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32 XLI. In the days of Queen Mary, John Cooper, an honeſt religious man, was falſly accuſed by one Grimwood for treaſon, in ſpeaking ſome words againſt the queen, and was accordingly put to death; but this perjured villain did not long eſcape divine vengeance; for being ſhortly after about his labour in the harveſt, and in good health, his bowels ſuddenly tell out of his body, and ſo he miſerably died.—Acts and Monuments.

XLII. In the reign of Queen Elizabeth, Thomas Lovelace, by forged letters, ſought to have three of his couſin-germans brought into queſtion for their lives, about matters of high treaſon; but the malice and forgery of this wicked buſineſs being found out, the falſe accuſer had judgment to be carried on horſe back about Weſtminster-Hall, with his face to the horſe tail, and a paper on his back containing his offence: from thence to be carried in the ſame manner, and ſet on the pillory in the Palace Yard, and there to have one of his ears cut off; alſo to be ſet on the pillory on a market day in Cheapſide with the like paper; after that to be carried into Kent, and at the next aſſizes there to be ſet on the pillory with like paper, and his other ear to be there cut off; alſo to ſtand in the pillory one market day at Canterbury, and another at Rocheſter; and in all theſe places his offence to be openly read; which ſentence was accordingly executed, and may be rather thought too mild against ſuch villains, as by forgery, perjury, and falſe ſwearing ſhall endeavour to destroy innocent perſons—Stow's Annals.

XLII. Narciſſus, Biſhop of Jeruſalem, though a man famous for his virtues and faithfulneſs in the reproof and correction of vice, was yet maliciouſly and falſly accuſed of incontinency; there were