John Foxe: "Acts and Monuments," 7.18ff--1555, the Papal Inquisitors: Bi...


14 Feb 1555. One reads of the articles against Bishop Ferrar, mainly administrative and fiscal, levied by plaintiffs from the Diocese of St. David’s. The Cathedral’s chanter is the main instigator against Ferrar. The plaintiff’s indictments and the Bishop’s responses are given at length (18ff). He is in prison in London during Edward’s time, notably, after the fall of Somerset. Edward VI dies and Mary comes to the throne. On 14 Feb 1555, the leading issues now are not praemunire or earlier indictments, but are now about religion. Mary’s Winchester, Worcester and Durham, among others, head up the rather rude interrogation of Bishop Robert Ferrar. Ferrar gives his answers (22).

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