Betwéene Henrie the second and Thomas Becket 68 b 20. Betwéene bishops 36 b 60 37 a 10. About the election of the maior of London 445 a 60. Hot betwéene William Rufus Anselme 24 25. ¶ Sée Discord Dissention Uariance Contracts of marriage to be void without witnesses 30 b 60. ¶ Sée Mariage Contribution appointed by Henrie the second 74 a 60 Controuersie betwixt king Henrie the third and the bishop of Winchester 231 b 60 232 a 10. About the crowne of Scotland 285 b 60 286 a all Betwéene the archbishop of Canturburie the moonks 120 b 10 Betwixt the nobles and péeres appeased by Henrie the first 38 a 60. ¶ Sée Combat and Contention Conuocation at Westminster called by bishop Longchamp 129 a 20. ¶ Sée Councell and Synod Cooke Anthonie ¶ Sée Iusts triumphant Coplanâ— refuseth to deliuer his prisoner the king of Scots to anie except to the king of England 376 a 60 Copsti slaine by Osulfe 13 a 30 Cordes lord a Frenchman maketh aduantage of occasion 770 a 60. His malicious and foolish words 771 a 20 Cornishmen strong archers 782 b 10. Rebell against Henrie the seauenth their shamefull end 781 b 20 30 c 782 a 10 c. Coronation solemne and statelie of Richard the second 416 a 60 b 10 c 417 a 10 c. Of Richard the first roiall 118 a 30 Corpus Christi college in Oxford by whome and when founded 839 b 50 60 Cosneie besieged by the Dolphin rescued by the duke of Bedford 582 b 40 60 Cotteshold shéepe transported into Spaine 668 b 50 Couentrie the quéenes Henrie the sixts wife secret harbour 654 a 30. She is a better capteine than the king hir husband 654 a 50. The church when and by whom ioined to the sée of Chester 27 b 60 Couetousnesse of Henrie the first note 37 a 60. Of Cardinall Uiuiano noted 100 a 10 b 10 Of the emperor hauing Richard the first his prisoner 137 a 30 Of the emperor notable against honestie and honour 141 a 20 30 40 50. To be noted in Richard the firsts demands 124 b 40. Of king Iohn 184 b 20. Of cardinall Gualo 187 b 20. Of Gualo notable 193 a 20. Of duke William 8 a 40 b 50. Of William Rufus 18 b 10 20 b 10. Purchased Henrie the seuenth hatred among his people 791 b 20 30 40. Of two moonks 18 b 50. Of officers in a collection 139 a 60. Inueighed against 213 a 60 b 10. Of monie the cause of murther note 1228 b 20 c. Cloaked with an excuse 37 b 10. ¶ Sée Flemings and Rome Councell held at Rockingham castell and whie 25 a 10. Held at London 204 b 60. Generall summoned by the pope 236 b 20 237 a 10 c. In Edward the thirds ship 368 a 10. Of the cleargie called by the cardinall 181 b 40. At Yorke 322 a 60. At Westminster by the archbishop of Canturburie 162 a 10. At Winchester and traitors proclamed 143 b 10. At Canturburie 120 b 20. At Pipewell 119 a 60. At London by king Henrie the first and whie 34 a 30. At Oxford 68 a 60. At Clarendon 70 a 30. At Tours 69 a 60. Generall at Rome 102 b 20. At Westminster 85 a 60. At Gattington 111 b 60. Of bishops 71 a 20. At Castill called by K. Henrie the second 82 a 40. Of lords at Clarkenwell 108 b 30. Generall at Pisa 535 a 20. Prouinciall 535 a 20. At Stamford 477 b 30. At Notingham and who present 456 a 60. Generall at Constance 547 a 40. Generall the prerogatiue of the English nation 558 a 60. Of Henrie the sixt most spirituall persons note 622 b 60. ¶ Sée Assemblie Folkmote Parlement Synod Counsell good the want whereof a cause of committing foule sinnes note 18 b 10. Euill of nobles to duke Robert to put king William his brother from the crowne 17 a 10 20. Good of Lanfranke to William Rufus to win and kéepe fauour of people c 16 b 10. Of strangers folowed home-bred refused 231 a 30 Good giuen and safelie followed note 215 a 10 20 30. That bred grudge and mislike betwéene Henrie the third and his nobles 205 b 40. Euill turneth to the hurt of the counsellor 205 a 40. Euill of a bishop to his souereigne against the commonwealth 204 b 60. Euill falleth out ill to the counsell giuer note 204 a 40 50. Euill and lewd companie how mischéeuous 321 b 10. Good giuen ill rewarded 332 a 40. Good not to vse crueltie 188 a 30. Good ill requited 184 b 20. Giuen for the which the counsellors were curssed 168 b 50 60 169 a 10. Of euill persons to the sonne against the father dangerous to a state 86 a 50 b 10 Euill sorteth ill to the counsellor 112 a 50. Lewd faâ—leth ouâ— ill â—0 the counsellor 28 b 30. Euill and dangerous 430 b 20. Good neglected 447 b 50. Euill and what inconuenience followeth it note 507 b 50. Taken how to deale with the lords that conspired against Richard the second 458 b 20. Euill how preualent and mischéeuous 670 b 30 50 c. Of the lord Hastings to his acquaintance note 675 b 10. Of a damsell to the duke of Clarence 675 a 10 20. Good regarded of a king note 8 2. Ill giuen to a king 248 a 60. Euill giuen followed note 12 a 40. couetous mischéefous of the earle of Hereford practised 8 b 60. ¶ Sée warnings Counter in Woodstréet not ancient 1129 b 40 Counterfet of Richard Plantaganet 775 a 60 Counterfet earle of Warwike 785 a 30 Counterfet king Edward the sixt whipped and executed as a traitor 1127 a 40 and b 10 Counterfet king Richard the second 515 a 50 525 b 10 Counterfet duke of Yorke ¶ Sée Perkin Warbecke Counterfet Christ whipped 1194 a 10 Counterfet to be possessed with the diuell punished by dooing open penance 1259 b 60 Counterfet spirit in a wall without Aldersgate 1117 b 60. ¶ Sée Dissimulation and Dissemblers Counterfetting of licences and antedating them 953 a 20 ¶ Sée Antedating Counterfetting of quéene Elisabeths hand punished as an offense tresonable 1227 b 60 1315 a 40 Countesse of Bierne a woman receiueth soldiors paie 230 30. Of Boughanhir punishment for setting the crâ—wne on Robert Bruse his head note 314 a 10. Of Oxford practise to brute that Richard the second was aliue 525 a 60. Committed to prison 525 b 20. Deceaseth 702 b 40 237 b 20 Countesse of Prouance commeth ouer into England 231 b 50.240 b 20. Dealeth vniustlie wiâ—h Henrie the third hir sonne in law 238 a 40 Countesse of Richmond and Derbie c mother to Henrie the seauenth 678 a 60 Countesse of Salisburie beheaded being the last of the right line and nauie of Plantagenet 953 a 60 Countesse of Warwike taketh sanctuarie 685 b 50 Court certeine lords ladies and others put out of Richard the seconds court 463 a 50 60 Court misliked 496 a 60 Courtneie lord prisoner in the Towre
of S. Laurence Herevpon were hostages deliuered by the burgesses vnto the French king Now it was agréed that if they line 30 yéelded the towne at the daie appointed for want of succor king Henrie the son and Robert the French kings brother with the earls of Trois Blois Henrie and Theobald and William archbish of Sens vndertooke vpon their othes that the hostages should then be restored free without any hurt or damage King Henrie being certified from them within of the composition thus made was driuen to a verie hard shift for he doubted nothing lesse than that any such thing should haue chanced Yet considering with line 40 himselfe that the sauing of the towne stood in his speedie comming to the rescue he hasted thither without any staie and came to the place the daie before the third and last daie of the truce King Lewes perceiuing him to be come doubting least he should lose the preie which he looked for sent vnto the king and required that he might common with him on the next daie touching some means of agréement to be had betwixt him and his sons This did he of policie to féed him with hope of some end to be made in the line 50 troubles betwixt him and his sons till he had gotten possession of the towne Now as he forecast that matter euen so it came to passe for whilest a great péece of the next daie was spent in feined talke about an agréement K. Lewes appointed a great part of his host to close the towne about and to declare vnto them within that king Henrie was put to flight which talke they within Uernueil beléeuing yéelded the towne themselues to the French men Soone after king Lewes mistrusting line 60 least he should not be able to kéepe it set it on fire and so burnt it contrarie to the composition betwixt him and them agréed and concluded vpon He kept also the souldiers that had yeelded it into his hands togither with the hostages as prisoners and doubting to cope with his enimie went awaie in the night with as still noise as was possible Which euill dealing had not inuaded his hart but that euill meaning had possessed it before euen at the composition making but he neuer learned that Fidem qui perdit nihil potest vltra perdere King Henrie at length perceiuing the fraud sent certeine bands of his horssemen after to pursue the enimie but for that king Lewes was alreadie gotten into the inner parts of his owne countrie those which were sent turned vpon those that were left in the hindermost ward of whome they slue a great number both horssemen and footmen K. Henrie following his men came to Uernueil and staieng there that night tooke order for the repairing and new fortifieng of the towne On the morrow after he went to the castell of Danuille and wan it taking diuerse knights and yeomen within it this castell belonged to one Gilbert de Tileres And thus it came to passe touching the attempt of the French king for the winning of Uernueil as in some authors we find reported ¶ Other write otherwise of the mater as thus the French K. being summoned by K. Henrie the father either to depart from the siege of Uernueil or to looke for battell hearing also that in performance of the message K. Henrie approched with his power he sent a bishop an abbat vnto him to vnderstand if he meant to giue battell in deed The messengers met king Henrie as he was aduanced before his host vpon some occasion with a small companie about him vnto whom they declared that their maister the French king required to be assured whether he should haue battell or no. King Henrie armed as he was with fierce countenance and dreadfull voice made this short answere Get you hence and tell your king that I am here at hand The messengers returning to their maister declared what they had séene and heard Wherevpon without longer staie he raised his field and with a gallant and mightie armie departed home to his great dishonour not winning the towne at all as by the same author it should appeere About the same time the earle of Flanders one of the confederats besieged the towne of Albemarle and the earle therof within it which earle was thought to betraie the towne bicause it was so easilie woone and both he himselfe and those which king Henrie the father had sent thither to defend the towne were taken prisoners Diuerse other places which belonged to the same earle were also immediatlie deliuered into the enimies hands which increased the suspicion After this towne of Newcastell otherwise called Drincourt in those frontiers was besieged and finallie woone by surrender by the said earle of Flanders who reioised nothing at the gaine of that towne for his brother Matthew the earle of Bullongne who should haue béene his heire was shot into the knée with an arrow as he approched to the wals and died of the hurt within a few daies after The earle of Flanders was so pensife for his brothers death that he brake vp his iournie and returned blaming his euill hap and follie in that he had attempted war against his coosen germane king Henrie who neuer had harmed him but rather had doone him manie great and singular pleasures from time to time ¶ Good cause had the earle to giue ouer the prosequuting of violence against his souereigne being dawnted with so heauie a chance griped also with the grudge of conscience in so vnkindlie rewarding his welwiller at whose hands he confessed himselfe to haue receiued manie a benefit Wherein we are to note that ingratitude neuer hurieth anie so much as him or them in whom it is nestled And hereto alludeth the comedie-writer when he saith verie neatlie morem hunc homines habent quod sibi volunt Dum id impetrāt boni sunt sed id vbi iam pene◠se habēt Ex bonis pessimi fraudulentissimi sunt Moreouer Henrie the elder after the iournie of Uernueil ended came backe to Rouen and there vnderstanding that Hugh earle of Chester and Raft de Foulgiers men of singular prowesse who long before were reuolted to his sonne Henrie had taken the castell of Dole in Britaine and there making warre brought all the countrie into trouble he sent foorth streightwaies certeine of his capteines with the Brabanders to aid his people in those parts who on the twentith day of August being monday encountring with the enimies discomfited them in battell tooke seauenteene knights besides diuerse others both horssemen and footmen slue aboue fifteene hundred of the enimies being Britaines and pursuing the residue entred the towne which they wan and droue their aduersaries into the castell where line 10 they besieged them and with all spéed aduertised the king of that enterprise who immediatlie with all possible hast came thither applieng his whole diligence to win
and comming to his father as an obedient sonne shewed himselfe readie to serue him at commandement with a glad and willing mind Soone after this and about the seauenth houre of the day the sunne suffered a generall eclipse so that no part of it appeared and therwith followed great thunder with lightning and sore tempest with the violence whereof both men and beasts were destroied and manie houses burned Shortlie after this the kings of England and France met and communed togither for the aiding of them in the holie land and they promised indéed to send thither both men and monie but the patriarch made small account thereof for he was much deceiued of that which he hoped to haue brought to passe which was either to haue got the king of England or one of his sonnes or some other man of great authoritie with him into the holie land but bicause that would not be he departed from the court verie sorrowfull and sore displeased so that it may be thought that then and not before his departure out of England he spake his mind so plainlie vnto the king as before yee haue heard Moreouer about this time king Henrie obteined of pope Urbane the third that he might crowne which of his sonnes it should please him king of Ireland in token of which grant and confirmation the said pope sent vnto him a crowne of peacocks feathers after a feat maner wouen in with gold This yeare the king held his Christmasse at Danfrount year 1186 and shortlie after came to a communication with the French king at the which he tooke a solemne oth that he would deliuer the ladie Alice the French kings sister whome he had as yet in his custodie vnto his sonne Richard erle of Poictou in mariage For the which mariage to be had and solemnized the French king granted to deliuer vnto the said Richard the towne of Gisors with all that which his father king Lewes promised vnto king Henrie the sonne latelie deceassed in marriage with quéene Margaret the wife of the same Henrie receiuing an oth thereto neuer to make anie claime or chalenge to the same towne and lands King Henrie after he had thus concluded and finished his affaires with the French king returned backe into England in Maie and then was Hugh prior of Witham instituted bishop of Lincolne after that the see there had béene void and without any lawfull gouernour almost the space of seauenteene yeares This Hugh was reputed a verie godlie and vertuous man Before him Walter Constance was nominated to that sée but bicause he was made archbishop of Rouen before he was inuested in the church of Lincolne he is not accounted in number of the bishops of Lincolne Moreouer king Henrie shortlie after his returne at this time into England assembled a great armie and went with the same to Caerleill in purpose to haue entred Galloway and there to haue chastised Rouland lord of that countrie who was sonne to Uthred the sonne of Fergus for the iniuries doone to his coosine germains namelie to Duncane sonne to Gilbert who was sonne to the same Fergus in spoiling him and the residue after the deceasse of the said Gilbert of their parts of inheritance vsurping the whole to himselfe But as the king was now readie to inuade his countrie Rouland came to him and vsed such meanes vnder pretense of satisfaction that he made his peace with the king who therevpon brought backe his armie and did no more at that time About the same time came newes to the king that Hugh Lacie was slaine in Ireland by an Irish gentleman that was his confederate or rather by a labourer as in the Irish historie you may read whereof the king was nothing sorie bicause the same Hugh was growne to so high degrée of puissance in that countrie that he refused to obeie the kings commandement when he sent for him ¶ It is to be noted that when king Henrie had conquered the most part of Ireland and set the countrie in some good order after his comming from thence such capteines as he left there behind him were not idle but still did what they could to inlarge the confines which were committed to their gouernance but amongst them all this Hugh Lacie was the chéefest in somuch that after the death of Richard earle of Striguile the king made him gouernour of the countrie in place of the said earle by reason whereof he so inlarged his possessions that within a while he became dreadfull not onelie to the enimies but also to his associats as to such English capteins as were abiding in Ireland vpon gard of the English line 10 frontiers For if any of them disobeied his commandement he would not sticke to chastise them at his pleasure so that by such meanes he seemed rather to conquer the countrie to his owne vse than to the kings Wherein he dealt not so directlie or discréetlie as he might for Homines volunt allici non impelli He had also ioined himselfe in mariage with a daughter of the king of Unlester not making king Henrie priuie to the same Wherevpon the king hauing sundrie informations presented to him of such line 20 his presumptuous demeanour commanded him by his letters to returne home and come before his presence which to doo as before I haue said he refused by reason whereof he confirmed the suspicion which was conceiued of him to rise vpon no vaine coniectures and therefore the euill that came to him was nothing lamented of king Henrie who with good cause was highlie offended towards him for the contempts and considerations aforesaid line 30 This yeare Geffrey the kings son who was earle of Britaine died at Paris and was buried in the same citie leauing behind him besides two daughters one onlie sonne as then in his mothers wombe of whom she was deliuered in the night of the feast of Easter next insuing hir husbands death he was named Arthur and succeeded his father in the earledome of Britaine His fathers death was occasioned as men iudge by a fall which he caught at a iournie for he was sore bruised therewith and neuer had his health but finallie fell into a flix and so died line 40 About this season pope Urbane wrote vnto Baldwin archbishop of Canturburie granting him licence to build a church at Alkinton in honour of S. Stephan and Thomas Becket now reputed a martyr and that the fourth part of the offerings which came to the box of Thomas the martyr should be assigned to the vse of the moonks an other fourth part to the buildings of that church and an other fourth part to be giuen to the poore and the other fourth part line 50 remaining he might reserue to himselfe to bestow at his pleasure But within a while after at the suit and supplication of the prior and couent of Canturburie who liked nothing of the former partition the pope sent letters of prohibition to the
