GEntle
Reader
in
this
short
declaration
,
I
purpose
briefely
to
note
vnto
thee
,
part
of
the
life
and
the
maner
of
death
of
Iohn
Storie
,
late
a
Romish
&
Canonicall
Doctor
by
profession
.
If
I
should
discourse
the
common
places
of
discription
of
persones
,
his
parentes
,
hys
educatyon
and
bringyng
vp
,
hys
sundrie
outragious
doinges
executed
by
him
in
the
persecutynge
of
the
membres
of
Christ
,
&
the
maner
of
his
life
from
time
to
time
,
namely
in
the
time
of
K.
Henry
the
eight
,
when
the
statute
of
sixe
Articles
was
first
set
foorth
,
&
all
his
crueltie
vsed
sithens
,
to
the
daye
of
his
death
:
it
woulde
aske
a
volume
as
greate
as
〈◊〉
booke
of
Martyrs
:
a
great
part
of
which
booke
is
stuffed
with
his
tirannous
and
cruell
tragedies
,
executed
against
God
and
his
poore
membres
.
As
for
the
wilfull
and
wicked
course
of
his
yonger
yeres
,
a
great
parte
wherof
he
spent
in
the
Vniuersitie
of
Oxford●
,
to
reporte
all
the
partes
,
it
would
requ●●e
a
longe
storie
.
One
Pranke
may
stand
in
stead
of
many
.
And
although
Christian
charitie
requyre
vs
alwaye
,
and
of
all
men
,
to
reporte
the
best
,
speciallye
of
them
that
be
departed
:
Yet
no
charytie
forbyddeth
a
man
with
sobryetie
and
modestye
to
reporte
the
truethe
for
the
benefite
of
good
example
to
other
:
Or
els
all
writyng
of
histories
after
the
parties
death
(
when
they
be
most
truely
written
)
should
bee
condemned
,
&
the
bridle
of
iust
infamy
perilously
taken
away
from
wicked
men
.
About
the
yere
of
our
Lord.
1529.
Storie
beinge
a
student
of
the
ciuill
lawe
in
Hinkse●e
Hall
in
Oxforde
,
and
on
a
time
lodging
abroade
alone
as
often
tymes
his
maner
was
to
do
,
in
the
company
of
a
woman
,
whome
hee
had
at
his
commaundement
,
was
fet
home
from
thence
late
in
the
night
,
and
caried
alofte
through
the
open
streetes
with
a
solemne
procession
of
the
whole
companie
of
his
house
,
euery
man
caryenge
a
candell
burninge
before
hym
,
as
a
token
of
hys
virginytye
,
and
syngyng
merelye
together
,
Qui
pius
,
prudens
,
humilis
,
pudicus
,
Sobrius
,
castus
fuit
,
&
quietus
,
Vita
dum
presens
.
&c.
as
if
they
had
ben
S.
Nicholas
clerkes
.
After
that
,
about
the
yere
of
our
Lord
,
1538.
the
sayde
Storye
beyng
then
Doctour
and
Pryncypall
of
Broadgates
in
the
sayde
vniuersytie
of
Oxforde
,
and
mistrustinge
a
yonge
gentleman
for
ouer
familiar
resorting
to
his
aquaintaunce
in
the
towne
,
gaue
him
earnest
charge
,
with
terrible
threates
,
as
he
loued
his
life
to
come
there
no
more
,
for
Loue
&
Lordship
can
brooke
no
fellowshipp
.
Therfore
on
a
certayne
tyme
for
hys
good
chaste
purpose
,
takynge
occasion
to
walke
abroade
,
and
hauing
his
man
with
his
sworde
wayting
vppon
him
,
&
passing
through
the
Church
yarde
of
S.
Olaues
he
met
the
sayde
yonge
gentle
man
retorning
home
from
the
towne
,
beeyng
vtterly
without
weapon
,
&
hauing
onlie
his
study
gowne
cast
vpon
him
.
And
he
imagining
that
he
cam
from
such
places
as
he
had
so
often
for
bidden
him
,
in
great
furie
and
heate
of
minde
,
being
also
fired
with
ielosie
towards
his
loue
,
he
raught
backe
sodenlye
vnto
hys
man
and
drewe
hys
sworde
,
&
hauing
the
gentleman
at
aduantage
in
the
corner
of
two
walles
,
ran
him
thorowe
both
sydes
,
&
lefte
him
for
dead
.
