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
dealing was too manifest although indeed he abused his fathers patience for a while who was desirous of nothing more than to win his sonnes by some courteous meanes and therfore diuerse times offered to pardon all offenses committed by his enimies at the suit of his sonne the king who in déed offered himselfe now and then as an intreatour but that was onelie to win time that his brother with such Brabanders and other souldiers as he had with him in aid beside the forces of the barons of Guien might worke the more mischéefe against their father and their brother earle Richard in wasting and destroieng their countries that stood stedfast on their side In the meane time Richard the archbishop of Canturburie and diuerse other bishops and abbats both of England and Normandie assembled togither at Caen and in the abbeie church of S. Stephan pronounced the sentence of excommunication against all those that did hinder and impeach their purpose which was to haue peace and concord concluded betwixt the king and his sonnes the same sonnes onlie out of the said sentence excepted Diuerse shiftes were made by king Henrie the sonne and his brother earle Geffrey also to get monie for the paiment of their souldiers as spoiling of shrines and such like But at length when things framed not to their purpose and that the harme which they could doo against their father was much lesse than they wished if power had béene answerable to their wâ—â—es king Henrie the sonne through indignation and displeasure as some write fell into a gréeuous sicknesse in a village called Mertell noâ— farre from Limoges where his father laie at siege At the first he was taken with an extreame feuer and after followed a sore flixe Now perceiuing himselfe in danger of death and that the physicians had giuen him ouer he sent to his father better late than neuer confessing his trespasse committed against him and required of all fatherlie loueth 〈◊〉 sée him once before he died But for that the father thought not good to commit himselfe into the hands of such vngratious persons as were about his sonne he sent his ring vnto him in token of his blessing and as it were a pledge to signifie that he had forgiuen him his vnnaturall doings against him The son receiuing it with great humilitie kissed it and so ended his life in the presence of the archbishop of Burdeaux and others on the day of saint Barnabie the apostle He died as some write verie penitent and sorowfull And whereas in his life time he had vowed to make a iourneie into the holie land against Gods enimies and taken vpon him the crosse for that intent he deliuered it vnto his familiar freend William line 10 Marshall to go thither with it in his stead Moreouer when he perceiued present death at hand he first confessed his sinnes secretlie and after openly before sundrie bishops and men of religion and receiued absolution in most humble wise After this he caused his fine clothes to be taken from him and therewith a heare cloth to be put vpon him and after tieng a cord about his necke he said vnto the bishops and other that stood by him I deliuer my selfe an vnworthie and greeuous sinner vnto you the ministers of line 20 God by this cord beséeching our Lord Iesus Christ which pardoned the théefe confessing his faults on the crosse that through your praiers and for his great mercies sake it may please him to be mercifull vnto my soule wherevnto they all answered Amen Then he said vnto them Draw me out of this bed with this cord and laie me on that bed strawed with ashes which he had of purpose prepared and as he commanded so they did and they laid at his feet and at his head two great square stones Thus being prepared line 30 to die he willed his bodie after his deceasse to be conueied into Normandie and buried at Rouen And so after he had receiued the sacrament of the bodie and bloud of our Lord he departed this life as afore is said about the 28. yeare of his age His bodie after his death was conueied towards Rouen there to be buried accordinglie as he had willed but when those that had charge to conueie it thither were come vnto the citie of Mauns the bishop there and the cleargie would not suffer them to line 40 go any further with it but committed it to buriall in honourable wise within the church of saint Iulian. Whereof when the citizens of Rouen were aduertised they were sore offended with that dooing and streightwaies sent vnto them of Mauns requiring to haue the corps deliuered threatening otherwise with manie earnest oths to fetch it from them by force Wherefore king Henrie to set order in this matter commanded that the corps of his sonne the king should be deliuered vnto them of Rouen to be line 50 buried in their citie as he himselfe had willed before his death And so it was taken vp and conueied to Rouen where it was eftsoones buried in the church of our ladie ¶ Thus ended this yoong king in his floorishing youth to whome through his owne iust deserts long life was iustlie denied sith he delighted to begin his gouernement with vnlawfull attempts as an other Absolon against his owne naturall father seeking line 60 by wrongfull violence to pull the scepter out of his hand He is not put in the number of kings bicause he remained for the more part vnder the gouernance of his father so that he rather bare the name of king as appointed to reigne than that he may be said to haue reigned in deed So that héere by the waie a notable obseruation dooth occurre and offer it selfe to be noted of vs namelie that euen princes children though borne to great excellencie and in high degâ—eâ— of dignitie aâ—e to consider with themselues that notwithstanding their statelie titles of souereigntie they haue a dutie to discharge vnto their parents which if it be neglected and that in place thereof disobedience is substituted God himselfe when politike lawes prouide not to punish such offenses will take the cause in hand will powre vengeance vpon such vngratious children For he will be true of his word both in blessing and curssing in blessing the dutifull child with long life and happie daies and in curssing the obstinate and froward with short life and vnfortunate daies according to the tenure of his law If this man had liued in the old Romans time when aged persons were so reuerenced and honoured much more parents he had beene cut off in the prime of his disobedience and present death had beene inflicted vpon him as a due and deserued reward which Iuuenal noteth excellentlie well in these words Credebant hoc grande nefas morte piandum Si iuuenis vetulo non assurrexerat si Barbato cuicunque puer licèt ipse videret Plura domi farra maioris
thereto that king Iohn had by warre first inuaded his castels and lands in Picardie and wasted the same as Buncham castell and Lienâ— with the countie of Guisnes which belonged to the fée of the said Lewes But these reasons notwithstanding the legat warned the French king on paine of cursing not to suffer his sonne to go into England and likewise his sonne that he should not presume to take the iournie in hand But Lewes hearing this declared that his father had nothing to do to forbid him to prosecute his right in the realme of England which was not holden of him and therefore required his father not to hinder his purpose in such things as belonged nothing to him but rather to licence him to séeke the recouerie of his wiues right which he meant to pursue with perill of life if need should require The legat perceiuing he could not preuaile in his sute made to king Philip thought that he would not spend time longer in vaine in further treating with him but sped him foorth into England obteining yet a safeconduct of the French king to passe through his realme Lewes in like maner purposing by all meanes to preuent the legat first dispatched foorth ambassadours in all hast vnto the court of Rome to excuse himselfe to the pope and to render the reasons that most speciallie mooued him to procéed forward in his enterprise against king Iohn being called by the barons of England to take the crowne thereof vpon him This doone with all conuenient speed he came downe to Calice where he found 680 ships well appointed and trimmed which Eustace surnamed the moonke had gathered and prepared there readie against his comming Lewes therefore foorthwith imbarking himselfe with his people and all necessarie prouisions for such a iournie tooke the sea and arriued at a place called Stanchorre in the I le of Tenet vpon the 21 day of Maie and shortlie after came to Sandwich there landed with all his people where he also incamped vpon the shore by the space of thrée daies In which meane time there came vnto him a great number of those lords and gentlemen which had sent for him and there euerie one apart and by himselfe sware fealtie and homage vnto him as if he had béene their true and naturall prince King Iohn about the same time that Lewes thus arriued came to Douer meaning to fight with his aduersaries by the way as they should come forward towards London But yet vpon other aduisement taken he changed his purpose bicause he put some doubt in the Flemings and other strangers of whome the most part of his armie consisted bicause he knew that they hated the French men no more than they did the English Therefore furnishing the castell of Douer with men munition and vittels he left it in the kéeping of Hubert de Burgh a man of notable prowesse valiancie and returned himselfe vnto Canturburie and from thence tooke the high waie towards Winchester Lewes being aduertised that king Iohn was retired out of Kent passed through the countrie without anie incounter and wan all the castels and holds as he went but Douer he could not win At his comming to Rochester he laid siege to the castell there and wan it causing all the strangers that were found within it to be hanged This doone he came to London and there receiued the homage of those lords and gentlemen which had not yet doone their homage to him at Sandwich On the other part he tooke an oth to mainteine and performe the old lawes and customes of the realme and to restore to euerie man his rightfull heritage and lands requiring the barons furthermore to continue faithfull towards him assuring them to bring things so to passe that the realme of England should recouer the former dignitie and they their ancient liberties Moreouer he vsed them so courteouslie gaue them so faire words and made such large promises that they beléeued him with all their harts But alas Cur vincit opinio verum The rumour of this pretended outward courtesie being once â—ored through the realme caused great numbers of people to come flocking to him among whome were diuerse of those which before had taken part with king Iohn as William earle Warren William earle of Arundell William earle of Salisburie William Marshall the yoonger and diuerse other supposing verelie that the French kings sonne should now obteine the king dome who in the meane time ordeined Simon Langton afore mentioned to be his chancellour by whose preaching and exhortation as well the citizens of London as the barons that were excommunicated caused diuine seruice to be celebrated in their presence induced thereto bicause line 10 Lewes had alreadie sent his procurators to Rome before his comming into England there to shew the goodnesse of his cause and quarell But this auailed them not neither tooke his excuse any such effect as he did hope it should for those ambassadors that king Iohn had sent thither replied against their assertions so that there was hard hold about it in that court albeit that the pope would decrée nothing till he hard further from his legat Gualo who the same time being aduertised of the procéedings of Lewes in his iournie with all diligence hasted ouer into England and passing through the middle of his aduersaries came vnto king Iohn then soiourning at Glocester of whome he was most ioifullie receiued for in him king Iohn reposed all his hope of victorie This legat immediatlie after his comming did excommunicate Lewes by name with all his fautors and complices but speciallie Simon de Langton with bell booke and candle as the maner was Howbeit the same Simon and one line 30 Geruase de Hobrug deane of S. Pauls in London with other alledged that for the right and state of the cause of Lewes they had alreadie appealed to the court of Rome and therefore the sentence published by Gualo they tooke as void At the same time also all the knights and men of warre of Flanders and other parts beyond the seas which had serued the king departed from him the Poictouins onelie excepted and part of them that thus went from him resorted vnto Lewes and entred line 40 into his wages but the residue repaired home into their owne countries so that Lewes being thus increased in power departed from London and marching towards Winchester he wan the castels of Rigat Gilford and Farnham From thence he went to Winchester where the citie was yéelded vnto him with all the castels and holds thereabout as Woluesey Odiham and Beaumere ¶ Whilest the said Lewes was thus occupied in Sussex about the subduing of that countrie vnto his line 50 obeisance there was a yoong gentleman in those parts named William de Collingham being of a valorous mind and loathing forren subiection who would in no wise doo fealtie to Lewes but assembling togither about the number
his commandement went into Scotland but shewed themselues slow inough to procure those things that perteined to peace and quietnesse In the meane time whilest these things were a doing the bishop of Carleill and other which laie there vpon the gard of that citie and castell hauing some mistrust of the loialtie in Robert Bruce the yoonger that was earle of Carrike by his mother they sent him word to come vnto them at a certeine daie bicause they had to talke with him of matters touching the kings affairs He durst not disobeie but came to Carleill togither with the bishop of Gallowaie there receiued a corporall oth vpon the holie and sacred mysteries and vpon the sword of Thomas Becket to be true to the king of England and to aid him and his against their enimies in all that he might and further to withstand that the said king receiued no hurt nor damage so far as in him might lie This doone he returned againe into Scotland and for a colour entred into the lands of William Douglas and burnt part of them bringing the wife and children of the same William backe with him into Annandale but shortlie after he conspired with the Scotish rebels and ioined himselfe with them not making his father priuie to the matter who in the meane while remaind in the south parts of England He would haue persuaded such knights gentlemen and other as held their lands of his father in Annandale to haue gone with him but they would not breake their faith giuen to the king of England and so left him The earle of Surrey assembling togither his power in Yorkeshire sent his nephue the lord Henrie Percie with the souldiers of the countrie of Carleill before into Scotland who passing foorth to the towne of Aire went about to induce them of Gallowaie into peace and hearing that an armie of Scotishmen was gathered togither at a place about foure miles from thence called Irwin he made thitherward and comming neere to the Scotish host might behold where the same was lodged beyond a certeine lake In that armie were capteins the bishop of Glasco Andrew de Murreie steward of Scotland and William Waleis which as it should seeme were not all of one mind There was in the same armie a knight named sir Richard Lundie which neuer yet had doon homage to the king of England but now flieng from his companie he came to the English armie and submitted himselfe with his retinue vnto the king of England saieng that he ment not to serue amongst them any longer that could not agrée togither The residue of the Scotishmen sued for peace vpon condition to haue liues members goods cattels and lands saued line 10 with a pardon of all offenses past The lord Percie vpon pledges writings heerof deliuered was contented to grant their requests so that the king his maister would be therewith pleased who being hereof certified bicause he would not gladlie be staied of his iournie into Flanders granted vnto all things that were thus required Then after that the earle of Surrie was come to the English campe bicause William Waleis ceassed not in the meane time to assemble more people line 20 the Englishmen doubting some treason resolued to giue battell but whilest they were in mind thus to do the bishop of Glasco and William Douglas to auoid the note of disloialtie and treason came and submitted themselues and so the bishop was committed to ward within the castell of Rokesborough and William Douglas in the castell of Berwike It is to be noted that euen in the verie time that the treatie was in hand betwixt the lord Percie and the Scotish capteins the Scots of Gallowaie and other set vpon that part of the English campe where the line 30 trâ—sâ—e and baggage laie which they spoiled and ransacked slaieng aboue fiue hundreth persons what of men women and children but the alarum being raised the Englishmen came to the rescue and chasing the Scots slue aboue a thousand of them and recouered the most part of their owne goods with more which they tooke from their enimies In this meane time king Edward at the feast of Lammas held a councell at London where he receiued the archbishop of Canturburie againe into his line 40 fauor restoring vnto him all his goods and lands He appointed him and the lord Reinold Grey to haue his eldest sonne prince Edward in kéeping till his returne out of Flanders But Nicholas Triuet writeth that the said prince Edward being appointed to remaine at home as lieutenant to his father there were appointed vnto him as councellors Richard bishop of London William earle of Warwike and the forenamed lord Reinold Grey with the lord Iohn Gifford and the lord Alane Plokenet men of line 50 high wisedome grauitie and discretion without making mention of the archbishop of Canturburie in that place The two earles Marshall and Hereford being commanded to attend the king into Flanders refused excusing themselues by messenger After this the king caused sir Rafe Monthermer whom his daughter the countesse of Glocester in hir widowhood had taken to husband without knoledge of hir father to be deliuered out of the castell of Bristow wherein he had béene kept prisoner a certeine line 60 time vpon displeasure for the marriage but now he was not onelie set at libertie but also restored to his wife and to all the lands perteining to the earledome of Glocester appointing him to find 50 men at armes to serue in that iournie into Flanders He also deliuered the earles of Cassels and Menteth Iohn Comin and diuers other Scotishmen appointing them also to go with him into Flanders Finallie hauing assembled his armie ouer the which he made the lord Thomas Berklie constable and Geffrey Ienuille marshall he went to Winchelsey and whilst he laie there before he tooke the sea there was presented vnto him from the earles a writing which conteined the causes of the gréefe of all the archbishops bishops abbats earles lords barons and of all the communaltie as well for summoning them to serue by an vndue meane as also for the vnreasonable taxes subsidies impositions paiements which they dailie susteined and namelie the impost augmented vpon the custome of wooll seemed to them verie greeuous For whereas for euerie sacke of whole wooll there was fortie shillings paid and for euerie sacke of broken wooll one marke it was well knowne that the wooll of England was almost in value esteemed to be woorth halfe the riches of the realme and so the custome thereof paid would ascend to a fift part of all the substance of the land The kings answer therevnto was that he could not alter any thing without the aduise of his councell of the which part were alreadie passed ouer into Flanders and part were at London and therfore he required the said earles that if they would not attend
partlie with gentlenesse and partlie with menaces But the Englishmen came vpon them in the night and tooke them both so that being brought before the iustices they were condemned and therevpon hanged drawen and quartered ¶ Some write that Duncan Magdoili a man of great power in Galloway tooke these two brethren prisoners togither with Reginald Crawford being the principlas on the ninth daie of Februarie as they with certeine other capteins line 30 and men of war came by sea and landed in his countrie vpon whome being seuen hundred men he with three hundred or few aboue that number boldlie gaue the onset and not onelie tooke the said thrée persons prisoners sore wounded as they were with diuerse other but also slue Malcolme Makaile a lord of Kentice and two Irish lords whose heads and the foresaid prisoners he presented vnto king Edward who caused Thomas Bruce to be hanged drawen and quartered but the other two were onelie hanged and line 40 quartered at Carleill where their heads were set vp aloft on the castell and gates of the citie After Easter their brother Robert Bruce calling himselfe king of Scotland and hauing now augmented his armie with manie souldiers of the out-Iles fought with the earle of Penbroke and put him to flight and slue some of his men though no◠manie Within a few daies after he chased also the earle of Glocester into the castell of Aire and besieged him within the same till an armie was sent from king line 50 Edward to the rescue for then the said Robert was constreined to flée and the Englishmen followed till he got into the woods and marishes where they might come néere him without manifest danger to cast themselues awaie ¶ The king of England minding to make a full conquest of the Scots and not to leaue off vntill he had wholie subdued them sent his commissions into England commanding all those that owght him seruice to be redie at Careleill within three wéekes after Midsummer He sent his sonne line 60 Edward into England that vpon knowledge had what the French king did touching the agreement he might accordinglie procéed in the marriage to be made with his daughter After the prince was departed from the campe his father king Edward was taken with sore sickenesse yet he remooued from Carleill where the same sicknesse first tooke him vnto Burrough vpon Sand and there the daie after being the seuenth daie of Iulie he ended his life after he had reigned 34 yeares six moneths and one and twentie daies He liued 68 yeares and twentie daies His bodie was conueied to London and in the church of Westminster lieth buried He had issue by his first wife queene Elianor foure sons Iohn Henrie Alfonse Edward which succeeded him the other died long before their father Also fiue daughters Elianor Ione Margaret and Elizabeth were bestowed in marriage as before in this booke is expressed the fift named Marie became a nunne By his second wife quéene Margaret he had two sonnes Thomas of Brotherton and Edmund of Woodstoke with one daughter named Margaret after hir mother He was tall of stature some what blacke of colour strong of bodie and leane auoiding grosenesse with continuall exercise of comelie fauour and iettie eies the which when he waxed angrie would suddenlie become reddish and seeme as though they sparkled with fire The haire of his head was blacke and curled he continued for the most part in good health of bodie and was of a stout stomach which neuer failed him in time of aduersitie Moreouer he had an excellent good wit for to whatsoeuer he applied his studie he easilie atteined to the vnderstanding thereof wise he was and vertuous an earnest enimie of the high and presumptuous insolencie of préests the which he iudged to procéed chéeflie of too much wealth and riches and therefore he deuised to establish the statute of Mortmaine to be a bridle to their inordinate lusts and riotous excesse He built the abbeie of the vale roiall in Cheshire he was a constant fréend but if he once tooke displeasure or hatred against any person he would not easilie receiue him into fauour againe whilest he had any vacant time from weightie affaires he spent lightlie the same in hunting Towards the maintenance of his warres and other charges besides the subsidies which he leuied of his people and other reuenues comming to his coffers he had great helpe by reason of the siluer mines which in his daies were found in Deuonshire and occupied greatlie to his profit as in the records remaining in the excheker concerning the accompts and allowances about the same it dooth and may appeare For in the accompts of master William de Wimondham it is recorded that betwixt the twelfth daie of August and the last of October in the 22 yeare of this king Edwards reigne there was tried and fined out at Martinestowe in Deuonshire by times so much of fined siluer as amounted to the summe of 370 pounds weight which being brought to London was there refined by certeine finers that plate might be forged thereof for the ladie Elianor duches of Bar and daughter to the said king married in the yeare then last past to the duke of Bar as before ye haue heard In the 23 yeare of his reigne there was fined at the place aforsaid 521 pounds ten shillings weight of siluer by times which was also brought to London In the 24 yeare of his reigne there were taken vp 337 miners within the wapentake of the Peake in Darbishire and brought into Deuonshire to worke there in those siluer mines as appeareth by the allowance demanded by the said master William de Wimondham in his roll of accounts deliuered that yeare into the excheker and there was brought from thence to London the same yeare of siluer fined and cast in wedges 700 foure pounds thrée shillings one penie weight In the 25 yeare of his reigne there were three hundred and fourtie eight miners brought againe out of the Peake into Deuonshine and out of Wales there were brought also 25 miners which all were occupied about those siluer mines beside others of the selfe countrie of Deuonshire and other places Also Wil. de Aulton clearke kéeper of the kings mines in Deuonshire and Cornewall was accomptant of the issues and profits of the kings mines there from the fourth of March Anno 26 of his reigne till the eightéenth of Aprill Anno 27 and yéelded vp his account both of the siluer and lead But now to conclude with this noble prince king Edward the first he was sure not onelie valiant but also politike labouring to bring this diuided Ile into one entier monarchie which he went verie neere to haue atchiued for whereas he was fullie bent to make a conquest of Scotland in like case as he had alreadie doone of Wales if he had liued any longer time to haue dispatched Robert le
