Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	bring_v	hell_n	sin_n	4,853	5	4.8758	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02794	Strange and wonderfull things. Happened to Richard Hasleton, borne at Braintree in Essex, in his ten yeares trauailes in many forraine countries. Penned as he deliuered it from his ovvne mouth	Hasleton, Richard.; Barley, William, d. 1614.	1595 (1595)	STC 12925; ESTC S106122	19,287	32

ropes which were fastened to my armes and thighes Now the woman which was present being interpretor began to perswade me to yéelde and confesse the faith of the Church of Rome I answered if it were the will of God that I should end my life vnder their cruell hands I must be content but it it please him he is able to deliuer me if there were ten thousands against me Then the tormentor as he was commaunded began to wrest the ropes which he did by little and little to augment my paines and to haue them indure the longer but in the end he drew them with such violence as though he would haue plucked my foure quarters in sunder and the●e stayed a good space yet to declare their tyrannicall malice thinking my torment not sufficient he added more powring water thorow the Cane which was in my mouth by little and little which I was constrained either to let downe or to haue my breath stopped vntill they had tunned in such quantitie as was not tollerable to indure which pained me extreamely yet not satisfied they tooke and wet a linnen cloath and laid it ouer my mouth till I was almost strangled when my body being thus ouercharged with such aboundance of water after they had thus stopped my breath with the wet cloth suddenlie with the force of my breath and that my stomack was so much ouercharged the water gushed out and bare away the cloath as if it had béene the force of a condict spoute When the Inquisitor saw that all this would not make me yéeld he commanded the tormentor to winde the corde on my left arme more straig●t which put me to horrible paines and immediatly the roape burst in sunder Then said the Inquisitor yea is he so strong I wi●l make him yéeld and commaunded the tormentor to put too a new roape Then the woman againe bad me yéeld saying it were better to yéeld then to die so miserable a death but I besought Almightie God to ease me of my paines and to forgiue me my sinnes answering her that though they had power ouer my body yet there was no torment should compell me to yéeld to their idolatrie whereby I might bring my soule in danger of hell fire Then the Inquisitor asked her what I said she answered that I had said I would neuer submit my selfe to the Church of Rome then did he most vehemently charge me to yéeld and submit my selfe to the Romish Church otherwise he would pluck off one of my armes Whereupon I denying still the tormentor in most cruell maner wrested the r●pes as if he would haue ●ent my body in sunder I being now in vntolerable paines and looking for nothing but present death cryed out in the extremity o● my a●guish Now farewell wife and children and farewell England and so not able to vtter one word more lay euen sencelesse The Inquisitor asked the woman againe what I said she layd her hand vpon my head perceiuing that I was spéechlesse tolde him I was dead wherefore the Tormentor loosed the ropes vnbound my hands and féete and caried me vnto a chamber which they te●med S. Walters chamber Where I c●mming to my selfe and receiuing some sence and reason but could haue no féeling of any lim or io●nte Thus I lay in a most lamentable and pittifull manner for fiue dayes hauing a continuall issue of bloude and water forth of my mouth all that space and béeing so féeble and weake by reason of my torments that I could take no sustenance till the sixt day a little recouering my strength they gaue me a little quantity of bread and wine ●oo together and presently the very same day they caried me forth into t●e City and set me vpon an Asses backe and whipped me thorow out euery streete of the City of Maiorque giuing me to the number of fiue hundred lashes which made the bloud to runne downe my miserable carcase in such abundance that it dropped at the belly of the Asse to the ground Now there were caried with me about the Citty very many harlots and whores and other malefactors which had offended the law but none punished like me After this they caryed me to the chamber from whence I came where I lay without all worldly comforte Can any man which vnderstandeth the absurd blindnesse and wilfull ignorance of these Spani●● tyrants or Romish monsters thinke them to be of the true church which defend their faith with fire sworde and hellish torments without all remorse or pitty as you may perceiue by a manifest triall here set downe to the open viewe of the world for when these helhounds had tormented this miserable creature as you haue heard with a monsterous and most vnchristian kinde of torment which he indured for the space of thrée howe●s till being at the very poynt of death and ready to yeeld vp the ghost they not yet satisfied with these torments which he had suffered already reserued his life minding to increase his paines which they were nothing slacke to performe so l●ng as he remayned in their power Now the second night a●ter that they had whipped me about the city as aforesayd about midnight I recounting to my selfe in what m●sery I both did and h●d remained I thought to put in practise once againe to get my libertie crauing of the Lord with heartie prayer to assist me with his mighty hand And immediatly searching about I found an olde Iron stub with the which I brake an hole thorow the chamber wall and crept through 〈◊〉 an other chamber where I felt in the darke many péeces of plate which I little regarded after I found manie Towels and Table napkins Then séeking further I found a long Cane whereon there hung many puddings and Sauceges I plucked downe the Cane but had little minde on the victuall Then I found certaine kniues then I espied some light at a great window in a Garret or loft ouer me wherefore I tied a crooked knife to the Cane and thrust vp a long Towell and with the knife at the end of the Cane I drew the Towell about a barre of the window and drew it to me and with that towell I did climbe vp into the windowe but then I could not get forth betwéene the barres wherefore I digged forth one of the barres and tyed my towels and napkins together end to end and fastned one end to a barre of the windowe and then did slide downe by them till I came within thrée or foure fathom of the ground when the towels brake in sunder and I fell downe into a Well which was direct vnder me where I was almost drowned yet it pleased God to deliuer me And then being in the city without the castell w●lle● I knowing no other way to get out went againe to the towne ditch where I got thorow the water gate with lesse perrill then before by reason there was lesse water then was the other time Then went I with all spéede

