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

sauing that because these works were so great and required such expedition as the expenditor was ouercharged with busines though an expert man trained vp in Romneie marsh in those affaires trustie diligent and euerie waie sufficient vnto whose office naturallie belonged the purueiance of all necessaries anie waie apperteining to the mainteinance of the wals There was appointed by the commissioners as chiefe purueior a gentleman of good sufficiencie named Iohn Keies by whose countenance and discreet dealing men were brought to yéeld willinglie anie of their commodities towards the helpe and furtherance of these proceedings for their iust values which was dulie answered vnto them so as no man was séene to complaine of anie iniurie or hard dealing But when the works or rather the workers grew to be greater and more in number than was expected which came to passe by reason of the multitude of courts and workemen who proffered their seruice so fast as from the rate of two hundred which was at the first set downe they increased to six hundred all pastures néere the towne being imploied that waie manie men were content to make their owne prouision conditionallie to be admitted into the works insomuch as some hired pasture for their working horsses seuen or eight miles from Douer and neuerthelesse came to worke with the first and continued the whole daie with them that wrought longest For they came at six of the clocke in the morning and departed at six of the clocke at night except extraordinarie causes in preuenting inconueniences of great and fowle tides caused them to worke longer Diuerse brought thither courts from besides Maidstone and Seuenocke being thirtie or fortie miles from Douer and in the end the officers were driuen to put backe and refuse such as made sute to bring courts into the works and yet had they for their horsse their court and their driuer but onelie twelue pence a daie Which because it séemeth incredible I thought good to discouer and vnfold to the reader in such sort as he might be resolued and satisfied in the certeintie thereof and throughlie conceiue not onelie the possibilitie but also the reason of it First therefore the time of yeare when that worke was to be doone must be considered which was intended and by proclamations in certeine market towns notified to haue had beginning the thirtéenth of Maie when in those parts barleie season is ended and from that time till haruest or haieng time little is to be doone in husbandrie and assoone as haruest should begin their purpose was to leaue this work● vntill the yere following So as in this meane time that is to saie from Aprill till haruest the seruants speciallie the cattell of farmers are rather chargeable than anie waie gainefull vnto them and therefore at such a time to raise profit by them is double aduantage Neuerthelesse he that should make his best commoditie herein was to looke circumspectlie into the matter and then might he sée that it was requisit to haue two courts for one boie might driue them both because whilest the one was driuen the other was filled the same being vnloden or discharged he went for the other leauing that to be filled This filler was a labourer allowed to euerie man which had two courts for whome the owner of the two courts had ten pence the daie so as he had for his f●ller his driuer his two horsses and his two courts two shillings and ten pence the daie which amounteth to seuentéene shillings the wéeke He paied out of the same for the boord of his filler and driuer six shillings weekelie and so had the owner of cléere wéekelie gaine for his two seruants and two horsses nine shillings which must all this while haue lien at his charge There were among this number certeine double courts which had double wages because they were furnished with two horsses in a court being double in quantitie to the rest and were speciallie imploied about the cariage of sléech a more weightie mould than either the chalke or the earth A single court conteined in length fiue foot in bredth two foot and in depth sixteene inches wherevnto the expenditor looked ●erie narrowlie as also to the suff●ciencie an● deligence of euerie workem●n and ●orse so as vpon euerie default their w●ges was totted and defal●●● or the offendors excluded from the wo●ks or some times punished with stocks and other 〈◊〉 An entrance into this worke was made in the beginning of Maie one thousand fiue hundred foure 〈◊〉 and th●ee in the fiue and twentith yeare of hir maiesties reigne with six courts onelie at the crosse w●ll such was the towardlines thereof as yéelded line 10 so great a brute promise of good successe that from that daie f●●ward there were continuallie cariages brought at the rate before set downe beyond all expectation in so much as by the 27 of Iune there were assembled in those works 542 courts and almost 1000 workemen And truelie there consisted so great difficulti● in marshalling this multitude for all were to worke at once none might staie for other or be impediment to others worke as without the paterne of f●●mer experience the worke could line 20 hardlie haue béene performed Heerein Richard Coast and William Norris inr●ts and the aforenamed Reginald Smith clearke of Romneie marsh were chéefe directors and as it were marshals as hauing dailie experience in the like works For in Romneie marsh there are euerie yeare commonlie imploied at one time about making or mending of some one wall 200 courts at the least in each court for the most part being two oxen for whome the owners hire feeding in the marsh as line 30 they can agrée with the landholders and yet haue had hitherto for their court and deiuer but ten pence the daie And this togither with their manner of working would be woonderfull famous and much spoken of throughout England if the continuance of so manie hundred yeares exercise thereof had not qualified the strangenesse and admiration of it For here though at Douer it could not be so bicause they wrought altogither with horsbeasts the mights féeding preuaile●h so much ouer the daies working that line 40 bullocks brought to those works leane and out of flesh are returned from the works most commonlie in verie good plight The stuffe carried by these courts for the erection of the walles at Douer was ear●h being of a haselie mould chalke and flee●h wherevnto the carriages were seuerallie imploid the most number for earth whereof the greatest part of the wall consisted the second for chalke which mingled and beaten togither with the earth did make the same more firme line 50 and was placed in the midst of the wall the smallest number for sléech which serued for the out sides onlie For the same being beaten with béetles to the sides of the wall would by and by cleaue so fast and close therevnto as thereby the

〈◊〉 and aff●ction of the lord lieutenant to performe the premisses sig●nified and by good proofe 〈◊〉 stified The states agnise the p●●●emptorie authoritie put into the lord lieutenants hands in respect of his gouernment Like auth●●●tie giuen to the lord lieutenant as other gouernours his 〈◊〉 ●●●decessors 〈◊〉 had in the 〈◊〉 countries ●n acknowledgement and performance of dutie and elegiance inioined to all persons of the low countries vnder paine of punish●ent to the lord lieutenant All pretense of ignorance cut off least the course of obe●●ence might be hindered Councellors 〈◊〉 matters of late elected by the lord ●●eutenant ●●wes for captein● and souldiours The lord l●eutenant commeth from the Hage to Harlem how he was receiued Utricht people commended for their great kindnes shewed to the Englishmen S. Georges feast solemntlie obserued at Utricht S. Georges feast solemnlie obserued at Utricht L. lieutenant inuested in the robes of order Martin Skinke knighted who promised Portcullis to shew him seuentie ensignes that he had now in the field Seminarie préests exec●●t●d at Tiburne A wench burnt in Smithfield Archbishop Canturburi● lord Cobha● lord Buck●hurst of the priuie councell Pag. 1435 〈◊〉 The num●●● of archbish●● of Cantur●●●rie from th● first to the 〈◊〉 Considerations whie the building of Douer hauen is here recorded Douer the néerest place of England to France Douer the most conuenient place of England for a hauen Reasons whie a harbor at Douer would be so beneficiall A true commendation of quéene Elisabeth The 〈…〉 Douer w●ll mainteine a hauen there for euer In peramb. Cant. 