British Library, Additional MS 35331
Auguste 1628.
occasion is saide to bee thus. This leiftenants captayne beinge deade
place, as hee conceived of righte yt belonged to him: the duke not respectinge him, bestowed the place vpon
some other, wherat the leiftenante beinge discontente p
the table./
ffrydaye. saterdaye.
Others reporte that one Penington
some saye
Felton)
to bee restored, to wky knyfe stabdt him in the belly./
Gods Iudgm
and impoverishm as
Adombezeckes iudgm
The saide Felton beinge p
him a note written in paper the tenor wherof ensuethe./
That man in my opinion is cowardly, base, and deserveth not the name of a gentleman
souldier, that is not willinge to sacrifice his life for the honor of his God, and the good of his
kinge and Country./
Let noe man com
of yt for yf God had not taken awaye our heartes for our sinnes, hee coulde not have
gone soe longe vnpunished/
John Felton/
Some saye he had p
as hee himselfe saide hee prayed God, that yf it were his will hee shoulde destroye the
duke that hee woulde directe his hande, yf not that hee woulde soe misguide yt that
yt mighte
himselfe shoulde have bynn p
w
the wounde was soe mortall that the duke fell downe p
others say that the duke himselfe plucked out the knife w
a greate oathe, and as hee was drawinge his sworde, hee fell back and dyed./
It is given out that this Felton is a greate puritan, for beinge a longe tyme a souldier
in the lowe Countryes as ever since, hee was observed never to converse w
people, woulde never sweare, curse, drincke, but woulde alwayes shun and avoyde such
company as much as he coulde./