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A87450	The iust reward of rebels, or The life and death of Iack Straw, and Wat Tyler, who for their rebellion and disobedience to ther king and country, were suddenly slaine, and all their tumultuous rout covercome and put to flight. Whereunto is added the ghost of Iack Straw, as he lately appeared to the rebells in Ireland, wishing them to forbeare and repent of their divellish and inhumane actions against their lawfull King and country.		1642 (1642)	Wing J1241; Thomason E136_1; ESTC R207765	14,375	14

who instantly laid hold upon him and without further examination or Triall cast him into the fire with the Plate with this loude acclamation Wee are the maintainers of Truth and justiec and are neither Theeves nor robbers It is further remarkable that some of these robbers to the number of two or three and thirty had got into a Celler of the same house where they dranke so much sweet and pleasant wine that they could not find the way out againe in any seasonable time but with the ruines of the house were so barracadoed in with Timber rubbish and stone that they were heard crying and calling for helpe and succour seaven dayes after where they perisht all being or not able or not willing to releive them This exploit being over they againe assembled and broke open a place which was cald the new Temple at the barre which was a place for Lawyers and quite demolisht it for no other reason but the hate which they bore to Sr Robert Hayles Master of St. Johns Hospitall unto which place that of St. Iohns of the Temple belonged There many writings and Monuments which were then in the custody of the Lawyers were destroyed by fire after the ruine of this place many through wearinesse and others over-laded with wine lay downe under the walls and stalls there a bouts where some were slaine by those on whom they had committed such out-rages and some kild one another upon that advantage for antient and former grudges In the interim whilst these things were in action another dangerou troop had gathered themselves together to set fire on the Pallace of S. Iohns in Clarkenwell which was seene to burne seven dayes together they not suffering any man to lay a helping hand to quench it on the Friday after they burnt the mannor of Highbury the multitude of the Commons being at that time divided into three severall bands of which division one part was imployed in the burning of Highbury and other places belonging to the Prior of St. Iohns A second Company lay at Mile-End East of the City A third lodged themselves upon the Tower-hill to intercept all such Victuall as was for the Kings provision whilst they on Mile-end sent a bold and peremptory message to the King to make his personall appearance before them and that too all delays and excuses set apart unarmed and without any guard or power to attend him which if he should deny to doe they would not onely pluck downe the Tower upon his head but neither he nor any of his Attendants should depart alive Observe herein what rebellion is and to what impudence it growes when those that are the Actors therein transgresse all the bounds of Religion and reason but it followeth for so the Chronicle relates that his Majesty advised by some few that were at that time about him with a small traine and those altogether unarmed went towards them no doubt in great feare riding on horseback The gates of the Tower standing open and a great many of the rascall rabble entring and returning at their owne wills and pleasures Here is another thing worthy of note to all Posterity but especially to the braver spirits of our own Nation that there were at the same instant six hundred Armed men reputed valiant and expert in Armes besides sixe hundred able Archers who all this time hanging down their heads were mute and stood amazed They being appointed to guard the sacred person of the King who suffered those pesantly rusticks void of all manners or humanity to enter his Highnesse privy Bed-chamber and the Queene Dowager his mothers with their weapons in their hands and yet against them made at all no resistance N ay saw them there to play the impudent wantons by lying and sporting on his Highnesse owne bed and further in their homely and base accouterment most sawcily to offer to ruffle and kisse the mother queen whilst they stood patiently by sufred it had these things bin reported to have bin done in any other Forraigne Countres as we should have thought them altogether incredible but they are related by our owne Domostick Chronologer Whilst these things were in agitation some of this rude rabble made strict inquiry for the Arch-bishop and some searching one place and some another and not finding him at length finding one of his servants with incredible fury they threatned unto him present death unlesse he would bring them to his Lord and Master whom they most unreverently called by their owne name Rebel and traytor This groome fearing his life and therefore not any way daring to contradict