of a thousand archers kept himselfe within the woods and desert places whereof that countrie is full and so during all the time of this warre shewed himselfe an enimie to the Frenchmen slaieng no small numbers of them as he tooke them at any aduantage O worthie gentleman line 60 of English bloud And O Grandia quae aggreditur fortis discrimina virtus In like manner all the fortresses townes and castels in the south parts of the realme were subdued vnto the obeisance of Lewes the castels of Douer and Windsore onelie excepted Within a little while after Will. de Mandeuille Robert Fitz Walter and William de Huntingfield with a great power of men of warre did the like vnto the countries of Essex and Suffolke In which season king Iohn fortified the castels of Wallingford Corse Warham Bristow the Uies and diuerse others with munition and vittels About which time letters came also vnto Lewes from his procurators whom he had sent to the pope by the tenor whereof he was aduertised that notwithstanding all that they could doo or say the pope meant to excommunicate him and did but onelie staie till he had receiued some aduertisement from his legat Gualo The chéefest points as we find that were laid by Lewes his procurators against king Iohn were these that by the murther committed in the person of his nephue Arthur he had béene condemned in the parlement chamber before the French king by the péeres of France and that being summoned to appeare he had obstinatelie refused so to doo and therefore had by good right forfeited not onelie his lands within the precinct of France but also the realme of England which was now due vnto the said Lewes as they alledged in right of the ladie Blanch his wife daughter to Elianor quéene of Spaine But the pope refelled all such allegations as they produced for proofe hereof seemed to defend king Iohns cause verie pithilie but namelie in that he was vnder the protection of him as supreme lord of England againe for that he had taken vpon him the crosse as before yée haue heard But now to returne where we left About the feast of saint Margaret Lewes with the lords came againe to London at whose comming the tower of London was yeelded vp to him by appointment after which the French capteins and gentlemen thinking themselues assured of the realme began to shew their inward dispositions and hatred toward the Englishmen and forgetting all former promises such is the nature of strangers and men of meane estate that are once become lords of their desires according to the poets words Asperius nihil est humili cùm surgit in altum they did manie excessiue outrages in spoiling and robbing the people of the countrie without pitie or mercie Moreouer they did not onelie breake into mens houses but also into churches and tooke out of the same such vessels and ornaments of gold and siluer as they could laie hands vpon for Lewes had not the power now to rule the gréedie souldiers being wholie giuen to the spoile But most of all their tyrannie did appeare in the east parts of the realme when they went through the countries of Essex Suffolke and Northfolke where they miserablie spoiled the townes and villages reducing those quarters vnder their subiection and making them tributaries vnto Lewes in most seruile and slauish manner Furthermore at his comming to Norwich he found the castell void of defense and so tooke it without any resistance and put into it a garison of his souldiers Also he sent a power to the towne of Lin which conquered the same and tooke the citizens prisoners causing them to paie great summes of monie for their ransoms Morouer Thomas de Burgh chateleine of the castell of Norwich who vpon the approch of the Frenchmen to the citie fled out in hope to escape was taken prisoner and put vnder safekéeping He was brother vnto Hubert de Burgh capteine of Douer castell Now when Lewes had thus finished his enterprises in those parts he returned to London and shortlie therevpon created Gilbert de Gaunt earle of Lincolne appointing him to go thither with all conuenient speed that he might resist the issues made by them which did hold the castels of Notingham and Newarke wasting and spoiling the possessions and lands belonging to the barons neere adioining to the same castels This Gilbert de Gaunt then togither with Robert de Ropeley comming into that countrie tooke the citie of Lincolne and brought all the countrie vnder subiection the castell onlie excepted After that they inuaded Holland and spoiling that countrie made it also tributarie vnto the French Likewise Robert de Roos Peter de Bruis and Richard Percie subdued Yorke and all Yorkeshire bringing the same vnder the obeisance of Lewes The king of Scots in like sort subdued vnto the said Lewes all the countrie of Northumberland except the castels which Hugh de Balioll and Philip de Hulcotes valiantlie defended against all the force of the enimie line 10 And as these wicked rebels made a prey of their owne countrie so the legat Guallo not behind for his part to get something yer all should be gone vpon a falkonish or woolnish appetite fleeced the church considering that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and tooke proxies of euerie cathedrall church house of religion within England that is to say for euerie proxie fiftie shillings Moreouer he sequestred all the line 20 benefices of those persons and religious men that either aided or counselled Lewes and the barons in their attempts and enterprises All which benefices he spéedilie conuerted to his owne vse and to the vse of his chapleins In the meane time Lewes was brought into some good hope thorough meanes of Thomas de Burgh whom he tooke prisoner as before you haue heard to persuade his brother Hubert to yéeld vp the castell of Douer the siege whereof was the next line 30 enterprise which he attempted For his father king Philip hearing that the same was kept by a garrison to the behoofe of king Iohn wrote to his sonne blaming him that he left behind him so strong a fortresse in his enimies hands But though Lewes inforced his whole indeuour to win that castell yet all his trauell was in vaine For the said Hubert de Burgh and Gerard de Sotigam who were chéefe capteins within did their best to defend it against him and all his power so that despairing to win it by force he assaied to obteine his purpose by threatning line 40 to hange the capteins brother before his face if he would not yeeld the sooner But when that would not serue he sought to win him by large offers of gold and siluer Howbeit such was the singular constancie of Hubert that he would not giue anie eare vnto those his flatering motions Then Lewes in a great furie menaced that he would not once depart from
with certeine articles therevnto annexed to be made out concerning inclosures of commons high waies decaieng of cottages and diuerse other things giuing line 20 the commissioners authoritie to heare and determine the same causes to the subuersion of the laws and statutes of this realme whereby much sedition insurrection and rebellion haue risen and growne among the kings subiects 12 Also you haue suffered the rebels and traitors to assemble and to lie in campe and armor against the king his nobles and gentlemen without anie spéedie subduing or repressing of them 13 Also you did comfort and incourage diuerse of line 30 the said rebels by giuing of them diuerse sums of your owne monie and by promising to diuerse of them fées rewards and seruices 14 Also you in fauor of the said rebels did against the lawes cause a proclamation to be made that none of the said rebels and traitors should be sued or vexed by anie person for anie their offenses in the said rebellion to the cleare subuersion of the same lawes 15 Also you haue said in time of the rebellion line 40 that you liked well the dooings and proceedings of the said rebels and traitors and said that the couetousnesse of the gentlemen gaue occasion to the common people to rise saieng also that better it is for the commons to die than perish for lacke of liuing 16 Also you said that the lords of the parlement were loth to incline themselues to reformation of inclosures and other things therefore the people had good cause to reforme the things themselues line 50 17 Also you after the report and declaration of the defaults and lacks reported to you by such as did surueie Bullongne and the péeces there would neuer amend the same defaults 18 Also you would not suffer the péeces beyond the seas called Newhauen and Blacknesse to be furnished with men and vittels although you were aduertised of the defaults therein by the capteins of the same péeces and others and were thereto aduertised by the kings councell wherby the French king line 60 being the kings open enimie was incouraged and comforted to win the said péeces to the kings great losse and dishonour of his realme 19 Also you declared and published vntrulie as well to the kings maiestie as other the yoong lords attendant vpon his graces person that the lords of the councell at London minded to destroie the king and you required the king neuer to forget it but to reuenge it and likewise you required the yoong lords to put the king in remembrance thereof to the intent to make sedition discord betwéene the king and his lords 20 Also where the kings maiesties priuie councell of their loue and zeale that they did beare vnto the king and his realme did consult at London to haue communed with you to the intent to moue you charitablie to amend your dooings and misgouernement you hearing of the said assemblie did cause to be declared by letters in diuerse places the said lords to be high traitors to the king to the great disturbance of the realme And thus much for these troubles of the lord protector and articles against him obiected to the end as was doubted that the same should haue cost him his life But such was the pleasure of almightie God disposing mens hearts as séemeth to him best that at length to wit the sixt of Februarie next he was deliuered and that night he supped at sir Iohn Yorks one of the shiriffes of London also the proclamation before set foorth against him was reuoked called in And thus being againe restored though not to his former office yet vnto libertie he continued therein for the space of two yeares and two daies till new troubles as after shall appeare chanced to him which as they were too heauie for him either to cast off or carrie awaie so were his loders more readie to aggrauate his burthen than willing to ease him anie waie of the weight So that this his exaltation raising to dignitie in respect of the short continuance thereof as also for the enuie wherewith it was assailed had béene better not to haue happened than with such infelicitie in so short a time to haue ended But this fall from honor aduancement with losse of life than the which nothing more pretious nothing more delicious gréeued him the lesse bicause he might perceiue as some suspected that rather of enuie than otherwise reseruing the course of Gods iudgement and vengeance to the secrecie of his owne counsels the same was deuised prosecuted finallie practised Nam quo quisque magis pius est studiosior aequi Charior regi quo quisque potentior extat Sentiet à prauis se tanto odiosius iri Dente Theonino rosum quod fortè latenter Fiet occultè linguae ne sentiatictum Laethalem donec stamen trux Atropos occet Et vi Parcarum coenum voluatur in imum ¶ The seuentéenth of October king Edward came from Hampton court to his place in Southworke and there dined and after dinner he made maister Yorke one of the shiriffes knight and then rode thorough the citie to Westminster The lord maior of London for this yeare named sir Rowland Hill was a man of great charitie and compassion euident and effectuall testimonies whereof he hath left in the world some of whose good deeds partlie in his remembrance partlie for others example are deseruedlie recorded This man caused to be made a causeie commonlie called Ouerlane pauement in the high waie from Stone to Nantwich in length foure miles for horsse and man with diuerse lanes on both sides the same causeie He caused likewise a causeie to be made from Dunchurch to Bransen in Warwikeshire more than two miles of length and gaue twentie pounds in monie towards the making of Roitton bridge thrée miles from Couentrie He made the high waie to Kilborne néere to London He made foure bridges two of them of stone conteining eighteene arches in them both the one ouer the riuer of Seuerne called Achambridge the other Ternebridge for that the water of Terne runneth vnder it the other two of timber at Stoke and built a good part of Stoke church He builded one notable frée schoole at Draiton in Shropshire with maister and vsher and sufficient stipends for them both besides conuenient lodgings for the same He also purchased a frée faire to the said towne with a frée market wéekelie also a frée market for castell euerie fouretéene daies He gaue to the hospitall of Christs church in London in his life time fiue hundred pounds in readie monie and a hundred pounds at his deceasse But now to returne to other dooings Whilest these hurls and tumults were in hand to the danger of the whole state the wars against the Scots were nothing followed according to the former purposed meaning of the councell so that it seemed necessarie to giue ouer the kéeping of Hadington the same
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
holds which they had fortified About the feast of Peter and Paule the legat departed out of the realme of whom we find that as he granted to the king some liberties against the priuileges line 40 which the cleargie pretended to haue a right vnto so he obteined of the king certeine grants in fauour of them and their order as thus 1 First that for no offense crime or transgression any spirituall person should be brought before a temporall iudge personallie except for hunting or for some laie fee or that for which some temporall seruice was due to be yéelded either to the king or some other that was cheefe lord thereof line 50 2 Secondlie that no archbishops see nor bishops sée nor any abbaie should be kept in the kings hands more than one yeare except vpon some euident cause or necessitie constreining 3 Thirdlie that such as slue any spirituall person and were of such offense conuicted either by euidence or confession before the iustice of the realme in presence of the bishop should be punished as the temporall law in such cases required 4 Fourthlie that spirituall men should not be compelled to fight in lists for the triall of any matter line 60 or cause whatsoeuer It should appeare by Nicholas Triuet that the archbishop of Canturburie procured the bishops of Winchester Elie and Norwich thrée prelats highlie at that present in the kings fauour to further these grants namelie that such as slue any préest or spirituall person might haue the law for it where before there was no punishment for a season vsed against such offendors but onelie excommunication But now to leaue préests we will passe to other matters In this meane time king Henrie the sonne remaining in Normandie began to deuise new practises how to remooue his father from the gouernment and to take it to himselfe but one of his seruants named Adam de Cherehedune being of his secret counsell aduertised king Henrie the father thereof for the which his maister king Henrie the sonne Cereus in vitium flecti monitoribus asper put him to great shame and rebuke causing him to be stripped naked and whipped round about the streets of the citie of Poictiers where he then was vpon his returne from his brother earle Richard with whome he had beene to aid him against his enimies King Henrie the father perceiuing the naughtie mind of his sonne and that he ceassed not from his wilfull maliciousnesse thought to dissemble all things sith he saw no hope of amendment in him but yet to be prouided against his wicked attempts he furnished all his fortresses both in England in Normandie with strong garisons of men and all necessarie munition About this time the sea rose on such a heigth that manie men were drowned thereby Also a great snow fell this yeare which by reason of the hard frost that chanced therewith continued long without wasting away so that fishes both in the sea and fresh water died through sharpenesse and vehemencie of that frost neither could husbandmen till the ground A sore eclipse of the sunne chanced also the sixt ides of Ianuarie The monasterie of Westwood or Lesnos was begun to be founded by Richard de Lucie Lord chéefe iustice The same yeare also at Woodstocke the king made his sonne the lord Geffrey knight In the yeare 1177. king Henrie held his Christmas at Northampton with his two sonnes Geffrey and Iohn year 1177 his other two sonnes the yoong king Henrie and Richard earle of Poictou were in the parts beyond the seas as the king in Normandie and the earle in Gascoigne where he besieged the citie of Aques which the vicount of Aques and the earle of Bigorre had fortified against him but he wan it within ten daies after his comming thither Within the like terme also he wan the citie of Baion which Arnold Berthram had fortified against him and coÌ„ming to the vttermost frontiers of that countrie adioining to Spaine he tooke a castell called saint Piero which he destroied and constreined the Basques and Nauarrois to receiue an oth that from thencefoorth they should suffer passengers quietlie to come and go through their countrie and that they should liue in quiet and keepe peace one with an other and so he reformed the state of that countrie and caused them to renounce manie euill customes which they before that time had vnlawfullie vsed Moreouer king Henrie to auoid further slander placed for bishop in the see of Lincolne a bastard son which he had named Geffrey after hâ— had kept that bishoprike in his hands so long till he had almost cleerelie destroied it And his sonne that was now made bishop to helpe the matter for his part made hauocke in wasting and spending in riotous manner the goods of that church and in the end forsooke his miter and left the sée againe in the kings hands to make his best of it Furthermore the king in times past made a vow to build a new monasterie in satisfaction of his offenses committed against Thomas the archbishop of Canturburie wherefore he required of the bishops and other spirituall fathers to haue some place by them assigned where he might begin that foundation But whilest they should haue taken aduise herein he secretlie practised with the cardinals and with diuerse other bishops that he might remoue the secular canons out of the colledge at Waltham and place therein regular canons so to saue monie in his cofâ—rs planting in another mans vineyard Howbeit bicause it should not be thought he did this of such a couetous meaning he promised to giue great possessions to that house which he after but slenderlie performed though vpon licence obteined at the bishops hands he displaced the preests and brought in to their roomes the canons as it were by waie of exchange The same yeare also he thrust the nunnes of Amesburie out of their house bicause of their incontinent line 10 liuing in abusing their bodies greatlie to their reproch and bestowed them in other monasteries to be kept in more streightlie And their house was committed vnto the abbesse and couent of Founteuered who sent ouer certeine of their number to furnish the house of Amesburie wherein they were placed by the archbishop of Canturburie in the presence of the king and a great number of others Philip earle of Flanders by sending ouer ambassadours to king Henrie promised that he would not line 20 bestow his two néeces daughters to his brother Matthew earle of Bullongne without consent of the same king but shortlie after he forgot his promise married the elder of them to the duke of Zaringes the yoonger to Henrie duke of Louaine Iohn de Curcie lord cheefe iustice of Ireland discomfiting a power of Irishmen wan the citie of Dun in Ulnestre where the bodies of S. Patrike and S. Colme confessors and S. Brigit the virgin are buried for the taking of which citie
bonds line 30 and obligations laie by the which they had diuerse of the kings subiects bound vnto them in most vnconscionable sort and for such detestable vsurie as if the authors that write thereof were not of credit would hardlie be beleeued All which euidences or bonds they solemnelie burned in the middest of the church After which ech went his waie the souldiers to the king and the commons to their houses and so was the citie quieted This happened at Yorke on Palmesundaie eeue being the 17. of March and vpon line 40 the 15. of that moneth those that inhabited in the towne of S. Edmundsburie in Suffolke were set vpon and manie of them slaine The residue that escaped through the procurement of the abbat then named Samson were expelled so that they neuer had anie dwellings there since that time Thus were the Iewes vnmercifullie dealt with in all places in maner through this realme the first beginning whereof chanced at London as before ye haue heard and the next at Lin of which I thinke it line 50 good to note some part of the maner therof although breeflie and so to returne to my purpose The occasion therefore of the tumult at Lin chanced by this meanes it fortuned that one of the Iewes there was become a christian wherewith those of his nation were so mooued that they determined to kill him where soeuer they might find him And herevpon they set vpon him one daie as he came by through the stréets he to escape their hands fled to the next church but his countriemen were so desirous to execute line 60 their malicious purpose that they followed him still and inforced themselues to breake into the church vpon him Herewith the noise being raised by the christians that sought to saue the conuerted Iew a number of mariners being forreners that were arriued there with their vessels out of sundrie parts and diuerse also of the townesmen came to the rescue and setting vpon the Iewes caused them to flée into their houses The townesmen were not verie earnest in pursuing of them bicause of the kings proclamation and ordinance before time made in fauour of the Iewes but the mariners followed them to their houses 〈◊〉 diuerse of them robbed and sacked their goods and finallie set their dwellings on fire and so burnt them vp altogither These mariners being inriched with the spoile of the Iewes goods and fearing to be called to accompt for their vnlawfull act by the kings officers got them foorthwith to shipboord and hoising vp sailes departed with their ships to the sea and so escaped the danger of that which might haue béene otherwise laid to their charge The townesmen being called to an accompt excused themselues by the mariners burdening them with all the fault But although they of Lin were thus excused yet they of Yorke escaped not so easilie For the king being aduertised of such outrage doone contrarie to the order of his lawes and expresse commandement wrote ouer to the bishop of Elie his chancellour charging him to take cruell punishment of the offendors The bishop with an armie went to Yorke but the cheefe authors of the riot hearing of his comming fled into Scotland yet the bishop at his comming to the citie caused earnest inquirie to be made of the whole matter The citizens excused themselues offered to proue that they were not of counsel with them that had committed the riot neither had they aided nor comforted them therein in anie maner of wise And in déed the most part of them that were the offendors were of the countries and townes néere to the citie with such as were crossed into the holie land and now gone ouer to the king so that verie few or none of the substantiall men of the citie were found to haue ioined with them Howbeit this would not excuse the citizens but that they were put to their fine by the stout bishop euerie of them paieng his portion according to his power and abilitie in substance the common sort of the poore people being pardoned and not called into iudgement sith the ringleaders were fled and gone out of the waie and thus much by waie of digression touching the Iews Now to returne vnto the king who in this meane time was verie busie to prouide all things necessarie to set forward on his iournie his ships which laie in the mouth of the riuer of Saine being readie to put off he tooke order in manie points concerning the state of the common-wealth on that side and chéefelie he called to mind that it should be a thing necessarie for him to name who should succeed him in the kingdome of England if his chance should not be to returne againe from so long and dangerous a iournie He therefore named as some suppose his nephue Arthur the sonne of his brother Geffrey duke of Britaine to be his successour in the kingdome a yâ—â—ng man of a likelie proofe and princelie towardneâ—â—e but not ordeined by God to succéed ouer this kingdome About the same time the bishop of Elie lord chancellour and cheefe iustice of England tooke vp to the kings vse of euerie citie in England two palfries and two sumpter horsses of euerie abbeie one palfrie and one sumpter horsse euerie manour within the realme â—ound also one palfrie and one sumpter horsse Moreouer the said bishop of Elie deliuered the gouernment of Yorkeshire to his brother Oâ—bert de Longchampe and â—ll those knights of the said shire the which would not come to make answer to the law vppon summons giuen them he commanded to be apprehended and by and by cast in prison Also when the bishop of Durham was returned from the king and coâ—e ouer intâ— England to go vâ—to his charge at his meeting with the lord chancellour at Elie notwithstanding that he shewed him his letters patents of the grant made to him to be iustice from Trent northward the said lord châ—ncellour taking his iournie to Southwell with him there deteined him as prisoner till he had made surrender to him of the castell of Windsor further had deliuered to him his sonnes Henrie de Putsey and Gilbert de la Ley as pledges that he should keepe the peace against the king and all his subiects vntill the said prince should returne from the holie land And so he was deliuered for that time though shortlie after and whilest he remained at Houeden there came to him Osbert de Longchampe the lord chancellors brother and William de Stuteuille the which caused the said bishop to find sufficient suertie that he should not thence depart without the kings licence or the line 10 lord chancellors so long as the king should be absent oâ— Herevpon the bishop of Durham sent knowledge to the king how and in what sort he had béene handled by the chancellor In the meanetime the king was gone into Gascoigne where he besieged a castell that belonged to one William de Chisi
hurtfull to the realme and common-wealth that then the same by the aduise of discréâ—t persons should be amended and reformed The maior bare this letter and the copie of the articles vnto the king who in this meane time remained in the towre of London togither with the quéene and the king of Almaine latelie returned out of Almaine also his sonne prince Edward and manie other of his councell The king asked of the maior what he thought of those articles Who made such answer as the king séemed well pleased therewith and so permitted the maior to returne againe into the citie who toke much paine in keeping the citie in good quiet now in that dangerous time All such the inhabitants as were strangers borne and suspected to fauour either of the parties were banished the citie but within a while after prince Edward set them or the most part of them in offices within the castell of Windsore On the saturdaie next after the translation of saint Benet as the quéene would haue passed by water from the tower line 10 vnto Windsore a sort of lewd naughtipacks got them to the bridge making a noise at hir and crieng Drowne the witch threw downe stones cudgels dirt and other things at hir so that she escaped in great danger of hir person fled to Lambeth and through feate to be further pursued landed there and so she staied till the maior of London with much adoo appesing the furie of the people repaired to the quéene and brought hir backe againe in safetie vnto the tower And as some write bicause the king would not line 20 suffer hir to enter againe into the tower the maior conueied hir vnto the bishop of Londons house by Paules and there lodged hir The barons in this meane time hauing got the citie of Worcester and Bridgenorth with other places were come into the south parts to the end that they might win the castell of Douer and find some meanes to set the lord Henrie sonne to the king of Almaine that was prisoner beyond the seas at libertie In the meane time the bishops of Lincolne London line 30 and Chester trauelled betwixt the king and barons for a peace but the barons would not agree except that the king and queene would first cause the lord Henrie to be set at libertie and deliuer into their hands the castels of Windsore Douer and other fortresses and send awaie all the strangers and take such order that the prouisions of Oxenford might be obserued as well by the king as others The king although these conditions seemed verie hard and displeasant to his mind yet was he driuen line 40 to such an extremitie that he granted to accept them and so an agreement was made and had betwixt him and the lords But now all the difficultie was to appease the lord Edward and to remooue the strangers which he had placed in the castell of Windsore which they had not onelie fortified but also in manner destroied the towne and doone much hurt in the countrie round about them There were to the number of an hundred knights or men of armes as I may call line 50 them beside a great number of other men of warre But now after that the king had agréed to the peace the barons entred the citie on the sundaie before S. Margarets daie and shortlie after the king came to Westminster with the quéene and those of his councell And immediatlie herevpon by consent of the king and the barons sir Hugh Spenser was made cheefe iustice and kéeper of the tower During the time that the lords remained in London manie robberies and riots were doone within the citie and line 60 small redresse had in correcting the offendors they were so borne out and mainteined by their maisters and others The commons of the citie were farre out of order for in the assemblies and courts as well at Guild-hall as in other places the matters and iudgement of things went by the voices of the simple and vndiscreet multitude so that the substantiall and worshipfull citizens were not regarded The barons on the morrow following the feast of saint Iames departed from London toward Windsore in which meane while prince Edward was gone to Bristow there thinking himselfe to be out of danger by mishap there rose variance betwixt the citizens his men so that the whole citie reuolted from him and prepared to besiege him in the castell not doubting but easilie to win it When he saw how the world went he sent to the bishop of Worcester that was of the barons side promising that he would agrée with the barons if he would helpe to deliuer him out of the Bristow mens hands The bishop taking his promise conueied him foorth in safetie toward the court but when he came neere vnto Windsore he turned thither greatlie to the misliking of the bishop yet neuerthelesse when the barons came forward to besiege that castle the lord Edward met them not farre from Kingston offering them conditions of peace Some write that he was staied and not suffered to returne againe to Windsore after he had ended his talke with the barons but howsoeuer it was the castell was surrendred with condition that those that were within it should safelie depart and so they did and were conducted to the sea by Humfrey de Bohun the yoonger ¶ About the same time Leolin prince of Wales destroied the lands of prince Edward in Cheshire and the marshes thereabouts The two castels of Disard and Gannoc he tooke and destroied being two verie faire fortresses About the feast of the Natiuitie of our ladie there was a parlement holden at London at the which all the nobles of the realme both spirituall and temporall were present and then the citie of London and the cinque ports ioined in league as confederats with the barons but the king plainlie protested before all the assemblie that by the statutes and prouisions as they termed them made at Oxenford he was much deceiued For contrarie to that which the barons had promised he felt himselfe rather charged with more debt than anie thing reléeued and therefore sith he had obteined of the pope an absolution of the oth both for himselfe and his people his request was to be restored vnto his former estate of all such prerogatiues as in time past he had inioied The barons on the other side stiffelie mainteined that they could not with safe conscientes go against their oth and therefore they meant to stand in defense of the articles aforesaid euen so long as they had a daie to liue Thus whilest both parts kept so farre from all hope of agreement and were now in point to haue departed in sunder through mediation of some bishops that were present a peace was concluded and the parties so agréed that all matters in controuersie touching the articles prouisions and statutes made at Oxenford should be ordered and iudged by the
