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A68202	The first and second volumes of Chronicles. [vol. 3 (i.e. The Third Volume of Chronicles)] comprising 1 The description and historie of England, 2 The description and historie of Ireland, 3 The description and historie of Scotland: first collected and published by Raphaell Holinshed, William Harrison, and others: now newlie augmented and continued (with manifold matters of singular note and worthie memorie) to the yeare 1586. by Iohn Hooker aliàs Vowell Gent and others. With conuenient tables at the end of these volumes.; Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande. vol. 3	Holinshed, Raphael, d. 1580?; Stanyhurst, Richard, 1547-1618.; Fleming, Abraham, 1552?-1607.; Stow, John, 1525?-1605.; Thynne, Francis, 1545?-1608.; Hooker, John, 1526?-1601.; Harrison, William, 1534-1593.; Boece, Hector, 1465?-1536.; Giraldus, Cambrensis, 1146?-1223?	1587 (1587)	STC 13569_pt3; ESTC S122178	4,305,113	1,536

so mercifull vnto me as to spare me to behold this ioifull daie And I acknowledge that thou hast delt as woonderfullie and as mercifullie with me as thou diddest line 10 with thy true and faithfull seruant Daniell thy prophet whome thou deliueredst out of the den from the crueltie of the greedie and raging lions euen so was I ouerwhelmed and onlie by thee deliuered To thee therefore onlie be thankes honor and praise for euer Amen The second was the receiuing of the bible at the little conduit in Cheape For when hir grace had learned that the bible in English should there be offered she thanked the citie therefore promised the reading thereof most diligentlie and incontinent commanded that it should be brought At the receipt whereof how reuerendlie did she with both hir hands take it kisse it and laie it vpon hir brest to the great comfort of the lookers on God will vndoubtedlie preserue so woorthie a prince which at his honor so line 30 reuerendlie taketh hir beginning For this saieng is true and written in the booke of truth He that first séeketh the kingdome of God shall haue all other things cast vnto him Now therefore all English hearts and hir naturall people must néeds praise Gods mercie which hath sent them so woorthie a prince and praie for hir graces long continuance amongst vs. On sundaie the fiue and twentith of Ianuarie hir maiestie was with great solemnitie crowned at Westminster in the abbeie church there by doctor Oglethorpe bishop of Carleill She line 40 dined in Westminster hall which was richlie hoong and euerie thing ordered in such roiall maner as to such a regall and most solemne feast apperteined In the meane time whilest hir grace sat at dinner sir Edward Dimmocke knight hir champion by office came riding into the hall in faire complet armor mounted vpon a beautifull courser richlie trapped in cloth of gold entred the hall and in the midst thereof cast downe his gantlet with offer to fight line 50 with him in hir quarell that should denie hir to be the righteous and lawfull quéene of this realme The quéene taking a cup of gold full of wine dranke to him thereof and sent it to him for his fée togither with the couer Now after this at the seruing vp of the wafers the lord maior of London went to the cupboord and filling a cup of gold with ipocrasse bare it to the quéene and knéeling before hir tooke the assaie and she receiuing it of him and drinking of it gaue the line 60 cup with the couer vnto the said lord maior for his fée which cup and couer weied sixtéene ounces Troie weight Finallie this feast being celebrated with all roiall ceremonies and high solemnities due and in like cases accustomed tooke end with great ioy and contentation to all the beholders On wednesdaie the fiue and twentith of Ianuarie the parlement began the queenes maiestie riding in hir parlement robes from hir palace of Whitehall vnto the abbeie church of Westminster with the lords spirituall and temporall attending hir likewise in their parlement robes Doctor Cox sometime schoolemaister to king Edward the sixt and now latelie returned from the parties of beyond the seas where during the daies of quéene Marie he had liued as a banished man preached now before the estates there assembled in the beginning of the said parlement In this parlement the first fruits and tenths were restored to the crowne also the supreame gouernment ouer the state ecclesiasticall which queene Marie had giuen to the pope Likewise the booke of common praier and administration of the sacraments in our mother toong was restored ¶ But before this good woorke was agréed vpon there was much debating about matters touching religion and great