Jesus, Who, by His grace strengthening me, and by your good example, has encouraged me."

This reply gave great comfort to his venerable companion; who, after a few minutes spent in prayer, and some words of exhortation to his Roman Catholic brethren present, whose prayers he asked, gave himself up to the executioner. Then raising his hands and eyes to heaven, he cried out,

"Jesus, my Saviour! Jesus, my Redeemer, receive my soul! Jesus, be to me a Jesus!"

The hangman immediately flung him off, and he soon expired.

The former, it appears, shrank from staining his hands with his blood, and refused to carry out the rest of the brutal sentence, saying he would rather hang himself than do so. At last, a vile creature, in female form, urged him till he consented, and then, as if he had wound himself up to a pitch of frenzy to enable him to do so, he "fell to work like a fury," as Challoner says, cutting and slashing the bodies of both the martyrs, and hashing the entrails into small parts, flung them amongst the crowd. The heads and quarters were fixed on the gates of the city, and the head of Mr Lockwood on Bootham-bar gate, close to the king's palace, so that he could not avoid seeing it whenever he went in or out.

Edmund Catherick, of whom some account has been given, was descended from the Cathericks of

Carlton, an ancient family of the North Riding of Yorkshire, near Richmond.

Justice Dodsworth had married a near kinswoman of his; yet, in spite of the claims of this connection, and the still greater claims of Catherick upon him as a guest in his house, he took advantage of a private confidence on that occasion, committed him to York Castle for being a priest, and appeared against him on the trial.

Mr Knaresborough says that Dodsworth and his family suffered for some years a series of dire disasters, from the guilt of his blood upon them.

His forgiveness of his traitorous host, as shown in his prayers especially offered for him, was much to be admired.

He said he " as freely forgave him, and as heartily, as he hoped for mercy and pardon of his own manifold sins at the hands of God." We said his courage failed him for a moment, being desired to mount the fatal ladder the first; but his friend's words and heroic constancy restored his self-possession, and he said,

"Lord, I obey; be near me, O Lord; my soul hath trusted in Thee; let me not be confounded for ever!"

Then pulling the cap over his eyes, he delivered himself up, and soon calmly expired, April 13th, 1642.

His head was placed on Meiklegate-bar.

It is difficult to select from amongst the holy

men who, for conscience' sake, submitted willingly to the cruelties practised upon them.

Among others whose lives were sacrificed shortly after those of Lockwood and Catherick, we find that one good man, EDWARD MORGAN, alias Singleton, was confined for fourteen or fifteen years in a loathsome place in the Fleet prison, where his sufferings were severe.

When at last tried and condemned, so great was the reverence of his Roman Catholic brethren for him, all desired to have some remembrance of him, and they cut off even his buttons, and pieces of his coat, as relics,―till he took off his coat and gave it to them to be divided, and then they gave him a new one to wear at his execution.

A full account of his last words and conflict will be found, as elsewhere, in vol. ii. p. 208 of Challoner's "Memoirs."

The following beautiful prayer by Father Anthony Turner, a graduate of Cambridge, who was executed at Tyburn, on Friday, the 20th of June

deserves to be transcribed here.

"O God, who hast created me to a supernatural end, to serve Thee in this life by grace, and enjoy Thee in the next by glory; be pleased to grant by the merits of Thy death and passion, that, after this wretched life shall be ended, I may not fail of a full enjoyment of Thee, my last end and sovereign good. I humbly beg pardon for all the sins which I have committed against Thy divine Majesty, since the first moment that I came to the use of

reason to this very time. I am heartily sorry from the very bottom of my heart, for having offended Thee, so good, so powerful, so wise, and so just a God; and purpose, by the help of Thy grace, never more to offend Thee, my good God, whom I love above all things.

"O sweet Jesus, who hast suffered a most painful and ignominious death upon the cross for our salvation, apply, I beseech Thee, unto me the merits of Thy sacred passion, and sanctify unto me these sufferings of mine, which I humbly accept of for Thy sake, in union of the sufferings of Thy sacred Majesty, and in punishment and satisfaction of my sins.

"O my dear Saviour and Redeemer, I return Thee immortal thanks for all Thou hast pleased to do for me in the whole course of my life; and now, in the hour of my death, with a firm belief of all things Thou hast revealed, and a steadfast hope of obtaining everlasting life, I cheerfully cast myself into the arms of Thy mercy, whose arms were stretched in death for my redemption.

"Sweet Jesus, receive my spirit!"

Let us now turn to one of the blackest pages in our English history, and give a few examples of Puritan intolerance in Ireland.

With wholesale butcheries, such as that at Drogheda, where Roman Catholics were slain without an offer of mercy, through apostatizing from their faith, a butchery lasting in that town.

men who, for conscience' sake, submitted willingly to the cruelties practised upon them.

Among others whose lives were sacrificed shortly after those of Lockwood and Catherick, we find that one good man, EDWARD MORGAN, alias Singleton, was confined for fourteen or fifteen years in a loathsome place in the Fleet prison, where his sufferings were severe.

When at last tried and condemned, so great was the reverence of his Roman Catholic brethren for him, all desired to have some remembrance of him, and they cut off even his buttons, and pieces of his coat, as relics,—till he took off his coat and gave it to them to be divided, and then they gave him a new one to wear at his execution.

A full account of his last words and conflict will be found, as elsewhere, in vol. ii. p. 208 of Chal

loner's "Memoirs."

The following beautiful prayer by Father Anthony Turner, a graduate of Cambridge, who was executed at Tyburn, on Friday, the 20th of June

deserves to be transcribed here.

"O God, who hast created me to a supernatura end, to serve Thee in this life by grace, and enjo Thee in the next by glory; be pleased to gran by the merits of Thy death and passion, that, afte: this wretched life shall be ended, I may not fail o a full enjoyment of Thee, my last end and sovereign good. I humbly beg pardon for all the sins which I have committed against Thy divin e Majesty the use o

since the first moment that I came to