Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2, Book 11 · Account 43
¶A tragicall, lamentable, and pitifull Hystory, full of most cruell and tyranicall Murther, done by the pretensed Catholiques, vponupon three women and an Infant: to wit, the mother, her two daughters, and the childe, in the Isle of Garnesey, for Christes true Religion, the yeare of our Lord. 1556. Iuly. 18.
AMong all and singular Historyes touched in this Booke before, as there be many pitifull, diuers lamentable,The Martyrdome of three women with a young Infant, burned in the Isle of Garnesey. Iuly. 18. some Horrible and Tragicall: so is there none almost either in cruelty to be compared or so farre of from all compassion and sense of humanity, as this merciles fact of the Papistes, done in the Isle of Garnsey, vponupon three women and an infant, whose names be these as folow.
Katherine Cawches. the Mother.
Guillemine Gilbert. the daughter.
Perotine Massey. the other daugther.
An Infant. the sonne of Perotine.
But before I come to the purpose of this story, it shall be necessary, for the better explayning of the matter, to begin first with the circumstances, whereupon the first Originall and occasion did rise of this tragicall cruelty. The case was this.
The xxvij. day of May. an. 1556. in the Isle of Garnsey, which is a member of England, in a towne there called S. Peters port, was a noughty woman named Uincent Gosset, who being euill disposed, went (the day aforesaid) to the house of one Nicholas le Conronney, dwelling in the towne of the sayd S. Peters Porte, about ten of the clocke at night, and there taking the key of the house (lying vnderunder the doore) entred into a Chamber towarde the streete,The first occasion of the trouble of these women. where she espying a Cup of Siluer within a Cupbord, tooke it away, and so conueied her selfe out of ye house agayne. Who immediately after this fact done (whether by counsell or by what occasiō els, I hauehave not to say) brought the sayd Cup to one Perotine Massey, an honest woman, dwelling in the sayd towne, desiring her to lend her vj.d. vponupon the same.
Perotine seing the cup or goblet, & suspecting (as truth was) the same to be stollen, answered that she woulde not take it: yet neuerthelesse hauing knowledge of the owner theerof, tooke it, to restore it agayne to whom it did apperteyn, and to the end she should not cary it to another, gaue her thē presently vj. d. Where moreouer is to be noted, that Thomas Effart sayth and testifieth, that knowledge was geuen by the sayde Perotine to Conronney touching the stealing of his piece, who eftsoones vpō the misliking therof attached the sayd Uincent Gosset, of the trespasse. Who being apprehended and examined vponupon the same, immediatly confessed the fact, desiring to hauehave one sent wyth her (which was Collas de Loutre) with vj. d. to fetch agayne the goblet, where it was: And so did.
The next day folowing, the kinges officers being informed of the premises by one Nicolas Cary of the sayde towne Constable, assembled the Iustices there to inquire and examine further,Nicholas Cary Constable, occuser. as well vponupon that facte of Uincent Gosset, as vponupon other griefes and things there amisse. So that after declaration made by the officers and Constable before the Iustice, for that the sayd Constable did report to hauehave founde certayne vessell of Pewter in the house of the foresayd Perotine Massey (who then dwelt with her mother Katherine Cauches, & her Sister Guillemine Guilbert) the which vessell did beare no marke, and especially for that there was a Peuter dishe, whereof the name was scraped out, theyr bodyes vponupon the same were attached, & put in prison, & theyr moueable goodes taken by inuētory. Within a few daies after these things this done & past, these 3. sely women abiding thus in durance in the castle,Katherine with her two daughters, imprisoned in the Castel. made theyr supplication to the Iustices to hauehave iustice ministred vntounto them, videlicet: If they had offended the law, then to let them hauehave the law: if not, beseeching to graunt them the benefite of Subiects. &c. Which supplication put vp, thereupon were they appoynted to come to theyr answere the fift day of Iune, in the yeare aforesayd. Uppon which day, after straight examining of the matter,Katherine with her two dau…ters, stand the iudge…ment of their neig…bours. and the honest aunswering of the cause by the sayde good woman, at the last they submitted them to the report of their neighbours, that they were no theeues, nor euill disposed persons, but liued truely and honestly, as became Christian women to do, the false and vntrue report of theyr accusers notwithstanding.
