Chap. VIII. the HISTORYofthe PURITANS: 373 and learned Mr. Hugh Broughton obferves, " though Mr. Barrowe and 9ueen " Greenwoodwere condemned for difturbance of the late ; yet this would- Elizabeth, " have been pardoned, and their lives (pared, if they would have promi(ed t rv1 " to come to church." Upon their trial they behaved with conftancy and }3roughton's, refolution, (hewing no token of recognition (lays the attorney) nor prayer work,, for mercy: They protefted their inviolable loyalty to the queen, and -obe- p' 73k. dience toher government ; that they never wrote, nor fo much as intended any thing againft her highnef but only againft the bi(hops and the hierarchy Hey!. Hid.. of thechurch; whichwasapparent enough. However the jury brought them Pr. P. 323- all in guilty. Begot defired a conference, and with tears confeffing hisforrow for what he had done, was pardoned. Bowlle-and Studley being looked upon only as accefíaries, though they continued firm, declaring their unfhaken loyalty to the queen, and refuting to afk for mercy, were reprieved, and Beltot,- fent back to prifon; but Barrowe and Greenwood were to be made exam- Sudley re pies. Sentence of death being paffed upon them March 23, fundry prieved.. divines were appointed to perfuade them to recant; who not fucceeding, they were brought in a cart to Tyburn on the Tait of March, and expofed under the gallows for fome time to the people, to fee if the terrors of death Barrowe and' would affright them ; but remaining contlant, they were brought back Greenwood. to Newgate, and on the fixth of April, carried a fecond time to Tyburn executed. and executed. At the place of execution they gave fuch teftimonies of their unfeigned piety towards God, and loyalty to the queen, praying fo earneftly for her long and profperous reign, that when Dr. Reynolds who attended them, reported their behaviour to her majefty, fhe repented that the had yielded to their death. They had been in clofe prifon ever Pnce the year 159o. expeled to all the feverities of cold, hunger, and nakednefs, . which Mr. Barrowe reprefented in a fupplication to the queen, already mentioned, concluding with an earneft defire of deliverance from their prelent miferies, though it were by death; but the archbi(hop.intercepted the paper, and endea- voured to prevent the knowledge of their condition from coming to the queen's ear : Upon this Mr. Barroweexpofed his grace's behaviour towards miferable men, in a letter to one Mr. Filher, wherein he charges him ".with abufing the queen's clemency by falle informations and fug- Barrowe'; " geftions; and with artful ditüagenuity, in committing fo many innocent letter agóinfl " men to Bridewel, the Compter, Newgate, the White Lyon, and the Fleet, the arcbbi- " and then potting them to the civil magiftrate to take off theclamour of'op " the people from himfelf. He Pays, that he had deflin'd bimJèlf and " his brother Greenwood to death, and others to be kept in dole prifon; " their poor wives and children to becal out of the city, and their goods " tobe confifcated. Is not this a chriftian bifhop, lays he, are thefe the L oftr}it_ virtues of him who takes upon him the care and government of a14 gift, p. 416. " the
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