couenant and recouering it from the French cleerelie reduced it to line 40 the English dominion Moreouer sir Iohn Oturum sir Nicholas Kiriell and sir Iohn Felton admerals by the kings appointment with the fléets of the east south and west parts went to the sea to apprehend such Frenchmen as they might méet withall They according to their commission bestirred themselues so that within few daies they tooke six score saile of Normans and brought them into England wherevpon the displeasure sore increased betwixt the line 50 two realmes The king of England stood not onelie in doubt of the Frenchmen but more of his owne people that remained in France least they thorough helpe of the French should inuade the land and therefore he commanded the hauens and ports to be suerlie watched lest some sudden inuasion might happilie be attempted for it was well vnderstood that the queene meant not to returne till she might bring with hir the lord Mortimer and the other banished men who in no line 60 wise could obteine anie fauour at the kings hands so long as the Spensers bare rule ¶ The pope lamenting this matter sent two bishops into England to reconcile the king and quéene and also to agree the two kings These bishops were reuerentlie receiued but more than reuerence here they obteined not and so departed as they came King Edward vnderstanding all the quéenes drift at length sought the French kings fauour and did so much by letters and promise of bribes with him and his councell that queene Isabell was destitute in manner of all helpe there so that she was glad to withdraw into Heinault by the comfort of Iohn the lord Beaumont the earle of Heinault his brother who being then in the court of France and lamenting queene Isabels case imagined with himselfe of â—ome marriage that might be had betwixt the yoong prince of Wales and some of the daughters of his brother the earle of Heinault and therevpon required hir to go into Heinault and he would be glad to attend hir She gladlie consenting hereto went thither with him where she was most ioifullie receiued with hir sonne and all other of hir traine The Spensers some write procured hir banishment out of France and that she was aduised by the earle of Arthois chéefelie to repaire into Heinault Also I find that the Spensers deliuered fiue barrels of siluer the summe amounting vnto fiue thousand marks vnto one Arnold of Spaine a broker appointing him to conueie it ouer into France to bestowe it vpon such freends as they had there of the French kings counsell by whose means the king of France did banish his sister out of his relme But this monie was met with vpon the sea by certeine Zelanders and taken togither with the said Arnold and presented to the earle of Heinault vnder whose dominion the Zelanders in those daies remained of which good hap the earle and queene Isabell greatlie reioised In the time that the quéene and hir sonne laie in the court of the earle of Heinault a marriage was concluded betwixt the prince of Wales and the ladie Philip daughter to the said earle vpon certeine conditions whereof one was that the said erle should at his proper costs set ouer into England the said prince of Wales with a crue of foure hundred men of armes But whether there was any such mariage as then concluded and that in consideration thereof the earle of Heinault aided quéene Isabell and hir sonne it may be doubted bicause other writers make no such report Neuerthelesse certeine it is that the earls brother sir Iohn de Heinault lord Beaumont was appointed with certeine bands of men of arms to the number of foure hundred or fiue hundred to passe ouer with the said quéene and hir sonne into England and so therevpon began to make his purueiance for that iournie which thing when it came to the knowledge of king Edward and the Spensers they caused musters to be taken through the realme and ordeined beacons to be set vp kept and watched as well in the vallies by the sea side as within the countries vpon hilles and high grounds that the same vpon occasion of the enimies arriuall might be set on fire to warne the countries adioining to assemble and resist them But quéene Isabell and hir sonne with such others as were with hir in Heinault staied not their iournie for doubt of all their aduersaries prouision but immediatlie after that they had once made their purueiances and were readie to depart they tooke the sea namelie the queene hir sonne Edmund of Wodstoke earle of Kent sir Iohn de Heinault aforesaid and the lord Roger Mortimer of Wigmore a man of good experience in the warres and diuerse others hauing with them a small companie of Englishmen with a crue of Heinewiers and Almains to the number of 2757 armed men the which sailing foorth towards England landed at length in Suffolke at an hauen called Orwell besides Harwich the 25 daie of September Immediatlie after that the queene and hir sonne were come to land it was woonder to sée how fast the people resorted vnto them and first of all the earle Marshall in whose lâ—nds she first came on shore repaired vnto hir so did the earle of Leicester and diuerse barons knights of those parts with all the prelats in manner of the land as the bishops of Lincolne Hereford Dubline and Elie the which being ioined with the queene made a great armie The archbishop of Canturburie and others aided hir with monie After that she had refreshed hir people a little space at saint Edmundsburie she marched foorth to seeke the aduersaries of hir and of the realme as she bruted it but they still kéeping themselues néere to the kings person that vnder the shadow of the wings of his protection they might remaine in more safegard durst not depart from his presence At the time of the queenes landing he was at London and being sore amazed with the newes he required aid of line 10 the Londoners They answered that they would doo all the honour they might vnto the king the queene and to their sonne the lawfull heire of the land but as for strangers traitors to the realme they would kéepe them out of their gates and resist them with all their forces but to go foorth of the citie further than that they might returne before sunne-setting they refused pretending certeine liberties in that behalfe to them granted in times past as they alledged The king not greatlie liking of this answer fortified line 20 the tower and leauing within it his yoonger son Iohn of Eltham and the wife of the lord chamberleine Hugh Spenser the yoonger that was his neece he departed towards the marches of Wales there to raise an armie against the queene Before his departure from London he set foorth a proclamation that euerie man vnder paine of forfeiting of life
present succors The said sir Thomas Dagworth aduertised hereof with three hundred men of armes and foure hundred archers of his owne retinues beside certeine Britaines approched to the siege and on the 20 of Iune earlie in the morning a quarter of an houre before day suddenlie set vpon the enimies who hauing knowledge of his comming were readie to receiue him as the day before but being now surprised thus on the sudden they were greatlie amazed for they that were within Roch Darien as soone as the appearance of daie had discouered the matter vnto them so that they might know their freends from their enimies they issued foorth and holpe not a litle to the atchiuing of the victorie which was cléerelie obteined before sunne-rising and the French armie quite discomfited greatlie to the praise of the said sir Thomas Dagworth and his companie considering their small number in comparison of their line 10 aduersaries who were reckoned to be twelue hundred good men of armes knights and esquiers beside six hundred other armed men two thousand crossebowes six hundred archers of the countrie of Britaine and footmen of commons innumerable There were taken besides the lord Charles de Blois naming himselfe duke of Britaine diuerse other lords and men of name as monsieur Guie de la Uaall sonne and heire to the lord la Uaall which died in the battell the lord of Rocheford the lord de line 20 Beaumanour the lord of Loiacke with other lords knights and esquiers in great numbers There were slaine the said lord de la Uaall the Uicount of Rohan the lord of Chasteau Brian the lord de Mailestreit the lord de Quintin the lord de Rouge the lord of Dereuall and his sonne sir Rafe de Montford and manie other worthie men of armes knights and esquiers to the number of betwixt six and seuen hundred as by a letter written by the said sir Thomas Dagworth and registred in the historie of Robert de line 30 Auesburie dooth appeare In this meane while king Philip hauing dailie word how the power of his enimie king Edward did increase by aid of the Easterlings and other nations which were to him alied and that his men within Calis were brought to such an extreme point that without spéedie rescue they could not long keepe the towne but must of force render it ouer into the hands of his said enimie to the great preiudice of all the realme of France after great deliberation taken line 40 vpon this so weightie a matter he commanded euerie man to meet him in their best arraie for the warre at the feast of Pentecost in the citie of Amiens or in those marches At the daie and place thus appointed there came to him Odes duke of Burgoigne and the duke of Normandie eldest sonne to the king the duke of Orleance his yoongest sonne the duke of Burbon the earle of Fois the lord Lois de Sauoie the lord Iohn of Hemalt the earle of Arminacke the earle of Forrest and the earle Ualentinois line 50 with manie others These noble men being thus assembled they tooke councell which waie they might passe to giue battell to the Englishmen it was thought the best waie had beene through Flanders but the Flemings in fauor of the king of England denied not onelie to open their passages to the Frenchmen but also had leuied an armie of an hundred thousand men of one and other and laid siege to Aire and burnt the countrie all about Wherepon there were manie sharpe bickerings line 60 and sore incounâ—ers betwixt the Flemings and such Frenchmen as king Philip sent foorth against them both now whilest the French armie laie about Aâ—â—ens and also before during all the time that the siege lay at Calis For all the French towns vpon the frontiers were stuffed with strong garrisons of souldiers as Lisle saint Omers Arras Bullongne Aire and 〈◊〉 and those men of war were euer readie vpon occasion to attempt sundrie exploits After this when the armie of the Flemings was broken-vp and returned home or rather diuided into parts and lodged along on the frontiers the French king with two thousand men one and other came forward taking his way through the countrie called la Belme and so by the countrie of Frankeberge came streight to the hill of Sangate betwixt Calis and Wisant The king of England had caused a strong castell to be made betweene the towne of Calis and the sea to close vp that passage and had placed therein three score men of armes and two hundred archers which kept the hauen in such sort that nothing could come in nor out Also considering that his enimies could come neither to succour the towne nor to annoie his host except either by the downes alongst the sea side or else aboue by the high waie he caused all his nauie to drawe alongst by the coast of the downes to stop vp that the Frenchmen should not approch that waie Also the erle of Derbie being come thither out of Guien was appointed to kéepe Newland bridge with a great number of men of armes and archers so that the Frenchmen could not approch anie waie vnlesse they would haue come through the marishes which to doo was not possible Fiftéene hundred of the commons of Tournie wan a tower which the Englishmen had made and kept for the impeachment of the Frenchmens passage by the downes but that notwithstanding when the marshals of France had well viewed all the passages and streicts through the which their armie must passe if they meant to fight with the Englishmen they well perceiued that they could not come to the Englishmen to giue them battell without the king would lose his people wherevpon as Froissard saith the French king sent the lord Geffrey de Charnie the lord Eustace de Ribaumont Guie de Néele and the lord de Beauiew vnto the king of England which required him on their maisters behalfe to appoint certeine of his councell as he would likewise appoint certeine of his which by common consent might aduise betweene them an indifferent place for them to trie the battell vpon wherevnto the king of England answered That there he was and had béene almost a whole yeare which could not be vnknowne to his aduersarie their maister so that he might haue come sooner if he would but now sith he had suffered him there to remaine so long without offer of battell he meant not to accomplish his desire nor to depart from that which to his great cost he had brought now at length to that point that he might easilie win it Wherefore if the French K. nor his host could not passe those waies which were closed by the English power let them séeke some other passage said he if they thinke to come hither In this meane while came two cardinals froÌ„ pope Clement to treat a peace betwixt the two kings wherevpon commissioners were appointed as the dukes of Burgoigne
take any thing from you or yours And this realme of France which hath procreat and brought foorth and norished so many of my noble progenitors shall 〈◊〉 my good meaning towards hâ—r as not forgetfull of mine elders and toward your maiestie if you will vouchsafe that I should glorie of that name a most humble kinsman There are manie occasions of loue and freendship betwixt you and my father which I trust shall take place for I know all his thoughts and inward meanings you shall agree and come to an attonement right easilie togither I praie God he neuer take me for his sonne except I haue you in the same degree of honor reuerence and faithfull loue which I owe towards him The king as reason would acknowledged this to procéed of great courtesie shewed toward him in the prince and thanked him accordinglie And the prince performing in déed that which he spake with word ceassed from further vsing of fire or other indamaging of the French dominions and taking his waie through the countries of Poictou and Xaintonge by easie iournies he and his people came to Blaie and so passed ouer the water to Burdeaux in good safetie with all their riches and prisoners The prince gaue to the lord Iames Audelie who had receiued in the battell manie sore wounds fiue hundred marks of yearelie reuenues assigned foorth of his lands in England The which gift the knight granted as fréelie as he had receiued it vnto foure of his esquiers which in the battell had béene euer attendant about his person without whose aid valiant support he knew well that he had beene slaine sundrie times in the same battell by his enimies and therefore thought it a dutie of humanitie and gratitude to make them amends with some temporall recompense that had saued his life than the which nothing is more déere nor of greater price in the world as the poet saith nihil est vita prâ—tiosius ipsa When the prince heard that he had so doone he meruelled what his meaning was therby and caused him to be brought before his presence and demanded of him wherefore he had so lightlie giuen awaie that reward which he had bestowed vpon him and whether he thought that gift too meane for him or not The lord Audelie so excused himselfe in extolling the good seruice doone to him by his esquiers through whome he had so manie times escaped the dangers of death that the prince did not onelie confirme the resignation of the fiue hundred marks giuen to the esquiers but also rewarded the lord Audelie with six hundred marks more of like yearelie reuenues in maner and forme as he had receiued the other When the newes of this great victorie came into England of the ouerthrow of the Frenchmen and taking of the French king ye may be sure there was great ioy shewed by outward tokens as bonfiers made feasts and bankets kept through the whole realme Likewise the Gascoignes and Englishmen being come to Burdeaux made great reuell and pastime there spending freelie that gold and siluer which they had woone in the battell of Poictiers and elsewhere in that iournie ¶ This yeare in Aprill the prince of Wales tooke shipping with his prisoners at Burdeaux and on the fift of Maie arriued at Plimmouth On the foure and twentith day of Maie he was with great honour ioifullie receiued of the citizens into the citie of London and so conueied to the palace of Westminster where the king sitting in Westminster hall receiued the French king and after conueied him to a lodging appointed for him where he laie a season but after he was remoued to the Sauoie which was at that time a goodlie house perteining to the duke of Lancaster though afterwards it was burnt and destroied by Wat Tiler Iacke Straw and their companie In this place the French king laie and kept house a long time after In the winter following were roiall iustes holden in Smithfield at the which were present the kings of England France and Scotland with manie great estates of all their thrée kingdoms of the which the more part of the strangers were as then prisoners line 10 It was reported that the French king could not so dissemble nor cloake his inward thought but that there appeared some tokens of gréefe in his countenance whilest he beheld these warlike pastimes And when the king of England his sonne prince Edward with comfortable words required him after supper to put all pensiue cares out of his fantasie and to be merrie and sing as other did he should make this answer with a smiling countenance line 20 alluding to the complaint of the Israelits in time of their captiuitie vnder the gentiles saieng Quomodo cantabimus canticum in terra aliena About the same time there came ouer into England two cardinals the one called Talirand being bishop of Alba commonlie named the cardinall of Pierregort and the other named Nicholas intituled cardinall of S. Uitale or as Froissard saith of Dargell they were sent from pope Innocent the sixt to intreat for a peace betwixt the kings of England line 30 and France but they could not bring their purpose to anie perfect conclusion although they remained herâ— for the space of two yeares but yet onelie by good means they procured a truce betwéene the said kings and all their assistants to indure from the time of the publication thereof vnto the feast of S. Iohn Baptist which should be in the yeare 1359 out of the which truce was excepted the L. Philip of Nauarre and his alies the countesse of Montfort and the whole duchie of Britaine line 40 Anon after the French king was remooued from the Sauoie vnto the castell of Windsor with all his houshold and then he went on hunting and hawking there about at his pleasure and the lord Philip his sonne with him all the residue of the prisoners abode still at London but were suffered to go vp and downe and to come to the court when they would In the same yeare the duke of Lancaster besieged the citie of Rennes in Britaine in the title of the countesse of Richmond hir yoong sonne Iohn of Montfort line 50 that claimed to be duke of Britaine Those that were within the citie as the vicount of Rohan and Berthram de Claiquin who as then was a lustie yoong bacheler and others defended themselues manfullie for a time but yet at length they were compelled to render the citie into their enimies hands About the same time two Franciscane friers were burnt at London for matters of religion ¶ Moreouer queene Isabell mother vnto king Edward the line 60 third departed this life the seauen and twentith daie of August and was buried the seauen and twentith daie of Nouember in the church of the friers minors at London not yet dedicated ¶ Dauid king of Scotland shortlie after the truce was concluded
haue heard how the Frenchmen refused the peace which was accorded betwixt K. Edward their king as then prisoner here in England Wherupō K. Edward determined to make such warre against the realme of France that the Frenchmen with all their harts should be glad to condescend and agrée to reason and line 60 first he commanded all manner of Frenchmen other than such as were prisoners to auoid out of England He also appointed the French king to be remoued from the castell of Hertford where he then remained vnto the castell of Somerton in Lincolneshire vnder the gard and conduct of the lord William Deincourt being allowed fourtie shillings the day for the wages of two and twentie men at armes twentie archers two watchmen as thus for himselfe and sir Iohn Kirketon baronets either of them foure shillings the daie for thrée knights sir William Colleuill in place of the lord Robert Colleuill that could not trauell himselfe by reason of sicknesse sir Iohn Deincourt and sir Saer de Rochfort ech of them two shillings the daie seuentéene esquiers ech of them twelue pence the day eight archers on horsse backe euerie of them six pence the day and twelue archers on foot three pence and the two watchmen either of them six pence the day which amounteth in the whole vnto nine and thirtie shillings the day and the od twelue pence was allowed to the said lord Deincourt to make vp the summe of 40 shillings ¶ This haue I noted the rather to giue a light to the reader to consider how chargeable the reteining of men of war in these daies is in respect of the former times But now to our purpose The king meaning to passe ouer himselfe in person into France caused a mightie armie to be mustered and put in a readinesse and sent before him the duke of Lancaster ouer to Calis with foure hundred speares and two thousand archers where the said duke ioined with such strangers as were alreadie come to Calis in great numbers and togither with them entered into the French dominions and passing by saint Omers Bethune came to Mount saint Eloie a goodlie abbeie and a rich two leagues distant from Arras and there the host tarried foure daies and when they had robbed and wasted all the countrie thereabout they rode to Braie and there made a great assault at the which a baronet of England was slaine with diuerse other When the Englishmen saw they could win nothing there they departed and following the water of Some came to a towne called Chersie where they passed the riuer and there tarried Alhallowen daie the night following On the same daie the duke of Lancaster was aduertised that the king was arriued at Calis the seuentéenth daie of October commanding him by letters to draw towards him with all his companie The duke according to the kings commandement obeied and so returned toward Calis The king being there arriued with all his power tooke counsell which way he should take Some aduised him first to inuade Flanders and to reuenge the iniurious dealing of the earle and the Flemings but he would not agrée to that motion for he purposed fullie either by plaine force to make a conquest of France or else vtterlie to destroie and wast the countrie throughout with fier and sword Herevpon he set forwards the fourth of Nouember and passing through the countries of Arthois and Uermendois he came before the citie of Reimes There went ouer with him in this iournie with the duke of Lancaster his foure sonnes Edward prince of Wales Lionell earle of Ulster Iohn earle of Richmond and the lord Edmund his yoongest sonne Also there was Henrie the said duke of Lancaster with the earles of March Warwike Suffolke Hereford who also was earle of Northampton Salisburie Stafford and Oxford the bishops of Lincolne and Durham and the lords Percie Neuill Spenser Kirdiston Rosse Mannie Cobham Mowbray de la Ware Willoughbie Felton Basset Fitz Water Charleton Audelie Burwasch and others beside knights and esquiers as sir Iohn Chandois sir Stephan Goussanton sir Nowell Loring sir Hugh Hastings sir Iohn Lisle sir Richard Pembruge and others The siege was laid before Reimes about saint Andrewes tide and continued more than seuen weekes but the citie was so well defended by the bishop and the earle of Porcien and other capiteins within it that the Englishmen could not obteine their purpose and so at length when they could not haue forrage nor other necessarie things abroad in the countrie for to serue their turne the king raised his field and departed with his armie in good order of battell taking the way through Champaigne and so passed by Chaalons and after to Merie on the riuer of Seine From Merie he departed and came vnto Tonnere which towne about the beginning of the foure and thirtith yeare of his reigne was woone by assault but the castell could not be woone for there was within it the lord Fiennes constable of France and a great number of other good men of war which defended it valiantlie After the king had rested there fiue daies and that his men were well refreshed with the wines and other such things which they found in that towne line 10 in good plentie he remooued and drew towards Burgognie comming to a towne called Guillon or Aguillon where he lay from Ashwednesday vnto Midlent hauing good prouision of all maner of vittels by the means of an esquier of his called Iohn Alanson which had taken the towne of Flauignie not farre thence wherein was great store of bread and wine and other vittels and still the marshals rode foorth and oftentimes refreshed the host with new prouision The Englishmen had with them in their carriages line 20 tents pauillions milles ouens and forges also boates of leather cunninglie made and deuised able to receiue three men a péece and to passe them ouer waters and riuers They had at the least six thousand carts with them and for euerie cart foure horsses which they had out of England In this meane while the Frenchmen made certeine vessels foorth to the sea vnder the gouernance of the earle of S. Paule the which vpon the fiftéenth daie of March landed earlie in the morning at Winchelsie line 30 and before sunne rising entred the towne and finding the inhabitants vnprouided to make anie great resistance fell to and sacked the houses slue manie men women and also children and after set fier on the towne and vpon knowledge had that the people of the countrie next adioining were assembled and comming to the rescue he caused his men to draw to their ships and so they taking their pillage and spoile with them got them aboord not without some losse of their companie which were slaine in the line 40 towne by such as resisted their violence Whilest the king laie at Aguillon there came to him Anscaume de Salilans
