The
Araignment
,
Examination
,
confession
&
iudgement
,
of
Arnold
Cosbye
,
who
wilfullye
murdered
the
Lord
Burke
,
neere
the
Towne
of
Wanswoorth
,
on
the
14.
day
of
this
present
moneth
of
Ianuary
.
1591.
VPon
the
25.
day
of
Ianuary
last
past
,
1591.
Arnold
Colbye
commonlye
called
and
knowne
by
the
name
of
Captaine
Cosbye
,
an
Irish
man
borne
,
being
before
committed
to
Newgate
for
the
murdering
of
the
Lord
Burke
,
apparrelled
in
ayellowe
Fustian
dublet
,
and
alwse
night
gowne
cast
ouer
with
his
handes
bound
:
was
brought
from
thence
alongst
the
Citie
of
London
ouer
London
bridg
into
the
borrough
of
Southwarke
,
within
the
Countie
of
Surrey
,
where
the
knight
marshals
men
were
ready
to
receiue
him
▪
and
conducted
him
to
the
Sessions
house
on
S.
Margets
hill
,
wherupon
he
was
immediatlye
put
into
the
docket
,
and
had
a
great
paire
of
〈◊〉
boltes
put
vpon
his
feete
,
his
handes
vnbound
and
his
armes
pinnioned
:
Soone
after
there
came
thether
the
right
honourable
the
Lord
Chamberlayne
,
the
Earle
of
Wormewood
,
sir
George
Carew
knight
Marshall
of
England
,
with
Maister
Popham
the
Queens
Attourney
generall
,
and
other
of
her
Maiesties
Iustices
for
Middlesex
and
Surrey
:
who
being
orderly
placed
,
proclamation
was
made
for
the
people
to
be
silent
,
after
that
a
substantiall
quest
of
enquirie
was
calde
and
impannelled
,
who
hauing
their
charge
giuen
them
by
her
maiesties
Attourney
generall
to
enquire
if
any
wilfull
murders
,
rowts
or
riots
&c.
were
latelie
committed
in
the
verdge
of
the
Queens
Maiesties
housholde
:
by
vertue
of
which
enquirye
,
they
found
this
matter
of
wilfull
murder
.
That
doone
,
the
Prisoner
was
commaunded
to
hold
vp
his
hand
at
the
harte
,
and
then
the
Clarke
of
the
peace
read
the
bill
of
inditement
with
alowde
voice
,
which
contained
in
effect
that
the
saide
Arnold
Cosbye
contrarye
to
the
peace
of
our
Soueraigne
Lady
the
Queene
:
vpon
the
14.
day
of
Ianuary
last
past
,
not
hauing
the
feare
of
God
before
his
eyes
,
did
forceably
set
vpon
Iohn
Lord
Burke
in
the
Town
of
Wanswoorth
in
a
close
:
and
there
vpon
a
diuelishe
and
most
malitious
intent
did
wilfully
murder
him
,
then
&
there
giuing
him
one
mortall
and
deadly
wound
with
a
rapier
,
contayning
one
inche
wide
,
and
10.
inches
depe
,
by
meanes
of
which
greeuous
and
deadly
wound
,
the
said
Lord
Burke
fell
downe
,
and
after
that
the
saide
Arnold
Cosbye
with
a
Dagger
price
two
shillinges
,
gaue
vnto
the
said
Iohn
Lord
Burke
xxj
.
greeuous
&
seuerall
wounds
more
:
of
which
said
great
and
deep
wound
,
the
aforesaid
Lord
Burke
died
within
two
houres
after
.
Wherupon
the
prisoner
being
demaunded
if
he
were
guiltye
of
the
murder
for
which
hee
was
accused
?
he
answered
&
pleaded
to
the
same
not
guiltye
,
and
for
triall
put
himselfe
to
God
and
the
Cuntry
:
wherupon
there
was
a
sufficient
Iewrie
chosen
for
his
triall
,
before
whom
the
Prisoner
stood
to
heare
what
might
be
aleaged
against
him
,
for
proofe
of
the
fact
which
before
he
had
denyed
.
