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Robert Smith ¹was brought to Newgate the fifth of November, in the first or second year of the Q. by I. Matthew, yeoman of the guard, & by the commandment of the Council. ⟨p. 167⟩First he was servant to sir Th. Smith provost of Eaton, from whence he was preferred to a clerkship of x.l in Eaton. He was much confirmed in the truth, by the preachings & readings of one M. Turner of Windsor and others: Wherefore at the coming in of Mary he was deprived of his clerkship, and not long after their examinations, wherein boldly and wisely he behaved himself in the cause of Christ, he was condemned in the consistory the xij. of July, and from thence was had to Newgate, with other of the brethren. He wrote diverse letters in prison to sundry friends. He suffered at Uxbridge the viij. of August. Being at the stake he comforted the people, willing them to think well of his cause, and not to doubt but his body dying in that quarrel, should rise again to life. And (said he) I doubt not but God will show you some token thereof. At length he being well nigh half burnt and black with fire,² clustered together as in a lump like a black coal, all men thinking him for dead, suddenly rose upright before the people, lifting up the stumps of his arms, and clapping the same together, and so hanging over the fire slept in the Lord.

Robert Smith ¹was brought to Newgate the fifth of Nouember, in the first or second yere of the Q. by I. Mathew, yoman of the gard, & by the commandement of the Counsell. ⟨p. 167⟩First he was seruant to sir Th. Smith prouost of Eaton, frō whence he was preferred to a clerkship of x.l in Eaton. Hée was much confirmed in the truth, by the preachings & readings of one M. Turner of Windsor and others: Wherfore at the cōming in of Mary he was depriued of his clerkship, and not long after their examinations, wherein boldly and wisely he behaued himselfe in the cause of Christ, he was condemned in the consistorie the xij. of Iuly, and from thence was had to Newgate, with other of the brethren. He wrote diuerse letters in prison to sundry fréends. Hée suffered at Vxbridge the viij. of August. Being at ye stake he comforted the people, willing them to thinke well of his cause, and not to doubt but his body dying in that quarrell, should rise againe to life. And (said he) I doubt not but God will shewe you some tooken therof. At length he being well nigh halfe burnt and blacke with fire,