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Thematic Divisions in Book 11
1. The Martyrdom of Rogers 2. The Martyrdom of Saunders 3. Saunders' Letters 4. Hooper's Martyrdom 5. Hooper's Letters 6. Rowland Taylor's Martyrdom 7. Becket's Image and other events 8. Miles Coverdale and the Denmark Letters 9. Bonner and Reconciliation 10. Judge Hales 11. The Martyrdom of Thomas Tomkins 12. The Martyrdom of William Hunter 13. The Martyrdom of Higbed and Causton 14. The Martyrdom of Pigot, Knight and Laurence 15. Robert Farrar's Martyrdom 16. The Martyrdom of Rawlins/Rowland White17. The Restoration of Abbey Lands and other events in Spring 155518. The Providential Death of the Parson of Arundel 19. The Martyrdom of John Awcocke 20. The Martyrdom of George Marsh 21. The Letters of George Marsh 22. The Martyrdom of William Flower 23. The Martyrdom of Cardmaker and Warne 24. Letters of Warne and Cardmaker 25. The Martyrdom of Ardley and Simpson 26. John Tooly 27. The Examination of Robert Bromley [nb This is part of the Tooly affair]28. The Martyrdom of Thomas Haukes 29. Letters of Haukes 30. The Martyrdom of Thomas Watts 31. Mary's False Pregnancy32. Censorship Proclamation 33. Our Lady' Psalter 34. Martyrdom of Osmund, Bamford, Osborne and Chamberlain35. The Martyrdom of John Bradford 36. Bradford's Letters 37. William Minge 38. James Trevisam 39. The Martyrdom of John Bland 40. The Martyrdom of Frankesh, Middleton and Sheterden 41. Sheterden's Letters 42. Examinations of Hall, Wade and Polley 43. Martyrdom of Christopher Wade 44. Martyrdom of Carver and Launder 45. Martyrdom of Thomas Iveson 46. John Aleworth 47. Martyrdom of James Abbes 48. Martyrdom of Denley, Newman and Pacingham 49. Richard Hooke 50. Martyrdom of William Coker, et al 51. Martyrdom of George Tankerfield, et al 52. Martyrdom and Letters of Robert Smith 53. Martyrdom of Harwood and Fust 54. Martyrdom of William Haile 55. George King, Thomas Leyes and John Wade 56. William Andrew 57. Martyrdom of Robert Samuel 58. Samuel's Letters 59. William Allen 60. Martyrdom of Roger Coo 61. Martyrdom of Thomas Cobb 62. Martyrdom of Catmer, Streater, Burwood, Brodbridge, Tutty 63. Martyrdom of Hayward and Goreway 64. Martyrdom and Letters of Robert Glover 65. Cornelius Bungey 66. John and William Glover 67. Martyrdom of Wolsey and Pigot 68. Life and Character of Nicholas Ridley 69. Ridley's Letters 70. Life of Hugh Latimer 71. Latimer's Letters 72. Ridley and Latimer Re-examined and Executed73. More Letters of Ridley 74. Life and Death of Stephen Gardiner 75. Martyrdom of Webb, Roper and Park 76. William Wiseman 77. James Gore 78. Examinations and Martyrdom of John Philpot 79. Philpot's Letters 80. Martyrdom of Thomas Whittle, Barlett Green, et al 81. Letters of Thomas Wittle 82. Life of Bartlett Green 83. Letters of Bartlett Green 84. Thomas Browne 85. John Tudson 86. John Went 87. Isobel Foster 88. Joan Lashford 89. Five Canterbury Martyrs 90. Life and Martyrdom of Cranmer 91. Letters of Cranmer 92. Martyrdom of Agnes Potten and Joan Trunchfield 93. Persecution in Salisbury Maundrell, Coberly and Spicer 94. William Tyms, et al 95. Letters of Tyms 96. The Norfolk Supplication 97. Martyrdom of John Harpole and Joan Beach 98. John Hullier 99. Hullier's Letters 100. Christopher Lister and five other martyrs 101. Hugh Lauerocke and John Apprice 102. Katherine Hut, Elizabeth Thacknell, et al 103. Thomas Drury and Thomas Croker 104. Thomas Spicer, John Deny and Edmund Poole 105. Persecution of Winson and Mendlesam 106. Gregory Crow 107. William Slech 108. Avington Read, et al 109. Wood and Miles 110. Adherall and Clement 111. A Merchant's Servant Executed at Leicester 112. Thirteen Burnt at Stratford-le-Bow113. Persecution in Lichfield 114. Hunt, Norrice, Parret 115. Martyrdom of Bernard, Lawson and Foster 116. Examinations of John Fortune117. John Careless 118. Letters of John Careless 119. Martyrdom of Julius Palmer 120. Agnes Wardall 121. Peter Moone and his wife 122. Guernsey Martyrdoms 123. Dungate, Foreman and Tree 124. Martyrdom of Thomas More125. Examination of John Jackson126. Examination of John Newman 127. Martyrdom of Joan Waste 128. Martyrdom of Edward Sharpe 129. Four Burnt at Mayfield at Sussex 130. John Horne and a woman 131. William Dangerfield 132. Northampton Shoemaker 133. Prisoners Starved at Canterbury 134. More Persecution at Lichfield
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Queene Mary. The death and Martyrdome of M. Iohn Philpot.

