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The enquirie and verdite of the quest panneld of the death of Richard Hune wich was founde hanged in Lolars tower
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¶ The enquirie and verdite of the quest panneld of the death of Richard Hune wich was founde hanged in Lolars tower To the Reader TO see moost deare Reader how suttellie the trueth is euer persequuted might seame greate woonder / but that the holie gooste hath oft tymes shewed and testified in the Scripture that hit shuld so be What kynd of persequucion hath bene vnproued what can be imagined that hathe not hitherto bene practisede concerning soche thynges In some places they heede afterward burne / in some places they bringe straighte wayse to the fyre When that shift will not serue / or that they dare not hurte the person liuyng by cause of his riches or power c. yet wyll they burne him after he died peasablie in his bed / as they dide Wicleffe Tracie with other / to kepe the symple innocent sowles wich they haue made blynde still to continewe in darknes / sayyng / he was an heretique who so euer kepe his opiniōs shal be burned lyuyng / and so the burning of that which fealte no paine is a greate feare to the ignoraunt that seith hit Some be cause they be wyse and vtter the hypocrisye and abhominable lyuing of whorehunters with discrete communicacion / so that no man can gayne saye or accuse them but they say trweth be brought in to presone and heresies fained oute of hande that be sparppled abrode to the people with all the apparence of veritie that can be diuised to persuade them that the parties be not presoned vndeserued / wich if they wyll not confesse and promes to be openlie abiured to they re greate shame theire neckes be broken or elles they be some other wise conueyde / and after hanged vp / and than saide and preached to that they hanged them sealues / as was this Hune / wich to be trewe thou shal easelie perceaue by the enquirie and verdite of the queest here in this litell treatise conteyned yf they be poore and want frendes and no euident cause founde wherfore they shuld suffre / then die they in presone no man knowith howe / hit is straight waise saide if any man axe of them that they died of one disease or other and no mooe woordes ar made yf a man knowyng they re malicyouse hertes get hym further from daunger in to some other realme / wich haplie is to circumspect to be taken by any commune officer or knowen enemie / straighte waye cause they one or other for money to play Iudas part and to make him sealf greate with the partie / as thowghe he fauored him singularlie to make moche on hym tyll he see his tyme than betray him / as they haue euen now played with William Tyndal a man of synguler vertuousnes and of no lesse lernyng and iugement in scripture and of a rare gentillnes of cōdicions as all they can testyfie that knewe him and vsed familiaritie with him Summa to kepe vp the Kyngdome of fornicatours and aduowtrers that they may liue in all pleasure and ydelnes / seruyng they re belies onelie and lyuing more viciouslie than euer did the hethen / for the enstablishement therof to thrust downe vertuouse lyuyng and trew preachyng hath no sotteltie bene vnsought for / nor none shal be I feare me of they re parties / vntyll they be yet brought lower / I speake of the bad / for the good as they haue in euerie place for the moost part to litell so can they not haue to moche Thus seist thou theire practise before this tyme vsed how they haue with all sottelltie persequuted them that of good zeale and loue haue frelie spoken the trueth / and how they haue hyd and clocked that they dyd with the apparence of holines / as thowghe they had done hit to extinct heresies / for so made they the people to beleue Other frutes haue they hither to not brought forth So long space violentlie to haue subdued goddes holie woord weere as me semyth to moche and the tyme now counuenient with hast to reforme them sealues and to prepare theire hartes louynglye to receaue the woorde of theire sowles health and wyllynglie to distribute hit to the symple and ignoraunte people / euerye man accordyng to his gift / yet se I not that they be any thing wyllyng therunto but rather in mynde to rage moare then they did before The light is now broken forth thankes be to the Lorde mager theire beardes / and