There was no shrinking nor fear showed of any kind.
But the chief marvel was that these two priests met with Mr. Simpson in
the gaol; they put them together in one room, I think, hoping that Mr.
Simpson would prevail upon them to do as he had promised to do; but, by
the grace of God, it was all the other way, and it was they who
prevailed upon Mr. Simpson to confess himself again openly as a
Catholic. This greatly enraged my lord Shrewsbury and the rest; so that
there was less hope than ever of any respite, and sentence was passed
upon them all together, Mr. Simpson showing, at the reading of it, as
much courage as any. This was all done two days ago at the Assizes; and
it was to-day that the sentence was carried out.
"They were all three drawn on hurdles together to the open space by St.
Mary's Bridge, where all was prepared, with gallows and cauldron and
butchering block; and a great company went after them. I have not heard
that they spoke much, on the way, except that a friend of Mr. Garlick's
cried out to him to remember that they had often shot off together on
the moors; to which Mr. Garlick made answer merrily that it was true;
but that 'I am now to shoot off such a shot as I never shot in all my
life.' He was merry at the trial, too, I hear; and said that 'he was not
come to seduce men, but rather to induce them to the Catholic religion,
that to this end he had come to the country, and for this that he would
work so long as he lived.
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