¶ A most strange and rare example of the just judgement of God executed upon a lewd and wicked conjuror the xvij day of januarie. M.D.Lxxvij. In the parish church of S. Marry Ouerie in Southwark, in the presence of divers credible & honest persons.  
¶ Imprinted at London, by Henry Bennyman.   

REmember mortal man how time doth pass,  
and know likewise, all human flesh is grass:  
For time at length consumes the strongest oak,  
So death at last must strike the grievous stroke:  
Though lusty youth do pleasant beauty bear  
Yet youth to age in tract of time doth we are.  
The pleasant flower that bears the freshest hue  
The grass that grows so green in summer tied  
The pinching cold her colour doth subdue,  
So that her beauty cannot long abide:  
Even so the state of mortal man depends,  
Whose life to these may well compared be,  
To day the powers above our life defends:  
To morrow dead full oftentimes we see▪  
Therefore still live as though thou shouldest die,  
Thy soul to save from so great jeopardy.  
If mortal man would weigh his state aright,  
And shun the subtle snares of false delight,  
Esteeming them to be so frail and vain,  
As nothing else may sooner bring our pain:  
He would (no doubt) his course direct aright,  
And have those shows no longer in his sight.  
And though our nature be so weak and frail,  
As any one attempt may soon avail,  
No doubt but if with zeal we call for grace,  
We shall eschew such lewd attempts apace.  
The signs and shows that daily do appear,  
In coasts abroad and in our country here,  
May well a warning be unto us all,  
To shun the sin that we be charged withal,  
Let us example take of holy writ,  
Whereon each christian man should ground his wit,  
How God (for sin) in his displeased ire,  
Consumed Sodom and Gomorre with fire.  
In these our days it may be eke regarded,  
How divers countries for sin are rewarded.  
Let us therefore by them example take,  
And from our sins at length let us awake,  
Which God of his mercy grant for to be,  
That we in joys everlasting may see  
The heavenly show of his most glorious face,  
Pronouncing joys to them that call for grace,  
AMEN.   

AS the Sins of Man are innumerable and diverse, gentle Reader, so the plagues & punishments of God are sundry: and he sharply scourgeth many, that we the residue might the better be warned. And though he suffer and bear with our wicked deeds and dealings a while, yet without amendment, and our repentance, he will strike at last, with so heavy and grievous a stroke that our frail bodies may not nor cannot sustain his heavy hand. Let therefore every true Christian enter into his own heart, & consider how merciful God is, how he warneth us, how he spareth us, and giveth daily examples for our amendment, how he plagueth the offendor, though merciful to a great sort of sinners. If we would consider this transitory world how tickle it standeth, how uncertain the life of man is, how we can assure unto ourselves nothing certain but death, how our toils, our labours, our cares, our inventions, our policies and subtleties pass with our mortal bodies: undoubtedly the very horror of our consciences, would 'cause us to be more careful to refrain our natural bodies from such filthy, detestable and abominable living, as they are most prove and ready to follow and embrace: yea it would so move our minds to devotion, that thereby the vain industries, lewd attempts, and wicked imaginations of our heart might be altered and changed to true Religion, to constantness of Faith, and to true and sincere dealing one with an other. Let us therefore search and examine ourselves, and like the lost son come home & cry Abba father, and then undoubtedly, with spreaded arms, he will be ready to receive us to his great mercy, whereas on the contrary he will show himself a fierce and terrible god, pronouncing a most sharp judgement upon the offender, yea he will steal upon him on a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not ware of, and shall hew him in pieces, and give him his portion with the hypocrites, where there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. After which sort, God in his justice, struck the person of whom we now speak: who may well be a mirror and spectacle to us all, that we knowing and seeing the end of his wicked life, may renew the old man graffed in our hearts, glorifying our heavenly Father which is in Heaven, which God grant of his mercy. Amen.  
The seventeenth day of januarie this present year of our Lord God a thousand five hundred seventy and six, one Simon Pembroke dwelling in Saint George's parish in Southwark, being convented before the ordinary judge of that place as vehemently suspected to be a conjuror, and the process being served upon him to appear in the Parish Church of Saint Marie Ouery, at the Court there usually holden by the said judge, to answer unto such objections, as he might be charged withal, touching his devilish trade, and to receive condign punishment if he were found culpable therein: albeit somewhat sickly before, as it must truly be confessed, nevertheless choosing rather to come than to use any excuse of absence, he failed not at his appointed day to appear, showing himself ready in every respect to clear himself of all such matters as should or might in any wise be objected against him, saying, that he had great wrong to be troubled for any such false surmise, Whereupon coming to a Proctor of the Arches, & minding to retain him to be of his counsel touching the defence of the objections laid against him, being refused by the said Proctor, & with his fee in his hand, the judge coming into the Church, he sank down suddenly amongst them stark dead, not having space or grace to say once, the Lord have mercy upon me: to the great amaze of all the standers by. The judge seeing what had chanced, and that by no means his life could be recovered, he commanded that he should be searched, to the intent that if he had money or other charged about him, it might not be embeselled, but restored to his poor wife, being there present, lamenting her late husband in most pitiful sort, which done there were found about him certain devilish and wicked books of conjuration, a piece of tin with a picture engraved, & a lttle black stick like unto jest, about two inches long, with other toys, instruments no doubt of his devilish art.  
Wherefore let this just & sudden execution of god's judgement, be a terror unto those, that setting apart that clemency & great mercy of our heavenly father, have practised this or the like wicked trade, & let all other that are infected with any notable crime, as no doubt none of us can excuse ourselves, take example by this dead carcase, whose manner of life as it was abominable, and odious in the sight of god, so the order of his death no less fearful, and terrible in the sight of men. I say after so many warnings, let us not be senseless as bruit beasts, neither let us defer our repentance until to morrow, lest at midnight, or at the dawning of the day our time be shortened, whereby to late, we are to call for repentance: but while we have time and space, let us call for mercy, that we may assure ourselves of his comfortable promiss, which is, that at what time soever a sinner doth repent him of his sins from the bottom of his heart, I will put all his wickedness out of my remembrance, and so glorifying him in this life, we may be partakers of the heavenly joys, prepared for his elected, which God grant, for his son jesus Christ's sake. Amen.