WEBVTT 00:00.950 --> 00:07.250 THE MARTYRS OF SCOTLAND Like as there was no place, either of Germany, Italy, 00:07.310 --> 00:12.270 or France, wherein there were not some branches sprung out of that most fruitful 00:12.270 --> 00:17.710 root of Luther, so likewise was not this isle of Britain without his fruit and 00:17.710 --> 00:18.110 branches. 00:19.170 --> 00:23.370 Amongst whom was Patrick Hamilton, a Scotsman born of high and noble stock, 00:23.950 --> 00:28.750 and of the king's blood, of excellent towardness, twenty-three years of age, 00:28.750 --> 00:30.450 called Abbot of Fern. 00:31.870 --> 00:35.530 Coming out of his country with three companions to seek godly learning, 00:36.470 --> 00:40.450 he went to the University of Marburg in Germany, which university was then newly 00:40.450 --> 00:43.890 erected by Philip, Landgrave of Hesse. 00:45.250 --> 00:48.470 Using conference with learned men, especially with Francis Lambert, 00:48.970 --> 00:53.890 he so profited in knowledge and judgment, that through the incitation of the said 00:53.890 --> 00:58.430 Lambert, he was the first in all that university who publicly did set up 00:58.430 --> 01:02.930 conclusions there to be disputed of concerning faith and works. 01:03.930 --> 01:08.350 Which young man, if he had chosen to lead his life after the manner of other 01:08.350 --> 01:13.850 courtiers, in all kind of licentious riotousness, should peradventure have 01:13.850 --> 01:16.110 found praise without peril or punishment? 01:17.090 --> 01:21.890 But forasmuch as he joined godliness with his stock and virtue with his age, 01:22.230 --> 01:25.410 he could by no means escape the hands of the wicked. 01:26.250 --> 01:30.870 For there is nothing safe or sure in this world but wickedness and sin. 01:31.990 --> 01:36.670 Whoever saw the cardinals or bishops rage with their cruel inquisitions against 01:36.670 --> 01:42.590 riot, ambition, unlawful gaming, drunkenness, and rapins, but if any man 01:42.590 --> 01:48.030 were truly addict to the desire and study of godliness, confessing Christ to be his 01:48.030 --> 01:53.190 only patron and advocate, excluding the merits of saints, acknowledging free 01:53.190 --> 01:58.150 justification by faith in Christ, denying purgatory, for these articles 01:58.150 --> 02:03.810 Hamilton was burned, they spare neither age nor kindred, neither is there any so 02:03.810 --> 02:08.010 great power in the world that may withstand their majesty or authority. 02:09.070 --> 02:13.590 How great an ornament might so noble, learned, and excellent a young man have 02:13.590 --> 02:19.630 been unto that realm, being endued with so great godliness and such a singular wit 02:19.630 --> 02:23.590 and disposition, if the Scots had not envied their own commodity. 02:24.910 --> 02:29.490 This learned Patrick, increasing daily more and more in knowledge, and inflamed 02:29.490 --> 02:33.970 with godliness, at length began to revolve with himself touching his return into his 02:33.970 --> 02:38.730 country, being desirous to impart unto his countrymen some fruit of understanding 02:38.730 --> 02:40.630 which he had received abroad. 02:41.990 --> 02:46.810 Whereupon, persisting in his godly purpose, he took one of the three whom he 02:46.810 --> 02:51.090 brought out of Scotland, and so returned home without any longer delay. 02:52.450 --> 02:57.090 Not sustaining the miserable ignorance and blindness of that people, he valiantly 02:57.090 --> 03:01.610 taught and preached the truth, was accused of heresy, and stoutly 03:01.610 --> 03:06.610 sustaining the quarrel of God's gospel against the high priest and archbishop of 03:06.610 --> 03:11.510 St. Andrews, named James Beaton, was cited to appear before him and his 03:11.510 --> 03:14.210 college of priests on the first of March, A. 03:14.270 --> 03:14.370 D. 03:14.930 --> 03:15.490 1527. 03:16.690 --> 03:21.530 Being not only forward in knowledge, but also ardent in spirit, not tarrying 03:21.530 --> 03:25.750 for the hour appointed, he came very early in the morning before he was looked for, 03:26.310 --> 03:32.030 and there mightily disputing against them, when he could not by the Scriptures be 03:32.030 --> 03:34.670 convicted, by force he was oppressed. 03:35.410 --> 03:39.650 And so the sentence of condemnation being given against him, the same day after 03:39.650 --> 03:44.730 dinner, in all hot haste, he was had away to the fire, and there burned. 03:45.810 --> 03:49.950 And thus was this noble Hamilton, the blessed servant of God, without all 03:49.950 --> 03:54.770 just cause, made away by cruel adversaries, yet not without great fruit 03:54.770 --> 03:55.910 to the church of Christ. 03:55.910 --> 04:00.950 For the grave testimony of his blood left the truth of God more fixed and confirmed 04:00.950 --> 04:06.830 in the hearts of many than ever could after be plucked away, insomuch that 04:06.830 --> 04:11.750 divers afterwards, standing in his quarrel, sustained the like martyrdom. 04:12.550 --> 04:16.650 Within a few years after the martyrdom of Master Patrick Hamilton, one Henry 04:16.650 --> 04:21.430 Forrest, a young man born in Linlithgow, who, a little before, had received the 04:21.430 --> 04:25.950 orders of Bennet and Collet, as they termed them, affirmed that Master Patrick 04:25.950 --> 04:27.410 Hamilton died a martyr. 04:28.910 --> 04:33.910 For this he was apprehended, and put in prison by James Beaton, Archbishop of St. 04:34.010 --> 04:38.570 Andrews, who shortly after caused a certain friar, named Walter Lane, 04:38.710 --> 04:39.730 to hear his confession. 04:41.110 --> 04:44.670 When Henry Forrest had declared his conscience, how he thought Master Patrick 04:44.670 --> 04:48.690 to be a good man, and not heretical, and wrongfully to be put to death, 04:49.190 --> 04:52.250 the friar came and uttered to the bishop the confession that he had heard, 04:52.350 --> 04:54.070 which before was not thoroughly known. 04:55.250 --> 04:59.430 Hereupon it followed that, his confession being brought as sufficient probation 04:59.430 --> 05:05.150 against him, Henry Forrest was concluded to be a heretic, equal in iniquity with 05:05.150 --> 05:09.550 Master Patrick Hamilton, and given to the secular judges to suffer death. 05:10.870 --> 05:15.330 When the day came for his death, and that he should first be degraded, 05:15.710 --> 05:19.850 he was brought before the clergy in a green place, being between the castle of 05:19.850 --> 05:22.050 St. Andrew and another place called Moneymail. 05:23.130 --> 05:26.670 As soon as he entered in at the door, and saw the faces of the clergy, 05:27.190 --> 05:31.010 perceiving whereunto they tended, he cried with a loud voice, saying, 05:31.390 --> 05:36.070 Fie on falsehood, fie on false friars, revealers of confession. 