The burning of Steuen Harwood, and Thomas Fust, martyred for the testimonie of the Gospel.
ABout this time died also (by cruell fire) these two mar∣tyrs of God,* 1.1 yt is to saye, Steuen Harwoode, at Strat∣ford, and Thomas Fust, at Ware. Which both two, as they were about one time burned with the fore mētioned Ro∣bert Smith and George Tankerfield, although in sundry places: so were they also examined and openly cōdemned togethers wyth them. Their processe because it was ioy∣ned all in one with the processe of Robert Smith & other of the said company aboue mentioned, I thought it super∣fluous againe to repeate the same: saue that of Thomas Fust this is to be added, that where as he in his last appe∣ring the 12. of Iuly, was mooued by the Byshop to reuoke his opinion,* 1.2 thus he answered: No (said he) my Lorde, for there is no truth commeth out of your mouth, but all lyes. Yee condemne men, and will not heare the truthe. Where can ye finde any annoynting or greasing in Gods booke? I speake nothing but the truthe, and I am certaine that it is the truthe that I speake. This answere of hym onely I finde noted by the Register: although howe slenderly these Registrers haue dealt in vttering such matters, that is, in omitting those thinges which moste woorthy were to be knowen,* 1.3 by their doings it is easie to be seene. But to be short, after their answeres made, both he & Thomas Fust were for their faithfull perseuerance condemned together by the Bishop in his accustomed pitie, as heretikes to be burned, and so (as before ye haue heard) finished they their martyrdom, the one at Stratford, and the other at Ware, in the moneth of August and yere abouesayd.