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Bale it should appeare he became a frier Carmelit in Bristow Henrie Wichingham a Carmelit frier of Norwich a notable diuine a great preacher and wrote also sundrie treatises of diuinitie Iohn Lidgate a monke of Burie an excellent poet and chiefe in his time in that facultie of all other that practised the same within this land he trauelled thorough France and Italie to learne the languages and sciences how greatlie he profited in atteining to knowledge the workes which he wrote doo sufficientlie testifie Nicholas Hostresham an excellent physician Iohn Blackeneie a religious man of the order of the Trinitie intituled De redemptione captiuorum and prior of an house of the same order at Ingham in Norffolke he was surnamed Blackeneie of the towne where he was borne Thomas Beckington bishop of Bath wrote against the law Salique by which law the Frenchmen would seclude the princes of this realme from their title vnto the crowne of France Iohn Baringham a Carmelite frier of Gippeswich in Suffolke Dauid Bois borne in Wales and a frier Carmelit professed in Glocester a doctor of diuinitie Iohn Brome an Augustine frier Michaell Trigurie a Cornishman borne whome for his excellencie and learning king Henrie the fift appointed to be gouernour of that schoole or vniuersitie which he instituted in the citie of Caen in Normandie after he had brought it vnder his subiection Iohn Amundisham a moonke of saint Albons Oswald Anglicus a moonke of the Chartreux order Iohn Keningale a Carmelit frier of Norwich Peter De sancta line 10 fide a Carmelit also of Norwich Reginald Pecocke bishop of Chichester of whome ye haue heard before he was borne in Wales and student in Oriall college in Oxenford where he procéeded doctor of diuinitie he wrote manie treatises touching the christian religion Iohn surnamed Burie of the towne where he was borne an Augustine frier in the towne of Clare in Suffolke Robert Fleming a man perfect in the Gréeke and Latine toong among whose works some haue line 20 béene séene vnder these titles namelie Lucubrationum Tiburtinarm lib. 1. a dictionarie in Gréeke and Latine and a worke in verse of sundrie kinds this man was of most fame in the yeare of our Lord 1470 which was in the tenth yeare of Edward the fourth though he were not obscure also in the daies of this Henrie the sixt Thomas Gascoigne borne at Hunfléete in Yorkeshire of that worshipfull familie of the Gascoignes there a doctor of diuinitie and chancellor of the vniuersitie of Oxenford William Stapilhart borne in Kent but by profession a white frier line 30 in London Robert Fimingham borne in Norffolke a Franciscan frier in Norwich Nicholas Montacute an historiographer Iohn Chandler chancellor of Welles William Botoner descended of a good house a knight by degrée and borne in Bristow verie studious in antiquities and other sciences Iohn Stow a monke of Norwich but student in Oxenford where he procéeded doctor of diuinitie Thomas Langleie a monke of Hulme Nicholas Bungeie borne in a towne of Norffolke of that line 40 name wrote an historie called Adunationes chronicorum Henrie Beauford bishop of Winchester base sonne to Iohn duke of Lancaster of whome before we haue made sufficient mention made cardinall by pope Martine the fourth in the yeare 1426 Adam Homlington a Carmelit frier William Coppinger maister of the vniuersitie of Oxenford Thomas Stacie an expert mathematician and no lesse skilfull in astronomie Iohn Talaugerne a moonke of Worcester William Sutton an astrologian Robert Balsacke wrote a booke intituled De re militari that is to saie of warre or chiualrie so that as is thought he was both a good souldier and a painefull student of good letters Thomas Dando a Carmelit frier of Marleburgh he wrote the life of Alphred king of west Saxons William Graie borne of the noble house of the Graies of Codnor he went to atteine to some excellencie of learning in Italie where he heard that noble clearke Guarinus Ueronensis read in Ferrara he was preferred to the bishoprike of Elie in the yéere 1454 by pope Nicholas the fift when Thomas Bourchier was translated from thense to Canturburie Iohn Kempe archbishop of Yorke and after remooued from thense to Canturburie as before ye haue heard he was made cardinall of S. Albin by pope Eugenie the fourth Adam Molins as Bale calleth him kéeper of the kings priuie seale excellentlie learned in time of the ciuill warre betwixt king Henrie and the duke of Yorke in which he lost his head Thomas Chillenden a doctor both of the law ciuill and canon became at length a moonke in Canturburie Robert Bale surnamed the elder excellentlie learned in the lawes of the realme recorder of London gathered as it were a chronicle of the customes lawes foundations changes restoring magistrats offices orders and publike assemblies of the citie of London with other matters