intrailes and being rolled to and fro burnt the same but so as no appearance of any wound or hurt outwardlie might be once perceiued His crie did mooue manie within the castell and towne of Berkley to compassion plainelie hearing him vtter a wailefull noise as the tormentors were about to murther him so that diuerse being awakened therewith as they themselues confessed praied heartilie to God to receiue his soule when they vnderstood by his crie what the matter ment The quéene the bishop and others that their tyrannie might be hid outlawed and banished the lord Matreuers and Thomas Gourney who flieng vnto Marcels thrée yeares after being knowne taken and brought toward England was beheaded on the sea least he should accuse the chiefe dooers as the bishop and other Iohn Matreuers repenting himselfe laie long hidden in Germanie and in the end died penitentlie Thus was king Edward murthered in the yeare 1327 on the 22 of September The fame went that by this Edward the second after his death manie miracles were wrought So that the like opinion of him was conceiued as before had beene of earle Thomas of Lancaster namelie amongst the common people He was knowne to be of a good and line 10 courteous nature though not of most pregnant wit And albeit in his youth he fell into certeine light crimes and after by the companie and counsell of euill men was induced vnto more heinous vices yet was it thought that he purged the same by repentance and patientlie suffered manie reproofes and finallie death it selfe as before ye haue heard after a most cruell maner He had suerlie good cause to repent his former trade of liuing for by his vndiscreet line 20 and wanton misgouernance there were headed and put to death during his reigne by iudgement of law to the number of 28 barons and knights ouer and beside such as were slaine in Scotland by his infortunate conduct All these mischeefes and manie more happened not onlie to him but also to the whole state of the realme in that he wanted iudgement and prudent discretion to make choise of sage and discréet councellors receiuing those into his fauour that abused the same to their priuate gaine and aduantage not respecting line 30 the aduancement of the common-wealth so they themselues might atteine to riches and honour for which they onelie sought in somuch that by their couetous rapine spoile and immoderate ambition the hearts of the common people nobilitie were quite estranged from the dutifull loue and obedience which they ought to haue shewed to their souereigne going about by force to wrest him to follow their wils and to seeke the destruction of them whome he commonlie fauoured wherein suerlie they were worthie of line 40 blame and to tast as manie of them did the deserued punishment for their disobedient and disloiall demeanors For it was not the waie which they tooke to helpe the disfigured state of the common-wealth but rather the readie meane to ouerthrow all as if Gods goodnesse had not béene the greater it must néeds haue come to passe as to those that shall well consider the pitifull tragedie of this kings time it may well appeare line 50 But now to procéed with that which remaineth touching this infortunate prince He had issue by his wife quéene Isabell two sonnes Edward which was made king whilest he was yet aliue and Iohn which died yoong also two daughters Elianor which died before she came to yeares able for mariage and Ione which was after giuen in mariage vnto Dauid king of Scotland He was indifferentlie tall of stature strong of bodie and healthfull neither wanted there in him stoutnesse of stomach if his euill councellors line 60 had béene remooued that he might haue shewed it in honorable exploits which being kept backe by them he could not doo So that thereby it appeareth of what importance it is to be trained vp in youth with good and honest companie ¶ It is said that he was learned insomuch that there remaine verses which as some haue written he made whilest he was in prison Certeine it is he fauored lerning as by the erection of Oriall colledge in Oxford S. Maries hall which were of his foundation it may well be gathered Learned men we find recorded by Bale to liue in this kings time these as follow Iohn Duns that subtill logician borne as Leland hath gathered in a village in Northumberland called Emildune thrée miles distant from Alnwike although other hold the contrarie the Scots claiming him for their countrieman and the Irishmen for theirs Robert Walsingham a Carmelite frier that writ diuerse treatises Iohn Wilton an Augustine frier Walter Winterborne Rafe Locksley Nicholas Stanford William Whitley Thomas Ioice Walter Ioice William Gainesburgh Robert Baston borne not farre from Notingham a Carmelite frier of Scarburgh the same whome king Edward tooke with him into Scotland to write some remembrances of his victories although being taken by the Scots he was constreined by Robert Bruce to frame a dittie to a contrarie tune Iohn Horminger a Suffolke man borne William Rishanger a moonke of S. Albons an historiographer Rafe Baldocke bishop of London wrote also an historie which was intituled Historiae Anglica Richard Bliton a Lincolnshire man borne a Carmelite frier Iohn Walsingham borne either in Walsingham or Brunham as Bale supposeth a Carmelite frier also and wrote diuerse treatises Thomas Chabham a canon of Salisburie and a doctor of diuinitie Robert Plimpton borne in Deuonshire a regular canon Thomas Castleford a moonke of Pomfret William Mansfield Iohn Canon Robert Grime William Askettle of Beuerley Geffrey of Cornewall Iohn Gatisdene Theobald Anglicus Stephan Eiton or Edon Iohn Goldstone borne in Yorkeshire Iohn Winchelsey Nicholas de Lyra a Iew by birth of those that had their habitations in England who wrote verie manie treatises to his great commendation for his singular knowledge and zeale which he shewed in disprouing the Rabines that still sought to kéepe the Iewish nation in blindnesse and vaine hope in looking for another Messias Rafe Acton an excellent diuine Iohn Dumbleton a logician Thomas Langford borne in Maldon in Essex a logician Osbert Pickenam a Carmelite frier of Lin in Norffolke Nicholas Okeham a graie frier William Ockam a frier minor that wrote diuerse treatises and namelie against Iohn Duns and likewise against Iohn the three and twentith pope of that name in fauour of the emperour Lewes of Bauier Richard Walingford Thomas Haselwood a canon of Léeds in Kent wrote a chronicle called Chronicon compendiarium Robert Karew Robert Perscrutator borne in Yorkeshire a blacke frier and a philosopher or rather a magician Richard Belgraue a Carmelite Brinkley a minorite and others Thus far infortunat Edward the second Edward the third who came to the crowne by the resignation of his father Edward the second EDward the third of that name the sonne of Edward the second and of Isabell the onelie daughter of Philip
you loue them if ech of you hate other if they were men your faithfulnesse happilie would suffice But childhood must be mainteined by mens authoritie and slipper youth vnderpropped with elder counsell which neither they can haue but ye giue it nor ye giue it if ye gree not For where ech laboureth to breake that the other maketh and for hatred of ech of others person impugneth ech others counsell there must it needs be long yet anie good conclusion go forward And also while either partie laboureth to be cheefe flatterie shall haue more place than plaine and faithfull aduise of which must needs insue the euill bringing vp of the prince whose mind in tender youth infect shall redilie fall to mischeefe and riot and draw downe with his noble relme to ruine But if grace turne him to wisedome which if God send then they that by euill meanes before pleased him best shall after fall furthest out of fauour so that euer at length euill drifts shall draw to nought and good plaine waies prosper Great variance hath there long beene betweene you not alwaie for great causes Sometimes a thing right well intended our misconstruction turneth vnto woorse or a small displeasure doone vs either our owne affection or euill toongs aggreeueth But this wot I well ye neuer had so great cause of hatred as ye haue of loue That we be all men that we be christian men this shall I leaue for preachers to tell you and yet I wot neere whether anie preachers words ought more to mooue you than his that is by by going to the place that they all preach of But this shall I desire you to remember that the one part of you is of my bloud the other of mine alies and ech of you with other either of kinred or affinitie which spirituall kinred of affinitie if the sacraments of Christs church beare that weight with vs that would God they did should no lesse mooue vs to charitie than the respect of fleshlie consanguinitie Our Lord forbid that you loue together the woorse for the selfe cause that you ought to loue the better And yet that happeneth and no where find we so deadlie debate as among them which by nature and law most ought to agree togither Such a pestilent serpent is ambition and desire of vaine glorie and souereigntie which among states where she once entereth creepeth foorth so farre till with diuision and variance she turneth all to mischeefe first longing to be next vnto the best afterward equall with the best at last cheefe and aboue the best Of which immoderat appetite of worship and thereby of debate and dissention what losse what sorow what trouble hath within these few yeares growne in this realme I praie God as well forget as we well remember Which things if I could as well haue foreseene as I haue with my more paine than pleasure prooued by Gods blessed ladie that was euer his oth I would neuer haue woone the courtesie of mens knees with the losse of so manie heads But sithens things passed can not be gaine called much ought we the more beware by what occasion we haue taken so great hurt afore that we eftsoones fall not in that occasion againe Now be those greefs passed and all is God be thanked quiet and likelie right well to prosper in wealthfull peace vnder your coosins my children if God send them life and you loue Of which two things the lesse losse were they by whom though God did his pleasure yet should the realme alwaie find kings and peraduenture as good kings But if you among your selues in a childs reigne fall at debate manie a good man shall perish and happilie he too and ye too yer this land find peace againe Wherfore line 10 in these last words that euer I looke to speake with you I exhort you and require you all for the loue that you haue euer borne to me for the loue that I haue euer borne vnto you for the loue that our Lord beareth to vs all from this time forward all greefs forgotten ech of you loue other Which I verelie trust you will if ye anie thing earthlie regard either God or your line 20 king affinitie or kinred this realme your owne countrie or your owne suertie And therewithall the king no longer induring to sit vp laid him downe on his right side his face towards them and none was there present that could refraine from weeping But the lords recomforting him with as good line 30 words as they could and answering for the time as they thought to stand with his pleasure there in his presence as by their words appeared ech forgaue other and ioined their hands togither when as it after appeared by their deeds their hearts were farre asunder As soone as the king was departed the noble prince his sonne drew toward London which at the time of his deceasse kept his houshold at Ludlow in Wales which countrie being farre off from the law and recourse to iustice was begun to be farre out of line 40 good rule and waren wild robbers and reauers walking at libertie vncorrected And for this occasion the prince was in the life of his father sent thither to the end that the authoritie of his presence should refraine euill disposed persons from the boldnesse of their former outrages To the gouernance and ordering of this yoong prince at his sending thither was there appointed sir Anthonie Wooduile lord Riuers and brother vnto the queene a right honourable man as valiant of line 50 hand as politike in counsell Adioined were there vnto him other of the same partie and in effect euerie one as he was néerest of kin vnto the queene so was he planted next about the prince That drift by the queene not vnwiselie deuised whereby hir bloud might of youth be rooted into the princes fauour the duke of Glocester turned vnto their destruction and vpon that ground set the foundation of all his vnhappie building For whome soeuer he perceiued either at variance with them or bearing himselfe their line 60 fauour he brake vnto them some by mouth some by writing Nay he sent secret messengers saieng that it neither was reason nor in anie wise to be suffered that the yoong king their maister and kinsman should be in the hands and custodie of his moothers kinred sequestred in maner from their companie and attendance of which euerie one ought him as faithfull seruice as they and manie of them farre more honourable part of kin than his moothers side Whose bloud quoth he sauing the kings pleasure was full vnméetelie to be matched with his which now to be as who say remooued from the king and the lesse noble to be left about him is quoth he neither honourable to his maiestie nor to vs and also to his grace no suertie to haue the mightiest of his fréends from him and vnto vs no little ieopardie to suffer our well prooued
court for the French king as one that had béene better instructed in the matter repented himselfe that he had iudged euill of his answers at the last meeting and herevpon receiued him againe into his fauour and rested not to trauell so much in his cause that at length another méeting was assigned at a certeine place neere the confines of Normandie whither king Henrie came and there found king Lewes the archbishop of Rouen and diuerse other bishops together with the foresaid archbishop who after they had reasoned of the matter throughlie as they saw cause king Henrie receiued the archbishop into his fauour againe and promised to redresse all that had béene doone amisse and pardon all those that had followed him out of the realme Wherevpon the king and the archbishop being reconciled the archbishop the same day came before the king and talked with him Now among other things he required of the K. that it might be lawfull for him without offending of his maiestie to punish according to the censures of the church the iniurie doone vnto him by the archbishop of Yorke and other bishops in the coronation of his sonne The king granted this and shewed himselfe so courteous at that time that as it is said he held his stirrâ—p whiles he mâ—unted on horssebacke ¶ Notwithstanding which obsequiousnes of the king it is to be presumed that all inward repâ—â—iâ—g 〈◊〉 not be so abolished as that no fragments remained but that the archbishop for his part for the maintenance of his great title the K. for the sâ—ppoâ—â—ation of his souereigntie when opportunitie sâ—rued â—ought to get aduantage one of another acqâ—it their harts with a new reuenge of an old grâ—dgâ— for Immortalâ— odium nunquâ—m sâ—nabile vulum But whereas twise within a few daies after the king and the said archbishop met at masse the king refused to kisse the pax with him This was marked as a signe of a fained reconciliation though in déed he afterwards interteined him verie courteouslie and at his departure ouer into England tooke leaue of him in fréendlie manner and directed letters vnder his seale to his sonne the new king in forme as followeth A letter of the king touching line 10 the pacification betweene him and Thomas Becket KNow ye that Thomas the archbishop of Canturburie hath made his peace with me at my will and pleasure and therefore I command you that both he and his may remaine line 20 in peace and that he and al those which for his cause departed out of the realme may haue all their goods restored and in such quiet estate be now possessed of them as at any time within three moneths before their departure from thence And further cause to come before vs of the best and most ancient knights of the honor of Saltwood that vpon their oths they may find what fee the archbishop ought to haue within that honor that which shall line 30 appeare to apperteine vnto him as in fee let him inioy the same And thus farewell The archbishop before he tooke his iournie into England went to visit the French king and to giue him thanks for his great paines and trauell susteined in his cause who aduised him in no wise as yet to commit himselfe to present danger amongst his new reconciled enimies but rather to staie till their malice were somewhat asswaged For he perceiued line 40 by king Henries words countenance such a deepe rooted displeasure in his hart that he agréed to receiue him into fauour rather by compulsion and against his will than otherwise But when the archbishop would needs depart go ouer into England the French K. suffered him so to doo dooing him all the honor he could at his leaue taking Then the archbishop departing out of France came into England and landed at Sandwich about the first of December in the seuenth yeare after his line 50 first departure out of the realme Shortlie after his arriuall Roger the archbishop of Yorke Gilbert bishop of London and Iocelin bishop of Salisburie with diuerse other came vnto him as to the popes legat and required that it might please him to restore them to the ministration of their offices againe whose request he granted but yet vpon condition that they should vndertake to stand to his iudgement and order in all things which by the counsell line 60 of the archbishop of Yorke they vtterlie refused ¶ Here authors agrée not as Polydor trulie saith for some write that archbishop Thomas immediatlie vpon his returne into England denounced the archbishop of Yorke with the bishops of Salisburie and London accurssed whereas before they were depriued of the vse and administration of the sacraments Soâ—e â—â—hers write that now at his comming ouer into England from his â—â—ile he depriued them onlie of the ministration of the sacraments togither with the bishops of Eâ—â—ester Chester Rochester S. Asaph Landaâ—â— which had â—â—â—sonallie béene present at the coronation of king Henrie the sonne to the derogation of the dignitie of their primat the archbishop of Canturburie as before you haue heard It shuld seeme yet by Gâ—r Doroâ—â—eâ— that the archbishop of Yorke and the bishop of Durham were suspended and the bishops of London Salisburie and diuerse other excommunicated But how soeuer he vsed them the archbishop of Yorke the two bishops London and Salisburie being offended with his dooings sailed ouer into Normandie and there complained to king Henrie of iniuries doone to them by archbishop Thomas gréeuouslie accusing him that he went about to take awaie their libertie of priesthood to destroie corrupt and finallie to abolish both the lawes of God and man togither with the ancient decrées and statutes of their elders in somuch that he tooke vpon him to exclude bishops at his pleasure from the companie of christian men and so being excluded to banish them for euer to derogat things meerelie preiudiciall to the kings roiall prerogatiue and finallie to take awaie from all men the equitie of lawes and ciuill orders The king giuing eare to their complaint was so displeased in his mind against archbishop Thomas that in open audience of his lords knights and gentlemen he said these or the like words In what miserable state am I that can not be in rest within mine owne realme by reason of one onelie préest Neither is there any of my folkes that will helpe to deliuer me out of such troubles There were some that stood about the king which gessed by these words that his mind was to signifie how he would haue some man to dispatch the archbishop out of the waie The kings displeasure against the archbishop was knowne well inough which caused men to haue him in no reuerence at all so that as it was said it chanced on a time that he came to Strowd in Kent where the inhabitants meaning to doo somewhat to his infamie being thus out of the kings
