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life of his father giuen great proofe of continuance to descend to their posteritie in that he in these his yoong yeares hath beene after his trauell ouer the most part of Europe twise imploied in ambassages for the seruice of his countrie first to the king of Portingall now to the king of Scots with whome I will at this time set end to this discourse of the Woottons On the one and twentith daie of Iune Henrie Persie earle of Northumberland prisoner in the Tower of London vpon vehement suspicion of high treason was there found dead and also of his owne diuelish intent and of his malice before pretended to haue murthered himselfe as more manifestlie and at large may appeare by an inquisition made by a substantiall iurie taken before the coroner as followeth verbatim with the record ¶ A copie of the said inquisition AN inquisition taken at the citie of London that is within the tower of London in the parish of Alhallowes Barking in the ward of the Tower of London on Mondaie being the one and twentith daie of Iune in the yeare of the reigne of our souereigne ladie Elisabeth by the grace of God quéene of England France and Ireland defendor of the faith c the seuen and twentith before William Squier gentleman coroner to our said souereigne ladie the quéene within the citie of London and the liberties of the same vpon the view of the bodie of Henrie Persie knight late earle of Northumberland late prisoner there within the Tower of London aforesaid for suspicion of high treason by him supposed to be doone there lieng dead and slaine by the othes of Nicholas Whéeler Simon Horssepoole Thomas Gardener William Leaueson Owen Morgan Henrie Lodge William Abraham William Horne Thomas Russell Iohn Porter Robert Dowe Anthonie Hall William Curtis Thomas Wood Matthew Dolman Thomas Martin Richard Sleford Iohn Trot Philip Smith Thomas Tailor and Henrie Bowdler of good and lawfull men of the same ward and of thrée other wards to the same ward next adioining as the maner and custome is in the citie aforesaid to inquire how in what maner and when the said Henrie Persie late earle of Northumberland came to his death Which iurie doo saie vpon their oths that on the line 10 one twentith daie of this instant moneth of Iune in the yeare of the reigne of our souereigne ladie Elisabeth by the grace of God quéene of England France and Ireland defendor of the faith c the seuen and twentith aforesaid and long before the foresaid Henrie late earle of Northumberland prisoner in the Tower of London situat in the parish of Alhallows Barking aforesaid in the ward of the Tower of London aforesaid for suspicion of high treason aforesaid by him against our souereigne ladie line 20 the quéene supposed to be committed and the foresaid earle so remaining prisoner and being placed in a certeine chamber within the Tower of London aforesaid there prisoner remaining imagining and intending himselfe diuelishlie and feloniouslie to kill and murther before the foresaid one twentith daie of Iune that is to saie the sixtéenth daie of Iune in the seuen and twentith yeare aforesaid did prepare a certeine dag of iron and stéele of the value of ten shillings and also certeine bullets of lead and a certeine quantitie of gunpowder conteined in a line 30 certeine small box and caused the foresaid gun the bullets of lead and the gunpowder to be brought into the foresaid chamber vnto him the same earle of Northumberland and to be deliuered to the same earle then and there by the hands of Iames a Price yeoman to execute his diuelish and felonious purpose and intention Which dag aforesaid the foresaid earle caused secretlie to be hidden in a certeine mattris vnder the bolster of his bed in the chamber aforesaid and line 40 then and there the foresaid one and twentith daie of Iune in the seuen and twentith yeare aforesaid betwéene the houres of twelue and one in the night of the foresaid one and twentith daie of Iune thinking and intending to prosecute and follow his diuelish intention and purpose aforesaid did bolt the doore of the foresaid chamber and the inner part of his said chamber towards himselfe least anie man should foresée or withstand his diuelish felonious and malicious intent and the said doore of his foresaid line 50 chamber being so bolted the same earle then and there into his bed himselfe did laie and vpon this afterward that is to saie the foresaid one and twentith daie of Iune in the seuen twentith yeare aforesaid about the houres aforesaid within the Tower of London aforesaid situat and being in the parish of Alhallows Barking aforesaid in the ward of the Tower of London aforesaid not hauing the almightie God or his feare before his eies but being moued and seduced by the instigation of the diuell of his line 60 malice afore pretended did take vp into his hands the foresaid dag of iron and stéele then and there made readie charged with gunpowder and thrée bullets of lead and the foresaid dag to the left part of his breast neere vnto the pappe of the same part of his brest then and there feloniouslie and diuelishlie did put and vpon the same part of his brest the foresaid dag did discharge By reason of the violence of which gunpowder and of the foresaid thrée bullets of lead the foresaid earle into his bodie and heart and through his chine-bone euen into his right shoulder himselfe then and there with the foresaid bullets of lead feloniouslie and voluntarilie did strike giuing vnto himselfe then and there one mortall wound of the depth of twelue inches and of the bredth of two inches of which mortall wound aforesaid the foresaid earle within the Tower of London aforesaid the daie yeare parish and ward aforesaid instantlie died And so the iurie dooth saie vpon their oths aforesaid that the foresaid earle the daie