WEBVTT 00:00.160 --> 00:06.380 The Story, Life, and Martyrdom of Master John Hooper, Bishop of Worcester and 00:06.380 --> 00:11.840 Gloucester John Hooper, student and graduate in the University of Oxford, 00:12.440 --> 00:17.140 after the study of the sciences wherein he had abundantly profited through God's 00:17.140 --> 00:22.340 secret vocation, was stirred with fervent desire to the love and knowledge of the 00:22.340 --> 00:22.660 Scriptures. 00:23.860 --> 00:28.080 In the reading and searching whereof, as there lacked in him no diligence, 00:28.480 --> 00:32.840 joined with earnest prayer, so neither wanted unto him the grace of the Holy 00:32.840 --> 00:37.760 Ghost to satisfy his desire and to open unto him the light of true divinity. 00:38.760 --> 00:43.300 Thus Master Hooper, growing more and more by God's grace in ripeness of spiritual 00:43.300 --> 00:47.840 understanding, and showing withal some sparkles of his fervent spirit, 00:48.340 --> 00:53.620 fell, effsoons, into displeasure and hatred of certain rabbins in Oxford, 00:54.380 --> 00:58.620 who began to stir coals against him, whereby, and especially by the procurement 00:58.620 --> 01:04.140 of Dr. Smith, he was compelled to avoid the university, and removing from thence, 01:04.200 --> 01:06.600 was retained in the house of Sir Thomas Arundel. 01:07.480 --> 01:11.640 And there was his steward, until the time that Sir Thomas Arundel, having 01:11.640 --> 01:15.500 intelligence of his opinions and religion, which he in no case did favour, 01:16.000 --> 01:21.140 and yet exceedingly favouring the person of the man, found the means to send him in 01:21.140 --> 01:25.460 a message to the Bishop of Winchester, writing his letter privily to the Bishop 01:25.460 --> 01:31.240 by conference of learning to do some good upon him, but in any case requiring him to 01:31.240 --> 01:33.560 send home his servant to him again. 01:34.820 --> 01:38.320 Winchester, after conference with Master Hooper four or five days together, 01:38.800 --> 01:42.700 when he perceived that neither he could do that good which he thought to him, 01:43.060 --> 01:47.160 nor that he would take any good at his hand, according to Master Arundel's 01:47.160 --> 01:52.120 request, sent home his servant again, right well commending his learning and 01:52.120 --> 01:56.400 wit, but yet bearing in his breast a grudging stomach against Master Hooper 01:56.400 --> 01:56.880 still. 01:58.080 --> 02:02.040 It followed not long after this, as malice is always working mischief, 02:02.700 --> 02:07.540 that intelligence was given to Master Hooper to provide for himself for danger 02:07.540 --> 02:12.580 that was working against him, whereupon Master Hooper, leaving Master Arundel's 02:12.580 --> 02:17.100 house and borrowing a horse of a certain friend, whose life he had saved a little 02:17.100 --> 02:21.180 before from the gallows, took his journey to the seaside to go to France, 02:21.580 --> 02:23.100 sending back the horse again. 02:24.060 --> 02:28.560 Master Hooper, being at Paris, tarried there not long, but in short time 02:28.560 --> 02:34.140 returned into England and was retained of Master Sentlow till the time that he was 02:34.140 --> 02:39.320 again molested, whereby he was compelled, under the pretense of being captain of a 02:39.320 --> 02:42.120 ship going to Ireland, to take the seas. 02:42.680 --> 02:47.660 And so escaped he, although not without extreme peril of drowning, through France 02:47.660 --> 02:51.260 to the higher parts of Germany, where he, entering acquaintance with the 02:51.260 --> 02:55.960 learned men, was of them friendly and lovingly entertained at Basel, 02:56.360 --> 03:00.680 and especially at Zurich, of Master Bullinger being his singular friend. 03:01.980 --> 03:07.060 There also he married his wife, who was a Burgonian, and applied very 03:07.060 --> 03:08.920 studiously to the Hebrew tongue. 03:09.800 --> 03:15.520 When God saw good to give us King Edward to reign over this realm, with some peace 03:15.520 --> 03:20.260 and rest unto His gospel, amongst many other English exiles who repaired 03:20.260 --> 03:25.700 homeward, Master Hooper also moved in conscience, though not to absent himself, 03:26.200 --> 03:30.480 but seeing such a time and occasion, offered to help forward the Lord's work to 03:30.480 --> 03:31.840 the uttermost of his ability. 03:32.620 --> 03:37.220 And so, coming to Master Bullinger and other of his acquaintance, as duty 03:37.220 --> 03:42.260 required, to give them thanks for their singular kindness and humanity toward him 03:42.260 --> 03:47.780 manifold ways declared, with like humanity purposed to take his leave of them. 03:48.760 --> 03:51.400 Unto whom Master Bullinger spake on this wise. 03:52.500 --> 03:57.560 Master Hooper, said he, although we are sorry to part with your company for our 03:57.560 --> 04:01.640 own cause, yet much greater causes we have to rejoice, both for your sake, 04:02.180 --> 04:06.500 and especially for the cause of Christ's true religion, that you shall now return, 04:06.860 --> 04:11.620 out of long banishment, into your native country again, where not only you may 04:11.620 --> 04:16.160 enjoy your own private liberty, but also the cause and state of Christ's 04:16.160 --> 04:21.020 church by you may fare the better, as we doubt not, but it shall. 04:22.120 --> 04:26.260 Another cause, moreover, why we rejoice with you and for you, is this, 04:26.920 --> 04:31.860 that you shall remove not only out of exile into liberty, but you shall leave 04:31.860 --> 04:37.920 here a barren and an unpleasant country, rude and savage, and shall go into a land 04:37.920 --> 04:42.220 flowing with milk and honey, replenished with all pleasure and fertility. 04:43.360 --> 04:49.200 Notwithstanding, with this our rejoicing, one fear and care we have, lest you, 04:49.500 --> 04:53.960 being absent and so far distant from us, or else coming to such abundance of wealth 04:53.960 --> 04:58.220 and felicity in your new welfare and plenty of all things, and in your 04:58.220 --> 05:03.640 flourishing honors, where ye shall come, peradventure, to be a bishop, and where ye 05:03.640 --> 05:08.060 shall find so many new friends, you will forget us, your old acquaintance 05:08.060 --> 05:08.920 and well-willers. 05:09.680 --> 05:14.080 Nevertheless, howsoever you shall forget and shake us off, yet this persuade 05:14.080 --> 05:17.960 yourself, that we will not forget our old friend and fellow, Master Hooper. 05:18.480 --> 05:24.700 And if you please not to forget us again, then I pray you let us hear from you." 05:24.700 --> 05:27.880 Whereunto Master Hooper answered again that neither the nature of country, 05:27.980 --> 05:33.000 nor pleasure of commodities, nor newness of friends, shall ever induce him to the 05:33.000 --> 05:35.240 oblivion of such friends and benefactors. 