As he came through tower hill street, one woman standing in hir doore, cried: Fie on thée thou knaue, thou knaue, thou traitor, thou heretike. Whereat hée smiled. Looke; the desperat heretike (saith she) laugh|eth at this geare. A woman on the other side of the stréet answered, saieng: Fie on thée neighbour, thou art not worthie to be called a woman, railing vpon this gentleman whom thou knowest not, neither yet the cause whie he is thus intreated. Then shée said, Good gentleman, God be thy comfort, an [...] giue thee strength to stand in Gods cause euen to the end. And thus he passed through fire and water into the tower, the first prisoner that entered in that daie, which was saint Iames daie. The yeoman of the gard tooke from him his borowed nag, and what else soeuer hée had. His man one Quintin Swainton brought af|ter him a bible,The gard of|fer him fowle wrong. and some shirts, and such like things. The bible was sent in to him, but the shirts and such like serued the yeoman of the gard.

After he had béene in the tower thrée weekes in a bad prison, he was lift vp into Nunnes bower, a bet|ter prison, where was put to him master Iohn Brad|ford. At the daie of quéene Maries coronation, their prison doore was set open, euer shut before. One ma|ster Michell his old acquaintance, who had béene prisoner before in the same place, came in to him and said: Master Sands, there is such a stur in the tower, that neither gates,Master Mi|chels counsell to D. Sands to make an escape. doores, nor prisoners are looked to this daie. Take my cloake, my hat and my rapier, and get you gone; you maie go out of the gates with|out questioning; saue your selfe, and let me doo as I maie. A rare friendship: but he refused the offer, sai|eng: I know no iust cause why I should be in prison. And thus to doo were to make my selfe guiltie, I will expect Gods good will, yet must I thinke my selfe most bound vnto you: and so master Michell de|parted.

While doctor Sands and master Bradford were thus in close prison togither nine and twentie wéeks, one Iohn Bowler was their keeper, a verie peruerse papist, yet by often persuading of him, for he would giue eare, and by the gentle vsing of him, at length he began to mislike poperie,Bowler of a p [...]uerse pa|pist becõmeth reformed in true religion. and to fauour the gospell, and so persuaded in true religion, that on a sundaie when they had masse in the chappell, he bringeth vp a seruice booke, a manchet and a glasse of wine, and there doctor Sands ministred the communion to Bradford and to Bowler. Thus Bowler was their sonne begotten in bonds when Wiat was in armes, & the old duke of Norffolke sent foorth with a power of men to apprehend him, that roome might be made in the tower for him and other his complices. Doctor Cranmer, doctor Ridleie, and master Bradford were cast into one prison,D. Sands remoued to the Mar|shalsea. & doctor Sands with nine other preachers were sent into the Marshalsea.