Lanquet wrote an epitome of chronicles and also of the winning of Bullongne Iohn Shepre Leonard line 30 Cox wrote diuerse treatises one in English rhetorike whereof Bale maketh no mention Thomas Soulmon borne in the I le of Gernseie verie studious in histories as by his writings and notes it appeareth Iohn Longland bishop of Lincolne Maurice Chancie a Charterhouse moonke Cutbert Tunstall bishop of Duresme Richard Samson Alban Hill a Welshman an excellent physician Richard Croke verie expert in the Gréeke toong Robert Whittington borne in Staffordshire néere to Lichfield line 40 wrote diuerse treatises for the instruction of Grammarians Iohn Aldrige bishop of Carleill Iohn Russell gathered a treatise intituled Super iure Caesaris Papae he wrote also commentaries in Cantica William Roie Simon Fish a Kentishman borne wrote a booke called the supplication of beggers Iohn Powell and Edward Powell Welshmen wrote against Luther Edward died in Smithfield for treason in denieng the kings supremacie in the line 50 yeare 1540 Iohn Houghton gouernour of the Charterhouse moonks in London died likewise for treason in the yeare a thousand fiue hundred thirtie and fiue Iohn Rickes being an aged man forsaking the order of a frier Minor which he had first professed imbraced the gospell George Bullen lord Rochford brother to quéene Anne wrote diuerse songs and sonets Francis Bigod knight borne in Yorkeshire wrote a booke against the cleargie intituled De impropriationibus and translated certeine bookes from Latine into English he died for rebellion in the yeare a thousand fiue hundred thirtie and seauen Richard Wise Henrie Morleie lord Morleie wrote diuerse treatises as comedies and tragedies the life of sectaries and certeine rithmes William Boteuille alià s Thin restored Chaucers workes by his learned and painfull corrections Iohn Smith sometime schoolemaister of Heiton Richard Turpine borne of a worshipfull familie in England seruing in the garrison of Calis wrote a chronicle of his time he died in the yéere a thousand fiue hundred fortie and one and was buried in saint Nicholas church in Calis Sir Thomas Wiat knight in whose praise much might be said as well for his learning as other excellent qualities meet for a man of his calling he greattlie furthered to inrich the English toong he wrote diuerse matters in English méeter and translated the seauen penitentiall psalmes and as some write the whole psalter he died of the pestilence in the west countrie being on his iourneie into Spaine whither he was sent ambassadour from the king vnto the emperour in the yeare a thousand fiue hundred fortie and one Henrie Howard earle of Surrie sonne to the duke of Norffolke delighted in the like studies with sir Thomas Wiat wrote diuerse treatises also in English méeter he suffered at Tower hill as in the historie of this king before yée haue heard Iohn Field a citizen and lawyer of London wrote sundrie treatises as his owne answers vnto certeine articles ministred to him by sir Thomas More the bishop of Rochester Rastall and others when he was in prison for religion he wrote also a treatise of mans fréewill De seruo hominis arbitrio and collections of the common lawes of the land c Tristram Reuell Henrie Brinklow a merchant of London wrote a little booke which he published vnder thâ— name of Roderike Mors and also a complaint vpon London c Robert Shingletâ—n borne of a good familie in Lancashire wrote a treatise of the seauen churches and other things as of certeine prophesies for the which as some write he suffered at London being conuict of treason in the yeare 1544 William Parreie a Welshman wrote a booke intituled Speculum iuuenum Of strangers that liued here in this kings daies and for their works which they wrote were had in estimation these we find recorded by maister Bale Barnard Andreas a Frenchman borne in Tolouse an Augustin Frier and an excellent poet Adrian de Castello an Italian of Corneto a towne in Thuscaine he was commended vnto king Henrie the seuenth by the archbishop Morton and therevpon was first made bishop of Hereford and after resigning that sée was aduanced to Bath and Welles Andreas Ammonius an Italian of the citie of Luca secretarie to the king wrote diuerse treatises Iames Calco an Italian also of Pauia in Lumbardie by profession a Carmelite frier an earnest defender of the diuorse betwixt the king and the ladie Katharine Dowager disproouing the marriage beâ—wixt them to be in anie wise lawfull Thus farre the right high and renowmed Henrie the eight sonne and successor to Henrie the seuenth Edward the sixt sonne and successor to Henrie the eight AFter it had pleased almightie God to call to his mercie that famous prince king Henrie the eight the parlement as yet continuing and now by his death dissolued the executours of the said king and other of the nobilitie assembling themselues line 10 togither did first by sound of trumpet in the palace of Westminster and so through London cause his sonne and heire prince Edward to be proclamed king of this realme by the name of Edward the sixt king of England France and Ireland defender of the faith and of the churches of England and Ireland the supreame head he being yet but nine yeares and od moneths of age he was thus proclamed the eight and twentith of Ianuarie in the yeare of the world 5513 and after the birth of our line 20 Lord 1547 year 1547 according to the accompt of them that begin the yeare at Christmasse but after the accompt of the church of England in the yeare 1546 about the nine and twentith yeare of the emperor Charles the fift the three and thirtith of Francis the first of that name king of France and in the fift yeare of the reigne of Marie quéene of Scotland Shortlie herevpon the earle of Hertford with other of the lords resorted to Hatfield where the yoong king then laie from whence they conducted him with line 30 a great and right honorable companie to the Tower of London During the time of his abode there for the good gouernement of the realme the honour and suertie of his maiesties person his vncle Edward earle of Hertford was by order of the councell and the assent of his maiestie as one most méetest to occupie that roome appointed gouernour of his roiall person and protector of his realmes dominions and subiects and so proclamed the first of Februarie by an herald at armes and sound of trumpet through line 40 the citie of London in the vsuall places thereof as it was thought expedient The sixt daie of Februarie the earle of Hertford lord protector adorned king Edward with the order of knighthood remaining then in the Tower and therewith the king standing vp called for Henrie Hubbleshorne lord maior of the citie of London who comming before his presence the king tooke the sword of the lord protector and dubbed the said Hubblethorne knight he being the first that euer he
but taking one towne or other would kéepe the same till some liking enterteinment were offered and then would he sell such a towne where he had thus remained to them that would giue him for it according to his mind Barnabe lord of Millane gaue vnto him one of his base daughters in marriage with an honorable portion for hir dower This man was borne in Essex as some write who at the first became a tailor in London afterwards going to the warres in France serued in the roome of an archer but at length he became a capteine and leader of men of war highlie commended and liked of amongst the souldiers in so much that when by the peace concluded at Bretignie in the yeare 1360 great numbers of soldiers were discharged out of wages they got themselues togither in companies and without commandement of any prince by whose authoritie they might make warre they fell to of themselues and sore harried and spoiled diuerse countries in the realme of France as partlie yée haue heard amongst whome this sir Iohn Hawkewood was one of the principall capteins at length went into Italie to serue the marques of Montferrato against the duke of Millane although I remember that some write how he came into that countrie with the duke of Clarence but I thinke the former report be true but it may well be that he was readie to attend the said duke at his comming into Italie And thus much concerning such famous capteins as serued this noble king Edward the third although for bréefenesse I passe ouer diuerse other no lesse famous and worthie for their high manhood and tried valiancie to be remembred than these afore mentioned Of learned men these we find by Iohn Bale registred in the Centuries Iohn Baconthrop borne in Blackney in Northfolke a frier Carmelite and prouinciall of his order so excellentlie learned as well in diuinitie as in both the ciuill and canon lawes that he procéeded doctor in either facultie at Oxenford and Paris and wrote diuerse treatises to his high and singular commendation William Oâ—kam Iohn Bloxham a Carmelite frier Nicholas Triuet borne in Northfolke sonne to sir Thomas Triuet knight one of the kings iusticiers prooued excellentlie learned and wrote diuerse treatises and amongst other two histories and one booke of annales he was by profession a blacke frier and departed this life about the second yeare of this king Edward the third in the yeare of Christ 1328 William Alnewike borne in Northumberland in the towne whereof he tooke name a frier Minor Iohn Tanet borne in the I le of Tanet an excellent musician and a moonke in Canturburie Hugh of saint Neot a Carmelite frier in Hertfordshire a notable diuine as those daies gaue William Alton borne in Hampshire a blacke frier and a diuine Furthermore Richard Stradley borne in the marches of Wales a moonke and a diuine writing certeine line 10 treatises of the scripture William Herbert a Welshman and a frier Minor wrote also certeine goodlie treatises of diuinitie Richard Comington a frier of the order of the Cordeliers a preacher and a writer of diuinitie William Exeter a doctor of diuinitie and a prebendarie canon in Exeter whereas it is thought he was borne Lucas Bosden a westerne man and by profession a Carmelite frier Thomas Walleis a Dominike frier a great diuine as by such bookes as he wrote it may line 20 appeare Thomas Pontius a moonke of Canturburie Iohn Ridewall a graie frier Henrie Costesay or Cossey a frier Minor Geffrie Aleuant borne in Yorkeshire a frier Carmelite Iohn Euersden a moonke in Burie in Suffolke an historiographer Simon Burneston a doctor of the Uniuersitie of Cambridge and prouinciall of the friers Dominike or blacke friers as they called them here in England Walter Burlie a doctor of diuinitie who in his youth was brought vp not onlie in Martine college line 30 in Oxford but also in the Uniuersities and schooles abroad beyond the seas in France and Germanie afterwards for his wisedome good demeanor learning he was reteined with the bishop of Ulmes in Suabenland a region in high Germanie Amongst other treatises which he compiled being manie and namelie of naturall philosophie he wrote a commentarie of the ethikes of Aristotle and dedicated the same vnto the said bishop a worke which hath beene highlie esteemed not onelie in the line 40 Uniuersities of Italie Germanie and France but also here in our Uniuersities of England To conclude such was the same of this doctor Burlie that when the ladie Philip daughter to the earle of Heinault should come ouer into England to be married to king Edward this doctor Burlie was reteined by hir and appointed to be hir almoner and so continued in great estimation in so much that after Edward prince of Wales eldest sonne to king Edward commonlie called the blacke prince was borne and line 50 able to learne his booke the said Burlie among other was commanded to be one of his instructors By reason hereof sir Simon Burlie of whom I haue made some mention heretofore in this kings life and more intend to speake as occasion serueth in the next king being sonne to sir Iohn Burlie néere kinsman to the said doctor Burlie was admitted among other yoong gentlemen to be schoolefelow with the said prince by occasion whereof he grew in such credit and fauour with the said prince that afterwards line 60 when his son Richard of Burdeaux that succéeded king Edward his father was borne the said prince for speciall trust and confidence which he had in the said sir Simon Burlie committed the gouernance education of his son the said Richard vnto him whereby he was euer after highlie in fauour with the said Richard and no lesse aduanced by him when he came to inioy the crowne of this realme But now to other learned men of that age Iohn Barwike a frier Minor and reader to his fellowes of that order in Oxford William Notingham Roger Glacton borne in Huntingtonshire an Augustin frier Iohn Polestéed borne in Suffolke a Carmelite frier in Ipswich or Gippeswich as they write it Walter Kingham a frier also of the order of those Dominikes which they called pied friers Roger of Chester a moonke of that citie and an historiographer Thomas de Hales a frier Minor Robert Eliphat a graie frier Geffrie Grandfield an Augustine or blacke frier Hugh Wirlie a Carmelite frier of Norwich William Eincourt a blacke frier of Boston Hugh Ditton borne in Cambridgeshire a frier preacher Adam Carthusianus a doctor of diuinitie Iohn Luttrell an excellent philosopher and well seene in the mathematicals Walter Cotton and Thomas Eckleston both graie friers Iohn Folsham a Carmelite frier in Norwich Benet of Northfolke William Southhampton so called of the towne where he was borne a blacke frier Moreouer Iohn Burgh a moonke wrote an historie and certeine homilies Adam Nidzard a master of art Edmund Albon Robert Counton a graie frier William Lissie a frier Minor Iohn
Bale it should appeare he became a frier Carmelit in Bristow Henrie Wichingham a Carmelit frier of Norwich a notable diuine a great preacher and wrote also sundrie treatises of diuinitie Iohn Lidgate a monke of Burie an excellent poet and chiefe in his time in that facultie of all other that practised the same within this land he trauelled thorough France and Italie to learne the languages and sciences how greatlie he profited in atteining to knowledge the workes which he wrote doo sufficientlie testifie Nicholas Hostresham an excellent physician Iohn Blackeneie a religious man of the order of the Trinitie intituled De redemptione captiuorum and prior of an house of the same order at Ingham in Norffolke he was surnamed Blackeneie of the towne where he was borne Thomas Beckington bishop of Bath wrote against the law Salique by which law the Frenchmen would seclude the princes of this realme from their title vnto the crowne of France Iohn Baringham a Carmelite frier of Gippeswich in Suffolke Dauid Bois borne in Wales and a frier Carmelit professed in Glocester a doctor of diuinitie Iohn Brome an Augustine frier Michaell Trigurie a Cornishman borne whome for his excellencie and learning king Henrie the fift appointed to be gouernour of that schoole or vniuersitie which he instituted in the citie of Caen in Normandie after he had brought it vnder his subiection Iohn Amundisham a moonke of saint Albons Oswald Anglicus a moonke of the Chartreux order Iohn Keningale a Carmelit frier of Norwich Peter De sancta line 10 fide a Carmelit also of Norwich Reginald Pecocke bishop of Chichester of whome ye haue heard before he was borne in Wales and student in Oriall college in Oxenford where he procéeded doctor of diuinitie he wrote manie treatises touching the christian religion Iohn surnamed Burie of the towne where he was borne an Augustine frier in the towne of Clare in Suffolke Robert Fleming a man perfect in the Gréeke and Latine toong among whose works some haue line 20 béene séene vnder these titles namelie Lucubrationum Tiburtinarm lib. 1. a dictionarie in Gréeke and Latine and a worke in verse of sundrie kinds this man was of most fame in the yeare of our Lord 1470 which was in the tenth yeare of Edward the fourth though he were not obscure also in the daies of this Henrie the sixt Thomas Gascoigne borne at Hunfléete in Yorkeshire of that worshipfull familie of the Gascoignes there a doctor of diuinitie and chancellor of the vniuersitie of Oxenford William Stapilhart borne in Kent but by profession a white frier line 30 in London Robert Fimingham borne in Norffolke a Franciscan frier in Norwich Nicholas Montacute an historiographer Iohn Chandler chancellor of Welles William Botoner descended of a good house a knight by degrée and borne in Bristow verie studious in antiquities and other sciences Iohn Stow a monke of Norwich but student in Oxenford where he procéeded doctor of diuinitie Thomas Langleie a monke of Hulme Nicholas Bungeie borne in a towne of Norffolke of that line 40 name wrote an historie called Adunationes chronicorum Henrie Beauford bishop of Winchester base sonne to Iohn duke of Lancaster of whome before we haue made sufficient mention made cardinall by pope Martine the fourth in the yeare 1426 Adam Homlington a Carmelit frier William Coppinger maister of the vniuersitie of Oxenford Thomas Stacie an expert mathematician and no lesse skilfull in astronomie Iohn Talaugerne a moonke of Worcester William Sutton an astrologian Robert Balsacke wrote a booke intituled De re militari that is to saie of warre or chiualrie so that as is thought he was both a good souldier and a painefull student of good letters Thomas Dando a Carmelit frier of Marleburgh he wrote the life of Alphred king of west Saxons William Graie borne of the noble house of the Graies of Codnor he went to atteine to some excellencie of learning in Italie where he heard that noble clearke Guarinus Ueronensis read in Ferrara he was preferred to the bishoprike of Elie in the yéere 1454 by pope Nicholas the fift when Thomas Bourchier was translated from thense to Canturburie Iohn Kempe archbishop of Yorke and after remooued from thense to Canturburie as before ye haue heard he was made cardinall of S. Albin by pope Eugenie the fourth Adam Molins as Bale calleth him kéeper of the kings priuie seale excellentlie learned in time of the ciuill warre betwixt king Henrie and the duke of Yorke in which he lost his head Thomas Chillenden a doctor both of the law ciuill and canon became at length a moonke in Canturburie Robert Bale surnamed the elder excellentlie learned in the lawes of the realme recorder of London gathered as it were a chronicle of the customes lawes foundations changes restoring magistrats offices orders and publike assemblies of the citie of London with other matters touching the perfect description of the same citie he wrote other works also touching the state of the same citie and the acts of king Edward the third he departed this life in the yeare of our Lord 1461 euen about the beginning of the reigne of king Edward the fourth vnto whome we will now againe returne Thus farre the tragicall historie of Henrie the sixt depriued of his roialtie Edward the fourth earle of March sonne and heire to Richard duke of Yorke AFter that this prince Edward earle of March had taken vpon him the gouernement of this realme of England as before ye haue heard the morow next insuing being the fourth of March he rode to the church of saint Paule and there offered and after Te Deum soong with great solemnitie he was conueied to Westminster and there set in the hall with the scepter roiall in his hand whereto people in great numbers assembled His claime to the crowne was declared to be by two maner of waies the first as sonne and heire to duke Richard his father right inheritor to the same the second by authoritie of parlement and forfeiture committed by king Henrie Wherevpon it was againe demanded of the commons if they would admit and take the said erle as their prince and souereigne lord which all with one voice cried Yea yea This part thus plaied he entered into Westminster church vnder a canopie with solemne procession and there as king offered and herewith taking the homages of all the nobles there present he returned by water to London and was lodged in the bishops palace and on the morrow after he was proclamed king by the name of Edward the fourth throughout the citie This was in the yeare of the world 5427 and after the birth of our Sauiour 1461 after our accompt beginning the yeare at Christmasse but after line 10 the vsuall accompt of the church of England 1460 the twentith of emperour Frederike the third the nine and thirtith and last of Charles the seuenth French king and first yeare of the reigne of Iames the third king of Scots Whilest
saint Dominike and likewise he became a Carmelite and last of all he fell to and preached the gospell in haire and sackecloth till he vnderstood himselfe to be in the displeasure of Walden and other that could not awaie with such singularitie line 20 in him or other sounding as they tooke it to the danger of bringing the doctrine of the Romish church in misliking with the people for then he withdrew himselfe to his house againe and there remained twentie yeares leading an anchors life but yet after that time he came abroad and was aduanced to be a bishop in Ireland and went to the Roades in ambassage from whence being returned he went barefooted vp and downe in Norffolke teaching in townes and in the countrie abroad the ten commandements line 30 he liued till he came to be at the point of an hundred yeares old departed this life the fiftéenth day of Ianuarie in the yeare of our Lord 1491 and was buried at Lestolfe in Suffolke Iohn Tonneis a diuine and an Augustine frier in Norwich wrote certeine rules of grammar and other things printed by Richard Pinson Gefferie surnamed the Grammarian Iohn Alcocke bishop of Elie changed a nunrie at Cambridge into a college named Iesus college about the yeere of Christ 1496. line 40 The chiefe cause of suppressing the nunrie is noted to be for that the abbesse and other of the conuent liued dissolute liues Stephan Hawes a learned gentleman and of such reputation as he was admitted to be one of the priuie chamber to king Henrie the seuenth William Bintree so called of a towne in Norffolke where he was borne by profession a Carmelite frier in Burnham a great diuine William Gallion an Augustine frier in Lin and at length became prouinciall of his order Robert Fabian a citizen and merchant of London an historiographer he was in his time in good estimation for his wisedome and wealth in the citie so that he bare office and was shiriffe in the yeare 1493 William Celling borne beside Feuersham in Kent a monke of Canturburie Thomas Bourchier descended of the noble linage of the earles of Essex was first bishop of Elie and after remooued from thense to Canturburie succéeding Iohn Kemp in that archbishops see at length created by pope Paule the second a cardinall Philip Bromierd a Dominicke frier a diuine Iohn Miles a doctor of both the lawes ciuill and canon he studied in Oxenford in the college of Brasen nose newlie founded in the daies of this king Henrie the seuenth by William Smith bishop of Lincolne Richard Shirborne bishop of Chichester and imploied in ambassage to diuerse princes as a man most méet thereto for his singular knowledge in learning and eloquence Robert Uiduus vicar of Thakestéed in Essex and a prebendarie canon of Welles an excellent poet Peter Kenighall a Carmelit frier but borne of worshipfull linage in France hauing an Englishman to his father was student in Oxenford and became a notable preacher Iohn Morton first bishop of Elie and after archbishop of Canturburie the sixtie and fourth in number that ruled that sée he was aduanced to the dignitie of a cardinall and by king Henrie the seuenth made lord chancellor a worthie councellor and a modest he was borne of worshipfull parents in Cheshire departed this life in the yeare of our Lord 1500 Henrie Meowall chapleine to the said Morton Edmund Dudleie borne of noble parentage studied the lawes of this land and profited highlie in knowledge of the same he wrote a booke intituled Arbor rei publicae the tree of the common wealth of this man ye haue heard before in the life of this king and more God willing shall be said in the beginning of the next king as the occasion of the historie leadeth Iohn Bokingham an excellent schooleman William Blackeneie a Carmelit frier a doctor of diuinitie and a nekromancer Thus farre Henrie the seuenth sonne to Edmund earle of Richmond ⧠Henrie the eight sonne and successor to Henrie the seuenth AFter the death of the noble prince Henrie the seauenth his sonne Henrie the eight began his reigne the two and twentith daie of Aprill in the yeare of the world 5475 after line 10 the birth of our sauiour 1509 and in the eightéenth yeare of his age in the sixtéenth yeare of Maximilian then being emperour in the eleuenth yeare of Lewes the twelfe that then reigned in France and in the twentith yeare of king Iames the fourth as then ruling ouer the Scots Whose stile was proclamed by the sound of a trumpet in the citie of London the thrée and twentith daie of the said moneth with much gladnesse and reioising of the line 20 people And the same daie he departed from his manouâ— of Richmond to the Tower of London where he remained closelie and secret with his councell till the funerals of his father were finished Although this king now comming to the crowne was but yoong as before is said yet hauing béene in his first yeares trained vp in learning did for respect of his owne suertie and good gouernement of his people prudentlie by the aduise of his grandmoother the countesse of Richmond and Derbie elect choose line 30 foorth of the most wise and graue personages to be of his priuie councell namelie such as he knew to be of his fathers right déere and familiar fréends whose names were as followeth William Warham archbishop of Canturburie and chancellor of England Richard Fox bishop of Winchester Thomas Howard earle of Surrie and treasuror of England George Talbot earle of Shrewesburie and lord steward of the kings houshold Charles Summerset lord chamberleine sir Thomas Louell sir Henrie line 40 Wâ—at doctor Thomas Ruthall and sir Edward Poinings These graue and wise councellors fearing least such abundance of riches and welth as the king was now possessed of might mooue his yoong yeares vnto riotous forgetting of himselfe for vnto no king at anie time before was left greater or the like riches as well in readie coine as in iewels and other mooueables as was left to him by his father they therefore his said councellors trauelled in such prudent line 50 sort with him that they got him to be present with them when they sat in councell so to acquaint him with matters perteining to the politike gouernment of the realme that by little and little he might applie himselfe to take vpon him the rule and administration of publike affaires with the which at the first he could not well indure to be much troubled being rather inclined to follow such pleasant pastimes as his youthfull yoong yeares did more delite in and therefore could be verie well contented that other graue personages should take paines therein The same daie also that the king came to the Tower the lord Henrie Stafford brother to the duke of Buckingham was arrested and committed to the Tower and the same daie also doctor Ruthall was named bishop of Durham
erle of Hereford of that surname of Bohune was after the death of William his father earle of Hereford Essex and Northampton and constable of England He augmented the castell of Brecnocke first built by Bernard Newmarch He in the eight and twentith yere of Edward the third as Iohn Stow noteth being the yeare of Christ 1354 reedified the frier Augustines church in London in which he was buried He maried Ione the daughter of Richard Fitz Alen erle of Arundell by whome he had issue two daughters and heires Eleanor the eldest maried to Thomas of Woodstocke and Marie the second maried to Henrie of Bollingbrooke after king of England by the name of king Henrie the fourth Thomas of Woodstocke the sixt sonne to king Edward the third was created earle of Buckingham in the first yeare of Richard the second at his coronation being the yeare of our Lord 1377 and after duke of Glocester in the eight yeare of Richard the second 1385. He maried Eleanor eldest daughter of Humfreie Bohune as before in whose right he was earle of Essex Northampton and constable of England besides which he was also lord of Brecnocke He had issue one son foure daughters his sonne was Humfreie erle of Buckingham whom K. Richard after the murthering of his father at Calis sent into Ireland where he remained as prisoner vntill the time of king Henrie the fourth which called him home who returning into England died of the plague without issue at Chester after whome his moother liued not long Of whose death thus writeth that worthie poet sir Iohn Gower knight liuing at that time in his booke of the historie of Richard the second and Henrie the fourth commonlie taken as part of his worke intituled named Vox clamantis Interea transit moriens nec in orbe remansit Humfredus dictus reddit ille Deo benedictus Defuncto nato cito post de fine beato Mater transiuit dum nati funera sciuit Primo decessit Cignus dolor vnde repressit Matrem cum pullo sibi mors nec parcit in vllo The foure daughters heires to Thomas of Woodstocke their brother Humfreie were Anne the eldest married to Edmund Stafford erle Stafford who had issue Humfreie erle of Stafford Hereford Northampton lord of Brecknocke c which Anne after the death of erle Stafforâ—â—aid the second time marie William vicont Bouâ—â—◠〈◊〉 created erle of Ewe in France the second daughter was Philip which died without issue the third Ione was maried to Gilbert lord Talbot the fourth Isabell was a religious person at the Minories in London This duke of Glocester was murthered at Calis about the yeare of Christ 1398 being the 22 yeare of Richard the second touching whose life and death with the maner thereof thus writeth the said sir Iohn Gower in the same booke intituled Vox clamantis O quà m fortuna stabilis non permanet vna Exemplum cuius stat in ordine carminis huius line 10 Rex agit Cygnus patitur de corde benignus Ille prostratus non est de rege leuatus Ad Plessye captus tunc est velut hostia raptus Rex iubet arma geri nec eo voluit misereri Cum sponsa nati lugent quasi morte grauati Plússque lupo saeuit rex dummodo foemina fleuit Nil pietas munit quem tunc manus inuida punit Rex stetit obliquus nec erat tunc vnus amicus O regale genus princeps quasi pauper egenus Turpiter attractus iacet sine iure subactus line 20 Sunt ibi fautores regis de sorte priores Qui Cygnum pendent vbi captum ducere tendent Sic ducendo ducem perdit sine lumine lucem Anglia quae tota tenebrescit luce remota Trans mare natauit regnum qui semper amauit Flent centum mille quia Cygnus praeterit ille Calisij portus petit vnde dolus latet ortus Error quem regis genuit putredine legis Carcere conclusus subitò fuit ille reclusus Nescit quo fine sit vitae siue ruinae line 30 Tunc rex elatum sumpsit quasi falco volatum Vnde suas gentes perdit custode carentes A little after which followeth these verses touching the deniall of buriall to be granted vnto him among the rest of his honourable and roiall ancestors Sic nece deuictum sic corpus ab hoste relictum Clam de conclaui susceperat Anglia naui Per mare regreditur corpus nec ad huc sepelitur Námque sepulturam defendit rex sibi puram Desuper à latere patris loca iusta tenâ—râ— line 40 Dummodo quaesiuit vix bassa sepulchra subiuit Of the maner also of whole death the said sir Iohn Gower hath set downe these thrée following verses Heu quà m toâ—torum quidam de sorte malorum Sic ducis electi plumarum pondere lecti Corpus quassatum iugulántque necara iugulatum His wife Elenor died the third of October in the yeare of our redemption 1399 being the first yeare of king Henrie the fourth and was buried at Westminster on the south side of king Edward the third line 50 with this epitaph Icy gist Elenor de Bohune aysne fille vn des heyres a honorable seigneur monseigneour Humphrey de Bohune countie de Hereford de Essex de Northampton constable d'Angliterre femme a puissant â—â—â—â—ble prince Thomas Woodstocke fiâ—z tresexcâ—lleâ—â— trespuissant seigneiur Edwarde roy d'Angliteâ—re pius le cóquest tierce duc de Glocester que moâ—ust tierce iâ—ure de October lan du grace 1399 de que alme Dieux fait mercye line 60 Edward Plantagenet sonne to Edmund of Langleie was by Richard the second created earle of Rutland and duke of Albemerle who being constable of England arriued in the thrée and twentith yeare of Richard the second and in the yeare of our Lord 1399 in Ireland to bring aid to the king being there in warre Of this man is more liberall discourse in my folowing treatise of the dukes of England Henrie Persie lord Persie the sixt lord and the first earle of Northumberland of that name was aduanced to that â—onourable title of earle at the coronation of king Richard the second in the yeare of our redemption 1377. He was made high constable of England by Henrie the fourth then elected but not crowned king of England bicause the said earle did giue that ring to the king whereby he was wedded to the kingdome of England to whome also the king gaue the I le of man to beare the sword with which he entered the realme He in the fourth yeare of king Henrie the fourth being the yeare of Christ 1403 rebelled against the king but after comming to the king vpon sending for he was pardoned his life but commited to safe custodie After which in the fift yeare of that king he was at a parlement holden at London restored to his estate and dignitie who the yeare following being
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
the second others saie in the fourth yeare but the best authors agrée that he gaue ouer the seale in the yeare of Christ 1162 being the eight yeare of the victorious prince the said Henrie the second against the will of the prince he died in the yeare of our redemption 1170 as these verses doo prooue being such as the curiositie of that superstitious age would permit Pro Christo sponsa Christi sub tempore Christi In templo Christi verus amator obit Anno mileno centeno septuageno Anglorum primas corruit ense Thomas Quis moritur praesul cur pro grege qualiter ense Quando natali quis locus ara Dei Rafe Warneuile archdeacon of Rone and treasuror of the church of Yorke was made chancellor about the yeare that the word became flesh 1173 being about the eightéenth yeare of king Henrie the second of this man speaketh Matthew Paris and Matthew Westminster Walterus de Constantijs archdeacon of Oxford after bishop of Lincolne in the yeere of our redemption 1182 from whense he was aduanced in the yeare 1184 being the one and thirtith yéere of king Henrie the second vnto the archbishoprike of Rone of this man is more spoken in my discourse of the protectors of England pag. 1069. Geffreie the bastard sonne to king Henrie the second after that he had surrendered the bishoprike of Lincolne whereof he was neuer consecrat bishop but kept the place and receiued the reuenues was made chancellor much about the six and twentith yeare of king Henrie the second being the yeare of Christ 1180 yet be there some that saie he resigned the bishoprike in the seuen and twentith yeare of king Henrie the second in the yeare of Christ 1181. The difference whereof groweth as I suppose for that some accompt the beginning of the yeare of our Lord from the first of Ianuarie as all other nations of Europe doo some from the birth of Christ as we in England did long time since the conquest and some from the fiue and twentith of March on which it is supposed that the world began first to be created which last accompt we in England and the Scots as hath Lesleus doo kéepe togither with them of Genoa or Gene in Italie contrarie to the order of all other nations The begining of which maner of accompt amongst vs I cannot as yet certeinlie learne but I suppose it began much about the time of king Edward the third for all the former historiographers begin the yeare from the birth of Christ. William Longchampe the proud bishop of Elie legat of England for the bishop of Rome chiefe iustice of the south and west parts of England and deputie of that part of the realme when Richard the first went to the warres of the holie land was made chancellor in the said first of king Richard being the yeare of our redemption 1189 of the sumptuous feast of whose inthronization thus writeth Ferthulphus or Ferculphus by the waie of comparison Praeuisis alijs Eliensia festa videre Est quasi praeuisa nocte videre diem He died in the yéere of Christ 1197 going to Rome in the abbeie of Pimie being of the charterhouse order About which time in the sixt yeare of Richard the first there was a vicechancellor called Malus Catulus Eustachius deane of Salisburie was chancellor of England being elected bishop of Elie the third â—des of August in the yeare that the word became flesh 1196 being the ninth yeare of king Richard the first of whome thus writeth Matthew Parker in the life of Hubert archbishop of Canturburie contrarie to that which others affirme writing that Eusâ—achius succeeded William Lonchampe in the office line 10 of chancellor and in the bishoprike of Elie. The words of Matthew Parker in the life of Hubert be these Hubertus deposito magistratu ciuili ecclesiae curae totus vacabat consecrauÃtque postea Robertum de Salopesbi episcopum Banchorensem Eustachium qui in cancellarij munere ei successit Eliensem episcopum Westmonasterij debita accepta ab vtróque subiectionis professione Hubert Walter or Walter Hubert for such a transmutation of the name is vsed by authors being first bishop of Salisburie and then archbishop of line 20 Canturburie was made chancellor shortlie after the coronation of king Iohn which was in the yeare that the virgine brought foorth Christ 1199 at what time a certeine noble man said vnto him in scorne I haue often seene of a chancellor made a bishop but I neuer before saw an archbishop made a chancellor Simon or rather Hugh of which is more herafter archdeacon of Welles in the first yeare of king Iohn after as I suppose that Hubert had left the office line 30 being so disgraced abased as he thought was witnesse to a déed in which king Iohn granted to the citizens of Yorke a guildhall hanse and other liberties as I haue seene noted in the copie of the same charter for which cause I haue heere set it downe as an other man although in truth I am fullie resolued that this Simon and the Hugh following were all one person leauing it yet for euerie mans iudgement Hugh de Welles archdeacon of Welles witnesse line 40 to the déed in which king Iohn in the sixt yeare of his reigne confirmed to the monasterie of Westminster Gistslep or Islep in Oxfordshire in which house Edward the confessor was borne he was made bishop of Lincolne about the tenth yeare of king Iohns reigne in the yeare of our Lord 1209 and died in the yeare of our Lord 1235. Walter Braie chosen bishop of Chester in the yeare of our Lord 1210 was bishop of Worcester and after bishop of Yorke a man of extreame age line 50 was made chancellor in the seuenth yeare of king Iohn as one anonymall chronicle saith to hold that office during his life Others saie that he was made chancellor in the yeare of Christ 1209 being the tenth yeare of king Iohn after Hugh de Welles But I suppose he surrendred that patent to hold it during his life when he came to be bishop of Yorke Of this man is more spoken in my treatise of the protectors of England pag. 1069. Richard de Marischo whom Matthew Paris termeth Tholenarius as it were tolegatherer or treasuror if line 60 you list being archdeacon of Northumberland was chancellor in the fourth yeare of king Iohn as appeareth by a déed that I haue séene and further he was made chancellor in the 15 yeare of king Iohn in which office he coÌ„tinued to the 17 yeare of the said king and as some doo write during king Iohns life and died about the calends of Maie in the yeare of our redemption 1226 in the tenth yeare of the long reigne of king Henrie the third as some haue But the booke of Durham saith that he was made bishop of that sée by Gwado the legat and consecrated by