Imediatly
a
cry
was
raysed
,
the
people
assembled
,
Doctour
Storye
was
apprehended
by
the
officers
,
&
layd
in
Bocardo
:
wher
he
continued
vntill
it
was
perfectly
knowen
,
that
the
yonge
gentleman
so
wounded
was
past
all
danger
.
For
God
by
hys
gracyous
prouydence
so
dyrected
the
sworde
,
that
notwithstanding
it
pearced
through
both
sides
,
yet
it
perished
not
one
parte
of
all
the
entrailes
.
Hee
that
writeth
these
wordes
is
a
witnes
hereof
and
sawe
the
partye
dressed
,
&
the
towells
drawen
through
his
bodie
.
The
partie
so
wounded
is
named
N.
Brierton
,
and
is
yet
aliue
.
These
are
the
fyrst
fruites
of
Doctour
Stories
good
Doctorly
doinges
,
agreable
with
his
lyfe
that
folowed
after
warde
.
A
kyndly
beare
wyll
bite
by
tyme
.
Now
I
wyll
begyn
the
rest
of
this
Declaration
at
the
begynnyng
of
the
Reigne
of
the
most
vertuous
,
godly
,
learned
and
hopeful
Prince
,
King
Edward
the
sixt
:
who
after
the
death
of
the
most
noble
and
famous
prince
,
Kinge
Henrye
the
.viii.
his
Father
,
tooke
vpon
him
,
as
of
right
appertayned
vnto
him
,
the
Regall
state
and
gouernment
of
this
Realme
.
And
first
,
and
before
all
other
thinges
,
he
seekynge
the
high
aduauncement
of
Goddes
honour
restored
vnto
vs
the
sincere
doctrine
of
the
Gospel
of
our
Sauiour
Iesus
Christ
,
and
made
most
Godly
Lawes
for
the
abholysshynge
of
all
superstycion
and
idolatry
.
At
whiche
tyme
,
Iohn
Storye
being
then
of
the
Parlyament
house
and
a
great
enemye
to
the
gloryous
light
of
Christes
Gospel
,
did
vehemently
inueigh
agaynst
the
godly
doynges
of
that
vertuous
Prince
,
namely
,
for
settynge
foorth
the
booke
of
Common
Prayer
and
Administracion
of
the
Sacraments
in
Englysh
:
where
he
did
not
only
slaunderouslye
speake
of
the
Doctrine
,
but
also
malyciously
and
sediciouslye
spake
of
that
godly
Prince
(
alleging
the
sentence
of
Ecclesiastes
:
That
wo
is
to
that
Realme
whose
kynge
is
but
a
childe
,
wrestynge
the
same
text
against
that
noble
Prince
,
euen
to
the
same
sence
that
gaue
cheefe
occasion
to
the
rebellion
in
the
same
kinges
tyme
,
and
meaning
that
both
the
Prince
&
the
realme
did
they
wyst
not
what
.
And
shortly
after
that
he
had
thus
declared
his
rebellious
hart
&
canckred
iudgement
,
he
then
fledde
this
realme
into
the
parties
beyond
the
seas
,
and
there
abode
all
the
life
of
that
vertuous
Prince
.
After
his
death
,
as
sone
as
the
late
Queene
Mary
possessed
the
crowne
,
the
aforsayd
Story
retorned
agayne
from
beyond
the
Seas
,
and
obtayned
of
Queene
Mary
by
the
helpe
of
Bishop
Boner
,
that
he
became
a
commissioner
,
and
a
cruell
perpersecutor
of
Christes
members
,
wherin
he
traueyled
with
such
vehemency
and
in
such
a
tyrannous
maner
,
as
neuer
was
there
any
before
him
did
,
and
in
that
state
he
contynued
all
the
dayes
of
Queene
Maryes
lyfe
.
After
the
death
of
Queene
Mary
,
so
sone
as
our
most
dere
soueraigne
Lady
came
to
the
possession
of
the
crowne
,
and
that
she
had
called
a
parliament
,
chieflye
for
the
restitution
of
Gods
blessed
worde
and
the
true
administracion
of
the
Sacramentes
to
Goddes
high
honor
,
and
also
for
the
amendment
of
the
decayed
state
of
this
Realme
.
