But the third request whether the let was on the mans line 50 side or on the womans neuer sorted to anie conclusion The ladie Margaret the kings daughter affied as yée haue heard to the king of Scots was appointed to be conueied into Scotland by the earle of Surrie and the earle of Northumberland as warden of the marches was commanded to deliuer hir at the confines of both the realmes And so héere vpon after hir comming to Berwike she was conueied to Lamberton kirke in Scotland where the king line 60 of Scots with the flower of all the nobles and gentlemen of Scotland was readie to receiue hir to whome the earle of Northumberland according to his commission deliuered hir The said earle of Northumberland that daie what for the riches of his coat being goldsmithes worke garnished with pearle and stone and what for the gallant apparell of his Henchmen and braue trappers of his horsse beside foure hundred tall men well horssed and apparelled in his colours was estéemed both of the Scots and Englishmen more like a prince than a subiect From Lamberton the foresaid ladie was conueied to Edenburgh and there the daie after king Iames the fourth in the presence of all his nobilitie espoused hir and feasted the English lords and shewed iusts and other pastimes verie honourablie after the fashion of that countrie And after all things were finished according to their commission the erle of Surrie with all the English lords and ladies returned into their countrie In this yeare the king kept his high court of parlement in the which diuerse acts estéemed necessarie for the preseruation of the common-wealth were established and amongst other it was enacted that théeues and murtherers duelie conuicted by the law to die and yet saued by their books should be committed to the bishops custodie After this a subsidie was granted both of the temporaltie and spiritualtie and so that parlement ended But the king now drawing into age and willing to fill his chests with aboundance of treasure was not satisfied with this onelie subsidie but deuised an other meane how to inrich himselfe as thus year 1504 He considered that the Englishmen little regarded the kéeping of penall lawes and pecuniall statutes deuised for the good preseruation of the common-welth Wherefore he caused inquisition to be made of those that had transgressed anie of the same lawes so that there were but few noble men merchants farmers husbandmen grasiers or occupiers that could cléerlie prooue themselues faultlesse but had offended in some one or other of the same lawes At the first they that were found giltie were easilie fined But after there were appointed two maisters and surueiors of his forfeits the one sir Richard Empson and the other Edmund Dudleie These two were learned in the lawes of the realme who meaning to satisfie their princes pleasure and to sée their commission executed to the vttermost séemed little to respect the perill that might insue Wherevpon they being furnished with a sort of accusers commonlie called promoters or as they themselues will be named informers troubled manie a man whereby they wan them great hatred and the king by such rigorous procéedings lost the loue and fauour which the people before time had borne towards him so that he for setting them a worke and they for executing of it in such extreame wise ran into obloquie with the subiects of this realme ¶ On the thirtéenth of Nouember was holden within the palace of the archbishop of Canturburie at Lambeth the sergeants feast where dined the king and all his nobles And vpon the same day Thomas Granger newlie chosen shiriffe of London was presented before the barons of the kings exchequer there to take his oth and after went with the maior vnto the same feast which saued him monie in his pursse for if that day that feast had not béene kept he must haue feasted the maior aldermen and others woorshipfull of the citie This feast was kept at the charge of ten learned men newlie admitted to bée sergeants to the kings law whose names were Robert Bridnell William Greuill Thomas Marow George Edgore Iohn Moore Iohn Cutler Thomas Eliot Lewes Pollard Guie Palmis William Fairesax On the one and twentith of Nouember at night began a perillous fier at the signe of the panier vpon London bridge néere to saint Magnus church where six tenements were burned yer the same could be quenched On the seuenth of Ianuarie were certeine houses consumed with fire against saint Butolphes church in Thames street On the fiue and twentith of Ianuarie began a parlement at Westminster of the which was chosen speaker for the commons maister Edmund Dudleie A new coine of siluer was ordeined of grotes and halfe grotes which bare but halfe faces and some péeces of the value of twelue pense were then to sir Iohn Carew and to sir Thomas Trenchard that they should interteine him in the most honorable sort they could deuise till he might come himselfe in person to welcome him Beside this he sent the earle of Arundell with manie lords and knights to attend vpon him Which earle according to the kings letters receiued him with thrée hundred horsses all by torchlight to the great admiration of the strangers King Philip séeing no remedie but that he must line 10 needs tarie would no longer gaze after king Henries comming but tooke his iournie toward Windsore castell where the king laie and fiue miles from Windsore the prince of Wales accompanied with fiue earles and diuerse lords and knights and other to the number of fiue hundred persons gorgiouslie apparelled receiued him after the most honorable fashion And within halfe a mile of Windsore the king accompanied with the duke of Buckingham and a great part of the nobilitie of this realme welcomed line 20 him so conueied him to the castell of Windsore where he was made companion of the noble order of the garter After him came to Windsore his wife queene Iane sister to the princesse Dowager late wife to prince Arthur After the two kings had renewed confirmed the league and amitie betwixt them king Henrie desired to haue Edmund de la Poole earle of Suffolke to be deliuered into his hands To whome the king of Castâ—le answered that he verelie was not within line 30 his dominion and therefore it laie not in him to deliuer him In deed he was loth to be the authour of his death that came to him for succour and was receiued vnder his protection yet vpon the earnest request and assured promise of king Henrie that he would pardon him of all executions and paines of death he granted to king Henries desire and so incontinentlie caused the said earle secretlie to be sent for After this to protract time till he were possessed of 〈…〉 king Henrie conueied the king of Castile line 40 vnto the citie of London that he might sée the head
he perceiued his sisters good will towards the said duke and that he meant then to haue bestowed hir vpon him but that a better offer came in the waie But howsoeuer it was now he wan hir loue so as by hir consent he wrote to the king hir brother méekelie beséeching him of pardon in his request which was humblie to desire him of his good will and contentation The king at the first staid but after long sute and speciallie by meane of the French quéene hir selfe and other the dukes fréends it was agreed that the duke should bring hir into England vnmarried and at his returne to marrie hir in England but for doubt of change he married hir secretlie in Paris at the house of Clugnie as was said After he had receiued hir with hir dower appointed all hir apparell iewels and houshold stuffe deliuered they tooke leaue of the new French king and so passing thorough France came to Calis where she was honourablie interteined and after openlie married with great honour vnto the said duke of Suffolke Doctor West as then nominated bishop of Elie remained behind at Paris to go through with the full conclusion of a new league betwixt the king of England and the new French king ¶ The court lieng at Gréenewich the king and the quéene accompanied with manie lords and ladies road to the high ground of shooters hill to take the open aire and as they passed by the waie they espied a companieof tall yeomen clothed all in gréene with gréene hoods and bowes and arrowes to the number of two hundred Then one of them which called himselfe Robin hood came to the king desiring him to sée his men shoot and the king was content Then he whisteled and all the two hundred archers shot and losed at once and then he whisteled againe and they likewise shot againe their arrowes whisteled by craft of the head so that the noise was strange and great and much pleased the king the quéene and all the companie All these archers were of the kings gard and had thus apparelled themselues to make solace to the king Then Robin hood desired the king and quéene to come into the greene wood and to sée how the outlawes liued 〈◊〉 king demanded of the queene hir ladies if they durst aduenture to go into the wood with so manie outlawes Then the quéene said that if it pleased him she was content Then the hornes blew till they came to the wood vnder shooters hill there was an arbor made of boughes with a hall and a great chamber and an inner chamber verie well made and couered with floures swéet hearbs which the king much praised Then said Robin hood Sir outlawes breakefasts is venison and therefore you must be content with such fare as we vse Then the king and quéene sat downe and were serued with venison and wine by Robin hood and his men to their great contentation Then the king departed and his companie and Robin hood and his men them conducted and as they were returning there met with them two ladies in a rich chariot drawen with fiue horsses and euery horsse had his name on his head and on euerie horsse sat a ladie with hir name written On the first courser called Caude sat Humidite or Humide On the second courser called Memâ—on road ladie Uer. On the third called Pheton sat ladie Uegetiue On the fourth called Rimphon sat ladie Pleasant On the fift called Lampace sat sweet Odour And in the chaire sat ladie Maie accompanied with ladie Flora richlie apparelled line 10 and they saluted the king with diuerse goodlie songs and so brought him to Gréenewich At this maieng was a great number of people to behold it to their great solace and comfort The same after noone the king the duke of Suffolke the marquesse Dorset and the earle of Essex their bardes and bases of gréene veluet and cloth of gold came into the field on great coursers on whome waited diuerse gentlemen in silke of the same colour On the other side entered sixtéene lords and gentlemen all apparelled richlie after their deuises line 20 and so valiantlie they ran their courses appointed after that they ran volant one as fast as he might ouertake another which was a goodlie sight to sée and when all was doone they departed and went to a goodlie banket This summer the king tooke his progresse westward and visited his townes and castels there and heard the complaints of his poore communaltie and euer as he road he hunted and liberallie departed with venison This yeare in September the king being at his line 30 manour of Oking after his returne from his progresse which he made that yeare into the west parts the archbishop of Yorke came thither to him Whilest he soiourned there a letter was brought to the said archbishop from Rome aduertising him that he was elected cardinall which letter incontinentlie he shewed to the king disabling himselfe in words though his intent was otherwise and so the king did incourage him and willed him to take that dignitie vpon him and called him from thensefoorth my lord line 40 cardinall But his hat bull nor other ceremonies were not yet come In Nouember the king assembled his high court of parlement at Westminster wherein diuerse acts made in the sixt yeare were reformed and altered and especiallie the act of apparell and the act of labourers as by the booke of statutes more plainelie appéereth At the end of this parlement doctor Warham archbishop of Canturburie and as then lord chancellour perceiuing how the new lord cardinall medled line 50 further in his office of chancellorship than he could well suffer except he should aduenture the kings displeasure for this and for other considerations gaue vp his office of chancellor into the kings hands and deliuered to him the great seale which incontinentlie was deliuered by the king vnto the lord cardinall and so was he made lord chancellor He was no sooner in that office but he directed foorth commissions into euerie shire for the execution of the statutes of apparell and labourers and in all his dooings shewed line 60 himselfe more loftie and presumptuous than became him ¶ And he himselfe on a daie called a gentleman named Simon Fitz Richard and tooke from him an old iacket of crimsin veluet and diuerse brooches which extreame dooing caused him greatlie to be hated and by his example manie cruell officers for malice euill intreated diuerse of the kings subiects in so much that one Shinning maior of Rochester set a yoong man on the pillorie for wearing of a riuen or gathered shirt In the end of Nouember the cardinals hat was sent into England which the gentlemen of Kent receiued and brought to London with such triumph as though the greatest prince in Europe had béene come to visit the king much like that of the people at Rome in the yeare 1515 when were
three monthes it were a notable line 60 world for traitors and murtherers thus to haue all procéedings set loose as well of our common lawes which condemne vpon all euidences as of the ciuill lawes which giue capitall sentence vpon confession onelie yea Moses wisedome is ouerreached and Christes equitie in his euangelicall parable against the lewd seruant not vsing his talent is eluded All this is also ratified by voluntarie letters of his to hir maiestie apart and to hir honorable councell And if anie Italianat papist neuerthelesse will néeds beleeue this â—epugnancie of his last speaches let him yet take this one note of him whereby to consider how credible a man he crediteth Either Parrie meant this monstrous murther according to his vowes in heauen and sworne promises in earth and so died a desperat traitor protesting the contrarie in his last words vpon his soule and damnation or else was he periured to the foule abuse of pope all poperie most execrablie prophaning Gods name by promising swearing vowing c that which he meant not Necessarilie therefore must he perish vpon periured treason or wreckâ— vpon desperat deieration Nothing auoideth this dilemma but a popish bull of dispensation which if he had I know not how princes may not as safelie suffer woolues and beares come to their presence as such papists And verie like it is that Parrie had a speciall bull either else was it comprehended in his indulgence that he might take othes contrarie to his catholike conscience as he did the oth of supremasie in the beginning of the last parlement Which if his coniuratours had not béene priuie with what intention he did sweare he neuer durst haue taken it least they should haue now bewraied him as a man sworne against the pope therefore not to be trusted But the truth is this papist Parrie was both a traitor and a manifold periured traitor whome with all other of the like stampe we leaue to the finall iudgement of God at the last and dreadfull doome registring in the meane time a proper epigram and of no lesse fit than true deuise in memorie of the said capitall traitor requiting that propheticall posie concerning Daruell Gatheren and frier Forrest of whome you shall read in the thirtéenth yeare of king Henrie the eight this of Parrie being as followeth William Parrie Was ap Harrie By his name From the alehouse To the gallows Grew his fame Gotten westward On a bastard â—s is thought Wherefore one waie Kin to Conwaie Hath he sought Like a beast With inceast He begon Mother maried Daughter caried Him a sonne Much he borrowed Which he sorrowed To repaie Hare his good Bought with blood As they saie Yet for paiment Had arrainment Of his detter Shee that gaue him Life to saue him Hangd a better Parrie his pardon Thought no guardon For his woorth Wherefore sought That he mought Trauell foorth Which obtained He remained As before And with rashnes Shewd his bashnes More and more He did enter To aduentuer Euen hir death By whose fauor He did euer Draw his breath It was pittie One so wittie Malcontent Leauing â—eason Should to treason So be bent But his gifts Were but shifts Void of grace And his brauerie Was but knauerie Vile and base Wales did beare him France did sweare him To the pope Venice wrought him London brought him To the rope Wherewith strangled And then mangled Being dead Poles supporters Of his quarters And his head In this yeare one thousand fiue hundred eightie foure sir Walter Mildmaie knight one of hir maiesties most honorable priuie councell founded a college in the vniuersitie of Cambridge and named it Emmanuell college ¶ The same was sometimes a house of friers and came to king Henrie the eight by dissolution as appeareth by the sequeale being an extract out of a substantiall and large booke written in parchment which I haue seene and whense I had this transcript conteining the entrie or inrolment of certeine letters patents writings and euidences line 10 touching the said college First the premisses came vnto king Henrie the eight by act of parlement touching the dissolution of monasteries afterwards the said king by letters patents vnder the great seale of England dated Decimo sexto Aprilis anno tricesimo quinto regni sui did grant the same to Edward Elrington and Humfreie Metcalfe and to the heires of the said Edward for euer After that the said Edward Elrington and Humfreie Metcalfe by their déed pold dated Quarto Martij anno tricesimo sexto Henrici line 20 octaui did grant the premisses to William Sherwood gentleman his heires for euer Then George Sherewood gentleman sonne and heire to William Sherwood by déed pold dated Vicesimo nono Septembris anno vicesimo tertio Elisabethae reginae did grant the premisses to Robert Tailor esquier and to his heires for euer And afterwards the said Robert Tailor by déed pold dated Duodecimo Iunij anno vicesimo quinto Elisabethae reginae did grant the premisses to Richard Culuerwell line 30 citizen mercer of London and Laurence Chaderton of Cambridge bachelor of diuinitie and their heires for euer And after that the premisses were conueied to sir Walter Mildmaie who hath conuerted the same into a séedplot of learning for the benefit of the church common-wealth so that the students maie verie trulie saie this and more too of so good so honoorable and vertuous a founder fluuijs dum cruerit aequor Dúmque vagas stellas pascet vterque polus line 40 Dum steriles altis lustrabunt montibus vmbrae Virtutis stabit fama decúsque tuae year 1585 On the nine and twentith daie of March which was in the yeare of Christ 1585 the parlement was dissolued at the breaking vp whereof the quéenes maiestie in the parlement house made an oration to such effect as followeth The queenes maiesties oration line 50 in the parlement house MY Lords and ye of the lower house my silence must not iniurie the owner so much as to suppose a substitute sufficient to render you the thanks that my heart yéeldeth you not so much for the safe keeping of my life for which your care appeareth so manifest as for line 60 the neglecting your priuat future perill not regarding other waie than my present state No prince herein I confesse can be surer tied or faster bound than I am with the linke of your good will and can for that but yeeld a hart hand to séeke for euer all your best Yet one matter toucheth me so neere as I may not ouerskip religion the ground on which all other matters ought to take roote and being corrupted may marre all the trée and that there be some faultfinders with the order of the cleargie which so may make a slander to my selfe the church whose ouer ruler God hath made me whose negligence can not be excused if anie schismes or errors hereticall were suffered Thus much
