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A02389	The last part of the Mirour for magistrates wherein may be seene by examples passed in this realme, vvith howe greenous [sic] plagues, vyces are punished in great princes & magistrats, and hovv frayle and vnstable vvorldly prosperity is founde, where fortune seemeth most highly to fauour.; Mirrour for magistrates. Part 3.	Baldwin, William, ca. 1518-1563?; Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. De casibus virorum illustrium.	1578 (1578)	STC 1252; ESTC S100555	162,047	374

Mortimers Fol. 4 3. Thomas of Woodstock Duke of Glocester murdred in prisō Fol. 8. 4. Thomas Mo●bray Duke of Northfolk banished and died in exile Fol. 12. 5. King Richard the secōd deposed miserably murdred Fol. 16 6. Owen Glendour Prince of Wales was chased to y moūtaynes where he miserably died for lacke of foode Fol. 19 7. Henry Percy Earle of Northumberland taken in battaile and put to death Fol. 25. 8. Richarde Plantagenet Earle of Cambridge put to death at Southampton Fol. 28 9. Thomas Montague Earle of Salisburye chaunceablye slaine at Orliaunce with a peece of ordinaunce Fol. 30 10. Iames the first King of Scotts ●ruelly murdred by hys owne subiects Fol. 36. 11. Humphrey Plantagenet Duke of Glocester Protector of England by practyse of Enemies was broughte to confusion Fol. 40. 12. Lord William Delapole Duke of Suffolke worthelye banished and beheaded Fol. 56 13. Iack● Ca●e worthely punished for rebellion Fol. 60. 14. Edmonde Duke of Somerset slaine in the firste battayle at S. Albanes Fol. 65. 15. Richard Plantagenet D. Of Yorke slaine through his ouer rashe boldnesse and hys youngest sonne the Earle of Rutland being a child cruelly murdred Fol. 77. 16. The Lord Clifford for his abhominable cruelly came to a sodaine death Fol. 80 17. The infamous end of the Lorde Tiptofte Earle of Worcester Fol. 82. 18. Richard Neuil Earle of Warwicke his brother Iohn Marquise Montacute slaine at Barnet field Fol. 86. 19. The vertuous kinge Henry the sixt cruelly murdred in the Tower of London Fol. 89. 20. George Plantagenet Duke of Clarence Brother to K. Edware the fourth cruelly drowned in a Vessell of Mal●sye Fol. 93. 21. A lamentacion vpon the death of King Edvvarde the 4. Fol. 100. 22. Sir Anthony Woduile Lord Riuers with his Nephewe Lord Richarde Graye and others causles imprisoned and cruelly beheaded at Pomfret Fol. 102 23. The Lord Hastings betrayed by his counsailour Ca●es●y and murdred in the tower of London Fol. 114. 24. Mayster Sackuils Induction Fol. 129. The Tragedy of H. duke Buckingham Fol. 138. 25. Collingbourne cruelly executed for making a fosish rime Fol. 153. 26. King Bichard the third slaine at Bosworth Fol. 159. 27 The fall of the blacke Smith and fatall end of the Lorde Awdeley Fol. 166. 28. The complaint of Shores wife one of the Concubins of King Edward the fourth Fol. 176. ❧ A BRIEFE MEMOriall of sundry vnfortunate Englishmen VVILLIAM BALDVVIN to the Reader WHEN the Printer had purposed with himself to Print Lidgates translation of Bochas of the fal of Princes hauinge made priuy thereto many both honourable and Worshippefull hee was coūsayled by dyuers of them to procure a continuance of the Storye from whereas Bochas left vnto this presēt time chiefly of such as Fortune had abused here in this Island which might bee as a Myrrour for men of all estates and degrees aswell Nobles as other to behold the slippery deceiptes of the wauering Lady the due reward of all kinde of vices Which aduice liked him so well that he required mee to take paynes therein but because it was a matter passing my wit skill and more thancklesse than gaynefull to enterprise I refused vtterly alone to vndertake it without the helpe of sutch as in wit were apt in learninge allowed and in iudgemente and estimation able to wield and discharge the weight of sutch a burden thinkinge so to shift my handes But hee earnest and diligent in hys affayres procure me an Athlas to laye the burden vppon my shoulders which I would not haue undertaken but that shortly after diuers learned men whose many giftes nede few prayses consented to take vpon them part of the trauaile And when certayne of them to the numof seuen were through a generall assent at an appoyncted time and place gathered together to deuise thereuppon I resorted vnto them bringinge with mee the booke of Bochas translated by Dan Lidgate for the better obseruation of his order which although wee did not mislyke yet would it not conueniently serue seing that both Bochas Lidgate were