He inherited more vertues than vices: a jolly long red peake,[89] like the spire of a steeple, he cherisht continually without cutting, whereat a man might hang a jewell, it was so sharpe and pendant.... Debt and deadly sinne, who is not subject to? With any notorious crime I never knew him tainted.... A good fellowe he was, and would have drunk with thee for more angels than the Lord thou libeldst on gave thee in Christ’s College.... In a night and a day would he have yarkt up a pamphlet as well as in seaven yeare, and glad was that printer that might be so blest to pay him deare for the very dregs of his wit. He made no account of winning credite by his workes, ... his only care was to have a spel in his purse to conjure up a good cuppe of wine with at all times. For the lowsie circumstance of his poverty before his death, and sending that miserable writte to his wife, it cannot be but thou lyest, learned Gabriell. I and one of my fellowes, Will. Monox (Hast thou never heard of him and his great dagger?) were in company with him a month before he died, at that fatall banquet of Rhenish wine and pickled herring (if thou wilt needs have it so), and the inventory of his apparrell came to more than three shillings.... BILLING AND SONS, LTD., PRINTERS, GUILDFORD, ENGLAND FOOTNOTES: [1] Left blank in the original. [2] Or rather 27. [3] Householders. [4] Lose. [5] Whereas. [6] Bishop Gardiner. [7] Sir Robert Rochester, Comptroller; Sir William Peter, Secretary of State; Sir Francis Inglefield, Master of the Wards; and another. [8] Cardinal Pole. [9] Dieppe. [10] Polling, _i.e._ shearing or extortionate. [11] Coarse woollen cloth. [12] Common, _i.e._ public. [13] The Rood, on the Roodloft. [14] Regimen, government. [15] In the primitive Church. [16] From πρεσβυτερὁς (elder), both presbyter and priest are derived. [17] Pretended. [18] Persuade the people. [19] Public. [20] At cess--_i.e._, quartered on the inhabitants. [21] Thomas Fitzgerald’s rebellion took place in 1534-5. This reference to it dates the present document as being of 1571 or 1572. [22] Deceived. [23] _I.e._, Cecil. [24] _I.e._, Mary Queen of Scots. [25] Surety. [26] Paused. [27] Christopher. [28] Banner. [29] Barnard Castle, of which he was Steward. [30] Outermost. [31] Lief, dear. [32] “Francis” in the original text--a slip of the pen. [33] Men of property among the rebels were attainted, and their lands confiscated; the author appears to threaten that even when their money is gone they remain men and may yet be to be feared. [34] Sir Thomas Plomtrie--_i.e._, Thomas Plumptre, priest--chaplain to the rebels, was hanged at Durham for having celebrated Mass in the cathedral there. [35] Kentish saint, to whose shrine pilgrimage was made; he became the proverb for pre-Reformation superstition. [36] _I.e._, his people. [37] See. [38] Really 25 of February. [39] 1569-1570. [40] Ure--_i.e._, use.