¶ The inquiry and verdict of the quest panneld of the death of Richard Hune which was found hanged in Lolars tower. To the Reader. TO see (most dear Reader) how subtlely the truth is ever persecuted might seam great wonder/ but that the holy ghost hath oft times showed and testified in the Scripture that it should so be. What kind of persecution hath been unproved? what can be imagined that hath not hitherto been practised concerning such things? In some places they heed & afterward burn/ in some places they bring straight way to the fire. When that shift will not serve/ or that they dare not hurt the person living by cause of his riches or power etc. yet will they burn him after he died peaceably in his bed/ as they died Wicleffe & Tracie with other/ to keep the simple innocent souls which they have made blind still to continue in darkness/ saying/ he was an heretic who so ever keep his opinions shallbe burned living/ and so the burning of that which felt no pain is a great fear to the ignorant that saith it. Some be cause they be wise and utter the hypocrisy and abominable living of whorehunters with discrete communication/ so that no man can gain say or accuse them but they say truth be brought in to prison and heresies feigned out of hand that be sparppled abroad to the people with all the appearance of verity that can be devised to persuade them that the parties be not prisoned undeserved/ which if they will not confess and promise to be openly abjured to their great shame their necks be broken or else they be some other wise conveyed/ and after hanged up/ and than said and preached to that they hanged themselves/ as was this Hune/ which to be true thou shall easily perceive by the inquiry and verdict of the queest here in this little treatise contained. if they be poor and want friends and no evident cause found wherefore they should suffer/ then die they in prison no man knoweth how/ it is strait waise said if any man axe of them that they died of one disease or other and no mooe words are made. if a man knowing their grievous hearts get him further from danger in to some other realm/ which haply is to circumspect to be taken by any common officer or known enemy/ straight way cause they one or other for money to play judas part and to make him sealf great with the party/ & as though he favoured him singularly to make moche on him till he see his time & than betray him/ as they have even now played with William Tyndal a man of singular virtuousness and of no less learning and judgement in scripture and of a rare gentillnes of conditions as all they can testify that knew him and used familiarity with him. Summa to keep up the Kingdom of fornicators and advowtrers that they may live in all pleasure and idleness/ serving their bellies only and living more viciously than ever did the heathen/ & for the enstablishement thereof to thrust down virtuous living and true preaching hath no sotteltie been unsought for/ nor none shallbe I fear me of their parties/ until they be yet brought lower/ I speak of the bad/ for the good as they have in every place for the most part to little so can they not have to much. Thus seist thou their practice before this time used how they have with all sottelltie persecuted them that of good zeal and love have freely spoken the truth/ and how they have hid and clocked that they did with the appearance of holiness/ as though they had done it to extinct heresies/ for so made they the people to believe. Other fruits have they hither to not brought forth. So long space violently to have subdued gods holy word were as me seemeth to moche and the time now counuenient with haste to reform themselves and to prepare their hearts lovingly to receive the word of their souls health and willingly to distribute it to the simple and ignorant people/ every man according to his gift/ yet see I not that they be any thing willing thereunto but rather in mind to rage more than they did before. The light is now broken forth (thanks be to the Lord) mager their beards/ and they brought in no small fear of sudden ruin of their kingdom/ yet by cause they see the world hath not fully forsaken their deceivable doctrine in all places/ they hope of a change/ and have their secret conspirisies devised with all subtlety to bring that to pas/ the good they do they do by compulsion and for fear of losing their possessions/ hitherto is there no sign of repentance taken in heart for their abominations so long used. Still live they as they did before/ they are no less desirous of promotion/ no less