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A51324	The historie of the pitifull life, and unfortunate death of Edward the Fifth, and the then Duke of Yorke, his brother with the troublesome and tyrannical government of usurping Richard the Third, and his miserable end / written by the Right Honorable Sir Thomas Moore ...	More, Thomas, Sir, Saint, 1478-1535.	1641 (1641)	Wing M2688; ESTC R5586	127,018	478

to withstand his adversaries as ever he was But my sonne can deserve no Sanctuary you say and therefore hee can not have it forsooth the Lord Protector hath sent a goodly glose by the which that place that may desend a theefe may not save an innocent but he is in no danger nor hath no need thereof I would God hee had not Troweth the Protector I pray God he may prove a Protector rather then a destroyer whereunto his painted processe draweth that it is not honourable that the Duke bide here it were more comfortable to them both that he were with his Brother because the King lacketh a play-fellow yea bee sure I pray God send him better play-fellowes then him that maketh so high a matter upon such a trifling pretext as though there could none bee found to play with the King but that his Brother which hath no lust to play for sicknesse must come out of Sanctuary out of his safeguard to play with him as though that Princes so young as they be could not play without their Peeres or children could not play without their kindred with whom for the most part they agree much worse then with strangers But the childe you say cannot require the priviledge who told the Protector so Aske him and you shall heare him aske it and so shall hee if yee will Howbeit this is a strange matter suppose hee could not aske it and thinke he would not aske it and imagine he would aske to goe out if I say he shall not Note if I aske the priviledge for my selfe I say that hee that against my will taketh out him breaketh Sanctuary Serveth this liberty for my person onely or for my goods too you may not from hence take my Horse from me if I stale him not nor owe you nothing then followeth it that you may not take my childe from me hee is also my ward for as farre as my learned Councell sheweth me he hath nothing by descent holden by Knights service but by socage then the Law maketh me his guardian then may no man lawfully I suppose take my ward from mee out of this place without the breach of Sanctuary and if my priviledge could not serve him nor he aske it for himselfe yet sith the Law committeth to me the custody of him I may require it for him expect the Law give the Infant a guardian onely for his goods discharging him of the care and safe-keeping of his body for which onely both goods and lands serve Wherefore here intend I to keep him sith mans Law serveth the guardian to keepe the infant and the Law of Nature willeth the Mother to keep the child and Gods Law priviledgeth the Sanctuary and the Sanctuary priviledgeth my Sonne sith I feare to put him to the Protectors hands that hath his Brother already which is if both failed inheritor to the Crowne as heire Male as hee saith The cause of my feare no man hath to doe to examine and yet feare I no further then the Law feareth which as learned men tell mee forbiddeth every man the custody of them by whose death he may inherit lesse Land then a Kingdome I can say no more but whosoever hee be that breaketh this holy Sanctuary I pray God send him shortly need of Sanctuary when he may not come to it for I would not that my mortall enemy should be taken out of Sanctuary The Cardinall perceived that the Queene ever the longer the farther off and also that shee began to kindle and chafe and speak sore biting words against the Protector and such as hee neither beleeved and also was loth to he●re he said to her for a finall conclusion that hee would no more dispute the matter and if she were content to deliver the Duke to him and to the other Lords there present hee durst lay his owne body and soule both in pledge not onely for his surety but also for his estate and surely he knew nor suspected any cause but he might so doe but hee knew not all And further he said if shee would give him a resolute answer to the contrary hee would therewith depart incontinent and shift who so would with his businesse afterward for he never intended further to move her in the matter in the which shee thought that he and all other also save her selfe lacked either wit or dull truth Wit if they were so that they nothing could perceive what the Protector intended and if they should procure her sonne to be delivered into his hands in whom they should perceive towards the child any evill will intended then shee might thinke all the Councell both evill advised and of little fidelity to their Prince The Queene with these words stood in a great study and forasmuch as she saw the Lord Cardinall more readie to depart then the remnant and the Protector himselfe ready at hand so that shee verily thought that shee could not keepe him there but he should bee incontinent taken thence and to conveigh him elsewhere neither had shee time to serve her nor place determined nor persons appointed to conveigh him and so all things were unready when this message came so suddenly on her nothing lesse looking for then to have him out of Sanctuary which she knew now men to be set in all places about that hee could not