dead neither were there any alyue that had medled with like argumēt to whom the vnfortunate might make their moane To make therfore a state meete for the matter they al agreed that I shoulde vsurpe Bochas rome and the wretched Princes complaine vnto me and toke vpon themselues euery man for his part to be sundry personages and in their behalfes to bewaile vnto me their sundry chaunces heauy destenies and wofull misfortunes This done wee opened sutch Bookes of Chronicles as wee had there present and Maister Ferrers after hee had founde where Bochas left which was about the ende of Kinge Edward the thirdes raigne to begin the matter sayd thus I maruayle ꝙ hee what Bochas meaneth to forget among his myserable Princes such as were of our Nation whose number is as great as theyr Aduentures wonderfull For to let passe all both Britaynes Danes and Saxons and to come to the last Conquest what a sort are they and some also in the time of Bochas himselfe or not much before As for example William Rufus the second kinge of Englande after the Cōquest eyther by malice or misaduenture slayne hunting in the new forest by Walter Tirrell with the shot of an arrow Robert Duke of Normandy eldest sonne to William Conquerour depriued of his inheritaunce of England by Henry his youngest brother hauing both his eyes put out and after myserably imprisoned in Cardiffe Castel whereas hee died The most Lamentable case of William Rychard and Mary children of the sayde Henry the first called Beauclerke drowned vpon y Sea by the negligence of drunken Mariners and Kynge Rychard the fyrst slaine with a quarel in his chiefe prosperity The most vnnaturall murther of Artur Duke of Britayne right Heyre of Englande by king Ihon his vncle with the death of Isabell his Sister by Famyne The myserable ende of the sayd king Ihon their vncle by Surfet or as some write poysoned by a Monke of the Abbey of Swinsted in Lyncolneshrye Are not their Histories ruful and of rare Example But as it should appeare Bochas being an Italian minded most the Romayne and Italike Story or els perhaps hee wanted the knowledge of ours It were therefore a goodly and notable matter to search and discourse our whole story from the first beginninge of the inhabiting of the Isle But seeinge the Printers mynde is to haue vs supply where Lidgate left we wil● leaue that great labour to other that may intende it and as one being bold fyrst to breake the Ise I will begin at y reigne of Rychard the secōd a time as troublesome to the people as vnlucky to y Prince And for asmutch frende Baldwin as it shall be your charge to penne orderly the whole processe I will so far as my memory and iudgement serueth somewhat further you in the truth of the story And therefore omittinge the ruffle made by Iacke Straw his Lewd meiney with the

the commons assembled by assent And seing no reason nor trea●ye could induce The king in any thing his rigour to relent Maugre his princely mynde they cald a Parliament Francke and free for all men vnchecked to debate Aswell for weale publique as for the Princes state In which high assemblye great thinges were proponed Touching the Princes state his regally and crowne By reason that Richard which much was to be moned Without regard at all of honour or renowne Misled by ill aduise had turnde al vpside downe For sure●ie of whose state them thought it did behooue His counsailours corrupt by order to remoue Among whom Robert Veer called Duke of Ireland With Mighel Delapoole of Suffolke new made Earle Tharchbyshop of Yorke was also of our hand With Brembre of London a ful vncurteous churle Some learned in the law in exile they did hurle But I iudge Tresilian because I was the chiefe Was dam●ned to the Gallowes to dye there as a thiefe Lo the fyne of falshoode the stipend of corruption The ●ickle f●e of fraud the fruites it doth procure Ye iudges now liuing let out iust punition Teach you to shake of brybes and kepe your h●ndes al pure Riches and promocion be vayne thinges and vnsure The fauour of a Prince is an vntrustie staye But Iustice hath a fee that shal remayne alwaye What gloryis more greater in sight of God or man. Then by pathes of Iustice in Iudgement to procede So duelye and truely the lawes alway to skan That Iustice may take place without reward or meede Set apart all flattery and vayne worldly dreede Set God before your eyes the righteous Iudge supreme Remember wel your reckening at the day extreame Abandon all affray be soothfast in your sawes Be constant and carelesse of mortall mens displeasure With