about ten yeares died and was buried in his owne church 6 Alfwoldus as Matthew Westminster writeth was next bishop after Algarus and consecrated by the aduise of Dunstane in the yeare 952. In this time Odogarus earle of Deuon and father in law to king Edgar builded the abbeie of Tauestoke and king Edgar called home all the monkes of saint Peters which were dispersed and without anie abbat and made Sidemannus abbat who was afterwards bishop This Alfwoldus after sixtéene yeares that he was consecraâ—eâ— died and was buried in his owne church 7 Alfwolfus as Dicetus affirmeth was consecrated bishop in the yeare of our Lord 969 and after nine yeares died and was buried in his owne church 8 Sidemannus of an abbat was made a bishop in the yeare 978. In this mans time the Danes ouerran and spoiled the whole countries of Deuon and Cornewall burned the towne of Bodmen and the cathedrall church of saint Petrokes with the bishops house Wherevpon the bishops sée was remoued from thense to saint Germans where the same continued vntill the remouing and vniting thereof vnto Crediton Sidemannus in the twelfe yeare after his consecration died and was buried at Crediton in his owne church 990. 9 Alphredus whome Dicetus calleth Alfricus abbat of Malmesburie was consecrated bishop and installed at Crediton he was taken for a learned man because he wrote two bookes the one intituled Derebus coenobij sui and the other De rerum naturis In this bishops time king Ethelred endowed the bishoprike of saint Germans with lands liberties and priuileges The Danes made a fresh inuasion in and vpon all Deuon and Cornewall burned and spoiled the abbie of Ordolphus at Tauestoke they besieged Excester and being remoued from thense were fought withall at Pinneho about thrée miles from the citie and ouerthrowne Alphredus after he had béene bishop about nine yeares died in the yeare 999 and was buried in his owne church 10 Alwolfus as Dicetus writeth was the next bishop In his time Sweno king of Denmarke by intisement of one Hugh then earle of Deuon came with a great host and besieged the citie of Excester tooke it and burned it and with great crueltie vsed the people vntill in the end Almarus then earle of Deuon and the gentlemen did yéeld and submit themselues and so obteined peace This Alwolfus about the fiftéenth yeare of his bishoprike in the yeare 1014 died and was buried in his owne church 11 Arnoldus by the report of the archdeacon of London succéeded Alwolfus and was installed at Crediton In this mans time king Canutus gaue to Athelwold abbat of S. Peters of this citie great gifts and sundrie priuileges in recompense of his fathers great iniuries Arnoldus in the fiftéenth yeare of his bishoprike 1030 died and was buried in his owne church 12 Leuigus or Leuingus abbat of Tauestoke and nephue to Brithwaldus bishop of Cornewall was chosen the next bishop and according to the orders then vsed consecrated and installed He was in great fauour and credit with king Canutus vppon whome he attended in pilgrimage to Rome and after his vncle the bishop of saint Germans being dead obteined of the king that the bishops sée was remoued from saint Germans vnto Crediton and both were thereby reduced and vnited into one bishoprike and so hath euer since continued Hée was after the death of Brithegus bishop of Worcester remoued to that church and there died and was buried as some suppose but some affirme that in the time of Hardicanutus the king at the accusation of Alfredus then archbishop of Yorke for that he should be consenting to the death of Alfredus the sonne of Etheldred that he should be deposed of his bishoprike there and so did returne vnto Tauestoke where he died But Dicetus affirmeth that he purged himselfe of this crime and by that meanes was restored both to the fauour of the king and to his bishoprike againe and died bishop of Worcester It is recorded that he was bishop of Crediton fiftéene yeares 13 Leofricus a man descended of the bloud and line of Brutus but brought vp in the land of Lothoringia or Loreine was so well commended for his nobilitie wisedome and learning that king Edward the Confessor had him in great fauour and made him first one of his priuie councell then lord chancellor of all England and lastlie the bishoprike line 10 of this prouince being void he was made consecrated and installed bishop of the same By him and by his meanes the bishops sée was remoued from Crediton vnto this citie of Excester for at his request king Edward togither with quéene Edith his wife came to Excester remouing the monkes from hense to Westminster did also remoue the bishops sée from Crediton vnto his citie and did put the bishop in possession For he conducting the bishop on the right hand and the quéene on the line 20 left hand brought him to the high altar of his new church and there placed him in a seat appointed for him He suppressed sundrie houses or cels of religion within his sanctuarie and appropriated and vnited them to his owne church as also by the good liberalitie of the king obteined great reuenues possessions priuileges and liberties to be giuen vnto the church In this mans time William duke of Normandie made a conquest of this whole realme as also in the yeare 1068 besieged this line 30 citie of Excester which after by composition he restored to his former estate againe Also in his time Richard de Brion a noble man of Normandie the sonne of Baldwin of Brion of Albred the néece to the Conqueror was made baron of Okehampton warden of the castell of Excester and vicount of Deuon This Leofricus after that he had well and worthilie ruled his church and diocesse by the space of three and twentie yeares he ended his daies in peace and died in the yeare 1073 and was buried line 40 in the cemiterie or churchyard of his owne church vnder a simple and a broken marble stone which place by the since inlarging of his church is now within the tower of the same where of late in the yeare 1568 a new monument was erected in the memorie of so good woorthie and noble a personage by the industrie of the writer hereof but at the charges of the deane and chapter 14 Osbertus or Osbernus a Norman borne and brother to an earle named William was preferred to this bishoprike and in the yeare 1074 was line 50 consecrated and installed to the same Polydorus writeth that one Galfrid who ioined with Odo earle of Kent and bishop of Baion against William Rufus should be bishop of Exon but it was not nor could not so be In this mans time William the Conqueror and William Rufus his sonne died This Osbertus or Osbernus after he had béene bishop thirtie yeares was blind and died and lieth buried in his owne church
15 William Warlewast a Norman borne and line 60 chapleine both to the Conqueror and his two sons William and Henrie he was a graue and a wise man and for the same was preferred by Henrie the king to this bishoprike in the yere one thousand one hundred and seuen and was consecrated by Anselmus archbishop of Canturburie in the moneth of August the same yeare He first began to inlarge his church which at that time was no bigger than that which is now called the ladie chappell He founded and builded the monasterie of Plimpton and placed therein regular canons in his latter daies he waxed and became blind And yet notwithstanding for his wisdome the king sent him in ambassage vnto pope Paschalis the second wherein he so wiselie dealed and so discréetlie behaued himselfe in his message that he made a reconciliation betweene the pope and the king and returned with great praise and commendation Not long after his returne and hauing small ioie of the world he gaue ouer his bishoprike and became one of the religious canons in his owne house of Plimpton where he died and was buried he was bishop about twentie yeares 16 Robert Chichester deane of Sarisburie was consecrated bishop vnder Anselmus archbishop of Canturburie Anno 1128 and the eight and twentith yeare of king Henrie the first He was a gentleman borne and therefore estéemed for his zeale in religion wherein he was deuout according to those daies and thinking his labours to be best imploied that waie did eftsoons go in pilgrimage sometime to Rome sometime to one place sometime to another and euer he would bring with him some one relike or other He was a liberall contributor to the buildings of his church In his time was founded and builded the monasterie of S. Stephans in Lanceston and furthered by Reinold erle of Cornewall but vnto it this bishop was an aduersarie not for misliking the worke but for feare of an intrusion vpon his liberties Likewise at this time was builded the priorie of saint Nicholas in Excester by the abbat of Battell vnto which abbeie this priorie was a cell In this mans time also king Henrie made William Rideuers a Norman and his kinsman earle of Deuon and therewith the lordshop of Twifordton and the honor of Plimpton togither with the third pennie of his reuenues in Deuon which in the whole was then thirtie marks whereof this earle had ten Also in this mans time king Henrie died and king Stephan entred and tooke vpon him the crowne whereof insued great warres This bishop after that he had occupied the place two and twentie yeares died and was buried in his owne church But the moonke of Westminster writeth that he should be bishop seuen and twentie yeares and died in the yeere one thousand one hundred fiftie and fiue but he neuer saw the records of this church which are to the contrarie 17 Robert Warlewast nephue to William the bishop of this church deane of Sarisburie was consecrated bishop by Theobaldus archbishop of Canturburie in the yeare one thousand one hundred and fiftie he nothing degenerated from the steps of his predecessors but was altogither of the same bent and disposition In his time king Stephan died and Henrie the second was crowned king This Robert after that he had occupied this sée nine yéers or thereabout died was buried at Plimpton by his vncle 18 Bartholomeus Iscanus otherwise Bartholomew of Excester was consecrated bishop of Excester vnder Theobald archbishop of Canturburie in the yeare a thousand one hundred fiftie nine he was called Iscanus of Isca which is one of the ancientest names of this citie He was a meane citizens son but being verie apt vnto learning his parents and friends kept him to schoole and he so well profited therein that he came and prooued to be a verie well learned man and being bishop he wrote sundrie bookes as of predestination fréewill penance and others Of all men he could not brooke nor fauor Thomas Becket archbishop of Canturburie for his contempt and disobedience against the king for the which he sharplie improoued rebuked and inueighed against him openlie in the parlement house holden at Northampton and with such effectuall reasons and pithie arguments he did so temper the same that the whole parlement relied vnto his iudgement and opinion herein against Thomas Becket And after his death such was the gravitie modestie and wisedome of the man that he was speciallie chosen to be ambassador for the king vnto pope Alexander the third and so wiselie and with such discretion vsed the same that notwithstanding his cause and message had manie aduersaries yet he reconciled the pope and the king obteined the goodwill and fauour of the pope and brought his message to good effect This bishop was in great familiaritie and acquaintance with Baldwin of Excester his countriman line 10 now archbishop of Canturburie who was a poore mans sonne in this citie but for his learning aduanced to this estate In this bishops time about the yeare of our Lord one thousand one hundred thrée score and eight William Fitzralfe a citizen of this citie founded a cell for moonks within this citie and dedicated the same to saint Alexius which not long after was united to saint Iohns within the east gate of the same citie In his time also Reinold of Courtneie a nobleman of Normandie the son of Elorus line 20 the son of Lewes named Lewes le Grosse king of France came into this land and married Hawise daughter and heire to Mawd the daughter and heire to Adelis sister and heire to Richard de Briono the first vicount of Deuon and in hir right was vicount of Deuon This Bartholomew after he had béene bishop about fouretéene yeares in the yere one thousand one hundred eightie and foure died but where he died and where he was buried it dooth not appeere In this bishops time about the yeare one thousand line 30 one hundred and seuentie one Iohannes Coriniensis a Cornish man borne was a famous learned diuine he was a student at Rome and other places in Italie and by that meanes grew into great acquaintance with pope Alexander the third he wrote diuerse bookes and namelie one De incarnatione Christi against Peter Lombard who affirmed Quòd Christus secundum quod homo est aliquid non est and this he dedicated to pope Alexander 19 Iohn the chanter of the cathedrall church of line 40 this citie was consecrated and installed bishop of this church in the yeare one thousand one hundred eightie and foure he was well reported of for his liberalitie in continuing the buildings of this church wherein he was nothing inferior to his predecessors In his time king Henrie Fitzempresse died and he himselfe hauing beene bishop about six yeares died in the yeare of our Lord one thousand one hundred ninetie and one 20 Henrie Marshall archdeacon of Stafford the line 50 brother to Walter earle
cloths at the same but onelie their accustomable common apparell which then was commonlie greie coloured cloths This bishop was no lesse graue and wise than stout and of courage if occasion did so require And amongest other things this is reported of him that about the yeare of our Lord one thousand thrée hundred thirtie and one Simon Mepham then archbishop of Canturburie sent his mandatum to this bishop that he would visit his church diocesse vpon mondaie next after Ascension daie then following This bishop vpon what occasion it is not written did refuse this mandatum and appealed from the same aduertising the archbishop that he should not visit his church line 10 nor diocesse Notwithstanding the archbishop at the time appointed came to this citie and went to S. Peters church nothing thinking that anie durst to withstand him But the bishop knowing of his comming goeth to the church doore méeteth the archbishop and forbiddeth him to enter into his church but the archbishop pressing forward as with force to enter the bishop being then well garded denied and resisted him whervpon the archbishop departed and after at a prouinciall counsell holden at London the line 20 archbishop complained hereof but by meanes of the like discord betwéene him his suffragans he preuailed not In this bishops time one William of Excester a verie well learned man was a canon of this church and he ioining with Nicholas de Cesena Okeham Walsingham and others did openlie preach that Christ and his apostles were but poore men and had no temporall possessions neither was anie emperor or laie man subiect to the pope but onlie in matters of religion But when he heard that line 30 pope Iohn the thrée and twentith had excommunicated and would condemne them all for heretikes this William to saue his liuings secretlie shroonke awaie from his old companions and changed his copie and writeth certeine conclusions against them and his owne preachings Also in this bishops time about the yeare of our Lord one thousand thrée hundred and fortie one Iohn of Bampton so named bicause he was borne at Bampton in this diocesse and a moonke of the order of the Carmelites was a line 40 verie good scholar and first did openlie read Aristotle in the vniuersitie of Cambridge where he was a scholar and afterwards he studied diuinitie and was made doctor he wrote certeine bookes which are not extant This bishop after that he had occupied this church about two and fortie yeares he died vpon S. Swithins daie in the yeare of our Lord one thousand three hundred sixtie and nine and was buried in a chappell which he builded in the west wall of his line 50 owne church 30 Thomas Brentingham after the death of this Iohn Grandesson was at one instant chosen bishop of Excester and bishop of Hereford who refusing the one tooke the other and was consecrated bishop of Excester vpon the tenth daie of March in the yeare of our Lord one thousand thrée hundred and seauentie being the feast daie of Nereus and Achilles William of Worcester then archbishop of Canturburie This Thomas was a man verie well learned line 60 and experted both in ecclesiasticall matters and in politike gouernement and in both these respects greatlie reuerenced and estéemed and for that cause at the parlement holden at Westminster in the tenth yeare of the reigne of king Richard the second was chosen one of the twelue péeres of the realme vnder the king He was a benefactor to the Calenderhaie of the vicars chorall of his owne church and performed and supplied in buildings and otherwise what his predecessors had left vndoone And hauing beene bishop foure and twentie yeares he died the third of December in the yeare of our Lord 1394 and was buried in the north side of the bodie of his owne church 31 Edmund Stafford vpon the twentith daie of Iune in the yeare of our Lord one thousand thrée hundred ninetie and fiue was consecrated at Lambeth by William Courtnaie archbishop of Canturburie He was borne and descended of noble parentage being brother to Ralfe lord Stafford created earle of Stafford by king Edward the third he was both wise and learned and for his wisedome grew into great credit with the king and was both of his priuie councell as also lord chancellor of England At the parlement holden at Westminster the one and twentith yeare of the reigne of king Richard the second he being then speaker of the higher house made a verie learned and pithie oration to prooue the absolute authoritie of a king his theme was Rex vnus erit omnibus And hauing discoursed at large of the authoritie of a king he did conclude Quòd potesta◠regis esset sibi sola vnita annexa solida and whosoeuer did by anie meanes impeach the same Poena legis meritò esset plectendus And for the furtherance of good letters he did increase two fellowships in the college of Stapledons inne in Oxford reformed the statutes of the house and altered the name of it and called it Excester college After that he had continued bishop in much honor about thrée and twentie yeares he died the fourth of September being the seuenth yeare of king Henrie the fift and lieth buried in his owne church in a verie faire toome of alabaster 32 Iames Carie bishop of Chester then being at Florence when news was brought to pope Martin the fift of the said late bishop Staffords death was there made bishop of this church in the yeare of our Lord one thousand foure hundred and nineteene and also consecrated but long he inioied not his office for there he died and was buried 33 Edmund Lacie bishop of Hereford was translated from thense vnto this church in the feast of Easter and in the eight yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the fift in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand foure hundred and twentie He was a man verie deuout and religious but subiect to flatterers who carried him to their pleasure he was a liberall benefactor vnto the vicar of Calenderhaie Great contentions were betwéene him and the citie for liberties which by arbitrement were compounded He founded the chapter house in his owne church He was a professor of diuinitie and verie well learned For in the second yeare of his bishoprike being the ninth yeare of the kings reigne there was a parlement holden at Westminster in which great complaints were made against the loose and dissolute life of the religious men and especiallie the blacke moonks And this matter being brought to the conuocation house this bishop as chéefe proloquntor of that assemblie did make a verie learned and a pithie oration before the king then of purpose present and the whole cleargie much lamenting that the religious men were so far straied from the rules of their professions and the holinesse of their predecessors And when he had at large discoursed the same he deliuered vp certeine articles in
added and set foorth by the said iustice Manwood who for perpetuall supplie when need should be procured that the ancient contributorie lands almost growne into obliuion should be to that end reduced into a conuenient order answerable vnto right and iustice And likewise for good direction in yearelie elections of wardens and other officers with the accounts prouision works and other such necessaries required for perpetuall maintenance of that bridge obteined an act of parlement in the eightéenth yeare of this quéenes reigne as appeareth in the printed booke of statutes wherein were manie things ordâ—ined for the good ordering of the said bridge and the officers belonging therevnto After all which a charge of fiue hundred pounds was of record demanded and leuied vpon the wardens of the said bridge for arerages of the stipends of chanterie priests sometime seruing in the chappell at the east end of the said bridge to the great damage and ouerthrow of the bridge had not the said iustice Manwood by his trauell vpon due and lawfull triall at the assises deliuered discharged the bridge of that great demand as appeareth by record in the court of the excheker before the said sir Roger Manwood came to be chiefe baron there And yet abuse and slackenesse being had in these things the wardens notwithstanding that great beneuolence and reléefe was at sundrie times and of sundrie persons procured vnto the said bridge by the carefull and diligent trauell of Thomas Wooten of Bocton Maleherbe of Kent esquier a deere father and fauourer of his countrie as well at the times of the elections of the wardens and the accounts of the officers were forced to disburse great sums of their owne monie from time to time to dispatch the néedfull charges and works required for the bridge without anie conuenient allowance of the contributorie persons at the yearelie elections of the wardens and without due regard had for order of the said land belonging and contributorie to the bridge For auoiding wherof the said sir Roger Manwood then now lord chiefe baron of the excheker procured to passe another act of parlment in the seuen twentith yeare of hir maiestie reigne wherein is further prouision made for the said bridge as in the printed booke of statutes at large appeareth By which fullie prouided meaneâ— and by reasonable following the presidents of the works and accounts written in great lâ—gear books by the said chiefe baron and William Lambard esquier in the yeare next after the said last mentioned act of parlement of the seauen and twentith of the quéenes reigne they then executing the office of wardens all néedfull reparations be so doone and prouision before hand so made as it is now growne out of all controuersie that the said famous stone bridge of Rochester for euer like to last according vnto the intent of the first building and the indowment thereof for the good and beneficiall seruice of the commonwealth This sir Roger Manwood hauing had before an other wife issued of the gentlemanlie familie of the Theobalds is at this daie ioined in marriage with Elisabeth descended of an ancient and worshipfull familie the daughter of Iohn Copinger of Alhallowes in the countie of Kent esquier which Elisabeth being a woman of such rare modestie and patience as hir verie enimies must néeds confesse the same occasioned these verses following to be composed touching hir hir husband the said sir Roger Manwood Scaccarij protho barâ— Manwoode beatum Quem faciunt leges lingua loquela virumâ— Coniuge foeliciâ—r tamenes quae nata Copinger Egregâ—â— est summa foemina digna viro Quae viduata thâ—ro Wilkins coniunctáque Manwood 〈◊〉 coniux est â—oriata binis In the moneth of Ianuarie deceassed Edward Fines lord Clinton earle of Lincolne and lord admerall of England knight of the garter and one of hir maiesties priuie councell a man of great yéeres and seruice as well by sea as land he was burieâ— at Windsor leauing manie children behind him honorablie married Of this noble man whiles he liued one to whome the honorable lords of the courâ— were not obscurelie knowne writing of the peaâ—eable regiment of the queenes maiestie comprising in an orderlie discourse their high places of seruice to the crowne amongest others speaketh verie commendablie and deseruedlie of this deceassed earle who at such time as the said booke was published vnder the title aforenamed had béene lord great admerall of England thirtie yeares and of councell vnto thrée princes alwaies of vnspotted report speciallie for allegiance and therefore as singularlie beloued in his life so accordinglie bemoned at his death The words that concerne this noble mans memoriall are thus extant to the aduancement of his honour testified by report of two English poets line 10 O Clintone tuae concessa est regia classis Tutelae totos ter denos circiter annos Consuluisse tribus nec haec tibi gloria parua Principibus veterum satraparum sanguine clares Multa gerens pelago praeclarè multáque terris Hunc decorat comitem grandi Lincolnia fastis And before this namelie in the yeare 1564 at what time the said noble man was honored with the title of Praefectus maris and attendant vppon hir maiestie in presence at hir being in Cambridge where line 20 she was magnificallie interteined with all hir troope of lords and traine of ladies c thus did an academike write in praise of the forenamed earle Regnatórque maris Clintonus cuius in vndis Excellens nomen praecipuúmque decus Ille mihi Neptunus aquas mouet ille tridente Hunc Triton hunc pelagi dijque deaeque colunt On the one and twentith daie of Ianuarie one and twentie Iesuites seminaries and other massing priests late prisoners in the Tower of London line 30 Marshalsee and Kings bench were shipped at the Tower wharffe to be conueied towards France banished this realme for euer by vertue of a commission from hir maiestie as may more fullie appeare by that which followeth A vew of the said commission from the queenes maiestie WHere as the queenes most excellent line 40 maiestie foreseeing the danger that hath and might grow vnto the realme by accesse of Iesuits and seminarie priests and other like wandering and massing priests comming hither to seduce and withdraw hir louing subiects from their due obedience to God and hir maiestie and there withall traitorouslie to practise the mouing and stirring of rebellion within the realme as hath appeared by sufficient proofe against them and line 50 by confession of sundrie of themselues for the which diuerse of the said Iesuits and seminaries haue béene tried condemned and executed by the ordinarie and orderlie course of hir maiesties lawes and yet they haue not refrained dailie to practise and attempt the like treasons Hir maiestie notwithstanding following the accustomed course of hir princelie clemencie liking rather for this time to haue them onelie banished out of the
the countries adioining line 50 were sore vexed with a great mortalitie of people and immediatlie after followed a sore dearth and famine King Henrie held his Christmas at Windsor and about the feast of the conuersion of saint Paule he came to Northampton after the mortalitie was well ceassed he called a parlement whereat was present a deacon cardinall intituled of S. Angelo being sent into England as a legat from the pope to take order in the controuersies betwixt the two archbishops line 60 of Canturburie and Yorke This cardinall whose name was Hugh Petro Lion assembled in the same place a conuocation or synod of the bishops and cleargie as well of England as Scotland in which conuocation after the ceassing of certeine strifes and decrées made as well concerning the state of common-wealth as for the honest behauiour of mans life the cardinall consented that according as by the kings lawes it was alreadie ordeined all maner of persons within the sacred orders of the cleargie which should hunt within the kings grounds and kill any of his deare should be conuented and punished before a temporall iudge Which libertie granted to the king did so infringe the immunitie which the cleargie pretended to haue within this realme that afterwards in manie points préests were called before temporall iudges and punished for their offenses as well as the laitie though they haue grudged indéed and mainteined that they had wrong therein as they that would be exempted and iudged by none except by those of their owne order Moreouer in this councell the matter came in question touching the obedience which the bishops of Scotland did owe by right vnto the archbishop of Yorke whom from the beginning the popes of Rome had constituted and ordeined to be primat of all Scotland and of the Iles belonging to that realme as well of the Orkeneis as all the other Which constitution was obserued by the bishops of those parts manie yeares togither though after they renounced their obedience Whervpon the archbishops of Yorke for the time being continuallie complained so that these popes Paschall the second Calyxt the second Honorius Innocentius Eugenius the third and Adrian the fourth had the hearing of the matter and with often sending their letters went about to reduce them to the prouince of Yorke But the Scots still withstanding this ordinance at length the matter thus in controuersie was referred to pope Alexander who sent the foresaid cardinall Hugh as well to make an end of that contention as of diuerse other but yet he left it vndecided William king of Scotland came personallie vnto this parlement at Northhampton by commandement of king Henrie and brought with him Richard bishop of S. Andrew and Iosseline bishop of Glascow with other bishops and abbats of Scotland the which being commanded by king Henrie to shew such subiection to the church of England as they were bound to doo by the faith which they owght to him and by the oth of fealtie which they had made to him they made this answer that they had neuer shewed any subiection to the church of England nor ought Against which deniall the archbishop of Yorke replied and brought foorth sufficient priuileges granted by the forenamed popes to prooue the subiection of the Scotish bishops and namelie Glascow and Whiterne vnto the see of Yorke But bicause the archbishop of Canturburie meant to bring the Scotish bishops vnder subiection to his see he wrought so for that time with the king that he suffered them to depart home without yéelding any subiection to the church of England The letters which the foresaid popes did send touching this matter were remaining safe and sound amongst other writings in the colledge at Yorke when Polydor Virgil wrote the histories of England the copies whereof in an old ancient booke he confesseth to haue séene and read But to speake further of things ordered and doone at this parlement holden at Northampton the king by common consent of his Nobles and other states diuided his realme into six parts appointing thrée iustices itinerants in euerie of them as here followeth Hugh de Cressie Walter Fitz Robert and Robert Mantell were deputed vnto Northfolke Suffolke Cambridgeshire Huntingtonshire Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire Essex and Hertfordshire Hugh de Gundeuille William Fitz Rafe and William Basset were appointed to Lincolnshire Notinghamshire Derbishire Staffordshire Warwikeshire Northamptonshire and Leicestershire Robert Fitz Bernard Richard Gifford Roger Fitz Remfrey were assigned to Kent Surrey Hampshire Sussex Berkshire and Oxfordshire William Fitz Stephan Berthram de Uerdon Thurstan Fitz Simon were ordeined to Herefordshire Glocestershire Worcestershire and Salopshire Rafe Fitz Stephan William Ruffe and Gilbert Pipard were put in charge with Wilshire Dorsetshire Summersetshire Deuonshire Cornwall Robert de Wals Ranulf de Glanuile and Robert Pikenet were appointed to Yorkeshire Richmondshire Lancashire Copeland Westmerland Northumberland and Cumberland The king caused these iustices to sweare vpon the holie euangelists that they should kéepe his assises which he first had ordeined at Clarendon and after had renewed here at Northampton also caused line 10 all his subiects within the relme of England to kéepe and obserue the same Moreouer at this councell king Henrie restored vnto Robert earle of Leicester all his lands both on this side the sea and beyond in maner as he held the same fiftéene daies before the warre To William de Albenie earle of Arundell he gaue the earledome of Sussex About midlent the king with his sonne and the legat came to London where at Westminster a conuocation of the cleargie was called but line 20 when the legat was set and the archbishop of Canturburie on his right hand as primat of the realme the archbishop of Yorke comming in and disdaining to sit on the left where he might séeme to giue preheminence vnto the archbishop of Canturburie vnmanerlie inough indeed swasht him downe meaning to thrust himselfe in betwixt the legat and the archbishop of Canturburie And where belike the said archbishop of Canturburie was loth to remooue he set his buttocks iust in his lap but he scarslie touched line 30 the archbishops skirt with his bum when the bishops and other chapleins with their seruants stept to him pulled him away and threw him to the ground and beginning to lay on him with bats and fists the archbishop of Canturburie yeelding good for euill sought to saue him from their hands Thus was verified in him that sage sentence Nunquam periculum sine periculo vincitur The archbishop of Yorke with his rent rochet got vp line 40 and awaie he went to the king with a great complaint against the archbishop of Canturburie but when vpon examination of the matter the truth was knowne he was well laught at for his labour and that was all the remedie he got As he departed so bebuffeted foorth of the conuocation house towards the king they cried out
of the mischéefe though hands were not laid vpon him nor his adherents perhaps for feare peraduenture for fauour no maruell though the lesse faultie lost their liues as most guiltie for rarus venator ad vrsos Accedit tutos conseruat sylua leones Debilibus robusta nocent grandia paruis A les fulminiger timidos infestat olores Accipiter laniat turdos millésque columbas Versicolor coluber ranas miserâ—sque lacertas Irretit muscas transmittit aranea vespas The king returning by saint Edmundsburie after he had doone his deuotions to S. Edmunds shrine line 10 began to ware somewhat crasie but after hauing a little recouered his health he called a councell there wherein he went about to haue taken order for the punishment of rebels but his sicknesse againe renewing he brake vp the assemblie and with all spéed hasted to London Prince Edward vpon his returne out of the holie land came to Chalons in Burgogne at the request of the earle he did attempt with his companie to hold a iustes and tournie against the line 20 said earle all other commers And thought through disdaine and spite there was homelie plaie shewed vpon purpose to put the Englishmen to the foile reproch yet by high valiancie prince Edward and his companie bare themselues so worthilie that in the end the aduersaries were well beaten and constreined to leaue the honor of that enterprise to the said prince Edward and his partakers After this he kept on his iornie till he came vnto Paris where he was honourablie receiued of the French king and from line 30 thence he went to Burdeaux and there remained till after his fathers death In this meane time king Henrie being returned to London from saint Edmundsburie as before yee haue heard his sicknesse so increased vpon him that finallie he departed at Westminster on the sixteenth day of Nouember in the yeare of our Sauiour 1272. after he had liued threescore and fiue yeares and reigned fiftie and six yeares and seauen and twentie daies A little before his death when he perceiued line 40 that he could no longer liue he caused the earle of Glocester to come before him and to be newlie sworne to keepe the peace of the land to the behoofe of his sonne prince Edward His bodie was buried at Westminster He had issue by his wife quéene Elianor two sonnes the foresaid Edward prince of Wales that succéeded him and Edmund earle of Lancaster by some authors surnamed Crouchbacke though as other affirme vntrulie that this Edmund was the elder brother but bicause he was a deformed line 50 person therefore his yonger brother Edward was preferred to the kingdome which was deuised of purpose to conueie a right to king Henrie the fourth which fetched the descent from the said Edmund and by force vsurped and held the crowne as after it may appeare Moreouer king Henrie had thrée daughters by the said Elianor as Margaret maried to Alexander king of Scots Beatrice whom the duke of Britaine had to wife and Catharine which died before she was mariable line 60 He was of bodie well cast and strong of a good stature in heigth well fauoured of face with the lid of one of his eies comming downe so as it almost couered the apple of the same eie Of nature he was courteous and of stomach rather noble than stout a deuout prince and liberall towards the poore and néedie Yet he wanted not dispraise in some points namelie for that in ordering of things and weightie affaires he vsed small consideration He was also noted to be a great taker of monie by leanes taxes and subsidies but there vnto he was inforced by necessitie to beare the charges of warre and other publike affaires than of any couetous mind or purpose to serue his owne turne ¶ What capteins of honour among the nobilitie liued in his time it may appeare by the course of the historie of his age Of sundrie learned men these we find mentioned in maister Bales centuries and others Walter of Couentrie an historiographer Radulphus Niger that wrote both histories and other treatises Geruasius de Melkelie Albricius of London Robert Curson a man excellentlie learned both in diuine and humaine letters so that comming to the court of Rome he there grew in such estimation that he became a cardinall of whom we find this recorded by Matthew Westminster and Matthew Paris At the taking of Damiate a citie in Aegypt there was with Pelagius the cardinall of Alba the popes legat master Robert Curson an Englishman a most famous clerke borne of a noble house and cardinall of the church of Rome These are reported to florish in the daies both of king Iohn and king Henrie his sonne In the said kings time also there liued other learned men as these Hugh Kirkestéed Richard of Elie Peter Henham Iohn Giles or de Sancto Egidio an excellent physician Caducan a Welshman borne and bishop of Bangor Alexander a singular learned man that wrote diuerse and manie treatises aswell in diuinitie as philosophie and humanitie both in verse and prose also Stephan Langton that for his singular knowledge was made high chancellor of the vniuersitie of Paris and at length was admitted archbishop of Canturburie against the will of king Iohn in which quarell so great trouble insued as before yée haue partlie heard Rafe Coggeshall also liued in king Henries daies that wrote the appendix vnto the chronicle of Ralfe Niger he was abbat of Coggeshall abbeie in Essex whereof he tooke his surname William Lanthonie Peter of S. Sauior a canon of the house called S. Sauior or of the trinitie by London Alexander Hailes a frier of the order of the minors who wrote manie treatises in diuinitie Richard surnamed Medicus a most learned physician and no lesse expert in philosophie and the mathematicals There be also remembred by maister Bale Randulfe the earle of Chester the third and last of that name who hauing great knowledge and vnderstanding in the lawes of this land compiled a booke of the same lawes as a witnesse of his great skill therein Alexander Wendocke bishop of Chester Iohn Blund Edmund Rich Robert Rich Henrie Bracton that excellent lawier who wrote the booke commonlie called Bracton after his name intituled De consuetudinibus Anglicanis Richard surnamed Theologus Walter de Euesham Ralfe Fresborne Laurence Somercote brother as it is thought to Robert Somercote at that time a cardinall of the Romane church Nicholas Fernham a physician Robert Bacon a notable diuine Simon Langton brother to the archbishop of Canturburie Stephan Langton Richard Fisaker Simon Stokes Iohn of Kent or Kantianus William Shirwood Michaell Blaunpaine Iohn Godard Uincent of Couentrie Alberike Ueer Richard Wich Iohn Basing alià s de Basingstoke Roger Walsham William Seningham Robert Grosted that learned bishop of Lincolne whose memorie amongst the learned will remaine while the world lasteth Thus farre Henrie the third Edward the first surnamed
