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A28237	The history of the reigns of Henry the Seventh, Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, and Queen Mary the first written by the Right Honourable Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban ; the other three by the Right Honourable and Right Reverend Father in God, Francis Godwyn, Lord Bishop of Hereford.; Historie of the raigne of King Henry the Seventh	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Godwin, Francis, 1562-1633. Rerum Anglicarum Henrico VIII, Edwardo VI, et Maria regnantibus annales. English.; Godwin, Morgan, 1602 or 3-1645.	1676 (1676)	Wing B300; ESTC R19519	347,879	364

for the King but with promise De Futuro only It may be the King was the rather induced unto it for that he heard more and more of the Marriage to go on between his great Friend and Allie Ferdinando of Arragon and Madam De Fois whereby that King began to piece with the French King from whom he had been always before severed So fatal a thing it is for the greatest and straitest Amities of Kings at one time or other to have a little of the Wheel Nay there is a further Tradition in Spain though not with us That the King of Arragon after he knew that the Marriage between Charles the young Prince of Castile and Mary the King 's second Daughter went roundly on which though it was first moved by the King of Arragon yet it was afterwards wholly advanced and brought to perfection by Maximilian and the Friends on that side entred into jealousie that the King did aspire to the Government of Castilia as Administrator during the Minority of his Son-in-Law as if there should have been a Competition of Three for that Government Ferdinando Grand-father on the Mothers side Maximilian Grand-father on the Father's side and King Henry Father-in-Law to the young Prince Certainly it is not unlike but the King's Government carrying the young Prince with him would have been perhaps more welcom to the Spaniards than that of the other Two For the Nobility of Castilia that so lately put out the King of Arragon in favour of King Philip and had discovered themselves so far could not but be in a secret Distrust and Distast of that King And as for Maximilian upon Twenty respects he could not have been the Man But this purpose of the King 's seemeth to me considering the King 's safe Courses never found to be enterprizing or adventurous not greatly probable except he should have had a Desire to breathe warmer because he had ill Lungs This Marriage with Margaret was protracted from time to time in respect of the Infirmity of the King who now in the Two and Twentieth year of his Reign began to be troubled with the Gout But the Defluxion taking also into his Breast wasted his Lungs so that thrice in a Year in a kind of Return and especially in the Spring he had great Fitts and Labours of the Tissick Nevertheless he continued to intend Business with as great diligence as before in his Heath Yet so as upon this warning he did likewise now more seriously think of the World to come and of making himself a Saint as well as King Henry the Sixth by Treasure better employed than to be given to Pope Julius For this Year he gave greater Alms than accustomed and discharged all Prisoners about the City that lay for Fees or Debts under forty Shillings He did also make haste with Religious Foundations and in the Year following which was the Three and Twentieth finished that of the Savoy And hearing also of the bitter Cries of his People against the Oppressions of Dudley and Empson and their Complices partly by Devout Persons about him and partly by publick Sermons the Preachers doing their Duty therein he was touched with great Remorse for the same Nevertheless Empson and Dudley though they could not but hear of these Scruples in the King's Conscience yet as if the King's Soul and his Money were in several Offices that the One was not to intermeddle with the Other went on with as great rage as ever For the same Three and Twentieth Year was there a sharp Prosecution against Sir William Capel now the second time and this was for matters of Misgovernment in his Maioralty The great Matter being that in some Payments he had taken knowledge of False Moneys and did not his diligence to examine and beat it out who were the Offendors For this and some other things laid to his Charge he was condemned to pay two thousand Pounds and being a Man of stomach and hardened by his former Troubles refused to pay a Mite and be-like used some untoward Speeches of the Proceedings for which he was sent to the Tower and there remained till the King's Death Knesworth likewise that had been lately Mayor of London and both his Sheriffs were for Abuses in their Offices questioned and imprisoned and delivered upon one thousand four hundred Pounds paid Hawis an Alderman of London was put in Trouble and dyed with Thought and Anguish before his Business came to an end Sir Lawrence Ailmer who had likewise been Mayor of London and his two Sheriffs were put to the Fine of one thousand Pounds And Sir Lawrence for refusing to make payment was committed to Prison where he stay'd till Empson himself was committed in his place It is no marvel if the Faults were so light and the Rates so heavy that the King's Treasure of Store that he left at his death most of it in secret places under his own key and keeping at Richmond amounted as by Tradition it is reported to have done unto the Summ of near eighteen hundred thousand Pounds