+William.+ And I said, "Sir, I tell you at one word. I dare not, for the dread of GOD, submit me to you after the tenour and Sentence that ye have above rehearsed to me." * * * * * +Archbishop.+ And then, as if he had been wroth, he said to one of his Clerks, "Fetch hither quickly the _Certification_ that came to me from Shrewsbury, under the Bailiff's seal, witnessing the errors and heresies which this losell hath venemously witnessed there!" Then hastily the Clerk took out and laid forth on a cupboard divers rolls and writings; among which there was a little one, which the Clerk delivered to the Archbishop. =THE DESIRE OF THE SHREWSBURY MEN.= And by and by the Archbishop read this roll containing this sentence. ¶ _The third Sunday_ [April 17th] _after Easter_ [March 27th], _the year of our Lord 1407, WILLIAM THORPE came unto the town of Shrewsbury, and, through leave granted to him to preach, he said openly in St. Chad's Church, in his sermon,_ _That the Sacrament of the Altar after the consecration was material bread._ _And that images should in no wise be worshipped._ _And that men should not go on any pilgrimages._ _And that priests have no title to tithes._ _And that it is not lawful to swear in any wise._ +Archbishop.+ And when the Archbishop had read thus this roll, he rolled it up again, and said to me, "Is this wholesome learning to be among the people?" +William.+ And I said to him, "Sir, I am both ashamed on their behalf, and right sorrowful for them that have certified you these things thus untruly: for I never preached nor taught thus, privily nor apertly." +Archbishop.+ And the Archbishop said to me, "I will give credence to these worshipful men which have written to me and witnessed under their seals there among them. Though thou now deniest this, weenest thou that I will credence to thee! Thou, losell! hast troubled the worshipful comminalty of Shrewsbury, so that the Bailiffs and comminalty of that town have written to me, praying me, that am Archbishop of CANTERBURY, Primate, and Chancellor of England, _that I will vouchsafe to grant them, that if thou shalt be made, as thou art worthy! to suffer open jouresse_ [? penance or pillory] _for thine heresies, that thou may have thy jouresse openly there among them; so that all they whom thou and such like losells have there perverted, may, through fear of thy deed_ [_i.e._, martyrdom] _be reconciled again to the unity of Holy Church; and also they that stand in true faith of Holy Church may through thy deed be more stablished therein._" And as if this asking had pleased the Archbishop, he said, "By my thrift! this hearty prayer and fervent request shall be thought on!"