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94 troduced him at court. He became domestic chaplain to queen Catharine, wife of king Henry VIII. having at the same time the honour to serve her majesty in the several capacities above mentioned. The affection he bore towards his mistress engaged him in the dangerous controversies of the times. He opposed the divorce both by words and writings, and had the misfortune to incur a misprision, by giving too much into the delusions of Elizabeth Barton, called the Holy Maid of Kent. He was afterwards condemned to die, and executed in Smithfield, July 30, 1540, together with Dr. Edward Powel, and Dr. Richard Fetherstone, for denying the king's supremacy, and affirming his marriage with queen Catharine to be good. Three Lutheran divines suffered at the same time and place. Robert Barnes, D. D. Thomas Gerard, B. D. and parson of Honey Lane; William Jerome, B. D. and vicar of Stepenhith. Dr. Abel was author of a book intitled, "Tractatus de non diffolvendo Henrici et Catharinæ Matrimonio, 1534."

There was discovered also the name of "Walter Paslew, 1569." Who he was I have not been able to ascertain. It is observable in the motto or sentence he annexes, "Extrema anchora Christus, 1570," he has substituted, according to the fashion of the times, a picturesque representation of an anchor for the word "anchora." Also that of "Eagremond Radclyff 1576, pour parvenir" the undoubted autograph cut in stone, of a person, noble by birth, the son of Henry earl of Suffex, half brother to Thomas, then earl of Suffex, lord high chamberlain of the queen's household. But being young, says Strype, and of a haughty spirit, and a papist, he was engaged in the rebellion in the north in 1569, and made a shift afterwards to fly into Spain and Flanders. He ventured to Calais in 1575, and we soon afterwards find him committed to the Tower of London. Strype has preserved extracts from two letters from him in this confinement; one dated April 30, 1577, "most hum- bly