The acts and monuments of John Foxe: a new and complete edition: with a preliminary dissertation, by the Rev George Townsend ... . riting; for the registrar, or some other for him, appointedB«?eraot *° rccor(t tnc samc, hath certified it as of hearsay from others, and notto be ot of his own proper sight and knowledge, as the words noted in themargin of the book, adjoining to the aforesaid answer, plainly dodeclare, which arc these : Hoc fuit scriptum manu propria Ricardilimine, ut diciiw? Now if he had any sure ground to establishthis certificate, I doubt not but he would, instead of ut dicitu
The acts and monuments of John Foxe: a new and complete edition: with a preliminary dissertation, by the Rev George Townsend ... . riting; for the registrar, or some other for him, appointedB«?eraot *° rccor(t tnc samc, hath certified it as of hearsay from others, and notto be ot of his own proper sight and knowledge, as the words noted in themargin of the book, adjoining to the aforesaid answer, plainly dodeclare, which arc these : Hoc fuit scriptum manu propria Ricardilimine, ut diciiw? Now if he had any sure ground to establishthis certificate, I doubt not but he would, instead of ut dicitur,1have registered the names of the assistants at the time of his examina-tion (which he confesseth to be many), as generally they do in alltheir acts, especially in cases of heresy, as they term it. But howscrupulous those good fellows that spared not so shamelessly to murderhim, would be to make a lie of him that was already dead, let, as Isaid, the indifferent judgment of the godlywisc discern. This examination ended, the bishop sent him back again the sameday onto the Lollards tower; and then, by the appointment of s M 136 ARTICLES AGAINST HUN AFTER HIS DEATH. Hm*v most likely, that if the party were once condemned of heresy, the inquestrt- dust not then but find him guilty of his own death, and so clearlyA. I), acquit them from all the former suspicion of privy murder. This de-1509 termination of theirs they did immediately put in practice, in order as *? followcth: 1,)]S- First, besides the articles before mentioned, which they affirm were Dr. Hed 0Djected against him in his life-time, Dr. Hcd did now also after his °f«i»e death collect certain others out of the prologue of his English Bible, remaining then in the bishops hands, which he diligently perused, not to learn any good thing therein, but to get thereout such matter as he thought might best serve their cursed purpose; as appeareth by the tenor of the articles, which arc these: New Articles commenced aga
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