so bestowed his goods and substance that he hath well deserued to be registred in chronicles First he erected one house or church in London to be a house of praier and named the same after his owne name Whitington college remaining at this daie In the said church besides certeine preests and clearks he placed line 60 a number of poore aged men and women builded for them houses and lodgings and allowed them wood coles cloth and wéekelie monie to their great reléefe and comfort This man also at his owne cost builded the gate of London called Newgate in the yéere of our Lord 1422 which before was a most ouglie and lothsome prison He also builded more than the halfe of S. Bartholomews hospitall in west Smithfield He builded likewise the beautifull librarie in the graie friers in London now called Christs hospitall standing in the north part of the cloister thereof where in the wall his armes be grauen in stone He also builded for the ease of the maior of London his brethren and the worshipfull citizens on the solemne daies of their assemblie a chapell adioining to the Guildhall to the intent that before they entered into anie of their worldlie affaires they should begin with praier and inuocation to God for his assistance at the end ioining to the south part of the said chapell he builded for the citie a librarie of stone for the custodie of their records and other bookes He also builded a great part of the east end of Giuldhall and did manie other good déeds worthie of imitation By a writing of this mans owne hand which he willed to be fixed as a schedule to his last will and testament it appeareth what a pitifull and relenting heart he had at other mens miseries and did not onelie wish but also did what he could procure for their releefe In so much that he charged and commanded his executors as they would answer before God at the daie of the resurrection of all flesh that if they found anie debtor of his whome if in conscience they thought not to be well worth three times as much as they owght him and also out of other mens debt and well able to paie that then they should neuer demand it for he clearlie forgaue it and that they should put no man in sute for anie debt due to him A worthie memoriall of a notable minded gentleman Yée haue heard how the duke of Clarence and his armie did much hurt in the realme of France in places as he passed wherevpon at length the duke of Orleance being earnestlie called vpon to dispatch the Englishmen out of France according to an article comprised in the conclusion of the peace he came to the duke of Clarence rendering to him and his armie a thousand gramersies and disbursed to them as much monie as he or his fréends might easilie spare and for the rest being two hundred and nine thousand frankes remaining vnpaid he deliuered in gage his second brother Iohn duke of Angolesme which was grandfather to king Francis the first that reigned in our daies sir Marcell de Burges and sir Iohn de Samoures sir Archembald Uiliers and diuerse other which earle continued long in England as after shall appeare When this agreement was thus made betwixt the dukes of Orleance and Clarence the English armie with rich preies booties and prisoners came to Burdeaux making warre on the frontiers of France to their great gaine In this meane while the lord of Helie one of the marshals of France with an armie of foure thousand men besieged a certeine fortresse in Guien which an English knight one sir Iohn Blunt kept who with thrée hundred men that came to his aid discomfited chased and ouerthrew the French power tooke prisoners twelue men of name and other gentlemen to the number of six score and amongst other the said marshall who was sent ouer into England and put in the castell of Wissebet from whence he escaped and got ouer into France where seruing the duke of Orleance at the battell of Agincort he was slaine among other In this fourtéenth and last yeare of king Henries reigne a councell was holden in the white friers in London at the which among other things order was taken for ships and gallies to be builded and made readie and all other things necessarie to be prouided for a voiage which he meant to make into the holie land there to recouer the citie of Ierusalem from the Infidels For it gréeued him to consider the great malice of christian princes that were bent vpon a mischéefous purpose to destroie one another to the perill of their owne soules rather than to make war against the enimies of the christian faith as in conscience it séemed to him they were bound He held his Christmas this yeare at Eltham being sore vexed with sicknesse so that it was thought sometime that he had beene dead notwithstanding it pleased God that he somwhat recouered his strength againe and so passed that Christmasse with as much ioy as he might The morrow after Candlemas daie began a parlement which he had called at London but he departed this life before the same parlement was ended for now that his prouisions were readie and that he was furnished with sufficient treasure soldiers capteins vittels munitions tall ships strong gallies line 10 and all things necessarie for such a roiall iournie as he pretended to take into the holie land he was eftsoones taken with a sore sicknesse which was not a leprosie striken by the hand of God saith maister Hall as foolish friers imagined but a verie apoplexie of the which he languished till his appointed houre and had none other gréefe nor maladie so that what man ordeineth God altereth at his good will and pleasure not giuing place more to the prince than to the poorest creature liuing when he séeth his time to dispose line 20 of him this waie or that as to his omnipotent power and diuine prouidence seemeth expedient During this his last sicknesse he caused his crowne as some write to be set on a pillow at his beds head and suddenlie his pangs so sore troubled him that he laie as though all his vitall spirits had beene from him departed Such as were about him thinking verelie that he had béene departed couered his face with a linnen cloth The prince his sonne being hereof aduertised entered line 30 into the chamber tooke awaie the crowne and departed The father being suddenlie reuiued out of that trance quicklie perceiued the lacke of his crowne and hauing knowledge that the prince his sonne had taken it awaie caused him to come before his presence requiring of him what he meant so to misuse himselfe The prince with a good audacitie answered Sir to mine and all mens iudgements you seemed dead in this world wherefore I as your next heire apparant tooke that as mine owne and
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
quod hac aetate nostra dici rectissimè posse arbitror Cùm enim omnes vndÃque terrae grauissimis bellis affligantur discordiarum iactentur fluctibus soli nos celsitudine tua clauum moderante in pacatissimo portu nauigamus ab orbe malorum disiuncti in coelum quodammodo foelicitatis sublati videmur Quod est ergô officij nostri primùm deo Opt. Max. gratias agimus line 40 cuius vnius bonitati omnem hanc quantacùnque est beatitudinem acceptam referimus precamùrque vt eam nobis propriam perpetuam esse velit deinde celsitudini tuae serenissima regina cuius opera cura solicitudine partam hanc nobis foelicitatem tot annos conseruatam agnoscimus Laetamur hoc aspectu tuo gratulamur incredibili studio quod tum ex meo ipsius sensu loquor tum omnes qui iam vndique confluxerunt line 50 Nordouicenses tui à me dici postulant Atque vtinam in haec pector a posses oculos inserere ocultos animorum nostrorum sinus perlustrare videres profectò inclusam intus quae tantis angustijs erumpere non potest infinitam molem voluntatis Fidem omnem studium obseruantiam quae tantae principi debentur vt haectenus promptissimè detulimus ita studiosissimè semper deferemus si quando casus aliquis inciderit quod Deus omen auertat line 60 sacrosanctae maiestatis tuae aut istius florentissimi regni vel salus in discrimen veniat vel dignitas periclitetur non solùm bonorum omnium ac facultatum effusionem sed laterum nostrorum oppositus corporum pollicemur Rogamus deinde obsecramus excellentiam tuam illustrissima regina vt hoc nostrum qualecunque officium à summa beneuolentia animóque quà m gratissimo profectum boni consulas de nobis Nordouicensibus sic existimes ad lautiores te fortasse subditos venisse saepe adlaetiores nunquam The oration of Stephan Limbert publike schoolemaister to the most magnificent prince Elisabeth of England France and Ireland queene c before the gates of the hospitall of Norwich IT is reported most gratious queene that Aegypt is watered with the yerelie ouerflowing of Nilus and Lidia with the golden streame of Pactolus which thing is thought to be the cause of the great frutefulnes of these countries but vpon vs and further ouer all England euen into the vttermost borders manie and maine riuers of godlinesse iustice humilitie and other innumerable good things in comparison of the which gold is vile and naught worth doo most plentifullie gush out and those not from Tmolus or other hilles I know not which but from that continuall and most aboundant welspring of your goodnesse And that of those infinit goodnesses I maie lightlie touch one for that neither place time nor my abilitie dooth permit to speake of manie with what praises shall we extoll with what magnificent words shall we expresse that notable mercie of your highnesse most renowmed queene and vncredible readinesse to relieue the need of poore men than the which of manie vertues none can be more acceptable vnto God as Homer writeth neither anie vertue in a mightie prince more woondered at amongst men This hospitall of poore men is most famous which will be a monument of princelie vertue and beneficence amongst all posteritie instituted by the most mightie king Henrie your highnesse father confirmed with the great seale by the most noble king Edward your brother but by your maiestie which deserueth no lesse praise of late notablie increased and amplified by the lands and possessions of Cringleford that you maie not now worthilie reioise so much in others ornaments as your owne vertues For you are said for your singular wisdome and learning to haue studied that diuine law of the most wise Plato which he left written in the eleuenth booke of lawes Such your great bountie therefore so exceeding and incredible mercie ô most vertuous prince in what bookes shall we comprehend With what duties or with what voice shall we testifie the good will of a thankefull mind For when we diligentlie seeke all the most exquisit and curious means of thankesgiuing we cannot so much as atteine vnto the greatnesse of this one benefit by the which we acknowledge our selues bound and streictlie holden to your most roiall maiestie We shall be ouercome euen with this one and singular benefit so much the lesse hope haue we then in anie point to counteruaile the huge sea of the rest of your benefits which ouerfloweth on euerie side as well publikelie generallie ouer all your subiects as properlie and particularlie vpon this citie We certeinlie now inhabit and lead our liues in those most happie Ilands of the which Hesiodus maketh mention which not onelie abound with all maner of graine wooll cattell and other aids of mans life but much more with the most pretious treasure of true religion and the word of God in the which onlie the minds of men haue rest and peace There be that call England another world which I thinke maie be most true in this our age For whereas all lands on euerie side of vs are afflicted with most grieuous warres and tossed with the flouds of dissention we onelie your highnesse gouerning our sterne doo saile in a most peaceable hauen and seuered from a world of mischiefs doo seeme after a sort to be taken vp into a heauen of happinesse We therefore according to our bounden dutie first giue thanks vnto God almightie vnto whose goodnesse onelie with thanks we referre all this our happinesse how great soeuer it be praie that he would vouchsafe to make the same proper and perpetuall vnto vs. And afterwards vnto your highnesse ô most gratious queene by whose studie care and diligence we confesse this blessednesse to be gotten and so manie years preserued vnto vs. We are glad in this beholding you and we reioise with desire more than maie be beleeued which as I speake of mine owne thought so also all the subiects of Norwich desire me to saie the same in their behalfe And I would to God you could pearse these our breasts with your eies and throughlie view the hidden and couered creeks of our minds Then vndoubtedlie should you behold an infinit heape of goodwill closelie shut vp within which cannot breake out of so narrow straits All the faith studie and obedience which are due to so great a prince as hitherto we haue most willinglie imploied so will we alwaies most diligentlie performe the same and if at anie time anie chance shall happen which fortune God turne from vs that â—he state of thy blessed maiestie or of this flourishing realme should come in danger or the worthinesse line 10 therof be in hazard we do not onlie protest the effusion of all our goods and substance but also the putting foorth and brunt of our strengths and bodies therein Finallie we desire and beseech
yeare 1570 I was sworne hir line 20 maiesties seruant from which time vntill the yeare 1580 I serued honored and loued hir with as great readinesse deuotion and assurance as anie poore subiect in England In the end of that yeare and vntill Midsummer 1582 I had some trouble for the hurting of a gentleman of the Temple In which action I was so disgraced and oppressed by two great men to whome I haue of late béene beholden that I neuer had contented thought since There began my misfortune line 30 and here followeth my wofull fall In Iulie after I laboured for licence to trauell for thrée yeares which vpon some consideration was easilie obteined And so in August I went ouer with doubtfull mind of returne for that being suspected in religion and not hauing receiued the communion in two and twentie yeares I began to mistrust my aduancement in England In September I came to Paris where I was reconciled to the church and aduised to liue without scandale the rather for that it was mistrusted line 40 by the English catholikes that I had intelligence with the greatest councellour of England I staied not long there but remooued to Lions a place of great traffike where bicause it was the ordinarie passage of our nation to and fro betwéene Paris and Rome I was also suspected To put all men out of doubt of me and for some other cause I went to Millaine from whense as a place of some danger though I found fauour there after I had cléered my conscience and iustified my line 50 selfe in religion before the inquisitor I went to Uenice There I came acquainted with father Benedicto Palmio a graue and a learned Iesuit By conference with him of the hard state of the catholikes in England by reading of the booke De persecutione Anglicana and other discourses of like argument 1 I conceiued a possible meane to relieue the afflicted state of our catholikes if the same might be well warranted in religion and conscience by the pope or some learned diuines I asked his opinion he line 60 made it cléere commended my deuotion comforted me in it and after a while made me knowen to the Nuntio Campeggio there resident for his holinesse By his meanes I wrote vnto the pope presented the seruice and sued for a pasport to go to Rome and to returne safelie into France Answer came from cardinall Como that I might come and should be welcome I misliked the warrant sued for a better which I was promised but it came not before my departure to Lions where I promised to staie some time for it And being indéed desirous to go to Rome and loth to go without countenance I desired Christofero de Salazar secretarie to the king catholike in Uenice who had some vnderstanding by conference of my deuotion to the afflicted catholikes at home and abroad to commend me to the duke 〈◊〉 Noua terra gouernour of Millaine and to the countie of Oliuaris Embi then resident for the king his master in Rome which he promised to doo effectuallie for the one and did for the other And so I tooke my iournie towards Lions whither came for me an ample pasport but somewhat too late that I might come go In verbo pontificis per omnes iurisdictiones ecclesiasticus absque impedimento I acquainted some good fathers there of my necessitie to depart towards Paris by promise praied their aduises vpon diuerse points wherein I was well satisfied And so assuring them that his holinesse should heare from me shortlie it was vndertaken that I should be excused for that time In October I came to Paris where vpon better opinion conceiued of me amongst my catholike countriemen I found my credit well setled and such as mistrusted me before readie to trust and imbrace me And being one daie at the chamber of Thomas Morgan a catholike gentleman greatlie beloued and trusted on that side amongst other gentlemen talking but in verie good sort of England I was desired by Morgan to go vp with him to another chamber where he brake with me and told me that it was hoped and looked for that I should doo some seruice for God and his church I answered him I would doo it if it were to kill the greatest subiect in England whom I named and in truth then hated No no said he let him liue to his greater fall and ruine of his house 2 it is the quéene I meane I had him as I wished and told him it were soone doone if it might be lawfullie doone and warranted in the opinion of some learned diuines And so the doubt once resolued though as you haue heard I was before reasonablie well satisfied I vowed to vndertake the enterprise for the restitution of England to the ancient obedience of the sée apostolike Diuers diuines were named doctor Allen I desired Parsons I refused And by chance came master Wats a learned priest with whome I conferred and was ouerruled 3 For he plainelie pronounced the case onelie altered in name that it was vtterlie vnlawfull with whome manie English priests did agrée as I haue heard if it be not altered since the booke made in answer of the execution of the English iustice was published which I must confesse hath taken hard hold in me and I feare me will doo in others if it be not preuented by more gratious handling of the quiet and obedient catholike subiects whereof there is good and greater store in England than this age will extinguish Well notwithstanding all these doubts I was gone so far by letters and conference in Italie that I could not go backe but promised faithfullie to performe the enterprise if his holinesse vpon my offer letters would allow it grant me full remission of my sinnes 4 I wrote my letters the first of Ianuarie 1584 by their computation tooke aduise vpon them in confession of father Aniball a Codreto a learned Iesuit in Paris was louinglie imbraced commended confessed and communicated at the Iesuits at one altar with the cardinals of Uandosmi and Narbone whereof I praied certificat and inclosed the same in my letter to his holines to lead him the rather to absolue me which I required by my letters in consideration of so great an enterprise vndertaken without promise or reward 5 I went with Morgan to the Nuntio Ragazzoni to whome I read the letter and certificat inclosed sealed it left it with him to send to Rome he promised great care of it and to procure answer and so louinglie imbraced me wished mee good spéed and promised that I should be remembred at the altar 6 After this I desired Morgan that some speciall man might be made priuie to this matter least he dieng and I miscarieng in the execution and my intent neuer trulie discouered it might sticke for an euerlasting spot in my race Diuerse were named but none agréed vpon for feare of bewraieng 7 This being doone
THE Third volume of Chronicles beginning at duke William the Norman commonlie called the Conqueror and descending by degrees of yeeres to all the kings and queenes of England in their orderlie successions First compiled by Raphaell Holinshed and by him extended to the yeare 1577. Now newlie recognised augmented and continued with occurrences and accidents of fresh memorie to the yeare 1586. Wherein also are conteined manie matters of singular discourse and rare obseruation fruitfull to such as be studious in antiquities or take pleasure in the grounds of ancient histories With a third table peculiarlie seruing this third volume both of names and matters memorable Historiae placeant nostrates ac peregrinae TO THE Right Honorable and his singular good Lord Sir William Cecill Baron of Burghleygh Knight of the most noble order of the Garter Lord high Treasurer of England Maister of the Courts of Wards and Liueries and one of the Queenes Maiesties priuie Councell COnsidering with my selfe right Honorable and my singular good Lord how redie no doubt manie will be to accuse me of vaine presumption for enterprising to deale in this so weightie a worke and so far aboue my reach to accomplish I haue thought good to aduertise your Honour by what occasion I was first induced to vndertake the same although the cause that moued me thereto hath in part yer this beene signified vnto your good Lordship Whereas therefore that worthie Citizen Reginald Wolfe late Printer to the Queenes Maiestie a man well knowne and beholden to your Honour meant in his life time to publish an vniuersall Cosmographie of the whole world and therwith also certaine particular histories of euery knowne nation amongst other whom he purposed to vse for performance of his intent in that behalfe he procured me to take in hand the collection of those histories and hauing proceeded so far in the same as little wanted to the accomplishment of that long promised worke it pleased God to call him to his mercie after fiue and twentie yeares trauell spent therein so that by his vntimelie deceasse no hope remained to see that performed which we had so long trauelled about Neuerthelesse those whom he put in trust to dispose his things after his departure hence wishing to the benefit of others that some fruit might follow of that whereabout he had imployed so long time willed me to continue mine endeuour for their furtherance in the same Which although I was redie to doo so far as mine abilitie would reach and the rather to answere that trust which the deceassed reposed in me to see it brought to some perfection yet when the volume grew so great as they that were to defraie the charges for the impression were not willing to go through with the whole they resolued first to publish the histories of England Scotland and Ireland with their descriptions which descriptions bicause they were not in such readinesse as those of forren countries they were inforced to vse the helpe of other better able to doo it than my selfe Moreouer the Charts wherein Maister Wolfe spent a great part of his time were not found so complet as we wished and againe vnderstanding of the great charges and notable enterprise of that worthie Gentleman maister Thomas Sackford in procuring the Charts of the seuerall prouinces of this realme to be set foorth we are in hope that in time he will delineate this whole land so perfectlie as shall be comparable or beyond anie delineation heretofore made of anie other region and therefore leaue that to his well deserued praise If any well willer will imitate him in so praiseworthie a worke for the two other regions we will be glad to further his endeuour with all the helpes we may The histories I haue gathered according to my skill and conferred the greatest part with Maister Wolfe in his life time to his liking who procured me so manie helpes to the furtherance thereof that I was loth to omit anie thing that might increase the readers knowledge which causeth the booke to grow so great But receiuing them by parts and at seuerall times as I might get them it may be that hauing had more regard to the matter than the apt penning I haue not so orderlie disposed them as otherwise I ought choosing rather to want order than to defraud the reader of that which for his further vnderstanding might seeme to satisfie his expectation I therefore most humblie beseech your Honour to accept these Chronicles of England vnder your protection and according to your wisedome and accustomed benignitie to beare with my faults the rather bicause you were euer so especiall good Lord to Maister Wolfe to whom I was singularlie beholden and in whose name I humblie present this rude worke vnto you beseeching God that as he hath made you an instrument to aduance his truth so it may please him to increase his good gifts in you to his glorie the furtherance of the Queenes Maiesties seruice and the comfort of all hir faithfull and louing subiects Your Honours most humble to be commanded RAPHAEL HOLINSHED THE PREFACE to the reader IT is dangerous gentle reader to range in so large a field as I haue here vndertaken while so manie sundrie men in diuers things may be able to controll me and manie excellent wits of our countrie as well or better occupied I hope are able herein to surpasse me but seeing the best able doo seeme to neglect it let me though least able craue pardon to put them in mind not to forget their natiue countries praise which is their dutie the incouragement of their woorthie countriemen by elders aduancements and the daunting of the vicious by foure penall examples to which end as I take it chronicles and histories ought cheefelie to be written My labour may shew mine vttermost good will of the more learned I require their further enlargement and of fault-finders dispensation till they be more fullie informed It is too common that the least able are readiest to find fault in matters of least weight and therefore I esteeme the lesse of their carping but humblie beseech the skilfull to supplie my want and to haue care of their dutie and either to amend that wherein I haue failed or be content with this mine endeuour For it may please them to consider that no one can be eie-witnesse to all that is written within our time much lesse to those things which happened in former times and therefore must be content with reports of others Therein I haue beene so carefull that I haue spared no paines or helpe of freends to search out either written or printed ancient authors or to inquire of moderne eie-witnesses for the true setting downe of that which I haue here deliuered but I find such want in writers for the necessarie knowledge of things doone in times past and lacke of meanes to obteine sufficient instructions by reporters of the time present and herewith the worthie exploits of our countriemen so manie that
extinguish the sedition whereof he himselfe had beene no small kindler which was like to grow if the Nobilitie were not pacified the sooner talked with the king and exhorted his grace verie instantlie to satisfie the requests of his barons and herewith did shew the booke of the articles which they had deliuered vnto him The king when he saw what they demanded which in effect was a new order in things touching the whole state of the common wealth sware in a great furie that he would neuer condescend vnto those petitions Whereof when the barons had knowledge they gat them strait vnto armour making their assemblie at Stamford in the Easter weeke whither they had drawne vnto them almost the whole Nobilitie and gathered an excéeding great armie For the commons flocked vnto them from euerie part bicause the king was generallie hated of the more part of his subiects It was coniectured that there were in that armie the number of two thousand knights beside yeomen on horssebacke or demilances as I may call them and footemen apparelled in diuerse sorts of armour The chiefe ringleaders of this power were these whose names insue Robert Fitz Walter Eustace Uescie Richard Percie Robert Roos Peter de Breuse Nicholas de Stuteuill Saer earle of Winchester line 10 Robert erle of Clare Henrie earle of Clare Richard earle de Bigot William de Mowbray William de Cressey Ralfe Fitz Robert Robert de Uere Foulke Fitz Warren Will. Mallet William de Montacute William de Beauchampe Simon de Kime William Marshall the yoonger William Manduit Robert de Montibigonis Iohn Fitz Robert Iohn Fitz Alane G. Lauale O. Fitz Alane W. de Hobrug O. de Uales G. de Gaunt line 20 Maurice de Gaunt Robert de Brakesley Robert de Mounfichet Will. de Lanualley G. de Maundeuile earle of Essex William his brother William de Huntingfield Robert de Gresley G. constable of Menton Alexander de Panton Peter Fitz Iohn Alexander de Sutton Osbert de Bodie Iohn constable of Chester Thomas de Muleton Conan Fitz Helie and manie other they had also of councell with them as chiefe the archbishop of Canturburie The king as then was at Oxford who hearing of the assemblie which the barons made and that they line 30 were come to Brakesley on the mondaie next after the octaues of Easter he sent vnto them the archbishop of Canturburie in whom he reposed great confidence and William Marshall earle of Penbroke to vnderstand what they meant by that their assembling thus togither Wherevpon they deliuered to the same messengers a roll conteining the ancient liberties priuiledges and customs of the realme signifieng that if the king would not confirme the same they would not cease to make him warre till line 40 he should satisfie their requests in that behalfe The archbishop and the earle returning to the king shewed him the whole circumstance of that which the barons demanded who tooke great indignation thereat and scornefullie said Why doo they not aske to haue the kingdome also Finallie he affirmed with an oth that he would neuer grant any such liberties whereby he should become a slaue Herevpon the archbishop and the earle of Penbroke line 50 returned to the barons and declared the kings deniall to confirme their articles Then the barons naming their hoast The armie of God and the holie church set forward and first came vnto Northampton and besieging the towne when they could not preuaile bicause the same was well prouided for defense aforehand they departed from thence and came towards Bedford to besiege the castell there in which sir William Beauchampe was capteine who being secretlie confederate with them deliuered line 60 the place incontinentlie into their hands Whilest they remained here a certeine time to fortifie and furnish the castell with necessarie prouision there came letters to them from London giuing them to vnderstand that if they would send a conuenient power of souldiers to defend the citie the same should be receiued thereinto at some meet and reasonable time in the night season by the citizens who would ioine with them in that quarell against the king to the vttermost of their powers The lords were glad of these newes to haue the chiefe citie of the realme to take part with them and therfore they sent foure bands of souldiers streightwaies thither which were brought into the citie in the night season according to order aforehand taken But as Matt. Paris saith they were receiued into the citie by Algate the 24 of Maie being sundaie whilest the citizens were at masse The next day they made open rebellion tooke such as they knew fauoured the king brake into the houses of the Iewes spoiled them The barons hauing thus gotten possession of the citie of London wrote letters vnto all those lords which as yet had not ioined with them in this confederacie threatening that if they refused to aid them now in this necessitie they would destroie their castels manours parkes and other possessions making open warre vpon them as the enimies of God and rebels to the church These were the names of those lords which yet had not sworne to mainteine the foresaid liberties William Marshall earle of Penbroke Rainulfe earle of Chester Nicholas earle of Salisburie William earle Warren William erle of Albemarle H. earle of Cornewall W. de Albenie Robert de Ueipount Peter Fitz Herbert Brian de Lisley G. de Lucie G. de Furniuall Thomas Basset H. de Braibrooke I. de Bassingborne W. de Cantlow H. de Cornwall Iohn Fitz Hugh Hugh de Neuill Philip de Albenie Iohn Marshall and William Brewer All these vpon receipt of the barons letters or the more part of them came to London and ioined themselues with the barons vtterlie renouncing to aid king Iohn Also the plées in the eschequer ceased and the shiriffes staied from executing their office For there was none that would paie anie monie to the kings vse nor anie that did obeie him in somuch that there remained with him but onelie seuen horssemen of all his traine at one time as some write though soone after he had a great power which came to him to the castell of Windsore where he then laie and meant to haue led the same against the lords with all spéed But hearing now of this new rebellion of the Londoners he changed his purpose and durst not depart from Windsore being brought in great doubt least all the other cities of the realme would follow their example Herevpon he thought good to assaie if he might come to some agreement by waie of communication and incontinentlie sent his ambassadours to the barons promising them that he would satisfie their requests if they would come to Windsore to talke with him Howbeit the lords hauing no confidence in his promise came with their armie within thrée miles of Windsore and their pitcht downe their tents in a medow betwixt Stanes and Windsore whither
