447 that if she had bene then in her iourney, as she would have bene, had they not bene delay'd by his cruell spite, she could not have liv'd. The next day after they had gotten out the body they brought it with a handsome private equipage to Canterbury, and so forward towards London, meeting no afti·onts in theii· mty but at one towne, where there was a faire, and the 'priest of the place came out with his clearke in his foole's coat, to offer them buriall, and, to stop their herse, layd hold on the horses, whom when the' attendants putt by, the wicked rout at the faire took part with them, and sett upon the horsemen; but they broke severall of their heads, and made their way cleare, having beaten of all the towne and the faire, and can;c on to London, They past through Southwarkc, over the bridge, and through the whole heart of the citie, to their lodging in Holborne, in the day time, and had not one reviling word or indignity offer'd them all the way, but severall people were very much moov'd at that sad witnesse of the murderous cruelty of the men then in power. From London he was brought downe to Owthorpe, very seriously bewailed all the way he came allong by all those who had bene better acquainted with his worth then the strangers among whom he died, and was brought home with honor to his grave through the dominions of his murtherers, who were ashamed of his glories, which all their tirannies could not extinguish with his life.
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