Protestantism in England From the Times of Henry VIII - James Aitken Wylie

George Cavendish, the most faithful of all his
domestics, came running into his chamber, crying
out, "Good news, my lord! Sir William Kingston is
come to conduct you to the king." The word
"Kingston" went like an arrow to his heart.
"Kingston!" he repeated, sighing deeply. A
soothsayer had warned him that he should have his
end at Kingston. He had thought that the town of
that name was meant: now he saw that it was the
Tower, of which Kingston was the Constable, that
was to be fatal to him. The arrival of Sir William
was to the poor man the messenger of death. Blow
was coming after. blow, and heart and strength
were rapidly failing him. It was a fortnight before
he was able to set out from Sheffield Park. On the
way he was once and again near falling from his
mule through weakness. On the third day --
Saturday, the 26th of November -- he reached
Leicester. The falling leaf and the setting sun -- the
last he was ever to see -- seemed but the emblems
of his own condition. By the time he had got to the
abbey, where he was to lodge, the night had closed
in, and the abbot and friars waited at the Portal
with torches to light his entrance. "Father," said he
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