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A14606	The arraignement and execution of the late traytors with a relation of the other traytors, which were executed at Worcester, the 27. of Ianuary last past.	T. W., fl. 1606.	1606 (1606)	STC 24916; ESTC S106284	7,449	30

THE ARAIGNEMENT AND EXECVTJON of the late Traytors with a relation of the other Traytors which were executed at Worcester the 27. of Ianuary last past LONDON Imprinted for Ieffrey Chorlton and are to be solde at his shop at the Great North dore of Powles 1606. TO All faithful and obedient Subiects GEntle Reader the horrible and abhominable Treason of the Traytours lately executed with many others some already executed at Worcester and others their confederates whome God of his mercie at his good pleasure bring to light and giue the due punishment of their deserts This treason J say so horrible and detestable in the sight both of God and man for which their bewitched hearts not hauing that true repentance that in true Christians may be required I haue set thee downe a briefe discourse touching the Arraignement of these that were here in London and Westminster vpon iust condemnation executed vpon Thursday and Friday being the 30. and 31. dayes of Ianuarie last past to the ioy of all true subiectes that liuing vnder so blessed and gratious a King may reioyce to see the cutting off of all such accursed traytors as entend the death of his Maiestie and subuersion of the whole kingdome and so beseeching God to roote out all such wicked weedes as may bee hurtfull in so good a ground as this our land which J hope dooth containe a world of louing Subiectes vnto his Maiestie and their Countrie which do continually pray to God toblesse his Maiesty with our gracious Queene Prince Henrie and the rest of his royall Progeny with long life a blessed peace and neuer ending happinesse to continue his holy worde and blessed Peace among vs and to giue vs all grace with one heart euer to loue serue him in all true faithfulnesse J end Your louing friend T. VV. A Briefe Discourse vpon the Arraignement and Execution of the 8. Traytors Digbie the two Winters Grant Ruckwood Caies Bates and Johnson alias Faulks foure of which were executed in Paules Churchyeard in London vpon Thursday being the 30. of Ianuary the other 4. in the olde Pallace in Westminster ouer against the Parliament house vpon Friday next following NOt to aggrauate the sorrow of the liuing in the shame of the dead but to disswade the idolatrously blinded from seeking their owne destruction in the way to damnation I haue here briefely set downe a discourse of the behauiour and cariage of the eight persons afore named from the time of their imprisonmēt to the instant of their death the nature of their offence the little shew of their sorrow their vsage in prison and their obstinacie to their end First for their offence it is odious in the eares of all humaine Creatures that it could hardlie be belieued that so many monsters in nature shoulde carry the shapes of men Murther oh it is the crying sinne of the world and such an inten ded Murther as had it taken effect would haue made a worlde to crie and therefore the horror thereof must needes bee hatefull to the whole world to heare of it Men that saw them goe to their Execution did in a sorte grieue to see such proper men in shape goe to so shamefull an end but the end was proper to men of so vnproper minds who to satisfie ablinded conceite would forget their duties to God and their King and vnnaturally seeke the ruine of their Natiue Countrie They are said to be borne vnhappie that are not some way profitable to their Countrie and then hovv accursed are they borne that seeke the destruction of the whole Kingdome Papistes will perhaps idlely say it was a bloody execution but in respect of their desert in the blood they entended to haue shedde it was a mercifull punishment For if Iezabel a Queen for seeking the murther of one priuate man was throwne out of a window and fedde vppon by dogs How can these people bee thought to be cruelly vsed that could entend and practise so horrible a villany as the death of so gracious a King Queene and Prince so Noble Peeres the ruine of so flourishing a Kingdome But since my entent is chieflie to make report of the manner of their demeanors from the prison to the Arraignement from thence to Execution I will truely set downe what I haue gathered touching the same After their apprehension in the Countrie and brought vp to London vpon the Apparance of their foule treason before his Maiesties most Honorable Councell they were by their commaundement committed to his Maiesties Tower of London where they wanted nothing that in the mercy of a Christian prince was thought fit and indeed too good for so vnchristian offenders For in the time of their imprisonment they seemed to feele no part of feare either of the wrath of God the doome of Iustice or the shame of sinne but as it were with seared Consciences senceles of grace liued as not looking to die or not feeling the sorrow of their sinnes and now that no subtill Foxe or rather Goose that would faine seame a Foxe shall haue cause to say or thinke that the Iustice of the lawe hath not beene truely ministred according to the rules of the diuine will hehold here a true report as I said before of their behauiour and carririage from their apprehension to their imprisonment and from condemnation to their execution In the time of their imprisonment they rather feasted with their sinnes then fasted with sorrow for them were richly apparrelled fared deliciously and tooke Tabacco out of measure with a seeming carelesnesse of their crime as it were daring the Law to passe vppon them but the Almightie and our most mercifull good God first reuealed them His Maiesties and his Counsailes carefull head apprehended them the law plainely did discipher them Iustice gaue iudgement on them and death made an end of them but to come to their Araignment and to deliuer the manner of their behauiour after they went from the Tower by water come to Westminster before they came into the hall they made some halfe howres stay or more in the Star chamber whether being brought and remaining til the Court was all ready to heare them and according to the lawe to giue iudgement on them it was strange to note their carriage euen in their verie countenances Some hanging downe the heade as if their heartes were full of doggednes and other forcing a sterne looke as if they would feare death with a frowne neuer seeming to pray except it were by the dozen vpon their beades and taking Tabacco as if that hanging were no trouble to them saying little but in commendation of their conceited religion crauing mercy of neyther God nor the king for their offences and making their Consciences as it were as wide as the worlde and to the verie gates of Hell to be the cause of their hellish courses to make a worke meritorious Now being come into the hall and vppon the scaffold at the barre standing