So the cause being thus debated, after the inquirye made by the kinges Officers, they were founde by theyr said neighbors not guilty of that they were charged wyth, but had liued alwayes as honest women among them: sauing onelyonly that to the commaundementes of holy church,The thre… women quit of … and disho…nestye. they had not bene obedient. &c. Upon this triall, & verdit of the neighbours, it was in fine adiudged, firste that the sayd Uincent Gosset, being atteinted of fellonye and condemned for the same should be whipped, and after her eare being nailed to the pillory, should so be banished out of the Isle without further punishment. And as touching the other three women, the Mother with her two daughters,New trouble agaynst the three women, for not comming to the Church. for theyr not comming to the Church, they were returned prisoners agayn into the Castle the first of Iuly. And thus farre concerning the true discourse of this matter, with all the circumstaunces and appurtenaunce of the same in eueryevery poynt as the case stoode, according to the faythfull tenour and testimony of the Garnesey menne written with theyr owne handes both in Frenche and English tongue. Wherein you see what false surmised matter was pretended agaynst these women, and nothing proued, and howe by the attestation of theyr neighbours they were fully clered of that facte, and should by the temporall Courte hauehave bene dismissed, had not the spirituall Clergy men picking matter of religion agaynst them, exercised such extremitye in persecuting these miserable prisoners, that in no case they could escape theyr bloudye handes, till at length they had brought them (as you shall heare) to theyr finall ende. For after the time of this declaration aboue mentioned made by the neighbours, whereby they were purged of al other thinges, & being then known of theyr not comming to the Church, the Bailiefes Lieutenaunt and the Iustice, thinking the matter not to perteyne to them, but to the Clergy, forthwith wrote theyr letters or Mandate vnderunder theyr signes to the deane, whose name was Iaques Amy, and Curates of the sayd Isle:Iaques Amye Deane of Garnesey persecutor. The contentes wherof here foloweth.
¶A Letter sent from the Bailieffes Lieutenaunt, and Iurates of Saynt Peters Port, to the Deane and Curates of the Isle of Garnesey.
MAyster Deane and Iustices in your Court and iurisdiction, after all amiable recommendations, pleaseth you to know that we are informed by the deposition of certayn honest men, past before vsus in maner of an inquiry: A letter of the Bayliffes to the Deane of Garnesey.in the which inquiry Katherine Cawches and her two daughters hauehave submitted themselues in a certayne matter criminall. Wherein we be informed that they hauehave bene disobedient to the commaundementes, and ordinances of the Church, in contēning and forsaking the masse and the ordinances of the same, agaynst the will and commaundement of our souereigne Lord the king and the Queene. Wherof we send you the sayd matter, for as much as the matter is spirituall, to the end you may proceed therein after your good discretions, and as brieflye as you can possible, and also that it perteined to your office, recommēding you to God, the which geue you grace to do that perteineth to right and iustice. Written the first day of the monethmonth of Iuly, the yeare of our Lord. 1556.
After these letters, and information thus addressed to Iaques Amy Deane, and to other of the Clergy, the sayde women were agayne commensed before the Iustice aforesaid with his assistances. In the presence of whom they being examined of theyr fayth, concerning the ordinances of the Romish church, made their aunswere that they would obey and keepe the ordinaunces of the king & Queene, & the cōmaundementes of the church, notwithstanding that they had sayd and done the contrary in the time of K. Edward the 6. in shewing obedience to his ordinaunces and commaundementes before. After which aunswere taken, they were returned againe to prison, vntill the other had an answere of their letter frō the deane & his cōplices. During which time, the Deane & curates gaue their information touching the sayd women, and deliuered the same to the Bailiefe and Iurates,Rash information geuen, before the cause was heard. cōdemning and reputing them for hereticks, the women neither hearing of any information, neither yet being euer examined at any time before of theyr fayth and religion. Wherupon when the said Bailife & Iurates vnderstood that the sayd Deane & Curates had not examined the women of theyr fayth, would not fitte in iudgement on that day, but ordeined the women to come first before the Deane and Curates to be examined of their fayth. And so the Officers at the commaundement of the Iustices,… did fetch and present them before the sayd Deane and Curates. The which being accomplished and done, they were examined a parte seuerally one from an other: After which examination they incontinently were returned agayne into prison.