death of king line 20 Edward who as we haue said deceassed the day before but comfortable newes againe of the great towardlinesse and good meaning of the yoong king who promised to loue them and their citie and to come to the same citie as they had desired him to doo And further that he had spoken to the duke of Lancaster in their behalfe and that the duke had submitted himselfe to him in all things touching the cause wherevpon the kings pleasure was that they should likewise submit themselues and he would doo his indeuor that an agreement might be had to the honor of the citizens line 30 and profit of the citie The citizens liked not of this forme of procéeding in the dukes matter bicause the king was yoong and could not giue order therein but by substitutes yet at length with much adoo they were contented to submit themselues as the duke had doone before though not till that the knights had vndertaken vpon their oth of fidelitie and knighthood that their submission should not redound to the temporall or bodilie harme of any of them consenting to the kings line 40 will in this point And so with this caution they tooke their iournie towards Sheene where they found the new K. with his mother the duke of Lancaster his brethren vncles to the king and diuerse bishops about the bodie of the deceassed king When it was knowen that the Londoners were come they were called before the king by whom the matter was so handled that the duke and they were made fréends After this when the king should ride through the citie line 50 towards the coronation the said duke and the lord Percie riding on great horses before him as by vertue of their offices appointed to make way before vsed themselues so courteouslie modestlie and pleasantlie â—hat where before they two were greatlie suspected of the common people by reason of their great puissance in the realme and huge rout of reteiners they ordered the matter so that neither this day nor the morrow after â—eing the day of the kings coronation they offended any maner of person but rather line 60 by gentle and swéet demeanour they reclaimed the harts of manie of whome before they were greatlie had in suspicion and thought euill of ¶ But now sith we are entred into the matter of this kings coronation we haue thought good breefelie to touch some particular point thereof as in Thomas Walsingham we find it though nothing so largelie here as the author himselfe setteth it foorth bicause the purpose of this worke will not so permit The king in riding thorough the citie towards Westminster on the 15 daie of Iulie being wednesdaie was accompanied with such a traine of the nobilitie and others as in such case was requisite Sir Simon Burlie bare the sword before him and sir 〈…〉 foorth wine abundantlie In the towers were placed foure beautifull virgins of stature and age like to the king apparelled in white vestures in euerie tower one the which blew in the kings face at his approching néere to them leaues of gold and as he approched also they threw on him and his horsse fâ—orens of gold counterfeit When he was come before the castell they tooke cups of gold and filling them with wine at the spouts of the castell presented the same to the king and to his nobles On the top of the castell betwixt the foure towers stood a golden angell holding a crowne in his hands which was so contriued that when the king came he bowed downe offered to him the crowne But to speake of all the pageants and shewes which the citizens had caused to be made and set foorth in honour of their new king it were superfluous euerie one in their quarters striuing to surmount other and so with great triumphing of citizens and ioy of the lords and noble men he was conueied vnto his palace at Westminster where he rested for that night The morrow after being thursdaie and the 16 day of Iulie he was fetcht to the church with procession of the bishops and monks and comming before the high altar where the pauement was couered with rich clothes of tapistrie he there kneeled downe and made his praiers whilest two bishops soong the Letanie which being finished the king was brought to his seat the quéere singing an antheme beginning Firmetur manus tuâ— That doone there was a sermon preached by a bishop touching the dutie of a king how he ought to behaue himselfe towards the people and how the people ought to be obedient vnto him The sermon being ended the king receiued his oth before the archbishop and nobles which doone the archbishop hauing the lord Henrie Percie lord marshall going before him turned him to euerie quarter of the church declaring to the people the kings oth and demanding of them if they would submit themselues vnto such a prince gouernor and obeie his commandements and when the people with a lowd voice had answered that they would obeie him the archbishop vsing certeine praiers blessed the king which ended the archbishop came vnto him and tearing his garments from the highest part to the lowest stripped him to his shirt Then was brought by earles a certeine couerture of cloth of gold vnder the which he remained whilest he was annointed The archbishop as we haue said hauing stripped him first annointed his hands then his head brest shoulders and the ioints of his armes with the sacred oile saieng certeine praiers and in the meane time did the quéere sing the antheme beginning Vnxâ—runt regem Salomonem c. And the archbishop added another praier Deus Dei filius c. Which ended he and the other bishops soong the hymne Veni creator spiritus the king knéeling in a long vesture the archbishop with his suffraganes about him When the hymne was ended he was lift vp by the archbishop and clad first with the coate of saint Edward and after with his 〈…〉 〈…〉 In line 10 the meane time whilest the archbishop blessed the kings crowne he to whose office it apperteined did put spurs on his héeles After the crowne was blessed the archbishop set it on his head saieng Coronet te Deus c. Then did the archbishop deliuer to him a ring with these words Accipe annulum c. Immediatlie herewith came the lord Furniuall by vertue of his office offering to him a red gloue which the archbishop blessed and putting it on his hand gaue to him the scepter with these words Accipe sceptrum c. line 20 Then did the archbishop deliuer to him in his other hand a rod in the top whereof stood a doue with these words Accipe virgam virtutis c. After this the archbishop blessed the king saieng Benedicat de Deus c. These things doone the king kissed the bishops and abbats by whome he was lead afterwards vnto his seat the bishops beginning to sing Te deum which ended the archbishop
sent from the duke of Britaine which signified to the erle of Buckingham what the dukes meaning was Indéed by the death of the French king the dukes malice was greatlie abated towards the Frenchmen so that he had not much passed if the Englishmen had béene at home againe Moreouer his townes were not determined to receiue the Englishmen as enimies to the crown of France so that he was in a perplexitie how to order his businesse At length to shew himselfe a stedfast fréend to the Englishmen and one that was no changeling he determined by their support to force all those to allow the league which he had established with the Englishmen who had denied to beare armour against the crowne of France And first bicause they of Naunts were the ringleaders of that rebellious demeanour he appointed first to besiege their citie They hauing knowledge thereof sent into France for aid The dukes of Aniou Berrie Burgognie and Burbon brethren to the late king and vncle to his sonne the yoong king hauing the gouernance of the realme vnder him sent six hundred speares with all spéed to strengthen them of Naunts which defended the citie in such wise from the puissance of the Englishmen who enuironed the same with a strong sâ—ege that in the end bicause the duke came not to them according to his promise the siege was raised the morrow after New yeares daie two moneths and foure daies after the same was first laid The duke of Britaine would gladlie haue come to the siege of Naunts in strengthening of the English host but he could not persuade his lords to aid him in anie such enterprise And therefore now that the earle of Buckingham had broken vp his siege he caused him to be lodged in the citie of Uannes his men abroad in the countrie some here and some there acquiting himselfe as well towards them as he might But suerlie the hearts of the Britains were wonderfullie changed and in no wise would consent to haue anie warre with the Frenchmen if anie reasonable peace might be concluded For manie that hated the father bare good will and heartie loue towards the sonne whose yoong yeares and great towardnesse allured the hearts of manie to wish him well Hervpon was meanes made for a peace which by the duke of Aniou his consent who bare the greatest rule in France in that season a finall accord was made betwixt the yoong king and the duke of Britaine so that the duke should come and doo his homage vnto the French king and sweare to be true and faithfull vnto him also that he should rid the Englishmen out of his countrie and helpe them with ships and vessels to transport them home into England The earle of Buckingham when he vnderstood of this peace was not a little displeased in his mind considering that the duke of Britaine had delt so vniustlie with him and his nephue the king of England But the duke still excused him by his subiects as though if he had not thus agreed he should haue beene in danger to haue lost his heritage of that countrie Finallie the earle after he had ships prouided for his passage the eleuenth of Aprill departed out of Uannes and came to the hauen where his ships laie and so went aboord in like maner as othâ—r of his men did from other hauens and shortlie after when the wind serued tooke the sea and returned into England sore displeased with the duke of Britaine for his great vntruth and dissimulation as he tooke it notwithstanding all excuses to cloake the matter by him alledged Whilest the Englishmen were thus occupied in warres against the Frenchmen as before ye haue heard the Scots could not rest in quiet but in reuenge for a ship which the townesmen of Newcastell and Hull had taken on the sea knowing them to be pirates determined to doo what mischéefe they could vnto the English borders for the losse of that ship grieued them bicause it was esteemed to be verie rich the goods that were in it being valued at seuen thousand marks Herevpon the Scots entring line 10 by the west borders inuaded spoiled the countries of Westmerland and Cumberland and comming into the forrest of Inglewood they tooke awaie with them such a number of beasts and cattell that they were reckoned at fourtie thousand heads of one and other Besides this they cruellie slue all such as they could laie hands vpon and burnt vp all the townes villages and houses as they passed and not content herewith they stale vpon the towne of Penreth when the faire was kept there slaieng taking and line 20 chasing awaie the people and after gathering togither all the goods and riches there found tooke it awaie with them whereof there was such plentie as might haue satisfied the couetous desire of a most greedie armie They returned by Carleil but hearing that there were gotten into it a great number of men out of the countries adioining they durst not staie to make any attempt against that towne but compassed their waie to escape with their booties home into their countrie which they did although line 30 they lost some of their companie as they passed by an ambushment of certeine archers of Westmerland and Cumberland that were laid for them of purpose When the earle of Northumberland would haue gone foorth to reuenge those iniuries doone to the countrie by the Scots he was written to from the king and his councell to forbeare till the daie of truce at what time it might be knowen what was further to be doone in the matter About Michaelmasse the duke of Lancaster the line 40 earles of Warwike and Stafford with other lords and men of honor hauing with them a great power of souldiers and men of warre went into the north parts and comming to the borders they laie there till they had consumed no small summes of monie and indamaged the countrie as much as if the Scotish armie had inuaded the same The good they did was that after long treatie with the Scotish commissioners a truce was agreed vpon till Easter following which being concluded they returned home line 50 without any more adoo For the space of halfe a score yeares togither now last past the Englishmen euerie yeare had one or two such treaties with the Scots about the incursions and rodes which they yearelie made into the English borders sore indamaging the inhabitants of those north parts of the realme notwithstanding any truce or abstinence of warre that might be concluded Whilest the armie as ye haue heard laie idle in the north parts there were certeine letters found by line 60 a poore man about London who deliuered them vnto the worthie citizen Iohn Philpot who calling vnto him certeine other worshipfull citizens opened one of them in which was conteined matter of high treason and perceiuing by the scale that it belonged vnto sir Rafe Ferrers knight one of the kings
Montacute earle of Salisburie Thomas lord Spenser and the lord William Scroope lord chamberleine In the meane time the king fearing what might be attempted against him by those that fauoured these noblemen that were in durance sent for a power of Cheshire men that might day and night keepe watch and ward about his person They were about two thousand archers paid wéekelie as by the annales of Britaine it appeareth The king had little trust in any of the nobilitie except in his brother the earle of Huntington and the earle of Rutland sonne to the duke of Yorke and in the earle of Salisburie in these onelie he reposed a confidence and not in any other except in certeine knights and gentlemen of his priuie chamber In the meane time whiles things were thus in broile before the beginning of the parlement diuers other beside them of whom we haue spoken were apprehended and put in sundrie prisons The parlement was summoned to begin at Westminster the 17 of September and writs therevpon directed to euerie of the lords to appeare and to bring with them a sufficient number of armed men and archers in their best arraiâ— for it was not knowen how the dukes of Lancaster and Yorke would take the death of their brother nor how other péeres of the realme would take the apprehension and imprisonment of their kinsemen the earles of Arundell and Warwike and of the other prisoners Suerlie the two dukes when they heard that their brother was so suddenlie made awaie they wist not what to saie to the matter and began both to be sorowfull for his death and doubtfull of their owne states for sith they saw how the king abused by the counsell of euill men absteined not from such an heinous act they thought he line 10 would afterwards attempt greater misorders from time to time Therefore they assembled in all hast great numbers of their seruants fréends and tenants and comming to London were receiued into the citie For the Londoners were right sorie for the death of the duke of Glocester who had euer sought their fauour in somuch that now they would haue béene contented to haue ioined with the dukes in seeking reuenge of so noble a mans death procured and brought to passe without law or reason as the common line 20 brute then walked although peraduenture he was not as yet made awaie Here the dukes and other fell in counsell and manie things were proponed Some would that they shuld by force reuenge the duke of Glocesters death other thought it méet that the earles Marshall and Huntington and certeine others as chéefe authours of all the mischeefe should be pursued and punished for their demerites hauing trained vp the king in vice and euill customes euen from his youth But the line 30 dukes after their displeasure was somewhat asswaged determined to couer the stings of their griefes for a time and if the king would amend his maners to forget also the iniuries past In the meane time the king laie at Eltham and had got about him a great power namelie of those archers which he had sent for out of Cheshire in whome he put a singular trust more than in any other There went messengers betwixt him and the dukes which being men of honour did their indeuour line 40 to appease both parties The king discharged himselfe of blame for the duke of Glocesters death considering that he had gone about to breake the truce which he had taken with France and also stirred the people of the realme to rebellion and further had sought the destruction and losse of his life that was his souereigne lord and lawfull king Contrarilie the dukes affirmed that their brother was wrongfullie put to death hauing doone nothing worthie of death At length by the intercession and meanes of those noble line 50 men that went to and fro betwixt them they were accorded the king promised from thencefoorth to doo noâ—hing but by the assent of the dukes but he kept small promise in this behalfe as after well appeared When the time came that the parlement should be holden at Westminster according to the tenour of the summons the lords repaired thither furnished with great retinues both of armed men and archers as the earle of Derbie the earle Marshall the earle of Rutland the lord Spenser the earle of Northumberland line 60 with his sonne the lord Henrie Persie and the lord Thomas Persie the said earles brother also the lord Scroope treasuror of England diuerse other All the which earles and lords brought with them a great strong power euerie of them in their best araie as it were to strengthen the king against his enimies The dukes of Lancaster and Yorke were likewise there giuing their attendance on the king with like furniture of men of armes archers There was not halfe lodging sufficient within the citie suburbes of London for such coÌ„panies of men as the lords brought with them to this parlement called the great parlement in somuâ—h that they were constreined to lie in villages abroad ten or twelue miles on ech side the citie In the beginning of this parlement the king greatlie complained of the misdemeanour of the péeres and lords of his realme as well for the things doone against his will and pleasure whiles he was yoong as for the streit dealing which they had shewed towards the quéene who was thrée houres at one time on hir knées before the earle of Arundell for one of hir esquiers named Iohn Caluerlie who neuerthelesse had his head smit froÌ„ his shoulders all the answer that she could get was this Madame praie for your selfe and your husband for that is best and let this sute alone Those that set foorth the kings greeuances as prolocutors in this parlement were these Iohn Bushie William Bagot and Thomas Gréene The king had caused a large house of timber to be made within the palace at Westminster which he was called an hall couered aboue head with tiles and was open at the ends that all men might see through it This house was of so great a compasse that scarse it might stand within the roome of the palace In this house was made an high throne for the king and a large place for all estates besides to sit in There were places also made for the appellants to stand on the one side and the defendants on the other and a like roome was made behind for the knights and burgesses of the parlement There was a place deuised for the speaker named sir Iohn Bushie a knight of Lincolneshire accompted to be an excéeding cruell man ambitious and couetous beyond measure Immediatlie after ech man being placed in his roome the cause of assembling that parlement was shewed as that the king had called it for reformation of diuerse transgressions and oppressions committed against the peace of his land by the duke of Glocester the earles
till that present had kept silence In déed by reason of a faint kind of agréement procured betwixt the Dolphin and the duke of Burgognie it was thought verelie that a power should haue béene raised for preseruation of that noble citie the loosing or sauing thereof being a matter of such importance The king of England to preuent the enimies purpose caused a large trench to be cast without his campe which was pight full of sharpe stakes with a great rampire fensed with bulworks and turnepikes in as defensible wise as might be deuised Sir Robert Bapthorpe knight was appointed comptroller to see this worke performed which he did with all diligence accomplish in like case as he had doone when the other trench and rampire stronglie staked and hedged was made at the first betwixt the campe and the citie to restreine such as in the begining of the siege rested not to pricke foorth of the gates on horsse backe And so by this meanes was the armie defended both behind and before Finallie year 1419 the whole number of the Frenchmen within the citie were brought to such aâ— extremitie for want of vittels that they were in danger all to haue starued Wherevpon being now pasâ— hope of reléefe they determined to treat with the king of England and so vpon Nowyeares euen there came to the wals such as they had chosen amongst them for commissioners which made a signâ— to the Englishmen lieng without the gate of the bridge to speake with some gentleman or other person of authoritie The earle of Huntington which kept that part sent to them sir Gilbert Umfrouile vnto whom line 10 they declared that if they might haue a safe conduct they would gladlie come foorth to speake with the king Sir Gilbert repairing to the duke of Clarence and other of the kings councell aduertised them of this request Herevpon the duke of Clarence with the other councellors resorted to the kings lodging to informe him of the matter and to know his pleasure therein who after good aduisement and deliberation taken willed sir Gilbert to aduertise them that he was line 20 content to heare twelue of them which should be safelie conueied into his presence This answer being brought to the Frenchmen by the said sir Gilbert on the next daie in the morning foure knights foure learned men and foure sage burgesses all clothed in blacke came foorth of the citie and were receiued at the port saint Hilarie by sir Gilbert Umfreuile accompanied with diuerse gentlemen and yeomen of the kings houshold commonlie called yeomen of the crowne by whome they were conueied line 30 to the kings lodging whome they found at masse which being ended the king came out of his trauerse sternelie and princelie beholding the French messengers and passed by them into his chamber And incontinentlie after he commanded that they should be brought in before his presence to heare what they had to say One of them séene in the ciuill lawes was appointed to declare the message in all their names who shewing himselfe more rash than wise more arrogant line 40 than learned first tooke vpon him to shew wherin the glorie of victorie consisted aduising the king not to shew his manhood in famishing a multitude of poore simple and innocent people but rather suffer such miserable wretches as laie betwixt the wals of the citie and the trenches of his siege to passe through the campe that they might get their liuing in other places and then if he durst manfullie assault the citie and by force subdue it he should win both line 50 worldlie fame and merit great méed at the hands of almightie God for hauing compassion of the poore needie and indigent people When this orator had said the king who no request lesse suspected than that which was thus desired began a while to muse and after he had well considered the craftie cautell of his enimies with a fierce countenance and bold spirit he reprooued them both for their subtill dealing with him and their malapert presumption in that they should seeme to go about line 60 to teach him what belonged to the dutie of a conquerour And therefore since it appeared that the same was vnknowne vnto them he declared that the goddesse of battell called Bellona had thrée handmaidens euer of necessitie attending vpon hir as blood fire and famine And whereas it laie in his choise to vse them all thrée yea two or one of them at his pleasure he had appointed onelie the méekest maid of those thrée damsels to punish them of that citie till they were brought to reason And whereas the gaine of a capteine atteined by anie of the said thrée handmaidens was both glorious honourable and woorthie of triumph yet of all the thrée the yoongest maid which he meant to vse at that time was most profitable and commodious And as for the poore people lieng in the ditches if they died through famine the fault was theirs that like cruell tyrants had put them out of the towne to the intent he should slaie them and yet had he saued their liues so that if anie lacke of charitie was it rested in them and not in him But to their cloked request he meant not to gratifie the them within so much but they should kéepe them still to helpe to spend their vittels And as to assault the towne he told them that he would they should know he was both able and willing thereto as he should see occasion but the choise was in his hand to â—amâ— them either with blood fire or famine or with them all whereof he would take the choise at his pleasure and not at theirs This answer put the French ambassadors in a great studie musing much at his excellent wit and hawtinesse of courage Now after they had dined as his commandement was they should with his officers they vpon consultation had togither required once againe to haue accesse to his roiall presence which being granted they humbling themselues on their knees besought him to take a truce for eight daies during the which they might by their commissioners take some end and good conclusion with him and his councell The king like a mercifull prince granted to them their asking with which answer they ioifullie returned After their departure were appointed and set vp three tents the one for the lords of England the second for the commissioners of the citie and the third for both parties to assemble in and to treat of the matter The commissioners for the English part were the earles of Warwike and Salisburie the lord Fitz Hugh sir Walter Hungerford sir Gilbert Umfreuile sir Iohn Robsert and Iohn de Uasques de Almada And for the French part were appointed sir Guie de Butteler and six others These commissioners met euery daie arguing and reasoning about a conclusion but nothing was doone the space of eight daies nor so much as one article concluded wherfore the Englishmen tooke downe