Sterling a huge Mass of Money even for these times The last Act of State that concluded this King 's Temporal Felicity was the Conclusion of a Glorious Match between his Daughter Mary and Charles Prince of Castile afterwards the great Emperor both being of tender years which Treaty was perfected by Bishop Fox and other his Commissioners at Calice the year before the King's Death In which Alliance it seemeth he himself took so high Contentment as in a Letter which he wrote thereupon to the City of London Commanding all possible Demonstrations of Joy to be made for the same he expresseth himself as if he thought he had built a Wall of Brass about his Kingdom When he had for his Sons-in-Law a King of Scotland and a Prince of Castile and Burgundy So as now there was nothing to be added to this great King's Felicity being at the top of all worldly Bliss in regard of the high Marriages of his Children his great Renown throughout Europe and his scarce credible Riches and the perpetual Constancy of his prosperous Successes but an opportune Death to withdraw him from any future blow of Fortune Which certainly in regard of the great Hatred of his People and the Title of his Son being then come to Eighteen years of Age and being a bold Prince and liberal and that gained upon the People by his very Aspect and Presence had not been impossible to have come upon him To crown also the last year of his Reign as well as his first he did an Act of Piety rare and worthy to be taken into Imitation For he granted forth a General Pardon as expecting a second Coronation in a better Kingdom He did also declare in his Will that his mind was that Restitution should be made of those Summs which had been unjustly taken by his Officers And thus this Solomon of England for Solomon also was too heavy upon his People in

those Parts and by his presence and application of himself to reclaim and rectifie those Humours But the King in his accompt of Peace and Calms did much overcast his Fortunes which proved for many Years together full of Broken Seas Tides and Tempests For he was no sooner come to Lincoln where he kept his Easter but he received news that the Lord Lovel Humphrey Stafford and Thomas Stafford who had formerly taken Sanctuary at Colchester were departed out of Sanctuary but to what place no man could tell Which advertisement the King despised and continued his Journey to York At York there came fresh and more certain advertisement that the Lord Lovel was at hand with a great power of men and that the Staffords were in Arms in Worcestershire and had made their approaches to the City of Worcester to assail it The King as a Prince of great and profound Judgement was not much moved with it for that he thought it was but a Ragg or Remnant of Bosworth-Field and had nothing in it of the main Party of the House of York But he was more doubtful of the raising of Forces to resist the Rebels than of the Resistance it self for that he was in a Core of People whose affections he suspected But the Action enduring no delay he did speedily levy and sent against the Lord Lovel to the number of three thousand men ill armed but well assured being taken some few out of his own Train and the rest out of the Tenants and Followers of such as were safe to be trusted under the Conduct of the Duke of Bedford And as his manner was to send his Pardons rather before the Sword than after he gave Commission to the Duke to proclaim Pardon to all that would come in Which the Duke upon his approach to the Lord Lovel's Camp did perform And it fell out as the King expected the Heralds were the Great-Ordnance For the Lord Lovel upon Proclamation of Pardon mistrusting his men fled into Lancashire and lurking for a time with Sir Thomas Broughton after sailed over into Flanders to the Lady Margaret And his men forsaken of their Captain did presently submit themselves to the Duke The Staffords likewise and their Forces hearing what had happened to the Lord Lovel in whose Success their chief Trust was despaired and dispersed The two Brothers taking Sanctuary at Colnham a Village near Abington which Place upon view of their Priviledge in the King's Bench being judged no sufficient Sanctuary for Traytors Humphrey was Executed at Tyburn and Thomas as being led by his elder Brother was Pardoned So this Rebellion proved but a Blast and the King having by this Journey purged a little the Dregs and Leaven of the Northern People that were before in no good affection towards him returned to London In September following the Queen was delivered of her first Son whom the King in Honour of the British-Race of which himself was named Arthur according to the Name of that ancient worthy King of the Britains in whose Acts there is truth enough to make him Famous besides that which is Fabulous The Child was strong and able though he was Born in the eighth Month which Physicians do prejudge THere followed this Year being the Second of the King's Reign a strange Accident of State whereof the Relations which we have are so naked as they leave it scarce credible not for the nature of it for it hath fallen out oft but for the manner and circumstance of it especially in the beginnings Therefore we shall make our Judgement upon the things themselves as they give light one to another and as we can dig Truth out of the Mine The King was green in his Estate and contrary to his own Opinion and Desert both was not without much Hatred throughout the Realm The root of all was the discountenancing of the