whose line 20 attempts when the lord Hunsdon lord warden of the east marches and gouernor of Berwike heard he prepared to go against him and hauing with him sir Iohn Forster lord warden of the middle marches they set forward towards the place where they thought they should find him They had with them 300 chosen soldiors of the garrison of Berwike and twelue hundred borderers and other of the garrisons there about the borders so that they were in all fiftéene hundred footmen and horssemen They marching line 30 therewith foorth approched néere to a towne and castell called Naworth which was in the kéeping of the said Leonard Dacres And vpon a moore through the middle whereof a litle riuer called Chelt hath his course the said Leonard Dacres the two and twentith of Februarie was readie with his power in order of battell ranged set in arraie after the forme of a triangle compassed and inuironed about with horssemen And now vpon the lord Hunsdons approch the said Dacres with great and stout courage line 40 gaue an hardie onset vpon the said lord Hunsdon and his companie neere vnto the foresaid riuer The fight was sharpe and cruell and the euent verie doubtfull for a while the rebels were so stiffelie bent to doo their vttermost indeuor in defense of their wicked quarrell There were amongst them manie desperat women that gaue the aduenture of their liues and fought right stoutlie Manie therfore were slaine on both sides to the number at the least of three hundred persons But such was the forward valiancie line 50 of the lord Hunsdon that his people incoraged by his example whome they might see so noblie acquit himselfe in aduenturing so farre as anie other of the whole troope behaued themselues in such manfull wise that the victorie in the end fell to him and his companie and the said Leonard Dacres was forced to flée from his séelie slaine and miserable people taking his waie into Scotland so fast as his horsse might beare him Capteine Reade and the other capteins and soldiors of Berwike bare themselues right valiantlie and shewed proofe of their skill and line 60 hardie manhood in this skirmish After the which these holds and castels were taken and deliuered vnto the said lord Hunsdon Naworth which was committed vnto the kéeping of maister Scroope Kestwood Greistocke and Rockleie which were deliuered to the kéeping of diuerse of the duke of Norffolks officers On good fridaie the seauen and twentith of March Simon Digbie of Askue Iohn Fulthorpe of Isilbecke in the countie of Yorke esquiers Robert Peneman of Stokesleie Thomas Bishop the yoonger of Poklinton in the same countie of Yorke gentlemen were drawne from the castell of Yorke to the place of execution called Knaues mire halfe a mile without the citie of Yorke and there hanged headed and quartered their foure heads were set on foure principall gates of the citie with foure of their quarters the other in diuerse places of the countrie Osclope Clesbe was with them drawne to the gallows and returned againe to the castell William earle of Penbroke baron of Cardiffe knight of the garter one of the priuie councell and lord steward of the quéenes maiesties houshold deceased the eightéenth of Aprill and was buried in saint Paules church at London ¶ This noble man liued in great credit and estimation with king Henrie the eight king Edward the sixt quéene Marie and quéene Elisabeth and was by euerie of the said princes imploied in matters of great importance and for his good and faithfull seruice greatlie honored as appéereth in an epitaph fixed vpon his toome in the cathedrall church of saint Paule in London which I thought good here to laie downe Perpetuae pietati sacrum GVlielmo Herberto Penbrochiae comiti equiti aurato praenobilis ordinis Anglici Hen. viij R. A cubiculis Edoard vi R. equitum magistro Walliae praesidi Tumultu occidentali cum Russello Grato baronibus paribus auspicijs summae rerum praeposito Mariae R. contra perduelles ac expeditione ad Augustam Veromanduorum bis totius exercitus duci bis summo in agro Caletum limitum praefecto Elisab R. officiorum seu Magno Regiae magistro Pariter Dominae Annae ex vetusta Parrorum gente oriunda Sorori Catharinae R. Henr. viij R. vi matrimonio coniunctae ac Marchionis Northamptonij Prudentiss foeminae pietatis religionis probitatis omnÃsque auitae virtutis retinentiss fidiss Comitis coniugi Henr. F. ac comes Pp. chariss sibi ac suis moerens P. Olijt aetatis Ann. 63. Secunda coniuge superstite Georgio Salopiae comite genita insigni praeter antiquum probitatis decus virtute foemina Olijt salutis Ann. 1569. Secunda coniuge superstite Georgio Salopiae comite genita insigni praeter antiquum probitatis decus virtute foemina Liberis relictis ex prima Henrico Pemb. Comite Secunda coniuge superstite Georgio Salopiae comite genita insigni praeter antiquum probitatis decus virtute foemina Edoardo equite Aurato Secunda coniuge superstite Georgio Salopiae comite genita insigni praeter antiquum probitatis decus virtute foemina Domina Anna Baroni Talbot nupta Secunda coniuge superstite Georgio Salopiae comite genita insigni praeter antiquum probitatis decus virtute foemina The earle of Sussex in reuenge of the euill demeanor of the Scots inhabiting néere to the English marches as well in receiuing and succouring diuerse of the English rebels as other naughtie practises assembled such forces as he thought expedient in the night that followed the seauen and twentith of Aprill and hauing with him the lord Hunnesdon gouernour of Berwike and lord warden of the east marches sir William Drurie marshall of the said armie and towne of Berwike came to Warke being twelue miles distant from the said towne of Berwike then the next daie being the eightéenth of the same moneth they entered into Tiuidall in Scotland where marching in warlike order they burned ouerthrew wasted and spoiled all the castels townes and villages as they passed till they came to a tower called the Mosse tower standing in a marish and belonging to the lard of Buclewgh which likewise was rased ouerthrowne and burned and so marching forward wasted the whole countrie before them vntill they came to a great towne called Crauling The same daie sir Iohn Forster warden of the middle marches with all the garrisons and forces of the same entered likewise into Tiuidall at Espesgate distant sixteene miles from Warke where in like order they burned and spoiled the countrie before them till they came to a castell in the possession of the lard of Ferniherst being parcell of hir sons lands which likewise was ouerthrowne rased and burned with all other castels piles townes and villages all alongst the said countrie till they came to Crauling ioining there with the lord lieutenants power This towne was likewise burned and spoiled Thus they passed
There was therfore by order of the councell a wise gentleman learned named George Ferrers appointed to that office for this yeare who being of better credit estimation than coÌ„monlie his predecessors had beene before receiued all his commissions and warrants by the name of the maister of the kings pastimes Which gentleman so well supplied his office both in shew of sundrie sights and deuises of rare inuentions and in act of diuerse interludes and matters of pastime plaied by persons as not onelie satisfied the common â—ort but also were verie well liked and allowed by the councell and other of skill in the like pastimes but best of all by the yoong king himselfe as appéered by his princelie liberalitie in rewarding that seruice ¶ On mondaie the fourth of Ianuarie the said lord of merie disports came by water to London and landed at the tower wharffe entred the tower and then rode through tower street where he was receiued by Uause lord of misrule to Iohn Mainard one of the shiriffes of London and so conducted through the citie with a great companie of yoong lords gentlemen to the house of sir George Barne lord maior where he with the chéefe of his companie dined and after had a great banket and at his departure the lord maior gaue him a standing cup with a couer of siluer and guilt of the value of ten pounds for a reward and also set a hogshed of wine and a barrell of beere at his gate for his traine that followed him The residue of his gentlemen seruants dined at other aldermens houses and with the shiriffes and then departed to the tower wharffe againe so to the court by water to the great commendation of the maior and aldermen and highlie accepted of the king and councell This Christmas being thus passed and spent with much mirth and pastime year 1552 wherewith the minds and eares of murmurers were méetlie well appeased according to a former determination as the sequele shewed it was thought now good to procéed to the execution of the iudgement giuen against the duke of Summerset touching his conuiction atteindor of the fellonie before mentioned Wherevpon the two and twentith daie of Ianuarie then next following being fridaie he was brought out of the tower and according to the manner deliuered to the shiriffes of London and so with a great companie of the gard others with weapons was brought to the scaffold where he should suffer without changing either voice or countenance other than he was accustomed to vse at other times The same morning earelie the conestables of euerie ward in London according to a precept directed from the councell to the maior strictlie charged euerie houshold of the same citie not to depart anie of them out of their houses before ten of the clocke of that daie meaning thereby to restreine the great number of people that otherwise were like to haue béen at the said execution Notwithstanding by seauen of the clocke the tower hill was couered with a great multitude repairing from all parts of the citie as well as out of the suburbs And before eight of the clocke the duke was brought to the scaffold inclosed with the kings gard the shiriffes officers the warders of the tower other with halberds where as he nothing changing neither voice or countenance but in a maner with the same gesture which he commonlie vsed at home knéeling downe vpon both his knees and lifting vp his hands commended himselfe vnto God After he had ended a few short praiers standing vp againe and turning himselfe toward the east side of the scaffold nothing at all abashed as it séemed vnto those that stood by neither with the sight of the ax neither yet of the hangman nor of present death but with the like alacriâ—ie and chéerefulnesse of mind and countenance as before times he was accustomed to heare the causes supplications of other speciallie of the poore towards whome as it were with a certeine fatherlie loue to his children he alwaies shewed himselfe most attentiue he vttered these words to the people The words of the duke of Summerset at his death DEerelie beloued friends I am line 10 brought hither to suffer death albeit I neuer offended against the king neither by word nor deed and haue beene alwaies as faithfull and true vnto this realme as anie man hath beene But forsomuch as I am by law condemned to die I doo acknowledge my selfe as well as others to be subiect therevnto Wherefore to testifie mine obedience line 20 which I owe vnto the lawes I am come hither to suffer death wherevnto I willinglie offer my selfe with most hartie thanks vnto God that hath giuen me this time of repentance who might thorough sudden death haue taken awaie my life that I neither should haue acknowledged him nor my selfe Moreouer deerelie beloued friends there is yet somewhat that I must put line 30 you in mind of as touching christian religion which so long as I was in authoritie I alwaies diligentlie set foorth and furthered to my power Neither doo I repent me of my dooings but reioise therein sith now the state of christian religion commeth most neere vnto the forme and order of the primitiue church Which thing I esteeme as a great benefit giuen of God line 40 both to you and me most hartilie exhorting you all that this which is most purelie set foorth vnto you you will with like thankefulnesse accept and embrace and set out the same in your liuing which thing if you doo not without doubt greater mischiefe and calamitie will follow When he had spoken these words suddenlie there line 50 was a great noise heard wherevpon the people were streight driuen into a great feare few or none knowing the cause Wherefore I thinke it good to write what I saw saith Iohn Stow concerning that matter The people of a certeine hamlet which were warned to be there by seauen of the clocke to giue their attendance on the lieutenant now came thorough the posterne and perceiuing the duke to be alreadie on the scaffold the foremost began to run crieng to their fellowes to follow fast after Which suddennes line 60 of these men being weaponed with bils and halberds this running caused the people which first saw them to thinke some power had come to haue rescued the duke from execution and therefore cried Awaie awaie Wherevpon the people ran some one waie some an other manie fell into the tower ditch and they which tarried thought some pardon had beene brought some said it thundered some that the ground mooued but there was no such matter ¶ This amazement of the people is in other words recorded by Iohn Fox in the storie of this dukes troubles death which bicause they be effectuall I thinke good to interlace When the duke had ended his speech saith he suddenlie there was a terrible noise heard whervpon there came a
dealing was too manifest although indeed he abused his fathers patience for a while who was desirous of nothing more than to win his sonnes by some courteous meanes and therfore diuerse times offered to pardon all offenses committed by his enimies at the suit of his sonne the king who in déed offered himselfe now and then as an intreatour but that was onelie to win time that his brother with such Brabanders and other souldiers as he had with him in aid beside the forces of the barons of Guien might worke the more mischéefe against their father and their brother earle Richard in wasting and destroieng their countries that stood stedfast on their side In the meane time Richard the archbishop of Canturburie and diuerse other bishops and abbats both of England and Normandie assembled togither at Caen and in the abbeie church of S. Stephan pronounced the sentence of excommunication against all those that did hinder and impeach their purpose which was to haue peace and concord concluded betwixt the king and his sonnes the same sonnes onlie out of the said sentence excepted Diuerse shiftes were made by king Henrie the sonne and his brother earle Geffrey also to get monie for the paiment of their souldiers as spoiling of shrines and such like But at length when things framed not to their purpose and that the harme which they could doo against their father was much lesse than they wished if power had béene answerable to their wâ—â—es king Henrie the sonne through indignation and displeasure as some write fell into a gréeuous sicknesse in a village called Mertell noâ— farre from Limoges where his father laie at siege At the first he was taken with an extreame feuer and after followed a sore flixe Now perceiuing himselfe in danger of death and that the physicians had giuen him ouer he sent to his father better late than neuer confessing his trespasse committed against him and required of all fatherlie loueth 〈◊〉 sée him once before he died But for that the father thought not good to commit himselfe into the hands of such vngratious persons as were about his sonne he sent his ring vnto him in token of his blessing and as it were a pledge to signifie that he had forgiuen him his vnnaturall doings against him The son receiuing it with great humilitie kissed it and so ended his life in the presence of the archbishop of Burdeaux and others on the day of saint Barnabie the apostle He died as some write verie penitent and sorowfull And whereas in his life time he had vowed to make a iourneie into the holie land against Gods enimies and taken vpon him the crosse for that intent he deliuered it vnto his familiar freend William line 10 Marshall to go thither with it in his stead Moreouer when he perceiued present death at hand he first confessed his sinnes secretlie and after openly before sundrie bishops and men of religion and receiued absolution in most humble wise After this he caused his fine clothes to be taken from him and therewith a heare cloth to be put vpon him and after tieng a cord about his necke he said vnto the bishops and other that stood by him I deliuer my selfe an vnworthie and greeuous sinner vnto you the ministers of line 20 God by this cord beséeching our Lord Iesus Christ which pardoned the théefe confessing his faults on the crosse that through your praiers and for his great mercies sake it may please him to be mercifull vnto my soule wherevnto they all answered Amen Then he said vnto them Draw me out of this bed with this cord and laie me on that bed strawed with ashes which he had of purpose prepared and as he commanded so they did and they laid at his feet and at his head two great square stones Thus being prepared line 30 to die he willed his bodie after his deceasse to be conueied into Normandie and buried at Rouen And so after he had receiued the sacrament of the bodie and bloud of our Lord he departed this life as afore is said about the 28. yeare of his age His bodie after his death was conueied towards Rouen there to be buried accordinglie as he had willed but when those that had charge to conueie it thither were come vnto the citie of Mauns the bishop there and the cleargie would not suffer them to line 40 go any further with it but committed it to buriall in honourable wise within the church of saint Iulian. Whereof when the citizens of Rouen were aduertised they were sore offended with that dooing and streightwaies sent vnto them of Mauns requiring to haue the corps deliuered threatening otherwise with manie earnest oths to fetch it from them by force Wherefore king Henrie to set order in this matter commanded that the corps of his sonne the king should be deliuered vnto them of Rouen to be line 50 buried in their citie as he himselfe had willed before his death And so it was taken vp and conueied to Rouen where it was eftsoones buried in the church of our ladie ¶ Thus ended this yoong king in his floorishing youth to whome through his owne iust deserts long life was iustlie denied sith he delighted to begin his gouernement with vnlawfull attempts as an other Absolon against his owne naturall father seeking line 60 by wrongfull violence to pull the scepter out of his hand He is not put in the number of kings bicause he remained for the more part vnder the gouernance of his father so that he rather bare the name of king as appointed to reigne than that he may be said to haue reigned in deed So that héere by the waie a notable obseruation dooth occurre and offer it selfe to be noted of vs namelie that euen princes children though borne to great excellencie and in high degâ—eâ— of dignitie aâ—e to consider with themselues that notwithstanding their statelie titles of souereigntie they haue a dutie to discharge vnto their parents which if it be neglected and that in place thereof disobedience is substituted God himselfe when politike lawes prouide not to punish such offenses will take the cause in hand will powre vengeance vpon such vngratious children For he will be true of his word both in blessing and curssing in blessing the dutifull child with long life and happie daies and in curssing the obstinate and froward with short life and vnfortunate daies according to the tenure of his law If this man had liued in the old Romans time when aged persons were so reuerenced and honoured much more parents he had beene cut off in the prime of his disobedience and present death had beene inflicted vpon him as a due and deserued reward which Iuuenal noteth excellentlie well in these words Credebant hoc grande nefas morte piandum Si iuuenis vetulo non assurrexerat si Barbato cuicunque puer licèt ipse videret Plura domi farra maioris
letters from the bishops vnto the apostolike see to be absolued c. Herevpon also the bishop of Elie himselfe wrote vnto the bishop of Lincolne and other touching this matter but the bishops did neither any thing in accomplishment of the effect of the popes letters nor at his owne supplication And therefore perceiuing small helpe to come that waie he sought to obteine the fauour and fréendship of earle Iohn and of his mother quéene Elianor In the meane time the lords barons and prelates of the realme after they had depriued him of all authoritie and banished him out of the land ordeined the archbishop of Rouen in fauour of the kings commission to haue the chéefe rule and administration of things touching all the affaires of the common-wealth but yet so as earle Iohn had the dooings in manie points so that he might séeme in manner an associat with him wherof sprang much inconuenience For this Iohn being a man as he is noted by some writers of an ambitious nature was suspected to aspire vnto the kingdome in somuch that he had ioined with the French king after the same king was returned foorth of the holie land against his brother king Richard if his mother quéene Elianor had not persuaded him to the contrarie Whilest these things were a dooing on the twelfth daie of Iulie the citie of Acres was surrendred into the christian mens hands for the Soldan Saladine being approched néere to the siege of the christians with a puissant armie in hope to haue raised their siege when he perceiued it laie not in his power to worke any feat to the succour of his people within the citie and that they were so constreined that they must néeds yéeld he holpe to make their composition and promised to performe certeine couenants on their behalfe Herevpon the Saracens within Acres couenanted not onelie to deliuer the citie vnto the christians with fiue hundred prisoners of christians which they had within the same but also to procure that the holie crosse should be to them deliuered with a thousand other christian prisoners such as the christian princes should appoint out of those numbers which Saladine had in his custodie and further to giue them two hundred thousand Besans And till these couenants were performed it was agréed that the Saracens which were at that present left within the citie should remaine as pledges vnder condition that if the same couenants were not performed within fortie daies then should they stand at the mercie of the christian princes as touching life and lim These things thus concluded and the citie yéelded vp into the christian mens hands the French king vpon enuie and malice conceiued against king Richard although he pretended sicknesse for excuse departed homewards setting from Acres the last day of Iulie Now then after the departure of king Philip when the day approched in the which the Saracens should performe the couenants or else stand to the iudgement of life and death at the pleasure of the christian princes it was perceiued that the couenants would not be fullfilled according to the agréement For Saladine as it well appeared ment not to performe that which for the safegard of his men he line 10 had vndertaken and did but dallie with the christians to prolong the time wherevpon sentence was giuen foorth that for default in such behalfe the Saracens remaining as pledges should loose their heads Saladine hauing knowledge thereof sent word to king Richard and to the whole christian armie that if his people that were in the christian mens hands lost their heads he would not faile but cause the heads of all those christians which he had in captiuitie line 20 to be cut off also Notwithstanding which answer on the fourteenth day of August king Richard issued foorth of the citie passing the vttermost ditches and incamped himselfe neere the armie of Saladine who the same daie sent rich presents vnto king Richard requiring of him a longer day for performance of the couenants but that would not be granted Wherefore vpon the said deniall Saladine caused all those christian prisoners which he had in his hands to be beheaded on the eightéenth day of August line 30 on which day king Richard aduanced foorth towards the lodgings of the Saracens and skirmished with them verie hotlie so that manie were wounded and slaine on both parts and amongst other one of king Richards companions at all exercises named Peter Mignot lost his life there Furthermore although king Richard knew that Saladine had put the christian prisoners to death in such wise as you haue heard yet would not he preuent his terme appointed for the execution of the Saraceâ—s that were line 40 in his custodie but abiding vnto the twentith day of August he then caused those Saracens which fell to his lot at the time of the surrender of Acres being in number about 2600. to be brought foorth of the citie and néere to the walles in the sight of Saladine and all his host they had their heads chopped off The duke of Burgoigne caused execution to be doone within the citie vpon those which fell to the French kings share the number of the which rose to two line 50 thousand and foure hundred or thereabouts for the whole number was reckoned to be about fiue thousand that thus lost their liues through the inconstancie of their prince yet diuerse of the principall had their liues saued The Saracens themselues also spake much euill of Saladine for this matter bicause that refusing to performe the articles of couenants he had occasioned the enimie to slea those that had so valiantlie serued in defense of the citie to the vttermost ieopardie of their liues And herâ—e is verified line 60 that knowne verse Quicquid delirant reges plectuâ—tur Achiuâ— But now to leaue forren matters and to returne home into England we find that on the second of December the monks of Canturburie chose to their archbishop Reignold bishop of Bath who within fifteene daies after his election departed this life and lieth buried at Bath Also this yeare or as Ger. Dor. saith in the yeare following the bishop of Durham sought meanes to withdraw his subiection from the archbishop of Yorke for which attempt the archbishop of Yorke vpon trust of the popes grant did not excommunicate the said bishop notwithstanding that he appealed to the popes consistorie three seuerall times putting his owne matter and his churches to be examined and tried by the pope wherevpon he obeied not the excommunication and signifieng the cause vnto Rome obteined such fauour that the pope and his cardinals reuersed the sentence and iudged the excommunication to be of none effect And further they decreed that if the archbishop of Yorke had broken the altars and chalices as information was giuen in which the bishop of Durham had celebrated after his appeale made to the court of Rome that then should the said bishop of Durham
