Account of the Imprisonment and Death of Said Martyrs

Concerning the imprisonment and death of William White, and also of father Abraham and John Waddon, we find the following account in the writings of John Fox: "William White instructed these people in the light of the Gospel, in the county of Norfolk, for about four years, until, as already stated, he was arrested by virtue of the king's letter mentioned above, and brought before William, bishop of Norwich, who convicted and condemned him on these and other articles, thirty in number. He was burned alive in the city of Norwich, in the month of September, in the year 1428, under King Henry the Sixth, then only a child of six years.

"When he had come to the stake, and was about to open his mouth to speak to the people, to warn them and to confirm them in the truth, one of the bishop's servants struck him on the mouth, and so forced him to keep silent."

So this godly man received the crown of martyrdom, and ended this temporal life, to the great sorrow of all the pious Christians in the county of Norfolk. His wife Johanna, mentioned before, who according to her feeble ability followed in her husband's footsteps by spreading that doctrine everywhere and confirming many in the truth of God, had to suffer much for this, in the same year and from the same bishop, as Thomas Walden himself admits, who, along with others, was present at the examination and condemnation of William White, mentioned before.

About the same time father Abraham of Cholchester, mentioned before, and John Waddon, priest, were also burned, for the same articles mentioned above. Besides these, very many other godly men were most cruelly put to death. Second book of the History of the Persecutions, folio 582, column 4, and folio 583, column 1, from John Fox, in Actis Guil. White. Also from Bal., in Guil. White, in Appendix.