’God be good to him where he is!  They say that when he died, that same day his soul was solved from purgatorial fires (by reason, one may suppose, of his glorious captaincy of the armies of the Cross), and he drawn up to heaven in a flamy cloud.  I know nothing certainly of this, which was not revealed to me; but my prayer is that he may be now with Hannibal and Judas Maccabaeus and Charles the great Emperor; and by this time of writing (if there be no offence in it) with Jehane to sit upon his knee.

‘UPON WHOSE TWO SOULS, JESU, HAVE MERCY!’

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