Then
the
Court
did
commaund
proclamation
to
be
made
for
all
such
to
come
in
&
make
their
appearance
,
as
could
say
any
thing
against
the
prisoner
concerning
the
fact
:
otherwise
he
stood
vpon
his
discharge
:
whereupon
the
Queenes
Attourney
generall
first
shewed
and
openly
commaunded
to
be
read
,
the
confession
&
examination
of
the
saide
Arnold
Cosbye
taken
the
16.
of
Ianuarye
before
maister
William
Fleetwood
Sargiant
at
Lawe
,
and
Recorder
of
the
Cittie
of
London
,
which
saide
examination
contained
,
that
about
a
twelue
moneth
before
the
said
Lord
Burke
and
the
prisoner
,
fell
out
and
fought
together
at
Greenewich
,
and
that
afterward
they
were
made
freends
;
neuerthelesse
it
appeared
thereby
by
that
Cosbye
gaue
vnto
the
said
Lord
Burke
sundry
very
base
tearmes
&
vnsomely
woords
with
other
such
great
abuses
,
as
no
noble
Gentleman
would
haue
put
vp
at
the
handes
of
so
meane
a
man
as
Arnold
Cosbye
was
,
and
the
same
alway
iustified
by
the
partie
,
who
from
time
to
time
did
discouer
them
to
my
Lord
,
whome
the
prisoner
in
his
examination
aforesaid
charged
to
doo
it
of
malice
:
and
in
conclusion
euen
in
the
scope
and
course
of
his
saide
examination
,
it
euidently
appeared
that
he
had
before
wilfully
pretended
the
murder
of
the
saide
Lord
Burke
,
and
in
most
shamefull
sorte
effected
it
as
aforesaid
:
as
Maister
Atturney
generall
did
learnedly
lay
it
open
.
And
in
the
saide
confession
,
the
said
Cosbye
declared
,
that
the
Lord
Burke
and
he
rode
together
from
the
Courte
,
where
the
said
examinate
desired
him
to
crosse
the
riuer
vpon
the
common
way
to
London
,
to
the
ende
(
as
he
saide
)
if
it
were
his
chaunce
to
endanger
him
,
he
might
the
more
easily
escape
by
means
of
his
frends
,
which
my
L.
refused
.
After
that
there
was
a
letter
openly
shewed
and
read
,
sent
from
Cosbye
the
night
before
the
Lord
Burke
died
,
containing
very
〈◊〉
tearmes
,
far
vnmeet
for
so
meane
a
man
to
send
to
so
noble
a
personage
,
in
which
he
did
threaten
a
sharpe
reuenge
to
the
saide
Lord
and
called
him
therein
by
the
bare
name
of
Burke
,
so
that
by
the
saide
letter
it
appeered
that
he
pretended
a
sharpe
reuenge
vpon
the
Lord
Burke
,
and
then
his
own
confession
aforesaid
:
proued
that
the
next
day
following
he
committed
wilfull
murder
vpon
him
.
Neuertheles
for
further
proof
,
witnesses
were
called
in
to
declare
what
they
could
saye
touching
the
same
,
whereupon
one
Maister
Powell
of
●answoorth
shewed
,
that
being
moued
by
the
Lord
Burkes
foot
man
to
make
search
for
the
saide
Lord
,
by
reason
he
was
ridden
foorth
with
Captaine
Cosbye
to
fight
:
spared
neither
hedge
nor
ditche
,
vntill
he
came
to
the
place
where
the
L.
Burke
laye
sore
wounded
ready
to
giue
vp
the
Ghoste
,
finding
with
him
at
his
comming
a
woman
that
did
comfort
him
so
much
as
she
might
,
by
casting
hir
freeze
safegarde
on
him
,
and
had
laboured
to
stop
the
woundes
with
clothes
,
such
as
she
might
conueniently
come
by
.
M.
Powell
so
soon
as
he
came
to
the
L.
Burke
,
being
in
what
greeuous
estate
he
stood
,
ready
to
quake
and
quiuer
with
the
blood
which
cooled
and
bled
inwardly
in
his
bodye
:
he
first
threw
his
cloke
vpon
the
L.
Burke
,
and
then
demaunded
of
him
how
he
came
so
sore
hurte
.
Whervpon
euen
in
the
very
agony
of
death
,
hauing
supped
vp
two
or
three
dishfulls
of
new
milke
,
oh
said
he
,
Cosbye
hath
villanously
wounded
me
to
death
,
I
neuer
striking
blow
nor
giuing
thrust
,
but
whilst
I
was
stooping
to
vnbuckle
one
of
my
spurres
,
hauing
vnbuckled
the
other
before
through
his
perswasion
,
saying
they
would
be
some
trouble
vnto
me
,
he
most
cowardly
thrust
me
in
at
the
top
of
the
shoulder
,
which
ran
farre
into
the
body
,
yet
if
I
had
striken
but
two
blowes
with
him
,
it
would
neuer
haue
greeued
me
,
had
he
then
manfullye
slaine
me
in
fight
.
