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paused the night before he was burned at the stake by Queen Mary.
Bishop H. was a protestant and Queen Mary a R. Catholic.  There
is a monument on the place where the burning took place.  Bishop
H. could from the window where he stayed that last night see the
faggots being brought.

I saw many interesting places one a court where Shakespeare is
said to have acted.  I went over the Cathedral, down into the
crypt like the crypt we saw in Glacow [[Glasgow?]], old tombs of
crusaders & Kings, etc.

I left in the afternoon for this place as Dr. Sturge & wife
were to arrive, that is the gentleman I visited at Icklington
Hall as I wrote you Dr. S. & wife are now here.

This is the first moment I've had to write you since Sheffield.

Mr. Harland & Prof. Haddon & Prof. Myers were all much interested in your transfer