05:37.210 --> 05:43.050 After this day let no man ever trust any false friars, contemners of God's word, 05:43.170 --> 05:44.310 and deceivers of men. 05:45.470 --> 05:49.730 After his degradation, he suffered death for his faithful testimony of the truth of 05:49.730 --> 05:54.130 Christ, and of his gospel, at the north church style of the abbey church of St. 05:54.210 --> 05:59.890 Andrew, to the intent that all the people of Forfar might see the fire, and so might 05:59.890 --> 06:04.090 be the more feared from falling into the doctrine which they termed heresy. 06:05.210 --> 06:10.050 Within a year after the martyrdom of Henry Forrest, or thereabout, James Hamilton of 06:10.050 --> 06:15.090 Linlithgow, his sister Catherine Hamilton, the spouse of the captain of Dunbar, 06:15.610 --> 06:20.390 also another honest woman of Leith, David Stratton of the house of Loriston, 06:20.510 --> 06:25.190 and Master Norman Gurley, were called to the abbey church of Holyrood House in 06:25.190 --> 06:31.330 Edinburgh, by James Hay, Bishop of Ross, Commissioner to James Beaton, Archbishop, 06:31.770 --> 06:36.810 in presence of King James V, who was altogether clad in red apparel. 06:37.970 --> 06:41.830 James Hamilton was accused as one that maintained the opinion of Master Patrick, 06:41.910 --> 06:47.150 his brother, to whom the king gave counsel to depart and not to appear, for in case 06:47.150 --> 06:51.470 he appeared he could not help him, because the bishops had persuaded the king 06:51.470 --> 06:57.630 that the cause of heresy did in no wise appertain unto him, and so Hamilton fled 06:57.630 --> 07:01.930 and was condemned as a heretic, and all his goods and lands confiscated. 07:03.290 --> 07:07.430 Catherine Hamilton, his sister, appeared upon the scaffold, and being 07:07.430 --> 07:11.910 accused of a horrible heresy to wit, that her own works could not savour, 07:12.150 --> 07:13.190 she granted the same. 07:13.770 --> 07:17.850 And after long reasoning between her and Master John Spens, the lawyer, 07:18.070 --> 07:21.650 she concluded in this manner, Work here, work there. 07:22.250 --> 07:23.930 What kind of working is all this? 07:24.690 --> 07:29.630 I know perfectly that no kind of works can save me, but only the works of Christ, 07:29.770 --> 07:30.870 my Lord and Saviour. 07:31.770 --> 07:35.850 The king, hearing these words, turned him about and laughed, called her 07:35.850 --> 07:39.610 unto him, and caused her to recant, because she was his aunt. 07:41.450 --> 07:45.530 Master Norman Gurley was accused, for that he had said there was no such 07:45.530 --> 07:50.210 thing as purgatory, and that the pope was not a bishop but antichrist, and had no 07:50.210 --> 07:51.450 jurisdiction in Scotland. 07:52.350 --> 07:57.930 Also David Stratton, for that he said there was no purgatory, but the passion of 07:57.930 --> 08:00.090 Christ, and the tribulations of this world. 08:00.790 --> 08:06.370 And because when Master Robert Lawson, vicar of Egglesgrig, asked his tithe-fish 08:06.370 --> 08:10.930 of him, he did cast them to him out of the boat, so that some of them fell into the 08:10.930 --> 08:11.170 sea. 08:11.910 --> 08:16.670 Therefore he accused him, as one that should have said, that no tithes should be 08:16.670 --> 08:17.030 paid. 08:17.890 --> 08:21.670 These two, because, after great solicitation made by the king, 08:22.070 --> 08:26.190 they refused to abjure and recant, were condemned by the bishop of Ross as 08:26.190 --> 08:30.590 heretics, and were burned upon the green side, between Leith and Edinburgh, 08:31.310 --> 08:35.670 to the intent that the inhabitants of Fife, seeing the fire, might be struck 08:35.670 --> 08:38.950 with terror and fear, not to fall into the light. 08:39.810 --> 08:43.970 Not long after the burning of David Stratton and Master Gurley, a canon of St. 08:44.110 --> 08:49.530 Colm's Inch, and a vicar of Dollar, called Dean Thomas Forrett, preached every 08:49.530 --> 08:54.490 Sunday to his parishioners out of the epistle, or gospel, as it fell for the 08:54.490 --> 08:54.830 time. 08:55.530 --> 08:58.930 Which then was a great novelty in Scotland, to see any man preach, 08:59.110 --> 09:01.290 except a black friar or a grey friar. 09:02.030 --> 09:05.510 And therefore the friars envied him, and accused him to the bishop of Dunkeld, 09:05.930 --> 09:09.810 in whose diocese he remained, as a heretic, and one that showed the mysteries 09:09.810 --> 09:14.570 of the Scriptures to the vulgar people in English, to make the clergy detestable in 09:14.570 --> 09:15.470 the sight of the people. 09:16.570 --> 09:21.470 The bishop of Dunkeld, moved by the friar's instigation, called the said Dean 09:21.470 --> 09:25.730 Thomas, and said to him, My joy, Dean Thomas, I love you well, and 09:25.730 --> 09:29.830 therefore I must give you my counsel, how you shall rule and guide yourself. 09:30.390 --> 09:33.590 To whom Thomas said, I thank your lordship heartily. 09:34.370 --> 09:40.690 Then the bishop began his counsel after this manner, Bishop, My joy, Dean Thomas, 09:41.170 --> 09:45.710 I am informed that you preach the epistle, or gospel, every Sunday to your 09:45.710 --> 09:50.650 parishioners, and that you take not the cow, nor the uppermost cloth from your 09:50.650 --> 09:53.950 parishioners, which thing is very prejudicial to the churchmen. 09:54.610 --> 09:58.750 And therefore, My joy, Dean Thomas, I would you took your cow, and your 09:58.750 --> 10:03.910 uppermost cloth, as other churchmen do, or else it is too much to preach every 10:03.910 --> 10:08.230 Sunday, for in doing so you may make the people think that we should preach 10:08.230 --> 10:08.710 likewise. 10:09.730 --> 10:14.370 But it is enough for you, when you find any good epistle, or any good gospel, 10:14.890 --> 10:19.290 that set forth the liberty of the holy church to preach that, and let the rest 10:19.290 --> 10:19.590 be. 10:20.910 --> 10:25.850 The martyr, My lord, I think that none of my parishioners will complain that I take 10:25.850 --> 10:30.810 not the cow, nor the uppermost cloth, but will gladly give me the same, 10:31.030 --> 10:35.710 together with any other thing they have, and I will give and communicate with them 10:35.710 --> 10:37.070 any thing that I have. 10:37.770 --> 10:43.250 And so, My lord, we agree right well, and there is no discord among us. 10:43.810 --> 10:48.010 And whereas your lordship saith, It is too much to preach every Sunday, 10:48.410 --> 10:52.590 indeed I think it is too little, and also would wish that your lordship did 10:52.590 --> 10:53.090 the like. 10:53.750 --> 10:59.010 Bishop, Nay, nay, Dean Thomas, let that be, for we are not ordained to 10:59.010 --> 10:59.450 preach. 