foorthwith framed all his indeuours to the accomplishment of his businesse Surelie quéene Elianor the kings mother was sore against hir nephue Arthur rather mooued thereto by enuie conceiued against his mother than vpon any iust occasion giuen in the behalfe of the child for line 60 that she saw if he were king how his mother Constance would looke to beare most rule within the realme of England till hir sonne should come to lawfull age to gouerne of himselfe ¶ So hard it is to bring women to agree in one mind their natures commonlie being so contrarie their words so variable and their déeds so vndiscréet And therfore it was well said of one alluding to their disposition and qualities nulla diu foemina pondus habet When this dooing of the quéene was signified vnto the said Constance she doubting the suertie of hir sonne committed him to the trust of the French king who receiuing him into his tuition promised to defend him from all his enimies and foorthwith furnished the holds in Britaine with French souldiers Quéene Elianor being aduertised hereof stood in doubt by and by of hir countrie of Guien and therefore with all possible speed passed ouer the sea and came to hir sonne Iohn into Normandie and shortlie after they went foorth togither into the countrie of Maine and there tooke both the citie and castell of Mauns throwing downe the wals and turrets therof with all the fortifications and stone-houses in and about the same and kept the citizens as prisoners bicause they had aided Arthur against his vncle Iohn After this king Iohn entring into Aniou held his Easter at Beaufort which feast fell that yeare the 18 day of Aprill and from thence he went streight vnto Rouen where on the sundaie next after Easter being S. Marks day he was girded with the sword of the dutchie of Normandie in the high church there by the hands of Walter archbishop of Rouen And so being inuested duke of Normandie receiued the oth according to the custome that he should defend the church and mainteine the liberties thereof sée iustice ministred good lawes put in execution and naughtie lawes and orders abolished In the meane time his mother quéene Elianor togither with capteine Marchades entred into Anion and wasted the same bicause they of that countrie had receiued Arthur for their souereigne lord and gouernour And amongst other townes and fortresses they tooke the citie of Angiers slue manie of the citizens and committed the rest to prison This enterprise being thus luckilie atchiued the residue of the people in those parties were put in such feare that of their owne accord they turned to their woonted obedience séeming as though they would continue still therein The French king all this while conceiuing an other exploit in his head more commodious vnto him than as yet to attempt warre against the Englishmen vpon so light an occasion dissembled the matter for a time as though he would know nothing of all that was doone till the king should be otherwise occupied in England about his coronation In the meane season king Iohn hauing set some stay in his businesse on the further side of the sea he left his mother still in Guien to defend that countrie against the enimies and taking the sea came ouer himselfe into England landing at Shorham the 25 day of Maie On the next day being Ascension éeue he came to London there to receiue the crowne On the morow after being Ascension daie when the Nobilitie and commons were assembled and the king brought into the church of S. Peter at Westminster there to receiue his diademe Hubert the archbishop of Canturburie being cheefe in authoritie and honour both for his age and calling spake these words or the like in substance before the whole assemblie as followeth Hubert the archbishop of Canturburies oration to the lords spirituall and temporall in the presence of the king c. MOst honorable lords of the spiritualtie and most graue and politike peeres and barons of the temporaltie you are come hither this day to choose you a king and such a one as if need should require may be able of himselfe to take such a charge vpon him and hauing vndertaken the same readie to execute that which he shall thinke to be expedient for the profit of his subiects we haue therefore one present heere among vs vpon whome harts and good willes of high and low rich and poore doo generallie depend a man I doubt not but that for his owne part will applie his whole indeuour studie and thought vnto that onelie end which he shall perceiue to be most profitable for the commonwealth as knowing himselfe to be borne not to serue his owne line 10 turne but for to profit his countrie and to seeke for the generall benefit of vs that are his subiects And albeit I am sure that you doo well know how all these qualities are most abundantlie planted in the person of Iohn duke of Normandie a person of high prowesse and no lesse prudence for the which yee ought to iudge him right worthie of the line 20 gouernement yet beeing in doubt least the common fame should carrie you awaie or least you should turne your minds to the fauour of an other as in respect of some better right by title of a more lawfull descent of inheritance pretended by others than he hath to shew I require you to giue eare vnto my words who bearing the state of two manner of persons ought to be profitable to my countrie not onelie by example line 30 and exhortation but also by loialtie and good counsell which hitherto I haue euer studied to performe and wherein God willing I meane to persist so long as I shall continue in this mortall and transitorie tabernacle Therefore whereas at this present we haue in hand to conclude vpon such a weitie matter which beeing once doone can line 40 not be vndoone I commend vnto you this Iohn euen with all my verie heart and iudge that you ought to accept him for your king who in all things which he shall ordeine purpose or take in hand shall not faile so to answer your opinions with his well dooing and so satisfie your good erpectations alreadie conceiued of him with his diligent prouidence that all the whole line 50 realme shall not onelie like of and allow your dooing heerin but also with high commendation extoll the same to the verie stars These things do I promise vnto you and so farforth as in me may lie I dare take vpon me all chances and perils that may proceed thereof When the archbishop had ended his speach diuerse line 60 held their peace and manie with great zeale saluted king Iohn whom the same daie the said archbishop crowned at Westminster after the maner then vsed with great solemnitie and no lesse reioising of all such as were present At the same time also he receiued the homages of
thereto that king Iohn had by warre first inuaded his castels and lands in Picardie and wasted the same as Buncham castell and Lienâ— with the countie of Guisnes which belonged to the fée of the said Lewes But these reasons notwithstanding the legat warned the French king on paine of cursing not to suffer his sonne to go into England and likewise his sonne that he should not presume to take the iournie in hand But Lewes hearing this declared that his father had nothing to do to forbid him to prosecute his right in the realme of England which was not holden of him and therefore required his father not to hinder his purpose in such things as belonged nothing to him but rather to licence him to séeke the recouerie of his wiues right which he meant to pursue with perill of life if need should require The legat perceiuing he could not preuaile in his sute made to king Philip thought that he would not spend time longer in vaine in further treating with him but sped him foorth into England obteining yet a safeconduct of the French king to passe through his realme Lewes in like maner purposing by all meanes to preuent the legat first dispatched foorth ambassadours in all hast vnto the court of Rome to excuse himselfe to the pope and to render the reasons that most speciallie mooued him to procéed forward in his enterprise against king Iohn being called by the barons of England to take the crowne thereof vpon him This doone with all conuenient speed he came downe to Calice where he found 680 ships well appointed and trimmed which Eustace surnamed the moonke had gathered and prepared there readie against his comming Lewes therefore foorthwith imbarking himselfe with his people and all necessarie prouisions for such a iournie tooke the sea and arriued at a place called Stanchorre in the I le of Tenet vpon the 21 day of Maie and shortlie after came to Sandwich there landed with all his people where he also incamped vpon the shore by the space of thrée daies In which meane time there came vnto him a great number of those lords and gentlemen which had sent for him and there euerie one apart and by himselfe sware fealtie and homage vnto him as if he had béene their true and naturall prince King Iohn about the same time that Lewes thus arriued came to Douer meaning to fight with his aduersaries by the way as they should come forward towards London But yet vpon other aduisement taken he changed his purpose bicause he put some doubt in the Flemings and other strangers of whome the most part of his armie consisted bicause he knew that they hated the French men no more than they did the English Therefore furnishing the castell of Douer with men munition and vittels he left it in the kéeping of Hubert de Burgh a man of notable prowesse valiancie and returned himselfe vnto Canturburie and from thence tooke the high waie towards Winchester Lewes being aduertised that king Iohn was retired out of Kent passed through the countrie without anie incounter and wan all the castels and holds as he went but Douer he could not win At his comming to Rochester he laid siege to the castell there and wan it causing all the strangers that were found within it to be hanged This doone he came to London and there receiued the homage of those lords and gentlemen which had not yet doone their homage to him at Sandwich On the other part he tooke an oth to mainteine and performe the old lawes and customes of the realme and to restore to euerie man his rightfull heritage and lands requiring the barons furthermore to continue faithfull towards him assuring them to bring things so to passe that the realme of England should recouer the former dignitie and they their ancient liberties Moreouer he vsed them so courteouslie gaue them so faire words and made such large promises that they beléeued him with all their harts But alas Cur vincit opinio verum The rumour of this pretended outward courtesie being once â—ored through the realme caused great numbers of people to come flocking to him among whome were diuerse of those which before had taken part with king Iohn as William earle Warren William earle of Arundell William earle of Salisburie William Marshall the yoonger and diuerse other supposing verelie that the French kings sonne should now obteine the king dome who in the meane time ordeined Simon Langton afore mentioned to be his chancellour by whose preaching and exhortation as well the citizens of London as the barons that were excommunicated caused diuine seruice to be celebrated in their presence induced thereto bicause line 10 Lewes had alreadie sent his procurators to Rome before his comming into England there to shew the goodnesse of his cause and quarell But this auailed them not neither tooke his excuse any such effect as he did hope it should for those ambassadors that king Iohn had sent thither replied against their assertions so that there was hard hold about it in that court albeit that the pope would decrée nothing till he hard further from his legat Gualo who the same time being aduertised of the procéedings of Lewes in his iournie with all diligence hasted ouer into England and passing through the middle of his aduersaries came vnto king Iohn then soiourning at Glocester of whome he was most ioifullie receiued for in him king Iohn reposed all his hope of victorie This legat immediatlie after his comming did excommunicate Lewes by name with all his fautors and complices but speciallie Simon de Langton with bell booke and candle as the maner was Howbeit the same Simon and one line 30 Geruase de Hobrug deane of S. Pauls in London with other alledged that for the right and state of the cause of Lewes they had alreadie appealed to the court of Rome and therefore the sentence published by Gualo they tooke as void At the same time also all the knights and men of warre of Flanders and other parts beyond the seas which had serued the king departed from him the Poictouins onelie excepted and part of them that thus went from him resorted vnto Lewes and entred line 40 into his wages but the residue repaired home into their owne countries so that Lewes being thus increased in power departed from London and marching towards Winchester he wan the castels of Rigat Gilford and Farnham From thence he went to Winchester where the citie was yéelded vnto him with all the castels and holds thereabout as Woluesey Odiham and Beaumere ¶ Whilest the said Lewes was thus occupied in Sussex about the subduing of that countrie vnto his line 50 obeisance there was a yoong gentleman in those parts named William de Collingham being of a valorous mind and loathing forren subiection who would in no wise doo fealtie to Lewes but assembling togither about the number
his commandement went into Scotland but shewed themselues slow inough to procure those things that perteined to peace and quietnesse In the meane time whilest these things were a doing the bishop of Carleill and other which laie there vpon the gard of that citie and castell hauing some mistrust of the loialtie in Robert Bruce the yoonger that was earle of Carrike by his mother they sent him word to come vnto them at a certeine daie bicause they had to talke with him of matters touching the kings affairs He durst not disobeie but came to Carleill togither with the bishop of Gallowaie there receiued a corporall oth vpon the holie and sacred mysteries and vpon the sword of Thomas Becket to be true to the king of England and to aid him and his against their enimies in all that he might and further to withstand that the said king receiued no hurt nor damage so far as in him might lie This doone he returned againe into Scotland and for a colour entred into the lands of William Douglas and burnt part of them bringing the wife and children of the same William backe with him into Annandale but shortlie after he conspired with the Scotish rebels and ioined himselfe with them not making his father priuie to the matter who in the meane while remaind in the south parts of England He would haue persuaded such knights gentlemen and other as held their lands of his father in Annandale to haue gone with him but they would not breake their faith giuen to the king of England and so left him The earle of Surrey assembling togither his power in Yorkeshire sent his nephue the lord Henrie Percie with the souldiers of the countrie of Carleill before into Scotland who passing foorth to the towne of Aire went about to induce them of Gallowaie into peace and hearing that an armie of Scotishmen was gathered togither at a place about foure miles from thence called Irwin he made thitherward and comming neere to the Scotish host might behold where the same was lodged beyond a certeine lake In that armie were capteins the bishop of Glasco Andrew de Murreie steward of Scotland and William Waleis which as it should seeme were not all of one mind There was in the same armie a knight named sir Richard Lundie which neuer yet had doon homage to the king of England but now flieng from his companie he came to the English armie and submitted himselfe with his retinue vnto the king of England saieng that he ment not to serue amongst them any longer that could not agrée togither The residue of the Scotishmen sued for peace vpon condition to haue liues members goods cattels and lands saued line 10 with a pardon of all offenses past The lord Percie vpon pledges writings heerof deliuered was contented to grant their requests so that the king his maister would be therewith pleased who being hereof certified bicause he would not gladlie be staied of his iournie into Flanders granted vnto all things that were thus required Then after that the earle of Surrie was come to the English campe bicause William Waleis ceassed not in the meane time to assemble more people line 20 the Englishmen doubting some treason resolued to giue battell but whilest they were in mind thus to do the bishop of Glasco and William Douglas to auoid the note of disloialtie and treason came and submitted themselues and so the bishop was committed to ward within the castell of Rokesborough and William Douglas in the castell of Berwike It is to be noted that euen in the verie time that the treatie was in hand betwixt the lord Percie and the Scotish capteins the Scots of Gallowaie and other set vpon that part of the English campe where the line 30 trâ—sâ—e and baggage laie which they spoiled and ransacked slaieng aboue fiue hundreth persons what of men women and children but the alarum being raised the Englishmen came to the rescue and chasing the Scots slue aboue a thousand of them and recouered the most part of their owne goods with more which they tooke from their enimies In this meane time king Edward at the feast of Lammas held a councell at London where he receiued the archbishop of Canturburie againe into his line 40 fauor restoring vnto him all his goods and lands He appointed him and the lord Reinold Grey to haue his eldest sonne prince Edward in kéeping till his returne out of Flanders But Nicholas Triuet writeth that the said prince Edward being appointed to remaine at home as lieutenant to his father there were appointed vnto him as councellors Richard bishop of London William earle of Warwike and the forenamed lord Reinold Grey with the lord Iohn Gifford and the lord Alane Plokenet men of line 50 high wisedome grauitie and discretion without making mention of the archbishop of Canturburie in that place The two earles Marshall and Hereford being commanded to attend the king into Flanders refused excusing themselues by messenger After this the king caused sir Rafe Monthermer whom his daughter the countesse of Glocester in hir widowhood had taken to husband without knoledge of hir father to be deliuered out of the castell of Bristow wherein he had béene kept prisoner a certeine line 60 time vpon displeasure for the marriage but now he was not onelie set at libertie but also restored to his wife and to all the lands perteining to the earledome of Glocester appointing him to find 50 men at armes to serue in that iournie into Flanders He also deliuered the earles of Cassels and Menteth Iohn Comin and diuers other Scotishmen appointing them also to go with him into Flanders Finallie hauing assembled his armie ouer the which he made the lord Thomas Berklie constable and Geffrey Ienuille marshall he went to Winchelsey and whilst he laie there before he tooke the sea there was presented vnto him from the earles a writing which conteined the causes of the gréefe of all the archbishops bishops abbats earles lords barons and of all the communaltie as well for summoning them to serue by an vndue meane as also for the vnreasonable taxes subsidies impositions paiements which they dailie susteined and namelie the impost augmented vpon the custome of wooll seemed to them verie greeuous For whereas for euerie sacke of whole wooll there was fortie shillings paid and for euerie sacke of broken wooll one marke it was well knowne that the wooll of England was almost in value esteemed to be woorth halfe the riches of the realme and so the custome thereof paid would ascend to a fift part of all the substance of the land The kings answer therevnto was that he could not alter any thing without the aduise of his councell of the which part were alreadie passed ouer into Flanders and part were at London and therfore he required the said earles that if they would not attend
couenant and recouering it from the French cleerelie reduced it to line 40 the English dominion Moreouer sir Iohn Oturum sir Nicholas Kiriell and sir Iohn Felton admerals by the kings appointment with the fléets of the east south and west parts went to the sea to apprehend such Frenchmen as they might méet withall They according to their commission bestirred themselues so that within few daies they tooke six score saile of Normans and brought them into England wherevpon the displeasure sore increased betwixt the line 50 two realmes The king of England stood not onelie in doubt of the Frenchmen but more of his owne people that remained in France least they thorough helpe of the French should inuade the land and therefore he commanded the hauens and ports to be suerlie watched lest some sudden inuasion might happilie be attempted for it was well vnderstood that the queene meant not to returne till she might bring with hir the lord Mortimer and the other banished men who in no line 60 wise could obteine anie fauour at the kings hands so long as the Spensers bare rule ¶ The pope lamenting this matter sent two bishops into England to reconcile the king and quéene and also to agree the two kings These bishops were reuerentlie receiued but more than reuerence here they obteined not and so departed as they came King Edward vnderstanding all the quéenes drift at length sought the French kings fauour and did so much by letters and promise of bribes with him and his councell that queene Isabell was destitute in manner of all helpe there so that she was glad to withdraw into Heinault by the comfort of Iohn the lord Beaumont the earle of Heinault his brother who being then in the court of France and lamenting queene Isabels case imagined with himselfe of â—ome marriage that might be had betwixt the yoong prince of Wales and some of the daughters of his brother the earle of Heinault and therevpon required hir to go into Heinault and he would be glad to attend hir She gladlie consenting hereto went thither with him where she was most ioifullie receiued with hir sonne and all other of hir traine The Spensers some write procured hir banishment out of France and that she was aduised by the earle of Arthois chéefelie to repaire into Heinault Also I find that the Spensers deliuered fiue barrels of siluer the summe amounting vnto fiue thousand marks vnto one Arnold of Spaine a broker appointing him to conueie it ouer into France to bestowe it vpon such freends as they had there of the French kings counsell by whose means the king of France did banish his sister out of his relme But this monie was met with vpon the sea by certeine Zelanders and taken togither with the said Arnold and presented to the earle of Heinault vnder whose dominion the Zelanders in those daies remained of which good hap the earle and queene Isabell greatlie reioised In the time that the quéene and hir sonne laie in the court of the earle of Heinault a marriage was concluded betwixt the prince of Wales and the ladie Philip daughter to the said earle vpon certeine conditions whereof one was that the said erle should at his proper costs set ouer into England the said prince of Wales with a crue of foure hundred men of armes But whether there was any such mariage as then concluded and that in consideration thereof the earle of Heinault aided quéene Isabell and hir sonne it may be doubted bicause other writers make no such report Neuerthelesse certeine it is that the earls brother sir Iohn de Heinault lord Beaumont was appointed with certeine bands of men of arms to the number of foure hundred or fiue hundred to passe ouer with the said quéene and hir sonne into England and so therevpon began to make his purueiance for that iournie which thing when it came to the knowledge of king Edward and the Spensers they caused musters to be taken through the realme and ordeined beacons to be set vp kept and watched as well in the vallies by the sea side as within the countries vpon hilles and high grounds that the same vpon occasion of the enimies arriuall might be set on fire to warne the countries adioining to assemble and resist them But quéene Isabell and hir sonne with such others as were with hir in Heinault staied not their iournie for doubt of all their aduersaries prouision but immediatlie after that they had once made their purueiances and were readie to depart they tooke the sea namelie the queene hir sonne Edmund of Wodstoke earle of Kent sir Iohn de Heinault aforesaid and the lord Roger Mortimer of Wigmore a man of good experience in the warres and diuerse others hauing with them a small companie of Englishmen with a crue of Heinewiers and Almains to the number of 2757 armed men the which sailing foorth towards England landed at length in Suffolke at an hauen called Orwell besides Harwich the 25 daie of September Immediatlie after that the queene and hir sonne were come to land it was woonder to sée how fast the people resorted vnto them and first of all the earle Marshall in whose lâ—nds she first came on shore repaired vnto hir so did the earle of Leicester and diuerse barons knights of those parts with all the prelats in manner of the land as the bishops of Lincolne Hereford Dubline and Elie the which being ioined with the queene made a great armie The archbishop of Canturburie and others aided hir with monie After that she had refreshed hir people a little space at saint Edmundsburie she marched foorth to seeke the aduersaries of hir and of the realme as she bruted it but they still kéeping themselues néere to the kings person that vnder the shadow of the wings of his protection they might remaine in more safegard durst not depart from his presence At the time of the queenes landing he was at London and being sore amazed with the newes he required aid of line 10 the Londoners They answered that they would doo all the honour they might vnto the king the queene and to their sonne the lawfull heire of the land but as for strangers traitors to the realme they would kéepe them out of their gates and resist them with all their forces but to go foorth of the citie further than that they might returne before sunne-setting they refused pretending certeine liberties in that behalfe to them granted in times past as they alledged The king not greatlie liking of this answer fortified line 20 the tower and leauing within it his yoonger son Iohn of Eltham and the wife of the lord chamberleine Hugh Spenser the yoonger that was his neece he departed towards the marches of Wales there to raise an armie against the queene Before his departure from London he set foorth a proclamation that euerie man vnder paine of forfeiting of life
present succors The said sir Thomas Dagworth aduertised hereof with three hundred men of armes and foure hundred archers of his owne retinues beside certeine Britaines approched to the siege and on the 20 of Iune earlie in the morning a quarter of an houre before day suddenlie set vpon the enimies who hauing knowledge of his comming were readie to receiue him as the day before but being now surprised thus on the sudden they were greatlie amazed for they that were within Roch Darien as soone as the appearance of daie had discouered the matter vnto them so that they might know their freends from their enimies they issued foorth and holpe not a litle to the atchiuing of the victorie which was cléerelie obteined before sunne-rising and the French armie quite discomfited greatlie to the praise of the said sir Thomas Dagworth and his companie considering their small number in comparison of their line 10 aduersaries who were reckoned to be twelue hundred good men of armes knights and esquiers beside six hundred other armed men two thousand crossebowes six hundred archers of the countrie of Britaine and footmen of commons innumerable There were taken besides the lord Charles de Blois naming himselfe duke of Britaine diuerse other lords and men of name as monsieur Guie de la Uaall sonne and heire to the lord la Uaall which died in the battell the lord of Rocheford the lord de line 20 Beaumanour the lord of Loiacke with other lords knights and esquiers in great numbers There were slaine the said lord de la Uaall the Uicount of Rohan the lord of Chasteau Brian the lord de Mailestreit the lord de Quintin the lord de Rouge the lord of Dereuall and his sonne sir Rafe de Montford and manie other worthie men of armes knights and esquiers to the number of betwixt six and seuen hundred as by a letter written by the said sir Thomas Dagworth and registred in the historie of Robert de line 30 Auesburie dooth appeare In this meane while king Philip hauing dailie word how the power of his enimie king Edward did increase by aid of the Easterlings and other nations which were to him alied and that his men within Calis were brought to such an extreme point that without spéedie rescue they could not long keepe the towne but must of force render it ouer into the hands of his said enimie to the great preiudice of all the realme of France after great deliberation taken line 40 vpon this so weightie a matter he commanded euerie man to meet him in their best arraie for the warre at the feast of Pentecost in the citie of Amiens or in those marches At the daie and place thus appointed there came to him Odes duke of Burgoigne and the duke of Normandie eldest sonne to the king the duke of Orleance his yoongest sonne the duke of Burbon the earle of Fois the lord Lois de Sauoie the lord Iohn of Hemalt the earle of Arminacke the earle of Forrest and the earle Ualentinois line 50 with manie others These noble men being thus assembled they tooke councell which waie they might passe to giue battell to the Englishmen it was thought the best waie had beene through Flanders but the Flemings in fauor of the king of England denied not onelie to open their passages to the Frenchmen but also had leuied an armie of an hundred thousand men of one and other and laid siege to Aire and burnt the countrie all about Wherepon there were manie sharpe bickerings line 60 and sore incounâ—ers betwixt the Flemings and such Frenchmen as king Philip sent foorth against them both now whilest the French armie laie about Aâ—â—ens and also before during all the time that the siege lay at Calis For all the French towns vpon the frontiers were stuffed with strong garrisons of souldiers as Lisle saint Omers Arras Bullongne Aire and 〈◊〉 and those men of war were euer readie vpon occasion to attempt sundrie exploits After this when the armie of the Flemings was broken-vp and returned home or rather diuided into parts and lodged along on the frontiers the French king with two thousand men one and other came forward taking his way through the countrie called la Belme and so by the countrie of Frankeberge came streight to the hill of Sangate betwixt Calis and Wisant The king of England had caused a strong castell to be made betweene the towne of Calis and the sea to close vp that passage and had placed therein three score men of armes and two hundred archers which kept the hauen in such sort that nothing could come in nor out Also considering that his enimies could come neither to succour the towne nor to annoie his host except either by the downes alongst the sea side or else aboue by the high waie he caused all his nauie to drawe alongst by the coast of the downes to stop vp that the Frenchmen should not approch that waie Also the erle of Derbie being come thither out of Guien was appointed to kéepe Newland bridge with a great number of men of armes and archers so that the Frenchmen could not approch anie waie vnlesse they would haue come through the marishes which to doo was not possible Fiftéene hundred of the commons of Tournie wan a tower which the Englishmen had made and kept for the impeachment of the Frenchmens passage by the downes but that notwithstanding when the marshals of France had well viewed all the passages and streicts through the which their armie must passe if they meant to fight with the Englishmen they well perceiued that they could not come to the Englishmen to giue them battell without the king would lose his people wherevpon as Froissard saith the French king sent the lord Geffrey de Charnie the lord Eustace de Ribaumont Guie de Néele and the lord de Beauiew vnto the king of England which required him on their maisters behalfe to appoint certeine of his councell as he would likewise appoint certeine of his which by common consent might aduise betweene them an indifferent place for them to trie the battell vpon wherevnto the king of England answered That there he was and had béene almost a whole yeare which could not be vnknowne to his aduersarie their maister so that he might haue come sooner if he would but now sith he had suffered him there to remaine so long without offer of battell he meant not to accomplish his desire nor to depart from that which to his great cost he had brought now at length to that point that he might easilie win it Wherefore if the French K. nor his host could not passe those waies which were closed by the English power let them séeke some other passage said he if they thinke to come hither In this meane while came two cardinals froÌ„ pope Clement to treat a peace betwixt the two kings wherevpon commissioners were appointed as the dukes of Burgoigne