studie on both parties imploied the one to reteine still the other to impugne the doctrine and faction which before in quéene Maries time had béene established But speciallie here is to be noted that though there lacked no industrie on the papists side to hold fast that which they most cruellie from time to time had studied and by all meanes practised to come by yet notwithstanding such was the prouidence of God at that time that for lacke of the other bishops whom the Lord had taken awaie by death a little before the residue that there were left could doo the lesse and in verie deed God be praised therefore did nothing at all in effect although yet notwithstanding there lacked in them neither will nor labor to doo what they could if their cruell abilitie there might haue serued But namelie amongst all others not onelie the industrious courage of doctor Storie but also his words in this parlement are woorthie to be knowne of posteritie who like a stout and furious champion of the popes side to declare himselfe how lustie he was and what he had and would doo in his maisters quarell shamed not openlie in the said parlement house to burst out into such impudent sort of words as was woonder to all good eares to heare and no lesse woorthie of historie The summe of which his shamelesse talke was vttered to this effect First beginning with himselfe he declared that whereas he was noted commonlie abroad and much complained of to haue béene a great dooer a setter foorth of such religion orders procéedings as of his late souereigne that dead is quéene Marie were set foorth in this relme he denied nothing the same protesting moreouer that he had doone nothing therein but that both his conscience did lead him therevnto and also his commission did as well then command him as now also dooth discharge him for the same being no lesse readie now also to doo the like and more in case he by this queene were authorised likewise and commanded therevnto Wherefore as I sée saith he nothing to be ashamed of so lesse I see to be sorie for but rather said that he was sorie for this because he had doone no more than he did and that in executing those lawes they had not béene more vehement seuere Wherein he said there was no default in him but in them whome he both oft and earnestlie had exhorted to the same being therefore not a little gréeued with them for that they labored onelie about the yoong and little sprigs and twigs while they should haue stroken at the root and cleane haue rooted it out c. And concerning his persecuting and burning them he denied not but that he was once at the burning of an earewig for so he termed it at Uxbridge where he tost a fagot at his face as he was singing psalmes and set a wine bush of thorns vnder his féet a little to pricke him with manie other words of like effect In the which words he named moreouer sir Philip Hobbie and an other knight of Kent with such other of the richer and higher degrée whome his counsell was to plucke

faithfull and obedient subiect to king Henrie the sixt king of England in saint Pauls church at London there being present the king and most of his nobilitie that is to saie the dukes of Buckingham Northampton and Summerset the earls of Warwike Arundell Salisburie Shropshire Deuonshire Wiltshire Northumberland Stafford and Dorset vicounts of Beaumount and Welles barons Fitz Warren Sainmound Cobham Dowglas and others bishops the cardinall archbishop of Yorke and Canturburie Winchester Elie and London in these words following The tenor of the duke of Yorks submission to king Henrie vnder his oth I Richard duke of Yorke confesse and beknow that I am ought to be humble subiect and liegeman to you my souereigne lord king Henrie the sixt and owe therefore to beare you faith and truth as to my souereigne liege lord and shall doo all daies vnto my liues end and shall not at anie time will or assent that any thing attempted or doone against your most noble person but where so euer I shall haue knowledge of anie such thing imagined or purposed I shall with all speed and diligence possible to me make that your highnesse shall haue knowledge thereof and ouer that doo all that shall be possible to me to the withstanding and let thereof to the vttermost of my life I shall not anie thing take vpon me against your roiall estate or obeisance that is due thereto nor suffer anie other man to doo as farre foorth as it shall be in my power to let it and also shall come at your commandement when so euer I shall be called by the same in humble and obeisant wise but if I be letted by anie sickenesse or impotence of my person or by such other cause as