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

within the said palace and sometime without vpon the greene before the gate of the said palace In which iustes sir Iames Parker knight running against a gentleman named Hugh Uanghan by casualtie was so sore hurt and brused that he died thereof This yeare also two pardoners were set on the pillorie in Cornehill thrée market daies for forging of false pardons wherewith they had deceiued the people got much monie And for that one of them had feined himselfe to be a priest hee was sent to Newgate where he died the other was line 40 driuen out of London with shame enough ¶ Also this yere was Robert Fabian shiriffe of London alderman who made a chronicle of England of France beginning at the creation of the world and ending in the third yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the eight which booke is now imprinted to the end of Richard the third Maximilian king of Romans intending to be reuenged on the Frenchmen for the manie iniuries line 50 doone to him of late and especiallie for that king Charles had forsaken his daughter ladie Margaret and purposed to take to wife the ladie Anne of Britaine bicause he was not rich enough to mainteine the warre of himselfe he sent his ambassadour one Iames Contibald a man of great wisedome to require the king of England to take his part against the French king making diuers great offers on his owne behalfe if it should please him so to doo King Henrie no lesse desirous than Maximilian to put the French king to trouble and chieflie to aid the line 60 Britains in the extremitie of their businesse gladlie consented to the request of Maximilian and promised to prepare an armie with all speed and in time conuenient to passe the seas with the same and inuade the French territories In this verie season Charles the French king receiued the ladie Anne of Britaine as his pupill into his hands and with great solemnitie hir espoused hauing with hir in dower the whole duchie of Britaine Now was Maximilian in great chase toward the French king not onelie for that he had refused his daughter but also had béereued him of his assured wife the said ladie Anne contrarie to all right and conscience Wherefore he sent vnto king Henrie desiring him with all speed to passe the seas with his armie that they might pursue the warre against their aduersarie with fire sword and bloud King Henrie hearing this and hauing no mistrust in the promise of Maximilian with all speed leuied an armie and rigged his nauie of ships And when all things were readie he sent his almon●r Christopher Urswike and sir Iohn Riseleie knight vnto Maximilian to certifie him that the king was in a readinesse and would arriue at Calis as soone as he should be aduertised that Maximilian and his men were readie to ioine with him These ambassadors comming into Flanders perceiued that Maximilian was neither purue●ed of men monie nor armor nor of any other thing necessarie for the setting foorth of warre sauing onlie that his will was good although his power was small King Henrie being aduertised hereof by letters sent to him from his said ambassadors was sore disquieted in his mind and was almost brought to his wits end to consider how his companions in arms should thus faile him at néed but taking aduise of his counsell at length he determined not to stay his prepensed iournie and therfore he so increased his numbers before he tooke ship that he with his owne power might be able to match with his aduersaries When he had thus gathered and assembled his armie hée sailed to Calis the sixt day of October and there incamped himselfe for a space to see all his men and prouision in such readinesse as nothing should be wanting In this place all the armie had knowledge by the ambassadours which were newlie returned out of Flanders that Maximilian could not set foorth anie armie for lacke of monie and therefore there was no succour to be looked for at his hand But the Englishmen were nothing dismaid therewith as they that iudged themselues able enough to match the Frenchmen without the helpe of anie other nation In the meane season although the French king had an armie togither both for number and furniture able to trie in battell with the Englishmen yet he made semblance as though he desired nothing more than peace as the thing much more profitable to him than warre considering the minds of the Britains were not yet wholie setled And againe he was called into Italie to make warre against the king of Naples whose kingdome he pretended to apperteine to him by lawfull succession from his father king Lewes to whome Reine duke of Aniou last king of Sicill of the house of Aniou had transferred his right to that kingdome as partlie before ye haue heard wrongfullie and without cause disinheriting his coosine godsonne and heire Reine duke of Lorraine and Bar. The lord Chordes hauing commission from his maister the French king to make some entrie into a treatie for peace with the king of England wrote letters to him before he passed ouer to Calis signifieng to him that if it might stand with his pleasure