that by force which otherwise he could not obteine by quiet meanes ¶ This yéere the people paid a fifteenth to the king of all their temporall goods which was said to be granted first to his father The same yeere departed this life Iohn Breton line 30 bishop of Hereford who being verie expert in the lawes of the land compiled a booke of them called Le Breton The 11 of September a generall earthquake chanced betwixt the first houre and the third of the same daie the church of S. Michaell on the hill without Glastenburie was therwith throwne down to the ground After this it rained bloud in the countrie of Wales as a prodigious euill token to that nation with whose bloud shortlie after that region was in manie places moistened and stained For as line 40 it chanced shortlie after Leolin the sonne of Griffin came to haue the gouernment of Wales who partlie to raise new seditions in England and partlie to purchase him friendship and aliance in France sent vnto king Philip requiring of him that he might haue in marriage the ladie Eleanor daughter to Simon Montfort earle of Leicester the which togither with hir mother and brother Emerike remained as banished persons in France The French king granted his request and sent hir vnder the conduct of line 50 hir said brother to be conueied into Wales vnto Leolin who had promised to marrie hir But yer they approched to Wales at the I le of Sillie both the brother sister were taken by foure ships of Bristow the owners whereof that so tooke them sent them vnto king Edward When Leolin vnderstood that his wife was taken from him by the waie as she was comming he was not a little wroth and incontinentlie began to make warre vpon king Edwards subiects that bordered neere vnto Wales killing the line 60 people spoiling their goods and burning vp their townes and houses on each side Herewith the king of England was so mooued that although the said Leolin made sute for peace and offred no small sum of monie to haue the daughter of the earle of Leicester his fianced wife deliuered to him yet would not the king by any meanes consent to that marriage nor receiue any monie of him except he would restore vnto the right owners such lands as he had inuaded and got into his possession and further repaire such castels as he had destroied Herevpon grew no small grudge betwixt the Welshmen and Englishmen so that to represse the inuasion of the enimies in the parts towards Bristow Mountgomerie and Chester the king sent three hundred men in armes on horssebacke In the quindene of Easter the king departing from Westminster hasted towards Wales with a mightie power and caused the courts of the excheker and of his bench to remooue vnto Shrewesburie that they might be néere vnto him making forward with all conuenient speed to come to the aid and succour of his liege people Hervpon entring into Wales he tooke the castell of Rutland and sent into Westwales a valiant capteine named Paine de Camureâ—js who with fire and sword wasted that countrie so that the people offering themselues to the kings peace deliuered vnto the said Paine the castell of Stridewie with the countrie adioining Then Leolin the prince of Wales perceiuing that he was not able to resist the kings power and knowing that if he did attempt the conflict against him the danger would redound to himself his traine did as th' old verse counselleth Peruigili cura semper meditare futura and therefore made suit for peace in so much that finallie it was agreed that commissioners for both parts should talke concerning certeine articles and whatsoeuer they concluded aswell the king as the said Leolin should hold the same for firme and stable The king appointed one of his commissioners to wit the lord Robert de Tiptost to take an oth for him authorised the said Robert Anthonie Beke and frier William de Southampton prior prouinciall of the friers preachers commissioners nominated on his behalfe to receiue the like oth of the said Leolin Which Leolin appointed commissioners for his part Tuder ap Edeuenet and Grono ap Helin the which commissioners with good deliberation concluded vpon certeine points and articles of which the principall were as followeth First that the said Leolin should set at libertie all line 1 prisoners which he held in captiuitie for the king of Englands cause freelie and without all challenge Secondlie that to haue peace and the kings of line 2 Englands fauour he should giue vnto the said king fiftie thousand pounds sterling the daies of the paiment whereof to rest in the kings will and pleasure Thirdlie that the land of the foure cantreds without line 3 all contradiction should remaine for euer to the king and his heires with all lands conquered by the king and his people the I le of Anglesey excepted which I le was granted to the prince so that he should paie for the same yearelie the summe of one thousand marks and fiue thousand marks for an income Prouided that if the prince chanced to die without issue then the said Ile to reuert againe into the kings hands Fourthlie that the prince shall come to Rothelan line 4 or Rothland as it is commonlie called there to doo fealtie to the king and before his comming thither he should be absolued and haue the interdiction of his lands released and at his being at Rothelan a daie shall be appointed him by the king for his comming to London there to doo his homage Herevpon was order taken for his safe conduct aswell in his comming to Rothelan as to London There be that write that he was appointed to come vnto London at the feast of the natiuitie of our Lord. Fiftlie it was couenanted that all the homages line 5 of Wales should remaine to the king except onelie of fiue barons which inhabited néere vnto the castell of Snowdon for otherwise the said Leolin could not conuenientlie call himselfe prince except he haâ— some barons vnder him Sixtlie that he should receiue the title and name of line 6 prince so long as he liued and after his deceasse the homages of those fiue barons should reuert to the king and to his heires foreuer line 7 Seuenthlie the king granted vnto the said Leolin the lands that belonged 〈◊〉 his brother Dauid for â—â—arme of the said Leolins life and in recompense thereof was contented to saâ—â—fie the said Dauid with other lands in some other place the which after the decease of the said Leolin 〈◊〉 Dauid should reuert to the king and his heires For the assurance of which articles and couenants the prince deliuered for hostages ten persons of the best in Wales which he could get without imprisonment line 10 disheriting or terme of deliueraâ—â—e and of euerie cantred twentie persons of the best and most sufficient to be chosen by such
his place being the threescore and third archbishop of that see ¶ In the moneth of Nouember in the I le of Portland not farre from the towne of Weimouth was seene a cocke comming out of the sea hauing a great crest vpon his head and a great red beard and legs of halfe a yard long year 1457 he stood on the water crowed foure times and euerie time turned him about and beckened with his head toward the north the south and the west and was of colour like a fesant when he had crowed thrée times he vanished awaie And shortlie after were taken at Erith within twelue miles of London foure great and woonderfull fishes whereof one was called Mors marina the second a sword fish the other two were whales The French nation hearing of the ciuall dissention within the realme here and for an old grudge séeking our annoie two nauies appointed they to inuade the townes standing vpon the riuage of the sea The capteins of the one fléet was William lord Pomiers and of the other sir Peter Bressie a great ruler in Normandie These two capteins taking their course out of the mouth of Saine seuered themselues the one westward and the other eastward which was sir Peter Bressie who sailing alongst the coasts of Sussex and Kent durst not yet take land but staid in the Downes and there hauing by espiall perfect notice that Sandwich was neither peopled nor fortified because that a little before the rulers of the towne were from thense departed for to auoid the plague which sore there afflicted and siue the people he entered the hauen spoiled the towne and after such poore stuffe as he there found rifled and taken he fearing an assemblie of the countrie shortlie gat him awaie The lord Pomiers likewise tooke his course westward by night burning certeine houses in Fulnaie with a little pillage retired into Britaine The Scots also busie like flies where no flap to fraie them entered into Northumberland king Iames the second being there in person burned certeine poore houses and little cottages but in the verie middest of their great enterprise they hearing of the duke of Yorkes marching toward them with a great host with much paine and no gaine in all hast returned to their countrie But now to passe ouer outward inuasions to intreat of the dailie disorder amongest the nobles at home So was it that a great conflict fell betwéene the lord Egremond the sonnes of the erle of Salisburie in which manie persons were slaine a great number hurt The lord Egremond séeking to get awaie but could not by force was taken brought before the councell where the king and the queene to shew themselues indifferent adiudged him to paie to the earle of Salisburie a great summe of monie and for his heinous offense against the lawes was committed to Newgate in London out of which he escaped to the great trouble of the shiriffes The queene nothing more séeking than the ouerthrow of the duke of Yorke and his friends and perceiuing she could attempt nothing against him néere to London because the duke was in more estimation there than either the king hir husband or hir selfe therefore she caused the king to make a progresse into Warwikeshire for his health and recreation And so in semblance of hawking and hunting came to Couentree where diuerse waies were studied to fulfill the queenes desire for the accomplishing whereof the duke of Yorke the earles of Salisburie and Warwike whose destructions was chieflie sought were sent for to Couentrée by the kings letters vnder his priuie seale to which place the said lords without suspicion of danger obedientlie resorted But being admonished by secret friends what was intended against them they by flight auoided that danger where otherwise their liues had béene lost without all remedie And so without bidding anie farewell they departed from the court the duke vnto Wigmoore in the marches of Wales the earle line 10 of Salisburie to his castell of Middleham in the north and the earle of Warwike sailed to Calis The bodies of which thrée noble personages though thus separated yet their hearts knit in one and still went messengers letters betwixt them to communicat their deuises and giue signification of their minds and purposes In this yéere Reginald Peacoke bishop of Chichester abiured at Paules crosse all his bookes burnt and he himselfe commanded to keepe his owne house line 20 during his naturall life because that he verie well learned and better stomached began to mooue questions not priuilie but opâ—nlie in the vniuersities concerning the annates Peter pence and other iurisdictions authorities which the pope vsurped and not onelie put foorth such questions but declared his mind and opinion in the same Some saie he held that spirituall persons by Gods law ought to haue no temporall possessions nor that personall tithes by line 30 Gods law were due nor that christian men were to beléeue in the catholike church nor in the communion of saints but to beleeue that a catholike church and a communion of saints there is and that he held how the vniuersall church might erre in matters of faith and that it is not of necessitie to beléeue all that which is ordeined by generall councels nor all that which they call the vniuersall church ought to be allowed and holden of all christian people Moreouer that it was méet to euerie man to vnderstand line 40 the scriptures in the true and plaine sense none bound to glosses of anie other sense vpon anie necessitie of saluation ¶ But because I find a larger report héereof elsewhere and as more methodicall so also as it seemeth in such forme as it was Res gesta a déed doone it shall not be amisse to insert the same This bishop was a secular doctor of diuinitie that had labored manie yéeres to translate the holie scripture into English was accused to haue passed the bounds of diuinitie and christian beléefe in certeine line 50 articles of the which he was conuict before the archbishop of Canturburie and other bishops and clearks and after vtterlie abiured reuoked and renounced those articles openlie at Paules crosse in his mother toong on the fourth day of December as followeth The forme of his abiuration IN the name of the trinitie father sonne and holie-ghost I Reinold Pecocke bishop of Chichester vnworthie of mine line 60 owne power and will without anie maner coaction or dread confesse and knowledge that I here before this time presuming of my naturall wit and preferring my iudgement and naturall reason before the new and the old testament and the authoritie determination of our mother holie church haue held written and taught otherwise than the holie Romane and vniuersall church teacheth preacheth or obserueth And one is against the true catholike and apostles faith I haue written taught and published manie diuerse
manie a plage which otherwise might haue béene aucided All which battels togither with those that were tried betweene Edward the fourth after his inthronization and Henrie the sixt after his extermination as at Exham Doncaster and Teukesburie are remembred by Anglorum praelia in good order of pithie poetrie as followeth Nobilitata inter plures haec sunt loca caede Albani fanum Blorum borealis Ampton Banbrecum campis Barnettum collibus haerens Experrectorum pagus fanúmque seâ—undò Albani propior Scoticis confinibus Exam Contiguóque istis habitantes rure coloni Moerentes hodie quoties proscindit arator Arua propinqua locis dentale reuellere terra Semisepulta virûm sulcis Cerealibus ossa Moesta execrantur planctu ciuile duellum Quo periere â—ominum plus centum millia caesa Nobile Todcastrum clades accepta coegit Millibus enectis ter denis nomen habere Vltima postremae locus est Teuxburia pugnae Oppidulis his accedens certissima testis Bello intestino sluuios fluxisse cruoris But now before we procéed anie further sith the reigne of king Henrie maie séeme here to take end we will specifie some such learned men as liued in his time Iohn Leland surnamed the elder in respect of the other Iohn Leland that painefull antiquarie of our time wrote diuerse treatises for the instruction of grammarians Iohn Hainton a line 10 Carmelit or white frier as they called them of Lincolne Robert Colman a Franciscane frier of Norwich and chancellor of the vniuersitie of Oxenford William White a priest of Kent professing the doctrine of Wickliffe and forsaking the order of the Romane church married a wife but continued his office of preaching till at length in the yeare 1428 he was apprehended and by William bishop of Norwich and the doctors of the friers mendicants charged with thirtie articles which he mainteined contrarie line 20 to the doctrine of the Romane church and in September the same yeare suffered death by fire Alexander Carpentar a learned man set foorth a booke called Destructorium vitiorum wherein he inueieth against the prelats of the church of that time for their crueltie vsed in persecuting the poore and godlie christians Richard Kendall an excellent grammarian Iohn Bate warden of the white friers in Yorke but borne in the borders of Wales an excellent philosopher and a diuine he was also séene in the line 30 Gréeke toong a thing rare in those daies Peter Basset esquier of the priuie chamber to king Henrie the fift whose life he wrote Iohn Pole a priest that wrote the life of saint Walburgh daughter to one Richard a noble man of this realme of England which Walburgh as he affirmeth builded our ladie church in Antwerpe Thomas Ismaelit a monke of Sion Walter Hilton a Chartreaux monke also of Shiene either of those wrote certeine treatises full of superstition as Iohn Bale noteth line 40 Thomas Walden so called of the towne where he was borne but his fathers surname was Netter a white frier of London and the thrée and twentith prouinciall gouernour of his order a man vndoubtedlie learned and thoroughlie furnished with cunning of the schooles but a sore enimie to them that professed the doctrine of Wickliffe writing sundrie great volumes and treatises against them he died at Rone in Normandie the second of Nouember in line 50 the yeare one thousand foure hundred and thirtie Richard Ullerston borne in Lancashire wrote diuerse treatises of diuinitie Peter Clearke a student in Oxenford and a defendor of Wickliffes doctrine wherevpon when he feared persecution here in England he fled into Boheme but yet at length he was apprehended by the imperialists and died for it as some write but in what order is not expressed Robert Hounslow a religious man of an house in Hounslow beside London whereof he tooke his line 60 surname Thomas Walsingham borne in Norffolke in a towne there of the same name but professed a monke in the abbeie of saint Albons a diligent historiographer Iohn Tilneie a white frier of Yermouth but a student in Cambridge and prooued an excellent diuine Richard Fleming a doctor of diuinitie in Oxenford of whome more at large before pag. 604. Iohn Low borne in Worcestershire an Augustine frier a doctor of diuinitie and prouinciall in England of his order and by king Henrie the sixt made first bishop of saint Asaph and after remooued from thense to Rochester Thomas Ringsted the yoonger not the same that was bishop but a doctor of the law and vicar of Mildenhall in Suffolke a notable preacher and wrote diuerse treatises Iohn Felton a doctor of diuinitie of Madgdalen college in Oxenford Nicholas Botlesham a Carmelit frier borne in Cambridgeshire and student first in the vniuersitie of Cambridge and after in Paris where he proceeded doctor of diuinitie Thomas Rudburne a monke of Winchester and an historiographer Iohn Holbrooke borne in Surrie a great philosopher and well séene in the mathematiks Peter Paine an earnest professor of Wickliffes doctrine and fearing persecution here in England fled into Boheme where he remained in great estimation for his great learning no lesse wisedome Nicholas Upton a ciuilian wrote of heraldrie of colours in armorie and of the dutie of chiualrie William Beckeleie a Carmelit frier of Sandwich warden of the house there a diuine and professed degree of schoole in Cambridge Iohn Torpe a Carmelit frier of Norwich Iohn Capgraue borne in Kent and Augustine frier procéeded doctor of diuinitie in Oxenford was admitted prouinciall of his order and prooued without controuersie the best learned of anie of that order of friers here in England as Iohn Bale affirmeth he wrote manie notable volumes and finallie departed this life at Lin in Norffolke the twelfth of August in the yere 1464 which was in the fourth yeare of king Edward the fourth Humâ—rie duke of Glocester earle of Penbroke and lord chamberlaine of England also protector of the realme during the minoritie of his nephue king Henrie the sixt was both a great fauourer of learned men and also verie well learned himselfe namelie in astrologie whereof beside other things he wrote a speciall treatise intituled Tabula directionum Iohn Whethamsted otherwise called Frumentarius was abbat of saint Albons and highlie in fauor with the good duke of Glocester last remembred he wrote diuerse treatises and among others a booke as it were of the records of things chancing whilest he was abbat which booke I haue séene and partlie in some parcell of this kings time haue also followed Roger Onleie borne in the west countrie as Bale thinketh was accused of treason for practising with the ladie Eleanor Cobham by sorcerie to make the king awaie and was thereof condemned and died for it though he were innocent thereof as some haue thought he wrote a treatise intituled Contra vulgi superstitiones also another De sua innocentia Nicholas Cantlow a Welshman borne descended of an ancient familie in Southwales as by
his conscience and not for anie other respect of pleasure or displeasure earthlie These ambassadours comming to Bononie were honorablie receiued and first dooing their message to the pope had answer of him that he would heare the matter disputed when he came to Rome and according to right he would doo iustice The emperour answered that he in no wise would line 60 be against the lawes of God if the court of Rome would iudge that the matrimonie was not good he could be content but he solicited both the pope and cardinals to stand by the dispensation which he thought to be of force inough to prooue the mariage lawfull With these answers the ambassadors departed and returned homewards till they came on this side the mounteins and then receiued letters from the king which appointed the earle of Wilshire to go in ambassage to the French king which then laie at Burdeaux making shift for monie for redéeming of his children and the bishop of London was appointed to go to Padoa and other vniuersities in Italie to know their full resolutions and determinate opinions in the kings case of matrimonie and the kings almoner was commanded to returne home into England and so he did ¶ You haue heard before how the cardinall was attainted in the premunire and how he was put out of the office of the chancellor laie at Asher In this Lent season the king by the aduise of his councell licenced him to go into his diocesse of Yorke year 1530 gaue him commandement to kéepe him in his diocesse and not to returne southward without the kings speciall licence in writing So he made great prouision to go northward and a pparelled his seruants newlie and bought manie costlie things for his houshold and so he might well inough for he had of the kings gentlenesse the bishoprikes of Yorke and Winchester which were no small things But at this time diuerse of his seruants departed from him to the kings seruice and in especiall Thomas Crumwell one of his chiefe counsell and chiefe dooer for him in the suppression of abbeies After that all things necessarie for his iournie were prepared he tooke his waie northward till he came to Southwell which is in his diocesse and there he continued this yeare euer grudging at his fall as you shall heare hereafter But the lands which he had giuen to his colleges in Oxford and Ipswich were now come to the kings hands by his atteindor in the premunire and yet the king of his gentlenesse and for fauour that he bare to good learning erected againe the college in Oxford and where it was named the cardinals college he called it the kings college indowed it with faire possessions and put in new statutes and ordinances And for bicause the college of Ipswich was thought to be nothing profitable therefore he left that dissolued In this yeare the emperour gaue to the lord master of saint Iohnes of Ierusalem and his brethren the Iland of Malta lieng betwéene Sicill and Barbarie there to imploie themselues vpon Christs enimies which lord master had no place sure to inhabit there since he was put frō the Rhodes by the Turke that besieged Uienna but missed of his expectation For the christians defended the same so valiantlie against the said Turke and his power that he lost manie of his men by slaughter manie also miscarried by sicknesse and cold so that there perished in all to the number of fourescore thousand men as one of his bassats did afterward confesse which was to him a great displeasure and in especiallie bicause he neuer besieged citie before but either it was yéelded or taken In the time of this siege a metrician did make these two verses in memorie of the same Caesar in Italiam quo venit Carolus anno Cincta est ripheis nostra Vienna Getis In the beginning of this yeare was the hauing and reading of the new testament in English translated by Tindall Ioie and others forbidden by the king with the aduise of his councell and namelie the bishops which affirmed that the same was not trulie translated and that therein were prologs and prefaces sounding to heresie with vncharitable railing against bishops and the cleargie The king therefore commanded the bishops that they calling to them the best learned men of the vniuersities should cause a new translation to be made that the people without danger might read the same for their better instruction in the lawes of God and his holie word Diuerse persons that were detected to vse reading of the new testament and other bookes in English set foorth by Tindall and such other as were fled the realme were punished by order taken against them by sir Thomas Moore then lord chancellor who held greatlie against such bookes but still the number dailie increased ¶ In this yeare in Maie the bishop of London caused all his new testaments which he had bought with manie other bookes to be brought into Paules churchyard in London and there were openlie burned In the end of this yeare the wild Irishmen knowing the earle of Kildare to be in England entered his land and spoiled and burnt his countrie with diuerse other countries And the erle of Osserie being the kings deputie made little resistance for lacke of power Wherfore the king sent the earle of Kildare into Ireland with him sir William Skeuington line 10 knight master of the kings ordinance and diuerse gunners with him which so politikelie ordered themselues that their enimies were glad to offer amends and to treat for truce so sir William Skeuington the next yeere returned into England leauing there the earle of Kildare for the kings deputie Now I will returne to the execution of the treatie of Cambreie in the which it was agréed that the ladie Eleanor and the French kings children should line 20 be deliuered when the ransome appointed was paied as you haue heard in the last yeare Wherefore the French king gathered monie of his subiects with all speed and when the monie was readie he sent the great master of France called Annas de Memorancie and diuerse other nobles to Baion with the monie and to receiue the ladie and the children And thither came to them the great constable of Castile and monsieur Prat for the emperour there the crowns were weied and touched and what fault soeuer the line 30 Spaniards found in them they would not receiue a great number of them and so they carried the children backe from Fontarbie into Spaine Thus the great master of France and his companie laie still at Baion without hauing his purpose performed from March till the end of Iune and longer had lien if the king of England had not sent sir Francis Brian to Baion to warrant the paiement where vpon the daie of deliuerance was appointed to be on saint Peters daie in Iune At which daie the great master with
