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The Fires of Smithfield, an account of
some of the martyrs that with their lives

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sealed their testimony there for the
Protestant faith.

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About the third year of King Henry I,
the hospital of St. Bartholomew in

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Smithfield was founded by means of a
minstrel belonging unto the king,

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named Raya, and it was afterwards finished
by Richard Whittington, alderman and mayor

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of London.

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This place of Smithfield was at that day
the place where the felons and other

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transgressors of the king's laws were put
to execution.

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John Badby, Artificer.

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In the year of Our Lord 1410, on Saturday,
being the first day of March, the

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examination of one John Badby,
tailor, was made in a certain house or

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hall within the precinct of the Preaching
Friars of London, before Thomas Arundel,

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Archbishop of Canterbury.

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Which John Badby did answer that it was
impossible that any priest should make the

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body of Christ by words sacramentally
spoken.

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The archbishop, considering that he would
in no wise be altered, and seeing,

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moreover, his countenance stout and heart
confirmed, so that he began to persuade

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others as it appeared, pronounced the said
John Badby an open and public heretic,

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and delivered him to the secular powers.

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These things concluded by the bishops in
the aforenoon, in the afternoon the king's

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writ was not far behind.

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John Badby was brought into Smithfield,
and there, being put in an empty barrel,

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was bound with iron chains fastened to a
stake, having dry wood put about him.

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And as he was thus standing, it happened
that the prince, the king's eldest son,

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was there present, who, showing some part
of the good Samaritan, began to essay how

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to save his life.

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In the mean season the prior of St.
Bartholomew's in Smithfield brought,

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with all solemnity, the sacrament of God's
body, with twelve torches borne before,

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and so showed the sacrament to the poor
man being at the stake.

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And then, they demanding of him how he
believed in it, he answered that he knew

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well it was hallowed bread, and not God's
body.

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Then the fire was put unto him.

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When the innocent soul felt the fire,
he cried, Mercy, calling Belike upon the

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Lord.

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With which horrible cry the prince,
being moved, commanded them to quench the

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fire.

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This commandment being done, he asked him
if he would forsake heresy, which thing,

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if he would do, he should have goods
enough, promising also unto him a yearly

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stipend out of the king's treasury,
so as should suffice for his sustenance.

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But this valiant champion of Christ,
neglecting the prince's fair words,

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as also contemning all men's devices,
being fully determined rather to suffer

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any kind of torment, were it never so
grievous, than so great idolatry and

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wickedness, refused the offer.

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Wherefore the prince commanded him
straight to be put again to the fire.

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Even so was he nothing at all abashed at
their torments, but persevered invincibly

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to the end.

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William Sweeting and John Brewster William
Sweeting and John Brewster were both

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burned together the eighteenth day of
October, A.

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D.

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1511.

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The chief case alleged against them was
their faith concerning the sacrament of

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Christ's body and blood.

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There were other things besides objective,
as the reading of certain forbidden books,

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and accompanying with such persons as were
suspected of heresy.

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But one great and heinous offence counted
amongst the rest, was their leaving off

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the painted faggots, which they were at
their first abjuring enjoined to wear as

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badges during their lives, so long as it
should please their ordinary to appoint.

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John Stillman John Stillman was charged
for speaking against the worshipping,

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praying, and offering unto images,
as also for denying the carnal and

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corporal presence in the sacrament of
Christ's memorial, and further,

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for that he had highly commended and
praised John Wycliffe, affirming that he

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was a saint in heaven.

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He was delivered unto the sheriffs of
London to be openly burned, 1518.

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Thomas Mann Thomas Mann was apprehended
for the profession of Christ's gospel.

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He had spoken against auricular confession
and denied the corporal presence of

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Christ's body in the sacrament of the
altar.

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He believed that images ought not to be
worshipped, and neither believed in the

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crucifix, nor yet would worship it.

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For such like matters was he a long time
imprisoned, and at last, through fear of

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death, was content to abjure and yield
himself unto the judgment of the Romish

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church.

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Thereupon he was enjoined, not only to
make open recantation, but from

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thenceforth to remain as prisoner within
the monastery of Arsene besides Oxford,

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and to bear a faggot before the first
cross at the next general procession

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within the university.

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Howbeit, not long after, the bishop,
having need of the poor man's help in his

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household business, took him out of the
monastery and placed him within his own

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house, all which notwithstanding he fled,
seeking abroad in other counties for work,

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thereby to sustain his poor life.

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He most commonly abode sometimes in Essex,
sometimes in Suffolk, where also he joined

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himself unto such godly professors of
Christ's gospel as he there could hear of.

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But within few years after, he was accused
of relapse, apprehended, and brought

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before the Bishop of London.

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But because he would seem to do all things
by order of justice, and nothing against

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law, he therefore appointed unto the said
Thomas man certain doctors and advocates

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of the arches, as his counsellors to plead
in his behalf.

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He was condemned as a heretic,
and delivered to the Sheriff of London,

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sitting on horseback in Paternoster Row,
before the Bishop's door, A.D.

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1518.

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The Sheriff immediately carried him to
Smithfield, and there, the same day in the

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forenoon, caused him to be put into God's
angel.

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1518.

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John Frith John Frith, a young man,
had so profited in all kind of learning

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and knowledge, that there was scarcely his
equal amongst his companions.

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He had such a godliness of life joined
with his doctrine, that it was hard to

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judge in which of them he was more
commendable.

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At last he fell into knowledge and
acquaintance with William Tyndale,

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through whose instructions he first
received into his heart the seed of the

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gospel and sincere godliness.

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At that time, Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal of
York, prepared to build a college in

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Oxford, marvellously sumptuous,
which had the name and title of Freed's

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Wide, but is now named Christ's Church.

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This ambitious Cardinal gathered together
into that college whatsoever excellent

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thing there were in the whole realm,
either vestments, vessels, or other

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ornaments, beside provision of all kind of
precious things.

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He also appointed unto that company all
such men as were found to excel in any

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kind of learning and knowledge,
among the which was John Frith.

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These most piqued young men, of grave
judgment and sharp wits, conferring

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together upon the abuses of religion,
were therefore accused of heresy,

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and cast into a prison, within a deep cave
under the ground of the same college,

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where their salt-fish was laid.

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So that, through the filthy stench
thereof, they were all infected,

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and certain of them being taken out of the
prison into their chambers, deceased.

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John Frith, with others, by the Cardinal's
letter, who sent word that he would not

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have them so straightly handled,
were dismissed out of prison, upon

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condition not to pass above ten miles out
of Oxford.

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Albeit this, his safety continued not
long, through the great hatred and deadly

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pursuit of Sir Thomas More, who,
at that time being Chancellor of England,

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persecuted him both by land and sea,
besetting all the ways and havens,

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yea, and promising great rewards,
if any man could bring him any news or

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tidings of him.

