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George s Fields, where his own person had been 

 encamped. And for matter of liberality, he did, by 

 open edict, give the goods of all the prisoners unto 

 those that had taken them ; either to take them in 

 kind, or compound for them, as they could. After 

 matter of honour and liberality, followed matter of 

 severity and execution. The Lord Audley was led 

 from Newgate to Tower-Hill, in a paper coat 

 painted with his own arms ; the arms reversed, the 

 coat torn, and at Tower-Hill beheaded. Flam- 

 mock and the blacksmith were hanged, drawn, and 

 quartered at Tyburn : the blacksmith taking plea 

 sure upon the hurdle, as it seemeth by words that 

 he uttered, to think that he should be famous in 

 after-times. The king was once in mind to have 

 sent down Flammock and the blacksmith to have 

 been executed in Cornwall, for the more terror ; 

 but being advertised that the country was yet un 

 quiet and boiling, he thought better not to irritate 

 the people further. All the rest were pardoned by 

 proclamation, and to take out their pardons under 

 seal, as many as would. So that, more than the 

 blood drawn in the field, the king did satisfy himself 

 with the lives of only three offenders, for the expia 

 tion of this great rebellion. 



It was a strange thing to observe the variety 

 and inequality of the king s executions and pardons ; 

 and a man would think it, at the first, a kind of lot 

 tery or chance. But, looking into it more nearly, 

 one shall find there was reason for it, much more* 



