and to Walden, are preserved in his autograph at Emmanuel College, Camsbridge.

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21 Page 203, line 6 from the bottom.]—" Buskel" or "Buskle means prepare"; the word occurs again at p. 400. See vol. viii. note in Appendix on p. 551: "thee bowne" is introduced here from Bradford's autograph: "bowne means "ready" (Jamieson's Scottish Dict.).

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Page 204, line 16. Ready to the stake."]-These words are introduced from Bradford's autograph.

Page 210.]—" B." and "C." probably mean Bernher and Careless.

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Page 214, line 9 from the bottom. "For holiness is the end."]" Holiness is the reading in the autograph MS. at Emmanuel; the printed editions read "holy." The two following short paragraphs are printed by Mr. Townsend for the first time from the autograph:

"Thus in few words I have declared unto you my good will, my dearly beloved in the Lord, praying God to use it as a mean to comfort you in spirit, as you have done to me in body: the which God our Father in the last day give you to find eternally.

"I heartily pray you to pray for us your afflicted brethren."

Page 219, bottom.]-This letter occurs five times among the Emmanuel College MSS., in two of which it is attributed to Latimer. See P. S. Bradford, Letter XIX.

Page 226, line 17 from the bottom. "You know this is our alphabet.”]— Alluding to the figure of the Cross then prefixed to the alphabet for the young. See note on the Appendix on p. 209.

Page 227, line 5. “P”]—is given as "Punt" in the MS.

Page 227.]-The lady indicated by "M. H." was Mrs. Mary Honywood, of whom see an account in a note to Letter XXXVII. P.S.E.

Page 230.]—“ W. P." may mean William Punt or William Porrege.

Page 230, bottom.]-The opening of this letter in the autograph at Emmanuel is as follows:-"Ah, my dearly beloved, and most dearly beloved in the Lord, how pensive is my heart presently for you by reason of the terrible and fearful judgment of our God! which even now I heard for truth by Richard Proude, where tofore I did not believe it, because your last letters, delivered safely to me upon Monday last past, did thereof speak nothing." Page 233, line 9. "Sparred"]-i.e. barred or shut.

Page 248.]—The copy of this letter in Coverdale's "Letters of the Martyrs" dates "From the King's Bench."

Page 252, line 14 from the bottom. "To play wily-beguile"]—To deceive. See Ray's Proverbs, p. 46, Ed. 1817.

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Page 262.]-This letter to Bernher is in the P.S.E. CI, dated "near the end of June 1555." Mr. Townsend found the autograph at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, whence he supplies many corrections. Thus the autograph, at line 6, after "through him " inserts, as far as Master Clayden can think. He hath been with me an hour this afternoon. He thinks" I shall be burned, &c. That there were slanders against Bartlet Green appears from his letter at p. 734 see also his letter at p. 743. In the original there are several sentences addressed to Mrs. Hales.

Page 264, line 3 from the bottom. "Godly and learned company.]-Bradford was in the King's Bench with Ferrar, Taylor, and Philpot, as he had been for a time in the Tower with Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer. This letter is probably from the Tower, about Feb. 24th, 1554.

Page 267.]-The initials "N. S." and "R. C." mean Nicholas Sheterden and Robert Cole.

Page 274.]-The nine Letters of Bradford to Traves printed by Foxe are not arranged in their chronological order: they should be arranged as follows: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 1, 9: Mr. Townsend heads the whole by a letter of Traves to Bradford, written probably at London about February, 1548, from Harl.

O stupo

rem.

MS. 416, no. 22, fol. 33, 34; and he adds another letter of Bradford to Traves written at Manchester, probably about Christmas, 1549, from MS. Harl. 416, no. 25, fol. 37.

Page 276, top.]-Thomas Hall was a priest, whence his prefix "Sir."

Page 280, line 12 from the bottom. "Wolstoncross."]-Mr. Townsend (P.S.E. Letter IV.) states, that the true name is "Worsyncroft," as supplied from the MS. visitation book of Bishop Bird. Mr. Townsend has printed the answer of Traves to the foregoing letter of Bradford from MS. Harleian. 416, no. 23, folio 34 verso.