to send some of his councellors to the borders of the English pale adioining to France there should be so reasonable conditions of peace proffered that he douted not but his grace might with great honour breake vp his campe and retire his armie home againe The king of England considering that Britaine was cléerelie lost and past recouerie and that Maximilian for lacke of monie and mistrust which he had in his owne subiects laie still like a dormouse dooing nothing and herewith weieng that it should be honorable to him and profitable to his people to determine this great warre without bloudished appointed the bishop of Excester and Giles lord Daubenie to passe the seas to Calis and so to commun with the lord Chordes of articles of peace which tooke effect as after ye shall perceiue In the meane time whilest the commissioners were communing of peace on the marches of France the king of England as ye haue heard was arriued at Calis from whense after all things were prepared for such a iournie he remooued in foure battels forward till he came néere to the towne of Bullogne there pitched his tents before it in a conuenient place for his purpose meaning line 10 to assaile the towne with his whole force puissance But there was such a strong garison of warlike souldiers within that fortresse and such plentie of artillerie and necessarie munitions of warre that the losse of Englishmen assaulting the towne as was doubted should be greater damage to the realme of England than the gaining thereof should be profit Howbeit the dailie shot of the kings battering peeces brake the wals and sore defaced them But when line 20 euerie man was readie to giue

as this floore One streight amongst them gaue iudgement that he that had line 40 doone it was worthie to lose his head The king streight replied he had rather lose a dozen such heads as his was that so iudged than one such seruants as had doone it and herewith he commanded that the lord Greies pardon should presentlie be made the which with a letter of great thanks and promise of reward was returned by the said sir Thomas Palmer to the said lord Greie but the reward failed the king not continuing long after in life the like hap whereof had oftentimes happened vnto diuerse line 50 of his worthie ancestors vpon their due deserts to haue béene considered of and therefore the case the lesse strange This haue I set downe the more willinglie for that I haue receiued it from them which haue heard it reported not onlie by the lord Greis owne mouth but also by the relation of sir Thomas Palmer and others that were present the same not tending so much to the lord Greies owne praise as to the betokening of the kings noble courage and the great secret trust which he worthilie reposed in the said lord line 60 Greie Here is to be noted also lest any man should mistake the matter as if the king dealt indirectlie herein that his maiestie knowing how the Frenchmen in going about to build this fort did more than they might by the couenants of the peace and therefore was resolued at the first aduertisement thereof to haue it rased But yet for that it might happilie haue béene signified ouer vnto the Frenchmen before my lord Greie could haue accomplished the feat he therefore wiselie wrote one thing in his letters wherevnto manie might be priuie and ●en● secret knowledge by words contrarie to the contents of the same letters so as if the messenger were trustie his pleasure might not be discouered to the hinderance or dispappointing of the same But now to our purpose The French king after this bicause as yet hée would not séeme to breake the peace commanded the trenches and new fortifications made about this fortresse called Chatillons garden thus cast downe to be filled by his owne people and so it rested during the life of king Henrie but afterwards it was begun againe and finished as after ye shall heare About Michaelmas in this present yeare Thomas duke of Norffolke and Henrie earle of Surrie that was his sonne and heire vpon certeine surmises of treason were committed to the tower of London and immediatlie after Christmas the thirtéenth of Ianuarie the king then lieng in the extremities of death the said earle was arreigned in the Guildhall of London before the lord maior the lord chancellor and diuerse other lords and iudges being there in commission Where if he had tempered his answers with such modestie as he shewed token of a right perfect and readie wit his praise had béene the greater Some things he flatlie denied seeking to weaken the credit of his accusers by certeine circumstances other he excused with interpretations of his meaning to proue the same to be far otherwise than was alleged against him And one speciall matter amongest other wherewith he was charged was for bearing certeine arms that were said to belong to the king and to the prince The bearing where of he iustified and maintened that as he tooke it he might beare them as belonging to diuerse of his ancestors and withall affirmed that he had the opinion of heralds therein But yet to his indictment he pleaded not giltie and for that he was