for religi●n he is called to answere before no ●●en assembly but onely in the presence of the Inquisitor the Secretarie and the Solic●●●● whom they terme the Broker the 〈◊〉 is as I take it be●●use they doubt that very many of their owne people 〈◊〉 confesse the Gospel if they did but 〈◊〉 and vnderstand their absurd dealing Againe to the matter because it was so secret they v●ged me to speake the more then he inquired whether I 〈◊〉 euer bin conf●st I said yes he demaunded to whom I said to God he asked me if I had euer confessed to any Frier I said no for I do vtterly defie them for how can he forgiue me my sinnes which is himselfe a sinner as all other men are Yes sayd he he which confesseth himselfe to a Frier who is a Father may haue remission of his sinnes by his mediation which I said I would neuer beléeue Wherefore séeing they could s●duce me by no meanes to 〈◊〉 to their abhominable id●latrie the Secretary cried Away with him the Inquisitor and he ●rowned very angerly on me for the aunswers which I had giuen and said they would make me tell an other tale So at the ringing of a little Bell the Kéeper came and caried me to warde againe At my first examination w●en the Kéeper should lead me away the Inquisitor did blesse me with the Crosse but neuer after Two dayes a●ter was I brought and set againe vpon a stoole before the Inquisitor he bad me aske misericordiam I tolde him I would craue mercie of Iesus Christ who died for my sinnes other misericordiam I would craue none Then he commanded me to knéele before the Aultar I said I would but not to pray to any image for yo●r Altar so adorned with many painted images which were fashioned by the hands of sinfull men which haue mouthes and speake not eares and heare not nosesand smell not han●s and handle not séete haue they and walke not c which God dot● not allow at his Altar for he hath ●tterly condemned them by his word Then he said I had béene wrong taught for said he whosoeuer shall s●● these figures in earth may the better remember him in heauen whose likenesse it doth represent who would be a mediator to God for vs but I replied that all images were an abhemination to the Lord for he hath condemned them in expresse words by his owne mouth saying Thou shalt not make thy selfe any grauen image c. Yea said he but we haue néede of a Mediator to make intercession for vs for we are vnworthy to pray to God our selues because we are vile sinners I sayde there was no mediato● but Iesus Christ where a●ter many absurd reasons and vaine perswasions he tooke a pause Then I asked him why he kept me so l●ng in prison which neuer committed offence to them knowing very well that I had béene Captaine in Argire néere fiue yeares space saying That when God by his mercifull prouidence had thorow many great dangers set me in a Christian countrie and deliuered me from the cr●elty of the Turkes when I thought to finde such fauour as one Christian oweth to another I found them now more cruell then the Turkes not knowing any cause why The cause said he is because the King hath warres with the Quéene of England for at that instant there was their Armie prepared ready to go for England wherevpon they would diuers times giue me reprochefull words saying that I should héere shortly of their a●riuall in England with innumerable vaine bragges which I omit for breuitie Then did I demande if there were not peace betwéene the king and the Quéenes Maiestie whether they would kéepe me still yea said he vnlesse thou wilt submit thy selfe to the faith of the Romish Church so he commaunded me away I asked wherefore he sent for me and to send me away not alledging any matter against me he said I should haue no other matter alledged but that which I had spoken with mine owne mouth Then I demanded why they would haue the Romish Church to haue the supremacie whereto he would make no answer Then I asked if they tooke me to be a Christian yes said he in some respect but you are out of the faith of the true Church Then the kéeper tooke me to prison againe and after for the space of thrée wéekes I was brought forth to answer thrée seuerall times euery wéeke at which times they did sometime threaten me with death some while with punishment and many times they attempted to seduce me with ●aire words and promises of great preferment but when they sawe nothing would drawe me from the truth they called me shamelesse Lutherian saying many times sée he is of the verie bloud of Luther he hath his very countenance with many other friuolous spéeches After all this he commaunded to put me in the dungion within the Castell fiue fathem vnder ground giuing me once a day a little bread and water which they let downe in a basket with a rope there remained I one whole yeare lying on the bare ground séeing neither Sunne nor Moone no not hearing man woman or chi●de speake but onely the kéeper which brought my small victuall It happened about the yeares end vpon the feast of Philip and Iacob being the first day of Maye that a prettie boye being the Keepers sonne came to giue me my ordinarie foode which he vsed sometime to do Now when he opened the doore and had let downe the basket I asked who was there he answered by his name saying here is Matthew I asked him where his Father was he is gone to Masse said he so he let downe the trap doore and went his way leauing the roape with the basket hanging still And forasmuch as I lay without all comfort reposing my selfe onely vnto Gods prouidence yet vnwilling to loose any opportenitie that lay in me if God were pleased whereby I might be deliuered So soone as I heard the boye was gone I iumped vp and tooke holde vpon the reape and wound my selfe vp to the doore setting my foote against the wall and with my shoulders did I lift vp the trap doore Now when I was aloft and saw no man for they were gone to sée some ceremonies of their idolatrous exercises in the citie I knew no way to escape away being now in the midst of the way wherefore it was vnpossible to conuey my selfe so secretly but I should be espyed Wherefore for a present shi●t I went secretly into a voide roome of the Caste●l where lay great store of Lime and earth where I tied an old cloth which I had about my head and face to kéepe the dust out of my eyes and eares an● so did I créepe into the lime and couered my selfe so well as I could lying there till toward midnight and then hearing no man stirring I got vp and sought some way to get forth but could finde n●ne Then being greatly perplexed I bent