shall be thought by you my line 10 souereigne lord reasonable I shall neuer hereafter take vpon me to gather anie rout nor to make anie assemblie of your people without your commandement or licence or in my lawfull defense In interpretation or declaration of the which my lawfull defense I shall report me at all times to your highnesse and if the case require to my peeres nor any thing attempt line 20 against anie of your subiects of what estate degree or condition that they be But when so euer I find my selfe wronged and agreeued I shall sue humblie for remedie to your highnesse and proceed after the course of your lawes and in none otherwise sauing in mine owne lawfull defense in maner aboue said and otherwise haue to your highnesse as an humble and true subiect line 30 ought to haue him to his souereigne lord All these things aboue said I promise you trulie to obserue and keepe by the holie euangelists conteined in the booke that I laie my hand herevpon and by the holie crosse I here touch and by the blessed sacrament of our Lords bodie that I shall now with his mercie receiue And ouer I agree me and will that if I anie time hereafter line 40 as by the grace of our Lord God I neuer shall anie thing attempt by waie of feat or otherwise against your roiall maiestie and obeisance that I owe therto or anie thing take vpon me otherwise than is aboue expressed I from that time foorth be vnabled held and taken as an vntrue and openlie forsworne man and vnable to all maner of worship estate and degree be it line 50 such as I now occupie or anie other that might in anie wise grow vnto me hereafter And this I haue here promised and sworne proceedeth of mine owne desire and free voluntee and by no constraining or co-action In witnesse of all the which things aboue written I Richard duke of Yorke aboue named subscribe with mine owne hand and seale The councell not forgetting the offer of the Gascoignes and that they might now haue the citie of Burdeaux with the countrie round about by request of the inhabitants appointed the valiant capteine Iohn lord Talbot earle of Shrewesburie to go thither with an armie who arriuing in the I le of Madre passed foorth with his power being scant thrée thousand men and tooke the strong towne of Fronsacke and diuerse other townes fortresses The inhabitants of Burdeaux hearing of the earles arriuall sent to him messengers in the darke night requiring him with all spéed to come and receiue the citie The earle lost not one houre but hasted foorth came before that citie yer the Frenchmen within vnderstood anie thing of the citizens purpose When they were aduertised that there was a gate set open for the Englishmen to enter they thought to haue escaped secretlie by a posterne but they were pursued slaine and taken by the lord de Lespar and other of the English armie After the regaining of Burdeaux there arriued at Blaie the bastard of Summerset sir Iohn Talbot lord Lisle by his wife sonne to the said erle of Shrewesburie the lord Molins the lord Harington the lord Camois sir Iohn Howard sir Iohn Montgomerie sir Iohn Uernon with two twentie hundred men with vittels and munitions When the earle was thus according to his intent of all things furnished first he fortified Burdeaux with Englishmen and store of vittels and after that he rode into the countrie abroad where he obteined cities and got townes without stroke or dint of sword for the people alreadie wearied of the French seruitude and longing sore to returne to the English libertie seemed to desire nothing more than to haue the earle to receiue them into the English obeisance Amongst other townes the towne and castell of Chastillon in Perigort was to him deliuered the which he fortified with men and ordinance verie stronglie In the meane time the French king being aduertised of all these dooings raised an armie to resist this inuasion made by the erle of Shrewesburie And first he appointed his capteins to besiege the towne of Chastillon to the rescue whereof the earle hasted forward hauing in his companie eight hundred horssemen vnder the leading of his sonne the lord Lisle the lord Molins the lord Camois sir Edward Hull sir Iohn Howard and sir Iohn Uernon He appointed also fiue thousand footmen vnder the conduct of the earle of Kendall and the lord de Lespar to follow him with all spéed In his waie he tooke by fine force a tower which the Frenchmen had taken and slue all that he found within it And after by the waie he met fiue hundred Frenchmen going a foraging of whome he slue the more part and chased the other to the campe The Frenchmen that laie at the siege perceiuing by those good runners away that the earle approched left the siege and retired in good order into the place which they had trenched diched and fortified with ordinance The earle aduertised how the siege was remoued hasted forward towards his enimies doubting most least they would haue béene quite fled and gone before his comming But they fearing the displeasure of the French king who was not far off if they