05:35.620 --> 05:40.320 And therefore, said he, from time to time I will write unto you how it goeth with 05:40.320 --> 05:40.580 me. 05:41.540 --> 05:44.860 But the last news of all I shall not be able to write. 05:45.360 --> 05:50.080 For there, said he, taking Master Bullinger by the hand, where I shall take 05:50.080 --> 05:54.640 most pains, there shall you hear of me to be burned to ashes. 05:55.900 --> 06:01.520 Master Hooper, coming to London, used continually to preach, most times 06:01.520 --> 06:04.100 twice at least once every day, and never failed. 06:04.940 --> 06:10.140 The people in great flocks daily came to hear his voice, as the most melodious 06:10.140 --> 06:15.820 sound and tune of Orpheus's harp, as the proverb saith, insomuch that 06:15.820 --> 06:19.560 oftentimes when he was preaching the church would be so full that none could 06:19.560 --> 06:21.680 enter further than the doors thereof. 06:22.500 --> 06:26.440 In his doctrine he was earnest, in tongue eloquent, in the Scriptures 06:26.440 --> 06:29.340 perfect, in pains indefatigable. 06:30.720 --> 06:35.260 Even as he began, so he continued unto his life's end, for neither could his labor 06:35.260 --> 06:39.940 and painstaking break him, neither promotion change him, neither dainty fare 06:39.940 --> 06:40.640 corrupt him. 06:41.180 --> 06:45.560 His life was so pure and good that no kind of slander could fasten any fault upon 06:45.560 --> 06:45.760 him. 06:46.240 --> 06:51.060 He was of body strong, his health whole and sound, his wit very pregnant, 06:51.500 --> 06:56.140 his invisible patience able to sustain whatsoever sinister fortune and adversity 06:56.140 --> 06:56.780 could do. 06:57.740 --> 07:03.260 He was constant of judgment, a good justicer, sparer of diet, sparer of words, 07:03.320 --> 07:08.380 and sparest of time, in housekeeping very liberal, and sometimes more free than his 07:08.380 --> 07:09.620 living would extend unto. 07:10.480 --> 07:15.260 He bare in countenance and talk always a certain severe grace which might, 07:15.480 --> 07:19.680 peradventure, be wished sometimes to have been a little more popular in him, 07:19.940 --> 07:22.740 but he knew what he had to do best himself. 07:23.920 --> 07:28.180 This, by the way, I thought to note, for that there was once an honest citizen, 07:28.660 --> 07:33.000 and to me not unknown, who having in himself a certain grudge of conscience, 07:33.500 --> 07:35.600 came to Master Hooper's door for counsel. 07:36.400 --> 07:40.760 But being abashed at his austere look, durst not come in, but departed, 07:41.200 --> 07:44.180 seeking remedy of his troubled mind at other men's hands. 07:45.340 --> 07:51.040 In my judgment, such as are made governors over the flock of Christ, to teach and 07:51.040 --> 07:55.940 instruct them, ought so to frame their life, manners, countenance, and external 07:55.940 --> 08:00.880 behavior, as neither they show themselves too familiar and light, whereby to be 08:00.880 --> 08:04.920 brought into contempt, nor, on the other side, that they appear more lofty and 08:04.920 --> 08:10.360 austere than appertaineth to the edifying of the simple flock of Christ. 08:11.240 --> 08:16.040 At length, and that not without the great profit of many, Master Hooper was called 08:16.040 --> 08:20.460 to preach before the King's Majesty, and soon after made Bishop of Gloucester. 08:21.300 --> 08:25.660 In that office he continued two years, and behaved himself so well, that his very 08:25.660 --> 08:30.860 enemies, except it were for his good doing and sharp correcting of sin, could find no 08:30.860 --> 08:31.440 fault with him. 08:32.160 --> 08:34.820 After that, he was made Bishop of Worcester. 08:35.620 --> 08:41.020 But I cannot tell what sinister and unlucky contention concerning the ordering 08:41.020 --> 08:46.460 and consecration of bishops, and of their apparel, with such other like trifles, 08:46.800 --> 08:49.920 began to disturb the good and lucky beginning of the godly bishop. 08:50.740 --> 08:54.740 For notwithstanding that godly reformation of religion then begun in the Church of 08:54.740 --> 08:59.560 England, besides other ceremonies more ambitious than profitable, or tending to 08:59.560 --> 09:04.120 edification, they used to wear such garments and apparel as the popish bishops 09:04.120 --> 09:05.260 will want to do. 09:06.120 --> 09:12.280 First a chimere, and under that a white rochette, then a mathematical cap with 09:12.280 --> 09:15.720 four angles, dividing the whole world into four parts. 09:16.560 --> 09:20.680 These trifles, tending more to superstition than otherwise, as he could 09:20.680 --> 09:24.260 never abide, so in no wise could he be persuaded to wear them. 09:25.040 --> 09:29.580 For this cause he made supplication to the king's majesty, most humbly desiring his 09:29.580 --> 09:35.520 highness either to discharge him of the bishopric, or else to dispense with him 09:35.520 --> 09:39.920 for such ceremonial orders, whose petition the king granted immediately. 09:41.440 --> 09:45.160 Notwithstanding the bishops still stood earnestly in the defense of the aforesaid 09:45.160 --> 09:49.260 ceremonies, saying it was but a small matter, and that the fault was in the 09:49.260 --> 09:53.440 abuse of the things, and not in the things themselves, adding moreover that he ought 09:53.440 --> 09:57.820 not to be so stubborn in so light a matter, and that his willfulness therein 09:57.820 --> 09:58.780 was not to be suffered. 10:00.260 --> 10:04.780 Whilst both parties thus contended more than reason would, occasion was given to 10:04.780 --> 10:08.580 the true Christians to lament, to the adversaries to rejoice. 10:09.260 --> 10:13.900 This theological contention came to this end, that the bishops having the upper 10:13.900 --> 10:19.660 hand, Master Hooper was fain to agree to this condition, that sometimes he should 10:19.660 --> 10:23.460 in his sermon show himself apparelled as the other bishops were. 10:24.460 --> 10:29.360 Wherefore appointed to preach before the king, as a new player in a strange 10:29.360 --> 10:31.800 apparel, he cometh forth on the stage. 10:32.820 --> 10:37.840 His upper garment was a long scarlet chimere down to the foot, and under that a 10:37.840 --> 10:41.060 white linen rochette that covered all his shoulders. 10:42.020 --> 10:47.640 Upon his head he had a geometrical, that is, a four-squared cap, albeit that 10:47.640 --> 10:48.700 his head was round. 10:49.640 --> 10:54.420 What cause of shame the strangeness hereof was, that day, to that good preacher, 10:54.680 --> 10:56.520 every man may easily judge. 10:57.720 --> 11:03.080 Master Hooper, entering into his diocese, was so careful in his cure, that he left 11:03.080 --> 11:08.520 neither pains untaken, nor ways unsought, how to train up the flock of Christ in the 11:08.520 --> 11:09.620 true word of salvation. 