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"yf we overcome you, yee shall bee in our wylls: wherefore,
for a conclusion, if you wyll not comen wis us for a
reformation of the premises, we certify you by this our
writing, that we wyll feyght and dye, both against you, and
all these that shall be aboutwards to stoppe us in the said
pilgrimage; and God shall shew his grace and mercy therein;
and when yee shall be judged hereafter to be shedars of some
Crysten blood, and destroiers of your euyn Crysten.
"From Robert Aske, chiefe Captaine of the commynalty
assembled in pilgrimage; for the barony and comynalty of the
same,
"By mee ROBERT ASKE,
"yn the name of all the comynalty and barony."
The conclusion seems to have been added by another person,
and by the stile, further North, for it is quite a
Cumberland phrase to this day, I'll feyght till I dye (or
dee.)
I shall next put down their charges against King Henry.
I. "The first is, that no infant shall receive the blessed
sacrament of baptisme, bott onlesse an trybett to bee payd
to the Kyng.
II. "The second is, that no man under L.20 landes shall eyte
no brede made of wheate, nor capon, chekyn, gois, nor pigge,
bott onlesse to pay trybett to the King.
III. "The third is, that for every ploghe land the King will
have en trybett, with other diverse, extreme, urgent causes;
and hertely fare ye well.
To the Commyns of Hawkeside Parish, Bailiffs, or Constables,
with all the Hamletts of the same.
Wellbeloved, we greet you well; and whereas our brother
Poverty, and our brother Rogers goith forward, is openly for
the aid and assistance of your faith and holy church, and
for the reformation of such abbeys and monasteries, now
dissolved and subpressed without any just cause. Wherefore
gudde brethers, forasmuch as our sayd brederyn hath send to
us for ayde and helpe, wee do not only effectualy desire
you, but also under the paine of deadly sinne we commaunde
you, and evry of you, to be at the stoke greene beside
Hawkside kirke, the Saturday next, being the xxviii day of
October, by xi of the clock, in your best array; as you will
make answer before the heigh judge at the dreadfull day of
dome, and in the payne of pulling downe your houses, and
leasing of your gudds, and your bodies to be at the
Capteyn's will: for at the place aforesaid, then and there,
yee and we shall take further directions concerning our
faith, so farre decayed, and for gudde and laudable customes
of the country, and such naughty inventions and strange
articles now accepted and admitted, so that our said brother
bee subdued, they are lyke to goe furthwards to utter
undoing of the commynwealth.
I shall next insert another, which was sent to Scarborough,
being the southernmost part of the insurrection.
To the Bailiffs and Communes of the town of Scarboro'.
Welbelouyd, we Francys Bygod knyghte, and John Halom yoman,
in the name of
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