die for according to the law and by the law I am iudged to die and therfore I will speake nothing against it I am come hither to accuse no man nor to speake anie thing of that whereof I am accused condemned to die but I praie God saue the king and send him long to reigne ouer you for a gentler nor a more mercifull prince was there neuer and to me he was euer a good a gentle and a souereigne lord And if anie person will meddle of my cause I require them to iudge the best And thus I take my leaue of the world and of you all and I hartilie desire you all to praie for me Oh Lord haue mercie on me to God I commend my soule Iesu receiue my soule diuerse times repeting those words till that hir head was striken off with the sword Now bicause I might rather saie much than sufficientlie inough in praise of this noble quéene as well for hir singular wit and other excellent qualities of mind as also for hir fauouring of learned men zeale of religion and liberalitie in distributing almes in reliefe of the poore I will refer the reader vnto master Fox his volume of Acts and Monuments where he commendeth hir mild nature in taking admonition prooueth hir marriage lawfull defendeth hir succession ouerthroweth the sinister iudgements opinions and obiections of backebiters against that vertuous quéene sheweth hir faith and trust in Christ at hir death and finallie how the protestants of Germanie forsooke king Henrie for the death of so good a princesse ¶ Anglorum praelia saith that this good quéene was forwarned of hir death in a dreame wherein Morpheus the god of sléepe in the likenesse of hir grandfather appéered vnto hir and after a long narration of the vanities of this world how enuie reigneth in the courts of princes maligning the fortunate estate of the vertuous how king Henrie the eight and his issue should be the vtter ouerthrow and expulsion of poperie out of England and that the gouernment of quéene Elizabeth should be established in tranquillitie peace he saith vnto hir in conclusion by waie of prophesie as our poet hath recorded Forti sis animo tristis si nuncius adsum Insperata tuae velox necis aduenit hora Intra triginta spacium moriere dierum Hoc magnum mortis solamen habeto futurae Elizabetha suis praeclarè filia gestis Nomen ad astraferet patris matrísque suúmque Immediatlie after hir death in the wéeke before Whitsuntide the king married the ladie Iane Seimer daughter to sir Iohn Seimer knight which at Whitsuntide was openlie shewed as quéene And on the tuesdaie in Whitsunwéeke hir brother sir Edw. Seimer was created vicount Beauchampe and sir Water Hungerford lord Hungerford The eight of Iune began the parlement during the which the lord Thomas Howard without the kings assent affied the ladie Margaret Duglas daughter to the quéene of Scots and neece to the king for which act he was atteinted of treason and an act made for like offendors and so he died in the tower and she remained long there as prisoner In the time of this parlement the bishops and all the cleargie of the realme held a solemne conuocation at Paules church in London where after much disputation and debating of matters they published a booke of religion intituled Articles deuised by the kings highnesse c. In this booke is speciallie mentioned but thrée sacraments Also beside this booke certeine iniunctions were giuen foorth wherby a number of their holie daies were abrogated speciallie those that fell in haruest time ¶ The nine twentith of Iune the king held a great iusting and triumph at Westminster where were ordeined two lighters made like ships to fight vpon the water one of the which brake in the midst wherby one Gates a gentleman seruant to M. Kn●net was drowned in his harnesse In the other a gun brake hir chamber maimed two of the mariners Thomas Cromwell secretarie vnto the king and maister of the rols was made lord kéeper of the priuie seale and the ninth of Iulie the lord Fitzwaren was created erle of Bath and the morrow after the said lord Cromwell was created lord Cromwell The eightéenth of Iulie he was made knight and vicar generall vnder the king ouer the spiritualtie and sat diuerse times in the conuocation amongst the bishops as head ouer them The two and twentith of Iulie Henrie duke of Richmont