Harley MS 425

ff. 1r–145v: The tenth volume of the ecclesiastical historian John Foxe's papers.

ff. 1r–2v: Part of a notable discourse for having the Bible in English, written about the time of Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury, c. 1410, taken ex fragmenta quodam Ecclesiae Wigorniensis.

f. 3r: Subscription and submission of various men and women, prisoners for religion, under Mary I.

ff. 4r–7v: Robert Wisdom’s letter, written in Lollard’s Tower, to the brethren, giving an account of the reason for his imprisonment.

ff. 8r–9r: Articles ministered against Humphrey Monmouth, Alderman of London, for Lollardy, during the reign of Henry VIII.

ff. 10r–12v: Monmouth’s petition to Cardinal Wolsey and the rest of the Privy Council, 19 May 1528, then prisoner in the Tower of London.

ff. 13r–v: The confession of Dr Edward Crome (suspected of heresy), made before the Bishop of London and other bishops, 11 March 1530.

ff. 13v–14r: The confession of Hugh Latimer, suspected of erroneous preaching, called before the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, and other prelates and clerks of the province of Canterbury, in their convocation held at Westminster, 11 March 1532.

f. 15r: Sentence pronounced in the Star Chamber by Sir Thomas More, then the Lord Chancellor, and afterwards executed, upon John Tyndale, Thomas Palmer, and another for receiving and distributing William Tyndale’s translation of the New Testament, 1530.

f. 15v: The name ‘Alice Graf[ton?]’ and ‘ama bona mulier bona corona.’

ff. 16r–17v: Of the church, and the false teachers in it, with exhortations to princes to reform abuses, if the bishops will not, c. 1536.

ff. 18r–32v: An answer to a slander untruly reported by Mr Foxe in a certain book entitled the second volume of the Ecclesiastical History, containing the acts and monuments of martyrs, which was brought to him (as it may be supposed) by some uncharitable and malicious slanderer against Thomas Thackham, minister, whereby it may well appear unto the gentle reader both how much the writer of that history hath been abused, and how wrongfully the said Thomas Thackham has been slandered (as though he had been an informer against Julius Palmer the martyr.)

ff. 33r–64v: Reply to an indiscreet answer made by Thomas Thackham, sometime of Reading, against the story of Julius Palmer, martyr, 1571. Imperfect.

ff. 65r–66r: Certain notes on a sermon made at Paul’s Cross by Dr Crome, on Sunday 9 May 1541, when he railed at the Pope.

f. 66v: Pen trials.

ff. 67r–68v: Concerning the behaviour of Barlow and Cardmaker in prison, during the reign of Mary I, and of Cardmaker’s dispute with Dr Martin, author of the book against priests marrying, with Martin’s character.

ff. 69r–70r: Narrative of the sufferings of John Davies of Worcester, a boy of about twelve years old, for religion, 1546.

ff. 71r–72r: Recantation of William Phelps, pastor and curate of Cirencester, 29 April 1551, in the presence of John Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester.

ff. 73r–74v: An exhortation to England to repent, made in a Latin poem by Walter Haddon, during the time of the great sweat, 1551, and translated by Bartholomew Golding.

ff. 75r–82v: Notes to prove transubstantiation, written about the time of Mary I.

ff. 83r–84r: John Feckenhnam’s conference with Lady Jane Dudley, a little before his execution, when he attempted to persuade her to change her religion.

ff. 84v–85v: Blank.

ff. 86r–98v: The examination and imprisonment of Edward Underhill son and heir of Thomas Underhill of Honingham, Warwickshire, Esquire, being of the band of pensioners, for a ballad made against the papists immediately after the proclamation of Mary I, at London, whilst she was in Norfolk.

f. 98*r: Note explaining that the remainder of the narrative is in Harley MS 424.

f. 99r: Articles given by Edmund Bonner, the Bishop of London, to be confessed or denied by Richard Gebson in his answer to be made thereunto, 1555 (he thought fit to confess them.)

ff. 100r–101r: A prayer made by Thomas Spurge, in Newgate prison, condemned because of his religion.

ff. 102r–103v: The examination of Richard Woodman before the Bishop of Chichester, two of his chaplains, and Dr Store, upon heretical depravity.

ff. 104r–105r: A letter of Richard Woodman, in prison for religion, with another relation of his examination by the Bishop of Chichester.

ff. 106r–117v: Thomas Mountain’s account of the troubles he underwent for the sake of religion, 1553. He was the parson of St Michael’s, the Tower Royal, otherwise called Whittington College in London.

f. 118r: The notes of a sermon made by the Bishop of Winchester at Paul’s Cross, 30 September 1554.

ff. 119r–120r: A sermon made at Hadley in Suffolk, 10 February 1555, the day after Dr Taylor suffered. The sermon was against Taylor, and made by his successor.

ff. 121r–v: Letter or note from John Deighton, showing one or two mistakes in John Foxe’s martyrology, concerning the death of Horne in Gloucestershire, 1558.

f. 122r: The recantation of Richard Gebson, 27 October 1556.

ff. 124r–130r: Thomas Hancock’s account of himself and his troubles, from the last year of Henry VIII’s reign to the reign of Elizabeth. Hancock was the curate of Amporte.

f. 130*r: Rough note in Greek and English.

ff. 131r–133v: Notes preached by the parson of St Agnes, on a sermon preached at St Paul’s Cross, on Good Friday 24 February 1570, by John Foxe, and afterwards corrected by him.

ff. 134r–145v: Letter from John London to John Foxe, acquainting him with several particulars and narrations, concerning some of the sufferings of some of the late martyrs and confessors, and of God’s judgements upon persecutors, which were omitted in the former editions of his Actes and Monuments.