11:00.410 --> 11:04.990 Martyr, Whereas your lordship biddeth me preach, when I find any good epistle, 11:05.450 --> 11:09.310 or a good gospel, truly, My lord, I have read the New Testament, 11:09.610 --> 11:14.310 and the Old, and all the epistles and gospels, and among them all I could never 11:14.310 --> 11:16.990 find an evil epistle, or an evil gospel. 11:17.710 --> 11:22.150 But if your lordship will show me the good epistle, and the good gospel, and the evil 11:22.150 --> 11:27.270 epistle, and the evil gospel, then I shall preach the good, and omit the evil. 11:27.990 --> 11:33.310 Bishop, Then spake My lord stoutly, and said, I thank God that I never knew 11:33.310 --> 11:35.590 what the Old and New Testament was. 11:36.150 --> 11:40.530 Therefore, Dean Thomas, I will know nothing but My Portuese and My Pontifical. 11:41.050 --> 11:46.230 Go your way, and let be all these fantasies, for if you persevere in these 11:46.230 --> 11:50.890 erroneous opinions, you will repent it, when you may not mend it. 11:51.750 --> 11:57.250 Martyr, I trust My cause be just in the presence of God, and therefore I pass not 11:57.250 --> 11:59.230 much what do follow thereupon. 12:00.610 --> 12:04.330 And so My lord and he departed at that time, and soon after a summons was 12:04.330 --> 12:08.790 directed from the Cardinal of St. Andrews, and the Bishop of Dunkeld, upon the said 12:08.790 --> 12:12.850 Dean Thomas Farratt, and others, who at the day of their appearance were 12:12.850 --> 12:18.330 condemned to the death without any place for recantation, because, as was alleged, 12:18.910 --> 12:24.410 they were heresiarchs, or chief heretics, and teachers of heresies, and especially 12:24.410 --> 12:28.870 because many of them were at the marriage of a priest, who was vicar of Tullibethy, 12:29.290 --> 12:33.650 beside Stirling, and did eat flesh in Lent at the said bridal. 12:34.170 --> 12:38.410 And so they were all together burned upon the Castle Hill at Edinburgh. 12:39.810 --> 12:43.510 There was a certain act of Parliament made in the government of the Lord Hamilton, 12:43.710 --> 12:48.350 Earl of Arran, giving privilege to all men of the realm of Scotland to read the 12:48.350 --> 12:52.650 Scriptures in their mother tongue, secluding nevertheless all reasoning, 12:53.070 --> 12:57.650 conference, convocation of people to hear the Scriptures read or expounded, 12:58.250 --> 13:03.230 which liberty of private reading lacked not its own fruit, so that in sundry parts 13:03.230 --> 13:07.390 of Scotland were opened the eyes of the elect of God to see the truth, 13:07.570 --> 13:12.550 and abhor the papistical abominations, amongst whom were certain persons in St. 13:12.690 --> 13:13.470 John's town. 13:14.790 --> 13:19.010 At this time there was a sermon made by Friar Spence in St. John's town, 13:19.170 --> 13:24.070 otherwise called Perth, affirming prayer made to saints to be so necessary that 13:24.070 --> 13:26.810 without it there could be no hope of salvation to man. 13:27.910 --> 13:32.790 This blasphemous doctrine, a Burgess of the said town, called Robert Lamb, 13:33.090 --> 13:37.170 could not abide, but accused him, in open audience, of erroneous doctrine, 13:37.430 --> 13:40.170 and adjured him in God's name to utter the truth. 13:40.990 --> 13:45.050 This the Friar, being stricken with fear, promised to do. 13:45.610 --> 13:50.610 But the trouble, tumult, and stir of the people increased so, that the Friar could 13:50.610 --> 13:51.610 have no audience. 13:52.610 --> 13:53.790 At this time, A. 13:53.870 --> 13:53.970 D. 13:54.570 --> 13:59.390 1543, the enemies of the truth procured John Charterhouse, who favored the truth, 13:59.830 --> 14:05.130 and was provost of the said city and town of Perth, to be deposed from his office by 14:05.130 --> 14:09.390 the said governor's authority, and a papist, called Master Alexander 14:09.390 --> 14:14.430 Marbeck, to be chosen in his room, that they might bring more easily their 14:14.430 --> 14:16.930 wicked and ungodly enterprise to an end. 14:18.290 --> 14:23.450 On St. Paul's day came to St. John's town the governor, the cardinal, the Earl of 14:23.450 --> 14:25.950 Argyll, with certain other of the nobility. 14:26.850 --> 14:30.590 And although there were many accused for the crime of heresy, as they term it, 14:30.950 --> 14:35.590 yet these persons only were apprehended, Robert Lamb, William Anderson, 14:35.590 --> 14:41.850 James Hunter, James Ravelson, James Finleyson, and Helen Sturck, his wife, 14:42.150 --> 14:44.930 and were cast that night in the Spey Tower. 14:46.170 --> 14:49.670 Upon the morrow, when they were brought forth to judgment, were laid to their 14:49.670 --> 14:54.410 charge the violating of the act of Parliament before expressed, and their 14:54.410 --> 14:59.070 conference and assemblies in hearing and expounding of Scripture against the tenor 14:59.070 --> 14:59.970 of the said act. 15:00.790 --> 15:05.150 Robert Lamb was accused, in special, for interrupting the Friar in the pulpit, 15:05.150 --> 15:09.690 which he not only confessed, but also affirmed constantly, that it was the duty 15:09.690 --> 15:14.290 of no man who understood and knew the truth, to hear the same in pune without 15:14.290 --> 15:18.390 contradiction, and therefore sundry who were there present in judgment, 15:18.870 --> 15:22.470 who hid the knowledge of the truth, should bear the burden in God's presence 15:22.470 --> 15:23.930 for consenting to the same. 15:25.090 --> 15:29.790 The said Robert, also, with William Anderson and James Ravelson, were accused 15:29.790 --> 15:34.610 for hanging up the image of St. Francis in a cord, nailing of ram's horns to his 15:34.610 --> 15:40.010 head, and a cow's rump to his tail, and for eating of a goose on all hallow 15:40.010 --> 15:40.350 even. 15:41.490 --> 15:45.590 James Hunter, being a simple man and without learning, and a flesher by 15:45.590 --> 15:49.570 occupation, so that he could be charged with no great knowledge and doctrine, 15:49.770 --> 15:54.590 yet, because he often used that suspected company of the rest, was accused. 15:55.790 --> 16:00.250 The woman, Helen Sturck, was accused, for that in her child-bed she was not 16:00.250 --> 16:05.330 accustomed to call upon the name of the Virgin Mary, being exhorted thereto by her 16:05.330 --> 16:08.730 neighbours, but only upon God for Jesus Christ's sake. 16:09.510 --> 16:13.910 And because she said that if she herself had been in the time of the Virgin Mary, 16:14.530 --> 16:19.150 God might have looked to her humility and base estate, as He did to the virgins, 16:19.590 --> 16:24.150 in making her the mother of Christ, thereby meaning that there were no merits 16:24.150 --> 16:28.270 in the virgin, which procured her that honour, to be made the mother of Christ, 16:28.430 --> 16:33.510 and to be preferred before other women, but that only God's free mercy exalted her 16:33.510 --> 16:38.950 to that estate, which words were counted most execrable in the face of the clergy 16:38.950 --> 16:40.390 and of the whole multitude. 