faction The king of England taketh vpoÌ„ him to defend the Orleantiall faction The earle of saint Paule assaulâ—eth the castell of Guisnes His fortune against Englishmen A peace â—â—â—cluded betwixt the 〈◊〉 factions oâ— Burgognie â— Orleance The prince of Wales accused to his faâ—her Iohn Stow. The suspicious gelousie of the king toward his son The prince goeth to the court with a great traine His strange apparell The prince coÌ„meth to the kings preseÌ„ce His words to his father The kings words to the prince his son Eâ—ton The princes request to haue his accusors to answer their wroÌ„gful slanders Abr. Fl. out of Angl. praelijs In Angl. praelijs sub Hen. 4. Sir Iohn Prendergest restored to the kings fauour is sent to sea The duke of Clarence sent to aid the duke of Orleance Enguerant The earle of Alanson and Richmond sent to the duke of Clarence The duke of Clarence marcheth toward Guien Enguerant The lord of Rambures The earles of Kent Warwike sent ouer to Calis Fabian Coine changed Abr. Fl. out of Fabian pag. 388. Thrée floods without ebbing betwéen Abr. Fl. out of R. Grafton pag. 433 434. in folio Whitington college erected Charitie Newgate builded S. Bartholomews hospital Guildhall chapell Guildhall inlarged Anno Reg. 14. The duke of Orleance coÌ„meth to the English armie The lord of Helie marshal of France Sir Iohn Blunt Fabian The k. meaâ—â— to haue made a iournie against the Infidels The king is vexed with sicknesse 141â— A parâ—ement The K. sick of an apoplexie 〈◊〉 Hâ—ll The prince taâ—etâ— awaie the crowne before his father was dead 〈◊〉 is blamed of the king His answer A guiltie conscience in extremitie of sicknesse pinâ—heth sore The death of Henrie the fourth Abâ— Fâ— out of 〈…〉 Fabian He is buried at Canturburie His issue His stature Iohn Stow. Acts and moments of Iohn Fox Sée maister Fox in hiâ— booke of Actâ— and monuments Acts and â—â—numents Anno Reg. 1. Wil. Paâ—ten Buchanan 〈◊〉 Scoticar â—ib 10 â—omage doone 〈◊〉 K. Henrie before his coâ—â—â—cation The day of king Henries 〈…〉 tempeâ—tuous day A notable example of a woorthie prince In Angl. proael sub Hen. 5. A parlement Thom. Walsin The funerals of king Henrie the fourth kept at Canturburie S. Georges day made a double feast Abr. â—l out Polychron Sir Iohn Oldcastell escaped out of the Tower Titus Liuius Hall A commotion raised by sir Roger Acton and others Titus Liuius The rebels surprised Thom. Walsin By this excessiue number it may aâ—â—peare that Walsingham reporteth thâ—â— matter according to the â—â—â—mon â—ame 〈◊〉 not as one that searchâ—â— out an exqâ—â—site truth William Murlie Sir Rogeâ— Acton his complices condemned of treason and heresie Eiton A disdainefull â—mbassage Tho. Walsi Persie restored to the erledome of Northumberland W. P. Le Rosier la second partie Anno Reg. 2. 1414 A bill exhibited to the parlemeÌ„t against the clergie The archbishop of Canturburies oration in the parlement house The Salike law Mesina The earle of Westmerland persuadeth the king to the conquest of Scotland The duke of Excester his wise and pithie answer to the earle of WestmerlaÌ„ds saieng A true saieng Ambassadors from the FreÌ„ch king and from the duke of Burgognie Creation of dukes Harding Ambassadors sent to FraÌ„ce Abr. Fl. out of In Angâ— câ—p sub Heâ— â— Thom. Wall It is not like that in this councell writers meane the parlement that was adiorned from Leicester to Westminster where it began in the octaues of saint Martin in this second yeare 1415. The councell of Constance The earle of Warwike and others sent to the generall councell Enguerant Great preparation for the French wars Anno Reg. 3. Ambassadors out of France A proud presumptuous prelat The wise answer of the K. to the bishop Harding An ouerthrow to the Scots by sir Robert Umfreuill The quéene mother gouernour of the realme The earle of Cambridgeâ— other lorâ—s apprehended for treason Thom. 〈◊〉 Hall King Henries words to the traitours The earle of Cambridge and the other traitors executed The effect of the earle of Cambridges indictement A iewell Titus Liuius The king saileth ouer into France with his host Titus Liuius A charitable proclamation Princelie and wiselie Harding The king besieged Harflue Titus Liuius Harding Thom. Walsi The seuentéenth of September they within Harflue praie parlée A fiue daies respit Harflue yéâ—â—ded and sacked Abr. Fl. out of Angl. prâ—â— sub Hen. 5. and Polychron Great death in the host by the flix The kings mercifull dealing with the French prisoners Corne vittels destroied where the Englishmen should passe A skirmish with the garrison of Ew Enguerant Blanchetake Diuerse capteins knights W.P. Standing in Picardie betwéene Amiens Peron all vpoÌ„ the riuer of Some Sir Hugh Stafford lord Bourghchier Iohn Bromley He came of a yoonger brother in the linage of the right honorable the lord chancelor that now is 1585. The kings standard recouered W. P. King Henrie passâ—th the riuer of Some with his host The kings armie but of 15000. The English armie sore afflicted Iustice in warre Note the force of iustice Hall The French king coÌ„sulteth how to deale with the Englishmen Dolphin king of Sicill The French K. sendeth defiance to king Henrie K. Henries answer to the defiance King Henrie rideth foorth to take view of the French armie The number of the French meÌ„ threé 〈◊〉 thousand Engueranâ— The battell of Agincourt the 25 of October 1415. The order of the French armie As manie in the battell The French esteemed six to 〈◊〉 English The order of the English armie and archers The vaward all of archers Archers the greatest force of the English armie Abr. Fl. out of Fabian pag. 392 and Polychron A politike inuention Hall K. Henries oration to his men A wish A noble courage of a valiant prince Hall The English gaue the onset The two armies ioine battell The 〈◊〉 of the Frenâ—â— discomfited Their 〈◊〉 beaten A valiant king The French rereward discomfited The kingâ— campe robbed All the prisâ—â—ners slaine A fresh onset A right wise and valiant challenge of the king Thanks giuen to God for the victorie A worthie example of a godlie prince Titus Liuius The battell of Agincourt The same day that the new maior went to Westminster to receiue his â—th the aduertisement of this noble vicâ—orie came to the citie in the morning betimes yâ—â— men were vp from their beds Register of â—aâ—ors Thrée grauâ—s that held fiâ—e thousand and eight hundred corpses Noble men prisoners The number slaine on the French part Englishmen slaine Englishmen slaine Rich. Grafton Titus Liuius Abr. Fl. out of Anglorum praelijs sub Henr. 5. Hall Titus Liuius The great modestie of the king The death of the Dolphin of France Part of those that spoiled the English campe A sore conflict Anno Reg. 4. The emperor Sigismund commeth 〈◊〉 England Titus Liuius The stranâ—â— manner of receiuing the emperour 〈◊〉 Douer Albert duke of Holland coÌ„meth 〈◊〉 England The emperor
king Henrie the eight Edw. Hall CCxij The kings letters to the maior of London touching the coronation The cities preparation Hir comming by water from Gréenewich on thursdaie The maiors barge with the conceits and deuises thereof A foist with â— mount and other deuises Quéene Anne taketh barge with hir name attending vpon hir Knights of the bath serue at dinner The receiuing and conueieng of the quéen through London The maior in a gowne of crimsm veluet The attire of certeine Frenchmen belonging to the French embassador The two dukes of Norffolke and Suffolke in their offices Quéene Annes attire verie sumptuous and roiall Thrée chariots with goodlie ladies and gentlewomen Sundrie pageants with the descriptions of their deuises An oration made to the quéene by one of the children in the pagegeant The conduit in Cheape runneth wine white and claret The recorder presenteth a 1000 marks in gold to the quéene for a gratuitie in the cities behalfe Two hundred children vpon a scaffold grating the Q. with verses Goodlie melodie The quéene commeth to Westminster hall and the maner of hir receiuing Sundaie being Whitsundaie the firsâ— daie of Iune and the daie of hir coronatioÌ„ The comelie â—â—der araie kâ—pt on the coronation daie of euerie attendant in his degrée The quéene vnder a canopie borne by â—â—ure of the â—â—que ports The maner of the coronatioÌ„ as it was then vsed The quéene and the ladies in their pompe The attire of the lords all the time that they serued The order and sitting at dinner Twelue citizens of London attendant at the cupboord The maner of sitting at the table The bringing in of the first course How the seuerall tables were furnished The maior of Londons seruice The duke of Suffolke and Norffolke rode about the hall The claime of the citie of London Running at tilt Edw. Hall Câ—xvij The christening of quéene Elizabeth The honourable traine of courtiers in their degrées A canopie borne ouer the yoong princesse Rich gifts giuen to the princesse Who bare the giâ—ts presented to the princesse Angl. praâ—l Septimo Septembris videlices die Dominico nascitur Elisabetha Edw. Hal. Ccxviiâ— Pauier a contemner of the gospell his shamefull end Eob. Hess in psal 119. Guic. pag. 1182 c. Death of pope Clement the seuenth Pope Clement more infortunate than fortunate How manie cardinals he created during his popedome Creation of pope Paule the third a Roman borne Antith Christi papae pag. 16. Elizabeth Barton Penance at Pauls crosse The Scots mooue warre A cursse procured from the pope â—534 Elizabeth Barton attainted A forged miracle Elizabeth Barton becommâ—th a nun The archbisâ—op of Canturâ—urie and â—â—â—bishop of Rochester giue credit to 〈◊〉 hypocritical praâ—tises Elizabeth Barton execâ—ted Thâ— act of â—â—tablishmâ—â—t the crowne Ambassadors foorth of Scotland The pâ—pes supremacie denied in sermons The lords sworne to the succession Ab. Fl. ex Edw. Hall 224 Woolfes wife a notable harlot The end of vnlawful loue and lust The reward of murther committed through couetousnesse Anno Reg. 26. The lord Dacres of the north arreigned Iohn Frith burned Iohn Stow. Frieries suppressed The parlemeÌ„t againe beginneth The admerall of France coÌ„meth in ambassage into England Anno Reg. 27. Iohn Stow. Certeine priors arreigned and executed for treason Iohn Stow. pag. 1004. Hollanders condemned for heretikes Moonks of the Charterhouse executed The bishop of Rochester beheaded Sir 〈◊〉 Mâ—â—re beheaded Abr. Fl. ex Edw. Hall fol. CCxxvj Sir Thomas Moore a scoffer mocker at the verie houre of his death I. Lelandi Mâ—riades siue Châ—â—itaea corona Spirituall graces doo not necessâ—rilie concurrâ— aâ— depend vpon temporall Sir Thomas More in some cases commâ—nded Abr. Flem. 〈◊〉 of a sermon made at Paules crosse by doctor Elmer bishop of London on the eightéenth of October 1584. Whether it wâ—re mattins or euensong it makes no matter Sir Thomas More deuoâ—tlie giuen in his kind The king of Scots knight of the garter The bishop of Winchester â—mbassador into France I. Stow. Uisitation of religious houseâ— 1536. The ladie Katharine Dowager deceaseâ—h Religious houses giuen to the king I. Stow. William Tindall burnt Anno reg 28. Abr. Fl. ex I. Stow. 1006. Quéene Anne committed to the tower Hir imprecation at the tower gate on hir knees She is arreigned in the tower The lord Rochford condemned Quéene Anne and diuerse others beheaded I. For in maityrologio Ang. praelia Ann◠〈◊〉 praedicitur Pla. in Phe. Socratis tale quiddam somniaâ—iâ— The king marieth ladie Iane Seimer A parlement The lord Th. Howard atteinted of treason A booke published concerning religioâ— by the king I. Stow. Triumph at Westminster Adâ—unceâ—â—â—t of the 〈◊〉 Cromwell The death of the kings base sonne The people grudged at the iniunctions established by act of parlement A traitorous conspiracie The Lincolnshire men in armes against the king The petitions of the rebels receiued of the king and of what points they consisted The Lincolnshiremen giue ouer their rebellious enterprise The rebels submit themselues and receiue a new oth of fealtie to the king False rumors the occasion of rebellions A comâ—otion in the north parâ—s An holie pilgrimage The faithfull diligence of the earle of Shrewsburie A good meaning or intent dooth not by and by iustifie and make good the action The loialtie of the earle What the earle said to them that talked lewdlie of him in the campe He was prouided of ill souldiors that so vndutifulliâ— to deale with him would be induced The oth of the earle of Shreâ—wesburie in presence of the people necessarie The duke of Norffolke the kings liâ—utenant The euen of Simon and Iude. A sâ—oud Gods prouidence staieth them from battell The matter is taken vp An other armie of rebels marching southwards through Lancashire A butcher a priest hanged and the cause why A great frost Generall pardons Aske rewarded Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 1010. Sir Raâ—fe Euers his good seruice in the north Penance at Paules crosse The earle of Kildare executed Tilbie A new rebellion Sir Francis Bigod procureth a new commotion The purpose of the rebels Aske others practise to raise a new rebellion Robert Packington murthered Rich. Grafton The inuention of casting pipes Anno reg 29. Execution Areignment Execution The birth of king Edward the sixt The death of quéene Iane. Iohn Fox in Acts Monuments These verses were thought to be made by master Armigill Wade Creation of officers Abr. Fl. ex I. S pag. 1011 1012. Lord Thomas Howard deceassed Good of grace shewed at Paules Saint Sauior in Southworke Anno Reg 30. Frier Forrest Frier Forrest burnt A prophesie Râ—c Graf in fol. pag. 1237. Execution Certeine images takeÌ„ away and remooued from their places Ab. Fl. ex I.S. pag. 1013. Hangman hanged The bible in euerie church to be read Register booke in euerie church to be kept Thomas Becket burnt Frée schoole and almes houses at Ratcliffe Iohn Nicholson alià s Lambert The marques of Excester condemned I. Stow. pag. 1019.
the countries adioining line 50 were sore vexed with a great mortalitie of people and immediatlie after followed a sore dearth and famine King Henrie held his Christmas at Windsor and about the feast of the conuersion of saint Paule he came to Northampton after the mortalitie was well ceassed he called a parlement whereat was present a deacon cardinall intituled of S. Angelo being sent into England as a legat from the pope to take order in the controuersies betwixt the two archbishops line 60 of Canturburie and Yorke This cardinall whose name was Hugh Petro Lion assembled in the same place a conuocation or synod of the bishops and cleargie as well of England as Scotland in which conuocation after the ceassing of certeine strifes and decrées made as well concerning the state of common-wealth as for the honest behauiour of mans life the cardinall consented that according as by the kings lawes it was alreadie ordeined all maner of persons within the sacred orders of the cleargie which should hunt within the kings grounds and kill any of his deare should be conuented and punished before a temporall iudge Which libertie granted to the king did so infringe the immunitie which the cleargie pretended to haue within this realme that afterwards in manie points préests were called before temporall iudges and punished for their offenses as well as the laitie though they haue grudged indéed and mainteined that they had wrong therein as they that would be exempted and iudged by none except by those of their owne order Moreouer in this councell the matter came in question touching the obedience which the bishops of Scotland did owe by right vnto the archbishop of Yorke whom from the beginning the popes of Rome had constituted and ordeined to be primat of all Scotland and of the Iles belonging to that realme as well of the Orkeneis as all the other Which constitution was obserued by the bishops of those parts manie yeares togither though after they renounced their obedience Whervpon the archbishops of Yorke for the time being continuallie complained so that these popes Paschall the second Calyxt the second Honorius Innocentius Eugenius the third and Adrian the fourth had the hearing of the matter and with often sending their letters went about to reduce them to the prouince of Yorke But the Scots still withstanding this ordinance at length the matter thus in controuersie was referred to pope Alexander who sent the foresaid cardinall Hugh as well to make an end of that contention as of diuerse other but yet he left it vndecided William king of Scotland came personallie vnto this parlement at Northhampton by commandement of king Henrie and brought with him Richard bishop of S. Andrew and Iosseline bishop of Glascow with other bishops and abbats of Scotland the which being commanded by king Henrie to shew such subiection to the church of England as they were bound to doo by the faith which they owght to him and by the oth of fealtie which they had made to him they made this answer that they had neuer shewed any subiection to the church of England nor ought Against which deniall the archbishop of Yorke replied and brought foorth sufficient priuileges granted by the forenamed popes to prooue the subiection of the Scotish bishops and namelie Glascow and Whiterne vnto the see of Yorke But bicause the archbishop of Canturburie meant to bring the Scotish bishops vnder subiection to his see he wrought so for that time with the king that he suffered them to depart home without yéelding any subiection to the church of England The letters which the foresaid popes did send touching this matter were remaining safe and sound amongst other writings in the colledge at Yorke when Polydor Virgil wrote the histories of England the copies whereof in an old ancient booke he confesseth to haue séene and read But to speake further of things ordered and doone at this parlement holden at Northampton the king by common consent of his Nobles and other states diuided his realme into six parts appointing thrée iustices itinerants in euerie of them as here followeth Hugh de Cressie Walter Fitz Robert and Robert Mantell were deputed vnto Northfolke Suffolke Cambridgeshire Huntingtonshire Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire Essex and Hertfordshire Hugh de Gundeuille William Fitz Rafe and William Basset were appointed to Lincolnshire Notinghamshire Derbishire Staffordshire Warwikeshire Northamptonshire and Leicestershire Robert Fitz Bernard Richard Gifford Roger Fitz Remfrey were assigned to Kent Surrey Hampshire Sussex Berkshire and Oxfordshire William Fitz Stephan Berthram de Uerdon Thurstan Fitz Simon were ordeined to Herefordshire Glocestershire Worcestershire and Salopshire Rafe Fitz Stephan William Ruffe and Gilbert Pipard were put in charge with Wilshire Dorsetshire Summersetshire Deuonshire Cornwall Robert de Wals Ranulf de Glanuile and Robert Pikenet were appointed to Yorkeshire Richmondshire Lancashire Copeland Westmerland Northumberland and Cumberland The king caused these iustices to sweare vpon the holie euangelists that they should kéepe his assises which he first had ordeined at Clarendon and after had renewed here at Northampton also caused line 10 all his subiects within the relme of England to kéepe and obserue the same Moreouer at this councell king Henrie restored vnto Robert earle of Leicester all his lands both on this side the sea and beyond in maner as he held the same fiftéene daies before the warre To William de Albenie earle of Arundell he gaue the earledome of Sussex About midlent the king with his sonne and the legat came to London where at Westminster a conuocation of the cleargie was called but line 20 when the legat was set and the archbishop of Canturburie on his right hand as primat of the realme the archbishop of Yorke comming in and disdaining to sit on the left where he might séeme to giue preheminence vnto the archbishop of Canturburie vnmanerlie inough indeed swasht him downe meaning to thrust himselfe in betwixt the legat and the archbishop of Canturburie And where belike the said archbishop of Canturburie was loth to remooue he set his buttocks iust in his lap but he scarslie touched line 30 the archbishops skirt with his bum when the bishops and other chapleins with their seruants stept to him pulled him away and threw him to the ground and beginning to lay on him with bats and fists the archbishop of Canturburie yeelding good for euill sought to saue him from their hands Thus was verified in him that sage sentence Nunquam periculum sine periculo vincitur The archbishop of Yorke with his rent rochet got vp line 40 and awaie he went to the king with a great complaint against the archbishop of Canturburie but when vpon examination of the matter the truth was knowne he was well laught at for his labour and that was all the remedie he got As he departed so bebuffeted foorth of the conuocation house towards the king they cried out
abiding there onelie for that dutie He paied also the debts of all such persons as laie in the counters or Ludgate for fourtie shillings vnder and some he reléeued that were condemned in ten pounds Hervpon were processions generallie vsed euerie daie in euerie citie and parish to praie to almightie God for his restoring to health and long line 30 continuance of the same Neuerthelesse he was so 〈◊〉 with his long maladie that nature could no 〈…〉 his life and so he departed out of this 〈◊〉 two and twentith of Aprill in his palace of 〈…〉 in the yéere of our Lord 1509. His corpse 〈◊〉 conueied with all funerall pompe to Westâ—â—â—â—tâ—r and there buried by the good queene his wife 〈◊〉 sumptuous chapell which he not long before had 〈◊〉 to be builded Hâ— reigned thrée and twentie yeares and more line 40 than seuen moneths and liued two and fiftie yeares He had by his quéene Elizabeth foure sonnes and foure daughters of the which thrée remained aliue behind him Henrie his second son prince of Wales which after him was king Margaret quéene of Scots and the ladie Marie promised to Charles king of Castile He was a man of bodie but leane and spare albeit mightie and strong therewith of personage and stature somewhat higher than the meane sort of men of a woonderfull beautie and faire complexion line 50 of countenance merie and smiling especiallie in his communication his eies graie his téeth single and haire thin of wit in all things quicke and prompt of a princelie stomach and hautie courage In great perils doubtfull affaires and matters of importance supernaturall and in maner diuine for he ordered all his dooings aduisedlie and with great deliberation Besides this he was sober moderate honest courteous bountious and so much abhorring pride and line 60 arrogancie that he was euer sharpe and quicke to them that were noted with that fault He was also an indifferent and vpright iusticer by the which one thing he allured to him the hearts of manie people and yet to this seueritie of his he ioined a certeine mercifull pitie which he did extend to those that had offended the penall lawes and were put to their fines by his iustices He did vse his rigour onelie as he said himselfe to dant bring low and abate the high minds and stout stomachs of the wealthie and wild people nourished vp in seditious factions and ciuill rebellions rather than for the gréedie desire of monie although such as were scourged with amerâ—iaments cried out and said it was rather for the respect of gaine than for anie politike prouision Indéed he left his coffers well stuffed for he was no wastfull consumer of his riches by anie inordinat meanes To conclude he had asmuch in him of gifts both of bodie mind and fortune as was possible for anie potentate or king to haue His politike wisedome in gouernance was singular his wit alwaie quicke and readie his reason pithie and substantiall his memorie fresh and holding his experience notable his counsels fortunate and taken by wise deliberation his spéech gratious in diuerse languages his person as before ye haue heard right comelie his naturall complexion of the purest mixture leagues and confederations he had with all christian princes His mightie power was dread euerie where not onelie within his realme but without Also his people were to him in as humble subiection as euer they were to king his land manie a daie in peace and tranquillitie his prosperitie in battell against his enimies was maruellous his dealing in time of perils and dangers was cold and sober with great hardinesse If anie treason were conspired against him it came out wonderfullie His buildings most goodlie and after the newest cast all of pleasure And so this king liuing all his time in fortunes fauour in high honour wealth and glorie for his noble acts and prudent policies is woorthie to be registred in the booke of fame least time the consumer of all worthie things should blot out the memorie of his name here in earth whose soule we trust liueth in heauen enioieng the fruition of the godhead those pleasures prepared for the faithfull In memorie of whome his manifold vertues with the fortunat successe of his affaires and the gratious descent of his loines as they procured a famous report in nations farre and néere so haue some at the contemplation of his princelinesse and euerie waie crowned with felicitie made memorials of his magnificence to the immortalitie of his high praise and vnblemishable renowme among whome for the truth of the report iustifiable by the contents of this historie one commeth to mind which may well serue for an epitaph Septimus Henricus factis est nomen adeptus Praeclarum claris ventura in secula famae Ciuibus ille suis fuerat charissimus hostes Omnes iure ipsum metuebant numinis almi Relligiosus erat cultor pieâ—atis aequi Versutos hominésque malos vehementiùs odit Viginti totos charus trésque ampliùs annos Regibus externis in summo vixit honore Magnanimus iustus rex prudens atque modestus Henrico haeredi moriens sua regna reliquit Diuitiásque immensum argenti pondus auri ¶ The altar and sepulture of the same king Henrie the seuenth wherein he now resteth in his new chappell at Westminster was made and finished in the yeare of our Lord 1519 by one Peter T. a painter of the citie of Florence for the which he receiued one thousand pounds sterling for the whole stuffe and workemanship at the hands of the kings executors Richard bishop of Winchester Richard Fitz Iames bishop of London Thomas bishop of Duresme Iohn bishop of Rochester Thomas duke of Norffolke treasuror of England Edward earle of Worcester the king chamberleine Iohn F. knight chiefe iustice of the kings Bench Robert R. knight chiefe iustice of the common plees c. Of learned men that liued in this kings daies as maister Bale noteth them these are recorded First George Rippeleie a Carmelite frier at Boston seene in the mathematikes he wrote diuerse treatises and after his decease was accounted a nekromancer Iohn Erghom borne in Yorke a blacke â—rier a doctor of diuinitie professed in Oxford studious of prophesies as by the title of the works which he wrote it may appeare Iohn Persiuall a Chartreux monke Thomas Maillorie a Welshman borne he wrote I wote not what of king Arthur and of the round table Iohn Rousse borne in Warwikeshire a diligent searcher of antiquities whervpon few libraries were any where to be seene in England and Wales where he made not search for the same and wrote sundrie treatises of historicall arguments He deceassed at line 10 Warwike the fourtéenth of Ianuarie in the yeare 1491 and was buried in our ladie church there Thomas Scroope otherwise surnamed Bradleie descended of the noble familie of the Scroops professed sundrie kinds of religions as that of the order of saint Benet and