persons meaning to reuolt to the Dolphins side aduertised him by letters of their whole minds which letters were conueied vnto him by certeine friers The Dolphin glad of those newes appointed the lords de la Breth and Faiet marshals of France line 40 accompanied with the lords of Mount Iehan of Buâ—ll Doruall Torsie Beaumanor the Hire and his brother Guilliam with fiue hundred other valiant capteins and souldiers to the accomplishing of this enterprise who comming thither at the daie assigned in the night season approched towards the walles making a little fire on an hill in sight of the towne to signifie their comming which perceiued by the citizens that néere to the great church were watching for the same a burning cresset was shewed line 50 out of the steeple which suddenlie was put out and quenched What néedeth manie words The capteins on horssebacke came to the gate the traitors within slue the porters and watchmen and let in their fréends whereby the footmen entered first and the men of armes waited at the barriers to the intent that if néed required they might fight it out in open field Hereby manie Englishmen were slaine a great crie and garboile raised through the towne as in such surprises is woont The cause of this line 60 mischéefe was not knowen to any but onelie to the conspirators for the remnant of the citizens being no partakers imagined that the Englishmen had made hauocke in the towne and put all to the sword The Englishmen on the other side iudged that the citizens had begun some new rebellion against them or else had striuen amongst themselues The earle of Suffolke which was gouernour of the towne hauing perfect knowledge by such as scaped from the wals how the matter went withdrew without any tarriance into the castell which standeth at the gate of saint Uincent whereof was constable Thomas Gower esquier whither also fled manie Englishmen so as for vrging of the enimie prease of the number and lacke of vittels they could not haue indured long wherfore they priuilie sent a messenger to the lord Talbot which then laie at Alanson certifieng him in how hard a case they were The lord Talbot hearing these newes like a carefull capteine in all hast assembled togither about seuen hundred men in the euening departed from Alanson so as in the morning he came to a castell called Guierch two miles from Mans and there staied a while till he had sent out Matthew Gough as an espiall to vnderstand how the Frenchmen demeaned themselues Matthew Gough so well sped his businesse that priuilie in the night he came into the castell where he learned that the Frenchmen verie negligentlie vsed themselues without taking heed to their watch as though they had béene out of all danger which well vnderstood he returned againe and within a mile of the citie met the lord Talbot and the lord Scales and opened vnto them all things according to his credence The lords then to make hast in the matter bicause the daie approched with all spéed possible came to the posterne gate and alighting from their horsses about six of the clocke in the morning they issued out of the castell crieng saint George Talbot The Frenchmen being thus suddenlie taken were sore amazed in so much that some of them being not out of their beds got vp in their shirts and lept ouer the walles Other ran naked out of the gates to saue their liues leauing all their apparell horsses armour and riches behind them none was hurt but such as resisted ¶ Hard shift was made on all hands for safetie of life happie was he that could find a place of refuge where to lurke vnspide and vnhurt of the enimie who in the execution of their vengeance were so peremptorie that it was a matter of great difficultie or rather impossibilitie to escape their force To be short there were slaine and taken to the number of foure hundred gentlemen the priuat souldiers were frankelie let go After this inquisition was made of the authors of the treason and there were found condemned thirtie citizens twentie priests and fifteene friers who according to their demerits were all hanged The citie of Mans being thus recouered the lord Talbot returned to Alanson and shortlie after the earle of Warwike departed into England to be gouernour of the yoong king in steed of Thomas duke of Excester latelie departed to God and then was the lord Thomas Montacute earle of Salisburie sent into France year 1428 to supplie the roome of the said earle of Warwike who landed at Calis with fiue thousand men and so came to the duke of Bedford as then lieng in Paris where they fell in councell togither concerning the affaires of France and namelie the earle of Salisburie began maruellouslie to phantasie the gaining of the citie countrie of Orleance This earle was the man at that time by whose wit strength and policie the English name was much fearefull and terrible to the French nation which of himselfe might both appoint command and doo all things in manner at his pleasure in whose power as it appeared after his death a great part of the conquest consisted for suerlie he was a man both painefull diligent and readie to withstand all dangerous chances that were at hand prompt in counsell and of courage inuincible so that in no one man men put more trust nor any singular person wan the harts so much of all men Herevpon after this great enterprise had long béene debated in the priuie councell the earle of Salisburies deuise therein was of them all granted and allowed so that he being replenished with good hope of victorie and furnished with artillerie munition apperteining to so great an enterprise accompanied with the earle of Suffolke and the lord Talbot and with a valiant armie to the number of ten thousand men departed from Paris and passed through the countrie of Beausse There he tooke by assault the towne of Genuille and within fiue daies after had the castell deliuered vnto him by them that were fled into it for their safegard 〈◊〉 also tooke the towne of Baugencie suffering 〈◊〉 man which would become subiect to the king of England to inioie their line 10 lands and goods The townes of Meun vpon Loire and Iargeaulx hearing of these dooings presented to them the keies of their townes vpon like agréement About Maie in this 1428 the towne of Naunts and territories there with a fearefull earthquake were shaken houses castels and strong buildings in such terrour as it was thought the end of the world had béene come After this in the moneth of September the earle came before the citie of Orleance and planted his line 20 siege on the one side of the riuer of Loire but before his comming the bastard of Orleance the bishop of the citie and a great number of Scots hearing of the earles intent made diuerse fortifications
losse and punishment Howbeit this iudgement was altogither affectionate and parciall in hir behalfe besides that it was reasonable in great measure all circumstances considered for she was not lightlie induced to doo as she did neither stood it with the frailtie of a woman to withstand the temptations of a mightie man or rather a reaching tyrant But such was hir chance by hir lightnesse and inconstancie that she wan the displeasure of manie men and for that cause liued after in the abbeie of Bermondseie beside Southwarke a wretched and a miserable life where not manie yeares after she deceassed and is buried with hir husband at Windsore Though fortune thus ruleth manie things at hir plesure yet one worke that this quéene accomplished cannot be forgotten for in the life time of hir husband king Edward the fourth she founded and erected a notable colledge in the vniuersitie of Cambridge for the finding of scholers and students of the same vniuersitie and endowed it with sufficient possessions for the long maintenance of the same which at this daie is called the Quéenes colledge When all things in this counsell were sagelie concluded and agréed to the kings mind he returned to London giuing in commandement that the next sundaie insuing Edward the yoong earle of Warwike should be brought from the Tower through the most publike streets in all London to the cathedrall church of saint Paule where he went openlie in procession that euerie man might sée him hauing communication with manie noble men and with them especiallie that were suspected to be partakers of the late begun conspiracie that they might perceiue how the Irishmen vpon a vaine shadowe mooued warre against the king and his realme But this medicine little auailed euill disposed persons For the line 10 earle of Lincolne sonne to Iohn de la Poole duke of Suffolke and Elizabeth sister to king Edward the fourth thought it not méet to neglect and omit so readie an occasion of new trouble Wherefore they determined to vphold the enterprise of the Irishmen and other complices of this conspiracie so that consulting with sir Thomas Broughton and certeine other of his most trustie freends he purposed to saile into Flanders to his aunt the ladie Margaret duchesse of Burgognie line 20 trusting by hir helpe to make a puissant armie and to ioine with the companions of the new raised sedition Therefore after the dissolution of the parlement which then was holden he fled secretlie into Flanders vnto the said ladie Margaret where Francis lord Louell landed certeine daies before Héere after long consultation had how to proceed in their businesse it was agreed that the earle of Lincolne and the lord Louell should go into Ireland and there to attend vpon the duchesse hir counterfeit nephue and line 30 to honor him as a king and with the power of the Irishmen to bring him into England Now they concluded that if their dooings had successe then the foresaid Lambert misnamed the earle of Warwike should by consent of the councell be deposed and Edward the true earle of Warwike deliuered out of prison and annointed king King Henrie supposing that no man would haue béene so mad as to haue attempted anie further enterprise in the name of that new found counterfeit earle he line 40 onelie studied how to subdue the seditious conspiracie of the Irishmen But hearing that the earle of Lincolne was fled into Flanders he was somwhat mooued therewith and caused soldiors to be put in a readinesse out of euerie part of his realme and to bring them into one place assigned that when his aduersaries should appeare he might suddenlie set vpon them vanquish and ouercome them Thus disposing things for his suertie he went towards S. Edmunds burie and being certified that line 50 the marquesse Dorset was comming towards his maiestie to excuse himselfe of things that he was suspected to haue doone when he was in France he sent the earle of Oxford to arrest the said marquesse by the waie and to conueie him to the Tower of London there to remaine till his truth might be tried year 1487 From thence the K. went foorth to Norwich and tarrieng there Christmasse daie he departed after to Walsingham where he offered to the image of our ladie and then by Cambridge he shortlie returned line 60 to London In which meane time the earle of Lincolne had gotten togither by the aid of the ladie Margaret about two thousand Almains with one Martine Sward a valiant and noble capteine to lead them With this power the earle of Lincolne sailed into Ireland and at the citie of Diuelin caused yoong Lambert to be proclaimed and named king of England after the most solemne fashion as though he were the verie heire of the bloud roiall lineallie borne and descended And so with a great multitude of beggerlie Irishmen almost all naked and vnarmed sauing skains and mantels of whome the lord Thomas Gerardine was capteine and conductor they sailed into England with this new found king and landed for a purpose at the pile of Fowdreie within a little of Lancaster trusting there to find aid by the means of sir Thomas Broughton one of the chéefe companions of the conspiracie The king had knowledge of the enimies intent before their arriuall and therefore hauing assembled a great armie ouer the which the duke of Bedford and the earle of Oxenford were chéefe capteins he went to Couentrie where he was aduertised that the earle of Lincolne was landed at Lancaster with his new king Héere he tooke aduise of his councellors what was best to be doone whether to set on the enimies without further delaie or to protract time a while But at length it was thought best to delaie no time but to giue them battell before they should increase their power and therevpon he remooued to Notingham there by a little wood called Bowres he pitched his field Shortlie after this came to him the lord George Talbot earle of Shrewesburie the lord Strange sir Iohn Cheinie right valiant capteins with manie other noble and expert men of warre namelie of the countries neere adioining so that the kings armie was woonderfullie increased In this space the earle of Lincolne being entered into Yorkeshire passed softlie on his iournie without spoiling or hurting of anie man trusting thereby to haue some companie of people resort vnto him But after he perceiued few or none to follow him and that it was too late now to returne backe he determined to trie the matter by dint of sword and herevpon directed his waie from Yorke to Newarke vpon Trent But before he came there king Henrie knowing all his enimies purposes came the night before the daie of the battell to Newarke and tarrieng there a little went thrée miles further and pitching his field lodged there that night The earle of Lincolne certified of his comming was nothing abashed but kept still on his iournie and at a
The fiue and twentith daie of Aprill was proclamed that the kings grace ratified all the pardons granted by his father and also pardoned all such persons as were then in sute for anie offense whatsoeuer it was treason murther and fellonie onelie excepted And now whereas the performance of the deceassed kings will was thought right expedient with all spéed to be performed a proclamation was also set foorth and published thorough the realme that if anie man could prooue himselfe to be hurt and depriued of his goods wrongfullie by the commissioners of the forfeitures he should come and present his plaâ—nt to the king being readie to satisfie euerie one of all iniuries susteined After this proclamation was notified abroad all such as had béene constreined either by right or by wrong as Polydor saith to paie anie thing for anie forfeitures of lawes and customes by them transgressed came flocking to the court there declared their gréefs in what sort they had wrongfullie béene compelled as they surmised to paie this or that summe The councell heard euerie mans complaint and such as were found to haue paid anie thing without plaine proofe of iust cause they tooke such order for them that they had their monie againe Which being once knowne it was a strange thing to sée how thicke other came in yea euen those that had béene worthilie fined punished for their disorderlie transgressions making earnest sute for restitution feining and forging manie things to make their cause séeme good and to stand with equitie And the better to be heard in their sute they made friends as well with bribes and large gifts as otherwise leauing no waies vnassaied to compasse their desires Which gréedines in such multitude of suters brought the commissioners and others that had delt in the forfeitures into danger and did themselues no good for the councell perceiuing that it was not possible to satisfie them all refused to heare anie further complaints or sutes for restitution but thought it best to commit those to prison by whom the complainants pretended themselues to haue beene wronged And herevpon was sir Richard Empson knight and Edmund Dudleie esquier great councellors to the late king attached and brought to the Tower thereby to quiet mens minds that made such importunate sute to haue their monie againe restored which in the late kings daies they had béene compelled to disburse thorough the rigorous procéedings as they alleged of the said two councellors and others Trulie great exclamation was made against them as often happeneth that where anie thing is doone contrarie to the liking of the people those that be dealers vnder the prince and by his commandement procéed in the execution thereof run in hatred of the multitude But how so euer it was their apprehension and committing to prison was thought by the wise to be procured by the malice of them that line 10 in the late kings daies were offended with their authoritie Shortlie after as Edward Hall saith were apprehended diuerse other persons that were called promoters as Canbie Page Smith Derbie Wright Simson and Stocton of which the more part ware papers and stood on the pillorie And as an other saith who termeth them ringleaders of false quests in London they rode about the citie with their faces to the horsses tailes and papers on their heads and after they had beene set on the pillorie in Cornehill line 20 they were brought againe to Newgate where they died all within seauen daies after for verie shame When all things were prepared readie for the funerall of the late king his corps with all sumptuous pompe and solemne ceremonies was conueied from Richmond to saint Georges field where the clergie of the citie met it and at the bridge the maior and his brethren with manie commoners all clothed in blacke likewise met it and gaue their attendance on line 30 the same thorough the citie to the cathedrall church of saint Paule where was soong a solemne dirige and masse and a sermon made by the bishop of Rochester Iohn Fisher. The next daie the corps was had to Westminster and there the daie following put into the earth with all due solemnities as apperteined Notwithstanding this breefe remembrance of king Henries solemne funerall might seeme sufficient in the iudgement of some without further amplification yet bicause it is good in others opinion and line 40 those not of meanest wit to set downe things of state at large if conuenient helps thereto maie be had therefore you shall haue the whole solemnitie of the said roiall funerall as it is found recorded by Edward Hall After that all things saith he necessarie for the interrement and funerall pompe of the late king were sumptuouslie prepared and doone the corps of the said deceassed king was brought out of his priuie chamber into the great chamber where he rested line 50 thrée daies and euerie daie had there dirige and masse soong by a prelat mitred From thense he was conueied into the hall where he was also three daies and had like seruice there and so thrée daies in the chappell And in euerie of these thrée places was a hearse of wax garnished with baners and nine mourners giuing their attendance all the seruice time and euerie daie they offered and euerie place hanged with blacke cloth Upon Wednesdaie the ninth daie of Maie the corps was put into a charriot couered line 60 with blacke cloth of gold drawne with fiue great coursers all couered with blacke veluet garnished with cushins of fine gold and ouer the corps was an image or representation of the late king laied on cushins of gold and the said image was apparelled in the kings rich robes of estate with a crowne on the head with ball and scepter in the hands the charriot was garnished with baners and pencels of the armes of his dominions titles and genealogies When the charriot was thus ordered the kings chappell and a great number of prelats set forward praieng Then followed all the kings seruants in blacke then followed the charriot and after the charriot nine mourners and on euerie side were caried long torches short to the number of six hundred in this order they came to saint Georges field from Richmond There met with them all the préests and clerks and religious men within the citie without which went formost before the K. chappell The maior and his brethren with manie commoners all clothed in blacke met with the corps at London bridge and so gaue their attendance on the same through the citie And in good order the companies passed thorough the citie whereof the stréets on euerie side were set with long torches and on the stals stood yoong children holding tapers so with great reuerence the charriot was brought to the cathedrall church of S. Paule where the bodie was taken out and caried into the quire and set vnder a goodlie hearse of war garnished with baners
There came to his grace a certeine man with bow and arrowes and desired his grace to take the muster of him and to sée him line 40 shoot for at that time his grace was contented The man put the one foot in his bosome and so did shoot and shot a verie good shoot and well towards his marke whereof not onelie his grace but all other greatlie maruelled So the king gaue him a reward for his so dooing which person afterwards of the people and of them in the court was called Foot in bosome The same yeare in the feast of Pentecost holden at Gréenwich that is to say the thursdaie in the same wéeke his grace with two other with him line 50 chalenged all commers to fight with them at the barriers with target and casting the speare of eight foot long and that doone his grace with the said two aides to fight euerie of them twelue strokes with two handed swordes with and against all commers none excepted being a gentleman where the K. behaued himselfe so well and deliuered himselfe so valiantlie by his hardie prowesse and great strength that the praise and laud was giuen to his grace and his aides notwithstanding that diuerse and strong persons line 60 had assailed him and his aides From thense the whole court remooued to Windsor then begining his progresse exercising himselfe dailie in shooting singing dansing wrestling casting of the barre plaieng at the recorders flute virginals in setting of songs and making of ballads he did set two full masses euerie of them fiue parts which were soong oftentimes in his chappell and afterwards in diuerse other places And when he came to Oking there were kept both iustes and turneies the rest of this progresse was spent in hunting hawking and shooting ¶ Doctor Colet deane of Poules erected a frée schoole in Poules church yard in London and committed the ouersight thereof to the masters and wardens of the mercers bicause himselfe was borne in London was sonne to Henrie Colet mercer sometime lord maior of the citie of London On Midsummer night the king came priuilie into Cheape in one of the cotes of his gard and on saint Peters night the king and quéene came riding roiallie to the kings hed in Cheape there to behold the watch of the citie Now when the said progresse was finished his grace the quéene with all their whole traine in the moneth of October following remooued to Gréenewich The king not minded to sée yoong gentlemen vnexpert in martiall feates caused a place to be prepared within the parke of Greenwich for the quéene and the ladies to stand sée the fight with battle axes that should be doone there where the king himselfe armed fought with one Giot a gentleman of Almaine a tall man and a good man of armes And then after they had doone they marched alwaies two and two togithers and so did their feats and enterprises euerie man verie well Albeit it happened the said Giot to fight with sir Edward Howard which Giot was by him striken to the ground The morow after this enterprise doone the king with the quéene came to the Tower of London And to the intent that there should no displeasure nor malice be borne by anie of those gentlemen which fought with the ax against other the king gaue vnto them a certeine summe of gold valued at two hundred markes to make a banket among themselues withall The which banket was made at fishmongers hall in Thames stréet where they all met to the number of foure and twentie all apparelled in one sute or liuerie after Almaine fashion that is to say their vtter garments all of yellow sattin yellow hosen yellow shooes girdels scabberds and bonnets with yellow feathers their garments and hosen all cut lined with white sattin and their scabberds woond about with sattin After their banket ended they went by torchlight to the Tower presented themselues before the king who tooke pleasure to behold them From thence the eight day of Nouember his grace remooued to Richmond and willed to be declared to all noble men and gentlemen that his grace with two aides that is to wit maister Charles Brandon and maister Compton during two daies would answer all commers with speare at the tilt one daie and at turneie with swords the other And to accomplish this enterprise on the thirtéenth day of Nouember his grace armed at all péeces with his two aides entered the field their bases and trappers were of cloth of gold set with red roses wrought with gold of broderie The counterpart came in freshlie apparelled euerie man after his deuise At these iustes the king brake more staues than anie other therefore had the prise At the turneie in likewise the honour was his The second night were diuerse strangers of Maximilian the emperours court and ambassadors of Spaine with the king at supper When they had supped the king willed them to go into the quéenes chamber who so did In the meane season the king with fifteene other apparelled in Almaine iackets of crimsin and purple sattin with long quartered sléeues and hosen of the same sute their bonnets of white veluet wrapped in flat gold of damaske with visards and white plumes came in with a mununerie and after a certeine time that they had plaied with the quéene and the strangers they departed Then suddenlie entered sir minstrels richlie apparelled plaieng on their instruments and then followed fourtéene persons gentlemen all apparelled in yellow sattin cut like Almains bearing torches After them came six disguised in white sattin and gréene embrodered and set with letters and castels of fine gold in bullion the garments were of strange fashion with also strange cuts euerie cut knit with points of fine gold and tassels of the same their hosen cut and tied in likewise their bonnets of cloth of siluer woond with gold The first of these six was the king the earle of Essex Charles Brandon sir Edward Howard sir Thomas Kneuet and sir Henrie Guilford Then part of the gentlemen bearing torches departed and shortlie returned after whom came in six line 10 ladies apparelled in garments of crimsin sattin embrodered and trauersed with gloth of gold cut in pomegranats and yokes stringed after the fashion of Spaine Then the said six men dansed with these six ladies and after that they had dansed a season the ladies tooke off the mens visors whereby they were knowen whereof the quéene and the strangers much praised the king and ended the pastime It is to be noted that at this time the quéene was great with child shortlie after this pastime she tooke hir chamber line 20 at Richmond for the which cause the king kept his Christmasse there And on Newyeares daie the first daie of Ianuarie the quéene was deliuered of a prince to the great gladnesse of the realme for the honour of whome fiers were made and diuerse vessels with wine set
