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 〈◊〉 â—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 concealâ— 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 friâ—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 hâ—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
wherein he delighteth the same is the practise of the people in consideration whereof the mightie ones of the world haue speciall cause to haue an eie to line 60 their course of life to set caueats before their actions that the people may in them sée none but good signes of commendable vertuous imitation For regis imago Vulgus ad mores accedere principis optat Qualis enim rex est talis quoque subditus illi Esse solet populus studijsque tenetur 〈◊〉 Shortlie after to wit the 15. day of September a councell was holden at Pipewell where the bishops and abbats being assembled there were in presence of the king and of the archbishop of Canturburie elected certeine bishops and abbats to such places as then were vacant and amongst other William de Longchampe the kings chancellor was elected to the sée of Elie Geffrey the kings bastard brother vnto the archbishoprike of Yorke who was the 32. in number that had gouerned the same Geffrey de Lucie to Winchester one Hubert Walter to Salisburie and Richard archdeacon of Elie and the kings treasurer to the see of London The abbeies that were prouided of abbats were these Glastenburie Shirborne Persore and Feuersham In like maner Iohn the elect of Whitherne was consecrated bishop of that see by the hands of the archbishop of Dublin Also in this councell the king ordeined Hugh bishop of Durham and William Mandeuille earle of Albemarle lord chéefe iustices of England hauing deposed Ranulfe de Glanuille from that roome Moreouer the king being thus established in the estate of the kingdome did not forget his iournie which he had promised into the holie land but with all diligence made his prouision and namelie he sought to gather monie to furnish his charges and so therevpon leuied a tax engaged sold and let to farme his lands tols customs and other his reuenewes with certeine counties and offices so that he made an exceeding summe of monie He also found that Ranulfe de Glanuille lord chéefe iustice and other of the head magistrates had not behaued themselues vprightlie in the administration of their offices so that he both deposed the said lord cheefe iustice as is aforesaid and almost all the shiriffes and their deputies within the realme of England putting them to greeuous fines for their offenses and transgressions and so by that meanes he got no small deale of monie ¶ Here note by the waie how William Paruus affirmeth that where this Ranulfe Glanuille being a man of high wisedome and stept into age saw that manie things were doone by the new king not so aduisedlie nor with such foresight as they ought to be sought of his owne accord to be discharged of his office that he might the better prepare himselfe to go in that iournie to the holie land as by taking vpon him the crosse he had vowed in the daies of king Henrie and so he solemnelie renounced his office which other nothing so worthie of it did afterwards inioy Moreouer the king vnderstanding that Hugh Putsey or Pudsey bishop of Durham being a verie aged man had much monie he sold to him the manour of Seggesfield or Sadberge with the wapentake belonging to the same and also found meanes to persuade him to buy his owne prouince which he did giuing to the king an inestimable summe of monie and was therevpon created an earle by the king for the same wherevpon he was intituled both bishop and earle of Durham whereat the king would iest afterwards and saie What a cunning craftesman am I that haue made a new earle of an old bishop Furthermore the same bishop gaue to the king a thousand markes to be made chéefe iustice of England and that he might tarrie at home and not go into the holie land And bicause he would not be reprooued of any person he obteined of the apostolike sée which faileth no man that is surcharged with white or red mettall and would be eased a licence for a summe of monie to be dispensed with for that iournie The king thus being earnestlie bent to make commoditie of those things for the which he might get any monie at all the citizens of London presented vnto him a great summe towards the furnishing foorth of his enterprise Wherevpon to acquite their courtesie he granted them large priuileges and ordeined that the citie should be ruled by two head officers which they should choose amongst themselues remoueable from yeare to yeare by the name of bailiffes The names of the two first bailiffes chosen by force of that ordinance were Henrie Cornehill and Richard Fitz Reiner The citie before those daies euer since the comming in of William Conquerour and a good while before his time was gouerned by certeine officers or rulers named Port Greues which word is deriued of two Saxon words as Port and Greue By Port is meant a towne and by Greue a gardian or ruler as who should saie A kéeper or ruler of a towne These rulers with the lawes customes then vsed within line 10 this citie were registred in a booke called as some haue said Doomesdaie but through negligence after these lawes and customes were changed and altered the booke was lost so that the remembrance of such rulers as were before the daies of this Richard the first are not to be had These bailiffes euer entred at Michaelmasse and so continued foorth their yeare Thus began the citie first to receiue the forme and state of a common-wealth and to be diuided into felowships which they call crafts or corporations Such line 20 also are admitted to the fellowships of these companies as haue truelie serued as apprentises a certeine number of yeares as seuen at the least vnder which time of seruice expired there is none made frée nor suffered to inioy the liberties of that citie sauing such as are borne free that is to saie of fréemen within the citie of whome at this time it is not much materiall to make any further report The citie thus consisting of the said craftes or occupations chooseth out of the same a senat or companie of graue councellours line 30 whom they name Aldermen E changed into A according to the old Saxon pronuntiation It is also diuided into 26. tribes or wards of the which euerie one hath his seuerall Alderman or ouersâ—er who haue both authoritie sufficient and large priuileges to mainteine the good gouernement of their portions withall Out of the number of these there is another officer yearelie chosen and appointed called the Maior who ruleth all the rest But now to returne vnto the further dooings of line 40 king Richard before his departure out of England towards his iournie into the land of Palestine commonlie called Holie land it is said he made such sale of things apperteining to him as well in right of the crowne as otherwise that it séemed to diuerse he made his
of England with him these we find as principall Iohn de Britaine Iohn de Uescie Otâ—s de Grantson and Robert de Bruse besides other Of his noble chiualrie there atchiued yée shall find a bréefe note in the description of the holie land and therefore here we omit the same Howbeit this is to be remembred that whilest the lord Edward line 20 soiorned there in the citie of Acres he was in great danger to haue béene slaine by treason for a traitorous Saracen of that generation which are called Arsacidae and latelie reteined by the same lord Edward and become verie familiar with him found means one day as he sat in his chamber to giue him three wounds which suerlie had cost him his life but that one of the princes chamberleins staied the traitors hand and somewhat brake the strokes till other seruants came to the rescue and slue him there in the line 30 place ¶ There be that write how prince Edward himselfe perceiuing the traitor to strike at his bellie warded the blowe with his arme and as the Saracen offered to haue striken againe he thrust him backe to the ground with his foot and catching him by the hand wrested the knife from him and thrusting him into the bellie so killed him though in strugling with him he was hurt againe a little in the forhead and his seruants withall comming to helpe him one line 40 of them that was his musician got vp a trestill and stroke out the braines of the traitor as he laie dead on the ground and was blamed of his maister for striking him after he saw him once dead before his face as he might perceiue him to be Some write that this traitor was sent from the great admerall of Iapha on message to the prince Edward and had béene with him diuerse times before now making countenance to take forth letters got foorth his knife and attempted so to haue wrought his feat Whatsoeuer line 50 the man was the prince was in great danger by reason of the enuenimed knife wherewith he was wounded so that it was long yer he could be perfectlie whole These Saracens called Arsacidae are a wicked generation of men infected with such a superstitious opinion that they beléeue heauenlie blisse is purchased of them if they can by anie means slea one of the enimies of their religion suffer themselues for that fact the most cruell death that may be deuised ¶ Prince Edward after he was whole and recouered line 60 of his wounds perceiuing that no such aid came into those parts out of christendome as was looked for tooke a truce with the enimies of our faith and returned towards England as hereafter shall be shewed year 1272 On the fourth nones of Aprill as some saie or in the moneth of Februarie as other write in the six and fiftith yeare of K. Henries reigne at Berkhamstéed died Richard king of Almaine and earle of Cornewall and was buried in the abbeie of Hailes which he himselfe had founded he was a worthie prince and stood his brother king Henrie in great stead in handling matters both in peace and warre He left behind him issue begotten of his wife Sanctla two sonnes Edmund and Henrie This Edmund was he that brought the blood of Hails out of Germanie for as he was there vpon a time with his father it chanced that as he was beholding the relikes and other pretious monuments of the ancient emperors he espied a box of gold by the inscription whereof he perceiued as the opinion of men then gaue that therein was conteined a portion of the bloud of our sauiour He therefore being desirous to haue some part thereof so intreated him that had the kéeping of it that he obteined his desire and brought it ouer with him into England bestowing a third part thereof after his fathers deceasse in the abbeie of Hailes as it were to adorne and inrich the same bicause that therein both his father and mother were buried and the other two parts he did reserue in his owne custodie till at length mooued vpon such deuotion as was then vsed he founded an abbeie a little from his manour of Berkhamsteed which abbeie was named Ashrug in the which he placed moonks of the order of Bonhommes being the first that euer had beene seene of that order here in England And herewith he also assigned the two other parts of that bloud to the same abbeie Wherevpon followed great resort of people to those two places induced therevnto by a certeine blind deuotion Henrie the brother of this Edmund and sonne to the foresaid king of Almaine as he returned from Affrike where he had beene with prince Edward was slaine at Uiterbo in Italie whither he was come about businesse which he had to doo with the pope by the hand of Guie de Montfort the sonne of Simon de Montfort earle of Leicester in reuenge of the same Simons death This murther was committed afore the high altar as the same Henrie kneeled there to heare diuine seruice The foresaid Guie vpon that murther committed fled vnto his father in law the earle of Anguilare then gouernour of Tuskain There was at Uiterbo the same time Philip king of France returning homewards from the iournie which his father made into Affrike where he died Also Charles king of Sicill was there present whome the said Guie then serued Both those kings were put in much blame for that the murther and wilfull escape was doone and suffred in their presence and no pursuit made after the murtherer Boniface the archbishop of Canturburie when he had ruled the sea seauen and thirtie yeares departed this life and after his deceasse about two yeares or more was one Robert Kilwarbie appointed in his place by pope Gregorie which Robert was the six and fortith archbishop that had gouerned the sée of Canturburie About the moneth of Iune there fell great debate and discord betwixt the moonks of Norwich and the citizens there which increased so farre that at length the citizens with great violence assaulted the monasterie fired the gates and forced the fire so with reed and drie wood that the church with the bookes and all other ornaments of the same and all houses of office belonging to that abbeie were cleane burned wasted and destroied so that nothing was preserued except one little chapell The king hearing of this riot rode to Norwich and causing inquirie to be made thereof thirtie yoong men of the citie were condemned hanged and burnt to the great greefe of the other citizens for they thought that the priour of the place was the occasion of all that mischéefe who had got togither armed men and tooke vpon him to kéepe the belfraie and church by force of armes but the prior was well inough borne out and defended by the bishop of Norwich named Roger who as it is likelie was the maister
the which had béene taken and committed to prison set fire on the house wherein he was inclosed and so the flames catching hold vpon the other buildings a great part of the citie was thereby burned Yet the men and the line 10 women getting themselues to the wals droue their enimies backe and so defended the citie from taking Whervpon the Scotish lords perceiuing they could not preuaile left their siege on the thursdaie in Easter weeke and returned againe into Scotland On the same thursdaie king Edward with his armie passed the riuer of Tweed and so entring into Scotland sent to the burgesses of Berwike offering them peace vpon certeine conditions and staied a whole day for an answer but when he could haue line 20 none that liked him nor that sounded in anie thing to peace he approched the towne and lodged in the monasterie of Caldestreime His armie consisted as some write of foure thousand men of armes on horsbacke and thirtie thousand footmen besides fiue hundred men of armes on horssebacke and a thousand footmen of the bishoprike of Durham At the same time there came foure and twentie English ships the mariners whereof beholding where the English armie was placed in battell raie vpon a plaine the line 30 king making there certeine knights they thought his meaning was to haue giuen forthwith an assalt and so entring the hauen and approching to the land began to fight with the townesmen where they lost foure of their ships and were constreined to withdraw with the residue with helpe of the falling water Some haue written that they lost but three ships which were consumed with fire and that the mariners and souldiers of one of those ships after they had defended themselues by great manhood from the line 40 first houre of the daie till eleuen of the clocke escaped awaie some by the bote of that ship and some leaping into the water were saued by the botes of other ships that made in to succour them The rumor of the mariners attempt being bruted through the armie the king passing forward towards the towne got ouer a ditch which the Scots had cast to impeach his passage and so comming to the towne wan it not losing any man of renowme sauing sir Richard Cornewall the which was slaine by a quarell which a Flemming shot out of a crossebowe line 50 being in the red hall which the merchants of Flanders held in that towne and had fortified it in manner of a tower but when they would not