The History of Mr Iohn Tewxbury Cittizen and Lether-Dresser of London.
IN all points of Religion, and the point of iustification, he disputed most openly in the Bishops Chappell, with such prompt and expert answers that Tunstall and all his learned men were ashamed: This disputation continued a senight, then he was sent to my L. Chancellor, Sir Thomas Moore to Chelsey, and there he lay in the por∣ters Lodge, hand, foote, and head in the stockes six daies. Then he was carried to Iesus Tree in the Garden, where he was whipped, and also twisted in his browes, with small ropes, that the bloud start out of his eyes, and yet would accuse no man. Then he was racked in the Tower, and there promised to retant at Paules Crosse. After he came to S. Austens with a new Testament in his hand, and stood vp be∣fore the people in a Pew, and declared openly with teares that he had denied God, and prayed the people to forgiue him, and to beware of his weaknesse not to doe as he had done: for if I should not turne againe to this truth, hauing the New Te∣stament in his hand, he said, this Booke Gods Word would damne mee body and soule, and he prayed euery body to doe as hee had done: for hee would not feele such a hell againe as he had done not for all the worlds good: and immediately hee was carried to the Bishop of London; and after he was burned in Smithfield, and died a glorious Martyr.
