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A10308	The most horrible and tragicall murther of the right honorable, the vertuous and valerous gentleman, Iohn Lord Bourgh, Baron of Castell Connell Committed by Arnold Cosby, the foureteenth of Ianuarie. Togeather with the sorrowfull sighes of a sadde soule, vppon his funerall: written by W.R. a seruaunt of the said Lord Bourgh.	W. R., fl. 1592.	1591 (1591)	STC 20593; ESTC S110583	7,617	18

for him selfe prouided them Then did he request him to breake his rapiers point auouching it was triall enough of their manhoods in that they had met in field and to scarre their faces and so returne and say they had fought But the L. Bourgh as one that lothed his former brags and detested y t dastardlike motiō told him flatly he scorned such pusillanimity nor came he to plaie boyes plaie Why then quoth Cosby my L. t'were best put of your spurres least they chaunce to hinder you Now had the deuill which all this while had béene absente from his seruant fitted him at length with a pollicie to worke his will and endamage his owne soule And now euen nowe the fatall houre was come wherein the bloudy homizide gaped to quench his thirst in bloud and to acte the tragidy of his former scelerous inuentions For as the L. Bourghe whose noble minde suspecting no treacherie knéeled downe putting his rapyer in his left hand and with his right intended to vnbuckle his spurres the monsterous treachetour taking the aduantage as it fell not like a Souldiour or a Gentleman but lyke a brutishe manquellour and murderous conspiratour voyd of all virtue and humanitye with all the violence his coadiutor the deuill could lend him ranne his rapyer twelue intches into his brest which stucke so fast as hee was constrained to set his foote vpon him and plucke it foorth and being cast downe with the force of the thrust Cosby that wicked and bloodye Cosby coulde not be content with one mortall wound nor might his insatiate furie be staunched except his vitall bloud streamed in sundrie conduites to gorge the fell outrage of his gréedie mawe therefore letting fall hys rapier tooke his dagger in his right hande and therewithall gaue him thrée and twentie woundes more Which scarse could suffice for that he feared if any breath remained in hys bodie his tongue might bewraye the manner of that horrible murther and therefore would not haue left so but that he saw rescue néere which made him take his horse to escape which was when he came vnto that place a lustie strong Geldinge as any is in England but he was no sooner on his backe but he presently fell lame and was not able to carie him suche is the iust iudgement of God that abhorreth murderers and wil not theyr villainie be concealed Besides for all those woundes which the Lord Bourghe had receiued it pleased God he should liue two or thrée houres after time enough to commit him selfe to his mercie and to reueale the treacherous manner of his death which hee did in the hearinge of the right honourable the earles of Essex Essex and Ormewood in a house in Wansworth whether hee was conuaied by the meanes of one Iohn Powell yeoman of the bottels in her maiesties house who comming to the rescue pursued the murtherer vntill hee shrouded himselfe in a thicke wood where he might easilie haue kept him selfe close a long time but that the prouidence of God hauing nowtaken place to punish where before the deuill had kept possession for sin he wold not suffer him to rest but so soone as it was night brought him backe to Wansworth and the first house he came to was y e house wherin y e breathles bodie of the Lord Bourgh lay wherunto he was no sooner approched which is a thing especially to be noted but his wounds bled more freshlie then when the were first giuen whereby the people in the house béeing agast at that suddaine and straunge spectacle made forthe to search for surelie they supposed the murtherer was not farre off he hearing the noyse of their comming fledde to Newinton where he was apprehended and caried to N●wgate and from thence brought the fiue and twenteth daye of Ianuarie to the Sessions house in Southwarke where he was arr●ined and condemed of wilfull murder which murther he had committed the fourth day of the same month And thus haue I disburdened the heauy clogge of my gréeued conscience and done my latest duetie to him dead whom whilest he liued I loued and honoured Then Noble mindes whose heartes full of lenitie harbour no suspition of treacherie banishe all secure mildnesse from your soules that suffers eueri● base and ignoble Sicophante to enchroche into the leniry of your fauorable conceite And nourish not with your courteous countenaunce the contemptuous aspirers of inferiour reput●tion For thereby groweth such bosting