about woon by him sith the beginning of these wars likewise all the right which he had in Berrie Auâ—ergine and Gascoigne and the countie of Albemarle On the other part the king of England should resigne Gisors and certeine other places and namelie Ueurine or Ueulquesine vnto the king of France Herevpon were suerties also bound for performance and the forfeiture of fiftéene thousand marks assigned to be paid by the partie that first brake the peace Shortlie after the French king repenting him selfe of the agreement began to make a warre anew so that king Richard seized into his hands all the goods and possessions which belonged to the abbats of the order of the great monasterie of Clunie and of saint Denise la Charitie which had become suertie for the French king in the summe of 1500 marks aforesaid This yeare died William de Forz earle of Albemarle in whose place succéeded Baldwine de Betun by the kings gift and married the countesse of Albermarle There was a motion also made for a marriage betwixt the lord Otho sonne to Henrie duke of Saxonie king Richards nephue by his sister and the ladie Margaret daughter to the king of Scots so as they should haue inioied the countries of Lothian Northumberland and the countie of Caerleill with the castels For the conclusion of which marriage the archbishop of Canturburie was sent about Christmas to commune with the king of Scots but bicause the Scotish quéene was then conceiued of child hir husband in hope that God would send him a sonne refused to stand vnto the aboue mentioned couenants At this time king Richard sent the abbat of Caen who was also the elect of Durham into England to take an accompts of those that had the receipts of the kings monie for this abbat had informed the king that his receiuers and officers here in the realme dealt not iustlie in making their accompts but both deceiued the king and oppressed his people in exacting more than was due and concealing that which they ought to stand accomptable for The king supposing his words to be true or at least likelie so to line 10 be and that in reforming such vntruth in his officers it should be both profitable to him and well liked of the people sent this abbat ouer with commission to be as it were his generall auditour Howbeit Hubert archbishop of Canturburie which was gouernour of the realme in causes both temporall and spirituall by reason he had the kings authoritie as his vicegerent therefore sufficientlie countenanced also the popes as his legat authorised did somewhat stomach the matter in that it line 20 should be thought he did suffer such abuses in the kings officers and not reforme them But he held him content and said little sith the abbat shewed him the kings commission to doo that which he went about although he brought it not to passe For whereas he came ouer in lent and gaue out commandements that all such as had any thing to doo in receipt of the kings monie should appeare before him after Easter he tarried not to see Easter himselfe but was called into another world by the stroke of death line 30 there to render accompts for his owne acts here in this life committed At the same time there was another person in London called William with the long beard alià s Fitz Osbert which had likewise informed the king of certeine great oppressions and excessiue outrages vsed by rich men against the poore namelie the worshipfull of the citie the Maior and Aldermen who in their hoistings when any tallage was to be gathered burdened the poore further than was thought reason line 40 to ease themselues wherevpon the said William being a seditious person and of a busie nature ceassed not to make complaints Now bicause the king gaue eare vnto him at the first he tooke a boldnesse thereof drawing vnto him great routs of the poorer sort of people would take vpon him to defend the causes of those that found themselues greeued with the heauie yoke of richmen and gentlemen He was somewhat learned and verie eloquent he had also a verie good wit but he applied it rather to set dissention line 50 betwixt the high estates and the low than to anie other good purpose He accused also his owne brother of treason who in his youth had kept him to schoole beene verie good and beneficiall brother vnto him bicause now he would not still mainteine him with monie to beare out his riottous port Moreouer he declared to the king that by extortion and briberie of certeine men of great wealth he lost manie forfeits and escheats Manie gentlemen of honour sore hated him for line 60 his presumptuous attempts to the hindering of their purposes but he had such comfort of the king that he little passed for their malice but kept on his intent till the king being aduertised of the assemblies which he made commanded him to ceasse from such dooings that the people might fall againe to their sciences and occupations which they had for the more part left off at the instigation of this William with the long beard so named of the long heare of his â—eard which he nourished of purpose to seeme the more graue and manlike and also as it were in despite of them which counterfeited the Normans that were for the most part shauen and bicause he would resemble the ancient vsage of the English nation The kings commandement in restraint of the peoples resort vnto him was well kept a while but it was not long yer they began to follow him againe as they had doone before Then he tooke vpon him to make vnto them certeine collations or sermons taking for his theme Haurietis aquâ—â— in gaudio de fontibus saluatoris that is to saie Ye shall draw in gladnesse waters out of the founteins of your sauiour And hereto he added I am said he the sauiour of poore men ye be the poore and haue assaied the hard hands and heauie burdens of the rich now draw ye therefore the healthfull waters of vnderstanding out of my wels and springs and that with ioy For the time of your visitation is come I shall part waters from waters by waters I vnderstand the people and I shall part the people which are good and méeke from the people that are wicked and proud and I shall disseuer the good and euill euen as light is diuided from darkenesse By these and such persuasions and means as he vsed he had gotten two and fiftie thousand persons readie to haue taken his part as appeared after by a roll of their names found in his kéeping besides diuerse instruments of iron to breake vp houses and other things seruing to such like purposes So that he brought the commoners into a great liking of him but the rich and wealthie citizens stood in much feare so that they kept their
was come into the field armed ioined themselues with him When therefore the bishop was come into the place where the commons were incamped he perceiued that they had fortified their campe verie stronglie with ditches and such other stuffe as they could make shift with as doores windowes boords tables and behind them were all their cariages placed so that it séemed they meant not to flie Herewith the bishop being chased with the presumptuous boldnesse of such a sort of disordered persons commanded his trumpets to sound to the battell and with his speare in the rest he charged them with such violence that he went ouer the ditch and laied so about him that through his manfull dooings all his companie found means to passe the ditch likewise and so therewith followed a verie sore and terrible sight both parts dooing their best to vanquish the other But finallie the commons were ouercome and driuen to seeke their safegard by flight which was sore hindered by their cariages that stood behind them ouer the which they were forced to clime and leape so well as they might Iohn Littester and other cheefe capteins were taken aliue The bishop therefore caused the said Littester to be arreigned of high treason and condemned and so he was drawne hanged and headed according to the iudgement The bishop heard his confession and by vertue of his office absolued him and to shew some parcell of sorrowing for the mans mischance he went with him to the galowes But it séemed that pitie wrought not with the bishop to quench the zeale of iustice for he caused not Littester onelie to be executed but sought for all other that were the chéefe dooers in that rebellion causing them to be put vnto death and so by that meanes quieted the countrie ¶ To recite what was doone in euerie part of the realme in time of those hellish troubles it is not possible but this is to be considered that the rage of the commons was vniuersallie such as it might séeme they had generallie conspired togither to doo what mischeefe they could deuise As among sundrie other what wickednesse was it to compell teachers of children in grammar schooles to sweare neuer to instruct any in their art Againe could they haue a more mischeefous meaning line 10 than to burne and destroie all old and ancient monuments and to murther and dispatch out of the waie all such as were able to commit to memorie either any new or old records For it was dangerous among them to be knowne for one that was lerned and more dangerous if any men were found with a penner and inkhorne at his side for such seldome or neuer escaped from them with life But to returne to saie somewhat more concerning line 20 the end of their rebellious enterprises you must vnderstand how after that Wat Tiler was slaine at London in the presence of the king as before ye haue heard the hope and confidence of the rebels greatlie decaied and yet neuerthelesse the king and his councell being not well assured granted to the commons as ye haue heard charters of manumission and infranchisement from all bondage and so sent them awaie home to their countries and foorthwith herevpon he assembled an armie of the Londoners line 30 and of all others in the countries abroad that bare him good will appointing none to come but such as were armed and had horsses for he would haue no footmen with him Thus it came to passe that within thrée daies he had about him fourtie thousand horssemen as was estéemed so that in England had not béene heard of the like armie assembled togither at one time And herewith was the king aduertised that the Kentishmen began eftsoones to stir wherewith the king and the whole armie were so grieuouslie line 40 offended that they meant streight to haue set vpon that countrie and to haue wholie destroied that rebellious generation But thorough intercession made by the lords and gentlemen of that countrie the king pacified his mood and so resolued to procéed against them by order of law and iustice causing iudges to sit and to make inquisition of the malefactors and especiallie of such as were authors of the mischéefes And about the same time did the maior of London line 50 sit in iudgement as well vpon the offendors that were citizens as of other that were of Kent Essex Southsex Norffolke Suffolke and other counties being found within the liberties of the citie and such as were found culpable he caused them to lose their heads as Iacke Straw Iohn Kirkbie Alane Tredera and Iohn Sterling that gloried of himselfe for that he was the man that had slaine the archbishop This fellow as it is written by some authors streight waies after he had doone that wicked deed fell out of line 60 his wits and comming home into Essex where he dwelt tied a naked sword about his necke that hoong downe before on his brest and likewise a dagger naked that hanged downe behind on his backe and so went vp and downe the lanes stréets about home crieng out and protesting that with those weapons he had dispatched the archbishop and after he had remained a while at home he came to London againe for that he shuld receiue as he said the reward there of the act which he had committed and so indéed when he came thither and boldlie confessed that he was the man that had beheaded the archbishop he lost his head in steed of a recompense and diuerse other both of Essex and Kent that had laid violent hands vpon the archbishop came to the like end at London where they did the deed being bewraied by their owne confessions Here is to be remembred that the king after the citie of London was deliuered from the danger of the rebels as before ye haue heard in respect of the great manhood and assured loialtie which had appeared in the maior and other of the aldermen for some part of recompense of their faithfull assistance in that dangerous season made the said maior William Walworth knight with fiue other aldermen his brethren to wit Nicholas Bramble Iohn Philpot Nicholas Twiford Robert Laundre and Robert Gaiton also Iohn Standish that as ye haue heard holpe to slaie Wat Tiler Moreouer the king granted that there should be a dagger added to the armes of the citie of London in the right quarter of the shield for an augmentation of the same armes and for a remembrance of this maior his valiant act as dooth appeare vnto this daie for till that time the citie bare onelie the crosse without the dagger Although the kings authoritie thus began to shew it selfe to the terror of rebels yet the commons of Essex eftsoones assembled themselues togither not far from Hatfield Peuerell and sent to the king to know of him if his pleasure was that they should inioy their promised liberties and further that they might be as frée as
