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A07891	A breefe and true reporte, of the execution of certaine traytours at Tiborne, the xxviii. and xxx. dayes of Maye. 1582. Gathered by A.M. who was there present. The names of them executed on Monday, the xxviii. of Maye. Thomas Foord. Iohn Shert. Robert Iohnson. The names of them executed on Wednesday, the xxx. of Maye. VVilliam Filbie. Luke Kirbie. Lawrance Richardson. Thomas Cottom	Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1582 (1582)	STC 18261; ESTC S110064	10,851	20

delyuer to mée certaine silke Pictures which you tolde mée at Seukelyes 〈◊〉 béeing there were hallowed by the Pope what Indulgences were allowed them one of them which was a Crucifixe you gaue me the other you willed me deliuer to your fréends at Rheimes and in Englande and because they were so fewe as in deede I thinke they were no more but fiue you gaue me two Iulyes to goe into the Cittie to buie more which I dyd and hauing brought them to you three or fowre of the fayrest you tooke from me promising to gette them hallowed at the next Benediction the other in deede you gaue me and I tooke them with me Howe saye you nowe Kirbie quoth Maister Sherife would you haue credited him with such matters had you not supposed him to be one of your owne secte Maister Sherife quoth he what I haue sayde I knewe verie well And after he was gone from Roome I sent fifteene shyllinges to Rheimes to be delyuered to him but he was departed thence towarde Englande before it came Then Maister Sherife sayde to him againe you stand vpon these pointes verie much which there is none that are héere but will iudge to be vntrue Thou hearest what he hath sayde vnto thee and we haue heard that thou deniedst euerie thing What sayest thou to thy Treasons wherefore thou arte come eyther to dye● wylt thou be sorio for them aske God and her Maiestie forgiuenesse for shee is mercifull and we wyll carrie thée backe againe if wee shall perceyue in thee any such motion that thou wylte forsake thy former wickednesse and become a good and faithfull Subiect At these woordes the people among them selues almoste generallie sayde O excéeding mercie and fauour what a gratious Princesse haue wée who affoordeth such mercie to those that haue so yll deserued Then Maister Feeld the Preacher in the booke read his aunsweres to him where he had subscribed with his owne hande Whether the Pope might lawfullie depose her Maiestie or had any aucthoritie to take the tytle of her Crowne and dignitie away from her wherto Kirbie aunswered This is a matter disputable in Schooles and therefore I maye not iudge of it I thinke this with my selfe that if any Prince fal by infidelity into Turscisme Atheisme Paganisme or any such lyke that y ● Pope hath aucthoritie to depose such a Prince And beeing asked if her Maiesty were in any such he sayd he knew his owne cōscience Another Preacher being by said vnto him that the Prince receiued his aucthority frō God that he was to be suppressed by none but only by God Again that Salomon sayd By me meaning by God Kinges raigne and Princes decree Iustice. By me Princes rule and the Nobles all the Iudges of the earth Againe S Paule sayth Let euery soule be subiect to the higher powers for there is no power but of God and the powers that be are ordained of God Who soeuer therefore resisteth the power resisteth the ordinaunce of God and they that resist shall receyue to them selues iudgement For Princes are not to be feared forgood works but for euill wilt thou then be without feare of the power doo well so shalt thou purchase praise of the same For he is the minister of God for thy wealth But if thou doo euill feare for he beareth not a swoord for naught for he is the minister of God to take vengeaunce on him that dooth euill If then the Pope be a Soule hee is to be obedient to the higher powers And béeing a subiect to God as all other Princes be hée must not take vpon him what belongeth to God As for the aucthoritie that her Maiestie hath shee hath receyued it from God neither is the Pope or any earthlie Prince to depriue her therof but onelie God Againe when Iesus was brought before Pilate Pilate sayde to him Knowest thou not that I haue power to crucifie thée and haue power to loose thee To the which Iesus aunswered Thou couldest haue no power at all against mee except it were giuen thee from aboue Thus maye you see that what Prince so euer ruleth vpon earth hath his power and aucthority only from God and not that any mortall man can vse the aucthoritie of a Prince at his pleasure How say you to this whereto he would make no aunswere But séemed to demaunde of them if they would deny that if a Prince were in Paganisme Atheisme or gouerned by infidelitie that such a Prince might not lawfullie be deposed Which the learned Preachers aunswered in learned sort approouing that as the power was