Note 113 — ITER BOREALE
Reading edition
Three dames,
“Well known and like esteemed.”
“A discourse of the godly life and Christian death of Mistriss Katharine Stubbs, who departed this life at Burton on Trent, 14th of December,” (1592.) was written by her brother, the sanctimonious author of “The Anatomie of Abuses.”
Anne Askew, burned in 1546 for her rigid adherence to her faith, wrote “a balade which she sang when she was in Newgate;” printed by Bale. A long account of her examination and subsequent martyrdom may be seen in Foxe’s “Actes and Monuments,” vol. ii. p. 1284. edit. 1583. bl. let.
With the last I am less intimately acquainted; but I take her to be the same “lady” of whom the favourite son of Mrs. Merrythought sings, in the last act of “The Knight of the Burning Pestle.”