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constitution and life of the poor king would decay and finally perish.

Hume, or Hun, is supposed to have turned informer, and upon his
information several of these persons were taken into custody. After
previous examination, on the 25th of July 1441, Bolingbroke was placed
upon a scaffold before the cross of St Paul's, with a chair curiously
painted, which was supposed to be one of his implements of necromancy,
and dressed in mystical attire, and there, before the Archbishop of
Canterbury, the Cardinal of Winchester, and several other bishops, made
abjuration of all his unlawful arts.

A short time after, the Duchess of Gloucester having fled to the
sanctuary at Westminster, her case was referred to the same high
persons, and Bolingbroke was brought forth to give evidence against her.
She was of consequence committed to custody in the castle of Leeds, near
Maidstone, to take her trial in the month of October. A commission was
directed to the lord treasurer, several noblemen, and certain judges of
both benches, to inquire into all manner of treasons, sorceries, and
other things that might be hurtful to the king's person, and Bolingbroke
and Southwel as principals, and the Duchess of Gloucester as accessory,
were brought before them. Margery Jourdain was arraigned at the same
time; and she, as a witch and relapsed heretic, was condemned to be
burned in Smithfield. The Duchess of Gloucester was sentenced to do
penance on three several days, walking through the streets of London,
with a lighted taper in her hand, attended by the lord mayor, the
sheriffs, and a select body of the livery, and then to be banished for
life to the Isle of Man. Thomas Southwel died in prison; and Bolingbroke
was hanged at Tyburn on the 18th of November.

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