CHAPTER XV.

The last hour--More's Fanaticism--Debates in Convocation--Royal Proclamation--The Bishop of Norwich--Sentences condemned--Latimer's Opposition--The New Testament burnt--The Persecution begins--Hitton-- Bayfield--Tonstall and Packington--Bayfield arrested--The Rector Patmore--Lollards' Tower--Tyndale and Patmore--a Musician--Freese the Painter--Placards and Martyrdom of Bennet--Thomas More and John Petit--Bilney, page 426