take any thing from you or yours And this realme of France which hath procreat and brought foorth and norished so many of my noble progenitors shall 〈◊〉 my good meaning towards hâ—r as not forgetfull of mine elders and toward your maiestie if you will vouchsafe that I should glorie of that name a most humble kinsman There are manie occasions of loue and freendship betwixt you and my father which I trust shall take place for I know all his thoughts and inward meanings you shall agree and come to an attonement right easilie togither I praie God he neuer take me for his sonne except I haue you in the same degree of honor reuerence and faithfull loue which I owe towards him The king as reason would acknowledged this to procéed of great courtesie shewed toward him in the prince and thanked him accordinglie And the prince performing in déed that which he spake with word ceassed from further vsing of fire or other indamaging of the French dominions and taking his waie through the countries of Poictou and Xaintonge by easie iournies he and his people came to Blaie and so passed ouer the water to Burdeaux in good safetie with all their riches and prisoners The prince gaue to the lord Iames Audelie who had receiued in the battell manie sore wounds fiue hundred marks of yearelie reuenues assigned foorth of his lands in England The which gift the knight granted as fréelie as he had receiued it vnto foure of his esquiers which in the battell had béene euer attendant about his person without whose aid valiant support he knew well that he had beene slaine sundrie times in the same battell by his enimies and therefore thought it a dutie of humanitie and gratitude to make them amends with some temporall recompense that had saued his life than the which nothing is more déere nor of greater price in the world as the poet saith nihil est vita prâ—tiosius ipsa When the prince heard that he had so doone he meruelled what his meaning was therby and caused him to be brought before his presence and demanded of him wherefore he had so lightlie giuen awaie that reward which he had bestowed vpon him and whether he thought that gift too meane for him or not The lord Audelie so excused himselfe in extolling the good seruice doone to him by his esquiers through whome he had so manie times escaped the dangers of death that the prince did not onelie confirme the resignation of the fiue hundred marks giuen to the esquiers but also rewarded the lord Audelie with six hundred marks more of like yearelie reuenues in maner and forme as he had receiued the other When the newes of this great victorie came into England of the ouerthrow of the Frenchmen and taking of the French king ye may be sure there was great ioy shewed by outward tokens as bonfiers made feasts and bankets kept through the whole realme Likewise the Gascoignes and Englishmen being come to Burdeaux made great reuell and pastime there spending freelie that gold and siluer which they had woone in the battell of Poictiers and elsewhere in that iournie ¶ This yeare in Aprill the prince of Wales tooke shipping with his prisoners at Burdeaux and on the fift of Maie arriued at Plimmouth On the foure and twentith day of Maie he was with great honour ioifullie receiued of the citizens into the citie of London and so conueied to the palace of Westminster where the king sitting in Westminster hall receiued the French king and after conueied him to a lodging appointed for him where he laie a season but after he was remoued to the Sauoie which was at that time a goodlie house perteining to the duke of Lancaster though afterwards it was burnt and destroied by Wat Tiler Iacke Straw and their companie In this place the French king laie and kept house a long time after In the winter following were roiall iustes holden in Smithfield at the which were present the kings of England France and Scotland with manie great estates of all their thrée kingdoms of the which the more part of the strangers were as then prisoners line 10 It was reported that the French king could not so dissemble nor cloake his inward thought but that there appeared some tokens of gréefe in his countenance whilest he beheld these warlike pastimes And when the king of England his sonne prince Edward with comfortable words required him after supper to put all pensiue cares out of his fantasie and to be merrie and sing as other did he should make this answer with a smiling countenance line 20 alluding to the complaint of the Israelits in time of their captiuitie vnder the gentiles saieng Quomodo cantabimus canticum in terra aliena About the same time there came ouer into England two cardinals the one called Talirand being bishop of Alba commonlie named the cardinall of Pierregort and the other named Nicholas intituled cardinall of S. Uitale or as Froissard saith of Dargell they were sent from pope Innocent the sixt to intreat for a peace betwixt the kings of England line 30 and France but they could not bring their purpose to anie perfect conclusion although they remained herâ— for the space of two yeares but yet onelie by good means they procured a truce betwéene the said kings and all their assistants to indure from the time of the publication thereof vnto the feast of S. Iohn Baptist which should be in the yeare 1359 out of the which truce was excepted the L. Philip of Nauarre and his alies the countesse of Montfort and the whole duchie of Britaine line 40 Anon after the French king was remooued from the Sauoie vnto the castell of Windsor with all his houshold and then he went on hunting and hawking there about at his pleasure and the lord Philip his sonne with him all the residue of the prisoners abode still at London but were suffered to go vp and downe and to come to the court when they would In the same yeare the duke of Lancaster besieged the citie of Rennes in Britaine in the title of the countesse of Richmond hir yoong sonne Iohn of Montfort line 50 that claimed to be duke of Britaine Those that were within the citie as the vicount of Rohan and Berthram de Claiquin who as then was a lustie yoong bacheler and others defended themselues manfullie for a time but yet at length they were compelled to render the citie into their enimies hands About the same time two Franciscane friers were burnt at London for matters of religion ¶ Moreouer queene Isabell mother vnto king Edward the line 60 third departed this life the seauen and twentith daie of August and was buried the seauen and twentith daie of Nouember in the church of the friers minors at London not yet dedicated ¶ Dauid king of Scotland shortlie after the truce was concluded
haue heard how the Frenchmen refused the peace which was accorded betwixt K. Edward their king as then prisoner here in England Wherupō K. Edward determined to make such warre against the realme of France that the Frenchmen with all their harts should be glad to condescend and agrée to reason and line 60 first he commanded all manner of Frenchmen other than such as were prisoners to auoid out of England He also appointed the French king to be remoued from the castell of Hertford where he then remained vnto the castell of Somerton in Lincolneshire vnder the gard and conduct of the lord William Deincourt being allowed fourtie shillings the day for the wages of two and twentie men at armes twentie archers two watchmen as thus for himselfe and sir Iohn Kirketon baronets either of them foure shillings the daie for thrée knights sir William Colleuill in place of the lord Robert Colleuill that could not trauell himselfe by reason of sicknesse sir Iohn Deincourt and sir Saer de Rochfort ech of them two shillings the daie seuentéene esquiers ech of them twelue pence the day eight archers on horsse backe euerie of them six pence the day and twelue archers on foot three pence and the two watchmen either of them six pence the day which amounteth in the whole vnto nine and thirtie shillings the day and the od twelue pence was allowed to the said lord Deincourt to make vp the summe of 40 shillings ¶ This haue I noted the rather to giue a light to the reader to consider how chargeable the reteining of men of war in these daies is in respect of the former times But now to our purpose The king meaning to passe ouer himselfe in person into France caused a mightie armie to be mustered and put in a readinesse and sent before him the duke of Lancaster ouer to Calis with foure hundred speares and two thousand archers where the said duke ioined with such strangers as were alreadie come to Calis in great numbers and togither with them entered into the French dominions and passing by saint Omers Bethune came to Mount saint Eloie a goodlie abbeie and a rich two leagues distant from Arras and there the host tarried foure daies and when they had robbed and wasted all the countrie thereabout they rode to Braie and there made a great assault at the which a baronet of England was slaine with diuerse other When the Englishmen saw they could win nothing there they departed and following the water of Some came to a towne called Chersie where they passed the riuer and there tarried Alhallowen daie the night following On the same daie the duke of Lancaster was aduertised that the king was arriued at Calis the seuentéenth daie of October commanding him by letters to draw towards him with all his companie The duke according to the kings commandement obeied and so returned toward Calis The king being there arriued with all his power tooke counsell which way he should take Some aduised him first to inuade Flanders and to reuenge the iniurious dealing of the earle and the Flemings but he would not agrée to that motion for he purposed fullie either by plaine force to make a conquest of France or else vtterlie to destroie and wast the countrie throughout with fier and sword Herevpon he set forwards the fourth of Nouember and passing through the countries of Arthois and Uermendois he came before the citie of Reimes There went ouer with him in this iournie with the duke of Lancaster his foure sonnes Edward prince of Wales Lionell earle of Ulster Iohn earle of Richmond and the lord Edmund his yoongest sonne Also there was Henrie the said duke of Lancaster with the earles of March Warwike Suffolke Hereford who also was earle of Northampton Salisburie Stafford and Oxford the bishops of Lincolne and Durham and the lords Percie Neuill Spenser Kirdiston Rosse Mannie Cobham Mowbray de la Ware Willoughbie Felton Basset Fitz Water Charleton Audelie Burwasch and others beside knights and esquiers as sir Iohn Chandois sir Stephan Goussanton sir Nowell Loring sir Hugh Hastings sir Iohn Lisle sir Richard Pembruge and others The siege was laid before Reimes about saint Andrewes tide and continued more than seuen weekes but the citie was so well defended by the bishop and the earle of Porcien and other capiteins within it that the Englishmen could not obteine their purpose and so at length when they could not haue forrage nor other necessarie things abroad in the countrie for to serue their turne the king raised his field and departed with his armie in good order of battell taking the way through Champaigne and so passed by Chaalons and after to Merie on the riuer of Seine From Merie he departed and came vnto Tonnere which towne about the beginning of the foure and thirtith yeare of his reigne was woone by assault but the castell could not be woone for there was within it the lord Fiennes constable of France and a great number of other good men of war which defended it valiantlie After the king had rested there fiue daies and that his men were well refreshed with the wines and other such things which they found in that towne line 10 in good plentie he remooued and drew towards Burgognie comming to a towne called Guillon or Aguillon where he lay from Ashwednesday vnto Midlent hauing good prouision of all maner of vittels by the means of an esquier of his called Iohn Alanson which had taken the towne of Flauignie not farre thence wherein was great store of bread and wine and other vittels and still the marshals rode foorth and oftentimes refreshed the host with new prouision The Englishmen had with them in their carriages line 20 tents pauillions milles ouens and forges also boates of leather cunninglie made and deuised able to receiue three men a péece and to passe them ouer waters and riuers They had at the least six thousand carts with them and for euerie cart foure horsses which they had out of England In this meane while the Frenchmen made certeine vessels foorth to the sea vnder the gouernance of the earle of S. Paule the which vpon the fiftéenth daie of March landed earlie in the morning at Winchelsie line 30 and before sunne rising entred the towne and finding the inhabitants vnprouided to make anie great resistance fell to and sacked the houses slue manie men women and also children and after set fier on the towne and vpon knowledge had that the people of the countrie next adioining were assembled and comming to the rescue he caused his men to draw to their ships and so they taking their pillage and spoile with them got them aboord not without some losse of their companie which were slaine in the line 40 towne by such as resisted their violence Whilest the king laie at Aguillon there came to him Anscaume de Salilans
death of king line 20 Edward who as we haue said deceassed the day before but comfortable newes againe of the great towardlinesse and good meaning of the yoong king who promised to loue them and their citie and to come to the same citie as they had desired him to doo And further that he had spoken to the duke of Lancaster in their behalfe and that the duke had submitted himselfe to him in all things touching the cause wherevpon the kings pleasure was that they should likewise submit themselues and he would doo his indeuor that an agreement might be had to the honor of the citizens line 30 and profit of the citie The citizens liked not of this forme of procéeding in the dukes matter bicause the king was yoong and could not giue order therein but by substitutes yet at length with much adoo they were contented to submit themselues as the duke had doone before though not till that the knights had vndertaken vpon their oth of fidelitie and knighthood that their submission should not redound to the temporall or bodilie harme of any of them consenting to the kings line 40 will in this point And so with this caution they tooke their iournie towards Sheene where they found the new K. with his mother the duke of Lancaster his brethren vncles to the king and diuerse bishops about the bodie of the deceassed king When it was knowen that the Londoners were come they were called before the king by whom the matter was so handled that the duke and they were made fréends After this when the king should ride through the citie line 50 towards the coronation the said duke and the lord Percie riding on great horses before him as by vertue of their offices appointed to make way before vsed themselues so courteouslie modestlie and pleasantlie â—hat where before they two were greatlie suspected of the common people by reason of their great puissance in the realme and huge rout of reteiners they ordered the matter so that neither this day nor the morrow after â—eing the day of the kings coronation they offended any maner of person but rather line 60 by gentle and swéet demeanour they reclaimed the harts of manie of whome before they were greatlie had in suspicion and thought euill of ¶ But now sith we are entred into the matter of this kings coronation we haue thought good breefelie to touch some particular point thereof as in Thomas Walsingham we find it though nothing so largelie here as the author himselfe setteth it foorth bicause the purpose of this worke will not so permit The king in riding thorough the citie towards Westminster on the 15 daie of Iulie being wednesdaie was accompanied with such a traine of the nobilitie and others as in such case was requisite Sir Simon Burlie bare the sword before him and sir 〈…〉 foorth wine abundantlie In the towers were placed foure beautifull virgins of stature and age like to the king apparelled in white vestures in euerie tower one the which blew in the kings face at his approching néere to them leaues of gold and as he approched also they threw on him and his horsse fâ—orens of gold counterfeit When he was come before the castell they tooke cups of gold and filling them with wine at the spouts of the castell presented the same to the king and to his nobles On the top of the castell betwixt the foure towers stood a golden angell holding a crowne in his hands which was so contriued that when the king came he bowed downe offered to him the crowne But to speake of all the pageants and shewes which the citizens had caused to be made and set foorth in honour of their new king it were superfluous euerie one in their quarters striuing to surmount other and so with great triumphing of citizens and ioy of the lords and noble men he was conueied vnto his palace at Westminster where he rested for that night The morrow after being thursdaie and the 16 day of Iulie he was fetcht to the church with procession of the bishops and monks and comming before the high altar where the pauement was couered with rich clothes of tapistrie he there kneeled downe and made his praiers whilest two bishops soong the Letanie which being finished the king was brought to his seat the quéere singing an antheme beginning Firmetur manus tuâ— That doone there was a sermon preached by a bishop touching the dutie of a king how he ought to behaue himselfe towards the people and how the people ought to be obedient vnto him The sermon being ended the king receiued his oth before the archbishop and nobles which doone the archbishop hauing the lord Henrie Percie lord marshall going before him turned him to euerie quarter of the church declaring to the people the kings oth and demanding of them if they would submit themselues vnto such a prince gouernor and obeie his commandements and when the people with a lowd voice had answered that they would obeie him the archbishop vsing certeine praiers blessed the king which ended the archbishop came vnto him and tearing his garments from the highest part to the lowest stripped him to his shirt Then was brought by earles a certeine couerture of cloth of gold vnder the which he remained whilest he was annointed The archbishop as we haue said hauing stripped him first annointed his hands then his head brest shoulders and the ioints of his armes with the sacred oile saieng certeine praiers and in the meane time did the quéere sing the antheme beginning Vnxâ—runt regem Salomonem c. And the archbishop added another praier Deus Dei filius c. Which ended he and the other bishops soong the hymne Veni creator spiritus the king knéeling in a long vesture the archbishop with his suffraganes about him When the hymne was ended he was lift vp by the archbishop and clad first with the coate of saint Edward and after with his 〈…〉 〈…〉 In line 10 the meane time whilest the archbishop blessed the kings crowne he to whose office it apperteined did put spurs on his héeles After the crowne was blessed the archbishop set it on his head saieng Coronet te Deus c. Then did the archbishop deliuer to him a ring with these words Accipe annulum c. Immediatlie herewith came the lord Furniuall by vertue of his office offering to him a red gloue which the archbishop blessed and putting it on his hand gaue to him the scepter with these words Accipe sceptrum c. line 20 Then did the archbishop deliuer to him in his other hand a rod in the top whereof stood a doue with these words Accipe virgam virtutis c. After this the archbishop blessed the king saieng Benedicat de Deus c. These things doone the king kissed the bishops and abbats by whome he was lead afterwards vnto his seat the bishops beginning to sing Te deum which ended the archbishop
sent from the duke of Britaine which signified to the erle of Buckingham what the dukes meaning was Indéed by the death of the French king the dukes malice was greatlie abated towards the Frenchmen so that he had not much passed if the Englishmen had béene at home againe Moreouer his townes were not determined to receiue the Englishmen as enimies to the crown of France so that he was in a perplexitie how to order his businesse At length to shew himselfe a stedfast fréend to the Englishmen and one that was no changeling he determined by their support to force all those to allow the league which he had established with the Englishmen who had denied to beare armour against the crowne of France And first bicause they of Naunts were the ringleaders of that rebellious demeanour he appointed first to besiege their citie They hauing knowledge thereof sent into France for aid The dukes of Aniou Berrie Burgognie and Burbon brethren to the late king and vncle to his sonne the yoong king hauing the gouernance of the realme vnder him sent six hundred speares with all spéed to strengthen them of Naunts which defended the citie in such wise from the puissance of the Englishmen who enuironed the same with a strong sâ—ege that in the end bicause the duke came not to them according to his promise the siege was raised the morrow after New yeares daie two moneths and foure daies after the same was first laid The duke of Britaine would gladlie haue come to the siege of Naunts in strengthening of the English host but he could not persuade his lords to aid him in anie such enterprise And therefore now that the earle of Buckingham had broken vp his siege he caused him to be lodged in the citie of Uannes his men abroad in the countrie some here and some there acquiting himselfe as well towards them as he might But suerlie the hearts of the Britains were wonderfullie changed and in no wise would consent to haue anie warre with the Frenchmen if anie reasonable peace might be concluded For manie that hated the father bare good will and heartie loue towards the sonne whose yoong yeares and great towardnesse allured the hearts of manie to wish him well Hervpon was meanes made for a peace which by the duke of Aniou his consent who bare the greatest rule in France in that season a finall accord was made betwixt the yoong king and the duke of Britaine so that the duke should come and doo his homage vnto the French king and sweare to be true and faithfull vnto him also that he should rid the Englishmen out of his countrie and helpe them with ships and vessels to transport them home into England The earle of Buckingham when he vnderstood of this peace was not a little displeased in his mind considering that the duke of Britaine had delt so vniustlie with him and his nephue the king of England But the duke still excused him by his subiects as though if he had not thus agreed he should haue beene in danger to haue lost his heritage of that countrie Finallie the earle after he had ships prouided for his passage the eleuenth of Aprill departed out of Uannes and came to the hauen where his ships laie and so went aboord in like maner as othâ—r of his men did from other hauens and shortlie after when the wind serued tooke the sea and returned into England sore displeased with the duke of Britaine for his great vntruth and dissimulation as he tooke it notwithstanding all excuses to cloake the matter by him alledged Whilest the Englishmen were thus occupied in warres against the Frenchmen as before ye haue heard the Scots could not rest in quiet but in reuenge for a ship which the townesmen of Newcastell and Hull had taken on the sea knowing them to be pirates determined to doo what mischéefe they could vnto the English borders for the losse of that ship grieued them bicause it was esteemed to be verie rich the goods that were in it being valued at seuen thousand marks Herevpon the Scots entring line 10 by the west borders inuaded spoiled the countries of Westmerland and Cumberland and comming into the forrest of Inglewood they tooke awaie with them such a number of beasts and cattell that they were reckoned at fourtie thousand heads of one and other Besides this they cruellie slue all such as they could laie hands vpon and burnt vp all the townes villages and houses as they passed and not content herewith they stale vpon the towne of Penreth when the faire was kept there slaieng taking and line 20 chasing awaie the people and after gathering togither all the goods and riches there found tooke it awaie with them whereof there was such plentie as might haue satisfied the couetous desire of a most greedie armie They returned by Carleil but hearing that there were gotten into it a great number of men out of the countries adioining they durst not staie to make any attempt against that towne but compassed their waie to escape with their booties home into their countrie which they did although line 30 they lost some of their companie as they passed by an ambushment of certeine archers of Westmerland and Cumberland that were laid for them of purpose When the earle of Northumberland would haue gone foorth to reuenge those iniuries doone to the countrie by the Scots he was written to from the king and his councell to forbeare till the daie of truce at what time it might be knowen what was further to be doone in the matter About Michaelmasse the duke of Lancaster the line 40 earles of Warwike and Stafford with other lords and men of honor hauing with them a great power of souldiers and men of warre went into the north parts and comming to the borders they laie there till they had consumed no small summes of monie and indamaged the countrie as much as if the Scotish armie had inuaded the same The good they did was that after long treatie with the Scotish commissioners a truce was agreed vpon till Easter following which being concluded they returned home line 50 without any more adoo For the space of halfe a score yeares togither now last past the Englishmen euerie yeare had one or two such treaties with the Scots about the incursions and rodes which they yearelie made into the English borders sore indamaging the inhabitants of those north parts of the realme notwithstanding any truce or abstinence of warre that might be concluded Whilest the armie as ye haue heard laie idle in the north parts there were certeine letters found by line 60 a poore man about London who deliuered them vnto the worthie citizen Iohn Philpot who calling vnto him certeine other worshipfull citizens opened one of them in which was conteined matter of high treason and perceiuing by the scale that it belonged vnto sir Rafe Ferrers knight one of the kings
