that for the appeasing of all private discontents if any were the King and the rest of the Appellants with the rest of the commissioners should dine together in the great Hall which they did and there was great joy at this reconciliation through all the Kingdome When these things were concluded they then began againe this araignment of the Traytors whereupon John Blake and Thomas Vske were indicted on the 4. day of March who although they were men of inferiour quality yet were they found to bee parties in the said Treason Vske was a Sergeant at Armes and was indicted amongst the Conspirators so that bâ—â—â—â— late made Sheriffe of Middlesex hee had indicted the five Appellants and the Commissioners as Traytors and Blake was an Intelligencer of Tressilians one that used to goe and come betweeue the Conspirators and relate the state and successe of the treason from one to another And when they could say nothing to prove themselves cleare sentence was pronounced upon them as their Masters were before them they were carried to the Tower and from thence were dragged at the Horse taile to Tyborne and there hanged But Vske obtained this favour that his head was cut off after hee was hanged and set aloft upon Newgate for Fowles of the aire to take repast On the sixth day of March there were called to answer Robert Belknap John Holt Roger Falthorp William Burleigh Iohn Locton and Iohn Carey Baron of the Exchequer for their conspiracy against the Commissioners at Nottingham but because it is not needfull to rehearse every part of their indictment they were all condemned like as the rest Whilst the Peeres were trying them the Clergie were retired into the Kings Chambers but when word was brought to them of the condemnation of the Judges the Archbishop of Canterbury the Bishop of Winchester the Chancellor the Treasurer Lord Keeper of the Privie Seale arose hastily and went into the Parliament house powring forth their complaints before the King and the Peeres humbly upon their knees beseeching them that for the love of God the Virgin Mary and of all the Saints even as they hoped to have mercy at the day of Judgement they should shew favour and not put to death the said Judges then present and bitterly bewayling their iniquities in whose hearts the very life soule and spirit of our English Lawes lived flourished and appeared and there appeared great sorrow both on the one part of the Complainants and also of the Defendants The Duke of Gloucester likewise with the Earles of Arundel Warwick Nottingham and Derby whose hearts began to be mollified and joyned with them in their lamentable Petition At length by intercession of the Clergy the execution upon the persons was ceased and their lives were granted them but were sent to the Tower to be kept close prisoners On the 12. of March being thursday it hapned that the afore-said Knights Simon de Burleigh Iohn de Beauchamp Iames Baroverse and Iohn Salisbury were brought into the Parliament house where their accusations were read proved they found guilty and not any way able to cleare themselves From this day almost till the Ascension of our Lord the Parliament house was only taken up with the tryall of Sir Symon Burleugh for three Appellants viz. The Duke of Glocester the Earles of Arundell and Warwicke with the whole house of Commons vrged that execution might be performed according to the Law And on the other side the King and Queene the Earles of Darby and Nottingham and the Prior of Saint John his Vncle with the major part of the uper House did labour to have him saved But because the Commons were tyred with so long delayes and excuses in the Parliament and fearing as it was most like that all their paines would be to little or no purpose they humbly craved leave of the King to goe to their habitations There was also some muttering amongst the Common people and it was reported to the Parliament that the Commons did rise in diverse parts of the Realme but especially about Kent in favour of the said Sir Simon Burleigh which when they heard those that before spake and stood for him now flew cleane from him and by joynt consent on the fifth day of May sentence was pronounced only against the said Sir Symon that hee should be drawne from the Tower to Tyborne and then to be hanged till hee were dead and then to have his head strooke from his body But because he was a knight of the Garter a gallant Courtier powerfull and once a Favourite of the Kings and much respected of all the Court the King of his speciall Grace was pleased to mittigate his doome that he should only be led to Tower-hill and ther be beheaded On the twelfe of May the Thursday before Whitsontyde in like manner were condemned John Beauchamp Steward of the houshold to the King Iames Bereverous and Iohn Salsbury knights Gentlemen of the privie Chamber whereof the two first viz. Iohn Beauchamp and Iames Bereverous were