The
said
Storie
beyng
of
the
parliament
house
who
was
an
enemy
to
all
godly
reformations
,
did
wyth
great
vehemency
speake
agaynst
the
bill
that
was
ther
exhibited
for
the
restytucyon
of
the
booke
of
common
prayer
,
&
sayd
these
wordes
:
I
did
often
times
in
Queene
Maries
tyme
,
saye
to
the
Bishops
that
they
were
to
busie
with
Pecora
campi
,
(
for
so
it
pleased
him
to
terme
the
poore
commons
of
England
)
chopping
at
twiges
,
but
I
wished
to
haue
chopped
at
the
roote
,
which
if
they
had
done
,
this
gere
had
not
cum
now
in
question
,
and
here
in
most
traiterously
he
ment
the
distruccion
of
our
dere
&
soueraigne
lady
Queene
Elizabeth
.
For
the
which
wordes
spoken
in
such
an
audience
and
in
such
vehement
maner
,
there
was
no
honest
nor
true
hart
that
hard
him
but
did
vtterly
abhorre
him
.
And
sone
after
that
he
had
declared
his
trayterous
hart
to
the
Queenes
highnes
,
and
his
conscience
accusing
him
,
he
fled
and
lurked
about
in
sondry
corners
,
as
did
Cain
when
he
had
murdered
his
brother
Abell
.
But
at
the
last
he
was
taken
in
the
west
countrye
rydyng
before
a
Male
in
a
frise
coate
lyke
a
seruing
man
,
and
was
apprehended
in
the
highwaie
by
one
maister
Ayleworth
a
gentleman
one
of
the
Queenes
seruauntes
,
and
brought
before
the
counsaill
,
and
after
sent
to
prison
to
the
Queenes
Bench
(
for
more
than
suspicion
of
Treason
)
in
the
fyrst
yere
of
her
highnes
reigne
.
And
after
the
sayd
Story
had
remained
there
a
whyle
he
espyenge
hys
tyme
and
by
the
helpe
of
his
frendes
(
as
commonly
suche
lewde
papistes
lacke
none
)
he
brake
the
said
prison
and
fled
againe
beyond
the
Seas
,
namely
into
Flaundyrs
,
and
there
not
only
practised
diuerse
wicked
&
treyterous
enterprices
towardes
our
Soueraigne
lady
the
Quenes
maiestie
and
the
state
of
this
realme
,
by
sondry
conferences
that
he
had
with
such
as
haue
of
late
rebelled
&
conspired
the
destruccion
of
the
same
.
But
also
he
became
an
open
&
comon
enemi
to
euery
good
subiect
of
this
realme
of
England
,
and
obteyned
in
Flaundyrs
of
the
Duke
of
Alna
a
comission
and
aucthoritie
to
practise
his
olde
cruetie
&
to
arest
&
aprehend
al
such
Englishmens
goods
as
shold
arriue
in
those
countries
,
or
that
did
traffique
out
of
England
into
those
parts
,
or
from
thence
into
England
,
and
to
confiscat
the
same
by
reason
of
which
aucthoritie
,
he
vsed
there
such
extremytie
that
he
was
the
spoiler
&
vndoer
of
dyuerse
merchauntes
,
and
of
more
would
haue
bene
,
if
he
had
longer
continued
:
wherfore
the
said
Merchauntes
were
in
forced
to
study
and
deuyse
some
remeady
,
and
to
practise
some
waye
or
meane
howe
to
remoue
this
comber
some
man
from
them
.
And
among
other
deuises
,
they
hauing
experience
of
hym
to
be
a
gredy
and
rauenous
wolfe
,
put
into
his
head
(
by
such
as
he
suspected
not
)
that
ther
was
a
pray
for
hym
of
English
goodes
in
a
Ship
that
lai●
in
a
certein
place
which
was
named
vnto
him
,
where
he
should
fynd
such
a
treasure
of
goods
to
be
confiscate
,
as
woulde
be
sufficient
for
him
during
his
life
.
The
wolfe
beynge
hongry
and
desyrous
of
this
great
pray
,
set
forward
,
and
came
into
a
Shyp
that
promysed
to
brynge
hym
to
the
place
where
the
praye
was
.
But
to
be
shorte
●●ssone
as
he
was
entered
the
Shipe
,
the
s●●e
brought
hym
cleane
a
waye
out
of
Flaundirs
into
England
,
and
landed
him
at
Harwyche
in
the
Moneth
of
Auguste
last
paste
.
