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If this account be duly considered,
what a picture of repeated torture does it

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present.

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But even the cruelty of the narration is
exceeded by the patient meekness with

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which it was endured.

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Here are no expressions of malice,
no invocations, even of God's retributive

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justice, not a complaint of suffering
wrongfully.

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On the contrary, praise to God,
forgiveness of sin, and of forgiving all

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the world concludes this unaffected
interesting narrative.

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Bonner's admiration was excited by the
steadfast coolness of this martyr.

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Speaking of Mr. Simpson in the consistory,
he said, You see what a personable man he

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is, and then of his patience.

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I affirm that if he were not a heretic,
he is a man of the greatest patience that

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ever came before me.

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Thrice in one day has he been racked in
the tower.

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In my house also he has felt sorrow,
and yet never have I seen his patience

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broken.

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The day before this pious deacon was to be
condemned, while in the stocks in the

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bishop's coal-house, he had the vision of
a glorified form which much encouraged

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him.

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This he certainly attested to his wife,
to Mr. Austin, and others before his

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death.

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With this ornament of the Christian
Reformation were apprehended Mr. Hugh Fox

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and John Devenish.

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The three were brought before Bonner,
March 19, 1558, and the papistical

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articles tendered.

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They rejected them and were all condemned.

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As they worshipped together in the same
society at Islington, so they suffered

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together in Smithfield, March 28,
in whose death the God of Grace was

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glorified and true believers confirmed.

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Thomas Hudson, Thomas Carman and William
Seaman were condemned by a bigoted vicar

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of Aylesbury named Berry.

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The spot of execution was called Lollard's
Pit, without Bishop's Gate, at Norwich.

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After joining together in humble petition
to the Throne of Grace, they rose,

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went to the stake, and were encircled with
their chains.

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To the great surprise of the spectators,
Hudson slipped from under his chains and

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came forward.

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A great opinion prevailed that he was
about to recant.

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Others thought that he wanted further
time.

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In the meantime, his companions at the
stake urged every promise and exultation

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to support him.

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The hopes of the enemies of the cross,
however, were disappointed.

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The good man, far from fearing the
smallest personal terror at the

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approaching pangs of death, was only
alarmed that his Saviour's face seemed to

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be hidden from him.

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Falling upon his knees, his spirit
wrestled with God, and God verified the

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words of his son, Ask, and it shall be
given.

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The martyr rose in an ecstasy of joy,
and exclaimed, Now I thank God I am

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strong, and care not what man can do to
me.

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With an unruffled countenance he replaced
himself under the chain, joined his

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fellow-sufferers, and with them suffered
death, to the comfort of the godly and the

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confusion of Antichrist.

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Berry, unsatiated with this demoniacal
act, summoned up two hundred persons in

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the town of Aylsham, whom he compelled to
kneel to the cross at Pentecost,

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and inflicted other punishments.

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He struck a poor man for a trifling word
with a flail, which proved fatal to the

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unoffending object.

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He also gave a woman named Alice Oxes so
heavy a blow with his fist as she met him

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entering the hall when he was in an
ill-humour that she died with the

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violence.

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This priest was rich and possessed great
authority.

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He was a reprobate, and like the
priesthood he abstained from marriage to

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enjoy the more debauched and licentious
life.

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A Sunday after the death of Queen Mary he
was revelling with one of his concubines

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before Vespers.

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He then went to church, administered
baptism, and in his return to his

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lascivious pastime he was smitten by the
hand of God.

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Without a moment given for repentance he
fell to the ground, and a groan was the

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only articulation permitted him.

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In him we may behold the difference
between the end of a martyr and a

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persecutor.

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The Story of Roger Holland In a retired
close near a field in Islington,

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a company of decent persons had assembled
to the number of forty.

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While they were religiously engaged in
praying and expounding the scripture,

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twenty-seven of them were carried before
Sir Roger Chumley.

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Some of the women made their escape.

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Twenty-two were committed to Newgate,
who continued in prison seven weeks.

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Previous to their examination they were
informed by the keeper, Alexander,

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that nothing more was requisite to procure
their discharge than to hear Mass.

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Easy as this condition may seem,
these martyrs valued their purity of

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conscience more than loss of life or
property.

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Hence thirteen were burned, seven in
Smithfield and six at Brentford,

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two died in prison, and the other seven
were providentially preserved.

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The names of the seven who suffered were
H.

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Pond, R.

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Esland, R.

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Southern, M.

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Rickerby, J.

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Floyd, J.

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Holliday, and Roger Holland.

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They were sent to Newgate June 16,
1558, and executed on the 27th.

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This Roger Holland, a merchant tailor of
London, was first an apprentice with one

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Master Kempchen at the Black Boy in
Wattling Street, giving himself to

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dancing, fencing, gaming, banqueting,
and wanton company.

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He had received for his Master certain
money to the sum of thirty pounds,

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and lost every groat at dice.

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Therefore he purposed to convey himself
away beyond the seas, either into France

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or into Flanders.

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With this resolution he called early in
the morning on a discreet servant in the

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house named Elizabeth, who professed the
Gospel and lived a life that did honour to

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her profession.

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To her he revealed the loss his folly had
occasioned, regretted that he had not

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followed her advice, and begged her to
give his Master a note of hand from him

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acknowledging the debt, which he would
repay if ever it were in his power.

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He also entreated his disgraceful conduct
might be kept secret, lest it would bring

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the grey hairs of his father with sorrow
to a premature grave.

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The maid, with a generosity and Christian
principle rarely surpassed, conscious that

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his imprudence might be a ruin,
brought him thirty pounds, which was part

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of a sum of money recently left her by
legacy.

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Here, said she, is the sum requisite.

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You shall take the money, and I will keep
the note.

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But expressly on this condition,
that you abandon all lewd and vicious

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company, that you neither swear nor talk
immodestly, and game no more.

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For should I learn that you do,
I will immediately show this note to your

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Master.

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I also require that you shall promise me
to attend the daily lecture at all

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hallows, and the sermon at St. Paul's
every Sunday, that you cast away all your

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books of potpourri, and in their place
substitute the testament and the book of

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service, and that you read the scriptures
with reverence and fear, calling upon God

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for his grace to direct you in his truth.

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Pray also fervently to God to pardon your
former offences, and not to remember the

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sins of your youth.

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And would you obtain his favour,
ever dread to break his laws or offend his

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Majesty?

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So shall God have you in his keeping,
and grant you your heart's desire.

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We must honour the memory of this
excellent domestic, whose pious endeavours

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were equally directed to benefit the
thoughtless youth in this life,

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and that which is to come.

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God did not suffer the wish of this
excellent domestic to be thrown upon a

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barren soil.

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Within half a year after, the licentious
Holland became a zealous professor of the

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Gospel, and was an instrument of
conversion to his father and others whom

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he visited in Lancashire, to their
spiritual comfort and reformation from

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potpourri.

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His father, pleased with his change of
conduct, gave him forty pounds to commence

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business with in London.

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Then Roger repaired to London again,
and came to the maid that lent him the

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money to pay his master withal,
and said unto her, Elizabeth, here is thy

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money I borrowed of thee, and for the
friendship, goodwill, and the good counsel

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I have received at thy hands, to
recompense thee I am not able,

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otherwise than to make thee my wife.

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And soon after they were married,
which was in the first year of Queen Mary.

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After this he remained in the
congregations of the faithful,

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until the last year of Queen Mary he,
with the six others aforesaid,

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were taken.

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And after Roger Holland there was none
suffered in Smithfield for the testimony

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of the Gospel, God be thanked.

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Flagellations by Bonner When this Catholic
hyena found that neither persuasion's

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threats nor imprisonment could produce any
alteration in the mind of a youth named

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Thomas Hinshaw, he sent him to Fulham,
and during the first night set him in the

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stocks, with no other allowance than bread
and water.

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The following morning he came to see if
this punishment had worked any change in

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his mind, and finding none, he sent Dr.
Harpsfield, his archdeacon, to converse

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with him.

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The doctor was soon out of humour at his
replies, called him peevish boy,

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and asked him if he thought he went about
to damn his soul.

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I'm persuaded, said Thomas, that you
labour to promote the dark kingdom of the

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devil, not for the love of the truth.

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These words the doctor conveyed to the
bishop, who in a passion that almost

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prevented articulation, came to Thomas and
said, Thus thou answer my archdeacon,

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thus thou naughty boy, but I'll soon
handle thee well enough for it,

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be assured.

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Two willow twigs were then brought him,
and causing the unresisting youth to kneel

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against a long bench in an arbour in his
garden, he scourged him until he was

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compelled to cease for want of breath and
fatigue.

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One of the rods was worn quite away.

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Many other conflicts did Hinshaw undergo
from the bishop, who at length,

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to remove him effectually, procured false
witnesses to lay articles against him,

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all of which the young man denied,
and in short refused to answer any

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interrogatories administered to him.

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A fortnight after this, the young man was
attacked by a burning ague, and at the

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request of his master, Mr. Pugson of St.
Paul's Churchyard, he was removed,

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the bishop not doubting that he had given
him his death in the natural way.

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He, however, remained ill above a year,
and in the meantime Queen Mary died,

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by which act of providence he escaped
Bonner's rage.

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John Willers was another faithful person
on whom the scourging hand of Bonner fell.

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He was the brother of Richard Willers
before mentioned, burned at Brentford.

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Hinshaw and Willers were confined in
Bonner's coal-house together, and

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afterward removed to Fulham, where he and
Hinshaw remained during eight or ten days

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in the stocks.

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Bonner's persecuting spirit betrayed
itself in his treatment of Willers during

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his examinations, often striking him on
the head with a stick, seizing him by the

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ears, and flipping him under the chin,
saying he held down his head like a thief.

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This producing no signs of recantation,
he took him into his orchard, and in a

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small arbour there he flogged him,
first with a willow rod, and then with

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birch, until he was exhausted.

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This cruel ferocity arose from the answer
of the poor sufferer, who, upon being

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asked how long it was since he had crept
to the cross, replied, not since he had

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come to years of discretion, nor would he,
though he should be torn to pieces by wild

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horses.

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Bonner then bade him make the sign of the
cross on his forehead, which he refused to

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do, and thus was led to the orchard.

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One day, when in the stocks, Bonner asked
him how he liked his lodging and fare.

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Well enough, said Willers, might I have a
little straw to sit or lie upon.