yeare and place aboue written of his diuelish intent aforesaid and of his malice before pretended feloniouslie and voluntarilie himselfe did kill and murther in manner and forme aforesaid against the peace of our souereigne ladie the quéene hir crowne and dignitie But what goods and cattels the foresaid earle in the time of the felonie and murther to himselfe aforesaid committed had or as yet hath the iurie knew not c in witnesse whereof c. ¶ This was the verdict of the iurors wherby the manner how and the matter whereby the earle dispatched himselfe is trulie declared which being taken for truth as deseruing no lesse the parties welworthie of credit it remained to prouide for the bestowing of his wretched carcase which on the thrée and twentith daie of Iune was buried in saint Peters church within the said Tower of London This was the end of that gracelesse earle the manner of whose murther and part of his treasons are here dilated as the same was publikelie

Augustine the first daie of Iulie in the yeare of our Lord 1530. The determination of the vniuersitie line 60 of Tholose THere was treated in our vniuersitie of Tholose a verie hard question Whether it be lawfull for the brother to marrie hir which had béene wife to his brother now departed that without children There was besides this an other thing that troubled vs verie sore Whether if the pope which hath the cure of Christs flocke would by his dispensation as men call it suffer this that then at the least wise it might be lawfull The rector of the vniuersitie called to counsell all the doctors regents that were at that time at Tholose for to shew their minds on this question and that not once but twise for he iudged that counsell giuing ought not to be hasted nor doone vpon head and that we had need of time and space to doo anie thing conuenientlie and as it ought to be At the last there came togither into one place all the best learned and cunningest doctors both of holie diuinitie and also doctors that were best learned in both lawes yea and finallie as manie as had anie experience in anie matter and were able to doo anie thing either by iudgement and discretion or by eloquence or their excellent wits and there did sweare that they would obeie the sacred and holie councels and would follow the decrees of the fathers which no man that hath anie good conscience will violat or breake And so euerie man said his mind the matter was debated and reasoned diffuselie and at large for both parts In conclusion we fell so fast to this point that this was the sentence and determination that our vniuersitie with one voice of all did determine and conclude with most pure and cléere conscience and defiled with no maner of leuen of corruption That it is lawfull for no man neither by the law of God nor by the law of nature to take hir to wife that his brother hath left and séeing that it maie not be doone by the law of God nor of nature we answered all that the pope can loose no man from that law nor dispense with him And as for that thing can not be contrarie to our sentence and verdict that the brother in old time was compelled by the law of Deuteronomie to marrie the brothers wife departed without issue For this law was but a shadow and a figure of things to come which vanished awaie as soone as euer the light and truth of the gospell appeared And bicause these things be thus we haue giuen our sentence after this forme aboue and haue commanded the same to be signed by our notarie which is our secretarie and to be fortified and authorised by the putting to of our authenticall seale of our vniuersitie aforesaid at Tholose the calends or first daie of October the yeare of our Lord 1530. After these determinations were read there were shewed aboue an hundred books drawn by doctors of strange regions which all agreed the kings marriage to be vnlawfull which were not read for the daie was spent Then the chancellor said Now you of this common house maie report in your countries what you haue séene and heard then all men shall openlie perceiue that the king hath not attempted this matter of will and pleasure as some strangers report but onlie for the discharge of his conscience and suertie of the succession of his realme this is the cause of our repaire hither to you and now will we depart When these determinations were published all wise men in the realme much abhorred that marriage but women and such as were more wilfull than wise or learned spake against the determination and said that the vniuersities were corrupt and intised so to doo which is not to be thought The king himselfe sore lamented his chance and made no maner of mirth nor pastime as he was woont to doo He dined and resorted to the quéene as he was accustomed and diminished nothing of hir estate and much loued and cherished their daughter the ladie Marie but in no wise he would not come to hir bed When Easter began to draw neere the parlement for that time ended and was proroged till the last daie of March in the next yéere In the parlement aforesaid was an act made that whosoeuer did poison any person should be boiled in hot water to the death which act was made bicause one Richard Roose in the parlement time had poisoned diuerse persons at the bishop of Rochesters place which Richard according to the same act was boiled in Smithfield the teneber wednesdaie following to the terrible example of all other When the vniuersitie aforesaid and a great number of clearks and well learned men had determined the kings marriage to be vnlawfull detestable and against Gods law as you haue heard the king willing the quéene to haue knowledge of the same sent to hir diuerse lords of the councell the last daie of line 10 Maie being the wednesdaie in Whitsun wéeke the which Lords in hir chamber at Gréenewich declared to hir all