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troduced him at court. He became domefUc chaplain to queen Catharine, wife of king Henry VIII. having at the fame time the honour to ferve her majefty in the feveral capacities above men- tioned. The arFeclion he bore towards his miftrefs engaged him in the dangerous controverfies of the times. He oppofed the divorce both by words and writings, and had the misfortune to incur a mifprifion, by giving too much into the delufions of Elizabeth Bar- ton, called the Holy Maid of Kent. He was afterwards condemned to die, arid executed in Smithfield, July 30, 1540, together with Dr. Edward Powel, and Dr. Richard Fetherftone, for denying the king's fupremacy, and affirming his marriage with queen Catharine to be good. Three Lutheran divines fuffered at the fame time and place. Robert Barnes, D. D. Thomas Gerard, B. D. and parfon of Honey Lane ; William Jerome, B. D. and vicar of Stepenhith. Dr. Abel was author of a book intitled, " Traclatus de non dhTol- vendo Henrici et Catharinae Matrimonib, 1534." There was difcovered alfo the name of" Walter Pa/lew, 1569." Who he was I have not been able to afcertain. It is obfervable in the motto or fentence he annexes, " Extrema anchora Chriftus, 1570," he has fubftituted, according to the fafhion of the times, a pi&urefque reprefentation of an anchor for the word " anchora." Alfo that of " Eagremond Radclyff 1576, pour parvenir" the un- doubted autograph cut in ftone, of a perfon, noble by birth, the fon of Henry earl of Sufiex, half brother to Thomas, then earl of Suf- fex, lord high chamberlain of the queen's houfehold. But being young, fays Strype, and of a haughty fpirit, and a papift, he was engaged in the rebellion in the north in 1569, and made a fliift afterwards to fly into Spain and Flanders. He ventured to Calais in 157^* and we foon afterwards find him committed to the Tower of London. Strype has preferved extracts from two letters from him in this confinement; one dated April 30, 1577, " moil hum- bly