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Adam Damlip ¹who before escaped & lay hid in the West Country, teaching a school about a year or two: by the miserable inquisition of the six articles, was again taken and brought up to London, where he was by St. Gardiner commanded to the Marshalsea, & there lay the space of other two years, where thinking he had been forgotten; he in the Latin tongue wrote an epistle to the B. of Winchester, wherein he said he would write his obedience & submission: for said he, I had rather die then here to remain, and not to be suffered to use my talent to Gods glory: This he said to M. Marbecke then prisoner in the Marshalsea. This epistle he delivered to his keeper about Saturday in the morning, which was about the ij. week before Whitsuntide, desiring him to deliver it at the court to the B. of Winchester, which he did. The B. made such quick dispatch, that the keeper came home at night very late, & brought with him a precept for the execution of Adam Damlip. So upon monday early in the morning, the keeper & other of the knight Marshals men, conveyed Adam unto Calais upon the Ascension even, & there committed him to the Mayors prison: & because they could not burden him with any thing, within a sufficient compass of time, to condemn him: they laid to his charge he had received a French crown of cardinal Poole at Rome; where before his first coming to Calais, he was requested to read three lectures a week in Cardinal Pools house: & therefore they condemned him and executed him for treason:² which death he most meekly and heartily took: John Butler and sir Daniel ⟨p. 66⟩the curate before mentioned, after ix. months imprisonment were with much labour permitted to return to Calais again: William Stevens above mentioned, who had remained all this time in the Tower, was condemned also of treason with his guest Adam Damlip, & pardoned by the king. Adam Damlip had sometimes been a great papist & chaplain to Fisher B. of Rochester: & after the death of his master, travelled France, Dutchland, and Italy, and came to Rome: where he would not for the wickedness of the place abide to remain, though cardinal Poole offered him maintenance to read iij. lectures a week in his house; which he refused: & for receiving only a French crown, he was condemned and executed for treason: he received it at the Cardinals hand to drink, and bear some charge of expense.