men vnder the leading of the chatelaine of saint Omers and the chatelaine of Arras Hugh Thacon Eustace de Neuille Baldwin Brecell William de Wimes Giles de Melun W. de Beamont Giles de Hersie Biset de Fersie and others the which taking the sea arriued with one and fortie ships in the Thames and so came to London the seauen and twentith of Februarie where they were receiued of the barons with great ioy and gladnesse Moreouer the said Lewes wrote to the barons that he purposed by Gods assistance to be at Calice by a day appointed with an armie redie to passe ouer with all spéed vnto their succours The fridaie before Candlemasse day Sauarie de Mauleon and other capteines of the kings side laid siege to the castell of Colchester but hauing intelligence that the barons which laie at London made forward with all speed to come to succour that castell on the Wednesday after Candlemasse day being the third of Februarie they raised their siege and went backe towards S. Edmundsburie In the meane while the K. being gone as yee haue heard to the borders of Scotland a brute was raised that he was dead and secretlie buried at Reading But this rumour had not time to worke any great alteration for after he had dispatched his businesse in the north as he thought expedient he returned and comming into the east parts about the midst of Lent himselfe in person besieged the castell of Colchester and within a few daies after his comming thither it was deliuered vnto him by Frenchmen that kept it with condition that they might depart with all their goods and armour vnto their fellowes at London and that the Englishmen there in companie with them in that castell might likewise depart vpon reasonable ransoms But although that couenant was kept with the Frenchmen yet the Englishmen were staied and committed to prison Wherevpon when the Frenchmen came to London they were apprehended and charged with treason for making such composition whereby those Englishmen that were fellowes with them in arms were secluded from so beneficiall conditions as they had made for themselues They were in danger to haue béene put to death for their euill dealing herein albeit at length it was concluded that they should remaine in prison till the comming of Lewes vnto whose pleasure their cause should be referred After this the castell of Hâ—dingham was woone which belonged vnto earle Robert de Uere Then the king prepared to besiege London but the Londoners were of such courage that they set open their gates and hearing of the kings approach made readie to issue forth to giue him battell wherof the king being aduertised withdrew backe but Sauerie de Mauleon was suddenlie set vpon by the Londoners lost manie of his men and was sore hurt and wounded himselfe The king perceiuing that it would not preuaile him to attempt the winning of the citie at that time drew alongst the coast fortified his castels and prepared a great name meaning to encounter his enimie Lewes by sea but through tempest the ships which he had got togither from Yarmouth Dunwich Lin and other hauens were dispersed in sunder and manie of them cast awaie by rage and violence of the outragious winds Somewhat before this time also when he heard of the compact made betwixt the barons and his aduersaries the Frenchmen he dispatched a messenger in all hast to the pope signifieng to him what was in hand and practised against him requiring furthermore the said pope by his authoritie to cause Lewes to staie his iournie and to succour those rebels in England which he had alreadie excommunicated This he néeded not haue doone had he beene indued with such prudence and prowesse as is requisit to be planted in one that beareth rule of whom it is said Cui si quando Deus rerum permittat habenas Imperijque decus tunc aurea secula fiunt Tunc floret virtus terrásque Astrea reuisit Pax viget vitium duris cohibetur habenis whereas by meanes of defects in the contrarie he line 10 bare too low a saile in that he would be so foolified as being a king to suffer vsurped supremasie to be caruee of his kingdome But let vs sée the consequence The pope desirous to helpe king Iohn all that he might bicause he was now his vassall sent his legat Gualo into France to disswade king Philip from taking anie enterprise in hand against the king of England But king Philip though he was content to heare what the legat could saie yet by no meanes would be turned from the execution of his line 20 purpose alledging that king Iohn was not the lawfull king of England hauing first vsurped and taken it awaie from his nephue Arthur the lawfull inheritour and that now sithens as an enimie to his owne roiall dignitie he had giuen the right of his kingdome awaie to the pope which he could not doo without consent of his nobles and therefore through his owne fault he was worthilie depriued of all his kinglie honor For the kingdome of England saith he neuer belonged to the patrimonie of S. Peter nor at anie time shall For admit that he were rightfull line 30 king yet neither he nor anie other prince may giue awaie his kingdome without the assent of his barons which are bound to defend the same and the prerogatiue roiall to the vttermost of their powers Furthermore saith he if the pope doo meane to mainteine this errour he shall giue a perilous example to all kingdomes of the world Herewithall the Nobles of France then present protested also with one voice that in defense of this article they would stand to the death which is that no king or prince at line 40 his will and pleasure might giue awaie his kingdome or make it tributarie to anie other potentate whereby the Nobles should become thrall or subiect to a forren gouernour These things were doone at Lions in the quindene after Easter Lewes on the morrow following being the 26 of Aprill by his fathers procurement came into the councell chamber and with frowning looke beheld the legat where by his procurator he defended the cause that moued him to take vpon him this iournie into line 50 England disprouing not onelie the right which king Iohn had to the crowne but also alledging his owne interest not onelie by his new election of the barons but also in the title of his wife whose mother the quéene of Castile remained onelie aliue of all the brethren and sisters of Henrie the second late king of England as before ye haue heard The legat made answer herevnto that king Iohn had taken vpon him the crosse as one appointed to go to warre line 60 against Gods enimies in the holie land wherefore he ought by decrée of the generall councell to haue peace for foure yeares to come and to remaine in suertie vnder protection of the apostolike sée But Lewes replied
demilances 220 of Welshmen 5000 and of such footmen as were of the earle of Leicesters owne retinue 2000 so that there died in all to the number of ten thousand men as the same Southwell affirmeth Among whom of noblemen these are reckoned Hugh Spenser lord chéefe iustice the lord Rafe Baâ—â—et the lord Peter de Montfort the lord Iohn Beauchampe sir William Yorke the lord Thomas de Esterlie the lord Walter de Creppings Guie de Bâ—lioll a Frenchman the lord William de Mandeuill the lord Roger S. Iohn the lord Robert Tregoz and others This ruine fell to the baronâ— by the discord which was sproong latelie before betwixt the earles of Leicester and Glocester through the insolencie and pride of the earle of Leicesters sonnes who as I said before despising other of the nobilitie and forgetting in the meane time the nature of true and vnstained noblenesse wherof it is said and trulie remembred that Nobilitas morum plus 〈◊〉 â—â—â—â—genitorum spake manie reprochfull words by the said earle of Glocester and vsed him in such euill sort that he vpon displeasurâ— thereof had not onelie procured the scape of prince Edward but ioined with him in aid against the said earle of Leicester and other of the barons to the vtter confusion â—â—th of them and of their cause The bodie of the same earle was shamefullie abused cut in peeces his head and his priuie members were cut off and fastened on either side of his nose and presented vnto the wife of the lord Roger Mortimer The people conceiued an opinion that this earle being thus slaine fighting in defense of the liberties of the realme performance of his oth as they tooke it died a martyr which by the bruted holinesse of his passed life and miracles ascribed to him after his death was greatlie confirmed in the next age But the feare of the kings displeasure staied the people from hastie honouring him as a saint at this time where otherwise they were inclined greatlie thereto reputing him for no lesse in their conscience as in secret talke they would not sticke to vtter There were wounded taken besides the other that were slaine at that battell of Euesham Guie de Montfort the earle of Leicesters sonne the lords Iohn Fitz Iohn Henrie de Hastings Humfrie de Bohun the yoonger Iohn de Uescie Peter de Montfort the yoonger and Nicholas de Segraue with others The king being deliuered out of his aduersaries hands and likewise the king of Romans went vnto Warwike and there increasing his power determined to pursue his enimies But first about the Natiuitie of our ladie was a parlement holden at Winchester where the statuts of Oxford were cleerelie repealed Also all such as had fauoured the barons and were as then either in prison or abroad should be disherited It was also ordeined at this parlement that the wealthiest citizens of London should be cast into prison and that the citie should be depriued of hir liberties Also that the stulps and cheins wherewith the stréets were fensed should be had awaie bicause that the citizens had aided the earle of Leicester against the king and his realme All this was doone for the chéefe citizens were committed to ward within the castle of Windsor till they had paid no small summes of monie for their fines The liberties of the citie were suspended and the towre of London was made stronger by the stulps and cheins which were brought into it out of the citie Moreouer bicause Simon de Montfort might not agrée with the king being come to this parlement vpon assurance he was restored to the castell of Killingworth After this in the feast of the translation of S. Edward a parlement was holden at Westminster and the sentence of disheriting the kings aduersaries was pronounced against them whose lands the king forthwith gaue vnto his trustie subiects where he thought good Some of the disherited men redéemed their possessions with a portion of monie in name of a fine Other of them flocking togither got them into the woods and desert places where kéeping them out of sight as outlawes they liued by spoiles and robberies The cheefest of them was Robert erle of Ferrers who neuerthelesse was restored to his lands but yet with condition that if afterwards he fell into the like crime he should forfeit his earldome for euer The Londoners with much adoo at length obteined pardon of the king The maior and aldermen line 10 of the citie were glad to submit themselues though the commons without consideration of the great perill which they were in would haue stood still at defiance with the king and defended the citie against him It was no maruell though they were of diuerse and contrarie opinions for in those daies the citie was inhabited with manie and sundrie nations which then were admitted for citizens At length vpon their submission the king tooke them to mercie vpon their fine which was seized at twentie thousand line 20 marks About Alhallowentide cardinall Othobone came from the pope into England as his legat to helpe towards some agréement to be had betwixt the king and his barons He was committed to prison as some write by the Londoners for that he spake against their dooings when they shut their gates against the king but he was shortlie released as should appeare On the sixt day of Nouember in the fiftith yeare of his reigne king Henrie came to line 30 Westminster and shortlie after he gaue awaie the number of threescore houses with the houshold stuffe in the same conteined so that the owners were compelled to redeeme them againe of those his seruants to whome he had giuen the said houses togither with all such lands goods and cattels as the same citizens had within any part of England Then was one called sir Othon made custos or gardian of the citie who was also conestable of the tower he chose to be bailiffes and to be accomptable to the kings vse line 40 Iohn Adrian and Walter Henrie citizens of the same citie The king also tooke pledges of the best mens sonnes of the citie which pledges he caused to be put in the tower and there kept at the costs of their parents ¶ The king by aduise of his councell ordeined that within euerie shire of the relme there should be a capteine or lieutenant appointed with necessarie allowance of the king for his charges the which with the assistance of the shiriffe should punish and keepe downe the wicked outrage of théeues and line 50 robbers which in time of the late ciuill warres were sproong vp in great numbers and growen to excéeding great boldnesse but now through feare of deserued punishment they began to ceasse from their accustomed rapine and the kings power came againe in estimation so that peace after a manner tooke new root and increase Upon S. Nicholas euen the king departed from Westminster towards Northampton where the cardinall
His head was sent vnto London and there set vpon the bridge or rather vpon some turret of the tower So hard a matter it is for traitors to escape the hands of the executioner vnder whose hatchet they submit their heads to be hewen from their shoulders euen then when they haue conceiued their traitorous attempts in hart for God who hath placed princes in thrones of roialtie to this end hath vouchsafed them a superlatiue degrée of dignitie that they might be obeied neither will his iustice permit impunitie to the disloiall enterprises and complots of malefactors common peace-disturbers hautie-harted Nemrods ambitious Hamans or anie lewd malcontent for Acer Dei est oculus ad omnia videndum Eius poenas non effugit mortalis Viuere volens ergo ne faciat morte digna ¶ But there be that write otherwise as it may well be thus that this earle of Carleill perceiuing the miserie of his countrie without consent of the king of England made peace with the king of Scots vnder this forme as by Richard Southwell we find recorded First the earle promised faithfullie for him and his heires that they should with all their force and means possible séeke to mainteine the said king of Scots his heires and successors in the peaceable possession of the kingdome of Scotland and that to their powers they shuld fight against all those that would not agrée vnto that couenant as against them that should séeme to be enimies vnto the common-wealth of both the realmes of England and Scotland The king of Scots promised faithfullie for his part to defend the said earle his heires and adherents in the said couenant or paction and not onelie to keepe peace with England but also to build a monasterie within Scotland assigning reuenues thereto to the value of fiue hundred marks to celebrate diuine seruice and to pray continuallie for the soules of them that were dead by occasion of the passed warres betwixt England and Scotland and further that he should giue to the king of England within ten yeares fortie thousand pounds of siluer and that the king of England should haue the king of Scots eldest sonne to marrie him vnto some ladie of his bloud as he should thinke expedient To the performance of all which couenants well and truelie to be obserued Thomas Randulfe earle of Murrey sware on the behalfe of the king of Scots and the earle of Carleill sware for himselfe and héerewith certeine writings indented were drawne and ingrossed to the which interchangeablie they set their hands and seales After that the earle of Carleill was returned home he called to Carleill all the cheefe persons of the countrie as well spirituall as temporall and there rather through feare than otherwise constreined them to receiue an oth that they should aid assist him to their powers to see all the couenants abouesaid performed and kept After that these things were knowne to the king and the realme although some of the communaltie liked well inough of the matter bicause they hoped thereby to remaine in peace especiallie those of the north parts the king yet and his councell not without cause were sore offended for that he whom the king had so latelie aduanced should confederate himselfe with the Scots line 10 to the preiudice of the king and his crowne concluding any couenants of peace without his consent wherevpon reputing him for a ranke traitor the king sent vnto the lord Antonie Lucie to apprehend the said earle by some meanes if he might and for his paines he should not faile to be well rewarded The lord Lucie watching his time when the earles men were gone some whither abroad and but few left about him the morrow after the feast of saint Matthew the apostle he entred the castell of Carleill line 20 as it were to talke with the earle of some businesse as his manner was at other times to doo He had with him sir Hugh Lowther sir Richard Denton and sir Hugh Moricebie knights and foure esquiers beside other priuilie armed so that leauing some at euerie gate and doore as he entred he came into the hall and there finding the earle inditing letters arrested him Herewith when certeine of the earles seruants made a noise and cried Treason treason the porter of the inner gate would haue shut it vpon line 30 them that were thus entred but sir Richard Denton slue that porter with his owne hands and there was not one more slaine by them in the apprehension of the earle for all other his seruants yéelded themselues and the house vnto the said lord Lucie without more resistance Howbeit one of his seruants that saw these dooings got awaie and with all spéed ran to the péele of Heâ—head and shewed to the earles brother Michaell Herkeley what was chanced to the earle wherevpon line 40 the said Michaell foorthwith fled into Scotland and with him sir William Blunt knight a Scotishman and diuerse other that were of the earles priuie councell The lord Lucie streightwaies sent a messenger to the king vnto Yorke aduertising him how he had taken the earle and therefore required to vnderstand further of the kings pleasure The king foorthwith sent the lord Geffrey Scroobe iustice with a number of armed men vnto Carleill the which came thither on saint Chaddes daie and the morrow after being line 50 the third of March he sat in iudgement vpon the said earle in the castell of Carleill and there as out of the kings mouth he pronounced sentence against him in this wise first that he should be disgraded of his earledome by the taking awaie from him the sword which the king had gird him with and likewise of his knighthood by cutting off his spurs from his heeles and that after this he should be drawen from the castell through the citie vnto the place of execution where felons were accustomed to suffer and there line 60 to be hanged afterwards headed and then his head to be sent vnto London there to be set aloft vpon one of the turrets of the tower and his quarters to be diuided one to be set vp at Carleill an other at Newcastell vpon Tine the third at Bristow the fourth at Douer When he had heard this iudgement he said You haue diuided my bodie at your pleasure and I commit my soule vnto God and being according to the iudgement drawen to the place where he suffered he neuer shranke at the matter but boldlie behaued himselfe declaring at the verie houre of his death that his intention in concluding the agréement with the Scots was good and procéeding not of any euill meaning but tending onelie to the wealth and quietnes of the realme Neither could such friers as were permitted to come to him before his arreignement to heare his confession get any thing more of him but that his meaning was good and that which he had concluded with the king of Scots was not doone vpon any euill purpose
