Thematic Divisions in Book 11
1. The Martyrdom of Rogers 2. The Martyrdom of Saunders 3. Saunders' Letters 4. Hooper's Martyrdom 5. Hooper's Letters 6. Rowland Taylor's Martyrdom 7. Becket's Image and other events 8. Miles Coverdale and the Denmark Letters 9. Bonner and Reconciliation 10. Judge Hales 11. The Martyrdom of Thomas Tomkins 12. The Martyrdom of William Hunter 13. The Martyrdom of Higbed and Causton 14. The Martyrdom of Pigot, Knight and Laurence 15. Robert Farrar's Martyrdom 16. The Martyrdom of Rawlins/Rowland White17. The Restoration of Abbey Lands and other events in Spring 155518. The Providential Death of the Parson of Arundel 19. The Martyrdom of John Awcocke 20. The Martyrdom of George Marsh 21. The Letters of George Marsh 22. The Martyrdom of William Flower 23. The Martyrdom of Cardmaker and Warne 24. Letters of Warne and Cardmaker 25. The Martyrdom of Ardley and Simpson 26. John Tooly 27. The Examination of Robert Bromley [nb This is part of the Tooly affair]28. The Martyrdom of Thomas Haukes 29. Letters of Haukes 30. The Martyrdom of Thomas Watts 31. Mary's False Pregnancy32. Censorship Proclamation 33. Our Lady' Psalter 34. Martyrdom of Osmund, Bamford, Osborne and Chamberlain35. The Martyrdom of John Bradford 36. Bradford's Letters 37. William Minge 38. James Trevisam 39. The Martyrdom of John Bland 40. The Martyrdom of Frankesh, Middleton and Sheterden 41. Sheterden's Letters 42. Examinations of Hall, Wade and Polley 43. Martyrdom of Christopher Wade 44. Martyrdom of Carver and Launder 45. Martyrdom of Thomas Iveson 46. John Aleworth 47. Martyrdom of James Abbes 48. Martyrdom of Denley, Newman and Pacingham 49. Richard Hooke 50. Martyrdom of William Coker, et al 51. Martyrdom of George Tankerfield, et al 52. Martyrdom and Letters of Robert Smith 53. Martyrdom of Harwood and Fust 54. Martyrdom of William Haile 55. George King, Thomas Leyes and John Wade 56. William Andrew 57. Martyrdom of Robert Samuel 58. Samuel's Letters 59. William Allen 60. Martyrdom of Roger Coo 61. Martyrdom of Thomas Cobb 62. Martyrdom of Catmer, Streater, Burwood, Brodbridge, Tutty 63. Martyrdom of Hayward and Goreway 64. Martyrdom and Letters of Robert Glover 65. Cornelius Bungey 66. John and William Glover 67. Martyrdom of Wolsey and Pigot 68. Life and Character of Nicholas Ridley 69. Ridley's Letters 70. Life of Hugh Latimer 71. Latimer's Letters 72. Ridley and Latimer Re-examined and Executed73. More Letters of Ridley 74. Life and Death of Stephen Gardiner 75. Martyrdom of Webb, Roper and Park 76. William Wiseman 77. James Gore 78. Examinations and Martyrdom of John Philpot 79. Philpot's Letters 80. Martyrdom of Thomas Whittle, Barlett Green, et al 81. Letters of Thomas Wittle 82. Life of Bartlett Green 83. Letters of Bartlett Green 84. Thomas Browne 85. John Tudson 86. John Went 87. Isobel Foster 88. Joan Lashford 89. Five Canterbury Martyrs 90. Life and Martyrdom of Cranmer 91. Letters of Cranmer 92. Martyrdom of Agnes Potten and Joan Trunchfield 93. Persecution in Salisbury Maundrell, Coberly and Spicer 94. William Tyms, et al 95. Letters of Tyms 96. The Norfolk Supplication 97. Martyrdom of John Harpole and Joan Beach 98. John Hullier 99. Hullier's Letters 100. Christopher Lister and five other martyrs 101. Hugh Lauerocke and John Apprice 102. Katherine Hut, Elizabeth Thacknell, et al 103. Thomas Drury and Thomas Croker 104. Thomas Spicer, John Deny and Edmund Poole 105. Persecution of Winson and Mendlesam 106. Gregory Crow 107. William Slech 108. Avington Read, et al 109. Wood and Miles 110. Adherall and Clement 111. A Merchant's Servant Executed at Leicester 112. Thirteen Burnt at Stratford-le-Bow113. Persecution in Lichfield 114. Hunt, Norrice, Parret 115. Martyrdom of Bernard, Lawson and Foster 116. Examinations of John Fortune117. John Careless 118. Letters of John Careless 119. Martyrdom of Julius Palmer 120. Agnes Wardall 121. Peter Moone and his wife 122. Guernsey Martyrdoms 123. Dungate, Foreman and Tree 124. Martyrdom of Thomas More125. Examination of John Jackson126. Examination of John Newman 127. Martyrdom of Joan Waste 128. Martyrdom of Edward Sharpe 129. Four Burnt at Mayfield at Sussex 130. John Horne and a woman 131. William Dangerfield 132. Northampton Shoemaker 133. Prisoners Starved at Canterbury 134. More Persecution at Lichfield
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1796 [1757]