or to displease them presently conducted them to the Chappell in the Kings Lodgings where after masse had beene said and sang the Reverent Prelate was then busie in his private Orisons for having received the Sacrament and ignorant either of their comming or purpose he had the night before confest himselfe to his Ghostly Father for such was the custome in those dayes who when he heard that they were come and had broke open some doores against him with a noble and Christian-like constancy said to those few of his retinew who at that time attended him The enemie is now come let us goe and boldly meete him for seeing things stand as they now doe it is much better for us to dye like Martyrs then to live being reported no better then Malefactors At which word the Rebels entred with this clamor where is this Traytor to the King and common-wealth To which he answered Loe I am the man you seeke the Arch-bishop but no Traytor where presently they laid rude and violent hands upon his Sacred person and dragging him out of the Chappell drew him from the Tower to the Tower hill where being compassed and inclosed with their swords and weapons advanced he appeared no way discouraged or daunted but with a Martyr-like constancy uttered these words following Resolve me my deare brethren what you purpose to doe what is my offence against you or any man for which you purpose to shed mine innocent blood it were good for you to advise before you take away my life for if I be thus undeservedly slaine who am your Pastor there must consequently fall upon you the great indignation of the just Revenger besides for such an heinous fact all the whole shall be interdicted scarce had he ended those few words before they cryed out with an horrible clamour that the men there feared nor cared for any interdiction nor would they allow the Pope to have any power or Supremacy over them the Archbishop seeing his inevitable death before him being an eloquent man and wise beyond most of the Kingdome gave unto them very faire and comfortable words desisiring them only to give some short space to pray for his soules health and then he would submit himselfe to their utmost cruelty which being scarcely granted hee forgave the Executioner and kneeling downe offered his head to be smitten off by the headsman The

The iust reward of Rebels OR The Life and Death of Iack Straw and Wat Tyler who for their Rebellion and disobedience to their King and Country were suddenly slaine and all their tumultuous Rout overcome and put to flight Whereunto is added the Ghost of Iack Straw as he lately appeared to the Rebells in Ireland wishing them to forbeare and repent of their Divellish and inhumane Actions against their lawfull King and Country Printed at London for F. Couls I. Wright T. Banks and T. Bates 1642. The Rebellious Life and Death of VVat Tyler and Iack Straw OBedience saith a learned Father is a Vertue due both unto God and man to God as our Creator to Man as our superiour and a learned Philosopher tells us that to know how to obey and how to command are two things and thus differ for the one commeth by Nature the other by Experience That Country is well manag'd where the King knoweth Royalty to governe and his People faithfully to serve The Prince is supreame head of all Authority and the Subject is injoyn'd to obey God the Lawes and his Prince for Treason can have no place where Obedience claimeth principality So much for the Introduction I come now to the matter it selfe Richard the second of that name the Son of Prince Edward commonly cald the black Prince the eldest Son of King Edward the third being then a Child of the age of eleaven yeares began his Raigne over the Realme of England the 22. of Iune in the yeare of our Redemption 1327. being the 13. yeare of Charles the sixt of that name then King of France he was cald Richard of Burdeux as being borne there and upon the fifteenth day of Iuly in the yeare above mentioned was Crowned at Westminster being the day of the translation of St. Swithin which time was Major Nicholas Brembre Grocer and Andrew Pikman and Nicholas Twifford Shreifes In the third yeare of this Kings Raigne and toward the latter end thereof William Walworth Fishmonger being Major and Walter Docket and William Knighthood Shriefes About the beginning of summer in divers places of the Land the Commons arose in Kent in Essex in Suffolk c. and made amongst them Rulers and Captaines of which according to some Chronologers one was named Wat Tyler a second William Waw a third Iack Straw a fourth Iack Shepheard a fifth Tom Miller a sixt Hob Carter but the best and most approved Records stile them thus Iohn or Walter Tylor Iohn or Iack Straw Iohn Kerby Allen Threader Thomas Skot and Ralph Rugg all of them of that dissolute and desperate condition that like Herostratus who set fire of Dianaes Temple in Ephesus which was one of the seaven wonders of the world and burnt it downe to the ground for no other reason but that he would be talked of after his death according to the strict