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Just at this time came in Willers' wife,
then largely pregnant, and entreated the

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bishop for her husband, boldly declaring
that she would be delivered in the house

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if he were not suffered to go with her.

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To get rid of the good wife's importunity,
and the trouble of a lying-in woman in his

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palace, he bade Willers make the sign of
the cross, and say, In nomine Patris et

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Filii et Spiritus Sancti.

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Amen.

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Willers omitted the sign, and repeated the
words, In the name of the Father,

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and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

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Amen.

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Bonner would have the words repeated in
Latin, to which Willers made no objection,

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knowing the meaning of the words.

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He was then permitted to go home with his
wife, his kinsman Robert Ruse being

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charged to bring him to St. Paul's the
next day, whither he himself went,

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and, subscribing to a Latin instrument of
little importance, was liberated.

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This is the last of the twenty-two taken
at Islington.

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REVEREND RICHARD YOEMAN This devout,
aged person was curate to Dr. Taylor at

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Hadley, and eminently qualified for his
sacred function.

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Dr. Taylor left him the curacy at his
departure, but no sooner had Mr. Newell

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gotten the benefits than he removed Mr.
Yeoman and substituted a Romish priest.

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After this he wandered from place to
place, exhorting all men to stand

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faithfully to God's word, earnestly to
give themselves unto prayer, with patience

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to bear the cross now laid upon them for
their trial, with boldness to confess the

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truth before their adversaries,
and with an undoubted hope to wait for the

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crown and reward of eternal felicity.

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But when he perceived his adversaries lay
wait for him, he went into Kent,

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and with a little packet of laces,
pins, points, etc., he travelled from

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village to village, selling such things,
and in this manner subsisted himself,

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his wife and children.

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At last Justice Moyle of Kent took Mr.
Yeoman and set him in the stocks a day and

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a night, but having no evident matter to
charge him with, he let him go again.

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Coming secretly again to Hadley,
he tarried with his poor wife,

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who kept him privately in a chamber of the
town-house, commonly called the Guildhall,

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more than a year.

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During this time the good old father abode
in a chamber, locked up all the day,

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spending his time in devout prayer,
in reading the scriptures, and in carding

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the wool which his wife spun.

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His wife also begged bread for herself and
her children, by which precarious means

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they supported themselves.

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Thus the saints of God sustained hunger
and misery, while the prophets of Baal

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lived in festivity and were costly
pampered at Jezebel's table.

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Information being at length given to
Newall that Yeoman was secreted by his

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wife, he came, attended by the constables,
and broke into the room where the object

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of his search lay in bed with his wife.

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He reproached the poor woman with being a
whore, and would have indecently pulled

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the clothes off, but Yeoman resisted both
this act of violence and the attack upon

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his wife's character, adding that he
defied the Pope and Popery.

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He was then taken out and set in stocks
until day.

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In the cage also with him was an old man
named John Dale, who had sat there three

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or four days, for exhorting the people
during the time service was performing by

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Newall and his curate.

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His words were, O miserable and blind
guides, will ye ever be blind leaders of

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the blind?

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Will ye never amend?

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Will ye never see the truth of God's word?

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Will neither God's threats nor promises
enter into your hearts?

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Will the blood of the martyrs,
nothing, mollify your stony stomachs?

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O obdurate, hard-hearted, perverse,
and crooked generation, to whom nothing

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can do good.

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These words he spake in fervency of spirit
against the superstitious religion of

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Rome.

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Wherefore, Newall caused him forthwith to
be attached and set in the stocks in a

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cage, where he was kept until Sir Henry
Doyle, a justice, came to Hadley.

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When Yeoman was taken, the parson called
earnestly upon Sir Henry Doyle to send

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them both to prison.

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Sir Henry Doyle as earnestly entreated the
parson to consider the age of the men and

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their mean condition.

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They were neither persons of note nor
preachers, wherefore he proposed to let

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them be punished a day or two,
and to dismiss them, at least John Dale,

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who was no priest, and therefore,
as he had so long sat in the cage,

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he thought it punishment enough for this
time.

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When the parson heard this, he was
exceedingly mad, and in a great rage

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called them pestilent heretics,
unfit to live in the commonwealth of

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Christians.

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Sir Henry, fearing to appear too merciful,
Yeoman and Dale were pinioned,

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bound like thieves with their legs under
the horse's bellies, and carried to buried

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jail, where they were laid in irons.

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And because they continually rebuked
popery, they were carried into the lowest

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dungeon, where John Dale, through the jail
sickness and evil keeping, died soon

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after.

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His body was thrown out and buried in the
fields.

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He was a man of sixty-six years of age,
a weaver by occupation, well learned in

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the holy scriptures, steadfast in his
confession of the true doctrines of

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Christ, as set forth in King Edward's
time, for which he joyfully suffered

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prison and chains, and from this worldly
dungeon he departed in Christ to eternal

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glory and the blessed paradise of
everlasting felicity.

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After Dale's death, Yeoman was removed to
Norwich prison, where after straight and

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evil keeping he was examined upon his
faith and religion and required to submit

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himself to his holy father the Pope.

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I defy him, quoth he, and all his
detestable abomination.

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I will no wise have to do with him.

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The chief articles objected to him were
his marriage and the mass sacrifice.

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Finding he continued steadfast in the
truth, he was condemned, degraded,

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and not only burnt but most cruelly
tormented in the fire.

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Thus he ended this poor and miserable
life, and entered into that blessed bosom

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of Abraham, enjoying with Lazarus that
rest which God has prepared for his elect.

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Thomas Benbridge Mr. Benbridge was a
single gentleman in the diocese of

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Winchester.

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He might have lived a gentleman's life in
the wealthier possessions of this world,

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but he chose rather to enter through the
straight gate of persecution to the

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heavenly possession of life in the Lord's
kingdom than to enjoy present pleasure

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with disquietude of conscience.

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Manfully standing against the Papist for
the defence of the sincere doctrine of

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Christ's gospel, he was apprehended as an
adversary to the Roman religion,

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and led for examination before the Bishop
of Winchester, where he underwent several

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conflicts for the truth against the Bishop
and his colleague, for which he was

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condemned, and some time after brought to
the place of martyrdom by Sir Richard

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Pexall, Sheriff.

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When standing at the stake he began to
untie his points and to prepare himself,

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then he gave his gown to the keeper by way
of fee.

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His jerkin was trimmed with gold lace,
which he gave to Sir Richard Pexall,

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the High Sheriff.

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His cap of velvet he took from his head
and threw away.

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Then, lifting his mind to the Lord,
he engaged in prayer.

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When fastened to the stake, Dr. Seaton
begged him to recant, and he should have

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his pardon.

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But when he saw that nothing availed,
he told the people not to pray for him

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unless he would recant, no more than they
would pray for a dog.

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Mr. Brenbridge, standing at the stake with
his hands together in such a manner as the

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priest holds his hands in the memento,
Dr. Seaton came to him again and exhorted

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him to recant, to whom he said,
Away, Babylon, away.

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One that stood by said, Sir, cut his
tongue out.

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Another, a temporal man, railed at him
worse than Dr. Seaton had done.

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When they saw he would not yield,
they bade the tormentors to light the pile

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before he was in any way covered with
faggots.

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The fire first took away a piece of his
beard, at which he did not shrink.

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Then it came on the other side and took
his legs, and the nether stockings of his

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hose being leather, they made the fire
pierce the sharper, so that the

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intolerable heat made him exclaim,
I recant, and suddenly he thrust the fire

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from him.

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Two or three of his friends being by
wished to save him, they stepped to the

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fire to help remove it, for which kindness
they were sent to jail.

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The sheriff, also of his own authority,
took him from the stake and remitted him

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to prison, for which he was sent to the
fleet, and lay there some time.

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Before, however, he was taken from the
stake, Dr. Seaton wrote articles for him

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to subscribe to.

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To these Mr. Benbridge made so many
objections, that Dr. Seaton ordered them

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to set fire again to the pile.

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Then, with much pain and grief of heart,
he subscribed to them upon a man's back.

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This done, his gown was given him again,
and he was led to prison.

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While there, he wrote a letter to Dr.
Seaton, recanting those words he had

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spoken at the stake, and the articles
which he had subscribed, for he was

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grieved that he had ever signed them.

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The same day Senite, he was again brought
to the stake, where the vile tormentors

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rather broiled than burned him.

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The Lord give his enemies repentance.

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Mrs. Prest From the number condemned in
this fanatical reign, it is almost

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impossible to obtain the name of every
martyr, or to embellish the history of all

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with anecdotes and exemplifications of
Christian conduct.

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Thanks be to Providence, our cruel task
begins to draw towards a conclusion with

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the end of the reign of papal terror and
bloodshed.

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Monarchs who sit upon thrones possessed by
hereditary right, should of all others

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consider that the laws of nature are the
laws of God, and hence that the first law

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of nature is the preservation of their
subjects.

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Maxims of persecutions, of torture and of
death, they should leave to those who have

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effected sovereignty by fraud or by sword.

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But where, except among a few miscreant
emperors of Rome and the Roman pontiffs,

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shall we find one whose memory is so
damned to everlasting fame as that of

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Queen Mary?

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Nations bewail the hour which separates
them forever from a beloved governor,

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but with respect to that of Mary it was
the most blessed time of her whole reign.

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Heaven has ordained three great scourges
for national sins, plague, pestilence and

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famine.

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It was the will of God in Mary's reign to
bring a fourth upon this kingdom under the

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form of papistical persecution.

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It was sharp but glorious, the fire which
consumed the martyrs has undermined the

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popedom, and the states, at present the
most bigoted and unenlightened,

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are those which are sunk lowest in the
scale of moral dignity and political

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consequence.

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May they remain so until the pure light of
the gospel shall dissipate the darkness of

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fanaticism and superstition.

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But to return.

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Mrs. Prest for some time lived about
Cornwall, where she had a husband and

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children, whose bigotry compelled her to
frequent the abominations of the Church of

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Rome.

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Resolving to act as her conscience
dictated, she quitted them and made a

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living by spinning.

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After some time returning home,
she was accused by her neighbours and

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brought to Exeter to be examined before
Dr. Troubleville and his Chancellor

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Blackstone.

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As this martyr was accounted of inferior
intellect, we shall put her in competition

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with the Bishop and let the reader judge
which had the most of that knowledge

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conducive to everlasting life.