〈◊〉 Douer Douer castell reedified by queene Elisabeth Edward the fourth bestowed ten thousand pounds vpon reparations of Douer castell The situation of Douer harbour A naturall rode for ships at Douer The hauen of Rie decaied whereby more néed of a harbour at Douer Ships lost for lacke of sufficient harbour at Douer The first benefit bestowed on Douer harbour Little paradise In the reigne of Edward the Confessor Sir Iohn Thomson préest his supplication Fiue hundred pounds giuen by Henrie the eight towards a beginning of Douer works The maison de Dieu of Douer Surueiors ouerséers Sir Iohn Thomsons deuise discouered The Molehead Douer pierre when it was taken in hand and whereof it consisted A notable d●uise to carrie great rocks by water Foure pence a daie A Gaboth The charge of the pierre The kings care for Douer pierre The kings repaire to Do●er The cause of the decaie of the pierre Officers about the pierre The ruine of Douer pierre Stone called beach or bowlder choked vp Douer hauen Two causes of the decaie of Douer pie rre Some●i●e no harborough at all at Douer How Douer was made desolat That beach which destroied the pierre helpeth now the hauen A bountifull gift of quéene Elisabeth towards the reparing of Douer hauen The patent of the quéenes gift sold vnto two merchants The act of parlement for Douer hauen 23. Elisab Thrée pence the tun of euerie vessell allowed towards Douer hauen The tunnage amounted to 1000 pounds yearelie The tenure of the quéens commission for Douer hauen Iohn True suru●ior generall of Douer hauen The deuise of Iohn True Stone he●ed at Folkestone amounting to 1288 pounds Infinit charge to accomplish the stone wall Iohn True had ten shillings a day for his fée Iohn True is dismissed Ferdinando Poins Poins his groine The pent 16 acres The length of the long wall The crosse wall The rode for ships One thousand pounds to Ferdinando Poins Customer Smith Uarietie of deuises Sir W. Winter sent to Douer to surueie the harbor c. Sir Thomas Scot. The wals of Romneie marsh subiect to the raging seas All the commissioners ioine with sir Thomas Scot and allow his deuise Seuen inuincible reasons against the woodden wall The lord treasurors resolution Of Woolwich and Erith breaches Secretarie Walsingham the chiefe director and furtherer of Douer hauen No dealing by great in matters of excessiue charge and danger Sir Thomas Scots notes Douer pent finished in thrée moneths Reinold Scot and Rafe Smith examined by maister secretarie about the wals of the pent Questions propounded to Poins and the Plumsted men Sir Thomas Scots deuise allowed by the lords of the councell The resolution at a conference at Douer Officers elected at Douer The commoditie of the pent Woolwich breach recouerable Euerie degrée willing to set forward this worke Six hundred courts imploied at once in these works Iohn Smith the ●●penditor Iohn Keies gentleman chiefe purueior A hors●e a court and a driuer for twelue pence the daie The quantitie of one court or tumbrell A benefit to 〈◊〉 ●east The 〈◊〉 substance of the wal●s The disposing of the works Henrie Guilford esquier capteine of Arcliffe castell The beginning of the great works at Do●●r Reasons for the difficultie of the crosse wall This worke vndertaken and other reiected by sir Thomas Scots means Bowle a notable good workman Commissioners Treasuror Two iura●● called directors Eight gu●ders Eight vntingers Eight she●uers Eight ●●●gers Laborers Scauelmen Béetlemen Armors The order of arming Inferior purueiors Clerke Expenditor The groine kéeper The mane● of the wall worke How the wall was saued from being wasted The inconuenience which would haue fol●owed the diuerting of the riuer another waie A sluse made for diuerse good purposes A difficult and dangerous worke Gods blessing and fauour shewed to the works of Do●er Dangers happilie escaped Boies plaie The flag of libertie * Or six A commendation of them which wrought or had anie charge about Douer works Sir Thomas Scot fell sicke in Douer works The death of the ladie Scot. The bredth depth length and charge of the long and crosse wall with the ●●●ming c. A necessarie remedie if water draine vnder the wall Expedition necessarie and profitable The state of the wals A sure triall latelie made of the good effect of the pent A ga●e of the ●●use broken Edward Wootton esquire ambassador into France The effect of the pent Of the sluse The lord Cobham remaineth at Douer one whole moneth Sir Francis Walsingham principall fréend to these works Of the lat● works The note of Iohn Hooker aliâs Vowell concerning the sudden and strange sickenesse of late happening in Excester The original● cause of this infection whereto imputed Barnard Drake esquier The mischiefe of nastie apparell The assise at Excester appointed to be quarterlie kept This sicknes was contagious mortall Principall men that died of that infection Sir Iohn Chichester and sir Arthur Basset bemoned and commended Eleuen of the iurie with other officers die of this ●●ckenesse Affliction draweth men to God c. An introduct●●● to the historicall remembrance of the Sidneis the father and the sonne c. The note of Edmund Molineux touching sir Henrie Sidneis life and death His education in his youth His ●●●●●●ment in ambassage Foure times lord iustice thrise lord deputie of Ireland He suppressed by force and policie

THE Third volume of Chronicles beginning at duke William the Norman commonlie called the Conqueror and descending by degrees of yeeres to all the kings and queenes of England in their orderlie successions First compiled by Raphaell Holinshed and by him extended to the yeare 1577. Now newlie recognised augmented and continued with occurrences and accidents of fresh memorie to the yeare 1586. Wherein also are conteined manie matters of singular discourse and rare obseruation fruitfull to such as be studious in antiquities or take pleasure in the grounds of ancient histories With a third table peculiarlie seruing this third volume both of names and matters memorable Historiae placeant nostrates ac peregrinae TO THE Right Honorable and his singular good Lord Sir William Cecill Baron of Burghleygh Knight of the most noble order of the Garter Lord high Treasurer of England Maister of the Courts of Wards and Liueries and one of the Queenes Maiesties priuie Councell COnsidering with my selfe right Honorable and my singular good Lord how redie no doubt manie will be to accuse me of vaine presumption for enterprising to deale in this so weightie a worke and so far aboue my reach to accomplish I haue thought good to aduertise your Honour by what occasion I was first induced to vndertake the same although the cause that moued me thereto hath in part yer this beene signified vnto your good Lordship Whereas therefore that worthie Citizen Reginald Wolfe late Printer to the Queenes Maiestie a man well knowne and beholden to your Honour meant in his life time to publish an vniuersall Cosmographie of the whole world and therwith also certaine particular histories of euery knowne nation amongst other whom he purposed to vse for performance of his intent in that behalfe he procured me to take in hand the collection of those histories and hauing proceeded so far in the same as little wanted to the accomplishment of that long promised worke it pleased God to call him to his mercie after fiue and twentie yeares trauell spent therein so that by his vntimelie deceasse no hope remained to see that performed which we had so long trauelled about Neuerthelesse those whom he put in trust to dispose his things after his departure hence wishing to the benefit of others that some fruit might follow of that whereabout he had imployed so long time willed me to continue mine endeuour for their furtherance in the same Which although I was redie to doo so far as mine abilitie would reach and the rather to answere that trust which the deceassed reposed in me to see it brought to some perfection yet when the volume grew so great as they that were to defraie the charges for the impression were not willing to go through with the whole they resolued first to publish the histories of England Scotland and Ireland with their descriptions which descriptions bicause they were not in such readinesse as those of forren countries they were inforced to vse the helpe of other better able to doo it than my selfe Moreouer the Charts wherein Maister Wolfe spent a great part of his time were not found so complet as we wished and againe vnderstanding of the great charges and notable enterprise of that worthie Gentleman maister Thomas