Then the xiiij. day of the sayd monethmonth of Iuly, in the yeare aforesayd, after the examination aboue specified before Elyer Gosselin Bailiffe, in the presence of Thomas Deuicke, Pierres Martine, Nicolas Cary, Iohn Blondel, Nicolas de Lisle, Iohn Lauerchaunt, Iohn le Feuer, Pierres Bonnamy, Nicolas Martin, Iohn de la March Iurates, Syr Iaques Amy Deane, and the Curates, dyd deliuer before the Iustice vnderunder the seale of the Deane, & vnderunder the signes of the Curates, a certayne Act and Sentence, the summe whereof was that Katherine Cawches and her two daughters were found heretickes, and suche they reputed them, and hauehave deliuered them to Iustice, to do execution, according to the Sentence, of the which the tenour foloweth.
¶The Sentence.
AN. dom. millesimo, quingentesimo, quinquagesimo sexto, die verò .xiij. mensis Iulij apud Ecclesiam diui Petri in portu maris insula promotor. per nos Dominum Decanum inquisitio facta fuit de fide Catholica, & super Sacramenta Ecclesiastica, videlicet super Sacramentum Baptismi, confirmationis, poenitentiae, ordinis Matrimonij Eucharistiae, & extremae vnctionis, nec non super ceremonias Ecclesiae, ac de veneratione & honoratione beatae Mariae & sanctorum, de Missa & eius efficacia, & de ceremonijs Ecclesiae, videlicet Katherinae Cawches, eiusdem que duarum filiarum Guilleminae & Parotinae nuncupatarum, & harum tam coniunctim quam separatim & via iuris. Et quamuis pluries ad veniam petendam, & ad delicta sua cognoscenda *…hortauimus & inuitauimus, quae quidem praedicta omnino negauerunt & negant, quod locutae fuerunt aliquod verbum inane, inhonestum, ociosum, & vanum contra fidem catholicam, Sacramenta Ecclesiae, & alias ceremonias Ecclesiae. Quapròpter auditis negationibus praedictarum, & attestatíonibus & depositionibus testium per nos visis, consideratis, & bene ponderatis, & per opiniones Curatorum & Vicariorum ibidem assistentium super easdem Katherinam & Parotinam, nec non & Guilleminam crimine hereticas inuenimus & reputamus. Quapropter coram vobis Domino Baliuo omnino remittimus vt antea remissimus. Thomas le Coll de mandato, Iohn Alles, Guillielmus Panquet, Petrus Tardise, & Iohannes Manatiell.
When this was done, commaundement was geuen to the kinges officers, to go to the Castle to fetche the sayde women, to heare the sentence agaynst them in the presence aforesayd. And they appearing before thē, sayd in the eares of all the auditory, that they woulde see theyr accusers, and know them that hauehave deposed agaynst them, because they might make aunsweres to theyr sayinges and personages and to hauehave theyr libell accordingly: for they knew not to hauehave offended the maiesties of the King and Queene, The three women willing to be conformed to the Queenes ordinaunces, were not withstanding condemned.nor of the Church, but intyrely would obey, obserue and keepe the ordinances of the King and Queene, and of ye Church, as all good and true Subiectes are bound to do. And for any breach of the Kyng and Queenes lawes that they had done, they required iustice. All whiche theyr reasons and allegations notwithstanding, the sayd poore women were condemned, and adiudged to be burnt, vntill they were consumed into Ashes, according to a sentence geuen by Elyer Gosseline Bailife: of the which sentence the tenour hereafter foloweth.
¶The effect of the sentence in English.
