a nemine servari posse quos
Deus projecerit. Itaque de illis supplicium est
sumptum.--Pole to Philip: _Epist._ Reg. Pol. vol.
v. p. 47.]

[Footnote 504: Foxe, vol. vii. p. 545. It is to the
discredit of Mary that she paid no attention to
this appeal, and left Bonner's injustice to be
repaired by the first parliament of Elizabeth.
_Commons Journals_, 1 Elizabeth.]

The place selected for the burning was outside the north wall of the
town, a short stone's throw from the southward corner of Balliol
College, and about the same distance from Bocardo prison, from which
Cranmer was intended to witness his friends' sufferings.

Lord Williams of Thame was on the spot by the queen's order; and the
city guard were under arms to prevent disturbance. Ridley appeared
first, walking between the mayor and one of the aldermen. He was
dressed in a furred black gown, "such as he was wont to wear being
bishop," a furred velvet tippet about his neck, and a velvet cap. He
had trimmed his beard, and had washed himself from head to foot; a man
evidently nice in his appearance, a gentleman, and liking to be known
as such. The way led under the windows of Bocardo, and he looked up;
but Soto, the friar, was with the archbishop, making use of the
occasion, and Ridley did not see him.[505] In turning round, however,
he saw Latimer coming up behind him in the frieze coat, with the cap
and handkerchief--the workday costume unaltered, except that under his
cloak, and reaching to his feet, the old man wore a long new shroud.

[Footnote 505: The execution, however, was
doubtless appointed to take place on that spot,
that Cranmer might see it. An old engraving in
Foxe's _Martyrs_ represents him as on the leads of
the Tower while the burning was going forward,
looking at it, and praying.]

"Oh! be ye there?" Ridley exclaimed.

"Yea," Latimer answered. "Have after as fast as I can follow."

Ridley ran to him and embraced him. "Be of good heart, brother," he
said. "God will either assauge the flame, or else strengthen us to
abide it." They knelt and prayed together, and then exchanged a few
words in a low voice, which were not overheard.

Lord Williams, the vice-chancellor, and the doct