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Rh before him "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit," and thus his soul passed away.

"The Puritans tried Laud," says Southey, "in the burning fiery furnace of affliction, and so his sterling worth was assayed and proved. And the martyrdom of Cranmer is not more inexpiably disgraceful to the Papists, than that of Laud to the Puritan persecutors."