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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19455	The life, apprehensio[n,] arraignement, and execution of Char[les] Covrtney, alias Hollice, alias Worsley, and Clement Slie fencer with their escapes and breaking of prison: As also the true and hearty repentance of Charles Courtney w[ith] other passages, worthy the note and reading.; Life, apprehension, arraignement, and execution of Charles Courtney, alias Hollice, alias Worsley, and Clement Slie fencer.	Courtney, Charles, d. 1612.	1612 (1612)	STC 5878; ESTC S113923	14,342	28

glorious beames Titan had fully hid him in the West To coole the fetlockes of his weary teames When sunke with sorrow being captiuate I shed forth teares lamenting much my state My head on hand my elbow on my knee And teares did trickle downe my countenance then My countenance as sad as mans might be My dumps befitting well a Captiue man Fettered in prison passionate alone My sighes wrought teares and thus I gan to mone I that of late did liue a souldiers life And spent my seruice in my Countries good Now captiue lie where nought but cares are rife Where is no hope but losse of dearest blood This is befallen me cause I did mis-spend That time which God to better vse did lend Had I but stopt my eares where Syren sung And bound my selfe vnto Vlisses mast Or had I thought alas I am but young Too much t is all to venture on a cast I might haue liued from all dangers free Where now I die for life is not for me But I doe follow what I knew was vaine Instead of vertue I did vice imbrace My former pleasures now procure my paine And cause I lackt one sparke of timely grace The poysoned Aconite of death and woe Resolues to send a fatall ouerthrowe This makes my eies to gush out floods of teares My flesh to melt my eies and arteris rend My soule to seeke redresse to cure her feares For now my cause cannot afford one friend I that of late did number many a friend Now find them fled and no man comfort lende The Leafelesse tree with wrath of winters wind Best represents my wretched wasting state Fortune the wind the leaues my friends I find My selfe the tree that thus am erost by fate And yet in this we greatly differ may That it reuiues and I still pine away Villaines auaunt you bastards are by kind That doe perturbe the countries quiet state Shame to offend shun a corrupted minde And learne by me your former liues to hate Liue of your owne and braue it not with brags Least law condemne you in your proudest rags Drinke not the Haruest of your neighbours sweat Steale not at all thy God doth thee commaund Whose law to keepe your soueraigne doth intreate Thy health it is Gods lawe to vnderstand Obeying God God shall all harmes preuent Keeping Kings peace thy King is well content Like to the Woolfe in euery place you range Preying on lambe that neuer went astray And like Camelions must your suits be strange Who doth by kind change Colours euery day Without respect forgetting what you be Masking in sinne as if God could not see Abate presumption sinne is not a I est Though God forbeare yet he will strike at length God made thee man make not thy selfe a beast But seeke to loue thy God with soule and strength Ill gotte Ill spent your hopes in theft pretended Are griefe and shame and life in sorrowes ended Might sorrowing sobs with teares redeeme what 's past Or floods of teares suffice for foredone ils Behold my lookes with discontent orecast Whose heart doth rend whose eies fresh fountaines still And yet all this and all that I can doe Is small to that which I haue neede to doe My soule shall mourne for all my ill done deedes And I will weepe sole author of soules woe Repentance shall be my blacke mourning weedes I le bath my selfe in teares from top to toe And while life lasts which cannot now be long Grant mercie Lord this shall be all my song My heart through flesh shall issue sweating griefe And scald my bones with salt and brinish teares Through flesh and bone my heart shall begge reliefe On bended knees till bone my flesh out-weares All that I am I le spend in mourne for sinne And where I end afresh I will beginne If Maudlins teares did euer Christs feete wet And sweete her soule with true repentant teares If Peters mourning streames did mercy get For all his sinnes though he his Christ for sweares My sad laments abounding from my eies Sweete God accept and heare my mourne fullcries A wouuded soule a broken contrite heart Creepes in great'st throng thy mercies throne to touch The oyle of life King of my life impart Though sinne be great thy mercy 's thrice as much Oh thou that art in power and mercy great Send