vanitie from the baset insolent that would frame nobilitie to the inferiour tipe of their vnworthines As well is manifested by the sodaine death of this noble gentleman and the published villanie of this t●agicall murther a sufficient caueat for euery mistrustlesse minde to be admonished The sighes of a sad soule vpon the vnfortunate death of the Right Honourable the vertuous and valarous gentleman the Lord Bourgh The sighes of the Night THe gorgeous Sun hath spent his holy fire scowling clouds are wrapped arme in arme The morning to the salt sea doth retyre deadly sleep doth cast an endles charme Fore-figuring some euerlasting harme The Nights faire Queene doth bend hir iuory browes And gleames a gloomie beaming on the boughes And Mercurie forerunner of the euening Hath bathd his golden winges in clotted bloud And euery gentle plannet sitteth greiuing And that doth moue that euer firmely stoode A pitchie fogge doth couer euery flood And while the day breake striueth with the starres The Sunne and Moone maintaine continuall warres The mountaines sincke vnto the valleis deepe And riuers swell vnto the mountaines hight No pleasaunce doth his wonted order keepe A winde remoues the waues there teares doe sighe And liquide moysture turnes to sulphering drith So sorrow burnes when dreirie teares are spent And ouer heat doth make a soft relent A swannish tune becomes my morning song And in my sight hir feathers turnd to blacke No day is seene but night is ouerstrong For still the morning blush is turned backe Because no mourning eye shall sorrow lacke A quire of Owles instead of Nightingals With Elegies my fainting sorrow quailes The dewe that fals is like the sent of death And brings a mortal Serene with the fall A graue is all the pleasure of the earth and springing blisse is but as barren gall and with our feete we digge our buriall What booteth all the pride of boasting lust When martiall armour is a tombe of dust Buried aliue within the graue of Night Where darknes guideth my lamenting griefe I lie bereaued of my former light As one that in distresse did finde reliefe And placed sorrow in his soule for chiefe For that sweete lampe of life that I so loued Is from my wonted guidance quite remoued I loath the cheerefull ioy the day doth bring because the day mainteines the thing I hate Sweet is the musick that the Screchowles sing And in good time are Minutes ouerlate For in my fancie loue is blacke debate And when I see my withered senses striue Then do 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The most horrible and tragicall murther of the right honorable the vertuous and valerous Gentleman Iohn Lord Bourgh Baron of Castell Connell Committed by Arnold Cosby the foureteenth of Ianuarie Togeather with the sorrowfull sighes of a sadde soule vppon his funerall written by W. R. a seruaunt of the said Lord Bourgh Tempus fortuna flent Printed by R. R. 1591. The most horrible and tragicall murther of the right Honorable Iohn Lord Bourgh Baron of Castle Connell committed by Arnold Cosby the 14. of Ianuarie NOt to painte it out with vainglorious termes of a large Exordium in a matter where throbbinge sorrowe breaketh of superfluous circumstances and ouer werying plaints abreuiate the libertie of speach nor to vse the choice inuention of a pleasinge discourse where nothing but heauy misfortunes minister cause of melancholike and pensiue contemplations But to explaine a tragicall trueth and set foorth the lamentable order of a premeditated murther I will brieflie prosecute my owne gréefe and the generall wayling of euery gentle minde Wherein as well superiours as inferiours cast from the quiet staie of their former affectes séeme to beare their indifferent partes If the losse of true nobilitie whereon as vpon a rocke of safe protection consisteth the happie gouernement of euery florishing common weale though by honourable seruice in warre or by sicknesse at home the appointed scurge of humaine frailty bee a gréeuous maime to the state inferring a cōmon lament through euerie part thereof Then much more maie the state complaine and euery priuate person shed teares of sorrowe when the one looseth the hope of expected virtues and the other is bereft the strength of theyr peaceable fortunes yet not by repulsing the iniuries of forraine pride or naturall summons of diuine election but by the poysoned rancour of domesticall treacherie as by this horrible murther executed on the right honourable the Lorde Bourgh may wel appeare whose vertuous desires were stedfastlie fixed vppon true honors exercises and whose heroycall constitution euer abhorred the base practises of vicious and ignoble qualities But as the fayrest rose is apt to be consumed by a cancker so Enuie the malitious handmaide of honour