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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01843	A briefe discourse of the late murther of master George Saunders, a worshipfull citizen of London and of the apprehension, arreignement, and execution of the principall and accessaries of the same.	Golding, Arthur, 1536-1606.	1573 (1573)	STC 11985; ESTC S119743	12,242	34

wickednesse with perfect hatred and rue the persons with christē modestie knowing that with what measure we met vnto others with the same shall it be moten to vs agayne Finally let al folkes both maried and vnmaried learne hereby to possesse and kéepe their vessell in honestie and cleannesse For if the knot betwene man and wife whiche ought to be inseparable be once broken it is seldome or neuer knit again And though it be yet is not the wound so throughly healed but there appéereth some skarre euer after But if the sore rancle fester inwardly as commonly it doth except the more grace of God be in the end it bursteth forth to the destructiō or hurt of both parties not lightly without great harme to others also besides themselues as we sée by this example For when the body which was dedicated to God to be his temple and the tab●…rnacle of his holy spirite is become the sinke of sinne and cage of vncleannesse the deuill ceasseth not to driue the parties still headlong vnto naughtinesse till they be falne eyther into open shame and daunger of temporall law or into damnable destruction both of body soule according as Salomon in his Prouerbes sayth that the steps of a harlot leade downe vnto death and hir feete perce euen vnto hell Therefore good reader so heare and reade this present example as the same may turne to the bettering of thy state and not to occasion of slaunder nor to the hurt of thine owne conscience nor to the offence of thy Christian brethren Farewell A. G. Anne Saunders confession as she spake it at the place of execution GOod people I am come hither to die the deathe wherevnto I am adiudged as worthely as deseruedly as euer died any I had a good husband by whom I had manie children with whom I liued in wealth might haue done stil had not the deuill kindled in my hearte first the hellish firebrand of vnlawfull lust afterward a murtherous intent to procure my saide husbande to be bereued of his life which was also by my wicked meanes accomplished as to the world is known And as I woulde if he coulde heare me if it might be prostrate vpon the ground at my husbands feete aske mercy with plentiful teares of him so that which I may I oughte to doe I aske mercye of God I aske mercie of all men and women of the world whō by my deede example I haue offended and especiallye I bewaile my husbande aske mecie of my childrē whōe I haue beraued of so good a father I aske mercy of his kindred and frendes whome I haue hurt of all my frends kindred of whom I am abashed and ashamed and beyng of my selfe vnworthy of pittie yet I besech them all you all all the whole worlde euen for gods sake and for our sauiour Christs sake to forgiue me And I thank God with my whole harte he hathe not suffered me to haue the reigne and bridle of sinning gyuen me at my will to the daunger of my eternall damnatiō but that he hath founde out my sin brought me to punishment in this world by his fatherly correctiō to amend to spare and saue me in the world to come I beseche him graunte me his heauenly grace that all who do behold or shall heare of my death maye by the example therof be frayed from like sinning And I besech you all to pray for me and with me The Prayer whiche was said by Anne Saunders at the place of execution the copie wherof she deliuered vnto the right honourable the E●…rle of Bedforde AS I doe confesse vvyth great sorrovv O deare ●…ather that I haue grieuously and oftentimes inned againste heauen and against thee am ●…vvorthy to be called thy daughter so O deare Father I acknovvledge thy mercy thy grace and loue tovvards me most vvretched sinner offred me in my Lorde and sauiour Iesus Christe in vvhom thou giuest me an hearte to repent And by repentance hast put away my sinnes and throvvne them into the bottome of the Sea O deare Father encrease and continue this grace vntill the ende and in the ende I testifie this day O Lord my God thy loue O Lorde thy sauing health is li●…e euerlasting and ioy vvithout end and bicause thou hast touched my sinfull heart vvith the 〈…〉 pleasure of my sinne and