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The true and vvonderfull history of Perkin VVarbeck, proclaiming himselfe Richard the fourth
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Gainsford, Thomas, d. 1624?
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1618
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Earle of Lincolne that being brought vnto him hee might discouer the secrets of this mischeefe and the viperous brood of false-hearted subiects but the souldiers would not permit it lest the sauing of his life might by such detection endanger diuers others as good as himselfe and so killed him by way of anticipation After this victory the King would needes solemnize a thanksgiuing to God in the open field as well to aâ—cyd ingratitude as to giue good example and when it was vrged he might better defer it till he came to some religious place or house of deuotion he more religious assured them that God was euery where and neither the place nor the manner graced the sacrifice and the intentiuenesse of the heart and true meaning of the soule which he had learned of the Poet and so alledged these verses out of Lucan Estque Deisedes vbiterra pontus aer Et coelum virtus superos quid quaerimus vltra Iupiter est quodcunque vides quodcunque moueris This the Bishops present durst neither deny nor would willingly approoue for feare of any diminution in their settled ceremonies and glorious Cathedralls but at this time the Kings ardency preuailed and he kneeled downe on the bare ground in the open fields and rendred thankes and praises to God Afterward hee gaue order for the funeralls of the dead shedding teares himselfe in commiseration of so many worthy men slaine for such an vniustifiable businesse the people yet vnmooued and the souldiers not so much as daunted though they saw the bleeding carkasses and wounded bodies according to the saying Exemploque carens nulli cognitus aeuo Luctus erat mortem populos deflere potentis Then he proceeded to the casting vp a new accounts of mercy and forgiuenesse proclaiming pardon to all that would penitently admit of the same and to his eternall fame not onely gaue Lambert and the Priest their liues but commanded that no man should abuse them with contumely and reproach as perceiuing the one for his yeeres vncapable of the apprehension of treason or flagicious circumstances concerning the same the other for his orders profession to be a priuiledged person yet most heroikly and wisely he told him that he which rolleth a stone vp a hill may peraduenture haue it fall vpon his own head and he that looketh too high in a dangerous entrenched ground may fall into the ditch Notwithstanding for his pennance he was committed to perpetuall imprisonment but Lambert admitted into the palace and from place to place came at last to bee one of his Maiesties Faulkoners Last of all he looked ioyfully on his owne company and in remuneration of their loyalty and noble seruices spred the mantle of honour ouer diuers and imparted seuerall rewards to the rest according to their places of eminency This battell was fought on a Saturday the sixteenth of Iune 1489. and in the end of the second yeere of Henry the seuenth And thus was all this high enterprize of Lady Margaret represented to a ball blown out of a box of sope and water which when it comes to a swelling fulnesse at last hursts in peeces of it selfe of which when she was aduertized and had cause sufficient of exclamation and repining against her misfortune and disastrous preuention of her malice yet was she so farre from relaxation or pacifying her hate that it rather exasperated the same and made her more forward to contriue more â—ellish proiects as we shall see by and by so that I may well exclaime Orabiosamulier Quà m sit manisesta phrenesis Yea she set vp such a loome out of her pestilent inuention that a man would thinke it impossible for a woman to contriue or prosecute but that the old Poet hath so long agoe told vs Praeterea nos sumus mulieres Ad bona quidem ineptissimae Malorum vero omnium effectrices sapientissâ—mae Yet for the time she deplored the miscarrying of the matter but was not ashamed to confesse that she cared not by what meanes King Henry might be debased After this great mischeefe like a peece of Ordnance ouercharged was thus broken in the fulnesse and that with little trouble tumult and expences compared to many other warres The King as you heard returned thankes to the Decider of all controuersies and presently sent word to London of his prosperity and aduenture seeming sorry for nothing but the death of the Earle of Lincolne assuring the Duke of Bedford and Earle of Shrewsbury that he delighted in his humours and had a determination to haue saued his