16:41.630 --> 16:45.770 James Ravelson aforesaid, building a house, set upon the round of his fourth 16:45.770 --> 16:51.610 stair the three-crowned diadem of Peter carved of tree, which the cardinal took as 16:51.610 --> 16:53.750 done in mockage of his cardinal's hat. 16:54.690 --> 16:58.730 After sentence given, their hands were bound, and the men cruelly treated, 16:59.390 --> 17:04.490 which thing the woman beholding desired likewise to be bound by the sergeants with 17:04.490 --> 17:06.810 her husband, for Christ's sake. 17:08.050 --> 17:12.170 Great intercession made by the town for the life of these persons to the governor, 17:12.650 --> 17:15.230 who of himself was willing that they might have been delivered. 17:15.930 --> 17:20.610 But he was so subject to the appetite of the cruel priests, that he could not do 17:20.610 --> 17:21.650 that which he would. 17:22.390 --> 17:26.970 Yea, they menaced to assist his enemies and to depose him, except he assisted 17:26.970 --> 17:27.670 their cruelty. 17:28.690 --> 17:34.370 The martyrs were carried by a great band of armed men, for they feared rebellion in 17:34.370 --> 17:38.510 the town, except they had men of war, to the place of execution, which was 17:38.510 --> 17:42.490 common to all thieves, and that to make their cause appear more odious to the 17:42.490 --> 17:42.790 people. 17:43.930 --> 17:47.970 Every one comforting another, and assuring themselves that they should sup together 17:47.970 --> 17:51.650 in the kingdom of heaven that night, they commended themselves to God, 17:51.770 --> 17:53.470 and died constantly in the Lord. 17:54.090 --> 17:59.170 The woman desired earnestly to die with her husband, but she was not suffered. 17:59.450 --> 18:02.950 Yet, following him to the place of execution, she gave him comfort, 18:03.430 --> 18:08.430 exhorting him to perseverance and patience for Christ's sake, and parting from him 18:08.430 --> 18:13.510 with a kiss, said, Husband, rejoice, for we have lived together many joyful 18:13.510 --> 18:14.090 days. 18:14.190 --> 18:19.090 But this day, in which we must die, ought to be most joyful unto us both, 18:19.530 --> 18:21.410 because we must have joy for ever. 18:22.070 --> 18:26.590 Therefore I will not bid you good night, for we shall suddenly meet with joy in the 18:26.590 --> 18:27.330 kingdom of heaven. 18:28.330 --> 18:33.550 The woman, after that, was taken to a place to be drowned, and albeit she had a 18:33.550 --> 18:37.770 child sucking on her breast, yet this moved nothing the unmerciful hearts of the 18:37.770 --> 18:38.070 enemies. 18:38.910 --> 18:42.950 So after she had commended her children to the neighbors of the town for God's sake, 18:43.310 --> 18:47.570 and the sucking ban was given to the nurse, she sealed up the truth by her 18:47.570 --> 18:47.890 death. 18:48.870 --> 18:54.770 With most tender affection consider, gentle reader, the uncharitable manner of 18:54.770 --> 18:59.170 the accusation of Master George Wishart made by the bloody enemies of Christ's 18:59.170 --> 18:59.510 faith. 19:00.290 --> 19:04.550 Ponder the furious rage and tragical cruelness of the malignant church in 19:04.550 --> 19:08.490 persecuting this blessed man of God, and on the contrary his humble, 19:08.710 --> 19:13.730 patient and most godly answers made to them without all fear, not having respect 19:13.730 --> 19:18.950 to their boastful menacings and boisterous threats, but charitably and without stop 19:18.950 --> 19:21.830 of tongue answering, not changing his visage. 19:22.770 --> 19:27.610 I thought it not impertinent somewhat to touch concerning the life and conversation 19:27.610 --> 19:28.930 of this godly man. 19:29.530 --> 19:35.010 According as of late it came to my hands, certified in writing by a certain scholar 19:35.010 --> 19:39.430 of his named Emery Tilney, whose words here follow. 19:40.570 --> 19:46.290 About the year of our Lord 1543 there was in University of Cambridge one Master 19:46.290 --> 19:51.450 George Wishart, commonly called Master George of Bennett's College, a man of tall 19:51.450 --> 19:57.390 stature, polled-headed, and on the same a round French cap of the best, judged to be 19:57.390 --> 20:02.210 of melancholy complexion by his physiognomy, black-haired, long-bearded, 20:02.590 --> 20:07.450 comely of personage, well-spoken after his country of Scotland, courteous, 20:07.770 --> 20:14.350 lowly, lovely, glad to teach, desirous to learn, and well-travelled, having on him 20:14.350 --> 20:19.870 for his clothing a frieze gown to the shoes, a black million fustian doublet, 20:20.350 --> 20:25.630 and plain black hosen, coarse new canvas for his shirts, and white falling bands 20:25.630 --> 20:27.130 and cuffs at his hands. 20:27.930 --> 20:32.590 He was a man modest, temperate, fearing God, hating covetousness, 20:32.910 --> 20:36.910 for his charity had never end, night, noon, nor day. 20:37.410 --> 20:42.790 He forbear one meal in three, one day in four for the most part, except something 20:42.790 --> 20:43.770 to comfort nature. 20:44.530 --> 20:48.910 He lay hard upon a puff of straw and coarse new canvas sheets, which, 20:49.330 --> 20:51.150 when he changed, he gave away. 20:52.010 --> 20:57.310 He had commonly by his bedside a tub of water, in the which, his people being in 20:57.310 --> 21:00.990 bed, the candle put out and all quiet, he used to bathe himself. 21:01.610 --> 21:04.330 He loved me tenderly, and I him. 21:04.890 --> 21:08.690 He taught with great modesty and gravity, so that some of his people thought him 21:08.690 --> 21:10.170 severe and would have slain him. 21:10.810 --> 21:12.290 But the Lord was his defence. 21:13.010 --> 21:17.750 And he, after due correction for their malice, by good exhortation amended them 21:17.750 --> 21:18.530 and went his way. 21:19.850 --> 21:24.570 Oh, that the Lord had left him to me, his poor boy, that he might have finished 21:24.570 --> 21:25.930 that he had begun! 21:25.930 --> 21:30.990 For he went into Scotland with divers of the nobility that came for a treaty to 21:30.990 --> 21:31.550 King Henry. 