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Thus, Frith, being on every part beset
with troubles, not knowing which way to

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turn him, seeketh for some place to hide
him in.

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Thus, fleeting from one place to another,
and often changing both his garments and

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place, yet could he be in safety in no
place, no, not long amongst his friends,

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so that at last he was taken.

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When no reason would prevail against the
force and cruelty of these furious foes,

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he was brought before the bishops of
London, Winchester, and Lincoln,

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who, sitting in St. Paul's, ministered
certain interrogatories upon the sacrament

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of the supper and purgatory.

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This book is continued on Disc.

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8.

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When Frith by no means could be persuaded
to recant, he was condemned by the Bishop

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of London to be burned.

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When the faggots were put unto him,
he embraced the same, thereby declaring

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with what uprightness of mind he suffered
his death for Christ.

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1533.

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Andrew Hewitt burned with John Frith.

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Andrew Hewitt, born in Favisham,
a young man of the age of twenty and four

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years, went upon a holy day into Fleet
Street toward St. Dunstan's.

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He met with one William Holt, who was
foreman with the King's Tailor,

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and being suspected by the same Holt,
who was a dissembling wretch, to be one

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that favoured the gospel, after a little
talk had with him, he went into an honest

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house about Fleet Bridge, which was a
bookseller's house.

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Then Holt, thinking he had found good
occasion to show forth some fruit of his

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wickedness, sent for certain officers who
searched the house, and finding the same

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Andrew, apprehended him.

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Andrew Hewitt was brought before the
Chancellor of the Bishop of London.

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When it was demanded of him what he
thought as touching the sacrament of the

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Last Supper, he answered, Even as John
Frith doth.

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Then certain of the bishops smiled at him,
and Stokesley, the Bishop of London,

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said, Why, Frith is a heretic,
and already judged to be burned.

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And except thou revoke thine opinion,
thou shalt be burned also with him.

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Truly, saith he, I am content
therewithall.

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Whereupon he was sent unto the prison to
Frith, and afterwards they were carried

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together to the fire.

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1533.

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John Lambert This Lambert, being born and
brought up in Norfolk, studied in the

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University of Cambridge.

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After he had sufficiently profited both in
Latin and Greek, and had translated out of

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both tongues sundry things into the
English tongue, being forced at last by

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violence of the time, he departed beyond
the seas to Tyndale and Frith.

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There he remained the space of a year and
more, being chaplain to the English house

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at Antwerp, till he was disturbed by Sir
Thomas More, and by the accusation of one

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Barlow carried from Antwerp to England,
where he was brought to examination before

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Wharram, the Archbishop of Canterbury.

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Within short space after, the Archbishop
died, whereby it seemeth that Lambert for

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that time was delivered.

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He returned unto London, and there
exercised himself about the stocks in

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teaching children both in the Greek and
Latin tongue.

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After that, John Lambert had continued in
this vocation with great commendation,

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and no less commodity to the youth,
it happened 1538, that he was present at a

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sermon in St. Peter's Church at London.

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He that preached was named Dr. Taylor.

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When the sermon was done, Lambert went
gently unto the preacher to talk with him.

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All the whole matter or controversy was
concerning the sacrament of the Body and

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Blood of Christ.

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But Taylor, desiring, as is supposed,
of a good mind to satisfy Lambert,

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took counsel with Dr. Barnes, which Barnes
seemed not greatly to favour this cause.

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Upon these originals, Lambert's quarrel
began of a private talk to be a public

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matter.

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For he was sent for by Archbishop Cranmer,
and forced to defend his cause openly.

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For the archbishop had not yet favoured
the doctrine of the sacrament,

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whereof afterwards he was an earnest
professor.

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In that disputation it is said that
Lambert did appeal from the bishops to the

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king's majesty.

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At last the king himself, all in white,
did come as judge of that great

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controversy.

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On his right hand sat the bishops,
and behind them the famous lawyers,

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clothed all in purple.

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On the left hand sat the peers of the
realm, justices, and other nobles in their

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order, behind whom sat the gentlemen of
the king's privy chamber.

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The manner and form of judgment was
terrible enough of itself to abash any

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innocent.

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The king's look, his cruel countenance,
and his brows bent into severity,

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did not a little augment this terror,
plainly declaring a mind full of

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indignation.

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He beheld Lambert with a stern
countenance, and then turning himself unto

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his counsellors, he called forth Dr.
Sampson, bishop of Chichester,

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commanding him to declare unto the people
the causes of this present assembly.

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When he had made an end of his oration,
the king, standing upon his feet,

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leaning upon a cushion of white cloth of
tissue, turning himself toward Lambert

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with his brows bent, as it were
threatening some grievous thing to him,

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said these words, Ho, good fellow,
what is thy name?

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Then the humble Lamb of Christ,
humbly kneeling down upon his knees,

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said, My name is John Nicholson,
although of many I be called Lambert.

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What?

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said the king.

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Have you two names?

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I would not trust you having two names,
although you were my brother.

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O most noble prince, replied Lambert,
your bishops force me of necessity to

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change my name.

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And after much talk had in this manner,
the king commanded him to declare what he

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thought as touching the sacrament of the
altar.

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Then Lambert, beginning to speak for
himself, gave God thanks, who had so

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inclined the heart of the king,
that he himself would not disdain to hear

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and understand the controversies of
religion.

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Then the king, with an angry voice,
interrupting his oration, I came not

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hither, said he, to hear mine own praises
thus painted out in my presence,

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but briefly go to the matter without any
more circumstance.

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Answer as touching the sacrament of the
altar, whether dost thou say that it is

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the body of Christ, or wilt deny it.

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And with that word the king lifted up his
cap.

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Lambert, I answer with St. Augustine,
that it is the body of Christ,

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after a certain manner.

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The king, answer me neither out of St.
Augustine, nor by the authority of any

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other, but tell me plainly, whether thou
sayest it is the body of Christ,

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or no.

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Lambert, Then I deny it to be the body of
Christ.

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The king, Mark well, for now thou shalt be
condemned even by Christ's own words.

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This is my body.

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Then the king commanded Thomas Cranmer,
Archbishop of Canterbury, to refute his

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assertion.

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It were too long to repeat the arguments
of every bishop, and no less superfluous

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were it so to do, especially forasmuch as
they were nothing forcible.

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At last, when the day was passed and
torches began to be lighted, the king,

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minding to break up this disputation,
said unto Lambert in this wise,

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What sayest thou now, after all these
great labours which thou hast taken upon

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thee, and all the reasons and instructions
of these learned men?

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Art thou not yet satisfied?

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Wilt thou live or die?

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What sayest thou?

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Thou hast yet free choice.

