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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19385	The araignment, examination, confession and iudgement of Arnold Cosbye: vvho wilfully murdered the Lord Burke, neere the towne of Wanswoorth, on the 14. day of this present month of Ianuary and was executed the 17. of the same moneth. 1591	Hunsdon, Henry Carey, Baron, 1526-1596.	1591 (1591)	STC 5813; ESTC S116415	5,941	18

❧ The Araignment Examination Confession and Iudgement of Arnold Cosbye VVHO WILFVLLY Murdered the Lord Burke neere the Towne of Wanswoorth on the 14. day of this present Month of Ianuary and was executed the 27. of the same moneth 1591. AT LONDON Printed for Edward White and are to be solde at the little North doore of Saint Paules Church at the Signe of the Gunne The Araignment Examinatiō confession iudgement of Arnold Cosbye who wilfullye murdered the Lord Burke neere the Towne of Wanswoorth on the 14. day of this present moneth of Ianuary 1591. VPon the 25. day of Ianuary last past 1591. Arnold Colbye commonlye called and knowne by the name of Captaine Cosbye an Irish man borne being before committed to Newgate for the murdering of the Lord Burke apparrelled in ayellowe Fustian dublet and alwse night gowne cast ouer with his handes bound was brought from thence alongst the Citie of London ouer London bridg into the borrough of Southwarke within the Countie of Surrey where the knight marshals men were ready to receiue him and conducted him to the Sessions house on S. Margets hill wherupon he was immediatlye put into the docket and had a great paire of 〈◊〉 boltes put vpon his feete his handes vnbound and his armes pinnioned Soone after there came thether the right honourable the Lord Chamberlayne the Earle of Wormewood sir George Carew knight Marshall of England with Maister Popham the Queens Attourney generall and other of her Maiesties Iustices for Middlesex and Surrey who being orderly placed proclamation was made for the people to be silent after that a substantiall quest of enquirie was calde and impannelled who hauing their charge giuen them by her maiesties Attourney generall to enquire if any wilfull murders rowts or riots c. were latelie committed in the verdge of the Queens Maiesties housholde by vertue of which enquirye they found this matter of wilfull murder That doone the Prisoner was commaunded to hold vp his hand at the barte and then the Clarke of the peace read the bill of inditement with alowde voice which contained in effect that the saide Arnold Cosbye contrarye to the peace of our Soueraigne Lady the Queene vpon the 14. day of Ianuary last past not hauing the feare of God before his eyes did forceably set vpon Iohn Lord Burke in the Town of Wanswoorth in a close and there vpon a diuelishe and most malitious intent did wilfully murder him then there giuing him one mortall and deadly wound with a rapier contayning one inche wide and 10. inches depe by meanes of which greeuous and deadly wound the said Lord Burke fell downe and after that the saide Arnold Cosbye with a Dagger price two shillinges gaue vnto the said Iohn Lord Burke xxj greeuous seuerall wounds more of which said great and deep wound the aforesaid Lord Burke died within two houres after Wherupon the prisoner being demaunded if he were guiltye of the murder for which hee was accused he answered pleaded to the same not guiltye and for triall put himselfe to God and the Cuntry wherupon there was a sufficient Iewrie chosen for his triall before whom the Prisoner stood to heare what might be aleaged against him for proofe of the fact which before he had denyed Then the Court did commaund proclamation to be made for all such to come in make their appearāce as could say any thing against the prisoner concerning the fact otherwise he stood vpon his discharge whereupon the Queenes Attourney generall first shewed and openly commaunded to be read the confession examination of the saide Arnold Cosbye taken the 16. of Ianuarye before maister VVilliam Fleetwood Sargiant at Lawe and Recorder of the Cittie of London which saide examination contained that about a twelue moneth before the said Lord Burke and the prisoner fell out and fought together at Greenewich and that afterward they were made freends neuerthelesse it appeared thereby by that Cosbye gaue vnto the said Lord Burke sundry very base tearmes vnsomely woords with other such great abuses as no noble Gentleman would haue put vp at the handes of so meane a man as Arnold Cosbye was and the same alway iustified by the partie who from time to time did discouer them to my Lord whome the prisoner in his examination aforesaid charged to doo it of malice and in conclusion euen in the scope and course of his saide examination it euidētly appeared that he had before wilfully pretended the murder of the saide Lord Burke and in most shamefull sorte effected it as aforesaid as Maister Atturney generall did learnedly lay it open And in the saide confession the said Cosbye declared that the Lord Burke and he rode together from the Courte where the said examinate desired him to crosse the riuer vpon the common way to London to the ende as he saide if it were his chaunce to endanger him he might the more easily escape by means of his frends which my L. refused After that there was a letter openly shewed and read sent from Cosbye the night before the Lord Burke died containing very 〈◊〉 tearmes far vnmeet for so meane a man to send to so noble a personage in which he did threaten a sharpe reuenge to the saide Lord and called him therein by the bare name of Burke so that by the saide letter it appeered that he pretended a sharpe reuenge vpon the Lord Burke and then his own confession aforesaid proued that the next day following he committed wilfull murder vpon him Neuertheles for further proof witnesses were called in to declare what they could saye touching the same whereupon one Maister Powell of ●answoorth shewed that being moued by the Lord Burkes foot man to make search for the saide Lord by reason he was ridden foorth with Captaine Cosbye to fight spared neither hedge nor ditche vntill he came to the place where the L. Burke laye sore wounded ready to giue vp the Ghoste finding with him at his comming a woman that did comfort him so much as she might by casting hir freeze safegarde on him and had laboured to stop the woundes with clothes such as she might conueniently come by M. Powell so soon as he came to the L. Burke being in what greeuous estate he stood ready to quake and quiuer with the blood which cooled and bled inwardly in his bodye he first threw his cloke vpon the L. Burke and then demaunded of him how he came so sore hurte Whervpon euen in the very agony of death hauing supped vp two or three dishfulls of new milke oh said he Cosbye hath villanously wounded me to death I neuer striking blow nor giuing thrust but whilst I was stooping to vnbuckle one of my spurres hauing vnbuckled y e other before through his perswasion saying they would be some trouble vnto me he most cowardly thrust me in at the top of the shoulder which ran farre into the body yet if I had striken but two blowes with him it would