default so imbezelled that a small remanent became his in right when by open hostilitie and accurssed papasie the greater portion was pluckt out of his hands Here therefore we sée the issue of domesticall or homebred broiles the fruits of variance the gaine that riseth of dissention whereas no greater nor safer line 30 fortification can betide a land than when the inhabitants are all alike minded By concord manie an hard enterprise in common sense thought vnpossible is atchiued manie weake things become so defended that without manifold force they cannot be dissolued From diuision and mutinies doo issue as out of the Troiane horsse ruines of roialties and decaies of communalties The sinewes of a realme is supposed of some to be substance and wealth of other some policie and power of other some conuenient line 40 defenses both by water and land but a most excellent description of a well fortified countrie is that of Plautus set downe in most pithie words and graue sentences no lesse worthie to be written than read and considered The description is this Si incolae bene sunt morati pulchrè munitū regnū arbitror Perfidia peculatus ex vrbe auaritia si exulent Quarta inuidia quinta ambitio sexta obtrectatio Septimum periurium octaua indulgentia Nona iniuria decima quod pessimum aggressu scelus line 50 Haec nisi inde aberūt cētuplex murus reb secundis parū est And therefore no maruell though both courtiers and commoners fell from king Iohn their naturall prince and tooke part with the enimie not onelie to the disgrace of their souereigne but euen to his ouerthrow and the depopulation of the whole land sith these maine bulworks and rampiers were wanting and the contrarie in most ranke sort and detestable manner extended their virulent forces But we will surceasse to aggranate this matter line 60 sith the same is sufficientlie vrged in the verie course of the historie concerning his acts and déeds continued to the verie day of his death and the verie time of his buriall whereof I saie thus much that whether it was his will to be interred as is aforesaid or whether his corpse being at the disposing of the suruiuers to elect the place as a conuenient storehouse for a princes bones I leaue it as doubtfull and therfore vndetermined esteeming the lesse to labour therein bicause the truth can hardlie by certeintie be winnowed out but by coniecturall supposals aimed and shot at Notwithstanding in my poore iudgement it is verie likelie first in respect of the time which was superstitious and popish secondlie by reason of the custome of funerall rites then commonlie vsed that he was buried in the said place for order sake his bodie if I may presume so farre by warrant of mine author wrapped in a moonks cowle and so laid in his graue or toome For the manner was at that time in such sort to burie their Nobles and great men who were induced by the imaginations of moonks and fond fansies of fréers to beleeue that the said cowle was an amulet or defensitiue to their soules from hell and hellish hags how or in what soeuer sort they died either in sorrow and repentance for sinne or in blasphemie outrage impatiencie or desperation This forme of funerals was frequented in Wales hauing béene first brewed and broched in England from whence if we may giue credit to our late Chronographers as from a poisoned spring it spred it selfe into Wales For the first abbeie or frierie that is read to haue béene erected there since the dissolution of the noble house of Bangor which sauoured not of Romish dregs was the Twy Gwyn which was builded in the yeare 1146. Afterwards these vermine swarmed like bées or rather crawled like lice ouer all the land and drew in with them their lowsie religion tempered with I wot not how manie millians of abhominations hauing vtterlie forgotten the lesson which Ambrosius Telesinus had taught them who writ in the yeare 540 when the right christian faith which Ioseph of Arimathia taught the I le of Aualon reigned in this land before the proud and bloodthirstie moonke Augustine infected it with the poison of Romish errors in a certeine ode a part whereof are these few verses insuing Gwae'r offeiriad byd Nys angreifftia gwyd Ac ny phregetha Gwae ny cheidw ey gail Ac efyn vigail Ac nys areilia Gwae ny theidw ey dheuaid Rhae bleidhie Rhiefeniaid Ai ffon grewppa Wo be to that preest yborne That will not cleanelie weed his corne And preach his charge among Wo be to that shepheard I saie That will not watch his fold alwaie As to his office dooth belong Wo be to him that dooth not keepe From rauening Romish wolues his sheepe With staffe and weapon strong This as not impertinent to the purpose I haue recorded partlie to shew the palpable blindnes of that age wherein king Iohn liued as also the religion which they reposed in a rotten rag estéeming it as a Scala coeli or ladder to life but speciallie inferred to this end that we may fetch some light from this cléere candle though the same seeme to be duskish dim whereby we may be lead to conceiue in reason and common sense that the interrement of the king was according to the custome then in vse and request and therefore by all likelihoods he was buried as the péeres and states of the land were woont to be in those daies after the maner aboue mentioned But to let this passe as a cold discourse of a coffen of bones couered with clods of claie you shall vnderstand that he left behind him posteritie of both sexes For he had issue by his wife queene Isabell two sonnes Henrie who succéeded him in the kingdome and Richard thrée daughters Ioane married to Alexander king of Scotland Isabell coupled in matrimonie with the emperour Frederike the second and Elianor whome William earle of Glocester had to wife He had also another daughter as some haue left in writing called Elianor He was comelie of stature but of looke and countenance displeasant and angrie somewhat cruell of nature as by the writers of his time he is noted and not so hardie as doubtfull in time of perill and danger But this séemeth to be an enuious report vttered by those that were giuen to speake no good of him whome they inwardlie hated Howbeit some giue line 10 this witnesse of him as the author of the booke of Bernewell abbeie and other that he was a great and mightie prince but yet not verie fortunate much like to Marius the noble Romane tasting of fortune both waies bountifull and liberall vnto strangers but of his owne people for their dailie treasons practised towards him a great oppressour so that he trusted more to forreners than to them and therfore in the end he was of them vtterlie forsaken ¶ Uerelie whosoeuer shall consider the course of the line 20
paie for the bonds made to the merchants by the bishop of Hereford as before is recited In this season the deuotion which manie had conceiued of the pope and the church of Rome began to wax cold reputing the vertue which he shewed at his entring into the papasie to be rather a colourable hypocrisie than otherwise sith his proceedings answered not to his good beginnings for as it was manifest where sutors brought their complaints into the court of Rome such sped best as gaue most bribes and the two priors of Winchester the one expelled and the other got in by intrusion could well witnesse the same and all the world knoweth that the viperous generation of Romanists reckoning from the ringleader to the simplest shaueling haue made gaine the scope of their holinesse and as it is truelie said Quae libet arripiunt lucri bonus est odoâ— ex re Qualibet imponunt hos scelus omne iuuat Accipiunt quoduis si non sonat aere crumena Siue siligo adsit sordida siue pecus c. This yeare died William of Yorke bishop of Salisburie which had beene brought vp in the court euen from his youth This bishop first caused that custome to be receiued for a law whereby the tenants of euerie lordship are bound to owe their suit to the lords court of whom they hold their tenements In the feast of Easter this yeare the king adorned Magnus king of Man with the order of knighthood and bestowed vpon him great gifts and honors ¶ The countesse of Warren Auesia or Atesia as some bookes haue sister to the king by his mother line 10 departed this life in hir flourishing youth vnto the great griefe of hir brother but speciallie of hir husband Iohn earle of Waren that loued hir intierlie ¶ About the midst of Maie the Iewes that were in the towre and in other prisons for the murther of the child at Lincolne and had béene indited by an inquest vpon the 〈◊〉 of him that had suffered at Lincolne were 〈…〉 and set at libertie to the number of 〈…〉 of them ¶ In Whitsuntide was holden a 〈…〉 at Blie where the line 20 lord Edward the 〈…〉 sonne first began to shew proofe of his chiualâ—â—â— There were diuerse ouerthrowen and hurt and aâ—â—â—gst other William de Longspee was so brused 〈…〉 neuer after recouer his former strength The king caused a proclamation is be set foorth that all such as might dispend â—â—â—eene pounds in lands should receiue the 〈◊〉 of knighthood and those that would not or could not should paie their fines This yeare thrée daies after the feast of S. line 30 Ciricus a maruellous sore tempest of wind raine haile and thunder chanced that did excéeding much hurt Mill-whéeles by the violeâ—â—e of waters were carried away and the wind-milles were no lesse tormented with the rage of wind Arches of bridges stackes of haie houses that stood by water sides and children in cradels were borne awaie that both woonderfull and no lesse pitifull it was to see At Bedford the riuer of Duse bare downe six houses togither and did vnspeakeable hurt thereabouts line 40 Alexander the third king of Scots with his wife quéene Margaret came about the beginning of August into England and found the king at his manor of Woodstoke where he solaced him a season and had the lands of the earle of Huntington restored vnto him which his grandfather king William in his time lost and forfeited Here he did homage to king Henrie Upon the day of the decollation of S. Iohn the two kings with their quéenes came to London where they were honorablie receiued and so conueied line 50 vnto Westminster On the day of S. Augustine the bishop being the eight and twentith of August Iohn Mansell the kings chapleine besought the two kings and other states to dine with him on the morrow following which they granted and so he made a maruellous great dinner There were seuen hundred messes serued vp but the multitude of ghests was such that scarse the same sufficed his house was not able to receiue them all and therefore he caused tents and booths to be set vp for theâ— The like dinner line 60 had not beene made by any chapleine before that time All those that came were worthilie receiued feasted and interteined in such sort as euerie man was satisfied About foure daies before the feast of S. Edward K. Henrie came into the excheker himselfe there deuised order for the appearance of shiriffes and bringing in of their accompts At the same time also there was fiue marks set on euerie shiriffes head for a fine bicause they had not distreined euerie person that might dispend 15 pounds land to receiue the order of knighthood as was to the same shiriffes commanded The king of Scots after he had remained a while with the king of England returned backe into Scotland and left his wife behind with hir mother till she should be brought to bed for she was as then great with child In the 41 yeare of the reigne of king Henrie his brother Richard earle of Cornewall was elected emperour by one part of the Cornosters and diuerse lords of Almaine comming ouer into this land vpon the daie of the innocents in Christmasse presented vnto him letters from the archbishop of Colen and other great lords of Almaine year 1257 testifieng their consents in the choosing of him to be emperour and withall that it might stand with his pleasure to accept that honor Finallie vpon good deliberation had in the matter he consented therevnto whervpon the lords that came with the message being right glad of their answer returned with all spéed to signifie the same vnto those from whom they had béene sent The treasure of this earle Richard now elected king of Almaine was esteemed to amount vnto such a summe that he might dispend euerie day a hundred marks for the terme of ten yeares togither not reckoning at all the reuenues which dailie accrewed to him of his rents in Almaine and England In this meane time the vnquiet Welshmen after the death of their prince Dauid chose in his stéed one Leolin that was son to the same Griffin that brake his necke as he would haue escaped out of the towre of London and herewith they began a new rebellion either driuing out such Englishmen as laie there in garisons within the castels and fortresses or else entring into the same by some traitorous practise they slue those which they found within them to the great displeasure of their souereigne lord Edward the kings eldest sonne who coueting to be reuenged of their rebellious enterprises could not bring his purpose to passe by reason of the vnseasonable weather and continuall raine which fell that winter so raising the waters setting the marishes on flouds that he could not passe with his armie Moreouer his father the king wanted monie and treasure
gift as that which he thought not to be sufficient ¶ Truelie it shoâ—ld séeme that there was a great vntowardlie disposition in the subiects of that time for the helping of their king with necessarie aid of monie towards such great charges as he had béene diuers waies occasioned to be at since his first comming to the crowne But bicause it was perceiued that he bestowed no small quantitie of his treasure to the aduancing of his kinsfolke and aliance namelie strangers and againe defraied great summes in vaine hope to obteine the kingdoms of both the Sicils which the pope offered to him fréelie inough in words as before yee haue heard the English subiects conceiued a great misliking of the whole gouernement and namelie for that he séemed to be led and ruled by the aduise and counsell of those strangers who being not throughlie acquainted with the nature of the English people nor fullie instructed in the lawes and customes of the realme caused him to doo manie things that procured both to him and them much ill will as well of the hie states as of the commons which as occasion serued they were readie inough to discouer and therefore they were verie inquisitiue both to learne what he receiued and also in what sort he bestowed that which he did receiue and take It was therefore knowne that since he first began to waste his treasure his charges amounted vnto the summe of 950000 marks as the bookes of accompts remaining in the hands of the clearks of his closet plainelie witnessed and yet of all those vaine expenses no great aduantage was growne thereby to the king or realme but rather disaduantage as the most part of men then tooke to and no maruell for there was such hart-burning amongst the nobilitie one enuieng an others aduancement repining at each others dooings that it was not possible to bring any good drift forward amongst men so far at ods togither But we will let this passe as a thing manifest inough to them that shall well consider the course of that time and will returne to the parlement aboue mentioned Before the end of this solemne assemblie of states the archbishop of Cullen with a duke an other bishop came ouer out of Almaine vnto their elect king Richard to whome they did fealtie and homage as to their souereigne liege lord and gouernor which thing once doone he gaue to the said archbishop fiue hundred marks to beare his charges with a rich miter set with stones furnished with plates of beaten gold which miter when the archbishop had set it vpon his head He hath saith he giuen a rich gift to me and to my church and verelie euen as I haue put this miter line 10 on my head so will I set on his head the crowne of the kingdome of Almaine he hath mitered me and I will crowne him The other lords of Almaine which at the same time did homage vnto earle Richard were also presented with great and rich gifts Héere is further to be noted that there were present at this parlement six archbishops Canturburie Yorke Dubline Messina Tarento and Cullen The archbishop of Messina was come to the king to set him on dotage for the businesse about the conquest of line 20 Naples and Sicill At the feast of Ester next following the archbishop of Cullen returned into his countrie and the third day after Easter the elect king of Almaine tooke his leaue and departed toward Yarmouth where he purposed to take the sea to saile ouer into Almaine but by reason of contrarie winds he was driuen to remaine there a long time to his great gréefe and inestimable charges before he could passe ouer yet finallie about the latter end of Aprill he got foorth to the sea and landed at Dordreigh the line 30 first of Maie next insuing About the same time the archbishop of Canturburie called a synod of the bishops and abbats inhabiting within his prouince that inuocating the grace of the Holie-ghost they might foresee some redresse for reléefe of the English church now in these late yeares sore disquieted by new oppressions more gréeuous than had béene accustomed for the king by counsell or rather by the whispering of some flatterers and enimies to the realme was so induced that line 40 he permitted certeine euill customs as thornie brembles to increase in the fruitfull garden of pleasure and to choke vp the trees that brought foorth fruit in great plentie Moreouer in this yeare king Henrie caused the walles of the citie of London which wâ—re sore decaied and destitute of turrets to be repared in more seemelie wise than before they had béene at the common charges of the citie There was an ordinance made at Rome by the pope and his cardinals which verie diligentlie foresaw line 50 to aduance their temporall commodities not much passing for other mens aduantages that euerie one which should be chosen an exempt abbat should come to the court of Rome to be there confirmed and receiue the popes blessing by which heinous ordinance religion was laid open to great danger and the church depriued of temporall prosperitie as saith Matthew Paris for by this means saith he it was needfull for religious men to choose to their gouernour a man not religious but rather halfe line 60 temporall and such a one as to whome rather Iustinians lawes than Christes which conuerteth soules should be familiar The moonks of Durham who onlie with the canons of Gisborne resisted the wicked procéedings of the popes exactors and stood therefore interdicted a long time at length after manie altercations were absolued Oh saith Matth. Paris if in that their tribulation they might haue had fellows and in their constant doings aidors how happilie had the church of England triumphed ouer hir tormentors and oppressors You haue heard how Richard earle of Cornewall being elected king of Almaine sailed thither where on the Ascension day last he was crowned king by the archbishop of Cullen of whom and diuerse other great princes of Germanie he was holden for their lawfull king and gouernour as in the Dutch histories you may find more largelie expressed though other of them had chosen Alfonse king of Castile the which Alfonse wrote to the king of England as his confederate and alie requiring aid of him against the said Richard that was his owne brother to the which vnreasonable request the king would in no wise consent Moreouer in this fortie one yeare of king Henries reigne by reason of a roll closed in gréene wax and found in the kings Wardrobe at Windsor conteining as it were an information against the maior and shiriffes of London for oppression and wrongs doone to the communaltie of the citie the king tooke great displeasure and caused streit inquisition to be made as well by Fouke Moots as Ward Moots diuerse other means At length the maior and shiriffes with the chamberlaine of the citie were
and also diuerse other good and wholesome ordinances concerning the state of the common-wealth were established and enacted ¶ In the moneth of Aprill there chanced great thunder tempestuous raine and flouds occasioned by the same verie sore horrible continuing for the space of fifteene daies togither line 30 The legat Othobone year 1268 after he had in the synods holden at Northampton and London deuised and made manie orders and rules for churchmen and leuied amongst them great summes of monie finallie in the moneth of Iulie he tooke leaue of the king and returned to Rome where after the deceasse of Innocent the fift about the yeare of our Lord 1276 he was chosen pope and named Adrian the fift liuing not past 50 daies after He went so néere hand to search out things at his going awaie that he had inrolled line 40 the true value of all the churches and benefices in England and tooke the note with him to Rome Prince Edward the kings sonne and diuerse other great lords of England before this legats departure out of the realme receiued the crosse at his hands in Northampton on Midsummer day meaning shortlie after according to promise there made to go into the holie land to warre against Gods enimies In this yeare fell great variance betwéene line 50 the corporations or fellowships of the goldsmiths and tailors within the citie of London wherevnto euill words flowing from the toong gaue originall for Pondus valde graue verbosum vas sine claue so that one euening there were assembled to the number of fiue hundred in the stréets in armour and running togither made a fowle fraie so that manie were wounded and some slaine But the shiriffes hearing thereof came parted them with assistance of other trades and sent diuerse of them being taken vnto prison of the which there were arreigned to the line 60 number of thirtie and thirtéene of them condemned and hanged In the fiftie third yeare of king Henries reigne there was such an excéeding great frost beginning at saint Andrewes tide and continuing till it was néere candlemasse that the Thames from the bridge vpwards was so hard frosen year 1269 that men and beasts passed ouer on féet from Lambeth to Westminster and so westward in diuerse places vp to Kingston Also merchandize was brought from Sandwich and other places vnto London by land For the ships by reason of the yce could not enter the Thames ¶ And about the feast of S. Uedast which falleth on the 6 of Februarie fell so great abundance of raine that the Thames rose so high as it had not doone at any time before to remembrance of men then liuing so that the cellars and vaults in London by the water side were drowned and much merchandize marred lost About S. Georges day there was a parlement holden at London for the appeasing of a controuersie depending betwixt prince Edward the kings son and the earle of Glocester at the which parlement were present almost all the prelats and péeres of the realme At length they put the matter in compromise into the hands of the king of Almaine vndertaking to be ordred by him high and low touching all controuersies and likewise for the iournie to be made into the holie land but the king of Almaine did little in the matter to any great effect ¶ In the beginning of Lent the king gaue to his sonne prince Edward the rule of the citie of London with all the reuenues and profits thereto belonging After which gift the said prince made sir Hugh Fitz Othon constable of the towre and custos of the citie of London ¶ Upon the ninth day of Aprill Edmund the kings sonne surnamed Crouchbacke married at Westminster Auelina the daughter of the earle of Aumarle Prince Edward commanded the citizens of London to present vnto him six citizens of the which number he might nominate two shiriffes and so appointed William de Hadstocke and Anketill de Alberne which were sworne to be accomptants as their predecessours had beene In those daies a new custome or toll was vsed to be paid which prince Edward let to farme vnto certeine strangers for the summe of twentie marks by yeare Wherefore the citizens being gréeued therewith bought it of him for two hundred marks Also this yeare there was granted to the king towards his iournie by him purposed into the holie land the twentith penie of euerie mans mooueable goods thoroughout the realme of the laie fee and of the spiritualtie was granted by the assent of pope Gregorie the tenth thrée dismes to be gathered within the terme of thrée yeares This yeare the kings sonne the lord Edward obteined a confirmation for the citie of London of the charter of the ancient liberties so that the citizens did then choose vnto them a maior and two shiriffes which shiriffes by vertue of the same charter had their office to farme in maner as before time was accustomed sauing that where they paid afore but thrée hundred and fiftie pounds they paid now foure hundred and fiftie pounds After which confirmation granted and passed vnder the kings broad seale they chose for their maior Iohn Adrian and for shiriffes Walter Potter and Iohn Tailor the which were presented the 16 day of Iulie vnto the king at Westminster by his sonne prince Edward and there admitted and sworne Then was sir Hugh Fitz Othon discharged of the rule of the citie The citizens of their owne fréewill gaue vnto the king an hundred marks and to his sonne prince Edward fiue hundred markes There was no great disorder attempted this yeare to the disquieting of the realme sauing that certeine of the disherited gentlemen that belonged to the earle of Darbie withdrew vnto the forrest of the Peake in Darbishire and there making their abode spoiled and wasted the countries next adioining In the moneth of Maie prince Edward the kings sonne set forward on his iournie towards the holie land and taking the sea at Douer passed ouer into France and came to Burdeaux where he staied a while and after went to Agues Mortes and there tooke shipping first sailing as some write vnto Thunis where the christian armie which Lewes the French king as then deceassed had brought thither was readie to depart and so prince Edward with the new French king Lewes and other princes passed ouer into Sicill where he soiourned for the winter time In this yeare the king was vexed with a greeuous sicknesse and the Irishmen in rebellion slue a â—reat sort of Englishmen as well magistrats as others in that countrie When the spring of the yeare began to approach prince Edward eftsoones tooke the sea and finallie arriued at Acres with a thousand chosen men of warre line 10 though there be writers that affirme how there arriued with him of sundrie countries fiue thousand horsmen and double the same number of footmen But amongst those that went out
of the mischéefe though hands were not laid vpon him nor his adherents perhaps for feare peraduenture for fauour no maruell though the lesse faultie lost their liues as most guiltie for rarus venator ad vrsos Accedit tutos conseruat sylua leones Debilibus robusta nocent grandia paruis A les fulminiger timidos infestat olores Accipiter laniat turdos millésque columbas Versicolor coluber ranas miserâ—sque lacertas Irretit muscas transmittit aranea vespas The king returning by saint Edmundsburie after he had doone his deuotions to S. Edmunds shrine line 10 began to ware somewhat crasie but after hauing a little recouered his health he called a councell there wherein he went about to haue taken order for the punishment of rebels but his sicknesse againe renewing he brake vp the assemblie and with all spéed hasted to London Prince Edward vpon his returne out of the holie land came to Chalons in Burgogne at the request of the earle he did attempt with his companie to hold a iustes and tournie against the line 20 said earle all other commers And thought through disdaine and spite there was homelie plaie shewed vpon purpose to put the Englishmen to the foile reproch yet by high valiancie prince Edward and his companie bare themselues so worthilie that in the end the aduersaries were well beaten and constreined to leaue the honor of that enterprise to the said prince Edward and his partakers After this he kept on his iornie till he came vnto Paris where he was honourablie receiued of the French king and from line 30 thence he went to Burdeaux and there remained till after his fathers death In this meane time king Henrie being returned to London from saint Edmundsburie as before yee haue heard his sicknesse so increased vpon him that finallie he departed at Westminster on the sixteenth day of Nouember in the yeare of our Sauiour 1272. after he had liued threescore and fiue yeares and reigned fiftie and six yeares and seauen and twentie daies A little before his death when he perceiued line 40 that he could no longer liue he caused the earle of Glocester to come before him and to be newlie sworne to keepe the peace of the land to the behoofe of his sonne prince Edward His bodie was buried at Westminster He had issue by his wife quéene Elianor two sonnes the foresaid Edward prince of Wales that succéeded him and Edmund earle of Lancaster by some authors surnamed Crouchbacke though as other affirme vntrulie that this Edmund was the elder brother but bicause he was a deformed line 50 person therefore his yonger brother Edward was preferred to the kingdome which was deuised of purpose to conueie a right to king Henrie the fourth which fetched the descent from the said Edmund and by force vsurped and held the crowne as after it may appeare Moreouer king Henrie had thrée daughters by the said Elianor as Margaret maried to Alexander king of Scots Beatrice whom the duke of Britaine had to wife and Catharine which died before she was mariable line 60 He was of bodie well cast and strong of a good stature in heigth well fauoured of face with the lid of one of his eies comming downe so as it almost couered the apple of the same eie Of nature he was courteous and of stomach rather noble than stout a deuout prince and liberall towards the poore and néedie Yet he wanted not dispraise in some points namelie for that in ordering of things and weightie affaires he vsed small consideration He was also noted to be a great taker of monie by leanes taxes and subsidies but there vnto he was inforced by necessitie to beare the charges of warre and other publike affaires than of any couetous mind or purpose to serue his owne turne ¶ What capteins of honour among the nobilitie liued in his time it may appeare by the course of the historie of his age Of sundrie learned men these we find mentioned in maister Bales centuries and others Walter of Couentrie an historiographer Radulphus Niger that wrote both histories and other treatises Geruasius de Melkelie Albricius of London Robert Curson a man excellentlie learned both in diuine and humaine letters so that comming to the court of Rome he there grew in such estimation that he became a cardinall of whom we find this recorded by Matthew Westminster and Matthew Paris At the taking of Damiate a citie in Aegypt there was with Pelagius the cardinall of Alba the popes legat master Robert Curson an Englishman a most famous clerke borne of a noble house and cardinall of the church of Rome These are reported to florish in the daies both of king Iohn and king Henrie his sonne In the said kings time also there liued other learned men as these Hugh Kirkestéed Richard of Elie Peter Henham Iohn Giles or de Sancto Egidio an excellent physician Caducan a Welshman borne and bishop of Bangor Alexander a singular learned man that wrote diuerse and manie treatises aswell in diuinitie as philosophie and humanitie both in verse and prose also Stephan Langton that for his singular knowledge was made high chancellor of the vniuersitie of Paris and at length was admitted archbishop of Canturburie against the will of king Iohn in which quarell so great trouble insued as before yée haue partlie heard Rafe Coggeshall also liued in king Henries daies that wrote the appendix vnto the chronicle of Ralfe Niger he was abbat of Coggeshall abbeie in Essex whereof he tooke his surname William Lanthonie Peter of S. Sauior a canon of the house called S. Sauior or of the trinitie by London Alexander Hailes a frier of the order of the minors who wrote manie treatises in diuinitie Richard surnamed Medicus a most learned physician and no lesse expert in philosophie and the mathematicals There be also remembred by maister Bale Randulfe the earle of Chester the third and last of that name who hauing great knowledge and vnderstanding in the lawes of this land compiled a booke of the same lawes as a witnesse of his great skill therein Alexander Wendocke bishop of Chester Iohn Blund Edmund Rich Robert Rich Henrie Bracton that excellent lawier who wrote the booke commonlie called Bracton after his name intituled De consuetudinibus Anglicanis Richard surnamed Theologus Walter de Euesham Ralfe Fresborne Laurence Somercote brother as it is thought to Robert Somercote at that time a cardinall of the Romane church Nicholas Fernham a physician Robert Bacon a notable diuine Simon Langton brother to the archbishop of Canturburie Stephan Langton Richard Fisaker Simon Stokes Iohn of Kent or Kantianus William Shirwood Michaell Blaunpaine Iohn Godard Uincent of Couentrie Alberike Ueer Richard Wich Iohn Basing alià s de Basingstoke Roger Walsham William Seningham Robert Grosted that learned bishop of Lincolne whose memorie amongst the learned will remaine while the world lasteth Thus farre Henrie the third Edward the first surnamed