decree of of the Ephesians who made it death for ony man to speake of her are not worthy to bee named But I proceed in my Discourse according to the most exact and authentick Chronicle of St. Albones which makes this report The young King in his minor●ty granted a great Taxe upon his Subjects both spirituall and temporall which was called Pole-mony that is a groat upon every pole or head which could call themselves man or woman which comming in very slowly divers Courtiers about the King desirous to enrich themselves by the goods of the Commons complained that it was not faithfully gathered by the Collectors wherefore they offered to pay a great summe of mony to farme it of the King which they would gather over and above that which had bin paid so that by the King they might bee sufficiently authorised who getting Letters to that purpose sate as Commissioners in divers places of Kent and Essex and handled the people very roughly and discourteously beyond either mercy or conscience who no doubt if they had proceeded with clemency and humanity might have prevented those fearefull and horrible disasters which after hapned for the Commons tooke counsell and they had private conventions amongst themselves and growing to an head made resistance against those exactors rising against them of which some they slew others dangerously wounded and the rest were forced to save themselves by flight Which tumult began first in Kent and upon this occasion following one of those Collectors of the Groates or Pole-mony comming to the house of one Wat Tyler so called because he was of that Trade for his sir name is not otherwise remembred who dwelt at Dartford in Kent twelve miles from London and demanded of his wife mony for her Husband her selfe and her servant which she refused not to pay but the covetous greedy fellow seeing her daughter a maid scarse 15. yeares of age in the house demanded a groat for her also to whom she modestly replyed that she was but a child and was not arrived unto that mat●rity to be reckoned in the number of women No saith the Collector that shall be tryed and taking her up in his armes most uncivilly and dishonestly tooke up her cloaths and bared her before her mother saying he would see whether she had any pubes upon her or no and in many places the like barbarous demeanour had bin used at which the mother hearing her daughter screech out and seeing how in vaine she struggled against him being therewith grievously offended she cryed out also and leaving the house run into the street amongst her Neighbours clamoring about that there was one within that would ravish her daughter The noyse and hubbub grew suddenly so great that it came to the eare of the Husband who was then tyling of an house in the Town who instantly snatching up his Lathing-staffe made what hast he could home where finding his daughter weeping and perceiving how she had bin ruffled by the Collector demanded of him the reason of his vncivill boldnesse who answered him he was a sawcy fellow to aske him such a question hee had authority for what he did neither would be give him any account at all for what had passed and withall made offer to strike at the Tyler who avoyding the blow up with his staffe and reached him such a knock upon the pate that he brake his Skull and the braines flew about the roome which seeing he presently left the house told the Neighbours what had hapned that his cause was now theirs at which there was great noyse and uproare they all justifying the act to be good and honest and that to their best and utmost power with their lives and goods they would assist and support him And thus that many-headed monster the multitude being drawne together they tumultuously went from thence unto Maid-stone and from thence increasing their number they came back to Black Heath incouraging all the Country as they past along to be partakers with them in their commotion when besetting all the waies that directed either from London to Canterbury or from

Straw that doubt is thus easily reconcil'd for Iack Straw was not taken till after the death of Wat Tyler being then apprehended with divers others the chiefe of that horrible sedition who being brought into the Guild-hall where the Lord Major sate in Judgement having pronounced the Sentence of death upon them he openly spake to Iack Straw as followeth John behold thy Sentence is past and thine unavoidable death at hand for thou hast not many houres to live wherefore I intreat thee since there is no way to save thy body that for thy soules health thou wilt now without extenuating thy grievous fault which is inexcusable that thou betwixt God and thy Conscience resolve this Honourable Bench what the utmost of your purpose was and to what end you so mutinously assembled the Commons who making a sad pause to this demand The Lord Major againe thus seconded it I speake to thee as to a dying man who now ought to study for the peace of thy soule and not dissemble at all either with God or man at which words recollecting