%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Araignement of Iohn Flodder and his wife, / at Norwidge, with the wife of one Bicks, for burning the Towne of Windham / in Norfolke, vpon the xi. day of Iune last 1615. Where two of them are / now executed, and the third repriued vpon further confession. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1615 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 08/13/2008 20056

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1.130-131r S126173 1 Fortune my foe Fortune My Foe BRaue Windham late, whom Fortune did adorne, / With Buildings fayre, & fresh as Sommers morne: ANd when their day of death drew neere at hand, / According to the Judges just commaund, [Attestation: The names in the King Letters Pattents, to / gather vp the mony, are these following. / Iohn Moore. Steuen Agas. Robert Carre. Iohn Dosserlde. William Horfuell. Esa Freeman. Robert Agu. William Rowse./ The Countries and Cities, graunted for these/ men to gather in are the following:/ London and Westminster: Middlesex, Essex, Kent,/ Hartford, Surry, and Sussex: with the Citties of/ Canterburie, Rochester, and the Cinque Ports,/ with the Citie of Chester.]; formerly conjoined single sheet oblong folio, cut in two parts and hinged with verso of cols 1-2: 'The Arrainement condemnation and ex[e]cution of the gran[d] <[?]> / Iohn Selman who was executed at White-hall...; and verso of cols 3-4: The Captaine Cut-purse./... [see 1.130-131v] Pepys 1.130-131r STC 11089 [W. White] for J. Trundle [1615]; Rollins (2) 96 (Sept. 26, 1615, III, 573, Jno. Trundle). Woodblock 4: below title, above first column: A woman stands in elaborate aristocratic costume. She wears a wide, elaborate ruff, and a hat with an adorned brim and a feather. Her dress features puffed shoulders and a bodice decorated with a panel showing a flower and leaves emerging from a vine. Her wide overskirt (supported by a french farthingale?) is split to display an elaborately embroidered underskirt. She holds a pair of gloves in her left hand.: 95 x 68 Woodblock 1: below title, above first column, to the left of second woodcut: A man stands in a field, his body faces forward and his head looks to the right. His legs are apart and he stands with his right hand on his hip and his left arm held out to his side. He wears a hat, a jerkin, and slops. His jacket is partially unbuttoned. From the belt on his right side hangs an object, possibly a sword.: 86 x 52 Woodblock 2: below title, centered above two columns and cast fleuron, to the left of third woodcut: A lady stands with her body facing forward and her head looking to her right. In her right hand, she holds a large feather fan. The lady wears a stiff ruff and a necklace or chain. Her full skirt and the front of her dress are decorated with a row of large flowers. She appears to be scowling.: 84 x 64 Woodblock 3: below title, above second column, to the right of second woodcut: The gallows are seen in profile. Sitting atop the gallows is a figure, presumably the executioner, who wears a cap or helmet and is dressed simply. He sits astride the wood column and on top of a ladder that leans against the gallows. He is grabbing the rope from which hangs the body of an executed man, and it appears that he is untying the body. The body of the man who has been executed hangs from the rope around his neck. He wears a simple jerkin and slops.: 79 x 44 Woodblock 5: below title, above cast fleuron and second column: To the right of the woodcut stands a gallows in profile from which hangs a rope wrapped around the neck of a body of a woman. She wears a cap, a simple dress with collar, and over her skirt an apron. A ladder leans against the gallows; and at the top of the ladder, astride the gallows, sits a man who is wearing a simple cap, jerkin, and slops, and who is untying the rope from the gallows. To the left of the gallows stand four guards carrying halberds and spears. They wear a uniform of pleated, knee-length pants (slops?), and black brimmed hats. The guard closest to the gallows looks up at the gallows and gestures toward the body with with his left arm. He appears to be smiling.: 94 x 83 Pepys Library The Pepys ballads : facsimile volume Editor W.G. Day D.S. Brewer Cambridge [England] 1987 Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 130 1: 131 The Araignement of Iohn Flodder and his wife, / at Norwidge, with the wife of one Bicks, for burning the Towne of Windham / in Norfolke, vpon the xi. day of Iune last 1615. Where two of them are / now executed, and the third repriued vpon further confession. The Araignement of John Flodder and his wife, at Norwidge, with the wife of one Bicks, for burning the Towne of Windham in Norfolke, upon the xi. day of June last 1615. Where two of them are now executed, and the third reprived upon further confession. The Arraignment of John Flodder and His Wife, at Norwich, with the Wife of One Bicks, for Burning the Town of Windham in Norfolk, upon the 11th Day of June last, 1615. Where Two of Them Are now Executed, and the Third Reprieved upon further Confession. The Second part of the Araignement of Flodder and his wife &c. The Second part of the Araignement of Flodder and his wife &c. The Second Part of the Arraignment of Flodder and His Wife etc. 1/2 sheet folio, originally left part, hinged, 277 x 168 1/2 sheet folio, originally right part, hinged, 278 x 160 cropped right edge, torn bottom left corner, creased, damaged surface, uneven inking, verso shows through creased, damaged surface, uneven inking, verso shows through cast fleurons horizontal rule and cast fleurons 1615 Imprinted at London for Iohn Trundle, dwel- / ling in Barbican at the signe of the No body. Iohn Trundle Weinstein: content, licensing info, and STC Full name indicated on facsimile.