enormities any longer therefore besought him wholie to reuoke such reseruations prouisions collations to auoid such slanders mischeefes and harmes as might insue and that the cures might therewith be committed to persons méet for the exercise of the same further also beseeching him without delaie to signifie his intention sith they meant to imploie their diligence to remedie the matter and to see that redresse might be had according to reason The date of these letters was in full parlement at Westminster the eight and twentith of Maie in the yeare of Grace 1343. Beside these letters were other written and sent from the king conteining in summe the tenor of the other aboue mentioned and one sir Iohn Shordich knight a graue personage and well seene in the law was appointed to go with the same who comming to Auignion and there presenting his letters in the popes priuie chamber where the pope sat with all his cardinals about him receiued no great courteous welcome after his letters were once read And whie Euen bicause the cōtents of the same misliked his mind tending to the impairing of his vsurped profits cōmodities from time to time in this land Ambitiosus enim sibi totum vendicat orbem Seque scelus Christo clamitat esse parem Now when the knight made answer to such words as he heard the pope vtter and charged him with giuing the deanrie of Yorke vnto one that was reputed the kings enimie the pope said Well it is not vnknowne to vs who made and indited these letters and we know that thou madest them not but there is one that pincheth at vs and we shall punish him well inough we know all Herevnto he added thus much more that there was a knight that spake defamous words of him and the church of Rome wherewith he séemed highlie offended To conclude he said that he would answer the letters of the king and commons as touching the points conteined in the same The cardinals after they had heard these things departed as if they had béene sore offended and troubled therewith and the knight taking his leaue of the pope departed also foorth of the chamber and without anie longer abode got him awaie toward Burdeaux about other of the kings businesse doubting least if he had staied longer he might haue béene kept there against his will The pope sent answer indéed but neuerthelesse the king procéeded in prohibiting such prouisions and collations within his realme on paine of imprisonment and death to the intrudors thereby as after ye shall perceiue This yeare about Midsummer there were solemne iusts proclaimed by the lord Robet Morley which were holden in Smithféeld where for challengers came foorth one apparelled like to the pope bringing with him twelue other in garments like to cardinals which tooke vpon them to answer all commers for thrée courses On the defendants side ran the prince of Wales with manie earls barons knights line 10 and esquires innumerable so that those iusts continued thrée daies togither to the great pleasure of the beholders ¶ This yeare king Edward ordeined a certeine new coine of gold which he named the floren that is the penie of six shillings eight pence the halfe penie of the value of three shillings foure pence and the farthing of the value of twentie pence This coine was ordeined for his wars in France the gold whereof was not so fine as the noble which in the fourtéenth yeare of his reigne he had caused line 20 for to be coined This yeare the king caused a great number of artificers and labourers to be taken vp whome he set in hand to build a chamber in the castell of Windsore which was called the round table the floore whereof from the center or middle point vnto the compasse throughout the one halfe was as Walsingham writeth an hundred foot and so the diameter or compasse round about was two hundred foot The expenses of this worke amounted by the weeke first vnto an hundred pounds but afterward by reason of line 30 the wars that followed the charges was diminished vnto two and twentie pounds the wéeke as Thomas Walsingham writeth in his larger booke intituled the historie of England or as some copies haue vnto 9 pounds This yéere also W. Montacute earle of Salisburie conquered the I le of Man out of the hands of the Scots which I le the king gaue vnto the said earle and caused him to be intituled and crowned king of Man ¶ This Ile as Robert Southwell noteth was woone by the Scots about the second yeare of Edward the second his reigne who in the line 40 yeare before to wit anno Christi 1307 had giuen the same I le vnto Péers de Gaueston whom he had also made earle of Cornewall Moreouer about the beginning of this eightéenth yeare of his reigne king Edward held a solemne feast at his castell of Windsore where betwixt Candlemasse and Lent were atchiued manie martiall feats and iusts tornaments and diuerse other the like warlike pastimes at the which were present manie line 50 strangers of other lands and in the end thereof he deuised the order of the garter and after established it as it is at this daie There are six and twentie companions or confrers of this felowship of that order being called knights of the blew garter as one dieth or is depriued an other is admitted into his place The K. of England is euer chéefe of this order They weare a blew robe or mantell a garter about their left leg richlie wrought with gold and pretious stones hauing this inscription in French vpon it line 60 Honi soit qui mal y pense Shame come to him that euill thinketh This order is dedicated to S. George as chéefe patrone of men of warre and therefore euerie yeare doo the knights of this order kéepe solemne his feast with manie noble ceremonies at the castell of Windsore where king Edward founded a colledge of canons or rather augmenting the same ordeined therein a deane with twelue canons secular eight peticanons and thirtéene vicars thirteene clearks and thirteene choristers The knights haue certeine lawes and rules apperteining to their order amongst the which this is chéeflie to be obserued as Polydor also notech that they shall aid and defend one another and neuer turne their backes or runne awaie out of the field in time of battell where he is present with his souereigne lord his lieutenant or deputie or other capteine hauing the kings power roiall and authoritie and wheras his banners standards or pennons are spred The residue of the lawes and rules apperteining vnto this noble order I doo here purposelie omit for that the same in an other place more conuenient is expressed so far as may be thought expedient But now touching these six and twentie noble men knights which were first chosen and admitted into the same order by the first founder thereof this king
and taken prisoners with a great number of their noblemen whereas they were in hope to haue gone awaie with the conquest and to haue had renowme line 20 for their reward Of which ouerthrow giuen to both these kings with the clemencie of king Edward in whose hands though their liues laie to be disposed as he list yet he was so far from violating the same that he shewed himselfe a woonderfull fauourer of their estates and in fine not onelie put them to their reasonable ransoms but restored them to their roialties from the which their sinister lot had deposed them Christopher Okland hath left this remembred Plantageneta duos reges iam illustris habebat line 30 Captiuos tenuit comites custodia mitis Multos ambabus claro regionibus ortos Sanguine quos saeuo bello cepere Britanni Attamen Eduardi viguit clementia regis Tanta tanta animo virtus innata sedebat Vt pretio pacto dimitteret aere redemptos In patriam ad propriae consanguinitatis amicos In this foure and thirtith yeare of king Edward men and cattell were destroied in diuerse places of this realme by lightening and tempest also houses line 40 were set on fier and burnt and manie strange and woonderfull sights seene ¶ The same yeare Edward prince of Wales married the countesse of Kent which before was wife vnto the lord Thomas Holland and before that she was also wife vnto the erle of Salisburie and diuorsed from him and wedded to the same lord Holland She was daughter vnto Edmund earle of Kent brother to king Edward the second that was beheaded in the beginning of this kings reigne as before yée haue heard And bicause line 50 the prince and shee were within degrees of consanguinitie forbidden to marrie a dispensation was gotten from the pope to remooue that let In this yeare also was a great death of people namelie of men for women were not so much subiect thereto This was called the second mortalitie bicause it was the second that fell in this kings daies This yeare also by the death of Richard fitz Rafe primat of Ardmach that departed this life in the court of Rome and also of Richard Kilminton deceassed line 60 here in England the discord that had continued for the space of three or foure yeares betwixt them of the cleargie on the one part and the foure orders of friers on the other part was now quieted and brought to end Moreouer this yeare appeared two castels in the aire of the which the one appeared to the southeast and the other in the southwest out of which castels about the houre of noone sundrie times were séene hosts of armed men as appeared to mans sight issuing foorth and that host which sailed out of the castell in the southeast seemed white and the other blacke They appeared as they should haue fought either against other and first the white had the vpper hâ—nd and after was ouercome and so vanished out of sight About the same time the souldiors which were discharged in France and out of wages by the breaking vp of the warres assembled togither and did much hurt in that realme as in the French histories yée may read Their cheefe leaders were Englishmen and Gascoignes subiects to the king of England The king assembled the states of his realme in parlement at Westminster in the feast of the Conuersion of S. Paule and there was declared vnto them the tenor and whole effect of the peace concluded betwixt England and France wherewith they were greatlie pleased and herevpon the nobles of the realme and such Frenchmen as were hostages came togither at Westminster church on the first sundaie of Lent next following and there such as were not alreadie sworne receiued the oth for performance of the same peace in a right solemne manner hauing the tenour of their oths written in certeine scrols and after they had taken their oths vpon the sacrament and masse booke they deliuered the same scrols vnto certeine notaries appointed to receiue and register the same The mortalitie yet during that noble duke Henrie of Lancaster departed this life on the éeuen of the Annunciation of our ladie and was buried at Leicester ¶ Iohn of Gant the fourth son to the king who had married his daughter the ladie Blanch as before yee haue heard succéeded him in that dutchie as his heire in right of the said ladie The same yeere also died the lord Reginold Cobham the lord Walter fitz Warren and thrée bishops Worcester London and Elie. This yeare vpon the fiftéenth day of Ianurie there rose such a passing wind year 1362 that the like had not béene heard of in manie yéeres before It began about euensong time in the south and that with such force that it ouerthrew and blew downe strong and mightie buildings as towers steeples houses and chimnies This outragious wind continued thus for the space of six or seauen daies whereby euen those buildings that were not ouerthrowne and broken downe were yet so shaken that they without reparing were not able long to stand After this followed a verie wet season namelie in the summer time and haruest so that much corne and haie was lost and spoiled for want of seasonable weather to gather in the same The lord Lionell the kings sonne went ouer into Ireland to be deputie to his father there and was created duke of Clarence and his brother Edmund was created earle of Cambridge also Edward prince of Wales was by his father king Edward inuested duke of Guien and did homage vnto his father for the same in like manner and forme as his father and other kings of England were accustomed to do for the said dutchie to the kings of France And afterwards about the feast of Candlemasse next insuing the said prince sailed into Gascoigne and arriued at Burdeaux taking vpon him the gouernment and rule of the countrie Moreouer this yeare the fiue first daies of Maie were kept roiall iusts in Smithfield by London the king and queene being present with a great multitude of the nobles and gentlemen of both the realms of England and France at which time came hither Spaniards Cipriots and Armenians requiring aid of the king against the infidels that sore molested their confines ¶ The staple of wols was this yeare remooued to Calis Also the sixtéenth of October a parlement began that was called at Westminster which continued till the feast daie of S. Brice on which daie the king at that time fiftie yeares then past was borne wherevpon as it were in the yeare of his iubile he shewed himselfe more gratious to his people granting pardon to offendors and reuoking outlawes Moreouer it was ordeined in this parlement that no maner of person of what estate or degrée soeuer he was the king the quéene and dukes onelie excepted should haue any purueiers of vittels nor should take vp any
Repingale borne in Lincolneshire a Carmelite or white frier as they called them Christopher Mothusensis a blacke frier Richard Aungeruile borne in Suffolke who was bishop of Duresme and lord chancellor of England Iohn Manduith Walter Heminford a canon of Gisborne an historiographer Iohn Olnie borne in Glocestershire in an I le so called whereof he tooke his surname a Chartreux moonke Thomas Staueshaw a frier Minor in Bristow Robert of Leicester taking that surname of the towne where he was borne a Franciscane or graie frier Iohn of Northhampton borne in that towne and a Carmelite frier an excellent mathematician Adde to the foresaid learned men Robert Worsop borne in Yorkeshire and a blacke frier in Tickill William Bruniard a blacke frier Richard Chichester a moonke of Westminster wrote an excellent chronicle beginning the same at the comming in of the Saxons about the yeare of our Lord 449 and continued it till the yeare 1348 Richard Rolle alià s Hampole an excellent diuine wrote many treatises Iohn Guent a Welshman a Franciscane frier and prouinciall of the order Rodulph Radiptorius a frier Minor Robert Holcoth a blacke frier borne in Northampton excellentlie learned and wrote manie works both of diuinitie and other arguments William Miluerlie a logician or rather a sophister Iohn Teukesburie Thomas Bradwardin borne in Hartfield a towne within the diocesse of Chichester archbishop of Canturburie succeeding Iohn Offord he wrote against the Pelagians Richard Wetherset William Breton a graie frier a Welshman borne as Bale supposeth Iohn of saint Faith borne in Northfolke a Carmelite frier of Brumham Furthermore Iohn Goodwicke borne also in Northfolke an Augustine frier of Lin William Rothwell a blacke frier Geffrie Waterton moonke of Burie Richard Fitz Rafe whom some take to be an Irishman but a student in Oxford and scholer to Iohn Baconthrope profited highlie wrote manie treatises he was first archdeacon of Lichfield and after chancellor of the Uniuersitie of Oxford and at length archbishop of Ardmachan in Ireland Richard Kilington a doctor of diuinitie William Grisant a notable physician surnamed of the countrie where he was borne Anglicus he led the later end of his life at Marseilles in Prouance had a son that was abbat of the regular canons of that citie who at length was aduanced to gouerne the sée of Rome named Urbane the fift Iohn Paschall borne in Suffolke a Carmelite frier in Gippeswich and by K. Edward the third preferred to the bishoprike of Landaffe Adam Woodham a frier Minor Simon Henton a blacke frier William de Pagula of Iohn Wicliffe ye haue heard before Moreouer Geffrie 〈…〉 blacke 〈◊〉 of Leicesâ—eâ— William Bintham Roger Couâ—â—wey a Welshman borne in Counwey a grey â—rier Richard Billingham William Doroch a lawier Iohn Killingworth an excellent philosopher astronomer and physician William of Couentrie a â—rier Carmeâ—ite professed and borne in the same citie Ranâ—lfe Higden a moonke of Chester and borne in thâ—se parts an historiographer Iohn Eastwood alià s 〈◊〉 an excellent philosopher Thomas Ratclife borne in Leicester line 10 and an Augustine frier in Leicester towne Bartholomew Glanuille descended of noble parentage as of the linage of those Glanuilles that were sometimes earles of Suffolke as Bale faith Robert Computista a moonke of Burie Iohn Wilton a moonke of Westminster Simon Wichingham a frier Carmelite of Norwich Iohn Deir a northerne man borne a notable diuine Furthermore Simon Iâ—â—ep founder of Canturburie colledge in Oxenford wrote diuerse treatises line 20 he was archbishop of Canturburie as before yee haue heard George Chadley Iohn of Tinmouth vicar of that towne in the bishoprike of Durham Peter Babion Walter Wiborne or Wimborne Nicholas de Lin borne in the towne of that name in Northfolke a Carmelite frier by profession but as excellent an astronomer as was in those daies Iohn Ridington borne in Lincolneshire a frier minor in Stafford Adam a moonke of the Cisteaux order Roger Wihelpedale a mathematician Simon line 30 de Feuersham parson of Birton in Kent Matthew Westmonasterienses who wrote the booke called Flores historiarum Iohn Elin a Carmelite borne in Northfolke liued in these daies but departed this life in king Richard the seconds daies Thomas de Sturey an Augustine frier Sertorious Gualensis a Welshman borne To conclude Iohn Mandeuille knight that great traueller liued in those daies and departed this life at Liege the seuenteenth of Nouember in the yeare 1372. Thomas of Douer a moonke of the abbeie there Henrie Knighton wrote an historie â—ntituled De gestis Anglorum Iohn Stokes borne in Suffolke an Augustine frier Iohn Hornebie a frier Carmelite of Boston Henrie Bâ—â—â—rike or as other rather will of Burie an Augustine frier Simon Alcocke a diuine Utred Balton borne in the marches of Wales a moonke of Durham William Iordan an Augustine frier Iohn Hilton a frier minor William de Lincolne a Carmelite borne and professed in that citie whereof he tooke his surname Adam Saxlingham a frier of the same order but borne in Northfolke Simon Mepham a prebend of Chichester and a great diuine Iohn Bamton a Carmelite and student in Cambridge Iohn Wichingham a gray frier and diuerse other which for that we are not certeine in what age they liueâ— we here passe ouer Thus farre Edward the third sonne to Edward the second and queene Isabell. Richard the second the second sonne to Edward prince of Wales RIchard the second of that line 40 name and sonne to prince Edward called the blacke prince the sonne of king Edward the third a child of the age of eleuen yeares began to reigne ouer the realme of England the two and twentith daie of Iune in the yeare of the world 5344 of our Lord 1377 after the conquest 310 about the two and thirtith yeare of the emperour Charles the line 50 fourth and in the fouretéenth yeare of Charles the fift king of France and about the seuenth yeare of the reigne of Robert the second king of Scotland he was named Richard of Burdeaux bicause he was borne at Burdeaux in Gascoigne whilest his father ruled there The day before it was vnderstood that his grandfather king Edward was departed this life being the one and twentith of Iune on which daie neuerthelesse he deceassed the citizens of London hauing certeine knowledge that he could not escape his sicknesse sent certeine aldermen vnto Kingston where the prince with his mother the princesse then laie to declare vnto the said prince their readie good wils to accept him for their lawfull king and gouernour immediatlie after it should please God to call to his mercie his grandfather being now past hope of recouerie of health Wherefore they 〈…〉 line 10 and so were they sent home to bring a ioifull answer of their message to the citie The morrow after there were sent to London from the king the lord Latimer sir Nicholas Bond sir Simon Burlie sir Richard Adderâ—urie knights to bring them sorowfull newes of the assured
in praemissis faciendis assistentes sint consulentes auxiliantes line 40 prout decet In cuius rei testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium vice simo tertio die Maij anno regni nostri vndecimo A copie of the kings commission against the Lollards or Wickleuists and their followers Englished by A.F. RIchard by the grace of God king of England and France and lord of Ireland to his beloued maister Thomas Brightwell doctor in diuinitie deane of the college of the new worke of Leicester and to William Chesulden prebendarie of the prebend of the same college and to our beloued and trustie subiects Richard of Barow Chinall and Robert Langham greeting For so line 60 much as we are certeinelie informed by credible report that by the vnsound doctrine of maister Iohn Wickliffe whiles he liued of Nicholas Herford Iohn Liston and their followers many bookes libels scheduls pamphlets expresselie euidentlie and notoriouslie swarming with manifest heresies and errors to the hurt of the catholike faith the abolishment of sound doctrine are commonlie compiled published and written as well in English as in Latine and therevpon wicked opinions contrarie to sound doctrine doo spring grow and are mainteined and preached to the weakening of the right faith the ouerthrow of holie church and consequentlie which God forbid the misbeleefe of a great many the manifest danger of their soules We being moued with zeale to the catholike faith whereof we are and will be defenders in all things as we are bound vnwilling that such heresies or errors within the limits of our iurisdiction so far as we are able should grow or by any meanes spring vp doo assigne you iointlie and seuerallie all and singular the books libels scheduls pamphlets conteining such doctrine of the said Iohn Nicholas Iohn and their fellow-followers or any of their corrupt opinions wheresoeuer in whose hands possession or keeping soeuer they shal be found within the liberties or without them to search take arrest and cause to be brought before our councell with all possible speed that then and there we may take order for the same accordinglie as by the aduise of our foresaid councell we shall see requisite to be doone And also to proclaime and on our behalfe firmelie to forbid all and euerie one of whatsoeuer state degree or condition he be vnder paine of imprisonment and forfeitures which to vs he shall forfeit any of these wicked and lewd opinions to mainteine teach obstinatlie to defend priuilie or openlie or any of these bookes libels scheduls pamphlets to keepe write or cause to be written but all and euerie such booke and bookes libels scheduls and pamphlets with them had found at our commandement vnto you to deliuer or cause to be deliuered without delaie And all them whome after proclamation and inhibition you shall find dooing contrarie to the premisses and such lewd opinions mainteining to call foorth before you the said Thomas the deane William and them to examine when they shal be lawfullie conuinced therein to commit them to the next officers prisons there to be kept till they haue recanted their errors heresies and wicked opinions or till we for their deliuerance shall otherwise thinke order to be taken And therefore we command that you intend the said premisses with all diligence and effect and the same doo and execute in forme aforesaid We doo also giue in streict commandement and charge to all and euerie as well churchman churchmen as shiriffes maiors bailiffes officers and other our trustie subiects as well within the liberties as without by the tenor of these presents to assist counsell and helpe you and euerie of you in doing the premisses as it is conuenient In witnesse whereof we haue caused these our letters patents to be made Witnesse our selues at Westminster the twentie third day of Maie and the eleuenth yeare of our reigne ¶ About this time or as Henrie Knighton saith in the yeare 1392 maister William Courtenie archbishop of Canturburie brother to the earle of Denshire visited the diocesse of Lincolne and on the feast of saint Faith the virgine he visited maister Iohn Bokingham bishop of Lincolne in the cathedrall church of Lincoln◠with the chapter and an hundred of the canons and he came to Leicester abbeie in visitation the sundaie before the feast of All saints where he 〈◊〉 all the tuesdaie and on the eeue also of All saints being mondaie calling togither all the canons of the said monasterie with the chaplines of his owne chappell euerie of them hauing in their hands burning candels The same archbishop confirmed sentence of excommunication against the Lollards or Wickleuists with their fauourers which either now mainteined or caused to be mainteined or hereafter did mainteine or should mainteine the errours and opinions of master Iohn Wickliffe in the diocesse of Lincolne On the morrow next after All saints the same bishop flashed out his sentence of line 10 excommunication like lightning in open sight with a crosse set vpright with candels burning bright and with bels roong alowd and namelie against those of Leicester towne that had too too much defiled and infected the said towne and countrie The archbishop departing from thence went to saint Peters church to a certeine anchoresse named Matildis there kept as in a closet whom he reprouing about the foresaid errors and opinions of the Lollards and finding hir line 20 answers scarse aduisedlie made cited hir that she should appeare before him on the sundaie next insuing in saint Iames his abbeie at Northampton to answer vnto the foresaid erronious and prophane points Now she appeared at the day appointed and renouncing hir errours and hauing penance inioined hir she went awaie reformed But till the second day before the feast of saint Lucie she kept hir selfe out of hir closet and then entred into the same againe Other Lollards also were cited and appeared line 30 at Oxford and in other places as the archbishop had commanded them who renouncing their superstitious errours and for swearing their prophane opinions did open penance Also one William Smith was made to go about the market place at Leicester clothed in linnen or in a white sheet holding in his right arme the image of the Crucifix and in his left the image of saint Katharine bicause the said Smith had sometimes cut in peeces and burned an image of saint Katharine whereof he made a fire to line 40 boile him hearbes in his hunger In those daies there was a certeine matrone in London which had one onelie daughter whome manie daies she instructed and trained vp to celebrat the masse and she set vp an altar in hir priuie or secret chamber with all the ornaments therevnto belonging and so she made hir daughter manie daies to attire hir selfe like a priest and to come to the altar and after hir maner to celebrate the
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
procéeded doctor he was also confessor to the duke of Lancaster and to his wife the duchesse Constance a great setter foorth of pope Urbans cause against the other popes that were by him line 30 and those of his faction named the antipapes Thomas Maldon so called of the towne of that name in Essex where he was borne Iohn Edo descended out of Wales by linage and borne in Herefordshire a Franciscane frier Adde to the forenamed Nicholas Fakingham borne in Norfolke a greie frier procéeded doctor in Oxenford a great diuine and an excellent philosopher prouinciall of his order here in England Laurence Holbecke a monke of Ramsie well séene in line 40 the Hebrue toong and wrote thereof a dictionarie Iohn Colton archbishop of Ardmach Iohn Marrie so called of a village in Yorkeshire where he was borne a Carmelite of Doncaster Richard Chefer borne in Norfolke a diuine and an Augustine frier in Norwich Iohn Lathburie a Franciscane frier of Reading Nicholas Poutz Richard Scroope brother to William Scroope lord treasuror of England studied in Cambridge and proceeded there doctor of both the lawes became an aduocat in the court line 50 of Rome and afterwards was aduanced to the gouernement of the see of Couentrie and Lichfield and at length was remooued from thence and made archbishop of Yorke he wrote an inuectiue against king Henrie and at length lost his head as before ye haue heard Iohn Wrotham a Carmelite frier of London and after made warden of an house of his order in Calis Furthermore Iohn Colbie a Carmelite frier of Norwich William Thorpe a northerne man borne line 60 and student in Oxenford an excellent diuine and an earnest follower of that famous clearke Iohn Wickliffe a notable preacher of the word and expressing his doctrine no lesse in trade of life than in speech he was at length apprehended by commandement of the archbishop of Canturburie Thomas Arundell and committed to prison in Saltwood castell where at length he died Stephan Patrington borne in Yorkeshire a frier Carmelite prouinciall of his order through England of which brood there were at that season 1500 within this land he was bishop of saint Dauids and confessor to king Henrie the fift about the fift yeare of whose reigne he deceassed Robert Mascall a Carmelite frier of Ludlow confessor also to the said K. who made him bishop of Hereford Reginald Langham a frier minor of Norwich Actonus Dominicanus Thomas Palmer warden of the Blacke friers within the citie of London Boston of Burie a monke of the abbeie of Burie in Suffolke wrote a catalog of all the writers of the church and other treatises Moreouer Thomas Peuerell a frier Carmelite borne in Suffolke he was aduanced to the see of Ossorie in Ireland by Richard the second and after by pope Boniface the ninth remooued to Landaffe in Wales and from thence called by Henrie the fourth with consent of pope Gregorie the twelfe to gouerne the sée of Worcester and so continued bishop of that citie vntill he ended his life in the yeare of our Lord 1418 which was about the sixt yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the fift Iohn Purueâ—e an excellent diuine procéeded master of art in Oxenford he was apprehended for such doctrine as he taught contrarie to the ordinances of the church of Rome and was at length compelled by Thomas Arundell archbishop of Canturburie to recant at Paules crosse seuen speciall articles he wrote diuerse treatises was the second time committed to prison in king Henrie the fift his daies by Henrie Chichleie that succeeded Arundell in gouernement of the church of Canturburie William Holme a greie frier and a good physician for curing diseases of the bodie whatsoeuer his physicke was for the soule he liued vntill Henrie the fift his daies and deceassed about the fourth yeare of his reigne Nicholas Baiard a blacke frier a doctor of diuinitie professed at Oxenford Thomas Rudburne archdeacon of Sudburie and bishop of saint Dauids in Wales succéeding after Stephan Patrington he wrote a chronicle and certeine epistles as Iohn Bale noteth Finallie and to conclude Nicholas Riston who being sore greeued in mind as diuerse other in those daies to consider what inconuenience redounded to the church by reason of the strife and bralling among the prelats for the acknowleging of a lawfull pope two or thrée still contending for that dignitie wrote a booke intituled De tollendo schismate Iohn Walter an excellent mathematician being first brought vp of a scholer in the college of Winchester and after studied at Oxenford Thomas of Newmarket taking that surname of the towne in Cambridgeshire where he was borne he for his worthinesse as was thought was made bishop of Careleill well séene both in other sciences and also in diuinitie William Auger a Franciscane frier of an house of that order in Bridgewater Peter Russell a graie frier and of his order the prouinciall héere in England Iohn Langton a Carmelite Robert Wanâ—ham a moonke of Cernelie in Dorsetshire wrote a booke in verse of the originall and signification of words William Norton a Franciscane frier of Couentrie Hugh Sueth a blacke frier and a great preacher Richard Folsham a moonke of Norwich Robert Wimbeldon a singular diuine and an excellent preacher as appeareth by the sermon which he made vpon this text Redde rationem villicationis tuae Thus farre Henrie Plantagenet sonne to Iohn of Gaunt duke of Lancaster Henrie the fift prince of Wales sonne and heire to Henrie the fourth HEnrie prince of Wales son and heire to K. Henrie the fourth borne in Wales at Monmouth on the riuer of Wie after his father was departed tooke vpon him the regiment of this realme of England the twentith of March the morrow after proclamed king by the name of Henrie the fift in line 10 the yeare of the world 5375 after the birth of our sauiour by our account 1413 the third of the emperor Sigismund the thrée and thirtith of Charles the sixt French king and in the seuenth yeare of gouernance in Scotland vnder Robert brother to him that before entrance into his kingdome 1390 had Iohn to name which by deuise and order of the states was changed into Robert the third who at Rotsaie a towne in the Iland of Got 1406 deceassed by occasion thus As vpon hope in this gouernor to himselfe line 20 conceiued how to come to the crowne he at the castell of Falkland latelie had famisht his coosine Dauid the kings elder sonne and heire a dissolute yoong prince yet to his fathers excéeding sorrow at whose deceasse the father verie carefull and casting for the safegard of Iames his yoonger son and heire from Basse the rocke in a well appointed ship vnder charge of Henrie Saintcleere earle of Orkeneie into France to his old fréend king Charles for good education and safetie this yoong prince he sent who in the line 30 course whether for tempest or tendernes of stomach tooke
Scots in great number entring England wasted the countrie with fire and line 30 sword whersoeuer they came The English lords that were left in trust with the keeping of those parties of the realme raised the whole power of the countries so that there came togither the number of an hundred thousand men vpon Baw moore where the generall assemblie was made and as it chanced the duke of Excester vncle to the king who had latelie before mustered a certeine number of men to conueie them ouer to the king as a new supplie to his armie there was the same time in the north parts on pilgrimage at Bridlington and hearing of this inuasion made line 40 by the Scots tooke vpon him to be generall of the armie prepared against them and to giue them battell Also the archbishop of Yorke although he was not able to sit on horssebacke by reason of his great age caused himselfe to be caried foorth in a charet in that iournie the better to incourage other But the Scots hearing that the Englishmen approched toward them with such a puissance withdrew backe into their countrie and durst not abide the bickering line 50 either because they mistrusted an infortunat euent on their side by reason of the English prowesse or else for that they had learned by others ouerthrowes to auoid the like wherein standeth a profitable point of wisedome as the poet verie sententiouslie saith Feliciter sapit qui in alieno periculo sapit The same time the lord Cobham sir Iohn Oldcastell whilest he shifted from place to place to escape the hands of them who he knew would be glad to laie hold on him had conueied himselfe in secret line 60 wise into an husbandmans house not farre from S. Albons within the precinct of a lordship belonging to the abbat of that towne The abbats seruants getting knowledge hereof came thither by night but they missed their purpose for he was gone but they caught diuerse of his men whome they caried streict to prison The lord Cobham herewith was sore dismaied for that some of them that were taken were such as he trusted most being of counsell in all his deuises In the same place were found books written in English and some of those books in times past had beene trimlie gilt liuined and beautified with images the heads whereof had béene scraped off and in the Letanie they had blotted foorth the name of our ladie and of other saints till they came to the verse Parce nobis Domine Diuerse writings were found there also in derogation of such honour as then was thought due to our ladie The abbat of saint Albons sent the booke so difigured with scrapings blottings out with other such writings as there were found vnto the king who sent the booke againe to the archbishop to shew the same in his sermons at Paules crosse in London to the end that the citizens and other people of the realme might vnderstand the purposes of those that then were called Lollards to bring them further in discredit with the people In this meane time that the king of England was occupied about Caen the Frenchmen had neither anie sufficient power to resist him nor were able to assemble an host togither in their necessitie by reason of the dissention among themselues for their king was so simple that he was spoiled both of treasure and kingdome so that euerie man spent and wasted he cared not what Charles the Dolphin being of the age of sixtéene or seauentéene yeares bewailed the ruine and decaie of his countrie he onlie studied the reléefe of the common-wealth and deuised how to resist his enimies but hauing neither men nor monie was greatlie troubled and disquieted in mind In conclusion by the aduise and counsell of the earle of Arminacke the constable of France he found a meane to get all the treasure riches which his moother queene Isabell had gotten and hoorded in diuerse secret places and for the common defense and profit of his countrie he wiselie bestowed it in waging souldiers and preparing of things necessarie for the warre The quéene forgetting the great perill that the realme then stood in remembring onelie the displeasure to hir by this act doone vpon a womanish malice set hir husband Iohn duke of Burgognie in the highest authoritie about the king giuing him the regiment and direction of the king and his realme with all preheminence souereigntie The duke of Burgognie hauing the sword in his hand in reuenge of old iniuries began to make warre on the Dolphin determining that when he had tamed this yoong vnbrideled gentleman then would he go about to withstand and beat backe the common enimies of the realme The like reason mooued the Dolphin for he minded first to represse the authours of ciuill discord before he would set vpon forreine enimies and therefore prepared to subdue and destroie the duke of Burgognie as the cheefe head of that mischeefe whereby the realme was vnquieted decaied and in manner brought to vtter ruine Thus was France afflicted and in euerie part troubled with warre and diuision and no man to prouide remedie nor once put foorth his finger for helpe or succour King Henrie in the meane time following victorie and his good successe sent the duke of Clarence to the sea coast where with great difficultie he got the towne of Baieux whereof the lord Matreuers was appointed capteine The duke of Glocester also finding small resistance tooke the citie of Liseaux of which citie sir Iohn Kirkleie was ordeined capteine King Henrie himselfe taried still at Caen fortifieng the towne and castell and put out fiftéene hundred women and impotent persons replenishing the towne with English people Where while the king soiourned he kept a solemne feast and made manie knights beside that he shewed there an example of great pitie and clemencie for in searching the castell he found innumerable substance of plate and monie belonging to the citizens whereof he would not suffer one penie to be touched but restored the same to the owners deliuering to euerie man that which was his owne When the fame of his mercifull dealing herein of his bountie to captiues and of his fauourable vsing of those that submitted themselues to his grace was spred abroad all the capteins of the townes adioining came willinglie to his presence offering to him themselues their townes and their goods whervpon he made proclamation that all men which had or would become his subiects and sweare to him allegiance should inioy their goods and liberties in as large or more ample maner than they did before line 10 which gentle interteining of the stubborne Normans was the verie cause why they were not onlie content but also glad to remooue and turne from the French part and become subiects to the crowne of England When the king had set Caen in good order he left there for capteins the one of