THe xvij. (or as some other thinke the xxvij. day) of the MonethMonth of Iuly, 1556.The wilfull sentence and murther of Ellyer Gosseline Bailiffe, against the three innocent women in Garnesey. Elier Gosselin Bailiffe in the presence of Thomas Deuicke, Pierres Martine, Nicholas Cary, Iohn Bloundell, Nicholas Deuise, Iohn le Marchaunt, Iohn le Feauer, Pierres Bonamy, Nicholas Martine and Iohn de la March Iurates: Katherine Cowches, Perotine Massey, and Guillemyne Guilbert, the sayd Perotine and Guillemyne daughters to the sayd Katherine, are all condemned & iudged this day to be burned, vntil they be consumed to ashes in the place accustomed, with the confiscation of all theyr goodes, moueables, and heritages, to be in the handes of the king and Queenes maiesties, according and after the effect of a sentence deliuered in iustice, by Mayster Deane and the Curates the xiij. day of the monethmonth of Iuly, in the yeare aforesayd, in the which they hauehave bene approued heretickes.
❧A Lamentable Spectacle of three women, with a sely infant brasting out of the Mothers Wombe; being first taken out of the fire, and cast in agayne, and so all burned together in the Isle of Garnesey. 1556. Iuly. 18.
… Mart…dome of Katherine Cawches the mother, … 1556. ….After which sentence pronounced, the sayd women did appeale vntounto the Kyng and the Queene, and theyr honorable Counsell, saying that agaynst reason and right they were condemned, & for that cause they made their appeale: notwithstanding they coulde not be heard,The mother & the two daughters made their appeale to the King & Queene but could not be heard. but were deliuered by the sayd Bayliffe, to the King and Quenes Officers, to see the execution done on them, according to the sayd sentence.
The time then being come, when these three good seruauntes and holy Sayntes of GOD, the Innocent mother with her two daughters shoulde suffer, in the place where they should consummate theyr Martyrdome, were three stakes set vp. At the middle post was the mother, the eldest daughter on the right hande, the youngest on the other. They were first strangled, but the Rope brake before they were dead, and so the poore women fell in the fire. Perrotine, who was then great with childe, did fall on her side, where happened a ruefull sight, not onelyonly to the eyes of all that there stood, but also to the eares of all true harted christians, that shall read this historye: For as the belly of the woman brast a sonder by vehemency of the flame, the Infant being a fayre man childe, fel into the fire, and eftsoones being taken out of the fire by one W. House, was layd vponupon the grasse.
Then was the child had to the Prouost, and from him to the Bayliffe, who gaue censure, that it should be caryed backe agayne and cast into the fire. And so the infant Baptised in his own bloud, to fill vp the number of Gods innocent Sayntes, was both borne, and dyed a Martyr, leauing behinde to the world, which it neuer saw, a spectacle wherein the whole world may see the Herodian cruelty of this gracelesse generation of catholicke Tormentors, Ad perpetuam rei infamiam.
Now forsomuch as this story percase, for the horrible straungenes of the fact, will be hardly beleued of some, but rather thought to be forged, or els more amplified of me, then truth will beare me out, therefore to discharge my credite herein, I hauehave not onelyonly foretolde thee a little before, how I reciued this story, by the faythfull relation, both of french and English, of them which were there presēt witnesses, and lookers vponupon: but also hauehave hereto annexed the true supplication of the sayd inhabitauntes of Garnesey, & of the brother of the sayde two sisters, complayning to the Queene and her Commissioners, concerning the horriblenes of the acte: which Supplication, for the more euidence here vnderunder foloweth to be sene.
*To the right honorable, and the Queenes highnesse most gracious Commissioners, for the hearing and determining of matters of Religion and causes Ecclesiasticall.
