ON Wednesdaye beeing the 30, of October, Iohn Slade, somtime a Scholemaister, was drawen vpon a Hur­dell frō the prison in Win­chester, to the market place where the execution was appointed: and being come to the aforesaid place, and ta­ken off the Hurdell, he came and kneeled downe by the gallowes, making a crosse with his hande vppon one of the poastes therof, and kissed it, vsing silent Prayers in latine to him selfe. Afterward, being come vpon the ladder, he beganne in this maner. I am come hither this day to suf­fer death for my faith, what faith? no rare faith, but euen the faith that hath conti­nued from all posterities: Wherupon Sir William Kingsmell Knight, spake to him, as thus: Slade, doe not thus delude the People with plausible speeches, you [Page] are come hither to suffer death for high treason against her Maiestie, you haue ben lawfully & sufficiētly cōuicted therof, & therfore you are brought to endure y^e pu­nishment that Law hath assigned you. You haue denyed her maiestie to haue a­ny supremacie ouer the Church of Christ in England, both in causes Ecclesiasticall and temporall, which fact is high treason: & therfore you are worthy to suffer death, in that you will not giue her maiestie her dutie and your allegeaunce. Oh Sir Wil­liam (quoth he) I will giue her maiestie as mutche as euer hath beene giuen to any Prince in this Realme, & wil shew her as much dutie, as he that is her most obediēt Subiect. That do you not (answered Sir William Kingsmell) for you rob her of her Ecclesiastical and temporal gouernemēt, which all Princes hath enioyed, and you traiterously take frō her: therfore how do you giue her as much as any Prince hath had, and howe doe you showe your selfe a subiect, in this vnnaturall dealing, to pre­ferre a forraine gouernemēt, before your owne lawfull Queene, Sir (sayd Slade [Page] the supremacie hath & doth belong to the Pope by right, euen as from Peter, & the Pope hath receiued it by diuin prouidēce: therefore we must not giue those thinges belōging to god, to any other then him a­lone: and because I wil not do otherwise, I may saye with the three Children in the firie Ouen, and the first of the Widowes seuen Sonnes in the Maccabees. Parati su­mus mori, magis quā patrias Dei leges prae­uaticari. Then M. Robert White (high Sherife of the Shiere) sayd to him, that he shewed himself very vndutifull to her Maiestie: and therfore willed him to aske her forgiuenes: O Maister Sherif (quoth hee) you knowe if Paule and Peter would haue obeyed their Princes, they had not suffered death. At these words, M. Doctor Bennet, one of the Chaplains to the right honorable the Lord Treasourer, came to him and sayd: Slade, do not abuse the peo­ple thus, with these wordes: Paule & Peter were put to death for religion, they were commaunded not to preach in the name of Iesus, are you commaunded any such thing? Oh Sir (answered Slade) I would [Page] wish you to behaue your self after y^e ma­ner of a Trewant, whose nature is to for­get, and so would I haue you forget your wicked life, & begin a new. Slade (said M. Bennet) I come as one that wisheth well to thy soule, thou art now at y^e pits brink, consider how highly thou offendest God, and likewise howe thou hast trangressed against her Maiestie: I desire thee in the bowelles of Christ be not so wilfull, loose not that so lightly, which he hath bought with his most pretious blood. And if my wordes may not preuaile with thee, yet for y^e loue of thine owne soule, forsake this damnable opiniō, let not that vnworthie Priest be preferred before thine own na­tural Princesse, who is the lawful supre­me head of the church, next vnder Christ. Thou knowest how he hath depriued her of her gouernemēt by his excōmunicatiō, & wilt thou be so wicked as leane to him and forsake her: Sir (answered Slade) you are very busie in words, if the Pope hath done so, I think he hath done no more thē he may, and then he ought to do, for I wil acknowledge no other head of the church, [Page] but only the Pope, and her Maiestie hath no authoritie in tēporall causes (likewise) but only what hee shall thinke good to al­low her. At these words, the people cried, away with the Traitour, hang him, hāg him. Maister Sherife willed him againe to aske her Maiestie forgiuenes. Why should I aske her forgiuenes (quoth hee) wherein haue I offended her? Then M. Bennet desired him to commend his soule to God, and desire the people to praye for him, but he sayd, they and hee were not of one faith, & therfore they should not pray for him, & I desire al blessed people (quoth he) to pray for me, and all the Saintes & blessed Companie of Heauen. So after he had staied so long as it pleased himself and had mumbled a many latine praiers silently to himself, he was cast beside the ladder, and afterward was cut downe & quartered, according to his Iudgement.

