The London Charterhouse, its monks and its martyrs, with a short account of the English Carthusians after the dissolution . ch came next, was the cause of death, andthat the subsequent brutalities were only intendedto scare the bystanders and dishonour the bodies ofthe condemned. It was not so. The haneine wasdoubtless very painful; but what followed was farworse. The first to be detached from the hurdle wasBlessed John Houghton, the Prior of the LondonCharterhouse. His was the honour of beine thefirst since pagan times to suffer death in Englandfor being a Roman Catholic. After lovingly em-br
The London Charterhouse, its monks and its martyrs, with a short account of the English Carthusians after the dissolution . ch came next, was the cause of death, andthat the subsequent brutalities were only intendedto scare the bystanders and dishonour the bodies ofthe condemned. It was not so. The haneine wasdoubtless very painful; but what followed was farworse. The first to be detached from the hurdle wasBlessed John Houghton, the Prior of the LondonCharterhouse. His was the honour of beine thefirst since pagan times to suffer death in Englandfor being a Roman Catholic. After lovingly em-bracing the executioner, who craved his pardon,the holy martyr got into the cart which stoodbeneath the gallows ; and there, in the sight of themultitude, he was asked once again whether hewould submit to the kings laws before it was too daunted, he replied, I call Almighty Godto witness, and I beseech all here present to attest ^ It is a popular error to understand the disembowelling by theword drawn in the sentence. Hence the expression hanged,drawn, and quartered, instead of drawn, hanged, and B. Du]aat, Imprimerie dcB Vie> — Mouticuil. France. THE PROTOMARTYRS PRAYER. I 53 for me on the dreadful day of judgment, that, beingabout to die in pubhc, I declare that I have refusedto comply with the will of his Majesty the king, notfrom obstinacy, malice, or a rebellious spirit, butsolely for fear of offending the supreme Majesty ofGod. Our holy mother the Church has decreedand enjoined otherwise than the king and theParliament have decreed. I am therefore boundin conscience, and am ready and willing to sufferevery kind of torture rather than deny a doctrineof the Church. Pray for me and have mercy onmy brethren, of whom I have been the unworthyPrior. He then asked for time to finish his prayer,which he took from the thirtieth Psalm. The wordswere very appropriate : In Thee, O Lord, haveI hoped ; let me never be confounded : deliver mein Thy justi
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