Whereupon
the
said
Powell
demaunded
if
his
Lordship
could
go
or
ride
,
but
seeing
hee
could
doo
neither
,
hee
was
constrained
to
put
him
into
a
carte
,
〈…〉
vnder
him
,
which
one
had
before
brought
into
the
feelde
for
Cattell
,
and
so
conueyed
him
to
his
house
,
in
which
his
honor
dyed
,
whose
house
was
at
Wanswoorth
:
Maister
Powell
hauing
made
an
ende
of
his
speeche
,
Cosbies
Swoord
was
shewed
openlye
before
the
Lords
and
Iustices
,
which
was
all
to
be
smeared
with
the
blood
of
the
Lord
Burke
,
at
the
least
sixteene
inches
deepe
.
And
the
same
Maister
Powell
being
demaunded
how
many
wounds
he
told
on
the
body
of
the
Lord
Burke
(
he
being
before
sworne
to
what
he
should
speak
)
answered
,
that
he
tolde
one
and
twentye
woundes
about
the
fore
parte
of
the
bodye
of
the
murdered
Lord
after
hee
was
dead
,
but
the
Lord
Chamberlayne
affirmed
there
was
foure
and
twentye
at
the
least
,
beside
the
great
wound
of
which
he
died
.
many
of
which
smaller
woundes
were
in
his
handes
,
some
in
his
armes
,
some
in
the
face
,
breast
&
sides
,
the
rest
in
his
thighs
and
legs
,
and
some
so
low
as
to
his
anckles
.
Which
extreame
crueltie
shewed
a
most
bloudie
mind
in
the
man
,
and
that
he
neither
respected
the
commandement
of
God
,
who
forbiddeth
murther
,
neither
did
he
regard
the
displeasure
of
the
queenes
most
excellent
maiestie
,
by
whom
he
had
his
maintenance
,
neither
did
he
respect
the
towardlinesse
of
the
said
Lorde
Boorke
,
nor
his
owne
credit
in
the
Court
,
where
hee
was
well
beloued
,
but
in
all
cowardize
and
rigor
as
appeareth
,
executed
his
bloudthirstie
and
cruell
minde
as
is
aforesaid
,
all
which
the
said
Cosby
seemed
to
deny
,
and
to
colour
his
shamefull
and
vnnaturall
act
,
he
woulde
haue
perswaded
the
Lordes
&
Iustices
there
,
that
he
meant
no
quarrell
nor
hurt
to
the
L.
Boorke
,
but
said
that
he
perswaded
the
Lord
Boorke
being
in
the
fielde
to
breake
the
point
of
his
sworde
,
and
then
to
returne
againe
to
the
Court
,
&
there
to
acknowledge
that
they
had
fought
,
that
the
Lord
Boorke
had
offended
the
said
Arnold
Cosby
,
and
that
the
Lord
Boorkes
life
lay
in
Cosbies
handes
at
what
time
they
fought
,
this
should
the
Lord
Boork
haue
done
,
as
the
said
Cosbie
affirmed
,
and
why
?
Forsooth
,
because
Cosbie
(
as
he
said
at
the
barre
)
stoode
vpon
his
reputation
,
and
yet
it
is
doubtfull
,
whether
he
euer
made
my
Lord
Boorke
that
offer
or
not
,
no
man
testifying
it
but
him selfe
.
And
if
he
had
offered
it
yet
it
had
bene
a
matter
of
great
disgrace
vnto
the
said
Lorde
to
haue
perfourmed
it
:
or
to
any
other
of
his
degree
to
haue
stouped
so
lowe
to
so
meane
a
man
,
being
in
his
highest
degree
and
estate
,
but
a
captaine
by
her
maiesties
commission
,
preferred
to
that
place
by
those
that
were
of
honourable
estimation
,
and
doutlesse
such
was
the
courage
of
that
noble
man
,
that
before
he
woulde
haue
done
him selfe
,
so
great
a
dishonour
he
would
first
manfully
haue
died
in
the
fielde
at
Cosbies
feete
,
neither
is
it
to
bee
supposed
that
the
Lorde
Boorke
did
offer
that
disgrace
as
Cosby
alleaged
at
the
barre
,
which
was
that
he
pulled
him
by
the
nose
the
night
before
they
fought
,
whereas
none
can
come
in
and
iustly
make
report
thereof
,
but
Cosbie
him selfe
,
yea
it
is
a
matter
manifest
and
plaine
that
the
Lord
Boorke
was
a
man
of
courage
,
that
he
bore
an
vndaunted
mind
,
that
he
was
vall●ant
and
a
hardy
man
at
armes
,
he
was
curteous
,
milde
,
and
liberall
,
and
had
beene
sufficiently
tried
,
with
better
men
than
euer
Cosbye
durste
to
encounter
with
hande
to
hand
:
and
therefore
as
the
Lordes
said
vnto
Cosbie
,
so
it
seemed
to
fall
out
,
that
it
was
onely
the
cowardize
of
Cosbie
and
not
his
courage
that
caused
him
so
cruelly
to
murther
so
towardly
and
courteous
a
Lorde
.