the determinations as you haue heard and asked hir whether she would for the quietnesse of the kings conscience put the matter to foure prelats and foure temporall lords of this realme or abide by hir appeale The quéene answered The king my father which concluded my marriage I am sure was not so ignorant but he asked counsell of clearks and well learned men before he married me the second line 20 time for if he had had anie doubt in my marriage he would not haue disbursed so great a tresure as he did then all the doctors in a maner agréed my marriage to be good insomuch that the pope himselfe which knew best what was to be doone did both dispense and ratifie the second marriage against whose dooings I maruell that any person will speake or write And as to the determination of the vniuersitie I am a woman and lacke wit and learning to answer line 30 to them but to God I commit the iudgement of that whether they haue doone iustlie or parciallie for this I am sure that neither the kings father nor my father would haue condescended to our marriage if it had beene declared to be vnlawfull And where you saie that I should put the cause to eight persons of this realme for quietnesse of the kings conscience I pray God send his grace a quiet conscience And this shall be your answer that I saie I am his lawfull wife and to him lawfullie married and by the order line 40 of holie church I was to him espoused as his true wife although I was not so woorthie and in that point I will abide till the court of Rome which was priuie to the beginning haue made thereof a determination and finall ending With this answer the lords departed to the king which was sorie to heare of hir wilfull opinion and in especiall that

ward brought backe the strongest and best armed men he had to resist his enimes ranging them in order so as he ment to haue inclosed the English horssemen betwixt his battels and the sea and so to haue distressed them But this purpose being espied first of all by the lord admerall the Englishmen by his valiant incouragement gaue a new charge and breaking through their ranks by force came backe againe vnto their hundred men of armes that kept aloofe and there staied till their footmen might come to them who by this time were aduanced within sight of them but distant yet by the space of two English miles or little lesse Monsieur de Biez perceiuing that the English footmen began thus to approch made forward againe with his armie so fast as was possible for his people to march drawing still his armed men and best souldiors to the hindermost ranks there to be readie to withstand the Englishmen as they should offer to assaile them and in this order the Frenchmen made away and rested not till they came to Hardilo sands being a place of such strength and aduantage by reason of the streict that after they were once got thither they might account themselues out of all danger and therefore there they staid and dispatched an herald vnto the chiefteins of the English armie to signifie vnto them that there they ment to abide and to giue them battell if they would aduance forward to fight with them but yet they would not in anie wise come foorth of their strength vnto some euen ground although they were earnestlie required therevnto Wherevpon the Englishmen to light them a candle that they might sée where they were set all the villages houses about on a light fire continuing the same all that afternoone and most part of the night following and the next morning betwixt foure and fiue of the clocke they came backe againe vnto Bullongne with all their spoiles and prisoners They tooke in this incounter seuen peeces of artillerie two of brasse and fiue of iron also the peeces of aduantage of the armour of monsieur de Biez beside apparell plate and furniture in great plentie as well taken in the field as also in their campe where they left their tents standing all their prouision of vittels wholie vnremoued The same péeces of line 10 armour were sent ouer into England to the king for a witnesse of the good successe that had thus happened to his people in this famous enterprise in the atchiuing wherof there were not past halfe a dozen Englishmen slaine besides those that were hurt which neither were manie as vnder halfe a score at the most year 1545 Whilest such things were in dooing about Bullongne and other places as before ye haue heard in this twentie and sixt yeare the ships of the west line 20 countrie and other coasts of this realme wasted abroad on the seas and tooke to the number of thrée hundred od French ships so that the Graie friers church in London was laid full of wine the Austine friers and Blacke friers full of herring and other fish that was taken as the same should haue béene conueied into France About the same season the king demanded a beneuolence of his subiects spirituall and temporall towards the maintenance of the warres against the Frenchmen and Scots ¶ On the line 30 twelfe of Ianuarie the lord chancellour the duke of Suffolke and other of the kings councell began to sit at Bainards castell where they first called before them the maior and aldermen c. And bicause Richard Read alderman would not agree to paie as they set him he was commanded vpon paine to serue the king in his warres of Scotland who departed from London the thrée and twentith of Ianuarie Also sir William Roch alderman for words of line 40 displeasure taken by the kings councell was by them sent to the fléet where he remained till passion sundaie On the six and twentith of Ianuarie there camped on the west side of Bullongne beyond the hauen an armie of French to the number of eightéene thousand where they laie ten daies and the sixt of Februarie were put to flight by the earle of Hertford and sir Iohn Dudleie lord admerall then deputie of Bullongne On the