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<P>A True Recitall touching the cau&s;e of the death of <HI>Thomas Bales,</HI> a Seminarie Prie&s;t, who was hanged and quartered in Fleet-&s;treet on A&s;hwedne&s;daie la&s;t pa&s;t. 1590.</P>
<P>Wherevnto is adioyned the true cau&s;e of the death of Annis Bankyn, who vpon the next day following was burned in Saint Georges fields about &s;ixe of the clocke at night.</P>
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<P>LONDON <HI>Printed for William Wright</HI> 1590.</P>
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<P>_ON wedne&s;daie being the fourth day of March la&s;t 1590. there was a Se|minarie Prie&s;t brought forth of Newgate, who a few daies before had ben iu&s;tly condemned for high Trea&s;on, where according to his iudge|ment before pa&s;t, and the qualitie of his of|fence, hee was laide vpon a hurdle, and from thence drawne into Holborne, &amp; &s;o through Fetter lane conuaied into Fl&eacute;et &s;tr&eacute;et, where was a newe Iebbet &s;et vp for that purpo&s;e, &amp; people in great abundance re&s;orted to &s;&eacute;e the pri&s;oner executed.</P>
<P>This Prie&s;t came thether apparelled in the habit of a Gentleman, in a dublet of blacke &s;atten, cut with great cuts, &amp; drawn out with white &s;ilke, he had on a paire of &s;mall round paine ho&s;e, &amp; on euerie paine a faire gold lace, his neather &s;tockes were of purple &s;ilke, and a paire of bootes ouer them, Gentleman like, turnd downe at the kn&eacute;e, and faced with vel|uet, he had a blacke felt hat on his head, &amp; his haire was verie long, &s;o that he could hardly be knowen from an ordinarie Gentleman.</P>
<P>Thus being apparelled and come to the place of execution, conducted thether by the &s;h&eacute;erife of London, and the officers of the &s;aid
<PB N="2" REF="3"> Citie. For that the iebbet was not full ready, the &s;heerife did withdrawe the pri&s;oner into a hou&s;e hard by, where an ancient &amp; wor&s;hip|full Gentleman in office towards her Maie|&s;tie, had &s;ome time of conference with the pri|&s;oner. And when euerie thing was in a rea|dines, the pri&s;oner was brought backe again to be executed. And fir&s;t before hee went vp, his boots were pulled off, &amp; his neather &s;tocks al&s;o, whereby his feete and legs were naked, his other clothes hung loo&s;e about him, with his hands tied, &amp; &s;o went hee vp the ladder, the hang-man being then readie on the top of the iebbet to receiue him with the halter, which he put about his neck. Which done, the prie&s;t began to &s;peake vnto the people, &s;hewing the~ y^t hee was a Prie&s;t, &amp; after went about to de|fend the popi&s;h religion colorably, &amp; &s;eemed to <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">ie him&s;elfe, by &s;aying he had not offended hi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> Maie&s;tie. Whervpon the Gentleman be|fore mentioned &s;pake vnto y^e prie&s;t, &amp; &s;hewed h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">m wherein he had offended the laws of this l<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">d, in ca&s;es of high trea&s;on. Fir&s;t, by being a S<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">minarie Prie&s;t therby a &s;worne enemie to this land and hauing liued out of the lande among her Maie&s;ties enemies, was agayne lately return<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">d onelie to per&s;uade her Ma|ie&s;ti<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s &s;ubiectes from their due obedience. The confe&s;&s;ion of this prie&s;t al&s;o taken before
