Nocturnal vigils, fastings, and prayers have affected his health.

He has denied himself sufficient rest, and has only partaken of food barely sufficient to sustain nature, and no more.

The consequence has been that strange fancies have troubled his brain; that at dead of night, when alone in his chamber, he has imagined that visions have appeared to him; that voices have spoken--awful voices--talking of prophecies, lamentations, and judgments, and charging him with a mighty and terrible mission.

All these things I have heard from his own lips, and I have heard and seen much more, which has satisfied me that his intellects are disordered, and that he cannot be held accountable for his actions." "If such be the case, he should have been kept under restraint, and not suffered to go abroad," said Sir Thomas.

"Such madmen are highly mischievous and dangerous.