delighted in belly joy/ in wealfaring/ in gorgeous raiment/ as ready to abhor chaste matrimony and daily to commit whoredom and adultery / as loath to do the business which they are only bound to as ever they were/ I mean to preach with sincerity gods wholly word and that for love and zeal that they have to see christian living flourish and not for the filthy lukres sake. They stand but at a stay till they may find by one mean is or other away to bring in their old accustomed vices to be counted holiness/ as they in times past have made the world to believe. They do but disseamble in outward appearance/ in heart they be infect with their accustomed traterie/ ever ready when occasion shallbe given to play their parts a thousand times more tyrannously than ever they did. So leave they their old furious heyte of mankquelling that nevertheless they still intent yet once a gain to raise it up. what hearts have these men? what token of meekness and sofferaunce is yet espied in them: what sign of return from their unspeakable malice? which springeth of no nother thing than of avarice & desire to live voluptuously. Those that be good note I not but the evil neither hate I or would any man should hate the persons of them but the vices/ which I would gladly were amended not increased. If we touch them never so little than hear we that we rail on them/ blaspheme them/ bely them and speak uncharitably by them▪ to which thing I thus answer/ if they would indifferently search what is said & apply it to the rule of haritie they should find no thing spoken but truth/ no thing so sharply touched as is of their part deserved. Let every man which findeth him sealf any thing grieved descend in to judgment of his own conscience and axe what it saith/ which if they would often do they should soon find all that is spoken to be less than the truth/ seem it at the first never so sharp or rigourose. Nether is every sharp word uncharitable/ except S. john baptist were not well advised when he called the Pharizees & Saducees the generation of vipers Mat. iij. or our saviour Christ out of charity using the sealf words. Math. xii. And again saying to them woe be to you Scribes pharizees hypocrites. Mat. twenty-three. Luce. xi. & in the viii. of john calleth he them the sons of the devil. Saint Paul also to one Elimas a socerer was not a feared to say. O full of sotteltie and deceitfulness the child of the devil and the enemy of all rightwiseness thou ceasest not to pervert the straight waise of the lord. Acto. xiii. Men may not live as blind as betelles'/ as ignorant as asses/ as sottell as foxis/ as lecherous as goats/ more beastly than beasts/ and look still that God will suffer them either to be unspoken of or unpunished/ but rather should think that their offences be (as the truth is) so hanouse that no tongue can express them no hand indite them no wit comprehend them & sorrow and repent them and continually pray to their most merciful father to give them some sparkle of grace whereby the may amend them. Let falsehood give place to the truth. Let vicious living be hated/ and virtue had in price. Let rancour be turned in to love unfeigned. Let the learned bear with the ignorant so far as may be suffered/ and the ignorant be obsequious to hear the learned: ye let the learned rather study one to be conformable to another/ and one charitably and indifferently hear another/ and dispute with patience not with braunling and agree lovingly with out scholding/ every man knowing that he may err & excluding sealff will and sinister judgement and than no doubt but all sharp monitions shall cease and in their stead succeed praise to the eternal God/ in whose power it only lieth this thing to perform and a 'mongst men great love and concord/ and also thanks giving for his inestimable goodness/ to whom be all honour and praise for ever. Amen. Of their divers and manifold fashions this be sufficient at this time/ now hearken to the inquiry and sentence given concerning the death of the afforsaide Richard Hune. Read Reader and judge. THe .v. and the uj day of December/ in the vi year of the reign of our suffrayne Lord King Henry the eight William Barnwel/ Crowner of London/ the day & year above said/ with in the ward of Castilbaynerde of London Assembled in a quest whose names afterward do appear/ and hath sworn them truly to inquire of the death of one Richard hune/ which lately was found deed in the lolars tower/ with in paul's church of London whereupon all we of the inquest to gather went up in to the said tower/ where we found the