21:32.810 --> 21:37.790 If I should declare his love to me and all men, his charity to the poor, in giving, 21:38.030 --> 21:43.390 relieving, caring, helping, providing, yea, infinitely studying how to do good 21:43.390 --> 21:49.510 unto all and hurt to none, I should sooner want words than just cause to commend him. 21:50.790 --> 21:56.530 To the said Master George being in captivity, in the castle of St. Andrews, 21:57.030 --> 22:01.190 the Dean of the same town was sent by the commandment of the Cardinal and by his 22:01.190 --> 22:05.670 wicked counsel, and there summoned the said Master George, that he should, 22:06.110 --> 22:10.530 upon the morning following, appear before the Judge, then and there to give account 22:10.530 --> 22:12.650 of his seditious and heretical doctrine. 22:14.370 --> 22:18.690 Upon the next morning, the Lord Cardinal caused his servants to address themselves 22:18.690 --> 22:24.990 in their most warlike array, with jack, knapsack, splint, spear, and axe, 22:25.350 --> 22:28.910 more seeming for war than for the preaching of the true word of God. 22:29.730 --> 22:33.510 And when these armed champions, marching in warlike order, had conveyed 22:33.510 --> 22:38.890 the bishops into the abbey church, incontinently they sent for Master George, 22:39.750 --> 22:44.430 who was conveyed unto the said church by the captain of the castle, accompanied 22:44.430 --> 22:47.750 with a hundred men addressed in manner aforesaid. 22:48.490 --> 22:51.150 Like a lamb led they him to sacrifice. 22:52.130 --> 22:56.670 As he entered in at the abbey church door, there was a poor man lying, vexed with 22:56.670 --> 23:01.210 great infirmities, asking of his arms, to whom he flung his purse. 23:02.010 --> 23:06.650 And when he came before the Lord Cardinal, the subprior of the abbey, called Dane 23:06.650 --> 23:11.910 John Winram, stood up in the pulpit, and made a sermon to all the congregation 23:11.910 --> 23:12.690 there assembled. 23:13.750 --> 23:18.810 And when he ended his sermon, they caused Master George to ascend into the pulpit, 23:18.950 --> 23:20.610 there to hear his accusation. 23:21.210 --> 23:25.430 And right against him stood up one of the fed flock, a monster, John Lander, 23:25.950 --> 23:30.030 laden full of cursings written in paper, the which he took out, a roll, 23:30.370 --> 23:35.230 long and full of threats, maledictions, and words of devilish spite and malice, 23:35.730 --> 23:39.790 saying to the innocent Master George so many cruel and abominable words, 23:40.190 --> 23:44.150 and hitting him so spitefully with the Pope's thunder, that the ignorant people 23:44.150 --> 23:46.970 dreaded lest the earth would have swallowed him up quick. 23:48.350 --> 23:52.650 Notwithstanding, Master George stood still with great patience, hearing their 23:52.650 --> 23:56.090 sayings, not once moving or changing his countenance. 23:57.330 --> 24:02.170 When that this fed sow had read all his lying menacings, his face running down 24:02.170 --> 24:07.050 with sweat and frothing at the mouth like a boar, he spit at Master George's face, 24:07.210 --> 24:11.850 saying, What answerest thou to these sayings, thou runagate, traitor, 24:12.170 --> 24:15.550 thief, which we have duly proved by sufficient witness against thee? 24:16.470 --> 24:20.510 Master George, hearing this, kneeled down upon his knees in the pulpit. 24:21.230 --> 24:26.390 When he had ended his prayer, sweetly and christianly, he answered to them all in 24:26.390 --> 24:27.010 this manner. 24:27.970 --> 24:32.950 It is just and reasonable that your discretions should know what my words and 24:32.950 --> 24:38.490 doctrine are, and what I have ever taught, that I perish not unjustly to the great 24:38.490 --> 24:39.670 peril of your souls. 24:40.430 --> 24:44.570 Wherefore, both for the glory and honor of God, your own health, and safeguard of my 24:44.570 --> 24:50.170 life, I beseech your discretions to hear me, and in the meantime I shall recite my 24:50.170 --> 24:51.590 doctrine without any color. 24:52.930 --> 24:57.690 Suddenly, with a high voice, cried the accuser, the fed sow, thou heretic, 24:57.950 --> 25:01.670 runagate, traitor, and thief, it is not lawful for thee to preach. 25:02.050 --> 25:05.750 Thou hast taken the power at thy own hand without any authority of the church. 25:06.870 --> 25:10.850 Then all of the congregation of the prelates, with their accomplices, 25:11.010 --> 25:16.630 said, If we give him license to preach, he is so crafty, and in the Holy Scripture 25:16.630 --> 25:20.890 so exercised, that he will persuade the people to his opinion, and raise them 25:20.890 --> 25:21.570 against us. 25:22.410 --> 25:27.630 Master George, seeing their malicious intent, appealed from the Lord Cardinal to 25:27.630 --> 25:31.130 the Lord Governor, as to an indifferent and equal judge. 25:31.690 --> 25:36.410 To whom the accuser, John Lander, with hoggish voice answered, Is not my 25:36.410 --> 25:40.290 Lord Cardinal the second person within this realm, Chancellor of Scotland, 25:40.670 --> 25:46.490 Archbishop of St. Andrews, Bishop of Mirpois, Commendator of Aberbrashoch, 25:47.030 --> 25:49.890 Legatus nartus, legatus a' the tier? 25:51.130 --> 25:56.150 And so, reciting as many titles of his unworthy honors as would have loaded a 25:56.150 --> 26:01.390 ship much sooner an ass, is not he, quoth John Lander, an equal judge 26:01.390 --> 26:02.430 apparently unto thee? 26:03.190 --> 26:05.450 Whom other desirest thou to be thy judge? 26:06.230 --> 26:11.010 To whom this humble man answered, saying, I refuse not my Lord Cardinal, 26:11.090 --> 26:13.430 but I desire the word of God to be my judge. 26:13.450 --> 26:19.190 The temporal estate with some of your lordship's mine auditors, because I am 26:19.190 --> 26:21.090 here my Lord Governor's prisoner. 26:22.890 --> 26:27.130 Hereupon the prideful and scornful people mocked him, and without all delay they 26:27.130 --> 26:30.790 would have given sentence upon Master George, had not certain men counseled the 26:30.790 --> 26:34.670 Cardinal to read again the articles, and to hear his answers thereupon, 26:34.710 --> 26:37.910 that the people might not complain of his wrongful condemnation. 26:38.590 --> 26:43.850 They caused the common people to void away, whose desire was always to hear that 26:43.850 --> 26:45.290 innocent man to speak. 26:46.150 --> 26:51.630 Then the sons of darkness pronounced their sentence definitive, not having respect to 26:51.630 --> 26:52.730 the judgment of God. 26:53.450 --> 26:57.750 And when all this was done and said, the Cardinal caused his tormentors to pass 26:57.750 --> 27:02.910 again with the meek lamb into the castle, until such time as the fire was made 27:02.910 --> 27:03.230 ready. 