le Beau sister to Charles the fift king of France began his reigne as king of England his father yet liuing the 25 daie of Ianuarie after the creation 5293 in the yeare of our lord 1327 year 1327 after the account of them that line 10 begin the yeare at Christmasse 867 after the comming of the Saxons 260 after the conquest the 13 yeare of the reigne of Lewes the fourth then emperour the seuenth of Charles the fift king of France the second of Andronicus Iunior emperour of the east almost ended and about the end of the 22 of Robert le Bruce king of Scotland He was crowned at Westminster on the day of the Purification of our ladie next insuing by the hands of Walter the archbishop of Canturburie line 20 And bicause he was but fourteene yeares of age so that to gouerne of himselfe he was not sufficient it was decréed that twelue of the greatest lords within the realme should haue the rule and gouernment till he came to more perfect yeares The names of which lords were as followeth The archbishop of Canturburie the archbishop of Yorke the bishops of Winchester and of Hereford Henrie earle of Lancaster Thomas Brotherton earle marshall Edmund of Woodstoke earle of Kent Iohn earle of Warren the lord Thomas Wake the lord Henrie Percie the line 30 lord Oliuer de Ingham the lord Iohn Ros. These were sworne of the kings councell and charged with the gouernement as they would make answer But this ordinance continued not long for the quéene and the lord Roger Mortimer tooke the whole rule so into their hands that both the king and his said councellors were gouerned onelie by them in all matters both high and low Neuerthelesse although they had taken the regiment vpon them yet could they not foresee the tumults and vprores that presentlie vpon line 40 the yoong kings inthronizing did insue but needs it must come to passe that is left written where children weare the crowne beare the scepter in hand Vaepueri terrae saepissimè sunt ibi guerrae He confirmed the liberties and franchises of the citie of London and granted that the maior of the same citie for the time being might sit in all places of iudgement within the liberties thereof for cheefe iustice aboue all other the kings person onelie excepted and that euerie alderman that had béene maior line 50 should be iustice of peace through all the citie of London and countie of Middlesex and euerie alderman that had not béene maior should be iustice of peace within his owne ward He granted also to the citizens that they should not be constreined to go foorth of the citie to anie warres in defense of the land and that the franchises of the citie should not be seized from thenceforth into the kings hands for anie cause but onelie for treason and rebellion shewed by the whole citie Also Southwarke was appointed to be vnder the rule of the citie and the maior of London to be bailiffe of Southwarke and to ordeine such a substitute in the same borough as pleased him In the first yeare of this kings reigne we find in records belonging to the abbeie of S. Edmundsburie in Suffolke that the inhabitants of that towne raised a sore commotion against the abbat moonks of the same abbeie and that at seuerall times as first on the wednesdaie next after the feast of the conuersion of S. Paule in the said first yeare of this kings reigne one Robert Foxton Richard Draiton and a great number of other assembling themselues togither in warlike order and araie assaulted the said abbeie brake downe the gates windowes and doores entered the house by force and assailing certeine moonks and seruants that belonged to the abbat did beat wound and euill intreat them brake open a number of chests coffers and forssets tooke out chalices of gold and siluer books vestments and other ornaments of the church beside a great quantitie of rich plate and other furniture of household apparell armour and other things beside fiue hundred pounds in readie coine also three thousand florens of gold All these things they tooke and caried awaie togither with diuerse charters writings miniments as thrée charters of Knute sometime king of England foure charters of king Hardiknute one charter of king Edward the confessor two charters of king Henrie the first other two charters of king Henrie the third which charters concerned as well the foundation of the same abbeie as the grants and confirmations of the possessions and liberties belonging thereto Also they tooke awaie certeine writings obligatorie in the which diuerse persons were bound for the paiement of great summes of monie and deliuerie of certeine wines vnto the hands of the said abbat Moreouer they tooke awaie with them ten seuerall buls concerning certeine exemptions and immunities granted to the abbats and moonks of Burie by sundrie bishops of Rome Furthermore not herewith contented they tooke Peter Clopton prior of the said abbeie and other moonks foorth of the house and leading them vnto a place called the Leaden hall there imprisoned them till the thursdaie next before the feast of the Purification of our ladie and that daie bringing them backe againe into the chapter-house deteined them still as prisoners till they had sealed a writing conteining that the abbat and conuent were bound in ten thousand pounds to be paid to Oliuer Kempe and others by them named And further they were constreined to seale a letter of release for all actions quarels debts transgressions suits and demands which the abbat might in anie wise claime or prosecute against the said Oliuer Kempe and others in the same letters named For these wrongs and other as for that they would not permit the abbats bailiffes and officers to kéepe their ordinarie courts as they were accustomed to doo as well thrée daies in the wéeke for the market to wit mondaie wednesdaie and fridaie as the Portman mote euerie tuesdaie thrée wéeks line 10 and further prohibit them from gathering such tols customes and yearelie rents as were due to the abbat for certeine tenements in the towne which were let to farme the abbat brought his action against the said Foxton Draiton and others and hauing it tried by an inquest on the fridaie next after the feast of saint Lucie the virgine in a sessions holden at Burie by Iohn Stonore Walter Friskney Robert Maberthorpe Iohn Bousser by vertue of the kings writ of oier and determiner to them directed line 20 the offendors were condemned in 40000 pounds so that the said Richard Draiton and others there present in the court were committed to prison in custodie of the shiriffe Robert Walkefare who was commanded also to apprehend the other that were not yet arrested if within his bailiwike they might be found and to haue their bodies before the said iustices at Burie aforsaid on thursdaie in Whitsunwéeke next insuing Beside this there was an other
earles Marshall and Kent the matter was taken vp and earle Henrie line 20 had the kings peace granted him for the summe of eleuen thousand pounds which he should haue paid but he neuer paid that fine though it was so assessed at the time of the agreement There were diuerse lords and great men that were confederat with him the lord Thomas Wake the lord Henrie Beaumont the lord Foulke Fitz Warrein sir Thomas Rosselin sir William Trussell and other to the number of an hundred knights ¶ In the third yeare of his reigne about the Ascension line 30 tide king Edward went ouer into France and comming to the French king Philip de Ualois as then being at Amiens did there his homage vnto him for the duchie of Guien as in the French historie appeareth ¶ The same yeare Simon the archbishop of Canturburie held a synod at London wherein all those were excommunicated that were guiltie to the death of Walter Stapleton bishop of Excester that had béene put to death by the Londoners as in the last kings time ye haue heard ¶ This bishop of Excester line 40 founded Excester colledge in Oxford Harts hall But now to the purpose The king about the beginning or as other saie about the middle of Lent held a parlement at Winchester during the which Edmund of Woodstoke earle of Kent the kings vncle was arrested the morrow after saint Gregories day and being arreigned vpon certeine confessions and letters found about him he was found giltie of treason There were diuerse in trouble about the same matter for the earle line 50 vpon his open confession before sundrie lords of the realme declared that not onelie by commandement from the pope but also by the setting on of diuerse nobles of this land whome he named he was persuaded to indeuour himselfe by all waies and meanes possible how to deliuer his brother king Edward the second out of prison and to restore him to the crowne whome one Thomas Dunhed a frier of the order of preachers in London affirmed for certeine to be aliue hauing as he himselfe said called vp a spirit to line 60 vnderstand the truth thereof and so what by counsell of the said frier and of three other friers of the same order he had purposed to worke some meane how to deliuer him and to restore him againe to the kingdome Among the letters that were found about him disclosing a great part of his practise some there were which he had written and directed vnto his brother the said king Edward as by some writers it should appeare year 1330 The bishop of London and certeine other great personages whome he had accused were permitted to go at libertie vnder suerties taken for their good demeanour and foorth comming But Robert de Touton and the frier that had raised the spirit for to know whether the kings father were liuing or not were committed to prison wherein the fâ—ier remained till he died The earle himselfe was had out of the castell gate at Winchester and there lost his head the 19 day of March chiefelie as was thought thorough the malice of the quéene mother and of the earle of March whose pride and high presumption the said earle of Kent might not well abide His death was the lesse lamented bicause of the presumptuous gouernement of his seruants and retinue which he kept about him for that they riding abroad would take vp things at their pleasure not paieng nor agréeing with the partie to whome such things belonged in so much that by their meanes who ought to haue doone their vttermost for the inlargement of his honour he grew in greater obloquie and reproch a fowle fault in seruants so to abuse their lords names to their priuat profit to whome they cannot be too trustie But such are to be warned that by the same wherin they offend they shall be punished euen with seruants faithlesse to plague their vntrustinesse for Qui violare fidem solet violetur eidem The yoong queene Philip was brought to bed at Woodstoke the 15 day of Iune of hir first sonne the which at the fontstone was named Edward and in processe of time came to great proofe of famous chiualrie as in this booke shall more plainelie appeare He was commonlie named when he came to ripe yeares prince Edward also surnamed the Blacke prince The sixtéenth day of Iulie chanced a great eclipse of the sunne and for the space of two moneths before and three moneths after there fell exceeding great raine so that through the great intemperancie of weather corne could not ripen by reason whereof in manie places they began not haruest till Michaelmas in some places they inned not their wheat till Alhallontide nor their pease till saint Andrews tide On Christmasse euen about the breake of day a maruellous sore and terrible wind came foorth of the west which ouerthrew houses and buildings ouerturned trees by the roots and did much hurt in diuerse places ¶ This yeare shortlie after Easter the king with the bishop of Winchester and the lord William Montacute hauing not past fifteene horsses in their companie passed the sea apparelled in clokes like to merchants he left his brother the earle of Cornewall his deputie gardian of the realme till his returne Moreouer he caused it to be proclaimed in London that he went ouer on pilgrimage and for none other purpose He returned before the later end of Aprill and then was there holden a turnie at Dertfort The mondaie after saint Matthews day in September the king held a solemne iusts in Cheapeside betwixt the great crosse and Soperlane he with 12 as chalengers answering all defendants that came This solemne iusts and turnie continued three daies The quéene with manie ladies being present at the same fell beside a stage but yet as good hap would they had no hurt by that fall to the reioising of manie that saw them in such danger and yet so luckilie to escape without harme ¶ Also in a parlement holden at Notingham about saint Lukes tide sir Roger Mortimer the earle of March was apprehended the seuenteenth day of October within the castell of Notingham where the king with the two queenes his mother and his wife and diuerse other were as then lodged And though the keies of the castell were dailie and nightlie in the custodie of the said earle of March and that his power was such as it was doubted how he might be arrested for he had as some writers affirme at that present in retinue nine score knights beside esquiers gentlemen and yeomen yet at length by the kings helpe the lord William Montacute the lord Humfrie de Bohun and his brother sir William the lord Rafe Stafford the lord Robert Ufford the lord William Clinton the lord Iohn Neuill of Hornbie and diuerse other which had accused the said earle of March for the murther of king Edward the
second found means by intelligence had with sir William de Eland constable of the castell of Notingham to take the said earle of March with his sonne the lord Roger or Geffrey Mortimer and sir Simon Bereford with other Sir Hugh Trumpington or Turrington as line 10 some copies haue that was one of his chéefest fréends with certeine other were slaine as they were about to resist against the lord Montacute and his companie in taking of the said earle The manner of his taking I passe ouer bicause of the diuersitie in report thereof by sundrie writers From Notingham he was sent vp to London with his sonne the lord Roger or Geffrey de Mortimer sir Simon Bereford and the other prisoners where they were committed to prison in the tower Shortlie after was a parlement line 20 called at Westminster chéefelie as was thought for reformation of things disordered through the misgouernance of the earle of March But whosoeuer was glad or sorie for the trouble of the said earle suerlie the queene mother tooke it most heauilie aboue all other as she that loued him more as the fame went than stood well with hir honour For as some write she was found to be with child by him They kept as it were house togither for the earle to haue his prouision the better cheape laid his penie line 30 with hirs so that hir takers serued him as well as they did hir both of vittels cariages Of which mis-vsage all regard to honour and estimation neglected euerie subiect spake shame For their manner of dealing tending to such euill purposes as they continuallie thought vpon could not be secret from the eies of the people And their offense héerein was so much the more heinous bicause they were persons of an extraordinarie degree and were the more narrowlie marked of the multitude or common people line 40 nam lux altissima fati Occultum nil esse sinit latebrásque per omnes Intrat obtrusos explorat fama recessus But now in this parlement holden at Westminster he was attainted of high treason expressed in fiue articles as in effect followeth 1 First he was charged that he had procured Edward of Carnaruan the kings father to be murthered in most heinous and tyrannous maner within the castell of Berklie 2 Secondlie that the Scots at Stanop parke line 50 through his means escaped 3 Thirdlie that he receiued at the hands of the lord Iames Dowglas at that time generall of the Scots great summes of monie to execute that treason and further to conclude the peace vpon such dishonorable couenants as was accorded with the Scots at the parlement of Northampton 4 Fourthlie that he had got into his hands a great part of the kings treasure and had wasted and line 60 consumed it 5 Fiftlie that he had impropried vnto him diuers wards that belonged vnto the king and had béene more priuie with queene Isabell the kings mother than stood either with Gods law or the kings pleasure These articles with other being prooued against him he was adiudged by authoritie of the parlement to suffer death and according therevnto vpon saint Andrewes eeuen next insuing he was at London drawne and hanged at the common place of execution called in those daies The elmes now Tiborne as in some bookes we find His bodie remained two daies and two nights on the gallowes and after taken downe was deliuered to the friers minors who buried him in their church the morrow after he was deliuered to them with great pompe and funerall exequies although afterwards he was taken vp and carried vnto Wigmore whereof he was lord He came not to his answer in iudgement no more than any other of the nobilitie had doone since the death of Thomas earle of Lancaster Sir Simon de Bereford knight that had béene one of the kings iustices was drawne also and hanged at London vpon S. Lucies daie In this parlement holden at Westminster the king tooke into his hand by aduise of the states there assembled all the possessions lands and reuenues that belonged to the quéene his mother she hauing assigned to hir a thousand pounds by yeare for the maintenance of hir estate being appointed to remaine in a certeine place and not to go elsewhere abroad yet the king to comfort hir would lightlie euerie yeare once come to visit hir ¶ After that the erle of March was executed as yée haue heard diuerse noble men that were departed the realme bicause they could not abide the pride and presumption of the said earle now returned as the sonne and heire of the earle of Arundell the lord Thomas Wake the L. Henrie Beaumont sir Thomas de Rosselin sir Foulke fitz Warren sir Griffin de la Poole and diuerse other In the fift yeare of K. Edwards reigne Edward Balioll came foorth of France into England and obteined such fauour through the assistance of the lord Henrie Beaumont the lord Dauid of Strabogie earle of Athole the lord Geffrey de Mowbraie the lord Walter Cumin and others that king Edward granted him licence to make his prouision in England to passe into Scotland with an armie of men to attempt the recouerie of his right to the crowne of Scotland with condition that if he recouered it he should acknowledge to hold it of the king of England as superiour lord of Scotland The comming awaie of Edward Balioll out of France is diuerslie reported by writers some saie that he was aided by the French king whose sister he had married and other saie that he being in prison in France for the escape of an Englishman one Iohn Barnabie esquier which had slaine a Frenchman by chance of quarelling in the towne of Dampierre where the same Barnabie dwelled with the said Edward Balioll so it came to passe that the lord Henrie Beaumont hauing occasion of businesse with the French king that fauoured him well came ouer to France and there vnderstanding of Baliols imprisonment procured his deliuerance and brought him ouer into England and caused him to remaine in secret wise at the manor of Sandhall vpon Ouse in Yorkeshire with the ladie Uesci◠till he had purchased the kings grant for him to make his prouision of men of war and ships within the English dominions In the sixt yeare of king Edwards reigne Reignold earle of Gelderland married the ladie Elianor sister to this king Edward the third who gaue vnto the said earle with hir for hir portion fifteene thousand pounds sterling ¶ Isabell the kings daughter was borne also this yeare at Woodstoke ¶ After that Edward Balioll had prepared and made readie his purueiances for his iournie and that his men of warre were assembled and come togither being in all not past fiue hundred men of armes and about two thousand archers and other footmen he tooke the sea at Rauenspurgh in Yorkeshire and from thence directing his course northward he
Repingale borne in Lincolneshire a Carmelite or white frier as they called them Christopher Mothusensis a blacke frier Richard Aungeruile borne in Suffolke who was bishop of Duresme and lord chancellor of England Iohn Manduith Walter Heminford a canon of Gisborne an historiographer Iohn Olnie borne in Glocestershire in an I le so called whereof he tooke his surname a Chartreux moonke Thomas Staueshaw a frier Minor in Bristow Robert of Leicester taking that surname of the towne where he was borne a Franciscane or graie frier Iohn of Northhampton borne in that towne and a Carmelite frier an excellent mathematician Adde to the foresaid learned men Robert Worsop borne in Yorkeshire and a blacke frier in Tickill William Bruniard a blacke frier Richard Chichester a moonke of Westminster wrote an excellent chronicle beginning the same at the comming in of the Saxons about the yeare of our Lord 449 and continued it till the yeare 1348 Richard Rolle alià s Hampole an excellent diuine wrote many treatises Iohn Guent a Welshman a Franciscane frier and prouinciall of the order Rodulph Radiptorius a frier Minor Robert Holcoth a blacke frier borne in Northampton excellentlie learned and wrote manie works both of diuinitie and other arguments William Miluerlie a logician or rather a sophister Iohn Teukesburie Thomas Bradwardin borne in Hartfield a towne within the diocesse of Chichester archbishop of Canturburie succeeding Iohn Offord he wrote against the Pelagians Richard Wetherset William Breton a graie frier a Welshman borne as Bale supposeth Iohn of saint Faith borne in Northfolke a Carmelite frier of Brumham Furthermore Iohn Goodwicke borne also in Northfolke an Augustine frier of Lin William Rothwell a blacke frier Geffrie Waterton moonke of Burie Richard Fitz Rafe whom some take to be an Irishman but a student in Oxford and scholer to Iohn Baconthrope profited highlie wrote manie treatises he was first archdeacon of Lichfield and after chancellor of the Uniuersitie of Oxford and at length archbishop of Ardmachan in Ireland Richard Kilington a doctor of diuinitie William Grisant a notable physician surnamed of the countrie where he was borne Anglicus he led the later end of his life at Marseilles in Prouance had a son that was abbat of the regular canons of that citie who at length was aduanced to gouerne the sée of Rome named Urbane the fift Iohn Paschall borne in Suffolke a Carmelite frier in Gippeswich and by K. Edward the third preferred to the bishoprike of Landaffe Adam Woodham a frier Minor Simon Henton a blacke frier William de Pagula of Iohn Wicliffe ye haue heard before Moreouer Geffrie 〈…〉 blacke 〈◊〉 of Leicesâ—eâ— William Bintham Roger Couâ—â—wey a Welshman borne in Counwey a grey â—rier Richard Billingham William Doroch a lawier Iohn Killingworth an excellent philosopher astronomer and physician William of Couentrie a â—rier Carmeâ—ite professed and borne in the same citie Ranâ—lfe Higden a moonke of Chester and borne in thâ—se parts an historiographer Iohn Eastwood alià s 〈◊〉 an excellent philosopher Thomas Ratclife borne in Leicester line 10 and an Augustine frier in Leicester towne Bartholomew Glanuille descended of noble parentage as of the linage of those Glanuilles that were sometimes earles of Suffolke as Bale faith Robert Computista a moonke of Burie Iohn Wilton a moonke of Westminster Simon Wichingham a frier Carmelite of Norwich Iohn Deir a northerne man borne a notable diuine Furthermore Simon Iâ—â—ep founder of Canturburie colledge in Oxenford wrote diuerse treatises line 20 he was archbishop of Canturburie as before yee haue heard George Chadley Iohn of Tinmouth vicar of that towne in the bishoprike of Durham Peter Babion Walter Wiborne or Wimborne Nicholas de Lin borne in the towne of that name in Northfolke a Carmelite frier by profession but as excellent an astronomer as was in those daies Iohn Ridington borne in Lincolneshire a frier minor in Stafford Adam a moonke of the Cisteaux order Roger Wihelpedale a mathematician Simon line 30 de Feuersham parson of Birton in Kent Matthew Westmonasterienses who wrote the booke called Flores historiarum Iohn Elin a Carmelite borne in Northfolke liued in these daies but departed this life in king Richard the seconds daies Thomas de Sturey an Augustine frier Sertorious Gualensis a Welshman borne To conclude Iohn Mandeuille knight that great traueller liued in those daies and departed this life at Liege the seuenteenth of Nouember in the yeare 1372. Thomas of Douer a moonke of the abbeie there Henrie Knighton wrote an historie â—ntituled De gestis Anglorum Iohn Stokes borne in Suffolke an Augustine frier Iohn Hornebie a frier Carmelite of Boston Henrie Bâ—â—â—rike or as other rather will of Burie an Augustine frier Simon Alcocke a diuine Utred Balton borne in the marches of Wales a moonke of Durham William Iordan an Augustine frier Iohn Hilton a frier minor William de Lincolne a Carmelite borne and professed in that citie whereof he tooke his surname Adam Saxlingham a frier of the same order but borne in Northfolke Simon Mepham a prebend of Chichester and a great diuine Iohn Bamton a Carmelite and student in Cambridge Iohn Wichingham a gray frier and diuerse other which for that we are not certeine in what age they liueâ— we here passe ouer Thus farre Edward the third sonne to Edward the second and queene Isabell. Richard the second the second sonne to Edward prince of Wales RIchard the second of that line 40 name and sonne to prince Edward called the blacke prince the sonne of king Edward the third a child of the age of eleuen yeares began to reigne ouer the realme of England the two and twentith daie of Iune in the yeare of the world 5344 of our Lord 1377 after the conquest 310 about the two and thirtith yeare of the emperour Charles the line 50 fourth and in the fouretéenth yeare of Charles the fift king of France and about the seuenth yeare of the reigne of Robert the second king of Scotland he was named Richard of Burdeaux bicause he was borne at Burdeaux in Gascoigne whilest his father ruled there The day before it was vnderstood that his grandfather king Edward was departed this life being the one and twentith of Iune on which daie neuerthelesse he deceassed the citizens of London hauing certeine knowledge that he could not escape his sicknesse sent certeine aldermen vnto Kingston where the prince with his mother the princesse then laie to declare vnto the said prince their readie good wils to accept him for their lawfull king and gouernour immediatlie after it should please God to call to his mercie his grandfather being now past hope of recouerie of health Wherefore they 〈…〉 line 10 and so were they sent home to bring a ioifull answer of their message to the citie The morrow after there were sent to London from the king the lord Latimer sir Nicholas Bond sir Simon Burlie sir Richard Adderâ—urie knights to bring them sorowfull newes of the assured
strange on the other part speciallie in such kind of misgouerned people for in that spoiling of the dukes house all the iewels plate and other rich line 30 and sumptuous furniture which they there found in great plentie they would not that any man should fare the better by it of a mite but threw all into the fire so to be consumed and such things as the fire could not altogither destroie as plate and iewels they brake and crashed in péeces throwing the same into the Thames One of them hauing thrust a faire siluer peece into his bosome meaning to conueie it awaie was espied of his fellowes who tooke him and cast both him and the péece into the fire saieng they line 40 might not suffer any such thing sith they professed themselues to be zealous of truth and iustice and not théeues nor robbers There were 32 of them that being gotten into the celler of the Sauoie where the dukes wines laie dranke so much of such swéete wine as they found there that they were not able to come foorth but with stones wood that fell downe as the house burned they were closed in so that out they could not get They laie there showting crieng seuen daies line 50 togither and were heard of manie but none came to helpe them and so finallie they perished Now after that these wicked people had thus destroied the duke of Lancasters house and done what they could deuise to his reproch they went to the temple and burnt the men of lawes lodgings with their bookes writings and all that they might lay hand vpon Also the house of saint Iohns by Smithfield they set on fire so that it burned for the space of seuen daies togither On Friday a great number of them estéemed line 60 to 20 thousand went to the manor of Heiburie that belonged vnto the lord of saint Iohns and setting fire on it sought vtterlie to destroie the whole buildings about it They were now diuided into thrée parts one vnder the leading of Iacke Straw tooke in hand to ruinate that house and an other number of them lay on mile end greene and the third companie kept vpon the tower hill and would not suffer anie vittels to be conueied into the tower where the king at that time was lodged and was put in such feare by those rude people that he suffered them to enter into the tower where they sought so narowlie for the lord chancelor that finding him in the chappell they drew him foorth togither with the lord treasuror and on the tower hill without reuerence of their estates and degrees with great noise and fell cries they stroke off their heads There were also beheaded at the same time by those rude people one of the kings seruants that was a sergeant at armes called Iohn Leg who had vsed himselfe somewhat extremelie in gathering vp of the pole monie as by one writer it appeareth Also to make vp the messe they beheaded a Franciscane Frier whom they had taken there at the same time for malice of the duke of Lancaster bicause he was verie familiar with him ¶ Some write that this frier was confessor and other say that he was physician to the king but what soeuer he was the commons chopped off his head to beare the other companie not sparing for anie respect that might be alledged in any of their behalfes On the same day also they beheaded manie others as well Englishmen as Flemings for no cause in the world but onelie to satisfie the crueltie of the commons that then were in their kingdome for it was a sport to them when they gat any one amongst them that was not sworne to them and séemed to mislike of their dooings or if they bare but neuer so little hatred to him streightwaies to plucke of his hood with such a yelling noise as they tooke vp amongst them and immediatlie to come thronging into the stréets and strike off his head Neither had they any regard to sacred places for breaking into the church of the Augustine friers they drew foorth thirteene Flemings and beheaded them in the open streets and out of the parish churches in the citie they tooke foorth seuentéene and likewise stroke off their heads without reuerence either of the church or feare of God But they continuing in their mischéefous purpose shewed their malice speciallie against strangers so that entring into euerie stréet lane and place where they might find them they brake vp their houses murthered them which they found within and spoiled their goods in most outragious manner Likewise they entered into churches as before ye haue heard into abbeies monasteries and other houses namelie of men of law which in semblable sort they ransacked They also brake vp the prisons of newgate and of both the counters destroied the books and set prisoners at libertie and also the sanctuarie-men of saint Martins le grand And so likewise did they at Westminster where they brake open the eschequer and destroied the ancient bookes and other records there dooing what they could to suppresse law and by might to beate downe equitie and right as it is said Tunc ius calcatur violentia cum dominatur They that entered the tower vsed themselues most presumptuouslie and no lesse vnreuerentlie against the princesse of Wales mother to the king for thrusting into hir chamber they offered to kisse hir and swasht downe vpon hir bed putting hir into such feare that she fell into a swoone and being taken vp and recouered was had to the water side and put into a barge conueied to the place called the quéenes wardrobe or the tower riall where she remained all that day and the night following as a woman halfe dead till the king came to recomfort hir It was strange to consider in what feare the lords knights gentlemen stood of the cruell procéedings of those rude base people For where there were six hundred armed men and as manie archers in the tower at that present there was not one that durst gainesaie their dooings Finallie when they had eased their stomachs with the spoiling burning and defacing of sundrie places they became more quiet and the king by the aduise of such as were then about him vpon good deliberation of counsell offered to them pardon and his peace with condition that they should cease from burning and ruinating of houses from killing and murthering of men and depart euerie man to his home without more adoo and there to tarrie for the kings charters confirmatorie of the same pardon The Essexmen were content with this offer as they that were desirous to see their wiues and children being waxen wearie of continuall trauell and paines which they were constreined to take The king went foorth vnto Mile end and there declared vnto the line 10 commons that they should haue charters made to them of his grant to make them all free And further that euerie
