MILES PHILIPS A.D. 



1575- 



English heretikes, Lutherans, and also see the same 

 put in execution. Which being done, and the time 

 approching of this cruell judgement, the night before 

 they came to the prison where we were, with certaine 

 officers of that holy hellish house, bringing with them 

 certaine fooles coats which they had prepared for us, 

 being called in their language S. Benitos, which coats 

 were made of yellow cotten & red crosses upon them, 

 both before & behind : they were so busied in putting 

 on their coats about us, and bringing us out into a 

 large yard, and placing and pointing us in what order 

 we should go to the scaffold or place of judgement 

 upon the morrow, that they did not once suffer us to 

 sleepe all that night long. The next morning being 

 come, there was given to every one of us for our 

 breakfast a cup of wine, and a slice of bread fried 

 in honie, and so about eight of the clocke in the 

 morning, we set foorth of the prison, every man alone 

 in his yellow coat, and a rope about his necke, and a 

 great greene Waxe candle in his hand unlighted, having 

 a Spaniard appointed to goe upon either side of every 

 one of us : and so marching in this order and maner 

 toward the scaffold in the market place, which was a 

 bow shoot distant or thereabouts, we found a great 

 assembly of people all the way, and such a throng, that 

 certain of the Inquisitors officers on horseback were con- 

 strained to make way, and so comming to the scaffold, 

 we went up by a paire of stayres, and found seates readie 

 made and prepared for us to sit downe on, every man 

 in order as he should be called to receive his judgement. 

 We being thus set downe as we were appointed, presently 

 the Inquisitors came up another paire of staires, and the 

 Viceroy and all the chiefe Justices with them. When 

 they were set downe and placed under the cloth of [III. 481.] 

 estate agreeing to their degrees and calling, then came 

 up also a great number of Friers, white, blacke and 

 gray, about the number of 300 persons, they being set 

 in the places for them appointed. Then was there a 



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