Montacute earle of Salisburie Thomas lord Spenser and the lord William Scroope lord chamberleine In the meane time the king fearing what might be attempted against him by those that fauoured these noblemen that were in durance sent for a power of Cheshire men that might day and night keepe watch and ward about his person They were about two thousand archers paid wéekelie as by the annales of Britaine it appeareth The king had little trust in any of the nobilitie except in his brother the earle of Huntington and the earle of Rutland sonne to the duke of Yorke and in the earle of Salisburie in these onelie he reposed a confidence and not in any other except in certeine knights and gentlemen of his priuie chamber In the meane time whiles things were thus in broile before the beginning of the parlement diuers other beside them of whom we haue spoken were apprehended and put in sundrie prisons The parlement was summoned to begin at Westminster the 17 of September and writs therevpon directed to euerie of the lords to appeare and to bring with them a sufficient number of armed men and archers in their best arraiâ— for it was not knowen how the dukes of Lancaster and Yorke would take the death of their brother nor how other péeres of the realme would take the apprehension and imprisonment of their kinsemen the earles of Arundell and Warwike and of the other prisoners Suerlie the two dukes when they heard that their brother was so suddenlie made awaie they wist not what to saie to the matter and began both to be sorowfull for his death and doubtfull of their owne states for sith they saw how the king abused by the counsell of euill men absteined not from such an heinous act they thought he line 10 would afterwards attempt greater misorders from time to time Therefore they assembled in all hast great numbers of their seruants fréends and tenants and comming to London were receiued into the citie For the Londoners were right sorie for the death of the duke of Glocester who had euer sought their fauour in somuch that now they would haue béene contented to haue ioined with the dukes in seeking reuenge of so noble a mans death procured and brought to passe without law or reason as the common line 20 brute then walked although peraduenture he was not as yet made awaie Here the dukes and other fell in counsell and manie things were proponed Some would that they shuld by force reuenge the duke of Glocesters death other thought it méet that the earles Marshall and Huntington and certeine others as chéefe authours of all the mischeefe should be pursued and punished for their demerites hauing trained vp the king in vice and euill customes euen from his youth But the line 30 dukes after their displeasure was somewhat asswaged determined to couer the stings of their griefes for a time and if the king would amend his maners to forget also the iniuries past In the meane time the king laie at Eltham and had got about him a great power namelie of those archers which he had sent for out of Cheshire in whome he put a singular trust more than in any other There went messengers betwixt him and the dukes which being men of honour did their indeuour line 40 to appease both parties The king discharged himselfe of blame for the duke of Glocesters death considering that he had gone about to breake the truce which he had taken with France and also stirred the people of the realme to rebellion and further had sought the destruction and losse of his life that was his souereigne lord and lawfull king Contrarilie the dukes affirmed that their brother was wrongfullie put to death hauing doone nothing worthie of death At length by the intercession and meanes of those noble line 50 men that went to and fro betwixt them they were accorded the king promised from thencefoorth to doo noâ—hing but by the assent of the dukes but he kept small promise in this behalfe as after well appeared When the time came that the parlement should be holden at Westminster according to the tenour of the summons the lords repaired thither furnished with great retinues both of armed men and archers as the earle of Derbie the earle Marshall the earle of Rutland the lord Spenser the earle of Northumberland line 60 with his sonne the lord Henrie Persie and the lord Thomas Persie the said earles brother also the lord Scroope treasuror of England diuerse other All the which earles and lords brought with them a great strong power euerie of them in their best araie as it were to strengthen the king against his enimies The dukes of Lancaster and Yorke were likewise there giuing their attendance on the king with like furniture of men of armes archers There was not halfe lodging sufficient within the citie suburbes of London for such coÌ„panies of men as the lords brought with them to this parlement called the great parlement in somuâ—h that they were constreined to lie in villages abroad ten or twelue miles on ech side the citie In the beginning of this parlement the king greatlie complained of the misdemeanour of the péeres and lords of his realme as well for the things doone against his will and pleasure whiles he was yoong as for the streit dealing which they had shewed towards the quéene who was thrée houres at one time on hir knées before the earle of Arundell for one of hir esquiers named Iohn Caluerlie who neuerthelesse had his head smit froÌ„ his shoulders all the answer that she could get was this Madame praie for your selfe and your husband for that is best and let this sute alone Those that set foorth the kings greeuances as prolocutors in this parlement were these Iohn Bushie William Bagot and Thomas Gréene The king had caused a large house of timber to be made within the palace at Westminster which he was called an hall couered aboue head with tiles and was open at the ends that all men might see through it This house was of so great a compasse that scarse it might stand within the roome of the palace In this house was made an high throne for the king and a large place for all estates besides to sit in There were places also made for the appellants to stand on the one side and the defendants on the other and a like roome was made behind for the knights and burgesses of the parlement There was a place deuised for the speaker named sir Iohn Bushie a knight of Lincolneshire accompted to be an excéeding cruell man ambitious and couetous beyond measure Immediatlie after ech man being placed in his roome the cause of assembling that parlement was shewed as that the king had called it for reformation of diuerse transgressions and oppressions committed against the peace of his land by the duke of Glocester the earles
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 Aâ—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
maister Brooke still cried vpon them for answer line 20 At the last stepped vp a wise and good citizen named as maister Fox saith George Stadlow and said thus In this case it is good for vs to thinke of things past to auoid the danger of things to come I remember saith he in a storie written in Fabians chronicle of the warre betwéene the king and his barons which was in the time of king Henrie the third and the same time the barons as our lords doo now commanded aid of the maior and citie of London line 30 and that in a rightfull cause for the common-weale which was for the execution of diuerse good lawes wherevnto the king before had giuen his consent and after would not suffer them to take place and the citie did aid the lords Now it came to an open battell wherein the lords preuailed and tooke the king and his sonne prisoners and vpon certeine conditions the lords restored againe the king and his sonne to their liberties And among all other conditions this was one that the king should not onelie line 40 grant his pardon to the lords but also to the citizens of London which was granted yea and the same ratified by act of parlement But what followed Was it forgotten No suerlie nor yet forgiuen during the kings life The liberties of the citie were taken awaie strangers appointed to be our heads and gouernours the citizens giuen awaie bodie and goods and from one persecution to another were most miserablie afflicted such it is to enter into the wrath of a prince as Salomon saith The wrath and indignation of a prince is death Wherefore forsomuch line 50 as this aid is required of the kings maiestie whose voice we ought to hearken vnto for he is our high shepheard rather than vnto the lords and yet I would not wish the lords to be clearlie shaken off but that they with vs and we with them may ioine in sute and make our most humble petition to the kings maiestie that it would please his highnesse to heare such complaint against the gouernement of the lord protector as may be iustlie alledged and prooued And I doubt not but this matter will be so pacified line 60 that neither shall the king nor yet the lords haue cause to séeke for further aid neither we to offend anie of them both After this tale the commons staied and the lord maior his brethren for that time brake vp and afterward communed with the lords The lords sat the next daie in councell in the Star chamber and from thence they sent sir Philip Hobbie with their letters of credence to the kings maiestie beséeching his highnesse to giue credit to that which the said Philip should declare vnto his maiestie in their names the king gaue him libertie to speake and most gentlie heard all that he had to saie And trulie he did so wiselie declare his message and so grauelie told his tale in the name of the lords yea therewithall so vehementlie and gréeuouslie against the protector who was also there present by the king that in the end the lord protector was commanded from the kings presence and shortlie was committed to ward in a tower within the castell of Windsore called Beauchamps tower And soone after were staied sir Thomas Smith sir Michaell Stanhope and sir Iohn Thin knights master Whalleie master Fisher Woolfe of the priuie chamber Graie of Reading and diuers other gentlemen that attended vpon the lord protector And the same daie the lords of the councell came to Windsore to the king and the next daie they brought from thence the lord protector and the other that were there staied and conueied them through the citie of London with as much woonderment as might be vnto the tower where they remained prisoners ¶ Touching the manner of the dukes comming to the tower from Windsore I find that it was on the fouretéenth of October in the after noone at which time he was brought on horssebacke through Holburne in at Newgate and so to the tower of London accompanied with diuerse lords and gentlemen with thrée hundred horsse the lord maior sir Rafe Warren sir Iohn Gresham maister recorder sir William Locke and both the shiriffes and other knights sitting on their horsses against Soper lane with all the officers with halberds and from Holburne bridge to the tower certeine aldermen or their deputies on horssebacke in euerie street with a number of housholders standing with billes as he passed Shortlie after the lords resorted to the tower and there charged the protector with sundrie articles as followeth Articles obiected against the lord protector IN primis you tooke vpon you the office of a protector and gouernour vpon condition expresselie and speciallie that you would doo nothing in the kings affaires publikelie or priuatlie but by the assent of the late kings executors 2 Also you contrarie to the said condition of your owne authoritie did staie and let iustice and subuerted the lawes as well by your letters as by your commandements 3 Also you caused diuerse persons being arested and imprisoned for treason murther manslaughter and felonie to be discharged and set at large against the kings lawes and statutes of this realme 4 Also you haue made and ordeined lieutenants for the kings armies and other weightie affaires vnder your owne writing and seale 5 Also you haue communed with the ambassadors of other realmes discoursing alone with them in the weightie causes of this realme 6 Also you haue sometime rebuked checked and tawnted as well priuatlie as openlie diuerse of the kings most honorable councellors for shewing and declaring their aduises and opinions against your purposes in the kings weightie affaires saieng somtimes to them that you néed not to open matters vnto them and would therefore be otherwise aduised and that you would if they were not agréeable to your opinion put them out and take other at your pleasure 7 Also you had and held against the law in your owne house a court of requests and thereby did inforce diuerse the kings subiects to answer for their free holds and goods and determined the same to the subuersion of the same lawes 8 Also you being no officer without the aduise of the councell or the more part of them did dispose of the offices of the kings gift for monie and granted leases and wards of the kings and gaue presentations to the kings benefices and bishopriks hauing no authoritie so to doo And further you did meddle with the selling of the kings lands 9 Also you commanded multiplication and alcumistrie to be practised to abuse the kings coine line 10 10 Also you caused a proclamation to be made concerning inclosures whereby the common people haue made diuerse insurrections and leuied open war and distreined and spoiled diuerse of the kings subiects which proclamation went foorth against the will of the whole councell 11 Also you haue caused a commission
