The
most
horrible
and
tragicall
murther
,
of
the
right
Honorable
Iohn
Lord
Bourgh
:
Baron
of
Castle
Connell
,
committed
by
Arnold
Cosby
the
14.
of
Ianuarie
.
NOt
to
painte
it
out
with
vainglorious
termes
of
a
large
Exordium
in
a
matter
where
throbbinge
sorrowe
breaketh
of
superfluous
circumstances
,
and
ouer
werying
plaints
abreuiate
the
libertie
of
speach
:
nor
to
vse
the
choice
inuention
of
a
pleasinge
discourse
,
where
nothing
but
heauy
misfortunes
minister
cause
of
melancholike
and
pensiue
contemplations
:
But
to
explaine
a
tragicall
trueth
,
and
set
foorth
the
lamentable
order
,
of
a
premeditated
murther
,
I
will
brieflie
prosecute
my
owne
gréefe
,
and
the
generall
wayling
of
euery
gentle
minde
.
Wherein
as
well
superiours
,
as
inferiours
,
(
cast
from
the
quiet
staie
of
their
former
affectes
)
séeme
to
beare
their
indifferent
partes
.
If
the
losse
of
true
nobilitie
,
whereon
as
vpon
a
rocke
of
safe
protection
,
consisteth
the
happie
gouernement
of
euery
florishing
common
weale
,
though
by
honourable
seruice
in
warre
,
or
by
sicknesse
at
home
,
the
appointed
scurge
of
humaine
frailty
:
bee
a
gréeuous
maime
to
the
state
,
inferring
a
common
lament
through
euerie
part
thereof
.
Then
much
more
maie
the
state
complaine
,
and
euery
priuate
person
shed
teares
of
sorrowe
,
when
the
one
looseth
the
hope
of
expected
virtues
,
and
the
other
is
bereft
the
strength
of
theyr
peaceable
fortunes
,
yet
not
by
repulsing
the
iniuries
of
forraine
pride
,
or
naturall
summons
of
diuine
election
,
but
by
the
poysoned
rancour
of
domesticall
treacherie
,
as
by
this
horrible
murther
executed
on
the
right
honourable
the
Lorde
Bourgh
may
wel
appeare
,
whose
vertuous
desires
,
were
stedfastlie
fixed
vppon
true
honors
exercises
,
and
whose
heroycall
constitution
,
euer
abhorred
the
base
practises
of
vicious
and
ignoble
qualities
.
But
as
the
fayrest
rose
is
apt
to
be
consumed
by
a
cancker
,
so
Enuie
the
malitious
handmaide
of
honour
,
continuallie
séeketh
the
ruine
of
noble
personages
.
For
in
the
courte
amongest
the
princelike
traine
of
her
Maiesties
followers
,
there
wanderd
(
as
the
pureste
wheat
is
associated
with
infectious
wéedes
)
one
Arnold
Cosby
,
a
man
of
proud
conceipte
,
borne
to
mischéefe
,
and
predestinated
to
destroie
that
which
his
lothed
life
is
too
farre
vnable
to
redéeme
.
This
Cosby
,
what
for
countries
sake
béeing
an
Irishe
man
,
or
for
the
curtious
affabilitie
of
the
Noble
man
(
whose
ingenuous
towardnesse
carried
a
good
conceite
of
euery
one
)
was
so
fauoured
and
well
estéemed
of
him
as
he
thought
nothing
lost
wherein
hee
might
pleasure
him
,
til
at
last
(
as
is
the
custome
,
of
ouerbold
inchroching
vpstartes
)
by
too
much
familiaritie
he
grewe
contemptuous
,
and
the
more
to
manifest
his
arrogancie
and
the
mallice
of
his
swelling
spirite
,
tooke
a
sleighte
quarrell
,
(
after
sundrie
dispightfull
disgraces
offered
)
to
prouoke
and
challenge
the
Lord
Bourghe
by
a
vile
and
impudent
letter
,
which
one
night
vnder
signe
of
fawning
subtilty
,
secretly
he
clapt
into
his
hand
.
