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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73454	[Relation of sixtene martyrs glorified in England in twelve moneths] [with a declaration, that English catholiques suffer for the catholique religion, and that the seminarie priests agree with the Jesuites / by Thomas Worthington]	Worthington, Thomas, 1549-1627.	1601 (1601)	STC 26000.9; ESTC S5341	46,158	101

not my freinde nor euer had my consent therto I assure you my Lord I am a true Subiect and obedient to her Maiestie and her Lawes in anie thing which may not hurt my conscience But to say that I wil go to Church I neuer did nor neuer wil. Yea rather my Lord then your Lordship should haue anie light suspicion of me of such a consent take my first answere as it is there is my hand here is my whole bodie most readie I am and willing to seale it with my bloode and I humbly thanck your Lordship for calling me to answere this point my self VVhy then said both the iudges wil you not go to Church No my Lords God forbid I should then we see said one of them there is no such matter as vve vvere made to beleue We were told you were a ●imp●● young man and willing to recant but we see now thou art a resolute wilful fellow and there is no remedie but law must procede I would be sorie my Lords to geue your Lordships anie cause to thincke that euer I ment to recant knowing nothing wherin I haue offended but only vttered my conscience If that be so great a matter of offence let me haue lawe in the name of Iesus Gods wil be done Then spoke Iustice Dale a Iustice of Peace thou art a cogging cosening fellow and getts thy lining no man knoweth how by cogging and lying Sir said I for my getting I nede not much to bragg of it and for my lying and cogging you speake of I wold gladly you should know that the Auncestres of the house from whence I came were gentlemen fiue hundred yeaes before your grandfather was Iustice And so I stopped his mouth And the Iudges committed me vnto my keper for that time The next day being thursday we went again to the Sessiōs at S. Margarits hil Where about 2. of the clock in the afternone I was called to the barr to be arayned the Clerck sayd Iohn Rigbie hold vp thy hand where beseeching my swete Saviour Iesus our Blessed Ladie and al the holie companie of Angels and other Saincts to pray for me I held vp my hand merily So the Clerck read the Inditment which when I had heard I besech you my Lord sayd I grant me libertie to speake anone you shall said he So I gaue place ād the rest came to the barre for we were six arreigned at that time together fiue fellons and my self About an houre after I vvas called again and bidden hold vp my hand which I did as before my Inditment was read again and it was a sharp one Then my Lord bad me speake and I answered to foure principal points briefly in this manner First my very good Lords wheras I am charged in myn Inditment that I was reconciled it is very true to God almightie I so was and I thinck lawfully might be and as I remember it is also allowed in your boke of common prayer in the visitation of the sick that if anie man find hymself burdened in conscience he should make his confession to the Minister Which confession manifesteth a breach betwen God and his owne soule and by this humble confession he craueth pardon for his sinnes and reconciliation to God again by the hands of his Minister Secondly wheras I am charged that I was reconciled from myn obedience to her Maiestie and to the Romish Religion I wil depose the contrarie For I was neuer reconciled from anie obedience to my Prince for I obey her stil nor to aine Religion for although I somtimes went to Church against my wil yet was I neuer of anie other Religion then the Catholique and therfore neded no reconciliat●● to Religion vvhich I neuer stood agains● Thirdly wheras in my former answere I said I went to Church it is true for feare of temporal punishment I so did but neuer minded to fal from the old Religion and therfore neded no reconciliation to Religion Fourtly and lastly I humbly besech your good Lordships as you wil answer it before God to explicat the meaning of the statute to the Iurie if the meaning therof be to make it treason for a man fallen into the displeasure of God through his sinnes to be recōciled to God again by him to whom God hath committed the autoritie of reconciliation If this be treason Gods wil be done Then