Sackford in procuring the Charts of the seuerall prouinces of this realme to be set foorth we are in hope that in time he will delineate this whole land so perfectlie as shall be comparable or beyond anie delineation heretofore made of anie other region and therefore leaue that to his well deserued praise If any well willer will imitate him in so praiseworthie a worke for the two other regions we will be glad to further his endeuour with all the helpes we may The histories I haue gathered according to my skill and conferred the greatest part with Maister Wolfe in his life time to his liking who procured me so manie helpes to the furtherance thereof that I was loth to omit anie thing that might increase the readers knowledge which causeth the booke to grow so great But receiuing them by parts and at seuerall times as I might get them it may be that hauing had more regard to the matter than the apt penning I haue not so orderlie disposed them as otherwise I ought choosing rather to want order than to defraud the reader of that which for his further vnderstanding might seeme to satisfie his expectation I therefore most humblie beseech your Honour to accept these Chronicles of England vnder your protection and according to your wisedome and accustomed benignitie to beare with my faults the rather bicause you were euer so especiall good Lord to Maister Wolfe to whom I was singularlie beholden and in whose name I humblie present this rude worke vnto you beseeching God that as he hath made you an instrument to aduance his truth so it may please him to increase his good gifts in you to his glorie the furtherance of the Queenes Maiesties seruice and the comfort of all hir faithfull and louing subiects Your Honours most humble to be commanded RAPHAEL HOLINSHED THE PREFACE to the reader IT is dangerous gentle reader to range in so large a field as I haue here vndertaken while so manie sundrie men in diuers things may be able to controll me and manie excellent wits of our countrie as well or better occupied I hope are able herein to surpasse me but seeing the best able doo seeme to neglect it let me though least able craue pardon to put them in mind not to forget their natiue countries praise which is their dutie the incouragement of their woorthie countriemen by elders aduancements and the daunting of the vicious by foure penall examples to which end as I take it chronicles and histories ought cheefelie to be written My labour may shew mine vttermost good will of the more learned I require their further enlargement and of fault-finders dispensation till they be more fullie informed It is too common that the least able are readiest to find fault in matters of least weight and therefore I esteeme the lesse of their carping but humblie beseech the skilfull to supplie my want and to haue care of their dutie and either to amend that wherein I haue failed or be content with this mine endeuour For it may please them to consider that no one can be eie-witnesse to all that is written within our time much lesse to those things which happened in former times and therefore must be content with reports of others Therein I haue beene so carefull that I haue spared no paines or helpe of freends to search out either written or printed ancient authors or to inquire of moderne eie-witnesses for the true setting downe of that which I haue here deliuered but I find such want in writers for the necessarie knowledge of things doone in times past and lacke of meanes to obteine sufficient instructions by reporters of the time present and herewith the worthie exploits of our countriemen so manie that

it greeueth me I could not leaue the same to posteritie as I wished to their well deserued praise But I haue here imparted what I could learne and craue that it may be taken in good part My speech is plaine without any rhetoricall shew of eloquence hauing rather a regard to simple truth than to decking words I wish I had beene furnished with so perfect instructions and so many good gifts that I might haue pleased all kinds of men but that same being so rare a thing in any one of the best I beseech thee gentle reader not to looke for it in me the meanest But now for thy further instruction to vnderstand the course of these my labours First concerning the historie of England as I haue collected the same out of manie and sundrie authors in whome what contrarietie negligence and rashnesse sometime is found in their reports I leaue to the discretion of those that haue perused their works for my part I haue in things doubtfull rather chosen to shew the diuersitie of their writings than by ouer-ruling them and vsing a peremptorie censure to frame them to agree to my liking leauing it neuerthelesse to each mans iudgement to controll them as he seeth cause If some-where I shew my fansie what I thinke and that the same dislike them I craue pardon speciallie if by probable reasons or plainer matter to be produced they can shew mine errour vpon knowledge whereof I shall be readie to reforme it accordinglie Where I doo begin the historie from the first inhabi●ation of this I le I looke not to content ech mans opinion concerning the originall of them that first peopled it and no maruell for in matters so vncerteine if I cannot sufficientlie content my selfe as in deed I cannot I know not how I should satisfie others That which seemeth to me most likelie I haue noted beseeching the learned as I trust they will in such points of doubtfull antiquities to beare with my skill sith for ought I know the matter is not yet decided among the learned but still they are in controuersie about it and as yet Sub iudice lis est Well howsoeuer it came first to be inhabited likelie it is that at the first the whole Ile was vnder one prince and gouernour though afterwards and long peraduenture before the Romans set any foot within it the monarchie thereof was broken euen when the multitude of the inhabitants grew to be great and ambition entred amongst them which hath brought so manie good policies and states to ruine and decaie The Romans hauing once got possession of the continent that faceth this I le could not rest as it appeareth till they had brought the same also vnder their subiection and the sooner doubtlesse by reason of the factions amongst the princes of the land which the Romans through their accustomed skill could turne verie well to their most aduantage They possessed it almost fiue hundreth yeares and longer might haue doone if either their insufferable tyrannie had not taken awaie from them the loue of the people as well here as else-where either that their ciuill discord about the chopping and changing of their emperours had not so weakened the forces of their empire that they were not able to defend the same against the irruption of barbarous nations But as we may coniecture by that which is found in histories about that time in which the Romane empire began to decline this land stood in verie weake state being spoiled of the most part of all hir able men which were led awaie into forren regions to supplie the Romane armies and likewise perhaps of all necessarie armour weapon and treasure which being perceiued of the Saxons after they were receiued into the I le to aid the Britons against the Scots and Picts then inuading the same ministred to them occasion to attempt the second conquest which at length they brought to passe to the ouerthrow not onelie of the British dominion but also to the subuersion of the Christian religion here in this land which chanced as appeareth by Gildas for the wicked sins and vnthankefulnesse of the inhabitants towards God the cheefe occasions and causes of the transmutations of kingdoms Nam propter peccata regna transmutantur à gente in gentem The Saxons obteining possession of the land gouerned the same being diuided into sundrie kingdoms and hauing once subdued the Britons or at the least-wise remooued them out of the most part of the I le into od corners and mountaines fell at diuision among themselues and oftentimes with warre pursued ech other so as no perfect order of gouernement could be framed nor the kings grow to any great puissance either to mooue warres abroad or sufficientlie to defend themselues against forren forces at home as manifestlie was perceiued when the Danes and other the Northeasterne people being then of great puissance by sea began miserablie to afflict this land at the first inuading as it were but onelie the coasts and countries lieng neere to the sea but