Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2, Appendix · Cautions – Account 31
¶Certayne Cautions of the Authour to the Reader, of thinges to be considered in reading this story.
AMongst other escapes and ouersightes in the Edition of this story committed, part of them we leaue to thine owne gentle castigation gentle reader: certaine other specialities there be, whereof wee thought it good and expedient to geue thee warning as hereafter followeth.
First, when mention is made pag. 34. of Peters being at Rome and suffering at Rome, following certayne Authors:Cautions of the Author to the Reader. yet forsomuch as other writers there be, & reasons to proue that he was not at Rome. I desire thee therfore that this my affirmation may not preiudice other mens iudgementes, if anye see or can say further in that matter.
Touching the story of the Turkes, where as I in following our Christian Authours writing of the Turkes, hauehave noted in the pag. 747. Solymannus to be the 12. Turke, after Ortomannus as they do all record: I hauehave found since by the computation of the Turkes set forth in the Table of theyr owne discent, the sayde Solymannus to be but ye 6. emperor of the Turks: & this Solimannus his sonne which now reygneth, to be but ye twelfe. Which I thought here to signifie vntounto thee, because of theyr own turkish prophecie noted in the pag. 771. lest in construing of that Prophecie being in the same place expounded, thou be deceiued.
Item 1245. where mayster George Blag is named to be one of the priuie chamber: here is to be noted also that although he were not admitted as one of the priuy chamber yet his ordinary resort thither and to the kinges presence there, was such, as although hee were not one of them, yet was he so commonly taken.
Item, pag. 1367. in the story of the Duke of Somerset, where it is sayde that at the returne of the Earle of Warwicke out of Norfolke there was a consultation amongst the Lordes assembling themselues together in the house of M. Yorke. &c. agaynst the Duke of Somerset: here is to be noted that the comming of the Lordes to the said house of M. Yorke was not immediately vponupon the Duke of Northumberlandes returne, but first hee went to Warwicke, and from thence after a space came to the house aforesayd.
Item, here is also to be noted touching the sayd Duke of Somerset, that albeit at his death relation is made of a sodeine falling of the people, as was at the taking of christ this is not to be expounded as though I compared in any part the Duke of Somerset with Christ.
And though I do something more attribute to the cō mendation of the sayd Duke of Somerset, which dyed so constantly in his religion, yet I desire thee gentle reader, so to take it, not that I did euer meane to derogate or empeyre the martiall prayse or …actes of other men, which also are to be commended in suche thinges where they well deserued.
Item, touching the same Duke of Somerset, where the story sayth, pag. 1367. he was attaynted, read indited.
Item, pag. 1418. where mention is made of one Nicolas Underwood to be the betrayer of the Duke of Suffolke:This Nicholas Vnderwoode dwelleth now at Coton by Nunne Eaton▪ and Laurence in Nunne Eaton. ioyne with the sayd Underwood also Nicolas Laurence, alias Nicolas Ethell keeper of Asteley Parke, who taking vponupon him and promising to keepe the Duke, for 2. or three dayes vntill hee might finde some meanes to escape, conueyed him into an hollowe tree, and after moste trayterously bewrayed him.
Item, fol. 1419. in the Storye of Syr Thomas Wyat there is also to be corrected, that where the story sayth that he was taken by Syr Clement Parson, which was not so, nor he no such knight, amend it thus, that he first came to Clarentius being sent vntounto him, and afterward yealded him to Syr Mortis Bartly.
Briefly and in generall, besides these castigations aboue noted, if thou finde any other committed in the printing hereof, gently I desire thee gentle reader, to bestowe a little paynes with thine owne hand to amend them.
*Notes omitted of them that were burnt at Bristowe.
THe viij. daye of August 1953. was brought Wil. Sarton weauer of Bristow,Referre this to the pag. 1953. William Sarton Martyr burnt at Bristow. before one Dalbie Chauncellour of Bristow aforesaid, and by him committed to prison and also condemned, for holding that the sacrament was a signe of an holy thing: also he denyed, that the flesh and bloud of Christ is there after their words of consecration: he was burned the xviij. of september. 1556. and as he wēt to the fire, he sang ye Psalmes. The Sheriffe Ioh. Griffith had prepared greene wood to burne him, but one mayster Iohn Pikes pitieng the man, caused diuers to goe wyth him to Ridland, halfe a myle of, who brought good store of helme sheaues, which in deede made good dispatch with little payne, in comparison to that he should hauehave suffered with the greene woode. In the meane space, whilest they went for the sheues, the sayde Sarton made many good exhortations to the people, and after dyed constantly and patiently with great ioyfulnes.