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[The seuerall executions & confessions, of Iohn Slade & Iohn Bodye: traitours ... 1583]
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R. B., fl. 1583.
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1583
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To the vvorshipfull his very good Freend Maister H.S. WHereas your worship at my last being with you desired mee to let you haue knowledge of the manner of the ende confessions of BODY and SLADE two notorious Traitours I haue according to my promise sent you the true Discourse therof For I being present thereat as you knowe vpon some especial occasiōs haue set down so neere as memorie would serue mee the certaintie therof which you maye be bolde to declare to your Frends for a very trueth notwithstanding the sundry flying tales rumored abroade by the Papists according to their accustomed manner as their affection serueth them I haue sent you the trueth nothing but the trueth and therof you may assuredly perswade your selfe Thus with the continuall desire of your welfare with all yours I commit you to the heauenly protection From Winchester by your Freend to vse R. B. These Gentlemen and Iustices of Peace were present at these Executions M. Robert White Highe Sherife of the Shiere S. William Kingsmell Knight M. Iohn Fisher Iustice of Peace M. William Saint-Iohn Iustice of peace M. Thomas west Sonne to the Lorde Delaware M. Frauncis Cotton Iustice of peace M. William Wright Iustice of peace M. Beniamin Touchbourne Iustice of peace Beside many other Gentlemen of countenaunce and credit ¶ THE EXECVTION AND Confession of Iohn Slade an obstinate and notorious Traitour who was drawen hanged and quartered for highe treason against her Maiestie at Winchester on Wednesday the xxx day of Octob. 1583. ON Wednesdaye beeing the 30 of October Iohn Slade somtime a Scholemaister was drawen vpon a Hurdell frō the prison in Winchester to the market place where the execution was appointed and being come to the aforesaid place and taken off the Hurdell he came and kneeled downe by the gallowes making a crosse with his hande vppon one of the poastes therof and kissed it vsing silent Prayers in latine to him selfe Afterward being come vpon the ladder he beganne in this maner I am come hither this day to suffer death for my faith what faith no rare faith but euen the faith that hath continued from all posterities Wherupon Sir William Kingsmell Knight spake to him as thus Slade doe not thus delude the People with plausible speeches you are come hither to suffer death for high treason against her Maiestie you haue ben lawfully sufficiētly cōuicted therof therfore you are brought to endure the punishment that Law hath assigned you You haue denyed her maiestie to haue any supremacie ouer the Church of Christ in England both in causes Ecclesiasticall and temporall which fact is high treason therfore you are worthy to suffer death in that you will not giue her maiestie her dutie and your allegeaunce Oh Sir William quoth he I will giue her maiestie as mutche as euer hath beene giuen to any Prince in this Realme wil shew her as much dutie as he that is her most obediēt Subiect That do you not answered Sir William Kingsmell for you rob her of her Ecclesiastical and temporal gouernemēt which all Princes hath enioyed and you traiterously take frō her therfore how do you giue her as much as any Prince hath had and howe doe you showe your selfe a subiect in this vnnaturall dealing to preferre a forraine gouernemēt before your owne lawfull Queene Sir sayd Slade the supremacie hath doth belong to the Pope by right euen as from Peter the Pope hath receiued it by diuin prouidēce therefore we must not giue those thinges belōging to god to any other then him alone and because I wil not do otherwise I may saye with the three Children in the firie Ouen and the first of the Widowes seuen Sonnes in the Maccabees Parati sumus mori magis quā patrias Dei leges praeuaticari Then M. Robert White high Sherife of the Shiere sayd to him that he shewed himself very vndutifull to her Maiestie and therfore willed him to aske her forgiuenes O Maister Sherif quoth hee you knowe if Paule and Peter would haue obeyed their Princes they had not suffered death At these words M. Doctor Bennet one of the Chaplains to the right honorable the Lord Treasourer came to him and sayd Slade do not abuse the people thus with these wordes Paule Peter were put to death for religion they were commaunded not to preach in the name of Iesus are you commaunded any such thing Oh Sir answered Slade I would wish you to behaue your self after the maner of a Trewant whose nature is to forget and so would I haue you forget your wicked life begin a new Slade said M. Bennet I come as one that wisheth well to thy soule thou art now at the pits brink consider how highly thou offendest God and likewise howe thou hast trangressed against her Maiestie I desire thee in the bowelles