touching the perfect description of the same citie he wrote other works also touching the state of the same citie and the acts of king Edward the third he departed this life in the yeare of our Lord 1461 euen about the beginning of the reigne of king Edward the fourth vnto whome we will now againe returne Thus farre the tragicall historie of Henrie the sixt depriued of his roialtie Edward the fourth earle of March sonne and heire to Richard duke of Yorke AFter that this prince Edward earle of March had taken vpon him the gouernement of this realme of England as before ye haue heard the morow next insuing being the fourth of March he rode to the church of saint Paule and there offered and after Te Deum soong with great solemnitie he was conueied to Westminster and there set in the hall with the scepter roiall in his hand whereto people in great numbers assembled His claime to the crowne was declared to be by two maner of waies the first as sonne and heire to duke Richard his father right inheritor to the same the second by authoritie of parlement and forfeiture committed by king Henrie Wherevpon it was againe demanded of the commons if they would admit and take the said erle as their prince and souereigne lord which all with one voice cried Yea yea This part thus plaied he entered into Westminster church vnder a canopie with solemne procession and there as king offered and herewith taking the homages of all the nobles there present he returned by water to London and was lodged in the bishops palace and on the morrow after he was proclamed king by the name of Edward the fourth throughout the citie This was in the yeare of the world 5427 and after the birth of our Sauiour 1461 after our accompt beginning the yeare at Christmasse but after line 10 the vsuall accompt of the church of England 1460 the twentith of emperour Frederike the third the nine and thirtith and last of Charles the seuenth French king and first yeare of the reigne of Iames the third king of Scots Whilest

Venturum virtutis indelebile lumen Celso anim● prorsus leni quoque pectore ciues N●n solum at iustos hostes fideíqu● probatae Dilexit niueo raro ira●undior ore Of learned men and writers these I find remembred by Bale and others to haue liued in the daies of this noble and valiant king Henrie the fift First Alaine de Lin borne in Lin and professed a Carmelite frier in that towne he at length became prior of that conuent proceeded doctor of diuinitie in Cambridge and wrote manie treatises Thomas Otterborne that wrote an historie of England is thought to liue about this season he was a Franciscan or graie frier as they called them a great student both in diuinitie and philosophie Iohn Seguard an excellent poet and a rhetorician kept a schoole and read to his scholers in Norwich as is supposed writing sundrie treatises reproouing as well the profaning of the christian religion in monks and priests as the abuse of poetrie in those that tooke vpon them to write filthie verses and rimes Robert Rose a frier of the Carmelites order in Norwich commonlie called the white friers both an excellent philosopher and diuine procéeded doctor at Oxenford promoted to be prior of his house and writing diuerse treatises amongst all the sophists of his time as saith Bale he offended none of the Wickleuists who in that season set foorth purelie the word of God as maie appeare by his workes Moreouer Iohn Lucke a doctor of diuinitie in Oxenford a sore enimie to the Wiekleuists Richard Caister borne in Norfolke vicar of saint Stephans in Norwich a man of great holinesse and puritie in life fauouring though secretlie the doctrine of the Wickleuists and reproouing in his sermons the vnchast manners and filthie example that appeared in the cleargie Of sir Iohn Oldcastell lord Cobham ye haue heard before William Walleis a blacke frier in Lin and prouinciall of his order here in England made a booke of moralizations vpon Ouids Metamorphôseis comparable to postils vpon Aesops Fables Richard Snetisham a student in Oxenford where he profited so greatlie in learning and wisedome that he was accounted the chéefest in all that vniuersitie in respect whereof he was made chancellor of the same chosen also to be one of the twelue to examine and iudge vpon Wickliffes doctrine by the archbishop of Canturburie Iohn Langdene a monke of Christes church in Canturburie an other of those twelue William Tailor a priest and a master of art in Oxenford a stedfast follower of Wickliffes doctrine burnt for the same in Smithfield at London the second day of March in the yeare of our Lord 1422 last of king Henrie the fift his reigne Furthermore Richard Grasdale student in Oxenford one of those twelue also William Lindwood a lawier excellentlie learned as well in the ciuill as canon lawes aduanced to the seruice of this king and made by him kéeper of the priuie seale sent in ambassage