can find in England they are not for my profit What thinke you my lords will anie Englishman counsell me or be fréend to me against the K. pleasure that is his subiect Naie forsooth And as for my counsell in whom I will put my trust they be not here they be in Spaine in my owne countrie And my lords I am a poore woman lacking wit to answer to anie such noble persons of wisedome as you be in so weightie a matter therefore I praie you be good to me poore woman destitute of fréends here in a forren region and your counsell also I will be glad to heare And therewith she tooke the cardinall by the hand and led him into hir priuie chamber with the other cardinall where they tarried a season talking with the quéene Which communication ended they departed to the king making to him relation of hir talke Thus this case went forward from court to court till it came to iudgement so that euerie man expected that iudgment would be giuen the next day At which daie the king came thither and set him downe in a chaire within a doore in the end of the gallerie which opened directlie against the iudgement seat to heare the iudgement giuen at which time all their proceedings were red in Latine That doone the kings councell at the barre called for iudgement With that quoth cardinall Campeius I will not giue iudgement till I haue made relation to the pope of all our procéedings whose counsell and commandement in this case I will obserue the case is verie doubtfull and also the partie defendant will make no answer here but dooth rather appeale from vs supposing that we be not indifferent Wherfore I will adiourne this court for this time according to the order of the court of Rome And with that the court was dissolued and no more doone This protracting of the conclusion of the matter king Henrie tooke verie displeasantlie Then cardinall Campeius tooke his leaue of the king and nobilitie and returned towards Rome Whilest these things were thus in hand the cardinall of Yorke was aduised that the king had set his affection vpon a yoong gentlewoman named Anne the daughter of sir Thomas Bullen vicount Rochford which did wait vpon the quéene This was a great griefe vnto the cardinall as he that perceiued aforehand that the king would marie the said gentlewoman if the diuorse tooke place Wherfore he began with all diligence to disappoint that match which by reason of the misliking that he had to the woman he iudged ought to be auoided more than present death While the matter stood in this state and that the cause of the quéene was to be heard and iudged at Rome by reason of the appeale which by hir was put in the cardinall required the pope by line 10 letters and secret messengers that in anie wise he should defer the iudgement of the diuorse till he might frame the kings mind to his purpose Howbeit he went about nothing so secretlie but that the same came to the kings knowledge who tooke so high displeasure with such his cloked dissimulation that he determined to abase his degrée sith as an vnthankefull person he forgot himselfe and his dutie towards him that had so highlie aduanced him to all honor and dignitie When the nobles of the line 20 realme perceiued the cardinall to be in displeasure they began to accuse him of such offenses as they knew might be proued against him and thereof they made a booke conteining certeine articles to which diuerse of the kings councell set their hands The king vnderstanding more plainlie by those articles the great pride presumption and couetousnesse of the cardinall was sore mooued against him but yet kept his purpose secret for a while Shortlie after a parlement was called to begin at Westminster the line 30 third of Nouember next insuing In the meane time the king being informed that all those things that the cardinall had doone by his power legantine within this realme were in the case of the premunire and prouision caused his atturneie Christopher Hales to sue out a writ of premunire against him in the which he licenced him to make his atturneie ¶ And further the seuentéenth of Nouember the king sent the two dukes of Norffolke and Suffolke to the cardinals place at Westminster line 40 who went as they were commanded and finding the cardinall there they declared that the kings pleasure was that he should surrender vp the great seale into their hands and to depart simplie vnto Asher which was an house situat nigh vnto Hampton court belonging to the bishoprike of Winchester The cardinall demanded of them their commission that gaue them such authoritie who answered againe that they were sufficient commissioners and had authoritie to doo no lesse by the kings line 50 mouth Notwithstanding he would in no wise agrée in that behalfe without further knowledge of their authoritie saieng that the great seale was deliuered him by the kings person to inioy the ministration thereof with the roome of the chancellor for the terme of his life whereof for his suertie he had the kings letters patents This matter was greatlie debated betwéene them with manie great words in so much that the dukes were faine to depart againe without their purpose and rode to Windsore to the king and made report line 60 accordinglie but the next daie they returned againe bringing with them the kings letters Then the cardinall deliuered vnto them the great seale and was content to depart simplie taking with him nothing but onelie certeine prouision for his house and after long talke betwéene him and the dukes they departed with the great seale of England and brought the same to the king Then the cardinall called all his officers before him and tooke accompt of them for all such stuffe whereof they had charge And in his gallerie were set diuerse tables wherevpon laie a great number of goodlie rich stuffe as whole péeces of silke of all colours veluet sattin damaske taffata grograine and other things Also there laie a thousand peeces of fine Holland cloth There was laid on euerie table bookes reporting the contents of the same and so was there inuentaries of all things in order against the kings comming He caused to be hanged the walles of the gallerie on the one side with cloth of gold cloth of tissue cloth of siluer and rich cloth of bodken of diuerse colours On the other side were hanged the richest sute of coapes of his owne prouision made for his colleges of Oxford and Ipswich that euer were séene in England Then had he two chambers adioining to the gallerie the one most commonlie called the gilt chamber and the other the councell chamber wherein were set vp two broad and long tables vpon trestles whervpon was set such a number of plate of all sorts as was almost incredible In the gilt chamber were set out
Fitzalane earle of Arundell Warren was with others made protector of England in this sort At a parlement holden at London in the tenth yeare of Richard the second being the yeare of Christ 1386 were certeine gouernors of the kingdome elected because the treasure of the realme had beene imbesiled lewdlie wasted nothing to the profit of the king and kingdome by the couetous and euill gouernment of the deposed officers which were Michaell de la Poole earle of Suffolke lord chancellor Iohn Fortham bishop of Durham lord treasuror diuerse other persons that ruled about the king Now the gouernors elected by this parlement were in number thirtéene and by name Thomas Arundell bishop of Elie then made lord chancellor Iohn Gilbert bishop of Hereford made lord treasuror and Nicholas abbat of Waltham at that time made kéeper of the priuie seale William Courtneie archbishop of Canturburie Alexander Neuill archbishop of Yorke Edmund Langleie duke of Yorke Thomas of Woodstocke duke of Glocester William bishop of Winchester Thomas bishop of Ercester Richard Fitzalane erle of Arundell Iohn lord Deuereux and Reinold lord Cobham of Starborow These were thus by parlement chosen to haue vnder the king the whole ouersight and gouernment of the realme as by their commission in the statutes of the tenth yeare of the said Richard the second it dooth in the printed booke appeare Edmund Langleie duke of Yorke vncle vnto Richard the second was in the eighteenth yeare of the said Richard being about the yeare of our redemption 1395 ordeined lord gardian of England in the kings absence in the realme of Ireland This protector caused a parlement to be assembled at Westminster where he dealt so effectuallie notwithstanding the vntowardnesse of the burgesses that a tenth was granted by the cleargie and a fiftéenth by the temporaltie but not without protestation line 10 that those paiments were granted of a méere fréewill for the loue they bare to the king and to haue the affaires in Ireland to succéed the better After this about foure yeares king Richard the second in the two and twentith yeare of his reigne in the yeare of Christ 1399 making another viage into Ireland being the last and most vnhappie that euer was to him for before his returne he had in effect lost his realme which after his comming he lost in deed did againe in his absence substitute line 20 this Edmund duke of Yorke as cheefe gouernor of England Who in the absence of the king assembled a power of men against Henrie of Bullingbrooke now entered into the land to challenge the dukedome of Lancaster after the death of his father Iohn of Gaunt and vnder that colour to vsurpe the crowne Which Edmund passing into Wales in the thrée and twentith yeare of Richard the second was receiued into the castell of Barkleie there remained vntill the comming of Henrie line 30 of Bullingbrooke Whom when he perceiued for the power which the said duke of Lancaster had assembled from all parts of the realme that he was not of sufficiencie to resist he came foorth into the church that stood without the castell and there fell to parâ—ée with the duke of Lancaster after which he did neuer forsake the duke of Lancaster vntill he came to the crowne Who if he had faithfullie stood vnto his nephue might perhaps haue saued vnto him both his crowne and life Of this man is more said line 40 in my treatise of the dukes of England Ione de Namures sometime dutches of Britaine widow to Philip Montfort as saith Hypodigma but Walsingham in his historie casteth him Iohn duke of Britaine being also the widow of king Henrie the fourth was substitute gouernor of the realme by hir son in law king Henrie the fift king of England in the third yeare of his reigne being the yeare from the birth of the Messias 1415 when the said Henrie the fift tooke his iournie into line 50 France to conquer the same This woman in the seuenth yeare of Henrie the fift which was in the yeare of Christ 1419 being suspected as saith Iohn Stow to practise witchcraft against the king was committed to the custodie of Iohn Wellam or rather Iohn Pelham who appointed nine seruants to attend vpon hir and brought hir to Peuenseie castell to be gouerned vnder his prouidence But shortlie after cléering hir selfe she was deliuered This ladie died at Hauering at the bowre in Essex line 60 the ninth of Iulie in the seuentéenth yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the sixt being the yeare of Christ one thousand foure hundred thirtie and seuen and was buried at Canturburie with hir husband king Henrie the fourth Iohn duke of Bedford son to Henrie the fourth brother to K. Henrie the fift was in the fourth yeare of the reigne of the said Henrie being the yeare of our redemption 1416 by parlement appointed regent of the realme to inioie the same office so long as the king was imploied in the French wars Which place he possessed accordinglie and in the ninth yeare of the victorious prince king Henrie the fift being gardian of England he with Henrie Beauford bishop of Winchester vncle to Henrie the fift and Iaqueline duches of Holland remaining then in England were godfathers and godmother to Henrie after king by the name of Henrie the sixt the son of Henrie the fift Henrie Chichleie archbishop of Canturburie baptising the child In the tenth and last yeare of Henrie the fift this Iohn with a strong power conueied quéene Katharine wife to Henrie the fift from Southampton into France This man being duke of Bedford earle of Richmond and of Kendall conestable of England and warden of the marches of Scotland died the fourtéenth daie of September at Rone in Normandie who hauing also béene regent of France a most valiant gentleman and one that kept the parts beyond the seas in great obedience to the crowne of England had for his yearelie pension 20000 crownes at the least After whose death all things went backeward and the English lost all that they had beyond the seas Calis those dominions onlie excepted This man I saie died in the yeare of our redemption 1435 being the thirtéenth yeare of the vnfortunat gouernment of the deposed king Henrie the sixt and was honorablie buried at Rone in our ladie church there Touching whome it shall not gréeue me to set downe the answer of a French king latelie in our age made to one of his nobilitie saieng vnto the king then being in the said ladie church of Rone and beholding the toome of this Iohn of Bedford that it were conuenient that the same toome were defaced and pulled downe since he was the onelie man that wrought the greatest damage that euer happened vnto France To whom the king said Hold thy peace foole God forbid that euer we should doo such reproch to him being dead whome the proudest of our nation durst not looke in the face when he was liuing This
of Spaine and France was now renewed againe and the deputies were appointed to meet at Chasteau Cambresi a six leagues distant from Cambraie For the king of Spaine the duke of Alua the prince of Orange the bishop of Arras Rigomes de Silua earle of Mellito monsieur Uiglius Zwichem knight and president of the priuie councell in the low countries who neuerthelesse came not bicause he was letted by sicknesse For the French king there came the cardinall of Loraine the conestable the marshall of saint Andrew the bishop of Orleans and Claude de Aubespine the said kings secretarie For the queene of England the bishop of Elie the lord William Howard baron of Effingham lord chamberleine to the said quéene doctor Nicholas Wootton deane of Canturburie and Yorke For the duke of Sauoie there were the earle of Stropiana the president of Asti. And as a meane or mediatrix betwéene the parties there was Christierna dutchesse of Loraine with hir sonne the yong duke which dutchesse as well here as before at Cercampe trauelled most earnestlie to doo good betwixt the parties and to bring them to a finall accord whose endeuor therein was to the great good liking contentation of all the said parties After that this treatie had continued a long time and now restâ—d nothing to staie them froÌ„ concluding a generall peace but onelie the article touching Calis at length that matter was also accorded by a speciall treatie betwixt the quéenes maiestie of England the French king Guido Caualcanti a gentleman of Florence line 10 being the meane to bring the same to effect The substance of which articles was that Calis shuld rest in the Frenchmens hands for the terme of eight yéeres and at the end of that terme they couenanted to render the same or else for default to forfeit vnto the quéenes highnesse the summe of fiue hundred thousand crownes and for suertie hereof to deliuer foure hostages such as hir maiestie should thinke sufficient And in case the towne were not deliuered at the end of the said eight yéeres though the monie were line 20 paid according to the couenants yet notwithstanding the right and title to the said towne and countrie adioining should alwaies remaine and be reserued vnto the crowne and realme of England It was further concluded also that a peace should be firmed and had betwixt the realmes of England and Scotland such fortresses to be rased as had been built and made by the Scots and French on the borders towards England as Haimouth and others Sir Iohn Mason knight secretarie for the French line 30 toong was sent ouer in post with instructions vnto the English commissioners after whose comming within two or thrée daies a generall peace was concluded betwixt all the parties the articles whereof not touching England we haue of purpose omitted But now after the conclusion of this peace the said sir Iohn Mason returned in post with the same and so therevpon the seuenth of Aprill the said peace was proclamed to wit betwixt the quéenes maiestie on the one part and the French king on the other line 40 their realmes dominions and subiects and likewise betwixt hir said maiestie and the king Dolphin and quéene of Scots his wife their realmes dominions and subiects This proclamation was made by Garter Norreie king at armes accompanied with thrée other heralds fiue trumpettors the lord maior of London the aldermen in their scarlet gowns being also present riding in companie of the said heralds The same time also was another proclamation made vnder the quéenes hand in writing inhibiting line 50 thâ—t from thensefoorth no plaies nor interludes should be exercised till Alhallowes tide next insuing Upon saturdaie the two and twentith of Aprill the lord Wentworth late deputie of Calis was areigned at Westminster vpon an indictment of treason found against him in the late queene Maries daies for the losse of Calis but he was acquited by his péeres the lord marquesse of Northampton sitting that daie as cheefe steward of England vnder the cloth of estate The eight of Maie the parlement line 60 brake vp in which parlement beside other things before recited concluded and passed in the same a subsidie was granted to the quéenes highnesse of two shillings eight pence the pound of mooueable goods and foure shillings of lands to be paid at two seuerall paiments of euerie person spirituall and temporall towards the better furnishing of hir maiestie with monie for the necessarie charges which she was presentlie occasioned to susteine finding the treasure of the realme greatlie consumed and the reuenues of the crowne sore diminished and the same crowne much indebted by taking vp of notable summes of monie by waie of loane vpon interest as well in the daies of hir brother K. Edward as hir sister quéene Marie The foureteenth of Maie being Whitsundaie the seruice in churches began according to the booke of coÌ„mon praier set foorth and established in this last parlement correspondent to that which was vsed in the daies of hir brother king Edward Upon sundaie the second of Iulie the citizens of London set foorth a muster before the quéenes maiestie at Greenwich in the parke there of the number of 1400 men whereof 800 were pikes armed in fine corselets foure hundred shot in shirts of male with morâ—ans two hundred halbarders armed in Almaine riuets these were furnished foorth by the crafts and companies of the citie To euerie hundred two wifflers were assigned richlie appointed and apparelled for the purpose There were also twelue wardens of the best companies mounted on horssebacke in coats of blacke veluet to conduct them with drums and fiffes and six ensignes all in ierkins of white sattin of Bridges cut and lined with blacke sarsenet and caps hosen and scarfs according The sergeant Maiors capteine Constable and capteine Sanders brought them in order before the queenes presence placing them in battell arraie euen as they should haue fought so as the shew was verie faire the emperours and the French kings ambassadors being present In this moneth also the archbishop of Yorke the bishops of Elie London and others to the number of thirtéene or fouretéene being called before the quéenes councell and refusing to receiue the oth touching hir maiesties supremasie and other articles were depriued from their bishopricks in whose roomes and places first for cardinall Poole succéeded doctor Matthew Parker archbishop of Canturburie In the place of Heth succeeded doctor Yoong In steed of Boner Edmund Grindall was bishop of London For Hopton Thurlbie Tunstall Pates Christoferson Peto Coats Morgan Feasie White Oglethorpe c were placed doctor Iohn Parkhurst in Norwich D. Cox in Elie Iewell in Salisburie Pilkenton in Duresme doctor Sands in Worcester master Downam in Westchester Bentam in Couentrie and Lichfield Dauid in S. Dauies Allie in Excester Horne in Winchester Scorie in Hereford Best in Carleill Bullingham in Lincolne Scamler in