of Christ be not so wilfull loose not that so lightly which he hath bought with his most pretious blood And if my wordes may not preuaile with thee yet for the loue of thine owne soule forsake this damnable opiniō let not that vnworthie Priest be preferred before thine own natural Princesse who is the lawful supreme head of the church next vnder Christ Thou knowest how he hath depriued her of her gouernemēt by his excōmunicatiō wilt thou be so wicked as leane to him and forsake her Sir answered Slade you are very busie in words if the Pope hath done so I think he hath done no more thē he may and then he ought to do for I wil acknowledge no other head of the church but only the Pope and her Maiestie hath no authoritie in tēporall causes likewise but only what hee shall thinke good to allow her At these words the people cried away with the Traitour hang him hāg him Maister Sherife willed him againe to aske her Maiestie forgiuenes Why should I aske her forgiuenes quoth hee wherein haue I offended her Then M. Bennet desired him to commend his soule to God and desire the people to praye for him but he sayd they and hee were not of one faith therfore they should not pray for him I desire al blessed people quoth he to pray for me and all the Saintes blessed Companie of Heauen So after he had staied so long as it pleased himself and had mumbled a many latine praiers silently to himself he was cast beside the ladder and afterward was cut downe quartered according to his Iudgement Finis ††The Execution and Confession of another Notorious Traitour named Iohn Bodye somtime a maister of Arte in Oxeforde who was likewise for high treason against her Maiestie drawen hang◠and quartered at Andouer on Saturday the. 2. of Nouember 1583. IOhn Body a Master of Art somtime in Oxford companion to this Slade was caried from Winchester to Andouer a towne ten miles from Winchester where the Assises were holden where they were condemned There was he on the Saturday following drawen on a Hurdell to 〈◊〉 place of execution and beeing layd on the Hurdell he spake thus O sweete Bed the happiest Bed that euer man laye in thou art welcome to me Then being takē frō the Hurdell hee spake to maister Sherife as concerning a disputation which had passed betweene him Doctor Humfrey about Constantine th'emperour he had written in a sheet of paper certaine Articles in answere to Doctor Hūfrey which he wold haue read before the people but because the time was short he could not read them but gaue them to M. high Sherife that Doctor Humfrey might see thē When the Hangmā put the halter about his neck he sayde Oh blessed Chaine the sweetest Chaine and richest that euer came about any mans neck and so kissing it he suffered the hangman to put it about his neck There was also present Maister Bennet who laboured very Godly and earnestly to disswade him from his euill opiniō but all was 〈◊〉 vaine he was so obstinat and wilfull Hee likewise appealed vpon his faith which he said was the cause of his death but S. William Kingsmel tould him he died for high treason against her Maiestie wherof he had beene sufficiently cōuicted Indeede quoth he I haue ben sufficiently conuicted for I haue ben condēned twice you may make the hearing of a blessed Masse treason or the saying of an Aue Maria treason you may make what you please treason but I haue cōmitted no treason although indeede I suffer the punishmēt due to treason Why quod M. high Sherife you know the Pope hath excōmunicated her Maiestie you forsake her cleaue to him what say you to this you denie her her speciall authoritie and wil not acknowledge her for your lawful Queene Yes quod he in those causes that pertain vnto her I acknowledge her my lawfull Souereigne Queene but for the speciall cause I will abyde a thousand deaths before I cōsent to it if the Pope haue done well let him aunswere it if he haue done ill let him likewise answere it I acknowledge her my lawfull Queene in all temporall causes and none other You shall do wel thē said S. Williā Kingsmell to satisfie the people in the cause of your death because otherwise they may be deluded by your faire speeches You shal vnderstād quoth he good people all that I suffer death for not graunting her M. to be supreme head of Christes Church in Englande which I may not and will not graunt Well thē quoth Maister Sherife aske her maiestie forgiuenes then desire the People to praye for you In troth quoth he I must needs aske her Maiestie forgiuenes for I haue offended her many wayes as in vsing vnlawfull games excesse of apparel and other offences to her lawes but in this matter you shal pardō me And for the People because they I are differēt in religion I wil not haue thē praye for me But I pray God long to preserue her Maiestie in trāquility ouer you euen Queene Elizabeth your Queene and mine and I desire you to obey none other At length saying Iesu Iesu esto mihi Iesu three times hee was put beside the ladder and quartered according to his iudgment FINIS