[68] Dr. Maitland, who has an indifferent opinion of the early Protestants, especially on the point of veracity, brings forward this assertion of Dalaber as an illustration of what he considers their recklessness. It seems obvious, however, that a falsehood of this kind is something different in kind from what we commonly mean by unveracity, and has no affinity with it. I do not see my way to a conclusion; but I am satisfied that Dr. Maitland's strictures are unjust. If Garret was taken, he was in danger of a cruel death, and his escape could only be made possible by throwing the bloodhounds off the scent. A refusal to answer would not have been sufficient; and the general laws by which our conduct is ordinarily to be directed cannot be made so universal in their application as to meet all contingencies. It is a law that we may not strike or kill other men, but occasions rise in which we may innocently do both. I may kill a man in defence of my own life or my friend's life, or even of my friend's property; and surely the circumstances which dispense with obedience to one law may dispense equally with obedience to another. _If_ I may kill a man to prevent him from robbing my friend, why may I not deceive a man to save my friend from being barbarously murdered? It is possible that the highest morality would forbid me to do either. I am unable to see why, if the first be permissible, the second should be a crime. Rahab of Jericho did the same thing which Dalaber did, and on that very ground was placed in the catalogue of saints. [69] A cell in the Tower, the nature of which we need not inquire into. [70] Foxe, Vol. V. p. 421. [71] Dr. London to the Bishop of Lincoln: _Rolls House MS._ [72] Ibid. [73] Dr. Forman, rector of All Hallows, who had himself been in trouble for heterodoxy. [74] Dr. London to the Bishop of Lincoln, Feb. 20. 1528: _Rolls House MS._ [75] Now Cokethorpe Park, three miles from Stanton Harcourt, and about twelve from Oxford. The village has disappeared. [76] Vicar of All Saints, Bristol, to the Rector of Lincoln: _Rolls House MS._ [77] The Vicar of All Saints to the Rector of Lincoln: _Rolls House MS._ [78] Dr. London to the Bishop of Lincoln: _Rolls House MS._ [79] Long extracts from it are printed in Foxe, Vol. IV. [80] Another of the brethren, afterwards Bishop of St. David's, and one of the Marian victims. [81] Bishop of Lincoln to Wolsey, March 5, 1527-8: _Rolls House MS._; and see Ellis, third series, Vol. II. p. 77. [82] Ellis, third series, Vol. II. p. 77. [83] With some others he "was cast into a prison where the salt-fish lay, through the stink whereof the most part of them were infected; and the said Clark, being a tender young man, died in the same prison."--Foxe, Vol. IV. p. 615. [84] London to Warham: _Rolls House MS._ [85] Petition of the Commons, Vol. I. cap. 3.