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On the masse booke is plaine detestable heresies and in the masse also. /
Injunctions
Item that the maynteyning of lightes before the sacrament is not acceptable in the sight of god nor that god is pleased with suche
William Qwilter. Thomas Steseday. William Steseday. Rich Tucker. John Dowglas. Cornelis Nevil.
Item in a Sermon made at Boughton under the bleane the xviii of Aprill Anno 1542. The masse did not profite for synnes, for than Christ had died in vayn,
Error
Item he saied wee may not pray to sainctz.
Confession
Item in a Sermon made the iiii of ffebruary last past / he saied that Auriculier confession was the mooste abhomination that could be
offensive
Item he saied on Sainct Stephins day Anno domino nostro Regis xxxiiiito in the parrishe of northgat in Caunterbury. That if wymen did understand what was redde and songe in the matyns. mas, and evensonge they wold be ashamed one of another: for their was in it bothe heresye and treason. John Starkey Alderman. Alice Boydon. Margery Bredekirke.
Confession
He saied on Candelmas day last past at s. Johns in Canterbury: that if the people knewe what the wourdes were that the preest saieth. whan he layeth his hand apon your heddes after your confession: You wold be ashamed to heare them / for it is an abhomination to speke them / and I wold think my self the worse: quod he a moneth after to speke
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In the mass book is plain detestable heresies, and in the mass also. God is not pleased with lights before the Sacraments. In a sermon made at Boughton under the Bleane, 18 April 1541, he said the mass did not profit for sins, else Christ had died in vain. On 4 Feb. last he preached "that auricular confession was the most abomination that could be." On St. Stephen's day, 34 H. VIII. he said in the parish of Northgate, Canterbury, "that if women did understand what was read and sung in the matins, mass and evensong, they would be ashamed one of another; for there was in it both heresy and treason." He said on Candlemas day last at St. John's a' Cant' "that if the people knew what the words were that the priest sayeth when he layeth his hand upon your heads after your confession, you would be ashamed to hear them, for it is an abomination to speak them. And I would think myself the worse, quod he, a month after, to speak
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