poore The poore by impotencie Poore by casualtie Thriftlesse poore 1 The poore by impotencie are also diuided into three kinds that is to saie 1 The fatherlesse poore mans line 60 child 2 The aged blind and lame 3 The diseased person by leprosie dropsie c. 2 The poore by casualtie are of thrée kinds that is to saie 4 The wounded souldier 5 The decaied housholder 6 The visited with gréeuous disease 3 The thriftles poore are three kinds in like wise that is to saie 7 The riotor that consumeth all 8 The vagabond that will abide in no place 9 The idle person as the strumpet and others For these sorts of poore were prouided thrée seuerall houses First for the innocent and fatherlesse which is the beggers child and is in déed the séed and breeder of beggerie they prouided the house that was late Graie friers in London and now is called Christes hospitall where the poore children are trained in the knowledge of God and some vertuous eâ—ercise to the ouerthrowe of beggerie For the second degrée is prouided the hospitall of saint Thomas in Southworke saint Bartholomew in west Smithfield where are continuallie at least two hundred diseased persons which are not onelie there lodged and cured but also fed and nourished For the third degrée they prouided Bridewell where the vagabond and idle strumpet is chastised and compelled to labour to the ouerthrow of the vicious life of idlenes They prouided also for the honest decaied housholder that he should be relieued at home at his house and in the parish where he dwelled by a wéekelie reliefe and pension And in like manner they prouided for the lazer to kéepe him out of the citie from clapping of dishes and ringing of bels to the great trouble of the citizens and also to the dangerous infection of manie that they should be relieued at home at their houses with seuerall pensions Now after this good order taken and the citizens by such meanes as were deuised willing to further the same the report therof was made vnto the kings maiestie and his grace for the aduancement hereof was not onelie willing to grant such as should be the ouerséers and gouernors of the said houses a corporation and authoritie for the gouernement thereof but also required that he might be accounted as the chiefe founder and patrone thereof And for the furtherance of the said worke and continuall maintenance of the same he of his méere mercie and goodnesse granted that where before certeine lands were giuen to the maintenance of the house of the Sauoie founded by king Henrie the seuenth for the lodging of pilgrims and strangers and that the same was now made but a lodging of loiterers vagabonds and strumpets that laie all daie in the fields and at night were harboured there the which was rather the maintenance of beggerie than the reliefe of the poore gaue the same lands being first surrendred into his hands by the maister and fellowes there which lands were of the yearelie value of six hundred pounds vnto the citie of London for the maintenance of the foundation aforesaid And for a further reliefe a petition being made to the kings maiestie for a licence to take in mortmaine or otherwise without licence lands to a certeine yearelie â—alue and a space left in the patent for his grace to put in what summe it would please him he looking on the void place called for pen and inke and with his owne hand wrote this summe in these words foure thousand marks by yeare and then said in the hearing of his councell Lord God I yeeld thée most hartie thanks that thou hast giuen mée life thus long to finish this worke to the glorie of thy name After which foundation established he liued not aboue two daies whose life would haue béene wished equall to the patriarchs if it might haue pleased God so to haue protracted the same But he was too good a prince for so bad a people and therefore God remooued him and translated him to his owne kingdome foreséeing the euent of something which in his secret counsell he had purposed against a nation that knew not the benefit of the acceptable time of grace wherein God by this péerelesse princes means ment all good to this land as might be gathered by the reformation of religion wherin the kings care was exceeding great as his desire to establish Gods glorie was zealous according to that notable allusion of Iohn Leland recorded in praise of this most excellent prince as followeth in this epigram Quisquis Eaduerdum Romano expresserat ore Custodem fidei dixerit esse sacrae Hoc ego crediderim puero feliciter orto A superis nomen coelitùs esse datum Est pater antiquae fidei defensor amicus Degener nullo tempore natus erit But to returne where we left By example of the charitable act of this vertuous yoong king sir William Chester knight and alderman of London and line 10 Iohn Calthrop citizen and draper of the said citie at their owne proper costs and charges made the bricke walles and way on the backeside that leadeth from the said new hospitall vnto the hospitall of saint Bartholomewes and also couered and vauted the towne dich from Aldersgate to Newgate which before was verie noisome and contagious to the said hospitall This hospitall being thus erected and put in good order there was one Richard Castell alià s Casteller line 20 shoomaker dwelling in Westminster a man of great trauell and labor in his facultie with his owne hands and such a one as was named the cocke of Westminster for that both winter and summer he was at his worke before foure of the clocke in the morning This man thus trulie and painfullie labouring for his liuing God blessed and increased his labours so abundantlie that he purchased lands and tenements in Westminster to the yearelie value of fortie and foure pounds And hauing no child with the line 30 consent of his wife who suruiued him was a vertuous good woman gaue the same lands wholie to Christs hospitall aforesaid to the reliefe of the innocent and fatherlesse children and for the succor of the miserable sore and sicke harbored in the other hospitals about London whose example God grant manie to follow ¶ The third of August at Midlenton eleuen miles from Oxford a woman brought foorth a child which had two perfect bodies from the nauill vpward and line 40 were so ioined togither at the nauill that when they were laid in length the one head bodie was eastward and the other west the legs for both the bodies grew out at the midst where the bodies ioined and had but one issue for the excrements of both bodies they liued eightéene daies and were women children The eight of August were taken at Quinborow thrée great fishes called dolphins the weeke following at Blackewall were six more taken and line
Nic. Triuet The duke of Britaine departed this life The lord Beaumont of Heinault forsaketh the K. of England his seruice The king goeth ouer into Flanders Ia. Mair Froissard A councell â—elden in the king of Englands ship Ia. Meir Welshmen appointed to Iaques Arteueld for a gard against Gerard Denise Iacob Arteuelds house beset Froissard Ia. Meir Iacob van Arteueld slaine M. Pal. in scor Ambassadors from the good townes in Flanders vnto king Edward Froissard Auberoch besieged The Frenâ—â— armie distreâ—sed and the earle of Liâ—â—e taken Towns 〈◊〉 by the earle oâ— Derbie Angolesme Blaues Froissard saith they were an hundred thousand Gio. Villani writeth that they were a six thousand horsmen and fiftie thousand footemen of Frenchmen Gascoignes Lombardes Annales de Burgoigne 1346 Anno Reg. 20. Angolisme recouered by the Frenchmen Damassen Thonins Aiguillon besieged Gio. Villani The archdecon of Unfort Frenchmen discomfited Additions to Adam Merimuth Purueiers punished Iustices A parlement Cardinals Froissard The king paseth ouer into Normandie Iohn Villani saith there were 2500 horsemen and 30000 footmen and archers that passed ouer with the K. but when he commeth to speake of thâ— battell he séemeth to increase the number The ordering of the kings armie Harflew Chierburge Mountburge Carentine Saint Lo. There were slaine in all without and within the towne 5000 men as Gio. Villani writeth Peter Legh Caen taken 40000 clotâ—â—s as Gio. 〈◊〉 writeth 〈◊〉 got by the Englishmen in one place and other 〈◊〉 this iournâ—â— Louiers Gisors Uernon Gio. Villani S. Germans in Laie S. Clowd Beauuois Burners executed Piquency The Frenâ—â— kings armâ—â— Sir Godmare du Foy. Gobin Agace The English men wan the passage ouer the water of Some Caxton The number slaine Fâ—oâ—sard Crotay burnt Mar. Pal. in sag. GiouoÌ„ Villani saith that when they should ioine in battell the Englishmen were 30000. archers English Welsh beside other footmen with axes iauelins and not fullie 4000 horssemen Froissard The kings dâ—meanor before the battell The disorder among the Frenchmen Charles Grimaldâ— Anthonie or Othone Doris were captâ—ins of these Genowaâ—es which were not past six thousand as Gio. Villani saith Polydor. Froissard The earle of Ilanson Raine and thunder with an eclipse Tâ—e Genowaâ—â—s The battell is begun The king of Boheme The earle 〈◊〉 Alanson The princâ—â— battell pâ—â—sed The earle of Northampâ—â—â— sendeth to the king The kingâ— answer The Freâ—â—â— king departeth out of the field Great slaugâ—ter of Frenchâ—men Caxton Iac. Meir Polydor. Froissard Noble men slaine The king of England coâ—â—meth 〈◊〉 from the 〈◊〉 Georg. Buch. paraph in psal Frenchmen slaine the day after the batâ—â—ll The archb of Rouen and the lord grand prior of France slaine Calis besieged In the Acts and monuments Iac. Meâ—â— Terrouâ—n Terrouan woon by 〈◊〉 Froissard Sir Iohn de Uienne capteine of Calis The king of Englands pitie towards the poore The duke of Normandie sent for The earle of Derbie assembleth an armie Towns won by the earle of Derbie The citie of Poictiers woon by force Saint Iohn Dangelie The king of Scots inuadeth England Polydor. The English lords assemble a power to fight with the Scots Froissard Tho. Wals. Froissard The quéenes diligence The Scots fight with â—xes The English men obteine the victorie The king of Scots taken Hect. Boetius Ri. Southwell Fabian Froissard Neuils crosse In Angl. praelijs sub Edwardâ— 3. Sée in Scotland Hector Boet. Countries of ScotlaÌ„d subdued by the Englishmen Froissard Iohn Copland refuseth to deliuer the K. of Scots Iohn Copland rewâ—â—ded Ia. Meir The Flemings Froissard 1347 Anno Reâ— â—â— The earle of Flanders 〈◊〉 streined to promise mariage to the king of Englands daughâ—ter The lord Charles de Blois takâ— prisoner Sir Thomaâ— Dagworth Froissard Sir 〈◊〉 Hartilie 〈◊〉 English knight wâ—s also there with him Fabian The French king assembleth an armie Froissard The Flemings besiege Aire Ia. Meir The French K. coÌ„meth towards Calis The earle of Derbie The request of the French lords to the king of England His answer Cardinals seÌ„t to intreat of peace They depart The French K. returneth into France The conditions of the surrender of Calis Six burgesses of Calis presented to the king The queene obteined their pardon Calis yéelded to the king of England Calis made a colonie of Englishmen The quéene brought to bed in the castell of Calis Polydor. Caxton Ia. Meir A truce Women hard to agrée Sir Amerie de Pauie 134â— Thom. 