MOst lamentably and woefully complayning, sheweth vntounto your gracious and honorable Lordships,A supplication. your poore & hū ble Orator Mathew Cawches, of the Isle of Garnesey, that where Iaques Amy Clerke, Deane of the Isle aforesayd, assisted by the Curates there, agaynst all order, lawe and reason, by colour of a sentence of heresie, pronounced agaynst Katherine Cawches, the Sister of your honours sayd suppliant, and Perrotine and Guillemine, her two daughters, did cause the same Katherine, beyng a poore widowe, and her sayd two daughters, moste cruelly to bee burned, although the said persons, ne any of them did hold, mainteine, or defend any thing directly agaynst the Ecclesiasticall lawes then in place, vnderunder the raigne of the late Queene Mary, but in all thinges submitted themselues obediently to the lawes thē in force, and yet the cruelty of the said Deane and his accomplices in perpetrating such murther as aforesayd, raged so farre, that whereas, whilest the sayd persons did consume with violent fire, the wombe of the sayd Perrotine being burned, there did issue frō her a goodly man childe, which by the Officers was taken vp & handled, and after in a most despightful maner, throwne into the fire, and there also with the sely mother most cruelly burnt. In tē der consideration whereof, and for so much as this bloudy murther was not in due order of any law, or in any maner according to iustice, but of meere malicious hatred, as the true copy of the whole procedinges in this matter, by the sayd Deane and his accomplices, here ready to be shewed to your honours, will make very playne and manifest: It may therefore please your good and gracious Lordships, of the zeale that you beare to iustice, and for our Lord Iesu Christes sake, to hauehave due consideration in iustice of such horrible murther, so cruelly committed as aforesayd, according to the right demerite therof. And that it may please your honourable Lordships to order & decree also, that all the goods of all the sayd parties by pretence aforesayd wrongfully taken as confiscate, may be deliuered to your sayd poore beseecher, to whom of right they do belong. And your honors sayd Suppliant will dayly pray to God for your long preseruation, to his glory, and your euerlasting health.
This supplication being presented in maner aforesaid, to the Queenes honourable Commissioners in the yeare 1562. such order therein was taken, that the matter beyng returned agayne downe, to the sayd country, further to be examined, the Deane therupon was committed to prison, Iaques Amy the … Deane dispossessed of his liuings.and dispossessed of all his liuinges. So that in conclusion, both he, and all other partakers of that bloudy murther, whether of conscience, or feare of the law, were driuen not long after, to acknowledge theyr trespasse, and to submitte themselues to the Queenes Pardon. The tenour of whose seuerall submissiōs, as they are left in ye Rolles, I thought here to publish to the world, for a memoriall of more truth of this story.
*The seuerall submission of certayne Garnesey men, confessing theyr trespasse in the wrongfull condemnation of the three women aboue specified.
HElyer Gosseline,The submissions of the Garnesey men, confessing their trespasse against the Garnesey women aforesaid. of the Parish of Saynt Peter le porte in Garnesey Marchaunt, Nicholas Carie, the elder, Iohn Marchant, Peter Bonamie, of the Parish of Saint Martin, and Nicholas Martin, Sonne of Iohn, hauyng humbly submitted themselues to the Queenes most excellent Maiestye, acknowledging theyr erroneous Iudgementes, aswell agaynst Katherine Cawches, and Guillemine, and Perotine, her two Daughters, and the Infant of the sayd Perotine, executed by fire, for supposed heresy, as also for the acquiting of Nicholas Normain, a wilfull murtherer, and other matters conteined in theyr seuerall Submissions, praye the Queenes Maiestyes Pardon for the sayd crimes and others cōmitted in theyr seuerall submissions.
Iohn Blondell the elder, of the Parish of Saynt Sauiour, within the Isle of Garnesey, vppon lyke Submission, and acknowledging of his offence, prayth like grace and Pardon for his consent geuen, to the execution of the sayd three women.
Richard de Uike, of the Parish of saynt Peter le port, Marchant, prayeth like grace and pardon for his consent and Iudgement geuen for the acquitting of the sayd Norman, according to his Supplication, and Submission late presented by Peter Bonamie, the same De Uike, and Peter Pelley, of the Parish of Saynt Peter le port, Marchauntes.
The sayd Peter Pelley, prayeth the benefite of the said Pardon, to be extended vntounto him, according to his submismission in the sayd supplication.
Iaques Amy Clerke, prayeth the benefite of the sayde pardon for his sentence with the Clergies against the said women, according to his Submission.
Thomas Effart, of the Parish of Saynt Peter le port, humbly prayeth, as procurour lawfully constituted by the Chapiter, Bailiffe, and Iurates, that the same pardō may extend to acquite all the inhabitantes of the sayd Isle, of the arrerages. &c.