with six thousand men entered the citie and tooke the market place and the wals and searched the houses for feare of treason Then maister Thomas Woolsie the kings almoner called before him all the citizens yoong and old and sware them to the king of England the number whereof was foure score thousand Thus the king of England by conquest came to the possession of the citie of Tornaie On sundaie the second daie of October the king entered the citie of Tornaie at port founteine and foure of the chiefe of the citie ouer him bare a canopie with all the armes of England Euerie person was in his best apparell the ladies gentlewomen laie in the windowes beholding the king and his nobilitie euerie citizen had in his hand a staffe torch The king himselfe was richlie apparelled in rich armour on a barded courser his henchmen bearing his péeces of war as ax speare and other their coursers were barded with the armes of England France Ireland and other the kings dominions all richlie brodered Thus the king with his nobilitie all richlie apparelled with his sword borne before him his heralds and sergeants of armes with trumpets and minstrelsie entered the citie and came to our ladie church and there Te Deum was soong Then the king called to his presence Edward Guilford William Fitz Williams Iohn Danfie William Tiler Iohn Sharpe William Husse Iohn Sauage Christopher Garnish and diuerse other valiant esquiers and gaue to them the order of knighthood and then went to his lodging and at after noone he came to the market place were was prepared for him a roome Then he caused a proclamation to be made in his name king of England France that no man should gréeue the citizens During which proclamation the Tornasins scarse looked vp nor shewed once to him any amiable countenance which was much marked The crie finished the king departed to his campe leauing the citie in safe keeping This wéeke the king rode to sée the castell of Morton and there his grace tooke great pleasure The king remembring the great chéere that the prince of Castile and the ladie Margaret had made him at Lisle which was but twelue miles English from Tornaie desired the said prince ladie with diuerse other to come to him to his citie of Tornaie and made preparation for the same and appointed a iusts whereof he himselfe would be one and caused a tilt to be made in the market place While these things were preparing the king and his councell ordered for the sure kéeping of the citie of Tornaie and there ordeined sir Edward Poinings knight of the order of the garter to be his lieutenant with foure hundred archers with capteins horssemen and artillerie conuenient and to haue aid of Henaud and other the kings friends adioining and of his gard he left there foure hundred archers and ordinance was appointed for the defense of the same On mondaie the eleuenth daie of October the king without the towne receiued the prince of Castile line 10 the ladie Margaret and diuerse other nobles of their countries and them brought into Tornaie with great triumph The noise went that the lord Lisle made request of mariage to the ladie Margaret duches of Sauâ—ie and daughter to the emperour Maximilian which before that time was departed from the king with manie rich gifts and monie borrowed but whether he proffered mariage or not she fauoured him highlie There the prince and duches soiourned with great solace by the space of ten daies line 20 During which time the eightéenth daie of October began the iusts the king and the lord Lisle answering all commers vpon the king attended foure twentie knights on foot in coats of purple veluet and cloth of gold A tent of cloth of gold was set in the place for the armorie Reliefe The king had a base and a trapper of purple veluet both set full of SS of bullion and the lord Lisle in the same suite there were manie speares broken and manie a good buffet giuen the strangers as the lord Walon and lord Emerie line 30 and other did right well When the iusts were doone the king all the other vnhelmed them rode about the tilt and did great reuerence to the ladies and then the heralds cried to lodging This night the K. made a sumptuous banket of an hundred dishes to the prince of Castile and the ladie Margaret and to all other lords and ladies and after the banket the ladies dansed and then came in the king and eleuen in a maske all richlie apparelled with bonets of gold and when they had passed the time at their pleasure line 40 the garments of the maske were cast off amongst the ladies take who could take On the twentith daie of October the prince of Castile and the ladie Margaret with manie great gifts to them giuen returned to Lisle and all their traine After that the king was informed that all directions were taken and euerie thing put in an order for the sure kéeping of the citie of Tornaie he betooke the same to sir Edward Poinings knight which valiantlie kept it in good order and iustice The king his line 50 councell before this considering that the Frenchmen would giue them no battell and that winter approched which was no time to lie at siege of other townes concluded to kéepe Tornaie safelie and to breake vp his campe for that winter and to begin againe warre in the spring of the yeare This was a full conclusion taken by the king and his councell and so the king and all his people except such as were appointed to be with sir Edward Poinings departed out of Tornaie the twentith daie of September line 60 and the king and the noble men made such spéed that shortlie they came to Calis Thither came the lord admerall whome the king heartilie thanked of his paines and there euerie man was paied his full wages and conduct monie and ships prepared for the passage and so the foure and twentith daie of September the king with a priuie companie tooke ship and the same day landed at Douer and shortlie after all his people followed then he with a small companie rode to Richmond in post to the queene where was such a louing méeting that euerie creature reioised This season began a great mortalitie in London and other places where much people died All this winter the kings nauie kept the seas and robbed and spoiled the Frenchmen on their coasts so that they were euerie foot afflicted by the English wist not which way to remedie it bearing grudge in their hearts and wishing a generall destruction of their enimies against whome they did swell with malignitie and indignation both for their late ouerthrowes and losses aswell of lands as liues the surrender of Terwin sticking in their stomachs and the yéelding of Tornaie nipping them at the heart which had lost the propertie was now forced to
great bearer of Frenchmen in their occupiengs and trades contrarie to the lawes of the citie If the people had found him they would suerlie haue striken off his head but when they found him not the watermen and certeine yoong préests that were there fell to rifling and some ran to Blanchapelton and brake vp line 40 the strangers houses and spoileâ— them Thus from ten or eleuen of the clocke these riotous people continued in their outragious dooings till about three of the clocke at what time they began to withdraw and went to their places of resort and by the waie they were taken by the maior and the heads of the citie and sent some of them to the Tower some to Newgate and some to the Counters to the number of thrée hundred line 50 Manie fled and speciallie the watermen preests seruingmen but the prentises were caught by the backs and had to prison In the meane time whilest the hottest of this ruffling lasted the cardinall was aduertised thereof by sir Thomas Parre wherevpon the cardinall strengthened his house with men and ordinance Sir Thomas Parre rode in all â—ast to Richmond where the king laie and informed him of the matter who incontinentlie sent foorth hastilie to London to vnderstand the state of the citie and line 60 was truelie aduertised how the riot was ceassed and manie of the misdooers apprehended The lieutenant of the Tower sir Roger Cholmeleie no great fréend to the citie in a frantike furie during the time of this vprore shot off certeine péeces of ordinance against the citie And though they did no great harme yet he wan much euill will for his hastie dooing bicause men thought he did it of malice rather than of anie discretion About fiue of the clocke the earles of Shrewesburie and Surrie Thomas Dokerciâ— lord of saint Iohns George Neuill lord of Aburgauennie and others which had heard of this riot came to London with such strength as they could make vpon that sudden and so did the Innes of court But before they came whether with feare of the brute of their comming or otherwise the riotous assemblie was broken vp and manie of the misdooers taken as ye haue heard Then were the prisoners examined and the sermon of doctor Bele called to remembrance and he taken and sent to the Tower Herewith was a commission of oier and determiner directed to the duke of Norffolke and to diuerse other lords to the lord maior of London and the aldermen and to all the iustices of England for punishment of this insurrection The citie thought the duke bare them a grudge for a lewd preest of his which the yeare before was slaine in Cheape insomuch that he then in his furie said I praie God I maie once haue the citizens in my danger And likewise the duke thought that they bare him no good will wherefore he came into the citie with thirtéene hundred men in harnesse to keepe the oier and determiner Now vpon examination it could neuer be prooued of anie méeting gathering talking or conuenticle at anie daie or time before that daie but that the chance so happened without anie matter prepensed of anie creature sauing Lincolne and neuer an honest person in maner was taken but onelie he Then proclamations were made that no women should come togither to babble and talke but all men should kéepe their wiues in their houses All the stréets that were notable stood full of harnessed men which spake manie opprobriâ—us words to the citizens which gréeued them sore and if they would haue béene reuenged the other had had the woorsse for the citizens were two hundred to one but like true subiects they suffred patientlie Now for the due correction according to law of this disorder all the iustices with all the kings councell learned in the lawes assembled at the house of sir Iohn Fincur lord cheefe iustice of England néere to saint Brides by Fléetestréet to take aduise and conclude vpon the order which they should follow in this matter and first there was read the statute of the third yeare of Henrie the fift the effect whereof insueth in these words following The statute made in anno tertio of Henrie the fift BIcause that diuers nations comprised within the truces concluded as well by our souereigne lord the king that now is as by his right noble father haue beene robbed and spoiled by the kings lieges and subiects as well on the maine seas as within the ports and coasts of England Ireland Wales by reason whereof the truces and safe conducts haue broken and violated to the damage dishonour and slander of the king and against his dignitie the manslaiers spoilers robbers violaters of the same truces and safe conducts as before is declared haue beene recetted procured counselled vpholden and mainteined by diuerse of the kings liege people vpon the coasts our said souereigne lord the king by the aduise and assent abouesaid and at the praier of the said commons hath ordeined and established that all such manslaiers robbers spoilers breakers of truces and safe conducts granted by the king and the wilfull recetters abbetters procurers counsellors susteiners and mainteiners of such persons hereafter in time to come being anie of the lieges subiects of this realme of England Ireland Wales are to be adiudged and determined as giltie of high treason committed against the crowne dignitie of the king And further in euerie hauen and port of the sea there shall be from hense-foorth made and assigned by the king by his letters pattents one lawfull officer named a conseruator of truces and safe conducts granted by the king which line 10 officer shall dispend at the least ten pounds in land by yeare c as in the statute more at large is expressed The which statute being read and well considered of bicause there was diuerse leagues of truces betwixt the king and diuerse other princes as one betwixt him and the French king and another betwixt him and the archduke of Burgognie and another betwixt him the king of Spaine all the which truces line 20 were violated by the said insurrection it was determined by the whole councell there assembled that the kings sergeants and attournies should go to the lord chancellor to haue a sight of all the said leagues and charters of truces to the intent they might frame their indictments according to the matter And note that iudge Fineux said that all such as were parties to the said insurrection were guiltie of high treason as well those that did not commit anie robberie as line 30 those that were principall dooers therein themselues bicause that the insurrection in it selfe was high treason as a thing practised against the regall honour of our souereigne lord the king And the same law holdeth of an insurrection said Fineux made against the statute of laborers For so said he it came to passe that certeine persons within
and sir Thomas More knight and doctor Nicholas Wilson parson of saint Thomas apostles in London expreslie denied at Lambeth before the archbishop of Canturburie to receiue that oth The two first stood in their opinion to the verie death as after ye shall heare but doctor Wilson was better aduised at length and so dissembling the matter escaped out of further danger ¶ In this yéere it chanced that two merchant strangers fell in loue with a harlot which was called Woolfes wife and this harlot had often hanted the strangers chambers And so on a time the said harlot appointed these strangers to come to Westminster and she had prepared for them a bote in the which bote was but one man to row which was a strong theefe and in the end of the bote laie Woolfe hir husband couered with a leather that botemen vse to couer their cushins with and so these strangers sat them down mistrusting nothing Now when this boteman had brought them as farre as a place called the turning tree suddenlie stepped vp the said Woolfe and with his dagger thrust the one of them through the other cried out to safe his life and offred great sums of monie to the boteman and him to saue his life But no proffers would be heard nor mercie would they extend but as cruell murtherers without pitie slue the other also and bound them face to face and so threw them into the Thames in the foresaid place where they were long after before they were â—ound But immediatlie the harlot Woolfes wife went to the strangers chambers tooke from thence so much as she could come by And at the last she and hir husband as they deserued were apprehended arreigned and hanged at the aforesaid turning trée On the ninth of Iulie was the lord Dacres of the north arreigned at Westminster of high treason where the duke of Norffolke sate as iudge and high steward of England The said lord Dacres being brought to the barre with the axe of the Tower before him after his indictment read so improoued the same answering euerie part and matter therein conteined and so plainlie and directlie confuted his accusers which were there readie to auouch their accusations that to their great shames and his high honor he was found that day by his péeres not guiltie whereof the commons not a little reioised as by their shout and crie made at those words not guiltie they fréelie testified The two and twentith of Iulie was Iohn Frith burned in Smithfield for the opinion of the sacrament and with him the same time and at the same stake suffered also one Andrew Hewet a yoong man by his occupation a tailor The eleuenth of August were all the places of the obseruant friers suppressed as Gréenwich Canturburie Richmont Newarke and Newcastell and in their places were set Augustine friers and the obseruant friers were placed in the roomes of the graie friers ¶ The one and twentith of September doctor Tailor master of the rolles was discharged of that office and Thomas Cromwell sworne in his place the nintéenth of October Moreouer the third of Nouember the parlement line 10 began againe in the which was concluded the act of supremacie which authorised the kings highnes to be supreme head of the church of England and the authoritie of the pope abolished out of the realme ¶ In the same parlement also was giuen to the king the first fruits and tenths of all spirituall dignities and promotions This yeare came the great admerall of France into England ambassadour from the French king and was honorablie receiued In this time died the earle of Kildare prisoner line 20 in the Tower and his sonne Thomas Fitzgaret began to rebell year 1535 and tooke all the kings ordinance and sent to the emperour requiring him to take his part also he slue the bishop of Dublin and robbed all such as would not obeie him In the beginning of this yeare the duke of Norffolke and the bishop of Elie went to Calis and thither came the admerall of France On the two twentith of Aprill the prior of the Charterhouse at London the prior of Beuall the prior of Erham Reinalds a brother of Sion Iohn line 30 vicar of Thistleworth were arreigned and condemned of treason and therevpon drawne hanged and quartered at Tiburne the fourth of Maie their heads and quarters were set ouer the bridge gates of the citie one quarter excepted which was set vp at the Charterhouse at London ¶ On the eight of Maie the king commanded that all belonging to the court should poll their heads to giue example caused his owne head to be polled and his beard from thencefoorth was cut round but not shauen which line 40 fashion the courtiers imbraced and would no doubt haue put in practise though they had not beene therevnto bound by precept for the people imitate the prince as the poet long ago well noted saieng Regis ad exemplum totus componitur orbis ¶ The fiue and twentith daie of Maie was in saint Paules church at London examined ninetéene men and six women borne in Holland whose opinions were first that in Christ is not two natures God and man secondlie that Christ tooke neither flesh nor line 50 bloud of the virgin Marie thirdlie that children borne of infidels shall be saued fourthlie that baptisme of children is to none effect fiftlie that the sacrament of Christs bodie is but bread onelie sixtlie that he who after his baptisme sinneth wittinglie sinneth deadlie and cannot be saued Fourtéene of them were condemned a man a woman of them were burned in Smithfield the other twelue were sent to other townes there to be burnt On the ninetéenth of Iune were three moonkes line 60 of the Charterhouse hanged drawne and quartered at Tiburne and their heads and quarters set vp about London for denieng the king to be supreme head of the church their names were Exmew Middlemoore and Nudigate Also the one and twentith of the same moneth and for the same cause doctor Iohn Fisher bishop of Rochester was beheaded for denieng of the supremacie and his head set vpon London bridge but his bodie buried within Barking churchyard This bishop was of manie sore lamented for he was reported to be a man of great learning and of a verie good life The pope had elected him a cardinall and sent his hat as far as Calis but his head was off before his hat was on so that they met not On the sixt of Iulie was sir Thomas Moore beheaded for the like crime that is to wit for denieng the king to be supreme head And then the bodie of doctor Fisher was taken vp and buried with sir Thomas Moores in the Tower This man was both learned and wise and giuen much to a certeine pleasure in merie taunts and â—easting in most of his communication which maner he forgat not at the verie
had taken place After this by the great wisedome and policie of the nobles and capteins a communication was had line 40 and an agréement made vpon the kings pardon obteined for all the capteins and chiefe dooers in this insurrection and promise made that they should be gentlie heard to declare such things as they found themselues gréeued with and that vpon their articles presented to the king their reasonable petitions should be granted as by him his councell it should be thought expedient whereby all troubles might be quieted and ech thing brought to a good conclusion Herewith euerie man departed and those which before line 50 came as hot as fire to fight letted of their desperat purpose by Gods mercifull prouidence returned now peaceablie to their houses without anie more businesse At the selfe same time that these northerne men were lodged neere to Doncaster and the kings power readie to stop them of their passage as before ye haue heard there was an other armie readie to haue marched southwards thorough Lancashire but by the faithfull diligence of the earle of Derbie who with the forces of Lancashire and Cheshire was appointed line 60 to resist them they were likewise kept backe and brought to quiet notwithstanding they were a verie great number assembled togither of the commons out of Cumberland Westmerland and of the north parts of Lancashire The earle of Sussex was sent downe by the king to ioine in assistance with the earle of Derbie who causing diuerse of the chiefe procurers of that rebellion in those parties to be apprehended and arreigned they being found giltie had iudgement and were executed as the abbats of Walleie Sauleie and others In time of this rebellion a priest that by a butcher dwelling within fiue miles of Windsor had been procured to preach in fauor of the rebels and the butcher as well for procuring the priest thereto as for words spoken as he sold his meat in Windsor were hanged the priest on a tree at the foot of Windsor bridge and the butcher on a paire of new gallowes set vp before the castell gate at the end of the same bridge The words which the butcher spake were these When one bad him lesse for the carcase of a sheepe than he thought he could make of it Naie by Gods soule said he I had rather the good fellowes of the north had it and a score more of the best I haue than I would so sell it This priest and butcher being accused on a mondaie in the morning whilest the kings armie was in the field and the king himselfe lieng at Windsor they confessed their faults vpon their examinations and by the law martiall they were adiudged to death and suffered as before is mentioned This yeare in December the Thames was frosen ouer insomuch that the king and quéene rode thorough London to Gréenewich In Christmas the king by his messengers and heralds sent downe into the north his generall pardons to all the offendors year 1537 and shortlie after Aske that had beene the principall procurer as it were chiefe capteine of the northerne rebels came to London and now was both pardoned and receiued into fauor receiuing of the kings bounteous liberalitie apparell and diuerse other rewards whereof he was most vnwoorthie for there liued not as Hall saith a verier wretch as well in person as conditions and déeds speciallie towards the kings maiestie as after appeared ¶ Sir Rafe Euers kept Scarbrow castell in the north being six wéeks besieged by the rebels twentie daies whereof he and all his companie which were his onelie friends seruants and tenants and serued for good will to him were forced to susteine themselues with bread and water and yet he kept the same to the end of that rebellion and so deliuered it to king Henrie who sent him soone after to serue in the borders against Scotland where in great credit he continued his seruice kéeping the Scots without dooing hurt to England and with such obedience of them as within twentie miles of the borders of Scotland fore against him there was not a Scot but at his commandement and so continued till he was killed in the yeare 1545. The twelfe of Nouember sir Thomas Newman priest bare a faggot at Paules crosse for singing masse with good ale On the third of Februarie Thomas Fitzgaret sonne and heire to the earle of Kildare was beheaded and fiue of his vncles were drawne hanged and quartered at Tiborne for treason In the same moneth Nicholas Musgraue Thomas Tilbie with others began a new rebellion at Kirkvie Stephan in Westmerland who hauing got togither eight thousand men besieged the citie of Carleill from whence they were beaten with the onlie power of the citie and in returning from thense the duke of Norffolke who then was lieutenant of the north incountered with them tooke the capteins and according to the law martiall areigned seuentie and foure of them whome he hanged on Carbeill wals but Musgraue escaped In the same moneth of Februarie began a new commotion by the procurement of sir Francis Bigod who being intised to that mischieuous enterprise by certeine wicked persons forgat his dutie to his prince although he had béene a man as Hall saith that vndoubtedlie loued God and reuerenced his prince with a right obedient and louing feare but such are men when God leaueth them and that they will take in hand things which Gods most holie word vtterlie forbiddeth This last rebellion began in Setrington Pikering Leigh and Scarbrow but it was quickelie suppressed and the said sir Francis Bigod apprehended and brought to the Tower The said sir Francis one Halam hauing raised a great companie of rebels meant to haue taken the towne of Hull there to haue fortified themselues and to haue assembled more power but by the wisedome of sir Rafe Ellerkar the maior of the towne of Hull the said Halam thréescore other of the rebels without anie slaughter were taken which Halam was afterwards hanged in chaines and two other with line 10 him at the said towne of Hull Sir Francis Bigod fled could not be heard of for a time but at length he was also apprehended Moreouer about the latter end of this twentith and eight yeare the lord Darcie Aske sir Robert Constable sir Iohn Bulmer and his wife sir Thomas Persie brother to the erle of Northumberland sir Stephan Hamilton Nicholas Tempest esquier William Lomleie began eftsoones to conspire although euerie of them before had receiued their pardons line 20 and now were they all taken and brought to the Tower of London as prisoners This yeare Robert Packington a mercer of London a man both rich wise and of good credit dwelling at the signe of the leg in Cheapside on a morning going as his custome was about foure of the clocke to heare masse in the church then called S. Thomas of Acres now the Mercers
