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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10235	A true relation, of the lives and deaths of two most famous English pyrats, Purser, and Clinton who lived in the reigne of Queene Elizabeth. Together with the particular actions of their takings, and undertakings with other pleasant passages which hapned before their surprizall worth the observing.	Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.	1639 (1639)	STC 20512; ESTC S120267	11,875	40

in the relation howsoever this fellow was a Sayler and thought to bee a favourite of that piraticall faction But enough of this discourse which is as a merry passage to please the Reader and now I procéed in the next Chapter to tell you how they were surprised and by whom Chap. 4. The manner how they were taken and by whom and what manner of death they dyed and where They were Arraigned at Saint Margerets in South-warke convicted and condemned and two dayes after brought by the Officers out of the Marshalsees with a silver Oare borne before them and conducted through South-warke over the Bridge through London and so to Wapping and to the place of execution there where they appeared as brave in habite as bold in spirit some of their garments they then wore they distributed amongst their private friends who came to see them dye that they might remember them after their deaths Many questions were asked them concerning their Piracies which they punctually resolved desiring first pardon of all men whom they had wronged and then remission of their sinnes from God whom they had most heinously offended when imbracing one the other in their armes it seemed they no more ioyfully lived together than they were willing to dye together and so being at once turned off from the Ladder it appeared to all the multitude that were then present that they could not live more irregularly than they dyed resolutely and so there they hanging till from that ebbe two Tydes had overwhelmed their bodies which were after taken downe and committed to Christian buriall And thus you have heard the true relation of of the lives and deaths of the two most famous English Pirats of that age Purser and Clinton The chiefest and most remarkable passage in all this time was William Lord Somerset Earle of Worcester who sent Embassadour into France was likewise to stand instead of her Maiesty for baptising of the Kings daughter there her Maiesty sent with him a Font of pure gold for that same purpose weighing three hundred and twenty sixe ounces At the Christning he gave the child to name Elizabeth and returned into England atter he and his traine had bin royally entertained Likewise at his passage by sea into England he had notice of divers sea Pirats which kept the narrow seas did much harme and outrage by robberies they were so bold that they attempted the robbing of the same ship the Earle of Worcester was in where hee lost divers goods of great valew Complaint was made by him to her Maiesty and forthwith was there three good ships whereof one was her Maiesties called the Swallow which was appointed to be the Admirall under the command of William Holstocke Esquire Controuller of her Maiesties ships where hee did such good service that he scoured the narrow Seas and tooke and fired twenty ships and Barkes of sundry Nations which were all Pirats as English French and Flemish he apprehended in those vessels the number of 900 men of severall Nations and sent them bound to wards Sand witch Dover I le of Wight and Portsmouth whereof three of them that were in this company robbed the Earle of Worcester who were all shortly after executed at the I le of Wight and some of them in other places Also at the same time the aforesaid William Holstocke did rescue and take from the abovesaid Pirats fleet other Merchants Ships which were well fraughted with divers commodities that they had newly taken and were their prises all which he set free both with their goods and vessels and for the space of three yeares all was in a quiet and peaceable manner none plundred or robbed but a free passage was too and fro in all parts and places of the Coasts of England One more strange accident I will relate which our Histories and Chronicles doth afford for truth which is of a terrible earthquake which hapned in London and almost generally throughout England that caused such amazement of the people as was wonderfull for the time and caused them to make their earnest prayers unto Almighty God for their safe deliverance in such tempestuous stormes The great Clocke bell in the Pallace at Westminster strucke of it selfe against the hammer with the violence of the earthquake as divers clockes and bels in the City else where did the like The Gentlemen of the Temple being at supper ran from the Tables and out of their Hall in a great maze there did fall a peece of the Temple Church at that time and divers stones from the Church of St. Pauls London And at Christ-Church in the Sermon time a stone fell from the roofe of the Church and killed an Apprentise and hurt another so that they both dyed in the space of foure houres Divers others were sore hurt and much wounded with running out of the Church Likewise in this earthquake many Chimnies in the City were falne downe and many houses much shaken and rent by the violence of this storme This earthquake continued in or about London not above one quarter of an houre and was no more felt or heard But East-ward in Kent and on the Sea coast it was felt three times as long Moreover it is credibly told of many honest men that five miles from Blonsdon in Wilt-shiere a cry of hounds were heard in the aire the selfe same day that the earthquake was and the noyse was so great that was made that they seemed to be three or foure score couple of hounds whereat divers Gentlemen tooke their Greyhounds thinking that some had bin hunting in the Chase yet some of them that went out of their houses seeing nothing below abroad cast up their eyes towards the skies and there they espied in the aire five or sixe hounds perfectly all which in a more ample and large discourse thou maist finde in Howes Chronicle Divers other earthquakes hath hapned in former yeares which for brevity sake I will omit because I feare they will prove distastfull but let us all thinke of them and be mindfull of Gods iudgements for they are not to be slighted or cast behind us but let us know that they bee warnings sent from God to cause us to repent and forsake our evill wayes FINIS