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To the worshipfull & his very good Freend Maister H.S.

WHereas your worship ( at my last being with you ) desired mee to let you haue knowledge of the manner of the ende & confessions of BODY and SLADE , two notorious Traitours : I haue , according to my promise , sent you the true Discourse therof : For , I being present thereat ( as you knowe ) vpon some especial occasions , haue set down so neere as memorie would serue mee , the certaintie therof , which you maye be bolde to declare to your Frends for a very trueth : notwithstanding the sundry flying tales rumored abroade by the Papists , according to their accustomed manner , as their affection serueth them : I haue sent you the trueth , & nothing but the trueth , and therof you may assuredly perswade your selfe . Thus with the continuall desire of your welfare , with all yours , I commit you to the heauenly protection .

From Winchester , by your Freend to vse . R. B.
These Gentlemen and Iustices of Peace , were present at these Executions . M. Robert White , Highe Sherife of the Shiere . S. William Kingsmell , Knight . M. Iohn Fisher , Iustice of Peace . M. William Saint-Iohn , Iustice of peace . M. Thomas west , Sonne to the Lorde Delaware . M. Frauncis Cotton , Iustice of peace . M. William Wright , Iustice of peace . M. Beniamin Touchbourne , Iustice of peace . Beside many other Gentlemen of countenaunce and credit .
THE EXECVTION AND Confession of Iohn Slade , an obstinate and notorious Traitour , who was drawen hanged , and quartered for highe treason against her Maiestie , at Winchester , on Wednesday , the xxx . day of Octob. 1583.

ON Wednesdaye beeing the 30 , of October , Iohn Slade , somtime a Scholemaister , was drawen vpon a Hurdell from the prison in Winchester , to the market place where the execution was appointed : and being come to the aforesaid place , and taken off the Hurdell , he came and kneeled downe by the gallowes , making a crosse with his hande vppon one of the poastes therof , and kissed it , vsing silent Prayers in latine to him selfe . Afterward , being come vpon the ladder , he beganne in this maner . I am come hither this day to suffer death for my faith , what faith ? no rare faith , but euen the faith that hath continued from all posterities : Wherupon Sir William Kingsmell Knight , spake to him , as thus : Slade , doe not thus delude the People with plausible speeches , you are come hither to suffer death for high treason against her Maiestie , you haue ben lawfully & sufficiently conuicted therof , & therfore you are brought to endure the punishment that Law hath assigned you . You haue denyed her maiestie to haue any supremacie ouer the Church of Christ in England , both in causes Ecclesiasticall and temporall , which fact is high treason : & therfore you are worthy to suffer death , in that you will not giue her maiestie her dutie and your allegeaunce . Oh Sir William ( quoth he ) I will giue her maiestie as mutche as euer hath beene giuen to any Prince in this Realme , & wil shew her as much dutie , as he that is her most obedient Subiect . That do you not ( answered Sir William Kingsmell ) for you rob her of her Ecclesiastical and temporal gouernement , which all Princes hath enioyed , and you traiterously take from her : therfore how do you giue her as much as any Prince hath had , and howe doe you showe your selfe a subiect , in this vnnaturall dealing , to preferre a forraine gouernement , before your owne lawfull Queene , Sir ( sayd Slade the supremacie hath & doth belong to the Pope by right , euen as from Peter , & the Pope hath receiued it by diuin prouidence : therefore we must not giue those thinges belonging to god , to any other then him alone : and because I wil not do otherwise , I may saye with the three Children in the firie Ouen , and the first of the Widowes seuen Sonnes in the Maccabees . Parati sumus mori , magis quam patrias Dei leges praeuaticari . Then M. Robert White ( high Sherife of the Shiere ) sayd to him , that he shewed himself very vndutifull to her Maiestie : and therfore willed him to aske her forgiuenes : O Maister Sherif ( quoth hee ) you knowe if Paule and Peter would haue obeyed their Princes , they had not suffered death . At these words , M. Doctor Bennet , one of the Chaplains to the right honorable the Lord Treasourer , came to him and sayd : Slade , do not abuse the people thus , with these wordes : Paule & Peter were put to death for religion , they were commaunded not to preach in the name of Iesus , are you commaunded any such thing ? Oh Sir ( answered Slade ) I would wish you to behaue your self after the maner of a Trewant , whose nature is to forget , and so would I haue you forget your wicked life , & begin a new . Slade ( said M. Bennet ) I come as one that wisheth well to thy soule , thou art now at the pits brink , consider how highly thou offendest God , and likewise howe thou hast trangressed against her Maiestie : I desire thee in the bowelles of Christ be not so wilfull , loose not that so lightly , which he hath bought with his most pretious blood . And if my wordes may not preuaile with thee , yet for the loue of thine owne soule , forsake this damnable opinion , let not that vnworthie Priest be preferred before thine own natural Princesse , who is the lawful supreme head of the church , next vnder Christ . Thou knowest how he hath depriued her of her gouernement by his excommunication , & wilt thou be so wicked as leane to him and forsake her : Sir ( answered Slade ) you are very busie in words , if the Pope hath done so , I think he hath done no more than he may , and then he ought to do , for I wil acknowledge no other head of the church , but only the Pope , and her Maiestie hath no authoritie in temporall causes ( likewise ) but only what hee shall thinke good to allow her . At these words , the people cried , away with the Traitour , hang him , hang him . Maister Sherife willed him againe to aske her Maiestie forgiuenes . Why should I aske her forgiuenes ( quoth hee ) wherein haue I offended her ? Then M. Bennet desired him to commend his soule to God , and desire the people to praye for him , but he sayd , they and hee were not of one faith , & therfore they should not pray for him , & I desire al blessed people ( quoth he ) to pray for me , and all the Saintes & blessed Companie of Heauen . So after he had staied so long as it pleased himself and had mumbled a many latine praiers silently to himself , he was cast beside the ladder , and afterward was cut downe & quartered , according to his Iudgement .

