dealing was too manifest although indeed he abused his fathers patience for a while who was desirous of nothing more than to win his sonnes by some courteous meanes and therfore diuerse times offered to pardon all offenses committed by his enimies at the suit of his sonne the king who in déed offered himselfe now and then as an intreatour but that was onelie to win time that his brother with such Brabanders and other souldiers as he had with him in aid beside the forces of the barons of Guien might worke the more mischéefe against their father and their brother earle Richard in wasting and destroieng their countries that stood stedfast on their side In the meane time Richard the archbishop of Canturburie and diuerse other bishops and abbats both of England and Normandie assembled togither at Caen and in the abbeie church of S. Stephan pronounced the sentence of excommunication against all those that did hinder and impeach their purpose which was to haue peace and concord concluded betwixt the king and his sonnes the same sonnes onlie out of the said sentence excepted Diuerse shiftes were made by king Henrie the sonne and his brother earle Geffrey also to get monie for the paiment of their souldiers as spoiling of shrines and such like But at length when things framed not to their purpose and that the harme which they could doo against their father was much lesse than they wished if power had béene answerable to their wâ—â—es king Henrie the sonne through indignation and displeasure as some write fell into a gréeuous sicknesse in a village called Mertell noâ— farre from Limoges where his father laie at siege At the first he was taken with an extreame feuer and after followed a sore flixe Now perceiuing himselfe in danger of death and that the physicians had giuen him ouer he sent to his father better late than neuer confessing his trespasse committed against him and required of all fatherlie loueth 〈◊〉 sée him once before he died But for that the father thought not good to commit himselfe into the hands of such vngratious persons as were about his sonne he sent his ring vnto him in token of his blessing and as it were a pledge to signifie that he had forgiuen him his vnnaturall doings against him The son receiuing it with great humilitie kissed it and so ended his life in the presence of the archbishop of Burdeaux and others on the day of saint Barnabie the apostle He died as some write verie penitent and sorowfull And whereas in his life time he had vowed to make a iourneie into the holie land against Gods enimies and taken vpon him the crosse for that intent he deliuered it vnto his familiar freend William line 10 Marshall to go thither with it in his stead Moreouer when he perceiued present death at hand he first confessed his sinnes secretlie and after openly before sundrie bishops and men of religion and receiued absolution in most humble wise After this he caused his fine clothes to be taken from him and therewith a heare cloth to be put vpon him and after tieng a cord about his necke he said vnto the bishops and other that stood by him I deliuer my selfe an vnworthie and greeuous sinner vnto you the ministers of line 20 God by this cord beséeching our Lord Iesus Christ which pardoned the théefe confessing his faults on the crosse that through your praiers and for his great mercies sake it may please him to be mercifull vnto my soule wherevnto they all answered Amen Then he said vnto them Draw me out of this bed with this cord and laie me on that bed strawed with ashes which he had of purpose prepared and as he commanded so they did and they laid at his feet and at his head two great square stones Thus being prepared line 30 to die he willed his bodie after his deceasse to be conueied into Normandie and buried at Rouen And so after he had receiued the sacrament of the bodie and bloud of our Lord he departed this life as afore is said about the 28. yeare of his age His bodie after his death was conueied towards Rouen there to be buried accordinglie as he had willed but when those that had charge to conueie it thither were come vnto the citie of Mauns the bishop there and the cleargie would not suffer them to line 40 go any further with it but committed it to buriall in honourable wise within the church of saint Iulian. Whereof when the citizens of Rouen were aduertised they were sore offended with that dooing and streightwaies sent vnto them of Mauns requiring to haue the corps deliuered threatening otherwise with manie earnest oths to fetch it from them by force Wherefore king Henrie to set order in this matter commanded that the corps of his sonne the king should be deliuered vnto them of Rouen to be line 50 buried in their citie as he himselfe had willed before his death And so it was taken vp and conueied to Rouen where it was eftsoones buried in the church of our ladie ¶ Thus ended this yoong king in his floorishing youth to whome through his owne iust deserts long life was iustlie denied sith he delighted to begin his gouernement with vnlawfull attempts as an other Absolon against his owne naturall father seeking line 60 by wrongfull violence to pull the scepter out of his hand He is not put in the number of kings bicause he remained for the more part vnder the gouernance of his father so that he rather bare the name of king as appointed to reigne than that he may be said to haue reigned in deed So that héere by the waie a notable obseruation dooth occurre and offer it selfe to be noted of vs namelie that euen princes children though borne to great excellencie and in high degâ—eâ— of dignitie aâ—e to consider with themselues that notwithstanding their statelie titles of souereigntie they haue a dutie to discharge vnto their parents which if it be neglected and that in place thereof disobedience is substituted God himselfe when politike lawes prouide not to punish such offenses will take the cause in hand will powre vengeance vpon such vngratious children For he will be true of his word both in blessing and curssing in blessing the dutifull child with long life and happie daies and in curssing the obstinate and froward with short life and vnfortunate daies according to the tenure of his law If this man had liued in the old Romans time when aged persons were so reuerenced and honoured much more parents he had beene cut off in the prime of his disobedience and present death had beene inflicted vpon him as a due and deserued reward which Iuuenal noteth excellentlie well in these words Credebant hoc grande nefas morte piandum Si iuuenis vetulo non assurrexerat si Barbato cuicunque puer licèt ipse videret Plura domi farra maioris
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 afâ—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 inâ—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 seiâ—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 plebâ—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 â—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 loâ—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
line 50 and footmen which togither with his Normans he brought ouer into England in haruest season meaning to disburthen himselfe of the charge of their keeping he caused their finding and wages to be borne by the lords and peeres of the realme by the shirifs of shires and other officers Howbeit when he vnderstood that the Danes changed their purpose and would not hold on their iourneie he dismissed part of his power and sent them home againe keeping line 60 the residue all the winter with him in England readie for his defense if anie rebellion or other necessitie should befall The same yeare he kept his Christmasse at Glocester year 1086 and made his sonne Henrie knight at Westminster in Whitsunwéeke insuing Shortlie after calling togither aswell lords spirituall as temporall year 1087 he caused them all to sweare fealtie to him and his heires after him in the possession of this kingdome About this season the people in all places were pitifullie plaged with burning feuers which brought manie to their end a murren also came to their cattell whereof a woonderfull number died At the same time which is more maruellous tame foules as hens géese peacocks forsaking their owners houses fled to the woods and became wild Great hurt was doone in manie places of the realme by fire and speciallie in London where vpon the 7. daie of Iulie a sudden flame began which burnt Paules church and a great part of the citie downe to the verie ground Now when K. William had taken the oth of fealtie and loialtie of all his lords Edgar Etheling who was reconciled vnto his â—auour as you haue heard obteining licence of him to depart the realme for a season sailed into Puglia with two hundred souldiers of whose acts there and returne into England I spare to speake bicause I find litle or nothing of moment recorded And now king William who hauing brought the Englishmen so lowe and bare that little more was to be got out of their hands went once againe ouer into Normandie with an huge masse of mony where soone after he fell sicke so that he was constrained to keepe his bed longer than he had beene accustomed to doo whereat Philip the French king in iesting maner said that king William his cousine laie now in childbed alluding belike to his big bellie for he was verie corpulent and withall added Oh what a number of candels must I prouide to offer vp at his going to church certeinelie I thinke that 100000. will not suffice c. This frumping spéech so moued the king that he made this answere Well I trust when I shall be churched that our cousine shall be at no such cost but I will helpe to find him a thousand candels my selfe and light them too to some of their paines if God grant me life Which promise he bound with an oth and in déed performed For in Iulie next insuing when their corne fruit and grapes were most florishing and readie for the sickle he entred France with a great armie set fire on manie of their cities and townes in the westside of that countrie came at last to the citie of Maunt which he burnt with the church of our ladie and an ankresse inclosed in the wall thereof as an holie closet for the force of the fire was such as all went to wrecke In this heat king William tooke such a sicknesse which was likewise aggrauated by the fall of an horsse as he rode to and fro bicause he was not able to trauell on foot about his palace by reason of his disease that cost him his life so that when he had ordeined his last will and taken order for the staie of things after his decease he departed this life on the 9. day of September in the yeare after the birth of our Sauiour 1087. and 74. as Polydor saith of his age hauing gouerned Normandie about 51. yeres and reigned ouer England 20. yeares ten moneths and 28. daies as all writers doo report Not long before his death he released his brother Odo bishop of Bayeux out of prison Marchar earle of Northumberland and Wilnotus the sonne of king Harold or as some say his brother Moreouer he repented him as some say when he lay on his deathbed of his cruell dealing with the English considering that by them he had atteined to such honour and dignitie as to weare the crowne and scepter of a kingdome but whether he did so or not or that some moonke deuised the excuse in fauour of the prince surelie he was a puissant prince and though his time was troublesome yet he was right fortunate in all his attempts Againe if a man shall consider that in a strange realme he could make such a conquest and so exactlie and readilie assure the same to his heires with new lawes orders and constitutions which are like for euer to endure he would thinke it a thing altogither void of credit Yet so it was so honourable were his dooings in the sight of the world that those kings which succeeded sithens his death begin their account at him as from one that had by his prudence renewed the state of the realme and instituted an other forme of regiment in atchiuing whereof he did not so much pretend a rightfull challenge by the grant of his coosine king Edward the Confessor as by the law of armes and plaine conquest than the which as he supposed there could be no better title Herevpon also those that haue sithens succeeded him vse the same armes as peculiar to the crowne of England which he vsed in his time namelie three line 10 liâ—ns passant gold in a field gewels as Polydor writeth the three floure delices were since that time annexed thereto by Edward the third by reason of his claime to the crowne of France whereof hereafter ye shall heare Among other greeuances which the English susteined by the hard deling of the Conquerour this is to be remembrd that he brought Iewes into this land from Rouen and appointed them a place to inhabit and occupie There be that write how the inconstancie of the line 20 English people by their oft rebellions occasioned the king to be so rough and rigorous against them wheras of his naturall disposition and proper inclination he was rather gentle and courteous than sharpe and cruell But sith he continued his extremitie euen to his last daies we may rather beléeue that although from his childhood he shewed some tokens of clemencie bountie and liberalitie yet by following the wars and practising to reigne with sternenesse he became so inured therewith that those peaceable vertues line 30 were quite altered in him and in maner clearelie quenched He was indued with a certeine stoutnesse of courage and skill in feats of warre which good hap euer followed he was frée from lecherous lusts without suspicion of bodilie vices quicke of wit desirous of
and comming to his father as an obedient sonne shewed himselfe readie to serue him at commandement with a glad and willing mind Soone after this and about the seauenth houre of the day the sunne suffered a generall eclipse so that no part of it appeared and therwith followed great thunder with lightning and sore tempest with the violence whereof both men and beasts were destroied and manie houses burned Shortlie after this the kings of England and France met and communed togither for the aiding of them in the holie land and they promised indéed to send thither both men and monie but the patriarch made small account thereof for he was much deceiued of that which he hoped to haue brought to passe which was either to haue got the king of England or one of his sonnes or some other man of great authoritie with him into the holie land but bicause that would not be he departed from the court verie sorrowfull and sore displeased so that it may be thought that then and not before his departure out of England he spake his mind so plainlie vnto the king as before yee haue heard Moreouer about this time king Henrie obteined of pope Urbane the third that he might crowne which of his sonnes it should please him king of Ireland in token of which grant and confirmation the said pope sent vnto him a crowne of peacocks feathers after a feat maner wouen in with gold This yeare the king held his Christmasse at Danfrount year 1186 and shortlie after came to a communication with the French king at the which he tooke a solemne oth that he would deliuer the ladie Alice the French kings sister whome he had as yet in his custodie vnto his sonne Richard erle of Poictou in mariage For the which mariage to be had and solemnized the French king granted to deliuer vnto the said Richard the towne of Gisors with all that which his father king Lewes promised vnto king Henrie the sonne latelie deceassed in marriage with quéene Margaret the wife of the same Henrie receiuing an oth thereto neuer to make anie claime or chalenge to the same towne and lands King Henrie after he had thus concluded and finished his affaires with the French king returned backe into England in Maie and then was Hugh prior of Witham instituted bishop of Lincolne after that the see there had béene void and without any lawfull gouernour almost the space of seauenteene yeares This Hugh was reputed a verie godlie and vertuous man Before him Walter Constance was nominated to that sée but bicause he was made archbishop of Rouen before he was inuested in the church of Lincolne he is not accounted in number of the bishops of Lincolne Moreouer king Henrie shortlie after his returne at this time into England assembled a great armie and went with the same to Caerleill in purpose to haue entred Galloway and there to haue chastised Rouland lord of that countrie who was sonne to Uthred the sonne of Fergus for the iniuries doone to his coosine germains namelie to Duncane sonne to Gilbert who was sonne to the same Fergus in spoiling him and the residue after the deceasse of the said Gilbert of their parts of inheritance vsurping the whole to himselfe But as the king was now readie to inuade his countrie Rouland came to him and vsed such meanes vnder pretense of satisfaction that he made his peace with the king who therevpon brought backe his armie and did no more at that time About the same time came newes to the king that Hugh Lacie was slaine in Ireland by an Irish gentleman that was his confederate or rather by a labourer as in the Irish historie you may read whereof the king was nothing sorie bicause the same Hugh was growne to so high degrée of puissance in that countrie that he refused to obeie the kings commandement when he sent for him ¶ It is to be noted that when king Henrie had conquered the most part of Ireland and set the countrie in some good order after his comming from thence such capteines as he left there behind him were not idle but still did what they could to inlarge the confines which were committed to their gouernance but amongst them all this Hugh Lacie was the chéefest in somuch that after the death of Richard earle of Striguile the king made him gouernour of the countrie in place of the said earle by reason whereof he so inlarged his possessions that within a while he became dreadfull not onelie to the enimies but also to his associats as to such English capteins as were abiding in Ireland vpon gard of the English line 10 frontiers For if any of them disobeied his commandement he would not sticke to chastise them at his pleasure so that by such meanes he seemed rather to conquer the countrie to his owne vse than to the kings Wherein he dealt not so directlie or discréetlie as he might for Homines volunt allici non impelli He had also ioined himselfe in mariage with a daughter of the king of Unlester not making king Henrie priuie to the same Wherevpon the king hauing sundrie informations presented to him of such line 20 his presumptuous demeanour commanded him by his letters to returne home and come before his presence which to doo as before I haue said he refused by reason whereof he confirmed the suspicion which was conceiued of him to rise vpon no vaine coniectures and therefore the euill that came to him was nothing lamented of king Henrie who with good cause was highlie offended towards him for the contempts and considerations aforesaid line 30 This yeare Geffrey the kings son who was earle of Britaine died at Paris and was buried in the same citie leauing behind him besides two daughters one onlie sonne as then in his mothers wombe of whom she was deliuered in the night of the feast of Easter next insuing hir husbands death he was named Arthur and succeeded his father in the earledome of Britaine His fathers death was occasioned as men iudge by a fall which he caught at a iournie for he was sore bruised therewith and neuer had his health but finallie fell into a flix and so died line 40 About this season pope Urbane wrote vnto Baldwin archbishop of Canturburie granting him licence to build a church at Alkinton in honour of S. Stephan and Thomas Becket now reputed a martyr and that the fourth part of the offerings which came to the box of Thomas the martyr should be assigned to the vse of the moonks an other fourth part to the buildings of that church and an other fourth part to be giuen to the poore and the other fourth part line 50 remaining he might reserue to himselfe to bestow at his pleasure But within a while after at the suit and supplication of the prior and couent of Canturburie who liked nothing of the former partition the pope sent letters of prohibition to the