of God so Princes were not to be deposed by any but onelie by God No quoth Kirbie againe hath it not béene disputed in Schooles for these fiue hundred yéeres and will you deny it O Maister Crowley Maister Crowley and there pawsed as though that Maister Crowley had agréede with him in such a monstrous error But Maister Crowley him selfe gaue me to vnderstand that at such time as hee conferred with the sayde Kirbie in the Tower about the same argument that his aunswer was vnto him If any Prince fell into any such kinde of error that Prince were corrigible but of whom not of any earthly Prince but of that heauenlie Prince who gaue him his aucthority and seeing him abuse it any way correcteth him in his Iustice. For by his attributing to the Pope this aucthority he witnessed him to be Antichrist in y ● he wil depose Princes at his pleasure exalt him self aboue all that is called God and forgiue men their sinnes at his pleasure likewise All this was not sufficiēt to mollifie y ● obstinate minde of Kirbie but he would persist styl in this deuill●sh imaginatiō Maister Sherife the Preachers seeing him wauering not able to yéeld any reason for his arrogant opinion laboured as much as in them laye to chaunge it and when all would not serue they desired him in hartie and humble manner to pray to God to ashe her Maiestie forgiuenesse for the Treasons wherein he had offended her Whereto he aunswered that he had not offended in any Treason to his knowledge whervpon they shewed him his Treasons which were adiudged by the people woorthy of greater punishment then he was at that time to suffer yet would not he acknowledge them But prayed to God for her Maiestie that shée might lōg rule in her aucthoritie to confound all her enimies and that his hart was frée from any Treason to her Maiestie Then preparing himself to his prayers the Preachers desired him to pray in Englishe with them and to say a prayer after them wherin if he could finde any fault he should be resolued thereof O quoth he againe you and I were not one in faith therefore I thinke I should offend God if I should praye with you At which woordes the people began to crie away with him so be saying his Pater noster in Latin ended his life Then was Laurence Richardson brought vp into the Carte and to him Thomas Cottom to be executed togeather But Cottom seemed to vtter such words as though there had béene hope he would haue forsaken his wickednesse so that the halter was vntyed he brought downe out of y e Carte againe In which time Laurence Richardson prepared him to death confessing him selfe a Cathelique and that he would beléeue in all things as the Catholique Church of Roome did vnto y e Pope he allowed the onelie Supremacie In which traiterous opinion after certaine Latin prayers he was committed to God Then was Cottom brought vp to the Carte againe and the good opinion had of him before chaūged into that obstinate nature that was in them all saying to Maister Sherife that before he came into Englande he was armed for India and thyther if he might be suffered he would passe with as much cōuenient spéede as might be Then looking to the body of Laurence Richardson wheron the Executioner was vsing his office he lysted vp his handes and sayde O blessed Laurence pray for mée thy blessed soule Laurence pray for mée for which woordes both the Preachers the people rebuked him telling him that he ought to pray to none but to God onely all helpe of man was but in vaine Wherto he aunswered he was assured that he could pray for him In bréefe his Treasons béeing mooued to him he denied all albeit his owne hand writing was there to affirme it He prayed for her Maiestie and sayde his Pater noster and Aue Maria and as the Carte was drawing away he sayd In manus tuas Domine commendo spiritum meum and so he ended his lyfe Thus in bréefe haue I set downe the Execution of these Traytors desiring God that the leude life of them and this lamentable spectacle wytnessed to our eyes may be a warning to vs all how by our disobedience we prouoke our Lord God to anger against vs and by our slacknesse in duetie to our gratious soueraigne Princesse next vnder God our only supreame gouernesse enforce her mercifull hand to take vp the swoord of Iustice against vs. God long preserue her Maiestie and her honourable Counsayle confound Antichriste and his practises and giue all faithfull Subiectes the grace to beare true and loyall mindes to God their Prince and Countrey Let this suffise thée gentle Reader at this time and if thou desirest to be more acquainted with their Romish and Sathanicall inglinges reade my English Romaine lyfe which so soone as it can be printed shall be set foorth And thus committing thée to the God of all trueth who giue vs the grace to cleaue to the Trueth I byd thée hartelie farewell God saue the Queene Pro. 8. 15. 16 Roma 13. 1. 2. 3. 4. Iohn 19. 10. 11.