afterwards with maine armies they entred into the midle parts of the land And although the English people at length came vnder one king and by that meanes were the better able to resist the enimies yet at length those Danes subdued the whole and had possession thereof for a time although not long but that the crowne returned againe to those of the Saxon line till shortlie after by the insolent dealings of the gouernours a diuision was made betwixt the king and his people through iust punishment decreed by the prouidence of the Almightie determining for their sinnes and contempt of his lawes to deliuer them into the hands of a stranger and therevpon when spite and enuie had brought the title in doubt to whom the right in succession apperteined the Conquerour entred and they remained a prey to him and his who plucked all the heads and cheefe in authoritie so cleerelie vp by the roots as few or none of them in the end was left to stand vp against him And herewith altering the whole state he planted such lawes and ordinances as stood most for his auaile and securitie which being after qualified with more milde and gentle lawes tooke such effect that the state hath euer sithens continued whole and vnbroken by wise and politike gouernement although disquieted sometime by ciuill dissention to the ruine commonlie of the first moouers as by the sequele of the historie you may see For the historie of Scotland I haue for the more part followed Hector Boece Iohannes Maior and Iouan Ferreri Piemontese so far as they haue continued it interlaced somtimes with other authours as Houeden Fourdon and such like although not often bicause I meant rather to deliuer what I found in their owne histories extant than to correct them by others leauing that enterprise to their owne countrimen so that whatsoeuer ye read in the same consider that a Scotishman writ it and an Englishman hath but onelie translated it

perilous doctrines books works and writings conteining heresies and errors contrarie to the faith catholike and determination of holie church and speciallie these heresies and errours following that is to saie in particular In primis quòd non est de necessitate fidei credere quòd dominus noster Iesus Christus post mortem descendit ad infer●s Item quòd non est de necessitate salutis credere in sanctorum communionem Item quòd ecclesi● vniuersalis potest errare in hijs qu● sunt fidei Item quòd non est de necessitate salutis credere tenere illud quod consilium generale vniuersalis ecclesia statuit approbat seu determinat in fauorem fidei ad salutem animarum est ab vniuersis Christi fidelibus approbandum tenendum Wherefore I miserable sinner which here before long time haue walked in darkenesse and now by the mercie and infinit goodnesse of God reduced into the right waie and light of truth and considering my selfe gréeuouslie haue sinned and wickedlie haue informed and infected the people of God returne and come againe to the vnitie of our mother holie church and all heresies and errors written and conteined in my said books works and writings here solemnelie and openlie reuoke renounce Which heresies and errors and all other spices of heresies I haue before this time before the most reuerend father in God and my good lord of Canturburie in diuerse and lawfull forme iudiciallie abiured submitting my selfe being then and also now at this time verie contrite and penitent sinner to the correction of the church and of my said lord of Canturburie And ouer this exhorting requiring in the name vertue of almightie God in the saluation of your soules and mind that no man hereafter giue faith and credence to my said pernicious doctrines heresies and errors neither my said books kéepe hold or read in anie wise but that they all such books works and writings suspect of heresies deliuer in all goodlie hast vnto my said lord of Canturburie or to his commissioners and deputies in eschewing of manie inconueniences and great perils of soules the which else might be cause of the contrarie And ouer this declaration of my conuersion and repentance I here openlie assent that my said books works and writings for declaration and cause aboue rehearsed be deputed vnto the fire and openlie burnt in example and terror of all other c. After this he was depriued of his bishoprike hauing a certeine pension assigned vnto him for to liue on in an abbeie and soone after died His books were intituled 1 Of christian religion and a booke perteining therevnto 2 Of matrimonie 3 Iust expressing of holie scripture diuided into three parts 4 The donet of christian religion 5 The follower of the donet 6 The booke of faith 7 The booke filling the foure tables 8 The booke of worshipping 9 The prouoker of christian men 10 The booke of counsell In the moneth of Ianuarie died the earle of Deuonshire in the abbeie of Abindon poisoned as men said being there at that time with quéene Margaret to appease the malice betweene the yoong lords whose fathers were slaine at saint Albons and they that held with the duke of Yorke The thirtéenth of Aprill there was a great fraie in Fléetstreet betweene men of court and the inhabitants of the same stréet in which fraie the quéenes atturnie was slaine For this fact the king committed the principall gouernours of Furniuals Cliffords and Barnards In to prison in the castell of Hertford and William Tailor alderman of that ward with manie other were sent to Windsore castell the seuenth of Maie On thursdaie in Whitsunweeke the duke of Summerset with Anthonie Riuers and other foure kept iustes before the quéene in the Tower of London against three esquiers of the queenes And in like maner at Gréenewich the sundaie following King Henrie and his councell perceiuing the duke of Yorke laie still and stirred not returned to London and there called a great councell openlie declaring how the French and Scots imboldened by the ciuill discord within this realme attempted to annoie the same as of late they had shewed apparant tokens and likelie not ceasse vpon occasions to doo further displeasures till a perfect concord were concluded betwéene him and his fréends and those of the contrarie part and confederacie And to the intent line 10 that he would be the cheefe author of peace he promised of his dignitie so to interteine the duke of Yorke and his fréends that all old grudges should be not onelie inwardlie forgotten but also outwardlie forgiuen which should be cause of perpetuall loue and assured amitie This deuise was of all men iudged for the best Wherevpon diuerse graue persons were sent to the duke of Yorke and all other the great estates of the realme who since the battell of saint Albons neuer line 20 met nor communed togither commanding them for great causes to repaire to the kings court without delaie At his commandement came to London Richard duke of Yorke with foure hundred men and was lodged at Bainards castell being his owne house and after him came the earle of Salisburie with fiue hundred men and was likewise lodged at his owne house called the Herbour Then came the dukes of Excester and Summerset with eight hundred men and were lodged without Temple barre line 30 and the earle of Northumberland the lord Egremond and the lord Clifford came with fiftéene hundred men and lodged without the citie The earle of Warwike also came from Calis with six hundred men in red iackets imbrodered with white ragged slaues behind and before and was lodged at the graie friers Thus were all those of the one part lodged within the citie and those of the other without in Holborne towards Westminster and in other places of the line 40 suburbs all vpon wise consideration for that the Yorke faction and the Lancastrians could not well haue béene mingled without danger of discord After that these lords were thus come vnto London the king and the quéene shortlie followed comming thither the seuentéenth daie of March and lodged in the bishops palace Bicause no riotous attempt or bickering should be begun betwéene anie of the parties or their retinues the maior and aldermen of the citie line 50 kept great watch as well by daie as by night riding about the citie by Holborne and Fléetstréet with fiue thousand men well armed and arraied to sée good order and peace on all sides kept The lords which lodged within the citie held a dailie councell at blacke friers the other part soiourning without the walles assembled likewise in the chapiter house at Westminster At length by the diligent trauell and good exhortation of the archbishop of Canturburie and other prelats both parties were line 60 persuaded to come to communication and so did Where after long debating of grieuances on both sides they promising to forget all old rancors