15 William Warlewast a Norman borne and line 60 chapleine both to the Conqueror and his two sons William and Henrie he was a graue and a wise man and for the same was preferred by Henrie the king to this bishoprike in the yere one thousand one hundred and seuen and was consecrated by Anselmus archbishop of Canturburie in the moneth of August the same yeare He first began to inlarge his church which at that time was no bigger than that which is now called the ladie chappell He founded and builded the monasterie of Plimpton and placed therein regular canons in his latter daies he waxed and became blind And yet notwithstanding for his wisdome the king sent him in ambassage vnto pope Paschalis the second wherein he so wiselie dealed and so discréetlie behaued himselfe in his message that he made a reconciliation betweene the pope and the king and returned with great praise and commendation Not long after his returne and hauing small ioie of the world he gaue ouer his bishoprike and became one of the religious canons in his owne house of Plimpton where he died and was buried he was bishop about twentie yeares 16 Robert Chichester deane of Sarisburie was consecrated bishop vnder Anselmus archbishop of Canturburie Anno 1128 and the eight and twentith yeare of king Henrie the first He was a gentleman borne and therefore estéemed for his zeale in religion wherein he was deuout according to those daies and thinking his labours to be best imploied that waie did eftsoons go in pilgrimage sometime to Rome sometime to one place sometime to another and euer he would bring with him some one relike or other He was a liberall contributor to the buildings of his church In his time was founded and builded the monasterie of S. Stephans in Lanceston and furthered by Reinold erle of Cornewall but vnto it this bishop was an aduersarie not for misliking the worke but for feare of an intrusion vpon his liberties Likewise at this time was builded the priorie of saint Nicholas in Excester by the abbat of Battell vnto which abbeie this priorie was a cell In this mans time also king Henrie made William Rideuers a Norman and his kinsman earle of Deuon and therewith the lordshop of Twifordton and the honor of Plimpton togither with the third pennie of his reuenues in Deuon which in the whole was then thirtie marks whereof this earle had ten Also in this mans time king Henrie died and king Stephan entred and tooke vpon him the crowne whereof insued great warres This bishop after that he had occupied the place two and twentie yeares died and was buried in his owne church But the moonke of Westminster writeth that he should be bishop seuen and twentie yeares and died in the yeere one thousand one hundred fiftie and fiue but he neuer saw the records of this church which are to the contrarie 17 Robert Warlewast nephue to William the bishop of this church deane of Sarisburie was consecrated bishop by Theobaldus archbishop of Canturburie in the yeare one thousand one hundred and fiftie he nothing degenerated from the steps of his predecessors but was altogither of the same bent and disposition In his time king Stephan died and Henrie the second was crowned king This Robert after that he had occupied this sée nine yéers or thereabout died was buried at Plimpton by his vncle 18 Bartholomeus Iscanus otherwise Bartholomew of Excester was consecrated bishop of Excester vnder Theobald archbishop of Canturburie in the yeare a thousand one hundred fiftie nine he was called Iscanus of Isca which is one of the ancientest names of this citie He was a meane citizens son but being verie apt vnto learning his parents and friends kept him to schoole and he so well profited therein that he came and prooued to be a verie well learned man and being bishop he wrote sundrie bookes as of predestination fréewill penance and others Of all men he could not brooke nor fauor Thomas Becket archbishop of Canturburie for his contempt and disobedience against the king for the which he sharplie improoued rebuked and inueighed against him openlie in the parlement house holden at Northampton and with such effectuall reasons and pithie arguments he did so temper the same that the whole parlement relied vnto his iudgement and opinion herein against Thomas Becket And after his death such was the gravitie modestie and wisedome of the man that he was speciallie chosen to be ambassador for the king vnto pope Alexander the third and so wiselie and with such discretion vsed the same that notwithstanding his cause and message had manie aduersaries yet he reconciled the pope and the king obteined the goodwill and fauour of the pope and brought his message to good effect This bishop was in great familiaritie and acquaintance with Baldwin of Excester his countriman line 10 now archbishop of Canturburie who was a poore mans sonne in this citie but for his learning aduanced to this estate In this bishops time about the yeare of our Lord one thousand one hundred thrée score and eight William Fitzralfe a citizen of this citie founded a cell for moonks within this citie and dedicated the same to saint Alexius which not long after was united to saint Iohns within the east gate of the same citie In his time also Reinold of Courtneie a nobleman of Normandie the son of Elorus line 20 the son of Lewes named Lewes le Grosse king of France came into this land and married Hawise daughter and heire to Mawd the daughter and heire to Adelis sister and heire to Richard de Briono the first vicount of Deuon and in hir right was vicount of Deuon This Bartholomew after he had béene bishop about fouretéene yeares in the yere one thousand one hundred eightie and foure died but where he died and where he was buried it dooth not appeere In this bishops time about the yeare one thousand line 30 one hundred and seuentie one Iohannes Coriniensis a Cornish man borne was a famous learned diuine he was a student at Rome and other places in Italie and by that meanes grew into great acquaintance with pope Alexander the third he wrote diuerse bookes and namelie one De incarnatione Christi against Peter Lombard who affirmed Quòd Christus secundum quod homo est aliquid non est and this he dedicated to pope Alexander 19 Iohn the chanter of the cathedrall church of line 40 this citie was consecrated and installed bishop of this church in the yeare one thousand one hundred eightie and foure he was well reported of for his liberalitie in continuing the buildings of this church wherein he was nothing inferior to his predecessors In his time king Henrie Fitzempresse died and he himselfe hauing beene bishop about six yeares died in the yeare of our Lord one thousand one hundred ninetie and one 20 Henrie Marshall archdeacon of Stafford the line 50 brother to Walter earle
added and set foorth by the said iustice Manwood who for perpetuall supplie when need should be procured that the ancient contributorie lands almost growne into obliuion should be to that end reduced into a conuenient order answerable vnto right and iustice And likewise for good direction in yearelie elections of wardens and other officers with the accounts prouision works and other such necessaries required for perpetuall maintenance of that bridge obteined an act of parlement in the eightéenth yeare of this quéenes reigne as appeareth in the printed booke of statutes wherein were manie things ordâ—ined for the good ordering of the said bridge and the officers belonging therevnto After all which a charge of fiue hundred pounds was of record demanded and leuied vpon the wardens of the said bridge for arerages of the stipends of chanterie priests sometime seruing in the chappell at the east end of the said bridge to the great damage and ouerthrow of the bridge had not the said iustice Manwood by his trauell vpon due and lawfull triall at the assises deliuered discharged the bridge of that great demand as appeareth by record in the court of the excheker before the said sir Roger Manwood came to be chiefe baron there And yet abuse and slackenesse being had in these things the wardens notwithstanding that great beneuolence and reléefe was at sundrie times and of sundrie persons procured vnto the said bridge by the carefull and diligent trauell of Thomas Wooten of Bocton Maleherbe of Kent esquier a deere father and fauourer of his countrie as well at the times of the elections of the wardens and the accounts of the officers were forced to disburse great sums of their owne monie from time to time to dispatch the néedfull charges and works required for the bridge without anie conuenient allowance of the contributorie persons at the yearelie elections of the wardens and without due regard had for order of the said land belonging and contributorie to the bridge For auoiding wherof the said sir Roger Manwood then now lord chiefe baron of the excheker procured to passe another act of parlment in the seuen twentith yeare of hir maiestie reigne wherein is further prouision made for the said bridge as in the printed booke of statutes at large appeareth By which fullie prouided meaneâ— and by reasonable following the presidents of the works and accounts written in great lâ—gear books by the said chiefe baron and William Lambard esquier in the yeare next after the said last mentioned act of parlement of the seauen and twentith of the quéenes reigne they then executing the office of wardens all néedfull reparations be so doone and prouision before hand so made as it is now growne out of all controuersie that the said famous stone bridge of Rochester for euer like to last according vnto the intent of the first building and the indowment thereof for the good and beneficiall seruice of the commonwealth This sir Roger Manwood hauing had before an other wife issued of the gentlemanlie familie of the Theobalds is at this daie ioined in marriage with Elisabeth descended of an ancient and worshipfull familie the daughter of Iohn Copinger of Alhallowes in the countie of Kent esquier which Elisabeth being a woman of such rare modestie and patience as hir verie enimies must néeds confesse the same occasioned these verses following to be composed touching hir hir husband the said sir Roger Manwood Scaccarij protho barâ— Manwoode beatum Quem faciunt leges lingua loquela virumâ— Coniuge foeliciâ—r tamenes quae nata Copinger Egregâ—â— est summa foemina digna viro Quae viduata thâ—ro Wilkins coniunctáque Manwood 〈◊〉 coniux est â—oriata binis In the moneth of Ianuarie deceassed Edward Fines lord Clinton earle of Lincolne and lord admerall of England knight of the garter and one of hir maiesties priuie councell a man of great yéeres and seruice as well by sea as land he was burieâ— at Windsor leauing manie children behind him honorablie married Of this noble man whiles he liued one to whome the honorable lords of the courâ— were not obscurelie knowne writing of the peaâ—eable regiment of the queenes maiestie comprising in an orderlie discourse their high places of seruice to the crowne amongest others speaketh verie commendablie and deseruedlie of this deceassed earle who at such time as the said booke was published vnder the title aforenamed had béene lord great admerall of England thirtie yeares and of councell vnto thrée princes alwaies of vnspotted report speciallie for allegiance and therefore as singularlie beloued in his life so accordinglie bemoned at his death The words that concerne this noble mans memoriall are thus extant to the aduancement of his honour testified by report of two English poets line 10 O Clintone tuae concessa est regia classis Tutelae totos ter denos circiter annos Consuluisse tribus nec haec tibi gloria parua Principibus veterum satraparum sanguine clares Multa gerens pelago praeclarè multáque terris Hunc decorat comitem grandi Lincolnia fastis And before this namelie in the yeare 1564 at what time the said noble man was honored with the title of Praefectus maris and attendant vppon hir maiestie in presence at hir being in Cambridge where line 20 she was magnificallie interteined with all hir troope of lords and traine of ladies c thus did an academike write in praise of the forenamed earle Regnatórque maris Clintonus cuius in vndis Excellens nomen praecipuúmque decus Ille mihi Neptunus aquas mouet ille tridente Hunc Triton hunc pelagi dijque deaeque colunt On the one and twentith daie of Ianuarie one and twentie Iesuites seminaries and other massing priests late prisoners in the Tower of London line 30 Marshalsee and Kings bench were shipped at the Tower wharffe to be conueied towards France banished this realme for euer by vertue of a commission from hir maiestie as may more fullie appeare by that which followeth A vew of the said commission from the queenes maiestie WHere as the queenes most excellent line 40 maiestie foreseeing the danger that hath and might grow vnto the realme by accesse of Iesuits and seminarie priests and other like wandering and massing priests comming hither to seduce and withdraw hir louing subiects from their due obedience to God and hir maiestie and there withall traitorouslie to practise the mouing and stirring of rebellion within the realme as hath appeared by sufficient proofe against them and line 50 by confession of sundrie of themselues for the which diuerse of the said Iesuits and seminaries haue béene tried condemned and executed by the ordinarie and orderlie course of hir maiesties lawes and yet they haue not refrained dailie to practise and attempt the like treasons Hir maiestie notwithstanding following the accustomed course of hir princelie clemencie liking rather for this time to haue them onelie banished out of the
Nic. Triuet The duke of Britaine departed this life The lord Beaumont of Heinault forsaketh the K. of England his seruice The king goeth ouer into Flanders Ia. Mair Froissard A councell â—elden in the king of Englands ship Ia. Meir Welshmen appointed to Iaques Arteueld for a gard against Gerard Denise Iacob Arteuelds house beset Froissard Ia. Meir Iacob van Arteueld slaine M. Pal. in scor Ambassadors from the good townes in Flanders vnto king Edward Froissard Auberoch besieged The Frenâ—â— armie distreâ—sed and the earle of Liâ—â—e taken Towns 〈◊〉 by the earle oâ— Derbie Angolesme Blaues Froissard saith they were an hundred thousand Gio. Villani writeth that they were a six thousand horsmen and fiftie thousand footemen of Frenchmen Gascoignes Lombardes Annales de Burgoigne 1346 Anno Reg. 20. Angolisme recouered by the Frenchmen Damassen Thonins Aiguillon besieged Gio. Villani The archdecon of Unfort Frenchmen discomfited Additions to Adam Merimuth Purueiers punished Iustices A parlement Cardinals Froissard The king paseth ouer into Normandie Iohn Villani saith there were 2500 horsemen and 30000 footmen and archers that passed ouer with the K. but when he commeth to speake of thâ— battell he séemeth to increase the number The ordering of the kings armie Harflew Chierburge Mountburge Carentine Saint Lo. There were slaine in all without and within the towne 5000 men as Gio. Villani writeth Peter Legh Caen taken 40000 clotâ—â—s as Gio. 〈◊〉 writeth 〈◊〉 got by the Englishmen in one place and other 〈◊〉 this iournâ—â— Louiers Gisors Uernon Gio. Villani S. Germans in Laie S. Clowd Beauuois Burners executed Piquency The Frenâ—â— kings armâ—â— Sir Godmare du Foy. Gobin Agace The English men wan the passage ouer the water of Some Caxton The number slaine Fâ—oâ—sard Crotay burnt Mar. Pal. in sag. GiouoÌ„ Villani saith that when they should ioine in battell the Englishmen were 30000. archers English Welsh beside other footmen with axes iauelins and not fullie 4000 horssemen Froissard The kings dâ—meanor before the battell The disorder among the Frenchmen Charles Grimaldâ— Anthonie or Othone Doris were captâ—ins of these Genowaâ—es which were not past six thousand as Gio. Villani saith Polydor. Froissard The earle of Ilanson Raine and thunder with an eclipse Tâ—e Genowaâ—â—s The battell is begun The king of Boheme The earle 〈◊〉 Alanson The princâ—â— battell pâ—â—sed The earle of Northampâ—â—â— sendeth to the king The kingâ— answer The Freâ—â—â— king departeth out of the field Great slaugâ—ter of Frenchâ—men Caxton Iac. Meir Polydor. Froissard Noble men slaine The king of England coâ—â—meth 〈◊〉 from the 〈◊〉 Georg. Buch. paraph in psal Frenchmen slaine the day after the batâ—â—ll The archb of Rouen and the lord grand prior of France slaine Calis besieged In the Acts and monuments Iac. Meâ—â— Terrouâ—n Terrouan woon by 〈◊〉 Froissard Sir Iohn de Uienne capteine of Calis The king of Englands pitie towards the poore The duke of Normandie sent for The earle of Derbie assembleth an armie Towns won by the earle of Derbie The citie of Poictiers woon by force Saint Iohn Dangelie The king of Scots inuadeth England Polydor. The English lords assemble a power to fight with the Scots Froissard Tho. Wals. Froissard The quéenes diligence The Scots fight with â—xes The English men obteine the victorie The king of Scots taken Hect. Boetius Ri. Southwell Fabian Froissard Neuils crosse In Angl. praelijs sub Edwardâ— 3. Sée in Scotland Hector Boet. Countries of ScotlaÌ„d subdued by the Englishmen Froissard Iohn Copland refuseth to deliuer the K. of Scots Iohn Copland rewâ—â—ded Ia. Meir The Flemings Froissard 1347 Anno Reâ— â—â— The earle of Flanders 〈◊〉 streined to promise mariage to the king of Englands daughâ—ter The lord Charles de Blois takâ— prisoner Sir Thomaâ— Dagworth Froissard Sir 〈◊〉 Hartilie 〈◊〉 English knight wâ—s also there with him Fabian The French king assembleth an armie Froissard The Flemings besiege Aire Ia. Meir The French K. coÌ„meth towards Calis The earle of Derbie The request of the French lords to the king of England His answer Cardinals seÌ„t to intreat of peace They depart The French K. returneth into France The conditions of the surrender of Calis Six burgesses of Calis presented to the king The queene obteined their pardon Calis yéelded to the king of England Calis made a colonie of Englishmen The quéene brought to bed in the castell of Calis Polydor. Caxton Ia. Meir A truce Women hard to agrée Sir Amerie de Pauie 134â— Thom. 〈◊〉 Anno Reg â— Great 〈◊〉 1349 Anno Reg. 13. A great mortalitie Dearth A practise 〈◊〉 betraie 〈◊〉 Diuersitted writers Fabian Froissard The king â—â—cretlie paâ—â—â—ouer to 〈◊〉 The lord Geffrie de Charnie Sir Edward de Rentie The king crieth Mannie to the rescue The earles of Stafford and Suffolke the lords Montacute Berkley and la Ware The Frenchmen alight on foot Sir Eustace de RibaumoÌ„t a right valiâ—nt knight He is taken prisoner by the king of England The lord Geffrie de Charnie is taken Sir Eustace de Ribaumont Anno Reg. 24. The death ceasseth Auesdurie Commissioners méet to talke of peace Men borne with â—ewer téeth than in times past Caxton Tho. Walsin Polychron A combat Auesburie Thom. Wals. A Spanish fléet Spaniards vanquisht by the K. of England by sea Thom. Wals. Auesburie Froissard Sir Thomas Dagworth slaine Ambassadors sent to the pope Anno Reg 25. 1351 Froissard The castell of Guines woone Polydor. Grotes 〈◊〉 halâ—e 〈◊〉 fiâ—st 〈◊〉 1â—5â— Anno. Reg Mouron 135â— Anno. Reg. â—â— Tho. Walsi In the priâ—ted books of statutes 〈◊〉 shoâ—ld appeare that this parlement was rather hâ—lden in the â—â— yeare of the kings reigâ—â— Statutes 〈◊〉 making of clothes Weares and milles Creations 〈◊〉 noble men The lord Charles 〈◊〉 Blois Debate betwixt the dukes of Brunswike Lancaster Auesburie Tho. Walsi affirmeth that this remoouing of the staple of wols was the 28 yeare of K. Edwards reigne Fabian Sir Walter Bentlâ—e committed to the tower A great drought A dearth Caxton Corn brought out of Zeland 1354 Anno Reg. 28. Thom. Wals. Auesburie A truce betwixt England and France Ambassadoâ—â— to the pope 1355 Anno Reg. 29. Debate betwixt the scholers townesmen of Oxenford Thom. Wals. Auesburie The quarrell appeased betwixt the scholers and townesme noâ— Oxenford Auesburie A nauie prepared The duke of Lancaster Record Tur. The end and award made of the quarrell betwixt the Uniuersitie and townesmen of Oxford Tho. Walsâ— The prince 〈◊〉 Wales goeth ouer into Gascoâ—gne The citie of London The king inâ—aâ—eth FraÌ„ce The lord Bousicant Froissard The king for want of vittels returneth Auesburie The constable of France demandeth battell The answer made to him Berwike taken by Scots A parlement The procéedings of the prince of Wales in Aquitaine Carcasson Narbonne Two bishops sent from the pope to the prince of Wales He 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 sea Buscicauâ—â—â— The capitall de Beuf Hector Boeâ— Anno Reg. 30. The resignation of the realme of Scotland made by the Balioll. K. Edward sore afflicted
