MarginaliaA supplication.MOst lamentably and wofullye complayning, sheweth vnto your gratious & honorable Lordshyps, your poore and humble orator Mathew Cauches, of the Isle of Garnsey, that where Iaques Amy Clarke, Dean of the Isle aforesaid, assisted by the Curates ther, agaynst al order, lawe and reason, by coulour of a sentence of heresy, pronounced against Katherin Cauches, the syster of your honors said suppliant, and Paratine and Guillemine, her two daughters, did cause the same Katherine, beyng a poore wydow, & her said two daughters, most cruelly to be burned, althoughe the said persons, ne any of them dyd holde, mayntaine or defende any thing directly agaysnt the ecclesiasticall lawes then in place, vnder the raigne of the late Quene Mary, but in al thinges submitted them selues obedientlye to the lawes then in force, and yet the crueltye of the said Deane and hys accomplices in perpetrating such murther as aforesayde, raged so farre, that were as, whylest the sayde persons dyd consume wyth violent fyre the wombe of the sayd Paratine being burned, there dydde issue from her a goodly man chylde, which by the officers was taken vp and handled, and after in a moste despightfull maner, throwne into the fyre, and there also with the sely mother moste cruelly burnt. In tender consideration wherof, and for so muche as thys bloudye murther was not in due order of any law, or in any maner according to iustice, but of mere malicious hatred, as the true copye of the whole procedinges in this matter, by the sayde Deane and his accomplices, here readye to bee shewed to your honours, wyl make very playn and manifest: It may therefore please your good and gracious Lordshyppes, of the zeale that you beare to Iustice, and for our Lord Iesu Christes sake, to haue due consideration in Iustice of such horryble murther, so cruellye commytted as aforesayd, according to the ryght demerite thereof. And that it may please your honorable Lordshyps to order and decree also, that al the goods of al the sayd parties, by pretence aforesayd wrongfully taken as confiscate, may be delyuered to your sayde poore besecher, to whom of ryght they do belong. And your honours sayd Suppliant wyl dayly pray to god for your long preseruation, to hys glorye, and your euerlastyng health.

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This forsayd supplication was presented by the sayd Garnsy men to the Quenes highe Commissioners, the yeare last past. 1562. who syttinge the same tyme vpon the cause founde the matter probable, and tooke suche order therin, that the Deane was committed there to prison, & dispossessed of al his liuinges.  

And after þ^e matter being retourned agayne down to the sayd country, further to be examined & decised, what order therin was taken concerning that wylfull and cruell mnrther I am not yet certain: but I trust, that eyther mans lawe wyl fynd out that wycked murther and innocents bloud, or els this I know that gods

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high iustice and reuenging hand wyl not suffer that gyltles bloude and detestable facte to escape vnreuenged, excepte greter repentance come.

MarginaliaIuly 18.NExt to these three and the new born child at Garnsey, suffered other thre likewise at Grenested in Sussex. ii. men and one woman, the names of whom be aboue specified, who for righteousnes sake, gaue them selues to death, and tormentes of the fier, patiently abiding what the vnrighteouse rage of mā could say or worke agaynst them, at the sayd Towne of Grenested ending their liues, the. xviii. of the sayd moneth of Iuly, and in the yeare aforesayd.

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MarginaliaAugust. 1.THe fyrst day of August, by the Papistes lykewyse was put to deathe a certayne godly woman at Darbye, named MarginaliaIone Waste. Martyr.Ione Waste, of the parish of Alhallowes. MarginaliaPersecutors. Bane Byshop of Lichfeld. D. Draycot. Peter Fynch.The Papistes whych sate vpon thys innocent womans bloud, was Radulph Bane, bishop of Couentry and Lichfield, Anthony Draicot, Doctor of law hys Chauncelour, Peter Finch maister of Arte Commissary, with the assistaunce also of mayster Rych. Ward, W. Baynbrike, Iohn Dedike, Rych. Blackwal, Esquiers, Rycharde Parchinson, Thomas Swinerton, Gentlemen, George Poyser, Thomas Roper, Iohn Reyner and other. &c.  

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MarginaliaHer articles.The articles  

ministred to her, and wherewith she was charged, were these: Fyrst that she dyd hold the sacrament of the popishe altar, to be but onely a memorye or representacion of Christes bodye, and materiall breade and wyne, but not hys natural body, vnlesse it were receyued. And that it ought not to be reserued from tyme to tyme ouer the altar, but immediately to be receyued. &c.

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Item, she did hold, that she in the receiuing of the sacrament of the popish aultar, dyd not receyue the same bodye that was borne of the virgyn Mary, and suffred vpon the crosse for our redemption. &c.

Item, she dyd hold, that Christe at his last supper dyd not blesse the bread, that he hadde then in hys handes, but was blessed himselfe. And by the vertue of the wordes of consecration, the substance of the breade and wyne is not conuerted and turned into the substance of the body and bloud of Christ.

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Item, she dyd graunt that shee was of the parysh of Alhallowes in Darby. &c.

Item, that all and singular the premysses are true and notorious by publik report and fame. &c.