〈◊〉 Anno Reg â— Great 〈◊〉 1349 Anno Reg. 13. A great mortalitie Dearth A practise 〈◊〉 betraie 〈◊〉 Diuersitted writers Fabian Froissard The king â—â—cretlie paâ—â—â—ouer to 〈◊〉 The lord Geffrie de Charnie Sir Edward de Rentie The king crieth Mannie to the rescue The earles of Stafford and Suffolke the lords Montacute Berkley and la Ware The Frenchmen alight on foot Sir Eustace de RibaumoÌ„t a right valiâ—nt knight He is taken prisoner by the king of England The lord Geffrie de Charnie is taken Sir Eustace de Ribaumont Anno Reg. 24. The death ceasseth Auesdurie Commissioners méet to talke of peace Men borne with â—ewer téeth than in times past Caxton Tho. Walsin Polychron A combat Auesburie Thom. Wals. A Spanish fléet Spaniards vanquisht by the K. of England by sea Thom. Wals. Auesburie Froissard Sir Thomas Dagworth slaine Ambassadors sent to the pope Anno Reg 25. 1351 Froissard The castell of Guines woone Polydor. Grotes 〈◊〉 halâ—e 〈◊〉 fiâ—st 〈◊〉 1â—5â— Anno. Reg Mouron 135â— Anno. Reg. â—â— Tho. Walsi In the priâ—ted books of statutes 〈◊〉 shoâ—ld appeare that this parlement was rather hâ—lden in the â—â— yeare of the kings reigâ—â— Statutes 〈◊〉 making of clothes Weares and milles Creations 〈◊〉 noble men The lord Charles 〈◊〉 Blois Debate betwixt the dukes of Brunswike Lancaster Auesburie Tho. Walsi affirmeth that this remoouing of the staple of wols was the 28 yeare of K. Edwards reigne Fabian Sir Walter Bentlâ—e committed to the tower A great drought A dearth Caxton Corn brought out of Zeland 1354 Anno Reg. 28. Thom. Wals. Auesburie A truce betwixt England and France Ambassadoâ—â— to the pope 1355 Anno Reg. 29. Debate betwixt the scholers townesmen of Oxenford Thom. Wals. Auesburie The quarrell appeased betwixt the scholers and townesme noâ— Oxenford Auesburie A nauie prepared The duke of Lancaster Record Tur. The end and award made of the quarrell betwixt the Uniuersitie and townesmen of Oxford Tho. Walsâ— The prince 〈◊〉 Wales goeth ouer into Gascoâ—gne The citie of London The king inâ—aâ—eth FraÌ„ce The lord Bousicant Froissard The king for want of vittels returneth Auesburie The constable of France demandeth battell The answer made to him Berwike taken by Scots A parlement The procéedings of the prince of Wales in Aquitaine Carcasson Narbonne Two bishops sent from the pope to the prince of Wales He 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 sea Buscicauâ—â—â— The capitall de Beuf Hector Boeâ— Anno Reg. 30. The resignation of the realme of Scotland made by the Balioll. K. Edward sore afflicted
Or rather Goche * Or rather Goche The skirmish betweene the citizens and the rebels vpon London bridge Matthew Goche famous for his acts abroad now slaine on LoÌ„doÌ„ bridge A staie by assent ProclamatioÌ„ of pardon dispersed the rebels Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 661 662. in Quart Capteine of Kent taken beheaded Abr. Fl. ex I. St. 663 664. The bishop of Salisburie murthered A fray in LoÌ„don against the maior The 〈…〉 Arminack a open 〈◊〉 Through dissention at home all last abroad All lost in France Abr. Fl. ex 〈…〉 sub Heâ— 6. Anno Reg. 30. Iohn Hooker alià s Vowell The king receiued into Excester The bishop his cleargie against the K. and the duke of Summerset c. in defense of their ecclesiasticall priuilege The duke of Yorke maketh claime to the crowne 〈◊〉 Stow. WhethaÌ„sted The duke of yorke raiseth a power for recouerie of his right to the crowne Whethamsted The dukes answer to the kings mesage Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 666 667. in Quart Whethamsted The duke of Yorks reconciliation to the king The duke of Yorke accuseth the duke of SuÌ„merset A mutuall charge betweene the two dukes Yorke Summerset of hiâ— treason Destinie cannot be auoided Occasion that set the duke of Yorke frée Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 671 672. in Quart Anno Reg. 31. 1453 The French people soone wearie of the French gouernment The valiant earle of Shrewesburie and his son 〈◊〉 fullie slaine Burdeaux yeelded againe to the French Aquitaine lâ—â—t The dignitie and state of that dukedome The quéene deliuered of hir son prince Edward Abr. Fl. ex I. Sâ— pag. 673. The maior shiriffes and aldermen resisted and abused in a â—raâ—e neére Clerkenwell Fr. Thin Anno Reg. 32. 1454 * In a tretise hereafter following The duke of Yorke séeks the destructioÌ„ of the duke of Summerset He banded himselfe with the Neuils The issue of Richard earle of Salisburie W. P. Anno Reg. 33. The duke of Summerset aâ—rested The king sicke Whethamsted The duke of Summersâ—t set at libertie Made deputie of Calis The duke of Yorke assembled an armie Whethamsted The king with two thousand The duke with thrée thousand Abr. Fl. 〈…〉 pag. 〈…〉 677. in 〈◊〉 Whethamsted The duke of Buckingham sent to the duke of Yorke The duke of Summerset burdned with all things that had happened aâ—isse w. P. The first battâ—ll of saint â—â—bons Whâ—thamsted Edw. Hall The duke of Summerset slaine Thomas lord Clifford saith Whethamsted The kings part vanquished Abr. Fl. ex I. S pag. 678 679. in Quart Battell of S. Albons on thursday the 23 of Maie Anno Reg. 33. Foure of theÌ„ to wit the duke of SuÌ„merset the earle of Northumberland and the lord Clifford were buried in our ladie chapell Whethamsted Iohn Hooker alià s Vowell A parlement Whethamsted Collaterall A letter kept from the king of purpose The duke of Yorkes comming against the king iustified The duke of Yorke made protector of the realme The king to reigne in name but noâ— in authoritie WhethaÌ„sted An act for the K. to râ—uoke certeine grants Shifting of officers Henrie duke of Summerset The duke of Yorke discharged of his office In vprore in the citie of London A foule disorder A common councell called Abr. Fl. ex I. S. 681. Fabian Anno Reg. 35. Sandwich spoiled by the French Fulnaie The Scots inuade England The lord Egremond committed to Newgate He made an escape A practise to haue intrapped the duke of Yorke Anno Reg 36. 1458 The bishop abiured for moouing against the popes extortion W. P. Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 682 68â— 684 685 686. in Quart The quéene atturni◠〈◊〉 〈…〉 the Tower of London The péeres of the realme called to a 〈◊〉 The prouidence of the citie for safegard of peace The lords are brought to agree The clergie were sure in those daies to loose nothing by these contentions how soeuer the world went The lord Egremonâ— They were shiriffes an 1456. A solemne procession at Paules Anno Reg. 37. W. P. The earle of Warwikâ— assaulted The quéenâ—â— purpose Whethamsted The earle of Warwike lord admerall A rich prise Abr. Fl. ex â—â— pag. 686 687. Printing 〈◊〉 inuented It rained bloud Anno Reg. 38. The earle of Salisburie gathereth a power Thrée thousand â—aith Whethamsted The lord Audelie Whethamsted Bloreheath The 23 of September Policie oft times passeth 〈◊〉 The lord Audelie slaine The number slaine in the battell of Bloreheath The earle of Salisburies sonne apprehended The duke of Yorke assembleth an armie Andrew Trollop Iohn Blunt The king raiseth an armie Whethamsted The bishop of Salisburie sent to the duke of Yorke and others Their answer touching the pardon offred A letter from the lords to the king A proclamation Andrew Trollop forsaketh the lords Whethamsted The estimation of Andrew Trollop The duke of Yorke and his complices 〈◊〉 The lords proclamed traitors The duke of Summerset made capteine of Calis â—â—stie heading Iohn Dinham The lord Riuers taken Iohn Stow. Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 692. Sir Baldwine Fulford his enterprise Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 688 689 â—â—â— 691. A parlement at Couentrie Duke of Yorke and others attainted Ludlow spoiled Whethamsted The kings inclination to mercie Abr. Fl. Ouid. de Ponto â—â—b 1. Osbert MoÌ„tford esquier saith Whethamsted who should also haue gone ouer to Guines with fiue hundred souldiers to the aid of the duke of Summerset The lord FaucoÌ„bridge was chiefe of this enterprise saith Whethamsted Thirtéene beheaded at once Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 692 693 694 695 â—â—â— 697 in 〈◊〉 The earle of Wilshire and other spoiled Newberie The earle of Wilshire state ouer the seas Priuie seales for monie Abr. Flem. Abr. Fl. ex I. S pag. 697. The men of Kent sent to Calis for the earles Whethamsted Couentrie the quéenes secret harbour The quéene the better capteine Whethamsted The battell of NorthamptoÌ„ Whethamsted The L. 〈◊〉 of Ruthen Edw. Hall The kings part discomfited The K. takâ—â— The Tower deliuered 〈◊〉 the earle of March. The lord Scales 〈◊〉 Thomas Thorpe 〈◊〉 â—l ex I. S. pag. 7â—0 Anno Reg. 39. Whethamsted The duke of Yorke commeth foorth of Ireland Whethamsted A strange deâ—â—nor of the duke of Yorke Hâ—s bold speâ—ch Edw. Hall in Hen. 6. fol. clxxvij c. Prodigious tokens The castell of Roxburgh besieged The king of Scots thorough misfortune slaine The determination of the parlement coÌ„cerning the entailing of crownâ— Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 700 701 c. in Quart The oth of Richard duke of Yorke The duke of Yorke proclamed heire apparant protectour of the realme The parlemeÌ„t 〈◊〉 Couentrie 〈…〉 The battell at Wakefield The duke of Yorke slaine Onelie seauen hundred southerne men saith Wheâ—hamsted The cruell murther of the yoong earle of Rutland Whethamsted A purchase of Gods cursse with the popes blessing The prisoners beheaded The earle of March now duke of Yorke The earle of Penbroke The battell of Mortimers crosse The cognisaÌ„ce of
some other the like attempt they seâ—t thither sir William Woodâ—â—â—â— with eight hundred men to strengthen the frontiers and further set foorth a proclamation that all men which would transport anie corne chéese or other vittels thither should paie no maner of custome or tallage which 〈◊〉 caused the countrie of Aquitaine to be well furnished of all things necessarie About this season Iohn the valiant lord Talbot for his approued prowesse and wisdome aswell in England as in France both in peace warre so well tried was â—reated earle of Shâ—ewesburie and with a companie of three thousand men sent agaâ—ne into Normandie for the better defâ—nse of the same * This yéere died Lodowâ—ke 〈◊〉 â—ewes Lischburne bishop of Elie being the fiue anâ— twentith that inâ—oied that place year 1443 who came to the samâ— after this maner After the death of Philip Morgan bishop of that sée the moonks of Elie chose for their pastor Robert â—â—tz Hugh bishop of London but he dieng at saint Oâ—ees before his confirmation neuer possessed the honour thereof Wherevpon the king directed his letters to the couent of Elie to make election of Thomas Rudburne bishop of S. Dauids in Wales for their bishop But they contrarie therevnto taking it now for a custome hauing so often vsed it before as did well appeare made choise of Thomas Bourchier borne of a noble house sonne to the countesse of Stafford chancellor of Oxenford and bishop of Worcester to succeed Philip Morgan Which Bourchier the king offended with the moonkes for the little regard had to his request vtterlie refused and would not admit him vnto that place Wherevpon there were buls procured from Eugenius the fourth then bishop of Rome which were sent into England to confirme the election of the said Bourchier But he wiselie fearing to fall into the dangerous statute of Premumre durst not receiue or execute the tenor of the popes commandement By reason whereof least the see might otherwise remaine void if speedie remedie were not prouided the king did in commendam bestow the bishoprike of Elie vpon this Lodowike Lischburne archbishop of Rone by office Card. 4. Coronat Cancellar Franciae Normanniae and kinsman to the said king Which doone Eugenius when he saw no other remedie did reuoke his buls made before to Thomas Bourchier in the yeare of Christ 1437. This Lodowike remaining bishop six yeares and so manie moneths died in the yeare as before the eighteenth of September at his manor of Hatfield whose bowels were buried in the said church his hart was caried to Rone and there honourablie intoomed and his bodie was committed to the earth in the church of Elie betweene two marble pillors next to the altar of the relikes In this yeare died in Guien the countesse of Comings to whome the French king and also the earle of Arminacke pretended to be heire in so much that the earle entred into all the lands of the said ladie And bicause he knew the French king would not take the matteâ— well to haue a Rouland for an Oâ—â—uer he sent solemne ambassadours