County: Hampshire
Code: D3049#1
Reference: Winchester, Hampshire Record Office: 21M65/A1/15, fol. 27r
Function: Abjuration




[Latin: ]
Jn the name of god . Amen Jn the presens of you Reuerend Fadre in god Lord Petre by the grace of god Busshop of wynchestre
myne Ordynary . J . Richarde Pytsyne otherwyse called Richard Sawyer your souget of ys diocyse of wynchester detecte .
Accused and [...] for a Mysbylevyng man for that y haue be lernyd and taught by oone wyllyam Smart & of oon willam
Carpenter of the towne of Newbury in the diocise of Sar in the company of other heretykes and lollardes confesse alle thes
erronyous opynyons and heresyes me to haue hold and spoken that doth ensue . Furste that y haue Dampnably and ewro-
nyesly erred holdenn and saide a-yenste the blessid Sacrament of the Auter sayng~ opynly and affirmyng that a mann may
not make hym that made hym . And that ther~ was not veray god and mann . Affirmynng them that so belyued foles and
Jpocretis Furthermore also y saide that the saide blessid sacramente was but a pece of dowe bakyn and prentyd
by-twyxt . ij . Jrens . And that y cowde make . xxxti of theym wtin an owyr~ Jf y had suche Pryntynng Jrons And ouer
this y hild and said in this maner of wyse . Jf in the veray sacrament of the Awter be the veray body of Cryst &
god . Jf y shuld receyve hym & ete hym . wher~ shuld y haue an-other god and Body of Cryst . And by-syde this
þt y saide if ther~ wer~ the very body of cryst a mouse shuld not be harde to touche it noþer to ete it . And in this erro-
nyous Bylyue J byde by the space of . iij . dayes . Jtm~ y haue saide and maynteyned ayenst the holy sacrament
of confessionn sayinng that it were as good to be confessid to a lay mann as to a Pryst . Farthermore þt confessionn to a mann is
not necessary but to god only by contrycion . Also y haue rrepreved and Dampned Pilgrymeage gooynges & offerynges
vnto Corssaynctes sayng and affirmynng that it were better to yeve a peny to mynn evynn-crystynn than to offre it to any
sayntte . And that it was but a fayned vsage . And þt y wuld haue moche monye ear that J . wuld spend any a-bowte
any Pylgrymage . Jtm~ that no mann is bowund to fast but if he be a Pryst . Jtm~ . J . haue affermed and saide a-yenst
the Decrees of our holy moder the Church saynge þt pristes ought and shuld haue wyffes propurred vnto them-selff as
they had in oolde lawe Jtm~ J haue hold & saide þt . Pristes do but blynd and disteyne the people & saide to the ded
Bodyes in the tyme of Buryng~ . As thow hast do so sange too . Jtm~ J haue affirmed and said of a Prist sange
masse onn wyke he ought not to syng~ masse ayenn the next wyke then followynng . And also J . haue saide that
the weke þt they synge masse ynn . They shuld haue for euery masse ‒ ij d and no more . Jtm~ at Pristes shuld not
know at nyght whereby they shuld lyve in the morne next folowynng . And þt they shuld lyve by ther~ hande
warke . And that no mann shuld fast but only pristes . Of alle thes errowres & heresyes to me herein your
noble presens Judicially obiected and by me confessid . J . by m
yn-owne confessionn and by wyttnesse of the
foresaid errowres & heresyes as they haue benn opynly and syngulerly reherseid lawfully conuycted that . J .
haue haldenn taughtt and obstynatly defended and susteyned the errowres heresyes and opynyons a-foresaid
dampned forebodenn and to the determynacyonn of our modre holy Churche contraryous yelde me gylty & culpable
The whiche foresaid erronyous & dampnable opynions errowris & heresyes And alleer techynges subtiltees
and Doctrine rrepungnant and contraryous to the said determynacionn of the Churche or offensyfe And
distrybe-able to soulys of symple vnderstandynng . J the said Richard Pytsyne otherwyse called Rychard Sawyer
sory contryte & veray repentant from this day forthward solemly abiure for-swere for-sake & expresly renowice [sic]
And also the kepynng & conceilynng of Englyssh bokes for-bodenn submyttynng my-selff opynly and expresly to the payne
Rygor and sharpenesse of law þt a personn relapsed aught to suffer by the lawe Jf y doo or presume to Attempte the
contrary of this my present Abiuracyonn Or if y wytyngly to any heretykes or Misbyleuyng persons in þe faithe
or to such as benn holdenn suspecte or defouled wt the lepre and Jnfeccyonn of heresey þt holdithe redethe techethe
or obstynatly defendithe contrary & Ayenste the determynacyonn of holly Churche On-to suche as been kepers
recettors and Councellours of the saide heretykes & my felynng peple Or of suche Englyssh Bokes as is
be-forne rreherseid and forbedyn~ fauour Counsaylle or Assiste priuely or Apartly at any tyme hereafter Ceesyng
in alle this Abouesayd alle maner of fraude Decepcyon~ malegyn~ Cautelles and dissymilacyonn also god help me
and his holy Euangelys And Jnto the wyttenesse thereof to this present my abiuracyon~ J put to my signe