Othobone held a synod and according to line 60 that he had in commandement pronounced all the kings aduersaries accurssed and namelie all the bishops which had aided the barons against the king in time of the late warres of whome afterward he absolued the most part But Iohn bishop of Winchester Henrie bishop of London and Stephan bishop of Chichester were sent to Rome to purchase their absolution of pope Clement the fourth as well for other points of disobedience as chéeflie for that where the quéene had procured a cursse of pope Urbane the fourth that was predecessor to this Clement to accursse all the barons and their supporters which warred against the king hir husband the said bishops to whome the commission was sent to denounce that cursse for feare of the barons deferred the execution Walter bishop of Worcester chancing to fall sicke at that time died about the beginning of Februarie confessing first that he had greeuouslie erred in mainteining the side of the erle of Leicester against the king and therefore directed his letters to the popes legat requiring to be absolued which his petition the legat granted Moreouer in this councell at Northampton there was published by the cardinall a grant made to the king by the pope of the dismes of the english church for one whole yeare then next insuing A little before the kings departure from London now in this last time he ordeined sir Iohn Linde knight and maister Iohn Waldren clearke to be gardians of the citie and tower by the names of seneshals or stewards but such earnest suit was made to the king to obteine a perfect pardon for the Londoners that at length after the aforesaid seneshals had taken suerties for the paiment of their fine the K. caused his charter of pardon to be made vnder his broad seale and sent it vnto them wherein all former trespasses committed by them in the last warres was cleerelie pardoned certeine persons whose bodies and goods were giuen vnto his eldest sonne Edward excepted out of the same pardon This charter was dated at Northampton the tenth day of Ianuarie in the fiftith yere of king Henries reigne year 1266 Then also were discharged the foresaid seneshals and the citizens of themselues chose for maior William Fitz Richard and for shiriffs Thomas de la Fourd and Gregorie de Rockesleg Whilest the king laie at Northampton the lord Simon de Montfort put himselfe vpon the doome and order of the legat Othobone and was therefore permitted to be at large in the kings court but at the kings comming to London he suddenlie departed out of the court and rode to Winchelsie where he associated himselfe with rouers and after some prices taken departed from them and went into France where he offered his seruice to the French king and was receiued Thus saith Matthew Westminster and other But Polydor saith that by Othobons means he was reconciled to the kings fauour and therevpon to auoid occasion of further displeasure he commanded that the castell of Killingworth should be restored vnto the king which the capteine refused to deliuer hauing fortified it with all manner of prouision and things necessarie to defend a siege The wardens of the cinque ports which during the time of the barons warre had doone manie roberies on the sea as well against the Englishmen as other were at length reconciled to the king who was faine to agrée with them vpon such conditions as they thought good bicause at that time as the cōmon fame went they had the dominion of the sea in their owne hands But in some writers we find it thus recorded that when certeine prisoners which were kept by the barons of the cinque ports in the castell of Douer heard how all things prospered on the kings side they got possession of a tower within the same castell and tooke vpon them to defend it against their keepers whereof when aduertisement was giuen to the king and to his sonne the lord Edward they hasted forth to come succour their freends The kéepers of the castell perceiuing themselues beset with their enimies sent to the king for peace who granting them pardon of life and limme with horsse armour and other such necessaries the castell was yeelded vnto his hands From thence prince Edward departing visited the sea coasts punishing diuerse of the inhabitants within the precinct of the cinque ports and putting them in feare receiued diuerse to the king his fathers peace The inhabitants of Winchelsie onelie made countenance to resist him but prince Edward with valiant assaults entred the towne in which entrie much guiltie bloud was spilt but yet the multitude by commandement of prince Edward was spared And thus hauing woone the towne he commanded that from thencefoorth they should absteine from piracies which they had before time greatlie vsed Thus were the seas made quiet and those of the cinque ports brought to the kings peace and throughlie reconciled line 10 In this meane while diuerse of the disherited gentlemen sore repining at the sentence and order giuen against them had taken the Ile of Oxholme in Lincolneshire whither a great number of euill dooers immediatlie resorted and began to doo mischéefe in all the countries next adioining They tooke and sacked the citie of Lincolne spoiled the Iewes and slue manie of them entred their synagog and burnt the booke of their law At length prince Edward or as other saie his brother earle Edmund was sent line 20 against them who compelled them by force to come to the kings peace which to obserue they receiued an oth shortlie after at London but neuerthelesse were as soone readie to breake and renounce the same and began a new broile in sundrie parts of the realme Diuerse of them fortified the castell of Killingworth prouiding themselues of all things necessarie for defense out of the countries adioining The king aduertised hereof sent vnto them a purseuant commanding them to cease frō such rebellious attempts line 30 but the messenger had one of his hands cut off and so with a contemptuous answer was sent back againe Prince Edward in passing through the forrest of Aulton got sight of sir Adam Gurdon one of the disherited men with whome he coped and tooke him prisoner with his owne hand yet sauing him and pardoning the offense of rebellion in respect of the valiancie which he tried by proofe to rest in him but his soldiers and complices being there taken he caused to be hanged vpon trées within the same forrest Robert line 40 earle Ferrers contrarie to his oth of late receiued accompanied with the lord d'Euille and others did much hurt by way of open war against the kings freends in the north parts Against whom the lord Henrie sonne to the king of Almaine was sent with a great power the which comming to Chesterfield fell vpon his enimies in such wise on the sudden that
they had not time to arme themselues and so were distressed and ouercome Yet the lord Iohn d'Euille brake out and incountring line 50 with sir Gilbert Hansard ouerthrew him and escaped out of danger Great slaughter was made on ech hand and in the meane while the Nobles and gentlemen sought to get out of perill by flight The earle of Darbie got into a church but he was descried by a woman and so was taken There were manie other also taken amongst them the lord Baldwine Wake and sir Iohn de la Haie with much paine escaped This battell was foughten about the midst of Maie or vpon Whitsun éeue as the Chronicle line 60 of Dunstable saith Those that escaped as the lord Iohn d'Euille and others gaue not ouer yet but assembling themselues togither in companies kéeping within woods and other desert places brake out oftentimes and did much mischéefe On the ninth of August they tooke the I le of Elie and so strengthned it that they held it a long time after spoiling and robbing the countries round about them as Norffolke Suffolke and Cambridgeshire The bishop of Elie had vndertaken to keepe the I le to the kings vse but being now dispossessed therof he got him awaie and fell to cursing them that were thus entred against his will but they séemed to passe litle vpon his thundering excommunications On the 16 of December they came to the citie of Norwich and spoiling it tooke manie of the wealthie citizens and ransomed them at great summes of monie The lord Henrie Hastings and Simon de Pateshull with diuerse others got them into the castell of Killingworth and dailie went foorth at their pleasures spoiling and wasting the townes about them or causing them to fine with them to be spared And this they forced not to doo although the lord Edmund the kings sonne laie in Warwike to cut them short of such their licentious doings The king therfore mening to haue the said castels of Killingworth by force began his siege about the same vpon the éeuen of S. Iohn Baptist. But the lord Henrie Hastings the capteine of that castell and other his complices defended it so stronglie that though the king inforced his power to the vttermost to win it of them yet could he not anie thing preuaile till at length vittels began to faile them within and then vpon the eeuen of saint Thomas the apostle before Christmasse the lord Henrie Hastings deliuered the said castell into the kings hands vpon condition that he and all other should haue life and limme horsse and armour with all things within the place to them belonging And thus this siege had continued from the 26 of Iune vnto the 20 day of December ¶ Here is to be remembred that at the beginning of the siege there were within the castell a thousand and seuen hundred armed men and eight score women beside lackies and coisterels Here is also to be remembred that whilest the siege laie before Killingworth by the aduise of the kings councell and of the legat Othobone there were twelue péeres appointed and chosen foorth which should deuise and make ordinances touching the state of the realme and the disherited persons who according to their commission ordeined certeine prouisions the which are conteined within the statute intituled Dictum de Killingworth The king after that the castell of Killingworth was deliuered to his hand left therein his sonne Edmund and went himselfe to Couentrie or as other haue to Oxford and there held his Christmasse year 1267 Shortlie after comming to Westminster he held a parlement there studieng to set a quietnesse in all matters and controuersies depending betwixt him and the barons In this parlement sentence was giuen against earle Ferrers for the forfeiture of his earledome then was Edmund the kings yoonger sonne put in possession both of the earledome of Darbie and Leicester On the sixt of Februarie being sundaie the king came to S. Edmundsburie and staieng there till the two and twentith of the same moneth set foreward that day towards Cambridge where he laie with his armie the better to bridle them that kept the I le of Elie against him He laie there all the Lent season And in the meane time the earle of Glocester taking great displeasure for that he might not haue his will as well for the banishing of strangers as for restitution to be made vnto the disherited men of their lands he began a new sturre and assembling a great power in the marshes of Wales came néere vnto London pretending at the first as though he had come to aid the king at length he got licence of the maior and citizens to passe through the citie into Southwarke where he lodged with his people and thither came to him shortlie sir Iohn d'Euille by Southerie side bringing with him a great companie The maior caused the bridge and water side to be kept and watched both day and night with armed men and euerie night was the drawbridge drawne vp but within a while the earle vsed the matter so that he was permitted to lodge within the citie with certeine of his men by reason whereof he drew more and more of his people into the citie so that in the end he was maister of the citie and in Easter wéeke tooke the keies of the bridge into his hands The legat comming foorth of the towre repaired to the church of S. Paule vnder a colour to preach the croisey but in the end of that his exhortation he turned his words to the earle of Glocester admonishing him to obeie the king as he was bound by his line 10 allegiance And further whereas the earle had giuen commandement that no victuals should be suffered to be brought into the tower where the popes legat was lodged he thought himselfe euill vsed in that behalfe sith he was a mediator for peace and no partaker But when the earle seemed to giue small regard to his words he got him secretlie againe into the tower with certeine noble men the kings freends meaning to defend it vnto the vttermost of their powers line 20 There entred also into the tower a great number of Iewes with their wiues and children vnto whome one ward of the tower was committed to defend which they did in that necessitie verie stoutlie Manie of the citizens fearing a new insurrection auoided out of the citie whose goods the earle seized into his owne vse or suffered his men to spoile the same at their pleasures The most part of all the commons of the citie tooke part wich the earle and in a tumult got them to the Guildhall and there chose for their line 30 maior or custos of the citie Richard de Colworth knight and for bailiffes Robert de Linton and Roger Marshall discharging the old maior and shiriffes of their roomes Diuerse aldermen were committed to prison and their goods sequestred and much part thereof
goods should resist them that were thus landed assaile and kill them the quéene his sonne Edward and his brother the earle of Kent onelie excepted and whosoeuer line 30 could bring the head or dead corps of the lord Mortimer of Wigmore should haue for his labour a thousand marks The queenes proclamations on the other part willed all men to hope for peace the Spensers publike enimies of the realme and the lord chancellor Robert Baldocke with their assistants onlie excepted through whose meanes the present trouble was happened to the realme And it was forbidden that no man should take ought from any person and who so euer could bring to the quéene the head of Hugh line 40 Spenser the yoonger should haue two thousand pounds of the queenes gift The king at his departure from London left maister Walter Stapleton the bishop of Excester behind him to haue the rule of the citie of London Then shortlie after the quéene with hir son making towards London wrote a letter to the maior and the citizens requiring to haue assistance for the putting downe of the Spensers not onelie knowne enimies of theirs but also common enimies to all the realme line 50 of England To this letter no answer at the first was made wherefore an other was sent dated at Baldocke the sixt daie of October vnder the names of Isabell by the grace of God queene of England ladie of Ireland and countesse of Pontieu and of Edward eldest sonne to the king of England duke of Guien earle of Chester of Pontieu and of Muttrell This letter being directed to the maior and communaltie of London conteining in effect that the cause of their landing and entring into the realme at that line 60 time was onelie for the honor of the king and wealth of the realme meaning hurt to no maner of person but to the Spensers was fastened vpon the crosse in Cheape then called the new crosse in Cheape on the night before the ninth daie of October Diuerse copies of the same letter were set vp and fastened vpon windowes and doores in other places of the citie and one of the same copies was tacked vpon the lord maiors gates After which letter thus published in the citie a great number of artificers and other that loued not to sit in rest vpon such occasion of discord offered now that things were in broâ—le in other parts of the realme assembled in great numbers with weapon in hand came to the lord maior of the citie whom they knew to fauor the kings part therefore they forced him through feare of some iniurious violence to receiue an oth to stand to their ordinance which was to put to death all those that were aduersaries to the quéene or had by any meanes procured the hinderance of the cities liberties vnder pretext of which oth they ran and tooke one of the citizens called Iohn Marshall who bicause he was verie familiar with the earle of Glocester and therefore suspected to haue accused the citizens they stroke off his head and spoiled all his goods On the same day being the fourtéenth of October continuing their rage they ran to the house of the bishop of Excester Walter de Stapleton and setting fire on the gates they entred and spoiled him of all his plate iewels monie and goods And as it chanced in an infortunate houre for him the bishop being at the same time returning from the fields would not seeme to shrinke although he was admonished of these outragious attempts of the people but sitting on horssebacke came to the north doore of S. Paule where forthwith the furious people laid violent hands on him threw him downe and drew him most outragiouslie into Cheapeside where they proclamed him an open traitor a seducer of the king and a destroier of their liberties The bishop had vpon him a certeine cote of defense which was called an aketon the same therefore being plucked beside his backe as all other his garments they shore his head from his shoulders and to the like death they put two of his seruants the one an esquire and the other a yeoman The bishops head was set on a pole for a spectacle that the remembrance of his death and the cause thereof might continue His bodie was buried in an old churchyard of the pied friers without any manner of exequies of funerall seruice doone for him The chiefest cause of the enimitie which the Londoners bare towards this bishop rose hereof He being lord treasuror procured that the iustices itinerants did sit in the citie of London and where manie of the citizens were found offendors and iustlie punished as well by loosing their freedoms as by paieng their fines and suffering corporall punishments they conceiued a great displeasure towards him Moreouer it was said that he had raised a great multitude of armed men against the quéene and hir son the duke of Aquitaine and therefore did the Londoners as they affirmed seeke to preuent his proceedings ¶ The morrow after that they had thus beheaded the bishop of Excester they tooke by chance sir Iohn Weston constable of the tower and from him they tooke the keies of the same tower and so entering the tower they set all the prisoners at libertie and in like case all those that were imprisoned in maner through the land were permitted to go at large and all the banished men and outlawes were likewise restored home The Londoners hauing the tower thus at their commandement remooued all the officers therein placed by the king and put other in their roomes in the name of the lord Iohn de Eltham the kings son whom they named warden of the citie and land And yet they ceassed not to commit manie robberies other outragious most insolent parts In the meane time the king being come to Bristow left that citie in the kéeping of the earle of Winchester And with the earles of Glocester and Arundell and the lord chancellor sir Robert Baldocke he sailed ouer into Wales there to raise a power of Welshmen in defense of himselfe against the quéene and hir adherents which he had good hope to find amongest the Welshmen bicause he had euer vsed them gentlie and shewed no rigor towards them for their riotous misgouernance Againe he drew the rather into that part that if there were no remedie he might easilie escape ouer into Ireland and get into some mounteine-countrie marish-ground or other streict where his enimies should not come at him But now to speake of the queene yée most vnderstand that after she had receiued knowledge from the Londoners that they were wholie at hir deuotion line 10 she being glad thereof turned hir iournie toward Wales to follow the king and comming to Oxenford staied there a while and still came people to hir from all sides Héere Adam de Torleton the bishop of Hereford which latelie before had beene sore fined by the king for that he
betwixt England and France was set at libertie paieng for his ransome the summe of one hundred thousand marks as Fourdon saith but whether he meaneth Scotish or sterling monie I cannot saie He also was bound by couenant now vpon his deliuerance to cause the castels in Nidesdale to be raised which were knowne to be euill neighbors to the English borderers as Dunfrise Dalswinton Morton Dunsdâ—re and nine other His wife quéene Ione made such earnest sute to hir brother king Edward for hir husbands deliuerance that king Edward was contented to release him vpon the paiment of so small a portion of monie and performance of the couenants for the raising of those castels although Froissard saith that he was couenanted to paie for his deliuerance within the tearme of ten yeares fiue hundred thousand nobles and for suertie of that paiment to send into England sufficient hostages as the earles of Dowglas Murrey Mar Sutherland and Fiffe the baron of Uescie and sir William Camoise Also he couenanted neuer to weare armour against king Edward within his realme of England nor to consent that his subiects should so doo and further should vpon his returne home doo the best he could to cause the Scots to agree that their countrie should hold of him in fée and that he and his successours kings of Scotland should doo homage to the king of England and his successors for the realme of Scotland In this two and thirtith yeare as witnesseth the French chronicles sir Robert Knolles Iames Pipe and one Thomlin Foulke with other capiteins and men of warre as souldiours to the king of Nauarre vpon the tenth day of March earlie in the morning scaled the walles of the citie of Auxerre and behaued them so manfullie that they were maisters of the towne before the sunne was vp They got exceeding much by the spoile of that citie and by ransoming the prisoners which they tooke there At length after they had remained eight daies in that citie and taken their pleasures of all things within it they wrought so with the citizens that to haue possession of their citie againe and to haue it saued from fire they agréed to giue to sir Robert Knolles and to his companie fiftie thousand motons of gold which amounted to the summe of twelue thousand and fiue hundred pounds sterling or there about and yet was it agreed that the Englishmen should burne the gates and throw downe the walles in diuers places In Aprill next insuing the towne of Daubignie sir le Metre was likewise woone by the Englishmen and the second daie of Maie Chastelon sir Loigne was taken by the said sir Robert Knolles and put to sacke as the other were From thence they went to Newcastell vpon Loire Thus did the Englishmen and other in title of the K. of Nauarre greatlie indamage the realme of France dailie winning townes and castels ransoming the people and wasting the countries in most miserable wise as in the historie of France you may read more at large In this meane while there was talke of peace betwixt the king of England and the king of France and articles thereof drawne in this forme that the whole countries of Gascoine Guien Poictou Touraine Xainctonge Piergourd Quercie Limosin Angolisinois Calis Guines Bullogne and Ponthieu should remaine to the king of England wholie without dooing homage or paieng anie reléefe for the same but on the other part he should renounce all his right which he might by anie manner of meane claime to the countries of Normandie Aniou or Maine And further that the French king should paie a certeine summe of monie for his ransome and deliuer sufficient pledges for the same and so depart into France These articles were sent ouer into France that the thrée states there might confirme them which they refused to doo Wherevpon when the truce ended the warres were againe reuiued ¶ The king held this yéere the feast of S. George at Windsor in more sumptuous manner than euer it had béene kept before In the same yeare also frier Iohn Lisle bishop of Elie being as he tooke it somewhat wronged by the ladie Blanch de Wake and other that were of hir counsell when the last yeare against the kings will vnto the popes court where exhibiting his complaint he caused the pope to excommunicate all his aduersaries sending to the bishop of Lincolne and other of the cleargie that if they knew any of them so excommunicated to be dead and buried they should draw them out of their graues which was doone And bicause some of those that were excommunicated line 10 were of the kings councell the king tooke such displeasure therewith that he gréeuouslie disquieted the prelats Wherevpon there were sent from the court of Rome on the behalfe of the bishop of Elie certeine persons which being armed met the bishop of Rochester lord treasuror deliuering to him letters from the pope the contents of the which were not knowen and foorthwith they shranke awaie but the kings seruants made such pursute after them that some of them they tooke and bringing them before the line 20 kings iustices vpon their arreignement they were condemned and suffered death on the gallowes Great discord rose also about this time or rather afore betwixt the cleargie and the foure orders of friers as in the booke of acts monuments set foorth by master Iohn Fox ye may read more at large In this yeare Iohn of Gant earle of Richmond sonne to the king the ninetéenth day of Maie married the ladie Blanch daughter to Henrie duke of Lancaster at Reading and bicause they were cousins within line 30 the degrées of consanguinitie forbidden by the church lawes to marrie a dispensation was procured of the pope to remoue that obstacle and let In this yeare the king set workemen in hand to take downe much old bildings belonging to the castell of Windsore and caused diuerse other faire and sumptuous works to be erected and set vp in and about the same castell so that almost all the masons and carpenters that were of any accompt within this land were sent for and imploied about the same works the ouerseer line 40 whereof was William Wickham the kings chaplâ—in by whose aduise the king tooke in hand to repare that place the rather in déed bicause he was borne there and therefore he tooke great pleasure to bestow cost in beautifieng it with such buildings as may appeare euen vnto this daie Moreouer this yeare in the Rogation wéeke was solemne iusts enterprised at London for the maior and his foure and twentie brethren as challengers did appoint to answer all commers in whose name and stéed the king with his line 50 foure sonnes Edward Lionell Iohn and Edmund and ninetéene other great lords in secret manner came and held the field with honor to the great pleasure of the citizens that beheld the same ¶ Ye