whereby any hurt might insue either to the king or to the realme ¶ Thus haue we thought good to shew the cause of this earles death as by some writers it hath béene registred although there be that write that the ouerthrow at Beighland chanced through his fault by misleading a great part of the kings host and that therefore the king being offended with him caused him to be put to death albeit as I thinke no such matter was alleged against him at the time of his arreignement About this season was the foundation begun of S. Michaels colledge in Cambridge by one sir Henrie Stanton knight chancellour of the excheker About the feast of the Ascension there came as commissioners from the king of England vnto Newcastell Aimerie earle of Penbroke and the lord chamberlaine Hugh Spenser the yoonger and other foure personages of good accompt And from the king of Scots there came the bishop of saint Andrews Thomas Randulfe earle of Murrey and other foure of good credit to treat of peace or at the leastwise of some long truce and through the good will and pleasure of God the author of all peace and quietnesse they concluded vpon a truce to indure for thirteene yeares and so about the feast of saint Barnabe the apostle it was proclaimed in both realmes but yet so that they might not traffike togither bicause of the excommunication wherewith the Scots were as yet intangled although as some write about the same time the interdict wherein the realme of Scotland stood bound was by pope Iohn released The French K. being latelie come to the crowne sent certeine ambassadors vnto king Edward to wit the lord Beouille and one Andreas de Florentia a notarie to giue summons vnto him from the French king to come and doo homage for the lands which he held in France as for the duchie of Aquitaine and the countie of Pontieu And though the lord chamberleine Hugh Spenser the sonne and the lord chancellour Robert Baldocke did what they could to procure these ambassadors not to declare the cause of their comming to the king yet when they should depart they admonished the king to come and doo his homage vnto the French king and vpon this admonition the said Andreas framed a publike instrument by vertue whereof the French king made processe against the king of England and â—eized into his hands diuerse townes and castels in Aquitaine alledging that he did it for the contumacie shewed by the king of England in refusing to come to doo his homage being lawfullie summoned although the king was throughlie informed that the summons was neither lawfull nor touched him anie thing at all About the same time the lord Roger Mortimer of Wigmor giuing his kéepers a drinke that brought them into a sound and heauie sléepe escaped out of the tower of London where he was prisoner This escape of the lord Mortimer greatlie troubled the king so that immediatlie vpon the first news he wrote to all the shiriffes of the realme that if he chanced to come within their roomes they should cause hue and crie to be raised so as he might be staied and arrested but he made such shift that he got ouer into France where he was receiued by a lord of Picardie named monsier Iohn de Fieules who had faire lands in England and therefore the king wrote to him reprouing him of vnthankfulnesse considering he had beene euer readie to pleasure him and to aduance his profits and commodities and yet notwithstanding he did succour the said lord Mortimer and other rebels that were fled out of his realme In Lent this yeare a parlement was holden at London in the which diuerse things were intreated amongst other the cheefest was to determine for the sending of some honorable ambassage to the French king to excuse the king for not comming to him to doo his homage according to the pretended summons line 10 ¶ In the same parlement Adam bishop of Hereford was arrested and examined vpon points of treason for aiding succouring and mainteining the Mortimers and other of the rebels This bishop was reckoned to be wise subtill and learned but otherwise wilfull presumptuous and giuen to mainteine factions At the first he disdeined to make anie answer at all and finallie when he was in manner forced thereto he flatlie told the king that he might not make any answere to such matters as he was charged with except by the licence and consent of his line 20 metropolitane the archbishop of Canturburie and other his péeres Héerevpon the said archbishop and other bishops made such sute that he was committed to the kéeping of the said archbishop with him to remaine till the king had taken order for his further answer Within few daies after when the king called him againe before his presence to make answere to the matters laid against him the archbishops of Canturburie line 30 Yorke Dublin and ten other bishops came with their crosses afore them and vnder a colour of the priuilege and liberties of the church tooke him awaie before he had made anie answere forbidding all men on paine of excommunication to laie anie hands vpon him The king greatlie offended with this bold procéeding of the prelats caused yet an inquest to be impauelled to inquire of the bishop of Herefords treasons and vpon the finding of him giltie he seized into his hands all the temporalties line 40 that belonged to his bishoprike and spoiled his manours and houses most violentlie in reuenge of his disloiall dealings Moreouer in this parlement the lands and possessions that belonged sometime to the Templers and had beene deliuered vnto the knights Hospitalers otherwise called knights of the Rodes by the king in the seauenth yeare of his reigne according to the decrée of the councell of Uienna were by authoritie of this parlement assured vnto the said knights to enioy line 50 to them and their successors for euer Also it was concluded that the earle of Kent and the archbishop of Dubline should go ouer as ambassadours into France to excuse the king for his not comming in person to the French king to doo his homage for the lands he held in France Moreouer in the same parlement the king granted that all the dead bodies of his enimies and rebels that had suffered and hanged still on the gallowes should be taken downe and buried in the churchyards next to the places where line 60 the same bodies were hanging and not elsewhere by such as would take paine to burie them as by his writs directed vnto the shiriffes of London and of the counties of Middlesex Kent Glocester Yorke and Buckingham it appeared And not onelie this libertie was granted at that time for the taking down of those bodies but as some write it was decréed by authoritie in the same parlement that the bodies of all those that from thenceforth should be hanged
was to be had in any place in all the west parts of christendome In the summer of this yeare a greeuous mortalitie afflicted the north parts of this land so that the countrie became almost desolate And to the increase of that miserie the Scots thinking the time to serue thâ—ir turne inuaded the borders and most cruellie harried robbed and spoiled the same not letting passe any part of most cruell murthering of the people that were left aliue and not made awaie by that sore contagious sicknesse The number of cattell was infinite which they droue out of the land with them not sparing heards of swine which they tooke at this time where they neuer medled with that kind of cattell before that present Before the Scots made this iournie into England whilest the mortalitie was most in force they calling to certeine of the English borderers asked line 10 of them how it came to 〈◊〉 that so great a death reigned amongst them The Englishmen as good plaine and simple meaning men told them that trulie they knew not the cause for Gods iudgements were hid from them in such behalfe But one thing they knew that all calamitie death and aduersitie that chanced vnto them came by the speciall grace of God to the end that being punished for their sinnes they might learne to repent and amend their wicked liues The Scots hearing this when they should enter line 20 this land vnderstanding lewdlie what the Englishmen had told them concerning the disease and the grace of God deuised a blessing forsooth to be said euerie morning of the most ancient person in euerie familie as Benedicite said he Dominus said the residue Then began he againe saieng God and saint Mango saint Romane and saint Andro shield vs this daie fra Gods grace and the fewle death that Englishmen dien vpon Thus the senselesse men misconstruing this word the grace of God praied for line 30 their owne destruction which if not in this world yet for their brutish crueltie vsed at that present against the miserable creatures whom the hand of God had spared in time of that gréeuous mortalitie it is to be feared least in another world it came to them as the verie words of their praiers imported About the same time Iohn Schakell esquier was set at libertie the king compounded with him for his prisoner giuing fiue hundred marks in redie monie and lands to the value of a hundred marks by yeare line 40 When he should bring foorth his prisoner and deliuer him to the king this is to be noted as a thing verie strange and woonderfull For when he should appeare it was knowne to be the verie groome that had serued him in all the time of his trouble and would neuer vtter himselfe what he was before that time hauing serued him as an hired seruant all that while in prison and out of prison in danger of life when his other maister was murthered where if he would haue vttered himselfe he might haue beene enterteined in line 50 such honorable state as for a prisoner of his degrée had beene requisit so that the faithfull loue and assured constancie in this noble gentleman was highlie commended and praised and no lesse maruelled at of all men About the feast of S. Nicholas in this third yeare of king Richards reigne there went to sea an armie of men that should haue passed ouer into Britaine to the aid of the duke there vnder the conduct of sir Iohn Arundell sir Hugh Caluerlie sir Thomas Percie line 60 sir William Elmham sir Thomas Morews sir Thomas Banester manie other knights and esquires too long to rehearse a sufficient power vndoubtedlie to haue doone a great enterprise but they were no sooner on the sea but suddenlie there arose such an hideous tempest of wind and stormes that they looked presentlie to be all cast awaie they were scattered here and there and driuen they wist not whither The ship wherein sir Iohn Arundell was aboord chanced to be cast on the coast of Ireland and there driuen to forsake his ship that was readie to be broken in péeces by rage of waues beating it there against the rocks he was drowned before he could win to land in an I le neere to the which they had thrust in the ship To the like end came sir Thomas Banester sir Nicholas Trumpington and sir Thomas Dale impeaching each others as they leapt foorth of the ship also one Musard an esquire a most séemelie personage and a bold and an other esquier named Deniâ—ke being almost out of danger were fetched awaie by the surges of the sea and so perished with manie other Robert Rust a cunning seaman belonging to Blacknie in Northfolke maister of the ship wherein sir Iohn Arundell was imbarked was the first that got to land giuing example to others how to shift for themselues But when he saw his cheefe capteine the said sir Iohn Arundell got foorth to the sands and as one thinking himselfe past all danger to shake his wet garments about him the said Rust waieng the dangerous state wherein the said sir Iohn Arundell yet stood came downe and raught to him his hand inforsing himselfe to plucke him to the shore but whilest he tooke care for an other mans safetie and neglected his owne he lost his life and so they both perished togither for through a mightie billow of the raging seas they were both ouerthrowne and with returning of the waues backe drawne into the deepe so that they could neuer recouer foot-hold againe but were drowned The said Rust was much lamented bicause he was not onelie knowne to be a skilfull maister but also counselled the said sir Iohn Arundell in no wise to go to sea at what time he would needs set forward forsing the said Rust and the marriners to hoist vp sailes and make awaie They that scaped to land in that I le found nothing there to releeue their miseries but bare ground so that diuerse starued through cold wanting fier and other succour the residue that were lustie and wise withall ran vp and downe and sometime wrestling and otherwise chafing themselues remained there in great miserie from the thursdaie till sundaie at noone next insuing At what time when the sea was appeased and waxen calme the Irishmen that dwelled ouer against this I le on the maine came and fetched them thence and reléeued them the best they could being almost dead through trauell hunger and cold The said sir Iohn Arundell lost not onelie his life but all his furniture and apparell for his bodie which was verie sumptuous so that it was thought to surmount the apparell of any king For he had two and fiftie new sutes of apparell of cloth of gold or tissue as was reported all the which togither with his horsses geldings amounting to the value of ten thousand marks was lost at the sea And besides this there were lost at the same time fiue and twentie
harts hard it is to wrest out and may grow line 40 to more greefe than anie man can here diuine Wherefore me thinketh it were not worst to send vnto the quéene for the redresse of this matter some honorable trustie man such as both tendereth the kings weale and the honour of his councell and is also in fauour and credence with hir For all which considerations none seemeth more méetlie than our reuerend father here present my lord cardinall who may in this matter doo most good of anie man if it please him to take the paine which I doubt not of his line 50 goodnesse he will not refuse for the kings sake and ours and welth of the yoong duke himselfe the kings most honorable brother and after my souereigne lord himselfe my most déere nephue considered that thereby shall be ceassed the slanderous rumor and obloquie now going and the hurts auoided that thereof might insue and much rest and quiet grow to all the realme And if she be percase so obstinate and so preciselie set vpon hir owne will that neither his wise and faithfull aduertisement can not mooue hir nor anie line 60 mans reason content hir then shall we by mine aduise by the kings authoritie fetch him out of that prison and bring him to his noble presence in whose continuall companie he shall be so well cherished and so honorablie intreated that all the world shall to our honour and hir reproch perceiue that it was onelie malice frowardnesse or follie that caused hir to kéepe him there This is my purpose and mind in this matter for this time except anie of your lordships anie thing perceiue to the contrarie for neuer shall I by Gods grace so wed my selfe to mine owne will but that I shall be readie to change it vpon your better aduises When the protector had said all the councell affirmed that the motion was good and reasonable and to the king and the duke his brother honorable and a thing that should ceasse great murmur in the relme if the mother might be by good means induced to deliuer him Which thing the archbishop of Yorke whome they all agreed also to be thereto most conuenient tooke vpon him to mooue hir and therein to doo his vttermost deuoir Howbeit if she could be in no wise intreated with hir good will to deliuer him then thought he and such other as were of the spiritualtie present that it were not in anie wise to be attempted to take him out against hir will For it should be a thing that would turne to the great grudge of all men and high displeasure of God if the priuilege of that holie place should now be broken which had so manie yeares be kept which both kings and popes so good had granted so manie had confirmed and which holie ground was more than fiue hundred yeares ago by saint Peter in his owne person in spirit accompanied with great multitudes of angels by night so speciallie halowed dedicated to God for the proofe wherof they haue yet in the abbeie saint Peters cope to shew that from that time hitherward was