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The Trial, Condemnation and Martyrdom of
Ridley and Latimer And thus hast thou,

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gentle reader, the whole life both of
Master Ridley and of Master Latimer

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severally set forth.

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Now we couple them together, as they were
together joined in one martyrdom.

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Upon the 28th of September, 1555,
was sent down to Oxford a commission from

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Cardinal White, Bishop of Lincoln,
to Dr. Brooks, Bishop of Gloucester,

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and to Dr. Holyman, Bishop of Bristol,
that they, or two of them, should have

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full power to judge Master Hugh Latimer
and Master Dr. Ridley for diver's

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erroneous opinions, which they did
maintain in open disputations had in

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Oxford.

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For which opinions, if the named persons
would recant, then they, the deputed

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judges, should have power to receive the
said penitent persons, and forthwith

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minister unto them the reconciliation of
the Holy Father the Pope.

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But if the said Hugh Latimer and Nicholas
Ridley would maintain their erroneous

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opinions, then the said lords should
pronounce them heretics, cut them clean

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off from the church, and yield them to
receive punishment.

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Wherefore the last of September the said
lords were placed and set in the Divinity

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School at Oxford, and first appeared
Master Dr. Ridley.

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After his coming into the school,
the Cardinal's commission was read.

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But Dr. Ridley, standing bareheaded,
humbly expecting the cause of that his

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appearance, as soon as he had heard the
Cardinal named, and the Pope's holiness,

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put on his cap.

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The usurped supremacy and abused authority
of the Bishop of Rome I utterly refuse and

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renounce.

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I may in no wise give any obeisance or
honour unto him, lest my so doing might be

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a derogation to the verity of God's Word.

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The Bishop of Lincoln, after the third
admonition, commanded one of the beetles

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to pluck Master Ridley's cap from his
head.

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Master Ridley, bowing his head to the
officer, gently permitted him to take away

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his cap.

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After this the Bishop, in a long oration,
exhorted Master Ridley to recant,

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and acknowledge the supremacy of the Pope.

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Then Master Ridley said in this manner,
As touching the saying of Christ,

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From whence your Lordship gathereth the
foundation of the church upon Peter,

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Truly the place is not so to be understood
as you take it.

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For after that Christ had asked His
disciples, whom men judged Him to be,

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and they had answered, that some had said
He was a prophet, some Elias, some one

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thing, some another, then He said,
Who say ye that I am?

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Then Peter said, I say that thou art
Christ, the Son of God.

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To whom Christ answered, I say,
thou art Peter, and upon this stone I will

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build my church.

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That is to say, upon this stone,
not meaning Peter himself, as though he

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would have constituted a mortal man so
frail and brickle a foundation of his

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stable and infallible church.

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But upon this rock stone, that is,
this confession of thine, that I am the

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Son of God, I will build my church.

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For this is the foundation and beginning
of all Christianity, with word,

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heart, and mind, to confess that Christ is
the Son of God.

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But the bishop, not attending to this
answer, proceeded, We came not to reason

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with you, but must proceed, proposing
certain articles, unto the which we

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require your answer directly, either
affirmatively or negatively, to every one

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of them, either denying them or granting
them, without further disputations or

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reasoning.

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The which articles you shall hear now,
and to-morrow at eight of the clock in St.

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Mary's church, we will require and take
your answers.

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Articles jointly and severally ministered
to Dr. Ridley and Master Latimer by the

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Pope's deputy.

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1.

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We do object to thee, Nicholas Ridley,
and to thee, Hugh Latimer, jointly and

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severally, that thou hast affirmed and
openly defended and maintained that the

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true and natural body of Christ,
after the consecration of the priest,

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is not really present in the sacrament of
the altar.

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2.

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That thou hast publicly affirmed and
defended that in the sacrament of the

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altar remaineth still the substance of
bread and wine.

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3.

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That thou hast openly affirmed and
obstinately maintained that in the mass is

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no propitiatory sacrifice for the quick
and the dead.