some naughtie traitorous persons had conueied into his bed a certeine iron made with smiths craft like a caltrop with three long prickes sharpe and small standing vpright in such sort that when he had laid him downe that the weight of his bodie should come vpon the bed he should haue beene thrust in with those pricks and peraduenture slaine but as God would the king not thinking of any such thing chanced yet to féele and perceiue the instrument before he laid him downe and so escaped the danger ¶ Howbeit he was not so soone deliuered from feare for he might well haue his life in suspicion prouide for the preseruation of the same sith perils of death crept into his secret chamber and laie lurking in the bed of downe where his bodie was to be reposed and to take rest Oh what a suspected state therefore is that of a king holding his regiment with the hatred of his people the hartgrudgings of his courtiers and the peremptorie practises of both togither Could he confidentlie compose or setle himselfe to sleepe for feare of strangling Durst he boldly eat and drinke without dread of poisoning Might he aduenture to shew himselfe in great méetings or solemne assemblies without mistrust of mischeefe against his person intended What pleasure or what felicitie could he take in his princelie pompe which he knew by manifest and fearefull experience to be enuied and maligned to the verie death The state of such a king is noted by the poet in Dionysius as in a mirror concerning whome it is said Districtus ensis cui super impia Ceruice pendet non Siculae dapes Dulcem elaborabunt saporem Non auium cytharaeque cantus This yeare the eight day of Aprill deceassed the lord Thomas Beauchampe earle of Warwike year 1402 In the moneth of March appeared a blasing starre first betwéene the east part of the firmament and the north flashing foorth fire and flames round about it and lastlie shooting foorth fierie beams towards the north foreshewing as was thought the great effusion of bloud that followed about the parts of Wales and Northumberland For much about the same time Owen Glendouer with his Welshmen fought with the lord Greie of Ruthen comming foorth to defend his possessions which the same Owen wasted and destroied and as the fortune of that daies worke fell out the lord Greie was taken prisoner and manie of his men were slaine This hap lifted the Welshmen into high pride and increased meruelouslie their wicked and presumptuous attempts About Whitsuntide a conspiracie was deuised by certeine persons that wished the kings death mainteining and bruting abroad that king Richard was aliue and therefore exhorted men to stand with him for shortlie he would come to light and reward such as tooke his part with iust recompense Herewith there was a priest taken at Ware or as some books haue at Warwike who had a kalendar or roll in which a great number of names were written more than were in any wise guiltie of the fact as afterwards appeared by the same priests confession For line 10 being examined whether he knew such persons as he had so inrolled were there present before him he said he neuer knew them at all and being demanded wherefore he had then so recorded their names he answered bicause he thought they would gladlie doo what mischiefe they could against king Henrie vpon any occasion offered in reuenge of the iniuries doone to king Richard by whom they had beene aduanced and princelie preferred When therfore there line 20 appeared no more credit in the man he was condemned drawen hanged and quartered and diuerse that had beene apprehended about that matter were released and set at libertie Shortlie after the prior of Laund who for his euill gouernment had béene depriued of his state and dignitie was likewise executed not for attempting any thing of himselfe but onlie for that he confessed that he knew euill counsell and concealed it His name was Walter Baldocke a canon sometime in Dunstable and by king Richard line 30 promoted to the priorship of Laund Also the same time certeine greie friers were apprehended for treason which they had deuised to bring to passe and one of them whose name was Richard Frisebie being asked what he would doo if king Richard had béene aliue and present with them answered stoutlie that he would fight against any man in his quarrell euen to death Herevpon he was condemned drawen and hanged in his friers wéed to the great confusion of his brethren but they made line 40 earnest instance to haue his bodie taken downe and buried with diriges and exequies and had their sute granted Sir Roger of Claringdon knight was also put to death about this conspiracie with two of his seruants the one an esquier the other a yeoman He was base sonne as was reported vnto Edward eldest sonne to king Edward the third surnamed the blacke prince On Corpus Christi daie at euensong time the diuell as was thought appeared in a towne of Essex called Danburie entring into the church in line 50 likenesse of a greie frier behauing himselfe verie outragiouslie plaieng his parts like a diuell indéed so that the parishioners were put in a maruellous great fright At the same instant there chanced such a tempest of wind thunder and lightning that the highest part of the roofe of that church was blowen downe and the chancell was all to shaken rent and torne in péeces Within a small while after eight of those greie friers that had practised treason against the king line 60 were brought to open iudgement and conuicted were drawen and headed at London and two other suffered at Leicester all which persons had published king Richard to be aliue Owen Glendouer according to his accustomed manner robbing and spoiling within the English borders caused all the forces of the shire of Hereford to assemble togither against them vnder the conduct of Edmund Mortimer earle of March But cōming to trie the matter by battell whether by treason or otherwise so it fortuned that the English power was discomfited the earle taken prisoner and aboue a thousand of his people slaine in the place The shamefull villanie vsed by the Welshwomen towards the dead carcasses was such as honest eares would be ashamed to heare and continent toongs to speake thereof The dead bodies might not be buried without great summes of monie giuen for libertie to conueie them awaie The king was not hastie to purchase the deliuerance of the earle March bicause his title to the crowne was well inough knowen and therefore suffered him to remaine in miserable prison wishing both the said earle and all other of his linage out of this life with God and his saincts in heauen so they had béene out of the waie for then all had béene well inough as he thought But to let these things passe the king this yeare sent
should be charged by anie person with so great inconstancie of mind whereby the last errour might be counted woorsse than the first c. An extract of the said kings letter to the cardinals WE being desirous to shew how great zeale we had haue that peace might be granted giuen to the church by the consent of the states of our realme haue sent ouer our letters to our lord the pope according to the tenure of a copie inclosed within these presents effectuallie to be executed Wherefore we doo earnestlie beseech the reuerend college of you that if happilie the said Gregorie be present at the generall councell holden at Pisa about the yeelding vp of the papasie according to the promise and oth by him manie a time made to fulfill your and our desires as we wish and beare our selues in hand he will doo that you will so order things concerning his estate that thereby God maie cheeflie be pleased and as well Gregorie himselfe as we who deseruedlie doo tender his honour and commoditie with all our harts maie be beholden to giue you and euerie of you manifold thanks This yeare certeine learned men in Oxford and other places publikelie in their sermons mainteined and set foorth the opinions and conclusions of Wickliffe This troubled the bishops and other of the clergie sore insomuch that in their conuocation house the six and twentith of Iune by a speciall mandat of the lord chancellor in presence of the procurators regents and others as Richard Courtneie Richard Talbot Nicholas Zouch Walter Midford such like in great multitude sentence was pronounced by Iohn Wels doctor of the canon law against the books of Iohn Wickliffe doctor of diuinitie intituled De sermone in monte Triologorum de simonia De perfectione statuum De ordine christiano De gradibus cleri ecclesiae and to these was added the third treatise which he compiled of logike or sophistrie These books and the conclusions in the same conteined the chancellor of the vniuersitie of Oxford by common consent and assent of the regents and non regents of the same vniuersitie reproued disanulled and condemned inhibiting on paine of the great cursse and depriuation of all degrées scholasticall that none from thencefoorth should affirme teach or preach by anie manner of meanes or waies the same hereticall books as they tearmed them conteining anie the like opinions as he taught and set foorth in the same books This yeare about Midsummer were roiall iusts holden at London in Smithfield betwixt the seneschall of Heinault and certeine Henewers challengers and the earle of Summerset and certeine Englishmen defendants The Welsh rebell Owen Glendouer made an end of his wretched life in this tenth yeare of king Henrie his reigne being driuen now in his latter time as we find recorded to such miserie that in manner despairing of all comfort he fled into desert places and solitarie caues where being destitute of all releefe and succour dreading to shew his face to anie creature and finallie lacking meat to susteine nature for méere hunger and lacke of food miserablie pined awaie and died This yeare line 10 Thomas Beaufort earle of Surrie was made chancellor and Henrie Scroope lord treasuror A parlement began this yeare in the quindene of saint Hilarie year 1410 in which the commons of the lower house exhibited a bill to the king and lords of the vpper house conteining effect as followeth A supplication to the king TO the most excellent lord our K. and to all the nobles in this present parlement assembled your faithfull commons doo humblie signifie that our souereigne lord the king might haue of the temporall possessions lands reuenues which are lewdlie spent consumed and wasted by the bishops abbats and priors within this realme so much in value as would suffice to find and line 30 susteine one hundred and fiftie earles one thousand fiue hundred knights six thousand and two hundred esquiers and one hundred hospitals more than now be The king as some write vpon aduised consideration hereof had misliked of the motion therevpon commanded that from thencefoorth they should not presume to studie about anie such matters An other thing the commons sued to haue granted vnto them line 40 but could not obteine which was that clearks conuicted should not from thence foorth be deliuered to the bishops prison Moreouer they demanded to haue the statute either reuoked or qualified which had béene established by authoritie of parlement in the second yeare of this kings reigne against such as were reputed to be heretiks or Lollards By force whereof it was prouided that wheresoeuer such manner of persons should be found and knowne to preach line 50 or teach their erronious doctrine they should be attached with the kings writ and brought to the next goale but the king séemed so highlie to fauour the cleargie that the commons were answered plainelie they should not come by their purpose but rather that the said statute should be made more rigorous and sharpe for the punishment of such persons During this parlement one Iohn Badbie a tailor or as some write a smith being conuict of heresie was brought into Smithfield and there in a tun or line 60 pipe burnt to death in pitifull manner The kings eldest sonne the lord Henrie prince of Wales being present offered him his pardon first before the fire was kindled if he would haue recanted his opinions and after when the fire was kindled hearing him make a roring noise verie pitifullie the prince caused the fire to be plucked backe and exhorting him being with pitifull paine almost dead to remember himselfe and renounce his opinions promising him not onelie life but also thrée pence a daie so long as he liued to be paid out of the kings coffers but he hauing recouered his spirits againe refused the princes offer choosing eftsoones to tast the fire and so to die than to forsake his opinions Wherevpon the prince commanded that he should be put into the tun againe from thencefoorth not to haue anie fauour or pardon at all and so it was doone and the fire put to him againe and he consumed to ashes The king demanded in this parlement that it might be granted to him to haue euerie yeare in which he held no parlement a tenth of the cleargie and a fifteenth of the laitie but the estates would not agrée therevnto by reason whereof the parlement continued till almost the middle of Maie At length they granted to giue him a fiftéenth not without great murmuring and grudging of the commonaltie About this season died the lord Thomas Beauford earle of Surrie The eleuenth of Aprill or therabouts the towne of saint Omers was burnt by casuall fire togither with the abbeie in which towne was such strange and maruellous prouision of engines and all manner of furniture and preparation for the winning of Calis as the
procéeded doctor he was also confessor to the duke of Lancaster and to his wife the duchesse Constance a great setter foorth of pope Urbans cause against the other popes that were by him line 30 and those of his faction named the antipapes Thomas Maldon so called of the towne of that name in Essex where he was borne Iohn Edo descended out of Wales by linage and borne in Herefordshire a Franciscane frier Adde to the forenamed Nicholas Fakingham borne in Norfolke a greie frier procéeded doctor in Oxenford a great diuine and an excellent philosopher prouinciall of his order here in England Laurence Holbecke a monke of Ramsie well séene in line 40 the Hebrue toong and wrote thereof a dictionarie Iohn Colton archbishop of Ardmach Iohn Marrie so called of a village in Yorkeshire where he was borne a Carmelite of Doncaster Richard Chefer borne in Norfolke a diuine and an Augustine frier in Norwich Iohn Lathburie a Franciscane frier of Reading Nicholas Poutz Richard Scroope brother to William Scroope lord treasuror of England studied in Cambridge and proceeded there doctor of both the lawes became an aduocat in the court line 50 of Rome and afterwards was aduanced to the gouernement of the see of Couentrie and Lichfield and at length was remooued from thence and made archbishop of Yorke he wrote an inuectiue against king Henrie and at length lost his head as before ye haue heard Iohn Wrotham a Carmelite frier of London and after made warden of an house of his order in Calis Furthermore Iohn Colbie a Carmelite frier of Norwich William Thorpe a northerne man borne line 60 and student in Oxenford an excellent diuine and an earnest follower of that famous clearke Iohn Wickliffe a notable preacher of the word and expressing his doctrine no lesse in trade of life than in speech he was at length apprehended by commandement of the archbishop of Canturburie Thomas Arundell and committed to prison in Saltwood castell where at length he died Stephan Patrington borne in Yorkeshire a frier Carmelite prouinciall of his order through England of which brood there were at that season 1500 within this land he was bishop of saint Dauids and confessor to king Henrie the fift about the fift yeare of whose reigne he deceassed Robert Mascall a Carmelite frier of Ludlow confessor also to the said K. who made him bishop of Hereford Reginald Langham a frier minor of Norwich Actonus Dominicanus Thomas Palmer warden of the Blacke friers within the citie of London Boston of Burie a monke of the abbeie of Burie in Suffolke wrote a catalog of all the writers of the church and other treatises Moreouer Thomas Peuerell a frier Carmelite borne in Suffolke he was aduanced to the see of Ossorie in Ireland by Richard the second and after by pope Boniface the ninth remooued to Landaffe in Wales and from thence called by Henrie the fourth with consent of pope Gregorie the twelfe to gouerne the sée of Worcester and so continued bishop of that citie vntill he ended his life in the yeare of our Lord 1418 which was about the sixt yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the fift Iohn Purueâ—e an excellent diuine procéeded master of art in Oxenford he was apprehended for such doctrine as he taught contrarie to the ordinances of the church of Rome and was at length compelled by Thomas Arundell archbishop of Canturburie to recant at Paules crosse seuen speciall articles he wrote diuerse treatises was the second time committed to prison in king Henrie the fift his daies by Henrie Chichleie that succeeded Arundell in gouernement of the church of Canturburie William Holme a greie frier and a good physician for curing diseases of the bodie whatsoeuer his physicke was for the soule he liued vntill Henrie the fift his daies and deceassed about the fourth yeare of his reigne Nicholas Baiard a blacke frier a doctor of diuinitie professed at Oxenford Thomas Rudburne archdeacon of Sudburie and bishop of saint Dauids in Wales succéeding after Stephan Patrington he wrote a chronicle and certeine epistles as Iohn Bale noteth Finallie and to conclude Nicholas Riston who being sore greeued in mind as diuerse other in those daies to consider what inconuenience redounded to the church by reason of the strife and bralling among the prelats for the acknowleging of a lawfull pope two or thrée still contending for that dignitie wrote a booke intituled De tollendo schismate Iohn Walter an excellent mathematician being first brought vp of a scholer in the college of Winchester and after studied at Oxenford Thomas of Newmarket taking that surname of the towne in Cambridgeshire where he was borne he for his worthinesse as was thought was made bishop of Careleill well séene both in other sciences and also in diuinitie William Auger a Franciscane frier of an house of that order in Bridgewater Peter Russell a graie frier and of his order the prouinciall héere in England Iohn Langton a Carmelite Robert Wanâ—ham a moonke of Cernelie in Dorsetshire wrote a booke in verse of the originall and signification of words William Norton a Franciscane frier of Couentrie Hugh Sueth a blacke frier and a great preacher Richard Folsham a moonke of Norwich Robert Wimbeldon a singular diuine and an excellent preacher as appeareth by the sermon which he made vpon this text Redde rationem villicationis tuae Thus farre Henrie Plantagenet sonne to Iohn of Gaunt duke of Lancaster Henrie the fift prince of Wales sonne and heire to Henrie the fourth HEnrie prince of Wales son and heire to K. Henrie the fourth borne in Wales at Monmouth on the riuer of Wie after his father was departed tooke vpon him the regiment of this realme of England the twentith of March the morrow after proclamed king by the name of Henrie the fift in line 10 the yeare of the world 5375 after the birth of our sauiour by our account 1413 the third of the emperor Sigismund the thrée and thirtith of Charles the sixt French king and in the seuenth yeare of gouernance in Scotland vnder Robert brother to him that before entrance into his kingdome 1390 had Iohn to name which by deuise and order of the states was changed into Robert the third who at Rotsaie a towne in the Iland of Got 1406 deceassed by occasion thus As vpon hope in this gouernor to himselfe line 20 conceiued how to come to the crowne he at the castell of Falkland latelie had famisht his coosine Dauid the kings elder sonne and heire a dissolute yoong prince yet to his fathers excéeding sorrow at whose deceasse the father verie carefull and casting for the safegard of Iames his yoonger son and heire from Basse the rocke in a well appointed ship vnder charge of Henrie Saintcleere earle of Orkeneie into France to his old fréend king Charles for good education and safetie this yoong prince he sent who in the line 30 course whether for tempest or tendernes of stomach tooke
the readers it is necessarie to set downe the articles of the commons complaints touching the premisses line 10 whereof a copie was sent to the parlement then holden at Westminster with their bill of requests concerning abuses to be reformed The complaint of the commons of Kent and causes of their assemblie on the Blackheath line 1 INprimis it is openlie noised that Kent line 20 should be destroied with a roiall power made a wild forrest for the death of the â—uke of Suffolke of which the commons of â—ent thereof were neuer giltie 2 Item the king is stirred to liue onelie on his commons and other men to haue the reuenues of the crowne the which hath caused pouertie in his excellencie and great paiments of the people now late to the king granted in his parlement 3 Item that the lords of his roiall bloud beene line 30 put from his dailie presence and other meane persons of lower nature exalted and made chéefe of his priuie councell the which stoppeth matters of wrongs done in the realme from his excellent audience and maie not be redressed as law will but if bribes and gifts be messengers to the hands of the said councell 4 Item the people of this realme be not paid of debts owing for stuffe and purueiance taken to the vse of the kings houshold in vndooing of the said people line 40 and the poore commons of the realme 5 Item the kings meniall seruants of houshold and other persons asken dailie goods and lands of impeached or indicted of treason the which the king granteth anon yer they so indangered be conuicted The which causeth the receiuers thereof to inforge labours and meanes applied to the death of such people so appeached or indicted by subtill meanes for couetise of the said grants and the people so impeached or indicted though it be vntrue maie not be committed line 50 to the law for their deliuerance but held still in prison to their vttermost vndooing destruction for couetise of goods 6 Item though diuerse of the poore people and commons of the realme haue neuer so great right truth and perfect title to their land yet by vntrue claime of infeoffement made vnto diuerse states gentles and the kings meniall seruants in maintenances against the right the true owners dare not hold claime nor pursue their right line 60 7 Item it is noised by common voices that the kings lands in France béene aliened and put awaie from the crowne and his lords and people there destroied with vntrue meanes of treason of which it is desired inquiries thorough all the realme to be made how and by whome if such traitors maie be found giltie them to haue execution of law without anie pardon in example of others 8 Item collectors of the fiftéenth penie in Kent be greatlie vexed and hurt in paieng great summes of monie in the excheker to sue out a writ called Quorum nomina for the alowance of the barons of the ports which now is desired that hereafter in the lieu of the collectors the barons aforesaid maie sue it out for their ease at their owne costs 9 Item the shiriffes and vndershiriffes let to farme their offices and bailiwickes taking great suertie therefore the which causeth extortions doone by them and by their bailiffes to the people 10 Item simple and poore people that vse not hunting be greatlie oppressed by indictements feined doone by the said shiriffes vndershiriffes bailiffes and other of their assent to cause their increase for paieng of their said farme 11 Item they returne in names of inquests in writing into diuerse courts of the king not summoned nor warned where through the people dailie léese great summes of monie well nigh to the vttermost of their vndooing and make leuie of amercements called the gréene wax more in summes of monie than can be found due of record in the kings books 12 Item the ministers of the court of Douer in Kent vex and arrest diuerse people thorough all the shire out of Castle ward passing their bounds and libertie vsed of old time by diuerse subtill and vntrue meanes and actions falselie feined taking great fées at their lust in great hurt of the people on all the shire of Kent 13 Item the people of the said shire of Kent maie not haue their frée election in the choosing of knights of the shire but letters béene sent from diuerse estates to the great rulers of all the countrie the which imbraceth their tenants and other people by force to choose other persons than the coÌ„mons will is 14 Item whereas knights of the shire should choose the kings collectors indifferentlie without any bribe taking they haue sent now late to diuerse persons notifieng them to be collectors wherevpon gifts and bribes be taken so the collectors office is bought and sold extortionouslie at the knights lust 15 Item the people be sore vexed in costs and labour called to the sessions of peace in the said shire appearing from the furthest and vttermost part of the west vnto the east the which causeth to some men fiue daies iournie wherevpon they desire the said appearance to be diuided into two parts the which one part to appeare in one place an other part in an other place in reléeuing of the gréeuances and intollerable labours vexations of the said people The requests by the capteine of the great assemblie in Kent INprimis desireth the capteine of the â—ommons the welfare of our souereigne â—ord the king and all his true lords spiriâ—uall and temporall desiring of our said souereigne lord and of all the true lords of his councell he to take in all his demaines that he maie reigne like a king roiall according as he is borne our true and christian king annointed and who so will saie the contrarie we all will liue and die in the quarell as his true liege men Item desireth the said capteine that he will auoid all the false progenie and affinitie of the duke of Suffolke the which beene openlie knowne and they to be punished after the custome and law of this land and to take about his noble person the true lords of his roiall bloud of this his realme that is to saie the high and mightie prince the duke of Yorke late exiled from our said souereigne lords presence by the motion and stirring of the traitorous and false disposed the duke of Suffolke and his affinitie and the mightie princes dukes of Excester Buckingham and Norffolke and all the earles and barons of this land and then shall he be the richest king christian Item desireth the said capteine and commons punishment vnto the false traitors the which contriued and imagined the death of the high mightfull and excellent prince the duke of Glocester the which is too much to rehearse the which duke was proclamed as traitor Upon the which quarell we purpose all to liue and die vpon that that it is false Item the duke of Excester our
perilous doctrines books works and writings conteining heresies and errors contrarie to the faith catholike and determination of holie church and speciallie these heresies and errours following that is to saie in particular In primis quòd non est de necessitate fidei credere quòd dominus noster Iesus Christus post mortem descendit ad inferâ—s Item quòd non est de necessitate salutis credere in sanctorum communionem Item quòd ecclesiâ— vniuersalis potest errare in hijs quâ— sunt fidei Item quòd non est de necessitate salutis credere tenere illud quod consilium generale vniuersalis ecclesia statuit approbat seu determinat in fauorem fidei ad salutem animarum est ab vniuersis Christi fidelibus approbandum tenendum Wherefore I miserable sinner which here before long time haue walked in darkenesse and now by the mercie and infinit goodnesse of God reduced into the right waie and light of truth and considering my selfe gréeuouslie haue sinned and wickedlie haue informed and infected the people of God returne and come againe to the vnitie of our mother holie church and all heresies and errors written and conteined in my said books works and writings here solemnelie and openlie reuoke renounce Which heresies and errors and all other spices of heresies I haue before this time before the most reuerend father in God and my good lord of Canturburie in diuerse and lawfull forme iudiciallie abiured submitting my selfe being then and also now at this time verie contrite and penitent sinner to the correction of the church and of my said lord of Canturburie And ouer this exhorting requiring in the name vertue of almightie God in the saluation of your soules and mind that no man hereafter giue faith and credence to my said pernicious doctrines heresies and errors neither my said books kéepe hold or read in anie wise but that they all such books works and writings suspect of heresies deliuer in all goodlie hast vnto my said lord of Canturburie or to his commissioners and deputies in eschewing of manie inconueniences and great perils of soules the which else might be cause of the contrarie And ouer this declaration of my conuersion and repentance I here openlie assent that my said books works and writings for declaration and cause aboue rehearsed be deputed vnto the fire and openlie burnt in example and terror of all other c. After this he was depriued of his bishoprike hauing a certeine pension assigned vnto him for to liue on in an abbeie and soone after died His books were intituled 1 Of christian religion and a booke perteining therevnto 2 Of matrimonie 3 Iust expressing of holie scripture diuided into three parts 4 The donet of christian religion 5 The follower of the donet 6 The booke of faith 7 The booke filling the foure tables 8 The booke of worshipping 9 The prouoker of christian men 10 The booke of counsell In the moneth of Ianuarie died the earle of Deuonshire in the abbeie of Abindon poisoned as men said being there at that time with quéene Margaret to appease the malice betweene the yoong lords whose fathers were slaine at saint Albons and they that held with the duke of Yorke The thirtéenth of Aprill there was a great fraie in Fléetstreet betweene men of court and the inhabitants of the same stréet in which fraie the quéenes atturnie was slaine For this fact the king committed the principall gouernours of Furniuals Cliffords and Barnards In to prison in the castell of Hertford and William Tailor alderman of that ward with manie other were sent to Windsore castell the seuenth of Maie On thursdaie in Whitsunweeke the duke of Summerset with Anthonie Riuers and other foure kept iustes before the quéene in the Tower of London against three esquiers of the queenes And in like maner at Gréenewich the sundaie following King Henrie and his councell perceiuing the duke of Yorke laie still and stirred not returned to London and there called a great councell openlie declaring how the French and Scots imboldened by the ciuill discord within this realme attempted to annoie the same as of late they had shewed apparant tokens and likelie not ceasse vpon occasions to doo further displeasures till a perfect concord were concluded betwéene him and his fréends and those of the contrarie part and confederacie And to the intent line 10 that he would be the cheefe author of peace he promised of his dignitie so to interteine the duke of Yorke and his fréends that all old grudges should be not onelie inwardlie forgotten but also outwardlie forgiuen which should be cause of perpetuall loue and assured amitie This deuise was of all men iudged for the best Wherevpon diuerse graue persons were sent to the duke of Yorke and all other the great estates of the realme who since the battell of saint Albons neuer line 20 met nor communed togither commanding them for great causes to repaire to the kings court without delaie At his commandement came to London Richard duke of Yorke with foure hundred men and was lodged at Bainards castell being his owne house and after him came the earle of Salisburie with fiue hundred men and was likewise lodged at his owne house called the Herbour Then came the dukes of Excester and Summerset with eight hundred men and were lodged without Temple barre line 30 and the earle of Northumberland the lord Egremond and the lord Clifford came with fiftéene hundred men and lodged without the citie The earle of Warwike also came from Calis with six hundred men in red iackets imbrodered with white ragged slaues behind and before and was lodged at the graie friers Thus were all those of the one part lodged within the citie and those of the other without in Holborne towards Westminster and in other places of the line 40 suburbs all vpon wise consideration for that the Yorke faction and the Lancastrians could not well haue béene mingled without danger of discord After that these lords were thus come vnto London the king and the quéene shortlie followed comming thither the seuentéenth daie of March and lodged in the bishops palace Bicause no riotous attempt or bickering should be begun betwéene anie of the parties or their retinues the maior and aldermen of the citie line 50 kept great watch as well by daie as by night riding about the citie by Holborne and Fléetstréet with fiue thousand men well armed and arraied to sée good order and peace on all sides kept The lords which lodged within the citie held a dailie councell at blacke friers the other part soiourning without the walles assembled likewise in the chapiter house at Westminster At length by the diligent trauell and good exhortation of the archbishop of Canturburie and other prelats both parties were line 60 persuaded to come to communication and so did Where after long debating of grieuances on both sides they promising to forget all old rancors
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