both to the kings of Spaine and Portingale about businesse of most weightie importance It is said that he was promoted to the bishoprike of saint Dauid Bartholomew Florarius supposed as Bale saith by Nicholas Brigham to be an Englishman wrote a treatise called Florarium whereof he tooke his surname and also an other treatise of abstinence in which he reprooueth certeine corrupt manners in the cleargie and the profession of friers mendicants Adam Hemmelington a Carmelite frier studied both in Oxenford and Paris William Batecombe is placed by Bale about the time of other learned men that liued in this kings time he was an excellent mathematician as by the the title of his works which he wrote it should appeare Titus Liuius de Foro Luuisiis liued also in these daies an Italian borne but sith he was both resiant here and wrote the life of this king I haue thought good to place him among other of our English writers One there was that translated the said historie into English adding as it were by waie of notes in manie places of that booke sundrie things for the more large vnderstanding of the historie a copie line 10 whereof I haue séene belonging to Iohn Stow citizen of London There was also about the same time an other writer who as I remember hath followed the said Liuius in the order of his booke as it were chapter for chapter onelie changing a good familiar and easie stile which the said Liuius vsed into a certeine poeticall kind of writing a copie whereof I haue séene in the life of this king partlie followed belonging to master Iohn Twine of Kent who as I was informed meant to leaue to posteritie some fruits of his labours for the due vnderstanding thereof Thus farre Henrie the fift sonne and successor to Henrie the fourth Henrie the sixt sonne and heire to Henrie the fift AFter that death had bereft the world of that noble prince king Henrie the fift his onelie sonne prince Henrie being of the age of nine moneths or thereabouts with the sound of trumpets was openlie proclamed king of England and France line 20 the thirtith daie of August by the name of Henrie the sixt in the yeare of the world fiue thousand three hundred eightie and nine after the birth of our Sauiour 1422 about the twelfe yeare of the emperour Frederike the third the fortith and two and last of Charles the sixt and the third yeare of Mordaks regiment after his father Robert gouernour of Scotland The custodie of this yoong prince was appointed to Thomas duke of Excester to Henrie Beauford bishop of Winchester The duke of Bedford was line 30 deputed regent of France and the duke of Glocester was ordeined protectour of England who taking vpon him that office called to him wise and graue councellors by whose aduise he prouided and tooke order as well for the good gouernment of the realme subiects of the same at home as also for the maintenance of the warres abroad and further con●uest to be made in France appointing valiant and expert capteins which should be readie when need required Besides this he gathered great summes of line 40 monie to mainteine men of warre and left nothing forgotten that might aduance the good estate of the realme While these things were a dooing in England the duke of Bedford regent of France studied most earnestlie not onelie to keepe and well order the countries by king Henrie late conquered but also determined not to leaue off warre trauell till Charles the Dolphin which was now ass●te because king Charles his father in the moneth of October in this present yeare was departed to God should either be subdued or brought to obeisance And suerlie the death of this king Charles caused alterations in France For a great manie of the nobilitie which before either for feare of the English puissance or for the loue of this king Charles whose authoritie they followed held on the English part did now reuolt to the Dolphin with all indeuour

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

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 affirmauítque non esse tutum capellanis ecclesiasticis dignitatibus beneficiísque affectis seruire regi ampliùs Ideóque aulam deserens ad ecclesiastica beneficia quae regis

