A brief discourse of the late murder of master George Saunders, a worshipful Citizen of London: and of the apprehension, arraignment, and execution of the principal and accessaries of the same.  
¶ Imprinted at London by Henry Bunneman, dwelling in Knight rider's street, at the sign of the Mermaid. ANNO. 1573.   

FOr asmuch as the late murder of Master Saunders, Citizen and Merchant tailor of this City, ministereth great occasion of talk among all sorts of men, not only here in the Town, but also far abroad in the Country, and generally through the whole Realm: and the sequels and accidents ensuring thereupon, breed much diversity of reports & opinions, while some do ius●…ly de●…est the horribleness of the ungracious fact, some lament the grievous loss of their dear friends, some rejoice at the commendable execution of upright justice, the godly bewail the unmeasurable inclination of human nature to extreme wickedness, and therewith magnify Gods infinite mercy in revoking of forlorn sinners to final repentance, many delight to hear and tell news, without respect of the certainty of the truth, or regard of dew humanity, every man debating of the matter as occasion or affection leads him, and few folk turning the advised consideration of God's open judgements, to the speedy reformation of their own secret faults: It is thought convenient (gentle reader) to give thee a plain declaration of the whole matter, according as the same is come to light by open trial of Justice, and voluntary confession of the parties, that thou mayst both know the truth to the satisfying of thy mind, & the avoiding of miscredite, and also use the example to the amendment of thy life. Not withstanding thou shalt not look for a full disco●…erie of every particular bymatter appendent to the present case, which might serve to feed the fond humour of such curious appetites as are more inquisitive of other folks offences than hasty to redress their own: for that were neither expedient nor necessary. And men's misdoings are to be prosecuted no further with open detestation, than till the partiés be either reclaimed by reasonable and godly persuasion, or punished by orderly and lawful execution, according to the q●…alitie of their offence. When law hath once passed upon them, and giu●… them the wages of their wicked deserts: them christian charity willeth men either to bury the faults with the offenders in perpetual silence, or else so to speak of them, as the vices and not the parties themselves may seem to be any more touched.  
But 〈◊〉 shall more be spoken (God willing) in the winding up of this matter. Now I will set down, first: he murdering of master Saunders by George Brown, with Brownes' apprehension, trial and execution: then the trial and execution of Anne Saunders, the wife of the said George Saunders, of Anne 〈◊〉 widow, and of Roger Clement, called among them trusty Roger the servant of the said Anne Drewrie: And lastly a brief rehearsal of certain sayings and dealings of the parties convicted, between the time of their apprehensions, and the time of their execution, which are not things proper and peculiar to the very body of the case, but yet incident, and therefore necessary for the hearer, as whereby will appear the very original cause and first ground of this ungodly deed: And this rehearsal shall be shut up and concluded with a short Admon●…tion how we aught to deal in this and all other such cases.  
The ●…uisdaye in Easter week last passed (which was the. xxiv. day of March) the said George Browne receiving secret intelligence by letter from mistress Drewrie, that master Saunders should lodge the same night at the house of one M●…ster Barnes in Woolwich, and from thence go ●…n foot to 〈◊〉 Marie Cray the next morning: met him by the way a little from shooters hill, between seven and eight of the clock in the fore noon, and there ●…lew both him, and also one john bean the servant of the said Master Earns.  