Stephan de Longchamp Seguin de Barret Roger de Glanuille Raimond Fitz Prince Bartholomew de Mortimer Gerard Furniuall Rafe de Malleon Roger de Saâ—ie William de Poole Hugh de Neuill Henrie Teutch or if ye will Teutonicus the kings standardbearer with diuerse others as well Englishmen Frenchmen Normans Poictouins Aniouines Britans Gascoignes as other nations of whome partlie mention is alreadie made before in this booke and partlie for breefenesse diuerse are omitted But now to returne sure it is that king Richard meant to haue recouered the citie of Ierusalem and all the holie land out of the Saracens hands by the assistance of almightie God if the doubt which he had of his brother the earle of Mortaigns practises the French kings dooings which were brought to him with a greeuous report had not reuoked him home For diuerse messengers were sent dailie into the holie land to aduertise him of such dangers as were like to insue if by his speedie returne the same were not preuented And first after Easter there came to him the prior of Hereford with letters from the bishop of Elie conteining a sore information against his brother earle Iohn for hauing expelled those whom he had appointed rulers ouer the realme of England and altered the state of things there contrarie to the ordinances by him deuised afore his setting forward vpon his iournie as before ye haue partlie heard Upon receipt of which letters he meant inmediatlie at the first to haue returned and to haue left behind him a conuenient power of men to wit thrée hundred knights or men of armes and two thousand chosen footmen to abide vpon the defense of the holie land with other christians at his costs and charges But yet at length he was persuaded to tarrie speciallie till things were set in some better state which then were out of order by the death of the marques of Montferrato lord of Tire whom two traitorous Saracens of the kind which they name Assassini had murthered After whose death Henrie earle of Champaigne nephue to king Richard married his wife and was made king of Ierusalem Guido resigning to him his title vnto whome as it were in recompense king Richard gaue the I le of Cypres although some write that the knights Templers had bought it of him before Thus king Richard remaining still in the holie land shortlie after Whitsuntide there came an other messenger to him one Iohn de Alanzon a clearke bringing worsse newes out of England than the prior of Hereford had brought before which in effect conteined that his brother earle Iohn was alied as a confederat with the French king and meant through his setting on to seize into his possession the whole realme of England notwithstanding the persuasion of his mother quéene Eliâ—nor and other his fréends to the contrarie Herevpon king Richard was fullie persuaded to returne home but yet through the admonition of certeine persons and namelie of one William dâ— Poicters a chapleine of his he estsoones altered his purpose and so remained there till at length through enuie and malice still increasing amongst the câ—ristians he perceiued how no good purpose could go forward since that which séemed good to some was misliked of other and speciallie our writers put great blame in the French men who either vpon disdaine or other displeasure would not be persuaded to follow their aduise which were knowne bâ—st to vnderstand the state of things in those parties And herevpon when the armie was aduanced to Betenoble a place not past foure leagues distant from Ierusalem bicause their mind might not be fulfilled for the besieging of Ierusalem which they had intended to take in hand whereas the residue would rather that they shuld haue gone to besiege Babylon in Aegypt and that vpon sundrie great respects the Frenchmen raised their field and returned againe to Acres in great despite putting the rest of the armie also so much as in them laie in danger of vtter ruine and distresse line 10 Then king Richard and the other christian capteins perceiuing how the matter inclined and giuing ouer all hope of any more good successe followed them So that after they were thus returned to Acres king Richard still doubting least his long absence from home might put him in danger of more losse here than he saw hope of present gaine to be had there in such diuersitie of humours and priuie malice which reigned among them he determined fullie to depart homewards with no lesse purpose to line 20 returne thither againe after he had setled things at home in such sure stay as was expedient for the suertie of his owne estate and quietnesse of his people Herevpon being readie to enter into his ships at Acres or as some haue being on his iournie homewards in Cypres he was aduertised that the Souldane Saladine had taken the towne of Iaph slaine a great number of the christians within it and besieged the residue within the castell the which constreined through feare had compounded to yéeld if within line 30 thrée daies there came no succour King Richard being hereof aduertised and turning gréef into valiancie with all spéed sailed backe vnto Iaph and landing there with his people caused his enimies to forsake the towne but anon assembling themselues againe togither they turned once more to besiege it wherevpon he issued foorth into the fields and fought with them sundrie daies togither till finallie they were content to forsake their enterprise and to depart thence for altogither In these line 40 conflicts the valiant courage of king Richard and the worthie manhood of his souldiers right well appeared for he brought not with him at that time vnto Iaph aboue 80 men of armes and foure hundred other souldiers with crossebowes and yet with that small handfull of men and some aid of them that he found there in the castell he did not onelie bid battell to the enimies which were numbred to 62 thousand but also put them to the woorsse and caused them to flee backe to their great shame and confusion line 50 Thus Iaph being deliuered out of the enimies hands king Richard fell sicke at a castell called Cephas and so remained there certeine daies till he had recouered his health In which meane time the Soldane Saladine seeming to lament his â—ase sent vnto him certeine of his councellors to common with him of peace declaring that although he well vnderstood that king Richard ment shortlie to returne into his countrie and that after his departure out of the east parts he could with small adoo recouer line 60 all that the christians yet held within the holie land he would neuerthelesse in respect of king Richards high prowes and noble valiancie grant a peace for a certeine time so that not onelie Ascalon but also all other such townes and places as the christians had fortified or woone since the conquest of Acres should be raced as touching
before the citie of Mauns were aduertised that our mother was besieged in Mirabeau and therfore we hasted so fast as we possibly might so that we came thither on Lammas daie and there we tooke our nephue Arthur Hugh le line 20 Brun Andrew de Chauenie the vicount of Chateau Erald Raimond de Touars Sauerie de Mauleon and Hugh Bangi and all other enimies of Poictou that were there assembled against vs to the number of two hundred knights and aboue so that not one of them escaped Giue God therefore thanks and reioise at our good successe The French king at the same time lieng in siege line 30 before Arques immediatlie vpon the newes of this ouerthrow raised from thence and returned homewards destroieng all that came in his waie till he was entred into his owne countrie It is said that king Iohn caused his nephue Arthur to be brought before him at Falais and there went about to persuade him all that he could to forsake his freendship and aliance with the French king and to leane and sticke to him being his naturall vncle But Arthur line 40 like one that wanted good counsell and abounding too much in his owne wilfull opinion made a presumptuous answer not onelie denieng so to doo but also commanding king Iohn to restore vnto him the realme of England with all those other lands and possessions which king Richard had in his hand at the houre of his death For sith the same apperteined to him by right of inheritance he assured him except restitution were made the sooner he should not long continue quiet King Iohn being sore mooued with line 50 such words thus vttered by his nephue appointed as before is said that he should be straitlie kept in prison as first in Falais and after at Roan within the new castell there Thus by means of this good successe the countries of Poictou Touraine and Aniou were recouered Shortlie after king Iohn comming ouer into England caused himselfe to be crowned againe at Canturburie by the hands of Hubert the archbishop there on the fourteenth day of Aprill and then went line 60 backe againe into Normandie where immediatlie vpon his arriuall a rumour was spred through all France of the death of his nephue Arthur True it is that great suit was made to haue Arthur set at libertie as well by the French king as by William de Riches a valiant baron of Poictou and diuerse other Noble men of the Britains who when they could not preuaile in their suit they banded themselues togither and ioining in confederacie with Robert earle of Alanson the vicount Beaumont William de Fulgiers and other they began to leuie sharpe wars against king Iohn in diuerse places insomuch as it was thought that so long as Arthur liued there would be no quiet in those parts wherevpon it was reported that king Iohn through persuasion of his councellors appointed certeine persons to go vnto Falais where Arthur was kept in prison vnder the charge of Hubert de Burgh and there to put out the yoong gentlemans eies But through such resistance as he made against one of the tormentors that came to execute the kings commandement for the other rather forsooke their prince and countrie than they would consent to obeie the kings authoritie héerein and such lamentable words as he vttered Hubert de Burgh did preserue him from that iniurie not doubting but rather to haue thanks than displeasure at the kings hands for deliuering him of such infamie as would haue redounded vnto his highnesse if the yoong gentleman had béene so cruellie dealt withall For he considered that king Iohn had resolued vpon this point onelie in his heat and furie which moueth men to vndertake manie an inconuenient enterprise vnbeseeming the person of a common man much more reprochfull to a prince all men in that mood being meere foolish and furious and prone to accomplish the peruerse conceits of their ill possessed heart as one saith right well pronus in iram Stultorum est unimus facilè excandescit audet Omne scelus quoties concepta bile tumescit and that afterwards vpon better aduisement he would both repent himselfe so to haue commanded and giue them small thanke that should sée it put in execution Howbeit to satisfie his mind for the time and to staie the rage of the Britains he caused it to be bruted abroad through the countrie that the kings commandement was fulfilled and that Arthur also through sorrow and greefe was departed out of this life For the space of fiftéene daies this rumour incessantlie ran through both the realmes of England and France and there was ringing for him through townes and villages as it had béene for his funerals It was also bruted that his bodie was buried in the monasterie of saint Andrewes of the Cisteaux order But when the Britains were nothing pacified but rather kindled more vehementlie to worke all the mischeefe they could deuise in reuenge of their souereignes death there was no remedie but to signifie abroad againe that Arthur was as yet liuing and in health Now when the king heard the truth of all this matter he was nothing displeased for that his commandement was not executed sith there were diuerse of his capteins which vttered in plaine words that he should not find knights to keepe his castels if he dealt so cruellie with his nephue For if it chanced any of them to be taken by the king of France or other their aduersaries they should be sure to tast of the like cup. ¶ But now touching the maner in verie deed of the end of this Arthur writers make sundrie reports Neuerthelesse certeine it is that in the yeare next insuing he was remooued from Falais vnto the castell or tower of Rouen out of the which there was not any that would confesse that euer he saw him go aliue Some haue written that as he assaied to haue escaped out of prison and proouing to clime ouer the wals of the castell he fell into the riuer of Saine and so was drowned Other write that through verie gréefe and languor he pined awaie and died of naturall sicknesse But some affirme that king Iohn secretlie caused him to be murthered and made awaie so as it is not throughlie agréed vpon in what sort he finished his daies but verelie king Iohn was had in great suspicion â—â—ether worthilie or not the lord knoweth Yet how extreamelie soeuer he delt with his nephue he released and set at libertie diuerse of those lords that were taken prisoners with him namelie Hugh le Brun and Sauerie de Mauleon the one to his great trouble and hinderance and the other to his gaine for Hugh le Brun afterwards leuied and occasioned sore warres against him but Sauerie de Mauleon continued euer after his loiall subiect dooing to him verie agréeable seruice as hereafter may appeare The Lord Guie sonne to the vicount of Touars who had taken Arthurs mother Constance