be conveighed out untaken and party as shee thought it might fortune her feare to bee false so well shee knew it was either needlesse or bootlesse Wherefore if shee should needs goe from him shee deemed best to deliver him and especially of the Cardinals faith shee nothing doubting nor of some other Lords whom shee saw there which as she feared lest they might be deceived so well was she assured that they would not be corrupted then thought she that it would make them the more warily to looke to him and the more circumspectly to see his surety if shee with her owne hands betooke him them by trust and at the last she tooke the young Duke by the hand and said unto the Lords my Lord quoth shee and all my Lords neither am I so unwise to mistrust your wits nor so suspicious to mistrust your truths of the which thing I purpose to make such a proofe that if either of both lacked in you might turn both me to great sorrow the Realm to much harme and you to great reproach For loe here is quoth shee this Gentleman whom I doubt not but I could keepe safe if I would whatsoever any man say and I doubt not also but there be some abroad so deadly enemies unto my Bloud that if they knew where any of it lay in their owne body they would let it out wee have also experience that the desire of a Kingdome knoweth no kindred the Brother hath beene the Brothers bane and may the Nephewes be sure of the Uncle each of these children are others defence while they be asunder and each of their lives lyeth in others body keepe

his false contrived treason and also lest the delaying of his execution might have encouraged other mischievous persons partners of his conspiracie to gather and assemble themselves together in making so great commotion for his deliverance whose hope now being by his well deserved death politickly repressed all the Realme shall by Gods grace rest in good quiet and peace Now was this proclamation made within two houres after hee was beheaded and it was so curiously indited and so faire written in Parchment in a faire set hand and therwith so large a processe that every child might perceive that it was prepared and studied before and as some men thought by Catesby for all the time betweene his death and the publishing of the Proclamation could scarce have sufficed to the bare writing of it alone albeit that it had beene in paper and scribled forth in hast at adventure So that upon the proclaiming thereof one that was schoolemaster at Pauls standing by and comparing the shortenesse of the time with the length of the matter said to them that stood about him here is a gay goodly cast fouly cast away for haste And a Merchant that stood by him said that it was written by inspiration and prophesie Now then by and by as it were for anger and not for covetousnesse the Protector sent Sir Thomas Howard to the house of Shores wife for her Husband dwelt not with her which spoyled her of all that ever she had above the value of two or three thousand Markes and sent her body to prison And the Protector had laid to her for the manner sake that shee was of Councell with the Lord Hastings to destroy him In conclusion when no colour could fasten upon these matters then he layed heinously to her charge that thing that shee could not deny for all the world knew that it was true and that notwithstanding every man laughed to heare it then so suddenly so highly taken that she was naught of her body And for this cause as a godly continent Prince cleane and fau●tlesse of himselfe sent out of Heaven into this vicious world for the amendment of mens manners hee caused the Bishop of London to put her to open penance going before a crosse one Sunday at procession with a taper in her hand In the which she went in countenance and pace so womanly and albeit she was out of all array saving her kirtle onely yet went shee so faire and lovely and namely when the wondering of the people cast a comly red in her cheekes of the which before she had most misse that her great shame woon her much praise amongst them that were more amorous of her body thē curious of her soule and many good folk that hated her living and were glad to see sinne corrected yet pittied they more her penance then rejoyced at it whē they considered that the Protectour did it more of a corrupt minde then any vertuous affection This woman was borne in London well friended honestly brought up and very well married saving somewhat too soon her husband an honest and a young Citizen godly and of good substance but forasmuch as they were coupled before she was well ripe shee not very fervently loved for whom shee never longed which was the thing by chance that the more easily made her to incline to the Kings appetite when hee required her Howbeit the respect of his royaltie the hope of gaine apparrell ease pleasure and other wanton wealth was able soone to pierce a soft tender heart but when the King had abused her anon her husband being an honest man would not presume to touch a Kings concubine but left her up to him altogether When the King died the Lord Hastings tooke her which in the Kings dayes albeit that he was sore enamored with her yet hee forbare either for a princely re●erence or for a certaine friendly faithfulnesse Proper shee was and faire nothing in her body that you could have changed but if you would have wished her somewhat higher This say they that knew