. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . m not sorry. t Afterthe execution of Haughton and his brethren, the monks who had submitted * State Papers, vol. i. p. 422. + Suppression of the Jfonasteries, p. llJ2. £60 TERROR OF THEIR EXECUTION. [1535. remained in their desolated house. But there were supernatural terrorsaround them, in which we may see the prevailing thoughts of their lonelywatchings. John Darley relates that father Eaby, a very old man, had diedin 1534; and that he had said to the dying monk, go
. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . m not sorry. t Afterthe execution of Haughton and his brethren, the monks who had submitted * State Papers, vol. i. p. 422. + Suppression of the Jfonasteries, p. llJ2. £60 TERROR OF THEIR EXECUTION. [1535. remained in their desolated house. But there were supernatural terrorsaround them, in which we may see the prevailing thoughts of their lonelywatchings. John Darley relates that father Eaby, a very old man, had diedin 1534; and that he had said to the dying monk, good father Eaby, if thedead man come to the quick I beseech you to come to me, and he answeredyea. The story thus continues : And since that I never did think uponhim till Saint John day. Baptist, last past. Item, the same day at five ofthe clock at afternoon, I being in contemplation in our entry in our cell,suddenly he appeared to me in a monks habit, and said to me, why do yenot follow our father f [the late prior] And I said, wherefore ? He said, for he is a martyr in heaven, next unto angels. And I said, where be all. Cloisters, Charter-HoufW. our other fathers which died as well as he ? He answered and said, theybe well, but not so well as he. * Such were the imaginations that lingeredround the cells and cloisters of the stricken house, more consolatory, in theirtender glimpses of the world of spirits, than the thoughts of those scoflersand time-servers, who were as yet unprepared to give any safer anchorage iorearnest minds than in the old havens which they were destroying—dilapidatedand unsafe harbours of refuge, but better than the stormy seas upon whichmen were driven out, without compass or beacon. This was not a time when the execution of men for denying the knigfright to be bead of the church implied that there would be any relaxation • SiirprosBinn of the Monnileries, I). 84. 1535.] HOLLANDERS BURNT FOR HERESY. 381 of the old system of persecution for doctrina
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