Then Charnock was the next in place To taste of bitter death; And praying unto holy saints, He left his vitall breath. And in like maner Travers then Did suffer in that place, And fearfully he left his life, With crossing brest and face. O praise, &c. Then Gage was stripped in his shirt, Who up the lather went, And sought for to excuse him selfe Of treasons falce intent. And Bellamie the last of all Did suffer death that daye; Unto which end God bring all such As wish our Queenes decay. O praise, &c. O faulce, and foule disloyall men, What person would suppose That clothes of velvet and of silke Should hide such mortall foes? Or who would think such hidden hate In men so fair in sight, But that the Devill can turne him selfe Into an angell bright. O praise, &c. But soveraigne Queene, have thou no care, For God, which knoweth all, Will still maintaine thy royall state, And give thy foes a fall. And for thy Grace thy subjects all Will make their praiers still, That never traitor in this land May have his wicked will. O praise, &c. Whose glorious daies in England heere The mighty God maintaine, That long unto thy subjects joye Thy Grace may rule and raigne. And, Lord, we pray, for Christes sake, That all thy secret foes May come to naught, which seeke thy life And Englands lasting woes. O praise the Lord with hart & minde, &c. The names of 7 Traitors which were executed on Tuesday, being the xx of September, 1586. John Ballard Preest. Anthony Babington. John Savage. Robert Barnwell. Chodicus Techburne. Charles Tilney. Edward Abbington. The names of the other vii which were executed on the next day after. Thomas Salsbury. Henry Dun. Edward Jhones. John Travers. John Charnock. Robert Gage. Harman Bellamy. Finis. T.D. [1] OLD BALLADS, Edited by J. Payne Collier, Esq., F.S.A.--_The Percy Society_. Imprinted at London at the Long Shop adjoyning unto Saint Mildreds Churche in the Pultrie by Edward Allde. THE EXECUTION OF LUKE HUTTON. A tract by Luke Hutton, of which there were two editions, the first without date, and the last in 1638, is very well known, and an account of it may be found in the Bridgewater Catalogue, (privately printed for Lord Francis Egerton) p. 149. Hence it appears also that Hutton was the author of an earlier production, called his “Repentance.” He seems to have been a highwayman and house-breaker, who, being condemned and pardoned, dedicated an affected piece of contrition to Lord Chief Justice Popham; and on subsequent liberation, returned to his old courses, and was hanged at York in 1598. Whether what follows, or indeed anything that goes under his name, were really written by him is very questionable.[1]