11:10.640 --> 11:15.900 No father in his household, no gardener in his garden, nor husbandman in his 11:15.900 --> 11:21.300 vineyard, was more or better occupied than he in his diocese amongst his flock, 11:21.980 --> 11:25.300 going about his towns and villages in teaching and preaching to the people. 11:26.200 --> 11:30.300 The time that he had to spare from preaching he bestowed either in hearing 11:30.300 --> 11:35.460 public causes, or else in private study, prayer, and visiting of schools. 11:36.540 --> 11:42.700 With his continual doctrine he adjoined due and discreet correction, not so much 11:42.700 --> 11:47.200 severe to any, as to them which for abundance of riches and wealthy state 11:47.200 --> 11:49.240 thought they might do what they listed. 11:50.200 --> 11:55.340 He spared no kind of people, but was indifferent to all men, as well rich as 11:55.340 --> 11:55.640 poor. 11:56.380 --> 12:02.680 His life in fine was such, that to the church and all churchmen it might be a 12:02.680 --> 12:06.980 light and example, to the rest a perpetual lesson and sermon. 12:08.820 --> 12:12.580 Though he bestowed the most part of his care upon the flock of Christ, 12:12.940 --> 12:17.180 for the which he spent his blood, yet nevertheless there lacked no provision 12:17.180 --> 12:21.940 in him to bring up his own children in learning and good manners, insomuch that 12:21.940 --> 12:26.720 ye could not discern whether he deserved more praise for his fatherly usage at 12:26.720 --> 12:32.600 home, or for his bishoplike doings abroad, for everywhere he kept one religion in one 12:32.600 --> 12:34.620 uniform doctrine and integrity. 12:35.680 --> 12:39.480 So that if you entered into the bishop's palace, you would suppose yourself to have 12:39.480 --> 12:41.200 entered into some church or temple. 12:42.020 --> 12:46.080 In every corner thereof there was some smell of virtue, good example, 12:46.420 --> 12:49.440 honest conversation, and reading of holy Scriptures. 12:50.300 --> 12:55.300 There was not to be seen in his house any courtly roisting or idleness, no pomp at 12:55.300 --> 12:59.120 all, no dishonest word, no swearing could there be heard. 13:00.200 --> 13:04.280 As for the revenues of both his bishoprics, he pursed nothing, 13:04.660 --> 13:06.420 but bestowed it in hospitality. 13:07.680 --> 13:12.680 Twice I was, as I remember, in his house in Worcester, where, in his common hall, 13:12.900 --> 13:17.220 I saw a table spread with good store of meat and beset full of beggars and poor 13:17.220 --> 13:17.480 folk. 13:18.040 --> 13:22.440 And I, asking his servants what this meant, they told me that every day their 13:22.440 --> 13:27.160 lord and master's manner was to have to dinner a certain number of poor folk of 13:27.160 --> 13:33.000 the said city by course, who were served by four at a mess, with hot and wholesome 13:33.000 --> 13:33.480 meats. 13:33.860 --> 13:38.000 And when they were served, being before examined by him or his deputies of the 13:38.000 --> 13:42.780 lord's prayer, the articles of their faith and the ten commandments, then he himself 13:42.780 --> 13:44.980 sat down to dinner, and not before. 13:46.620 --> 13:50.940 King Edward being dead, and Mary being crowned Queen of England, this good bishop 13:50.940 --> 13:53.480 was one of the first that was sent for to be at London. 13:54.460 --> 13:58.400 And although the said master Hooper was not ignorant of the evils that should 13:58.400 --> 14:03.020 happen towards him, for he was admonished by certain of his friends to get him away 14:03.020 --> 14:07.880 and shift for himself, yet he would not prevent them, but tarried still, 14:08.020 --> 14:14.120 saying, Once I did flee, and take me to my feet, but now, because I am called to this 14:14.120 --> 14:18.680 place in vocation, I am thoroughly persuaded to tarry, and to live and die 14:18.680 --> 14:19.420 with my sheep. 14:21.440 --> 14:25.760 And when, at the day of his appearance, which was the first of September 1553, 14:25.960 --> 14:29.500 he was come to London, he was received very appropriately. 14:30.640 --> 14:35.840 He freely and boldly told his tale, and purged himself, but in fine it came to 14:35.840 --> 14:41.660 this conclusion, that by them he was commanded to ward, it being declared unto 14:41.660 --> 14:45.920 him at his departure, that the cause of his imprisonment was only for certain sums 14:45.920 --> 14:49.520 of money, for which he was indebted to the Queen, and not for religion. 14:50.760 --> 14:55.200 The next year, being 1554, the 19th of March, he was called again to appear 14:55.200 --> 14:57.580 before Winchester and other Queen's commissioners. 14:58.280 --> 15:00.280 The Lord Chancellor asked whether he was married. 15:00.920 --> 15:04.600 Yea, my lord, replied Master Hooper, and will not be unmarried till death 15:04.600 --> 15:05.320 unmarry me. 15:06.240 --> 15:11.020 The commissioners began to make such outcries, and laughed, and used such 15:11.020 --> 15:13.180 gesture as was unseemly for the place. 15:14.320 --> 15:17.720 The Bishop of Chichester, Dr. Day, called Master Hooper hypocrite, 15:18.100 --> 15:20.500 with vehement words and scornful countenance. 15:21.340 --> 15:24.880 Bishop Tonstall called him beast, so did Smith, one of the clerks of the 15:24.880 --> 15:27.180 council, and divers others that stood by. 15:28.540 --> 15:32.780 Tonstall, Bishop of Durham, asked Master Hooper whether he believed the corporal 15:32.780 --> 15:33.980 presence in the sacrament. 15:34.800 --> 15:39.360 Master Hooper said plainly that there was none such, neither did he believe any such 15:39.360 --> 15:39.640 thing. 15:40.400 --> 15:44.200 Then asked Winchester what authority moved him not to believe the corporal presence. 15:44.840 --> 15:49.500 He said the authority of God's word, whereupon they bad the notaries write that 15:49.500 --> 15:54.160 he was married, and said that he would not go from his wife, and that he believed not 15:54.160 --> 15:55.880 the corporal presence in the sacrament. 15:56.820 --> 15:59.780 Wherefore he was worthy to be deprived of his bishopric. 16:01.360 --> 16:04.400 The true report of Master Hooper's entertainment in the fleet. 16:05.120 --> 16:09.020 Written with his own hand, the 7th of January, 1555. 16:10.660 --> 16:15.840 The 1st of September, 1553, I was committed unto the fleet from Richmond, 16:16.320 --> 16:20.180 to have the liberty of the prison, and within six days after I paid for my 16:20.180 --> 16:25.160 liberty five pounds sterling to the warden for fees, who immediately upon the payment 16:25.160 --> 16:28.760 thereof complained unto Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester. 16:29.800 --> 16:33.920 And so was I committed to close prison one quarter of a year in the tower chamber of 16:33.920 --> 16:36.140 the fleet, and used very extremely. 16:37.400 --> 16:41.200 Then by the means of a good gentlewoman I had liberty to come down to dinner and 16:41.200 --> 16:46.080 supper, not suffered to speak with any of my friends, but as soon as dinner and 16:46.080 --> 16:48.440 supper was done to repair to my chamber again. 