further in their attempts so that the king and the councell would not alter the religion but suffer it to remaine and tarie in the same state as king Henrie the eight left it vntill the king himselfe came to his full age Sir Peter Carew and all the residue nothing liking this answer being farre from their expectation were for the time in a great dumpe or studie but in the end misliked and discommended both the matter and the maner of their dealings insomuch that sir Peter Carew and sir Péerce Courtneie then shiriffe of Deuon openlie sharpelie and in plaine termes inueied against them for their slender or rather sinister dealings in so weightie a cause wherein they all ought rather to haue vsed all meanes to haue suppressed their outrages than to haue mainteined their follies and therefore as there was a blame in them so was there a plaine rebellion in the other But though the two knights would haue excused the matter and haue purged their sinceritie herein yet on ech side words were so multiplied that they brake asunder without anie further dealings and euerie man shifted for himselfe some one waie some an other waie The commons vnderstanding hereof stop all the high waies casting great trenches and laieng great trées ouerthwart the same and doo watch ward the same and by that meanes sundrie gentlemen suspecting no such matter and making waie to their appointed places were intrapped taken and put in prison and manie of them kept in durance during the whole time of the commotion abode great hardnesse and were in perill of life and limme manie were taken bicause they would be taken found fauour manie forsaking their houses and home were driuen to sequester and hide themselues in woods secret places In the citie none or verie few remained or taried sauing six or seuen persons then knowne of for by conference had before with the maior it was knowne that the citie was vnprouided of sufficient vittels méet for such a companie as the foresaid gentlemen were The gentlemen which taried and remained in the citie namelie sir Roger Blewet knight Iohn Beauchampe Bartholomew Fortescute Iohn Courtneie Iohn Peter customer esquiers and others did verie good seruice as well in their persons as in their good aduises and counsels sauing such as secretlie kept themselues close in certeine houses then vnknowne Sir Peter Carew verie earlie in the next morning tooke his horsse and the high waies being then not stopped he escaped and rode vnto George Henton a place of sir Hugh Paulets in Summersetshire where was the lord Russell being then newlie come from London and vnto him he gaue to vnderstand how all things had passed who foorthwith dispatched and sent him awaie to the king and councell to aduertise them of the same The king at the first hearing of the matter was verie much grieued in great perplexitie in two respects the one bicause at this instant the like tumults and rebellions though for an other cause were now raised and begun in other places the other was bicause he was inforced to leaue and giue ouer the appointed attempt for the conquest of Scotland and to imploie now those soldiors and strangers whome he had reteined for that seruice for the quenching of this fire kindled at home Neuerthelesse minding to follow the first and to appease the last he sent verie courteous letters gratious proclamations and manie mercifull offers vnto all the commons of these parties to haue pacified and satisfied them if they had had so much grace so to haue accepted it The commons being now entered in their follies and hauing driuen the gentlemen to the flight doo openlie shew themselues traitors rebels and therefore assembling themselues doo appoint out capteins to direct order both themselues and all their procéedings and as the common prouerbe is Like lips like lettice as is their cause so are the rulers the one being not so bold and euill as they wicked or woorse The capteins then are these Underhill a tailor Maunder a shoomaker Seager a labourer and A●sheredge a fishdriuer with sundrie other such like the woorst men and the reffuse of all others thought most méet in this seruice Howbeit it was not long before that certeine gentlemen and yeomen of good countenance and credit both in Deuon and Cornewall were contented not onelie to be associats of this rebellion but also to carrie the crosse before this procession and to be capteins and guiders of this wicked enterprise as namelie in Deuon sir Thomas Pomeroie knight Iohn Burie and one Coffin gentlemen in Cornewall Humfrie Arundell and Winneslade esquiers Holmes a yeoman with sundrie others who for the most part were in the end executed and put to death and their facts to the memoriall of their perpetuall infamie line 10 recorded in chronicles The principall chiefe capteins in Deuon being fullie resolued by their owne power and authoritie to mainteine continue the religion according to the Romish church vtterlie to impugne the reformatision therof established by act of parlement to support the authoritie of the idoll of Rome whome they neuer saw in contempt of their true and lawfull king whome they knew and ought to obeie these I saie sent their messengers vnto the maior of this citie line 20 whose name was Iohn Blackaller to mooue and praie him to ioine with them they thinking that they hauing by these meanes the libertie to haue frée accesse to and from the citie and the helpe of the citizens should not want monie or armor or anie thing else to serue their turne the maior foorthwith aduertised vnto his brethren this motion And albeit some and the chiefest of them did like were well affected to the Romish religion yet respecting their dutie to God their obedience to the king their fidelitie to their countrie and safetie of themselues gaue their line 30 full resolute and direct answer that they would not ioine nor deale with them at all This answer was nothing liked and therefore sent they their second messenger requiring and commanding them to mainteine the old catholike religion with them and to doo as they did or else they would besiege them and perforce compell them thervnto The maior and his brethren returned their former answer adding moreouer that they in their dooings line 40 were wicked bad men they did would repute them for enimies and rebels against God their king and countrie and so renounced them The one side therefore as they prepare to besiege the citie and to worke all the extremities they can by force to take that which by words they can not obteine so on the other side the maior and his brethren vpon good aduise garded and watched the citie with sufficient men armed both by daie and by night The rebels according to their determination relieng themselues line 50 vpon a vaine hope

fell to secret consultation for redresse of things but namelie for the displacing of the lord protector And suddenlie vpon what occasion manie maruelled but few knew Euerie line 30 lord and councellor went through the citie weaponed and had their seruants likewise weaponed attending vpon them in new liueries to the great woondering of manie And at the last a great assemblie of the said councellors was made at the earle of Warwiks lodging which was then at Elie place in Holborne whither all the confederats in this matter came priuilie armed and finallie concluded to possesse the towre of London which by the policie of sir William Paulet lord treasuror of England line 40 was peaceablie obteined who by order of the said confederats immediatlie remooued sir Iohn Markam then lieutenant of the towre and placed in that roome sir Leonard Chamberleine And after that the said councell was broken vp at Elie place the earle of Warwike remooued foorthwith into the citie of London and laie in the house of one Iohn Yorke a citizen of London who was then chéefe maister of the mint kept at Suffolke place in Southworke The lord protector hearing of the maner of the assemblie line 50 of this councell and of the taking of the towre which séemed to him verie strange and doubtfull did presentlie the said night remooue frō Hampton court taking the king with him vnto the castell of Windsore and there began to fortifie the same and withall wrote a letter to that noble gentleman the lord Russell lord priuie seale remaining as yet in the west countrie aduertising him of these troubles