beheaded on Tower-hill but Iohn Salsbury was drawn from Tower-hill to Tyborne and there was hanged On the same day also was condemned the Bishop of Chichester the Kings Confessor but because of his great dignitie he was pardoned Now they began to loath the shedding of so much Christian blood they tooke into consideration other more weighty affaires for the good of the Realme concerning the Wars with the Scots and French concerning Loanes and Subsidues and of the customes of Wine and Wooll And also concerning the translation of some Bishops because Pope Vrban the sixth after it came to his eares that the Archbishop of Yorke was condemned to avoyd all hope of Irregularity he created him Archbishop of Saint Andrewes in Scotland which Archbishop was under the power of Scots enemies to the Crown and in the gift of the Arch-Pope and because the Pope did chalenge halfe the title of all England to maintaine his Wars but although he craved it yet he was denyed therefore hee dealt warily and craftily hoping to make up his mouth by the translation of Bishops the Bishop of Ely then Lord Chancellor was made Arch-Bishop of Yorke the Bishop of Dublyn succeeded in his place the Bishop of Bathan-Wells in his place the Bishop of Sarum in his place and the Lord Iohn of Waltham Lord-keeper of the privie Seale in his place And this by his translation of Bishops he gained himselfe much money according to the Lawes of the Canon and when this came to the eares of the Parliament that such a summe of money should be transported out of the Land they strove what they could to hinder it but could not because the Clergie gave their consent On the last day of May the King appointed both houses to meet at Keemington whereas they made a conclusion of all the tryalls of the said treason granting license to Thomas Trenet William Ellingham and Nicholas Nagworth Knights Richard Metford Iohn Slake Iohn Lincolne Clerkes
to put in baile provided they were sufficient and to goe into a place of England where they listed without any let or hindrance of any of the Kings Officers Moreover the six Iustices with the Bishop of Chichester who stood condemned with them were sent into Ireland there to remaine for tearme of life and thus they were to be divided viz. Robert Belknap and John Holt in the Village of Dromore in Ireland not to remaine as Iustices or any officers but to live as banished offenders not to be out of Towne above the space of two miles upon paine of death but the King out of his gracious bounty was pleased to give a yearly annuity of 40. pound to Robert Belknap of 20. markes to John Holt during their lives and to Roger Fulthorpe the King allowed 40. pound and to William Burleigh 40. pound during life confining them to the City of Dublin granting Burleigh the liberty of two miles and to Fulthorpe three miles for their recreation John Carey and John Locton with the yearely allowance of 20. pound during life are confined to the Tower of Waterford with the like liberty and the like penaltie and the Bishop of Chichester is likewise sent to Corke there to remaine with some allowance and the like penaltie Behold these men who feared not God nor regarded men but having the Lawes in their owne hands wrested them now this way now that way as pleased best their appetites wresting them at their pleasures for their owne commoditie were at the last brought downe to the depth of miserie from whence they were never able to free themselves On the third day of Iune which was the last day of the Parliament the King the Queene the Peeres of both Estates with the Commons came to the Abbey at Westminster whereas the Bishop of London because it was in his Diocesse sung Masse and the Masse being ended the Archbishop of Canterbury made an Oration concerning the former danger of the Oath which being although the Peeres and Commons had taken the Oath of Allegeance and homage to the King yet because the King was young when they tooke the Oath a new as at the first at his Coronation These Ceremonies being performed the Metropolitan of England with all his Suffragans there present having lighted a Candle and putting it under a stoole put it out thereby excommunicating all such as should seeme to distaste dislike or contradict any of the fore-passed Acts in the last Parliament And the Lord Chancellor by the Kings appointment caused all that were present to sweare to keepe the said Statutes inviolably whole and undissolved as good and faithfull Liege-people of the Kings and the forme of the Parliament was observed throughout all the Realme On the morrow which was the fourth day of June many courteous salutations and congratulations having passed betweene the King the Nobility and Comminalty the Parliament was dissolved and every man returned home And now let England rejoyce in Christ for that the net which was laid so cunningly for our destruction is broken asunder and wee