And
sone
after
,
knowlege
being
geuen
to
the
Queenes
honorable
counsail
of
his
landynge
,
he
was
brought
to
London
and
there
he
was
comitted
to
prison
to
the
lollardes
tower
in
Powles
where
he
contynued
a
whyle
that
he
myght
well
peruse
that
place
wherin
he
had
most
cruelly
tormented
many
a
good
Chrystyan
.
But
he
lacked
there
one
thing
,
which
was
the
monstrous
and
houge
Steckes
,
that
hee
and
Boner
his
old
faithfull
frend
had
vsed
to
turmoyle
and
persecute
the
poore
and
Innocent
christians
in
,
hanging
sum
therin
by
the
heles
so
high
,
that
only
their
heades
laye
on
the
ground
.
Some
wer
stocked
in
both
feet
&
armes
,
some
also
wer
stocked
by
both
their
feet
and
by
both
thir
thombes
,
and
so
did
hang
in
the
Stockes
.
And
some
also
were
stocked
by
both
theyr
fete
,
&
cheyned
by
the
necke
wyth
collars
of
Iron
made
fast
behynde
theim
to
a
post
in
the
wall
,
and
suche
other
deuelishe
and
tyrannus
engynes
and
deuyses
by
hym
practised
these
at
his
being
in
the
lolardes
Tower
he
myssed
,
and
great
pitie
it
was
that
he
had
not
tasted
of
theim
:
But
alack
the
good
Bisshop
Gryndall
late
Bysshop
of
London
had
brent
and
consumed
them
with
fire
.
But
to
returne
where
I
left
,
after
that
Story
had
contynnued
a
certaine
of
tyme
in
the
lollardes
Tower
,
&
had
ben
diuers
tymes
examined
,
hee
was
from
thence
remoued
to
the
Tower
of
London
,
wher
he
remayned
vntill
the
.xxvi.
day
of
Maye
.
1571.
And
then
was
he●
brought
from
thence
into
westminster
hall
before
the
iudges
of
the
Queenes
Benche
,
and
there
arayned
.
And
after
the
indictment
had
ben
read
vnto
hym
,
th
effect
wherof
was
,
that
wher
as
Rychard
Norton
,
Thomas
Markenfelde
,
Christopher
Neuyll
,
Frances
Norton
&
Thomas
Ienny
alias
Iennings
with
other
traytors
,
after
their
offences
committed
in
the
north
;
and
being
therof
indicted
in
the
.xii.
yere
of
the
Queenes
highnes
raigne
before
the
right
honorable
Thomas
Erle
of
Sussex
lorde
president
of
the
Queenes
counsaill
in
the
north
partes
,
Iohn
lorde
Darcye
&c.
they
after
their
indictment
did
the
.xxiii.
of
Iune
in
the
yere
aforsayd
embarke
theim selues
in
sundry
Shippes
and
fled
this
realme
vnto
Antwarpe
in
Brabant
,
whych
is
vnder
the
gouernment
of
kyng
Phylip
,
and
ther
contrarye
to
theyr
allegeaunce
did
lead
their
liues
,
and
the
aforsaid
Iohn
Story
.
D.
W.
P
and
I.
P
,
being
borne
in
England
and
the
Queenes
subiectes
,
did
with
theim
conspire
,
compasse
and
Imagin
the
Queenes
death
,
and
her
highnes
to
depose
and
depryue
.
And
by
diuers
perswasions
and
letters
did
also
procure
straungiers
to
inuade
this
realme
of
England
,
and
to
leuy
warr
against
the
Queene
,
and
her
hyghnes
to
depose
.
And
that
the
aforsayd
Iohn
Story
&c.
knowing
the
abouesaid
Norton
and
others
to
haue
committed
their
treasons
here
in
England
,
did
receaue
,
confort
and
helpe
theim
at
Antwarp
aforsaid
,
agaynst
their
allegeaunce
.
&c.
And
after
the
indictment
read
he
being
called
vppon
by
the
courte
to
answere
to
the
same
,
pleaded
that
he
was
not
the
Queenes
subiect
nor
had
not
bene
these
vii
.
yeres
,
but
was
the
subiect
of
the
most
catholicke
and
mighty
prynce
kyng
Philip
kyng
of
Spayne
,
to
whome
hee
was
sworne
,
and
had
in
Fee
of
him
one
hundreth
pound
by
the
yere
,
therfore
said
hee
I
am
not
bound
to
answer
to
that
indictment
,
neyther
will
I
answere
vnto
it
.
