http://bashingsecularism.blogspot.com/2008/11/40-martyr-reflections-saint-john-kemble.html
Contrast this with the story of the under sheriff coming to collect him for his martyrdom and joining him for a last smoke of his pipe and a final cup of wine. The story became famous and gave rise to the Herefordshire expressions "Kemble pipe" and "Kemble cup", meaning the last pipe or cup of a sitting. The custom was still recorded in the nineteenth century but was gradually lost with the disappearance of communal pipe sharing.
For this Christmas season, I am not directly citing the things that happened to him before that ... might come up on St Stephen's Day, though ...
Still some hours to the 24:th, and then still a day until it's really Christmas./HGL
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