On some Archeological remains in Gloucester relating to the buriung 
of Bishop Hooper. Read at the Annual Meeting of the 
Cotteswold Club, at Gloucester, 1875. By Joun Brtiows. 
.Among the objects of archeological interest lately added 
to the Museum at Gloucester, is one which is probably unique 
of its kind, as coming down to us from the time of the perse- 
cution by which Queen Mary Tupor, under the guidance of 
Cardinal Potz and the Roman priesthood, strove to drive back 
the torrent of the Reformation. 
One of the foremost marks of vengeance during this period 
was Joun Hoorsrr, the Protestant Bishop of Gloucester, who 
was burned to death in this city in the year 1555, upon a spot just 
outside the Cathedral precincts, formerly known as “ St. Mary’s 
Knapp.” Nearly three centuries after this event, and during 
the removal of the “Knapp” or mound in question, the labourers 
employed in making the alteration struck upon a quantity of 
wood ashes, below which they found, firmly embedded in the 
ground, a portion of the stake itself, to which the sufferer had 
been fastened. It is this portion of the stake at which Bishop 
Hoorer was burned, that has just been presented to the Glou- 
cester local Museum; and the history of which, in the interval 
since its discovery, it is the purpose of the present paper to 
place upon record. 
The chief source of information which we have of the 
details of the martyrdom of Hoorgr, is the well-known work of 
Foxn, who was personally acquainted with him, and who appears, 
from internal evidence in the narrative, to have had his account 
of Hooprr’s closing scene from a Gloucester man who was probably 
an eye-witness of the execution. 
