being troubled with moſt grievous pains, he could neither live nor die. When the reſt were impriſoned the 21. of February, he was brought from his own houſe firſt, into the Court of the old City, and from thence carried into a Tower of the Caſtle, which they call the White-Tower, and there ſhut up from all company. Laſtly the 7. of June he was found dead in the Caſtle-Ditch under that Tower.
2. The enemies reported that being driven into deſpaire by the remembrance of his wickedneſs, he had thrown himſelf down headlong; therefore they commanded, that he ſhould be taken by the Executioner,carried into the White-mountain, and there beheaded, and quartered, his entrailes to be buried, and the other parts to be ſet upon ſtaves in the four quarters of the world before the City, and his head to be faſtned to a Gibbet in the Horſe-market. But it ſeemed doubtfull to many how he could throw himſelf down, being always guarded by Souldiers. It is moſt likely that he was caſt down by ſome privily deſign’d to that purpoſe, which God knowes.
3. This one thing is not unknown to us, that he was troubled with great temptations all that time. For when being confin’d to his houſe, the Miniſter of the word (Adam Hartman with Dr. Eraſmus a Phyſician then with him) did viſit him,