27:04.430 --> 27:07.490 When he was come unto the castle, there came Friar Scott and his mate, 27:07.610 --> 27:12.170 saying, Sir, ye must make you confession unto us. 27:13.170 --> 27:16.310 He answered, and said, I will make no confession unto you. 27:17.250 --> 27:21.490 When the fire was made ready, and the gallows, the Lord Cardinal, dreading that 27:21.490 --> 27:26.650 Master George should have been taken away by his friends, commanded to bend all the 27:26.650 --> 27:31.190 ordinance of the castle against that part, and commanded all his gunners to stand 27:31.190 --> 27:34.190 beside their guns until such time as he were burned. 27:35.250 --> 27:38.850 All this being done, they bound Master George's hands behind his back, 27:39.370 --> 27:43.070 and led him forth with their soldiers to the place of their wicked execution. 27:44.090 --> 27:48.510 As he came forth of the castle gate, there met him certain beggars asking of 27:48.510 --> 27:53.970 his arms for God's sake, to whom he answered, I want my hands, wherewith I 27:53.970 --> 27:59.290 should give you arms, but the merciful Lord, of His benignity and abundance of 27:59.290 --> 28:04.670 grace, that feedeth all men, vouchsafe to give you necessaries both unto your bodies 28:04.670 --> 28:05.410 and souls. 28:06.450 --> 28:11.570 Then afterwards met him two friars, saying, Master George, pray to our lady 28:11.570 --> 28:16.410 that she may be Mediatrix for you to her son, to whom he answered meekly, 28:17.030 --> 28:19.190 Cease, tempt me not, my brethren. 28:20.210 --> 28:24.150 After this he was led to the fire with a rope about his neck and a chain of iron 28:24.150 --> 28:24.870 about his middle. 28:26.210 --> 28:30.570 When he came to the fire he sat down upon his knees, and rose again, and thrice he 28:30.570 --> 28:34.970 said these words, O thou Saviour of the world, have mercy on me! 28:35.790 --> 28:39.590 Father of heaven, I commend my spirit into thy holy hands. 28:40.430 --> 28:44.730 When he had made this prayer, he turned to the people and said, For the words' sake 28:44.730 --> 28:49.770 and true evangel, which was given to me by the grace of God, I suffer this day by 28:49.770 --> 28:53.690 men, not sorrowfully, but with a glad heart and mind. 28:54.290 --> 28:58.850 For this cause I was sent, that I should suffer this fire for Christ's sake. 28:59.490 --> 29:03.610 Consider and behold my visage, ye shall not see me change my colour. 29:04.230 --> 29:10.070 This grim fire I fear not, I know surely that my soul shall sup with my Saviour 29:10.070 --> 29:11.290 Christ this night. 29:12.110 --> 29:16.270 The hangman, that was his tormentor, sat down upon his knees and said, 29:16.550 --> 29:20.950 Sir, I pray you forgive me, for I am not guilty of your death. 29:21.690 --> 29:24.050 To whom he answered, Come hither to me. 29:25.130 --> 29:30.130 When that he was come to him, he kissed his cheek and said, Lo, here is a token 29:30.130 --> 29:31.170 that I forgive thee. 29:31.810 --> 29:33.670 My heart, do thine office. 29:34.510 --> 29:38.490 And then he was put upon the gibbet and hanged, and burned to powder. 29:39.710 --> 29:44.070 When that the people beheld the great tormenting, they might not withhold from 29:44.070 --> 29:47.730 piteous mourning and complaining of this innocent lamb's slaughter. 29:48.670 --> 29:53.330 It was not long after the martyrdom of this blessed man of God, Master George 29:53.330 --> 29:58.230 Wishart, who was put to death by David Beaton, the bloody Archbishop and Cardinal 29:58.230 --> 29:59.390 of Scotland, A.D. 29:59.950 --> 30:05.370 1546, the first day of March, that the said David Beaton, by the just revenge of 30:05.370 --> 30:09.430 God's mighty judgment, was slain within his own castle of St. Andrews, 30:09.430 --> 30:14.810 by the hands of one Leslie and other gentlemen, who, by the Lord, stood up, 30:15.090 --> 30:20.170 break in suddenly upon him, and in his bed murdered him the said year, the last day 30:20.170 --> 30:24.670 of May, crying out, Alas, alas, slay me not, I am a priest! 30:25.190 --> 30:30.450 And so, like a butcher he lived, and like a butcher he died, and lay seven 30:30.450 --> 30:35.530 months and more unburied, and at last, like a carrion, was buried in a dunghill. 30:36.810 --> 30:41.710 After this David Beaton, succeeded John Hamilton, Archbishop of St. Andrews, 30:41.990 --> 30:46.910 who, to the intent that he might in no ways appear inferior to his predecessor in 30:46.910 --> 30:51.750 augmenting the number of the holy martyrs of God, called a certain poor man to 30:51.750 --> 30:57.810 judgment, whose name was Adam Wallace, the order and manner of whose story here 30:57.810 --> 30:58.410 followeth. 30:59.090 --> 31:03.970 There was set, upon a scaffold, made hard to the chancellery wall of the 31:03.970 --> 31:08.410 Blackfriars Church in Edinburgh, on seats made thereupon, the Lord 31:08.410 --> 31:08.730 Governor. 31:09.490 --> 31:11.430 Behind the seats stood the whole Senate. 31:12.130 --> 31:16.290 In the pulpit was placed Master John Lander, parson of Marbottle, accuser, 31:16.870 --> 31:18.690 clad in a surplus and red hood. 31:19.990 --> 31:26.470 Was brought in Adam Wallace, a simple poor man in appearance, conveyed by John of 31:26.470 --> 31:30.930 Cumnock, servant to the Bishop of St. Andrews, and sat in the midst of the 31:30.930 --> 31:31.290 scaffold. 31:32.330 --> 31:35.830 He was commanded to look to the accuser, who asked him what was his name. 31:36.490 --> 31:37.850 He answered, Adam Wallace. 31:38.650 --> 31:40.310 Then asked he where he was born. 31:40.850 --> 31:43.750 Within two miles of Fale, said he, in Kyle. 31:44.730 --> 31:49.930 Then said the accuser, I repent that ever such a poor man as you should put these 31:49.930 --> 31:54.250 noble lords to so great encumbrance this day by your vain speaking. 31:55.330 --> 32:00.530 And I must speak, said he, as God giveth me grace, and I believe I have said no 32:00.530 --> 32:01.890 evil to hurt anybody. 32:02.730 --> 32:07.950 Would God, said the accuser, he had never spoken, for you are brought forth for such 32:07.950 --> 32:12.310 horrible crimes of heresy, as never were imagined in this country before. 32:13.510 --> 32:17.190 Wallace answered that he said nothing but agreeing to the holy word as he 32:17.190 --> 32:22.530 understood, and thereby would he abide unto the time he were better instructed by 32:22.530 --> 32:24.390 Scripture, even to the death. 32:25.290 --> 32:29.910 If you condemn me for holding by God's word, my innocent blood shall be required 32:29.910 --> 32:34.230 at your hands, when ye shall be brought before the judgment seat of Christ. 32:35.230 --> 32:39.430 Then they condemned him, and delivered him to the provost of Edinburgh to be burned 32:39.430 --> 32:44.670 on the Castle Hill, who made him to be put in the uppermost house in the town with 32:44.670 --> 32:48.710 irons about his legs and neck, and gave charge to Hugh Terry, 32:49.150 --> 32:53.790 an ignorant minister of Satan and of the bishops, to keep the key of the said 32:53.790 --> 32:54.210 house. 