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The Bishop, bringing the question to
issue, respecting the bread and wine being

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flesh and blood, Mrs. Prest said,
I will demand of you whether you can deny

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your creed which says that Christ doth
perpetually sit at the right hand of his

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Father, both body and soul, until he come
again, or whether he be there in heaven

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our advocate, and to make prayer for us
unto God his Father.

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If he be so, he is not here on earth in a
piece of bread.

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If he be not here, and if he do not dwell
in temples made with hands, but in heaven,

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what, shall we seek him here?

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If he did not offer his body once for all,
why make you a new offering?

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If with one offering he made all perfect,
why do you with a false offering make all

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imperfect?

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If he be to be worshipped in spirit and in
truth, why do you worship a piece of

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bread?

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If he be eaten and drunk, in faith and
truth, if his flesh be not profitable to

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be among us, why do you say you make his
flesh and blood, and say it is profitable

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for body and soul?

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Alas, I am a poor woman, but rather than
to do as you do, I would live no longer.

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I have said so." The bishop replied,
I promise you, you are a jolly Protestant.

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I pray you, in what school have you been
brought up?

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Mrs. Prest said, I have upon the Sundays
visited the sermons, and there have I

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learned such things as are so fixed in my
breast, that death shall not separate

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them.

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The bishop contended, O foolish woman,
who will waste his breath upon thee,

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or such as thou art!

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But how chanceth it that thou wentest away
from thy husband?

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If thou wert an honest woman, thou wouldst
not have left thy husband and children,

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and run about the country like a fugitive.

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Mrs. Prest replied, Sir, I laboured for my
living, and as my master Christ counseleth

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me, when I was persecuted in one city,
I fled into another.

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The bishop demanded, Who persecuted thee?

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Mrs. Prest answered, My husband and
children.

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For when I would have them to leave
idolatry and to worship God in heaven,

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he would not hear me, but he with his
children rebuked me, and troubled me.

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I fled not for whoredom, nor for theft,
but because I would be no partaker with

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him and his of that foul idol the mass.

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And wheresoever I was, as oft as I could
upon Sundays and holy days, I made excuses

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not to go to the popish church.

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The bishop countered, Be like then you are
a good housewife, to fly from your husband

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the church.

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Mrs. Prest continued, My housewifery is
but small, but God gave me grace to go to

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the true church.

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The bishop persisted, The true church,
what dost thou mean?

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Mrs. Prest replied, Not your popish
church, full of idols and abominations,

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but where two or three are gathered
together in the name of God, to that

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church will I go as long as I live.

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The bishop pronounced, Be like then you
have a church of your own.

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Well, let this mad woman be put down to
prison until we send for her husband.

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Mrs. Prest answered, No, I have but one
husband who is here already in this city,

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and in prison with me, from whom I will
never depart.

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Some persons present endeavouring to
convince the bishop she was not in her

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right senses, she was permitted to depart.

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The keeper of the bishop's prisoners took
her into his house, where she either spun,

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worked as a servant, or walked about the
city, discoursing upon the sacrament of

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the altar.

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Her husband was sent forth to take her
home, but this she refused while the cause

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of religion could be served.

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She was too active to be idle,
and her conversation, simple as they

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affected to think her, excited the
attention of several Catholic priests and

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friars.

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They teased her with questions until she
answered them angrily, and this excited a

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laugh at her warmth.

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Nay, said she, you have more need to weep
than to laugh, and to be sorry that ever

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you were born to be the chaplains of that
whore of Babylon.

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I defy him and all his falsehood,
and get you away from me, you do but

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trouble my conscience.

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You would have me follow your doings.

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I will first lose my life.

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I pray you depart.

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Why, thou foolish woman, said they,
we come to thee for thy profit and souls'

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health.

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To which she replied, What profit ariseth
by you that teach nothing but lies for

27:45.560 --> 27:45.920
truth?

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How save you souls when you preach nothing
but lies and destroy souls?

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How provest thou that, said they?

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Do you not destroy your souls when you
teach the people to worship idols,

27:56.860 --> 28:01.260
stocks and stones, the works of men's
hands, and to worship a false god of your

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own making, of a piece of bread,
and teach that the Pope is God's vicar,

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and hath power to forgive sins?

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And that there is a purgatory,
when God's Son hath by his passion purged

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all?

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And say you make God and sacrifice him,
when Christ's body was a sacrifice once

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and for all?

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Do you not teach the people to number
their sins in your ears, and say they will

28:21.700 --> 28:23.440
be damned if they confess not all?

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When God's word saith, Who can number his
sins?

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Do you not promise them trentles and
dirges and masses for souls, and sell your

28:31.880 --> 28:35.520
prayers for money, and make them buy
pardons, and trust to such foolish

28:35.520 --> 28:37.240
inventions of your imaginations?

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Do you not altogether act against God?

28:40.400 --> 28:45.440
Do you not teach us to pray upon beads and
to pray upon saints, and say they can pray

28:45.440 --> 28:45.980
for us?

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Do you not make holy water and holy bread
to fray devils?

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Do you not do a thousand more
abominations?

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And yet you say you come for my profit,
and to save my soul.

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No, no, one hath saved me.

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Farewell, you, with your salvation.

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During the liberty granted her by the
Bishop, before mentioned, she went into

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St. Peter's Church, and there found a
skilful Dutchman, who was affixing new

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noses to certain fine images which had
been disfigured in King Edward's time,

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to whom she said, What a madman art thou
to make them new noses, which within a few

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days shall all lose their heads.

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The Dutchman accused her, and laid it hard
to her charge, and she said unto him,

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Thou art accursed, and so are thy images.

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He called her a whore.

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Nay, said she, thy images are whores,
and thou art a whore-hunter.

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For doth not God say, You go a-whoring
after strange gods, figures of your own

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making, and thou art one of them.

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After this she was ordered to be confined,
and had no more liberty.

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During the time of her imprisonment,
many visited her, some sent by the Bishop,

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and some of their own will.

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Among these was one Daniel, a great
preacher of the Gospel in the days of King

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Edward, about Cornwall and Devonshire,
but who, through the grievous persecution

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he had sustained, had fallen off.

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Earnestly did she exhort him to repent
with Peter, and to be more constant in his

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profession.

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Mrs. Walter Rawley and Mr. William and
John Keed, persons of great

30:18.280 --> 30:23.720
respectability, bore ample testimony of
her godly conversation, declaring that

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unless God were with her it were
impossible she could have so ably defended

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the cause of Christ.

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Indeed, to sum up the character of this
poor woman, she united the serpent and the

30:34.220 --> 30:38.400
dove, abounding in the highest wisdom
joined to the greatest simplicity.

30:39.300 --> 30:43.260
She endured imprisonment, threatenings,
taunts, and the vilest epithets,

30:43.580 --> 30:45.380
but nothing could induce her to swerve.

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Her heart was fixed, she had cast anchor,
nor could all the wounds of persecution

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remove her from the rock on which her
hopes of felicity were built.

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Such was her memory that without learning
she could tell in what chapter any text of

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Scripture was contained.

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On account of this singular property,
one Gregory Bassett, a rank papist,

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said she was deranged and talked as a
parrot, wild without meaning.

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At length, having tried every manner
without effect to make her nominally a

31:16.360 --> 31:17.940
Catholic, they condemned her.

31:18.900 --> 31:22.520
After this one exhorted her to leave her
opinions and go home to her family,

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as she was poor and illiterate.

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True, said she, though I am not learned,
I am content to be a witness of Christ's

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death, and I pray you make no longer delay
with me, for my heart is fixed,

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and I will never say otherwise nor turn to
your superstitious doing.

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To the disgrace of Mr. Blackstone,
treasurer of the church, he would often

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send for this poor martyr from prison to
make sport for him and a woman whom he

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kept, putting religious questions to her
and turning her answers into ridicule.

31:53.240 --> 31:57.300
This dunny sent her back to her wretched
dungeon, while he battened upon the good

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things of this world.

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There was, perhaps, something simply
ludicrous in the form of Mrs. Prest,

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as she was of a very short stature,
thick-set, and about fifty-four years of

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age, but her countenance was cheerful and
lively, as if prepared for the day of her

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marriage with the Lamb.

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To mock at her form was an indirect
accusation of her creator, who framed her

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after the fashion he liked best,
and gave her a mind that far excelled the

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transient endowments of perishable flesh.

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When she was offered money, she rejected
it, because, said she, I am going to a

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city where money bears no mastery,
and while I am here God has promised to

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feed me.

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When sentence was read condemning her to
the flames, she lifted up her voice and

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praised God, adding, This day have I found
that which I have long sought.

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When they tempted her to recant,
That will I not, said she, God forbid that

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I should lose the life eternal for this
carnal and short life, I will never turn

32:56.120 --> 33:00.280
from my heavenly husband to my earthly
husband, from the fellowship of angels to

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mortal children, and if my husband and
children be faithful, then am I theirs.

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God is my father, God is my mother,
God is my sister, my brother, my kinsman,

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God is my friend most faithful.

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Being delivered to the sheriff,
she was led by the officer to the place of

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execution without the walls of Exeter
called Southern Hay, where again the

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superstitious priests assaulted her.

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While they were tying her to the stake,
she continued earnestly to exclaim,

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God be merciful to me, a sinner.

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Patiently enduring the devouring
conflagration, she was consumed to ashes,

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and thus ended a life which in unshaken
fidelity to the cause of Christ was not

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surpassed by that of any preceding martyr.

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Richard Sharp, Thomas Banyan and Thomas
Hale Mr. Sharp, weaver of Bristol,

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was brought the ninth day of March,
1556, before Dr. Dalby, Chancellor of the

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City of Bristol, and after examination
concerning the sacrament of the altar,

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was persuaded to recant, and on the
twenty-ninth he was enjoined to make his

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recantation in the parish church.

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But scarcely had he publicly avowed his
backsliding before he felt in his

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conscience such a tormenting fiend that he
was unable to work at his occupation.

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Hence shortly after, one Sunday he came
into the parish church, called Temple,

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and after high mass, stood up in the choir
door and said with a loud voice,

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Neighbours, bear me record that yonder
idol, pointing to the altar, is the

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greatest and most abominable that ever
was, and I am sorry that ever I denied my

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Lord God.

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Notwithstanding, the constables were
ordered to apprehend him, he was suffered

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to go out of the church.