would forsake their habit and all that were vnder the age of foure and twentie yéeres and the residue were closed vp that would remaine Further they tooke order that no men should haue accesse to the houses of women nor women to the houses of men except it should be to heare their seruice The abbat or prior of the house where anie of the brethren was willing to depart was appointed to giue to euerie of them a priests gowne for his habit and fortie shillings in monie the nunnes to haue such apparell as secular women ware and to go whither them liked best ¶ The eleuenth of Nouember was a great procession at London for â—oie of the French kings recouerie of health from a dangerous sicknesse ¶ In December a surueie was taken of all chanteries and the names of them that had the gift of them The princesse Dowager â—â—eng at Kâ—imbalton fell into hir last sicknesse whereof the king being aduertised appointed the emperors ambassador that was legier here with him named Eustachius Caputius to go to visit hir and to doo his commendations to hir and will hir to be of good comfort The ambassador with all diligence did his duetie therein comforting hir the best he might but she within six daies after perceiuing hir selfe to wax verie weake and féeble and to féele death approching at hand caused one of hir gentlewomen to write a letter to the king commending to him hir daughter and his beseeching him to stand good father vnto hir and further desired him to haue some consideration of hir gentlewomen that had serued hir and to sée them bestowed in marriage Further that it would please him to appoint that hir seruants might haue their due wages and a yéeres wages beside This in effect was all that she requested and so immediatlie herevpon she departed this life the eight of Ianuarie at Kimbalton aforesaid and was buried at Peterborow ¶ The nine and twentith of Ianuarie quéene Anne was deliuered of a child before hir time which was borne dead On the fourth of Februarie the parlement began in the which amongst other things enacted all religious houses of the value of three hundred marks and vnder were giuen to the king with all the lands and goods to them belonging The number of these houses were thrée hundred seauentie and six the value of their lands yearlie aboue two and thirtie thousand pounds their moouable goods one hundred thousand the religious persons put out of the same houses amounted to the number of aboue 10000. This yéere was William Tindall burnt at a towne betwixt Bruxels and Maclin called Uillefort This Tindall otherwise called Hichins was borne in the marches of Wales and hauing a desire to translate and publish to his countrie diuerse books of the bible in English and doubting to come in trouble for the same if he should remaine here in England got him ouer into the parties of beyond the sea where he translated not onelie the new testament into the English toong but also the fiue bookes of Moses Iosua Iudicum Ruth the books of the kings and Paralipomenon Nehemias or the first of Esdras and the prophet Ionas Beside these translations he made certeine tretises and published the same which were brought ouer into England and read with great desire of diuerse and of many sore despised and abhorred so that proclamations were procured foorth for the condemnation and prohibiting of his â—â—oks as before you haue heard Finallie he was apprehended at Antwerpe by meanes of one Philips an Englishman and then scholer at Louaine After he had remained in prison a long time and was almost forgotten the lord Cromwell wrote for his deliuerance but then in all hast because he would not recant anie part of his doctrine he was bâ—rned as before you haue heard Of whose conuersation and doctrine innocent in the world and sincere for truth as also of his death and martyrdome read the martyrolologie of Iohn Fox our ecclesiasticall chronographer Anno 1536. sub Hen. 8. On Maie daie were solemne iusts kept at Gréenwich and suddenlie from the iusts the king departed not hauing aboue six persons with him and in the euening came to Westminster Of this sudden departing many mused but most chéeflie the quéene ¶ On the next morrow the lord Rochford brother to the quéene and Henrie Norris were brought to line 10 the tower of London prisoners Also the same daie about fiue of the clocke in the after noone queene Anne of Bullongne was brought to the tower of London by sir Thomas Audleie lord chancellor the duke of Norffolke Thomas Cromwell secretarie and sir William Kingston constable of the tower and when she came to the tower gate entring in â—he fell on hir knées before the said lords beséeching God to helpe hir as she was not guiltie of that whereof she was accused and then desired the said lords to line 20 beséech the kings grace to be good vnto hir and so they left hir there prisoner On the fiftéenth of Maie quéene Anne was arreigned in the tower of London on a scaffold for that purpose made in the kings hall before the duke of Norffolke who sate vnder the cloth of estate as high steward of England with the lord chancellor on his right hand the duke of Suffolke on his left hand with marquesses and lords c and the earle of Surrie sat before the duke of Norffolke his father as earle marshall of England The kings commission being read the constable line 30 of the tower and the lieutenant brought the queene to the barre where was made a chaire for hir to sit downe in and there hir indictement was read wherevnto she made so wise and discréet answers that she seemed fullie to cleere hir selfe of all matters laid to hir charge but being tried by hir péeres whereof the duke of Suffolke was chiefe she was by them found guiltie and had iudgement pronounced by the duke of Norffolke line 40 Immediatlie the lord Rochford the queenes brother was likewise arreigned and condemned the lord maior of London his brethren the aldermen the wardens and foure persons mo of euerie the twelue principall companies being present The seauenteenth of Maie the lord Rochford brother to the quéene Henrie Norris Marke Smeton William Brierton and Francis Weston all of the kings priuie chamber about matters touching the quéene were beheaded on the tower hill the lord Rochfords line 50 bodie with the head was buried in the chappell of the tower the other foure in the churchyard there On the ninetéenth of Maie quéene Anne was on a scaffold made for that purpose vpon the gréene within the tower of London beheaded with the sword of Calis by the hands of the hangman of that towne hir bodie with the head was buried in the quéere of the chappell in the tower The words of queene Anne line 60 at hir death GOod christian people I am come hither to
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 matrÃsque 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. Knâ—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
Meinthorne Walter Holiburton Richard Hanganside Andrew Car Iames Dowglas of Cauers Iames Car of Mersington George Hoppringle William Ormeston of Enmerden Iohn Grimstow Manie more there were beside but ouerpassed by maister Patten for that they remained in the register with these as he saith The duke of Summerset tendred the furtherance of the worke so much that he forbare not to laie his owne hand to the spade and shouell thereby to incourage others so as there were but few lords knights and gentlemen in the field but with spade shouell or mattocke did therein their parts The fiue and twentith of September being sundaie the Scots began to bring vittels to the campe were so well intreated and paied for the same that during the time of the Englishmens abode there they wanted not of the commodities which their countrie could minister The eight and twentith of September a Scotish herald accompanied with certeine Frenchmen that were perchance more desirous to marke the armie than to wit of their welfare came and declared that within a seauen-night after their commissioners to whome safe conduct had béene granted should come and commune with our councell at Berwike whose comming the earle of Warwike and sir Rafe Sadler with other the commissioners appointed did so long while there abide But what the Scots ment by breaking promise I cannot saie howbeit come they did not therfore escaped not the iust note of dissimulation howsoeuer else they could colour the matter in their owne excuse The same daie after noone the duke of Summerset adorned with titles of dignitie diuerse lords knights and gentlemen the names and promotions of whom master Patten hath set downe out of the heralds booke as followeth Sir Rafe Sadler treasuror sir Francis Brian capteine of the light horssemen sir Rafe Uane lieutenant of all the horssemen these knights were made banerets a dignitie aboue a knight and next to a baron The lord Greie of Wilton high marshall the lord Edward Seimer the duke of Summersets son the lord Thomas Howard the lord Waldike a Cleuelander sir Thomas Dacres sir Edward Hastings sir Edmund Bridges sir Iohn Thin sir Miles Patridge sir Iohn Conweie sir Giles Poole sir Rafe Bagnoll sir Oliuer Laurence sir Henrie Gates sir Thomas Chaloner sir Francis Fleming master of the ordinance sir Iohn Gresham sir William Skipwith sir Iohn Buts sir George Blaag sir William Francis sir Francis Knolles sir William Thornburrow sir George Howard sir Iames Wilford sir Rafe Coppinger sir Thomas Wentworth sir Iohn Meruen sir Nicholas Strange sir Charles Sturton sir Hugh Askue sir Francis Salmin sir Richard Tounleie sir Marmaduke Conestable sir George Audleie sir Iohn Holcroft sir Iohn Southworth sir Thomas Danbie sir Iohn Talbot sir Rowland Clarke sir Iohn Horsleie sir Iohn Forster sir Christopher Dies sir Peter Negro sir Alanzo de Uile sir Henrie Husseie sir Iames Granado Brabander sir Walter Bonham sir Robert Brandling maior of Newcastell and made knight there at the duke of Summersets returne But now that Rockesburgh was sufficientlie made defensible the which to sée it séemed the duke of Summerset had vowed before he would thence depart his grace and the councell did first determine that my lord Greie should remaine vpon the borders there as the kings lieutenant and then tooke order for the forts that sir Andrew Dudleie capteine of Broughticrag had left with two hundred soldiers of harquebutters others and a sufficient number of pioners for his works sir Edward Dudleie capteine of Hume castell threescore harquebutters fortie horssemen and a hundred pioners sir Rafe Bulmer capteine of Rockesburgh thrée hundred soldiers of harquebutters and others and two hundred pioners As things were thus concluded and warning giuen ouer night on this wednesdaie being Michaelmasse euen on the next morrow being Michaelmasse daie euerie man fell to packing apase and got them homewards passing ouer the Twéed there with some trouble and danger also by reason of raine that latelie fell before had raised the streame line 10 which being swift of it selfe and the chanell vneuen in the bottome with great stones made the passage cumbersome so that manie as well horssemen as footmen were in no small perill as they passed thorough and one or two drowned and manie cariages ouerthrowne and in great hazzard of losing The duke of Summerset rode streight to Newcastell and thence homewards The earle of Warwike my lord Greie and sir Rafe Sadler with diuerse other rode to Berwike to abide the comming line 20 of the Scotish commissioners In the meane time of their tarieng there the earle of Warwike made sir knights sir Thomas Neuill the lord Neuils brother sir Andrew Corbet sir Anthonie Strelleie sir Arthur Manering sir Richard Uerneie sir Iohn Berteuille After that the earle of Warwike had taried for the comming of the Scots the full terme of the appointment which was vntill the fourth of October and perceiued they came not the next daie he departed homewards Here ye haue to vnderstand also that in part of line 30 the meane time whilest the duke of Summerset was in dooing of these exploits in Scotland as ye haue heard rehearsed the earle of Lenox and the lord Wharton warden of the west marches with an armie of fiue thousand men entred Scotland on that side and first passing two miles after a daie and a nights defense they wan the church of Annan tooke seuentie two prisoners kéepers of the same burnt the spoile for cumber of cariage and caused the church to be blowen vp with powder passing thence a sixtéene line 40 miles within the land they wan the castell of Milke the which they left furnished with munition and men and so returned But of this ye shall find more in the historie of Scotland by the sufferance of God where we intreat of the dooings there in this yeare Thus much haue I collected out of master Pattens booke or rather exemplified the same not much digressing from his owne words except where I haue line 50 bin forced to abridge his worke in some places wishing to haue inserted the whole if the purpose of this volume would haue so permitted as well for the full vnderstanding of euerie particular point by him remembred as also for his pleasant and apt maâ—er of penning the same Whilest the lord protector was abrode thus in wars against the Scots the lords of the councell that remained at home chiefelie by the good and diligent calling on and furtherance of the archbishop of Canturburie and others of the cleargie line 60 tooke order for the aduancement of religion causing the bookes of homilies and the paraphrase of Erasmus to be set foorth and had in churches At the comming backe of the lord protector from his iourneie into Scotland the citizens of London determined to haue receiued him with great triumph but he hearing thereof forbad them in anie wise so to doo for
the yearlie value of one hundred twentie pounds for the which it is decreed that the maior burgesses and communaltie of Bristow in the yeare of our Lord 1567 and so yearelie during the tearme of ten yeares then next insuing should cause to be paid at Bristow one hundred pounds of lawfull monie The first eight hundred pounds to be lent to sixtéene poore line 40 yoongmen clothiers fréemen of the same towne for the space of ten yeares fiftie pounds the péece of them putting sufficient suerties for the same and at the end of ten yeares to be lent to other sixteene at the discretion of the maior aldermen and foure of the common councell of the said citie The other two hundred pounds to be imploied in the prouision of corne for the reléefe of the poore of the same citie for their readie monie without gaine line 50 to be taken And after the end of ten yeares on the feast daie of saint Bartholomew which shall be in the yeare of our Lord 1577 at the merchant tailors hall in London vnto the maior and communaltie of the citie of Yorke or to their atturnie authorised an hundred foure pounds to be lent vnto foure yoongmen of the said citie of Yorke fréemen and inhabitants clothiers alwaie to be preferred that is to euerie of them fiue and twentie pounds to haue and occupie the same for the tearme of ten yeares without line 60 paieng anie thing for the loane the foure pounds ouerplus of the hundred and foure pounds at the pleasure of the maior and communaltie for their paines to be taken about the receipts and paiments of the said hundred pounds The like order in all points is taken for the deliuerie of an hundred and foure pounds in the yeare 1578 to the citie of Canturburie In the yeare 1579 to Reading 1580 to the companie of the merchant tailors 1581 to Glocester 1582 to Worcester 1583 to Excester 1584 to Salisburie 1585 to Westchester 1586 to Norwich 1587 to South-hampton 1588 to Lincolne 1589 to Winchester 1590 to Oxenford 1591 to Herefordeast 1592 to Cambridge 1593 to Shrewesburie 1594 to Lin 1595 to Bath 1596 to Derbie 1597 to Ipswich 1598 to Colchester 1599 to Newcastell And then to begin againe at Bristow an hundred and foure pounds the next yeare to the citie of Yorke and so foorth to euerie of the said cities and townes in the like order as before and thus to continue for euer as in the indentures tripartite more plainelie maie appeare At this time manie were in trouble for religion and among others sir Iames Hales knight one of the iustices of the common plées which iustice being called among other by the councell of king Edward to subscribe to a deuise made for the disheriting of queene Marie and the ladie Elizabeth hir sister would in no wise assent to the same though most of the other did yet that notwithstanding for that he at a quarter sessions holden in Kent gaue charge vpon the statutes of king Henrie the eight and king Edward the sixt in derogation of the primasie of the church of Rome abolished by king Henrie the eight he was first committed prisoner to the Kings bench then to the Counter last to the Fléet where whether it were thorough extreame feare or else by reason of such talke as the warden of the Fleet vsed vnto him of more trouble like to insue if he persisted in his opinion or for what other cause God knoweth he was so mooued troubled and vexed that he sought to rid himselfe out of this life which thing he first attempted in the Fleet by wounding himselfe with a penknife well neere to death Neuerthelesse afterward being recouered of that hurt he séemed to be verie conformable to all the queenes procéedings and was therevpon deliuered of his imprisonment and brought to the quéenes presence who gaue him words of great comfort neuerthelesse his mind was not quiet as afterward well appeared for in the end he drowned himselfe in a riuer not halfe a mile from his dwelling house in Kent the riuer being so shalow that he was faine to lie groueling before he could dispatch himselfe whose death was much lamented For beside that he was a man wise vertuous and learned in the lawes of the realme he was also a good and true minister of iustice whereby he gat him great fauour and estimation among all degrees During the aforesaid parlement about the eightéenth daie of October there was kept at Paules church in London a publike disputation appointed by the quéenes commandement about the presence of Christ in the sacrament of the altar which disputation continued six daies doctor Weston then being prolocutor of the conuocation who vsed manie vnseemelie checks tawnts against the one part to the preiudice of their cause By reason whereof the disputers neuer resolued vpon the article proponed but grew dailie more and more into contention without anie fruit of their long conference and so ended this disputation with these words spoken by doctor Weston prolocutor It is not the queens pleasure that we should herein spend anie longer time and yeare well inough for you haue the word and we haue the sword But of this matter ye maie read more in the booke of the monuments of the church At this time was cardinall Poole sent for to Rome by the quéene who was verie desirous of his comming as well for the causes before declared as also for the great affection that she had to him being hir neere kinsman and consenting with hir in religion This message was most thankefullie receiued at Rome and order taken to send the said cardinall hither with great expedition but before his comming quéene Marie had married Philip prince of Spaine as after shall appeare But here to touch somewhat the comming of the said cardinall When he was arriued at Calis there was conference had amongest the councellors of the quéene for the maner of his receiuing some would haue had him verie honourablie met and interteined as he was in all places where he had before passed not onelie for that he was a cardinall and a legat from the pope but also for that he was the quéenes néere kinsman of the house of Clarence Neuerthelesse after much debating line 10 it was thought méetest first for that by the lawes of the realme which yet were not repealed he stood attainted by parlement and also for that it was doubtfull how he being sent from Rome should be accepted of the people who in fiue and twentie yeares before had not béene much acquainted with the pope or his cardinals that therefore vntill all things might be put in order for that purpose he should come without anie great solemnitie vnto Lambeth where in the archbishops house his lodging was line 20 prepared The third of Nouember next following Thomas Cranmer archbishop of Canturburie notwithstanding that he had once refused
London towards Rome as ambassadors sent from the king and quéene to confirme this new reconciliation to the pope A yoong stripling whose name was William Fetherstone a millers sonne about the age of eightéene yeares named and bruted himselfe to be king Edward the sixt whereof when the quéene and the councell heard they caused with all diligence inquirie to be made for him so that he was apprehended in Southworke or as other haue at Eltham in Kent the tenth of Maie line 50 and brought before the councell at Hampton court and there examined And it was demanded of him why he so named himselfe To which he counterfetting a maner of simplicitie or rather frensie would make no direct answer but praid pardon for he wist not what he said affirming further that he was counselled so to saie and to take vpon him the name whereof he accused certeine persons but his talke was not found true wherefore he was committed to the Marshalseie as a lunatike foole line 60 On the eight and twentith daie of Maie next following the aforesaid counterfet prince was brought in a cart from the Marshalseie thorough the citie of London with a paper ouer his head wherein was written that he named himselfe king Edward And from thense was conueied to Westminster being led round about the hall and shewed to all the people there and afterward he was taken out of the cart and stripped and then whipped round about the palace at the same carts taile and then thorough Westminster into Smithfield and then banished into the north in which countrie he was borne and had béene sometime lackie to sir Peter Mewtas and without more punishment was discharged and set at libertie But the next yeare following for that he had spred abroad that king Edward was aliue and that he had spoken with him he was againe apprehended and arreigned of high treason whereof being condemned he shortlie after was drawne vnto Tiburne and there hanged and quartered the thirtéenth of March ¶ Here as in a fit and conuenient place the obseruation of the daie and moneth offering no lesse it is not amisse to set downe the speech of quéene Marie vttered to sundrie of hir lords touching a motion which no doubt certeine popish prelats had put into hir mind the effect whereof followeth as I find it in master Fox Before I passe this moneth of March saith he I cannot but leaue a little memorandum of the words or consultation of quéene Marie vsed to certeine of the councell the eight twentith daie of the said moneth of March touching the restoring againe of the abbeie lands Who after she had called vnto hir presence foure of hir priuie councell the daie and moneth aforesaid the names of which councellors were these William lord marquesse of Winchester high treasuror of England sir Robert Rochester knight the queenes comptrollor sir William Peter knight secretarie sir Francis Inglefield knight master of wards the said queene Marie inferred these words the principall effect summe whereof here followeth You are here of our councell and we haue willed you to be called to vs to the intent yee might heare of me my conscience and the resolution of my mind concerning the lands and possessions as well of monasteries as other churches whatsoeuer being now presentlie in my possession First I doo consider that the said lands were taken awaie from the churches aforesaid in time of schisme and that by vnlawfull means such as are contrarie both to the law of God and of the church For the which cause my conscience dooth not suffer me to deteine them and therefore I here expresselie refuse either to claime or to reteine the said lands for mine but with all my heart fréelie and willinglie without all paction or condition here and before God I doo surrender and relinquish the said lands and possessions or inheritances whatsoeuer doo renounce the same with this mind and purpose that order and disposition thereof may be taken as shall séeme best liking to our most holie lord the pope or else his legat the lord cardinall to the honour of God and wealth of this our realme And albeit you may obiect to me againe that considering the state of my kingdome the dignitie thereof and my crowne imperiall cannot be honorablie mainteined and furnished without the possessions aforesaid yet notwithstanding I set more by the saluation of my soule than by ten kingdoms and therefore the said possessions I vtterlie refuse here to hold after that sort and title and giue most hartie thanks to almightie God which hath giuen me an husband likewise minded with no lesse good affection in this behalfe than I am my selfe Wherefore I charge and command that my chancellor with whom I haue conferred my mind in this matter before and you foure to morrow together doo resort to the most reuerend lord legat and doo signifie to him the premisses in my name giue your attendance vpon him for the more full declaration of the state of my kingdome and of the foresaid possessions accordinglie as you your selues doo vnderstand the matter and can informe him in the same This charge as the sequele gaue proofe was followed with no lesse diligence of the lords than it was imposed with willingnes vpon them by the quéene insomuch that shortlie after as anon you shall heare the performed hir promise to â—he pith But to leâ— this matter passe till due time place require a declaration of the conclusion thereof I am héere saith master Fox as occasion serueth to intreat of pope Iulius death for so much as he made his end about the latter end of this foresaid moneth of March. Concerning the déeds and acts of which pope to make a full declaration it were not so much tedious to the reader as horrible to all good eares Under this Iulius florished the archbishop of Beneuentanus a Florentine named Iohannes a Casa deane of the popes chamber and chéefe legat to the line 10 Uenetians who well declaring the fruit of that filthie see so farre forgat both honestie and nature that he shamed not onelie to plaie the filthie Sodomite himselfe and to boast openlie of the same but also tooke vpon him most impudentlie in Italian metre to all mens eares to set foorth the praise and commendation of that beastlie iniquitie saieng that he himselfe neuer vsed other and this booke was printed at Uenice by one Troianus Nauus And yet the pope could suffer this so great iniquitie and shamelesse line 20 beastlinesse euen vnder his nose in his owne chamber which could not abide the true doctrine of Christ in christian bookes Amongst other pranks and déeds of this foresaid pope in his Iubilée and in the synod of Trent and in confirming of the idoll of Lauretane this is also reported of him in his life that he delighted greatlie in porke flesh and peacocks Upon a time when he
before halfe waie to London which said concerning the bonefires made for quéene Maries child Here is a ioifull triumph but at length all will not proue woorth a messe of pottage as in déed it came to passe for in the end all prooued cleane contrarie and the ioy expectations of men were much line 10 deceiued For the people were certified that the quéene neither was as then deliuered nor after was in hope to haue anie child At this time manie talked diuerslie Some said this rumour of the quéenes conception was spread for a policie some other affirmed that she was deceiued by a timpanie or some other like disease to thinke hirselfe with child and was not some thought shée was with child and that it did by some chance miscarie or else that she was bewitched but what was the truth therof the Lord knoweth line 20 to whome nothing is secret One thing of mine owne hearing and séeing I cannot passe ouer vnwitnessed There came to me whome I did both heare and sée one Isabell Malt a woman dwelling in Aldersgate stréet in Horne allie not farre from the house where this present booke was printed who before witnesse made this declaration vnto vs that she being deliuered of a man-child vpon Whitsundaie in the morning which was the eleuenth daie of Iune Anno line 30 1555 there came to hir the lord North and another lord to hir vnknowne dwelling then about old Fishstréet demanding of hir if she would part with hir child and would sweare that she neuer knew nor had no such child Which if she would hir sonne they said should be well prouided for she should take no care for it with manie faire offers if she would part with the child After that came other women also of whome one she said should haue beene the rocker but she in no line 40 wise would let go hir sonne who at the writing hereof being aliue and called Timothie Malt was of the age of thirtéene yeares and vpward Thus much I saie I heard of the woman hir selfe What credit is to be giuen to hir relation I deale not withall but leaue it to the libertie of the reader to beleeue it they that list to them that list not I haue no further warrant to assure them Among manie other great preparations made for the quéenes deliuerance of child there was a cradle verie sumptuouslie and gorgeouslie line 50 trimmed on the which cradle for the child appointed these verses were written both in Latine and in English as they are set downe here in record Quam Maria sobolem Deus optime summe dedisti Anglis incolumem redde tuere rege The child which thou to Marie ô Lord of might hast send To Englands ioie in health preserue keepe and defend About this time there came ouer into England a certeine English booke giuing warning to the line 60 Englishmen of the Spaniards and disclosing certeine close practises for recouerie of abbeie lands which booke was called A warning for England Whereof ye shall vnderstand much more at large where we speake of the Spanish inquisition So that by the occasion of this booke vpon the thirteenth daie of this moneth came out a certeine proclamation set foorth in the name of the king and the quéene repealing and disanulling all maner of bookes written or printed whatsoeuer should touch anie thing the impairing of the popes dignitie wherby not onelie much godlie edification was hindered but also great perill grew among the people This proclamation is recorded at large with other appendents in the Acts and Monuments vnder the title of quéene Marie ¶ In this yeare died sir Iohn Gresham who bare the office of lord maior of London 1547 a man of a mercifull nature and good deuotion both to God and his countrie He founded a frée schoole at Holt a market towne in Norffolke gaue to euerie ward in London ten pounds to be distributed to the poore and to thréescore poore men and women euerie one of them thrée yeards of brode cloth of eight or nine shillings the yard to be made in gownes readie to their backs He gaue also to maids mariages and to the hospitals in London aboue two hundred pounds in readie monie A blasing starre was seene at all times of the night the sixt seuenth eight ninth and tenth of March. About this time Brookes bishop of Glocester was by the cardinall sent downe as commissioner from the pope to Oxford there to sit vpon the examination of Thomas Cranmer archbishop of Canturburie in such things as should be laid to his charge by Iohn Storie and Thomas Martin doctors in the lawes sent speciallie in commission from the quéene At which time the said archbishop making low obeisance to them that sate in the queenes name shewed no token of reuerence to the bishop that was the popes commissioner who neuerthelesse procéeded against him as iudge and conuicted him of heresie According to the which sentence the one and twentith daie of March next following he was disgraded by Edmund Boner and Thomas Thirlebie bishops of London and Elie sent downe for that purpose and he was burned in the same place where Ridleie and Latimer before had suffered Before his death by the persuasion of a Spanish frier named frier Iohn a reader of diuinitie in Oxford and by the counsell of certeine other that put him in hope of life and pardon he subscribed to a recantation wherein he submitted himselfe wholie to the church of Rome and continued in the same mind to outward appearance vntill he was brought out of prison to go to the fire Afore whose execution a sermon was made by doctor Cole deane of Paules in saint Martins church in Oxford And in the end of his sermon the said doctor Cole praied the people to incline their eares to such things as the said Cranmer would declare vnto them by his owne mouth For saith he he is a man verie repentant and will here before you all reuoke his errors Neuerthelesse he did cleane contrarie For when he came to the place where the holie bishops and martyrs of God Hugh Latimer and Ridleie were burnt before him for the confession of the truth knéeling downe hée praied to God not tarieng long in his praiers putting off his garments to his shirt he prepared himselfe to death His shirt was made long downe to his féet his féet were bare Likewise his head when both his caps were off was so bare that one heare could not be séene vpon it His beard was long and thicke couering his face with maruellous grauitie Such a countenance of grauitie mooued the hearts both of his friends and of his enimies And as for the recantation aforesaid with manie tears he protested that he had subscribed to the same against his conscience onelie for feare of death and hope of life Which seemed true for when he came to the stake
both of bodie and mind in which good state we will leaue them And bicause we are entred into a discourse of troubles happening to personages of good account and name it is necessarie that wée adde another narration of like argument vnto the former concerning the troubles and happie deliuerance of the reuerend father in God doctor Sands first bishop of Worcester next of London and now archbishop of Yorke as I find it word for word in maister Fox who beginneth and continueth the said discourse as followeth ¶ King Edward died the world being vnworthie of him the duke of Northumberland came downe to Cambridge with an armie of men hauing commission to proclame ladie Iane quéene and by power to suppresse ladie Marie who tooke vpon hir that dignitie and was proclamed quéene in Norffolke The duke sent for doctor Sands being vicechancellor for doctor Parker for doctor Bill and maister Leauer to sup with him Amongst other spéeches he said Maisters praie for vs that we spéed well if not you shall be made bishops and we deacons And euen so it came to passe doctor Parker and doctor Sands were made bishops and he and sir Iohn Gates who was then at the table were made deacons yer it was long after on the tower hill Doctor Sands being vicechancellor was required to preach on the morrow The warning was short for such an auditorie and to speake of such a matter yet he refused not the thing but went to his chamber and so to bed He rose at thrée of the clocke in the morning tooke his bible in his hand and after that he had praied a good space he shut his eies and holding his bible before him earnestlie praied to God that it might fall open where a most fit text should be for him to intreat of The bible as God would haue it fell open vpon the first chapter of Iosua where he found so conuenient a péece of scripture for that time that the like he could not haue chosen in all the bible His text was thus Responderúntque ad Iosue atque dixerunt Omnia quae praecepisti nobis faciemus quocunque miseris ibimus sicut obediuimus in cunctis Mosi ita obediemus tibi tantúm sit Dominus Deus tuus tecum sicut fuit cum Mose qui contradixerit ori tuo non obedierit cunctis sermonibus quos praeceperis ei moriatur tu tantùm confortare viriliter age Who shall consider what was concluded by such as named themselues by the state and withall the auditorie the time and other circumstances he shall line 10 easilie sée that this text most fitlie serued for the purpose And as God gaue the text so gaue he him such order and vtterance as pulled manie teares out of the eies of the biggest of them In the time of his sermon one of the gard lift vp to him into the pulpit a masse booke and a graile which sir George Howard with certeine of the gard had taken that night in master Hurlestons house where ladie Marie had béene a little before there had masse The duke with the rest of the nobilitie required doctor line 20 Sands to put his sermon in writing and appointed maister Leauer to go to London with it and to put it in print Doctor Sands required one daie and a halfe for writing of it At the time appointed he had made it readie and maister Leauer was readie booted to receiue it at his hands carie it to London As he was deliuering of it one of the bedels named maister Adams came wéeping to him praied him to shift for himselfe for the duke was retired and queene Marie proclamed line 30 Doctor Sands was not troubled herewithall but gaue the sermon written to master Leifield master Leauer departed home and he went to dinner to one master Moores a bedell his great friend At the dinner mistresse Moore séeing him merrie and pleasant for he had euer a mans courage and could not be terrified dranke vnto him saieng Master vicechancellor I drinke vnto you for this is the last time that euer I shall sée you And so it was for shée was dead before doctor Sands returned out of Germanie line 40 The duke that night retired to Cambridge and sent for doctor Sands to go with him to the market place to proclame quéene Marie The duke cast vp his cap with others and so laughed that the tears ran downe his chéekes for greefe He told doctor Sands that quéene Marie was a mercifull woman and that he doubted not thereof declaring that hée had sent vnto hir to know hir pleasure and looked for a generall pardon Doctor Sands answered My line 50 life is not deare vnto me neither haue I doone or said anie thing that vrgeth my conscience For that which I spake of the state I haue instructions warranted by the subscription of sixteene councellors Neither can speach be treason neither yet haue I spoken further than the word of God and lawes of this realme dooth warrant me come of me what God will But be you assured you shall neuer escape death for if shée would saue you those that now shall rule will kill you line 60 That night the gard apprehended the duke and certeine groomes of the stable were as busie with doctor Sands as if they would take a prisoner But sir Iohn Gates who laie then in doctor Sands his house sharplie rebuked them and draue them awaie Doctor Sands by the aduise of sir Iohn Gates walked into the fields In the meane time the vniuersitie contrarie to all order had met togither in consultation and ordered that doctor Mouse and doctor Hatcher should repaire to doctor Sands lodging and set awaie the statute booke of the vniuersitie the keies and such other things that were in his kéeping and so they did For doctor Mouse being an earnest protestant the daie before and one whome doctor Sands had doone much for now was he become a papist and his great enimie Certeine of the vniuersitie had appointed a congregation at afternoone As the bell rang to it doctor Sands commeth out of the fields and sending for the bedels asketh what the matter meaneth and requireth them to wait vpon him to the schooles according to their dutie So they did And so soone as doctor Sands the bedels going before him came into the regent house and tooke his chaire one master Mitch with a rabble of vnlearned papists went into a by-schoole and conspired togither to pull him out of his chaire and to vse violence vnto him Doctor Sands began his oration expostulating with the vniuersitie charging them with great ingratitude declaring that he had said nothing in his sermon but that hée was readie to iustifie and that there case was all one with his for they had not onelie concealed but consented to that which he had spoken And thus while he remembred vnto them how beneficiall he had béene to the vniuersitie