yéeld and could not easilie otherwise be woone the house towards euening was set on fire and so they being thirtie in number were burned to death within it Upon the same night the king lodged in the castell which was yéelded vnto him by them that kept it their liues and limmes saued and receiuing an oth line 60 that they should not from thencefoorth beare armour against the king of England they were permitted to depart whither they thought good their capteine sir William Dowglas excepted whom the king still kept with him till the end of the warres Some write that there should be slaine of Scotishmen at this winning of Berwike aboue the number of twentie thousand men Abington saith 8000 but Richard Southwell saith 15000 at the least one with an other with small losse of Englishmen not past eight and twentie of all sorts Yée may read more hereof in the Scotish historie ¶ But before I passe ouer this slaughter so lamentable and woonderfull I haue bethought my selfe of a promised apologie for and in the behalfe of Richard Grafton mentioned before in the reigne of Henrie the second page 112. col 1. where I shewed how vnaduisedlie and with vnseemelie modestie for a man of learning George Buchanan the Scot dooth shoot his bolts at the said Grafton as now by occasion of the matter conuenientlie occurrent shall be shewed The said Grafton in his large volume of English chronicles falling vpon the affaires betwéene king Edward the first and Iohn Balioll king of Scotland among other things there remembred maketh report that in the said battell of Berwike the slaughter was so great that a mill might well haue béene driuen by the space of two daies with the streames of bloud which at that time ouerranne the ground At which words George Buchanan giueth a snatch emboldened so to doo bicause the said Grafton referreth this record to Hector Boetius in his fourteenth booke and second chapter Iesu how the Scot taketh vp the Englishman for halting in his allegation first for the chapter conuincing him that Hector Boetius diuided not his booke into chapters and therefore where is the second chapter sith the whole fourteenth booke is a continued discourse without distinction by chapters Secondlie the said Grafton hath the checke for setting a lie aflote Buchanan flatlie affirming that Hector Boetius hath no such matter once mentioned in his annales Touching the first fault wherewith the Scot chargeth the Englishman this is note-worthie that it should seeme to anie man of meane iudgement that Buchanan of a prepensed malice and purposed wilfulnesse hath sharpened his stile in this nipping sort against Grafton For sith it was Graftons meaning to record the truth so farre foorth as he was warranted by the auerment of writers why should he be cast in the teeth with Effraenis maledicendi libido or dishonestlie termed Indoctus impudenter mendax Which opprobrious epithets if they were deserued by an vntrue report of the author then should Buchanan haue sharpened his toong against Belenden his countriman the translator of Hector Boetius into their mother toong from whome Grafton hath deriued his words sense for sense vnmangled as he found the same written Now who knoweth not that Bellenden distinguished Hectors annales into chapters vpon whose authoritie Grafton relieng and citing his authoritie according to the quotation of his diuision whie should he rather than Bellenden be barked at who is the principall in this controuersie Againe it could not be hidden from Buchanan that Bellenden had distributed Boerius into chapters considering that they were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 both liuing in the reigne of Iames the fift of that name king of Scots so that it might haue pleased him to haue tried Grafton by the Scotish Boetius and so to haue beene resolued for the second chapter of the fouretéenth booke according to the archdeacon of Murreis translation Now for the matter it selfe touching the effusion of bloud wherewith a mill might well haue béene driuen for two daies space Hector Boetius his owne words are these Riui sanguinis toto oppido adeo fluxere vt cumaestu decurrente minâ—r aqua quà m ad molendina circumagenda fuerit adiuuante aquam sanguine aliqua circumagi sponte coeperint Which place Bellenden hath interpreted after this manner So lamentabl ' slauhter wes throw all the parts of the toun that ane mill might haâ—f gaue
of the parlement had well considered the voluntarie resignation of king Richard and that it was behoouefull and as they thought necessarie for the weale of the realme line 20 to proceed vnto the sentence of his deposing there were appointed by the authoritie of all the estates there in parlement assembled the bishop of saint Asaph the abbat of Glastenburie the earle of Glocester the lord Berkleie William Thirning iustice and Thomas Erpingham with Thomas Graie knights that they should giue and pronounce the open sentence of the deposing of king Richard Whervpon the said commissioners taking counsell togither by good and deliberate aduise therein had with line 30 one assent agréed that the bishop of S. Asaph should publish the sentence for them and in their names as followeth The publication of king Richards deposing IN the name of God Amen We Iohn bishop of S. Asaph Iohn line 40 abbat of Glastenburie Thomas earle of Glocester Thomas lord Berkeleie William Thirning iustice Thomas Erpingham Thomas Graie knights chosen and deputed speciall commissaries by the three states of this present parlement representing the whole bodie of the realme for all such maâ—â—ers by the said estates to vs committed we vnderstanding and considering the manifold crimes line 50 hurts and harmes doone by Richard king of England and misgouernance of the same by a long time to the great decaie of the said land and vtter ruine of the same shortlie to haue beene had not the speciall grace of our God therevnto put the sooner remedie and also furthermore aduerting that the said king Richard by acknowledging his owne insufficiencie hath of his line 60 owne meere voluntee and free will renounced and giuen ouer the rule gouernance of this land with all rights and honours vnto the same belonging and vtterlie for his merits hath iudged himselfe not vnwoorthilie to be deposed of all kinglie maiestie and estate roiall We the premisses well considering by good and diligent deliberation by the power name and authoritie to vs as aboue is said committed pronounce decerne and declare the same king Richard before this to haue beene and to be vnprofitable vnable vnsufficient and vnwoorthie of the rule and gouernance of the foresaid realms and lordships and of all rights and other the appurtenances to the same belonging And for the same causes we depriue him of all kinglie dignitie and worship and of any kinglie worship in himselfe And we depose him by our sentence definitiue forbidding expresselie to all archbishops and bishops and all other prelats dukes marquesses erles barons and knights and all other men of the foresaid kingdome and lordships subiects and lieges whatsoeuer they be that none of them from this daie forward to the foresaid Richard as king and lord of the foresaid realmes and lordships be neither obedient nor attendant After which sentence thus openlie declared the said estates admitted foorthwith the forenamed commissioners for their procurators to resigne and yeeld vp vnto king Richard all their homage and fealtie which in times past they had made and owght vnto him and also for to declare vnto him if need were all things before doone that concerned the purpose and cause of his deposing the which resignation was respited till the morow following Immediatlie as the sentence was in this wise passed and that by reason thereof the realme stood void without head or gouernour for the time the duke of Lancaster rising from the place where before he sate and standing where all those in the house might behold him in reuerend manner made a signe of the crosse on his forhead and likewise on his brest and after silence by an officer commanded said vnto the people there being present these words following The duke of Lancaster laieth challenge or claime to the crowne IN the name of the Father and of the Sonne of the Holie-ghost I Henrie of Lancaster claime the realme of England and the crowne with all the appurtenances as I that am descended by right line of the blood comming from that good lord king Henrie the third and through the right that God of his grace hath sent me with the helpe of my kin and of my freends to recouer the same which was in point to be vndoone for default of good gouernance and due iustice After these words thus by him vttered he returned and sate him downe in the place where before he had sitten Then the lords hauing heard and well perceiued this claime thus made by this noble man ech of them asked of other what they thought therein At length after a little pausing or staie made the archbishop of Canturburie hauing notice of the minds of the lords stood vp asked the commons if they would assent to the lords which in their minds thought the claime of the duke made to be rightfull and necessarie for the wealth of the realme and them all whereto the commons with one voice cried Yea yea yea After which answer the said archbishop going to the duke and knéeling downe before him on his knée addressed to him all his purpose in few words The which when he had ended he rose taking the duke by the right hand led him vnto the kings seate the archbishop of Yorke assisting him and with great reuerence set him therein after that the duke had first vpon his knées made his praier in deuout manner vnto almightie God When he was thus placed in his throne to the great reioising of the people the archbishop of Canturburie began a breefe collation taking for his theme these words written in the first booke of kings the ninth chapter Vir dominabitur in populo c handling the same the whole tenour of his tale to the praise of the king whose setled iudgement grounded wisedome perfect reason and ripe discretion line 10 was such said he as declared him to be no child neither in yeares nor in light conditions but a man able and méete for the gouernement of a realme so that there was no small cause of comfort ministred to them through the fauourable goodnesse of almightie God which had prouided them of such a gouernor as like a discréet iudge shall déeme in causes by skilfull doomes and rule his subiects in vpright equitie setting apart all wilfull pleasures and childish inconstancie This is a summarie of his oration But because the qualitie of this volume is such as that it line 20 hath set foorth matters at large I will laie downe the archbishops words as they are recorded by Fabian in ample manner as followeth The archbishop of Canturburie his oration framed vpon this text Vir dominabitur in populo c written in the first booke of kings and ninth chapter THese be the words of the high and most mightie king speaking to Samuel his prophet teaching him how he should choose and ordaine a gouernor of his people of Israell when the said people asked of him a king to rule them And not
perilous doctrines books works and writings conteining heresies and errors contrarie to the faith catholike and determination of holie church and speciallie these heresies and errours following that is to saie in particular In primis quòd non est de necessitate fidei credere quòd dominus noster Iesus Christus post mortem descendit ad inferâ—s Item quòd non est de necessitate salutis credere in sanctorum communionem Item quòd ecclesiâ— vniuersalis potest errare in hijs quâ— sunt fidei Item quòd non est de necessitate salutis credere tenere illud quod consilium generale vniuersalis ecclesia statuit approbat seu determinat in fauorem fidei ad salutem animarum est ab vniuersis Christi fidelibus approbandum tenendum Wherefore I miserable sinner which here before long time haue walked in darkenesse and now by the mercie and infinit goodnesse of God reduced into the right waie and light of truth and considering my selfe gréeuouslie haue sinned and wickedlie haue informed and infected the people of God returne and come againe to the vnitie of our mother holie church and all heresies and errors written and conteined in my said books works and writings here solemnelie and openlie reuoke renounce Which heresies and errors and all other spices of heresies I haue before this time before the most reuerend father in God and my good lord of Canturburie in diuerse and lawfull forme iudiciallie abiured submitting my selfe being then and also now at this time verie contrite and penitent sinner to the correction of the church and of my said lord of Canturburie And ouer this exhorting requiring in the name vertue of almightie God in the saluation of your soules and mind that no man hereafter giue faith and credence to my said pernicious doctrines heresies and errors neither my said books kéepe hold or read in anie wise but that they all such books works and writings suspect of heresies deliuer in all goodlie hast vnto my said lord of Canturburie or to his commissioners and deputies in eschewing of manie inconueniences and great perils of soules the which else might be cause of the contrarie And ouer this declaration of my conuersion and repentance I here openlie assent that my said books works and writings for declaration and cause aboue rehearsed be deputed vnto the fire and openlie burnt in example and terror of all other c. After this he was depriued of his bishoprike hauing a certeine pension assigned vnto him for to liue on in an abbeie and soone after died His books were intituled 1 Of christian religion and a booke perteining therevnto 2 Of matrimonie 3 Iust expressing of holie scripture diuided into three parts 4 The donet of christian religion 5 The follower of the donet 6 The booke of faith 7 The booke filling the foure tables 8 The booke of worshipping 9 The prouoker of christian men 10 The booke of counsell In the moneth of Ianuarie died the earle of Deuonshire in the abbeie of Abindon poisoned as men said being there at that time with quéene Margaret to appease the malice betweene the yoong lords whose fathers were slaine at saint Albons and they that held with the duke of Yorke The thirtéenth of Aprill there was a great fraie in Fléetstreet betweene men of court and the inhabitants of the same stréet in which fraie the quéenes atturnie was slaine For this fact the king committed the principall gouernours of Furniuals Cliffords and Barnards In to prison in the castell of Hertford and William Tailor alderman of that ward with manie other were sent to Windsore castell the seuenth of Maie On thursdaie in Whitsunweeke the duke of Summerset with Anthonie Riuers and other foure kept iustes before the quéene in the Tower of London against three esquiers of the queenes And in like maner at Gréenewich the sundaie following King Henrie and his councell perceiuing the duke of Yorke laie still and stirred not returned to London and there called a great councell openlie declaring how the French and Scots imboldened by the ciuill discord within this realme attempted to annoie the same as of late they had shewed apparant tokens and likelie not ceasse vpon occasions to doo further displeasures till a perfect concord were concluded betwéene him and his fréends and those of the contrarie part and confederacie And to the intent line 10 that he would be the cheefe author of peace he promised of his dignitie so to interteine the duke of Yorke and his fréends that all old grudges should be not onelie inwardlie forgotten but also outwardlie forgiuen which should be cause of perpetuall loue and assured amitie This deuise was of all men iudged for the best Wherevpon diuerse graue persons were sent to the duke of Yorke and all other the great estates of the realme who since the battell of saint Albons neuer line 20 met nor communed togither commanding them for great causes to repaire to the kings court without delaie At his commandement came to London Richard duke of Yorke with foure hundred men and was lodged at Bainards castell being his owne house and after him came the earle of Salisburie with fiue hundred men and was likewise lodged at his owne house called the Herbour Then came the dukes of Excester and Summerset with eight hundred men and were lodged without Temple barre line 30 and the earle of Northumberland the lord Egremond and the lord Clifford came with fiftéene hundred men and lodged without the citie The earle of Warwike also came from Calis with six hundred men in red iackets imbrodered with white ragged slaues behind and before and was lodged at the graie friers Thus were all those of the one part lodged within the citie and those of the other without in Holborne towards Westminster and in other places of the line 40 suburbs all vpon wise consideration for that the Yorke faction and the Lancastrians could not well haue béene mingled without danger of discord After that these lords were thus come vnto London the king and the quéene shortlie followed comming thither the seuentéenth daie of March and lodged in the bishops palace Bicause no riotous attempt or bickering should be begun betwéene anie of the parties or their retinues the maior and aldermen of the citie line 50 kept great watch as well by daie as by night riding about the citie by Holborne and Fléetstréet with fiue thousand men well armed and arraied to sée good order and peace on all sides kept The lords which lodged within the citie held a dailie councell at blacke friers the other part soiourning without the walles assembled likewise in the chapiter house at Westminster At length by the diligent trauell and good exhortation of the archbishop of Canturburie and other prelats both parties were line 60 persuaded to come to communication and so did Where after long debating of grieuances on both sides they promising to forget all old rancors