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
till that present had kept silence In déed by reason of a faint kind of agréement procured betwixt the Dolphin and the duke of Burgognie it was thought verelie that a power should haue béene raised for preseruation of that noble citie the loosing or sauing thereof being a matter of such importance The king of England to preuent the enimies purpose caused a large trench to be cast without his campe which was pight full of sharpe stakes with a great rampire fensed with bulworks and turnepikes in as defensible wise as might be deuised Sir Robert Bapthorpe knight was appointed comptroller to see this worke performed which he did with all diligence accomplish in like case as he had doone when the other trench and rampire stronglie staked and hedged was made at the first betwixt the campe and the citie to restreine such as in the begining of the siege rested not to pricke foorth of the gates on horsse backe And so by this meanes was the armie defended both behind and before Finallie year 1419 the whole number of the Frenchmen within the citie were brought to such aâ— extremitie for want of vittels that they were in danger all to haue starued Wherevpon being now pasâ— hope of reléefe they determined to treat with the king of England and so vpon Nowyeares euen there came to the wals such as they had chosen amongst them for commissioners which made a signâ— to the Englishmen lieng without the gate of the bridge to speake with some gentleman or other person of authoritie The earle of Huntington which kept that part sent to them sir Gilbert Umfrouile vnto whom line 10 they declared that if they might haue a safe conduct they would gladlie come foorth to speake with the king Sir Gilbert repairing to the duke of Clarence and other of the kings councell aduertised them of this request Herevpon the duke of Clarence with the other councellors resorted to the kings lodging to informe him of the matter and to know his pleasure therein who after good aduisement and deliberation taken willed sir Gilbert to aduertise them that he was line 20 content to heare twelue of them which should be safelie conueied into his presence This answer being brought to the Frenchmen by the said sir Gilbert on the next daie in the morning foure knights foure learned men and foure sage burgesses all clothed in blacke came foorth of the citie and were receiued at the port saint Hilarie by sir Gilbert Umfreuile accompanied with diuerse gentlemen and yeomen of the kings houshold commonlie called yeomen of the crowne by whome they were conueied line 30 to the kings lodging whome they found at masse which being ended the king came out of his trauerse sternelie and princelie beholding the French messengers and passed by them into his chamber And incontinentlie after he commanded that they should be brought in before his presence to heare what they had to say One of them séene in the ciuill lawes was appointed to declare the message in all their names who shewing himselfe more rash than wise more arrogant line 40 than learned first tooke vpon him to shew wherin the glorie of victorie consisted aduising the king not to shew his manhood in famishing a multitude of poore simple and innocent people but rather suffer such miserable wretches as laie betwixt the wals of the citie and the trenches of his siege to passe through the campe that they might get their liuing in other places and then if he durst manfullie assault the citie and by force subdue it he should win both line 50 worldlie fame and merit great méed at the hands of almightie God for hauing compassion of the poore needie and indigent people When this orator had said the king who no request lesse suspected than that which was thus desired began a while to muse and after he had well considered the craftie cautell of his enimies with a fierce countenance and bold spirit he reprooued them both for their subtill dealing with him and their malapert presumption in that they should seeme to go about line 60 to teach him what belonged to the dutie of a conquerour And therefore since it appeared that the same was vnknowne vnto them he declared that the goddesse of battell called Bellona had thrée handmaidens euer of necessitie attending vpon hir as blood fire and famine And whereas it laie in his choise to vse them all thrée yea two or one of them at his pleasure he had appointed onelie the méekest maid of those thrée damsels to punish them of that citie till they were brought to reason And whereas the gaine of a capteine atteined by anie of the said thrée handmaidens was both glorious honourable and woorthie of triumph yet of all the thrée the yoongest maid which he meant to vse at that time was most profitable and commodious And as for the poore people lieng in the ditches if they died through famine the fault was theirs that like cruell tyrants had put them out of the towne to the intent he should slaie them and yet had he saued their liues so that if anie lacke of charitie was it rested in them and not in him But to their cloked request he meant not to gratifie the them within so much but they should kéepe them still to helpe to spend their vittels And as to assault the towne he told them that he would they should know he was both able and willing thereto as he should see occasion but the choise was in his hand to â—amâ— them either with blood fire or famine or with them all whereof he would take the choise at his pleasure and not at theirs This answer put the French ambassadors in a great studie musing much at his excellent wit and hawtinesse of courage Now after they had dined as his commandement was they should with his officers they vpon consultation had togither required once againe to haue accesse to his roiall presence which being granted they humbling themselues on their knees besought him to take a truce for eight daies during the which they might by their commissioners take some end and good conclusion with him and his councell The king like a mercifull prince granted to them their asking with which answer they ioifullie returned After their departure were appointed and set vp three tents the one for the lords of England the second for the commissioners of the citie and the third for both parties to assemble in and to treat of the matter The commissioners for the English part were the earles of Warwike and Salisburie the lord Fitz Hugh sir Walter Hungerford sir Gilbert Umfreuile sir Iohn Robsert and Iohn de Uasques de Almada And for the French part were appointed sir Guie de Butteler and six others These commissioners met euery daie arguing and reasoning about a conclusion but nothing was doone the space of eight daies nor so much as one article concluded wherfore the Englishmen tooke downe
to driue the English nation out of the French territories Whereto they were the more earnestlie bent and thought it a thing of greater facilitie because of king Henries yoong yeares whome because he was a child they estéemed not but with one consent reuolted from their sworne fealtie as the recorder of the Englishmens battels with forren nations verie aptlie doth note saieng Hîc Franci puerum regem neglectui habentes Desciscunt violátque fidem gens perfida sacro Consilio ante datam The duke of Bedford being greatlie mooued with these sudden changes fortified his townes both with garrisons of men munition and vittels assembled also a great armie of Englishmen and Normans and so effectuouslie exhorted them to continue faithfull to their liege and lawfull lord yoong king Henrie that manie of the French capteins willinglie sware to king Henrie fealtie and obedience by whose example the communaltie did the same Thus the people quieted and the countrie established in order nothing was minded but warre and nothing spoken of but conquest The Dolphin which lay the same time in the citie of Poitâ—ers after his fathers deceasse caused himselfe to be proclamed king of France by the name of Charles the seuenth and in good hope to recouer his patrimonie with an haultie courage preparing war assembled a great armie and first the warre began by light skirmishes but after it grew into maine battels The Dolphin thinking not to lose anie occasions of well dooing sent the lord Grauile to the towne of Pont Meulan standing on the riuer of Seine who comming to the same vpon the sudden the fouretéenth of Ianuarie year 1423 tooke it and slue a great number of English souldiors which he found within it When the duke of Bedford the regent aduertised of this sudden surprise appointed the lord Thomas Montacute earle of Salisburie a man both for policie and courage liker to the old Romans than to line 10 men of his daies accompanied with the earle of Suffolke the lord Scales the yoong lord Poinings sir Iohn Fastolfe maister of the houshold with himselfe and diuerse others to besiege the said towne of Pont Meulan which after two moneths siege was rendred to the said earle and the lord Grauile sware â—o be true to the king of England euer after that day but shortlie after forgetting his oth he turned French againe The earle of Salisburie appointed sir Henrie line 20 Mortimer and sir Richard Uernon capteins of the towne and from thence went into Champaigne and there besieged the towne of Sens tooke it and sir William Marin the capteine within it and slue all the souldiors that kept it made capteins there sir Hugh Godding sir Richard Aubemond ¶ In this season Humfrie duke of Glocester either striken in loue or vpon some other occasion maried the ladie Iaquet or Iaquelin daughter and sole heire to William of Bauier duke of Holland which was lawfull line 30 wife to Iohn duke of Brabant then liuing who afterwards as after ye shall heare recouered hir out of the dukes hands The chances thus happening as you before haue heard Iohn duke of Bedford Philip duke of Burgognie and Iohn duke of Britaine made a fréendlie méeting in the citie of Amiens where they renewed the old league and ancient amitie made betwéene the noble prince king Henrie the fift and them adding thereto these conditions and agréements ech of them line 40 to be to the other fréend and aider and the enimie of the one to be enimie to the other and all they to be fréends and aiders to the king of England welwiller to his welwillers and aduersarie to his aduersaries And bicause that affinitie is commonlie the bond of amitie there was concluded a mariage betwéene the duke of Bedford and the ladie Anne sister to the duke of Burgognie which was after solemnized at Trois in Champaigne in the presence of the duke of Burgognie brother to the bride and of hir line 50 vncle the duke of Brabant the earles of Salisburie and Suffolke and of nine hundred lords knights and esquiers with such feast and triumph as before that time had not béene séene of the Burgognions Whilest these matters were in hand the Parisiens thinking to blind the eies of the duke of Bedford wrote to him how diuerse castels and fortresses lieng about their territories were replenished with their enimies dailie stopping their passages and robbing their merchants to their vtter vndooing if they line 60 by his helpe were not relieued But this was but a glose of the Parisiens meaning to cause him to go about the winning of some strong hold whilest they in his absence might bring into the citie Charles the Dolphin that then called himselfe French king for so had they appointed assigning to him the daie of his comming and the post of his entrie But their practise being discouered to the duke of Bedford he with a great power entered into Paris one daie before the faire was appointed two nights before he was looked for of his enimies being vnprouided and suddenlie caused the conspirators within the citie to be apprehended and openlie to be put to execution This doone putting a mistrust in the Parisiens he caused the castels and fortresses neere and adioining to the citie to be furnished with Englishmen And to auoid all night-watchers about Paris and the confines thereof he first tooke into his possession either by assault or composition the towne of Trainelle and Braie vpon Seine And bicause two castels the one called Pacie and the other Coursaie were also euill neighbors to the Parisiens he sent sir Iohn Fastolfe great maister of his houshold with a notable armie to win the same castels which he did and with preie and prisoners returned backe againe to his maister the regent In this verie season the Dolphin sent the lord William Steward earle of Buchquhane that was constable of France and the earle of Uentadour in Auuergne and manie other noble men of his part to laie siege to the towne of Crauant in the countie of Auxerre within the parts of Burgognie Wherof hearing the lord regent and the duke of Burgognie they assembled a great armie and appointed the earle of Salisburie to haue the guiding thereof who with his capteins and men of warre English and Burgognions came in good arraie to giue battell to the besiegers And bicause the riuer of Yonne which runneth by the said towne was betweene the English armie and their aduersaries they could not well assaile their enimies which defended the bankes and passages verie stronglie yet notwithstanding both horssemen and footmen of the English part couragiouslie put themselues into the riuer and with fine force recouered the banke whome the Burgognions incontinentlie followed When they were all gotten into the plaine the archers shot the bill men strake and long was the fight in doubtfull balance But in conclusion the Frenchmen not able to resist the force of the English nation were
persons meaning to reuolt to the Dolphins side aduertised him by letters of their whole minds which letters were conueied vnto him by certeine friers The Dolphin glad of those newes appointed the lords de la Breth and Faiet marshals of France line 40 accompanied with the lords of Mount Iehan of Buâ—ll Doruall Torsie Beaumanor the Hire and his brother Guilliam with fiue hundred other valiant capteins and souldiers to the accomplishing of this enterprise who comming thither at the daie assigned in the night season approched towards the walles making a little fire on an hill in sight of the towne to signifie their comming which perceiued by the citizens that néere to the great church were watching for the same a burning cresset was shewed line 50 out of the steeple which suddenlie was put out and quenched What néedeth manie words The capteins on horssebacke came to the gate the traitors within slue the porters and watchmen and let in their fréends whereby the footmen entered first and the men of armes waited at the barriers to the intent that if néed required they might fight it out in open field Hereby manie Englishmen were slaine a great crie and garboile raised through the towne as in such surprises is woont The cause of this line 60 mischéefe was not knowen to any but onelie to the conspirators for the remnant of the citizens being no partakers imagined that the Englishmen had made hauocke in the towne and put all to the sword The Englishmen on the other side iudged that the citizens had begun some new rebellion against them or else had striuen amongst themselues The earle of Suffolke which was gouernour of the towne hauing perfect knowledge by such as scaped from the wals how the matter went withdrew without any tarriance into the castell which standeth at the gate of saint Uincent whereof was constable Thomas Gower esquier whither also fled manie Englishmen so as for vrging of the enimie prease of the number and lacke of vittels they could not haue indured long wherfore they priuilie sent a messenger to the lord Talbot which then laie at Alanson certifieng him in how hard a case they were The lord Talbot hearing these newes like a carefull capteine in all hast assembled togither about seuen hundred men in the euening departed from Alanson so as in the morning he came to a castell called Guierch two miles from Mans and there staied a while till he had sent out Matthew Gough as an espiall to vnderstand how the Frenchmen demeaned themselues Matthew Gough so well sped his businesse that priuilie in the night he came into the castell where he learned that the Frenchmen verie negligentlie vsed themselues without taking heed to their watch as though they had béene out of all danger which well vnderstood he returned againe and within a mile of the citie met the lord Talbot and the lord Scales and opened vnto them all things according to his credence The lords then to make hast in the matter bicause the daie approched with all spéed possible came to the posterne gate and alighting from their horsses about six of the clocke in the morning they issued out of the castell crieng saint George Talbot The Frenchmen being thus suddenlie taken were sore amazed in so much that some of them being not out of their beds got vp in their shirts and lept ouer the walles Other ran naked out of the gates to saue their liues leauing all their apparell horsses armour and riches behind them none was hurt but such as resisted ¶ Hard shift was made on all hands for safetie of life happie was he that could find a place of refuge where to lurke vnspide and vnhurt of the enimie who in the execution of their vengeance were so peremptorie that it was a matter of great difficultie or rather impossibilitie to escape their force To be short there were slaine and taken to the number of foure hundred gentlemen the priuat souldiers were frankelie let go After this inquisition was made of the authors of the treason and there were found condemned thirtie citizens twentie priests and fifteene friers who according to their demerits were all hanged The citie of Mans being thus recouered the lord Talbot returned to Alanson and shortlie after the earle of Warwike departed into England to be gouernour of the yoong king in steed of Thomas duke of Excester latelie departed to God and then was the lord Thomas Montacute earle of Salisburie sent into France year 1428 to supplie the roome of the said earle of Warwike who landed at Calis with fiue thousand men and so came to the duke of Bedford as then lieng in Paris where they fell in councell togither concerning the affaires of France and namelie the earle of Salisburie began maruellouslie to phantasie the gaining of the citie countrie of Orleance This earle was the man at that time by whose wit strength and policie the English name was much fearefull and terrible to the French nation which of himselfe might both appoint command and doo all things in manner at his pleasure in whose power as it appeared after his death a great part of the conquest consisted for suerlie he was a man both painefull diligent and readie to withstand all dangerous chances that were at hand prompt in counsell and of courage inuincible so that in no one man men put more trust nor any singular person wan the harts so much of all men Herevpon after this great enterprise had long béene debated in the priuie councell the earle of Salisburies deuise therein was of them all granted and allowed so that he being replenished with good hope of victorie and furnished with artillerie munition apperteining to so great an enterprise accompanied with the earle of Suffolke and the lord Talbot and with a valiant armie to the number of ten thousand men departed from Paris and passed through the countrie of Beausse There he tooke by assault the towne of Genuille and within fiue daies after had the castell deliuered vnto him by them that were fled into it for their safegard 〈◊〉 also tooke the towne of Baugencie suffering 〈◊〉 man which would become subiect to the king of England to inioie their line 10 lands and goods The townes of Meun vpon Loire and Iargeaulx hearing of these dooings presented to them the keies of their townes vpon like agréement About Maie in this 1428 the towne of Naunts and territories there with a fearefull earthquake were shaken houses castels and strong buildings in such terrour as it was thought the end of the world had béene come After this in the moneth of September the earle came before the citie of Orleance and planted his line 20 siege on the one side of the riuer of Loire but before his comming the bastard of Orleance the bishop of the citie and a great number of Scots hearing of the earles intent made diuerse fortifications
vnderstand that after his comming to London hée rested there but one daie or two at the most taking his iournie foorthright into Kent with all his armie folowing the bastard and other his complices to suppresse them if they were in anie place assembled againe to resist him But after they were once dispersed they durst not shew themselues againe in armor those onlie excepted that were withdrawne vnto line 10 Sandwich with the bastard which for the more part were mariners about eight or nine hundred beside certeine other euill disposed persons that accompanied him as his souldiers and men of warre with whose assistance the bastard kept that towne by strength hauing in the hauen seuen and fortie ships great and small vnder his gouernance But vpon the kings approching néere vnto those parties they sent to him for pardon promising that vpon a reasonable appointment for the safegard of line 20 their liues and other indemnities to be had for their benefit they would become his faithfull subiects and deliuer into his hands all the ships Their offer the king vpon great considerations and by good deliberate aduise of counsell thought best to accept and therevpon being at that time in Canturburie hée granted to their petitions and sent immediatlie vnto Sandwich his brother Richard duke of Glocester to receiue them to mercie togither with all the ships which according to their promise they deliuered into line 30 his hands But notwithstanding that as some write the bastard Fauconbridge and other of his companie that were got to Sandwich had thus their pardons by composition at the kings hand we find neuerthelesse that the said bastard Fauconbridge being afterwards at sea a rouing belike as he had vsed before came at length into the open hauen at Southhampton and there taking land was apprehended and shortlie after beheaded This chanced as should appeare line 40 by Fabian about the latter end of October Moreouer Roger Uaughan that had béene sent by king Edward into Wales anon after Teukesburie field being a man of great power in that countrie to intrap and surprise by some secret sleight the earle of Penbroke the said earle being thereof aduertised tooke the same Roger and without delay stroke off his head After this was the earle besieged in the towne of Penbroke by Morgan Thomas but the siege was line 50 raised by Dauid Thomas brother to the said Morgan a faithfull friend to the earle and then the earle by his helpe was conueied to Tinbie where he got ships and with his nephue the lord Henrie earle of Richmond sailed into Britaine where of the duke they were courteouslie interteined with assurance made that no creature should doo them anie wrong or iniurie within his dominions King Edward visiting diuerse places in Kent sate in iudgement on such as had aided the bastard in the last commotion line 60 of whome diuerse were condemned and executed as Spising one of the capteins that assaulted Algate whose head was set vp ouer the same gate and so likewise was the head of one Quintine a butcher that was an other capteine amongest them and chiefe of those that assaulted Bishops gate as some write Moreouer at Canturburie the maior of that citie was executed and diuerse other at Rochester Maidston and Blackeheath for the lord marshall and other iudges being appointed to hold their oier and determiner in that countrie of Kent there were aboue an hundred indicted and condemned Diuerse also of Essex men that had béene partakers in this rebellion with the bastard holpe to set fire on Bishops gate and Algate were hanged betwixt Stratford and London Manie also of the wealthie commons in Kent were put to grieuous fines Now when the king had made an end of his businesse in that countrie he returned to London comming thither againe vpon Whitsun éeuen being the first of Iune And hauing thus within the space of eleuen wéekes recouered in maner the whole possession of his realme being relieued of the most part of all his doubtfull feare he ment to remooue all stops out of the waie Wherefore he sent the archbishop of Yorke brother to the earle of Warwike and to the marques Montacute ouer to Guisnes there to be kept in safe custodie within the castell where he continued a long season till at length be was by friendship deliuered and shortlie after through verie anguish of mind departed this life whome Laurence Bath and after him Thomas Rotheram in the sée of Yorke did ordinarilie succeed Beside this Iohn earle of Oxford which after Barnet field both manfullie and valiantlie kept saint Michaels mount in Cornewall either for lacke of aid or persuaded by his friends gaue vp the mount and yeelded himselfe to king Edward his life onelie saued which to him was granted But to be out of all doutfull imaginations king Edward also sent him ouer the sea to the castell of Hammes where year 1472 by the space of twelue yeeres hée was in strong prison shut vp and warilie looked to King Edward was not a litle disquieted in mind for that the earls of Penbroke Richmond were not onlie escaped out of the realme but also well receiued and no woorsse interteined of the duke of Britaine he sent therefore in secret wise graue close messengers to the said duke the which should not sticke to promise the duke great and rich rewards so that he would deliuer both the earles into their hands and possession The duke after he had heard them that were sent made this answer that he could not with his honor deliuer them to whome he had giuen his faith to sée them preserued from all iniurie but this he said he would doo for the king of England that they should be so looked vnto as he néeded not to doubt of any attempt to be made against him by them or by their meanes The king receiuing this answer wrote louinglie to the duke of Britaine that he would consider his fréendship with conuenient rewards if it should please him to be as good as his promise The duke perceiuing gaine comming by the abode of the two English earles in his countrie caused them to be separated in sunder and all their seruants being Englishmen to be sequestred from them and in their places appointed Britains to attend them In the thirtéenth yeere of his reigne king Edward called his high court of parlement at his palace of Westminster in the which all lawes and ordinances made by him before that daie were confirmed and those that king Henrie had abrogated after his readeption of the crowne were againe reuiued Also lawes were made for the confiscation of traitors goods and for the restoring of them that were for his sake fled the realme which of his aduersaries had béene atteinted of high treason and condemned to die Moreouer towards his charges of late susteined a competent summe of monie was demanded and fréelie