Whereupon
after
that
Captaine
Moston
had
deliuered
to
the
Lords
&
Iustices
there
assembled
,
the
trueth
of
all
that
had
passed
betweene
the
Lord
Boorke
and
the
said
Cosby
iustifying
that
the
Lorde
Boorke
neuer
gaue
him
any
iust
occasion
of
malice
or
inwarde
grudge
:
and
therewithall
hauing
besides
shewed
sandrie
pointes
of
cowardize
in
the
said
Cosbie
,
as
well
towardes
the
said
Moston
as
also
towards
diuerse
others
,
iustified
by
the
honourable
on
the
benche
,
the
Iurie
went
together
and
stayed
awaye
some
short
space
:
in
which
time
the
right
honourable
Lorde
Chamberlaine
vttered
vnto
the
prisoner
a
speeche
of
great
effect
and
deepe
consideration
:
which
was
in
maner
and
effect
as
foloweth
.
The
speech
of
the
right
Honorable
the
Lord
Chamberlaine
.
COsbie
,
giue
eare
what
I
saie
vnto
thee
,
and
regard
my
speech
,
looke
into
thy selfe
,
and
behold
the
iust
iudgementes
of
God
vppon
thee
in
this
action
,
first
it
is
most
euident
,
that
thou
hauing
in
a
most
shamefull
sort
murthered
the
noble
Gentleman
,
for
whose
death
thou
art
here
araigned
,
thou
thoughtest
to
saue
thy self
by
flight
:
&
hauing
of
thy
own
as
good
a
hunting
nag
as
anie
is
within
this
Towne
,
thou
diddest
suspect
that
he
woulde
hardly
serue
thy
turne
,
and
therfore
thou
diddest
refuse
him
.
Then
thou
tookest
the
Lorde
Boorkes
gelding
,
and
supposing
to
ride
away
vpon
him
,
hee
sodainely
broke
from
thee
,
and
would
at
no
hande
bee
taken
by
thee
,
to
carrie
thee
from
the
place
where
thou
didst
commit
the
murther
.
Secondly
,
note
how
thy
owne
nag
serued
thee
,
that
when
thou
wert
vppon
him
,
thou
couldest
hardly
get
him
to
carrie
thee
to
the
wood
where
thou
diddest
hide
thy selfe
.
When
thou
camest
into
the
wood
neere
Wimbleton
,
there
thou
staiedst
most
parte
of
all
the
daie
,
there
thou
hadst
time
,
space
,
and
sufficient
meanes
to
haue
fled
farre
inough
,
and
to
haue
staide
there
long
inough
,
yet
thou
hadst
not
the
power
to
doe
it
,
there
thou
lingeredst
all
the
daie
long
,
and
durst
neither
passe
one
waie
or
other
,
the
fact
being
committed
about
eight
of
the
clock
in
the
morning
,
thou
hadst
no
power
to
depart
before
euening
,
and
then
note
the
iudgements
of
God
vpon
thee
,
whether
didst
thou
flie
?