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Lambert answered, I yield and submit
myself wholly unto the will of your

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majesty.

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Then said the king, Commit thyself unto
the hands of God, and not unto mine.

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Lambert, I commend my soul unto the hands
of God, but my body I wholly yield and

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submit unto your clemency.

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Then said the king, If you do commit
yourself unto my judgment, you must die,

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for I will not be a patron unto heretics.

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And turning himself unto Cromwell,
he said, Cromwell, read the sentence of

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condemnation against him.

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Of all other who have been burned at
Smithfield, there was yet none so cruelly

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and piteously handled as this blessed
martyr.

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For after that his legs were burned up to
the stumps, and that the wretched

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tormentors and enemies of God had
withdrawn the fire from him, so that but a

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small fire were left under him,
two that stood on each side of him with

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their halberds pitched him upon their
pikes.

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Then he, lifting up such hands as he had,
and his fingers, ends flaming with fire,

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cried unto the people in these words,
None but Christ, none but Christ!

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And so being let down again from their
halberds, fell into the fire, and there

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gave up his life.

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1538.

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STYLE In the fellowship of these blessed
saints and martyrs of Christ, who

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innocently suffered within the time of
King Henry's reign for the testimony of

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God's word and truth, another good man
cometh to my mind, not to be excluded out

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of this number, who was with like cruelty
oppressed, and was burned in Smithfield

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about the latter end of the time of
Cuthbert Tonstall, Bishop of London.

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His name was called Style, as is credibly
reported unto us by a worthy and ancient

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knight, named Sir Robert Outred,
who was the same time present himself at

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his burning.

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With him there was burned a book of the
Apocalypse, which he was wont to read

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upon.

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This book, when he saw fastened unto the
stake to be burned with him, lifting up

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his voice, O blessed Apocalypse,
said he, how happy I am that shall be

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burned with thee!

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And so this good man and the blessed
Apocalypse were both together in the fire

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consumed.

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1539.

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Robert Barnes, Thomas Garrett,
and William Jerome When the valiant

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standard-bearer and stay of the Church of
England, Thomas Cromwell, was made away,

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pity it was to behold what miserable
slaughter of good men and good women

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ensued.

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For Winchester, having now gotten free
swing to exercise his cruelty,

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wonder it was to see what troubles he
raised in the Lord's vineyard.

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He made his first assaults upon Robert
Barnes, Thomas Garrett, and William

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Jerome, whom within two days after
Cromwell's death he caused to be put to

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execution.

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Robert Barnes was prior and master of the
house of the Augustans, Cambridge.

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He did read openly in the house Paul's
epistles.

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Because he would have Christ there taught
and His Holy Word, he, in short space,

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made divers good divines.

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Thus Barnes, what with his reading,
disputation, and preaching, became famous

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and mighty in the Scriptures.

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Suddenly was sent down to Cambridge a
sergeant-at-arms who arrested Dr. Barnes

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openly in the Convocation House to make
all others afraid.

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In the morning he was carried to Cardinal
Wolsey at Westminster.

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Then, by reason of Dr. Gardiner,
secretary to the Cardinal, and Master Fox,

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master of the wards, he spake the same
night to the Cardinal in his chamber of

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estate, kneeling on his knees.

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Then said the Cardinal to them,
Is this Dr. Barnes your man that is

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accused of heresy?

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Yea, and please your grace, we trust you
shall find him reformable, for he is both

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well learned and wise.

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What, Master Doctor, said the Cardinal,
had you not a sufficient scope in the

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Scriptures to teach the people,
but that my golden shoes, my pole-axes,

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my pillars, my golden cushions,
my crosses, did so sore offend you that

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you must make us ridiculous amongst the
people?

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We were jollily that day laughed to scorn.

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Verily, it was a sermon more fit to be
preached on a stage than in a pulpit.

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For at the last you said, I wear a pair of
red gloves, I should say bloody gloves,

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quote you, that I should not be cold in
the midst of my ceremonies.

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And Barnes answered, I spake nothing but
the truth out of the Scriptures according

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to my conscience and according to the old
doctors.

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And then did Barnes deliver him six sheets
of paper written to confirm his sayings.

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The Cardinal received them smiling on him,
and saying, We perceive, then,

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that you intend to stand to your articles
and to show your learning.

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Yea, said Barnes, that I do intend,
by God's grace, with your Lordship's

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favor.

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The Cardinal answered, Such as you are,
do bear us and the Catholic Church little

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favor.

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I will ask you a question.

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Whether do you think it more necessary
that I should have all this royalty,

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because I represent the king's majesty's
person in all the high courts of this

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realm, to the terror and keeping down of
all the wicked and corrupt members of this

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commonwealth, or to be as simple as you
would have us, to sell all these things

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and give them to the poor, who shortly
will cast it against the walls,

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and to pull away this majesty of a
princely dignity, which is a terror to all

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the wicked, and to follow your counsel in
this behalf?

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Barnes answered, I think it necessary to
be sold and given to the poor,

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for this is not comely for your calling.

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Then answered the Cardinal, Lo,
master doctors, here is the learned wise

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men that you told me of.

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Then they kneeled down and said,
We desire your grace to be good unto him,

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for he will be reformable.

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Then said the Cardinal, Stand you up,
for your sakes and the university,

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we will be good unto him.

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How say you, master doctor, do you not
know that I am able to dispense in all

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matters concerning religion within this
realm, as much as the Pope may?

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He said, I know it to be so.

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Will you then be ruled by us, and we will
do all things for your honesty and for the

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honesty of the university?

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Barnes answered, I thank your grace for
your good will.

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I will stick to the Holy Scripture,
and to God's book according to the simple

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talent that God hath lent me.

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Well, said the Cardinal, thou shalt have
thy learning tried to the uttermost,

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and thou shalt have the law.

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After Barnes had continued in the fleet
the space of half a year, at length being

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delivered, he was committed to be a free
prisoner at the Aston Friars in London,

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whence he was removed to Northampton,
there to be burned.

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One Master Horne, having intelligence of
the writ which should shortly be sent down

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to burn him, gave him counsel to feign
himself to be desperate, and that he

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should write a letter to the Cardinal,
and leave it on his table, to declare

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whither he was gone to drown himself,
and to leave his clothes in the same

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place.

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And another letter to the Mayor of the
town, to search for him in the water,

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because he had a letter written in
parchment about his neck, closed in wax,

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for the Cardinal, which should teach all
men to beware by him.

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Upon this they were seven days in
searching for him, but he was conveyed to

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London in poor man's apparel, took
shipping to Antwerp, and so to Luther.

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The said Dr. Barnes returned in the
beginning of the reign of Queen Anne,

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as others did, and continued a faithful
preacher, being all her time well

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entertained and promoted.

