[1] [2] While this busie search was diligentlie applied and put in execution,Humfrie Ba|naster seruant vnto the duke of Bucking|ham betraied his maister. Humfreie Banaster (were it more for feare of life and losse of goods, or allured & prouo|ked by the auaricious desire of the thousand pounds) he bewraied his guest and maister to Iohn Mitton then shiriffe of Shropshire; which suddenlie with a strong power of men in harnesse apprehended the duke in a little groue adioining to the mansion of Humfreie Banaster, and in great hast and euill speed conueied him apparelled in a pilled blacke cloake to the towne of Shrewesburie, where king Richard then kept his houshold. Whether this Banaster be|wraied the duke more for feare than couetous,Gods secret [...]gement [...] vpon Bana|ster and his children after th [...] duke was apprehended. ma|nie men doo doubt: but sure it is, that shortlie after he had betraied the duke his master; his sonne and heire waxed mad, & so died in a bores stie; his eldest daugh|ter of excellent beautie, was suddenlie striken with a foule leprosie; his second sonne maruellouslie defor|med of his lims, and made lame; his yoonger sonne in a small puddle was strangled and drowned; and he being of extreame age, arreigned, and found guiltie of a murther, and by his cleargie saued. And as for his thousand pounds, K. Richard gaue him not one farthing, saieng that he which would be vntrue to so good a maister, would be false to all other: howbeit some saie that he had a small office or a farme to stop his mouth withall. The duke being by certeine of the kings councell diligentlie vpon interrogatories ex|amined, what things he knew preiudiciall vnto the kings person, opened and declared franklie and frée|lie all the coniuration, without dissembling or glo|sing; trusting, bicause he had trulie and plainelie re|uealed and confessed all things that were of him re|quired, that he should haue licence to speake to the king: which (whether it were to sue for pardon and grace, or whether he being brought to his presence, would haue sticked him with a dagger as men then iudged) he sore desired and required. But when he had confessed the whole fact & conspiracie,The duke of Buckingh [...] beheaded with out arreig [...] or iudgeme [...] vpon All soules daie, without arreigment or iudgement, he was at Salisburie in the open market place, on a new scaffold beheaded and put to death.