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death_n	call_v	die_v	life_n	8,374	5	4.6336	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00810	The bloudy booke, or, The tragicall and desperate end of Sir Iohn Fites (alias) Fitz		1605 (1605)	STC 10930; ESTC S105621	14,005	43

mynd what he had done how greeuouslie he had offended his maker in committing so detestable murthers as also in laying vyolente handes vpon himselfe and withall persvvading him to repent and be content to vse al the best meanes that might be for his recouerie not to continue in his wicked cours But all was one with him he would not liue but die only being desired to aske mercie at Gods hand for his offences which humbly he did he said that he was sorrie for the death of the poore man whom so desperatly he had murdered and whose wife he had so greeuouslie wounded likewise leuing 3. wretched infants vpon the mothers hands And being asked whether he would wilingly giue any thing vnto the poore woman in recompence of the losse of her husband hee was contented to bestowe vpon her an hundred pounds But whither he had any thing in his owne power to giue that knowe not I. For I think if anie thing be giuen it must proceed from his friends goodwils and pitty but so it should be and not otherwise He would oftentimes after he was wounded crie out vpon sir William Courneyes men whose daughter he married that they were come to apprehend him and that they would blow him vp with their gunpouder all which questionlesse proceeded from the guiltinesse of his owne conscience for the wrongs he had doone and being once demanded wherefore he killed the poor man It was not I said he that didde it but one of my followers which thing is note-worthy He left behind him a daughter whose wardship was presently obtained by an honourable Earle Thus gastly death hauing seized vpon his corporall body we will commit his soul for albeit his sinnes were great yet are the mercies of God infinitely greater into the hāds of the Almighty for charitye iudgeth the best and hopeth the beste in whose kingdome there is nothing but peace In the view of these his murthers there little needeth anye paraphrase since euerie man that thoroghly considereth of the facts themselues cannot but in themselues finde them to be most hainous before God most odious before men This therefore is the report of his desperat courses in his life time who as he cannot be any blot at all vnto other his vertuous and wel-deseruing frends so no question he is no more a griefe vnto other then a fearefull example vnto all his wicked associates Obseruations gathered out of the former discourse MAny and diuers things are in this precedent lamentable discourse worthie most deepe consideration and may serue the true vse of all such stories to put vs in mind of our duties towards God for we should not read only to know but learn to know that thereby we follow the good and shun the euill the Prince and Countrey and our selues As namely the eager desire that Sathan hath to increase his kingdome The watchfulnesse and warinesse that we ought to haue that wee come not within his clawes The wretched estate of a desperate mind The horror and trembling of a guiltie Conscience which pursueth a mans owne selfe when no man else doeth The desperate courses of vnbrideled follie The griefe of friends for so hard an hap The astonnishment of Associates in committing of mischiefe The mallice of Sathan in tempting vnto euill The wofull estate of two Widdowes the one in hauing a husband that was no more comfort vnto her whiles he liued and yeilded so great cause of sorrow being dead the other that so suddenly and vnexspectedlie had her dearest husband the one half of hir life by such fatall meanes taken from her The pittifull estate of three Infants left vpon the mothers hands hauing verie small meanes to maintaine them The great libertie that power and might if God guid not the hart giueth vnto the performance of euill The blindnesse of our sinfull nature that wil neuer let vs see into our riotous liues vntill wee bee carried awaie with a full streame of wickednesse The obduracie and hardnes of a mans hart envred and acustomed vnto sin How apt to follow the worser parte how hardly framed to good Drunkenes and fleshly lustes the effects that follow thē Euill companions and lewd retainers the discommodities and dangers thereof Our forwarnesse in pursuing euill and slacknesse vnto good The manye miseries that we fall headlong into for want of due consideration The temporall crosses that god sendeth vpon his children to trie their patience What the friendship of man is and how soone turned into hate Gods iudgements vpon the Wicked His loue vnto the godlie And lastly to close vp this discours a generall warning vnto all to put them in mind to amend their wicked liues mispent to turne vnto the Lorde whiles they haue time and to call for mercie before the gate of mercy be shut that repenting of the euill past they may leade their liues more carefully more purely and more holilie hereafter that so dying a godlie death they may make a blessed ende Which that it may so be the Lord of his mercy grant vnto vs all a sufficient measure of his holy spirite Amen FINIS

