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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13004	A Declaration of the lyfe and death of Iohn Story, late a Romish canonicall doctor, by professyon		1571 (1571)	STC 23297; ESTC S524	11,233	32

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 iudgemēt 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 demaūded 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 frō 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 A Pothecarye 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 But now that it hath pleased Almightye God to call mée to accompt of my .lxvij. yeres which now must haue an end and this corrupt body must féele a temporall punisshement for my sinnes haue deserued it as I said before I am now come to the proofe of this Medicine Dauid when he had commytted Adulterie with Barsabe the wyfe of Vrias whose Husbād 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 as I did likewise before the Quenes Cōmissioners Sir Thomas Wroth Maister Thomas Wilbraham late Recorder of the Citie of London M. Peter Osborne