Venturum virtutis indelebile lumen Celso animâ— prorsus leni quoque pectore ciues Nâ—n solum at iustos hostes fideÃquâ— probatae Dilexit niueo raro iraâ—undior ore Of learned men and writers these I find remembred by Bale and others to haue liued in the daies of this noble and valiant king Henrie the fift First Alaine de Lin borne in Lin and professed a Carmelite frier in that towne he at length became prior of that conuent proceeded doctor of diuinitie in Cambridge and wrote manie treatises Thomas Otterborne that wrote an historie of England is thought to liue about this season he was a Franciscan or graie frier as they called them a great student both in diuinitie and philosophie Iohn Seguard an excellent poet and a rhetorician kept a schoole and read to his scholers in Norwich as is supposed writing sundrie treatises reproouing as well the profaning of the christian religion in monks and priests as the abuse of poetrie in those that tooke vpon them to write filthie verses and rimes Robert Rose a frier of the Carmelites order in Norwich commonlie called the white friers both an excellent philosopher and diuine procéeded doctor at Oxenford promoted to be prior of his house and writing diuerse treatises amongst all the sophists of his time as saith Bale he offended none of the Wickleuists who in that season set foorth purelie the word of God as maie appeare by his workes Moreouer Iohn Lucke a doctor of diuinitie in Oxenford a sore enimie to the Wiekleuists Richard Caister borne in Norfolke vicar of saint Stephans in Norwich a man of great holinesse and puritie in life fauouring though secretlie the doctrine of the Wickleuists and reproouing in his sermons the vnchast manners and filthie example that appeared in the cleargie Of sir Iohn Oldcastell lord Cobham ye haue heard before William Walleis a blacke frier in Lin and prouinciall of his order here in England made a booke of moralizations vpon Ouids Metamorphôseis comparable to postils vpon Aesops Fables Richard Snetisham a student in Oxenford where he profited so greatlie in learning and wisedome that he was accounted the chéefest in all that vniuersitie in respect whereof he was made chancellor of the same chosen also to be one of the twelue to examine and iudge vpon Wickliffes doctrine by the archbishop of Canturburie Iohn Langdene a monke of Christes church in Canturburie an other of those twelue William Tailor a priest and a master of art in Oxenford a stedfast follower of Wickliffes doctrine burnt for the same in Smithfield at London the second day of March in the yeare of our Lord 1422 last of king Henrie the fift his reigne Furthermore Richard Grasdale student in Oxenford one of those twelue also William Lindwood a lawier excellentlie learned as well in the ciuill as canon lawes aduanced to the seruice of this king and made by him kéeper of the priuie seale sent in ambassage both to the kings of Spaine and Portingale about businesse of most weightie importance It is said that he was promoted to the bishoprike of saint Dauid Bartholomew Florarius supposed as Bale saith by Nicholas Brigham to be an Englishman wrote a treatise called Florarium whereof he tooke his surname and also an other treatise of abstinence in which he reprooueth certeine corrupt manners in the cleargie and the profession of friers mendicants Adam Hemmelington a Carmelite frier studied both in Oxenford and Paris William Batecombe is placed by Bale about the time of other learned men that liued in this kings time he was an excellent mathematician as by the the title of his works which he wrote it should appeare Titus Liuius de Foro Luuisiis liued also in these daies an Italian borne but sith he was both resiant here and wrote the life of this king I haue thought good to place him among other of our English writers One there was that translated the said historie into English adding as it were by waie of notes in manie places of that booke sundrie things for the more large vnderstanding of the historie a copie line 10 whereof I haue séene belonging to Iohn Stow citizen of London There was also about the same time an other writer who as I remember hath followed the said Liuius in the order of his booke as it were chapter for chapter onelie changing a good familiar and easie stile which the said Liuius vsed into a certeine poeticall kind of writing a copie whereof I haue séene in the life of this king partlie followed belonging to master Iohn Twine of Kent who as I was informed meant to leaue to posteritie some fruits of his labours for the due vnderstanding thereof Thus farre Henrie the fift sonne and successor to Henrie the fourth Henrie the sixt sonne and heire to Henrie the fift AFter that death had bereft the world of that noble prince king Henrie the fift his onelie sonne prince Henrie being of the age of nine moneths or thereabouts with the sound of trumpets was openlie proclamed king of England and France line 20 the thirtith daie of August by the name of Henrie the sixt in the yeare of the world fiue thousand three hundred eightie and nine after the birth of our Sauiour 1422 about the twelfe yeare of the emperour Frederike the third the fortith and two and last of Charles the sixt and the third yeare of Mordaks regiment after his father Robert gouernour of Scotland The custodie of this yoong prince was appointed to Thomas duke of Excester to Henrie Beauford bishop of Winchester The duke of Bedford was line 30 deputed regent of France and the duke of Glocester was ordeined protectour of England who taking vpon him that office called to him wise and graue councellors by whose aduise he prouided and tooke order as well for the good gouernment of the realme subiects of the same at home as also for the maintenance of the warres abroad and further conâ—uest to be made in France appointing valiant and expert capteins which should be readie when need required Besides this he gathered great summes of line 40 monie to mainteine men of warre and left nothing forgotten that might aduance the good estate of the realme While these things were a dooing in England the duke of Bedford regent of France studied most earnestlie not onelie to keepe and well order the countries by king Henrie late conquered but also determined not to leaue off warre trauell till Charles the Dolphin which was now assâ—te because king Charles his father in the moneth of October in this present yeare was departed to God should either be subdued or brought to obeisance And suerlie the death of this king Charles caused alterations in France For a great manie of the nobilitie which before either for feare of the English puissance or for the loue of this king Charles whose authoritie they followed held on the English part did now reuolt to the Dolphin with all indeuour
armes on the duke of Burgognions side year 1430 one Franquet and his band of three hundred souldiers making all towards the maintenance of the siege the Pusell Ione and a foure hundred with hir did méet In great courage and force did she and hir people sundrie times assaile him but he with his though much vnder in number by meanes of his archers in good order set did so hardilie withstand them that for the first and second push she rather lost than wan Wherat this captinesse striken into a fretting chafe called out in all hast the garrison of Laignie and from other the forts thereabout who thicke and threefold came downe with might and maine in armour and number so far excéeding Franquets that though they had doone hir much hurt in hir horsemen yet by the verie multitude were they oppressed most in hir furie put to the sword as for to Franquet that worthie capteine himselfe hir rage not appeased till out of hand she had his head stroken off contrarie to all manhood but she was a woman if she were that contrarie to common right law of armes The man for his merits was verie much lamented and she by hir malice then found of what spirit she was After this the duke of Burgognie accompanied with the earles of Arundell and Suffolke and the lord Iohn of Lutzenburgh besieged the towne of Campiegne with a great puissance This towne was well walled manned and vittelled so that the besiegers were constreined to cast trenches and make mines for otherwise they saw not how to compasse their purpose In the meane time it happened in the night of the Ascension of our Lord that Poiton de Saintreiles Ione la Pusell and fiue or six hundred line 10 men of armes issued out by the bridge toward Mondedier intending to set fire in the tents and lodgings of the lord Bawdo de Noielle ¶ In this yeare of our Lord among diuerse notable men of learning and knowledge one Richard Fleming English borne a doctor of diuinitie professed in Oxford did flourish who by the prouidence of God grew in such fauour with this king Henrie the sixt the nobles néere about him that he was preferred line 20 to the bishops see of Lincolne This man founded Lincolne college in Oxford in which vniuersitie he had beene a profitable student Diuerse bookes he wrote as the vniuersitie librarie dooth beare witnesse whereof these following haue béene séene vnder their names and titles to wit A protestation against the Spaniards the Frenchmen and the Scots made in the generall councell holden at Sens one booke of the Etymologie of England besides diuerse other treatises as Gesner reporteth Ex bibliotheca Oxonij aforesaid line 30 At the verie same time that Campeigne was besieged as before is said sir Iohn of Lutzenburgh with eight other gentlemen chanced to be néere vnto the lodging of the said lord Bawdo where they espied the Frenchmen which began to cut downe tents ouerthrow pauilions kill men in their beds whervpon they with all speed assembled a great number of men as well English as Burgognions and couragiouslie set on the Frenchmen and in the end beat line 40 them backe into the towne so that they fled so fast that one letted another as they would haue entered In the chase and pursute was the Pusell taken with diuerse other besides those that were slaine which were no small number Diuerse were hurt also on both parts Among the Englishmen sir Iohn Montgomerie had his arme broken and sir Iohn Steward was shot into the thigh with a quarell As before ye haue heard somewhat of this damsels strange beginning and proceedings so sith the line 50 ending of all such miraclemongers dooth for the most part plainelie decipher the vertue and power that they worke by hir shall ye be aduertised what at last became of hir cast your opinions as ye haue cause Of hir louers the Frenchmen reporteth one how in Campeigne thus besieged Guillaume de Flauie the capteine hauing sold hir aforehand to the lord of Lutzenburgh vnder colour of hasting hir with a band out of the towne towards their king for him with spéed to come and leauie the siege there so gotten hir line 60 foorth he shut the gates after hir when anon by the Burgognians set vpon and ouermatcht in the conflict she was taken marie yet all things accounted to no small maruell how it could come so to passe had she béene of any deuotion or of true beléefe and no false miscreant but all holie as she made it For earlie that morning she gat hir to saint Iameses church confessed hir and receiued hir maker as the booke termes it and after setting hir selfe to a piller manie of the townesmen that with a fiue or six score of their children stood about there to see hir vnto them quod she Good children and my déere freends I tell you plaine one hath sold me I am betraied and shortlie shall be deliuered to death I beséech you praie to God for me for I shall neuer haue more power to doo seruice either to the king or to the realme of France againe Saith another booke she was intrapt by a Picard capteine of Soissons who sold that citie to the duke of Burgognie and he then put it ouer into the hands of the lord of Lutzenburgh so by that meanes the Burgognians approched and besieged Campeigne for succour whereof as damsell Ione with hir capteins from Laignie was thither come and dailie to the English gaue manie a hot skirmish so happened it one a daie in an outsallie that she made by a Picard of the lord of Lutzenburghs band in the fiercest of hir fight she was taken and by him by and by to his lord presented who sold hir ouer againe to the English who for witchcraft and sorcerie burnt hir at Rone Tillet telleth it thus that she was caught at Campeigne by one of the earle of Ligneis soldiers from him had to Beaureuoir castell where kept a thrée months she was after for ten thousand pounds in monie and thrée hundred pounds rent all Turnois sold into the English hands In which for hir pranks so vncoush and suspicious the lord regent by Peter Chauchon bishop of Beauuois in whose diocesse she was taken caused hir life and beléefe after order of law to be inquired vpon and examined Wherein found though a virgin yet first shamefullie reiecting hir sex abominablie in acts and apparell to haue counterfeit mankind and then all damnablie faithlesse to be a pernicious instrument to hostilitie and bloudshed in diuelish witchcraft and sorcerie sentence accordinglie was pronounced against hir Howbeit vpon humble confession of hir iniquities with a counterfeit contrition pretending a carefull sorow for the same execution spared and all mollified into this that from thencefoorth she should cast off hir vnnaturall wearing of mans abilliments and kéepe hir to garments of
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
manie a plage which otherwise might haue béene aucided All which battels togither with those that were tried betweene Edward the fourth after his inthronization and Henrie the sixt after his extermination as at Exham Doncaster and Teukesburie are remembred by Anglorum praelia in good order of pithie poetrie as followeth Nobilitata inter plures haec sunt loca caede Albani fanum Blorum borealis Ampton Banbrecum campis Barnettum collibus haerens Experrectorum pagus fanúmque seâ—undò Albani propior Scoticis confinibus Exam Contiguóque istis habitantes rure coloni Moerentes hodie quoties proscindit arator Arua propinqua locis dentale reuellere terra Semisepulta virûm sulcis Cerealibus ossa Moesta execrantur planctu ciuile duellum Quo periere â—ominum plus centum millia caesa Nobile Todcastrum clades accepta coegit Millibus enectis ter denis nomen habere Vltima postremae locus est Teuxburia pugnae Oppidulis his accedens certissima testis Bello intestino sluuios fluxisse cruoris But now before we procéed anie further sith the reigne of king Henrie maie séeme here to take end we will specifie some such learned men as liued in his time Iohn Leland surnamed the elder in respect of the other Iohn Leland that painefull antiquarie of our time wrote diuerse treatises for the instruction of grammarians Iohn Hainton a line 10 Carmelit or white frier as they called them of Lincolne Robert Colman a Franciscane frier of Norwich and chancellor of the vniuersitie of Oxenford William White a priest of Kent professing the doctrine of Wickliffe and forsaking the order of the Romane church married a wife but continued his office of preaching till at length in the yeare 1428 he was apprehended and by William bishop of Norwich and the doctors of the friers mendicants charged with thirtie articles which he mainteined contrarie line 20 to the doctrine of the Romane church and in September the same yeare suffered death by fire Alexander Carpentar a learned man set foorth a booke called Destructorium vitiorum wherein he inueieth against the prelats of the church of that time for their crueltie vsed in persecuting the poore and godlie christians Richard Kendall an excellent grammarian Iohn Bate warden of the white friers in Yorke but borne in the borders of Wales an excellent philosopher and a diuine he was also séene in the line 30 Gréeke toong a thing rare in those daies Peter Basset esquier of the priuie chamber to king Henrie the fift whose life he wrote Iohn Pole a priest that wrote the life of saint Walburgh daughter to one Richard a noble man of this realme of England which Walburgh as he affirmeth builded our ladie church in Antwerpe Thomas Ismaelit a monke of Sion Walter Hilton a Chartreaux monke also of Shiene either of those wrote certeine treatises full of superstition as Iohn Bale noteth line 40 Thomas Walden so called of the towne where he was borne but his fathers surname was Netter a white frier of London and the thrée and twentith prouinciall gouernour of his order a man vndoubtedlie learned and thoroughlie furnished with cunning of the schooles but a sore enimie to them that professed the doctrine of Wickliffe writing sundrie great volumes and treatises against them he died at Rone in Normandie the second of Nouember in line 50 the yeare one thousand foure hundred and thirtie Richard Ullerston borne in Lancashire wrote diuerse treatises of diuinitie Peter Clearke a student in Oxenford and a defendor of Wickliffes doctrine wherevpon when he feared persecution here in England he fled into Boheme but yet at length he was apprehended by the imperialists and died for it as some write but in what order is not expressed Robert Hounslow a religious man of an house in Hounslow beside London whereof he tooke his line 60 surname Thomas Walsingham borne in Norffolke in a towne there of the same name but professed a monke in the abbeie of saint Albons a diligent historiographer Iohn Tilneie a white frier of Yermouth but a student in Cambridge and prooued an excellent diuine Richard Fleming a doctor of diuinitie in Oxenford of whome more at large before pag. 604. Iohn Low borne in Worcestershire an Augustine frier a doctor of diuinitie and prouinciall in England of his order and by king Henrie the sixt made first bishop of saint Asaph and after remooued from thense to Rochester Thomas Ringsted the yoonger not the same that was bishop but a doctor of the law and vicar of Mildenhall in Suffolke a notable preacher and wrote diuerse treatises Iohn Felton a doctor of diuinitie of Madgdalen college in Oxenford Nicholas Botlesham a Carmelit frier borne in Cambridgeshire and student first in the vniuersitie of Cambridge and after in Paris where he proceeded doctor of diuinitie Thomas Rudburne a monke of Winchester and an historiographer Iohn Holbrooke borne in Surrie a great philosopher and well séene in the mathematiks Peter Paine an earnest professor of Wickliffes doctrine and fearing persecution here in England fled into Boheme where he remained in great estimation for his great learning no lesse wisedome Nicholas Upton a ciuilian wrote of heraldrie of colours in armorie and of the dutie of chiualrie William Beckeleie a Carmelit frier of Sandwich warden of the house there a diuine and professed degree of schoole in Cambridge Iohn Torpe a Carmelit frier of Norwich Iohn Capgraue borne in Kent and Augustine frier procéeded doctor of diuinitie in Oxenford was admitted prouinciall of his order and prooued without controuersie the best learned of anie of that order of friers here in England as Iohn Bale affirmeth he wrote manie notable volumes and finallie departed this life at Lin in Norffolke the twelfth of August in the yere 1464 which was in the fourth yeare of king Edward the fourth Humâ—rie duke of Glocester earle of Penbroke and lord chamberlaine of England also protector of the realme during the minoritie of his nephue king Henrie the sixt was both a great fauourer of learned men and also verie well learned himselfe namelie in astrologie whereof beside other things he wrote a speciall treatise intituled Tabula directionum Iohn Whethamsted otherwise called Frumentarius was abbat of saint Albons and highlie in fauor with the good duke of Glocester last remembred he wrote diuerse treatises and among others a booke as it were of the records of things chancing whilest he was abbat which booke I haue séene and partlie in some parcell of this kings time haue also followed Roger Onleie borne in the west countrie as Bale thinketh was accused of treason for practising with the ladie Eleanor Cobham by sorcerie to make the king awaie and was thereof condemned and died for it though he were innocent thereof as some haue thought he wrote a treatise intituled Contra vulgi superstitiones also another De sua innocentia Nicholas Cantlow a Welshman borne descended of an ancient familie in Southwales as by
person qualities I will referre you to that which sir Thomas More hath written of him in that historie which he wrote and left vnfinished of his sonne Edward the fift and of his brother king Richard the third which we shall God line 40 willing hereafter make you partaker of as we find the same recorded among his other workes word for word when first we haue according to our begun order rehearsed such writers of our nation as liued in his daies As first Nicholas Kenton borne in Suffolke a Carmelit frier in Gippeswich prouinciall of his order through England Henrie Parker a Carmelit frier of Doncaster preached against the pride of prelats line 50 and for such doctrine as he set foorth was imprisoned with his fellow Thomas Holden and a certeine blacke frier also for the like cause Parker was forced to recant thrée speciall articles as Bale noteth out of Leland Iohn Harding an esquier borne in the north parts wrote a chronicle in English verse and among other speciall points therein touched he gathered all the submissions and homages had and made by the Scotish kings euen from the daies of king Athelstan whereby it euidentlie may line 60 appeare how the Scotish kingdome euen in manner from the first establishing thereof here in Britaine hath beene apperteining vnto the kings of England and holden of them as their chéefe superior lords William Iue a doctor of diuinitie and prebendarie of saint Paules in London Thomas Wilton a diuine and deane of the said church of Paules in London Iulian Bemes a gentlewoman indued with excellent gifts both of bodie and mind wrote certeine treatises of hawking and hunting delighting greatlie hir selfe in those exercises and pastimes she wrote also a booke of the lawes of armes and knowledge apperteining to heralds Iohn Stamberie borne in the west parts of this realme a Carmelit frier and confessor to king Henrie the sixt he was also maister of Eaton colledge and after was made bishop of Bangor and remooued from thence to the sée of Hereford Iohn Slueleie an Augustine frier prouinciall of his order Iohn Fortescue a iudge and chancellor of England wrote diuerse treatises concerning the law and politike gouernement Rochus a Chaterhouse moonke borne in London of honest parents and studied in the vniuersitie of Paris he wrote diuerse epigrams Iohn Phreas borne also in London was fellow of Balioll colledge in Oxenford and after went into Italie where he heard Guarinus that excellent philosopher read in Ferrara he prooued an excellent physician and a skilfull lawier there was not in Italie whilest he remained there that passed him in eloquence knowledge of both the toongs Gréeke and Latine Walter Hunt a Carmelit frier a great diuine and for his excellencie in learning sent from the whole bodie of this realme vnto the generall councell holden first at Ferrara and after at Florence by pope Eugenius the fourth where he disputed among other with the Gréekes in defense of the order and ceremonies of the Latine church Thomas Wighenhall a moonke of the order called Premonstratensis in the abbie of Durham in Norffolke Iohn Gunthorpe went into Italie where he heard that eloquent learned man Guarinus read in Ferrara after his comming home into England he was deane of Welles and kéeper of the priuie seale Iohn Hambois an excellent musician and for his notable cunning therein made doctor of musicke William Caxton wrote a chronicle called Fructus temporum and an appendix vnto Treuisa beside diuerse other bookes and translations Iohn Miluerton a Carmelit frier of Bristow and prouinciall of his order through England Ireland and Scotland at length bicause he defended such of his order as preached against endowments of the church with temporall possessions he was brought into trouble committed to prison in castell S. Angelo in Rome where he continued thrée yeares and at length was deliuered thorough certeine of the cardinals that were appointed his iudges Dauid Morgan a Welsh man treasuror of the church of Landaffe wrote of the antiquities of Wales a description of the countrie Iohn Tiptoff a noble man borne a great traueller excellentlie learned and wrote diuerse treatises and finallie lost his head in the yeare 1471 in time of the ciuill warre betwixt the houses of Yorke and Lancaster Iohn Shirwood bishop of Durham Thomas Kent an excellent philosopher Robert Huggon borne in Norffolke in a towne called Hardingham wrote certeine vaine prophesies Iohn Maxfield a learned physician William Gréene a Carmelit frier Thomas Norton borne in Bristow an alcumist Iohn Meare a moonke of Norwich Richard Porland borne in Norffolke a Franciscane frier and a doctor of diuinitie Thomas Milling a moonke of Westminster a doctor of diuinitie and preferred to the bishoprike of Hereford Scogan a learned gentleman and student for a time in Oxford of a plesant wit and bent to merrie deuises in respect whereof he was called into the court where giuing himselfe to his naturall inclination of mirth pleasant pastime he plaied manie sporting parts although not in such vnciuill maner as hath beene of him reported Thus farre the prosperous reigne of Edward the fourth sonne and heire to Richard duke of Yorke The historie of king Edward the fift and king Richard the third vnfinished written by maister Thomas More then one of the vnder shiriffes of London about the yeare of our Lord 1513 according to a copie of his owne hand printed among his other workes KIng Edward the fourth of that name after that he had liued fiftie three yeeres year 1483 seuen moneths and six daies and thereof reigned two and twentie yeares one moneth eight daies died at Westminster the ninth daie of Aprill the yeare of our redemption a thousand foure hundred fourescore and thrée leauing much faire issue that is to wit Edward the prince a thirtéene line 10 yeares of age Richard duke of Yorke two yeares yoonger Elizabeth whose fortune and grace was after to be quéene wife vnto king Henrie the seuenth and mother vnto the eight Cicilie not so fortunate as faire Briget which representing the vertue of hir whose name she bare professed and obserued a religious life in Dertford an house of close nunnes Anne that was after honorablie married vnto Thomas then lord Howard and after earle of Surrie and Katharine which long time tossed in either fortune sometime in wealth oft in aduersitie at the line 20 last if this be the last for yet she liueth is by the benignitie of hir nephue king Henrie the eight in verie prosperous estate and worthie hir birth and vertue This noble prince deceassed at his palace of Westminster and with great funerall honor and heauines of his people from thence conueied was interred at Windsor A king of such gouernance behauior in time of peace for in warre each part must néeds be others enimie that there was neuer anie prince of line 30 this land atteining the crowne by battell so heartilie beloued with the
nigh one hundred years He bestowed besides his owne labour which was great in hearing of stones c. aboue twentie pounds on the high waies about that towne of Wlfrunehampton This towne of Wlfrunehampton is now corruptlie called Wolnerhampton for in Anno 996 in king Ethelredstime who wrote himselfe Rex Anglorum line 40 princeps Northumbrorum Olympiade tertia regni sui for so he wrote the count of his reigne then which was the fiftéenth yeare it was then called Hampton as appeareth by an old charter written by the notarie of the said king Ethelred which charter I haue seene and read And for that a noble woman named Wlfrune a widow sometime wife to Althelme duke of Northampton did obteine of the said king to giue lands vnto the church there which she had founded the line 50 said towne tooke the addition of the same Wlfrune for that charter so nameth hir Wlfrune and the towne Hampton In this yeare was finished the goodlie hospitall of the Sauoie néere vnto Charing crosse which was a notable foundation for the poore doone by king Henrie the seauenth vnto the which he purchased and gaue lands for the releeuing of one hundred poore people This was first named Sauoie place by Peter earle of Sauoie father to Boniface archbishop of Canturburie about the nine and twentith yeare of line 60 king Henrie the third who made the said Peter erle of Richmond This house belonged since to the duke of Lancaster and at this time was conuerted to an hospitall still reteining the first name of Sauoie King Henrie also builded three houses of Franciscane friers which are called obseruants at Richmond Gréenewich and Newarke and three other of the familie of Franciscane friers which are called conuentuals at Canturburie Newcastell and Southhampton ¶ This yeare was Thomas Ruthall made bishop of Durham by Henrie the seauenth touching whose place of birth being at Cirencester now Cicester and himselfe I will not refuse to set downe what Leland about the yeare 1542 hath written not being vnfit héere to be recorded Cirencester saith he in Latine called Corinium standeth on the riuer Churne There haue beene thrée parish churches whereof saint Cicilies church is cleane downe being of late but a chappell Saint Laurence yet standeth but it is no parish church There be two poore almes women endued with land There is now but one parish church in all Cirencester that is verie faire the bodie of which church is all new worke to the which Ruthall bishop of Durham â—borne and brought vp in Cirencester promised much but preuented by death gaue nothing One Anne Aueling aunt to doctor Ruthall by the mothers side gaue one hundred markes to the building of that church King Henrie the first made the hospitall of saint Iohns at Cirencester Thus farre Leland This man thus borne at Cirencester in Glocestershire and made bishop of Durham was after the death of king Henrie the seauenth one of the priuie councell to king Henrie the eight in whose court he was so continuallie attendant that he could not steale anie time to attend the affaires of his bishoprike But yet not altogither carelesse though not so much as he ought to haue béene of the place and cause from whence and for which he receiued so great reuenues as came vnto his hands from that see He repaired the third part of Tine bridge next vnto the south which he might well doo for he was accompted the richest subiect through the realme To whome remaining then at the court the king gaue in charge to write a booke of the whole estate of the kingdome bicause he was knowne to the king to be a man of sufficiencie for the discharge thereof which he did accordinglie Afterwards the king commanded cardinall Woolseie to go to this bishop and to bring the booke awaie with him to deliuer to his maiestie But see the mishap that a man in all other things so prouident should now be so negligent and at that time most forget himselfe when as it after fell out he had most need to haue remembred himselfe For this bishop hauing written two bookes the one to answer the kings command and the other intreating of his owne priuate affaires did bind them both after one sort in vellame iust of one length bredth and thicknesse and in all points in such like proportion answering one an other as the one could not by anie especiall note be discerned from the other both which he also laid vp togither in one place of his studie Now when the cardinall came to demand the booke due to the king the bishop vnaduisedlie commanded his seruant to bring him the booke bound in white vellame lieng in his studie in such a place The seruant dooing accordinglie brought foorth one of those bookes so bound being the booke intreating of the state of the bishop and deliuered the same vnto his maister who receiuing it without further consideration or looking on gaue it to the cardinall to beare vnto the king The cardinall hauing the booke went from the bishop and after in his studie by himselfe vnderstanding the contents thereof he greatlie reioised hauing now occasion which he long sought for offered vnto him to bring the bishop into the kings disgrace Wherefore he went foorthwith to the king deliuered the booke into his hands and bréefelie informed the king of the contents thereof putting further into the kings head that if at anie time he were destitute of a masse of monie he should not need to séeke further therefore than to the cofers of the bishop who by the tenor of his owne booke had accompted his proper riches and substance to the value of a hundred thousand pounds Of all which when the bishop had intelligence what he had doon how the cardinall vsed him what the king said and what the world reported of him he was striken with such gréefe of the same that he shortlie through extreame sorrow ended his life at London in the yeare of Christ 1523. After whose death the cardinall which had long before gaped after the said bishoprike in singular hope to atteine therevnto had now his wish in effect which he the more easilie compassed for that he had his nets alwaies readie cast as assuring himselfe to take a line 10 trout following therein a prophane mans cautelous counsell and putting the same in practise who saith Casus vbique valet semper tibi pendeat hamus Quo minimè credis gurgite piscis erit The sicknesse which held the king dailie more and more increasing he well perceiued that his end drew néere and therefore meaning to doo some high pleasure to his people granted of his frée motion a generall pardon to all men for all offenses doone committed line 20 against anie his lawes or statutes théeues murtherers certeine other were excepted He paied also the fées of all prisoners in the gaoles in and about London
offendors person the kings fauor dispensed with the rigor of iudgement so that he was beheaded onelie and his bodie not dismembred ¶ This duke had begun a great and sumptuous building at his manor of Thornburie but left the same vnfinished He made a faire parke hard by the same building for the which he tooke in much and fruitfull ground Also another parke at Eastwood one mile off he inlarged at two times to the compasse of six miles for the which déed and such like he had manie a cursse of the poore tenants At the time of his death no doubt his conscience giuing in greater euidence than 10000 witnesses told him whether he was justlie condemned or no for a mans dieng day is as a bill of information putting him in mind of his life well or ill spent as one saith Pectora terribili cùm mors ferit horrida telo Quomodo vita tibi sit priùs acta scies A conuenient collection concerning the high constables of England which office ceassed and tooke end at the duke of Buckingham aboue mentioned THe death of this duke of Buckingham being the last constable of England dooth present apt place to me wherein to insert the names of all such honorable persons as haue béene inuested with that title of the constableship of England an office of great account such as sometime was the chéefest place of a temporall subiect in the relme the high steward excepted whose power did extend to restreine some actions of the kings Wherefore being now no such office for ther◠was neuer anie aduanced therevnto since the beheading of this duke I thinke it not vuméet to make some memorie of those persons possessing so high a place least both they and their office might hereafter grow in vtter obliuion these therefore they were line 10 Alfgarus Stallere constable to Edward the Confessor of whome thus writeth the historie of Elie in the second booke written by Richard of Elie a moonke of that house in the time of Henrie the second whose words although they be somewhat long I shall not gréeue to set downe in this sort De famosa villa Estre alio nomine Plassie vocata dicendum est quà m miserè ab Elie est destracta Alfgarus quidem Stallere quod Latinè dux dicitur eam inuasit vsus estea Abbas verò Wolfricus fratres cùm sedulò frustra requirerent Edwardum Confessorem adeunt cui rex mandauit vt restitueret line 20 sed ille regijs iussis nequaquam obtemperanit Fratres autem cùm nec prece nec precio eius animum flectere potuissent anathematizant eum nec sententiam super eum vllo dic praetermittebant Quod ille diutiùs paruipendens licèt magnus potens in regno esset vti regis constabularius ab ecclesia eliminatus fidelium consortio ad correptionem vix iam cunctis detestabilis effectus compulsus peruenire tandem plurimùm obiurgatus correptus à rege reuersus est in se prece tandem nititur obtinere quod iniqua manu cunctatus non est line 30 Illi verò hoc cognoscentes illi annunt demiserúntque ei quamuis ad suum incommodum ita vt iureiurando postipsius vitam ab omni suorum inquietudine libera ad ecclesiam possessio rediret Quod quidem factum est scripto Anglici sermonis designatum Testes rex Edwardus regina c. Which man after the death of king Edward the Confessor and Harold the vsurper was when the Normans entered England as saith the said historie In ergastulo plurimis alijs ferro astrictus vsque ad mortem line 40 Walter constable of England in the time of William the Conquerour and of William Rufus succeeded Alfgarus Here before I saie anie more I thinke it not amisse to set downe somewhat touching William Fitz Osberne or Osbert earle of Hereford whome manie will haue to be constable in the time of the Conquerour which truelie I can not as yet be led to beleeue For although that this William was the onelie man who both persuaded incouraged and procured aid of others to assist William Conquerour for the obteining of England and that line 50 this man was as we commonlie saie the onelie right hand chéefe compeller and disposer of the kingdome after that William the Conquerour had obteined the same being also Tribunus militum of all the armie that William Conquerour led into England and the man that persuaded the bishop of Samborrow to compound for the title of the king of Denmarke made vnto England yet I suppose him not to be constable but onelie marshall of England or line 60 at the least if he were it could not be verie long For that this earle was extreame old departed the realme and disposed all the affaires of the Norman bastard beyond the seas and died about the yeare of our redemption 1072 being about the eight yeare of the reigne of William Conquerour Milo the sonne of the said Walter an enimie to king Stephan who yet confirmed him in his fathers inheritance was aduanced first to great honors by Henrie the first who méeting Mawd the empresse at Bristow and taking hir for lawfull quéene did continuallie follow hir faction for which she in the sixt yeare of king Stephan to honour him for his good seruice as appeareth by the charter thereof gaue him the earledome of Hereford constableship of Enggland the castell of Bironell the forrest of Deane He was lord also of Breckenocke He translated the chanons of the monasterie of saint Iohns of Lanthonie in the yeare of our redemption 1103 being the fourth yeare of king Henrie the first to a place néere Glocester then called Hide and since Lanthonie as Iohn Stow hath well noted out of other authors He married Sibilla the daughter of Bernard Newmarch a nobleman of Normandie who obteined by conquest the lordship of Breckenocke by whome he had issue fiue sonnes and thrée daughters The sonnes were Roger Walter Henrie William and Mahaell His three daughters were Margaret married to Humfreie Bohune Bertha the second was married to Philip Bruse created by king Stephan lord of Bruse Gower Bauld Brimble and in his wiues right lord of Breckenocke Lucia married to Herebert the sonne of Herebert base sonne to Henrie the first who was in hir right lord of the forrest of Deane he died in the eight or as others haue the ninth yeare of king Stephan being the yeare of our redemption 1143. William the sonne of Walter Beauchampe shiriffe of Worcester was made high constable of England by king Stephan in the fift yeare of his reigne being in the yeare of our redemption 1139 when the king was at Worcester which honour he tooke from Miles of Glocester as saith that painefull antiquarie Iohn Stow in his chronicle printed in the yeare of our Lord 1580 fol. 191. Roger the sonne of Milo succéeded his father in all his inheritance as