said both the Iudges it was by à Romish Priest and therfore treason I answered it vvas by a Catholique Priest who had the libertie of the prison and was frie for anie man to come vnto him to releeue him and therfore by the statute no treason Againe my Lords if it be not inquired of within a yeare and a day there can be no aduātage takē aganst me by this statute if you wrong me not Wherto replied one that sat vnder the Iudges Al this wil not seru● thy turne for the Iurie must finde it treason and so gaue them instructions that it must needs be treason Nay then Sir said I if it must be let it be Gods wil be done Then said Iustice Gaudie Good Rigbie I pray you thinck not in anie sorte I go about to seeke your death her Maiestie and her lavves be merciful If you wil yet conforme your self and say here before the Iurie go forth that you vvil go to Church and submit your self vve vvil procede no further My Lord said I if that be al the offence I haue committed as I knovv it is and if there be no other way but going to Church to helpe it I would not vvish your Lordships to thincke I haue as I hope risen thus manie steppes towards heauen and novv vvil vvilfully let my foote slippe and fal into the botomlesse pit of hel I hope in IESVS he vvil strengthen me rather to suffer a thousand deathes if I had so manie liues to lose Let your lavv procede Then said the Iudge to the Iurie you must VVh●● 〈◊〉 vvho● vvor●● doth ● Iudg● the ●● quisit● of 〈◊〉 vvh●● they ●● must ●● find t● be th● truth consider of it you see vvhat is said you cannot but find it treason by the Lavv. And so vvhen the rest vvere arraigned they vvent forth and stood not long to thinck vpon the matter but came againe and I vvas called and bidden againe hold vp my hand they bad the Iurie looke on the prisoner whether is he guiltie or no and who shal speake for you they al said the foreman I besech you my Lord said I may it please you to command silence that I may heare my verdict vvhich his Lordship did but the foreman spake so softly that I could not heare him I willed him to speake vp and not to be afeard Then he said Guiltie To the which I said vvith a lowde voice Laus tibi Domine Rex aeternae gloriae And so went fr●● the barr When the rest were arraigned and iudgement was to be giuen I was first called and Iustice Gaudy said what

canst thou say for thy self wherfore thou shouldest no● haue iudgement of death I answered if that which before I said wil not serue I can say no more Good Rigbie said he thinck not I seeke ●our death wil you yet go to Church No my Lord. why then said he iudgement must passe with a good wil my Lord said I. Then he pronounced his sentence as you know the manner is Which when he had ended I said Deo gratias al is but one death my Lord and aflea byting in comparison of that vvhich it pleased my svvete Sauiour IESVS to suffer for my saluation I humbly ●● is ● pa●● of ●●ts ●hich ●o the ●an●ents God faith Ie●● ●o● ●● thank your Lordship for your great paines and friely forgiue your Lordship and this poore Iurie and al other persecutors in this cause vvho soeuer Wel said saith he in dede you shew your charitie and then gaue iudgement to the rest And vvhen he had done he called vs together and began his exhortation perswading vs for our end vvilling vs to send for a Minister and prouide for death I desired his Lordship to spare my presence and bestovv that counsail els vvhere For I hope I am as vvel prouided as by his exhortation I should be If you be said he it is the better for you God spede you vvel and so vve parted I pray God forgeue them al. and amend them if it be his vvil Amen Christo laudes sanctae Matri eius honor Amen Thus much he vvrit himself after he vvas repriued and sent it to a deare friend vvho kepeth safe the original For Iustice Gaudy vvho pronounced sentence of death against him the fourth of March caused him for that time to be repriued and so he continued prisoner in the vvhit Lion in Southvvork aboue three monethes more On thursday the ●9 of Iune in the Assises holden at S. Magarets hil in Southvvorke Iustice Kingsm●l sitting vpon criminal causes and Iustice Gaudy vpon ciuil matters and suites in Lavv vvho in lent Assises before had the contrarie offices M. Rigbie vvas produced again to the barre and asked by Iustice Kingsmel vvhether he vvould yet go to the Church or no And he ansvvered I thanck God I am the same man that I vvas It is not lavvful to go