losse and punishment Howbeit this iudgement was altogither affectionate and parciall in hir behalfe besides that it was reasonable in great measure all circumstances considered for she was not lightlie induced to doo as she did neither stood it with the frailtie of a woman to withstand the temptations of a mightie man or rather a reaching tyrant But such was hir chance by hir lightnesse and inconstancie that she wan the displeasure of manie men and for that cause liued after in the abbeie of Bermondseie beside Southwarke a wretched and a miserable life where not manie yeares after she deceassed and is buried with hir husband at Windsore Though fortune thus ruleth manie things at hir plesure yet one worke that this quéene accomplished cannot be forgotten for in the life time of hir husband king Edward the fourth she founded and erected a notable colledge in the vniuersitie of Cambridge for the finding of scholers and students of the same vniuersitie and endowed it with sufficient possessions for the long maintenance of the same which at this daie is called the Quéenes colledge When all things in this counsell were sagelie concluded and agréed to the kings mind he returned to London giuing in commandement that the next sundaie insuing Edward the yoong earle of Warwike should be brought from the Tower through the most publike streets in all London to the cathedrall church of saint Paule where he went openlie in procession that euerie man might sée him hauing communication with manie noble men and with them especiallie that were suspected to be partakers of the late begun conspiracie that they might perceiue how the Irishmen vpon a vaine shadowe mooued warre against the king and his realme But this medicine little auailed euill disposed persons For the line 10 earle of Lincolne sonne to Iohn de la Poole duke of Suffolke and Elizabeth sister to king Edward the fourth thought it not méet to neglect and omit so readie an occasion of new trouble Wherefore they determined to vphold the enterprise of the Irishmen and other complices of this conspiracie so that consulting with sir Thomas Broughton and certeine other of his most trustie freends he purposed to saile into Flanders to his aunt the ladie Margaret duchesse of Burgognie line 20 trusting by hir helpe to make a puissant armie and to ioine with the companions of the new raised sedition Therefore after the dissolution of the parlement which then was holden he fled secretlie into Flanders vnto the said ladie Margaret where Francis lord Louell landed certeine daies before Héere after long consultation had how to proceed in their businesse it was agreed that the earle of Lincolne and the lord Louell should go into Ireland and there to attend vpon the duchesse hir counterfeit nephue and line 30 to honor him as a king and with the power of the Irishmen to bring him into England Now they concluded that if their dooings had successe then the foresaid Lambert misnamed the earle of Warwike should by consent of the councell be deposed and Edward the true earle of Warwike deliuered out of prison and annointed king King Henrie supposing that no man would haue béene so mad as to haue attempted anie further enterprise in the name of that new found counterfeit earle he line 40 onelie studied how to subdue the seditious conspiracie of the Irishmen But hearing that the earle of Lincolne was fled into Flanders he was somwhat mooued therewith and caused soldiors to be put in a readinesse out of euerie part of his realme and to bring them into one place assigned that when his aduersaries should appeare he might suddenlie set vpon them vanquish and ouercome them Thus disposing things for his suertie he went towards S. Edmunds burie and being certified that line 50 the marquesse Dorset was comming towards his maiestie to excuse himselfe of things that he was suspected to haue doone when he was in France he sent the earle of Oxford to arrest the said marquesse by the waie and to conueie him to the Tower of London there to remaine till his truth might be tried year 1487 From thence the K. went foorth to Norwich and tarrieng there Christmasse daie he departed after to Walsingham where he offered to the image of our ladie and then by Cambridge he shortlie returned line 60 to London In which meane time the earle of Lincolne had gotten togither by the aid of the ladie Margaret about two thousand Almains with one Martine Sward a valiant and noble capteine to lead them With this power the earle of Lincolne sailed into Ireland and at the citie of Diuelin caused yoong Lambert to be proclaimed and named king of England after the most solemne fashion as though he were the verie heire of the bloud roiall lineallie borne and descended And so with a great multitude of beggerlie Irishmen almost all naked and vnarmed sauing skains and mantels of whome the lord Thomas Gerardine was capteine and conductor they sailed into England with this new found king and landed for a purpose at the pile of Fowdreie within a little of Lancaster trusting there to find aid by the means of sir Thomas Broughton one of the chéefe companions of the conspiracie The king had knowledge of the enimies intent before their arriuall and therefore hauing assembled a great armie ouer the which the duke of Bedford and the earle of Oxenford were chéefe capteins he went to Couentrie where he was aduertised that the earle of Lincolne was landed at Lancaster with his new king Héere he tooke aduise of his councellors what was best to be doone whether to set on the enimies without further delaie or to protract time a while But at length it was thought best to delaie no time but to giue them battell before they should increase their power and therevpon he remooued to Notingham there by a little wood called Bowres he pitched his field Shortlie after this came to him the lord George Talbot earle of Shrewesburie the lord Strange sir Iohn Cheinie right valiant capteins with manie other noble and expert men of warre namelie of the countries neere adioining so that the kings armie was woonderfullie increased In this space the earle of Lincolne being entered into Yorkeshire passed softlie on his iournie without spoiling or hurting of anie man trusting thereby to haue some companie of people resort vnto him But after he perceiued few or none to follow him and that it was too late now to returne backe he determined to trie the matter by dint of sword and herevpon directed his waie from Yorke to Newarke vpon Trent But before he came there king Henrie knowing all his enimies purposes came the night before the daie of the battell to Newarke and tarrieng there a little went thrée miles further and pitching his field lodged there that night The earle of Lincolne certified of his comming was nothing abashed but kept still on his iournie and at a
But the third request whether the let was on the mans line 50 side or on the womans neuer sorted to anie conclusion The ladie Margaret the kings daughter affied as yée haue heard to the king of Scots was appointed to be conueied into Scotland by the earle of Surrie and the earle of Northumberland as warden of the marches was commanded to deliuer hir at the confines of both the realmes And so héere vpon after hir comming to Berwike she was conueied to Lamberton kirke in Scotland where the king line 60 of Scots with the flower of all the nobles and gentlemen of Scotland was readie to receiue hir to whome the earle of Northumberland according to his commission deliuered hir The said earle of Northumberland that daie what for the riches of his coat being goldsmithes worke garnished with pearle and stone and what for the gallant apparell of his Henchmen and braue trappers of his horsse beside foure hundred tall men well horssed and apparelled in his colours was estéemed both of the Scots and Englishmen more like a prince than a subiect From Lamberton the foresaid ladie was conueied to Edenburgh and there the daie after king Iames the fourth in the presence of all his nobilitie espoused hir and feasted the English lords and shewed iusts and other pastimes verie honourablie after the fashion of that countrie And after all things were finished according to their commission the erle of Surrie with all the English lords and ladies returned into their countrie In this yeare the king kept his high court of parlement in the which diuerse acts estéemed necessarie for the preseruation of the common-wealth were established and amongst other it was enacted that théeues and murtherers duelie conuicted by the law to die and yet saued by their books should be committed to the bishops custodie After this a subsidie was granted both of the temporaltie and spiritualtie and so that parlement ended But the king now drawing into age and willing to fill his chests with aboundance of treasure was not satisfied with this onelie subsidie but deuised an other meane how to inrich himselfe as thus year 1504 He considered that the Englishmen little regarded the kéeping of penall lawes and pecuniall statutes deuised for the good preseruation of the common-welth Wherefore he caused inquisition to be made of those that had transgressed anie of the same lawes so that there were but few noble men merchants farmers husbandmen grasiers or occupiers that could cléerlie prooue themselues faultlesse but had offended in some one or other of the same lawes At the first they that were found giltie were easilie fined But after there were appointed two maisters and surueiors of his forfeits the one sir Richard Empson and the other Edmund Dudleie These two were learned in the lawes of the realme who meaning to satisfie their princes pleasure and to sée their commission executed to the vttermost séemed little to respect the perill that might insue Wherevpon they being furnished with a sort of accusers commonlie called promoters or as they themselues will be named informers troubled manie a man whereby they wan them great hatred and the king by such rigorous procéedings lost the loue and fauour which the people before time had borne towards him so that he for setting them a worke and they for executing of it in such extreame wise ran into obloquie with the subiects of this realme ¶ On the thirtéenth of Nouember was holden within the palace of the archbishop of Canturburie at Lambeth the sergeants feast where dined the king and all his nobles And vpon the same day Thomas Granger newlie chosen shiriffe of London was presented before the barons of the kings exchequer there to take his oth and after went with the maior vnto the same feast which saued him monie in his pursse for if that day that feast had not béene kept he must haue feasted the maior aldermen and others woorshipfull of the citie This feast was kept at the charge of ten learned men newlie admitted to bée sergeants to the kings law whose names were Robert Bridnell William Greuill Thomas Marow George Edgore Iohn Moore Iohn Cutler Thomas Eliot Lewes Pollard Guie Palmis William Fairesax On the one and twentith of Nouember at night began a perillous fier at the signe of the panier vpon London bridge néere to saint Magnus church where six tenements were burned yer the same could be quenched On the seuenth of Ianuarie were certeine houses consumed with fire against saint Butolphes church in Thames street On the fiue and twentith of Ianuarie began a parlement at Westminster of the which was chosen speaker for the commons maister Edmund Dudleie A new coine of siluer was ordeined of grotes and halfe grotes which bare but halfe faces and some péeces of the value of twelue pense were then to sir Iohn Carew and to sir Thomas Trenchard that they should interteine him in the most honorable sort they could deuise till he might come himselfe in person to welcome him Beside this he sent the earle of Arundell with manie lords and knights to attend vpon him Which earle according to the kings letters receiued him with thrée hundred horsses all by torchlight to the great admiration of the strangers King Philip séeing no remedie but that he must line 10 needs tarie would no longer gaze after king Henries comming but tooke his iournie toward Windsore castell where the king laie and fiue miles from Windsore the prince of Wales accompanied with fiue earles and diuerse lords and knights and other to the number of fiue hundred persons gorgiouslie apparelled receiued him after the most honorable fashion And within halfe a mile of Windsore the king accompanied with the duke of Buckingham and a great part of the nobilitie of this realme welcomed line 20 him so conueied him to the castell of Windsore where he was made companion of the noble order of the garter After him came to Windsore his wife queene Iane sister to the princesse Dowager late wife to prince Arthur After the two kings had renewed confirmed the league and amitie betwixt them king Henrie desired to haue Edmund de la Poole earle of Suffolke to be deliuered into his hands To whome the king of Castâ—le answered that he verelie was not within line 30 his dominion and therefore it laie not in him to deliuer him In deed he was loth to be the authour of his death that came to him for succour and was receiued vnder his protection yet vpon the earnest request and assured promise of king Henrie that he would pardon him of all executions and paines of death he granted to king Henries desire and so incontinentlie caused the said earle secretlie to be sent for After this to protract time till he were possessed of 〈…〉 king Henrie conueied the king of Castile line 40 vnto the citie of London that he might sée the head
The fiue and twentith daie of Aprill was proclamed that the kings grace ratified all the pardons granted by his father and also pardoned all such persons as were then in sute for anie offense whatsoeuer it was treason murther and fellonie onelie excepted And now whereas the performance of the deceassed kings will was thought right expedient with all spéed to be performed a proclamation was also set foorth and published thorough the realme that if anie man could prooue himselfe to be hurt and depriued of his goods wrongfullie by the commissioners of the forfeitures he should come and present his plaâ—nt to the king being readie to satisfie euerie one of all iniuries susteined After this proclamation was notified abroad all such as had béene constreined either by right or by wrong as Polydor saith to paie anie thing for anie forfeitures of lawes and customes by them transgressed came flocking to the court there declared their gréefs in what sort they had wrongfullie béene compelled as they surmised to paie this or that summe The councell heard euerie mans complaint and such as were found to haue paid anie thing without plaine proofe of iust cause they tooke such order for them that they had their monie againe Which being once knowne it was a strange thing to sée how thicke other came in yea euen those that had béene worthilie fined punished for their disorderlie transgressions making earnest sute for restitution feining and forging manie things to make their cause séeme good and to stand with equitie And the better to be heard in their sute they made friends as well with bribes and large gifts as otherwise leauing no waies vnassaied to compasse their desires Which gréedines in such multitude of suters brought the commissioners and others that had delt in the forfeitures into danger and did themselues no good for the councell perceiuing that it was not possible to satisfie them all refused to heare anie further complaints or sutes for restitution but thought it best to commit those to prison by whom the complainants pretended themselues to haue beene wronged And herevpon was sir Richard Empson knight and Edmund Dudleie esquier great councellors to the late king attached and brought to the Tower thereby to quiet mens minds that made such importunate sute to haue their monie againe restored which in the late kings daies they had béene compelled to disburse thorough the rigorous procéedings as they alleged of the said two councellors and others Trulie great exclamation was made against them as often happeneth that where anie thing is doone contrarie to the liking of the people those that be dealers vnder the prince and by his commandement procéed in the execution thereof run in hatred of the multitude But how so euer it was their apprehension and committing to prison was thought by the wise to be procured by the malice of them that line 10 in the late kings daies were offended with their authoritie Shortlie after as Edward Hall saith were apprehended diuerse other persons that were called promoters as Canbie Page Smith Derbie Wright Simson and Stocton of which the more part ware papers and stood on the pillorie And as an other saith who termeth them ringleaders of false quests in London they rode about the citie with their faces to the horsses tailes and papers on their heads and after they had beene set on the pillorie in Cornehill line 20 they were brought againe to Newgate where they died all within seauen daies after for verie shame When all things were prepared readie for the funerall of the late king his corps with all sumptuous pompe and solemne ceremonies was conueied from Richmond to saint Georges field where the clergie of the citie met it and at the bridge the maior and his brethren with manie commoners all clothed in blacke likewise met it and gaue their attendance on line 30 the same thorough the citie to the cathedrall church of saint Paule where was soong a solemne dirige and masse and a sermon made by the bishop of Rochester Iohn Fisher. The next daie the corps was had to Westminster and there the daie following put into the earth with all due solemnities as apperteined Notwithstanding this breefe remembrance of king Henries solemne funerall might seeme sufficient in the iudgement of some without further amplification yet bicause it is good in others opinion and line 40 those not of meanest wit to set downe things of state at large if conuenient helps thereto maie be had therefore you shall haue the whole solemnitie of the said roiall funerall as it is found recorded by Edward Hall After that all things saith he necessarie for the interrement and funerall pompe of the late king were sumptuouslie prepared and doone the corps of the said deceassed king was brought out of his priuie chamber into the great chamber where he rested line 50 thrée daies and euerie daie had there dirige and masse soong by a prelat mitred From thense he was conueied into the hall where he was also three daies and had like seruice there and so thrée daies in the chappell And in euerie of these thrée places was a hearse of wax garnished with baners and nine mourners giuing their attendance all the seruice time and euerie daie they offered and euerie place hanged with blacke cloth Upon Wednesdaie the ninth daie of Maie the corps was put into a charriot couered line 60 with blacke cloth of gold drawne with fiue great coursers all couered with blacke veluet garnished with cushins of fine gold and ouer the corps was an image or representation of the late king laied on cushins of gold and the said image was apparelled in the kings rich robes of estate with a crowne on the head with ball and scepter in the hands the charriot was garnished with baners and pencels of the armes of his dominions titles and genealogies When the charriot was thus ordered the kings chappell and a great number of prelats set forward praieng Then followed all the kings seruants in blacke then followed the charriot and after the charriot nine mourners and on euerie side were caried long torches short to the number of six hundred in this order they came to saint Georges field from Richmond There met with them all the préests and clerks and religious men within the citie without which went formost before the K. chappell The maior and his brethren with manie commoners all clothed in blacke met with the corps at London bridge and so gaue their attendance on the same through the citie And in good order the companies passed thorough the citie whereof the stréets on euerie side were set with long torches and on the stals stood yoong children holding tapers so with great reuerence the charriot was brought to the cathedrall church of S. Paule where the bodie was taken out and caried into the quire and set vnder a goodlie hearse of war garnished with baners
There came to his grace a certeine man with bow and arrowes and desired his grace to take the muster of him and to sée him line 40 shoot for at that time his grace was contented The man put the one foot in his bosome and so did shoot and shot a verie good shoot and well towards his marke whereof not onelie his grace but all other greatlie maruelled So the king gaue him a reward for his so dooing which person afterwards of the people and of them in the court was called Foot in bosome The same yeare in the feast of Pentecost holden at Gréenwich that is to say the thursdaie in the same wéeke his grace with two other with him line 50 chalenged all commers to fight with them at the barriers with target and casting the speare of eight foot long and that doone his grace with the said two aides to fight euerie of them twelue strokes with two handed swordes with and against all commers none excepted being a gentleman where the K. behaued himselfe so well and deliuered himselfe so valiantlie by his hardie prowesse and great strength that the praise and laud was giuen to his grace and his aides notwithstanding that diuerse and strong persons line 60 had assailed him and his aides From thense the whole court remooued to Windsor then begining his progresse exercising himselfe dailie in shooting singing dansing wrestling casting of the barre plaieng at the recorders flute virginals in setting of songs and making of ballads he did set two full masses euerie of them fiue parts which were soong oftentimes in his chappell and afterwards in diuerse other places And when he came to Oking there were kept both iustes and turneies the rest of this progresse was spent in hunting hawking and shooting ¶ Doctor Colet deane of Poules erected a frée schoole in Poules church yard in London and committed the ouersight thereof to the masters and wardens of the mercers bicause himselfe was borne in London was sonne to Henrie Colet mercer sometime lord maior of the citie of London On Midsummer night the king came priuilie into Cheape in one of the cotes of his gard and on saint Peters night the king and quéene came riding roiallie to the kings hed in Cheape there to behold the watch of the citie Now when the said progresse was finished his grace the quéene with all their whole traine in the moneth of October following remooued to Gréenewich The king not minded to sée yoong gentlemen vnexpert in martiall feates caused a place to be prepared within the parke of Greenwich for the quéene and the ladies to stand sée the fight with battle axes that should be doone there where the king himselfe armed fought with one Giot a gentleman of Almaine a tall man and a good man of armes And then after they had doone they marched alwaies two and two togithers and so did their feats and enterprises euerie man verie well Albeit it happened the said Giot to fight with sir Edward Howard which Giot was by him striken to the ground The morow after this enterprise doone the king with the quéene came to the Tower of London And to the intent that there should no displeasure nor malice be borne by anie of those gentlemen which fought with the ax against other the king gaue vnto them a certeine summe of gold valued at two hundred markes to make a banket among themselues withall The which banket was made at fishmongers hall in Thames stréet where they all met to the number of foure and twentie all apparelled in one sute or liuerie after Almaine fashion that is to say their vtter garments all of yellow sattin yellow hosen yellow shooes girdels scabberds and bonnets with yellow feathers their garments and hosen all cut lined with white sattin and their scabberds woond about with sattin After their banket ended they went by torchlight to the Tower presented themselues before the king who tooke pleasure to behold them From thence the eight day of Nouember his grace remooued to Richmond and willed to be declared to all noble men and gentlemen that his grace with two aides that is to wit maister Charles Brandon and maister Compton during two daies would answer all commers with speare at the tilt one daie and at turneie with swords the other And to accomplish this enterprise on the thirtéenth day of Nouember his grace armed at all péeces with his two aides entered the field their bases and trappers were of cloth of gold set with red roses wrought with gold of broderie The counterpart came in freshlie apparelled euerie man after his deuise At these iustes the king brake more staues than anie other therefore had the prise At the turneie in likewise the honour was his The second night were diuerse strangers of Maximilian the emperours court and ambassadors of Spaine with the king at supper When they had supped the king willed them to go into the quéenes chamber who so did In the meane season the king with fifteene other apparelled in Almaine iackets of crimsin and purple sattin with long quartered sléeues and hosen of the same sute their bonnets of white veluet wrapped in flat gold of damaske with visards and white plumes came in with a mununerie and after a certeine time that they had plaied with the quéene and the strangers they departed Then suddenlie entered sir minstrels richlie apparelled plaieng on their instruments and then followed fourtéene persons gentlemen all apparelled in yellow sattin cut like Almains bearing torches After them came six disguised in white sattin and gréene embrodered and set with letters and castels of fine gold in bullion the garments were of strange fashion with also strange cuts euerie cut knit with points of fine gold and tassels of the same their hosen cut and tied in likewise their bonnets of cloth of siluer woond with gold The first of these six was the king the earle of Essex Charles Brandon sir Edward Howard sir Thomas Kneuet and sir Henrie Guilford Then part of the gentlemen bearing torches departed and shortlie returned after whom came in six line 10 ladies apparelled in garments of crimsin sattin embrodered and trauersed with gloth of gold cut in pomegranats and yokes stringed after the fashion of Spaine Then the said six men dansed with these six ladies and after that they had dansed a season the ladies tooke off the mens visors whereby they were knowen whereof the quéene and the strangers much praised the king and ended the pastime It is to be noted that at this time the quéene was great with child shortlie after this pastime she tooke hir chamber line 20 at Richmond for the which cause the king kept his Christmasse there And on Newyeares daie the first daie of Ianuarie the quéene was deliuered of a prince to the great gladnesse of the realme for the honour of whome fiers were made and diuerse vessels with wine set
