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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13004	A Declaration of the lyfe and death of Iohn Story, late a Romish canonicall doctor, by professyon		1571 (1571)	STC 23297; ESTC S524	11,233	32

… TA ·PRVDENTIA· ·DIEV·ET·MON·DROIT· A declaration of the lyfe and Death of Iohn Story Late a Romish Canonicall Doctor by professyon 1571. ¶ Imprinted at London by Thomas Colwell ¶ The speciall Contents of this declaration First wherfore Iohn Story was imprisoned in the Queenes Benche His breaking of that Prison and flyeng into Flaunders His trayterous and naughtie delyng there The cause and maner of his conueyance from thence into Englande The maner of his arainement and Iudgement The maner of his death and execution An Epilogue or short conclusion of his Lyfe GEntle Reader in this short declaration I purpose briefely to note vnto thee part of the life and the maner of death of Iohn Storie late a Romish Canonicall Doctor by profession If I should discourse the common places of discription of persones his parentes hys educatyon and bringyng vp hys sundrie outragious doinges executed by him in the persecutynge of the membres of Christ the maner of his life from time to time namely in the time of K. Henry the eight when the statute of sixe Articles was first set foorth all his crueltie vsed sithens to the daye of his death it woulde aske a volume as greate as 〈◊〉 booke of Martyrs a great part of which booke is stuffed with his tirannous and cruell tragedies executed against God and his poore membres As for the wilfull and wicked course of his yonger yeres a great parte wherof he spent in the Vniuersitie of Oxford● to reporte all the partes it would requ●●e a longe storie One Pranke may stand in stead of many And although Christian charitie requyre vs alwaye and of all men to reporte the best speciallye of them that be departed Yet no charytie forbyddeth a man with sobryetie and modestye to reporte the truethe for the benefite of good example to other Or els all writyng of histories after the parties death whē they be most truely written should bee condemned the bridle of iust infamy perilously taken away from wicked men About the yere of our Lord. 1529. Storie beinge a student of the ciuill lawe in Hinkse●e Hall in Oxforde and on a time lodging abroade alone as often tymes his maner was to do in the company of a woman whome hee had at his commaundement was fet home from thence late in the night and caried alofte through the open streetes with a solemne procession of the whole companie of his house euery man caryenge a candell burninge before hym as a token of hys virginytye and syngyng merelye together Qui pius prudens humilis pudicus Sobrius castus fuit quietus Vita dum presens c. as if they had ben S. Nicholas clerkes After that about the yere of our Lord 1538. the sayde Storye beyng then Doctour and Pryncypall of Broadgates in the sayde vniuersytie of Oxforde and mistrustinge a yonge gentleman for ouer familiar resorting to his aquaintaunce in the towne gaue him earnest charge with terrible threates as he loued his life to come there no more for Loue Lordship can brooke no fellowshipp Therfore on a certayne tyme for hys good chaste purpose takynge occasion to walke abroade and hauing his man with his sworde wayting vppon him passing through the Church yarde of S. Olaues he met the sayde yonge gentle man retorning home from the towne beeyng vtterly without weapon hauing onlie his study gowne cast vpon him And he imagining that he cam from such places as he had so often for bidden him in great furie and heate of minde being also fired with ielosie towards his loue he raught backe sodenlye vnto hys man and drewe hys sworde hauing the gentlemā at aduantage in the corner of two walles ran him thorowe both sydes lefte him for dead Imediatly a cry was raysed the people assembled Doctour Storye was apprehended by the officers layd in Bocardo wher he continued vntill it was perfectly knowen that the yonge gentleman so wounded was past all danger For God by hys gracyous prouydence so dyrected the sworde that notwithstanding it pearced through both sides yet it perished not one parte of all the entrailes Hee that writeth these wordes is a witnes hereof and sawe the partye dressed the towells drawen through his bodie The partie so wounded is named N. Brierton and is yet aliue These are the fyrst fruites of Doctour Stories good Doctorly doinges agreable with his lyfe that folowed after warde A kyndly beare wyll bite by tyme. Now I wyll begyn the rest of this Declaration at the begynnyng of the Reigne of the most vertuous godly learned and hopeful Prince King Edward the sixt who after the death of the most noble and famous prince Kinge Henrye the .viii. his Father tooke vpō him as of right appertayned vnto him the Regall state and gouernment of this Realme And first and before all other thinges he seekynge the high aduauncement of Goddes honour restored vnto vs the sincere doctrine of the Gospel of our Sauiour Iesus Christ and made most Godly Lawes for the abholysshynge of all superstycion and idolatry At whiche tyme Iohn Storye being then of the Parlyament house and a great enemye to the gloryous light of Christes Gospel did vehemently inueigh agaynst the godly doynges of that vertuous Prince namely for settynge foorth the booke of Common Prayer and Administracion of the Sacraments in Englysh where he did not only slaunderouslye speake of the Doctrine but also malyciously and sediciouslye spake of that godly Prince alleging the sentence of Ecclesiastes That wo is to that Realme whose kynge is but a childe wrestynge the same text against that noble Prince euen to the same sence that gaue cheefe occasiō to the rebellion in the same kinges tyme and meaning that both the Prince the realme did they wyst not what And shortly after that he had thus declared his rebellious hart canckred iudgement he then fledde this realme into the parties beyond the seas and there abode all the life of that vertuous Prince After his death as sone as the late Queene Mary possessed the crowne the aforsayd Story retorned agayne from beyond the Seas and obtayned of Queene Mary by the helpe of Bishop Boner that he became a cōmissioner and a cruell perpersecutor of Christes members wherin he traueyled with such vehemency and in such a tyrannous maner as neuer was there any before him did and in that state he contynued all the dayes of Queene Maryes lyfe After the death of Queene Mary so sone as our most dere soueraigne Lady came to the possession of the crowne and that she had called a parliament chieflye for the restitution of Gods blessed worde and the true administracion of the Sacramentes to Goddes high honor and also for the amendment of the decayed state of this Realme The said Storie beyng of the parliament house who was an enemy to all godly reformations did wyth great vehemency speake agaynst the bill that was therexhibited for the restytucyon of the booke of common