Snippet: 259 of 1192 (1587, Volume 6, p. 835)
[1] In December, one Richard
Hun a merchant tai|lor of London,
Richard Hun [...]nged in [...]ollards [...].
[...]
Edw. Hall H. [...]. fol. l, li, [...].
that was laid in Lollards tower by commandement of the bishop of
London, called Ri|chard Fitz Iames, and his chancellor doctor Horssie, was
found dead, hanging by the necke in a girdle of silke within the said tower.
That ye maie vnder|stand the cause of his
imprisonment, the beginning was this. The same Hun had a child that died in
his house, being an infant; the curat claimed the bearing shéet for a
mortuarie. Hun answered, that the infant had no propertie in the shéet.
Wherevpon, the préest ascited him in the spirituall court. He taking to him
counsell, sued the curat in a premunire: and when this was knowne, meanes
was found, that Hun being accused of heresie, was attached, and laid in
Lollards tower, where he was found dead, as ye haue heard. Much adoo was made about his death, for the bishop and the
chancellor said, that he hanged himselfe.