16:49.520 --> 16:53.420 Notwithstanding, while I came down thus to dinner and supper, the warden and his wife 16:53.420 --> 16:57.480 picked quarrels with me, and complained untruly of me to their great friend the 16:57.480 --> 16:58.240 Bishop of Winchester. 16:59.180 --> 17:02.880 After one quarter of a year and somewhat more, Babington the warden and his wife 17:02.880 --> 17:04.920 fell out with me for the wicked mass. 17:05.720 --> 17:10.380 And thereupon the warden resorted to the Bishop of Winchester, and obtained to put 17:10.380 --> 17:14.760 me into the wards, where I have continued a long time, having nothing appointed to 17:14.760 --> 17:19.480 me for my bed but a little pad of straw and a rotten covering, with a tick and a 17:19.480 --> 17:24.320 few feathers therein, the chamber being vile and stinking, until by God's means 17:24.320 --> 17:26.500 good people sent me bedding to lie in. 17:27.980 --> 17:31.560 On the one side of which prison is the sink and filth of all the house, 17:32.340 --> 17:36.700 and on the other side the town ditch, so that the stench of the house hath 17:36.700 --> 17:41.180 infected me with sundry diseases, during which time I have been sick, 17:41.440 --> 17:46.580 and the doors, bars, hasps, and chains being all closed and made fast upon me, 17:47.020 --> 17:49.400 I have mourned, called, and cried for help. 17:49.400 --> 17:55.580 But the warden, when he hath known me many times ready to die, and when the poor men 17:55.580 --> 17:59.240 of the wards have called to help me, hath commanded the doors to be kept fast, 17:59.320 --> 18:02.680 and charged that none of his men should come at me, saying, Let him alone, 18:03.160 --> 18:04.600 it were a good riddance of him. 18:05.820 --> 18:10.340 I paid always like a baron to the said warden, as well as in fees, as for my 18:10.340 --> 18:14.800 board, which was twenty shillings a week, besides my man's table, until I was 18:14.800 --> 18:17.020 wrongfully deprived of my bishopric. 18:17.940 --> 18:22.080 And since that time I have paid him as the best gentleman doth in his house, 18:22.480 --> 18:27.400 yet hath he used me worse and more vilely than the veriest slave that ever came to 18:27.400 --> 18:28.280 the hall commons. 18:29.280 --> 18:33.720 The said warden hath also imprisoned my man William Downton, and stripped him out 18:33.720 --> 18:37.940 of his clothes to search for letters, and could find none, but only a little 18:37.940 --> 18:42.000 remembrance of good people's names, that gave me their arms to relieve me in 18:42.000 --> 18:42.260 prison. 18:42.820 --> 18:46.620 And to undo them also, the warden delivered the same bill unto the said 18:46.620 --> 18:49.220 Stephen Gardner, God's enemy and mine. 18:50.160 --> 18:54.540 I have suffered imprisonment almost eighteen months, my goods, living, 18:54.720 --> 18:59.180 friends, and comfort taken from me, the queen owing me by just account 18:59.180 --> 19:00.920 fourscore pounds or more. 19:01.600 --> 19:05.800 She hath put me in prison, and giveth nothing to find me, neither is there 19:05.800 --> 19:08.620 suffered any to come at me whereby I might have relief. 19:09.460 --> 19:14.500 I am with a wicked man and woman, so that I see no remedy saving God's help, 19:15.100 --> 19:17.920 but I shall be cast away in prison before I come to judgment. 19:19.060 --> 19:24.220 But I commit my cause to God, whose will be done, whether it be by life or death. 19:25.560 --> 19:30.560 The twenty-second of January following, 1555, Babington, the warden of the fleet, 19:30.700 --> 19:33.980 was commanded to bring Master Hooper before the Bishop of Winchester, 19:34.440 --> 19:39.020 with other bishops and commissioners, at the said Winchester's house at St. Mary 19:39.020 --> 19:39.700 Overy's. 19:40.180 --> 19:44.880 The Bishop of Winchester moved Master Hooper earnestly to forsake the evil and 19:44.880 --> 19:49.200 corrupt doctrine, as he termed it, preached in the days of King Edward VI, 19:49.560 --> 19:53.700 and to return to the unity of the Catholic Church, and to acknowledge the Pope's 19:53.700 --> 19:57.620 holiness to be head of the same Church, according to the determination of the 19:57.620 --> 20:02.160 whole Parliament, promising that as he himself, with other his brethren, 20:02.160 --> 20:07.640 had received the Pope's blessing and the Queen's mercy, even so mercy was ready to 20:07.640 --> 20:11.620 be showed to him and others if he would condescend to the Pope's holiness. 20:13.080 --> 20:17.080 Master Hooper answered that, for as much as the Pope taught doctrine altogether 20:17.080 --> 20:21.340 contrary to the doctrine of Christ, he was not worthy to be head thereof, 20:22.100 --> 20:26.360 wherefore he would in no wise condescend to any such usurped jurisdiction. 20:27.680 --> 20:31.460 Neither esteemed he the Church, whereof they call him head, to be the 20:31.460 --> 20:35.740 Catholic Church of Christ, for the Church only heareth the voice of her spouse, 20:35.960 --> 20:38.100 Christ, and flyeth the strangers. 20:39.280 --> 20:45.020 Howbeit, saith he, if in any point to me unknown I have offended the Queen's 20:45.020 --> 20:50.660 majesty, I shall most humbly submit myself to her mercy, if mercy may be had with 20:50.660 --> 20:53.440 safety of conscience and without the displeasure of God. 20:54.600 --> 20:57.660 Answer was made that the Queen would show no mercy to the Pope's enemies, 20:58.320 --> 21:01.260 whereupon Bavington was commanded to bring him to the fleet again. 21:02.840 --> 21:07.460 The 28th of January, Winchester and the Commissioners sat in judgment at St. 21:07.560 --> 21:11.520 Mary's Ovaries, where Master Hooper appeared before them at afternoon again. 21:12.260 --> 21:16.880 And there, after much reasoning and disputation to and fro, he was commanded 21:16.880 --> 21:21.660 aside, till Master Rogers, who was then come, had been likewise examined. 21:22.780 --> 21:26.500 Examinations being ended, the two sheriffs of London were commanded, about four o 21:26.500 --> 21:30.700 'clock, to carry them to the compter in Southwark, there to remain till the morrow 21:30.700 --> 21:34.880 at nine o'clock, to see whether they would relent and come home again to the Catholic 21:34.880 --> 21:35.420 Church. 21:36.480 --> 21:41.060 So Master Hooper went before with one of the sheriffs, and Master Rogers came after 21:41.060 --> 21:45.400 with the other, and being out of church door, Master Hooper looked back and stayed 21:45.400 --> 21:50.220 a little, till Master Rogers drew near, unto whom he said, Come, Brother Rogers, 21:50.860 --> 21:55.600 must we too take this matter first in hand, and begin to fry these faggots? 21:56.480 --> 21:59.720 Yea, sir, said Master Rogers, by God's grace. 