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A12126	[A true report of the late horrible murther committed by VVilliam Sherwood prisoner in the Queenes Benche, for the profession of Popery, the 18. of Iune. 1581.]		1581 (1581)	STC 22432; ESTC S103014	4,882	15

¶ A true report of the late horrible murther committed by VVilliam Sherwood Prisoner in the Queenes Benche for the profession of Popery the 18. of Iune 1581. I Am the more loath at this time to laie open vnto the view of the whole worlde that late foule murder committed by Sherwood because I would not speake much of them which be gonne be thought to bite them by the back which are dead and so be like vnto those Papists which béeing hotte in cruelty did not onely curse the dead contitinually but did take vp and burne the hones of diuers good men into ashes to signifie vnto the worlde that no drinke could coole their thirst but blood no Sacrifice could content thē but the warme hart blood of Martyrs the death of the Saints of God But my intent is this for as much as their scabbes now breake out and that their cruelty séeketh no corners but setteth it selfe vpon a Stage to be beheld of all men to giue all good Christians warning that as they shall heare of theyr naughtines and sée it so they will learne to spew them out of their stomackes for euer It was wunt to be sayd often and to be true Enuie braggeth but draweth no blood But nowe it may be as truelie sayd the mallice of a Papiste it braggeth lyttle but it is hardsie satiffied but with aboundaunce of much ●●od Theyr desired time of reuenge is not past and theyr mallice hath not yet vomitted his gall We may sée this that because oportunitie offereth not it selfe to let them delight their eies with beholding our channelles running and reking with the warme blood of Protestauntes rather then they will want this delight they will washe their handes in the blood of their owne brethren in their owne chambers This is the portion of their cupps which if they might we should be made to drinke to the dregges These are the Bores which destroy the Vineyard who because they are not baighted with Dogs and their eares torne off they will play lyke madde Dogges themselues byting all that come in their way They giue out in their Lybelles which they scatter ●●●ndlie advertisements as Indas ●ff●●● a ●aindlie ●isse They cast them selues 〈◊〉 ●●ke and Subiectes at the séete of our gr●tions ●●uer●●●me but their long eares d●●●●wray their conditions Their throates are open Sepulchres they flatter with their tongues and so is it their kinde for it is as naturall for a Dogge to barke as to wagge hé● tayle If the common wealth be not purged of this infection the plague will be so great that vppon euerie good Protestauntes d●●●e ●ord haue mercie vpon vs may shortlis be ●●ritten But I will bréefly deliuer out this fearfull Tragedy in the which I will set out nothing that in false nor willinglie kéepe any thing bac●e that is true In the Quéenes Bench there were two detained for Poperie The one called Richard Hobson borne in the I le of Wight of good Parentage young in yéeres but as tyme ●ffereth many young gréene heades are seasoned Papists The other named William Sherwood a Gentlemā born● to some Landes in Yorkshyre at Walkington by Byuerley a man condempned in a Primanerie for extolling the Supremacie a derider of Gods Ministers a disturber of Preachers a contemner of the seruice confirmed by her Maiestie calling it diuelish one well liked of many Papistes but best liked of himselfe because he was so disobedient they accounted him stoute because he prated much they accounted him learned but because he hath shamed them much they would now accoumpt him madde It fortuned before the death of Hobson about sixe wéekes that Sherwood for want of paiment was remooued from his lodging well shakeled to the common Gaile whose misery being pitied by this young man was also reléeued by his meanes as at sundrie other times he was The quarrell as I am creddibly enformed was this Hobson gaue his woord for the money that Sherwood owed a fréend of Sherwoods shortly after had sent fiue pounds for the paiment of his charges which Hobson receiuing disbursed it for himselfe and within few daies after satisfied the residue because this money was not paide to Sherwood first at Dinner time with open woords he protested that he could not abide Hobson This young man mooued him oftentimes earnestly to be reconciled shewing his gréefe vnto him