# Account Of The Imprisonment And Death Of Said Martyrs.

15th century (source section) · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: ACCOUNT OF THE IMPRISONMENT AND DEATH OF SAID MARTYRS.

Century of containing source section; exact event date not assigned

Concerning the imprisonment and death of William
White, as also of father Abraham and John
Waddon, we find the following account in the writings
of John Fox: “William White, who instructed
these people in the light of the Gospel, in the
county of Norfolk, for the space of about four
years, until he, as already stated, was apprehended
by virtue of the aforesaid letter of the King, and
brought before William, bishop of Norwich, by
whom he was convicted and condemned on these
and other articles, thirty in number, was burnt alive
in the city of Norwich, in the month of September,
A. D. 1428, under King Henry VI., then but a
child of six years.

“Having arrived at the stake, and about to open
his mouth to address and admonish the people, and
to confirm them in the truth, one of the bishop’s
servants struck him on the mouth, thus compelling
him to remain silent.”

Thus did this godly man receive the crown of
martyrdom, and ended this temporal life, to the
great sorrow of all pious Christians in the county of
Norfolk. His aforesaid wife, Johanna, who, according
to her feeble ability, followed in the footsteps of
her husband by scattering said doctrine everywhere,
and confirming many in the truth of God, had to
suffer much on this account, in the same year and
from the same bishop, as Thomas Walden himself
confesses, who, besides others, was present at the
examination and condemnation of said William
White.

About the same time there were also burnt the
aforesaid father Abraham of Cholchester, and John
Waddon, priest, on account of the same articles
mentioned above. Besides these, very many other
godly men were most cruelly put to death. Second
book of the History of the Persecutions, fol. 582,
col. 4, and fol. 583, col. 1, from John Fox, in Actis
Guil. White. Also from Bal., in Guil. White, in
Append.





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