¶A story of one Laremouth, omitted in the body of the story.
ALbeit I am loth to insert any thing in this book which may seeme incredible or strange to ordinary working for quarelling aduersaryes, whiche doe nothing but spye what they may cauill: yet forsomuch as besides other re∣porters the person is yet aliue, called Thorne a godly mi∣nister, which heard it of the mouth of the party himselfe, I thought therefore first for the incredible strangenes therof neither to place this storye in the bodye of these Actes and Monumentes, and yet in some outcorner of the booke not vtterly to passe it vntouched, for the reader to consider it, and to credite it as he seeth cause. The story is this.
There was one Laremouth, otherwise called William∣son, Chaplayne to Lady Anne of Cleue, a Scotishman, to whome being in prison in Queene Maryes daies, it was sayd, as he thought, thus sounding in hys eares: arise and go thy wayes.* 1.1 Whereunto when he gaue no great heed at the first, the second time it was sayd to him agayne in the same wordes. Upon this as he fell to his prayers, it was sayd the thyrd time likewise to him, arise and go thy way, which was about halfe an houre after. So he arising vp∣on the same, immediately a peece of the prison wall fell downe, and as the officers came in at the outwarde gate of the Castle or prison, he leaping ouer the ditche escaped, and in the way meeting a certayne beggar, chaunged hys cote with him, and comming to the Sea shore, where hee found a vessell ready to go ouer, was taken in, and escaped the search, which was straytly layd for hym in all the coū∣try ouer.