opinion, he wold cut her throte with his own handes, with other wordes.

THe inquisition intendid and taken at the citie of London, in the paryshe of saint Gregorie, in the warde of Baynard Castel in London the sixt day of December, in the yeare and reigne of kyng Henry the eight, the sixt yeare afore Thomas Barnewel Crouner of our soueraigne Lorde the kyng, within the citie of London aforesayd. Also afore Iames Yarford, and Iohn Mondey Sheriffes of the sayd citie, vpon the syght of the bodie of Rychard Hun, late of London Taylour, whiche was founde hanged in the Lollars tower, and by the othe and profe of lawfull men of the same warde, & of other three wardes nexte adioyning, as it ought to be, after the custome in the citie afore sayde, to enquire howe, & in what manerwise, the sayde Rychard Hun came vnto his death, and vpon the othe of Iohn Bernard, Thomas Sterte, William Warren, Henry Abraham, Iohn Aborow, Iohn Turner, Robert Alen, Wylliam Marler, Iohn Burtō, Iames Page, Thomas Pickebyll, Wylliam Burton, Robert Brigewater, Thomas Busted, Gylbert Howell, Richard Gibson, Christopher Crofton, Iohn God, Rychard Holt, Iohn Pasmere Edmonde Hudson, Iohn Aunsell, Rycharde Couper, Iohn Tynie, the whiche sayde vpon their othes, that where the sayd Rychard Hun by the commaundement of Rychard byshop of London, was imprysoned and brought to hold in a pryson of the sayd byshops, called Lollars towre, lying in the cathedrall churche of saint Paule in London, in the paryshe of saint Gregorie, in the warde of Baynerde castell afore sayde, Wylliam Horseley of London Clerke, otherwyse called William Heresie, Chauncelour to Rycharde byshop of London, and one Charles Ioseph, late of London Somner, and Iohn Spaldyng of London, otherwyse called Iohn Belrynger, feloniously as felons to our Lorde the kyng, with force and armes against the peace of our soueraigne Lorde the kynge, and dignitie of his crowne, the fourth daye of December, the yeare of the reigne of our soueraigne Lorde the sixt aforesayde, of their great malice, at the paryshe of saynt Gregorie aforesayde, vpon the sayde Rycharde Hun made a fraie, and the same Rychard Hun foloniously strangeled and smodered, and also the necke they dyd breake of the sayde Rycharde Hun, & there feloniously slewe hym & murthered him: and also the body of the sayde Rycharde Hun afterwarde the same. iiii. daye, yeare, place, paryshe and warde aforesayde, with the proper gyrdell of þ^e same Rychard Hun of sylke, black of colour, of the value of. xii. pence, after his death vpon a hoke dryuen into a piece of tym-ber in the wall of the pryson aforesayde, made fast, and so hanged hym against the peace of our soueraigne Lorde the kyng, and the dignitie of his crowne, and so the sayde Iury hathe sworne vpon the holy Euangelist, that the sayde Wylliā Horsey clerke, Charles Ioseph, and Iohn Spaldyng of their set malice then, and there, feloniously kylled and murthered the sayde Rychard Hun, in maner and forme abouesayd, against the peace of our soueraigne Lorde the kyng, his crowne and dignitie.

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¶ Subscribed in this maner.
Thomas Barnewell, Crouner of the
citie of London.

Comming now to the yeare. 1515. next folowing to speake of Maister Martine Luther, but here fyrst I must craue a litle leaue of the Reader to breake and interupt somewhat thorder & course of the story, by the way of digression, to intreate of two good men, which partly for hast haue bene left out, but not so to be let go vnremembred.

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A Littell before  

, in þ^e story of Pope Sixtus the fourth, we made mētion of doctoure Wesellus, writing de indulgentiis papalibus. This Wesellus and doctoure Ioannes de Wesalia   , liued both much aboute on time. Saue that Ioannes de Wesalia was somwhat elder, about the yeare of our Lorde. 1479. This doctour Wesalia   being complained vpon vnto Diotherus the Archbishop of Ments, by certain Thomists. Which is a certaine order holding of Thomas de Aquino, vpon certaine articles and opiniōs gathered out of þ^e sermones this Diotherus Archbishop of Mentz directeth foorth commission to the vniuersities of Heidelberg, and Colen to haue the matter in examination, who conuenting together the yeare a boue mentioned, caled this doctor Wesalia before thē, making him to swere that he should present and giue vp all his treatises woorckes and writinges, whatsoeuer he had made or preched, that being done, they deuided his bokes amongest them selues, seuerally euery man to finde out what heresies & errors they could. His articles and opinions were these, that all men be saued frely,and through mere grace by faith in christ. Fre wil to be nothing. Only that we shuld beleue the worde of god, and not the glose of any man, or fathers. That the word of God is to be expoūded by the collation of one place with an nother. That Prelats haue no autority to make lawes, or to expound the scriptures by any perculier right geuen thē more then to another.

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