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But at night he was apprehended and
carried to Newgate.

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Shortly after, before the Chancellor,
denying the sacrament of the altar to be

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the body and blood of Christ, he was
condemned to be burned by Mr. Dalby.

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He was burned, the seventh of May,
1558, and died godly, patiently,

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and constantly, confessing the Protestant
articles of faith.

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With him suffered Thomas Hale,
shoemaker of Bristol, who was condemned by

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Chancellor Dalby.

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These martyrs were bound back to back.

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Thomas Banyon, a weaver, was burnt on
August 27 of the same year, and died for

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the sake of the evangelical cause of his
Saviour.

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J.

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Cornford of Wortham, C.

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Brown of Maidstom, J.

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Hurst of Ashford, Alice Snowth,
and Catherine Knight, an aged woman.

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With pleasure, we have to record that
these five martyrs were the last who

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suffered in the reign of Mary for the sake
of the Protestant cause.

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But the malice of the Papists was
conspicuous in hastening their martyrdom,

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which might have been delayed until the
event of the Queen's illness was decided.

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It is reported that the Archdeacon of
Canterbury, judging that the sudden death

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of the Queen would suspend the execution,
travelled post from London to have the

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satisfaction of adding another page to the
blacklist of Papistical sacrifices.

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The articles against them were,
as usual, the sacramental elements and the

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idolatry of bending to images.

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They quoted St. John's words, beware of
images, and respecting the real presence,

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they urged, according to St. Paul,
the things which are seen are temporal.

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When sentence was about to be read against
them, and excommunication to take place in

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the regular form, John Cornford,
illuminated by the Holy Spirit,

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awfully turned the latter proceeding
against themselves, and in a solemn,

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impressive manner, recriminated their
excommunication in the following words.

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In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the Son of the Most Mighty God,

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and by the power of His Holy Spirit and
the authority of His holy Catholic and

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Apostolic Church, we do here give into the
hands of Satan to be destroyed,

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the bodies of all those blasphemers and
heretics that maintain any error against

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His Most Holy Word, or do condemn His Most
Holy Truth for heresy, to the maintenance

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of any false church or foreign religion,
so that by this thy judgment, O Most

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Mighty God, against thy adversaries,
thy true religion may be known to thy

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great glory and our comfort, and to the
edifying of all our nation.

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Good Lord, so be it.

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Amen.

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This sentence was openly pronounced and
registered, and as if Providence had

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awarded that it should not be delivered in
vain, within six days after, Queen Mary

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died, detested by all good men and
accursed of God.

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Though acquainted with these
circumstances, the archdeacon's

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implacability exceeded that of his great
exemplary Bonner, who, though he had

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several persons at that time under his
fiery grasp, did not urge their deaths

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hastily, by which delay he certainly
afforded them an opportunity of escape.

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At the Queen's decease many were in bonds,
some just taken, some examined,

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and others condemned.

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The writs, indeed, were issued for several
burnings, but by the death of the three

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instigators of Protestant murder,
the Chancellor, the Bishop, and the Queen,

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who fell nearly together, the condemned
sheep were liberated and lived many years,

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to praise God for their happy deliverance.

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These five martyrs, when at the stake,
earnestly prayed that their blood might be

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the last shed, nor did they pray in vain.

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They died gloriously, and perfected the
number God had selected to bear witness of

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the truth in this dreadful reign,
whose names are recorded in the Book of

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Life, though last, not least among the
saints, made meat for immortality through

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the redeeming blood of the Lamb.

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Catherine Finlay, alias Knight,
was first converted by her sons expounding

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the scriptures to her, which wrought in
her a perfect work that terminated in

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martyrdom.

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Alice Snowth, at the stake, sent for her
grandmother and godfather, and rehearsed

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to them the articles of her faith and the
commandments of God, thereby convincing

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the world that she knew her duty.

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She died calling upon the spectators to
bear witness that she was a Christian

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woman, and suffered joyfully for the
testimony of Christ's gospel.

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Among the numberless enormities committed
by the merciless and unfeeling Bonner,

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the murder of this innocent and
unoffending child may be ranged as the

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most horrid.

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His father, John Fetty, of the parish of
Clerkenwell, by trade a tailor and only

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twenty-four years of age, had made blessed
election.

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He was fixed secure in eternal hope,
and depended on him who so builds his

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church that the gates of hell shall not
prevail against it.

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But, alas, the very wife of his bosom,
whose heart was hardened against the

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truth, and whose mind was influenced by
the teachers of false doctrine,

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became his accuser.

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Brokenberry, a creature of the Pope and
parson of the parish, received the

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information of this wedded Delilah,
in consequence of which the poor man was

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apprehended.

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But here the awful judgment of an
ever-righteous God, who is of purer eyes

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than to behold evil, fell upon this
stone-hearted and perfidious woman,

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for no sooner was the injured husband
captured by her wicked contriving,

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than she also was suddenly seized with
madness, and exhibited an awful and

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awakening instance of God's power to
punish the evildoer.

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This dreadful circumstance had some effect
upon the hearts of the ungodly hunters,

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who would eagerly grasp their prey.

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But in a relenting moment, they suffered
him to remain with his unworthy wife,

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to return her good for evil, and to
comfort two children, who, on his being

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sent to prison, would have been left
without a protector, or had become a

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burden to the parish.

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As bad men act from little motives,
we may place the indulgence shown to him

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to the latter account.

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We have noticed in the former part of our
narratives of the martyrs, some whose

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affection would have led them even to
sacrifice their own lives to preserve

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their husbands.

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But here, agreeable to scripture language,
a mother proves indeed a monster in

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nature.

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Neither conjugal nor maternal affection
could impress the heart of this

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disgraceful woman.

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Although our afflicted Christian had
experienced so much cruelty and falsehood

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from the woman who was bound to him by
every tie both human and divine,

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yet with a mild and forbearing spirit he
overlooked her misdeeds, during her

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calamity endeavouring all he could to
procure relief for her malady,

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and soothing her by every possible
expression of tenderness.

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Thus she became, in a few weeks,
nearly restored to her senses.

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But, alas, she returned again to her sin,
as a dog returneth to his vomit.

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Malice against the saints of the Most High
was seated in her heart too firmly to be

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removed, and as her strength returned,
her inclination to work wickedness

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returned with it.

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Her heart was hardened by the Prince of
Darkness, and to her may be applied these

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afflicting and soul-harrowing words,
Can the Ethiopian change his skin,

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or the leopard his spots?

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Then may ye also do good that are
accustomed to do evil.

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Weighing this text duly with another,
I will have mercy on whom I will have

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mercy, how shall we presume to refine away
the sovereignty of God by arraigning

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Jehovah at the bar of human reason,
which in religious matters is too often

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opposed by infinite wisdom?

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Broad is the way that leadeth to
destruction, and many there be which go in

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thereat.

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Narrow is the way which leadeth unto life,
and few there be that find it.

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The ways of heaven are indeed inscrutable,
and it is our bounden duty to walk ever

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dependent on God, looking up to Him with
humble confidence and hope in His

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goodness, and ever confess His justice,
and where we cannot unravel there learn to

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trust.

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This wretched woman, pursuing the horrid
dictates of a heart hardened and depraved,

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was scarcely confirmed in her recovery,
when stifling the dictates of honour,

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gratitude, and every natural affection,
she again accused her husband,

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who was once more apprehended and taken
before Sir John Mordaunt, Knight,

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and one of Queen Mary's commissioners.

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Upon examination, his judge finding him
fixed in opinions which militated against

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those nursed by superstition and
maintained by cruelty, he was sentenced to

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confinement and torture in Lollard's
Tower.

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Here he was put into the painful stocks,
and had a dish of water set by him,

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with a stone put into it, to what purpose
God knoweth except it were to show that he

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should look for little other subsistence,
which is credible enough if we consider

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their like practices upon divers before
mentioned in this history, as among others

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upon Richard Smith, who died through their
cruel imprisonment, touching whom,

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when a godly woman came to Dr. Storey to
have leave she might bury him,

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he asked her if he had any straw or blood
in his mouth, but what he means thereby I

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leave to the judgment of the wise.

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On the first day of the third week of our
martyr's sufferings, an object presented

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itself to his view which made him indeed
feel his tortures with all their force,

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and to execrate with bitterness only short
of cursing the author of his misery.

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To mark and punish the proceedings of his
tormentors, remained with the most high,

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who noteth even the fall of a sparrow,
and in whose sacred word it is written,

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Vengeance is mine, I will repay.

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This object was his own son, a child of
the tender age of eight years.

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For fifteen days had its hapless father
been suspended by his tormentor by the

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right arm and left leg, and sometimes by
both, shifting his positions for the

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purpose of giving him strength to bear and
to lengthen the date of his sufferings.

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When the unoffending innocent,
desirous of seeing and speaking to its

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parent, applied to Bonner for permission
to do so, the poor child being asked by

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the bishop's chaplain the purport of his
errand, he replied he wished to see his

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father.

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Who is thy father?

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said the chaplain.

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John Fetty, returned the boy, at the same
time pointing to the place where he was

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confined.

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The interrogating miscreant on this said,
Why, thy father is a heretic.

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The little champion again rejoined,
with energy sufficient to raise admiration

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in any breast, except that of this
unprincipled and unfeeling wretch,

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this miscreant, eager to execute the
behest of a remorseless queen.

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My father is no heretic, for you have
Balaam's mark.

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Irritated by reproach so aptly applied,
the indignant and mortified priest

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concealed his resentment for a moment,
and took the undaunted boy into the house.

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Where having him secure, he presented him
to others, whose baseness and cruelty

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being equal to his own, they stripped him
to the skin, and applied their scourges to

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so violent a degree, that fainting beneath
the stripes inflicted on his tender frame,

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and covered with the blood that flowed
from them, the victim of their ungodly

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wrath was ready to expire under his heavy
and unmerited punishment.

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In this bleeding and helpless state was
the taken to his father by one of the

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actors in the horrid tragedy, who while he
exhibited the heart-rending spectacle,

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made use of the vilest taunts and exulted
in what he had done.

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The dutiful child, as if recovering
strength at the sight of his father,

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on his knees implored his blessing.

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Alas!

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Will, said the afflicted parent in
trembling amazement, who hath done this to

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thee?