eyes shut hands closde you should pronoūce the lawes Way not this worldly mucke thincke there is a treasure More worth then Gold or stone a thousand times in valure Reposed for all such as righteousnes ensue Wherof you cannot fayle the promise made is true If Iudges in our dayes would ponder wel in mynde The fatall fall of vs for wresting lawe and right Such statutes as touch lyfe should not be thus definde By sences constrained against true meaning quite Aswel they might affirme the blacke for to be whyte Wherfore we wish they would our act and end compare And waying wel the case they wyl we trust beware Finis G. F. WHen finished was this Tragedy which semed not vnfyt for the persons touched in y same Another which in the meane tyme had stayde vppon syr Roger Mortimer Earle of March and heyre apparaunt of Englande whose miserable end as it should appeare was somwhat before the others sayd as foloweth Although it be not greatlye appertinent to our purposed matter yet in my iudgement I thincke it would do wel to obserue the tymes of these great infortunes and as they be more auncient in tyme so to place their seuerall plaintes For I fynde that before these of whō maister Ferrers here hath spoken there were two earles of the name of Mortimer the one in the tyme of king Edward the third out of our date another in Richard the secondes time slayne in Ireland a yeare before the fal of these Iustices whose hystorie syth it is notable and thexample fruitful it were not good to ouerpasse And therfore by your lycence and fauours I wyl take vpon me the personage of the earle Mortimer called Roger who full of bloudye woundes mangled with a pale countenaunce and grieslye looke may make his moane to Baldwin in this wise HOVV THE TWO ROGERS surnamed Mortimers for their sundrye Vyces ended theire lyues vnfortunatelye the one Anno. 1329. the other Anno. 1387. AMong the ryders on the rolling wheele Which lost their holdes Baldwyn forget not mee Whose fatall thred vntimelye death dyd reele Ere it were twisted by the Sisters threee All folke be ●rayle theyr blisses brittle bee For proofe whereof although none other were Suffice may I Sir Roger Mortimer Not he that was in Edwardes dayes the third Whom Fortune brought from boote to extreme bale With loue of whom the Queene so much was stird As for his sake from honour she did scale And whilest Fortune blew on this pleasaunt gale Heauing him high on her triumphall Arch By meane of her hee was made Earle of March. Whence pryde out sprang as doth appeare by manye Whom soden hap aduaunceth in excesse Among thousandes scarse shal you fynde anye Which in high wealth that humor can suppresse As in this earle playne proofe did wel expresse For whereas hee too loftye was before His new degree hath made him now much more For now alone he ruleth as him lust Respecting none saue only the Queene mother Which moued malice to foulder out the rust Which deepe in hate before did lye and smother The Peeres the People aswel the one as other Against him made so haynous a complaint That for a traytour they did the Earle attaynt Than al such crimes as hidden lay before They skower a fresh and somwhat to them adde For hydden hate hath eloquence in store Whan Fortune biddes small faultes to make more bad Fyue haynous crymes against him soone were had Causing the king to yeld vnto the Scot Townes that this father but late afore had got And therewithall the Charter called Ragman Yeuen to the Scots for brybes and priuie gayne That by his meanes sir Edward of Carnaruan In Berckley Castel most cruelly was slayne That with his princes mother he had layne And last of all by pyllage at his pleasure Had spoyld the kyng and commons of their treasure For these thinges lo which erst were out of mynde Dampned he was and honged at the last In whom dame Fortune fully shewed her kynde For whome she heaues she hurleth downe as fast It men to come would learne by other past My coosius fall might cause them set asyde High clymim brybing adultery and pryde The fynal cause why I this processe tell Is that I may be knowen from this other My like in name vnlike me though he fel. Which was I wene my graund sire or his brother To count my kin Dame Philip was my mother Eldest daughter and heire of Lyonell Of King Edward the third the second sequele My Father hight sir Edmund Mortimer Cald Earle of March whence I was after Earle By true discent these two my parentes were Of whih the one of knighthood bare ferl Of Ladies all the other was the pearle After whose Death I onely stoode in plight To be next heyre vnto the crowne by right Touching the case of my cousin Roger Whose ruful end euen now I did relate Was found in tyme an vndue atteindre Against the law by those that bare him hate For where by lawe ech man of free estate Should be heard speake before his iudgement passe That common grace to him denyed was Wherfore by doome in Court of Parliament

