For Sir Anthony did nothing herein, as a Iudge
by discretion, but as an officer by direction; and besides, hee gaue
the Maior sufficient watchwordes of timely warning, & large space
of respite (more then which, in regard of his owne perill, he could
not afford) to shift for safety, if an vneschewable destiny, had not
haltered him to that aduancement. As for the millers man, he equalled
his master, in their common offence of rebellion, and therefore it
deserued the praise of mercy, to spare one of the two, and not the
blame of crueltie, to hang one for another.
I should perhaps haue forgotten the free schoole here, maintayned by
her Maiesties liberalitie, were I not put in mind thereof through a
fore-halfening of this rebellion, by an action of the schollers,
which I will report from some of their owne mouthes. About a yeere
before this sturre was raysed, the schollers, who accustomably diuide
themselues, for better exploiting their pastimes, grew therethrough
into two factions; the one whereof, they called the olde religion;
the other, the new.
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