earle of Warwike which waited for his foorth comming on the Thames and suddenlie taken was shortlie slaine with manie darts daggers and his bodie left naked and all bloudie at the gate of the clinke and after was buried in the church adioining Then were diuerse persons apprehended and indited of treason wherof some were pardoned and some executed Thomas Thorpe second baron of the escheker was committed to the Tower where he remained long after for that he was knowne to be great fréend to the house of Lancaster ¶ When queene Margaret heard that the K. was taken she with hir sonne and eight persons fled to the castell of Hardlagh in Wales and was robbed by the waie in Lancashire of all hir goods to the value of ten thousand markes from thence she went into Scotland Thus you sée what fruits the trée of ciuill discord dooth bring foorth that euill tree which whilest some haue taken line 10 paine to plant and some to proine and nourish for others confusion to whome they haue giuen a taste of those apples which it bare far more bitter than coloquintida themselues haue béene forced to take such share as befell them by lot For as it is not possible that a cōmon fier whose heat flame is vniuersallie spred should spare any particular place for so should it not be generall no more is it likelie that in ciuill commotions rebellions insurrections and partakings in conflicts and pitched feelds speciallie vnder line 20 ringleaders of great countenance and personage such as be the péeres and states of kingdoms anie one should though perhaps his life yet a thousand to one not saue his bloud vnspilt nor his goods vnspoiled During this trouble a parlement was summoned to begin at Westminster in the moneth of October next following In the meane time the duke of Yorke aduertised of all these things sailed from Dubline towards England and landed at the red banke néere to the citie line 30 of Chester with no small companie and from Chester by long iournies he came to the citie of London which he entred the fridaie before the feast of S. Edward the Confessor with a sword borne naked before him with trumpets also sounding and accompanied with a great traine of men of armes and other of his fréends and seruants At his comming to Westminster he entred the palace and passing foorth directlie through the great hall staied not till he came to the chamber where the king and lords vsed to sit in line 40 the parlement time cōmonlie called the vpper house or chamber of the péeres and being there entred stept vp vnto the throne roiall and there laieng his hand vpon the cloth of estate seemed as if he meant to take possession of that which was his right for he held his hand so vpon that cloth a good pretie while and after withdrawing his hand turned his face towards the people beholding their preassing togither and marking what countenance they made Whilest he thus stood and beheld the people supposing they reioised to see his presence the archbishop line 50 of Canturburie Thomas Bourcher came to him after due salutations asked him if he would come and see the king With which demand he séeming to take disdaine answered bréefelie and in few words thus I remember not that I know anie within this realme but that it beséemeth him rather to come and sée my person than I to go and sée his The archbishop hearing his answer went backe to the king and declared what answer he had receiued of the dukes owne mouth After the archbishop was departed line 60 to the king that laie in the quéenes lodging the duke also departed and went to the most principall lodging that the king had within all his palace breaking vp the lockes and doores and so lodged himselfe therein more like to a king than a duke continuing in the same lodging for a time to the great indignation of manie that could not in anie wise like of such presumptuous attempts made by the duke to thrust himselfe in possession of the crowne and to depose king Henrie who had reigned ouer them so long a time Maister Edward Hall in his chronicle maketh mention of an oration which the duke of Yorke vttered sitting in the regall seat there in the chamber of the péeres either at this his first comming in amongst them or else at some one time after the which we haue thought good also to set downe though Iohn Whethamsted the abbat of saint Albons who liued in those daies and by all likelihood was there present at the parlement maketh no further recitall of anie words which the duke should vtter at that time in that his booke of records where he intreateth of this matter But for the oration as maister Hall hath written thereof we find as followeth ¶ During the time saith he of this parlement the duke of Yorke with a bold countenance entered into the chamber of the peeres and sat downe in the throne roiall vnder the cloth of estate which is the kings peculiar seat and in the presence of the nobilitie as well spirituall as temporall after a pause made he began to declare his title to the crowne in this forme and order as insueth The duke of Yorks oration made to the lords of the parlement MY singular good lords maruell not that I approch vnto this throne for I sit here as in the place to me by verie iustice lawfullie belonging here I rest as to whom this chaire of right apperteineth not as he which requireth of you fauour parcialitie or bearing but equall right friendlie indifferencie and true administration of iustice For I beeing the partie greeued and complainant can not minister to my selfe the medicine that should helpe me as expert leeches cunning surgians maie except you be to me both faithfull aiders also true councellors Nor yet this noble realme and our naturall countrie shall neuer be vnbuckled from hir dailie feuer except I as the principall physician and you as the true and trustie apothecaries consult togither in making of the potion and trie out the cleane and pure stuffe from the corrupt and putrified drugs For vndoubtedlie the root and bottome of this long festured canker is not yet extirpate nor the feeble foundation of this fallible building is not yet espied which hath beene and is the dailie destruction of the nobilitie and the continuall confusion of the poore communaltie of this realme and kingdome For all you know or should know that the high and mightie prince king Richard the second was the true and vndoubted heire to the valiant conqueror and renowmed prince king Edward the third as sonne heire to the hardie knight and couragious capteine Edward prince of Wales duke of Aquitaine and Cornewall eldest sonne to the said king Edward the third which king was not onelie in deed but also of all men reputed and taken for the
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
the yearlie value of one hundred twentie pounds for the which it is decreed that the maior burgesses and communaltie of Bristow in the yeare of our Lord 1567 and so yearelie during the tearme of ten yeares then next insuing should cause to be paid at Bristow one hundred pounds of lawfull monie The first eight hundred pounds to be lent to sixtéene poore line 40 yoongmen clothiers fréemen of the same towne for the space of ten yeares fiftie pounds the péece of them putting sufficient suerties for the same and at the end of ten yeares to be lent to other sixteene at the discretion of the maior aldermen and foure of the common councell of the said citie The other two hundred pounds to be imploied in the prouision of corne for the reléefe of the poore of the same citie for their readie monie without gaine line 50 to be taken And after the end of ten yeares on the feast daie of saint Bartholomew which shall be in the yeare of our Lord 1577 at the merchant tailors hall in London vnto the maior and communaltie of the citie of Yorke or to their atturnie authorised an hundred foure pounds to be lent vnto foure yoongmen of the said citie of Yorke fréemen and inhabitants clothiers alwaie to be preferred that is to euerie of them fiue and twentie pounds to haue and occupie the same for the tearme of ten yeares without line 60 paieng anie thing for the loane the foure pounds ouerplus of the hundred and foure pounds at the pleasure of the maior and communaltie for their paines to be taken about the receipts and paiments of the said hundred pounds The like order in all points is taken for the deliuerie of an hundred and foure pounds in the yeare 1578 to the citie of Canturburie In the yeare 1579 to Reading 1580 to the companie of the merchant tailors 1581 to Glocester 1582 to Worcester 1583 to Excester 1584 to Salisburie 1585 to Westchester 1586 to Norwich 1587 to South-hampton 1588 to Lincolne 1589 to Winchester 1590 to Oxenford 1591 to Herefordeast 1592 to Cambridge 1593 to Shrewesburie 1594 to Lin 1595 to Bath 1596 to Derbie 1597 to Ipswich 1598 to Colchester 1599 to Newcastell And then to begin againe at Bristow an hundred and foure pounds the next yeare to the citie of Yorke and so foorth to euerie of the said cities and townes in the like order as before and thus to continue for euer as in the indentures tripartite more plainelie maie appeare At this time manie were in trouble for religion and among others sir Iames Hales knight one of the iustices of the common plées which iustice being called among other by the councell of king Edward to subscribe to a deuise made for the disheriting of queene Marie and the ladie Elizabeth hir sister would in no wise assent to the same though most of the other did yet that notwithstanding for that he at a quarter sessions holden in Kent gaue charge vpon the statutes of king Henrie the eight and king Edward the sixt in derogation of the primasie of the church of Rome abolished by king Henrie the eight he was first committed prisoner to the Kings bench then to the Counter last to the Fléet where whether it were thorough extreame feare or else by reason of such talke as the warden of the Fleet vsed vnto him of more trouble like to insue if he persisted in his opinion or for what other cause God knoweth he was so mooued troubled and vexed that he sought to rid himselfe out of this life which thing he first attempted in the Fleet by wounding himselfe with a penknife well neere to death Neuerthelesse afterward being recouered of that hurt he séemed to be verie conformable to all the queenes procéedings and was therevpon deliuered of his imprisonment and brought to the quéenes presence who gaue him words of great comfort neuerthelesse his mind was not quiet as afterward well appeared for in the end he drowned himselfe in a riuer not halfe a mile from his dwelling house in Kent the riuer being so shalow that he was faine to lie groueling before he could dispatch himselfe whose death was much lamented For beside that he was a man wise vertuous and learned in the lawes of the realme he was also a good and true minister of iustice whereby he gat him great fauour and estimation among all degrees During the aforesaid parlement about the eightéenth daie of October there was kept at Paules church in London a publike disputation appointed by the quéenes commandement about the presence of Christ in the sacrament of the altar which disputation continued six daies doctor Weston then being prolocutor of the conuocation who vsed manie vnseemelie checks tawnts against the one part to the preiudice of their cause By reason whereof the disputers neuer resolued vpon the article proponed but grew dailie more and more into contention without anie fruit of their long conference and so ended this disputation with these words spoken by doctor Weston prolocutor It is not the queens pleasure that we should herein spend anie longer time and yeare well inough for you haue the word and we haue the sword But of this matter ye maie read more in the booke of the monuments of the church At this time was cardinall Poole sent for to Rome by the quéene who was verie desirous of his comming as well for the causes before declared as also for the great affection that she had to him being hir neere kinsman and consenting with hir in religion This message was most thankefullie receiued at Rome and order taken to send the said cardinall hither with great expedition but before his comming quéene Marie had married Philip prince of Spaine as after shall appeare But here to touch somewhat the comming of the said cardinall When he was arriued at Calis there was conference had amongest the councellors of the quéene for the maner of his receiuing some would haue had him verie honourablie met and interteined as he was in all places where he had before passed not onelie for that he was a cardinall and a legat from the pope but also for that he was the quéenes néere kinsman of the house of Clarence Neuerthelesse after much debating line 10 it was thought méetest first for that by the lawes of the realme which yet were not repealed he stood attainted by parlement and also for that it was doubtfull how he being sent from Rome should be accepted of the people who in fiue and twentie yeares before had not béene much acquainted with the pope or his cardinals that therefore vntill all things might be put in order for that purpose he should come without anie great solemnitie vnto Lambeth where in the archbishops house his lodging was line 20 prepared The third of Nouember next following Thomas Cranmer archbishop of Canturburie notwithstanding that he had once refused
