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For those of us interested, I bought this book and in it details more facts regarding Rowland Taylor's death. The book is entitled: HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE, by John Richard Green, M.A., published 1887 by John B. Alden NewYork
On pages 224 and 225, paragraph # 659 and 660:
Rowland Taylor, the vicar of Hadleigh,who was a man of mark had been one of the first victims of execution was arrested in London and comdemned to suffer in his own perish.
His wife, suspecting that her husband should that night be carried away, had waited thru the darkness with her children in the porch of St. Botolph beside Aldgate.
Now when the sheriff, his company came against St. Botolph's Church, Elizabeth cried, saying, "Oh my poor father!!, mother!!, mother!!, here is my father led away!!
Then cried his wife, "Rowland, Rowland, where art thou?!!
For it was a very dark morning that the one could not see the other. Dr. Taylor answered: "I am here dear wife" and stayed. The sheriff's men would have led him forth, but the sheriff said: "Stay a little, masters, I pray you, let him speak to his wife". Then came she(Mrs. Taylor) to him (Dr. Taylor)and he took his daughter Mary into his arms and he and his wife and Elizabeth knelt down and said the Lord's prayer, at which site the sheriff wept a pace, and so did divers of the company. After they had prayed, he rose up and kissed his wife and shook her by the hand and said: "Fair well my dear wife be of good comfort, for I am quite in my conscience!, God shall still be a father to my children". Then said his wife: " God be with thee dear Rowland!, I will with God's grace meet thee at Hadliegh".
All the way to Hadliegh, Dr. Taylor was merry and cheerful as one that accounted himself going to a most pleasant banquet. Withing 2 miles of Hadliegh, he desired to light off his horse. He then leaped and set a frisk of twain as men commonly do for dancing. The sheriff said: "How do you now?" Dr. Taylor answered: "Well, God be praised master sheriff, never better for now I know I am almost at home, I lack not past 2 stiles to go over and I even at my fathers house!".The streets of Hadleigh were beset on both sides with men and women of the town and country who waited to see him; whom when they behold so led to death, with weeping eyes and lamentable voices, they cried,'Ah,good Lord ! there goeth our good shepherd from us !'"The journey was at last over.
Rowland Taylor asked: "What place is this?" And what meaneth it?" That so much people are gathered together?"
It was answered, it is Oldham common the place where you must suffer and the people are come to look upon you. Then said Rowland Taylor: "Thank be God I am even at home!!".
But when the people saw his reverend and ancient face with a long white beard, they burst out with weaping tears and cried saying: "God save thee good Doctor Taylor, God strengthen thee and help thee, the Holy Ghost comfort thee!"
He wished but was not suffered to speak. When he had prayed he went to the stake and kissed it and set himself into a pitch barrel which they had set for him to stand on, and so stood with his back upright against the stake. With his hands folded together and his eyes toward Heaven, and so let himself be burned. One of the executioners, cruelly cast a "fagot" at him, which hit upon his head and break his face that the blood ran down his visage. Then said Dr. Taylor: "Oh, friend I have harm enough, what needed that?"
One more act of brutality brought his suffering to an end, so stood he still without either crying or moving with his hands folded together till Soyce with a halbeard struck him on the head and the brains fell out and the dead corpse fell down into the fire.
This is all the history book reads but think it is vital importance for us that descend from him to know what he said and more details on what occured that fateful night.
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