as followeth A letter of the lord protectors ●o the lord Russell lord priuie seale concerning troubles working against him AFter our right hartie commendations to your good lordship Here hath of late risen such a conspiracie against the kings maiestie vs as neuer hath béene séene the which they can not mainteine with such vaine letters and false tales surmised as was neuer ment nor intended on vs. They pretend and saie that we haue sold Bullongne to the French and that we doo withhold wages from the soldiers other such tales and letters they doo spread abroad of the which if anie one thing were true we would not wish to liue the matter now being brought to a maruellous extremitie such as we would neuer haue thought it could haue come vnto especiallie of those men towards the kings maiestie and vs of whome we haue deserued no such thing but rather much fauour and loue But the case being as it is this is to require praie you to hasten you hither to the defense of the kings maiestie in such force and power as you maie to shew the part of a true gentleman and of a verie friend the which thing we trust God shall reward and the kings maiestie in time to come and we shall neuer be vnmindfull of it too We are sure you shall haue other letters from them but as ye tender your dutie to the kings maiestie we require you to make no staie but immediatlie repaire with such force as ye haue to his highnesse in his castell of Windsor and cause the rest of such force as ye maie make to follow you And so we bid you right hartilie farewell From Hampton court the sixt of October Your lordships assured louing friend Edward Summerset An answer to the lord protectors letter TO this letter of the lord protectors sent the sixt of October the lord Russell returning answer againe vpon the eight of the said moneth first lamented the heauie dissention fallen betweene the nobilitie and him which he tooke for such a plague as a greater could not be sent of almightie God vpon this realme being the next waie said he to make vs of conquerors slaues and like to induce vpon the whole realme an vniuersall thraldome and calamitie vnlesse the mercifull goodnesse of the Lord doo helpe and some wise order be taken in staieng these great extremities And as touching the dukes request in his letters forsomuch as he had heard before of the broile of the lords and feared least some conspiracie had beene meant against the kings person he hasted forward with such companie as he could make for the suertie of the king as to him apperteined Now perceiuing by the lords letters sent vnto him the same sixt daie of October these tumults to rise vpon priuat causes betwéene him and them he therefore thought it expedient that a conuenient power should be leuied to be in a readinesse to withstand the woorst what perils soeuer might insue for the preseruation both of the king and state of the realme from inuasion of forren enimies and also for the staieng of bloudshed if anie such thing should be intended betwixt the parties in the heat of this faction And this he thinking best for the discharge of his allegiance humblie besought his grace to haue the same also in speciall regard and consideration first that the kings maiestie be put in no feare and that if there be anie such thing wherein he hath giuen iust cause to them thus to procéed he would so conforme himselfe as no such priuat quarrels doo redound to the publike disturbance of the realme certifieng moreouer the duke that if it were true which he vnderstood by the letters of the lords that he should send about proclamations and letters for raising vp of the commons he liked not the same Notwithstanding he trusted well that his wisedome would take such a waie as no effusion of bloud should follow And thus much being conteined in his former letters the eight of October in his next letters againe written the eleuenth of October the said lord Russell reioising to heare of the most reasonable offers of the lord protector made to the lords wrote vnto him and promised to doo what in the vttermost power of him and likewise of sir William Herbert ioined togither with him did lie to worke some honorable reconciliation betwéene him them so as his said offers being accepted and satisfied some good conclusion might insue according to their good hope and expectation signifieng moreouer that as touching the leuieng of men they had resolued to haue the same in readinesse for the benefit of the realme to occurre all inconueniences whatsoeuer that either by forren inuasion or otherwise might happen so hauing line 10 their power at hand to draw néere wherby they might haue the better oportunitie to be solicitors and meanes for this reformation on both parts c. And thus much for the answer of the lord Russell to the lord protectors letters But now to procéed and go forward with the matter of the lords who togither with the earle of Warwike vpon what occasion God knoweth were assembled at London as ye haue heard against line 20 the lord protector When the king with his councell at Hampton court heard therof first secretarie Peter with the kings

was a lamentable sight and pitifull remembrance line 40 to the beholders therof After this mischance the queens maiestie being much gréeued for the losse of so beautifull a monument directed hir highnesse letters to the maior of the citie of London willing him to assemble the citizens to take some order for speciall aid and helpe for the reparing againe of the said monument And she of hir most gratious disposition to giue a comfort to others for the furtherance thereof did presentlie giue and deliuer in gold one thousand markes and a warrant for a thousand lode line 50 of timber to be taken out of hir maiesties woods or elsewhere and the citizens of London granted one beneuolence and three fiftéens to be foorthwith paied The clergie vnder the prouince of Canturburie granted the fortith part of the value of their benefices charged with first fruits not charged with first fruits the thirtith part The clergie of the diocesse of London granted the thirtith part of their benefices in first fruits and the twentith part out of first fruits Now immediatlie by commandement of the line 60 quéenes highnesse hir priuie councell tooke order that six citizens of London and two of the cleargie of the church of Paules had charge and commandement to ouersée and set forward this worke who made such expedition that within one moneth next following the burning thereof the whole church that is to saie all the foure great roofes of the same were couered with boords and lead after the maner of a false roofe And the greatnesse of the worke dispatched in so short time could scarselie be credited of anie but of such as saw and knew the same And the cause of this great hast was for feare of raine which might haue perished the vawtes to the destruction of the whole church the people that were therein And before the said yéere was fullie ended all the said iles of the said church were made framed of new maine timber couered with lead fullie finished And the same yeare also the great roofe of the west end was framed and made of new great timber in Yorkeshire brought to London by sea and set vp couered with lead and fullie finished And in like maner within the said yeare the whole roofe and frame of the east end of the said church was made in Yorkeshire brought by sea to London and there laid readie to be raised when the season of the yeare serued This one thing resteth to be told that by estimation of wise men 10000 pounds more than is yet granted vnto it will not perfect finish the church and stéeple in such sort as it was before the burning thereof In this meane time also by reason of the quéenes maiesties letters directed to the maior and his brethren of the citie of London about the burning of Paules there were certeine aldermen and commoners of the said citie named and called togither by the authoritie of the maior to deuise some good order and spéedie remedie for the reliefe and comfort of the said citie whensoeuer anie chance of fire hereafter should happen as God forbid within the said citie or liberties thereof And the persons so called after sundrie méetings and with good aduisement and deliberation agréed and penned a certeine order for the spéedie remedie thereof as well for the readie knowledge of the place wheresoeuer the same fire should happen and for the sudden extinguishment suppressing of the same as also for the safe kéeping of the goods of such persons in