her in her youth some said and judged that she had beene well favored and some judged the contrary whose judgement seemeth like as men gesse the beauty of one long before departed by a shape taken out of a charnell house and this judgement was in the time of King Henry the eight in the eighteenth yeare of whose reigne she dyed when she had nothing but a rivelled skin bone Her beauty pleased not men so much as her pleasant behaviour for shee had a proper wit and could both reade and write merry in company ready and quicke of answer neither mute nor full of bable sometimes taunting without displeasure but not without disport King Edward would say he had three concubines which in divers properties diversly excelled one the merriest the other the wi●est the third the holiest harlot in the Realme as one whom no man could get out of the Church to any place lightly unlesse it were to his bed the other two were somewhat greater personages then Mistris Shore and yet neverthelesse of their humilitie were content to bee namelesse and to forbeare the praise of these properties But the merriest was Shores wife in whom the King therefore tooke great pleasure for many he had but her hee loved whose favour to say the truth for it were sinne to belie the devill she never abused to any mans hurt but to many mens comfort and reliefe For where the King tooke displeasure shee would mitigate and appease his minde where men were out of favour shee would bring them into his grace for many that had highly offended shee obtained pardon and of great forfeitures she gate remission and finally in many weighty suites shee stood many men in great stead either for none or for very small reward and those rather gay then rich either that shee was content with the deede well done or for that shee delighted to bee sued unto and to shew what shee was able to doe with the King or for that that wanton women and wealthy be not alwaies covetous I doubt not some men will thinke this woman to be too slight to be written of among grave and weighty matters which they shall specially thinke that happily saw her in her age and adversity but we thinke the chance so much more worthy to bee remembred in how much after wealth she fell to poverty and from riches to beggery unfriended out of acquaintance after great substance after so great favour with her Prince after as great suite and seeking to with all those which in those dayes had businesse to speed as many other men were in their times which bee now famous only by the infamy of their evill deedes her doings were not much lesse albeit they be much lesse remembred because they were not evill for men use to write an evill turne in marble stone but a good turne in the dust which is not worst proved by her for after

should have the Crowne At which word the Prince sore abashed began to sigh and say Alas I would mine Vncle would let mee have my life although I leese my Kingdome Then he that told him the tale used him with good words and put him in the best comfort that hee could but forthwith hee and his brother were both shut up and all other removed from them one called Black Will or William Slaughter onely except which were set to serve them and foure other to see them sure After which the the Prince never tyed his points nor any thing regarded himselfe but with that young babe his brother lingered in thought and heavinesse till this trayterous deede delivered thē of that wretchednesse For Iames Tirrell devised that they should bee murthered in their beds and no blood shed to the execution wherof he appointed Myles Forest one of the foure that before kept them a fellow flesh-bred in murther before time and to him he joyned one Iohn Dighton his owne horsekeeper a big broade square and strong knave Then all the other being removed from them this Miles Forest and Iohn Dighton about midnight the silly children lying in their beddes came into the chamber and suddenly lapped them up amongst the cloathes and so bewrapped them keeping downe by force the fetherbed and pillowes hard under their mouthes that within a while they smothered stifled them and their breaths failing they gave up to God their innocent soules into the joyes of heaven leaving to the tormenters their bodies dead in the bed which after the wretches perceived first by the strugling with the pang of death and after long lying still to be through dead they layed the bodies out upon the bed and fetched Iames Tirrell to see them which when he saw them perfectly dead hee caused the murtherers to bury them at the stayre foote meetly deepe in the ground under a heape of stones Then rode Iames Tirrell in great haste to King Richard and shewed him all the manner of the murther who gave him thankes and as men say there made him Knight but hee allowed not their buriall in so vile a corner saying that hee would have them buried in a better place because they were a Kings sonnes Loe the honorable courage of a King for he would recompence a detestable murther with a solemne obsequie Wherupon a priest of Sir Robert Brakenburies tooke them up buried them in such a place secretly as by the occasion of his death which was shortly after which only knew it the very truth could never yet bee very well and perfectly known For some say that King Richard caused the Priest to take them up and close them in leade and to put them in a coffin full of holes