are delivered To God be the praise for all FINIS THE Names of such as were charged and condemned of high Treason in this aforesaid Memorable Parliament Alexander Nevile Archbishop of Yorke-â—â—â—â— de Vere Duke of Ireland who was 〈…〉 into France where he was kil 〈…〉 le Earle of Suffolke and Lord 〈…〉 Robert Tressilian Lord chiefe Iustice of the Kings Bench Sir Nichola Bramber sometimes Lord Major of London made a Privie Counsellour John Blake a Serjeant at Armes Thomas Vske an Intelligencer of Tressilians All these except the Duke of Ireland were drawne and hanged at the Elmes now called Tyburne Robert Belknap John Holt. Roger Falthorp William Burleigh Iohn Locton Iohn Carey Baron of the Exchequer All these former 6. named men were as it seemes Iudges and although condemned yet their lives were saved at the intercession of some of the guiltlesse Peeres and they afterward were banished into Ireland Sir Symon de Burleigh was also condemned and beheaded he was a Knight Banneret and of the Garter a great and gallant Courtier and his body lyeth honourably buried and intombed in Pauls Church Sir John Branchamp Steward of the Houshold to the King and Sir Iames Beverous were also condemned beheaded at Tower-hill Sir Iohn Salisbury was condemned drawne from Tower-hill to Tiburne and then hanged There were also detected and condemned of the aforesaid Treason The Bishop of Chichester the Kings Confessor Sir Thomas Trinet Knight Sir William Ellingham Knight Sir Nicholas Nagworth Knight Richard Metford Clerke Iohn Slake Clerke Iohn Lincoln Clerke An Abstract of many memorable matters done by PARLIAMENTS in this Kingdome of ENGLAND BY Parliament Sir Thomas Wayland chiefe Justice of the Common-Pleas 17. Ed. 1. was attainted of Felony for taking bribes and his lands and good forfeited as appeares in the Pleas of Parliaments 18. Edward 1. and he was banished the Kingdome as unworthy to live in that state against which he had so much offended By Parliament Sir William Thorpe chiefe Justice of the Kings Bench in Ed. 3. times having of five persons received five severall bribes which in all amounted to but one hundred pounds was for this alone adjudged to bee hanged and all his goods and lands forfeited The reason of the Iudgement is entred in the Roll in these vvords Because that as much as in him lay he had broken the Kings Oath made to the people which the King had intrusted him withall By Parliament holden Anno. 22. Hen. the second assembled at Nottingham and by advise thereof the King caused the Kingdome to be divided into 6 parts and Justices Itinerants appointed for every part with an Oath by them to be taken for themselves to observe and cause inviolablie to be observed of all his subjects of England the Assises made at Claringdon and renued at Northton By Parliament In the 11. of Edw. the first the Dominion of Wales was united to the Crowne of England in the Parliament in Anno 16. of Edw. the first 1289 upon the generall compes made of the ill administration of Iustice in the Kings absence by divers great Officers and Ministers of Iustices these penalties were inflicted upon the chiefe Ministers thereof whose manifest corruptions the batred of the people to men of that profession apt to abuse their science and authority the necessity of reforming so grievous a mischiefe in the Kingdome gave easie thereunto by the Parliament then assembled wherein upon due examinations of their offences they are fined to pay to the King these sums following First Sir Ralph Hengham chiefe Justice of the higher Bench seaven thousand markes Sir Iohn Loveton Justice of the Lower Bench three thousand markes Sir William Bromton Iustice sixe thousand markes Sir Soloman Rochester foure thousand markes Sir Richard Boyland foure thousand markes Sir Thomas Sadington two thousand markes Sir Walter Hopton two thousand markes These foure last were Justices Itenerants Sir William
Governours over Townes and Forts so obtained gave occasion to the Enemies of the Crowne to surprize them and dispossesse the King of them Thirdly vilifying the dignity of the King contrary to their allegeance they drew the King to sweare That with all his power during his life he should maintaine and defend them from all their Enemies whether foraine or domestick Fourthly whereas it was enacted by the last Parliament That the King at certaine seasonable times and when his leysure would permit him should sit at Westminster with his Councell there to consult of the publique Affaires through the perswasions of the aforesaid Conspirators hee was drawne into the most remotest parts of the Realme to the great disparagement of the fidelity of those Honourable grave and faithfull Peeres late made joynt Commissioners in whose hands the whole safety and prosperity of the Common-wealth did reside And when as the Lord Chancellor the Lord Treasurer Keeper of the Privie Seale or any other of