Q. How did you act, after you heard this anathema pronounced?

A. I wrote other papers, till I was apprehended, when I confessed myself to be the author, and that I would do the same to discover Antichrist, or the Pope, who wasted the Church of God. After refusing to recant, I was condemned to be burnt, delivered over to the sheriff of Devonshire for execution, and in Liverydale without Exeter I was chained to the stake.

Several Martyrs, who suffered in England during the reign of Queen Mary I. were now introduced into the Court to give their evidence against the Prisoner. Only a few were examined.

John Rogers, sworn.

Q. Was you the first person in England who suffered by fire during the reign of Queen Mary?

A. I was. Mary was employed by the Prisoner at the bar, as his common executioner in England, and she made a greater proficiency in kindling fires, to burn her Protestant subjects than any hangmen before her time.

Q. In what year did she begin her reign?

A. In the year 1553; on the death of Edward VI. Lady Jane Grey had been proclaimed agreeably to the request of Edward; but Mary, who by intrigue and flattery first drew the county of Norfolk to support her claim, soon obtained the crown. She then cut off the head of Lady Jane and her husband Lord Guilford Dudley. Having established herself on the throne, she proceeded like a female fury to re-establish Popery. Cardi

nal Pole was restored, and introduced to both houses of Parliament as the Pope's Legate, and addressed them upon the occasion. The Parliament after this drew up a petition acknowledging their sorrow for having rejected the Prisoner's authority, requesting to be pardoned for their offences, and restored into the bosom of the Church of Rome.

This petition being delivered to the Cardinal, he gave them absolution in these words: "We (by the apostolic authority given unto us, by the Most Holy Lord, Pope Julius the third, Christ's vicegerent on earth,) do absolve and deliver you, and every of you, with the whole Realm and Dominions thereof, from all heresy and schism, and from all Judgments, Censures, and Pains, for that curse incurred and also we do restore you again to the unity of our Mother the Holy Church." The report of this coming to Rome, caused great joy. The Prisoner published a Bull for a Jubilee, and went in procession to manifest the pleasure he felt on this occasion. He then delegated Mary to be his agent in England to put to death such as rejected Popery, and I with many others were dragged to prison.

Q. Was you not once one of his Priests?

A. I was. I was educated at Cambridge, but being chosen a chaplain to the factory at Antwerp, I became acquainted with Tindal and Coverdale, who were translating the Bible. Through their instrumentality, by the word, I assisted them to translate, I was led to see the vile conduct of the Prisoner, and to reject his authority. After this I

married and travelled into Saxony, and preached the gospel of Jesus Christ, for some years. Upon the accession of King Edward VI. I came into England, and was appointed a Prebend of St. Paul's, where I was stationed on the return of Popery. On a complaint being made that I preached the doctrines of the Reformation, I was cited before the Prisoner's Bishops, and condemned as a heretic. During my confinement, I drew up an answer to the charges brought against me, and vindicated the doctrines of the atonement and justification by the imputed righteousness of Christ.

After undergoing the ceremony of degradation, I was conducted to the flames in Smithfield. My Wife with her ten children with me, requested an interview before I was chained to the stake, but so little of the milk of human kindness did my enemies possess, that our united request was not granted. I was chained to the stake, and the flames were kindled round me, which continued to burn till I was delivered out of their sight: this was in the year 1555.

Lawrence Saunders, William Pigot, Stephen Knight, Thomas Tomkins, Thomas Hawkes, John Lawrence, and William Hunter, being sworn, said, that they were all chained to separate stakes, and burnt by order of the Prisoner. Lawrence affirmed, that when he was brought to Colchester to be executed, his legs being so worn by heavy irons in prison, and his body so weak, that he was obliged to be carried in a chair to the stake, and the fire kindled round him sitting.

Robert Farrar, Bishop of St. David's, and Rawlins White, a Fisherman, both of Wales, were next examined. They proved that they suffered in like manner by the Prisoner's orders.

A pile of iron chains was now produced to the court, which had been used by the Prisoner, to bind the witnesses and others to stakes.

Rowland Taylor, Vicar of Hadley in Essex, being examined, affirmed, that he was cited before the Bishop of Winchester, whose name was Stephen Gardiner, and who next to Bonner was one of the Prisoner's most active and cruel executioners. That he was sent up to London to the Queen's bench prison, and after repeated examinations was condemned to be burnt as a heretic. That he was sent down to his parish to be executed. That as he entered Hadley, the streets were lined with his old parishioners, who in general m nifested their sorrow on his account. That at Altham-Common, the place of execution, he addressed the spectators, saying, "I have taught you nothing but God's holy word, and am come hither to seal with my blood those doctrines of the gospel I have delivered unto you.” That being chained to the stake and the fire kindled, he was burnt till he was delivered out of the fire, and left nothing but a few ashes, which led the Prisoner, and others, to suppose that he was dead.

Bishop Latimer, sworn.

Q. Did not the Prisoner attempt to burn you? A. He did. Upon the accession of Mary, I with Bishop Ridley, and Archbishop Cranmer,

were sent to the Tower, and from thence to Oxford, to dispute with twelve men under the Prisoner's government, selected from Cambridge and Oxford. When the disputation was ended, we were brought as prisoners on a stage, and asked "whether we would persist in our opinions or recant?" We all affirmed that we would persist, and were then condemned as heretics to be burnt, but our execution was suspended for some time.

Q Was Nicholas Ridley the Bishop chained to the same stake with you?

A. He was. We were both chained together at one stake in Oxford. I was then about fourscore years of age, and my infirmities much increased by the severity of my confinement, yet as my day was, so strength was given. Having long since declined my ecclesiastical dignity, I appeared at the stake without any clerical habit. Ridley and I embraced and encouraged each other at the stake, he said to me "God will either assuage the fury of the flames, or enable us to endure it," and so he did. The faggots being kindled I was soon taken in a fiery chariot to my King, but Ridley was delayed for some time longer, when he was mercifully delivered in like manner.

Bishop Ridley, being examined, confirmed the testimony of the last witness.

Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, sworn. Q. Did not the Prisoner condemn you?

A. He did, but I suffered for a long time in confinement before he attempted to execute the sentence. I was also so weak, that one day by