to the king of England offering him his daughter in mariage with promise to be bound beside great summes of monie which he would giue with hir to deliuer into the king of Englands hands all such castels and townes as he or his ancestors deteined from him within anie part of the duchie of Aquitaine either by conquest of his progenitors or by gift and deliuerie of anie French king and further to aid the same king with monie for the recouerie of other cities within the same duchie from the French king or from anie other person that against king Henrie vniustlie kept and wrongfullie withholden them This offer séemed so profitable and also honorable to king Henrie and the realme that the ambassadours were well heard honourable receiued and with rewards sent home into their countrie After whome were sent for the conclusion of the marriage into Guien sir Edward Hull sir Robert Ros and Iohn Gralton deane of S. Seuerines the which as all the chronographers agrée both concluded the mariage and by proxie affied the yoong ladie The French line 10 king not a little offended herewith sent his â—ldest sonne Lewes the Dolphin of Uienne into Rouergue with a puissant armie which tooke the earle and his yoongest sonne with both his daughters and by force obteined the countries of Arminacke Louuergne Rouergue and Moulessonois beside the cities Seuerac Cadâ—ac chasing the bastard of Arminacke out of his countries and so by reason hereof the concluded mariage was deferred and that so long that it neuer tooke effect as hereafter it may appeare line 20 ¶ In this yeare was an act made by authoritie of the common councell of London that vpon the sundaie no maner of thing within the franchises and liberties of the said citie should be bought or sold neither vittels nor other thing It was also enacted by the same common councell with full consent and ratified by the authoritie of the law-makers that no artificer or handicrafts man should bring his wares commodities or worke vnto anie person or persons to be worne or occupied on that daie bicause it was line 30 iudged a foule prophanation thereof And peoples minds giuen to couetousnesse make no exception of times or places in a case of aduantage and gaine In consideration whereof and for the suppressing of this abuse this law was ordeined and made the force whereof did principallie extend to tailors and shoomakers who as on that daie bring home their garments and shoos to the parties for whome they are made and likewise to all other occupations and trades But this ordinance saith mine author was line 40 too good for so bad an age and therefore died within a short time after the magistrate had giuen it life ¶ On Candlemasse éeue this yeere by lightning in a tempest that fell with claps of thunder at afternoone Paules steeple was set on fier in the middest of the speare or shaft in the verie timber worke which was quenched by the painfulnesse of diuerse persons and specialie by the diligent labour of a préest of Bow in Cheape Howbeit the same was thought vnpossible to be quenched but that the grace of God was line 50 chéefe worker in the same This stéeple hath diuerse times beene ouerthrowne and defaced partlie by winds and partlie by lightning as may be obserued in the reading of this volume yea when the same hath béene repared by the choisest workemen and of the substantiallest stuffe and all meanes that stood with the déepe deuise of man vsed to make it so sure that it might continue as a monument of perpetuitie for posteritie to woonder at and admire But to returne to the historie line 60 Whilest England was vnquieted as you haue heard and France by spoile slaughter and burning sore defaced a mischeefe in all places much lamented therefore to agrée the two puissant
schoolmaister for his yearelie wages six pounds thirtéene shillings foure pence and to euerie one of the said almes folke seuen pence a weeke and fiue pounds to be bestowed yearelie amongst them in coles And ordeined that the said almes priest should on sundaies and festiuall daies be helping and assistant to the vicar or curat line 40 there in celebration of diuine seruice on the wéeke daies fréelie to applie and teach yoong children of the said parish to the number of thirtie in a schoolehouse by him there builded for that purpose Moreouer hée gaue to the parish clearke there for the time being a yearlie stipend of twentie six shillings eight pence for euer and a chamber by the said almes house to the intent he should helpe the said schoolemaister to teach the said children And hath giuen faire lands and tenements in the citie of London for the perpetuall line 50 maintenance of the premisses to Gods glorie for euer He also for the great commoditie of trauellers on foot made a continuall causie of timber ouer the marshes from Walthamstow to Locke bridge towards London In the moneth of Maie the king and the new duke of Suffolke were defenders at the tilt against all commers The king was in a scopelarie mantle an hat of cloth of siluer and like a white hermit and the duke apparelled like a blacke hermit all of blacke line 60 veluet both their berds were of damaske siluer and when they had ridden about the tilt shewed themselues to the quéene then they threw off their apparell and sent it to the ladies for a larges Then was the king in blacke and the duke in white with blacke staues on the staues was written with white letters Who can hold that will away this posie was iudged to be made for the duke of Suffolke and the duchesse of Sauoie At these iustes were the duke of Longuile the lord Cleremont and there the king duke did so valiantlie that they obteined the prise At these iustes were broken an hundred and fourteene speares in a short space The king at this season sent againe into Flanders for the performance of the mariage of the yoong prince of Castile and the faire ladie Marie his sister and shewed how he had prepared all things necessarie and conuenient for such an high estate The councell of Flanders answered that they would not receiue hir that yeare with manie subtill arguments by reason wherof the perfect loue betwene England and the low countries was much slaked On the nineteenth daie of Maie was receiued into London a cap of maintenance a sword sent from pope Iulie with a great companie of nobles and gentlemen which was presented to the king on the sundaie then next insuing with great solemnitie in the cathedrall church of saint Paule Touching this pope saith Guicciardine disappointed of so manie hopes we may laie him in comparison with that which is written by the poets of Anteus that being tamed by the forces of Hercules as often as he was throwne to the ground so often did appeare in him a greater strength and courage such wéening had the pope amidst his aduersities for when he seemed most abased and oppressed it was then that he did most lift vp him selfe with a spirit more constant and resolute promising better of his fortune than euer After he had plaied all his troublesome pageants and had got by sundrie aspiring practises I wot not what péerelesse primasie he fell sicke And happilie he was then more full of high conceipts and trauelling thoughts than at anie time before for notwithstanding he had brought his fortune to be equall with his desires obteined the thing he aspired vnto yet his deuises and plots did nothing diminish but grew increasing by the same meane which should haue satisfied them He had determined in the beginning of the spring and first opening of the yeare to send to the enterprise of Ferrara which he so much desired and his opinion was that that state was able to make no resistance both for that it was naked of all succours and bicause the Spanish armie was to ioine with his companies he had secretlie bought of Cesar for the price of thirtie thousand duckets the citie of Sienna for the behoofe of the duke of Urbin to whome except Pesera he would neuer giue anie thing of the estate ecclesiastike to the end to reserue to himselfe the whole glorie to haue simplie and onelie studied for the exaltation of the church He agreed to lend to Cesar fortie thousand duckats receiuing Modona in gage He threatned them of Lucquoie who in the heat of the affaires of the duke of Ferrara were become lords of Garsagnana making instance that they would deliuer it to him He was out of conceit with the cardinall of Medicis for that he thought him to cleaue more to the king catholike than to him And bicause he knew he was not able to dispose of the citie of Florence as he thought he studied alredie new plots and new practises to alter that estate He was ill contented with the cardinall of Sion from whome he tooke the name of legat and inioined him to come to Rome for that in the duchie of Millan he had appropriat to himselfe a yearelie rent of more than thirtie thousand duckats of the estates and goods of diuerse persons The better to assure the duke of Urbin of Sienna by intelligences of his neighbours he had of new taken into his paie Charles Baillon to chase out of Perousa Iohn Paule who by affinitie was verie neere ioined to the sonnes of Pandolffe Petruccio successours to the greatnesse of their father He would of new create duke of Genes Octauian Fregosa deposing Ianus from that dignitie an action wherevnto did consent the others of the house of Fregosa bicause for the degrée that his ancestors held in that state it séemed best to apperteine vnto him He studied continuallie either how he might worke out of Italie the Spanish armie or cut it in péeces by the aid of the Swizzers whome aboue all others he exalted and imbraced In this deuise hée had this intention that the kingdome of Naples being occupied by him Italie should remaine frée from strangers a speach that often passed out of his mouth and to that end hée had hindered that the Swizzers did not confederate with the king catholike And yet as though it had beene in his power to line 10 batter all the world at one time he continued his accustomed rigour against the French king And notwithstanding he had hard a message from the queene yet he stirred vp to make warre the king of England to whome he had transferred by publke decree of the councell of Lateran the name of Christianissimo whereof there was alreadie a bull written and in it likewise was conteined the priuation of the dignitie name of the king of France giuing his kingdome to who could occupie it
Anthonie Uiuald Anthonie Caueler Francis de Bard Thomas Calnecant and a great sort more whose names I let passe And if anie person did meddle or occupie with them contrarie to this act he should loose his fréedome and libertie in the citie of London By whiâ—h act the strangers were so brideled that they came to a reasonable point and conclusion In this season the angell noble was iust the sixt part of an ounce Troie so that six angels were iust an ounce which was fourtie shillings sterling the angell was worth two ounces of siluer so that six angels were worth twelue ounces which was but fourtie shillings in siluer By reason of the good weight and low valuation of the English coine merchants dailie carried ouer great store bicause the same was much inhanced there So that to méet with this inconuenience in September proclamation was made through all England that the angell should go for seuen shillings foure pence the roiall for eleuen shillings the crowne for foure shillings foure pence On the fift of Nouember following by proclamation againe the angell was inhanced to seuen shillings six pence and so euerie ounce of gold should be fiue and fourtie shillings and an ounce of siluer at thrée shillings and nine pence in value The king kept a solemne Christmasse at Gréenewich with reuelles maskes disguisings bankets and the thirtith daie of December was an enterprise line 10 of iusts made at the tilt by six gentlemen against all commers which valiantlie furnished the same both with speare and sword and like iusts were kept the third daie of Ianuarie where were thrée hundred speares broken That same night the king and manie yoong gentlemen with him came to Bridewell and there put him and fiftéene other all in masking apparell and then tooke his barge and rowed to the cardinals place where were at supper a great companie of lords and ladies and then the maskers dansed line 20 and made goodlie pastime and when they had well dansed the ladies plucked awaie their visors and so they were all knowen and to the king was made a great banket On the fourtéenth of Ianuarie came to the court don Hugo de Mendoza year 1527 a man of a noble familie in Spaine he came as ambassadour from the emperour put it to the