libertie fearing to fall further in disgrace of the French king by whose practise it was supposed that Barnabie gaue him the fatall drinke This was but whispered secretlie the author being no lesse doubtfull than the coniectures vncerteine He died if we consider the common opinion of men in verie great glorie and felicitie not so much line 60 for that by the surprising of Millan he saw himselfe deliuered of dangers expenses intollerable which hauing drained him of all store of monie and treasure he was constreined to aduance all meanes and maners for his supplie and reléeuing but also that a verie few daies afore his death he receiued aduertisement of the taking of Plaisanca and the verie daie he died newes came to him of the winning of Parâ—a a matter so greatlie desired by him that at such time as he debated to mooue warre against the Frenchmen it is verie well remembred that he said vnto the cardinall de Medicis labouring to dissuade hiâ— that as he was in nothing more caried to the desiâ—e of that warre than to recouer to the church those two cities so when so euer God should blesse him with the effect of that desire it would not gréeue him to die He was a prince in whom were manie things worthie to be commended blamed and in the estate discourse of his life he deceiued greatlie the expectation that was had of him when he was created pope for that in his gouernement was great discretion but farre lesse bountie than was looked for After the death of the pope doctor Richard Pace was sent to Rome to make fréends in the behalfe of the cardinall of Yorke who was brought into a vaine hope thorough the kings fauour and furtherance to be elected pope But Adrian the sixt of that name was chosen before doctor Pace could come to Rome and so that sute was dashed ¶ This Adrian bishop of Derchuso after great contention in the college of cardinals touching the election of a new pope was preferred to the custome of lotting of voices in the conclaue without anie affection or parcialitie of voice he was of nation a Fleming in his youth hauing béene schoolemaister to Cesar and by his meane made cardinall vnder pope Leo did at that time gouerne Spaine in the absence of Cesar. And as there began some voices to publish for him so cardinall Xisto one of that election began vnder an oration speciall to recount and amplifie his vertues and knowledge by whose example certeine other cardinals yeelded and the residue from hand to hand followed though more by constraint than councell Thus was he chosen with the voices of all the cardinals and had his creation perfected the same morning Wherein this was to be woondered at that euen those that had elected him could giue no reason why amid so manie troubles dangers in the estate ecclesiastike they had raised to the souereigne sée a stranger a forrener and of long absence out of the countrie wherin were helping no respects of fauor no consideration of former merits nor anie conuersation had with anie of the other cardinals yea they scarselie knew his name he had neuer béene in Italie and had no hope nor cogitation to see it of which strauagant maner of dealing being not able to excuse themselues they attributed all to the working of the Holie-ghost who is woont for so they alleged to inspire the hearts of the cardinals in the electing of popes he receiued newes of his election in the towne of Uictoria in Biskaie and would not haue imposed vpon him anie other name than his owne which he caused to be published vnder Adrian the sixt Now he made his entrie into Rome the nine and twentith of August with a great concourse of the commons and the whole court of whome albeit his comming was desired with an vniuersall gladnesse for that without the presence forsooth of the popes Rome beareth more a resemblance of a sauage desart than of a citie yet that spectacle wrought sundrie impressions and diuersities of thoughts in the minds of all men when they considered that they had a pope for nation and language a stranger and for the affaires of Italie and the court altogither vnexperienced and also for that he was not of those regions and countries who by long conuersation were alreadie made familiar with the customes of Italie The enuie that stirred vp in men this consideration was redoubled by the accident of the plague which beginning in Rome at his arriuall afflicted the citie during the whole season of Autumne to the great calamitie and losse of the people a matter which in the fansies of men was construed to an euill prognostication of his pontificacie Nowithstanding this election of Adrian as you heare accomplished yet doctor Pace kept his iournie according to his commission This Pace was a right worthie man and one that gaue in counsell faithfull aduise Learned he was also and indued with many excellent good gifts of nature courteous pleasant and delighting in musike highlie in the kings fauour and well heard in matters of weight But the more the prince fauoured him the more was he misliked of the cardinall who sought onelie to beare all the rule himselfe and to haue no partener so that he procured that this doctor Pace vnder color of ambassage should be sent foorth of the realme that his presence about the king should not win him too much authoritie and fauour at the kings hands line 10 This yeare was a great death in London and other places of the realme Manie men of honour and great worship died and amongest other the bishop of London doctor Fitz Iames in whose place was doctor Tunstall elected The earle of Surrie returned out of Ireland and came to the court the fiue and twentith of Ianuarie Manie complaints were made by the merchants to the king and his councell of the Frenchmen year 1523 which spoiled them by sea of their goods For by reason that the wars were open betwixt the line 20 emperour and the French king manie ships of warre were abroad on both parts and now and then the Englishmen fell into their hands and were vsed as enimies namelie by the Frenchmen which naturallie hated the Englishmen The French kings ambassadors promised restitution of euerie thing but little was restored In this moneth of Ianuarie therefore the king commanded all his ships to be rigged and made readie which was doone with all diligence line 30 On the second daie of Februarie the king as then being at Gréenewich receiued a bull from the pope whereby he was declared Defendor of the Christian faith likewise his successors for euer The cardinall of Yorke sang the high masse that daie with all the pompous solemnitie that might be and gaue cleane râ—mission of sinnes to all that heard it This title was ascribed vnto the king bicause he had written a booke against Luther in Germanie
and three of the which number eight hundred were harquebutters of hurt men fourescore and seuen of women children ninetéene hundred and twentie seuen beside a great number of aged sicke persons not able to depart with the others The last person that came foorth was monsieur de Ueruine himselfe who vpon his approch to the place where the king stood alighted from his horsse and came to the king and after hée had talked with him a space the king tooke him by the hand and he reuerentlie kneeling vpon his knées kissed his hand and afterward mounted vpon his horsse and so departed following his companie The eight of September the king hauing the sword borne before him by the lord marques Dorset like a puissant conqueror rode into Bullongne and the trumpetters standing on the walles sounded line 10 their trumpets at the time of his entering to the great comfort of the beholders In the entering there met him the duke of Suffolke and deliuered to him the keies of the towne and so he rode foorth to his lodging that was prepared for him on the south side of the towne Within two daies after the king rode about the towne within the walles and appointed that our ladie church of Bullongne should bée taken downe and in the place thereof a mount to bée made for the more strengthening of the towne Finallie line 20 after he had set things in order for the safe kéeping of this his towne of Bullongne by his princely force thus woone out of the possession of his aduersaries hands he appointed the lord Lisle high admerall of the seas to be his deputie of the same towne and then determining not to staie there any longer he tooke the seas returned into England landing at Douer the first of October In this meane time whilest the king of England laie as ye haue heard with his siege about line 30 Bullongne and the duke of Norffolke and lord priuie seale about Mutterell the emperour inuaded France by Champeigne winning diuerse castels and townes as Comersis Lignie saint Desir Chausteau Thierie and others But at the length meanes were made by treatie to haue the matter taken vp as in the end it was and a peace concluded without consent of the king of England although there was place left for him and other princes to enter into this agréement of peace But the king of line 40 England hauing now defraied no small quantitie of treasure in these warres beside the trauell of his owne person and his people and hauing the thing now in a maner sure in his possession which he chieflie went about to obteine that is to wit the strong towne of Bullongne he would not agrée vnto anie peace except he might inioy that towne at that instant redie to be deliuered into his hands And euen now after it was to him deliuered hearing that for certeine the peace was concluded betwixt the emperour line 50 and the French king he determined to breake vp his camps but neuerthelesse to kéepe Bullongne in his possession in despite of all his aduersaries But here before we procéed anie further we haue thought good somewhat to speake touching the siege which all this white continued afore Mutterell where the Englishmen and Burgonians inforced themselues by all waies and meanes they could deuise how to constreine their enimies within the towne On the other part monsieur de Biez and those that line 60 were with him in gard of the same towne left nothing vndoone that might serue for their defense and make to the annoiance of their enimies There were with monsieur de Biez within the towne an hundred men at armes of the retinue of the constable of France vnder the leading of the lord de la Guich an expert man of war There were also with the lord of Genlie foure ensignes of French footmen Count Berenger a Neapolitane with a thousand footmen Italians Capteine Francisco de Chiaramont a Neapolitane also with the like number of Italian footmen So that the towne might séeme sufficientlie furnished with men and they wanted neither shot nor powder requisit so that there was no spare thereof when occasion serued on either part The duke of Norffolke and the lord priuie seale caused amount to be raised and aloft thereon were certeine peeces of artillerie planted to shoot into the towne Moreouer they compassed the walles so on ech hand with their seuerall camps and trenches that hardlie might anie escape either in or out vnespied Sir Francis Brian was appointed with certeine bands conteining about the number of a thousand men to lodge in a campe fortified by himselfe ouer against one part of the towne to stop certeine passages on that side that no succors should enter by the same to the reléefe of them within There were skirmishes dailie betwixt them that sallied forth of the gates and the Englishmen that watched and warded in the trenches and other places insomuch that diuerse lost their liues and some were irrecouerablie wounded as Anglorum praelia witnesseth saieng Confossi saeuo moriuntur vulnere multi Disperso cerebro faciei nulla figura On a daie as sir Thomas Poinings soldiours were warding in one of the trenches an Italian secretlie comming forth of the towne fetched awaie the said sir Thomas Poinings his ensigne and notwithstanding the pursute that was made after him he escaped and got into the towne with it to the great displeasure of the whole campe But as the enimies sometimes went awaie with the aduantage of their attempted enterprises so ofttimes againe they paid for their aduenturing ouer rashlie aboue the common price of the market But here I cannot but lament the negligence vsed in that season for there is not one English writer to be found extant that hath written anie thing effectuallie of the exploits atchiued in that iornie so as we are driuen to borrow of the aduersaries that haue written thereof wanting other helps of our owne nation to furnish our booke héerin according to our wished purpose But neuerthelesse to giue occasion to those that yet liue and can best doo it to set forth hereafter a more perfect discourse therof I haue thought it not amisse to recite in part what I haue read and learned of such things as then were accounted worthie of relation and now like to be buried in the dimme booke of obliuion vnlesse some fauourer of notable euents chancing in the assiegement of those two townes Bullongne and Muttrell will put to his helping hand to report the same to posteritie Among other stratagems one I remember deuised and put in practise by the lord Mountioie as thus The enimies had espied a place of aduantage without the towne where vnder fauour of the shot of certeine peeces of great artillerie lodged vpon some platforms or bulworks within the towne they might lie without the walles betwixt the Englishmens trenches and the towne ditches and there couer
is this your owne confession and will you abide by all that is here written Let me sée it and I will tell you ¶ Then his confession was shewed him Bicause you of the iurie the better may credit him I praie you my lords let Uaughan be sworne ¶ Then was Uaughan sworne on a booke to saie nothing but the truth line 40 It may please you my lords and masters I could haue béene well content to haue chose seauen yeares imprisonment though I had béene a frée man in the law rather than I would this daie haue giuen euidence against sir Nicholas Throckmorton against whome I beare no displeasure but sith I must needs confesse my knowledge I must confesse all that is there written is true How saie you master Throckmorton was there anie displeasure betwéene you and me to mooue me to saie aught against you None that I know How saie you Uaughan what line 50 acquaintance was there betwéene you and me and what leters of credit or token did you bring me from Wiat or anie other to mooue me to trust you As for acquaintance I knew you as I did other gentlemen and as for letters I brought you none other but commendations from master Wiat as I did to diuerse other of his acquaintance at London You might as well forge the commendations as the rest but if you haue doone with Uaughan my lords I praie you giue me leaue to answer line 60 Speake and be short I speake generallie to all that be here present but speciallie to you of my iurie touching the credit of Uaughans depositions against me a condemned man and after to the matter and note I praie you the circumstances as somewhat materiall to induce the better First I praie you remember the small familiaritie betwixt Uaughan and me as he hath aduowed before you and moreouer to procure credit at my hand brought neither letter nor token from Wiat nor from anie other to me which he also hath confessed here and I will suppose Uaughan to be in as good condition as anie other man here that is to saie an vncondemned man yet I referre it to your good iudgement whether it were like that I knowing onelie Uaughans person from an other man and hauing none other acquaintance with him would so frankelie discouer my mind to him in so dangerous a matter How like I saie is this when diuerse of these gentlemen now in captiuitie being my verie familiars could not depose anie such matter against me and neuerthelesse vpon their examinations haue said what they could And though I be no wise man I am not so rash as to vtter to an vnknowne man for so I may call him in comparison a matter so dangerous for me to speake and him to heare But bicause my truth and his falshood shall the better appeare vnto you I will declare his inconstancie in vttering this his euidence And for my better credit it may please you master Southwell I take you to witnesse when Uaughan first iustified this his vniust accusation against me before the lord Paget the lord Chamberleine you master Southwell and others he referred the confirmation of this his surmised matter to a letter sent from him to sir Thomas Wiat which letter dooth neither appeare nor anie testimonie of the said master Wiat against me touching the matter for I doubt not sir Thomas Wiat hath béen examined of me and hath said what he could directlie or indirectlie Also Uaughan saith that yoong Edward Wiat could confirme this matter as one that knew this pretended discourse betwixt Uaughan and me and therevpon I made sute that Edward Wiat might either be brought face to face to me or otherwise be examined Master Throckmorton you mistake your matter for Uaughan said that Edward Wiat did know some part of the matter and also was priuie of the letter that Uaughan sent sir Thomas Wiat. Yea sir that was Uaughans last shift when I charged him before the master of the horsse and you with his former allegations touching his witnesse whome when he espied would not doo so lewdlie as he thought then he vsed this alteration But where be Edward Wiats depositions of anie thing against me Now it appeareth neither his first nor his last tale to be true For you know master Bridges and so dooth my lord your brother that I desired twice or thrice Edward Wiat should be examined and I am sure and most assured he hath béene willed to saie what he could and here is nothing deposed by him against me either touching anie letter or other conference Or where is Uaughans letter sent by sir Thomas Wiat concerning my talke But now I will speake of Uaughans present estate in that he is a condemned man whose testimonie is nothing worth by anie law And bicause false witnesse is mentioned in the gospell treating of accusation hearke I praie you what S. Ierome saith expounding that place It is demanded whie Christs accusers be called false witnesses which did report Christs words not as he spake them They be false witnesses saith S. Ierome which doo ad alter wrest double or doo speake for hope to auoid death or for malice to procure another mans death for all men maie easilie gather he cannot speake truelie of me or in the case of another mans life where he hath hope of his owne by accusation Thus much speaketh S. Ierome of false witnesse By the ciuill law there be manie exceptions to be taken against such testimonies but bicause we be not gouerned by that law neither haue I my triall by it it shall be superfluous to trouble you therewith therefore you shall heare what your owne law dooth saie There was a statute made in my late souereigne lord master his time touching accusation and these be the words Be it enacted that no person nor persons c shal be indicted arreigned condemned or conuicted for anie offense of treason petit treason misprision of treson for which the same offendor shall suffer anie pains of death imprisonment losse or forfeiture of his goods lands c vnlesse the same offendor be accused by two sufficient lawfull witnesses or shall willinglie without violence confesse the same And also in the sixt yeare of his reigne it is thus ratified as insueth That no person nor persons shall be indicted arreigned condemned conuicted or attainted of the line 10 treasons or offenses aforesaid or for anie other treasons that now be or hereafter shall be vnlesse the same offendor or offendors be therof accused by two lawfull and sufficient accusers which at the time of the arreignement of the parties so accused if they be then liuing shall be brought in person before the said partie accused and auow and mainteine that they haue to saie against the said partie to prooue him giltie of the treasons or offense conteined in the bill of indictment laid against the partie arreigned
from Edward the third and Iohn of Gant some made verses Amongst all other maister White then bishop of Lincolne in his poeticall veine being droonken with ioie of the marriage spued out certeine verses the copie whereof we haue here inserted to impart vnto common knowlege Philippi Mariae genealogia qua ambo principes ex Iohanne de Gandauo Eduarditertij Angliae Franciaeque regis filio descendisse ostenduntur Whito Lincolniense authore Ille parens regum Gandaua ex vrbe Iohannes Somersetensem comitem profert Iohannem Somersetensis venit hoc patre dux Iohannes Qui Margaretam Richemundi habuit comitissam Haec dedit Henricum qui regni septimus huius Henrico octauo solium regale reliquit Hoc patre propitio fausto quasi sydere nata Iure tenes sacram teneásque Maria coronam Verses of maister White bishop of Lincolne concerning the marriage of Philip and Marie Nubat vt Angla Anglo regina Maria Philippo Inque suum fontem regia stirps redeat Noluit humani generis daemon vetus hostis Sed Deus Anglorum prouida spes voluit Nollet Scotus inops timidúsque ad praelia Gallus Caesar Italia Flandria tota volet Noluit Haereticus stirps Caiphae pontificum grex Pontificum sed grex Catholicus voluit Octo vxorati Patres in daemone nollent Quinque Cathenati pro pietate volent Noluit Iohannes Dudley Northumbrius vrsus Sed fidum regni Concilium voluit Noluit aetatis nostrae Catilina Viatus Sed proceres plebs pia turba volet Nollet Graius dux Cantia terra rebellans Nos quoniam Dominus sic voluit volumus Clarior effectus repetat sua limina sanguis Cùm sit Philippo iuncta Maria viro But to procéed As soone as the feasting solemnitie of the said marriage was ended the king and quéene departed from Winchester and by easie iournies came to Windsore castell where the fift of August being sundaie he was stalled according to the order of the garter and there kept S. Georges feast himselfe in his roiall estate and the earle of Sussex was also the same time stalled in the order At which time an herald tooke downe the armes of England at Windsore and in the place of them would haue set the armes of Spaine but he was commanded to set them vp againe by certeine lords The seuenth of August was made a generall hunting with a toile raised of foure or fiue miles in length so that manie a déere that day was brought to the quarrie The eleuenth of August they remooued to Richmond and from thence the 27 of the same moneth they came by water to London landing at the bishop of Winchesters house through which they passed both to Southworke parke and so to Suffolke place where they lodged that night and the next daie being saturdaie and the nineteenth of August they being accompanied with a great number of nobles and gentlemen rode from thence ouer the bridge and passed through London vnto Westminster ¶ Now as the king came to London bridge as he entred at the drawbridge was a vaine great spectacle set vp two images representing two giants one named Corineus and the other Gogmagog holding betweene them certeine Latine verses which for the vaine ostentation of flatterie I ouerpasse And as they passed ouer the bridge there was a number of ordinance shot at the tower such as by old mens report the like hath not béene heard or séene these hundred yéeres From London bridge they passed to the conduit in Gratious stréet which was finelie painted and among other things the nine worthies whereof king Henrie the eight was one He was painted in harnesse hauing in one hand a sword and in the other hand a booke wherevpon was written Verbum Dei deliuering the same booke as it were to his sonne king Edward who was painted in a corner by him But herevpon was no small matter line 10 made for the bishop of Winchester lord chancellor sent for the painter and not onelie called him knaue for painting a booke in king Henries hand and speciallie for writing therevpon Verbum Dei but also ranke traitor villen saieng to him that he should rather haue put the booke into the quéenes hand who was also painted there for that she had reformed the church and religion with other things according to the pure and sincere word of God indéed The painter answered and said that if he had knowne that that line 20 had beene the matter wherefore his lordship sent for him he could haue remedied it and not haue troubled his lordship The bishop answered and said that it was the quéenes maiesties will and commandement that he should send for him and so commanding him to wipe out the booke and Verbum Dei too he sent him home So the painter departed but fearing least he should leaue some part either of the booke or of Verbum Dei in king Henries hand he wiped awaie a péece of his line 30 fingers withall Here I passe ouer and cut off other gauds and pageants of pastime shewed vnto him in passing through London with the flattering verses set vp in Latine wherin were blazed out in one place the fiue Philips as the fiue worthies of the world Philip of Macedonia Philip the emperor Philippus Audax Philippus Bonus Philip prince of Spaine and king of England In another poetrie king Philip was resembled by an image representing Orpheus and all English people resembled to brute and line 40 sauage beasts following after Orpheus harpe and dansing after king Philips pipe Not that I reprehend the art of the Latine verses which was fine and cunning but that I passe ouer the matter hauing other grauer things in hand and therefore passe ouer also the sight at Paules church side of him that came downe vpon a rope tied to the batlements with his head before neither staieng himselfe with hand or foot which shortlie after cost him his life But one thing by the waie I cannot let passe touching line 50 the yoong florishing rood newlie set vp against this present time to welcome king Philip into Paules church The setting vp of which rood was this and may make as good a pageant as the best Anno 2. Mariae Boner in his roialtie and all his prebendaries about him in Paules quéere the rood laid along vpon the pauement and also all the doores of Paules being shut the bishop with other said and soong diuers praiers by the rood that being doone they annointed line 60 the rood with oile in diuers places and after the annointing crept vnto it and kissed it After that they tooke the said rood and weied him vp and set him in his old accustomed place and all the while they were dooing thereof the whole queere sang Te Deum and when that was ended they rang the bels not onlie for ioy but also for the notable and great
house in the west parts of England deane of Chichester departed this life in Germanie where he liued in exile about the latter end of quéen Maries reigne Cutbert Tunstall bishop first of London and after of Durham borne in Lancashire of a right worshipfull familie excellentlie learned as by his workes it may appeare doctor of both the lawes departed this life in the yeare 1559. Richard Sampson bishop of Couentrie Lichfield wrote certeine treatises departed this life 1555. Lucas Shepherd borne in Colchester in Essex an English poet Iane Dudleie daughter vnto Henrie Greie duke of Suffolke wrote diuerse things highlie to hir commendation of whome yée haue heard more before héere in this historie William Thomas a Welshman borne of whome yée haue likewise heard how he suffered for treason wrote the historie of Italie and other things verie eloquentlie Iames Brookes a doctor of diuinitie Iohn Standish a doctor likewise of the same profession great defenders of the popes doctrine as by their workes appeareth William Perine a blacke line 10 frier by profession and a doctor also of diuinitie wrote in defense of the masse and preached sermons which were printed of like stuffe Iohn Baret borne in Lin a doctor of diuinitie and sometime a Carmelit frier but reuolting from the popes religion he became an earnest setter foorth of the gospell but eftsoones he fell off and returned to his former opinions now in the daies of quéene Marie Henrie lord Stafford sonne to Edward duke of Buckingham amongst other things which he wrote he translated a booke out of Latine into English intituled Vtriusque potestatis differentia that is The difference betwixt the two powers which booke as some thinke was first compiled and set foorth by Edward Fox bishop of Hereford Iohn Hopkins translated diuerse psalmes of the psalter into English méeter which are to be found amongst those appointed to be sung in the churches of England Thus farre the troublesome reigne of Queene Marie the first of that name God grant she may be the last of hir religion eldest daughter to king Henrie the eight The peaceable and prosperous regiment of blessed Queene Elisabeth second daughter to king Henrie the eight AFter all the stormie tempestuous and blustering windie weather of quéene Marie was ouerblowne the darkesome clouds of discomfort dispersed the palpable fogs and mists of most intollerable miserie consumed and the line 10 dashing showers of persecution ouerpast it pleased God to send England a calme and quiet season a cleare and louelie sunshine a quâ—tsest from former broiles of a turbulent estate and a world of blessings by good quéene Elisabeth into whose gratious reigne we are now to make an happie entrance as followeth When true knowledge was had that quéene Marie was deceased who left hir life in this world the seuentéenth daie of Nouember as is before mentioned line 20 in the latter end of hir historie in the time of a parlement the lords that were assembled in the vpper house being resolued according to the lawes of the land to declare the ladie Elisabeth sister to the said quéene to be verie true and lawfull heire to the crowne of England sent immediatlie to the speaker of the parlement willing him with the knights and burgesses of the neather house without delaie to repaire vnto them into the vpper house for their assents in a case of great importance Who being line 30 come thither after silence made as the maner is the archbishop of Yorke chancellor of England whose name was Nicholas Heth doctor in diuinitie stood vp and pronounced in effect these words following The cause of your calling hither at this time is to signifie vnto you that all the lords here present are certeinlie certified that God this present morning hath called to his mercie our late souereigne ladie queene Marie Which hap as it is most heauie and line 40 gréeuous vnto vs so haue we no lesse cause another waie to reioise with praise to almightie God for that he hath left vnto vs a true lawfull and right inheritrice to the crowne of this realme which is the ladie Elisabeth second daughter to our late souereigne lord of noble memorie king Henrie the eight and sister to our said late quéene of whose most lawfull right and title in the succession of the crowne thanks be to God we néed not to doubt Wherefore the lords of this house haue determined with your assents and line 50 consents to passe from hence into the palace and there to proclame the said ladie Elisabeth quéene of this realme without further tract of time Whereto the whole house answered with euident appearance of ioy God saue quéene Elisabeth long may quéene Elisabeth reigne ouer vs. And so this present parlement being dissolued by the act of God the said lords immediatlie calling vnto them the kings and principall heralds at armes went into the palace of Westminster and directlie before the hall doore in the foore noone of the same daie after seuerall soundings of trumpets made in most solemne maner proclamed the new quéene by this name and title Elisabeth by the grace of God queene of England France and Ireland defender of the faith c to the great comfort and reioising of the people as by their maners and countenances well appeared After which proclamation made at Westminster the said lords to wit the duke of Norffolke the lord treasuror the earle of Oxford and diuerse other lords and bishops with all spéed repaired into the citie of London where the like proclamation was made in the presence of them and also of the lord maior and aldermen in their scarlet gowns at the crosse in Cheape with no lesse vniuersall ioy and thanksgiuing to God of all the hearers And so our most gratious souereigne ladie queene Elisabeth began hir happie reigne ouer this realme of England to the great comfort and gladnesse of all estates christianlie minded and disposed vpon the foresaid seuentéenth day of Nouember lux haec venerabilis Anglis Haec est illa dies albo signando lapillo saith the poet in the yeare after the creation of the world fiue thousand fiue hundred twentie and fiue year 1558 after the birth of our sauiour one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and eight of the empire of Ferdinando the first emperor of Rome bearing that name the first in the twelfe yeare of the reigne of Henrie the second of that name French king and in the sixtéenth yeare of the reigne of Marie quéene of Scotland On wednesdaie the three and twentith of Nouember the quéenes maiestie remooued from Hatfield vnto the Charter house in London where she lodged in the lord Norths house in which remoouing and comming thus to the citie it might well appeare how comfortable hir presence was to them that went to receiue hir on the waie and likewise to the great multitudes of people that came abroad to sée hir grace shewing their reioising harts in
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
so mercifull vnto me as to spare me to behold this ioifull daie And I acknowledge that thou hast delt as woonderfullie and as mercifullie with me as thou diddest line 10 with thy true and faithfull seruant Daniell thy prophet whome thou deliueredst out of the den from the crueltie of the greedie and raging lions euen so was I ouerwhelmed and onlie by thee deliuered To thee therefore onlie be thankes honor and praise for euer Amen The second was the receiuing of the bible at the little conduit in Cheape For when hir grace had learned that the bible in English should there be offered she thanked the citie therefore promised the reading thereof most diligentlie and incontinent commanded that it should be brought At the receipt whereof how reuerendlie did she with both hir hands take it kisse it and laie it vpon hir brest to the great comfort of the lookers on God will vndoubtedlie preserue so woorthie a prince which at his honor so line 30 reuerendlie taketh hir beginning For this saieng is true and written in the booke of truth He that first séeketh the kingdome of God shall haue all other things cast vnto him Now therefore all English hearts and hir naturall people must néeds praise Gods mercie which hath sent them so woorthie a prince and praie for hir graces long continuance amongst vs. On sundaie the fiue and twentith of Ianuarie hir maiestie was with great solemnitie crowned at Westminster in the abbeie church there by doctor Oglethorpe bishop of Carleill She line 40 dined in Westminster hall which was richlie hoong and euerie thing ordered in such roiall maner as to such a regall and most solemne feast apperteined In the meane time whilest hir grace sat at dinner sir Edward Dimmocke knight hir champion by office came riding into the hall in faire complet armor mounted vpon a beautifull courser richlie trapped in cloth of gold entred the hall and in the midst thereof cast downe his gantlet with offer to fight line 50 with him in hir quarell that should denie hir to be the righteous and lawfull quéene of this realme The quéene taking a cup of gold full of wine dranke to him thereof and sent it to him for his fée togither with the couer Now after this at the seruing vp of the wafers the lord maior of London went to the cupboord and filling a cup of gold with ipocrasse bare it to the quéene and knéeling before hir tooke the assaie and she receiuing it of him and drinking of it gaue the line 60 cup with the couer vnto the said lord maior for his fée which cup and couer weied sixtéene ounces Troie weight Finallie this feast being celebrated with all roiall ceremonies and high solemnities due and in like cases accustomed tooke end with great ioy and contentation to all the beholders On wednesdaie the fiue and twentith of Ianuarie the parlement began the queenes maiestie riding in hir parlement robes from hir palace of Whitehall vnto the abbeie church of Westminster with the lords spirituall and temporall attending hir likewise in their parlement robes Doctor Cox sometime schoolemaister to king Edward the sixt and now latelie returned from the parties of beyond the seas where during the daies of quéene Marie he had liued as a banished man preached now before the estates there assembled in the beginning of the said parlement In this parlement the first fruits and tenths were restored to the crowne also the supreame gouernment ouer the state ecclesiasticall which queene Marie had giuen to the pope Likewise the booke of common praier and administration of the sacraments in our mother toong was restored ¶ But before this good woorke was agréed vpon there was much debating about matters touching religion and great studie on both parties imploied the one to reteine still the other to impugne the doctrine and faction which before in quéene Maries time had béene established But speciallie here is to be noted that though there lacked no industrie on the papists side to hold fast that which they most cruellie from time to time had studied and by all meanes practised to come by yet notwithstanding such was the prouidence of God at that time that for lacke of the other bishops whom the Lord had taken awaie by death a little before the residue that there were left could doo the lesse and in verie deed God be praised therefore did nothing at all in effect although yet notwithstanding there lacked in them neither will nor labor to doo what they could if their cruell abilitie there might haue serued But namelie amongst all others not onelie the industrious courage of doctor Storie but also his words in this parlement are woorthie to be knowne of posteritie who like a stout and furious champion of the popes side to declare himselfe how lustie he was and what he had and would doo in his maisters quarell shamed not openlie in the said parlement house to burst out into such impudent sort of words as was woonder to all good eares to heare and no lesse woorthie of historie The summe of which his shamelesse talke was vttered to this effect First beginning with himselfe he declared that whereas he was noted commonlie abroad and much complained of to haue béene a great dooer a setter foorth of such religion orders procéedings as of his late souereigne that dead is quéene Marie were set foorth in this relme he denied nothing the same protesting moreouer that he had doone nothing therein but that both his conscience did lead him therevnto and also his commission did as well then command him as now also dooth discharge him for the same being no lesse readie now also to doo the like and more in case he by this queene were authorised likewise and commanded therevnto Wherefore as I sée saith he nothing to be ashamed of so lesse I see to be sorie for but rather said that he was sorie for this because he had doone no more than he did and that in executing those lawes they had not béene more vehement seuere Wherein he said there was no default in him but in them whome he both oft and earnestlie had exhorted to the same being therefore not a little gréeued with them for that they labored onelie about the yoong and little sprigs and twigs while they should haue stroken at the root and cleane haue rooted it out c. And concerning his persecuting and burning them he denied not but that he was once at the burning of an earewig for so he termed it at Uxbridge where he tost a fagot at his face as he was singing psalmes and set a wine bush of thorns vnder his féet a little to pricke him with manie other words of like effect In the which words he named moreouer sir Philip Hobbie and an other knight of Kent with such other of the richer and higher degrée whome his counsell was to plucke
