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death_n	die_v	good_a	life_n	16,696	5	4.8534	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20757	A briefe discourse of the most haynous and traytorlike fact of Thomas Appeltree for which hee shoulde haue suffred death on Tuisday the one and twentith of Iulie last: wherin is set downe his confession. Whereunto is annexed, the report of the message sent to the place of execution from hir most excellent Maiestie, by the right honourable Sir Christopher Hatton Knight, vizchaberlain to hir highnesse.		1579 (1579)	STC 714; ESTC S119173	4,790	9

ascende and goe vp the ladder and being on the same he tourned himself and spake to the people as followeth Good people I am come hither to die but GOD is my iudge I neuer in my lyfe intended hurt to the Quaenes most excellent Maiesty nor meant the harme of any creature but I pray to God with all my heart long to prosper and kéepe hir highnesse in health who blesse and defende hir from all perils and dangers who prosper hir in al hir affaires and blesse hir most honorable counsel giuing them grace to doe all things to the glorie of GOD and the benefite of this realme But of all things I am most sorie for my offence and wofully bewaile the same and more I am penitent and sory for my good mayster M. Henrie Carie who hath bene so grieued for my fault suffering rebuke for the same I woulde to God I had neuer bene borne that haue so grieuously offended him And with that the teares gusht out of his eyes very fast This sayd he persuaded al men to serue God and to take an ensample by him and euery night and morning moued the deuoutely to say the Lordes prayer And as the executioner as one gréedy of his pray had put the roape about his neeke the people cried stay staye staye and with that came the right honorable sir Christopher Hatton Vizchamberlayne to hir highnesse who enquired what he had confessed and being certified as is before expressed he vailed his bonet and declared that the Quéenes maiestie had sent him thither both to make the cause opento them how haynous and gréeuous the offence of the saide Thomas Appeltree was and further to signifie to him hir gratipus pleasure so continued his message as ye may read it priuted by it self and annexed to this discourse Which when he had declared the hangman was commanded to take the roape from his necke cleane contrarie to his expectation I think as was séene to the people sory to lose his pray but whether it were so or not whether that Appeltree had cause to be ioyful or no I leaue to your iudgements who being come downe from the ladder receiued his pardon and gaue GOD and the Prince praise for so great a benefit as he had by hir most gratious bountie receiued This done M. Vizchamberlaine sayde Good people pray for the Quéenes maiestie and then was this prayer sayde which is vsually readde for the preseruation of hir Maiestie in the church O almightie and euerliuing God the Lord of Lords and king of kings which dost from thy throne beholde all the dwellers of the earth most hartily we beseech thee with thy fauor to behold our most gracious soueraigne Ladie Queene Elizabeth c. Wherevnto all the people ioyefully accorded to saye AMEN crying God saue the Quéene and casting vp their cappes Thus was the dead man restored to lyfe and brought backe to the Marshalsea againe euen as he was led thence to the place of execution where he by the way moste ioyfullye prayed for the securitie of the Quéenes Maiestie Loe thus good reader hast thou heard discoursed vnto thée the offence of Thomas Appeltree iustly condemned for his trespasse to die the death and most gratiously notwithstanding the greatnesse of his crime by the singular mercy and bountie of our dread and soueraigne Ladie Quéene EIIZABETH preserued for the which cause and al others like faithful and true subiects strongly armed with an earnest loue let vs not cease to pray to the Almightie with loyal faithfull hearts for hir highnesse safegarde who with his mightie and outstretched hande protect and deliuer hyr as he hath done wonderfully from the handes of all hir enimies and so mercifully loke vpon vs hir subiectes that to our continual ioyes the aduauncement of sinne religiō and vertue the fal and ouerthrow of all iniquitie we may possesse the presence of this our royall virgin Quéene euen to the comming of Iesus Christe in the cloudes of the skies wherevnto let all that feare God and loue the Quéenes maiestie from the bottome of their hartes say AMEN The night before he should suffer he wrote this prayer following with his own hand and on the backside of the paper wherin the same was set downe he wrote these wordes To the Queenes most excellent Maiestie whom I beseech God long to continue ouer the Realme of England in prosperous felicitie This was the title The humble prayer of Thomas Appeltree yeelding himselfe to die as innocent from any pretended cause as the Infant this night borne AS I here praie earnestlye to God the Father who by his diuine prouidence hath ordained mee to come to this place I do not pray only for my self but also for the whole Church especially such as be persecuted for thy word O Lord graunt vnto them that whether it be by death or life they may glorifie thy name to their liues end be merciful vnto this Church of England and Ireland we beseech thee good Lord and preserue euery part and member of the same especially thy seruaunt ELIZABETH our most gracious soueraine Queenes graunt hir al such giftes as be needefull for so high a calling to the aduauncemente of thy glorie and benefit of this comon wealth to the establishing of a perfect gouernement of thy church according to the rule of thy blessed worde to the rooting out of all superstition and reliques of Antichrist to the gouerning of hir subiectes in all peace tranquilitie defende hir ô Lord from all conspiracies treasons wing hyr authoritie to come from thy heauenlye maiestie they may with obedient harts humbly obey hir in thee and for thee O Lord preserue the whole counsayle and the Magistrates of the Realme that being lightned by thy holy spirit they may defende thy truthe suppresse wickednesse and maintaine equitie beholde all the preachers and pastours of the whole world blesse their labours increase the number of the place ouer euery Church a painfull watchman and remoue all idle lubbers confouud the power of Antichrist and turne the hartes of the people that they maye be obedient to thy tructh Blessed be the two Vniuersities of Oxford and Cambridge with all the Scholes of learning and the studentes in the same beholde good Lord all those that be afflicted with any kinde of crosse that they may profite by thy correction in newnesse of life also beseeching God to sende hir maiestie no worse nor disobedient subiect than in my hearte and minde God is my witnesse til this innocent cause did chaunce towardes me I haue bin whiche is the first offence that euer I committed And so in whose name I was baptised in whom only I hope to be saued at the day of iudgement I trust the Lord will receyue my Soule into heauen