"A 1, R 80, T 100, E 5, being the letters of his "surname, amounting altogether to 666, the "identical number of the beast, i. e. Buona"parte." This divine adds, "That without the " smallest doubt, as the truth of Revelation can "never be questioned, so it follows, that the Spanish patriots, are destined to put an end' "to the reign of this beast Buonaparte." Well may Swift observe, that such commentators on the Revelations turn out prophets without understanding a syllable of the text. 66. A POPISH MARTYR. Though the papists invented this system of purifying errors and heresies by fire, yet the reformers under Henry VIII. adopted the example, and we have in Hall's Chronicle the following disgraceful narrative of the burning of Friar Forest, in 1538, at which Latimer himself assisted. The following is Hall's narrative and we wish it were the only one of the kind. "In May," 30th. Henry VIII. A. D. 1538. "there was a Friar, called friar Forest, one of "the observant Friars," of Greenwich "but he "might have been," says Hall" more truly “ named an obstinate Friar. This obstinate "Friar had secretly, in confessions, declared to 66 many of the King's subjects that the King was "not supreme head, and being thereof accused "and apprehended, he was examined how he "could say that the King was not Supreme Head "of the Church, when he himself had sworn to "the contrary. He answered that he took his "oath with the outward man, but his inward At this an"man never consented thereunto. swer the Lords who examined him looked very "strangely at the dissimulation of the Friar; but being further accused of diverse heretical and “damnable articles that he held, contrary to the "Scripture of God, he was after sundry examin"ations convinced and confuted, and gladly sub"mitted himself to abide the punishment of the "Church. But upon this his submission, having more liberty than before he had, as well to "talk with whom he would, as also who that "would to talk with him; certain such outward and men as he was, so talked with him, and so in❝censed him, that the outward Friar was as far "from his open submission as ever he was, “when his abjuration was sent to him to read " and look upon, he utterly refused it, and obstinately stood in all his heresies and treasons "before conspired. All gentle means that were possible to be sought for his reconciliation were had, but the more gentler that the Magistrates "were to him, the more obstinate was the Friar, "and would neither argue nor answer; wherfore "justly was he condemnped; and after for him "was prepared, in Smithfelde in London, a gal"lows on the which he was hanged in chaines "by the middle and armholes all quicke, and "under the gallows was made a fire, and he so "consumed and brent to death. At his coming "to the place of execution, there was prepared 66 66 a great scaffold, on which sat the nobles of "the realme, and the Kings Majesty's most ho"nourable Council, only to have granted pardon "to that wretched creature if any spark of repentance would have happened in him. Ther "was also prepared a pulpit where a right reve"rend father in God and a renouned and famous "clerk, the bishop of Worcester, called Hugh "Latimer, declared to him his errors and openly "and manifestly by the Scripture of God confut"ed them, and with many and godly exhortations "moved him to repentance, but such was his "forwardness that he neither would hear nor "speak. "And a little before the execution, a huge and great Image was brought to the gallows, which "Image was brought out of Wales, and of the "Welshmen much sought and worshipped. This "Image was called Darrell Gatheren, and the "Welslimen had a prophecy that this Image "should set a whole Forest a fire, which prophe cy now took effect, for he set this Friar Forest "on fire and consumed him to nothing. This Friar, when he saw the fire come, and that pre"sent death was at hand, caught hold upon the ladder, which he would not let go, but so un"paciently took his death, that no man that "ever put his trust in God never so unquietly "nor so ungodly ended his life. If men might "judge him by his outward man, he appeared "to have little knowledge of God and his sin "cere truth, and less trust in him at his ending "Upon the gallows that he died on, was set up in great letters these verses following: "As saith the Welshmen, “Fetched outlawes out of Hell. "And Forest the Frier "That obstinate lyer "That willfully shalbe dead; "In his contumacie "The Gospell doth deny head." MARY AND EDWARD VI. The frightful reaction which took place under Mary was doubtless provoked by the zeal of the Reformers, under her brother. They interdicted Mary from hearing mass, and sent commissioners to her residence at Copt Hall to cite her chaplains. She remonstrated, and her letter, as follows is still, according to Mr. Ellis, keeper of the MSS. preserved among the national archieves in the Harleian MSS. 46 My dutye moste humbly remembred unto your Majestie. It maye please the same to be advertysed that I have by my servantes receav"ed your most honorable Letter, the contentes "wherof doe not a little trouble me, and so "much the more for that any of my servants "shoulde move or attempte me in matteres towching my sowle, which I thinke the mean"este subjecte within your Realme could evell "beare at their servantes hande; having for my parte utterly refused heretofor to talke with them in such matteres, and of all other persones leaste regarded them therein to whom "I have declared what I thinke as she which "trusted that your Majestie would have suffered me your poore humble sister and beadeswoman "to have used the accustomed Masse, which the |