One martyrdom was not sufficient for the enemies of the Reformation. Stokesley, Lee, Gardiner, and other prelates and priests, feeling themselves guilty towards Rome, which they had sacrificed to their personal ambition, desired to expiate their faults by sacrificing the reformers. Seeing at their feet a fatal gulf, dug between them and the Roman pontiff by their faithlessness, they desired to fill it up with corpses. The persecution continued. There was at that time a pious evangelist in the dungeons of the Bishop of London. He was fastened upright to the wall, with chains round his neck, waist, and legs. Usually the most guilty prisoners were permitted to sit down, and even to lie on the floor; but for this man there was no rest. It was Richard Bayfield, accused of bringing from the continent a number of New Testaments translated by Tyndale.[160] When one of his gaolers told him of Bilney’s martyrdom, he exclaimed: ‘And I too, and hundreds of men with me, will die for the faith he has confessed.’ He was brought shortly afterwards before the episcopal court. ‘With what intent,’ asked Stokesley, ‘did you bring into the country the errors of Luther, Œcolampadius the great heretic, and others of that damnable sect?’—‘To make the Gospel known,’ answered Bayfield, ‘and to glorify God before the people.’[161] Accordingly, the bishop, having condemned and then degraded him, summoned the lord mayor and sheriffs of London, ‘by the bowels of Jesus Christ’ (he had the presumption to say), to do to Bayfield ‘according to the _laudable custom_ of the famous realm of England.’[162] ‘O ye priests,’ said the gospeller, as if inspired by the Spirit of God, ‘is it not enough that your lives are wicked, but you must prevent the life according to the Gospel from spreading among the people?’ The bishop took up his crosier and struck Bayfield so violently on the chest that he fell backwards and fainted.[163] He revived by degrees, and said, on regaining his consciousness: ‘I thank God that I am delivered from the wicked church of Antichrist, and am going to be a member of the true Church which reigns triumphant in heaven.’ He mounted the pile; the flames touching him only on one side, consumed his left arm. With his right hand Bayfield separated it from his body, and the arm fell. Shortly after this he ceased to pray, because he had ceased to live.