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england_n	book_n	church_n	write_v	2,919	5	5.8866	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14273	The honourable prentice: or, This taylor is a man Shewed in the life and death of Sir John Hawekwood, sometime prentice of London: interlaced with the famous history of the noble Fitzwalter, Lord of Woodham in Essex, and of the poisoning of his faire daughter: Also of the merry customes of Dunmow, where any one may freely haue a gammon of bacon, that repents not mariage in a yeere and a day. Whereunto is annexed the most lamentable murther of Robert Hall at the high altar in Westminster Abbey.	Vallans, William.	1615 (1615)	STC 24588; ESTC S101782	18,713	40

to set aside all religion and conscience and make hreach of the sanctuary he wholy soeuer and take from them their prisoner or bring them back to the Tower whereupon fifty or sixty chosen men were armed and secretly placed to break into the Abbay at seruice time and if no perswasions could preuaile then with violence to set vpon them The chiefest of these were Raph de Ferres the Lord Latimer Alan Buxhull and others who at that time of Masse gat into the Church and by craft drew Shakerley foorth of the libertyes of the Sanctuary by a posterne or small doore leading to the Ducens bridge through the old Pailace But as for Hall when they saw they could not intreat nor perswade him they began to bend their weapons toward him but hee hauing a short sword drew it and valiantly defended their assaults coursing about the Abbey yet found no rescue or helpe but acompany of Monkes and Priests naked as it were and vnarmed who cryed to God for vengeance of this horrible sacriliedge I haue béen shewed a great notch which remains in a marble piller reported to bee made with a blow which one of them strook at him and yet mist him Also the stones where he was first deadly wounded retaine yet as is said his blood whether it be so or bée the naturall colour of the stone let Philosophers dispute hee feeling himselfe so wounded ra● vp to the high Altar where the 〈◊〉 Priests stood amazed at this deathfull accident Due of the Lay bretheren a seruant of the house ●●●osing himselfe for rescue was slaine as also Hall himselfe The murderers made away and fled This being performed and they nothing the néerer for their purpose of the Earle of Deane it followed that the Church was suspended the diuine seruices ceased the Quiristers Chorists bells and Organs became mute the Church dores were dammed and 〈◊〉 vp with thornes and bushes at least sixty 〈◊〉 as I haue read And the Authors and doers thereof cursed with Bell Booke and Candle for they were all well knowne this was not onely don in London but in euery Cathedrall Church and parish Church throughout all England ānd Wales This seuere censure of the Church this curse or ban was denounced ueyther did the Duke himselfe escape it although he faine would haue excused it as neither knowing of it nor consenting to it but hee preuayled not and was also punished by this heauy curse This continued for the space of certaine wéekes in which time the King so wrought with the Duke that hee fell to composition with Shakerley who for the some of fiue hundred markes of present money and a hundred markes by the yéere was cont●nted to ●art with his prisoner Also that the Duke at his owne charges should build a Chantrey and find fiue priests foreuer to sing for the soule of Robert Hall The money being paid and security put in for performance of the rest the Church the Bells and Church ornaments were new hallowed the seruices againe restored But that which was most to be admirev was that when the prisoner or Earle was demaunded he deliuered his Page who they all knew in all his troubles had most faithfully serued him and his companion All sorts of people wondring at the great fidelity of this straunger who albeit hee well knew that hee was sought for his preferment that his Father was dead yet detesting the vnkindnesse of his father and friends chose rather to be pertaker of his masters troubles than to falsifie the faith oath and promis which he had made vnto them A most rare and memorable example Hall lyeth buried in the Abbey at Westminster not far from Cha●sers Tombe vnder a faire monument of a flat Marble stone with his image of brasse in his armour and about the same certaine verses in Lattin which though much defaced with treading and neere worne out may be found in a booke called the Remaines of a greater Worke. set foorth by Mr. Camden al. Clareceaulx King at Armes The Duke of Lancaster with a great Powre went into Spaine where after sundry victories and variable fortunes a great sicknesse attached his people by meanes whereof his successe was not answerable to his expectation nor the height of his minde whereby he yéelded to a composition with Henry the King and receiued of him eight Charriots laden with Gold and Siluer and a yeerely tribute of a thousand Markes with these conditions he departed out of Spaine and returned into England dyed and lyeth buryed in Paules with his wife and Daughter of King Peter whose stile and titles of Honour and Dignity were written and set vppe by it at the cost and charges of one master Robert Hare late one of the Councell to Queene Mary and late Treasurer and writer of the Erchequer Rolles FINIS 〈◊〉 mat 〈◊〉 Mi●●raiton 〈◊〉 ●ers 〈◊〉 ●●tten Vide Io. St●w in Sutuay of London