procéed foorth of a blacke cloud in the north toward the south which so continued till the next morning that it was daie light The next night following the heauens from all parts did séeme to burne maruellous raginglie line 40 ouer our heads the flames from the horizon round about rising did méet and there double and roll one in another as if it had béene in a cleare fornace The eightéenth daie at night blew verie stormie tempestuous winds out of the south as hath not béene knowne the like out of that quarter especiallie after midnight till the next morning that it was daie light These are to be receiued as tokens of Gods wrath readie bent against the world for sinne now abounding and also of his great mercie who dooth line 50 onlie thus but to shew vs the rod wherwith we dailie deserue to be beaten This yeare at London after haruest the price of wheate began by little and little to fall from seuen shillings to thrée shillings the bushell at which price it staied little or nothing rising or falling all the yeare after but baie salt was raised from three shillings to foure shillings fiue shillings and six shillings the bushell the like whereof had neuer béene seene or heard within this realme The 24 day of Februarie line 60 being the feast of saint Matthie on which daie the faire was kept at Teukesburie year 1575 a strange thing happened there For after a floud which was not great but such as therby the medows néere adioining were couered with water in the after noone there came downe the riuer of Seuerne great numbers of flies b●●tels such as in summer euenings vse to strike men in the face in great heapes a foot thicke aboue the water so that to credible mens iudgement there were séene within a paire of buts length of those flies aboue a hundred quarters The mils there abouts were dammed vp with them for the space of foure daies after and then were clensed by digging them out with shouels from whence they came is yet vnknowne but the daie was cold and a hard frost The six and twentith of Februarie betwéene foure and six of the clocke in the after noone great earthquakes happened in the cities of Yorke Worcester Glocester Bristow Hereford and in the countries about which caused the people to runne out of their houses for feare they should haue fallen on their heads In Teukesburie Bredon and other places the dishes fell from the cupboords and the bookes in mens studies from the shelues In Norton chappell the people being on their knees at euening praier the ground moouing caused them to run awaie in great feare that the dead bodies would haue risen or the chappell to haue fallen part of Ruthen castell fell downe with certeine bricke chimneies in gentlemens houses The bell in the shire hall at Denbigh was also caused to toll twise by shaking of the hall c. On Easter daie which was the third of Aprill about nine of the clocke in the forenoone was disclosed a congregation of anabaptists Duchmen in a house without the bars of Aldgate at London wherof seauen and twentie were taken and sent to prison and foure of them bearing fagots recanted at Paules crosse on the fifteenth daie of Maie in forme as followeth The forme of recantation openlie made by the said anabaptists WHereas I. I. T. R. H. being seduced by the diuell the spirit of error and by false teachers his ministers haue fallen into certeine most detestable and damnable heresies namelie 1 That Christ tooke not flesh of the substance of the blessed virgine Marie 2 That infants of the faithfull ought not to be baptised 3 That a christian man may not be a magistrat or beare the sword or office of authoritie 4 That it is not lawfull for a christian to take an oth Now by the grace of God and through conference with good and learned ministers of Christ his church I doo vnderstand and acknowlege the same to be most damnable and detestable heresies and doo aske God here before his church mercie for my said former errors and doo forsake them recant and renounce them and abiure them from the botome of my heart professing that I certeinlie beléeue 1 That Christ tooke flesh of the substance of the blessed virgine Marie 2 That infants of the faithfull ought to be baptised 3 That a christian man may be a magistrat or beare the sword or office of authoritie 4 That it is lawfull for a christian man to take an oth And further I confesse that the whole doctrine and religion established and published in this realme of England as also that which is receiued and preached in the Dutch church here in this citie is sound true and according to the word of God whervnto in all things I submit my selfe and will most gladlie be a member of the said Dutch church from henseforth vtterlie abandoning and forsaking all and euerie anabaptisticall error This is my faith now in the which I doo purpose and trust to stand firme and stedfast to the end And that I may so doo I beséech you all to praie with me and for me to God the heauenlie father in the name of his sonne our sauiour Iesus Christ. The like recantation was made by them afterwards in the Dutch church The seauenteenth of Maie about midnight following the reuerend father in God Matthew Parker doctor of diuinitie archbishop of Canturburie deceased at Lambeth and was there honorablie buried on whose toome being of blacke marble is written this most worthie epitaph here following Sobrius prudens studijs excultus vsu Integer verae relligionis amans line 10 Matthaeus vixit Parkerus fouerat illum Aula virum iuuenem fouit aula senem Ordine res gessit recti defensor aequi Vixerat ille Deo mortuus ille Deo est Matthew Parker liued