〈◊〉 as master 〈◊〉 felt himself to have his deaths wou●…de (for 〈◊〉 was stricken quite and clean through at the first blow,) he kneeled down, and lifting up his hands and eyes unto 〈◊〉, said, God have mercy upon 〈◊〉, and forgive me my 〈◊〉, and thee too, (speaking to Browne, whom in 〈◊〉 he knew not, whatsoever report hath been made of former acquaintance betwixt them) and with that word he gave up the Ghost. And Browne (as he himself confessed afterward) was ●…at stricken with such a terror and agony of heart, as he wis●… not what to do, b●…t was at the point to have fain●…ed even then and o●…tentimes else that day, and could brook nother meat nor dri●…ke that he received of all that day after. He was so abashed afterward at the sight of one of master Saunders 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 children, as he had much a do too forbear from 〈◊〉 in the street, a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the secret working of God●… terrible wrath in a guilty and bloody conscience. But M. Barnesis man having ten or eleven deadly wounds, and being left for dead, did by God's wonderful providence 〈◊〉 again, and creeping a great way ●…n all sour, (for he could nother go nor stand) was found by an old man and ●…is maiden that went that way to seek their kine, and conveyed too 〈◊〉, where be gave evident t●…kens and marks of the 〈◊〉: and so conti●… still alive ●…ill he had been apprehended and brought unto him, died the next Monday after. Immediately, upon the deed doing, Browne sent mistress Drewrye word thereof by 〈◊〉 Roger, he himself repaired forthwith to the Court at ●…wich, and anon after him 〈◊〉 thither the report of the murder also▪ Then departed he thence unto London 〈◊〉 ways, and came to the 〈◊〉 of Mistress 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 he spoke not personally with her. But 〈◊〉 conference had with him, by her servant Roger, she provided him. xx. pounds' the same day, for the which mistress Drewry laid certain 〈◊〉 of her own and of 〈◊〉 Saunders to gauge.  
And upon the next day being Thursday morning (having in the mean time had intelligence that Browne was sought for) they sent him six pounds more by the said Roger, and warned him to shift for himself by flight, which thing he fors●…owed not to do. Nevertheless the Lords of the Queen's majesties Counsel, caused so speedy and narrow search to be made for him in all places, that upon the. 28 of the same month he was apprehended in a man's house of his own name at Rochester, by the Mayor of the town: and being brought back again to the Court, was examined by the Counsel, unto whom he confessed the deed, as you have heard, and that he had oftentimes before pretended & sought to do the same, by the instigation of the said widow Dr●…w●…ie, who (as he said) had promised to make a marriage between him and mistress Saunders, (whome he seemed to love excessively,) the desire of which hope ha●…ed him forward to dispatch the fact.  
Nevertheless he protested, (howbeit untruly) that mistress Saunders was not privy nor consenting thereunto. Upon this confession he was arr●…igned at the King's Bench in Westmin●●er ●…l on friday the xvij of April, where acknowledging himself guilty, he was condemned as Principal of the murder of master Saun●●●s according to which sentence he was executed in Smithfield on monday the. xx. of the same month, at which time (though untruly, as she herself ●…ssed afterward) he laboured by all m●…, to clear mistress Saunders, of committing e●…il of her body with him: and afterward wa●… hanged 〈◊〉 in ch●…s ●…éere unto the place where he had 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉.  
Thus much 〈◊〉 the very case of the murder it 〈◊〉, and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the principal doe●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. As for the a●…knowledgement of the former wick●…dnesse of his life, and the hearty 〈◊〉 that he pretended for the same, 〈◊〉 to his 〈◊〉 death, I deferce them to the 〈◊〉 part of this matter, to which p●…ce 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 do more peculiarly pe●…. In the 〈◊〉 time, mistress Drewrie and her man being examined, and as well by their own confessions, as by the falling out●… of the matter in consequence, and also by Brown●…s appeachment, thought culpable, were committed to ward. And anon after 〈◊〉 Saunders being delivered of child & ch●…rched (for at the time of her husband's death she looked presently to lie do●…e) was upon mistress Drewries' man's confession, and upon other great likelihoods and presumptions likewise committed to ward, and ●…n wednesday, the sixth of May, arraigned with mistress Drewrie, at the Guild hall, the effect of wh●…se several inditements is this: That they had by a letter written, been procurers of the said murder, and so accessaries before the fact: And knowing the murder done, had by money, and otherwise, relie●…ed and been aiding to the murderer, and so accessaries also after the fact. Whereunto they both of them pleaded not guilty. And mistress Saunders, notwithstanding the avouchement of mistress Drewries' man face to face, and the great probabilities of the evidence given in against her by master Geffrey, the queens majesties Sergeant, stood so stoutly s●…il to the denial of all things, (in which stout denial she continued also a certain time after her condemnation) that some were brought in a blind belief, that either she was not guilty at all, or else had but brought herself in danger of law through ignorance, and not through pretenced malice. Howbeit, forasmuch as bore▪ do●…all is no sufficient bar to discharge manifest matter, and apparent evidence: they were both condemned as accessaries to master Saunders death, and executed in Smith●…ld the thirteenth of May, being the wednesday i●… the Whitsun week, at which time they both of them confessed themselves guiltis of the fact, for which they were condemned, and with very great repentance and weakness, received the reward of their trespass, in the presence of many personages of honour and worship, and of so great a number of people, as the like hath not been seen there together in any man's reme●…braunce. For almost the whole field, and all the way from newgate, was as full of folk as could well stand one by another: and besides that, great companies were placed both in the chambers near abouts (whose windows & walls were in many places beaten down to look out at) and also upon the gutters, sides, and tops of the houses, and upon the battlements and steeple of S. Bartholomew's.  
