County: Lincolnshire
Code: D4440#17
Reference: Lincoln, Lincolnshire Archives: DIOC/REG/20, fol. 57r-v
Function: Abjuration
[Latin: abiuracio Johis polley]
[line 31]Jn the name of god Amen Before you Reuerend fader in god John By the grace of god Bisshop of lincoln
J John Polley of henley of youre diocise not lettred make open confessionn & knowlage in your presence & the presence of
wittenesse here beyng at this tyme that J haue holdenn beleved taught and affermed certeynn fals Articles & opynions
of heresy and erroures agayne many and diuerse sacramentes agaynn the trew cristen~ faithe and the determinaconn of holy
Churche . / First not beleuyng in the blessed sacrament of the Auter to be Cristes body in foorme of Bred . Also that
the sacrament of Baptime doonn withe the obseruaunces of the Churche and in the fonte is not necessary . but to
cristenn a childe rather in a Ryver or a ponde . Also that oblaconns made & doonn in the Churche vnto ymages & vigoures
of seintes shuld not be doon nor offred but rather distribute suche offrynges vnto poer men . Also that no mann shulde
worship no ymage in the Churche withe nor in other thinges for thei be but Stokkes . Also that ther is no place
of purgatory . / The whiche fals Articles withe many other and opynions of heresies and errourrs J haue openly confessed
in your presence indicially sutyng in examinaconn . And for as moche as J am certaynly & credebly infourmed by you reuerend
fader that theis articles benn heresy fals errours and not trew and agayn~ the determynacon~ of holy churche J wylling
in my hert to forsake these articles & alle other heresyes errours & erronyouse opynyounse contrary to the determinacionn
of holy Churche . swere by this booke that frohensforthe J shal not teche preche holde nor afferme nor byleve the
said heresyes errours & opynyounse nor noon other nor J shalle defend hem nor thoo persones that benn of that opynyoun
by me nor by any other meene persone openly or priuatly nor J shalle yeff favour help socour assistence or covnselle to hem
nor hem receyve nor to hem J shalle yeff credence nor be in felaship wt hem to my knowlage nor J shal hold nor
receyve doctrine Bookes or qwayres concernyng heresies errours or opynyonse of hem nor them vse but here openly
abiure them . And J swere by this Booke that assone as J can haue knowlage & vnderstanding of any suche
Bookes or of any suche persones of suche heresy errours & of thaire opynyonse . withoute fraude gile or deceyte J shale
[fol. 57v]make Knowlage to the Ordinary Bisshopp of the diocise where thei be vsed as god me helpe & theis holy euangelijs
Jn wittenesse of theis premissČ J John Polley before rehersed subscribe my-selff wt my-n owne hand [Latin: ]