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OR1903
Title
Noke his first Articles in the High Commission
Articles objected against William Payne, gentleman.
10 Articles.
Date free text
c. 1616?
Production date
From: 1616 To: 1616
Scope and Content
1-4 ‘an irreligious and prophane contempt of all ministers in general’ and ‘that it is your prayer that God will deliver you from three sets of people that is to say, from fooles, ministers and madmen’, and that Payne said before a large assembly of people that he hoped that Whitbie would die so that he could get the bishop to make Henry Massock, known to lead ‘ a most infamous life’ vicar of Podington, and that ‘he should take tobacco in the very pulpit’.
5 Abuse particularly directed at Nokes and Whitbie.
6 He encourages the young to stay away from church on the Sabbath and holy days, and to swear and blaspheme, and when Whitbie rebuked them for bowling in service time, Payne said before the whole congregation ‘How darest thou be so bold, seeing that thou art but the towne servant?’
7 Payne declares that the two ministers preach spiteful or boastful sermons, and if rebuked from the pulpit, he and all his family ‘rise up in a most scornful and tumultuous sort’ and go out of the church ‘spitting and raging’.
8 he has insulted other preachers in Podington church – Mr. Pete and Mr. Thomas Peacham, but has not been punished for his ‘atheistical carriage’ because the parish consists of his tenants and servants.
9 Hindering the repair of Wymington chancel so that the ‘communion table is become very loathsome to the communicants’ because of the rotten state of the roof.
circa 1616?.
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