15.1. The forme of his abiuration.
The forme of his abiuration.
_IN the name of the trinitie, father, sonne, and holie-ghost, I Reinold Pecocke bi|shop of Chichester vnworthie, of mine owne power and will without anie ma|ner coaction or dread, confesse and knowledge that I here, before this time, presuming of my naturall wit, and preferring my iudgement and naturall rea|son before the new and the old testament, and the au|thoritie & determination of our mother holie church, haue held, written and taught otherwise than the ho|lie Romane and vniuersall church teacheth, preach|eth, or obserueth. And one is against the true catho|like and apostles faith, I haue written, taught, and published manie & diuerse perilous doctrines, books, works, and writings, conteining heresies and er|rors, contrarie to the faith catholike, and determina|tion of holie church: and speciallie these heresies and errours following, that is to saie in particular.
In primis, quòd non est de necessitate fidei credere, quòd do|minus noster Iesus Christus post mortem descendit ad infer [...]s.
Item, quòd non est de necessitate salutis credere in sancto|rum communionem.
Item, quòd ecclesi [...] vniuersalis potest errare in hijs qu [...] sunt fidei.
Item, quòd non est de necessitate salutis credere & tenere illud, quod consilium generale & vniuersalis ecclesia statuit, approbat, seu determinat, in fauorem fidei, & ad salutem ani|marum, est ab vniuersis Christi fidelibus approbandum & te|nendum.
Wherefore I miserable sinner, which here before long time haue walked in darkenesse, and now by the mercie and infinit goodnesse of God reduced into the right waie, and light of truth, and considering my selfe gréeuouslie haue sinned and wickedlie haue in|formed and infected the people of God, returne and come againe to the vnitie of our mother holie church, and all heresies and errors written and conteined in my said books, works and writings, here solemnelie and openlie reuoke & renounce. Which heresies and errors, and all other spices of heresies I haue before this time before the most reuerend father in God, and my good lord of Canturburie, in diuerse and lawfull forme iudiciallie abiured, submitting my selfe, being then and also now at this time verie contrite and pe|nitent sinner, to the correction of the church and of my said lord of Canturburie.
And ouer this, exhorting & requiring in the name & vertue of almightie God, in the saluation of your soules and mind, that no man hereafter giue faith and credence to my said pernicious doctrines, here|sies and errors; neither my said books kéepe, hold, or read in anie wise; but that they all such books, works, and writings suspect of heresies, deliuer in all good|lie hast vnto my said lord of Canturburie, or to his commissioners and deputies, in eschewing of manie inconueniences and great perils of soules, the which else might be cause of the contrarie. And ouer this declaration of my conuersion and repentance, I here openlie assent, that my said books, works, and writings, for declaration and cause aboue rehearsed, be deputed vnto the fire, and openlie burnt in exam|ple and terror of all other, &c.
After this, he was depriued of his bishoprike, ha|uing a certeine pension assigned vnto him for to liue on in an abbeie, and soone after died. His books were intituled: 1 Of christian religion, and a booke pertei|ning therevnto. 2 Of matrimonie. 3 Iust expressing of holie scripture, diuided into three parts. 4 The donet of christian religion. 5 The follower of the do|net. 6 The booke of faith. 7 The booke filling the foure tables. 8 The booke of worshipping. 9 The prouoker of christian men. 10 The booke of counsell.
In the moneth of Ianuarie died the earle of De|uonshire in the abbeie of Abindon, poisoned (as men said) being there at that time with quéene Margaret, to appease the malice betweene the yoong lords, whose fathers were slaine at saint Albons, and they that held with the duke of Yorke.The quéene atturni [...] [...]. The thirtéenth of Aprill there was a great fraie in Fléetstreet, betweene men of court and the inhabitants of the same stréet, in which fraie the quéenes atturnie was slaine. For this fact the king committed the principall gouernours of Furniuals, Cliffords, and Barnards In to prison in the castell of Hertford; and William Tailor alder|man of that ward, with manie other were sent to Windsore castell the seuenth of Maie. On thursdaie in Whitsunweeke, [...] ye Tower of London. the duke of Summerset with An|thonie Riuers and other foure kept iustes before the quéene in the Tower of London, against three es|quiers of the queenes. And in like maner at Gréene|wich EEBO page image 647 the sundaie following.]