whose house anie fire should chance Which orders and rules vndoubtedlie would be to the great comfort safetie of the citie and citizens of the same if they were published and made knowen in time and executed accordinglie But what should I saie I can but lament not onelie for this but also for manie such painefull and profitable labors which for good gouernement of this citie had béene taken For as soone as the talking thereof is doone and the bookes framed and deliuered so soone is it put in obliuion and nothing at all thought vpon vntill an houre after the mischiefe be past This yeare was chosen lord maior of London a worthie citizen named William Harper one of the companie of the merchant tailors This man wishing in his life time to benefit his countrie founded a free schoole in the towne of Bedford where he was borne and now lieth buried prouiding a competent stipend and liuing for a scholemaister there to traine vp and instruct children in vertue and learning foreuer The fiftéenth of Nouember the quéenes maiestie published a proclamation wherein she restored to the realme diuerse small péeces of siluer monie as the peece of six pence foure pence thrée pence two pence and a penie three halfe pence and thrée farthings She also forbad all forren coines to be currant within the same realme as well gold as siluer calling them to hir maiesties mints except two sorts of crownes of gold the one the French crowne the other the Flemmish crowne ¶ Thus did hir maiestie in all hir actions directed to common vtilitie shoot at a certeine perfection purenesse and soundnesse as here in hir new stamps and coines of all sorts so also in Gods religion setting the materiall churches of hir dominions frée from all popish trash which one hath aptlie noted by waie of comparison saieng Eiectis paleis purgatur vt area multo Vsque laborantis serui sudore reuulsis Vt nitet ampla domus quas struxit aranea telis Sic priùs idolis confractis templa fricantur Cuncta scopis quicquid fuit abradentibus vncis Dentibus obscoenum spurcum verbóue repugnans Sacro relligióque erectis cultior ibat Iam pedibus Christúsque Dei cognoscitur agnus Offensas delens mundi peccatáque tollen● Vaenalis populo non indulgentia papae This yeare in England were manie monstruous births In March a mare brought foorth a foale with one bodie and two heads and as it were a long taile growing out betweene the two heads Also a sow farowed a pig with foure legs like to the armes of a manchild with armes and fingers c. In Aprill a sow farrowed a pig with two bodies year 1562 eight féet and but one head manie calues and lambs were monstruous line 10 some with collars of skin growing about their necks like to the double ruffes of shirts and neckerchers then vsed The foure and twentith of Maie a manchild was borne at Chichester in Sussex the head armes legs whereof were like to an anatomie the breast and bellie monstruous big from the nauill as it were a long string hanging about the necke a great collar of flesh and skin growing like the ruffe of a shirt or neckercher comming vp aboue the eares pleited and folded c. line 20 The realme of France being in great trouble about this season by the means of

by the lords of hir maiesties priuie councell with maister William Burroughs and others to surueie and confer about that hauen with the said commissioners vnderstanding Ferdinando Poins had delt in the inning of Woolwich Erith marshes being also willing to doo him good gaue fauourable eare vnto him as to one that propounded an easie and a cheape platforme and not much vnprobable in his opinion whose desire was to haue it well performed and with as small charge as might be for that he was the greatest preferrer of that bill in the parlement house and yéelded the best reasons for a hauen to be there placed At this assemblie were proposed other sundrie mens deuises namelie of one Thomas Brooker gentleman Iohn Stoneham carpentar Bedwell c and among the rest sir Thomas Scot being a man carefull for the affaires of his countrie and therewithall verie perspicuous being wearied with manie fruitlesse conferences delaies strange and vntoward deuises chargeable and vaine attempts and contrarie procéedings and among other things hauing had great experience in Romneie marsh matters the greatest businesse whereof consisteth in making and reparing of wals to defend the same marsh from the inuasion and inundation of the sea and dailie seeing the nature and effects therof weieng also in his mind that Romneie marsh wals are of greater bulke and force than these need to be for that they lie more open to the maine sea and without comparison more subiect to the weight and violent rage thereof and further knowing that the marsh wals are placed not farre from thense vpon that coast vpon a foundation in all respects like vnto the same if not woorse for sometimes they build vpon a verie quicke sand where one maie thrust downe a pole of a doozzen or twentie foot and not find or feele the bottome and after he had compared these workes together perceiuing no impediment whie one rule should not direct two workes of one kind he conferred with his neighbours of Romneie marsh therein who allowed and confirmed his deuise and afterward redilie attended on him to Douer there to approue his opinion with their reasons and experience and not so onelie but also to vndertake and performe what soeuer he had set downe or promised in that behalfe The residue of the commissioners hearing and conceiuing sir Thomas Scots reasons ioined and confirmed with experience not far fetcht but ratified by neere neighbours being persons of good account which were expert from their childhood in the practise of those kind of works inclined greatlie vnto his motion and the rather for that they knew him to be such a one as would not séeke for priuat gaines Howbeit they which exhibited the woodden worke could not well conceiue hereof nor easilie consent herevnto And no waie was thought by them more fit to preferre their owne worke than to make some offer to doo it by great which the lords of the councell greatlie desired as whereby they might vnderstand the vttermost charge and time required for the accomplishing thereof But the price of the woodden wall grew to be so large for fiue thousand and fiue hundred pounds was the lowest rate of their demand for the long wall onelie that it was much misliked For first there was no likelihood or possibilitie that the same should be set fast and vnmoueable wher the slub or sléech is fiftéene foot déepe at the least and the maine rocke immediatlie vnderneath it Secondlie if the same could be erected yet it must line 10 in short time be so shaken by reason of the weight of the pent water on the one side at low water and by the violence of the sea on the other side at the floud that through the vnstedinesse thereof it could not continue tight Thirdlie the nature of the sand and slub was thought to be so different from the condition of woodden boords and planks whereof this wall was to consist that though there were no weight or wether that could impech the stedie standing thereof yet there could be no such firme coniunction betwixt line 20 them but that the verie weight of the wall it selfe must néeds cause the same to decline to one side or other whereby water would draine betwixt by reason of the thinnesse of the slub or sleech which could minister no certeine staie therevnto nor likelihood that the same should so vnite with the wood as to stand stedie and to make a perfect pent in that place but to helpe that matter they meant to haue shored and braced the said timber wall in such sort as the same should haue staid the whole worke yet no line 30 bracing could as the best opinion was haue preuailed to bring that wall to be good or stedie Fourthlie it was thought that such a wall so placed would be subiect to more than ordinarie decaie by reason that anie woodworke lieng in water especiallie when it is sometimes wet and sometimes drie will in short time rot and disioint so as if the same could be repared whereof there was great doubt made yet the reparations would be in respect of charge verie intollerable Fiftlie the delaie of time herein was also line 40 disliked for two yeares being demanded for the accomplishing of that one wall no time could be promised Sixtlie they being demanded whether they had euer séene either on this side or beyond the seas anie such wall or worke they answered No but affirmed it to be in their opinions so probable as they would