libertie out of danger to peace and quietnesse from dread to dignitie from miserie to maiestie from mourning to ruling brieflie of a prisonner made a princesse and placed in hir throne roiall proclamed now quéene with as manie glad hearts line 50 of hir subiects as euer was anie king or queene in this realme before hir or euer shall be I dare saie hereafter Touching whose florishing state hir princelie reigne and peaceable gouernement with other things diuerse and sundrie incident to the same and especiallie touching the great stirres and alterations which haue happened in other forren nations and also partlie among our selues here at home forsomuch as the tractation hereof requireth an huge volume by it selfe I shall therefore deferre the reader to the line 60 next booke or section insuing wherein if the Lord so please to susteine me with leaue and life I maie haue to discourse of all and singular such matters doone and atchiued in these our latter daies and memorie more at large Now then after these so great afflictions falling vpon this realme from the first beginning of quéene Maries reigne wherein so manie men women and children were burned manie imprisoned and in prisons starued diuerse exiled some spoiled of goods and possessions a great number driuen from house to home so manie wéeping eies so manie sobbing harts so manie children made fatherlesse so manie fathers bereft of their wiues and children so manie vexed in conscience and diuerse against conscience constrained to recant and in conclusion neuer a good man almost in all the realme but suffered something during all the time of this bloudie persecution after all this I saie now we are come at length the Lord be praised to the seuentéenth of Nouember which daie as it brought to the persecuted members of Christ rest from their carefull mourning so it easeth me somewhat likewise of my laborious writing by the death I meane of quéene Marie who being long sicke before vpon the said seuentéenth daie of Nouember in the yeare aboue said about thrée or foure of the clocke in the morning yéelded hir life to nature and hir kingdome to quéene Elisabeth hir sister As touching the maner of whose death some saie that she died of a timpanie some by hir much sighing before hir death supposed she died of thought and sorrow Wherevpon hir councell seeing hir sighing and desirous to know the cause to the end they might minister the more readie consolation vnto hir feared as they said that she tooke some thought for the kings maiestie hir husband which was gone from hir To whome she answering againe In deed said she that may be one cause but that is not the greatest wound that pearseth mine oppressed mind but what that was she would not expresse to them Albeit afterward she opened the matter more plainlie to mistresse Rise and mistresse Clarentius if it be true that they told me which heard it of mistresse Rise himselfe who then being most familiar with hir and most bold about hir told hir that they feared she tooke thought for king Philips departing from hir Not that onelie said she but when I am dead and opened you shall find Calis lieng in my hart c. Which one supposing to be true hath left this report Hispani oppidulo amisso contabuit vxor Quam cruciatu aegro confecerat anxia cura And here an end of quéene Marie and of hir persecution during the time of hir misgouernment Of which quéene this trulie may be affirmed and left in storie for a perpetuall memoriall or epitaph for all kings and quéenes that shall succéed hir to be noted that before hir neuer was read in storie of anie king or quéene of England since the time of king Lucius vnder whom in time of peace by hanging heading burning and prisoning so much christian bloud so manie Englishmens liues were spilled within this realme as vnder the said quéene Marie for the space of foure yeares was to be séene and I beseech the Lord neuer may be séene hereafter Now for so much as quéene Marie during all the time of hir reigne was such a vehement aduersarie and persecutor against the sincere professors of Christ Iesus and his gospell for the which there be manie which doo highlie magnifie and approue hir dooings therein reputing hir religion to be sound and catholike and hir procéedings to be most acceptable and blessed of almightie God to the intent therfore that all men may vnderstand how the blessing of the Lord God did not onelie not procéed with hir proceedings but contrarie rather how his manifest displeasure euer wrought against hir in plaging both hir and hir realme and in subuerting all hir counsels and attempts what soeuer she tooke in hand we will bestow a litle time therein to perpend and surueie the whole course of hir dooings and cheuances and consider what successe she had in the same Which being well considered we shall find neuer no reigne of anie prince in this land or anie other which had euer to shew in it for the proportion of time so manie arguments of Gods great wrath and displeasure as was to be séene in the reigne of this queene Marie whether we behold the shortnesse of hir time or the vnfortunate euent of all hir purposes Who séemed neuer to purpose anie thing that came luckilie to passe neither did anie thing frame to hir purpose what soeuer she tooke in hand touching hir owne priuat affaires Of good kings we read in the scripture in shewing moreie and pitie in seeking Gods will in his word and subuerting the monuments of idolatrie how God blessed their waies increased their honors and mightilie prospered all their procéedings as we line 10 sée in king Dauid Salomon Iosias Iosaphat Ezechias with such others Manasses made the stréets of Hierusalem to swim with the bloud of his subiects but what came of it the text dooth testifie Of quéene Elisabeth which now reigneth among vs this we must néeds saie which we sée that she in sparing the bloud not onelie of Gods seruants but also of Gods enimies hath doubled now the reigne of quéene Marie hir sister with such aboundance of line 20 peace and prosperitie that it is hard to saie whether the realme of England felt more of Gods wrath in queene Maries time or of Gods fauour and mercie in these so blessed and peaceable daies of queene Elisabeth Gamaliell speaking his mind in the councell of the Phariseis concerning Christes religion gaue this reason that if it were of God it should continue who soeuer said naie if it were not it could not stand So may it be said of quéene Marie and hir Romish line 30 religion that if it were so perfect and catholike as they pretend and the contrarie faith of the gospellers were so detestable and hereticall as they make it how commeth it then that this so catholike a quéene such a necessarie piller
pageant But in the opening when hir grace vnderstood that the bible in English should be deliuered vnto hir by Truth which was therein represented by a child she thanked the citie for that gift and said that she would oftentimes read ouer that booke commanding sir Iohn Parrat one of the knights which held vp hir canopie to go before and to receiue the booke But learning that it should be deliuered vnto hir grace downe by a silken lace she caused him to staie and so passed forward till she came against the aldermen in the high end of Cheape before the little conduit where the companies of the citie ended which began at Fanchurch stood along the stréets one by an other inclosed with railes hanged with cloths and themselues well apparelled with manie rich furres and their liuerie hoods vpon their shoulders in comelie and seemelie maner hauing before them sundrie persons well apparelled in silks and chains of gold as wiflers and garders of the said companies besides a number of rich hangings as well of tapistrie arras cloths of gold siluer veluet damaske sattin and other silks plentifullie hanged all the waie as the queenes highnesse passed from the tower thorough the citie Out at the windowes and penthouses of euerie house did hang a number of rich and costlie banners line 10 and stremers till hir grace came to the vpper end of Cheape Where by appointment the right worshipfull master Ranulph Cholmelie recorder of the citie presented to the quéenes maiestie a pursse of crimson sattin richlie wrought with gold wherein the citie gaue vnto the quéens maiestie a thousand marks in gold as master recorder did declare bréefelie vnto the quéens maiestie whose words tended to this end that the lord maior his brethren and communaltie of line 20 the citie to declare their gladnesse and goodwill towards the quéenes maiestie did present hir grace with that gold desiring hir grace to continue their good and gratious queene and not to esteeme the value of the gift but the mind of the giuers The queens maiestie with both hir hands tooke the pursse and answered to him againe maruellous pithilie and so pithilie that the standers by as they imbraced intirelie hir gratious answer so they maruelled at the couching thereof which was in words truelie reported these I thanke my lord maior his brethren and you line 30 all And whereas your request is that I should continue your good ladie and quéene be yee ensured that I will be as good vnto you as euer quéene was to hir people No will in me can lacke neither doo I trust shall there lacke anie power And persuade your selues that for the safetie and quietnesse of you all I will not spare if néed be to spend my bloud God thanke you all Which answer of so noble an hearted princesse if it mooued a maruellous shout line 40 reioising it is nothing to be maruelled at sith both the haltinesse thereof was so woonderfull and the words so iointlie knit When hir grace had thus answered the recorder she marched toward the little conduit where was erected a pageant with square proportion standing directlie before the same conduit with battlements accordinglie And in the same pageant was aduanced two hilles or mounteins of conuenient height The one of them being on the north side of the same pageant line 50 was made â—ragged barren and stonie in the which was erected one trée artificiallie made all withered and dead with branches accordinglie And vnder the same trée at the foot thereof sat one in homelie and rude apparrell crookedlie and in mourning maner hauing ouer his head in a table written in Latine and English his name which was Ruinosa respublica A decaied commonweale And vpon the same withered trée were fixed certeine tables wherein were written proper sentences expressing the causes line 60 of the decaie of a commonweale The other hill on the south side was made faire fresh greene and beautifull the ground thereof full of floures and beautie and on the same was erected also one tree verie fresh and faire vnder the which stood vpright one fresh personage well apparelled and appointed whose name also was written both in English and Latine which was Respublica bene instituta A flourishing common-weale And vpon the same tree also were fixed certeine tables conteining sentences which expressed the causes of a flourishing commonweale In the middle betweene the said hils was made artificiallie one hollow place or caue with doore and locke inclosed out of the which a little before the quéenes highnesse comming thither issued one personage whose name was Time apparelled as an old man with a sieth in his hand hauing wings artificiallie made leading a personage of lesser stature than himselfe which was finelie and well apparrelled all clad in white silke and directlie ouer hir head was set hir name and title in Latine and English Temporis filia The daughter of Time Which two so appointed went forwards toward the south side of the pageant And on hir brest was written hir proper name which was Veritas Truth who held a booke in hir hand vpon the which was written Verbum veritatis The word of truth And out of the south side of the pageant was cast a standing for a child which should interpret the same pageant Against whome when the quéenes maiestie came he spake vnto hir grace these swéet words This old man with the sieth old father Time they call And hir his daughter Truth which holdeth yonder booke Whome he out of his rocke hath brought foorth to vs all From whence this manie yeares she durst not once out looke The ruthfull wight that sits vnder the barren tree Resembleth to vs the forme when common weales decaie But when they be in state triumphant you may see By him in fresh attire that sits vnder the baâ—e Now sith that Time againe his daughter Truth hath brought We trust ô worthie queene thou wilt this truth imbrace And sith thou vnderstandst the good estate and naught We trust wealth thou wilt plant and barrennes displace But for to heale the sore and cure that is not seene Which thing the booke of truth dooth teach in writing plaine Shee dooth present to thee the same ô worthie queene For that that words doo flie but written dooth remaine When the child had thus ended his spéech he reached his booke towards the quéenes maiestie which a little before Truth had let downe vnto him from the hill which by sir Iohn Parrat was receiued and deliuered vnto the quéene But shée as soone as she had receiued the booke kissed it and with both hir hands held vp the same and so laid it vpon hir brest with great thanks to the citie therefore and so went forward towards Paules churchyard The former matter which was rehearsed vnto the quéenes maiestie was written in two tables on either side the pageant eight verses and in the middest these in
Peterburie Bartlet in Bath Gest in Rochester Barlow in Chichester c. In like maner were diuerse deans archdeacons parsons vicars remooued from their benefices and some of them committed to prison in the Tower Fléet Marshalsea and Kings bench Moreouer about the same time were commissio-appointed to visit in euerie diocesse within the relme for the establishment of religion according to the order appointed by act and statute passed and confirmed in the last parlement For London were appointed sir Richard Sackuill knight Robert Horne doctor of diuinitie doctor Huic a ciuilian and maister Sauage who calling before them diuerse persons of euerie parish sware them to inquire and make presentment accordinglie vpon certeine iniunctions drawne and deuised for the better accomplishment and execution of that which they had in charge Furthermore about the same time by vertue of an act established in parlement all such religious houses as were againe erected and set vp were now suppressed as the abbeies of Westminster the houses of the nuns and brethren of the Sion and Shéene the blacke friers of Gréenwich c. And on the twelfe of August being saturdaie the high altar in Paules church with the rood the images of Marie and Iohn standing in the rood loft were taken downe the prebendaries and petie canons commanded to weare no more their graie amises but to vse onelie a surplice in seruice time This was doone by commandement of doctor Grindall newlie elect bishop of London doctor Maie then also newlie elected deane of Paules and other the commissioners then appointed Also on the euen of saint Bartholomew the day and morrow after were burned in Paules churchyard Cheapeside and diuerse other places of the citie of London all the roods and other images of churches and in some places the coapes vestments and altar clothes bookes banners sepulchers and rood lofts were likewise committed to the fier and so line 10 consumed to ashes ¶ The fift of September about midnight fell a great tempest at London in the end wherof a great lightning with a terrible clap of thunder strake the spire being stone of the stéeple of Alhallowes church in Bredstréet about a ten foot beneath the top out of the which fell a stone that slue a dog and ouerthrew a man plaieng with the same dog and the spire of the stéeple was so perished that not long after the same was taken downe with lesse charges to the parish line 20 than the reparing would haue cost And at the same instant by the same tempest one of the southdores of S. Dionise church in Fenchurchstréet with the dore of the reuestrie of the same church were both striken through and broken Upon Fridaie the eight of September was kept in Paules church of London a solemne obsequie for Henrie the second of that name king of France who departed this life about the tenth of Iulie last past of a wound receiued the 29 of Iune in running line 30 at tilt in a solemne iusts holden at Paris in honor of the marriage celebrated betwixt his sister the ladie Margaret of France and Philibert duke of Sauoie He was striken on the viser with a lance as he ran against the counte de Montgomerie the spilts entring by the sight of his headpéece persing through his eie into his head so perished his braine that there was no meane to saue his life The obsequie for him was kept in verie solemne wise with a rich hearse made like an imperiall line 40 crowne susteined with great pillers and couered with blacke veluet with a valence stringed with gold and richlie hanged with scutchions pennons and banners of the French kings armes without anie lights And on the beere was laid a rich pall of cloth of gold with a coat armor of the armes of France and a crest with an imperiall crowne standing vpon the béere doctor Parker archbishop of Canturburie elect doctor Barlow bishop of Chichester elect and doctor Scorie bishop of Hereford elect executing at line 50 the dirge of this euening song in English they sitting in the bishop of Londons seat in the vpper quéere in surplices with doctors hoods about their shoulders The chéefe mourner was the marquesse of Winchester lord treasuror assisted with ten other lords mourners with all the heralds in blacke and their coat armours vppermost On the morrow being saturdaie ninth of September a sermon was preached by doctor Scorie in place of doctor Grindall bishop of London who being line 60 appointed to preach that sermon was letted by sicknesse After the sermon six of the lords mourners receiued the communion with the bishops which bishops were in copes and surplices onelie at the ministration of the said communion Which being finished there was a great dinner kept in the bishop of Londons palace by Paules where the mourners apparelled them and so ended the solemnitie of the said exequies The bishops had blacke gownes giuen them and eight blacke coats a peece for their seruants at the quéenes charges ¶ About the last of September Iohn duke of Finland second sonne to Gustabus king of Swethen was sent by his father to treat a marriage for his eldest brother Ericus with the quéenes maiestie of England he arriued at Harwich in Essex and was there honorablie receiued and interteined by the erle of Oxford which said earle and the lord Robert Dudleie with a goodlie band of gentlemen and yeomen conueied him to London where he was receiued of diueâ—se knights and gentlemen of the court on the fift of October and was with his traine of about the number of fiftie persons well horssed conueied to the bishop of Winchesters place in Southworke where he was lodged during his abode here and remoued from thence two daies before Easter homewards and sped on his message as may appeare by that which followeth taken out of Iohannes Lewenclaij comment de bellis Moscorum Ericus king of Swethen sonne of Gustabus late king of the said kingdome hauing committed to prison his brother Iohn duke of Finland whom a little before he had imploied into England on an ambassage to the quéenes maiestie whom he sued to for mariage and had his sute reiected againe the second time solicited hir maiestie in the same sute notwithstanding to his great dishonor and as it fell out his iust disgrace He attempted the same matter with the yoongest daughter of Philip Lantgraue Uanhessen at whose hand hauing the second time beene reiected of hir maiestie héere the matter being knowne there he also not onelie receiued a deniall but the ladie was by hir father bestowed vpon Adolfe duke Uan Holst vncle of Frederike king of Denmarke then enimie of the said Ericus Thus farre Iohannes Lewenclaij ¶ Cuthbert Tunstall was translated from London to Durham after the death of cardinall Wolseie of whome besides that which Holinshed in this booke reporteth I will saie a little he being so
reuerend a prelat as the managing of the princes affaires by him dooth well witnesse and this present age can yet well remember This man being of a mild condition was borne at Hachaford in Richmondshire and as Leland hath left in writing that he heard the base sonne of one Tunstall an ancient gentleman whose ancestors as I haue read came into England with the conquerour attending on him as his barbar for which cause he beareth in his armes thrée combes as a note to posteritie of the originall of his gentrie Which bishop although he is supposed to haue béene base borne as manie noble capteins and other the valiant persons of the world haue béene whereof six hundred examples as hath the prouerbe might be produced yet was he not base in lerning eloquence grauitie and honorable calling both in spirituall temporall affaires both in seruice of the prince and in charge of his church For besides manie other offices that he exercised he was maister of the rols sundrie time ambassador to forreine princes bishop of London and from thence by vertue of Clement the seuenth his bulles to K. Henrie the eight in the yeare 1530 the fiue twentith of March aduanced to the sée of Durham and by the kings letters elected therevnto the yeare before said In the which function he behaued himselfe as the worthinesse of the estate required and as the doctrine of the church in those daies would permit of which I meane not to intreat neither of his fall or rising but will onlie meddle with méere temporall accidents as one that hath not béene accustomed to die his pen in the bloud of mens consciences nor in the opinions of religion Wherefore to omit all such things I saie of this bishop that he was a man singularlie learned as Caius tearmeth him Literaâ—issimus in the Hebrue Gréeke and Latine toongs and did not onelie erect sumptuous buildings for the mind and inward man in furnishing when he was bishop of London a librarie in Cambridge with manie notable both written and printed bookes compiling also manie other bookes aswell of diuinitie as of other sciences wherof at this daie his arithmâ—tike is of great estimation through Europe but did also for the flesh outward man build from the ground a most beautifull porch or gatehouse with a chapell annexed therevnto of faire stone in the castell of Durham withall adding vnto the said castell certeine gates with iron bars and portcullices supported with strong walles line 10 of stone on each part for the more strength against the enimie not forgetting to make a water-conduit for the ease of washing and to serue the other offices in the house on the left side of the entrance into the said castell To which these sumptuous déeds for they are verie heroicall may be added the gatehouse built at Alnewike and the tolboth in the market of Durham all of stone with the rest of the houses of office next vnto the hinder part of the said tolboth which afterward with other great liberalities line 20 he gaue to the citizens of Durham Lastlie at his owne charge he new repared with stoneworke the third part of Tinbridge which his predecessour Thomas Langleie recouered against the manor of Newcastell and which others his predecessors as occasion was offered therefore did from time to time most statelie repare In the end about the latter reigne of Edward the sixt being by Kinian or Ninian Menuile or Menille accused for that he somewhat fauoured the Romane religion line 30 and was not so forward in furthering of the gospell as that time required he was for that cause depriued from his bishoprike from all other ecclesiasticall gouernment and committed to the tower where he remained all the time of K. Edward Afterward by the benefit of quéene Marie in the first yeare of hir reigne he was reinuested into his sée of Durham which he possessed all the time of hir gouernement during which he was not so seuere an executor of the Romane canons against the protestants line 40 as the other bishops of England were But she not continuing long such are the inconstancies of our estates vncerteinties of our troubles he was againe by the noble quéene Elisabeth depriued of his bishoprike after disputation and conference had at Westminster in which he defended the Roman religion in the first yeare of the said Elisabeth about the truth of Christs gospell and was committed to Matthew Parker bishop of Canturburie who vsed him verie honourablie both for the line 50 grauitie learning and age of the said Tunstall But he not long remaining vnder the ward of the said bishop did shortlie after the eightéenth of Nouember in the yeare 1559 depart this life at Lambeth where he first receiued his consecration being a man of such age as that he atteined to the number of fourescore fiue years when he died He was buried in the queere of the church of Lambeth whose funerall sermon was doone by Alexander Nowell then now in the yeare 1586 deane of Poules Who taking this line 60 theame to intreat vpon Blessed are they which die in the Lord did there deliuer such liberall singular commendation of this man for his vertuous life lerning grauitie and good seruice doone to manie princes of England that more could not be said of anie man being spoken trulie Such force hath vertue that we ought to commend it euen in our enimies ouer whose dead carcase in the said church of Lambeth is laid a faire marble in which is ingrauen this epitaph of his deuised by doctor Walter Haddon Anglia Cutbertum Tunstallum â—â—oesta requirit Cuius summa domi laus erat â—tque foris Rhetor arithmeticus iuris consultus aequi Legatúsque fuit denique praesul erat Annorum satur magnorum plenus honorum Vertitur in cineres aureus iste senex This man was as it should appeare in stories full of contumarie and selfe will vntractable he was and of nature rebellious For saith maister Fox in the reigne of king Edward being cast into the tower for his disobedience where he kept his Christmasse thrée yeares togither more worthie of some other place without the tower if it had pleased God otherwise not to haue meant a further plague to this realme by that man Howbeit he was indued with such excellencie of lerning and that of sundrie sutes that of the learned he is noted for a mirror of that age wherein he liued and albeit a papist yet not depriuable of the praise which it pleased God to prouide for him being an enimie vnto the truth perhaps through feare as manie more by those rare and manifold good means wherewith he was adorned Insomuch that Leland a man of a cleare iudgement and great insight to discerne betwéene substantiallie and superficiallie learned comparing this bishop Tunstall with profound Budeus saith as foloweth Qua te nostra canet Tunstalle Britannia laude
Henrie the eight Anne married to sir Edmund Gorge knight Isabell married to sir Roger Mortimer of Essex Iane married to sir Iohn Timperleie and Margaret married to sir Iohn Windham his second wife was Margaret the daughter of sir Iohn Chedworth knight by whome he had Katharine married to sir Iohn Bourchier lord Barns Thomas Howard earle of Surreie sonne of the said Iohn was created duke of Norffolke in the fift yeare of king Henrie the eight being about the yéere of Christ 1514. Of him is more mention in my discourse of the lord treasurors of England Thomas Howard created earle of Surreie in the fift yeare of king Henrie the eight being high admerall and lord treasuror of England was duke of Norffolke after the death of his father which fell in the sixtéenth yeare of king Henrie the eight being the yeare of our redemption 1524. Of this man is also more intreated in my discourse of the lord treasurors Thomas Howard the third duke of the name of Thomas and the fourth of the name of Howard was son to Henrie Howard earle of Surreie sonne to the last before recited Thomas Howard duke of Norffolke This man being the last duke that liued in England occasioned me to make this discourse of the dukes was beheaded on tower hill the seauentéenth of September in the thirteenth yeere of the now reigning prince Elisabeth being the yeare of Christ 1571 and buried in the chappell of the tower He maried thrée wiues his first wife was Marie one of the daughters and heires of Henrie Fitzallen earle of Arundell by whom he had issue Philip earle of Arundell his second wife was Margaret daughter onlie heire to Thomas Audleie knight chancellor of England and lord Audleie of saffron Walden the widow of the lord Henrie Dudleie yoongest son to Iohn Sutton of Dudlie duke of Northumberland by which second wife this duke had issue Thomas William Elisabeth Margaret his third wife was Elisabeth the daughter of sir Iames Leiborne knight and widow of the lord Dacres of Gisâ—eland by whome he had no issue Henrie the second son of king Henrie the seuenth was by his father created duke of Yorke at Westminster in the eleuenth yéere of his reigne being the yeere of our redemption 1495 or therabouts This man was after king of England by the name of king Henrie the eight Iasper of Hatfield the sonne of Owen Teuther esquier by Katharine daughter to the French king and widow to king Henrie the fift was by king Henrie the sixt his brother on the mothers side created earle of Penbroke in the yeare of Christ 1452 after which in the fiue and thirtith yeere of the said king he was made earle of Cambridge and lastlie in the first yeere of the reigne of king Henrie the seauenth he was created duke of Bedford on Simon and Iudes 〈◊〉 in the yeare of our redemption 1485 but died without issue the eighteenth daie of December in the twelfe yéere of the reigne of king Henrie the seauenth in the yéere of Christ 1496 and was buried at Kensham Charles Brandon the son of sir William Brandon knight slaine on the part of king Henrie the seuenth at Bosworth field was created vicount Lisle and after on Candlemasse daie in the yéere of Christ 1413 being the fift yeare of king Henrie the eight he was created duke of Suffolke He married thrée wiues the first was Anne daughter of sir Anthonie Browne knight the second Marie second daughter of king Henrie the seauenth widow to the king of France by whom he had issue Henrie earle of Lincolne and Francis married to Henrie Greie duke of Suffolke his third wife was Katharine the daughter onlie heire of William lord Willoughbie of Ersleie by whome he had issue Henrie and Charles both dukes of Suffolke one after another who both died within one houre of the sweat at Cambridge This Charles the father died in the yéere of Christ 1545 and was buried at Windsore line 10 of the two dukes the sons thus writeth Iohn Parkhurst sometime placed in the bishops see of Norwich Fratres Amyclaei Pollux cum Castore Potuere sic cum morte depaciscier Vt cùm alter illorum esset mortuus tamén Alter superesset reuersus sortibus Vicissim vtérque vtriúsque morte viueret Cur Parca nunc crudelior est quà m olim fuit Fratres duos nuper ea quales hactenus Nec vidit vnquam nec videbit Anglia line 20 Lumina duo duóque propugnacula Fortissima virtutis reÃque publicae Crudelis ab vno perêmit funere Virtus nequaquam illam nec egregia indoles Mouit nec Edwardi regis nec optimae Matris neque totius gemitus Britanniae O dura dura mors ô saeua numina Henrie Fitz Roie the base son to king Henrie the eight begotten vpon Elisabeth Blunt the ladie Talboise was by his father first created earle of Summerset and Northampton and after duke of line 30 Richmont This duke was verie forward in the knowledge of toongs and also in knightlie actiuitie as may appéere by due consideration of the historie in place where he is mentioned He loued Iohn Leland the reuerend antiquarie who presented vnto the said duke a booke of copies whereby he might learne to write Romane letters great small as appéereth by this hexastichon which I find among the said Iohn Lelands written epigrams in this maner set downe Quo Romana modo maiuscula littera pingi line 40 Pingi quo possit littera parua modo Hic liber ecce tibi signis monstrabit apertis Princeps Aonij spes alumne gregis Qui tibi si placeat quod certè spero futurum Maxima pro paruo munere dona dabis He died without issue the two and twentith of Iulie in the eight and twentith yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the eight in the yeere of our redemption 1536 and was buried at Thetford in Norffolke hauing maried Marie the daughter of Thomas Howard line 50 duke of Norffolke Edward Seimor knight the son of sir Iohn Seimor knight was created vicount Beauchampe in Maie the eight and twentith yéere of king Henrie the eight being the yéere of our redemption 1536 was after in the nine twentith yeare of the same king on the eightéenth daie of October in the yéere of Christ 1537 created earle of Hertford Then king Henrie being dead he in the first yeare of king Edward line 60 the sixt which was the yéere of our redemption 1546 was made protector of England and immediatlie therevpon created duke of Summerset being vncle by the mothers side vnto the said king Edward the sixt This man had manie honors and offices as maie appéere by his stile which he prefixed before a missiue persuasorie sent to the Scots for the marriage of their yoong quéene Marie to our yoong king Edward the sixt in this sort Edward by the grace of God
