g, that she would wish
none of her subjects to be burnt without some of the Council being
present, and that she would particularly wish there to be good sermons at
all burnings, the Council knew pretty well what was to be done next. So,
after the Cardinal had blessed all the bishops as a preface to the
burnings, the Chancellor Gardiner opened a High Court at Saint Mary
Overy, on the Southwark side of London Bridge, for the trial of heretics.
Here, two of the late Protestant clergymen, HOOPER, Bishop of Gloucester,
and ROGERS, a Prebendary of St. Paul's, were brought to be tried. Hooper
was tried first for being married, though a priest, and for not believing
in the mass. He admitted both of these accusations, and said that the
mass was a wicked imposition. Then they tried Rogers, who said the same.
Next morning the two were brought up to be sentenced; and then Rogers
said that his poor wife, being a German woman and a stranger in the land,
he hoped might be allowed to come to speak to him before he died. To
this the inhuman Gardiner replied, that she was not his wife. 'Yea, but
she is, my lord,' said Rogers, 'and she hath been my wife these eighteen
years.' His request was still refused, and they were both sent to
Newgate; all those who stood in the streets to sell things, being ordered
to put out their lights that the people might not see them. But, the
people stood at their doors with candles in their hands, and prayed for
them as they went by. Soon afterwards, Rogers was taken out of jail to
be burnt in Smithfield; and, in the crowd as he went along, he saw his
poor wife and his ten children, of whom the youngest was a little baby.
And so he was burnt to death.

The next day, Hooper, who was to be burnt at Gloucester, was brought out
to take his last journey, and was made to wear a hood over his face that
he might not be known by the people. But, they did know him for all
that, down in his own part of the country; and, when he came near
Gloucester, they lined the road, making prayers and lamentations. His
guards took him to a lodging, where he slept soundly all night. At nine
o'clock next morning, he was brought forth leaning on a staff; for he had
taken cold in prison, and was infirm. The iron stake, and the iron chain
which was to bind him to it, were fixed up near a great elm-tree in a
pleasant open place before the cathedral, where, on peaceful Sundays, he
had been accustomed to preach and to pray, wh