in that he tooke offence at him but nothing might moue his minde that thirsted or staye his hands that itched to commit murther It is a spéeche commonly vsed that looue waxeth and waneth oftentimes with the Moone but it may be as commonly séene that the hatred of a Papist neuer waxeth and waneth but still waxeth still increaseth he that hath béene planted in Poperie his Grapes are Grapes of Gall his clusters are alwayes bitter If the Pope hath once giuen them a Soppe they are lightly neuer sober after if he haue once powred his licker into them theyr Vessels can hardely be made cleane But to be briefe the day grew on which was the 28. of Iune about 8. of the clock in the morning at which time he had determined to murder his fellow Papist and that the matter might more easy be brought to passe he caused the night before the Kéeper to rea●●●ue all Hobsons weapons so that the next morning as Hobson was comming downe thorough Sherwoods Chamber from his prayers Sherwood shutting his Chamber ●oore affailed him with a knife and a stoole tressell a ●●ouishing him afterwardes gaue him a large wound kéeping him downe and strugling till he bled to death Hobson often crying helpe Father Throckmorton he killeth me with his knife maister Throckmorton and others hearing this noyse came vppon Sherwood and by force broke vp his doores found the young man all to be sowsed in his own blood and gasping for breath who after a fewe faint words yéelded his soule into the handes of God Sherwood perceyued a great many busie about Hobson began to practise to escape but by héede taking of one Maister Smithes man he was brought to the Marshalles handes and embrued in his fellowes blood who béeing examined he denied the manifest murder which by witnesse was prooued and he béeing brought to the flaine bodie the blood which was settled issued out a treshe Thus he stewe this young man in déede and cause miserably in forme fashion cruelly and beastly Let vs aduisedly now weigh and cou●●der what manner of ●●for this is that cutteth so sharpe If they be thus vnable to maister theyr passions and thus like blood ●uckers do open them against theyr owne feliowe prisoners what shall we looke for at theyr hande● Quibus sepibus tam immanes bell●a● conti●●bimus What hedges can be made strong enough to kéepe in these beastes Tullie wryting against Anthonie Phillip 7. sayth thus Qui fa●ilierem iug●laret quid hic occasions d●ta faci●● i●imice Et qui illud animi causa fee●vit hunc prede causa quid facturum putetis

He that wyll kyll his familliar freende what wyll he doo if occasion be offered to his enemie And he that will doo this of stomach what will he offer to doo for spoyle Surely so they will doo as they haue done they will deuowre poore Protestauntes as Beastes eate grasse kéeping them vnder we shall if time serued not onely be choaked with the smoake of Poperie but we shall be burnt vp with the fire Their imprisonmentes haue so enritched them 〈◊〉 that they abound in all manner of wealth especiallies no men better furnished for warre for rebellion then they In this great tyme of mercie they doo nothing but ●●ther heapes of stones to throwe at vs. They are making of the halters to hang vs they are whetting of their kniues to cutte our throates These tye Dogges when they shall be let loose they will byte vs nay they will hayts vs to death It is time to cut of the Hydra his heads a●● to strangle him within his Caue for how soeuer it commeth to passe they lift vp their heads on highe Papistry began to wa● dead and to be colde in the mouth it beginneth now to wax warme againe and to neese we poo●e Protestants are afraide but that God our gracious Prince is with vs and hath broke still the arme of the wicked our harts would mell like wax in the middest of our bowels the Lord hath deliue●d her Maiestie hetherto from thē as Dowe from the hand of the Hu●●●r and as a Birde from the hand of the Fowler and God gr●●nt they be neuer taken for good subiects till they become Iubiect to God and his Gospell This subiection of theirs and false Protestation of faith to her Maiestie is a false colour we win●●● hard or else we be merue lously blinded if we perceans it not God remooue such Subiects from so good a Prince It is piety that these black Hauens should go for Birds with the rest I hope God will so blesse vs especially all Magistrates that they will looke to it at the last that they shall not be in acco●●p●e with them as to be the finger next the thombe