Mistress Drewries' man was arreignéd at Newgate on Friday the. vi●…. of may, & being there condemned as accessary, was executed with his mistress, at the time and place aforesaid.  
Thus have ye heard the murdering of master Saunders, with the apprehension, arraignment, condemnation, and execution of the principal and of the accessaries to the same. Now let us proceed to the incidents that ha●…ed from the times of their apprehensions, to the time of their deaths, and so to the ad●…ion, which is the conclusion and fruit of this whole matter.  
Whereas it was determined that mistress Saunders & mistress Drewrie should have suffered▪ upon the 〈◊〉 saturday after their condemnation, which was Whitsun even: the matter was stayed till the wednesday in Whitsun week, upon these occasions ensuing. The book of Master ●…ders accounts and reckonings, whereupon depended the knowledge of his whole state, was missing. Certain sums of money were sayd●… to: be in the hands of parties unknown, the intelligence whereof was desired and sought for to the be●…e of master Saunders children. The parties co●…ted were to be reformed to Godward, and to be brought to the willing confessing of the things for which they had been justly condemned, and which as yet they ●…natly concealed.  
And besides all this, one Mell, a minister that had heretofore been suspended from his ministery, accompanying mistress Saunders, from her condemnation to Newgate, and conferring with her as it had been to give her good counsel and comfort, was so blinded with her solemn asseverations and protestations of innocency, that notwithstanding he had heard her indictment, with the exact and substantial trial of her case: yet notwithstanding, he persuaded himself that she was utterly clear, and thereupon falling in love with her, dealt with mistress D●…e to take the whole guilt upon herself, undertaking to sue for mistress Saunders pardon. And so what by his terrifying of her, with the horror of mischarging and ca●…ing away of an innocent, what with his promising of certain money to the marriage of her daughter, and with other persuasions: she was so wholly won that way, that as well before certain personages of honour, as also before the Dean of Paul's & others, she utterly cleared mistress Saunders of the fact, or of consent to the same, taking the whol●… blame thereof to herself, and 〈◊〉 to stand therein to the death, contrary to her former confession at the time of her arr●…ement.  
Mistress Saunders also, after the laying of this plat, stood so stoutly to her tackling, that when the Dean of Paul's gave her godly exhortation for the clearing of her conscience, and for the reconciling of herself unto God, as the time and case most needfully required, (as other had done before) he could obtain nothing at her hand. By means whereof, he was ●…ayne to leave her that time, which was the Friday, not without great grief and indignation of mind to see her 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. In the mean while, the say●… Mell discovering his purpose and whole platform to an honest Gentleman, whom he unskilfully took to have been a well-willer to obtain the pardon of mistress Saunders, was partly by that means, and also by other 〈◊〉 of his 〈◊〉, cut off from his enterprise. For when he came to sue for her pardon, which thing he did with such outrage of doting affection, that he not only proffered sums of money, but also offered his own body & life for the safety of the woman, whom he protested upon his conscience to be v●…ilty. The Lords of the counsel knowing her to be rightly condemned by good justice, and being 〈◊〉 to the state of the case beforeh●…nd, and also finding him out by his own unwise 〈◊〉 (whereof among other one was, th●…t he intended to marry her) not only frustrated his desire, but also adjudged him to stand upon the pillory, with apparent notes and significations of his lewd and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. According to the which 〈◊〉 〈◊〉▪ he was set 〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the place of execution at the time of their suffering, with a paper pinned upon his breast, wherein were written certain words in great Letters containing the effects of his fact, to his open shame: 〈◊〉, For practising to colour the detestable facts of George Saunders wife. Which was a very good lesson to teach all persons to refrain from any devices or practices to deface or discredit the honourable proceedings of counsellors, and public & lawful form of trials and judgements according to Justice, or to hinder the beneficial course of so good examples.  
