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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20757	A briefe discourse of the most haynous and traytorlike fact of Thomas Appeltree for which hee shoulde haue suffred death on Tuisday the one and twentith of Iulie last: wherin is set downe his confession. Whereunto is annexed, the report of the message sent to the place of execution from hir most excellent Maiestie, by the right honourable Sir Christopher Hatton Knight, vizchaberlain to hir highnesse.		1579 (1579)	STC 714; ESTC S119173	4,790	9

A briefe Discourse of the most haynous and traytorlike fact 〈◊〉 Thomas Appeltree For which hee shoulde haue suffced Death on Tuisday the one and twentith of Iulie last wherin is set downe his Confession Wherevnto is annexed the Report of the message sent to the place of execution from hir most excellent Maiestie by the right honourable Sir Christopher Hatton Knight Vizchamberlain to hir highnesse AT LONDON Imprinted by Henry Bynneman Anno Domini 1579. To the Reader FOr as much as the nature of man is affected to listen after newes by the report whereof either the minde is delighted or else stricken with fear I haue thought it conuenient to publish vnto all the worlde and namely to all good and godly subiects a thing of no small importaunce verie straunge and not so strange as most certaine true May it therfore please thee to peruse this little booke wherin as in a loking glasse thou shale beholde to thy great comfort the verie effectes of iustice iustlie executed against an offender worthilie condemned to death and further thou shalt to thy ioye beholde the rare and singular mercies offered vnto him that had most grieuouslie trespassed against the royal estate of this noble realme of England euen by the Queenes most excellent maiestie for whose prosperitie all faithful heartes are bound continuallie to praie to the Almightie who guide and gouerne hir highnesse with his holie spirite poure vpon hir the euerlasting deawes of his heauenlie grace prosper hir in all hir affaires graunt hir long life health peace and quietnesse of bodie and minde where vnto all true harted subiectes vouchsafe with me to say AMEN THe 17. day of Iuly this present yere of our Lord God. 1579. the Quéenes most excellent Maiestie being on the riuer of Thames betwixt hyr highnesse Manour of Grenewich and Detforde in hir priuie Barge accompanied with Mounsier Schemere the French Embassador the Earle of Lincolne and M. Vizchamberlaine c. with whome shée entred discourse about waightie affairs it chaunced that one Thomas Appeltree a yong man and seruant to M. Henrie Carie with .ii. or .iii. children of hir Maiestes Chappel one other named Barnard Acton being in a boate on the Thames rowing vp down betwixt the places aforenamed the aforesaid Thomas Appeltree had a Caliuer or Harquebush which he had thrée or foure times discharged with bullet shooting at randone verie rashly who by great misfortune shot one of the water men being the secōd man next vnto the bales of the said Barge labouring with his Dare which sate within six foot of hir highnesse cleane through both his armes the blow was so great and grieuous that it moued him out of his place and forced him to crie and scritche out piteously supposing himself to be slaine and saying he was shot thorow the body The man bléeding abundantly as though he had had a hūdred daggers thrust into him the Quéenes Maiesty shewed such noble courage as is most wonderfull to be hearde and spoken of for beholding hym so maymed and bléeding in suche forte she neuer bashed thereat but she wed effectually a prudent and magnanimous heart most curteously comforting the poore man she bad him be of good cheare and sayd he shoulde want nothing that might be for his ease commaunding him to be couered till such time as he came to the shore til which time he lay bathing in his owne bloud which might haue bene an occasion to haue terrifyed the eies of the beholders But such and so great was the courage and magnanimitie of our dread and soueraigne Ladie that it neuer quayled To be short this sayd Thomas Appeltree and the rest were apprehended and brought before hir honorable Counsel who with great grauitie and wisedom imployed their times very carefully with gret diligence examined the sayd Appeltree and his companions and finding the case most haynous and wicked iustly pronounced against him the sentence of Death and committed him to the Marshalsea in Southwarke from whence the Tuisday following he was brought throughe the Citie with the Knight Marshals men lead vp to the Tower hill and sore Radcliffe vp to Blacke wall and so downe to the water side where was a Gibet set vp directly placed betwixt Desforde and Gréenwitch for the execution of this malefactour who in téede very pitifully bewayled the offence he had committed and as well in prison as by the way prepared himselfe very penitentely and willingly to offer his bodie to the death loathing this world and the pleasures of the same and constantly by faith flette unto IESVS CHRIST affirming that without him there was no saluatien and often sayd and protested very vehemently that Iesus Christ the sonne of the liuing God was his only hope cōforte in whose pretious bloude he was purged and made cleane and in him by fayth he was fully assured that his sinnes wer they neuer so many in number should be fréely for giuen and forgotten such was his immoueable constancie so strong he was in CHRIST IESVS that although he confessed his imperfection to be such and so great that of himself he was not worthy to lift vp his eles to heauen yet by faith he was assured that though his life were wicked and worthye the sentence of euerlasting damnation his Lorde IESVS CHRIST his mercifull sauiour had for him satisfied the lawe pacifyed Gods indignation made an agréement betwixt God and him to whome he was by grace reconciled conceyued and borne again not according to the flesh but in spirit by grace in the precious death and blou●shedding of his Mediator and in him assured that neyther sin death nor all the power of hel should harme him but that his faith firmly fixed in that mightie conqueror that had ouerthrowen Sinne subdued Death and conuinced Sathan should be sufficient for him to combat and maintayne fight against his enimies which traueled for the vtter spoyle and destruction of his body and soule ouer whome in Christ his hope persuaded him to triumph But when he came to the place of execution he fell on his knées and desired all the people to pray with him where he very deuoutly and with a constant courage prayed in this wise O bountifull Iesu O sweete lesu c. a necessarie prayer to be sayde at the houre of Death after this he sayde the Lordes prayer then discoursed very godly that the Lord Iesus Christ was the rocke whereon he layde his foundation and that his only death and passion was the meane to wash away his sinnes and offences and that he for him and al other sat on the right hande of his heauenlie father pleading and making continuall intercession representing his bloudy and paineful wounds which neuer coulde be dryed vp which being séene in the eyes of his glorious maiestie his anger was conuerted to loue his furie to kindenesse and fatherlie pitie Thus very godly he purposed to finish his miserable and wretched lyfe and so prepared himself to