hos and eloquence not usually to be found in his
writings) "we have brought this excellent prelate unto his
end, after two years and a half hard imprisonment. His body
was not carried to the grave in state, nor buried, as many
of his predecessors were, in his own cathedral church, nor
inclosed in a monument of marble or touchstone. Nor had he
any inscription to set forth his praises to posterity. No
shrine to be visited by devout pilgrims, as his
predecessors, S. Dunstan and S. Thomas had. Shall we
therefore say, as the poet doth:

Marmoreo Licinus tumulo jacet, at Cato parvo,
Pompeius nullo. Quis putet esse Deos?

No; we are better Christians, I trust, than so: who are
taught, that the rewards of God's elect are not temporal but
eternal. And Cranmer's martyrdom is his monument, and his
name will outlast an epitaph or a shrine." _Life of
Cranmer_; p. 391. It would seem, from the same authority,
that RIDLEY, LATIMER, and CRANMER, were permitted to dine
together in prison, some little time before they suffered;
although they were "placed in separate lodgings that they
might not confer together." Strype saw "a book of their
diet, every dinner and supper, and the charge thereof,"--as
it was brought in by the bailiffs attending them.

_Dinner Expenses of Ridley, Latimer, and Cranmer._

Bread and Ale ii_d._
Item, Oisters i_d._
Item, Butter ii_d._
Item, Eggs ii_d._
Item, Lyng viii_d._
Item, A piece of fresh Salmon x_d._
Wine iii_d._
Cheese and pears ii_d._

_Charges for burning Ridley and Latimer._

_s._ _d._
For three loads of wood fagots 12 0
Item, One load of furs fagots 3 4
For the carriage of the same 2 0
Item, A Post 1 4
Item, Two chains 3 4
Item, Two staples 0 6