Page 284, line 12 from the bottom.]-Sandys was Master of Catharine Hall, and Ridley Master of Pembroke.

Page 305, note (1).]-John Bland's sentence from the first Edition of Foxe, p. 1230, the words in the margin being Foxe's comments :

"THE SENTENCE OF CONDEMPNATION AGAYNST MAYSTER BLAND. "In Dei nomine Amen. Nos Richardus Throrneden sacræ theologiæ professor, episcopus Dover. in hac parte officialis et commissarius specialis, ac aliter sufficienter autorisatus, cum aliis (vidt.) Richardo Fawcet, et Roberto Collins, &c. in quodam negotio hæreticæ pravitatis contra te Johannem Bland Scabri- clericum, dudum de Addisham Cant. diœceseos, coram nobis in juditio personaliter constitutum et comparentem, ex officio nostro rite et legitime, etiam cum Menda- pio favore procedentes, auditis, visis, et intellectis, cognitisque, et rimatis, ac matura deliberatione discussis, et investigatis dictæ causæ meritis et circumstantiis, pro tribunali sedentes, ac Christi nomen primitus invocantes, eundemque solust præ oculis habentes.

ciem.

cium.

Sordes.

Barbariem.

"Quia per acta inactitata, deducta, allegata, proposita et exhibita, nec non per confessionem tuam coram nobis in hac parte judicialiter factam, repetitam, et recognitam liquet evidenter et apparet, te nonnullas hæreses et damnatas opiniones, contra determinationem sanctæ matris ecclesiæ catholicæ, et contra ipsius dogmata, et præcipue contra veritatem corporis Christi in sacramento Eucharistiæ, prout in actis nostris et responsis tuis liquet, dixisse, asseruisse, credidisse et affirmasse, ac pertinaciter et impie defendisse, nec nos potuisse te ullis salubribus monitis aut consiliis ad meliorem et saniorem sententiam gremiumque ecclesiæ reducere &c.; te præfatum Johannem Bland, demeritis et culpis tuis per dictam tuam damnabilem pertinaciam aggravatis, et id exigenNugas. tibus in hac parte sic confessatis, nec ad gremium sanctæ matris ecclesiæ catholicæ redire volentem, hæreticum, pertinacem, obstinatum, impœnitentem, ac incorrigibilem judicamus, ac sententialiter et diffinitive condemnamus, ac te Furorem. ob præmissa de jure fuisse et esse [ex]communicatum, proque excommunicato pronunciamus, decernimus, denunciamus et declaramus; teque tanquam hæreticum, obstinatum, et pertinacem ex nunc sæcularis potestatis judicio, sive curia sæculari, ut membrum putidum, ac corpore sacrosanctæ ecclesiæ resecatum, ad Proditio- omnem juris effectum exinde sequi valentem, relinquendum et tradendum fore debere similiter pronunciamus, decernimus et declaramus; rogando tamen attente in visceribus Jesu Christi, ut hujusmodi severitatis ultio et executio de Fucum. te, et contra te, in hac parte fienda et habenda taliter moderetur et mitigetur, ut non sit rigor rigidus ad pœnam, sed quod clementia sit ad salutem et salvationem animæ tuæ, hæreticorumque extirpationem, metum, et terrorem, atque eorum conversionem ad catholicæ ecclesiæ unitatem; de quo hic publice protestamur per hanc nostram sententiam diffinitivam, sive hoc nostrum finale decretum, quam sive quod ferimus et promulgamus cum consensu prædictorum commissariorum in hiis scriptis."

nem.

Hipocrisin. Papis

ticæ eloquentiæ.