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After that, he was sent ambassador by King
Henry VIII to the Duke of Cleves,

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for the marriage of the Lady Anne of
Cleves between the King and her,

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and well accepted in the ambassad,
and in all his doings until the time that

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Stephen Gardner came out of France.

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Not long after, Dr. Barnes with his
brethren were apprehended and carried

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before the King's Majesty to Hampton Court
and examined.

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The King, with many high words,
rebuked his doings in his privy closet.

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Unto whom, when Barnes had submitted
himself, Nay, said the King, yield thee

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not to me, I am a mortal man.

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And therewith rising up, and turning to
the sacrament, and putting off his bonnet,

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said, Yonder is the Master of us all,
Author of the truth.

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Yield in truth to him, and the truth will
I defend, and otherwise yield not unto me.

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The King, seeking the means of his safety,
at Winchester's request granted him leave

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to go home with the bishop to confer with
him.

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But as it happened, they not agreeing,
Gardner sought, by all subtle means,

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how to entrap Barnes and his brethren.

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They were enjoined to preach three sermons
the next Easter following, at which

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sermons Stephen Gardner was present,
either to bear record of their

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recantation, or trip them in their talk.

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Shortly after they were sent for to
Hampton Court, from thence they were

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carried to the Tower, and never came out
till they came to their death.

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Now let us consider the story of Thomas
Garrett.

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In the year of our Lord, 1526 or
thereabout, Master Garrett, curate of

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Honey Lane in London, came unto Oxford,
and brought with him Tyndale's first

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translations of the New Testament in
English, the which he sold to divers

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scholars.

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News came from London that he was searched
for as an heretic, and so he was

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apprehended and committed to ward.

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Afterwards he was compelled to carry a
faggot in open procession from St. Mary's

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Church to Friswide's, and then sent to
Arseney, there to be kept in prison till

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further order was taken.

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The third companion who suffered with
Barnes and Garrett was William Jerome,

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vicar of Stepney.

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He was charged before the king at
Westminster for erroneous doctrine.

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One Dr. Wilson entered into disputation
with him, and defended that good works

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justified before God, to whom Jerome
answered that all works, whatsoever they

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were, were nothing worth, nor any part of
salvation of themselves, but only referred

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to the mercy and love of God, which direct
the workers thereof.

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Thus then, Barnes, Jerome, and Garrett,
being committed to the tower after Easter,

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there remained till the thirtieth day of
July, which was two days after the death

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of Lord Cromwell.

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Then ensued process against them,
whereupon all those three good saints of

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God were brought together from the tower
to Smithfield, where they, preparing

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themselves to the fire, had there at the
stake sundry exhortations.

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Take me not here, said Dr. Barnes,
that I speak against good works,

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for they are to be done, and verily they
that do them not shall never come into the

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kingdom of God.

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We must do them, because they are
commanded us of God, to show and set forth

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our profession, not to deserve or merit,
for that is only the death of Christ.

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One asked him his opinion of praying to
saints.

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Then said Dr. Barnes, Throughout all
Scripture we are not commanded to pray to

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any saints.

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Therefore I cannot preach to you that
saints ought to be prayed unto.

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For then should I preach unto you a
doctrine of mine own head.

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If saints do pray for us, then I trust to
pray for you within this half hour,

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Master Sheriff.

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Then desired Dr. Barnes all men to bear
him witness that he abhorred all doctrines

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against the word of God, and that he died
in the faith of Jesus Christ.

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The like confession made also Jerome and
Jarret.

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They, taking themselves by the hands,
and kissing one another, quietly and

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humbly offered themselves to the hands of
the tormentors.

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And so took their death with such patience
as might well testify the goodness of

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their cause, and quiet of their
conscience.

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1540 Mistress Anne Askew, daughter of Sir
William Askew, Knight of Lincolnshire.

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Here follow the examinations of Anne
Askew, according as she wrote them with

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her own hand, at the instant desire of
certain faithful men and women.

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The first, Examinaton, before the
Inquisitors, A.D.

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1545.

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Christopher Dare examined me at Sadler's
Hall, and asked me wherefore I said,

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I had rather to read five lines in the
Bible than to hear five masses in the

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temple.

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I confessed that I said no less,
not for the dispraise of either the

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Epistle or the Gospel, but because the one
did greatly edify me, and the other

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nothing at all.

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He laid unto my charge, that I should say,
If an ill priest ministered, it was the

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devil, and not God.

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My answer was, that I never spake any such
thing.

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But this was my saying, that whosoever he
were that ministered unto me, his ill

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conditions could not hurt my faith.

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But in spirit I received, nevertheless,
the body and blood of Christ.

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He asked me what I said, concentrating
confession.

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I answered him my meaning, which was,
as St. James saith, that every man ought

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to acknowledge his faults to others,
and the one to pray for the other.

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Then he sent for a priest, who asked me,
if I did not think that private masses did

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help the souls departed.

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I said it was great idolatry to believe
more in them than in the death which

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Christ died for us.

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Then they had me unto my Lord Mayor,
who laid one thing to my charge,

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which was never spoken of me, but by them,
whether a mouse eating the host received

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God or no.

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I made them no answer but smiled.

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Then the bishop's chancellor rebuked me,
and said that I was much to blame for

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uttering the Scriptures, for St. Paul,
he said, for bad women to speak or talk of

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the word of God.

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I answered him that I knew Paul's meaning
as well as he, which is, in 1 Corinthians

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14, that a woman ought not to speak in the
congregation by the way of teaching.

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And then I asked him how many women he had
seen go into the pulpit and preach.

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He said he never saw any.

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Then I said he ought to find no fault in
poor women, except they had offended the

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law.

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Then was I had to the compter,
and there remained eleven days,

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no friend admitted to speak with me.

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The sum of my examination before the
king's council at Greenwich.

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They said it was the king's pleasure that
I should open the matter unto them.

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I answered them plainly, I would not so
do.

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But if it were the king's pleasure to hear
me, I would show him the truth.

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They said it was not meet for the king to
be troubled with me.

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I answered that Solomon was reckoned the
wisest king that ever lived, yet misliked

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he not to hear two poor common women,
much more his grace, a simple woman,

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and his faithful subject.

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Then my Lord Chancellor asked my opinion
in the sacrament.

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My answer was this.

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I believe that so oft as I, in a Christian
congregation, do receive the bread in

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remembrance of Christ's death,
and with thanksgiving, according to His

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holy institution, I receive therewith the
fruits, also, of His most glorious

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passion.

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The bishop of Winchester bade me make a
direct answer.

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I said I would not sing a new song of the
Lord in a strange land.

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Then the bishop said I spake in parables.

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I answered it was best for him,
for if I show the open truth, quoth I,

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he will not accept it.

