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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B12208	The copie of a leter, vvryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his friend in London concerning some talke past of late betvven tvvo vvorshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England. Conceyued, spoken and publyshed, vvyth most earnest protestation of al duetyful good vvyl and affection, tovvardes her most excellent Ma. and the realm, for vvhose good onely it is made common to many.	Morgan, Thomas, 1543-1606, attributed name.; Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610, attributed name.	1584 (1584)	STC 5742.9; ESTC S108682	125,586	206

designementes as also of some secret discontentment vvhich he hath tovvardes her Ma. and the state present for certaine harde † speaches and ingrate recompences as he pretendeth but indeed for that he is knovven to be of nature fyrie and impatient of staye from seeing that common vvealth on foote vvhich the next competitours for their gayne haue paynted out to him and such others more pleasaunte then the Terrestrial Paradise it self This thē is the Hector this is the Aiax appoīted for the enterprise vvhen the tyme shal come This must be forsooth an other Richard of VVar●vik to gaine the Crovvn for Hērie the ninth of the house of York as the other Richard did put dovvn Hērie the sixt of the house of Lācaster placed Edvvard the fourth from vvhom Huntington deriueth his title therfore this man is necessarilie to be enterteyned from tyme to tyme as vve see novv he is in some charge and martial action to the end his experience povver and credit may grovv the more and he be able at the tyme to haue souldiours at his commaundement And for the former charge vvhich helde of late in Ireland as this man had not bene called avvay but for execution of some other secret purpose * In Scotlād or els vvhere a gaynst the next īheritors or presēt possessor for aduancement of their designemēts so be vvel assured that for the tyme to come it is to be furnished agayne vvyth a sure and fast friend to Leycester and to that faction Sir Ihon Parotte In the I le of VVyght I graunt that Leycester hath lost a great friend and a trustie seruaunt by the death of Captaine Horsey but yet the mater is supplyed Sir Edvv. Horsey Sir Georg Carevv by the succession of an other no lesse assured vnto him then the former or rather more through the bāde of affinitie by his vvife The tvvo Ilands of Gersey and Gernsey are in the possession of tvvoe Sir Amias Paulet Sir Thomas Layton friēds most obliged depēdētes The one by reasō he is excedingly addicted to the Puritane procedīgs the other as novv being ioyned vnto him by the mariage of Mistres Besse his vviues sister both daughters to Sir Frauncis or at least to my Ladie Knooles and so become a riuale companion and brother vvho vvas before thoughe trustie yet but his seruaunt And thes are the chiefe Keyes Forteesses and Bulvvarkes vvythin vvithout about the realm vvhich my Lord of Leyces possessing as he doth he may be assured of the bodie vvythin vvher notvvythstanding as hath bene shevved he vvanteth no due preparation for strength hauing at his disposition besides al aydes and other helpes specified Her Ma. Stable Her Armour Munitition and Artilerye The Tovver before her Ma. horse and stables by interest of his ovvn office her Armour Artilerie and Munitiō by the office of his brother the Erle of VVarvvick The Tovver of London and treasure therin by the dependence of Sir Ovvyne Hopton his svvorne seruaunt● as redie to receyue and furnish him vvyth th● vvhole yf occasion serued as one of his predecessors vvas to receyue his father in K. Edvvardes dayes for the lyke effect against her Ma. and her sister And in the Citie of London it self vvhat this London Sir Rovv●and Heivvard Madd Fleet vvo● man at a pinche could doe by the help of some of the principal mē chief leaders as it vvere commaunders of the commons ther and by the bestirring of Fleetvvoode his madde Recorder and other such his instrumentes as also in al other Tovvnes Portes and Cities of importaunce by such of his ovvn setting vp as he hath placed ther to serue his designementes and iustices of peace vvith other that in most Shyres do vvere his liuerey and are at his appoyntement the simplest man vvhithin the Realm doth consider VVherunto yf you adde novv his ovvn forces and furniture vvhich he hath in Killingvvorth Castle and other places as also the forces of Huntington in particular vvith their friendes folovvers allies and Compartenours you shal finde that they are not behind in their preparations SCHOL For my Lord of Huntingtons forvvardnes in