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The Officers and their retinue repayred to the gate wyth weapons, and 
commaunded the people to keepe their houses, &c. but there was no man 
that once gaue any signification of any such rescue or violence. So was he 
lodged at one INGRAMS house in Glocester, and that night (as he had done 
all the way) he did eate his meate quietly, and slept hys first sleepe soundly, 
as it was reported by them of the Garde and others. After hys first sleepe 
he continued all that night in prayer vntyll the morning, and then he 
desired that he myght go into the next chamber (for the Garde were also 
in the chamber where hee lay) that there being solitary, hee might quietly 
pray and talke with God: So thatal that day, sauing a litle at meate, and © 
when hee talked at any tyme with such as the Garde licensed to speake wyth 
hym, he bestowed in prayer. 
Amongest other that spake with him, Syr ANTHONY KinesTon knight 
was one. Who seeming in times past hys very friend, was then appoynted 
by the Queenes letters to be one of the Commissioners, to see execution 
done vpon him. Maister Ktyesron being brought into the chamber, found 
hym at his prayer: and as soone as he saw Maister Hooper, he burst forth 
in teares. Maister Hooper at the first blush knew him not. Then said 
Maister Krinaston: Why my Lord, doe ye not knowe me an old frend of 
yours ANTHONY KINGSTON ? 
Yes Maister Kineaston, I doe now know you well, and am glad to see 
you in health, and do prayse God for the same. 
But I am sory to see you in this case: for as I vnderstand you be come 
hether to dye. But (alas) consider that lyfe’is sweete, and death is bytter. 
Therefore seing lyfe may be had, desire to lyue: for lyfe hereafter may doe 
good. 
In deede it is true Maister Ktnaston, I am come hither to end this 
lyfe, and to suffer death here, because I wyll not gaynsay the former truth 
that I haue heretofore taught amongest you in this dioces, and elswhere: 
and I thanke you for your friendly counsell, although it be not so friendly 
as I could haue wyshed it. True it is (Maister Kineston) that death is 
bitter, and lyfe is sweete: but (alas) consider that the death to come is more 
bytter, and the lyfe to come is more sweete. Therefore for the desire and 
loue I haue to the one, and the terrour and feare of the other, I do not so 
much regard thys death, nor esteeme this life, but haue setled my selfe 
through the strength of Gods holy spirite, patiently to passe through the 
tormentes and extremities of the fire, now prepared for me, rather then to 
denye the truth of hys worde: desiring you and others in the meane tyme, 
to commend me to Gods mercye in your prayers. 
Well (my Lord) then I perceiue there is no remedy, and therefore I 
wyll take my leaue of you: and I thanke God that euer I knew you, for God 
dyd appoynt you to call me being a lost childe: & by your good instructions, 
where before I was both an adulterer and a fornicator, God hath brought 
me to the forsaking and detesting of the same. 