life adding yet this by the way that hee was amazed at nothing more then the audaciousnes of the man that durst so meanly accompanied set vpon such a great puissâ—nt an army Therfore it must needs be that he presumed on further suppliment or some breakings out amongst themselues But seeing it hath pleased God that we haue not onely escaped this threatning storme of commotion and disturbance but also choaked with the dust of their owne dissention the interiour diuisions and conspiracies of the Kingdome Let vs my Lords I pray you be somewhat considerate touching tumultuous and discontented persons that they may be orderly satisfied in their honest demands and discreâ—tly preuented from vnlawfull â—onuenticles or associated asâ—emblies of vnquiemesse and murmuring against our gouernment vnder colour of hunting faires markets horâ—â—-races weddings and such like Let vs also haue a care of our ports harbours and hauens to preuent wanderers and trauellers who from the excuses of deuotion to visit Rome and curiosity to explore forren countries doe many time deceiue our trust with indirect and preposterous businesse In this triumphant prosperity he returned to London and was as well welcommed to the people as contented in himselfe and so ran forward in the race of all mundane felicitie and maiesticall happinesse But neither his owne wisdome the vigilancy of the Officers the fidelity of his Nobles the policy of his Councellours the loyalty of his subiects nor the whole regard of the Common wealth could turne the frame of heauen about nor preuent his destiny concerning following mischeefes Nam fato prudentia minor That is to say could put a scarlet cloth ouer the sting of that serpent Enuy to pull it out of the heart no not out of the mouth no not out of the hands of the Duches of Burgundy but she must be tampering with the edge tooles of diuellish despight and beating on the annile of malicious calumniation or if you will conspiracy hoping at one time or other to hammer out such a worke of disturbance that neither the King should be able to quench the flames nor the Subiect daring to disable the enterprize Whereupon to preuent all claimes exceptions and meanes of distrust Some foure yeeres after she set vp another I doll of defiance personating Richard Plantaginet second sonne to King Edward the fourth and Duke of Yorke supposed to be murthered with his brother Prince Edward in the Tower who as it were resuscitated from death to life or rather reserued by miracle must be at last a scourge to the vsurping house of Lanâ—aster which as it began with the bloud of that innocent Richard the
vpon euery offender and had rather draw some men to a sweet obedience from their penetencie and newnesse of life then cut off other-some by the strong hand of execution and thus in other cases of State it many times chanceth that euen accessaries are condemned when the principals go free yea in the highest degree of Treason which is displaying of colours and taking vp Armes against a Prince it is sometimes better taken in action then in coÌ„sultation yet is there no presuming on fauor in any of these cases nor taking hands with example to trace in the by paths of any indirect courses But as mischiefes according to Euripides seldome come alone and vndâ— vndam sequitur so presently vpon the neck of this followed a strange and wonderfull trouble through the insurrection of one Lambert Siminel taking vpon him the person of Edward Earle of Warwicke sonne of George Duke of Clarence newly come into the hands of the King and committed to the Tower This Lambert was induced or if ye wil seduced to this enterprise by the diuel himpostures of Richard Simond a Priest who was so hasty in his accounts and forward in his reckoningâ— that he presently proiected that if Lambert could be King he should be an Arch-bishop at least O manifest a phrenesis whereby the way you may obserue that neuer enterprise was atchieued to the dissipation of Monarchies and translation of Kingdomes neuer mischiefe set on foot nor wickednesse put on the wings of preuailing but from the contriuance and coadiutement of a Priest such men as professed the Religion of thoâ—e times as in Histories may appeare But if you descend into Europe and come lower amongst our selues I dare say that from the conquest to this hower all exorbitant actions dangerous attempts terrible enforcements neuer heard of Projects and monstrous commotions to the effusion of Christian blood and weakning the glory of our kingdome haue beene atchieved and furthered by the meanes of Popish Priests and Iesuites and the damnable Doctrines and instructions of their associates meere hypocrites both in life and Doctrine yea that monstrous terror of Christendome the family of