and Summerset earle of Northampton base sonne to the king begot line 10 of the ladie Tailebois then called Elizabeth Blunt departed this life at saint Iames and was buried at Thetford in Norffolke of whome you shall find more in the treatise of the dukes of this land In September Thomas Cromwell lord priuie seale and vicegerent sent abroad vnder the kings spirituall priuie seale certeine iniunctions commanding that the persons and curats should teach their parishioners the Pater noster the Aue Creed with the ten commandements and articles of the line 20 faith in English These articles and iniunctions being established by authoritie of parlement and now to the people deliuered bred a great misliking in the harts of the common people which had beene euer brought vp and trained in contrarie doctrine And herewith diuerse of the cleargie as moonks priests and others tooke occasion herby to speake euill of the late procéedings of the king touching matters of religion affirming that if spéedie remedie were not in time prouided the faith would shortlie be vtterlie line 30 destroied and all praier and diuine seruice quite abolished and taken awaie Manie sinister reports slanderous tales and feigned fables were blowne abroad and put into the peoples eares and diuerse of the nobilitie did also what they could to stir the commons to rebellion faithfullie promising both aid and succour against the king The people thus prouoked to mischiefe and deceiued through ouer light credence incontinentlie as it were to mainteine that religion which had so manie line 40 yeares continued and béene estéemed they stiffelie and stoutlie conspired togither and in a part of Lincolneshire they first assembled and shortlie after ioined into an armie being as it was supposed of men apt for the warres in number about twentie thousand Against these rebels with all the hast that might be the king in his proper person vpon intelligence therof had marched towards them being furnished with a warlike armie perfectlie appointed of all things that to such a companie should apperteine line 50 The rebels hearing that his person was present with his power to come thus against them began to feare what would follow of their dooings and such nobles and gentlemen as at the first fauoured their cause fell from them and withdrew so that they being destitute of capteines at length put certeine petitions in writing which they exhibited to the king professing that they neuer intended hurt

continued till the fourteenth of March next line 30 insuing In the meane time the proceedings for the Scotish wars was not forgotten whervpon in the deepe of the winter there were conueied certeine bands of the English lancequenets and some number of Englishmen both horssemen and footmen by sea vnto Bronghticrag and passing from thence vnto Dundée a two miles from thence entred the towne and began to fortifie it but shortlie after by the comming of the French armie with monsieur de Desse line 40 they left it first spoiling the houses and after set them on fire at their departure The Reinsgraue coronell of the Almans and monsieur de Etauges being sent by monsieur de Desse before entered Dundee and lodged within it Within two daies after their comming thither they tooke certeine of their bands and going foorth did view and surueie the new fort which the Englishmen had begun to make on the hill a small distance from the castell But the Englishmen and their Almans issuing foorth against line 50 them were at their elbowes yer they were halfe well aduised that they were got so neare them whereby being driuen hastilie to retire they hardlie escaped out of danger being so hotlie pursued that if the Reinsgraue had not shewed his approoued valiancie guided with no lesse policie than manhood the whole troope had béene as was thought vtterlie distressed In Christmasse this yéere the castell of Hume was recouered out of the Englishmens hands through line 60 treson of certeine assured Scots that vsing to bring vittels of the Englishmen that kept it had marked all the manner of the scouts and watches with the places of the wall where the clime was most easie Whervpon in the night season certeine of the Scots secretlie comming into the ditches got vp to the heigth of the wals and entring the place slue and tooke vpon the sudden all that were within it The sixtéenth of Ianuarie sir Thomas Seimer baron of Sudleie year 1549 lord admerall and brother to the duke of Summerset lord protector was arrested and sent to the tower and after by authoritie of parlement he was attainted and the twentith of March next insuing in the third yeare of this kings