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BRave Windham late, whom Fortune did adorne, With Buildings fayre, & fresh as Sommers morne: To coale-blacke Ashes now, quite burned downe, May sorrowing say, I was a gallant Towne. Yea all my state and glory is put by, For mourning on the ground my Buildings lye: My Goods consum'd, my Dwellers brought full low, Which now goe wandring up and downe in woe. Three hundred dwelling Houses of account, Which did to fourtie thousand pounds amount, Are all consumd and wasted quite away, And nothing left, but ruine and decay. Woe worth the causers of this blacke misdeed, That makes a thousand hearts with sorrow bleed: A thousand hearts with wringing hands may say, In Windham towne this was a wofull day. The deed was done by such unhallowed hands, Whose rigour card not for a thousand Lands, The Earth it selfe, if that it flam'd with fier, Were as these damned harlets did desier. One Flodder and his cursed wife, were those, Which wrought this famous towne these sodaine woes: Confederate with one Bickes wife; which three, Unto this cursed action did agree. As Rogues and Beggars wandring up and downe, They went to seeke reliefe from towne to towne: And lived by the usage of bace sinne, As custome trayneth all such livers in. [?] sure the Divell or else some Feend of his, [?] aved them unto this foule amisse,
With Fire to wast so brave a Market towne, That florisht faire, with Riches and Renowne. A Fier that was devised of the Divell, A Fier of all the worst, and worse then evill: Wilde fier it was, that could not quenched bee, A Ball thereof [la]y kindling secretly, Within an Eaves, not seene of any man, A Match gave fier, and so it first began: In Service time, when people were at Prayers, As God required, and not on worldly cares. A time that such a chaunce could hardly bee Prevented by mans helpe, as man might see: For on a sodaine kindled so the flame, That mazed people could not quench the same. Within two howers the towne was burned quite, And much good Wealth therin consumd outright: The Free-schoole house, with many a gallant Hall With Aged people, and poore Children small. Such woes were never seene in any place, Nor never men remaind in heavier case: Strange doubts were made how first the fire begun That hath so many good mens states undone. At last this Flodder, with his wandring Mates, Which daily beg'd for food at rich mens Gates, Examined were, where soone their guiltie tongues Confest the chiefe occasions of these wronges. And so with hearts bespotted with blacke shame, They were araigned, and judged for the same, To suffer death, a recompence to make, For this offence, they thus did undertake.
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ANd when their day of death drew neere at hand, According to the Judges just commaund, Before ten thousand peoples wondring eyes, This Flodder like a damned monster dyes, A selfe-wild Papist, of a stubborne heart, That would but small submission from him part: But boldly died as though he had done well, And not been guiltie of this fact of Hell. His hated body still on Earth remaines, (A shame unto his kin) hangd up in Chaines: And must at all no other Buriall have, But Crowes & Ravens mawes to make his grave But Bicks his wife in signe of penitence, With weeping teares bewayled her offence: And at her death, confest with grieved minde, This deed beyond the reach of Woman-kind. And how most leawdly she had lived long, A shamefull life, in doing deeds of wrong: And trode the steps of Whoredome day by day, Accounting sinne and shame, the better way. And how that shee, was will'd to put her hope At last, to have a Pardone from the Pope For all her sinnes: for which, she did repent, And sayd, no Pope, but Christ was her content. And as for Flodders wife, the chiefe herein, And damded leader to this wilfull sinne, Being bigg with child, reprived was therefore, To give that life, which in her Wombe she bore. But having now deliverance of her Child, All further hopes of life, are quite exild. Yet hope of life, hath made her now confesse, The Townes proceeding dangers and distresse. And how the rest should all have burned beene, So with a second Fire to waste it cleane:
And how the Husband of the woman dead, Had given consent to have this mischiefe spread. Likewise one Hicks, a fellow of good age, She sayd, his credite and his word did gage, To be a furtherer to this damned deed, That now hath made a thousand hearts to bleed. But let no such accursed wretch as this, The course of Law and Justice looke to misse: But with repentance true prepare for death, As most unworthy of a minuts breath. And now let Englands Townes both farre & neere With wisedome still prevent like chance, & feare, And weed away from every place and Cittie, Such idle Drones, you cherish with your pittie. Yet in your hearts let Charitie remaine, And freely give, to buyld this Towne againe. And in your Prayers desire the Lord of heaven, That bountious guiftes may thereunto be given. Our royall King, with good and gracious hand, Have graunted them, the bounties of our Land: In every Church that gathering there may bee, As by his Letter patents we may see.
FINIS Imprinted at London for John Trundle, dwel- ling in Barbican at the signe of the No body. The names in the Kings Letters Pattents, to gather up the mony, are these following. John Moore. Steven Agas. Robert Carre. John Doffeelde. William Horsnell. Esa Freeman. Robert Agas. William Rowse. The Countries and Cities, graunted for these men to gather in, are these following. London and Westminster: Middlesex, Essex, Kent, Hartford, Surry, and Sussex: with the Cities of Canterburie, Rochester, and the Cinque Ports, with the Citie of Chester.