The London Charterhouse, its monks and its martyrs, with a short account of the English Carthusians after the dissolution . usband and a monk. Accordingly he married,and then begged his consorts permission to retireinto a monastery. On her refusal, he abandonedthe project, and, having become the father of afamily, forgot his attraction to the religious some years, the wife reminded her husbandof his former aspirations, saying that she nowwished to be a nun. Then, remembering BrotherHughs prediction, he consented to the proposal ; ^ Supra, p. 83. Chauncy does not give the name of Hu
The London Charterhouse, its monks and its martyrs, with a short account of the English Carthusians after the dissolution . usband and a monk. Accordingly he married,and then begged his consorts permission to retireinto a monastery. On her refusal, he abandonedthe project, and, having become the father of afamily, forgot his attraction to the religious some years, the wife reminded her husbandof his former aspirations, saying that she nowwished to be a nun. Then, remembering BrotherHughs prediction, he consented to the proposal ; ^ Supra, p. 83. Chauncy does not give the name of HughTaylor when recording this event. It is taken from an old manu-script of the English Carthusians. 112 THE LONDON CHARTERHOUSE. and, having provided for the education of theirchildren with a relative, the pious couple separated,the husband becomino- a monk at the Charterhouseof Sheen, and the wife a Bridgettine nun at Sion,near Isleworth. The remainder of Brother HuofhTaylors history belongs to a later period ; for helived many years after the London Charterhousehad ceased to be a monastery. PART THE ( 5 ) CHAPTER I. SIGNS !N THE HEAVENS—SIGNS IN THE COURT—THE COMMIS-SIONERS VISIT—IMPRISONMENT—A GREAT CONCESSION. Chauncy tells us that in 1533, the last year oftranquillity for the London Charterhouse, a cometof extraordinary brilliancy was seen in the sky ; andit seemed to cast its rays right upon the one occasion, as the religious were returningfrom the night Office, the bright beams from thisstrange comet were noticed to descend upon a loftytree in the cemetery; and the light, glancing offfrom the tree, fell full upon the Church and bell-tower. Later in the same year, the Prior, who, beingpressed with business, had left the Church after thesecond nocturn,^ entered the cemetery to offer up ashort prayer for his departed brethren. To his ^ There are two nocturns of six psalms each in Ferial Matins,according to the Carthusian rite. The thre
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