hooked at the endes with two hookes of iron and so to cast them into a place called the Blacke deepes at the Thames mouth so that they should never rise up nor bee seene againe This was the very truth unknowne by reason that the said Priest died so shortly and disclosed it never to any person that would utter it And for a truth when sir Iames Tirrell was in the Tower for treason committed to King Henry the seventh both he and Dighton were examined together of this point and both they confessed the murther to bee done in the same manner as you have heard but whither the bodies were removed they both affirmed they never knew And thus as I have learned of them that knew much and little cause had they to lie where these two noble Princes these innocent tender children borne of the most royall blood and brought up in great wealth likely long to live to raigne and rule in the Realme by trayterous tyrannie taken and deprived of their estate shortly shut up in Prison and privily slaine and murthered by the cruell ambition of their unnaturall Vncle and his dispiteous tormenters which things on every part well pondered God gave this world never a more notable example either in what unsurety standeth this worlds weale or what mischiefe worketh the proud enterprise of an high heart or finally what wretched end insueth such dispiteous crueltie For first to beginne with the Ministers Miles Forest at Saint Martins le grant by peece meales miserably rotted away Iohn Dighton lived at Caleys long after no lesse disdained and hated then pointed at and there dyed in great miserie But sir Iames Tirrell was beheaded on the Tower hill for Treason And King Richard himselfe was slaine in the field hacked and hewen by his enemies hands hurried on a horse backe naked being dead hee is here in despight torne and tugged like a curre dogge And the mischiefe that hee tooke within lesse then three yeares of the mischief that he dyed in three moneths bee not comparable and yet all the meane time spent in much trouble and paine outward and much feare dread and anguish within For I have heard by credible report of such as were secret with his chamberers that after this abominable deede done hee never was quiet in his minde he never thought himselfe sure where he went abroad his body privily fainted his eye wherled about his hand ever on his dagger his countenance and manner like alwayes to strike againe hee took ill rest on nights lay long waking and musing for wearied with care and watch rather slumbred then slept troubled with fearefull dreames suddenly sometime start up leape out of his bed and looke about the chamber so was his restlesse heart continually tossed and tumbled with the tedious impression and stormy remembrance of his abhominable murther and execrable Tyrannie King Richard by this abominable mischiefe and scelerous act thinking himselfe well relieved both of feare and thought would not have it kept councell but within a few dayes caused it to run in a common rumour that the two children were suddenly dead and to this intent as it is to be deemed that now no heire Male being alive of King Edwards body lawfully begotten the people would be content with the more patient heart and quiet minde to obey him and suffer his rule and governance but when the same of this detestable fact was revealed and divulged thorow the whole Realme there fell generally such a dolour and inward sorrow into the hearts of all the people that all feare of his cruelty set a side they in every Towne street and place openly wept and pittiously sobbed And when their sorrow was somewhat mitigate their inward grudge could not refraine but cry out in places publike and also private furiously saying what creature of all creatures is so malicious and so obstinate an enemy either to God or to Christian Religion or to humane Nature which would not have abhorred or at the least abstained from so miserable a murther of so execrable a tyranny To murther a man is much odious to kill a woman is in manner unnaturall but to slay and destroy innocent Babes and young Infants the whole world abhorreth

my selfe have heard spoken and that upon great presumptions more times then once so againe by my ayde and favour hee of a Protectour was made a King and of a subject made a Governour at which time he promised mee upon his fidelitie laying his hand in mine at Baynards Castle that the two yong Princes should live and that hee would so provide for them and so maintaine them in honorable estate that I and all the Realme ought and should bee content But when he was once Crowned King and in full possession of the whole Realme he cast away his old conditions as the Adder doth his skinne verifying the old proverbe honours change manners as the Parish Priest remembreth not that he was ever Parish Clarke For when I my selfe sued to him for my part of the Earle of Hartfords lands which his brother King Edward wrongfully detyned and withheld from mee and also required to have the office of the high Constable ship of England as divers of my noble ancestors before this time have had and in long discent continued In this my first suite shewing his good minde towards me he did not onely first delay me and afterward deny me but gave me such unkind words with ●uch taunts and retaunts yea in manner checke and check mate to the uttermost proofe of my patience As though I had