and that all vniust lawes and ordinances should be abrogated line 30 It was also commanded that no shiriffe nor forrester nor other minister of the kings should vpon paine of life and limme take violentlie anie thing of any man by waie of extortion nor presume to wrong anie man or to fine anie man as they had afore time béene accustomed to doo After this the king being come backe from his iournie which he purposed to haue made into Poictow assembled an armie and ment to haue gone line 40 against those lords which had refused to go with him but the archbishop of Canturburie comming to him at Northampton sought to appease his mood and to cause him to staie but yet in his furious rage he went forward till he came to Notingham and there with much adoo the archbishop following him with threatning to excommunicate all those that should aid him procured him to leaue off his enterprise Then the archbishop about the fiue and twentith day of August came to London there to take aduise line 50 for the reformation of things touching the good gouernement of the common-wealth But here whilest the archbishop with other péeres of the realme deuised orders verie necessarie as was thought for the state of the common-wealth the king doubting least the same should be a bridle for him to restreine his authoritie roiall from dooing things to his pleasure he began to find fault and séemed as though he had repented himselfe of his large promises made for his reconciliation but the archbishop of Canturburie line 60 so asswaged his mood and persuaded him by opening vnto him what danger would insue both to him and to his realme if he went from the agreement that he was glad to be quiet for feare of further trouble In this hurlie burlie also the lords and péeres of the realme by the setting on of the archbishop were earnestlie bent to haue the king to restore and confirme the grant which his grandfather king Henrie the first had by his charter granted and confirmed to his subiects which to doo king Iohn thought greatlie preiudiciall to his roiall estate and dignitie The earle of Tholouse hauing lost all his possessions the citie of Tholouse onelie excepted came ouer into England rendred the said citie into the hands of king Iohn and receiued at his departure the summe of ten thousand marks as was reported by the bountifull gift of king Iohn Upon the second of October Geffrey Fitz Peter earle of Essex and lord cheefe iustice of England departed this life a man of great power and autoritie in whose politike direction and gouernement the order of things perteining to the common-wealth chéefelie consisted He was of a noble mind expert in knowledge of the lawes of the land rich in possessions and ioined in blood or affinitie with the more part of all the Nobles of the realme so that his death was no small losse to the commonwelth for through him and the archbishop Hubert the king was oftentimes reuoked from such wilfull purposes as now and then he was determined to haue put in practise in so much that the king as was reported but how trulie I cannot tell séemed to reioise for his death bicause he might now worke his will without anie to controll him The same time to wit about the feast of saint Michaell came Nicholas the cardinall of Tusculane into England sent from the pope to take awaie the interdiction if the king would stand to that agreement which he had made and promised by his oth to performe King Iohn receiued this cardinall in most honorable wise and gladlie heard him in all things that he had to saie This legat at his comming to Westminster deposed the abbat of that place named William from his roome for that he was accused both of wasting the reuenues of the house and also of notable incontinencie Moreouer the burgesses of the towne of Oxford came vnto him to obteine absolution of their offense in that through their presumption the thrée schollers of whom ye haue heard before were hanged there to the great terror of all the residue To be short they were absolued and penance inioined them that they should strip them out of their apparell at euerie church in the towne and going barefooted with scourges in their hands they should require the benefit of absolution of euerie parish preest within their towne saieng the psalme of Miserere After this the said cardinall called a councell or conuocation of the cleargie to reforme such things touching the state of the church as should be thought requisite And though he handled not this matter with such fauour and vprightnesse as the bishops wished on their behalfes yet he caused king Iohn to restore the most part of all those goods that remained vnspent and also the value of halfe of those that were consumed and made awaie vnto those persons as well spirituall as temporall from whom they had béene taken in time of the discord betwixt him and the pope But before all things could be thus quieted and set in order betwixt the king and the bishops manie méetings were had as at London Reading Wallingford and in other places Now the archbishop and prelates for their parts thought this recompense to be but small in respect of the great losses and hinderances which they had susteined and to haue the whole restitution delaied they tooke it not well Howbeit the cardinall leaned so to the kings side hauing receiued of him to the popes vse the charter of subiection of the realmes of England and Ireland now bulled with gold where at the first it was deliuered to Pandulph sealed onelie with wax But their suit came to little effect and in the end it fell out in such wise that their complaint was lesse regarded Moreouer the rating of the value which the king should restore vnto the archbishop and the other bishops was by agréement of the king and them togither appointed vnto foure barons indifferentlie chosen betwixt them At length notwithstanding that deuise tooke no place for it was otherwise decréed by the pope that the king should restore to them the summe of fortie thousand marks of the which he had paid alreadie twelue thousand before the returne of the said archbishop and bishops into the realme and fifteene thousand more at the late meeting had betwixt them at Reading so that there remained onelie 13000 behind for not onelie the king but also the cardinall had sent to the pope requiring him to take direction in the matter and to aduertise him that there was a line 10 great fault in the archbishop and his fellowes In so much that Pandulph which was sent to him from the legat declared in fauour of the king that there was not a more humble and modest prince to be found than king Iohn and that the archbishop and his fellowes were too hard and shewed themselues too couetous in requiring the
after the truce tooke end this â—eare the French king raised an armie and tooke Niort and after they of S. Iohn d'Angeli submitted themselues vnto him From whence he went to Rochell within the which at â—â—at pâ—esent was the said Sauerie de Mauleon with seuentie knights and Richard Graie with Geffrey Neuill who had in their retinue sixtie knights These with the forces of the towne â—allied foorth encountring with the French armie â—â—ue manie of their aduersaries and lost some of their owne people Yet after this the French K. besieged the towne and in the end wan it whilest the king of England being occupied about the besieging of Bedford castell neglected to send them within Rochell necessarie succours But Polydor Virgil writeth that now after that Sauerie de Mauleon was become the French king his man the Poictouins sent vnto king Henrie signifieng that they were readie to reuolt from the French kings subiection and yéeld themselues vnto him if he would send vnto them a power of men to line 10 defend their countrie from the French men Now king Henrie hauing receiued these letters interteined them that brought this message verie courteouslie and promising them to send ouer aid with all expedition he caused his nauie to be made readie for that voiage In the meane time the French king sent foorth an armie vnder the leading of Sauerie de Mauleon who then tooke Niort and Rochell placing in the same sundrie garrisons of souldiers but chéefelie he fortified Rochell which had beene long in the line 20 Englishmens hands and alwaies serued them to verie good purpose for the handsome landing of their people when any occasion required The French king therefore hauing got it fortified it and meant to kéepe it to the intent the Englishmen should not haue hereafter in time of warre so necessarie a place for their arriuall in those coasts King Henrie holding his Christmasse at Westminster called his high court of parlement there the same time year 1225 and demanded a reléefe of monie toward line 30 the maintenance of his warres in France and had granted to him the fiftéenth penie in value of all the mooueable goods to be found within the realme as well belonging to the spiritualtie as temporaltie but vnder condition that he should confirme vnto his subiects their often demanded liberties The king vpon desire to haue the monie was contented to condescend vnto their requests and so the two charters were made and by the king confirmed the one line 40 intituled Magna Charta the other Charta de Forresta Thus at this parlement were made and confirmed these good lawes and laudable ordinances which haue beene from time to time by the kings and princes of this realme confirmed so that a great part of the law now in vse dependeth of the same The same charters also were directed and sent foorth into euerie countie within the realme to be proclaimed It was moreouer decreed that at a certeine daie after Easter there should be an inquisition taken by line 50 the inquest of a substantiall iurie for the seuering of forrests the new from the old so as all those grounds which had beene made forrests since the daies of king Henrie the grandfather of this Henrie the third should be disforrested And therevpon after Easter Hugh de Neuill and Brian de Lisle were sent foorth as commissioners to take that inquisition By force whereof manie woods were asserted and improoued to arable land by the owners and so not onelie line 60 men but also dogs which for safegard of the game were accustomed to lose their clawes had good cause to reioise for these confirmed liberties In the meane time and about the feast of the purification king Henrie hauing iust occasion to pursue the warre for recouerie of those townes taken as before you haue heard by the Frenchmen sent ouer his brother Richard whom he had made earle of Cornewall and Poictow with a mightie nauie of ships vnto Gascoigne This earle hauing in his companie the earle of Salisburie Philip de Albenie and others with prosperous wind and weather arriued at Burdeaux with foure hundred sailes and there landing his men went straight vnto the towne of saint Machaire situated vpon the banke of Garon where vpon his first comming he gat the castell and sacked the towne and then passing further wan diuerse other townes as Longuile Bergerat and other and after went with great diligence to besiege and recouer Rochell or rather Rioll The French king aduertised of the earls arriuall and of these his atchiued enterprises sent foorth by and by the earle of Champaigne with a mightie armie into Guien to aid his people there The earle of Cornewall vnderstanding of the comming of that French armie tooke a part of his host and therewithall went to méet his enimies and lieng in ambush for them by the way had them at a good aduantage and slue great numbers of them After this the earle of Champaigne keeping his men within their trenches and campe without attempting anie other exploit the earle of Cornewall thought it sufficient if he might keepe the Gascoignes in obedience which had alreadie practised a rebellion by sending letters and messengers for the same intent vnto the French king and therefore breaking vp his siege before the Rioll he staied a while from exploiting any further enterprise About the same time the earle of Salisburie returning homwards out of Gascoigne was so tossed and turmoiled on the seas by tempests of weather that he fell sicke therof and within a few daies after his arriuall died ¶ This yeare also there came foorth a decrée from the archbishop of Canturburie and his suffragans that the concubines of préests and clearkes within orders for so were their wiues then called in contempt of their wedlocke should be denied of christian buriall except they repented whilest they were aliue in perfect health or else shewed manifest tokens of repentance at the time of their deaths The same decree also prohibited them from the receiuing of the pax at masse time also of holie bread after masse so long as the preests kept them in their houses or vsed their companie publikelie out of their houses Moreouer that they should not be purified when they should be deliuered of child as other good women were vnlesse they found sufficient suertie to the archdeacon or his officiall to make satisfaction at the next chapter or court to be holden after they should be purified And the préests should be suspended which did not present all such their concubines as were resiant within their parishes Also all such women as were conuict to haue dealt carnallie with a preest were appointed by the same decree to doo open penance Where the question may be asked whether this decree was extended to preests wiues or no Wherevnto answer may be made that as a quadrangle in geometrie
Culpepper knight at Windsor the lord Francis de Aldham baron and at Canturburie the lord Bartholomew de Badelismere and the lord Bartholomew de Ashbornham barons Also at Cardiffe in Wales sir William Fleming knight was executed diuerse were executed in their countries as sir Thomas Mandit and others But now touching the foresaid earle of Lancaster great strife rose afterwards amongst the people whether he ought to be reputed for a saint or no. Some held that he ought to be no lesse esteemed for that he did manie almesdéeds in his life time honored men of religion and mainteined a true quarell till his liues end Also his enimies continued not long after but came to euill end Others conceiued an other opinion of him alledging that he fauoured not his wife but liued in spouse-breach defiling a great number of damosels and gentlewomen If anie offended him he slue him shortlie after in his wrathfull mood Apostataes and other euill dooers he mainteined and would not suffer them to be punished by due order of law All his dooings he vsed to commit vnto one of his secretaries and tooke no heed himselfe thereof and as for the manner of his death he fled shamefullie in the fight and was taken and put to death against his will bicause he could not auoid it yet by reason of certeine miracles which were said to be doone néere the place both where he suffered and where he was buried caused manie to thinke he was a saint howbeit at length by the kings cōmandement the church doores of the priorie where he was buried were shut and closed so that no man might be suffered to come to the toome to bring any offerings or to doo any other kind of deuotion to the same Also the hill where he suffered was kept by certeine Gascoines appointed by the lord Hugh Spenser the sonne then lieng at Pomfret to the end that no people should come and make their praiers there in worship of the said earle whome they tooke verelie for a martyr When the king had subdued the barons shortlie after about the feast of the Ascension of our lord he line 10 held a parlement at Yorke in which parlement the record and whole processe of the decree or iudgement concerning the disheriting of the Spensers ordeined by the lords in parlement assembled at London the last summer was now throughlie examined and for their errours therein found the same record and processe was cléerelie adnthilated and reuersed and the said Spensers were restored to all their lands and offices as before And in the same parlement the lord Hugh Spenser the father was made earle of line 20 Winchester and the lord Andrew de Herklie earle of Carleill Moreouer in the same parlement all such were disherited as had taken part with the earls of Lancaster Hereford except the lord Hugh Audelie the yoonger and a few other the which lord Hugh was pardoned bicause he had married the kings néece that was sister to Gilbert de Clare earle of Glocester which was slaine in Scotland at the battell of Bannockesborne as before is mentioned At this time also master Robert Baldocke a man line 30 euill beloued in the realme was made lord chancellour of England This Robert Baldocke and one Simon Reding were great fauourers of the Spensers and so likewise was the earle of Arundell wherby it may be thought that the Spensers did helpe to aduance them into the kings fauour so that they bare no small rule in the realme during the time that the same Spensers continued in prosperitie which for the terme of fiue yeares after that the foresaid barons as before is expressed were brought to line 40 confusion did woonderfullie increase and the quéene for that she gaue good and faithfull counsell was nothing regarded but by the Spensers meanes cléerelie worne out of the kings fauour Moreouer we find that in this parlement holden at Yorke the kings sonne Edward was made prince of Wales and duke of Aquitaine Also the king caused the ordinances made by the earles and barons to be examined by men of great knowledge and skill and such as were thought necessarie line 50 to be established he commanded that the same should be called statutes and not ordinances Beside a great subsidie granted to the king by the temporaltie the cleargie of all the prouince of Canturburie granted fiue pence of euerie marke and they of the prouince of Yorke foure pence Aimer earle of Penbroke being returned home from this parlement holden at Yorke was arrested by certeine knights sent with authoritie therevnto from the king who brought him backe to Yorke where at length thorough line 60 suit of certeine noble men he was vpon his oth taken to be a faithfull subiect and in consideration of a fine which he paied to the king set at libertie The occasion of his imprisonment came for that he was accused and detected to be a secret fauourer of the barons cause against the Spensers in time of the late troubles Moreouer shortlie after the king gathered the sixt penie of the temporall mens goods thorough England Ireland and Wales which had beene granted to him at the foresaid parlement holden at Yorke towards the defending of the realme against the Scots This ta◠was not gathered without great murmur and grudge the realme being in such euill and miserable state as it then was ¶ This yeare also the sunne appeared to mans sight in colour like to bloud and so continued six houres to wit from seuen of the clocke in the morning of the last daie of October vntill one of the clocke in the afternoone of the same daie Here is to be noted that during the time whilest the ciuill warre was in hand betwixt king Edward and his barons the Scots and Frenchmen were not idle for the Scots wasted destroied the countrie of the bishoprike of Durham as before ye haue partlie heard the Frenchmen made roades incursions into the borders of Guien alledging that they did it vpon good and sufficient occasion for that king Edward had not doone his homage vnto the king of France as he ought to haue doone for the duchie of Aquitaine and the countie of Pontieu But the true occasion that mooued them to attempt the warres at that present was for that they were in hope to recouer all the lands which the king of England held within France cleerelie out of his hands for so much as they vnderstood the discord betwixt him and his barons and how infortunatlie he had sped against the Scots by reason whereof they iudged the time to serue most fitlie now for their purpose In the octaues of the natiuitie of saint Iohn Baptist Robert Bruce entring into England by Carleill kept on his waie through Cumberland Coupeland Kendall and so into Lancashire till he came to Preston in Andernesse which towne he burnt as he had doone
