two days to it) Master Harpsfield disputed with my Lord Archbishop for his doctor's gown. And the day thereafter (which was Friday) were they all three brought forth to be judged. Then were Dr Ridley and my master asked if they would turn; but they both answered, `Nay; I will stand to that I have said.' So then sentence of burning was passed upon all of them for heresy. Then said my Lord Archbishop,--`From your judgment and sentence I appeal to the just judgment of God Almighty; trusting to be present with Him in Heaven, for whose presence in the altar I am thus condemned.' Dr Ridley's answer was--`Although I be not of your company, yet doubt I not but my name is written in an other place, whither this sentence shall send us sooner than we should by the course of nature have come.' And quoth my master--`I thank God most heartily that He hath prolonged my life to this end, that I may in this case glorify God by this kind of death.' So they carried them away, each to his old lodging. And yester-morn, but an hour before I set out, there was mass, and procession down the High Street to Saint Mary's. They caused my Lord to behold it from Bocardo, and Dr Ridley from the Sheriff's house; but not going by the bailiff's house, they fetched my master to see it. Who thought he was going to his burning, and saith unto the catchpole, `My master, I pray you, make a quick fire.' But when he came to Carfax, lo, there came the procession in sight, Dr Weston carrying the host, and four other doctors supporting the canopy over him and his bread-god. Which no sooner had my master seen than he gathered up his heels, and away he ran, as fast as ever his old bones could carry him, into one Spencer's shop, and would not so much as look toward it. And incontinent after that came I thence; so that I cannot tell any more." From May to July there was a respite in some respects. Were they waiting for Philip? The Princess Elizabeth was released from the Tower, and sent to Richmond; Mr Bertie, summoned before Gardiner in Lent, took advantage of the temporary cessation of the persecution in the summer, and escaped to Germany. The gallows set up for Wyatt's followers were taken down; the cross in Cheapside was regilded; and bonfires, bell-ringing, and _Te Deums_, were commanded throughout London, as soon as the news of Philip's landing should be received. "I marvel," observed Mr Rose, one Sunday, "if we should not do better to sing _Miserere mei, Deus_."