The
Murther
was
in
this
manner
committed
.
Master
Scot
who
had
preached
in
the
forenoone
,
and
in
the
afternoone
about
two
of
the
clocke
comming
toward
St.
Peters
Church
to
performe
the
exercise
of
that
day
,
was
accompanied
with
his
brother
Master
William
Scott
,
(
that
was
come
but
7.
dayes
before
out
of
England
to
see
his
brother
)
and
with
his
Newhew
Thomas
Scott
.
Master
Scott
comming
betwixt
them
both
,
&
approaching
neere
vnto
the
Church
yard
;
Lambert
who
had
seated
himselfe
by
12.
of
the
clock
at
the
Churchyard
gate
to
attend
his
comming
,
espying
him
draw
nigh
,
rose
vp
from
his
fear
,
and
made
towards
them
,
drew
his
Rapier
(
which
he
had
purposely
sharpned
)
&
put
in
a
thrust
towards
his
heart
.
But
his
brother
perceiuing
the
thrust
so
neere
,
which
the
lappe
of
his
cloake
beat
it
a
little
downewards
:
and
it
entred
through
a
skirt
of
his
doublet
,
and
wastband
of
his
hose
into
his
be
ly
.
Whereupon
falling
downe
hee
was
raised
vp
againe
by
his
brother
,
and
nephew
,
betwixt
whom
he
was
.
This
being
done
,
Lambert
sought
by
flight
to
haue
escaped
,
but
he
was
presently
apprehended
,
&
brought
backe
to
Master
Scott
;
who
told
him
he
had
neuer
offended
him
,
and
asked
him
what
reason
had
moued
him
to
so
wicked
a
fact
.
Lambert
very
audaciously
and
insolently
replyed
;
that
what
he
had
done
,
he
would
answer
;
And
that
he
was
a
Traitor
to
his
Soueraigne
,
and
had
iniured
him
by
hindring
his
preferment
to
the
Queene
of
Bohemia
.
Master
Scott
replied
,
I
know
thee
not
,
God
forgiue
thee
and
I
doe
from
the
bottome
of
my
heart
.
The
rumor
hereof
was
presently
brought
into
the
Church
,
by
the
Readers
wife
comming
in
with
an
open
exclamation
;
Whereupon
all
the
people
ran
forth
much
amazed
and
confused
,
and
some
of
them
drawing
their
swords
,
would
haue
slaine
Lambert
.
But
Mons:
Van
Hilton
Secretarie
of
the
States
,
and
others
there
present
perswaded
them
to
put
vp
their
swords
,
and
to
let
Iustice
passe
vpon
him
.
Lambert
was
presently
brought
to
prison
;
and
Master
Scott
,
went
himselfe
to
Mr.
Iames
Nelthorpe
the
Chirurgian
his
house
,
and
all
this
while
was
of
good
courage
.
After
his
wound
was
searched
he
said
,
Master
Iames
what
thinke
you
?
I
hope
it
will
soone
be
healed
;
but
Master
Iames
shaked
his
head
,
and
replied
nothing
to
him
,
which
Master
Scott
perceiuing
answered
himselfe
,
Then
must
I
prepare
my selfe
for
God
,
and
for
death
.
And
these
were
the
last
words
hee
spake
,
who
was
presently
caried
home
in
a
chaire
,
vnclad
,
laid
in
his
bed
,
and
about
one
houre
after
dyed
,
which
was
about
foure
of
the
clocke
in
the
afternoone
.
Lambert
all
this
while
made
no
shew
of
any
sorrow
;
but
most
impudently
affirmed
(
as
it
were
triumphingly
)
That
if
it
were
to
be
done
,
hee
could
yet
doe
it
againe
;
making
a
fond
and
vaine
shew
of
hope
of
deliuerance
,
which
hee
perswaded
himselfe
of
,
by
an
apprehension
,
or
rather
a
Satanicall
illusion
,
which
had
thus
blinded
&
seduced
him
thereunto
.
For
,
after-wards
very
often
hee
publiquely
affirmed
vnto
all
that
conferred
with
him
,
and
more
especially
to
the
Commander
of
the
garrison
,
and
the
Preacher
that
went
vnto
him
to
stir
him
vp
to
repentance
:
That
hee
knew
they
all
could
not
hurt
him
;
For
,
saith
he
,
my
heauens
,
my
Mistris
,
the
spirits
of
my
Soueraigne
in
the
Queene
of
Bohemia
will
free
me
presently
.