22:00.700 --> 22:04.300 Doubt not, said Master Hooper, but God will give us strength. 22:05.980 --> 22:10.040 So going forwards, there was such a press of people in the streets who rejoiced at 22:10.040 --> 22:13.520 their constancy, that they had much ado to pass. 22:14.620 --> 22:18.340 Upon the next day they were brought again by the sheriffs before the said bishop and 22:18.340 --> 22:18.900 commissioners. 22:19.660 --> 22:23.420 After long and earnest talk, when they perceived that Master Hooper would by no 22:23.420 --> 22:27.880 means condescend unto them, they condemned him to be degraded, and read unto him his 22:27.880 --> 22:28.620 condemnation. 22:30.160 --> 22:34.580 That done, Master Rogers was brought before them, and in like manner entreated, 22:34.860 --> 22:39.000 and so they delivered both of them to the secular power, the two sheriffs of London, 22:39.260 --> 22:43.280 who were willed to carry them to the clink, a prison not far from the bishop of 22:43.280 --> 22:45.940 Winchester's house, and there to remain till night. 22:47.360 --> 22:51.540 When it was dark, Master Hooper was led by one of the sheriffs, with many bills and 22:51.540 --> 22:55.720 weapons, first through the bishop of Winchester's house, and so over London 22:55.720 --> 22:57.960 Bridge, through the city to Newgate. 22:58.980 --> 23:03.680 And by the way, some of the sergeants were willed to go before, and put out the 23:04.120 --> 23:09.080 castamonger's candles, who used to sit with lights in the streets, either fearing 23:09.080 --> 23:12.440 of likelihood that the people would have made some attempt to have him taken away 23:12.440 --> 23:17.340 from them by force, if they had seen him go to that prison, or else being burdened 23:17.340 --> 23:21.200 with an evil conscience, they thought darkness to be a most fit season for such 23:21.200 --> 23:21.620 a business. 23:23.100 --> 23:27.260 But notwithstanding this device, the people, having some foreknowledge of 23:27.260 --> 23:31.520 his coming, many of them came forth of their doors with lights, and saluted him, 23:32.040 --> 23:36.160 praising God for his constancy in the true doctrine which he had taught them, 23:36.200 --> 23:39.540 and desiring God to strengthen him in the same to the end. 23:40.740 --> 23:44.380 Master Hooper passed by, and required the people to make their earnest prayers to 23:44.380 --> 23:49.580 God for him, and so went through Cheapside to the place appointed, and was delivered 23:49.580 --> 23:54.060 as close prisoner to the keeper of Newgate, where he remained six days, 23:54.500 --> 23:58.480 nobody being permitted to come to him or talk with him, saving his keepers, 23:59.000 --> 24:01.100 and such as should be appointed thereto. 24:02.500 --> 24:06.560 During this time, Barner, Bishop of London, and others at his appointment, 24:06.860 --> 24:11.960 resorted divers times unto him to a say, if by any means they could persuade him to 24:11.960 --> 24:16.920 relent, and become a member of their anti-Christian church, all the ways they 24:16.920 --> 24:18.100 could devise they attempted. 24:18.740 --> 24:23.840 For besides the allegations of testimonies of the Scriptures, and of ancient writers 24:23.840 --> 24:28.680 rested to a wrong sense, according to their accustomed manner, they also used 24:28.680 --> 24:34.580 all outward gentleness and significations of friendship, with many great proffers 24:34.580 --> 24:39.340 and promises of worldly commodities, not omitting also most grievous 24:39.340 --> 24:42.400 threatenings, if with gentleness they could not prevail. 24:43.400 --> 24:47.500 But they found him always the same man, steadfast and immovable. 24:48.820 --> 24:52.920 When they perceived that they could by no means reclaim him to their purpose with 24:52.920 --> 24:58.340 such persuasions and offers as they used for his conversion, they went they about 24:58.340 --> 25:02.120 by false rumors and report of recantations, to bring him and the 25:02.120 --> 25:05.780 doctrine of Christ which he professed, out of credit with the people. 25:06.460 --> 25:11.540 So the brute, being spread abroad, and believed of some of the weaker sort, 25:11.700 --> 25:17.600 by reason of the often resort of the Bishop of London and others, it at last 25:17.600 --> 25:23.680 came to Master Hooper's ears, wherewith he was not a little grieved that the people 25:23.680 --> 25:25.600 should give credit unto false rumors. 25:26.880 --> 25:31.880 The report abroad, as I am credibly informed, is that I, John Hooper, 25:32.220 --> 25:36.620 a condemned man for the cause of Christ, should now, after sentence of death, 25:37.200 --> 25:43.360 being in Newgate prisoner, and looking daily for execution, recant and abjure 25:43.360 --> 25:45.980 that which heretofore I have preached. 25:46.800 --> 25:51.840 And this talk arises of this, that the Bishop of London and his chaplains resort 25:51.840 --> 25:52.440 unto me. 25:53.940 --> 25:58.120 I have spoken and do speak with them when they come, for I fear not their arguments, 25:58.360 --> 26:03.220 neither is death terrible unto me, and I am more confirmed in the truth which 26:03.220 --> 26:05.300 I have preached heretofore by their coming. 26:06.140 --> 26:10.820 I have left all things of the world, and suffered great pains and imprisonment, 26:11.040 --> 26:15.280 and I thank God I am as ready to suffer death as a mortal man may be. 26:16.300 --> 26:20.740 I have taught the truth with my tongue and with my pen heretofore, and hereafter 26:20.740 --> 26:24.720 shortly shall confirm the same by God's grace with my blood. 26:26.280 --> 26:30.500 Monday, the fourth of February, his keeper gave him an inkling that he 26:30.500 --> 26:35.240 should be sent to Gloucester to suffer death, whereat he rejoiced very much, 26:35.660 --> 26:40.560 lifting up his eyes and hands unto heaven, and praising God that he saw it good to 26:40.560 --> 26:45.240 send him amongst the people over whom he was pastor, there to confirm with his 26:45.240 --> 26:51.500 death the truth which he had before taught them, not doubting but the strength to 26:51.500 --> 26:53.200 perform the same to his glory. 26:53.980 --> 26:57.760 And immediately he sent to his servant's house for his boots, spurs, and cloak, 26:58.020 --> 27:01.260 that he might be in a readiness to ride when he should be called. 27:02.640 --> 27:07.880 The next day following, about four o'clock in the morning before day, the keeper with 27:07.880 --> 27:11.360 others came to him and searched him, and the bed wherein he lay, to see if he 27:11.360 --> 27:12.120 had written anything. 