the Privie Councell came to relate any of their owne actions or the state of the Realme they could not be granted accesse unlesse they related the businesse in the presence and hearing of the Conspirators who were alwayes ready to upbraid them if they uttered any thing that displeased them and to commend them for any thing though most nefarious that did content them for thus could they the sooner learne and dive into the acts of the Commissioners and the better finde evasions for their accusations Furthermore when as the King in company of the Conspirators went in progresse towards the parts of Cheshire Wales and Lancashire they made Proclamation in the Kings Name throughout the Shires as they journyed That all Barons Knights Esquires with the greatest part of the Commonalty able to beare Armes should speedily repaire to the King for his defence against the power of the Commissioners chiefly of the Duke of Gloucester and the Earle of Arundell because they above the rest did with their chiefest endevours study to suppresse and quell the devices of the Conspirators Fifthly contrary to the aforesaid Acts they caused the D. of Ireland to bee created Chiefe Justice of Chester thereby selling Justice as they listed condemning the guiltlesse and remitting the guilty never respecting or looking unto the equall ballance of Justice but poyzing downe the Scales with heaps of Bribery Sixthly by the procurement of the Confederates they caused certaine honest persons who would not consent to their extortions to be called and summoned to their Court and there to answer to certaine false accusations wherewith they were unjustly charged by perjured hirelings of which men so accused some were put to death some cast into prison all were vexed and troubled with delayes length of their iourney to and fro and excessive charges neither were they eased of any of these burthens unlesse they would part with round summes of money to the D. and his Complices Seventhly they gave pardons under the broad Scale to Felons Murtherers and such like only with this condition that they should murther any whomsoever they thought did mislike their Exaction Eightly they taught the Country of Ireland to looke to its pristine estate I meane of having a King for they plotted to have the Duke created King of Ireland and for the confirmation of which their designed they allured the King to send his Letters to the Pope Ninthly the aforesaid Nicholas Brambre in the time of his Maioraltie caused two and twenty to be falsly accused of Felonies and layd into Newgate under pretext and colour of divers Crimes and in the silent and dead time of the night to be fast bound and by a strong hand to be carried into Kent to a place commonly called Fawlocks and then to have their heads struck off except one who being favoured by the murtherers safely escaped the bloud of the rest dyed the streames of a small Rivelet adjoyning Tenthly soone after to adde one mischiefe to another they sent Letters under the Kings Signet to the Maior of London by John Rippon Clerke with a certaine Libell or Schedule inclosed in the said Letters the tenor of which is as followeth That the afore-named three Cōmissioners viz. the Duke of Gloucester the Earles of Arundel and Warwick and other of the Councell were to be arrested indicted condemned put to lamentable death as being such as had conspired against the King against his Prerogative and against his Crowne and Imperiall Dignity and to this they did in a manner constrain the King to assent unto Upon receit of these Letters the Major and Aldermen of the City of London called a Common Councell wherein they consulted what course were best to be taken in this matter and after long debate pro con it was on all sides agreed to deny and not to suffer that cruell and unheard of Tragicall Complot to be executed It ever happeneth one wicked Act drawes on a second and that second a third and so forwards till the weight cracks the Supporter Therefore the said Conspiratours being blinded with rashnesse principally sent Letters by John Godfrey knight to the King of France the Kings adversary to conclude a five yeares Truce should come over to Callis and from thence should send for the Duke of Gloucester the Earles of Arundel and Warwick and for some other of the Commissioners as though the King were unwilling to determine of any thing without their advice and being thus circumvented should be condemned as Traitors and so put to an ignominious and cruell death And for the doing and performing of these things the King of France was to recover all the Castles Townes and Lands lying in these Countreys and belonging to the King of England To prove these things to be true there were certaine Writings produced by the Commissioners wherein were contained Letters from the King of France to the King of England and from the Conspirators in the King of Englands Name