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After Master Ridley was committed to the
mayor, the bishop commanded the bailiffs

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to bring in the other prisoner.

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Then Master Latimer bowed his knee down to
the ground, holding his hat in his hand,

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having a kerchief on his head,
and upon it a nightcap or two,

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and a great cap, such as townsmen use,
with two broad flaps to button under the

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chin, wearing an old threadbare
bristle-freeze gown, girded to his body

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with a penny-leather girdle, at which
hanged, by a long string of leather,

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his testament, and his spectacles without
case, depending about his neck,

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upon his breast.

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After this the bishop began on this
manner, What should stay you to confess

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that which all the realm confesseth,
to forsake that which the king and queen

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have renounced, and all the realms
recanted?

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It was a common error, and it is now of
all confessed, It shall be no more shame

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to you than it was to us all.

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Therefore, Master Latimer, for God's love,
remember you are an old man.

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Spare your body.

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Accelerate not your death, and specially
remember your soul's health.

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If you should die in this state,
you shall be a stinking sacrifice to God,

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for it is the cause that maketh the
martyr, and not the death.

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Consider that if you die in this state,
you die without grace, for without the

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church can be no salvation.

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The bishop said they came not to dispute
with Master Latimer, but to take his

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determinate answers to their articles,
and so began to propose the same articles

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which were proposed to Master Ridley.

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The next day following, which was the
first day of October, somewhat after eight

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o 'clock, the said lords repaired to St.
Mary's church, and after they were set in

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a high throne, well trimmed with cloth of
tissue and silk, appeared Master Ridley.

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Then spake the bishop of Lincoln,
We came to take your determinate answers

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to our articles.

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If you have brought your answer in
writing, we will receive it.

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But if you have written any other matter,
we will not receive it.

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Then Master Ridley took a sheet of paper
out of his bosom, and began to read that

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which he had written.

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But the bishop of Lincoln commanded the
beetle to take it from him.

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But Master Ridley desired license to read
it, saying that it was nothing but his

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answer.

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But the bishop would in no wise suffer
him.

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Ridley, why, my lord, will you require my
answer, and not suffer me to publish it?

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Lincoln, Master Ridley, we will first see
what you have written, and then,

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if we shall think it good to be read,
you shall have it published.

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But except you will deliver it first,
we will take none at all of you.

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With that Master Ridley, seeing no remedy,
delivered it to an officer, who delivered

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it to the bishop.

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After he had secretly communicated it to
the other two bishops, he would not read

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it as it was written, saying that it
contained words of blasphemy.

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Therefore he would not fill the ears of
the audience therewithal, and so abuse

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their patience.

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The bishop of Gloucester, and likewise the
bishop of Lincoln, with many words,

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desired Master Ridley to turn.

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But he made an absolute answer,
that he was fully persuaded the religion

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which he defended to be grounded upon
God's word, and, therefore, without great

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offence towards God, great peril and
damage of his soul, he could not forsake

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his Master and Lord God, but desired the
bishop to perform his grant, in that his

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lordship said the day before, that he
should have licence to show his cause why

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he could not with a safe conscience admit
the authority of the pope.

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The bishop bade him take his licence,
but he should speak but forty words,

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and he would tell them upon his fingers.

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At Ephsoon's Master Ridley began to speak,
but before he had ended half a sentence,

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the doctors sitting by cried that his
number was out.

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With that he was put to silence.

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And forthwith the bishop of Lincoln did
read the sentence of condemnation,

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degrading Master Ridley from the degree of
a bishop, from priesthood, and all

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ecclesiastical order, declaring him to be
no member of the church, and committing

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him to the secular powers of them to
receive due punishment.

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Then Master Ridley was committed as a
prisoner to the mayor.

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Immediately Master Latimer was sent for,
whom the bishop of Lincoln desired to

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recant, revoke his errors, and turn to the
Catholic church.