procéed foorth of a blacke cloud in the north toward the south which so continued till the next morning that it was daie light The next night following the heauens from all parts did séeme to burne maruellous raginglie line 40 ouer our heads the flames from the horizon round about rising did méet and there double and roll one in another as if it had béene in a cleare fornace The eightéenth daie at night blew verie stormie tempestuous winds out of the south as hath not béene knowne the like out of that quarter especiallie after midnight till the next morning that it was daie light These are to be receiued as tokens of Gods wrath readie bent against the world for sinne now abounding and also of his great mercie who dooth line 50 onlie thus but to shew vs the rod wherwith we dailie deserue to be beaten This yeare at London after haruest the price of wheate began by little and little to fall from seuen shillings to thrée shillings the bushell at which price it staied little or nothing rising or falling all the yeare after but baie salt was raised from three shillings to foure shillings fiue shillings and six shillings the bushell the like whereof had neuer béene seene or heard within this realme The 24 day of Februarie line 60 being the feast of saint Matthie on which daie the faire was kept at Teukesburie year 1575 a strange thing happened there For after a floud which was not great but such as therby the medows néere adioining were couered with water in the after noone there came downe the riuer of Seuerne great numbers of flies bâ—â—tels such as in summer euenings vse to strike men in the face in great heapes a foot thicke aboue the water so that to credible mens iudgement there were séene within a paire of buts length of those flies aboue a hundred quarters The mils there abouts were dammed vp with them for the space of foure daies after and then were clensed by digging them out with shouels from whence they came is yet vnknowne but the daie was cold and a hard frost The six and twentith of Februarie betwéene foure and six of the clocke in the after noone great earthquakes happened in the cities of Yorke Worcester Glocester Bristow Hereford and in the countries about which caused the people to runne out of their houses for feare they should haue fallen on their heads In Teukesburie Bredon and other places the dishes fell from the cupboords and the bookes in mens studies from the shelues In Norton chappell the people being on their knees at euening praier the ground moouing caused them to run awaie in great feare that the dead bodies would haue risen or the chappell to haue fallen part of Ruthen castell fell downe with certeine bricke chimneies in gentlemens houses The bell in the shire hall at Denbigh was also caused to toll twise by shaking of the hall c. On Easter daie which was the third of Aprill about nine of the clocke in the forenoone was disclosed a congregation of anabaptists Duchmen in a house without the bars of Aldgate at London wherof seauen and twentie were taken and sent to prison and foure of them bearing fagots recanted at Paules crosse on the fifteenth daie of Maie in forme as followeth The forme of recantation openlie made by the said anabaptists WHereas I. I. T. R. H. being seduced by the diuell the spirit of error and by false teachers his ministers haue fallen into certeine most detestable and damnable heresies namelie 1 That Christ tooke not flesh of the substance of the blessed virgine Marie 2 That infants of the faithfull ought not to be baptised 3 That a christian man may not be a magistrat or beare the sword or office of authoritie 4 That it is not lawfull for a christian to take an oth Now by the grace of God and through conference with good and learned ministers of Christ his church I doo vnderstand and acknowlege the same to be most damnable and detestable heresies and doo aske God here before his church mercie for my said former errors and doo forsake them recant and renounce them and abiure them from the botome of my heart professing that I certeinlie beléeue 1 That Christ tooke flesh of the substance of the blessed virgine Marie 2 That infants of the faithfull ought to be baptised 3 That a christian man may be a magistrat or beare the sword or office of authoritie 4 That it is lawfull for a christian man to take an oth And further I confesse that the whole doctrine and religion established and published in this realme of England as also that which is receiued and preached in the Dutch church here in this citie is sound true and according to the word of God whervnto in all things I submit my selfe and will most gladlie be a member of the said Dutch church from henseforth vtterlie abandoning and forsaking all and euerie anabaptisticall error This is my faith now in the which I doo purpose and trust to stand firme and stedfast to the end And that I may so doo I beséech you all to praie with me and for me to God the heauenlie father in the name of his sonne our sauiour Iesus Christ. The like recantation was made by them afterwards in the Dutch church The seauenteenth of Maie about midnight following the reuerend father in God Matthew Parker doctor of diuinitie archbishop of Canturburie deceased at Lambeth and was there honorablie buried on whose toome being of blacke marble is written this most worthie epitaph here following Sobrius prudens studijs excultus vsu Integer verae relligionis amans line 10 Matthaeus vixit Parkerus fouerat illum Aula virum iuuenem fouit aula senem Ordine res gessit recti defensor aequi Vixerat ille Deo mortuus ille Deo est Matthew Parker liued soberlie and wise Learned by studie and continuall practise Louing true of life vncontrold The court did foster him both yoong and old Orderlie he dealt the right he did defend line 20 He liued vnto God to God he made his end ¶ This reuerend father examined throughlie the English translation of the holie bibles wherein he partlie vsed the helpe of his brethren bishops and other doctors and caused the same to be newlie printed in the largest volume for the due furniture of manie churches then wanting Also making diligent search for the antiquities of the Britons and English Saxons to the end those monuments might be carefullie kept he caused them to be well line 30 bound and trimlie couered and such wherof he knew verie few examples to be extant among the which was Matthew Paris Matthew Florilegus and Thomas Walsingham he caused to be printed The famous palace of his see at Canturburie by long continuance decaied consumed with fire he renewed builded and fullie restored with the charges of more
than fourtéene hundred pounds He founded a grammar schoole in Rochdale in the countie of Lancaster To Corpus Christi college in Cambridge he procured line 40 thirtéene scholarships and bare the charges in making and furnishing two chambers for scholars and the inward librarie of the same college Item he gaue to the outward and inward librarie of the said college a goodlie companie of printed bookes a great number of written books of great antiquitie much value Item he procured to the said college the patronage of saint Marie Abchurch in London Item he hath founded two felowships in the said college and procured one charter of mortmaine to the line 50 summe of one hundred pounds by yeare Item he hath giuen to the same college of siluer plate double guilt thrée hundred nine ounces and thrée quarters surrendred to them a lease with the improouement of foureteene pounds and eight shillings yeerelie for seuentéene yéeres Item one hundred pounds to the maintenance of a fier in the hall from Halomas to Candlemas and by his last will and testament fiue hundred pounds Item to diuers scholars chambers within the said college diuerse bedsteads with line 60 sufficient bedding books to remaine for euer Item he hath founded for euer fiue sermons to be preached in diuerse places of Norffolke euerie yéere in Rogation weeke and fortie shillings to be diuided at Norwich to the poore and others Item to the citie of Norwich one bason and ewer of siluer and double guilt of one hundred seauentie and fiue ounces Item to the towne of Matsall in Norffolke for euer an annuitie of fiftie shillings to be diuided to the poore with a sermon in Rogation weeke Item to Gunuill and Caius college one scholarship with a standing cup and a pot of siluer double guilt of fiue and fiftie ounces and thrée quarters and one nest of goblets with a couer siluer and guilt with a number of good bookes to their librarie Item to Trinitie hall one scholarship a standing cup and a pot of siluer and guilt of thrée and fiftie ounces a nest of goblets siluer and guilt with a couer and bookes to their librarie Item to the vniuersitie librarie fiftie old ancient written bookes and fiftie printed bookes Of this prelat to his further commendation the aforesaid doctor Haddon in the second booke of his poems maketh very honorable mention comprising in six verses the ensignes of his ancestors with those also which were accessarie by the gratiousnesse of the prince who preferred him to his prelacie In the same verses also is comprehended as it were an harmonie or consent of most godlie qualities answerable vnto the ensignes that he bare as thus Sunt antiquorum claues monumenta parentum Venit ab augusto principe stella triplex Sic benè conspirant virtus doctrina potestas Et placidae pacis semina laeta serunt Sed tamen ad finem decurrunt gaudia vitae Ac homo puluis erit puluis vt antè fuit The 21 of Maie being Whitsun éeuen one man and ten women anabaptists Dutch were in the consistorie of Paules condemned to be burned in Smithfield but after great pains taken with them onlie one woman was conuerted the other were banished the land On the first of Iune the nine women being led by the shiriffs officers and the man also tied to a cart whipped were all conueied from Newgate to the waters side where they were shipped awaie neuer to returne againe The twelfe of Iune stood at Paules crosse fiue persons Englishmen of the sect termed the familie of loue who there confessed themselues vtterlie to detest as well the author of that sect H. N. as all his damnable errors and heresies The two and twentith of Iulie two Dutchmen anabaptists were burned in Smithfield who died in great horror with roring and crieng The thirtith of Iulie in the afternoone was a great tempest of lightening and thunder wherethrough both men and beasts in diuerse places were striken dead Also at that time fell great abundance of haile whereof the stones in manie places were found to be six or seuen inches about The fourth of September being sundaie about seuen of the clocke in the morning a certeine glasse house which sometime had béene the crossed friers hall neere to the tower of London burst out on a terrible fire wherevnto the lord maior aldermen and shiriffes with all expedition repaired and practised there all means possible by water buckets hookes and otherwise to haue quenched it All which notwithstâ—nding whereas the same house in a small time before had consumed great quantitie of wood by making of fine drinking glasses now it selfe hauing within it neere fortie thousand billets of wood was all consumed to the stone walles which walles greatlie defended the fire from spreading further and dooing anie more harme The six and twentith of September a pulters wife in the parish of Christs church within Newgate of London was deliuered brought to bed of foure children at one burthen all females or maiden children which were christened by the names of Elisabeth Marie Margaret and Dorothie and the same daie moneth the mother was buried but all the foure children liuing and in good liking were borne to church after hir ¶ On Michaelmas éeuen at night the like impressions of fire and smoke were séene in the aire to flash out of the northeast north and northwest as had béene on the fiue and twentith of Nouember last before passed The tenth of October manie French and some Englishmen but all pirats of the seas were arreigned at the admeraltie court in Southworke where to the number of two and twentie were condemned and had sentence of death pronounced against them The maior of London went by water to Westminster and there tooke his oth as hath beene accustomed he kept no feast at the Guildhall but dined at his owne house with his brethren the aldermen and others The companies dined at their seuerall halles c. This was doone as in the yéere last before passed to auoid the infection of the plague which line 10 might haue increased by comming togither of greater numbers of people That wéeke from the two and twentith vnto the eight and twentith of October deceased in the citie and liberties of all diseases one hundred thirtie and two of the which number six and thirtie were accounted to die of the plague The next wéeke following ending the third of Nouember thanks be giuen to God therefore there deceased of all diseases but one hundred and ten and of them of the plague but six and twentie line 20 ¶ The eleuenth of Februarie Anne Aueries widow forswearing hir selfe for a little monie that she should haue paid for six pounds of tow at a shop in Woodstréet of London fell immediatlie downe spéechlesse casting vp at hir mouth in great aboundance with horrible stinke the same matter which by natures
déepe in the shallowest and otherwise being driuen by the wind verie boisterous in the northeast on banks one ell or a yard a half déepe In the which drifts of snow farre deeper in the countrie manie cattell and some men and women were ouerwhelmed and lost It snowed till the eight daie of that moneth and frised till the tenth and then followed a â—haw with continuall raine a long time after which caused such high waters and great flouds that the marishes and low grounds being drowned for the time and the water of the Thames rose so high into Westminster hall that after the fall thereof some fishes were found to remaine in the said hall The seuentéenth of Februarie an Irishman for murdering of a man in a garden of Stepenheth parish was hanged in chaines on the common called Mile end gréene This common was sometimes yea in the memorie of men yet liuing a large mile long from White chappell to Stepenheth church and therefore called Mile end greene but now at this present by gréedie and as séemeth to me vnlawfull inclosures and building of houses notwithstâ—nding hir maiesties proclamation to the contrarie it remaineth scarse halfe a mile in length The twentith daie of Februarie deceased sir Nicholas Bacon lord kéeper of the great seale of England who was honourablie buried vnder a sumptuous monument or toome by him in his life time erected in S. Pauls church of London on the ninth daie of March This sir Nicholas Bacon in his life time gaue for six scholers to be found in Bennets college in Cambridge to each of them three pounds six shillings and eight pence the yeare for euer ¶ The said sir Nicholas Bacons toome aforesaid bearing certeine representations of his wiues and children in imagerie worke is adorned with a notable epitaph wherein is pithilie described the meanes whereby he grew to be noble as also immortall The same being conteined in these verses following and iustifiable by the verie epitaph whereof this is a true transcription great pitie but it shuld be perpetuall Hic Nicolaum ne Baconum conditum Existima illum tam diu Britannici Regni secundum columen exitium malis line 10 Bonis asylum caeca quem non extulit Ad hunc honorem sors sed aequitas fides Doctrina pietas vnica prudentia Non morte raptum crede qui vnica Vita perennes emerit duas agit Vitam secundam coelites inter animus Fama implet orbem vita quae illi tertia est Hac positum in ara est corpus olim animi domus Ara dicata sempiternae memoriae This yeare in the moneth of Aprill to wit on the line 20 foure and twentith daie fell such a snow betwéene the hours of foure of the clocke in the morning nine of the clocke before noone of the same daie that in London the same snow was found to lie one foot déepe The 25 daie of Aprill sir Thomas Bromleie knight was made lord chancellor of England The chancellors of England collected out of sundrie ancient line 30 histories THe creation of this sir Thomas Bromleie lord chancellor hath occasioned me to treate of the chancellors of England a matter which I haue béene the willinger to set downe because I would minister cause to others who haue long wanted of their cunning in this matter to impart to the world some of their great knowledge herein to the benefit of their countrie But since I doubt that they will line 40 not accept this in good part till that come And as I may perhaps doo in this somewhat more largelie than in the iudgement of others shall seeme answerable to the most receiued opinion touching the chancellors treat of the antiquitie of them so yet I haue no mind to erre or to leade anie other into error Wherefore if things be not in perfection vpon this first rough hewing as nothing is at the first so exquisit as time dooth not after amend it yet disdaine it not sith this may giue more light than line 50 before was knowen And I determine God willing either to amend or to confesse and auoid in the large description of their liues whatsoeuer imperfections haue now distilled out of my pen either for mistaking or misplacing of name person or time and so to the matter It hath beene some question amongst the best antiquaries of our age that there were neuer anie chancellors in England before the comming of Edward the confessor out of Normandie whome they line 60 suppose to haue brought the same officer with him from thense into this realme But sith I am with manie reasons and ancient authorities led to beleue the contrarie I will imbrace the contrarie opinion therevnto and hold in this discourse as the order thereof shall prooue that there were chancellors before saint Edwards time for the confirmation whereof and for the authoritie of them for the etymologie and originall of the name and for the continuance of their office thou shalt find an ample discourse in my booke purposelie written of the liues of the chancellors whervnto I wholie refer thée who I hope shall within these few yeares be partaker thereof and in the meane time giue thee this tast of the age and names of the chancellors and vicechancellors and such keepers of the great seale as serued in place of chancellors For euerie one that was kéeper of the great seale was not intituled chancellor no more than euerie chancellor was intituled the keeper of the greatseale But because the one did serue in the vacancie of the other so that after a certeine sort the kéeper of the great seale was vicechancellor and possessed the place though not the name of a chancellor as in our age sir Nicholas Bacon did we therefore haue set downe the names of the one and the other as they followed in succession of time after this manner Turketill chancellor to Ethelbald who began his reigne about the yeare of Christ 718 which Turketill gaue six manours to the abbeie of Croâ—land as I haue séene noted Saint Swithin bishop of Winchester was chancellor and chiefe of councell to the great monarch king Egbert though some attribute him to Edgar which Egbert began his reigne about the yeare of Christ 802. Wlfinus chancellor to king Athelstan who began his reigne in the yeare of our redemption nine hundred and foure and twentie Adulphus chancellor to king Edgar who began his reigne in the yeare that the world became flesh nine hundred fiftie and nine of this man speaketh Hugo Petro Burgensis and Leland calleth this Adulph Cancellarium archigrammatum chancellor or chiefe secretarie Alsius or Aelsius the second abbat of Elie chancellor to king Etheldred who began his reigne in the yeare of Christ nine hundred seuentie and eight this man being by Ethelwold bishop of Winchester consecrated abbat at the appointment of the said king Ethelred or Egelred
great seale vntill some part of the two and thirtith yeare of Henrie the third in the yeare of Christ 1248. Iohn Mansell againe kéeper of the great seale line 60 who at Woodstocke in the two and thirtith yeare of king Henrie the third did receiue the great seale of the said Iohn Lexinton which he kept as I suppose and that with some good proofe vntill the thrée thirtith yeare of the said king being the yeare of our redemption 1248. Of which Iohn Mansell thus writeth an old anonymall chronicle concerning the barons warres Sed Iohannes Mansell multarum in Anglia ecclesiarum rector seu potiùs incubator reddituum quoque quorum non erat numerus possessor magnificus ita quòd ditior eo clericus non videbatur in orbe episcopali puta dignitate minimè insignitus metu baronum aufugit latenter vltra mari de turri London in qua rex Angliae regina sua tunc temporis tenuerunt se. Quem quum Henricus filius regis Alemaniae fugientem insequeretur ipse capitur quum applicuisset Bononiae à magistro Gerando de Fenes procuratore vt putabatur reginae c. Radulphus de Diceto was chancellor as I read suppose much about this time but for certeintie I refer the same to the large booke of their liues where he shall not faile to haue his right time and place William of Kilkennie being a modest wise and faithfull man learned in the canon and ciuill lawes was made kéeper of the great seale in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred and fiftie being the foure thirtith yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the third He was elected to the bishoprike of Elie as saith the historie of Elie the eighteenth kalends of September in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred fiftie fiue being about the nine and thirtith yere of Henrie the third But others saie that he being then vicechancellor was elected bishop of Elie in the yeare of our Lord one thousand two hundred fiftie and foure being the eight and thirtith yeare of Henrie the third after that he had faithfullie and to his great commendation vsed and borne the great seale he was coÌ„secrated to that bishoprike in the yere of Christ 1255 and died in the yere 1256 being about the one and fortith yeare of king Henrie the third whose heart was buried at Elie. Henrie de Wingham was made chancellor in the nine and thirtith yeare of Henrie the third and continued in the one and fortith and two and fortith yeare of Henrie the third in which yeare as some haue and in the 43 of Henrie the third as others haue He was chosen bishop of Winchester vpon condition that he should giue place to Athelmer halfe brother to king Henrie the third son to Hugh Brune earle of March and of Eleanor king Henrie the thirds mother being banished by the barons if that he should againe returne into England and then leaue the bishoprike of Winchester vnto him which he did vpon the comming againe of the said Athelmer into England and for that cause was after chosen bishop of London being chosen thereto in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred fiftie and nine being the thrée and thirtith yeare of king Henrie the third and still chancellor and is buried in Paules on the south side of the quier next to Eustachius bishop of London in a monument of marble with this inscription on the wall to tell who it was Hîc iacet Henricus de Wingham quondam epicscopus huius ecclesiae qui multa bona contulit ministris ecclesiae sancti Pauli Walter Merton chancellor in the foure and fortith yere of king Henrie the third being the yeare 1260. Nicholas of Elie made chancellor by the barons in the said yeare of our redemption one thousand two hundred and sixtie and Walter Merton displaced But king Henrie the third disdaining to haue officers appointed him by his subiects did in the moneth of October following in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred and sixtie or rather one thousand two hundred sixtie and one depriue the said Nicholas and replaced the said Walter Merton Walter Merton bishop of Rochester the second time made chancellor as before appeareth Iohn de Chesill archdeacon of London and treasuror of England was made keeper of the great seale in the yeare of our redemption one thousand two hundred sixtie and foure being the eight and fortith yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the third This man was consecrated bishop of London in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred seuentie foure the third kalends of Maie as hath Matthew Westminster he died in the yeare that the word of the father became flesh one thousand two hundred seuentie and nine the fourth ides of Februarie in the seuenth yeare of the scourge of the Scots and Welshmen Thomas de Cantelupe borne of the noble house of the lords Cantelupes the son of William Cantelupe and Millesent 〈◊〉 as saith Leland drew hir originall from the counteâ—ses of Yorke being archdeacon of Stafford was doctor and after bishop of Hereford in the yeare one thousand two hundred seuentie and six and before that made chancellor after the feast of saint Peters chaire in the yeare of our redemption one thousand two hundred sixtie fiue being the nine and fortith yeare of the reigne of king line 10 Henrie the third He died beyond the seas comming from the court of Rome in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred seuentie and eight being the sixt yeare of the reigne of king Edward the first or more trulie as others haue in the yeare one thousand two hundred eightie thrée being the eleuenth yeare of king Edward the first whose bâ—nes were brought to Hereford Walter Gifford bishop of Bath and Welles whome manie doo call William did inioy the state line 20 of the chancellor in the yeare of our Lord one thousand two hundred sixtie six being the fiftith yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the third he was translated from Bath to Yorke in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred fiftie and nine being the nine and fortith yeare of the same Henrie the third and died the seuenth kalends of Maie in the twelfe yeare of his bishoprike in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred seuentie seuen being the sixt yeare of king Edward the first or as hath Nicholas Triuet line 30 in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred seuentie and nine being the seuenth yeare of king Edward the first Geffreie Gifford was chancellor also in the one and fiftith yeare of king Henrie the third being the yeare of our redemption one thousand two hundred sixtie and seuen This man was bishop of Worcester about the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred ninetie and nine where he sat foure and thirtie yeares foure moneths and
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
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
I must saie that some faults and negligences may grow and bee as in all other great charges it happeneth and what vocation without All which if you my lords of the cleargie doo not amend I meane to depose you looke you therefore to your charges this may be amended without heedlesse or open exclamation I am supposed to haue manie studies but most philosophicall I must yéeld this to be true that I suppose few that be no professors haue read more And I need not tell you that I am so simple that I vnderstand not nor so forgetfull that I remember not yet amongst my manie volumes I hope Gods booke hath not beene my sildomest studies in which we find that which by reason for my part we ought to beleeue that séeing so great wickednesse and griefs in the world in which we liue but as waie-faring pilgrims we suppose that God would neuer haue made vs but for a better place and of more comfort than we find here I know no creature that breatheth whose life standeth hourelie in more perill for it than mine owne who entered not into my state without sight of manifold dangers of life and crowne as one that had the mightiest and greatest to wrestle with Then it followeth that I regarded it so much as I left my selfe behind my care And so you sée that you wroong me too much if anie such there be as doubt my coldnesse in that behalfe For if I were not persuaded that mine were the true waie of Gods will God forbid I should liue to prescribe it to you Take héed lest Ecclesiastes saie not too true They that feare the horie frost the snow shall fall vpon them I sée manie ouer bold with God almightie making too manie subtill scannings of his blessed will as lawiers doo with humane testaments the presumption is so great as I may not suffer it yet mind I not hereby to animate Romanists which what aduersaries they be to mine estate is sufficientlie knowne nor tolerate new fanglednesse I meane to guide them both by Gods true rule in both parts be perils and of the latter I must pronounce them dangerous to a kinglie rule to haue euerie man according to his owne censure to make a doome of the validitie and priuitie of his princes gouernement with a common veile and couer of Gods word whose followers must not be iudged but by priuat mens exposition God defend you from such a ruler that so euill will guide you Now I conclude that your loue and care neither is nor shall be bestowed vpon a carelesse prince but such as for your good will passeth as litle for this world as who careth least with thanks for your frée subsidie a manifest shew of the aboundance of your good wils the which I assure you but to be imploid to your weale I could be better pleased to returne than receiue This is the summe of hir maiesties oration vttered in a solemne assemblie and well worthie the recording as testifieng no lesse in sinceritie and truth than euerie good subiect may seale vnto himselfe and laie his hand vpon his hart to be faithfullie meant for his securitie Wherein is speciallie to be noted the religious care which hir maiestie hath vowed to haue of the propagation and supportation of the gospell according to that which is reported of hir by waie of prophesie in the vision of quéene Anne in a dreame where after a repetition of miseries foretold to befall in quéene Maries daies these words are inferred Ecce malis tantis tua parua medebitur infans Iámque tenella geret post sceptrum patris adulta Solamen magnum patriae solamen amicis Qua regnante diu coelis ea fata feruntur Britanni populus foelix erit Anglia foelix Et longa tali sub principe pace fruetur Papa relegatus fallax ad littora Tybris Ausonij propria ditione iubebitur esse Contentus vaenúmque domi protrudere merces Hic iuris papalis erit tum terminus Anglis Vestra dabit proles papae immedicabile vulnus Non post idolis genua incuruare licebit Ampliùs aut statuis benè olentia thura cremare Hinc papae incassum furibunda mouebitur ira Dentibus infrendens quaeret tollere prolem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 insidijs structis quae numine coeli line 10 Protectore suo semâ—tis hostibus aeuum Pace colet seros ornabit honoribus annos Pace suos placida ciues sua regna beabit Non tamen in claram bacchari desinet atrox Reginam pus ore vomens virus vt aspis Promittet coelum verbis quis crederet illud Principis obsequium quicunque reliquerit vltrò Cum pacto hoc miseros reuera in Tartara mittat ¶ In this yeare of Grace on the eleuenth of Aprill died pope Gregorie the thirtéenth termed the last line 20 lewd pope of that name one that wanted not the waies to applie his vsurped supremasie to the common abuse of all christendome according to the receiued custome of his predecessors who rather than they would abide anie be it neuer so small an eclipse of their worldlie pompe all the world shal be set togither by the ears in so much that heauen earth shall ring with the noise of the tumults This is he that among other acts by him vndertaken doone after the old Romane or Iulian kalendar was by popish arguments line 30 accused charged with manifold imperfections whereinto by continuance of time it fortuned to fall thrust foorth into the world a reformed kalendar exhibited to his holinesse by one Antonie Lillie doctor of arts physicke wherein by a certeine new cyrcle of epacts by one Aloisius the said Antonies brother germane deuised and to an vndoubted rule of the golden number directed as also to whatsoeuer magnitude or greatnesse of the yeare of the sunne applied all things that in the old kalendar were line 40 faultie may by constant reason and for euer to last be so restored that the kalendar once reformed according to this plot néed neuer hereafter either to be altered or amended Howbeit in commending the perfect reformation of this new kalendar whereby not onelie all things erronious are abolished but also such foresight is had of the time to come that the calculation of this kalendar shall neuer hereafter séeme subiect vnto change an occasion of some demands may hereof arise touching christian libertie line 50 namlie Whether the church be tied to a certeine time according to the reformed calculation astronomicall in the celebration of yearelie festiuals Whether it be lawfull for the bishop of Rome to reforme the time and the kalendar Whether the church of Christ be bound by necessitie of religion to receiue that kalendar at the first originall beginning procéeding from the pope though the same afterwards were set foorth vnder another title Whether it profiteth or be requisit that for the kéeping of peace and concord