And
though
the
offence
did
not
procéede
by
him
,
but
principallie
rose
by
the
reportes
of
an
other
gentleman
of
Cosbyes
acquaintaunce
,
which
offered
to
maintaine
them
to
his
téeth
,
daringe
him
to
the
fielde
,
yet
did
he
refuse
to
fight
with
him
,
bendinge
the
force
of
his
conceiued
hatred
,
onely
against
the
Lorde
Bourgh
,
and
would
not
forsooth
otherwise
bee
pacifyed
,
but
with
his
life
and
ruine
of
his
carkasse
,
for
such
were
his
wordes
in
his
impudent
letter
,
stuft
with
a
rable
of
bumbasted
braues
,
scornefull
tearmes
,
and
odious
comparisons
,
binding
him
vpon
his
honour
and
manhoode
,
the
next
morning
to
méete
him
in
Wansworth
fieldes
.
The
noble
gentleman
whose
modest
eares
did
glowe
at
the
immodest
and
shamelesse
lynes
,
as
his
milde
and
curteous
demenour
,
was
neuer
seene
to
iniure
the
simplest
,
so
béeing
impatient
of
the
least
wrong
smiled
at
his
follie
,
and
thought
,
though
he
were
no
waie
his
equal
,
yet
in
so
much
as
he
was
a
Souldiour
and
in
that
respecte
a
gentleman
,
it
would
not
be
much
preiudicall
to
his
honor
,
if
he
met
him
,
and
with
the
chastesment
of
his
sword
taught
him
his
duetye
with
better
manners
,
and
therefore
not
in
hatred
of
soule
,
thirsting
after
bloud
,
as
it
appeared
by
his
oppribrious
letter
he
did
:
but
in
sobrietie
sent
him
word
backe
he
would
méete
him
,
which
resolution
I
suppose
was
contrarie
to
Cosbeyes
expectation
,
who
imagined
be
like
the
Lord
Bourghe
woulde
haue
stoode
vpon
tearmes
of
superioritie
with
him
,
or
else
hée
would
not
haue
béene
so
liberall
in
his
challenge
.
But
the
night
drue
on
,
and
Cosbyes
stomacke
that
of
late
did
blowe
foorth
from
his
windie
puft
brest
the
sound
of
horrour
and
death
,
began
nowe
to
quaile
,
at
the
hearing
,
of
two
or
thrée
wordes
,
spoken
in
a
milde
and
temperate
vaine
,
and
therefore
as
fitted
the
oportunitie
of
time
he
entred
into
counsel
,
with
the
curssed
ruler
of
darknesse
,
howe
hée
might
worke
mischiefe
,
and
yet
defende
his
owne
credite
from
blot
of
infamie
.
Well
somewhat
was
deuised
and
concluded
vpon
,
as
after
by
his
actions
might
be
gathered
:
for
the
daie
no
sooner
appered
,
but
as
prefiguring
some
dismall
accident
,
it
couered
the
earth
with
a
lowring
countenaunce
,
and
black
cloudes
in
signe
of
ensuing
miseries
,
distilled
repentant
teres
from
their
watrie
browes
.
When
Cosby
well
studied
for
his
purpose
,
and
pricked
forwarde
with
a
desire
of
deceiuinge
hope
,
which
his
wicked
thoughtes
had
before
hatched
in
his
braine
,
left
his
lodging
and
came
to
the
Lord
Bourghe
with
a
case
of
Rapiers
,
bidding
him
take
his
choyce
,
for
those
should
be
the
instrumentes
of
life
or
death
betwixt
them
.
After
this
they
mounted
themselues
and
rode
on
towardes
Wansworth
,
neither
of
them
hauinge
made
any
one
priuie
to
their
intent
the
one
would
not
,
in
regarde
of
his
honour
,
the
other
in
feare
his
villainons
pretence
should
bee
discouered
:
I
neede
not
aime
at
the
thoughtes
of
Cosby
by
the
waie
,
they
may
bee
coniectured
to
be
such
,
as
commonly
procéede
from
a
minde
premeditating
murther
.