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No, my lord, interrupted Master Latimer,
I confess there is a Catholic church,

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but not the church which you call
Catholic, which sooner might be termed

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diabolic.

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It is one thing to say Romish church,
and another thing to say Catholic church.

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I must use here the counsel of Cyprian,
who, at what time he was excited before

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certain bishops demanded of them sitting
in judgment, which was most like to be of

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the church of Christ, whether he who was
persecuted, or they who did persecute.

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Christ, said he, hath foreshowed that he
that doth follow him must take up his

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cross.

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Christ gave knowledge that the disciples
should have persecution and trouble.

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How think you then, my lords, is it most
like that the sea of Rome, which hath been

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a continual persecutor, is rather the
church, or that flock which hath

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continually been persecuted of it,
even to death?

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After Master Latimer had answered that he
neither could nor would deny his Master

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Christ and his verity, the bishop of
Lincoln desired Master Latimer to hearken

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to him.

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And then Master Latimer, hearkening for
some new matter, the bishop read his

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condemnation, after which the said three
bishops break up their sessions and

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dismiss the audience.

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But Master Latimer required the bishop to
perform his promise in saying the day

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before that he should have license briefly
to declare why he refused the pope's

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authority.

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But the bishop said that now he could not
hear him, neither ought to talk with him.

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Then he committed Master Latimer to the
mayor, saying, Now he is your prisoner,

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Master Mayor.

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And so continued Bishop Ridley and Master
Latimer endurance, until the sixteenth day

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of October, A.D.

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1555.

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Upon the fifteenth day in the morning,
Dr. Brooks, the bishop of Gloucester,

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and the vice-chancellor of Oxford,
Dr. Marshall, with divers other of the

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heads of the university, came unto Master
Irish's house, then mayor of Oxford,

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where Dr. Ridley was close prisoner.

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The bishop of Gloucester told him for what
purpose their coming, saying that yet once

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again the Queen's Majesty did offer unto
him her gracious mercy, if that he would

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come home to the faith which he was
baptized in.

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If he would not recant, they must needs
proceed according to the law.

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My lord, quoth Dr. Ridley, as for the
doctrine which I have taught, my

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conscience assureth me that it was sound,
and according to God's word.

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The which doctrine the Lord God,
being my helper, I will maintain,

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so long as my tongue shall wag and breath
is within my body, and in confirmation

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thereof seal the same with my blood.

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Seeing, saith the bishop of Gloucester,
that you will not receive the Queen's

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mercy, we must proceed according to our
commission, to disgrating, taking from you

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the dignity of priesthood.

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So committing you to the secular power,
you know what doth follow.

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Ridley, do with me as it shall please God
to suffer you, I am well content to abide

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the same with all my heart.

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Gloucester, put off your cap, Master
Ridley, and put upon you this surplus.

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Ridley, not I, truly.

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Gloucester, but you must.

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Ridley, I will not.

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Gloucester, you must.

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Therefore make no more ado, but put this
surplus upon you.

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Ridley, truly if it come upon me,
it shall be against my will.

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Gloucester, will you not do it upon you?

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Ridley, know that I will not.

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Gloucester, it shall be put upon you by
one or other.

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Ridley, do therein as it shall please you,
I am well contented with that,

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and more than that.

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The servant is not above his Master.

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If they dealt so cruelly with our Saviour
Christ, as the Scripture maketh mention,

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and He suffered the same patiently,
how much more doth it become us His

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servants?

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They put upon Dr. Ridley all the trinkets
appertaining to the Mass, and the same did

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vehemently inveigh against the Romish
bishop in all that foolish apparel,

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insomuch that Bishop Brooks was exceeding
angry with him, and bade him hold his

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peace.

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Dr. Ridley answered that so long as his
tongue and breath would suffer him,

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he would speak against their abominable
doings whatsoever happened unto him for so

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doing.