And
here
he
vsed
many
pretie
tauntes
as
well
to
the
iudges
as
also
pleasyng
him selfe
with
giuinge
of
pretie
nippes
and
girdes
.
And
verye
stowtlye
,
he
maintayned
his
former
plea
,
affirming
also
,
that
they
were
not
his
lawfull
iudges
,
neither
that
they
had
law
to
procede
against
him
being
none
of
the
Queenes
subiectes
.
And
then
beyng
demaunded
where
he
was
borne
?
he
answered
in
England
.
Then
sayd
they
it
folowith
that
you
are
subiect
to
the
lawes
of
thys
realme
,
and
should
be
so
to
our
Queene
Wherunto
he
replyed
and
sayd
,
that
God
commaunded
Abraham
to
go
foorth
from
the
lande
and
countrey
where
he
was
borne
,
from
his
friendes
and
kynsfolke
into
another
countrey
.
And
so
he
folowynge
his
example
,
for
conscience
sake
in
religion
did
forsake
his
country●
and
the
lawes
of
this
realme
&
the
prince
also
,
and
had
wholy
geuen
hym selfe
to
the
seruice
of
a
foreyne
gouernour
kyng
Philip
kyng
of
Spayne
.
And
herevpon
hee
stood
very
stoutlye
,
but
to
small
purpose
.
Then
when
hee
perceaued
that
they
would
procede
in
iudgement
against
him
,
he
sayde
,
they
had
no
lawe
so
to
do
.
And
with
that
he
turned
him
about
to
the
people
,
and
sayd
:
good
people
,
I
trust
ye
see
howe
violently
I
am
vsed
and
howe
vniustly
and
contrary
to
all
iustice
and
equitie
they
vse
mee
.
And
he
added
that
he
had
good
hope
that
he
was
not
destitute
of
some
frendes
there
that
would
geue
notice
and
knowlege
to
the
most
Catholycke
prynce
hys
maister
how
cruelly
they
dealt
with
him
.
And
then
againe
,
beyng
called
vppon
to
answere
,
one
sayd
vnto
him
,
maister
Storye
,
because
you
thynke
it
violence
that
is
shewed
vnto
you
in
stead
of
lawe
and
iustice
,
you
shall
knowe
that
wee
do
nothyng
but
that
wee
maye
do
both
by
lawe
and
equitie
.
And
then
one
of
the
Iudges
said
:
this
is
Scarborowes
case
.
Nay
,
said
Story
,
my
case
is
not
Skarboroughes
case
:
but
in
déede
I
had
Skarborough
warnynge
to
come
to
this
arraignement
,
for
I
knewe
nothynge
therof
vntyll
.vij.
of
the
clocke
in
the
mornynge
.
Then
,
there
was
a
booke
delyuered
hym
to
read
,
wherin
he
might
sée
what
they
might
doo
by
lawe
:
and
after
hée
had
read
it
,
the
Iudge
demaunded
of
him
how
he
liked
it
?
And
he
answered
,
God
haue
mercie
vpon
mée
.
Then
the
Lorde
chyefe
Iustice
gaue
him
Iudgement
to
be
drawen
,
hanged
and
quartred
,
and
so
was
he
agayne
sent
vnto
the
Tower.
And
as
he
went
by
the
way
:
certayne
persons
in
seuerall
places
met
with
him
and
one
said
:
Oh
Story
,
Story
:
thou
art
a
strange
Story
:
Remember
Mayster
Bradforde
that
godly
man
,
his
blood
asketh
vengeaunce
on
thée
Story
:
repent
in
time
.
Another
cryed
on
hym
and
said
:
Story
,
call
to
mynde
the
rigour
that
thou
shewedest
vpon
Maister
Read
,
a
Gentleman
,
whom
thou
diddest
vtterly
destroye
:
aske
God
forgeuenesse
Story
for
that
wicked
déede
.
Another
cryed
vnto
hym
and
saide
:
Blessed
be
God
,
Story
,
that
hath
made
thée
partaker
of
suche
Breade
,
as
thou
wast
wont
to
deale
to
the
innocent
membres
of
Iesus
Christe
.
Another
also
cryed
out
vpon
him
,
and
saide
:
Story
,
Story
:
the
abhominable
cup
of
fornication
and
filthynes
that
thou
hast
geuen
other
to
drinke
,
be
heaped
vp
topfull
,
that
thy
plagues
maye
be
the
greater
at
the
terrible
daye
of
Gods
wrath
&
vengeaunce
,
vnlesse
thou
aske
mercy
for
thy
filthy
,
corrupte
&
stinkyng
lyfe
.