27:13.140 --> 27:17.100 And then he was led by the sheriffs of London and their officers, fourth of 27:17.100 --> 27:21.620 Nougat, to a place appointed not far from St. Gunston's Church in Fleet Street, 27:22.280 --> 27:26.400 where six of the Queen's guards were appointed to receive him, and to carry him 27:26.400 --> 27:30.900 to Gloucester, there to be delivered unto the sheriff, who, with the Lord Shandus, 27:31.140 --> 27:35.340 Master Wicks, and other commissioners, were appointed to see execution done. 27:36.980 --> 27:40.760 The witch-guard brought him to the Angel, where he break his fast with them, 27:40.980 --> 27:45.120 eating his meat at that time more liberally than he had used to do a good 27:45.120 --> 27:45.820 while before. 27:46.440 --> 27:51.140 About the break of the day he went to horse, and leapt cheerfully on horseback 27:51.140 --> 27:55.800 without help, having a hood upon his head under his hat, that he should not be 27:55.800 --> 27:56.100 known. 27:57.260 --> 28:00.800 And so he took his journey joyfully towards Gloucester, and always by the way 28:00.800 --> 28:05.040 the guards learned of him where he was accustomed to bait or lodge, and ever 28:05.040 --> 28:06.420 carried him to another inn. 28:07.780 --> 28:11.920 On the Thursday following, he came to a town in his diocese called Syrenster, 28:12.480 --> 28:16.620 fifteen miles from Gloucester, about eleven o'clock, and there dined at a 28:16.620 --> 28:21.500 woman's house, who had always hated the truth, and spoken all evil she could of 28:21.500 --> 28:22.180 Master Hooper. 28:22.920 --> 28:26.860 This woman, perceiving the cause of his coming, showed him all the friendship she 28:26.860 --> 28:31.660 could, and lamented his case with tears, confessing that she before had often 28:31.660 --> 28:36.620 reported that if he were put to trial, he would not stand to his doctrine. 28:37.920 --> 28:41.120 After dinner he rode forwards and came to Gloucester about five o'clock, 28:41.120 --> 28:45.700 and a mile without the town was much people assembled which cried and lamented 28:45.700 --> 28:50.760 his estate, insomuch that one of the guard rode post into the town to require aid of 28:50.760 --> 28:54.320 the mayor and sheriffs, fearing lest he should be taken from them. 28:55.400 --> 28:59.560 The officers and their retinue repaired to the gate with weapons, and commanded the 28:59.560 --> 29:05.240 people to keep their houses, but there was no man that once gave any signification of 29:05.240 --> 29:06.960 any such rescue or violence. 29:08.300 --> 29:13.320 So as he lodged at one Ingram's house in Gloucester, and that night, as he had done 29:13.320 --> 29:18.760 all the way, he did eat his meat quietly, and slept his first sleep soundly, 29:19.120 --> 29:21.720 as it was reported by them of the guard and others. 29:22.760 --> 29:27.600 After his first sleep he continued all that night in prayer until the morning, 29:27.760 --> 29:32.180 and then he desired that he might go into the next chamber, for the guard were also 29:32.180 --> 29:36.480 in the chamber where he lay, that there, being solitary, he might pray and talk 29:36.480 --> 29:41.220 with God, so that all the day, saving a little at meat, and when he 29:41.220 --> 29:46.220 talked at any time with such as the guard licensed to speak with him, he bestowed in 29:46.220 --> 29:46.540 prayer. 29:47.800 --> 29:51.820 Amongst others that spake with him, Sir Antony Kingston, knight, was one, 29:52.220 --> 29:57.420 who seeming in time past his very friend, was then appointed by the Queen's Letters 29:57.420 --> 30:01.260 to be one of the commissioners, to see execution done upon him. 30:02.700 --> 30:06.300 Master Kingston, being brought into the chamber, found him at his prayer, 30:06.660 --> 30:09.820 and as soon as he saw Master Hooper he burst forth in tears. 30:10.920 --> 30:13.140 Master Hooper at the first blush knew him not. 30:13.560 --> 30:18.040 Then said Master Kingston, Why, my lord, do you not know me, an old friend 30:18.040 --> 30:19.800 of yours, Antony Kingston? 30:20.740 --> 30:25.820 Hooper, Yes, Master Kingston, I do now know you well, and am glad to see you in 30:25.820 --> 30:28.140 health, and do praise God for the same. 30:29.260 --> 30:33.620 Kingston, But I am sorry to see you in this case, for as I understand you, 30:33.840 --> 30:35.140 become hither to die. 30:35.920 --> 30:38.760 But, alas, consider that life is sweet, and death is bitter. 30:39.520 --> 30:44.460 Therefore seeing life may be had, desire to live, for life hereafter may do 30:44.460 --> 30:44.900 good. 30:45.820 --> 30:50.160 Hooper, Indeed it is true, Master Kingston, I am come hither to end this 30:50.160 --> 30:53.880 life, and to suffer death here, because I will not gainsay the former 30:53.880 --> 30:58.580 truth that I have heretofore taught amongst you in this diocese and elsewhere. 30:59.660 --> 31:04.220 And I thank you for your friendly counsel, although it be not so friendly as I could 31:04.220 --> 31:04.800 have wished it. 31:05.980 --> 31:10.560 True it is, Master Kingston, that death is bitter, and life is sweet. 31:11.180 --> 31:16.000 But, alas, consider that the death to come is more bitter, and the life to come is 31:16.000 --> 31:16.720 more sweet. 31:17.640 --> 31:22.580 Therefore, for the desire and love I have to the one, and the terror and fear of the 31:22.580 --> 31:28.920 other, I do not so much regard this death, nor esteem this life, but have settled 31:28.920 --> 31:33.000 myself through the strength of God's Holy Spirit patiently to pass through the 31:33.000 --> 31:38.960 torments and extremities of the fire now prepared for me, rather than to deny the 31:38.960 --> 31:44.460 truth of His word, desiring you and others in the meantime to commend me to God's 31:44.460 --> 31:45.760 mercy in your prayers. 31:46.720 --> 31:47.200 Kingston. 31:47.820 --> 31:52.300 Well, my lord, then I perceive there is no remedy, and therefore I will take my leave 31:52.300 --> 31:57.320 of you, and I thank God that ever I knew you, for God did appoint you to call me 31:57.320 --> 31:59.100 being a lost child. 31:59.820 --> 32:00.300 Hooper. 32:00.920 --> 32:05.580 I do highly praise God for it, and I pray God you may continually live in 32:05.580 --> 32:06.120 His fear. 32:07.160 --> 32:10.200 After these and many other words, the one took leave of the other. 32:10.800 --> 32:14.760 Master Kingston with bitter tears, Master Hooper with tears also trickling 32:14.760 --> 32:15.600 down his cheeks. 32:16.300 --> 32:20.600 At which departure Master Hooper told him that all the troubles he had sustained in 32:20.600 --> 32:23.660 prison had not caused him to utter so much sorrow. 32:24.860 --> 32:29.520 The same day in the afternoon, a blind boy, after long intercession made 32:29.520 --> 32:33.320 to the guard, obtained license to be brought unto Master Hooper's speech. 32:34.120 --> 32:38.060 The same boy, not long afore, had suffered imprisonment at Gloucester for confessing 32:38.060 --> 32:38.680 of the truth. 32:39.620 --> 32:43.900 Master Hooper, after he had examined him of his faith and the cause of his 32:43.900 --> 32:48.620 imprisonment, beheld him steadfastly, and, the water appearing in his eyes, 32:49.060 --> 32:54.720 said unto him, Ah, poor boy, God hath taken from thee thy outward sight, 32:54.960 --> 32:56.620 for what reason he best knoweth. 