CHARGE FOR BURNING OF THE BODIES OF LATIMER AND RIDLEY

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 3, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 52, No. 15.

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CHARGE FOR BURNING OF THE BODIES OF LATIMER AND RIDLEY

The following interesting memorial of Popish persecutions was discovered recently in the British Museum:—

CHARGE FOR BURNING OF THE BODIES OF LATIMER AND RIDLEY

£ s d
For three loads wood fagots, 0 12 0
Item, one load furze fagots, 0 3 4
Item, for carriage, 0 2 6
Item, a post, 0 1 4
Item, two chains, 0 8 4
Item, two staples, 0 0 6
Item, four laborers, 0 2 8
Total, 1 5 8
Such a document serves better than many pages of description, to bring to mind the days when men counted not their own lives dear unto them for the sake of truth.