And
yet
agayne
,
another
cryed
out
vnto
hym
and
said
:
I
pray
God
that
thy
hart
be
not
hardened
,
as
was
Pharaos
,
and
made
harder
then
the
Adamant
stone
,
or
the
stéele
,
that
when
he
woulde
,
he
could
not
repent
and
call
for
grace
.
And
among
al
the
rest
,
one
came
to
him
at
London
Stone
,
and
saluted
him
with
this
Méeter
,
saiyng
:
Maister
Doctor
Story
,
For
you
they
are
right
sory
The
Court
of
Louaine
and
Rome
:
Your
holy
father
the
Pope
,
Cannot
saue
you
from
the
rope
,
The
Hangman
must
haue
your
gown●
To
whom
he
answered
not
one
word
▪
THe
first
daye
of
Iune
,
the
saide
Story
was
drawen
vpon
an
herdell
from
the
Tower
of
London
vnto
Tiborn
:
wher
was
prepared
for
him
a
newe
payre
of
Gallowes
made
in
triangle
maner
.
And
by
the
way
as
he
went
,
many
people
spake
vnto
hym
,
and
called
vpon
hym
to
repent
his
Tirrannie
and
wickednes
,
and
wylled
him
to
call
vpon
God
for
mercy
:
But
he
lay
as
though
he
had
ben
a
sleepe
,
&
woulde
not
speake
to
any
person
.
And
when
he
was
taken
from
the
herdell
and
set
in
a
carte
,
he
made
there
a
solempne
protestation
,
and
said
:
¶
I
am
come
hither
to
die
:
and
truely
,
if
this
death
were
ten
times
more
fierce
and
sharpe
then
it
is
,
I
haue
deserued
it
?
I
haue
lyued
the
space
of
thréescore
&
.
vij
.
yeres
:
and
now
my
body
must
abyde
this
temporall
payne
and
punisshement
prouyded
for
mée
here
in
this
lyfe
,
by
meane
wherof
,
my
daies
shal
be
cut
off
.
But
where
at
the
first
I
stoode
in
feare
of
death
,
I
thanke
God
,
this
night
passed
I
haue
ben
so
comforted
with
good
and
godly
men
,
that
the
feare
of
death
is
taken
from
my
sight
.
And
nowe
I
appeale
to
God
the
Father
,
trustyng
in
the
Passion
of
his
Sonne
Christ
Iesus
,
and
hopynge
,
by
the
sheding
of
his
blood
only
to
be
saued
.
And
althoughe
of
a
longe
time
I
coulde
not
applie
the
vertue
of
his
Passion
and
death
to
the
vse
&
benefite
of
my
soule
,
because
of
my
longe
houerynge
in
feare
:
Yet
nowe
,
I
thanke
God
,
I
know
how
to
applye
this
medicyne
,
as
for
example
:
APothecarye
maye
haue
a
Medicine
liyng
in
his
shop
.vij.
yeares
,
that
maye
helpe
a
sicke
or
diseased
man
by
the
counsayle
of
a
Physicion
:
But
if
this
medicyne
be
not
applyed
to
the
pacient
,
but
styl
remaineth
in
the
Apothecaries
shop
it
profiteth
nothyng
:
No
more
(
said
he
)
coulde
the
benefite
of
Christes
Death
healpe
mée
:
because
,
though
I
knew
the
medicyne
good
,
I
did
not
applie
it
vnto
my
Soule
helth
:
Dauid
,
when
he
had
commytted
Adulterie
with
Barsabe
the
wyfe
of
Vrias
(
whose
Husband
also
he
caused
to
be
put
in
the
Front
of
the
Battell
,
and
so
was
he
murthered
:
)
he
for
that
trespasse
felt
a
temporall
punishment
by
the
losse
of
the
life
of
his
son
,
which
he
loued
tenderly
.
Also
,
when
he
nombred
his
people
,
he
greatly
displeased
God
:
And
for
his
offence
and
transgression
,
he
felt
a
temporall
payne
:
and
choyce
was
geuen
vnto
him
from
aboue
,
to
choose
one
of
these
.iij
temporall
and
bodily
punyshments
:
that
is
to
saye
:
Thrée
daies
Pestilence
:
the
Sworde
,
that
is
to
saye
,
bloody
Battell
.vij.
yeres
:
or
Famyne
.vij.
yeres
.