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The artless innocent related the
circumstances that led to the merciless

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correction which had been so basely
inflicted on him, but when he repeated the

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reproof bestowed on the chaplain,
and which was prompted by an undaunted

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spirit, he was torn from his weeping
parent and conveyed again to the house

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where he remained a close prisoner.

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Bonner, somewhat fearful that what had
been done could not be justified even

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among the bloodhounds of his own voracious
pack, concluded in his dark and wicked

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mind to release John Fetty, for a time at
least, from the severities he was enduring

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in the glorious cause of everlasting
truth.

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Whose bright rewards are fixed beyond the
boundaries of time, within the confines of

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eternity, where the arrow of the wicked
cannot wound, even where there shall be no

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more sorrowing for the blessed,
who in the mansion of eternal bliss shall

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glorify the Lamb for ever and ever.

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He was accordingly by order of Bonner,
how disgraceful to all dignity to say

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bishop, liberated from the painful bonds
and led from Lollard's Tower to the

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chamber of that ungodly and infamous
butcher, where he found the bishop bathing

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himself before a great fire.

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And at his first entering the chamber,
Fetty said, God be here and peace.

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God be here and peace, said Bonner,
that is neither God's speed nor good

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morrow.

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If ye kick against this peace,
said Fetty, then this is not the place

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that I seek for.

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A chaplain of the bishop, standing by,
turned the poor man about, and thinking to

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abash him, said in mocking wise,
What have we here, a player?

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While Fetty was thus standing in the
bishop's chamber, he espied, hanging about

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the bishop's bed, a pair of great black
beads, whereupon he said, My lord,

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I think the hangman is not far off,
for the halter, pointing to the beads,

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is here already.

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At which words the bishop was in a
marvellous rage.

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Then he immediately after espied also,
standing in the bishop's chamber,

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in the window, a little crucifix.

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Then he asked the bishop what it was,
and he answered that it was Christ.

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Was he handled as cruelly as he is here
pictured, said Fetty?

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Yea, that he was, said the bishop.

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And even so cruelly will you handle such
as come before you, for you are unto God's

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people, as Caiaphas was unto Christ.

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The bishop, being in a great fury,
said, Thou art a vile heretic,

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and I will burn thee, or else I will spend
all I have unto my gown.

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Nay, my lord, said Fetty, you are better
to give it to some poor body that he may

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pray for you.

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Bonner, notwithstanding his passion which
was raised to the utmost by the calm and

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pointed remarks of this observing
Christian, thought it most prudent to

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dismiss the father on account of the
nearly murdered child.

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His coward self trembled for the
consequences which might ensue.

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Fear is inseparable from little minds,
and this dastardly pampered priest

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experienced its effects so far as to
induce him to assume the appearance of

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that he was an utter stranger to,
namely, mercy.

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The father, on being dismissed by the
tyrant Bonner, went home with a heavy

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heart with his dying child, who did not
survive many days the cruelties which had

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been inflicted on him.

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How contrary to the will of our great king
and prophet, who mildly taught his

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followers, was the conduct of this
sanguinary and false teacher, this vile

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apostate from his god to Satan!

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But the archfiend had taken entire
possession of his heart and guided every

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action of the sinner he had hardened,
who, given up to terrible destruction,

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was running the race of the wicked,
marking his footsteps with the blood of

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the saints as if eager to arrive at the
goal of eternal death.

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Deliverance of Dr. Sands This eminent
prelate, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge,

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at the request of the Duke of
Northumberland, when he came down to

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Cambridge in support of Lady Jane Grey's
claim to the throne, undertook at a few

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hours' notice to preach before the Duke
and the University.

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The text he took was such as presented
itself in opening the Bible, and a more

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appropriate one he could not have chosen,
namely the three last verses of Joshua.

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As God gave him the text, so he gave him
also such order and utterance that it

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excited the most lively emotions in his
numerous auditors.

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The sermon was about to be sent to London
to be printed, when news arrived that the

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Duke had returned and Queen Mary was
proclaimed.

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The Duke was immediately arrested,
and Dr. Sands was compelled by the

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University to give up his office.

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He was arrested by the Queen's order,
and when Mr. Mildmay wondered that so

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learned a man could willfully incur danger
and speak against so good a princess as

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Mary, the doctor replied, If I would do as
Mr. Mildmay has done, I need not fear

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bonds.

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He came down armed against Queen Mary,
before a traitor, now a great friend.

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I cannot with one mouth blow hot and cold
in this manner.

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A general plunder of Dr. Sands's property
ensued, and he was brought to London upon

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a wretched horse.

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Various insults he met on the way from the
bigoted Catholics, and as he passed

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through Bishop's Gate Street, a stone
struck him to the ground.

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He was the first prisoner that entered the
Tower in that day on a Bible, but his

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shirts and other articles were taken from
him.

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On Mary's coronation day, the doors of the
dungeon were so laxly guarded that it was

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easy to escape.

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A Mr. Mitchell, like a true friend,
came to him, afforded him his own clothes

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as a disguise, and was willing to abide
the consequence of being found in his

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place.

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This was a rare friendship, but he refused
the offer, saying, I know no cause why I

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should be in prison.

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To do this were to make myself guilty.

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I will expect God's goodwill, yet do I
think myself much obliged to you.

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And so Mr. Mitchell departed.

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With Dr. Sands was imprisoned Mr.
Bradford.

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They were kept close in prison twenty-nine
weeks.

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John Fowler, their keeper, was a perverse
papist, yet by often persuading him,

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at length he began to favour the Gospel,
and was so persuaded in the true religion

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that on a Sunday, when they had Mass in
the chapel, Dr. Sands administered the

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communion to Bradford and to Fowler.

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Thus Fowler was their son begotten in
bonds.

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To make room for Wyatt and his
accomplices, Dr. Sands and nine other

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preachers were sent to the Marshalsea.

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The keeper of the Marshalsea appointed to
every preacher a man to lead him in the

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street.

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He caused them to go on before,
and he and Dr. Sands followed,

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conversing together.

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By this time, potpourri began to be
unsavoury.

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After they'd passed the bridge,
the keeper said to Dr. Sands, I perceive

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the vain people would set you forward to
the fire.

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You're as vain as they, if you,
being a young man, will stand in your own

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conceit, and prefer your own judgment
before that of so many worthy prelates,

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ancient, learned, and grave men as be in
this realm.

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If you do so, you shall find me a severe
keeper, and one that utterly dislikes your

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religion.

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Dr. Sands answered, I know my years to be
young, and my learning but small.

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It is enough to know Christ crucified,
and he hath learned nothing who seeth not

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the great blasphemy that is in potpourri.

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I will yield unto God, and not unto man.

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I have read in the scriptures of many
godly and courteous keepers.

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May God make you one.

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If not, I trust he will give me strength
and patience to bear your hard usage.

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Then said the keeper, Are you resolved to
stand to your religion?

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Yes, quoth the doctor, by God's grace.

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Truly, said the keeper, I love you the
better for it.

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I did but tempt you.

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What favour I can show you, you shall be
assured of, and I shall think myself happy

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if I might die at the stake with you.

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He was as good as his word, for he trusted
the doctor to walk in the fields alone,

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where he met with Mr. Bradford,
who was also a prisoner in the king's

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bench, and had found the same favour from
his keeper.

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At his request, he put Mr. Saunders in
along with him to be his bedfellow,

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and the communion was administered to a
great number of communicants.

54:58.940 --> 55:02.980
When Wyatt, with his army, came to
Southwark, he offered to liberate all the

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imprisoned Protestants, but Dr. Sands and
the rest of the preachers refused to

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accept freedom on such terms.

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After Dr. Sands had been nine weeks
prisoner in the Marshall Sea, by the

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mediation of Sir Thomas Holcroft,
Knight Marshal, he was set at liberty.

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Though Mr. Holcroft had the queen's
warrant, the bishop commanded him not to

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set Dr. Sands at liberty, until he had
taken sureties of two gentlemen with him,

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each one bound in five hundred pounds,
that Dr. Sands should not depart out of

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the realm without licence.

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Mr. Holcroft immediately after met with
two gentlemen of the north, friends and

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cousins to Dr. Sands, who offered to be
bound for him.

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After dinner the same day, Sir Thomas
Holcroft sent for Dr. Sands to his

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lodgings at Westminster, to communicate to
him all he had done.

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Dr. Sands answered, I give God thanks who
hath moved your heart to mind me so well,

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that I think myself most bound unto you.

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God shall requite you, nor shall I ever be
found unthankful.

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But as you have dealt friendly with me,
I will also deal plainly with you.

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I came a free man into prison,
I will not go forth a bondman.

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As I cannot benefit my friends,
so will I not hurt them.

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And if I be set at liberty, I will not
tarry six days in this realm, if I may get

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out.

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If therefore I may not get free forth,
send me to the Marshalsea again,

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and there you shall be sure of me.

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This answer Mr. Holcroft much disapproved
of, but like a true friend, he said,

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Seeing you cannot be altered, I will
change my purpose and yield unto you.

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Come of it what will, I will set you at
liberty, and seeing you have a mind to go

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oversea, get you gone as quick as you can.

56:45.100 --> 56:49.040
One thing I require of you, that while you
are there you write nothing to me hither,

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for this may undo me." Dr. Sands,
having taken an affectionate farewell of

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him, and his other friends in bonds,
departed.

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He went by Winchester House, and there
took boat, and came to a friend's house in

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London, called William Banks, and tarried
there one night.

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The next night he went to another friend's
house, and there he heard that strict

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search was making for him by Gardner's
express order.

57:14.440 --> 57:19.400
Dr. Sands now conveyed himself by night to
one Mr. Bertie's house, a stranger who was

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in the Marshallsea prison with him a
while.

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He was a good Protestant, and dwelt in
Mark Lane.

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There he was six days, and then removed to
one of his acquaintances in Corn Hill.

57:30.520 --> 57:34.720
He caused his man Quinton to provide two
geldings for him, resolved on the morrow

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to ride into Essex to Mr. Sands's
father-in-law, where his wife was,

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which after a narrow escape he affected.

57:42.120 --> 57:46.520
He had not been there two hours before Mr.
Sands was told that two of the guards were

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that night apprehend Dr. Sands.

57:49.720 --> 57:53.700
That night Dr. Sands was guided to an
Honest Farmer's near the sea, where he

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tarried two days and two nights in a
chamber without company.

