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REIGN OF EDWARD THE SIXTH.
[ch. 27.
July 13.13th of July, besides the required admission of guilt, a fresh list was presented to him, containing propositions dogmatically Protestant, which he was not only required to sign, but to undertake to teach and preach.[1]
He was weary of the Tower. He had surrendered himself to the hope that he was to be free, and he could not part with it. He refused to sign, and again demanded a trial; but he threw himself on the King's mercy; he would accept a pardon, he said, and in ac-
- ↑ 1. That King Henry, for good reason, suppressed the monasteries, and released monks and nuns from their vows.2. That all persons might lawfully marry within the Levitical degrees.3. That pilgrimages and image worship were justly put away.4. That the counterfeiting St Nicholas, St Clement, St Catherine, and St Edmund, by children, heretofore brought into the church, was a mockery and foolishness.5. That the Bible in English was good for every man to read, and whoever would hinder the reading did evil and damnably.6. That the chantries were justly suppressed.7. That the mass was a fiction of the Bishop of Rome.8. That Communion in both kinds was to be approved.9. That the priest should receive for the congregation was an invention of man.10. That the elevation of the Host had been justly and wisely prohibited.11. That the King had done well in removing the images from churches.12. That the King and Parliament had done well in abolishing mass books, grayles, &c.13. That bishops and priests may lawfully marry.14. That the laws prohibiting their marriage had been justly repealed.15. That the doctrine of the homilies was good and wholesome.16. That the book of the consecration of bishops, priests, and deacons was godly and wholesome.17. That the Minores Ordines were wisely disused.18. That Holy Scripture contained all things necessary to salvation.19. That it had been well done to set up the Paraphrase of Erasmus in the parish churches.