no lord of the parlement he was inforced to stand to the triall of a common inquest of his countrie which found him giltie and therevpon he had iudgement of death and shortlie after to wit the 19 of Ianuarie he was beheaded on the tower hill ¶ In this moneth of Ianuarie the church of the late graie friers in London was opened and masse ●oong there and that daie preached at Paules crosse the bishop of Rochester who declared the kings gift to the citie of London for the relieuing of the poore people which was by patent vnder his great seale Saint Bartholomews spittle the church of the graie friers and two parish churches the one of saint Nicholas in the shambles the other saint Ewine in Newgate market all to be m●de on parish church of the graie friers church and in lands he gaue for the maintenance of the same 500 markes by yeare for euer this church to be named Christs church founded by king Henrie the eight The duke was atteinted by parlement and the atteindor after reuersed in the first yeare of quéene Marie The euill hap as well of the father as of the sonne was greatlie lamented of manie not onelie for the good seruice which the duke had doone in his daies in defense of this realme but also for that the earle was a gentleman well learned and knowne to haue an excellent wit if he had béene thankefull to God for the same and other such good gifts as he had indued him withall The king now lieng at the point of death made his last will and testament wherein he not onelie yéelded himselfe to almightie God but also tooke order that during the minoritie of his sonne prince Edward his executors should be councellors and aiders to him in all things as well concerning priuate as publike affaires They were sixtéene in number whose names were as hereafter followeth Thomas Cranmer archbishop of Canturburie Thomas Wriothesleie lord chancellor sir William Paulet knight of the order lord Saint-Iohn great master of the houshold sir Edward Seimer knight of the order earle of Hertford and high chamberleine of England sir Iohn Russell knight of the order lord priuie seale sir Iohn Dudleie knight of the order vicount Lisle baron of Maupas high admerall of England Cutbert Tunstall bishop of Durham sir Anthonie Browne knight of the order and master of the horsse sir Edmund Montacute knight chiefe iustice of the cōmon plees sir Thomas Bromleie knight one of the iustices of the kings bench sir line 10 Edward North knight chancellor of the augmentation sir William Paget knight of the order sir Anthonie Dennie knight sir William Herbert knight sir Edward Wotton knight treasuror of Calis Nicholas Wotton deane of Canturburie and Yorke So soone as the noble king had finished his last will and testament as afore is said he shortlie therevpon yeelded vp his spirit to almightie God departing this world the eight and twentith daie of Ianuarie line 20 in the eight and thirtith yeare of his reigne and in the yeare of our Lord 1546 after the accompt of the church of England but after the accompt which we follow in this booke 1547 beginning our yeare the first of Ianuarie He reigned thirtie and seuen yeares nine moneths and od daies His bodie according to his will in that behalfe was conueied to Windsor with all funerall

of England with him these we find as principall Iohn de Britaine Iohn de Uescie Ot●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

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 infer●s Item quòd non est de necessitate salutis credere in sanctorum communionem Item quòd ecclesi● vniuersalis potest errare in hijs qu● 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

substance of the people nor hée himselfe so speciallie in anie part of his life as at the time of his death Which fauour and affection yet after his deceasse by the crueltie mischiefe and trouble of the tempestuous world that followed highlie toward him more increased At such time as he died the displeasure of those that bare him grudge for king Henries sake the sixt whome he deposed was well asswaged in effect quenched in that manie of them line 40 were dead in more than twentie yeres of his reigne a great part of a long life and manie of them in the meane season growne into his fauour of which he was neuer strange He was a goodlie personage and princelie to behold of heart couragious politike in counsell in aduersitie nothing abashed in prosperitie rather ioifull than proud in peace iust and mercifull in warre sharpe and fierce in the field bold and hardie and natheles no further than wisdome would aduenturous whose warres who so well considered he shall no lesse commend his wisedome where he voided than his manhood where he vanquished He was of visage louelie of bodie mightie strong and cleane made howbeit in his latter daies with ouer liberall diet somewhat corpulent and boorelie and nathelesse not vncomelie He was of youth greatlie giuen to fleshlie wantonnesse from which health of bodie in great prosperitie and fortune without a speciall grace hardlie refraineth the poet implieng no lesse and saieng Mens erit apta capi tunc cùm laetissima rerum Vt seges in