By this occasion Mistress Sanders was utterly unprovided to die at that time, and therefore as well in respect of mercy, as for the considerations aforesaid, a further respite was given to them unwitting, and a reprivie was sent by M. Mack william's for a time if need were. In the mean time, (that is to wit upon the saturday morning) the constant report goeth, that as certain men came talking through Newgate, one happened to speak loud of the gallows that was set up, and of the greatness and strongnes of the same, saying ●…t would hold them both and more, the sound of which words did so pierce into the watchful ears of mistress Saunders, who lay nearhand, that being stricken to the heart with the horror of the present death which she looked for that day, she went immediately to mistress Drewrie, and telling her that she knew certainly by the words which she had heard, that they should by all likelihood be executed that day, asked her if she would stand to her former promise. But mistress Drewrie after better consideration of herself, counseling her to fall to plain and simple dealing: telling hi●…, that for her own part she was fully determined not to dissemble any longer, nor to hazard her own soul eternally for the safety of an other bodies temporal life. Then Mistress Saunders, who had determined to acknowledge nothing against herself, so long as she might be in any hope of life, howbeit that she always purposed to utter the truth whensoever she should come to the instant of death, as she herself conf●…sed afterward: being stricken both with fear and remorse, did by the advise of master Co●…e, (who laboured very earnestly with her to bring her to repentance, and was come to her very early that morning, because it was thought they should have been executed presently) sand for the Dean of Paul's again, and bewailing her former stubbornness, declared unto him and master Cole, master Charke, and master Young, that she had given her consent and procurement to her husbands death, through unlawful lust and liking that she had to Brown confessing her sinfulness of life committed with him: and humbly submitting herself to her deserved punishment, besought them of spiritual comfort and council, which thing they were glad to perceive, and thereupon employed their travel to do them good: and laboured very painfully to instruct them aright: for (God wot) they found all the three prisoners very raw and ignorant in all things pertaining to God & to their soul health, yea and even in the very principles of the Christian religion. Nevertheless through God's good working with their labour, they recovered them out of Satan's kingdom unto Christ, insomuch that besides their voluntary acknowledging of their late heinous fact, they also detested the former sinfulness of their life, and willingly yielded to the death which they had shunned, uttering such certain tokens of their unfeigned repentance by all kind of modesty & meekness, as no greater could be devised. For Mistress Saunders the same day sent for her husband's brothers and their wives and kinsfolk that were in the town, which came unto her the day before her death: in whose presence she kneeling mildly on her knees, with abundance of sorrowful tears, desired them of forgiveness for bereaving them of their dear brother and friend: whereunto master Saunders. the Lawyer in the name of them all answered, that as they were very sori●… both for the loss of their friend, and also for her heinous fault, so they hearty forgave ●…ir, and in token thereof kneeled down altogether, praying to GOD with her and for her, that he also would remit her sin.  