House of York which the general Body of the Realm still affected This did alienate the Hearts of the Subjects from him dayly more and more especially when they saw that after his Marriage and after a Son born the King did nevertheless not so much as proceed to the Coronation of the Queen not vouchsafing her the Honour of a Matrimonial Crown for the Coronation of Her was not 'till almost two Years after when Danger had taught him what to do But much more when it was spread abroad whether by Errour or the cunning of Male-contents that the King had a purpose to put to death Edward Plantagenet closely in the Tower Whose case was so neerly parallel'd with that of Edward the Fourth's Children in respect of the blood like age and the very place of the Tower as it did refresh and reflect upon the King a most odious resemblance as if he would be another King Richard And all this time it was still whispered every where that at least one of the Children of Edward the Fourth was living Which Bruit was cunningly fomented by such as desired Innovation Neither was the King's nature and customs greatly fit to disperse these Mists but contrary-wise he had a fashion rather to create Doubts than Assurance Thus was Fuel prepared for the Spark the Spark that afterwards kindled such a Fire and Combustion was at the first contemptible There was a subtil Priest called Richard Simon that lived in Oxford and had to his Pupil a Baker's Son named Lambert Simnel of the age of some Fifteen years a comely Youth and well-favoured not without some extraordinary dignity and grace of Aspect It came into this Priest's fancy hearing what men talked and in hope to raise himself to some great Bishoprick to cause this Lad to counterfeit and Personate the second Son of Edward the Fourth supposed to be murthered and afterward for he changed his intention in the manage the Lord Edward Plantagenet then Prisoner in the Tower and accordingly to frame him and instruct him in the Part he was to play This is that which as was touched before seemeth scarcely credible Not that a false Person should be assumed to gain a Kingdom for it hath been seen in antient and late times nor that it should come into the mind of such an abject Fellow to enterprise so great a matter for high Conceits do sometime come streaming into the Imaginations of base persons especially when they are drunk with News and Talk of the People But here is that which hath no apparance That this Priest being utterly unacquainted with the true Person according to whose pattern he should shape his Counterfeit should think it possible for him to instruct his Player either in gesture and fashions or in recounting past matters of his Life and Education or to fit Answers to Questions or the like any ways to come near the Resemblance of him whom he was to represent For this Lad was not to personate one that had been long before taken out of his Cradle or conveyed away in his Infancy known to few but a Youth that 'till the age almost

put himself into the consort or Choir of all Religious actions and naturally affecting much the King of Spain as far as one King can affect another partly for his virtues and partly for a counterpoise to France upon the receipt of these Letters sent all his Nobles and Prelates that were about the Court together with the Mayor and Aldermen of London in great solemnity to the Church of St. Pauls there to hear a Declaration from the Lord Chancellor now Cardinal When they were assembled the Cardinal standing upon the uppermost step or half-pace before the Chair and all the Nobles Prelates and Governours of the City at the foot of the stairs made a Speech to them letting them know that they were assembled in that Consecrate place to sing unto God a New-song For that said he these many years the Christians have not gained new ground or Territory upon the Infidels nor enlarged and set further the Bounds of the christian-Christian-world But this is now done by the prowess and devotion of Ferdinando and Isabella Kings of Spain who have to their immortal Honour recovered the great and rich Kingdom of Granade and the populous and mighty City of the same name from the Moors having been in possession thereof by the space of seven hundred years and more For which this Assembly and all Christians are to render laud and thanks unto God and to celebrate this noble Act of the King of Spain who in this is not only Victorious but Apostolical in the gaining of new Provinces to the Christian Faith And the rather for that this victory and Conquest is obtained without much effusion of blood Whereby it is to be hoped that there shall be gained not only new Territory but infinite Souls to the Church of Christ whom the Almighty as it seems would have live to be converted Herewithal he did relate some of the most memorable particulars of the War and Victory And after his Speech ended the whole assembly went solemnly in Procession and Te Deum was sung Immediately after the Solemnity the King kept his May-day at his Palace of Shein now Richmond Where to warm the blood of his Nobility and Gallants against the War he kept great Triumphs of Justing and Tourney during all that Month. In which space it so fell out that Sir James Parker and Hugh Vaughan one of the King's Gentlemen-Ushers having had a controversie touching certain Arms that the King at Arms had given Vaughan were appointed to run some Courses one against another And by accident of a faulty Helmet that Parker had on he was stricken into the