Fitzalane earle of Arundell Warren was with others made protector of England in this sort At a parlement holden at London in the tenth yeare of Richard the second being the yeare of Christ 1386 were certeine gouernors of the kingdome elected because the treasure of the realme had beene imbesiled lewdlie wasted nothing to the profit of the king and kingdome by the couetous and euill gouernment of the deposed officers which were Michaell de la Poole earle of Suffolke lord chancellor Iohn Fortham bishop of Durham lord treasuror diuerse other persons that ruled about the king Now the gouernors elected by this parlement were in number thirtéene and by name Thomas Arundell bishop of Elie then made lord chancellor Iohn Gilbert bishop of Hereford made lord treasuror and Nicholas abbat of Waltham at that time made kéeper of the priuie seale William Courtneie archbishop of Canturburie Alexander Neuill archbishop of Yorke Edmund Langleie duke of Yorke Thomas of Woodstocke duke of Glocester William bishop of Winchester Thomas bishop of Ercester Richard Fitzalane erle of Arundell Iohn lord Deuereux and Reinold lord Cobham of Starborow These were thus by parlement chosen to haue vnder the king the whole ouersight and gouernment of the realme as by their commission in the statutes of the tenth yeare of the said Richard the second it dooth in the printed booke appeare Edmund Langleie duke of Yorke vncle vnto Richard the second was in the eighteenth yeare of the said Richard being about the yeare of our redemption 1395 ordeined lord gardian of England in the kings absence in the realme of Ireland This protector caused a parlement to be assembled at Westminster where he dealt so effectuallie notwithstanding the vntowardnesse of the burgesses that a tenth was granted by the cleargie and a fiftéenth by the temporaltie but not without protestation line 10 that those paiments were granted of a méere fréewill for the loue they bare to the king and to haue the affaires in Ireland to succéed the better After this about foure yeares king Richard the second in the two and twentith yeare of his reigne in the yeare of Christ 1399 making another viage into Ireland being the last and most vnhappie that euer was to him for before his returne he had in effect lost his realme which after his comming he lost in deed did againe in his absence substitute line 20 this Edmund duke of Yorke as cheefe gouernor of England Who in the absence of the king assembled a power of men against Henrie of Bullingbrooke now entered into the land to challenge the dukedome of Lancaster after the death of his father Iohn of Gaunt and vnder that colour to vsurpe the crowne Which Edmund passing into Wales in the thrée and twentith yeare of Richard the second was receiued into the castell of Barkleie there remained vntill the comming of Henrie line 30 of Bullingbrooke Whom when he perceiued for the power which the said duke of Lancaster had assembled from all parts of the realme that he was not of sufficiencie to resist he came foorth into the church that stood without the castell and there fell to parâ—ée with the duke of Lancaster after which he did neuer forsake the duke of Lancaster vntill he came to the crowne Who if he had faithfullie stood vnto his nephue might perhaps haue saued vnto him both his crowne and life Of this man is more said line 40 in my treatise of the dukes of England Ione de Namures sometime dutches of Britaine widow to Philip Montfort as saith Hypodigma but Walsingham in his historie casteth him Iohn duke of Britaine being also the widow of king Henrie the fourth was substitute gouernor of the realme by hir son in law king Henrie the fift king of England in the third yeare of his reigne being the yeare from the birth of the Messias 1415 when the said Henrie the fift tooke his iournie into line 50 France to conquer the same This woman in the seuenth yeare of Henrie the fift which was in the yeare of Christ 1419 being suspected as saith Iohn Stow to practise witchcraft against the king was committed to the custodie of Iohn Wellam or rather Iohn Pelham who appointed nine seruants to attend vpon hir and brought hir to Peuenseie castell to be gouerned vnder his prouidence But shortlie after cléering hir selfe she was deliuered This ladie died at Hauering at the bowre in Essex line 60 the ninth of Iulie in the seuentéenth yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the sixt being the yeare of Christ one thousand foure hundred thirtie and seuen and was buried at Canturburie with hir husband king Henrie the fourth Iohn duke of Bedford son to Henrie the fourth brother to K. Henrie the fift was in the fourth yeare of the reigne of the said Henrie being the yeare of our redemption 1416 by parlement appointed regent of the realme to inioie the same office so long as the king was imploied in the French wars Which place he possessed accordinglie and in the ninth yeare of the victorious prince king Henrie the fift being gardian of England he with Henrie Beauford bishop of Winchester vncle to Henrie the fift and Iaqueline duches of Holland remaining then in England were godfathers and godmother to Henrie after king by the name of Henrie the sixt the son of Henrie the fift Henrie Chichleie archbishop of Canturburie baptising the child In the tenth and last yeare of Henrie the fift this Iohn with a strong power conueied quéene Katharine wife to Henrie the fift from Southampton into France This man being duke of Bedford earle of Richmond and of Kendall conestable of England and warden of the marches of Scotland died the fourtéenth daie of September at Rone in Normandie who hauing also béene regent of France a most valiant gentleman and one that kept the parts beyond the seas in great obedience to the crowne of England had for his yearelie pension 20000 crownes at the least After whose death all things went backeward and the English lost all that they had beyond the seas Calis those dominions onlie excepted This man I saie died in the yeare of our redemption 1435 being the thirtéenth yeare of the vnfortunat gouernment of the deposed king Henrie the sixt and was honorablie buried at Rone in our ladie church there Touching whome it shall not gréeue me to set downe the answer of a French king latelie in our age made to one of his nobilitie saieng vnto the king then being in the said ladie church of Rone and beholding the toome of this Iohn of Bedford that it were conuenient that the same toome were defaced and pulled downe since he was the onelie man that wrought the greatest damage that euer happened vnto France To whom the king said Hold thy peace foole God forbid that euer we should doo such reproch to him being dead whome the proudest of our nation durst not looke in the face when he was liuing This
of my selfe Which Onuphrius maketh this Adam to be bishop line 10 of London and to die in Rome the third calends of Maie in the yéere of our sauior 1397 being the one and twentith of Richard the second vnder Boniface the ninth pope of that name and was buried in the place whereof he was intituled to the honor of a cardinall Philip de Repindone bishop of Lincolne and doctor of diuinitie was by pope Gregorie the twelfe then bishop of Rome in the yeare of Christ 1408 being the tenth yeare of king Henrie the fourth line 20 created cardinall of the title of saint Nereus and Achilleus Thomas bishop of Durham was made as saith Onuphrius in the yeare of our redemption 1411 by Iohn the two and twentith commonlie called Iohn the thrée and twentith priest cardinall Touching which matter there is no mention made in the life of Thomas Langleie bishop of Durham and liuing at this time that this Langleie was a cardinall for this Thomas Langleie was made bishop of Durham line 30 in the yeare of our Lord 1406 and continued in that see one and thirtie yeares departing the world 1437 and so the creation of this Thomas bishop of Durham mentioned by Onuphrius and Matthew Parker bishop of Canturburie in the yeare of Christ 1411 must néedes fall in the life of this Thomas Langleie bishop of Durham Robert bishop of Salisburie priest cardinall although it be not shewed of what title was preferred to that place by pope Iohn the thrée and twentith in line 40 the yeare of our redemption 1411 being about the twelfe yere of the reigne of king Henrie the fourth of whom Onuphrius writeth in this sort Roberti episcopi Sarisburiensis presbyteri cardinalis Egidij de campis presbyteri cardinalis gesta exitus quòd nunquam Romanam curiam adierint incerti obscuri omninò sunt Satis tamen constat eos ante papae Martini electionem mortuos fuisse Henrie Beaufort sonne vnto Iohn of Gant and Katharine Swineford being bishop of Winchester and chancellor of England tooke the state of a cardinall line 50 of the title of saint Eusebius at Calis being absent as hath Matthew Parker in the yeare of our redemption 1426 in the fift yeare of king Henrie the sixt He was called the rich cardinall of Winchester being aduanced to that honor by Martine the third commonlie called Martine the fift then pope of Rome This Henrie died vnder pope Nicholas the fift in the yeare of Christ 1447 being about the six twentith yeare of the miserable reigne of king Henrie the sixt line 60 Iohn Stafford bishop of Bash and Welles chancellor of England after bishop of Canturburie was created priest cardinall by Eugenius then bishop of Rome in the yeare that the word became flesh 1434 being the twelfe yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the sixt Iohn Kempe bishop of London twise lord chancellour of England bishop of Yorke and after that archbishop of Canturburie was by Eugenius the fourth then archbishop of Rome made cardinall of the title of saint Sabina as saith Holinshed otherwise by Onuphrius called Balbina contrarie to Polydor who in his thrée and twentith booke of the historie of England affirmeth him to be cardinalited by pope Nicholas the fift He died as saith Onuphrius in the yeare that the godhead was vnited to the manhood to wit one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and foure vnder pope Nicholas the first which yeare of our Lord met with the fiue and thirtith yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the sixt Thomas Bourcher borne of the noble house of the earles of Essex being chancellor of England bishop of Worcester from thence remooued to Elie from that I le aduanced to the metropolitan sée of Canturburie and priest cardinall of the title of saint Siriacus in Thermis or the Baths was honored with the scarlet hat and siluer pillers by pope Paule the second of that name in the yeare that the second person in trinitie tooke vpon him the forme of a seruant one thousand foure hundred sixtie fiue being the fift yeare of the reigne of the noble prince king Edward the fourth Iohn Morton bishop of Elie chancellor of England archbishop of Canturburie being priest cardinall of the title of saint Anastasius was honored with a scarlet hat by Alexander the sixt of that name then gouernour of the seat of Peter at Rome in the yeare from the birth of Christ 1493 being the ninth yeare of the Salomon of England king Henrie the seauenth He died as saith Onuphrius in the yeare of our Lord one thousand and fiue hundred being about the eight yeare of Alexander the sixt still pope of Rome and the sixteenth yeare of the said Henrie the seauenth then king of England Christopher Bembridge a gentleman borne was archbishop of Yorke priest cardinall of the title of S. Praxidis was aduanced to that scarlet dignitie by pope Iulius the second in the yere that the virgin was deliuered of our sauiour one thousand fiue hundred eleuen being the third yeare of the triumphant reigne of king Henrie the eight He died at Rome as saith Onuphrius by poison in the yeare of Christ one thousand fiue hundred and thirtéene yeares being the eleuenth yeare when Leo the tenth did hold the sterne of the Romane bishoprike the fift yeare when the said Henrie the eight did rule the scepter of England and was buried at Rome in the church of the holie trinitie of the English nation Thomas Wolseie the kings almoner deane of Yorke abbat of saint Albons and of saint Austins bishop of Lincolne Winchester and Yorke chancellour of England all which or all saue two he held at one time in his owne hands was made priest cardinall of the title of saint Cicilie wherevnto he was promoted by pope Leo the tenth in the yeare of our redemption one thousand fiue hundred and fifteene being the seauenth yéere of the reigne of the famous king Henrie the eight of whome Onuphrius somewhat mistaking the pronuntiation of his name thus writeth Thomas Wlcer ex oppido Sufforth diocessis Norducensis c wherein like a stranger to our countrimen he mistaketh both name towne place and the prouince of Suffolke for the towne of Ipswich For this cardinall Wolseie being descended of meane parentage was borne in the towne of Gipswich now called Ipswich in the prouince or countrie of Suffolke in the diocesse of the bishoprike of Norwich Iohn Fisher bishop of Rochester priest cardinall of the title of saint Uitalis was although he neuer came at Rome nor for anie thing that I can learne was euer out of England created cardinall at Rome by Paule the third of that name then wearing the triple crowned miter and being bishop of Rome But this Fisher neuer ware his scarlet hat for after this high dignitie and before he might couer his priestlie crowne with the same he lost his
on the tenth of December in the yéere of Christ 1404 being the sixt yeere of Henrie the fourth in the which bishoprike he continued about one yere and died in the yeere 1406 being buried at saint Bartholomews priorie in Smithfield who of a poore man as saith Walsingham was made lord treasuror of England G. bishop of S. Dauids was lord treasuror of England line 30 in the two and twentith yere of Richard the second which bishop I suppose to be Guie de Mone whom the booke Ypodigma Thomas Walsingham call bishop of S. Dauids and saie that he died in the yéere of our redemption 1407 writing in this sort Eodem anno Guido de Mone Meneuensis episcopus praesentis lucis sensit eclipsim qui dum vixit magnorum malorum causa fuit William Scroope knight vicechamberleine to Richard the second was lord treasuror he bought of line 40 William Montacute earle of Salisburie the Ile of Man with the crowne thereof He was one of those to whom king Richard the second let the kingdom to farme he was lord treasuror of England in the 21 of Richard the second and was after created earle of Wilshire in the said 21 yere of the same Richard the second in the yéere of Christ 1397. He was after beheded at Bristow in the 23 and last yeere of the then deposed king Richard Of which William Scroope and others thus writeth that worthie poet sir Iohn Gower line 50 in his historie of Richard the second commonlie taken as part of his worke intituled Vox clamantis Dux probus audaci vultu cum plebe sequaci Regnum scrutatur siproditor inueniatur Sic tres exosos magis omnibus ambitiosos Regni tortores inuenerat ipse priores Ense repercussi pereunt Gren Scrop quoque Bussi Hi qui regales fuerant cum rege sodales Scrop comes miles cuius Bristolia viles Actus declarat quo mors sua fata pararat line 60 Gren quoque sorte pari statuit dux de capitari Bussi conuictus similes quoque sustinet ictus Vnanimes mente pariter mors vna repente Hos tres prostrauit gladius quos fine vorauit Sicut egerunt alijs sic hi ceciderunt Quo dux laudatur regnúmque per omne iocatur Sir Iohn Northberie made lord treasuror in the first yeare of king Henrie the fourth being the yeare that God tooke on him the forme of a seruant a thousand thrée hundred nintie and nine and continued in the same in the third yeare of Henrie the fourth in which yeare he was also keeper of the priuie garderobe in the tower Henrie Bowet made bishop of Bath about the yeare of our redemption 1401 being also about the second yeare of Henrie the fourth in which bishoprike he continued eight yeares and was after at the kings instance in the yéere of Christ a thousand foure hundred and seuen about the eight yeare of Henrie the fourth remooued to Yorke This man was lord treasuror of England in the fourth yeare of king Henrie the fourth in the yeare of our redemption 1403 in which place he continued not aboue a yéere if so long William lord Rosse the sonne of Thomas lord Rosse did possesse the honorable place of the lord treasuror of England in the fift yeare of king Henrie the fourth being about the yeare of our saluation one thousand foure hundred and foure and shortlie after gaue place to the lord Furniuall He married Margaret daughter of Fitzallen lord Matrauars he had issue Thomas lord Rosse slaine in France in the yeare one thousand foure hundred twentie and one about the ninth yeare of Henrie the sixt and manie other children Thomas lord Furniuall kept the place and office of the lord treasuror of England the sixt seuenth and some part of the eight yeare of king Henrie the fourth as in Michaelmasse tearme of the same eight yeare falling in the yeare of our redemption one thousand foure hundred and six after which this lord Furniuall who had the custodie of the castell and honour of Wigmoore being in the kings hands by reason of the wardship and minoritie of Edmund Mortimer earle of March was as it seemeth remooued from the treasurorship in whose roome succeeded the bishop of London To these lord Furniuals did Furniuals inne of Holborne sometime apperteine as their mansion house being now an inne of chancerie for yoong students of the law and atturneies and belonging vnto Lincolns inne in Chancerie lane Nicholas Bubwith made bishop of London in the yeare of Christ one thousand foure hundred and six being the eight yéere of Henrie the fourth must be that bishop of London as farre as I can yet conceiue who was lord treasuror of England in Michaelmas tearme in the said eight yeare of Henrie the fourth which office it seemeth that he held not long for in Easter terme after in the same eight yeare the office of the tresuror remained in the kings hands and the accompts of the same terme go vnder the same title of being in the kings hands Sir Richard Scroope lord of Bolton wherof is so much spoken before was as I suppose the second time treasuror of England in this ninth yeare of Henrie the fourth wherevnto I am induced by this reason that first the king would not keepe that office so long in his hands as almost amounted vnto two yeares but that he would bestow the same vpon some other secondlie for that I read that this Richard Scroope father to William Scroope earle of Wilshire beheaded by this Henrie the fourth before he came to the crowne at Bristow in the last yeare of Richard the second and in the first of this kings reigne was after the death of the said William made treasuror of England and so died in honour thirdlie for that I cannot sée how he might be treasuror in anie yeare since the death of the said William vntill this ninth yeare of Henrie the fourth and lastlie for that I cannot in anie record or other author find anie other man mentioned to supplie that place in this yeare for which causes I haue attempted to bestow him here and that rightlie for anie thing that I can yet learne Sir Iohn Tiptost or Tibetot knight did possesse the place and office of the lord treasurorship of England in Michelmas terme in the tenth yeare of king Henrie the fourth being in the yere of our redemption one thousand foure hundred and eight Henrie lord Scroope of Masham and of Flarfleet was made lord treasuror of England in the eleuenth yere of the reigne of K. Henrie the fourth in the yeare of our redemption one thousand foure hundred and ten as hath Walsingham in which office he continued vntill the death of king Henrie the fourth which hapned in the fourtéenth yeare of the same king and in the yeare of our redemption one line 10 thousand foure hundred twelue after the account of England but one thousand foure
about ten yeares died and was buried in his owne church 6 Alfwoldus as Matthew Westminster writeth was next bishop after Algarus and consecrated by the aduise of Dunstane in the yeare 952. In this time Odogarus earle of Deuon and father in law to king Edgar builded the abbeie of Tauestoke and king Edgar called home all the monkes of saint Peters which were dispersed and without anie abbat and made Sidemannus abbat who was afterwards bishop This Alfwoldus after sixtéene yeares that he was consecraâ—eâ— died and was buried in his owne church 7 Alfwolfus as Dicetus affirmeth was consecrated bishop in the yeare of our Lord 969 and after nine yeares died and was buried in his owne church 8 Sidemannus of an abbat was made a bishop in the yeare 978. In this mans time the Danes ouerran and spoiled the whole countries of Deuon and Cornewall burned the towne of Bodmen and the cathedrall church of saint Petrokes with the bishops house Wherevpon the bishops sée was remoued from thense to saint Germans where the same continued vntill the remouing and vniting thereof vnto Crediton Sidemannus in the twelfe yeare after his consecration died and was buried at Crediton in his owne church 990. 9 Alphredus whome Dicetus calleth Alfricus abbat of Malmesburie was consecrated bishop and installed at Crediton he was taken for a learned man because he wrote two bookes the one intituled Derebus coenobij sui and the other De rerum naturis In this bishops time king Ethelred endowed the bishoprike of saint Germans with lands liberties and priuileges The Danes made a fresh inuasion in and vpon all Deuon and Cornewall burned and spoiled the abbie of Ordolphus at Tauestoke they besieged Excester and being remoued from thense were fought withall at Pinneho about thrée miles from the citie and ouerthrowne Alphredus after he had béene bishop about nine yeares died in the yeare 999 and was buried in his owne church 10 Alwolfus as Dicetus writeth was the next bishop In his time Sweno king of Denmarke by intisement of one Hugh then earle of Deuon came with a great host and besieged the citie of Excester tooke it and burned it and with great crueltie vsed the people vntill in the end Almarus then earle of Deuon and the gentlemen did yéeld and submit themselues and so obteined peace This Alwolfus about the fiftéenth yeare of his bishoprike in the yeare 1014 died and was buried in his owne church 11 Arnoldus by the report of the archdeacon of London succéeded Alwolfus and was installed at Crediton In this mans time king Canutus gaue to Athelwold abbat of S. Peters of this citie great gifts and sundrie priuileges in recompense of his fathers great iniuries Arnoldus in the fiftéenth yeare of his bishoprike 1030 died and was buried in his owne church 12 Leuigus or Leuingus abbat of Tauestoke and nephue to Brithwaldus bishop of Cornewall was chosen the next bishop and according to the orders then vsed consecrated and installed He was in great fauour and credit with king Canutus vppon whome he attended in pilgrimage to Rome and after his vncle the bishop of saint Germans being dead obteined of the king that the bishops sée was remoued from saint Germans vnto Crediton and both were thereby reduced and vnited into one bishoprike and so hath euer since continued Hée was after the death of Brithegus bishop of Worcester remoued to that church and there died and was buried as some suppose but some affirme that in the time of Hardicanutus the king at the accusation of Alfredus then archbishop of Yorke for that he should be consenting to the death of Alfredus the sonne of Etheldred that he should be deposed of his bishoprike there and so did returne vnto Tauestoke where he died But Dicetus affirmeth that he purged himselfe of this crime and by that meanes was restored both to the fauour of the king and to his bishoprike againe and died bishop of Worcester It is recorded that he was bishop of Crediton fiftéene yeares 13 Leofricus a man descended of the bloud and line of Brutus but brought vp in the land of Lothoringia or Loreine was so well commended for his nobilitie wisedome and learning that king Edward the Confessor had him in great fauour and made him first one of his priuie councell then lord chancellor of all England and lastlie the bishoprike line 10 of this prouince being void he was made consecrated and installed bishop of the same By him and by his meanes the bishops sée was remoued from Crediton vnto this citie of Excester for at his request king Edward togither with quéene Edith his wife came to Excester remouing the monkes from hense to Westminster did also remoue the bishops sée from Crediton vnto his citie and did put the bishop in possession For he conducting the bishop on the right hand and the quéene on the line 20 left hand brought him to the high altar of his new church and there placed him in a seat appointed for him He suppressed sundrie houses or cels of religion within his sanctuarie and appropriated and vnited them to his owne church as also by the good liberalitie of the king obteined great reuenues possessions priuileges and liberties to be giuen vnto the church In this mans time William duke of Normandie made a conquest of this whole realme as also in the yeare 1068 besieged this line 30 citie of Excester which after by composition he restored to his former estate againe Also in his time Richard de Brion a noble man of Normandie the sonne of Baldwin of Brion of Albred the néece to the Conqueror was made baron of Okehampton warden of the castell of Excester and vicount of Deuon This Leofricus after that he had well and worthilie ruled his church and diocesse by the space of three and twentie yeares he ended his daies in peace and died in the yeare 1073 and was buried line 40 in the cemiterie or churchyard of his owne church vnder a simple and a broken marble stone which place by the since inlarging of his church is now within the tower of the same where of late in the yeare 1568 a new monument was erected in the memorie of so good woorthie and noble a personage by the industrie of the writer hereof but at the charges of the deane and chapter 14 Osbertus or Osbernus a Norman borne and brother to an earle named William was preferred to this bishoprike and in the yeare 1074 was line 50 consecrated and installed to the same Polydorus writeth that one Galfrid who ioined with Odo earle of Kent and bishop of Baion against William Rufus should be bishop of Exon but it was not nor could not so be In this mans time William the Conqueror and William Rufus his sonne died This Osbertus or Osbernus after he had béene bishop thirtie yeares was blind and died and lieth buried in his owne church