Walsin Hypod. pag. 164. The Frenchmens demand of the I le of Wight The answer of the Ilandmen The duke of Orleance his challenge The answer of king Henrie The duke of Orleance besiegeth Uergi in Guien The lord du Chastell slaine Owen Glendouer wasted the English marches Crueltie of the Britains Flemings The â—â—untes of Oxford K. Richard once againe aliue Serlo one of K. Richards chamber The countesse of Oxford committed to prison Hir secretarie executed The earle of Northumberland coÌ„meth to the king Sir William Clifford bringeth Serlo to the king Serlo examined for the duke of Glocesters death He is drawen through euery good towne He is executed at LoÌ„don Anno Reg. 6. The lâ—ymens parlement Strife betwixt the laitie and spiritualtie The archbishop of Canturburie answereth for his brethren Sir Iohn Cheinie speaker of the parlement The archb chafeth He spake like a â—ord The kings answer to the archbishop Abr. Fl. oâ—t of Thom. Walfi Hypod. pag. 167. Two fiftéens granted Letters patents reuoked A tenth and â— halfe granted by the cleargie Ouer 〈◊〉 of the sea The death of WilliaÌ„ Wickham He was also at one time treasuror of England as Leland gathereth The earle of Marches sonnes Thom. Walsin The ladie Spenser coÌ„mitted to ward She accuseth hir brother the duke of Yorke WilliaÌ„ Maidstone esquier offred to fight in his ladies quarrell The earle marshall accused The K. wanteth monie can get none of the lords Abr. Fl. out of Thom. Wals. Hypod. pag. 159. Iust. lib. 1. Herod lib. 1. Val. Max. lib. 8. cap. 7 The castell of Marke besieged about the middest of Maâ—e as Iac. Meir saith Sir Philip Hall The earle of S. Paule put to flight Ia. Meir Arde assaulted by Englishmen The marques du Pount An armie sent to Calis and to the sea Chr. Fland. Ia. Meir The English men besieged the castell of Sluis A great fight by sea Threé caricks are taken Townes in Normandie burnt The duke of Burgognie prepareth to besiege Calis The chéefe 〈◊〉 of the malice betwixt the dukes of Burgognie Orleance A new coÌ„spiracie against king Henrie by the earle of Northumberland others The archbishop of Yorke one of the cheéfe conspirators The archbishop in armor The estimation which men had of the archbishop of Yorke The earle of Westmerland and the lord Iohn of Lancaster the kings sonne prepare themselues to resist the kings enimies The forest of Galtrée The subtill policie of the earle of Westmerland The archbishops protestation why he had on him armes The earle of WestmerlaÌ„ds politike dealing The archbishop of Yorke and the earle marshall arrested Eiton The archbishop of Yorke the earle marshall others put to death Abr. Fl. out of Thom. Walsin Hypod. pag. 168. * Archiepisâ—â—â—â— The archbishop reputed a martyr The lords executed The earle of Northumberland Berwike castâ—ll yéelded to the king The sonne 〈◊〉 the lord Greistoke and others put to death Exton The castell 〈◊〉 Alnewike yeelded to the king The K. paâ—seth into Wales He looseth his cariages He returâ—â—â—â— Hâ—ll The marshall MoÌ„tmeraÌ„cie sent to aid Owen Glendouer Carmarden woone by the French Hereford west manfullie defended Enguerant de Monstrelleâ— saith they burnt the townes but could not win the castell The suburbs of Worcester burnt French lords slaine The Frenchmen returne home Anno Reg. 7. Abr. Fl. out of Thom. Walsin Roiston burned A parlement A fiftéenth graÌ„ted by â—he temporaltie A new kind of subsidie granted by the cleargie The lord Fleming lost his life for giuing knowledge to the earle of Northumberland of that which was meant against him Dissention amoÌ„g the Scotish nobilitie Eleuen years saith Harding The prince of Scotland staid here in England Hall Robert Halome archb of Yorke The king and the queéne brought hir to Lin where she tooke shipping Tho. Walsi Anno Reg. 8. The duke of Yorke restored to libertie The earle of Kent in fauor with the king He marrieth a daughter of Barnabo lord of Millane Abr. Fl. out oâ— Thom. Walsi Hypod. pag. 161. Roger of Waldens variable fortune Ouid. lib. â—â— Pont. 4. An additiâ—â— of Franâ—â— Thin * Coniers * Ogle The duke of Orleance besâ—â—geth towns in Gascoigne Henrie Paie â— valiant sea man k. Richard still aliue as was â—eigned The king in danger to be taken by French pirats Sir Thomas Rampston taken The king escaped through swiftnesse of his ship The lord Camois put in blame Henrie Bowet archbishop of Yorke Abiruscwith Owen Glendouer Sir Robert Knols departeth this life Bermondsey S. Albons He was buried in the White friers He built Rochester bridge commonlie called Knols bridge Thom. Wals. Anno Reg. 9. Thom. Wals. A subsidie The lord Camois arreigned acquited The earle of Northumb. the lord Bardolfe returne into EnglaÌ„d The shiriffe of Yorkeshire His hardie corage to fight The earle of Northumberland slaine Abr. Fl. out of Tho. Walsin Hypod. pag. 172. The abbat of Hails hanged The earle of Kent sent to the sea Briake in Britaine assaulted by the Englishmen The earle of Kent wouÌ„deâ— to death Briake taken by force The countes of Kent maketh hir owne choise of hir second husband A disputation betwixt diuines of Oxford Cambridge for their obedieÌ„ce to the pope Anno Reg. 10. The cardinal of Burges coÌ„meth into England in disfauor of pope Gregrie The resolutioÌ„ of the French king concerning the two pâ—pes A coÌ„uocation at S. Paules in London Ambassadors appointed to go to the councell at Pisa. The contents of the kings letters to the pope Abr. Fl. out of Thom. Wals. Hypod. pag. 159. Wicklifs doctrine mainteined by the learned SenteÌ„ce pâ—â—nounced against Wicklifs books Fabian Iusts in Smithfield Owen Glendouer endeth his life in great miserie Anno Reg. 11. Officers made A paâ—lement Tho. Walsi Fabian Thom. Wals. King Henrie a â—â—uorer of the clergie Iohn Badbie burnt Tho. Walsi The prince being present at the execution offereth him pardon Notable constancie of Badbie The kings demand in the parlement A long parlement A fiftéenth granted Earle of Surrie deceasseth Preparation made to win Calis Thom. Walsi Abr. Fl. out of Thom. Wals. Hypod. pag. 175. The engines of the duke of Burgognie against Caliâ— that shot out barrels of pâ—â—â—son Sir Robert Umfreuill viceadmerall Harding His 〈◊〉 Scotland His surname Robert Mendmarket By what occasion he came by that surname The earle of Angus Umfreuill coÌ„monlie called erle of Kime 1411 Anno Reg. 12. A great death by the flix Iohn Prendergest and William Long. Long committed to the Tower The archbishop of Canturburie not suffred to visit the vniuersitie of Oxenford France disquieted with two factions The duke of Orleance murthered The earles of Arundell and Angus with others sent to aid the duke of Burgognie Anno Reg. 13. Saint Clou taken by the helpe of the Englishmen Sir Manserd de Bos put to death Harding Recor. Turris Creations of noblemen Hall The Orleantiall factioÌ„ sueth to the K. of England for aid The confederates of the Orleantiall
240. Gentlemen sent into Kent to be executed Execution Ladie Elizabeth and lord Courtneie prisoners in the tower Abr. Fl. ex Ioh. Foâ—i maâ—tyrologio A point of practise of StephaÌ„ Garâ—diner against the ladie Elizabeth Doctor Westâ—â— against the lâ—â—die Elizabetâ— The lord maiors iudgmeâ—â— of D. Westâ—â— Sâ—â—phaÌ„ 〈◊〉 tale in 〈◊〉 Star-chamber against the ladie Elizabeth The Lord â—handois 〈◊〉 report in the Star-chamber against the ladie Elizabeth and lord Courtneie A parlement summoned at Oxford but noâ— holden All nations in the world against the mariage of the sun and why Iohn Stow. A cat hanged in cheape The bishops Cranmer Latimer and Ridleie sent to Oxford Commissioners Io. Fox in acts and monuments Sir Thomas Wiat arreigned The effect of Wiats indictment Wiat answereth not directlie to the question guiltie or vnguiltie A rebels report touching rebellion Wiats exhortation to loialtie by his owne example Wiat altereth his mind touching the quéenes mariage The fruits of rebellion by Wiats confession The quéenes attornie speaketh to Wiat. Wiats 〈◊〉 to the quéenes attorneie The iudge speaketh Sir Edward Hastings spéech to Wiat. Maister Corâ—ell late maister of the 〈◊〉 speaketh William Thomas meanâ— to murther quéene Marie Wiats confession Wiat is sorie that he refused the quéens pardon when it was offred The execution of sir Thomas Wiat. Sir Nicholas Throckmorton arreigned of high treason cleéreth himselfe The names of the commissioners The quéenes learned counsell gaue euidence against the prisoner Sendall Throckmorton Bromleie Throckmorton Hare Throckmorton Bromleie Throckmorton Bromleie Shrewesburie Throckmorton Southwell Throckmorton Sendall Throckmorton Bromleie Throckmorton Then the iurie was called Throckmorton Cholmeleie Throckmorton Throckmorton Sâ—anford Throckmortâ—n Stanford Throckmorton Stanford Throckmorton Winters confession read by Stanford Stanford Throckmorton Bromleie Throckmorton Stanford Throckmorton Attourneâ—e Throckmorton Hare Throckmorton Hare Throckmorton Stanford Throckmorton Stanford Throckmorton Dier Throckmorton Attourneie Throckmorton Stanford Uaughans confession was read by Stanford Stanford Southwell Throckmorton Hare Throckmorton Stanford Throckmorton Bromleie Attournie Throckmorton Attournie Throckmorton Southwell Hare Throckmorton Stanford Stanford Dier Throckmorton The atturnie Attourneie Throckmorton The atturnie Throckmorton Hare Throckmorton Southwell Throckmorton Stanford Bromleie Southwell Throckmorton Hare Throckmorton Southwell Throckmorton Bromleie Throckmorton Stanford Throckmorton Hare Throckmorton Bromleie Hare Cholmleie The atturnie Bromleie Throckmorton Bromleie Stanford Throckmorton Bromleie Throckmorton The atturnie Cholmleie Hare Throckmorton Bromleie Throckmorton Hare Throckmorton Bromleie The attornie Throckmorton Stanford Bromleie Throckmorton Happie for Throckmorton that those statutes stood then repealed Stanford Hare Throckmorton Bromleie Throckmorton Sâ—anford Throckmorton Southwell The attornie Throckmorton The attornie Throckmorton The attornie Bromleie 〈◊〉 Throckmorton Bromleie Throckmorton Bromleie Throckmorton Pirtman Sanders Throckmorton Stanford Hare Throckmorton Bromleie Throckmorton Hare Throckmorton Englefiâ—ld Bromleie Throckmorton Stanford Hare Throckmorton The attâ—rnie Throckmorton â—â—â—dall Throckmorton Sendall Throckmorton Throckmorton Sendall Throckmorton Sendall Iurie Sendall Whetston Sendall Whetston Throckmorton Bromleie Iurie Bromleie Whetston Bromleie Throckmorton Throckmorton Bromleie Throckmorton The atturnie Whetston The lord Tho. Greie beheaded William Thomas arreigned condemned The ladie Elisabeth â—â—liuered out of the tower Sir Henrie Beningfield knight * Elisabetha Rich. Grafâ—on Quéene Elisabeths words to Beningfield hir butcherlie kéeker in the time of hir durance A gun shot as the preacher Sée before pag. 1102. Anno Reg. 2. The lord Iohn Greie arreigned pardoned and released Abr. Fl. ex I. Stow. 109â— A spirit in a wall without Aldersgate doth penaÌ„ce at Paules crosse for abusing the people c. The prince of Spaine preparation to 〈◊〉 into England The Englâ—â—h ambassadors meet him 〈◊〉 S. Iames 〈◊〉 CoÌ„postâ—lla The arriuall of the prince of Spaine in Sâ—uthamptoÌ„ 〈◊〉 is receiued 〈◊〉 the nobilitie 〈◊〉 lords 〈◊〉 commeth 〈◊〉 Winchester 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 was 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 him The quéens lodging in the bishops palace The mariage solemnized and what states of Italie Spaine were present at it The names of the noble men that came ouer from Spaine with the prince He to be intituled king during the matrimonie c. She to be intituled to his dominions during the mariage Hir dowrie if she suruiued him Touching the issue of hir bodie male or female Touching the prince of Spaines disposing of his lands after his decease Touching the lord Charles and his descendents if heire male came by this mariage What is to be doone if heire male faile and there be none but issue female What for want of issâ—e by the lord Charles A prouiso touching succession Touching a perpetuall league or 〈◊〉 of fraternitie c. No stranger to be admitteâ— to anie office c in England Englishmen to attend at the court The state in no point to 〈◊〉 innouated The quéene not to be conueied out of hir owne territories The prince 〈◊〉 Spaines 〈◊〉 to end with the quéenes death The iewels c of the 〈◊〉 not to be carried out 〈◊〉 vsurped c. 〈◊〉 ships 〈◊〉 ordiâ—â—â—nce c to be 〈…〉 c out of the land Peace to be 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 realme without 〈◊〉 in other 〈…〉 warres The empeâ—â—s gift to the prince his 〈◊〉 The title of 〈◊〉 belongâ—â—g both to Pâ—ilip and Marie proclamed by the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fox in 〈◊〉 Acts and â—â—numents These verses are answered in master Fox by the lerned King Philip stalled at Windsor Iohn Fox A generall hunting The king and quéene come through London to Westminster Abr. Fl. ex Ioh. Foxi martyrologiâ— Uaine pageants of London Winchester cannot abide the booke called Verbum Dei The painter sent for to the bishop of Winchester The painters answer Fiue Philips The erecting vp of the rood at Paules Bishop Boners god the rood of Pauls set vp with Te Deum Salutation to the rood of Paules A proclamation for the auoiding of maisterlesse men out of thâ— citie of London Death of the Duke of Norâ—folke A Spaniard hanged Iohn Stow. Eight of master Throckmortons 〈◊〉 appéere in thâ— starchamber The hard iudgement 〈◊〉 the lords against those eight honest men The L. 〈◊〉 Greie set at libertie Further 〈◊〉 mine 〈◊〉 Throckmoâ—tons 〈◊〉 Iohn Fox A parlement whereat the king quéene â—t present Cardinall Poole arriâ—eth at Douer An act for the restitution in 〈◊〉 of cardinall Poole Cardinall Poole coÌ„meth 〈◊〉 the parlement house The words of the bishop of Winchester 〈◊〉 lord chancellor 〈◊〉 Grafton The effect of the cardinals â—â—â—â—mblie in the 〈◊〉 of parlement He sheweth the speciall cause oâ— his comming into England He exhorteth to a generall returne into the bosome of the church He declareth how wonderfullie god had preserued Q. Marie He exhorteth to obedience and treateth of restoring this realme to the vnitie of the church He protesteth that he ment the preiudice of no man c. He sheweth the meanes of procuring the foresaid reconciliation This supplication was exhibited to the king and quéene Promise in signe of repentance
feast of All saints the parlement began to the which the duke of Lancaster came bringing with him an excéeding number of armed men and likewise the earle of Northumberland with no lesse companie came likewise to London was lodged within the citie hauing great friendship shewed towards him of the citizens who promised to assist him at all times when necessitie required so that his part séemed to be ouerstrong for the duke if they should haue come to anie triall of their forces at that time The duke laie with his people in the suburbs and euerie daie when they went to the parlement house at Westminster both parts went thither in armour to the great terror of those that were wise and graue personages fearing some mischiefe to fall foorth of that vnaccustomed manner of their going armed to the parlement house contrarie to the ancient vsage of the realme At length to quiet the parties and to auoid such inconueniences as might haue growen of their dissention the king tooke the matter into his hands and so they were made fréends to the end that some good might be doone in that parlement for reformation of things touching the state of the realme for which cause it was especiallie called but now after it had continued a long time and few things at all concluded newes came that the ladie Anne sister to the emperour Wenslaus affianced wife to the king of England was come to Calis whervpon the parlement was proroged till after Christmas that in the meane time the marriage might be solemnized which was appointed after the Epiphanie and foorthwith great preparation was made to receiue the bride that she might be conueied with all honor vnto the kings presence Such as should receiue hir at Douer repaired thither where at hir landing a maruellous and right strange woonder happened for she was no sooner out of hir ship and got to land in safetie with all hir companie but that foorthwith the water was so troubled and shaken as the like thing had not to any mans remembrance euer béene heard of so that the ship in which the appointed queene came ouer was terriblie rent in péeces and the residue so beaten one against an other that they were scattered here and there after a woonderfull manner Before hir comming to the citie of London she was met on Black-heath by the maior and citizens of London in most honorable wise year 1382 and so with great triumph conueied to Westminster where at the time appointed all the nobilitie of the realme being assembled she was ioined in marriage to the king and crowned quéene by the archbishop of Canturburie with all the glorie and honor that might be deuised There were also holden for the more honour of the same marriage solemne iustes for certeine daies togither in which as well the Englishmen as the new quéenes countriemen shewed proofe of their manhood and valiancie whereby praise commendation of knightlie prowesse was atchiued not without damage of both the parties After that the solemnitie of the marriage was finished the parlement eftsoones began in the which many things were inacted for the behoofe of the commonwealth And amongst other things it was ordeined that all maner manumissions obligations releasses and other bonds made by compulsion dures and menace in time of this last tumult and riot against the lawes of the land and good faith should be vtterlie void and adnihilated And further that if the kings faithfull liege people did perceiue any gathering of the cōmons in suspected wise to the number of six or seauen holding conuenticles togither they should not staie for the kings writ in that behalfe for their warrant but foorthwith it should be lawfull for them to apprehend such people assembling togither and to laie them in prison till they might answer their dooings These and manie other things were established in this parlement of the which the most part are set foorth in the printed booke of statutes where ye may read the same more at large In time of this parlement William Ufford the earle of Suffolke being chosen by the knights of the shires to pronounce in behalfe of the common-wealth certeine matters concerning the same the line 10 verie daie and houre in which he should haue serued that turne as he went vp the staires towards the vpper house he suddenlie fell downe and died in the hands of his seruants busie about to take him vp whereas he felt no gréefe of sickenesse when he came into Westminster being then and before merrie and pleasant inough to all mens sights Of his sudden death manie were greatlie abashed for that in his life time he had shewed himselfe courteous and amiable to all men ¶ The parlement shortlie therevpon line 20 tooke end after that the merchants had granted to the king for a subsidie certeine customes of their wools which they bought and sold called a maletot to endure for foure yeares ¶ The lord Richard Scroope was made lord chancellor the lord Hugh Segraue lord treasuror About the same time the lord Edmund Mortimer earle of March the kings lieutenant in Ireland departed this life after he had brought in manner all that land to peace and quiet by his noble and prudent line 30 gouernement In this season Wicliffe set forth diuerse articles and conclusions of his doctrine which the new archbishop of Canturburie William Courtneie latelie remooued from the sée of London vnto the higher dignitie did what he could by all shifts to suppresse and to force such as were the setters foorth and mainteiners thereof to recant and vtterlie to renounce What he brought to passe in the booke of acts and monuments set foorth by maister I. Fox ye may find at large The tuesday next after line 40 the feast of saint Iohn Port latine an other parlement began in which at the earnest sute and request of the knights of the shires Iohn Wraie priest that was the chiefe dooer among the commons in Suffolke at Burie and Mildenhall was adiudged to be drawen and hanged although manie beleeued that his life should haue béene redeemed for some great portion of monie A lewd fellow that tooke vpon him to be skilfull in physicke and astronomie caused it to be published line 50 thorough the citie of London that vpon the Ascension euen there would rise such a pestilent planet that all those which came abroad foorth of their chambers before they had said fiue times the Lords praier then commonlie called the Pater noster and did not eate somewhat that morning before their going foorth should be taken with sicknesse suddenlie die thereof Manie fooles beléeued him and obserued his order but the next day when his presumptuous lieng could be no longer faced out he was set on horssebacke line 60 with his face towards the taile which he was compelled to hold in his hand in stéed of a bridle and so was led about
earle of Warwike which waited for his foorth comming on the Thames and suddenlie taken was shortlie slaine with manie darts daggers and his bodie left naked and all bloudie at the gate of the clinke and after was buried in the church adioining Then were diuerse persons apprehended and indited of treason wherof some were pardoned and some executed Thomas Thorpe second baron of the escheker was committed to the Tower where he remained long after for that he was knowne to be great fréend to the house of Lancaster ¶ When queene Margaret heard that the K. was taken she with hir sonne and eight persons fled to the castell of Hardlagh in Wales and was robbed by the waie in Lancashire of all hir goods to the value of ten thousand markes from thence she went into Scotland Thus you sée what fruits the trée of ciuill discord dooth bring foorth that euill tree which whilest some haue taken line 10 paine to plant and some to proine and nourish for others confusion to whome they haue giuen a taste of those apples which it bare far more bitter than coloquintida themselues haue béene forced to take such share as befell them by lot For as it is not possible that a cōmon fier whose heat flame is vniuersallie spred should spare any particular place for so should it not be generall no more is it likelie that in ciuill commotions rebellions insurrections and partakings in conflicts and pitched feelds speciallie vnder line 20 ringleaders of great countenance and personage such as be the péeres and states of kingdoms anie one should though perhaps his life yet a thousand to one not saue his bloud vnspilt nor his goods vnspoiled During this trouble a parlement was summoned to begin at Westminster in the moneth of October next following In the meane time the duke of Yorke aduertised of all these things sailed from Dubline towards England and landed at the red banke néere to the citie line 30 of Chester with no small companie and from Chester by long iournies he came to the citie of London which he entred the fridaie before the feast of S. Edward the Confessor with a sword borne naked before him with trumpets also sounding and accompanied with a great traine of men of armes and other of his fréends and seruants At his comming to Westminster he entred the palace and passing foorth directlie through the great hall staied not till he came to the chamber where the king and lords vsed to sit in line 40 the parlement time cōmonlie called the vpper house or chamber of the péeres and being there entred stept vp vnto the throne roiall and there laieng his hand vpon the cloth of estate seemed as if he meant to take possession of that which was his right for he held his hand so vpon that cloth a good pretie while and after withdrawing his hand turned his face towards the people beholding their preassing togither and marking what countenance they made Whilest he thus stood and beheld the people supposing they reioised to see his presence the archbishop line 50 of Canturburie Thomas Bourcher came to him after due salutations asked him if he would come and see the king With which demand he séeming to take disdaine answered bréefelie and in few words thus I remember not that I know anie within this realme but that it beséemeth him rather to come and sée my person than I to go and sée his The archbishop hearing his answer went backe to the king and declared what answer he had receiued of the dukes owne mouth After the archbishop was departed line 60 to the king that laie in the quéenes lodging the duke also departed and went to the most principall lodging that the king had within all his palace breaking vp the lockes and doores and so lodged himselfe therein more like to a king than a duke continuing in the same lodging for a time to the great indignation of manie that could not in anie wise like of such presumptuous attempts made by the duke to thrust himselfe in possession of the crowne and to depose king Henrie who had reigned ouer them so long a time Maister Edward Hall in his chronicle maketh mention of an oration which the duke of Yorke vttered sitting in the regall seat there in the chamber of the péeres either at this his first comming in amongst them or else at some one time after the which we haue thought good also to set downe though Iohn Whethamsted the abbat of saint Albons who liued in those daies and by all likelihood was there present at the parlement maketh no further recitall of anie words which the duke should vtter at that time in that his booke of records where he intreateth of this matter But for the oration as maister Hall hath written thereof we find as followeth ¶ During the time saith he of this parlement the duke of Yorke with a bold countenance entered into the chamber of the peeres and sat downe in the throne roiall vnder the cloth of estate which is the kings peculiar seat and in the presence of the nobilitie as well spirituall as temporall after a pause made he began to declare his title to the crowne in this forme and order as insueth The duke of Yorks oration made to the lords of the parlement MY singular good lords maruell not that I approch vnto this throne for I sit here as in the place to me by verie iustice lawfullie belonging here I rest as to whom this chaire of right apperteineth not as he which requireth of you fauour parcialitie or bearing but equall right friendlie indifferencie and true administration of iustice For I beeing the partie greeued and complainant can not minister to my selfe the medicine that should helpe me as expert leeches cunning surgians maie except you be to me both faithfull aiders also true councellors Nor yet this noble realme and our naturall countrie shall neuer be vnbuckled from hir dailie feuer except I as the principall physician and you as the true and trustie apothecaries consult togither in making of the potion and trie out the cleane and pure stuffe from the corrupt and putrified drugs For vndoubtedlie the root and bottome of this long festured canker is not yet extirpate nor the feeble foundation of this fallible building is not yet espied which hath beene and is the dailie destruction of the nobilitie and the continuall confusion of the poore communaltie of this realme and kingdome For all you know or should know that the high and mightie prince king Richard the second was the true and vndoubted heire to the valiant conqueror and renowmed prince king Edward the third as sonne heire to the hardie knight and couragious capteine Edward prince of Wales duke of Aquitaine and Cornewall eldest sonne to the said king Edward the third which king was not onelie in deed but also of all men reputed and taken for the