continuallie séeketh the ruine of noble personages For in the courte amongest the princelike traine of her Maiesties followers there wanderd as the pureste wheat is associated with infectious wéedes one Arnold Cosby a man of proud conceipte borne to mischéefe and predestinated to destroie that which his lothed life is too farre vnable to redéeme This Cosby what for countries sake béeing an Irishe man or for the curtious affabilitie of the Noble man whose ingenuous towardnesse carried a good conceite of euery one was so fauoured and well estéemed of him as he thought nothing lost wherein hee might pleasure him til at last as is the custome of ouerbold inchroching vpstartes by too much familiaritie he grewe contemptuous and the more to manifest his arrogancie and the mallice of his swelling spirite tooke a sleighte quarrell after sundrie dispightfull disgraces offered to prouoke and challenge the Lord Bourghe by a vile and impudent letter which one night vnder signe of fawning subtilty secretly he clapt into his hand And though the offence did not procéede by him but principallie rose by the reportes of an other gentleman of Cosbyes acquaintaunce which offered to maintaine them to his téeth daringe him to the fielde yet did he refuse to fight with him bendinge the force of his conceiued hatred onely against the Lorde Bourgh and would not forsooth otherwise bee pacifyed but with his life and ruine of his carkasse for such were his wordes in his impudent letter stuft with a rable of bumbasted braues scornefull tearmes and odious comparisons binding him vpon his honour and manhoode the next morning to méete him in Wansworth fieldes The noble gentleman whose modest eares did glowe at the immodest and shamelesse lynes as his milde and curteous demenour was neuer seene to iniure the simplest so béeing impatient of the least wrong smiled at his follie and thought though he were no waie his equal yet in so much as he was a Souldiour and in that respecte a gentleman it would not be much preiudicall to his honor if he met him and with the chastesment of his sword taught him his duetye with better manners and therefore not in hatred of soule thirsting after bloud as it appeared by his oppribrious letter he did but in sobrietie sent him word backe he would méete him which resolution I suppose was contrarie to Cosbeyes expectation who imagined be like the Lord Bourghe woulde haue stoode vpon tearmes of superioritie with him or else hée would not haue béene so liberall in his challenge But the night drue on and Cosbyes stomacke that of late did blowe foorth from his windie puft brest the soūd of horrour and death began nowe to quaile at the hearing of two or thrée wordes spoken in a milde and temperate vaine and therefore as fitted the oportunitie of time he entred into counsel with y e curssed ruler of darknesse howe hée might worke mischiefe and yet defende his owne credite from blot of infamie Well somewhat was deuised and concluded vpon as after by his actions might be gathered for the daie no sooner appered but as prefiguring some dismall accident it couered the earth with a lowring countenaunce and black cloudes in signe of ensuing miseries distilled repentant teres from their watrie browes When Cosby well studied for his purpose and pricked forwarde with a desire of deceiuinge hope which his wicked thoughtes had before hatched in his braine left his lodging and came to the Lord Bourghe with a case of Rapiers bidding him take his choyce for those should be the instrumentes of life or death betwixt them After this they mounted themselues and rode on towardes Wansworth neither of them hauinge made any one priuie to their intent the one would not in regarde of his honour the other in feare his villainons pretence should bee discouered I neede not aime at the thoughtes of Cosby by the waie they may bee coniectured to be such as commonly procéede from a minde premeditating murther When they were come to the place appointed Cosby as it should séeme béeing first arriued had made himselfe readie to fight the Lorde Bourgh cōming somewhat later was not altogeather so ready yet had cast of his cloake tyed his horse and drawne hys rapier Now marke the feare wherewith treacherous hearts doo continually tremble though they haue neuer so perfectlie studyed the platforme of their pernitious deuises For Cosby although he had trained this fresh springing hope of cheualrie and honour into a solitarie place farre from resorte and earlye in the morninge when fewe had occasion to be in the fieldes yet did hee as ministers of diuelish stratagems vse faint and gladlie would haue bin at home againe as by his delaies is euident for first he intreated the L. Bourgh to measure rapiers the equal length wherof he knew sufficientlie