body of the said hune hanging upon a staple of Iron/ in a girdle of silk/ with fair countenance/ his heed fair combed/ & his bonnet right sitting a 'pon his heed/ with his eyen and mouth fair closed/ with out any staring/ gaping/ or frowning. Also with out any dreveling or spurging in any place of his body. Where upon by one assent all we agreed/ to take down the body of the said hune/ and as soon as we began to have the body it was loose/ whereby by good advisement we perceived that the girdle had no knot a 'bove the scaple/ but it was double cast/ and lynckes of an Iron chain which did hang on the same staple were laid upon the same girdle whereby he did hang. Also the knot of the girdle that went about his neck stood under his left ear/ which caused his heed to lie toward his right shoulder. notwithstanding there came out of his nose turles two small streams of blood to the quantity of four drops Save only these four drops of blood/ the face/ lips/ chin/ doublet/ collar & shirt of the said Hune was clean from any blood Also we find that the skin both of his neck/ & throat beneath the girdle of silk/ was fret & fased away/ with that thing which the murderers had broken his neck withal. Also the hands of the said Hune were wrong in the wrists: whereby we perceived that his hands had been bound. More over we find that with in the said prison was no mean whereby any man might hang him self but only a stole/ which stole stood a 'pon a bolster of a bed/ so ●yckel that any man or be'st might not touch it so little but it was ready to fall. Whereby we perceived that it was not possible that Hune might hang him self the stole so standing. Also all the girdle from the staple to his neck/ as well as the part which went about his neck was to little for his heed to come out there at. Also it was not possible that that soft silken girdle should break his neck or skin beneath the girdle. Also we find in a corner/ some what beyond the place where he did hang a great parcel of blood. Also we find that upon the left side of hunnes jacket from the breast downwardly be great streams of blood. Also with in the flap of the le●te side of his jacket/ we find a great cloister of blood/ and the jacket foolden down thereupon/ which thing the said Hun could never fold nor do after he was hanged. whereby it appeareth plainly to us all that the neck of hune was broken/ and the great plenty of blood was shed before he was hanged. Wherefore all we find by God & all our consciences/ that Richard hune was murdered/ also we acquit the said richard hune of his own death Also an end of a wax candle which as john Bellynger saith he left in the prison burning with hune that same sunday at night that Hune was murdered which wax candle we found sticking upon the stockkes fair put out/ about seven. or viii. foot from the place where hune was hanged/ which candle after our opinion was never put out by him/ for many likelihoods which we have perceived. Also at the going up of master Chancellor in to lolars' tower we have good proof that there lay on the stockkes a gown either of murrey or crimson in grain furred with shanks/ whose gown it was we could never prove/ neither who bore it way. All we find that M. William horsey chancellor to my lord of london hath had at his commandment both the rule & guiding of the said prisoner/ by all the time of his impresonement. Moreover all we find that the said master Horsey Chancellor hath put out charles joseph of his office/ as the said charlis hath confessed by cause he would not deal and use the said prisoner so cruelly/ and do to him as the Chancellor would have had him to do. notwithstanding the keyys deliverance to the Chancellor by charlis on the saturday at night before hunnes death/ such conventions make t●ey man to blind the sy●pel and charles riding out of the town on the sunday in the morning ensuing was but a convention made be twixt Charlis and the Chancellor/ for to colour the murder/ for the same sunday that Charles road forth he came again to town the same sunday night and killed richard hune/ as in the depositions of julian little/ Thomas Chytcheley/ Thomas Symondes/ and Peter Torner doth appear After colouring of the murder be twixt charles and the Chancellor conspired/ the Chancellor called to him one john spalding bellringer of Paul's/ & delivered to the same bellringer the keys of the lowlars tower giving to the said bell-ringer a great charge/ saying I charge the to keep Hun more straightly than he hath been kept/ and let him have but one meal a day. Moreover I charge the