“=1222.= A Prouinciall councell was holden at Oxforde, by Stephen Langton Archbyshoppe of Canterburie, and his suffragane bishops and others.… There was also a young man and two women brought before them, the yoong man would not come in any church, nor be partaker of the Sacraments, but had suffered himselfe to be crucified, in whom the scars of all yᵉ wounds were to be seene, in his hands, head, side and feete, and he reioyced to bee called Jesus of these women and other. One of the women being olde, was accused for bewitching the young man vnto such madnes, and also (altering her owne name) procured her selfe to bee called Mary the mother of Christ: They being conuict of these crimes and other, were adiudged to bee closed vp betweene two walles of stone, where they ended their liues in misery. The other woman being sister to the young man, was let goe, because shee reuealed the wicked fact” (Stow, Annals, p. 178). There is another story, of about the same time, telling of a religious maniac, done to death in an abnormal way:— “A man that faynyd hym selfe Cryste at Oxynforde, he was cursyde at Aldermanbery at London, the yere of oure Lorde Mˡccxxij.” So we read in Gregory’s Chronicle. In the Grey Friars’ Chronicle we find this:— “A man of Oxenford faynyd hym to be Cryst, and was crucified at Addurbury.” This explains the meaning of “cursyde” in the other chronicle. The Chronicle of London (1827) says:— “A man of Alderbery feynd hym Cryst, whiche was brought to Oxon’ and there he was crucifyed” (p. 11). Capgrave, who wrote much later, but no doubt had before him some old writer, tells of a similar case of religious mania:— “=1221.= There was accused eke a carl that procured men to nayle him on a crosse: for in handis and feet were seyn the woundes of the nayles, and in his side a wound eke: and in his fonnednesse he wold sey that he was so arayed for savacion of the world. He was put in prison for evyr, and nevyr to have othir repast but bread and watir.” It will be seen that these cases occurred about the same time.[38] Was there an epidemic of religious mania, or is it possible that the different records are all versions of the same story? DRAWN, HANGED, AND QUARTERED.