the cause said I ther is no man I think vvhich maketh doubt marie for his priuate forces albeit they may be verie good for anie thing I do knovve to the cōtrary especiallie at his house vvythin 25. miles of My L. of Hūtingtons preparation at Ashby Killingvvorth vvhere one tolde me some yeares paste that he had furniture redie for fiue thovvsand men yet do I not think but that they are far inferior to my L. of Leycest vvho is takē to haue excessiue store that in diuers place And as for the Castle laste mentioned by you ther are men of Killingvvorth Castle good intelligence and of no smal iudgement vvho report that in the same he hath vvel to furnish ten thovvsand good souldiars of al thinges necessarie both for horse man besides al other munition armour artillerie vvherof great store vvas brought thither vnder pretence of tryumphe vvhē her Ma. vvas ther neuer as yet carried back again besides the great abundāce of redie Coyne ther laide vp as is said sufficient for anie great exploit to be done vvythin the Realme And I knovve that the estimation of this place vvas such amonge diuers many years ago as vvhē at a tyme her Ma. laye daungerouslie syck and lyke ●lphe ●ane to die at Hampton Court a certaine gentleman of the Court came vnto my L. of Huntington told him that for so much as he toke his L. to be next in succession after her Ma. he vvoulde offer hyma meane of great help for cōpassing of his purpose after the discease of her Ma. vvhich vvas the possessiō of Killīgvvorth Castle for at that time thes tvvo The offer acceptation of Killingvvorth Castle Earles vvere not yet verie friendes nor confederate together that being had he shevved to the Earle the great furniture and vvealthe vvhich therby he should possesse for pursute of his purpose The proposition vvas vvel liked the mater esteemed of great importaunce and consequentlie receyued vvyth manie thankes But yet aftervvard her Ma. by the good prouidence of God recouerīg againe letted the executiō of the bargaine and my L. of Huntington hauing occasion to ioyne amitie vvyth Leycester had more respect to his ovvn cōmoditie thē to his friendes securitie as commonly in such persons cases it falleth out so discouered the vvhole deuice vnto him vvho forgat not after from tyme to tyme to plague the deuiser by secret meanes vntil he hath brought him to that poor estate as al the vvorld seeth though manie mē be not acquainted vvyth the true cause of this his disgrace and bare fortune LAVV. To this ansvvered the Lavvyer In good faith Gentlemen you open great misteries vnto me vvhich either I knevv not or cōsidered not so particularlie before and no maruaile for that my

Henrie Earle of Richmōd discending but of the last sonne and third vvyfe of Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lācaster vvas so respected for that onelie by the vniuersal Realm as they inclyned vvholie to cal him from banishment to make him king vvith the deposition of Richard vvhich then ruled of the house of York vpon condition onlie that the said Henrie should take to vvyfe a daughter of the contrarie familie so great vvas in thos dayes the affection of English hartes tovvards the line of Lancaster for the great vvorthynes of such kinges as had reigned of that race hovv good or bad so euer their title vvere vvhich I stand not heare at this tyme to discus but onlie to insinuate vvhat partie the same found in our Realm in tymes past and consequentlie hovv extreame daungerous the contention for the same may be herafter especialie seing that at this day The line of Portugal the remander of that title is pretended to rest vvholie in a straunger vvhos povver is verie great VVhich vve Lavvyers are vvount to esteme as a point of no smal importaunce for iustifying of anie mans title to a kingedom SCHOL You Lavvyers vvant not reason in that Sir quoth I hovv so euer you vvant right for if you vvil examine the succession of gouernmentes from the begnining of the vvorld vnto this daye either among Gentile Ievve or Christian people you shal find that the svvord hath bene alvvayes better The svvord of greate force to iustifie the title of a kingdom then half the title to get establishe or mainteyne a kingdom vvhich maketh me the more apalled to heare you dicourse in such sorte of nevv cōtentiōs and forraine titles accōpained vvyth such povver and strength of the titlers VVhich cannot be but infinitelie daungerous and fatal to our Realm yf once it come to action both for the diuision that is like to be at home and the varietie of parties from abrode For as the Prince vvhom you signifie vvil nor faile by al likeliehood to pursue his title vvyth al forces that he can make if occasion vvere offered