When
they
were
come
to
the
place
appointed
,
Cosby
as
it
should
séeme
,
béeing
first
arriued
,
had
made
himselfe
readie
to
fight
,
the
Lorde
Bourgh
comming
somewhat
later
,
was
not
altogeather
so
ready
,
yet
had
cast
of
his
cloake
,
tyed
his
horse
,
and
drawne
hys
rapier
.
Now
marke
the
feare
,
wherewith
treacherous
hearts
doo
continually
tremble
,
though
they
haue
neuer
so
perfectlie
studyed
the
platforme
of
their
pernitious
deuises
.
For
Cosby
although
he
had
trained
this
fresh
springing
hope
of
cheualrie
and
honour
,
into
a
solitarie
place
farre
from
resorte
,
and
earlye
in
the
morninge
when
fewe
had
occasion
to
be
in
the
fieldes
,
yet
did
hee
(
as
ministers
of
diuelish
stratagems
vse
)
faint
and
gladlie
would
haue
bin
at
home
againe
,
as
by
his
delaies
is
euident
,
for
first
he
intreated
the
L.
Bourgh
to
measure
rapiers
,
the
equal
length
wherof
he
knew
sufficientlie
for
him selfe
prouided
them
.
Then
did
he
request
him
to
breake
his
rapiers
point
(
auouching
it
was
triall
enough
of
their
manhoods
,
in
that
they
had
met
in
field
)
and
to
scarre
their
faces
,
and
so
returne
and
say
they
had
fought
.
But
the
L.
Bourgh
as
one
that
lothed
his
former
brags
,
and
detested
that
dastardlike
motion
,
told
him
flatly
,
he
scorned
such
pusillanimity
,
nor
came
he
to
plaie
boyes
plaie
.
Why
then
quoth
Cosby
my
L.
t'
were
best
put
of
your
spurres
least
they
chaunce
to
hinder
you
.
Now
had
the
deuill
which
all
this
while
had
béene
absente
from
his
seruant
,
fitted
him
at
length
with
a
pollicie
to
worke
his
will
and
endamage
his
owne
soule
.
And
now
,
euen
nowe
,
the
fatall
houre
was
come
,
wherein
the
bloudy
homizide
gaped
to
quench
his
thirst
in
bloud
,
and
to
acte
the
tragidy
of
his
former
scelerous
inuentions
.
For
as
the
L.
Bourghe
(
whose
noble
minde
suspecting
no
treacherie
)
knéeled
downe
,
putting
his
rapyer
in
his
left
hand
,
and
with
his
right
,
intended
to
vnbuckle
his
spurres
,
the
monsterous
treachetour
,
taking
the
aduantage
as
it
fell
,
not
like
a
Souldiour
,
or
a
Gentleman
,
but
lyke
a
brutishe
manquellour
,
and
murderous
conspiratour
,
voyd
of
all
virtue
and
humanitye
,
with
all
the
violence
his
coadiutor
the
deuill
could
lend
him
,
ranne
his
rapyer
twelue
intches
into
his
brest
,
which
stucke
so
fast
,
as
hee
was
constrained
to
set
his
foote
vpon
him
and
plucke
it
foorth
,
and
being
cast
downe
with
the
force
of
the
thrust
,
Cosby
,
that
wicked
and
bloodye
Cosby
,
coulde
not
be
content
with
one
mortall
wound
,
nor
might
his
insatiate
furie
be
staunched
,
except
his
vitall
bloud
streamed
in
sundrie
conduites
,
to
gorge
the
fell
outrage
of
his
gréedie
mawe
,
therefore
letting
fall
hys
rapier
,
tooke
his
dagger
in
his
right
hande
,
and
therewithall
gaue
him
thrée
and
twentie
woundes
more
.