they brought in no small feare of sodaine ruine of theire kingdome / yet by cause they se the world hath not fully forsaken theire deceyuable doctrine in all places / they hope of a chaunge / and haue theire secrete conspirisies deuised with all sutteltie to bryng that to pas / the good they do they do by compulsion and for feare of losyng theire possessions / hitherto is there no sygne of repentaunce taken in herte for theire abhominacions so long vsed Styll lyue they as they did before / they ar no les desirouse of promocion / no les delited in bely Ioye / in wealfaring / in gorgiouse rayment / as readie to abhorre chast matrimonye and daylie to commit whordome and aduoutrie / as lothe to do the busines wich they ar onelie bound to as euer they weere / I meane to preache with synceritie goddes wholie woorde and that for loue and zeale that they haue to se christen lyuing florisshe and not for the fylthie lukres sake They stand but at a stay tyll they may fynd by one mean is or other awaye to bryng in they re olde accostomed vices to be counted holines / as they in tymes past haue made the world to beleue They do but disseamble in vtwarde apperaunce / in hert they be infect with they re accostomed traterie / euer readie when occasion shal be geuen to playe they re partes a thowsand tymes moare tyranniouslie than euer they did So leaue they theire olde furiouse heyte of mākquelling that neuerthelesse they styll intend yet ones a gayne to raise hit vp what hertes haue these men what token of meaknes and sofferaunce is yet espied in them what signe of retorne from theire vnspekable malice wich springeth of no nother thyng than of auarice desire to liue voluptuouslie Those that be good note I not but the euyll nether hate I or wold any man shuld hate the persons of them but the vices / wich I wold gladlie were amended not increased If we touch them neuer so littell then heare we that we rayle on them / blaspheme them / belie them and speake vncharitablie by them ▪ to wich thyng I thus answere / yf they wold indifferentlie serch what is saide applie hit to the reule of haritie they shuld fynd no thyng spoken but trueth / no thyng so sharpelie touched as is of they re parte deserued Leat euerie man wich fyndeth hym sealf anie thing greued descend in to iugment of his awne conscience and axe what hit saith /
wich yf they wold often do they shuld sone fynde all that is spoken to be les than the trueth / seme hit at the fyrst neuer so sharp or rigourose Nether is euerie sharp woord vncharitable / except S. Iohn baptist were not wel auised when he called the Pharizees Saducees the generacion of vipers Mat. iij. or oure sauioure Christ oute of charitie vsyng the sealf woordes Math. xij And agayne sayyng to them woo be to you Scribes pharizees hipocrites Mat. xxiij Luce. xi in the viij of Iohn calleth he them the sonnes of the deuill Sainct Paule also to one Elimas a socerer was not a ferde to saye O full of sotteltie and deceytfulnes the chyld of the deuill and the enemy of al rightwisnes thou ceasist not to peruert the straightwai se of the lord Acto xiij Men may not liue as blinde as betelles / as ignoraunt as asses / as sottell as foxis / as lecherouse as gootes / moare beastlie than beastes / and loke styll that God wyll suffer them ether to be vnspoken of or vnpunnysshed / but rather shuld think that theire offences be as the trueth is so hanouse that no tong can expresse them no hand endite them no wit coÌ„prehend them sorow and repent them and continuallie praye to they re most mercifull father to geue them some sparkell of grace wherbie the may amende them Leat falshed giue place to the trueth Leat viciouse lyuing be hated / and vertue had in price Leat rancor be torned in to loue vnfayned Leat the lerned beare with the ignoraunt so far as may be suffered / and the ignoraunt be obsequiouse to heare the lerned ye leat the lerned rather studie one to be coÌ„formable to a nother / and one charitablie and indifferentlie heare a nother / and dispute with pacieÌ„ce not with braunlyng and a gree louinglie with oute scholdyng / euery man knowyng that he may erre excludyng sealff wyll and sinistre iugement and than no doute but all sharp monicioÌ„s shall ceasse and in theire steade succede praise to the eternall God / in whose power hit onelye lyeth this thyng to performe and a mongest men greate loue and concorde / and also thankes geuyng for his inestimable goodnes / to whom be all honoure and praise for euer Amen Of theire dyuers and manyfold facions this be sufficient at this tyme / now herken to the enquirie and sentens geuen concernyng the death of the afforsaide Richard Hune Reade Reader and iuge THe .v. and the .vj. daye of DeceÌ„ber / in the .vi. yere of the reygne of oure suffrayne Lord King Henry the .viij. Wylliam Barnwel / Crowner of London / the daye yere aboue saide / with in the warde of Castilbaynerde of London Assembled in a quest whose names afterward do appere / and hath sworne them treuly to enquere of the death of one Richard hune / which latelie was fownde deed in the lolars towre / with in paules church of London wheruppon all we of the inqueste to geather went vp in to the saide towre / where we fownd the bodie of the saide hune hangyng vpon a staple of Iron / in a gyrdel of sylcke / with fayre countinaunce / his heed fayre kemmyd / his bonnet right syttyng a pon his heed / with his eyne and mouth fayre closed / with oute any staryng / gapyng / or frowning Also with oute any dreueling or spurgyng in any place of his bodye Where vpon by one assent all we agreede / to take downe the bodie of the saide hune / and as sone as we began to heue the bodie hit was loose / wherbie by good aduisement we perceyued that the gyrdel had no knot a boue the scaple / but hit was double cast / and lynckes of an Iron chayne which dyd hang on the same staple were leyde apon the same gyrdell wherby he did hang. Also the knot of the gyrdel that went aboute his neck stoode vnder his lefte eare / wich caused his heed to leyne toward his right shoulder Natwithstandyng there came oute of his nose turles .ij. small streames of blode to the quantitie of .iiij. droppes Saue onelie these .iiij. droppes of blode / the face / lippes / chynne / doublet / collar shurte of the saide Hune was cleane from any bloude Also we fynde that the skyn bothe of his necke / throte by nethe the gyrdel of sylcke / was freat fased awaye / with that thyng which the murtherars had broken his necke withall Also the handes of the saide Hune were wrong in the wrystes werby we perceyued that his handes hade bene bounde More ouer we fynde that with in the saide prisonne was no meane wherby any man myght hang hym sealfe but onelie a stole / wich stole stode a pon a bolster of a bed / so â—yckel that any man or beest might not touche hit so litell but hit was readie to fall Wherby we perceyued that hit was not possible that Hune myght hang hym sealfe the stole so standyng Also all the gyrdell from the staple to his necke / as well as the part wich weÌ„t aboute his necke was to lytel for his heed to cum oute there at Also hit was not possible that that soft silken gyrdel shuld breake his neck or skynne benethe the gyrdel Also we fynde in a corner / some what be younde the place where he did hang a greate percel of bloude Also we fynde that apon the leafte syde of hunnes Iacket from the breaste dounwarde be greate streames of bloude Also with in the flappe of the leâ—te syde of his Iacket / we fynde a greate clouster of bloude / and the Iacket foolden downe theruppon / wich thyng the saide Hun coude neuer foold nor doo after he was hanged Wherbie hit aperitith playnlie to vs all that the neck of hune was broken / and the greate plentie of bloude was shede before he was hanged Wherfore all we fynd by God all oure consciences / that Richard hune was murthered / also we aquite the saide richard hune of his awne deeth Also an ende of a wax candel wich as Iohn Bellynger saith he left in the presone burnyng with hune that same sondaie at night that Hune was murdered wich wax candel we founde stickyng apon the stockkes faire put oute / aboute vij or viij fote from the place where hune was hangede / wich candel after oure opinion was neuer put oute by him / for many likelihoodes wich we haue perceyued Also at the goyng vp of master ChauÌ„celer in to lolars tower we haue good profe that there laye on the stockkes a gowne ether of murrey or crymson in grayne furred with shaÌ„kes / whose gowne hit was we coulde neuer proue / nether who bare hit waye All we fynde that M. William horsey chauÌ„celer to my lorde of londoÌ„ hath had at his coÌ„mauÌ„demeÌ„t bothe the rule gyding of the saide prisonner / by all the tyme of his impresonement Moreouer all we fynde that the