kings determination whether his demands which he required of the French king line 30 were reasonable or not This noble man tarried here two yéeres ¶ This Christmasse was a goodlie disguising plaied at Graies In which was compiled for the most part by maister Iohn Roo sergeant at the law manie yeares past and long before the cardinall had any authoritie The effect of the play was that lord gouernance was ruled by dissipation and negligence by whose misgouernance and euill order ladie publike weale was put from gouernance which caused rumor populi inward grudge and disdaine line 40 of wanton souereignetie to rise with a great multitude to expell negligence and dissipation and to restore publike welth againe to hir estate which was so doone This plaie was so set foorth with rich and costlie apparell with strange deuises of maskes morrishes that it was highlie praised of all men sauing of the cardinall which imagined that the play had beene deuised of him and in a great furie sent for the said maister Roo and tooke from him his coife and sent him to line 50 the Fléet and after he sent for the yoong gentlemen that plaied in the plaie and them highlie rebuked and threatned and sent one of them called Thomas Moile of Kent to the Fléet but by means of friends maister Roo and he were deliuered at last This plaie sore displeased the cardinall and yet it was neuer meant to him as you haue heard Wherfore manie wisemen grudged to sée him take it so hartilie and euer the cardinall said that the king was highlie displeased with it and spake nothing of himselfe But what will you haue of a guiltie conscience but to suspect line 60 all things to be said of him as if all the world knew his wickednesse according to the old verse Conscius ipse sibi de se putat omnia dici The second of March were receiued into London the bishop of Tarbe Francis vicount of Thurane and master Anthonie Uescie second president of Paris as ambassadours from the French king They were lodged in Tailors hall On Shrouetuesdaie the king himselfe in a new harnesse all gilt of a strange fashion that had not béene seene and with him eight gentlemen all in cloth of gold of one sute embrodered with knots of siluer and the marques of Excester and eight with him in blew veluet and white sattin like the waues of the sea these men of armes came to the tilt and there ran manie fresh courses till two hundred fourescore and six speares were broken and then they disarmed and went to the quéenes chamber where for them was prouided a costlie banket The French ambassadours sued as was said to haue the ladie Marie daughter to the K. of England giuen in mariage to the duke of Orleance second sonne to their master the French king but that matter was put in suspense for diuerse considerations And one was for that the president of Paris doubted whether the mariage betweene the king and hir mother she being his brothers wife was lawfull or not ¶ While the French ambassadors laie thus in London it happened one euening as they were comming from the Blacke friers from supper to the Tailors hall two boies were in a gutter casting downe rubbish which the raine had driuen there and vnwares hit a lackeie belonging to the vicount of Thurane and hurt him nothing for scantlie touched it his cote But the French lords tooke the matter highlie as a thing doone in despite sent word to the cardinall Who being too hastie of credence sent for sir Thomas Seimor knight lord maior of the citie and in all hast commanded him vpon his allegiance to take the husband wife children and seruants of the house and them to imprison till he knew further of the kings pleasure and that the two boies apprentises should be sent to the Tower which commandement was accomplished without anie fauor For the man and his wife and seruants were kept in the counter till the sixt daie of Maie which was six wéekes full and their neighbours of gentlenesse kept their house in the meane time and one of the apprentises died in the Tower and the other was almost lame Of the crueltie of the cardinall and of the pride of the Frenchmen much people spake would haue béene reuenged on the Frenchmen if wise men in the citie had not appeased it with faire words On the foureteenth daie of March were conueied from London to Gréenwich by the earle of Rutland and others the lord Gabliel de Salamanca earle of Ottonburgh Iohn Burgraue of Siluerberge and Iohn
he gaue prisoners both bodies goods and lands On the other side he commanded forches and gallowes to be set vp in sundrie places as well within the citie as also in the countrie and did command and cause manie to be executed and put to death especiallie such as were noted to be chiefe and busie dooers ringleaders in this rebellion Among them all there was no one so exalted as was Welsh the vicar of saint Thomas neere the Exbridge at Excecester who was preferred and presented to that benefice by the lord Russell patrone thereof This man had manie good things in him he was of no great stature but well set and mightilie compact he was a verie good wrestler shot well both in the long bow as also in the crossebow he handled his handgun and péece verie well he was a verie good woodman and a hardie and such a one as would not giue his head for the polling nor his beard for the washing he was a companion in anie exercises of actiuitie of a courteous and gentle behauiour he descended of a good honest parentage being borne at Penuerin in Cornewall and yet in this rebellion an archcapteine and a principall dooer He was charged with thrée principall crimes The first was that he did not onelie persuade the people to the contemning of the reformed religion according to the kings procéedings and to keepe and obserue the Romish and popish religion but also did erect kéepe and vse the same in his parish church Secondarilie he was a capteine and a principall dealer in the cause of the rebellion which was chieflie directed by him his order aduise Thirdlie he caused one Kingwell a tinner of Chagford and seruant to master Iohn Charels of Tauestoke to be hanged bicause secretlie he had conueied letters betwéene my lord and his master and was earnest in the reformed religion which was then termed the kings procéedings an enimie to the popish state And being a sharpe inueier against the one and an earnest mainteiner of the other it procured vnto him great hatred and malice when the rebellion was begun he sought by all the meanes he could how to escape awaie but he was so narrowlie watched that he could neuer haue anie oportunitie so to doo They vsed all the deuises they could to recouer him to their opinions sometimes with faire words sometimes with threatenings and sometimes with imprisonments but still he inueied against them calling them rebels and traitors both against God and the king and foreprophesied vnto them that destruction and confusion would be the end reward of their dooings Thus when they could not reclame him to their disposition then by the order and iudgement of this vicar Welsh he was fetched out of the prison and foorthwith brought foorth before Caiphas and Pilat and condemned to be hanged which was executed vpon him foorthwith and he brought to an elme tree in Exilond without the west gate of the citie before the house of one Nicholas Caue and there hanged The like crueltie or rather tyrannie was doone at Sampford Courteneie where when a certeine Frankelin a gentleman named William Hellions who comming to Sampford to haue some communication with them for the staie of their rebellion line 10 and for the pacifieng of them in their due obedience was at the townes end taken prisoner caried to the churchhouse where he so earnestlie reprooued them for their rebellion so sharplie threatened them an euill successe that they all fell in a rage with him and not onlie with euill words reuiled him but also as he was going out of the churchhouse going downe the staires one of them named Githbridge with a bill strake him in the necke and immediatlie notwithstanding his pitifull requests and lamentations line 20 a number of the rest fell vpon him slue him and cut him into small péeces and though they counted him for an heretike yet they buried him in the church-yard there but contrarie to the common maner laieng his bodie north and south These things being called to remembrance and obiected against this vicar although some men in respect of his vertues and good gifts did pitie and lament his case and would haue gladlie beene sutors for his pardon yet the greatnesse of his lewdnesse line 30 and follies considered they left him vnto his deserts so was by order of the marshall law condemned to death And yet this one thing by the waie I must speake in his commendation There was among the rebels a stranger and an alien who was a verie skilfull gunner could handle his peece verie well and did much harme vnto the citie among others slue one Smith standing at a doore in northgate street with a great shot from saint Dauids hill This fellow tooke vpon him that he would set the whole citie on line 40 fire and it should be cleane burned within foure houres doo they what they could This his offer was so well liked that the daie and time was appointed when this should be doone The vicar hearing thereof assembleth vnto him as manie men as he could make and haue came to this companie when this fire should be kindled and was so hot and earnest against their attempts that he would in no wise suffer so lewd an act and wicked a thing to be doone For saith he doo you what line 50 you can by policie force or dint of sword to take the citie I will ioine with you and doo my best but to burne a citie which shall be hurtfull to all men and good to no man I will neuer consent therevnto but will here stand with all my power against you And so stout he was in this matter that he stopped them from their further enterprising of so wicked a fact But to the matter The execution of this man was committed to Barnard Duffeld who being nothing slacke to follow his commission caused a paire line 60 of gallowes to be made and to be set vp vpon the top of the tower of the said vicars parish church of S. Thomas and all things being readie and the stage perfected for this tragedie the vicar was brought to the place and by a rope about his middle drawne vp to the top of the tower and there in chains hanged in his popish apparell and had a holie water bucket and sprinkle a sacring bell a paire of beads such other like popish trash hanged about him and there he with the same about him remained a long time He made a verie small or no confession but verie patientlie tooke his death he had béene a good member in his common-wealth had not the weeds ouergrowne the good corne and his foule vices ouercommed his vertues The lord priuie seale remaining still in Excester was continuallie occupied in setting things in order he was verie seuere and sharpe against suth offendors as were chiefe and principall ringleders of this rebellion but to the common sort who