His atteindre appering erroneous The King the Lordes and Cammons of assent His lawlesse death vnlawful did discusse And both to bloud and good restored vs A president worthy in record left Lordes lygnes to saue by lawles meanes bereft Whyle Fortune thus did frendly me reteyne Rychard the king that second was by name Hauing none heire after him to reigne Made me his mate in earnest and in game The Lordes themselues so wel allowd the same That through my titles ●ulye comming downe I was made heire apparaunt to the crowne Who then but I was euery where esteemed Wel was the man that vnderstoode my ●ert Whom I allowed as Lordes the People deemed And me to serue was euery mannes entent With all that wyt or cunning could inuent To me as prince attended great and small In hope a day would come to pay for all But seeldome ioye continueth trouble voyde In greatest charge cares greatest do ensue The most possest are euer most anoyed In largest seas sor● tempestes lightly brue The freshest colours soonest chaunge their hue In thickest place is made the diepest wounde True proofe whereof my selfe to soone haue found For whiles Fortune so luld me in her lap And gaue me giftes more than I did require The double Dame behynde me set a trap To dash me downe and laye all in the myre The Irish Kernes agaynst mee did conspyre My Landes of Vlster vniustly to bereaue Which my mother for heritage did me leaue And whyles I there to set all thinges in staye Omit my toyles and troubles thytherwarde Among mine owne with my retinue laye The wylder sort whom I did least regard And therfore the rechlesse mannes reward When least I thought set on me in such number That fro my corps the lyfe they set asunder Nought might auayle my courage nor my force Nor helpe of frendes which were alas to few The cruel folke assaulted so my horse That all my helpes in pieces they to hew Our bloud distaind the ground as drops of dewe Nought might preuayle to flye or yet to yelde For whom they take they murther in che fielde No law of Armes they know nor none wil learne They make not warre as other do a play The Lord the Boy the Gallowglasse the Kerne Yeeld or not yelde whom so they take they slaye They saue no prisoners for raunsome nor for paye Their booty chiefe they coumpt a deadmans heade Their end of warre 's to see their enemie dead Amongest these men or rather sauage beasts I lost my lyfe by cruel murther slayne And therfore Baldwin note thou well my gestes And warne all princes rashnes to refrayne Bid them beware their enemies when they fayne Nor yet presume to make their match amisse Had I not so done I had not come to this At naught I set a sort of naked men And much the lesse seeming to flye away One man me thought was good ynough for ten Making small account of number more or lesse Madnesse it is in warre to goo by gesse At vnwares assaulted by our fone Which were in number fourtie to vs one See here the slay of pompe and highe estate The feeble hold of this vncerteyn lyfe For I but young proclaymed Prince but late Hauing fayre fruict by my belooued wyfe Lost all at once by stroake of bloudy knife Whereby assurde let men themselues assure That wealth and lyfe are doubtful to endure FINIS T. Ch. AFter this Tragedye ended Mays●er Ferrers sayde seeinge it is beste to place eche person in his order Baldwin take you the Chronicles marke them as they come for there are many worthye to bee noted thoughe not treated of First the Lorde Murrey a Scottish man who tooke his deathes wound through a stroake lent him by the Earle of Notingham whom he chalenged at the Tylt But to omit him and also the fatte Pryor of Typtre pressed to death with thronge of People vppon London Bridge at the Queenes entrye I wyll come to the Duke of Glocester the kinges vncle a man mynding the common wealth and yet at length miserably made away in whose person if ye wil geeue eare ye shal heare what I thinke meete to be sayd HOVVE SIR THOMAS of VVoodstocke Duke of Glocestre Vncle to King Rychard the second was vnlawfully murdered Anno. 1397. WHo stablisht is in State seeming most sure And so far from daunger of Fortunnes blast As by the compas●● o● mannes coniecture