# Further Observation Regarding His Death.

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Concerning the death of this pious man, a certain
author gives the following account from John Fox:
“Having received this commission and full power
from the King, against William Swinderby, the
bishop doubtless did his very best to procure his
arrest without delay; however, he did not immediately
proceed with the execution of death against
him, but kept him in prison for a long time. At
last, A. D. 1401, he was burnt alive in Smithfield,
at London.” Second book of the Hist. of the Persecutions,
fol. 505, col. 2, from John Fox, Hist.
Angl., page 438, also, page 436.

Again, A. Mellinus, page 515, col. 4: “Baleus
also accords with this, saying that William Swinderby,
after his recantation, was strengthened in
the confession of the divine truth, and was finally,
A. D. 1401, burnt alive, in the sight of a great
number of people, in Smithfield, at London.” Bal.
Cent. 6, Script. Britt., in Append. ad Jo. 1, Horesb,
page 493.

Note.—A. D. 1405, John Wenschelberg now
wrote against the superstition in popery, and also
against the deception practiced by the priests.
Among other things he related of a Bohemian
priest, who had colored the host of the Sacrament
(of the altar) with his own blood, and had persuaded
the people, that the blood had of its own
accord mingled with the bread. “These are,” he
said, “the lying signs and false miracles of antichrist.”
But what happened to him on this account,
from the papists, we have not found in the old
writers. Compare Joh. Munst., fol. 181, with Chron.
van den Ondergang, page 758, col. 1.



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