vvith a de●… of thy kingdome O deare Father 〈◊〉 thy Christes sake as I hope thou vvilt so I beseeche thee to finishe that good vvorke in me Suffer me not mercifull and louing Father to be troubled vvith death vvhen it layeth holde on me nor vvith the loue of life vvhen it shal be taken avvay O Lorde novve as thou hast so still lifte vp my soule as it vvere vvith an eagles vvings vnto Heauen there to beholde thee Lorde into thy hands I commit my body that it be not troubled in death and my soule that it see not damnation Come Lorde Iesu come assiste me vvith thy holy spirite a vveake vvomā in a strong battell come Lord Iesu come quickly saue thy hand maide that putteth hir trust in thee behold me in Christ receiue me in christ in vvhose name I pray saying Our Father c. Anne Saūders dying to the world and liuing to God. After this she also said a godly Prayer out of the Serice boke which is vsed to be said at the hour of death note of a certaine saying vvhich Master Saunders had lefte written with his owne hand in his studie CHriste shal be magnified in my body whither it be thorough life or else death For Christe is too me life and death is too me aduauntage These wordes were M. Nowels Theame which he preached at the buriall of my brother Haddon vpon Thursday beyng y xxv day of 〈◊〉 Anno. Do. 1570. Anno. R●…ginae Elizabeth 13. Amōg other things which he prēached this saying of his is to be had alwayes in remembrance that is that we must all when we come to pray first accuse and cōdemne our selues for our sinnes committed against God before the seate of hys Iustice and then after cleaue vnto him by faythe in the mercy and merites of our Sauioure and Redéemer Iesus Christ whereby we are assured of eternall saluation

protested howbeit vntruly y mistres Saunders was not priuie nor cōsentyng thervnto Upon this confessiō he was arr●…igned at y Kings Bench in Westmin●●er ●…l on friday y xvij of April wher acknowledging himself guiltie he was cōdemned as Principall of the murther of master Saun●●●s according to whiche sentence he was executed in Smithfield on monday the. xx of the same moneth at whiche tyme thoughe vntruely as she hir selfe ●…ssed afterwarde he laboured by all m●… to cleare mistresse Saunders of cōmitting e●…il of hir bodie with him and afterward wa●… hanged 〈◊〉 in ch●…s ●…éere vnto the place where he hadde 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 Thus much 〈◊〉 the very case of the murther it 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the principall doe●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As for the a●…knowledgement of the former wick●…dnesse of his life and the heartie 〈◊〉 that he pretended for the same 〈◊〉 to his 〈◊〉 death I deferce them to the 〈◊〉 parte of this matter to whiche p●…ce 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 do more peculiarly pe●… In the 〈◊〉 time mystresse Drevvrie and hir man béeing examined and as well by their owne confessions as by the falling out●… of the matter in consequēce and also by Brown●…s appeachment thought culpable were committed to warde And anone after 〈◊〉 Saunders béeing deliuered of childe ch●…rched for at the time of hir husbands death she looked presently to lye do●…e was vpon mistresse Drewries mans confession and vpon other great likelyhoodes and presumptions likewise committed to warde and ●…n wednesday the sixth of May arreigned with mistresse Drewrie at the Guilde hall the effecte of wh●…se seuerall inditements is this That they had by a letter written bene procurers of the sayde murther and so accessaries before the fact And knowing the murther done had by money and otherwise relie●…ed and béene ayding to the murtherer and so accessaries also after the facte Whervnto they both of them pleaded not giltie And mistresse Saunders notwithstanding the auouchement of mistresse Drewries man face to face and the great probabilities of the euidence giuen in against hir by master Geffrey the Quéenes Maiesties Serieant stoode so stoutly s●…il to the deniall of all things in which stoute deniall she continued also a certayne tyme after hir condemnation that some were brought in a blinde beliefe that either she was not giltie at al or else had but brought hir selfe in danger of lawe through ignorance and not through pretenced malice Howbeit forasmuche as bare ▪ do●…all is no sufficient barre to discharge manyfest matter and apparant euidence they were both condemned as