Note 861 — PART IV. From the Reformation to the present time. (continued 4)

The chief of whom, we presume, was the famous Framingham, who was then mayor. There was another great man that was also deeply concerned in this vile business, perhaps the first Turner, but we are not sure, for a blank is left for the name in the printed account.—Of Framingham there can be little doubt, and Turner seems the most likely to be the other, as he was mayor the next year, when the persecution was still going on. They were, no doubt, very competent to judge, what sort of religion was fit to be allowed in the town: one educated at a bakehouse, and the other at a pot-house, or tavern.