. Burnet, vol. ii p. 302,
Heylin, p. 48, 49. Godwin, p. 349.

Sanders was burned at Coventry: a pardon was also offered him; but
he rejected it, and embraced the stake, saying, "Welcome the cross
of Christ; welcome everlasting life." Taylor, parson of Hadley, was
punished by fire in that place, surrounded by his ancient friends and
parishioners. When tied to the stake, he rehearsed a psalm in English:
one of his guards struck him on the mouth, and bade him speak Latin:
another, in a rage, gave him a blow on the head with his halbert, which
happily put an end to his torments.

There was one Philpot, archdeacon of Winchester, inflamed with such zeal
for orthodoxy, that having been engaged in dispute with an Arian, he
spit in his adversary's face, to show the great detestation which he
had entertained against that heresy. He afterwards wrote a treatise to
justify this unmannerly expression of zeal: he said, that he was led to
it in order to relieve the sorrow conceived from such horrid blasphemy,
and to signify how unworthy such a miscreant was of being admitted into
the society of any Christian.[*] Philpot was a Protestant; and falling
now into the hands of people as zealous as himself, but more powerful,
he was condemned to the flames, and suffered at Smithfield. It seems to
be almost a general rule, that in all religions, except the true, no
man will suffer martyrdom who would not also inflict it willingly on
all that differ from him. The same zeal for speculative opinions is the
cause of both.

The crime for which almost all the Protestants were condemned, was
their refusal to acknowledge the real presence. Gardiner, who had vainly
expected that a few examples would strike a terror into the reformers,
finding the work daily multiply upon him, devolved the invidious office
on others, chiefly on Bonner, a man of profligate manners, and of a
brutal character, who seemed to rejoice in the torments of the unhappy
sufferers.[**] He sometimes whipped the prisoners with his own hands,
till he was tired with the violence of the exercise: he tore out the
beard of a weaver who refused to relinquish his religion; and that he
might give him a specimen of burning, he held his hand to the candle
till the sinews and veins shrunk and burst.[***]

* Strype, vol iii. p. 261, and Coll. No. 58.

** Heylin, p. 47, 48.

*** Fox, vol. iii. p. 187.

It is needless to be particular in enumerating all the cruelties