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At which words one Edridge, the reader
then of the Greek lecture, standing by,

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said to Dr. Brooks, Sir, the law is,
he should be gagged.

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Therefore let him be gagged.

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At which words Dr. Ridley, looking
earnestly upon him, that so said,

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wagged his head at him, and with a sigh
said, O well, well, well!

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So they proceeded in their doings.

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Yet nevertheless Dr. Ridley was ever
talking things not pleasant to their ears,

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although one or other bade him hold his
peace, lest he should be caused against

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his will.

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When they came to that place where Dr.
Ridley should hold the chalice and the

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wafer-cake, called the singing-bread,
they bade him hold the same in his hands.

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And Dr. Ridley said, They shall not come
in my hands, for if they do, they shall

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fall to the ground for all me.

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Then there was one appointed to hold them
in his hand, while Bishop Brooks read a

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certain thing in Latin law, the effect
whereof was, We do take from you the

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office of preaching the gospel.

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At which words Dr. Ridley gave a great
sigh, looking up towards heaven,

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saying, O Lord God, forgive them this
their wickedness!

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When all this, their abominable and
ridiculous degradation, was ended very

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solemnly, Dr. Ridley said unto Dr. Brooks,
If you have done, give me leave to talk

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with you a little concerning these
matters.

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Brooks answered and said, Master Ridley,
we may not talk with you.

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You be out of the church, and our law is,
that we may not talk with any that be out

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of the church.

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Then Master Ridley said, Seeing that you
will not suffer me to talk, neither will

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vouchsafe to hear me, what remedy but
patience!

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I refer the cause to my Heavenly Father,
who will reform things that be amiss,

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when it shall please Him.

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Then Master Ridley said, I pray you,
my Lord, be ameen to the Queen's Majesty,

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in the behalf of a great many of poor men,
and especially for my poor sister and her

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husband, which standeth there.

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They had a poor living granted unto them
by me, whilst I was in the sea of London,

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and the same is taken away from them by
him that now occupieth the same room,

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without all law or conscience.

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Here I have a supplication to the Queen's
Majesty in their behalves.

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You shall hear the same read, so shall you
perceive the matter better.

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When he came to the place that touched his
sister by name, he wept, so that for a

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little space he could not speak.

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After that he had left off weeping,
he said, This is nature that moveth me,

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but I have now done.

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Whereunto Brooks said, Indeed,
Master Ridley, your request is very lawful

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and honest, therefore I must needs in
conscience speak to the Queen's Majesty

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for them.

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All things being finished, Dr. Brooks
called the bailiffs, delivering to them

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Master Ridley with this charge,
to keep him safely from any man speaking

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with him, and that he should be brought to
the place of execution when they were

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commanded.

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The night before he suffered, as he sat at
the supper at Master Irish's, who was his

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keeper, he bade his hostess and the rest
at the board to his marriage.

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For, said he, tomorrow I must be married.

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And so showed himself to be as merry as
ever he was at any time before.

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And wishing his sister at his marriage,
he asked his brother, sitting at the

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table, whether she could find in her heart
to be there or no.

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And he answered, Yea, I dare say,
with all her heart, at which word he said

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he was glad.

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At this talk Mistress Irish wept.

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But Master Ridley comforted her,
and said, O Mrs. Irish, you love me not

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now, I see well enough.

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For in that you weep, it doth appear you
will not be at my marriage, neither are

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content therewith.

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Indeed, you be not so much my friend as I
thought you had been.

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But quiet yourself, though my breakfast
shall be somewhat sharp and painful,

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yet I am sure my supper shall be more
pleasant and sweet.

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When they arose from the table,
his brother offered to watch all night

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with him, but he said, No, no,
that you shall not.

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For I mind, God willing, to go to bed,
and to sleep as quietly to-night as ever I

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did in my life.

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Upon the north side of the town,
in the ditch over against Balliol College,

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the place of execution was appointed,
and for fear of any tumult that might

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arise to let the burning of them,
the Lord Williams was commanded by the

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Queen's Letters to be their assistant
sufficiently appointed.

