Three chapters of letters relating to the suppression of monasteries / Edited from the originals in the British Museum by Thomas Wright.

Date:
1843
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Credit: Three chapters of letters relating to the suppression of monasteries / Edited from the originals in the British Museum by Thomas Wright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    wemen, and of ij. freers, which was Rich and Risby :* as sone as the preyste began confiteor, she ffyll in a traunce, and of hur wunderfull answere, etc. 23. Item, of a sertayn gentylman dwellyng abowit Cantorbery, that had long tymes ben temptyd to drown hym selfe by the spryte of a woman that he had kept by his wyffes days, which is damned, etc. a long matter and a straynge. 24. Item, of the vysions sene by hur sister, marvelous, and how she tok the blud of our Lordys sydes in a challys, and how she saw the playg for the citty of London, etc. 25. Item, of the wurdes that the nun spake unto Mr. Richardes? how the angell of God asked for his fayth, with sertayn prevy tokyns that she shewyd hym that he had in his memento, with dyvers other thynges in your howse which cawsith them all to muse, etc. 26*. How the angell of God hath comaundyd hur to say that all ar but yllusions, for the tyme is not cum that God wulle put forth the wurk, etc. 27. Item, of 9 | 9 | 9 | , the rayn of the kyng how long he shall reyngne, as sayth a prophecy which agreeth with hur sayng, etc. 28. Item, of iij. letteres A. F. G., by a profycye that is in the handes of holly Richard; yf yow send to me John Gooddolphyn your servant, I can cawse hym to ffynd hym by enquere at the Temple. 29. Item, more a greate matter of a golden letter that Mary Magdalene dyd send, and how the angell comaundyd hur to cownterfayt another, by cawse the people shuld have powre upon hur boddy, etc., with monney that was hyd, etc. 30. Item, that vj. days beffore the sayd Riche was takyn, he went to a man that hath a prophesy, and with hym Nesywyck the observaunt, which shewyd unto them wunderos thyng, pennes and yncornes, letteres of prophesy, and of all ther troble at Powlys Crosse. This man dwellyth ij. mylys ffrom Bugdeane, his name is Handford, etc. * Hugh Rich has been already mentioned : Richard Risby was one of the nun’s accom¬ plices.