without cause may these woords be said here of our lord the king that is For if they be inwardlie conceiued they shall giue vnto vs matter of line 40 consolation and comfort when it is said that a man shall haue lordship and rule of the people and not a child For God threatneth not vs as he sometime threatned the people by Esaie saieng Esa. 3. Et dabo pueros principes eorum effeminati dominabuntur eis I shall saith our Lord giue children to be their rulers princes and weake or fearefull shall haue dominion ouer them But of line 50 his great mercie he hath visited vs I trust his peculiar people and sent vs a man to haue the rule of vs put by children that before time ruled this land after childish conditions as by the woorkes of them it hath rightlie appeared to the disturbance of all this realme and for want and lacke of a man For as saith the apostle Paule ad Corinthos 1. capite 14. Cùm essem paruulus line 60 loquebar vt paruulus c quando autem factus sum vir euacuaui quae erant paruuli that is to say When I was a child I sauored and spake as a child but at the time when I came vnto the estate of a man then I put by all my childish conditions The apostle saith he sauored and spake as a child in whom is no stedfastnesse or constancie For a child will lightlie promise and lightlie he will breake his promise and doo all things that his appetite giueth him vnto and forgetteth lightlie what he hath doone By which reason it followeth that needilie great inconuenience must fall to that people that a child is ruler and gouernour of nor it is not possible for that kingdome to stand in felicitie where such conditions reigne in the head and ruler of the same But now we ought all to reioise that all such defaults be expelled and that a man and not a child shall haue lordship ouer vs. To whom it belongeth to haue a sure rane vpon his toong that he maie be knowne from a child or a man vsing childish conditions of whom I trust I maie say as the wise man saith in his prouerbs Prouerb 3. cap. Beatus homo qui inuenit sapientiam qui affluit prudentia that is to say Blessed be the man that hath sapience or wisdome and that aboundeth in prudence For that man that is ruled by sapience must needs loue dred our Lord God and who so loueth dreadeth him it must consequentlie follow that he must keepe his commandements By force wherof he shall minister true iustice vnto his subiects and doo no wrong nor iniurie to any man So that then shall follow the words of the wise man the which be rehearsed Prouerb 10. Benedictio Domini super caput iusti os autem impiorum operit iniquitatem that is to saie The blessing of our Lord God shall light vpon the head of our king being a iust and righteous man for the toong of him worketh equitie and iustice but the toong of the wicked of sinners couereth iniquitie And who so worketh or ministreth iustice in due order he not onlie safegardeth himself but also holdeth people in a suertie of restfulnes of the which insueth peace and plentie And therefore it is said of the wise king Salomon Eccles. 10. Beata terra cuius rex nobilis est vel cuius principes vescuntur in tempore suo wich is to be vnderstanded that blessed happie is that land of the which the king or ruler is noble and wise and the princes be blessed that liue in his time As who would say they may take example of him to rule and guide their subiects For by the discretion of a noble and wise man being in authoritie manie euils be sequestred and set apart all dissemblers put to silence For the wise man considereth and noteth well the great inconueniences which dailie now growe of it where the child or insipient drinketh the sweet and delicious words vnaduisedlie and perceiueth not intoxication which they be mingled or mixt with till he be inuironed and wrapped in all danger as latelie the experience thereof hath beene apparent to all our sights and knowledges not without the great danger of all this realme And all was for lacke of wisedome in the ruler which deemed taught as a child giuing sentence of wilfulnesse and not of reason So that while a child reigned selfe-will lust reigned and reason with good conscience were outlawed with iustice stedfastnesse and manie other vertues But of this perill and danger we be deliuered by the especiall helpe and grace of God Quia vir dominabitur inpopulo that is to saie He that is not a child but perfect in reason For he commeth not to execute his owne will but his will that sent him that is to wit Gods will as a man vnto whome God of his abundant grace hath giuen perfect reason and discretion to discerne deeme as a perfect man Wherfore not all onlie of this man we shall saie that he shall dwell in wisedome but as a perfect line 10 man and not a child he shall thinke and deeme haue such a circumspection with him that he shall diligentlie fore-looke and see that Gods will be doone not his And therfore now I trust the words of the wise man Ecclesiast 10. shall be verified in our king saieng Iudex sapiens iudicabit populum suum principaâ—us sensati stabilis erit that is as saith the wiseman A wise and discreet line 20 iudge shall now deeme his people and the dominion or lordship of a discreet wiseman shall stand stedfast Wherevpon shall then follow the second verse of the same chapter saieng Secundum iudicempopuli sic ministri eius that is Like as the head souereigne is replenished with all sapience and vertue in guiding of his people administring to them law with due and conuenient iustice so shall the subiects againward be line 30 garnished with awe and louing dread and beare vnto him next God all honour truth and allegiance So that then it may be concluded with the residue of the foresaid verses Qualis rector est ciuitatis tales inhabitant es in ea which is to saie Such as the ruler of the citie is such then be the inhabitants of the same So that consequentlie it followeth a good line 40 master maketh a good disciple And likewise an euill king or ruler shall lose his people the cities of his kingdome shall be left desolate and vnhabited Wherefore thus I make an end In sted of a child wilfullie doing his lust and pleasure without reason now shall a man be lord and ruler that is replenished with sapience and reason and shall gouerne the people by skilfull doome line 50 setting apart all wilfulnesse and pleasure of himselfe So that the word that I began with may be verified of him Ecce quia vir
glorie for committing so heinous an offense against their king and souereigne lord the memorie whereof as they thought would neuer die and cheeflie the citizens of Burdeaux tooke the matter verie sore at the stomach for they bare excéeding fauour to king Richard because he was borne and brought vp in their citie and therefore more than all the residue they shewed themselues to abhorre so heinous a déed The Frenchmen hauing vnderstanding hereof thought with themselues that now was the time for them to practise with the Gascoignes to reduce them from the English obeisance vnder their subiection Herevpon came Lewes duke of Burbon vnto Agen and wrote to diuerse cities and townes on the confines of Guien exhorting them with large promises and faire sugred words to reuolt from the Englishmen and to become subiects to the crowne of France but his trauell preuailed not for the people vnderstanding that the English yoke was but easie in comparison to the French bondage determined to abide rather in their old subiection than for a displeasure irrecouerable to aduenture themselues on a new doubtfull perill yet it was doubted least the cities of Burdeaux Dar and Baion would haue reuolted if the lords of the marches about those places had leaned to them in that purpose for they sent their commissioners to Agen to treate with the duke of Burbon But forsomuch as the lords Pomiers Mucident Duras Landuras Copane Rosem Langurant were minded to continue still English those cities durst not without them turne to the French obeisance for they could not haue stirred out of their gates but those lords would haue béene readie at their elbowes to haue caught them by the sléeues King Henrie being aduertised of the Frenchmans couert meanings and also of the wauering minds of the Gascoignes sent Thomas Persie earle of Worcester with two hundred men of armes and foure hundred archers into Guien to aid and assist sir Robert Knols his lieutenant there The chiefest capteines that accompanied the earle in this iournie were these first his nephue sir Hugh Hastings sir line 10 Thomas Colleuill sir William Lisle Iohn de Graillie base sonne to the capitall de Boeuf sir William Draiton sir Iohn Daubreticourt also there went with him the bishop of London and master Richard Doall or Dolleie The earle at his arriuall so wiselie intreated the noble men so grauelie persuaded the magistrats of the cities and townes and so gentlie and familiarlie vsed and treated the commons that he not onelie appeased their furie and malice but brought them to louing and vniforme obeisance line 20 receiuing of them othes of obedience loiall fealtie which doone he returned againe into England with great thanks The French king perceiuing he could not bring his purpose about neither by inuading England nor by practising with the Gascoignes sent a solemne ambassage into England requiring to haue his daughter the ladie Isabell sometime espoused to king Richard restored to him againe King Henrie gentlie receiued those that were sent to him about this line 30 message and for answer promised to send his commissioners vnto Calis which should further commune and conclude with them ¶ This séemeth dissonant from the report of Fabian deriued out of Gagwine For he saith that Charles hearing of the suppression of K. Richard sent 2 of his houshold knights into England requiring king Henrie the fourth then newlie made king to send home his daughter Isabell latelie married vnto king Richard with such dowrie as with hir was promised In dooing of which line 40 message king Henrie tooke such displeasure that he threw the said two knights in prison where through one of them named Blanchet died in England and the other called Henrie after great sicknesse returned into France wherefore if Fabian plaie not the fabler those that were sent on the said message were not gentlie receiued of king Henrie vnlesse to be cast in prison and discourteouslie dealt withall stand countable for beneuolence gentle interteinment line 50 But to remit this and the like variances among writers to such as can reconcile them let vs returne to the storie It was not inough that K. Henrie was thus troubled now in the first yere of his reigne with ciuill sedition and the couert practises of Frenchmen but that the Scots also tooke vpon them to make open warre against him it chanced as in the Scotish chronicles more at large appeareth that George of Dunbar earle of the marches of Scotland being line 60 in displeasure with Robert king of Scots fled into England to Henrie earle of Northumberland whervpon the Scotish king depriued him of all his dignities and possessions and caused his goods to be confiscate and after wrote to the king of England requiring him if he would haue the truce anie longer to continue either to deliuer into his possession the earle of March and other traitors to his person or else to banish them out of his realmes and dominions King Henrie discréetly answerd the herald of Scotland that the words of a prince ought to be kept and his writings and seale to be inuiolate and considering that he had granted a safe conduct to the earle and his companie he should neither without cause reasonable breake his promise nor yet deface his honor Which answer declared to the king of Scots he incontinentlie proclaimed open warre against the king of England with fire and sword Herevpon one sir Robert Logon a Scotish knight with certeine ships well appointed for the warre meant to haue destroied the English fléet that was come on the coasts of Scotland about Aberdâ—n to fish there but as it chanced he met with certeine ships of Lin that fought with him and tooke him prisoner with the residue of his companie so that he quite failed of his purpose and came to the losse himselfe At the same time the Englishmen spoiled also certeine of the Iles of Orkeneie This summer great death chanced in this land manie dieng of the pestilence wherewith sundrie places were infected King Henrie perceiuing that policie oftentimes preuenteth perill and vnderstanding the naughtie purposes of the Scots gathered a great armie and entred into Scotland burning townes villages and castels with a great part of the townes of Edenburgh and Léeth and besieged the castell of Edenburgh in the end of September whereof was capteine Dauid duke of Rothsaie and a prince of the realme with Archembald earle of Dowglas hauing with them manie hardie men of warre Robert duke of Albanie that was appointed gouernour of the realme because the king was sicke and not méet to rule sent an herald vnto king Henrie promising him battell within six daies at the furthest if he would so long tarrie which king Henrie promised to doo right gladlie and gaue to the herald for bringing him so acceptable newes a gowne of silke and a cheine of gold But king Henrie staied six daies
with all funerall solemnitie buried in the cathedrall church of our ladie in Rone on the north side of the high altar vnder a sumptuous and costlie monument Which toome when king Lewes the eleauenth by certeine vndiscreet persons was line 50 counselled to deface affirming that it was a great dishonour both to the king and to the realme to see the enimie of his father and theirs to haue so solemne and rich a memoriall he answered saieng What honour shall it be to vs or to you to breake this monument and to pull out of the ground the dead bones of him whome in his life neither my father nor your progenitours with all their power puissance and fréends were once able to make flée one foot backward but by his strength wit and policie kept them line 60 all out of the principall dominions of the realme of France and out of this noble and famous duchie of Normandie Wherefore I saie first God haue his soule and let his bodie now lie in rest which when he was aliue would haue disquieted the proudest of vs all And as for the toome I assure you it is not so decent nor conuenient as his honour and acts deserued although it were much richer and more beautifull The frost was so extreame this yeare beginning about the fiue and twentith daie of Nouember and continuing till the tenth of Februarie that the ships with merchandize arriuing at the Thames mouth could not come vp the riuer so their lading there faine to be discharged was brought to the citâ—e by land After the death of that noble prince the duke of Bedford the bright sunne in France toward Englishmen began to be cloudie and dailie to darken the Frenchmen began not onelie to withdrawe their obedience by oth to the king of England but also tooke sword in hand openlie rebelled Howbeit all these mishaps could not anie thing abash the valiant courages of the English people for they hauing no mistrust in God and good fortune set vp a new saile began the warre afresh and appointed for regent in France Richard duke of Yorke sonne to Richard earle of Cambridge Although the duke of Yorke was worthie both for birth and courage of this honor and preferment yet so disdeined of Edmund duke of Summerset being cousine to the king that by all means possible he sought his hinderance as one glad of his losse and sorie of his well dooing by reason whereof yer the duke of Yorke could get his dispatch Paris and diuerse other of the cheefest places in France were gotten by the French king The duke of Yorke perceiuing his euill will openlie dissembled that which he inwardlie minded either of them working things to the others displeasure till through malice diuision betwéene them at length by mortall warre they were both consumed with almost all their whole lines and ofspring The Normans of the countrie of Caux being heartened by the death of the duke of Bedford began a new rebellion slue diuerse Englishmen robbed manie townes that were vnder the English obeisance and tooke the towne of Harflue by assault and diuerse other townes But the lord regent being aduertised sent foorth the lord Scales sir Thomas Kiriell and the lord Hoo which so afflicted those rebels of Caux that they slue aboue fiue thousand persons and burnt all the townes and villages in the countrie not being walled so that in that part was neither habitation nor tillage for all the people fled into Britaine and all the beasts of the countrie were brought to Caudebecke where a good sheepe was sold for an English penie and a Cow for twelue pence Dailie was skirmishing and fighting in euerie part in so much that the lord Scales at the Rie beside Rone discomfited the Hire and fiftéene hundred valiant Frenchmen of the which aboue thrée hundred were taken prisoners beside the gaine of seauen faire coursers Amongst other of the prisoners were sir Richard Reginald de Fountaines sir Alain Gerond Alain Monsaie and Geffrie Grame capteine of the Scots But yet this victorie and others the like staied not the Frenchmen from working treason dailie insomuch that diuers townes turned to the part of K. Charles and some were taken by practise as Diepe Bois Uincennes and others ¶ So that here partlie was accomplished the prophesie of Henrie the fift giuen out in the ninth yeare of his reigne when he laie at siege before Meaux that Henrie of Windsore should loose all that Henrie of Monmouth had gotten for so they are named according to the place of their natiuitie and this prediction was complet and full by that time the yeares of his regiment were expired But heere is one cheefe point to be noted that either the disdeine amongest the cheefe péeres of the realme of England as yée haue heard or the negligence of the kings councell which did not foresée dangers to come was the losse of the whole dominion of France betwéene the riuers of Sone and Marne and in especiall of the noble citie of Paris For where before there were sent ouer thousands foâ— defense of the holds and fortresses now were sent hundreds yea and scores some rascals and some not able to draw a bowe or carrie a bill for the lord Willoughbie and the bishop of Terwine which had the gouernance of the great citie of Paris year 1436 had in their companie not two thousand Englishmen Which weakenesse king Charles well perceiued and therefore by authoritie appointed the constable Arthur of Britaine the earle of Dunois the lords de la Roch and Lisle Adam with other valiant capteins and men of warre as well Burgognions as French to go before Paris trusting by fauour of line 10 certeine citizens with whome he had intelligence shortlie to be lord of the citie without great losse or battell So these capteins came before the citie of Paris But perceiuing that all things succeeded not according to their expectation they returned to Mont Martyr and the next daie suddenlie set on the towne of saint Denis and constreined the Englishmen that kept it to flée into the abbeie and into the tower Uenin In this conflict two hundred Englishmen were slaine the residue vpon reasonable composition line 20 rendered vp the place and departed to Paris Thomas lord Beaumont who of late was come to Paris with eight hundred men issued foorth with six hundred souldiers intending to view the dooings and number of the French armie but suddenlie compassed about within a small space was discomfited and taken with him fourescore prisoners beside two hundred slaine in the field the remnant chased to the verie gates of the citie The Parisiens and especiallie line 30 the maister of the halles and some of the vniuersitie and Michaell Lallier and manie notable burgesses of the citie who euer with an English countenance couered a French hart perceiuing the weaknesse of the Englishmen and force of the French signified to the French capteins their toward minds
and required the gates to be opened and to giue him entrance or els he would with sword and fier destroie the same The maior and his brethren being in great perpleâ—ities and hauing to answer not onelie the lords within and the knight without but most of all doubting the common people within who being impatient of penurie were deafe to all persuasions and listen to any counsels did so order and handle the matter as that by good spéeches and courteous vsages euerie partie was stopped and staied vntill by means and mediations of certeine good and godlie men an intreatie was made the matter was compounded and the siege raised and euerie man set at libertie The next daie after which conclusion the gates being opened to wit the third of Aprill 1470 the earle of Warwike and the duke of Clarence came to this citie and here rested and soiorned themselues vntill sufficient shipping was prouided for their passage ouer the seas and then they all imbarked themselues and passed ouer to Calis The king in this meane time mustered his armie and prepared with all spéed all things necessarie to follow and pursue his said aduersaries and came to this citie thinking to find them here the fouretéenth of Aprill being saturdaie 1470 with fortie thousand fighting men but the birds were fled awaie before his comming Neuerthelesse the king came and entred into the citie being accompanied with sundrie noble men namelie the bishop of Elie then lord treasuror the duke of Norffolke earle marshall the duke of Suffolke the earle of Arundell the earle of Wilshire sonne to the duke of Buckingham the earle of Worcester constable of England the earle of Shrewesburie the earle Riuers the lord Hastings the lord Graie of Codnor the lord Andelie the lord Saie the lord Sturton the lord Dacres the lord Montioie the lord Stanleie the lord Ferris and the baron of Dudleie Before whose comming the maior being aduertised thereof tooke order and gaue commandement to euerie citizen and inhabitant being of abilitie to prouide and prepare for himselfe a gowne of the cities liuerie which was then red colour and to be in a readinesse for receiuing of the king which was accordinglie doone And when the king was come neere to the citie the maior being verie well attended with foure hundred persons well and séemelie apparelled in the cities liuerie went to the south gate and without the same attended the kings comming Who when he was come the maior did his most humble obeisance and therewith Thomas Dowrish then recorder of the citie made vnto his grace an humble oration congratulating his comming to the citie which ended the maior deliuered vnto the king the keies of the gates and the maces of his office and therewith a pursse of one hundred nobles in gold which his grace tooke verie thankfullie The monie he kept but the keies and the maces he deliuered backe to the maior and then the maior tooke the mace and did beare it through the citie bare-headed before the king vntill he came to his lodging The next daie following being Palmesundaie the king in most princelie and roiall maner came to the cathedrall church of saint Peters to heare the diuine seruice where he followed and went in procession after the maner as was then vsed round about the churchyard to the great ioy and comfort of all the people he continued in the citie thrée daies vntill the tuesdaie then following who when he had dined tooke his horsse and departed backe towards London and gaue to the maior great good thanks for his interteinement About foure moneths after this in August the duke of Clarence and the erle of Warwike returned againe from Calis with all their retinue landed some at Plimmouth some at Dartmouth and some at Exmouth but all met in this citie and from hence they all passed towards London and at euerie place they proclamed king Henrie the sixt Which when king Edward heard he was very much troubled therewith and not able then to withstand their force he passed the seas to his brother in law the duke of Burgognie This yeare also being verie troublesome and the gouernement vncerteine men were in great perplexities wist not what to doo And among manie there was one speciallie to be remembred who to rid himselfe out of these troubles did deuise this practise his name was sir William Haukesford knight a man verie well learned in the lawes of the realme and one of the chiefe iustices at the law he dwelled at Annorie in Deuonshire a gentleman of great possessions and hauing neuer a sonne the lord Fitz Warren sir Iohn Sentleger sir William Bulleine line 10 who maried his daughters were his heires This man being one of the chiefest lawiers in the land was dailie sought to and his counsell asked and he considering that when the sword ruled law had a small course and finding by experience what fruits insue such counsell as dooth not best like the parties was verie heauie sorrowfull and in great agonies Herevpon suddenlie he called vnto him the keeper of his parke with whom he fell out and quareled bicause as he said he was slouthfull and careles and line 20 did not walke in the nights about the parke but suffered his game to be spoiled and his deere to be stolen wherefore he wiâ—led him to be more vigilant and carefull of his charge and also commanded him that if he met anie man in his circuit and walke in the night time and would not stand nor speake vnto him he should not spare to kill him what so euer he were This knight hauing laid this foundation and minding to performe what he had purposed for the ending of his dolefull daies did in a certeine darke line 30 night secretlie conueie himselfe out of his house and walked alone in his parke Then the kéeper in his night walke hearing one stirring and comming towards him asked who was there but no answer was made at all Then the keeper willed him to stand which when he would not doo the kéeper nocked his arrow and shot vnto him and killed him who when he perceiued that it was his maister then he called to remembrance his maisters former commandement And so this line 40 knight otherwise learned and wise being affraid to displease man did displease God and verie disorderlie ended his life It is inrolled amongst the records of this citie of a commission directed to Iohn earle of Deuonshire from him sent to the maior of the citie of Excester to be proclamed The words be these Decimâ—quarto die Aprilus vz. in vigilia Paschae An 49. Hen. 6. commissio domini regis directa Iohanni comiti Deuon missa est maiori vt proclamaretur And likewise in an other place Quatuor marcae sunt solutae Iohanni comiti Deuon line 50 ex assensa maioris Howbeit certeine it is there was no such earle of that name onelie there was Iohn Holland then
maiors successiuelie died within eight daies and sir aldermen At length by the diligent obseruation of those that escaped which marking what things had doone them good and holpen to their deliuerance vsed the like againe When they fell into the same disease the second or third time as to diuerse it chanced a remedie was found for that mortall maladie which was this If a man on the day time were taken with the sweat then should he streight lie downe with all his clothes and garments and continue in his sweat foure and twentie houres after so moderate a sort as might be If in the night he chanced to be taken then should line 10 he not rise out of his bed for the space of foure and twentie houres so casting the clothes that he might in no wise prouoke the sweat but lie so temperatlie that the water might distill out softlie of the owne accord and to absteine from all meat if he might so long suffer hunger and to take no more drinke neither hotnor cold than would moderatelie quench and asswage his thirstie appetite Thus with lukewarme drinke temperate heate and measurable cloaths manie escaped few which vsed this order after it line 20 was found out died of that sweat Marie one point diligentlie aboue all other in this cure is to be obserued that he neuer did put his hand or feet out of the bed to refresh or coole himselfe which to doo is no lesse ieopardie than short and present death Thus this disease comming in the first yeare of king Henries reigne was iudged of some to be a token and signe of a troublous reigne of the same king as the proofe partlie afterwards shewed it selfe The king standing in néed of monie to discharge line 30 such debts and to mainteine such port as was behouefull sent the lord treasuror with maister Reginald Braie and others vnto the lord maior of London requiring of the citie a prest of six thousand marks Wherevpon the said lord maior and his brethren with the commons of the citie granted a prest of two thousand pounds which was leuied of the companies and not of the wards and in the yeare next insuing it was well and trulie againe repaid euerie penie to the good contentation and satisfieng of line 40 them that disbursed it The king considering that the suertie of his roiall estate and defense of the realme consisted chéefelie in good lawes and ordinances to be had and obserued among his people summoned eftsoones his high court of parlement therein to deuise and establish some profitable acts and statutes for the wealth and commoditie of his people After this hauing set things in quiet about London he tooke his iournie into the North parts there to purge all the dregs of malicious treson that might line 50 rest in the hearts of vnquiet persons and namelie in Yorkeshire where the people bare more fauour vnto king Richard in his life time than those of anie other part of the realme had commonlie doone He kept the feast of Easter at Lincolne where he was certified that the lord Louell and Humfrie Stafford and Thomas Stafford his brother were departed out of the sanctuarie at Colchester to what place or whither no man as yet could tell The king little regarding the matter kept on his iournie and came to Yorke where as soone as he was once setled it was openlie line 60 shewed and declared for a truth to the king himselfe that Francis lord Louell was at hand with a strong and mightie power of men and would with all diligence inuade the citie It was also told him that the forenamed Staffords were in Worcestershire and had raised a great band of the countrie people and commons there and had cast lots what part should assault the gates what men should sâ—ale the wals of the citie of Worcester and who should let the passages for letting of rescues and aiders The king could not beleeue this report to be true at the first but after that by letters of credence sent from his fréends he was fullie persuaded that it was too true he was put in no small feare and not without great cause For he wiselie considered that he neither had anie competent armie readie nor conuenient furniture to arme them that were present and also he was in such place where he could not assemble anie power but of those whome he sore mistrusted as fréends to them that were most his enimies the memorie of king Richard as yet being not amongst them forgotten nor worne out of mind But bicause the matter required quicke expedition he appointed the duke of Bedford with three thousand men not altogither the best armed for their brest plates for the most part were of tanned leather to march foorth against the lord Louell and to set vpon him without anie lingering of time The duke hasting forward approched to the campe of his enimies before he would assaile them he caused the heralds to make proclamation that all those that would depart from their armour and submit themselues as subiects vnto their naturall prince and souereigne lord should be pardoned of all former offenses The lord Louell vpon this proclamation either putting mistrust in his souldiers or fearing himselfe in his owne behalfe fled priuilie in a night from his companie and left them as a flocke of shéepe without a shéepeheard Which departure of the lord when his armie vnderstood it put the soldiours in such despaire of atchiuing anie further enterprise that they immediatlie put off their armour and came directlie vnto the duke euerie man humblie submitting himselfe and desiring pardon of his offenses So in this wise was that dangerous storme and cruell rage of those furious rebels appeased which was doubted would haue growne to the destruction of manie a man The lord Louell the procurer of this businesse escaping awaie got him into Lancashire and there for a certeine space lay lurking in secret with sir Thomas Broughton knight which in those parties was a man of no small authoritie and power Sir Humfreie Stafford also hearing what had happened to the lord Louell in great displeasure and sorrowe and for feare left his enterprise and in like manner fled and tooke sanctuarie at Colnham a village not past two miles from Abindon But bicause that sanctuarie was not a sufficient defense as was prooued before the iustices of the kings Bench for traitours he was taken from that place brought to the Tower after put to execution at Tiborne but his brother Thomas that was with him was pardoned bicause he was thought not to haue attempted anie thing of himselfe otherwise than by the euill counsell and persuasion of his elder brother After that the king had quieted all these commotions and tumults and reformed the rude and brabling people of the North parts he returned to London ¶ In this yeare Iohn Persiuall one of the maior of Londons officers
