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been a bad man by his own confession; and we know he had 
been a barbarous one; for he was the same AntHony Kineston 
who when sent to punish the rebels in the West of England, 
dined with the Mayor of Bodmin, and then called his host out 
to.show him a gallows he had ordered to be ready; when he 
had the unfortunate mayor hanged upon it himself. The story 
of his calling on a miller who had taken part in the rebellion, 
and hanging the man, who had been duped by his wily master 
into personating the said miller, was also characteristic of him. 
He was not a very affectionate or loyal subject of Queen 
Mary, and it is likely that this scene of Hoorrr’s cruel death 
helped to turn the balance and convert him into an open rebel ; 
for he took part, in the year following, in the Duptey plot, 
in which he undertook to raise 10,000 men in Wales and 
about the Marches, to assist in dethroning her. He was a man 
of considerable position, not only as a county gentleman of 
Gloucestershire, but as holding the office of Vice-Admiral of 
the Severn Ports. When the plot was discovered, one of his 
fellow conspirators was so alarmed at the prospect before him 
that he declared “his heart swelled up in his body as big as 
a loaf ;” and it is not unlikely that AnrHony Kineston’s swelled 
up as big as a loaf too; for he died suddenly on his way to 
London, when summoned to give an account of his share in 
the matter. 
It is rather striking to contrast the effect of Bishop Hoorrr’s 
teaching with the conduct of many of the priests of the period 
that had just closed, when they were so constantly guilty of 
immorality that one of the Gloucester city bye-laws of Henry 
VIIL.’s time was framed specially for the punishment in a 
“‘whyche” (or cell) in the market place of “ priests and religious 
persons ” offending in this respect. 
We may note in Foxe special mention of Lord Caanpos as 
chief commissioner in the execution. The prominence given to 
his name in the item of the dinner paid for by the Mayor and 
his brethren fully agrees with this. Foxx styles him by the 
double title of “Syr Jonny Briczes Lord Suanpoys;” and this 
again is a proof that he had his narrative from a resident in the 
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