...after suffering the penalty of his zeal and proving the sincerity of his belief in thirty-two different prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noonday, Browne at length began to waver — now inclined to return to the church, now recoiling toward dissent....

...This must have been at least his thirty-third prison experience ; for, many years before, he declared that he had been committed to thirty-two prisons,...some of which he could not see his hand at noonday. I wish now to consider three questions : ( 1 ) What did this man believe? What were the opinions which...

...cart ; where not long after, he sickened and died, AD Hi.'iO, in the 81st year of his age, boasting, " That he had been committed to thirtytwo prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noon day." Such was the unhappy life and tragical end of Robert Brown, founder of the famous sect,...

...infirm, and aged above eighty years, where he soon after sickened and died, anno 1630, after boasting that he had been committed to thirty-two prisons,...some of which he could not see his hand at noonday. JY Truth stranger than Fiction.— In "N. & Q." of 12th Nov. there appeared a cutting from an old Magazine,...

...jurisdiction of the crown in things spiritual ; for which and kindred offenses he was committed in all " to thirty-two prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noonday."* Happily Mr. Noel can express the same opinion, which he does in effect though not in words, without...

...mission, Brown's fortitude was no less apparent than his intrepidity ; for he was afterwards able " to boast, that he had been committed to thirty-two prisons, in some of which he 1 Fuller, Bk. IX. p. 168. Hey- that, during "the last winter" the lin's I'resb., Bk. VII. Sec. 30....