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Tf you haue had the grace so to do, I do highly praise God for it: and 
if you haue not, I pray God ye may haue, and that ye may continually lyue 
in hys feare. After these and many other words, the one took leaue of the 
other, Maister Krvesron with bitter teares, M. HoorEer wyth teares also 
trycklyng downe hys cheekes. At which departure Maister Hooper tolde 
hym, that all the troubles he had susteyned in pryson, had not caused hym 
to utter so much sorrow. 
The same night hee was committed by the Garde (their commission 
being then expired) vnto the custody of the Shirifes of Gloucester. The 
name of the one was IENKINS, the other Bonp: who with the Mayor and 
Aldermen repayred to M. Hopes lodging, and at the fyrst meeting saluted 
him, and toke him by ye hand. Unto whom Hover spake on this maner: 
Maister Mayor, I give most harty thankes to you and to the rest of your 
brethren, that you haue vouchsafed to take me a prisoner and a condemned 
man by the hand: whereby to my reioysing it is some deale apparant that 
your old loue and friendship towardes me is not altogether extinquished : 
and I trust also that all the things I haue taught you in times paste, are not 
vtterly forgotten, when I was here by the godly kyng that dead is, appoin- 
ted to be your Bishop and Pastor. For the which most true and sincere 
doctrine, because I wyll not now accompt it falshood and heresie, as many 
other men do, I am sent hither (as I am sure you knowe) by the Queenes 
comaundement to dye, and am come where I taught it, to confirme it with 
my bloud. And nowe Maister Shieriffes, I vnderstand by these good men 
and my very friendes (meaning the Gard) at whose hands I haue found so 
much fauour and gentlenes by the way hetherward as a prisoner coulde 
reasonably requyre (for the which also I most hartely thank them) that I 
am comitted to your custody, as vnto them that must see me brought to 
morrow to the place of execution. My request therefore to you shall be 
only that there may be a quicke fire, shortly to make an end, and in the 
meanetime I wyll be as obedient vnto you, as your selues would wysh. If 
you thinke I doe amysse in any thing, hold vp your finger, and I haue done. 
For I come not hether as one enforced or compelled to dye (for it is well 
knowen I might have had my lyfe wyth worldly gayne): but as one willing 
to offer and geue my lyfe for the truth, rather then to consent to the wyc- 
ked papistical religion of the bishop of Rome, receyued and set forth by the 
Magistrates in ENGLAND to Gods hygh displeasure and dishonor: and I 
trust by Gods grace to morrow, to dye a faythfull seruaunt of God, anda 
true obedient subiect to the Queene. 
These and such like wordes in effect vsed M. Hoorsr to the Mayor, 
Shiriffes, & Aldermen, wherat many of them mourned and lamented. Not- 
withstanding the two Shiriffes went aside to consult, and were determined 
to haue lodged him in the common Gaole of the Town, called Northgate, if 
the Gard had not made earnest intercession for him: who declared at large 
how quietly, mildly and patiently he had behaued hym selfe in the way, 