15 William Warlewast a Norman borne and line 60 chapleine both to the Conqueror and his two sons William and Henrie he was a graue and a wise man and for the same was preferred by Henrie the king to this bishoprike in the yere one thousand one hundred and seuen and was consecrated by Anselmus archbishop of Canturburie in the moneth of August the same yeare He first began to inlarge his church which at that time was no bigger than that which is now called the ladie chappell He founded and builded the monasterie of Plimpton and placed therein regular canons in his latter daies he waxed and became blind And yet notwithstanding for his wisdome the king sent him in ambassage vnto pope Paschalis the second wherein he so wiselie dealed and so discréetlie behaued himselfe in his message that he made a reconciliation betweene the pope and the king and returned with great praise and commendation Not long after his returne and hauing small ioie of the world he gaue ouer his bishoprike and became one of the religious canons in his owne house of Plimpton where he died and was buried he was bishop about twentie yeares 16 Robert Chichester deane of Sarisburie was consecrated bishop vnder Anselmus archbishop of Canturburie Anno 1128 and the eight and twentith yeare of king Henrie the first He was a gentleman borne and therefore estéemed for his zeale in religion wherein he was deuout according to those daies and thinking his labours to be best imploied that waie did eftsoons go in pilgrimage sometime to Rome sometime to one place sometime to another and euer he would bring with him some one relike or other He was a liberall contributor to the buildings of his church In his time was founded and builded the monasterie of S. Stephans in Lanceston and furthered by Reinold erle of Cornewall but vnto it this bishop was an aduersarie not for misliking the worke but for feare of an intrusion vpon his liberties Likewise at this time was builded the priorie of saint Nicholas in Excester by the abbat of Battell vnto which abbeie this priorie was a cell In this mans time also king Henrie made William Rideuers a Norman and his kinsman earle of Deuon and therewith the lordshop of Twifordton and the honor of Plimpton togither with the third pennie of his reuenues in Deuon which in the whole was then thirtie marks whereof this earle had ten Also in this mans time king Henrie died and king Stephan entred and tooke vpon him the crowne whereof insued great warres This bishop after that he had occupied the place two and twentie yeares died and was buried in his owne church But the moonke of Westminster writeth that he should be bishop seuen and twentie yeares and died in the yeere one thousand one hundred fiftie and fiue but he neuer saw the records of this church which are to the contrarie 17 Robert Warlewast nephue to William the bishop of this church deane of Sarisburie was consecrated bishop by Theobaldus archbishop of Canturburie in the yeare one thousand one hundred and fiftie he nothing degenerated from the steps of his predecessors but was altogither of the same bent and disposition In his time king Stephan died and Henrie the second was crowned king This Robert after that he had occupied this sée nine yéers or thereabout died was buried at Plimpton by his vncle 18 Bartholomeus Iscanus otherwise Bartholomew of Excester was consecrated bishop of Excester vnder Theobald archbishop of Canturburie in the yeare a thousand one hundred fiftie nine he was called Iscanus of Isca which is one of the ancientest names of this citie He was a meane citizens son but being verie apt vnto learning his parents and friends kept him to schoole and he so well profited therein that he came and prooued to be a verie well learned man and being bishop he wrote sundrie bookes as of predestination fréewill penance and others Of all men he could not brooke nor fauor Thomas Becket archbishop of Canturburie for his contempt and disobedience against the king for the which he sharplie improoued rebuked and inueighed against him openlie in the parlement house holden at Northampton and with such effectuall reasons and pithie arguments he did so temper the same that the whole parlement relied vnto his iudgement and opinion herein against Thomas Becket And after his death such was the gravitie modestie and wisedome of the man that he was speciallie chosen to be ambassador for the king vnto pope Alexander the third and so wiselie and with such discretion vsed the same that notwithstanding his cause and message had manie aduersaries yet he reconciled the pope and the king obteined the goodwill and fauour of the pope and brought his message to good effect This bishop was in great familiaritie and acquaintance with Baldwin of Excester his countriman line 10 now archbishop of Canturburie who was a poore mans sonne in this citie but for his learning aduanced to this estate In this bishops time about the yeare of our Lord one thousand one hundred thrée score and eight William Fitzralfe a citizen of this citie founded a cell for moonks within this citie and dedicated the same to saint Alexius which not long after was united to saint Iohns within the east gate of the same citie In his time also Reinold of Courtneie a nobleman of Normandie the son of Elorus line 20 the son of Lewes named Lewes le Grosse king of France came into this land and married Hawise daughter and heire to Mawd the daughter and heire to Adelis sister and heire to Richard de Briono the first vicount of Deuon and in hir right was vicount of Deuon This Bartholomew after he had béene bishop about fouretéene yeares in the yere one thousand one hundred eightie and foure died but where he died and where he was buried it dooth not appeere In this bishops time about the yeare one thousand line 30 one hundred and seuentie one Iohannes Coriniensis a Cornish man borne was a famous learned diuine he was a student at Rome and other places in Italie and by that meanes grew into great acquaintance with pope Alexander the third he wrote diuerse bookes and namelie one De incarnatione Christi against Peter Lombard who affirmed Quòd Christus secundum quod homo est aliquid non est and this he dedicated to pope Alexander 19 Iohn the chanter of the cathedrall church of line 40 this citie was consecrated and installed bishop of this church in the yeare one thousand one hundred eightie and foure he was well reported of for his liberalitie in continuing the buildings of this church wherein he was nothing inferior to his predecessors In his time king Henrie Fitzempresse died and he himselfe hauing beene bishop about six yeares died in the yeare of our Lord one thousand one hundred ninetie and one 20 Henrie Marshall archdeacon of Stafford the line 50 brother to Walter earle
cloths at the same but onelie their accustomable common apparell which then was commonlie greie coloured cloths This bishop was no lesse graue and wise than stout and of courage if occasion did so require And amongest other things this is reported of him that about the yeare of our Lord one thousand thrée hundred thirtie and one Simon Mepham then archbishop of Canturburie sent his mandatum to this bishop that he would visit his church diocesse vpon mondaie next after Ascension daie then following This bishop vpon what occasion it is not written did refuse this mandatum and appealed from the same aduertising the archbishop that he should not visit his church line 10 nor diocesse Notwithstanding the archbishop at the time appointed came to this citie and went to S. Peters church nothing thinking that anie durst to withstand him But the bishop knowing of his comming goeth to the church doore méeteth the archbishop and forbiddeth him to enter into his church but the archbishop pressing forward as with force to enter the bishop being then well garded denied and resisted him whervpon the archbishop departed and after at a prouinciall counsell holden at London the line 20 archbishop complained hereof but by meanes of the like discord betwéene him his suffragans he preuailed not In this bishops time one William of Excester a verie well learned man was a canon of this church and he ioining with Nicholas de Cesena Okeham Walsingham and others did openlie preach that Christ and his apostles were but poore men and had no temporall possessions neither was anie emperor or laie man subiect to the pope but onlie in matters of religion But when he heard that line 30 pope Iohn the thrée and twentith had excommunicated and would condemne them all for heretikes this William to saue his liuings secretlie shroonke awaie from his old companions and changed his copie and writeth certeine conclusions against them and his owne preachings Also in this bishops time about the yeare of our Lord one thousand thrée hundred and fortie one Iohn of Bampton so named bicause he was borne at Bampton in this diocesse and a moonke of the order of the Carmelites was a line 40 verie good scholar and first did openlie read Aristotle in the vniuersitie of Cambridge where he was a scholar and afterwards he studied diuinitie and was made doctor he wrote certeine bookes which are not extant This bishop after that he had occupied this church about two and fortie yeares he died vpon S. Swithins daie in the yeare of our Lord one thousand three hundred sixtie and nine and was buried in a chappell which he builded in the west wall of his line 50 owne church 30 Thomas Brentingham after the death of this Iohn Grandesson was at one instant chosen bishop of Excester and bishop of Hereford who refusing the one tooke the other and was consecrated bishop of Excester vpon the tenth daie of March in the yeare of our Lord one thousand thrée hundred and seauentie being the feast daie of Nereus and Achilles William of Worcester then archbishop of Canturburie This Thomas was a man verie well learned line 60 and experted both in ecclesiasticall matters and in politike gouernement and in both these respects greatlie reuerenced and estéemed and for that cause at the parlement holden at Westminster in the tenth yeare of the reigne of king Richard the second was chosen one of the twelue péeres of the realme vnder the king He was a benefactor to the Calenderhaie of the vicars chorall of his owne church and performed and supplied in buildings and otherwise what his predecessors had left vndoone And hauing beene bishop foure and twentie yeares he died the third of December in the yeare of our Lord 1394 and was buried in the north side of the bodie of his owne church 31 Edmund Stafford vpon the twentith daie of Iune in the yeare of our Lord one thousand thrée hundred ninetie and fiue was consecrated at Lambeth by William Courtnaie archbishop of Canturburie He was borne and descended of noble parentage being brother to Ralfe lord Stafford created earle of Stafford by king Edward the third he was both wise and learned and for his wisedome grew into great credit with the king and was both of his priuie councell as also lord chancellor of England At the parlement holden at Westminster the one and twentith yeare of the reigne of king Richard the second he being then speaker of the higher house made a verie learned and pithie oration to prooue the absolute authoritie of a king his theme was Rex vnus erit omnibus And hauing discoursed at large of the authoritie of a king he did conclude Quòd potesta◠regis esset sibi sola vnita annexa solida and whosoeuer did by anie meanes impeach the same Poena legis meritò esset plectendus And for the furtherance of good letters he did increase two fellowships in the college of Stapledons inne in Oxford reformed the statutes of the house and altered the name of it and called it Excester college After that he had continued bishop in much honor about thrée and twentie yeares he died the fourth of September being the seuenth yeare of king Henrie the fift and lieth buried in his owne church in a verie faire toome of alabaster 32 Iames Carie bishop of Chester then being at Florence when news was brought to pope Martin the fift of the said late bishop Staffords death was there made bishop of this church in the yeare of our Lord one thousand foure hundred and nineteene and also consecrated but long he inioied not his office for there he died and was buried 33 Edmund Lacie bishop of Hereford was translated from thense vnto this church in the feast of Easter and in the eight yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the fift in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand foure hundred and twentie He was a man verie deuout and religious but subiect to flatterers who carried him to their pleasure he was a liberall benefactor vnto the vicar of Calenderhaie Great contentions were betwéene him and the citie for liberties which by arbitrement were compounded He founded the chapter house in his owne church He was a professor of diuinitie and verie well learned For in the second yeare of his bishoprike being the ninth yeare of the kings reigne there was a parlement holden at Westminster in which great complaints were made against the loose and dissolute life of the religious men and especiallie the blacke moonks And this matter being brought to the conuocation house this bishop as chéefe proloquntor of that assemblie did make a verie learned and a pithie oration before the king then of purpose present and the whole cleargie much lamenting that the religious men were so far straied from the rules of their professions and the holinesse of their predecessors And when he had at large discoursed the same he deliuered vp certeine articles in
driuen to depart thense vnto the Camber at Rie which then was a notable good rode though now vtterlie decaied or into the Isle of Wight For in a sudden flaw or storme of wind at southeast there haue beene seuen or eight ships broken all to péeces in one daie vpon the said cliffes To reléeue and amend the same harborough and somewhat to mitigat the foresaid inconuenience line 10 there was a round tower builded by one Iohn Clarke préest maister of the maison de Dieu about the yeare one thousand fiue hundred at the southwest part of the said baie which serued somewhat to defend the ships from the rage of the southwest wind but especiallie to moore the ships which were tied therevnto For manie great ringles were fastened to the same tower for that purpose as it maie yet be séene sith it standeth there at this houre And hereby that part of the baie was made so pleasant as euer after line 20 that corner hath béene named and is at this daie called Little paradise Neuerthelesse this was thought verie insufficient in respect of the place for the safegard of such a multitude of ships as vsuallie laie for harbour in that rode For besides all strange botes which commonlie repaired thither it appeareth in the booke of Doomesdaie that Douer armed yearelie at his proper charges twentie vessels to the sea by the space of fiftéene daies with one and twentie able men in ech ship line 30 Now about the yeare of Christ one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and two one sir Iohn Thomson clarke parson of the parish of saint Iames in Douer being a man ingenious and séeing the conueniencie and possibilitie of a good hauen to be made in that place consulted with the cheefe and best mariners of the towne Among whome it was agréed that humble sute should be made to the kings maiestie by the state of the towne for his gratious fauour and aid toward the making of a good hauen there And it was also line 40 by them all thought meet that the said sir Iohn Thomson should exhibit their petition to his highnesse whervnto he agréed and drew a plot and prepared a supplication in the name and behalfe of the towne conteining the necessarie causes and reasons deuises and instructions for the erection and building thereof But he told them he was poore and therefore vnable of his owne proper charges to follow the sute In which respect they collected among themselues and deliuered vnto him foure pounds ten shillings which line 50 he accepted and foorthwith repaired to the court where he so demeaned himselfe as he had present accesse to the king who heard his sute with great fauor and debated with him about the contents of his plot and liked so well of his informations that he willed him to repaire home and without delaie to returne to his presence accompanied with some of the best mariners or seamen of the towne and so with commendations dismissed him for that time When the maisters of the towne vnderstood his graces pleasure they immediatlie assembled themselues line 60 and made choise of Edward Maie Robert Iustice Richard Cowchie and Iohn Steward as the fittest and skilfullest persons to vse conference and to be imploied in that cause being all mariners of good experience These foure and the said sir Iohn Thomson without further staie resorted to the court with whom when the king had communed he conceiued of the necessitie of a hauen to be there had and of the probabilitie and likelihood of good successe in the enterprise to be performed according to their suggestion And because his maiestie vnderstood the poore estate of the towne he granted his gratious aid for the supplie of their want of monie deliuering at that time out of his owne cofers vnto them the summe of fiue hundred pounds wherewith he willed them to make a beginning of the worke At which time he bestowed on the said sir Iohn Thomson the maistership of the maison de Dieu of Douer which was a hospitall valued at one hundred and twentie pounds by the yeare the custome and dutie of the which house was as the ancient townesmen informe me to interteine and reléeue souldiors and others which came from beyond the seas hurt or distressed who were allowed some reléefe there by the space of certeine daies gratis which though I find not directlie set downe in record yet doo I know assuredlie the same to haue beene put in execution wherewith the verie name of the house is agréeable and as it were a credible witnesse The king at that time also appointed the said sir Iohn to be principall surueior of the works and vnder him the other foure to be ouerseers of the same Now am I to giue you to vnderstand that the drift and deuise of the said sir Iohn Thomson was to erect a huge wall which he termed by the name of a pierre from Arcliffe chapell being the southwest part of the baie directlie towards the east into the maine sea about 131 rods in length so as by that meanes the harborough was to be garded from the rage of all weather comming from the north northeast northwest and southwest and so the entrance onelie at east southeast whereinto when the ships were once brought they might there lie safe in all weather at the one side or the other But the pierre was not finished by 350 foot so far as the foundation thereof which he called the Molehead was laid which foundation consisted of great rocks brought from a place néere hand called Hakcliffe or the castell Raie and Folkestone This pierre was begun on S. Annes daie 1533 and it was compiled of two rowes of maine posts great piles of fiue or six twentie foot long set at each side close togither which were let downe and put in certeine holes hewed in the great rocks laid for that purpose but some of those piles were shod with iron and driuen into the maine rocke of chalke with a great engine called a ram These posts and piles were combined and held togither with iron bolts and were filled with mightie stones of chalks as also with beach and other earth but the bottome consisted altogither of great rocks of stone which if they had not béene brought thither by a speciall deuise must néeds haue béene extreame chargeable for manie of them were of twentie tun a péece and few vnder The practise of this charge is now common but it was before that time rare vnknowne in England and inuented there by a poore simple man named Iohn Yoong who first with a nutshell after with an egshell lastlie with a small vessell made proofe what weight those things could raise beare in the water and hauing by that experiment made triall or at least a probable coniecture that stones of great weight might be raised and carried in the water by greater vessels he
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
had line 40 exhibited to him against those that were called Lollards and heretiks wherevpon immediatlie he called before him certeine of the noble men that were thought and knowne to fauour such kind of men threatning terriblie if from thence foorth they should in anie wise comfort and relieue them He caused sir Richard Sturrie to receiue an oth that he should not mainteine from that day forward anie such erronious opinions menacing him and as it were couenanting with him by an interchangeable oth that line 50 if euer he might vnderstand that he did violate and breake that oth he should die for it a most shamefull death ¶ By the report of H. Knighton it should séeme that this sect as he calleth them mightilie increased to the no small offense of the lords temporall and spirituall wherevpon after sundrie complaints and serious solicitations for the supplanting of them commissions were granted and the tenure of them as it should séeme though not absolutelie yet in part executed line 60 Now therefore listen what mine author saith whose addition though by his owne supputation of yeares it require to be placed elsewhere yet for the consonancie of the matter and because writers varie greatlie in their accounts of time I haue here inserted the same as in a verie conuenient place of the historie The noblemen and the commons saith Henrie Knighton séeing the ship of the church with these other innumerable errors verie lewd opinions as it were on all sides from day to day with ceasselesse violence and force to be shaken besought the king in the parlement that redresse might be had herof lest the arke of the faith of all the church by such violences and inforcements giuen in those daies should through want of gouernement be battered without remedie and the glorious realme of England by corrupting of faith should by little and little be drawne into a distresse of grace and losse of honor Wherefore the king vsing the sound counsell of the whole parlement commanded the archbishop of Canturburie the rest of the bishops of the realme to execute their charge and office all and euerie of them in his and their diocesse according to the canon lawes more seuerelie and zealouslie to correct the offendors to examine their English books more fullie and substantiallie to root out errors with all their indeuors to bring the people into an vnitie of the right faith to wéed vp out of the church all netles thistles and brambles wherewith she is disgraced and to beautifie hir with lillies and roses and should cause an establishment of his roiall power more boldlie and stoutlie And the king foorthwith commanded without delaie that his letters patents should be sent abroad into all and euerie shire of his kingdome and appointed in euerie shire certeine searchers for such books and their fauourers charging them to applie a spéedie remedie vnto these disorders and to lay vp the rebels in the verie next gaoles till the king sent vnto them But verie slow execution or none at all followed because the houre of correction was not yet come Howbeit to prepare and make an entrance to the purposed reformation and correction of those enormities he gaue out a commission against the Wickleuists a copie whereof followeth both in Latine and English Whereby the world may see how the springing church of Christ was hated and abhorred of the antichristian rout Copia regiae commissionis aduersus Lollardos Lollardorum sequaces RIchardus Dei gratia rex Angliae Franciae dominus Hiberniae dilectis sibi magistro Thomae Brightwell in theologia doctori decano collegij noui operis Leicestriae Gulielmo Chesulden praebendario praebendae eiusdem collegij ac dilectis fidelibus nostris Richardo de Barow Chinall Roberto Langham salutem Quia ex insinuatione credibili certitudinaliter informatur quòd ex insana doctrina magistrorum Iohannis Wickliffe dum vixit Nicholai Herford Iohannis Liston suorum sequaciuÌ„ quà m plures libri libelli schedulae quaterni haeresibus erroribus manifestis in fidei catholicae laesionem sanae doctrinae derogationem expresse palà m notoriè redundantes frequentiùs compilantur publicantur conscribuntur tam in Anglico quà m in Latino ac exinde opiniones nefariae sanae doctrinae contrariantes oriuntur crescunt manutenentur ac praedicantur in fidei orthodoxae eneruationem ecclesiae sanctae subuersionem ex consequenti quod absit quà m plurium incredulitatem eorúmque animarum periculum manifestum Nos zelo fidei catholicae cuius sumus esse volumus defensores in omnibus vt tenemur moti salubriter inducti nolentes huiusmodi haereses aut errores infra terminos nostrae potestatis quatenùs poterimus oriri seu quomodolibet pullulare assignamus vos coniunctim diuisim ad omnes singulos libros libellos schedulas quaternos huiusmodi doctrinaÌ„ dictoruÌ„ Iohannis Nicholai Iohannis sociorum sequacium seu opinionum aliquam minùs sanam continentes vbicúnque in quorumcúnque manibus possessione seu custodia inueniri poterunt infra libertates vel extra inuestigandum capiendum arrestandum penes concilium nostrum cum omni celeritate possibili deferri faciendum vt tunc ibidem de ijsdem ordinare vale amus prout de auisamento concilij nostri praedictifore viderimus faciendum ac etiam ad proclamandum ex parte nostra firmiter inhibendum ne quis cuiuscúnque status gradus seu conditionis fuerit sub poena imprisionamenti forisfacturationum quae nobis line 10 forisfacere poterit aliquas huiusmodi prauas nefarias opiniones manutenere docere pertinaciterque defendere clà m vel palam seu huiusmodi libros libellos schedulas quaternos detinere scribere vel scribi facere aut emere vel vendere praesumat quouis modo sed omnes singulos huiusmodi libros libellos schedulas quaternos secum habitos inuentos ad mandatum nostrum vobis reddat seu reddifaciat indilatè Et ad omnes line 20 illos quos post proclamationem inhibitionem praedictis contrarium inueneritis facientes huiusmodi nefarias opiniones manutentes corà m vobis praefato Thoma decano Gulielmo euocandum diligenter examinandum cùm inde legitimè euicti fuerint ministris proximÃsque prisonis committendum in ijsdem detinendum quoúsque à suis erroribus haeresibus prauis opinionibus resipiscant seu nos pro deliberatione eorundem line 30 aliter duxerimus ordinandum Et ideo vobis mandamus quòd dicta praemissa cum omni diligentia efficacia intendatis ea faciatis exequamini in forma praedicta Damus autem tà m vniuersis singulis viris ecclesiasticis quà m vicecomitibus maioribus balliuis ministris alijs fidelibus subditis nostris tà m infra libertates quà m extra tenore praesentium firmiter in mandatis quòd vobis cuilibet vestrum
