10th of the following June, for example, he met the
Chancellor, and the Bishops of Durham, Winchester,
and Bath, with others, at this house.]

The registrar, in recording these proceedings, employs expressions
which too plainly indicate the frame of mind with which this poor man
was viewed by his persecutors. Had the words been attributed either to
the Archbishop himself, or to his remembrancer, by an enemy, they
might have excited a suspicion of misrepresentation or misunderstanding.
"Whilst he was under examination the poison of asps appeared about his
lips; for a very large spider, which no one saw enter, suddenly and
unexpectedly, in the sight of all, ran about his face." To this (p. 342)
absurd statement, however, the registrar adds a sentence abounding with
painful and dreadful associations. "The Archbishop, weighing in his mind
that the Holy Spirit was not in the man at all, and seeing by his
unsubdued countenance that he had a heart hardened like Pharaoh's,
freeing themselves from him altogether, delivered him to the secular
arm; praying the noblemen who were present, not to put him to death for
his offence, nor deliver him to be punished." Whatever force this prayer
of the hierarchy was expected to have, the King's writ was ready. The
Archbishop condemned him before their early dinner, and forthwith on the
same day, after dinner, he was taken to Smithfield, and burnt in a sort
of tub to ashes. The Lambeth Register[263] mentions the mode of his
death, and affirms that he persevered in his obstinacy to the last, but
says nothing whatever about the Prince of Wales. The further proceedings
with regard to this martyr, and which connect him with the subject of
these Memoirs, are thus stated by Fox, in his Book of Martyrs.

[Footnote 263: Dictoque die, immediate post
prandium, ex decreto regio, apud Smythfield,
praefatus Joh. Badby, in sua obstinacia perseverans
usque ad mortem, catenis ferreis stipiti ligatus,
ac quodam vase concavo circumplexus, injectis
fasciculis et appositis ignibus, incineratus
extitit et consumptus.]

"This thing[264] [the condemnation by the Archbishop, and (p. 343)
the delivery of Badby to the secular power,] being done and
concluded in the forenoon, in the afternoon the King's writ was
n