The long thin knife with which he was stabbed, was keptin the church at Faversham, before the suppression of the monasteries,as Hearne mentions. and Chronica Skonensia. vil strove invain to divert him from this holy exercise by shaking his whole cell,and threatening to bury him in the ruins. In Lent he took his refreshment only twice a week;his bed was composed of the rough bark of trees or of sand, with a stonefor his pillow.
But the crimes of some ought not to be imputed to a nation: and the same country which gave birth to some Cyprian de Herrera, dedicated to pope Clement X. He has a pathetic Sermon on the Pains of {283} Hell:he paints the terrors of the last Judgment in a manner which cannot failto make a strong impression upon all who read it. See the edifying life of the venerable John of Avila, written by F.
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