County: Hampshire
Code: D3050#2
Reference: Winchester, Hampshire Record Office: 21M65/A1/16, fol. 66r
Function: Abjuration
[line 19]Jn the name of god Amen J Thomas Maryet otherwise called Thomas Stayner of the parisshe of saynt
Olave in Suthwerke wtyn the diocese of wynchester knowleghe and opynly confesse by-for you maister Nicholas Mayew
Commissary vnto the right reuerente fader in gode Thomas by the sufferaunnce of god bishopp of wynchester myn
ordinary in this case specially deputed and assigned . That J haue secretly kept and hold and prively redd wtyn
myn house bookes libelles volumes tretes and other werkes wretyn in englisshe compiled by John wykcliff A
dampned heretik and fauored and conceled the same bookes from~ my said ordinary and diocesan by the space
of xij yeres now last past contrary to the lawes ordynaunce~ and determynaconns of the holy canones and
other holsome constitucions of our~ moder holy chirche wherfore J now consideryng that J haue in the~
premisses sore erred willyng to returne and repare to the vnite of our moder holy chirche all suche secrete
kepynges and wtholdyng of dampned bookes and the lecturs of the same inspeciall wt all other in generall
J vtterly abiure and forsake promittyng faithfully that from hensforthe J shall not kepp redd ne here
any suche bookes nor to pryvate and dampned lecturus consent ne resort / but if J know or at any
tyme herafter shall know eny person or persones suspecte or gyltty of or in the premisers . or eny of theym
or in any other article contrary to the articles of the faithe and the determynaconn of the chirche J shall
detecte theym to myn ordynary for the tyme beyng so god be my help and this holy euangelistes .
promyttyng allso by vertu of my said othe faithfully to performe and fulfill all suche penance as shal be
to me ynioyned for my grete offence done in this behalf Jn wittenese wherof J make here wt myn
own~ hand a crosse [Latin: Et fecit signu~ cruces Acta sunt in Ecclia Conuentuali ste marie Onerey in Suthwerke
quinto die menser Nouembris Anno dm~ Millmo CCCC nonagesimo sexto pnntibȝ venerabilibȝ viris Carolo
Both & Ricno wilton~ legu~ doctoribȝ & alijs multes] .