this present parlement After the which words thus said as before is declared it was decréed also by the said lords arbitrators that the said lord of Winchester should haue these words that follow vnto my said lord of Glocester My lord of Glocester I haue conceiued to my great heauinesse that yée should haue receiued by diuerse reports that I should haue purposed and imagined against your person honor and estate in diuers maners for the which yée haue taken against me great displeasure Sir I take God to my witnesse that what reports so euer haue béene to you of me peraduenture of such as haue had no great affection to me God forgiue it them I neuer imagined ne purposed anie thing that might be hindering or preiudice to your person honor or estate and therefore I praie you that yee be vnto me good lord from this time foorth for by my will I gaue neuer other occasion nor purpose not to doo hereafter by the grace of God The which words so by him said it was decréed by the same arbitrators that my lord of Glocester should answer and saie Faire vncle sith yée declare you such a man as yée saie I am right glad that it is so and for such a man I take you And when this was doone it was decréed by the same arbitrators that euerie each of my lord of Glocester and Winchester should take either other by the hand in the presence of the king and all the parlement in signe and token of good loue accord the which was doone and the parlement adiorned till after Easter At this reconciliation such as loued peace reioised sith it is a fowle pernicious thing for priuat men much more for noblemen to be at variance sith vpon them depend manie in affections diuerse whereby factions might grow to the shedding of bloud though others to whom contention hartgrudge is delight wished to see the vttermost mischéefe that might therof insue which is the vtter ouerthrow and desolation of populous tribes euen as with a litle sparkle whole houses are manie times consumed to ashes as the old prouerbe saith and that verie 〈◊〉 and aptlie Sola scintilla perit haec domus aut 〈◊〉 illa But when the great fier of this 〈◊〉 betwéene these two noble personages was thus by the arbitrators to their knowledge and iudgement vtterlie quenched out and said vnder boord all other controuersies betwéene other lords taking part with the one partie or the other were appeased and brought to concord so that for ioy the king caused a solemne fest to be kept on Whitsundaie on which daie he created Richard Plantagenet sonne and heire to the erle of Cambridge whome his father at Southhampton had put to death as before yee haue heard duke of Yorke not foreséeing that this preferment should be his destruction nor that his séed should of his generation be the extreame end and finall conclusion He the same daie also promoted Iohn lord Mowbraie and earle marshall sonne and heire to Thomas duke of Norffolke by king Richard the second exiled this realme to the title name and stile of duke of Norffolke During this feast the duke of Bedford adorned the king with the high order of knighthood who on the same daie dubbed with the sword these knights whose names insue Richard duke of Yorke Iohn duke of Norffolke the earle of Westmerland Henrie lord Persie Iohn lord Butler sonne to the earle of Ormond the lord Rosse the lord Matrauers the lord Welles the lord Barkelie sir Iames Butler sir Henrie Greie of Tankaruile sir Iohn Talbot sir Rafe Greie of Warke sir Robert Uéere sir Richard Greie sir Edmund Hungerford sir Water Wingfield sir Iohn Butler sir Reginald Cobham sir Iohn Passheleu sir Thomas Tunstall sir Iohn Chedocke sir Rafe Langstre sir William Drurie sir William ap Thomas sir Richard Carnonell sir Richard Wooduile sir Iohn Shirdlow sir Nicholas Blunket sir William Cheinie iustice sir William Babington sir Rafe Butler sir Robert Beauchampe sir Edmund Trafford sir Iohn Iune cheefe baron and diuerse others After this solemne feast ended a great aid and subsidie was granted for the continuance of the conquest in France and so therevpon monie was gathered and men were prepared in euerie citie towne and countrie During which businesse Thomas duke of Excester great vncle to the king a right sage and discréet councellor departed out of this mortall life at his manor of Gréenewich and with all funerall pompe was conueied through London to Berrie and there buried ¶ In the same yeare also died the ladie Elizabeth halfe sister to the same duke and of the whole bloud with king Henrie the fourth maried first to the lord Iohn Holland duke of Excester and after to the lord Fanhope buried at the blacke friers of London Philip Morgan after the death of Iohn Fortham line 10 sometime treasuror of England year 1425 bishop of Elie and Durham both which bishopriks for anie thing that I can yet sée he inioied both at one time was made bishop of Elie in the yeare of our redemption 1425 in this sort Henrie the sixt and manie of the nobilitie had written to the conuent of the church of Elie to choose William Alnewicke doctor of both lawes confessor to the king and kéeper of the priuie seale to be their bishop Notwithstanding which they hauing more regard to their owne priuileges and benefit line 20 chose Peter the prior of Elie to succéed in the place of Iohn Fortham But none of both these inioied that roome for Martin bishop of Rome stepping into the matter to make the third part neither fauouring the kings motion nor approouing the monks election remooued this William Morgan from the see of Worcester vnto Elie sometime called Helix as I haue séene it set downe in Saxon characters in an ancient booke of the liues of saints written in the Saxon toong about the yeare of Christ 1010 before the time of Edward the confessor and much about the time of line 30 Albo Floriacensis This Morgan sat at Elie nine yeares twentie and six wéeks and foure daies departing this life in his manour of Hatfield in the yeare 1434 and was buried at the Charterhouse of London being the twentie and fourth bishop that was installed in that place While these things were thus a dooing in England year 1426 the earle of Warwike lieutenant for the regent in France entered into the countrie of Maine line 40 besieged the towne of Chateau de Loire the which shortlie to him was rendered whereof he made capteine Matthew Gough esquier After this he tooke by assault the castell of Maiet and gaue it for his valiantnesse to Iohn Winter esquier and after that he conquered the castell of Lude and made there capteine William Gladesdale gentleman Here he was informed that the Frenchmen were assembled in the countrie of Beausse wherevpon he hasted thitherwards to haue giuen them battell but they hauing line 50
armes on the duke of Burgognions side year 1430 one Franquet and his band of three hundred souldiers making all towards the maintenance of the siege the Pusell Ione and a foure hundred with hir did méet In great courage and force did she and hir people sundrie times assaile him but he with his though much vnder in number by meanes of his archers in good order set did so hardilie withstand them that for the first and second push she rather lost than wan Wherat this captinesse striken into a fretting chafe called out in all hast the garrison of Laignie and from other the forts thereabout who thicke and threefold came downe with might and maine in armour and number so far excéeding Franquets that though they had doone hir much hurt in hir horsemen yet by the verie multitude were they oppressed most in hir furie put to the sword as for to Franquet that worthie capteine himselfe hir rage not appeased till out of hand she had his head stroken off contrarie to all manhood but she was a woman if she were that contrarie to common right law of armes The man for his merits was verie much lamented and she by hir malice then found of what spirit she was After this the duke of Burgognie accompanied with the earles of Arundell and Suffolke and the lord Iohn of Lutzenburgh besieged the towne of Campiegne with a great puissance This towne was well walled manned and vittelled so that the besiegers were constreined to cast trenches and make mines for otherwise they saw not how to compasse their purpose In the meane time it happened in the night of the Ascension of our Lord that Poiton de Saintreiles Ione la Pusell and fiue or six hundred line 10 men of armes issued out by the bridge toward Mondedier intending to set fire in the tents and lodgings of the lord Bawdo de Noielle ¶ In this yeare of our Lord among diuerse notable men of learning and knowledge one Richard Fleming English borne a doctor of diuinitie professed in Oxford did flourish who by the prouidence of God grew in such fauour with this king Henrie the sixt the nobles néere about him that he was preferred line 20 to the bishops see of Lincolne This man founded Lincolne college in Oxford in which vniuersitie he had beene a profitable student Diuerse bookes he wrote as the vniuersitie librarie dooth beare witnesse whereof these following haue béene séene vnder their names and titles to wit A protestation against the Spaniards the Frenchmen and the Scots made in the generall councell holden at Sens one booke of the Etymologie of England besides diuerse other treatises as Gesner reporteth Ex bibliotheca Oxonij aforesaid line 30 At the verie same time that Campeigne was besieged as before is said sir Iohn of Lutzenburgh with eight other gentlemen chanced to be néere vnto the lodging of the said lord Bawdo where they espied the Frenchmen which began to cut downe tents ouerthrow pauilions kill men in their beds whervpon they with all speed assembled a great number of men as well English as Burgognions and couragiouslie set on the Frenchmen and in the end beat line 40 them backe into the towne so that they fled so fast that one letted another as they would haue entered In the chase and pursute was the Pusell taken with diuerse other besides those that were slaine which were no small number Diuerse were hurt also on both parts Among the Englishmen sir Iohn Montgomerie had his arme broken and sir Iohn Steward was shot into the thigh with a quarell As before ye haue heard somewhat of this damsels strange beginning and proceedings so sith the line 50 ending of all such miraclemongers dooth for the most part plainelie decipher the vertue and power that they worke by hir shall ye be aduertised what at last became of hir cast your opinions as ye haue cause Of hir louers the Frenchmen reporteth one how in Campeigne thus besieged Guillaume de Flauie the capteine hauing sold hir aforehand to the lord of Lutzenburgh vnder colour of hasting hir with a band out of the towne towards their king for him with spéed to come and leauie the siege there so gotten hir line 60 foorth he shut the gates after hir when anon by the Burgognians set vpon and ouermatcht in the conflict she was taken marie yet all things accounted to no small maruell how it could come so to passe had she béene of any deuotion or of true beléefe and no false miscreant but all holie as she made it For earlie that morning she gat hir to saint Iameses church confessed hir and receiued hir maker as the booke termes it and after setting hir selfe to a piller manie of the townesmen that with a fiue or six score of their children stood about there to see hir vnto them quod she Good children and my déere freends I tell you plaine one hath sold me I am betraied and shortlie shall be deliuered to death I beséech you praie to God for me for I shall neuer haue more power to doo seruice either to the king or to the realme of France againe Saith another booke she was intrapt by a Picard capteine of Soissons who sold that citie to the duke of Burgognie and he then put it ouer into the hands of the lord of Lutzenburgh so by that meanes the Burgognians approched and besieged Campeigne for succour whereof as damsell Ione with hir capteins from Laignie was thither come and dailie to the English gaue manie a hot skirmish so happened it one a daie in an outsallie that she made by a Picard of the lord of Lutzenburghs band in the fiercest of hir fight she was taken and by him by and by to his lord presented who sold hir ouer againe to the English who for witchcraft and sorcerie burnt hir at Rone Tillet telleth it thus that she was caught at Campeigne by one of the earle of Ligneis soldiers from him had to Beaureuoir castell where kept a thrée months she was after for ten thousand pounds in monie and thrée hundred pounds rent all Turnois sold into the English hands In which for hir pranks so vncoush and suspicious the lord regent by Peter Chauchon bishop of Beauuois in whose diocesse she was taken caused hir life and beléefe after order of law to be inquired vpon and examined Wherein found though a virgin yet first shamefullie reiecting hir sex abominablie in acts and apparell to haue counterfeit mankind and then all damnablie faithlesse to be a pernicious instrument to hostilitie and bloudshed in diuelish witchcraft and sorcerie sentence accordinglie was pronounced against hir Howbeit vpon humble confession of hir iniquities with a counterfeit contrition pretending a carefull sorow for the same execution spared and all mollified into this that from thencefoorth she should cast off hir vnnaturall wearing of mans abilliments and kéepe hir to garments of
would haue said bicause he ended with the king and there so suddenlie stopped and exhorted him so familiarlie betweene them twaine to be bold to saie whatsoeuer he thought whereof he faithfullie promised there should neuer come hurt and peraduenture more good than he would weene and that himselfe intended to vse his faithfull secret aduise counsell which he said line 10 was the onelie cause for which he procured of the king to haue him in his custodie where he might reckon himselfe at home and else had he béene put in the hands of them with whome he should not haue found the like fauour The bishop right humblie thanked him and said In good faith my lord I loue not to talke much of princes as a thing not all out of perill though the word be without fault forsomuch as it shall not be taken as the partie ment it but as it pleaseth the prince to construe it line 20 And euer I thinke on Aesops tale that when the lion had proclaimed that on paine of death there should no horned beast abide in that wood one that had in his forehed a bunch of flesh fled awaie a great pace The for that saw him run so fast asked him whither he made all that hast And he answered In faith I neither wote nor recke so I were once hence bicause of this proclamation made of horned beasts What foole quoth the fox thou maiest abide well inough the lion ment not by thée for it is no horne line 30 that is in thine head No marie quoth he that wote I well inough But what and he call it an horne where am I then The duke laughed merilie at the tale and said My lord I warrant you neither the lion nor the bore shall pike anie matter at anie thing héere spoken for it shall neuer come néere their eare In good faith sir said the bishop if it did the thing that I was about to say taken as well as afore God I ment it could deserue but thanke and yet taken line 40 as I wéene it would might happen to turne me to to little good and you to lesser Then longed the duke yet much more to wit what it was Wherevpon the bishop said In good faith my lord as for the late protector sith he is now king in possession I purpose not to dispute his title but for the weale of this realme whereof his grace hath now the gouernance and whereof I am my selfe one poore member I was about to wish that to those good habilities whereof he hath alreadie right manie little néeding line 50 my praise it might yet haue pleased God for the better store to haue giuen him some of such other excellent vertues meet for the rule of a realme as our Lord hath planted in the person of your grace and there left againe The duke somewhat maruelling at his sudden pauses as though they were but parentheses with a high countenance said My lord I euidentlie perceiue and no lesse note your often breathing and sudden stopping in your communication so that to my line 60 intelligence your words neither come to anie direct or perfect sentence in conclusion whereby either I might perceiue and haue knowledge what your inward intent is now toward the king or what affection you beare toward me For the comparison of good qualities ascribed to vs both for the which I my selfe acknowledge and recognise to haue none nor looke for no praise of anie creature for the same maketh me not a little to muse thinking that you haue some other priuie imagination by loue or by grudge ingrauen and imprinted in your heart which for feare you dare not or for childish shamefastnesse you be abashed to disclose and reueale and speciallie to mee being your fréend which on my honor doo assure you to be as secret in this case as the deafe and dumbe person is to the singer or the tree to the hunter The bishop being somewhat bolder considering the dukes promise but most of all animated and incouraged bicause he knew the duke desirous to bee exalted and magnified and also he perceiued the inward hatred and priuie rancor which he bare toward king Richard was now boldened to open his stomach euen to the verie bottome intending thereby to compasâ—◠〈◊〉 to destroie and vtterlie confound king Richaâ—â— and to depriue him of his dignitie roiall or else to set the duke so on fire with the desire of ambition that he himselfe might be safe and escape out of all danger and perill Which thing he brought shortlie to conclusion both to the kings destruction and the dukes confusion and to his owne safegard and finallie to his high promotion And so as I said before vpon trust and confidence of the dukes promise the bishop said My singular good lord since the time of my captiuitie which being in your graces custodie I may rather call it a liberall libertie more than a streict imprisonment in auoiding idlenesse mother and nourisher of all vices in reading bookes and ancient pamphlets I haue found this sentence written that no man is borne frée and in libertie of himselfe onelie for one part of dutie he oweth or should owe to his parents for his procreation by a verie naturall instinct and filiall courtesie another part to his fréends and kinsfolke for proximitie of bloud and naturall amitie dooth euerie dutie chalenge and demand but the natiue countrie in the which he tasted first the swéet aires of this pleasant and flattering world after his natiuitie demandeth as a debt by a naturall bond neither to be forgotten nor yet to be put in obliuion Which saieng causeth me to consider in what case this realme my natiue countrie now standeth and in what estate and assurance before this time it hath continued what gouernour we now haue and what ruler we might haue For I plainelie perceiue the realme being in this case must needs decaie and be brought to vtter confusion and finall extermination But one hope I haue incorporat in my brest that is when I consider and in my mind doo diligentlie remember and dailie behold your noble personage your iustice and indifferencie your feruent zeale and ardent loue toward your naturall countrie and in like manner the loue of your countrie toward you the great learning pregnant wit and goodlie eloquence which so much dooth abound in the person of your grace I must needs thinke this realme fortunate yea twise more than fortunate which hath such a prince in store méet and apt to be a gouernour in whose person being indued with so manie princelie qualities consisteth and resteth the verie vndoubted similitude and image of true honour But on the other side when I call to memorie the good qualities of the late protector and now called king so violated and subuerted by tyrannie so changed and altered by vsurped authoritie so clouded and shadowed by blind and insatiable ambition yea and so suddenlie in manner by
nigh one hundred years He bestowed besides his owne labour which was great in hearing of stones c. aboue twentie pounds on the high waies about that towne of Wlfrunehampton This towne of Wlfrunehampton is now corruptlie called Wolnerhampton for in Anno 996 in king Ethelredstime who wrote himselfe Rex Anglorum line 40 princeps Northumbrorum Olympiade tertia regni sui for so he wrote the count of his reigne then which was the fiftéenth yeare it was then called Hampton as appeareth by an old charter written by the notarie of the said king Ethelred which charter I haue seene and read And for that a noble woman named Wlfrune a widow sometime wife to Althelme duke of Northampton did obteine of the said king to giue lands vnto the church there which she had founded the line 50 said towne tooke the addition of the same Wlfrune for that charter so nameth hir Wlfrune and the towne Hampton In this yeare was finished the goodlie hospitall of the Sauoie néere vnto Charing crosse which was a notable foundation for the poore doone by king Henrie the seauenth vnto the which he purchased and gaue lands for the releeuing of one hundred poore people This was first named Sauoie place by Peter earle of Sauoie father to Boniface archbishop of Canturburie about the nine and twentith yeare of line 60 king Henrie the third who made the said Peter erle of Richmond This house belonged since to the duke of Lancaster and at this time was conuerted to an hospitall still reteining the first name of Sauoie King Henrie also builded three houses of Franciscane friers which are called obseruants at Richmond Gréenewich and Newarke and three other of the familie of Franciscane friers which are called conuentuals at Canturburie Newcastell and Southhampton ¶ This yeare was Thomas Ruthall made bishop of Durham by Henrie the seauenth touching whose place of birth being at Cirencester now Cicester and himselfe I will not refuse to set downe what Leland about the yeare 1542 hath written not being vnfit héere to be recorded Cirencester saith he in Latine called Corinium standeth on the riuer Churne There haue beene thrée parish churches whereof saint Cicilies church is cleane downe being of late but a chappell Saint Laurence yet standeth but it is no parish church There be two poore almes women endued with land There is now but one parish church in all Cirencester that is verie faire the bodie of which church is all new worke to the which Ruthall bishop of Durham â—borne and brought vp in Cirencester promised much but preuented by death gaue nothing One Anne Aueling aunt to doctor Ruthall by the mothers side gaue one hundred markes to the building of that church King Henrie the first made the hospitall of saint Iohns at Cirencester Thus farre Leland This man thus borne at Cirencester in Glocestershire and made bishop of Durham was after the death of king Henrie the seauenth one of the priuie councell to king Henrie the eight in whose court he was so continuallie attendant that he could not steale anie time to attend the affaires of his bishoprike But yet not altogither carelesse though not so much as he ought to haue béene of the place and cause from whence and for which he receiued so great reuenues as came vnto his hands from that see He repaired the third part of Tine bridge next vnto the south which he might well doo for he was accompted the richest subiect through the realme To whome remaining then at the court the king gaue in charge to write a booke of the whole estate of the kingdome bicause he was knowne to the king to be a man of sufficiencie for the discharge thereof which he did accordinglie Afterwards the king commanded cardinall Woolseie to go to this bishop and to bring the booke awaie with him to deliuer to his maiestie But see the mishap that a man in all other things so prouident should now be so negligent and at that time most forget himselfe when as it after fell out he had most need to haue remembred himselfe For this bishop hauing written two bookes the one to answer the kings command and the other intreating of his owne priuate affaires did bind them both after one sort in vellame iust of one length bredth and thicknesse and in all points in such like proportion answering one an other as the one could not by anie especiall note be discerned from the other both which he also laid vp togither in one place of his studie Now when the cardinall came to demand the booke due to the king the bishop vnaduisedlie commanded his seruant to bring him the booke bound in white vellame lieng in his studie in such a place The seruant dooing accordinglie brought foorth one of those bookes so bound being the booke intreating of the state of the bishop and deliuered the same vnto his maister who receiuing it without further consideration or looking on gaue it to the cardinall to beare vnto the king The cardinall hauing the booke went from the bishop and after in his studie by himselfe vnderstanding the contents thereof he greatlie reioised hauing now occasion which he long sought for offered vnto him to bring the bishop into the kings disgrace Wherefore he went foorthwith to the king deliuered the booke into his hands and bréefelie informed the king of the contents thereof putting further into the kings head that if at anie time he were destitute of a masse of monie he should not need to séeke further therefore than to the cofers of the bishop who by the tenor of his owne booke had accompted his proper riches and substance to the value of a hundred thousand pounds Of all which when the bishop had intelligence what he had doon how the cardinall vsed him what the king said and what the world reported of him he was striken with such gréefe of the same that he shortlie through extreame sorrow ended his life at London in the yeare of Christ 1523. After whose death the cardinall which had long before gaped after the said bishoprike in singular hope to atteine therevnto had now his wish in effect which he the more easilie compassed for that he had his nets alwaies readie cast as assuring himselfe to take a line 10 trout following therein a prophane mans cautelous counsell and putting the same in practise who saith Casus vbique valet semper tibi pendeat hamus Quo minimè credis gurgite piscis erit The sicknesse which held the king dailie more and more increasing he well perceiued that his end drew néere and therefore meaning to doo some high pleasure to his people granted of his frée motion a generall pardon to all men for all offenses doone committed line 20 against anie his lawes or statutes théeues murtherers certeine other were excepted He paied also the fées of all prisoners in the gaoles in and about London
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
where he had line 20 by his oth neuerthelesse affirmed him so to be Whervpon in his examination that point being laid to his charge he answered that he tooke his oth with his outward man but his inward man neuer consented therevnto But being further accused of diuerse hereticall and damnable opinions that he held mainteined contrarie to the scripture at length being not able to defend the same he submitted himselfe to the punishment of the church Now when vpon this his submission hauing more libertie than before he had to talke with whome he line 30 would and other hauing libertie to talke with him he was incensed by some such as had conference with him that when his formall abiuration was sent him to read and peruse he vtterlie refused it and obstinatelie stood in all his heresies and treasons Wherevpon he was condemned afterwards on a paire of new gallowes prepared for him in Smithfield he was hanged by the middle and arme-holes all quicke and vnder the gallowes was made line 40 a fire wherewith he was consumed and burnt to death There were diuerse of the councell present at his death readie to haue granted him pardon if anie sparke of repentance would haue appeared in him There was also a pulpit prepared in which that renowmed preacher Hugh Latimer then bishop of Worcester by manifest scriptures confuted the friers errors and with manie godlie exhortations mooued him to repentance but he would neither heare nor speake line 50 A little before the execution an huge and great image was brought to the gallowes This image was fetched out of Wales which the Welshmen had in great reuerence and it was named Daruell Gatheren They had a prophesie in Wales that this image should set a whole forest on fire which prophesie was now thought to take effect for he set this frier Forrest on fire and consumed him to nothing The frier when he saw the fire come caught hold on the ladder which he would not let go but in that sort vnpatientlie line 60 tooke his death so as if one might iudge him by his outward man he appeared saith Hall to haue small knowledge of God and lesse trust in him at his ending otherwise he would haue béene persuaded to patience and a christian farewell to the world ¶ Upon the gallows that he died on was set vp in great letters these verses here following Dauid Daruell Gatheren As saith the Welshmen Fetched outlawes out of hell Now is he come with speare and shield In harnesse to burne in Smithfield For in Wales he maie not dwell And Forrest the frier That obstinate lier That wilfullie shall be dead In his contumacie The gospell dooth denie The king to be supreme head In Iulie was Edmund Cuningsbie atteinted of treason for counterfeiting the kings signe manuell and in August was Edward Clifford for the same cause atteinted and both put to execution as traitors at Tiburne In September by the speciall motion of the Lord Cromwell all the notable images vnto the which were made anie especiall pilgrimages and offerings were vtterlie taken awaie as the images of Walsingham Ipswich Worcester the ladie of Wilsdon with manie other and likewise the shrines of counterfeit saints as that of Thomas Becket and others And euen foorthwith by meanes of the said Cromwell all the orders of friers and nuns with their cloisters and houses were suppressed and put downe ¶ As for the images of our ladie of Walsingham and Ipswich were brought vp to London with all the iewels that hoong about them and diuerse other images both in England Wales wherevnto anie common pilgrimage was vsed for auoiding of idolatrie all which were burnt at Chelsie by the lord priuie seale On the first of September being sundaie one Gratnell hangman of London and two other were hanged at the wrestling place by Clearken well for robbing a booth in Bartholomew faire at which execution were aboue twentie thousand people as Edward Hall himselfe then a present beholder iudged This moneth of September Thomas Cromwell lord priuie seale vicegerent to the kings highnesse sent foorth iniunctions to all bishops curats through the realme charging them to see that in euery parish church the bible of the largest volume printed in English were placed for all men to read on and that a booke of register were also prouided and kept in euerie parish church wherein shall be written euerie wedding christening and burieng within the same parish for euer Saint Augustines abbeie at Canturburie was suppressed and the shrine goods taken to the kings treasurie as also the shrine of Thomas Becket in the priorie of Christs church was likewise taken to the kings vse and his bones scull and all which was there found with a peece broken out by the wound of his death were all burnt in the same church by the lord Cromwell The moonks there were commanded to change their habits c. The one and twentith of October the church of Thomas Becket in London called the hospitall of saint Thomas of Acres was suppressed Nicholas Gibson groser for this yeare shiriffe of London builded a free schoole at Ratcliffe néere vnto London appointing to the same for the instruction of thréescore poore mens children a schoolemaster and vsher with a stipend of ten pounds by the yere to the master and six pounds thirteene shillings foure pence to the vsher He also builded there certeine almes houses for fouretéene poore and aged persons who quarterlie receiue six shillings eight pence a peece for euer In this season sute was made to the king by the emperour to take to wife the duchesse of Millan but shortlie after that sute brake off bicause as was thought the emperours councell ment by a cautell to haue brought the king in mind to sue for a licence of the pope Then the duke of Cleue began to sue to the king that it would please him to match with his sister the ladie Anne which after tooke effect In Nouember one Iohn Nicholson otherwise called Lambert a priest was accused of heresie for holding opinion against the bodilie presence in the sacrament of the altar He appealed to the kings maiestie who fauourablie consented to heare him at a daie appointed against which daie in the kings palace at Westminster within the kings hall there was set vp a throne or seat roiall for the king with scaffolds for all the lords and a stage for Nicholson to stand vpon This Nicholson was esteemed to be a man well learned but that daie he vttered no such knowledge line 10 saith Hall as was thought to be in a man of that estimation Diuerse arguments were ministred to him by the bishops but namelie the king pressed him sore and in the end offered him pardon if he would renounce his opinion but he would not consent thereto and therefore he was there condemned and had iudgement and so shortlie after he was