No brasen pylter may be fyxt more fast Yet wanting the stay of prudent forecast Whan froward Fortune list for to frowne May in a moment turne vpside downe In proofe whereof O Baldwin take payne Turne thine care to Thomas of Woodstocke Prest in presence on Fortune to complaine In the forlorne hope of English flocke Who by discent was of the royall stocke Sonne to king Edward third of that name And second to none in glorye and fame This noble father to maynteyn my state With Buckingham Earledome did me i●dowe Both Nature and Fortune to me were grate Denying mee nothing which they might allow Their sundrye graces in me did so flowe As beautye strength high fauour and fame Who may of God more wish then the same Brothers we were to the number of seuen I beeing the sixt and youngest but one A more royall race was not vnder heauen More sto●t or more stately of stomacke person Princes al peerelesse in ech condition Namelye syr Edward called the blacke Prince When had England the like before or euer since But what of all this any man to assure In state vncarefull of Fortunes variaunce Syth daylye and hourelye wee see it in vre That where most cause is of affiaunce Euen there is found most weake assuraunce Let none trust Fortune but folow reason For often wee see in trust is treason This prouerbe in proofe ouer true I tryed Fynding high treason in place of high trust And most false fayth where I most affyed Beinge by them that should haue bene iust Trayterouslye entrapt ere I could mistrust Ah wretched world what is it to trust thee Let them that wil learne now harken to mee After king Edward the thirdes decease Succeeded my Nephewe Richard to raigne Who for his glory and honours encrease Wich princely wages did me entertaine Against the Frenchmen to be his Chieftayne So passing the Seas with royall puissaunce With God and S. George I inuaded Fraunce Wastinge the country with sword and with fyre Ouer turning townes high Castles and towers Like Mars God of warre enflamed with ire I forced the Frenchmen t' abandon their bowers Where euer we matcht I wan at all howers In such wise visiting both Cittie ad village That alway my souldiers were laden with pyllage With honour and tryumph was my returne Was none more ioyous than young king Richard Who minding more highlye my state to adourne With Glocestre Dukedome did me reward And after in mariage I was prefarde To a daughter of Bohun an Earle honourable By whom I was of England

high Constable Thus hoysted high on Fortunes whyrling wheele As one on a stage attending a playe Seeth not on which syde the scaffold doth reele Til timber and poales and al flye awaye So fared it by me for day by daye As honour encreased I looked stil higher Not seing the daunger of my fond desier For Fortunes floud thus running with ful streame And I a Duke descended of great kinges Constable of England chiefe officer in the realme Abused with assuraunce in these vayne thinges I went without feete and flew without winges Presuming so faire vpon my high estate That dread set apart my Prince I would mate For whereas all kinges haue counsel of their choyse To whom they referre the rule of their Land With certein familiers in whom to reioyce For pleasure or profite as the case shall stand I not hearing this would needes take in hand Maugre his will those persons to disgrace And such as I thought ●●tie to settle in their place But as an old Booke sayth who so wil assay About the Cats necke to hang on any Bell Had first neede to cut the Cats clawes awaye Least if the Cat be curst and not camed well She happly with her nayles may clawe him to the fell So putting on the Bel about the Cats necke By being too busie I caught a cruel checke Reade wel the sentence of the Rat of renowne Which Pierce the Plowman describes in his Dreame And who so hath wy● the sence to expoune Shal fynde that to brydle the Prince of a Realme Is euen as who sayth to stryue with the streame Note this all subiectes and construe it well And busie not your Braynes about the Cats bel But in that ye be Lieges learne to obay Submitting your willes to your Princes Lawes It sitteth not a subiect to haue his owne waye Remember this prouer be of the Cats clawes For Princes like Lyons haue long and large pawes That reach at Randon and whom they once twitch They claw to the boane before the skinne itch But to my purpose I being once bent Towardes the atchieving of my attemptate Foure bold Barons were of myne assent By oath and aliaunce fastlye confederate First Henry of Derby an Earle of estate