Justitia Britannica

against these defendants. Once they were made defendants, and the jurors' oaths were lawfully taken and they were condemned, and because they stubbornly refused the pardon of their crimes—which had been offered under the fairest conditions and in memory of the most August Queen—they were, because they remained more hardened in their desperate enterprises, divided from the tribunal into public custodies, so that they might die at appointed times and on certain days. And this was carried out just as the sentences of the judges had prescribed. For they followed that most hostile enemy of our most August Queen and of our kingdom, that Roman Phalaris tyrant/cruel oppressor, who not only had inflamed all the torches of this civil war in both kingdoms, but also in Ireland maintained his cohorts with pay and largesse under Roman signs against us, as an enemy than whom none could press more bitterly. Yet if any of these had drawn their foot back from their errors, such was the spirit of the most excellent Queen, and such her mercy, that she would immediately remit the punishment, wishing that no one die unless he stubbornly cast himself away. Therefore, what this kind of sect is, and what sort, although it is perceived from what I have said, the same will shine forth more clearly and more fluidly from those who still lie hidden and have secreted themselves into the inner viscera of kingdoms across the sea, so that they might be both furthest from danger and likewise plot something more securely, which kind of evil lies wide open.

Pardon granted to some who were condemned.