Besides this pitiful submission, she also bewailed her offence towards her own kindred, whom she had stained by her trespass, and towards the whole world, 〈◊〉 she had offended by her crime, but especially her children, whom she had not only ber●…fte both of father and mother, but also left them a coarsie and shame. Wherefore, after exhortation given to such of them as were of any capacity and discretion, that they should fear God, and learn by her fall to avoid sin: she gave each of those a book of master Bradfordes meditations, wherein she desired the foresaid three preachers to writ some admonition as they thought good: Which done, she subscribed them with these words: Your ●…orowfull mother Anne Saunders. And so blessing than in the name of God & of our Saviour jesus Christ, she sent them away out of her sorrowful sight, and gave herself wholly to the settling of her grieved heart to the quiet receiving of the bitter cup, which she drank of the next day, as ●…ath been told before. Howbeit, without doubt, to her everlasting comfort.  
And mistress Drewrie no less careful of her own state, besides her humble repentance in the prison, and her earnest desiring of the people to pray for herself, and the others with her as they came toward execucution, did upon the Cart not only confess her guiltiness of the fact, as mistress Saunders had done, but also with great lowliness and reverence first kneeling down towards the Earl of Bedforde and other noble men that were on horssbacke on the East side of the stage, took it upon her death that whereas it had been reported of her that she had poisoned her late husband Master Drewrie, and dealt with witchcraft and sorcery, and also appeached divers merchante men's wives of dissolute and unchaste living, she had done none of all those things, but was utterly clear both to God and the world of all such manner of dealing. And then with like obeisance, turning her ●…fe to the ●…arle of 〈◊〉, who was in a chamber behind her, she protested unto him before God, that whereas she had been reported to have been the cause of separation betwixt him and my Lady his wife: she neither procured nor consented to any such thing. But otherwise, whereas in the time of her service in his house, she had offended him, in neglecting or contemning her duty, she acknowledged her fault, and besought him for God's sake to forgive her: who very honourably, and ●…uen with tears accepted her submission, and openly protested himself to pray heartily to God for her.  
Her servant also, having openly acknowledged his offence, kneeled meekly down, praying severally with a preacher, as ●…he of them had done at their first coming to the place. Which done, they were all put in a readiness by the Executioner, and at one instant (by drawing away the Cart whereon they stood) were sent together out of this world unto God.  
And Browne also, a good while afore, during the time of his imprisonment, coming to a better mind than he had been of in time paste, confessed that he had not heretofore frequented sermons, nor received the holy sacrament, nor used any calling upon God private or public, nor given himself to reading of holy Scripture, or any books of godliness: but had altogether followed the appetites and lusts of his sinful flesh, even with greediness and outrageous contempt both of God and man. Nevertheless God was so good unto him, and schooled him so well in that short time of imprisonment, as he closed up his life with a marvelous appearance of hearty repentance, constant trust in God's mercy through jesus Christ, and willingness to forsake this miserable world.  
Now remaineth to show what is to be gathered of this terrible example, and how we ought to apply the same to our own behoof. First I note with S. Paul, that when men regard not to know God, or not to honour him when they know him: God giveth them over to their own lusts, ●…o as they run on from sin to sin, and from mischief to mischief, to do such things as are shameful and odious, even in the sight of the world, to their own unavoidable perils. And when the measure of their iniquity is filled up, there is no way for them to escape the justice of God, which they have provoked. insomuch, that if they might eschew all bodily punishment: yet the very hell of their own conscience would prosecute them, and the sting of their mind would be a continual prison, torment, and torture to them, wheresoever they went. Again on the other side, we must mark the infinite greatness of God's wisdom and mercy, who perceiving the perverse wilfulness of man's froward nature to sinning, suffereth men sometimes to run so long upon the bridle, till it seem to themselves, that they may safely do what they list, and to the world, that they be passed recovery unto goodness: and yet in the end catching them in their chief pride, he raiseth them by their overthrow, amendeth them by their wickedness, and reviveth them by their death, in such wise blotting out the stain of their former filth, that their darkness is turned into light, and their terror to their comfort. Moreover, when God bringeth such matters upon the stage, unto the open face of the world: It is not to the intent that men should gaze and wonder at the persons, as birds do at an Owl, not that they should delight themselves & others with the fond & perad●…ture sinister repor●…ing of them, nor upbraid the whole stock and kindred with the fault of the offenders: not surely, God meaneth no such thing. His purpose is, that the 〈◊〉 of his judgements, should by the terror of the outward sight of the example, drive us ●…o the inward consideration of ourselves. Behold, we be all made of the same mould, printed with the same stamp, and endued with the same nature that the offenders are. We be the imps of the old Adam, and the venom of sin which he received from the old serpent, is shed into us all, and worketh effectually in us all.  