pingui luxuriabit humo This fault not greatlie gréeued the people for neither could anie one mans pleasure stretch and extend to the displeasure of verie manie and was without violence and ouer that in his latter daies lessed and well left In which time of his latter daies this realme was in quiet and prosperous estate no feare of outward enimies no warre in hand nor none toward but such as no man looked for The people toward the prince not in a constreined feare but in a willing and louing obedience among themselues the commons in good peace The lords whome hée knew at variance himselfe in his death bed appeased he had left all gathering of monie which is the onelie thing that withdraweth the hearts of English men from the prince nor anie thing intended he to take in hand by which he should be driuen therto for his tribute out of France he had before obteined and the yeare foregoing his death he had obteined Berwike And albeit that all the time of his reigne he was with his people so benigne courteous and so familiar that no part of his vertues was more estéemed yet the condition in the end of his daies in which manie princes by a long continued souereigntie decline into a proud port from debonair behauior of their beginning maruellouslie in him grew and increased so farre foorth that in summer the last that euer hée saw his highnes being at Windsor in hunting sent for the maior aldermen of London to him for none other errand but to haue them hunt be merrie with him where he made them not so statelie but so fréendlie and familiar cheere and sent venison from thence so freelie into the citie that no one thing in manie daies before gat him either more hearts or more heartie fauour amongest the common people which oftentimes more estéeme and take for greater kindnesse a little courtesie than a great benefit So deceassed as I haue said this noble king in that time in which his life was most desired Whose loue of his people and their entier affection towards him had béene to his noble children hauing in themselues also as manie gifts of nature as manie princelie vertues as much goodlie towardnesse as their age could receiue a maruellous fortresse and sure armor if diuision and dissention of their fréends had not vnarmed them and left them destitute and the execrable desire of souereigntie prouoked him to their destruction which if either kind or kindnesse had holden place must needs haue béene their cheefe defense For Richard the duke of Glocester by nature line 10 their vncle by office their protector to their father beholden to themselues by oth and allegiance bounden all the bands broken that bind man and man togither without anie respect of God or the world vnnaturallie contriued to beréeue them not onelie their dignitie but also their liues But forsomuch as this dukes demeanor ministreth in effect all the whole matter whereof this booke shall intreat it is therefore conuenient somewhat to shew you yer we further go what maner of man this was line 20 that could find in his hart such mischiefe to conceiue Richard duke of Yorke a noble man and a mightie began not by warre but by law to chalenge the crowne putting his claime into the parlement where his cause was either for right or fauor so farre foorth aduanced that king Henrie his bloud albeit he had a goodlie prince vtterlie reiected the crowne was by authoritie of parlement intailed vnto the duke of Yorke and his issue male in remainder immediatlie after the death of king Henrie But the line 30 duke not induring so long to tarrie but intending vnder pretext of dissention and debate arising in the realme to preuent his time and to take vpon him the rule in king Henrie his life was with manie nobles of the realme at Wakefield slaine leauing thrée sonnes Edward George and Richard All thrée as they were great states of birth so were they great and statelie of stomach greedie and ambitious of authoritie and impatient of partners Edward reuenging his fathers death depriued king line 40 Henrie and atteined the crowne George duke of Clarence was a goodlie noble prince and at all times fortunate if either his owne ambition had not set him against his brother or the enuie of his enimies his brother against him For were it by the quéene and lords of hir bloud which highlie maligned the kings kinred as women commonlie not of malice but of nature hate them whome their husbands loue or were it a proud appetite of the duke himselfe intending to be king at the least wise heinous treason line 50 was there laid to his charge and finallie were hée faultie were he faultlesse atteinted was he by parlement and iudged to the death and therevpon hastilie drowned in a butt of malmesie Whose death king Edward albeit he commanded it when he wist it was doone pitiouslie bewailed and sorrowfullie repented Richard the third sonne of whome we now intreat was in wit and courage equall with either of them in bodie and prowesse farre vnder them both line 60 litle of stature ill featured of limmes crooke backed his left shoulder much higher than his right hard fauoured of visage and such as is in states called warlie in othermen otherwise he was malicious wrathfull enuious and from afore his birth euer froward It is for truth