Lanquet wrote an epitome of chronicles and also of the winning of Bullongne Iohn Shepre Leonard line 30 Cox wrote diuerse treatises one in English rhetorike whereof Bale maketh no mention Thomas Soulmon borne in the I le of Gernseie verie studious in histories as by his writings and notes it appeareth Iohn Longland bishop of Lincolne Maurice Chancie a Charterhouse moonke Cutbert Tunstall bishop of Duresme Richard Samson Alban Hill a Welshman an excellent physician Richard Croke verie expert in the Gréeke toong Robert Whittington borne in Staffordshire néere to Lichfield line 40 wrote diuerse treatises for the instruction of Grammarians Iohn Aldrige bishop of Carleill Iohn Russell gathered a treatise intituled Super iure Caesaris Papae he wrote also commentaries in Cantica William Roie Simon Fish a Kentishman borne wrote a booke called the supplication of beggers Iohn Powell and Edward Powell Welshmen wrote against Luther Edward died in Smithfield for treason in denieng the kings supremacie in the line 50 yeare 1540 Iohn Houghton gouernour of the Charterhouse moonks in London died likewise for treason in the yeare a thousand fiue hundred thirtie and fiue Iohn Rickes being an aged man forsaking the order of a frier Minor which he had first professed imbraced the gospell George Bullen lord Rochford brother to quéene Anne wrote diuerse songs and sonets Francis Bigod knight borne in Yorkeshire wrote a booke against the cleargie intituled De impropriationibus and translated certeine bookes from Latine into English he died for rebellion in the yeare a thousand fiue hundred thirtie and seauen Richard Wise Henrie Morleie lord Morleie wrote diuerse treatises as comedies and tragedies the life of sectaries and certeine rithmes William Boteuille alià s Thin restored Chaucers workes by his learned and painfull corrections Iohn Smith sometime schoolemaister of Heiton Richard Turpine borne of a worshipfull familie in England seruing in the garrison of Calis wrote a chronicle of his time he died in the yéere a thousand fiue hundred fortie and one and was buried in saint Nicholas church in Calis Sir Thomas Wiat knight in whose praise much might be said as well for his learning as other excellent qualities meet for a man of his calling he greattlie furthered to inrich the English toong he wrote diuerse matters in English méeter and translated the seauen penitentiall psalmes and as some write the whole psalter he died of the pestilence in the west countrie being on his iourneie into Spaine whither he was sent ambassadour from the king vnto the emperour in the yeare a thousand fiue hundred fortie and one Henrie Howard earle of Surrie sonne to the duke of Norffolke delighted in the like studies with sir Thomas Wiat wrote diuerse treatises also in English méeter he suffered at Tower hill as in the historie of this king before yée haue heard Iohn Field a citizen and lawyer of London wrote sundrie treatises as his owne answers vnto certeine articles ministred to him by sir Thomas More the bishop of Rochester Rastall and others when he was in prison for religion he wrote also a treatise of mans fréewill De seruo hominis arbitrio and collections of the common lawes of the land c Tristram Reuell Henrie Brinklow a merchant of London wrote a little booke which he published vnder thâ— name of Roderike Mors and also a complaint vpon London c Robert Shingletâ—n borne of a good familie in Lancashire wrote a treatise of the seauen churches and other things as of certeine prophesies for the which as some write he suffered at London being conuict of treason in the yeare 1544 William Parreie a Welshman wrote a booke intituled Speculum iuuenum Of strangers that liued here in this kings daies and for their works which they wrote were had in estimation these we find recorded by maister Bale Barnard Andreas a Frenchman borne in Tolouse an Augustin Frier and an excellent poet Adrian de Castello an Italian of Corneto a towne in Thuscaine he was commended vnto king Henrie the seuenth by the archbishop Morton and therevpon was first made bishop of Hereford and after resigning that sée was aduanced to Bath and Welles Andreas Ammonius an Italian of the citie of Luca secretarie to the king wrote diuerse treatises Iames Calco an Italian also of Pauia in Lumbardie by profession a Carmelite frier an earnest defender of the diuorse betwixt the king and the ladie Katharine Dowager disproouing the marriage beâ—wixt them to be in anie wise lawfull Thus farre the right high and renowmed Henrie the eight sonne and successor to Henrie the seuenth Edward the sixt sonne and successor to Henrie the eight AFter it had pleased almightie God to call to his mercie that famous prince king Henrie the eight the parlement as yet continuing and now by his death dissolued the executours of the said king and other of the nobilitie assembling themselues line 10 togither did first by sound of trumpet in the palace of Westminster and so through London cause his sonne and heire prince Edward to be proclamed king of this realme by the name of Edward the sixt king of England France and Ireland defender of the faith and of the churches of England and Ireland the supreame head he being yet but nine yeares and od moneths of age he was thus proclamed the eight and twentith of Ianuarie in the yeare of the world 5513 and after the birth of our line 20 Lord 1547 year 1547 according to the accompt of them that begin the yeare at Christmasse but after the accompt of the church of England in the yeare 1546 about the nine and twentith yeare of the emperor Charles the fift the three and thirtith of Francis the first of that name king of France and in the fift yeare of the reigne of Marie quéene of Scotland Shortlie herevpon the earle of Hertford with other of the lords resorted to Hatfield where the yoong king then laie from whence they conducted him with line 30 a great and right honorable companie to the Tower of London During the time of his abode there for the good gouernement of the realme the honour and suertie of his maiesties person his vncle Edward earle of Hertford was by order of the councell and the assent of his maiestie as one most méetest to occupie that roome appointed gouernour of his roiall person and protector of his realmes dominions and subiects and so proclamed the first of Februarie by an herald at armes and sound of trumpet through line 40 the citie of London in the vsuall places thereof as it was thought expedient The sixt daie of Februarie the earle of Hertford lord protector adorned king Edward with the order of knighthood remaining then in the Tower and therewith the king standing vp called for Henrie Hubbleshorne lord maior of the citie of London who comming before his presence the king tooke the sword of the lord protector and dubbed the said Hubblethorne knight he being the first that euer he
at Gréenwich vnder the kings banner his band of pensioners in number a hundred and fiftie euerie pensioner two great horsses and a gelding the lord Braie their lieutenant The duke of Northumberland great maister of the kings houshold vnder the white lion the ragged staffe fiftie The duke of Suffolke vnder the vnicorne in the starre a hundred and ten The lord marquesse of Winchester high treasuror vnder his banner the falcon one hundred men The marquesse of Northampton high chamberleine vnder the maidenhead a hundred The earle of Bedford lord priuie seale vnder the gote a hundred The erle of Warwike maister of the kings horsses vnder the white lion fiftie The erle of Huntington vnder his banner fiftie The earle of Rutland vnder the peacocke fiftie The earle of Penbroke vnder the greene dragon fiftie The lord Darcie vnder the maidens bodie fiftie The lord Cobham vnder the Saracens head fiftie The lord Clinton lord admerall vnder the anchor fiftie The lord warden of the fiue ports vnder the rose in the sunne beames one hundred Not long after the death of the said duke of Summerset and his complices it chanced the reuerend father in God maister doctor Ridleie then bishop of London to preach before the kings maiestie at Westminster In the which sermon he made a fruitfull and godlie exhortation to the rich to be mercifull vnto the poore and also to mooue such as were in authoritie to trauell by some charitable waie meane to comfort and reléeue them Wherevpon the kings maiestie being a prince of such towardnesse and vertue for his yeares as England before neuer brought forth and the same also being so well reteined and brought vp in all godlie knowledge as well by his déere vncle the late protector as also by his vertuous and learned scholemaisters was so carefull of the good gouernement of the realme and chieflie to doo and prefer such things as most speciallie touched the honor of almightie God And vnderstanding that a great number of poore people did swarme in this realme and chieflie in the citie of London and that no good order was taken for them did suddenlie and of himselfe send to the said bishop as soone as his sermon was ended willing him not to depart vntill that he had spoken with him and this that I now write was the verie report of the said bishop Ridleie who according to the kings commandement gaue his attendance And so soone as the kings maiestie was at leasure he called for him and made him to come vnto him in a great gallerie at Westminster where to his knowledge and the king also told him so there was present no mo persons than they two and therefore made him sit downe in one chaire and he himselfe in another which as it seemed were before the comming of the bishop there purposelie set caused the bishop maugre his teeth to be couered and then entered communication with him in this sort First giuing him most hartie thanks for his sermon and good exhortation he therein rehearsed such speciall things as he had noted and that so manie that the bishop said Trulie trulie for that was commonlie his oth I could neuer haue thought that excellencie to haue béene in his grace that I behâ—ld and saw in him At the last the kings maiestie much commended him for his exhortation for the reliefe of the poore But my lord saith he ye willed such as are in authoritie to be carefull therof and to deuise some good order for their reliefe wherein I thinke you meane me for I am in highest place and therefore am the first that must make answere vnto God for my negligence if I should not be carefull therein knowing it to be the expresse commandement of almightie God to haue compassion of his poore and néedie members for whome we must make an accompt vnto him And trulie my lord I am before all things most willing to trauell that waie and I doubt nothing of your long and approued wisedome and learning who hauing such good zeale as wisheth hâ—lpe vnto them but that also you haue had some conference with others what waies are best to be taken therein the which I am desirous to vnderstand and therefore I praie you saie your mind The bishop thinking least of that matter and being amazed to heare the wisdome and earnest zeale of the king was as he said himselfe so astonied that he could not well tell what to saie but after some line 10 pause said that as he thought at this present for some entrance to be had it were good to practise with the citie of London bicause the number of the poore there are verie great the citizens are manie also wise and he doubted not but they were also both pitifull mercifull as the maior his brethren other the worshipfull of the said citie And that if it would please the kings maiestie to direct his gratious letter vnto the maior of London willing him to call vnto him such assistants as he should thinke méet to line 20 consult of this matter for some order to be taken therein he doubted not but good should follow thereof And he himselfe promised the king to be one himselfe that should earnestlie trauell therein The king forthwith not onelie granted his letter but made the bishop tarie vntill the same was written and his hand and signet set therevnto and commanded the bishop not onelie to deliuer the said letter himselfe but also to signifie vnto the maior that it was the kings speciall request and expresse commandement line 30 that the maior should therein trauell and as soone as he might conuenientlie giue him knowledge how farre he had proceeded therein The bishop was so ioious of the hauing of this letter and that he had now an occasion to trauell in that good matter wherein he was maruellous zealous that nothing could more haue pleased and delighted him wherefore the same night he came to the maior of London who then was sir Richard Dobs knight and deliuered the kings letter and shewed his message line 40 with effect The maior not onelie ioiouslie receiued this letter but with all spéed agreed to set forward this matter for he also fauoured it verie much And the next daie being mondaie he desired the bishop of London to dine with him and against that time the maior promised that he would send for such men as he thought méetest to talke of this matter and so he did And sent first for two aldermen and six commoners and afterward were appointed more to the number line 50 of foure and twentie And in the end after sundrie méetings for by meane of the good diligence of the bishop it was well followed they agréed vpon a booke that they had deuised wherein first they considered of nine speciall kinds and sorts of poore people and those same they brought in these thrée degrees Thrée degrées of
from Edward the third and Iohn of Gant some made verses Amongst all other maister White then bishop of Lincolne in his poeticall veine being droonken with ioie of the marriage spued out certeine verses the copie whereof we haue here inserted to impart vnto common knowlege Philippi Mariae genealogia qua ambo principes ex Iohanne de Gandauo Eduarditertij Angliae Franciaeque regis filio descendisse ostenduntur Whito Lincolniense authore Ille parens regum Gandaua ex vrbe Iohannes Somersetensem comitem profert Iohannem Somersetensis venit hoc patre dux Iohannes Qui Margaretam Richemundi habuit comitissam Haec dedit Henricum qui regni septimus huius Henrico octauo solium regale reliquit Hoc patre propitio fausto quasi sydere nata Iure tenes sacram teneásque Maria coronam Verses of maister White bishop of Lincolne concerning the marriage of Philip and Marie Nubat vt Angla Anglo regina Maria Philippo Inque suum fontem regia stirps redeat Noluit humani generis daemon vetus hostis Sed Deus Anglorum prouida spes voluit Nollet Scotus inops timidúsque ad praelia Gallus Caesar Italia Flandria tota volet Noluit Haereticus stirps Caiphae pontificum grex Pontificum sed grex Catholicus voluit Octo vxorati Patres in daemone nollent Quinque Cathenati pro pietate volent Noluit Iohannes Dudley Northumbrius vrsus Sed fidum regni Concilium voluit Noluit aetatis nostrae Catilina Viatus Sed proceres plebs pia turba volet Nollet Graius dux Cantia terra rebellans Nos quoniam Dominus sic voluit volumus Clarior effectus repetat sua limina sanguis Cùm sit Philippo iuncta Maria viro But to procéed As soone as the feasting solemnitie of the said marriage was ended the king and quéene departed from Winchester and by easie iournies came to Windsore castell where the fift of August being sundaie he was stalled according to the order of the garter and there kept S. Georges feast himselfe in his roiall estate and the earle of Sussex was also the same time stalled in the order At which time an herald tooke downe the armes of England at Windsore and in the place of them would haue set the armes of Spaine but he was commanded to set them vp againe by certeine lords The seuenth of August was made a generall hunting with a toile raised of foure or fiue miles in length so that manie a déere that day was brought to the quarrie The eleuenth of August they remooued to Richmond and from thence the 27 of the same moneth they came by water to London landing at the bishop of Winchesters house through which they passed both to Southworke parke and so to Suffolke place where they lodged that night and the next daie being saturdaie and the nineteenth of August they being accompanied with a great number of nobles and gentlemen rode from thence ouer the bridge and passed through London vnto Westminster ¶ Now as the king came to London bridge as he entred at the drawbridge was a vaine great spectacle set vp two images representing two giants one named Corineus and the other Gogmagog holding betweene them certeine Latine verses which for the vaine ostentation of flatterie I ouerpasse And as they passed ouer the bridge there was a number of ordinance shot at the tower such as by old mens report the like hath not béene heard or séene these hundred yéeres From London bridge they passed to the conduit in Gratious stréet which was finelie painted and among other things the nine worthies whereof king Henrie the eight was one He was painted in harnesse hauing in one hand a sword and in the other hand a booke wherevpon was written Verbum Dei deliuering the same booke as it were to his sonne king Edward who was painted in a corner by him But herevpon was no small matter line 10 made for the bishop of Winchester lord chancellor sent for the painter and not onelie called him knaue for painting a booke in king Henries hand and speciallie for writing therevpon Verbum Dei but also ranke traitor villen saieng to him that he should rather haue put the booke into the quéenes hand who was also painted there for that she had reformed the church and religion with other things according to the pure and sincere word of God indéed The painter answered and said that if he had knowne that that line 20 had beene the matter wherefore his lordship sent for him he could haue remedied it and not haue troubled his lordship The bishop answered and said that it was the quéenes maiesties will and commandement that he should send for him and so commanding him to wipe out the booke and Verbum Dei too he sent him home So the painter departed but fearing least he should leaue some part either of the booke or of Verbum Dei in king Henries hand he wiped awaie a péece of his line 30 fingers withall Here I passe ouer and cut off other gauds and pageants of pastime shewed vnto him in passing through London with the flattering verses set vp in Latine wherin were blazed out in one place the fiue Philips as the fiue worthies of the world Philip of Macedonia Philip the emperor Philippus Audax Philippus Bonus Philip prince of Spaine and king of England In another poetrie king Philip was resembled by an image representing Orpheus and all English people resembled to brute and line 40 sauage beasts following after Orpheus harpe and dansing after king Philips pipe Not that I reprehend the art of the Latine verses which was fine and cunning but that I passe ouer the matter hauing other grauer things in hand and therefore passe ouer also the sight at Paules church side of him that came downe vpon a rope tied to the batlements with his head before neither staieng himselfe with hand or foot which shortlie after cost him his life But one thing by the waie I cannot let passe touching line 50 the yoong florishing rood newlie set vp against this present time to welcome king Philip into Paules church The setting vp of which rood was this and may make as good a pageant as the best Anno 2. Mariae Boner in his roialtie and all his prebendaries about him in Paules quéere the rood laid along vpon the pauement and also all the doores of Paules being shut the bishop with other said and soong diuers praiers by the rood that being doone they annointed line 60 the rood with oile in diuers places and after the annointing crept vnto it and kissed it After that they tooke the said rood and weied him vp and set him in his old accustomed place and all the while they were dooing thereof the whole queere sang Te Deum and when that was ended they rang the bels not onlie for ioy but also for the notable and great
marquesse of Excester cousine germane to king Henrie the eight as is said before For the said king and he were descended of two sisters Elizabeth and Katharine two of the daughters of king Edward the line 30 fourth which propinquitie of bloud notwithstanding the said marquesse for points of treason laid against him suffered at the tower hill the thirtith yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the eight to the great dolour of the most of the subiects of this realme who for his sundrie vertues bare him great fauour and goodwill After whose death this yoong gentleman his sonne being yet a child was committed prisoner to the tower where he remained vntill the beginning of line 40 the reigne of this quéene Marie as before you haue heard This gentleman as it appeared was borne to be a prisoner for from twelue yeares of age vnto thirtie he had scarse two yeares libertie within the which time he died and obteined quiet which in his life he could neuer haue In the moneth of Maie next following cardinall Poole who had bin a great labourer for peace betwéene the French king and the emperour being accompanied with Stephan Gardiner bishop of Winchester and chancellor of England line 50 the erle of Arundell lord steward and the lord Paget were sent by the king and quéene ouer the sea to Calis from thence went to the towne of Marke where they met with the ambassadors of the emperor and the French king From the emperour were sent the bishop of Arras with others From the French king was sent the cardinall of Loraine and the constable of France In this treatie cardinall Poole sat as president and vmpier in the name of the queene of England This peace was greatlie laboured line 60 where at the first there was much hope but in the end nothing was concluded wherefore the seauenteenth daie of Iune this assemblie was dissolued and the English ambassadours returned againe into England ¶ In this moneth of August in Suffolke at a place by the sea side all of hard stone and pibble called in those parts a shelfe lieng betwéene the townes of Oxford and Alborough where neuer grew grasse nor any earth was euer séene there chanced in this barren place suddenlie to spring vp without any tillage or sowing great abundance of peason whereof the poore gathered as men iudged aboue an hundred quarters yet remained some ripe some blossoming as manie as euer there were before To the which place rode the bishop of Norwich and the lord Willoughbie with others in great number who found nothing but hard râ—ckie stone for the space of thrée yards vnder the roots of those peason which roots were great and long and verie swéet in tast to the mouth of the eater c. On Bartholomew euen after the Lord maior and aldermen of London had rid about Bartholomew faire they came to Christes hospitall within Newgate where they heard a disputation betwéene the scholers of Paules schoole saint Anthonies schoole and the scholers of the said hospitall for whome was prouided thrée games which was three pennes the best pen of siluer and gilt valued at fiue shillings woone by a scholer of saint Anthonies schoole and the maister of that schoole had six shillings eight pence the second a pen of siluer parcell gilt valued at iiij shillings woone by a scholer of Paules schoole his maister had fiue shillings in monie the third a pen of siluer valued at thrée shillings woone by a scholer of the said hospitall and his maister had foure shillings And there were two preests maisters of arts appointed for iudges which had each of them a siluer rule for their paines valued at six shillings eight pence the peece The disputation being ended the maior and aldermen entred the hall where the children of the hospitall vse to dine and had fruit wine and so departed King Philip went ouer seas and landed at Calis on the fourth of September where he was honorably receiued by the lord deputie the maior of the staple of Calis an alderman of London named sir Andrew Iud presenting his maiestie with a purse a thousand marks of gold in it that night the king was lodged in staple inne and on the morrow he departed from Calis towards Brussels in Brabant to visit the emperor his father he gaue at his departing among the souldiors of the towne of Calis a thousand crownes of gold and there accompanied him in his iournie of English lords the earle of Arundell lord steward of the quéenes house the earle of Penbroke the earle of Huntington and others On Michaelmasse euen the prisoners that laie in the counter in Bredstréet were remoued to a new counter made in Woodstréet of the cities purchase building the which remoouing was confirmed by a common councell assembled at the Guildhall for that purpose On the last of September by occasion of great wind and raine that had fallen was such great floods that that morning the kings palace at Westminster and Westminster hall was ouerflowne with water vnto the staire foot going to the chancerie and kings bench so that when the lord maior of London should come to present the shiriffes to the barons of the excheker all Westminster hall was full of water And by report there that morning a whirriman rowed with his bote ouer Westminster bridge into the palace court and so through the staple gate and all the wooll staple into the kings stréet and all the marshes on Lambeth side were so ouerflowne that the people from Newington church could not passe on foot but were caried by bote from the said church to the pinfold neere to saint Georges in Southworke About this time the bishop of Lincolne Glocester and Bristow were sent in commission to Oxford by the popes authoritie to examine Ridleie and Latimer vpon certeine articles by them preached which if they would not recant and consent to the popes doctrine then had they power to proceed in sentence against them as heretikes and to commit them ouer to the secular power Those two doctors neuertheles stood constantlie to that which they had taught and would not reuoke for which cause they were condemned and after burned in the towne ditch at Oxford the sixtéenth daie of October In the time of whose examination bicause the bishops aforesaid declared themselues to be the popes commissioners neither Ridleie nor Latimer would doo them any reuerence but kept their caps on their heads wherefore they were sharplie rebuked by the bishop of Lincolne and one of the officers was commanded for to line 10 take of their caps Of these men and the maner of their death ye may read at large in the booke of the monuments of the church The one and twentith of October a parlement was holden at Westminster in the which amongst other things the queene being persuaded by the cardinall and other of hir clergie that she