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And when everything was in a readiness,
the prisoners were brought forth.

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Master Ridley had a fair black gown furred
and faced with foins, such as he was wont

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to wear being bishop, and a tippet of
velvet furred likewise about his neck,

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a velvet night-cap upon his head,
and a corner-cap upon the same,

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going in a pair of slippers to the stake
between the mayor and the alderman.

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After him came Master Latimer in a poor
bristol-freeze frock, all worn,

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with his buttoned cap and a kerchief on
his head, a new long shroud hanging over

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his hose down to the feet.

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The sight stirred men's hearts to rue,
beholding the honour they sometime had and

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the calamity whereunto they were fallen.

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Master Dr. Ridley, as he passed toward
Bacardo, looked up where Master Cranmer

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did lie, hoping belike to have seen him at
the glass window and to have spoken unto

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him.

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But then Master Cranmer was busy with
Friar Soto and his fellows, disputing

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together so that he could not see him.

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Master Ridley, looking back, espied Master
Latimer coming after, unto whom he said,

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O be ye there!

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Yea, said Master Latimer, here after as
fast as I can follow.

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So at length they both came to the stake,
Dr. Ridley marvellously earnestly holding

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up both his hands, looking towards heaven.

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Then, espying Master Latimer with a
wondrous cheerful look, he ran to him,

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embraced and kissed him, and comforted
him, saying, Be of good heart,

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brother, for God will either assuage the
fury of the flame, or else strengthen us

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to abide it.

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With that went he to the stake,
kneeled down by it, kissed it,

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and most effectuously prayed, and behind
him Master Latimer kneeled, as earnestly

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calling upon God as he.

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Then Dr. Smith began his sermon to them
upon this text of St. Paul.

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If I yield my body to the fire to be
burnt, and have not charity, I shall gain

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nothing thereby.

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Wherein he alleged that the goodness of
the cause, and not the order of death,

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maketh the holiness of the person,
which he confirmed by the examples of

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Judas, and of a woman in Oxford,
that of late hanged herself.

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He ended with a very short exhortation to
them to recant, and come home again to the

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church, and save their lives and souls.

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Dr. Ridley said to Master Latimer,
Will you begin to answer the sermon,

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or shall I?

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Master Latimer said, Begin you first,
I pray you.

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I will, said Master Ridley.

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Then, the wicked sermon being ended,
Dr. Ridley and Master Latimer kneeled down

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upon their knees towards my Lord Williams
of Tim, unto whom Master Ridley said,

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I beseech you, my lord, even for Christ's
sake, that I may speak but two or three

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words.

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And whilst my lord bent his head to the
mayor and vice-chancellor to know whether

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he might give him leave to speak,
the bailiffs and Dr. Marshall,

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vice-chancellor, ran hastily unto him,
and with their hands stopped his mouth,

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and said, Master Ridley, if you will
revoke your erroneous opinions and recant

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the same, you shall not only have liberty
so to do, but also the benefit of a

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subject, that is, have your life.

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Not otherwise, said Master Ridley.

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No, quoth Dr. Marshall.

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Well, quoth Master Ridley, so long as the
breath is in my body, I will never deny my

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Lord Christ and His known truth.

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God's will be done in me.

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Incontinently they were commanded to make
them ready, which they with all meekness

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obeyed.

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Master Ridley took his gown and his tippet
and gave it to his brother-in-law,

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Master Shipside.

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Some other of his apparel that was little
worth he gave away, other the bailiffs

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took.

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He gave away besides divers other small
things to gentlemen standing by pitifully

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weeping, as to Sir Henry Lee a new groat,
and to divers of my Lord Williams'

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gentlemen some napkins, some nutmegs,
and raises of ginger.

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His dial, and such other things as he had
about him, to every one that stood next

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him.

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Some plucked the points off his hose.

