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 and fortitude, he anwered, ''I thank you my Father for your good and godly wih, but know that I have Gods grace and favour, o that no fear of death doth trouble me, once I have dared to oppoe Antichrit, and I hall dare to die for Chrit. I am now judged by the world, but a more horrible judgment waits upon them.''

4. When on Munday morning after five of the clock he heard the report of a Gunne, he aid, This is the ignall of our death, let me go first; but thou Ieus have mercy on us. The Jeuits troubling him, as before he reited manfully, o now when he came upon the caffold, and Seditius the Father of his ect, with others called unto him, aying, Sir, remember yet, he anwered, pray dipatch me preently.

5. When he went further on the caffold, and beheld the Sun hining very bright, he aid, Chrit thou Sonne of Righteounee, grant that through the darknee of death I may pae into thy eternall light. then meditating, he walkt about the caffold with that gravity, & a countenance o compoed for ober mirth; that even the chief men there could carce refrain weeping. Having ended his prayers he fell upon a cloth that was pread there for that purpoe and o received the blow of the word. After that his right hand was cut off, and was hung up with his head, on an iron peare upon the high Tower of the Bridge; but his carcae was wrapt in a cloth and conveyed away by Rh