IOhn Body, a Master of Art (somtime in Oxford, & com­panion to this Slade) was caried from Winchester to Andouer, a towne ten miles from Winchester, where the Assises were holden, & where they were condemned. There was he on the Satur­day following, drawen on a Hurdell to [...] place of execution, and beeing layd on the Hurdell, he spake thus. O sweete Bed, the happiest Bed that euer man laye in thou [Page] art welcome to me. Then being takē frō the Hurdell, hee spake to maister Sherife, as concerning a disputation which had passed betweene him & Doctor Humfrey, about Constantine th'emperour, & he had written in a sheet of paper certaine Arti­cles, in answere to Doctor Hūfrey, which he wold haue read before y^e people, but be­cause y^e time was short, he could not read them, but gaue them to M. high Sherife, that Doctor Humfrey might see thē ▪ When y^e Hangmā put the halter about his neck, he sayde; Oh blessed Chaine, the sweetest: Chaine, and richest that euer came about any mans neck, and so kissing it, he suffe­red the hangman to put it about his neck. There was also present Maister Bennet, who laboured very Godly and earnestly to disswade him from his euill opiniō, but all was [...] vaine, he was so obstinat and wilfull. Hee likewise appealed vpon his faith (which he said) was the cause of his death: but S. William Kingsmel, tould him, he died for high treason against her Ma­iestie, wherof he had beene sufficiently cō ­uicted. Indeede (quoth he) I haue ben suffi­ciently [Page] conuicted, for I haue ben condēned twice, & you may make the hearing of a blessed Masse treason, or the saying of an Aue Maria, treason, you may make what you please, treason: but, I haue cōmitted no treason, although indeede, I suffer the punishmēt due to treason. Why (quod M. high Sherife) you know y^e Pope hath ex­cōmunicated her Maiestie, & you forsake her & cleaue to him: what say you to this: you denie her, her speciall authoritie, and wil not acknowledge her for your lawful Queene. Yes (quod he) in those causes that pertain vnto her, I acknowledge her my lawfull Souereigne & Queene: but for y^e speciall cause, I will abyde a thousand deaths before I cōsent to it: & if the Pope haue done well, let him aunswere it, if he haue done ill, let him likewise answere it: I acknowledge her my lawfull Queene in all temporall causes, and none other: You shall do wel thē (said S. Williā Kings­mell) to satisfie the people in the cause of your death, because (otherwise) they may be deluded by your faire speeches. You shal vnderstād (quoth he) good people all, y^t I suffer death for not graunting her M. [Page] to be supreme head of Christes Church in Englande, which I may not, and will not graunt. Well thē, quoth Maister Sherife, aske her maiestie forgiuenes, & then de­sire the People to praye for you. In troth quoth he, I must needs aske her Maiestie forgiuenes, for I haue offended her many wayes, as in vsing vnlawfull games, ex­cesse of apparel, and other offences to her lawes: but in this matter you shal pardō me. And (for the People) because they & I are differēt in religion, I wil not haue thē praye for me: But I pray God long to pre­serue her Maiestie in trāquility ouer you, euen Queene Elizabeth, your Queene and mine, and I desire you to obey none other. At length, saying: Iesu, Iesu, esto mihi Ie­su, three times, hee was put beside the ladder, and quartered, according to his iudgment.