and
it was to-day that the sentence was carried out.

"They were all three drawn on hurdles together to the open space by St.
Mary's Bridge, where all was prepared, with gallows and cauldron and
butchering block; and a great company went after them. I have not heard
that they spoke much, on the way, except that a friend of Mr. Garlick's
cried out to him to remember that they had often shot off together on
the moors; to which Mr. Garlick made answer merrily that it was true;
but that 'I am now to shoot off such a shot as I never shot in all my
life.' He was merry at the trial, too, I hear; and said that 'he was not
come to seduce men, but rather to induce them to the Catholic religion,
that to this end he had come to the country, and for this that he would
work so long as he lived.' And this he did on the scaffold, speaking to
the crowd about him of the salvation of their souls, and casting papers,
which he had written in prison, in proof of the Catholic faith.

"Mr. Garlick went up the ladder first, kissing and embracing it as the
instrument of his death, and to encourage Mr. Simpson, as it was
thought, since some said he showed signs of timorousness again when he
came to the place. But he showed none when his turn came, but rather
exhibited the same courage as them both. Mr. Ludlam stood by smiling
while all was done; and smiling still when his turn came. His last words
were, '_Venite benedicti Dei_'; and this he said, seeming to see a
vision of angels come to bear his soul away.

"They were cut down, all three of them, before they were dead; and the
butchery done on them according to sentence; yet none of them cried out
or made the least sound; and their heads and quarters were set up
immediately afterwards on poles in divers places of Derby; some of them
above the house that stands on the bridge and others on the bridge
itself. But these, I hear, will not be there long.

"So these three have kept the faith and finished their course with joy.
_Laus Deo_. Mr. John is in ward, for harbouring of the priests; but
nothing hath been done to him yet.

"As for your reverence, I am of opinion that you had best wait another
week where you are. There has been a man or two seen hereabouts whom
none knew, as well as at Padley. It hath been certified, too, that Mr.
Thomas was at the root of it all, that he gave the information that Mr.
John and at least a priest or two would be at Padley at that time,
though no man knows how h