should be written and so onelie recited out of the booke said their booke was not readie then written but they were prouided to argue and dispute and therefore would for that time repeat in speech that which they had to saie vnto the first proposition This variation from the order and speciallie from that which themselues had by the said archbishop in writing before required adding thereto the reason of the apostle that to contend with words is profitable to nothing but to subuersion of the hearer séemed vnto the quéenes maiesties councell somewhat strange yet was it permitted without anie great reprehension bicause they excused themselues with mistaking the order and agréed that they would not faile but put it in writing and according to the former order deliuer it to the other part And so the said bishop of Winchester and his colleagues appointed doctor Cole deane of Paules to be the vtterer of their minds who partlie by spéech onelie and partlie by reading of authorities written and at certeine times being informed of his colleagues what to saiâ— made a declaration of their meanings their reasons to their first proposition Which being ended they were asked by the priuie councell if anie of them had anie more to be said and they said No. So as then the other part was licenced to shew their minds which they did according to the first order exhibiting all that which they meant to be propounded in a booke written which after a praier inuocation made most humblie to almightie God for the induing of them with his holie spirit and a protestation also to stand to the doctrine of the catholike church builded vpon the scriptures and the doctrine of the prophets and the apostles was distinctlie read by one line 10 Robert Horne bachellor in diuinitie late deane of Duresme And the same being ended with some likelihood as it séemed that the same was much allowable to the audience certeine of the bishops began to saie contrarie to their former answer that they had now much more to saie to this matter Wherein although they might haue béene well reprehended for such maner of cauillation yet for auoiding of any mistaking of orders in this colloquie or conference and for that they should vtter all that which they had to saie it line 20 was both ordered and thus openlie agreed vpon of both parts in the full audience that vpon the mondaie following the bishops should bring their minds and reasons in writing to the second assertion and the last also if they could and first read the same and that doone the other part should bring likewise theirs to the same And being read ech of them should deliuer to other the same writings And in the meane time the bishops should put in writing not onelie all line 30 that which doctor Cole had that daie vttered but all such other matters as they anie otherwise could thinke of for the same and as soone as they might possiblie to send the same booke touching that first assertion to the other part and they should receiue of them that writing which master Horne had there read that daie and vpon mondaie it should be agreed what daie they should exhibit their answers touching the first proposition Thus both parts assented thereto and the assemblie quietlie dismissed And therefore vpon mondaie line 40 the like assemblie began againe at the place houre appointed and there vpon what sinister or disordered meaning is not yet fullie knowne though in some part it be vnderstanded the bishop of Winchester and his colleagues and especiallie Lincolne refused to exhibit or read according to the former notorious order on fridaie that which they had prepared for the second assertion And therevpon by the lord kéeper of the great seale they being first gentlie and fauourablie required to kéepe the order appointed and that line 50 taking no place being secondlie as it behooued pressed with more earnest request they neither regarding the authoritie of that place nor their owne reputation nor the credit of the cause vtterlie refused that to doo And finallie being againe particularlie euerie of them apart distinctlie by name required to vnderstand their opinions therein they all sauing one which was the abbat of Westminster hauing some more consideration of order and his dutie of obedience than the other vtterlie and plainelie denied line 60 to haue their booke read some of them more earnestlie than others and some other more vndiscréetlie and vnreuerentlie than others Wherevpon giuing such example of disorder stubbornesse and selfewill as hath not béene séene and suffered in such an honourable assemblie being of the two estates of this realme the nobilitie and the commons besides the presence of the quéenes maiesties most honourable priuie councell the same assemblie was dismissed and the godlie and most christian purpose of the quéens maiestie made frustrate And afterwards for the contempt so notoriouslie made the bishops of Winchester and Lincolne hauing most obstinatelie both disobeied common authoritie and varied manifestlie from their owne order and speciallie Lincolne who shewed more follie than the other were condignelie committed to the tower of London and the rest sauing the abbat of Westminster stood bound to make dailie their personall appéerance before the councell and not to depart the citie of London and Westminster vntill further order were taken with them for their disobedience and contempt The three propositions wherevpon conference was determined to haue beene at Westminster 1 IT is against the word of GOD and the custome of the ancient church to vse a toong vnknowne to the people in common praier and the administration of the sacraments 2 Euerie church hath authoritie to appoint take awaie and change ceremonies and ecclesiasticall rites so the same bee to edification 3 It cannot be prooued by the word of God that there is in the masse offered vp a sacrifice propitiatorie for the quicke and the dead The names of such as had conference in the propositions aforesaid The B. of Winchester The bishop of Lichfield The bishop of Chester The bishop of Caerleill The bishop of Lincolne Doctor Cole Doctor Harpesfield Doctor Langdall Doctor Chedseie D. Scorie B. of Chiche Doctor Cox Maister Whitehed Maister Grindall Maister Horne Maister doctor Sands Maister Gest. Maister Elmer Maister Iewell The bishops and doctors sat on the one side of the quéere at a table for them prepared the other learned men sat at another table on the other side of the same queere And at the vpper end thereof at an other table sat the quéenes maiesties councell desiâ—ous to haue séene some good conclusion of the said conference although as ye may perceiue by that which is aboue recited it came to small effect In this meane time a treatie of peace which had béene in hand the last yeare first at Lisle and after at the abbeie of Cercampe a thrée leagues from Dorlens betwixt the two kings
reuerend a prelat as the managing of the princes affaires by him dooth well witnesse and this present age can yet well remember This man being of a mild condition was borne at Hachaford in Richmondshire and as Leland hath left in writing that he heard the base sonne of one Tunstall an ancient gentleman whose ancestors as I haue read came into England with the conquerour attending on him as his barbar for which cause he beareth in his armes thrée combes as a note to posteritie of the originall of his gentrie Which bishop although he is supposed to haue béene base borne as manie noble capteins and other the valiant persons of the world haue béene whereof six hundred examples as hath the prouerbe might be produced yet was he not base in lerning eloquence grauitie and honorable calling both in spirituall temporall affaires both in seruice of the prince and in charge of his church For besides manie other offices that he exercised he was maister of the rols sundrie time ambassador to forreine princes bishop of London and from thence by vertue of Clement the seuenth his bulles to K. Henrie the eight in the yeare 1530 the fiue twentith of March aduanced to the sée of Durham and by the kings letters elected therevnto the yeare before said In the which function he behaued himselfe as the worthinesse of the estate required and as the doctrine of the church in those daies would permit of which I meane not to intreat neither of his fall or rising but will onlie meddle with méere temporall accidents as one that hath not béene accustomed to die his pen in the bloud of mens consciences nor in the opinions of religion Wherefore to omit all such things I saie of this bishop that he was a man singularlie learned as Caius tearmeth him Literaâ—issimus in the Hebrue Gréeke and Latine toongs and did not onelie erect sumptuous buildings for the mind and inward man in furnishing when he was bishop of London a librarie in Cambridge with manie notable both written and printed bookes compiling also manie other bookes aswell of diuinitie as of other sciences wherof at this daie his arithmâ—tike is of great estimation through Europe but did also for the flesh outward man build from the ground a most beautifull porch or gatehouse with a chapell annexed therevnto of faire stone in the castell of Durham withall adding vnto the said castell certeine gates with iron bars and portcullices supported with strong walles line 10 of stone on each part for the more strength against the enimie not forgetting to make a water-conduit for the ease of washing and to serue the other offices in the house on the left side of the entrance into the said castell To which these sumptuous déeds for they are verie heroicall may be added the gatehouse built at Alnewike and the tolboth in the market of Durham all of stone with the rest of the houses of office next vnto the hinder part of the said tolboth which afterward with other great liberalities line 20 he gaue to the citizens of Durham Lastlie at his owne charge he new repared with stoneworke the third part of Tinbridge which his predecessour Thomas Langleie recouered against the manor of Newcastell and which others his predecessors as occasion was offered therefore did from time to time most statelie repare In the end about the latter reigne of Edward the sixt being by Kinian or Ninian Menuile or Menille accused for that he somewhat fauoured the Romane religion line 30 and was not so forward in furthering of the gospell as that time required he was for that cause depriued from his bishoprike from all other ecclesiasticall gouernment and committed to the tower where he remained all the time of K. Edward Afterward by the benefit of quéene Marie in the first yeare of hir reigne he was reinuested into his sée of Durham which he possessed all the time of hir gouernement during which he was not so seuere an executor of the Romane canons against the protestants line 40 as the other bishops of England were But she not continuing long such are the inconstancies of our estates vncerteinties of our troubles he was againe by the noble quéene Elisabeth depriued of his bishoprike after disputation and conference had at Westminster in which he defended the Roman religion in the first yeare of the said Elisabeth about the truth of Christs gospell and was committed to Matthew Parker bishop of Canturburie who vsed him verie honourablie both for the line 50 grauitie learning and age of the said Tunstall But he not long remaining vnder the ward of the said bishop did shortlie after the eightéenth of Nouember in the yeare 1559 depart this life at Lambeth where he first receiued his consecration being a man of such age as that he atteined to the number of fourescore fiue years when he died He was buried in the queere of the church of Lambeth whose funerall sermon was doone by Alexander Nowell then now in the yeare 1586 deane of Poules Who taking this line 60 theame to intreat vpon Blessed are they which die in the Lord did there deliuer such liberall singular commendation of this man for his vertuous life lerning grauitie and good seruice doone to manie princes of England that more could not be said of anie man being spoken trulie Such force hath vertue that we ought to commend it euen in our enimies ouer whose dead carcase in the said church of Lambeth is laid a faire marble in which is ingrauen this epitaph of his deuised by doctor Walter Haddon Anglia Cutbertum Tunstallum â—â—oesta requirit Cuius summa domi laus erat â—tque foris Rhetor arithmeticus iuris consultus aequi Legatúsque fuit denique praesul erat Annorum satur magnorum plenus honorum Vertitur in cineres aureus iste senex This man was as it should appeare in stories full of contumarie and selfe will vntractable he was and of nature rebellious For saith maister Fox in the reigne of king Edward being cast into the tower for his disobedience where he kept his Christmasse thrée yeares togither more worthie of some other place without the tower if it had pleased God otherwise not to haue meant a further plague to this realme by that man Howbeit he was indued with such excellencie of lerning and that of sundrie sutes that of the learned he is noted for a mirror of that age wherein he liued and albeit a papist yet not depriuable of the praise which it pleased God to prouide for him being an enimie vnto the truth perhaps through feare as manie more by those rare and manifold good means wherewith he was adorned Insomuch that Leland a man of a cleare iudgement and great insight to discerne betwéene substantiallie and superficiallie learned comparing this bishop Tunstall with profound Budeus saith as foloweth Qua te nostra canet Tunstalle Britannia laude
than fourtéene hundred pounds He founded a grammar schoole in Rochdale in the countie of Lancaster To Corpus Christi college in Cambridge he procured line 40 thirtéene scholarships and bare the charges in making and furnishing two chambers for scholars and the inward librarie of the same college Item he gaue to the outward and inward librarie of the said college a goodlie companie of printed bookes a great number of written books of great antiquitie much value Item he procured to the said college the patronage of saint Marie Abchurch in London Item he hath founded two felowships in the said college and procured one charter of mortmaine to the line 50 summe of one hundred pounds by yeare Item he hath giuen to the same college of siluer plate double guilt thrée hundred nine ounces and thrée quarters surrendred to them a lease with the improouement of foureteene pounds and eight shillings yeerelie for seuentéene yéeres Item one hundred pounds to the maintenance of a fier in the hall from Halomas to Candlemas and by his last will and testament fiue hundred pounds Item to diuers scholars chambers within the said college diuerse bedsteads with line 60 sufficient bedding books to remaine for euer Item he hath founded for euer fiue sermons to be preached in diuerse places of Norffolke euerie yéere in Rogation weeke and fortie shillings to be diuided at Norwich to the poore and others Item to the citie of Norwich one bason and ewer of siluer and double guilt of one hundred seauentie and fiue ounces Item to the towne of Matsall in Norffolke for euer an annuitie of fiftie shillings to be diuided to the poore with a sermon in Rogation weeke Item to Gunuill and Caius college one scholarship with a standing cup and a pot of siluer double guilt of fiue and fiftie ounces and thrée quarters and one nest of goblets with a couer siluer and guilt with a number of good bookes to their librarie Item to Trinitie hall one scholarship a standing cup and a pot of siluer and guilt of thrée and fiftie ounces a nest of goblets siluer and guilt with a couer and bookes to their librarie Item to the vniuersitie librarie fiftie old ancient written bookes and fiftie printed bookes Of this prelat to his further commendation the aforesaid doctor Haddon in the second booke of his poems maketh very honorable mention comprising in six verses the ensignes of his ancestors with those also which were accessarie by the gratiousnesse of the prince who preferred him to his prelacie In the same verses also is comprehended as it were an harmonie or consent of most godlie qualities answerable vnto the ensignes that he bare as thus Sunt antiquorum claues monumenta parentum Venit ab augusto principe stella triplex Sic benè conspirant virtus doctrina potestas Et placidae pacis semina laeta serunt Sed tamen ad finem decurrunt gaudia vitae Ac homo puluis erit puluis vt antè fuit The 21 of Maie being Whitsun éeuen one man and ten women anabaptists Dutch were in the consistorie of Paules condemned to be burned in Smithfield but after great pains taken with them onlie one woman was conuerted the other were banished the land On the first of Iune the nine women being led by the shiriffs officers and the man also tied to a cart whipped were all conueied from Newgate to the waters side where they were shipped awaie neuer to returne againe The twelfe of Iune stood at Paules crosse fiue persons Englishmen of the sect termed the familie of loue who there confessed themselues vtterlie to detest as well the author of that sect H. N. as all his damnable errors and heresies The two and twentith of Iulie two Dutchmen anabaptists were burned in Smithfield who died in great horror with roring and crieng The thirtith of Iulie in the afternoone was a great tempest of lightening and thunder wherethrough both men and beasts in diuerse places were striken dead Also at that time fell great abundance of haile whereof the stones in manie places were found to be six or seuen inches about The fourth of September being sundaie about seuen of the clocke in the morning a certeine glasse house which sometime had béene the crossed friers hall neere to the tower of London burst out on a terrible fire wherevnto the lord maior aldermen and shiriffes with all expedition repaired and practised there all means possible by water buckets hookes and otherwise to haue quenched it All which notwithstâ—nding whereas the same house in a small time before had consumed great quantitie of wood by making of fine drinking glasses now it selfe hauing within it neere fortie thousand billets of wood was all consumed to the stone walles which walles greatlie defended the fire from spreading further and dooing anie more harme The six and twentith of September a pulters wife in the parish of Christs church within Newgate of London was deliuered brought to bed of foure children at one burthen all females or maiden children which were christened by the names of Elisabeth Marie Margaret and Dorothie and the same daie moneth the mother was buried but all the foure children liuing and in good liking were borne to church after hir ¶ On Michaelmas éeuen at night the like impressions of fire and smoke were séene in the aire to flash out of the northeast north and northwest as had béene on the fiue and twentith of Nouember last before passed The tenth of October manie French and some Englishmen but all pirats of the seas were arreigned at the admeraltie court in Southworke where to the number of two and twentie were condemned and had sentence of death pronounced against them The maior of London went by water to Westminster and there tooke his oth as hath beene accustomed he kept no feast at the Guildhall but dined at his owne house with his brethren the aldermen and others The companies dined at their seuerall halles c. This was doone as in the yéere last before passed to auoid the infection of the plague which line 10 might haue increased by comming togither of greater numbers of people That wéeke from the two and twentith vnto the eight and twentith of October deceased in the citie and liberties of all diseases one hundred thirtie and two of the which number six and thirtie were accounted to die of the plague The next wéeke following ending the third of Nouember thanks be giuen to God therefore there deceased of all diseases but one hundred and ten and of them of the plague but six and twentie line 20 ¶ The eleuenth of Februarie Anne Aueries widow forswearing hir selfe for a little monie that she should haue paid for six pounds of tow at a shop in Woodstréet of London fell immediatlie downe spéechlesse casting vp at hir mouth in great aboundance with horrible stinke the same matter which by natures
quod hac aetate nostra dici rectissimè posse arbitror Cùm enim omnes vndÃque terrae grauissimis bellis affligantur discordiarum iactentur fluctibus soli nos celsitudine tua clauum moderante in pacatissimo portu nauigamus ab orbe malorum disiuncti in coelum quodammodo foelicitatis sublati videmur Quod est ergô officij nostri primùm deo Opt. Max. gratias agimus line 40 cuius vnius bonitati omnem hanc quantacùnque est beatitudinem acceptam referimus precamùrque vt eam nobis propriam perpetuam esse velit deinde celsitudini tuae serenissima regina cuius opera cura solicitudine partam hanc nobis foelicitatem tot annos conseruatam agnoscimus Laetamur hoc aspectu tuo gratulamur incredibili studio quod tum ex meo ipsius sensu loquor tum omnes qui iam vndique confluxerunt line 50 Nordouicenses tui à me dici postulant Atque vtinam in haec pector a posses oculos inserere ocultos animorum nostrorum sinus perlustrare videres profectò inclusam intus quae tantis angustijs erumpere non potest infinitam molem voluntatis Fidem omnem studium obseruantiam quae tantae principi debentur vt haectenus promptissimè detulimus ita studiosissimè semper deferemus si quando casus aliquis inciderit quod Deus omen auertat line 60 sacrosanctae maiestatis tuae aut istius florentissimi regni vel salus in discrimen veniat vel dignitas periclitetur non solùm bonorum omnium ac facultatum effusionem sed laterum nostrorum oppositus corporum pollicemur Rogamus deinde obsecramus excellentiam tuam illustrissima regina vt hoc nostrum qualecunque officium à summa beneuolentia animóque quà m gratissimo profectum boni consulas de nobis Nordouicensibus sic existimes ad lautiores te fortasse subditos venisse saepe adlaetiores nunquam The oration of Stephan Limbert publike schoolemaister to the most magnificent prince Elisabeth of England France and Ireland queene c before the gates of the hospitall of Norwich IT is reported most gratious queene that Aegypt is watered with the yerelie ouerflowing of Nilus and Lidia with the golden streame of Pactolus which thing is thought to be the cause of the great frutefulnes of these countries but vpon vs and further ouer all England euen into the vttermost borders manie and maine riuers of godlinesse iustice humilitie and other innumerable good things in comparison of the which gold is vile and naught worth doo most plentifullie gush out and those not from Tmolus or other hilles I know not which but from that continuall and most aboundant welspring of your goodnesse And that of those infinit goodnesses I maie lightlie touch one for that neither place time nor my abilitie dooth permit to speake of manie with what praises shall we extoll with what magnificent words shall we expresse that notable mercie of your highnesse most renowmed queene and vncredible readinesse to relieue the need of poore men than the which of manie vertues none can be more acceptable vnto God as Homer writeth neither anie vertue in a mightie prince more woondered at amongst men This hospitall of poore men is most famous which will be a monument of princelie vertue and beneficence amongst all posteritie instituted by the most mightie king Henrie your highnesse father confirmed with the great seale by the most noble king Edward your brother but by your maiestie which deserueth no lesse praise of late notablie increased and amplified by the lands and possessions of Cringleford that you maie not now worthilie reioise so much in others ornaments as your owne vertues For you are said for your singular wisdome and learning to haue studied that diuine law of the most wise Plato which he left written in the eleuenth booke of lawes Such your great bountie therefore so exceeding and incredible mercie ô most vertuous prince in what bookes shall we comprehend With what duties or with what voice shall we testifie the good will of a thankefull mind For when we diligentlie seeke all the most exquisit and curious means of thankesgiuing we cannot so much as atteine vnto the greatnesse of this one benefit by the which we acknowledge our selues bound and streictlie holden to your most roiall maiestie We shall be ouercome euen with this one and singular benefit so much the lesse hope haue we then in anie point to counteruaile the huge sea of the rest of your benefits which ouerfloweth on euerie side as well publikelie generallie ouer all your subiects as properlie and particularlie vpon this citie We certeinlie now inhabit and lead our liues in those most happie Ilands of the which Hesiodus maketh mention which not onelie abound with all maner of graine wooll cattell and other aids of mans life but much more with the most pretious treasure of true religion and the word of God in the which onlie the minds of men haue rest and peace There be that call England another world which I thinke maie be most true in this our age For whereas all lands on euerie side of vs are afflicted with most grieuous warres and tossed with the flouds of dissention we onelie your highnesse gouerning our sterne doo saile in a most peaceable hauen and seuered from a world of mischiefs doo seeme after a sort to be taken vp into a heauen of happinesse We therefore according to our bounden dutie first giue thanks vnto God almightie vnto whose goodnesse onelie with thanks we referre all this our happinesse how great soeuer it be praie that he would vouchsafe to make the same proper and perpetuall vnto vs. And afterwards vnto your highnesse ô most gratious queene by whose studie care and diligence we confesse this blessednesse to be gotten and so manie years preserued vnto vs. We are glad in this beholding you and we reioise with desire more than maie be beleeued which as I speake of mine owne thought so also all the subiects of Norwich desire me to saie the same in their behalfe And I would to God you could pearse these our breasts with your eies and throughlie view the hidden and couered creeks of our minds Then vndoubtedlie should you behold an infinit heape of goodwill closelie shut vp within which cannot breake out of so narrow straits All the faith studie and obedience which are due to so great a prince as hitherto we haue most willinglie imploied so will we alwaies most diligentlie performe the same and if at anie time anie chance shall happen which fortune God turne from vs that â—he state of thy blessed maiestie or of this flourishing realme should come in danger or the worthinesse line 10 therof be in hazard we do not onlie protest the effusion of all our goods and substance but also the putting foorth and brunt of our strengths and bodies therein Finallie we desire and beseech
came vnto this citie and kept his Christmasse in the same and therevpon a composition was made betweene the bishop and the citie for inclosing of the churchyard and building of certeine gates there as appéereth by line 30 the said composition bearing date in Festo annunciationis beatae Mariae 1286. The king at the sute of the earle of Hereford who at his being here was lodged in the house of the Greie friers which then was néere the house of S. Nicholas obteined of the bishop that they should be remoued from thense to a more wholesome place which was to the place without the south gate wherof after the kings departure grew some controuersie bicause the bishop refused to performe his promise made to the king This man also impropriated line 40 the parish of S. Newleine and the parish of Stoke Gabriell and vnited the same to the office of the chancellor of the cathedrall church vnder condition that the said chancellor should continuallie read a lecture within the said citie of diuinitie or of the decretals and if he should faile to doo this that then it might and should be lawfull to the bishop to resigne the said parsonages impropriated and to bestow it at his pleasure as appeereth by the said grant vnder the seales of the said bishop deane and chapter line 50 dated the twelfe of the calends of Maie 1283. This bishop not long after and in the eleuenth yeare of his bishoprike died being choked in drinking of a sirrup in the yeare of our Lord one thousand two hundred ninetie and two was buried in his owne church The Franciscans or Greie friers of this citie imputed his death to his hard dealing with them For whereas he had promised the king to prouide a conuenient place for them to build their house in and had willed their warden named Deodatus to line 60 séeke out and make inquirie for the same yet notwithstanding when he had so doone bicause the same was in his sée he did swarue from his said promise and did vtterlie denie to performe the same by the persuasion of one Peter Kenefeld a Dominican or Blacke frier and Confessor vnto the said bishop For he enuieng the good successe of the Franciscans persuadeth with the bishop that in no wise he should permit them to inioy the place which they had gotten nor to build therein bicause it was within his sée for saith he as vnder colour of simplicitie they créepe into the hearts of the people and hinder vs poore preachers from our gaines and liuings so be ye sure that if the canons put foot within your liberties they will in time so incroch vpon the same as that they will be cleane exempted from out of your libertie and iurisdiction The bishop being soone persuaded and contented contrarie to his promise to yéeld thervnto denieth the Franciscans and vtterlie forbiddeth them to build or to doo anie thing within his sée or libertie About two yeares after the bishop kept a great feast vpon the sundaie next before saint Francis daie and among others was present with him one Walter Winborne one of the kings chiefe iustices of the bench and who was present when the bishop at the request of the king made promise to further and to helpe the Franciscans and who in their behalfe did now put the bishop in mind thereof and requested him to haue consideration both of his owne promise and of their distresse The bishop misliking these spéeches waxed somewhat warme and offended and in open termes did not onelie denie to yeeld herevnto but wished himselfe to be choked what daie soeuer he did consent or yéeld vnto it It fortuned that the same wéeke and vpon the daie of saint Francis eue the bishop tooke a certeine sirrup to drinke and in too hastie swallowing thereof his breath was stopped and he forthwith died The Franciscans hearing thereof made no little a doo about this matter but blazed it abrode that saint Francis wrought this miracle vpon the bishop bicause he was so hard against them 26 Thomas Bitton the yeare following was elected bishop the sée of Canturburie being void he was consecrated by Iohn Roman archbishop of Yorke He left no memoriall of anie great things doone by him sauing that he continued in the building of his church as also was a fauourer of such learned men as were in his diocesse in his time namelie Robert Plimpton a regular canon of Plimpton and professor of diuinitie and who wrote two bookes Walter of Exon a Franciscane frier of Carocus in Cornewall who at the request of one Baldwin of Excester wrote the historie of Guie of Warwike William of Excester doctor of diuinitie and warden of the Franciscane friers of this citie Godfrie surnamed Cornewall a subtill schooleman and a reader of diuinitie sometimes in Paris This bishop after fouretéene yeares that he had occupied this sée died in the yeare of our Lord one thousand thrée hundred and six and was buried in his owne church 27 Walter Stapledon in the yere of our Lord one thousand thrée hundred and seauen being elected bishop of this citie was consecrated by Robert Winchelseie archbishop of Canturburie He descended of a most noble parentage which ioined with his learning wisedome politike head did him great credit and fauour with the king who had him not onelie one of his priuie councell but also made him lord treasuror of England At his inthronization or installing he kept a solemne obseruation For being come first to the citie immediatlie after his consecration as soone as he came to the east gate he alighted from his horsse and went in on foot all the stréet being couered and laied with blacke cloth he was led on both sides with two men of worship and sir Hugh Courtneie knight who clamed to be steward of his feast went next before him The feast it selfe was verie sumptuous and liberall A controuersie was betweene him the said sir Hugh Courtneie concerning his chalenge to be his steward but it was compounded and ended This bishop as he grew and increased in wealth so he was carefull in the well disposing of part therof For the increase of learning he builded and erected two houses in Oxenford the one named Stapledons inne but since Excester college the other Hart hall He was also a speciall benefactor vnto the hospitall of saint Iohns in Excester vnto the which for the reléeuing of certeine poore children therein he impropriated the rectorie or personage of Ernescome In the controuersie betwéene his maister king Edward the second and Charles the French king he was sent ambassadour to the French king and ioined in commission with the quéene for the treatie of a peace and reconciliation which though it were obteined yet he ioining with the Spensers who fauoured not the queene he line 10 returned into England leauing the queene behind him And whereas they practised what they could to put enimitie betweene the king and hir
and to set hir besides the cushion they themselues fell into the same snares which they had laied for others For not long after the queene by the helpe of the earle of Henauld and of sir Iohn his brother came into England with a great armie Whereof the king and the Spensers being affraied departed from London to Bristow leauing the bishop at London and made line 20 him custos of the same who requiring the keies of the gates of the citie of the maior the commoners tooke him and beheaded him as also his brother sir Richard Stapledon in Cheapside and carried his bodie to his house without Templebar there buried it in a sandhill namelie the fiftéenth of October in the yeare of our Lord one thousand thrée hundred twentie and nine But the quéene forgetting all discurtesies and reuerencing his calling commanded his corps to some more honourable buriall wherevpon line 30 the same was taken vp and brought to this citie and with great solemnitie was buried in his owne church vpon the eight and twentith of March where his epitaph by the writer thereof is set Thus after that he had béene bishop about twentie yeares he ended his daies 28 Iames Barkeleie vpon the six and twentith of March in the yeare of our Lord one thousand thrée hundred twentie and seauen before the buriall of his predecessor in his owne church was consecrated bishop line 40 of this citie He descended of the noble house of the lord Barkeleie and albeit he were reputed to be a verie godlie and a wise man yet he had no time to yéeld the triall thereof For he died in the fourth moneth after his consecration vpon the foure twentith daie of Iulie in the yeare of our Lord one thousand thrée hundred twentie and seauen and was buried in his owne church as some say but some thinke he neuer came hither at all 29 Iohn Grandesson being in Italie with pope line 50 Iohn the two twentith After the death of Iames Barkeleie the king presented him vnto the pope who accepted the presentation consecrated him bishop of this diocesse on the eight of October Anno 1327. He was borne and descended of the ancient house of the Grandessons dukes of Burgognie his father was named Gilbert the brother of Otho the great lord Grandesson Which Gilbert comming into this land was well interteined by the king and nobilitie and had a good liking of the countrie that by meanes of Henrie earle of Lancaster with whome he came line 60 into England he married ladie Sibill daughter and one of the heires to Iohn Tregos lord of the castell of Ewas néere Hereford east and by hir had issue fiue sonnes and foure daughters of which this bishop was one and was borne in the parish of Ashperton in the diocesse of Hereford He was from his childhood verie well afftected to learning and became a good scholar and professor of diuinitie of which method he wrote two books the one intituled Pontificales maiores and the other Pontificales minores He was also verie graue wise and politike and therby grew into such credit with pope Iohn the two and twentith that he was not onelie of his priuie councell but also Nuntius apostolicae sedis and in all matters of weight and importance an ambassadour for him to the emperour to the kings of Spaine of France of England and of all others the mightiest princes of christendome And being on a time sent in an ambassage to king Edward the third he did with such wisedome and grauitie behaue himselfe that the king was rauished in loue with him and did so tenderlie loue and fauour him that he neuer ceassed vntill he had procured him from the pope and then he gaue him the archdeaconrie of Notingham and bestowed great liuings on him He made him one of his priuie councell and in the end preferred him to this bishoprike After this there being some disliking betwéene pope Clement the sixt and the king he for his approoued wisedome was sent in an ambassage to the pope in the yeare of our Lord one thousand thrée hundred fortie and thrée for an intreatie of a peace and an amitie betweene them to be had and with such wisedome he did his message that he obteined his purpose and made a reconciliation After his returne home to his bishoprike he was altogither giuen in dooing some good things He builded founded the college of saint Marie Otreie and indowed the same with great and goodlie liuelihoods he was a liberall benefactor to the vicars chorall of his owne church as also to the college of Glasneie in Perrin he builded the two last arches in the west end of his church vauted the roofe of all the church and fullie performed and ended the buildings of the same and then inriched his said church with plate ornaments and great riches Also he builded a verie faire house in his sanctuarie at bishops Teington which he gaue and left full furnished unto his successors and did impropriate vnto the same the parsonage of Radwaie to the end as he setteth downe in his testament Vt haberent locum vndè caput suum reclinarent si fortè in manum regis eorum temporalia caperentur and which his halsening in the end came partlie to effect For not onelie the most part of the temporalties of this bishoprike but this new builded house and impropriation are come to be the possessions and inheritances of temporall men This bishop waxed old and féeling in himselfe a decaie of nature made his last will and testament wherein he made such large and bountious legacies to the pope emperour king queene archbishop bishops colleges churches and to sundrie persons of high estates and callings that a man would maruell considering his great and chargeable buildings works otherwise how and by what meanes he could haue atteined to such a masse of welth and riches but his wisedome and policie considered it was easie For first he sequestrateth from himselfe and out of his house the troope of manie men and horsses reteining and kéeping no more than to serue his reasonable estate his diet was frugall his receipts great his expenses no more than necessarie Moreouer he had taken and set an order with all the ecclesiasticall persons of his diocesse that at the time of their deaths they should leaue and bequeth all their goods to him or to some other in trust In pios vsus towards his chargeable buildings and so well he was beloued and his dooings liked that they all accepted this his order by meanes whereof he grew within the course of fortie yeares to infinite wealth and riches He was in all his life time a plaine man and void of all vaine glorie and pompe and preuenting that none should be vsed at his buriall commanded the same to be doone plainelie simplie and that none of his executors chapleins seruants nor none of his houshold should weare anie moorning blacke