reigne be headed at tower hill Moreouer in this parlement the vse of the masse was clearlie prohibited and a booke for the vniformitie of diuine seruice and right administration of the sacraments was set foorth and established Yee haue heard how the Frenchmen fortified the towne of Dundee where monsieur de Etauges with his companie of horssemen lieng in garrison chanced in a skirmish to be taken by the Englishmen that laie in Broughticrag to the great reioising of them that tooke him and no lesse gréefe of the French and Scots for the tried valiancie that was throughlie knowne to rest in him Moreouer the Englishmen that kept the towne of Hadington all this while against the enimies could not come by anie vittels but onelie by a conuoie of some conuenient power to gard the cariages that brought the same from the borders And as it fortuned at one time when the conuoie came and passed by Dunbar a skirmish was proffered by the French which laie within that castell in garrison And as sir Iames Wilford that was there amongst other vpon this occasion according to his woonted valiancie shewed himselfe verie forward and egre against the enimie he was inclosed by an ambush which the Frenchmen had laid on ech side the stréete within the towne that he could by no means escape out of their hands but hauing his horsse there slaine vnder him was taken prisoner euen by a Gascoigne of the countrie of Basque named Pellieque that woone no small commendation for that his good hap in taking such a prisoner whose name for his often approoued prowesse was verie famous euen among the enimies who saw well inough a resolutenesse in the man rather by perillous aduentures to purchase the perpetuitie of renowme than by defect of courage or negligent seruice to loose both life and same Which persuasion should enter into the hart of euerie seruitor in the field if they will be counted right valiant indeed considering that he which in his life time dooth performe nothing worthie memorie is like a plaier entring vpon the stage but shewing nothing either in spéech or in action as the poet verie fitlie saith Qui nullum facinus tota memorabile vita Ediderint obscuri homines migrare videntur Hinc vt qui structa nil dixerit histrio scena Some haue written that he was taken through default of those that were appointed to follow him sith he vndertooke to charge the enimie in hope that by them he should haue beene assisted But suerlie those that had the charge of this conuoie doubting by aduenturing too far to put all in hazard thought it wisedome rather to suffer the losse of one than to ieopard the whole not perceiuing which waie to remedie the matter at that present Now after that the generall of Hadington was thus taken prisoner to the great griefe vndoubtedlie not onelie of all the garrison there but also of all such as tendered the aduancement of the kings maiesties seruice sir Iames Crofts was thought a man most méet to supplie the place and therefore by the lord protector and others of the councell was ordeined generall of that towne of Hadington and the garrison there in which roome he bare himselfe so worthilie as if I should not be suspected of flatterie for that he liueth yet and in such credit as the world knoweth I might mooue my selfe matter to saie rather much than sufficientlie inough in his due and right deserued commendation The king by the aduise of his councell meaning to prosecute the wars in Scotland with great forces reteined a new power of lancequenets and other strangers vnder the conduct of diuers sundrie capteines but in the meane time the French king meaning to breake with the king of England thought to haue stolen the fortresse of Bullognberg so that a chosen power of men of warre to the number of seuen thousand vnder the conduct of monsieur de Chatillon being sent downe about that exploit on Maie daie at night came forward with their ladders and all other furniture méet for the purpose approching about the houre of midnight néere to the fort within the which were not at that time manie aboue thrée hundred and fiftie soldiers vnder the gouernement of sir Nicholas Arnalt knight generall of that line 10 péece a capteine of great courage and no lesse diligence in his charge And as it chanced there were among the Frenchmen thrée or foure Englishmen which hauing matched themselues in marriage with women of that countrie after the peace was concluded betwixt France and England were discharged out of the king of Englands wages and remaining with their wiues got interteinement among the Frenchmen line 20 and were with monsieur de

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