<PB N="3" REF="3"> in writing, was read openly, where he &s;ayde that the Pope hath authoritie to depo&s;e the Qu&eacute;enes Maie&s;ty of England, as though the Queenes Maie&s;tie and the religion now v&s;ed in England, had bin vnder the gouernment of the Pope, and therefore to bee di&s;anulled at the Popes plea&s;ure, whereby hee denied her Maie&s;tie of her &s;upremacie in the Churches of her dominions, which is high trea&s;on of it &s;elfe. La&s;t of all, he &s;hewed vnto the people, &amp; auouched it to the pri&s;oners face, (which he coulde not denie) that this prie&s;t who was an Engli&s;hman borne, and therefore a &s;ubiect to her Maie&s;tie, contrarie to his duetie, had betaken him&s;elfe a long time a &s;ubiect &amp; &s;er|uant to the Pope, with &s;undrie other, who to|gether were lately come ouer into England, to per&s;uade her Maie&s;ties &s;ubiects from theyr obedience, by becomming a&s;&s;i&s;tants and fa|uourers of a new inua&s;ion, now &s;peedily pre|tended by the helhounds of the Romi&s;h Sina|gogue, therby to become traitors to her Ma|ie&s;tie, in working the ruine of this lande, as hath bin lately pretended, yet their hope made fru&s;trate by Gods prouidence, who &s;til doubt|les &s;ighteth for this land, and defendeth all the true &s;ubiects thereof, for the &s;ake of our holie Iudith, who &s;waieth the &s;word of iu&s;tice with great wi&s;edome and mercie, who&s;e per&s;on the
<PB N="4" REF="4"> God of heauen pro&s;per and continue in this land, and grant vnto her long life, and a peace able raigne ouer vs, that during her life &s;he may &s;o quaile the hearts of all the enimies to this land, that none hereafter may dare to at|tempt the hurt thereof. This Popi&s;h Prie&s;t afore&s;aid, after a few Popi&s;h praiers mum|bled to him&s;elfe, was turned from of the lad|der, and permitted to hang vntil he was dead, and after was quartered in &s;euerall p&eacute;eces, to be &s;et vp in &s;euerall places, to the example of al other hereafter. And ouer the Iebbet was written in great letters the cau&s;e of his death in the&s;e wordes, viz.<LB> <HI>For Trea&s;on and &s;auoring of for|raine Inua&s;ion.</HI></P>
<P>In the forenoone of the &s;ame daie al&s;o, there were two hanged, the one in Smithfield, and the other in the fieldes at Graies Inne lane end, for &s;ecret harboring, receiuing and deny|ing this Prie&s;t &amp; others &s;uch pernitious per|&s;ons, by who&s;e meanes great hurt may ari&s;e. The one died a very ob&s;tinate Papi&s;t, the o|ther a very penitent per&s;on, &s;orie that hee had tran&s;gre&s;&s;ed her Maie&s;ties laws in that ca&s;e: which thing he onely did for worldly benefit. To conclude, let this their follie forewarne al others, how they enter into &s;uch actions, and
<PB N="5" REF="4"> refraine from &s;ecret harbouring, releeuing or &s;uccouring &s;uch leud per&s;ons, who &s;eeke by all po&s;&s;ible meanes to ruinate this lande, by de|priuing the Qu&eacute;enes mo&s;t excellent Ma|ie&s;tie, and bringing in forraine enimies: that by inua&s;ion they may &s;hedde the bloude of innocents, and roote out all her Maie&s;ties louing &s;ubiects, which God grant may neuer come to pa&s;&s;e, Amen.</P>
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<HEAD>A woman executed on the Thur&s;|daie following.</HEAD>
<P>_ON the Thur&s;daie following there was a rumour throughout Lon|don, that a maide &s;eruant &s;houlde be burned in S. Georges fieldes, which but two daies before (at the A&s;&s;izes holden in Southwarke for the Countie of Surrey) had bin found guilty, condemned and iudged &s;o to &s;uffer death for murther by her committed. Wherevpon a &s;take was &s;et vp in the &s;aid fielde, and the r&eacute;edes and faggots brought thether, but by rea&s;on of the throng of people which came thether out of London, they were con&s;trained to defer the execution vntil after &s;ixe of the clocke at night, at which time the greater multitude being departed, the pri&s;oner was brought forth &s;odenly, and
<PB N="6" REF="5"> conuaied into the field, without anie notire giuen to anie of the people otherwi&s;e, then that &s;he &s;hould be burned in the place where the &s;take before &s;tood, to which place the peo|ple flocked in great abundance. Now the &s;hi|refe and the warders that accompanied him, perceiuing the vnrulines of the people to bee great, &s;odenly ca&s;t them&s;elues in a round, and vpon a faire gr&eacute;ene place in the waie as they came, digged a hole, and therein pitched the &s;take, and fa&s;tned the pri&s;oner therunto, who came thether in this &s;ort: &s;hee being &s;tripped out of her clothes in the pri&s;o~ before &s;he came forth, had nothing vpon her but a wide frocke downe to her foote, made of cour&s;e canuas, gathered about the wri&s;tes, with