Ottaman and religion of Mahomet was blowne so big as you see it in the furnace of Sergius a counterfeit Monke and now set on the Throne of imperiousnesse through his supportation and assistance in composing the Alcaron When this our Priest Richard Simond or Versepelles Sinon well perceiued and vnderstood the gentle condition and pregnancy of this Lambert he wrought most cunningly vpon him and thought him a fit instrument to hammer out the diuelish plots he proiected whereby questionlesse you may apprehend the cunning and malice of Sathan who can entangle men with such strange illusions and all in the end to destroy them and bring them to confusion How else can any reasonable man apprehend that a Scholler and Priest should be so infatuated as to make a silly fellow take vpon him the person of a Prince laid long before in his graue and murthered by the tyrannie of an vnnaturall Vncle Yet did this nouice goe forward with these strange disguises like a ceeled doue flying into the hawkes feisure by her own wilfulnesse and blindnesse and as if the Poet should cry out Medeae faciunt ad scelus omne manus So was he led by the hands of this Priest who was now set vpon nothing but wickednesse and at the last plunged into the Sea of turmoiles But the chiefe originall of this disturbance arose from a certaine fame and report that King Edwards children were not dead but secretly conueied into some other Country as Edward surnamed the Outlaw had in former times beene into Hungary and that Edward Earle of Warwicks should be shortly put to death O simple men and oh vaine multitude that are caried away with euery winde belieue vnconstant reports rely on foolish prophesies and runne along with vncertaine rumors which makes me remember one of and so changed Lamberts name into Edward Earle of Warwicke all things seruing as well to this as the other the ioy whereof brought him into such an extasie that he quite forgot the vnion of the houses and how the King had married the eldest brothers daughter which must needs be a bar to Warwicks claime when wise men came to discusse of the matter but resolued in the errour of his illusion he strongly coniâ—ctured that any of the house of Yorke were of sufficiency to pull downe the strength of the Lancastrian Faâ—ily Besides he knew that actio nulla laudata nisi peracta and therfore some thing must bee done to set the people on worke though it were with throwing firebrands of diuision and falsity amongst them euen to the dazling of their eyes with smoake and casting the sparks about their eares wherupon both craftily and audaciously he put his businesse to the triall and sailed with his pupill ouer into Ireland where his Grand-father and Ancestors had gotten such loue and respect that euen the name of Mortimer and Yorke was sanctified and religious amongst them For barbarous nations are strong obseruers of ceremonies customes and whatsoeuer hath taken root and impression amongst them will hardly be remoued or extinguished as it is too lamentably apparant at this houre where the imposturing of Priests hath got the vpper hand of all religion and piety and to sweare by Oneales hand is of more efficacy then to call God and Heauen to witnesse Heere he smoothly made relation of his owne and the Princes fortunes and escape to certaine of the Nobility especially of Geraldines whom hee knew euery way transpoâ—ted against the present gouernment enlarging his discourse with his miraculous preseruation when without law or other enforcement he should haue been cruelly put to death by the Vsurper and brought in question for neuer-â—eard-of treason all which by Gods prouidence and his assistance was iudiciously preuented and hee had from a meere commiseration of a Princes estate aduentured himselfe in that manner and to such a place where he supposed true-hearted honour was resident and care of religion and humanity maintained Whereupon Th. Geralâ—ine Lord Chancellour of the Kingdome defrauded by this illusion vnder colour of succouring the distressed and performing a worke of charity receiued him into his castle and adding all the ceremonies of reuerence and honor to his very person assured him of ayd comfort and supportation To this you must suppose was an answer ready and such an one deliuered with so smooth and attractiue a demeanour that though hee had not beene such as hee protested yet hee would haue sworne him of â—igh birth and extraordinary bringing vp which caused him to assemble together all his affinity and friends to whom he related the matter as it chanced with intimation of the glory of the enterprize and the good seruice to God and the Church for establishing a Prince deiected in his throne who was the â—rue and onely Plantaginet left to spring vp into