soberlie and wise Learned by studie and continuall practise Louing true of life vncontrold The court did foster him both yoong and old Orderlie he dealt the right he did defend line 20 He liued vnto God to God he made his end ¶ This reuerend father examined throughlie the English translation of the holie bibles wherein he partlie vsed the helpe of his brethren bishops and other doctors and caused the same to be newlie printed in the largest volume for the due furniture of manie churches then wanting Also making diligent search for the antiquities of the Britons and English Saxons to the end those monuments might be carefullie kept he caused them to be well line 30 bound and trimlie couered and such wherof he knew verie few examples to be extant among the which was Matthew Paris Matthew Florilegus and Thomas Walsingham he caused to be printed The famous palace of his see at Canturburie by long continuance decaied consumed with fire he renewed builded and fullie restored with the charges of more

the altar and his intent neuer trulie discouered that is to saie that he did it for the catholikes it might be a spot in his race Marke here the verie word intent in his owne confession 7 Morgan assureth him that the lord Fernehurst should go into Scotland and be readie to enter vpon the first newes of our quéenes fall Thus much for his intent beyond the sea and before his coniuration discouered Upon his arriuall in England he wrote to court that he had a speciall seruice of discouerie vnto the quéene but with what intent let his owne words speake 8 More to prepare accesse and credit than for anie care had of hir person Admitted vnto hir gratious audience he discouered the coniuration yet in what maner let himselfe saie euen couered with all the skill he had This intent was with déepe treason for as he saith so he did he disclosed onelie so much as he thought good and necessarie to ground in hir highnesse a setled confidence towards him wherby he might effect his traitorous intent with better opportunitie and his owne safetie He bewraied himselfe so farre as he might couer his chiefe drift manie principall things concealed nothing of lord Fernehurst with his Scotish forces c. 9 Receiuing from the pope himselfe commendation and allowance of his enterprise of incouragement and plenarie indulgence by no meaner man than cardinall di Como though he shewed the letter to hir maiestie not for anie care of hir person but for his better accesse credit as the rest yet let his owne words tell what his intent was at the verie receiuing and shewing of the same letter Forsooth saith he this letter confirmed his resolution to kill the quéene making it cléere in his conscience as a thing lawfull and meritorious Now is his intent grown to a resolution not doutfull but cleere in conscience not alone lawfull but meritorious Papa dixit a cardinall is Nuntio What other thing is this than for the pope and his cardinals like an other Antoninus Commodus to make one Inter sicarios gladiatores The diuell inforcing this traitors heart to execute his intent 10 He was troubled looking vpon the quéene and remembring hir excellencies yet he saw no remedie his vowes were in heauen his letters and promises on earth Yea he stroue to close his eies at these excellencies and obstinated his hart by séeking reasons to quench all sparks of humanitie and allegiance arising in his thoughts For thus reasoneth he against his conscience Why shouldest thou care for hir What hath she doone for thee Hast thou not spent ten thousand marks c. What more diuelish intent could possesse a traitor than to labour to suppresse a small remaine of conscience abhorring to kill so excellent a personage which God stirred vp in his thoughts to his iuster condemnation 11 Doctor Allens booke redoubled his former conceipts euerie word was a warrant to a prepared mind Sée how the smooth words of that catholike booke are interpreted and conceiued One spirit occupieth the catholike reader with the catholike writer and therefore can best expound the writers sense in his readers mouth euen to be a booke fraught with emphaticall speaches of energeticall persuasion to kill and depose hir maiestie and yet dooth the hypocrite writer that traitor catholike dissemble and protest otherwise 12 Parrie suffering repulse in a sute for S. Katharins communeth with maister Neuill recommendeth the enterprise as honorable profitable to the catholike common-weale Being preiudiced in opinion of Allens booke as before he commendeth it and deliuereth it to Neuill thereby to worke the same vile intent in him which it had alreadie confirmed in himselfe He tooke now an other oth vpon the bible after the maner of a protestant to pursue the enterprise and ment he saith to performe it so far foorth as the place and maner of dooing was appointed This second coniuration he neuer bewraied in six moneths