The
morrow after Simon and Jude’s day I was hanged at the wall from the
ground, my manacles fast locked into a staple as high as I could
reach upon a stool: the stool taken away where I hanged from a little
after 8 o’clock in the morning till after 4 in the afternoon,
without any ease or comfort at all, saving that Topcliffe came in and
told me that the Spaniards were come into Southwark by our means:
‘For lo, do you not hear the drums’ (for then the drums played in
honour of the Lord Mayor). The next day after also I was hanged up an
hour or two: such is the malicious minds of our adversaries.
--
Saint Eustace White in a
letter written to Father Henry Garnet from prison, November 23, 1591.