number of six hundred horsses was come on his waie to London-ward after secret méeting and communication had eftsoones departed Wherevpon at Northampton the duke met with the protector himselfe with thrée hundred horsses line 20 and from thense still continued with him partner of all his deuises till that after his coronation they departed as it séemed verie great fréends at Glocester From whense as soone as the duke came home he so lightlie turned from him and so highlie conspired against him that a man would maruell whereof the change grew And suerlie the occasion of their variance is of diuerse men diuerselie reported Some haue I heard say that the duke a little before line 30 his coronation among other things required of the protector the duke of Herefords lands to the which he pretended himselfe iust inheritor And forsomuch as the title which he claimed by inheritance was somwhat interlaced with the title to the crowne by the line of king Henrie before depriued the protector conceiued such indignation that he reiected the dukes request with manie spitefull and minatorie words Which so wounded his heart with hatred and mistrust that he neuer after could indure to looke line 40 aright on king Richard but euer feared his owne life so far foorth that when the protector rode through London toward his coronation he feined himselfe sicke bicause he would not ride with him And the other also taking it in euill part sent him word to rise and come ride or he would make him be caried Wherevpon he rode on with euill will and that notwithstanding on the morow rose from the feast feining himselfe sicke and king Richard said it was doone in hatred and despite of him line 50 And they said that euer after continuallie each of them liued in such hatred and distrust of other that the duke verelie looked to haue beene murthered at Glocester from which nathelesse he in faire maner departed But suerlie some right secret at that daie denie this and manie right wise men thinke it vnlikelie the déepe dissembling nature of both those men considered and what néed in that gréene world the protector had of the duke and in what perill the duke stood if he fell once in suspicion of the tyrant line 60 that either the protector would giue the duke occasion of displeasure or the duke the protector occasion of mistrust And verelie men thinke that if king Richard had anie such opinion conceiued he would neuer haue suffered him to escape his hands Uerie truth it is the duke was an high minded man and euill could beare the glorie of another so that I haue heard of some that say they saw it that the duke at such time as the crowne was first set vpon the protectors head his eie could not abide the sight thereof but wried his head another way But men say that he was of truth not well at ease and that both to king Richard well knowne and not euill taken nor anie demand of the dukes vncourteouslie reiected but he both with great gifts and high behests in most louing and trustie maner departed at Glocester But soone after his comming home to Brecknocke hauing there in his custodie by the commandement of king Richard doctor Morton bishop of Elie who as ye before heard was taken in the councell at the Tower waxed with him familiar whose wisedome abused his pride to his owne deliuerance and the dukes destruction The bishop was a man of great naturall wit verie well learned and honorable in behauior lacking no wise waies to win fauour He had béene fast vpon the part of king Henrie while that part was in wealth and nathelesse left it not nor forsooke it in wo but fled the realme with the queene the prince while king Edward had the king in prison neuer came home but to the field After which lost and that part vtterlie subdued the other for his fast faith and wisedome not onelie was content to receiue him but also wooed him to come and had him from thencefoorth both in secret trust and verie speciall fauour which he nothing deceiued For he being as yée haue heard after king Edwards death first taken by the tyrant for his truth to the king found the meane to set this duke in his top ioined gentlemen togither in the aid of king Henrie deuising first the mariage betwéene him king Edwards daughter by which his faith he declared the good seruice to both his masters at once with infinit benefit to the realme by the coniunction of those two blouds in one whose seuerall titles had long disquieted the land he fled the realme went to Rome neuer minding more to meddle with the world till the noble prince king Henrie the seuenth gat him home againe made him archbishop of Canturburie and chancellor of England wherevnto the pope ioined the honour of cardinall Thus liuing manie daies in as much honor as one man might well wish ended them so godlie that his death with Gods mercie well changed his life This man therefore as I was about to tell you by the long often alternate proofe as well of prosperitie as aduerse fortune had gotten by great experience the verie mother