old fréese cote an old paire of hosen all his apparell not worth foure shillings The same daie came in two of the Culpepers one Cromar Thomas Rampton the duke of Suffolks secretarie The twelfe of Februarie being mondaie about ten of the clocke there went out of the tower to the scaffold on the tower hill the lord Gilford Dudleie sonne to the duke of Northumberland husband to the ladie Iane Greie daughter to the duke of Suffolke and without the bulworke gate maister Thomas Offleie one of the shiriffes of London receiued him and brought him to the scaffold where after a small declaration he knéeled downe and said his praiers Then holding vp his eies hands to heauen with teares at the last he desired the people to praie for him after he was beheaded His bodie being laid in a cart and his head in a cloth was brought into the chappell within the tower where the ladie Iane whose lodging was in maister Patridges house did sée his dead carcasse taken out of the cart as well as she did see him before aliue going to his death a sight as might be supposed to hir worse than death By this time was there a scaffold made vpon the greene ouer against the white tower for the ladie Iane to die vpon who being nothing at all abashed neither with feare of hir owne death which then approched neither with the sight of the dead carcasse of hir husband when he was brought into the chapell came forth the lieutenant leading hir with countenance nothing abashed neither hir eies anie thing moistened with teares with a booke in hir hand wherein she praied vntill she came to the said scaffold Whereon when she was mounted this noble yoong ladie as she was indued with singular gifts both of learning and knowledge so was she as patient and mild as anie lambe at hir execution and a little before hir death vttered these words The words of the ladie Iane at hir death on a scaffold vpon the greene ouer against the white tower GOod people I am come hither to die and by a law I am condemned to the same My offense against the queenes highnes was onelie in consent to the deuice of other which now is deemed treason but it was neuer of my seeking but by counsell of those who should seeme to haue further vnderstanding of things than I which knew little of the law and much lesse of the titles to the crowne But touching the procurement and desire therof by me or on my behalfe I doo wash my hands in innocencie thereof before God and the face of all you good christian people this daie And therwith she wroong hir hands wherin she had hir booke Then said she I praie you all good christian people to beare me witnesse that I die a true christian woman that I looke to be saued by none other meanes line 10 but onelie by the mercie of God in the bloud of his onelie sonne Iesus Christ I confesse that when I did know the word of God I neglected the same loued my selfe and the world and therefore this plague and punishment is iustlie worthilie happened vnto me for my sins yet I thanke God of his goodnesse that he hath giuen me a time and respit to repent And now line 20 good people while I am aliue I praie you assist me with your praiers Then knéeling downe she said the pâ—alme of Miserere mei Deus in English and then stood vp and gaue hir maid called mistresse Ellin hir gloues and handkercher and hir booke she also gaue to maister Bridges then lieutenant of the tower and so vntied hir gowne and the executioner pressed to helpe hir off with it but she desired him to let hir alone and line 30 turned hir toward hir two gentlewomen who helped hir off therewith and wish hir other attires and they gaue hir a faire handkercher tâ—â—ut about hir eies Then the executioner knéeled dâ—wne and asked hir forgiuenesse whom she forgaue most willinglie Then he willed hir to stand vpon the straw which doone she saw the blocke then she said I praie you dispatch me quicklie Then she knéeled downe saieng Will you take it off before I laie me down Whervnto the executioner answered No madam Then tied she the handkercher about hir eies and féeling for the blocke she said Where is it where is it One of the standers by guided hir therevnto and she laid downe hir head vpon the blocke and then stretched forth hir bodie and said Lord into thy hands I commend my spirit and so finished hir life ¶ This was the end of the lord Gilford and the ladie Iane whose deaths were the more hastened for feare of further troubles and sturs for hir title like as hir father had attempted line 50 Thus as saith maister Fox were beheaded two innocents in comparison of them that sat vpon them for they did but ignorantlie accept that which the others had willinglie deuised and by open proclamation consented to take from others and giue to them And verelie how vnwilling she was to take it vpon hir there are yet liuing that can testifie Iudge Morgan now that gaue the sentence against hir shortlie after fell mad and in his rauing cried continuallie to haue the ladie Iane taken awaie from him and so ended his life ¶ Touching this ladie line 60 Iane in the high commendation of hir godlie mind I find this report in maister Foxes appendix to his Acts and Monuments namelie that being on a time when she was verie yoong at Newhall in Essex at the ladie Maries was by one ladie Anne Wharton desired to walke and they passing by the chapell the ladie Wharton made low curtsie to the popish sacrament hanging on the altar Which when the ladie Iane saw maruelled why she did so and asked hir whether the ladie Marie were there or not Unto whome the ladie Wharton answered no but she said that she made hir curtsie to him that made vs all Why quoth the ladie Iane how can he be there that made vs all and the baker made him This hir answer comming to the ladie Maries eare she did neuer loue hir after as is crediblie reported but estéemed hir as the rest of that christian profession In further witnesse of which good ladies disposition both to God and the world besides the verses of certeine learned men extant to hir praise these following were found written by hir owne hand with a pin Non aliena putes homini quae obtingere possunt Sors 〈◊〉 mihi tunc erit illa tibi Iane Dudley Deo iuuante nil nocet liuor malus Et non iuuante nil iuuat labor graâ—is Post tenebras spero videre lucem Upon saâ—urdaie being the seuentéenth of Februarie the duke of Suffolke was arreigned at Westminster and there condemned to die by his péeres the earle of Arundell being that daie chiefe iudge Where some haue
such as be declared in the fiue and twentith yeare of king Edward the third both which statutes I pray you my lords maie be read here to the inquest No sir there shall be no bookes brought at your desire we doo all know the law sufficientlie without booke Doo you bring me hither to trie me by the law will not shew me the law What is your knowlege of the law to these mens satisfactions which haue my triall in hand I praie you my lords and my lords all let the statutes be read as well for the quéene as for me My lord chiefe iustice can shew the law and will if the iurie doo doubt of anie point You know it were indifferent that I should know and heare the law whereby I am adiudged and for asmuch as the statute is in English men of meaner learning than the iustices can vnderstand it or else how should we know when we offend You know not what belongeth to your case and therefore we must teach you it apperteineth not to line 10 vs to prouide bookes for you neither sit we here to be taught of you you should haue taken better héed to the law before you had come hither Because I am ignorant I would learne and therefore I haue more néed to sée the law and partlie as well for the instructions of the iurie as for my own satisfaction which mee thinke were for the honor of this presence And now if it please you my lord chiefe iustice I doo direct my spéech speciallie to you line 20 What time it pleased the quéenes maiestie to call you to this honorable office I did learne of a great personage of hir highnesse priuie councell that amongst other good instructions hir maiestie charged and inioined you to minister the law and iustice indifferentlie without respect of persons And notwithstanding the old error amongst you which did not admit anie witnesse to speake or anie other matter to be heard in the fauor of the aduersarie hir maiestie being partie hir highnesse pleasure was line 30 that whatsoeuer could be brought in the fauor of the subiect should be admitted to be heard And moreouer that you speciallie likewise all other iustices should not persuade themselues to sit in iudgement otherwise for hir highnesse than for hir subiect Therefore this maner of indifferent proceeding being principallie inioined by Gods commandement which I had thought partlie to haue remembred you others here in commission in the beginning if I might haue had leaue and the same also being commanded line 40 you by the quéens owne mouth me thinke you ought of right to suffer me to haue the statutes read openlie and also to reiect nothing that could be spoken in my defense and in thus dooing you shall shew your selues woorthie ministers and fit for so woorthie a mistresse You mistake the matter the queene spake those words to maister Morgan chiefe iustice of the common plées but you haue no â—ause to complaine for you haue béene suffered to talke at your pleasure line 50 What would you doo with the statute booke The iurie dooth not require it they haue heard the euidence and they must vpon their conscience trie whether you be guiltie or no so as the booke needeth not if they will not credit the euidence so apparant then they know not what they haue to doo You ought not to haue anie books read here at your appointment for where dooth arise anie doubt in the law the iudges sit here to informe the court and now you doo but spend time line 60 I pray you my lord chiefe iustice repeat the euidence for the queene and giue the iurie their charge for the prisoner will kéepe you here all daie How saie you Haue you anie more to saie for your selfe You seeme to giue and offer me the law but in verie déed I haue onelie the forme and image of the law neuerthelesse sith I cannot be suffered to haue the statutes red openlie in the booke I will by your patience gesse at them as I maie and I praie you to helpe me if I mistake for it is long since I did sée them The statute of repeale made the last parlement hath these words Be it enacted by the quéene that from henceforth none act deed or offense being by act of parlement or statute made treason petit treason or misprision of treason by words writing printing ciphering déeds or otherwise whatsoeuer shall be taken had déemed or adiudged treason petit treason but onelie such as be declared or expressed to be treason in or by an act of parlement made in the fiue and twentith yeare of Edward the third touching and concerning treasons and the declaration of treasons and none other Here may you sée this statute dooth referre all the offenses aforesaid to the statute of the fiue and twentith yeare of Edward the third which statute hath these words touching and concerning the treasons that I am indicted and arreigned of that is to saie Whosoeuer dooth compasse or imagine the death of the king or leuie warre against the king in his realme or being adherent to the kings enimies within this realme or elsewhere and be thereof probablie attainted by open déed by people of their condition shall be adiudged a traitor Now I praie you of my iurie which haue my life in triall note well what things at this daie be treasons and how these treasons must be tried and decerned that is to say by open déed which the lawes dooth at some time terme Ouert act And now I aske notwithstanding my indictment which is but matter alleged where dooth appeare the open déed of anie compassing or imagining the queenes death Or where dooth appeare anie open déed of being adherent to the quéens enimies giuing to them aid and comfort Or where dooth appeare anie open déed of taking the tower of London Why doo not you of the quéenes learned councell answer him Me thinke Throckmorton you need not haue the statutes for you haue them méetlie perfectlie You are deceiued to conclude all treasons in the statute of the fiue and twentith yeare of Edward the third for that statute is but a declaration of certeine treasons which were treasons before at the common law Euen so there dooth remaine diuerse other treasons at this daie at the common law which be expressed by that statute as the iudges can declare Neuerthelesse there is matter sufficient alleged and prooued against you to bring you within the compasse of the same statute I praie you expresse those matters that bring me within the compasse of the statute of Edward the third For the words be these And be thereof attainted by open déed By people of like condition Throckmorton you deceiue your selfe and mistake these words By people of their condition For thereby the law dooth vnderstand the discouering of your treasons
pageant But in the opening when hir grace vnderstood that the bible in English should be deliuered vnto hir by Truth which was therein represented by a child she thanked the citie for that gift and said that she would oftentimes read ouer that booke commanding sir Iohn Parrat one of the knights which held vp hir canopie to go before and to receiue the booke But learning that it should be deliuered vnto hir grace downe by a silken lace she caused him to staie and so passed forward till she came against the aldermen in the high end of Cheape before the little conduit where the companies of the citie ended which began at Fanchurch stood along the stréets one by an other inclosed with railes hanged with cloths and themselues well apparelled with manie rich furres and their liuerie hoods vpon their shoulders in comelie and seemelie maner hauing before them sundrie persons well apparelled in silks and chains of gold as wiflers and garders of the said companies besides a number of rich hangings as well of tapistrie arras cloths of gold siluer veluet damaske sattin and other silks plentifullie hanged all the waie as the queenes highnesse passed from the tower thorough the citie Out at the windowes and penthouses of euerie house did hang a number of rich and costlie banners line 10 and stremers till hir grace came to the vpper end of Cheape Where by appointment the right worshipfull master Ranulph Cholmelie recorder of the citie presented to the quéenes maiestie a pursse of crimson sattin richlie wrought with gold wherein the citie gaue vnto the quéens maiestie a thousand marks in gold as master recorder did declare bréefelie vnto the quéens maiestie whose words tended to this end that the lord maior his brethren and communaltie of line 20 the citie to declare their gladnesse and goodwill towards the quéenes maiestie did present hir grace with that gold desiring hir grace to continue their good and gratious queene and not to esteeme the value of the gift but the mind of the giuers The queens maiestie with both hir hands tooke the pursse and answered to him againe maruellous pithilie and so pithilie that the standers by as they imbraced intirelie hir gratious answer so they maruelled at the couching thereof which was in words truelie reported these I thanke my lord maior his brethren and you line 30 all And whereas your request is that I should continue your good ladie and quéene be yee ensured that I will be as good vnto you as euer quéene was to hir people No will in me can lacke neither doo I trust shall there lacke anie power And persuade your selues that for the safetie and quietnesse of you all I will not spare if néed be to spend my bloud God thanke you all Which answer of so noble an hearted princesse if it mooued a maruellous shout line 40 reioising it is nothing to be maruelled at sith both the haltinesse thereof was so woonderfull and the words so iointlie knit When hir grace had thus answered the recorder she marched toward the little conduit where was erected a pageant with square proportion standing directlie before the same conduit with battlements accordinglie And in the same pageant was aduanced two hilles or mounteins of conuenient height The one of them being on the north side of the same pageant line 50 was made â—ragged barren and stonie in the which was erected one trée artificiallie made all withered and dead with branches accordinglie And vnder the same trée at the foot thereof sat one in homelie and rude