mouth at the first Course so that his tongue was born unto the hinder part of his head in such sort that he died presently upon the place Which because of the Controversie precedent and the Death that followed was accounted among the Vulgar as a Combat or Tryal of Right The King towards the end of this Summer having put his Forces wherewith he meant to invade France in readiness but so as they were not yet met or mustered together sent Urswick now made his Almoner and Sir John Risley to Maximilian to let him know that he was in Arms ready to pass the Seas into France and did but expect to hear from him when and where he did appoint to joyn with him according to his promise made unto him by Countebal his Ambassador The English Ambassadors having repaired to Maximilian did find his power and promise at a very great distance he being utterly unprovided of Men Money and Arms for any such enterprize For Maximilian having neither Wing to flie on for that his Patrimony of Austria was not in his hands his Father being then living And on the other side his Matrimonial Territories of Flanders being partly in Dowre to his Mother-in-law and partly not serviceable in respect of the late Rebellions was thereby destitute of means to enter into War The Ambassadors saw this well but wisely thought fit to advertise the King thereof rather than to return themselves till the King 's further pleasure were known The rather for that Maximilian himself spake as great as ever he did before and entertained them with dilatory Answers so as the formal part of their Ambassage might well warrant and require their further stay The King hereupon who doubted as much before and saw through his business from the beginning wrote back to the Ambassadors commending their discretion in not returning and willing them to keep the state wherein they found Maximilian as a Secret till they heard further from him And mean while went on with his Voyage Royal for France suppressing for a time this Advertisement touching Maximilian's poverty and disability By this time was drawn together a great and puissant Army into the City of London in which were Thomas Marquess Dorset Thomas Earl of Arundel Thomas Earl of Derby George Earl of Shrewsbury Edmond Earl of Suffolk Edward Earl of Devonshire George Earl of Kent the Earl of Essex Thomas Earl of Ormond with a great number of Barons Knights and principal Gentlemen and amongst them Richard Thomas much noted for the brave Troops that he brought out of Wales the Army rising in the whole to the number of five and twenty thousand Foot and sixteen hundred Horse Over which the King constant in his accustomed trust and employment made Jasper Duke of Bedford and John Earl of Oxford Generals under his own person The ninth of September in the eighth year of his Reign he departed from Greenwich towards the Sea all men wondering that he took that season being so near Winter to begin the War and some thereupon gathering it was a sign that the War would not be long Nevertheless the King gave out the contrary thus That he intending not to make a Summer-business of it but a resolute War without term prefixed until he recovered France it skilled not much when he began it especially having Calice at his back where he might winter if the reason of the War so required The sixth of October he embarqued at Sandwich and the same day took land at Calice which was the Rendezvonz where all his Forces were assigned to meet But in this his Journey towards the Sea-side wherein for the cause that we shall now speak of he hovered so much the longer he had received Letters from the Lord Cordes who the hotter he was against the English in time of War had the more credit in a Negotiation of Peace and besides was held a man open and of good faith In which Letters there was made an overture of Peace from the French King with such Conditions as were somewhat to the King's tast but this was carried at the first with wonderful secrecy The King was no sooner come to Calice but the calm winds of Peace began to blow For first the English Ambassadors returned out of Flanders from Maximilian and certified the King that he was not to hope for any ayd from Maximilian for that he was

Manners of those Heathen Christians FINIS ANNALS OF ENGLAND QUEEN MARY The Third Book LONDON Printed for Thomas Basset John Wright and Richard Chiswel M. DC LXXV ANNALS OF ENGLAND BOOK III. QUEEN MARY ANNO DOM. 1553. REG. 1. WHen the Lady Mary long since acquainted with Northumberland's secret practices was also certified of her Brother's decease not thinking it safe to abide near London where her Enemies were in their full strength pretending a fear of the Plague by reason of the suspitious death of one of her Houshold she suddenly departed from St. Edmundsbury and came in one day to Framingham Castle in Suffolk distant from London fourscore miles and seated near the Sea from whence if Fortune frowned on her she might make an easie escape into France Here she took upon her the Title of Queen and by Letters to her Friends and the Nobles wished their speedy repair unto Her In the mean time Northumberland having for two days together consulted with his Friends concerning the managing of this great business the King's death being not yet published sent command to the Lord Mayor of London to repair forthwith to Greenwich with six Aldermen and twelve other Citizens of chiefest account To them he declares the King's departure and the seating of Lady Jane in the Throne of Sovereignty