57:57.680 --> 58:01.440
After that he removed to one James
Mower's, a shipmaster who dwelt at Milton

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Shore, where he waited for a wind to
Flanders.

58:05.340 --> 58:09.700
While he was there, James Mower brought to
him forty or fifty mariners to whom he

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gave an exhortation.

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They liked him so well that they promised
to die rather than he should be

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apprehended.

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The sixth of May, Sunday, the wind served.

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In taking leave of his hostess,
who had been married eight years without

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having a child, he gave her a fine
handkerchief and an old royale of gold,

58:27.560 --> 58:32.080
and said, be of good comfort, before that
one whole year be past, God shall give you

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a child, a boy.

58:34.200 --> 58:39.040
This came to pass, for that day twelve
months, wanting one day, God gave her a

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son.

58:41.140 --> 58:45.160
Scarcely had he arrived at Antwerp when he
learned that King Philip had sent to

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apprehend him.

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He next flew to Augsburg in Cleveland,
where Dr. Sands tarried fourteen days,

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and then travelled towards Strasbourg,
where, after he had lived one year,

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his wife came to him.

58:57.580 --> 59:01.620
He was sick of a flux nine months,
and had a child which died of the plague.

59:02.520 --> 59:06.200
His amiable wife at length fell into a
consumption, and died in his arms.

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When his wife was dead, he went to Zurich,
and there was in Peter Martyr's house for

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the space of five weeks.

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As they sat at dinner one day,
word was suddenly brought that Queen Mary

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was dead, and Dr. Sands was sent for by
his friends at Strasbourg, where he

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preached.

59:23.820 --> 59:27.820
Mr. Grindel and he came over to England,
and arrived in London the same day that

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Queen Elizabeth was crowned.

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This faithful servant of Christ,
under Queen Elizabeth, rose to the highest

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distinction in the Church, being
successively Bishop of Worcester,

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Bishop of London, and Archbishop of York.

59:44.140 --> 59:50.320
Queen Mary's Treatment of Her Sister,
the Princess Elizabeth The preservation of

59:50.320 --> 59:54.020
Princess Elizabeth may be reckoned a
remarkable instance of the watchful eye

59:54.020 --> 59:55.820
which Christ had over his Church.

59:56.560 --> 01:00:02.120
The bigotry of Mary regarded not the ties
of consanguinity, of natural affection,

01:00:02.340 --> 01:00:03.920
of natural successions.

01:00:05.080 --> 01:00:10.100
Her mind, physically morose, was under the
dominion of men who possessed not the milk

01:00:10.100 --> 01:00:14.480
of human kindness, and whose principles
were sanctioned and enjoined by the

01:00:14.480 --> 01:00:16.880
idolatrous tenets of the Romish pontiff.

01:00:17.920 --> 01:00:21.800
Could they have foreseen the short date of
Mary's reign, they would have imbrued

01:00:21.800 --> 01:00:26.100
their hands in the Protestant blood of
Elizabeth, and as a sine qua none of the

01:00:26.100 --> 01:00:30.220
Queen's salvation, have compelled her to
bequeath the kingdom to some Catholic

01:00:30.220 --> 01:00:30.700
prince.

01:00:31.940 --> 01:00:35.180
The contest might have been attended,
with the horrors incidental to a religious

01:00:35.180 --> 01:00:39.740
civil war, and calamities might have been
felt in England, similar to those under

01:00:39.740 --> 01:00:43.900
Henry the Great in France, whom Queen
Elizabeth assisted in opposing his

01:00:43.900 --> 01:00:45.620
priest-ridden Catholic subjects.

01:00:46.800 --> 01:00:50.580
As if Providence had the perpetual
establishment of the Protestant faith in

01:00:50.580 --> 01:00:55.080
view, the difference of the duration of
the two reigns is worthy of notice.

01:00:55.960 --> 01:00:59.960
Mary might have reigned many years in the
course of nature, but the course of grace

01:00:59.960 --> 01:01:00.940
willed it otherwise.

01:01:01.860 --> 01:01:05.880
Five years and four months was the time of
persecution allotted to this weak,

01:01:06.160 --> 01:01:10.900
disgraceful reign, while that of Elizabeth
reckoned a number of years among the

01:01:10.900 --> 01:01:15.200
highest of those who have sat on the
English throne, almost nine times that of

01:01:15.200 --> 01:01:16.220
her merciless sister.

01:01:18.040 --> 01:01:21.660
Before Mary attained the crown,
she treated Elizabeth with a sisterly

01:01:21.660 --> 01:01:26.440
kindness, but from that period her conduct
was altered, and the most imperious

01:01:26.440 --> 01:01:27.820
distance substituted.

01:01:28.600 --> 01:01:31.840
Though Elizabeth had no concern in the
rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyatt,

01:01:32.240 --> 01:01:35.420
yet she was apprehended and treated as a
culprit in that commotion.

01:01:36.560 --> 01:01:40.160
The manner, too, of her arrest was similar
to the mind that dictated it.

01:01:40.720 --> 01:01:44.580
The three Cabinet members, whom she
deputed to see the arrest executed,

01:01:45.260 --> 01:01:48.800
rudely entered the chamber at ten o'clock
at night, and though she was extremely

01:01:48.800 --> 01:01:52.940
ill, they could scarcely be induced to let
her remain until the following morning.

01:01:54.360 --> 01:01:59.240
Her enfeebled state permitted her to be
moved only by short stages in a journey of

01:01:59.240 --> 01:02:04.140
such length to London, but the Princess,
though afflicted in person, had a

01:02:04.140 --> 01:02:07.240
consolation in mind which her sister never
could purchase.

01:02:08.040 --> 01:02:12.000
The people through whom she passed on her
way pitied her, and put up their prayers

01:02:12.000 --> 01:02:12.840
for her preservation.

01:02:15.240 --> 01:02:18.840
Arrived at court, she was made a close
prisoner for a fortnight, without knowing

01:02:18.840 --> 01:02:22.900
who was her accuser, or seeing anyone who
could console or advise her.

01:02:24.060 --> 01:02:28.120
The charge, however, was at length
unmasked by Gardiner, who, with nineteen

01:02:28.120 --> 01:02:32.520
of the Council, accused her of abetting
Wyatt's conspiracy, which she religiously

01:02:32.520 --> 01:02:33.520
affirmed to be false.

01:02:34.620 --> 01:02:38.380
Failing in this, they placed against her
the transactions of Sir Peter Carey in the

01:02:38.380 --> 01:02:41.760
West, in which they were as unsuccessful
as in the former.

01:02:43.020 --> 01:02:46.560
The Queen now signified that it was her
pleasure she should be committed to the

01:02:46.560 --> 01:02:50.640
Tower, a step which overwhelmed the
Princess with the greatest alarm and

01:02:50.640 --> 01:02:51.220
uneasiness.

01:02:52.280 --> 01:02:55.460
In vain she hoped the Queen's Majesty
would not commit her to such a place,

01:02:55.800 --> 01:03:00.560
but there was no lenity to be expected,
her attendants were limited, and a hundred

01:03:00.560 --> 01:03:03.600
Northern soldiers appointed to guard her
day and night.

01:03:05.740 --> 01:03:08.280
On Palm Sunday she was conducted to the
Tower.

01:03:09.080 --> 01:03:12.540
When she came to the Palace Garden,
she cast her eyes towards the windows,

01:03:13.080 --> 01:03:16.160
eagerly anxious to meet those of the
Queen, but she was disappointed.

01:03:16.900 --> 01:03:20.540
A strict order was given in London that
everyone should go to church and carry

01:03:20.540 --> 01:03:25.120
palms, that she might be conveyed without
clamour or commiseration to her prison.

01:03:26.400 --> 01:03:30.420
At the time of passing under London
Bridge, the fall of the tide made it very

01:03:30.420 --> 01:03:34.520
dangerous, and the barge sometimes stuck
fast against the starlings.

01:03:35.340 --> 01:03:38.720
To mortify her the more, she was landed at
Traitor's Stairs.

01:03:39.620 --> 01:03:44.060
As it rained fast, and she was obliged to
step in the water to land, she hesitated.

01:03:44.760 --> 01:03:47.680
But this excited no complaisance in the
Lord-in-waiting.

01:03:48.240 --> 01:03:52.120
When she set her foot on the step,
she exclaimed, "'Here lands as true a

01:03:52.120 --> 01:03:55.960
subject, being prisoner, as ever landed at
these stairs, and before thee,

01:03:56.000 --> 01:04:01.880
O God, I speak it, having no friend but
thee alone.'" A large number of the

01:04:01.880 --> 01:04:06.160
wardens and servants of the Tower were
arranged in order, between whom the

01:04:06.160 --> 01:04:07.300
Princess had to pass.

01:04:08.080 --> 01:04:12.080
Upon inquiring the use of this parade,
she was informed it was customary to do

01:04:12.080 --> 01:04:12.380
so.

01:04:13.280 --> 01:04:16.700
"'If,' said she, "'it is on account of me,
I beseech you that they may be

01:04:16.700 --> 01:04:21.300
dismissed.'" On this the poor men knelt
down and prayed that God would preserve

01:04:21.300 --> 01:04:21.900
her grace.

01:04:22.460 --> 01:04:25.520
For which they were the next day turned
out of their employments.

01:04:26.800 --> 01:04:30.660
The tragic scene must have been deeply
interesting, to see an amiable and

01:04:30.660 --> 01:04:35.440
irreproachable Princess sent like a lamb
to languish in expectation of cruelty and

01:04:35.440 --> 01:04:39.940
death, against whom there was no other
charge than her superiority in Christian

01:04:39.940 --> 01:04:41.920
virtues and acquired endowments.

01:04:42.820 --> 01:04:46.940
Her attendants openly wept as she
proceeded with a dignified step to the

01:04:46.940 --> 01:04:48.820
frowning battlements of her destination.

01:04:50.000 --> 01:04:52.160
"'Alas,' said Elizabeth, "'what do you
mean?

01:04:52.380 --> 01:04:56.920
I took you to comfort, not to dismay me,
for my truth is such that no one shall

01:04:56.920 --> 01:05:03.880
have cause to weep for me.'" The next step
of her enemies was to procure evidence by

01:05:03.880 --> 01:05:06.960
means which, in the present day,
are accounted detestable.