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I told him I was ready to suffer all
things at his hands, not only his rebukes,

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but all that should follow besides,
yea, and all that gladly.

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My Lord Lyle, my Lord of Essex,
and the bishop of Winchester required me

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earnestly that I should confess the
sacrament to be flesh, blood, and bone.

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Then said I that it was a great shame for
them to counsel contrary to their

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knowledge.

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Then the bishop said he would speak with
me familiarly.

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I said, so did Judas when he betrayed
Christ.

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Then desired the bishop to speak with me
alone, but that I refused.

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He asked me why.

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I said that in the mouth of two or three
witnesses every matter should stand.

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Then the bishop said I should be burned.

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I answered that I had searched all the
Scriptures, yet could I never find that

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either Christ or His apostles put any
creature to death.

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Well, well, said I.

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God will laugh your threatenings to scorn.

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Then was I sent to Nugget.

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My handling since my departure from
Nugget.

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I was sent from Nugget to the sign of the
crown where Master Rich and the bishop of

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London with all their power and flattering
words went about to persuade me from God.

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But I did not esteem their glossing
pretenses.

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Then came there to me Nicholas Shaxton and
counseled me to recant as he had done.

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I said to him that it had been good for
him never to have been born.

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Then Master Rich sent me to the tower
where I remained till three o'clock.

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Then came Rich and one of the council,
charging me upon my obedience to show unto

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them if I knew any man or women of my
sect.

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My answer was that I knew none.

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Then said they unto me that the king was
informed that I could name, if I would,

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a great number of my sect.

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I answered that the king was as well
deceived in that behalf as dissembled with

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in other matters.

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Then commanded they me to show how I was
maintained in the compter and who willed

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me to stick to my opinion.

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I said that there was no creature that
therein did strengthen me.

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And as for the help that I had in the
compter, it was by means of my maid.

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For as she went abroad in the streets,
she made moan to the prentices,

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and they by her did send me money,
but who they were I never knew.

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They said that there were divers
gentlewomen that gave me money,

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but I knew not their names.

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Then they said that there were divers
ladies that had sent me money.

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I answered that there was a man in a blue
coat, who delivered me ten shillings,

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and said that my lady of Hartford sent it
to me, and another in a violet coat gave

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me eight shillings, and said my lady Denny
sent it to me.

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Whether it were true or no, I cannot tell.

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Then they did put me on the rack,
because I confessed no ladies or

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gentlewomen to be of my opinion,
and thereon they kept me a long time,

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and because I lay still and did not cry,
my Lord Chancellor and Master Rich took

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pains to rack me with their own hands till
I was nigh dead.

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Then the lieutenant caused me to be loosed
from the rack.

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Incontinently I swooned, and then they
recovered me again.

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After that I sat two long hours reasoning
with my Lord Chancellor upon the bare

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floor, where he with many flattering words
persuaded me to leave my opinion.

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But my Lord God, I thank His everlasting
goodness, gave me grace to persevere,

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and will do, I hope, to the end.

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Then was I brought to a house and laid in
a bed, with as weary and painful bones as

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ever had patient Job.

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I thank my God therefore.

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Then my Lord Chancellor sent me word,
if I would leave my opinion I should want

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nothing.

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If I would not, I should forthwith to
Nugget and so be burned.

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I sent Him again word, that I would rather
die than break my faith.

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The day of her execution being appointed,
this good woman was brought into

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Smithfield in a chair, because she could
not go on her feet by means of her great

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torments.

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When she was brought unto the stake she
was tied with a chain that held up her

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body.

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The multitude of the people was exceeding,
the place where they stood being railed

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about to keep out the press.

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Upon the bench, under St. Bartholomew's
church, sat reothersly, Chancellor of

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England, the old Duke of Norfolk,
the old Earl of Bedford, the Lord Mayor,

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with divers others.

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Before the fire should be set unto them,
one of the bench, hearing that they had

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gunpowder about them, and being alarmed
lest the faggots by strength of the

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gunpowder would come flying about their
ears, began to be afraid.

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But the Earl of Bedford declared unto him
how the gunpowder was not laid under the

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faggots, but only about their bodies,
to rid them out of their pains.

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Then reothersly Lord Chancellor offered
Anne Askew the King's pardon if she would

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recant, who made this answer, that she
came not thither to deny her Lord and

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Master.

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And thus the good Anne Askew, being
compassed in with flames of fire as a

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blessed sacrifice unto God, slept in the
Lord A.D.

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1546, leaving behind her a singular
example of Christian constancy for all men

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to follow.

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John Lascelles, John Adams, and Nicholas
Bellenian.

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There was at the same time burned with her
one Nicholas Bellenian, priest of

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Shropshire, John Adams a tailor,
and John Lascelles gentleman of the court

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and household of King Henry.

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It happened well for them that they died
together with Anne Askew, for albeit that

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of themselves they were strong and stout
men, yet, through the example and

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exhortation of her, they, being the more
boldened, received occasion of greater

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comfort in that so painful and doleful
kind of death, who beholding her

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invincible constancy, and also stirred up
through her persuasions, did set apart all

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kind of fear.

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Master John Bradford.

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John Bradford was born at Manchester in
Lancashire.

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His parents did bring him up in learning
from his infancy until he attained such

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knowledge in the Latin tongue and skill in
writing that he was able to gain his own

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living in some honest condition.

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Then he became servant to Sir John
Harrington, knight, who in the great

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affairs of King Henry VIII and King Edward
VI, when he was treasurer of the king's

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camps and buildings, had such experience
of Bradford's activity, expertness,

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and faithful trustiness, that above all
others he used his service.

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But the Lord had elected him unto a better
function, to preach the gospel of Christ.

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Then did Bradford forsake his worldly
affairs and forwardness in worldly wealth

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and give himself wholly to the study of
the Scriptures.

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To accomplish his purpose the better,
he departed from the temple at London,

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where the temporal law is studied,
and went to the University of Cambridge to

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learn by God's law how to further the
building of the Lord's temple.

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Within one whole year the university did
give him the degree of a Master of Arts,

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and immediately after the Master and
Fellows of Pembroke Hall did give him a

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fellowship.

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Yea, that man of God, Martin Busser,
oftentimes exhorted him to bestow his

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talent in preaching.

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Unto which Bradford answered always,
that he was unable to serve in that office

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through want of learning.

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To the which Busser was wont to reply,
saying, If thou have not fine manchet

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bread, yet give the poor people barley
bread, or whatsoever else the Lord hath

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committed unto thee.

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And while Bradford was thus persuaded to
enter into the ministry, Dr. Ridley,

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Bishop of London, called him to take the
degree of a deacon, obtained for him a

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license to preach, and did give him a
pre-bend in his Cathedral Church of St.

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Paul's.

