Compare 1577 edition: 1 This noble man as he was come of high linage, so was he a right valiant and hardie personage, ha|uing in his time doone his prince and countrie good seruice, both in Ireland, France, and other pla|ces, EEBO page image 954 greatlie to his commendation, although now his hap was thus to loose his head, as conuicted by law, and his renowme (ouercast with a cloud of dis|grace) vanished, as future chances befell, to the abo|lishing of the present honor which sometime he in|ioied. Howbeit, his estimation he might haue pre|serued vnblemished, had prouident circumspecti|on vndertaken the direction of his dooings, and that he had borne his eies in his forehead, to foresee all af|terclaps, which a wise man will in no case neglect:

Nam sapiens in fronte oculos habet, omnia spectans,

Omnia prudenti cum ratione videns.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The same daie that he suffered, there was execu|ted at saint Thomas Waterings thrée gentlemen, Iohn Mantell, Iohn Frowds, and george Roidon: they died for a murther committed in Sussex (as their indictement imported) in companie of Thomas Fines lord Dacres of the south.The true re|port of the cause where|vpon the mur|ther of Iohn Busbrig in|sued. The truth whereof was thus. The said lord Dacres, through the lewd persuasion of some of them, as hath béene reported, meaning to hunt in the parke of Nicholas Pelham esquire at Laughton, in the same countie of Sussex, being accompanied with the said Mantell, Frowds, and Roidon, Iohn Cheinie and Thomas Isleie gen|tlemen, Richard Middleton and Iohn Goldwell yeo|men, passed from his house of Hurstmonseux, the last of Aprill in the night season, toward the same parke, where they intended so to hunt; and comming vnto a place called Pikehaie in the parish of Hil|lingleie, they found one Iohn Busbrig, Iames Bus|brig, and Richard Sumner standing togither; and as it fell out through quarelling, there insued a fraie betwixt the said lord Dacres and his companie on the one partie, and the said Iohn and Iames Bus|brig and Richard Sumner on the other: insomuch that the said Iohn Busbrig receiued such hurt, that he died thereof the second of Maie next insuing.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Wherevpon, as well the said lord Dacres as those that were there with him, and diuerse other likewise that were appointed to go an other waie to méet them at the said parke,The lord Da|cres arreig|ned before the lord Audleie. were indicted of murther: and the seauen and twentith of Iune the lord Dacres himselfe was arreigned before the lord Audleie of Walden then lord chancellor, sitting that daie as high steward of England, with other péeces of the realme about him, who then and there condemned the said lord Dacres to die for that transgression. And afterward the nine and twentith of Iune being saint Peters daie, at eleuen of the clocke in the fore|noone, the shiriffs of London, accordinglie as they were appointed, were readie at the tower to haue re|ceiued the said prisoner, and him to haue lead to exe|cution on the tower hill. But as the prisoner should come forth of the tower, one Heire a gentleman of the lord chancellors house came, and in the kings name commanded to staie the execution till two of the clocke in the afternoone, which caused manie to thinke that the king would haue granted his par|don.Lord Dacres executed at Tiburne. But neuerthelesse, at three of the clocke in the same afternoone, he was brought forth of the tower, and deliuered to the shiriffs, who lead him on foot be|twixt them vnto Tiburne, where he died. His bodie was buried in the church of saint Sepulchers. He was not past foure and twentie yéeres of age, when he came through this great mishap to his end, for whome manie sore lamented, and likewise for the o|ther thrée gentlemen, Mantell, Frowds, and Roi|don. But for the sad yoong lord, being a right to|wardlie gentleman, and such a one, as manie had conceiued great hope of better proofe, no small mone and lamentation was made; the more indéed, for that it was thought he was induced to attempt such follie, which occasioned his death, by some light heads that were then about him.