BARTHOLOMEW LEGATE, THE MARTYR

An erroneous date, resting on such authorities as Mr. Hallam and Mr. J. Payne Collier, deserves a note. The former in his *Const. Hist.* (ii. 275. note, second edition), and the latter in the *Egerton Papers*, printed for the Camden Society (p. 446.), assigns the date 1614 to the death of Bartholomew Legate at Smithfield. The latter also gives the date March 13. Now the true date is March 18, 1611-12, as will appear by consulting— 1. The commissions and warrants for the burning of Legate and Wightman, inserted in *Truth brought to Light, or the Narrative History of King James for the first Fou…