intrailes and being rolled to and fro burnt the same but so as no appearance of any wound or hurt outwardlie might be once perceiued His crie did mooue manie within the castell and towne of Berkley to compassion plainelie hearing him vtter a wailefull noise as the tormentors were about to murther him so that diuerse being awakened therewith as they themselues confessed praied heartilie to God to receiue his soule when they vnderstood by his crie what the matter ment The quéene the bishop and others that their tyrannie might be hid outlawed and banished the lord Matreuers and Thomas Gourney who flieng vnto Marcels thrée yeares after being knowne taken and brought toward England was beheaded on the sea least he should accuse the chiefe dooers as the bishop and other Iohn Matreuers repenting himselfe laie long hidden in Germanie and in the end died penitentlie Thus was king Edward murthered in the yeare 1327 on the 22 of September The fame went that by this Edward the second after his death manie miracles were wrought So that the like opinion of him was conceiued as before had beene of earle Thomas of Lancaster namelie amongst the common people He was knowne to be of a good and line 10 courteous nature though not of most pregnant wit And albeit in his youth he fell into certeine light crimes and after by the companie and counsell of euill men was induced vnto more heinous vices yet was it thought that he purged the same by repentance and patientlie suffered manie reproofes and finallie death it selfe as before ye haue heard after a most cruell maner He had suerlie good cause to repent his former trade of liuing for by his vndiscreet line 20 and wanton misgouernance there were headed and put to death during his reigne by iudgement of law to the number of 28 barons and knights ouer and beside such as were slaine in Scotland by his infortunate conduct All these mischeefes and manie more happened not onlie to him but also to the whole state of the realme in that he wanted iudgement and prudent discretion to make choise of sage and discréet councellors receiuing those into his fauour that abused the same to their priuate gaine and aduantage not respecting line 30 the aduancement of the common-wealth so they themselues might atteine to riches and honour for which they onelie sought in somuch that by their couetous rapine spoile and immoderate ambition the hearts of the common people nobilitie were quite estranged from the dutifull loue and obedience which they ought to haue shewed to their souereigne going about by force to wrest him to follow their wils and to seeke the destruction of them whome he commonlie fauoured wherein suerlie they were worthie of line 40 blame and to tast as manie of them did the deserued punishment for their disobedient and disloiall demeanors For it was not the waie which they tooke to helpe the disfigured state of the common-wealth but rather the readie meane to ouerthrow all as if Gods goodnesse had not béene the greater it must néeds haue come to passe as to those that shall well consider the pitifull tragedie of this kings time it may well appeare line 50 But now to procéed with that which remaineth touching this infortunate prince He had issue by his wife quéene Isabell two sonnes Edward which was made king whilest he was yet aliue and Iohn which died yoong also two daughters Elianor which died before she came to yeares able for mariage and Ione which was after giuen in mariage vnto Dauid king of Scotland He was indifferentlie tall of stature strong of bodie and healthfull neither wanted there in him stoutnesse of stomach if his euill councellors line 60 had béene remooued that he might haue shewed it in honorable exploits which being kept backe by them he could not doo So that thereby it appeareth of what importance it is to be trained vp in youth with good and honest companie ¶ It is said that he was learned insomuch that there remaine verses which as some haue written he made whilest he was in prison Certeine it is he fauored lerning as by the erection of Oriall colledge in Oxford S. Maries hall which were of his foundation it may well be gathered Learned men we find recorded by Bale to liue in this kings time these as follow Iohn Duns that subtill logician borne as Leland hath gathered in a village in Northumberland called Emildune thrée miles distant from Alnwike although other hold the contrarie the Scots claiming him for their countrieman and the Irishmen for theirs Robert Walsingham a Carmelite frier that writ diuerse treatises Iohn Wilton an Augustine frier Walter Winterborne Rafe Locksley Nicholas Stanford William Whitley Thomas Ioice Walter Ioice William Gainesburgh Robert Baston borne not farre from Notingham a Carmelite frier of Scarburgh the same whome king Edward tooke with him into Scotland to write some remembrances of his victories although being taken by the Scots he was constreined by Robert Bruce to frame a dittie to a contrarie tune Iohn Horminger a Suffolke man borne William Rishanger a moonke of S. Albons an historiographer Rafe Baldocke bishop of London wrote also an historie which was intituled Historiae Anglica Richard Bliton a Lincolnshire man borne a Carmelite frier Iohn Walsingham borne either in Walsingham or Brunham as Bale supposeth a Carmelite frier also and wrote diuerse treatises Thomas Chabham a canon of Salisburie and a doctor of diuinitie Robert Plimpton borne in Deuonshire a regular canon Thomas Castleford a moonke of Pomfret William Mansfield Iohn Canon Robert Grime William Askettle of Beuerley Geffrey of Cornewall Iohn Gatisdene Theobald Anglicus Stephan Eiton or Edon Iohn Goldstone borne in Yorkeshire Iohn Winchelsey Nicholas de Lyra a Iew by birth of those that had their habitations in England who wrote verie manie treatises to his great commendation for his singular knowledge and zeale which he shewed in disprouing the Rabines that still sought to kéepe the Iewish nation in blindnesse and vaine hope in looking for another Messias Rafe Acton an excellent diuine Iohn Dumbleton a logician Thomas Langford borne in Maldon in Essex a logician Osbert Pickenam a Carmelite frier of Lin in Norffolke Nicholas Okeham a graie frier William Ockam a frier minor that wrote diuerse treatises and namelie against Iohn Duns and likewise against Iohn the three and twentith pope of that name in fauour of the emperour Lewes of Bauier Richard Walingford Thomas Haselwood a canon of Léeds in Kent wrote a chronicle called Chronicon compendiarium Robert Karew Robert Perscrutator borne in Yorkeshire a blacke frier and a philosopher or rather a magician Richard Belgraue a Carmelite Brinkley a minorite and others Thus far infortunat Edward the second Edward the third who came to the crowne by the resignation of his father Edward the second EDward the third of that name the sonne of Edward the second and of Isabell the onelie daughter of Philip
indictement and line 30 action of trespasse found there the same daie against the said Richard Draiton and others for a like disorder and riot by them committed on the thursday next after the feast of the Purification of our ladie in the same first yeare of this king at what time they did not onelie breake into the abbie and beat the abbats men but also tooke the abbat himselfe being then at home with certeine of his moonks kéeping both him and them as prisoners till the next daie that they were constreined to seale certeine writings line 40 And amongst other a charter in which it was conteined that the abbat and his conuent did grant vnto the inhabitants of the towne of Burie to be a corporation of themselues and to haue a common seale with a gild of merchants and aldermen also they were compelled to seale another charter wherein was conteined a grant to the said inhabitants that they should haue the custodie of the towne gates and likewise the wardship of all pupils and orphans within the same towne beside diuerse other liberties line 50 Moreouer they were in like manner constreined to seale thrée seuerall obligations in which the abbat and conuent were bound to the said inhabitants as to a communaltie of a corporation in seauen thousand pounds as in two thousand by one obligation and in two thousand by an other and in three thousand by the third obligation and further they were driuen to seale a letter of release of all trespasses and other things that might be demanded against the line 60 said inhabitants with a generall acquittance of all debts Beside this the said riotous persons tooke at the same time foorth of the abbie great riches as well in plate armor books apparell as in other things They also brake downe two houses or messuages that belonged to the abbeie and situate within the towne of Burie they also destroied his fish-ponds and tooke out such store of fish as they found in the same they cut downe also thréescore ashes there growing on the soile that belonged to the said abbat and did manie other great outrages and enormities so that it was found by the inquest that the abbat was damnified to the value of other fortie thousand pounds These riots may seeme gréeuous and verie strange but yet the same were not so heinouslie taken as an other which the said inhabitants of Burie attempted against the said abbeie in manner of a plaine commotion vpon saint Lukes day in the same yeare at what time as by the records of that abbeie it should appeare both the abbat and his house were in the kings speciall protection and the said inhabitants prohibited by his letters to attempt anie iniurie against him or his conuent But neuerthelesse we find that not onelie the inhabitants of Burie but also a great number of other misgouerned persons that resorted to them from places there about arraied and furnished with horsse armor and weapons after the manner of warre came and assaulted the abbeie gates set fire on them and burned them with diuerse other houses néere adioining that belonged to the abbeie and continued in that their riotous enterprise all that day and the night following The same night also they burnt a manor of the abbats called Holdernesse barne with two other manors called the Almoners barne and Haberdone also the granges that stood without the south gate and the manour of Westlie in which places they burned in corne graine to the value of a thousand pounds The next daie they entered into the abbeie court and burnt all the houses on the north side as stables brewhouses bakehouses garners and other such necessarie houses and conuenient roomes of offices and on the other side the court they burnt certeine houses belonging to the Almonrie On the next daie they burned the mote hall and Bradford hall with the new hall and diuerse chambers and sollers to the same halles annexed with the chapell of saint Laurence at the end of the hospitall hall Also the manor of Eldhall the manor of Horninger with all the corne and graine within and about the same The next day they burnt the soller of the Sollerer with a chapell there also the kitchin the larder and a part of the farmarie On the thursdaie they burnt the residue of the farmarie and the lodging called the blacke lodging with a chapell of S. Andrew therein In executing of all these riotous disorders one Geffrie Moreman was an aider who with diuerse other persons vnknowne departed foorth of the towne of Burie and by the assent of the other his complices he burnt the manor of Fornham The same day also other of their companie as William the sonne of Iames Neketon Rafe Grubbe Richard Kerie and a great number of other persons vnknowne by the assent and abbetment of the other that committed the said disorders burnt two manors belonging also to the said abbeie in great Berton with all the corne and graine there found Upon knowledge had of these great riots and perillous commotions there was a commission directed from the king vnto Thomas earle of Northfolke high marshall of England to Thomas Bardulfe Robert Morlie Peter Wedall Iohn Howard and Iohn Walkfare authorising them with the power of the countesse of Suffolke and Norffolke to apprehend trie and punish such lewd disordered persons and rebellious malefactors which had committed such felonious enterprises to the breach of the kings peace and dangerous disquieting of his subiects but the said commissioners procéeded not according to the effect of their commission in triall of anie felonies by the same persons committed and doone but onelie caused them to be indicted of trespasse albeit Robert Walkfare and Iohn Clauer with their associats iustices of peace in their sessions holden at Elueden the tuesdaie next after the feast of the apostles Simon and Iude in the said first yeare of this K. Edward the third procéeded in such wise against the said malefactors that Iohn de Berton cordwainer Robert Foxton and a great number of other were indicted of felonie for the misdemenours afore mentioned and the indictements so found were after sent and presented vnto Iohn Stonore Walter de Friskenie Robert Malberthorpe and Iohn Bousser who by vertue of the kings commission of oier and determiner to them directed sat at S. Edmundsburie the wednesdaie next after the feast of saint line 10 Lucie the virgine and then and there sent foorth precepts to the shiriffe commanding him to apprehend the said Berton Foxton and others that were indicted of the foresaid felonies and also to returne a sufficient iurie to trie vpon their arreignment the said malefactors by order of law the fridaie next after the said feast of S. Lucie Herevpon Alane de Latoner and Robert Dalling with seauenteene others being arreigned were found guiltie and suffered death according to the order appointed for felons line 20 One Adam Miniot stood mute and refused
Montacute earle of Salisburie Thomas lord Spenser and the lord William Scroope lord chamberleine In the meane time the king fearing what might be attempted against him by those that fauoured these noblemen that were in durance sent for a power of Cheshire men that might day and night keepe watch and ward about his person They were about two thousand archers paid wéekelie as by the annales of Britaine it appeareth The king had little trust in any of the nobilitie except in his brother the earle of Huntington and the earle of Rutland sonne to the duke of Yorke and in the earle of Salisburie in these onelie he reposed a confidence and not in any other except in certeine knights and gentlemen of his priuie chamber In the meane time whiles things were thus in broile before the beginning of the parlement diuers other beside them of whom we haue spoken were apprehended and put in sundrie prisons The parlement was summoned to begin at Westminster the 17 of September and writs therevpon directed to euerie of the lords to appeare and to bring with them a sufficient number of armed men and archers in their best arraiâ— for it was not knowen how the dukes of Lancaster and Yorke would take the death of their brother nor how other péeres of the realme would take the apprehension and imprisonment of their kinsemen the earles of Arundell and Warwike and of the other prisoners Suerlie the two dukes when they heard that their brother was so suddenlie made awaie they wist not what to saie to the matter and began both to be sorowfull for his death and doubtfull of their owne states for sith they saw how the king abused by the counsell of euill men absteined not from such an heinous act they thought he line 10 would afterwards attempt greater misorders from time to time Therefore they assembled in all hast great numbers of their seruants fréends and tenants and comming to London were receiued into the citie For the Londoners were right sorie for the death of the duke of Glocester who had euer sought their fauour in somuch that now they would haue béene contented to haue ioined with the dukes in seeking reuenge of so noble a mans death procured and brought to passe without law or reason as the common line 20 brute then walked although peraduenture he was not as yet made awaie Here the dukes and other fell in counsell and manie things were proponed Some would that they shuld by force reuenge the duke of Glocesters death other thought it méet that the earles Marshall and Huntington and certeine others as chéefe authours of all the mischeefe should be pursued and punished for their demerites hauing trained vp the king in vice and euill customes euen from his youth But the line 30 dukes after their displeasure was somewhat asswaged determined to couer the stings of their griefes for a time and if the king would amend his maners to forget also the iniuries past In the meane time the king laie at Eltham and had got about him a great power namelie of those archers which he had sent for out of Cheshire in whome he put a singular trust more than in any other There went messengers betwixt him and the dukes which being men of honour did their indeuour line 40 to appease both