bleedings of my grief,'--

and so he goes on; but we do not learn what Thomas Hart did, except that he
comforted John Perrot in his confinement.

"Moreover," he says, "the everlasting mercies of my God did stir up the
bowels of other two of his tender babes, named in the tent Jane Stokes
and Charles Baylie, to come to visit me whilest I was as forsaken of
all men."

They persevered, he tells us,

"in their pilgrimage until they arrived to Rome, where C. B. offered
his life to ransom me, and both of them entered into captivity for the
love which they bore to my life."

His _Narrative_ (strictly speaking) contains no further information, but
that at the bottom of the tenth page it is dated and signed,

"Written in Rome Prison of Madmen. JOHN."

The remaining six pages of the pamphlet consist of a letter from Charles
Baylie, giving an account of his pilgrimage with Jane Stokes, from Dover to
Calais, Paris, Marseilles, Genoa, until

"Arriving," he says, "safe at Rome, we were drawn in our lives directly
to the place where the dearly beloved J. P. was, and coming to the
prison door, I enquired for him, and having answer of his being there,
I desired for to speak with him, but it would not be permitted us; So
it was said in me, _Write unto him_, which I did, the which he answered
us in the fulness of love, which refreshed us after our weary steps;
For our souls were refreshed one in another, though one another's faces
we had never seen to the outward, and then we being kept in a holy fear
not to do nor act one way nor other, but as we were moved of the Lord,
least we should add to his bonds,--I say, being thus kept, we were
delivered out of the snare of the fowler, who secretly lay in wait to
betray our innocency; And after a little time the Lord showed me I
should go to the inquisition, which I did, and enquired for the
Inquisitor, as I was showed of the Lord I should do; and when I spoke
to him I told him _I was come from England for to see my brother
J. P._; to which he answered, _I should see him_, and appointed me to
come to a certain place called _Minerva_, and there, saith he, _I will
procure you the liberty of the Cardinalls to see him_; he had me also
to the Inquisition office, where he asked many questions of me
concerning our religion, to which I answered in the simplicity of my
heart in the f