downe thy mercy from thy mercies seat My coloured suits I now exchange for blacke Till scarlet sinne be all as white as snow On me sweete time shall neuer turne his backe Nor shall his taske be more my tares to mow But with repentance furrow hopes for lorne Till God giue grace I sheafe vp better Corne. This little remnant of my life so poore I le teach to shun all sinne and vices all Giuer of all grace grant grace I sinne no more Establish me that I may neuer fall To thee my heart my soule and life I giue Who after death eternally may liue Direct my path euen for thy mercies sake Guide thou my steppes to keepe repentant waies Keepe me from sleepe in thee stil let me wake To laud thy name during these earthly daies And when from earth I shall dissolue to dust Grant that my soule may liue among the iust Ch. Courtney FINIS

THE LIFE APPREHENSION Arraignement and Execution of CHARLES COVRTNEY alias Hollice alias Worsley and Clement Slie Fencer with their Escapes and Breaking of Prison As also the true and hearty Repentance of Charles Courtney with other passages worthy the note and Reading LONDON Printed for Edward Marchant and are to bee sold in Pauls Churceyard ouer against the Crosse 1612. THE APPREHENSION AND ARRAIGNMENT of CHARLES COVRTNEY alias Hallice gentleman with the forme of his Life HE that as in a glasse will behold the picture of a wretched Life or the liuely representation of the myseries incident to Mankind the image of both may be séene in this man here may be discerned the mutations of Fortunes the inconstancie of things and the vncertaintie of daies since sinne hath spred it selfe like a leprosie ouer all flesh and iniquitie hath so gotten the vpper hand that a Spider is able to choake vs a haire to stifle vs and a tyle falling on our heads to extinguish vs euen in that momēt when we least suspect so suddaine a calamitie Our life then so momentanie that in that minute we breath if not defended by our Maker in that minute we are breathlesse Why should any flesh endowed with that heauenly reason which God hath onely giuen to men and Angels so forget his vncertaintie as for a little gold which is but the dregges of the earth for vanitie the pleasures of the world or for the world it selfe possest with an exterior appearance of goodnesse and within lined with loathsome corruption which is but like to réeds who when they shoot out first in the spring of the yeare intice and with their fresh greene colour delight the eye for a while but if we breake and looke within them we find nothing but emptinesse and hollownesse neglect his Maker and the dignity of his creation who being ordained for vertuous dispositions conducts his whole life to vitious actions beeing men but in shew and like birds in their course who gréedily flee to pecke vp corne till they bée caught in the ginne or like fishes who earnestly swimme to catch the baite till they be choaked with the hooke But why doe I talke of the frensie of others when no mans madnesse hath beene equall to mine or who will receiue a homely counsel from that tongue whose folly hath brought him to be condemned himselfe Foelix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum Then let me forget the world pittie her infirmities and with my soules sorrow and heartie repentance build me vp a ladder on the steppes of whose petitions I might climbe toward heauen Yet alas words vttered from mee are but like birds feathers who serue their bodies vse to flée withall whilst they are aliue and others regardlesse lie downe vpon them when they are dead The repetition of my sinnes is but with the winnowerand the wind to fanne away the chaffe and leaue the growth of the graine to liue with my shame I may say I haue sinned and doe sing I repent yet the Law must haue his power and the liuing giue their verdict my griefe is the spring which my sorrow lets out and Iustice is the pipe which doth take and can stoppe whilst the world as a spunge that suckes vp the superfluous is of power to be squéezd forth as the multitude please what though I sigh yet my sinnes must be strucke the Law requires it and mine iniquities haue deserued it what though I dying complaine the liuing must haue their willes and they haue willes can reprooue whatsoeuer I say then since the Law as frō y ● fountaine of my offences hath had power to draw my life from me and the world euen after death may haue strength to condemne mée words vttered with teares but requests of them thus That since my body shall haue power to blunt the edge of affliction my vntimely fall may haue force to abate the kéene sharpnes of their rumouring tongues and if any thirstie or vnsatisfied spleen