parties The king discharged himselfe of blame for the duke of Glocesters death considering that he had gone about to breake the truce which he had taken with France and also stirred the people of the realme to rebellion and further had sought the destruction and losse of his life that was his souereigne lord and lawfull king Contrarilie the dukes affirmed that their brother was wrongfullie put to death hauing doone nothing worthie of death At length by the intercession and meanes of those noble line 50 men that went to and fro betwixt them they were accorded the king promised from thencefoorth to doo noâ—hing but by the assent of the dukes but he kept small promise in this behalfe as after well appeared When the time came that the parlement should be holden at Westminster according to the tenour of the summons the lords repaired thither furnished with great retinues both of armed men and archers as the earle of Derbie the earle Marshall the earle of Rutland the lord Spenser the earle of Northumberland line 60 with his sonne the lord Henrie Persie and the lord Thomas Persie the said earles brother also the lord Scroope treasuror of England diuerse other All the which earles and lords brought with them a great strong power euerie of them in their best araie as it were to strengthen the king against his enimies The dukes of Lancaster and Yorke were likewise there giuing their attendance on the king with like furniture of men of armes archers There was not halfe lodging sufficient within the citie suburbes of London for such coÌ„panies of men as the lords brought with them to this parlement called the great parlement in somuâ—h that they were constreined to lie in villages abroad ten or twelue miles on ech side the citie In the beginning of this parlement the king greatlie complained of the misdemeanour of the péeres and lords of his realme as well for the things doone against his will and pleasure whiles he was yoong as for the streit dealing which they had shewed towards the quéene who was thrée houres at one time on hir knées before the earle of Arundell for one of hir esquiers named Iohn Caluerlie who neuerthelesse had his head smit froÌ„ his shoulders all the answer that she could get was this Madame praie for your selfe and your husband for that is best and let this sute alone Those that set foorth the kings greeuances as prolocutors in this parlement were these Iohn Bushie William Bagot and Thomas Gréene The king had caused a large house of timber to be made within the palace at Westminster which he was called an hall couered aboue head with tiles and was open at the ends that all men might see through it This house was of so great a compasse that scarse it might stand within the roome of the palace In this house was made an high throne for the king and a large place for all estates besides to sit in There were places also made for the appellants to stand on the one side and the defendants on the other and a like roome was made behind for the knights and burgesses of the parlement There was a place deuised for the speaker named sir Iohn Bushie a knight of Lincolneshire accompted to be an excéeding cruell man ambitious and couetous beyond measure Immediatlie after ech man being placed in his roome the cause of assembling that parlement was shewed as that the king had called it for reformation of diuerse transgressions and oppressions committed against the peace of his land by the duke of Glocester the earles
and yet the lord Scroope that was lord chamberleine had allowed for the earles diet foure thousand nobles yéerelie paid out of the kings coffers On the mondaie next after the arreignement of the earle of Warwike to wit the foure and twentie of September was the lord Iohn Cobham and sir Iohn Cheinie arreigned and found guiltie of like treasons for which the other had beene condemned before but at the earnest instance and sute of the nobles they were pardoned of life and banished or as Fabian saith condemned to perpetuall prison ¶ The king desirous to see the force of the Londoners caused them during the time of this parlement to muster before him on Blacke heath where a man might haue seene a great number of able personages And now after that the parlement had continued almost till Christmasse it was adiourned vntil the quinden of S. Hilarie then to begin againe at Shrewesburie The king then came downe to Lichfield and there held a roiall Christmasse which being ended he tooke his iournie towards Shrewesburie where the parlement was appointed to begin in the quinden of saint Hilarie as before yée haue heard year 1398 In which parlement there holden vpon prorogation for the loue that the king bare to the gentlemen and commons of the shire of Chester he caused it to be ordeined that from thencefoorth it should be called and knowne by the name of the principalitie of Chester and herewith he intituled himselfe prince of Chester He held also a roiall feast kéeping open houshold for all honest commers during the which feast he created fiue dukes and a duchesse a marquesse and foure earles The earle of Derbie was created duke of Hereford the earle of Notingham that was also earle marshall duke of Norfolke the earle of Rutland duke of Aubemarle the earle of Kent duke of Surrie and the earle of Huntington duke of Excester the ladie Margaret marshall countesse of Norfolke was created duchesse of Norfolke the earle of Summerset marques Dorset the lord Spenser earle of Glocester the lord Neuill surnamed Daurabie earle of Westmerland the lord William Scroope lord chamberleine earle of Wiltshire and the lord Thomas Persie lord steward of the kings house earle of Worcester And for the better maintenance of the estate of these noble men whome he had thus aduanced to higher degrees of honour he gaue vnto them a great part of those lands that belonged to the duke of Glocester the earles of Warwike and Arundell And now he was in good hope that he had rooted vp all plants of treason and therefore cared lesse who might be his freend or his fo than before he had doone estéeming himselfe higher in degrée than anie prince liuing and so presumed further than euer his grandfather did and tooke vpon him to beare the armes of saint Edward ioining them vnto his owne armes To conclude what soeuer he then did none durst speake a word contrarie therevnto And yet such as were cheefe of his councell were estéemed of the commons to be the woorst creatures that might be as the dukes of Aumarle Norfolke and Excester the earle of Wiltshire sir Iohn Bushie sir William Bagot and sir Thomas Gréene which thrée last remembred were knights of the Bath against whom the commons vndoubtedlie bare great and priuie hatred But now to proceed In this parlement holden at Shrewsburie the lord Reginald Cobham being a verie aged man simple and vpright in all his dealings was condemned for none other cause but for that in the eleuenth yéere of the kings reigne he was line 10 appointed with other to be attendant about the king as one of his gouernours The acts and ordinances also deuised and established in the parlement holden in the eleuenth yeare were likewise repealed Moreouer in this parlement at Shrewesburie it was decréed that the lord Iohn Cobham should be sent into the I le of Gernesie there to remaine in exile hauing a small portion assigned him to liue vpon The king so wrought brought things about that he obteined the whole power of both houses to be granted to certeine line 20 persons as to Iohn duke of Lancaster Edmund duke of Yorke Edmund duke of Aumarle Thomas duke of Surrie Iohn duke of Excester Iohn marquesse Dorset Roger earle of March Iohn earle of Salisburie and Henrie earle of Northumberland Thomas earle of Glocester and William earle of Wiltshire Iohn Hussie Henrie Cheimeswike Robert Teie and Iohn Goulofer knights or to seauen or eight of them These were appointed to heare and determine certeine petitions and matters line 30 yet depending and not ended but by vertue of this grant they procéeded to conclude vpon other things which generallie touched the knowledge of the whole parlement in derogation of the states therof to the disaduantage of the king and perillous example in time to come When the king had spent much monie in time of this parlement he demanded a disme and a halfe of the clergie and a fiftéenth of the temporaltie Finallie line 40 a generall pardon was granted for all offenses to all the kings subiects fiftie onelie excepted whose names he would not by anie meanes expresse but reserued them to his owne knowledge that when anie of the nobilitie offended him he might at his plesure name him to be one of the number excepted and so kéepe them still within his danger To the end that the ordinances iudgements and acts made pronounced and established in this parlement might be and abide in perpetuall strength and force the king line 50 purchased the popes buls in which were conteined greeuous censures and cursses pronounced against all such as did by anie means go about to breake and violate the statutes in the same parlement ordeined These buls were openlie published read at Paules crosse in London and in other the most publike places of the realme Manie other things were doone in this parlement to the displeasure of no small number of people namelie for that diuerse rightfull heires were disherited line 60 of their lands and liuings by authoritie of the same parlement with which wrongfull dooings the people were much offended so that the king and those that were about him and chéefe in councell came into great infamie and slander In déed the king after he had dispatched the duke of Glocester and the other noblemen was not a little glad for that he knew them still readie to disappoint him in all his purposes and therefore being now as it were carelesse did not behaue himselfe as some haue written in such discréet order as manie wished but rather as in time of prosperitie it often happeneth he forgot himselfe and began to rule by will more than by reason threatning death to each one that obâ—ied not his inordinate desires By means whereof the lords of the realme began to feare their owne estates being in danger of his furious outrage whome they tooke for a man
reasonable fine whereby it was euident that the king meant his vtter vndooing This hard dealing was much misliked of all the nobilitie line 40 and cried out against of the meaner sort but namelie the duke of Yorke was therewith sore mooued who before this time had borne things with so patient a mind as he could though the same touched him verie néere as the death of his brother the duke of Glocester the banishment of his nephue the said duke of Hereford and other mo iniuries in great number which for the slipperie youth of the king he passed ouer for the time and did forget aswell as he might But now perceiuing that neither law iustice line 50 nor equitie could take place where the kings wilfull will was bent vpon any wrongfull purpose he considered that the glorie of the publike wealth of his countrie must néeds decaie by reason of the king his lacke of wit and want of such as would without flatterie admonish him of his dutie and therefore he thought it the part of a wise man to get him in time to a resting place and to leaue the following of such an vnaduised capteine as with a leden sword would cut his owne throat Herevpon he with the duke of Aumarle his sonne line 60 went to his house at Langlie reioising that nothing had mishappened in the common-wealth through his deuise or consent The common brute ran that the king had set to farme the realme of England vnto sir William Scroope earle of Wiltshire and then treasuror of England to sir Iohn Bushie sir Iohn Bagot and sir Henrie Gréene knights ¶ About the same time the earle of Arundels sonne named Thomas which was kept in the duke of Exeters house escaped out of the realme by meanes of one William Scot mercer and went to his vncle Thomas Arundell late archbishop of Canturburie as then soiourning at Cullen King Richard being destitâ—â—e 〈…〉 〈…〉 when they rose in armor against him The nobles gentlemen and commons of those shires were inforced also to receiue a new oth to assure the king of their fidelitie in time to come and withall certeine prelats and other honorable personagâ—s were sent into the same shires to persuade men to this painâ—ent and to sée things ordered at the pleasure of the prince and suerlie the fines which the nobles and other the meaner estates of those shires were constreined to paie were not small but excéeding great to the offense of manie Moreouer the kings letters patents were sent into euerie shire within this land by vertue whereof an oth was demanded of all the kings liege people for a further assurance of their due obedience and they were constreined to ratifie the same in writing vnder their hands and seales Moreouer they were compelled to put their hands and seales to certeine blankes wherof ye haue heard before in the which when it pleased him he might write what he thought good There was also a new oth deuised for the shiriffes of euerie countie through the realme to receiue finallie manie of the kings liege people were through spite enuie and malice accused apprehended put in prison and after brought before the constable and marshall of England in the court of chiualrie and might not otherwise be deliuered except they could iustifie themselues by combat and fighting in lists against their accusers hand to hand although the accusers for the most part were lustie yoong and valiant where the parties accused were perchance old impotent maimed and sicklie Wherevpon not onelie the great destruction of the realme in generall but also of euerie singular person in particular was to be feared and looked for ¶ About this time the bishop of Calcedon came into England with letters apostolicall of admonition that the faithfull and loiall of the land should of their goods disbursse somewhat to the emperour of Constantinople who was extremelie vexed and troubled by the Tartars and their capteine called Morect And to the intent that the peeres of the land might be made the more willing and toward to bestow their contribution in this behalfe the pope granted vnto all benefactors trulie contrite and confessed full remission and wrapped in his bitter censures all such as hindered those that were willing to bestow their beneuolence in this case considering that although the emperour was a schismatike yet was he a christian and if by the infidels he should be oppressed all christendome was in danger of ruine hauing in his mind that saieng of the poet full fit for his purpose Tunc tuares agitur paries cùm proximus ardet ¶ In this yeare in a manner throughout all the realme of England old baie trées withered and afterwards contrarie to all mens thinking grew greene againe a strange sight and supposed to import some vnknowne euent ¶ In this meane time the king being aduertised that the wild Irish dailie wasted and destroied the townes and villages within the English pale and had slaine manie of the souldiers which laie there in garison for defense of that countrie determined to make eftsoones a voiage thither prepared all things necessarie for his passage now against the spring A little before his setting foorth he caused a iusts to be holden at Windesor of fourtie knights and fourtie esquiers against all commers they to be apparelled in gréene with a white falcon and the queene to be there well accompanied with ladies and damsels When these iusts were finished the king departed toward Bristow from thence to passe into Ireland leauing the queene with line 10 hir traine still at Windesor he appointed for his lieutenant generall in his absence his vncle the duke of Yorke and so in the moneth of Aprill as diuerse authors write he set forward from Windesor and finallie tooke shipping at Milford and from thence with two hundred ships and a puissant power of men of armes and archers he sailed into Ireland The fridaie next after his arriuall there were slaine two hundred Irishmen at Fourd in Kenlis within the countie of Kildare by that valiant gentleman line 20 Ienico Dartois and such Englishmen as he had there with him and on the morrow next insuing the citizens of Dublin inuaded the countrie of Obrin and slue thirtie and thrée Irishmen The king also after he had remained about seuen daies at Waterford marched from thence towards Kilkennie and comming thither staied thereabout fourteene daies looking for the duke of Aumarle that was appointed to haue met him but he failed and came not wherevpon the king on Midsummer euen line 30 set forward againe marching streight towards the countrie of Macmur the principall rebell in that season within Ireland who kéeping himselfe among woods with three thousand right hardie men seémed to passe little for any power that might be brought against him Yet the king approching to the skirts of the woods commanded his soldiers to fier the houses and villages