¶The Copy of the Queenes pardon, folowing vponupon ther Submission, as in forme here vnderunder ensueth.
REgina, omnibus ad quos. &c. Salutem. Sciatis quod nos de gratia nostra speciali ac ex certa scientia & mero motu,The copye of the Quenes pardon to them of Garnsey. nostris pardonauimus, remissimus, & relaxauimus, ac pro nobis, haeredibus & successoribus nostris, per praesentes pardonamus, remittimus & relaxamus Hillerio Gosselyne, de Parochia sancti Petri in Portu, infra insulam nostram de Garnesey, Mercatori: Iohanni Blundell de Parochia Sancti Saluatoris infra praedictam insulam de Garnesey seniori, Marchant: Nicolao Carie seniori de dicta Parochia sancti Petri in Portu, infra eandem insulam de Garnesey Mercatori: Ioanni Marchant de eisdem Parochia & in insula Generoso: Nicolao Martin filio Iohannis de dicta Parochia sancti Petri in Portu, infra praedictam insulam de Garnesey Mercatori: Richardo Deuike de dicta Parochia sancti Petri in Portu, infra praedictam insulam de Garnesey Mercatori: Petro Pelley de dicta Parochia sancti Petri in Portu, infra praedictam insulam de Garnesey, Mercatori: & Iacobo Amy de Parochia sā cti Saluatoris, infra dictam insulam de Garnesey, Clerico: & eorum cuilibet, coniūctim & diuisim, seu quocunque alio nomine, siue quibuscunque alijs nominibus cognominibus siue additionibus, nominis vel cognominis, officiorum artium vel locorum, ijdem Hillerius, Nic. Carie, Iohannes, Nicholaus Martin, Iohannes Blundell, Richardus, Petrus, & Iacobus censeantur, vocētur, siue nuncupentur aut nuper censebantur, vocabentur siue nuncupabantur, aut quocun que alio nomine, seu cognomine, aut additione nomininis, vel cognominis, dignitatis, officij, artis aut lo ci, aliqui eorundem Hillerij, Nicolai Carie, Iohannis Marchant, Nicolai Martin, Iohannis Blundel, Richardi, Petri, & Iacobi, censeantur, vocētur, siue nuncupentur, aut nuper censebantur, vocabantur, siue nuncupabantur, omnia & omnimoda murdra, homicidia, felonias, & felonicas intersectiones Katherinae Cauches, & Guilleminae, & Perotinae, filiarum eiusdem Katherinae, & earum cuius…bet, ac accessarias earundem: ac omnia, & singula, felonias, insultus, verberationes, vulnerationes, combustiones, transgressiones, offensas, riotas, routas, conuenticula illicita, assemblationes, congregationes, insidiationes, conspirationes, acces…arias, auxiliationes, compercussiones, procurationes, abbettationes, confortationes, & manutentiones, concelamenta, foresfacturas, contemptus, impetitiones, negligentias, & alia malefacta quaecū que, murdra, homicidia & felonicam interfectionem praedictarū, Kathetinae, Guilleminae, & Perotinae, seu alicuius earum tangen. in aliquo, seu concernen▪ perpraefatos Hillerium, Nicolaum Carie, Iohannem, Nicolaum Martin, Iohannem Blundell, Richardum, Petrum, & Iacobum, seu eorum aliquem vel aliquos, ante praesentem diem, qualitercunque fact▪ habit. commiss. siue perpetrat. ac omnes & singulas fugam, & fugas, quascunque per praefatos Hillarium, Nicolaum Carie, Iohannem, Nicolaum Martin, Iohannem Blundell, Richardum Deuicke, Petrum Pelley, & Iacobum Amy, seu eorum aliquem, siue aliquos, ratione seu occasione murdra, homicidia, aut felon cam interfectionem praed. fact. siue habit. adeo plene & integrè, ac in tam amplis. modo, & forma, prout, si quilibet praedictorum Hillerij Gosseline, Nicolai Carie, Iohannis Marchant, Nicholai Martin, Iohannis Blundell, Richardi Deuicke, Petri Pelley, & Iacobi Amy, specialiter literas nostras patentes de perdonatione habuisset.
