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                            (  23  ) Tresilian was principal actor in matters of Justice which he rightly and severely executed.

The King himself had so great a force of horsemen writh him, that as Sir Walter were said in his Ipeech to the men at St. Albans there was not a blade of corn or grass left within five mites of the King's person

Among many hundred others, who were brought before Judge Tresilian, was Jack Straw, who behaved in a most insolent and audacious manner, during the time of his trial ; but no sooner was the sentence of death passed on him, than he was encompassed with those horrors of despair which await the guilty conscience and he confessed, that a scheme was plot- ted for murdering of the King and his chief Nobles, that very day on which Wat Tyler was slain, had not Sir William Walworth killed him as he did. What obligations then must not this kingdom for ever be under to this worthy patrito n And thus ended this monstrous rebel- lion, which tended to, and must have ac- complished the destruction of this king- dom, had it not been for the gallant be-