this bishoprike which sometimes was counted one of the best is now become in temporall lands one of the meanest and according to the foreprophesieng of bishop Grandesson a place scarse left for the bishop to laie and rest his head in and yet neuerthelesse he was a great fauourer of learned men and especiallie of diuines whome he preferred in his church aboue others He was verie bountions and liberall vnto all men but especiallie vnto courtiers vnto his owne kindred and countriemen Upon manie he bestowed much to the confusion of some of them and vpon the others he spent much by building of a towne called Sutton Colshull where he was borne which he procured to be incorporated and made a market towne and set vp therein making of kearsies but all which in the end came to small effect In his time after the death of king Henrie the eight there was an alteration of religion by king Edward the sixt wherof insued a rebellion commotion in this diocesse which in some part was imputed to this bishop bicause he laie farre from it and dwelled in his owne countrie Wherevpon he resigned the bishoprike into the kings hands after that he had beene bishop about thirtie yeares and liued by the rents of the temporaltie of the bishoprike which when he alienated and discontinued he did receiue vnto him for terme of his owne life 43 Miles Couerdale after the resignation of Uoiseie was by king Edward made bishop of this citie consecrated at Lambeth by Thomas Cranmer archbishop of Canturburie in the yeare of our Lord one thousand fiue hundred and fiftie He was borne in the north countrie and from his childhood giuen to learning wherein he profited verie much he was one of the first which professed the gospell in this land in the time of king Henrie the eight he translated the bible out of the Hebrue into English and wrote sundrie bookes vpon the scriptures Which doctrine being verie new and strange in those daies and he verie streightlie pursued by the bishops made his escape passed ouer into low Germanie where he printed the bibles of his translation and sent them ouer into England and therof made his gaine wherby he liued But the bishops namelie D. Stokesleie bishop of London when he heard hereof and minding to preuent that no such bibles should be dispersed line 10 within this realme made inquirie where they were to be sold and bought them all vp supposing that by this meanes no more bibles would be had but contrarie to his expectation it fell out otherwise For the same monie which the bishop gaue for these bookes was sent ouer by the merchant vnto this Couerdale and by that meanes he was of that wealth and abilitie that he imprinted as manie more and sent them ouer into England but he was then so narrowlie sought for that he was driuen to remooue line 20 himselfe out of Flanders into Germanie and dwelled vnder the Palsegraue of Rhene where he found much fauour First he taught yoong children and hauing learned the Dutch toong the prince Palatine gaue him a benefice named Burghsaber where he continued and liued verie well partlie by that benefice and partlie by the liberalitie of the lord Cromewell who was his good lord and reléeued him verie much At length when the religion was altered in England and the gospell had a frée passage he returned line 30 did verie much good in preaching of the same And when the commotion in Deuon was for religion he was appointed to attend the lord Russell when he came to suppresse the same and verie shortlie for his learning and godlie life was made bishop of this see who most worthilie did performe the office committed vnto him He preached continuallie vpon euerie holie daie and did read most commonlie twise in the wéeke in some one church or other within this citie He was after the rate of his liuings a great kéeper line 40 of hospitalitie verie sober in diet godlie in life friendlie to the godlie liberall to the poore and courteous to all men void of pride full of humilitie abhorring couetousnesse and an enimie to all wickednesse and wicked men whose companies he shunned and whom he would in no wise shrowd or haue in his house and companie His wife a most sober chast and godlie matrone his house and houshold another church in which was exercised all godlinesse and vertue No one person being in his house which line 50 did not from time to time giue an account of his faith and religion and also did liue accordinglie And as he had a care for the successe in religion so had he also for the direction of the gouernement in ecclesiasticall causes And bicause he was not skilfull therin neither would be hindered from his godlie studies and be incombered with such worldlie matters which neuertheles he would haue be doone in all vprightnesse iustice and equitie he sent to Oxford for a learned man to be his chancellor and by the ministerie line 60 of the writer hereof he procured and obteined one master Robert Weston doctor of the ciuill law afterwards lord chancellor of Ireland vnto whome he committed his consistorie and the whole charge of his ecclesiasticall iurisdiction allowing vnto him not onelie all the fées therevnto apperteining but also lodged and found him his wife familie horsse and man within his owne house and gaue him a yearelie pension of fortie pounds And surelie the bishop was no more godlie and carefull of his part concerning preaching but this man also was as diligent and seuere in dooing of his office without reproch of being affectionated or corrupted And notwithstanding this good man now a blamelesse bishop liued most godlie and vertuous yet the common people whose old bottels would receiue no new wine could not brooke nor digest him for no other cause but bicause he was a preacher of the gospell an enimie to papistrie a married man Manie deuises were attempted against him for his confusion sometimes by false suggestions sometimes by open railings and false libels sometimes by secret backbitings and in the end practised his death by impoisoning but by Gods prouidence the snares were broken and he deliuered After that he had béene bishop about thrée yeares king Edward died and then queene Marie hauing the crowne the religion was altered and he depriued And notwithstanding the malice of prelats and archpapists was most bitter against him and who had sworne his death yet by the goodnesse of God he was most miraculouslie preserued and deliuered from out of their hands at the sute and by the meanes of the king of Denmarke who so earnestlie sued so often wrote to the quéene for him that he was deliuered and sent vnto him with whome after that he had staied a while he went againe into Germanie to the Palsgraue who most louinglie receiued him placed him againe in his former benefice of Burghsaber where he continued vntill the death of quéene
Marie And then the preaching of the gospell being againe receiued hauing a free passage he returned into England but would neuer returne to his bishoprike notwithstanding it was reserued for him sundrie times offered him but liued a priuat life continuing in London preaching teaching the gospell so long as the strength of his bodie would permit and at length being verie old and striken in yeares he died and was honorablie buried at saint Magnus church in London 44 Iohn Uoiseie after the depriuation of Miles Couerdale was restored to this church and for the better setling of the Romish religion did here state for a while but his mind was addicted to his owne countrie that he returned thither and made his onlie abode there practising there what he could to haue the making of kersies to come to some effect but the same being more chargeable than profitable came to small proofe This man being verie old died in his owne house with a pang and was buried in his parish church there in the yeare of our Lord one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and fiue 45 Iames Troblefield succéeded bishop Uoiseie and was consecrated in the yeare of our Lord one thousand fiue hundred fiftie six he was a gentleman borne and of a good house verie gentle and courteous he professed diuinitie but most zelous in the Romish religion yet nothing cruell nor bloudie And yet that he might not séeme to doo nothing he was contented to prosecute and condemne a giltlesse poore séelie woman named Agnes Pirest for religion and heresie who was burned in Southingham for the same It was laied to hir charge as dooth appeare by an indictment taken at Lanceston Dit lunae in quarta septimana quadragesimae anno Philippi Mariae secundo tertio before William Stanford then iustice of the assise that she should denie the reall presence in the sacrament of the altar and that the same was but a signe and a figure of Christs bodie and that none dooth eat reallie the bodie of Christ but spirituallie He was verie carefull to recouer some part of the lands of his bishoprike which his predecessor wasted and did obteine of quéene Marie to him and to his successors the fee farme of the manor of Credition After that he had béene bishop about two yeares quéene Marie died and he was depriued and liued after a priuat life 46 William Alleie in the second yeare of quéene Elisabeth was chosen bishop and installed the sixt of August in the yeare of our Lord one thousand fiue hundred sixtie and one In all quéene Maries time which were called the Marian daies he trauelled from place to place in the north countrie where he was not knowne and sometimes by practising of physike and sometimes by teaching of scholars he picked out a poore liuing for himselfe and his wife and so continued being not knowne to haue béene a priest during all quéene Maries time after whose death he went to London and there did read diuinitie lecture in Paules verie learnedlie and to his line 10 great commendation and from whense he was taken and made bishop of this citie He was verie well learned vniuersallie but his chiefe studie and profession was in diuinitie and in the toongs And being bishop he debated no part of his former trauels but spent his time verie godlie and vertuouslie Upon euerie holie daie for the most part he preached and vpon the weeke daies he would and did read a lecture of diuinitie the residue of his time and free from his necessarie businesse he spent in his line 20 priuat studies and wrote sundrie books whereof his prelections or lectures which he did read in Paules and his poore mans librarie he caused to be imprinted the like he would haue doone with his Hebrue grammar and other his works if he had liued He was well stored and his librarie well replenished with all the best sort of writers which most gladlie he would impart and make open to euerie good scholar and student whose companie and conference he did most desire imbrace He séemed at the first appéerance line 30 to be a rough and an austere man but in verie truth a verie courteous gentle and an affable man at his table full of honest speeches ioined with learning and pleasantnesse according to the time place and companie All his exercises which for the most part was at bowles verie merrie and plesant void of all sadnesse which might abate the benefit of recreation loth to offend readie to forgiue void of malice full of loue bountifull in hospitalitie liberall to the poore and a succourer of the néedie faithfull to line 40 his friend and courteous to all men a hater of couetousnesse and an enimie to all euill and wicked men and liued an honest a godlie and vertuous life Finallie he was indued with manie notable good gifts and vertues onelie he was somewhat credulous of a hastie beléefe and light of credit which he did oftentimes mislike blame in himselfe In his latter time he waxed somewhat grosse and his bodie full of humors which did abate much of his line 50 woonted exercises and hauing béene bishop about eight yeares he died the first of Aprill one thousand fiue hundred and seauentie and was buried in his owne church 47 William Bradbridge deane of Sarisburie was the next bishop and consecrated at Lambeth by Matthew Parker archbishop of Canturburie the eightéenth of March one thousand fiue hundred and seauentie he was a professor of diuinitie but not taken to be so well grounded as he persuaded line 60 himselfe he was zelous in religion but not so forwards as he was wished to be In his latter daies he delighted to dwell in the countrie which was not so much to his liking as troublesome to his clergie to such as had anie sutes vnto him It was thought he died verie rich but after his death it proued otherwise he died suddenlie no bodie being about him at Newton Ferris the ninth yeare of his bishoprike vpon the nine and twentith of Iulie in the yeare of our Lord 1578 and was buried in his owne church Thus farre the collection of Iohn Hooker agréeing with the records The seuentéenth daie of Iulie the quéenes maiestie being on the riuer of Thames about nine of the clocke at night betwixt hir highnesse manour of Gréenewich Dartford in hir priuie barge accompanied with the French ambassador the earle of Lincolne and maister vicechamberlaine it chanced that one Thomas Appletrée a yoong man and seruant to maister Henrie Carie with two or thrée others being in a bote on the Thames rowing vp and downe betwixt the places aforenamed the foresaid Thomas had a caliuer or harquebus charged with bullet and shooting at randon by misfortune shot one of the watermen being the second man next vnto the bales of the said barge which sat within six foot of hir highnesse cleane
that it was said alowd among them that séeing it was the mantell of the duchie it should cost the liues of fiftie thousand Frenchmen before it should be plucked from him againe As soone as the ceremonies were ended his highnesse came downe from the theater and mounted vpon a white courser of Naples couered with a coperison of veluet richlie imbrodered with gold And so he began to take his waie towards the right renowmed line 60 and rich citie of Antwerpe and was conueied along by the counterscarfe vnto the sumptuous and statelie gate called Keisers gate or S. Georges gate whereat he entered into the good citie of Antwerpe in this sort First marched the two sergeants maiors or marshals of the citie accompanied of two purseuants with the armes of the citie after whome followed the trumpets with the armes of Brabant The first companie was of Almane merchants commonlie called Easterlings well mounted and well apparelled after the maner of Almane Next them followed the English merchants in excellent good order all apparelled in cassockes of blacke veluet all of one fashion Then came the coronels and capteins of the citie after whome followed a great number of gentlemen as well of the same countrie as of other nations Behind them went the bodie of the citie that is to wit the wickemasters the wardens the ancient magistrate the masters of the wardes the boroughmasters deputies and wardens of the halles the vshers the secretaries the registers the receiuers and treasurers the schepons the amptman the two boroughmasters all apparelled in clokes of blacke veluet and all of one fashion After them came the trumpets of the states of Brabant Lembourgh and Lothier after them the states themselues in this order First went the deputies of the vnder cities The deputies of the citie of Antwerpe The deputies of Brussels Then succéeded the noblemen of Brabant as the chancellor of Brabant and aboue him Lamorall Egmond brother to the countie of Egmond baron of Gasebecke A great number of lords of the same countrie of France and of England well horssed and richlie apparelled The Swissers with their drums and fiffes The monsieurs owne houshold among whome were intermingled certeine lords of England Next this came the countie de Lauall hauing on either hand an English lord The prince of Espinoie hauing on his right hand the lord of Hunsdon on his left the lord Howard the prince Dolphin hauing on his right hand the earle of Leicester on his left the prince of Orange the markegraue of Antwerpe bareheaded bearing the mace of iustice the lord Peterson baron of Merode taking vpon him that daie as marshall of Brabant and bearing the naked sword before the dukes highnesse then came the duke himselfe mounted and apparelled as you haue heard afore Next behind the duke followed countie Morice of Nassau sonne to the prince of Orange hauing on his right hand countie Philip of Nassau nephue to the said prince and sonne to countie Iohn of Nassau and on his left hand the lord Shefield His highnes was garded by the companies of the guilds that is to saie by the ancient brotherhoods of the archers crossebowes and harquebussers in so goodlie armour as fairer could not be found these went afore him and about him on a cluster without order like flowre deluces vpon a roiall robe After them followed the gard of Frenchmen on a like heape and after them the prince of Oranges gard on foot Then lastlie in verie good order came the twentie ensignes of citizens which had stood in order of battell without the towne Ouer the gate where his highnes entered there was a compartement of Doricke worke wherein was written this title To Francis the sonne of Henrie the second and onelie brother of Henrie the third king of France called by Gods singular prouidence to the souereigne principalitie of the low countries and to the dukedome of Brabant and the marqueship of the sacred empire which God grant to be most happie and luckie vnto him as to their inuested prince whom they haue most earnestlie wished for and who as now is happilie come into this his most seruiceable citie his most hartie fauourers The senate people of Antwerpe The chariot of the maiden of Antwerpe could not go out of the citie for want of roome to turne in and therefore it tarried for his highnes at the gate within the citie This chariot was called the chariot of aliance wherein sat a damosell apparelled in satin red and white which are the colours of Antwerpe who had in hir left hand a branch of baietrée on hir head a garland of laurell in token of victorie against the tyrannies of the king of Spaine and in token of the deliuerance which the people hoped for by means of their new prince through his gratious goodnesse faithfulnesse victoriousnesse and defense to whom with hir other hand the pâ—rsented the kâ—ies of the towne according to the verses written ouer hâ—r â—ead which shall be let downe hereafter Before hâ—r were the armes of the marqueship of the holie empire On hir right hand was Religion apparelled like one of the Sybils hâ—lding in hir one hand an open booke named the Law and the Gospell and in hir other hand a sword named Gods word and on hir left hand was Iustice holding a balance and a line 10 sword in hir hand and ouer the balance was written Yea and Naie Before the damosell saâ—e Concord clothed in white yellow and orange tawâ—ie bearing a target vpon hir arme wherein was painted a crowned scepter with two little snakes and vnder them two dooâ—es all closed in with a garland of â—life betokening commendable gouernement with prouidence Upon hir head shée had a helmet be tokening Wisedome In hir hand shée caried a lance with a penon line 20 vpon it on the one side whereof were the armes of Aniou crowned with olife and on the other side a lambe with a woolfe and a lion with an or to betoken the great peacefulnesse that is looked for vnder this prince as well in religion as in matters of state At Concordes right hand sat Wisedome and at hir left hand Force In the middest of the chariot was a piller richlie made of Corinthian worke vpon the top whereof was a Hart held betwéene two armed hands which hart had two wings betokening line 30 Union Faith and Force and a sword with two serpents writhing about it and holding their tailes to their â—ares signifieng Discréet gouernement and â—ares stopped against flatterers At the foot of the piller was a compartement with the armes of Aniou and Brabant On the brest of the lion of Brabant were the armes of the marqueship of the sacred empire and of the citie of Antwerpe Upon the armes was written Attonement Upon the corners of the chariot were two armed images with morians on line 40 their heads attired in orange white
hir maiestie and hir councell to be notorious practisers verie inward with the duke of Guise and contriuers of the treasons and deuises for the inuasion intended And for verie certeine knowledge thereof we néed not be beholding to Francis Throckemorton onelie although he hath said much of them but to others of better credit than himselfe That the duke of Guise did vndertake the enterprise to inuade the realme with a forren power to be defraied by the pope and king of Spaine a part of maister Throckemortons confession and he in truth the first discouerer thereof to hir maiestie if he will say that it was but inuention it will approue false For since he discouered the same there haue béene diuerse aduertisements thereof sent to hir maiestie from forren princes hir highnesse louing neighbors and alies as also by other good meanes and intelligences from hir ambassadors and seruants residing in other countries If he denie as he hath doone that he neuer had knowledge of anie such matter when he confessed the same it hath no likelihood of line 10 truth for Throckemorton was neuer knowne to be a prophet to foretell things Defuturo He resorted often to the Spanish ambassador at the least twise a wéeke when he was in London this often repaire could not be to conferre with the ambassador for the exchange of monie for his brother as he pretended at his arreignement there was some other cause When he was apprehended he had a casket couered with gréene veluet verie cunninglie conueied out of his chamber by a maidseruant line 20 of the house taken vp vnder a beds side in his chamber one of the gentlemen who were sent to apprehend him then being in the chamber vnknowing thereof which casket not long after his apprehension was by one Iohn Meredith a follower of Throckemorton conueied to the hands of the Spanish ambassador And why to him If the matters therein might well haue abidden the light why should not the casket haue béene kept still at home And if not there why not sent to some other place of line 30 safetie as well as to the Spanish ambassador It is to be conceiued that this casket was not conueied thither without the direction of Francis Throckemorton though caried by Meredith who did well know of what moment the matters were that were within the casket of what danger to Throckemorton if they had béene disclosed therefore meant to bestowe them in a safe place where they could not readilie be had as he thought and with a person not vnacquainted with the qualitie of them After the line 40 deliuerie of the casket Meredith fled for in truth he was priuie to the treasons and a fellow practiser in them To whome Francis Throckemorton being taken short at the time of his apprehension and forced to run vp a staire to deface a letter which he was then in writing to the Scotish quéene in cipher as he hath confessed being suddenlie apprehended and so forced to depart awaie presentlie out of his house deliuered priuilie into the hands of Meredith either the cipher by the which he was writing his letter line 50 to the Scotish quéene or a letter in cipher by him written vnto hir therefore he trusted Meredith as a man priuie to his dooings You are also to vnderstand that Throckemorton was in verie great feare of the discouering of this casket after his apprehension For remaining two or thrée daies prisoner in the house of one of the gentlemen that were sent to apprehend him before he was committed to the Tower he was permitted to talke with a solicitor of his law causes who brought him line 60 certeine bookes drawne or other like papers written which he made shew to peruse But that was not the matter why he sent for his solicitor for in perusing the bookes he conueied into them a little péece of paper vpon the which he had written with a cole I would faine know whether my casket be safe or to the like effect The solicitor departing from him and resorting to Throckemortons house not far distant from the place where he remained prisoner opening his papers did shake out this peece of paper which he tooke vp and deliuered to one of Francis Throckemortons men but the casket was alreadie conueid to the Spanish ambassador Wherby you wil perceiue what care he had of the casket how much it might import him to haue the writings or matters within the same concealed He being examined touching the casket and what was in the same he denied at the first that euer he had anie such casket but finding afterwards that the casket was discouered he confessed the casket and said there were certeine letters therein that came to his hands for the Scotish quéene from Thomas Morgan at Paris and other letters and papers but confessed not all as it is supposed That Charles Paget came ouer into the realme to euill purposes as Throckemorton dooth declare in his confession could not be inuented for euen at the same time that he mentioneth Paget came ouer in secret and suspicious maner staied not aboue fiftéene daies indeuored in a sort to find the disposition of William Shellie esquier how he might stand affected to giue assistance to the treasons although Paget discouered not directlie his traitorous intents to Shellie therefore all Throckemortons confessions were not forged or inuented But bicause the two papers produced at his arreignement conteining the description of the hauens for the commodious landing of forces doo most apparantlie condemne him and are a manifest argument of his priuitie to the whole treason you may not forget that he acknowledged one of the papers written in the secretarie hand to haue béene of his owne dooing but denied the other written in the Romane hand In the which vnder the title of Cheshire c is said Upon the landing of forren supplies Chester shall be taken But what in your opinions might be vnderstood by that sentence Chester shall be taken when you shall compare the paper in the secretarie hand with the other written in the Romane hand intituled The names of noblemen and gentlemen in euerie countie fit to be dealt withall in this matter which in truth were both one although the Romane were somewhat more inlarged the question is to be asked What matter The answer followeth necessarilie To assist the forren forces that shall come to inuade the realme for that there is an other title in that paper ouer the names of the hauens c Hauens in euerie coast fit for the landing of forces Now iudge you to what end these names of men and descriptions of hauens their entries capacities what winds bring vnto them from Spaine France and Flanders were written and set downe by Throckemorton the papers are both of his owne handwriting and the secretarie but a proiect or copie of the Romane Is it not likelie thinke you that he would acquaint the
land Howbeit the said lords by means of other accidents line 20 of importance staid at the court and went not that iourneie Neuerthelesse the lord Cobham lord warden of the cinque ports one of hir maiesties priuie councell repairing thither accompanied with diuerse knights and gentlemen of great worship did take the view both of the worke finished and also conferred about the businesse then in hand Now for so much as that which is alreadie doone is a perfect and an absolute worke to the perpetuall maintenance of a hauen in that place being such a monument as is hardlie to be found written in anie record it might line 30 séeme absurd that no mention thereof should be made in this chronicle and that the cost and businesse thereabouts imploied hath not beene vnnecessarie maie appeare by the reasons insuing First Douer hath béene euer reputed the keie and locke as Matthaeus Parisiensis reporteth or as rather he should haue said the verie doore and entrance into the realme of England either for fréend or so and also the readie passage vnto all nations but especiallie into France from whense it is not distant about thirtie line 40 English miles and is commonlie passed in fiue or six houres at the most and in a prosperous wind within halfe the time Secondlie it standeth in the most conuenient place of all this land to offend the enimie and to defend either domesticall or forren fréend Thirdlie a meane harbor would be there in the opinion of all skilfull mariners more beneficiall commodious for the nauigation of England than an excellent hauen placed anie where else about the coast thereof Fourthlie all our passengers through the narow seas being line 50 distressed by violence of weather or by inconuenience of pirasie or else by force of the common enimie in the time of warre might there haue present succor and refuge and both spéedie and easie passage thereinto or otherwise be best rescued Fiftlie of late yeares the considerations aforesaid haue mooued some noble princes of this land to bestow infinit tresure to gaine a harborough or hauen in that place to their great honor fame and commendation to the woonderfull contentment of all their subiects and for the good and benefit line 60 of all the neighbors adioining and strangers passing these narrow seas Finallie it hath pleased our most noble queene Elisabeth to vndertake it who in all good actions and necessarie works for the benefit of the realme commonwealth of England hath béene so liberall carefull and prouident as thereby hir glorie and renowme is spread ouer all the face of the earth and reacheth vnto heauen where the king of kings sitteth and heareth the praises and praiers not onelie of hir owne people but of all christians liuing in hir behalfe for whose good it séemeth she was brought foorth and preserued in this world And now I saie for so much as hir highnesse hath at this present time taken order for the building of a new hauen in this place and bountifullie imploied great 〈◊〉 of monie vpon the same being begun with more probabilitie iudgement and circumspection and accompanied with better successe than euer anie of hir highnesse predecessors haue heretofore had in this case wherin the most difficult and dangerous worke is alreadie accomplished so as there is now and euer hereafter will be a verie good hauen except extrâ—me negligence be vsed in mainteining the same I thought it a most necessarie maâ—ter to be here recorded â—o hir maiesties perpetuall â—ame and partlie also to giue light and incouragment to hir successors in the crowne of England to attempt and vndertake and the better to execute and accomplish the like famous enterprise For actions of far lesse importance are made memorable by historiographers as in euerie chronicle maie appeare In this discourse I thought méet to passe ouer the antiquitie of the towne and port of Douer with the liberties thereof which togither with the ruines and misfortunes of fire are to be found extant in the perambulation of Kent written by William Lambard esquier Of Douer castell somewhat might here be said but for so much as maister Lambard hath so largelie discoursed therevpon in his booke which is likelie to remaine of continuance I will make bold with the reader to referre him there vnto and onelie giue this note to wit that wheras he iustlie complaineth of the miserable ruines thereof it hath pleased hir maiestie in respect of the necessarie maintenance of the same to bestow more charge of late in reparing and reedifieng of it than hath béene spent thereabouts as it seemeth since the first building thereof whether the same were doone by Iulius Cesar the Romane emperor or by Aruâ—ragus then king of the Britains king Edward the fourth onelie excepted who as Iohn Rosse reporteth did throughlie repare it bestowing thereon 10000 pounds insomuch as it is now reduced to be a peece of great force and importance and verie beautifull to behold Wherein the honorable disposition of the lord Burghleie lord high treasuror of England is to be commended who was a principall furtherer thereof and whose forwardnesse in all militarie affaires is had in admiration among all the best souldiors of England although he himselfe an aged and a most graue councellor And in these commendations if I should omit the praises of the honorable lord Cobham lord warden of the cinque ports and constable of the castell of Douer c I should doo him great wrong For by his prouidence and mediation togither with the diligent trauell and industrie of Richard Barrie esquier lieutenant of the said castell that worke is accomplished to the comfort and benefit of the whole realme Within the wals whereof is now also raised such a mount at the north side thereof as thereby the castell is double so strong as before But omitting all other occasions and matters concerning Douer I will now passe to my purpose But yet before I enter into these last works I must giue you to vnderstand that the verie situation of the place ministreth incouragement to the executioners and yeeldeth great fauor and occasion to the attempt For Douer cliffes stand to the sea north and east the towne being placed at the foot of the northerne cliffes the castle on the top of the easterne cliffes called the Castell Raie so as there is a naturall baie through the which from by north issueth a proper riuer entring into the same baie thense runneth through the hauen into the sea In times past vntill of late yeares that onelie â—aie hath serued them for a rode and at manie times in some sort hath stood the nauie but especiallie the fisher botes in good sted For in a great northerlie and westerlie wind the ships were driuen from the Downs and the foreland to repaire thither where they might lie safelie vntill the wind blew great from by east or south then were they
Marham Merlinus Ambrosius Merlinus Syluester Melkinus Nicholas Montacute liued in the time of Henrie the sixt Edmund Molineux now liuing Sebastian Munster a Germane N Nennius Helius brother to Cassiuelane Lud kings of Britaine Nennius Banchorensis Nauclerus Alexander Neuill now liuing Laurence Nowell died about the sixtéenth yere of quéene Elisabeth Nimanus that wrote Eulogium O Osbert de Clare prior of Westminster Osbeâ—nus Dorobernensis in the time of William the Conqueror Thomas Oâ—terborne a Franciscan or greie frier liued in the time of Henrie the fift Abraham Ortuâ—lius now liuing a Fleming Christopher Ocland now liuing sometime schoolemaister in Southworke P William Pakington clerke treasuror to the blacke prince of his houshold in Gascoigne Patricius Consul Ioannes de Prato a writer of Aquitaine protonotarie Paulus Aemilius Petrus Blessensis line 10 archdeacon of Bath Philip de Comines alias monsieur de Argentone secretarie to Charles duke of Burgoine Polydor Uirgill an Urbinat Italian and canon of Paules in the daies of Henrie the eight Paulus Iouius an Italian bishop of Nucerne Iohn Pike Iohn Price knight died in the reigne of queene Elisabeth William Paten now liuing Iohn Proctor schoolemaister of Tunbridge to whom I was sometime scholer Ptolomeus Dauid Powell now liuing line 20 R. Iohn Read in the time of Edward the first Iohn Rastall Radulphus Londonienâ—is Radulphus Niger liued in the daies of king Henrie the third Radulphus de Diceto deane of Paules in London in the time of king Iohn Reutha king of Scots Michaell Ricius William Rishanger a moonke of saint Albons in the daies of Edward the second Richester a moonke of Westminster liued in the time of Edward the third and wrote an excellent chronicle beginning at the comming of the line 30 Saâ—ons in the yeare of our Lord foure hundred fortie and nine continued it vntill the yeare one thousand three hundred fortie and eight conteining eight hundred fourescore and nineteene years Richardus Deuifâ—enâ—â—s Richardus Cadneus Richardus Eliensis whose storie beginneth Cum animaduerterem excellâ—â—tiam Ebienâ—is insulae c. Richardus Eliensis an other from the former that wrote an other historie of Elie Robert abbat of saint Michaels mount florished in the yeare of Christ one thousand fiue hundred line 40 fiftie and eight Robertus Montensis Robertus fiâ—e cognomento Robertus Remingtonus De gestis Anglorum cuiuâ— initium Non sâ—lum audiendis sacrae scripturâ— verbis c This saieth Caius In antiquitate Cantâ—brigiae But others attribute that worke to Peter Icham See before in the letter I. Robert Record liuing in the time of quéene Marie Robert bishop of Hereford which liued in the yeare of our redemption one thousand thréescore and twelue Robertus de Paterna that wrote line 50 the register of Oxford Robert a prior of Shrewsburie Roger of Abindon Roger of Winsore Roger de Windore Roger of Chester liued in the daâ—es of Edward the third Iohn Râ—use borne in Warwikeshire liued in the daies of Henrie the seuenth and being a canon of Osneie died at Warwike in the yeare of our Lord one thousand foure hundred fourescore and eleuen Thomas Rudborne archdeacon of Sudberie after bishop of S. Dauids line 60 in Wales liued in the time of Henrie the fourth Henrie the fift and Henrie the sixt Thomas Rudborne an other from the former was a moonke of Winchester and followed manie other authors amongst which was the said Thomas Rudborne bishop of S. Dauids S Saxo Grammaticus a Dane Samuel Britannus Sextus Aurelius Sentleger Edward Segeswike now liuing Iohannes Sulgenus or Sullenus Solinus Sigebertus Gemblacensis Thomas Spot who liued in the reigne of Edward the first Antonius Sabellicus a Uenetian Iohn Sleidan a Germane Richard Sowthwell Reginald Scot now liuing Simon Dunelmensis Iohn Stow now liuing Iohn Knish a Cornish man in the daies of Henrie the eight Richard Stanâ—hust borne in Ireland now liuing Sharton now liuing Iohn Swapham Stephanides alias Fitzstephan T Titus Liuius Patauiensis Titus Liuius Fâ—roâ—â—iensis an Italian liued in the time of Henrie the fift Iohn Tartor a moonke of Burie Andrew Theuet a Frenchman Nicholas Triuet a blacke frier borne in Northfolke sonne to sir Thomas Triuet knight one of the kings iustices liued in the daies of Edward the third and died in the yeare of our Lord one thousand three hundred twentie and eight Iohn Tilberie florished in the yere of Christ one thousand one hundred fourescore and ten Iohn Treuisa a Cornishman préest and vicar of Barkleie Teleâ—inus a Briton Francis Boteuile alias Thin now liuing Brian Tuke knight liued in the daies of Henrie the eight Iohn Twine died in the reigne of quéene Elisabeth William Thorne liued in the daies of Richard the second Richard Turpin borne of a worshipfull familie in England serued in the garison of Calis he died in the yeare of our Lord one thousand fiue hundred fortie and one Tobias Roffensis Turgotus which liued in the yeare of Christ one thousand ninetie and eight in the time of William Rufus wrote a chronicle of Durham V Veremund a Spaniard Raphaell Uâ—lateran Giouanni Vilani a Florentine Ponticus Virunnius an Italian Iohn Ufford Iohn Uton. W Iohn Whethamsted otherwise called Frumentarius a learned man abbat of S. Albons liued in the daies of Henrie the sixt Roger Wall an herald who in Latine writ the dooings of Henrie the fift Thomas Walsingham a moonke of the abbeie of S. Albons liued in the reigne of Henrie the sixt William of Riâ—all liued in the age of king Stephan Willielmus Cantuariensis one of the foure that wrote the Quadrilogium of Thomas Becket liued in the time of king Iohn Willielmus Gemeticensis Willielmus filius Stephani a clerke of the Chancerie and deane of the chapell of Thomas Becket in the daies of Henrie the second Willielmus Summersetensis Willielmus Crowlandensis for the other Williams sée in the letter G in the name of Gulielmus Thomas Wike canon of Osneie Iohn Walworth Walterus Excestrensis Walterus Couentrensis Annales Burtonenses Memoriale historiarum Chronica Dunstable Chronicle of Tinmouth Chronicles of S. Albons Defâ—orationes Galfridi Historia obsidionis Eliensis insulae Chronica curus inituem Calendarium Bruti Chronicle beginning Rex Pictorum Chronica Westmonast Chronicle beginning In diebuâ— sanctissimi regis Edwardâ— Chronicle beginning Aeneas cum Ascanio Câ—ronica chronicoruÌ„ Supplementum chronicorum Fasciculus temporuÌ„ Historia Richardi secundi beginning De parte Bruti EulogiuÌ„ Historia Iornalensis Historia Carina written in Latine compiled in the thirtéenth yeare of Richard the second by whom it was caused to be written as the title declareth which for that it sheweth no name of the author and for that maister For borowed the â—ame of maister Carie citizen of London maister For in his Acts and Monuments the second edition calleth the same booke Historia Carina The epitome of chronicles from Brute to Henrie 6. beginning Ab origine mundi concurrunt anni secunduÌ„ Hebraeos