32:55.190 --> 33:01.170 The said Terry sent to the poor man two grey friars to instruct him, with whom he 33:01.170 --> 33:02.810 would enter into no communing. 33:03.670 --> 33:07.830 Soon after that were sent in two black friars, an English friar and another 33:07.830 --> 33:10.010 subtle sophister called Arbuthnot. 33:11.110 --> 33:15.550 With the witch English friar, he would have reasoned and declared his faith by 33:15.550 --> 33:20.710 the Scriptures, who answered he had no commission to enter into disputation with 33:20.710 --> 33:22.270 him, and so left him. 33:23.290 --> 33:28.530 Then was sent to him a worldly wise man, and not ungodly in the understanding of 33:28.530 --> 33:33.150 the truth, the dean of Rastelrig, who gave him Christian consolation, 33:33.590 --> 33:37.890 and exhorted him to believe the reality of the sacrament after the consecration. 33:38.790 --> 33:42.430 But Wallace would consent to nothing that had not evidence in the Holy Scripture, 33:42.530 --> 33:48.050 and so passed that night in singing and lauding God to the ears of divers hearers, 33:48.550 --> 33:52.450 having learned the Psalter of David without book to his consolation. 33:53.070 --> 33:57.370 For they had before spoiled him of his Bible, which always till after he was 33:57.370 --> 34:00.590 condemned was with him wherever he went. 34:01.590 --> 34:06.570 After Hugh Terry knew that he had certain books to read and comfort his spirit, 34:07.090 --> 34:11.510 he came in a rage and took the same from him, endeavouring to pervert him from the 34:11.510 --> 34:14.550 patience and hope he had in Christ his Saviour. 34:15.170 --> 34:17.890 But God suffered him not to be moved therewith. 34:18.970 --> 34:23.550 All the next morning abode this poor man in irons, and provision was commanded to 34:23.550 --> 34:26.290 be made for his burning against the next day. 34:26.850 --> 34:31.310 Which day came the dean of Rostlerig to him again, and reasoned with him, 34:31.950 --> 34:36.670 who answered as before that he would say nothing concerning his faith, but as the 34:36.670 --> 34:41.250 Scripture testifieth, yea, though an angel came from heaven to persuade him to the 34:41.250 --> 34:41.510 same. 34:42.510 --> 34:47.390 Thenafter came in Hugh Terry again, and examined him after his old manner, 34:47.850 --> 34:51.230 and said he would gar devils to come forth of him ere even. 34:51.870 --> 34:57.530 To whom he answered, You should rather be a godly man to give me consolation in my 34:57.530 --> 34:57.930 case. 34:59.110 --> 35:03.690 When I knew you were come, I prayed God I might resist your temptations, 35:03.970 --> 35:06.950 which, I thank him, he hath made me able to do. 35:07.490 --> 35:10.290 Therefore I pray you, let me alone in peace. 35:11.430 --> 35:15.870 Then he asked of one of the officers that stood by, Is your fire-making ready? 35:16.470 --> 35:17.610 Who told him it was? 35:17.810 --> 35:24.230 He answered, As it pleaseth God, I am ready soon or late, as it shall 35:24.230 --> 35:24.830 please him. 35:25.830 --> 35:29.890 At his forthcoming, the provost, with great menacing words, forbade him to 35:29.890 --> 35:31.790 speak to any man or any to him. 35:32.810 --> 35:37.630 Coming from the town to the castle hill, the common people said, God have mercy 35:37.630 --> 35:40.290 upon him, and on you too, said he. 35:41.090 --> 35:44.910 Being beside the fire, he lifted up his eyes to heaven twice or thrice, 35:44.990 --> 35:49.770 and said to the people, Let it not offend you that I suffer death this day for the 35:49.770 --> 35:53.930 truth's sake, for the disciple is not greater than his master. 35:54.870 --> 35:58.510 The cord being about his neck, the fire was lighted, and so departed he 35:58.510 --> 36:01.670 to God constantly and with good countenance. 36:03.270 --> 36:08.750 Among the rest of the martyrs of Scotland, the marvellous constancy of Walter Mill is 36:08.750 --> 36:13.810 not to be passed over with silence, out of whose ashes sprang thousands who 36:13.810 --> 36:18.590 chose rather to die than to be any longer overtrodden by the tyranny of the cruel, 36:18.850 --> 36:21.890 ignorant, and brutal bishops, abbots, monks, and friars. 36:22.910 --> 36:27.750 In the year of our Lord, 1558, this Walter Mill, who in his youth had 36:27.750 --> 36:32.490 been a papist, after he had been in Almayne and had heard the doctrine of the 36:32.490 --> 36:36.950 gospel, returned into Scotland, and setting aside all papistry, 36:37.390 --> 36:42.250 married a wife, which thing made him unto the bishops of Scotland to be suspected of 36:42.250 --> 36:47.730 heresy, and after long watching he was taken by two popish priests, and brought 36:47.730 --> 36:51.110 to St. Andrews, and imprisoned in the castle thereof. 36:52.470 --> 36:57.170 The papists threatened him with death and corporal torments, to the intent they 36:57.170 --> 36:59.110 might cause him to forsake the truth. 36:59.690 --> 37:03.850 But seeing they could profit nothing thereby, and that he remained firm and 37:03.850 --> 37:08.430 constant, they laboured to persuade him by fair promises, and offered unto him a 37:08.430 --> 37:12.770 monk's portion for all the days of his life in the abbey of Dunfermline, 37:13.430 --> 37:18.050 so that he would deny the things he had taught, and grant that they were heresy. 37:18.610 --> 37:22.710 But he, continuing in the truth, even unto the end, despised their 37:22.710 --> 37:24.230 threatenings and fair promises. 37:25.530 --> 37:29.250 The said Walter Mill was brought to the Metropolitan Church of St. Andrews, 37:29.630 --> 37:33.310 where he was put in a pulpit before the bishops to be accused. 37:34.490 --> 37:39.430 Seeing him so weak and feeble of person, partly by age and travail, and partly by 37:39.430 --> 37:44.350 evil entreatment, that without help he could not climb up, they were out of hope 37:44.350 --> 37:46.690 to have heard him, for the weakness of his voice. 37:47.730 --> 37:52.210 But when he began to speak, he made the church to ring again with so great courage 37:52.210 --> 37:56.750 and stoutness, that the Christians who were present were no less rejoiced than 37:56.750 --> 37:59.230 the adversaries were confounded and ashamed. 38:00.230 --> 38:05.070 Being in the pulpit and on his knees at prayer, Andrew Olyphant, one of the 38:05.070 --> 38:10.190 archbishop's priests, commanded him to arise, saying on this manner, Sir Walter 38:10.190 --> 38:15.330 Mill, arise and answer to the articles, for you hold my Lord here over long. 38:15.730 --> 38:20.710 To whom Walter, after he had finished his prayer, answered, saying, Ye call me Sir 38:20.710 --> 38:21.070 Walter? 