¶The story of William Smyth.
THen after Butler, was Sir William Smith, Curate of our Lady Parish in Calice,* 1.1 called before them, and charged in a manner with the same haynous errours and pernitious opinions, that were obiected against the sayde Rafe Hare, and therto was added, that he had spoken and preached against our blessed Lady, against prayeng to Saincts, against doing of good workes, and many other like things: and therewithall, one Richard Long, a man of armes of Calice, prooued against the said Sir Smyth, and ye foresaid Brook by an othe taken vpon a booke, that the sayd Smith and Brooke did eate flesh together in Lent in the sayd Brookes house. For a Millers boy, sayd hee, came into Brookes kitchen, and sawe halfe a Lambe lye a roasting at the fire. Where as the truth is, that the sayde Sir William Smith during all the Lent, came neuer once within the sayd Brookes house. And it is as true also, that the sayd Richard Long, vpon a displeasure taken with his wife, went shortly after out of his owne house, to the Iu••∣rie end of the hauen at Calice, where desperately he drow∣ned himselfe,* 1.2 not one boy, but many men, women, girles, and boyes seeing him miserably taken vp againe starke dead: all which lamented his pitifull ruine. A terrible ex∣ample vnto all such as are ready to forsweare themselues on a booke vpon malice, or whatsoeuer other cause it be: a thing in these dayes ouer rise euery where, and almost no where regarded as it ought to be.