Storeys of Old.

his confinement and escaped to Flanders. Subsequently he was re-captured, brought to London, tried and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered. On the 1st June, 1571, he was drawn on a hurdle to Tyburn, where a new gallows in the form of a triangle had been erected for him. He was 67 years of age. He must, therefore, have been born in 1504.

It is reported that while on his way to prison after sentence, a bystander remarked - "Oh, Storey! Storey! Thou art a strange Story. Remember Master Bradford, that godly man; his blood asketh vengeance on thee, Storey. Repent in time!"

Another person reminded him of the rigour he displayed towards Master Read, a gentleman whom he destroyed.

Then some other man exclaimed - "Blessed be God! Storey, who hath made thee partaker of such Bread as thou wast wont to deal to the innocent members of Jesus Christ!"

A man at London Stone saluted the doctor with a doggerel rhythm. He shouted-

Master Dr. Story,
For you they are right sory,
The Court of Lorraine and Rome,
Your holy sire, the Pope,
Cannot save you from the rope,
The hangman now must have your gown.

Dr. Storey answered not a word. He was despatched with horrible cruelty. (See Anthony Munday's "English Romaine Lyfe." 1590. p. 25.)

Dr. Storey died a Catholic, and would not have it that he was a subject of Queen Elizabeth; nor would he acknowledge her as Head of the Church, next to God, in England.

It is stated that Dr. Storey whipped, scourged and manacled men, women and children, burning even young persons - boys and girls; and that he had proposed to erect an iron cage in which to enclose heretics and have them roasted to death by lighting a fire under them. His cage was to be a kind of Bull of Perillus.

When in the throes of death he is reported to have risen and struck one of the executioners a blow that felled him to the ground.

Dr. Storey's wife was named Joan. (Maiden name unknown.) It is said that at the time of his death be had four small children. Whether this be so or not he had a daughter Ellen, who married a person named Weeton, and they had three children. Weeton appears to have been imprisoned as a recusant in the Fleet in 1570. (See "Douay Diaries," pp. 120, 123, 126.)

Dr. Storey made his will in 1552. A copy of it was printed in "Stripe's Annals," Vol. II., pp. 450-452.