let no body come to him without my licence/ neither bring shirt/ kappe/ kercheffe/ or any other thing/ but that I see it before it come to him Also before Hune was carried to fulham the Chancellor commanded to be put upon hunnys neck a great collar of Iron with a great chain which is to heavy for any be'st to were and long to endure. More over it is well proved that before Huns death the said Chancellor came up in to the said lolars tower & kneeled down before Hun/ holding up his hands to him/ praying him of forgiveness of all that he hath done to him and must do to him. And on the sunday following the Chancellor commanded the penetensarie of Paul's/ to go up to him and say him a Gospel/ & make for him holy bred and holy water/ and give it to him which so did/ and after the Chancellor commanded that hune should have his dinner/ And the same dinner time Charlis boy was shut in prison with Hun/ wiche was never so before/ and after dinner when the bell-ringer fet out the boy/ the bell-ringer said to the same boy/ come no more hither with meat for him until to morrow at noon/ for master Chancellor hath commanded that he shall have but one meal day and the same night following Richard hune was murdered/ which murder could not have been done with out consent and licens of the Chancellor/ and also by the witting and knowledge of john spalding Bell-Ringer/ for there could no man come in to the prison but by the keyys/ being in john bellryngers keaping. No he thought 〈◊〉 he shunned new ea●e more for he had prepared his dinner against the mon●aye Also as by my Lord of London's book doth appear john bellringer is a poor innocent man/ wherefore all we do perceive that this murder could not be done but by the commandment of the Chancellor/ and by the witting and knowing of john Bell-Ringer Charles joseph with in the tower of London/ of his own free-will and unconstrained said/ the master Chancellor devised/ and wrote wi●h his own hand/ all such heresies as were laid to hunnes charge Reacord/ john god/ john truye/ john pasmar/ Richard Gybson with many other Also charles joseph saith that when Richard hune was slain/ john Bell-Ringer bore up the steyre in to the lolars tower awar candle/ having the keys of the doors hanging on his arm/ and I charles went next to him/ and master Chancellor came up last/ and when all we came up/ we found hune lying on his bed/ and then master chancellor said lay hands on the thief/ and so all we iij. murdered hune/ and than I charles put the girdle about Huns neck/ and than john bellringer and I Charles did have up Hune and master chancellor pulled the girdle over the staple and so Hune was hanged ¶ The deposition of julian little late servant to Charles joseph/ by her free-will on constrained the xiv. day of February/ in the vi. year of our sovereign lord King Henry the viii within the chapel of our lady of Bedlam showed to thynquest first julian saith that the wennesdaye of night after the death of Richard hune that Charles joseph her master came home in to his house at x. of the clock in the night/ and set him down to his supper/ then julian said to him/ master it was told me that ye were in prison/ Charles answered/ it is mearie to turn the penny/ and after spuper/ Charles trussed parcel of his goods/ & with help of julian bore them in to master's portars house to keep/ and that done Charles said to julian. julian if thou wilt be sworn to keep my council/ I will show the my mind julian answered ye/ if it be neither felony nor treason/ then Charles took a book out of his purse/ and julian swore to him thereupon/ then said Charles to julian. I have destroyed Richard Hune. Alas master said julian how/ he was called a honest man/ Charles answered I put a wire in his nose/ Alas said julian now be you cast away & undone/ than said Charles/ julian I trust in the that thou wilt keep my council/ & julian answered ye/ but for goods sake master shift for your sealffe/ & than Charles said/ I had liefer than a C. lib. it were not done/ but that is done can not be undone/ Moreover Charles said than to julian/ upon sunday when I road to my cosynne to baryngtons house/ I tarried there and made good cheer all day till it was night/ and yet before it was midnight I was in London/ and had killed Hune/ & upon the next day I road thither again and was there at dinner/ and sent for neighbours & made good cheer/ than julian axed Charles/ where set you your horse that night ye came to town/ & wherefore came you not whom/ Charles answered/ I came not whom for fear of bewraying/ and than julian axed