sities, with powers
extending, not over the living only, but the dead.

Scot, Bishop of Chester, Watson, Bishop of Lincoln, and
Christopherson, Master of Trinity and Bishop of Chichester, went in
January to Cambridge, accompanied by Ormaneto, the Venetian, a
confidential friend of the legate. Bucer and Fagius slept in St.
Mary's and St. Michael's. The 10th of January, the day after the
bishops' arrival, the two churches were laid under an interdict, as
defiled with the presence of unhallowed bodies. On the 15th a summons
was fixed to St. Mary's door, citing Martin Bucer and Paul Fagius, or
any other who would plead on their behalf, to make answer three days
after, before the commission, on a charge of heresy. The court sate,
and no one appeared. The session was adjourned for a week, while the
colleges were searched, and Primers, Prayer-books, Bibles, or other
interdicted volumes, were hunted out and brought together. On the 26th
the bishops met again; the accused remained undefended, and the heresy
was taken to be proved; sentence was passed therefore, that the bodies
should be disinterred and burnt. On the 6th of February the coffins
were taken out of the graves, and chained to a stake in the
market-place; the Bibles and prayer-books were heaped round them with
a pile of faggots, and books and bodies were reduced to ashes.

Having purged Cambridge, Ormaneto proceeded to Oxford, on business of
the same description.

Peter Martyr, when he came into residence as divinity professor at
Christ Church, had outraged the orthodox party in the university by
bringing a wife within the college walls; and Catherine Cathie, so the
wife was named, had, like the wife of Luther, been a professed nun.
She had died before Mary's accession, and had been buried in the
cathedral. A process has now instituted against her similar to that at
Cambridge.

{p.282} An unforeseen difficulty occurred in the conduct of the
prosecution. Catherine Cathie had lived quietly and unobtrusively; she
had taught nothing and had written no books; and no evidence could be
found to justify her conviction on a charge of heresy.

Ormaneto wrote to the legate for instructions; and as burning was not
permissible, the legate replied that, "forasmuch as Catherine Cathie,
of detestable memory, had called herself the wife of Peter Martyr, a
heretic, although both he and she had before taken vows of religion;
forasmuch as she had lived with him in Oxford in fornica