Which
scarse
could
suffice
,
for
that
he
feared
,
if
any
breath
remained
in
hys
bodie
his
tongue
might
bewraye
the
manner
of
that
horrible
murther
,
and
therefore
would
not
haue
left
so
,
but
that
he
saw
rescue
néere
,
which
made
him
take
his
horse
to
escape
,
which
was
when
he
came
vnto
that
place
,
a
lustie
strong
Geldinge
as
any
is
in
England
,
but
he
was
no
sooner
on
his
backe
,
but
he
presently
fell
lame
,
and
was
not
able
to
carie
him
,
suche
is
the
iust
iudgement
of
God
that
abhorreth
murderers
,
and
wil
not
theyr
villainie
be
concealed
.
Besides
for
all
those
woundes
,
which
the
Lord
Bourghe
had
receiued
,
it
pleased
God
he
should
liue
two
or
thrée
houres
after
,
time
enough
to
commit
him selfe
to
his
mercie
,
and
to
reueale
the
treacherous
manner
of
his
death
,
which
hee
did
in
the
hearinge
of
the
right
honourable
the
earles
of
Essex
Essex
and
Ormewood
,
in
a
house
in
Wansworth
,
whether
hee
was
conuaied
by
the
meanes
of
one
Iohn
Powell
yeoman
of
the
bottels
in
her
maiesties
house
,
who
comming
to
the
rescue
,
pursued
the
murtherer
vntill
hee
shrouded
himselfe
in
a
thicke
wood
,
where
he
might
easilie
haue
kept
him selfe
close
a
long
time
,
but
that
the
prouidence
of
God
hauing
nowtaken
place
to
punish
,
where
before
the
deuill
had
kept
possession
,
for
sin
he
wold
not
suffer
him
to
rest
,
but
so
soone
as
it
was
night
,
brought
him
backe
to
Wansworth
,
and
the
first
house
he
came
to
was
the
house
wherin
the
breathles
bodie
of
the
Lord
Bourgh
lay
,
wherunto
he
was
no
sooner
approched
(
which
is
a
thing
especially
to
be
noted
,
)
but
his
wounds
bled
more
freshlie
then
when
the
were
first
giuen
,
whereby
the
people
in
the
house
béeing
agast
at
that
suddaine
and
straunge
spectacle
made
forthe
to
search
,
for
surelie
they
supposed
the
murtherer
was
not
farre
off
,
he
hearing
the
noyse
of
their
comming
,
fledde
to
Newinton
,
where
he
was
apprehended
and
caried
to
N●wgate
,
and
from
thence
brought
the
fiue
and
twenteth
daye
of
Ianuarie
to
the
Sessions
house
in
Southwarke
,
where
he
was
arr●ined
and
condemed
of
wilfull
murder
,
which
murther
he
had
committed
the
fourth
day
of
the
same
month
.
And
thus
haue
I
disburdened
the
heauy
clogge
of
my
gréeued
conscience
,
and
done
my
latest
duetie
to
him
dead
,
whom
whilest
he
liued
,
I
loued
and
honoured
.
Then
Noble
mindes
,
whose
heartes
full
of
lenitie
harbour
no
suspition
of
treacherie
,
banishe
all
secure
,
mildnesse
from
your
soules
,
that
suffers
eueri●
base
,
and
ignoble
Sicophante
to
enchroche
into
the
leniry
of
your
fauorable
conceite
.
And
nourish
not
with
your
courteous
countenaunce
,
the
contemptuous
aspirers
of
inferiour
reput●tion
:
For
thereby
groweth
such
bosting
vanitie
from
the
baset
insolent
,
that
would
frame
nobilitie
to
the
inferiour
tipe
of
their
vnworthines
.
As
well
is
manifested
by
the
sodaine
death
of
this
noble
gentleman
,
and
the
published
villanie
of
this
t●agicall
murther
,
a
sufficient
caueat
for
euery
mistrustlesse
minde
to
be
admonished
.