apparrell crookedlie and in mourning maner hauing ouer his head in a table written in Latine and English his name which was Ruinosa respublica A decaied commonweale And vpon the same withered trée were fixed certeine tables wherein were written proper sentences expressing the causes line 60 of the decaie of a commonweale The other hill on the south side was made faire fresh greene and beautifull the ground thereof full of floures and beautie and on the same was erected also one tree verie fresh and faire vnder the which stood vpright one fresh personage well apparelled and appointed whose name also was written both in English and Latine which was Respublica bene instituta A flourishing common-weale And vpon the same tree also were fixed certeine tables conteining sentences which expressed the causes of a flourishing commonweale In the middle betweene the said hils was made artificiallie one hollow place or caue with doore and locke inclosed out of the which a little before the quéenes highnesse comming thither issued one personage whose name was Time apparelled as an old man with a sieth in his hand hauing wings artificiallie made leading a personage of lesser stature than himselfe which was finelie and well apparrelled all clad in white silke and directlie ouer hir head was set hir name and title in Latine and English Temporis filia The daughter of Time Which two so appointed went forwards toward the south side of the pageant And on hir brest was written hir proper name which was Veritas Truth who held a booke in hir hand vpon the which was written Verbum veritatis The word of truth And out of the south side of the pageant was cast a standing for a child which should interpret the same pageant Against whome when the quéenes maiestie came he spake vnto hir grace these swéet words This old man with the sieth old father Time they call And hir his daughter Truth which holdeth yonder booke Whome he out of his rocke hath brought foorth to vs all From whence this manie yeares she durst not once out looke The ruthfull wight that sits vnder the barren tree Resembleth to vs the forme when common weales decaie But when they be in state triumphant you may see By him in fresh attire that sits vnder the baâ—e Now sith that Time againe his daughter Truth hath brought We trust ô worthie queene thou wilt this truth imbrace And sith thou vnderstandst the good estate and naught We trust wealth thou wilt plant and barrennes displace But for to heale the sore and cure that is not seene Which thing the booke of truth dooth teach in writing plaine Shee dooth present to thee the same ô worthie queene For that that words doo flie but written dooth remaine When the child had thus ended his spéech he reached his booke towards the quéenes maiestie which a little before Truth had let downe vnto him from the hill which by sir Iohn Parrat was receiued and deliuered vnto the quéene But shée as soone as she had receiued the booke kissed it and with both hir hands held vp the same and so laid it vpon hir brest with great thanks to the citie therefore and so went forward towards Paules churchyard The former matter which was rehearsed vnto the quéenes maiestie was written in two tables on either side the pageant eight verses and in the middest these in
pen thorough the malicious barking of some who suppose nothing well but what they doo themselues whereby gaine maie rise vnto their posteritie in this liberall sort to set downe the names and times of such treasurors as haue liued in England as hereafter I will doo the chancellors and that with as good authoritie as these secret backbiters can challenge anie cunning to themselues who suppose euerie blast of their mouth to come foorth of Trophonius den and that they spake from the triuet As I will not arrogate anie thing to my selfe for in truth I saie with Socrates Hoc tantùm scio quòd nihil scio or derogate from them that which their worthinesse maie merit so shall I be glad sith nothing is at the first so perfect but that somewhat maie be either augmented or amended to and in it that this maie whet those enuious persons to deliuer anie thing to the world that maie in comptrolling my labours benefit their countrie which if they will not doo let them cease their euill spéeches for Qui pergit dicere quae libet quae non vult audiet And truelie for mine owne part I will Canere palinodiam and yeeld them an honourable victorie if anie better shall be produced and be heartilie glad that truth which is all that I seeke maie be brought to perfection Now how well I haue done it my selfe must not be iudge desiring pardon of such as either with wise modestie can or ought to iudge or with rare antiquities can or will correct what I haue doone if thorough ignorance we haue committed anie escapes or imperfections further promising that if hereafter we espie any of our owne error or if anie other either friend for good will or aduersarie for desire of reprehension shall open the same vnto me I will not for defense of mine estimation or of pride or of contention by wranglings or quarrelling vpon authorities histories and records wilfullie persist in those faults but be glad to heare of them and in the whole and large discourse of the liues of the lord treasurors almost perfected corrected them For as I said it is truth of antiquities that I séeke for which being had either by good intention of my welwilling friends or by occasion and reprehension of my enuious emulators I greatlie esteeme not And so to the matter Saint Dunstane for I vse that name more for antiquities than deuoutnesse cause was treasuror to Eadred or Eldred king of England who began his reigne in the yeare that the word became flesh nine hundred fortie and six of whome thus writeth Matthew Parker in his booke of the archbishops of Canturburie in the life of Odo Seuerus the two and twentith bishop of that see Edmundo the king of England defuncto Eadredus corona regia ab Odone redimitus rem publicam administrans Dunstanum vt in eius vita pleniùs patebit tam singulari amore prosequutus est vt omnes regni thesauros illius custodiae commendaret Hugoline was treasuror and chamberleine to Edward the confessor he gaue Deane and Southâ—righ to Westminster which Edward the confessor did afterward confirme to that house Odo halfe brother to William the conqueror erle of Kent bishop of Baieux and chiefe iustice of England was treasuror in the time of the conqueror who had at his death as saith Anonymus M.S. sixtie thousand pounds Excepto auro gemmis vasis palijs Geffreie lord Clinton treasuror and chamberleine to Henrie the first he about the thirteenth yeare of Henrie the first in the yeare of our Lord one thousand one hundred and twelue did found the priorie of Kenelworth and was after accused of treason in the one and thirtith yeare of the reigne of the said Henrie the first but as it séemed restored in short time after to the kings fauour Ranulph bishop of Durham was treasuror to the king whome Florentius Wigorniensis calleth Praecipuum regis placitatorem regni exactorem whose last word Exactor some men doo English treasuror Of this man is more said in the chancellors of England Roger bishop of Sarisburie treasuror chancellor of England as appeareth by Leland writing in this sort Roger bishop of Sarum treasuror chancellor to Henrie the first made the castell of Uies such a costlie and so strong a fort as was neuer before nor since set vp by anie bishop of England The kéepe or dungeon of it set vpon a hill cast by hand is a peece of worke of incredible cost There appeare in the gate of it six or seauen places for portculices and much goodlie building was in it It is now in ruine and part of the front of the towers of the gate of the keepe and the chappell in it were carried full vnprofitablie to the building of master Beintons house at Bromhame scant thrée miles off There remaine diuerse goodlie towers yet in the vtter wall of the castell but all going to ruine The principall gate line 10 that leadeth into the towne is yet of great strength and hath places of seauen or eight portculices Thus much Leland in his commentaries of England which I haue here set downe partlie to prooue Roger bishop of Salisburie to be treasuror and partlie to commit to the world all such collections and notes as I can get of his Besides which to prooue the same Roger treasuror at the latter end of the reigne of Henrie the first togither with William de Pontlearch at the entering of king Stephan into England line 20 thus writeth one Anonymall chronicle M. S. Stephanus cùm intrauit Angliam RogeruÌ„ Seresberiensem Willielmum de Pontlearcus custodes thesaurorum ad se traduxit which William de Pontlearch was a witnesse with William Stigill to a certeine charter which Ranulph bishop of Durham made to the moonkes of Durham commonlie called S. Cutberts moonks wherin he confirmed to them Blakestone Standrop and Sandropshire with the wood of Henworth on the east part of Marneburne as farre as it goeth to the line 30 sea This Roger bishop of Salisburie died in the yeare of our redemption one thousand one hundred thirtie and nine being about the fourth yeare of king Stephan of whome mention is made in the chancellors of England Nigellus the second bishop of Elie nephue to Roger bishop of Sarum and treasuror to Henrie the first was aduanced vnto that bishoprike of Elie in the yeare of our redemption one thousand one hundred thirtie and three the fift calends of line 40 Iune being the thrée and thirtith yeare of the reigne of Henrie the first at whose going downe to be installed in the said bishoprike he was receiued with such ioie that all the whole street of Elie thorough which he should passe was hanged with curteins and carpets with seats set on ech side and the moonks canons and clerks méeting him with procession with diuers other priests standing round about them After his installation he returned to
valentibus occurrit ipsis dominus cum suis copijs obuià m porrigendóque ipsis dextram traxit eos per manus in campum Maâ—tium iuxta votum suum Thus much Whethamsted of Edmund Greie lord Ruthine who was made earle of Kent in the fift yeare of king Edward the fourth being the yeare of our redemption 1464. This Edmund Greie being lord Hastings Weisford and Ruthine before he had the honour of this earledome did by his déed of indenture dated the 18 of Nouember in the fiue and twentith yeare of king Henrie the sixt falling in the yeare of our redemption 1446 giue to Iohn Pinchbecke prior of Duffield in Northamptonshire in almesse during the life of the said prior his field called Challocke belonging to the manour of Challocke to kéepe the obits of sir Iohn Greie father to the said sir Edmund and of dame Custance the widow of the earle marshall and daughter of Iohn Holland duke of Excester and erle of Huntington mother to the said sir Edmund with masse c and such other collects as the said Edmund should deliuer vnto the said prior Out of this house of the Greies haue issued manie noble houses and those of great antiquitie whereof at this daie there yet remaineth two honourable houses the one being Henrie Greie earle of Kent now liuing a man of singular estimation in the countrie of Bedford where he now liueth as well for the nobilitie of his race being descended of this Edmund Greie lord treasuror of England for the good gouernment and carriage of himselfe and for the orderlie and wise managing of the affaires of that countrie deseruing no lesse honourable place in the common-wealth than the honour of his race and woorthinesse of his behauiour doo well merit The other house at this daie in honour is the lord Greie of Wilton knight of the garter and somtime deputie of Ireland a man of no lesse merit for his seruice abrode in the feats of armes than is the other Greie for his seruice at home in the affairs of peace But I will not saie all that I thinke and know of them both least some more maliciouslie than trulie line 10 blemish me with the note of flatterie For I protest I am so farre estranged from that as I being not at all knowne to the one and but slenderlie to the other and neuer benefited by anie of them both there is no cause why I should vse anie flatterie and yet such force hath vertue as it will shine euen in despite of malice But againe to the matter There haue out of this house of the Greies besides manie noble houses issued one duke of Suffolke two marquesses of Dorset and fiue earles of Kent line 20 Againe I thinke it not impertinent for the continuance of antiquities and of deserts of honour to mention how manie seuerall houses there haue bin of the nobilitie of these Greis and in what time they liued First there was Reignold Greie lord Greie of Codnor in the time of king Stephan the second was Reignold lord Greie of Rotherfield in the time of Richard the second the third Iohn Greie earle of Tankeruile in Normandie in the time of Henrie the fift the fourth this Edmund Greie lord Ruthine line 30 earle of Kent and treasuror of England in the time of king Edward the fourth the fift house Thomas Greie marquesse Dorset in the time of king Edward the fourth the sixt Edward Greie lord Lisle in the time of king Edward the fourth the seuenth Edward Greie lord Powes in the time of king Edward the fourth the eight Henrie Greie duke of Suffolffe in the time of Edward the sixt So that there were at one time in one kings daies which was the time of Edward the fourth six noble men liuing line 40 of the name of Greies which were the marquesse Dorset the earle of Kent the lord Lisle the lord Powes the lord Greie of Wilton and the lord Greie of Rotherfield Wherefore to draw to an end of this lord treasuror who hath occasioned me to be more liberall in treating of him and the Greies than of any lord treasuror or noble name besides for manie priuat reasons which I reserue to my selfe I will yet speake more liberallie of him and the Greies in my large line 50 booke of the liues of the lord treasurors of England and knit vp this Edmund Greie lord treasuror with the marieng of his wife Katharine the daughter of Henrie Persie earle of Northumberland by whome he had issue George Greie earle of Kent Elisabeth maried to Robert baron of Greiestocke and Anne maried to Iohn lord Greie of Wilton Sir Walter Blunt knight who was the first lord Montioie possessed the place of the lord treasurorship of England in the fift yeare of king Edward line 60 the fourth which fell in the yeare that the word of the father tooke flesh in the wombe of the virgine 1465. Of this man is mention made in the booke of the law called Long Quinto of Edward the fourth He maried the daughter of one Dirham and had issue William Iohn and Iames. Sir Richard Wooduile knight chamberleine to the king and constable of England was made baron on the ninth of Maie in the second yeare of king Henrie the sixt being the yeare of Christ 1424 and was after created earle Riuers in the fift yeare of king Edward the fourth being the yeare of our redemption 1465 who thus aduanced was after lord treasuror in the sixt seuenth eight of Edward the fourth In which eight yeare of Edward the fourth Thomas Cooke late maior of London was accused of treason and arreigned for the same Who after that he had béene manie times purged thereof was yet at last found giltie and by this lord Riuers then lord treasuror so handled as that he could not be deliuered vntill he had paied eight thousand pounds to the king and eight hundred to the quéene This lord treasuror maried Iaquet the widow of Iohn duke of Bedford daughter to Peter of Lucenburgh earle of S. Paule by whom he had issue Richard earle Riuers Antonie lord Scales in the right of his wife Edward Wooduile knight slaine at the battell of S. Albine in Britaine in the third yeare of Henrie the seuenth Lionell bishop of Salisburie Margaret maried to Thomas erle of Arundell Margaret maried to William Herbert erle of Huntington Anne first maried to William Burcher erle of Essex and after to George Greie erle of Kent Iaquet maried to Iohn lord Strange Elisabeth maried to sir Iohn Greie yoonger sonne to the lord Greie of Ruthine and after the death of the said sir Iohn Greie to king Edward the fourth and Katharine maried to Henrie duke of Buckingham Besides all which I haue read of one Iohn which was sonne to this earle Riuers which Iohn maried the old duchesse of Norffolke was beheaded with his father the truth wherof I leaue to further triall This Richard erle