to your Church I vvil not go to it Then thou must nedes dye saith the Iustice for longer repriue thou canst not haue he answered my Lord that is the thing vvhich I desire and looke for but I thinck my self farr vnvvorthie to dye for so good a cause The Iudge perceuing that he had no irons on his legges being a condemned man sharply rebuked the keper and commanded a fine of fourtie shillings for that default to be set on his head vvhervpon the keper brought a strong payre of shackells vvhich M. Rigbie taking into his handes kneeling downe and making the signe of the Crosse kissed them and gaue them again to the keper and so going vnto the blocke the kepers man riuited them on very fast on both his legges and so they continued al that day and the night folowing The next day being friday he vvas broght again to the Sessions house in the forenoone VVhere after he had stoode a vvhile the irons fel from of his legges vpon the grounde vvherat he smiled the keper demanunding vvhy he smiled he told him his shackles vvere fallen of and bad him riuite them on faster vvhich he did as he thought very sure but vvithin a litle space they fel of again vvhervpon he called again vpon his keper and vvilled him to make them faster For I esteme them said he Iewells of to great pricè to be lost The kepers man that had put them o●twise before being much amazed refused to do it againe I wil fasten them no more said he for I thinck it is not Gods vvil you should vveare anie irons in so much that the keper commaunded an other of his men to do it And then Maister Rigbie remembring that à Catholique maide in the prison called Mercie had that morning told him that the night before she saw in her dreame as she thought his irons fal of from his legges said to his keper novv the maides dreame is found to be ●rue and sent also vvord therof to the maide from the Sessions house Most men that saw it or haue heard of it vndoubtedly thinck it to be miraculous What the Iudges vvith the rest of the bench and others in authoritie thinck of it is hard to iudge They knew not be like them selues what to say and therfore neither that day nor afterwards spoke at al to the prisoner but consulted amongst them selues and vvith much difference of opinions and often altering of ther purposes at last one concluded that which others misliked that he must dye In the meane time returning that euening with his keper to the prison he vvas permitted to lodge in his accustomed chāber vvhere manie had before visited him being much delighted with his milde and swete conuersation And now manie more resorted vnto the prison to see him vpon the reporte of his irons so strangely salling of his legges Amongst other things a Catholique prisoner in the same house demāded of him what he thought of that falling of of his chaines He answered that he hoped the bandes of his mortalitie should shortly be loosed as in dede it proued An other considering that oftentimes men of excellent corege and resolution of mind do notvvithstanding sustaine great conflicts betwen the soule and the bodie betwē reasō and the sensual part asked him how he felt him selfe I am said he I thāke our Lord in very great cōforte and cōsolation of mind the residue of his time he spent likevvi●● vertous exercises vvith great deuotion 〈◊〉 quent prayer much abstinence watching and fasting more and more as his end drew ne●e● O● saturday in the morning vvord vvas brought him that he should dye that day he ansvvered very cherf●lly Deo gratias It is the best tydings that euer vvas broght me of an●● thing sithence I vvas borne so vvillingly ●● beleued that vvhich he desired though mos● men did not yet thinck it probable for th● reasons aforesaid For it is vvel knovve● and reported by such as could tel that th● Iudges put his name twise in the Calenda● of those that vvere to dye and tvvise ou● againe the same day before he vvas executed For Iustice Gaudie endeuoring to repriue him lōger Iustice Kingsmel vrged and vvould nedes haue him to dye And in fine Iustice Gaudy seenig his intētiō crossed by Kingsmel vvho the third time put his name in that calendar agane and so deliuered it vp amōgst those vvhich should dye turned himself from the companie and vvas by some sene to vvepe This vncertentie especially the Calendar being brought to the keper his name leaft out after it had bene tvvise sent for and altered deceiued manie of his frends vvho had a purpose to haue