there neuer so vndeuout a king that durst that sacred place violate or so holie a bishop that durst it presume to consecrate And therefore quoth the archbishop of Yorke God forbid that anie man should for anie thing carthlie enterprise to breake the immunitie libertie of the sacred sanctuarie that hath beene the safegard of so manie a good mans life And I trust quoth he with Gods grace we shall not need it But for anie maner néed I would not we should doo it I trust that â—hée shall be with reason contenâ—ed and all things in good maner obteined And if it happen that I bring it not so to passe yet shall I toward it so farre foorth doo my best that ye shall all well perceiue that no lacke of my deuoire but the mothers dread and womanish feare shall be the â—et Womanish feare naie womanish frowardnes quoth the duke of Buckingham For I dare take it vpon my soule she well knoweth she needeth no such thing to feare either for hir son or for hir selfe For as for hir here is no man that will be at war with women Would God some of the men of hir kin were women too then should all be soone in rest Howbeit there is none of hir kin the lesse loued for that they be hir kin but for their owne euill deseruing And nathelesse if we loued neither hir nor hir kin yet were there no cause to thinke that wee should hate the kings noble brother to whose grace we our selues be of kin Whose honor if she as much desired as our dishonor and as much regard tooke to his wealth as to hir owne will she would be as loth to suffer him to be absent from the king as anie of vs be For if she haue anie wit as would God she had as good will as she hath shrewd wit she reckoneth hir selfe no wiser than she thinketh some that be here of whose faithfull mind she nothing doubteth but verelie beléeueth and knoweth that they would be as sorie of his harme as hir selfe and yet would haue him from hir if she bide there and we all I thinke contented that both be with hir if she come thence and bide in such place where they may with their honors be Now then if she refuse in the deliuerance of him to follow the counsell of them whose wisdome she knoweth whose truth she well trusteth it is easie to perceiue that frowardnesse letteth hir and not feare But go to suppose that she feare as who maie let hir to feare hir owne shadow the more she feareth to deliuer him the more ought we feare to leaue him in hir hands For if she cast such fond doubts that she feare his hurt then will she feare that he shall be set thence For she will soone thinke that if men were set which God forbid vpon so great a mischiefe the sanctuarie would little let them which good men might as me thinketh without sinne somewhat lesse regard than they doo Now then if she doubt least he might be fetched from hir is it not likelie inough that she shall send him some where out of the realme Uerelie I looke for none other And I doubt not but shee now as sore mindeth it as we the let thereof And if she might happen to bring that to passe as it were no great maistrie we letting hir alone all the world line 10 would saie that we were a wise sort of councellors about a king that let his brother be cast awaie vnder our noses And therefore I insure you faithfullie for my mind I will rather manger hir mind fetch him awaie than leaue him there till hir frowardnesse and fond feare conueie him awaie And yet will I breake no sanctuarie therfore For verely sith the priuileges of that place and other like haue béene of long continued I am
Kildare being vnmarried was desirous to haue an English woman to wife and for that he was a suter to a widow contrarie to the cardinals mind he accused him to the king of that he had not borne himselfe vprightlie in his office in Ireland where he was the kings lieutenant Such accusations were framed against him when no bribes would come that he was committed to prison and then by the cardinals good preferment the earle of Surrie was sent into Ireland as the kings deputie in lieu of the said earle of Kildare there to remaine rather as an exile than as lieutenant to the king euen at the cardinals pleasure as he himselfe well perceiued In the beginning of Aprill the said earle passed ouer into Ireland and had with him diuerse gentlemen that had béene in the garrison of Tornaie and one hundred yeomen of the kings gard and others to the number of a thousand men where he by his manhood and policie brought the earle of Desmond and diuerse other rebels to good conformitie and order He continued there two yeares in which space he had manie bickerings and skirmishes with the wild Irish. There rested yet the earle of Northumberland whome the cardinall doubted also least he might hinder his purpose when he should go about to wreake his malice against the duke of Buckingham and therefore he picked a quarell to him for that he had seized vpon certeine wards which the cardinall said apperteined of right to the king And bicause the earle would not giue ouer his title he was also committed to prison after tooke it for a great benefit at the cardinals hands that he might be deliuered out of his danger Now in this meane while the cardinall ceassed not to bring the duke out of the kings fauour by such forged tales and contriued surmises as he dailie put into the kings head insomuch that through the infelicitie of his fate diuerse accidents fell out to the aduantage of the cardinall which he not omitting atchiued the thing whereat he so studiouslie for the satisfieng of his canckered malicious stomach laid full aime Now it chanced that the duke comming to London with his traine of men to attend the king into France went before into Kent vnto a manor place which he had there And whilest he staid line 10 in that countrie till the king set forward greeuous complaints were exhibited to him by his farmars and tenants against Charles Kneuet his surueiour for such bribing as he had vsed there amongest them Wherevpon the duke tooke such displeasure against him that he depriued him of his office not knowing how that in so dooing he procured his owne destruction as after appeared The kings maiestie perseuering in purpose to méet with Francis the French king remooued with line 20 the quéene and all his court the one twentith day of Maie being mondaie from his manor of Gréenwich towards the sea side and so on the fridaie the fiue and twentith of Maie he arriued at the citie of Canturburie intending there to keepe his Whitsuntide On the morrow after the emperour being on the sea returning out of Spaine arriued with all his nauie of ships roiall on the coast of Kent direct to the port of Hieth the said daie by noone where hée was saluted by the viceadmerall of England sir line 30 William Fitz William with six of the kings great ships well furnished which laie for the safegard of passage betwixt Calis and Douer Towards euening the emperour departed from his ships and entered into his bote and comming towards land was met and receiued of the lord cardinall of Yorke with such reuerence as to so noble a prince apperteined Thus landed the emperour Charles the fift at Douer vnder his cloth of estate of the blacke eagle all spread on rich cloth of gold He had with him manie line 40 noble men and manie faire ladies of his bloud When he was come on land the lord cardinall conducted him to the castell of Douer which was prepared for him in most roiall maner In the morning the king rode with all hast to the castell of Douer to welcome the emperour and entering into the castell alighted Of whose comming the emperour hauing knowledge came out of his chamber and met him on the staires where either of them embraced other in most louing maner and then the king brought the line 50 emperour to his chamber On Whitsundaie earlie in the morning they tooke their horsses and rode to the citie of Canturburie the more to kéepe solemne the feast of Pentecost but speciallie to sée the quéene of England his aunt was the emperour his intent of whome ye may be sure he was most ioifullie receiued and welcomed Thus the emperour and his retinue both of lords and ladies kept their Whitsuntide with the king and quéene of England in the citie of Canturburie with line 60 all ioy and solace The emperour yet himselfe séemed not so much to delight in pastime and pleasure but that in respect of his youthfull yeares there appeared in him a great shew of grauitie for they could by no meanes bring him to danse amongst the residue of the princes but onelie was contented to be a looker on Peraduenture the sight of the ladie Marie troubled him whome he had sometime loued and yet through fortunes euill hap might not haue hir to wife The chiefe cause that mooued the emperour to come thus on land at this time was to persuade that by word of mouth which he had before done most earnestlie by letters which was that the king should not meet with the French king at anie interuiew for he doubted least if the king of England the French king should grow into some great friendship and faithfull bond of amitie it might turne him to displeasure But now that he perceiued how the king was forward on his iournie he did what he could to procure that no trust should be committed to the faire words of the Frenchmen and that if it were possible the great friendship that was now in bréeding betwixt the two kings might be dissolued And forsomuch as he knew the lord cardinall to be woone with rewards as a fish with a bait he bestowed on him great gifts and promised him much more so that hée would be his friend and helpe to bring his purpose to passe The cardinall not able to susteine the least assault by force of such rewards as he presentlie receiued and of such large promises as on the emperours behalfe were made to him promised to the emperour that he would so vse the matter as his purpose should be sped onelie he required him not to disalow the kings intent for interuiew to be had which he desired in anie wise to go forward that he might shew his high magnificence in France according to his first intention The emperour remained in Canturburie till the thursdaie being the last
by his testament which is peace whereof all goodnesse procéedeth and in place of the same shall haue war wherof foloweth all calamities dangers inconueniences pouerties and miseries Héerewith you shall submit your selfe vnto them whome yée may command and shall hazard the bloud and substance of your subiects in the pursses of strangers Euerie one as for himselfe ought to haue regard thereto and for the short time that we haue here to liue not to go about to depriue himselfe of that tranquillitie ioy good regard and pastime that the princes may haue by peace and by following the warre to be in pouertie heauinesse and hazard of losse of goods honours and liues and that worst is after they haue had euill daies in this world to be in danger of eternall paine in the world to come thorough them that haue béene the cause thereof and that would not yéeld vnto reason The king my souereigne lord is readie to put himselfe for his part in all deuoir and more than so to haue peace and amitie with you and by this means peace shall be procured throughout all christendome whereby men might doo God good seruice in making warre on the Infidels which will be so thankfull to him that it will put off the punishment of faults which haue béene committed héeretofore by reason of the warres which haue too long indured betwéene you two and not yet like to ceasse considering the termes which you hold and séeke to mainteine sith on the one part certeine aduowing themselues on you haue assailed and taken by force the citie of Rome which is the place of the holie and apostolike sée where they haue committed and done all the mischéefe that might be deuised The churches and relikes were prophaned the pope holding saint Peters seat as vicar of God on earth taken and put out of his libertie By means whereof they that haue committed and executed the said execrable deeds and wickednesse with their authors and fautors be fallen and run in paines of right and they that hold them captiues beare themselues on you and he that dooth keepe them hath béene and is of the principall capteins of whome you haue béene serued in your warres in Italie and other parts And on the other side the difference which at this time resteth betweene you and the king my souereigne and naturall lord is principallie vpon the ransome and recouerie of the princes his sonnes which you hold for hostages of the same He hath oftentimes offered and yet dooth offer to paie to you and giue to you not onelie that which may be said to be reasonable and in such cases accustomed but also more largelie You ought not to stand vpon things which by force and constraint he hath promised the which iustlie and honestlie he maie not performe nor accomplish you had a great deale more gained to haue taken the said ransome which was offered vnto you than to continue the warre and to giue occasion of all the euils and inconueniences that dailie happen thereby thorough christendome You sée the king of England with whome he hath brotherlie amitie for euer and also the Uenetians Florentines and duke of Bar and other princes and potentats following and holding the partie of the said christian king for that they sée he yéeldeth to reason and by reason you will not thereto incline the vniuersall peace can not be concluded in christendome The enimies of the faith gaine countries all Italie is in armes bloud and rapine and the apostolicall sée in trouble so that if on your part you séeke not remedie and that things doo thus continue as they haue begun it is to be feared that God will be angrie And for as much sir as to the declarations which the aboue said princes haue offered vnto you and the presentations which the said christian king hath made vnto you you haue refused to giue eare thereby to come to some accord with him and to content your selfe with a ransome more than reasonable also for that you will not render vnto his good brother perpetuall alie and confederat the king of England that which is his set the pope at libertie and leaue Italie in peace and tranquillitie he hath commanded me to declare signifie and notifie vnto you his great gréefe and displeasure with his said good brother the king of England that they will hold and take you for their enimie declaring all maner of treaties and couenants heretofore passed betweene them and you in all that concerneth your profit vtilitie to be nothing and that for his part he will not obserue nor line 10 kéepe the same Naie he hath resolued by all meanes that he may imagine with his good fréends alies confederats with all his forces to indamage you your countries lands and vassals by warre or otherwise in such sort as he maie deuise vntill the time that you haue restored vnto him his children with honest meanes and couenants touching his ransome deliuered the pope rendered vnto the king of England that you hold of him and acquited the summe which line 20 you owe him and suffer his alies and confederats to liue in peace rest and tranquillitie and protesteth before God and all the world that he dooth not wish nor desire the warre but that it wholie displeaseth him and is not therefore the cause of the euill that is or maie come thereof considering that he hath put and will put himselfe vnto all reason as he hath offered and signified vnto you and to all other christian princes and yet dooth And of all this he calleth God who knoweth all line 30 things to witnesse And for that vnder colour of the publication of the pretended tretie of Madrill made he being yet prisoner in Spaine diuerse of your subiects and of them of the king of Englands and of his haue carried their merchandizes and other goods into the kingdomes streicts and seignories the one of the other whereby maie insue great damages if of them no mention should be made in this present declaration and signification my souereigne lord and the said king of England be contented that libertie line 40 be giuen vnto all subiects being in the said kingdomes countries streicts and seigniories to retire and depart from thence with all their goods and merchandizes within fortie daies after this intimation made Prouided that you shall doo the like vnto their subiects in all euerie their merchandizes Giuen the eleuenth daie of Nouember 1527 signed Guien king of armes The emperour after the defiance giuen by Guien line 50 spake in this sort I doo vnderstand that which you haue read from the king your maister I doo much maruell why he dooth defie me for he being my prisoner by right warre and I hauing his faith by reason he can not doo it It is vnto me a noueltie to be defied of him séeing it is six or seuen yeares that he hath warred against me