had bin likely to haue offred vnto her In breefe beeing thus left to her misfortunes shee returned to her worthy Father who with much ioy receiued his distressed Daughter with a young daughter of hers also so that herein she was most fortunate that she was safe where she might heare of her Knights outrages but not indure thē This Lady beeing by him in this wise turn'd away hee noweknevve himselfe to be the onely maister of himselfe and might as he thought now be imboldened to follow his own loosnes Nowe vvas his owne house without contradiction or controlement open to his associates where nowe if they please they may erect a little Common-wealth of many iniquities and much imputation His purse they abused his goods they consumed and of his person they made a stale to theyr misdemeanors all feard him few loued him neither was his worshippe as much to be reuerenced as his lewd manners to be abhorred for continuing and insisting in his licentious and odious courses not long before his cōming towards London being in the heat of his old disorder he beeing backt by his retainers fell out with an Officer of the Towne and after vvith many reprochfull words and vpbraydings that he reuiled him withall forgetting both himselfe the person and the place hee with many blowes of his dagger broke his head in such sort as the man beeing carried home layd in his bed it vvas greatly feared that hee could not escape death which had it hapned questionlesse it had not onely been a great preiudice but also an indangering to Sir Iohn his own life who after thys deed was so farre frō doubtting the worst as that hee little regarding the hatred of his act stoutly perseuered in the accustimation of his former breaches of all cōmendable carriage But it is euermore notable that men ouer whom sinne hath greater predominance are reserued for more especiall misfortunes vntill at last being ouer-ripened they fall by theyr ovvne rottennesse which on this wise happened to Syr Iohn Fites Maister Slanning after his death left behind him for pledges of Gods blessing toward him two sonnes and one daughter his heyre beeing inward to a Knight of that Country of good account and credit which heyre of Maister Slannings beeing come to yeeres of discretion vpon aggreeuaunces of his Fathers death beeing as iust reason was loath to sell his deere Fathers blood and bearing a minde to reuenge himselfe by course of right and Law vpon the butcher of his Fathers life knowing that Syr Iohn had but a conditionall and no speciall pardon as Syr Iohn himselfe gaue foorth and falsly blinded the worlde withall vsed meanes for his attachement eyther to procure better meanes or aunswer the proceedings of Iustice in that case prouided Thys beeing heard of Syr Iohn who amidst his ryots little dreamed on any such incumbrance it draue him to diuers shyfts but beeing well befreended if his carriage had bin such to haue deserued theyr friendships who indeed were his freends he hauing now no hopes but such as relay vpon theyr credit for his better discharge vvas driuen to cōsider better of the vneuen race of his life past assuring himselfe that he was become to the world so rediculous in himselfe so faultie and of his owne ablenesse so insufficient to accomplish his desires that if hee could not procure a newe and absolute Pardon the old offence of his being laid to his charge and his riots since likely to be agrauated by the vulgar knowledge of the whole Country it would surely put not onely his reputation but also his lyfe in double ieopardy These reasons well cancelled feare not shame made him hasten some other course to be presently thought on and in some measure to beware of perrils to come though scarce repent his misdeedes past Oderunt peccare mali formidine penae doubt of trouble not hartie cōtrition pricketh the wicked to auoyde further lapses when as the loue of vertue maketh the vertuous abstaine from doing euill So Syr Iohn seeing how by his inordinate disorders he had impaired his estate seuer'd himselfe frō his wife wedded himselfe to wilfull obstinacie abused his neighbours murthered his freends cōsorted himselfe with villaines caused himselfe to be so odious as his life was now in new danger he now thought it behooued him to make freends and to that intent hee posted toward London where by the way continuall Furies tormenting his minde ere he came to his hopes he ended his lyfe For in his iournying towards London an accident of great ruth and pitty hapned in thys lamentable sort Syr Iohn harboring euen in despight of his owne vvill a guilty conscience in a grieued breast euen as he rode by the way often ranne ouer the whole course of his former euil life and neuer til now did he begin to ballance his own rashnes to consider the reason of his intended iourney which feares of his nowe doubting least that worthy Gentleman his Father in law vrged by the wrongs done to his daughter would not only deny him his befriending fauour but also be a plaintife against his inordinate course of life though grounded vpon no certainty but the guiltines of his own conceit he began to fal into a desperate kind of lunacie as by the sequell of his detestable deede it plainly appeared For hastning towards London he appointed his footeman to meet him by the way who enquiring as hee went for his Maister met him by hap at Kingstone vppon Thames where he allighted into his Inne hauing supped as his order was hee soone betooke himselfe to his bedde but as a man that hath committed some notorious and memorable crime beeing followed by the Country flyeth into a large vast house and hideth himselfe at euery creake of the wind feareth the entrance of some searcher or at euery styr of a rat doubteth the attachment of some officer euen so Syr Iohn hauing cōmitted the crime of murther and riot and flying into the sanctuary of a dispersed and molested mind was amidst his quiet followed and affrighted by the officers of vengeance guilt and terror In his dreames he muttered fearefull wordes grieuous sighes deep-fetcht grones most fearefull were his visions and so terrible vnto him that where hee lay in rest hee suddainly start vp and called for his horses intending to post presently away for that as he said Sir VVilliam Courtney with a number in his company were at hand to apprehend him neyther could they of the house perswade him to the cōtrary Moreouer so strange dreadfull was his owne minde vnto him that hee would not stay euer-more crying that Syr VVilliam was at hand to apprehend him insomuch as his gelding being brought him in the dead tyme of night riding through the Towne hee met the watch in the streetes at the sight of whome he cryed alowd they were come they were come but the watch being by his man more certainlie informed of this his so sodaine