letters reuocatorie disfranchised 437 a 10 Letters fo manumission called in 438 a 10 Boner bishop of London emploied about the controuersie of Henrie the eights vnlawfull marriage 923 b 30. Beareth with the enimies of the L. Elisabeth 1160 a 10. His god was the rood of Paules 1121 a 60. Writeth to cardinall Poole concerning persecution 1164 a 10. Head broken note 915 a 60 b 10 Bookes anie waie imparing the popes dignitie are forbidden 1131 a 60. Seditious scattered and the offendors executed 1353 b 40. Printed the printer executed 1357 a 40. Popish dangerous and damnable to read or listen vnto 1391 b 50. Seditious published against the state and the offendors executed 1413 a 50 ¶ Sée Libels Boorne doctor preaching at Paules crosse hath a dagger throwne at him 1089 a 60 b 10 Bosworth field ¶ Sée Battell Bounarme with his ten spears all at once about him 834. a 50 Bowes Rafe ¶ Sée Iusts triumphant Bow stéeple builded 815 b 60 Brabanders and the reason of their name note 98 b 50 60 99 a 10. Ouercome by earle Richard Henrie the seconds sonne 98 b 50. The number of 20000 reteined by Henrie the second to beare armor 87 a 50 Braie knight of the garter commended 791 a 10 Brambre knight executed with an ax of his owne deuise 464 a 10 Brandon knight standardbearer to the earle of Richmond slaine 759 a 50. Knight his pompe at a iusts 807 b 60. He is created vicount Lisle 816 a 30 Bread made of bran puffens 1022 a 10. Made of ferne rootes 616 b 60. ¶ Sée Assise Breame ¶ Sée Bruistar Brest yéelded vp to the duke of Britaine 487 b 30. Besieged by the duke of Lancaster and the maner how 449 b 10. Force intended against it 1149 b 50 Brethren at deadlie hate pursuing one another 32 b 40. Set at variance by factious persons 32 a 60. In armes one against another 19 a 10. Forces vnited how valiant effectuall in warre 6 b 50 7 a 20 Brereton capteine of the aduenturers taken and slaine 882 b 20 Briake in Britaine assaulted taken 534 b 30 Bribe of fiue hundred markes giuen to come to the popes presence 80 b 30 Bribes the ouerthrow of lawes good orders note 862 b 40. Of a iustice seuerelie handled for taking them 243 b 50 244 a 10. Hinder the execution of good orders statutes note 380 b 30 40. Refused 18 b 60 Briberie how it tempteth mens minds note 361 b 50. ¶ Sée Gifts and Rewards Bridges made with hard shift 1138 b 60. In England borne downe with landflouds 38 a 40. ¶ Sée Flouds Bridgenorth besieged 30 a 60 Bridewell a place which Henrie the eight put to vse of plesure 894 a 20. Henrie the eights new palace a place receiuing noblemen 873 b 30. The maior and aldermen enter and take possession thereof 1130 b 40. When it became a place to punish vagarant and lewd persons 1082 b 10 Bristow taken by the earle of Glocester 48 b 60. ¶ Sée Faire Britaine was the first name of England Scotland 1000 a 10. ¶ Sée Earles Britains plagued by the lord admerall 814 a 10 c. Bromleie esquire his manhood 551 b 10 Bromleie knight his decease 565 b 40. Made capteine of Dampfront 563 b 30. The old armes of their house 564 a 30. Knight lord chancellor 1272 a 20 1286 b 60 Brotherton Thomas K Edward the first his sonne 309 a 60 Browne his seditious bookes procure losse of life 1353 b 40 Browne ¶ Sée Murther Brunkard Henrie ¶ Sée Iusts triumphant Bruse crowned king of Scotland in armes against prince Edward and the English power put to flight by the erle of Penbroke fled into Kentrie his wife and brethren taken his words to his wife he is executed his lands giuen awaie by the king Edward the first wherein note the end of disloialtie 314 a 10 40 60 b 20 40 50 Bruse inuadeth England 332. His ill dealing with Welshmen 95 b 30. His wife whose daughter she was 314 b 20. Pronounced accursed 324 a 50. Chriueth in his successe inuadeth England raiseth his siege 322 a 10 b 30 40 Bruistar and Marie Breame smoothered to death 1353 a 60 b 10 Bucchanan reprouing and reproued 112 a 30 Buckhurst lord made of the priuie councell 1434 b 60. ¶ Sée Sackuill Buggerie committed by a lord and punished 952 b 20 Buieng and selling on the sundaie a law against it 624 a 20. ¶ Sée Selling. Buildings of William Rufus verie great and famous 23 a 60 b 10 Bull seditious hanged on the bishop of Londons gate and the partie executed as a traitor 1221 a 20 c. 1222 a 30. ¶ Sée Felton and Pope Bullen besieged assalted deliuered vp the number of them that went foorth of the towne 964 a 40 b 30 60. Manie seats of armes exploited betwixt the English French 972 a 40. The Frenchmen busie to build a fort there 970 a 60 b 10. To be restored to the French king by accord note how 973 b 20. And Bullenois restored to the French vpon certeine conditions note 1061 b 60. Deliuered vp and entered into a 10 20 By the French king 1062 a 10 c. Besieged by the Englishmen the king himselfe being present 775 a 10. The bas◠a canuasado giuen vnto it the French haue an ouerthrow 967 a 20 c. Bullocke a mercilesse murtherer hanged within Bishopsgate note 1228 b 20 c. ¶ Sée Murther Bulmer knight rebuked for refusing K. Henrie the eights seruice and taking the seruice of the duke of Buckingham 852 b 60 853 a 10 Burchet gentleman of the middle temple hanged note 1259 a 30 Burdet knight his valiantnesse against the enimie note 590 b 40 Burdet knight slaine 618 a 40 Burdet for a word spoken beheaded 703 a 10 Burdeux yéelded againe to the French king 641. a 30 Burgesse of the parlement arrested and what mischéefe thereof insued note 955 b 40 c. 956 a 10 c. Burgognians ioine with the English host make it stronger 875 a 30 Burlie knight and the earle Uéere in faithfull freendship 464 a 40. What the same Burlie was note a 50 c. Buriall of duke Williams bodie not suffered without satisfaction to the lord of the soile 15 a 50. Of more than two hundred ded corpses in the Charterhouse yard 379 b 30. Christian forbidden préests concubines 207 b 30. Of nobles and great men in a moonks cowle note 195 b 10 20. Neglected note 157 a 10. Of the dead doone with honor and reuerence 576 a 60. For the dead 1211 b 10. Of dead bodies within their owne parishes 31 a 10. Of the Iewes at London 101 b 20. ¶ Sée Churchyard new Burning in the hand when inacted 787 a 60 b 10 Bursse ground purchased to build it the first stone thereof laid 1209 a 40 50. Finished named The roiall exchange by the now quéene Elisabeth 1224 a 60 Bushie knight 495. ¶ Sée Flatterie Butcher
Sebastian Gabato his discouerie of â—n Iland of rich commodities Anno Reg. 14. England and Scotland liklie to go togither by the eares aâ—resh The bishop of Durham asswageth the kings displeasure by leters The bishop of Durham goeth into Scotland The Scotish king desireth the ladie Margaret eâ—dest daughter of K. Henrie the seuenth to be his wife Pâ—râ—in Warbecke escapeth from his keepers Perkin maketh an anatomie of his descent or liâ—age Perkins education or bringing vp Perkin a notable land-loper The Irish would haue Perkin takâ— vpon him to be the duke of Clarences sonne They bearâ— Perkin downe with oths that he is king Richards bastard They call hiâ— duke of yorke â— Paâ— in Virg. Anno Reg. 15. Patrike an Augustine Frier Rafe Wilford the counterfeit earle of Warwike The counterfeit earle is executed Abr. Fl. ex Eâ—â— Hall in Hâ—n 7. fol. lj The cause why the clergie neuer so heinouslie oâ—fending was so â—auoured Burning in the hand when enacted Perkin corrupted his keepers Edward Plantagenet earle of Warwike a verie innocent Perkin and Iohn Awater executed at Tiburne Edward Plantagenet the yoong earleÌ„ of Warwike beheaded A great plague Edward the kings third sonne christened The manour of Shéene burnt Richmond built in place thereof I. S. pag. 874. King Henrie the seuenth â—aileth to Calis The king of England and the duke of Burgognie méet at saint Peters church without Calis Abr. Fl. ex Edw. Hall in Hen. 7. fol. lij Anno Reg. 16. A yeare of Iubile Pope Alexander maketh profit of his great pardon or heauenlie grace as he termeth it Abr. Fleâ— Antith 〈◊〉 papâ— pag 31 40. Thrée bishâ—â—â— dead in one yeare Two notabâ—e mariages Katharine daughter to Ferdinando K. of Spaine affiâ—d to Arthur prince of Wales Anno Reg 1â— The fourth 〈◊〉 October as Stow hath noted Abr. Flem. ex Edw. Hall fol. liij The solemnization of the mariage betweene Arthur prince of Wales Katharine daughter to the king of Spaine Edw. Hall fol. liij Margaret eldest daughteâ— to king Henrie affied to Iames king of Scots Prince Arthur is sent into Wales Iohn Stow pag. 874 875. The maiors feast first kept at Guildhall Woollen cloth of two shillings the brode yard Dikes of LoÌ„don clensed Men brought from the new found Ilands Edmund erlâ— of Suffolke flieth into Flanders The discontented mind of the earle of Suffolke The kings woonted policie now againe practised Tirrell and Windam beheaded 〈◊〉 restrained The death of Arthur prince of Wales Edw. Hall iâ— Hen. 7. fol. â—â— Anno Reg. 1â— 1503 King Henrie the seauenthâ— chapell at Westminster first builded Abr. Fl. ex 〈◊〉 pag. 876. Six kings of England brethren with the tailors companie in Loâ—don before they were eâ—tituled mâ—rchant tailors Prior of Shene mâ—â—thered A drie sâ—â—mer Sir Reginald Braie his 〈◊〉 Iuâ—t coÌ„menâ—â—tions of Morton archâ—â—â—â—op of Cantâ—rburie and â—ir Reginald Braie Cassimire â—â—baâ—sadour from the empâ—rour Maxâ—â—â—lâ—an The sumptuâ—â—s araie of tâ—e earle of Northumbâ—rland The mariage 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 of Sâ—â—ts 〈◊〉 Margaret king Henries eldest daughter Anno Reg. 19. The king coueâ—ous in his old age Richard Empson Edmund Dudleie Promoters Abr. Fl. ex I.S. pag. 876 Sergeanâ—s feast whereat were the king and all his nobles at dinner Fire on London bridge Fire Parlement Anno reg 20. The king of 〈◊〉 intertâ—ined honorablie Prodigious tokens or accidents haue their issue in truth Sée pag. 657. Abr Flerâ— eâ— Guic. pag. 4â— Thrâ—â— sâ—nneâ— séene at once in the night Abr. Fl. ex Guic. pag. 355. King Philip saileth out of Flanders into Spaine King Philip cast by casualtie of sea vpon the coasts of England Philip promiseth to redeliuer to king Henrie the duke of Suffolke Anno Reg. 22. The sweting sicknesse eftsoones returneth Ed. Hall in Hen. 7. fol. 53. Abr. Fl. ex Guic. pag. 31â— Pag 31â— Pag 3â—7 A practisâ— of â—word by 〈◊〉 to an 〈◊〉 purpose 〈◊〉 â—xpope 〈◊〉 with the 〈◊〉 that his 〈◊〉 son had 〈◊〉 poison 〈◊〉 cardinall 〈◊〉 Cornette Eâ—b Hâ—ss G Buch. in Psal. 7. The lord Daubenie dieth Anno Reg 23. Guidebald duke of Urbin in Italie made knight of the garter Thomas Sauage archbishop of Canturburie deceassed Abr. Fl. ex Guic. pag. 18â— Abr. Fl. ex I.S. pag. 879. William Capell sued by the king Tho. Kneisworth imprisoned Norwich on fier Frée schoole at Wlfrunehampton Iohn Ligh of WlfrunehaÌ„pton his rare example of charitie WlfrunehaÌ„pton corruptlie called Wolnerhampton Excharta Regia Smart Hospitall of the Sauoie Rec. of Canturb church Fr. Thin Thomas Ruthall bishop of Durham The 〈◊〉 of Ciâ—â—ster The bishop was one of K. Henrie the rights priuie councell The king coÌ„mandeth hiâ— to write a booke of the whole estate of the kingdoâ— The bishops booke of his priuat 〈◊〉 vnaduisedlie deliuered instead of the kings The bishops owne booke disaduantagâ— able to himselfe The bishop 〈◊〉 of a 〈◊〉 and 〈…〉 150◠〈…〉 24. The death of King Henrie the seuenth â—hat children he had The description of king Henrie the seuenth Iustice mingled with mercie Out of the bishop of Rochesters funerall sermon preached in Paules church at London Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 892. Sepulture of Henrie the seuenth Executors to Henrie the seuenth 1509 Anno Reg. 1. Henrie the â—ight proclaâ—â—â— king Polydor. Councellors to king Henrie the eight King Henries â—â—â—hes â—is councellâ—â—s good 〈◊〉 A proclamation Multitudes of suters what shifts they made to be heard Empson and Dudleie committed to the Tower Promoters punished I.S. pag. 893. The funerall pompe and solemnitie of Henrie the seuenth Edw. Hall in Hen. 8. fol. j. The corps put into a charriot sumptuouslie garnished The order of the pompe and mourners The charriot brought into Paules church Description of the curious hearse at Westminster The bodie oâ— the dead king interred The duke of Buckinghams rich 〈◊〉 A 〈◊〉 sight 〈◊〉 virgins in white with branches of white wax K. Henries apparell at his coronatioÌ„ The kings traine and the 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 The quéenes traine and the sumptuousnesse of the same The coronation of king Henrie and quéene Katharine Homage doone to the king at his coronatioÌ„ both of the lords spirituall temporall Sir Robert Dimmocke the kings champion The knights anâ—wer to the king of heralds The maner of the same knights tenure Sir StephaÌ„ Genings maior of London Iusts and turnementâ— The enterprisers of the 〈◊〉 iusts Goodlie sheâ—â— delightfull Pallas knights the defendants Another band of horssemen richlie 〈◊〉 Eight knights armeâ— at all paints * From head 〈◊〉 Dimas knights A conceipt or deuise of a pâ—rke with 〈◊〉 c. The kings wisedome in preuenting an inconuenients Henrie the duke of Buckinghams brother created erle of Wilshire A great plague in Calis A parlement Empson and Dudleie atteinted of treason Polydor. Most of the 〈◊〉 of the coâ—â—cell against Empson Matters obiected against Empson Wrong mainteined against the kings liâ—ge people Iniurie doone to the kings wards A charge of manifest oppression and extortion Empson
his place being the threescore and third archbishop of that see ¶ In the moneth of Nouember in the I le of Portland not farre from the towne of Weimouth was seene a cocke comming out of the sea hauing a great crest vpon his head and a great red beard and legs of halfe a yard long year 1457 he stood on the water crowed foure times and euerie time turned him about and beckened with his head toward the north the south and the west and was of colour like a fesant when he had crowed thrée times he vanished awaie And shortlie after were taken at Erith within twelue miles of London foure great and woonderfull fishes whereof one was called Mors marina the second a sword fish the other two were whales The French nation hearing of the ciuall dissention within the realme here and for an old grudge séeking our annoie two nauies appointed they to inuade the townes standing vpon the riuage of the sea The capteins of the one fléet was William lord Pomiers and of the other sir Peter Bressie a great ruler in Normandie These two capteins taking their course out of the mouth of Saine seuered themselues the one westward and the other eastward which was sir Peter Bressie who sailing alongst the coasts of Sussex and Kent durst not yet take land but staid in the Downes and there hauing by espiall perfect notice that Sandwich was neither peopled nor fortified because that a little before the rulers of the towne were from thense departed for to auoid the plague which sore there afflicted and siue the people he entered the hauen spoiled the towne and after such poore stuffe as he there found rifled and taken he fearing an assemblie of the countrie shortlie gat him awaie The lord Pomiers likewise tooke his course westward by night burning certeine houses in Fulnaie with a little pillage retired into Britaine The Scots also busie like flies where no flap to fraie them entered into Northumberland king Iames the second being there in person burned certeine poore houses and little cottages but in the verie middest of their great enterprise they hearing of the duke of Yorkes marching toward them with a great host with much paine and no gaine in all hast returned to their countrie But now to passe ouer outward inuasions to intreat of the dailie disorder amongest the nobles at home So was it that a great conflict fell betwéene the lord Egremond the sonnes of the erle of Salisburie in which manie persons were slaine a great number hurt The lord Egremond séeking to get awaie but could not by force was taken brought before the councell where the king and the queene to shew themselues indifferent adiudged him to paie to the earle of Salisburie a great summe of monie and for his heinous offense against the lawes was committed to Newgate in London out of which he escaped to the great trouble of the shiriffes The queene nothing more séeking than the ouerthrow of the duke of Yorke and his friends and perceiuing she could attempt nothing against him néere to London because the duke was in more estimation there than either the king hir husband or hir selfe therefore she caused the king to make a progresse into Warwikeshire for his health and recreation And so in semblance of hawking and hunting came to Couentree where diuerse waies were studied to fulfill the queenes desire for the accomplishing whereof the duke of Yorke the earles of Salisburie and Warwike whose destructions was chieflie sought were sent for to Couentrée by the kings letters vnder his priuie seale to which place the said lords without suspicion of danger obedientlie resorted But being admonished by secret friends what was intended against them they by flight auoided that danger where otherwise their liues had béene lost without all remedie And so without bidding anie farewell they departed from the court the duke vnto Wigmoore in the marches of Wales the earle line 10 of Salisburie to his castell of Middleham in the north and the earle of Warwike sailed to Calis The bodies of which thrée noble personages though thus separated yet their hearts knit in one and still went messengers letters betwixt them to communicat their deuises and giue signification of their minds and purposes In this yéere Reginald Peacoke bishop of Chichester abiured at Paules crosse all his bookes burnt and he himselfe commanded to keepe his owne house line 20 during his naturall life because that he verie well learned and better stomached began to mooue questions not priuilie but opâ—nlie in the vniuersities concerning the annates Peter pence and other iurisdictions authorities which the pope vsurped and not onelie put foorth such questions but declared his mind and opinion in the same Some saie he held that spirituall persons by Gods law ought to haue no temporall possessions nor that personall tithes by line 30 Gods law were due nor that christian men were to beléeue in the catholike church nor in the communion of saints but to beleeue that a catholike church and a communion of saints there is and that he held how the vniuersall church might erre in matters of faith and that it is not of necessitie to beléeue all that which is ordeined by generall councels nor all that which they call the vniuersall church ought to be allowed and holden of all christian people Moreouer that it was méet to euerie man to vnderstand line 40 the scriptures in the true and plaine sense none bound to glosses of anie other sense vpon anie necessitie of saluation ¶ But because I find a larger report héereof elsewhere and as more methodicall so also as it seemeth in such forme as it was Res gesta a déed doone it shall not be amisse to insert the same This bishop was a secular doctor of diuinitie that had labored manie yéeres to translate the holie scripture into English was accused to haue passed the bounds of diuinitie and christian beléefe in certeine line 50 articles of the which he was conuict before the archbishop of Canturburie and other bishops and clearks and after vtterlie abiured reuoked and renounced those articles openlie at Paules crosse in his mother toong on the fourth day of December as followeth The forme of his abiuration IN the name of the trinitie father sonne and holie-ghost I Reinold Pecocke bishop of Chichester vnworthie of mine line 60 owne power and will without anie maner coaction or dread confesse and knowledge that I here before this time presuming of my naturall wit and preferring my iudgement and naturall reason before the new and the old testament and the authoritie determination of our mother holie church haue held written and taught otherwise than the holie Romane and vniuersall church teacheth preacheth or obserueth And one is against the true catholike and apostles faith I haue written taught and published manie diuerse
of the band of monsieur de Tremoiell on horsses barded with yellow veluet losenged with friers knots of blacke veluet line 60 and after they had saluted the quéenes they likewise tooke the end of the tilt and course after course ran vntill they were deliuered of their chalenges of iusts Ualiantlie this daie was finished On wednesdaie the thirtéenth of Iune the two hardie kings armed at all peeces entered into the field right noblie apparelled The French king and all his parteners of chalenge were arraied in purple sattin broched with gold and purple veluet embrodered with little rolles of white sattin wherein was written Quando their bards garments were set full of the same and the residue where was no rolles were poudered set with the letter elle as thus L. which in French is she which was interpreted to be Quando elle when she and insuing the deuise of the first daie it signifieth togither Hart fastened in paine endles when she The king of England with all the band or parteners of his chalenge were likewise on horssebacke apparelled in trappers of losenges russet veluet and cloath of siluer of damaske embrodered and set in euerie losenge a branch of eglantine of gold the apparell of the persons were of the same correspondent to the trapper This eglantine trée is sweet pleasant and greene if it be kindlie and fréendlie handeled but if it be rudelie dealt with it will pricke and he that will pull vp the whole trée by the top his hands will be hurt The two kings with their companies thus apparelled presented themselues to the quéenes and so tooke the end of the tilt Then entered into the field monsieur Leskew called lord Leskin with him came eleuen men of armes himselfe the twelfe on horsses barbed and richlie apparelled and so rode about the tilt and saluted the queenes and tooke the end of the tilt Monsieur de Leskew and his eleuen companions had their bases and bards all of blacks cloath of gold of damaske all cut on blacke sattin their garments had mantell sléeues on the left arme to the wast behind iust to the shoulder which was praised for the strangenesse The French king ran to monsieur de Ambois one of the band of monsieur Leskew and the king of England charged his course and ran to monsieur Leskew and so furnished their courses as they saie right noblie and valiantlie in breaking speares that were strong Thus course after course ech with other his counter partie did right valiantlie but the two kings surmounted all the rest in prowesse and valiantnesse This band thus furnished entered the marquesse de Salons and his band twelue persons all riding on coursers barded and apparelled in white sattin and blacke broched with gold and siluer with cuts and culpins much after tawnie and blacke sattin billots after reuerence doone to the queenes they tooke the end of the tilt To the marquesse de Salons ran the king of England and the king of France to an other of the same band still course after course ran all the noble men till the marques de Salons and his band were deliuered who bare them right valiantlie then blew the trumpets the retreit the two kings them vnarmed and after departed the French king vnto Ard and the king of England to his castell of Guisnes On thursdaie the thirtéenth daie of Iune by the noonetide the two quéenes met in the campe tooke their places the people were come to behold the honour and to sée the two kings who all readie armed entered the field to receiue and deliuer all men by answer of iusts Then entered the earle of Deuonshire on his band the lord Montacute lord Herbert lord Leonard Greie maister Arthur Poole maister Francis Brian maister Henrie Norris and foure other all richlie apparelled the one side blew veluet embrodered with a mans heart burning in a ladies hand holding a garden pot stilling with water on the heart the other side was white sattin embrodered with letters of gold This companie rode about the tilt and did reuerence to the queenes and so abode at the end of the same The earle of Deuonshire charged his speare and the French king likewise charged his course to meet the same earle and ran so hard togither that both their speares brake and so mainteined their courses noblie Then ran the king of England to monsieur Memorancie and him encountered both bare togither and gaue great strokes the kings most noble grace neuer disuisored nor breathed vntill he ran the fiue courses deliuered his counterpartie Dukes marquesses knights esquiers and others ran as fast as euer they might there was none that abode when the courses came vntill the earle of Duonshire and his band were deliuered of demands Then entered the lord Howard sonne to the duke of Norffolke and eleuen companions apparelled and barded in crimsin sattin full of flames of gold the borders ribbed with crimsin veluet and with much honor after due reuerence doone to the quéenes were brought with heralds of armes about the tilts and so tooke the place to them appointed right rich was their apparell line 10 Then ran the French king and incountered the same lord Edmund they brake both their staues valiantlie course after course the incounter ceassed not till they had furnished their fiue courses so was the lord Edmund deliuered by the French K. Then ran the king of England to a strong gentleman named Rafe Brooke and brake his speare and ran course after course vntill he had finished his courses right noblie and like a prince of most valiancie The residue line 20 ceassed not vntill they had ech deliuered other of their chalenge On fridaie the fiftéenth daie of Iune the king of England mounted on a courser roiall his person armed at all peeces his apparell and trappers was the one side rich cloath of gold of tissue the other side cloath of tissue of siluer and cloath of gold of tissue entered ound the one with the other The ound is a worke wauing vp downe and all the borders as well trappers as other was garded with letters of fine gold and all the other side that line 30 was ound was set with signes called cifers of fine gold the which were set with great and orientall pearles The cifers signified letters knit togither in a knot which was to wit God my freend my realme and I maie This was the deuise and reason thereof All the kings band were apparelled in like apparell The French K. likewise armed at all points mounted on a courser roiall all his apparell as well bards as garments were purple veluet entered the one with the other embrodered full of little books of white line 40 sattin in the bookes were written A me About the borders of the bards and the borders of the garments a chaine of blew like iron resembling the chaine of a well or prison
chaine which was interpreted to be Liber a booke Within this booke was written as is said A me Put these two togither and it maketh Liberame The chaine betokeneth prison or bonds and so maketh togither in English Deliuer me of bonds Then they tooke the end of the tilt line 50 Readie was monsieur Florengis and with him twelue men of armes with coursers barded the bards and apparell was crimsin veluet tawnie veluet and plunket veluet embrodered borderwise with sheepeheards hookes of cloath of siluer When they with honour had passed about the tilt due reuerence to the quéenes and ladies doone the two kings had their speares readie and then began the rushing of speares The king of England this daie ran so freshlie and so manie courses that one of his best coursers line 60 was dead that night this band was deliuered man after man of their pretense of iusts Then entered bands of monsieur de Rambeurs and monsieur de Puis ech hauing eleuen persons in number the one band all white sattin embrodered with blacke and the other all blacke dropped with siluer drops who after reuerence doone to the quéenes at the end of the tilt tooke their places Then began a new incounter hard and sore manie of them bare great strokes of the kings to their honour and with such violence they ran as they set their horsses in a sweating heat and themselues meeting with full force made the fragments or broken péeces of their staues mount aloft in the air like an arow out of a bow as the poet saith Hastae stridentis fractae petit aethera cuspis On saturdaie the seuentéenth daie of Iune the French king with a small number came to the castle of Guisnes about the houre of eight in the morning The king being in his priuie chamber had thereof knowledge who with glad hast went to receiue the same French king and him met and welcomed in friendlie and honorable maner and after communication betwéene them had the king of England departed leauing the French king there in the sumptuous place before named Then was busie the lord chamberleine the lord steward and all other officers to make readie feast and cheare It were too long to rehearse all for such a feast and banket was then made that of long time before the like had not bene séene The king of England thus departing he tooke his horsse and with a companie of noblemen rode to Ard where the French quéene and other noble men receiued him with much honour After which receiuing he was by the said quéene and lords brought into a chamber hanged with blew veluet embrodered with flowers delice of cloth of gold wherein was a great bed of like worke from whence he was conueied to another chamber in the which was a kings state This chamber was hanged and sieled with cloth of gold embrodered with great cordels or friers knots of cloth of siluer In the same chamber were two â—upboords on either side one furnished with great and goodlie plate gilt Noble feasting and cheare was there made After dinner the ladies dressed them to danse and certeine yoong honourable lords of England apparelled after the maner of Rusland or farre Eastland whose hosen were of rich gold sattin called anreat sattin ouerrolled to the knée with scarlet and on their feet shooes with little pikes of white nailes after the Estland guise their dublets of rich crimsin veluet and cloth of gold with wide sléeues lined with cloth of gold ouer this they had clokes of crimsin veluet short lined with cloth of gold on euerie side of the clokes rings of siluer with laces of Uenice gold and on their heads they had hats made in the towne of Danske and purses of seales skinnes and girdels of the same all these yoong lords had visards on their faces and their hats were drawne with like hatbands full of damaske gold Other ten lords were apparelled in long gownes of blew sattin of the ancient fashion embrodered with reasons of gold that said Adieu iunesse Farewell youth they had tippeis of blacke veluet hats hanging therby on their heads hie violet standing caps and girdels of silke and purses of cloth of gold after the ancient maner with visards on their faces of like anciencie After all these triumphs and braueries great store of spices fruits iellies banketing viands were brought which being doone and ended the king tooke leaue of the French queene and ladies to whome were brought thirtie horsses trapped in damaske white and yellow and so passed he and his traine the towne of Ard into the field and campe Right roiallie also was the French K. interteined and all other after their degree and state Now when all this solemnitie was ended the French king tooke leaue of the quéene and ladies of the court The lord cardinall in statelie attire accompanied with the duke of Buckingham and other great lords conducted forward the French king and in their way they incountered and met the king of England and his companie right in the vallie of Anderne apparelled in their masking apparell which gladded the French king After reuerence doone the said two kings departed for that night the English to Guisnes and the French to Ard. On mondaie the eighteenth of Iune was such an hideous storme of wind and weather that manie coniectured it did prognosticate trouble and hatred shortlie after to follow betwéene princes On tuesdaie the nintéenth of Iune the two kings came to the campe againe armed at all peeces and there abode them that would come so that then began the iustes afresh On wednesdaie the twentith of Iune the two kings began to hold tournies with all the parteners of their chalenge armed at all péeces The quéene of France and the quéene of England were line 10 in the places for them prepared and there was manie a goodlie battell performed the kings dooing as well as the best so that the beholders spake of them honor On thursdaie the one and twentith of Iune the two kings likewise kept the tourneies so that all those noble men that would prooue their valiancies were deliuered according to the articles of the tourneies which this daie tooke end On fridaie the 22 of Iune the two kings with their retinue did battell on foot at the barriers and there deliuered all such as line 20 put foorth themselues to trie their forces On saturdaie the thrée and twentith of Iune the lord cardinall sang an high solemne masse by note aloft vpon a pompons stage before the two kings quéenes the which being finished indulgence was giuen to all the hearers The two kings dined in one chamber that daie and the two quéenes in another After dinner the two kings with their band entered the field on foot before the barriers so began the fight which continued battell after battell till all the commers line 30 were answered There were deliuered this day thus at the
Walter Braie bishop of Yorke in the yeare of our redemption 1214 being about the sixtéenth yeare of king Iohn and died suddenlie at Peterborrow the first daie of Maie in the yeare of Christ 1226 being the tenth yeare of king Henrie the third after that he had béene bishop of Durham nine yeares of whom a moonke of Durham made this epitaph in formall deuise as you see following Culmina qui cupi tis laudes pompásque siti tis Est sedata si tis sime pensare veli tis Qui populos regi tis memores super omnia si tis Quòd mors immi tis non parcit bonore poti tis Vobis praeposi tis similis fueram bene sci tis Quod sum vos eâ—i tis ad me currendo veni tis And here sith I am entered into the surname of Marischus I will set downe what I found ingrauen on the wall of the doore of the chapter house of the monasterie of Bath almost defaced with the wether written in Gréeke Saxon characters ✚ Hic iacet Alexander de Alueto Ernbuerga vxor eius Fulco de Alueto filius eorum Lucia de Mariscis silia eoâ—uÌ„ Iordanus de Mariscis filius eiusdem Luciae Wilhelmus de Mariscis filius eiusdem Iordani Which name of the Marishes Marshes or Moores if it like them to expound it as I doubt not but manie will quiddle therevpon was as great a name in Ireland as it was in England Rafe Neuill was confirmed as it séemeth chancellor by the whole consent of the nobilitie in the yeare that the word became flesh 1226 being about the tenth yeare of king Henrie the third after which he was made bishop of Chichester in the eleuenth yeare of king Henrie the third being the yeare of our redemption 1227 or as hath Matthew Westm. he was made bishop of Chichester in the yeare of Christ 1223 being before chancellor After which the king in the two and twentith yeare of his reigne offended with Neuill tooke from him the great seale deliuered it to Gefreie of the temple as hath Matthew Paris and to Iohn de Lexinton although that the said Neuill remained still chancellor and receiued the profits thereof to whom the king would after haue regiuen the seale in the yeare of Christ 1239 being the thrée and twentith yeare of the said king Henrie but Neuill would not receiue it This man died in the yeare of Christ 1243 being the seuen and twentith yeare of king Henrie the third at his palace at London not far from the new temple Geffreie the Templer Iohn de Lexinton were made keepers of the great seale But shortlie after this Geffreie had the seale taken from him bicause he grew in mislike of the nobilitie in continuall prouoking them to anger Hugh Pateshall chanon of Paules is by Matthew Paris fol. 656 called chancellor in the thrée and twentith yeare of king Henrie the third which I much doubt to be true Of this man shall be more said in the treasurors of England Simon the Norman kéeper of the great seale in the three twentith yeare of king Henrie the third being the yeare of our Lord 1229 he had the seale shortlie after taken from him and was banished the court bicause he would not seale the patent wherby Thomas earle of Flanders might take foure pence for custome of euerie sacke of wooll that came out of England into Flanders This Simon died in the yeare of Christ 1249 being the thrée and thirtith of king Henrie the third Richard Grasse or Grossus abbat of Euesham the said Simon expelled had the keeping of the great seale in the thrée and twentith yeare of king Henrie the third he kept the seale thrée yeares and being chosen bishop of Chester he resigned the same in the yeare of Christ 1242 being the six twentith yeare of king Henrie the third he died being wise learned in the canon and ciuill law in the same yeare in Gascoine in a citie called in Latine Riola or Regula where he was buried Iohn de Lexinton was againe made keeper of the seale in the six and twentith yéere of king Henrie the third being the yeare of our redemption 1242 to execute that office Rafe Neuill being in life and still chancellor but in the kings disgrace shortlie after which this Neuill died This Iohn Lexinton died 1257 being the 41 yeare of Henrie the third Ranulfe Briton as I read is said to be chancellor line 10 and treasuror of the chamber about the seuen and twentith yeare of Henrie the third being the yeare of our Lord 1242. I suppose that he onelie had the keeping of the great seale as the rest had before him during the life of Rafe Neuill and so I leaue him to the iudgement of others sith Matthew Paris continuallie nameth him treasuror and once chancellor who suddenlie died after dinner beholding plaiers at dise in the yeare of Christ 1246 being the thirtith yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the third of whom thus writeth the said Matthew Paris in his line 20 greater historie fol. 954. Ranulphus Brito quondam domino familiarissimus regi reginae multis posthabitis nobilibus eiusdem cancellarius specialis quum post mensalem refectionem aleatores certatim inspexisset colludentes laetalis apoplexiae inexpectato vulnere corruit sugillatus Syluester de Euersden receiued the great seale the nine and twentith yeare of Henrie the third being the yeare that the son of God became flesh one thousand two hundred fortie and six he was vicechancellor consecrated bishop of Carleill being a line 30 man most cunning in the custome of the chancerie in the yeare of Christ 1247 being the one and thirtith yeare of Henrie the third Iohn Mansell treasuror of Yorke parson of Maidstone in Kent and parson of Wigan chancellor of Paules master or ruler of Beuerleie chiefe iustice of England one of the priuie councell to Henrie the third his chapleine ambassador into Spaine and a worthie souldier crossed to go to Ierusalem who at one feast had two kings two quéenes and I line 40 know not how manie noble men and whose spirituall liuings were about foure thousand marks of yerelie reuenues as I haue gathered he was at the will and instance of the king made kéeper of the great seale as vicechancellor for Matthew Paris saith Custodiam sigilli regij accepit cancellarij vices acturus officium about the one thirtith of king Henrie the third in the yeare that God tooke on him the forme of a seruant 1247 he built a house of regular canons at Romneie two miles from the sea To this line 50 man king Henrie the third in the thirtith yeare of his reigne did grant that his towne of Wigan should be a burrow Iohn de Lexinton being after chiefe iustice of the forest from the riuer of Trent southward was againe kéeper of the