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A07891	A breefe and true reporte, of the execution of certaine traytours at Tiborne, the xxviii. and xxx. dayes of Maye. 1582. Gathered by A.M. who was there present. The names of them executed on Monday, the xxviii. of Maye. Thomas Foord. Iohn Shert. Robert Iohnson. The names of them executed on Wednesday, the xxx. of Maye. VVilliam Filbie. Luke Kirbie. Lawrance Richardson. Thomas Cottom	Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1582 (1582)	STC 18261; ESTC S110064	10,851	20

tell a long sircumstaunce of a certaine question mooued at Oxenforde as concerning taking armes against her Maiestie which horrible treason he séemed to approoue thereby Then Maister Sherife willed him to aske her Maiestie forgiuenes offering him to stande his freende in attayning her graces mercy yf he would chaunge his former traiterous minde to become a true and faithfull Subiect acknowledging her to bee his lawful soueraigne Lady notwithstanding any thing that any Pope could say or doo to the contrarye Whereto be aunswered I haue not offēded her Maiestie but if I haue I aske her forgiuenes all the world in no other treasō haue I offended then my religion which is y e Catholique faith wherin I will liue and dye And as for the Quéenes Maiestie I doo acknowledge her supremacy in all thinges temporal but as conserning Ecclesiastical causes I deny her that onely belongeth to the Uicar of Christ the Pope In bréefe he graunted to nothing but shewed himselfe an impious and obstinate Traytour and so he remayned to the death refusing to pray in the English tongue mumbling a fewe Latine prayers desiring those that were Ex domo Dei to pray with him and so he ended his lyfe In the meane time that he hanged which was tyll hee was dead so great is y e mercye of our gratious Princesse Iohn Sherte was brought from off the Hurdell to the gallowes wher séeing Forde hanging He begā with holding vppe his handes as the Papistes are wont to doo before theyr Images O swéete Tom O happy Tom O blessed Tom. Then being stayed Forde was cut downe and caryed to the place where his body should be quartered In which time Sherte was brought vp into the Carte where looking toward the dead bodye of Forde hee fell downe on his knées and held vp his hands to it saying agayne O happy Tom O blessed Tom thy swéete soule pray for me O déere Tom thy blessed soule pray for me For which woords béeing rebuked the Executioner lifted him vp on feete when as he prepared him to his confession saying I am brought hither to this place to dye a death whych is both shamefull and ignominious for which I thanks thee my Lord God who framing me to thine owne simylitude likenes hath blessed me to thys good ende There being stayed because hee seemed to prolong the time to small purpose the Sherife willed him to remember hymselfe for what cause he was come thither howe he had offended the Quéenes Maiestie and that he was nowe to aske her forgiuenes Beside he might receiue her princely mercy wherto with an Hipocriticall outward boldnesse but an inward faynting feare as afterwarde euerye one playnly beheld he gaue thys aunswere What Mayster Sherife shall I saue thys frayle and vile carcase damne mine owne soule No no I am a Catholique in that faith I was borne in that faith will I dye and heere shall my ● bood seale it Then Maister Sherife spake vnto him saying by the way as we came you swore an oath for which you willed me to beare witnesse y ● you were hartily sorie Now I pray you let me be a witnesse that you are as hartelie sorie for offending the Quéenes Maiestie Why Sir quoth he I haue not offended her without it be in my Religion and if I haue offended her then I aske her forgiuenesse Maister Sherife vpon this sayde vnto him is this the fruites of your Religion to knéels to the dead bodie of thy fellowe and to desire his soule to pray for thee Alas what can it eyther profite thée or hinder thée praye thou to God and he will helpe thee Maister Sherife quoth Sherte this is the true Catholique Religion and whosoeuer is not of it is dampned I desire his soule to pray for me the most glorious Uirgin Marie to praye for me and all the holy company of Heauen to pray for me At which woords the people cried away with the traytor hang him hang him O 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Maister Sherife forsake y ● whore of Roome 〈◊〉 wicked Antichriste with all his abhominable 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 and put thy whole 〈…〉 Christ wherto he aunswered O 〈…〉 little remēber the day when as you I shall 〈◊〉 bothe at one bar I come as witnesse against you that you 〈◊〉 that holie and blessed Uiccar of Christ the whoore of Rome at which words y e people cried again hang him hang him away with him Then he began his Pater noster in Latine and before he had fully ended two petitions of it he fell into the Latine Creede and then to the Pater noster againe afterwarde he sayde the Aue Maria which done knocking him selfe on the brest saying Iesus esto mihi Iesus the Carte was drawne away and he committed to the Mercie of God But then to manifest that his former boldnesse was but méere dissembling and hipocrisie he lyfted vp his handes and caught holde on the Halter so that euerie one perceyued his fayre outwarde shewe and his fowle inward disfigured nature also howe loth he was and vnwilling to die Robert Iohnson being broughte vp into the Carte Maister Sherife according as he had before both declared vnto hym her Maiesties mercy if he would repent and al so willed him to be sory for his offences against her wher of he séemed to make small estemation denying the treasons according as the others had done and appealinge likewise vpon his religion Then was I called foorth againe when as I gaue him to vnderstād how notably he was approued guilty at his araignement euery matter sufficiently handled how according as the reste were he was confounded to his face whereto he would make no oher aunswer but sayd Well Munday God forgiue thee Thē were hys aunswers read vnto him as they had béen before unto the other twain hee not yeelding deniall but sayd he spake them and would doo it againe Then was Athanasius Creede mooued vnto hym which he graunted to be the Catholique fayth whereof the Pope was Uiccar and that there was no other Catholique fayth but onely his Why quoth the Preacher the Pope is not named in it I knowe not that quoth he againe I haue not read it Then Maister Sherife desired him to say hys prayers in English and he with all the company woulde pray with him Which he refusing to doo in his Latine prayers the Carte was drawen away and he committed to Gods mercye The Execution at Tiborne on VVedensday being the thirtye of Maye 1582. ON the VVednesday following which was the thirtye daye of May in the same maner as I haue before expressed Luke Kirbie William Filbie Thomas Cottom and Lauraunce Rychardson were committed from the Tower of London to the place of Execution and as the other were on the Mundaye before associated and accompanied with diuers learned and godlye Preachers euen so were these as to say Maister Charke Maister Herne and diuers others who all the waye applyed such godly and Christian