and scope of libertie to talke and conferre with them euerie man at his pleasure there wanted no deuises vnder colour of freendlie conferences to deuise how to compasse their intents howbeit it pleased the eternall God so to carrie and rule the hearts of the magistrats that albeit being nuzled in the Romish religion they were affected therevnto yet they so much respected their dutie to their prince and the safetie to their common-wealth line 30 that they openlie professed they would neuer yéeld the citie so long as they liued and were able to kéepe and defend the same For the maior himselfe maister William Hurst maister Iohn Buller maister Iohn Britnall maister William Periam others of the ancientest of the citie were by sundrie means waies deuises and reasons persuaded to conioine themselues in this rebellion with the commoners They all with one mind and one voice gaue a flat answer that in the citie line 40 they had béene brought vp there they had gotten their liuings there they had sworne their fidelitie and allegiance to their king and prince there they had faithfullie hitherto serued him and there would so continue so long as they could to the vttermost of their powers all which their promises auowries the Lord be praised they performed But to the matter Sundrie other trecheries deuises were practised which particularlie to recite were verie tedious to no purpose The last but the line 50 most perillous practise was this When these male-contents saw themselues to be preuented in all their deuises which before they had but secretlie and priuatlie practised now they conioining themselues togither doo openlie shew and declare themselues being persuaded that bicause they were the greater number and that also the most part of the poore people were wearie and for want of vittels would not indure to be pinned in anie longer that therefore manie would ioine against a few and that the game line 60 would go on their side And so on a sundaie being but two dais before the deliuerie of the citie about eight of the clocke in the forenoone a companie of them in euerie quarter of the citie hauing their consorts in a readines to ioine serue with them if need so required get into the streets walking with their weapons and in their armour as to fight with their enimies and crie out Come out these heretikes and twopenie bookemen Where be they By Gods wounds bloud we will not be pinned in to serue their turne We will go out and haue in our neighbors they be honest good and godlie men Their pretense and meaning being then that if anie of the contrarie side had come out they would haue quarelled with them and haue taken occasion to set vpon him and so raise a new tumult But by the prouidence and goodnesse of God it so fell out that some being in their houses and some at their parish churches the maior and magistrates were first aduertised herof before the others heard anie thing of the matter and they according to their wisedoms pacified the matter and 〈◊〉 Iohn Uincent Iohn Sharke and others the belwedders of this flocke vnto their houses 〈◊〉 in the south gate stréet and at the south gate there was a little stur which being soone stopped there insued no hurt therof other than a broken pate or two for as it fell out the warders of that gate at that time were against them and of the greater companie These and manie other like practises were dailie and continuallie vsed on the one side which in the end came to no effect bicause the Lord kept the citie The others on the other side being altogither bent to honor God obeie the king and to serue in their commonwealth were fullie resolued to kéepe and defend the citie whose cause being iust and good was sufficient of it selfe to kéepe them in that mind and yet their courage was the more for that they saw the good bent of the maior and magistrates who howsoeuer they were affected otherwise in religion yet they were wholie bent and determined to kéepe and defend the citie and therefore they seeing the industrie carefulnesse seruice and painefulnesse of these men doo fauour incourage and countenance them and to saie the truth by the industrie and good seruice of them the citie was cheeflie kept and preserued For there was no seruice to be doone within nor exploit to be aduentured without vpon the enimie as manie times there were sallies giuen but these were the chiefest and commonlie the onelie dooers for which cause the contrarie side maruelouslie maligned at them and sought by all means how to impeach and indanger them Which thing being dailie perceiued more and more by sundrie arguments and as wise men séeking how to preuent the same did manie and sundrie times confer among themselues herein and in the end made a couenant and a faithfull promise among themselues being then about the number of one hundred persons that they would stand firmelie and faithfullie to the defense and kéeping of the citie to their vttermost powers And if it so fell out that the rebell and enimie should haue accesse and entrie into the citie that then they should all méet at the lord Russels now the earle of Bedfords house and there to issue out at the posterne of the garden and to giue the aduenture to passe and to escape awaie as also if they were resisted that then they to stand togither to their defense And for this purpose they had then named some one man to be their capteine for this enterprise And in the meane time to doo all things circumspectlie for the preseruation of the citie by a particular couenant among themselues did take order that during the whole beseeging of the citie and their aboad therein a certeine number by course and besides the ordinarie set watch should watch ward and walke about continuallie both by daie and night by which means no sleight nor treacherie could be practised but that they should haue an inkeling and vnderstanding thereof and which indéed stood and came to such effect that it was the chiefest if not the onelie cause of the preseruation of the citie for that time For there was no seruice no diligence no care nor anie thing wanting or left vndoone which by these men was not doone Howbeit the diuell the author of all diuision and strife who cannot abide anie vnitie concord and agréement in good causes did here also hurle in a bone among these men whereof had insued a great detriment to the common state and an ouerthrow to themselues had it not in due time beene preuented There were two gentlemen within this citie and both of this companie the one was borne of a honorable house and parentage named Iohn Courtneie a yoonger sonne to sir William Courtneie of Porederham knight and a man of verie good knowledge and experience in seruice The other also was
gentlemen that had beene now released out of prison to be shut vp againe least the rebelles finding them abroad should haue murthered them Yet after this when the rebels line 40 were departed out of the citie againe the maior aldermen fell in hand to rampire vp the gates to plant ordinance and to make all necessarie prouision that for them was possible At length they fell to shooting off their artillerie as well from the citie as from the campe dooing their best to annoie ech other But when the rebelles saw that they did little hurt to the citie with their great ordinance lieng vpon the hill they remoued the same downe to the foot of the same hill and from thense began line 50 to beat the walles Notwithstanding shortlie after they made sute for a truce to indure for a time that they might passe to and fro through the citie to fetch in vittels whereof some want began to pinch them in the campe The maior and aldermen flatlie denied their request protesting that they would not permit anie traitors to haue passage through their citie The rebels sore kindled in wrath with this answer and deniall of their sute came running downe from the hill and assaulting the gates were beaten line 60 off with shot of arrowes and other weapons And yet such rage appéered among the rebels that the boies and yoong lads shewed themselues so desperat in gathering vp the arrowes that when they saw and felt the same sticking in some part of their bodies they would plucke them foorth and deliuered them to their bow-men that they might bestow the same again at the citizens In all this broile a thing note-worthie the seditious sort minding nothing more than the compassing of their purpose had as little staie of themselues in this their outrage as a bull at the sight of a cow or a stoned horsse at the view of a mare according vnto the old saieng of the poet Non facile est taurum visa retinere iuuenca Fortis equus visae semper adhinnit equae In the meane time whilest they were thus busie vpon one side of the citie an alarum rose at the defendants backes crieng that the rebels were entred the citie on the contrarie side and so euerie man shrinking awaie and running thither to repell the enimie there that part was left void of defendants where the first assault began Whereof the rebels being aduised rushed into the riuer that runneth before bishops gate got to the gates and breaking them open entred without anie great resistance For all the citizens were withdrawne to their houses and other places where they hoped best to hide themselues from the furie of their enimies The rebels hauing thus entred the citie by force conueied all the guns and artillerie with other furniture of warre out of the citie into their campe The herald that was yet abiding in the citie to see if the rebels would before the daie prefixed for their pardons being not yet expired giue ouer their enterprise came with the maior into the market place and in the hearing of a great multitude of people that were come foorth and stood about him he eftsoons gaue commandement in the kings name that they should laie armes aside and get them home to their houses which to so manie as did he pronounced a generall pardon and to the rest extreme punishment by death The rebels that stood by and heard him when he had once made an end of his proclamation bade him get him thense with a mischiefe for it was not his faire offers nor his swéet flattering words that should beguile them sith they made no account of such manner of mercie that vnder a colour of pardon should cut off all their safetie and hope of preserseruation The herald perceiuing how obstinatelie they were bent and set on all mischiefe and that it was vnpossible to bring them from their outragious treason either through feare of punishment or hope of pardon departed without hauing brought that to passe for which he was sent Immediatlie after his departure the rebels sought for Leonard Southerton purposing to haue apprehended him and committed him to prison for accompanieng the herald thitherwards But he hauing knowledge of their meaning hid himselfe from them After this there were by Kets commandement apprehended diuerse persons as the maior Robert Watson William Rogers Iohn Homerston William Brampton and manie others which were brought out of the citie and committed to prison in mount Surrie Ket perceiuing well that he must either now obteine a bloodie victorie by force against his countrie or else to tast such an end as his vngratious attempts did well deserue got togither so manie wicked persons as he might procure to come vnto him from ech side with great rewards and faire promises so that it was a strange matter to consider what a multitude of vnthrifts and rascalles came to him vpon the sudden The citizens of Norwich were sore displeased that their maior being an honest man and one greatlie beloued among them should be imprisoned and so remaine in danger of life among the rebels for they threatned him sore iesâ—ing at his name would saie one to another Let vs all come togither to morrow for we shall sée a cods hed sold in the campe for a penie Wherevpon the citizens fearing least through the malice and rage of the rebels their maior might chance to be made awaie among them procured maister Thomas Alderich whose authoritie was great among them to be a meane for his deliuerance who comming to Ket with sharpe and bitter words reprooued him for his cruell dealing by imprisoning so honest a man as the maior was and withall commanded him to release him which either for shame or rather through feare of a guiltie conscience that pricked him he caused incontinentlie to be doone who therevpon might now and then go and come at his pleasure to and fro the citie But bicause he could not still remaine in the citie but was constreined to continue for the most part in the campe he appointed Augustine Steward to be his deputie line 10 who with the assistance of Henrie Bacon and Iohn Atkinson shiriffes gouerned the citie right orderlie and kept the most part of the citizens in due obeisance The councell aduertised now vpon the heralds returne that there was no waie to reduce these Norffolke rebels vnto quiet otherwise than by force appointed the marquesse of Northampton with fiftéene hundred horssemen to go downe vnto Norwich to subdue those stubborne traitors that so vndutifullie line 20 refused the kings mercifull pardon fréelie offered by his officer at armes and others There went with the lord marquesse diuerse honorable and worshipfull personages as the lord Sheffeld the lord Wentworth sir Anthonie Dennie sir Henrie Parker sir Richard Southwell sir Rafe Sadler sir Iohn Clere sir Rafe Rowlet sir Richard Lée sir Iohn Gates sir Thomas Paston sir Henrie Bedingfield
There was therfore by order of the councell a wise gentleman learned named George Ferrers appointed to that office for this yeare who being of better credit estimation than coÌ„monlie his predecessors had beene before receiued all his commissions and warrants by the name of the maister of the kings pastimes Which gentleman so well supplied his office both in shew of sundrie sights and deuises of rare inuentions and in act of diuerse interludes and matters of pastime plaied by persons as not onelie satisfied the common â—ort but also were verie well liked and allowed by the councell and other of skill in the like pastimes but best of all by the yoong king himselfe as appéered by his princelie liberalitie in rewarding that seruice ¶ On mondaie the fourth of Ianuarie the said lord of merie disports came by water to London and landed at the tower wharffe entred the tower and then rode through tower street where he was receiued by Uause lord of misrule to Iohn Mainard one of the shiriffes of London and so conducted through the citie with a great companie of yoong lords gentlemen to the house of sir George Barne lord maior where he with the chéefe of his companie dined and after had a great banket and at his departure the lord maior gaue him a standing cup with a couer of siluer and guilt of the value of ten pounds for a reward and also set a hogshed of wine and a barrell of beere at his gate for his traine that followed him The residue of his gentlemen seruants dined at other aldermens houses and with the shiriffes and then departed to the tower wharffe againe so to the court by water to the great commendation of the maior and aldermen and highlie accepted of the king and councell This Christmas being thus passed and spent with much mirth and pastime year 1552 wherewith the minds and eares of murmurers were méetlie well appeased according to a former determination as the sequele shewed it was thought now good to procéed to the execution of the iudgement giuen against the duke of Summerset touching his conuiction atteindor of the fellonie before mentioned Wherevpon the two and twentith daie of Ianuarie then next following being fridaie he was brought out of the tower and according to the manner deliuered to the shiriffes of London and so with a great companie of the gard others with weapons was brought to the scaffold where he should suffer without changing either voice or countenance other than he was accustomed to vse at other times The same morning earelie the conestables of euerie ward in London according to a precept directed from the councell to the maior strictlie charged euerie houshold of the same citie not to depart anie of them out of their houses before ten of the clocke of that daie meaning thereby to restreine the great number of people that otherwise were like to haue béen at the said execution Notwithstanding by seauen of the clocke the tower hill was couered with a great multitude repairing from all parts of the citie as well as out of the suburbs And before eight of the clocke the duke was brought to the scaffold inclosed with the kings gard the shiriffes officers the warders of the tower other with halberds where as he nothing changing neither voice or countenance but in a maner with the same gesture which he commonlie vsed at home knéeling downe vpon both his knees and lifting vp his hands commended himselfe vnto God After he had ended a few short praiers standing vp againe and turning himselfe toward the east side of the scaffold nothing at all abashed as it séemed vnto those that stood by neither with the sight of the ax neither yet of the hangman nor of present death but with the like alacriâ—ie and chéerefulnesse of mind and countenance as before times he was accustomed to heare the causes supplications of other speciallie of the poore towards whome as it were with a certeine fatherlie loue to his children he alwaies shewed himselfe most attentiue he vttered these words to the people The words of the duke of Summerset at his death DEerelie beloued friends I am line 10 brought hither to suffer death albeit I neuer offended against the king neither by word nor deed and haue beene alwaies as faithfull and true vnto this realme as anie man hath beene But forsomuch as I am by law condemned to die I doo acknowledge my selfe as well as others to be subiect therevnto Wherefore to testifie mine obedience line 20 which I owe vnto the lawes I am come hither to suffer death wherevnto I willinglie offer my selfe with most hartie thanks vnto God that hath giuen me this time of repentance who might thorough sudden death haue taken awaie my life that I neither should haue acknowledged him nor my selfe Moreouer deerelie beloued friends there is yet somewhat that I must put line 30 you in mind of as touching christian religion which so long as I was in authoritie I alwaies diligentlie set foorth and furthered to my power Neither doo I repent me of my dooings but reioise therein sith now the state of christian religion commeth most neere vnto the forme and order of the primitiue church Which thing I esteeme as a great benefit giuen of God line 40 both to you and me most hartilie exhorting you all that this which is most purelie set foorth vnto you you will with like thankefulnesse accept and embrace and set out the same in your liuing which thing if you doo not without doubt greater mischiefe and calamitie will follow When he had spoken these words suddenlie there line 50 was a great noise heard wherevpon the people were streight driuen into a great feare few or none knowing the cause Wherefore I thinke it good to write what I saw saith Iohn Stow concerning that matter The people of a certeine hamlet which were warned to be there by seauen of the clocke to giue their attendance on the lieutenant now came thorough the posterne and perceiuing the duke to be alreadie on the scaffold the foremost began to run crieng to their fellowes to follow fast after Which suddennes line 60 of these men being weaponed with bils and halberds this running caused the people which first saw them to thinke some power had come to haue rescued the duke from execution and therefore cried Awaie awaie Wherevpon the people ran some one waie some an other manie fell into the tower ditch and they which tarried thought some pardon had beene brought some said it thundered some that the ground mooued but there was no such matter ¶ This amazement of the people is in other words recorded by Iohn Fox in the storie of this dukes troubles death which bicause they be effectuall I thinke good to interlace When the duke had ended his speech saith he suddenlie there was a terrible noise heard whervpon there came a
other things mo to the great hinderance of manie a man Also in Walderâ—wicke Dunwich and Blaâ—brooke was great losse of boord planke timber and salt A great part of the bridge by Magdalene college was borne cleane awaie and manie trées were line 60 turned vp by the root The thrée and twentith of Ianuarie the quéenes maiestie accompanied with hir nobilitie came from hir house at the Stranâ— called Summerset place and entered the citie of London by Temple bar Fléetstreet Cheape and so by the north side of the Bursse to sir Thomas Greshams in Bishops gate stréet where she dined After dinner hir grace returning through Cornehill entred the Bursse on the southside and after hir highnesse had viewed euerie part thereof aboue ground especiallie the Pawne which was richlie furnished with all sorts of the â—â—nest wares in the citie she caused the same Bursse by an herald and a trumpet to be proclamed the Roiall exchange so to be called from thensefoorth and not otherwise The seuenteenth of Februarie at a place called Kinnaston néere Marlech hill in the countie of Hereford was séene the ground to open and certeine rockes with a péece of ground remooued and went forward the space of foure daies making at the first a terrible noise as it went on the earth It remooued it selfe betwéene six of the clocke in the euening seuen the next morrow fortie pases carrieng great trees and shéepecotes some sheepecotes with threescore sheepe in them some trées fell into the chinkes other that grew on the same ground grow now as firmelie on a hill and some that stood east stand west and those that stood west stand east The depth of the hole where it first brake out is thirtie foot the breadth of the breach is eight score yards and in length aboue twentie score yards It ouerthrew Kinnaston chapell Also two high waies be remooued nigh one hundred yards with the trées of the hedgerowes The ground in all is six and twentie acres and where tillage ground was there is pasture left in place and where was pasture there is tillage ground gone vpon it The ground as it remooued draue the earth before it at the lower part ouerwhelmed the ground so that it is growen to a great hill of twelue fadams high It remooued from saturdaie till mondaie at night following and so staied Moreouer this yeare about Candelmas sir Thomas Sackuille baron of Buckhurst was sent in ambassage from the quéenes maiestie to Charles the ninth French king as well to congratulate for his marriage with the daughter of the emperour Maximilian as for other weightie affaires And as his ambassage was great so was his charge no lesse in furnishing himselfe and traine accordinglie being both in number and furniture such in euerie point as did apperteine and his receiuing and interteinement in France by the king and others was agréeable thereto for he was receiued vpon the coast by the gouernours of the fortified townes right honorablie by order from the king Among other the baron of Bournoisell was one who being verie well mounted and appointed left not his lordship before he came to the court and from thense accompanied him backe vntill his imbarkement homewards In the maine countries he was accompanied with the gouernours and nobles of the places about And in the good townes where he passed he was presented by the chiefe magistrates wherein their good wils were to be thankefullie accepted though his lordships rewards far ouervalued their presents At his approch néere to Paris he was incountred on the waie for courtesie sake by two marquesses of Trans and Saluces this being of the house of Sauoie and the other of the worthie familie of Foâ—x These wanted not such as accompanied them and the same euen of the best sort At the lord ambassadors first audience which was at the castell of Madrill otherwise called Bullogne néere Paris where the king then laie the quéenes Almane coches verie brauelie furnished were sent to Paris for him in one of the which his lordship with the marquesse of Trans rode towards the court verie narrowlie escaping from a shrewd turne and great mischance by reason the same coâ—h was ouerthrowen by the Dutch wagoners their negligence who in a brauerie gallopping the field made an ouer short 〈◊〉 wherewith the 〈◊〉 was sore bruâ—ed The lord ambassador at his arriuall at the place was right honorablie receiued he was banketted by diuerse and that verie sumptuouslie which by him was not left vnrequâ—ted to the vttermost and rather with the better For his liberalitie vnto the French was verie large but his reward at the kings hands was onelie a chaine waieng a thousand French crownes At that present there was a great dearth scarsitie of vittels in France The riuer of Saine that runneth through Paris was not passable with vessels by reason of the great frosts and thereby not onelie all kind of vittels but also haie and wood hard to come by and not to be had but at excessiue prices the countrie thereabouts hauing before béene sore harried and spoiled by the ciuill tumults By reason line 10 whereof not onlie the lord of Buckhurst for the space he remained there but also sir Henrie Norrice now lord Norrice and maister Francis Walsingham hir maiesties ambassadors ligiers successiuelie were driuen to an increase in expenses paieng for euerie thing they bought an higher price than ordinarilie had béene accustomed After that the lord Buckhurst had béene feasted and banketted by the king and other of the French nobilitie and had accomplished the points of his ambassage line 20 he tooke leaue of the king departed homewards arriuing here in England a little before Easter The second of Aprill a parlement began at Westminster year 1571 wherein was granted to the quéenes maiestie toward hir great charges in repressing the late rebellion in the north and pursuing the said rebels and their fautors which were fled into Scotland by the cleargie a subsidie of six shillings in the pound and by the temporaltie two fiftéens with a subsidie of two shillings and eight pence in the line 30 pound The first the second and third of Maie was holden at Westminster before the quéenes maiestie a solemne iust at the tilt tourneie and barriers The chalengers were Edward earle of Oxford Charles Howard sir Henrie Lée and Christopher Hatton esquier who all did verie valiantlie but the chiefe honour was giuen to the earle of Oxford The first of Iune Iohn Storie a doctor of the canon law who before had beene condemned of high treason was drawen from the tower of London to Tiborne line 40 and there hanged bowelled and quartered his head was set on London bridge and his quarters on the gates of the citie Of this monster disguised in the likenesse of a man it is verie materiall to record what maister Fox hath noted in his historie ¶
