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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87450	The iust reward of rebels, or The life and death of Iack Straw, and Wat Tyler, who for their rebellion and disobedience to ther king and country, were suddenly slaine, and all their tumultuous rout covercome and put to flight. Whereunto is added the ghost of Iack Straw, as he lately appeared to the rebells in Ireland, wishing them to forbeare and repent of their divellish and inhumane actions against their lawfull King and country.		1642 (1642)	Wing J1241; Thomason E136_1; ESTC R207765	14,375	14

Straw that doubt is thus easily reconcil'd for Iack Straw was not taken till after the death of Wat Tyler being then apprehended with divers others the chiefe of that horrible sedition who being brought into the Guild-hall where the Lord Major sate in Judgement having pronounced the Sentence of death upon them he openly spake to Iack Straw as followeth John behold thy Sentence is past and thine unavoidable death at hand for thou hast not many houres to live wherefore I intreat thee since there is no way to save thy body that for thy soules health thou wilt now without extenuating thy grievous fault which is inexcusable that thou betwixt God and thy Conscience resolve this Honourable Bench what the utmost of your purpose was and to what end you so mutinously assembled the Commons who making a sad pause to this demand The Lord Major againe thus seconded it I speake to thee as to a dying man who now ought to study for the peace of thy soule and not dissemble at all either with God or man at which words recollecting his spirits hee returned this answer following Now I confesse in vaine it booteth me not either to lye or make any delatory or evasive excuse understanding that if I should so doe I might indanger my soule unto the greater torments and besides I hope to obtaine two benefits by speaki●g truth First that I thereby may somewhat benefit the Common-weale in the future and next according to your promises I hope to bee assisted by your prayers that God would be mercifull unto my soule And therefore thus I deliver unto you my conscience faithfully and without deceite Being assembled upon blacke Heath at that time when we sent for the King to come unto us our resolution was to have slaine all the Nobles Knights and Esquires about him and to have taken him into our own custody to the intent that the people might have repayred unto us with more boldnesse and lesse feare since we would have made them to beleeve that whatsoever we did was by his Majesties Authority And next when we had got such power that we needed not to be affraid of any other forces which might be raised in the Kingdome our purpose was then to have slaine all such of the Nobility as might either have given Counsell or made any resistance against us But more in particular wee would have massacred all the Knights of the Rhodes and St. Iohns Knights or burned their houses over their eares And lastly we would have slaine the King himselfe and all Gentlemen of any revenue throughout the Kingdome with all arch-Arch-Bishops Bishops Abbots Priors Monks Canons and Parsons of Churches reserving onely some few Mendicants or begging Fryers they being sufficiently able for saying Masse and the administration of the Sacraments And having made a cleare riddance of all those unnecessary Members of the Common-weale for so at that time it pleased us to call them wee would have abrogated the old Lawes and devised new according to our own fancies by which the whole Realm should be governed for we had determined to have divided the Kingdome and to have made Kings amongst our selves as Wat Tyler in Kent my selfe in Essex and others in other places but by reason that these our designes were prevented by the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury who disswaded the King from comming amongst us we vowed by all meanes to insidiate his life and to dispatch him out of the way which we did after And further the self same evening that Wat Tyler was slaine in Smithfield we resolutely determined having the greatest part of the Commons of the City bent to assist us in the Act to set fire in foure severall parts of the same at once and to have divided the spoile amongst us and this saith he was our resolved purpose and concluded on by all as God may helpe me now at my last end After this Confession made he with many others of his late faction were lead unto the place of Execution whose heads being struck off his was put upon a pole and set upon the Bridge next unto Wat Tylers Here I might enter into a large discourse of the horridnesse of Rebellion as that of Ireland whose distressed estate is very lamentable whose rebellion and outrages I hope will be considered and they speedily by the permission of the Almighty receive their just rewards Rebellion can no way be better illustrated then by the sad and lamentable effects expressed in the premisses I will therefore conclude with that of the Prophet Samuel Rebellion is as the sin of Witchcraft and Transgression is wickednes and Idolatry The Ghost of Iack Straw I That did Act on Smithfields bloudy stage In second Richards young and tender age And there receiv'd from Walworths fatall hand The stab of death which life did countermand And made an equall to the Tragedy Of Leyden a Dutch Taylors villany Not that I ere consorted with that slave My Rascall rout you in this Story have But that in name and nature we agree An English Taylor I Dutch Rebell he In my Consort I had the Priest Iohn Ball Mynter the Clerke unto his share did fall He to have all things common did intend And my Rebellion was to such an end Even in a word we both were like appointed To take away the sword from Gods Annoynted And for examples to the Worlds last day Our Traytors name shall never weare away The fearefull paths that he and I have trod Have bin accursed in the sight of God Here in this Register who ere doth looke Which may be rightly call'd The Bloudy Booke Shall see how base and rude these villaines be That doe attempt like Leyden plot like me And now the Divell in whose name they 're gone Payes them Hells wages when their worke is done Treason is bloudy bloud thereon attends Traytors are bloudy and have bloudy ends * Meaning the Irish Rebels To you my brother Rebells in like kind That doe usurpe authority you 'l find The same reward which we shall feele too soone A horrid Conscience at the day of Doome Which to avoyd let this my Ghost intreat Yes love your King feare Heavens Tribunall Seat So shall your soules without disturbance rest Till Christ shall come to make you fully blest FINIS