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In this preaching office, by the space of
three years, how faithfully Bradford

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walked, how diligently he labored,
many parts of England can testify.

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Sharply he opened and reproved sin,
sweetly he preached Christ crucified,

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pithily he impugned heresies and errors,
earnestly he persuaded to godly life.

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When Queen Mary had gotten the crown,
still continued Bradford, diligent in

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preaching, until he was unjustly deprived
both of his office and liberty by the

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Queen and her council.

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The fact was this.

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The 13th of August, in the first year of
the reign of Queen Mary, Master Bourne,

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then Bishop of Bath, made a sermon at St.
Paul's Cross, to set popery abroad,

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in such thought that it moved the people
to no small indignation, being almost

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ready to pull him out of the pulpit.

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Neither could the reverence of the place,
nor the presence of Bishop Barner,

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who then was his master, nor yet the
commandment of the Lord Mayor of London,

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whom the people ought to have obeyed,
stay their rage.

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But the more they spake, the more the
people were incensed.

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At length Bourne, seeing the people in
such a mood, and himself in such peril,

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whereof he was sufficiently worn by the
hurling of a drawn dagger at him,

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desired Bradford, who stood in the pulpit
behind him, to come forth, and to stand in

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his place and speak to the people.

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Good Bradford, at his request,
was content, and spake to the people of

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godly and quiet obedience, whom,
as soon as the people saw, they cried with

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a great shout, Bradford, Bradford,
God save thy life, Bradford!

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Eftsoons all the raging ceased,
and quietly departed each man to his

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house.

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Bourne desired Bradford not to go from
him, till he were in safety, which

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Bradford, according to his promise,
performed.

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For while the Lord Mayor and Sheriff did
lead Bourne to the schoolmaster's house,

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which is next to the pulpit, Bradford went
at his back, shadowing him from the people

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with his gown.

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The same Sunday, in the afternoon,
Bradford preached at the Bow Church in

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Cheapside, and reproved the people sharply
for their seditious misdemeanor.

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Within three days he was sent forth to the
Tower of London, where the Queen then was,

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to appear before the Council.

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From the Tower he came to the King's Bench
in Southwark, and after his condemnation

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he was sent to the Comptor in the poultry,
in London, in which two places,

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for the time he did remain prisoner,
he preached twice a day continually,

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unless sickness hindered him.

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Such a resort of good folks was daily to
his lecture, that commonly his chamber was

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wellnigh filled.

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Preaching, reading, and praying was his
whole life.

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He did not eat above one meal a day,
which was but very little when he took it,

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and his continual study was upon his
knees.

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In the midst of dinner he used often to
muse with himself, having his hat over his

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eyes, from whence came commonly plenty of
tears dropping on his trencher.

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Very gentle he was to man and child.

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Of personage he was somewhat tall and
slender, spare of body, of a faint

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sanguine colour, with an auburn beard.

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He slept not commonly above four hours in
the night, and in his bed till sleep came

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his book went not out of his hand.

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His chief recreation was in honest company
and comely talk, wherein he would spend a

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little time after dinner at the board,
and so to prayer and his book again.

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He counted that hour not well spent
wherein he did not some good, either with

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his pen, study, or in exhorting of others.

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He was no niggered of his purse,
but would liberally participate that he

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had to his fellow-prisoners, and commonly
once a week he visited the thieves,

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pickpurses, and such others that were with
him in prison, unto whom he would give

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godly exhortation, and distribute among
them some portion of money to their

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comfort.

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Neither was there ever any prisoner with
him, but by his company he greatly

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profited.

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Walking in the keeper's chamber,
suddenly the keeper's wife came up,

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as one half amazed, and seeming much
troubled, being almost windless,

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said, O Master Bradford, I come to bring
you heavy news.

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What is that?

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said he.

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Marry, quoth she, to-morrow you must be
burned, and your chain is now a-buying,

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and soon you must go to Nougat.

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With that Master Bradford put off his cap,
and lifting up his eyes to heaven,

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said, I thank God for it.

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I have looked for the same a long time,
and therefore it cometh not now to me

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suddenly, but as a thing waited for,
every day and hour.

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The Lord make me worthy thereof.

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They carried him to Nougat, about eleven
or twelve o'clock in the night,

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when it was thought none would be stirring
abroad.

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And yet was there in Cheapside and other
places, between the compter and Nougat,

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a great multitude of people that came to
see him, which most gently bade him

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farewell, praying for him with the most
lamentable and pitiful tears.

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And he again as gently bade them farewell,
praying most heartily for them and their

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welfare.

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The next day at four o'clock in the
morning there was in Smithfield a

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multitude of men and women, but it was
nine o'clock before Master Bradford was

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brought into Smithfield, with a great
company of weaponed men, as the like was

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not seen at any man's burning.

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Bradford, being come to the place,
fell flat to the ground, making his

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prayers to Almighty God.

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Then rising, he went to the stake,
and there suffered with a young man of

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twenty years of age, joyfully and
constantly, whose name was John Leif.

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John Leif John Leif was an apprentice to
Humphrey Gordy, tallow-chandler of the

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parish of Christ Church in London,
of the age of nineteen years and above.

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It is reported of him that two bills were
sent unto him in the compter in Bread

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Street, the one containing a recantation,
the other his confessions, to know to

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which of them he would put his hand.

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The bill of recantation he refused,
the other he well liked of, and instead of

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a pen he took a pin, and pricking his hand
sprinkled the blood upon the said bill,

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willing to show the bishop that he had
sealed it with his blood already.

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When these two came to the stake,
Master Bradford took a faggot in his hand

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and kissed it, and so likewise the stake.

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Holding up his hands and casting his
countenance up to heaven, he said,

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O England, England, repent thee of thy
sins, repent thee of thy sins.

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Turning his head unto the young man that
suffered with him, he said, Be of good

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comfort, brother, for we shall have a
merry supper with the Lord this night.

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And thus they ended their mortal lives,
without any alteration of their

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countenance, being void of all fear.

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1535 Master John Philpott Master John
Philpott was a knight's son, born in

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Hampshire, brought up in the new college,
Oxford.

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He was made archdeacon of Winchester,
and during the time of King Edward

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continued to no small profit of those
parts.

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When that king was taken away,
and Mary, his sister, came in place,

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she caused a convocation of the prelates
and learned men to be congregated to the

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accomplishment of her desire, in the which
convocation Master Philpott sustained the

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cause of the gospel manfully against the
mass, for the which cause he was called to

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account before Bishop Gardner,
and from thence was removed to Bonner and

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other commissioners, with whom he had
sundry conflicts.

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In the end the bishop, seeing his
unmovable steadfastness in the truth,

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did pronounce the sentence of condemnation
against him.

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I thank God, said Master Philpott,
that I am a heretic out of your cursed

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church.