citie of his realme Then he led him from Bainards castell by Cheape to Barking and so returned by Watling street againe during which time there was shot out of the Tower a woonderfull peale of ordinance But he would not enter into the Tower bicause as ye haue heard before he had aduowed not to enter the fortresse of anie forren prince in the which a garrison was mainteined From London the king brought line 50 him to Richmond where manie notable feates of armes were prooued both of tilt turnie and barriers In the meane season the erle of Suffolke perceiuing what hope was to be had in forreine princes and trusting that after his life to him once granted king Henrie would 〈◊〉 set him at his full libertie was in maner contented to returne againe vnto his 〈…〉 〈…〉 and in the falling the same eagle brake and battered an other eagle that was set vp for a signe at a tauerne doore in Cheapeside Herevpon men that were giuen to gesse things that should happen by marking of strange tokens déemed that the emperour Maximilian which gaue the eagle should suffer some great misfortune as he did shortlie after by the losse of his sonne the said king Philip. ¶ And suerlie these prodigious accidents are not to be omitted as matter of course for they haue their weight and shew their truth in the issue Examples in this booke be diuerse among which one is verie memorable mentioned in the thirtie ninth yeare of Henrie the sixt At what time the duke of Yorke making an oration to the lords of the parlement for the iustifieng of his title to the crowne it chanced that a crowne which hoong in the middle of the nether house to garnish a branch to set lights vpon without touch of man or blast of wind suddenlie fell downe About which season also fell downe the crowne which stood on the top of Douer castell Which things were construed to be signes that the crowne of the realme should some waie haue a fall and so it came to passe And bicause the euents of these foreshewes had their truth as manie more of the like nature it shall not be amisse here to ad by waie of digression what hath béene obserued in former ages by forren writers in and about such foretokens The consent of the heauens and of men pronounced to Italie their calamities to come for that such as made profession to haue iudgement either by science or diuine inspiration in the things to come assured with one voice that there were in preparing both more great mutations and more strange and horrible accidents than for manie worlds before had béene discerned in anie part or circuit of the earth There were seene in the night in Pouille thrée suns in the middest of the firmament but manie clouds about them with right fearefull thunders and lightnings In the territorie of Aretze were visiblie seene passing in the aire infinit numbers of armed men vpon mightie horsses with a terrible noise of drums and trumpets The images figures of saints did sweat in manie parts of Italie In euerie place of the countrie were brought foorth manie monsters of men and other creatures with manie other things against the order of nature concurring all at one time but in diuerse places by means wherof the people were caried into incredible feares being alreadie amazed with the brute of the French powers furie of that nation with which according to the testimonie of histories they had aforetime run ouer all Italie sacked and made desolate with fire and sword the citie of Rome and subdued in Asia manie prouinces and generallie no part of the world which had not felt the vertue of their armes But albeit these iudgements are oftentimes fallible and rather coniectures vncerteine than effects happening yet the accidents that drew on brought to them in the spirits of fraile men an absolute faith credit religion So that there is in foreshe was matter of moment worthie to be obserued howsoeuer the world 〈◊〉 asléep in the lap of securitâ—e â—s touched with no feare of change But alas the Heathen could see the coâ—trarâ—e and therefore sai◠〈…〉 they were commanded to the Tower But shortlie after when they had béene tried and purged of that suspicion he commanded them both to be set at libertie But sir Thomas Gréene fell sicke before and remained in the Tower in hope to be restored to his health as well as to his libertie but by death he was preuented And here bicause it is good to see the consent of histories in the report of accidents it shall not be amisse to repeat the entier relation of a late writer stranger touching this casualtie which befell line 10 to king Philip in such sort to be cast vpon the English coasts as also the promise of the said king to deliuer the duke of Suffolke into the hands of king Henrie with the cause as it is supposed why the king desired to haue him within his owne reach ¶ King Philip was imbarked to saile out of Flanders into Spaine with a great armie by sea and to reduce his going to a more facilitie and safetie for he feared least his father in law by the aid of the French would hinder his passage he practised the Spanish line 20 subtilties and agréed with him to leaue vnto him the managing and policie of the most part of affaires and that they shuld take in common the title of king of Spaine according to the example in the queenes time and lastlie that the reuenues and tributes should be diuided in an order certeine indifferent By reason of which accord his father in law notwithstanding he was not assured of the obseruation sent him into Flanders manie ships to furnish his voiage with the which hauing imbarked his wife and line 30 Ferdinand his second sonne he tooke his course into Spaine with forward winds which within two dais turning cleane contrarie after his nauie had runne a dangerous fortune and made a wearie resistance against the furie of the sea his ships were cast vpon sundrie coasts of England and Britaine his owne person with two or thrée ships being driuen with manifest perill vpon England into the hauen of South-hampton Whereof Henrie the seuenth then king of that line 40 nation being aduertised sent to him with spéed manie barons to doo him honour and desire him to come to his court then at London a request which Philip could not denie the king of Englands demand beeing no lesse honourable than his owne estate full of necessitie and nakednesse He remained in the court of England vntill all his nauie was reassembled and eftsoones rigged making in the meane while betwéene them new capitulations wherein albeit Philip in all other things held himselfe vsed as a king yet line 50 in this one thing complained that he was constreined as a prisoner to consent to redeliuer to K. Henries hands the duke
the sixt of Henrie the fourth and the yeare of Christ 1405 againe rebelled and after fled into Scotland to Dauid lord Fleming who receiued him and in the seuenth yeare of Henrie the fourth being the yere of our redemption 1506 as saith Iohn Stow. This Dauid persuaded the erle to flie into Wales for which cause the Scots slue the said Dauid After this in the ninth yeare of Henrie the fourth he came into England raised the people and was slaine at Broomâ—ham neere to Hasewood in a conflict had with him by Thomas Rockleie shiriffe of Yorkshire He married two wiues the first was Margaret daughter to Rafe lord Neuill by whome he had issue Henrie Persie surnamed Hotspurre slaine at the battell of Shrewesburie in the fourth yeare of Henrie the fourth in his fathers life Thomas and Rafe His second wife was Mawd daughter to Thomas lord Lucie and sister and heire to Anthonie lord Lucie baron of Cockermouth being before the widow of Gilbert Humfreuill called the earle of Angus This ladie Mawd gaue to hir husband the lordship and castell of Cockermouth whereby the earles of Northumberland are bound still to beare the armes of Lucie Iohn duke of Bedford the sonne and brother of kings for so he calleth himselfe in the precept to summon Reginald lord Greie sir Edward Hastings knight to determine the controuersie for bearing of the armes of Hastings earle of Penbroke in the marshals court was earle of Richmond and Kendall and constable of England being aduanced to that office about the eight yeare of Henrie the fourth his father being the yeare of our redemption 1406 of whome there is more mention in the following discourse of the protectors of England Humfrie earle of Stafford Hereford and Northhampton lord of Breenocke Holdernesse and of Cambridge and constable of England and of Douer castell in the eight yeare of king Henrie the sixt being the yeare of Christ 1430 went into France with Henrie the sixt to attend his coronation at Paris He was created duke of Buckingham in the two and twentith yeare of Henrie the sixt being the yeare of Christ 1444. He was slaine at the battell of Northampton in the eight and thirtith yeare of king Henrie the sixt being the yeare of our Lord 1460 he maried Anne daughter to Rafe Neuil erle of Westmerland he had amongst manie other of his children Humfrie his eldest sonne earle Stafford hurt as hath Iohn Stow with an arrow in the right hand at the battell of saint Albons in the three and thirtith yeare of Henrie the sixt being the yeare of our Lord 1455 of which battell of saint Albons thus writeth Iohn Whethamsted a learned abbat of that hâ—use Dum Maius madidi flos floâ— uit imbribus austri Mollibus Zephyrus refouerat flatilus aruos Flora velut regnans herbis ditauerat hortâ—s Post glacies inopes hos fecerat locupleâ—es Sic râ—pidis stilbon praeâ—onibus vndÃque regnum Repleuerat nimis sic latè staâ—serat ipses Vt villam tandem tantus peruaserat isâ—am Illorum numerus quod vlx euaderet vnus Quin spolium lueret spoliantes vel trepidaret Aâ—cidit ex causa spoliatio tam grauis ista Mars coeli dominus fuerat tunc soror eius In terris domina belli Bellona vocata Vnde malum multis signanter partibus istis Contigit bellum fuit istic grande peractum Sanguis effusus multus dux est iugulatus Illius pugnae quae fertur causa fuisse Bello finito strepitu quóque pacificato line 10 Indultum est praedae praedones quippe fuere Victores omnes nulli quasi compatientes Tunc rex tunc proceres tunc villani quóque plures Ac alij varij fuerant rebus spoliati Attamen ecclesia simul ecclesiae bona cuncta Intra quae fuerant sub clausuráque iacebant Manserunt salua nec ei res defuit vlla Laus igitur domino laus in speciéque patrono Cuius per media stabant sua singula salua Saluis in cunctiâ— simul abbas frater omnis line 20 Spiritus ille bonus sine fallo spiritus almus Ad villam regem qui direxit venientem Illius ad medium nec tunc permiserat ipsum Ecclesiam petere conseruauit sua quaeque Sed patronus erat qui pro monachis mediarat A raptore locúmque suum seruauit omnem Ipsius ornatum fedari nec siuit ipsum Sâ—rex intrasset secúmque ducem sociasset Valuas ecclesiae paruissent cuncta rapinae Nec poterat furias quisquam compescere plebis line 30 Laus igitur domino rursus rursusque patrono Stat locusisâ—e suo saluus munimine soâ—o Saluaque supposita sua salua iocalia cuncta Iohn Tiptoth or Tiptost knight the son of Iohn lord Tiptost and of Ioice his wife second daughter to Edmund Charleton lord Powes was treasuror of the realme in Michaelmasse tearme in the tenth yere of Henrie the fourth after which he was againe admitted to that office in the one and thirtith and two and thirtith yeare of Henrie the sixt from which place line 40 being once more remooued he was the third time aduanced to the honor of lord treasuror of England in the second of Edward the fourth and continued the same in the third of the said king He was created earle of Worcester in the time of king Henrie the sixt This man in the yeare 1470 being the tenth of king Edward the fourth tooke his part against the duke of Clarence and Richard Neuill earle of Warwike at what time the said duke and earle being discomfited sled to the sea side and thence sailed line 50 to Southhampton where they thought to haue had the Trinitie a great ship of the earle of Warwikes but the lord Scales the queenes brother fought with them and inforced them to flie into France Wherevpon king Edward the fourth came to Southhampton and caused Tiptost earle of Worcester to sit in iudgement vpon certeine gentlemen as Clapham and others taken at the same skirmish of Southhampton where the earle caused the bodies of certeine condemned men after that they were hanged line 60 to be thrust thorough the fundament vp to the head with stakes for the which crueltie he and others fell into indignation of the common people Before which in the eight yeare of king Edward he was with Iohn Dudleie made constable of the Tower during their liues and the longer liuer of them two After this in the said yeare 1470 being the tenth of Edward the fourth in which Henrie the sixt readepted the crowne of England which yeare of Henrie the sixt is called in the law bookes the fourtie ninth yere of the reigne of K. Henrie the sixt This earle of Worcester was taken in the top of an high trée in the forest of Weibridge in Huntingtonshire brought to London and at a parlement arrested and condemned to death by sir Iohn Uere earle of
approching towards them sent vnto them the kings maiesties proclamation the effect whereof was that all such persons as were vnlawfullie assembled and did not within thrée daies next after the proclaming thereof yéeld and submit themselues to the lord priuie seale the kings lieutenant they should from thenceforth be déemed accepted and taken for rebels against his roiall person and his imperiall crowne and dignitie And further the kings maiestie for a more terrour to the rebels and the incouragement of such other his louing subiects as should helpe and aid to apprehend anie of the said rebels he by his said proclamation granted and gaue all the offices fées goods and possessions which the said rebels had at and before their apprehension This proclamation notwithstanding the rebels continued in their wicked deuises traitorous purposes hastening to the hazzards of their owne deaths vndooings as the poet saith of the foolish fish swiming to the hidden hooke Occultum visus decurrere piscis ad hamum Wherevpon yet once againe the kings maiestie for the auoiding of the shedding of christian bloud sent vnto them a most gentle and louing message in writing thereby to reduce them againe to their dutifull obedience but all would not serue nor auaile to mooue their obstinate minds to leaue off their desperate and diuelish enterprise The message was as followeth The kings message to the rebels of Cornewall and Deuonshire ALthough knowledge hath beene giuen to vs and our deerest vncle the duke of Summerset gouernor of our person and protector of all our realms dominions and subiects and to the rest of our priuie councell of diuerse assemblies made by you which ought of dutie to be our louing subiects against all order of law and otherwise than euer anie louing or kind subiects haue attempted against their naturall and liege souereigne lord yet we haue thought it méet at this verie first time not to condemne and reiect you as we might iustlie doo but to vse you as our subiects thinking that the diuell hath not that power in you to make you of naturall borne Englishmen so suddenlie to become enimies to your owne natiue countrie of our subiects to make you traitors or vnder pretense to relieue your selues to destroie your selues your wiues children lands possessions and all other commodities of this your life This we saie that we trust that although ye be ignorantlie seduced ye will not be vpon knowledge obstinate And though some amongst you as euer there is some cockle amongst good corne forget God neglect line 10 their prince estéeme not the state of the realme but as carelesse desperat men delite in sedition tumults wars yet neuerthelesse the greater part of you will heare the voice of vs your naturall prince and will by wisedome and counsell be warned and cease your euils in the beginning whose ends will be euen by God almighties order your owne destruction Wherfore as to you our subiects by ignorance seduced we speake and be content to vse our princelie authoritie like a father to his children to admonish line 20 you of your faults not to punish them to put you in remembrance of your duties not to auenge your forgetfulnesse First your disorder to rise in multitudes to assemble your selues against our other louing subiects to arraie your selues to the war who amongst you all can answer for the same to almightie God charging you to obeie vs in all things Or how can anie English good hart answer vs our lawes and the rest of our verie louing and faithfull subiects who in deed by their obedience make our line 30 honour estate and degrée Ye vse our name in your writings and abuse the same against our selfe What iniurie herein doo you vs to call those which loue vs to your euill purposes by the authoritie of our name God hath made vs your king by his ordinance and prouidence by our bloud and inheritance by lawfull succession and our coronation but not to this end as you vse our name We are your most naturall souereigne lord king Edward the sixt to rule you to preserue you to saue line 40 you from all your outward enimies to sée our lawes well ministred euerie man to haue his owne to suppresse disordered people to correct traitors théeues pirats robbers such like yea to keepe our realms from other princes from the malice of the Scots of Frenchmen of the bishop of Rome Thus good subiects our name is written thus it is honored and obeied this maiestie it hath by Gods ordinance not by mans So that of this your offense we cannot write too much And yet doubt not but this is inough line 50 from a prince to all reasonable people from a roiall king to all kindharted louing subiects frō the puissant K. of England to euerie naturall Englishman Your pretense which you saie moueth you to doo thus and wherewith you séeke to excuse this disorder we assure you is either false or so vaine that we doubt not that after that ye shall hereby vnderstand the truth thereof ye will all with one voice acknowlege your selues ignorantlie led and by errour seduced And if there be anie one that will not then assure line 60 you the same be ranke traitors enimies of our crowne seditious people heretikes papists or such as care not what cause they haue to prouoke an insurrection so they may doo it nor in deed can wax so rich with their owne labors with peace as they can doo with spoiles with wars with robberies and such like yea with the spoile of your owne goods with the liuing of your labors the sweat of your bodies the food of your owne households wiues and children such they be as for a time vse pleasant persuasions to you and in the end will cut your throtes for your owne goods You be borne in hand that your children though necessitie chance shall not be christened but vpon the holie daies how false this is learne you of vs. Our booke which we haue set foorth by free consent of our whole parlement in the English toong teacheth you the contrarie euen in the first leafe yea the first side of the first leafe of that part which intreateth of baptisme Good subiects for to other we speake not looke be not deceiued They which haue put this false opinion into your eares they meane not the christening of children but the destruction of you our christened subiects Be this knowne vnto you that our honor is so much that we may not be found faultie of one iote or word proue it if by our laws you may not christen your children when ye be disposed vpon necessitie euerie daie or houre in the wéeke then might you be offended but seeing you may doo it how can you beléeue them that teach you the contrarie What thinke you they meane in the rest which moue you to breake your obedience against vs your king souereigne