Charles/ who was with you at the killing of Hune/ Charles answered I will not tell thee/ & julian saith that upon the thursday following Charles tarried all day in his house with great fear/ and upon fridaye following yearly in the morning before day Charles went forth (as he said) he went to paul's and at his coming in again he was in great fear/ saying hastily gait me my horse/ and with great fear and hast made him ready to ride/ & bad masters portars lad lead his horse in to the filled by the back side/ and than charles put in to his sleeve his mase or masor with other plate/ and borrowed of masters portar both gold & silver but how much I am not sure/ and Charles went in to the field after his horse & I brought his boget after him. Also upon friday in christenn as week following Charles came whom late in the night/ and brought with him iij. bakars and a smith of street ford/ and the same ●ight they carried out of Charles house all his goo●es by the field side to the bell at shordiche/ and yer●y on the morrow conveyed it with carts to street ford Moreover julian saith that the saturdaye at night before the death of Hune Charles came whom/ and brought with him a Gurnard saying it was for Hune and charles boy telled to julian that there was also ordained for Hune a piece of freassh salmone which john bellynger had Also Charles said to the said julian/ war not this an ungracious trouble/ I could bring my lord of London to the doors of heretics in London booth of men and women that been worth M. lib. But I am fir that the ungracious midwife shallbe wray us all Also charles said unto master's porter in like wise/ and more larger saying of the best in London/ whereto master's porter answered/ the best in London is my lord mayor/ than Charles said/ I will not skill him quite/ for he taketh this matter hot Where as Charles joseph saith he lay at neck hill with a harlot a man's wife in baryngtons house the same night/ & there abode until the morrow at xi of the clock that Richard hune was morthered/ where upon he brought before the kings council for his purgation that foresaid bawd baringtonnes wise/ & also thaforesaid Harlot/ which purgation we have proved all untrue as right largely may appear as well by the deposition of julian little/ as of thomas chitcheley tailor/ & of Iohn symons stacioner/ with other/ as of Robert johnson & Peter torner ¶ The deposition of Thomas chitcheley tailor The said Thomas saith/ the same monday that richard hune was found deed with in a quarter of an hour after seven a clock in the morning/ he met with Charles joseph coming out of Paul's at the neither north door/ going toward pater nost. rue/ saying good morrow M. Charles/ & the said charles answered/ good morrow/ & turned back when he was with out the church door/ & looked a 'pon the said Chitcheley. The deposition of thomas symondes stacioner. He saith the same morning that Hune was found deed/ that within a quarter of an hour after seven. a clock in the morning Charles joseph came before him at his stall/ and said good morrow gossep Simons/ and the same Symons said good morrow to him again/ and the wife of the same Simons was by him/ and be cause of the deadly countenance & hasty going of Charles the said Thomas bad his wife look whither Charles gooyth/ and as she could perceive Charles went in to an ale house standing in Pater noster rewe by the aley leading in to the rood of northdorne/ or in to the alley/ whither she conde not well tell ¶ The deposition of Robert johnson & his wife dwelling at the bell in shordiche/ where Charles joseph set his horse that night that he came to town to murder Richard Hune. The said Robert saith that Charles joseph sent his horse to his house a 'pon a holiedaye at night about iij weeks before christemmas by a boy/ which horse was albe sweet/ & albe mired: & the said boy said/ laet my father's horse stand sadelled/ for I cannot tell whether my father will ride again to night or not/ & the said horse stood saddelled all night/ & in the morning following Charles came booted & sporred about eight of the clock/ and axed if his horse was sadelled/ & the servant answered ye/ and the said Charles leapt upon his horse/ & prayed the host to let him out at his back gate/ that he might ride out by the filled side/ which host so did/ and by cause he was uncertain of the day/ we asked him if he had herd speak of the death of Hune at & time or not/ & he answered nay: but shortly after he did. Nevertheless Peter torner Charles son in law which brought the horse by night in to the bell Robert