01:05:07.880 --> 01:05:11.520
Many poor prisoners were racked to
extract, if possible, any matters of

01:05:11.520 --> 01:05:16.240
accusation which might affect her life,
and thereby gratify Gardiner's sanguinary

01:05:16.240 --> 01:05:16.840
disposition.

01:05:17.900 --> 01:05:21.880
He himself came to examine her,
expecting her removal from her house at

01:05:21.880 --> 01:05:24.640
Ashbridge to Dunnington Castle a long
while before.

01:05:25.660 --> 01:05:29.780
The Princess had quite forgotten this
trivial circumstance, and Lord Arundel,

01:05:30.060 --> 01:05:34.880
after the investigation, kneeling down,
apologised for having troubled her in such

01:05:34.880 --> 01:05:35.840
a frivolous matter.

01:05:36.980 --> 01:05:42.200
"'You sift me narrowly,' replied the
Princess, "'but of this I am assured that

01:05:42.200 --> 01:05:46.080
God has appointed a limit to your
proceedings, and so God forgive you all.'"

01:05:47.520 --> 01:05:51.620
Her own gentlemen, who ought to have been
her purveyors and served her provision,

01:05:52.280 --> 01:05:55.960
were compelled to give place to the common
soldiers, at the command of the Constable

01:05:55.960 --> 01:05:59.900
of the Tower, who was in every respect a
servile tool of Gardiner.

01:06:00.660 --> 01:06:04.460
Her Grace's friends, however, procured an
Order of Council which regulated this

01:06:04.460 --> 01:06:06.500
petty tyranny more to her satisfaction.

01:06:07.880 --> 01:06:11.680
After having been a whole month in close
confinement, she sent for the Lord

01:06:11.680 --> 01:06:16.160
Chamberlain and Lord Chandos, to whom she
represented the ill state of her health

01:06:16.160 --> 01:06:18.140
from a want of proper air and exercise.

01:06:19.000 --> 01:06:22.920
Application being made to the Council,
Elizabeth was with some difficulty

01:06:22.920 --> 01:06:27.480
admitted to walk in the Queen's lodgings,
and afterwards in the garden, at which

01:06:27.480 --> 01:06:31.120
time the prisoners on that side were
attended by their keepers, and not

01:06:31.120 --> 01:06:32.560
suffered to look down upon her.

01:06:33.680 --> 01:06:37.980
Their jealousy was excited by a child of
four years who daily brought flowers to

01:06:37.980 --> 01:06:38.400
the Princess.

01:06:39.080 --> 01:06:42.700
The child was threatened with a whipping,
and the father ordered to keep him from

01:06:42.700 --> 01:06:43.800
the Princess's chambers.

01:06:47.510 --> 01:06:51.710
On the 5th of May, the Constable was
discharged from his office, and Sir Henry

01:06:51.710 --> 01:06:55.830
Benefield appointed in his room,
accompanied by a hundred ruffian-looking

01:06:55.830 --> 01:06:56.770
soldiers in blue.

01:06:57.570 --> 01:07:02.070
This measure created considerable alarm in
the mind of the Princess, who imagined it

01:07:02.070 --> 01:07:06.290
was preparatory to her undergoing the same
fate as Lady Jane Grey upon the same

01:07:06.290 --> 01:07:06.730
block.

01:07:07.730 --> 01:07:11.850
Assured that this project was not in
agitation, she entertained an idea that

01:07:11.850 --> 01:07:14.550
the new keeper of the Tower was
commissioned to make away with her

01:07:14.550 --> 01:07:18.670
privately, as his equivocal character was
in conformity with the ferocious

01:07:18.670 --> 01:07:21.310
inclination of those by whom he was
appointed.

01:07:22.790 --> 01:07:26.990
A report now obtained that her grace was
to be taken away by the new Constable and

01:07:26.990 --> 01:07:29.750
his soldiers, which in the sequel proved
to be true.

01:07:30.750 --> 01:07:34.470
An order of counsel was made for her
removal to the Manor of Woodstock,

01:07:34.850 --> 01:07:39.450
which took place on Trinity Sunday,
May 13, under the authority of Sir Henry

01:07:39.450 --> 01:07:41.070
Benefield and Lord Tame.

01:07:41.830 --> 01:07:45.250
The ostensible cause of her removal was to
make room for other prisoners.

01:07:46.350 --> 01:07:49.950
Richmond was the first place they stopped
at, and here the Princess slept,

01:07:50.150 --> 01:07:54.750
not, however, with much alarm at first,
as her own servants were superseded by the

01:07:54.750 --> 01:07:57.490
soldiers, who were placed as guards at her
chamber door.

01:07:58.510 --> 01:08:02.410
Upon representation, Lord Tame overruled
this indecent stretch of power,

01:08:02.750 --> 01:08:05.490
and granted her perfect safety while under
his custody.

01:08:06.770 --> 01:08:10.730
In passing through Windsor, she saw
several of her poor, dejected servants

01:08:10.730 --> 01:08:11.650
waiting to see her.

01:08:12.110 --> 01:08:16.250
"'Go to them,' said she to one of her
attendants, "'and say these words from me,

01:08:16.530 --> 01:08:23.050
Tam Quim Ovis, that is like a sheep to the
slaughter.'" The next night her grace

01:08:23.050 --> 01:08:27.210
lodged at the house of a Mr. Dormer,
in her way to which the people manifested

01:08:27.210 --> 01:08:31.850
such tokens of loyal affection that Sir
Henry was indignant, and bestowed on them

01:08:31.850 --> 01:08:34.370
very liberally the names of rebels and
traitors.

01:08:35.370 --> 01:08:39.930
In some villages they rang the bells for
joy, imagining the Princess's arrival

01:08:39.930 --> 01:08:41.890
among them was from a very different
cause.

01:08:42.530 --> 01:08:46.070
But this harmless demonstration of
gladness was sufficient with the

01:08:46.070 --> 01:08:50.230
persecuting Benefield to order his
soldiers to seize and set these humble

01:08:50.230 --> 01:08:51.370
persons in the stocks.

01:08:53.250 --> 01:08:57.170
The day following her grace arrived at
Lord Tame's house, where she stayed all

01:08:57.170 --> 01:08:58.930
night and was most nobly entertained.

01:08:59.990 --> 01:09:04.690
This excited Sir Henry's indignation,
and made him caution Lord Tame to look

01:09:04.690 --> 01:09:08.990
well to his proceedings, but the humanity
of Lord Tame was not to be frightened,

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and he returned a suitable reply.

01:09:12.230 --> 01:09:16.790
At another time this official prodigal,
to show his consequence and disregard of

01:09:16.790 --> 01:09:21.210
good manners, went up into a chamber where
was appointed for her grace a chair,

01:09:21.610 --> 01:09:25.810
two cushions, and a foot-carpet,
wherein he presumptuously sat and called

01:09:25.810 --> 01:09:27.130
his man to pull off his boots.

01:09:28.210 --> 01:09:31.410
As soon as it was known to the ladies and
gentlemen they laughed him to scorn.

01:09:32.710 --> 01:09:36.010
When supper was done he called to his
Lordship and directed that all gentlemen

01:09:36.010 --> 01:09:39.870
and ladies should withdraw home,
marvelling much that he would permit such

01:09:39.870 --> 01:09:43.370
a large company, considering the great
charge he had committed to him.

01:09:44.190 --> 01:09:47.190
Sir Henry, said his Lordship, content
yourself.

01:09:47.590 --> 01:09:50.210
All shall be avoided, your men and all.

01:09:50.810 --> 01:09:53.710
Nay, but my soldiers, replied Sir Henry,
shall watch all night.

01:09:54.430 --> 01:09:56.450
Lord Tame answered, there is no need.

01:09:57.070 --> 01:09:59.630
Well, said he, need or need not,
they shall do so.

01:10:01.790 --> 01:10:06.330
The next day her grace took her journey
from thence to Woodstock, where she was

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enclosed as before in the Tower of London,
the soldiers keeping guard within and

01:10:10.670 --> 01:10:15.310
without the walls every day to the number
of sixty, and in the night without the

01:10:15.310 --> 01:10:18.170
walls were forty during all the time of
her imprisonment.

01:10:20.050 --> 01:10:23.670
At length she was permitted to walk in the
gardens, but under the most severe

01:10:23.670 --> 01:10:28.390
restrictions, Sir Henry keeping the keys
himself, and placing her always under many

01:10:28.390 --> 01:10:32.810
bolts and locks, when she was induced to
call him a jailor, at which he felt

01:10:32.810 --> 01:10:35.410
offended and begged her to substitute the
word officer.

01:10:37.150 --> 01:10:41.350
After much earnest entreaty to the
Council, she obtained permission to write

01:10:41.350 --> 01:10:46.450
to the Queen, but the jailor who brought
her pen, ink, and paper stood by her while

01:10:46.450 --> 01:10:50.150
she wrote, and when she left off he
carried the things away until they were

01:10:50.150 --> 01:10:50.850
wanted again.

01:10:51.710 --> 01:10:56.070
He also insisted upon carrying it himself
to the Queen, but Elizabeth would not

01:10:56.070 --> 01:10:59.810
suffer him to be the bearer, and it was
presented by one of her gentlemen.

01:11:01.930 --> 01:11:06.230
After the letter, Doctors Owen and Wendy
went to the Princess as the state of her

01:11:06.230 --> 01:11:08.550
health rendered medical assistance
necessary.

01:11:09.750 --> 01:11:13.790
They stayed with her five or six days,
in which time she grew much better.

01:11:14.730 --> 01:11:18.530
They then returned to the Queen and spoke
flatteringly of the Princess's submission

01:11:18.530 --> 01:11:24.130
and humility, at which the Queen seemed
moved, but the bishops wanted a concession

01:11:24.130 --> 01:11:26.070
that she had offended Her Majesty.

01:11:27.150 --> 01:11:30.430
Elizabeth spurned this indirect mode of
acknowledging herself guilty.

01:11:30.910 --> 01:11:35.650
If I have offended, said she, and am
guilty, I crave no mercy but the law,

01:11:35.990 --> 01:11:40.110
which I am certain I should have ere this,
if anything could have been proved against

01:11:40.110 --> 01:11:40.350
me.

01:11:40.870 --> 01:11:44.930
I wish I were as clear from the peril of
my enemies, then should I not be thus

01:11:44.930 --> 01:11:47.170
bolted and locked up within walls and
doors.