to the King of France Moreover there were other Letters intercepted directed to the said King of France the substance whereof was to incite the King of France to levie a puissant power both horse and foot and to draw them down to Bulloigne and thence to transport them into England against the Duke of Gloucester the Earls of Arundel and Warwick and the rest of the Commissioners and all those that did either countenance or favour the said Statute and Commissioners which as they falsly alleaged was made in derogation of the Kings Prerogative and the aforesaid Commissioners to vanquish oppresse and put to death and consequently the whole Nation and Language utterly to ruine Not here concluding their devillish Conspiracy the five aforesaid Conspiratours departed from Westminster to the Castle of Nottingham and sent a writ for Robert Beale Lord chiefe Justice of the Common Pleas John Holt Roger Fulthorp and William Burleigh Judges of the said court and for John Locton the Kings Sergeant at Law who being come into the Councel Chamber
because the Harvest was now ripe time convenient to cut up those pestiferous Cockles and Thistles by the assent of the King consent of the said Commissioners and Appellants they expulsed divers of the Officers of the Houshold viz. in the place of John Beauchamp Steward of the Houshold they appointed John Devourex Knight one of the Commissioners Peter Couriney Knight was made Chamberlaine in the stead of Robert Duke of Ireland And the aforesaid John de Beauchamp Simon de Burleigh Vice-Chamberlaine John Salisbury Thomas Trynett James Barats William Ellingham and Nicholas Nagworth Knights and Officers of the Clergie viz. Richard Metford Secretary John Blake Deane of the Chappell John Lincolne Chancelour of the Exchequer and John Clifford Clerke of the Chappell were kept under arrest too and were as partakers in the aforesaid Treason for that they knowing and having intelligence of the said Conspiracie they did not discover them Others also as Servants of the aforesaid Conspirators and drawn in by craft yet guiltless were dismissed and sent away as men unprofitable and good for no use And thus this hideous brood of Monsters so often shaken was quite overthrown And on the Vigil of the Purification of Saint Mary in the Privie Chamber at Westminster by joynt consent of all the Cōmissioners the aforesaid John 〈◊〉 John Holt Roger Fulthorp William Burleigh John Locton and John Carey were displaced from their Offices and without any further adoe arrested of Treason and by the command of the Chancelor were clapt into the Tower and Roger Carleton in the place of Belknap Walter Clapton in the place of Tressilian were constituted and so for that time they departed and went to dinner And because Shrovetide was thought a fit time to punish the Delinquents according to their deserts therefore the great Parliament began the second of February following in this manner All the Peeres as well of the Spiritualty as of the Temporalty being assembled in the great Hall at Westminster the King soone after came and sate down in his Throne and after him appeared the five Noblemen Appellants the fame of whose admired worth ecchoed through all the Land entred the House in their costly Robes leading one another hand in hand with an innumerable company following them and beholding where the King sate all at once with submissive gestures they reverenced the King The Hall was so full of Spectators that the very Roofes were filled with them and yet amongst this infinite multitude of the people there could not be found any of the Conspirators or of their Complices but Brambre was taken a little before and cast into the Gaole of Gloucester The Clergie then placing themselves on the right hand and the Nobility on the left hand of the King according to the ancient Custome of the High Court of Parliament the Lord Chancelor standing with his back towards the King by the Kings command declared the cause of their Summons to the Parliament Which being ended the five foresaid Appellants arising declared their Appellation by the mouth of Robert Pleasington their Speaker who thus spake Behold the Duke of Gloucester comes to purge himselfe of Treasons which are laid to his charge by the Conspirators To whom the Lord Chancelor by the command of the King answered My Lord Duke the King conceiveth so honourably of you that hee cannot be induced to beleeve that you who are of affinity to him in a collaterall Line should attempt any Treason against his sacred Majestie The Duke with his foure Companions upon their knees humbly gave thanks to the King for his gracious opinion of their fidelity Then after silence proclaymed they arose and delivered in certaine Articles in Writing wherein were contained the particularity of the Treason Which said Articles were read by Godfrey Martin the Clerk of the Crowne standing in the midst of the Parliament