MarginaliaThe executioner conuerted. adoe, with al the promises of the Gospell, to recouer any comfort in hym. At laste through the mercye of Christ, he was comforted, and conuerted, and so he with al his familie, remoued to the Church of Geneua. Ex Ioan. Crisp.

put a gagge or a peece of wood in his mouth, whiche they bounde with cordes to the hynder part of his head, so harde, that his mouth on both sides gushed out of bloud, and disfigured his face monstrously. By þ^e way they passed by an Hospitall, where they wylled him to worship the picture of S. Mary stāding at the gate. But he turned his backe as wel as he could, and would not. For the whiche the blynde people were so greeued, that they woulde haue fallen vpon hym. After he was brought to the fire, they so smered his body with fat and brymstone, that at the first taking of the fire, all his skyn was parched, and the inward partes not touched. With that the cordes brast wich were about his mouth, wherby his voyce was heard in the myddest of the flame, praysing the lord, & so the blessed martyr departed. Ex Ioan. Crisp.

MarginaliaPriestcrafte a vyle and a filthye arte. ker. Wherby the Iudge vnderstanding that he had bene of some other facultie before, required what it was. He said, that he had ben of an other facultie before, but he was ashamed to vtter it, or to remēber it, being þ^e worst & most vilest science of al other in the whole world besides. The Iudge & þ^e people supposing þ^t he had bene some thiefe, or cutpurse, inquired to know what it was, but he for shame & sorow, stopped his mouth, & wold not declare it. At last through their importunate clamor, he was constrayned to declare the truth, & said, that he had ben a priest. The Iudge thereupon was so moued, that he condēned hym, first enioyning him in his condēnation, to aske the king forgeuenes, then iudged hym to haue his tongue cut out, and so to be burned. Frō this sentēce he appealed to the parlamēt of Tolouse: not for that he thought thereby to saue his lyfe, but because he was enioyned to aske the king forgeuenes, whom he had neuer offended. Also because he was iudged to haue his tongue cut of, wherewith he woulde prayse his God. Notwithstanding by þ^e sentēce of that parlament, he was likewise condēned to be burnt, onely he was pardoned for asking forgeuenes of the king, and the cuttyng of his tongue, so that he would say nothyng against their religion.

As he went to burning, he passed by the college of S. Martial, where he was byd to honour the picture of the virgin MarginaliaConstancie notable. standyng at the gate. Whiche because he refused, the Iudge commaūded his tongue to be cut of, and so beyng put to the fire, he stoode so quiet, lookyng vp to heauen all the tyme of his burnyng, as though he had fealt nothyng, bringyng such admiration to the people, that one of the Parlament sayde, that waye not to be best, to bryng the Lutherans to the fire, for that woulde doe more hurt then good. Ex Ioan. Crisp.

phemous swearers, and other offenders. These two were not lōg together, but they were suspected both of Lutheranisme: and so were apprehended by þ^e gouernour of the Marches, or Marshall, and so were caried to Chartres: Where after their constant confession vpon their examination made, they were enclosed in prison, and there susteyned long and tedious endurance. Duryng the whiche meane tyme, Steuen kyng made many worthy songes and sonets in the prayse of the Lord, wherby to recreate his spirit in that dolelfull captiuitie. At length, when after long perswasions and fayre promises of the Bishop and of other, they coulde not be reuoked from the doctrine of their confession, they were condemned. Frō that condēnation, they appealed to the Court of Paris. But the Counsaile there cōfirming their former sentence, returned them againe to Chartres, from whence they came, where they were both executed with cruell punishment of fire. Ex hist. Gallic. per Ioan. Crisp.