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    Being advertised from the Lord Chancellor , that divers preachers within your diocese in the county of Essex , do preach , as well the work days as the holy days ,

    whereas some inconveniences may grow . Thinking not convenient that the preachers should have liberty so to do , because at this present it may increase the people ' s idleness , who of themselves are so much

    disposed to it , as all the-ways that may be devised are little enough to draw them to work * We therefore pray you to take order that they preach the holy days only ,

    as they have been accustomed to do . And the work days to use those prayers that are prescribed unto them . Thus we bid your good Lordship most heartily fare , well . From Greenwich , the 23 d

    of June 1550 , your loving friends , E . Somerset , &c /* There follows a letter from Rid * ley to the Archdeacon of Colchester signed NicoL London ^ dated 25 th of June , 1550 , charging the

    preachers in the king ' s high ness ' s name , that " from bencefoFth they do sot preach but only upon Sundays ^ and holy days , and none other days , except it be at any burial © r marriage !"

    We mow return to contemplate persecution in its proper form , unirdisguised by *> ny pretences of political expediency ; The . friend who vainly

    expostulated r with Rogers ( p . 366 ) had conjectured that the attention excited by the execution of a hereiic was calculated to increase herisy - Such now appears to hftye been the case . The 'Council

    deemed tit necessary at the com - mencement of the following year to issue * a new commission which is found in Ryroejr ' a FoBde&a . ( xv .

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    251 . ) This commission is dated Jan . 18 , 1551 . Its title and ge . fleral terms are like the former ; both , as a well informed friend lately remarked tome , being co * pied from the judicial forms of the English Papal Church . The variations of this second

    commission consist in the notice of some probably nevtr heresies called libertinorum errores * and a special injunction to the commissioners to reclaim or punish certain impugners of the established service thus

    described . JLibrum nostrum vulgb appellatwn , The Boo fee of the Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and &thpr Rites and Ceremonies bf the

    Church after the use of tJit Church &f Engfotnd ) aut divtna offitia in eodem expressa et insert a contemncntes , spernentes , adversanies , swe obloqaentes . To the fdririer Commissioners is added Sir John

    Cheke , described as the Rmg ' s Tutor . ^ These commissioners were not 'idle . They soon found another victim to folkw Joan Boehter to the stake , though on an opposite

    ground of heresy . Fox ( CJoitif . p . 202 ) describes their reputed errors as directly contrasted . ^ Germtlnus de divina Christi csscntia ; altera de human it at t . Thte story of this second and the last recorded

    martyrdom , during the ' reign of Edward , so far as I h # ve been able to collect it , is as follows . Strypey ( Ec . Mem . ii # *" f 8 ) places 'at the year 1547 , the ** Beginning of the Stranger ' s Ciiixtth

    at Cadteifoury /* Aboiit that fi | he arrived * in England Peter * ft ! 6 ¥ tfr , and among Other learned dWmes accompanying' him , Beftftardititjs Ochinus , an AntitrinitariAn ' according to Snndim , though lpfr »

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    43 S Sketch , V of English Protestant Persecution . —Letter .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1812, page 438, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1750/page/30/