to the king of England that if it would please him to minister anie aid by sea hée would besiege Sluis by land Wherevpon the king of England vpon due consideration of the dukes motion as he was wise enough in all his enterprises and no lesse fortunate in the issue of the same would conclude nothing vpon the sudden but as he did alwaies ruled his affaires by good counsell like to the wise man commended in the holie scripture Consilio sapiens semper sua facta gubernat line 60 At last he well remembring that Sluis was a â—ousenest and a verie den of théeues to them that trauersed the seas towards the east parts incontinentlie dispatched sir Edward Poinings a right valiant knight and hardie capteine with twelue ships well furnished with bold souldiers and sufficient artillerâ—e Which sir Edward sailed into the hauen and kept the lord of Rauenstein from starting by sea The Duke of Saxonie besieged one of the castels lieng in a church ouer against it and the Englishmen assaulted the lâ—sse castell and issued out of their ships at the ebbe neuer suffering their enimies to rest in quiet one day togither for the space of twentie dais and euerie day slue some of their aduersaries and on the English part were slaine one Uere brother to the earle of Oxford and fiftie more The lord of Rauenstein had made a bridge of botes betwéene both the castels to passe from the one to the other which bridge one night the Englishmen did set on fire Then he perceiuing that he must lose his castels by force and that the Flemings could not aiâ— him yéelded the castels to sir Edward Poinings and the towne to the duke of Saxonie vpon certeine conditions Sir Edward Poinings kept the castels a while of whom the Almains demanded their wages bicause the duke had nothing to paie Then these two capteins so handled them of Bruges that they not onelie submitted themselues to their lord Maximilian but also were contented to paie and dispatch the Almains And so sir Edward Poinings taried there a long space and at length returned to the king before Bullogne The sixt day of Aprill this present yeare the nobles of the realme assembled in the cathedrall church of S. Paule in London where the maior of the same citie his brethren the aldermen and the craftesmen in their liueries also assembled to whome doctor Morton chancellor made an oration declaring how the king of Spaine had woone the great and rich citie countrie of Granado from the Turks for ioy whereof Te Deum was soong with great solemnitie ¶ But bicause it is requisite and necessarie in this ample volume to set downe the report of accidents as they are to be found at large in our owne English writers you shall heare for the furtherance of your knowledge in this matter concerning Granado what Ed. Hall hath left noted in his chronicle Which although it conteine diuerse actions of superstition and popish trumperie yet should it not offend the reader considering that a people estranged from the true knowledge of God and sincere religion put the same in practise as supposing principall holinesse to consist in that blind deuotion On the sixt of Aprill saith he this yéere the king commanded all the nobilitie of his realme to assemble at the cathedrall church of S. Paule in London where after Te Deum solemnlie soong the cardinall of Canturburie standing on the steps before the quier doore declared to the people how the famous citie of Granado which manie yeares had beene possessed of the Moores or Mauritane nation being infidels vnchristened people was now of late besieged a great time by Don Ferdinando and Elizabeth his wife king and quéene of Spaine Arragon and Castile And the said infidels by reason of siege brought to great penurie and miserie for lacke of vittels necessarie viands perceiuing that all succours were clerelie stowed and excluded from them and so brought into vtter despaire of aid or comfort after long consultation had amongst them determined to render themselues and their citie to the said king vpon diuerse couenants and conditions and therevpon sent to him diuerse senators of the citie fullie instructed of their mind and purpose The king of Spaine and his councell considering and sagelie pondering that winter approched was at hand and that the christian host had long lieu in the fieldes in sore tempests and greeuous stormes which they gladlie suffered for Christes sake in whose cause and quarell they made that present warre reremembring also that the citie was of such riches fame and estimation that it conteined an hundred and fiftie thousand houses of name beside other small houses and cotages that it was replenished with people innumerable and furnished with three score and ten thousand good fighting men and finallie perceiuing that he might inioy now the possession of the same without assault or effusion of christian bloud by the aduise of his councell he accepted accorded and agreed to their offers the twentie and fift of Nouember in the yeare of Christs incarnation 1491 then being the daie of saint Katharine By the which composition the roiall citie of Granado with all the holds and fortresses of the realme and the towers and castels of Alpussarare was rendered into the hands of the said king of Spaine and that the king of Granado should become subiect and vassall to the king of Spaine and to relinquish and line 10 forsake the vsurped name of a king for euer and that all the men of warre should frankelie depart out of the citie and none there to remaine but artificers and merchants and all these things to be doone before the fiue twentith day of Ianuarie But the time was preuented for the Moores on the first day of Ianuarie sent six hundred notable personages out of the citie with their children for hostages into the campe of the king of Spaine to the intent that he should put no diffidence nor mistrust in the citizens line 20 but that he might peaceablie and quietlie with his people enter into the citie and take possession of the same The which hostages were distributed and lodged in the tents and pauillions of the Spanish armie The third of Ianuarie the lord of Guitterins Cardenes great master gouernor of Lion of the order of S. Iames departed from the armie noblie and triumphantlie accompanied with fiue hundred horsmen and thrée thousand footmen toward the citie line 30 And as he approched néere to the suburbs there issued out diuers noble and valiant capteins of the Moores making to him humble obeisance and conducted him to a palace adioining to the citie called the palace of Anaxaras and from thense conueied him to the palace roiall of the same citie called Alhambra whereof hée tooke quiet and peaceable possession to the behoofe of the king of Spaine whome the Moores promised and confessed to take and obeie as their
their attendance And there in the palace were such martiall feats valiant iusts vigorous turneis and such fierce fight at the barriers as before that time was of no man had in remembrance Of this roiall triumph lord Edward duke of Buckingham was chiefe chalenger and lord Thomas Greie marquesse Dorset chiefe defender which with their aids and companions bare themselues so valiantlie that they got great praise and honour both of the Spaniards and of their owne countriemen During the time of these iusts and triumphs were receiued into London an earle a bishop and diuerse noble personages sent from the king of Scots into England for conclusion of the mariage betwéene the ladie Margaret and him which earle by proxie in the name of king Iames his maister affied and contracted the said ladie Which affiance was published at Paules crosse the daie of the conuersion of saint Paule in reioising whereof Te Deum was soong and great fiers made through the citie of London These things being accomplished the ambassadors as well of Spaine as Scotland tooke their leaue of the king year 1502 not without great rewards returned into their countries When the ambassadors were deparâ—ed he sent his sonne prince Arthur againe into Wales to keepe that countrie in good order appointing to him wise and expert councellors as sir Richard Poole his kinsman which was his chiefe chamberleine also sir Henrie Uernon sir Richard Crofts sir Dauid Philip sir William Udall sir Thomas Englefield sir Peter Newton knights Iohn Walleston Henrie Marion doctor William Smith president of his councell and doctor Charles of the which two doctors the one was after bishop of Lincolne and the other bishop of Hereford ¶ This yeare Iohn Shaw who was maior of London caused his brethren the aldermen to ride from the Guildhall vnto the water side when he went to Westminster to be presented in the excheker He also caused the kitchens and other houses of office to be builded at the Guildhall where since that time the maiors feasts haue béene kept which before had béene in the grosers or tailors hall About Easter all the Greie friers in England changed their habit for whereas of long time before they had vsed to weare browne russet of foure shillings six shillings and eight shillings the yard now they were compelled to weare russet of two shillings the yard and not aboue which was brought to passe by the friers of Gréenewich This yeare the dike called Turnemill brooke with all the course of Fléet dike were so scowred downe to the Thames that boates with fish and fewell were rowed vp to Holborne bridge as they of old time had beene accustomed which was a great commoditie to all the inhabitants in that part of London Also the tower néere to the Blacke friers was taken downe by the commandement of the maior Also this yeare were brought vnto the king thrée men taken in the new found Ilands by Sebastian Gabato before named in Anno 1468. These men were clothed in beasts skins and eat raw flesh but spake such a language as no man could vnderstand them of the which thrée men two of them were séene in the kings court at Westminster two yeares after clothed like Englishmen and could not be discerned from Englishmen A few moneths before the mariage of prince Arthur Edmund de la Poole earle of Suffolke sonne to Iohn duke of Suffolke and ladie Elizabeth sister to king Edward the fourth being bold and rash withall was indicted of murther for sâ—eaing of a meane person in his rage furie And although the king pardoned him whome he might iustlie haue put to death for that offense yet bicause he was brought to the barre before the kings Bench and arraigned which fact he tooke as a great blemish to his honour shortlie after vpon that displeasure he fled into Flanders vnto his aunt the ladie Margaret the king not being priuie to his going ouer Neuerthelesse whether he was persuaded by his fréends therevnto whom the king had willed to deale with him therein or whether vpon trust of his innocencie true it is that he returned againe and excused himselfe to the king so that he thought him to be giltlesse of anie crime that might be obiected against him But when the mariage betwixt the prince the ladie Katharine of Spaine was kept at London this erle either for that he had passed his compasse in excessiue charges and sumptuousnesse at that great triumph and solemnitie and by reason thereof was farre run line 10 into debt either else through the procurement of his aunt the foresaid ladie Margaret or pricked with some priuie enuie which could not patientlie with open eies behold king Henrie being of the aduerse faction to his linage so long to reigne in wealth and felicitie in conclusion with his brother Richard fled againe into Flanders This departure of the earle sore vexed the king doubting of some new trouble to insue thereof But yet to vnderstand the full meaning of the line 20 said earle the king vsed his old fetch for immediatlie after the earle was fled he appointed sir Robert Curson whome he had aduanced to the order of knighthood and made capteine of Hammes castell a valiant man and a circumspect to dissemble himselfe one of that conspiracie who went into Flanders to espie what was doone there by the ladie Margaret and hir nephue the earle of Suffolke After that the said sir Robert Curson was thus gone into Flanders the king to put him out of all suspicion line 30 with the said ladie Margaret and the earle caused the said earle and sir Robert Curson and fiue persons more to be accurssed at Paules crosse the first sundaie of Nouember as enimies to him and his realme To be breefe the king by his meanes and other such diligent inquisition as he made tried out such as he suspected partlie to be deuisers of mischéefe against him and partlie to beare no sincere affection towards his person so that he could readilie name line 40 them whereof a great part were within few daies apprehended and taken And amongst them William lord Courtneie sonne to the earle of Deuonshire which maried the ladie Katharine daughter to king Edward the fourth lord William de la Poole brother to the foresaid earle of Suffolke sir Iames Tirrell sir Iohn Windam Both the Williams were rather taken of suspicion bicause they were so neere of kin to the conspirator than for anie prooued line 50 matter But sir Iames Tirrell and Iohâ— Windam bicause they were traitors and so attainted the sixt daie of Maie after their apprehension they were on the Tower hill beheaded When the earle of Suffolke heard what fortune thus happened to his fréends as one in vâ—ter despaire to haue anie good successe in his pretensed enterprise wandred about all Germanie and France to purchase somâ— aid and succour if by anie means he might But when he
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
and the emperour gouerning the battell and the lord Chamberleine following with the rere-ward The first night they incamped beside Aire Diuerse Englishmen tarieng behind at Terwine for pillage were surprised by the Frenchmen which slue some of them cast some into the fire Those that fled escaped verie narrowlie The king with his armie passed forward towards Tornaie and by the waie visited the yoong prince of Castile and the ladie Margaret gouernor of the prince in the towne of Lislie whilest his armie laie abroad in the fields beyond Pont Auandien There was appointed to attend the king vnto Lislie the duke of Buckingham the lord marquesse Dorset the earle of Essex and the lord Lisle with diuerse other the charge of his campe he committed for the time to his councell Then mounted the king vpon a courser his apparrell bard were cloth of siluer of small quadrant cuts trauersed and edged with cut cloth of gold and the border set full of red roses his armour fresh set full of iewels The maister of his horsse sir Henrie Guilford and the henchmen followed as you haue heard before and the coursers richlie apparelled and so were manie capteins that waited on the king by the waie met the king the lord Rauesten with manie noble men And a mile without the towne there met with him the burgesses of Lisle and presented to him the keies of the towne saieng that the emperor their souereigne lord had so commanded them to doo The king praised their obedience to their souereigne and thanked the emperour and them for so high a present as the keies of such a towne Neuerthelesse line 10 he had such confidence in them that he trusted them no lesse than his owne subiects and so deliuered the keies to the prouost of the towne which was well accompanied Then met the king a great number of nobles of Flanders Brabant Holland and Henaud which noblie receiued him After them came the countie Palatine or Palsgraue one of the electors of the empire with thirtie horsses all his men gorgiouslie apparelled after the fashion of his countrie and humblie saluted the king At the gate line 20 of Lisle the capiteine of the towne stood with a garrison in armor well appointed all the stréets were set on both sides with burning torches and diuerse goodlie pageants pleasant to behold Thus he passed thorough the towne with his sword and maces borne before him and alighted at the hall doore with his sword borne where met with him the emperour the prince of Castile and the ladie Margaret and humblie saluted him Then for reuerence of the emperour the king line 30 caused his sword to be put vp and his maces to be laid downe so was the king and all other nobles lodged and feasted according to their degrées In the towne of Lisle was a noise that thrée gunners with handguns should haue slaine the king for which rumor manie were attached but nothing prooued But when these tidings came to the campe they were neuer merrie till they saw the king againe Great was the cheere with bankets plaies comedies maskes and other pastimes that were shewed to the king in line 40 the court of Burgognie and so in solace he soiorned there sundaie and mondaie the nineteenth daie of September On the twentith daie he sent word that his armie 〈◊〉 remooue toward Tornaie and so they remooued to a place conuenient betwéene Tornaie and Lisle and certeine capiteins were appointed to kéepe the passage at the bridge of Auandien After that the king had taried at Lisle thrée daies and had well reposed himselfe he tooke his leaue and line 50 thanked the emperour and the yoong prince the ladie Margaret all the ladies for all his high chéere and solace and about six of the clocke at night he departed out of Lisle and the noble men brought the king foorth and so returned and then the capteine shut the gates When the king was a mile and more out of the towne he asked where his campe laie And no man there could tell the waie and guide had they none the night was so darke mistie Thus the king taried a long while and wist not whither to go at last line 60 they met with a vitteler comming from the campe which was their guide and brought them thither The maister of the ordinance shot diuerse peeces of ordinance but they were not heard but in safetie the king with all his companie returned On the one and twentith daie of September the king remooued his campe toward Tornaie and lodged within thrée miles of the citie on a corne ground by the riuer On which night came to the king the emperour and the Palsgraue which were lodged in rich tents and noblie serued of all viands and things necessarie The people about Tornaie were with their goods fled to the citie and yet the citie had no men of warre to defend it but with multitude of inhabitants the same was well replenished The king commanded sir Rice and his horssemen to view one quarter and the earle of Essex and his companie another quarter and the lord Wallon and the lord Lignie the other quarters Then the two and twentith daie of September these foure capteins at one time were soone openlie with banners displaied before the towne and there made a long stale and returned Then the king sent Gartier king of armes to summon them to yeeld it ouer into his hands to whome they made answer that they receiued no citie of the king of England to kéepe nor anie would they render him with which answer he departed Then they fortified their wals and made prouision for vittels corne wine and artillerie and for all fortifications that might be gotten And the citie of it selfe was strong well walled and turrited with good bulworks and defenses But when they saw the king with such a puissance draw néere the citie they were sore abashed and called a generall councell Then the prouost said Brethren you know how that the king of England sent an herald to summon vs to render vp to him this citie or else he would put it and vs to the sword fier and bloud We answered we would be at defense Now he is come in our sight to fulfill the message sent by the herald now is come the time of our defense Howbeit in this matter standeth thrée mischéefs one is our bounden duetie and allegiance that we owe to our souereigne lord king Lewes of France the second the liues of vs our wiues children and neighbors the third how to defend the finall destruction of this ancient citie now likelie to fall which citie was neuer conquered Now our citie is whole your liues in safetie your goods your owne determine whether you will haue war or peace Then the common people cried all War war war Then said the prouost Take compassion of wiues and children and of the old folke consider
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
haue them for my lord the ambassadour And so for better or woorsse the Frenchman called the Englishman knaue and went awaie with the stockdooues The strangers came to the French ambassador and surmised a complaint against the poore carpenter And the ambassador came to the lord maior and said so line 50 much that the carpenter was sent to prison and yet not contented with this so complained to the kings councell that the kings commandement was laid on him And when sir Iohn Baker knight and other worshipfull persons sued to the ambassador for him he answered by the bodie of God that the English knaue should lose his life for he said no Englishman should denie that the Frenchmen required and other answer had they none There was also a Frenchman that had slaine a line 60 man and should abiure the realme and had a crosse in his hand Then suddenlie came a great sort of Frenchmen about him and one of them said to the constable that led him Sir is this crosse the price to kill an Englishman The constable was somewhat astonied answered not Then said another Frenchman On that price we should be banished all by the masse This saieng was noted to be spoken spitefullie Howbeit the Frenchmen were not alonelie oppressors of the Englishmen For a Lombard called Francis de Bard entised a mans wife in Lombard stréet to come to his chamber with hir husbands plate which thing she did After when hir husband knew it he demanded his wife but answer was made he should not haue hir then he demanded his plate and in like maner answer was made that he should neither haue plate nor wife And when he had sued an action against the stranger in the Guildhall the stranger so faced the Englishman that he fainted in his sute Then the Lombard arrested the poore man for his wiues boord while he kept hir from hir husband in his chamber This abuse was much noted so that the same and manie other oppressions doone by them increased such a malice in the Englishmens harts that at the last it burst out For amongst other that sore grudged at these matters there was a broker in London called Iohn Lincolne that busied himselfe so farre in the matter that about Palme sundaie in this eight yeare of the kings reigne he came to one doctor Henrie Standish with these words Sir I vnderstand that you shall preach at the sanctuarie spittle on mondaie in Easter wéeke and so it is that Englishmen both merchants and other are vndoone for strangers haue more libertie in this land than Englishmen which is against all reason and also against the common-weale of the realme I beséech you therefore to declare this in your sermon and in so dooing yée shall deserue great thanks of my lord maior and of all his brethren and héerewith he offered vnto the said doctor Standish a bill conteining this matter more at large But doctor Standish wiselie considering that there might more inconuenience rise thereof than he would wish if he should deale in such sort both wiselie refused the bill and told Lincolne plainlie that he ment not to meddle with anie such matter in his sermon Wherevpon the said Lincolne went vnto one doctor Bele a chanon of the foresaid spittle that was appointed to preach likewise vpon the tuesdaie in Easter wéeke at the same spittle whome he persuaded to read his said bill in the pulpit Which bill in effect conteined how miserablie the common artificers liued and scarse could get anie worke to find them their wiues children there were such a number of artificers strangers that tooke awaie all their liuing in manner And also how the English merchants could haue no vtterance for the merchant strangers bring in all silkes cloth of gold wine oile iron and such other merchandize that no man almost buieth of an Englishman Furthermore they carie out so much English wooll tinne and lead that Englishmen who aduenture outward can haue no liuing which things said Lincolne hath béene shewed to the councell and cannot be heard And further said he the strangers compasse the citie round about in Southwarke in Westminster Temple barre Holborne saint Martins saint Iohns street Algate Tower hill and saint Katharins and forestall the market so that no good thing for them commeth to the market which is the cause that Englishmen want and starue they liue aboundantlie in great pleasure Wherfore said Lincolne maister doctor sith you were borne in London and see the oppression of the strangers and the great miserie of your owne natiue countrie exhort all the citizens to ioine in one against these strangers raueners and destroiers of your countrie Maister doctor hearing this said he much lamented the case if it were as Lincolne had declared Yes said Lincolne that it is and much more For the Dutchmen bring ouer iron timber leather and weinscot readie wrought also nailes locks baskets cupboords stooles tables chests girdles with points saddles painted clothes so that if it were wrought héere Englishmen might haue some worke and liuing by it And besides this they grow into such a multitude that it is to be looked vpon for I saw on a sundaie this Lent six hundred strangers shooting at the popingaie with crosbowes and they keepe such assemblies and fraternities togither and make such a gathering to their common box that euerie votcher will hold plée with the citie of London Well said the doctor I will doo for a reformation of this matter as much as a préest maie do and so receiued Lincolns â—ill and studied for his purpose Then Lincolne verie ioious of his enterprise went from man to man saieng that shortlie they should heare news and dailie excited yoong people and artificers to beare malice line 10 to the strangers When Easter came and doctor Bele should preach the tuesdaie in Easter wéeke he came into the pulpit and there declared that to him was brought a pitifull bill and read it in this wise The tenor of the bill of complaint which doctor Bele read in open audience at the Spitle TO all you the worshipfull lords maisters of this citie that will take compassion ouer the poore people your neighbours and also of the great importable hurts losses and hinderances whereof proceedeth the extreame pouertie to all the kings subiects that inhabit within this citie and suburbs of the same For so it is that the aliens line 30 strangers eat the bread from the fatherlesse children and take the liuing from all the artificers and the intercourse from all merchants whereby pouertie is so much increased that euerie man bewaileth the miserie of other for craftsmen be brought to beggerie and merchants to needinesse Wherfore the premisses considered the redresse must be of the commons knit and vnited to one part And as the hurt and damage line 40 greeueth all men so must all men set to their willing power for remedie not
the first chariot were two ladies which were the old dutchesse of Norffolke and the old marchionesse Dorset In the second chariot were foure ladies all in crimsin veluet Then rode seauen ladies in the same sute their horsses trappers and all Then came the third chariot all white with six ladies in crimsin veluet next after them came the fourth chariot all red with eight ladies also in crimsin veluet after whom followed thirtie gentlewomen all in veluet and silke in the liuerie of their ladies on whom they gaue their attendance After them followed the gard in cotes of goldsmiths worke line 10 Thus they rode foorth till they came to Fanchurch where was made a pageant all with children apparelled like merchants which welcommed hir to the citie with two proper propositions both in French and English And from thence she rode to Gratious church corner where was a costlie and a maruelous cunning pageant made by the merchants of the Stilliard for there was the mount Parnassus with the founteine of Helicon which was of white marble and foure streames without pipe did rise an line 20 ell high and met togither in a little cup aboue the founteine which founteine ran abundantlie racked Rhenish wine till night On the mounteine sat Apollo and at his feet sat Calliope and on euerie side of the mounteine sat foure muses plaieng on seuerall sweet instruments and at their féet epigrams and poeses were written in golden letters in the which euerie muse according to hir propertie praised the quéene The quéene from thence passed to Leaden hall line 30 where was a goodlie pageant with a type and a heauenlie roofe and vnder the type was a roote of gold set on a little mounteine inuironed with red roses and white out of the type came downe a falcon all white sat vpon the roote and incontinent came downe an angell with great melodie and set a close crowne of gold on the falcons head And in the same pageant sat saint Anne with all hir issue beneath hir and vnder Marie Cleoph sat hir foure children of the which children one made a goodlie oration to the queene of the fruitfulnes of saint Anne and of hir line 40 generation trusting that like fruit should come of hir Then she passed to the conduit in Cornhill where were thrée graces set in a throne afore whom was the spring of grace continuallie running wine Afore the founteine sat a poet declaring the properties of euerie grace and that doone euerie ladie by hir selfe according to hir propertie gaue to the quéene a seuerall gift of grace That doone she passed by the great conduit in chéepe which was newlie painted with armes of deuises line 50 out of the which conduit by a goodlie founteine set at the one end ran continuallie wine both white and claret all that afternoone and so she rode to the Standard which was richlie painted with images of kings and quéenes and hanged with banners of armes and in the top was maruellous swéet harmonie both of song and instrument Then she went forward to the crosse which was newlie guilt till she came where the aldermen stood and then master Baker the recorder came to hir with low reuerence making line 60 a proper and briefe proposition and gaue to hir in the name of the citie a thousand marks in a purse of gold which she thankefullie accepted with manie goodlie words and so rode to the little conduit where was a rich pageant full of melodie and song In this pageant was Pallas Iuno and Uenus and before them stood Mercurie which in the name of the thrée goddesses gaue to hir a ball of gold diuided in thrée signifieng thrée gifts which the thrée goddesses gaue to hir that is to saie wisedome riches and felicitie As she entered into Paules gate there was a pretie pageant in which sat thrée ladies richlie clothed and in a circle on their head was written Regina Anna prosperè procede regna Tâ—e ladie in the middes had a tablet in the which was written Veniamica coronaberis and vnder the tablet sat an angell with a close crowne and the ladie sitting on the right hand had a tablet of siluer in which was written Dominé dirige gressius meos the third ladie had a tablet of gold with letters azure written Confido in Domino vnder their féet was written in legible letters Regina Anna nouum regis de sanguine natum Cùm paries populis aurea seclatuis And these ladies cast downe wafers on the which the two verses were written From thence she passed to the east end of Paules churchyard against the schoole where stood on a scaffold two hundred children well apparelled which said to hir diuerse goodlie verses of poets translated into English to the honour of the king and hir which she highlie commended And when she came to Ludgate the gate was newlie garnished with gold bise And on the leads of saint Martins church stood a goodlie queere of singing men and children which soong new balads made in praise of hir After that she was passed Ludgate she procéeded toward Fléetstréet where the conduit was newlie painted and all the armes and angels refreshed the chime melodiouslie sounding Upon the conduit was made a towre with foure turrets and in euerie turret stood one of the cardinall vertues with their tokens and properties which had seuerall spéeches promising the queene neuer to leaue hir but to be aiding and comforting hir and in the middest of the towre closelie was such seuerall solemne instruments that it séemed to be an heauenlie noise and was much regarded and praised and beside this the said conduit ran wine claret and red all the afternoone So she with all hir companie and the maior rode foorth to Temple barre which was newlie painted and repared where stood also diuerse singing men and children till she came to Westminster hall which was richlie hanged with cloth of arras and new glased And in the middest of the hall she was taken out of hir litter so led vp to the higher deske vnder the cloth of estate on whose left hand was a cupbord of ten stages maruellous rich and beautifull to behold and within a little season was brought to the quéene with a solemne seruice in great standing spice plates a void of spice and subtilties with ipocras and other wines which she sent downe to hir ladies and when the ladies had dranke she gaue hartie thanks to the lords and ladies with the maior and other that had giuen their attendance on hir and so withdrew hir selfe with a few ladies to the Whitehall and so to hir chamber and there shifted hir and after went into hir barge secretlie to the king to his manour of Westminster where she rested that night On sundaie the maior â—lad in crimsin veluet and with his collar and all the aldermen and shiriffes in scarlet and the counsell of the citie
