Footnote 292: Fryth, _A Declaration of Baptism_, p. 287. Footnote 293: See Tyndale and Fryth, _Works_, iii. p. 91. Preface to the Reader. Footnote 294: Anderson, _Annals of the Bible_, i. p. 338. Footnote 295: Foxe, _Acts_, v. p. 5. Footnote 296: Earl of Derby’s Translation. Footnote 297: He added: ‘Now have I experience of the faith which is in you.’—Tyndale and Fryth, _Works_, iii. p. 257. Footnote 298: Ibid. p. 324. Footnote 299: Tyndale and Fryth, _Works_, iii. p. 321. Footnote 300: _Confutation of Tyndale’s Answer_, by Sir Thomas More, lord-chancellor of England (1532). Footnote 301: Foxe, _Acts_, v. p. 133. Footnote 302: Ibid. p. 9. Footnote 303: Strype. i. p. 316. Footnote 304: Foxe, _Acts_, v. p. 6. Footnote 305: Preface to More’s Confutation, _Bible Ann._ i. p. 343. Footnote 306: ‘He was so loaded with iron that he could scarce sit with any ease.’—Burnet, i. p. 161. Footnote 307: Tyndale and Fryth, _Works_, iii. p. 342. Footnote 308: Ibid. p. 338. Footnote 309: The Subsidy or Bulwark; Tyndale and Fryth, _Works_, iii. p. 242. Footnote 310: ‘I am in continual fear, lest the lieutenant or my keeper should espy any such thing by me.’—Ibid. Footnote 311: ‘If any notable thing had been in my mind, it was clean lost.’—Ibid. Footnote 312: The Subsidy or Bulwark; Tyndale and Fryth, _Works_, iii. p. 241. Footnote 313: The Subsidy or Bulwark; Tyndale and Fryth, _Works_, iii. p. 211. Footnote 314: Ibid. p. 259. Footnote 315: Strype. Footnote 316: Tyndale and Fryth; _Works_, iii. p. 288. CHAPTER XIX. A REFORMER CHOOSES RATHER TO LOSE HIS LIFE THAN TO SAVE IT. (MAY TO JULY 1533.) The enemy was on the watch: the second period of Fryth’s captivity, that which was to terminate in martyrdom, was beginning. Henry’s bishops, who, while casting off the pope to please the king, had remained devoted to scholastic doctrines, feared lest the reformer should escape them: they therefore undertook to solicit Henry to put him to death. Fryth had on his side the queen, Cromwell, and Cranmer. This did not discourage them, and they represented to the king that although the man was shut up in the Tower of London, he did not cease to write and act in defence of heresy. It was the season of Lent, and Fryth’s enemies came to an understanding with Dr. Curwin, the king’s chaplain, who was to preach before the court. He had no sooner got into the pulpit than he began to declaim against those who denied the material presence of Christ in the host. Having struck his hearers with horror, he continued: ‘It is not surprising that this abominable heresy makes such great progress among us. A man now in the Tower of London has the audacity to defend it, and no one thinks of punishing him.’ [Sidenote: Fryth Ordered For Trial.]