and mistresse of wisedome a déepe insight in politike worldlie drifts Whereby perceiuing now this duke glad to commune with him fed him with faire words and manie pleasant praises And perceiuing by the processe of their communications the dukes pride now and then belking out a little breath of enuie toward the glorie of the king and thereby feeling him easie to fall out if the matter were well handled he craftilie sought the waies to pricke him forward taking alwaies the occasion of his comming and so kéeping himselfe so close within his bounds that he rather séemed to follow him than to lead him For when the duke first began to praise and boast the king and shew how much profit the realme should take by his reigne my lord Morton answered thus Suerlie my lord follie were it for me to lie for if I would sweare the contrarie your lordship would not I weene beléeue but that if the world would haue gone as I would haue wished king Henries sonne had had the crowne and not king Edward But after that God had ordered him to léese it and king Edward to reigne I was neuer so mad that I would with a dead man striue against the quicke So was I to king Edward a faithfull chapleine glad would haue béene that his child had succéeded him Howbeit if the secret iudgment of God haue otherwise prouided I purpose not to spurne against a pricke nor labour to set vp that God pulleth downe And as for the late protector and now king And euen there he left saieng that he had alreadie medled too much with the world and would from that daie meddle with his booke and his beads and no further Then longed the duke sore to heare what he

said they ye shall haue them or we will throw them line 20 into the bottome of the sea But the capteins said foorthwith that they would serue quéene Marie willinglie and so brought foorth their men and conueied with them their great ordinance Of the comming of these ships the ladie Marie was woonderfull ioious afterward doubted little the dukes puissance but when newes thereof was brought to the tower each man there began to draw backward and ouer that word of a greater mischeefe was brought to the tower that is to saie that the noblemens tenants line 30 refused to serue their lords against quéene Marie The duke thought long for his succors and wrote somewhat sharplie to the councell at the tower in that behalfe as well for lacke of men as munition but a slender answer had he againe And from that time forward certeine of the councell to wit the erle of Penbroke and sir Thomas Cheineie lord warden and other sought to get out of the tower to consult in London but could not On the sixtéenth of Iulie being sundaie doctor Ridleie bishop of London line 40 by commandement of the councell preached at Paules crosse where he vehementlie persuaded the people in the title of the ladie Iane late proclamed quéene and inueied earnestlie against the title of ladie Marie c. The same sixteenth of Iulie the lord treasuror was gone out of the tower to his house in London at night and foorthwith about seauen of the clocke the gates of the tower vpon a sudden were shut vp and the keies borne vp to the ladie Iane which was for feare of some packing in the lord treasuror line 50 but he was fetched againe to the tower about twelue of the clocke in the night The lords of the councell being in this meane while at London after they vnderstood how the better part of the realme were inclined and hearing euerie daie newes of great assemblies began to suspect the sequell of this enterprise So that prouiding for their owne suertie without respect of the duke who now was at Burie they fell to a new councell and lastlie by assent made proclamation at London in the name of the ladie Marie by the name of Marie quéene of England France Ireland defender of the faith of the churches of England Ireland supreme head Of which proclamation after the duke of Northumberland being then at Burie was aduertised by letters of discomfort from the councell he incontinentlie according to the new order receiued from them returned with his power againe to Cambridge Now so sudden change of minds foorthwith appeared in his armie that they which before séemed most forward in that quarrell began first to flie from him so euerie man shifting for himselfe he that late before was furnished of such multitude of souldiers was suddenlie forsaken of all sauing a few whose perils were ioined with his But now before I proceed anie further in the historie of quéene Marie who was now receiued and proclamed quéene as then to succeed hir brother I will speake somewhat of the learned men that wrote published anie pamphlets or treatises in his daies as in deed there were manie but for that the more part of them died in quéene Maries time or in the quéenes maiesties time that now is or else are yet liuing I doo omit those here meaning to speake of them hereafter if God shall permit as occasion maie serue For the residue that ended their liues in this kings daies these I find Dauid Clapham a lawyer and well séene in the Latine toong wrote sundrie treatises Robert Talbot a prebendarie of Norwich verie