at libertie and deliuered beyond Fonterabie so came safelie home into France Then a French herald appointed to accompanie the ambassadour Grandeuill brought the writing of the combat vnto the emperor bicause Grandeuill refused to medle with it To the which the emperor fiue moneths after line 30 or thereabouts sent an answer by one of his heralds who being arriued at Paris meant vpon the sudden to present his letters vnto the French king But the king getting intelligence thereof the tenth of September sitting within his great hall of his palace at Paris aforesaid before the table of marble in a roiall seat addressed and set vp for him sixtéene steps in height appointed to giue audience to the said herald On his right hand sate in chaires the king of Nauarre line 40 the duke of Alanson and Berrie the earle of Foix and Arminacke And on the same side sate also vpon a bench the duke of Uandosme a peere of France lieutenant generall and gouernor of Picardie don Hercules de Est eldest sonne to the duke of Ferrar duke of Chartres and Montarges who latelie before had maried the ladie Rener a daughter of France the duke of Albanie regent and gouernor of Scotland the duke of Longueuille great chamberleine of France And néere to them vpon line 50 another bench sate the presidents and councellors of the court of parlement and behind them manie gentlemen doctors and learned men On the left hand were set in chaires prepared for them the cardinall Saluarie the popes legat the cardinall of Burbon and duke of Laon a peere of France the cardinall of Sens chancellor of France the cardinall of Lorrain the archbishop of Narbon the ambassadors of the kings of England and Scotland of the segniorie of Uenice of Millan of the Cantons of the Suisses line 60 and of Florence On an other bench sate the bishop of Transiluania ambassador for the king of Hungarie the bishop and duke of Langres one of the peeres of France the bishop earle of Noion an other of the peeres of France th'archbishop of Lion primat of all France the archbishop of Burges primate of Aquitaine the archbishops of Aux and Rouen the bishops of Paris Meaux Lizeux Mascon Limoges Uabres Conserans and Terbe And behind them sate the masters of the requests and the councellors of the great councell On either side the kings seate stood the earle of Beaumont great master and marshall of France the lord de Brion admerall of France lieutenant generall and gouernor of Burgognie And behind the same seat were manie knights of the order that is to wit the earle of Lauall lieutenant generall and gouernor of Britaine the lord of Montmerancie the lord Daubignie capteine of an hundred lances and of the Scotish gard the earle of Brienne Lignie and Roussie the lord of Fleuranges marshall of France the lord of Ruffoie the lord of Genoilliac great esquier and master of the artillerie of France Lois monsieur de Elenes the lord of Humiers and the earle of Carpie Behind them was the earle of Estamps prouost of Paris and with him manie gentlemen of the kings chamber among the which was the earle of Tancaruill the lord of Guien the son of the earle of Rousâ—ie the son of the lord of Fleuranges the lord de la Rochpot the lord Donartie great master of the waters and forrests the lord of Lude the lord of Ianlie the lord de Uillebon bailie of Rouen the baron of Chasteau Morant the lord de la Loue the vicount de la Motheaugroing and the lord of Uertes And besides these the masters and officers of the houshold gentlemen waiters with the more part of the two hundred gentlemen or pensioners as we terme them At the entrie into the said throne or tribunall seat were the capteins of the gards and the prouost of the houshold And before the king knéeled the vshers of the chamber vpon the one knée and at the foot of the step that went vp to the kings seate were the prouosts of the merchants and escheuins of the towne of Paris Beneath in the hall the gates whereof were still open there was an infinite number of people of all nations and in presence of them all the king made this declaration The cause wherefore I haue made this assemblie is for that the emperour elect hath sent to me an herald of armes who as I coniecture and as the same herald hath said and as his safe conduct importeth hath brought me letters patents and autentike concerning the suertie of the field for the combat that should be betwixt the said elected emperour and me And forasmuch as the said herald vnder colour to bring the suertie of the field may vse certeine fictions dissimulations or hypocrisies to shift off the matter whereas I desire expedition and to haue it dispatched out of hand so that by the same an end of the warres which haue so long continued may be had to the ease and comfort of all christendome to auoid the effusion of bloud and other mischéefes which come thereof I haue wished it knowne to all christendome to the end that euerie one may vnderstand the truth from whence procéedeth the mischéefe and the long continuance thereof I haue also caused this assemblie to be made to shew that I haue not without great cause enterprised such an act for the right is on my side and if I should otherwise haue doone mine honor had béene greatlie blemished A thing which my lords that are of my bloud and other my subiects would haue taken in euill part And knowing the cause of the combat and my right they will beare with it as good and loiall subiects ought to doo trusting by Gods helpe to procéed in such sort therein that it shall plainelie appéere if the right be on my side or not and how against truth I haue béene accused for a breaker of my faith which I would be loth to doo nor at anie time haue meant so to doo The kings my predecessors and ancestors whose pictures are ingrauen and set héere in order within this hall which in their daies haue successiuelie atchiued glorious acts and greatlie augmented the realme of France would thinke me vnworthie and not capable to be their successor if against mine honor I should suffer my selfe to be charged with such a noâ—e by the emperour and should not defend my person and honor in the manner and forme accustomed And herewith he declared the whole case as it stood First how being taken at Pauia by fortune of war he neuer gaue his faith to anie of his enimies consenting to be led into Spaine caused his owne gallies to be made readie to conueie him thither Where at his arriuall he was committed to ward within the castell of Madrill garded with a great number line 10 of harquebuziers others Which vncourteous dealing found in the emperor so much gréeued him that he fell sicke
were persuaded than vanquished taught than ouerthrowne quietlie pacified than rigorouslie persecuted Ye require to haue the statute of six articles reuiued And know you what ye require Or know ye what ease ye haue with the losse of them They were lawes made but quicklie repented too bloudie they were to be borne of our people yet at the first in deed made of some necessitie Oh subiects how are ye trapped by euill persons We of pitie bicause they were bloudie tooke them awaie and you now of ignorance will aske them againe You know full well that they helped vs to extend rigour and gaue vs cause to draw our sword verie often And since our mercie mooued vs to write our lawes with milke and equitie how are ye blinded to aske them in bloud But leauing this maner of reasoning and resorting to the truth of our authoritie we let you wit the same hath béene adnulled by parlement with great reioise of our subiects and not now to be called in question And dareth anie of you with the name of a subiect stand against an act of parlement a law of the realme What is our power if lawes should be thus neglected Or what is your suertie if lawes be not kept Assure you most suerlie that we of no earthlie thing vnder the heauen make such reputation as we doo of this one to haue our lawes obeied this cause of God to be throughlie mainteined from the which we will neuer remoue a heares bredth nor giue place to anie creature liuing but therein will spend our whole roiall person our crowne treasure realme and all our state whereof we assure you of our high honor For herein resteth our honor herein doo all kings knowledge vs a king And shall anie one of you dare breath or thinke against our kingdome and crowne In the end of this your request as we be giuen to vnderstand ye would haue them stand in force till our full age To this we thinke that if ye knew what ye spake ye would not haue vttred the motion nor neuer giuen breath to such a thought For what thinke you of our kingdome Be we of lesse authoritie for our age Be we not your king now as we shall be Shall ye be subiects hereafter and now are ye not Haue we not the right we shall haue If ye would suspend and hang our dooings in doubt vntill our full age ye must first know as a king we haue no difference of yeares but as a naturall man and creature of God we haue youth and by his sufferance shall haue age We are your rightfull king your liege lord the souereigne prince of England not by our age but by Gods ordinance not onelie when we shall be one and twentie yeares of age but when we were of ten yéers We possesse our crowne not by yeares but by the bloud and descent from our father king Henrie the eight If it be considered they which mooue this matter if they durst vtter themselues would denie our kingdome But our good subiects know their prince and will increase not diminish his honor inlarge his power not abate it knowledge his kingdome not deferre it to certeine yeares All is one to speake against our crowne and to denie our kingdome as to require that our lawes maie be broken vnto one and twentie yeares Be we not your crowned annointed and established king Wherein be we of lesse maiestie of lesse authoritie or lesse state than our progenitors kings of this realme except your vnkindnes your vnnaturalnesse will diminish our estimation We haue hitherto since the death of our father by the good aduise and counsell of our deare and intirelie beloued vncle the duke of Summerset and gouernor and protector kept our estate mainteined our realme preserued our honour defended our people from all enimies We haue hitherto béene feared and dread of our enimies yea of princes kings and nations Yea herein we be nothing inferiour to anie our progenitors which grace we acknowledge to be giuen vs from God and how else but by good obedience line 10 good counsell of our magistrates and by the authoritie of our kingdome England hitherto hath gained honour during our reigne it hath woone of the enimie and not lost It hath béene maruelled that wée of so yoong yeares haue reigned so noblie so roiallie so quietlie And how chanceth that you our louing subiects of that our countrie of Cornewall and Deuonshire will giue occasion to slander this our realme of England to giue courage to the enimie to note our realme of line 20 the euill of rebellion to make it a preie to our old enimies to diminish our honour which God hath giuen our father left our good vncle and councell preserued vnto vs What greater euill could ye commit than euen now when our forren enimie in Scotland and vpon the sea seeketh to inuade vs to doo our realme dishonour than to arise in this maner against our law to prouoke our wrath to aske our vengeance and to giue vs an occasion to spend that force vâ—on you which we meant to bestow vpon our enimies to line 30 begin to slaie you with that sword that we drew forth against Scots and other enimies to make a conquest of our owne people which otherwise should haue beene of the whole realme of Scotland Thus farre we haue descended from our high maiestie for loue to consider you in your simple ignorance and haue béene content to send you an instruction like a father who of iustice might haue sent you your destructions like a king to rebels And now we let you know that as you sée our mercie abundantlie line 40 so if ye prouoke vs further we sweare to you by the liuing God ye shall féele the power of the same God in our sword which how mightie it is no subiect knoweth how puissant it is no priuat man can iudge how mortall no Englishman dare thinke But suerlie suerlie as your lord and prince your onlie king and maister we saie to you repent your selues and take our mercie without delaie or else we will foorthwith extend our princelie power and execute our sharpe sword against you as against infidels line 50 and Turks and rather aduenture our owne roiall person state and power than the same should not be executed And if you will proue the example of our mercie learne of certeine which latlie did arise as they perceiuing pretended some griefes and yet acknowledging their offenses haue not onelie most humblie their pardon but féele also by our order to whome onelie all publike order apperteineth present redresse of their griefes In the end we admonish you of line 60 your duties to God whome ye shall answere in the daie of the Lord of your duties toward vs whom ye shall answere by our order and take our mercie whilest God so inclineth vs least when ye shall be constreined to aske we shall be two much hardened in heart to grant it
le of Iusketh leauing therein foure ensignes of Englishmen and one of Italians with certeine pioners to fortifie the place But the Frenchmen as in the Scotish historie yée shall find more at large after the departure of the English nauie recouered that I le againe out of the Englishmens possession after they had kept it sixtéene daies with the slaughter of capteine Cotton their generall capteine Applebie one Iasper that was capteine of the Italians beside others After the recouering of this I le monsieur be Desse returned into France leauing his charge to monsieur de Thermes latelie before there arriued who after the departure of the said Desse with a campe volant did what he could to stop the Englishmen within Hadington from vittels But notwithstanding the earle of Rutland being lieutenant of the north did not onlie vittell it but put the French armie in danger of an ouerthrow as it was thought must néeds haue folowed if they had not with more spéed than is vsed in a common march slipt awaie after they perceiued the English armie so neare at their elbowes Moreouer beside these inordinate vprores and insurrections aboue mentioned about the latter end of the said moneth of Iulie in the same yeare which was 1549 an other like sturre or commotion began at Semer in the northriding of Yorkeshire and continued in the eastriding of the same and there ended The principall dooers and raisers vp whereof was one William Ombler of Eastheslerton yeoman and Thomas Dale parish clearke of Semer with one Stéeuenson of Semer neighbour to Dale and nephue to Ombler which Stéeuenson was a meane or messenger betwéene the said Ombler and Dale being before not acquainted togither and dwelling seuen miles one from the other who at last by the trauell of the said Steeuenson and their owne euill dispositions inclined to vngratiousnesse and mischiefe knowing before one the others mind by secret conference were brought to talke togither on saint Iames daie Anno 1549. The causes moouing them to raise this rebellion were these First principally their traitorous harts grudging at the kings most godlie procéedings in aduancing and reforming the true honour of God and his religion An other cause also was for trusting to a blind and a fantasticall prophesie wherwith they were seduced thinking the same prophesie shuld shortlie come to passe by hearing the rebellions of Norffolke of Deuonshire and other places The tenour of which prophesie and purpose togither of the traitors was that there should no king reigne in England the noblemen and gentlemen to be destroied and the realme to be ruled by foure gouernours to be elected and appointed by the commons holding a parlement in commotion to begin at the south and north seas of England supposing that this rebellion in the north and the other of the Deuonshire men in the west méeting as they intended at one place to be the meane how to compasse this their traitorous diuelish deuise And therfore laieng their studies togither how to find out more companie to ioine with them in that detestable purpose and to set forward the sturre this deuise they framed to sturre in two places the one distant seuen miles from the line 10 other and at the first rush to kill and destroie such gentlemen and men of substance about them as were fauourers of the kings proceedings or which would resist them But first of all for the more spéedie raising of men they deuised to burne beacons thereby to bring the people togither as though it were to defend the sea-coasts and hauing the ignorant people assembled then to powre out their poison first beginning with the rudest and poorest sort such as they thought were line 20 pricked with pouertie and were vnwilling to labor and therefore the more readie to follow the spoile of rich mens goods blowing into their heads that Gods seruice was laid aside and new inuentions neither good nor godlie put in place and so feeding them with faire promises to reduce into the church againe their old ignorance and idolatrie thought by that means soonest to allure them to rage and run with them in this commotion And furthermore to the intent they would giue the more terror to the gentlemen at the line 30 first rising least they should be resisted they deuised that some should be murthered in churches some in their houses some in seruing the king in commission and other as they might be caught and to picke quarels at them by alteration of seruice on the holie daies and thus was the platforme cast of their deuise according as afterward by their confession at their examinations was testified and remaineth in true record Thus they being togither agréed Ombler and line 40 Dale with others by their secret appointment so laboured the matter in the parish of Semer Wintringham and the townes about that they were infected with the poison of this confederacie in such sort that it was easie to vnderstand whervnto they would incline if a commotion were begun the accomplishment whereof did shortlie follow For although by the words of one drunken fellow of that conspiracie named Caluerd at the alehouse in Wintringham line 50 some suspicion of that rebellion began to be smelled before by the lord president and gentlemen of those parties and so preuented in that place where the rebels thought to begin yet they gaue not ouer so but drew to another place at Semer by the seacoast and there by night rode to the beacon at Straxton and set it on fire and so gathering togither a rude rout of rascals out of the townes neare about being on a sturre Ombler Thomas Dale Barton and Robert Dale hasted foorthwith with the rebels to maister line 60 Whites house to take him who notwithstanding being on horssebacke minding to haue escaped their hands Dale Ombler and the rest of the rebels tooke him and Clopton his wiues brother one Sauage a merchant of Yorke and one Berrie seruant to sir Walter Mildmaie Which foure without cause or quarell sauing to fulfill their seditious prophesie in some part and to giue a terror to other gentlemen they cruellie murthered after they had caried them one mile from Semer towards the Wold and there after they had stripped them of their clothes purses left them naked behind them in the plaine fields for crowes to feed on vntill Whites wife and Sauages wife then at Semer caused them to bée buried Long it were and tedious to recite what reuell these rebels kept in their raging madnesse who ranging about the countrie from towne to towne to inlarge their vngratious and rebellious band taking those with force which were not willing to go leauing in no towne where they came anie man aboue the age of sixtéene yeares so increased this number that in short time they had gathered three thousand to fauour their wicked attempts and had like to haue gathered more had not the