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I am no heretic before God.

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But God bless you, and give you grace to
repent your wicked doings, and let all men

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beware of your bloody church.

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And so the officers delivered him to the
keeper of Newgate.

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Then his man thrust to go in after his
master, and one of the officers said unto

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him, Hence, fellow, what wouldst thou
have?

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And he said, I would go speak with my
master.

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Master Philpott turned him about,
and said to him, Tomorrow thou shalt speak

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with me.

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Then the underkeeper said to Master
Philpott, Is this your man?

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And he said, Yea.

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So he did license his man to go in with
him, and Master Philpott and his man were

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turned into a little chamber on the right
hand, and there remained a little time,

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until Alexander the chief keeper did come
unto him, who at his entering greeted him

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with these words, Ah, said he,
hast thou not done well to bring thyself

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hither?

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Well, said Master Philpott, I must be
content, for it is God's appointment,

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and I shall desire you to let me have your
gentle favor, for you and I have been of

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old acquaintance.

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Well, said Alexander, I will show thee
gentleness and favor, so thou wilt be

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ruled by me.

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Then said Master Philpott, I pray you show
me what you would have me to do.

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He said, If you would recant, I will show
you any pleasure I can.

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Nay, said Master Philpott, I will never
recant, whilst I have my life,

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that which I have spoken, for it is most
certain truth, and in witness hereof I

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will seal it with my blood.

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Then Alexander said, This is the saying of
the whole pack of you heretics,

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whereupon he commanded him to be set upon
the block, and as many irons upon his legs

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as he could bear.

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Good Master Alexander, be so much my
friend that these irons may be taken off.

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Well, said Alexander, give me my fees,
and I will take them off, if not thou

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shalt wear them still.

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Then said Master Philpott, Sir,
what is your fee?

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He said four pounds was his fees.

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Ah, said Master Philpott, I have not so
much.

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I am but a poor man, and I have been long
in prison.

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What wilt thou give me then?

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said Alexander.

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Sir, said he, I will give you twenty
shillings, and that I will send my man

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for, or else I will my gown to gauge.

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And with that Alexander departed from him,
and commanded him to be had into limbo.

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Then one witterance, steward of the house,
took Master Philpott on his back,

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and carried him down, his man knew not
whither.

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Wherefore Master Philpott said to his man,
Go to Master Sheriff, and show him how I

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am used, and desire Master Sheriff to be
good unto me.

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And so his servant went straightway,
and took an honest man with him.

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The Sheriff took his ring off from his
finger, and delivered it unto that honest

51:39.700 --> 51:43.880
man, which came with Master Philpott's
man, and bade him go unto Alexander,

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and command him to take off his irons,
and to handle him more gently.

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And when they came to the said Alexander,
and told their message from the Sheriff,

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Alexander took the ring, and said,
Ah, I perceive Master Sheriff is a bearer

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with him, and all such heretics as he is.

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Therefore to-morrow I will show it to his
betters.

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Yet at ten o'clock he went in to Master
Philpott, and took off his irons.

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Upon Tuesday at supper, being the
seventeenth day of December 1555,

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there came a messenger from the Sheriffs,
and bade Master Philpott make him ready,

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for the next day he should suffer.

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Master Philpott answered, I am ready,
God grant me strength, and a joyful

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resurrection.

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And so he went in to his chamber,
and poured out his spirit unto the Lord

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God, giving him most hearty thanks,
that he of his mercy had made him worthy

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to suffer for his truth.

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In the morning the Sheriffs came,
about eight o'clock, and he most joyfully

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came down unto them.

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And there his man did meet him,
and said, Ah, dear Master, farewell.

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His Master said unto him, Serve God,
and he will help thee.

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When he was entering into Smithfield,
the way was foul, and two officers took

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him up to bear him to the stake.

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Then he said merrily, What, will you make
me a pope?

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I am content to go to my journey's end on
foot.

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When he was come to the place of
suffering, he said, Shall I disdain to

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suffer at this stake, seeing my Redeemer
did not refuse to suffer a most vile death

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upon the cross for me?

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And when he had made an end of his
prayers, he said to the officers,

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What have you done for me?

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And every one of them declared what they
had done, and he gave to every of them

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money.

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Then in the midst of the fiery flames he
yielded his soul into the hands of

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Almighty God.

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Seven Martyrs Suffering Together About the
twenty-seventh day of January,

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in Anno 1556, were burned these seven
persons, Thomas Whittle, priest,

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Bartlett Green, gentleman, John Tudson,
artificer, John Wendt, artificer,

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Thomas Brown, Isabel Foster, wife,
Joan Warne, alias Lashford, maid.

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What an evil mess of handling Whittle had,
and how he was by Bishop Barna beaten and

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buffeted about the face, by this his own
narration sent unto his friend manifestly

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may appear.

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The bishop sent for me out of the porter's
lodge, where I had been all night lying

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upon the earth upon a pallet, where I had
as painful a night of sickness as ever I

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had.

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And when I came before him, he asked me if
I would have come to Mass that morning if

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he had sent for me, whereunto I answered
that I would have come to him at his

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commandment.

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But to your Mass, said I, I have small
affection.

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At which answer he was displeased sore,
and said I should be fed with bread and

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water.

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And as I followed him through the great
hall, he turned back and beat me with his

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fist, first on the one cheek, then on the
other.

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And then he led me into a little salt
house, where I had no straw nor bed,

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but lay two nights on a table,
and slept soundly, I thank God.

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Whittle, strengthened with the grace of
the Lord, stood strong and immovable.

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Wherefore he was brought to the fire with
the other six.

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Master Bartlett Green was of a good house,
and was sent into the University of

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Oxford.

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By his often repairing unto the lectures
of Peter Martyr, he saw the true light of

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Christ's gospel.

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As he was going to Newgate, there met with
him two gentlemen, being his special

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friends, minding to comfort their
persecuted brother.

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But their loving and friendly hearts were
manifested by the abundance of their

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pitiful tears.

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To whom Green said, Ah, my friends,
is this your comfort you are come to give

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me?

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In this my occasion of heaviness?

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Must I, who needed to have comfort
ministered to me, become now a comforter

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of you?

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When he was scourged with rods by Bishop
Bonner, he greatly rejoiced.

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Yet his shamefaced modesty was such,
that never would he express any mention

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thereof, lest he should seem to glory in
himself, save that only he opened the same

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to one Master Cotton of the Temple,
a friend of his, a little before his

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death.

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He was first apprehended, but last of them
condemned, which was the fifteenth day of

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January, and afterward burned with the
other six martyrs, the twenty-seventh of

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January, 1556.

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Thomas Brown dwelled in the parish of St.
Bride's in Fleet Street, and because he

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came not to his parish church,
was presented by the constable of the

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parish to Bonner.

