[1] [2] [3] [4] A butcher & a priest hanged and the cause why.In time of this rebellion, a priest that by a but|cher dwelling within fiue miles of Windsor had been procured to preach in fauor of the rebels, and the but|cher (as well for procuring the priest thereto, as for words spoken as he sold his meat in Windsor) were hanged: the priest on a tree at the foot of Windsor bridge, and the butcher on a paire of new gallowes set vp before the castell gate, at the end of the same bridge. The words which the butcher spake were these. When one bad him lesse for the carcase of a sheepe than he thought he could make of it: Naie by Gods soule (said he) I had rather the good fellowes of the north had it, and a score more of the best I haue, than I would so sell it. This priest and butcher being accu|sed on a mondaie in the morning whilest the kings armie was in the field, and the king himselfe lieng at Windsor, they confessed their faults vpon their examinations, and by the law martiall they were adiudged to death, and suffered as before is mentio|ned. This yeare in December,A great frost. the Thames was fro|sen ouer: insomuch that the king and quéene rode thorough London to Gréenewich.