[1] [2] [3] The duke, after he had read the bill of his [...] on, made such answer, and so excused himselfe [...] de|claring his innocencie, that the king gaue credit to his words, and receiued his excuse. Herewith the duke besought the king, that the frier might be kept in safe gard, till the time came that he might purge himselfe of that he had charged him with; and that the lord Iohn Holland [...]he kings halfe brother might haue the custodie of him, till the day appointed that the duke should come to his full trial. The night be|fore which day, the said lord Holland, and sir Henrie Gréene knight, came to this frier, and putting a cord about his necke,A miserable & cruell torture. tied the other end about his priuie members, & after hanging him vp from the ground; laid a stone vp on his bellie, with the weight whereof, [page 446] and peise of his bodie withall, he was strangled and tormented, so as his verie backe bone burst in sun|der therewith, besides the straining of his priuie members: thus with thrée kind of tormentings he ended his wretched life. On the morow after, they caused his dead corps to be drawne about the towne, to the end it might appeare he had suffered worthilie for his great falshood & treason. Which extreame pu|nishment and exquisite kind of execution, had it not béene meritoriouslie inflicted vpon so impudent an offendor, had deserued perpetuall record of vnaccu|stomed crueltie, with this vehement exclamation,

O fera barbaries aeuo non nota priori,

Sed nec apud saeuos inuenienda Scythas.