Articles  exhibited  and  denounced   to  the  Bishop,    against  Walter
Brute,  by  certain  Priests  and  Friars.
Reverend  father  and  lord !  we,  the  faithful  people  of  Christ,  and  zealous
lovers  of  the  catJiolic  faith,  and  also  your  humble  and  devout  children,  do
minister  and  exhibit  to  your  reverend  fatherhood  the  articles  under-written,
touching  the  catholic  faith,  contrary  and  against  malicious  persons,  and  detrac-
tors of  the  same  faith,  and  the  determinations  of  holy  mother  church ;  and
namely  against  the  child  of  Belial,  one  Walter  Brute,  a  false  teacher  and
seducer  amongst  the  people :  humbly  beseeching,  that  you  would  vouchsafe
to  have  regard  to  the  correction  of  the  enormities  under-written,  according  unto
the  canonical  constitutions,  even  as  to  your  office  pastoral  doth  lie  and  belong.
First  Imprimis,  We  do  give  and  exhibit,  and  intend  to  prove,  that  the  same  Walter

Article.  13rute,  being  unmindful  of  his  salvation,  hath  been,  by  many  and  divers  faithful
christian  people,  sundry  times  accused  of  the  cursedness  of  heresy,  as  by  the
swift  report,  slander,  and  rumour  of  the  people,  proceeding  before  the  most
reverend  father  and  lord,  lord  William  archbishop  of  Canterbury,  and  also  before
the  reverend  fatlierand  lord,  lord  John,  late  bishop  of  Hereford,  your  predeces-
sor, and  now  bishop  of  St.  Asaph,  hath  been  testified  ;  and  also  hath  been  many
and  divers  times  cited  to  answer  unto  articles  by  him  against  the  catholic  faith
avouched,  and  openly  and  publicly  taught.  But  he,  in  this  matter  of  heretical
cursedness  (so  grievously  and  shamefully  spoken  of),  hath  never  regarded  to
purge  his  innocency ;  but  lurkingly,  and  running  into  corners,  hath  many  and
sundry  years  laboured  to  advance  things  erroneous  and  schismatical,  and  also
heresies,  and  to  imprint  them  in  the  hearts  of  faithful  people.