Thou
hadst
no
power
to
passe
an●e
waie
,
but
euen
to
the
place
where
the
man
saie
whom
thou
murtheredst
,
and
comming
on
the
backe
side
of
the
house
,
thou
sawest
my
son
,
but
he
sawe
not
thee
,
and
then
to
hide
thy self
,
thou
fledst
behind
the
house
where
the
dead
corpes
laie
,
at
which
time
all
the
woundes
in
the
Lord
Boorkes
bodie
did
bleede
afresh
,
and
the
better
to
shadowe
thee
from
the
iust
iudgementes
of
God
,
who
compelled
thee
to
come
againe
to
that
place
wher
thou
committedst
murther
,
thou
didst
demand
of
a
b●ie
which
was
the
waie
to
London
,
as
though
thou
knewest
not
the
way
to
London
,
being
an
ordinarie
man
&
fauored
in
the
court
,
but
this
was
Gods
doing
to
shewe
his
wonderous
workes
vpon
thee
,
and
a
token
that
God
would
not
suffer
thee
to
flie
,
nor
thy
fact
to
go
vnpunished
:
yea
the
very
beasts
did
shunne
,
&
seemed
vnwilling
to
carrie
thee
from
the
place
where
thou
committedst
the
murther
,
thy
best
friends
fled
from
thee
when
thou
hadst
done
it
,
and
for
dooing
it
,
they
dyd
abhorre
thee
.
Thou
knowest
that
thou
wast
well
beloued
in
the
Court
,
as
well
of
noble
men
as
other
,
but
this
thy
foule
and
odious
fact
,
maketh
euery
one
of
them
to
despise
thee
.
Well
,
now
call
vpon
God
and
bee
sorie
for
thy
offences
,
for
it
is
some
notable
and
grieuous
offence
which
thou
hast
in
time
past
committed
against
God
,
that
causeth
the
iust
iudgementes
of
God
to
followe
thee
euen
at
thy
heeles
,
and
hath
neuer
lefte
thee
till
thou
camest
to
this
place
.
This
speech
ended
,
the
Iewrie
came
to
giue
vp
their
verdit
,
whereupon
the
prisoner
was
set
forth
to
heare
the
same
,
but
when
hee
sawe
that
hee
was
iustly
condemned
in
the
case
of
wilfull
murther
,
hee
saide
nothing
,
nor
neuer
changed
countenance
therat
,
neuertheles
before
iudgment
was
pronounced
against
him
,
he
fearing
least
he
should
haue
some
grieuous
death
for
his
horrible
offence
,
he
humbly
craued
the
fauour
of
the
Court
,
that
rather
than
he
should
be
hanged
,
he
desired
to
be
shotte
to
death
with
bullets
,
but
the
right
worshipfull
sir
George
Carey
,
knight
marshall
of
England
,
tolde
him
that
the
law
would
not
allow
it
,
but
of
necessitie
the
fact
being
odious
,
it
must
be
punished
according
to
the
laws
of
the
land
.
Then
hee
made
another
motion
,
&
desired
the
honorable
and
worshipful
of
the
bench
,
that
he
might
not
bee
executed
that
present
daie
,
but
that
he
might
haue
that
daies
respite
,
and
a
Preacher
appointed
to
comfort
him
to
God-ward
,
seeing
hee
was
nowe
no
man
of
this
world
:
which
they
all
granted
because
it
was
a
Christian
motion
.
Thereuppon
master
Atturney
proceeded
to
iudgement
,
and
first
shewed
him
the
odiousnes
of
the
fact
&
murther
committed
,
the
shortnes
of
his
life
,
&
that
now
he
was
to
looke
for
nothing
but
death
,
and
therefore
willed
him
to
comfort
himself
with
hope
of
the
ioyes
in
the
life
to
come
,
willing
him
to
aske
God
mercy
,
for
(
saith
he
)
God
hath
promised
that
no
sinne
shall
be
vnpardonable
with
him
,
but
onely
the
sinne
against
the
holy
Ghost
,
which
he
hath
sayd
shall
neuer
bee
forgiuen
.
And
therefore
trust
in
the
mercies
of
God
,
for
in
him
now
onely
resteth
your
comfort
.
Wherfore
according
to
the
lawe
,
the
court
doth
award
you
to
goe
from
this
place
vnto
the
Marshalsey
,
&
from
thence
to
be
conuaied
to
Wansworth
,
to
some
conuenient
place
nere
about
where
the
fact
was
committed
,
&
there
to
be
hanged
till
you
be
dead
,
and
so
the
Lord
haue
mercie
vpon
your
soule
,
and
afterward
to
be
hanged
in
chaines
,
for
example
sake
to
al
other
that
shal
attempt
to
do
the
like
.
Then
the
right
honorable
the
Lorde
Chamberlaine
did
in
fauour
of
his
first
motion
grant
him
his
life
vntil
the
wednesdaie
morning
following
,
so
that
he
had
one
day
granted
more
vnto
him
then
he
desired
.
Wherevpon
the
Court
brake
vp
and
departed
,
and
the
prisoner
accordingly
was
committed
to
the
Marshalsey
.
FINIS
.