32:57.200 --> 33:02.560 But he hath given thee another sight much more precious, for he hath endued thy soul 33:02.560 --> 33:04.780 with the eye of knowledge and faith. 33:05.680 --> 33:10.840 God give thee grace continually to pray unto him, that thou lose not that sight, 33:11.280 --> 33:14.820 for then shouldst thou be blind both in body and soul. 33:16.080 --> 33:20.000 The same night he was committed by the guard, their commission being then 33:20.000 --> 33:23.880 expired, unto the custody of the sheriffs of Gloucester, who, with the mayor and 33:23.880 --> 33:27.680 alderman, repaired to Master Hooper's lodging, and took him by the hand. 33:28.800 --> 33:35.020 Unto whom Hooper spake on this manner, Master Mayor, I give most hearty thanks to 33:35.020 --> 33:39.840 you, and to the rest of your brethren, that you have vouchsafed to take me, 33:39.980 --> 33:44.800 a prisoner and a condemned man, by the hand, whereby to my rejoicing it is 33:44.800 --> 33:49.440 some deal apparent that your old love and friendship towards me is not altogether 33:49.440 --> 33:50.200 extinguished. 33:50.740 --> 33:55.800 And I trust also that all things I have taught you in times past are not utterly 33:55.800 --> 34:01.520 forgotten, when I was here by the godly king that dead is appointed to be your 34:01.520 --> 34:02.660 bishop and pastor. 34:03.580 --> 34:08.380 For the which most true and sincere doctrine, because I will not now account 34:08.380 --> 34:14.120 it falsehood and heresy, as many other men do, I am sent hither, as I am sure you 34:14.120 --> 34:19.240 know, by the Queen's commandment to die, and am come where I taught it to confirm 34:19.240 --> 34:20.140 it with my blood. 34:21.060 --> 34:25.740 And now, Master Sheriffs, I understand by these good men, and my very friends, 34:25.960 --> 34:30.120 meaning the god, at whose hands I have found so much favor and gentleness, 34:30.360 --> 34:35.420 by the way hitherward as a prisoner could reasonably require, for the which also I 34:35.420 --> 34:39.920 most heartily thank them, that I am committed to your custody, as unto them 34:39.920 --> 34:42.860 that must see me brought to-morrow to the place of execution. 34:43.940 --> 34:49.280 My request therefore to you shall be only, that there may be a quick fire shortly to 34:49.280 --> 34:49.900 make an end. 34:50.720 --> 34:54.580 And in the meantime I will be as obedient unto you as yourselves would wish. 34:55.280 --> 34:59.100 If you think I do amiss in anything, hold up your finger, and I have done. 34:59.760 --> 35:04.840 For I am not come hither as one enforced or compelled to die, for it is well known 35:04.840 --> 35:09.660 I might have had my life with worldly gain, but as one willing to offer and give 35:09.660 --> 35:14.940 my life for the truth, rather than consent to the wicked, papistical religion of the 35:14.940 --> 35:20.120 Bishop of Rome, received and set forth by the magistrates in England to God's high 35:20.120 --> 35:21.360 displeasure and dishonor. 35:21.360 --> 35:26.400 And I trust by God's grace to-morrow to die a faithful servant of God, 35:26.740 --> 35:28.960 and a true obedient subject to the Queen. 35:30.060 --> 35:34.680 These words used Master Hooper to the Mayor, Sheriff, and Alderman, whereat many 35:34.680 --> 35:35.580 of them lamented. 35:36.440 --> 35:40.040 Notwithstanding, the two sheriffs were determined to have lodged him in the 35:40.040 --> 35:44.560 common jail of the town called Northgate, if the guard had not made earnest 35:44.560 --> 35:49.720 intercession for him, who declared how quietly, mildly, and patiently he had 35:49.720 --> 35:54.480 behaved himself in the way, adding thereto that any child might keep him well enough, 35:54.840 --> 35:59.000 and that they themselves would rather take pains to watch with him than that he 35:59.000 --> 36:00.640 should be sent to the common prison. 36:01.720 --> 36:05.100 So it was determined he should still remain in Robert Ingram's house, 36:05.340 --> 36:09.240 and the sheriffs and sergeants and other officers did appoint to watch with him 36:09.240 --> 36:10.300 that night themselves. 36:11.360 --> 36:15.680 His desire was that he might go to bed that night betimes, saying that he had 36:15.680 --> 36:21.080 many things to remember, and so he did at five o'clock, and slept one sleep soundly, 36:21.420 --> 36:23.400 and bestowed the rest of the night in prayer. 36:24.560 --> 36:27.620 After he got up in the morning, he desired that no man should be suffered 36:27.620 --> 36:31.920 to come into the chamber, that he might be solitary till the hour of execution. 36:33.120 --> 36:38.640 About eight o'clock came Sir John Bridges, Lord Shandos, with a great band of men, 36:38.960 --> 36:43.680 Sir Anthony Kingston, Sir Edmund Bridges, and other commissioners appointed to see 36:43.680 --> 36:44.760 execution done. 36:45.560 --> 36:48.960 At nine o'clock Master Hooper was willed to prepare himself to be in a readiness, 36:49.440 --> 36:50.580 for the time was at hand. 36:51.500 --> 36:54.280 Immediately he was brought down from his chamber by the sheriffs, who were 36:54.280 --> 36:56.800 accompanied with bills, glaives, and weapons. 36:58.040 --> 37:02.280 When he saw the multitude of weapons, he spake to the sheriffs on this wise. 37:03.180 --> 37:08.860 Master sheriffs, said he, I am no traitor, neither needed you to have made such a 37:08.860 --> 37:11.340 business to bring me to the place where I must suffer. 37:12.160 --> 37:16.360 For if ye had willed me, I would have gone alone to the stake, and have troubled none 37:16.360 --> 37:16.980 of you all. 37:17.840 --> 37:22.300 A multitude of people assembled to the number of seven thousand, for it was 37:22.300 --> 37:26.060 market day, and many came to see his behaviour towards death. 37:27.140 --> 37:31.740 So he went forward, led between the two sheriffs, as it were a lamb to the place 37:31.740 --> 37:36.320 of slaughter, in a gown of his hosts, his hat upon his head, and a staff in his 37:36.320 --> 37:37.940 hand, to stay himself with all. 37:38.500 --> 37:42.840 For the grief of the sciatica which he had taken in prison caused him somewhat to 37:42.840 --> 37:43.180 halt. 37:44.260 --> 37:49.400 He would look very cheerfully upon such as he knew, and he was never known, 37:49.640 --> 37:53.180 during the time of his being amongst them, to look with so cheerful and ruddish 37:53.180 --> 37:55.160 accountance as he did at that present. 37:56.580 --> 38:00.980 When he came to the place appointed where he should die, smilingly he beheld the 38:00.980 --> 38:05.160 stake and preparation made for him, which was near unto the great elm tree, 38:05.500 --> 38:08.740 over which the college of priests where he was wont to preach. 