middest of the table vnder the cloth of estate On the right side of the chaire stood the countesse of Oxford widow and on the left side stood the countesse of Worcester all the dinner season which diuerse times in the dinner time did hold a fine cloth before the quéenes face when she list to spet or doo otherwise at hir pleasure At the tables end sat the archbishop of Canturburie on the right hand of the quéene and in the middest betwéene the archbishop and the countesse of Oxford stood the earle of Oxford with a white staffe all dinner time and at the quéenes féet vnder the table sat two gentlewomen all dinner time When all these things were thus ordered in came the duke of Suffolke and the lord William Howard on horssebacke and the sargeants of armes before them and after them the sewer and then the knights of the bath bringing in the first course which was eightéene dishes besides subtilties and ships made of wax maruellous gorgious to behold all which time of seruice the trumpets standing in the window at the nether end of the hall plaied melodiouslie When hir grace was serued of two dishes then the archbishops seruice was set downe whose sewer came equall with the third dish of the quéenes seruice on his left hand After that the quéene and the archbishop was serued the barons of the ports began the table on the right hand next the wall next them at the table sat the masters and clearks of the Chancerie and beneath them at the table other doctors and gentlemen The table next the wall on the left hand by the cupbord was begun by the maior and aldermen the chamberleine and the councell of the citie of London and beneath them sat substantiall merchants and so downeward other worshipfull persons At the table on the right hand in the middest of the hall sat the lord chancellor and other temporall lords on the right side of the table in their circots and on the left side of the same table sat bishops and abbats in their parlement robes beneath them sat the iudges sargeants the kings councell beneath line 10 them the knights of the bath At the table on the left hand in the middle part sat dutchesses marquesses countesses baronesses in their robes and other ladies in circots and gentlewomen in gownes All which ladies and gentlewomen sat on the lest side of the table along and none on the right side When all were thus set they were incontinent serued and so quicklie that it was maruell for the seruitors gaue such good attendance that meat or drinke nor any thing else néeded not to be called for line 20 which in so great a multitude was maruell As touching the fare there could be deuised no more costlier dishes nor subtilties The maior of London was serued with thrée and thirtie dishes at two courses and so were all his brethren and such as sat at his table The quéene had at hir second course foure and twentie dishes and thirtie at the third course betwéene the two last courses the kings of armes cried larges in thrée parts of the hall and after stood in their place which was in the bekins at the kings bench line 30 And on the right hand out of the cloister of S. Stephans was made a little closet in which the king with diuerse ambassadors stood to behold the seruice The duke of Suffolke and the lord William rode often times about the hall chering the lords ladies and the maior and his brethren After they all had dined they had wafers and ipocras and then they washed and were commanded to rise and to stand still in their places before the table or on the formes till the queene had washed line 40 When she had taken wafers and ipocras the table was taken vp and the earle of Rutland brought vp the surnap and laid it at the boords end which immediatlie was drawne and cast by master Rode marshall of the hall and the quéene washed and after the archbishop and when the surnap was drawne off she arose and stood in the middest of the palace hall to whome the earle of Sussex in a goodlie spice plate brought a void of spice and comfets After him the maior of London brought a standing line 50 cup of gold set in a cup of assaie of gold and after that she had droonke she gaue the maior the cup with the cup of assaie bicause there was no leiar according to the claime of the citie thanking him and all his brethren for their paine Then she vnder hir canopie departed to hir chamber and at the entrie of hir chamber she gaue the canopie with bels and all to the barons of the ports according to their claime with great thanks Then the maior of London bearing his cup in his hand with his brethren went line 60 through the hall to their barge and so did all other noble men and gentlemen for it was six of the clocke On mondaie were the iusts at the tilt before the kings gate where the maior and his brethren had a goodlie standing but there were verie few speares broken by reason the horsses would not cope On wednesdaie the king sent for the maior and his brethren to Westminster and there he himselfe gaue to them hartie thanks with manie goodlie words On Midsummer daie after the ladie Marie the French quéene died in Suffolke who was the late wife to Lewes the twelfe after married to Charles duke of Suffolke was buried at S. Edmundsburie The K. kept his progresse about London bicause of the quéene The seuenth of September being sundaie betwéene thrée foure of the clocke in the afternoone the queene was deliuered of a faire yoong ladie on which daie the duke of Norffolke came home to the christening which was appointed on the wednesdaie next following and was accordinglie accomplished on the same daie with all such solemne ceremonies as were thought conuenient The godfather at the font was the lord archbishop of Canturburie the godmothers the old dutches of Norffolke the old marchionesse Dorset widow and at the confirmation the ladie marchionesse of Excester was godmother the child was named Elizabeth Upon the daie of the christening the maior sir Stephan Peacocke in a gowne of crimsin velâ—et with his collar of SS and all the aldermen in scarlet with collars and chaines and all the councell of the citie with them tooke their barge after dinner at one of the clocke and the citizens had another barge and so rowed to Gréenwich where were manie lords knights and gentlemen assembled All the walles betwéene the kings palace the friers were hanged with arras and all the waie strawed with gréene rushes the friers church was also hanged with arras The font was of siluer and stood in the middest of the church thrée steps high which was couered with a fine cloth and diuerse gentlemen with aperns and
of the chandrie with seare cloths the yeoman of the skullerie with a pan of fire to heate the irons a chafer of water to coole the ends of the irons and two formes for all officers to set their stuffe on the sergeant of the cellar with wine ale and béere the yeoman of the yewrie in the sergeants stead who was absent with bason ewre and towels Thus euerie man in his office readie to doo the execution there was called foorth sir William Pickering knight marshall to bring in the said Edmund Kneuet and when he was brought to the bar the chiefe iustice declared to him his trespasse and the said Kneuet confessing himselfe to be giltie humblie submitted him to the kings mercie for this offense he was not onelie iudged to lose his hand but also his bodie to remaine in prison and his lands and goods at the kings pleasure Then the said sir Edmund Kneuet desired that the king of his benigne grace would pardon him of his right hand and take the left for quoth he if my right hand be spared I maie hereafter doo such good seruice to his grace as shall please him to appoint Of this submission and request the iustices foorthwith informed the king who of his goodnesse considering the gentle heart of the said Edmund and the good report of the lords granted him his pardon that he should lose neither hand lands nor goods but should go frée at libertie The lord Leonard Greie being indicted of certeine points of treason by him committed as was alledged against him during the season that he was the kings lieutenant in Ireland to wit for deliuering his nephew Girald Fitzgerard brother vnto Thomas Fitzgerard before executed and also for that he caused certeine Irishmen to inuade the lands of the kings friends whome he fauoured not on the fiue and twentith of Iune he was arreigned at Westminster in the kings bench and appointed to be tried by knights because he was a lord by name and no lord of the parlement but he discharged the iurie and confessed the indictement wherevpon he had iudgement and on the eight and twentith of Iune being saint Peters euen he was beheaded at tower hill where he ended his life verie quietlie and godlie This noble man as he was come of high linage so was he a right valiant and hardie personage hauing in his time doone his prince and countrie good seruice both in Ireland France and other places greatlie to his commendation although now his hap was thus to loose his head as conuicted by law and his renowme ouercast with a cloud of disgrace vanished as future chances befell to the abolishing of the present honor which sometime he inioied Howbeit his estimation he might haue preserued vnblemished had prouident circumspection vndertaken the direction of his dooings and that he had borne his eies in his forehead to foresee all afterclaps which a wise man will in no case neglect line 10 Nam sapiens in fronte oculos habet omnia spectans Omnia prudenti cum ratione videns The same daie that he suffered there was executed at saint Thomas Waterings thrée gentlemen Iohn Mantell Iohn Frowds and george Roidon they died for a murther committed in Sussex as their indictement imported in companie of Thomas Fines lord Dacres of the south The truth whereof was thus The said lord Dacres through the lewd persuasion of some of them as hath béene reported line 20 meaning to hunt in the parke of Nicholas Pelham esquire at Laughton in the same countie of Sussex being accompanied with the said Mantell Frowds and Roidon Iohn Cheinie and Thomas Isleie gentlemen Richard Middleton and Iohn Goldwell yeomen passed from his house of Hurstmonseux the last of Aprill in the night season toward the same parke where they intended so to hunt and comming vnto a place called Pikehaie in the parish of Hillingleie they found one Iohn Busbrig Iames Busbrig and Richard Sumner standing togither and line 30 as it fell out through quarelling there insued a fraie betwixt the said lord Dacres and his companie on the one partie and the said Iohn and Iames Busbrig and Richard Sumner on the other insomuch that the said Iohn Busbrig receiued such hurt that he died thereof the second of Maie next insuing Wherevpon as well the said lord Dacres as those that were there with him and diuerse other likewise that were appointed to go an other waie to méet line 40 them at the said parke were indicted of murther and the seauen and twentith of Iune the lord Dacres himselfe was arreigned before the lord Audleie of Walden then lord chancellor sitting that daie as high steward of England with other péeces of the realme about him who then and there condemned the said lord Dacres to die for that transgression And afterward the nine and twentith of Iune being saint Peters daie at eleuen of the clocke in the forenoone the shiriffs of London accordinglie as they line 50 were appointed were readie at the tower to haue receiued the said prisoner and him to haue lead to execution on the tower hill But as the prisoner should come forth of the tower one Heire a gentleman of the lord chancellors house came and in the kings name commanded to staie the execution till two of the clocke in the afternoone which caused manie to thinke that the king would haue granted his pardon But neuerthelesse at three of the clocke in the same afternoone he was brought forth of the tower line 60 and deliuered to the shiriffs who lead him on foot betwixt them vnto Tiburne where he died His bodie was buried in the church of saint Sepulchers He was not past foure and twentie yéeres of age when he came through this great mishap to his end for whome manie sore lamented and likewise for the other thrée gentlemen Mantell Frowds and Roidon But for the sad yoong lord being a right towardlie gentleman and such a one as manie had conceiued great hope of better proofe no small mone and lamentation was made the more indéed for that it was thought he was induced to attempt such follie which occasioned his death by some light heads that were then about him The first of Iulie a Welshman a minstrell was hanged and quartered for singing of songs which were interpreted to be prophesies against the king This summer the king tooke his progresse to Yorke and passed through Lincolneshire where was made to him an humble submission by the temporaltie and confessing their faults they humblie thanked him for his pardon which he had granted them The towne of Stanford gaue to him twentie pounds the citie of Lincoln fortie pounds Boston fiftie pounds that part of the shire which is called Linscie gaue thrée hundred pounds and Kesterne and the church of Lincolne presented him with fiftie pounds At his entring into Yorkeshire he was met with two hundred gentlemen of the same shire in cotes of veluet and foure
thinking that notwithstanding the answer before made yet because the most part of the citizens were of their opinions and of the like affections in religion would not resist them as also that they had manie friends within the citie more readie to ioine with them than to follow the maior if they might haue the choise what to doo they came being in number about two thousand persons to the citie vpon the second of Iulie 1â—49 first making proclamation that if the citie would not yeeld line 60 and ioine with them they would enter with force and take the spoile of it so then they vpon the deniall compassed the same round about and gained vnto them at the first all the suburbs And hereof they conceiued such a vaine hope to haue their full desire vpon the citie that not onelie the number in hope did dailie more more increase but also manie of them brought their wiues horsses and pâ—niers persuading themselues and promising them by such a daie and vpon such a daie to enter into the citie and then to measure veluets and silks by the bow and to lade their horsses home with plate monie and other great riches The maior and his brethren forecasting the perils which might in such a case insue doo prouide all things necessarie and méet wherewith to defend themselues and to annoie the enimie The citie therefore is viewed for armor men are mustered soldiers are reteined capteins in euerie ward appointed warders for the daie and watchmen for the night assigned great péeces of ordinance laid in euerie gate and placed in all conuenient places of the wals mounts in sundrie places erected as well for laieng of ordinance as for sauing of the soldiers watchmen from the enimies shot and nothing was left vndoone which in anie respect that present state and necessitie required The rebels likewise intrench the high waies plash downe trées breake downe bridges kéepe watches and wards in euerie place so that no man could passe to or from the citie without their sufferance The markets are stopped vittels are kept from it and all dealings and intercourses shut and cut off and hauing as they bragged penned and shut vp the townesmen in a coope or mew they plant their ordinance against euerie gate and in all other such places as best to serue their turne and to hurt them within they burnt the gates they brake vp the pipes and conduits aswell for the taking awaie of the water comming to the citie as also to haue the led to serue for their shot and pellets But for the burning of the gates there followed rather a benefit than a hurt thereof for foorthwith there were made certeine rampiers within the gate which were farre stronger and of more defense than the gates as also there were fiers continuallie kept euerie night betwéene the rampiers and the gates and as for water the citie so standeth vpon a little hill that it is full of springs in euerie quarter within the same and by that means full and plentifull of euerie good and swéet waters Also they in sundrie places did vndermine the wals minding thereby with gunpowder and with other matters fit for fier to haue blowne vp the wals and so to haue entered in that waie but herein they were also preuented by this means and in this maner The citie it selfe as is before said is set vpon a little hill and lieth verie stéeping towards two of the gates And at one of these named the west gate the said rebels had vndermined on the one side and filled the place with certeine barels of powder pitch and other stuffe méet and apt to receiue fier and had appointed the night when the same should be set on fier and so to haue blowne the wals vp At the same time there was a certeine tinner in the citie whose dwelling was at Teingemouth named Iohn Newcombe who depended much vpon the goodwill and fréendship of maister William Hurst one of the aldermen of the citie and he vnderstanding of such an vndermining to be in working aduertised the same to maister Hurst and maketh him priuie how he would preuent the same which was doone in this maner For whereas he by a noise vnder the ground did suspect the vndermining to be in working he tooke a pan of water did put the same on the ground by shaking of the water in the pan he by remoouing the pan from place to place came at length to the verie place whereas the miners were working and foorthwith he countermined against the same and wrought so néere vnto it vntill that he might and did sée looke into it That â—oone he caused all the wals and tirpits in the citie towards euerie stréet hauing a fall that waie to be drawne at one time and euerie man to fill therewith a great tub of water at his foredoore which being 〈◊〉 he caused them all at one instant to be cast out and emptied which water running in great abundance towards the said west gate was conueied into the place countermined so entered and drowned the place which before was mined at which time also by the goodnesse of God there fell a great showre as the like for the time had not beene séene manie years before and which at that instant greatlie serued this turne The rebels perceiuing themselues disappointed of their purpose gaue ouer to deale anie further in those attempts howbeit otherwise they left nothing vndoone which might be to annoie the citizens For sometimes they made alarums as though they with all might and maine would haue giuen the line 10 scale and indeed they had prouided ladders for the same purpose Sometimes they by policies would séeke to come to the gates to burne them and herein they vsed this stratagem They prouided carts laden with old haie driuing the whéeles before them would come to the gate without danger and so set fier in the gate But notwithstanding they escaped not scotfrée for both at the west gate and at the south-gate their commings being perceiued the great port péeces were charged with great bags of flint-stones line 20 and haileshot and as they were approching vnto the gates the gates were secretlie opened and the said port péeces discharged and so they were spoiled diuerse of them by that means they had small pleasure to follow those deuises as also the citizens to preuent the same did from thensefoorth kéepe the gates open Likewise they would kéepe themselues close in sundrie houses in the suburbs neere the wals and would so watch the garrets that if anie within the citie would looke out at the garrets was line 30 in the danger of their shot and some thereby were killed and manie hurt Upon which occasion the citizens set some part of the suburbs on fier and some part which was next to the wals they beat and brake downe and so draue the rebels out
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
a man of verie good seruice practise and experience his line 10 name was Barnard Duffeld seruant to the lord Russell and kéeper of his house in Excester Both of these were verie forward and carefull in this present seruice against the rebels But there fell an emulation betwéene them which albeit it be verie commendable in good things he praise woorthie who can best excell therein yet when the same shall tend to a diuision of a publike state the dissolution of a commonwealth the breach of common societie or the maintenance of anie euill it is vtterlie to be shunned line 20 and lamented It happened vpon an occasion offered that certeine of this companie vpon a time issued out at the forsaid posterne and made a sallie vpon the enimies and had such good successe that some of them they slue some they tooke prisoners as also spoiled them of their goods and brought awaie with them some of their ordinance namelie basses and slings howbeit they all scaped not scotfrée for some of them were taken some also were hurt as namelie Iohn Drake line 30 who the yeare before was the receiuer of the citie was shot through the chéekes with an arrow which he brought into the citie with him and one Iohn Simons a cooke was so hurt that he died thereof But among them all one Iohn Goldsmith being of that companie and seruant to Richard Helierd of the same goldsmith and a Fleming borne had the best successe for in the same skirmish he was taken prisoner by one of the rebels who offered in taking of him with his bill to haue slaine him With that line 40 this Iohn Goldsmith fell downe yeelded himselfe hauing then in his hand his péece or handgun charged suddenlie the other not mistrusting nor marking the same he discharged into his verie bellie and so slue him tooke the spoile of him and brought the same into the citie with him This skirmish though it were not cléere gaines to this companie yet it so incouraged them that from time to time they consulted and in the end determined to make a fresh sallie and to giue a new aduenture wherevpon there fell and grew a disagréement line 50 betwéene the two foresaid Iohn Courtneie Barnard Duffeld the one affirming that the same was not to be permitted in anie fort or citie which stood vpon defense or gard without a verie speciall order of the generall or chéefe capteine or some vrgent necessitie especiallie in that present distresse and extremitie wherein the citie as then did stand But Barnard Duffeld being verie loth to loose anie part of his credit or to desist from that he with others line 60 had determined could by no meanes be persuaded to the contrarie but plainelie affirmeth that what he had determined should be performed Wherevpon the foresaid Iohn Courtneie resorteth to the maior aduertiseth vnto him the matter dealeth so fullie and with such persuasions with him that the maior assembleth his brethren and sendeth for the foresaid Duffeld who being come the matter was at full debated and discoursed and in the end concluded that it was verie hurtfull and dangerous to that present state that anie such issuing out should be granted or permitted and therefore praied the said Duffeld to staie his determination and to be contented But he being vnpatient thinking his credit to be stained if he should be debarred or denied to doo that which he had faithfullie promised did vtterlie refuse to yéeld to this the maiors request as also by continuing of talkes fell out in foule and disordered speaches Wherevpon to auoid a further inconuenience he was commanded to ward The daughter of this Duffeld whose name was Francis hearing that hir father was in ward and taking in greefe that so great an iniurie as she tearmed it should be doone to hir father came more hastilie than aduisedlie vnto the maior somewhat late in the euening required to haue hir father out of the ward Which thing being denied vnto hir shée waxed so warme that not onelie she vsed verie vnseemelie tearmes and speaches vnto the maior but also contrarie to the modestie and shamefastnes required in a woman speciallie yoong and vnmarried ran most violentlie vpon him and strake him in the face This was taken in so euill a part and fearing that it had beene a set match of some further inconueniences the common bell was foorthwith roong out and also a rumour spread that the maior was beaten or killed The whole commons immediatlie in great troops the most part in armor ran to the Guildhall where the maior was who though he was safe yet were they so gréeued with this iniurie that they would in all hast haue run to the lord Russels house where she was then gone and haue fetched hir out but the maior forecasting what inconueniences might insue and respecting the necessitie of the present state was not onlie contented patientlie to wrap vp these iniuries but also earnestlie requested the commoners to doo the like who being so pacified he went home and they conducted him into his owne doores The chanons of the cathedrall church which at that time were resident in their houses within the close there namelie archdeacon Pollard treasuror Southron chancellor Luson and master Holwell with others of the said church who ioined with the maior and citizens in this seruice for the safegard of the citie and did kéepe both watches and wards and their men readie at all times to serue in euerie alarum and skirmish they at the hearing of this disordered part were verie much greeued therewith and they likewise forthwith assembled all their men and being well armed and appointed they went to the maior who was then gone home to his house and then and there verie friendlie did comfort him and offred to stand by him and to assist him in all the best seruice they were able to doo for his defense and safetie of the citie The said archdeacon offered that in proper person he would herein stand in his behalfe against all persons whatsoeuer that would attempt or offer to doo him anie wrong And in the end after sundrie friendlie and good speaches they departed to their homes And the said archdeacon euerie daie after would either come or send to the maior This maior being a merchant and onelie exercised in that trade had small reach in matters of policie or martiall affaires he was maior of the citie thrée times and in euerie yeare there grew some troubles in the citie but he had such a speciall care regard to his charge and gouernment that he would neuer attempt nor doo anie thing therein but by the aduise and counsell of wise graue and expert men and God so blessed him that he prospered and had good successe in all his dooings Besides these and sundrie other former perils the which the citie manie and oftentimes stood in and by the goodnes and prouidence of God still
