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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87450	The iust reward of rebels, or The life and death of Iack Straw, and Wat Tyler, who for their rebellion and disobedience to ther king and country, were suddenly slaine, and all their tumultuous rout covercome and put to flight. Whereunto is added the ghost of Iack Straw, as he lately appeared to the rebells in Ireland, wishing them to forbeare and repent of their divellish and inhumane actions against their lawfull King and country.		1642 (1642)	Wing J1241; Thomason E136_1; ESTC R207765	14,375	14

ingrossed in their severall Charters and thrice sent unto him by the King not any of them seemed to please him therefore his Majesty sent unto him a Knight Sir Iohn Newton a man both of great courage and discretion not to command but to entreat him as from the King his Soveraigne for his great insolence and pride was knowne to all that hee would vouchsafe to come and speake with him about his owne demands which should be inserted into his Charter of which demands by this one which I will set downe it may manifestly appeare how uncharit●ble how unchristianlike all the rest were First he desired to have a Commission sealed to behead all Lawyers of what degree soever from the highest to the lowest all Escheaters or whatsoever by reason of their office communicated with the Law For his apprehension was and if this could be compassed all affaires should be ordered according to the fancie of the Commons and to change the Monarchy into an Anarchy For it is said that but the day before he had made his boast putting his hand to his lips that before foure dayes were come about all the Lawes of England should proceed from his owne mouth Now whilst the Knight importuned him for dispatch that he might returne his answer to the King his Master he contracted his brow and in great rage replyed If thou beest so hastie go get thee back unto him and say I will come unto him at mine owne pleasure and leisure Notwithstanding which hee followed on horseback with a stately and slow pace casting his eyes about him as he rode as glorying in the multitude and that he had been the Prince of all that people In his way hee was encountred by a Doublet-maker who had delivered in threescore doublets to the chiefe of the Commons by his appointment and demanded for them thirtie marks to whom the Captaine made answer Friend content thy selfe for a while I will see thee well and fully satisfied before this day be fully ended He then set forward leaving his company behind'him and came so neare unto the King that his horse brushed against the Kings horses crupper and the first words hee spake unto him were these Sir King seest thou all you people Yes answered the but wheresore doest thou ask me that question Because replyed he they be all at my commandement and have sworne to me their faith and obedience to do all things what soever I shall impose on them In good time answered the King I beleeve it well Then said the Rebell Beleevest thou King that this people and as many mo as be in this Citie at my command and service will depart from thee thus without thy Charters No said the King you shall willingly receive them and they shall be presently delivered unto you In this Interim the Lord Mayor for his last noble and memorable enterprise worthy to be eternized to second his former pecce of service sped him instantly into the City and cryed out aloud You good and faithfull Citizens arme your selves with all speed possible and helpe to assist your King and Soveraigne who is in grear perill to be slaine and ayde me your Major and Governour who am in the danger or if you will not suffer me yet leave not his select Majesty destitute Which when the well-minded Cityzens heard in whose loyall brest the love of their King was ingraven they presently to the number of a thousand armed themselves and staid in the streets attending for some Captaine to order them and leade them towards the King at which instant came to them a noble Knight and a Souldier who was also a freeman of the City him they intreated to take upon him that charge to which he willingly and most cheerefully assented the greatest part of them were under his conduct the rest were commanded by the Lord Major one Preducus Dalbret and some other Knight in the story not named These with this ayde presented themselves before the King who greatly rejoycing in the faith and loyalty of his armed Citizens presently with these fresh forces compassed the Rebells about Now there appeared by Gods wonderfull goodnes a sudden and unexpected alteration for the seditious Commons who but some few minutes before stood uppon such peremptory and proud tearmes with the King himselfe finding themselves thus invironed flung downe their weapons at once and with a loud unanimous voyce cryed pardon pardon such as could escape out of the Ring fled and hid themselves some in Cellers others in the Corne fields Woods and Ditches c. They being now at the Kings mercy the Lords and the rest about desirous to take some vengeance of their former insolency besought his Majesty that for example sake he would command some hundred or two of their heads to bee strunk off to whose request he would no way condescend but gave order that their Charter which was sealed should be delivered unto them which was to prevent a new Insurrection as knowing that Essex was not yet altogether pacified nor Kent quieted The Commons having gotten their Charter and much taken with the Kings extraordinary and unexpected mercy they left both City and Suburbs and departed homeward when the King calling the Lord Major before him he Knighted him in the Field as he had most worthily deserved The like he did to Nicholas Brember Iohn Philpot Robert Lawnd Iohn Standish Nicholas Twisord and Adam Frances Aldermen and after entred the City in great state where he was joyfully received from thence he went to visite his Mother who was at that time lodged in the Tower Royall in a part thereof called the Queenes Wardrope where she had remained for the space of two dayes and two nights the time of this combustion much bewayling and lamenting her Sons imminent danger whom when she saw to returne safe she was greatly comforted and with teares of joy said O my deare Son what sorrowes have I suffered for you even to this houre who answered againe Certainly Madam I knew it well but now rejoyce and praise God with me for I have this day recovered mine Heritage and the Realm of England which I had almost lost Then he gave present Commandements that the Arch-Bishops head should be taken from off the Bridge and Wat Tylers to be set in the place His Majesty further in remembrance of this joyfull day and for the Cities greater honour who next under God were his sole deliverers granted that in regard that worthy William Walworth the Lord Major had staine that dangerous Rebell with a Dagger a bloudy Dagger should therefore be added unto the Armes of the City and to be placed in the right quarter of the Escutchion as an addition to the Armes and to celebrate the memory of a Lord Majors valiant act for before that time the City bore onely a Crosse without a Dagger And where it hath bin vulgarly bruted that the Rebell whom Sir William Walworth flew was not Wat Tyler but Iack

