Cornish Worthies: Sketches of Some Eminent Cornish Men and Families, Volume 1 (of 2)Tregellas, Walter H. (Walter Hawken)
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Cornish Worthies: Sketches of Some Eminent Cornish Men and Families, Volume 1 (of 2)
Tregellas, Walter H. (Walter Hawken)
Cornwall (England : County) -- Biography
'After raising the siege, as aforesaid, the General, Arundell, rallied
his routed forces of rebels, and gave battle to the Lord Russell
and the King's army with that inveterate courage, animosity, and
resolution, that the greatest part of his men were slain upon the
spot, others threw down their arms on mercy, the remainder fled,
and were afterwards many of them taken and executed. Sir Anthony
Kingston, Knight, a Gloucestershire man, after this rebellion, was
made Provost-Marshal for executing such western rebels as could be
taken, or were made prisoners in Cornwall and Devon, together with
all such who had been aiders or assisters of them in that rebellion;
upon whom, according to his power and office, he executed martial
law with sport and justice (as Mr. Carew and other historians tell
us); and the principal persons that have come to my knowledge, over
whose misery he triumphed, was Boyer, the Mayor of Bodmin; Mayow of
Clevyan, in St. Colomb Major, whom he hanged at the tavern sign-post
in that town, of whom tradition saith his crime was not capital; and,
therefore, his wife was advised by her friends to hasten to the town
after the Marshal and his men, who had him in custody, and beg his
life. Which, accordingly, she prepared to do, and to render herself
the more amiable petitioner before the Marshal's eyes, this dame spent
so much time in attiring herself and putting on her French hood, then
in fashion, that her husband was put to death before her arrival. In
like manner the Marshal hanged one John Payne, the Mayor, or Portreeve
of St. Ives, on a gallows erected in the middle of that town, whose
arms are still to be seen in one of the foreseats in that church, viz.
in a plain field three pine-apples. Besides those he executed many
more in other places in Cornwall, that had been actors, assisters,
or promoters of this rebellion. Lastly, it is further memorable of
this Sir Anthony Kingston, that in Sir John Heywood's chronicle he
is taxed of extreme cruelty in doing his Marshal's office aforesaid.
Of whom Fuller, in Gloucestershire, gives us this further account of
him; that afterwards, in the reign of Queen Mary, being detected, with
several others, of a design to rob her exchequer, though he made his
escape and fled into his own country, yet there he was apprehended
and taken into custody by a messenger, who was bringing him up to
London in order to have justice done upon him for his crime; but he
being conscious of his guilt, and despairing of pardon, so effectually
poisoned himself that he died on the way, without having the due
reward of his desert.
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