not onelie that the said Edmund was yoonger sonne to king Henrie the third but also had true knowledge that Edmund was neither câ—ooke baâ—ked nor a deformed person but a goodlie gentleman and a valiant capteine and so much fauored line 60 of his louing father that he to preferre him in marriage to the queene Dowager of Nauarre hauing a great liuelihood gaue to him the countie palantine of Lancaster with manie notable honours high segniories and large priuileges Therefore they aduised him to publish it that he challenged the realme not onelie by conquest but also because he by king Richard was adopted as heire and declared by resignation as his lawfull successor being next heire male to him of the blood roiall But to procéed to other dooings The solemnitie of the coronation being ended the morow after being tuesdaie the parlement began againe and the next daie sir Iohn Cheinie that was speaker excusing himselfe by reason of his infirmitie and sicknesse not to be able to exercise that roome was dismissed and one William Durward esquier was admitted Herewith were the acts established in the parlement of the one twentith yeare of king Richards reigne repealed and made void and the ordinances deuised in the parlement holden the eleuenth yeare of the same king confirmed and againe established for good and profitable ¶ On the same daie the kings eldest sonne lord Henrie by assent of all the states in the parlement was created prince of Wales duke of Cornwall and earle of Chester then being of the age of twelue yeares Upon the thursdaie the commons came and rehearsed all the errors of the last parlement holden in the one and twentith yeare of king Richard namelie in certeine fiue of them First that where the king that now is was readie line 1 to arraigne an appeale against the duke of Norfolke he dooing what perteined to his dutie in that behalfe was yet banished afterwards without anie reasonable cause Secondlie the archbishop of Canturburie metropolitan line 2 of the realme was foreiudged without answer Thirdlie the duke of Glocester was murthered and after foreiudged line 3 Fourthlie where the earle of Arundell alledged his charters of pardon the same might not be allowed line 4 Fiftlie that all the power of that euill parlement was granted and assigned ouer to certeine persons line 5 and sith that such heinous errors could not be committed as was thought without the assent and aduise of them that were of the late kings councell they made sute that they might be put vnder arrest and committed to safe kéeping till order might be further taken for them Thus much adoo there was in this parlement speciallie about them that were thought to be guiltie of the duke of Glocesters death and of the condemning of the other lords that were adiudged traitors in the forsaid late parlement holden in the said one and twentith yeare of king Richards reigne Sir Iohn Bagot knight then prisoner in the Tower disclosed manie secrets vnto the which he was priuie and being brought on a daie to the barre a bill was read in English which he had made conteining certeine euill practises of king Richard and further what great affection the same king bare to the duke of Aumarle insomuch that he heard him say that if he should renounce the gouernement of the kingdome he wished to leaue it to the said duke as to the most able man for wisdome and manhood of all other for though he could like better of the duke of Hereford yet he said that he knew if he were once king he would proue an extreame enimie and cruell tyrant to the church It was further conteined in that bill that as the same Bagot rode on a daie behind the duke of Norfolke in the Sauoy stréet toward Westminster the ruke asked him what he knew of the manner of the duke of Glocester his death and he answered that he knew nothing at all but the people quoth he doo say that you haue murthered him Wherevnto the duke sware great othes that it was vntrue and thaâ— he had saued his life contrarie to the will of the king and certeine other lords by the space of thrée wéeks and more affirming withall that he was neuer in all his life time more affraid of death than he was at his comming home againe from Calis at that time to the kings presence by reason he had not put the duke to death And then said he the king appointed one of his owne seruants and certeine other that were seruants to other lords to go with him to see the said duke of Glocester put to death swearing that as he should answer afore God it was neuer his mind that he should haue died in the fort but onelie for feare of the king and sauing of his owne life Neuerthelesse there was no man in the realme to whom king Richard was so much beholden as to the duke of Aumarle for he was the man that to fulfill his mind had set him in hand with all that was doone against the said duke and the other lords There was line 10 also conteined in that bill what secret malice king Richard had conceiued against the duke of Hereford being in exile whereof the same Bagot had sent intelligence vnto the duke into France by one Roger Smart who certified it to him by Piers Buckton and others to the intent he should the better haue regard to himselfe There was also conteined in the said bill that Bagot had heard the duke of Aumarle say that he had rather than twentie thousand pounds that the duke of Hereford were dead not line 20 for anie feare he had of him but for the trouble and mischéefe that he was like to procure within the realme After that the bill had béene read and heard the duke of Aumarle rose vp and said that as touching the points conteined in the bill concerning him they were vtterlie false and vntrue which he would proue with his bodie in what manner soeuer it should be thought requisit There with also the duke of Excester rose vp and willed Bagot that if he could say anie line 30 thing against him to speake it openlie Bagot answered that for his part he could say nothing against him But there is said he a yeoman in Newgat one Iohn hall that can say somewhat Well then said the duke of Excester this that I doo and shall say is true that the late king the duke of Norfolke and thou being at Woodstoke made me to go with you into the chappell and there the doore being shut ye made me to sweare vpon the altar to kéepe counsell in that ye had to say to me and then ye rehearsed line 40 that we should neuer haue our purpose so long as the duke of Lancaster liued therefore ye purposed to haue councell at Lichfield there you would arrest the duke of Lancaster in such sort as by colour of his
euerie daie serued at the table with costlie meat like a king to the intent that no creature should suspect anie thing doone contrarie to the order taken in the parlement and when the meat was set before him he was forbidden once to touch it yea he was not permitted so much as to smell to it and so he died of forced famine ¶ But Thomas Walsingham is so farre from imputing his death to compulsorie famine that he referreth it altogither to voluntarie pining of himselfe For when he heard that the complots and attempts of such his fauourers as sought his restitution and their owne aduancement adnihilated and the chéefe agents shamefullie executed â—e tooke such a conceit at these misfortunes for so Thomas Walsingham termeth them and was so beaten out of bart that wilfullie he starued himselfe and so died in Pomfret castell on S. Ualentines daie a happie daie to him for it was the beginning of his ease and the ending of his paine so that death was to him daintie and swéet as the poet saith and that verie well in bréefe Dulce mori miseris Neque est melius morte in malis rebus One writer which seemeth to haue great knowledge of king Richards dooings saith that king Henrie sitting on a daie at his table sore sighing said Haue I no faithfull fréend which will deliuer me line 10 of him whose life will be my death and whose death will be the preseruation of my life This saieng was much noted of them which were present and especiallie of one called sir Piers of Exton This knight incontinentlie departed from the court with eight strong persons in his companie and came to Pomfret commanding the esquier that was accustomed to sew and take the assaie before king Richard to doo so no more saieng Let him eat now for he shall not long eat King Richard sat downe to dinner and line 20 was serued without courtesie or assaie wherevpon much maruelling at the sudden change he demanded of the esquier whie he did not his dutie Sir said he I am otherwise commanded by sir Piers of Exton which is newlie come from K. Henrie When king Richard heard that word he tooke the keruing knife in his hand and strake the esquier on the head saieng The diuell take Henrie of Lancaster and thée togither And with that word sir Piers entred the chamber well armed with eight tall men likewise armed line 30 euerie of them hauing a bill in his hand King Richard perceiuing this put the table from him steping to the formost man wrung the bill out of his hands so valiantlie defended himselfe that he slue foure of those that thus came to assaile him Sir Piers being halfe dismaied herewith lept into the chaire where king Richard was woont to sit while the other foure persons fought with him and chased him about the chamber And in conclusion as king Richard trauersed his ground from one side of the line 40 chamber to an other comming by the chaire where sir Piers stood he was felled with a stroke of a pollar which sir Piers gaue him vpon the head and therewiâ—h rid him out of life without giuing him respit once to call to God for mercie of his passed offenses It is said that sir Piers of Exton after he had thus slaine him wept right bitterlie as one striken with the pricke of a giltie conscience for murthering him whome he had so long time obeied as king After he was thus dead his bodie was imbalmed and line 50 séered and couered with lead all saue the face to the intent that all men might sée him and perceiue that he was departed this life for as the corps was conueied from Pomfret to London in all the townes and places where those that had the conueiance of it did staie with it all night they caused dirige to be soong in the euening and masse of Requiem in the morning and as well after the one seruice as the other his face discouered was shewed to all that coueted to behold it line 60 Thus was the corps first brought to the Tower and after through the citie to the cathedrall church of saint Paule bare faced where it laie thrée daies togither that all men might behold it There was a solemne obsequie doone for him both at Paules and after at Westminster at which time both at dirige ouernight and in the morning at the masse of Requiem the king and the citizens of London were present When the same was ended the corps was commanded to be had vnto Langlie there to be buried in the church of the friers preachers The bishop of Chester the abbats of saint Albons and Waltham celebrated the exequies for the buriall none of the nobles nor anie of the commons to accompt of being present neither was there anie to bid them to dinner after they had laid him in the ground and finished the funerall seruice He was after by king Henrie the fiâ—â— remooued to Westminster and there honorablie intoomed with quéene Anne his wife although the Scots vntruelie write that he escaped out of prison and led a vertuous and a solitarie life in Scotland and there died is buried as they hold in the blacke friers at Sterling ¶ But Fabian and others doo as it were point out the place of his interrement saieng that he lieth intoomed on the south side of saint Edwards shrine with an epitaph expressing partlie his proportion of bodie and partlie his properties of mind as after followeth in a rimed hexastichon Prudens mundus Richardus iure secundus Per fatum victus iacet hîc sub marmore pictus Verax sermone fuit plenus ratione Corpore procerus animo prudens vt Homerus Ecclesiae fauit elatos suppeditauit Quemuis prostrauit regalia qui violauit When the newes of king Richards deposing was reported in France king Charles and all his court woondering detested and abhorred such an iniurie doone to an annointed king to a crowned prince and to the head of a realme but in especiall Walerane earle of saint Paule which had married king Richards halfe sister mooued with great disdaine towards king Henrie ceassed not to stirre king Charles his councell to make warres against the Englishmen and he himselfe sent letters of defiance into England The earles sute was easilie agréed vnto and an armie roiall appointed with all speed to inuade England The armie was come downe into Picardie redie to be transported into England but when it was certeinelie knowen that king Richard was dead and that the enterprise of his deliuerance which was chéeflie meant was frustrate and void the armie was dissolued But when the certeintie of K. Richards death was intimate to the Gascoignes the most part of the wisest men of the countrie were right pensiue for they iudged verelie that hereby the English nation should be brought to dishonour and losse of their ancient fame and
before driuing him by that meanes to fight whether he would or not then suddenlie blew the trumpets the kings part crieng S. George vpon them the aduersaries cried Esperance Persie and so the two armies furiouslie ioined The archers on both sides shot for the best game laieng on such load with arrowes that manie line 60 died and were driuen downe that neuer rose againe The Scots as some write which had the fore ward on the Persies side intending to be reuenged of their old displeasures doone to them by the English nation set so fiercelie on the kings fore ward led by the earle of Stafford that they made the same draw backe and had almost broken their aduersaries arraie The Welshmen also which before had â—aine lurking in the woods mounteines and marishes heariâ—g of this battell toward came to the aid of the Persies and refreshed the wearied people with new succours The king perceiuing that his men were thus put to distresse what with the violent impression of the Scots and the tempestuous stormes of arrowes that his aduersaries discharged fréely against him and his people it was no need to will him to stirre for suddenlie with his fresh battell he approched and relieued his men so that the battell began more fierce than before Here the lord Henrie Persie and the earle Dowglas a right stout and hardie capteine not regarding the shot of the kings battell nor the close order of the ranks pressing forward togither bent their whole forces towards the kings person comming vpon him with speares and swords so fiercelie that the earle of March the Scot perceiuing their purpose withdrew the king from that side of the field as some write for his great benefit and safegard as it appeared for they gaue such a violent onset vpon them that stood about the kings standard that slaieng his standard-bearer sir Walter Blunt and ouerthrowing the standard they made slaughter of all those that stood about it as the earle of Stafford that daie made by the king constable of the realme and diuerse other The prince that daie holpe his father like a lustie yoong gentleman for although he was hurt in the face with an arrow so that diuerse noble men that were about him would haue conueied him foorth of the field yet he would not suffer them so to doo least his departure from amongst his men might happilie haue striken some feare into their harts and so without regard of his hurt he continued with his men neuer ceassed either to fight where the battell was most hot or to incourage his men where it séemed most néed This battell lasted thrée long houres with indifferent fortune on both parts till at length the king crieng saint George victorie brake the arraie of his enimies and aduentured so farre that as some write the earle Dowglas strake him downe at that instant slue sir Walter Blunt and thrée other apparelled in the kings sute and clothing saieng I maruell to sée so many kings thus suddenlie arise one in the necke of an other The king in deed was raised did that daie manie a noble feat of armes for as it is written he slue that daie with his owne hands six and thirtie persons of his enimies The other on his part incouraged by his doings fought valiantlie and slue the lord Persie called sir Henrie Hotspurre To conclude the kings enimies were vanquished and put to flight in which flight the earle of Dowglas for hast falling from the crag of an hie mounteine brake one of his cullions and was taken and for his valiantnesse of the king frankelie and freelie deliuered There was also taken the earle of Worcester the procuror and setter foorth of all this mischéefe sir Richard Uernon and the baron of Kinderton with diuerse other There were slaine vpon the kings part beside the earle of Stafford to the number of ten knights sir Hugh Shorlie sir Iohn Clifton sir Iohn Cokaine sir Nicholas Gausell sir Walter Blunt sir Iohn Caluerleie sir Iohn Massie of Podington sir Hugh Mortimer and sir Robert Gausell all the which receiued the same morning the order of knighthood sir Thomas Wendesleie was wounded to death and so passed out of this life shortlie after There died in all vpon the kings side sixteene hundred and foure thousand were gréeuouslie wounded On the contrarie side were slaine besides the lord Persie the most part of the knights and esquiers of the countie of Chester to the number of two hundred besides yeomen and footmen in all there died of those that fought on the Persies side about fiue thousand This battell was fought on Marie Magdalene euen being saturdaie Upon the mondaie folowing the earle of Worcester the baron of Kinderton and sir Richard Uernon knights were condemned and beheaded The earles head was sent to London there to be set on the bridge The earle of Northumberland was now marching forward with great power which he had got thither either to aid his sonne and brother as was thought or at the least towards the king to procure a peace but the earle of Westmerland and sir Robert Waterton knight had got an armie on foot and meant to meet him The earle of Northumberland taking neither of them to be his freend turned suddenlie line 10 backe and withdrew himselfe into Warkewoorth castell The king hauing set a staie in things about Shrewesburie went straight to Yorke from whence he wrote to the earle of Northumberland willing him to dismisse his companies that he had with him and to come vnto him in peaceable wise The earle vpon receipt of the kings letters came vnto him the morow after saint Laurence daie hauing but a few of his seruants to attend him and so excused himselfe that the king bicause the earle had Berwike line 20 in his possession and further had his castels of Alnewike Warkewoorth and other fortified with Scots dissembled the matter gaue him faire words and suffered him as saith Hall to depart home although by other it should séeme that he was committed for a time to safe custodie The king returning foorth of Yorkeshire determined to go into Northwales to chastise the presumptuous dooings of the vnrulie Welshmen who after his comming from Shrewesburie and the marches line 30 there had doone much harme to the English subiects But now where the king wanted monie to furnish that enterprise and to wage his souldiers there were some that counselled him to be bold with the bishops and supplie his want with their surplusage But as it fortuned the archbishop of Canturburie was there present who in the name of all the rest boldlie made answer that none of his prouince should be spoiled by anie of those naughtie disposed persons but that first with hard stripes they should vnderstand the line 40 price of their rash enterprise But the king neuerthelesse so vsed the matter with the bishops
