The name of this maide is Rose Allin, who was also burnt at the same stake with her father and mother, as is in the forsaid page aboue declared. God graunt, that he that was the doer and cause therof, as he hath lyfe and fayre warning geuen him of God to repente, may haue lyke grace withal to lament and repent betime, least peraduenture he feele hereafter the bitter taste of gods reuenging rodde as the other haue done besides.

Although therfore, as I sayd, these with a fewe other persecutours, haue hitherto escaped the daunger of Gods iust iudgement against them, whom he spareth to repentance: yet for þ^e most parte there haue bene, & are consumed, as first.

MarginaliaA morte of persecuting Prelates.Gardiner Byshop of Winchester.
Morgan Byshop of Saint Dauies.
Thornton Byshop of Douer.
Coates Bishop of Westchester.
Hopton Byshop of Norwich.
Capon Byshop of Salisbury.
Brokes Byshop of Glocester.
King Byshop of Tame.
Peto Elect of Salisbury.
D. Day Byshop of Chichester.
Holiman Byshop of Bristow.

To these which dyed in their persecution, and in Quene Maries tyme, ioyne also those that dyed with Quene Marye, as Cardinall Poole, Christopherson byshop of Chichester Weston the Prolocutor, and also after her: as White Bishop of Winchester, Tonstall byshop of Duresme, Oglethrop Byshoppe of Carlell, Pate Byshop of Worcester, Banes B. of Couen. & Lich. & let vs not leaue out the Bishops of Rochester and of Hertford. &c.

MarginaliaAngells wife.Emong these persecutors is com to our hāds the cruelty of one maister Swingfield an Aldermans Deputy about Thamis streate, who hearing of one Angelles wife, a midwife that kept her selfe from theire popish church to bee at the labour of one mistres Walter at croked lane ende, toke. iii. other with him, and beset the house about, and toke her and caried her to Boners officers, big with Child. xxviii. wekes gone, who laid her in Lollards Tower where, that day shee came in, throughe feare and a fal at her taking, she was deliuered of a man child, and could haue no woman with her in that nedeful time. lieng there. v. wekes

she was delyuered vnder suerties by frendship, and Doctor Story MarginaliaThe cruelty of Story.hearing therof charged her with fellony, & so sente her to Newgate. the cause was for that she had a woman in her house in her labour þ^t died, & the child also. 

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The syntax of this passage is confusing: Foxe is saying that it was Angel's wife who was arrested.

MarginaliaBerry & Thomas Knowles persecuters which Knowles maried the Sister of the said William Harrisōs wife,Before mencion is made pag. 1655. of one Berye of Ailsam in Norfolke, Commissary. who in Quene Maryes dayes emong other his cruel actes, with one Thomas Knowles a proctor in the Byshops courte, persecuted in the sayd Towne one William Harrison a schole maister, MarginaliaMaster William Harrison scholemaister. a man very graue and godly, and one who much profited in that vocation, wherby he was faine to flye from his wyfe and children to Bennet Colledge in Cambridge, where he falling sicke came home againe, and lieng very weke in his bed, one of syr Richard Southwelles men came to him, called maister St. and thretned to burne him, and that hys goods should be confiscate to the Quene, if he would not be ordered to obey the lawe. &c. so that he vpon theire cruel threates died peacyble in the Lord of that sicknes: hys name therfore be praised, Amen.

MarginaliaNouēber. 17.And now after these premisses, next followeth in the course of our story to come to the. 17 daye of Nouember, which day as it brought to the persecuted members of Christe rest from their careful mourning: so seemeth to me also some rest of traiuailous writing, by þ^e death I meane of Quene Mary, who being long sicke before of a Timpany, vpon the sayd. xvii. daye of Nouember, about three or four of the clock in the morning, yelded her life to Nature, and her Kingdom to her Sister. And thus letting quene Mary go, without any further description of her lyfe and condicions, I will by the grace of Christ turne now my penne to enter to the flourishing and peaceable tyme of the vertuous and long wished for Quene Elizabeth. For whose prosperous and luckye comming to the crowne, praise and thankes bee to our most merciful Lord and sauiour Christ Iesus, for euer and euer, Amen.