head in the yeare from which the angels sang at the birth of the Messias one thousand fiue hundred thirtie and fiue being the seauen and twentith of the reigne of that king Henrie the eight which deliuered his kingdome from all subiection to the bishop of Rome Clement the seauenth of that name Reginald Poole noblie borne yoong sonne to sir Richard Poole knight of the garter by his wife Margaret countesse of Salisburie daughter to George duke of Clarence brother to K. Edward the fourth was made deacon cardinall of the title of saint Marie in Cosmeden by pope Paule the third of that line 10 name in the yeare that the mother of God brought foorth the sonne of man 1536 being the eight and twentith yeare of king Henrie the eight This man legat of pope Iulius the third comming into England in the yeare of our Lord 1554 being the second yeare of quéene Maries reigne was after made bishop of Canturburie on the fiue and twentith of March in the yeare of Christ 1556 being the third yeare of the reigne of the said quéene Marie and died the seauentéenth daie of Nouember in the yeare of line 20 Christ 1558 being the last daie of the reigne of the said quéene Marie or rather the next daie erlie in the morning at his house at Lambeth and was honorablie conueied to Canturburie where he was buried This man was the last English cardinall that liued and inioied that title of honour in England For although the English cardinall which followeth were created after him yet I suppose that he died much before him but he liued not in England at the same time that cardinall Poole died as farre as I can line 30 lerne Wherfore I still make this cardinall Poole the last English cardinall that was liuing in England Peter Peto borne of an ancient familie and one of the order of the frier minors obseruants whome Onuphrius calleth Angliae legatus was created cardinall by Paule the fourth of that name chéefe bishop of Rome in the yeare that the word became flesh 1557 being the fift yeare of quéene Marie Besides this number of thirtie cardinals there haue been manie other to the number of ten or more line 40 before the time that pope Innocent the first of that name did weald the charge of the Romane bishoprike as Matthew Parker late bishop of Canturburie a worthie antiquarie dooth witnesse and I my selfe haue obserued besides those which Onuphrius and the said Matthew Parker in the Latine booke of the archbishops of his owne sée haue recited But bicause neither they nor I haue yet atteined to their names we must and doo omit them and yet it may be that these thrée which follow named by Onuphrius being line 50 English names were Englishmen and part of the said number of ten cardinals whose names we doo not know which thrée cardinals were Hugh Foliot Peter Mortimer and Simon Braie But bicause I cannot certeinlie gather out of Onuphrius that they were Englishmen I dare not presume so to make them though in mine owne conceit I verelie suppose that they were borne in England for in vncerteine matters I dare not set downe anie certeintie Wherefore to set end to this cardinals discourse I will knit vp this matter with one onelie note line 60 drawne out of Matthew Parkers beforenamed booke of the liues of the bishops of Canturburie which is as followeth That this number and remembrance of our cardinals is not so wonderfull as is that computation of the Romane bishops which pope Iohn the two and twentith of that name hath gathered of his predecessors For he doth recite that out of the order of saint Benet or Benedict whereof himselfe was there haue issued foure and twentie popes 183 cardinals 1464 archbishops 3502 bishops and abbats innumerable Thus concluding that of all these our English cardinals with the description of their liues I will more largelie intreat in my booke intituled the Pantogrophie of England conteining the vniuersall description of all memorable places and persons aswell temporall as spirituall I request the reader to take this in good part till that booke may come to light Thus much Francis Thin who with the whéele of George Ripleie canon of Bridlington after the order of circulation in alchimicall art and by a geometricall circle in naturall philosophie dooth end this cardinals discourse resting in the centre of Reginald Poole the last liuing cardinall in England by whose death the said Francis tooke occasion to pase about the circumference of this matter of the cardinals of this realme Of such learned men as had written and did liue in the reigne of quéene Marie there were manie of whome no small number ended their liues also during that short time of hir reigne some by fire and others in exile Iohn Rogers borne in Lancashire wrote diuerse treatises translated the bible into English with notes and published the same vnder the name of Thomas Matthew he suffred in Smithfield the fourth of Februarie in the yeare 1555. Nicholas Ridleie bishop first of Rochester and after of London suffered at Oxford in the said yeare 1555. Hugh Latimer borne in Leicestershire sometime bishop of Worcester a notable preacher and a most reuerend father suffered at the same place and in the same daie and yeare with bishop Ridleie Iohn Hooper borne in Summersetshire bishop first of Glocester and after of Worcester suffered at Glocester in the yeare of our Lord 1555. Iohn Bradford borne in Manchester a notable towne in Lancashire a sober mild and discréet learned man suffered at London the first of Iulie in the said yeare 1555. Stephan Gardiner bishop of Winchester borne in the towne of saint Edmundsburie in Suffolke of king Henrie the eights councell and in king Edwards daies committed to ward within the tower released by quéene Marie made lord chancellor and so died a stout champion in defense of the popes doctrine and a great enimie to the professours of the gospell Iohn Philpot borne in Hamshire sonne to sir Peter Philpot knight was archdeacon of Winchester ended his life by fire in the yeare aforesaid 1555 the 18 of December going then on the foure fortith yeare of his age Thomas Cranmer borne in Notinghamshire archbishop of Canturburie a worthie prelat in sundrie vertues right commendable suffered at Oxford the one and twentith of March one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and six Richard Morison knight borne in Oxfordshire wrote diuerse treatises and deceassed at Strausburge the 17 of March 1556. Iohn Poinet borne in Kent bishop of Rochester first after of Winchester deceassed likewise at Strausburgh about the tenth or eleauenth of August in the yeare of our Lord 1556. Robert Record a doctor of physicke and an excellent philosopher in arithmetike astrologie cosmographie and geometrie most skilfull he was borne in Wales descended of a good familie and finallie departed this life in the daies of quéene Marie Bartholomew Traheron descended of a worshipfull
should be written and so onelie recited out of the booke said their booke was not readie then written but they were prouided to argue and dispute and therefore would for that time repeat in speech that which they had to saie vnto the first proposition This variation from the order and speciallie from that which themselues had by the said archbishop in writing before required adding thereto the reason of the apostle that to contend with words is profitable to nothing but to subuersion of the hearer séemed vnto the quéenes maiesties councell somewhat strange yet was it permitted without anie great reprehension bicause they excused themselues with mistaking the order and agréed that they would not faile but put it in writing and according to the former order deliuer it to the other part And so the said bishop of Winchester and his colleagues appointed doctor Cole deane of Paules to be the vtterer of their minds who partlie by spéech onelie and partlie by reading of authorities written and at certeine times being informed of his colleagues what to saiâ— made a declaration of their meanings their reasons to their first proposition Which being ended they were asked by the priuie councell if anie of them had anie more to be said and they said No. So as then the other part was licenced to shew their minds which they did according to the first order exhibiting all that which they meant to be propounded in a booke written which after a praier inuocation made most humblie to almightie God for the induing of them with his holie spirit and a protestation also to stand to the doctrine of the catholike church builded vpon the scriptures and the doctrine of the prophets and the apostles was distinctlie read by one line 10 Robert Horne bachellor in diuinitie late deane of Duresme And the same being ended with some likelihood as it séemed that the same was much allowable to the audience certeine of the bishops began to saie contrarie to their former answer that they had now much more to saie to this matter Wherein although they might haue béene well reprehended for such maner of cauillation yet for auoiding of any mistaking of orders in this colloquie or conference and for that they should vtter all that which they had to saie it line 20 was both ordered and thus openlie agreed vpon of both parts in the full audience that vpon the mondaie following the bishops should bring their minds and reasons in writing to the second assertion and the last also if they could and first read the same and that doone the other part should bring likewise theirs to the same And being read ech of them should deliuer to other the same writings And in the meane time the bishops should put in writing not onelie all line 30 that which doctor Cole had that daie vttered but all such other matters as they anie otherwise could thinke of for the same and as soone as they might possiblie to send the same booke touching that first assertion to the other part and they should receiue of them that writing which master Horne had there read that daie and vpon mondaie it should be agreed what daie they should exhibit their answers touching the first proposition Thus both parts assented thereto and the assemblie quietlie dismissed And therefore vpon mondaie line 40 the like assemblie began againe at the place houre appointed and there vpon what sinister or disordered meaning is not yet fullie knowne though in some part it be vnderstanded the bishop of Winchester and his colleagues and especiallie Lincolne refused to exhibit or read according to the former notorious order on fridaie that which they had prepared for the second assertion And therevpon by the lord kéeper of the great seale they being first gentlie and fauourablie required to kéepe the order appointed and that line 50 taking no place being secondlie as it behooued pressed with more earnest request they neither regarding the authoritie of that place nor their owne reputation nor the credit of the cause vtterlie refused that to doo And finallie being againe particularlie euerie of them apart distinctlie by name required to vnderstand their opinions therein they all sauing one which was the abbat of Westminster hauing some more consideration of order and his dutie of obedience than the other vtterlie and plainelie denied line 60 to haue their booke read some of them more earnestlie than others and some other more vndiscréetlie and vnreuerentlie than others Wherevpon giuing such example of disorder stubbornesse and selfewill as hath not béene séene and suffered in such an honourable assemblie being of the two estates of this realme the nobilitie and the commons besides the presence of the quéenes maiesties most honourable priuie councell the same assemblie was dismissed and the godlie and most christian purpose of the quéens maiestie made frustrate And afterwards for the contempt so notoriouslie made the bishops of Winchester and Lincolne hauing most obstinatelie both disobeied common authoritie and varied manifestlie from their owne order and speciallie Lincolne who shewed more follie than the other were condignelie committed to the tower of London and the rest sauing the abbat of Westminster stood bound to make dailie their personall appéerance before the councell and not to depart the citie of London and Westminster vntill further order were taken with them for their disobedience and contempt The three propositions wherevpon conference was determined to haue beene at Westminster 1 IT is against the word of GOD and the custome of the ancient church to vse a toong vnknowne to the people in common praier and the administration of the sacraments 2 Euerie church hath authoritie to appoint take awaie and change ceremonies and ecclesiasticall rites so the same bee to edification 3 It cannot be prooued by the word of God that there is in the masse offered vp a sacrifice propitiatorie for the quicke and the dead The names of such as had conference in the propositions aforesaid The B. of Winchester The bishop of Lichfield The bishop of Chester The bishop of Caerleill The bishop of Lincolne Doctor Cole Doctor Harpesfield Doctor Langdall Doctor Chedseie D. Scorie B. of Chiche Doctor Cox Maister Whitehed Maister Grindall Maister Horne Maister doctor Sands Maister Gest. Maister Elmer Maister Iewell The bishops and doctors sat on the one side of the quéere at a table for them prepared the other learned men sat at another table on the other side of the same queere And at the vpper end thereof at an other table sat the quéenes maiesties councell desiâ—ous to haue séene some good conclusion of the said conference although as ye may perceiue by that which is aboue recited it came to small effect In this meane time a treatie of peace which had béene in hand the last yeare first at Lisle and after at the abbeie of Cercampe a thrée leagues from Dorlens betwixt the two kings
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
the dispatch of the affaires of the kingdome committing the charge of line 50 his bishoprike to one Rafe sometime a moonke of Glastenburie and now become an apostata Great contention was betwéene this man and king Stephan He bought the treasurorship for the summe of foure hundred marks of Henrie the second for his sonne Richard Filius Nigelli or Fitz Nele otherwise called Richard of Elie. He gouerned the bishoprike six and thirtie yeares as most saie and builded saint Iohns college in Cambridge line 60 But touching the time of his death and the years of his bishoprike I cannot as yet set downe anie thing perfectlie but onelie this contradiction found in the written booke of Elie which I suppose to haue risen by the negligence of the transcriber which is that he gouerned the see of Elie six and thirtie years and died in the yeare of our Lord one thousand one hundred sixtie and six the third calends of Iune the first houre of the sixt ferie or fridaie Which by no account can fall to be true accounting from the time of the first obteining of the bishoprike in the thrée and thirtith yeare of Henrie the first in the yeare of our Lord one thousand one hundred thirtie and thrée For if you adde the six and thirtie yeares of his gouernement to the yeare of our Lord one thousand one hundred thirtie and thrée then must he die in the yeare of grace one thousand one hundred sixtie and nine And if you will haue him to die in the yeare one thousand one hundred sixtie and six then can he gouerne but thrée and thirtie yeares which thrée and thirtie added to the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred thirtie and thrée in which he began his gouernement as all authors agrée make the value of one thousand one hundred sixtie and six years of our Lord. So that considering the discordancie of the time of his death found in the written booke of his life we cannot I saie as yet set downe anie certeintie of his death Though I suppose that to be the truest which I find in Triuet who affirmeth that he died in the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred sixtie and nine and the fiftéenth of king Henrie the second after that he had gouerned six and thirtie yeares He was honorablie buried in the church of saint Ethelred of Elie before the altar dedicated to the holie crosse Richard de Elie or Fitzneale sonne of the said Nigellus bishop of Elie was made treasuror to K. Henrie the second by the purchase of his father Nigellus when the king went to the wars of Tolous Of whom the historie of Elie writeth that after the buriall of Nigellus his father this Richard being also an enimie to the church of Elie as his father had beene before made hast to passe ouer the seas to king Henrie the second fearing that some euill would be prepared against him if the church should haue sent anie other thither before him At whose comming to the king he accused the moonks of manie things and did therewith so edge the king against them that the king sending into England charged by Wunnerus one of his chaplens that the prior of Elie should be deposed the moonks with all their goods to be proscribed and banished This man being tresuror to king Henrie the second the treasure of the said Henrie the second at his death came vnto one hundred thousand marks notwithstanding the excessiue charges of the king manie waies Which Richard being bishop of London by the name of Richard the third and the kings treasuror was chosen to that sée in the yeare of our redemption one thousand one hundred eightie and nine being the first yéere of king Richard the first and was consecrated bishop at Lambeth by Baldwine archbishop of Canturburie in the yeare of Christ 1190 he died the fourthides of September in the yéere of grace 1198 being the ninth yeare of king Richard the first William of Elie being of kin to the last Richard bishop of London was treasuror to king Richard the first and to king Iohn To which William then treasuror Richard his kinsman the bishop of London An. Dom. 1196 being the seuenth yeare of the reigne of Richard the first and the same number of yeares of the gouernment of the said Richard in the bishoprike of London did giue all his houses in Westminster which the said William did long after giue to the abbat and moonks of Westminster as by the charter therof appeers by me in this sort abridged Vniuersis Christi fidelibus ad quos praesens scriptum peruenerit Gulielmus de Elie quondam regum Angliae thesaurarius salutem Nouerit vniuersitas vestrame dedisse c Deo monachis Westminster c pro animabus Richardi Iohannis regum Angliae pro anima Richardi London episcopi c domos meas curiam cum pertinentibus in villa Westminster c quas habui ex dono Richardi episcopi London quae sunt de feedo Westminster c testis Eustachius Fauconbridge domini regis thesaurarius c. He died in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred twentie two being the sixt yeare of the long reigne of king Henrie the third as noteth Matthew Paris and Westminster who write that then Obijt Gulielmus Eliensis Angliae thesaurarius A deane of Paules was treasuror to the king as appéereth by Mat. Parker in the life of Hubert archbishop of Canturburie writing after this maner Eodem tempore which was a time betwéene the creating of Hubert archbishop of Canturburie in the yéere of Christ 1194 being the sixt yeare of Richard the first and the death of the said Richard the first which fell in the yeare of Christ 1199 ecclesiae Paulinae decanus ararij regij custos fuit siue vt vocant thesaurarius and so goeth on with a discourse of his miserable death line 10 Walter Greie bishop of Worcester whom some call treasuror in the eleuenth of king Iohn wherevnto I doo not yet agrée leauing it to the iudgement of others and to the finall receiuing or reiecting of him in the large booke of the whole liues of the lord treasurors of England Geffreie archdeacon of Norwich treasuror to king Iohn who forsooke his maister the king excommunicat by the pope as writeth Matthew Parker in the life of Stephan Langton archbishop of Canturburie line 20 in these following words Inter quos meaning the bishops which durst not openlie publish the excommunication of the king but secretlie cast libels about the high waies which gaue notice therof quum ad fiscum regium Gaufridus Noruicensis archidiaconus negotijs regijs intendens sedisset coepit assidentibus exponere excommunicationis sententiam in regem iam latam affirmauÃtque non esse tutum capellanis ecclesiasticis dignitatibus beneficiÃsque affectis seruire regi ampliùs Ideóque aulam deserens ad ecclesiastica beneficia quae regis
as appeareth by the bookes of the law being chancellor deliuered a record with his hands into the court of the kings bench Of this man more shall be set downe hereafter in my discourse of the chancellors Roger Northborow as I take it being then bishop of Couentrie did honorablie possesse the place of the lord tresuror of England in the sixtéenth yéere of the reigne of king Edward the third being the yéere of our redemption one thousand three hundred fortie and two Of whome thus writeth Matthew Parker in the life of Iohn Stratford archbishop of Canturburie Ibi meaning at the tower concilium initum est tandémque definituÌ„ vt archiepiscopus episcopus Cicestrensis regni cancellarius Couentrensis thesaurarius vnà cum alijs a satellitibus lictoribus deprehensi ad publicam custodiam rerum à se absente rege gestarum rationem reddituri ducerentur Manè accedunt sateâ—lites Lametham sed archiepiscopus ei pridie decesserat tum Londinum reuersi Couentrensem Cicestrensem episcopos cum alijs designatis capiunt captos ad turâ—im deducunt c. William de Cusans being lord treasuror in the seauenteenth yeare of Edward the third in the yeare of our redemption one thousand three hundred fortie and thrée continued in the same office all Michaelmasse tearme in the eightéenth yeare of the said Edward the third and the yeare of Christ one thousand thrée hundred fortie and foure and being a yeare more Betweene whom Thomas Henlee abbat of Westminster was great contention about the iurisdiction of the hospitall of saint Iames in the parish of saint Margaret in Westminster which hospitall is now a statelie house belonging to the prince and built by king Henrie the eight called the manor of saint Iames with a parke walled about with bricke William de Edington lord chancellor and treasuror of England and bishop of Winchester was lord treasuror in Easter terme the ninetéenth yeare of Edward the third being about the yeare of our redemption one thousand thrée hundred fortie and fiue in which office he continued vntill the two and thirtith of the said king one thousand three hundred fiftie and eight being fourteene years which was as I thinke as manie more years as anie one man did possesse that place since the beginning of the reigne of king Edward the third vntill the time of this Wâ—llam Edington He was so surnamed of the place where hée was borne being the towne of Edington in Wiltshire he was made bishop of Winchester as some haue about the yeare of our redemption one thousand thrée hundred fortie and seuen being about the one and twentith yeare of king Edward the third This man chosen bishop of Canturburie but yet neuer bishop died as hath Walsingham in the fortith yeare of the reigne of king Edward the third being the yeare of our redemption one thousand three hundred sixtie and six I haue read of a bishop of Norwich that should also be treasuror in the foure and twentith of Edward the third which must fall in the time that this Edington did continue that office but how true it is I leaue to others to consider vntill I haue in my large booke of the liues of the lord treasurors dissolued that and all other doubts and contrarieties that are here touched or by authors reported Iohn bishop of Rochester was lord treasuror in the two and thirtith yeare of king Edward the third in the yeare of our redemption 1358 in which office he continued in the thirtie thrée and thirtie fourth yéere of Edward the third Simon Langham being of the priorie of Westminster made abbat of that house was shortlie after made lord treasuror of England which office he held in the fiue thirtith and six and thirtith yeare of king Edward the third who being bishop of London as hath Matthew Parker was in the yeare that the wordof the father tooke on it the forme of a seruant by due account 1361 being the fiue and thirtith yeare of king Edward the third by the pope made bishop of Elie where he sat fiue yeares and was after in the yeare of our redemption one thousand thrée hundred sixtie and six being the fortith yeare of the reigne of king Edward the third chosen bishop of Canturburie and consecrated in the yeare of our redemption 1367 as saith the same Matthew Parker On which daie of his consecration he demanded homage of the erle Stafford of Thomas Rosse Iohn Kirrell Robert Brockill Rafe Sentleger knights for their lands which they held of the sée of Canturburie Shortlie after which in the yere of our redemption one thousand three hundred sixtie and eight being the two and fortith yeare of the reigne of king Edward the third he was made cardinall died at Auimere the two and twentith daie of Iulie about the yeare of our redemption as saith one Anonymus M.S. 1376 being the fiftith yeare of king Edward the third and was buried besides Auinion in a place line 10 which he had raised from the foundation three yeares after which his bones were brought to Westminster where at this daie he hath one honorable toome on the south side of the shrine amongst the kings on whose toome the moonks of Westminster did sometime place this same epitaph in the remembrance of him Simon de Langham sub petris his tumulatus Istius ecclesiaemonachus fuerat prior abbas Sede vacante fuit electus Londoniensis line 20 Praesul insignis eligi sed postea primâ—s Totius regni magnus regÃsque minister Nam thesaurarius cancellarius eius Ac cardinalis in Roma presbyter iste Postque Praenestinus est factus episcopus atque Nuntius ex parte papae transmittitur istuc Orbe dolente pater quem nunc reuocare nequimus Magdalenae festo milleno septuageno Et ter centeno sexto Christi ruit anno Hunc Deus absoluat de cunctis quae malè gessit line 30 Et meritis matris sibi coelica gaudia donet Of this man I haue intreated in my discourse of the cardinals pag. 1165. and in my collection of all the chancellors of England hereafter following Iohn Barnet made bishop of Worcester in the yeare of our redemption one thousand thrée hundred sixtie and two being the six and thirtith yeare of king Edward the third was treasuror of England in the seuen and thirtith yeere of Edward the third in which office he continued being treasuror in Michaelmasse line 40 tearme in the eight thirtith yeare of the reigne of the said Edward the third which fell in the yeare of Christ one thousand three hundred sixtie foure and so he continued in the thrée fortith yéere of king Edward the third still treasuror He was made bishop of Bath in the yeare of our redemption 1363 in which bishoprike he remained thrée yeares and was by Urbane the sixt then bishop of Rome translated from Bath to Elie in the
