Storie con|ueied himselfe ouer the seas where he con|tinued a blou|die persecutor. [...] raging against Gods saints with fire and sword. In|somuch as he growing to be familiar and right deere to duke Dalua in Antwerpe, receiued a speciall com|mission from him to search all the ships for goods forfeited, and for English bookes and such like.Storie [...]btei|ned a commi|sion to search for English bookes. And in this fauour and authoritie he continued there for a space, by the which meanes he did much hurt, and brought manie a good man and woman to trouble, and extreme perill of life through his bloudthirstie crueltie. But at the last the Lord (when the measure of his iniquitie was full) procéeded in iudgement a|gainst him, and cut him off from the face of the earth, according to the praiers of manie a good man, which came to passe in order as followeth.

It being certeinlie knowne (for the brute thereof was gone foorth into all lands) that he not onelie in|tended the subuersion and ouerthrow of his natiue countrie of England by bringing in forren hostili|tie,Storie inten|deth the ouerthrow of England. if by anie means he might compasse it; but also [...]ailie and hourelie murthered Gods people: there was this platforme laid (by Gods prouidence no doubt) that one maister Parker a merchant should saile vnto Antwerpe,A platforme laid to appre|hend Storie. and by some means to conueie Storie into England. This Parker arriuing at Antwerpe, suborned certeine to repaire to doctor Storie, and to signifie vnto him, that there was an English ship come s [...]aught with merchandize; and that if he would make search thereof himselfe, hée should find store of English bookes, and other things for his purpose. Storie hearing [...]his and suspecting nothing, made hast towards the ship, thinking to make the same his preie; and comming aboord sear|ched for English hereticall books (as he called them) & going downe vnder the hatches,Storie sear|ched the Eng|lish ships for bookes, and is apprehended and brought into England. bicause he would be sure to haue their bloud if he could, they clapped downe the hatches, hoised vp their sailes, hauing (as God would) a good gale, and sailed awaie into Eng|land, where they arriuing presented this bloudie butcher and traitorous rebell Storie, to the no little reioising of manie an English heart.

He being now committed to prison, continued there a good space [...] during all which time, he was la|boured and solicited dailie by wise and learned fa|thers, to recant his diuelish & erronious opinions, to confirme himselfe to the truth, and to acknowledge the quéenes maiesties supremasie. All which he vt|terlie denied to the death, saieng that he was sworne subiect to the king of Spaine, and was no subiect to the quéene of England, nor shée his souereigne queene.Storie a trai|tor hanged, drawne and quartered. And therefore (as he well deserued) he was condemned (as a traitor to God, the quéenes maie|stie, and the realme) to be drawne, hanged, and quar|tered which was performed accordinglie, he being laid vpon an hurdle, and drawne from the tower a|long the streets to Tiburne, where he being hanged till he was halfe dead, was cut downe and stripped. And (which is not to be forgot) when the executioner had cut off his priuie members he rushing vp vpon a sudden gaue him a blow vpon the eare, to the great woonder of all that stood by. And thus ended this blou|die Nemrod his wretched life, whose iudgement I leaue to the Lord.