The Reformation and the Renaissance (1485-1547): Second Edition
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The Reformation and the Renaissance (1485-1547): Second Edition
Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603 -- Sources; Reformation -- England
Some affirm, that the King appointed to have fought with them not till
the Monday and preventing the time set on them on the Saturday before,
taking them unprovided and in no array of battle, and so by that
policy obtained the field and victory. The prisoners as well as
captains and others were pardoned, saving the chief captains and first
beginners, to whom he shewed no mercy at all. The Lord Audley was
drawn from Newgate to Tower Hill in a coat of his own arms painted
upon paper reversed and all torn, and there was beheaded the four and
twentieth of June. Thomas Flammock and Michael Joseph were hanged,
drawn and quartered after the manner of traitors, and their heads and
quarters were pitched upon stakes and set up in London and in other
places, although at the first the King meant to have sent them into
Cornwall to have been set up there for a terror to all others. But
hearing that the Cornishmen at home were ready to begin a new
conspiracy, lest he should the more irritate and provoke them by that
displeasant sight, he changed his purpose, for doubt to wrap himself
in more trouble than needed.
PERKIN WARBECK'S CONFESSION (1499).
+Source.+--Holinshed, Vol. III., p. 522.
The confession of Perkin as it was written with his own hand, which he
read openly upon a scaffold by the Standard in Cheape.
"It is first to be known that I was born in the town of Turney in
Flanders, and my father's name is John Osbeck, which said John Osbeck
was controller of the said town of Turney, and my mother's name is
Katherine de Faro. And one of my grandsires upon my father's side was
named Diricke Osbecke, which died. After whose death my grandmother
was married unto Peter Flamin, that was receiver of the forenamed town
of Turney and dean of the boatmen that row upon the water or river
called the Schelt. And my grandsire upon my mother's side was Peter de
Faro, which had in his keeping the keys of the gate of St. John's
within the same town of Turney. Also I had an uncle called Master John
Stalin, dwelling in the parish of St. Pias within the same town which
had married my father's sister whose name was Johne Jane with whom I
dwelt a certain season. And after, I was led by my mother to Antwerp
for to learne Flemish in a house of a cousin of mine, an officer of
the said town called John Stienbeck, with whom I was the space of half
a year. And after that I returned again to Turney by reason of wars
that were in Flanders. And within a year following I was sent with a
merchant of the said town of Turney named Berlo, to the mart of
Antwerp where I fell sick, which sickness continued upon me five
months. And then the said Berlo sent me to board in a skinner's house
that dwelled beside the house of the English nation. And by him I was
from thence carried to Barrow mart and I lodged at the 'Sign of the
Old Man' where I abode for the space of two months.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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