his escape could only be made
possible by throwing the bloodhounds off the scent. A refusal to answer
would not have been sufficient; and the general laws by which our conduct
is ordinarily to be directed, cannot be made so universal in their
application as to meet all contingencies. It is a law that we may not
strike or kill other men, but occasions rise in which we may innocently do
both. I may kill a man in defence of my own life or my friend's life, or
even of my friend's property; and surely the circumstances which dispense
with obedience to one law may dispense equally with obedience to another.
_If_ I may kill a man to prevent him from robbing my friend, why may I not
deceive a man to save my friend from being barbarously murdered? It is
possible that the highest morality would forbid me to do either. I am
unable to see why, if the first be permissible, the second should be a
crime. Rahab of Jericho did the same thing which Dalaber did, and on that
very ground was placed in the catalogue of saints.

[517] A cell in the Tower, the nature of which we need not inquire into.

[518] FOXE, vol. v. p. 421.

[519] Dr. London to the Bishop of Lincoln: _Rolls House MS._

[520] Ibid.

[521] Dr. Forman, rector of All Hallows, who had himself been in trouble
for heterodoxy.

[522] Dr. London to the Bishop of Lincoln, Feb. 20, 1528: _Rolls House MS._

[523] Now Cokethorpe Park, three miles from Stanton Harcourt, and about
twelve from Oxford. The village has disappeared.

[524] Vicar of All Saints, Bristol, to the Rector of Lincoln: _Rolls House
MS._

[525] The Vicar of All Saints to the Rector of Lincoln: _Rolls House MS._

[526] Dr. London to the Bishop of Lincoln: _Rolls House MS._

[527] Long extracts from it are printed in FOXE, vol. iv.

[528] Another of the brethren, afterwards Bishop of St. David's, and one of
the Marian victims.

[529] Bishop of Lincoln to Wolsey, March 5, 1527-8: _Rolls House MS._: and
see ELLIS, third series, vol. ii. p. 77.

[530] ELLIS, third series, vol. ii. p. 77.

[531] With some others he "was cast into a prison where the saltfish lay,
through the stink whereof the most part of them were infected; and the said
Clark, being a tender young man, died in the same prison."--FOXE, vol. iv.
p. 615.

[532] London to Warham: _Rolls House MS._

[533] Petition of the Commons, vol. i. cap. 3.

[534] Ibid. And, as we saw in the bishops' reply, they considered their
practice in these r