Such as the root is, such are the branches, and the twigs of a thorn or bramble can bear no grapes. That we stand, it is the benefit of God's grace, and not the goodness of our nature, nor the strength of our own william. That they are fallen, it was of frailty: wherefrom we be no more privileged than they: and that should we oversoon perceive by experience, if we were left to ourselves. He that looketh s●…erely into other men's faults, is lightly blind in his own: and he that either upbraideth the repentant that hath received punishment, or reproacheth the kindred or offspring with the fault of the ancestor or ally, how great so ever the same hath been: showeth himself not to have any remorse of his own sins, nor to remember that he himself also is a man: but (which thing he would little think) he fully matcheth the crime of the misdoer, if he do not surmount it by his presumptuousness.  
When it was told our Saviour Chryst that pilate had mingled the blood of certain men with their own sacrifice, what answer made he? Did he detest the offenders? did he declaim against their doings? Did he exaggerate the fault of the one, or the cruelty of the other? No. But framing and applying the example too the reformation of the hearer, suppose ye (said he) that those Galileans were greater sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered such punishment? I tell you nay: but except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Or think ye that those eighteen upon whom the tour in Silo fell, and slew them, were sinners above all that dwelled in Jerusalem? I tell you nay: but except ye repent, ye shall all perish likewise. Let us apply this to our present purpose. Were those whom we saw justly executed in Smith ●…eld greater sinners than all other English people? were they greater sinners than all Londoners? Were they greater sinners than all that looked upon them? Not verily: but except their example lead us to repentance, we shall all of us come to as ●…ore punishment in this world, or else to sorer in the world to come. Their faults came into the open Theatre, & therefore seemed the greater to our eyes, and surely they were great in deed: neither are ours the le●…e, because they ly●… hidden in the covert of our heart. God the searcher of all secrets seeth them, and if he list he can also discover them. He hath showed in some, what all of us deserve, to provoke us all to repentance, that all of us might have mercy at his hand, and show mercy one to an other, & with one mouth and one heart glorify his goodness. It is said by the Prophet Samuel, that disobedience is as the sin of Witchcraft. Let every of us look into himself (but first let him put on the spectacles of God's law, and carry the light of God's word with him) and he shall see such a gulf of disobedience in himself, as he may well think there is none offender but himself. I say not this as a cloaker of offences, that white should not be called white, & black: black: or as a patron o●…●…sdoers, that they should not have their deserved hire: but to repress our hasty judgements and uncharitable speeches, that we might both detest wickedness with perfect hatred, and rue the persons with christian modesty: knowing that with what measure we met unto others, with the same shall it be moten to us again.  
Finally, let all folks both married and unmarried, learn hereby to possess and keep their vessel in honesty and cleanness. For if the knot between man and wife (which aught to be inseparable) be once broken, it is seldom or never knit again. And though it be, yet is not the wound so thoroughly healed, but there appeareth some scar ever after. But if the sore rankle & fester inwardly (as commonly it doth except the more grace of God be) in the end it bursteth forth to the destruction or hurt of both parties, not lightly without great harm to others also besides themselves, as we see by this example. For when the body which was dedicated to God to be his temple and the tab●…rnacle of his holy spirit, is become the sink of sin and cage of uncleanness the devil ceaseth not to drive the parties still headlong unto naughtiness, till they be fallen either into open shame and danger of temporal law: or into damnable destruction both of body soul, according as Solomon in his proverbs saith, that the steps of a harlot lead down unto death, and her feet pierce even unto hell. Therefore good reader, so hear and read this present example, as the same may turn to the bettering of thy state, and not to occasion of slander, nor to the hurt of thine own conscience, nor to the offence of thy Christian brethren.  