so reason of state and pollicie vvil enforce other Princes adioynīg to let hinder him therin Greate dangers vvhat they can and so by this meanes shal vve become Iuda Israel among our selues one killing and vexing the other vvyth the svvord and to forraine Princes vve shal be as the Iland of Salamina vvas in olde tyme to the Athenians and Megarians and as the Iland of Cicilia vvas aftervvard to the Grecians Carthaginians and Romans and as in our dayes the kingdom of Naples hath bene to the Spaniards Frenchemen Germans and Venetians That is a bayte to feed vpon and a game to fight for VVherfore I beseech the Lord to auerte from vs all occasions of such miseries And I pray you Sir for that vve are fallen into the mētion of thes matters to take so much paines as to open vnto me the grovvnd of thes controuersies so long novv quiet betvven York and Lancaster seing they are novv like to be raised againe For albeit in general I haue heard much therof yet in particular I either conceaue not or remember not the foundation of the same and much lesse the state of theire seueral titles at this daye for that it is a studie not properlie perteyning vnto my profession LAVV. The controuersie betvvene the houses of York and Lancaster quoth the Lavvyer tooke his actual beginning in the issue of K. Edvvard the third The beginning of the cōtrouersie betvvixt York and Lācaster vvho died somevvhat more then tvvo hundreth yeares gone but the occasion pretence or cause of that quarrel began in the children of K. Henrie the third vvho died an hundreth yeares before that and left tvvo sonnes Edvvard vvho vvas king after him by the name of Edvvard the first and vvas Graundfather to Edvvard the third and Edmond for his deformitie called Crookback Earle of Lancaster and beginner of that house vvhos inheritaunce aftervvard in the fovverth discent fel vpon a daughter named Blanche vvho vvas married to the fourth sonne of king Edvvard the third named Iohn of Gaunt for that he vvas Edmond Crooke-back begi●ner of the house of Lācaster borne in the Citye of Gaunt in Flaunders and so by this his first vvyfe he became Duke of Lancaster and heire of that house And for that his sonne Henrie of Bolingbrook aftervvarde called K. Henrie the fourth pretended among other thinges that Edmond Crookback great graundfather to Blanche his mother vvas the elder Blanche sonne of K. Henrie the third and iniustelie put by the inheritaunce of the Crovvn for that Iohn of Gaunt he vvas Crookebacked and deformed he toke by force the kingdom from Richard the second Hovv the kingdom vvas first broght to the house of Lancaster nephevv to king Edvvard the third by his first sonne placed the same in the house of Lācaster vvhere it remained for three vvhole discētes vntil aftervvarde Edvvard Duke of York descended of Iohn of Gauntes yonger brother making clayme to the Crovvn by title of his graundmother that vvas heire to Lionel Duke of Clarence Iohn of Gauntes elder brother toke the same by force from Henrie the sixt of the house of Lancaster and brought it backe againe to the house of Yo●● vvher it contineued vvith much trouble in tvvo kinges onlie vntil bothe houses vvere ioyned together in king Henrie the seuenth and his noble issue Hereby vve see hovv the issue of Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster fourth sonne to K. Edvvard the third pretended right to the Crovvn by Edmond Crookbacke before the issue of al the other thre sonnes of Edvvard the third albeit they vvere the elder brothers vvherof vve vvil speake The issue of Iohn of Gaunt more hereafter Novv Iohn of Gaunt though he had manie children yet had he fovver onlie of vvhom issue remaine tvvo sonnes and tvvo daughters The first sonne vvas Henrie of Bolingbrooke Duke of Lancaster vvho toke the Crovvn from K. Richard the second his vnkles sonne as hath bene said and first of al planted the same in the house of Lancaster vvhere it remayned in tvvo discentes after him that is in his sonne Henrie the first and in his nephevv Henrie the sixt vvho vvas aftervvard destroyed together vvith Henry Prince of VVales his only sonne heire and consequelie al that Line of Henrie Bolingbrok extinguished by Edvvard the fourth of the house of York The other sōne of Iohn of Gaūt vvas Iohn Duke of Somerset by Katherin S Finsford his third vvife The pedegree of K Henrie the 7. vvhich Iohn had issue an other Iohn and he Margaret his daughter heire vvho being married to Edmond Tyder Earle of Richmond had issue Henrie Earle of Richmond vvho after vvas named K. Henrie the seuenth vvhos Line yet endureth The tvvoe daughters of Iohn of Gaunt vvere married to Portugal and Castile that is Philippe The tvvo daughte●s