certain of his clerks and servants. He was taken
near Broniarth in Montgomeryshire, on a property
now belonging to Mr. Ormsby Gore, among whose
muniments there is said to be traditionary evidence
that the manor of Broniarth was granted to one of
its former possessors as a reward for securing Sir
John Oldcastle. The place in which he is said to
have been taken, is called "Lord Cobham's Field" to
this day.

There are, we are told, in the Welsh language
original verses referring unquestionably to Lord
Cobham's residence in Wales, among persons who
entertained the same religious views with himself,
and also to his return to England. The religion of
Rome is called in these verses "the Faith of the
Pharaohs."]

And here we must close this sad tragedy, in the last scene of which
King Henry took no part. He was spared the pain of either sanctioning
or witnessing these transactions. The first information he received of
his unhappy friend's capture, probably certified him also of his
death; and whatever we may suppose to have been his sentiments on the
removal from this world of one whom he certainly believed guilty of
treason, and the enemy of his throne; his kindness of heart, and
sympathy with the brave and the good, must have made him, even in the
midst of the din of war and the flush of victory, lament the fate of
one whom for so many years he had held in affection and esteem. Henry
probably felt a melancholy satisfaction that he was spared the sad
duty, for so he must have deemed it, of sanctioning the last sentence
on his friend. They are now both in the hands of Him to whom all
hearts are open, and from whom no secret is hid; and there we leave
them to his just but merciful disposal.

CHAPTER XXXII. (p. 393)

THE CASE OF JOHN CLAYTON, OF GEORGE GURMYN, AND OF WILLIAM TAYLOR,
EXAMINED. -- RESULTS OF THE INVESTIGATION. -- HENRY'S KINDNESS AND
LIBERALITY TO THE WIDOWS AND ORPHANS OF CONVICTED HERETICS. --
REFLECTIONS.

Henry of Monmouth's name seems never to have been associated by our
historians with the death of any one condemned to the flames as a
heretic, except in the ca