The martyrdom of an aged woman, Mi^yidom of
named Joanna Baughton, has left an- Joanna Baugii-
other blot upon the reign of this cold- ^^'
blooded monarch. She was upwards of fourscore
when she was called to suffer, for herYaithful ad-
herence to the opinions of the Reformer, whom i^e
honoured as an eminent saint. Her venerable years
afforded no protection against the remorseless bigotry
of the age. She was imbrmed, that the stake would
be the certain recompense of her persev^ance in
misbelief. But the terrors of the threat were, in her
judgment, not worthy to be compared to the comfort
she experienced in the love of God, and the protection
of his holv angels. She rendered her soul, in the
midst of the flames, with admirable constancy ; and
her ashes were collected as precious memorials of her
martyrdom. But the measure of atrocity remained
yet to be filled up. At Amersworth, a heretic, named
Tylsworth^ was consigned to the flames : MartyTdom of
jand, with a refinement in barbarity, Tytowrth. ,
which might excite the envy of a North-American
savage, his only daughter, who had also fallen under
fluspicion, was compelled to kindle the pile, that was
to consume her own father by an agoni2in^ death*
One monster there was, in those days, who disgraced
^e priesthood, by adding coarse and vulgar insult to
brutal inhumanity. Bishop Nix, of Nor-.
wich, immortally infamous for his alac- ^
rity m persecution, when he spoke of persons sup-
posed to cany abcut with them the tmt of heresy,



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