Farewell. A. G.   

Anne Saunders confession as she spoke it at the place of execution.  
GOod people, I am come hither to die the death, whereunto I am adjudged, as worthily & as deservedly as ever died any: I had a good husband, by whom I had many children, with whom I lived in wealth, & might have done still, had not the devil kindled in my heart, first the hellish firebrand of unlawful lust, & afterward a murderous intent to procure my said husband to be bereaved of his life, which was also by my wicked means accomplished, as to the world is known. And as I would if he could hear me, if it might be, prostrate upon the ground, at my husband's feet, ask mercy with plentiful tears of him, so that which I may & I ought to do, I ask mercy of God, I ask mercy of all men and women of the world, whom by my deed & example I have offended: and especially I bewail my husband, & ask mecie of my children whom I have beraved of so good a father, I ask mercy of his kindred and friends whom I have hurt, & of all my friends & kindred, of whom I am abashed and ashamed: and being of myself unworthy of pity, yet I beseech them all, & you all, & all the whole world even for god's sake, and for our saviour Christ's sake to forgive me. And I thank God with my whole heart, he hath not suffered me to have the reign and bridle of sinning given me at my will, to the danger of my eternal damnation, but that he hath found out my sin, & brought me to punishment in this world, by his fatherly correction, to amend, to spare, and save me in the world to come: & I beseech him grant me his heavenly grace, that all who do behold or shall hear of my death, may by the example thereof be frayed from like sinning. And I beseech you all to pray for me and with me.   

The Prayer which was said by Anne Saunders at the place of execution, the copy whereof, she delivered unto the right honourable the E●…rle of Bedforde.  
AS I do confess with great sorrow (O dear ●…ather) that I have grievously, and oftentimes inned against heaven and against thee, & am ●…worthy to be called thy daughter, so (O dear Father) I acknowledge thy mercy, thy grace and love towards me, most wretched sinner, offered me in my Lord and saviour jesus Christ, in whom thou givest me an heart to repent. And by repentance hast put away my sins, and thrown them into the bottom of the Sea, O dear Father increase and continued this grace until the end, and in the end. I testify this day (O Lord my God) thy love, O Lord, thy saving health is li●…e everlasting, and joy without end: and because thou hast touched my sinful heart with the 〈…〉 pleasure of my sin, and with a de●… of thy kingdom, O dear Father, 〈◊〉 thy Christ's sake, as I hope thou wilt, so I beseech thee to finish that good work in me. Suffer me not, merciful and loving Father, to be troubled with death when it layeth hold on me: nor with the love of life, when it shallbe taken away. O Lord, now as thou hast, so still lift up my soul as it were with an eagle's wings unto Heaven, there to behold thee. Lord into thy hands I commit my body, that it be not troubled in death, and my soul, that it see not damnation. Come Lord jesus, come assist me with thy holy spirit, a weak woman in a strong battle, come Lord jesus, come quickly save thy hand maid that putteth her trust in thee, behold me in Christ, receive me in christ, in whose name I pray saying. Our Father. etc.  
Anne Saunders dying to the world, and living to God.  
After this she also said a godly Prayer out of the Serice book which is used to be said at the hour of death   

note of a certain saying which Master Saunders had left written with his own hand in his study.  
CHrist shallbe magnified in my body, whither it be through life or else death. For Christ is too me life, and death is too me advantage. These words were. M. Nowel's Theme which he preached at the burial of my brother Haddon upon Thursday being the. xxv. day of 〈◊〉 Anno. Do. 1570. Anno. R●…ginae Elizabeth. 13. Among other things which he prenached, this saying of his is to be had always in remembrance, that is, that we must all (when we come to pray) first accuse and condemn ourselves for our sins committed against God before the seat of his justice, and then after cleave unto him by faith in the mercy and merits of our saviour and Redeemer jesus Christ, whereby we are assured of eternal salvation.