with six thousand men entered the citie and tooke the market place and the wals and searched the houses for feare of treason Then maister Thomas Woolsie the kings almoner called before him all the citizens yoong and old and sware them to the king of England the number whereof was foure score thousand Thus the king of England by conquest came to the possession of the citie of Tornaie On sundaie the second daie of October the king entered the citie of Tornaie at port founteine and foure of the chiefe of the citie ouer him bare a canopie with all the armes of England Euerie person was in his best apparell the ladies gentlewomen laie in the windowes beholding the king and his nobilitie euerie citizen had in his hand a staffe torch The king himselfe was richlie apparelled in rich armour on a barded courser his henchmen bearing his péeces of war as ax speare and other their coursers were barded with the armes of England France Ireland and other the kings dominions all richlie brodered Thus the king with his nobilitie all richlie apparelled with his sword borne before him his heralds and sergeants of armes with trumpets and minstrelsie entered the citie and came to our ladie church and there Te Deum was soong Then the king called to his presence Edward Guilford William Fitz Williams Iohn Danfie William Tiler Iohn Sharpe William Husse Iohn Sauage Christopher Garnish and diuerse other valiant esquiers and gaue to them the order of knighthood and then went to his lodging and at after noone he came to the market place were was prepared for him a roome Then he caused a proclamation to be made in his name king of England France that no man should gréeue the citizens During which proclamation the Tornasins scarse looked vp nor shewed once to him any amiable countenance which was much marked The crie finished the king departed to his campe leauing the citie in safe keeping This wéeke the king rode to sée the castell of Morton and there his grace tooke great pleasure The king remembring the great chéere that the prince of Castile and the ladie Margaret had made him at Lisle which was but twelue miles English from Tornaie desired the said prince ladie with diuerse other to come to him to his citie of Tornaie and made preparation for the same and appointed a iusts whereof he himselfe would be one and caused a tilt to be made in the market place While these things were preparing the king and his councell ordered for the sure kéeping of the citie of Tornaie and there ordeined sir Edward Poinings knight of the order of the garter to be his lieutenant with foure hundred archers with capteins horssemen and artillerie conuenient and to haue aid of Henaud and other the kings friends adioining and of his gard he left there foure hundred archers and ordinance was appointed for the defense of the same On mondaie the eleuenth daie of October the king without the towne receiued the prince of Castile line 10 the ladie Margaret and diuerse other nobles of their countries and them brought into Tornaie with great triumph The noise went that the lord Lisle made request of mariage to the ladie Margaret duches of Sauâ—ie and daughter to the emperour Maximilian which before that time was departed from the king with manie rich gifts and monie borrowed but whether he proffered mariage or not she fauoured him highlie There the prince and duches soiourned with great solace by the space of ten daies line 20 During which time the eightéenth daie of October began the iusts the king and the lord Lisle answering all commers vpon the king attended foure twentie knights on foot in coats of purple veluet and cloth of gold A tent of cloth of gold was set in the place for the armorie Reliefe The king had a base and a trapper of purple veluet both set full of SS of bullion and the lord Lisle in the same suite there were manie speares broken and manie a good buffet giuen the strangers as the lord Walon and lord Emerie line 30 and other did right well When the iusts were doone the king all the other vnhelmed them rode about the tilt and did great reuerence to the ladies and then the heralds cried to lodging This night the K. made a sumptuous banket of an hundred dishes to the prince of Castile and the ladie Margaret and to all other lords and ladies and after the banket the ladies dansed and then came in the king and eleuen in a maske all richlie apparelled with bonets of gold and when they had passed the time at their pleasure line 40 the garments of the maske were cast off amongst the ladies take who could take On the twentith daie of October the prince of Castile and the ladie Margaret with manie great gifts to them giuen returned to Lisle and all their traine After that the king was informed that all directions were taken and euerie thing put in an order for the sure kéeping of the citie of Tornaie he betooke the same to sir Edward Poinings knight which valiantlie kept it in good order and iustice The king his line 50 councell before this considering that the Frenchmen would giue them no battell and that winter approched which was no time to lie at siege of other townes concluded to kéepe Tornaie safelie and to breake vp his campe for that winter and to begin againe warre in the spring of the yeare This was a full conclusion taken by the king and his councell and so the king and all his people except such as were appointed to be with sir Edward Poinings departed out of Tornaie the twentith daie of September line 60 and the king and the noble men made such spéed that shortlie they came to Calis Thither came the lord admerall whome the king heartilie thanked of his paines and there euerie man was paied his full wages and conduct monie and ships prepared for the passage and so the foure and twentith daie of September the king with a priuie companie tooke ship and the same day landed at Douer and shortlie after all his people followed then he with a small companie rode to Richmond in post to the queene where was such a louing méeting that euerie creature reioised This season began a great mortalitie in London and other places where much people died All this winter the kings nauie kept the seas and robbed and spoiled the Frenchmen on their coasts so that they were euerie foot afflicted by the English wist not which way to remedie it bearing grudge in their hearts and wishing a generall destruction of their enimies against whome they did swell with malignitie and indignation both for their late ouerthrowes and losses aswell of lands as liues the surrender of Terwin sticking in their stomachs and the yéelding of Tornaie nipping them at the heart which had lost the propertie was now forced to
great bearer of Frenchmen in their occupiengs and trades contrarie to the lawes of the citie If the people had found him they would suerlie haue striken off his head but when they found him not the watermen and certeine yoong préests that were there fell to rifling and some ran to Blanchapelton and brake vp line 40 the strangers houses and spoileâ— them Thus from ten or eleuen of the clocke these riotous people continued in their outragious dooings till about three of the clocke at what time they began to withdraw and went to their places of resort and by the waie they were taken by the maior and the heads of the citie and sent some of them to the Tower some to Newgate and some to the Counters to the number of thrée hundred line 50 Manie fled and speciallie the watermen preests seruingmen but the prentises were caught by the backs and had to prison In the meane time whilest the hottest of this ruffling lasted the cardinall was aduertised thereof by sir Thomas Parre wherevpon the cardinall strengthened his house with men and ordinance Sir Thomas Parre rode in all â—ast to Richmond where the king laie and informed him of the matter who incontinentlie sent foorth hastilie to London to vnderstand the state of the citie and line 60 was truelie aduertised how the riot was ceassed and manie of the misdooers apprehended The lieutenant of the Tower sir Roger Cholmeleie no great fréend to the citie in a frantike furie during the time of this vprore shot off certeine péeces of ordinance against the citie And though they did no great harme yet he wan much euill will for his hastie dooing bicause men thought he did it of malice rather than of anie discretion About fiue of the clocke the earles of Shrewesburie and Surrie Thomas Dokerciâ— lord of saint Iohns George Neuill lord of Aburgauennie and others which had heard of this riot came to London with such strength as they could make vpon that sudden and so did the Innes of court But before they came whether with feare of the brute of their comming or otherwise the riotous assemblie was broken vp and manie of the misdooers taken as ye haue heard Then were the prisoners examined and the sermon of doctor Bele called to remembrance and he taken and sent to the Tower Herewith was a commission of oier and determiner directed to the duke of Norffolke and to diuerse other lords to the lord maior of London and the aldermen and to all the iustices of England for punishment of this insurrection The citie thought the duke bare them a grudge for a lewd preest of his which the yeare before was slaine in Cheape insomuch that he then in his furie said I praie God I maie once haue the citizens in my danger And likewise the duke thought that they bare him no good will wherefore he came into the citie with thirtéene hundred men in harnesse to keepe the oier and determiner Now vpon examination it could neuer be prooued of anie méeting gathering talking or conuenticle at anie daie or time before that daie but that the chance so happened without anie matter prepensed of anie creature sauing Lincolne and neuer an honest person in maner was taken but onelie he Then proclamations were made that no women should come togither to babble and talke but all men should kéepe their wiues in their houses All the stréets that were notable stood full of harnessed men which spake manie opprobriâ—us words to the citizens which gréeued them sore and if they would haue béene reuenged the other had had the woorsse for the citizens were two hundred to one but like true subiects they suffred patientlie Now for the due correction according to law of this disorder all the iustices with all the kings councell learned in the lawes assembled at the house of sir Iohn Fincur lord cheefe iustice of England néere to saint Brides by Fléetestréet to take aduise and conclude vpon the order which they should follow in this matter and first there was read the statute of the third yeare of Henrie the fift the effect whereof insueth in these words following The statute made in anno tertio of Henrie the fift BIcause that diuers nations comprised within the truces concluded as well by our souereigne lord the king that now is as by his right noble father haue beene robbed and spoiled by the kings lieges and subiects as well on the maine seas as within the ports and coasts of England Ireland Wales by reason whereof the truces and safe conducts haue broken and violated to the damage dishonour and slander of the king and against his dignitie the manslaiers spoilers robbers violaters of the same truces and safe conducts as before is declared haue beene recetted procured counselled vpholden and mainteined by diuerse of the kings liege people vpon the coasts our said souereigne lord the king by the aduise and assent abouesaid and at the praier of the said commons hath ordeined and established that all such manslaiers robbers spoilers breakers of truces and safe conducts granted by the king and the wilfull recetters abbetters procurers counsellors susteiners and mainteiners of such persons hereafter in time to come being anie of the lieges subiects of this realme of England Ireland Wales are to be adiudged and determined as giltie of high treason committed against the crowne dignitie of the king And further in euerie hauen and port of the sea there shall be from hense-foorth made and assigned by the king by his letters pattents one lawfull officer named a conseruator of truces and safe conducts granted by the king which line 10 officer shall dispend at the least ten pounds in land by yeare c as in the statute more at large is expressed The which statute being read and well considered of bicause there was diuerse leagues of truces betwixt the king and diuerse other princes as one betwixt him and the French king and another betwixt him and the archduke of Burgognie and another betwixt him the king of Spaine all the which truces line 20 were violated by the said insurrection it was determined by the whole councell there assembled that the kings sergeants and attournies should go to the lord chancellor to haue a sight of all the said leagues and charters of truces to the intent they might frame their indictments according to the matter And note that iudge Fineux said that all such as were parties to the said insurrection were guiltie of high treason as well those that did not commit anie robberie as line 30 those that were principall dooers therein themselues bicause that the insurrection in it selfe was high treason as a thing practised against the regall honour of our souereigne lord the king And the same law holdeth of an insurrection said Fineux made against the statute of laborers For so said he it came to passe that certeine persons within
the countie of Kent began an insurrection in disobedience of the statute of labourers and were atteinted therfore of high treason and had iudgement line 40 to be drawne hanged and quartered He shewed where and when this chanced It was further determined by the said Fineux and all the iustices of the land that vpon the said commission of oier and terminer in London the iustices named in the said commission might not arreigne the offendors and proceed to the triall in one selfe daie no more than might the iustices of peace But iustices in oier might so doo aswell as the iustices of gaole deliuerie and as the sufficiencie of the iurors within the citie line 50 to passe betwixt the king and the said traitors the iustices determined that he that had lands and goods to the value of an hundred marks should be inabled to passe vpon the said indictments And this by the equitie of the statute of Anno vndecimo Henrici septimi the which will that no man be admitted to passe in anie inquest in London in a plée of lands or other action in which the damages shall passe the value of fourtie shillings except he be woorth in lands or goods the value of an hundred markes line 60 On saturdaie the second of Maie in this ninth yeare all the commissioners with the lord maior aldermen and iustices went to the Guildhall where manie of the offendors were indicted as well of the insurrection as of the robberies by them committed against the truces Herevpon they were arreigned pleading not guiltie had day giuen till monday next insuing On which daie being the fourth of Maie the lord maior the duke of Norffolke the earle of Surrie and others came to sit in the Guildhall to procéed in their oier and terminer as they were appointed When the lords were set the prisoners were brought through the stréets tied in ropes some men and some lads of thirtéene yéeres of age Among them were diuerse not of the citie some priests some husbandmen and labourers The whole number amounted vnto two hundred thrée score and eightéene persons This daie was Iohn Lincolne indicted as a principall procurer of this mischieuous insurrection and therevpon hée was arreigned and pleading not giltie had daie giuen ouer till wednesdaie or as Hall saith till thursday next insuing He was charged with such matter as before ye haue heard concerning his sute vnto doctor Standish and doctor Bele for the reading of this bill in their sermons and opening the matter as before ye haue heard all which matter with the circumstances he had confessed on sundaie the third of Maie vnto sir Richard Cholmleie sir Iohn Dansie sir Hugh Skeuington Diuers other were indicted this mondaie and so for that time the lords departed The next daie the duke came againe the erle of Surrie with 2000 armed men which kept the stréets When the maior the duke the earles of Shrewesburie and Surrie were set the prisoners were arreigned and thirtéene found guiltie and adiudged to be hanged drawne and quartered For execution whereof were set vp eleuen paire of gallowes in diuerse places where the offenses were doone as at Algate at Blanchappelton Gratious stréete Leaden hall and before euerie counter one also at Newgate at saint Martins at Aldersgate and at Bishopsgate Then were the prisoners that were iudged brought to those places of execution and executed in most rigorous maner in the presence of the lord Edmund Howard son to the duke of Norffolke knight marshall who shewed no mercie but extreme crueltie to the poore yoonglings in their execution and likewise the dukes seruants spake manie opprobrious words some bad hang some bad draw some bad set the citie on fire but all was suffered On thursdaie the seuenth of Maie was Lincolne Shirwin and two brethren called Bets and diuerse other adiudged to die Then Lincolne said My lords I meant well for if you knew the mischiefe that is insued in this realme by strangers you would remedie it manie times I haue complained and then I was called a busie fellow now our Lord haue mercie on me They were laid on hardels drawne to the standard in Cheape and first was Iohn Lincolne executed And as the other had the ropes about their neckes there came a commandement from the king to respit the execution Then the people cried God saue the king and so was the oier and terminer deferred till another daie and the prisoners sent againe to ward the armed men departed out of London and all things set in quiet On the eleuenth daie of Maie the king came to his manor of Gréenwich where the recorder of London and diuerse aldermen came to speake with his grace and all ware gownes of blacke colour And when they perceiued the king comming out of his priuie chamber into his chamber of presence they knéeled downe and the recorder said Our most naturall benigne and souereigne lord we know well that your grace is displeased with vs of your citie of London for the great riot late doone we ascerteine your grace that none of vs nor no honest person were condescending to that enormitie and yet wée our wiues and children euerie houre lament that your fauour should be taken from vs. And forsomuch as light and idle persons were the dooers of the same we most humblie beséech your grace to haue mercie of vs for our negligence and compassion of the offendors for their offense and trespasse Trulie said the king you haue highlie displeased and offended vs and you ought to waile and be sorie for the same And where as you saie that you the substantiall persons were not consenting to the same it appeareth to the contrarie For you neuer mooued to let them nor stirred once to fight with them which you say were so small a number of light persons Wherefore we must thinke and you can not denie that you did winke at the matter but at this time we will grant to you neither our fauour nor good will nor to the offendors mercie but resort to the cardinall our lord chancellour and he shall make you an answer and declare our pleasure And with this answer line 10 the Londoners departed and made relation to the maior On the eightéenth day of this moneth the quéene of Scots which had béene at the court and at Bainards castell a whole yeare at the kings charge and was richlie appointed of all things méet to hir estate both of iewels plate tapistrie arras coine horsses all other things of the kings gift liberalitie departed out of London toward Scotland with great riches albeit she came into England with great pouertie line 20 and she entered into Scotland the thirtéenth daie of Iune whome hir husband receiued at Berwike but the Englishmen smallie regarded him All hir charges within the realme comming to the court and returning were of the kings pursse On thursdaie the
and scope of libertie to talke and conferre with them euerie man at his pleasure there wanted no deuises vnder colour of freendlie conferences to deuise how to compasse their intents howbeit it pleased the eternall God so to carrie and rule the hearts of the magistrats that albeit being nuzled in the Romish religion they were affected therevnto yet they so much respected their dutie to their prince and the safetie to their common-wealth line 30 that they openlie professed they would neuer yéeld the citie so long as they liued and were able to kéepe and defend the same For the maior himselfe maister William Hurst maister Iohn Buller maister Iohn Britnall maister William Periam others of the ancientest of the citie were by sundrie means waies deuises and reasons persuaded to conioine themselues in this rebellion with the commoners They all with one mind and one voice gaue a flat answer that in the citie line 40 they had béene brought vp there they had gotten their liuings there they had sworne their fidelitie and allegiance to their king and prince there they had faithfullie hitherto serued him and there would so continue so long as they could to the vttermost of their powers all which their promises auowries the Lord be praised they performed But to the matter Sundrie other trecheries deuises were practised which particularlie to recite were verie tedious to no purpose The last but the line 50 most perillous practise was this When these male-contents saw themselues to be preuented in all their deuises which before they had but secretlie and priuatlie practised now they conioining themselues togither doo openlie shew and declare themselues being persuaded that bicause they were the greater number and that also the most part of the poore people were wearie and for want of vittels would not indure to be pinned in anie longer that therefore manie would ioine against a few and that the game line 60 would go on their side And so on a sundaie being but two dais before the deliuerie of the citie about eight of the clocke in the forenoone a companie of them in euerie quarter of the citie hauing their consorts in a readines to ioine serue with them if need so required get into the streets walking with their weapons and in their armour as to fight with their enimies and crie out Come out these heretikes and twopenie bookemen Where be they By Gods wounds bloud we will not be pinned in to serue their turne We will go out and haue in our neighbors they be honest good and godlie men Their pretense and meaning being then that if anie of the contrarie side had come out they would haue quarelled with them and haue taken occasion to set vpon him and so raise a new tumult But by the prouidence and goodnesse of God it so fell out that some being in their houses and some at their parish churches the maior and magistrates were first aduertised herof before the others heard anie thing of the matter and they according to their wisedoms pacified the matter and 〈◊〉 Iohn Uincent Iohn Sharke and others the belwedders of this flocke vnto their houses 〈◊〉 in the south gate stréet and at the south gate there was a little stur which being soone stopped there insued no hurt therof other than a broken pate or two for as it fell out the warders of that gate at that time were against them and of the greater companie These and manie other like practises were dailie and continuallie vsed on the one side which in the end came to no effect bicause the Lord kept the citie The others on the other side being altogither bent to honor God obeie the king and to serue in their commonwealth were fullie resolued to kéepe and defend the citie whose cause being iust and good was sufficient of it selfe to kéepe them in that mind and yet their courage was the more for that they saw the good bent of the maior and magistrates who howsoeuer they were affected otherwise in religion yet they were wholie bent and determined to kéepe and defend the citie and therefore they seeing the industrie carefulnesse seruice and painefulnesse of these men doo fauour incourage and countenance them and to saie the truth by the industrie and good seruice of them the citie was cheeflie kept and preserued For there was no seruice to be doone within nor exploit to be aduentured without vpon the enimie as manie times there were sallies giuen but these were the chiefest and commonlie the onelie dooers for which cause the contrarie side maruelouslie maligned at them and sought by all means how to impeach and indanger them Which thing being dailie perceiued more and more by sundrie arguments and as wise men séeking how to preuent the same did manie and sundrie times confer among themselues herein and in the end made a couenant and a faithfull promise among themselues being then about the number of one hundred persons that they would stand firmelie and faithfullie to the defense and kéeping of the citie to their vttermost powers And if it so fell out that the rebell and enimie should haue accesse and entrie into the citie that then they should all méet at the lord Russels now the earle of Bedfords house and there to issue out at the posterne of the garden and to giue the aduenture to passe and to escape awaie as also if they were resisted that then they to stand togither to their defense And for this purpose they had then named some one man to be their capteine for this enterprise And in the meane time to doo all things circumspectlie for the preseruation of the citie by a particular couenant among themselues did take order that during the whole beseeging of the citie and their aboad therein a certeine number by course and besides the ordinarie set watch should watch ward and walke about continuallie both by daie and night by which means no sleight nor treacherie could be practised but that they should haue an inkeling and vnderstanding thereof and which indéed stood and came to such effect that it was the chiefest if not the onelie cause of the preseruation of the citie for that time For there was no seruice no diligence no care nor anie thing wanting or left vndoone which by these men was not doone Howbeit the diuell the author of all diuision and strife who cannot abide anie vnitie concord and agréement in good causes did here also hurle in a bone among these men whereof had insued a great detriment to the common state and an ouerthrow to themselues had it not in due time beene preuented There were two gentlemen within this citie and both of this companie the one was borne of a honorable house and parentage named Iohn Courtneie a yoonger sonne to sir William Courtneie of Porederham knight and a man of verie good knowledge and experience in seruice The other also was
gentlemen that had beene now released out of prison to be shut vp againe least the rebelles finding them abroad should haue murthered them Yet after this when the rebels line 40 were departed out of the citie againe the maior aldermen fell in hand to rampire vp the gates to plant ordinance and to make all necessarie prouision that for them was possible At length they fell to shooting off their artillerie as well from the citie as from the campe dooing their best to annoie ech other But when the rebelles saw that they did little hurt to the citie with their great ordinance lieng vpon the hill they remoued the same downe to the foot of the same hill and from thense began line 50 to beat the walles Notwithstanding shortlie after they made sute for a truce to indure for a time that they might passe to and fro through the citie to fetch in vittels whereof some want began to pinch them in the campe The maior and aldermen flatlie denied their request protesting that they would not permit anie traitors to haue passage through their citie The rebels sore kindled in wrath with this answer and deniall of their sute came running downe from the hill and assaulting the gates were beaten line 60 off with shot of arrowes and other weapons And yet such rage appéered among the rebels that the boies and yoong lads shewed themselues so desperat in gathering vp the arrowes that when they saw and felt the same sticking in some part of their bodies they would plucke them foorth and deliuered them to their bow-men that they might bestow the same again at the citizens In all this broile a thing note-worthie the seditious sort minding nothing more than the compassing of their purpose had as little staie of themselues in this their outrage as a bull at the sight of a cow or a stoned horsse at the view of a mare according vnto the old saieng of the poet Non facile est taurum visa retinere iuuenca Fortis equus visae semper adhinnit equae In the meane time whilest they were thus busie vpon one side of the citie an alarum rose at the defendants backes crieng that the rebels were entred the citie on the contrarie side and so euerie man shrinking awaie and running thither to repell the enimie there that part was left void of defendants where the first assault began Whereof the rebels being aduised rushed into the riuer that runneth before bishops gate got to the gates and breaking them open entred without anie great resistance For all the citizens were withdrawne to their houses and other places where they hoped best to hide themselues from the furie of their enimies The rebels hauing thus entred the citie by force conueied all the guns and artillerie with other furniture of warre out of the citie into their campe The herald that was yet abiding in the citie to see if the rebels would before the daie prefixed for their pardons being not yet expired giue ouer their enterprise came with the maior into the market place and in the hearing of a great multitude of people that were come foorth and stood about him he eftsoons gaue commandement in the kings name that they should laie armes aside and get them home to their houses which to so manie as did he pronounced a generall pardon and to the rest extreme punishment by death The rebels that stood by and heard him when he had once made an end of his proclamation bade him get him thense with a mischiefe for it was not his faire offers nor his swéet flattering words that should beguile them sith they made no account of such manner of mercie that vnder a colour of pardon should cut off all their safetie and hope of preserseruation The herald perceiuing how obstinatelie they were bent and set on all mischiefe and that it was vnpossible to bring them from their outragious treason either through feare of punishment or hope of pardon departed without hauing brought that to passe for which he was sent Immediatlie after his departure the rebels sought for Leonard Southerton purposing to haue apprehended him and committed him to prison for accompanieng the herald thitherwards But he hauing knowledge of their meaning hid himselfe from them After this there were by Kets commandement apprehended diuerse persons as the maior Robert Watson William Rogers Iohn Homerston William Brampton and manie others which were brought out of the citie and committed to prison in mount Surrie Ket perceiuing well that he must either now obteine a bloodie victorie by force against his countrie or else to tast such an end as his vngratious attempts did well deserue got togither so manie wicked persons as he might procure to come vnto him from ech side with great rewards and faire promises so that it was a strange matter to consider what a multitude of vnthrifts and rascalles came to him vpon the sudden The citizens of Norwich were sore displeased that their maior being an honest man and one greatlie beloued among them should be imprisoned and so remaine in danger of life among the rebels for they threatned him sore iesâ—ing at his name would saie one to another Let vs all come togither to morrow for we shall sée a cods hed sold in the campe for a penie Wherevpon the citizens fearing least through the malice and rage of the rebels their maior might chance to be made awaie among them procured maister Thomas Alderich whose authoritie was great among them to be a meane for his deliuerance who comming to Ket with sharpe and bitter words reprooued him for his cruell dealing by imprisoning so honest a man as the maior was and withall commanded him to release him which either for shame or rather through feare of a guiltie conscience that pricked him he caused incontinentlie to be doone who therevpon might now and then go and come at his pleasure to and fro the citie But bicause he could not still remaine in the citie but was constreined to continue for the most part in the campe he appointed Augustine Steward to be his deputie line 10 who with the assistance of Henrie Bacon and Iohn Atkinson shiriffes gouerned the citie right orderlie and kept the most part of the citizens in due obeisance The councell aduertised now vpon the heralds returne that there was no waie to reduce these Norffolke rebels vnto quiet otherwise than by force appointed the marquesse of Northampton with fiftéene hundred horssemen to go downe vnto Norwich to subdue those stubborne traitors that so vndutifullie line 20 refused the kings mercifull pardon fréelie offered by his officer at armes and others There went with the lord marquesse diuerse honorable and worshipfull personages as the lord Sheffeld the lord Wentworth sir Anthonie Dennie sir Henrie Parker sir Richard Southwell sir Rafe Sadler sir Iohn Clere sir Rafe Rowlet sir Richard Lée sir Iohn Gates sir Thomas Paston sir Henrie Bedingfield
