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A40878	A trve relation of that memorable Parliament which wrought wonders begun at Westminster, in the tenth yeare of the reigne of K. Richard the second : whereunto is added an abstract of those memorable matters, before and since the said kings reigne, done by Parliament : together with a character of the said amiable, but unhappy King, and a briefe story of his life and lamentable death.; Historia sive narracio de modo et forma mirabilis Parliamenti apud Westmonasterium anno Domini millesimo CCCLXXXVI. English	Fannant, Thomas.	1641 (1641)	Wing F416; ESTC R592	22,223	53

rest of the Commissioners to subscribe as parties to their Appellation When these things came to the eares of the King he sent unto them requiring to know what their request was and what they wished to have beene done They returned answer thus That they did desire that the Traytors which were alwayes about him filling his eares with false reports and did dayly commit insufferable Crimes and Injuries might be rewarded with condigne punishment for it were better that some few should dye for the people then the whole Nation should perish And they likewise craved that they might have safe liberty of going and comming to his Grace When the King heard their Request hee gave them his Royall consent and commanded them to appeare at Westminster and the King sitting on his Throne in the great Hall the three aforesaid Peeres Appellants with a gallant Troup of Gentlemen entred and making three lowly obeysances on their bended knees they reverenced the King and drawing neere the cause of their comming being alledged they there againe appealed the Archbishop Duke of Ireland Earle Treasurer and Brambre of high Treason according as they had done before at Waltham Crosse but they betaked themselves to the private corners of the Palace even as Adam and Eve from the presence of God not having the heart to appeare to justifie themselves The King called forth the Appellants to prove and prosecute the Appellation prescribing them a day and place for the Tryall which was to be on the morrow after Candlemas day and in the meane time the King commanded them upon their Honours not any party to molest the other untill the next Parliament Those things thus passed were publiquely proclaimed throughout all England and they departed joyfully The Duke of Ireland under the guide of his Grand Captain the devil marching into Cheshire Lancashire and Wales raised a new power amounting to the number of 6000 fighting men in the Kings name to overthrow and confound the Appellants from thence marched towards London with his Armie with a furious intent and resolution to performe his bloudy designe But God beholding their foolish hearts filled them with vain hopes that they should accōplish their enterprises And whilest these Plots were laid the Appellants being suddenly advertised thereof raised a power and joyning with them the Earle of Derby and the Earle of Nottingham and other Commissioners marched with long and wearied Marches into a Field neere a Village called Whitney at a place called Locford Bridge In which Field the Duke of Ireland was with the Army having a River on the one side of them whereas they stood ready prepared to give an overthrow to the Appellants and displaying the Kings Standard contrary to the Laws of the Land But although they were so valiant at the beginning yet were they discouraged at the end for when they saw the Army of the Appellants march downe from the Mountaines like a Hive of Bees and with such a violent fury feare benummed them and they were so amazed that when they should give the Assault God not suffering the effusion of bloud they stood like a Hive of Bees or a flock of Cattell without a head making no shew or countenance of resisting but without any stroke given they flung downe their Armes and yielded themselves to the mercy of the Appellants and a few being slaine and some drowned in the River gave an easie Victory to the Conquerors The Duke of Ireland himselfe putting spurres to his Horse tooke the River and hardly escaped and though he was pursued yet hee escaped through the middest of the Troupes And thus by the mercy of God they obtained the glorious Palme of Victory from the Hand of Heaven When the news of the Victory was blowne to the eares of the rest of the Conspirators who went then stricken with feare and carefull for their preservation under covert of the night they fled by Water to the Tower drawing the king along with them On the other side Nicholas Brambre with a bold and resolute courage in the kings Name caused all the Gates of the City to be shut against the Appellants and to be guarded with an able and sufficient Watch But these worthy and dauntlesse Members of the Common-wealth marched towards London to conferre with the king but when they heard that the said Nicholas Brambre had caused the Gates of the City to be shut against them and to be strongly guarded and that the whole City did purpose to keepe them out they stayed their resolution On the 27 day of September in the same yeare with a melodious sound of divers kinds of Instruments as well of Warre as of Peace they encamped themselves in Clarkenwell within the Liberties of the Citie of London not purposing on the one side rashly or unadvisedly to enter the City nor on the other side to make any shew of feare but with a stayed minde as befitting wise men with good deliberation to conclude every thing in its due time And when as the Major with the Citizens came unto them with pleasing words promising unto them all that the City could afford with reason and equity the Duke of Gloucester said Now I know that Lyers speakes nothing but Lyes neither can any man hinder them from the relating Where upon by a joint consent in the Evening they removed their tents and pitched them before divers Gates of the City On the morrow there hapned an enterview betweene the King and the Appellants so farre that they opened their minds one to the other but because the king loathed to speak with them with such a rabble of men and in regard of an intolerable boldnes and some quarrell which was like to arise and on the otherside refusing to goe out of the Tower to speake with them and the Apellants fearing some violence or wrong to bee offered to them would not speake with the King without a strong guard of valiant Warriours Therefore the most wise of the Appellants after divers disputations had resolved to goe and conferre with the King but first they sent a strong troupe well armed to search all the Corners and Caves of the Tower and relation being made of the safety of the place with a selected band of valiant Cavaliers they entred the Tower and seising the Gates and placing a guard appeared before the King and there the third time appealed the aforesaid Conspirators in the same sort and forme as before which Appellation being ended the King swore That he would adhere to their connsell as a good King and a just Judg so farre as the rule of Law Reason and Equity did require These things being accomplished they departed from the Tower to their Tenements and Lodgings And then it was published and made known in the presence of the King and throughout the Dominions That on the morrow after Candlemas day the aforesaid Conspirators should personally appeare to answer to the Appellation whereby they were charged of so many Treasons And