those that bled till they died stroue so much with their sickenesse that the bloud issued out at their vents but yet had perfect memorie euen to the yéelding of their breath as was verie well perceiued by sir William Babington who neuer ceased to call vpon God in his great agonie c. This reported W. B. as a certeine truth to stop the flieng rumors of those that as he saith haue spoken vntrulie in this behalfe and published their owne fantasies On sundaie the fourth of August betwéene the houres of nine and ten of the clocke in the forenone whilest the minister was reading of the second lesson in the parish church of Bliborough a towne in Suffolke a strange and terrible tempest of lightening and thunder strake thorough the wall of the same church into the ground almost a yard déepe draue downe all the people on that side aboue twentie persons then renting the wall vp to the reuestre clef◠the doore and returning to the steeple rent the timber brake the chimes fled toward Bongie a towne six miles off The people that were striken downe were found groueling more than halfe an houre after whereof one man more than fortie yeares and a boie of fiftéene yeares old were found starke dead the other were scorched The same or the like flash of lightening and cracks of thunder rent the parish church of Bongie nine miles from Norwich wroong in sunder the wiers and whéeles of the clocks slue two men which sat in the belfreie when the other were at the procession or suffrages and scorched an other which hardlie escaped The tower on London bridge being taken downe and a new foundation drawne sir Iohn Langleie lord maior of the citie of London laid the first stone on the eight and twentith line 10 daie of August in the presence of the shiriffes of London the two bridgemasters which new tower was finished in the moneth of September Anno 1579. The thirtith daie of Nouember Cutbert Maine was drawne hanged and quartered at Lanceston in Cornewall for preferring Romane power The seuentéenth of Ianuarie one Simon Penbrooke dwelling in saint Georges parish in Southworke being a figureflinger and vehementlie suspected to line 20 be a coniurer by commandement of the ordinarie iudge for those parties appeared in the parish church of saint Sauiors in Southworke at a court holden there Which Simon being busied in interteining a proctor and hauing monie in his hand leaned his head vpon a pew wherein the proctor stood which after he had doone a certeine space the proctor began to lift vp his head to sée what he ailed and found him departing out of life and streightwaie the said Simon fell downe ratling a little in the throte and neuer line 30 spake word after This was doone euen as the iudge came into the church who said it was the iust iudgement of God towards those that vsed sorcerie and a great example to admonish other to feare the iustice of God After his clothes being opened there were found about him fiue diuelish bookes of coniuration and most abhominable practises with a picture of tin of a man hauing thrée dice in his hand with this poesie Chance dice fortunatlie diuerse papers of such like matters as he had dealt in for men such line 40 men I meane as are mentioned in Leuiticus the twentith chapter and sixt verse If anie soule turne himselfe after such as woorke with spirits and after soothsaiers to go a whooring after them saith the Lord I will put my face against that soule and will cut him off from among my people The third daie of Februarie Iohn Nelson for denieng the quéenes supremasie and such other traitorous words against hir maiestie was drawne from Newgate to Tiburne and there hanged line 50 bowelled and quartered And on the seuenth of the same moneth of Februarie Thomas Sherewin was likewise drawne from the tower of London to Tiburne and there hanged bowelled and quartered for the like offense The fiue and twentith of Februarie Iohn de Loy a Frenchman and fiue English gentlemen was conueied from the tower of London towards Norwich there to be arreigned and executed for coining of monie counterfeit And on the ninth of March seuen pirats were hanged at Wapping line 60 in the ouze beside London The ladie Margaret countesse of Lennox deceased on the tenth of March year 1578 at hir house in the parish of Hackneie besides London and was buried at Westminster on the third of Aprill The one and thirtith and last of Maie Martine Frobisher with fifteene saile of good ships manned vittelled and otherwise well appointed departed from Harwich in Essex on his third voiage towards Cataia And on the one and thirtith and last daie of Iulie after manie attempts and sundrie times being put backe by Ilands of ice in the streicts he recouered his long wished port and came to anchor in the Ilands newlie by hir maiestie named Meta incognita where as in the yeare before they fraught their ships with the like stone or gold ore out of the mines and then on the last of August returning thense arriued safelie in England about the first of October The two and twentith of Ianuarie being thursdaie about seuen of the clocke at night Iohn Cassimere countie palatine of Rhene duke of Bauare landing at the tower of London was there by diuerse noble men and others honourablie receiued and conueied by cresset light and torch light to sir Thomas Greshams house in Bishops gate street where he was receiued with sounding of trumpets drums fiefs and other instruments of musicke and there both lodged and feasted till sundaie next that he was by the nobilitie fetched and conueied to the court at Westminster where after he had talked with hir maiestie he returned vnto Summersets house at the strand and was there lodged In the wéeke following he hunted at Hampton court On sundaie the first of Februarie he beheld a valiant iusting and running at the tilt at Westminster On the next morrow in the same place he saw them fight at barriers with swords on horsse backe On tuesdaie he dined with the lord maior of London on wednesdaie with the dutchesse of Suffolke at hir house called the Barbican in Red crosse stréet on thursdaie at the Stilliard c. On sundaie the eight of Februarie the quéene made him knight of the garter by deliuering to him the collar putting the garter on his leg at White hall And on the fourteenth of Februarie he departed from London to Rochester homewards with great rewards giuen to him by the quéenes maiestie the nobilitie men of honour the lord maior of London and other citizens of that citie The same moneth of Februarie to wit on the fourth daie and in the night next following year 1579 fell such abundance of snow that on the fift daie in the morning the same snow was found in London to lie two foot
would be one of the formost in executing of this villanous and most traitorous action By this you may perceiue that the death of hir maiestie and ouerthrow of this realme was throughlie agréed vpon and fullie determined there wanted nothing but opportunitie for preests both then and after came ouer continuallie to further it so much as in them laie To the said effect did A. M. vtter most odious matter the reading whereof would make anie true English hart quake tremble and to write it what loiall subiect is able to abide And therefore as deriued from the diuell to his dearlings we omit the same counting it more loialtie to â—ull such deuises and consultations asléepe than to publish them to the world in blâ—cke white due reuerence to the principall obiects alwaies reserued All which abhominable stuffe circumstances of times places persons and other particulars dulie pondered giue euident demonstration what affection these fellowes affoord their lawfull queene and countrie well is he that can imagine most against hir maiestie and highlie is he esteemed that beareth the most traitorous hart to hir Yet Campion and the rest of his fellowes they plead ignorance in all these causes they bolster vp one another with large protestations railing words and subtill surnuses affirming that they were not sent hither for anie such intent which is as vntrue as we know it for truth that the Lord God liueth in heauen For this I am able to saie my selfe that at diuerse other times it was whispered among them in the seminarie that shortlie there should be préests appointed for England to win the people against the appointed time when as a great armie should be readie to ioine with them and Campion who was then at Praga in Bohemia he was spoken of amongst them all to be a rare and singular fellow and therefore generallie was taken for a méet man to be sent about such a message so that they iudged that he should be sent for to be a chiefe man in this matter Well saith Campion it may be they had such an opinion of me which in my selfe I find not to be deserued and it may be that I was appointed to be sent into England according as those other preests were for the sauing of soules and benefit of my countrie must it follow then that we are sent to practise the death of the quéene and to seeke the ruine of our countrie Alas this is a hard case and I desire you of the iurie to marke it for these are but shadowes without anie substance This you are to note that we which enter into that Blessed societie of the Iesuites we doo as it were forsake the world vowing our selues to chastitie and sinceritie of conscience to obeie our superiours and to be readie to go whither they shall appoint vs. If they send vs to the Indies or to anie such places where the people haue not the true catholike faith we are bound by dutie in conscience to go whither they appoint vs. And shall it then be said that we come for the destruction of the prince and countrie where we settle our selues Alas that were a hard case for christian charitie willeth vs to comfort one another and if we can to get the shéepe into the fold which hath long run astraie And when we heare confession we doo not persuade them to anie disobedience for that is against the nature of confession God forbid that we should once thinke anie such thing Behold the subtill shifts that he found out still to flie vnto yea though the manifest disproofe laie before them yet would he find some cauill or other for not onelie the euidence of their generall determination beyond the seas was shewed them but also the traitorous articles were there read vnto them which Iohn Hart had copied out for doctor Allen concerning the procéeding of these traitorous causes and for which he went purposelie to Rome to confer with the pope about and subscribed vnto that they were certeine and true as also their owne confessions and writings were laid open before them approouing them notablie guiltie of the matters aforesaid and yet in their lieng pamâ—hlets scattered here there in sundry hands they haue faces of brasse to report that Insidiae sanctos implicuere viros Charles Sled who sometime serued master doctor Morton in Rome in whose house there was manie matters determined both by doctor Allen when he came to Rome and diuers other doctors liuing there in the citie as also diuerse of the seminarie he likewise vnderstood of the prouision for the great daie that it was generallie spoken of among the Englishmen and to be more certeine he kept a iournall or booke of their dailie dealings noting the daie time place and persons present at their secret conferences and verie much matter hath he iustified against them One Cradocke a merchant when he line 10 was in Rome he vnderstood the aforesaid determination and how that doctor Shelleie the English prior who is a knight of the Rhodes for that he somewhat spake against such crueltie to be vsed to his natiue countrie was somewhat misliked of himselfe and had almost béene turned out of his office And this aforesaid Cradocke being in prison there for the space of twentie moneths and more it was said to him that he might account himselfe blessed of God that he was there bicause he should not sée the grieuous line 20 ruine of his natiue countrie He that hath but halfe an eie may sée how these matters concord and agrée togither and noting euerie thing as it lieth may plainelie sée their horrible and traitorous deuises And further there was a little booke in Latine which they themselues brought ouer with them it was there openlie read vnto them wherin was certeine rules and orders prescribed how they should behaue themselues here in England and how if line 30 they were demanded of anie thing they should make answer indirectlie or to take the word it selfe according as it is mentioned in the booke they must answer Sophisticè whereby is meant as thus If they be examined as concerning their allegiance to hir maiestie they will make their answer after this maner She is our lawfull souereigne ladie quéene and we obeie hir But then obiect vnto them Will you obeie hir notwithstanding the popes exommunication or anie thing that he commandeth to the line 40 contrarie Then will they answer We desire you not to charge our consciences and that you would not enter so deepe into our consciences we trust the pope will not command vs anie thing against hir a hundred such like sléeuelesse answers they make neuer agréeing to anie certeintie but holding the pope in more reuerence than they doo hir maiestie For this consideration they carrie with them that if by their shew of humilitie their deuised order of craftie answering they might mooue our magistrats line 50
