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A Declaration of the lyfe and death of Iohn Story, late a Romish canonicall doctor, by professyon
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1571
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… TA ·PRVDENTIA· ·DIEV·ET·MON·DROIT· A declaration of the lyfe and Death of Iohn Story Late a Romish Canonicall Doctor by professyon 1571. ¶ Imprinted at London by Thomas Colwell ¶ The speciall Contents of this declaration First wherfore Iohn Story was imprisoned in the Queenes Benche His breaking of that Prison and flyeng into Flaunders His trayterous and naughtie delyng there The cause and maner of his conueyance from thence into Englande The maner of his arainement and Iudgement The maner of his death and execution An Epilogue or short conclusion of his Lyfe 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 Oxfordâ— to reporte all the partes it would requâ—â—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 wheÌ„ 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 Hinkseâ—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 gentlemaÌ„ 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 vpoÌ„ 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 occasioÌ„ 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 coÌ„missioner 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 therexhibited 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 coÌ„mons of EnglaÌ„d 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 theÌ„ 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 coÌ„ferences that he had with such as haue of late rebelled coÌ„spired 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 laiâ— 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 â—â—ssone as he was entered the Shipe the sâ—â—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 heâ— 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 theffect 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 couÌ„saill 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 coÌ„fort 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