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Strype has preferred a memorial that the famous John Fox, the martyrologift, gave in againft him at his trial, as to his cruel perfe^ cuting fpirit, copied from a paper in Fox's own hand- writing : " Story, by his confeffion, the chiefeft caufe and doer, in putting moft of the martyrs to death. <i* J Story caufed a faggot to be caft at the face of Mrs. Denley, fmging a pfalm in the fire, faying, he had marred the famion of an old fong. Story fcourged Thomas Green. Story, coming from the burning of two, at the lord mayor, Mr. Curtys his table, faid, that as he had difpatched them, fo he trufted within a month he mould alfo difpatch all the reft ; faying, more- over, that if he were of the queen's council, he would devife to torment them after another fort. And there mewed the way moft cruel, which he would ufe. Story, at another time coming from the burning of Richard Gibfon, and being demanded of the Lord Mayor what he would do if the world mould alter, faid, If he were fo fick in his bed that he could not ftir without hands, yet would he fit up to give fentence againft an heretick ; and though he knew the world would turn the next day after. Story was forry (as he faid in the Parliament Houfe) that they ftruck not at the root. In fumma, Story worfe than Boner. Yet, notwithstanding, Story is made a faint at Rome, and his martyrdom printed and fet up in the Englifli college there." Such were the fentiments of our old martyrologiit, exaggerated, no doubt, by party fpirit, concerning this extraordinary character, who feems far to have outdone, in acts of cruelty, even that prelate to whofe name the horrid and moft inconfiftent epithet of bloody'* has been annexed by pofterity, who was, however, not only an I amateur