Arraignment, Judgment, and Execution of john story, for Treason:
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 01 January 1571 |
| Docket Number | 59 |
| Date | 01 January 1571 |
| Court | State Trial Proceedings |
59. Arraignment, Judgment, and Execution of JOHN STORY, for Treason: 14 ELIZ. A. D. 1,571. [Extracted from a Declaration of the Life and Death of John Story, late a Roman Canonical Doctor, by Profession. Imprinted at London, by Thomas Colwell, 1571. Seen and allowed, &c. A. D. 1598.] AFTER the death of queen Mary, so soon as our most dear sovereign lady came to the possession of the crown and that she had called a parliament, chiefly for the restitution of God”s blessed Word, and the true administration of the Sacraments to God”s high honour, and also for the amendment of the decayed state of this realm ; John Story, being of the Parliament Rouse, who was an enemy to all godly Reformations, did with great vehemency speak against the Bill that was there exhibited for the Restitution of the Book of Common-Prayer, and said these words: ” I did often-times, in queen Mary”s time, say to the Bishops, that they were too busy with Pecora campi (for so it pleased him to term the poor commons of England) chopping at twiggs, but I wished to have chopped: at the root ; which if they had done, this pre had not come now in questiK, and herein most traiterously he meaned the destruction of our dear and sovereign lady queen Elizabeth For which words speken, in such an audience and in such vehement manner, there was no honest nor true heart that heard him but did utterly abhor him,--And soon after that he had declared his traiterous heart to the queen”s highness, and his conscience accusing him, he ilecIand lurked about in sundry cor- 1 089] STATE TRIALS, 14 Euz. hers, as did Cain when he had murdered his brother Abel. But at the last he was taken i the %Vest-Country, riding before a mail in a freize coat like a serving-man, and was apprehended in the highway by one Mr, Ayleworth, a gentleman, one of the queen”s servants, and brought before the Council, and after sent to prison to the Queen”s-Bench” (for more than suspicion of Treason) in the first year of her highness”s reign. And after the said Story had remained there a while, he espying his time and by the help of his friends (as commonly -such lewd papists lack none) he broke the said prison, and fled again beyond the seas, namely into Flanders, and there not only practised divers wicked and traiterous enterprizes towards our sovereign lady the queen”s majesty and die state of this realm, by sundry conferences that he had with such as have of late rebelled and conspired the destruction of the same ; but also lie became an open and common enemy to every good subject of this realm of England, and obtained in Flanders, of the duke of Alva, a commission .and authority to practise his old cruelty, and to arrest and apprehend all such Englishmen”s goods as should arrive in those countries, or who did traffique out of England into those parts, or from thence into England, and to confiscate the su:me, by reason of which authority he used there such extremity, that he was the spoiler and undoes of divers merchants, and of more would have been, if he had longer continued ; wherefore the said merchants were inforced to study and devise some remedy, and to practise some way .or means how to remove this cumbersome man from them. And among oilier devices, they having experience of him to be a greedy and ravenous wolf, put into his head (by such as he suspected not) that there was a prey for him of English goods, in a ship that lay in a certain place which was named unto him, where he should find such a treasure of goods to be confiscated, as would be sufficient for him during his has The wolf being hungry and desirous of this great prey, set forward, and came into a ship that promised to i6ring him to the place where the prey was. But, to he short, as soon as he was entered the ship, the same brought him clear away out of Flanders into England, and landed him at Harwich, in the month of August last past. And soon after, knowledge being given to the queen”s honourable Council of his landing, he was brought to London, and there he was committed to prison to the Bollards Tower, in Fowles, a here he continued a while, that he might a ell peruse that place wherein he had most cruelly tormented many a good Christian, But he lacked there one thing, which, was the monstrous and huge Storks, that he and Bonner, his old faithful friend, had used to turmoil and persecute the poor and innocent Christians in, hanging some therein by the heels so high, that only their heads lay on the ground : some...
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