Richard of Arundel and Thomas of Warwicke With Mowbray the Marshal a man most warlike At Ratecote bridge assembled our band The commons in clusters came to vs that day To daunt Robert Veer then Duke of Ireland By whom King Richard was ruled alway We put him to flight and brake his array Then Maugre the king his leaue or assent By Constables power we cald a Parliament Where not in Roabes but with Baslardes bright We came for to parle of the Publique weale Confirming our quarel with maine and with might With swordes and no wordes we tryed our appeale In steede of reason declaring our zeale And whom so we knew with the king in good grace We playnly depriued of power and of place Some with short processe were bannisht the Land Some executed with capitall payne VVherof who so lis● the whole to vnderstand In the Parliament rolle it appeareth playne And further how stoutly we did the king straine The rule of his realme wholy to resigne To the order of those whom we did assigne But note the sequele of such presumption Af●er we had these Myracles thus wrought The kinge inflamed with indignation By Subiectes thus in bondage to bee brought Suppress●●ge the Ire of his inward thought Studied nought els but how that he might Be highly reuenged of this high dispight Agreeued was also this later offence With former cause of 〈◊〉 to renewe For once at Wyndsor I brought to his presence The Maior of London with all his retinewe To aske accoumpt of the Realmes reuenew And the Souldiers of Brest by me were made bold To clayme their wages when the towne was solde These griefes remembred with all the remnaunt Fulfyld his hart with hate out of measure Yet openly in shew made he no semblaunt By word or by deede to beare displeasure But Frendship fayned in proofe is found vnsure And who so trusteth a foe reconcilde Is for the most part alwayes beguilde For as fier ill quencht will vp ●at a start And sores not wel salued do breake out of new So hatred hidden in an ireful hart Where it hath not had long season to brew Vpon euery occasion doth easely renew Not fayling at last if it be not let To pay large vsurie besides the due de● Euen so it fared by this frendship fayned Outwardly sound and inwardly rotten For when the kings fauour in seeming was gayned All olde displeasures forgeeuen and forgotten Euen than at a soden the shaft was shotten Which pearced my hart voyd of mistrust Alas that a Prince should be so vniust For lyinge at Plashey my selfe to repose With long sickness● diseased very sore The King espying me apart from those With whom I was confedered before Thought it not meete to tract the time more But glad 'to take me at such aduauntage Came to salute mee with frendly visage Who hauing a Band bound to his bent By colour of kindnesse to visite his Eame Tooke tyme to accomplish his cruel entent And in a small vessel downe by the streame Conueid me to Calais out of the realme Where without processe or doome of my peares Not nature but murder abridged my yeares This act was odious to God and to man Yet rigour to cloake to ha●it of reason By craftye compasse deuise they can Articles nine of right haynous treason But doome after death is sure out of season For who euer saw so straunge a president As execution to goe before iudgement Thus hate harboured in depth of mynde By sought occasion burst out of new And c●u●l●ye abused the lawe of kinde When that the Nephue the vncle slew Alas King Richard sore maist thou rue Which by this fact preparedst a playne waye Of thy hard destenye to hasten the daye For bloud axeth bloud as guerdon due And vengeaunce for vengeaunce is iust rewarde O righteous God thy iudgementes are true For looke what measure to others we awarde The same for vs againe is preparde Take heede ye princes by examples past Bloud wil haue bloud eyther first or last FINIS G. F. WHen maister Ferrers had ended this fruictfull Tragedye because no mā was readye with an other hauing perused the storie which came next sayde because you shall not saye my maysters but that I will somewhat doe my parte I wyll vnder your correction declare the tragedye of Thomas Mowbrey Duke of Northfolke the chiefe worker of the Duke of Glocesters destruction who to admonish all counsaylours to b●ware of Flattring Princes or falsely enuying or accusing their Peregalles may lamēt his vyces in maner folowinge HOVV THE LORDE Mowbray promoted by Kynge Rychard the seconde to the State of a Duke was by him Banished the Realme in the yeare of Christe 1398. and after died myserably in exile THough sorrowe