tions, the archbishop said, that he had
been twice married--once before, and once after he was in orders. In
the time of Henry, he had kept his wife secretly, "affirming that it
was better for him to have his own wife, than to do like other
priests, having the wives of others;" and he was not ashamed of what
he had done.

He admitted his writings upon the Eucharist; he avowed the authorship
of the Catechism, of the Articles, and of a book against the Bishop of
Winchester; and these books, and his conduct generally as Archbishop
of Canterbury, he maintained and defended. His replies were entered by
a notary, to be transmitted to the pope, and for the present the
business of the court with him was over.

"Who can stay him that willingly runneth into perdition?" said
Brookes. "Who can save that will be lost? God would have you to be
saved, and you refuse it."

The archbishop was cited to appear at Rome within eighty days to
answer to the charges which would there be laid against him; and in
order that he might be able to obey the summons he was returned to his
cell in Bocardo prison, and kept there in strict confinement.

Ridley and Latimer came next, and over them the papal mantle flung no
protection.

They had been prisoners now for more than two years. What Latimer's
occupation had been for all that time, little remains {p.229} to
show, except three letters:--one, of but a few lines, was to a Mrs.
Wilkinson, thanking her for some act of kindness:[501] another, was a
general exhortation to "all unfeigned lovers of God's truth," to be
constant in their faith: the third, and most noteworthy, was to some
one who had an opportunity of escaping from arrest, and probable
martyrdom, by a payment of money, and who doubted whether he might
lawfully avail himself of the chance: there was no question of
recantation; a corrupt official was ready to accept a bribe and ask no
questions.

[Footnote 501: If the gift of a pot of cold water
shall not be in oblivion with God, how can God
forget your manifold and bountiful gifts, when He
shall say unto you. "I was in prison, and you
visited me." God grant us all to do and suffer
while we be here as may be to His will and
pleasure.--Latimer to Mrs. Wilkinson, from Bocardo:
Latimer's _Remains_, p. 444.]

Latimer had not been one of t