was caused by her
declaration that should Henry persist in his intention of divorcing
Catherine he "should no longer be king of this realm ... and should die a
villain's death." Even such men as Fisher, bishop of Rochester, and Sir
Thomas More, corresponded with Barton. On his return from France in 1532
Henry passed through Canterbury and is said to have allowed the nun to
force herself into his presence, when she made an attempt to terrify him
into abandoning his marriage. After its solemnization in May 1533. her
utterances becoming still more treasonable, she was examined before Cranmer
(who had in March succeeded to the archbishopric on Warham's death) and
confessed. On the 25th of September Bocking and another monk, Hadley, were
arrested, and in November, Masters and others were implicated. The maid and
her fellow prisoners were examined before the Star Chamber, and were by its
order publicly exposed at St Paul's Cross, where they each read a
confession. In January 1534 by a bill of attainder the maid and her chief
accomplices were condemned to death, and were executed at Tyburn on the
20th of April. It has been held that her confession was extracted by force,
and therefore valueless, but the evidence of her imposture seems
conclusive.

See Froude, _History of England_; Burnet, _History of the Reformation_;
Lingard, _History of England_; F. A. Gasquet, _Henry VIII. [v.03 p.0453]
and the English Monasteries_ (ch. iii. 1899 ed.); T. E. Bridgett, _Life of
Blessed John Fisher_ (1888); vols. vi. and vii. of _Letters and Papers of
Henry VIII._; James Gairdner, _The English Church in the 16th Century_
(1899); Strype, _Memorials_, I. i. 271, and _Cranmer_; a detailed account
of the case is contained in the published Act of Attainder 25 Henry VIII.
c. 12.

BARTON BEDS, in geology, the name given to a series of softish grey and
brown clays, with layers of sand, of Upper Eocene age, which are found in
the Hampshire Tertiary basin, where they are particularly well exposed in
the cliffs of Barton, Hordwell, and in the Isle of Wight. Above the highly
fossiliferous Barton Clay there is a sandy series with few fossils; these
are the Headon Hill or Barton Sands. Either of these names is preferable to
the term "Upper Bagshot Beds," which has been applied to these sands. The
Barton Beds are absent from the London basin, and the Upper Bagshot Sands
of that area are probably at a lower horizon than the Barton Sands. The
term "Bartonie