thence to London They staid and arrested all Passengers of what degree or condition foever compelling them to sweare First that they should keep fast and firme their Allegeance to the good King Richard and to the Commons and next if his Majesty should faile they should accept of no Soveraigne whose name was Iohn which was for the great envy which they bare unto Iohn Duke of Lancaster and uncle to the King who by reason of his conquest of Spaine writ himselfe King of Castile And further that they should not yeeld unto any Taxe that should be leavied in the Kingdome from thence forward nor consent unto any unlesse it were a fifteene The rumor of these bold and presumptuous actions was quickly spread into Sussex Essex Hertford-shire Cambridge-shire Suffolke Norfolke c. for Fama malum quo non aliud velocius now when these daily conventions of the Commons increased and their number was almost growne unto an infinite so that they thought themselves to be of that strength that no power was able to resist them they began now to thinke of nothing but misdemeanour and misbeliefe framing themselves to all the rebellious irregularity that could be devised even unto brutish cruelty For first they proclaimed an Edict to apprehend all Lawyers whether Judges Benchers Barristers or younger Students and all Justices of Peace or grand Jurors and to cut off their heads of which they spared none that fell into their hands neither was there any one whom they supposed to have any learning at all if they found but a Pen and Inkhorne about him upon whom they did not unanimously cry out with this acclamation Hence away with him cut off his head The Rebells of Essex having joyned themselves with these of Kent there came certaine Noble men and Knights from the King to them being then on black Heath to demand of them the cause of this their unlawfull assembly to whom they sawcily and most unreverently made answer That for certaine causes best known to themselves they were come together but the chiefest was to have some talke with the King and therefore bad them tell him so and further if hee would come thither in person they would tell him their grievances but to none else they would reveale them His Majesty by some who was neare about him was counselled because of the present necessity to satisfie their request in that and by reason it was no further to give unto them a meeting with all speed possible but Symon Sudbury then Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor and Robert Hales of St. Iohns Lord high Treasure would by no meanes admit of their Counsell affirming that it was not for the Kings honour to yeeld to the desires of such base and refractory Rebells but rather to take order for the speedy leavying of an Army to suppresse them of which the Commons having got Intelligence they solemnly vowed and in great furie swore that they would cut off those Traytors heads and to that purpose they left black Heath and instantly marched towards London And first they dispersed themselves in Southwarke filling all the places of the Barrough and the place being not able to containe a tenth part of them they quartered themselves in the fields and Countrey thereabouts and by reason of the vow'd malice and envy that they bore unto the Arch-Bishop their first Barbarous attempt was to set upon his Pallace at Lambeth which they rifled and spoyled and wonder it was in regard of their Brutish furie that they had not set it on fire and burnt it downe to the ground In the interim the Lord Major and the Aldermen fearing also that they would make spoyle of the City called a Counsell amongst themselves in which many things were debated for their publick security and in the end concluded to shut up their gates let downe their Percullices chained their streets and the Citizens should arme themselves man the wals and stand upon their guard But the Mechanicks and meanest sort of people who alwayes are apt to envie their superiours and are therefore prone to any Innovation favouring the cause of the seditious Commons were so farre from suffering the Major and the Sheriffes to come neare unto the gates and by shutting them to keep the Rebells out that they insolently opposed them threatning death to any should attempt it This was the occasion that all the night following being the Eve before Corpus Christi day the Rebells had free ingresse and egresse in and out of the gates by which they stirred up the Commons of the City as Artificers Labourers and Apprentises to take part with them and joyne to their faction making a faire pretence that their purpose was onely to search out such as were traytors to the King and his Realme and they being cut off to make a cessation of Armes and every one peaceably to retyre himselfe into his owne Country This faire pretence wrought much in the hearts of the giddy multitude and the rather because notwithstanding their great number which was difficultly to be guided they offered violence neither to man nor woman neither tooke any commodity from them but at a just and competent price for whomsoever of their owne society they found either pillidging or stealing they used Martiall Law and commanded his head instantly to be smitten off The morrow after they had communication with divers of the most substantiall Commons of the City to whom if they would adhere unto them and take part with them they promised absolute freedome and liberty insomuch that the most or all of the meaner sort were suddainely drawne into their conspiracie for joy whereof they were admitted into the Vintners and Merchants Cellers where they quaffed and dranke together Healths by no allowance with which Licence not being acquainted it so wrought within them that some were merry others mad a motion was made to goe instantly to the Savoy which then was the Pallace and domestick dwelling of the Duke of Lancaster a place for the rich furniture thereto belonging through the whole Kingdome was not to be paralleld and either to burne it or raze it downe to the earth for he being an excellent and worthy Prince their malice towards him was implacable Thither they tumultuously hurried in heapes and setting fire in diverse places thereof made it suddenly all in a flame and to give the greater coour to their insolence caused Proclamation to be made that that was done was not to their owne use or proper ends for no man upon paine of death should reserve any thing but that all plate and vessells of Silver and gold or jewells which were there in abundance should be battered defaced and broken into small peeces and cast into the river which was accordingly performed but as our Author writeth one of the Rebells contrary to the Proclamation tooke a silver Plate and hid it in his bosome which being espyed by one of his fellow Rascalls hee made it knowne to the rest