skilfull in antiquities Edward Hall a counsellor in the common law but excellentlie séene in histories wrote a notable chronicle of the vnion of the two houses of Yorke Lancaster Furthermore Richard Tracie of Todington in Glocestershire an esquier and verie well learned sonne to William Tracie doctor Ioseph an excellent preacher George Ioie a Bedfordshire man that wrote diuerse treatises concerning diuinitie and died either in the last yeare of king Edward or in the beginning of quéene Maries reigne as appeareth by master Bale Alexander Barkleie a Scot a notable poet and a good rhetorician departed this life in the yeare one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and two William Hugh a Yorkeshireman wrote besides other things a notable treatise called the troubled mans medicine he deceassed by the bursting of a veine in the yeare one thousand fiue hundred fortie and nine Thomas Sternehold borne in South-hampton turned into English méeter seuen thirtie psalmes chosen foorth of Dauids psalter Of strangers that liued and died here in this kings daies excellentlie learned and renowmed for such treatises as they published to the world Martine Bucer and Paulus Fagius are most famous To end now with this part of the booke concerning king Edward I haue thought good to set downe Ierom Cardans verses written as an epitaph of him and recorded by master Fox in his historie as here followeth Flete nefas magnum sed toto flebilis orbe Mortales vester corruit omnis honor Nam regum decus iuuenum flos spésque bonorum Deliciae secli gloria gentis erat Dignus Apollineis lachrymis doctaeque Minerua Flosculus heu miserè concidit ante diem Te cumulo dabimus musa supremáque flentes Munera Melpomene tristia fata canet Thus farre the good and vertuous yoong prince Edward the sixt successor to Henrie the eight of most famous memorie Marie the eldest daughter of king Henrie the eight successor to Edward the sixt MArie eldest daughter of K. Henrie the eight by the ladie Katharine of Spaine his first wife and sister vnto king Edward the sixt by the fathers side began hir reigne the sixt daie of Iulie which daie the king hir brother died and she was proclamed at London as is before remembred in the end of the historie of king Edward the sixt the nineteenth line 30 daie of the same moneth year 1553 in the yeare of our Lord 1553 after the creation of the world 5520 in the fiue and thirtith yeare of Charles the fift emperor of Almaine in the seuenth yéere of Henrie the second of that name K. of France in the eleuenth of Marie quéene of Scotland The twentith of Iulie the duke of Northumberland being come backe to Cambridge heard that the proclamation of queene Marie was come thither whereof he being aduertised called for a trumpetter and an herald but none line 40 could be found Whervpon he riding into the market place with the maior and the lord marques of Northampton made the proclamation himselfe and threw vp his cap in token of ioy ¶ Within an houre after he had letters from the councell as he said that he should forthwith dismisse his armie and not come within ten miles of London for if he did they would fight with him the rumor whereof was no sooner

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 p●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 t●●ut about hir eies Then the executioner knéeled d●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 gra●is Post tenebras spero videre lucem Upon sa●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

to be such a one and therfore I did misdoubt thee for I would not credit thée with my hallowed pictures M. Kirbie quoth the other to ●enie your owne dooings is maruellous impudencie did not you in your chamber deliuer me certeine silken pictures which you told me at Stukleis being there were hallowed by the pope and what indulgences were alowed them One of them which was a crucifix you gaue me the other you willed me deliuer to your freends at Rheimes and in England And bicause they were too few as in déed I thinke they were no more but fiue you gaue me two Iulies to go into the citie to buie more which I did and hauing brought them to you thrée or foure of the fairest you tooke from me promising to get them hallowed at the next benediction the other in déed you gaue me and I tooke them with me How saie you now Kirbie quoth master shiriffe would you haue credited him with such matters had you not supposed him to be one of your owne sect Master shiriffe quoth he what I haue said I know verie well And after he was gone from Rome I sent fiftéene shillings to Rheimes to be deliuered to him but he was departed thense towards England before it came Then master shiriffe said to him againe You stand vpon these points verie much which there is none that are here but will iudge to be vntrue thou hearest what he hath said vnto thée and we haue heard that thou deniedst euerie thing What saiest thou to thy treasons wherefore thou art come hither to die Wilt thou be sorie for them aske God and hir maiestie forgiuenesse for she is mercifull and we will carrie thee backe againe if we shall perceiue