johnsons house/ confessed it was the same night before that Hune was found deed in the morning Moreover the frydaie before Hunes' death Peter torner said to an honest woman a waxchaundelers' wife dwelling before saint Maries spittle gate/ that before this day seven night Hune should have a mischievous death. And the same day at after none that Hune was found deed the said Peter came to the same wife and told her that Hune was hanged/ saying what told I you Also james the chancellors koke the friday before Hunes' death said to v. honest men that Hune should die or christmas/ or else he would die for him and on the monday that Hune was found deed the said james came to the same women/ & said/ what toolde I you/ is he not now hanged. And we of thynquest axed both of Peter torner and of james cook where they had knowledge that Hune should so shortly die/ and they said in master Chauncelers place by every man ¶ The deposition of john spalding Bell-Ringer first the said deponent saith that on saturdaye the second day of December. Anno. 1514. he took the charge of the prison at four of the clock at after noon/ by the commandment of M. Chancellor/ & so took the keys/ where upon he gave commandment to the said deponent that he should let no manner of person speak with the prisoner/ except he had knowledge of them/ & so at v. of the clock the same day/ the said deponent went to the prisoner him sealff a loon/ & see him and cherished him/ where he gave the said deponent a piece of fresh salmone for his wife. And after that the said deponent saith that he went to master Commensaries to supper with his fellow/ where he remembered that he had left his knife with the said prisoner/ where upon by the council of master Commensarie he went to the prisoner/ and featched his knife/ where he found the prisoner/ saying of his beads/ & so the said deponent required his knife of the said prisoner/ & the said prisoner delivered the knife to the said deponent gladly/ & so departed for that night. And after that on the sunday next following the said deponent came to the prisoner at ix. of the clock/ & axed him what meat he would have to his dinner/ & he answered but a morsel/ & so the said deponent departed & weent to the Chancellor in to the quere/ and he commanded that he should take the penetensarie up to the prisoner with him to make him holy water & holy bred/ and made the said deponent to depart the prison house for a while/ & after that he brought him his dinner & locked Charles boy with him all dinner while/ unto the hour of i of the clock/ & so let the lad out again/ & axed him what he would have to his supper/ & he answered that he had meat ynowghe & so departed until vi. of the clock/ & then the said deponent brought with him a quart of Ale/ & at that time one William sampton went with the said deponent to see the prisoner/ where he was and saw him and spoke to gather/ & so from the hour of vi. aforesaid unto xii. there h● lied b● he wa● instructed wha● he should say/ b● a good schoolmaster I warraun you/ & cunning in such business a clock on the morrow the said deponent came not there/ & when he can there he met the Chancellor with other doctors going to see the prisoner/ where he hanged ¶ The deposition of Peter torner soon in law of Charles joseph First he saith that his father in law road out of the town on sunday the iij. day of December Anno xv C. and xiv. at vi. of the clock in the morning/ weering a coote of orange tawncy/ on a horse colour grisol/ trotting He saith that on saturdaye next before that/ one Buttons wite gave knowledge to the said deponent that his father should be arrested by divers seargeantes as soon as he could be taken/ & there upon the said deponent gave knowledge to his said father in law/ at the black friars at the water side/ where upon he avoided/ & the same night master Chancellor gave the keys to john Bell-Ringer/ and gave him charge of the prisoner/ & on the said sunday the said deponent with john Bell-Ringer served the said presonner of his dinner at xii. of the clock/ & than john bellringer said to the deponent that he would not come to him unto the morrow/ for my lord had commanded him that the presonner should have but one meals meat of the day. Not withstanding that/ the said john Bell-Ringer after that he had shut Paul's church doors weent to the foresaid prisoner with another with him/ at seven. of the clock at night the said sunday And the said deponent saith that he came on the mondaie at the hour of viii. of the clock in the morning to seek john bellringer and conde