Page 322, note (3).]—Dr. Maitland, besides the geographical illustration of this passage from Oudiette, also quotes the following extract from Miles Hoggart's work, "The Displaying of the Protestants and sondry their Practises, &c." 16mo. London, 1556, as throwing light on Carver's history: “Also about xii. monethes past, before the Reverende father the bishop of London, there were arraigned in the consistorie of Paules for their opinions against the Sacrament of the Altar, iiii Sussex men, the one of them was a ducheman, and dwelled besides Lewes, who being demaunded among others, what baptism

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was, the one answered it was a sacrament. Then he was demanded whether a man might be a christian without it, Yea doubtles qd he; for it is but an externe signe and worketh little grace. For,' said he, 'like as a man doth wash his hands in a bason of water signifying that the hands are clean ever, so the child is washed at Baptism to accomplish the exterior figure.' Then was objected unto him the saying of Christe, Unles a man be borne agayne with water and the holy ghoste he could not be saved.' 'Tushe,' saithe he, the water profiteth nothing, it is the Holy Ghost that worketh;' who, with the rest, most worthily were condempned and burned in Sussex."-f. 11. b.

Page 328.]-James Abbes's martyrdom is briefly recorded by Machyn in his Diary, p. 92.

Page 331, bottom.]-This Process against Denley is among the Emmanuel MSS., 2. 2. 15, No. 146.

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Page 342, line 8 from the bottom. "Elizabeth Warne this month of August."-"The xxiii day of August was bornyd.... a woman [wife] of John Waren, cloth worker." Machyn's Diary, p. 92. For her husband's martyrdom see above, pp. 77-84.

Page 369, line 20. "A rase of ginger."]—" Rayz de gingebre," Spanish; a root or sprig of ginger: more properly "raze." (Todd.) The word occurs again at p. 549, line 18 from the bottom.

Page 369, bottom.]-These verses are given to Hooper as what he "wrote on the wall with a cole in the Newe Inn in Gloceter, the night before he suffered." See his Later Writings P.S., Biogr. Notice, p. xxx.

Page 370, line 8 from the bottom. "The latter end of August."]-Machyn in his Diary (p. 94) dates Hale's burning August 31st.

Page 399, line 3.]-The Articles against Cornelius Bungey, transcribed from the Chancellor's Register, are in the Harleian MSS. No. 421, fol. 80: also his reply, dated August 3d, 1555.

Page 400, line 19 from the bottom. "Agnes Glover his wife."]-The Articles against her, transcribed from the Chancellor's Register, are among the Harleian MSS. No. 421, fol. 67; also her recantation made in Lichfield Cathedral, dated 15th January, 1557, and signed with her mark, fol. 85.

Page 413, line 23. "Hoc est nescire," &c.]—See the Addenda to vol. vi., note on p. 503.

Page 427, middle. "Crazed."]—An abbreviated form of "acrased" (see viii. 548), which means "debilitated.'

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Page 450, middle. "Diffuse."]-On this word, meaning "obscure," see the Addenda to vol. vi., note on p. 410.

Page 452, line 12. "Notwithstanding the maugre."]—The word "maugre" as a substantive and signifying "ill-will, dislike" (restored, we may observe, to the present edition of Foxe), is rather uncommon. It appears, however, in Fabian, p. 618, edit. 1811; or, as extracted, in Turner's Middle Ages, vol. iii. p. 46, edit. 1830: Shortly after all was ruled by the quene and her council to the great maugre and obloquy of the quene."

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Page 453, note in the Appendix.]-From the Edition of 1563, p. 1308 :THE summe and effect of both their letters, as they stande recorded, & regestred, here folowe to be seen.

Summa literarum quas Redmannus misit Latimero.

GRATIA tibi, et vera pax in xpo lesu. Obsecro et obtestor te per charitatem, ne ita velis obfirmato animo prudentiæ sensus tui inniti, neque velis tuŭ vnius singulare iudicium in rebus religionis et dogmatis controuersis tot tantis eruditis, imo toti ecclesiæ catholicæ, anteponere, præsertim cum neque vllum apertum dei verbum habeas quo te tuearis, neque vllius probati scriptoris testimoniu. Quin potius (obsecro) cogita te hominem esse, et mendacium et vanitatem (quæ nonnunquam transfert se in angelum lucis) posse tibi imponere. Noli tam temere de nobis iudicare, sicut ille nequa tibi suggessit. Scias nos tui curam habere, et tuam salutem optare, et de nostra quoque sollicitos esse. Demitte

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