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    ( hict . Yet an impartial inquirer after divine jadgrrterits might easily have discovefr * d a more striking example in Atfne B \ iUrn ' s fall , by the cruel caprice of Henry , whom she had encouraged if not instigated to the death of More , that steadv More ,

    Whp "with a genVous , thongh mistaken ze , Withstood a brutal tyrant ' s useful rags . This story of 4 < a sumptuous sepulchre" was probably imposed &n the credulity of the foreign

    rtistoriaYi . Stoch a project for posthumous renown , I lately attributed , on good authority , to ilenfy , and it is worthy of the ci Vulgar- great , * ftutquite unworthy of credit when attributed to a man

    JLike rigid Cinqinnatus nobly poor . Yet our author ( or Sleidan ) proceeds to triumph over the rpempry of More , , that , " his body found i * o other sepulchre , to lye in but

    the gibbet . ? ' This is a gross misyepresentaiion ^ prpbably froip read " ing ; , . the horrid sentence , agai rist More ,, wJiich directed that he <* , be hanged till he be half dead ; after that cut down yet alive /' and m , conclusion , u his four

    qtiarter §'' to be set up over four gates of the city , and his head Upon London Bridge . " This sentence was commuted into behead-Ing , except as to the exposure , of More ' s head , which was , after

    some days , taken down by the procurement of his affectionate And accomplished dapghjer , Mrs . Jtoper . She preserved through life this relic of her father , which , according to the directions , of her \ viU 5 was buried in her arms .

    The jttdgmeiit on Sir Tho | nas More is immedjately followed |> y a tale , probably taken also from Sleidan , an 4 no iin ^ musing spe-

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    cimen of Protestant credulity ^^^ rti ttlai rr (^^^^^ W ^ t ^^ efnbassadour to the CoWfncii " of

    Trent , in the year of our jUorcf , 1 ^ 5 % be i ng v&ry busy in writfi ^ to his master the Pope ^ arid having " laboured Wfl ' one night aB&ilt hh letters ; behold as he raised

    himself iti His chair , t 6 stir up his wit and memory , over dulled with watching , a huge black' dbg ; ' witft . great flaming eyes , and long ears dangling to the grOtind , appeared unto him ; which ^ mttig tfit # r Hf& chamber ancf rriakittg right towards him , even under fhe 5 tabl # sfiifere

    he sat , vanished out of his sight : whereat be atr ^^^ i ^^ sense ! eW re € m ^ e # h % fetos ^ l ^ ^^^ for a candt ^ tfndf- ^ % h « to ^? snw the dog cmild ^ hdt-belfelftidlt fee

    mil ptesehtly si ^ k ^^ # b a stiorig concei t ^ hicii ri ^ v % r teft Mtfi ^ tHl his dfeath j ever' crying that they w 6 uld ^ drive &mvp tbe black d ^ g which feeeittfed td eiimb upctir 1 ^ bed : and ^ inttethumour h % died /'

    In another place , (§** 9 &y ) ^ itttout a reference tb fny authority , and contrary , I believe ^ to $ & * thentic history , Gardinak ? i ^ ote 4 s described as an apostate to cl ^ e Pope , having " sometimes professed himself to be w « H --seen-Ai

    the sincerity of the gospeh * ' He is said alsoj as inaccurately , to have f < died in horrible griefs , tef-r rors and fearfulness / ' ' J ^ # - ¦ To the judgments on persecutors our author has # dded ** Ai Mymn of this persecu tiori of God * s ch urch

    and the deliveratice of thfe" safein ^* The following introductory fines discover an ease of versification , not very common two \ iundred years agb : ^ ^ ^

    Along the verdant ^ fields * afl rictiy dyed wb natui ^ s vmt *^ ti , m * m 'FJon ^ s ^ pridc : - ' ¦>» vu . i ¦ ¦ , . - ^

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    82 Book . Worm . No . XI .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1814, page 32, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2436/page/32/