his spirits hee returned this answer following Now I confesse in vaine it booteth me not either to lye or make any delatory or evasive excuse understanding that if I should so doe I might indanger my soule unto the greater torments and besides I hope to obtaine two benefits by speaki●g truth First that I thereby may somewhat benefit the Common-weale in the future and next according to your promises I hope to bee assisted by your prayers that God would be mercifull unto my soule And therefore thus I deliver unto you my conscience faithfully and without deceite Being assembled upon blacke Heath at that time when we sent for the King to come unto us our resolution was to have slaine all the Nobles Knights and Esquires about him and to have taken him into our own custody to the intent that the people might have repayred unto us with more boldnesse and lesse feare since we would have made them to beleeve that whatsoever we did was by his Majesties Authority And next when we had got such power that we needed not to be affraid of any other forces which might be raised in the Kingdome our purpose was then to have slaine all such of the Nobility as might either have given Counsell or made any resistance against us But more in particular wee would have massacred all the Knights of the Rhodes and St. Iohns Knights or burned their houses over their eares And lastly we would have slaine the King himselfe and all Gentlemen of any revenue throughout the Kingdome with all Arch-Bishops Bishops Abbots Priors Monks Canons and Parsons of Churches reserving onely some few Mendicants or begging Fryers they being sufficiently able for saying Masse and the administration of the Sacraments And having made a cleare riddance of all those unnecessary Members of the Common-weale for so at that time it pleased us to call them wee would have abrogated the old Lawes and devised new according to our own fancies by which the whole Realm should be governed for we had determined to have divided the Kingdome and to have made Kings amongst our selves as Wat Tyler in Kent my selfe in Essex and others in other places but by reason that these our designes were prevented by the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury who disswaded the King from comming amongst us we vowed by all meanes to insidiate his life and to dispatch him out of the way which we did after And further the self same evening that Wat Tyler was slaine in Smithfield we resolutely determined having the greatest part of the Commons of the City bent to assist us in the Act to set fire in foure severall parts of the same at once and to have divided the spoile amongst us and this saith he was our resolved purpose and concluded on by all as God may helpe me now at my last end After this Confession made he with many others of his late faction were lead unto the place of Execution whose heads being struck off his was put upon a pole and set upon the Bridge next unto Wat Tylers Here I might enter into a large discourse of the horridnesse of Rebellion as that of Ireland whose distressed estate is very lamentable whose rebellion and outrages I hope will be considered and they speedily by the permission of the Almighty receive their just rewards Rebellion can no way be better illustrated then by the sad and lamentable effects expressed in the premisses I will therefore conclude with that of the Prophet Samuel Rebellion is as the sin of Witchcraft and Transgression is wickednes and Idolatry The Ghost of Iack Straw I That did Act on Smithfields bloudy stage In second Richards young and tender age And there receiv'd from Walworths fatall hand The stab of death which life did countermand And made an equall to the Tragedy Of Leyden a Dutch Taylors villany Not that I ere consorted with that slave My Rascall rout you in this Story have But that in name and nature we agree An English Taylor I Dutch Rebell he In my Consort I had the Priest Iohn Ball Mynter the Clerke unto his share did fall He to have all things common did intend And my Rebellion was to such an end Even in a word we both were like appointed To take away the sword from Gods Annoynted And for examples to the Worlds last day Our Traytors name shall never weare away The fearefull paths that he and I have trod Have bin accursed in the sight of God Here in this Register who ere doth looke Which may be rightly call'd The Bloudy Booke Shall see how base and rude these villaines be That doe attempt like Leyden plot like me And now the Divell in whose name they 're gone Payes them Hells wages when their worke is done Treason is bloudy bloud thereon attends Traytors are bloudy and have bloudy ends * Meaning the Irish Rebels To you my brother Rebells in like kind That doe usurpe authority you 'l find The same reward which we shall feele too soone A horrid Conscience at the day of Doome Which to avoyd let this my Ghost intreat Yes love your King feare Heavens Tribunall Seat So shall your soules without disturbance rest Till Christ shall come to make you fully blest FINIS