never furthered him but hindred him as though I had put him downe and not set him up yet al these ingratitudes undeserved unkindnesses I bare closely and suffer patiently and covertly remēbred outwardly dissembling that I inwardly thought and so with a painted countenance I passed the last summer in his last company not without many faire promises but without any good deedes But when I was credibly informed of the death of the two young innocents his owne naturall Nephewes contrary to his faith and promise to the which God bee my judge I never agreed nor condiscended O Lord how my veines panted how my body trembled and my heart inwardly grudged in so much that I so abhorred the sight and much more the company of him that I could no longer abide in his court except I should bee openly revenged The end whereof was doubtfull and so I fained a cause to depart and with a merry countenance and a dispightful heart I tooke my leave humbly of him hee thinking nothing lesse then that I was displeased and so returned to Brecknocke to you But in the journey as I returned whether it were by the inspiration of the holy Ghost or by Melancolous disposition I had divers and sundry imaginations how to deprive this unnaturall Vncle and bloody butcher from his royall seate and princely dignity First I fantasied that if I list to take upon me the Crowne and imperiall Scepter of the Realme now was the time fit and convenient For now was the way made plaine and the gate opened and occasion given which now neglected should peradventure never take such effect and conclusion For I saw hee was disdained of the Lords temporall execrate and accursed of the Lords spiritual detested of all gentlemen and despised of all the commonaltie So that I saw my chance as perfectly as I saw my owne Image in a glasse that there was no person if I had beene greedy to attempt the enterprise could nor should have won the ring or got the gole before me And on this point I rested in imagination secretly with my selfe two dayes at Teukesbury And from thence sojourning I mused thought it was not best nor convenient to take vpon me as a conquerour for then I knew that all men and especially the nobilitie would with all their power withstand me both for rescuing of possessions and tenours as also for subverting of the whole estate Lawes and Customes of the Realme Such a power hath a conquerour as you know well enough my Lord. But at the last in all this doubtfull case there sprang a new branch out of my head which surely I thought should have brought forth faire flowers but the sunne was so hot that they turned to dry weedes for I suddenly remembred that Lord Edmond Duke of Somerset my Grandfather was with King Henry the sixt in the second and third degrees from Iohn Duke of Lancaster lawfully begotten So that I thought sure my mother being eldest daughter to Duke Edmond that I was next to King Henry the sixt of the house of Lancast●r This title pleased well such as I made privie of my counsell but much more it encouraged my foolish desire and elevated my ambitious intent in so much that I clerely judged and in mine own minde was determinately resolved that I was indubitated heire of the house of Lancaster and thereupon concluded to make my first foundation and erect my new building But whether God so ordered or by fortune it so chanced while I was in a mase either to conclude sodainely on this title and to set it open amongst the common people or to keepe it secret a while see the chance as I rode betweene Worcester and Bridgnorth I encountered with the lady Margaret Countesse of Richmond now wife to the Lord Stanley which is the very daughter and sole heyre to Iohn Duke of Somerset my grandfathers elder brother Which was as cleane out of my minde as though I had never never seene her so that shee and her sonne the Earle of Richmond be both bulwarke and portcolice betweene and the gate to enter into the majesty royall and getting of the Crowne And when wee had communed a little concerning her sonne as I shall shew you after and were departed shee to our Lady of Worcester and I toward Shrewsbury I then new changed and in manner amased began to dispute with my selfe litle considering that thus my earnest was turned even to a tittle not woth esteeme Presently I imagined whether I were best to take upon me by the election of the nobilitie and commonaltie which me thought easie to be done the usurper King thus being in hatred and abhorred of this whole Realme or to take it by power which standeth in fortunes chance and difficile to bee atchieved and brought to passe Thus rumbling tossing in the waves of ambiguitie betweene the stone and sacrifice I considered first the office duty and paine of a King which surely thinke that no mortall man can justly and truely observe except hee bee called elected and specially appointed by God as King David and divers others have beene But further I remembred that if I once tooke on mee the Scepter and the governance of the Realme That of two extreame enemies I was daily sure but of one trusty friend which now adayes bee gone a pilgrimage I was neither assured nor credibly ascertained such is the worlds mutation for I manifestly perceived that the daughters of King Edward and their alies and friends which be no small number being both for his sake much beloved and also for the great injurie manifest tyranni done