thirteenth of Februarie a priest was set on the pillorie in Cheape line 50 and burnt in both chéekes with the letters F. and A. and a paper on his head wherein was written For false accusing which iudgement was giuen by the lord chancellor in the Starre chamber a notable example of iustice Great cause haue I to wish the like to the like accuser who neuer yet repented but contrariwise sweareth and forsweareth that he neuer did anie such act against his brother In the beginning of March sir Rafe Euers lord warden of the marches after manie fortunate rodes line 60 and forraies made into Scotland assembled now about foure thousand men entering with the same into Scotland was incountered at Halidon rig by the earle of Arraine and other Scotishmen which so beset the Englishmen with thrée battels on ech side that in the end they slue the said lord warden with the lord Ogle and a great number of other gentlemen and commons beside prisoners which they tooke so that few escaped the Scotishmens hands Among other prisoners taken Richard Read an alderman of London aforesaid was one The death of sir Rafe Euers was greatlie bemoned for he had shewed great proofe of his valiant prowesse at sundrie times before namelie in this yeare past as at the taking and burning of the towne of I●dworth which enterprise was atchiued the tenth of Iune beside diuerse other exploits fortunatelie brought to passe by his high valiancie and manhood till his hap was at this present to finish his daies whose life though then it tooke end yet shall not his fame good report purchased by martiall courage policie and dangerous aduentures perish or decaie as the poet trulie saith Parta labore volat vas●um bona fama per orbem Haec veluti Phoebus non m●ritura manet This yeare on saint Georges daie sir Thomas Wriothestleie lord chancellor of England was made knight of the garter Also Trinitie terme was adiourned by reason of the warres but the escheker and the court of the tenths were open for those that were accomptable in either of the said courts The thirteenth of Iune Robert Luken seruant to sir Humfrie Browne one of the iustices of the kings Bench Anne Askew gentlewoman otherwise called Anne Kime wife to one Kime a gentleman of Lincolneshire and Ione Sautereie wife to Iohn Sautereie of London were arreigned in the Guildhall of London for speaking against the sacrament of the altar as they tearmed it contrarie to the statute of the six articles but because no witnesse appeared against the women nor against Luken one onelie excepted who was thought to

50 brought to London the least of them was more than anie horsse Much about this season there were thrée notable ships set foorth and furnished for the great aduenture of the vnknowne voiage into the east by the north seas The great dooer and incourager of which voiage was Sebastian Gabato an Englishman borne at Bristow but was the sonne of a Genowaie These ships at the last arriued in the countrie of Moscouia not without great losse and danger line 60 and namelie of their capteine who was a woorthie and aduenturous gentleman called sir Hugh Willoughbie knight who being tossed and driuen by tempest was at the last found in his ship frozen to death and all his people But now the said voiage and trade is greatlie aduanced and the merchants aduenturing that waie are newlie by act of parlement incorporated and indued with sundrie priuileges and liberties About the beginning of the moneth of Maie next following there were thrée notable mariages concluded shortlie after solemnized at Durham place The first was betwéene the lord Gilford Dudleie the fourth sonne of the duke of Northumberland and the ladie Iane eldest daughter to Henrie duke of Suffolke the ladie Francis his wife was the daughter of Marie second sister to king Henrie the eight first maried to Lewes the French king and after to Charles Brandon duke of Suffolke The second mariage was betwéene the lord Herbert son and heire to William earle of Penbroke and the ladie Katharine second daughter of the said ladie Francis by the said Henrie duke of Suffolke And the third was betwéene Henrie lord Hastings sonne and heire to Francis earle of Huntington and ladie Katharine yoongest daughter to the forenamed duke of Northumberland These mariages were compassed concluded chieflie vpon purpose to change alter the order of succession to the crowne made in the time of king Henrie the eight from the said kings daughters Marie and Elizabeth and to conueie the same immediatlie after the death of king Edward to the house of Suffolke in the right of the said ladie Francis wherein the said yoong king was an earnest traueller in the time of his sickenesse all for feare that if his sister Marie being next heire to the crowne should succéed that she would subuert all his lawes and statutes made concerning religion whereof he was most carefull for the continuance whereof he sought to establish a meet order of succession by the aliance of great houses by waie of marriage which neuerthelesse were of no force to serue his purpose For tending to the disheriting of the rightfull heirs they proued nothing prosperous to the parties for two of them were soone after made frustrate the one by death the other by diuorse In the meane while the king became euerie daie more sicke than other of a consumption in his lungs so as there was no hope of his recouerie Wherevpon those that then bare chiefe authoritie in councell with other prelats and nobles of the realme called to them diuerse notable persons learned as well in diuinitie as in the lawes of the land namelie bishops iudges other who fell to consultation vpon this so weightie cause and lastly concluded vpon the deuise of king Edwards will to declare the said ladie Iane eldest néece to king Henrie the eight and wife to the said lord Gilford