Queene Mary. Processe agaynst Iohn Tooly after hys death.

Marginalia1555. May.he caused Peter Martyrs wyfe, a woman of worthy memory, to be digged out of the churchyard and to be buried on the dunghyll. Of these two prodigious actes ye shall heare more hereafter. But now to our purpose of Tooly, which hauing ended hys prayer, was hanged and put into hys graue, out of the which he was dygged agayne by the commaundement of the Bishops, and because he was so bold to derogate the authoritye of the bishop of Rome at the time of his death, it pleased them to iudge and condemne hym as an hereticke, vpon the commaundement of the Counsels letter, as here appeareth.

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¶ A letter sent vnto Boner Byshop of London, from the Counsell.  
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Bonner's normal practice was to copy letters to him from the queen or the privy council into his register; this letter is an exception. This suggests that all the materials relating to the case of Tooley were kept in a separate register.

MarginaliaThe Counsels letter to B. Boner, concerning Tooly.AFter our very harty commendations to your Lordshyp, vnderstandyng that of late amongest others that haue suffered about London for their offences, one leude person that was condemned for fellonie, dyed very obstinatly, professing at the tyme of his death sondry hereticall and erroneous opiniōs: lyke as we thinke it not conuenient that such a matter should be ouerpassed with out some example to the world, so haue we thought good to pray your Lordshyp, to cause further enquirie to be made therof, and therupon to procede to the making out of such processe as by þe Ecclesiasticall lawes is prouided in that behalfe. And so we byd your lordship hartely wel to fare. From Hampton Court the xxviij. of Aprill. 1555.

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Your Lordshyps louyng frendes,


St. Wynton Cancel.
F. Shrewsbury.
Iohn Gage.
Thomas Cheney.

R. Rochester.
William Peter.
Richard Southwell.

Anone after, a Citation was set vppon Paules Church doore vnder the Byshop of Londons great seale: the tenour wherof here ensueth.

¶ The Writte or Mandate of Boner Byshop of London, set vp at Charyng Crosse, on Paules Church doore, and at S. Martins in the field, for the Cityng and further inquiryng out of the case of Iohn Tooly.  
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This writ was the necessary first step in excomunicating Tooley. Foxe probably copied it from a register, now lost, containing all the documents in the Tooley case.

MarginaliaA Citation set vp by Boner and that in latin, commaunding his kinne & kinsfolks to lay for hym what they could, before the sentence geuen, or els to hold their peace for euer.EDmond by the sufferaunce of God, Byshop of London, to all and singular Persons, Vicars, Curates, and others, Clerkes and learned men, beyng within our Dioces of Lōdon, and specially vnto Richard Clony our sworne Somner, gretyng, salutation and benediction. For so much as it is come to our hearyng by common fame, and the declaratiō of sondry credible persons, that one Iohn Tooly, late Citizen and Pulter of London, the sonne of perditiō and iniquitie, commyng to the profunditie of malice, in the selfe same tyme in the which hee should go to hangyng, accordyng to the lawes of the Realme, for the great theft by him lately committed, at whiche tyme chiefly he should haue cared for the wealth of his soule, and to haue dyed in the vnitie of the Catholicke Church, did vtter diuers and sōdry damnable, blasphemous, & heretical opinons & errours, vtterly cōtrary & repugnaunt to þe veritie of þe Catholicke faith, & vnitie of the same, and did exhort, stirre vp, & encourage the people there standyng in great multitude, to hold and defend the same errours and opinions: And moreouer, certeine of the people there standyng, as it did appeare, infected with errours and heresies, as fautors and defēdours of the sayd Iohn, did confirme, and geue expresse consent to the foresayd wordes, propositions and affirmations: Which thyng we doe vtter with sorow and bitternes of hart.