in thée anie such motion that thou wilt forsake thy former wickednesse and become a good and faithfull subiect At these words the people among themselues almost line 10 generallie said O excéeding mercie and fauour what a gratious princesse haue we who affoordeth such mercie vnto those that haue so ill deserued Can there be a princesse of greater pitie of more clemencie or tendernesse to be found in all the world No. Principe nil ista mitius orbis habet Then Field the preacher in the booke read his answers to him whereto he had subscribed with his owne hand Whether the pope might lawfullie depose hir maiestie or had anie authoritie to take the line 20 title of hir crowne and dignitie awaie from hir Wherto Kirbie answered This is a matter disputable in schooles and therefore I may not iudge of it I thinke this with my selfe that if anie prince fall by infidelitie into turcisme atheisme paganisme or anie such like that the pope hath authoritie to depose such a prince And being asked if hir maiestie were in anie such He said he knew his owne conscience An other preacher being by said vnto him that the prince receiued his authoritie from God and that he line 30 was to be suppressed by none but onelie by God Againe that Salomon said By me meaning by God kings reigne and princes decrée iustice By me princes rule and the nobles and all the iudges of the earth Againe S. Paule saith Let euerie soule be subiect to the higher powers for there is no power but of God and the powers that be are ordeined of God Whosoeuer therefore resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God they that resist shall receiue to themselues iudgement For princes are not line 40 to be feared for good works but for euill Wilt thou then be without feare of the power doo well so shalt thou purchase praise of the same For he is the minister of God for thy wealth but if thou doo euill feare for he beareth a sword not for naught for he is the minister of God to take vengeance on him that dooth euill If then the pope be a soule he is to be obedient to the higher powers And being a subiect vnto God as all other princes be he must not take vpon him what belongeth to God As for the authoritie line 50 that hir maiestie hath she hath receiued it from God neither is the pope or anie earthlie prince to depriue hir thereof but onelie God Againe when Iesus was brought before Pilat Pilat said vnto him Knowest thou not that I haue power to crucifie thée and haue power to loose thée To the which Iesus answered Thou couldest haue no power at all against me except it were giuen thée from aboue Thus maie you sée that what prince soeuer ruleth vpon earth hath his power and authoritie onelie from God and not that anie mortall man can vse line 60 the authoritie of a prince at his pleasure How saie you to this Wherto he would make no answer but séemed to demand of them if they would denie that if a prince were in paganisme atheisme or gouerned by infidelitie that such a prince might not lawfullie be deposed Which the learned preachers answered in learned sort approouing that as the power was of God so princes were not to be deposed by anie but onelie by God No quoth Kirbie againe hath it not béene disputed in schooles for these fiue hundred yeares and will you denie it O maister Crowleie maister Crowleie and there paused as if that maister Crowleie had agreed with him in such a monstruous error But maister Crowleie himselfe gaue one to vnderstand that at such time as he conferred with the said Kirbie in the tower about the same argument that his answer was vnto him If anie prince fell into anie such kind of error that prince were corrigible but of whome Not of anie earthlie prince but of that heauenlie prince who gaue him his authoritie and seeing him abuse it anie waie correcteth him in his iustice For by his attributing to the pope this authoritie he witnessed him to be antichrist in that he will depose princes at his pleasure and exalt him selfe aboue all that is called God and forgiue men their sinnes at his pleasure likewise All this was not sufficient to mollifie the obstinate mind of Kirbie but he would persist still in this diuelish imagination Maister shiriffe and the preachers séeing him wauering and not able to yéeld anie reason for his arrogant opinion laboured as much as in them laie to change it when all would not serue they desired him in hartie and humble maner to praie vnto God to aske hir maiestie forgiuenesse for the treasons wherein he had offended hir Wherevnto he answered that he had not offended in anie treason to his knowledge Wherevpon they shewed him his treasons which were adiudged by the people woorthie of greater punishment than he was at that time to suffer yet would not he acknowledge them but praied to God for hir maiestie that she might long rule in hir authoritie to confound all hir enimies and that his hart was free from anie treason to hir maiestie Then preparing himselfe

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 consum●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 tw●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