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
was a lamentable sight and pitifull remembrance line 40 to the beholders therof After this mischance the queens maiestie being much gréeued for the losse of so beautifull a monument directed hir highnesse letters to the maior of the citie of London willing him to assemble the citizens to take some order for speciall aid and helpe for the reparing againe of the said monument And she of hir most gratious disposition to giue a comfort to others for the furtherance thereof did presentlie giue and deliuer in gold one thousand markes and a warrant for a thousand lode line 50 of timber to be taken out of hir maiesties woods or elsewhere and the citizens of London granted one beneuolence and three fiftéens to be foorthwith paied The clergie vnder the prouince of Canturburie granted the fortith part of the value of their benefices charged with first fruits not charged with first fruits the thirtith part The clergie of the diocesse of London granted the thirtith part of their benefices in first fruits and the twentith part out of first fruits Now immediatlie by commandement of the line 60 quéenes highnesse hir priuie councell tooke order that six citizens of London and two of the cleargie of the church of Paules had charge and commandement to ouersée and set forward this worke who made such expedition that within one moneth next following the burning thereof the whole church that is to saie all the foure great roofes of the same were couered with boords and lead after the maner of a false roofe And the greatnesse of the worke dispatched in so short time could scarselie be credited of anie but of such as saw and knew the same And the cause of this great hast was for feare of raine which might haue perished the vawtes to the destruction of the whole church the people that were therein And before the said yéere was fullie ended all the said iles of the said church were made framed of new maine timber couered with lead fullie finished And the same yeare also the great roofe of the west end was framed and made of new great timber in Yorkeshire brought to London by sea and set vp couered with lead and fullie finished And in like maner within the said yeare the whole roofe and frame of the east end of the said church was made in Yorkeshire brought by sea to London and there laid readie to be raised when the season of the yeare serued This one thing resteth to be told that by estimation of wise men 10000 pounds more than is yet granted vnto it will not perfect finish the church and stéeple in such sort as it was before the burning thereof In this meane time also by reason of the quéenes maiesties letters directed to the maior and his brethren of the citie of London about the burning of Paules there were certeine aldermen and commoners of the said citie named and called togither by the authoritie of the maior to deuise some good order and spéedie remedie for the reliefe and comfort of the said citie whensoeuer anie chance of fire hereafter should happen as God forbid within the said citie or liberties thereof And the persons so called after sundrie méetings and with good aduisement and deliberation agréed and penned a certeine order for the spéedie remedie thereof as well for the readie knowledge of the place wheresoeuer the same fire should happen and for the sudden extinguishment suppressing of the same as also for the safe kéeping of the goods of such persons in whose house anie fire should chance Which orders and rules vndoubtedlie would be to the great comfort safetie of the citie and citizens of the same if they were published and made knowen in time and executed accordinglie But what should I saie I can but lament not onelie for this but also for manie such painefull and profitable labors which for good gouernement of this citie had béene taken For as soone as the talking thereof is doone and the bookes framed and deliuered so soone is it put in obliuion and nothing at all thought vpon vntill an houre after the mischiefe be past This yeare was chosen lord maior of London a worthie citizen named William Harper one of the companie of the merchant tailors This man wishing in his life time to benefit his countrie founded a free schoole in the towne of Bedford where he was borne and now lieth buried prouiding a competent stipend and liuing for a scholemaister there to traine vp and instruct children in vertue and learning foreuer The fiftéenth of Nouember the quéenes maiestie published a proclamation wherein she restored to the realme diuerse small péeces of siluer monie as the peece of six pence foure pence thrée pence two pence and a penie three halfe pence and thrée farthings She also forbad all forren coines to be currant within the same realme as well gold as siluer calling them to hir maiesties mints except two sorts of crownes of gold the one the French crowne the other the Flemmish crowne ¶ Thus did hir maiestie in all hir actions directed to common vtilitie shoot at a certeine perfection purenesse and soundnesse as here in hir new stamps and coines of all sorts so also in Gods religion setting the materiall churches of hir dominions frée from all popish trash which one hath aptlie noted by waie of comparison saieng Eiectis paleis purgatur vt area multo Vsque laborantis serui sudore reuulsis Vt nitet ampla domus quas struxit aranea telis Sic priùs idolis confractis templa fricantur Cuncta scopis quicquid fuit abradentibus vncis Dentibus obscoenum spurcum verbóue repugnans Sacro relligióque erectis cultior ibat Iam pedibus Christúsque Dei cognoscitur agnus Offensas delens mundi peccatáque tollen◠Vaenalis populo non indulgentia papae This yeare in England were manie monstruous births In March a mare brought foorth a foale with one bodie and two heads and as it were a long taile growing out betweene the two heads Also a sow farowed a pig with foure legs like to the armes of a manchild with armes and fingers c. In Aprill a sow farrowed a pig with two bodies year 1562 eight féet and but one head manie calues and lambs were monstruous line 10 some with collars of skin growing about their necks like to the double ruffes of shirts and neckerchers then vsed The foure and twentith of Maie a manchild was borne at Chichester in Sussex the head armes legs whereof were like to an anatomie the breast and bellie monstruous big from the nauill as it were a long string hanging about the necke a great collar of flesh and skin growing like the ruffe of a shirt or neckercher comming vp aboue the eares pleited and folded c. line 20 The realme of France being in great trouble about this season by the means of
wherof as some affirme were six hundred gentlemen so brauelie attired and mounted as in déed was woorthie the noting which goodly companie waited on their shirife a long season But in good sooth as it was crediblie spoken the bankets and feasts began here afresh all kinds of triumphs that might be deuised were put in practise and proofe The earle of Surreie did shew most sumptuous cheare in whose parke were speaches well set out and a speciall deuise much commended and the rest as a number of iollie gentlemen were no whit behind to the vttermost of their abilities in all that might be doone and deuised But when the quéenes highnesse came to Norwich the substance of the whole triumph and feasting was in a maner there new to begin For order was taken there that euerie daie for six daies togither a shew of some strange deuise should be seene And the maior and aldermen appointed among themselues and their brethren that no one person reteining to the queene should be vnfeasted or vnbidden to dinner supper during the space of those six daies which order was well wiselie obserued and gained their citie more fame and credit than they wot of for that courtesie of theirs shall remaine in perpetuall memorie whiles the walles of their citie standeth Besides the monie they bestowed vpon diuerse of the traine and those that tooke paines for them will be a witnesse of their well dooing and good will whiles the report of these things maie be called to remembrance Now who can considering their great charges and discreet gouernement in these causes but giue them due land and reputation as farre as either pen or report maie doo them good stretch out their credit For most assuredlie they haue taught and learned all the townes and cities in England a lesson how to behaue themselues in such like seruices and actions On saturdaie being the sixteenth of August 1578 and in the twentith yeare of the reigne of our most gratious souereigne ladie Elisabeth by the grace of God quéene of England France Ireland defender of the faith c the same our most dread and souereigne ladie continuing hir progresse in Norffolke immediatlie after dinner set forward from Brakenash where she had dined with the ladie Stile being fiue miles distant from Norwich towards the same hir most dutifull citie Sir Robert Wood then esquier now knight maior of the same citie at one of the clocke in the same happie daie set forward to méet with hir maiestie in this order First there rode before him well and séemelie mounted thréescore of the most comelie yoong men of the citie as batchellers apparelled all in blacke satten dublets blacke hose blacke taffata hats and yellow bands and their vniuersall liuerie was a mandilion of purple taffata laid about with siluer lase so apparelled they marched forwards two and two in a ranke Then one which represented king Gurgunt sometime king of England which builded the castell of Norwich called Blanch Flowre and laid the foundation of the citie He was mounted vpon a braue courser and was thus furnished his bodie armed his bases of greene and white silke on his head a blacke veluet hat with a plume of white feathers There attended vpon him thrée henchmen in white and gréene one of them did beare his helmet the second his target the third his staffe after him a noble companie of gentlemen and wealthie citizens in veluet coats and other costlie line 10 furniture brauelie mounted Then followed the officers of the citie euerie one in his place Then the sword-bearer with the sword hat of maintenance Then the maior and foure and twentie aldermen and the recorder all in scarlet gownes whereof so manie as had béene maiors of the citie and were iustices did weare their scarlet clokes then followed so manie as had béene shiriffs and were no aldermen in violet gownes and sattin tippets Then followed line 20 diuerse others to kéepe the people from disturbing the araie aforesaid Thus euerie thing in due and comelie order they all except Gurgunt which staied hir maiesties comming within a flight shoot or two of the citie where the castell of Blanch Flowre was in most beautifull prospect marched forwards to a bridge called Hartford bridge the vttermost limit that waie distant from the citie two miles or there abouts to méet with hir maiestie who within one houre or little line 30 more after their attendance came in such gratious and princelie wise as rauished the harts of all hir louing subiects and might haue terrified the stoutest heart of anie enimie to behold Whether the maiestie of the prince which is incomparable or ioie of hir subiects which excéeded measure were the greater I thinke would haue appalled the iudgement of Apollo to define The acclamations and cries of the people to the almightie God for the preseruation of hir maiestie ratled so lowd as hardly for a great time could line 40 anie thing be heard But at last as euerie thing hath an end the noise appeased and the maior saluted hir highnesse with the oration following and yéelded to hir maiestie therewith the sword of the citie and a faire standing cup of siluer and guilt with a couer and in the cup one hundred pounds in gold The oration was in these words Praetoris Nordouicensis ad serenissimam Reginam c. line 50 SI nobis ab Opt. Max. concederetur optio quid rerū humanarū nunc potissimùm vellemus nihil duceremus antiquius augustissima princeps quà m vt tuus ille qui ita nos recreat castissimi ocelli radius posset in abditissimos cordium nostrorū angulos se conferre Cerneres profectò quanta sint hilaritate perfusa quà m in ipsis arterijs venulis spiritus line 60 sanguis gestiant dumintuemur te huius regni lumen vt Dauid olim fuit Israelitici in hijs tandem finibus post longam spem ardentissima vota exoriri Equidem vt pro me qui tua ex authoritate clementia quod humillimis gratijs profiteor celeberrimae huic ciuitati praesum pro hijs meis fratribus atque omni hoc populo quem tuis auspicijs regimus ex illorum sensuloquar quod ipse sentio sic nos demum supplicibus votis exposcimus vt maiestatem tuam beneuolam nobis propitiam experiamur vt nunquam cuiquam populo aduenisti gratior quà m nobis In illius rei luculentissimū indicium insignia haec honoris officij nostri quae nobis clementissimus princeps Henricus quartus quinto sui regni anno cū praetore senatoribus vicecomitibus cōcessit cum antea balliuis vt vocant vltra annalium nostrorum memoriam regeremur perpetuis deinde regum priuilegijs corroborata nobis aucta magnificè maiestati tuae omnia exhibemus quae per tuam vnius clementiam quam cum immortalibus gratijs praedicare nunquam cessabimus
of them were likewise arreigned at Westminster who pleading not giltie were tried by a iurie found giltie and had iudgement accordinglie The effect of whose treasons shortlie to touch them were these Iohn Sauage remaining long in France at Rheims was persuaded by doctor Gilbert Gifford that great honor should redound to him if he would take in hand to change religion to inuade the realme by forren power to dispossesse the quéene of England and to proclame the Scotish queene and set hir in hir place All which Sauage promised to doo or else to lose his life and therevpon returned into England where he imparted his purpose to Anthonie Babington requiring his aid therein Then Iohn Ballard préest also persuaded the said Babington to the purpose before expressed promising him aid of threescore thousand men that secretlie should be landed and told him both how when as he thought Wherevpon Babington promised and concluded to make a slaughter vpon the councell of hir maiestie in the Starchamber then to haue sacked London to haue burned the nauie and chéefest ships to kill or displace the lords knights and magistrats that remained true subiects to our right lawfull quéene and realme and also to haue cloied and poisoned the greatest ordinance c. These were their purposes Now touching the names of the traitors their behauiours and speaches with the maner of their executions you shall vnderstand that vpon the twentith daie of September being tuesdaie Iohn Ballard a preest and first persuader of Babington to these odious treasons was laid alone vpon an hurdell and six others two and two in like sort all drawne from Tower hill through the citie of London vnto a field at the vpper end of Holborne hard by the high waie side to saint Giles in the field where was erected a scaffold for their execution a paire of gallows of extraordinarie hight as was that wherevpon haughtie Haman was hanged for his ambition c the place likewise so railed to kéepe off horssemen as the people might plainelie see the execution On the first daie the traitors were placed vpon the scaffold that the one might behold the reward of his fellowes treason Ballard the preest who was the first brocher of this treason was the first that was hanged who being cut downe according to iudgement was dismembred his bellie ript vp his bowels and traitorous heart taken out throwne into the fire his head also seuered from his shoulders was set on a short stake vpon the top of the gallows and the trunke of his bodie quartered and imbrued in his owne bloud wherewith the executioners hands were bathed and some of the standers by but to their great loathing as not able for their liues to auoid it such was the throng beesprinkled This Ballard at the verie time of his death not denieng his treason died an obstinate papist and in his protestation doubtfullie said that If he had offended the queens maiestie or anie man else he was sorie and so conditionallie desired forgiuenesse The malicious affection of his heart towards hir highnesse appeared in the trembling passage of death that whereas his treasons were impious odious and damnable as the most wicked to wit his confederats for the most part confessed as the common fame goeth that they excéeded the greatnesse of hir maiesties mercie which maie not be measured where there is anie measure in offending And yet in his desire of remission at hir highnesse hands he added this condition If as one that doubted if he had offended hir person Next vnto this préest Anthonie Babington was made readie to the gallowes who in euerie point was handled like vnto Ballard in whome a signe of his former pride was to be obserued For whereas the rest through the cogitation of death were exercised in praier vpon their knées and bare-headed he whose turne was next stood on his féet line 10 with his hat on his head as if he had béene but a beholder of the execution Concerning his religion he died a papist His treasons were so odious as the sting of conscience compelled him to acknowledge himselfe a most gréeuous trespasser against the diuine maiestie and the quéens highnesse Next vnto Babington Sauage was likewise prepared for the execution This notable traitor as the fame goeth was the man that conferred with doctor Gifford at Paris and by the confirmations of the line 20 English fugitiues at Rhemes was resolued and resolutelie determined to kill the quéene It is likewise said that vpon the apprehension of Ballard the préest Babington accellerated and hastened this Sauage to dispatch his resolution and that he onelie deferred the matter for the making of a court-like sute of apparell When Sauage was executed Barnewell was made readie to die an obstinat papist who for his treason made conscience his best excuse howbeit a line 30 rotten conscience which was infected with the murther of a vertuous quéene which sith it was so bad few there were that heard him but forbad their conscience to pitie him otherwise than charitablie to be sorowfull for his offense deseruing so shamefull a fall and damnable before God and man After this Barnewell Tichborns turne was serued a proper yoong gentleman whose humilitie and mone moued much compassion Tilneie one of the queens maiesties pensioners next vnto Tichborne made worke for the hangman a wretch well worthie of line 40 death who went about to take awaie hir highnesse life The last of these seuen that suffered was Edward Abington whose father was an officer of good credit in hir highnesse house and for manie aduancements was bound to saie God saue good Q. Elisabeth But his sonne was a notable papist an archtraitor who at his death did all that in him laie to fix a feare in the hearts of the ignorant multitude with this speech that there could not choose but be great effusion of bloud in England verie shortlie But line 50 Gods prouidence maketh it apparant that the prophesies of traitors prooue not euermore scripture For Throgmorton the traitor said that before one yeare was expired the prosperitie peace of England should be turned into generall calamitie Howbeit the date of that diuination is out they both as maie béetide the rest of that rebellious rout in their appointed time by Gods grace partakers of semblable destinie This Abington was the last of the first seuen that were executed and thus ended line 60 that daies worke to the comfort of Israell for that the execrable thing which troubled the whole land and highlie offended the diuine maiestie was taken awaie On the daie following according to generall expectation being the one and twentith daie of September Salisburie was laid alone vpon an hurdell and other six two and two in like maner all drawne from Tower hill through the citie of London vnto the former place of execution Salisburie was the first
authorities of this kind the number being so great as that they would fill vp Erotostthenes siue and to saie somewhat of seueritie that by opposition of countrie to countrie in that respect we maie sée the great difference betwéene ours and theirs It is seueritie to flea men quicke to chaine them aliue to a stake in such sort as they maie run round line 60 thereabout the fier inuironing them on all sides it is seueritie to haue collops of flesh pluckt from the bodie with hot burning tongs it is seueritie to be cast downe from a stéepe place starke naked vpon sharpe stakes it is seueritie to be torne in péeces with wild horsses and to haue the bones broken vpon a whéele All these be extremities of torments awarded by law and at this daie practised in forren regions for treason and sometime for crimes of nothing so dangerous a nature Finallie if we confer the seueritie of this execution exercised vpon rebellious and traitorous subiects in a superlatiue degree of disloialtie with that of other nations commonlie vsed namelie in principall affaires which concerne peace and warre and matters of gouernment to accept theseruice of runnagate slaues to place them in authoritie to change or depose at pleasure anie whatsoeuer yea to strangle them vpon the least suspicion or dislike our seueritie is clemencie For in this is ripe reason and iudiciall processe in the other will without wit as commonlie they saie Omnia pro imperio nihil pro officio And therefore we conclude that ingratitude being counted vnnaturall and treason a vice vomited out of hell mouth linked togither with manie knots of other shamefull sinnes and all concurring in the hearts and liues of these outragious conspirators as in a centre whie should it be thought seueritie to haue iustice iustlie administred that traitors should be drawne vpon hurdels strangled in a halter cut downe aliue dismembred their bellies ripped their bowels taken out and burned their heads chopt from their shoulders their bodies clouen in foure quarters and set ouer the gates of London for the foules of the aire to féed vpon at full Unto which fowle end maie all such come as meane anie mischiefe against good quéene Elisabeth the lords of hir highnesse councell the bodie politike of the land the slander or innouation of true religion c wherein God make prince and people of one mind and plant in all subiects a reuerend regard of obedience and contentment of present estate supported with iustice and religion least longing after nouelties it fare with them as with the frogs who liuing at libertie in lakes and ponds would néeds as misliking their present intercommunitie of life with one consent sue to Iupiter for a king and so did Whereat he woondering granted their desires and cast them an huge trunke of a trée which besides that it made a great noise in the water as it fell to their terrifieng so it was cumbersome by taking vp their accustomed passage insomuch that discontented therewithall they assaulted Iupiter with a fresh petition complaining that besides diuerse mislikes otherwise the king whom he gaue them was but a senselesse stocke and vnworthie of obedience wherefore it would please him to appoint them another indued with life Wherevpon Iupiter sent the herne among them who entring into the water deuoured vp the frogs one after another insomuch that the residue séeing their new king so rauenouslie gobling vp their fellowes lamentablie wéeping besought Iupiter to deliuer them from the throte of that dragon and tyrant But he of purpose vnchangeable made them a flat answer that will they nill they the herne should rule ouer them Whereby we are taught to be content when we are well and to make much of good quéene Elisabeth by whom we enioie life and libertie with other blessings from aboue beséeching God we maie sée a consummation of the world before the scepter of the kingdome be translated to another For as the prouerbe saith seldome commeth the better But to the purpose this execution being dispatched and the testimonies thereof dispersed and visible in diuerse places about the citie as at London bridge where the traitors heads were ranged into their seuerall classes manie rimes ballads and pamphlets were set foorth by sundrie well affected people wherein bréefelie were comprised the plot of their conspiracie the names of the traitors and their successiue suffering which growing common and familiar both in citie and countrie were chanted with no lesse alacritie courage of the singer than willinglie and delightfullie listened vnto of the hearer So that what by one meane and what by another all England was made acquainted with this horrible conspiracie not so much admiring the maner of the mischéefes intended as comforted that hir highnesse had the holie hand of God ouershadowing hir the surest protection that prince or people can haue against perill So that England is replenished with faithfull and louing subiects though here and there like darnell among wheate lurke a viper or aspe waiting opportunitie to bite or sting Now to make a complet discourse of all these heauie tragicall accidents hauing thus far continued line 10 much important matter concerning the same the reader is with due regard to peruse the addition following wherein is argument of aggrauation touching these treasons which being aduisedlie read considered and conferred with the former narration will yéeld as sound pithie and effectuall information for the knowledge of the conspirators purposed plot as anie subiect would desire and more than without gréefe or teares anie true English heart can abide to read or heare Where by the waie is to be line 20 noted that Marie the Scotish Q. was a principall It is apparant by the iudiciall confessions of Iohn Ballard preest Anthonie Babington and their confederats that the said Iohn Ballard being a preest of the English seminarie at Rheims in Lent past after he and sundrie other Iesuits and preests of his sect had trauelled throughout all parts almost of this realme labored to their vttermost to bréed in hir maiesties subiects an inclination to rebell against hir he went into France and there treated line 30 and concluded with Barnardino de Mendoza the Spanish ambassador resiant at Paris with Charles Paget Thomas Morgan two English fugitiues and inexcusable traitors for an inuasion to be made by forren forces into this kingdome And because no assurance could then be made vnto Mendoza for the interteining assisting and good landing of those whome the king his maister the pope and the house of Guise should dispatch for that seruice he sent the said Ballard into England at Whitsuntide last line 40 with expresse charge to informe the catholikes that for sundrie important considerations the king his maister had vowed vpon his soule to reforme England or to loose Spaine and for that purpose had in readinesse such forces warlike preparations as the like was neuer séene in