Finis .
❀ ❀ The Execution and Confession , of another Notorious Traitour , named Iohn Bodye somtime a maister of Arte in Oxeforde , who was likewise ( for high treason against her Maiestie ) drawen , hang● and quartered at Andouer , on Saturday , the. 2. of Nouember . 1583.

IOhn Body , a Master of Art ( somtime in Oxford , & companion to this Slade ) was caried from Winchester to Andouer , a towne ten miles from Winchester , where the Assises were holden , & where they were condemned . There was he on the Saturday following , drawen on a Hurdell to 〈◊〉 place of execution , and beeing layd on the Hurdell , he spake thus . O sweete Bed , the happiest Bed that euer man laye in thou art welcome to me . Then being taken from the Hurdell , hee spake to maister Sherife , as concerning a disputation which had passed betweene him & Doctor Humfrey , about Constantine th' emperour , & he had written in a sheet of paper certaine Articles , in answere to Doctor Humfrey , which he wold haue read before the people , but because the time was short , he could not read them , but gaue them to M. high Sherife , that Doctor Humfrey might see them ▪ When the Hangman put the halter about his neck , he sayde ; Oh blessed Chaine , the sweetest : Chaine , and richest that euer came about any mans neck , and so kissing it , he suffered the hangman to put it about his neck . There was also present Maister Bennet , who laboured very Godly and earnestly to disswade him from his euill opinion , but all was 〈◊〉 vaine , he was so obstinat and wilfull . Hee likewise appealed vpon his faith ( which he said ) was the cause of his death : but S. William Kingsmel , tould him , he died for high treason against her Maiestie , wherof he had beene sufficiently conuicted . Indeede ( quoth he ) I haue ben sufficiently conuicted , for I haue ben condemned twice , & you may make the hearing of a blessed Masse treason , or the saying of an Aue Maria , treason , you may make what you please , treason : but , I haue committed no treason , although indeede , I suffer the punishment due to treason . Why ( quod M. high Sherife ) you know the Pope hath excommunicated her Maiestie , & you forsake her & cleaue to him : what say you to this : you denie her , her speciall authoritie , and wil not acknowledge her for your lawful Queene . Yes ( quod he ) in those causes that pertain vnto her , I acknowledge her my lawfull Souereigne & Queene : but for the speciall cause , I will abyde a thousand deaths before I consent to it : & if the Pope haue done well , let him aunswere it , if he haue done ill , let him likewise answere it : I acknowledge her my lawfull Queene in all temporall causes , and none other : You shall do wel than ( said S. William Kingsmell ) to satisfie the people in the cause of your death , because ( otherwise ) they may be deluded by your faire speeches . You shal vnderstand ( quoth he ) good people all , that I suffer death for not graunting her M. to be supreme head of Christes Church in Englande , which I may not , and will not graunt . Well then , quoth Maister Sherife , aske her maiestie forgiuenes , & then desire the People to praye for you . In troth quoth he , I must needs aske her Maiestie forgiuenes , for I haue offended her many wayes , as in vsing vnlawfull games , excesse of apparel , and other offences to her lawes : but in this matter you shal pardon me . And ( for the People ) because they & I are different in religion , I wil not haue them praye for me : But I pray God long to preserue her Maiestie in tranquility ouer you , euen Queene Elizabeth , your Queene and mine , and I desire you to obey none other . At length , saying : Iesu , Iesu , esto mihi Iesu , three times , hee was put beside the ladder , and quartered , according to his iudgment .

FINIS .