and to set hir besides the cushion they themselues fell into the same snares which they had laied for others For not long after the queene by the helpe of the earle of Henauld and of sir Iohn his brother came into England with a great armie Whereof the king and the Spensers being affraied departed from London to Bristow leauing the bishop at London and made line 20 him custos of the same who requiring the keies of the gates of the citie of the maior the commoners tooke him and beheaded him as also his brother sir Richard Stapledon in Cheapside and carried his bodie to his house without Templebar there buried it in a sandhill namelie the fiftéenth of October in the yeare of our Lord one thousand thrée hundred twentie and nine But the quéene forgetting all discurtesies and reuerencing his calling commanded his corps to some more honourable buriall wherevpon line 30 the same was taken vp and brought to this citie and with great solemnitie was buried in his owne church vpon the eight and twentith of March where his epitaph by the writer thereof is set Thus after that he had béene bishop about twentie yeares he ended his daies 28 Iames Barkeleie vpon the six and twentith of March in the yeare of our Lord one thousand thrée hundred twentie and seauen before the buriall of his predecessor in his owne church was consecrated bishop line 40 of this citie He descended of the noble house of the lord Barkeleie and albeit he were reputed to be a verie godlie and a wise man yet he had no time to yéeld the triall thereof For he died in the fourth moneth after his consecration vpon the foure twentith daie of Iulie in the yeare of our Lord one thousand thrée hundred twentie and seauen and was buried in his owne church as some say but some thinke he neuer came hither at all 29 Iohn Grandesson being in Italie with pope line 50 Iohn the two twentith After the death of Iames Barkeleie the king presented him vnto the pope who accepted the presentation consecrated him bishop of this diocesse on the eight of October Anno 1327. He was borne and descended of the ancient house of the Grandessons dukes of Burgognie his father was named Gilbert the brother of Otho the great lord Grandesson Which Gilbert comming into this land was well interteined by the king and nobilitie and had a good liking of the countrie that by meanes of Henrie earle of Lancaster with whome he came line 60 into England he married ladie Sibill daughter and one of the heires to Iohn Tregos lord of the castell of Ewas néere Hereford east and by hir had issue fiue sonnes and foure daughters of which this bishop was one and was borne in the parish of Ashperton in the diocesse of Hereford He was from his childhood verie well afftected to learning and became a good scholar and professor of diuinitie of which method he wrote two books the one intituled Pontificales maiores and the other Pontificales minores He was also verie graue wise and politike and therby grew into such credit with pope Iohn the two and twentith that he was not onelie of his priuie councell but also Nuntius apostolicae sedis and in all matters of weight and importance an ambassadour for him to the emperour to the kings of Spaine of France of England and of all others the mightiest princes of christendome And being on a time sent in an ambassage to king Edward the third he did with such wisedome and grauitie behaue himselfe that the king was rauished in loue with him and did so tenderlie loue and fauour him that he neuer ceassed vntill he had procured him from the pope and then he gaue him the archdeaconrie of Notingham and bestowed great liuings on him He made him one of his priuie councell and in the end preferred him to this bishoprike After this there being some disliking betwéene pope Clement the sixt and the king he for his approoued wisedome was sent in an ambassage to the pope in the yeare of our Lord one thousand thrée hundred fortie and thrée for an intreatie of a peace and an amitie betweene them to be had and with such wisedome he did his message that he obteined his purpose and made a reconciliation After his returne home to his bishoprike he was altogither giuen in dooing some good things He builded founded the college of saint Marie Otreie and indowed the same with great and goodlie liuelihoods he was a liberall benefactor to the vicars chorall of his owne church as also to the college of Glasneie in Perrin he builded the two last arches in the west end of his church vauted the roofe of all the church and fullie performed and ended the buildings of the same and then inriched his said church with plate ornaments and great riches Also he builded a verie faire house in his sanctuarie at bishops Teington which he gaue and left full furnished unto his successors and did impropriate vnto the same the parsonage of Radwaie to the end as he setteth downe in his testament Vt haberent locum vndè caput suum reclinarent si fortè in manum regis eorum temporalia caperentur and which his halsening in the end came partlie to effect For not onelie the most part of the temporalties of this bishoprike but this new builded house and impropriation are come to be the possessions and inheritances of temporall men This bishop waxed old and féeling in himselfe a decaie of nature made his last will and testament wherein he made such large and bountious legacies to the pope emperour king queene archbishop bishops colleges churches and to sundrie persons of high estates and callings that a man would maruell considering his great and chargeable buildings works otherwise how and by what meanes he could haue atteined to such a masse of welth and riches but his wisedome and policie considered it was easie For first he sequestrateth from himselfe and out of his house the troope of manie men and horsses reteining and kéeping no more than to serue his reasonable estate his diet was frugall his receipts great his expenses no more than necessarie Moreouer he had taken and set an order with all the ecclesiasticall persons of his diocesse that at the time of their deaths they should leaue and bequeth all their goods to him or to some other in trust In pios vsus towards his chargeable buildings and so well he was beloued and his dooings liked that they all accepted this his order by meanes whereof he grew within the course of fortie yeares to infinite wealth and riches He was in all his life time a plaine man and void of all vaine glorie and pompe and preuenting that none should be vsed at his buriall commanded the same to be doone plainelie simplie and that none of his executors chapleins seruants nor none of his houshold should weare anie moorning blacke
writing praieng for reformation Which his spéeches were so effectuallie vttered and his articles so pithilie penned that both the king and the clergie did not onelie with great liking and allowance praise and commend the same but also tooke order that there should be a prouinciall councell called out of hand for a reformation Which was then promised but not performed by reason of the kings death which not long after followed But yet in the waie of good spéed it was then concluded and agréed that euerie third benefice being of the gift of anie of the prelats or of anie monasterie should from thenseforth for seauen yeares be giuen to some scholar of Oxford or Cambridge This bishop after he had liued fiue and thirtie yeares in this bishoprike died and was buried in the north wall of the queere in his owne church After whose death manie miracles were said and deuised to be doone at his toome wherevpon great pilgrimages were made by the common people to the same 34 George Neuill succéeded Edmund Lacie and was consecrated in the feast of saint Katharine in the yeare of Christ one thousand foure hundred fiftie line 10 and fiue he was of a noble parentage being the second son at Richard Neuill earle of Sarisburie he finished and ended the chapter house which his predecessor had begun And after that he had beene bishop about ten yeares he was remooued to Yorke and made archbishop there in the yeare of Christ one thousand foure hundred thrée score and fiue 35 Iohn Booth after the translation of George Neuill to Yorke was consecrated bishop vnder Thomas Burscher archbishop of Canturburie vpon line 20 the two and twentith daie of Februarie in the yeare of our Lord one thousand foure hundred three score and six He was by profession a ciuillian and a batchelor of the same he gouerned his church verie well and builded as some suppose the bishops sée in the queere But being werie of the great troubles which were in this countrie betwéene king Edward the fourth and the earle of Warwike he remooued from hense to his house of Horsleigh in Hamshire where in the twelfe yere of his bishoprike he died vpon the line 30 fift of Aprill in the yeare of our Lord one thousand foure hundred seuentie and eight and lieth buried at saint Clements in London 36 Peter Courtneie immediatlie after the death of Iohn Booth was presented to this bishoprike and consecrated by Thomas archbishop of Canturburie in Nouember in the yeare of our Lord one thousand foure hundred seuentie and seuen at saint Stephans in Westminster he was the son of sir Philip Courtnie of Powderham his mother was named Elisabeth line 40 daughter to Walter lord Hungerford He for his wisedome and good behauiour was in great fauor credit with king Henrie the seauenth by whose means he was translated from this church to Winchester in the ninth yeare of his being bishop here and in the fift yeare of his being there he died vpon the twentith daie of December in the yere one thousand foure hundred ninetie and one and lieth buried in his owne church He finished the north tower of saint Peters and gaue the clocke bell which is in the line 50 same and which beareth the name Peter 37 Richard Fox vpon the remoouing of Peter Courtneie was consecrated bishop of this church vnder Thomas archbishop of Canturburie in the yeare of our Lord one thousand foure hundred thrée score and six He was a verie wise man and in great credit and estimation with king Henrie the seuenth vnto whome he was a faithfull councellor and of his councell with whom he acquainted himselfe at Paris when he was there a student For king Henrie line 60 then erle of Richmond being at Uenice and aduertised how the nobilitie of England was bent to haue him for their king came from thense to Paris and sought vnto Charles then king of France for aid and helpe in which the earle his sutes this Fox was a speciall traueller and councellor and in the end God giuing the succes the erle obteined the crowne and hauing had due triall of the fidelitie wisedome trust of this bishop he made him lord priuie seale and kept and vsed him his aduise in all his weightie matters as well at home as abrode He being ambassador sundrie times to the kings of France and Scotland and of a verie hartie good will and loue the king made him godfather to his second son king Henrie the eight There was a kind of emulation betwéene this bishop and the earle of Surreie both of them being verie wise and of great seruice to the king and commonwealth howbeit in some diuersitie of respects the one hauing no issue to care for did deale without anie priuat affection or singular gaine and the other hauing issue was desirous to aduance his house and honor These affections did bréed some dislike betwéene them two yet the king finding a faith vnto himselfe and a commoditie to the commonwealth misliked it not if the same excéeded his measure and they more warme than commendable for their callings and estates The king then or the councell would deale betwene them for the appeasing and pacifieng of them and to them he was both friendlie louing and liberall The one he deliuered out of the tower pardoned him of his offenses restored him to his lands receiued him into speciall fauor made him of his priuie councell as also lord treasuror of England and his generall into Scotland augmented his liuelihoods The other he first made bishop to this church then remooued him to Bath and from thense vnto Durham and lastlie vnto Winchester Erasmus in his booke intituled The preacher or Ecclesiastes declareth how that the king vpon a time wanting some péece of monie was to borow the same of the commons and of the clergie And for the dealings with the clergie the matter was by commission committed to this bishop Who when they came before him vsed all the excuses that they could to shift themselues from lending of anie monie Some came verie séemelie and well apparelled and awaited vpon by their men according to their liuelihoods and these alledged that they were greatlie charged in hospitalitie and house kéeping with other charges incident to the same so that they had no monie therefore could paie none Some came poorelie and barelie apparelled and they alledged that their liuelihoods were but small and yet their charges were great and by that meanes the world was so hard with them that they had it not to spare This bishop hauing heard all these excuses vsed this dilemme To the richer sort he said Forsomuch as you are so well and séemelie apparelled and doo kéepe so great houses and haue all things necessarie about you it is a manifest argument that you haue some store about you or else you would not doo as ye doo and therefore yee must néeds lend To the other who pretended
this bishoprike which sometimes was counted one of the best is now become in temporall lands one of the meanest and according to the foreprophesieng of bishop Grandesson a place scarse left for the bishop to laie and rest his head in and yet neuerthelesse he was a great fauourer of learned men and especiallie of diuines whome he preferred in his church aboue others He was verie bountions and liberall vnto all men but especiallie vnto courtiers vnto his owne kindred and countriemen Upon manie he bestowed much to the confusion of some of them and vpon the others he spent much by building of a towne called Sutton Colshull where he was borne which he procured to be incorporated and made a market towne and set vp therein making of kearsies but all which in the end came to small effect In his time after the death of king Henrie the eight there was an alteration of religion by king Edward the sixt wherof insued a rebellion commotion in this diocesse which in some part was imputed to this bishop bicause he laie farre from it and dwelled in his owne countrie Wherevpon he resigned the bishoprike into the kings hands after that he had beene bishop about thirtie yeares and liued by the rents of the temporaltie of the bishoprike which when he alienated and discontinued he did receiue vnto him for terme of his owne life 43 Miles Couerdale after the resignation of Uoiseie was by king Edward made bishop of this citie consecrated at Lambeth by Thomas Cranmer archbishop of Canturburie in the yeare of our Lord one thousand fiue hundred and fiftie He was borne in the north countrie and from his childhood giuen to learning wherein he profited verie much he was one of the first which professed the gospell in this land in the time of king Henrie the eight he translated the bible out of the Hebrue into English and wrote sundrie bookes vpon the scriptures Which doctrine being verie new and strange in those daies and he verie streightlie pursued by the bishops made his escape passed ouer into low Germanie where he printed the bibles of his translation and sent them ouer into England and therof made his gaine wherby he liued But the bishops namelie D. Stokesleie bishop of London when he heard hereof and minding to preuent that no such bibles should be dispersed line 10 within this realme made inquirie where they were to be sold and bought them all vp supposing that by this meanes no more bibles would be had but contrarie to his expectation it fell out otherwise For the same monie which the bishop gaue for these bookes was sent ouer by the merchant vnto this Couerdale and by that meanes he was of that wealth and abilitie that he imprinted as manie more and sent them ouer into England but he was then so narrowlie sought for that he was driuen to remooue line 20 himselfe out of Flanders into Germanie and dwelled vnder the Palsegraue of Rhene where he found much fauour First he taught yoong children and hauing learned the Dutch toong the prince Palatine gaue him a benefice named Burghsaber where he continued and liued verie well partlie by that benefice and partlie by the liberalitie of the lord Cromewell who was his good lord and reléeued him verie much At length when the religion was altered in England and the gospell had a frée passage he returned line 30 did verie much good in preaching of the same And when the commotion in Deuon was for religion he was appointed to attend the lord Russell when he came to suppresse the same and verie shortlie for his learning and godlie life was made bishop of this see who most worthilie did performe the office committed vnto him He preached continuallie vpon euerie holie daie and did read most commonlie twise in the wéeke in some one church or other within this citie He was after the rate of his liuings a great kéeper line 40 of hospitalitie verie sober in diet godlie in life friendlie to the godlie liberall to the poore and courteous to all men void of pride full of humilitie abhorring couetousnesse and an enimie to all wickednesse and wicked men whose companies he shunned and whom he would in no wise shrowd or haue in his house and companie His wife a most sober chast and godlie matrone his house and houshold another church in which was exercised all godlinesse and vertue No one person being in his house which line 50 did not from time to time giue an account of his faith and religion and also did liue accordinglie And as he had a care for the successe in religion so had he also for the direction of the gouernement in ecclesiasticall causes And bicause he was not skilfull therin neither would be hindered from his godlie studies and be incombered with such worldlie matters which neuertheles he would haue be doone in all vprightnesse iustice and equitie he sent to Oxford for a learned man to be his chancellor and by the ministerie line 60 of the writer hereof he procured and obteined one master Robert Weston doctor of the ciuill law afterwards lord chancellor of Ireland vnto whome he committed his consistorie and the whole charge of his ecclesiasticall iurisdiction allowing vnto him not onelie all the fées therevnto apperteining but also lodged and found him his wife familie horsse and man within his owne house and gaue him a yearelie pension of fortie pounds And surelie the bishop was no more godlie and carefull of his part concerning preaching but this man also was as diligent and seuere in dooing of his office without reproch of being affectionated or corrupted And notwithstanding this good man now a blamelesse bishop liued most godlie and vertuous yet the common people whose old bottels would receiue no new wine could not brooke nor digest him for no other cause but bicause he was a preacher of the gospell an enimie to papistrie a married man Manie deuises were attempted against him for his confusion sometimes by false suggestions sometimes by open railings and false libels sometimes by secret backbitings and in the end practised his death by impoisoning but by Gods prouidence the snares were broken and he deliuered After that he had béene bishop about thrée yeares king Edward died and then queene Marie hauing the crowne the religion was altered and he depriued And notwithstanding the malice of prelats and archpapists was most bitter against him and who had sworne his death yet by the goodnesse of God he was most miraculouslie preserued and deliuered from out of their hands at the sute and by the meanes of the king of Denmarke who so earnestlie sued so often wrote to the quéene for him that he was deliuered and sent vnto him with whome after that he had staied a while he went againe into Germanie to the Palsgraue who most louinglie receiued him placed him againe in his former benefice of Burghsaber where he continued vntill the death of quéene
like a fether being hollow with one eare growing on the lower part of the chéeke his bellie big and hard the armes big hauing fiue fingers and a thumbe on either hand and in place of toes on the left foot fiue fingers and a thumbe on the right foot a thumbe and seuen fingers in the place of priuitie the shape both of male female a strange sight to be seene and I feare signifieth our monstrous line 50 life which God for his mercie giue vs grace to amend without procrastination or putting off from daie to daie as the poet significantlie saith Cras vultis sed vult hodie vindex Deus cras Aut non vult aut vos obruet atra dies The eight daie of October immediatlie after the new moone there appeared a blasing star in the south bushing toward the east which was nightlie séene the aier being cléere more than two moneths The eighteenth of October were made eight sergeents line 60 at law to wit William Fléetwood recorder of London Edward Flowerdue Thomas Snag William Periam Robert Halton Iohn Clench Iohn Pickering Thomas Warmsleie maister Snag before named was sicke and therefore was sworne in his chamber at Greies inne the other seuen were sworne at Westminster and held their feast at the new Temple at London The quéenes maiestie being informed that in sundrie places of this realme certeine persons secretlie taught damnable heresies contrarie to diuers principall articles of our beléefe and christian faith who to colour their sect named themselues the familie of loue and then as manie as were allowed by them to be of that familie to be elect and saued and all others of â—hat church soeuer they be to be reiected and damned And for that vpon conuenting of some of them before the bishops ordinaries it was found that the ground of their sect is mainteined by certeine lewd hereticall and seditious books first made in the Dutch toong and lastlie translated into English and printed beyond the seas secretlie brought ouer into the realme the author whereof they name H. N. c. And considering also it is found that those sectaries held opinion that they may before anie magistrat or ecclesiasticall or temporall or anie other person not being professed to be of their sect by oth or otherwise denie anie thing for their aduantage so as though manie of them are well knowne to be teachers and spreaders abroad of these dangerous and damnable sects yet by their owne confession they can not be condemned Therefore hir maiestie being verie sorie to sée so great an euill by malice of the diuell to be brought into this hir realme and by hir bishops and ordinaries she vnderstandeth it verie requisit not onelie to haue those dangerous heretiks and sectaries to be seuerelie punished but that also all other meanes be vsed by hir maiesties roiall authoritie which is giuen hir of God to defend Christs church to root them out from further infecting of hir realme she hath thought méet and conuenient and so by hir proclamation commandeth that all hir officers and ministers temporall shall in all their seuerall vocations assist the bishops of hir realme and all other person to search out all persons dulie suspected to be either teachers or professors of the foresaid damnable sects and by all good meanes to proceed seuerelie against them being found culpable by order of the lawes ecclesiasticall or temporall and that all search be made in all places suspected for the books and writings mainteining the said heresies and sects and them to destroie and burne c as more at large may appéere by the said proclamation giuen at Richmond the third of October and proclamed at London on the ninetéenth daie of the same moneth About this time there arriued vpon the west coast of Ireland a certeine companie of Italians and Spaniards sent by the pope to the aid of the earle of Desmond in his rebellion which fortified themselues stronglie néere vnto Smerwike in a fort which they called castell del Ore there erecting the popes banner against hir maiestie Which when the lord Greie of Wilton deputie of Ireland vnderstood he marched thitherward and on the sixt of Nouember hearing of the arriuall of the Swift the Tigre the Aid the Merlion other of the quéenes maiesties ships and also of thrée barks fraughted from Corke and Limerike with vittels on the morrow after marched towards the fort vnto the which he gaue so hot an assault that on the ninth of Nouember the same was yéelded all the Irishmen and women hanged and more than foure hundred Spaniards Italians and Biscaies put to the sword the coronell capteins secretarie and others to the number of twentie saued for ransome In which fortresse was found good store of monie bisket bakon oile wine and diuerse other prouisions of vittels sufficient for their companie for halfe a yeare besides armour powder shot and other furniture for two thousand men and vpwards The eight and twentith daie of Nouember were arreigned in the kings bench William Randoll for coniuring to know where treasure was hid in the earth and goods felloniouslie taken were become Thomas Elks Thomas Lupton Rafe Spacie and Christopher Waddington for being present aiding and procuring the said Randoll to the coniuration aforesaid Randoll Elks Spacie and Waddington were found guiltie had iudgement to be hanged Randoll was executed the other were repriued About the 24 of December in the town of Walsham in the countie of Sussex a child of eleuen yéers old named William Withers laie in a trance for the space of ten daies without anie sustenance and at the last comming to himselfe he vttered to the standers by manie strange spéeches inueieng against pride couetousnesse coldnesse of charitie and other line 10 outragious sins To behold this child there resorâ—â—d diuerse godlie zelous preachers as also knights esquiers gentlemen all of them hearing and séeing that which was woonderfull And among others that came thither there was a gentleman of great credit and worship with certeine of his men to heare and behold the child who hauing espied a seruingman that had béene there with his maister two times whom he had sharplie tawnted for his great and monstrous ruffes spake vnto him verie vehementlie line 20 and told him that it were better for him to put on sackecloth and mourne for his sinnes than in such abhominable pride to pranke vp himselfe like the diuels darling the verie father of pride and lieng who sought by the exercise of that damnable sinne to make himselfe a preie to euerlasting torments in helfire Wherevpon the seruingman as one prickt in conscience sore sorowed and wept for his offense rent the band from his necke tooke a knife and cut it in péeces and vowed neuer to weare the like againe line 30 This for the strangenesse thereof will be condemned as a lie speciallie of vnbeléeuers and peruers
