The while, a part of
those rakehels, not knowing what honestie, and farre lesse,
how much the word of a souldier imported, stepped betweene him
and home, laid hold on his aged vnweyldie body, and threatned to
leaue it liuelesse, if the inclosed did not leaue their resistance.
So prosecuting their first treacherie against the prince, with
suteable actions towards his subiects, they seized on the Castle,
and exercised the vttermost of their barbarous crueltie (death
excepted) on the surprised prisoners. The seely Gentlewomen,
without regard of sexe or shame, were stripped from their apparrell
to their very smockes, and some of their fingers broken, to plucke
away their rings, and Sir Richard himselfe made an exchange from
Trematon Castle, to that of Launceston, with the Gayle to boote.
This Castle vaunteth the Lord Warden his steward by Patent,
Master Anthonie Rouse his Baylife by inheritance, and Richard Carew
of Antony his keeper by lease. Of the ancient officers, one yet
retayneth the name, though not the place, viz.
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