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Bishop of Norwich, and burned together in one fire, at Bury St. Edmund's.

November, 4, ALEX. GOUCH, and ALICE DRIVER were burned at Ipswich, the latter, while under examination, having compared Queen Mary to Jezabel, was ordered by the judge to have her ears immediately cut off, which order was instantly obeyed.

At Exeter a poor woman named PREST, 54 years of age, was burned. And in the same month PHILIP HUMPHREY and JOHN and HENRY DAVID, brothers, were burned at Bury.

RICHARD SHARP, and THOMAS HALE, were executed at Bristol on the 7th of May in this year, these martyrs were bound back to back, and thus committed to the flames. THOMAS BANION a weaver was also burned, Aug. 27, at the same place.

JOHN CORNEFORD, C. BROWN, J. HERST, ALICE SNOTH, and CATHERINE TILNEY, an aged woman, were burned at Canterbury six days only before the death of Mary. It is said that the Archdeacon of Canterbury, fearful that the death of the Queen would suspend the execution, travelled post from London, to have the satisfaction of adding another burning to the black catalogue of atrocities, committed during this reign.

Another act of cruelty ordered by Bonner has yet to be related which would if not duly authenticated have been considered incredible :-one JOHN FETTY, a poor man living in Clerkenwell, had been denounced by his wife in a fit of insanity, he was confined in Lollard's tower fifteen days, hanging in the stocks, sometimes by one arm, sometimes by one leg, and

sometimes by both arms and legs, suffering great pain the whole time. A son of this man only eight years of age coming one day to speak with his father, and being questioned by one of the Bishop's chaplains, and giving an acute answer, was taken by the priest before the Bishop, who ordered him to be whipped, which was done till he was nearly dead from loss of blood, he was then taken in that state and shewn to his father. Bonner finding that the child could not recover, and possibly feeling some remorse, at the end of three days released the Father, and allowed him to take the boy away, but the innocent child died a short time after from the effects of the severe punishment he had received.

Many persons were at this time in prison in different parts of the country, some untried, and others condemned waiting for execution, but they were all released, being saved from destruction, by the death of the wretched and inhuman Queen.

From that day to the present time the Protestant religion has flourished in England; with how great blessings to his country, where is the Englishman that cannot avouch? Free from foreign thrall, and a meddling priesthood, she has pursued her onward course from a small kingdom to a mighty empire in as fair a line of policy as the imperfections of human nature permits. Laus Deo.

SEVERE FLAGELLATIONS.

RICHARD WILMOT, and THOMAS FAIRFAX.

Dr. Crone, having preached a sermon at the Mercer's chapel, in which he ably proved that Christ was the only and suffi

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cient sacrifice to God the Father for the sins of the world, was brought before Gardiner, and ordered to recant this doctrine openly at Paul's cross -He did indeed there preach a sermon, but not to the satisfaction of the Catholic bishop, who commanded him to make a full abjuration of his heresy on the following Sunday-One of the guard named Lewis, coming into the shop where Wilmot was at work, rejoiced that the old heretic, as he termed Dr. Crone, was brought into this dilemma. Wilmot defended the doctrine of Dr. Crone, and a debate was carried on between them with much heat of argument, till Lewis violently exclaimed, By God's blood, if you were my servant, I would set you about your business, and not suffer you to see any books, and so would your master, if he were wise." At this juncture his master entered, with a young man named Thomas Fairfax, a servant to Mr. Daubney, in Watling-street. When Lewis had related the cause of the dispute, Wilmot's master fell into a violent rage with him for his opinions, which were as zealously defended by Fairfax. For this they were examined before Sir Roger Cholmly and the Lord Mayor, who reported their offence to Gardiner. The first sentence against them was that they should be tied to a cart's tail, and be whipped three days through the city. This, at the instance of the Draper's company, and at the cost of £100, was remitted to a private whipping in their hall, as they were servants of the company. Mr. Brookes, the master, after having signified to them that they deserved death, bid them prepare for punishment. They were successively stripped, fastened to an iron ring, and flogged by two men in masks, till the blood descended in torrents from their lacerated backs. Wilmot could not lie in bed

for six nights after, and from the severity of the punishment and fear, never after perfectly recovered his health.

THOMAS GREEN, a printer, was brought before Dr. Storey by his master, for having a book in his possession called "Antichrist," which he affirmed contained both treason and heresy. For many days Green laid in the stocks in Bonner's Coal-house, and his persecutors expressed great anxiety, but in vain, to learn the name of the parties who had given him this book. In one of these interrogations, Dr. Storey's words were a brief elucidation of the amiable features of papal mercy -with an oath he said, "it were a good deed to put a hundred or two of these heretic knaves into a house, and I myself would set it on fire." After several hearings, Green was remanded to the Coal-house, where, in the course of one week, fourteen persons were brought in. Green was kept alone in a part called the Salt-house, his leg bolted and fettered, and his hands manacled, in which manner for ten days he lay on the stones or on a board. He was after this removed to Lollard's Tower, and was kept in the stocks more than a month. As he would not confess of whom he had the book, he was threatened with the rack. Dr. Storey after this had him tied up to one of the pillars, by two of the beadles, and one of Green's friends, hearing the Doctor call for whips, threw in a bundle of rods, and the use of these satisfied his ferocity. At the intercession of his friends, he was ultimately discharged.

STEPHEN COTTON was another who suffered severely by flogging.

JAMES HARRIS, of Billericay, Essex, aged seventeen years, was sent up to London, and several times closely examined by Bonner, who persuaded him to go to confession. When be

fore the Priest, he stood still, and said nothing.-" Why do you not confess?" said the priest. "Because," replied Harris, my sins are so many, they cannot be numbered." The priest related this answer to Bonner, who took the lad into the garden, and, with the rod of a cherry tree, whipped him in the most unmerciful manner. ROBERT WILLIAMS, a smith, also was cruelly scourged in the same place; upon his promise to be obedient, he was allowed to depart.

A poor harmless beggar was whipped at Salisbury by Dr. Jeffery's order, because he would not receive the sacrament at Easter.

In the year 1558, thirty-nine persons were burned; and the whole number consigned to the flames during this reign amounted to two hundred and seventy-seven, but if we include those who died by imprisonment and starvation, the number will be swelled to four hundred.

The following list exhibits the various ranks from which the victims to this persecution were selected:

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