38:21.870 --> 38:24.190 Call me Walter, and not Sir Walter. 38:24.690 --> 38:27.210 I have been over long one of the Pope's knights. 38:28.090 --> 38:30.210 Now say what thou hast to say. 38:31.230 --> 38:35.930 Olyphant, thou sayest there be not seven sacraments? 38:36.550 --> 38:40.710 Mill, give me the Lord's supper and baptism, and take you the rest, 38:41.350 --> 38:42.530 and part them among you. 38:43.250 --> 38:47.330 Olyphant, thou art against the blessed sacrament of the altar, and sayest that 38:47.330 --> 38:49.370 the mass is wrong and is idolatry? 38:50.390 --> 38:54.810 Mill, a lord or a king sendeth and calleth many to a dinner. 38:55.510 --> 38:59.710 And when the dinner is in readiness, he causeth to ring the bell, and the men 38:59.710 --> 39:02.730 come to the hall, and sit down to be partakers of the dinner. 39:03.470 --> 39:07.630 But the Lord, turning His back unto them, eateth all Himself, and mocketh them. 39:08.370 --> 39:09.070 So do ye. 39:10.210 --> 39:14.750 Olyphant, thou denyest the sacrament of the altar to be the very body of Christ, 39:14.750 --> 39:16.270 really, and flesh and blood? 39:17.130 --> 39:21.790 Mill, as for the mass, it is wrong, for Christ was once offered on the cross 39:21.790 --> 39:26.630 for man's trespass, and will never be offered again, for then He ended all 39:26.630 --> 39:27.510 sacrifice. 39:28.390 --> 39:33.090 Olyphant, thou preachest secretly and privately in houses and openly in the 39:33.090 --> 39:33.430 fields. 39:34.210 --> 39:38.690 Mill, yea, man, and on the sea also, sailing in a ship. 39:39.650 --> 39:43.490 Olyphant, wilt thou not recant thy erroneous opinions? 39:44.430 --> 39:49.310 Mill, I will not recant the truth, for I am corn, I am no chaff. 39:49.650 --> 39:54.570 I will not be blown away with the wind, nor burst with the flail, but I will abide 39:54.570 --> 39:54.990 both. 39:56.090 --> 39:59.530 Then Olyphant pronounced sentence against him, that he should be delivered to the 39:59.530 --> 40:03.710 temporal judge, and punished as a heretic, which was to be burned. 40:05.190 --> 40:09.750 Notwithstanding, his boldness and constancy moved so the hearts of many, 40:10.510 --> 40:14.010 that the provost of the town, called Patrick Lermond, refused to be his 40:14.010 --> 40:18.690 temporal judge, to whom it appertained if the cause had been just. 40:19.470 --> 40:22.670 Also the bishop's chamberlain, being therewith charged, would in no wise 40:22.670 --> 40:24.790 take upon him so ungodly an office. 40:26.090 --> 40:30.510 Yea, the whole town was so offended with his unjust condemnation, that the bishop's 40:30.510 --> 40:35.970 servants could not get for their money so much as one cord to tie him to the stake, 40:36.070 --> 40:40.850 or a tar-barrel to burn him, but were constrained to cut the cords of their 40:40.850 --> 40:43.790 master's own pavilion, to serve their turn. 40:45.230 --> 40:50.110 Nevertheless, one servant of the bishop's, more ignorant and cruel than the rest, 40:50.250 --> 40:54.650 called Alexander Somervale, enterprising the office of a temporal judge in that 40:54.650 --> 40:59.150 part, conveyed him to the fire, where, against all natural reason of man, 40:59.470 --> 41:04.130 his boldness and hardiness did more and more increase, so that the Spirit of God, 41:04.210 --> 41:09.010 working miraculously in him, made it manifest to the people, that his cause was 41:09.010 --> 41:11.290 just, and he innocently put down. 41:12.350 --> 41:17.290 When all things were ready for his death, and he conveyed with armed men to the 41:17.290 --> 41:24.210 fire, Oliphant bade him pass to the stake, and he said, Nay, wilt thou put me up with 41:24.210 --> 41:28.930 thy hand, and take part of my death, thou shalt see me pass up gladly, 41:29.850 --> 41:33.930 for by the law of God I am forbidden to put hands upon myself. 41:34.930 --> 41:38.170 Then Oliphant put him up with his hand, and he ascended gladly, saying, 41:38.510 --> 41:43.170 I will go to the altar of God, and desired that ye might have space to 41:43.170 --> 41:47.550 speak to the people, which Oliphant and the other of the burners denied, 41:47.810 --> 41:50.450 saying that he had spoken over much. 41:50.450 --> 41:55.150 For the bishops were altogether offended that the matter was so long continued. 41:56.450 --> 41:59.770 Then some of the young men committed both the burners, and the bishops their 41:59.770 --> 42:04.510 masters, to the devil, saying that they should lament that day, and desired the 42:04.510 --> 42:06.490 said Walter to speak what he pleased. 42:07.570 --> 42:10.750 And so after he made his humble supplication to God on his knees, 42:10.810 --> 42:15.990 he arose, and standing upon the coals, said on this wise, Dear friends, 42:16.770 --> 42:22.650 the cause why I suffer this day is not for any crime laid to my charge, albeit I be a 42:22.650 --> 42:27.490 miserable sinner before God, but only for the defense of the faith of Jesus Christ, 42:27.650 --> 42:30.450 set forth in the New and Old Testament unto us. 42:31.430 --> 42:35.750 For which as the faithful martyrs have offered themselves gladly before, 42:35.910 --> 42:41.730 being assured after the death of their bodies of eternal felicity, so this day I 42:41.730 --> 42:46.630 praise God that he hath called me of his mercy among the rest of his servants to 42:46.630 --> 42:50.870 seal up his truth with my life, which, as I have received it of him, 42:51.230 --> 42:53.830 so willingly I offer it to his glory. 42:54.830 --> 42:59.670 Therefore, as you will escape the eternal death, be no more seduced with the lies of 42:59.670 --> 43:04.290 priests, monks, friars, priors, abbots, bishops, and the rest of the sect 43:04.290 --> 43:10.170 of Antichrist, but depend only upon Jesus Christ and His mercy, that ye may be 43:10.170 --> 43:11.810 delivered from condemnation. 43:13.190 --> 43:17.030 All that while there was great mourning and lamentation of the multitude, 43:17.250 --> 43:21.770 for they, perceiving his patience, stoutness and boldness, constancy, 43:21.970 --> 43:26.630 and hardiness, were not only moved and stirred up, but their hearts also were 43:26.630 --> 43:27.230 inflamed. 43:28.550 --> 43:32.950 After his prayer he was hoisted up upon the stake, and being in the fire he said, 43:32.950 --> 43:35.150 Lord, have mercy upon me. 43:35.530 --> 43:37.250 Pray, people, while there is time. 43:37.730 --> 43:38.770 And so he departed. 43:39.710 --> 43:44.190 After this, by the just judgment of God, in the same place where Walter Mill was 43:44.190 --> 43:49.690 burnt, the images of the great church of the Abbey, which surpassed both in number 43:49.690 --> 43:53.870 and costliness, were burned in the time of reformation.