proceeding from one mischiefe to another after they had practised to spoile the gentlemen of the countrie of their goods they began to attach their bodies and by force to bring them into line 50 their campe so that such as escaped their hands were glad to flée and hide themselues in woods and caues where they might best keepe themselues out of their aduersaries reach and intended dangers But to speake of all the horrible practises by these vngratious people exercised it would be too long a processe What shifts they found to cloake their dooings and that euen vnder the kings authoritie it is woonderfull For whereas there were certeine commissions directed vnto diuerse gentlemen in line 60 the countrie to take order for the appeasing of these tumults they getting the same into their hands tooke vpon them the authoritie committed to the gentlemen vnto whome the same commissions were sent and taking off the seales from the other fastened the same vnto their counterfeit writings To conclude they grew to such vnmeasurable disorder that they would not in manie things obeie neither their generall capteine nor anie of their gouernors but ran headlong into all kind of mischiefe made such spoile of vittels which they brought out of the countrie adioining vnto their campe that within few daies they consumed beside a great number of béefes twentie thousand muttons also swans géese hens capons ducks other foules so manie as they might laie hands vpon And furthermore they spared not to breake into parks and kill what déere they could Such hauocke they made of all that came in their waie and such number of shéepe speciallie they brought into their campe that a good fat weather was sold for a groat The woods groues and trées that were destroied I passe ouer and make no mention thereof Herewith what crueltie was shewed by them in fettering and manacing such gentlemen as they caught and committed to prison for some misliking they had conceiued of them it was a miserable case to behold Some there were whom they brought foorth as it had béene to iudgement before the tree of reformation there to be tried afore the gouernors as if they had béene guiltie of some heinous and gréeuous crime And when it was asked of the commons what should be doone with those prisoners they would crie with one voice Hang them hang them And when they were asked why they gaue so sharpe iudgement of those whome they neuer knew they would roundlie answer that other cried the same crie and therefore they ment to giue their assent with other although they could yéeld no reason but that they were gentlemen therefore not woorthie to liue Whilest the rebels thus raged abroad in the countrie at Hengham eleuen miles from Norwich sir Edmund Kneuet knight with a small companie of his owne meniall seruants set vpon the night-watch of the rebels that were placed there brake through ouerthrowing diuerse of them and hauing some of his owne men also vnhorssed by the rebels and in danger to be hewen in peeces among them yet he recouered them escaped their hands through great manhood After which good nights seruice as they would haue it esteemed they repaired to their great capteine Ket to shew their hurts receiued to complaine of their griefes It was talked among them that they would go to sir Edmund Kneuets house called Buckenham castell to assault it and to fetch him out of it by force But it was doubted of some least it were too strong for them and other feared sharpe stripes if they should attempt that exploit being at the least twelue miles from their maine campe and so that enterprise went not forward the most part thinking it best to sléepe in whole skins There was at London the same time a citizen of Norwich one Leonard Southerton fled from thence for feare of his life whome the councell sent for to come to speake with them and being asked what he knew touching the state of the rebels he declared to them from point to point the maner of all their outragious procéedings but yet that as he vnderstood there were manie among them that would laie aside their armour if they might be assured of the kings pardon and therefore if it would please the king to set foorth a proclamation that all such as would depart from the campe and be quiet should haue their pardon for all that was past he doubted not but that those routs should be dispersed His aduise was allowed and therevpon was an herald sent with all spéed in companie with the said Southerton vnto Norwich comming into the campe the last of Iulie and standing before the trée of reformation apparelled in his cote of armes pronounced there before all the multitude with lowd voice a frée pardon to all that would depart to their homes and laieng aside their armour giue ouer their traitorous begun enterprise After he had made an end of his proclamation in maner all the multitude cried God saue the king And manie of them falling downe vpon their knées could not forbeare with teares gushing from their eies but commend the kings great and vnspeakable mercie thus freelie offered vnto them which vndoubtedlie they had at that time all of them receiued if the wicked speech of some of the rascall sort and namelie the traitorous persuasions of that wicked caitife Ket himselfe had not staied them from their dutifull inclinations But after that Ket had with lowd voice before declared that kings princes were accustomed to grant pardons to such as line 10 are offendors and not to others he trusted that he néeded not anie pardon sith he had doone nothing but that belonged to the dutie of a true subiect and herewith he besought them not to forsake him but to remember his promise sith he was readie to spend his life in the quarell The herald herevpon called him traitor and commanded Iohn Petibone the swordbearer of Norwich to attach him for treason Then began a great hurlie burlie among the multitude so that the herald perceiuing they began to line 20 shrinke from their former purpose of receiuing the kings pardon departed from them with these words All ye that be the kings friends come awaie with me The maior maister Alderich with a great number of other gentlemen honest yeomen that were readie to obeie the kings commandement followed him The maior being thus returned to the citie caused the gates to be shut and such gentlemen as had béen committed to prison within the castell or other places line 30 in the citie he caused to be set at libertie with their aduise tooke order how the rebelles might be kept out But as he was busie about such matters certeine of the citizens that fauored the rebelles had receiued a great multitude of them into the citie which did put the citizens in such feare that it was thought the most suretie for the
poore The poore by impotencie Poore by casualtie Thriftlesse poore 1 The poore by impotencie are also diuided into three kinds that is to saie 1 The fatherlesse poore mans line 60 child 2 The aged blind and lame 3 The diseased person by leprosie dropsie c. 2 The poore by casualtie are of thrée kinds that is to saie 4 The wounded souldier 5 The decaied housholder 6 The visited with gréeuous disease 3 The thriftles poore are three kinds in like wise that is to saie 7 The riotor that consumeth all 8 The vagabond that will abide in no place 9 The idle person as the strumpet and others For these sorts of poore were prouided thrée seuerall houses First for the innocent and fatherlesse which is the beggers child and is in déed the séed and breeder of beggerie they prouided the house that was late Graie friers in London and now is called Christes hospitall where the poore children are trained in the knowledge of God and some vertuous eâ—ercise to the ouerthrowe of beggerie For the second degrée is prouided the hospitall of saint Thomas in Southworke saint Bartholomew in west Smithfield where are continuallie at least two hundred diseased persons which are not onelie there lodged and cured but also fed and nourished For the third degrée they prouided Bridewell where the vagabond and idle strumpet is chastised and compelled to labour to the ouerthrow of the vicious life of idlenes They prouided also for the honest decaied housholder that he should be relieued at home at his house and in the parish where he dwelled by a wéekelie reliefe and pension And in like manner they prouided for the lazer to kéepe him out of the citie from clapping of dishes and ringing of bels to the great trouble of the citizens and also to the dangerous infection of manie that they should be relieued at home at their houses with seuerall pensions Now after this good order taken and the citizens by such meanes as were deuised willing to further the same the report therof was made vnto the kings maiestie and his grace for the aduancement hereof was not onelie willing to grant such as should be the ouerséers and gouernors of the said houses a corporation and authoritie for the gouernement thereof but also required that he might be accounted as the chiefe founder and patrone thereof And for the furtherance of the said worke and continuall maintenance of the same he of his méere mercie and goodnesse granted that where before certeine lands were giuen to the maintenance of the house of the Sauoie founded by king Henrie the seuenth for the lodging of pilgrims and strangers and that the same was now made but a lodging of loiterers vagabonds and strumpets that laie all daie in the fields and at night were harboured there the which was rather the maintenance of beggerie than the reliefe of the poore gaue the same lands being first surrendred into his hands by the maister and fellowes there which lands were of the yearelie value of six hundred pounds vnto the citie of London for the maintenance of the foundation aforesaid And for a further reliefe a petition being made to the kings maiestie for a licence to take in mortmaine or otherwise without licence lands to a certeine yearelie â—alue and a space left in the patent for his grace to put in what summe it would please him he looking on the void place called for pen and inke and with his owne hand wrote this summe in these words foure thousand marks by yeare and then said in the hearing of his councell Lord God I yeeld thée most hartie thanks that thou hast giuen mée life thus long to finish this worke to the glorie of thy name After which foundation established he liued not aboue two daies whose life would haue béene wished equall to the patriarchs if it might haue pleased God so to haue protracted the same But he was too good a prince for so bad a people and therefore God remooued him and translated him to his owne kingdome foreséeing the euent of something which in his secret counsell he had purposed against a nation that knew not the benefit of the acceptable time of grace wherein God by this péerelesse princes means ment all good to this land as might be gathered by the reformation of religion wherin the kings care was exceeding great as his desire to establish Gods glorie was zealous according to that notable allusion of Iohn Leland recorded in praise of this most excellent prince as followeth in this epigram Quisquis Eaduerdum Romano expresserat ore Custodem fidei dixerit esse sacrae Hoc ego crediderim puero feliciter orto A superis nomen coelitùs esse datum Est pater antiquae fidei defensor amicus Degener nullo tempore natus erit But to returne where we left By example of the charitable act of this vertuous yoong king sir William Chester knight and alderman of London and line 10 Iohn Calthrop citizen and draper of the said citie at their owne proper costs and charges made the bricke walles and way on the backeside that leadeth from the said new hospitall vnto the hospitall of saint Bartholomewes and also couered and vauted the towne dich from Aldersgate to Newgate which before was verie noisome and contagious to the said hospitall This hospitall being thus erected and put in good order there was one Richard Castell alià s Casteller line 20 shoomaker dwelling in Westminster a man of great trauell and labor in his facultie with his owne hands and such a one as was named the cocke of Westminster for that both winter and summer he was at his worke before foure of the clocke in the morning This man thus trulie and painfullie labouring for his liuing God blessed and increased his labours so abundantlie that he purchased lands and tenements in Westminster to the yearelie value of fortie and foure pounds And hauing no child with the line 30 consent of his wife who suruiued him was a vertuous good woman gaue the same lands wholie to Christs hospitall aforesaid to the reliefe of the innocent and fatherlesse children and for the succor of the miserable sore and sicke harbored in the other hospitals about London whose example God grant manie to follow ¶ The third of August at Midlenton eleuen miles from Oxford a woman brought foorth a child which had two perfect bodies from the nauill vpward and line 40 were so ioined togither at the nauill that when they were laid in length the one head bodie was eastward and the other west the legs for both the bodies grew out at the midst where the bodies ioined and had but one issue for the excrements of both bodies they liued eightéene daies and were women children The eight of August were taken at Quinborow thrée great fishes called dolphins the weeke following at Blackewall were six more taken and line
could not prosper so long as she kept in hir hands any possessions of the church did frankelie and freelie resigne and render vnto them all those reuenues ecclesiasticall line 20 which by the authoritie of parlement in the time of king Henrie had béene annexed to the crowne called the first fruits and tenths of all bishopricks benefices and ecclesiasticall promotions The resignation whereof was a great diminution of the reuenues of the crowne ¶ In this parlement was granted to the king queene a subsidie of the laitie from fiue pounds to ten pounds eight pence of the pound from ten pounds to twentie pounds twelue pence of the pound from twentie pounds vpward sixtéene line 30 pence of the pound and all strangers double and the cleargie granted six shillings of the pound Doctor Storie and other were appointed by the cardinall to visit euerie parish church in London and Middlesex to see their relikes repared and the images of the crucifix with Marie and Iohn therevpon to be fixed During the time of this parlement Stephan Gardiner bishop of Winchester and chancellor of England died at his house called Winchester place beside saint Marie Oueries in Southworke the ninth daie of Nouember whose corps was shortlie line 40 after solemnly from thence conueied to his church of Winchester there buried The maner of whose death why should I blush to blaze as I find it by report ¶ One mistresse Mondaie being the wife of one maister Mondaie secretarie sometime to the old lord Thomas duke of Norffolke a present witnes of this that is testified thus openlie reported in the house of a worshipfull citizen bearing office in this citie in words and effect as followeth The same daie line 50 when as bishop Ridleie and maister Latimer suffered at Oxford being about the ninetéenth daie of October there came to the house of Stephan Gardiner the old duke of Norffolke with the foresaid Mondaie his secretarie aboue named reporter héerof The old aged duke there waiting and tarieng for his dinner the bishop being not yet disposed to dine deferred the time till three or foure of the clocke at after noone At length about foure of the clocke commeth his seruant posting in all possible spéed from Oxford line 60 bringing intelligence to the bishop what he had heard and séene of whom the said bishop diligentlie inquiring the truth of the matter hearing by his man that fire most certeinlie was set vnto them commeth out reioising to the duke Now saith he let vs go to dinner Wherevpon they being set downe meat immediatlie was brought and the bishop began merilie to eate but what followed The blouddie tyrant had not eaten a few bits but the sudden stroke of God his terrible hand fell vpon him in such sort as immediatlie he was taken from the table so brought to his bed where he continued the space of fiftéene daies in such intollerable anguish and torments that all that meane while during those fifteene daies he could not auoid by order of vrine or otherwise any thing that he receiued whereby his bodie being miserablie inflamed within who had inflamed so manie good martyrs before was brought to a wretched end And thereof no doubt as most like it is came the thrusting out of his toong from his mouth so swolne blacke with the inflammation of his bodie A spectacle worthie to be noted and beholden of all such bloudie burning persecutors But whatsoeuer he was séeing he is now gone I referre him to his iudge to whom he shall stand or fall As concerning his death and maner thereof I would they which were present thereat would testifie to vs what they saw This we haue all to thinke that his death happened so opportunelie that England hath a mightie cause to giue thanks to the Lord therfore not so much for the great hurt he had doone in times past in peruerting his princesse in bringing in the six articles in murthering Gods saints in defacing Christs sincere religion c as also especiallie for that he had thought to haue brought to passe in murthering also our noble quéene that now is For whatsoeuer danger it was of death that she was in it did no doubt procéed from that bloudie bishop who was the cause thereof And if it be certeine which we haue heard that hir highnesse being in the tower a writ came downe from certeine of the councell for hir execution it is out of controuersie that wilie Winchester was the onelie Dedalus and framer of that engine Who no doubt in that one daie had brought this whole realme into wofull ruine had not the lords most gratious councell thorough maister Bridges then the lieutenant comming in hast to the quéene certified hir of the matter and preuented Achitophels bloudie deuises For the which thanks be to the same our Lord and Sauiour in the congregation of all English churches Amen After whose death Nicholas heath archbishop of Yorke was preferred by the quéene to the office of the chancellor ¶ She likewise gaue the priuie seale to the lord Paget and made him lord priuie seale these were both Londoners borne In this moneth of Februarie the lord maior of London and the aldermen entered into Bridewell and tooke possession thereof according to the gift of king Edward now conâ—â—â—med by queene Marie In the moneth of March next following there was in maner no other talke but of the great preparation that was made for the quéens lieng in childbed who had alredie taken vp hir chamber and sundrie ladies and gentlewomen were placed about hir in euerie office of the court ¶ And now forsomuch as in the beginning of the moneth of Iune about Whitsuntide the time was thought to be nie that this yoong maister should come into the world and that midwiues rockers nurses with the cradle and all were prepared and in a readinesse suddenlie vpon what cause or occasion it is vncerteine a certeine vaine rumor was blowne in London of the prosperous deliuerance of the quéene and the birth of the child insomuch that bels were roong bonefiers and processions made not onelie in the citie of London and in most other parts of the realme but also in Antwerpe guns were shot off vpon the riuer by the English ships and the mariners thereof were rewarded with an hundred pistolets or Italian crownes by the ladie regent who was the quéene of Hungarie Such great reioising and triumph was for the quéenes deliuerie and that there was a prince borne Yea diuerse preachers namelie one the person of saint Anne within Aldersgate after procession and Te Deum soong tooke vpon him to describe the proportion of the child how faire how beautifull and great a prince it was as the like had not béene seene In the middest of this great adoo there was a simple man this I speake but vpon information dwelling within foure miles of Barwike that neuer had béene
pageant But in the opening when hir grace vnderstood that the bible in English should be deliuered vnto hir by Truth which was therein represented by a child she thanked the citie for that gift and said that she would oftentimes read ouer that booke commanding sir Iohn Parrat one of the knights which held vp hir canopie to go before and to receiue the booke But learning that it should be deliuered vnto hir grace downe by a silken lace she caused him to staie and so passed forward till she came against the aldermen in the high end of Cheape before the little conduit where the companies of the citie ended which began at Fanchurch stood along the stréets one by an other inclosed with railes hanged with cloths and themselues well apparelled with manie rich furres and their liuerie hoods vpon their shoulders in comelie and seemelie maner hauing before them sundrie persons well apparelled in silks and chains of gold as wiflers and garders of the said companies besides a number of rich hangings as well of tapistrie arras cloths of gold siluer veluet damaske sattin and other silks plentifullie hanged all the waie as the queenes highnesse passed from the tower thorough the citie Out at the windowes and penthouses of euerie house did hang a number of rich and costlie banners line 10 and stremers till hir grace came to the vpper end of Cheape Where by appointment the right worshipfull master Ranulph Cholmelie recorder of the citie presented to the quéenes maiestie a pursse of crimson sattin richlie wrought with gold wherein the citie gaue vnto the quéens maiestie a thousand marks in gold as master recorder did declare bréefelie vnto the quéens maiestie whose words tended to this end that the lord maior his brethren and communaltie of line 20 the citie to declare their gladnesse and goodwill towards the quéenes maiestie did present hir grace with that gold desiring hir grace to continue their good and gratious queene and not to esteeme the value of the gift but the mind of the giuers The queens maiestie with both hir hands tooke the pursse and answered to him againe maruellous pithilie and so pithilie that the standers by as they imbraced intirelie hir gratious answer so they maruelled at the couching thereof which was in words truelie reported these I thanke my lord maior his brethren and you line 30 all And whereas your request is that I should continue your good ladie and quéene be yee ensured that I will be as good vnto you as euer quéene was to hir people No will in me can lacke neither doo I trust shall there lacke anie power And persuade your selues that for the safetie and quietnesse of you all I will not spare if néed be to spend my bloud God thanke you all Which answer of so noble an hearted princesse if it mooued a maruellous shout line 40 reioising it is nothing to be maruelled at sith both the haltinesse thereof was so woonderfull and the words so iointlie knit When hir grace had thus answered the recorder she marched toward the little conduit where was erected a pageant with square proportion standing directlie before the same conduit with battlements accordinglie And in the same pageant was aduanced two hilles or mounteins of conuenient height The one of them being on the north side of the same pageant line 50 was made â—ragged barren and stonie in the which was erected one trée artificiallie made all withered and dead with branches accordinglie And vnder the same trée at the foot thereof sat one in homelie and rude apparrell crookedlie and in mourning maner hauing ouer his head in a table written in Latine and English his name which was Ruinosa respublica A decaied commonweale And vpon the same withered trée were fixed certeine tables wherein were written proper sentences expressing the causes line 60 of the decaie of a commonweale The other hill on the south side was made faire fresh greene and beautifull the ground thereof full of floures and beautie and on the same was erected also one tree verie fresh and faire vnder the which stood vpright one fresh personage well apparelled and appointed whose name also was written both in English and Latine which was Respublica bene instituta A flourishing common-weale And vpon the same tree also were fixed certeine tables conteining sentences which expressed the causes of a flourishing commonweale In the middle betweene the said hils was made artificiallie one hollow place or caue with doore and locke inclosed out of the which a little before the quéenes highnesse comming thither issued one personage whose name was Time apparelled as an old man with a sieth in his hand hauing wings artificiallie made leading a personage of lesser stature than himselfe which was finelie and well apparrelled all clad in white silke and directlie ouer hir head was set hir name and title in Latine and English Temporis filia The daughter of Time Which two so appointed went forwards toward the south side of the pageant And on hir brest was written hir proper name which was Veritas Truth who held a booke in hir hand vpon the which was written Verbum veritatis The word of truth And out of the south side of the pageant was cast a standing for a child which should interpret the same pageant Against whome when the quéenes maiestie came he spake vnto hir grace these swéet words This old man with the sieth old father Time they call And hir his daughter Truth which holdeth yonder booke Whome he out of his rocke hath brought foorth to vs all From whence this manie yeares she durst not once out looke The ruthfull wight that sits vnder the barren tree Resembleth to vs the forme when common weales decaie But when they be in state triumphant you may see By him in fresh attire that sits vnder the baâ—e Now sith that Time againe his daughter Truth hath brought We trust ô worthie queene thou wilt this truth imbrace And sith thou vnderstandst the good estate and naught We trust wealth thou wilt plant and barrennes displace But for to heale the sore and cure that is not seene Which thing the booke of truth dooth teach in writing plaine Shee dooth present to thee the same ô worthie queene For that that words doo flie but written dooth remaine When the child had thus ended his spéech he reached his booke towards the quéenes maiestie which a little before Truth had let downe vnto him from the hill which by sir Iohn Parrat was receiued and deliuered vnto the quéene But shée as soone as she had receiued the booke kissed it and with both hir hands held vp the same and so laid it vpon hir brest with great thanks to the citie therefore and so went forward towards Paules churchyard The former matter which was rehearsed vnto the quéenes maiestie was written in two tables on either side the pageant eight verses and in the middest these in
to be subiect vnto the lawes and ordinances of that realme That the fortifications about Leith should be razed and demolished and likewise the fort which had béene built and raised before the castell of Dunbar by the French for a strength thereto That the Frenchmen should not conueie into Scotland anie men of warre or munitions without consent of the parlement assembled of thrée estates of that realme That the king and quéene of France Scotland should not froÌ„ thensefoorth beare the arms line 60 of England sith the same apperteined onelie to the queens maiestie of England and to no other person These and other articles were comprised and established in the conclusion of this peace as well to the honour and suertie of the quéenes maiestie of England hir realmes dominions and subiects as also for the wealth and preseruation of the realme of Scotland the nobles and other subiects of that realme After that this peace then was fullie established agréed and concluded the Frenchmen were imbarked at Leith in English vessels those onelie excepted that were appointed to remaine as pledges with the Englishmen till the ships came backe againe and a few other that were permitted to passe through England into their countrie Thus were the French forces remooued out of Scotland a matter so much importing to the confirmation of peace betwixt vs and that realme and also to the auoiding of further perils that this iournie ended with so honorable and profitable a peace concluded by the high industrie and prudent policie of our quéenes maiesties commissioners afore mentioned may be accompted one of the most necessarie expeditions and most beneficiall seruices that had béene made and put in practise in manie yeares before For the quéenes maiestie as some haue trulie written had not onlie hir chiefe desire by remoouing of the French hir dangerous neighbors that were about to nestle themselues so neare hir elbow but also a perfect peace with the Scots was therby procured like to continue manie yeares if the said Scots shall not seeke their owne wo being full vnable to aduantage themselues by warres against vs as to the wiser and best sort of them I trust is not vnknowne But to leaue the further consideration of the benefit that may grow herof to this realme vnto their iudgements that haue riper heads to vnderstand the same I will procéed and herewith make an end of this matter concerning the siege of Leith After that the Frenchmen were departed and the forts about Leith and Dunbar razed and demolished according to the couenants of peace the quéenes maiestie called backe hir armie without reteining anie péece within Scotland to hir owne vse In which honorable and vpright dealing she wan more fame and estimation than if she had seized and kept in hir possession halfe the realme of Scotland speciallie regarding the perplexed state of the people by war which she redressed by the establishment of peace a thing which she alwaies loued as the contrarie she mortallie hated as one hath noted of hir grace saieng Virgo pacis amans quae stat contraria bellis The quéenes maiestie by the aduise of hir most honorable councell meaning to abolish all corrupt base and copper monies then currant in this realme of England coined in the times and reignes of king Henrie the eight and king Edward the sixt to the great hinderance and decaie of the commonwealth of this realme and therewith to restore vnto all hir subiects fine and pure sterling monies both of gold and siluer to the great honor and benefit of the whole realme published a proclamation on Michaelmasse euen before noone that the teston coined for twelue pence and in the reigne of king Edward embased by proclamation to six pence should now foorthwith that of the best sort marked with the portâ—uleis be currant for foure pence halfepenie the second marked with the greihound for two pence farthing the third and worst sort not marked as afore not to be currant at all nor receiued for anie value The grote to be currant for two pence the former péece of two pence for a penie c. It was not long after this but that hir grace restoring to hir subiects fine sterling monie called all the said base and corrupt coines into hir maiesties mint allowing to them therefore after the rate before mentioned so much of the said fine monies as they brought in of the said base monies year 1560 About the same time hir grace also finding this realme greatlie vnfurnished of armour munitions and powder for the defense thereof in time of necessitie did so largelie and plentifullie prepare and cause to be brought into the same such sufficient furniture of armour and weapons as England hath iust cause to praise and giue thanks to God and hir maiestie for that it is certeine that the realme was neuer so amplie stored nor prouided of all maner of kinds of conuenient armor and weapons as it is at this present The one and twentith of March a notable Grammar schoole was founded by the maister wardens and assistants of the right worshipfull companie of the merchant tailors of London in the parish of S. Laurence Pontneie in the same citie the right worshipfull Emanuell Lucar Robert Rose William Merike Iohn Sparke Robert Duckington then maister and wardens of that companie The tenth of Aprill was one William Geffreie line 10 whipped from the Marshalsea in Southworke to Bedlem without Bishops gate of London year 1561 for that he professed one Iohn Moore to be Christ our sauior on his head was set a paper wherein was written as followeth William Geffreie a most blasphemous heretike denieng Christ our sauiour in heauen The said Geffreie being staied at Bedlem gate Iohn Moore was brought foorth before whome William Geffreie was whipped till he confessed Christ to be in heauen Then the said Iohn Moore being examined line 20 and answering ouerthwartlie was commanded to put off his cote doublet and shirt which he séemed to doo verie willinglie and after being tied to the cart was whipped an arrowes shot from Bedlem where at the last he also confessed Christ to be in heauen and himselfe to be a sinfull man Then was Iohn Moore sent againe into Bedlem and Geffreie to the Marshalsea where they had laine prisoners nigh a yéere and a halfe the one for professing himselfe to be Christ the other a disciple of the same line 30 Christ. On wednesdaie the 4 of Iune betwéene foure fiue of the clocke in the afternoone the stéeple of Paules in London being fired by lightning brast forth as it séemed to the beholders two or three yards beneath the foot of the crosse and from thence burnt downe the spire to the stoneworke and bels so terriblie that within the space of foure houres the same stéeple with the roofes of the church so much as was timber or otherwise combustible were consumed which
