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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

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

first stroke made a great wound in his neck but was not mortall when the Arch-bishop putting his hand to the place uttered these words Aha it is the hand of God nor could he so soone remove his hand but at the second blow he wounded him deeper and cut off the ends of his fingers at which he fell groveling but was still alive till being piteously mangled by eight severall blowes he gave up his last breath into his hands from whom he first received it all that day his body lay unburied and till the morrow being Satterday none daring to affoord it at any buriall but tooke his head and nayling his head upon it fixt it on a Pole and set it upon London Bridge in the same place where before was fixt the head of Sir Iohn Minster-worth This reverend Arch Bishop Simon Tibald Alias Sandbury sonne to Nicholas Tibald borne in Sudbury a towne in Norfolk Doctor of both Lawes had beene eighteene yeares Bishop of London who was cruelly murthered and his body after borne to Canterbury and buried in the Cathedrall Church There dyed with him a most valiant Knight called Sir Robert Hayles Lord of St. Iohns and Treasurer of England with Iohn Legat one of the Kings Sergeants at Armes and with them a Fryer of the Order of St. Frances whose name was William Axpledore and was at that time Confessor to the King There was executed also by the Brutish tyranny of these Rebells one Richard Lyons an exquisite Lapidary and a Goldsmith who had bin some few yeares before Shriefe of the City of London who was most inhumainly drawne out of his owne house into Cheape side and there beheaded Many the same day had their heads cut off as well Flemings as English and for no other cause but onely to fulfill the madnesse of the barbarous Commons for they spared no men who were not of their diabolcall faction but they cut off their heads saying they cared not whether they sent them to God or to the Divell All sacred places they hold in contempt as such as they had never bin acquainted with for even in the Temples and at the time of divine Service they did not forbeare to kill and murder any man to whom they had any spleene or malice But especially their envy was to the Dutch whom they termed by the generall name of Flemings who as they supposed sucked the very moysture and marrow of the Kingdome and therefore out of the Augustine Fryers Church in London they fetched thirteene Flemings and out of another Church not named in the Chronicle to the number of seventeene and thirty two out of the Vine-tree and so out of other places of the City as also Southwarke whose heads they struck off without any mercy unlesse they could plainely pronounce Breed and Cheese for if their speech sounded any way towards Brott and Cawse off went their heads without redemption c. But I lest the King at Mile-end it is most pertinent to the History that I give you account how he sped there thus therefore it followeth His Majesty riding thether rather commanded then invited was in a great straite and feare withall when he cast his eye upon such a multitude of unruly Rascalls who with supercilious fronts gave him an unmannerly salute he there from fashioned himselfe to the necessity of present and demanded of them what they desired who delivered unto him a writing which they said they would have him confirme by his Letters Pattent the effect of part of their demands were these First that all men in the Kingdome whatsoever should be free from servitude and bondage so as from that time there should be no bond-men at all or to hold any Tenure in villanage c. Secondly that he should grant his free and generall pardon to all men of what estate soever of all manner of Actions or insurrections committed and all Rebellion Treason Fellonics Extortions Robberies traingressions by any of them done and further that their peace might bee so confirmed that there-after their former insolencies might not be called in question c. Thirdly that all persons from time forward might be infranchised and have free liberty to buy and sell in every Country City Borrough Towne Fayre or Market or otherwise within the Realm of England c. Fourthly that no Acres of Land held in service or bondage should bee held but for some pence the Acre and if it had gone for lesse in former time it should not there-after be inhanced These and many other things they required to bee confirmed by his Majesty telling him boldly withall that he had evilly governed till that day and that they would take order that from that time forward be should be better counselled The King perceiving by their sudden foure countenances that unlesse he granted punctually to every of their demands though never so unreasonable his person was in great danger being by them round mvironed and therefore no possible meanes of his escape sealed to their writings and desiring Truce for some small time departed thence without any violence done unto his person and the Essex men returned home peaceably into their Country On the morrow being Satterday and the fifteenth or June the King after dinner went from the Ward-robe in the Royall which is in London to Westminster to visite the shrine of St. Edward King and Confessor and withall to see whether upon it they had committed any out-rage by defacing it Then went he to the Chappell called our Lady in the Piew where after he had offered up his Orisons he returned by the Suburbs of West Smith-field where he found the place thronged with the Kentish Rebells wherefore he sent to their Captaine to informe them that he had pacified their fellowes the Essex men who had abandoned Mile-end and were peaceably departed home-ward and that he was pleased in his gracious clemency to grant unto them the like conditions of peace and superscribe to the same Articles if they pleased to accept of them But their chiefe Captaine whom some call Iohn but the best Chronologers call Walter Hiliard Alias Tyler being of a subtle and crafty condition and wickedly witty made answer that though he had then the power in his hands yet hee was willing to listen unto peace but onely thus with some particular conditions added to his owne approbation and liking his purpose being to feed the King and the Nobility with delayes till hee had compassed his diabolicall purpose whose plot was first the same night to have surprised the King and all those Peeres which then attended him Courtiers and others and then to have spoyled the City and then to have burnt it to the earth by setting fire in foure parts thereof at once But the Providence of Heaven who alwaies favoureth and protecteth Justice and innocense diverted his mischiefe which he intended against others powred it on his owne head as shall appeare by the sequell For whereas the conditions of peace were