high treason by the Iurie On fridaie being the first of December Edmund line 30 Campion Iesuit Ralfe Sherwin Alexander Brian seminarie priests being condemned for high treason against hir maiesties most roiall person as also for traitorous practises touching the subuersion of the true vndoubted religion here mainteined with the vtter ruine and ouerthrow of this realme of England were drawne from the Tower of London on hurdles to the place of execution appointed garded with such a sufficient companie as might expresse the honor of iustice the larger in line 40 that behalfe Being come to the place of execution where diuerse of hir maiesties honorable councell with manie honorable personages and gentlemen of worship and good account beside a multitude of people not here to be remembred attended their comming Edmund Campion was first brought vp into the cart where after the great rumor of so manie people somewhat appeased he spake thus First he began the people then present expecting his confession with a phrase or two in Latine line 50 when immediatlie after he fell into English in this maner I am here brought as a spectacle before the face of God of angelles and of men satisfieng my selfe to die as becommeth a true christian catholike man As for the treasons that haue béene laid to my charge and I am come here to suffer for I desire you all to beare witnesse with me that thereof I am altogither innocent Wherevpon answer was made to him by one of the councell that he might line 60 not seeme to denie th'obiections against him hauing béene prooued so manifestlie to his face both by sufficient witnesse and euidence Well my lord quoth he I am a catholike man and a priest in that faith haue I liued hitherto and in that faith I doo intend to die and if you esteeme my religion treason then of force I must grant vnto you as for anie other treason I will not consent vnto Then was he mooued as concerning his traitorous and hainous offense to the quéenes most excellent maiestie Whereto he answered She is my lawfull princesse and quéene There somwhat he drew in his words to himselfe whereby was gathered that somwhat he would haue gladlie spoken but the great timiditie and vnstable opinion of his conscience wherein he was all the time euen to the death would not suffer him to vtter it Here is with iudgement a deepe point and high matter to be considered that this man alwaies directing the course of his life to a vaineglorious imagination and alwaies couetous to make himselfe famous at this instant made a perfect discouerie of himselfe For being somewhat learned all matters whatsoeuer as you haue heard before he bare awaie with a maiesticall countenance the visor of vanitie aptlie fitting the face of onelie hypocrisie what was sound he would make sophisticall what was the infallible truth of it selfe he would carrie in his owne conceipt and delude the people with a pleasant quirke or some such stuffe onlie to purchase him credit and affection And he was not to learne to set a coragious countenance on euerie such slight reason whereby he peruerted manie deceiued more and was thought such a champion as the pope neuer had the like But now behold the man whom neither racke nor rope should alter whose 〈◊〉 was such as he boasted inuincible feare had caught hold on this braue boaster and terror entred his thoughts whereby was discouered his impudent dissimulations Now let it with patience be mooued a little that the outward protestations of this man vrged some there present to teares not entring into conceipt of his inward hypocrisie to make a plausible definition of this perillous deceiuer not by coniecture but by proofe it shall be thus answered Edmund Campion as it is by men of sufficient credit reported at what time he spent his studie here in England both in the hospitall and also at the vniuersitie of Oxford was alwaies addicted to a maruellous suppose in himselfe of ripe iudgement prompt audacitie and cunning conueiance in his schoole points wherethrough he fell into a proud and vaineglorious iudgement practising to be eloquent in phrase and so fine in his quirks and fantasticall coniectures that the ignorant he woon by his smooth deuises some other affecting his pleasant imaginations he charmed with subtiltie and choked with sophistrie The learned who beheld his practises and peremptorie order of life pitieng his follie and wishing him a more staied determination lothed his maners yet loued the man bicause christian charitie willed them so to doo Now this glorious Thraso hauing by his libels made himselfe famous and vnder shew and suppose of great learning though indeed being approoued found verie simple to the speeches giuen of him subdued manie to affect him verie much when he was taken he knew it stood him vpon not to loose the credit openlie he had woone secretlie Wherefore in his former ridiculous maner both in prison at his arreignment yea and at his death he continued the same in all points which the foulnesse of his treasons blemished euerie waie Now indéed as our English nation is both louing and pitifull so manie seeing the gifts of God so well bestowed on the man and by him applied to so great abuse through naturall kindnesse bemoned his case wishing he had not fallen into so traitorous a cause Then was mooued to him againe his treasons and hainous offenses against the quéenes maiestie which impudentlie he still denied séeming to vtter words on the behalfe of one Richardson one likewise of the condemned traitors taking on his conscience that it was not be Which hath bin prooued to the contrarie for that it is knowne how this Richardson is he who distributed Campions libels and bookes abrode and when he was put to his oth whether it was he or no he refused to sweare on his behalfe And because the world might be fullie resolued that notwithsâ—anding all the pretended colourable meanes be could vse for his excuse and innocencie he was to suffer death deseruedlie as a traitor c. There was read to his face in the hearing of the assemblie a pamphlet published by authoritie as followeth An aduertisement and defense for truth against hir backebiters and speciallie against the whispering fauourers and colourers of Campâ—nâ— and the rest of his confederats line 10 treasons ALthough at the late arreignements at Westminster of Edmund Campion other his complices condemned there of sundrie high tresons it was manifestlie declared and fullie prooued how they all vnder pretense of the names of Iesuits seminarie priests other persons of like condition had secretlie come into this realme by sending of sundrie persons authorised line 20 by the pope to mooue the people by their secret persuasions to change their professions in the matter of religion of long time quietlie established in this realme and to be reconciled to the obedience of the pope and
béene of great valour prowesse and power and had made manie renowmed voiages and exploits of warre and that amongest others they had chosen a duke of Aniou heretofore who had béene equall with the rest in chiualrie feats of armes as their conquests and dominions witnessed that they had had their princes gentle mild gratious familiar and fauourable to their subiects and that his highnesse had in that behalfe alreadie giuen such proofes of his gentlenesse truth and soundnesse that to their seeming some ancient duke of Burgognie was raised vp againe vnto them Insomuch that in his onelie highnesse they firmelie beleued themselues to haue recouered whatsoeuer good renowme the duks of Brabant Aniou and Burgognie could haue left vnto them Wherefore insomuch as there remained no more but to proceed in the performance of the chiefe worke which it had pleased the souereigne God to put into the hands of his highnesse and of the said states to performe that daie they on their part were readie and resolute to doo him the homage fealtie dutie and obedience which loiall subiects and good vassals ought to doo to their rightfull princes of which sort they trusted in God without doubting that his highnesse was that he would promise by solemne oth vnto God so to continue Herevnto his highnesse answered in effect that intending not to hold the states with long talke but onelie to be mindfull of the honor and good will which they had vouchsafed to yéeld to him in that among so manie other great princes they had chosen him out to deliuer them from the oppression and tyrannie of the Spaniards and to rule them according to their customes lawes and priuileges he thanked them hartilie for it assuring them that the iustnesse and equitie of their case their honourable dealings in his behalfe and the loue which they had shewed him had made him to resolue with himselfe to take vpon him their protection and the reestablishing of their ancient libertie and to hazard therein whatsoeuer abilitie God had put into his hands and whatsoeuer else it should please the king his lord and brother and the queene of England of their fauour to bestow vpon him yea euen to the shedding of his owne bloud and the spending of his life This doone the foresaid monsieur Hessels told his highnesse how it was the custome there to proclame openlie before the people in the Dutch toong the points and articles of the ioifull entrance which the dukes of Brabant are bound to promise and sweare at their admission Herevpon when as one held the said articles translated into French readie to rehearse them point by point after the proclaiming of them in Dutch forsomuch as the daie was farre spent and communication had béene had thereof alreadie the monsieur to win time thought it expedient by the aduise of the prince of Orange that they should be read but onlie in Dutch Which thing was doone by the said monsieur Hessels with a new preface added to the articles conteining breeflie the reasons and causes of that dealing After the reading of the said articles it was demanded of his highnes whether he liked of them and whether he were contented to be sworne to them or whether it were his pleasure to be further satisfied of them Wherevpon he said to the prince of Orange that forsomuch as he had séene the articles and conferred of them with him as they came by ship out of Zeland he held himselfe well satisfied with them and was well contented to sweare vnto them Which spéech of his was foorthwith proclamed and with further declaration that for their better contentation his highnesse was desirous to haue them all knowne that although the said articles were read but onelie in Dutch yet would he of his owne good mind with aduised deliberation and certeine knowledge be sworne vnto them Then did the said monsieur Hessels recite vnto the people in the Dutch toong the first oth which the dukes of Brabant were of old time accustomed and bound to take for the obseruing of the said articles Which doone deliuering the booke wherein it was conteined to messier Thierreie de Leisfield chancellor line 10 of Brabant he read the same oth againe openlie in French the monsieur spake it after him word for word Then the monsieur Hessels taking the booke againe told the people that the dukes of Brabant made an other second oth to the barons noblemen cities boroughs all the inhabitants subiects of the countrie to be to them a good iust prince and not to deale with them after his owne will nor by waie of rigor but by law and iustice according to their priuileges Which oth was likewise rehearsed line 20 in the Dutch toong the booke deliuered againe to the said chancellor and the monsieur repeated the oth after him as he had doone the first Then were the mantle and bonnet of the dutchie brought vnto him which were crimosin veluet the mantle was trailed on the ground and both of them were furred with powdered ermine turned vp verie brode The prince of Orange told his highnesse that it behooued him to be apparelled in those robes And when he asked whether he must weare them into the citie It line 30 was answered yea and that it was the solemne attire of the princes and dukes of Brabant of old time Wherevnto when his highnesse had agréed the prince did first put vpon him the said mantle and fastening the button thereof said these words My lord you must keepe this button fast closed that no man may pull your mantle from you And then he set the bonnet vpon his head and said vnto him Sir I praie God you may well kéepe this attire for now you may well assure your selfe that you be duke line 40 of Brabant Then the said Hessels told him how the custome required that the states should presentlie be sworne to him againe to yéeld him fealtie Wherevpon he vttered to the people the forme of the oth and then the said chancellor required it of the barons noblemen and deputies and they pronounced it after him according to the maner of the former othes reuerentlie dooing againe their homage and promising fealtie and obedience After the taking of the othes line 50 on both sides as well by the monsieur as by the states of Brabant while his highnesse was yet still in his robes of estate the magistrates of Antwerpe commanded their recorder and councellor maister Uanderwerke to come vp vpon the stage to make him an offer of the marquesship of the sacred empire in the name of the citie of Antwerpe which thing he did as followeth Most gratious lord and prince the markegraue amptman boroughmasters and skepons the treasurors and receiuers the line 60 chiefe burgesses and quartermaisters the wardens and ancients of the handicrafts togither with the coronels wardens of guilds and capteins of the citie were
the length whereof was from the necke vnto the taile seuenteene yards and one foote hauing a big head for the chap of the saw was thrée yards and a quarter in length with téeth of three quarters of a yard compas great eies and two great holes ouer them to spout out water hir taile was fourteene foot broad c she laie in the sands and was soonken therein a yard and a halfe déepe and yet was she aboue the sands so high that a lather of fourtéene staues would but reach to the top of hir backe so that in thicknesse from the backe to the bellie she was foure yards and a halfe Iohn Slade sometime a schoolemaister and Iohn Bodie a maister of art of Oxford being both indicted and condemned of high treason were drawne hanged and quartered Slade at Winchester on the thirtith daie of October and Bodie at Andouar on the second daie of Nouember line 10 About this time one named Ditch a notable horssestealer was apprehended at the sessions holden for the goale deliuerie at Newgat on the fourth of December ninetéene times indicted whereof he confessed eightéene who also betwéene the time of his apprehension and the said sessions appeached manie for stealing of horsses whereof diuerse being apprehended ten of them were condemned and hanged in Smithfield on the sixt daie of December being Fridaie and horsse market there He also holpe diuerse more to their horsses againe which had béene line 20 stolne from them taking of euerie one of them ten shillings the péece or more that so recouered their horsses wherby he made fiftéene pounds of currant monie towards his charges Iames earle of Desmond in Ireland secretlie wandering without anie succour as a miserable begger being taken in his cabbin by one of the Irishrie his head was cut off and sent into England where the same as the head of an archrebell was set vpon London bridge on the line 30 thirteenth daie of December Looke for the manner of his rebellion and his death more at large set downe in the historie of Ireland The tenth daie of December through negligence of vndiscréet persons brewing in the towne of Nantwich in a place called Waterlode the fire being careleslie left tooke hold as should séeme vpon some straw or such light matter so burst foorth to the roofes of the house and in short time so increased that from the west end of the towne the wind at line 40 southwest the flame was dispersed so furiouslie into the towne on the southside that in short space a great part of the said southside and some of the east-side was burned downe to the ground Which fire beginning at six of the clocke in the euening and continuing till six of the clocke in the morning following neuer ceased burning till it had consumâ—d aboue the number of two hundred houses besides brew houses barnes stables c in all about six hundred houses so that by estimation of manie the losse of houses and goods amounted to aboue thirtie line 50 thousand pounds as more at large appeared by a particular booke printed of that matter About this time Iohn Someruile a furious yoong man of Elstow in Warwikeshire of late discouered and taken in his waie comming with full intent to kill the quéenes maiestie whom God long prosper to reigne ouer vs confessed the treason and that he was moued therevnto in his wicked spirit by certeine traitorous persons his kinsmen and alies and also by often reading of certeine seditious bookes latelie line 60 published for the which the said Someruile Edward Arden a squire of Parkehall in Warwikeshire Marie Arden his wife father and mother in law to the said Someruile and Hugh Hall priest being with other before indicted at Warwike were on the sixtéenth of December arreigned in the Guildhall of London where they were found guiltie and condemned of high treason On the nintéenth of December Iohn Someruile and Edward Arden being brought from the tower of London to Newgate of the same citie and there shut vp in seuerall places within two hours after Someruile was found desperatlie to haue strangled himselfe And on the morrow being the twâ—ntith of December Edward Arden was drawne from Newgate into Smithfield and there hanged bowelled and quartered whose head with Someruiles was set on London bridge and his quarters on the gates of the citie but the bodie of Someruile was buried in the Morefields néere vnto the windmils without Moregate A dreadfull example of Gods heauie iudgement vpon those two offendors but speciallie against the last whome God deliuered to a reprobat mind in somuch that his owne hands became his hangman preuenting the office of the common executioner who should haue performed that last action vpon him whereof the iustice of God in vengeance made himselfe the finisher and fulfiller Thus much by the waie of terror that the remembrance hereof by the reading reporting of the same maie make men euill minded amazed at the rigorous reuengement which God taketh when he séeth his due time vpon the wicked after his long sufferance and patience most wickedlie abused wherof the poet saith Vltio procedit fateor diuina gradatim Nec quoties peccant fulmina vibrat eis Supplicij verò iusta grauitate rependit Turpia quae longo tempore facta tulit In this yeare 1583 which should haue béene noted in the fore part of the yeare by the meanes of a certeine astrologicall discourse vpon the great and notable coniunction of the two superior planets Saturne and Iupiter prognosticated to be the eight and twentith of Aprill the common sort of people yea and no small multitude of such as thinke scorne to be called fooles or counted beggers whilest they were in expectation of this coniunction were in no small imaginations supposing that no lesse would haue béene effectuated than by the said discourse was prophesied Into these fansies not void of feare and mistrust they were drawne with the more facilitie for that they had read and heard pondered and suspected and in part beléeued the predictions of such euents as should insue by influence of that coniunction For it was termed the great and notable coniunction which should be manifested to the ignorant sort by manie fierce and boisterous winds then suddenlie breaking out It was called the greatest and most souereigne coniunction among the seuen planets why so Because lawes and empires and regions are ruled by the same which foretelleth the comming of a prophet the destruction of certeine climats and parts of the earth and new found heresies and a new founded kingdome and damages through the pestilence and abundant showers which dooth prognosticat the destinie of a great and mightie king much sorrow heauinesse to men losses to rich and noble men yea and those too which are accounted and reputed like to prophets and a multitude of locusts which dooth foreshew that weightie and woonderfull things shall come into the