And
he
thought
to
choose
the
least
:
and
he
chose
thrée
daies
Pestilence
.
But
this
Scourge
tooke
away
an
infinite
nombre
of
his
subiectes
.
So
nowe
as
my
sinnes
deserue
a
temporall
payne
,
whiche
here
haue
an
ende
,
euen
in
this
flesh
:
I
am
of
the
same
minde
that
the
Prophet
Dauid
was
:
And
with
hym
I
agrée
saiyng
.
Inuoco
te
Domine
.
&c.
Lord
I
call
vpon
thée
in
this
day
of
my
trouble
,
heare
mée
O
Lorde
out
of
thy
dwellynge
place
.
&c.
But
nowe
to
speake
a
litle
of
my
arraignment
:
when
I
was
at
Westminster
,
I
alleaged
in
my
plea
that
I
was
no
Subiect
of
this
Realme
,
Then
sayde
he
,
it
foloweth
that
you
are
and
ought
to
continue
the
Quenes
faithfull
subiect
.
For
it
is
well
knowen
,
that
I
departed
this
Realme
beynge
fréelye
licensed
therunto
by
the
Quéene
,
who
accompted
mée
an
abiect
and
castawaye
,
and
I
came
not
hether
agayne
of
myne
owne
accorde
:
but
I
was
betrayed
.
And
although
I
had
an
inckelyng
geuen
mée
before
of
such
a
thing
pretended
towardes
mée
,
I
trauayled
with
them
from
Ship
to
Ship
,
by
the
space
of
eight
daies
and
mistrusted
no
perill
to
be
at
hand
vntyll
I
was
clapt
fast
vnder
the
Hatches
.
But
sure
,
sure
:
it
was
God
that
wrought
it
:
Yea
,
and
although
I
was
accompted
a
Poller
of
the
Englysshe
men
of
your
countrey
:
I
stand
now
here
before
God
,
and
by
the
death
I
shall
die
,
I
had
neuer
out
of
any
Ship
more
then
two
Péeces
of
Golde
,
and
fortie
Dallers
that
was
laid
in
my
hand
.
But
once
agayne
,
to
my
arraignment
,
where
there
were
certain
Letters
laid
to
my
charge
,
wherin
I
should
go
about
to
prouoke
the
Nortons
,
the
Neuiles
&
oth●●
to
rebell
,
I
neuer
ment
it
:
Yet
wyll
I
discharge
my
conscience
fréely
&
frankly
and
tell
you
trueth
.
There
are
yet
two
thynges
that
I
purpose
to
talke
of
:
namely
,
for
that
ther
are
here
present
a
great
nombre
of
Youth
:
And
I
woulde
to
God
I
might
saye
or
speke
that
which
might
bring
all
men
to
the
vnitie
of
the
Church
:
for
there
is
but
one
Church
,
one
Flocke
and
one
Shepherde
:
If
I
could
this
do
,
I
would
think
my selfe
to
haue
wrought
a
good
worke
.
The
first
Poinct
toucheth
my
crueltie
,
wherwith
I
am
sore
burdened
:
And
the
second
concerneth
my
Religion
.
As
touchyng
the
first
,
there
were
thrée
in
Commission
,
of
the
which
I
was
one
that
might
do
least
,
for
I
was
the
last
of
the
thrée
.
And
thoughe
I
might
by
perswasion
assaye
to
cause
them
to
reuoke
the
articles
that
they
had
maintayned
,
and
to
confesse
the
presence
,
wherin
I
stande
:
Ye
know
that
he
that
chydeth
,
is
not
worthy
to
bée
condemned
for
fightyng
:
No
more
am
I
worthy
to
be
counted
cruell
for
chydynge
:
It
was
the
Bisshop
that
pronounced
the
Sentence
Excommunicamus
,
and
against
that
I
could
not
do
,
for
I
was
one
of
the
Layetie
.
Yet
often
times
the
Bisshop
to
whom
I
was
Seruant
was
bold
with
mée
when
he
had
so
many
Prisoners
that
he
could
not
well
bestow
them
.
For
at
one
time
the
Lorde
Riche
,
sent
him
out
of
Essex
.
xxviij
.
And
at
another
time
.xxiiij.
Also
at
another
time
.xvi.
and
.xiiij.
and
some
of
them
were
sent
to
mée
,
whiche
I
kepte
in
my
House
with
suche
fare
as
I
had
prouided
for
my selfe
and
my
Famylie
,
at
myne
owne
cost
and
charge
.