accessaries to master Saunders death and executed in Smith●…ld the thirteenth of May beeing the wednesday i●… the Whitson weeke at whiche time they both of them confessed them selues guiltis of the facte for which they were condemned and with verye greate repentaunce and weakenesse receyued the rewarde of their trespasse in the presence of many personages of honor and worship and of so great a number of people as the like hathe not bene séene there togither in any mans reme●…braunce For almoste the whole fielde and all the way from newgate was as full of folke as coulde well stande one by another and besides that great companies were placed bothe in the chambers neere abouts whose windowes walles were in many places beaten down to looke out at and also vpon the gutters sides and toppes of the houses and vpon the battlements and stéeple of S. Bartholmewes Mistresse Drewries man was arreignéd at Newgate on Friday the. vi●… of Maye being there condemned as accessarie was executed with his mistresse at the time and place aforesayd Thus haue ye heard the murthering of master Saunders with the apprehension arreignement condemnation and execution of the principall and of the accessaries to the same Now let vs procéede to the incidents that ha●…ed from the times of their apprehensions to the time of their deathes and so to the ad●…ion which is the conclusion and fruite of this whole matter Whereas it was determined that mistresse Saunders mistresse Drewrie should haue suffered ▪ vpon the 〈◊〉 saterday after their condemnation whiche was Whitson euen the matter was stayde till the wednesday in Whitson wéeke vpon these occasions ensuing The booke of Maister ●…ders accomptes and reckenings whervpon depended the knowlege of his whole state was myssing Certaine summes of money were sayd●… to be in the handes of parties vnknowne the intelligence whereof was desyred and sought for to the be●…e of master Saunders children The parties co●…ted were to be reformed to Godwarde and to be broughte to the willing confessing of the things for whiche they had bene iustly condemned and whiche as yet they ●…natly concealed And besides al this one Mell a minister that had heretofore ben suspended from his Ministerie accompanying mistresse Saunders from hir condemnation to Newgate and conferring with hir as it had bene to giue hir good counsell and comforte was so blynded wyth hir solemne asseuerations and protestations of innocencie that notwithstanding he had heard hir inditement with the exact and substantiall triall of hir case yet notwithstandyng he perswaded himselfe that she was vtterly cléere and thereuppon falling in loue with hir dealte with mistresse D●…e to take the whole guilt vpon hir selfe vndertaking to sue for mistresse Saunders pardon And so what by his terrifying of hir with the horroure of mischarging and ca●…ing away of an innocent what with his promising of certayne money to the mariage of hir daughter and with other perswasions she was so wholly woonne that way that as wel before certaine personages of honour as also before the Deane of Paules others she vtterly cléered mistresse Saunders of the facte or of cōsent to the same taking the whol●… blame thereof to hir selfe and 〈◊〉 to stande therin to the death contrarie to hir former confession at the tyme of hir arr●…ement Mistresse Saunders also after the laying of this platte stoode so stoutely to hir tackling that when the Deane of Paules gaue hir godly exhortation for the clearing of hir conscience and for the recōciling of hir selfe vnto God as the time and case most needefully required as other had done before he could obtayne nothing at hir hande By meanes whereof he was ●…ayne to leaue hir that time which was the Friday not without great griefe and indignation of mind to sée hir 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In the meane while the say●… Mell discouering his purpose and whole platforme to an honest Gentleman whom he vnskilfully toke to haue bin a welwiller to obtayne the pardon of mistresse Saunders was partly by that meanes and also by other 〈◊〉 of his 〈◊〉 cut off from his enterprise For when he came to sue for hir pardon which thing he did with such outrage of doting affection that he not only proffered sūmes of mony but also offered his owne body life for the safety of the woman whom he protested vpon his conscience to be v●…ilty The Lordes of the counsell knowing hir to be rightly cōdemned by