38:10.020 --> 38:14.100 The place round about the houses, and the boughs of the trees, were 38:14.100 --> 38:17.940 replenished with people, and in the chamber over the college gate stood the 38:17.940 --> 38:21.640 wolfish bloodsuckers and turnlings, the priests of the college. 38:22.820 --> 38:26.880 Then kneeled he down, for as much as he could not be suffered to speak unto the 38:26.880 --> 38:27.140 people. 38:28.320 --> 38:32.300 After he was somewhat entered into his prayer, a box was brought and laid before 38:32.300 --> 38:37.500 him upon a stool, with his pardon, or at least wise it was feigned to be his 38:37.500 --> 38:39.620 pardon, from the queen if he would turn. 38:41.000 --> 38:45.180 At the sight whereof he cried, If you love my soul, away with it! 38:45.920 --> 38:48.120 If you love my soul, away with it! 38:49.220 --> 38:53.780 Prayer being done, he prepared himself to the stake, and put off his host's gown, 38:53.880 --> 38:58.080 and delivered it to the sheriffs, requiring them to see it restored unto the 38:58.080 --> 39:03.460 owner, and put off the rest of his gear, unto his doublet and hose, wherein he 39:03.460 --> 39:04.060 would have burned. 39:05.520 --> 39:09.740 But the sheriffs would not permit that, such was their greediness, unto whose 39:09.740 --> 39:13.520 pleasures, good man, he very obediently submitted himself. 39:14.420 --> 39:16.920 And his doublet, hose, and petticoat were taken off. 39:17.520 --> 39:21.800 Then, being in his shirt, he took a point from his hose himself, and trussed his 39:21.800 --> 39:25.640 shirt between his legs, where he had a pound of gunpowder in a bladder, 39:25.640 --> 39:29.720 and under each arm the like quantity delivered him by the guard. 39:31.000 --> 39:35.080 So desiring the people to say the Lord's prayer with him, and to pray for him, 39:35.440 --> 39:39.340 who performed it with tears during the time of his pains, he went up to the 39:39.340 --> 39:39.660 stake. 39:40.400 --> 39:44.840 The hoop of iron prepared for his middle was brought, but when they offered to have 39:44.840 --> 39:49.720 bound his neck and legs with the other two hoops of iron, he utterly refused them. 39:50.820 --> 39:54.920 Thus being ready, he looked upon all the people of whom he might be well seen, 39:55.440 --> 40:00.200 for he was both tall and stood also on a high stool, and in every corner there was 40:00.200 --> 40:02.680 nothing to be seen but weeping and sorrowful people. 40:03.580 --> 40:07.120 Then, lifting up his eyes and hands unto heaven, he prayed to himself. 40:07.900 --> 40:13.320 By the by, he that was appointed to make the fire came to him, and did ask him 40:13.320 --> 40:18.000 forgiveness, of whom he asked why he should forgive him, saying that he knew 40:18.000 --> 40:20.420 never any offence he had committed against him. 40:21.120 --> 40:24.720 O Sir, said the man, I am appointed to make the fire. 40:25.640 --> 40:28.460 Therein said Master Hooper, Thou dost nothing offend me. 40:28.840 --> 40:31.880 God forgive thee thy sins, and do thine office, I pray thee. 40:33.300 --> 40:38.060 Then the reeds were cast up, and he received two bundles of them in his own 40:38.060 --> 40:42.600 hands, embraced them, kissed them, and put under either arm one of them, 40:42.980 --> 40:47.000 and showed with his hand how the rest should be bestowed, and pointed to the 40:47.000 --> 40:48.760 place where any did lack. 40:50.060 --> 40:53.160 A non-commandment was given that the fire should be set to. 40:53.900 --> 40:58.360 But because there were put to no fewer green faggots than two horses could carry 40:58.360 --> 41:03.800 upon their backs, it kindled not by and by, and was a pretty while also before it 41:03.800 --> 41:05.580 took the reeds upon the faggots. 41:06.380 --> 41:10.020 At length it burned about him, but the wind having full strength in that 41:10.020 --> 41:15.620 place, it was a lowering and cold morning, it blew the flame from him, so that he was 41:15.620 --> 41:17.800 in a manner nothing but touched by the fire. 41:18.820 --> 41:23.000 Within a space after, a few dry faggots were brought, and a new fire kindled with 41:23.000 --> 41:27.180 faggots, for there were no more reeds, and that burned at the nether parts, 41:27.580 --> 41:32.180 but had small power above, because of the wind, saving that it did burn his hair and 41:32.180 --> 41:33.280 swell his skin a little. 41:34.540 --> 41:39.660 In the time of which fire, even as at the first flame, he prayed, saying mildly and 41:39.660 --> 41:45.580 not very loud, but as one without pains, O Jesus, the Son of David, have mercy upon 41:45.580 --> 41:46.940 me, and receive my soul. 41:48.100 --> 41:51.880 After the second was spent, he did wipe both his eyes with his hands, and 41:51.880 --> 41:56.340 beholding the people, he said with an indifferent loud voice, For God's love, 41:56.460 --> 41:58.720 good people, let me have more fire. 42:00.000 --> 42:04.520 And all this while his nether parts did burn, for the faggots were so few, 42:04.600 --> 42:07.800 that the flame did not burn strongly at his upper parts. 42:08.780 --> 42:12.640 The third fire was kindled within a while after, which was more extreme than the 42:12.640 --> 42:16.760 other two, and then the bladders of gunpowder break, which did him small good, 42:17.160 --> 42:19.740 they were so placed, and the wind had such power. 42:20.960 --> 42:26.100 In the which fire he prayed with somewhat a loud voice, Lord Jesus, have mercy upon 42:26.100 --> 42:30.940 me, Lord Jesus, have mercy upon me, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. 42:30.940 --> 42:34.020 And these were the last words he was heard to utter. 42:34.860 --> 42:38.240 But when he was black in the mouth, and his tongue swollen, that he could not 42:38.240 --> 42:43.020 speak, yet his lips went till they were shrunk to the gums, and he knocked his 42:43.020 --> 42:47.000 breast with his hands, until one of his arms fell off, and then knocked still with 42:47.000 --> 42:52.020 the other, what time the fat water and blood dropped out at his fingers' ends, 42:52.640 --> 42:57.200 until by renewing of the fire his strength was gone, and his hand did cleave fast, 42:57.300 --> 42:59.680 in knocking to the iron upon his breast. 43:00.640 --> 43:04.540 So immediately, bowing forwards, he yielded up his spirit. 43:05.920 --> 43:08.940 Thus was he three quarters of an hour or more in the fire. 43:09.780 --> 43:14.020 Even as a lamb patiently he abode the extremity thereof, neither moving 43:14.020 --> 43:16.240 forwards, backwards, nor to any side. 43:16.860 --> 43:19.600 But he died as quietly as a child in his bed. 43:20.380 --> 43:25.220 And he now reigneth, I doubt not, as a blessed martyr in the joys of heaven, 43:25.560 --> 43:30.420 prepared for the faithful in Christ before the foundations of the world, for whose 43:30.420 --> 43:34.340 constancy all Christians are bound to praise God.