shewing withal the King's Testament under Seal which did import no less than the setling the Succession on her and that Family He causeth them either by terrour or promises to swear Allegiance to Lady Jane with command and that under a great penalty that they should not as yet divulge these secret passages What a furtherance it might be to his Affairs if he could assure himself of this City he was too wise to be ignorant of And as for suppressing the report of the King's death he thought it might prove a means to facilitate the surprisal of the Lady Mary as yet probably secure for lack of notice of her Brother's decease But understanding that she had made an escape into Suffolk Lady Jane was by almost all the Peers of the Realm pompously conducted to the Tower and with great Solemnity publickly proclaimed Queen She was of age about sixteen of feature not admirable but handsom incredibly learned very quick-witted and wise both beyond her Sex and above her Age wonderfully devoted to purity of Doctrine and so far from desire of this Advancement that she began not to act her part of Royalty without Tears manifesting it to the World that she was forced by her Parents and Friends ambition to this high but dangerous Ascent At her going through the City toward the Tower the Concourse of the People was great their Acclamations few as if the strangeness of some new Spectacle had drawn them together rather than any intent of Gratulation Which Queen Maries for so we must henceforth call her Friends hitherto distrustful more of Success than the Cause accepted of as an happy omen and were encouraged to assist her as occasion should invite them But the presence of Northumberland a man quick watchful and very politick was yet a remora to their Proceedings Him they must send farther off or be content to sit still The same day that Lady Jane entred the Tower Letters sent from Queen Mary are read openly at the Council Table wherein she commands the Lords to repair to her as being the next in Succession to the Crown and that they at last should take example from the general Votes of the Kingdom she being now every where acknowledged the lawful Sovereign And indeed the Norfolk and Suffolk men were become hers and the wiser sort did easily discern that the affections of the People were hers Wherefore it was thought at first expedient speedily to levy an Army and that while yet the Hearts of the People were free from any Impression and their Minds yet equally poised in the Ballance of Irresolution were either way to be swayed By this course they might be peradventure too strong for the Queen and preventing her Plea by Arms force her to plead more necessarily for her Life And an Army was raised whereof the Duke of Suffolk was appointed General But the fautors of Maries Cause whose main Project was to remove that grand obstacle the Duke of Northumberland slily insinuating themselves with Lady Jane perswaded her not to part with her Father but to dispatch Northumberland for this Employment the very terrour of whose Name his late Victory over the Norfolk Rebels being yet fresh in memory would effect more than the other could either by Policy or Arms And indeed to whose trust could a Daughter be better committed than to her Father's As for the City the Faith and wonted Wisdom of the Council now with her would contain it in Obedience and work it to her best Advantages She poor Lady swayed with these Reasons earnestly beseeched Northumberland himself to undergo this Burthen who at length though unwillingly consented His chief fear was lest the advantage of his Absence might encourage opposite Practisers to raise some Tumults But finding either excuses or absolute denials no way available he prepares himself for this Expedition and on the the thirteenth of July sets forth from London with an Army of six thousand At his departure it is reported he should say to the Lord Gray of Wilton who then accompanied him Do you see my Lord what a conflux of People here is drawn together to see us march And yet of all this multitude you hear not so much as one that wisheth us Success The Londoners stood very well affected in point of Religion so did also for the most part the Suffolk and the Norfolk men and they knew Mary to be absolute for Popery But the English are in their due respects to their Prince so loyally constant that no regards no not pretext of Religion can alienate their Affections from their lawful Sovereign whereof the miserable case of Lady Jane will anon give a memorable Example For although her Faction had laid a strong Foundation and as may appear by the premisses had most artificially raised their Superstructure yet as soon as the true and undoubted Heir did but manifest her Resolution to vindicate her Right this accurate Pile presently fell and dissolved as it were in the twinkling of an Eye and that chiefly by their endeavour of whom for their Religions sake Lady Jane might have presumed her self assured Neither were the People made any thing the more inclinable by publickly impugning Queen Maries Right in the Pulpit a course wherein Northumberland engaged many a Preacher Nay even in the City of London that learned and godly Prelate Nicholas Ridley upon the deprivation of Boner consecrated Bishop of London who I wish had not erred in this matter was scarce heard out with patience As for Queen Mary if that Rule of the Civilians be not true that Matrimony contracted without any conceived Impediment although it after chance to be dissolved