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    a . piece of bread , and yet came yotmsgives after , to believe and profess the same doctrine for which you burned her . Acd now , forsooth , you will needb burn me ^ foi * a piece of flesh , and ., in the end , * you will come to believe this also , when you have read the scriptures and understand them . " This

    address was quite lost upon her judges , who immediately followed up their sentence with a petition to the king , for condign punishment upon a heretic , whom holy Mother Church had cast out sl $ a

    diseased sheep , lest the fold should be infected ; tanquam ovem morhidam a grege Domini ^ ne alios vim ros subditos sit a contagione inficiat * Cranmcr , as the principal Commissioner , had now a difficult task

    toperform . Edward , a gentle stripling , was not inured to scenes of blood , like the hoary courtiers of' his father , and shrunk from the judicial murder of this injured to

    wom ^ n . I know proceed With her tragical story , with mWenrobabiyty of historical correctnesSj than in the words of BtiSrrjett ; ( ii . 10 fj % ) Ttnp Sentence being u returned to t ^ council , the good king was moved to sign a warrant for burn - ing her , but could not be prevailed ont <* do it ; He thought it a piece of

    cruelty , too like that which they bad twndenSned nt Papists , to burn aay ifbr iheir consciences . Arid iii- a lbrig yiscouWe he had with Sh * JobtvCbeek , he seenrted much

    confirmed in that opinion . Cranmer Vas employed v to persuade him ttf&ign the warVant . He argued > frtfm the law of looses , by whi < & blasphemers w £ reFto be sto « e ^ - Mfe ^ tofld th ^ ^ ktri ^ , he mdi ^^^^ ekt dfflferellce bfettortfen ert ^^ to ^^^ k ottttl ^ f ^ ^ ivihftyi

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    and those which were ^ directl y ^ againstthe Apostles' creed . ^ Ifhat ! these were impieties agains | j Gocf ^ which k prince , ks being * - '&&&' $ L deputy , ought to punish ^ as t | i e " king ^ s deputies were obliged to punish offences ^ agninst the king £ s persdru . These reasons " did rjat ^ e ^ c , * silence than satisfy the youqg Jcjng ;

    who still thought it a hard thing ( as in truth it was ) to proceed so severely in such cases . t § o he set his hand to the warrant , with tears in his eyes ; saying to Crarimer ^ that if he did wrong , since / it was in submission to his authorijy ^ he should answer for it tdGbd . Ttiis

    struck the Archbishop with much horror , so that he Was very unwilling to have th £ sentence executed . And both he and Ricfley took the woman , then in custody *

    to their houses , to see if they could i i , ? J ¦ ¦ '¦¦ ¦¦ ; r x persuade her . " { tm Besides the hesitation , which the painful reluctance of theyqung king was calculated to

    exciteano-, ther attempt to lead these Pro- ' testant persecutors to consideration was made during this iriteW val . Among the pa ^ sagW ^ in F qx * s Latin work , to which I have beefi

    so muck indebted ^ immediatel y ^ following his short account " of /" Bo ^ h dr and Paris ^ and omitted b y him in his Book of Martyr ^ , is a sectionentitled

    ^ De quodam , qui ' mortem quf itocen&uiUu / hoQiines-Uvefo es $ e dtcebitt . Mr ! fierce , ' ip fab ' Vitfdi&ii&t ? ( # . $ 4 > i ) has given a tiAt ^^ Mor iha iykioiC except the" * Jft £ t senttatk . ' th . K translaliotfrsfiWi r ^ dilf w } 3 n ^ " a * an % a $ y tieUth . - ; 1 ^ . « » -T ' *• ¦ PriJfes ^ n ^ ' to & ^ a 1 iJ || loW ; ' ^ ecclesiastical tra ^ cWo'hs , nitlfliLz shotiid ' J >« 6 « irttfcHt thai' ' appeara fairr ^ % 4 cJmv yum \\ fe * wSfox

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    Sketch of English Protestant Persecution . — Letter IV . 365

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1812, page 365, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1749/page/21/