learned much about him from one who wrote
the lives of many martyrs of the true faith. It was his prayer which
they had heard on the second night of their coming to the prison. The
room in which he was lodged was foul and damp; and there he was kept for
many months suffering from disease, till he was finally led forth and
carried to Gloucester, where he was cruelly put to death by fire,
holding to the true faith to the last moment of his life.

Ernst and A'Dale, in consequence of their speaking to the good bishop,
were deprived of their liberty; but it mattered little, for in two days
officers arrived at the prison to carry up numerous persons to be
examined before the Bishop of Winchester. Among others, Ernst and
A'Dale were summoned. They went willingly, thinking that they could
surely with ease free themselves.

Many of the prisoners as they were led forth looked sick and pale, as if
they had been kept in unwholesome wards, with scanty food. Some were
weeping, not knowing what might be the result of their trial. It was
rumoured, not without reason, that the Queen proposed to crush out the
Reformed religion with fire and sword; and they remembered that in King
Henry's time, that sweet young lady--Anne Askew--had been burned at
Smithfield; and it was evident that Queen Mary had much of the nature of
her father. The prisoners were led over London Bridge to the Church of
Saint Mary Overy--the very place in which the priest declared that Ernst
had been seen with other rioters attacking the altar.

The Bishop of Winchester and other bishops, among whom was Bonner,
Bishop of London, were seated in great state, when the prisoners were
brought up before them. A few were faint-hearted, and when asked their
opinions on the supremacy of the Pope, on transubstantiation and other
points, declared themselves believers in the doctrine of Rome. Others,
however, boldly denied that the Pope had any authority in this realm of
England, while they as bravely asserted the Protestant doctrine for
which they had been cast into prison. Many of them, of all ranks, some
poor and illiterate, did in no wise shrink from the abuse heaped on them
by Gardiner and Bonner especially.

And now the priest who had accused Ernst and A'Dale appeared in court.
He fixed his eyes sternly on them, as if he would frighten them into
submission, and pointing at them a finger of scorn, declared that they
were among the worst of those present, having c