to be rightfull heire in succession to the crowne of England without respect had to the statute made in the fiue and thirtith yeare of king Henrie the eight the true meaning of which statute they did impugne and ouerthrow by diuerse subtill sinister constructions of the same to disherit the said kings daughters to whome the succession of the crowne of England of right apperteined as well by the common lawes of this realme as also by the said statute made in the said fiue and thirtith yeare of king Henrie as aforesaid To which new order of succession all the said kings councell with manie bishops lords doctors and iudges of the realme subscribed their names without refusall of anie except sir Iames Hales knight one of the iustices of the common plées who being called to this councell would in no wise giue his assent either by word or writing as ye shall heare more in the historie of quéene Marie Now when these matters were thus concluded and after confirmed by a number of hands as aforesaid then the noble prince king Edward the sixt by long lingering sickenesse and consumption of his lungs aforesaid approched to his death and departed out of this life the sixt daie of Iulie in the seuenth yeare of his reigne and seuentéenth of his age after he had reigned and noblie gouerned this realme six yeares fiue moneths and eight daies And a little before his departing lifting vp his eies to God hee praied as followeth The praier of king Edward the sixt at his death LOrd God deliuer me out of this miserable and wretched life take me among thy chosen howbeit not my will but thy will be doone Lord I commit my spirit to thee oh Lord thou knowest how happie it were for mee to be with thee yet for thy chosens sake if line 10 it be thy will send me life and helth that I maie trulie serue thee Oh my Lord blesse thy people and saue thine inheritance Oh Lord God saue thy chosen people of England Oh my Lord God defend this realme from papistrie and mainteine thy true religion that I and my people maie praise thy holie name And therewithall he said I am faint Lord haue mercie vpon me and take my spirit line 20 Thus did this good yoong king yéeld vp to God his ghost the sixt daie of Iulie as before is mentioned whome if it had pleased God to haue spared with longer life not vnlike it was but he should haue so gouerned this English common-wealth that he might haue béene comparable with any of his noble progenitors so that the losse of so towardlie a yoong king greatlie discomforted the whole English nation that looked for such a reformation in the state of line 30 the common-wealth at his hands as was to be wished for of all good subiects which bred such a liking in them toward him that euen among verie traitorous rebels his name yet was had in reuerence although otherwise they neuer so much forgat their dutie both towards him and other appointed to gouerne vnder him through a malicious and most wilfull error as if his tender yeares had not sufficientlie warranted his roiall authoritie but that the same had béene vsurped by others against his will and pleasure line 40 And as he was intierlie beloued of his subiects so with the like affection of kindnes he loued them againe of nature and disposition méeke much inclined to clemencie euer hauing a regard to the sparing of life There wanted in him no promptnes of wit grauitie of sentence ripenesse of iudgement as his age might

such as be declared in the fiue and twentith yeare of king Edward the third both which statutes I pray you my lords maie be read here to the inquest No sir there shall be no bookes brought at your desire we doo all know the law sufficientlie without booke Doo you bring me hither to trie me by the law will not shew me the law What is your knowlege of the law to these mens satisfactions which haue my triall in hand I praie you my lords and my lords all let the statutes be read as well for the quéene as for me My lord chiefe iustice can shew the law and will if the iurie doo doubt of anie point You know it were indifferent that I should know and heare the law whereby I am adiudged and for asmuch as the statute is in English men of meaner learning than the iustices can vnderstand it or else how should we know when we offend You know not what belongeth to your case and therefore we must teach you it apperteineth not to line 10 vs to prouide bookes for you neither sit we here to be taught of you you should haue taken better héed to the law before you had come hither Because I am ignorant I would learne and therefore I haue more néed to sée the law and partlie as well for the instructions of the iurie as for my own satisfaction which mee thinke were for the honor of this presence And now if it please you my lord chiefe iustice I doo direct my spéech speciallie to you line 20 What time it pleased the quéenes maiestie to call you to this honorable office I did learne of a great personage of hir highnesse priuie councell that amongst other good instructions hir maiestie charged and inioined you to minister the law and iustice indifferentlie without respect of persons And notwithstanding the old error amongst you which did not admit anie witnesse to speake or anie other matter to be heard in the fauor of the aduersarie hir maiestie being partie hir highnesse pleasure was line 30 that whatsoeuer could be brought in the fauor of the subiect should be admitted to be heard And moreouer that you speciallie likewise all other iustices should not persuade themselues to sit in iudgement otherwise for hir highnesse than for hir subiect Therefore this maner of indifferent proceeding being principallie inioined by Gods commandement which I had thought partlie to haue remembred you others here in commission in the beginning if I might haue had leaue and the same also being commanded line 40 