[1] [2] [3] On the same day, being the fourtéenth of October, continuing their rage, they ran to the house of the bi|shop of Excester, Walter de Stapleton, and setting fire on the gates, they entred and spoiled him of all his plate, iewels, monie and goods. And as it chanced in an infortunate houre for him, the bishop being at the same time returning from the fields, would not seeme to shrinke, although he was admonished of these outragious attempts of the people; but sitting on horssebacke, came to the north doore of S. Paule, where forthwith the furious people laid violent hands on him, threw him downe, and drew him most out|ragiouslie into Cheapeside, where they proclamed him an open traitor, a seducer of the king, and a de|stroier of their liberties. The bishop had vpon him a certeine cote of defense, which was called an aketon,The bishop of Excester beheaded, the same therefore being plucked beside his backe as all other his garments, they shore his head from his shoulders, and to the like death they put two of his seruants, the one an esquire, and the other a yeoman, The bishops head was set on a pole for a spectacle, that the remembrance of his death, and the cause thereof might continue. His bodie was buried in an old churchyard of the pied friers, without a|ny manner of exequies of funerall seruice doone for him.