like had neuer béene séene nor heard of Some write that they of Calis standing in doubt of such purueiance great preparation deuised to annoie them procured a yoong man to kindle a fire whereby all that dreadfull prouision was consumed to ashes and so they within Calis deliuered of a great deale of care and feare which they had thereof ¶ But Tho. Walsingham maketh a full complet declaration both concerning the dukes deuise also of the Calesians deliuerance from the danger of the same which because it perfecteth the report of this present matter I haue thought good to set downe word for word as I find it in his Hypodigme About the ninth of Aprill saith he the towne of saint Audomare was burned with the abbeie wherein was hidden and laid vp the execrable prouision of the duke of Burgognie who had vowed either to destroie the towne of Calis or else to subdue it to the will and pleasure of the French There a great manie engines to this daie no where seene there an excéeding sort of vessels conteining poison in them were kept in store which he had aforehand prouided to cast out to the destruction of the said towne For he had gathered togither serpents scorpions todes and other kinds of venemous things which he had closed and shut vp in little barrels that when the flesh or substance of those noisome creatures was rotten and dissolued into filthie matter he might laie siege to Calis and cast the said barrels let out of engines into the towne which with the violence of the throw being dasht in péeces might choke them that were within poison the harnessed men touched therewith with their scattered venem infect all the stréets lanes passages of the towne In the meane time a certeine yoong man allured with couetousnesse of gold or lead with affection and loue towards the kings towne asked of the gouernours what reward he should deserue that would discharge and set frée the towne from so great a feare and would burne all the prouision which they suspected Herevpon they leuied a summe of that yellow metall namelie gold where with the yoongman contented went his waie and with fire readie made for the purpose did not onelie burne the said venemous matter and infected stuffe but also togither with the monasterie almost the whole towne Moreouer this yeare sir Robert Umfreuill viceadmerall of England annoied the countries on the sea coasts of Scotland for comming into the Forth with ten ships of warre and lieng there fourtéene daies togither he landed euerie daie on â—he oneside of the riuer or the other taking preles spoiles prisoners notwithstanding the duke of Albanie and the earle Dowglas were readie there with a great power to resist him he burnt the galliot of Scotland being a ship of great account with manie other vessels lieng the same time at the Blackenesh ouer against Lieth At his returne from thence he brought with him fourtéene good ships and manie other great prises of cloathes both woollen and linnen pitch tarre woad flower meale wheat and rie which being sold abroad the markets were well holpen thereby so that his surname of Robert Mendmarket séemed verie well to agrée with his qualities which name he got by this occasion About foure years before this he burnt the towne of Peples on the market daie causing his men to line 10 meat the cloathes which they got there with their bowes so to sell them awaie wherevpon the Scots named him Robert Mendmarket Shortlie after his returne from the sea now in this eleuenth yeare of king Henries reigne he made a road into Scotland by land hauing with him his nephue yoong Gilbert Umfreuill earle of Angus commonlie called earle of Kime being then but fourtéene yeares of age and this was the first time that the said earle spread his banner They burnt at that time Iedwoorth and the line 20 most part of Tiuidale This yeare there died of the bloudie flix in the citie of Burdeaux fourtéene thousand persons and so sore raged that disease in Gascoigne and Guien that there wanted people to dresse their vines and presse their grapes Iohn Prendergest knight William Long scowred the seas so as no pirat durst appeare but that merchants passengers might passe to fro in safetie But yet through disdaine of some that enuied line 30 their good successe the same Prendergest and Long were accused of robberies which they should practise in spoling such ships as they met with of diuerse things against the owners wils Prendergest was driuen to take sanctuarie at Westminster and could not be suffered to lodge in anie mans house for feare of the kings displeasure commanding that none should receiue him and so was constreined to set vp a tent within the porch of saint Peters church there and to haue his seruants to watch nightlie about line 40 him for doubt to be murthered of his aduersaries but his associat William Long laie still at the sea till the lord admerall hauing prepared certeine vessels went to the sea himselfe in person to fetch him but yet he could not catch him vntill he had promised him pardon and vndertaken vpon his fidelitie that he should haue no harme but notwithstanding all promises vpon his comming in he was shut vp fast in the Tower and so for a time remained in durance The archbishop of Canturburie minding in line 50 this season to visit the vniuersitie of Oxenford could not be suffered in consideration of pruileges which they pretended to haue The realme of France in this meane while was disquieted year 1412 with the two factions of Burgognie and Orleance in most miserable wise as in the French histories it maie further appeare Neither could the king being a lunatike person and féeble of braine take any full order for reforming of such mischéefs so that the whole state of the kingdome was maruellouslie line 60 brought in decaie neither tooke those troubles end by the death of the duke of Orleance murthered at length through the practise of the duke of Burgognie but rather more perilouslie increased For the yoong duke of Orleance Charles sonne to duke Lewes thus murthered alied himselfe with the dukes of Berrie and Burbon and with the earles of Alanson Arminacke whereby he was so stronglie banded against the duke of Burgognie whom he defied as his mortall fo and enimie that the duke of Burgognie fearing the sequele of the matter thought good because there was a motion of mariage betwixt the prince of Wales his daughter to require aid of king Henrie who foreséeing that this ciuill discord in France as it after hapned might turne his realme to honor and profit sent to the duke of Burgognie Thomas earle of Arundell Gilbert Umfreuill earle of Angus commonlie called the earle of Kime sir Robert Umfreuill vncle to the same Gilbert sir Iohn Didcastell lord Cobham
that time deceassed that then after the death of his father and grandfather all the said lands should wholie remaine to the next heire of their bloud either male or female being vnder the obeisance of the French king or his heires Manie other noble men whose hearts were good English made like compositions and some came into England and others went to Calis and bare great offices there as the lord Duras which was marshall of that towne and monsieur Uauclere which was deputie there vnder the earle of Warwike Thus were the Englishmen cléerelie displaced and lost the possession of all the countries townes castels and places within the realme of France so that onelie Calis Hammes and Guines with the marches thereof remained in their hands of all those their dominions and seigniories which they sometime held in the parties beyond the seas Whereby England suffered a partile but not a totall eclipse of hir glorie in continuall loosing nothing gaining of the enimie ¶ Which recouerie was of great facilitie to the French for that where they came they found litle or no resistance but rather a voluntarie submission yéelding as it were with holding vp of hands yer they came to handstroks So that in such victories and conquests consisted small renowme sith without slaughter bloudshed hardie enterprises are not atchiued Notablie therefore speaketh Anglorum praelia line 10 of these bloudlesse and sweatlesse victories saieng Delphinus totos nullo prohibente per agros Francorum transit priùs expugnata receptans Oppida perfacile est populum domuisse volentem Tendentemque manus vltrò nec clarior ornat Gloria vincentem fuso sine sanguine regna This yeare the king made a generall progresse and came to the citie of Excester on mondaie the sixtéenth of Iulie at after noone being the feast daie of saint Kenelme and was receiued from place to line 20 place verie honorablie through the whole countrie Before he came to this citie he was met by all the cleargie in their degrées some thrée miles some two miles and some at the citie all in their copes censing all the waies as they went As soone as he came to this citie he was first conducted to the cathedrall church in all most honourable order When he had doone his oblations he was conueied and lodged in the bishops house During his abode here there was a sessions kept before the duke of Summerset and line 30 certeine men condemned to die for treason and had iudgement to be executed to death The bishop and his clergie vnderstanding hereof with open mouth complained vnto the king that he caused a sessions to be kept within his sanctuarie contrarie to the priuilege of his church and that all their dooings being doone against law were of no effect And notwithstanding the king and his councell had discoursed vnto them the iust and orderlie procéeding the hainousnesse of the offendors and the line 40 necessitie of their punishment yet all could not auaile for holie church nor the sanctuarie might be prophaned as they said with the deciding of temporall matters Wherevpon the king in the end yéelding to their exclaimes released a couple of arrant traitors and reuersed all his former lawfull procéedings and so vpon the wednesdaie he departed and returned towards London The duke of Yorke pretending as yée haue heard line 50 a right to the crowne as heire to Lionell duke of Clarence came this yeare out of Ireland vnto London in the parlement time there to consult with his speciall fréends as Iohn duke of Northfolke Richard earle of Salisburie and the lord Richard his sonne which after was earle of Warwike Thomas Courtneie earle of Deuonshire Edward Brooke lord Cobham After long deliberation and aduise taken it was thought expedient to keepe their chéefe purpose secret and that the duke should raise an armie line 60 of men vnder a pretext to remooue diuerse councellors about the king and to reuenge the manifest iniuries doone to the common-wealth by the same rulers Of the which as principall the duke of Summerset was namelie accused both for that he was greatlie hated of the commons for the losse of Normandie and for that it was well knowne that he would be altogither against the duke of Yorke in his chalenge to be made when time serued to the crowne insomuch that his goods by the commons were foulie despoiled and borne awaie from the Blacke friers After which riot on the next morrow proclamation was made through the citie that no man should spoile or rob on paine of death But on the same daie at the standard in Cheape was a man beheaded for dooing contrarie to the proclamation Therefore when the duke of Yorke had thus by aduise of his speciall fréends framed the foundation of his long intended enterprise he assembled a great hoast to the number of ten thousand able men in the marches of Wales publishing openlie that the cause of this his gathering of people was for the publike wealth of the realme The king much astonied at the matter by aduise of his councell raised a great power and marched forward toward the duke But he being thereof aduertised turned out of that way which by espials he vnderstood that the king held and made streight toward London and hauing knowledge that he might not be suffered to passe through the citie he crossed ouer the Thames at Kingston bridge and so kept on towards Kent where he knew that he had both fréends well-willers and there on Burnt heath a mile from Dertford and twelue miles from London he imbatelled and incamped himselfe verie stronglie inuironing his field with artillerie and trenches The king hereof aduertised brought his armie with all diligence vnto Blackeheath and there pight his tents Whilest both these armies laie thus imbattelled the king sent the bishop of Winchester and Thomas Bourchier bishop of Elie Richard Wooduile lord Riuers Richard Andrew the kéeper of his priuie seale to the duke both to know the cause of so great a commotion and also to make a concord if the requests of the duke and his companie séemed consonant to reason The duke hearing the message of the bishops answered that his comming was neither to damnifie the king in honour nor in person neither yet anie good man but his intent was to remooue from him certeine euill disposed persons of his councell bloud-succours of the nobilitie pollers of the cleargie and oppressours of the poore people Amongst these he chéeflie named Edmund duke of Summerset whome if the king would commit to ward to answer such articles as against him in open parlement should be both proponed and proued he promised not onelie to dissolue his armie but also offered himselfe like an obedient subiect to come to the kings presence and to doo him true and faithfull seruice according to his loiall and bounden dutie ¶ But a further vnderstanding of the dukes meaning by
saint Albons In this parlement also the duke of Yorke was made protector of the realme and the earle of Salisburie was appointed to be lord chancellour and had the great seale to him deliuered and the earle of Warwike was elected to the office of the capteineship of Calis and the territories of the same and thus the rule of the realme rested in the orders of the duke and chancellour and all warlike affaires remained principallie in the earle of Warwike And so amongest them it was agréed that king Henrie should reigne still in name and dignitie but neither in déed nor in authoritie not minding to destroie him least they might suddenlie prouoke the furie of the common people against them bicause that of the simple sort of people he was for his holinesse of life and abundant clemencie much fauoured and highlie estéemed In this parlement also it was enacted that the king should resume take into his hands againe haue and reteine into his possession all honours castels lordships townes villages manours lands tenements wasts forests chases rents reuersions fées farmes seruices issues profits counties aduousons of priories churches hospitals and free chapels and all other reuenues with their appurtenances the which had passed from him since the first daie of his reigne vnto that present either by his letters patents or authoritie of parlement and manie other meanes whether by grant confirmation or release from him made in fée simple or fée taile for tearme of life or yeares to anie maner of person and persons in England Wales Scotland or the marches in Ireland or in the townes of Calis Guisnes the marches there And likewise all grants made of such things as are aboue mentioned being parcell of the duchie of Lancaster and further all grants of offices roomes fees wages or commodities not accustomed to belong to anie office or charge before the said first daie of the kings reigne were likewise reuoked Diuerse other things were also conteined within this reuocation and generall resumption with certeine exceptions yet and prouisoes had as were thought conuenient and as by the same act it dooth appeare Moreouer now that the duke of Yorke and his adherents had wrested the whole rule gouernement into their hands all such persons as the king either loued or the quéene fauoured were put beside the priuie councell and such put in their places as were knowne to fauour the house of Yorke Also the officers were changed thoroughout the realme at the will and disposition of the protector chancellour and capteine of Calis so that they constituted as it were a triumuirat ruling all things at discretion of these thrée And yet in all their rule I find not that anie mention is made of their deferring of iustice or of anie polling or briberie as was openlie prooued by such as gouerned before their time Onlie they were noted of