found at the taking of the same to the French king And for the sure paiment of the said sums the French king sent into England for hostages and pledges the counte de Anguien Lewes the duke of Uandosme his brother the Uidame of Charters and the duke de Aumale and others And on S. Markes daie next following being the fiue and twentith daie of Aprill about eight of the clocke in the morning line 10 the Englishmen did deliuer to the Frenchmen the possession of Bullongne and the castels and forts in the countie of Bullognois according to the agreements and articles of peace afore mentioned And the fiftéenth daie next following the French king entered into the said towne of Bullongne with trumpets blowne with all the roiall triumph that might be where he offered one great image of siluer of our ladie in the church there which was called our ladie church the which image he had caused speciallie to be made in the honor of the said ladie and caused the line 20 same to be set vp in the place where the like image before did stand the which before was taken awaie by the Englishmen at the winning of the towne ¶ On Candlemasse daie William lord S. Iohn earle of Wilshire lord great maister and president of the councell was made lord treasuror Iohn Dudleie earle of Warwike lord great chamberleine was made lord great maister William Parre marquesse of Northampton was made lord great chamberleine Lord Wentworth was made lord chamberleine line 30 of the household Sir Anthonie Wingfield capteine of the gard was made comptrollor of the kings house And sir Thomas Darcie knight was made vicechamberleine capteine of the gard And the earle of Arundell late lord chamberleine with the earle of Southampton were put off the councell and commanded to kéepe their houses in London ¶ On the 10 of Februarie one Bell a Suffolke man was hanged and quartered at Tiburne for moouing a new rebellion in Suffolke and Essex This time line 40 the lord maior of London and the aldermen purchased all the liberties of Southworke which were in the kings hands Soone after the aforesaid agreement betwéene England and France was concluded vpon the fore remembred capitulations bicause of suspicion of displeasure and hatred that was thought to remaine betwéene the earle of Warwike and the duke of Summerset latelie before deliuered out of the line 50 tower a meane was found that their fréendship should be renewed through aliance and a mariage was concluded betweene the earle of Warwikes eldest sonne and the duke of Summersets eldest daughter the which marriage was solemnized at Shene the king being then present After the solemnitie of this marriage there appeared outwardlie to the world great loue and fréendship betwéene the duke and the earle but by reason of carietales and flatterers the loue continued not long howbeit manie line 60 did verie earnestlie wish loue and amitie to continue betwéene them ¶ About this time was a new rebellion in Kent but it was soone suppressed and certeine of the chiefe were apprehended and put to death namelie Richard Lion Goddard Gorram and Richard Ireland This yeare was a parlement holden at Westminster where among other things by the authoritie of the said parlement priests children were made legitimate and vsurie for the loane of monie forbidden ¶ On wednesdaie in Whitsunweeke at a court of aldermen kept at the Guildhall sir Iohn Aliffe knight and maister of Blackwell hall was sworne alderman of the Bridge ward without to haue iurisdiction of the borough of Southworke and thus was he the first alderman that euer was there who made vp the number of six and twentie aldermen of London whereas befoâ—e that time had beene but fiue and twentie Trinitie tearme was adiourned till Michaelmasse for that the gentlemen should keepe the commons from commotion The eleuenth of Iune being S. Barnabies daie was kept holiedaie all London ouer and the same daie at night the high altar in Paules church was pulled downe and a table set where the altar stood with a veile drawne beneath the steps and on the sundaie next a communion was soong at the same table and shortlie after all the altars in London were taken downe and tables placed in their roomes This yeare was no such watch at Midsummer as had béene accustomed The thirtith of Iulie Thomas lord Wriothesleie erle of Southampton knight of the garter and one of the executors to king Henrie the eight deceassed at Lincolne place in Holborne and was buried in S. Andrewes church there Sir Andrew Iude for this yeare maior of London and skinner erected one notable fréeschoole at Tunbridge in Kent wherein he brought vp and nourished in learning great store of youth as well bred in that shire as brought from other countries adioining A noble act and correspondent to those that haue beene doone by like worshipfull men and other in old time within the same citie of London He also builded almesse houses for six poore almesse people nigh to the parish church of saint Helens within Bishopsgate of London gaue land to the companie of the skinners in the same citie amounting to the value of thréescore pounds thrée shillings eight pence the yeare for the which they be bound to paie twentie pounds to the schoolemaister and eight pounds to the vsher of his free schoole at Tunbridge yearelie for euer and foure shillings the wéeke to the six poore almesse people at S. Helens aforesaid eight pence the péece wéekelie and fiue and twentie shillings foure pence the yeare in coles amongst them for euer About this time there was at Feuersham in Kent a gentleman named Arden most cruellie murthered and slaine by the procurement of his owne wife The which murther for the horriblenesse thereof although otherwise it may séeme to be but a priuate matter and therefore as it were impertinent to this historie I haue thought good to set it foorth somewhat at large hauing the instructions deliuered to me by them that haue vsed some diligence to gather the true vnderstanding of the circumstances This Arden was a man of a tall and comelie personage and matched in marriage with a gentlewoman yoong tall and well fauoured of shape and countenance who chancing to fall in familiaritie with one Mosbie a tailor by occupation a blacke swart man seruant to the lord North it happened this Mosbie vpon some misliking to fall out with hir but she being desirous to be in fauour with him againe sent him a paire of siluer dice by one Adam Foule dwelling at the Floure de lice in Feuersham After which he resorted to hir againe and oftentimes laie in Ardens house in somuch that within two yeares after he obteined such fauour at hir hands that he laie with hir or as they terme it kept hir in abusing hir bodie And although as it was
for the manifold testifications of their loue and loialtie which because they are materiall as no word nor title procéeding from so singular a souereigne is to fall to the ground vnrecorded we are in dutie bound trulie to annex them as we had them vnder publication And first a breefe oration of maister Iames Dalton one of the councellors of the citie of London in the absence of the recorder as followeth The oration of maister Iames Dalton c. RIght worshipfull my good countriemen and citizens of this most noble citie of London since the late brute and report of a most wicked traitorous conspiracie not onelie to take awaie the life of our most gratious souereigne whom God grant long to liue and reigne ouer vs but also to stir vp a generall rebellion throughout the whole realme the great and vniuersall ioie of you all of this citie vpon the apprehension of diuerse of that most wicked conspiracie of late declared and testified by manie outward acts and shewes hath wrought in the queenes most excellent maiestie such a gratious contentment that it hath mooued hir highnesse by hir letters signed with hir owne hand to signifie vnto my lord maior of this citie his brethren hir most noble and princelie acceptation thereof and that in such sort as thereby may appeare that hir highnesse hath not more no not so much reioised at the most happie escape of the wicked mischéefe intended against hir owne person as at the ioie which hir louing subiects namelie you of this citie of London tooke at the apprehension of the practisers of that intended treason By occasion whereof hir highnesse brought to a thankefull remembrance and acknowledging of Gods infinit blessings bestowed on hir comparable with anie prince or creature in the world no worldlie thing more or like accompteth of than of the heartie loue of hir louing and faithfull subiects manie waies and manie times before now but especiallie by this our great ioie in this sort at this time and vpon this occasion shewed And that hir excéeding great loue and acceptation of our reioising maie the more appeare vnto you it hath pleased hir highnesse in the same letters to declare that she desireth not longer to liue among vs than she shall mainteine continue nourish and increase the loue and goodwill of hir subiects towards hir And this hir highnesse hath willed to be made knowne vnto you all with this that she will not faile with all care and by all good means that apperteine to a christian prince to seeke the conseruation of you all so louing and dutifull affected subiects This hir maiesties pleasure in part now declared and more to be made knowne vnto you by hir owne letters which you shall heare read my lord maior and his brethren haue required me to declare vnto you all that they doo heartilie reioise thanke God for the happie daie of the good acceptation of this your great ioie my lord himselfe hath willed me to giue you all heartie thanks in his name for that in the time of his seruice your dutifull behauiours haue gotten to the citie so noble and woorthie a testimonie of dutie and loialtie of so noble and worthie a quéene Now for somuch as Gods blessings woonderfullie abound one ioie commeth vpon another let vs not be vnthankefull to God but acknowledge his goodnesse and attribute the line 10 same as in déed we ought to the sincere religion of almightie God most godlie established by the quéens most excellent maiestie which hath taught vs to know God aright our dutie to our souereigne and to loue our countrie and hath made vs dutifull and obedient subiects reioising at all good things happening to hir maiestie hir realme or to anie in hir noble seruice the true effects of a true and good religion whereas the contemners thereof and immoderat affectors of the Romish religion and superstitions line 20 being void of the true knowledge of God haue declined from God their allegiance to their prince their loue to their countrie and haue become inuenters of mischeefes bruters and spreaders abrode of false and seditious rumors such as ioie at no good thing but contrariwise reioise at euerie euill successe the badges and marks of their profession who haue before this in this realme and in other hir highnesse dominions stirred vp rebellion forren inuasion and manie times practised the verie line 30 death destruction of the quéene hir selfe the ruine subuersion of the whole realme the proper effects of their Romish religion We haue beheld all these things and seene in our daies the ruine and mischéefes inuented against others fall vpon the inuenters them selues and haue knowne the wicked and violent hands of diuerse of them diuerslie to kill and murther themselues when most traitorouslie they would and most happilie they could not slea the lords annointed line 40 As we haue knowne all these things so God bee thanked that by a better religion hauing béene better taught we haue béene no partakers of their wicked deuises but haue put to our helping hands as occasion hath serued and euer readie to ouerthrow the authors and deuisers thereof And I haue no doubt but we of this noble citie who hitherto haue béene alwaies readie dutifullie and faithfullie to serue hir maiestie vpon all occasions hir highnesse now so gratiouslie accepting onelie of our reioising line 50 at the apprehension of hir enimies euen the least part of the dutie of a good subiect to so good a quéene will be readie euerie one with all that we can make and with the vttermost aduenture of all our liues spéedilie to be reuenged vpon all such as shall villanouslie and traitorouslie attempt or put in vre anie mischéefe to hir noble person and in the meane time will haue a better eie and eare to all suspicious and miscontented persons to their saiengs and dooings to their false brutes and reports to the places and line 60 corners of their haunt and resort to their harborers companions aiders and mainteiners God vphold and continue his religion among vs and increase our zeale therein which hath made vs so louing and loiall and so beloued and acceptable subiects to so worthie a prince and root out that wicked and Romish religion that hath made so manie disloiall and traitorous subiects to whome is both odious irkesome the long life and prosperous reigne of our most noble queene Elisabeth God confound all such traitors and preserue hir highnesse long to liue and reigne oure vs. ¶ Hauing thus spoken the multitude all the while no lesse silent than attendant the speaker verie reuerentlie opened hir maiesties letters read the same with a verie distinct and audible voice as followeth To our right trustie and welbeloued the lord maior of our citie of London and his brethren the aldermen of the same RIght trustie and welbeloued we gréete you well Being giuen to vnderstand how greatlie our good and most louing
