Henry' s victims were few and conspicuous.

Their crime, or alleged crime, was treason.

Mary's were obscure, and numbered by the hundred.

Many of them were artisans and mechanics, who, as Burghley afterwards said, knew no faith except that they were called upon to abjure.

They went to the stake without a murmur, sustained against the terrors of demonology by their own English hearts, by the love of their friends, and by the grace of God.