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Identifier: christianheroesm00fost (find matches)
Title: Christian heroes and martyrs
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: (Foster, William A.) (from old catalog)
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t apace, and so did others ofthe company. After they had prayed, he rose up and kissed his wife,and took her by the hand, and said, Farewell, my dear wife; be ofgood comfort, for I am quiet in my conscience. God shall find afather for my children. And then he kissed his daughter Mary, andsaid, God bless thee, and make thee his servant; and kissing Eliza-beth, he said, God bless thee. I pray you all stand strong and stead-fast to Christ and his word. Then his wife said, God be with thee,dear Rowland; I will meet thee at Hadleigh. And so he was led forth to the inn called the Woolpack, and hiswife followed him. As soon as they came there, he was put into achamber, where he was kept with four yeomen of the guard and thesheriffs men. As soon as he was come into the chamber, he fell downon his knees and prayed. The sheriff then, seeing Taylors wife there,would not let her speak any more with her husband, but gently desiredher to go to his house and take it as her own, and promised her that
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ROWLAND TAYLOR PARTS FROM HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN. 44§ THE WORLDS CHRISTIAN MARTYRS. her husband should lack nothing, and sent two officers to conduct herthere. But she wished rather to go to her mothers; so the officers ledher there, and charged her mother to keep her till they came again. Dr. Taylor remained at the Woolpack inn until eleven in the fore-noon, when the sheriff of Essex came to receive him, and they set outtogether on horseback. As they came out of the gate of the inn,John Hull, the faithful servant, was there waiting, having with himTaylors son Thomas; John lifted up the boy that he might see hisfather, and then set him on the horse before him. The prisoner, takingoff his hat, said, Good people, this is my son. He then lifted uphis eyes towards heaven, and prayed for the boy, laying his hand uponhis head, and blessing him. After this he gave him back to JohnHull, whom he shook by the hand, and said, Thou hast been thefaithfulest servant a man ever had. When they came t

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