about the feast of the Epiphanie Edward the Blacke prince eldest sonne to Edward the third being about the age of nine yeares was in the twelfe yéere of his father being the yeare of our redemption 1338 or as saith Matthew Parker 1337 made gardian of England in the absence of his father being as then sailed into Flanders to procure the Flemmings to aid him against the French king Under which prince as some write or rather as I for the time take it equall in commission line 10 to him it séemeth that Iohn archbishop of Canturburie had the cheefest rule of the land bicause that king Edward after his returne into England which was about the fouretéenth or the fifteenth of his reigne charged the said bishop with certeine negligences which he vsed in collections of monie whilest he had the chiefe rule of the land when he was in the wars of France Wherefore the words of Matthew Parker in the life of the said Iohn Stratford saieng that the king held a parlement in which Omnem regni line 20 curam gubernationem archiepiscopo cōmisit must néeds be intended that he had that charge vnder or equallie with the said Blacke prince as chiefest councellor to support the tender yeares of his sonne After which also in the yeare of our redemption as hath the same Matthew Parker 1342 being about the sixteenth of the said Edward the third the king committed the care gouernement of the kingdome to the said archbishop whilest the king was beyond line 30 the seas in the warres for thus writeth the said Parker fol. 257. Ac paulo post nulla purgatione indicta speaking of the said bishop vniustlie accused to the king aut recepta omnibus penè parlamenti ordinibus pro archiepiscopo deprecantibus rex eum sua sponte legitimè purgatum excusatum pronuntiauit eúmque multo magis charum quà m antè habuit omnibúsque gerendis in Anglia rebus se in militia absente praefecit Of which archbishop being somtime chancellor and treasuror of England shall be set downe a more large discourse in my large booke of the liues of the chancellors line 40 Lionell third sonne to Edward the third was in the ninth yere of the reigne of the said king Edward the third being the yeare in which the word became flesh 1345 made gardian of England in the absence of his father who as then was sailed into the parts beyond the seas of Flanders Of this man there is more spoken in my following treatise of the dukes of England Henrie lord Persie Rafe lord Neuill when Edward line 50 the third was sailed into Normandie were in the twentith yere of the reigne of the said Edward the third being the yeare of our redemption 1346 appointed to be gardians of the realme in his absence with the archbishop of Yorke the bishop of Lincolne and Thomas Hatfield bishop of Durham Thomas of Woodstocke being verie yoong was made custos or gardian of England in the yere that God tooke on him the forme of a seruant 1359 being the thrée thirtith of the reigne of the said king Edward the third when he sailed into France with a line 60 1100 ships Of this man is more spoken in my discourse of the dukes of England set downe in the time of quéene Elizabeth and in my treatise of the conestables of England set downe in the time of Henrie the eight pag. 867. Iohn of Gant duke of Lancaster fourth sonne of Edward the third bicause the king his father was féeble and sicklie being now about thrée score fiue yeares of age though Bodinus in his Methodo historiae saie that he died in his climactericall yeare of thrée score and thrée for the truth is that the said Edward the third was fourtéene yeares old when he began to reigne and he reigned about one and fiftie yeares which make of his age thrée score and fiue yeares but especiallie for the sorrow which the king inwardlie conceiued for the death of that worthie prince his son commonlie surnamed the Blacke prince This Iohn of Gaunt after the death of the said Blacke prince which died in the yeare of Christ 1376 being the fiftith yeare of the reigne of Edward the third whose death was déemed to be hastned by the said Iohn of Gaunt aspiring to the crowne the plat whereof though it tooke not effect in the life of the said Iohn yet it was performed in his sonne Henrie of Bullingbrooke who deposed Richard the second was appointed by his father Edward the third to haue the rule of the realme vnder him the which he continued during his fathers life which was not a full yeare after that he had made the said Iohn of Gaunt gouernour of England After which death of king Edward the third when Richard the second a child of eleuen yeares of age began his reigne in the yeare of our redemption 1377 in the first yeare of the said Richard the second after his coronation the said Iohn of Gaunt duke of Lancaster Edmund of Langleie earle of Cambridge brother to the said Iohn of Gaunt were appointed to haue the gouernement of the kings person and the administration of the common-wealth But shortlie after in the same yere of the king in the yeare of our redemption 1378 the said Iohn of Gaunt gaue vp the same office Of this man is more said in my treatise of the dukes of England William Courtneie bishop of London but shortlie after his protectorship aduanced vnto the sée of Canturburie in the yeare of Christ 1381 about the ninth of Ianuarie being about the fourth of Richard the second was made gouernor of the realme in this maner After as is before said that the duke of Lancaster had wiselie weied the fickle estate of the realme and considered that by the euill gouernment of the nobilitie and inconstant mind of the yoong king there must néeds fall a change of the estate doubting that if any thing succéeded otherwise than the nobles liked the cause and negligence might be imputed to him as one who cheeflie had the gouernment in his hands and thanks howsoeuer the state was ruled he looked for none did in the end after a few months authoritie wholie misliking the maners of the court which commonlie are not of the best in the minoritie of princes surrender his protectorship and obteined licence of the king to depart and so got him quietlie to his castell of Kenelworth permitting others to haue the whole swaie of the kingdome Notwithstanding all which in the second yeare of Richard the second about the yeare of Christ 1379 being not altogither carelesse of the kings well dooing this duke before his departing to Kenelwoorth caused certeine graue persons with his full consent to be ordeined which should haue the gouernement of the kings person and administration of the common-wealth The names of whome were William Courtneie before mentioned Edmund Mortimer
obiecta mille iam mortibus territa in tutelam salutémque animi iuxta ac corporis recipere ac protegere Ob haec singularia tua in nos pietatis beneficia quòd sub tutore optimo magistratu in hac tua Nordouicensi vrbe quam maiestas tua nobis ob Christi religionem exulantibus domicilij loco clementer concessit viuimus line 60 adde quòd populi in nos animum fauorabilem experimur inprimis Deo patri Domino vnico seruatori nostro Iesu Christo deinde tibi serenissima regina immortales non quas debemus sed quas possimus agimus gratias Porrò humile quidem vnicum tamen nostrum est votum animi nostri gratitudinem maiestati tuae ostendere Ecce igitur nullum munus sed animum nostrum nullum regium splendorem sed pietatis posteritatÃsque monumentum serenissimae tuae maiestati consecratum Hoc autem eo gratius maiestati tuaefore confidimus quòd ex inculpatipijssimÃque Iosephi historia Dei erga maiestatem tuam bonitas ad viuum sit delineata quem nulla astutia nullum robur nulla denique regnandi libido sed fides constans christiani pectoris pietas coelestÃsque virtus singulari Dei fauore ex sanguinaria fratrum conspiratione mortÃsque metu ad summam dignitatem regnÃque decus euexeâ—unt In huius fratres non aliena videtur prouerbialâ—s illa apud Hebraeos sententia Inuidia malarum rerum appetitus studium vanae gloriae hominibus saepissimè occasio sunt sui interitus Tamen quòd Iosephi animum attinet ea fuit praeditus temperantia fortitudine vt nimis iniquus simul prauus censeri posset qui eum vel minimo vindicandi affectu accusare velit adeò Dei prouidentiae se omne vitae suae studium vitae inquam in alieno regno periclitantis commisit vt non aliunde quà m à solo Dei nutu pendêre visus sit Sed quorsum ista In te ne haec ipsa aliáque consimilia ô serenissima regina regni tui ratione omnium oculis conspicua sunt Haec inquam esse ecclesiae Christi foelicissimum gaudium spirituale diadema summum decus huius verò regni verè regium splendorem atque perennem gloriam quis nisimente captus inficias ire potest Pijssimè tu quidem singulari Dei bonitate animum Iosephi tum in regni tui conseruatione tum in regno Christi amplificando imitata es ô nutrix ecclesiae Dei fidelissima solius enim Dei est hunc per res prout hominum oculis sunt subiectae secundas disperdere illum autem per quaeuis teÌ„tationum genera rerúmque discrimina extollere Quos vt vasa suae misericordiae agnoscit ita etiam bonitate spiritus sui tum consolatione tum fortitudine ad aeternae vitae foelicitatem prosequitur Quod nostrum votum ratum esse maiestatem tuam regnÃque ordinem spirituali prudentia ac sapientia stabilire eámque in longam aetatem seruare tuae item maiestatis subditos vera sui cognitione magis ac magis imbuere dignetur bonus ille clemens Deus per meritafilij sui Domini nostri Iesu Christi Amen Regiae maiestati post orationem oblatum est monumentum aliquod in cuius superficie artificiosè sculpta erat historia Iosephi ex lib. Genesios In circumferentia verò hoc carmen Innocuum pietas ad regia sceptra Iosephum Ex manibus fratrum carnificÃsque rapit Carcere insidijs sic te regina tuorum Ereptam duxit culmina ad ista Deus Inscriptio erat in ipsius capacitate scripta in orbem hoc modo Serenissimae Angliae reginae Elisabethae ecclesiae Belgicae Nordouici ob religionem exulaÌ„tes hoc monumentum pietatis posteritatis ergô consecrabant Anno salutis humanae 1578. In interiore ipsius parte erat insigne serpentis in gyrum conuoluti cui media insidebat columba cum hoc Christi elogio Prudens vt serpens simplex vt columba The minister of the Dutch church his oration in English THe oratours most grations queene which liued in the age of them that woone greatest renowme were highlie commended for that they could transforme the iudges minds partlie by eloquence and partlie by setting downe before their eies the calamitie of the thing and person they spake of into what disposition them listed The first part declareth vnto vs no common felicitie of men in that they were so willing in following and attentiue in hearing as they would suffer themselues to be lead by eloquence The last obteined great fauour amongst all nations whose common weale was gouerned in good order and farre greater amongst the christians but greatest of all with thee ô most excellent queene the nursse of Christ his church whose mind obedient to Gods word the spirit of Christ and zeale of godlinesse and not this prophane kind of speech hath instructed The verie calamitie of godlie men and teares of the afflicted the teares I saie of faithfull christians haue thoroughlie mooued thee to defend and protect the miserable and dâ—â—persed members of Christ obiect to euerie kind of iniurie before beaten in peeces by a thousand deaths with the safetie and preseruation as well of mind as bodie For these thy singular benefits of godlinesse towards vs and that we liue vnder so good a tutor being magistrate in this thy citie of Norwich which thy maiestie hath of clemencie granted vnto vs for a mansion place which were banished for Christ his religion and moreouer that we find the minds of the people fauourable towards vs first wee giue immortall thanks not such as wee line 10 ought but such as we are able vnto God the father and the Lord our onelie sauiour Iesus Christ and then vnto thee most mercifull queene Moreouer it is our humble and yet our onelie petition to shew vnto your maiestie the thankefulnesse of our mind Behold therefore dedicated to your most excellent maiestie not anie gift but our mind no princelie iewell but a monument of godlinesse and posteritie The which we hope will be so much the more acceptable to your maiestie for bicause the goodnes line 20 of God towards your maiestie is liuelie drawne out of the historie of the innocent and most godlie Ioseph whom neither policie strength nor desire of bearing rule but constant faith godlinesse of a christian heat and heauenlie vertue by Gods singular mercie deliuered from the bloudie conspiracie of his brethren and feare of death and brought vnto high dignitie roiall kingdome To whose brethren that prouerbiall sentence of the Hebrewes is verie fitlie alluded Enuie being the desire of euill things and line 30 couetousnesse of transitorie renowme is oftentimes the occasion of mans destruction But touching the mind of Ioseph the same was indued with such temperance and fortitude that he might be thought no lesse vniust than wicked that
than matter vpon syllables than sense of the law For in the strictnesse exact following of common forme she must haue béene indicted in Staffordshire haue line 30 holden vp hir hand at the barre and beene tried by a iurie a proper course forsooth to deale in that maner with one of hir estate I thought it better therefore for auoiding of these and more absurdities to commit the cause to the inquisition of a good number of the greatest and most noble personages of this realme of the iudges and others of good account whose sentence I must approoue and all little enough For we princes I tell you are set on stages in the sight and view of all the world dulie line 40 obserued the eies of manie behold our actions a spot is soone spied in our garments a blemish quicklie noted in our dooings It behooueth vs therefore to be carefull that our procéedings be iust and honorable But I must tell you one thing more that in this last act of parlement you haue brought me vnto a narrow streict that I must giue direction for hir death which cannot bée to mée but a most gréeuous and irksome burthen And least you line 50 might mistake mine absence from this parlement which I had almost forgotten although there bée no cause whie I should willinglie come amongst multitudes for that amongst manie some maie bee euill yet hath it not béene the doubt of anie such danger or occasion that kept me from thense but onlie the great griefe to heare this cause spoken of especiallie that such a one of state and kin should néed so open a declaration and that this nation should be so spotted with blots of disloialtie line 60 Wherein the lesse is my gréefe for that I hope the better part is mine and those of the woorse not so much to be accounted of for that in séeking my destruction they might haue spoiled their owne souls And euen now could I tell you that which would make you sorie It is a secret and yet I will tell it you although it is knowne I haue the propertie to keepe counsell but too well oftentimes to mine owne perill It is not long since mine eies did sée it written that an oth was taken within few daies either to kill me or to be hanged themselues and that to be performed yer one moneth were ended Hereby I see your danger in me and neither can nor will be so vnthankefull or carelesse of your consciences as not prouide for your safetie I am not vnmindfull of your oth made in the association manifesting your great good wils and affections taken and entered into vpon good conscience and true knowledge of the guilt for safetie of my person and conseruation of my life doone I protest to God before I heard it or euer thought of such a matter vntill a great number of hands with manie obligations were shewed me at Hampton court signed and subscribed with the names and seales of the greatest of this land Which as I doo acknowledge as a perfect argument of your true hearts and great zeale to my safetie so shall my bond be stronger tied to greater care for all your good But for as much as this matter is rare weightie and of great consequence I thinke you doo not looke for anie present resolution the rather for that as it is not my maner in matters of far lesse moment to giue spéedie answer without due consideration so in this of such importance I thinke it verie requisit with earnest praier to beséech his diuine maiestie so to illuminat my vnderstanding and inspire me with his grace as I maie doo and determine that which shall serue to the establishment of his church preseruation of your estates and prosperitie of this common wealth vnder my charge Wherein for that I know delaie is dangerous you shall haue with all conueniencie our resolution deliuered by our message And what euer anie prince maie merit of their subiects for their approoued testimonie of their vnfained sinceritie either by gouerning iustlie void of all parcialitie or sufferance of anie iniuries doone euen to the poorest that doo I assuredlie promise inuiolablie to performe for requitall of your so manie deserts ¶ The occasions of the second accesse THis answer thus made by hir maiestie the lords and commons were dismissed And then hir highnesse some few daies after vpon deliberation had of this petition being as it appeared of hir mercifull disposition of nature and hir princelie magnanimitie in some conflict with hir selfe what to doo in a cause so weightie and important to hir and the realme sent by the lord chancellor as I heard and by the mouth of an honorable person and a right worthie member of the lower house this message to both houses moouing and earnestlie charging them to enter into a further consideration whether there might not be some other waie of remedie than that they had alreadie required so far disagreeing from hir owne naturall inclination Wherevpon the lords and commons in either houses assembled had sundrie consultations both in their seuerall houses generallie and by priuat committees deputed speciallie And after conference had betwixt the said committées it was resolued with vnanimitie of consent amongst them in the lower house and by vniuersall concord in the vpper house the question there propounded to euerie one of the lords that there could be found no other sound and assured meane in the depth of their vnderstanding for the continuance of the christian religion quiet of the realme and safetie of hir maiesties most roiall person than that which was conteined in their former petition The reasons whereof were summarilie these that follow which are more shortlie reported than they were vttered A briefe report of the second accesse the foure and twentith of Nouember 1586 and of the answer made in the name of tâ—e lords of the parlement to a message sent from hir maiestie by the lord chancellor after hir first answer THe lord chancellor accompanied with aboue fiue or six and twentie lords of parlement came before hir highnesse in hir line 10 chamber of presence to deliuer the resolution of all the lords of parlement concerning a message which he had not long before deliuered from hir maiestie for further consultation whether anie other means could be thought of or found out by anie of them how the Scotish quéens life might be spared and yet hir maiesties person saued out of perill and the state of the realme preserued in quiet declared that according to that he had receiued in commandement from hir maiestie he had imparted line 20 the same vnto the lords assembled in the vpper house whom he found by their generall silence much amazed at the propounding thereof considering the same had béene before in deliberation amongest them and resolued vpon and as appeared by their former petition exhibited to hir highnesse wherein they had expressed the same resolution Notwithstanding for hir maiesties further satisfaction