you by the quéens owne mouth me thinke you ought of right to suffer me to haue the statutes read openlie and also to reiect nothing that could be spoken in my defense and in thus dooing you shall shew your selues woorthie ministers and fit for so woorthie a mistresse You mistake the matter the queene spake those words to maister Morgan chiefe iustice of the common plées but you haue no ●ause to complaine for you haue béene suffered to talke at your pleasure line 50 What would you doo with the statute booke The iurie dooth not require it they haue heard the euidence and they must vpon their conscience trie whether you be guiltie or no so as the booke needeth not if they will not credit the euidence so apparant then they know not what they haue to doo You ought not to haue anie books read here at your appointment for where dooth arise anie doubt in the law the iudges sit here to informe the court and now you doo but spend time line 60 I pray you my lord chiefe iustice repeat the euidence for the queene and giue the iurie their charge for the prisoner will kéepe you here all daie How saie you Haue you anie more to saie for your selfe You seeme to giue and offer me the law but in verie déed I haue onelie the forme and image of the law neuerthelesse sith I cannot be suffered to haue the statutes red openlie in the booke I will by your patience gesse at them as I maie and I praie you to helpe me if I mistake for it is long since I did sée them The statute of repeale made the last parlement hath these words Be it enacted by the quéene that from henceforth none act deed or offense being by act of parlement or statute made treason petit treason or misprision of treason by words writing printing ciphering déeds or otherwise whatsoeuer shall be taken had déemed or adiudged treason petit treason but onelie such as be declared or expressed to be treason in or by an act of parlement made in the fiue and twentith yeare of Edward the third touching and concerning treasons and the declaration of treasons and none other Here may you sée this statute dooth referre all the offenses aforesaid to the statute of the fiue and twentith yeare of Edward the third which statute hath these words touching and concerning the treasons that I am indicted and arreigned of that is to saie Whosoeuer dooth compasse or imagine the death of the king or leuie warre against the king in his realme or being adherent to the kings enimies within this realme or elsewhere and be thereof probablie attainted by open déed by people of their condition shall be adiudged a traitor Now I praie you of my iurie which haue my life in triall note well what things at this daie be treasons and how these treasons must be tried and decerned that is to say by open déed which the lawes dooth at some time terme Ouert act And now I aske notwithstanding my indictment which is but matter alleged where dooth appeare the open déed of anie compassing or imagining the queenes death Or where dooth appeare anie open déed of being adherent to the quéens enimies giuing to them aid and comfort Or where dooth appeare anie open déed of taking the tower of London Why doo not you of the quéenes learned councell answer him Me thinke Throckmorton you need not haue the statutes for you haue them méetlie perfectlie You are deceiued to conclude all treasons in the statute of the fiue and twentith yeare of Edward the third for that statute is but a declaration of certeine treasons which were treasons before at the common law Euen so there dooth remaine diuerse other treasons at this daie at the common law which be expressed by that statute as the iudges can declare Neuerthelesse there is matter sufficient alleged and prooued against you to bring you within the compasse of the same statute I praie you expresse those matters that bring me within the compasse of the statute of Edward the third For the words be these And be thereof attainted by open déed By people of like condition Throckmorton you deceiue your selfe and mistake these words By people of their condition For thereby the law dooth vnderstand the discouering of your treasons

before halfe waie to London which said concerning the bonefires made for quéene Maries child Here is a ioifull triumph but at length all will not proue woorth a messe of pottage as in déed it came to passe for in the end all prooued cleane contrarie and the ioy expectations of men were much line 10 deceiued For the people were certified that the quéene neither was as then deliuered nor after was in hope to haue anie child At this time manie talked diuerslie Some said this rumour of the quéenes conception was spread for a policie some other affirmed that she was deceiued by a timpanie or some other like disease to thinke hirselfe with child and was not some thought shée was with child and that it did by some chance miscarie or else that she was bewitched but what was the truth therof the Lord knoweth line 20 to whome nothing is secret One thing of mine owne hearing and séeing I cannot passe ouer vnwitnessed There came to me whome I did both heare and sée one Isabell Malt a woman dwelling in Aldersgate stréet in Horne allie not farre from the house where this present booke was printed who before witnesse made this declaration vnto vs that she being deliuered of a man-child vpon Whitsundaie in the morning which was the eleuenth daie of Iune Anno line 30 1555 there came to hir the lord North and another lord to hir vnknowne dwelling then about old Fishstréet demanding of hir if she would part with hir child and would sweare that she neuer knew nor had no such child Which if she would hir sonne they said should be well prouided for she should take no care for it with manie faire offers if she would part with the child After that came other women also of whome one she said should