Death
In March 1581 he was accused of corresponding with Catholics in Portugal, but his health and eyesight were deteriorating. He died almost blind at the age of sixty-nine. He had been confined for twenty-five years, ending his days in Wisbech Castle on 15 October 1584. He lies in an unmarked grave somewhere in the churchyard of Wisbech Parish Church. His only epitaph is given in the Athenae Cantabrigiensis (1858):
Thomas Watson, sometime Master of St John's College Cambridge,
Dean of Durham and Bishop of Lincoln:
"Orator Facundas, Bonus Poeta,
Solidus Theologus et Concionator Celebris."
"An eloquent speaker, a gifted poet,
a sound theologian and a celebrated preacher."
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