Of those that were thus taken I was one. And being, with many more,
put into a room under a guard, we were kept there till another
Justice, called Sir Thomas Clayton, whom Justice Benett had sent for
to join with him in committing us, was come, and then being called
forth severally before them, they picked out ten of us, and
committed us to Aylesbury gaol, for what neither we nor they knew;
for we were not convicted of having either done or said anything
which the law could take hold of, for they took us up in the open
street, the king's highway, not doing any unlawful act, but
peaceably carrying and accompanying the corpse of our deceased
friend to bury it, which they would not suffer us to do, but caused
the body to lie in the open street and in the cartway, so that all
the travellers that passed by, whether horsemen, coaches, carts, or
waggons, were fain to break out of the way to go by it, that they
might not drive over it, until it was almost night. And then having
caused a grave to be made in the unconsecrated part (as it is
accounted) of that which is called the churchyard, they forcibly
took the body from the widow whose right and property it was, and
buried it there.
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