01:11:48.870 --> 01:11:53.650
Much question arose at this time,
respecting the propriety of uniting the

01:11:53.650 --> 01:11:58.050
Princess to some foreigner that she might
quit the realm with a suitable portion.

01:11:59.110 --> 01:12:03.510
One of the Council had the brutality to
urge the necessity of beheading her if the

01:12:03.510 --> 01:12:08.770
King, Philip, meant to keep the realm in
peace, but the Spaniards, detesting such a

01:12:08.770 --> 01:12:13.330
base thought, replied, God forbid that our
King and Master should consent to such an

01:12:13.330 --> 01:12:14.290
infamous proceeding.

01:12:15.830 --> 01:12:19.670
Stimulated by a noble principle,
the Spaniards from this time repeatedly

01:12:19.670 --> 01:12:23.390
urged to the King that it would do him the
highest honour to liberate the Lady

01:12:23.390 --> 01:12:27.070
Elizabeth, nor was the King impervious to
their solicitation.

01:12:27.890 --> 01:12:32.090
He took her out of prison, and shortly
after she was sent forth to Hampton Court.

01:12:32.850 --> 01:12:37.630
It may be remarked in this place that the
fallacy of human reasoning is shown in

01:12:37.630 --> 01:12:38.290
every moment.

01:12:39.210 --> 01:12:43.910
The barbarian who suggested the policy of
beheading Elizabeth little contemplated

01:12:43.910 --> 01:12:46.810
the change of condition which his speech
would bring about.

01:12:47.970 --> 01:12:51.330
In her journey from Woodstock,
Benefield treated her with the same

01:12:51.330 --> 01:12:56.430
severity as before, removing her on a
stormy day, and not suffering her old

01:12:56.430 --> 01:12:59.730
servant who had come to Cornbrook,
where she slept, to speak to her.

01:13:01.730 --> 01:13:06.590
She remained a fortnight, strictly guarded
and watched, before anyone dared to speak

01:13:06.590 --> 01:13:06.890
with her.

01:13:07.570 --> 01:13:11.890
At length, the vile Gardiner, with three
more of the Council, came with great

01:13:11.890 --> 01:13:12.430
submission.

01:13:13.350 --> 01:13:17.150
Elizabeth saluted them, remarked that she
had been for a long time kept in solitary

01:13:17.150 --> 01:13:20.690
confinement, and begged they would
intercede with the King and Queen to

01:13:20.690 --> 01:13:21.670
deliver her from prison.

01:13:23.450 --> 01:13:27.210
Gardiner's visit was to draw from the
Princess a confession of her guilt,

01:13:27.570 --> 01:13:32.190
but she was guarded against his subtlety,
adding that, rather than admit she had

01:13:32.190 --> 01:13:34.770
done wrong, she would lie in prison all
the rest of her life.

01:13:35.910 --> 01:13:39.590
The next day Gardiner came again,
and, kneeling down, declared that the

01:13:39.590 --> 01:13:43.290
Queen was astonished she would persist in
affirming that she was blameless,

01:13:43.850 --> 01:13:47.410
whence it would be inferred that the Queen
had unjustly imprisoned her grace.

01:13:48.650 --> 01:13:51.930
Gardiner further informed her that the
Queen had declared that she must tell

01:13:51.930 --> 01:13:54.030
another tale before she could be set at
liberty.

01:13:54.830 --> 01:13:59.810
Then, replied the high-minded Elizabeth,
I'd rather be in prison with honesty and

01:13:59.810 --> 01:14:02.870
truth than have my liberty and be
suspected by Her Majesty.

01:14:03.530 --> 01:14:07.090
What I have said I will stand to,
nor will I ever speak falsehood.

01:14:08.390 --> 01:14:12.070
The Bishop and his friends then departed,
leaving her locked up as before.

01:14:14.730 --> 01:14:18.830
Seven days after, the Queen sent for
Elizabeth at ten o'clock at night.

01:14:19.610 --> 01:14:22.190
Two years had elapsed since they had seen
each other.

01:14:22.810 --> 01:14:26.770
It created terror in the mind of the
Princess, who at setting out desired her

01:14:26.770 --> 01:14:30.990
gentlemen and ladies to pray for her as
her return to them again was uncertain.

01:14:32.730 --> 01:14:37.350
Being conducted to the Queen's bedchamber,
upon entering it the Princess knelt down,

01:14:37.710 --> 01:14:41.910
and having begged of God to preserve Her
Majesty, she humbly assured her that Her

01:14:41.910 --> 01:14:46.290
Majesty had not a more loyal subject in
the realm, whatever reports might be

01:14:46.290 --> 01:14:47.510
circulated to the contrary.

01:14:48.770 --> 01:14:52.970
With a haughty ungraciousness the
imperious Queen replied, You will not

01:14:52.970 --> 01:14:55.750
confess your offence, but stand stoutly to
your truth.

01:14:56.250 --> 01:14:58.090
I pray God it may so fall out.

01:14:59.090 --> 01:15:02.730
If it do not, said Elizabeth, I request
neither favour nor pardon at Your

01:15:02.730 --> 01:15:03.550
Majesty's hands.

01:15:04.230 --> 01:15:07.850
Well, said the Queen, you stiffly still
persevere in your truth.

01:15:08.410 --> 01:15:11.370
Besides, you will not confess that you
have not been wrongfully punished.

01:15:12.070 --> 01:15:15.210
I must not say so if it pleases Your
Majesty to you.

01:15:16.110 --> 01:15:18.610
Why then, said the Queen, be like you will
to others?

01:15:19.410 --> 01:15:23.530
No, if it pleases Your Majesty,
I have borne the burden and must bear it.

01:15:24.310 --> 01:15:28.710
I humbly beseech Your Majesty to have a
good opinion of me, and to think me to be

01:15:28.710 --> 01:15:33.350
your subject, not only from the beginning
hitherto, but for ever as long as life

01:15:33.350 --> 01:15:33.930
lasteth.

01:15:36.150 --> 01:15:41.290
They departed without any heartfelt
satisfaction on either side, nor can we

01:15:41.290 --> 01:15:45.630
think the conduct of Elizabeth displayed
that independence and fortitude which

01:15:45.630 --> 01:15:47.110
accompanies perfect innocence.

01:15:48.170 --> 01:15:51.910
Elizabeth submitting that she would not
say neither to the Queen nor to others

01:15:51.910 --> 01:15:56.030
that she had been unjustly punished,
was in direct contradiction to what she

01:15:56.030 --> 01:16:00.250
had told Gardiner, and must have arisen
from some motive, at this time

01:16:00.250 --> 01:16:01.030
inexplicable.

01:16:02.250 --> 01:16:06.350
King Philip is supposed to have been
secretly concealed during the interview,

01:16:06.750 --> 01:16:08.490
and to have been friendly to the Princess.

01:16:10.310 --> 01:16:15.410
In seven days from the time of her return
to imprisonment, her severe jailer and his

01:16:15.410 --> 01:16:19.390
men were discharged, and she was set at
liberty, under the constraint of being

01:16:19.390 --> 01:16:22.290
always attended and watched by some of the
Queen's Council.

01:16:23.330 --> 01:16:27.070
Four of her gentlemen were sent to the
Tower, without any other charge against

01:16:27.070 --> 01:16:29.210
them than being zealous servants of their
mistress.

01:16:30.830 --> 01:16:35.310
This event was soon after followed by the
happy news of Gardiner's death,

01:16:35.670 --> 01:16:40.250
for which all good and merciful men
glorified God, in as much as it had taken

01:16:40.250 --> 01:16:44.930
the chief tiger from the den, and rendered
the life of the Protestant successor of

01:16:44.930 --> 01:16:45.990
Mary more secure.

01:16:47.950 --> 01:16:53.610
This miscreant, while the Princess was in
the Tower, sent a secret writ signed by a

01:16:53.610 --> 01:16:57.870
few of the Council for her private
execution, and had Mr. Bridges,

01:16:58.170 --> 01:17:02.650
Lieutenant of the Tower, been as little
scrupulous of dark assassination as this

01:17:02.650 --> 01:17:05.110
pious prelate was, she must have perished.

01:17:06.070 --> 01:17:10.010
The warrant not having the Queen's
signature, Mr. Bridges hastened Her

01:17:10.010 --> 01:17:13.050
Majesty to give her information of it,
and to know her mind.

01:17:13.870 --> 01:17:17.390
This was a plot of Winchester's,
who, to convict her of treasonable

01:17:17.390 --> 01:17:22.210
practices, caused several prisoners to be
racked, particularly Mr. Edmund Tremayne

01:17:22.210 --> 01:17:26.210
and Smithwick, were offered considerable
bribes to accuse the guiltless Princess.

01:17:27.690 --> 01:17:29.570
Her life was several times in danger.

01:17:30.370 --> 01:17:34.430
While at Woodstock, fire was apparently
put between the boards and ceiling under

01:17:34.430 --> 01:17:35.150
which she lay.

01:17:35.890 --> 01:17:40.270
It was also reported strongly that one
Paul Penny, the keeper of Woodstock,

01:17:40.410 --> 01:17:43.530
a notorious ruffian, was appointed to
assassinate her.

01:17:44.470 --> 01:17:48.970
But however this might be, God
counteracted in this point the nefarious

01:17:48.970 --> 01:17:50.930
designs of the enemies of the Reformation.

01:17:52.270 --> 01:17:55.250
James Bassett was another appointed to
perform the same deed.

01:17:56.010 --> 01:18:00.130
He was a peculiar favourite of Gardiner,
and had come within a mile of Woodstock,

01:18:00.430 --> 01:18:02.790
intending to speak with Benefield on the
subject.

01:18:03.750 --> 01:18:07.710
The goodness of God, however, so ordered
it, that while Bassett was travelling to

01:18:07.710 --> 01:18:12.530
Woodstock, Benefield, by an order of
council, was going to London, in

01:18:12.530 --> 01:18:16.570
consequence of which he left a positive
order with his brother that no man should

01:18:16.570 --> 01:18:20.490
be admitted to the Princess during his
absence, not even with a note from the

01:18:20.490 --> 01:18:20.770
Queen.

01:18:21.630 --> 01:18:25.270
His brother met the murderer, but the
latter's intention was frustrated,

01:18:25.470 --> 01:18:27.190
as no admission could be obtained.