not find him/ he was then busy otherwise with his other cō●inons ●. chan●er & chiles joseph & tarried until the high mass of Paul's was done/ and yet he conde not find john bellringer/ & than john bellryngers fellow/ one William/ delivered the keys to the said deponent/ & so the said deponent with ij. officers of my lords being sumner's weent to serve the said prisoner/ and when they came they prisoner (they said) was hanged his face to the wall ward/ & upon that the said deponent Immediately gave knowledge to the Chancellor/ whereupon the chancellor went up with the master of the rolls/ & master subdean/ with other doctors unknown/ to the number of a dozen and their servants ¶ The deposition of john enderbie barber The said john enderbie saith the friday before the death of Richard Hune betwixt viii. & ix. of the clock in the morning he met with john bellringer in estcheape/ & axed of him how master Hune fared/ the said bellringer answered saying/ there is ordained for him so grievous penawnce that when men hear of it/ they shall have great marvel there of/ witnesses that heard john bellringer say these words john rutterskrivenner and William segar armourer yet the say iohn ellr say to the aqnst that he ●am not here till ●ij of the clock of the same ●aye Also the said john enderbie saith/ the same monday that Richard Hune was found deed/ he met with the said john bellringer at the coundythe in gracious street/ about ix. of the clock in the morning axing the said bellringer how master Hune fared/ the said bellringer answered saying/ he fared well this day in the morning betwixt v. and vi. of the klocke howbeit I am sorry for him/ for their can no body come to him until I come/ for I have the keys of the doors hear by my girdle/ and showed keys to the said Enderbie ¶ The deposition of allen cresswel wax chaundeler The said allen saith that john grandger servant with my lord of London/ in my lord of London's kitchen/ at such time as the said allen was sering of Hunes' coffin/ that grandger told to him that he was present with john bellringer the same sunday at night that Richard Hune was found deed of the morrow when his keeper set him in the stocks/ in so mich the said Hune desired to borrow the keepers kniffe/ & the keeper axed him what he would do with his knife/ and Hune answered. I had leaver kill my sealffe than to be thus entreated/ this deposition the said allen will prove as farforth as any christian man may/ saying the grandger showed to him these words of his own free-will and mind/ with out any question or inquiry to him made by the said allen/ moreover the said allen saith/ that all that evening grandger was in great fear ¶ The deposition of Richard horsenaille balive of the sentuary town called good estur in essex The said Richard saith the friday before Christenmas day last past that one Charles joseph sumner to my lord of London be came a sentuary man/ & thaffore said fridaye he registered his name/ the said Charles saying it was fore the save guard of his body/ for there been certain men in London so extreme against him for the death of Richard hune that he dare not abide in Londone/ how be it the said Charles saith he knowledgeth him sealf guiltless of Hunes' death for he delivered the keys to the Chancellor by Hunes' life/ also the said balive saith/ that Charles paid the duty of the said regestring/ both to him and to sir john studeley vicar ¶ The Copy of my lord of London's letter sent to my lord Cardinal I Beseech your good lordship to stand so good lord unto my poor Chancellor/ now in ward/ and indited by an untrue quest for the death of Richard hune/ upon the only accusation of Charles joseph made by pain & durance that by your intercession it may please the kings grace to have the matter duly & sufficiently examined by indifferent persons of his discrete council/ in yep̄sence of the parties or there be any more done in the cause/ & that a 'pon the innocency of my said chancellor declared/ it may further please the kings grace/ to award a plackard unto his attorney to confess the said indite meant to be untrue/ when the time shall require it/ for assured am I if my Chancellor be tried by any xii. men in London they be so maliciously set in favorem hereticae pravitatis/ that is are so set upon the favour of heresy/ that they will cast and condemn my clarcke/ thought he war as innocent as Abel. 