vpon these so false tales persuasions in so euident a matter Therfore all you which will acknowledge vs your souereigne lord and which will heare the voice of vs your king may easilie perceiue how you be deceiued and how subtillie traitors and papists with their falsehood séeke to atchiue and bring their purpose to passe with your helpe Euerie traitor will be glad to dissemble his treason and féed it secretlie euerie papist his poperie and nourish it inwardlie and in the end make you our subiects partakers of treason and poperie which in the beginning was pretended to be a commonweale and holinesse And how are you seduced by them which put in your heads the blessed sacrament of Christes bodie should not differ from other common bread If our lawes proclamations and statutes be all to the contrarie whie shall anie priuat man persuade you against them We doo our selfe in our owne hart our councell in all their profession our lawes and statutes in all purposes our good subiects in all our dooings most highlie estéeme that sacrament and vse the communion thereof to our most comfort We make so much difference thereof from other common bread that we thinke no profit of other bread but to mainteine our bodies but this blessed bread we take to be the verie food of our soules to euerlasting life How thinke you good subiects shall not we being your prince your lord your king by Gods appointment with truth more preuaile than certeine euill persons with open falsehood Shall anie seditious person persuade you that the sacrament is despised which is by our lawes by our selfe by our councell and by all our good subiects estéemed vsed participated and dailie receiued If euer ye were seduced if euer deceiued if euer traitors were beleeued if euer papists poisoned good subiects it is now It is not the christening of children nor the reuerence of the sacrament nor the health of your soules that they shoot at good subiects it is sedition it is high treason it is your destruction they séeke How craftilie how pitiouslie how cunninglie so euer they doo it with one rule iudge yée the end which of force must come of your purposes Almightie God forbiddeth vpon paine of euerlasting damnation disobedence to vs your king and in his place we rule in earth If we should be slow would God erre If your offense be towards God thinke you it is pardoned without repentance Is Gods iudgement mutable Your paine is damnation your iudge is incorruptible your fault is most euident Likewise are ye euill informed in diuerse other articles as for confirmation of your children for the masse for the maner of your seruice of mattins and euensong Whatsoeuer is therein ordered hath beene long debated and consulted by manie learned bishops doctors and other men of great learning in this realme concluded in nothing so much labour and time spent of late time nothing so fullie ended As for seruice in the English toong hath manifest reasons for it and yet perchance seemeth to you a new seruice and yet in déed is none other but the old The selfe same words in English which were in Latin sauing a few things taken out so fond that it had béene a shame to haue heard them in English as all they can iudge which list to report the truth The difference is that we ment godlie that you our subiects should vnderstand in English being our line 10 naturall countrie toong that which was heretofore spoken in Latine then seruing onelie them which vnderstand Latine now for all you that be borne English How can this with reason offend anie reasonable man that he should vnderstand what anie other saith and so to consent with the speaker If the seruice in the church were good in Latine it remaineth good in English for nothing is altered but to speake with knowledge that before was spoken line 20 with ignorance and to let you vnderstand what is said for you to the intent you maie further it with your owne deuotion an alteration to the better except knowledge be worse than ignorance So that whosoeuer hath mooued you to mislike this order can giue you no reason nor answer yours if ye vnderstand it Wherefore you our subiects remember we speake to you being ordeined your prince and king by almightie God if anie wise we could aduance Gods line 30 honour more than we doo we would doo it and sée that ye become subiects to Gods ordinance Obeie vs your prince and learne of them which haue authoritie to teach you which haue power to rule you and will execute our iustice if we be prouoked Learne not of them whose fruits be nothing but wilfulnesse disobedience obstinacie destruction of the realme For the masse we assure you no small studie trauell hath béene spent by all the learned clergie therin and to auoid all contention thereof it is brought line 40 euen to the verie vse as Christ left it as the apostles vsed it as holie fathers deliuered it indeed somwhat altered from that which the popes of Rome for their lucre brought to it And although you maie heare the contrarie of some popish and euill men yet our maiestie which for our honor maie not be blemished nor stained assureth you that they deceiue you abuse you and blow these opinions into your heads for to furnish their owne purposes And so likewise iudge you of confirmation of line 50 children and let them answer you this one question Thinke they that a child christened is damned bicause he dieth before bishopping Marke good subiects what inconuenience hereof commeth Our doctrine therefore is founded vpon true learning and theirs vpon shamelesse errors To conclude beside our gentle maner of information to you whatsoeuer is conteined in our booke either for baptisme sacrament masse confirmation and seruice in the church is by parlement established by the whole clergie line 60 agréed yea by the bishops of the realme deuised further by Gods word confirmed And how dare you trust yea how dare you giue eare without trembling to anie singular person to disalow a parlement a subiect to persuade against our maiestie or anie man of his single arrogancie against the determination of the bishops and all the cleargie anie inuented argument against the word of God But now you our subiects we resort to a greater matter of your vnkindnesse a great vnnaturalnes and such an euill that if we thought it had not béene begun of ignorance and continued by persuasion of certeine traitors amongst you which we thinke few in number but in their dooings busie we could not be persuaded but to vse our sword and doo iustice and as we be ordeined of God for to redresse your errors by auengement But loue and zeale yet ouercommeth our iust anger but how long that will be God knoweth in whose hand our heart is and rather for your owne causes being our christened subiects we would ye
along that waie from the house through the garden and so into the field where he laie Then the maior and his companie that were with him went into the house and knowing hir euill demeanor in times past examined hir of the matter but she defied them and said I would you should know I am no such woman Then they examined hir seruants and in the examination by reason of a péece of his heare any bloud found néere to the house in the waie by the which they caried him foorth and likewise by the knife with which she had thrust him into the brest and the clout wherewith they wiped the bloud awaie which they found in the tub into the which the same were throwen they all confessed the matter and hir selfe beholding hir husbands bloud said Oh the bloud of God helpe for this bloud haue I shed Then were they all attached and committed to prison and the maior with others went presentlie to the flower de lice where they found Mosbie in bed and as they came towards him they espied his hose and pursse stained with some of maister Ardens bloud And when he asked what they meant by their comming in such sort they said Sée here ye may vnderstand wherefore by these tokens shewing him the bloud on his hose and pursse Then he confessed the déed and so he and all the other that had conspired the murder were apprehended and laid in prison except Gréene blacke Will and the painter which painter and George Shakebag that was also fled before were neuer heard of Shortlie were the sessions kept at Feuersham where all the prisoners were arreigned and condemned And therevpon being examined whither they had anie other complices mistres Arden accused Bradshaw vpon occasion of the letter sent by Gréene from Graues end as before ye haue heard which words had none other meaning but onelie by Bradshaws describing of blacke Wils qualities Gréene iudged him a méete instrument for the execution of their pretended murder Whereto notwithstanding as Gréene confessed at his death certeine yeares after this Bradshaw was neuer made priuie howbeit he was vppon this accusation of mistres Arden immediatlie sent for to the sessions and indicted and declaration made against him as a procurer of blacke Will to kill maister Arden which procéeded wholie by misvnderstanding of the words conteined in the letter which he brought from Greene. Then he desired to talke with the persons condemned and his request was granted He therefore demanded of them if they knew him or euer had anie conuersation with him they all said no. Then the letter being shewed and read he declared the verie truth of the matter and vpon what occasion he told Gréene of blacke Will neuerthelesse he was condemned and suffered These condemned persons were diuerslie executed in sundrie places for Michaell maister Ardens man was hanged in chaines at Feuersham and one of the maids was burnt there pitifullie bewailing hir case and cried out on hir mistres that had brought hir to this end for the which she would neuer forgiue hir Mosbie his sister were hanged in Smithfield at London line 10 mistres Arden was burned at Canturburie the foure and twentith of March Gréene came againe certeine yeares after was apprehended condemned hanged in chaines in the high waie betwixt Ospring Boughton against Feuersham blacke Will was burnt on a scaffold at Flishing in Zeland Adam Foule that dwelt at the floure de lice in Feuersham was brought into trouble about this matter and caried vp to London with his legs bound vnder the horsse bellie and committed to prison line 20 in the Marshalseie for that Mosbie was heard to saie Had it not béene for Adam Foule I had not come to this trouble meaning that the bringing of the siluer dice for a token to him from mistresse Arden as ye haue heard occasioned him to renew familiaritie with hir againe But when the matter was throughlie ripped vp that Mosbie had cléered him protesting that he was neuer of knowledge in anie behalfe to the murder the mans innocencie preserued him line 30 This one thing séemeth verie strange and notable touching maister Arden that in the place where he was laid being dead all the proportion of his bodie might be séene two yeares after and more so plaine as could be for the grasse did not grow where his bodie had touched but betwéene his legs betweene his armes and about the hollownesse of his necke and round about his bodie and where his legs armes head or anie other part of his bodie had touched no grasse growed at all of all that time So that manie strangers came in that meane time beside line 40 the townesmen to see the print of his bodie there on the ground in that field Which field he had as some haue reported most cruellie taken from a woman that had beene a widow to one Cooke and after maried to one Richard Read a mariner to the great hinderance of hir and hir husband the said Read for they had long inioied it by a lease which they had of it for manie yeares not then expired neuerthelesse he got it from them For the which the line 50 said Reads wife not onelie exclaimed against him in sheading manie a salt téere but also curssed him most bitterlie euen to his face wishing manie a vengeance to light vpon him and that all the world might woonder on him Which was thought then to come to passe when he was thus murdered and laie in that field from midnight till the morning and so all that daie being the faire daie till night all the which daie there were manie hundreds of people came woondering about him And thus far touching this horrible and heinous murder of maister Arden line 60 To returne then where we left About this time the kings maiestie calling his high court of parlement held the same at Westminster the three and twentith daie of Ianuarie in this fift yéere of his reigne and there continued it vntill the fiftéenth daie of Aprill in the sixt yeare of his said reigne In this parlement the booke of common praier which in some part had béene corrected and amended was newlie confirmed established ¶ In the end of this parlement namelie the fifteenth of Aprill the infectious sweating sicknesse began at Shrewesburie which ended not in the north part of England vntill the end of September In this space what number died it cannot be well accounted but certeine it is that in London in few daies nine hundred and sixtie gaue vp the ghost It began in London the ninth of Iulie and the twelfth of Iulie it was most vehement which was so terrible that people being in best helth were suddenlie taken and dead in foure and twentie houres and twelue or lesse for lacke of skill in guiding them in their sweat And it is to be noted that this mortalitie fell
such as be declared in the fiue and twentith yeare of king Edward the third both which statutes I pray you my lords maie be read here to the inquest No sir there shall be no bookes brought at your desire we doo all know the law sufficientlie without booke Doo you bring me hither to trie me by the law will not shew me the law What is your knowlege of the law to these mens satisfactions which haue my triall in hand I praie you my lords and my lords all let the statutes be read as well for the quéene as for me My lord chiefe iustice can shew the law and will if the iurie doo doubt of anie point You know it were indifferent that I should know and heare the law whereby I am adiudged and for asmuch as the statute is in English men of meaner learning than the iustices can vnderstand it or else how should we know when we offend You know not what belongeth to your case and therefore we must teach you it apperteineth not to line 10 vs to prouide bookes for you neither sit we here to be taught of you you should haue taken better héed to the law before you had come hither Because I am ignorant I would learne and therefore I haue more néed to sée the law and partlie as well for the instructions of the iurie as for my own satisfaction which mee thinke were for the honor of this presence And now if it please you my lord chiefe iustice I doo direct my spéech speciallie to you line 20 What time it pleased the quéenes maiestie to call you to this honorable office I did learne of a great personage of hir highnesse priuie councell that amongst other good instructions hir maiestie charged and inioined you to minister the law and iustice indifferentlie without respect of persons And notwithstanding the old error amongst you which did not admit anie witnesse to speake or anie other matter to be heard in the fauor of the aduersarie hir maiestie being partie hir highnesse pleasure was line 30 that whatsoeuer could be brought in the fauor of the subiect should be admitted to be heard And moreouer that you speciallie likewise all other iustices should not persuade themselues to sit in iudgement otherwise for hir highnesse than for hir subiect Therefore this maner of indifferent proceeding being principallie inioined by Gods commandement which I had thought partlie to haue remembred you others here in commission in the beginning if I might haue had leaue and the same also being commanded line 40 you by the quéens owne mouth me thinke you ought of right to suffer me to haue the statutes read openlie and also to reiect nothing that could be spoken in my defense and in thus dooing you shall shew your selues woorthie ministers and fit for so woorthie a mistresse You mistake the matter the queene spake those words to maister Morgan chiefe iustice of the common plées but you haue no â—ause to complaine for you haue béene suffered to talke at your pleasure line 50 What would you doo with the statute booke The iurie dooth not require it they haue heard the euidence and they must vpon their conscience trie whether you be guiltie or no so as the booke needeth not if they will not credit the euidence so apparant then they know not what they haue to doo You ought not to haue anie books read here at your appointment for where dooth arise anie doubt in the law the iudges sit here to informe the court and now you doo but spend time line 60 I pray you my lord chiefe iustice repeat the euidence for the queene and giue the iurie their charge for the prisoner will kéepe you here all daie How saie you Haue you anie more to saie for your selfe You seeme to giue and offer me the law but in verie déed I haue onelie the forme and image of the law neuerthelesse sith I cannot be suffered to haue the statutes red openlie in the booke I will by your patience gesse at them as I maie and I praie you to helpe me if I mistake for it is long since I did sée them The statute of repeale made the last parlement hath these words Be it enacted by the quéene that from henceforth none act deed or offense being by act of parlement or statute made treason petit treason or misprision of treason by words writing printing ciphering déeds or otherwise whatsoeuer shall be taken had déemed or adiudged treason petit treason but onelie such as be declared or expressed to be treason in or by an act of parlement made in the fiue and twentith yeare of Edward the third touching and concerning treasons and the declaration of treasons and none other Here may you sée this statute dooth referre all the offenses aforesaid to the statute of the fiue and twentith yeare of Edward the third which statute hath these words touching and concerning the treasons that I am indicted and arreigned of that is to saie Whosoeuer dooth compasse or imagine the death of the king or leuie warre against the king in his realme or being adherent to the kings enimies within this realme or elsewhere and be thereof probablie attainted by open déed by people of their condition shall be adiudged a traitor Now I praie you of my iurie which haue my life in triall note well what things at this daie be treasons and how these treasons must be tried and decerned that is to say by open déed which the lawes dooth at some time terme Ouert act And now I aske notwithstanding my indictment which is but matter alleged where dooth appeare the open déed of anie compassing or imagining the queenes death Or where dooth appeare anie open déed of being adherent to the quéens enimies giuing to them aid and comfort Or where dooth appeare anie open déed of taking the tower of London Why doo not you of the quéenes learned councell answer him Me thinke Throckmorton you need not haue the statutes for you haue them méetlie perfectlie You are deceiued to conclude all treasons in the statute of the fiue and twentith yeare of Edward the third for that statute is but a declaration of certeine treasons which were treasons before at the common law Euen so there dooth remaine diuerse other treasons at this daie at the common law which be expressed by that statute as the iudges can declare Neuerthelesse there is matter sufficient alleged and prooued against you to bring you within the compasse of the same statute I praie you expresse those matters that bring me within the compasse of the statute of Edward the third For the words be these And be thereof attainted by open déed By people of like condition Throckmorton you deceiue your selfe and mistake these words By people of their condition For thereby the law dooth vnderstand the discouering of your treasons
the principall and accessaries in felonie and murther be triable and punishable by the common law and so in those cases the iudges maie vse their equitie extending the determination of the fault as they thinke good but in treson it is otherwise the same being limited by statute which I saie and aduow is restreined from anie iudges construction by the maxime that I recited Your lordships doo know a case in Richard the thirds time where the procurer to counterfeit false monie was iudged a traitor and the law was as it is now Maister sergeant dooth remember you Throckmorton of an experience before our time that the law hath béene so taken and yet the procurer was not expressed in the statute but the law hath béene alwaies so taken I neuer studied the law whereof I doo much repent me yet I remember whilest penall statutes were talked of in the parlement house you the learned men of the house remembred some cases contrarie to this last spoken of And if I missreport them I praie you helpe me In the like case you speake of concerning the procurer to counterfeit false monie at one time the procurer was iudged a felon and at another time neither felon nor traitor so as some of your predecessors adiudged the procurer no traitor in the same case but leaned to their principall though some other extend their constructions too large And here is two cases with me for one against me Because you replie vpon the principall I will remember where one taking the great seale of England from one writing and putting it to another was adiudged a traitor in Henrie the fourths time and yet his act was not within the expresse words of the statute of Edward the third There be diuerse other such like cases that maie be alledged and need were I praie you my lord chiefe iustice call to your good remembrance that in the selfe same case of the seale line 10 iustice Spilman a graue well learned man since that time would not condemne the offendor but did reprooue that former iudgement by you last remembred as erronious If I had thought you had béene so well furnished in booke cases I would haue béene better prouided for you I haue nothing but I learned of you speciallie maister sergeant and of others my maisters of the law in the parlement house therefore I maie saie line 20 with the prophet Salutem ex inimicis nostris You haue a verie good memorie If the prisoner maie auoid his treasons after this maner the quéenes suretie shall be in great ieopardie For Iacke Cade the blacke smith and diuerse other traitors sometime alledging the law for them sometime they meant no harme to the king but against his councell as Wiat the duke of Suffolke and these did against the Spaniards when there was no Spaniards within the realme The duke and his brethren did mistake the law as you doo yet at line 30 length did confesse their ignorance and submitted themselues and so were you best to doo As to Cade and the blacke smith I am not so well acquainted with their treasons as you be but I haue read in the chronicle they were in the field with a force against the prince whereby a manifest act did appéere As to the duke of Suffolkes dooings they apperteine not to me And though you would compare my spéech and talke against the Spaniards to the dukes acts who assembled a force in armes it is line 40 euident they differ much I am sorie to ingréeue anie other mans dooings but it serueth me for a péece of my defense and therefore I wish that no man should gather euill of it God forbid that words and acts be thus confounded Sir William Stanleie vsed this shift that the prisoner vseth now he said he did not leuie warre against king Henrie the seauenth but said to the duke of Buckingham that in a good quarrell he would line 50 aid him with fiue hundred men and neuerthelesse Stanleie was for those words atteinted who as all the world knoweth had before that time serued the king verie faithfullie and trulie I praie you maister attorneie doo not conclude against me by blind contraries Whether you alledge Stanlies case trulie or no I know not But admit it be as you saie what dooth this prooue against me I promised no aid to maister Wiat nor to anie other The duke of Buckingham leuied warre against line 60 the king with whome Stanleie was confederat so to doo as you saie I praie you my lords that be the queens commissioners suffer not the prisoner to vse the quéenes learned councell thus I was neuer interrupted thus in my life nor I neuer knew anie thus suffered to talke as this prisoner is suffered some of vs will come no more at the barre we be thus handled Throckmorton you must suffer the quéenes learned councell to speake or else we must take order with you you haue had leaue to talke at your pleasure It is prooued that you did talke with Wiat against the comming of the Spaniards and deuised to interrupt their arriuall and you promised to doo what you could against them wherevpon Wiat being incoraged by you did leuie a force and attempted warre against the quéenes roiall person It was no treason nor no procurement of treason to talke against the comming hither of the Spaniards neither was it treason for me to saie I would hinder their comming hither as much as I could vnderstanding me rightlie as I meane it yea though you would extend it to the worst it was but words it was not treason at this daie as the law standeth And as for Wiats dooing they touch me nothing for at his death when it was no time to report vntruelie he purged me By sundrie cases remembred here by the queenes learned councell as you haue heard that procurement which did appeare none otherwise but by words and those you would make nothing hath béene of long time and by sundrie well learned men in the lawes adiudged treason And therefore your procurement being so euident as it is we maie lawfullie saie it was treason bicause Wiat performed a traitorous act As to the said alleaged forepresidents against me I haue recited as manie for me and I would you my lord chiefe iustice should incline your iudgments rather after the example of your honourable predecessors iustice Markam and others which did eschue corrupt iudgements iudging directlie and sincerelie after the law the principles in the same than after such men as swaruing from the truth the maxime and the law did iudge corruptlie maliciouslie and affectionatlie Iustice Markam had reason to warrant his dooings for it did appeare a merchant of London was arreigned and slanderouslie accused of treason for compassing and imagining the kings death he did saie he would make his sonne heire
