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Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church. [vol.…Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol.…
Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church. [vol. 2, part 1] with an universal history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitive age to these latter times of ours, with the bloody times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions against the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperors, as now lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realm of England and Scotland. Newly revised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time again published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the help of Christ our Lord) John Fox, which desireth thee good reader to help him with thy prayer.Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol. 2, part 1] with an vniuersall history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitiue age to these latter tymes of ours, with the bloudy times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions agaynst the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperours, as nowe lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realme of England and Scotland. Newly reuised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time agayne published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the helpe of Christ our Lord) Iohn Foxe, which desireth thee good reader to helpe him with thy prayer.
London: printed by John Daye, 1583London: printed by Iohn Daye, 1583
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¶The Verdict of the inquest.
1The fifth and the sixth day of December, in the sixth year of the reign of our sovereign Lord king Henry the eight, William Barnewel Crowner of London, the day and year abovesaid, with in the ward of Castelbaynard of London assembled a quest, whose names afterward do appear, and hath sworn them truly to inquire of the death of one Richard Hun, which lately was found dead in the Lollards Tower within Pauls Church of London: whereupon all we of the inquest together went up into the said Tower, where we found the body of the said Hun hanging upon a staple of iron in a girdle of silk, with fair countenance, his head fair kemmed, and his bonnet right sitting upon his head, with his eyne and mouth fair closed, without any staring, gaping, or frowning, also without any drivelling or spurging in any place of his body, whereupon by one assent all we agreed to take down the dead body of the said Hun, and as soon as we began to heave the body, it was loose, whereby by good advisement we perceived that the girdle had no knot about the staple, but it was double cast, and the links of an iron chain which did hang on the same staple, were laid upon the same girdle whereby he did hang: Also the knot of the girdle that went about his neck, stood under his left ear, which caused his head to lean towards his right shoulder. Notwithstanding there came out of his nostrils two small streams of blood, to the quantity of four drops. Save only these four drops of blood, the face, lips, chin, doublet, collar, and shirt of the said Hun, was clean from any blood. Also we find that the skin both of his neck and throat beneath the girdle of silk, was fret and fallen away, with that thing which the murderers had broken his neck withal. Also the hands of the said Hun were wrong in the wrists, whereby we perceived that his hands had been bod. Moreover we find that within the said prison was no mean whereby a man might hang himself, but only a stool, which stool stood upon a bolster of a bed, so tickle, that any man or beast might not touch it so little, but it was ready to fall. Whereby we perceived that it was not possible that Hun might hang himself, the stool so standing.