Pardonauimus etiam, remisimus, & relaxauimus, ac pro nobis haeredibus & successoribus nostris, per praesentes, perdonamus, remittimus, & relaxamus, praefacto Hillerio Gosselyne, Nicolao Carie, Iohanni Marchant, Nicolao Martin, Iohanni Blundell, Richardo Deuicke, Petro Pelley, & Amy, & eorum vnicuique, haeredibus, executoribus, administratoribus, & assign. suis imperpet. omnes & omnimodas intrusiones, infractiones, & ingressus, per ipsos seu eorum aliquem, eiusuè aut eorū vel alicuius eo…um procuratores, agentes, vel ministros, in omnia & singula maneria, terras, tenementa, possessiones, & haereditamēta nostra, quaecunque, quaruncunque nuper Cantariarum, Gildarum, obit. fraternitat seu collegiorum nostrorum, aut alicuius seu aliquorū progenitorum nostrorum, infra praedictam insulam de Garnesey existen ante decimum septimum diem Nouemb. Anno regni nostri primo fact. perpetrat. siue commss. Ac omnia & singula debita, redditus, computa, arreragia, & collectiones, receptiones, detentiones, & nō …olut…ones granorum, & aliorum reddituum, exituum, preficuorum quoru…cunque nobis aut alicui progenitorum nostrorum pro eisdem Cantarijs, Gildis, obit▪ fraternitatibus, seu collegijs, siue eorum aliquo vel aliquibus, quouismodo ante praedictū decimum septimū diem Nouemb. Decimo Anno regni nostri primo, debit. pertinent. siue spectant.
Perdonauim…, remisimus, & relaxauimus, ac de gratia speciali, ac ex certa scientia, & mero mortu nostris praedictis, pro nobis, haeredibus, & successoribus nostris, per praesentes perdonamus, remittimus, & relaxamus praefatis Hillerio Gosselyne, Nicolao Carie, Iohanni Marchant, Nicolao Martin, & Richardo Deuicke, & eorum cuique liberationē, euasionem, escapiam, & voluntar. ad libertatem positionem cuiusdem Nicolai Norman, nuper de Par…chia sancti Saluatoris, infra praedictam insulam Yoman, de homicidio, siue murdro, nuper iudicat. attinct. & conuinct, existen pro interfectione siue murderatione, cuiusdā Iohannis Breghault, de dicta Parochia sancti Saluatoris, infra insulam praedictam, husbandman. Ac omnia & omnimoda, felonias, crimina, offensas, poenas, mortes, punitiones, forisfactur. cōtēptus negligenc. ignorantias ac alia delicta & offensas, quaecunque praedictam liberationem, euasionem, escapiam, & ad libertatem positionem praedicti Nicolai Norman tangendi, seu aliquo modo concernen. per praefatos Hillerium, Nicalaum Carie, Iohannem Marchant, Nicolaum Martin, & Richardum Deuicke, seu eorum aliquem, vel aliquos, ante praesentemd…em, qualitercūque habit. fact. commiss. siue illapsa.
Perdonauimus etiam, remisimus & relaxauimus, ac per praesentes, ex certa scientia & mero mortu nostris, pro nobis, haeredibus, & successoribus nostris, perdonamus, remittimus & relamus, praefatis Hillerio Gosselyne, Nicolao Carie, Iohanni Marchant, Nicolao Martin, Iohanni Blundell, Richardo Deuicke, Petro Pelley, & Iacobo Amy, omnia & omnimoda riotas, routas, illicitas congregationes, & conuenticula illicita, in pacis nostrae perturbationem, per praefatos Hillarium, Nicolaum Carie, Iohā nem Marchant, Nicolaum Martin, Iohannem Blundell, Richardū Deuicke, Petrum Pelley, & Iacobum Amy, seu eorum aliquem, siue aliquos, ante hac qualiter cunque infra insulam predictam habit. commiss. fact. siue perpetrat. &c.