discharged of such their oth and also from all fealtie and seruice which was due to hir by reason of hir gouernment c. Héere hath euerie true subiect to sée whether Felton was not a fréend to Pius Quintus in so easilie being induced and drawne to prefer his procéedings against the lords annointed for whose sake if he had had a thousand liues true loialtie would haue inuited him to the losse of them all if occasion had so required considering that hir maiestie hath alwaies deserued well of hir people for whome she euer had a tender care as one reporteth that saith he heard with his owne ears hir maiestie commending hir subiects to the carefull and wise gouernment of hir councell and iudges when shée spake thus vnto them Haue care ouer my people You haue my place Doo you that which I ought to doo They are my people Euerie man oppresseth them and spoileth them without mercie They cannot reuenge their quarell nor help themselues See vnto them see vnto them for they are my charge I charge you euen as God hath charged me I care not for my selfe my life is not deare to me my care is for my people I praie God whosoeuer succéed me be as carefull as I am They which might know what cares I beare would not thinke I tooke anie great ioie in wearing the crowne Could a mother speake more tenderlie for hir infant than this good quéene speaketh for hir people And shall the people be so vngratious to a prince so gratious as to attempt anie thing that should discontent hir highnesse A mercifull hart shée hath alwaies had before shee atteined the crowne a mercifull hart shée hath now possessing the scepter manie times remitting and pardoning offenses intended and practised against hir owne person which C. O. noteth in his Eirenarchia siue Elisabetha speaking of hir maiestie in this point verie trulie vncontrollablie Nobilis praestans est ignoscentia virtus Haec quanquam potis est si vult excelsior vis Mentis inest iram strictis compescit habenis Delictis mulctam grauibus quandóque remittens Hoc priuata priùs nondum diademate sumpto Fecerat hoc facit princeps diademate sumpto The seauen and twentith of Male Thomas Norton and Christopher Norton of Yorkshire being both condemned of high treason for the late rebellion in the north were drawen from the tower of London to Tiborne and there hanged headed and quartered In this yeare also conspired certeine gentlemen with other in the countie of Norffolke whose purpose was on Midsummer daie at Harlestone faire with sound of trumpet and drum to haue raisâ—d a number and then to proclame their diuelish pretense against strangers and others This matter was vttered by Thomas Ket one of the conspiracie vnto Iohn Kenseie who foorthwith sent the same Ket with a conestable to the next iustice before whome and other iustices he opened the whole matter Wherevpon maister Drue Drurie immediatlie apprehended Iohn Throckmorton and after him manie gentlemen of the citie of Norwich and the countie of Norffolke who were all committed to prison and at the next sessions of goale deliuerie at the castell of Norwich the seauentéenth of Iulie before sir Robert Catlin knight lord chéefe iustice Gilbert Gerard the quéenes attornie generall and other iustices ten of them were indicted of high treason and some others line 10 of contempt Diuerse of them were condemned and had iudgement the one and twentith of August and afterward thrée of them were hanged bowelled and quartered which were Iohn Throckmorton of Norwich gentleman who stood mute at his arreignment but at the gallows confessed himselfe to be the chéefe conspirator and that none had deserued to die but he for that he had procured them With him was executed Thomas Brooke of Rolsbie gentleman on the thirtith of August and George Dedman of Cringleford line 20 gentleman was likewise executed the second of September The fourth of August the duke of Norffolke was remooued from the tower of London to the Charterhouse néere vnto Smithfield The same daie was arreigned at the Guildhall of London Iohn Felton for hanging the foresaid bull of pope Pius Quintus on the gate of the bishop of Londons palace and also two yoong men for coining clipping of coine who all were found guiltie of high treason and had line 30 iudgement to be drawne hanged quartered The eight of August Iohn Felton was drawen from Newgate into Paules churchyard and there hanged on a gallows new set vp that morning before the bishops palace gate and being cut downe aliue he was bowelled and quartered After this the same morning the shiriffes returned to Newgate and so to Tiborne with two yoong men which were there executed for coining and clipping as is aforesaid The two and twentith of August the earle of Sussex line 40 lord lieutenant generall for the queenes maiestie in the north and the lord Scroope warden of the west marches with diuerse others marched from Carleill with the quéens armie and force of the north as well of horssemen as footmen into Scotland passing ouer the riuers of Eske Leuine Sarke which riuer of Sarke parteth England and Scotland and so to Dornocke wood belonging to Edward Urone the lord of Bonshow and then to Annan a strong house of the lord Harris which they rased and ouerthrew line 50 with others thereabouts from thense to Hodham which they burnt and blew vp from thense to Kennell a towne belonging to the lord Cowhill which they burnt from thense to Donfrise which they sacked and spoiled of such paltrie as the fugitiues had left and also rased and ouerthrew a sumptuous house belonging to the quéene of Scots in the kéeping of the lord Harris Then passing the riuer of Longher they burnt and spoiled Cowhilles and Powtracke and returned to Donfrise and so to the towne of Bankend which they burnt with another house perteining line 60 to william Maxwell of the Iles and so to the castell of Carlauarocke standing in a marish iust to an arme of the sea which parteth Annerdale and Gallowaie which castell they blew vp and returned homeward transporting their ordinance ouer quick-sands and bogs where neuer the like was doone before and so came to Dornocke wood The eight of August they marched towards Carleill where by the waie they burnt and ouerthrew two houses the one being Arthur Greams alià s Carleill the other rich George two notable théeues The same daie at night after the lord lieutenants comming to Carleill he made knights sir Edward Hastings sir Francis Russell sir Ualentine Browne sir William Hilton sir Robert Stapleton sir Henrie Curwen sir Simon Musgraue This yéere the fift of October chanced a terrible tempest of wind and raine both by sea and land by meanes whereof manie ships perished much hurt was doone in diuerse parts of the realme as by a little pamphlet set foorth
would be one of the formost in executing of this villanous and most traitorous action By this you may perceiue that the death of hir maiestie and ouerthrow of this realme was throughlie agréed vpon and fullie determined there wanted nothing but opportunitie for preests both then and after came ouer continuallie to further it so much as in them laie To the said effect did A. M. vtter most odious matter the reading whereof would make anie true English hart quake tremble and to write it what loiall subiect is able to abide And therefore as deriued from the diuell to his dearlings we omit the same counting it more loialtie to â—ull such deuises and consultations asléepe than to publish them to the world in blâ—cke white due reuerence to the principall obiects alwaies reserued All which abhominable stuffe circumstances of times places persons and other particulars dulie pondered giue euident demonstration what affection these fellowes affoord their lawfull queene and countrie well is he that can imagine most against hir maiestie and highlie is he esteemed that beareth the most traitorous hart to hir Yet Campion and the rest of his fellowes they plead ignorance in all these causes they bolster vp one another with large protestations railing words and subtill surnuses affirming that they were not sent hither for anie such intent which is as vntrue as we know it for truth that the Lord God liueth in heauen For this I am able to saie my selfe that at diuerse other times it was whispered among them in the seminarie that shortlie there should be préests appointed for England to win the people against the appointed time when as a great armie should be readie to ioine with them and Campion who was then at Praga in Bohemia he was spoken of amongst them all to be a rare and singular fellow and therefore generallie was taken for a méet man to be sent about such a message so that they iudged that he should be sent for to be a chiefe man in this matter Well saith Campion it may be they had such an opinion of me which in my selfe I find not to be deserued and it may be that I was appointed to be sent into England according as those other preests were for the sauing of soules and benefit of my countrie must it follow then that we are sent to practise the death of the quéene and to seeke the ruine of our countrie Alas this is a hard case and I desire you of the iurie to marke it for these are but shadowes without anie substance This you are to note that we which enter into that Blessed societie of the Iesuites we doo as it were forsake the world vowing our selues to chastitie and sinceritie of conscience to obeie our superiours and to be readie to go whither they shall appoint vs. If they send vs to the Indies or to anie such places where the people haue not the true catholike faith we are bound by dutie in conscience to go whither they appoint vs. And shall it then be said that we come for the destruction of the prince and countrie where we settle our selues Alas that were a hard case for christian charitie willeth vs to comfort one another and if we can to get the shéepe into the fold which hath long run astraie And when we heare confession we doo not persuade them to anie disobedience for that is against the nature of confession God forbid that we should once thinke anie such thing Behold the subtill shifts that he found out still to flie vnto yea though the manifest disproofe laie before them yet would he find some cauill or other for not onelie the euidence of their generall determination beyond the seas was shewed them but also the traitorous articles were there read vnto them which Iohn Hart had copied out for doctor Allen concerning the procéeding of these traitorous causes and for which he went purposelie to Rome to confer with the pope about and subscribed vnto that they were certeine and true as also their owne confessions and writings were laid open before them approouing them notablie guiltie of the matters aforesaid and yet in their lieng pamâ—hlets scattered here there in sundry hands they haue faces of brasse to report that Insidiae sanctos implicuere viros Charles Sled who sometime serued master doctor Morton in Rome in whose house there was manie matters determined both by doctor Allen when he came to Rome and diuers other doctors liuing there in the citie as also diuerse of the seminarie he likewise vnderstood of the prouision for the great daie that it was generallie spoken of among the Englishmen and to be more certeine he kept a iournall or booke of their dailie dealings noting the daie time place and persons present at their secret conferences and verie much matter hath he iustified against them One Cradocke a merchant when he line 10 was in Rome he vnderstood the aforesaid determination and how that doctor Shelleie the English prior who is a knight of the Rhodes for that he somewhat spake against such crueltie to be vsed to his natiue countrie was somewhat misliked of himselfe and had almost béene turned out of his office And this aforesaid Cradocke being in prison there for the space of twentie moneths and more it was said to him that he might account himselfe blessed of God that he was there bicause he should not sée the grieuous line 20 ruine of his natiue countrie He that hath but halfe an eie may sée how these matters concord and agrée togither and noting euerie thing as it lieth may plainelie sée their horrible and traitorous deuises And further there was a little booke in Latine which they themselues brought ouer with them it was there openlie read vnto them wherin was certeine rules and orders prescribed how they should behaue themselues here in England and how if line 30 they were demanded of anie thing they should make answer indirectlie or to take the word it selfe according as it is mentioned in the booke they must answer Sophisticè whereby is meant as thus If they be examined as concerning their allegiance to hir maiestie they will make their answer after this maner She is our lawfull souereigne ladie quéene and we obeie hir But then obiect vnto them Will you obeie hir notwithstanding the popes exommunication or anie thing that he commandeth to the line 40 contrarie Then will they answer We desire you not to charge our consciences and that you would not enter so deepe into our consciences we trust the pope will not command vs anie thing against hir a hundred such like sléeuelesse answers they make neuer agréeing to anie certeintie but holding the pope in more reuerence than they doo hir maiestie For this consideration they carrie with them that if by their shew of humilitie their deuised order of craftie answering they might mooue our magistrats line 50
hath passed all the rest And trulie the citie had no more but six daies respit to prepare for it as I said before in somuch that they could not put to making anie worke of silke nor of gold and siluer beaten or wouen nor anie imbroderie no nor in so short time make anie meane apparell new nor anie rare costlinesse of imageries pillers triumphall arches or other pageants but were constreined to make a shift with such things as they had in a readinesse aforehand of their owne store In other interteinments there haue in deed beene séene great plentie of riches and roialties in attires of kings and quéenes princes and princesses lords and ladies citizens and their wiues but in this interteinment no such were séene howbeit there was not anie grosenesse nor ought that might not well beséeme the neatnesse and finenesse of that people although it came nothing neere the sumptuousnesse of other interteinements As touching triumphall arches chariots portraitures and such other shewes although there were manie wittie inuentions and agreeable to the time yet haue men séene of them in other places which might match these And as touching the number of their people although it was great yet it is well knowen that Paris excéedeth them in that behalfe But the onelie reason of this contentment commeth chéeflie of the great number of people in armour being not fewer than twentie thousand in so good and so faire armour and of their order and obedience and of the small noise which all that huge multitude made in somuch that if it had not béene for the thundering of the canons and the sounding of trumpets clarions halboies and other instruments there was no more noise than is among a councell of graue men That then was in mine opinion the onlie verie cause which was greatlie furthered by their beholding of the monsieur of Brabant who representing the statelinesse of old time was clothed in a large mantell with the bonnet of his dukedome vpon his head so that among that great number of people which were so well armed that thrée of the best cities in christendome could not shew so manie faire armors of their owne his highnesse resembled a pretious stone or iewell set in fine gold And bicause that they which were the beholders thereof for they could not be euerie where nor sée euerie thing will be verie glad to vnderstand of the things that so escaped them and delight their minds now with the remembrance of the things which they saw before as they delighted their eies and minds with the beholding of them that daie and strange nations to whom the fame of that so renowmed daies worke is come will take pleasure to vnderstand the same whereof they could not be beholders Therefore is this booke set foorth for the satisffing of all men and also to make it knowen to a line 10 number of men who partlie for enimitie partlie for enuie and partlie for other surmises and mistrusts will not beléeue it with what mind and affection the prince of Orange and the other lords and noblemen of Brabant the good cities and the small townes and namelie the most renowmed citie of Antwerp haue receiued their new prince and souereigne lord The ninetéenth daie of the foresaid moneth in the forenoone the monsieur the duke of Aniou departed from Lislo and sailed towards Antwerpe hauing line 20 in his companie but twentie ships for the rest had gotten to Antwerpe afore as well to put themselues in a readinesse as for other affaires And he came about eight of the clocke nigh to the new towne and passing along by the townes side left the foreland of Flanders on his right hand and the towne on his left and passed beyond all the towne and the place where the castell was By the waie he heard all the canons shot off from that part of the towne which faceth the riuer from a great number of ships which line 30 rode at anchor there and he saw all the wharfes furnished with men of warre of the citie well armed who welcommed him with their shot and were answered againe by the ships of warre that accompanied him conducted by monsieur de Treslon and the viceadmerals and diuerse capteins of Flushing And so the first foot that he did set on land in Brabant was at a village called Kiell which is at the canon wharfe at Antwerpe The states of Brabant the magistrates of the citie and diuers other states line 40 comming in like order on horssebacke to the same place with their trumpets sergeants and heralds apparelled in cotes of the armes of Lothier Brabant and Limborough alighted there and waited on foot at the wharfe to receiue his highnesse and to shew him the good will and affection of the states and people But the prease of people was so great which resorted thither to sée the prince whome they looked for to be their duke and againe there were so manie impediments in his landing that it was found better line 50 for them by the aduise of the prince of Orange to returne backe and to tarie for his highnesse vpon a theater which was prepared for him This theater was set vp towards a corner of the castell and opened towards the citie so as his highnesse being there might at one time view both the citie and the castell and behold the counterscarffes the déepe ditches full of faire water cléere to the verie bottome of the chanell inclosed on either side with hewne stone the great and faire buildings line 60 the goodlie walles beautifull to looke on and verie thicke and the broad rampires garnished with trees planted by hand that it resembled a little forest The monsieur was brought vp to this theater accompanied with the prince Dolphin the onelie sonne of the duke of Montpanuser the earle of Leceister and other English lords representing the quéene of England the princes of Orange and Espinoie the countié de Lauall the other English lords the countie de Chateauroux and a great sort of the barons lords and gentlemen besides the chiefe magistrats and maisters of the companies of the citie of Antwerpe The lords of the state of Brabant waiting vpon the theater came dutifullie downe to go and méet his highnesse which thing he perceiuing did stand still Then the prince of Orange stepped foorth to take his place among the states as one of the chiefe lords and barons of the duchie of Brabant As soone as they had saluted his highnesse and with great humblenesse kissed his hand they mounted vp the steps againe with him after whome followed the princes and lords of France and of England and when they were come vp aboue they ranged themselues on either side There was set for the monsieur a chaire couered with cloth of gold wherein he sat him downe And vpon the theater there was likewise a trauerse of cloth of gold and all the theater was
béene of great valour prowesse and power and had made manie renowmed voiages and exploits of warre and that amongest others they had chosen a duke of Aniou heretofore who had béene equall with the rest in chiualrie feats of armes as their conquests and dominions witnessed that they had had their princes gentle mild gratious familiar and fauourable to their subiects and that his highnesse had in that behalfe alreadie giuen such proofes of his gentlenesse truth and soundnesse that to their seeming some ancient duke of Burgognie was raised vp againe vnto them Insomuch that in his onelie highnesse they firmelie beleued themselues to haue recouered whatsoeuer good renowme the duks of Brabant Aniou and Burgognie could haue left vnto them Wherefore insomuch as there remained no more but to proceed in the performance of the chiefe worke which it had pleased the souereigne God to put into the hands of his highnesse and of the said states to performe that daie they on their part were readie and resolute to doo him the homage fealtie dutie and obedience which loiall subiects and good vassals ought to doo to their rightfull princes of which sort they trusted in God without doubting that his highnesse was that he would promise by solemne oth vnto God so to continue Herevnto his highnesse answered in effect that intending not to hold the states with long talke but onelie to be mindfull of the honor and good will which they had vouchsafed to yéeld to him in that among so manie other great princes they had chosen him out to deliuer them from the oppression and tyrannie of the Spaniards and to rule them according to their customes lawes and priuileges he thanked them hartilie for it assuring them that the iustnesse and equitie of their case their honourable dealings in his behalfe and the loue which they had shewed him had made him to resolue with himselfe to take vpon him their protection and the reestablishing of their ancient libertie and to hazard therein whatsoeuer abilitie God had put into his hands and whatsoeuer else it should please the king his lord and brother and the queene of England of their fauour to bestow vpon him yea euen to the shedding of his owne bloud and the spending of his life This doone the foresaid monsieur Hessels told his highnesse how it was the custome there to proclame openlie before the people in the Dutch toong the points and articles of the ioifull entrance which the dukes of Brabant are bound to promise and sweare at their admission Herevpon when as one held the said articles translated into French readie to rehearse them point by point after the proclaiming of them in Dutch forsomuch as the daie was farre spent and communication had béene had thereof alreadie the monsieur to win time thought it expedient by the aduise of the prince of Orange that they should be read but onlie in Dutch Which thing was doone by the said monsieur Hessels with a new preface added to the articles conteining breeflie the reasons and causes of that dealing After the reading of the said articles it was demanded of his highnes whether he liked of them and whether he were contented to be sworne to them or whether it were his pleasure to be further satisfied of them Wherevpon he said to the prince of Orange that forsomuch as he had séene the articles and conferred of them with him as they came by ship out of Zeland he held himselfe well satisfied with them and was well contented to sweare vnto them Which spéech of his was foorthwith proclamed and with further declaration that for their better contentation his highnesse was desirous to haue them all knowne that although the said articles were read but onelie in Dutch yet would he of his owne good mind with aduised deliberation and certeine knowledge be sworne vnto them Then did the said monsieur Hessels recite vnto the people in the Dutch toong the first oth which the dukes of Brabant were of old time accustomed and bound to take for the obseruing of the said articles Which doone deliuering the booke wherein it was conteined to messier Thierreie de Leisfield chancellor line 10 of Brabant he read the same oth againe openlie in French the monsieur spake it after him word for word Then the monsieur Hessels taking the booke againe told the people that the dukes of Brabant made an other second oth to the barons noblemen cities boroughs all the inhabitants subiects of the countrie to be to them a good iust prince and not to deale with them after his owne will nor by waie of rigor but by law and iustice according to their priuileges Which oth was likewise rehearsed line 20 in the Dutch toong the booke deliuered againe to the said chancellor and the monsieur repeated the oth after him as he had doone the first Then were the mantle and bonnet of the dutchie brought vnto him which were crimosin veluet the mantle was trailed on the ground and both of them were furred with powdered ermine turned vp verie brode The prince of Orange told his highnesse that it behooued him to be apparelled in those robes And when he asked whether he must weare them into the citie It line 30 was answered yea and that it was the solemne attire of the princes and dukes of Brabant of old time Wherevnto when his highnesse had agréed the prince did first put vpon him the said mantle and fastening the button thereof said these words My lord you must keepe this button fast closed that no man may pull your mantle from you And then he set the bonnet vpon his head and said vnto him Sir I praie God you may well kéepe this attire for now you may well assure your selfe that you be duke line 40 of Brabant Then the said Hessels told him how the custome required that the states should presentlie be sworne to him againe to yéeld him fealtie Wherevpon he vttered to the people the forme of the oth and then the said chancellor required it of the barons noblemen and deputies and they pronounced it after him according to the maner of the former othes reuerentlie dooing againe their homage and promising fealtie and obedience After the taking of the othes line 50 on both sides as well by the monsieur as by the states of Brabant while his highnesse was yet still in his robes of estate the magistrates of Antwerpe commanded their recorder and councellor maister Uanderwerke to come vp vpon the stage to make him an offer of the marquesship of the sacred empire in the name of the citie of Antwerpe which thing he did as followeth Most gratious lord and prince the markegraue amptman boroughmasters and skepons the treasurors and receiuers the line 60 chiefe burgesses and quartermaisters the wardens and ancients of the handicrafts togither with the coronels wardens of guilds and capteins of the citie were