agréement concluded betwixt the two kings read in S. Peters church in Yorke 96 a 10. Of agréement betweene the king of England and the king of Conagh 96 b 60. Of king Stephan and the pacification of troubles betwixt him and Henrie Fitzempresse 62 a 10. Of maâ—â—mission granted to the rebels by Richard the second 434 a 10. Blanke sealed note 496 a 10 Confirmed vnder Henrie the thirds acknowledgment and subscription of witnesses 220 b 20. Cancelled and much gréeued at 208 b 60. Chartres taken by treason notwithstanding the truce 607 a 60 Chastitie of the ladie Graie and hir wisdom 726 a 50. Should such professe as would be admitted subdeacons 30 b. 30. ¶ Sée Clergie Charugage a certeine dutie for euerie plowland 229 a 50 Chaucer the English poet in what kings time he liued 541 b 50. ¶ Sée Dukes Chaumount Hugh taken prisoner 152 a 10 Chéeke knight his deserued commendation note 1055 a 50 60 b 10 c. His treatise shewing how gréeuous sedition is to a commonwealth note 1042 1043 c to 1055. Cheinie knight lord warden of the cinque ports authorised by Henrie the eight to the christening of the Dolphins daughter 973 b 50 60. An enimie to Wiat note 1094 a 40. Henrie the eights letter to him for a prescript forme of demeanor in the English towards the French 974 a 40 c. Lord warden of the cinque ports his death his old seruices at home and abroad much spoken to his praise and honor note 1171 a 30 40 50 60 b 10 20 30. Cheapside conduit builded 704 b 10 Cheshire made a principalitie 492 b 40 Cheshiremen gard Richard the second 489 b 50. Slaine note 523 b 60 Chester abbeie by whome builded 27 b 60. And who gaue order thereto 28 b 10. Earledome by whome possessed and inioied 20 a 10 Chierburgh besieged by the English 562 b 50. Yéelded to the Englishmen 563 a 10. Deliuered to the English 420 a 10. Possessed by the English 564 a 40 Child of eleuen years old speaking strange spéeches 1315. a 10 c. Chime of saint Giles without Criplegate to be mainteined 1312 a 60. ¶ Sée Bels. Chimniage ¶ Sée Subsidie Chinon taken by force of assault 169 b 60 Chisie William a notable théefe hanged 124 a 20 Christ and of a portion of his bloud shewed in a solemne procession 240 a 40 Christ counterfet whipped 1194 a 10. False apprehended and punished 203 b 40 50 Christs hospitall erected 1082 b 10 Christians preuaile against the Saracens at Damieta 202 b 20. It enuious discord 134 a 20. Beheded by the Turks 133 a 30. And Saracens are a peace 135. Two hundred and thréescore deliuered from the captiuitie of the Turks by means of one Iohn Fox note 1310 b 20. ¶ Sée Saracens Christianitie abiured for monie note 27 a 40 Christianus a bishop of the Danes capteine in warre 7 b 40 Christine a quéenes sister a nun ¶ Sée Margaret Christmas roiall 807 a 40 Christmas shewes 816 a 10 Christmasse called The still Christmasse 892 b 40 Chronicles whereof and whie so named and their necessarie vse 1268 1269 Chroniclers deserue a dutifull reuerence and whie 1268 Church of saint Anthonies in London when and by whom builded 779 a 50. Of saint Dunstans in the east defiled with bloud note 562 a 20 c. Of Elie dedicated note 246 b 30. Of Hales solemnlie dedicated 244 b 60 245 a 10. Of Scotland obedient to the church of England 97 b 10. Of England sore fléesed of hir wealth 18 b 30. Ruinated by the Danes in the north parts and verie scant note 11 a 20. Depriued of temporall prosperitie 256 a 50. Impropriat and that the bishop of Lincolne had authoritie to institute vicars in them 246 a 40. Occupied by incumbents strangers of the popes preferring what grudge it bred note 214 a 60. Spoiles aduantage not the getter note 194 a 50. That for feare of the censure thereof the English pledges were released 147 b 10 Iewels c turned into monie for Richard the first his ransome 139 b 10. The state thereof in Beckets time 77 a 60. Liuings restored by act of parlement note 1130 a 20. Cathedrall to inioie the right of their elections 409 a 10. Ouerthrowne by an earthquake 440 b 40. In London striken and broken by tempest 1185 a 10. Made a kenell of hounds reuenged 23 a 50. ¶ Sée Consecration Fines Inuestitures Lands Schisme Churchmen ¶ Sée Clergie Churchyard new néere Bedlem first made â—211 b 10 Cicester the situation thereof 796 b 10 Cicill knight commissioner into Scotland about an accord of peace 1192 a 30. Created lord treasuror 1238 a 50. His descent 1255 b 30 Cipriots resist Richard the first his landing and are pursued vanquished 127 a 60 b 10. Their offers in respect of his discontentment losse 127 b 60. Submit themselues and are receiued as his subiects 128 a 40. Their king submitteth himselfe to Richard the first 128 a 10. Stealeth awaie submitteth himselfe againe is committed prisoner and chained in giues of siluer 128 a 10 60 b 10 Circumcision for loue of a Iewish woman 203 b 60 Cisteaux moonks ¶ Sée monks white Citie wherof it consisteth 1046 b 50 Cities their necessarie vse and seruice note 1047 b 10 20 30 Citizens ¶ Sée Londoners Clergie their presumptuous â—â—thoritie restreined by acts 239 b 40. Large offer to Henrie the third in a parlement 255 b 30. Depriued of their liuings and liberties 8 b 60 and Normans preferred 9 a 10. Ricked at by duke William against whome note his malice 9 a 10. Pinched by their pursses fret and â—ume against the popes procéedings in that behalfe 252 b 30. Resist duke Williams decrées and are banished 8 a 30 Hardlie delt withall and out of order note 24 a 30. Of England complaine to pope Urban against William Rufus 18 b 40. Cardinall Pools articles concerning them 1162 b 30. Grant halfe of all their spirituall reuenues for one yeare to Henrie the eight 877 b 20. Complained of by the commons 911 a 30. Both head and taile one with another against them 911 b 10. In danger of a premunire their offer to Henrie the eight 923 a 20 30. The same pardoned 923 b 10. Their submission to H. the eight note 923. Speake euill of Henrie the eights procéedings in the reformation of religion 941 a 20 30. Conuocation for the reforming of religion 940 b 60. Complained of for their crueltie Ex officio 928 a 20. The cause whie so heinouslie offending was so fauoured 787 a 50 c. Of two sorts and both desirous to spare their pursses 792 a 30. Of Excester against Henrie the sixt and the duke of Summerset in defense of their ecclesiasticall priuileges 637 b 30. A bill exhibited against them in the parlement 545 b 10. Libels against them cast abrode 558 b 20. Sorelie brideled 475 a 30. Inueied against of the Wickleuists 481 b 60. They complaine of them to the king 482 a
rich araie at a iusts 858 a 50 â—0 b 50. His and his partners attire at a chalenge 859 a 60. His furniture and deuise vpon his ornaments 860 a 40. Afflicted â—ith forren power on all sides 965 a 30 c. An enimie to all christian princes his power againts king Henrie the eight and the emperor he retireth backe with his armie 960. His children deliuered when the ransome of their father was paid 914 a 20 40. His sitting in his roialties with his great estates about him c with an oration made to the assemblie 904 a 30 40 c b 40. His oration before an honorable assemblie at Paris wholie concerning the emperor and sauoring of malcontentment 902 b 60. A writing from him directed to the emperor 903 b 20. Receiueth the order of the garter 898 b 20. With the viceroie inbarked not a little glad of his libertie not verie hastie to ratifie the accord complaineth of the emperor to the popes ambassadors 890 a 30 50 b 10 30 50. His roialtie restreined 889 a 20. The manner of his deliuerie out of prison 990 a 10. Taken prisoner whie he desired to sight in plaine field the manner how he was vanquished and taken 884 a 40 60 b 30 50. Led prisoner to the rocke of Pasqueton his letter to his mother the regent of France 885 a 50 b 30. Marrieth the emperor Charles his sister 889 b 40. Led prisoner into Spaine extremelie sicke in the castell of Madrill 887 a 50 b 60. Indurance is visited by the emperor his sister the ladie Alanson treateth for him he is carefull ouer the crowne of France a treatie touching his deliuerie 888 a 20 50 60 b 20. He and king Henrie the eight at variance note 872 a 60 b 10 c. Attacheth the Englishmens goods in Burdeaux 872 b 40. He the Spanish begin to aspire to the empire in hope to be emperor as well as the Spanish builded his hope vpon the humors of the princes of Germanie resteth vpon the fauour of the pope 851 a 40 b 10 c His toiesh and light behauiour abrode note 850 a 10 c Deceaseth the variablenesse of his fortune 835 b 60 836 a 10. Procureth the pope to be a meane to Henrie the eight for peace 831 b 50. Hath his hands full of troble 812 b 40. Writeth to cardinall Woolseie 848 a 20. Prepareth an armie in aid of the Scots 993 a 60 b 10 c Purposeth to surprise Gernseie and Ierdseie but is repelled ashamed that anie report should passe of his euill successe perseuereth in his former martiall action 1055 b 30 50 60. The causes that made him to breake vp his campe b 30. Procéedeth against prince Edward in iudgement of appeale 402 a 20. Sent to defie the king of England the countie of Ponthieu taken by him 402 b 10. Prepareth a nauie 403 b 20. Deceaseth 396 a 60 Frenchmen fall to spoiling and rifling of Calis 1136 a 10 c Netled with the losse of saint Quintines they take Newnam bridge and Rie banke disappoint the Englishmens deuise they demand a parlée 1135 a 10 50 b 10 30 60. Shew themselues in their kinds 192 b 30. In king Iohns time ouerrun take spoile and subdue diuers places of England 192 193. Sent ouer to aid the rebellious barons 190 b 10. Uncommanded of the king assalt Rouen 93 a 60. They Normans fight 60 b 50. Doo much hurt in Wales burne townes are slaine returne home 531 a 30 c Their demand of the I le of Wight 524 b 40. Inuade the I le of Wight 524 a 60. Demand a dower for quéene Isabell 519 a 60. Their practises to make the English reuolt from their owne king 517 b 60. Breake the law of armes 1204 b 50. Spoile diuers English ships 1195 a 60 Gather cockles to their losse and undooing 1192 a 20 50. Their policie in womens apparell note 1188 b 40 50. Repelled by the English 1188 a 50 numbers slaine 60. Driuen into Leith b 10. Win a trench 50. Repelled some slaine 60. A trench woone from them 1190 b 10. Repelled by the English 50. Sent into Scotland to aid the quéene Dowager 1186 b 40. Ships taken by the Englishmen 445 a 10. Burne the towne of Rie 417 b 50. Spoile the I le of Wight burne Portsmouth Dartmouth and Plimmouth 417 b 60. Their gallies chased from the English costes and vanquished 427 a 20. They Spaniards burne and destroie diuerse townes on the English costes note 427 a 40 50 c Uittell the English for feare note 426 b 20. Spoile and burne diuerse townes in the west countrie 425 b 40. Their admeral persuadeth the Scots to fight with the English 447 b 20. Subtiltie 480 b 20. Fléet setting forward towards England is driuen backe by contrarie winds 454 a 10. Purpose an inuasion of England with their ships 451 a 20. Foure hundred slaine besides diuerse taken 304 b 50. Their bloudie victorie 294 b 10. Slaine handsmooth by the English 295 a 60. Rob Douer chased to their ships discomfited and slaine 295 b 10 Forced to retire by the English 296 a 60. Die thorow pestilence other waies 230 a 60. Their spite toward the English 241 b 60. Taken at aduantage 207 b 10. Put to flight at Lincolne 200 a 60. Their souldiors in a poore estate 199 b 40. Their pride procureth them hatred 198 a 10. Fléet assailed and vanquished 201 a 50 60. Meant not to fight with the English 408 b 30. Prosperous successe in Poictou 407 b 30. Withdraw themselues into their fortresses and shire townes 405 a 60. Take the king of Nauarre 398 a 40. And English skirmish the French flie submit themselues 387 a 60 b 10 30. Distressed the ordering of their battell 388 a 10 40. Séeke to saue themselues by flight 389 b 30. Forsake their horsses and fight on foot 379 a 50 60. Slaine the daie after the battell 373 a 30. Discomfited and slaine 369 a 60. Slaine in great numbers 372 b 50. Loose the passage ouer the water of Some disorder amongest them 371 a 20 b 50. Distressed and discomfited 368 b 40. Their armie discomfited by a few English 364 a 50. Set vpon the Flemings in skirmish 359 b 30. Inuade the costes of England 355 a 50. Discomfited 554 b 10 10. Incountred by the earle of Huntington 558 b 50 c. Repelled 996 a 10. Harts discouraged with the losse of Rone 568 b 60. Their voluntarie subiection they yéeld diuerse castels and townes 561 a 30. Receiued a great ouerthrow by sea by the duke of Bedford their nauie vanquished 557 a 40. Rob Henrie the fifts campe 554 b 50. The order of their armie 553 a 10. Six to one of the English a 30. Take occasion to inuade the English 645 b 20. Soone wearie of the French gouernement 639 b 20. Discomfited flie note 619 a 20. Ouerthrowne slaine taken prisoners and slaine 608 a 60. Breake the peace and take the
〈◊〉 The lord Greie is quarelled against The death of the lord Riuers other The quéene taketh sanctuarie Tâ—â—ul lib. 2. eleg 3. The desolate state of the quéene Neuerthelesse he was depriued thereof shortlie after The kings comming to London The duke of Glocester made protector The bishop 〈◊〉 Lincolne made lord chancellor 〈◊〉 protecâ—ors oration The lord cardinall thought the fittest man â—â— deale with â—he queéne for 〈◊〉 surrenâ—â—â—ing of hir 〈◊〉 Reasons why it was not thought méet to fetch the quéens son out of sanctuarie The duke of BuckinghaÌ„s words against the quéene Of sanctuaries Westminster and saint Martins The abuse of sanctuaries The vse of sanctuaries Protector The quéenes answer The quéene is loth to part with hir son The quéenes mistrust of the lord protector The lord Howard saith Edw. Hall The quéenes replie vpon the lord cardinall This that is heere betwéen this marke * this marke * was not writâ—eÌ„ by him in English but is translated out of this historie which he wrote in Latine The lord cardinall vseth an other waâ—â— to persuade the queéne She falleth 〈◊〉 a resolution touching hâ—r sonnes deliuerie O dissimulation This that is here betwene this marke * this marke * was not written by him in English but is translated out oâ— his historie which he wrote in Latine The dukes full resolution to go thorough with his enterprise Catesbie and his conditions described An assemblie of lords in the Tower The behaâ—â—â—â— of the lord pâ—â—â—tector in the assemblie of the lords The lord Stanleie wounded Lord Hastings lord chamberleine beheaded 〈◊〉 in psal â—â— The lord Stanleies dreame 〈…〉 misfortune to the lord Hastings Mani lib. 4 Astro. The description of the lord Hastingâ— The protectors proclamation The life and déeds of the lord chamberleine laid open Shores 〈◊〉 spoiled of 〈◊〉 that she had Shores 〈◊〉 put to open penance The descriptioÌ„ of Shores wife Eob. Hess 〈◊〉 cles Sal. * 〈◊〉 when this storie was written K. Edwards three concubines Sir Richard Ratcliffe The lord Riuers other beheaded Edmund Shaw maior of London Doct. Shaw Frier Penker The chiefest deuise to depose the prince Sée before pag. 667 668. Dame Elizabeth Greie A wise answer of a chast and continent ladie The kings mother The kings answer to his mother Libertie preferred before â— kingdome 〈◊〉 Elâ—zabeth Lucie The kings mariage The king fled The prince borne king Henrie the sixt set vp Of the earle of warwike The earle of warwike sâ—aine Doc. Shawâ— sermon This preacher was taught his lesson yer he came into the pulpit K. Edward sâ—andered in a sermon A maruelous deuise to mooue the assemblie K. Richard commended by the preacher Note the course of Gods iudgement Ouid. lib. 3. met A notable persuaâ—â—n Burdet Markam Cooke Open warre not so ill as 〈◊〉 Ciuill warre the occasion of manie great inconueniences Shores wife more sued vnto than all the lords in England He directeth his spéech to the communaltie of the citie London the kings especiall chamber Doct. Shaw commended by the duke of BuckinghaÌ„ A slanderous lie confirmed The title of K. Richard to the crowne The dignitie and office of a king full of care studie The election of K. Richard hardlie to be preferred Fitz William recorder K. Richards election preferred by â—â—â—ces of confederacie The maiors comming to Bainards castell vnto the lord protector O singular dissimulation of king Richard K. Richard spake otherwise than he meant The protectoâ— taketh vpon him to be king A made match to cousen the people Iuuenal sat 2. Anno Reg. 1. 1483 (*) This that is here betwéene this marke this marke * was not written by maister More in this historie written by him in English but is translated out of this historie which he wrote in Latine From this marke * to this * is not found in sir Thomas More but in maâ—â—â—eâ— Hall and Grafton Seuentéene knights of the bath created by king Richard What â—eers stâ—tes were attendant on him going to his coronatâ—â—n The solemne ceremonies vsed at king Richards coronation Quéene Anne wife to king Richard and daughter to Richard earle of Warwike and hir traine The king queene crowned Sir Robert Dimmocke the kings champion his challenge in the behalfe of king Richard A gaâ—e pretense of iustice and equitie Sir Thomaâ— More agaiâ—â— Perkin Werbecke Close dealing is euer suspected Iohn Gréeâ—â— Robert Brakenberie constable of the Tower The murther of the two yoong princes set abroch Sir Iames Tirrell described Authoritie â—â—ueth no partners The constable of the Tower deliuereth the keies to sir Iames Tirrell vpon the kings commandement The two princes shut vp in close 〈◊〉 The two murtherers of the two princes appointed The yoong K. and his brother murthered in their beds at midâ—ight in the Tower The murther confessed The iust iudgement of God seuerelie reuenging the murther of the innocent princes vpon the malefactors Pers. sat 3. The outward and inward troubles of tyrants by meanes of a grudging conscience * Persinall saith Ed. Hall Causes of the duke of Buckingham and K. Richards falling out The duke of Buckingham and king Richard mistrust each other Doctor Nâ—â—â—ton bishop of Elie what pageants hâ— plaied The high â—â—â—nour of 〈◊〉 Morton Bishop Nâ—â—â—tons subâ—â—ll vnderminiâ—â— of the duâ—e Princes matters perillous to meddle in Here endeth sir Thomas Moore this that followeth is taken out â—â— master Hall Bishop Morton buildeth vpoÌ„ the dukes ambition The duke of Buckingham highlie commended Dispraise of the lord protector or king messe Suspicion in a prince how mischéefous it is The bishop adiureth the duke to release the realme by some deuise from the present euill state A new confereÌ„ce betweene the bishop and the duke The duke openeth himselfe and his secrets to the bishop The duke complaineth of want of preferment in king Edwards daies * An vnhappie policie tending to slaughter bloushed The principall cause why the duke of Buckingham coÌ„ceiued such inward grudge against king Richard The imaginations of the duke of Buckingham to depriue K. Richard Note the working of ambition in the duke The office of a king verie hard to discharge The dukes resolution not to medle in seéking to obteine the crowne The duke of Buckinghâ—â— resolued to helpe to depose king Richard and to prefer the 〈◊〉 of Richmond to the crowne * The duke of Glocester now king The 〈◊〉 of the dukâ—s purpose The motion for the coniunction of the two houses of Lancaster Yorke deuised by the duke furthered Bishop Mortons deuise for to be at his owne libertie in his bâ—shoprike of Elie. The bishop of Elie saileth into Flanders to the earle of Richmond Lewes the physician sheweth the quéene the whole conceipt and deuise of the matter The coniunction of the two families mooued to the Q. by the physician The quéenes readinesse to sâ—t forward this coÌ„clusion The countesse of Richmond vttereth the matter to Urswike hir chapleine swearing him to be secret