And
calling
for
pen
and
inke
to
write
vnto
her
,
hee
there
write
something
to
no
purpose
,
and
then
the
penne
and
inke
was
taken
from
him
.
In
this
blinded
and
seduced
opinion
of
his
owne
worth
,
of
that
good
deed
,
(
as
he
termed
it
)
and
of
the
insurie
which
Master
Scott
had
done
vnto
him
,
he
continued
all
the
next
day
:
adding
other
circumstances
thereunto
,
how
that
the
resolution
to
doe
this
damnable
fact
,
had
beene
taken
about
eight
weekes
before
:
And
that
his
spirits
had
vrged
and
enforced
him
thereunto
.
And
he
confessed
that
the
Sunday
before
hee
had
feared
himselfe
in
the
same
place
thinking
then
to
haue
killed
him
;
but
hee
was
by
an
euill
spirit
caried
vnto
the
towne
walls
,
and
with
that
spirit
guarded
to
his
lodging
where
it
left
him
,
and
that
presently
after
in
his
lodging
he
was
assaulted
by
many
good
spirits
,
(
as
he
called
them
)
who
would
giue
him
no
ease
night
nor
day
,
vntill
that
deed
should
be
performed
;
and
assured
him
that
Master
Scott
alone
was
the
cause
of
the
hinderance
of
his
preferment
,
and
aduancement
;
And
that
as
soone
as
he
should
be
slaine
,
then
his
aduancement
should
presently
follow
.
With
these
,
and
many
other
fond
reasons
,
he
hardened
himselfe
,
and
to
the
Sergeant
Maior
of
the
Garison
,
hee
affirmed
that
the
fact
was
iust
,
lawfull
,
according
to
Gods
word
,
and
the
law
of
Moses
,
which
by
Scrip-he
would
iustifie
;
For
,
(
saith
he
)
confirme
that
law
of
Lex
talionis
,
he
might
recompence
one
euill
deed
with
another
,
as
an
eye
for
an
eye
,
a
tooth
for
a
tooth
,
&c.
and
then
he
had
done
but
Iustice
,
for
which
no
law
could
conuince
or
condemne
him
.
In
this
seduced
and
blinded
obstinacie
,
he
continued
till
Tuesday
at
night
:
For
,
all
the
exhortations
and
admonitions
that
could
be
vsed
to
him
could
nothing
at
all
preuaile
with
him
.
Now
the
next
day
after
the
fact
was
done
,
hee
being
onely
examined
,
and
hauing
answered
as
is
aforesaid
:
his
examinations
were
by
the
present
commander
of
the
garrison
(
Captaine
William
Droumownd
Segeant
Maior
of
a
Scottish
Regiment
,
sent
vnto
Vienna
,
to
the
Gouernour
,
the
Baron
of
Brederode
,
who
by
poste
sent
them
to
the
Prince
.
from
whom
came
answer
backe
againe
vpon
the
tuesday
following
to
proceed
in
Iustice
against
him
according
as
the
nature
of
his
fact
did
require
.
Which
by
sharpe
examination
vpon
the
racke
was
effected
on
Wednesday
following
.
A
little
before
which
time
he
began
to
haue
some
feeling
of
the
fact
,
and
a
kind
of
sorrow
for
the
same
;
desiring
the
ayde
of
the
Officers
to
labour
for
his
release
,
and
said
to
be
well
contented
to
offer
his
right
hand
for
sais
faction
for
the
deed
,
so
that
his
life
might
be
spared
.
And
yet
euen
at
the
very
instant
of
his
torture
would
not
bee
perswaded
but
that
his
heauens
,
and
his
Soueraigne
(
who
daily
and
hourely
had
termed
him
one
of
heauens
worthies
,
and
heauens
elect
,
and
many
the
like
epithites
)
would
free
him
,
and
not
suffer
him
to
bee
hurt
,
but
found
the
contrary
.
Afterwards
he
confessed
further
,
that
hee
entended
often
to
haue
acquainted
Master
Scott
with
these
temptations
,
to
haue
reuealed
the
same
,
but
considering
that
by
some
meanes
or
other
it
might
be
knowne
;
and
for
which
the
souldiers
would
haue
raised
iests
,
&
mocked
and
leered
him
there
with
,
he
therefore
held
his
resolution
.