entrance into further occurrents it shall not be amisse to touch some necessarie circumstances of remembrance This Albertus in the eies of the most whereof some knew him that might hardlie commend him estéemed him a man for making well proportioned of an indifferent tall stature of countenance amiable and complexion English like hauing a white beard of such length and bredth as that lieng in his bed and parting it with his hands the same ouerspred all his brest and shoulders himselfe greatlie line 10 deliting therein and reputing it an ornament as for his qualities apparant vnto the world they were generous his vtterance swéet his wit plausible in the knowledge of toongs well seene his ordinarie attire scarlet but when he presented himselfe to hir maiestie a robe or gowne of purple veluet with other habiliments and furniture agréeable his shooes of a strange fashion supposed of some not altogither vnlike Chaucers Finallie a gallant fellow he was as might be gathered by some words line 20 spoken by him in open audience more Martiall than Mercuriall verie actiue in respect of his age and also studious in diuerse faculties c. Touching the interteinement which he had at Oxenford and how the vniuersitie did congratulate his comming it is somewhat worth the noting In the moneth of Iune the said Albertus de Lasco comming from the marriage of the lord Norris his daughter with sir A. Paulets eldest sonne at Ricot he put himselfe on the waie to Oxenford wherof the line 30 vniuersitie doctor Houenden then vicechancellor maister Leâ—son with maister Edes proctors hauing intelligence prouided for his conuenient receiuing insomuch that in the waie to Oxenford there met him doctor Westfailing who greeted him with a pithie salutation In like sort did the maior and his bréethren in whose behalfe for the whole citie the towne clerke a worshipfull maister of art pronounced his short and sententious spéech in Latine not without some gratulatorie gift from that corporation line 40 On the east gate wherat he entered stood a consort of musicians who for a long space made verie sweet harmonie which could not but mooue delight Inscia plebs populÃsque arrectis auribus astat Dulciferúmque rudi suscipit aure melos All vp the high stréet vnto saint Maries church on either side the waie were decentlie marshalled scholers in their gownes caps batchelors and maisters in their habits and hoods At saint Maries the orator of the vniuersitie notable in his facultie presented line 50 him a booke in which were closelie couched verie rich and gorgeous gloues From thense he marched to Christs church where he was whilest he abode in the vniuersitie most honourablie interteined And the first night being vacant as in which he sought rather rest in his lodging than recreation in anie academicall pastimes strange fire works were shewed in the great quadrangle besides rockets and a number such maner of deuises On the second daie his first dinner was made him at Alsoules college where besides dutifull receiuing of him he was solemnelie line 60 satisfied with scholerlie exercises and courtlie fare This night the night insuing after sumptuous suppers in his lodging he personaly was present with his traine in the hall first at the plaieng of a pleasant comedie intituled Riuales then at the setting out of a verie statelie tragedie named Dido wherein the quéenes banket with Eneas narration of the destruction of Troie was liuelie described in a marchpaine patterne there was also a goodlie sight of hunters with full crie of a kennell of hounds Mercurie and Iris descending and ascending from and to an high place the tempest wherein it hailed small confects rained rosewater and snew an artificiall kind of snew all strange maruellous abundant Most of the actors were of the same house six or seauen of them were of saint Iohns thrée or foure of other colleges hals His second dinner the third daie was at Magdalen college with oratorie welcomming bountifull feasting His third dinner the fourth daie at New college The eloquent spéech in Gréeke Latine and Dutch with his owne vnstudied answer thervnto all other before rehersed are not to be omitted nor the publike philosophie physike and diuinitie disputations in all which those learned opponents respondents moderators quited themselues like themselues sharplie and soundlie besides all other solemne sermons lectures At afternoone the fourth last daie he went towards Woodstocke manour and without the north gate by the waie he was inuited vnto a banket at saint Iohns college where the gates outward wals ouercouered with thousands of verses other emblematicall poetries then offered him argued their hartie goodwils but his hasting to his iournies end caused him not to tarie the delicat banket yet onelie staieng the deliuerie of a swéet oration and his owne quicke wittie replie therevnto he departed immediatlie accompanied for a mile or two with the most of those reuerend doctors and heads of houses all on horssebacke where the orator againe gaue him an orators farewell And this is the summe of his interteinement not deliuered in such sort as the dignitie of the same requireth howbeit sufficient for a sudden remembrance On the thrée twentith daie of September Iohn Whitegift doctor of diuinitie sometimes maister of Trinitie colledge in Cambridge and afterwards bishop of Worcester was at Lambhith translated to the archbishoprike of Canturburie where he at his comming to Lambehith as also elsewhere he alwaies did gaue euident testimonies both of mindfulnesse and thankefulnesse for his aduancements as by the thrée tables hanging at the vpper end of his great chamber appeareth their position in this sort In the midst hir maiesties armes roiall artificiallie wrought with as much cunning as the painter by his pencill could describe them and vnder them this distichon of thankesgiuing and welwishing Nestoreos foelix regat Elisabetha per annos Quae mihi munificè Candida dona dedit On the right side the armes of the sée of Canturburie of azure a pall siluer garnished with crosses forme fiche sable ouer a crosse portatile gold to the lower end whereof this distichon is fairelie fixed En leue multiplici premeretur cuspide corpus Nibaculus Christi grande leuaret onus On the left side are placed the ancient armes of the sée of Worcester from the which he was translated which are of siluer ten torteaux foure three two one with this distichon therevnto annexed Qui crucis aerumnas patitur post fata triumphat Lilia sic spondent fuluis coniuncta talentis Ouer aboue the arms of both the said sées is his graces posie Vincit qui patitur a deserued posie and iustified by his actions The tenth of October at Easter a towne in Norffolke neere the sea coast about two miles from Yarmouth there was a fish of woonderfull length by force of the wind being then easterlie driuen a shore
for the manifold testifications of their loue and loialtie which because they are materiall as no word nor title procéeding from so singular a souereigne is to fall to the ground vnrecorded we are in dutie bound trulie to annex them as we had them vnder publication And first a breefe oration of maister Iames Dalton one of the councellors of the citie of London in the absence of the recorder as followeth The oration of maister Iames Dalton c. RIght worshipfull my good countriemen and citizens of this most noble citie of London since the late brute and report of a most wicked traitorous conspiracie not onelie to take awaie the life of our most gratious souereigne whom God grant long to liue and reigne ouer vs but also to stir vp a generall rebellion throughout the whole realme the great and vniuersall ioie of you all of this citie vpon the apprehension of diuerse of that most wicked conspiracie of late declared and testified by manie outward acts and shewes hath wrought in the queenes most excellent maiestie such a gratious contentment that it hath mooued hir highnesse by hir letters signed with hir owne hand to signifie vnto my lord maior of this citie his brethren hir most noble and princelie acceptation thereof and that in such sort as thereby may appeare that hir highnesse hath not more no not so much reioised at the most happie escape of the wicked mischéefe intended against hir owne person as at the ioie which hir louing subiects namelie you of this citie of London tooke at the apprehension of the practisers of that intended treason By occasion whereof hir highnesse brought to a thankefull remembrance and acknowledging of Gods infinit blessings bestowed on hir comparable with anie prince or creature in the world no worldlie thing more or like accompteth of than of the heartie loue of hir louing and faithfull subiects manie waies and manie times before now but especiallie by this our great ioie in this sort at this time and vpon this occasion shewed And that hir excéeding great loue and acceptation of our reioising maie the more appeare vnto you it hath pleased hir highnesse in the same letters to declare that she desireth not longer to liue among vs than she shall mainteine continue nourish and increase the loue and goodwill of hir subiects towards hir And this hir highnesse hath willed to be made knowne vnto you all with this that she will not faile with all care and by all good means that apperteine to a christian prince to seeke the conseruation of you all so louing and dutifull affected subiects This hir maiesties pleasure in part now declared and more to be made knowne vnto you by hir owne letters which you shall heare read my lord maior and his brethren haue required me to declare vnto you all that they doo heartilie reioise thanke God for the happie daie of the good acceptation of this your great ioie my lord himselfe hath willed me to giue you all heartie thanks in his name for that in the time of his seruice your dutifull behauiours haue gotten to the citie so noble and woorthie a testimonie of dutie and loialtie of so noble and worthie a quéene Now for somuch as Gods blessings woonderfullie abound one ioie commeth vpon another let vs not be vnthankefull to God but acknowledge his goodnesse and attribute the line 10 same as in déed we ought to the sincere religion of almightie God most godlie established by the quéens most excellent maiestie which hath taught vs to know God aright our dutie to our souereigne and to loue our countrie and hath made vs dutifull and obedient subiects reioising at all good things happening to hir maiestie hir realme or to anie in hir noble seruice the true effects of a true and good religion whereas the contemners thereof and immoderat affectors of the Romish religion and superstitions line 20 being void of the true knowledge of God haue declined from God their allegiance to their prince their loue to their countrie and haue become inuenters of mischeefes bruters and spreaders abrode of false and seditious rumors such as ioie at no good thing but contrariwise reioise at euerie euill successe the badges and marks of their profession who haue before this in this realme and in other hir highnesse dominions stirred vp rebellion forren inuasion and manie times practised the verie line 30 death destruction of the quéene hir selfe the ruine subuersion of the whole realme the proper effects of their Romish religion We haue beheld all these things and seene in our daies the ruine and mischéefes inuented against others fall vpon the inuenters them selues and haue knowne the wicked and violent hands of diuerse of them diuerslie to kill and murther themselues when most traitorouslie they would and most happilie they could not slea the lords annointed line 40 As we haue knowne all these things so God bee thanked that by a better religion hauing béene better taught we haue béene no partakers of their wicked deuises but haue put to our helping hands as occasion hath serued and euer readie to ouerthrow the authors and deuisers thereof And I haue no doubt but we of this noble citie who hitherto haue béene alwaies readie dutifullie and faithfullie to serue hir maiestie vpon all occasions hir highnesse now so gratiouslie accepting onelie of our reioising line 50 at the apprehension of hir enimies euen the least part of the dutie of a good subiect to so good a quéene will be readie euerie one with all that we can make and with the vttermost aduenture of all our liues spéedilie to be reuenged vpon all such as shall villanouslie and traitorouslie attempt or put in vre anie mischéefe to hir noble person and in the meane time will haue a better eie and eare to all suspicious and miscontented persons to their saiengs and dooings to their false brutes and reports to the places and line 60 corners of their haunt and resort to their harborers companions aiders and mainteiners God vphold and continue his religion among vs and increase our zeale therein which hath made vs so louing and loiall and so beloued and acceptable subiects to so worthie a prince and root out that wicked and Romish religion that hath made so manie disloiall and traitorous subiects to whome is both odious irkesome the long life and prosperous reigne of our most noble queene Elisabeth God confound all such traitors and preserue hir highnesse long to liue and reigne oure vs. ¶ Hauing thus spoken the multitude all the while no lesse silent than attendant the speaker verie reuerentlie opened hir maiesties letters read the same with a verie distinct and audible voice as followeth To our right trustie and welbeloued the lord maior of our citie of London and his brethren the aldermen of the same RIght trustie and welbeloued we gréete you well Being giuen to vnderstand how greatlie our good and most louing
my selfe to giue you cause to thinke your good will not ill bestowed and striue to make my selfe worthie for such subiects And now for your petition I shall praie you for this present to content your selues with an answer without answer Your iudgement I condemne not neither doo I mistake your reasons line 20 but praie you to accept my thankefulnesse excuse my doubtfulnesse and take in good part my answer answerlesse wherein I attribute not so much to mine owne iudgement but that I thinke manie particular persons maie go before me though by my degrée I go before them Therefore if I should saie I would not doo what you request it might peraduenture be more than I thought and to saie I would doo it might perhaps bréed perill of that you labour to preserue being more than in line 30 your owne wisedoms and discretions would séeme conuenient circumstances of place and time being dulie considered Thus far the procéeding against the Scotish quéene as the same is reported by R. C. Now followeth the publication of the same which was doone with great port and statelinesse For vpon tuesdaie being the sixt daie of December the lord maior of London assisted with diuers earls and barons line 40 the aldermen in their scarlet gownes the principall officers of the citie the greatest number of gentlemen of the best accompt in and about the citie with the number of fourescore of the most graue worshipfullest citizens in cotes of veluet and chaines of gold all on horsse backe in most solemne and statelie maner by the sound of foure trumpets about ten of the clocke in the forenone made open and publike proclamation and declaration of the sentence latelie giuen by the nobilitie against line 50 the quéene of Scots vnder the great seale of England bearing date at Richmont the fourth daie of December being openlie read by master Sebright towne-clerke of London with lowd voice solemnelie proclamed by the sargent at armes of the said citie in foure seuerall places to wit at the crosse in Cheape at the end of Chancerie lane in Fleetstreet ouer against the Temple at Leaden hall corner and at saint Magnus corner néere London bridge During which time the like solemne proclamations line 60 were made with great solemnities in the countie of Middlesex namelie in the palace at Westminster without Temple barre and in Holborne by the shiriffes of London and Midlesex assisted with sundrie noblemen gentlemen of good account and the iustices of peace of the said countie to the great and woonderfull reioising of the people of all sorts as manifestlie appeared by their eger running after the portlie traine their thronging to heare the same published their ringing of bels making of bonfires and singing of psalmes in euerie stréet and lane of the citie The said proclamation followeth A true copie of the proclamation latelie published by the queenes maiestie vnder the great seale of England for the declaring of the sentence latelie giuen against the queene of Scots in forme as followeth ELisabeth by the grace of God quéene of England France and Ireland defender of the faith c. Whereas we were giuen to vnderstand very crediblie though to our great greefe that diuerse things were and of late time had beene compassed imagined and resolutelie intended tending directlie to the hurt and destruction of our roiall person and to the subuersion of the state of our realme by forren inuasions and rebellions at home as well by the quéene of Scots remaining in our realme vnder our protection as by manie diuerse other wicked persons with hir priuitie who had fréelie confessed the same and had therevpon receiued open triall iudgement and execution according to the lawes for their deserts And though in verie truth we were greatlie and deeplie gréeued in our mind to thinke or imagine that anie such vnnaturall and monstrous acts should be either deuised or willinglie assented vnto against vs by hir being a princesse borne and of our sex and bloud and one also whose life honor we had manie times before saued and preserued yet were we so directlie drawne to thinke all the same to be true by the sight and vnderstanding of such proofes as were manifestlie produced afore vs vpon matters that had as well procéeded from hir selfe as from the conspirators themselues who voluntarilie fréelie without anie coercion had confessed their conspirations both iointlie with hir and directed by hir against our person and our realme and therefore also we saw great reason to thinke the same ouer dangerous to be suffered to passe onward to take their full effect Wherefore we were by sundrie lords of our nobilitie and others our louing subiects earnestlie mooued and counselled to take vndelaied order for the inquisition and examination of all these dangerous enterprises conspiracies by sundrie waies directlie auowed to be by the said quéen of Scots against vs and our realme certeinlie intended and also to vse all present meanes with expedition to withstand or rather to preuent the same And for that we were verie vnwilling to procéed against hir considering hir birth and estate by such vsuall sort as by the common lawes of the realme we might haue lawfullie doone which was by indictment and arreignment by ordinarie iuries therefore in respect both of our owne honor and of hir person we yéelded by good aduise giuen to vs to procéed in the most honorable sort that could be deuised within our realme to the examination hereof according to a late act of parlement made the thrée and twentith daie of Nouember in the seuen and twentith yeare of our reigne Wherevpon by our commission vnder our great seale of England bearing date at our castell of Windsore in our countie of Barkeshire the sixt daie of October now last past we did for that purpose according to that statute assigne name and appoint all the lords and others of our priuie councell and so manie other earls and barons lords of parlement of the greatest degrée and most ancient of the nobilitie of this our realme as with the same lords and others of our priuie councell made vp the number of fortie and two adding also thereto a further number according to the tenor of the foresaid act of parlement of certeine of the cheefest and other principall iudges of the courts of record at Westminster amounting in the whole to the number of fortie and seuen to examine all things compassed and imagined tending to the hurt of our roiall person as well by the said quéene of Scots by the name of Marie the daughter heire of Iames the fift late king of Scots commonlie called the quéene of Scots Dowager of France as by anie other by hir priuitie and all the circumstances thereof therevpon according to the tenor of the said act of parlement to giue sentence or iudgment as vpon good proofe the matter vnto them should appeare as line 10 by the same commission more fullie appeareth And where
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The receiuing of the quéene into Suffolke and Norffolke The number of gentlemen that receiued the quéene into Suffolke Persons of worship in Suffolke that feasted hir highnesse during hir abode amongst them Norffolke incited by the example of Suffolke to giue the quéene roiall interteinment What order was taken in Norwich for the receiuing and recreating of the quéene The maior of Norwich with his attendants set forth to receiâ—â— the quéene The builder 〈◊〉 Norwich â—astell repreâ—â—nted The founder 〈◊〉 Blanch Flowre staiâ—â— person 〈◊〉 meét the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pro 〈◊〉 fratriâ—â—â— obâ—estatio Henricus quartus ciuitati Nordouicensi princeps munificentssimus Praetoris pâ—ose suâ—sque tratribus quà m significanter facta oâ—atio The maior speaketh in his owne and his brethren the alderaiens behalfe Henrie the fourth a most bountiâ—uâ—l prince to the citie of Norwich A most dutifull submission Wherein the dutie of subiects chieflie consisteth The quéens maiesties acceptable answer vttered by hir owne mouth in person Gurguntius his spéech cut off by a showre of raine Gurguntius the elâ—est son of Belinus The ancientnesse of Norwich citie by the founders age may be gathered King Henrie the seuenth and king Henrie the eight Gurguntius yeeldeth his estate to the quéene S. Stephans gates in Norwich richlie beautified The vnion of the white rose and the red The boies speach at master Pecks doore The quéene liked this deuise The first pageant was in S. Stephans parish in this manâ—r How the pageant was beautified with representation of the mysteries of the citie 1. Pointing to the spinners 2. Pointing to the loomes 3. Pointing to the workes The second pageant with the situation of the same and what representations bare * Which is hir owne badge These musicians were inclosed in the chambers of the said pageant ratling skies The citie of Norwich speaketh to the quéenes maiâ—stie How Norwich is affected to the quéenes highnesse Then spake Debora the second person The application of the former examples Then spake Iudith the third person The applicatioÌ„ of the former examples Then Hester spake the fourth person The application of the former exaÌ„ples Then 〈◊〉 Martia the fift person A dittie soong to soft musicke at the queénes entrance vnder the gate The place of the queénes abode during the time of hir tariance in Norwich The manner of Mercuries coch message to the queene requesting hir highnesse to come abroad and see what pastime the gods had prouided for so noble a prince He reuealeth what he is by office Rare sights if anie such were as Mercurie nameth Mercurie is attentiue to his charge The charge giuen by Iupiter to Mercurie for the recreation of the quéene The quéenes rare estate described The description of Mercuries coch The description of Mercurie his attire abiliments c. The deuisor ventureth the hazard of a shew The whole manner of the deuise or shew Dame Chastitie hir maids incounter with Cupid What associats Cupid found out to kéepe him companie Chastitie and hir maids matched togither c. Quinam oratoreâ— antiqua aetate praeclarissima laudatissimi extiterunt Beneficiorum à regia maiestate collatorum agnitio cum obsequio c. Monumentum antiquum regiae maiestati exhibitum Iosephus insigniter lauâ—â—atus neque 〈◊〉 Regia maiesâ—aâ— in omnibus Iosepho aequiparatâ— What orators were best commended in former times of best renowme 〈…〉 for the same A monument of antiquitie presented to hir maiestie Ioseph singularlie commended not without cause The quéenes maiestie compared to Ioseph c. The quéenes maiestie is banketted at the earle of Surreis O singular affabilitie of a prince to put awaie a subiects bashfulnesse Egregiae necnon impares Anglig dotes Henricus Edouardus reges necnon Elisabetha regina praecipui benefactores agnoscuntur Pares gratias pro imparibus beneficijs agi non posse Angliam meritò alterum orbem nuncupari Nordouicensium veraeuet ex inti puris medullas prouenicus laetitia quam regiam maiestatem nideanâ— The excellent and â—â—comparable blessings of England King Henrie king Edward and quéene Elisabeth acknowledged speciall benefactors Condigne thanks vnpâ—â—sible to be giuen England deseruedlie called another world Their vnfrigned reioising to see hir maiestie The quéenes high commendation of master Limberts oration The description of an exâ—â—llent and princelie maske Mercuries message to the quéene Then marched they about againe and that done Iupiter spake to the quéene in this sort and then gaue hir â—nding wand of whales â—in 〈◊〉 wrought Then Iuno spake whose gâ—â—t was a purse curiouslie wrought Then after they had marched againe about Mars gaue his gift which was a faire paire of kniues and said Then spake Uenus whose gift was a white doue The song of Apollo to the quéene Pallas then speaketh and presenteth hir gift which was a booke of wisdome Then Neptune spake his gift was a great artificiall fish and in the bellie of it a pike which he threw out before hir maiestie Diana presented a bow and arrowes nocked and headed with siluer hir speach was this Cupido his speach his gift an arrow of gold The quéenes behauiour after all this welcomming The deuisor is commanded to be readie with his shewes to delight the queene A proper deuise and verie deâ—ectable of a caue twelue water nymphes c. What was deuised to be done by the nymphs at the quéens comming néere the water side The shew of Manhood and Desert with the furniture declared A bloodie fight and yet harmlesse doone by art All the preparation disappointed by thunder and raine The cities losâ—e by occasion of this tempest The queens 〈…〉 Norwic◠〈◊〉 takeâ— A dittie soong in a verie swéet voice Fridaies 〈◊〉 vpon the remoouing of 〈◊〉 court A pleasant deuise to make the quéene laugh The deuisers â—â—oings well taken of the queene c. Maister maior 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 another orâ—â—ion is wilâ—ed 〈◊〉 forbeare 〈◊〉 and 〈…〉 The maior of Norwich knighted The quéenes words at hâ—r departing Gentlemen of Suffolke Norffolke knighted The quéenes maiestie departeth from Norwich and is now interteined bâ— the waie The vniuersiâ—ie of Cambridge present a faire and statelie cup to the quéene T.C. The lord of Leicesters bountifull interteinement Ad solem nubibus obductum die lunae 18. Augusti 1578. Eiusdem in eandem To the sâ—nne couerâ—d with cloudes vpon monâ—aâ—â— being the 1â— of August 15â—â— By the same concerning the queene Mathew Hamont burnt at Norwich The heresies that he held An Englishman made a locke and a keie weieng but one wheaâ— corne The bishop 〈◊〉 Winchester deceased Iohn Wolton bishâ—p of Excester Werstanus Putta Eadulphus Ethelgarus Algarus Alfwoldus Alfwolfus Sidemannus Alphredus Alwolfus Arnoldus Leuigus or Leuingus Leofricus Osbertus or Osbernus William Warlewast Robert Chichester Robert Warlewast Bartholomeus Iscanus Iohn the chanter Henrie Marshall Simon de Apulia William Brewer Richard Blondie Walter Bronescomâ— Peter Quiuill Thomas Bitton Walter Stapledon Iames Barkeleie Iohn Grandesson Thomas Brentingham Edmund Stafford Iames
to suffer the said aliens so highlie in their wealth the naturall borne men of this region to come to confusion ¶ Of this letter was more but the doctor read no further When he had read this letter or the chiefest part thereof comprehending as ye haue heard much seditious line 50 matter he began with this sentence Coelum coeli Domino terram autem dedit filijs hominum and vpon this text he intreated how this land was giuen to Englishmen And as birds defend their nests so ought Englishmen to cherish and mainteine themselues and to hurt and grieue aliens for respect of their common-wealth And vpon this text Pugna pro patria he brought in how by Gods law it was lawfull to fight for their countrie And thus he subtilie mooued or rather vndiscréetlie prouoked the people to rebell against line 60 strangers By this foolish sermon manie a light person tooke courage and openlie spake against strangers And as vnhap would there had béene diuerse euill parts plaied of late by strangers in and about the citie of London which kindled the peoples rancour the more furiouslie against them Now as the diuell would the sundaie after at Gréenwich in the kings gallerie was Francis de Bard who as yee haue heard kept an Englishmans wife and his goods and yet he could haue no remedie and with him were Domingo Anthonie Caueler and manie more strangers and there they talking with sir Thomas Palmer knight iested and laughed how that Francis kept the Englishmans wife saieng that if they had the maiors wife of London they would kéepe hir Sir Thomas said Sirs you haue too much fauour in England There were diuerse English merchants by who heard them laugh and were not content in so much as one William Bolt a mercer said Well you whoreson Lombards you reioisâ— and laugh by the masse we will one daie haue a fling at you come when it will And that saieng the other merchants affirmed This tale was reported about London and the yoong and euill disposed people said they would be reuenged on the merchants strangers as well as on the artificers strangers ¶ On monday the morow after the king remooued to his manor of Richmond On the eight and twentith daie of Aprill diuerse yoong men of the citie piked quarels to certeine strangers as they passed by the stréets some they did strike some they buffeted and some they threw into the kennell wherfore the maior sent some of the Englishmen to prison as Stephan Studleie skinner Bets Stephanson and diuerse other Then suddenlie rose a secret rumour and no man could tell how it began that on Maie daie next the citie would rebell and slea all the aliens insomuch that diuerse strangers fled out of the citie This brute ran so into euerie mans eares that it came to the knowledge of the kings councell wherevpon the lord cardinall sent for the maior and other of the councell of the citie giuing them to vnderstand what he had heard The maior as one ignorant of the matter told the cardinall that he doubted not but so to gouerne the citie as peace should be obserued The cardinal willed him so to doo and to take good heed that if anie such riotous attempt was intended he should with good policie preuent it The maior came from the cardinals house at foure of the clocke in the after noone on Maie éeuen and in all hast sent for his brethren to the Guildhall yet was it almost seuen of the clocke yer the assemblie was set Upon conference had of the matter touching the rumour that was spred abroad of the rebellion against the strangers some thought it necessarie that a substantiall watch should be set of the honest citizens housholders which might withstand the euill dooers if they went about anie misrule But other were of this opinion that it was dangerous to raise men in armour bicause it was hard to tell whome they might trust but rather they thought it best that commandement should be giuen to euerie man through euerie ward to shut in his doores to kéepe his seruants within Before eight of the clocke the recorder was sent to the cardinall with these opinions who hearing the same allowed the latter for best and most surest And then the recorder and sir Thomas More late vndershiriffe of London and now of the kings priuie councell came to the Guildhall halfe an houre before nine of the clocke and there shewed the pleasure of the kings councell wherevpon euerie alderman sent to his ward that no man should stirre after seauen of the clocke out of his house but to keepe his doores shut and his seruants within till nine of the clocke in thâ— morning After this commandement giuen in the euening as sir Iohn Mundie an alderman came from his ward and found two yoong men in Cheape plaieng at the bucklers and a great manie of yoong men looking on them for the commandement was then scarse knowne he commanded them to leaue of And for that one of them asked why he would haue had him to the Counter Then all the yoong prentises stept to and resisted the alderman taking the yoong fellow from him cried Prentises and clubs Then out at euerie doore came clubs and weapons The alderman fled and was in great danger Then more people arose out of euerie quarter and foorth came seruingmen watermen courtiers and others so that by eleuen of the clocke there were in Cheape six or seuen hundred and out of Paules churchyard came thrée hundred which knew not of the other So out of all places they gathered brake vp the counters tooke out the prisoners that the maior had thither committed for hurting the strangers and came to Newgate and tooke out Studleie and Petit committed line 10 thither for that cause The maior and shiriffes were present there and made proclamation in the kings name but nothing was obeied Herewith being gathered in plumpes they ran thorough saint Nicholas shambles and at saint Martins gate there met with them sir Thomas More and others desiring them to go to their lodgings And as they were thus intreating and had almost persuaded the people to depart they within saint Martins threw out stones bats and hot water line 20 so that they hurt diuerse honest persons that were there with sir Thomas More persuading the rebellious persons to ceasse insomuch as at length one Nicholas Downes a sergeant of armes being there with the said sir Thomas More sore hurt amongst others in a furie cried Downe with them And then all the misruled persons ran to the â—â—ores and windowes of the houses with saint Martins and spoiled all that they found After that they ran headlong into Cornehill line 30 there likewise spoiled diuerse houses of the French men that dwelled within the gate of maister Mewtas house called Gréene gate This maister Mewtas was a Picard borne and reputed to be a
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