marquesse of Excester cousine germane to king Henrie the eight as is said before For the said king and he were descended of two sisters Elizabeth and Katharine two of the daughters of king Edward the line 30 fourth which propinquitie of bloud notwithstanding the said marquesse for points of treason laid against him suffered at the tower hill the thirtith yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the eight to the great dolour of the most of the subiects of this realme who for his sundrie vertues bare him great fauour and goodwill After whose death this yoong gentleman his sonne being yet a child was committed prisoner to the tower where he remained vntill the beginning of line 40 the reigne of this quéene Marie as before you haue heard This gentleman as it appeared was borne to be a prisoner for from twelue yeares of age vnto thirtie he had scarse two yeares libertie within the which time he died and obteined quiet which in his life he could neuer haue In the moneth of Maie next following cardinall Poole who had bin a great labourer for peace betwéene the French king and the emperour being accompanied with Stephan Gardiner bishop of Winchester and chancellor of England line 50 the erle of Arundell lord steward and the lord Paget were sent by the king and quéene ouer the sea to Calis from thence went to the towne of Marke where they met with the ambassadors of the emperor and the French king From the emperour were sent the bishop of Arras with others From the French king was sent the cardinall of Loraine and the constable of France In this treatie cardinall Poole sat as president and vmpier in the name of the queene of England This peace was greatlie laboured line 60 where at the first there was much hope but in the end nothing was concluded wherefore the seauenteenth daie of Iune this assemblie was dissolued and the English ambassadours returned againe into England ¶ In this moneth of August in Suffolke at a place by the sea side all of hard stone and pibble called in those parts a shelfe lieng betwéene the townes of Oxford and Alborough where neuer grew grasse nor any earth was euer séene there chanced in this barren place suddenlie to spring vp without any tillage or sowing great abundance of peason whereof the poore gathered as men iudged aboue an hundred quarters yet remained some ripe some blossoming as manie as euer there were before To the which place rode the bishop of Norwich and the lord Willoughbie with others in great number who found nothing but hard râ—ckie stone for the space of thrée yards vnder the roots of those peason which roots were great and long and verie swéet in tast to the mouth of the eater c. On Bartholomew euen after the Lord maior and aldermen of London had rid about Bartholomew faire they came to Christes hospitall within Newgate where they heard a disputation betwéene the scholers of Paules schoole saint Anthonies schoole and the scholers of the said hospitall for whome was prouided thrée games which was three pennes the best pen of siluer and gilt valued at fiue shillings woone by a scholer of saint Anthonies schoole and the maister of that schoole had six shillings eight pence the second a pen of siluer parcell gilt valued at iiij shillings woone by a scholer of Paules schoole his maister had fiue shillings in monie the third a pen of siluer valued at thrée shillings woone by a scholer of the said hospitall and his maister had foure shillings And there were two preests maisters of arts appointed for iudges which had each of them a siluer rule for their paines valued at six shillings eight pence the peece The disputation being ended the maior and aldermen entred the hall where the children of the hospitall vse to dine and had fruit wine and so departed King Philip went ouer seas and landed at Calis on the fourth of September where he was honorably receiued by the lord deputie the maior of the staple of Calis an alderman of London named sir Andrew Iud presenting his maiestie with a purse a thousand marks of gold in it that night the king was lodged in staple inne and on the morrow he departed from Calis towards Brussels in Brabant to visit the emperor his father he gaue at his departing among the souldiors of the towne of Calis a thousand crownes of gold and there accompanied him in his iournie of English lords the earle of Arundell lord steward of the quéenes house the earle of Penbroke the earle of Huntington and others On Michaelmasse euen the prisoners that laie in the counter in Bredstréet were remoued to a new counter made in Woodstréet of the cities purchase building the which remoouing was confirmed by a common councell assembled at the Guildhall for that purpose On the last of September by occasion of great wind and raine that had fallen was such great floods that that morning the kings palace at Westminster and Westminster hall was ouerflowne with water vnto the staire foot going to the chancerie and kings bench so that when the lord maior of London should come to present the shiriffes to the barons of the excheker all Westminster hall was full of water And by report there that morning a whirriman rowed with his bote ouer Westminster bridge into the palace court and so through the staple gate and all the wooll staple into the kings stréet and all the marshes on Lambeth side were so ouerflowne that the people from Newington church could not passe on foot but were caried by bote from the said church to the pinfold neere to saint Georges in Southworke About this time the bishop of Lincolne Glocester and Bristow were sent in commission to Oxford by the popes authoritie to examine Ridleie and Latimer vpon certeine articles by them preached which if they would not recant and consent to the popes doctrine then had they power to proceed in sentence against them as heretikes and to commit them ouer to the secular power Those two doctors neuertheles stood constantlie to that which they had taught and would not reuoke for which cause they were condemned and after burned in the towne ditch at Oxford the sixtéenth daie of October In the time of whose examination bicause the bishops aforesaid declared themselues to be the popes commissioners neither Ridleie nor Latimer would doo them any reuerence but kept their caps on their heads wherefore they were sharplie rebuked by the bishop of Lincolne and one of the officers was commanded for to line 10 take of their caps Of these men and the maner of their death ye may read at large in the booke of the monuments of the church The one and twentith of October a parlement was holden at Westminster in the which amongst other things the queene being persuaded by the cardinall and other of hir clergie that she
these sort are for their contrarie opinions in religion prosecuted or charged with anie crimes or paines of treason nor yet willinglie searched in their consciences for their contrarie opinions that sauour not of treason And of these sorts there haue béene and are a number of persons not of such base and vulgar note as those which of late haue beene executed as in particular some by name are well knowne and not vnfit to be remembred The first and chiefest by office was doctor Heth that was archbishop of Yorke and lord chancellor of England in quéene Maries time who at the first comming of hir maiestie to the crowne shewing himselfe a faithfull and quiet subiect continued in both the said offices though in religion then manifestlie differing and yet was he not restreined of his libertie nor depriued of his proper lands and goods but leauing willinglie both his offices liued in his owne house verie discréetlie and inioied all his purchased lands during all his naturall life vntill by verie age he departed this world and then left his house and liuing to his friends An example of gentlenesse neuer matched in quéene Maries time The like did one doctor Poole that had béene bishop of Peterborough an ancient graue person and a verie quiet subiect There were also others that had béene bishops and in great estimation as doctor Tunstall bishop of Duresme a person of great reputation and also whilest he liued of verie quiet behauiour There were also other as doctor White doctor Oglethorpe the one of Winchester the other of Carlill bishops persons of courteous natures and he of Carlill so inclined to dutifulnes to the quéenes maiestie as he did the office at the consecration and coronation of hir maiestie in the church of Westminster and doctor Thurlebie doctor Watson yet liuing one of Elie the other of Lincolne bishops the one of nature affable the other altogither sowre and yet liuing Whereto may be added the bishop then of Excester Turberuile an honest gentleman but a simple bishop who liued at his owne libertie to the end of his life and none of all these pressed with anie capitall paine though they mainteined the popes authoritie against the lawes of the realme And some abbats as maister Feckenam yet liuing a person also of quiet and courteous behauiour for a great time Some also were deanes as doctor Boxall deane of Windsore a person of great modestie learning and knowledge doctor Cole deane of Paules a person more earnest than discréet doctor Reinolds deane of Excester not vnlearned and manie such others hauing borne office dignities in the church that had made profession against the pope which they onelie began in queene Maries time to change yet were these neuer to this daie burdened with capitall peanes nor yet depriued of line 10 anie their goods or proper liueloods but onelie remoued from their ecclesiasticall offices which they would not exercise according to the lawes And most of them manie other of their sort for a great time were deteined in bishops houses in verie ciuill and courteous maner without charge to themselues or their friends vntill the time that the pope began by his buls messages to offer trouble to the realme by stirring of rebellion About which time onlie some line 20 of these aforenamed being found busier in matters of state tending to stir troubles than was méete for the common quiet of the realme were remoued to other more priuat places where such other wanderers as were men knowne to moue sedition might be restreined from common resorting to them to increase trouble as the popes bull gaue manifest occasion to doubt and yet without charging them in their consciences or otherwise by anie inquisition to bring them into danger of anie capitall law line 30 so as no one was called to anie capitall or bloudie question vpon matters of religion but haue all inioied their life as the course of nature would and such of them as yet remaine may if they will not be authors or instruments of rebellion or sedition inioie the time that God and nature shall yeeld them without danger of life or member And yet it is woorthie to be well marked that the chiefest of all these and the most of them had in time of king Henrie the eight and king Edward the sixt line 40 either by preaching writing reading or arguing taught all people to condemne yea to abhorre the authoritie of the pope for which purpose they had many times giuen their othes publikelie against the popes authoritie and had also yéelded to both the said kings the title of supreame hed of the church of England next vnder Christ which title the aduersaries doo most falselie write and affirme that the quéenes maiestie now vseth a manifest lie vntruth to be séene by the verie acts of parlement and at the beginning of hir reigne omitted in hir stile And for proofe that line 50 these foresaid bishops and learned men had so long time disauowed the popes authoritie manie of their books and sermons against the popes authoritie remaine printed both in English and Latin to be séene in these times to their great shame and reproofe to change so often but speciallie in persecuting such as themselues had taught and stablished to hold the contrarie A sin neere the sin against the holie ghost There were also and yet be a great number of others line 60 being laie men of good possessions and lands men of good credit in their countries manifestlie of late time seduced to hold contrarie opinions in religion for the popes authoritie and yet none of them haue béene sought hitherto to be impeached in anie point or quarell of treason or of losse of life member or inheritance So as it may plainelie appeare that it is not nor hath béene for contrarious opinions in religion or for the popes authoritie alone as the aduersaries doo boldlie and falslie publish that anie persons haue suffered death since hir maiesties reigne And yet some of these sort are well knowne to hold opinion that the pope ought by authoritie of Gods word to be supreame and onelie head of the catholike church through the whole world and onelie to rule in all causes ecclesiasticall and that the quéenes maiestie ought not to be the gouernour ouer anie hir subiects in hir realme being persons ecclesiasticall which opinions are neuerthelesse in some part by the lawes of the realme punishable in their degrées And yet for none of these points haue anie persons béene prosecuted with the charge of treason or in danger of life And if then it be inquired for what cause these others haue of late suffered death it is trulie to be answered as afore is often remembred that none at all were impeached for treason to the danger of their life but such as did obstinatlie mainteine the contents of the popes bull afore mentioned which doo import that hir maiestie is not
Marham Merlinus Ambrosius Merlinus Syluester Melkinus Nicholas Montacute liued in the time of Henrie the sixt Edmund Molineux now liuing Sebastian Munster a Germane N Nennius Helius brother to Cassiuelane Lud kings of Britaine Nennius Banchorensis Nauclerus Alexander Neuill now liuing Laurence Nowell died about the sixtéenth yere of quéene Elisabeth Nimanus that wrote Eulogium O Osbert de Clare prior of Westminster Osbeâ—nus Dorobernensis in the time of William the Conqueror Thomas Oâ—terborne a Franciscan or greie frier liued in the time of Henrie the fift Abraham Ortuâ—lius now liuing a Fleming Christopher Ocland now liuing sometime schoolemaister in Southworke P William Pakington clerke treasuror to the blacke prince of his houshold in Gascoigne Patricius Consul Ioannes de Prato a writer of Aquitaine protonotarie Paulus Aemilius Petrus Blessensis line 10 archdeacon of Bath Philip de Comines alias monsieur de Argentone secretarie to Charles duke of Burgoine Polydor Uirgill an Urbinat Italian and canon of Paules in the daies of Henrie the eight Paulus Iouius an Italian bishop of Nucerne Iohn Pike Iohn Price knight died in the reigne of queene Elisabeth William Paten now liuing Iohn Proctor schoolemaister of Tunbridge to whom I was sometime scholer Ptolomeus Dauid Powell now liuing line 20 R. Iohn Read in the time of Edward the first Iohn Rastall Radulphus Londonienâ—is Radulphus Niger liued in the daies of king Henrie the third Radulphus de Diceto deane of Paules in London in the time of king Iohn Reutha king of Scots Michaell Ricius William Rishanger a moonke of saint Albons in the daies of Edward the second Richester a moonke of Westminster liued in the time of Edward the third and wrote an excellent chronicle beginning at the comming of the line 30 Saâ—ons in the yeare of our Lord foure hundred fortie and nine continued it vntill the yeare one thousand three hundred fortie and eight conteining eight hundred fourescore and nineteene years Richardus Deuifâ—enâ—â—s Richardus Cadneus Richardus Eliensis whose storie beginneth Cum animaduerterem excellâ—â—tiam Ebienâ—is insulae c. Richardus Eliensis an other from the former that wrote an other historie of Elie Robert abbat of saint Michaels mount florished in the yeare of Christ one thousand fiue hundred line 40 fiftie and eight Robertus Montensis Robertus fiâ—e cognomento Robertus Remingtonus De gestis Anglorum cuiuâ— initium Non sâ—lum audiendis sacrae scripturâ— verbis c This saieth Caius In antiquitate Cantâ—brigiae But others attribute that worke to Peter Icham See before in the letter I. Robert Record liuing in the time of quéene Marie Robert bishop of Hereford which liued in the yeare of our redemption one thousand thréescore and twelue Robertus de Paterna that wrote line 50 the register of Oxford Robert a prior of Shrewsburie Roger of Abindon Roger of Winsore Roger de Windore Roger of Chester liued in the daâ—es of Edward the third Iohn Râ—use borne in Warwikeshire liued in the daies of Henrie the seuenth and being a canon of Osneie died at Warwike in the yeare of our Lord one thousand foure hundred fourescore and eleuen Thomas Rudborne archdeacon of Sudberie after bishop of S. Dauids line 60 in Wales liued in the time of Henrie the fourth Henrie the fift and Henrie the sixt Thomas Rudborne an other from the former was a moonke of Winchester and followed manie other authors amongst which was the said Thomas Rudborne bishop of S. Dauids S Saxo Grammaticus a Dane Samuel Britannus Sextus Aurelius Sentleger Edward Segeswike now liuing Iohannes Sulgenus or Sullenus Solinus Sigebertus Gemblacensis Thomas Spot who liued in the reigne of Edward the first Antonius Sabellicus a Uenetian Iohn Sleidan a Germane Richard Sowthwell Reginald Scot now liuing Simon Dunelmensis Iohn Stow now liuing Iohn Knish a Cornish man in the daies of Henrie the eight Richard Stanâ—hust borne in Ireland now liuing Sharton now liuing Iohn Swapham Stephanides alias Fitzstephan T Titus Liuius Patauiensis Titus Liuius Fâ—roâ—â—iensis an Italian liued in the time of Henrie the fift Iohn Tartor a moonke of Burie Andrew Theuet a Frenchman Nicholas Triuet a blacke frier borne in Northfolke sonne to sir Thomas Triuet knight one of the kings iustices liued in the daies of Edward the third and died in the yeare of our Lord one thousand three hundred twentie and eight Iohn Tilberie florished in the yere of Christ one thousand one hundred fourescore and ten Iohn Treuisa a Cornishman préest and vicar of Barkleie Teleâ—inus a Briton Francis Boteuile alias Thin now liuing Brian Tuke knight liued in the daies of Henrie the eight Iohn Twine died in the reigne of quéene Elisabeth William Thorne liued in the daies of Richard the second Richard Turpin borne of a worshipfull familie in England serued in the garison of Calis he died in the yeare of our Lord one thousand fiue hundred fortie and one Tobias Roffensis Turgotus which liued in the yeare of Christ one thousand ninetie and eight in the time of William Rufus wrote a chronicle of Durham V Veremund a Spaniard Raphaell Uâ—lateran Giouanni Vilani a Florentine Ponticus Virunnius an Italian Iohn Ufford Iohn Uton. W Iohn Whethamsted otherwise called Frumentarius a learned man abbat of S. Albons liued in the daies of Henrie the sixt Roger Wall an herald who in Latine writ the dooings of Henrie the fift Thomas Walsingham a moonke of the abbeie of S. Albons liued in the reigne of Henrie the sixt William of Riâ—all liued in the age of king Stephan Willielmus Cantuariensis one of the foure that wrote the Quadrilogium of Thomas Becket liued in the time of king Iohn Willielmus Gemeticensis Willielmus filius Stephani a clerke of the Chancerie and deane of the chapell of Thomas Becket in the daies of Henrie the second Willielmus Summersetensis Willielmus Crowlandensis for the other Williams sée in the letter G in the name of Gulielmus Thomas Wike canon of Osneie Iohn Walworth Walterus Excestrensis Walterus Couentrensis Annales Burtonenses Memoriale historiarum Chronica Dunstable Chronicle of Tinmouth Chronicles of S. Albons Defâ—orationes Galfridi Historia obsidionis Eliensis insulae Chronica curus inituem Calendarium Bruti Chronicle beginning Rex Pictorum Chronica Westmonast Chronicle beginning In diebuâ— sanctissimi regis Edwardâ— Chronicle beginning Aeneas cum Ascanio Câ—ronica chronicoruÌ„ Supplementum chronicorum Fasciculus temporuÌ„ Historia Richardi secundi beginning De parte Bruti EulogiuÌ„ Historia Iornalensis Historia Carina written in Latine compiled in the thirtéenth yeare of Richard the second by whom it was caused to be written as the title declareth which for that it sheweth no name of the author and for that maister For borowed the â—ame of maister Carie citizen of London maister For in his Acts and Monuments the second edition calleth the same booke Historia Carina The epitome of chronicles from Brute to Henrie 6. beginning Ab origine mundi concurrunt anni secunduÌ„ Hebraeos