wherof as some affirme were six hundred gentlemen so brauelie attired and mounted as in déed was woorthie the noting which goodly companie waited on their shirife a long season But in good sooth as it was crediblie spoken the bankets and feasts began here afresh all kinds of triumphs that might be deuised were put in practise and proofe The earle of Surreie did shew most sumptuous cheare in whose parke were speaches well set out and a speciall deuise much commended and the rest as a number of iollie gentlemen were no whit behind to the vttermost of their abilities in all that might be doone and deuised But when the quéenes highnesse came to Norwich the substance of the whole triumph and feasting was in a maner there new to begin For order was taken there that euerie daie for six daies togither a shew of some strange deuise should be seene And the maior and aldermen appointed among themselues and their brethren that no one person reteining to the queene should be vnfeasted or vnbidden to dinner supper during the space of those six daies which order was well wiselie obserued and gained their citie more fame and credit than they wot of for that courtesie of theirs shall remaine in perpetuall memorie whiles the walles of their citie standeth Besides the monie they bestowed vpon diuerse of the traine and those that tooke paines for them will be a witnesse of their well dooing and good will whiles the report of these things maie be called to remembrance Now who can considering their great charges and discreet gouernement in these causes but giue them due land and reputation as farre as either pen or report maie doo them good stretch out their credit For most assuredlie they haue taught and learned all the townes and cities in England a lesson how to behaue themselues in such like seruices and actions On saturdaie being the sixteenth of August 1578 and in the twentith yeare of the reigne of our most gratious souereigne ladie Elisabeth by the grace of God quéene of England France Ireland defender of the faith c the same our most dread and souereigne ladie continuing hir progresse in Norffolke immediatlie after dinner set forward from Brakenash where she had dined with the ladie Stile being fiue miles distant from Norwich towards the same hir most dutifull citie Sir Robert Wood then esquier now knight maior of the same citie at one of the clocke in the same happie daie set forward to méet with hir maiestie in this order First there rode before him well and séemelie mounted thréescore of the most comelie yoong men of the citie as batchellers apparelled all in blacke satten dublets blacke hose blacke taffata hats and yellow bands and their vniuersall liuerie was a mandilion of purple taffata laid about with siluer lase so apparelled they marched forwards two and two in a ranke Then one which represented king Gurgunt sometime king of England which builded the castell of Norwich called Blanch Flowre and laid the foundation of the citie He was mounted vpon a braue courser and was thus furnished his bodie armed his bases of greene and white silke on his head a blacke veluet hat with a plume of white feathers There attended vpon him thrée henchmen in white and gréene one of them did beare his helmet the second his target the third his staffe after him a noble companie of gentlemen and wealthie citizens in veluet coats and other costlie line 10 furniture brauelie mounted Then followed the officers of the citie euerie one in his place Then the sword-bearer with the sword hat of maintenance Then the maior and foure and twentie aldermen and the recorder all in scarlet gownes whereof so manie as had béene maiors of the citie and were iustices did weare their scarlet clokes then followed so manie as had béene shiriffs and were no aldermen in violet gownes and sattin tippets Then followed line 20 diuerse others to kéepe the people from disturbing the araie aforesaid Thus euerie thing in due and comelie order they all except Gurgunt which staied hir maiesties comming within a flight shoot or two of the citie where the castell of Blanch Flowre was in most beautifull prospect marched forwards to a bridge called Hartford bridge the vttermost limit that waie distant from the citie two miles or there abouts to méet with hir maiestie who within one houre or little line 30 more after their attendance came in such gratious and princelie wise as rauished the harts of all hir louing subiects and might haue terrified the stoutest heart of anie enimie to behold Whether the maiestie of the prince which is incomparable or ioie of hir subiects which excéeded measure were the greater I thinke would haue appalled the iudgement of Apollo to define The acclamations and cries of the people to the almightie God for the preseruation of hir maiestie ratled so lowd as hardly for a great time could line 40 anie thing be heard But at last as euerie thing hath an end the noise appeased and the maior saluted hir highnesse with the oration following and yéelded to hir maiestie therewith the sword of the citie and a faire standing cup of siluer and guilt with a couer and in the cup one hundred pounds in gold The oration was in these words Praetoris Nordouicensis ad serenissimam Reginam c. line 50 SI nobis ab Opt. Max. concederetur optio quid rerū humanarū nunc potissimùm vellemus nihil duceremus antiquius augustissima princeps quà m vt tuus ille qui ita nos recreat castissimi ocelli radius posset in abditissimos cordium nostrorū angulos se conferre Cerneres profectò quanta sint hilaritate perfusa quà m in ipsis arterijs venulis spiritus line 60 sanguis gestiant dumintuemur te huius regni lumen vt Dauid olim fuit Israelitici in hijs tandem finibus post longam spem ardentissima vota exoriri Equidem vt pro me qui tua ex authoritate clementia quod humillimis gratijs profiteor celeberrimae huic ciuitati praesum pro hijs meis fratribus atque omni hoc populo quem tuis auspicijs regimus ex illorum sensuloquar quod ipse sentio sic nos demum supplicibus votis exposcimus vt maiestatem tuam beneuolam nobis propitiam experiamur vt nunquam cuiquam populo aduenisti gratior quà m nobis In illius rei luculentissimū indicium insignia haec honoris officij nostri quae nobis clementissimus princeps Henricus quartus quinto sui regni anno cū praetore senatoribus vicecomitibus cōcessit cum antea balliuis vt vocant vltra annalium nostrorum memoriam regeremur perpetuis deinde regum priuilegijs corroborata nobis aucta magnificè maiestati tuae omnia exhibemus quae per tuam vnius clementiam quam cum immortalibus gratijs praedicare nunquam cessabimus
the length whereof was from the necke vnto the taile seuenteene yards and one foote hauing a big head for the chap of the saw was thrée yards and a quarter in length with téeth of three quarters of a yard compas great eies and two great holes ouer them to spout out water hir taile was fourteene foot broad c she laie in the sands and was soonken therein a yard and a halfe déepe and yet was she aboue the sands so high that a lather of fourtéene staues would but reach to the top of hir backe so that in thicknesse from the backe to the bellie she was foure yards and a halfe Iohn Slade sometime a schoolemaister and Iohn Bodie a maister of art of Oxford being both indicted and condemned of high treason were drawne hanged and quartered Slade at Winchester on the thirtith daie of October and Bodie at Andouar on the second daie of Nouember line 10 About this time one named Ditch a notable horssestealer was apprehended at the sessions holden for the goale deliuerie at Newgat on the fourth of December ninetéene times indicted whereof he confessed eightéene who also betwéene the time of his apprehension and the said sessions appeached manie for stealing of horsses whereof diuerse being apprehended ten of them were condemned and hanged in Smithfield on the sixt daie of December being Fridaie and horsse market there He also holpe diuerse more to their horsses againe which had béene line 20 stolne from them taking of euerie one of them ten shillings the péece or more that so recouered their horsses wherby he made fiftéene pounds of currant monie towards his charges Iames earle of Desmond in Ireland secretlie wandering without anie succour as a miserable begger being taken in his cabbin by one of the Irishrie his head was cut off and sent into England where the same as the head of an archrebell was set vpon London bridge on the line 30 thirteenth daie of December Looke for the manner of his rebellion and his death more at large set downe in the historie of Ireland The tenth daie of December through negligence of vndiscréet persons brewing in the towne of Nantwich in a place called Waterlode the fire being careleslie left tooke hold as should séeme vpon some straw or such light matter so burst foorth to the roofes of the house and in short time so increased that from the west end of the towne the wind at line 40 southwest the flame was dispersed so furiouslie into the towne on the southside that in short space a great part of the said southside and some of the east-side was burned downe to the ground Which fire beginning at six of the clocke in the euening and continuing till six of the clocke in the morning following neuer ceased burning till it had consumâ—d aboue the number of two hundred houses besides brew houses barnes stables c in all about six hundred houses so that by estimation of manie the losse of houses and goods amounted to aboue thirtie line 50 thousand pounds as more at large appeared by a particular booke printed of that matter About this time Iohn Someruile a furious yoong man of Elstow in Warwikeshire of late discouered and taken in his waie comming with full intent to kill the quéenes maiestie whom God long prosper to reigne ouer vs confessed the treason and that he was moued therevnto in his wicked spirit by certeine traitorous persons his kinsmen and alies and also by often reading of certeine seditious bookes latelie line 60 published for the which the said Someruile Edward Arden a squire of Parkehall in Warwikeshire Marie Arden his wife father and mother in law to the said Someruile and Hugh Hall priest being with other before indicted at Warwike were on the sixtéenth of December arreigned in the Guildhall of London where they were found guiltie and condemned of high treason On the nintéenth of December Iohn Someruile and Edward Arden being brought from the tower of London to Newgate of the same citie and there shut vp in seuerall places within two hours after Someruile was found desperatlie to haue strangled himselfe And on the morrow being the twâ—ntith of December Edward Arden was drawne from Newgate into Smithfield and there hanged bowelled and quartered whose head with Someruiles was set on London bridge and his quarters on the gates of the citie but the bodie of Someruile was buried in the Morefields néere vnto the windmils without Moregate A dreadfull example of Gods heauie iudgement vpon those two offendors but speciallie against the last whome God deliuered to a reprobat mind in somuch that his owne hands became his hangman preuenting the office of the common executioner who should haue performed that last action vpon him whereof the iustice of God in vengeance made himselfe the finisher and fulfiller Thus much by the waie of terror that the remembrance hereof by the reading reporting of the same maie make men euill minded amazed at the rigorous reuengement which God taketh when he séeth his due time vpon the wicked after his long sufferance and patience most wickedlie abused wherof the poet saith Vltio procedit fateor diuina gradatim Nec quoties peccant fulmina vibrat eis Supplicij verò iusta grauitate rependit Turpia quae longo tempore facta tulit In this yeare 1583 which should haue béene noted in the fore part of the yeare by the meanes of a certeine astrologicall discourse vpon the great and notable coniunction of the two superior planets Saturne and Iupiter prognosticated to be the eight and twentith of Aprill the common sort of people yea and no small multitude of such as thinke scorne to be called fooles or counted beggers whilest they were in expectation of this coniunction were in no small imaginations supposing that no lesse would haue béene effectuated than by the said discourse was prophesied Into these fansies not void of feare and mistrust they were drawne with the more facilitie for that they had read and heard pondered and suspected and in part beléeued the predictions of such euents as should insue by influence of that coniunction For it was termed the great and notable coniunction which should be manifested to the ignorant sort by manie fierce and boisterous winds then suddenlie breaking out It was called the greatest and most souereigne coniunction among the seuen planets why so Because lawes and empires and regions are ruled by the same which foretelleth the comming of a prophet the destruction of certeine climats and parts of the earth and new found heresies and a new founded kingdome and damages through the pestilence and abundant showers which dooth prognosticat the destinie of a great and mightie king much sorrow heauinesse to men losses to rich and noble men yea and those too which are accounted and reputed like to prophets and a multitude of locusts which dooth foreshew that weightie and woonderfull things shall come into the
Concordia sent from the pope to the French king The duchesse of Britaine maried to K. Charles A parlement wherin king Henrie openeth the iust cause of making warres against France Who first deâ—ed the exaction of monie called a beneuolence Sée pag. 694. 1491. Albert the duke of Saxonies policie to get the towne of Dam. The duke of Saxonie senâ—eth for aid to king Henrie to win Sluis Gu. Hae. in Tob. 4. Sir Edward Poinings a valianâ— capiteine sent into Flanders with an armie One Uere brother to the earle oâ— Oxford slaine Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 866. Abr. Fl. ex Edw. Hall in Hen. 7. fo xxiiâ— c. Granado woone from the Turkes or Saracâ—â—â— The citie of Granado conteined an huâ—â—dred and fiftie thousand houses besides cotages 〈◊〉 dwellings Hostages deliuered to the K. of Spaine for his securitie The banquished people hâ—mblie submit theÌ„selues to the kings vicegerent deliuer vp the keies of the citie The maner of the Spanish kings giuing of thanks for victorie The Spaniards reioising triumphing after the conquest of the Moores The lord Euerus de MeÌ„doza made capteine of the house roiall A great number of states with their traine enter triumphantlie into Granado to take reall possession * Namelie doctor Morton of whom mentioÌ„ is made in the bâ—ginning of this historie Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. â—66 Sir Iames Parker by casualtie at iustes mortallie wounded Two pardonâ—es set on the pillorie Robert Fabian King Henrie and Maximilian agrée to plague the Frenchmen Anno. Reg. 7. The cause of Maximilians malice against Charles of France Maximilian dealeth dishonestlie with the king of England to his great vâ—xation Maximilian king of Romans breaketh 〈◊〉 with king Henrie in iâ—â—â—ning with 〈◊〉 to inuade France The disâ—â—â—â—lation of the French king A motion on the French part for a treatie of peace with the English Commissioners sent ouer to Calis about the said â—eace Bullogne besiâ—ged by the Englishmen the king himselfe pâ—esent Why the English preferred warre before peace Polydor. Sir Iohn Sauage slaine at this siege Richard PlaÌ„tagenet a counterfeit of ladie Margarets imagining The conclusion of peace betwéene the English and French AlphoÌ„se duke of Calabre made knight of the garter Abr. Fl. ex Guic. pag. 43. The French king described The birth of Henrie duke of Yorke after crowned king by the name of Henrie the eight The malice of the duchesse of Burgognie to the line of Lancaster Perkin Warbecke the counterfeit duke of Yorke The readie wit of Perkin to learne all that made for his preferment to honor The emulatioÌ„ of the dukes of Yorke Perkin Warbecke arriueth in Ireland Perkin â—â—â—leth into France 〈◊〉 afâ—ant Perkin reâ—â—â—neth to the ladie Margaret his first founder Perkin nâ—med by the dutches of Burgognie the white roâ—e of England 149â— M. Pal. 〈…〉 Abr. Fl. ex I.S. pag. 865. Stratford bridge vpon Auen builded Such long and looked for alteratiâ—n of states False rumors â—â—casions of great disquietnes Anno Reg. 8. Perkin counterfeiteth the duke of Yorke verie cunninglie Perkins true linage Ambassadors sent to Philip archduke of Burgognie The sum of D. Wariaâ—â—s spéech to the archduke Anno Reg. 9. Espials sent into Flanders from the king for a subtill policie The conspiring faâ—tors of the counterfeit duke of Yorke Abr. Flem. Flemish wares forbidden The mart kept at Calis English commodities banished out of Flanders A riot made vpon the Easterâ—ings Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 867. Execution for seditious bils against the kings person Uittels â—â—â—tie sold good cheape 1494 Anno Reg. 1. Policie of K. Henrie against Robert Clifford Sir William Stanleie a fauourer of Perkin The offense of sir William Stanleie Coniectures of sir William Stanleies alienated from king Henrie King Henrie in a quandaâ—e Sir William Stanleie beheaded 〈◊〉 Flem. See pag. 760. Iâ—hn Stow. pag. â—69 The king and queene dine at sergeants feast kept at Elie place A wonder to be noted in a câ—â—pse that 〈…〉 the ground Rich. Grafton Anno Reg. 11. Lord Daubenie the kings câ—â—efe chamberleine Sir Edward Pâ—inings sâ—nt into Irelâ—â—d with an â—â—mie Gerald earle of Kildare deputie of Ireland apprehended King Henries progresse into Lancashire Perkin attempteth to land in Kent in hope of historie Perkins men discomfited Perkins capteins taken executed Perkin reâ—â—â—leth into Flanders Perkin 〈◊〉 into Ireland and is in â—â—ndrie opinions Katharine daughter to the earle of Huntleie maried to Perkin M. Pal. in Virg. Abr. Flem. ex Edw. Hall fol. xxxviij xxxix Perkin saith that he is Edward the fourths lawfull sonne Perkin telleth the king how he was preserued and kept aliue Perkin calleth the ladie Margaret â—â—chesse of Burgognie his owne 〈◊〉 Perkin craueth aid of the Scotish king toward the recouerie of the crowne of England from king Henrie the seuenth The Scotish king inuadeth EnglaÌ„d with a great armie in Perkin his behalfe The counterfeit compassion of Perkin Anno Reg. 12. A parlement of the thrée estates of the realme A subsidie The king of England and ScotlaÌ„d prepare for mutuall warre A rebellion in Cornewall for the paiment of a subsidie The two capteins in this commotion The prouosâ— of Perin slaine by the rebels Thomas Howard earle of Surrie high treasuror of England Iames Twichet lord Audelie chéefe capteine of the Cornish rebels Manie of the Cornishmen take their héels by night The citie of London sore afraid of the rebels Blackheath field Thrée hundred slaine a thousand fiue hundred taken prisoners as Iohn Stow saith Iames lord Iuâ—elie ignominâ—ouslie drawne to execution and beheaded Anno Reg. â—â— The Scots inuade the English borders Fox bishop 〈◊〉 Durham owner of Norham castell What lords knights with their companies went to the rescued of the castel against the Scots The earle of Surrie entreth Scotland defacing castels and towers The valiant â—art of the erle of Surrie reâ—â—sing at his haplikelie to fight hand to hand with the k. of Scots An ambassadour from the â— of Spaine 〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉 betwixt England and Scotland Luc. lib. 10. The English merchants receiued into Antwerpe with generall procession Perkin is faine to pack â— out of Scotland Perkin Warbeck arriueth in Cornwall Another rebellion by the Cornishmen Perkins thrée councellors Excester asâ—â—saulted by Perkin the Cornishmen The citie of Excester preserued from fire by fire The king maketh out his power against Perkin Edward the yoong duke of Buckingham and his companâ—e ioine with the king Perkin fléeth and taketh Braudlie sanctuarie The beautifull ladie katharine Perkins wife presented to the king Iohn Hooker alià s Vowell All Perkins partakers in their shirts with halters about their necks appâ—â—â— before the king Perkin in sanctuarie assaulted Perkin submitteth hiâ—selfe to the king and is streictlie séene 〈◊〉 M Pal. in Virg. CoÌ„missioners appointed for â—â—â—essing of their â—ines that fauoured the Cornish rebels Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag 872. Gardens in Moore field 〈◊〉 wast to make archers game Price of haie doubled
king Henrie the eight Edw. Hall CCxij The kings letters to the maior of London touching the coronation The cities preparation Hir comming by water from Gréenewich on thursdaie The maiors barge with the conceits and deuises thereof A foist with â— mount and other deuises Quéene Anne taketh barge with hir name attending vpon hir Knights of the bath serue at dinner The receiuing and conueieng of the quéen through London The maior in a gowne of crimsm veluet The attire of certeine Frenchmen belonging to the French embassador The two dukes of Norffolke and Suffolke in their offices Quéene Annes attire verie sumptuous and roiall Thrée chariots with goodlie ladies and gentlewomen Sundrie pageants with the descriptions of their deuises An oration made to the quéene by one of the children in the pagegeant The conduit in Cheape runneth wine white and claret The recorder presenteth a 1000 marks in gold to the quéene for a gratuitie in the cities behalfe Two hundred children vpon a scaffold grating the Q. with verses Goodlie melodie The quéene commeth to Westminster hall and the maner of hir receiuing Sundaie being Whitsundaie the firsâ— daie of Iune and the daie of hir coronatioÌ„ The comelie â—â—der araie kâ—pt on the coronation daie of euerie attendant in his degrée The quéene vnder a canopie borne by â—â—ure of the â—â—que ports The maner of the coronatioÌ„ as it was then vsed The quéene and the ladies in their pompe The attire of the lords all the time that they serued The order and sitting at dinner Twelue citizens of London attendant at the cupboord The maner of sitting at the table The bringing in of the first course How the seuerall tables were furnished The maior of Londons seruice The duke of Suffolke and Norffolke rode about the hall The claime of the citie of London Running at tilt Edw. Hall Câ—xvij The christening of quéene Elizabeth The honourable traine of courtiers in their degrées A canopie borne ouer the yoong princesse Rich gifts giuen to the princesse Who bare the giâ—ts presented to the princesse Angl. praâ—l Septimo Septembris videlices die Dominico nascitur Elisabetha Edw. Hal. Ccxviiâ— Pauier a contemner of the gospell his shamefull end Eob. Hess in psal 119. Guic. pag. 1182 c. Death of pope Clement the seuenth Pope Clement more infortunate than fortunate How manie cardinals he created during his popedome Creation of pope Paule the third a Roman borne Antith Christi papae pag. 16. Elizabeth Barton Penance at Pauls crosse The Scots mooue warre A cursse procured from the pope â—534 Elizabeth Barton attainted A forged miracle Elizabeth Barton becommâ—th a nun The archbisâ—op of Canturâ—urie and â—â—â—bishop of Rochester giue credit to 〈◊〉 hypocritical praâ—tises Elizabeth Barton execâ—ted Thâ— act of â—â—tablishmâ—â—t the crowne Ambassadors foorth of Scotland The pâ—pes supremacie denied in sermons The lords sworne to the succession Ab. Fl. ex Edw. Hall 224 Woolfes wife a notable harlot The end of vnlawful loue and lust The reward of murther committed through couetousnesse Anno Reg. 26. The lord Dacres of the north arreigned Iohn Frith burned Iohn Stow. Frieries suppressed The parlemeÌ„t againe beginneth The admerall of France coÌ„meth in ambassage into England Anno Reg. 27. Iohn Stow. Certeine priors arreigned and executed for treason Iohn Stow. pag. 1004. Hollanders condemned for heretikes Moonks of the Charterhouse executed The bishop of Rochester beheaded Sir 〈◊〉 Mâ—â—re beheaded Abr. Fl. ex Edw. Hall fol. CCxxvj Sir Thomas Moore a scoffer mocker at the verie houre of his death I. Lelandi Mâ—riades siue Châ—â—itaea corona Spirituall graces doo not necessâ—rilie concurrâ— aâ— depend vpon temporall Sir Thomas More in some cases commâ—nded Abr. Flem. 〈◊〉 of a sermon made at Paules crosse by doctor Elmer bishop of London on the eightéenth of October 1584. Whether it wâ—re mattins or euensong it makes no matter Sir Thomas More deuoâ—tlie giuen in his kind The king of Scots knight of the garter The bishop of Winchester â—mbassador into France I. Stow. Uisitation of religious houseâ— 1536. The ladie Katharine Dowager deceaseâ—h Religious houses giuen to the king I. Stow. William Tindall burnt Anno reg 28. Abr. Fl. ex I. Stow. 1006. Quéene Anne committed to the tower Hir imprecation at the tower gate on hir knees She is arreigned in the tower The lord Rochford condemned Quéene Anne and diuerse others beheaded I. For in maityrologio Ang. praelia Ann◠〈◊〉 praedicitur Pla. in Phe. Socratis tale quiddam somniaâ—iâ— The king marieth ladie Iane Seimer A parlement The lord Th. Howard atteinted of treason A booke published concerning religioâ— by the king I. Stow. Triumph at Westminster Adâ—unceâ—â—â—t of the 〈◊〉 Cromwell The death of the kings base sonne The people grudged at the iniunctions established by act of parlement A traitorous conspiracie The Lincolnshire men in armes against the king The petitions of the rebels receiued of the king and of what points they consisted The Lincolnshiremen giue ouer their rebellious enterprise The rebels submit themselues and receiue a new oth of fealtie to the king False rumors the occasion of rebellions A comâ—otion in the north parâ—s An holie pilgrimage The faithfull diligence of the earle of Shrewsburie A good meaning or intent dooth not by and by iustifie and make good the action The loialtie of the earle What the earle said to them that talked lewdlie of him in the campe He was prouided of ill souldiors that so vndutifulliâ— to deale with him would be induced The oth of the earle of Shreâ—wesburie in presence of the people necessarie The duke of Norffolke the kings liâ—utenant The euen of Simon and Iude. A sâ—oud Gods prouidence staieth them from battell The matter is taken vp An other armie of rebels marching southwards through Lancashire A butcher a priest hanged and the cause why A great frost Generall pardons Aske rewarded Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 1010. Sir Raâ—fe Euers his good seruice in the north Penance at Paules crosse The earle of Kildare executed Tilbie A new rebellion Sir Francis Bigod procureth a new commotion The purpose of the rebels Aske others practise to raise a new rebellion Robert Packington murthered Rich. Grafton The inuention of casting pipes Anno reg 29. Execution Areignment Execution The birth of king Edward the sixt The death of quéene Iane. Iohn Fox in Acts Monuments These verses were thought to be made by master Armigill Wade Creation of officers Abr. Fl. ex I. S pag. 1011 1012. Lord Thomas Howard deceassed Good of grace shewed at Paules Saint Sauior in Southworke Anno Reg 30. Frier Forrest Frier Forrest burnt A prophesie Râ—c Graf in fol. pag. 1237. Execution Certeine images takeÌ„ away and remooued from their places Ab. Fl. ex I.S. pag. 1013. Hangman hanged The bible in euerie church to be read Register booke in euerie church to be kept Thomas Becket burnt Frée schoole and almes houses at Ratcliffe Iohn Nicholson alià s Lambert The marques of Excester condemned I. Stow. pag. 1019.
