manner of writing to you, adding thereunto, that you will not beare it at my hand, no, not if I were the best Bishop in England. Ah, Sir, I see well I may say as the common saying is, 'Well have I fished and caught a frog;' brought little to passe with much ado. You will not beare it with me, you say. Why, Sir, what will you doe with me? You will not fight with me, I trowe. It may seem unseemly in a justice of the peace to be a breaker of the peace. I am glad the dotting times of my foolish youth is gone and past. What will you then doe with me in that you say you will not beare it at my hand. What hath my hand offended you in?"

The letter is a very long one, and may be read in Fox, as a curious specimen of the simplicity and godly sincerity of this man without guile.

One other specimen we are tempted to give.

"A letter sent to Mistresse Wilkinson,* of London, widow, from Master Hugh Latimer, out of Bocardo, in Oxford.

"If the gift of a pot of cold water shall not be in oblivion with God, how can God forget your manifold and bountiful gifts, when he shall say to you, 'I was in prison and you visited me.'

*The same person to whom Cranmer wrote.

God grant us all to doe and suffer while we be here, as may be to his will and pleasure. Amen. "Yours, in Bocardo,

ent.

"HUGH LATIMER."

A bold act of this worthy man is mentioned in King Henry's time, in sending the King a pres"There was then, and yet remaineth stil, an old customs, received from the old Romances, that, upon New-Year's day, being the first day of January, every Bishop, with some handsome New Year's present, should gratifie the King; and so they did, some with gold, some with a purse full of money, and some one thing, and some another; but Master Hugh Latimer, being Bishop of Worcester, sent him, among the rest, a New Testament for his New Year's gift, wrapped up in a napkin, bearing this posie about it; 'Fornicatores et adulteros judicabit Dominus."" It is rather surprising the posy did not cost him his head.

To condemn the Archbishop, as he had held the highest place in the realm, required more formality. The Archbishop was in the hands of Cardinal Pole, who had come over under Mary's reign, and resided in the palace at Lambeth.

Ridley and Latimer were brought forth to the stake, and passed by Cranmer's prison. He looked after them, and prayed fervently that their

faith and patience might be strengthened to the last.

Previously to this period, there had been many victims to Popish cruelty. Rogers, Hooper, Taylor, and many more distinguished men, had, during the three years of Mary's reign, suffered at the stake. Those who have any taste for this sort of reading, may find it amply set out in Fox's "Martyrology." But let them not read wholly one side; let them turn to the victims of reform, and grow mild and charitable, banishing the unjust and tyrannical exactions of party feeling, and allowing to every man the right of opinion. The law passed during the reign of Edward, that persons should be publicly whipped who did not pronounce Greek in a certain way, shows the spirit of the times.

Cranmer had been summoned to appear before the Pope at Rome; but this was a mockery, as he was in close confinement. The dignity of the Archbishop's office rendered it necessary that the authority for proceeding against him should issue from the Pontiff; and this authority was now obtained.

Cardinal de Puteo was appointed by the Pope, as chief judge or commissioner. He was seated on a stage erected near the high altar, men in power on each side, and a crowd of learned men