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MarginaliaNote how Boner here pretendeth conscience in persecuting this matter,when only he was commaunded vnto it by the Counsels letters.We therfore the foresayd Edmond, and Byshop aboue sayd, not beyng able nor daryng passe ouer in silence, or winke at the foresayd heinous act, lest by our negligence and slacknes, the bloud of them might be required at our handes at the most terrible day of iudgement, desiryng to be certified and enformed, whether the premisses declared vnto vs be of truth, & lest that any scabbed shepe, lurkyng amongest the simple flocke of our Lord, do infect them with pestiferous heresie, to you therfore, we straitly charge and commaunde, that you cite, or cause to be cited, all and singular, hauyng or knowyng the truth of the premisses, by settyng vp this citation vppon the the Church doore of S. Martins in the field, beyng with

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in our Dioces of London, and also vpon the Cathedrall Church doore of S. Paules in London, leauyng there the copy hereof, or by other meanes or wayes, the best you can, that this citation and monicion may come to their knowledge.

All which and singular by the tenour of these presentes, we cite and admonish that they appeare, and euery one of them do appeare before vs or our Vicare general, or Commissarie, what soeuer he be in that behalfe, in our Cathedrall Church of S. Paul in London, in the Cōsistorie place vpon Thursday the ij. day of May, now next ensuyng, betwixt the houres ix. and x. of the clocke in the fore noone the same day, to beare witnes to the truth in this behalfe, and to depose and declare faithfully the truth that they know or haue heard of the premisses: and moreouer, to do and receyue, that law and reason doth require.

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Further, we commit vnto you as before, and straitly enioyning you do commaund, that ye will MarginaliaThe wyfe, children, and kindred of Iohn Tooly cited.generally cite the wife of the sayd Tooly that is dead, and his children, his kyndred by father and mother, his frendes, and hys familiars in especiall, and all other and euery of them, if there bee any perhaps that desire to defend and purge the remembraūce of the person in the premisses, and that ye admonish them after the maner and forme aforesayd, whom we likewise by the tenour of these presentes, do in such sort cite and monishe that they appeare all, and that euery one of thē do appeare (vnder paine to be compelled to kepe silēce for euer hereafter in this behalfe) before vs, or our Vicar generall in spirituall matters, or such our Commissarie at the day, houre, and place aforesayd, to defende the good name and remembraūce of him that is dead, & to say, alledge, and propose in due forme of law, a cause reasonable, if they haue any, or can tell of any, why the sayd Iohn Tooley that is dead, ought not to be determined and declared for such an hereticke and excommunicate person, and his remembraunce cōdemned, in the detesting and condemning of so heynous a deede and cryme, MarginaliaThe carcas of Tooly cut of from christian buriall.and his body or carkas to lacke church buriall, as a rotten member cut of from the church, & the same to be committed to the arme and power secular, and they compelled hereafter for euer to holde their peace.

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And furthermore, to do, to receiue, & to suffer, as law and reason will, and as the qualitie of such matter, and the nature of them selues do constraine and require: and moreouer, that you cite and monish after the maner aforesaid, all and euery of the receiuers, fautours, and creditours of the sayd Iohn Tooly that is dead, especially if any of them do accline and geue consent to those wicked and detestable affirmations, propositiōs and rehearsals aforesayd, MarginaliaThe Bishop layeth his bayt to catch whom he may trouble.that on this side the sayd Thursday, they returne and submit them selues vnto vs, and to the lap of the mother holy Church: which thyng if they do, we trustyng vpon the mercy of almighty God, do promise that we will receiue them beyng penitent for such theyr errours and faultes, with thankes, benignitie, mercy and fauour, to the comfort and health of their owne soules, and in that behalfe saue their honesties to the vttermost of our power: otherwise if they will not prouide thus to come of their owne accord, but to abyde the ordinarie processe of the law, let those men know that we will punish more seuerely this offence, accordyng to the vttermost of the law, and as farre as the law will beare it: and what you shall do in the premisses, let hym among you which shall execute this our present Mandate, certifie vs or our Vicare generall in spirituall matters, either by his owne person, or by hys letters patentes, together with these autentically sealed. Dated at London vnder our seale, the last day saue one of Aprill. 1555. and of our translation the 16.

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When the tyme of this citation was expired, and thys Tooly being cited, dyd not appeare: next in order of law came MarginaliaTooly suspended and excommunicated.the suspension (where as one suspension had bene enough for hym) and after that commeth the excommunication, that is, that no man should eate or drinke wyth hym, or if any mette hym by the way, hee should not byd him good morrow, and besides that, he should be excluded from the communion of the church. These things being prepared in such maner, as in such cases full wysely they vse to do, at length one stoode out for the nonce, that made aunswer to certayne articles, rehearsed in iudgement openly, and that in the behalf of the dead man. But when the poore dead man could

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