c. Executed note 944 a 50 b 10. ¶ Sée Conspirators Fugitiues Noblemen Sandwich and Traitors Recantation of certeine Anabaptists at Paules crosse 1260 b 50. Of Cranmer how detested of him at his death 1131 b 60. ¶ Sée Barnes and Crome Smith Sermon Reconciliation signified by kissing of the pax 78 a 10 Rées king of Wales slaine in battell 20 b 50 Rées ap Meridoc accused and executed 288 b 30 Reformation ought to be no priuat mans but the princes action 1051 b 20 60 Register for christening and burieng c in euerie church to be kept 945 a 40 Religion altered 1090 b 40 1123 b 30. Trouble persecutions for it 1127 a 20. Professors therof persecuted 1132 a 10. It goeth not by age but by truth 1143 a 60 Aduanced note 992 a 60. Beareth the blame is counted the cause of rebellion note 1054 a 10 20. Reformed in Edward the sixts daies 979 b 40 50 c. A booke touching the reformation thereof published 940 b 60. Laid open to great danger 256 a 50 A conference thereabouts with the clergie on both sides 1182 a 40 c 1183 a 10 c. Restored into the English toong 1172 a 10. Commissioners sent abrode to establish it 1184 b 50. None charged with capitall crimes being of a contrarie religion and professing to withstand forren forces 1360 b 30 50 1361 a 10 c. Of Rome established by act of parlement note 519 a 30. ¶ Sée Moonks Treason Religious houses giuen Henrie the eight in parlement 992 b 10. Giuen to Henrie the eight 939 b 40. Uisited 939 a 60. Henrie the eights promises for the well disposing of them 971 a 60. Suppressed 1184 b 60. ¶ Sée Abbeies Reliks ¶ Sée Becket Christ Hales Remes besieged 392 b 60. The citizens thereof saue their corne fields from destroieng by sending vittels to the English host 426 b 10 Remelie ¶ Sée bishop Remelius ¶ Sée Ramelius Remigius bishop of Dorchester depriued of his crosier ring 9 a 40. Remission of sins granted to as manie as would fight against Clement the antipape note 441 a 60 b 60 442 a 40 Rent for a mans owne lands by the yeare paied 8 a 40 Repentance of yoong king Henrie before his death his superstitious deuotion his death buriall 107 a 10. Of rash aduancement note 76 b 30. Of an act past 128 a 10 Of a déed doone not forséeing losses to insue 170 b 30. Too late 193 b 40 note 32 a 60 1104 a 30 517 50. Of William Rufus in his sicknesse note 20 a 50. Of duke William for his crueltie against the English 14 b 60. Despised of a desperat malefactor at his death 1061 a 60. Report that Richard ment to yéeld vp Calis to the French kings hands 462 a 10. False of Henrie the eights death 823 a 30. Occasion of rebellions 941 b 40. Of great disquietnesse 777 a 10. How hurtfull and troblesome 1006 b 10.47 b 50. In the starre-chamber against ladie Elisabeth 1102 a 10 40 Request granted vpon necessarie constraint 2 b 20. Of the commons denieng a subsidie 410 b 10. ¶ Sée Demands and Petitions Reuenge of the Londoners 338 b 50. Of the people for the death of one whome they fauoured 12 b 60. Against the dead bodie of duke William for iniurie past 15 a 50. Of the duke of Austrich vpon king Richard the first 136 a 10 20. Of king Iohn vpon the white moonks 162 a 40. Of Richard the first a bastard for the death of his father being a king note 160 b 60. Sought by the French king for the death of duke Arthur 167 a 60. Of sir Robert de Twing vpon the Romans 214 b 60. Of the lord Mortimer against the Welshmen 263 b 50. Of Edward the first vpon the Scots 312 a 40. Of duke William for the losse of his subiects 10 b 30 Of a bishop in a riotous maner 247 a 60. Of Henrie the third vpon the bishop of Elie 247 a 10 Of wrongs iniuries multiplied 170 a 10 20 Of iniuries 137 b 10. Of remembred grudge 1089 a 40. A notable example to forbere it note 1117 b 40. Of an old grudge note 636 b 10. Upon reuenge note 840 a 20 841 a 10 c. Counselled and pursued note 204 a 40 50 Of an old grudge 210 a 10 Interchangeable 204 b 10 For cuckoldrie 211 b 60. For wast 257 a 10. Noblie taken note 447 b 60. Upon reuenge 446 a 30. With murther 447 a 50. Neglected where it might haue béene executed note 459 b 30 40. Of murther with murther 368 a 50 Taken as occasion serued 340 a 30. Sought for murthering a bishop 12 b 20. Of almightie God vpon lasciuious disordered liuers note 424 a 10. ¶ Sée Enuie Malice and Murther Reseruations and prouisions apostolike 365 a 60 Resignation by compulsion recompensed 1134 b 40 Restitution of townes to king Edward the third by the French king 360 b 60 Rewards how they preuaile and worke with a wicked mind 747 b 30 40. Uerie large offered to the duke of Britaine to betraie the earle of Richmond into Richard the third his hands 747 a 60 b 10. Corrupt a kéeper of a prisoner 152 a 20. ¶ Sée Bribes Gifts Monie Rhods taken by Soliman Ottoman the Turke 876 b 10 c Rendered vp vnto him 877 a 10 20 Rice ap Thomas swereth fealtie and seruice to the earle of Richmond 753 b 40. ¶ Sée Rées Rich lord saileth into Ireland 1258 b 60 Richard the first crowned king of England 117 a 10. In armes against the French king 146 a 60. His bastard sonne Philips reuenge note 160 b 60. His practises to get monie 143 b 60. 144 a 10 20 Marieth the ladie Berengaria 128 a 40. His letter to the states of England for the deposing of the bishop of Elie 132 a 30. Like to haue béene deliuered into the French kings hands 140 a 10. He the French king in armes they talke togither the emperor disuadeth Richard from peace the war is renewed betwixt them they talke togither againe a peace conditionall concluded 148 all Offended with the bishop of Elie lord chancellor 145 b 30 He transporteth ouer into France 144 b 10 Crowned king anew 143 b 30. His grant of allowance to the king of Scots when he came to England 143 a 50. His commandement not obeied 140 b 50. Winneth Notingham castell 142 a 60. Released out of captiuitie 141 a 10. Returneth into England his triumphant receiuing into London 141 b 40 50. Raiseth his siege from Gisors 152 a 10. He and the earle of Tholouse agréed 151 b 30 His lands wasted by certeine Gascoignes 137 a 60. Setteth things to sale for his going to the holie land 120 a 40 His thrée daughters and how he bestowed them in mariage 156 b 20. Charged by the emperor with iniuries doone to the Sicilians 13◠b 20. His wisedome in making his answer 30. Cleared of the murthering of the marquesse of
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
ruffian Marke how the diuâ—ll will noâ— let his organs or instruments let 〈◊〉 either occasioÌ„ or opportunitie to conâ—â—â— most heinous wickedâ—â—sâ—e â— desperat 〈◊〉 An honest man is ashamed to renew old acquaintance with a knaue The match made to murther Arden Simplicitie abused Blacke will maketh no conscience of bloudshed and murther Why Ardens man conspired with the rest to kill his maister One murthering mind mistrusting another doo hinder the action whereabout they agréed The fourth attempt to make Arden awaie disappointed Blacke Will misseth his purpose Ardens wife visiteth succoureth emboldâ—eth and directeth black Will c how to accomplish his bloudie purpose Note here the force of feare and a troubled conscience Blacke Will yet againe disappointed A prâ—pensâ—d quarel against Arden by the conspirators Ardens wiâ—e blacke Will the knot of vilans meet and conclude vpon their former prepensed mischiefe O importunate bloudie minded strumpet The practise to kill Arden is now set abroch Here the confederats wâ—ne their practises The watch-word to the principall murtherer Arden â—lainâ— outright â—lacke will râ—â—â—â—ueth ten pounds for hâ—s reward of Ardens wife 〈◊〉 murdering 〈◊〉 husband 〈◊〉 what 〈…〉 after he mâ—rdeâ—â—ng of hir husband The workers of this mischiefe carie out Arden â—laine into the 〈◊〉 This she did is colour hir wickednesse which by no meanes was â—â—â—â—seable Arden a coueâ—â—â—â— man and â—â—â—â—errer of his priuat 〈◊〉 bâ—fore common 〈◊〉 Ardens dead bodie is descried by one of his acquaintance Footsteps 〈◊〉 alongst from the dead bodie of Arden to his dwelling house A péece of Ardens heare and his bloud spilâ— in the house espied as also a bloudie knife and a clouâ— found Some of Ardens bloud vpon Mosbies pursse The principals of this murder fled awaie Bradshaw as vniustlie accused as his simplicitie was shamefullie abused Innocencie no barre against execution Note how these malefactors suffered punishment Blacke Will burnt aâ— Flishing A wonder touching the print of Ardens dead bodie two yeares after he was slaine God heareth the teares of the oppressed and taketh vengeance note an example in Arden A parlement Fooke of common praier confirmed Abr. Fl. ex I.S. pag. 1049. Sweating sickenesse Iohn 〈◊〉 Of this 〈◊〉 died Henrie â— Charles 〈◊〉 of Charles Brandon the elder first 〈◊〉 the yoongâ—â— after so thâ—â— they both 〈◊〉 dukes of Suffolke Rich. Graâ—â—â—â— Remedie â—gainst the danger of the sweating sicknesse The imbâ—sing of the coine Two â—aâ—les of moniâ— Creation of honorable estates I.S. pag. 1050. The duked Summerâ—et againe apprehended and committed 〈◊〉 the toâ—â—â— The duke arreigned both of treason and â—â—lonie The people â—â—pposing the duke to be â—â—â—â—re gaue a great showt 〈◊〉 ioie The duke condemed to 〈◊〉 for felonie The duke of Summerset condemned returneth to the tower The people murmur at the dukes condemnatioÌ„ Policie Abr. Fl. ex I. Stow 1055. The shiriffeâ— lord of misrule The executioÌ„ of the duke of Summerset Meanes to restraine the multitude from the dukes execution Iohn Fox The dukes behauiour as his death Great feare among the people assembled on the tower hill Rich. Grafton Iohn Stow. Abr. Fl. ex Io. Foxi martyrologio A sudden noise feare of the people at the death of the duke 〈◊〉 Summerset * Namelie Iohn Fox the writer of theâ— report The like storie you shall read of Caius Marius in Valerius Maximus the second booke and fift chapter The great fauour of the people to the duke oâ— Summerset Doctor Cox the dukes 〈…〉 â—x Fl. out of 〈◊〉 Fox in 〈…〉 and Monuments The godlie 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 of Sumâ—erset The duke of Summerset described * Who as it is supposed and proued since saith Sleidan was vniustlie condemned The collectioÌ„ of FraÌ„cis Thin in the yeare 1585. Guendoline Martia Eldred Emma Harold Odo bishop of Baieux and William Fitzosborne earle of Hereford Lanfranke archbishop of Canturburie Sir Richard Lucie chéefe iustice of England Hugh Pudsie bishop of Durham Walter de Constantijs archbishop of Roane Hubert archbishop of Canturburie Eleanor the widow of Henrie the second Geffreie Fitzpeter earle of Essex 〈…〉 Marshall earle of Penbroke Peter de lâ— Roches Hubert de Burow earle of Kent Walter Greie archbishop of Yorke Eleanor wiâ—â— to king Henrie * 〈…〉 religious â—â—use in â—â—â—pshire as 〈◊〉 by some â—â—pposed Boniface archbishop of Canturburie Boniface archbishop of Canturburie Gilbert de Clare Edmund 〈◊〉 of Corneâ—â—â—â— Edward prince of Wales Piers de Gauestone erle of Cornewâ—ll Iohn de Drokensford Henrie Lacie earle of Lincolne Gilbert de Clare earle of Glocester Edward prince of Wales Walter Reinolds archbishop of Canturburie Iohn of Eltham earle of Cornewall Edward the Blacke prince Iohn Stratford Lionell duke of Clarence Henrie lord Persie Thomas of Woodstocke Iohn of Gant duke of Lancaster William Courtneie bishop of London Thomas Beauchampe earle of Warwike Thomass Arundell bishop of Elie. Edmund of Langleie duke of Yorke Ione de Namures widow to Henrie the fourth Iohn de Plantagenet duke of Bedford Humfreie duke of Glocester Thomas Beaufort duke of Excester Richard Beauchampe earle of Warwike Richard Plantagenet duke of Yorke This was doone 1561 counting the yeare to begin at Christmas as some doo or at Ianuarie as others dâ—â— George Plantagenet duke of Clarence Richard Plantagenet duke of Glocester A digression concerning the conestables of England nor mentioned before in pag. 865. Nigellus de Oilie conestable of England The foundation of the cathedral church 〈◊〉 Norwich Robert de Oilie constable of England The foundation of the abbeie of Osneie or Orosneie in the yeare of Christ 1129 being about the thirtih yeare of Henrie the first as some write Katharine quéene of England Abr. Fl. ex I. S. 1051. Curteis alderman of London committed to ward for vnreuerend words and signes to the lord chancellor Anno Reg. 6. Sir Rafe Uane other executed House blowne vp with gunpowder Muster of horssemen before the king in Gréenwich parke Dukes Marquesses Earles Lords Rich. Grafâ—on Doctor Ridleie preached before the king mercie and charitie The verie report of bishop Ridleie wherin we may 〈◊〉 what fruits followed vpon his sermon Ergo the hearing of the word preached is profitable A most noble and vertuâ—us saieng of king Edward to bishop Ridleie The citizens of London mooued to be assistants in this charitable action The readines of the lord maior to prefer this good déed Degrées of poore Christes hospitall S Thomas hospitall Bridewell Reliefe for the decaied householder and lazer K. Edward the sixt founder of the hospitals in LoÌ„don A blessed king Allusio ad etymon nominis Eaduerdi Sir William Chester Iohn Calthrop draper Richard Castel shoomaker I. Stow. 1053. A monster Great fishes Sebastian Gabato Thrée mariages betwéene great estates The euill end whereto the knitting of these couples in mariage tended The kings feare fell out to be true The kings sickenesse increaseth An euill minded consultation of councellors Sir Iames Hales the od man The death of king Edward the sixt The commendation
C. The receiuing of the quéene into Suffolke and Norffolke The number of gentlemen that receiued the quéene into Suffolke Persons of worship in Suffolke that feasted hir highnesse during hir abode amongst them Norffolke incited by the example of Suffolke to giue the quéene roiall interteinment What order was taken in Norwich for the receiuing and recreating of the quéene The maior of Norwich with his attendants set forth to receiâ—â— the quéene The builder 〈◊〉 Norwich â—astell repreâ—â—nted The founder 〈◊〉 Blanch Flowre staiâ—â— person 〈◊〉 meét the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pro 〈◊〉 fratriâ—â—â— obâ—estatio Henricus quartus ciuitati Nordouicensi princeps munificentssimus Praetoris pâ—ose suâ—sque tratribus quà m significanter facta oâ—atio The maior speaketh in his owne and his brethren the alderaiens behalfe Henrie the fourth a most bountiâ—uâ—l prince to the citie of Norwich A most dutifull submission Wherein the dutie of subiects chieflie consisteth The quéens maiesties acceptable answer vttered by hir owne mouth in person Gurguntius his spéech cut off by a showre of raine Gurguntius the elâ—est son of Belinus The ancientnesse of Norwich citie by the founders age may be gathered King Henrie the seuenth and king Henrie the eight Gurguntius yeeldeth his estate to the quéene S. Stephans gates in Norwich richlie beautified The vnion of the white rose and the red The boies speach at master Pecks doore The quéene liked this deuise The first pageant was in S. Stephans parish in this manâ—r How the pageant was beautified with representation of the mysteries of the citie 1. Pointing to the spinners 2. Pointing to the loomes 3. Pointing to the workes The second pageant with the situation of the same and what representations bare * Which is hir owne badge These musicians were inclosed in the chambers of the said pageant ratling skies The citie of Norwich speaketh to the quéenes maiâ—stie How Norwich is affected to the quéenes highnesse Then spake Debora the second person The application of the former examples Then spake Iudith the third person The applicatioÌ„ of the former examples Then Hester spake the fourth person The application of the former exaÌ„ples Then 〈◊〉 Martia the fift person A dittie soong to soft musicke at the queénes entrance vnder the gate The place of the queénes abode during the time of hir tariance in Norwich The manner of Mercuries coch message to the queene requesting hir highnesse to come abroad and see what pastime the gods had prouided for so noble a prince He reuealeth what he is by office Rare sights if anie such were as Mercurie nameth Mercurie is attentiue to his charge The charge giuen by Iupiter to Mercurie for the recreation of the quéene The quéenes rare estate described The description of Mercuries coch The description of Mercurie his attire abiliments c. The deuisor ventureth the hazard of a shew The whole manner of the deuise or shew Dame Chastitie hir maids incounter with Cupid What associats Cupid found out to kéepe him companie Chastitie and hir maids matched togither c. Quinam oratoreâ— antiqua aetate praeclarissima laudatissimi extiterunt Beneficiorum à regia maiestate collatorum agnitio cum obsequio c. Monumentum antiquum regiae maiestati exhibitum Iosephus insigniter lauâ—â—atus neque 〈◊〉 Regia maiesâ—aâ— in omnibus Iosepho aequiparatâ— What orators were best commended in former times of best renowme 〈…〉 for the same A monument of antiquitie presented to hir maiestie Ioseph singularlie commended not without cause The quéenes maiestie compared to Ioseph c. The quéenes maiestie is banketted at the earle of Surreis O singular affabilitie of a prince to put awaie a subiects bashfulnesse Egregiae necnon impares Anglig dotes Henricus Edouardus reges necnon Elisabetha regina praecipui benefactores agnoscuntur Pares gratias pro imparibus beneficijs agi non posse Angliam meritò alterum orbem nuncupari Nordouicensium veraeuet ex inti puris medullas prouenicus laetitia quam regiam maiestatem nideanâ— The excellent and â—â—comparable blessings of England King Henrie king Edward and quéene Elisabeth acknowledged speciall benefactors Condigne thanks vnpâ—â—sible to be giuen England deseruedlie called another world Their vnfrigned reioising to see hir maiestie The quéenes high commendation of master Limberts oration The description of an exâ—â—llent and princelie maske Mercuries message to the quéene Then marched they about againe and that done Iupiter spake to the quéene in this sort and then gaue hir â—nding wand of whales â—in 〈◊〉 wrought Then Iuno spake whose gâ—â—t was a purse curiouslie wrought Then after they had marched againe about Mars gaue his gift which was a faire paire of kniues and said Then spake Uenus whose gift was a white doue The song of Apollo to the quéene Pallas then speaketh and presenteth hir gift which was a booke of wisdome Then Neptune spake his gift was a great artificiall fish and in the bellie of it a pike which he threw out before hir maiestie Diana presented a bow and arrowes nocked and headed with siluer hir speach was this Cupido his speach his gift an arrow of gold The quéenes behauiour after all this welcomming The deuisor is commanded to be readie with his shewes to delight the queene A proper deuise and verie deâ—ectable of a caue twelue water nymphes c. What was deuised to be done by the nymphs at the quéens comming néere the water side The shew of Manhood and Desert with the furniture declared A bloodie fight and yet harmlesse doone by art All the preparation disappointed by thunder and raine The cities losâ—e by occasion of this tempest The queens 〈…〉 Norwic◠〈◊〉 takeâ— A dittie soong in a verie swéet voice Fridaies 〈◊〉 vpon the remoouing of 〈◊〉 court A pleasant deuise to make the quéene laugh The deuisers â—â—oings well taken of the queene c. Maister maior 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 another orâ—â—ion is wilâ—ed 〈◊〉 forbeare 〈◊〉 and 〈…〉 The maior of Norwich knighted The quéenes words at hâ—r departing Gentlemen of Suffolke Norffolke knighted The quéenes maiestie departeth from Norwich and is now interteined bâ— the waie The vniuersiâ—ie of Cambridge present a faire and statelie cup to the quéene T.C. The lord of Leicesters bountifull interteinement Ad solem nubibus obductum die lunae 18. Augusti 1578. Eiusdem in eandem To the sâ—nne couerâ—d with cloudes vpon monâ—aâ—â— being the 1â— of August 15â—â— By the same concerning the queene Mathew Hamont burnt at Norwich The heresies that he held An Englishman made a locke and a keie weieng but one wheaâ— corne The bishop 〈◊〉 Winchester deceased Iohn Wolton bishâ—p of Excester Werstanus Putta Eadulphus Ethelgarus Algarus Alfwoldus Alfwolfus Sidemannus Alphredus Alwolfus Arnoldus Leuigus or Leuingus Leofricus Osbertus or Osbernus William Warlewast Robert Chichester Robert Warlewast Bartholomeus Iscanus Iohn the chanter Henrie Marshall Simon de Apulia William Brewer Richard Blondie Walter Bronescomâ— Peter Quiuill Thomas Bitton Walter Stapledon Iames Barkeleie Iohn Grandesson Thomas Brentingham Edmund Stafford Iames
exhorâ—atorie speeches to the monsieur preparing and setling himselfe to Codward The monsieur departure out of this world like a lamp whose light 〈◊〉 for want oâ— oile Maruellous 〈◊〉 of inward loue 〈…〉 affectioÌ„ 〈…〉 the monâ—â—eur departed Theâ—e be verie 〈◊〉 〈…〉 â—â—â—eed For he was preacher c to the mounsieur and lost dimidium animae suae vp his death Ground remoued Eight persons killed by the fall of a scaffold at the beaâ—â— garden a warning to prophaners of the sabboth daie Eob. Hâ—ss in Psal. 50. WilliaÌ„ Bruistar and Marie Breame smothered to death A man and a woman hanged at Shoo-lane end The gunpowder house in Fetterlane blowne vp Palatine of Siradia in Poland came into England Elias Thackar and Iohn Coping hanged at Berrie Thomas Ratclife earle of Sussex deceased * I. Stow. Edmund Grindall archbishop of Canturburie deceassed Abr. Hart. in R.L. Iustice Randolfe his charitie of one thousand nine hundred pounds â—â—â—roners apprehended and executed A briefe description of Clinton Atkiâ—son and his parentage Companie libertie bring manie to miserie An heretike Iohn Lewes burned at Norwich Sée pag. 1299. Palatine of Siradia in Poland returned A description of Albertus his person apparell c. * At Oxenford where he termed the Latine that he spake Militare Latinum that is souldiers Latine The lord Norris his daughter maried to sir A. Paulet his eldest sonne The welcomming of Albertus to the vniuersitie of Oxenford with a partile description of his interteinment Raine of rose-water and haile of sugar confects c. Doctor Whitegift archbishop of Canturburie * Allusio ad D. archiep nomen Ab. Hart. quondam Cant. Trinitarius A monstrous fish taken in Norffolke Slade and Bodie executed An Reg. 26. Horssestealers hanged ten at once in Smithfield Desmonds head set on London bridge Nantwich in Cheshire burnt Someruile Arden and others arreigned Arden 〈◊〉 This booke for the time that it was in request set people toongs on woorke and filled their minds with strange conceipts Why it was called the great coniunction Touching the yeare of woonders gathâ—red to be 1588. â—â—ouitius Regiomontanus The great yeare of 1588 is more talked of than feared When people saw nothing in the aire as they looked for they fell to derision Cartar executed for printing a traitorous booke A declaration of the fauorable dealing of hir maiesties commissioners for the examining of traitâ—rs To the reader The slanderous report concerning the extreame vse of yâ— racke conuinced Campion and Briant were too fauourablie vsed and far vnder the proportion of their treasonable offenses The curst stubborne hart of Briant Ergo it is false which the infamous libeller hath â—ast abrode Relligio 〈…〉 mala vita 〈◊〉 This is consonant to the report set downe before in the discouerie of Campion pag. 1325. What allegigiâ—nce these fellows meant to her maiestie may appéere by these words of Campion being the mouth oâ— the â—est As namelie Campion of whom an infamous libeller reporteth in commendation forsooth of his constancie Non secreta mee iorius licâ—torâ— fatebor All offendors couer their faults with contrarie causes Rebels doo most dangerouslie couer their faults Rebellion in England and Ireland The rebels vanquished by the quéens power Some of the rebels fled into forreine countries Rebels pretend religion for their defense Kingleaders of rebels Charles Neuill earle of Westmerland and Thomas Stukeleie The effect of the popes bull against the queene of England The practises of the traitors rebels and fugitiues to execute the 〈◊〉 Seminaries erected to nursse seditious fugitiues The seminarie fugitiues come secretlie into the relme to induce the people to obeie the popes bull Sowers of sâ—dition taken coâ—â—ented executed 〈◊〉 trâ—ason The seditious treitors condemned by the ancient lawes of the realme made two hundred yeres past Persons condemned spared â—rom execution vpon refusall of their treasonable opinions The forren traitors continue sending of persons to mooue sedition in the realme The seditious 〈◊〉 labour to bring the realme into a warre externall and domestâ—â—â—ll The dutie of the quéene and all hir gouernors to God and their countrie is to repell practises of rebellion None charged with capitall crimes being of a contrarie religion and professing to withstand forreine forces Names of diuerse ecclesiasticall persons professing contrarie religion neuer charged with capitall crimes The late fauorers of the popes authoritie were the chiefe aduersaries of the same by their doctrines and writings A great number of laie persons of liuelood being of a contrarie religion neuer charged with capitall crime No person charged with capitall 〈◊〉 for the onelie maintenance of the popes supremasie Foure points of treason Such coÌ„demned onelie for treason as mainteine the effects of the popes bull against hir maiestie and the realme Doctor Sanders maintenance of the popes bull The persons that suffered death were condemned for treason not for religion The diuersitie betwixt truth and falshood A full proofe that the mainteiners of the bull are directlie guiltie of 〈◊〉 Doctor Mortons secret ambassage froÌ„ Rome to 〈◊〉 the rebellion in the north Persons and Campion are offendors as doctor Sanders is for allowance of the bull Faculties granted to Persons and Campion by pope Gregorie the thirtéenth Anno 1580. By what authoritie Campion came into England Harts confession of the interpretation of the bull of Pius Quintus A conclusion that all the infamous books against the quéene and the realme are false Difference of the small numbers that haue béene executed in the space of fiue and twentie yeares from the great numbers in fiue yeares of quéene Maries reigne An aduertisement vnto all princes of countries abroad The authoritie proclamed by the pope not warranted by Christ or by the two apostles Peter and Paul Pope Hildebrand the first that made warre against the emperor An. Do. 1074. The iudgement of God against the popes false erected emperor Pope Gregorie the seuenth deposed by Henrie the fourth Henrie the fift Frederike the first Frederike the second Lewes of Bauar emperors Whatsoeuer is lawfull for other princes souereignes is lawfull for the queene and crowne of England The title of vniuersall â—â—shop is a preamble of antichrist Rome sacked and the pope Clement takeÌ„ prisoner by the emperors armie King Henrie the second of France his edicts against the pope and his courts of Rome The besieging of Rome and the pope by the duke of Alua and king Philips armie Quéene Marie and cardinall Poole resisted the pope D. Peito a begging frier The kings of christendome neuer suffer popes to abridge their titles or rights though they suffer them to haue rule ouer their people The quéene of England may not suffer the pope by anie meanes to make rebellions in hir realme Additâ—menâ—â— to the popes martyrologâ— The strange ends of Iames earle of Desmond D. Sanders Iames Fitzmoris Iohn of Desmond Iohn Someruile The prosperitie of England during the popes cursses Reasons to persuade by reason the
spoiled Also all such persons as were prisoners in Newgate Ludgate Creplegate or in any other prison about the citie for the quarrell of the barons warre were set at libertie The legat perceiuing such disorder accurssed generallie line 40 all such as thus troubled the kings peace shewing themselues enimies to the king and the realme He also interdicted all the churches within the citie and about it licencing onlie diuine seruice to be said in houses of religion and without ringing of any bell or singing and whilest seruice was in hand he appointed the church doores to be shut bicause none of them that stood accurssed should enter and be present The king in the meane time laie at Cambridge to defend the countries about from iniuries which were dailie attempted by them that held the I le of line 50 Elie against him of whome at one time he distressed a certeine number at Ramsey And bicause now after that the earle was thus come to London another companie of them brake out to rob and spoile and were stopped by the kings power from entring into the I le againe they repaired streight to London dooing mischeefe inough by the waie The earle of Glocester greatlie incouraged by their assistance fell in hand to assaile the tower within line 60 the which the popes legat Othobone and diuerse other were inclosed taking vpon them to defend it against the earle and all his puissance The king vpon the first newes of the earle of Glocester his commotion ingaged the shrines of saints and other iewels and relikes of the church of Westminster vnto certeine merchants for great summes of monie with the which sending into France and Scotland he reteined men of warre to come to his aid Herevpon his sonne prince Edward came to his succour vnto Cambridge bringing thither with him thirtie thousand able men out of the north parts Scots and other The king then leauing a conuenient number to defend Cambridge marched from thence toward Windsore After his comming thither his armie dailie increased The earle of Glocester and his complices began to feare the matter and sent to him for peace which could not be granted wherevpon they appointed to giue him batell vpon Houndslow heath The king comming thither in the morning found no man there to resist him and therefore after he had staied there a certeine space he marched foorth and came to Stratford where he was lodged in the abbeie his hoast incamped and laie at Ham and therabouts This chanced about three weekes after Easter The souldiers which laie in London and in Southwarke did much hurt about in the countrie of Southerie else-where They also spoiled the towne of Westminster and the parish-church there but the moonks and the goods belonging to the abbeie they touched not but made hauocke in the kings palace drinking vp destroieng his wine breaking the glasse windowes and defacing the buildings most disorderlie yea scarse forbearing to set the house on fire Also there were of them that brake vp robbed certeine houses in London of the which misgouerned persons there were foure taken that ware the cognisance of the earle of Darbie whome the earle of Glocester caused to be put in sackes and so throwne into the Thames As the king thus laie at Stratford there came vnto him from the parts of beyond the sea the earle of Bullongne and S. Paule with two hundred men of armes and their suit of other souldiers Also there ariued in the Thames a fléet of great vessels fraught with Gascoins and laie afore the tower abiding the kings pleasure ¶ The earle of Glocester had caused bulworks and barbicans to be made betwixt the tower and the citie and also in sundrie places where need required ditches and trenches were cast so that the citie was stronglie fortified Howbeit now that the said erle and his complices perceiued themselues in manner as besieged they sought for peace And by mediation of the king of Almaine the lord Philip Basset and the legat Othobone the same was granted the ordinance of Killingworth in euerie condition obserued The Londoners were pardoned of their trespasse for receiuing the earle though they were constreined to paie a thousand marks to the king of Romans in recompense of the hurts doone to him in burning of his house at Thistleworth Whilest the earle of Glocester kept the citie of London against the king one Henrie de Guderesch steward to the said earle departing from London came to the manour house of Geffrey saint Leger at Offeld which he burnt and turning from thence came to Brickhill The lord Reignold Graie that held of the knights part aduertised hereof followed him with his retinue of men of warre and comming vpon his enimie at vnwares tooke the said Henrie and slue thirtie of the chéefest of his companie some he tooke howbeit manie escaped But now to our purpose By this agréement concluded betwixt the king the earle of Glocester he also accepted to his grace the lord Iohn Eineley the lord Nicholas de Segraue the lord William Marmion the lord Richard de Graie the lord Iohn Fitz Iohn and the lord Gilbert de Lucie with others so that all parts of the realme were quieted sauing that those in the Isle of Elie would not submit themselues yet at length by mediation of prince Edward they were reconciled to the king and all the fortresses and defenses within that Isle by them made were plucked downe and destroied But it appeareth by other writers that immediatlie after the agreement concluded betwixt the earle of Glocester prince Edward the kings sonne by setting workemen in hand to make a caussie through the fens with boords and hurdels entred vpon them that kept the I le of Elie so that manie of them got out and fled to London vnto the said earle of Glocester and other their complices The residue submitted themselues as the lord Wake Simon Montfort the yoonger the Pechees and other vpon condition to be pardoned of life and member and further that prince Edward should be a meane to his father to receiue them into fauour But by other it may rather seeme that some of them kept and defended line 10 themselues within that I le till after the agreement made betwixt the king and the earle of Glocester By order of which agreement there were foure bishops and eight lords chosen foorth which had béene first nominated at Couentrie to order and prescribe betwixt the king and the disherited men a forme of peace and redemption of their lands And so in the feast of All saints proclamation was made of a full accord and agréement and what euerie man should line 20 paie for his ransome for redéeming his offense against the king In the octaues of S. Martine the king held a parlement at Marleborough where the liberties conteined in the booke called Magna charta were cōfirmed