Nor was it only by carousing that the troops showed their reverence for the fathers of the Church.

There was such a show of devotion throughout the Tower that pious divines thanked God for bringing good out of evil, and for making the persecution of His faithful servants the means of saving many souls.

All day the coaches and liveries of the first nobles of England were seen round the prison gates.

Thousands of humbler spectators constantly covered Tower Hill.

[375] But among the marks of public respect and sympathy which the prelates received there was one which more than all the rest enraged and alarmed the King.