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
Edward the fourth in the yeare of our Lord one thousand foure hundred thrée score and foure Cornelius Hibernensis Cornelius Tacitus Albertus Crantz Iohn Caius died in the reigne of our quéene Elisabeth William Campden now liuing George Cauendish gentleman vsher vnto cardinall Woolseie whose life he did write Iohn Clinu or Linu an Irishman he flourished in the yere of Christ one thousand three hundred and fiftie Rafe Coggeshall abbat of Coggeshall in Essex liued in the time of king Henrie the third and writ the appendix to Radulphus Niger Thomas Cooper bishop of Winchester now liuing Richard Carguent flourished in the daies of king Edward the first Thomas Churchyard now liuing D Demetrius a Britaine Diodorus Siculus Dionysius line 10 Dion Cassius Thomas Dando a Carmelit frier of Marleborow writ the life of Alphred king of Mercia or rather of west Saxons and liued in the time of king Henrie the sixt Diouionensis Dolensis writ De laudibus Britonum E Edmerus a moonke of Canturburie liued in the time of Henrie the second Elwardus Eutropius a Romane préest Enguerrant de Monstrellet a Frenchman and scholer in Paris in the time of king Henrie the fift Edmund Campian a Iesuit line 20 brought vp in Oxford executed in the yere of our Lord 1581 Iohn Euersoen a moonke of Burie flourished in the time of king Edward the first and so continued in the time of king Edward the third Ernulphus bishop of Rochester liued in the time of king Henrie the second and compiled Textus Roffensis conteining the grants of the lands to the same house the copies of sundrie ancient lawes in the Saxon toong Thomas Elmeham prior of Lenton F Robert Fabian alderman of London liued in line 30 the time of Henrie the seuenth Geffreie Fenton now liuing Samuell and Abraham Flemings both liuing brethren by one bellie and Londoners borne Quorum prior historiolam quandam de regimine Mariae nuper Anglorū principis eámque elegantem Latino idiomate nunquā tamē excusam cōtexuit posterior in hisce chronicis detergēdis atque dilatandis vna cum vberrimorū indicum accessione plurimùm desudauit Iohannes Fibernis or Beuer writ the historie of Westminster Iohn Froissart Ferculphus Flaccus Albinus or Alcuinus Philip line 40 Flattesberie a woorthie Irish gentleman flourished in the yere 1517 Iohn Fourdon a Scot Iohn Fox a learned diuine that writ the Acts and Monuments and is now liuing George Ferres liuing in the yere of our Lord one thousand fiue hundred thrée score and eight Fabius Questor Florentius Wigornius died about the yeare of our Lord one thousand one hundred and eightéene being about the eightéenth yeare of king Henrie the first G Robert Gagwin a Frenchman Iohn Greie line 50 bishop of Norwich in king Iohns time Thomas Gardiner a moonke of Westminster in the time of Henrie the eight Robert Glouer by office named Somerset now liuing a most rare antiquarie and woorthily deseruing to be named Scientissimus antiquitatū Francis Guiciardine an Italian liuing in the yeare of our Lord one thousand fiue hundred three score and eightéene Laurence Guiciardine Gildas Sapiens Gildas Cambrensis Gildas Badonicus Gildas Albanius Geffreie of Munmouth liued in the line 60 time of king Stephan Iohn Gower knight died about the second of Henrie the fourth Giraldus Cambrensis liued in the time of Henrie the second Richard the first and king Iohn Nicholas Gill a Frenchman Gocelinus first a moonke of saint Berrine beyond the seas and after a moonke of Canturburie Giraldus Cornubiensis De gestis Anglorum Gulielmus Malmsberie in the daies of K. Stephan Gulielmus Parus aliàs Gulielmus Nouoburgensis or Newberie Geruasius Dorobernensis Geruasius Tilberiensis Richard Grafton in the time of quéene Elisabeth Robert Gréene Guido de Columna H Iohn Hales Hugo Albus Petroburgensis in the time of king Iohn Iohn Harding esquier liued in the daies of Edward the fourth Edward Hall a counsellor of Greies inne flourished in the time of Henrie the eight and Edward the sixt Abrahamus Hartwellus Academicus Cantab that writ in verse Regina literata Henrie of Marleborow Gualter Hemigsford a moonke of Gisborne in the daies of Edward the third Hector Boetius a Scot Hirmannus archdeacon in the yeare of our Lord one thousand thrée score and ten Heribert de Bosham one of the foure that writ the life of Thomas Becket Hoclet one that liued in the time of Henrie the sixt in the yeare of our Lord one thousand foure hundred fiftie and foure Iohn de Hexam and Richard de Hexam liued in the daies of king Richard the first Wilfrid Holme vnder Henrie the eight Raphaell Holinshed in the time of queene Elisabeth William Harrison now liuing Iohn Harrison doctor of arts and of physicke Rafe Higden aliàs Cestrensis flourished in the time of Edward the third Iohn Higgins now liuing Roger Houeden liued in the time of king Iohn Hugo de sancto Victore Hugo Abbas Petroburgensis it maie be that Hugo Abbas before this Hugo were one man although for this time I suppose the contrarie Hugo de Genesis an Italian Iohn Hooker aliàs Uowell now liuing I Iehan de Bauge Iohannes Maior a Scot Iohannes Seuerianus Iohannes Carnotensis one of the foure that writ the Quadrilogium of the life of Thomas Becket Iohannes Anglicus writ Historiam aureā Iehan Maior de Belgis Iohannes Londoniensis Iohn a moonke of Ford Iossridus Crowlandensis Ingulfus abbat of Crowland in the daies of William Conqueror Thomas Ichingham whome Leland calleth Thomas Vicanius Iosephus Domnoniensis Ioceline of Furneis Peter de Icham or Itham a moonke whose booke beginneth Non solùm audiendis sacrae scripturae verbis aurem sedulus auditor accomodare tenetur which booke Caius de antiquitate Cantab. dooth ascribe to Robert Remington as after shall appeare Iulius Capitolinus In vita Antonij Pij K Albertus Krantz a Dane Kentigernus Henrie Knighton liued in the time of king Richard the second L Lanfrancus that writ a chronicle in Welsh Stephan Langton bishop of Canturburie writ the life of king Richard the first Iohn Leland in the time of Henrie the eight and Edward the sixt William Lambard esquire now liuing and deseruing well of all antiquitie George Lillie Humfreie Lhoid he died in the time of queene Elisabeth Piers de Longtoft Thomas Lanquet Iohn Lesle a Scot bishop of Rosse in Scotland now liuing Iohn Langden bishop of Rochester M Marcerius an Englishman of whom Iohn Baconthorpe speaketh in the prolog of the fourth booke of Senten quaest 10. Iohn Maluerne moonke of Worcester continued Ranulphus in the yeare of Christ one thousand thrée hundred thrée score and sixtéene Marianus Scotus liued about the yeare of Christ one thousand foure score and ten Matthew Paris Matthew Westminster aliàs Flores historiarum a moonke of Westminster and liued in the king time of Edward the third Thomas More knight lord chancellor of England Thomas de la More knight liued in the daies of Edward the second Radulphus
The oth of the threé estates of FraÌ„ce King Henrie taketh vpon him the office of regent of France The coine salute The duke of Bauier 〈◊〉 troope with the kings â—â—uor departed Sentence against the Dolphin These counties they inioied of the kings gift He landed at Douer vpon Candlemasse eéue saith Tho. Walsingham King Henrie returneth into England with his 〈◊〉 wife Thomas Walsingham saith she was câ—â—â—ned the first in Lent which that yere fell vpon the ninth of Februarie The coronation of 〈◊〉 Katharine Abr. Fl. out of Fabian pag. 4â—2 403. A roiall banket The first course The second course The third course Iustice ministred by king Henrie in progresse Abr. Fl. Anno Reg. 9. The duke of ClareÌ„ce made a rode into Aniou Uiell Bauge or Baugie Forgusa a Lumbard betraâ—â—th the duke of Clarence The English men discomfited The duke of Clarence and diuerse nobles of England slaine The earle of Mortaigne â—ade lieutenant of Normandie A parlement The 〈…〉 Winchester lent the 〈◊〉 20000. King 〈◊〉 saileth into France againe He tooke sea at Douer 〈◊〉 fourth of Iune as Tiuâ— Liuius saith and so saie the chronicles 〈◊〉 Flanders The king oâ— Scots serueth king Henrie Dreux besieged rendred to the Englishmen King 〈◊〉 pursueth the Dolphin The Dolphin why called king of Berrie Titus Liuius Les histories des ducz de Normandie Abr. Fl. The strong towne of Meaux besieged by the Englishmen A parlement called by the duke of Bedford the king being in France Windsore The birth of king Henrie the sixt King Henrie prophesieth of his sonne Titus Liuius Meaux taken by assault Anno Reg. 10. Queéne Katharine saileth into France Oliuer Mannie A sore coÌ„flict Abr. Fl. Continuation de la chronicles de Flanders Titus Liuius The conditions of the surrender of Meaux into the kings hands The roiall port of the K. of England Cosneie besieged by the Dolphin The king â—â—â—leth sicke Cosneie rescued by the duke of Bedford Titus Liuius The duke 〈◊〉 Britaine sâ—â—deth ambassadors to the â— of England The king of England is â—rought sicke to Bois de Uincennes His aduise vpon his death bed Titus Liuius Chéeflie Chiâ—helie archb of Cantur for dashing yâ— bill against the cleargie as appeares before pag. 545 546. He departed this life the last of August 1422. The commeÌ„dation of king Henrie the fiâ—â— as is expressed by maist Hall Abr. Fl. out of Angl. prael sub Hen. â— * A pestilent feuer * A pestilent feuer Lord Crumwell W. P. Abr. Fl. out of Angl. prael W. P. 1422 Anno Reg. 1. Buchan lib. 10. Pont Meulan surprised by the FreÌ„ch Enguerant Lord Grauile falsified his oth Affinitie an interteiner of friendship The Parisiens preuented of their practises The English armie entreth the riuer and winneth the banke Anno Reg. â— Ann. 1423 per Buchanan Homage doone by the king of Scotland to king Henrie the sixt Buchan lib. 10. An. 1425. W. P. Compiegne surrendred to the English by a policie Compeigne Crotoie recouered from the French * Or rather Goche * Goche Uerneuil gotten from the Englishmen by crediting a lie The ordering of their battels The battell of Uernoâ—â—e the 28 of August 1424. Fiue thousaÌ„d saith Aâ—milius but Nicholas Giles saith there died but foure thousaÌ„d on both parts Dâ—dley and Charleton two of the English nobilitie were slaine at the battell as Ia. Meir saith The lord Scales sent to conquer Aniow and Maine Man 's deliuered to the Englishmen * Or rather Goche Generall processions after victorie Anno Reg. 3. A subsidie of tunnage and poundage The prince of Portingale commeth to London Alias Bâ—â—â—ron Twentie thousand 〈◊〉 Nicholas Giles S. Iames de Beuuron besieged Sir Nicholas Burdet Enguerant de Monstrellet Dissentiâ—â— betwixt the duke of Glocester and the bishop of Wâ—â—chester A parlement holden at Leicester Articles set foorth by the duke of Glocester against Henrie bishop of Winchester * Or hanging Frier Randolph 1424 Anno Reg. 4. * Or hanging The duke of Excester dieth Fr. Thin * Or rather Goche Iohn Winter The earle of Warwike made gouernour of the yoong king Anno Reg. 5. The 〈…〉 Winchester made a 〈◊〉 W. P. The lord of Rustinian taken and his people slainâ— and discoâ—â—â—ted A hot skirmish On the 〈◊〉 thursdaie Engueraâ—â— Pontorson rendered to the Englishmen * Or rather Goche Hostages executed for promise broken The lord Talbot a valiant capteine * Or rather Goche A great slaughter by negligence of the watch at Montargis Sir Nicholas Burdet Polydor. Man 's lost by treason of the citizens * Or rather Goche * Goche Man 's recouered Abr. Fl. Traitors executed Anno Reg. 6. Duke of Excester deceassed Montacute earle of Salisburie a politike and valiant man W. P. Les grandes chroniques de Britaigne Anno Reg. 7. Orleance besieged Bastard of Orleance A bulworke at Orleance taken Abr. Fl. The earle of Salisburie slaine Engueranâ— 1500 English did slaie and vaÌ„quish 10000 French The battell of herrings W. P. W.P. IehaÌ„ de Tillâ—â— Les chroniâ— de Bretaigne Le Rosier câ—â—leth him Robert Ione de Are Pusell de diâ—â— In vita Bundvicae Grand chro 4. * From head to foot This salutation appeareth after héere Les grand chronic The siege of Orleance broken vp Prisoners slaine by the French as they were taken Nichol. Giles Fiue thousaÌ„d saith Hall Great losse on the English side The lords Talbot Scales and Hungerford taken The French king crowned Ione taken to be a witch The French armie fled in the night Boheme Anno Reg. â— Boheme The pope 〈◊〉 vnlegat the cardinall of Winchester K. Henrieâ— coronation at Westminster Thom. Wiâ—â— A parlement at Rone called by the duke of Bedford The French got saint Denis Ione had a hurt in the leg and a fall drawen all dâ—rtie out of the mire Saint Denis by vs recouâ—red againe La Hire Laignie besieged by the Englishmen W. P. Le Rosier Campiegne besieged Abr. Fl. ex Gesnero Richard Fleming bishop of Lincolne The books that he wrote Ione the Pusell taken W. P. Chroniques de Britaigne Le Rosier In lavie 〈◊〉 Charles septiesme Fiue thousand poundâ— freÌ„ch crowns in monie An hundreth and fiftie crownes renâ— Polydo 23. in H. 6. Les grand chron Les grandes chronicle 4 liure Christianissimus rex Tillet This prelate at his death left a hundred and fiftéene crownes in gold that vnder colour of warres with the infidels he had fléesed from christen princes Platina Li. 23. in vita H. 6. Anno Reg. 9. King Henrie the sixt in person goeth with an armie into France S. Albons Ed. Hall Abr. Fl. ex Polychron A widow without Algate murthered in hir bed by a Breton whome she charitablie reléeued * O fowle ingratitude The murther reuenged by women at the appointment of Gods iustice King Henrie the sixt crowned in Paris Le Rosier historiall Montargis recouered by the English The lord Talbot ransomed by exchange The holie shéepheard Uaudemont besieged * Or rather Goche Saint
Sebastian Gabato his discouerie of â—n Iland of rich commodities Anno Reg. 14. England and Scotland liklie to go togither by the eares aâ—resh The bishop of Durham asswageth the kings displeasure by leters The bishop of Durham goeth into Scotland The Scotish king desireth the ladie Margaret eâ—dest daughter of K. Henrie the seuenth to be his wife Pâ—râ—in Warbecke escapeth from his keepers Perkin maketh an anatomie of his descent or liâ—age Perkins education or bringing vp Perkin a notable land-loper The Irish would haue Perkin takâ— vpon him to be the duke of Clarences sonne They bearâ— Perkin downe with oths that he is king Richards bastard They call hiâ— duke of yorke â— Paâ— in Virg. Anno Reg. 15. Patrike an Augustine Frier Rafe Wilford the counterfeit earle of Warwike The counterfeit earle is executed Abr. Fl. ex Eâ—â— Hall in Hâ—n 7. fol. lj The cause why the clergie neuer so heinouslie oâ—fending was so â—auoured Burning in the hand when enacted Perkin corrupted his keepers Edward Plantagenet earle of Warwike a verie innocent Perkin and Iohn Awater executed at Tiburne Edward Plantagenet the yoong earleÌ„ of Warwike beheaded A great plague Edward the kings third sonne christened The manour of Shéene burnt Richmond built in place thereof I. S. pag. 874. King Henrie the seuenth â—aileth to Calis The king of England and the duke of Burgognie méet at saint Peters church without Calis Abr. Fl. ex Edw. Hall in Hen. 7. fol. lij Anno Reg. 16. A yeare of Iubile Pope Alexander maketh profit of his great pardon or heauenlie grace as he termeth it Abr. Fleâ— Antith 〈◊〉 papâ— pag 31 40. Thrée bishâ—â—â— dead in one yeare Two notabâ—e mariages Katharine daughter to Ferdinando K. of Spaine affiâ—d to Arthur prince of Wales Anno Reg 1â— The fourth 〈◊〉 October as Stow hath noted Abr. Flem. ex Edw. Hall fol. liij The solemnization of the mariage betweene Arthur prince of Wales Katharine daughter to the king of Spaine Edw. Hall fol. liij Margaret eldest daughteâ— to king Henrie affied to Iames king of Scots Prince Arthur is sent into Wales Iohn Stow pag. 874 875. The maiors feast first kept at Guildhall Woollen cloth of two shillings the brode yard Dikes of LoÌ„don clensed Men brought from the new found Ilands Edmund erlâ— of Suffolke flieth into Flanders The discontented mind of the earle of Suffolke The kings woonted policie now againe practised Tirrell and Windam beheaded 〈◊〉 restrained The death of Arthur prince of Wales Edw. Hall iâ— Hen. 7. fol. â—â— Anno Reg. 1â— 1503 King Henrie the seauenthâ— chapell at Westminster first builded Abr. Fl. ex 〈◊〉 pag. 876. Six kings of England brethren with the tailors companie in Loâ—don before they were eâ—tituled mâ—rchant tailors Prior of Shene mâ—â—thered A drie sâ—â—mer Sir Reginald Braie his 〈◊〉 Iuâ—t coÌ„menâ—â—tions of Morton archâ—â—â—â—op of Cantâ—rburie and â—ir Reginald Braie Cassimire â—â—baâ—sadour from the empâ—rour Maxâ—â—â—lâ—an The sumptuâ—â—s araie of tâ—e earle of Northumbâ—rland The mariage 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 of Sâ—â—ts 〈◊〉 Margaret king Henries eldest daughter Anno Reg. 19. The king coueâ—ous in his old age Richard Empson Edmund Dudleie Promoters Abr. Fl. ex I.S. pag. 876 Sergeanâ—s feast whereat were the king and all his nobles at dinner Fire on London bridge Fire Parlement Anno reg 20. The king of 〈◊〉 intertâ—ined honorablie Prodigious tokens or accidents haue their issue in truth Sée pag. 657. Abr Flerâ— eâ— Guic. pag. 4â— Thrâ—â— sâ—nneâ— séene at once in the night Abr. Fl. ex Guic. pag. 355. King Philip saileth out of Flanders into Spaine King Philip cast by casualtie of sea vpon the coasts of England Philip promiseth to redeliuer to king Henrie the duke of Suffolke Anno Reg. 22. The sweting sicknesse eftsoones returneth Ed. Hall in Hen. 7. fol. 53. Abr. Fl. ex Guic. pag. 31â— Pag 31â— Pag 3â—7 A practisâ— of â—word by 〈◊〉 to an 〈◊〉 purpose 〈◊〉 â—xpope 〈◊〉 with the 〈◊〉 that his 〈◊〉 son had 〈◊〉 poison 〈◊〉 cardinall 〈◊〉 Cornette Eâ—b Hâ—ss G Buch. in Psal. 7. The lord Daubenie dieth Anno Reg 23. Guidebald duke of Urbin in Italie made knight of the garter Thomas Sauage archbishop of Canturburie deceassed Abr. Fl. ex Guic. pag. 18â— Abr. Fl. ex I.S. pag. 879. William Capell sued by the king Tho. Kneisworth imprisoned Norwich on fier Frée schoole at Wlfrunehampton Iohn Ligh of WlfrunehaÌ„pton his rare example of charitie WlfrunehaÌ„pton corruptlie called Wolnerhampton Excharta Regia Smart Hospitall of the Sauoie Rec. of Canturb church Fr. Thin Thomas Ruthall bishop of Durham The 〈◊〉 of Ciâ—â—ster The bishop was one of K. Henrie the rights priuie councell The king coÌ„mandeth hiâ— to write a booke of the whole estate of the kingdoâ— The bishops booke of his priuat 〈◊〉 vnaduisedlie deliuered instead of the kings The bishops owne booke disaduantagâ— able to himselfe The bishop 〈◊〉 of a 〈◊〉 and 〈…〉 150◠〈…〉 24. The death of King Henrie the seuenth â—hat children he had The description of king Henrie the seuenth Iustice mingled with mercie Out of the bishop of Rochesters funerall sermon preached in Paules church at London Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 892. Sepulture of Henrie the seuenth Executors to Henrie the seuenth 1509 Anno Reg. 1. Henrie the â—ight proclaâ—â—â— king Polydor. Councellors to king Henrie the eight King Henries â—â—â—hes â—is councellâ—â—s good 〈◊〉 A proclamation Multitudes of suters what shifts they made to be heard Empson and Dudleie committed to the Tower Promoters punished I.S. pag. 893. The funerall pompe and solemnitie of Henrie the seuenth Edw. Hall in Hen. 8. fol. j. The corps put into a charriot sumptuouslie garnished The order of the pompe and mourners The charriot brought into Paules church Description of the curious hearse at Westminster The bodie oâ— the dead king interred The duke of Buckinghams rich 〈◊〉 A 〈◊〉 sight 〈◊〉 virgins in white with branches of white wax K. Henries apparell at his coronatioÌ„ The kings traine and the 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 The quéenes traine and the sumptuousnesse of the same The coronation of king Henrie and quéene Katharine Homage doone to the king at his coronatioÌ„ both of the lords spirituall temporall Sir Robert Dimmocke the kings champion The knights anâ—wer to the king of heralds The maner of the same knights tenure Sir StephaÌ„ Genings maior of London Iusts and turnementâ— The enterprisers of the 〈◊〉 iusts Goodlie sheâ—â— delightfull Pallas knights the defendants Another band of horssemen richlie 〈◊〉 Eight knights armeâ— at all paints * From head 〈◊〉 Dimas knights A conceipt or deuise of a pâ—rke with 〈◊〉 c. The kings wisedome in preuenting an inconuenients Henrie the duke of Buckinghams brother created erle of Wilshire A great plague in Calis A parlement Empson and Dudleie atteinted of treason Polydor. Most of the 〈◊〉 of the coâ—â—cell against Empson Matters obiected against Empson Wrong mainteined against the kings liâ—ge people Iniurie doone to the kings wards A charge of manifest oppression and extortion Empson
of maister Hunnings seruants that was also one of the takers of fresh fish for the prouision of the queenes house was set on the pillorie in Cheapside in the fish market ouer against the kings head hauing a bawdrike of smelts hanging about his necke with a paper on his forehead written For buieng smelts for twelue pence the hundred and selling them againe for ten pence the quarter He stood so likewise on the eightéenth and the twentith daie of the same moneth euerie one of those three daies from nine of the clocke till twelue The last daie he should haue had one of his eares slit if by great sute made to the councell by the lord maior of London he had not béene pardoned and released out of prison This penance was assigned to him by the quéenes owne appointment when to hir grace his trespasse was reuealed Whereby shée gaue a tast to the people of a zealous mind to haue iustice dulie ministred and faults accordinglie punished namelie of those which vnder pretense of hir graces authoritie should go about to wrong and oppresse hir louing subiects line 10 This yéere in the Easter holidaies on the mondaie preached at the Spittle doctor Bill on the tuesdaie doctor Cox on the wednesdaie doctor Horne the first was hir maiesties chapleine the other two had remained at Geneua and in other places beyond the seas all queene Maries time On low sundaie maister Samson made the rehearsall sermon but when the lord maior and aldermen came to their places in Paules churchyard the pulpit doore was locked the keie could not be heard of Whervpon line 20 the lord maior sent for a smith to open the locke which was doone and when the preacher should enter the place it was found verie filthie and vncleanlie Moreouer the verger that had the custodie of the keie which opened the doore of the place where the prelats and other vse to stand at the sermon time would not open the doore but the gentlemen with a foorme brake it open and so came in to heare the sermon This disorder chanced by reason that since Christmasse last past there was not a sermon preached line 30 at Paules crosse by meanes of an inhibition sent from the councell vnto the bishop of London that he should admit no preacher because of the controuersie betwixt the bishops and other of the clergie that were now returned into the realme from the parties of beyond the seas The last of March the parlement yet continuing was a conference begun at Westminster concerning certeine articles of religion betwixt the bishops and other of the clergie on the one part and certeine line 40 learned preachers of whome some had beene in dignitie in the church of England before that time on the other part The declaration of the procéeding wherin and the cause of the breaking vp of the same conference by default and contempt of certeine bishops parties of the said conference was published in a little treatise and imprinted by Richard Iug and Iohn Cawood printers to the quéenes maiestie as here followeth The quéenes most excellent maiestie hauing heard of diuersitie of opinions in certeine line 50 matters of religion amongst sundrie of hir louing subiects and being verie desirous to haue the same reduced to some godlie christian concord thought it best by the aduise of the lords and other of hir priuie councell as well for the satisfaction of persons doubtfull as also for the knowlege of the verie truth in certeine matter of difference to haue a cōuenient chosen number of the best learned of either part to confer togither their opinions and reasons and therby to come to some good and charitable agreement line 60 And herevpon by hir maiesties commandement certeine of hir priuie councell declared this purpose to the archbishop of Yorke being also one of the same priuie councell required him that he would impart the same to some of the bishops and to make choise of eight nine or ten of them and that there should be the like number named of the other part and further also declared to him as then was supposed what the matters should be And as for the time it was thought meet to be as soone as possible might be agreed vpon And then after certeine daies past it was signified by the said archbishop that there was appointed by such of the bishops to whome he had imparted this matter eight persons that is to saie foure bishops and foure doctors who were content at the quéenes maiesties commandement to shew their opinions and as he termed it render account of their faith in those matters which were mentioned and that speciallie in writing although he said they thought the same so determined as there was no cause to dispute vpon them It was herevpon fullie resolued by the quéenes maiestie with the aduise aforesaid that according to their desire it should be in writing on both parts for auoiding of much altercation in words and that the said bishops should bicause they were in authoritie and degree superiors first declare their minds and opinions in the matter with their reasons in writing and the other number being also eight men of good degrée in schooles and some hauing béene in dignitie in the church of England if they had anie thing to saie to the contrarie should the same daie declare their opinions in like manner And so ech of them should deliuer their writings to the other to be considered what were to be improoued therein and the same to declare againe in writing at some other conuenient daie and the like order to be kept in all the rest of the matters All this was fullie agreed vpon with the archbishop of Yorke and also signified to both parties And immediatlie herevpon diuerse of the nobilitie and states of the realme vnderstanding that such a meeting and conference should be and that in certeine matters wherevpon the court of parlement consequentlie following some lawes might be grounded they made earnest meanes to hir maiestie that the parties of this conference might put and read their assertions in the English toong and that in the presence of them of the nobilitie and others of the parlement house for the better satisfaction and inabling of their owne iudgements to treat and conclude of such lawes as might depend herevpon This also being thought verie reasonable was signified to both parties and so fullie agréed vpon and the daie appointed for the first méeting to be the fridaie in the forenoone being the last of March at Westminster church where both for good order and for honour of the conference by the quéenes maiesties commandement the lords and others of the priuie councell were present and a great part of the nobilitie also And notwithstanding the former order appointed and consented vnto by both parts yet the bishop of Winchester and his colleagues alleging that they had mistaken that their assertions and reasons