But now to returne to his ende Qualis Vita finis ita as he liued so he dyed Beeing araigned at Croydon he continued still obstinately denying the fact hoping for some healpe by pardon but a iust iudge preuented an vngratious hope The 12. of Iuly he was retourned home manacled with an other who was condemned for a rape his behauiour the night before he suffered was according to his accustomed vsage resolute in opinion though false and dissolute in behauiour driuing of his Christian brethren that exhorted him with dry scoffes and no maruell for scoffing mocking and moweing licking of Chalices and all manner of toying is the life of their religion The next day was the 13. of Iuly the appointed time for the execution In the morning certaine deuout Christians had accesse vnto him whom at the first entraunce he cut of or hearing a small time despised The time of the execution drue nighe which was perfourmed ouer against the Quéenes Benche where the murder was committed by the vnder Shriefe of Surrie and the Baily of Southwarke from the white Lion to the place where he should suffer after many vaine words of conceaued repriue had by the way he was caused to clime the Ladder on which being placed he entered this kinde of discourse I beséeche all Romish Catholicks to helpe me in this my extremitie with their vertuous and godly prayers for other which are of a contrary profession as I abhorre their religion so I will none of theyr prayers But if there shal be here present any one of the true Catholick Romish faithe I béeseth them of theyr prayers in my behalfe The people hearing these his obstinate spéeches with sundry exclamations cryed out hang him hang him there be none heere of his profession Neuerthelesse hee continued his wicked spéeches proclayming the Pope of Rome the supreme head of the Universall Church Christes Uicar here vpon earth Yet notwithstanding though by euident reasons he was confuted yet the God of this world had so blinded him that no reason could preuaile with him And farther whereas the Preacher persuaded him to lay his hope on Christe whose mercy was infinite he vehemently cryed out away with the Woolfe he peruerteth the truthe and troubleth me away with the Woolfe Béeing farther inquired of the murther he persisted in his vniust denyall laying contrary to all euidence and probability the death of the young man Hobson to his owne charge When no hope of confession or recantation was to be conceiued the Shriefe caused him to be remooued higher to the ende that execution might be perfourmed wishing him by earnest and deuoute prayers to call for mercy and repentaunce to craue grace But he by these tokens perceiuing death at hand contrarie to a méeke Lambe as he termed him selfe fled downe the Ladder to flye from the Butcher thereby showing the vnstablenesse of his faythe so that the hangman was enforced to vndoo the Halter which he had fastened to the Iibbet and to put it about his neck belowe and so by little and little to draw him up Where resting after many perswasions by the Shriefe and the Preacher and no profit in the middest of his Lattine Pater noster was turned off to the mercy of God I am perswaded if all the rest were thus handled no one faithfull subiect should draw lesse breath and then I am sure thorough Gods great goodnes the happy peace of this land should be made perfit you sée how boldly he imbraced forraine iurisdiction all they which be Papists hartely doo the like I pray God that if they be not haltered yet that they may be bridled with shorter Raines that they be not so headstrong as this man was If a Shéepe werier be well cougeled at the syrste he forfaketh his trade so if Papistes were thoroughly dealt withall they would forget to make the Pope supreame head of the Church of England I be●éeche those that be in authoritie to looke to it and thus committing the poore yet quiet estate of the Church of Englande to the olde and wonted care of our grations Prince and the rest that beare any office I end not willing to spend many words vpon so vile and carrenly a generation but as Peter Act. 2. exhorted his schollers in many woordes saying Saue your selues from this froward generation so I with few words exhort all estates to looke to themselues and to take héede of this viperous and pestilent generation from auncient cruelty of the which the Lord deliuer this whole lande of Englande bothe now and for euer Amen ¶ Imprinted at London by John Charlewood and Edward VVhite 1581.