either reioycing at my death or bemoning my ruine shall desire to sée vnraueld the whole web of my life he shall here behold the péece of my Trauels in reading which I desire him to wash from his memorie the stains of my name here shall he reade my diurnall transgressions which I request him to pardon and not to reprooue since no Curre is so cruell to bite the dead heere as in a Mirror shall hée looke into my miseries hand-workes my sinnes my sorrow my life my death and the building of mine owne labour began from the time of my apprehension at Dunstable in Bedfordshire from whence I was conuaid to Bedford Gaole from thence to Newgate where after my seueral escapes it was most vntimely concluded at Warwicke lane end néere Newgate to die For my birth and education it was fortunate and commendable It was a credit to my carefull and louing Father and he was obeyed by me as a dutifull sonne In my youth I grewe vp like a straight plant and was expected of the worthiest and hoped for of the best of my countrey to haue prooued the Timber of a fruitfull tree my company to the best of the Gentrie was accounted so welcome that they estéemed mée more for pleasure then expences and the contempt I held to associate with the base had brought my faire demeanure to bee beloued with the best that my fellowship entirely desired and my condition held honest my Father was proud to call mée his happy sonne In my prime and fitting yeares my Father endeauoured to ioyne mée in mariage as well to ioy in the posteritie of his sonne as a wife by bringing a dowrie with her should strengthen my estate which desire of his was equalled by diuers Gentlemen of good worship in our Countrey and to mine owne loue and liking with the ioy and wishes of our Parents I was ioyned in wedlocke with a vertuous Gentlewoman with whom during the liues of our Fathers whose eyes were like carefull Sentinels watchfull of our safeties I liued decently and orderly as did befit a sonne and a husband and shée louing and dutifull as should a daughter and a wife But Time the parent of Death and finisher of all things calling them our Nourishers to their graues and I entred the gappe of wilfulnesse and libertie the which before either their graue discretions had rained mée from or I had not leisure to find out I grewe now to be a worser man and did not séeme in any thing like that which before I had béene my ciuilitie was turned to disorder my temperance to drunkennesse my thrift to ryot my honestie to misbehauiour and my whole life to those vnséemely acts that I should blush to record In which tide of expences consuming my meanes reserued by my Parents to defend my reputation and vpholde our house want the Enemie to superfluitie Tauerns Dyce and whores came on like a greedy purseuant to arrest me with whose gripe I beeing toucht and finding my state

escape My life I knewe was forfeit to the Law which at the next Sessions I was sure to pay vnlesse it were ventured by breaking out of prison I found the Gaole to be of that approoued strength as it was impossible to be broken besides being lodged in a chamber with other prisoners I could not haue time to doe it Yet still persisting in my Resolue and taking hold of any occasion that might further my attempt I did perceiue a doore which did leade out of a gentlemans chamber that was a prisoner into the Leades which doore was continually lockt this was the doore must leade me to my pardon I let no time slippe but by meanes of a déere friend I had a Iacke line conueied vnto me and a Chissell of Iron and that night I purposed to get away being in the Hall at supper with the rest of the prisoners I made excuse to goe vp to my Chamber to write a letter To worke I went where without long labour as it séemed to me being a cunning workeman I had opened the doore that led into the Leades and finding an olde doore in the gutter on the backe of which were fastened barres to kéepe close the boordes and with the helpe thereof I climed vp to the Battlements where my eye measuring the way that I held best for my discent I fastened my cord to the toppe of one Battlement on the west side of the gate and beganne to slide downe but see the will of our iust God that giues preuention to euill for the prosperitie of honest and good men which I now heartily pray for that I that had the Contriuing to open the Lockes the Cunning how to sort out the time should not for this which I held my aduantage haue had the foresight to haue laid some cloath or other helpe betwixt the edge of the wall whereunto I had fastened the cord and the stay of the rope So that in my slipping downe striuing to vntangle the cord being small