till accused by Neuill and then at first denied it 13 Finallie to declare his height of malice he saith if the quéene had preferred him neuer so greatlie yet must this bloudie enterprise haue holden except 〈◊〉 ●ad reléeued the catholikes Was this no inten● 〈◊〉 neither benefit nor bountie could staie Which neither feare of God nor reuerence of excellencie could repell Which neither dread of punishment nor tract of time could remooue Did he conceiue it conferre and aduise of it vow himselfe line 10 to the execrable seruice present and offer it harden his heart against others dissuasions beat backe contrarie motions of his owne conscience go so farre as he could not go backe promise it faithfullie receiue a church sacrament therevpon make certificat thereof propound himselfe the end and reason of his intent discourse vpon the contingent sequele preuenting the spot of his race receiue letters of allowance commendation incouragement and absolution could he vow in heauen and promise on line 20 earth could he doo all this in a thing which he meant not Could he resolue and confirme his resolution of a thing which he intended not yea could he intend meane for all these be his owne words that which he neuer meant nor intended could he redouble his conceits and haue a prepared mind for that he intended not Would such a craftie traitor practise with others by persuasiue speach traitorous booke in such a matter as the onelie broching thereof must line 30 capitallie indamage his kinsman and friend and withall laie his owne head in his friends hand And yet notwithstanding either he meant this treason either else he little loued his friend to tempt him so dangerouslie whom yet he saith he loued so as to suffer his finger in his dish his hand in his pursse But which is aboue all would anie man sweare againe on the bible appoint time and place conceal● it with as much perill as if he had doone it would he denie it would so ambitious a man discontent himselfe line 40 with all preferment for the atchiuing of that which he meant not Was this mischiefous course begun and continued a long time at home and abroad in manie kingdomes communicated with manie persons of seuerall nation and qualitie as pope cardinall Nuntio fri●r priest kings secretarie and ambassadors all this while not meant Was it frankelie and voluntarilie confessed meant finallie recorded by pleading guiltie in maner forme with all circumstance and yet could he die an innocent line 50 for intent All this falling vpon no simple man but vpon one not now the first time holding vp his h●nd at barre vpon a doctor of law the verie hood whereof is able to giue a man more iudgement than to slip without light in all these things I know not how he maie be excused without strong suspicion of the excuser And if a prince may not iudge a wicked seruant out of his owne mouth nor determine an offense by two or

the duke of Glocester to the king A conspir●●●● betwéene the duke of Glocester and the abbat of 〈◊〉 Albons Out of an 〈◊〉 French pamphlet belonging to Iohn Stow. Anno Reg. 1● The purp●●s of the conspirators The earle marshall discloseth the conspira●ie The earle of Rutland saith R. Gra●●o● The duke of Glocester arrested Out of an old French pamphlet * For he was son to a king and vncle to a king The earle of Arundell apprehended The names of the appellants A gard of Cheshire men about the king The lords appointed to come in warlike manner to the parlemēt Polydor. The dukes of Lancaster Yorke assemble their powers to resist the kings dealings Caxton Fabian Polydor. The king and the dukes reconciled Caxton The great parlement The kings greeuan●●● opened in 〈◊〉 parlement Tho. Wal●●● Iohn Bus●●● William Bagot Thomas Greene. A new 〈◊〉 made within the palace of Westminster for the areign●ment of the lords indicted Additions to Polychron Sir Iohn Bushie speaker The archbishop of Canturburie sitting in parlement is ac●●sed of treason by the speaker Impudent flatterie 〈◊〉 Walsi The charters of pardō granted to the lords made void by parlement Thom. Wals. The archb of Canturburie condemned to perpetuall banishment Six daies saith Grafton The earle of Arundell areigned The duke of Lācaster high Steward of England at 〈◊〉 areignement The earle of Arundell his answers to the points of his indictmēt The earle of Arundell condemned The executiō of the earle of Arundell Ouid. The earle of Warwike arreigned of treason The parlem●●● adiourned to Shrewsburie The king kéepeth his Christmasse at Lichfield Cheshire made a pri●●cipalitie K. Richard prince of Chester Creation of dukes and earles K. Richard beareth saint Edward his armes The L. Reginald Cobham condemned The authoritie of both houses in parlement granted to certeine persons Thom. Wals. The K. procureth the popes buls against the breakers of his statuts Rightfull heires disherited Polydor. K. Richard his euill gouernment The