Note 147 — TINTERNE ABBEY. (continued 2)
Reading edition
According to Hall, the following barbarous verses were set up in great letters upon the stake or gallows, to which the unhappy victim was bound:—
David-Darvel-Gatheren, As saith the Welshmen, Fetched outlaws out of hell; Now is he come with spear and shield, In harness to burn in Smithfield, For in Wales he may not dwell. And Forest the friar, That obstinate liar, That wilfully shall be dead; In his contumacy Of the Gospel, doth deny The King to be Supreme Head.