an olde neckinger about her necke, and a faire ker|cher vppon her head, about her necke there was a long yron chaine fa&s;tned, whereby &s;he was lead, and came wallowing like a Beare to the &s;take, according to her ordinarie v&s;e of going when &s;he was in &s;eruice. And beeing fa&s;tned to the &s;take with two yron chaines, r&eacute;eds were &s;et round about her, and faggots of very day &s;tickes planted by them, in which &s;hee was wholy incompa&s;&s;ed, and nothing to be &s;een of her rou~d about, but only her face, on one &s;ide the reedes looking forth. And &s;o with as much &s;peed as might be, after the mi|ni&s;ters
<PB N="7" REF="5"> had per&s;uaded her to call vppon God, and to arme her &s;elf with patience, and not to feare death, with other good admonitions for her &s;oules health. Hauing &s;aide the Lordes praier, &amp; a&s;ked God &amp; al the world forgiuenes, the reeds were &s;et on fire fir&s;t vnderneath hir with a Linke, &amp; then round about her, wher|of the reedes and dry faggots tooke &s;peedie hold, and &s;o &s;oone as &s;he felt the force &amp; fierce|nes of the fire to touch hir, &s;he cried out twice &s;aying, ala&s;&s;e, ala&s;&s;e, and hauing called vppon God, euen in &s;hort &s;pace the &s;moke and vapor of the fire choked hir, that &s;he was &s;oone dead, and &s;o continued in the fire vntil &s;he was con|&s;umed to a&s;hes. Now for&s;omuch as the mo&s;t part of people coulde neither &s;ee the pri&s;oner, nor knowe the true circum&s;taunce of her of|fence, whereby her death iu&s;tly en&s;ued, it is thought conuenient that the &s;ame be here ex|pre&s;&s;ed, to the intent &s;he may bee an example to others to auoide the like wickednes.</P>
<P>This per&s;on whome I can neither call by the name of maide, wife nor widowe, for that &s;he was neuer maried, and yet hath had three or foure children, did remain in and about the Borough of Southwarke a long time, and was when &s;he died about two &amp; forty yeeres of age, and about two yeeres &s;ince came into the &s;eruice of one <HI>Lewes Bell</HI> a Water-man
<PB N="8" REF="6"> dwelling on the banke &s;ide n&eacute;ere the Clinke, he beeing a man of good reputation &amp; calling, and one that hath borne the mo&s;t part of offi|ces to be borne among the inhabitants there|about, and before &s;he came into this mannes &s;eruice, &s;he had dwelt with a Mi&s;tres within Chain-gate, whom &s;he robbed of ten pounds, yet conuaied it &s;o &s;ecretly, as &s;he went vn&s;u|&s;pected for the &s;ame: &s;he heing new come into the &s;eruice of the &s;aid <HI>Bell,</HI> who had an hone&s;t aged woman to his wife then liuing, which this wicked per&s;on &s;oone di&s;patched with poi|&s;on, wherof &s;hortly after her mi&s;tres died, and nothing &s;ayd nor &s;u&s;pected. This was about two yeres &s;ince. After this, as &s;ome &s;aith, &s;he per&s;waded her &s;elfe, that her mai&s;ter woulde haue married her, which he neuer promi&s;ed to do, nor intended anie &s;uch matter towardes her, neither was there anie rea&s;on he &s;houlde &s;o do, becau&s;e &s;he was ill fauoured, vnhand|&s;ome, and fooli&s;h, her looks were crabbed, her behauiour vn&s;eemly, and in qualities &s;lutti&s;h: yet inwardly &s;ubtill, &s;o that about Mid&s;om|mer la&s;t her mai&s;ter married a widow, being a very hone&s;t and comely woman, and of rea|&s;onable yeeres, whom as it &s;eemeth, this bad creature &s;ecretly enuied for marrying hir ma|&s;ter, and &s;hortly after this woman &s;el &s;icke in verie grieuous &s;ort, &amp; lay langui&s;hing a long
<PB N="9" REF="6"> time of the &s;aide di&s;ea&s;e, which in deede was poi&s;oned potage, wherof &s;he did eate but a lit|tle, wherevpon her eies watered grieuou&s;ly, and her &s;tomacke was very ill. This woman had two wenches in the hou&s;e dwelling with her, the yonger of them &s;&eacute;eing her mi&s;tres &s;et by the potage, tooke them and did eate them, whereof &s;oone after &s;he &s;welled vpward in the throate and &s;o died. This was about Saint <HI>Iames</HI> tide la&s;t. The bigger girle hauing had &s;ome ta&s;t of the &s;ame, &s;ickned al&s;o, &s;o that the haire fell off from her head, and broke out in verie ill fauoured &s;ort, but being &s;trong of na|ture e&s;caped death. All which notwith&s;tan|ding, there aro&s;e no doubte nor &s;u&s;pition of poi&s;oning, by her to be attempted, vntil about Barthelmew tide following, at which time her mi&s;tres being recouered of her grieuous and &s;trange di&s;ea&s;e, tooke occa&s;ion to put her awaie, willing her to prouide for her &s;elf, and &s;o &s;he did. Whereupon on the daie before, &s;he &s;hould departe from her &s;aid mi&s;tres &s;eruice, &s;he hauing carried awaie all her apparell and furniture, promi&s;ed that night to come and &s;up with her ma&s;ter and mi&s;tres, and to giue them a po&s;&s;et: &s;he being departed, there was mi&s;&s;ed the &s;umme of fifteene &s;hillings, which by her had beene taken forth of a cubborde: Whereupon the good man &s;ent his wife to
<PB N="10" REF="7"> &s;&eacute;eke hir, whom with much a doe &s;he brought home, where the good man in &s;earching her, found the mo&s;t part of his wiues monie, and be&s;ides, found a paper of poi&s;on in her bo&s;om, which he did not know to be poi&s;on, vntyll one of his neighbours being a Surgion, was &s;ent for to &s;&eacute;e the &s;ame, who tolde him that it was poi&s;on, and although they did demand of her to what v&s;e &s;he bought or kept it, yet would &s;he not confe&s;&s;e the &s;ame, vntill they brought her before a Iu&s;tice, to whom with much a do, &amp; the &s;ecret working of Almighty God, who wold haue the truth of &s;uch wicked+nes come to light, &s;he confe&s;&s;ed as followeth. Fir&s;t, that &s;he had with poi&s;on murdered her olde mi&s;tres, about Saint <HI>Andrews</HI> tide was twelue moneth. Item, that &s;he had once at|tempted to murther her mi&s;tres now beeing, with poi&s;on, whereof &s;he &s;el &s;icke, but recoue|red againe, by giuing her poi&s;on in a me&s;&s;e of pottage. Item, that her mi&s;tres eating but two or thr&eacute;e &s;poonefulls of the &s;aid potage, did &s;et them by and would eate no more, and then the yonger wench in the hou&s;e did eate vp the re&s;t of the &s;ayd pottage, and &s;oone after dyed thereof. Item, &s;he confe&s;&s;ed that &s;he had ta|ken ten pounds from hir mi&s;tres that &s;he &s;er|ued before within Chaine-gate, and that &s;hee had di&s;per&s;ed the &s;ame, and lent it foorth to
<PB N="11" REF="7"> &s;undrie per&s;ons. She al&s;o confe&s;&s;ed that &s;hee had taken the &s;ayde fift&eacute;ene &s;hillings foorth of her mi&s;tres cubbord, by taking her key from vnder her beds head when &s;he was a &s;leepe. And la&s;tly being demanded what her intent was to do with that poi&s;on, which was found about her, &s;he confe&s;&s;ed that her intent and meaning was euen that night to haue poi&s;o|ned her mi&s;tres, by putting the &s;ame poi&s;on into the po&s;&s;et which was promi&s;ed to be ea|ten at her mi&s;tres hou&s;e that night. Where|of mu&s;t n&eacute;eds haue en&s;ued farre greater dan|ger both to her mi&s;tres, &amp; to her ma&s;ter, with the re&s;t of the hou&s;eholde, had not God verie miraculou&s;ly, as you haue heard before pre|uented it.</P>
<P>Thus haue you hearde howe the deuill wrought with this wicked creature from time to time. Fir&s;t he allured her by idlene&s;&s;e and fle&s;hly de&s;ires to become incontinent, and to leade a verie loo&s;e and la&s;ciuious life, by ha|uing one childe after another, and yet neuer married nor liuing &s;ati&s;fied, but liued lyke a dog that &s;til returned to his olde vomit. Here|vpon a couetous de&s;ire of wealth made her pilfer and picke from one mi&s;tres and then from another, &s;o that for want of the feare of God, one &s;inne tooke hold of another, and for|ced her to murther an hone&s;t olde woman
<PB N="12" REF="8"> with poi&s;on, and &s;o from her to another, &s;ee|king to worke confu&s;ion vpon confu&s;ion, vn|till God by his wonderfull prouidence did bring the &s;ame to light, and forced her owne heart and tongue to reueale her abhominable wickednes, onely to bring her &s;elfe to &s;hame and confu&s;ion, which by &s;entence of iu&s;tice was compa&s;&s;ed, who awarded her due iudg<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ment agr&eacute;eable to her wicked de&s;erts.</P>
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