THE COPY OF THE SELF SAME WORDS, THAT MI LORD Sturton spoke presently at his Death, being the vi day of March, in the year of our Lord. 1557. among the people as his Confession, desiring the people to take Example by him, and to keep no Envy in their hearts for that is the root of all evils.  
GOOD people, I am come hither to die, I am come hither to die, and justly Condemned for mine offences by the law, what mine offences were I am sure you understand, which was for a most cruel and detestable murder by my commandment done and committed, wherefore I shall desire you all for god's sake to let me be an Ensample to you all, and to all the world and beware that ye let no malice take root in your hearts, for that is the utter dysstroier of all virtue, I shall desire you all, and all the world, to forgive me, and specially those poor women, Children, and kinsfolk, of them whom I have caused so cruelly to be murdered, that God may put it into their hearts, for Christ's sake, & for charity to forgive me, and if there be any here, or else where, whom I have offended, I shall desire you all for charity sake to forgive me, & if there be any of you who hath offended me, I do from the bottom of my heart forgive them, as freely as I trust God of his mercy hath forgiven me being most sorry and repentant, & when I shall depart out of this world, that you will say all, Lord take his spirit into thy hands, & I shall also desire you for Christ's sake to say with me on your knees our lords Prayer, which is the Pater noster, & so turning him to the East, & said the lords Prayer, which done, he desired Sir John Sowch to forgive him, who answered that he did forgive him from the bottom of his heart, & then going higher on the Ladder said, good people pray for me, & so winking with his eyes said, I charge the O Satan in God's name to departed from me, and suffer my soul to rest in the lord, & than said. Domine accipe spiritum meum. And so departed this world: on whose soul God have mercy.   

¶ The Prayer of the Lord Stourton which he spoke kneeling on his knees desiring the people to pray for him and also say with him.  
LOrd hearken to my words, consider the thought of mine heart, behold how loud I cry unto thee, let my just Prayer enter into thine ears which unfeignedly cometh from mine heart, here me lord for I am poor and destitute of man's help, take care for my soul, save me thy servant which wholly trust in thee, have mercy upon me O Lord, for I will never cease crying to the for help for thou art my lord, and more merciful than my tongue can express, as adver site assaileth me I will cry and call for help unto thee, I will call upon the in the day time, and in the night my cry shall not be hid from the. O thou god of heavens, the maker of the waters and lord of all creatures, here me a poor sinner calling upon thee, and putting my hole trust in thy mercy, O lord what great pleasures thou haste prepared for me in heaven, that I should delight in no earthly thing but in thee, my most pleasure is to cleave fast unto thee, and in the to set my hope and trust, have mercy upon me O Lord, O Lord, God have mercy upon me for thy manifold mercy's sake forgive me all mine offences: I commit my spirit into thy hands, deliver me from the power of darkness of this world, thou hast redeemed me O Lord God of truth.  ❧ In te domine speravi non confunder in eternum, in justicia tua libera me. ¶ Inclina ad me aurem tuam accelera. et. c, 
FINIS.   

Imprinted by William pickering dwelling upon London bridge.