Concordia sent from the pope to the French king The duchesse of Britaine maried to K. Charles A parlement wherin king Henrie openeth the iust cause of making warres against France Who first deâ—ed the exaction of monie called a beneuolence Sée pag. 694. 1491. Albert the duke of Saxonies policie to get the towne of Dam. The duke of Saxonie senâ—eth for aid to king Henrie to win Sluis Gu. Hae. in Tob. 4. Sir Edward Poinings a valianâ— capiteine sent into Flanders with an armie One Uere brother to the earle oâ— Oxford slaine Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 866. Abr. Fl. ex Edw. Hall in Hen. 7. fo xxiiâ— c. Granado woone from the Turkes or Saracâ—â—â— The citie of Granado conteined an huâ—â—dred and fiftie thousand houses besides cotages 〈◊〉 dwellings Hostages deliuered to the K. of Spaine for his securitie The banquished people hâ—mblie submit theÌ„selues to the kings vicegerent deliuer vp the keies of the citie The maner of the Spanish kings giuing of thanks for victorie The Spaniards reioising triumphing after the conquest of the Moores The lord Euerus de MeÌ„doza made capteine of the house roiall A great number of states with their traine enter triumphantlie into Granado to take reall possession * Namelie doctor Morton of whom mentioÌ„ is made in the bâ—ginning of this historie Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. â—66 Sir Iames Parker by casualtie at iustes mortallie wounded Two pardonâ—es set on the pillorie Robert Fabian King Henrie and Maximilian agrée to plague the Frenchmen Anno. Reg. 7. The cause of Maximilians malice against Charles of France Maximilian dealeth dishonestlie with the king of England to his great vâ—xation Maximilian king of Romans breaketh 〈◊〉 with king Henrie in iâ—â—â—ning with 〈◊〉 to inuade France The disâ—â—â—â—lation of the French king A motion on the French part for a treatie of peace with the English Commissioners sent ouer to Calis about the said â—eace Bullogne besiâ—ged by the Englishmen the king himselfe pâ—esent Why the English preferred warre before peace Polydor. Sir Iohn Sauage slaine at this siege Richard PlaÌ„tagenet a counterfeit of ladie Margarets imagining The conclusion of peace betwéene the English and French AlphoÌ„se duke of Calabre made knight of the garter Abr. Fl. ex Guic. pag. 43. The French king described The birth of Henrie duke of Yorke after crowned king by the name of Henrie the eight The malice of the duchesse of Burgognie to the line of Lancaster Perkin Warbecke the counterfeit duke of Yorke The readie wit of Perkin to learne all that made for his preferment to honor The emulatioÌ„ of the dukes of Yorke Perkin Warbecke arriueth in Ireland Perkin â—â—â—leth into France 〈◊〉 afâ—ant Perkin reâ—â—â—neth to the ladie Margaret his first founder Perkin nâ—med by the dutches of Burgognie the white roâ—e of England 149â— M. Pal. 〈…〉 Abr. Fl. ex I.S. pag. 865. Stratford bridge vpon Auen builded Such long and looked for alteratiâ—n of states False rumors â—â—casions of great disquietnes Anno Reg. 8. Perkin counterfeiteth the duke of Yorke verie cunninglie Perkins true linage Ambassadors sent to Philip archduke of Burgognie The sum of D. Wariaâ—â—s spéech to the archduke Anno Reg. 9. Espials sent into Flanders from the king for a subtill policie The conspiring faâ—tors of the counterfeit duke of Yorke Abr. Flem. Flemish wares forbidden The mart kept at Calis English commodities banished out of Flanders A riot made vpon the Easterâ—ings Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 867. Execution for seditious bils against the kings person Uittels â—â—â—tie sold good cheape 1494 Anno Reg. 1. Policie of K. Henrie against Robert Clifford Sir William Stanleie a fauourer of Perkin The offense of sir William Stanleie Coniectures of sir William Stanleies alienated from king Henrie King Henrie in a quandaâ—e Sir William Stanleie beheaded 〈◊〉 Flem. See pag. 760. Iâ—hn Stow. pag. â—69 The king and queene dine at sergeants feast kept at Elie place A wonder to be noted in a câ—â—pse that 〈…〉 the ground Rich. Grafton Anno Reg. 11. Lord Daubenie the kings câ—â—efe chamberleine Sir Edward Pâ—inings sâ—nt into Irelâ—â—d with an â—â—mie Gerald earle of Kildare deputie of Ireland apprehended King Henries progresse into Lancashire Perkin attempteth to land in Kent in hope of historie Perkins men discomfited Perkins capteins taken executed Perkin reâ—â—â—leth into Flanders Perkin 〈◊〉 into Ireland and is in â—â—ndrie opinions Katharine daughter to the earle of Huntleie maried to Perkin M. Pal. in Virg. Abr. Flem. ex Edw. Hall fol. xxxviij xxxix Perkin saith that he is Edward the fourths lawfull sonne Perkin telleth the king how he was preserued and kept aliue Perkin calleth the ladie Margaret â—â—chesse of Burgognie his owne 〈◊〉 Perkin craueth aid of the Scotish king toward the recouerie of the crowne of England from king Henrie the seuenth The Scotish king inuadeth EnglaÌ„d with a great armie in Perkin his behalfe The counterfeit compassion of Perkin Anno Reg. 12. A parlement of the thrée estates of the realme A subsidie The king of England and ScotlaÌ„d prepare for mutuall warre A rebellion in Cornewall for the paiment of a subsidie The two capteins in this commotion The prouosâ— of Perin slaine by the rebels Thomas Howard earle of Surrie high treasuror of England Iames Twichet lord Audelie chéefe capteine of the Cornish rebels Manie of the Cornishmen take their héels by night The citie of London sore afraid of the rebels Blackheath field Thrée hundred slaine a thousand fiue hundred taken prisoners as Iohn Stow saith Iames lord Iuâ—elie ignominâ—ouslie drawne to execution and beheaded Anno Reg. â—â— The Scots inuade the English borders Fox bishop 〈◊〉 Durham owner of Norham castell What lords knights with their companies went to the rescued of the castel against the Scots The earle of Surrie entreth Scotland defacing castels and towers The valiant â—art of the erle of Surrie reâ—â—sing at his haplikelie to fight hand to hand with the k. of Scots An ambassadour from the â— of Spaine 〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉 betwixt England and Scotland Luc. lib. 10. The English merchants receiued into Antwerpe with generall procession Perkin is faine to pack â— out of Scotland Perkin Warbeck arriueth in Cornwall Another rebellion by the Cornishmen Perkins thrée councellors Excester asâ—â—saulted by Perkin the Cornishmen The citie of Excester preserued from fire by fire The king maketh out his power against Perkin Edward the yoong duke of Buckingham and his companâ—e ioine with the king Perkin fléeth and taketh Braudlie sanctuarie The beautifull ladie katharine Perkins wife presented to the king Iohn Hooker alià s Vowell All Perkins partakers in their shirts with halters about their necks appâ—â—â— before the king Perkin in sanctuarie assaulted Perkin submitteth hiâ—selfe to the king and is streictlie séene 〈◊〉 M Pal. in Virg. CoÌ„missioners appointed for â—â—â—essing of their â—ines that fauoured the Cornish rebels Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag 872. Gardens in Moore field 〈◊〉 wast to make archers game Price of haie doubled
king Henrie the eight Edw. Hall CCxij The kings letters to the maior of London touching the coronation The cities preparation Hir comming by water from Gréenewich on thursdaie The maiors barge with the conceits and deuises thereof A foist with â— mount and other deuises Quéene Anne taketh barge with hir name attending vpon hir Knights of the bath serue at dinner The receiuing and conueieng of the quéen through London The maior in a gowne of crimsm veluet The attire of certeine Frenchmen belonging to the French embassador The two dukes of Norffolke and Suffolke in their offices Quéene Annes attire verie sumptuous and roiall Thrée chariots with goodlie ladies and gentlewomen Sundrie pageants with the descriptions of their deuises An oration made to the quéene by one of the children in the pagegeant The conduit in Cheape runneth wine white and claret The recorder presenteth a 1000 marks in gold to the quéene for a gratuitie in the cities behalfe Two hundred children vpon a scaffold grating the Q. with verses Goodlie melodie The quéene commeth to Westminster hall and the maner of hir receiuing Sundaie being Whitsundaie the firsâ— daie of Iune and the daie of hir coronatioÌ„ The comelie â—â—der araie kâ—pt on the coronation daie of euerie attendant in his degrée The quéene vnder a canopie borne by â—â—ure of the â—â—que ports The maner of the coronatioÌ„ as it was then vsed The quéene and the ladies in their pompe The attire of the lords all the time that they serued The order and sitting at dinner Twelue citizens of London attendant at the cupboord The maner of sitting at the table The bringing in of the first course How the seuerall tables were furnished The maior of Londons seruice The duke of Suffolke and Norffolke rode about the hall The claime of the citie of London Running at tilt Edw. Hall Câ—xvij The christening of quéene Elizabeth The honourable traine of courtiers in their degrées A canopie borne ouer the yoong princesse Rich gifts giuen to the princesse Who bare the giâ—ts presented to the princesse Angl. praâ—l Septimo Septembris videlices die Dominico nascitur Elisabetha Edw. Hal. Ccxviiâ— Pauier a contemner of the gospell his shamefull end Eob. Hess in psal 119. Guic. pag. 1182 c. Death of pope Clement the seuenth Pope Clement more infortunate than fortunate How manie cardinals he created during his popedome Creation of pope Paule the third a Roman borne Antith Christi papae pag. 16. Elizabeth Barton Penance at Pauls crosse The Scots mooue warre A cursse procured from the pope â—534 Elizabeth Barton attainted A forged miracle Elizabeth Barton becommâ—th a nun The archbisâ—op of Canturâ—urie and â—â—â—bishop of Rochester giue credit to 〈◊〉 hypocritical praâ—tises Elizabeth Barton execâ—ted Thâ— act of â—â—tablishmâ—â—t the crowne Ambassadors foorth of Scotland The pâ—pes supremacie denied in sermons The lords sworne to the succession Ab. Fl. ex Edw. Hall 224 Woolfes wife a notable harlot The end of vnlawful loue and lust The reward of murther committed through couetousnesse Anno Reg. 26. The lord Dacres of the north arreigned Iohn Frith burned Iohn Stow. Frieries suppressed The parlemeÌ„t againe beginneth The admerall of France coÌ„meth in ambassage into England Anno Reg. 27. Iohn Stow. Certeine priors arreigned and executed for treason Iohn Stow. pag. 1004. Hollanders condemned for heretikes Moonks of the Charterhouse executed The bishop of Rochester beheaded Sir 〈◊〉 Mâ—â—re beheaded Abr. Fl. ex Edw. Hall fol. CCxxvj Sir Thomas Moore a scoffer mocker at the verie houre of his death I. Lelandi Mâ—riades siue Châ—â—itaea corona Spirituall graces doo not necessâ—rilie concurrâ— aâ— depend vpon temporall Sir Thomas More in some cases commâ—nded Abr. Flem. 〈◊〉 of a sermon made at Paules crosse by doctor Elmer bishop of London on the eightéenth of October 1584. Whether it wâ—re mattins or euensong it makes no matter Sir Thomas More deuoâ—tlie giuen in his kind The king of Scots knight of the garter The bishop of Winchester â—mbassador into France I. Stow. Uisitation of religious houseâ— 1536. The ladie Katharine Dowager deceaseâ—h Religious houses giuen to the king I. Stow. William Tindall burnt Anno reg 28. Abr. Fl. ex I. Stow. 1006. Quéene Anne committed to the tower Hir imprecation at the tower gate on hir knees She is arreigned in the tower The lord Rochford condemned Quéene Anne and diuerse others beheaded I. For in maityrologio Ang. praelia Ann◠〈◊〉 praedicitur Pla. in Phe. Socratis tale quiddam somniaâ—iâ— The king marieth ladie Iane Seimer A parlement The lord Th. Howard atteinted of treason A booke published concerning religioâ— by the king I. Stow. Triumph at Westminster Adâ—unceâ—â—â—t of the 〈◊〉 Cromwell The death of the kings base sonne The people grudged at the iniunctions established by act of parlement A traitorous conspiracie The Lincolnshire men in armes against the king The petitions of the rebels receiued of the king and of what points they consisted The Lincolnshiremen giue ouer their rebellious enterprise The rebels submit themselues and receiue a new oth of fealtie to the king False rumors the occasion of rebellions A comâ—otion in the north parâ—s An holie pilgrimage The faithfull diligence of the earle of Shrewsburie A good meaning or intent dooth not by and by iustifie and make good the action The loialtie of the earle What the earle said to them that talked lewdlie of him in the campe He was prouided of ill souldiors that so vndutifulliâ— to deale with him would be induced The oth of the earle of Shreâ—wesburie in presence of the people necessarie The duke of Norffolke the kings liâ—utenant The euen of Simon and Iude. A sâ—oud Gods prouidence staieth them from battell The matter is taken vp An other armie of rebels marching southwards through Lancashire A butcher a priest hanged and the cause why A great frost Generall pardons Aske rewarded Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 1010. Sir Raâ—fe Euers his good seruice in the north Penance at Paules crosse The earle of Kildare executed Tilbie A new rebellion Sir Francis Bigod procureth a new commotion The purpose of the rebels Aske others practise to raise a new rebellion Robert Packington murthered Rich. Grafton The inuention of casting pipes Anno reg 29. Execution Areignment Execution The birth of king Edward the sixt The death of quéene Iane. Iohn Fox in Acts Monuments These verses were thought to be made by master Armigill Wade Creation of officers Abr. Fl. ex I. S pag. 1011 1012. Lord Thomas Howard deceassed Good of grace shewed at Paules Saint Sauior in Southworke Anno Reg 30. Frier Forrest Frier Forrest burnt A prophesie Râ—c Graf in fol. pag. 1237. Execution Certeine images takeÌ„ away and remooued from their places Ab. Fl. ex I.S. pag. 1013. Hangman hanged The bible in euerie church to be read Register booke in euerie church to be kept Thomas Becket burnt Frée schoole and almes houses at Ratcliffe Iohn Nicholson alià s Lambert The marques of Excester condemned I. Stow. pag. 1019.
seruant Marie our quéene with child conceiued and so visit hir in and with thy godlie gift of health that not onelie the child thy creature within line 50 hir conteined maie ioifullie come from hir into this world and receiue the blessed sacraments of baptisme and confirmation inioieng therewith dailie increase of all princelie and gratious gifts both of bodie and soule but that also she the mother through thy speciall grace and mercie maie in time of hir trauell auoid all excessiue dolour and paine and abide perfect and sure from all perill and danger of death with long and prosperous life thorough Christ line 60 our Lord Amen ¶ And thus much shall suffice touching this great adoo about quéene Marie and hir babe The second daie of December being sundaie cardinall Poole came to Pauls church in London with great pompe hauing before him a crosse two pillers and two pollaxes of siluer and was there solemnlie receiued by the bishop of Winchester chancellor of England who met him with procession And shortlie after king Philip came from Westminster by land being accompanied with a great number of his nobles And the same daie the bishop of Winchester preached at Pauls crosse in the which sermon he declared that the king and quéene had restored the pope to his right of primasie that the thrée estates assembled in parlement representing the whole bodie of the realme had submitted themselues to his holinesse and to his successors for euer And in the same also he greatlie praised the cardinall and set foorth the passing high authoritie that he had from the 〈◊〉 of Rome with much other glorious matter in the commendation of the church of Rome which he called the see apostolike This sermon being ended the king and the cardinall riding togither returned to White hall and the king had his sword borne before him and the cardinall had onelie his crosse and no more The seauen and twentith daie of the said moneth Emanuell Philibert earle of Sauoie and prince of Piemount came into England accompanied with diuerse other lords and gentlemen strangers who were receiued at Grauesend by the earle of Bedford lord priuie seale and conueied by water through London bridge to White hall where the king and queene then laie ¶ On the ninth of Ianuarie next following the prince of Orange was in like maner receiued at Grauesend and from thence conueied to the court being at White hall The twelfth of Ianuarie the said prince of Orange with other lords was conducted by the lord chamberlein to the tower of London where was shewed vnto him the ordinance artillerie munitions and armorie with the mint c and so was brought into the white tower from whence as he returned through the long gallerie all the prisoners saluted him vnto whome the prince said he was sorie for their captiuitie and trusted the king and quéene would be good vnto them At his departing from the tower he gaue the gunners ten péeces of Flemmish gold at fiue shillings the péece and the warders other ten péeces as a reward Upon wednesdaie the 12 of December fiue of the eight men which laie in the Fléet that had passed vpon sir Nicholas Throckmortons triall were discharged and set at libertie vpon their fines paid which was two hundred and twentie pounds a péece The other thrée put vp a supplication therein declaring their goods did not amount to the summe of that which they were appointed to paie and so vpon that declaration paieng thrée score pounds a péece they were deliuered out of prison on saint Thomas daie before Christmas being the one twentith of December The two and twentith of the same moneth the parlement which began the two and twentith of Nouember before was dissolued wherein among other acts passed there the statute Ex officio and other lawes made for punishment of heresies were reuiued But chiefelie the popes most liberall bull of dispensation of abbeie land was there confirmed much to the contentation of manie who not without cause suspected by this new vnion to lose some peece of their late purchase ¶ On new yeares daie at night was a great tumult betweene Spaniards and Englishmen at Westminster whereof was like to haue insued great mischiefe through a Spanish frier which got into the church and roong alarum The occasion was about two whores which were in the cloister of Westminster with a sort of Spaniards wherof whilest some plaied the knaues with them other some did kéepe the entrie of the cloister with dags and harnesse In the meane time certeine of the deanes men came into the cloister and the Spaniards discharged their dags at them and hurt some of them By and by the noise of this dooing came into the streets so that the whole towne was vp almost but neuer a stroke was stricken Notwithstanding the noise of this dooing with the deans men and also the ringing of the alarum made much adoo and a great number also to be sore afraid year 1555 Upon fridaie the eighteenth of Ianuarie all the councell by name the lord chancellor the bishop of Elie the lord treasuror the earle of Shrewesburie the comptrollor of the quéenes house secretarie Bourne and sir Richard Southwell master of the ordinance and armorie went to the tower and there the same daie discharged and set at libertie all the prisoners of the tower or the more part of them namelie the archbishop of Yorke the late duke of Northumberlands line 10 sonnes the lords Ambrose Robert and Henrie also sir Andrew Dudleie sir Iames Croftes sir Nicholas Throckmorton sir Iohn Rogers sir Nicholas Arnold sir George Harper sir Edward Warner sir William Sentlow sir Gawen Carew William Gibbes esquier Cutbert Uaughan and diuerse others Moreouer about this season diuerse learned men being apprehended and in prison for matters of religion were brought before the bishops of Winchester line 20 and London and other the bishops and commissioners appointed therefore who vpon the constant standing of the said learned men in their opinions which they had taken vpon them to mainteine as grounded vpon the true word of God as they protested procéeded in iudgement against them and so diuerse of them were burned at London in Smithfield and in diuerse other places Naie not onelie by fire but by other torments were the good christians persecuted whose zeale was hot in religion and defiance line 30 of the pope insomuch that then he was counted Gods enimie which tooke not the pope for the friend of Christ whome he hateth with hostilitie as C.O. noteth verie trulie in his Elisabetha saieng nam creditur hostis Esse Dei papa◠si quis pius asserit hostem Esse Dei veros Christi qui tollit honores In Februarie next following doctor Thirlebie bishop of Elie and Anthonie lord Montacute with a verie honorable traine of gentlemen and others line 40 rode foorth of the citie of
London towards Rome as ambassadors sent from the king and quéene to confirme this new reconciliation to the pope A yoong stripling whose name was William Fetherstone a millers sonne about the age of eightéene yeares named and bruted himselfe to be king Edward the sixt whereof when the quéene and the councell heard they caused with all diligence inquirie to be made for him so that he was apprehended in Southworke or as other haue at Eltham in Kent the tenth of Maie line 50 and brought before the councell at Hampton court and there examined And it was demanded of him why he so named himselfe To which he counterfetting a maner of simplicitie or rather frensie would make no direct answer but praid pardon for he wist not what he said affirming further that he was counselled so to saie and to take vpon him the name whereof he accused certeine persons but his talke was not found true wherefore he was committed to the Marshalseie as a lunatike foole line 60 On the eight and twentith daie of Maie next following the aforesaid counterfet prince was brought in a cart from the Marshalseie thorough the citie of London with a paper ouer his head wherein was written that he named himselfe king Edward And from thense was conueied to Westminster being led round about the hall and shewed to all the people there and afterward he was taken out of the cart and stripped and then whipped round about the palace at the same carts taile and then thorough Westminster into Smithfield and then banished into the north in which countrie he was borne and had béene sometime lackie to sir Peter Mewtas and without more punishment was discharged and set at libertie But the next yeare following for that he had spred abroad that king Edward was aliue and that he had spoken with him he was againe apprehended and arreigned of high treason whereof being condemned he shortlie after was drawne vnto Tiburne and there hanged and quartered the thirtéenth of March ¶ Here as in a fit and conuenient place the obseruation of the daie and moneth offering no lesse it is not amisse to set downe the speech of quéene Marie vttered to sundrie of hir lords touching a motion which no doubt certeine popish prelats had put into hir mind the effect whereof followeth as I find it in master Fox Before I passe this moneth of March saith he I cannot but leaue a little memorandum of the words or consultation of quéene Marie vsed to certeine of the councell the eight twentith daie of the said moneth of March touching the restoring againe of the abbeie lands Who after she had called vnto hir presence foure of hir priuie councell the daie and moneth aforesaid the names of which councellors were these William lord marquesse of Winchester high treasuror of England sir Robert Rochester knight the queenes comptrollor sir William Peter knight secretarie sir Francis Inglefield knight master of wards the said queene Marie inferred these words the principall effect summe whereof here followeth You are here of our councell and we haue willed you to be called to vs to the intent yee might heare of me my conscience and the resolution of my mind concerning the lands and possessions as well of monasteries as other churches whatsoeuer being now presentlie in my possession First I doo consider that the said lands were taken awaie from the churches aforesaid in time of schisme and that by vnlawfull means such as are contrarie both to the law of God and of the church For the which cause my conscience dooth not suffer me to deteine them and therefore I here expresselie refuse either to claime or to reteine the said lands for mine but with all my heart fréelie and willinglie without all paction or condition here and before God I doo surrender and relinquish the said lands and possessions or inheritances whatsoeuer doo renounce the same with this mind and purpose that order and disposition thereof may be taken as shall séeme best liking to our most holie lord the pope or else his legat the lord cardinall to the honour of God and wealth of this our realme And albeit you may obiect to me againe that considering the state of my kingdome the dignitie thereof and my crowne imperiall cannot be honorablie mainteined and furnished without the possessions aforesaid yet notwithstanding I set more by the saluation of my soule than by ten kingdoms and therefore the said possessions I vtterlie refuse here to hold after that sort and title and giue most hartie thanks to almightie God which hath giuen me an husband likewise minded with no lesse good affection in this behalfe than I am my selfe Wherefore I charge and command that my chancellor with whom I haue conferred my mind in this matter before and you foure to morrow together doo resort to the most reuerend lord legat and doo signifie to him the premisses in my name giue your attendance vpon him for the more full declaration of the state of my kingdome and of the foresaid possessions accordinglie as you your selues doo vnderstand the matter and can informe him in the same This charge as the sequele gaue proofe was followed with no lesse diligence of the lords than it was imposed with willingnes vpon them by the quéene insomuch that shortlie after as anon you shall heare the performed hir promise to â—he pith But to leâ— this matter passe till due time place require a declaration of the conclusion thereof I am héere saith master Fox as occasion serueth to intreat of pope Iulius death for so much as he made his end about the latter end of this foresaid moneth of March. Concerning the déeds and acts of which pope to make a full declaration it were not so much tedious to the reader as horrible to all good eares Under this Iulius florished the archbishop of Beneuentanus a Florentine named Iohannes a Casa deane of the popes chamber and chéefe legat to the line 10 Uenetians who well declaring the fruit of that filthie see so farre forgat both honestie and nature that he shamed not onelie to plaie the filthie Sodomite himselfe and to boast openlie of the same but also tooke vpon him most impudentlie in Italian metre to all mens eares to set foorth the praise and commendation of that beastlie iniquitie saieng that he himselfe neuer vsed other and this booke was printed at Uenice by one Troianus Nauus And yet the pope could suffer this so great iniquitie and shamelesse line 20 beastlinesse euen vnder his nose in his owne chamber which could not abide the true doctrine of Christ in christian bookes Amongst other pranks and déeds of this foresaid pope in his Iubilée and in the synod of Trent and in confirming of the idoll of Lauretane this is also reported of him in his life that he delighted greatlie in porke flesh and peacocks Upon a time when he