It is plainly said that their execution, proceeding of malice of the bishops, to spite the Nether House, which hath procured them much hatred among the common people affected that way."][446] * * * * John Penry, another Congregational martyr--who uttered the following memorable words:--"If my blood were an ocean sea, and every drop thereof were a life unto me, I would give them all, by the help of the Lord, for the maintenance of my confession"--perished on the gallows for the advocacy of his opinions, as if he had been the worst of criminals, at a place in Southwark called St. Thomas-a-Watering. Roger Rippon, of the same religious profession as Penry, died in prison; and his friends, moved by intense sympathy with the sufferer, and by indignation against his unmerited fate, paraded before the house of Justice Young (the magistrate who had committed him) the coffin containing the sufferer's remains, on the lid of which appeared the following inscription:--"This is the corpse of Roger Rippon, a servant of Christ, and her Majesty's faithful subject; who is the last of sixteen or seventeen, which that great enemy of God, the Archbishop of Canterbury, with his High Commissioners, have murdered in Newgate within these four years, manifestly for the testimony of Jesus Christ. His soul is now with the Lord, and his blood crieth for speedy vengeance against that great enemy of the saints, and against Mr. Richard Young, who in this and many the like points hath abused his power, for the upholding of the Romish Antichrist, prelacy, and priesthood."[447] [Sidenote: _Congregationalism--Jacob._] [Sidenote: 1632, May.]