aduenture to vndertake it for thirtie pounds the rod but in what space to finish it they could not saie Seuenthlie there was required for line 50 the building of this wall 7000 tun of timber which all Kent and Sussex without vnrecouerable hurt in depriuation of their timber was not able to yeeld and the necessarie carriages for such a prouision could haue béene by no meanes procured without the vndooing of the inhabitants and spoile of the countrie These causes were of force inough to ouerthrow a woodden wall The deuise neuerthelesse deserued commendation These matters thus mentioned were afterwards debated before the lords of the councell and line 60 these reasons with manie others were deliuered vnto their lordships by maister Thomas Digs the first elected surueior of the works as from the commissioners The credit of the parties who were to vndertake this woodden wall and their reasons preuailed so much as diuerse noble and wise men grew to conceiue good liking thereof But the lord treasuror whose voice and iudgement in all causes of importance hath in all his time worthilie caried the swaie allowed rather of the marsh works saieng that if he erred therein as not seeing but hearing the matter in question he would erre with discretion as led by the reasons of the commissioners who had séene and tried the experience of that kind of worke Diuerse liked of Poins his worke or at the least of his communication partlie as it is said

thrée actuall rebellions He reuiued and put in execution the lawes for the abolishing of coine and liuerie He deuised the planting of presidents in the remoter prouinces He deuised the lawes for the distribution of the Irish coūtries into shire ground He increased the reuenues ten thousand pounds yerlie His buildings fortifications and other necessarie works for the benefit and good of the countrie He built conuenient rooms for the kéeping and preseruation of the records which before were neglected He caused th● statutes of Ireland to b● imprinted which neuer before were published He procured some Englishmen to be sent ouer for the better administration of iustice A great fu●therer of all publike works The great loue he got him in all pl●●ces where he serued His carefulnesse in the seruice of the state Uerie expert and able he was of a bad clerke in time to frame a good secretarie Of great facilitie in dispatch of common causes A great desire to doo for all men A tender father to his children and a louing master to his seruants Sol●●ario homini atque in agro vitam agenti opinio iustitiae necessaria est He was intirelie beloued of the officers of hir maiesties houshold He was dubbed knight the same daie sir William Cecill was He died at the bishops palace 〈◊〉 Worcester His death greatlie bemoned His corps was buried at Penshurst The time of my ladie Sidneis death Sir Philip sir Robert and maister Thomas Sidneis Marie countesse of Penbroke William lord Herbert of Cardiffe The commendation of sir Philip Sidneie Lord gouernor o● U●●ssingen commonlie called Fl●●shing He surprise● Arell in Flanders He drowned the countrie by making 〈◊〉 entrie into th● sea No resistance made by Mondragon Grauelin His hurt at the incounter néere Zutphen The daie of the death of sir Philip Sidneie Omnis virtus nos ad se allicit facítque vt diligamus eos in quibus inesse videatur tamen iusticia liberalitas id maximè efficit Thomas Louelace condig●li● punished by iudgement of the honorable court in the Star-chamber for counterfeiting of letters c. I. S. Henrie Ramelius ambassador out of Denmarke The Danish ambassador honorablie interteined The maiestie of the English court Heuenlie musike in the queens chapell The ambassador of Denmarke seeth the roiall seruice of the quéene of England Recreations and disports for prince and people This Crosbie ●as a knight 〈◊〉 his gift to 〈◊〉 of ●ondon pag. ●● ●50 The ambas●●dor depar●●th home to●ards Den●arke ●ord Ed●ard earle of Rutland ambassador into Scotland The quéenes maiestie hath speciall care of christian religion to be preserued and propagated ● league betweene England and Scotland confirmed Sée more of this ambassage in the historie of Scotland pag. 456. 〈…〉 The horrible conspiracie of ●abington ●ther his 〈◊〉 traitors 〈◊〉 s●oursed by ● F. Sir Wolstan Dixie lord maior of London Anthonie Ratcliffe and Henrie Prannell shiriffes Sir Francis Drake his turne into England 〈◊〉 his last 〈◊〉 finished Hispaniola in old time called Ophir The returne of sir Francis Drake into England with great riches c. Manie voiages of great difficultie haue beene vndertaken but failed in the issue Traitors indicted arreigned and condemned at Westminster I. S. The first seuen condemned without anie iurie The effect of the last seuen their tresons notable The place of their execution was sometime the méeting place of their consultation The order of the traitors executed Iohn Ballard preest persuader of Babington to these odious treasons executed How Ballard was affected at his death Ballards sophisticall asking of the queens maiestie forgiuenesse Anthonie Babington esquier executed A note of Babingtons pride at the verie instant of his execution Iohn Sauage gentleman executed The fruites that issue from listening to the counsell of Iesuits Romanists and Rhemists Robert Barnewell gentleman executed Chidiocke Tichborne esquire executed Charls Tilneie a pensioner executed Edward Abington esquier executed his thretning spéech Throgmortons prophesie and Abingtons of like truth in euent Thomas Salisburie esquier executed The last seuen traitors executed with great fauour Salisburie acknowledgeth his greeuous offense a note of repentance Uiolence forbidden by Salisburie Henrie Dun gentleman executed The ambitious humour of Henrie Dun. Edward Iones esquier executed Forren inuasion reproued by Iones Iohn Trauers Iohn Charnocke gentlemen executed Robert Gage executed Hir maiesties gratiousnesse commended by this traitor Hypocrisie of Robert Gage Ierom Bellamie gentleman executed One of the Bellamies hanged himselfe in the Tower Ex libello I. Nich. typis C.B. excuso 1581. Sée be fore pag 1357 a 60 c. 1358 v 60 c. The causes that haue so long hindered king Philip to inuade England The reuerend regard that subiects ought to haue of their souereignes c. A gentleman iudged to die because he once thought to haue killed his prince A seuere law against treason A woman tratoresse well rewarded Against séeking after nouelties and to teach men to be well aduised c. Extreame kinds of torments in other countries for treason c. Traitors iustlie rewarded and yet nothing so as they deserue A prettie apolog allusorie to the present case of malcontents Seldome commeth the better Barnardino de Mendoza alwaies mischéefouslie minded against the state of England note his practises with Ballard The Scotish quéene is an actor in this purposed conspiracie Iohn Sauage had vowed and sworne to kill the quéene Babington vndertaketh the managing of the whole action note their tresons The Scotish quéene writeth vnto Babington in cipher with his aduise direction and request The Scotish quéenes aduise in this mischiefous plot fauoring altogither of inhumanitie Six gentlemen of resolution c. Ballard apprehended being readie to be imbarked and transported ouersea The conspirators disguised themselues thinking by that meane to shift the matter Magna est veritas praeualet How the popish catholiks are affected to the Scotish queene What the fugitiue diuines must doo for their parts Iu nefariam Babingtoni caeterorumque coniurationem hexastichon Sir Philip Sidneie slaine at Zutphen in Gelderland of whome sée more pag. 1554. Seminarie préests executed at Tiborn A tempestuous wind in October terrible and hurtfull The accidents noteworthie by meanes of this blustering wind A strange accident of a walnut trée blowne downe with the wind c. The third strange chance Ludgate of London newlie builded Parlement at Westminster Anno Reg. 29. The earle of Leicester returned from the low countries and arriued in England In reditum magnanimi herois Roberti Comitis Lecestrij 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 gratulatorium T. N. The parlement proroged line 30 The danger of the ouerthrow of the true religion The perill of the state of the realme The sentence giuen against the Scotish queene solemnlie proclamed An abridgment of the orders deuised for the reléefe of the poore in this time of dearth c. Starch F. T. Anonymall or namelesse chronicles treating wholie or in part of England The conclusion