it cut my right hand to the bone and the force of my body with the sharpenes of the stone cut in sunder the cord by the breaking of which I fell downe into the gutter belongiug to a Linnen Draper adioyning to Newgate lying a quarter of an houre astonied ere I recouered my selfe Being come to my remembrance and seeing my hope frustrate and no helpe for me to be gone at last I groaped out a garret window the doore of which opened into the gutter but being bolted in the inside I was as much in a maze as I was before where presently my inuention helping me againe and by the shaking of the doore learnt whereabout the staple was fastened I had in a trice with my nayles scraped out a hole yet no bigger but where I might thrust two of my fingers so thrusting backe the boult I opened the gutter doore hauing a cord about my middle wherewith I ment to get out of the gutter ino the stréete But the maister kéeper whose diligence and care in his well gouerning of the Prison I must with modestie commend hauing béene forth with some friends of his and comming in againe at the time they vse to locke vp demaunded if the Gaole were safe and all well with the Prisoners and being answered yes I knew not by what meanes but sure God had a hand in it hauing a strange impression on the sudden in his minde came vp into the maisters side and the first he askt for was me where receiuing a strange answere from euery one as that he was here euen now or such like going into euery roome still calling still calling Maister Courtney Maister Courtney but Maister Courtney could not heare It was perfectly euident I had wrought my escape In what a conflict was this gentleman in the danger I had brought him in let euen Charitie iudge But it was no time for delay search round about the house was made which way I might escape some perswaded him I was gone out of the doore in some disguise some that I had got out at the leades the leades were viewed at last they found the cord tied about the Battlements Linkes then were sent for the Cunstable and his watch beset euery house on that side from Newgate to Pie Corner the Leades were likewise beset with linckes All this I did sée though to my great gréefe into the garret then I crept and there hid my selfe vnder a table couered with a cloake this Drapers house being searcht as the likeliest place I should take for my refuge till the hurry was ouer In the garret where I lay they came and found me not but God would not suffer me to escape nor would suffer them to giue ouer their search in that house Into the garret the Kéeper came againe with a cudgel in his hand turning vp the cloake espied me lying as it were a sleepe waking me without blowes or signe of anger called to me come Maister Courtney will you goe when looking heauily vp and seeing it was he I fell downe on my knees asking him forgiuenesse who most mildly without afflicting me gaue me this answere nay neuer aske forgiuenesse of me there is no hurt done Maister Courtney for I am the gladdest to see you of any man aliue So from thence being carried vp to the common Gaole and sessions comming on I was called vp to triall according to my merit Conuict but by the fauour of the bench some promises of mine owne to helpe some to their goods who had béene robbde of a number and at the especiall sute of my friends I was for that sessions repreeued without iudgement the sessions following I had my sentence of death but in the distance betwixt my conuiction and sentence my remaine being still in the common Gaole I had searching eies touching the strength of the prison the condition and humor of the officers and where and what hower it was fittest for me to labour my deliuerance whose pollicie failing I was certaine of death In briefe I had found the way and manner of my conueiance and had I not beene preuented by my vnexpected sentence at the following sessions after my conuiction and that night according to the custome due to Condemned and Iudged men being lodged in a dungeon which is called the Limbord that instant night with one Clement Sli● a fencer by title and lay condemned for Murther whome I had wrought to bee an agent with me I had him as forcibly as after I performed confirmed by escape Now séeing I was preuented and knowing I must die with the rest of the prisoners I found now there was no refuge left but to labour our repreeue which cunningly and not ordinarily I thus brought to effect there was a gentleman and at that time a prisoner for debt whom I had vnderstood his intreats would preuaile with some honourable personages in this land I commended me to him to his conference with me and in this manner solicited him