Excheker and the officers vnto the same by whome instituted 8 a 60. Remooued from Westminster to Northhampton 173 a 10. It and the kings bench remooued vnto Shrewesburie 278 b 10. Excuse of Edward the first to auoid an inconuenience 308 a 60. Of the clergie to be frée from subsidies c 301 b 40. ¶ Sée Couetousnesse Exham field ¶ Sée Battell Exton knight a murtherer of king Richard the second 517 a 10. His too late repentance and sorrow a 20. Extortion of William Rufus made him â—uill spoken of amongest his subiects 23 b 10. An ordinance against it 260 b 10. ¶ Sée Oppression Usurie F. FActions of Yorke and Lancaster vnpossible to be mingled without danger of discord 647 a 40 Faire kept at Westminster at saint Edwards tide 241 a 30 Fiftéene daies togither 247 a 20. Of Lewis the French kings sonne in derision 200 b 10. At Bristow robbed 263 b 50 Falois beséeged and rendered vp to king Henrie the fift 561 b 10 60. ¶ Sée Arlet Falshood betwixt brethren 32 a 60 Familie of loue fiue of that sect stood at Paules crosse 1261 b 30. Proclamation against them note 1314 a 60 b 10. Famine extreme within Rone 566 b 20. Richard the second died therof 516 b 60. Suffred 68 b 20. The cause why Rone was surrendred 167 b 60. Refused and death by the sword chosen 166 a 20. The punishment of witchcraft 204 a 10. Lamentable 323 b 40. ¶ Sée Pestilence Farrer an haberdasher of London a sore enimie to the ladie Elisabeth 1159 b 20 30 c Fast generall proclamed and deuoutlie obserued 1427 b 50 Fasts processions vsed 260 a 10 Fauour ¶ Sée People Fecknam ¶ Sée Abbat Fées ¶ Sée Annuities Feare causeth want of spéech 659 b 30. Made king Edward the fourth forsake his kingdome 675 a 60 b 10. What it forceth men vnto 293 a 20. Causeth restitution of wrongfull deteined townes 311 b 20. Forceth agréement note 114 b 20. Among the people assembled at the duke of Summersets execution 1068 a 50 b 10 ¶ Sée Suspicion Fergusa a Lombard betraieth the duke of Clarence 580 a 10 Felton ¶ Sée Bull seditious Ferdinando archduke of Austrich made knight of the garter 882 a 60 Ferrers lord of misrule at a Christmas at the court his behauiour and port 1067 a 60 b 10 c Ferrers knight William taken prisoner 33 a 40 Ferrers a traitor ¶ Sée Treason Fescampe William his deuises of a plaine song whereabout was strife 13 b 30 Feast rare and roiall 1332 a 60 At quéene Katharins coronation 579 a 10 c Sumptuand full of rare deuises 1434 a 30 Fatherston alià s Constable ¶ Sée Counterfet of king Edward the sixt Feuersham abbeie by whome founded 58 a 20 Fiftéenth granted vnto king Henrie the third by the temporaltie 213 a 10. Of the sixt penie after the rate of mens goods 312 b 20. Of all the mooueables to be found within the realme 207 a 30. Thrée granted 402 a 60. ¶ Sée Subsidie Fight among sparows 397 b 50 Finch knight drowned 1202 b 10 Fine for misdemeanor 704 a 60 Of fiue thousand markes paid to king Henrie the third by the Londoners 208 b 40. For murther 122 b 30. Of a kéeper for a prisoners escape 152 a 20 Fines set on prisoners for their ransoms 144 a 50. Paid for licence to exercise turnements 145 b 60. Set on the nobles by king Iohn for not aiding him against the French king 167 a 20. For not comming to the church 1322. Of priests that had wiues 26 a 30. Extreme leuied vpon the clergie note 201 b 60 202 a 10. Set on the maior of London and the shiriffes 256 b 30 note Set on shiriffes heads 254 a 60. Of foure hundred pounds set vpon aldermens heads of London by king Henrie the seuenth 795 b 60 796 a 10. Sessed vpon them that fauored the Cornish rebels 785 a 10. ¶ Sée Escuage Forfeits and Nobilitie Fire bursteth out of the earth 44 b 40. It the sword Gods angrie angels 1001 b 10 Fish monstrous taken in Norffolke 1355 b 60. Of twentie yards long c note 1259 b 30. Driuen to the English shore 1206 a 40. Like vnto a man 168 a 10 Fishes of the sea fight 225 b 60 115 a 10. Monstrous at Downam bridge in Suffolke 1211 a 50. In Westminster hall after the fall of an high floud 1271 b 50. Fishmongers bound to find â—oure scholers at the vniuersities c note 792 b 10. Sore trobled by the maior of London 440 b 30. An act against them within the citie of London 441 a 50. The statute against them repeled and they restored to their liberties 442 a 60. Benâ—fited by iustice Randolph 1354 a 40 50. Fitzalan William a conspiraâ—or 49 a 10 Fitzarnulfe a Londoner procureth the citizens to reuenge their cause by rebellion he is apprehended and executed 204 a 40 Fitzbaldrike shiriffe of Yorke 10 a 10 Fitzempresse Henrie his returne into England 58 a 20. and is knighted 40 Fitzsergus Gilbert killed his brother note 98 b 40 Fitzgeffreie chamberleine vnto king Richard the first 128 a 60. His death b 60 Fitzhammon Robert his tale to William Rufus 26 b 20 Fitziohn Eustace a conspirator 49 a 10. Slaine 67 a 10 Fitzleo Peter an vsurping pope 44 a 50 Fitzmiles Roger. ¶ Sée Erle Fitzmoris his miserable end 1365 b 60 Fitzosbert his vnnaturall ingratitude and complaint to K. Richard the first against the citie of London 149 a 40. Whie he ware his long beard his oration to the people he is called before the archbishop of Canturburie lord chéefe iustice president of the realme he flieth into the church of saint Marie Bow he is attached his concubines 149 all Is executed the archbishop of Canturburie euill spoken of for his death an old whoremonger and new saint 150 a 10 20 Fitzosborne William earle of Hereford c gouernor of England in duke Williams absence 5 a 10 Fitzroie Oliuer sonne to king Iohn 202 a 20 Fitzscroope Richard in armes against Edrike the rebell 5 a 10 Fitzwalter lord deceaseth in Spaine 450 b 10. Appealeth the duke of Aumerle of treason 512 a 60. He is mainprised 513 b 60. Earle of Sussex his seruice against the Scots he is in great danger note 986 a 20 Fitzwilliams recorder of London his wisedome in a dangerous case 730 b 30 Flanders spoiled by the duke of Glocester 614 b 60. Wholie at the deuotion of Edward the third 354 b 60. Interdicted 358 a 10. Diuerse rodes made thereinto by the English and great spoile doone 454 b 60. Inuaded by the bishop of Norwich 442 b 60. a great part drowned by an exundation 34 a 60. ¶ Sée Erle of Leicester League Flatterie impudent of sir Iohn Bushie to king Richard the second 490 b 60. Used in a sermon note 725 b 40 Notable 727 b 50 60 728 a 10 c. ¶ Sée Dissumulation Fléetwood recorder of London made sargent at law ¶ Sée Sargents
coâ—â—prophet serued aright Ships of Rie win a good price Iohn de Northaâ—â—â—â—â— maioâ— oâ— Lâ—â—don 〈◊〉 punisâ—â—◠〈◊〉 â—dulterie 〈◊〉 â—â—me The Londoners 〈◊〉 of Wicliffes doctrine The fishmoongers sore trâ—â—bled by the maior A great earthquake Churches ouerthrowne by the earthquake A waâ—erquake Anno Reg. 6. The bishop of LondoÌ„ made lord chancâ—llor in the lord Scroope his roome A new rebellion intended in Norffolke is bâ—wraied by one of the câ—nspiracie before The coÌ„missioners of Flanders reiected for want of sufficient authoritie An act against the fishmongers within the citie of London Remission of sins granted to as manie as would fight against Clement the antipape The earle of Cambridge returneth out of Portingale The earle of Cambridge his son affianced to the king of Portingals daughter Clementines Urbanists The crossed souldiers The capteins that weÌ„t with the bishop of Norwich against the antipape Froissard The statute against fishmongers repealed they are restored to their liberâ—ies The bishop 〈◊〉 Norwich setteth forward with his armie Polydor. Froissard 500 speares â— 115 other The bishop 〈◊〉 Norwich inuadeth Flanders Ia. Meir Dunkirke woon sackâ—â— by the Englishmen The earle of FlaÌ„ders sendeth to the bish of Norwich to know the cause of his inuasion of Flanderâ— The herald of armes sent to the Flemings by the bishop of Norwich is slaine Thom. Wals. The order of the bishop of Norwich his battell against the Flemings The Flemings discomfited by the Englishmen Iac. Meir Froissard Tho. Walsi Préests and religious men hardy soldiers Iacob Meir The EnglishmeÌ„ subdue diuerse towns in Flanders and spoile the countrie The towne of Ypres besiged The maner of fortifieng townes in old time Hope of gaine incourageth the soldier Ia. Meir Anno Reg. 7. The siege at Ypres broken vp Newport sacked and burnt by the Englishmen and Gauntiners Thom. Wals. A couragious warlike bishop The French king with his huge armie driueth the Englishmen out of Flanders Bruckburge yeélded to the French The duke of Britaine a fâ—iend to the Englishmen Grauelin fortified by the Frenchmen for a countergarison to Calis Thom. Wals. The king quéene in progresse A great heaâ— soone cooled The bishop of Norwich returned into England 〈◊〉 of Flanders Warke castell burnt by the Scots Diuerse French ships taken by the Englishmen A parlement at London The temporalties of the bishoprâ—ke of Norwich seized into the kings hands for the bishops disobedience A treatie of peace betwéen England and France A truce taken betwéene England and France Tho. Walsin Great contention about the election of the maior of London Sir Robert Knolles The duke of Lancaster inuadeth Scotland with an armie Edenburgh left desolate Great death of horsses and men in the English host by reason of extreme cold A parlement at Salisburie An Irish frier appeacheth the duke of LaÌ„caster of treason A miserable cruell torture A rode into Scotland One mischief asketh another Anno Reg. 8. The duke of LaÌ„caster sent into France to treat of a peace Iohn de Northampton late maior of London coÌ„demned to perpetuall prison and all his goods confiscated A combat The appellant being vanquished is adiudged to be hanged Abraham Fleming out of Henrie Knighton canon of Leicester abbeie Berwike castell woone by the Scots Berwike castell recouered by the earle of Northumberland The duke of Lancaster getteth him to his castell of Pomfret and fortifieth it The princesse of Wales maketh an attonement betwéene the king and the duke at Lancaster The ships of Portâ—mouth Dartmouth 〈◊〉 better seruice than the kings great name 〈◊〉 Meir Froissard The French king aideth Scots against Englishmen The Scots inuade the frontiers of England Anno Reg. 9. The K. goeth with an armie against the Scots Uariance betwéene sir Iohn Hollands seruaÌ„ts and the lord Richard Stafford The lord Richard Stafford slaine by sir Iohn Holland Hect. Boetius Edenburgh burnt by king Richard The French admerall persuadeth the Scots to fight with the English host Cumberland sore spoiled by the Scots Carleill assalted by the Scots Good counsell neglected Polydor. A noble reuenge There were 600 Englishmâ— who with their bowes did great seruice as by one author it appeareth The king of Portingale sendeth six gallies to K. Richards aid A good victorie of them of Calis against the French fléet Abr. Fl. out of Henrie Knighton canon of Leicester abbeie The Calisians others make a rode into France win great booties Fabian Creation of dukes and earles at the parlement Henrie of Bollingbrooke earle of Derbie afterwards king The lord Mortimer erle of March proclâ—â—ed heire apparant to the crowne The earle of March 〈◊〉 by the wild Irish. The issue of the foresaid earle of March. Froissard The king of Armeniâ— coÌ„meth into England 〈◊〉 aid against the Turks Thom. Wals. Thom. 〈◊〉 Froissard Ia. Meir The duke 〈◊〉 Lancaster goeth into Spaine 〈◊〉 an armie In Angl. praelij Abr. Fl. out of Henrie Knighton canon of Leicester abbeie Thom. Wals. The duke of Lancaster landeth at Brest and winneth two bastidâ—s from the Frenchmen Anno Reg. 10. The duke of Lancaster landeth at 〈…〉 Le Groigne Corone Abr. Fl. out of Henrie Knighton canon of Leicester abbeie Philip the dude of Lancasters daughter married to the king of Portingale The king of Portingale the duke of Lancaster ioining their armies togither inuade Castile Uariance amongst writers Great death in the English host in Spaine by reason of the great heat of that countrie Froissard The lord Fitz Walter I thinke that none of these three were barons but onlie the lord Poinings The duke of Lancaster returneth out of Portingale into Gascoigne A marriage concluded betweéne the prince of Spaine and the duke of Lancasters daughter Fabian Ab. Fl. out of Henrie Knighton canon of Leicester abbeie In Angl. 〈◊〉 sub Rich. 2. Iacob Meir Froissard A mightie great nauie of French ships at Sluis purposing to inuade EnglaÌ„d The description of the inclosure Thom. Wals. Tho. Walsi The prouision of the Englishmen to resist the great power of Frenchmen Abr. Fl. out of Henrie Knighton canon of Leicester abbeie The Londoners speciallie afraid of the FreÌ„ch forces Dissention among the noblemen Froissard Tho. Walsin A parlement at London Robert Uéer marquessâ— of Dubline created duke of Ireland Richard Exton iustlie coÌ„mended A subsidie granted and appointed to be spâ—nt according to the discretion of the nobilitie Dissention between◠〈◊〉 king an◠〈◊〉 parlement house The duke of Glocester and the bishop of Elie sent to yâ— K. at Eltham froÌ„ the whole bodie of the parlement Their requests to the king And oftenâ—r 〈◊〉 néed require The causes conditions of a parlement Absence of the king from the parlement 〈◊〉 the space of â— daies The kings answer Wealth of the people is the glorie of the prince and suertie of his reigne Change of officers by the parlement The earle of Suffolke gréeuouslie charged by the parlement house for sundrie offenses Thirtéene lords appointed by parlement