[1] Moreouer, the maiors deputie caused West|wike gate to be set open: at the which the earle of Warwike himselfe entring with all his armie, and finding in manner no resistance, came to the market place. Here were taken a thréescore of the re|bels, the which according to the order of martiall law were incontinentlie executed, according to the qua|litie of their offense, confessing (no doubt) in consci|ence, that their punishment was proportioned to their trespasse, and that in dieng the death (were the same neuer so extreame & dredfull) they had but their desert; and therefore might well saie with the poet:

Supplicia & scelerum poenas expendimus omnes.