If I may kill a man to prevent him from robbing my friend, why may I not deceive a man to save my friend from being barbarously murdered?  It is possible that the highest morality would forbid me to do either.  I am unable to see why, if the first be permissible, the second should be a crime.  Rahab of Jericho did the same thing which Dalaber did, and on that very ground was placed in the catalogue of saints.

[517] A cell in the Tower, the nature of which we need not inquire into.

[518] FOXE, vol. v. p. 421.

[519] Dr. London to the Bishop of Lincoln:  Rolls House MS.

[520] Ibid.

[521] Dr. Forman, rector of All Hallows, who had himself been in trouble for heterodoxy.

[522] Dr. London to the Bishop of Lincoln, Feb. 20, 1528:  Rolls House MS.

[523] Now Cokethorpe Park, three miles from Stanton Harcourt, and about twelve from Oxford.  The village has disappeared.

[524] Vicar of All Saints, Bristol, to the Rector of Lincoln:  Rolls House MS.

[525] The Vicar of All Saints to the Rector of Lincoln:  Rolls House MS.

[526] Dr. London to the Bishop of Lincoln:  Rolls House MS.

[527] Long extracts from it are printed in FOXE, vol. iv.

[528] Another of the brethren, afterwards Bishop of St. David’s, and one of the Marian victims.

[529] Bishop of Lincoln to Wolsey, March 5, 1527-8:  Rolls House MS.:  and see ELLIS, third series, vol. ii. p. 77.

[530] ELLIS, third series, vol. ii. p. 77.

[531] With some others he “was cast into a prison where the saltfish lay, through the stink whereof the most part of them were infected; and the said Clark, being a tender young man, died in the same prison.”—­FOXE, vol. iv. p. 615.

[532] London to Warham:  Rolls House MS.

[533] Petition of the Commons, vol. i. cap. 3.

[534] Ibid.  And, as we saw in the bishops’ reply, they considered their practice in these respects wholly defensible.—­See Reply of the Bishops, cap. 3.

[535] Petition of the Commons, cap. 3.

[536] Hen.  V. stat. 1.

[537] He had been “troublesome to heretics,” he said, and he had “done it with a little ambition;” for “he so hated this kind of men, that he would fie the sorest enemy that they could have, if they would not repent.”—­MORE’S Life of More, p. 211.

[538] See FOXE:, vol. iv. pp. 689, 698, 705.

[539] 2 Hen.  V. stat. 1.

[540] John Stokesley.

[541] Petition of Thomas Philips to the House of Commons:  Rolls House MS.

[542] Ibid.

[543] FOXE, vol. v. pp. 29, 30.