¶Bosomes wyfe.
AS the workes of the Lord are not to bee kept secrete,* 1.1 whatsoeuer the persones be in whom it pleaseth hym to worke: ••o commeth to remembraunce the story of ore Bosoms wyfe not vnworthy to be considered. This good woman beyng at Richmond with her mother, was great¦ly called vpō, and vrged to come to church. At length tho∣rough importunate crying and calling vpon, she granted vnto them, and came. Beyng in the church, & sittyng with her mother in the pue,* 1.2 contrary in al things to the doings of the Papistes shee behaued her selfe: to wit, when they kneeled, she stood, when they turned forward, shee turned backward, &c.
This being notorious in the church,* 1.3 at length ye Con∣stable and Churchwarden named Sanders, attached her in the Queenes name, charging her with her Mother, the next day to appeare at Kingston. Who at their commaun∣dement so did.
The next day according as they were assigned, they came to Kingston to appeare before the foresayd officers, who at the same tyme (as it chanced) were going ouer the Fery, & meeting them by the way,* 1.4 saluted them by their names, but at that tyme had no further power to speake vnto them. Afterward, as they were in the boat goyng o∣uer, they knockt their hands, stampt and stared, same ••yng that they had let them so passe their hands. This the Fery∣man declared vnto them, and what they sayd in the boat. Whereupon the good woman taking her iourney to Lon∣don, escaped their cruelty, through the secret working (no doubt) of the Lord: who in all his workes and euermore be praysed, Amen.