a heretic.

A pious woman was burnt at Chippen Sudburne, by order of the chancellor,
Dr. Whittenham. After she had been consumed in the flames, and the
people were returning home, a bull broke loose from a butcher and
singling out the chancellor from all the rest of the company, he gored
him through the body, and on his horns carried his entrails. This was
seen by all the people, and it is remarkable, that the animal did not
meddle with any other person whatever.

October 18, 1511, William Succling and John Bannister, who had formerly
recanted, returned again to the profession of the faith, and were burnt
alive in Smithfield.

In the year 1517, one John Brown, (who had recanted before in the reign
of Henry VII. and borne a fagot round St. Paul's,) was condemned by Dr.
Wonhaman, archbishop of Canterbury, and burnt alive at Ashford. Before
he was chained to the stake, the archbishop Wonhaman, and Yester, bishop
of Rochester, caused his feet to be burnt in a fire till all the flesh
came off, even to the bones. This was done in order to make him again
recant, but he persisted in his attachment to the truth to the last.

Much about this time one Richard Hunn, a merchant tailor of the city of
London, was apprehended, having refused to pay the priest his fees for
the funeral of a child; and being conveyed to the Lollards' Tower, in
the palace of Lambeth, was there privately murdered by some of the
servants of the archbishop.

September 24, 1518, John Stilincen, who had before recanted, was
apprehended, brought before Richard Fitz-James, bishop of London, and on
the 25th of October was condemned as a heretic. He was chained to the
stake in Smithfield amidst a vast crowd of spectators, and sealed his
testimony to the truth with his blood. He declared that he was a
Lollard, and that he had always believed the opinions of Wickliffe; and
although he had been weak enough to recant his opinions, yet he was now
willing to convince the world that he was ready to die for the truth.

In the year 1519, Thomas Mann was burnt in London, as was one Robert
Celin, a plain honest man for speaking against image worship and
pilgrimages.

Much about this time, was executed in Smithfield, in London, James
Brewster, a native of Colchester. His sentiments were the same as the
rest of the Lollards, or those who followed the doctrines of Wickliffe;
but notwithstanding the innocence of his life, and the regularity of his
manners, he was obliged