Note 310a — HISTORY OF LYNN, PART II. (continued 2)

Her conduct, in torturing and burning those whom the deemed heretics, cannot well be thought more diabolical or execrable than that of her successors Elizabeth and James, toward those whom they viewed in a similar light: the latter burns them, as Mary did, and no less cruelly and unjustly; and the former imprisoned, tortured, hanged, embowelled, and quartered them. This was the good queen Bess. Her whole bench of bishops, all of the right reformed and evangelical stamp, applauded her deeds.