Straw that doubt is thus easily reconcil'd for Iack Straw was not taken till after the death of Wat Tyler being then apprehended with divers others the chiefe of that horrible sedition who being brought into the Guild-hall where the Lord Major sate in Judgement having pronounced the Sentence of death upon them he openly spake to Iack Straw as followeth John behold thy Sentence is past and thine unavoidable death at hand for thou hast not many houres to live wherefore I intreat thee since there is no way to save thy body that for thy soules health thou wilt now without extenuating thy grievous fault which is inexcusable that thou betwixt God and thy Conscience resolve this Honourable Bench what the utmost of your purpose was and to what end you so mutinously assembled the Commons who making a sad pause to this demand The Lord Major againe thus seconded it I speake to thee as to a dying man who now ought to study for the peace of thy soule and not dissemble at all either with God or man at which words recollecting his spirits hee returned this answer following Now I confesse in vaine it booteth me not either to lye or make any delatory or evasive excuse understanding that if I should so doe I might indanger my soule unto the greater torments and besides I hope to obtaine two benefits by speaki●g truth First that I thereby may somewhat benefit the Common-weale in the future and next according to your promises I hope to bee assisted by your prayers that God would be mercifull unto my soule And therefore thus I deliver unto you my conscience faithfully and without deceite Being assembled upon blacke Heath at that time when we sent for the King to come unto us our resolution was to have slaine all the Nobles Knights and Esquires about him and to have taken him into our own custody to the intent that the people might have repayred unto us with more boldnesse and lesse feare since we would have made them to beleeve that whatsoever we did was by his Majesties Authority And next when we had got such power that we needed not to be affraid of any other forces which might be raised in the Kingdome our purpose was then to have slaine all such of the Nobility as might either have given Counsell or made any resistance against us But more in particular wee would have massacred all the Knights of the Rhodes and St. Iohns Knights or burned their houses over their eares And lastly we would have slaine the King himselfe and all Gentlemen of any revenue throughout the Kingdome with all Arch-Bishops Bishops Abbots Priors Monks Canons and Parsons of Churches reserving onely some few Mendicants or begging Fryers they being sufficiently able for saying Masse and the administration of the Sacraments And having made a cleare riddance of all those unnecessary Members of the Common-weale for so at that time it pleased us to call them wee would have abrogated the old Lawes and devised new according to our own fancies by which the whole Realm should be governed for we had determined to have divided the Kingdome and to have made Kings amongst our selves as Wat Tyler in Kent my selfe in Essex and others in other places but by reason that these our designes were prevented by the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury who disswaded the King from comming amongst us we vowed by all meanes to insidiate his life and to dispatch him out of the way which we did after And further the self same evening that Wat Tyler was slaine in Smithfield we resolutely determined having the greatest part of the Commons of the City bent to assist us in the Act to set fire in foure severall parts of the same at once and to have divided the spoile amongst us and this saith he was our resolved purpose and concluded on by all as God may helpe me now at my last end After this Confession made he with many others of his late faction were lead unto the place of Execution whose heads being struck off his was put upon a pole and set upon the Bridge next unto Wat Tylers Here I might enter into a large discourse of the horridnesse of Rebellion as that of Ireland whose distressed estate is very lamentable whose rebellion and outrages I hope will be considered and they speedily by the permission of the Almighty receive their just rewards Rebellion can no way be better illustrated then by the sad and lamentable effects expressed in the premisses I will therefore conclude with that of the Prophet Samuel Rebellion is as the sin of Witchcraft and Transgression is wickednes and Idolatry The Ghost of Iack Straw I That did Act on Smithfields bloudy stage In second Richards young and tender age And there receiv'd from Walworths fatall hand The stab of death which life did countermand And made an equall to the Tragedy Of Leyden a Dutch Taylors villany Not that I ere consorted with that slave My Rascall rout you in this Story have But that in name and nature we agree An English Taylor I Dutch Rebell he In my Consort I had the Priest Iohn Ball Mynter the Clerke unto his share did fall He to have all things common did intend And my Rebellion was to such an end Even in a word we both were like appointed To take away the sword from Gods Annoynted And for examples to the Worlds last day Our Traytors name shall never weare away The fearefull paths that he and I have trod Have bin accursed in the sight of God Here in this Register who ere doth looke Which may be rightly call'd The Bloudy Booke Shall see how base and rude these villaines be That doe attempt like Leyden plot like me And now the Divell in whose name they 're gone Payes them Hells wages when their worke is done Treason is bloudy bloud thereon attends Traytors are bloudy and have bloudy ends * Meaning the Irish Rebels To you my brother Rebells in like kind That doe usurpe authority you 'l find The same reward which we shall feele too soone A horrid Conscience at the day of Doome Which to avoyd let this my Ghost intreat Yes love your King feare Heavens Tribunall Seat So shall your soules without disturbance rest Till Christ shall come to make you fully blest FINIS