because the Harvest was now ripe time convenient to cut up those pestiferous Cockles and Thistles by the assent of the King consent of the said Commissioners and Appellants they expulsed divers of the Officers of the Houshold viz. in the place of John Beauchamp Steward of the Houshold they appointed John Devourex Knight one of the Commissioners Peter Couriney Knight was made Chamberlaine in the stead of Robert Duke of Ireland And the aforesaid John de Beauchamp Simon de Burleigh Vice-Chamberlaine John Salisbury Thomas Trynett James Barats William Ellingham and Nicholas Nagworth Knights and Officers of the Clergie viz. Richard Metford Secretary John Blake Deane of the Chappell John Lincolne Chancelour of the Exchequer and John Clifford Clerke of the Chappell were kept under arrest too and were as partakers in the aforesaid Treason for that they knowing and having intelligence of the said Conspiracie they did not discover them Others also as Servants of the aforesaid Conspirators and drawn in by craft yet guiltless were dismissed and sent away as men unprofitable and good for no use And thus this hideous brood of Monsters so often shaken was quite overthrown And on the Vigil of the Purification of Saint Mary in the Privie Chamber at Westminster by joynt consent of all the Cōmissioners the aforesaid John 〈◊〉 John Holt Roger Fulthorp William Burleigh John Locton and John Carey were displaced from their Offices and without any further adoe arrested of Treason and by the command of the Chancelor were clapt into the Tower and Roger Carleton in the place of Belknap Walter Clapton in the place of Tressilian were constituted and so for that time they departed and went to dinner And because Shrovetide was thought a fit time to punish the Delinquents according to their deserts therefore the great Parliament began the second of February following in this manner All the Peeres as well of the Spiritualty as of the Temporalty being assembled in the great Hall at Westminster the King soone after came and sate down in his Throne and after him appeared the five Noblemen Appellants the fame of whose admired worth ecchoed through all the Land entred the House in their costly Robes leading one another hand in hand with an innumerable company following them and beholding where the King sate all at once with submissive gestures they reverenced the King The Hall was so full of Spectators that the very Roofes were filled with them and yet amongst this infinite multitude of the people there could not be found any of the Conspirators or of their Complices but Brambre was taken a little before and cast into the Gaole of Gloucester The Clergie then placing themselves on the right hand and the Nobility on the left hand of the King according to the ancient Custome of the High Court of Parliament the Lord Chancelor standing with his back towards the King by the Kings command declared the cause of their Summons to the Parliament Which being ended the five foresaid Appellants arising declared their Appellation by the mouth of Robert Pleasington their Speaker who thus spake Behold the Duke of Gloucester comes to purge himselfe of Treasons which are laid to his charge by the Conspirators To whom the Lord Chancelor by the command of the King answered My Lord Duke the King conceiveth so honourably of you that hee cannot be induced to beleeve that you who are of affinity to him in a collaterall Line should attempt any Treason against his sacred Majestie The Duke with his foure Companions upon their knees humbly gave thanks to the King for his gracious opinion of their fidelity Then after silence proclaymed they arose and delivered in certaine Articles in Writing wherein were contained the particularity of the Treason Which said Articles were read by Godfrey Martin the Clerk of the Crowne standing in the midst of the Parliament House by the space of two houres with an audible voice At the reading of which there was a wonderfull alteration in the House For whereas before the people were glad of the discovery of the Treason at the rehearsall of it their hearts were so overcome with griefe that they could not refrain from teares When the Articles were read the Appellants requested the King that sentence of condemnation might be given against the Conspirators and they to receive the guerdon of their deserts which the king promised to grant This was the first dayes worke The second was ended with variation of divers consultations which I will not relate in particular but treat of the whole Parliament in generall And when the third day came of their proceedings against the conspirators the Lord Chancelor in the name of the Clergie in open Parliament made an Oration shewing that they could not by any meanes by present at the proceeding whereas there is any censure of death to be passed For the confirmation whereof they delivered in a Protestation which being read they spake That neither in respect of any favour nor for feare of any mans hate nor in hope of any reward they did desire to absent themselves but onely that they were bound by the Canon not to be present at any mans Arraignment or condemnation They likewise sent their Protestation to the Chappell of the Abbey where the Commons sate which was allowed of And then when the Appellants called for Justice against the conspirators the Lords of the Spiritualty arose and went into the Kings chamber neere adjoyning But the King being moved in conscience and in charitie perceiving that in every worke they are to remember the end and being willing contrary to the rigour of the Law to favour rather these that were guilty then the Actours in that Treason if they were able to alledge any thing in their defence caused the Processe to cease but the Peeres being earnest requested That no businesse past present or to come might be debated untill this Treason were adjudged to which Petition the king graciously granted his assent On the 11 day of February when nothing could be alledged nor no witnesse produced in justification of the conspiratours but that the definitive Sentence of condemnation must be pronounced against them the aforesaid John Devoreux Marshall of the Court and for that time the Kings Lievtenant adjudged them this heavy Doome That the said Archbishop of Yorke Duke of Ireland Earle of Suffolke Tressilian and Brambre should be drawn from the Tower to Tyburne and there to be hanged upon a Gibbet untill they were dead and all their Lands and Goods to be confiscated that none of their posterity might be by them any way enriched On the 12 day of February which was the first day of Shrovetide Nicholas Brambre appeared in Parliament and being charged with the aforesaid Articles of Treason hee craved favour to advise of Counsell learned and some longer time for his more full answer to his Accusation but yet hee desired a thing neither usuall nor allowable by the Law and required a thing which the