c. 897 a â—0 Enter into Antuerpe spoiling wounding and killing 126â— a 10. They and others in Ireland slaine 1314 b 50 60. Discomfited 1432 b 10 c. They bite their fingers for anger 1433 a 30. They and Englishmen togither by the eares about whoores 1126 b 60. Their manhood against the French 1138 a 60. More fauourabâ—e vnto ladie Elisabeth than some Englishmen 1157 b 20. Hanged for murther 1121. b 30. Their gallies chased from the English coasts and vanquished 427 a 20. Their Fleet ouermatch the English 420 a 3â— Uanquished by king Edward the third vpon the sea 379 b 60. Their order of baâ—tell 398 b 60. Their number 399 a 10. Put to flight the number slaine 3â—â— a 60 b 10. ¶ Sée Frenchmen Gréenefield Granado Spenser the yoonger shaâ—â—fullie executed 33â— b â—â— Spenser ladie committed vnâ—oward note 527 b â—â— 30 Spensers notable instruments to bring king Edward the second to the liking of all kind of misrule 321 b 10. Enâ—â—â—d of tâ—e nobilitie 325 a 30. Uariance betwéene them and the lords b 50. The lords in armes against them their lands inuaded 326 all Banished by the decree of the barons articles wherewith they were charged 327 a 10 c Yéeld themselues vnto the law fauoured of king Edward and restored to peace and quietnesse 328 a 20 b 10. Restored to all their inheritances and aduanâ—emenâ—s 332 a 10. Spirit in a wall without Aldersgate dooth penaâ—ce at Paules crosse for abusing the people 1117 b 60 Spirits in likenesse of birds seene in the aire 166 a 60. Spite of the French king at Richard the first and whâ—e 133 b 50. Of Roger Lace in hanging two men 133 b 40. ¶ Sée Enuie Malice and Reuenge Spoile rich and honourable 201 b 10. Diuided among soldiors noâ—e 560 a 10. ¶ See Soldiors Sâ—ring â—â—â—dered 258. a 20 Seemed to be changed 〈…〉 winter 〈…〉 Stafford wasted 〈…〉 Stafford knight taken 〈◊〉 sanctuarie and executed 〈…〉 Stafford lord slaine by sir Ioâ—â— Holland note 447 a 50. Beheaded 〈…〉 Staffords slaine by Iack Câ—â—e 634 a â—0 Stamford taken by duke Henrie 〈…〉 Stanhope knight commâ—tâ—ed to the Towre 1066 b 60. Hee and others beheaded 1081 a â—0 Stanelie knight a fauourer of Perkine Warbecke 〈◊〉 of his alienated 〈◊〉 from Henrie the seuenth â—â—8 b 40 50 60. He is beheaded 779 a 10. He and his archers breake the Scots arraâ—â— 828 b â—0 Stanelie lord his deuise to auoid suspicion of king Richard the third and to saue his owne life 754 a 10. He and others meet embrace and consult 755 a 20. Setteth the crowne on the earle of Richmond his head his bold answer to king Richard his purseuants 760 a 50 60 His faithfulnesse 673 a â—0 674 a 30 Staple of woolles remooued to Calis 395 b 60. Out of Flanders into England 381 a 20 Starre strange appéered euerie morning for a time note 223 b 40. In the constellation of Cassiopeia 1257 a 20 Stars falling after a strange maner 231 b 40. Séene at the verie â—ime of an eclipse 44 b 40 ¶ See Blasing starre Sâ—arch ¶ See Wheat Sâ—ates of the low countries their deputies arriuall in London their message vnto queene Elisabeth 1411 a 40. c. â—0 b 10 c. 1412 a 10 c. Their sure granted 1412 b 10 1414. a 50 â— 1419. a 10 note Sworne vnto the queene of England and whaâ— authoritie they gaue the earle of Leicester by placard 1428 all ¶ See Quéene Elisabeth Duke of Alanson and Earle of Leicester Statute of the six articles with the extreame proceeding therein 946 b 30 50. Spoken against to the losse of life 953 a 40. Repealed 992 b 10. Described 1005 b 10. Ex Officio reuiued 1126 b 60. Of premunire begun 409 a 60. For seruants wages and labourers 380 b 30 40. For making of clothes and other things 380 b 40. Of Mortmaine 280 a 10 Statutes of Westminster ordeined 278 a 10. Established 285 a 50. Of Glocester 279 b 10. Called Additamenta 283 a 60. Of Quo warranto 280 a 50. Of Eltham 892 b 50. Of Oxford note 262 a 10 Protested against by king Henrie the third 265 b 30. Repealed 270 b 50. ¶ See Apparell Stephan when and by whome â—ee was crowned king 46 a 40 50. His valiantnesse note 53 a 60. Ordering of his armie redie to giue battell 51 b 60. Besiegeth Wallingford 51 b 30. Winneth Lincolne 51 b 50. His power put to flight 53 a 60 Taken prisoner and led vnto Mawd the empresse 53 b 20. He and the earle of Glocester deliuered by exchange 54 b 20. Enâ—reth Lincolne with the crowne vpon his head 56 b 60. With an armie commeth to Yorke 58 a 60. Incampeth néere his enimies the Scots 47 b 20. Agréeth with the erle of Aniou 48 a 50 Inuadeth Scotland 50 a 60. Maketh hast to rescue the north parts 48 b 40. Burnt the south parts of Scotland 48 b 50. Hée and Henrie the fourth méet at Dunstable about a peace they come to Canturburie 64 a 10. His promise to purchase the peoples fauour 8 b 40. Doubteth whome to trust 51 a 10. Raiseth his siege 51 b 10. Beginneth to incline his mind vnto peace 61 a 40. Falleth sicke 47 b 50. Departeth this life 64 b 40. A description of his person qualities and actions 64 b 40 50 Stephan earle of Britaine 7 b 20. ¶ Sée Erle Stephan Gardiner his oration to the councell touching quéene Marie hir mariage he commendeth the Spanish king 1093 a 50 60. ¶ Sée Bishop Gardiner Stigand archbishop of Canturburie hated and whie duke William refused to bée crowned at his hands 1 b 20. His stout message vnto duke William 2 b 10. Flieth into Scotland 8 a 30. His martiall mind and vnpatient of forren seruitude 1 b 50 2 a 10. Capteine of an armie of Kentishmen 2 a 10. Depriued for thrée speciall causes 8 b 60. Kept in perpetuall prison and there ended his life 9 a 20 Stinke noisome after a thunder note 204 b 20. Filthie after a tempest 211 b 40. Most horrible in Winchcombe church 19 a 60. Of Henrie the first his dead bodie odious 45 a 20 Stoke battell ¶ Sée Battell Storie doctor impudent and sawcie his words in the parlement house 1180 b 20 40. An enimie vnto ladie Elisabeth 1159 b 60.1160 a 10. Executed for treason his education and birth a persecutor and exquisite tormentor of Gods seruants apprehended conueied himselfe ouer seas continuing there a persecutor a commissioner to search for English bookes intended the ouerthrow of England searched the Engglish ships apprehended by a wile conueied into England indicted arreigned executed as a traitor note 1225 a 40 c. Stradiotes 82â— b 60 822 a 10. Described and incountred of the English horssemen 819 a 60 Strangers resort to serue king Stephan 47 a 50. Courteouslie prouided for by king Henrie the firsts interteinment 34 a 60. Outface Englishmen against all honestie and conscience 840 b 10. Iniuriouslie abused of diuerse
to make full amends by being recoÌ„ciled to the catholike church The king and quéene exhibit the supplicatioÌ„ to Poole the proud prelat Pope Iulie the third 〈◊〉 cardinall Poole his authoritie apostolike Solemne proâ—cession at Rome for the new reconcilement of England to the caâ—tholike church A report that the quéene was with child The councelâ— letter to bishop Bonner of the quéenes conceiuing of child If Quéene Marie were quicke with châ—ld on the 1â— of the moneth of Nouember and afterward did labour in the moneth of Iune then went she almost seuen moneths quicke with child The words of sir Richard Southwell in the parlement house for his yoong maister Order taken by parlement for quéene Maries child Trust disappointed Parlements maie be deceiued The praiers of the papists of what litle effect they are with God A praier for quéene Marie and hir child turned out of Latine into English A deuout praier made by the catholikes for quéene Marie being great and quicke with child * The papists call the protestants heretikes and enimies to the crosse of Christ euen as Achab called Elias the disturber of Israell when he was onelie the disturber himselfâ— Quéene Marie compared of the papists to quéene Iudith Marke how forgetting his praier he faâ—leth to the praising of quéen Marie The testament setteth vp onelie the glorie of Christ. If the changing of Gods promises destroieng his inheritance stopping the mouths of Gods people if contentioÌ„s warres and schismes be tokens of heretikes who so great heretikes as the papists â—e Crie vp lowdder you priests perâ—duenture your god is a sléepe The Lord gaue a promise to Sara â—nd Elisabeth so did 〈◊〉 not to queene Marie It is not best such one to be granted vnto â—ou for being like Abraham Ioseph Moses and Salomon he maie chance smell out your corrupt doctrine and to detest your bloudie tyrannie c. An other praier for the same Cardinall Poole comdeth to Pauls crosse with great pompe Cerâ—eine 〈◊〉 of StephaÌ„ Gardiners sermon The king and the cardinall ride togither Prince of Piemount commeth into England I. Stow. 1053. Prince of Orange Fiue of Throckmortons iurie released Parlement dissolued Abr. Fl. ex Ioh. Foxi martyrologio A sturre betwéene the Spaniards and Englishmen at Westminster I S. pag. 1095. Prisoners deliuered out of the tower Trouble and persecution for religion Ambassadors out of England to Rome William Fetherstone alià s Constable a boie nameth himselfe king Edward the sixt Iohn Stow. The counterfet king executed Abr. Fl. ex Ioh. Foxi martyrologio The names of the councellors called before quéene Marie The effect of quéene Maries words touching abbeie lands to be restored The quéene taketh a conscience to kéeping abbeie lands The quéene surrendreth from hir selfe the possessioÌ„ of abbeie lands Promise for restitution of abbeie lands Râ—ad more of 〈◊〉 in a booke â—â—lled a warning to England The death of 〈◊〉 Iulius the third Nâ—te here what an holie catholike church this is â—â—oâ—kish pope Monstrous blasphemie in the pope Pope Iulius blasphemeth God for a peacocke 〈…〉 dignam 〈◊〉 10. â—inchesters 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 for the 〈◊〉 funerall A collect for the pope Another praier for chusing of the pope A woman of S. Magnus parish imprisoned for not praieng for the pope A terrible example of Gods seuere punishment vpon Nightingall parson of Crondall in Kent Blasphemie to Christs â—ospell punished The lord Courneie goeth ouer into Italie The lord Courtneie descended of the bloud â—oâ—all Ambassadors sent to treat a peace betwéene the French king and the emperour Abr. Fl. ex I. S. 1097. The necessitie of the poore reléâ—ued by Gods prouidence Disputation at Christs hospitall as had béene accustomed at saint Bartholomewes in Smithfield being an incouragement to yoong scholers King Philip went ouer into Flanders New counter in Woodstréet Great land-waters wherby diuerse frequented places were ouerflowne Anno Reg. â— Commisâ—ioners sent to Oxford by thâ— popes authoritie 〈◊〉 â— parlement â—herein the kings of the â—â—â—rch are 〈◊〉 â— subsidie â— Stowpunc This Storie 〈◊〉 executed 〈◊〉 quéen Elâ—zabeths 〈◊〉 The death of Stephan Gardiner â—â—shop of â—inchester Aâ—r. Fl. ex I. F. â—â—â—tyrologio The reporter 〈◊〉 this additiâ—â— a person of â—â—â—dit Gâ—â—diâ—er 〈◊〉 with 〈◊〉 sudden 〈◊〉 of God Stephan Gardiner especiallie hunteth for the life of ladie Elizabeth Q. Elizabeth preserued M. Bridges lieuâ—â—nant the Lords organ in sauing the ladie Elizabeths life The archbishop of Yorke lord chaÌ„cellor Iohn Stow. Abr. Fl. ex I.F. martyrologio Rockers and nurses prouided for quéene Maries child Processions and bonefires in London for ioy of the yong prince Triumph at Antwerpe for the same Q. Maries child would not come What became of Q. Maries child no man can tell Ex testimonio eiusdem puerperae Londinensis The yoong princes cradle Uerses vpon the cradle * I. Fox in mart sub tit Hen. 8 I. Stow. 1037. Free scale 〈◊〉 Holt with other charitaâ—â—â— deeds of sir Io. Greshâ—â— A blasing starre Brookes bishop of Gloâ—â—â—ster appoint to examine Cranmer Th. Cranmâ—â— archbishop 〈◊〉 Canturburâ—â— condemned He is burnt The archbishop broughâ— to the place 〈◊〉 execution Iohn Fox The descripâ—tion of his person Cardinall Poole made archbishop of Canturburie Persecution or religion Newgate set in fire A conspiracie â— Stow pag. 1100. The names of the conspiracies and their 〈◊〉 Sir Anthonie Kingston â—â—parteth this 〈◊〉 Executions 〈◊〉 treason 〈◊〉 and religion Iohn Stow. Anno Reg. 4. Execution I S. pag. 1101. Conspiracie began by one 〈◊〉 and three brethren 〈…〉 A traitorous proclamation read and the reader apprehended Great death Seuen aldermen of London dead in one yeare Ab. Fl. ex I. Stow. 1103. Fecknam abbat of Westminster False accuser set on the pillorie burnt in both chéeks would to God all such accusers were so well marked A stranger would haue murdered the kéeper of Newgate A gun shot into the court at Greenewich An ambassador out of Muscouia Iohn Stow. The lord Sturton committeth a shamefull murther The lord Sturton hanged Abr. Fl. ex I. S. 1105. Dearth and plentie Iohn Caius The returne of king Philip into England Stafford and others committed to the tower and after executed Thomas Persie created earle of Northumberland Quéene Marie proclameth open warres against the French king King Philip passed ouer into Flanders The names of the capteins ouer the quéenes forces Varie genâ—â—â— in exerciâ—n Philippi The death of the ladie 〈◊〉 of Cicut Obsequie for the king of Portingale Fifteene or 〈◊〉 thousand footmen and a threé or 〈◊〉 thousand horssemen The conestable of France â—oke Montâ—â—â—encie geâ—â—rall of the French forâ—â—s Prisoners of 〈◊〉 These nine knights of the order The siege 〈…〉 Quintins 〈◊〉 the same taken and sacked The lord Henrie Dudleie slaine with the shot of a gun Doctor Weston resigneth the deanrie of Westminster by compulsion and is recâ—mpensed The malice of cardinall Poole against king Henrie the eight Sir Thomas Tresham made lord of saint Iohns of Ierusalem Calis not