And
to
proue
that
I
was
not
so
cruell
as
I
am
reported
to
bée
,
Nescientes
qùid
fecerunt
.
The
Cardinall
&
we
did
sue
together
to
the
Quene
,
&
layd
both
the
Swordes
together
,
and
so
we
obteyned
pardon
for
them
all
,
sauynge
an
olde
woman
that
dwelt
aboute
Paules
Churchyard
,
shée
would
not
conuert
,
and
therfore
she
was
burned
.
There
〈◊〉
of
them
receyued
absolucion
,
and
that
with
al
reuerence
:
serch
them
Register
and
you
shall
finde
it
.
Yea
,
&
it
was
my
procurement
that
there
should
be
no
more
burnt
in
London
,
for
I
sawe
well
that
it
woulde
not
preuaile
,
and
therfore
we
sent
them
into
odde
corners
into
the
countrey
.
Wherfore
I
pray
you
,
name
me
not
cruell
,
I
would
be
loth
to
haue
any
suche
slaunder
to
ron
on
mée
.
But
sith
I
dye
in
charitie
,
I
pray
you
al
of
charitie
to
pray
for
mee
,
that
God
maye
strengthen
mee
with
patience
to
suffer
my
death
:
to
the
whiche
I
yelde
most
wyllyngly
.
And
here
I
make
a
peticion
to
you
my
frendes
that
woulde
haue
bestowed
anythyng
on
mée
,
I
beséeche
you
for
charitie
sake
,
bestow
it
yerely
on
my
wife
,
who
hath
foure
small
children
,
and
God
hath
now
taken
me
away
that
was
her
staff●
and
stay
:
And
now
my
Doughter
Weston
and
her
three
chyldren
are
gone
ouer
●nto
her
,
and
I
know
not
how
they
shal
do
for
foode
,
vnlesse
they
go
a
beggynge
f●●m
doore
to
doore
for
it
:
although
in
dede
no
English
persons
do
begge
but
of
English
,
beyng
helped
by
the
Lady
Dorm
.
●nd
Sir
Francisco
:
I
haue
good
hope
that
you
wyll
be
good
vnto
her
,
for
she
is
the
faythfullest
wife
,
the
louyngest
and
constantest
that
euer
man
had
.
And
twise
we
haue
lost
all
that
euer
we
had
,
and
nowe
she
hath
lost
mée
to
her
great
griefe
I
knowe
.
The
second
poynct
that
I
thought
to
speke
of
,
is
concernyng
my
Religion
,
for
that
I
know
many
are
desirous
to
know
what
faith
I
wyll
dye
in
,
the
whiche
I
wyll
briefely
touch
:
I
saye
with
Sainct
Iherome
that
auncient
father
and
piller
of
the
old
auncient
,
catholique
,
and
Apostolicke
Churche
grounded
vpon
the
Patriar●es
;
Prophetes
and
Apostles
,
that
in
the
same
faith
that
I
was
borne
in
,
Then
sayd
the
Earle
of
Bedford
,
are
you
not
the
Quéenes
subiect
?
No
,
sayd
Story
,
&
yet
I
do
not
exclude
the
Quene
but
I
pray
for
her
,
her
Counsaile
and
the
Nobilitie
of
this
Realme
longe
to
continue
.
Then
said
the
Lorde
Honsdon
:
Are
you
not
the
Quéenes
Subiect
,
you
were
borne
in
Englande
?
Then
sayde
Story
:
Euery
man
is
frée
borne
,
and
he
hath
the
whole
face
of
the
Earth
before
him
to
dwell
&
abyde
in
where
he
liketh
best
:
and
if
he
can
not
lyue
here
,
he
may
go
els
where
.
Then
was
there
(
as
I
thinke
one
of
the
Ministers
)
hearyng
him
to
make
so
light
of
our
noble
Quene
and
Countrey
,
demaunded
of
him
whether
she
were
not
next
and
immediatlye
vnder
God
,
Supreme
head
of
the
Churches
of
Englande
and
Irelande
?
wherunto
he
aunswered
:
I
come
not
hether
to
dispute
,
but
if
shée
bée
,
shée
is
:
my
nay
wyll
not
preuayle
to
proue
it
otherwise
.
And
then
they
cryed
,
awaye
with
the
●arte
:
And
so
he
was
hanged
according
to
his
iudgement
.