House by the space of two houres with an audible voice At the reading of which there was a wonderfull alteration in the House For whereas before the people were glad of the discovery of the Treason at the rehearsall of it their hearts were so overcome with griefe that they could not refrain from teares When the Articles were read the Appellants requested the King that sentence of condemnation might be given against the Conspirators and they to receive the guerdon of their deserts which the king promised to grant This was the first dayes worke The second was ended with variation of divers consultations which I will not relate in particular but treat of the whole Parliament in generall And when the third day came of their proceedings against the conspirators the Lord Chancelor in the name of the Clergie in open Parliament made an Oration shewing that they could not by any meanes by present at the proceeding whereas there is any censure of death to be passed For the confirmation whereof they delivered in a Protestation which being read they spake That neither in respect of any favour nor for feare of any mans hate nor in hope of any reward they did desire to absent themselves but onely that they were bound by the Canon not to be present at any mans Arraignment or condemnation They likewise sent their Protestation to the Chappell of the Abbey where the Commons sate which was allowed of And then when the Appellants called for Justice against the conspirators the Lords of the Spiritualty arose and went into the Kings chamber neere adjoyning But the King being moved in conscience and in charitie perceiving that in every worke they are to remember the end and being willing contrary to the rigour of the Law to favour rather these that were guilty then the Actours in that Treason if they were able to alledge any thing in their defence caused the Processe to cease but the Peeres being earnest requested That no businesse past present or to come might be debated untill this Treason were adjudged to which Petition the king graciously granted his assent On the 11 day of February when nothing could be alledged nor no witnesse produced in justification of the conspiratours but that the definitive Sentence of condemnation must be pronounced against them the aforesaid John Devoreux Marshall of the Court and for that time the Kings Lievtenant adjudged them this heavy Doome That the said Archbishop of Yorke Duke of Ireland Earle of Suffolke Tressilian and Brambre should be drawn from the Tower to Tyburne and there to be hanged upon a Gibbet untill they were dead and all their Lands and Goods to be confiscated that none of their posterity might be by them any way enriched On the 12 day of February which was the first day of Shrovetide Nicholas Brambre appeared in Parliament and being charged with the aforesaid Articles of Treason hee craved favour to advise of Counsell learned and some longer time for his more full answer to his Accusation but yet hee desired a thing neither usuall nor allowable by the Law and required a thing which the
rigour of the Law in case of that nature would not afford But the Judges charged him to answer severally to every point in the Articles contained Whereunto Brambre answered Whosoever hath branded me with this ignominious mark with him I am ready to fight in the Lists to maintaine my Innocencie whensoever the King shall appoint And this he spake with such a fury that his eyes sparkled with rage and he breathed as if an Aetna had lay hid in his brest chusing rather to die gloriously in the field then disgracefully on a Gibbet The Appellants hearing this couragious Challenge with resolute countenance answered That they would willingly accept of the Combat and thereupon flung downe their Gages before the King and on a suddaine the whole company of Lords Knights Esquires and Commons flung down their Gages so thick that they seemed like Snow in a Winters day crying out Wee also will accept of the Combat and will prove these Articles to be true to thy head most damnable Traytor and so they departed for that day And although the Appellants were not idle in the night yet on the next day to aggravate their Appellation against the Conspirators there came divers Companies of the Citie of London complaining of the manifold injuries they had suffered by Brembre and other Extortioners and Exactions wherewith they had been dayly charged and yet they protested that they did not accuse him either for hate to his person or for love feare or hope of reward from his enemies but onely they charged him with the truth But before they proceed with his tryall they were stayed by most unfortunate Tressilian who being got upon the top of an house adjoyning to the Palace and had descended into a gutter onely to looke about him he was discovered by certaine of the Peeres who presently sent some of the Guard to apprehend him who