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Happy was he that might get any rag of
him.

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Master Latimer very quietly suffered his
keeper to pull off his hose, and his other

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array, which was very simple.

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Being stripped into his shroud,
he seemed as comely a person to them that

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were there present as one should see.

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And whereas, in his clothes, he appeared a
withered and crooked old man, he now stood

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bolt upright, as comely a father as one
might lightly behold.

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Master Ridley held up his hand and said,
O Heavenly Father, I give unto Thee most

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hearty thanks, for that Thou hast called
me to be a professor of Thee even unto

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death.

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I beseech Thee, Lord God, take mercy upon
this realm of England, and deliver the

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same from all her enemies.

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Then the smith took a chain of iron,
and brought the same about both Dr.

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Ridley's and Master Latimer's middles.

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And as he was knocking in a staple,
Dr. Ridley took the chain in his hand,

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and shaked the same, and looking aside to
the smith, said, Good fellow, knock it in

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hard, for the flesh will have his course.

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Then his brother did bring him gunpowder
in a bag, and would have tied the same

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about his neck.

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Master Ridley asked what it was.

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His brother said, Gunpowder.

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Then said he, I take it to be sent of God,
therefore I will receive it as sent of

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him.

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And have you any?

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said he for my brother, meaning Master
Latimer.

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Yea, sir, that I have, quoth his brother.

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Then give it unto him, said he,
betime, lest ye come too late.

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So his brother went, and carried off the
same gunpowder unto Master Latimer.

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Then they brought a faggot, kindled with
fire, and laid the same down at Dr.

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Ridley's feet.

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To whom Master Latimer spake in this
manner, Be of good comfort, Master Ridley,

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and play the man.

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We shall this day light such a candle by
God's grace in England, as I trust shall

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never be put out.

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When Dr. Ridley saw the fire flaming up
towards him, he cried with a wonderful

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loud voice, Lord, Lord, receive my spirit!

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Master Latimer crying as vehemently on the
other side, O Father of Heaven,

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receive my soul!

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Received the flame as it were embracing of
it.

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After that he stroked his face with his
hands, and as it were bathed them a little

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in the fire, he soon died, as it
appeareth, with very little pain or none.

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By reason of the evil making of the fire
unto Master Ridley, because the wooden

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faggots were laid about the gorse,
and over high built, the fire burned first

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beneath, being kept down by the wood,
which, when Master Ridley felt,

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he desired then for Christ's sake to let
the fire come unto him.

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Which, when his brother-in-law heard,
but not well understood, intending to rid

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him out of his pain, for the which cause
he gave attendance, as one in such sorrow

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not well advised what he did, he heaped
faggots upon him, so that he clean covered

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him, which made the fire more vehement
beneath, that it burned clean all his

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nether parts, before it once touched the
upper.

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And that made him often desire then to let
the fire come unto him, saying,

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I cannot burn.

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Which indeed appeared well, for after his
legs were consumed, he showed that side

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towards us, clean shirt, and all untouched
with flame.

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Yet in all this torment he forgot not to
call unto God, having in his mouth,

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Lord have mercy upon me, intermingling his
cry, Let the fire come unto me,

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I cannot burn.

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In which pangs he laboured till one of the
standers fire with his bill pulled off the

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faggots above, and where he saw the fire
flame up Master Ridley rested himself unto

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that side, and when the flame touched the
gunpowder he was seen to stir no more.

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It moved hundreds to tears in beholding
the horrible sight, for I think there was

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none that had not clean exiled all
humanity and mercy, which would not have

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lamented to behold the fury of the fire so
to rage upon their bodies.

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Signs there were of sorrow on every side.

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Some took it grievously to see their
deaths, whose lives they held full dear.

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Some pitied their persons that thought
their souls had no need thereof.

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Well, dead they are, and the reward of
this world they have already.

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What reward remaineth for them in heaven
the day of the Lord's glory, when he

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cometh with his saints, shall declare.