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Being had to Fulham, he was required to
come into the chapel to hear Mass,

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which, refusing to do, he went into the
warren, and there kneeled among the trees.

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For this he was greatly charged of the
Bishop, Brown, you have been before me

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many times and oft, and I have travailed
with thee to win thee from thine errors.

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Yet thou, and such like, do report that I
go about to seek thy blood.

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To whom the said Thomas Brown answered
again, Yea, my lord, saith he,

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indeed, ye be a bloodsucker, and I would I
had as much blood as is water in the sea

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for you to suck.

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And so he was committed to be burned.

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John Lashford was the daughter of one
Robert Lashford, Cutler, who was

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persecuted for the gospel of God to the
burning fire, and after him his wife,

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and after her this Joan Lashwood,
her daughter, who about the age of

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twenty-seven, ministering to her father
and mother in prison, was known to be of

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the same doctrine.

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Her confession was that she came unto no
popish mass service in the church,

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neither would be confessed.

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Five other godly martyrs burned at one
fire.

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In this story of persecuted martyrs,
next in order follow five others burned in

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the year of the Lord 1557, April 12,
Thomas Luseby, Henry Ramsey, Thomas

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Thirtle, Margaret Hyde, and Agnes Stanley,
who were apprehended for not coming to

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their parish churches.

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Thomas Thirtle answered unto Bishop
Bonner, My lord, if you make me a heretic,

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you make Christ and all the twelve
apostles heretics.

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Margaret Hyde said, My lord, I would see
you instruct me with some part of God's

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word, and not to give me instructions of
holy bread and holy water, for it is no

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part of the Scripture.

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Agnes Stanley made this answer,
My lord, as for these that ye say be burnt

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for heresy, I believe they are true
martyrs before God.

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Therefore I will not go from my opinion
and faith as long as I live.

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Altogether, in one fire, most joyfully and
constantly, these five martyrs ended their

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temporal lives, receiving, therefore,
the life eternal.

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John Hallingdale, William Sparrow,
and Richard Gibson.

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These three faithful witnesses of the
Lord's testament were tormented and put to

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death, 18 November 1557.

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John Hallingdale said that Cranmer,
Latimer, Ridley, Hooper, and generally all

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that of late had been burnt for heretics,
were no heretics at all, because they did

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preach truly the gospel, upon whose
preaching he grounded his faith and

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conscience.

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William Sparrow answered Bishop Bonner,
that if every hair of my head were a man,

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I would burn them all, rather than go from
the truth.

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The Martyrs of the Islington Fields
Secretly, in a bank close, in the field by

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the town of Islington, were assembled
together a certain company of godly and

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innocent persons, to the number of forty
men and women, who there virtuously

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occupied in prayer and in the meditation
of God's holy word.

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Cometh a certain man to them unknown,
who saluted them, saying that they looked

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like men that meant no hurt.

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One of the company asked the man if he
could tell whose close that was,

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and whether they might be so bold there to
sit.

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Yea, said he, for that ye seem unto me
such persons as intend no harm,

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and so departed.

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Within a quarter of an hour cometh the
constable of Islington, with six or seven

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other, one with a bow, another with a
bill, and others with weapons.

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The witch, six or seven persons,
the said constable left a little behind

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him in a close place, there to be ready if
need be, while he came through them.

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Looking what they were doing, he bad them
deliver their books.

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They, understanding that he was constable,
refused not so to do.

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With that cometh forth the residue of his
fellows, who bad them stand and not

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depart.

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They answered that they would be obedient,
and go whithersoever they would have them.

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And so were they first carried to a
brew-house but a little way off,

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while that some of the said soldiers ran
to the justice next at hand.

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But the justice was not at home.

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Whereupon they were had to Sir Roger
Cholmley.

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In the meantime some of the women escaped.

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In fine they were sent to Newgate twenty
and two.

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These were in prison seven weeks before
they were examined.

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Of these four said two and twenty were
burnt thirteen, in Smithfield seven,

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at Brentford six.

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The name of these seven were Henry Pond,
Raynald Eastland, Robert Southern,

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Matthew Rickerby, John Floyd, John
Holliday, Roger Holland.

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Only the examination of Roger Holland came
to our hand.

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

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Master Kempton at the Black Boy in Watling
Street, giving himself to dancing,

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fencing, gaming, banqueting, and wanton
company.

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

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and lost every groat at dice.

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

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into Flanders.

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He called betimes in the morning to a
servant in the house, a discreet maid

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whose name was Elizabeth, which professed
the gospel, with a life agreeing unto the

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same.

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To whom he said, Elizabeth, I would I had
followed thy gentle persuasions and

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friendly rebukes, which, if I had done,
I had never come to this shame and misery

01:02:39.460 --> 01:02:41.280
which I am now fallen into.

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For I have lost thirty pounds of my
master's money, which to pay him,

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and to make up mine accounts I am not
able.

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But I pray you, desire my mistress that
she would entreat my master to take this

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bill of my hand, and, if I be ever able,
I will see him paid.

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Desiring him that the matter may pass with
silence, for if it should come unto my

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father's ears, it would bring his grey
hairs over soon unto his grave.

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And so was he departing.

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The maid, considering that it might be his
utter undoing, Stay, said she.

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And having a piece of money lying by her,
given unto her by the death of a kinsman,

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she brought unto him thirty pounds,
saying, Roger, here is thus much money.

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I will let thee have it, and I will keep
this bill.

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But thou shalt promise me to refuse all
wild company, all swearing and ribaldry

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talk.

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And if ever I know thee to play one
twelvepence at either dice or cards,

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then will I show this thy bill unto my
master.

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And furthermore, thou shalt promise me to
resort every day to the lecture at all

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hallows, and the sermon at Paul's every
Sunday, and to cast away all thy books of

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papestry and vain ballads, and get thee
the testament and book of service,

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and read the Scriptures with reverence and
fear, calling unto God still for His grace

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to direct thee in His truth.

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And pray unto God fervently, desiring Him
to pardon thy former offences,

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and not to remember the sins of thy youth,
and ever be afraid to break His laws,

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or offend His majesty.

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Then shall God keep thee, and send thee
thy heart's desire.

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Within one half year God had wrought such
a change in this man, that he was become

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an earnest professor of the truth.

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Then he repaired into Lancashire unto his
father, and brought Diver's good books

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with him, and bestowed them upon his
friends, so that his father and others

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began to taste of the gospel, and to
detest the mass, idolatry, and

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superstition.

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And in the end his father gave him a stock
of money to begin the world withal,

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to the sum of fifty pounds.

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

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

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

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

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than to make thee my wife.

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

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After this he remained in the
congregations of the faithful,

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

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were taken.

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

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of the gospel.

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God be thanked!