haue beene the rocker but she in no line 40 wise would let go hir sonne who at the writing hereof being aliue and called Timothie Malt was of the age of thirtéene yeares and vpward Thus much I saie I heard of the woman hir selfe What credit is to be giuen to hir relation I deale not withall but leaue it to the libertie of the reader to beleeue it they that list to them that list not I haue no further warrant to assure them Among manie other great preparations made for the quéenes deliuerance of child there was a cradle verie sumptuouslie and gorgeouslie line 50 trimmed on the which cradle for the child appointed these verses were written both in Latine and in English as they are set downe here in record Quam Maria sobolem Deus optime summe dedisti Anglis incolumem redde tuere rege The child which thou to Marie ô Lord of might hast send To Englands ioie in health preserue keepe and defend About this time there came ouer into England a certeine English booke giuing warning to the line 60 Englishmen of the Spaniards and disclosing certeine close practises for recouerie of abbeie lands which booke was called A warning for England Whereof ye shall vnderstand much more at large where we speake of the Spanish inquisition So that by the occasion of this booke vpon the thirteenth daie of this moneth came out a certeine proclamation set foorth in the name of the king and the quéene repealing and disanulling all maner of bookes written or printed whatsoeuer should touch anie thing the impairing of the popes dignitie wherby not onelie much godlie edification was hindered but also great perill grew among the people This proclamation is recorded at large with other appendents in the Acts and Monuments vnder the title of quéene Marie ¶ In this yeare died sir Iohn Gresham who bare the office of lord maior of London 1547 a man of a mercifull nature and good deuotion both to God and his countrie He founded a frée schoole at Holt a market towne in Norffolke gaue to euerie ward in London ten pounds to be distributed to the poore and to thréescore poore men and women euerie one of them thrée yeards of brode cloth of eight or nine shillings the yard to be made in gownes readie to their backs He gaue also to maids mariages and to the hospitals in London aboue two hundred pounds in readie monie A blasing starre was seene at all times of the night the sixt seuenth eight ninth and tenth of March. About this time Brookes bishop of Glocester was by the cardinall sent downe as commissioner from the pope to Oxford there to sit vpon the examination of Thomas Cranmer archbishop of Canturburie in such things as should be laid to his charge by Iohn Storie and Thomas Martin doctors in the lawes sent speciallie in commission from the quéene At which time the said archbishop making low obeisance to them that sate in the queenes name shewed no token of reuerence to the bishop that was the popes commissioner who neuerthelesse procéeded against him as iudge and conuicted him of heresie According to the which sentence the one and twentith daie of March next following he was disgraded by Edmund Boner and Thomas Thirlebie bishops of London and Elie sent downe for that purpose and he was burned in the same place where Ridleie and Latimer before had suffered Before his death by the persuasion of a Spanish frier named frier Iohn a reader of diuinitie in Oxford and by the counsell of certeine other that put him in hope of life and pardon he subscribed to a recantation wherein he submitted himselfe wholie to the church of Rome and continued in the same mind to outward appearance vntill he was brought out of prison to go to the fire Afore whose execution a sermon was made by doctor Cole deane of Paules in saint Martins church in Oxford And in the end of his sermon the said doctor Cole praied the people to incline their eares to such things as the said Cranmer would declare vnto them by his owne mouth For saith he he is a man verie repentant and will here before you all reuoke his errors Neuerthelesse he did cleane contrarie For when he came to the place where the holie bishops and martyrs of God Hugh Latimer and Ridleie were burnt before him for the confession of the truth knéeling downe hée praied to God not tarieng long in his praiers putting off his garments to his shirt he prepared himselfe to death His shirt was made long downe to his féet his féet were bare Likewise his head when both his caps were off was so bare that one heare could not be séene vpon it His beard was long and thicke couering his face with maruellous grauitie Such a countenance of grauitie mooued the hearts both of his friends and of his enimies And as for the recantation aforesaid with manie tears he protested that he had subscribed to the same against his conscience onelie for feare of death and hope of life Which seemed true for when he came to the stake

long time at the seas and had no change of apparell nor laine in bed and now lieng vpon the ground without succor or reliefe were soone infected and all for the most part were sicke and some of them died and some one of them was distracted and this sickenesse verie soone af●er dispersed it selfe among all the residue of the prisoners in the gaole of which disease manie of them died but all brought to great extremities and verie hardlie escaped These men when they were to be brought before the foresaid iustices for their triall manie of them were so weake and sicke that they were not able to go nor stand but were caried from the gaole to the place of iudgement some vpon handbarrowes and some betwéene men leading them and so brought to the place of iustice The sight of these mens miserable and pitifull cases being thought and more like to be hunger starued line 10 than with sickenesse diseased mooued manie a mans hart to behold and looke