entring into the house where hee was and having spent long time in vaine in looking for him at length one of the Guard stept to the Master of the house and taking him by the shoulder with his Dagger drawne thus said Shew us where thou hast hid Tressilian or else resolve thy dayes are accomplished the Master trembled ready to yeeld up the ghost for feare answered Yonder is the place where he lyes and shewes him a round Table covered with branches of Bay under which Tressilian lay close covered when they had found him they drew him out by the heeles wondring to see him as vipers use to weare his head and beard o'r-growne with old clowted shooes and patched hose more like a miserable poore begger then a Judge When this came to the eares of the Peeres the five Appellants suddenly arose up and without expressing any reason departed out of the Parliament House which bred great alteration in the House insomuch that many followed them and when they come to the Gate of the Hall they met the Guard leading of Tressilian bound crying as they came We have him we have him Tressilian being come into the Hall was asked what he could say for himselfe why judgement should not passe upon him for his treason so often committed hee became as one that had beene struck dumb and his heart was as it were hardned to the very last and would not confesse himselfe guilty of any thing And for this cause the Parliament arose deferring Brembres triall till the next day But Tressilian was without delay led to the Tower that he might suffer the execution of the sentence passed against him his wife and his children did with maine teares accompany him to the Tower but his wife was so overcome with dolour and griefe that she fell down in a swound as if she had beene dead Immediatly Tressilian is upon a hurdle and drawne thorow the streets of the Citie with a wonderfull concourse of people following him at every furlongs end he was suffered to stand still to rest himselfe and to see if hee would confesse and report himselfe of any thing but what he said to the Fryer his Confessor is not knowne neither am I able to search it out when hee came to the place of execution hee would not climb the Ladder untill such time as being soundly beaten with bats and staves he was forced to goe up and when he was up hee said So long as I doe weare any thing upon me I shall not dye wherefore the executioner stripped him and found certaine Images painted like to the signes of Heaven and the head of a devill painted and the names of many of the devills wrote in Parchment the exorcising toyes being taken away hee was hanged up naked and because the spectators should be certainly assured that he was dead they cut his throat and because the night approached they let him hang untill the next morning and then his wife having obtained a licence of the King tooke downe his body and carried it to the Grey-Fryers where it was buried On the morrow sentence was likewise pronounced against Brembre who being drawne upon a hurdle from the Tower to Tyborne thorow the City shewed himselfe very penitent humbly craving mercy and forgivenesse at the hands of God and men whom he had so grievously offended and whom he had so injuriously wronged in time past and did earnestly desire them all to pray for him when the rope was about his neck ready to be turned off a certaine young man the sonne of one Northampton asked him if hee had done justice to his Father or not for Northampton was sometimes Maior of the Citie of London more wealthy and more substantiall then any else in the Citie him did Brembre and Tresilian accuse of Treason Conspiracie against the State and condemned him to dye being dispoyled of his estate he himselfe at length hardly escaped to whom Brembre answered and confessed with bitter teares that what hee did was most vile and wicked and with an intent only to murther and overthrow the said Northampton for which craving pardon of the young man being suddenly turned off and the Executioner cutting his throat hee dyed Behold how pleasant and delightfull it is to climbe up to honour I suppose it is better to live meanely at home with quietnesse amongst poore men then to lord it amongst Princes and in the end to climb a ladder amongst Thieves it is even better to undergoe the burden then to assume the name of honour therefore whosoever that doth not regard the Lawes let them observe and consider the end of these men and with what period they finished their days These men being dispatched the Parliament discontinued their proceedings against the rest of the Conspirators till a more convenient time and tooke into their considerations other more weighty affaires of the weale publike they made the Earle of Arundell Lord Admirall giving him authority to resist and to repulse either by Sea or Land the enemies of the Crowne wheresoever he should find them And it was further agreed on