<link href="StyleSheet.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"/> <meta content="urn:uuid:95978103-8d02-4633-8bbc-24e80717c84c" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body> <p> <br/></p> <p class="centre_text"><img alt="*" src="Images/hand.jpg"/></p> <p> <br/></p> <p> <br/></p> <p class="section">L<small>ATIMER SPAKE TO</small> Ridley as fire was kindled: "Be of good cheer, Mr Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England, as I trust shall never be put out." With a bag of gunpowder around their necks, they were burned and Latimer apparently died quickly and with little pain, but Ridley burned slowly, and desired them for Christ's sake to let the fire come unto him. They heaped the faggots upon him, but it burned all his nether parts before it touched the upper, that made him leap up and down under the faggots, and often desire them to let the fire come unto him saying, "I cannot burn", and after his legs were consumed, he showed that side towards us clean, shirt and all untouched by flame.</p> <p>In which pangs he laboured till one of the standers-by with his billhook pulled off the faggots above, and where he saw the fire flame up, he wrestled himself unto that side. When the flame touched the gunpowder he was seen to stir no more.</p> <p> <br/></p> <p style="text-align:right;"><i>Foxe's Book of Martyrs</i>,</p> <p style="text-align:right;">16 October, 1555</p> </body></html>