after stricken by Gods hand after such a strange sort, that his meat would not go downe, but rise and picke up againe, sometime at his mouth, some∣time blowne out of his nose, most horrible to behold, and so continued unto his death. Where note moreover, that when Master Leyson (being then Sheriffe at Bishop Farrars burning) had fetcht away the cattell of the said Bishop, from his servants house into his owne custody, divers of them would never eate meat, but lay bellowing and roaring, and so dyed. Adde unto this Bishop Morgan, Iustice Morgan a Judge that sate upon the death of the Lady Iane: this Iustice, not long after the execution of the said Lady, fell mad, and being thus bereft of his wits, dyed, having ever in his mouth, Lady Iane, Lady Iane.
Bishop Thornton Suffragan of Dover, another grand persecutor, com∣ming upon a Saturday from the Chapter-house at Canterbury, and there upon the Sunday following looking upon his men playing at bowles, fell suddenly into a palsey, and dyed shortly after. And being exhorted to re∣member God in his extremity of sicknesse: So I do (saith he) and my Lord Cardinall too, &c.
After him succeeded another Suffragan, ordained by the foresaid Car∣dinall, and equall to his Predecessor in cruell persecuting of the Church; who injoying his place but a short time, fell downe a paire of staires in the Cardinals chamber at Greenwich, and broke his necke, and that presently (let it be noted) after he received the Cardinals blessing.
The like sudden death hapned to Doctor Dunning the bloudy and wret∣ched Chancellour of Norwich, who after he had most rigorously condem∣ned and murthered a number of simple and faithfull servants of God, was suddenly stricken with death even as he was sitting in his chaire.
The like also fell upon Berry, Commissary of Norfolke, another bloudy persecutor; who foure dayes after Queene Maries death having made a great Feast, whereat was present one of his concubines; as he was comming home from the Church, where he had ministred the Sacrament of Baptisme, fell downe suddenly to the ground with a heavy groane, and never stirred after, thus ending his miserable life without any shew of re∣pentance.
So Doctor Geffrey Chancellor of Salisbury, another of the same stampe, was suddenly stricken with the mighty hand of God in the midst of his buildings, where he was constrained to yeeld up his life, which had so little pitty of other mens lives before: and it is to be noted, that the day before he was thus stricken, he had appointed to call before him ninety poore Christians, to examine them by inquisition, but the goodnesse of God and his tender providence prevented him.
Doctor Foxford, Chancellor to Bishop Stockesley, dyed also suddenly. So did Iustice Lelond the persecutor of one Ieffery Hurst.
Alexander the Keeper of Newgate, a cruell enemy to those that lay in that prison for Religion, dyed very miserably, being so swollen, that he was more like a monster than a man, and so rotten within that no man could abide the smell of him. His sonne called Iames, after hee had spent all his fathers substance riotously, fell downe suddenly in Newgate market, and there wretchedly dyed. Iohn Peter sonne in law to the said Alexander, and no lesse cruell to the poore Christians, rotted away, and so dyed.