The Lollards of the Chiltern Hills Glimpses of English Dissent in the Middle a
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" It derived its chief title to reverence from a viai containing a white substance, which was shown as the Virgin's milk ! These pilgrimages were in some cases enjoined for seven successive years, and it would seem that on arriving at the shrines the penitents had again publicly to bear faggots on their shoulders. Robert Bartlet, a wealthy farmer, was kept seven years a prisoner in the College of the Precious Blood at Ashridge. "Father Rogers" (the surname occurs long after as that of a promine...nt Noncon- formist family at Amersham) was not only branded on the right cheek, but confined for fourteen weeks in the Bishop's prison, probably at Wooburn, " where he was so cruelly handled with cold, hunger, and irons, that after his coming out of the said prison, he was so lame in his back that he could never go upright as long as he lived. " Foxe gives as his vouchers for this persecution of 1506-7 an aged man and woman — William 96 THE LOLLARDS Littlepage and Agnes Wetherly, who were still living when he wrote in 1570.
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