self to the sacrifice. Bradford's letters to his friends are very voluminous.

WILLIAM MINGE.

The day after the execution of Bradford and Leaf, one William Minge, whom it was intended to have burned, frustrated the designs of his persecutors by dying in prison.

On the 3rd of July, one James Trevisam died in the parish of St. Margaret, Lothbury. This poor man had been confined to his bed by lameness and sickness for some time, and was discovered with his wife and three other persons, listening to a young man who was reading the Bible, at his bedside; the whole party, excepting the sick man were immediately sent to the Compter and there kept a fortnight. At the end of that time James Trevisam died, and by order of Bishop Bonner was taken on a plank and buried like a dog in the fields. The Bishop declaring, that if he had not died he would have had him burned.

Rev. JOHN BLAND, Rev. JOHN FRANKESH, NICHOLAS

SHETERDEN, and HUMFREY MIDDLETON,

Burned at Canterbury, July 12, 1555.

The first named martyr was minister of Adesham, and the

second Vicar of Rolvindon; the whole were examined several times, and were finally condemned by Thornton, Bishop of Dover, on the 25th of June, but were not executed till the 12th July, when they were bound to two separate stakes and consumed by one fire.

NICHOLAS HALL and CHRISTOPHER WAID,

Burned 19th July, 1555.

The one a Bricklayer and the other a Weaver, both of Dartford in Kent, with three others, viz. Joan Beach, widow, John Harpol, and Margery Polley, widow, were all condemned to suffer death by Maurice, Bishop of Rochester, Waid was burned about a quarter of a mile out of the town of Dartford, in a gravel-pit. He advanced to the stake and kissed it, and being placed in a pitch barrel, persisted in addressing the spectators till unable to speak, then holding up his hands above his head, they remained in that position after the body was completely roasted, as though they had been stayed up with a support under them.

DERICK CARVER, Brewer, burned at Lewes, 22nd July,

1555.

JOHN LAUNDER, Husbandman, of Godstone, Surry, burned at Stenning, on the same day, both condemned by Bonner.

THOMAS IVESON, Carpenter, condemned at the same time as the former, burned at Chichester.

JAMES ABBES, burned at Bury 2nd of August, 1555.

JOHN DENLEY, Gent. JOHN NEWMAN and PATRICK PACKINGHAM.

Denley suffered at Uxbridge on the 8th of August; while burning he began to sing a psalm, when Dr. Story ordered a faggot to be thrown at him, which cutting his face severely, caused him to cease, and to raise his hands to his face. Dr. Story remarking that "he had spoiled a good song," the pious martyr suddenly sang a few words, spread his hands in the flames, and immediately died. Packingham was burned at the same the 28th and Newman suffered on the 31st, at Saffron Walden. The chief charge against Packingham was that he had not taken off his cap at the celebration of mass.

W. COKER, W. HOOPER, H. LAWRENCE, R. COLLIAR, R. WRIGHT and W. STERE were burned at Canterbury, August 1555.

ELIZABETH WARNE, widow of JOHN WARNE, the upholsterer who had been burned May 30, suffered at Stratfordle-bow, in August.

GEORGE TANKERFIELD, burned August 26, 1555 at St. Albans.

Rev. ROBERT SMITH, burned at Uxbridge, August 8. STEPHEN HARWOOD and THOMAS FUST, the former suffered at Stratford, the latter at Ware.

WILLIAM HALE, suffered at Barnet.

GEORGE KING, THOMAS LEYES, and JOHN WADE, died in prison, and were thrown out into the common fields, as unworthy of burial.

JOAN LASHFORD, daughter-in-law of the widow Warne. The last mentioned ten Martyrs were condemned by Bishop

Bonner in one day, which he publicly declared was a festival day to him, and gave him great pleasure.

Rev. ROBERT SAMUEL, burned at Ipswich, 31st August, 1555. This martyr was condemned by Hopton, Bishop of Norwich, who ordered him to be treated with great cruelty. He was chained standing upright to a post and kept without victuals, till nearly starved to death, being allowed daily only three mouthfuls of bread and three spoonsful of water. One Rose Nottingham, a young woman, rushed up to him as he was going to execution and embraced him, which being taken notice of, she was afterwards sought for, but succeeded in effectually concealing herself, when two women known to be her friends, viz. Anne Potter and Joan Trunchfield, were aphended, condemned and burned in the following year.

WILLIAM ALLEN, a labouring man, burned for refusing to join in a Popish procession, at Walsingham, September 1555. ROGER COO, a very old man, suffered at Yoxford in Suffolk, September, 1555.

THOMAS COB, Butcher, at Thetford, burned in the same month, condemned by the Bishop of Norwich.

GEORGE CATMER, ROBERT STREATER, ANTHONY BURWARD, GEORGE BRODBRIDGE and JAMES TUTTY all suffered at Canterbury in one fire, September 6th 1555. THOMAS HAYWARD, and JOHN GOREWAY, condemned by the Bishop of Lichfield, burned in the month of September in the town of Lichfield.

ROBERT GLOVER and CORNELIUS BUNGEY, burned at Coventry. Glover was a gentleman of property, and one of three brothers who were proscribed, the other two however

managed to conceal themselves, but dying soon after, were privately buried without ceremony in the churchyard, which coming to the Bishop's knowledge, he ordered them to be taken up out of their graves and thrown into the fields, which was accordingly done.

WILLIAM WOLSEY and ROBERT PYGOT, condemned by the Chancellor of Ely, were burned at Ely; while the fire was blazing furiously a large quantity of New Testaments were thrown into it, when the martyrs each took one, and pressing it to his breast, died in that position.

NICHOLAS RIDLEY, Bishop of London; HUGH LATIMER, Bishop of Worcester; and THOMAS CRANMER, Archbishop of Canterbury; demand a more extended notice, than many of their fellow martyrs, though distinguished from them only by their high rank, and the political influence they possessed in the two preceding reigns.

NICHOLAS RIDLEY,

Was endowed with every qualification to honour and to serve the ecclesiastical profession. He belonged to an ancient family in Northumberland, and descended from a long series of knights, and the family name still flourishes in great respectability in that

D