Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... condign chastisement heretics so convicted, and considering uoi. that such heretics so convicted and condemned in the form aforesaid ought to be burnt in the flames, according to law divine and human, and the canonical institutes customary in that behalf--as straitly as we are able, firmly enjoining, is to be command you that the aforesaid William, being in your DEGREESy DEGREESgyj(. custody, be committed to the fire in any public and open open place place, within the liberty of the city aforesaid, by reason of TMJyhln the premises, and that you cause him to be actually [realiter] bumt in the same fire, in detestation of such crime, and to the manifest example of other Christians; and this you shall as an exin no wise omit under instant peril. Witness ourself at others. Westminster the 26th day of February. By the king himself and the council in Parliament . XLIV. REMONSTRANCE AGAINST THE LEGATINE POWERS OF CARDINAL BEAUFORT, A.d. 1428. The following document, referring to an objection taken against the 1428. legatine powers of Cardinal Beaufort, is printed by Foxe (Acts and Monuments, iiL p. 719). It bears internal marks of genuineness, e.g. the name of the clerk of the council. Foxe obtained it from an old book in the possession of a certain Master Bowyer. [Tr. Foxe as above.] In the name of God, Amen. By the present public Richard instrument let it clearly appear to all that in the year of our unicorn Lord 1428-9, in the seventh indiction, in the pontificate of mission our holy father in Christ and lord, the lord Martin, &c, DEGREESfe DEGREES* I, Richard Caudryi, proctor, and under proctorial com- the Privy mission of the most Christian prince the lord Henry, by the declares 'Mentioned as clerk of council in 1423. Vide Acts and Ordinance
