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** Articles of impeachment in Herbert.

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*** Fox.

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165.
Many were brought into the bishops' courts for offences which appear trivial, but which were regarded as symbols of the party: some for teaching their children the Lord's prayer in English; others for reading the New Testament in that language, or for speaking against pilgrimages.
To harbor the persecuted preachers, to neglect the fasts of the church, to declaim against the vices of the clergy, were capital offences.

One Thomas Bilney, a priest, who had embraced the new doctrine, had been terrified into an abjuration; but was so haunted by remorse, that his friends dreaded some fatal effects of his despair.