spirite, MarginaliaA goodlye prayer.encrease of his wisdome, encrease of cōtempning the wicked world, encrease of desiring hartely to be with God, and the heauenly company, through Iesus Christ our only mediatour, aduocate, rightuousnes, life, sanctification, and hope. Amen, Amen. Pray, Pray.
¶ Rowland Taylour, departing hence, sure without all doubting of eternal saluation, I thanke God my heauēly father, through Iesus Christ my certain sauiour. Amen.
5. February, An. 1555.
The Lorde is my lyght and my saluation: whome then shall I feare?
God is he that iustifieth: who is he that can condeme?
In thee O Lorde haue I trusted: let me neuer be confounded.
These concluding three lines do not appear in the Rerum version of thisdocument. This suggests that in 1563 the printers worked from a copy of thedocument and did not work from a translation of the Rerum version.
MarginaliaD. Taylor is led from the coūter.ON the morowe morninge, after that Doctour Taylour had supped with his wyfe in the Counter, as is before sayde: the Sherife of London, with his officicers, came to the Counter, by two of the clock in the morning, and so brought forth Doctor Taylour, and without any light, led him to the Wolsack, an Inne without Algate. Doctor Taylors wife, suspecting that her husband should that night be caried awaye, watched all nyght within saint Botulphes church porche beside Algate, hauing with her two children, the one named Elizabeth, of. xiiii. yeares of age, whom being left without father or mother, D. Taylour had brought vp of almoise, from three yeares olde: the other named Marie, Doctour Taylours owne doughter.
[Back to Top]MarginaliaThe laste meting and leue taking with his wyfe.Nowe when the Sheriffe and his companie came against saint Botulphes churche, Elizabeth cried, saying: O my deare father: mother, mother, here is my father led away. Thē cried his wyfe: Rowlād, Rowland, where art thou? For it was a verie darke morninge, that the one could not well see the other. Doctor Taylour answered: deare wife, I am here, & staied: the Sherefes men would haue led him furth, but the Sherife said: stay a litle maisters I pray you, and let him speake with his wife, and so they staied: then came she to him, and he tooke his doughter Marie in his armes: and he his wife, and Elizabeth kneled downe, and sayde the Lordes praier. At whiche sight the Sherife wept apace, and so did diuerse other of the cōpanie. After they had praied, he rose vp, & kissed his wife, and shoke her by the hand, and sayde: Fare well my deare wife, be of good comfort: for I am quiet in my cōscience. God shal stirre vp a father for my chidren: & then he kissed his daughter Marie, and said: God blisse thee, and make thee his seruaunt: and kissing Elizabeth, he saide: God blisse thee. I pray you all stande strong, and stedfast vnto Christ, and his word, and kepe you from idolatrie. Then saide his wyfe: God be with thee deare Rowlād. I will
[Back to Top]with Gods grace meate thee at Hadley. And so was he led forth to the Woll sack, and his wife followed him. As sone as they came to þe wolsack, he was put into a chāber, wherein he was kept with iiii. yeomē of the garde, and the sherifes men. D. Taylour, as sone as he was come into the chāber, fell down on his knees, & gaue him selfe wholy to praier. MarginaliaThe Sherifes are gētill in their doynges.The Sherife then seing Doctor Taylours wife there, wold in no case graunt her to speake any more with her husband, but gentlie desired her to goe to his house, to take it as her owne, and promised her she should lacke nothing, and sent two officers to conduct her thether. Notwithstanding, she desired to go to her mothers, whether the officers led her, and charged her mother to kepe her there, till they came againe. Thus remained Doctor Tailour in the Wolsack, kept by the Sherife and his company, till. xi. of the clocke. At whiche time the Sherife of Essex was ready to receiue him: and so they set hym on horsebacke within the Inne, the gates being shut.
[Back to Top]At the cōming out of the gates, Iohn Hull,
As at other times, John Hull appears; he is probably Foxe's source for this encounter.
It seems as though Taylor separated from Hull here. Who was then the source for Taylor's final journey? Whoever it was was with Taylor throughout the trip. Did Hull rejoin Taylor or did Foxe find another informant?