And
moreouer
vpon
the
racke
,
and
afterwards
being
charged
,
that
he
was
hired
to
doe
this
deed
,
and
desired
that
he
would
reveale
the
truth
,
who
they
were
that
had
set
him
on
in
this
action
:
Hee
very
seriously
protested
,
that
although
he
had
serued
the
en
emie
for
the
space
of
three
moneths
or
thereabouts
vnder
a
Scotch
Captaine
before
Bergenvp
Zome
the
time
of
that
siege
,
and
afterwards
a
while
in
garrison
in
Flanders
;
yet
he
himselfe
was
neuer
any
Papist
;
And
that
hee
was
not
set
on
,
nor
hired
,
by
any
Priest
,
Iesuit
or
other
whatsoeuer
;
But
that
the
spirit
had
perswaded
him
of
the
iniuries
as
is
aforesaid
,
and
that
hee
could
haue
no
rest
vntill
that
fact
was
performed
.
He
affirmed
likewise
that
hee
neuer
missed
the
hearing
of
Master
Scotts
Sermons
;
and
that
very
often
hee
had
heard
him
preach
vnto
his
good
content
,
with
delight
and
comfort
.
The
same
wednesday
was
Master
Scott
buried
in
Vtricht
,
after
a
very
honourable
manner
;
accompanied
with
all
the
Ministers
,
Elders
,
and
Deacons
of
the
severall
Congregations
;
with
the
Deputies
of
the
States
of
the
Prouince
,
and
most
of
the
Magistrates
of
the
towne
in
mourning
cloakes
;
with
a
traine
of
Burgers
,
and
the
Commanders
,
Captaines
,
Officers
and
Souldiers
of
the
Garrisons
,
the
like
hath
not
beene
seene
,
nor
knowne
in
Vtricht
;
with
a
generall
lamentation
of
all
men
for
the
losse
of
so
worthy
a
man
.
The
day
following
,
the
Councell
of
Warre
assembled
to
determine
the
sentence
,
who
there
a
greed
that
the
offender
should
bee
Raiebracht
,
that
is
,
to
haue
his
bones
broken
vpon
a
wheele
,
and
so
to
be
set
vp
by
the
ordinarie
place
of
Iustice
;
which
,
when
Lambert
vnderstood
,
with
an
earnest
desire
he
intreated
that
his
body
might
bee
buried
.
Vpon
this
his
intreatie
,
that
sentence
was
altered
,
and
it
was
resolued
,
that
the
next
day
his
right
hand
should
be
cut
off
,
and
nailed
to
the
gallowes
,
then
he
to
be
hanged
,
and
his
dead
body
to
bee
laid
vpon
a
wheele
without
any
buriall
.
The
same
euening
the
Preacher
,
and
other
godly
men
being
sent
vnto
him
,
to
giue
him
warning
and
to
prepare
him
for
death
:
They
found
him
as
vncapable
of
instruction
,
and
as
full
of
his
fond
and
imaginarie
conceits
as
before
;
Then
likewise
affirming
that
his
Soueraigne
,
who
daily
and
hourely
appeared
vnto
him
as
the
spirit
of
the
late
Queene
Elizabeth
in
the
Queene
of
Bohemia
,
the
spirit
of
his
Soueraigne
King
Iames
,
and
of
his
Excellency
the
late
Prince
of
Orange
;
by
whom
he
was
intituled
one
of
Heauens
Worthies
,
Heauens
Elect
,
&c.
And
from
these
vaine
fantasies
he
could
not
bee
brought
neither
by
threatning
of
his
temporall
death
,
nor
of
his
soules
damnation
hereafter
.
Hee
continued
in
this
obstinacie
,
and
obduratenesse
,
09
notwithstanding
whatsoeuer
promises
,
or
threatnings
could
bee
spoken
vnto
him
concerning
his
saluation
or
damnation
.
In
all
other
discourses
,
whereof
there
were
sundry
both
in
English
and
in
good
French
,
he
was
very
sensible
,
able
enough
,
&
prompt
,
and
held
a
good
formalitie
therein
,
to
the
admiration
of
many
that
were
sent
and
heard
him
.
At
the
place
of
execution
there
was
no
alteration
in
him
,
His
right
hand
was
first
cut
off
,
and
nailed
to
the
gallowes
;
And
after
that
the
Preacher
had
exhorted
him
,
and
prayed
with
him
,
he
was
hanged
.
And
very
seldome
hath
it
beene
seene
that
a
man
should
liue
so
long
as
he
did
hanging
,
though
the
Executioner
did
the
best
he
could
to
helpe
to
rid
him
out
of
his
paine
.
FINIS
.