Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2, Book 12 · Account 66
The scourging of Thomas Hinshaw.
IN the godly number aboue mentioned, which were apprehended at Islington, there Congregated together
❧ The right Picture and true Counterfet of Boner, and his crueltie, in scourging of Gods Sainctes, in his Orchard a Fulham.
…for their exercise of prayer and readyng, was this Thomas Hinshaw aboue named, a yong man of the age of 19. or 20. yeares, prentise in Paules churchyard with one M. Pugson. Who with the rest was caried to the Constables of Islington,T…e story … Thomas Hin…haw. …. and there eueryevery one of them serched, and led forthwith to the chiefe Iustice M. Cholmley, dwellyng in the Old Baily in London, & by him thā the said Th. Hinshaw was sent to Newgate, & there remainyng prisoner wtout conference with any, about eight weekes, at the last was sent for to Boner Bishop of London,… and by hym, Harpsfield and Cole examined. After which examination he was sent to Newgate againe, where hee remayned a three weekes followyng. Which tyme beyng ouerpassed, he was sent for agayne before the sayd bishop, the day beyng Saterday, and with hym had much talke to litle purpose. The next day after also, which was Sonday, they perswaded with him very much in like maner, and perceiuyng they could not bend hym vntounto their bowe, in the afternoone, the B. goyng vntounto Fulham, tooke hym wyth hym,Hin…haw … to …ham and … let in the stockes w…th bread and water. where immediately after his commyng, he was set in the stockes, remainyng there all the first nighte wyth bread and water.
The next mornyng the Bish. came and examined hym himselfe, and perceiuyng no yelding to his mynde, he sent M. Harpsfield to talke with him: who after long talke, in the end fell to raging words, callyng the sayd Thomas Hinshaw p…euish boy, and asked him whether he thought he went about to damne his soule, or no, &c. Unto whiche the sayd Tho. answered, that he was perswaded that they laboured to maintaine their darke and diuelish kingdom, and not for any louelove to truth. Then Harpsfield beyng in a mighty rage, told the B. thereof. Whereat the B. fumed & fretted, that scant for anger beyng able to speake, he sayd: Doest thou answer my Archdeacon so, thou naughty boy? I shall handle thee well enough, be assured: so he sent for a couple of rods, and caused him to kneele agaynst a long bench in an arbor in his garden, where the sayd Thomas without any enforcement of his part, offered hymselfe to the beatyng,H…nshaw …eaten with Rods. The boy wa… beholding to Byshop Boner… graund p…nch. & did abide the fury of the sayd Boner, so long as the fat panched B. could endure with breath, and til for werines he was fayne to cease, & geue place to his shamefull act. He had two willow rods, but he wasted but one, and so left of.
Now after this scourgyng, the sayd Thom. Hinshaw notwithstandyng did sustaine diuers conflictes and examinations sundry tymes. At last beyng brought before the sayd Bishop in his chappell at Fulham, there hee had procured witnesses, and gathered Articles agaynst hym, which the yong man denied, and woulde not affirme, or consent to any interrogatory there and then ministred, do what they could.
¶The Articles were these.
COncernyng Palmes, Ashes, Holy bread, Holy water, Auriculer confession,Articles …. receiuyng the Sacrament at Easter, hearyng deuine seruice then set forth, &c.
Whether he had receiued all these, or whether he would receiue them or no.
Item, what he thought of the seruice set forth in K. Edwards tyme, in his latter dayes, and in especiall, what he thought of the veritie of Christes body in the sacrament.
In which all his answers, the sayd Tho. Hinshaw kept an vpright conscience, and entangled himselfe with none of their ceremonies: so mercifull was the Lord vntounto hym.
Not long after this his examination, about a fortnight or such a thyng, Thomas Hinshaw deliuered to Maister Pugson his Maister.the foresayd Examinate fell sicke of a burnyng ag…, wherby he was deliuered vponupon entreatie vntounto his maister Martin Pugson in Paules Churchyard aforesayd: for the bishop thought verily, he was more like to dye then to lyue. The whiche hys sickenesse endured a twelue month or more, so that in the meane tyme Queene Mary dyed. Then he shortly after recouered health, and escaped death, beyng at the writyng of this yet alyue, both witnesse and reporter of the same, the Lord therefore bee praysed, Amen.