vpon them but none pitied them more than the lords iustices themselues and especiallie the lord chiefe iustice himselfe who vpon this occasion tooke a better order for kéeping all prisoners thensefoorth in the gaole and for the more often trials which was now appointed to be quarterlie kept at euerie quarter sessions and not to be posted anie more ouer as in times past vntill the assises These prisoners thus brought from out of the line 20 gaole to the iudgement place after that they had béene staied and paused a while in the open aire and somewhat refreshed therwith they were brought into the house in the one end of the hall néere to the iudges seat and which is the ordinarie and accustomable place where they doo stand to their trials and arreignments And howsoeuer the matter fell out and by what occasion it happened an infection followed vpon manie and a great number of such as were there in the line 30 court and especiallie vpon such as were néerest to them were soonest infected And albeit the in●ection was not then perceiued because euerie man departed as he thought in as good health as he came thither yet the same by little and little so crept into such as vpon whom the infection was sei●oned that after a few daies and at their home comming to their owne houses they felt the violence of this pestilent sickenesse wherein more died that were infected than escaped And besides the prisoners manie line 40 there were of good account and of all other degrées which died thereof as by name sargeant Floredaie who then was the iudge of those trials vpon the prisoners sir Iohn Chichester sir Arthur Basset and sir Barnard Drake knights Thomas Carew of Haccombe Robert Carie of Clouelleigh Iohn Fortescue of Wood Iohn Waldron of Bradféeld and Thomas Risdone esquires and iustices of the peace The losse of euerie of them was verie great to line 50 the commonwealth of that prouince and countrie but none more lamented than these two knights sir Iohn Chichester and sir Arthur Basset who albeit they were but yoong in yeares yet ancient in wisedome vpright in iudgement and zealous in the ministration of iustice Likewise Robert Carie a gentleman striken in yeares and a man of great experience knowledge and learning he had béene a student of the common lawes of the realme at the temple and verie well learned both therein and vniuersallie seene in all good letters an eloquent man line 60 of his spéech effectuall in deliuerie déepe in iudgement vpright in iustice and consider at in all his dooings The more worthie were these personages the greater losse was their deaths to the whole common wealth of that countrie Of the pleb●ian and common people died verie manie and especiallie constables réeues and tithing men and such as were iurors and namelie one iurie of twelue of which there died eleuen This ●icknesse was dispersed through out all the whole shire and at the writing hereof in the fine of October one thousand fiue hundred fourescore and six it is not altogither extinguished It resteth for the most part about fouretéene daies and vpwards by a secret infection before it breake out into his force and violence At the first comming it made the people afraid and dismaid manie men then pretending rather than performing the amendement of life So long as the plague was hot and feruent so long euerie man was holie and repentant but with the slaking of the one followed the forgetfulnesse of the other euen as it is with a companie of shrewd children who so long as the rod is ouer the head so long feare of correction frameth them to aptnesse conformitie and obedience ¶ In the chronicles of Ireland vpon occasion of seruice in the highest office there mention was made here and there of sir Henrie Sidneie his saiengs and dooings where promise did passe by means of discoursing his death that the reader was to lo●ke for a full declaration of his life and death in the chronicles of England as course of time should giue direction Now therefore hauing entred into the eight and twentith yeare of hir maiesties gratious gouernment and the yeare of Christ 1586 the time most fitlie openeth a readie waie into the historie concerning that nobleman penned by one that could not be ignorant of his affaires considering the neerenesse and necessarinesse of his seruice and therefore as a truth to be receiued This right famous renowmed worthie vertuous and heroicall knight by father and mother verie noblie descended was from his infancie bred and brought vp in the princes court and in neerenesse to his person vsed familiarlie euen as a companion and manie times a bedfellow After that by course of nature and lawfull descent this yoong prince was inuested in the kingdome and imperiall crowne he aduanced this gallant noble gentleman partlie as it seemed for the singular loue and entire affection he formerlie bare him to be a principall gentleman of his priuie chamber For he was then reputed for comelinesse of person gallantnesse liuelinesse of spirit vertue qualitie beautie good composition of bodie the onelie od man paragon of the court And from time to time this good and most godlie king held such delight in his pleasant modest and swéet conuersation and companie as he would sildome or neuer giue him leaue to be absent from him till his last breth that he departed this life in his armes at Greenwich Such excéeding expectation hope was conceiued of this honorable gentleman in his yonger yeares as he was speciallie chosen and sent ambassador to Henrie the first then French king concerning matter verie important being at that time not fullie one and twentie yeares old and performed his charge with that singular commendation wisedome spirit and dexteritie as at sundrie times not long after he was emploied in ambassage both in France Scotland yea somtime twise in one yere He