strangers Which brutish beastlie opinion then seemed to me reason and wrought in me such effects that it led me headlong into the practise of this detestable crime of treason But now being better persuaded and vnderstanding the great commoditie honor which the realme should receiue by this marriage I stand firme and fast in this opinion that if it should please the queene to be mercifull vnto me there is no subiect in this land that should more trulie and faithfullie serue hir highnes than I shall nor no sooner die at hir graces féet in defense of hir quarrell I serued hir highnesse against the duke of Northumberland as my lord of Arundell can witnesse My grandfather serued most truelie hir graces grandfather and for his sake was set vpon the racke in the tower My father also serued king Henrie the eight to his good contentation and I also serued him and king Edward his son And in witnesse of my bloud spent in his seruice I carrie a name I alledge not all this to set foorth my seruice by waie of merit which I confesse but dutie but to declare to the whole world that by abusing my wits in pursuing my misaduised opinion I haue not onelie ouerthrowne my house and defaced all the well dooings of me and my ancestors if euer there were anie but also haue béene the cause of mine owne death and destruction Neither doo I alledge this to iustifie my selfe in anie point neither for an excuse of mine offense but most humblie submit my selfe to the queenes maiesties mercie and pitie desiring you my lord of Sussex and you maister Hastings with all the rest of this honorable bench to be meanes to the quéenes highnesse for hir mercie which is the greatest treasure that maie be giuen to anie prince from God such a vertue as God hath appropriate to himselfe Which if hir highnesse vouchsafe to extend vnto me she shall bestow it on him who shall be most glad to serue truelie and not refuse to die in hir quarrell For I protest before the iudge of all iudges I neuer meant hurt against hir highnesse person Then said the quéenes attorneie Maister Wiat you haue great cause to be sorie and repent for your fault whereby you haue not onelie vndoone your selfe and your house but also a number of other gentlemen who being true men might haue serued their prince and countrie yet if you had gone no further it might haue beene borne withall the better But being not so contented to staie your selfe you haue so procured the duke of Suffolke a man soone trained to your purpose and his two brethren also by meanes whereof without the quéenes greater mercie you haue ouerthrowne that noble house And yet not so staied your attempt hath reached as far as in you laie to the second person of the realme in whom next to the quéenes highnesse resteth all our hope and comfort wherby hir honor is brought in question and what danger will folow and to what end it will come God knoweth of all this you are the author Wiat answered As I will not in anie thing iustifie my selfe so I beseech you I being in this wretched estate not to ouercharge me nor to make me séeme to be that I am not I am loth to touch anie person by name but that I haue written I haue written Then said the iudge Maister Wiat maister attornie hath well mooued you to repent your offenses and we for our parts with you the same Then said sir Edward Hastings maister of the quéens horsse Maister Wiat doo ye remember when I and maister Cornwallis were sent vnto you from the quéenes highnesse to demand the cause of your enterprise and what you required Were not these your demands that the quéenes grace should go to the tower and there remaine and you to haue the rule of the tower and hir person with the treasure in kéeping and such of hir councell as you would require to be deliuered into your hands saieng that you would be trusted and not trust Which words when Wiat had confessed then said the quéenes solicitor Your presumption was ouer great your attempt in this case hath purchased you perpetuall infamie and shall be called Wiats rebellion as Wat Tilers was called Wat Tilers rebellion Then said the attorneie Maister Wiat were you not priuie to a deuise whereby the quéene should haue béene murthered in a place where she should walke I doo not burthen you to confesse this for thus much I must saie on your behalfe that you misliked that deuise That deuise said Wiat was the deuise of William Thomas whome euer after I abhorred for line 10 that cause Then was a letter shewed which Wiat being in Southworke had written to the duke of Suffolke that he should méet him at Kingstone bridge and from thense to accompanie him to London although he came with the fewer number Wiat at the first did not séeme to remember anie such letter but when it was shewed him he confessed his hand Then was it demanded of him among other things whie he refused the queenes pardon when it was offered line 20 him My lords quoth he I confesse my fault and offense to be most vile and heinous for the which first I aske God mercie without the which I cannot chalenge anie thing such is my offense alreadie committed And therefore I beséech you to trouble me with no more questions for I haue deliuered all things vnto hir grace in writing And finallie here I must confesse that of all the voiages wherein I haue serued this was the most desperat and painfull iorneie that euer I made And where you asked whie I receiued not the quéenes pardon when it was offered line 30 vnto me Oh vnhappie man What shall I saie When I was entred into this diuellish desperat aduenture there was no waie but wade through with that I had taken in hand for I had thought that other had béene as farre forward as my selfe which I found farre otherwise So that being bent to keepe promise with all my confederats none kept promise with me for I like a moile went through thicke and thin with this determination that if I should come line 40 to anie treatie I should séeme to bewraie all my friends But whereto should I spend anie more words I yéeld my selfe wholie vnto the quéenes mercie knowing well that it is onelie in hir power to make me as I haue deserued an open example to the world with Wat Tiler or else to make me participant of that pitie which she hath extended in as great crimes as mine most humblie beséeching you all to be means for me to hir highnesse for mercie which is line 50 my last and onelie refuge The will of God be doone on me Upon this confession without further triall he receiued the iudgement accustomed in cases of treason which was to be hanged drawne and quartered And the
eleuenth of Aprill next folowing he was brought to the Tower hill and there was pardoned of his drawing and hanging but had his head stricken off and his bodie cut in foure quarters and set vp in diuerse places about the citie but his head was set vppon the gallowes at Haie hill beside Hide parke line 60 Now here by the waie is to be noted that he being on the scaffold readie to suffer declared that the ladie Elizabeth and sir Edward Courtneie earle of Deuonshire whome he had accused before as it séemed were neuer priuie to his dooings as farre as he knew or was able to charge them And when doctor Weston being then his confessor told him that he had confessed the contrarie vnto the councell he answered thus That I said then I said but that which I saie now is true This was the end of Wiat and his conspiracie as also the like hath béene of others attempting anie rebellion For as their enterprise being according to the proper qualitie thereof considered is flat against Gods ordinance who hath ordeined magistracie to be reuerenced of inferiors so it is vnlikelie to bring other than infortunatnesse and shamefull ouerthrowes vnto the attempters in whome although will want not to compasse anie worke yet force failing they misse the marke all bicause rashnesse giueth them a false aime Wherefore to conclude this tragicall discourse of Wiat it were to be wished that the sage and safe counsell of Cato were put in common practise of all men which is to vndertake doo nothing aboue their strength Quod potes id tentes operis ne pondere pressus Succumbat labor frustra tentata relinquas The seuenth daie of Aprill next following sir Nicholas Throckmorton knight was brought from the tower to Guildhall in London and there arreigned of high treason as adherent and principall counsellor to the said Wiat and the duke of Suffolke and the rest in the fore remembred conspiracie against the quéene But he so stoutlie and therwithall so cunninglie answered for himselfe as well in cleering of his cause as also in defending auoiding such points of the lawes of the realme as were there alleaged against him that the quest which passed vpon his life death found him not giltie With which verdict the iudges and councellors there present were so much offended that they bound the iurie in the summe of fiue hundred pounds a péece to appeare before the councell in the Starchamber at a daie appointed And according to their bond they appeared there before the said councell vpon Wednesdaie being the one and twentith of Aprill and saint Marks daie from whense after certeine questioning they were committed to prison Emanuell Lucar and master Whetston to the tower and the other to the Fléet But now forsomuch as a copie of the order of sir Nicholas Throckmortons arreignement hath come to my hands and that the same maie giue some light to the historie of that dangerous rebellion I haue thought it not impertinent to insert the same not wishing that it should be offensiue to anie sith it is in euerie mans libertie to weie his words vttered in his owne defense and likewise the dooings of the quest in acquitting him as maie séeme good to their discretions sith I haue deliuered the same as I haue found it without preiudicing anie mans opinion to thinke thereof otherwise than as the cause maie mooue him The order of the arreignement of sir Nicholas Throckmorton knight in tâ—e Guildhall of London the seuenteenth daie of Aprill 1554 expressed in a dialog for the better vnderstanding of euerie mans part SIr Thomas White knight lord maior of London the earle of Shrewesburie the earle of Derbie sir Thomas Bromleie knight lord chiefe iustice of England sir Nicholas Hare knight master of the rolles sir Francis Englefield knight master of the court of wards and liberties sir Richard Southwell knight one of the priuie councell sir Edward Walgraue knight one of the priuie councell sir Roger Cholmeleie knight sir William Portman knight one of the iustices of the Kings bench sir Edward Sanders knight one of the iustices of the common plees master Stanford master Dier sergeants master Edward Griffin attournie generall master Sendall and Peter Tithbourne clearks of the crowne First after proclamation made and the commission read the lieutenant of the tower master Thomas Bridges brought the prisoner to the barre then silence was commanded and Sendall said to the prisoner as followeth Nicholas Throckmorton knight hold vp thy hand thou art before this time indicted of high treason c that thou then and there didst falselie and traitorouslie c conspire and imagine the death of the quéenes maiestie c and falselie and traitorouslie diddest leuie warre against the quéene within hir realme c and also thou wast adherent to the quéenes enimies within hir realme giuing to them aid and comfort c and also falselie and traitorouslie diddest conspire line 10 and intend to depose and depriue the quéene of hir roiall estate and so finallie destroie hir c and also thou diddest falselie and traitorouslie deuise and conclude to take violentlie the tower of London c. Ofall which treasons and euerie of them in maner forme c art thou giltie or not giltie Maie it please you my lords and maisters which be authorised by the queenes commission to be iudges this daie to giue me leaue to speake a few words which dooth both concerne you and me before line 20 I answer to the indictement and not altogither impertinent to the matter and then plead to the indictment No the order is not so you must first plead whether you be giltie or no. If that be your order and law iudge accordinglie to it You must first answer to the matter wherewith you are charged and then you maie talke at your pleasure line 30 But things spoken out of place were as good not spoken These be but delaies to spend time therefore answer as the law willeth you My lords I praie you make not too much hast with me neither thinke not long for your dinner for my case requireth leasure and you haue well dined when you haue doone iustice trulie Christ said Blessed are they that hunger and thirst for righteousnesse I can forbeare my dinner as well as you and care line 40 as little as you peraduenture Come you hither to checke vs Throckmorton We will not be so vsed no no I for mine owne part haue forborne my breakefast dinner and supper to serue the queene Yea my good lord I know it right well I meant not to touch your lordship for your seruice and pains is euidentlie knowne to all men Master Throckmorton this talke néedeth not we know what we haue to doo and you would teach vs line 50 our duties you hurt your matter go to go to Master
seruant Marie our quéene with child conceiued and so visit hir in and with thy godlie gift of health that not onelie the child thy creature within line 50 hir conteined maie ioifullie come from hir into this world and receiue the blessed sacraments of baptisme and confirmation inioieng therewith dailie increase of all princelie and gratious gifts both of bodie and soule but that also she the mother through thy speciall grace and mercie maie in time of hir trauell auoid all excessiue dolour and paine and abide perfect and sure from all perill and danger of death with long and prosperous life thorough Christ line 60 our Lord Amen ¶ And thus much shall suffice touching this great adoo about quéene Marie and hir babe The second daie of December being sundaie cardinall Poole came to Pauls church in London with great pompe hauing before him a crosse two pillers and two pollaxes of siluer and was there solemnlie receiued by the bishop of Winchester chancellor of England who met him with procession And shortlie after king Philip came from Westminster by land being accompanied with a great number of his nobles And the same daie the bishop of Winchester preached at Pauls crosse in the which sermon he declared that the king and quéene had restored the pope to his right of primasie that the thrée estates assembled in parlement representing the whole bodie of the realme had submitted themselues to his holinesse and to his successors for euer And in the same also he greatlie praised the cardinall and set foorth the passing high authoritie that he had from the 〈◊〉 of Rome with much other glorious matter in the commendation of the church of Rome which he called the see apostolike This sermon being ended the king and the cardinall riding togither returned to White hall and the king had his sword borne before him and the cardinall had onelie his crosse and no more The seauen and twentith daie of the said moneth Emanuell Philibert earle of Sauoie and prince of Piemount came into England accompanied with diuerse other lords and gentlemen strangers who were receiued at Grauesend by the earle of Bedford lord priuie seale and conueied by water through London bridge to White hall where the king and queene then laie ¶ On the ninth of Ianuarie next following the prince of Orange was in like maner receiued at Grauesend and from thence conueied to the court being at White hall The twelfth of Ianuarie the said prince of Orange with other lords was conducted by the lord chamberlein to the tower of London where was shewed vnto him the ordinance artillerie munitions and armorie with the mint c and so was brought into the white tower from whence as he returned through the long gallerie all the prisoners saluted him vnto whome the prince said he was sorie for their captiuitie and trusted the king and quéene would be good vnto them At his departing from the tower he gaue the gunners ten péeces of Flemmish gold at fiue shillings the péece and the warders other ten péeces as a reward Upon wednesdaie the 12 of December fiue of the eight men which laie in the Fléet that had passed vpon sir Nicholas Throckmortons triall were discharged and set at libertie vpon their fines paid which was two hundred and twentie pounds a péece The other thrée put vp a supplication therein declaring their goods did not amount to the summe of that which they were appointed to paie and so vpon that declaration paieng thrée score pounds a péece they were deliuered out of prison on saint Thomas daie before Christmas being the one twentith of December The two and twentith of the same moneth the parlement which began the two and twentith of Nouember before was dissolued wherein among other acts passed there the statute Ex officio and other lawes made for punishment of heresies were reuiued But chiefelie the popes most liberall bull of dispensation of abbeie land was there confirmed much to the contentation of manie who not without cause suspected by this new vnion to lose some peece of their late purchase ¶ On new yeares daie at night was a great tumult betweene Spaniards and Englishmen at Westminster whereof was like to haue insued great mischiefe through a Spanish frier which got into the church and roong alarum The occasion was about two whores which were in the cloister of Westminster with a sort of Spaniards wherof whilest some plaied the knaues with them other some did kéepe the entrie of the cloister with dags and harnesse In the meane time certeine of the deanes men came into the cloister and the Spaniards discharged their dags at them and hurt some of them By and by the noise of this dooing came into the streets so that the whole towne was vp almost but neuer a stroke was stricken Notwithstanding the noise of this dooing with the deans men and also the ringing of the alarum made much adoo and a great number also to be sore afraid year 1555 Upon fridaie the eighteenth of Ianuarie all the councell by name the lord chancellor the bishop of Elie the lord treasuror the earle of Shrewesburie the comptrollor of the quéenes house secretarie Bourne and sir Richard Southwell master of the ordinance and armorie went to the tower and there the same daie discharged and set at libertie all the prisoners of the tower or the more part of them namelie the archbishop of Yorke the late duke of Northumberlands line 10 sonnes the lords Ambrose Robert and Henrie also sir Andrew Dudleie sir Iames Croftes sir Nicholas Throckmorton sir Iohn Rogers sir Nicholas Arnold sir George Harper sir Edward Warner sir William Sentlow sir Gawen Carew William Gibbes esquier Cutbert Uaughan and diuerse others Moreouer about this season diuerse learned men being apprehended and in prison for matters of religion were brought before the bishops of Winchester line 20 and London and other the bishops and commissioners appointed therefore who vpon the constant standing of the said learned men in their opinions which they had taken vpon them to mainteine as grounded vpon the true word of God as they protested procéeded in iudgement against them and so diuerse of them were burned at London in Smithfield and in diuerse other places Naie not onelie by fire but by other torments were the good christians persecuted whose zeale was hot in religion and defiance line 30 of the pope insomuch that then he was counted Gods enimie which tooke not the pope for the friend of Christ whome he hateth with hostilitie as C.O. noteth verie trulie in his Elisabetha saieng nam creditur hostis Esse Dei papa◠si quis pius asserit hostem Esse Dei veros Christi qui tollit honores In Februarie next following doctor Thirlebie bishop of Elie and Anthonie lord Montacute with a verie honorable traine of gentlemen and others line 40 rode foorth of the citie of
London towards Rome as ambassadors sent from the king and quéene to confirme this new reconciliation to the pope A yoong stripling whose name was William Fetherstone a millers sonne about the age of eightéene yeares named and bruted himselfe to be king Edward the sixt whereof when the quéene and the councell heard they caused with all diligence inquirie to be made for him so that he was apprehended in Southworke or as other haue at Eltham in Kent the tenth of Maie line 50 and brought before the councell at Hampton court and there examined And it was demanded of him why he so named himselfe To which he counterfetting a maner of simplicitie or rather frensie would make no direct answer but praid pardon for he wist not what he said affirming further that he was counselled so to saie and to take vpon him the name whereof he accused certeine persons but his talke was not found true wherefore he was committed to the Marshalseie as a lunatike foole line 60 On the eight and twentith daie of Maie next following the aforesaid counterfet prince was brought in a cart from the Marshalseie thorough the citie of London with a paper ouer his head wherein was written that he named himselfe king Edward And from thense was conueied to Westminster being led round about the hall and shewed to all the people there and afterward he was taken out of the cart and stripped and then whipped round about the palace at the same carts taile and then thorough Westminster into Smithfield and then banished into the north in which countrie he was borne and had béene sometime lackie to sir Peter Mewtas and without more punishment was discharged and set at libertie But the next yeare following for that he had spred abroad that king Edward was aliue and that he had spoken with him he was againe apprehended and arreigned of high treason whereof being condemned he shortlie after was drawne vnto Tiburne and there hanged and quartered the thirtéenth of March ¶ Here as in a fit and conuenient place the obseruation of the daie and moneth offering no lesse it is not amisse to set downe the speech of quéene Marie vttered to sundrie of hir lords touching a motion which no doubt certeine popish prelats had put into hir mind the effect whereof followeth as I find it in master Fox Before I passe this moneth of March saith he I cannot but leaue a little memorandum of the words or consultation of quéene Marie vsed to certeine of the councell the eight twentith daie of the said moneth of March touching the restoring againe of the abbeie lands Who after she had called vnto hir presence foure of hir priuie councell the daie and moneth aforesaid the names of which councellors were these William lord marquesse of Winchester high treasuror of England sir Robert Rochester knight the queenes comptrollor sir William Peter knight secretarie sir Francis Inglefield knight master of wards the said queene Marie inferred these words the principall effect summe whereof here followeth You are here of our councell and we haue willed you to be called to vs to the intent yee might heare of me my conscience and the resolution of my mind concerning the lands and possessions as well of monasteries as other churches whatsoeuer being now presentlie in my possession First I doo consider that the said lands were taken awaie from the churches aforesaid in time of schisme and that by vnlawfull means such as are contrarie both to the law of God and of the church For the which cause my conscience dooth not suffer me to deteine them and therefore I here expresselie refuse either to claime or to reteine the said lands for mine but with all my heart fréelie and willinglie without all paction or condition here and before God I doo surrender and relinquish the said lands and possessions or inheritances whatsoeuer doo renounce the same with this mind and purpose that order and disposition thereof may be taken as shall séeme best liking to our most holie lord the pope or else his legat the lord cardinall to the honour of God and wealth of this our realme And albeit you may obiect to me againe that considering the state of my kingdome the dignitie thereof and my crowne imperiall cannot be honorablie mainteined and furnished without the possessions aforesaid yet notwithstanding I set more by the saluation of my soule than by ten kingdoms and therefore the said possessions I vtterlie refuse here to hold after that sort and title and giue most hartie thanks to almightie God which hath giuen me an husband likewise minded with no lesse good affection in this behalfe than I am my selfe Wherefore I charge and command that my chancellor with whom I haue conferred my mind in this matter before and you foure to morrow together doo resort to the most reuerend lord legat and doo signifie to him the premisses in my name giue your attendance vpon him for the more full declaration of the state of my kingdome and of the foresaid possessions accordinglie as you your selues doo vnderstand the matter and can informe him in the same This charge as the sequele gaue proofe was followed with no lesse diligence of the lords than it was imposed with willingnes vpon them by the quéene insomuch that shortlie after as anon you shall heare the performed hir promise to â—he pith But to leâ— this matter passe till due time place require a declaration of the conclusion thereof I am héere saith master Fox as occasion serueth to intreat of pope Iulius death for so much as he made his end about the latter end of this foresaid moneth of March. Concerning the déeds and acts of which pope to make a full declaration it were not so much tedious to the reader as horrible to all good eares Under this Iulius florished the archbishop of Beneuentanus a Florentine named Iohannes a Casa deane of the popes chamber and chéefe legat to the line 10 Uenetians who well declaring the fruit of that filthie see so farre forgat both honestie and nature that he shamed not onelie to plaie the filthie Sodomite himselfe and to boast openlie of the same but also tooke vpon him most impudentlie in Italian metre to all mens eares to set foorth the praise and commendation of that beastlie iniquitie saieng that he himselfe neuer vsed other and this booke was printed at Uenice by one Troianus Nauus And yet the pope could suffer this so great iniquitie and shamelesse line 20 beastlinesse euen vnder his nose in his owne chamber which could not abide the true doctrine of Christ in christian bookes Amongst other pranks and déeds of this foresaid pope in his Iubilée and in the synod of Trent and in confirming of the idoll of Lauretane this is also reported of him in his life that he delighted greatlie in porke flesh and peacocks Upon a time when he