〈◊〉 that fore ●keth ye●gment 〈◊〉 all the ●en in 〈◊〉 grea● a city ● with 〈◊〉 sealffe duty Quare si potes beate pater adiwa infirmitates nostras et tibi in perpetuum devincti erimus/ that is. Wherefore if you can/ blessed father help one infirmities and weakness/ & we shallbe bound to you for ever/ Over this in most humble wife I beseech you that I may have the kings gracious favour/ whom I never offended willingly and that by your good means I mought speak with his grace/ & be favourably heerde/ at any time it may so please his grace & you/ and I with all mine shall pray for your prosperous estate long to continue. your most humble orator R. L. ¶ The words that my lord of London spoke before the lords in the parliament chamber. Memorandun that the bishop of London said in the parliament chamber that there was a bill brought to the parliament to make the jury that was charged upon the death of Hune trewmen/ & said & took a 'pon his conscience that they were false perjured caytiffes/ & said furthermore to all the lords there then being. For the love of god look upon this matter/ for if ye do not I dare not keep mine own house for heretics/ & said that the said Richard Hune hanged him sealffe/ & the it was his own deed/ & no man's else. Hit 〈◊〉 won 〈◊〉 that he took there not bo●th man 〈◊〉 wife 〈◊〉 is not 〈◊〉 manne● of bishops to let such es● kaepe 〈◊〉 it is to be thought tha● he said not truth in a moche as he p̄●soned ●em no And furthermore said that there came a man to his house (whose wife was apeched of heresy) to speak with him/ & he said that he had no mind to speak with the same man/ which man spoke & reported to the servants of the same bishop that if his wife would not hold still her opinion/ he would cut her throat with his own hands/ with other words more. ¶ The sentence of the quest subscribed by the Crowner. The inquisition intendend taken at the city of London in the parish of saint Gregory in the ward of baynerd castle in London the vi. day of December in the year and reign of King Henry the viii. the vi. year/ afore Thomas Barnwell crowner of our sofferaine lord the King with in the city of London aforesaid. Also afore james yarforde and john mundie shreeves of the said city/ upon the sight of the body of Richard hune late of London tayliour which was found hanged in lolars tower/ and by the oath and prose of lawful men of the same ward/ and of other iij. wards next adjoining as it aught to be after the custom in the city aforesaid to inquire how and in what manner wise the said Richard hune came unto his death/ & upon the oath of john barnard/ Thomas star/ William warren/ Henry Abraham/ john aborowe/ john turner/ Robert alen/ William marler/ john button/ james page/ Thomas pickhill/ William burton/ Robart brigewater/ Thomas busted/ Gilbart howel/ Richard Gybson/ Christopher crofton/ john god/ Richard holt/ john pasmere/ Edmond hudson/ john awncell/ Richard couper/ john tynie/ the which say upon there oath that where the said Richard hune by the commandment of Richard and bishop of London was imprisoned and brought to hold in a prison of the said bishops called lolars tower lying in the cathedral church of S. Paul in London/ in the parish of S. Gregory in the ward of baynerd castle affore said William horsey of London clarcke/ otherwise called William heresy Chancellor to Richard bishop of London/ & one Charles joseph late of London sumner & john spalding of London otherwise called john Bell-Ringer felonously as felones to our lord the King with force and arms against the peace of our sofferaine Lord the King/ & dignity of his crown/ the four of day December the year of the reign of our sofferaine Lord the vi afforsaide/ of their great malice at the parish of saint Gregory afforsaide upon the said Richard Hune made a fray/ & the same Richard Hune felonously strangelde & smorderde/ & also the neck they did break of the said Richard Hune & there felonously slew him and morthered him/ & also the body of the said Richard Hune afterward the same four day/ year/ place/ parish & ward afforsaide with the proper girdle of the same Richard Hune of silk/ black of colour/ of the value of xij pennies after his death upon a hook driven in to apece of timber in the wall of the prison afforsaide made fast/ & so hanged him against the peace of our sofferaine Lord the King/ & the dignity of his crown/ and so the said jury hath sworn upon the holy evangelist that they said William Horsey clerk/ Charles joseph/ & john Spalding of their set malice/ then & there felonously killed & murdered the said Richard Hune in Manner & form above said against the peace of our sofferaine Lord the King/ his crown & dignity. Subscribed in this manner Thomas Barnewell Crowner of the City of London.