Marginalia1555. Decemb.MarginaliaAlex?der the cruell keper requireth 4. pounds of Master Philpot for his yrons.may be taken of. Well, sayd Alexander, geue me my fees, and I will take them of: if not, that shalt weare th? still.  

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It was customary for gaolers to charge prisoners for the privilege of not wearing irons.

Th? sayd M. Philpot, sir, what is your fees? he said, foure pound was his fees. Ah sayd M. Philpot, I haue not so much: I am but a poore man, and I haue bene l?g in prison. What wilt thou geue me then, sayd Alexander? Sir (sayd he) I will geue you. xx. shillings, and that I will send my man for, or els I will lay my gowne to gage: for the time is not long (I am sure) that I shall be with you: for the Bishop sayd vnto me that I should be soone dispatched. MarginaliaMaister Philpot had into Limbo.Then sayd Alexander vnto him, what is that to me? and wyth that he departed from him, and commaunded him to be had into Limbo, and so his c?maundement was fulfilled: but before he could be tak? from the blocke, the Clarke would haue a grote.

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Then one Wittrence, stewarde of the house, tooke him on his backe,  

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Philpot is so weighed down with chains, that a gaoler has to carry him to his cell.

and caryed him downe, his m? knew not whether. Wherefore M. Philpot sayd to his man: goe to master Sheriffe and shew him how I am vsed, and desire M. Sheriffe to be good vnto me. And so hys seruant went straight way, & tooke an honest m? wyth him. MarginaliaMaister Macham Sheriffe, a good man, sendeth his ring to take off Maister Philpots yrons, and restore the mans tokens.And when they came to master Sheriffe (which was master Macham) & shewed him how M. Philpot was handled in Newgate, the Sheriffe hearing this, tooke his ring of from his finger, and deliuered it vnto that honest man which came with M. Philpots man, and bad him goe vnto Alexander the keeper, and commaund him to take of his irons, and to handle him more gently, and to geue his man againe that which he had

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taken from him. And when they came againe to the sayd Alexander, and told theyr message from the Sheriffe, Alexander toke the ring, and sayd: Ah, I perceyue that master Sheriffe is a bearer with hym, and all such heretikes as he is: MarginaliaNote the spitefulnes of this keper.therefore to morrow I will shew it to his betters. Yet at. x of the clocke he went into M. Philpot where he lay, MarginaliaM. Philpot with much adoe released of his yrons.and tooke of his irons, and gaue him such things as he had taken before fr? his seruant.

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Dec?b. 17.
M. Philpot warned by the Sheriffes to prepare him against the next day to the fire.Vpon Tuesday at supper, being the. xvij. day of December, there came a messenger from the Sheriffes, and bad M. Philpot make him ready, for the next day he should suffer, and be burned at a stake wyth fire. M. Philpot answered and sayd, I am ready: God gra?t me strength, and a ioyfull resurrection. And so he went vnto his chamber, and poured out his spirite vnto the Lord God, geuing him most harty thanks that he of his mercy had made him worthy to suffer for his truth.

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MarginaliaDec?b. 18.In the morning the Sheriffes came according to the order, about. viij. of the clocke, and called for him, and hee most ioyfully came downe vnto them. And there his man did meete him, and sayd: A deare master, farewell. His master sayd vnto him, serue God, and he will helpe thee. MarginaliaM. Philpot brought to the place of Martyrdome.And so he went with the Sheriffes vnto the place of execution: and when he was entryng into Smithfield, the way was foule, and two officers tooke him vp to beare him to the stake. Then he sayd merily: what? will you make me a Pope? I am c?tent to go to my iourneys end on foote. But first coming into Smithfield, he kneled downe there saying these wordes: MarginaliaM. Philpots wordes going to the stake.I will pay my vowes in thee O Smithfield.

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The Martyrdome of M. John Philpot Archdeacon, in Smithfield.
An. 1555.
Dec?b. 18. The Martyrdome of M. John Philpot Archdeacon, with the maner of his kneling, and praying at the stake.

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The picture of Philpot's martyrdom stresses the Christ-like analogies of his prayers at the place of execution. Smithfield is saluted by the kneeling victim who went on to kiss the stake as analogous to the cross. He said three psalms and distributed money to the responsible officers. The man of letters is shown in a calm scene of prayer that preceded his fiery end, a moment that is reflected in the stillness of the standing spectators, two of whom are men earnestly praying with joined hands. The short description of the death is followed by a godly prayer to be said at the time of martyrdom, and in 1563 the woodcut headed 'The description of Mayster Philpot, knelyng and praying at the stake' was placed next the text of this 'prayer to be sayde at the stake'. Philpot's words in the banderole (in italic in 1563, thereafter in Roman) were renewed in each of the subsequent three editions.

And when he was come to the place of suffering, he kissed the stake & sayd: Shall I disdaine to suffer at this stake, seing my redemer did not refuse to suffer most vile death vpon the Crosse for me? MarginaliaMaister Philpots prayers.And th? with an obedient hart, full meekely he sayd the Cvj. Cvij. & a Cviij Psalme: and when he had made an ende of all his prayers, he said to the officers: What haue you done for me?

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and euery one of them declared what they had done: MarginaliaIoh. Philpot geueth the Officers money.and he gaue to euery of them money. Then they bound him vnto the stake, and set fire vnto that constant Martyr: Who the xviij. day of Dec?ber, in the middest of the fiery flames, yelded his soule into the handes of the almighty God, and full like a Lambe gaue vp his breath, his body being consumed into ashes.

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