duke of Hereford appealeth the duke of Norfolk of treson Thom. Wals. The duke of Surrie marshall and the duke of Aumarle constable of England The order of the procéeding in this appeale The obiection against the duke of Norfolke The duke of Norfolke his answer for himselfe The combat appointed to be doone at Couentrie The French pamphlet Iohn Stow. Fabian Anno Reg. ●● The order of the combat The combat staied by the king The king his dome betwixt the two dukes The duke of Hereford beloued of the people The duke of Hereford is honorablie interteined with the French king Froissard Hor. lib. ●pist 1. Fabian Blanke charters The death of the duke of Lancaster Tho. Walsi The duke of Yorke misliketh the court goeth home The realme let to farme by the king Tho. Walsi New exactions The paim●●● of these 〈◊〉 Was called ● plesance as 〈◊〉 were to pleas●● the K. withall but y● 〈◊〉 displeased manie that were thus constreined to paie against thei● willes The people confirme the oth of allegiance by writing sealed Indirect dealings Abr. Fl. out of Thom. Wa●● pag. 395. Abr. Fl. out of Thom. Wa●● pag. 395. Polydor. A iusts at Windesor The king saileth ouer into Ireland with a great armie Fabian Caxton The duke of Yorke lieutenant generall of England the king being in Ireland H●n Marl. Out of a French pamphlet that belongeth to master Iohn Dec. Macmur Pioners set a worke to cut downe woods Macmur sendeth to the K. offering a parlee The earle of Glocester Anno Reg. 23. He came to Dublin the 28 of Iune as Henrie Marl. saith The duke of Aumarle In Angl. praelijs sub Rich. 2. The duke of Lancaster solicited to expell king Richard and to take vpon him the regiment The duke of Britaine a great ●riend ●o the duke of Lancaster The duke of Lancaster 〈◊〉 adherents 〈◊〉 into England Additions to Polychron Thom. Wals. ●hron Brit. Froissard ●ho ●a●sing The commōs ●enie ●o resist ●he duke of ●ancaster The duke of Lancaster lādeth in Yorkshire Additions to Polychron The duke of 〈…〉 to the lords ●hat 〈◊〉 him The harts of the commo●● wholie bent ●o the duke of Lancaster The duke of Lancaster marcheth to Bristow Scroope 〈◊〉 treasuror Bushie and Greene executed A politike ●●dnesse Out of master Dee● French booke K. Richard returneth out of Ireland and landeth in Wales Thom. Wals. Additions to Polychron K. Richard in vtter despaire K. Richard stealeth awaie from his armie and taketh the castell of Flint A speciall note woorthie to be well weied Hor. lib. car 3. ode 1. The earle of Worcester leaueth the K. and fléeth to the duke Where fortune fauoureth thither the peoples fauour fléeth The duke of Lancaster comming to Chester Perkin a Lee. Out of master Dees booke Holt castell deliuered to the duke Some 〈◊〉 that the archbishop of C●●●turburie and the earle of Westmerland wēt also 〈◊〉 the earle of Northumberland to Conwaie The earle of Northumberlands message to the king The king leaueth Conwaie castell and betaketh himselfe to his enimies A constant seruant The dukes behauiour to the king at their meéting The dukes demand The king and the duke iournie togither towards London K. Richard sumptuous in apparell The dukes receiuing into London The king cōmitted to the tower A parlement in the kings name The king is persuaded to resigne the crowne to the duke Fabian This promise he made at Flint rather than at Conwaie as by that which goeth before it may be partlie coniectured ● Richards resignation confirmed by 〈◊〉 The demand of the archbishop of Canturburie to the commons Thom. Wals. The duke of Hereford placed in the regall throne The archbishop preached Abr. Fl. out of Fabian pag. 351. The words of the elected king Thom. Wals. The coronation proclaimed The parlemēt King Henrie the fourth proclamed T. Wats Amin● ta● querela 5. K. Richard depriued Hall His personage Harding The noble house-kéeping of king Richard Excesse in apparell Ignorant prelats ●●nen●is ●●iscopus In Angl. praelijs New officers made The pa●lemēt new sūmoned Record Tu●●is Claiming of offices at the coronation Curtana The earle of Summerset The earle of Northumberland The I le of Man Lancaster sword The earle of Westmerland The duke of Norffolke Sir Thomas Erpingham The earle of Warwike Sir William Argentine Iuon Fitzwarren The lord Furniuall The lord Graie Great sp●●s The second sword The earle of Arundell The citizens of London Thomas D●mocke Baldwin Freuill The lord Latimer William l● Uenour The barons of the cinqu● ports Knights of the Bath The lord maior of London The earle of March enuied the K. preferment Edmund erle of Lancaster vntrulie fasned to be surnamed Crookebacke Sir Iohn Chenie speaker of the parlement dismissed and William Durward admitted Acts repealed Acts confirmed Fabian Sir Iohn Bagot discloseth secrets Henrie the fourth suspected not to be well affected towards the church before his comming to the crowne The duke of Aumarle accused The duke of Aumarle