Note 513 — Chapter XIII
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See Machyn’s Diary, p. 84. Wriothesley (vol. ii., p. 128) gives the sequel to the outrage. “The xx day of April in the forenoon, in the consistory of Paul’s was arraigned the said Wm. Branch alias Flower, who struck the priest on Easter Day in the parish church of St. Margaret in Westminster. And being condemned of heresy, he was delivered to the sheriffs of London and Middlesex. This Flower was once a monk in Ely Abbey, professed at his age of 17 years, and after made priest, and then married and had three or four children; and then ran about the country using the art of surgery. The 24 of April, the said Wm. Flower, for his said fact, had his right hand smitten off, and for opinions in matters of religion was burned in the sanctuary nigh to St. Margaret’s churchyard.” Flower is included by Foxe among the martyrs.