diuerse spirituall persons and namelie of the abbat of Westminster and his moonks for a great offense bicause they tooke out of the sanctuarie at Westminster Iohn Holland duke of Excester all against the order taken in the last parlement and sent him to the castell of Pomfret But now the lord Henrie Beauford newlie duke of Summerset by the death of duke Edmund his father slaine at the battell of saint Albons as aboue is rehearsed and Humfrie duke of Buckingham who then there lost his sonne and heire and other of estate taking the part of king Henrie whose case line 10 they did much bewaile doubt as perceiuing whereto the courtesie of the duke of Yorke did draw they therefore thinking it necessarie to purueie for a remedie yer the mischeefe happened consulted with the quéene By whose aduise was a great councell called at Gréenewich where the duke of Yorke was discharged of his protectorship the earle of Salisburie depriued also of his office ¶ This sudden change amongst the nobilitie caused alterations and seditious attempts in the commonaltie and in especiall line 20 within London whereof this was one A yoong merchant year 1456 which before time had béene in diuerse cities of Italie and there forbidden by the magistrats as the law and maner is to weare anie weapon now challenged an Italian in Cheapside for wearing a dagger telling him it was against his owne countrie lawes whereto bicause the Italian answered somewhat disdainefullie the merchant not onelie tooke by force from him his dagger but also with the same brake his pate line 30 This Italian in great hast complained to the maior so that at the next court holden at the Guildhall the merchant was sent for and vpon charge of his offense he was commanded to ward Wherevpon diuerse other light persons within the citie assembled togither in great plumps by force constreined the maior to deliuer the prisoner out of Newgate and not so satisfied like mad men ran to the seuerall houses of diuerse Uenetians Lucases and Florentins and them spoiled robbed and rifled without reason line 40 or measure The maior perceiuing this enormious dooing assembled a number of substantiall and graue citizens who not without bloudshed and maiming of sundrie appeased the rage and caused the misruled people to depart to their houses The beginner of this vprore got him to Westminster and there registred himselfe for a sanctuarie man The quéene which now againe ruled all being aduertised of this vnlawfull misdemeanour sent the dukes of Excester and Buckingham with other line 50 noble men to London with a commission oier and terminer for the inquirie and punishment of so seditious an offense But when the maior the two dukes and the two cheefe iustices were set in the Guildhall vpon their commission intelligence was giuen that a number of light persons were approching in armor to rescue the prisoners apprehended for the late robberie and riot as they were caried to their arraignement The two dukes and the other commissioners quickelie thense departed and left their inquirie for line 60 that daie though in déed in no such danger as they doubted for certeine discréet and sage citizens so handled the matter that no misorder followed of that furie The maior on the next daie called a common councell whereof the number was an hundred fourescore and od who ordeined that all wardens of mysteries shuld assemble their companies in their halles where exhortation should be to the obseruation of peace and if they spied any man either readie to stirre a rumor or make to the deliuerance of such as were in prison their names should be secretlie written and so deliuered to the maior which policie well appeased this outrage Where vpon after the commissioners sat in Guildhall where manie of the robbers were attainted put to execution beside diuers great fines set on the heads of diuerse merchants paid for winking at the matter ¶ This yeare Iohn Kempe archbishop of Canturburie departed this life Thomas Burstlier bishop of Elie remooued to
Clifford lord Clinton sir Thomas Harington sir Iohn Wenlock Thomas Neuill Iohn Neuill sons of the earle of Salisburie Iames Pickering Iohn Coniers Thomas Par William Oldhall line 20 and Henrie Ratford knights Iohn Bowser Thomas Cooke Iohn Claie Richard Giton Robert Browne Edward Bowser Thomas Uaughan Iohn Roger Richard Greie Walter Deuoreux Walter Hopton Roger Kinderton Will. Bowes Foulke Stafford the lord Powis and Alice countesse of Salisburie their goods and possessions escheted and their heires disherited vnto the ninth degrée their tenants spoiled of their goods maimed and slaine the towne of Ludlow belonging to the duke line 30 of Yorke was robbed to the bare wals the dutches of Yorke spoiled of hir goods But saith another when the king should come to giue his consent vnto the acts passed in the same parlement and that the clerke of the parlement had read that statute of the attaindor of those lords such was the kings modestie and great zeale vnto mercie that he caused a prouiso to be put in and added vnto the same statute that it might be lawfull vnto him at all times fâ—llie without authoritie of anie other parlement line 40 to pardon the same noble men and restore them againe to their former estats degrees and dignities in all things so they would come in vnto him and in the spirit of humblenesse beséech him of grace and fauour ¶ Wherin the king gaue euident testimonie that he was indued with those qualities of mind which the poet ascribed vnto Cesar namelie slow to punish sad when he was constreined to be seuere sith the one commended his lenitie the other sauoured line 50 of tyrannie in this distichon of like termination Est piger ad poenas princeps ad praemia velox CuÃque dolet quoties cogitur esse ferox Herewith also order was taken for the defense of the hauens landing places alongst the sea coasts Sir Simon Montford with a great crew of men was appointed to keepe the downes and the fiue ports and all men passing into Flanders were vpon paine of death prohibited to passe by Calis least the lords there should borrow of them anie prest monie line 60 as they did latelie before of the merchants of the staple the summe of eighteene thousand pounds The lords were not ignorant of all the kings prouisions made against them but were ascerteined dailie what was doone euen in the kings priuie chamber wherefore first they sent a companie to Sandwich vnder the gouernance of the lord Fauconbridge who tooke the towne sir Simon or Osbert Montford within it and sent him with all his mates to Calis where incontinentlie he with twelue of his chiefe fellowes lost their heads on the sand before Risebanke ¶ The earles at Calis sent to the archbishop of Canturburie and to the commons of England at large certeine articles in writing beginning thus Worshipfull sirs we the duke of Yorke the earles of March Warwike and Salisburie sued and offered to haue come to the king our souereigne lords most noble presence to haue declared there afore him for our dutie to God and to his highnesse and to the prosperitie and welfare of his noble estate and to the common-weale of all his land as true liege men the matters following Articles sent from the duke of Yorke and the earles to the archbishop of Canturburie and the commons IN primis the great oppression extortion robberie murther and other violences doone to Gods church and to his ministers thereof against Gods and mans law 2 Item the pouertie and miserie that to our great heauinesse our souereigne lord standeth in not hauing anie liuelod of the crowne of England whereof he may keepe his honorable houshold which causeth the spoiling of his said liege men by the takers of his said houshold which liuelod is in their hands that haue beene destroiers of his said estate and of the said common-weale 3 Item how his lawes be parciallie and vnrightfullie guided and that by them that should most loue and tender his said lawes the said oppression and extortion is most fauoured and supported and generallie that all righteousnesse and iustice is exiled out of the said land and that no man dreadeth to offend against the said lawes 4 Item that it will please his said good grace to liue vpon his owne liuelod wherevpon his noble progenitors haue in daies heretofore liued as honorablie and as worthilie as anie christian princes and not to suffer the destroiers of the said land and of his true subiects to liue therevpon and therfore to lacke the sustenances that should be belonging to his said estate and find his said houshold vpon his poore commons without paiement which neither accordeth with Gods nor mans law 5 Item how oft the said commons haue beene greatlie and maruellouslie charged with taxes and tallages to their great impouerishing whereof little good hath either growne to the king or to the said land and of the most substance thereof the king hath left to his part not halfe so much and other lords and persons enimies to the said common-weale haue to their owne vse suffering all the old possessions that the king had in France and Normandie Aniou and Maine Gascoine and Guien woone and gotten by his father of most noble memorie and other his noble progenitors to be shamefullie lost or sold. 6 Item how they can not ceasse therewith but now begin a new charge of imposition and tallages vpon the said people which neuer afore was seene that is to saie euerie towneship to find men for the kings gard taking example therein of our enimies and aduersaries of France Which imposition tallage if it be continued to heire heires and successors will be the heauiest charge and worst example that euer grew in England and the foresaid subiects and the said heires and successors in such bondage as their ancestors were neuer charged with 7 Item where the king hath now no more liuelod out of his realme of England but onelie the land of Ireland and the towne of Calis and that no king christened hath such a land and a towne without his realme diuerse lords haue caused his highnesse to write letters vnder his priuie seale vnto his Irish enimies which neuer king of England did heretofore wherby they may haue comfort to enter into the conquest of the said land which letters the same Irish enimies sent vnto me the said duke of Yorke and maruelled greatlie that anie such letters should be to them sent speaking therin great shame and villanie of the said realme 8 Item in like wise the king by excitation and labour of the same lords wrote other letters to his enimies and aduersaries in other lands that in no wise they should shew anie fauour or good will to the line 10 towne of Calis whereby they had comfort inough to procéed to the winning thereof Considered also that it is ordeined by the labour of
Cornewall and earle of Chester his second sonne the duke of Yorke and with them the earle of Lincolnes sonne and heire the duke of Suffolke the lord Thomas Greie the quéenes sonne and Richard his brother the earle of Shrewesburie the earle of Wilshire master Edward Wooduile the lord Neuill the lord Barkleis sonne and heire the lord Audelies sonne and heire the lord saint Amand the lord Stanleis sonne and heire the lord Suttons sonne and heire the lord Hastings sonne and heire the lord Ferrers of Charleis sonne and heire master Herbert brother to the earle of Penbroke master Uaughan Brian chiefe iudge Litilton one of the iudges of the common plées master Bodringham master Brian Stapleton Kneuit Pilkinton Ludlow Charleton c. The same daie the king created the lord Thomas marquesse Dorset before dinner and so in the habit of a marquesse aboue the habit of his knighthood he began tho table of knightâ— in saint Edwards chamber At that time he ordeined that the kings chamberleine should go with the ancient and well nurtered knight to aduertise and teaâ—â— the order of knighthood to the esquiers being in the baine The king himselfe came in person and did honour to all the companie with his noble councell This yeare the duke of Burgognie was slaine by the Switzers before the towne of Nancie in Lorraine after whose death the French king wan all the townes which the said duke held in Picardie and Artois And bicause that the towne of Bullen and countie of Bullenois apperteined by right of inheritance vnto the lord Berthram de la Toure earle of Aâ—uergne the French king bought of him his right and title in the same and recompensed him with other lands in the countie of Forests and in other places And bicause the forenamed towne and countie were holden of the earledome of Artois he changed the tenure and auowed to hold the same towne countie of our ladie of Bolongne and therof did homage to the image in the great church of Bolongne offering there an hart of gold weieng two thousand crownes ordeining further that his heires and successors at their entrie into their estates by themselues or their deputies should offer an hart of like weight and value as a reliefe and homage for the same towne and countie ¶ This yeare was Robert Basset maior of London who did sharpe correction vpon bakers for making of light bread he caused diuerse of them to be set on the pillorie in Cornehill And also one Agnes Daintie a butterwife for selling of butter new and old mingled togither being first trapped with butter dishes was then set on the pillorie ¶ The countesse of Oxford deceassed and was buried at Windsore ¶ Also this yeare Richard Rawson one of the shiriffes of London caused to be builded one house in the church yard of S. Marie hospitall without Bishops gate of London where the maior of that citie and his brethren the aldermen vse to sit and heare the sermons in the Easter holie daies as in times past appeared by an inscription on the front of the same house now by wethering defaced which I haue read in these words Praie for the soules of Richard Rawson late Mercer and alderman of London and Isabell his wife of whose goods this worke was made and founded Anno Dom. 1488. By the diligence of Ralph Iosseline maior of London year 1477 the wall about London was new made betwixt Algate and Creplegate he caused the Moore field to be searched for claie and bricke to be made and burnt there he also caused chalke to be brought out of Kent and in the same Moore field to be burnt into lime for the furtherance of that worke The maior with his companie of the drapers made all that part betwixt Bishops gate and Alhalowes church in the same wall Bishops gate it selfe was new built by the merchants Almans of the Stilliard and from Alhalowes church toward Moore gate a great part of the same was builded of the goods by the executors of sir Iohn Crosbie somtimes an alderman of London as may appeare by his armes in two places fixed The companie of Skinners made that part of the wall betweene Algate and Buries markes towards Bishops gate as may appeare by their armes in thrée places fixed the other companies of the citie made the other deale of the said wall which was a great worke to be doone in one yeare Also this yeare Thomas Burdet an esquier of Arrow in Warwikeshire sonne to sir Nicholas Burdet who was great butler of Normandie in Henrie the sixt daies was beheaded for a word spoken in this sort King Edward in his progresse hunted in Thomas Burdets parke at Arrow and slue manie line 10 of his deere amongst the which was a white bucke whereof Thomas Burdet made great account And therefore when he vnderstood thereof he wished the buckes head in his bellie that moued the king to kill it Which tale being told to the king Burdet was apprehended and accused of treason for wishing the buckes head hornes and all in the kings bellie he was condemned drawne from the Tower of London to Tiburne and there beheaded and then buried in the Greie friers church at London Wherefore it line 20 is good counsell that the wiseman giueth saieng Kéepe thy toong kéepe thy life for manie times we sée that speech offendeth procureth mischéefe where silence is author neither of the one nor the other as it is trulie and in praise of silence spoken by the poet nulli tacuisse nocet nocet esse loquutum About this season through great mishap the sparke of priuie malice was newlie kindled betwixt the king and his brother the duke of Clarence insomuch line 30 that where one of the dukes seruants was suddenlie accused I can not saie whether of truth or vntrulie suspected by the dukes enimies of poisoning sorcerie or inchantment and thereof condemned and put to execution for the same the duke which might not suffer the wrongfull condemnation of his man as he in his conscience iudged nor yet forbeare but to murmur and reproue the dooing thereof mooued the king with his dailie exclamation to take such displeasure with him that finallie the duke was cast into the line 40 Tower and therewith adiudged for a traitor and priuilie drowned in a butt of malmesie the eleuenth of March in the beginning of the seuententh yeare of the kings reigne Some haue reported that the cause of this noble mans death rose of a foolish prophesie which was that after K. Edward one should reigne whose first letter of his name should be a G. Wherewith the king and quéene were sore troubled and began to conceiue a greeuous grudge against this duke and could not line 50 be in quiet till they had brought him to his end And as the diuell is woont to incumber the minds of men which delite in such diuelish fantasies
which was called Peter Uacz de Cogna with whome I dwelled an whole yeare which said knight had but one eie And bicause I desired to see other countries I tooke licence of him and then I put my selfe in seruice with a Britan called Pregent Meno which brought me with him into Ireland Now when we were there arriued in the towne of Corke they of the towne bicause I was arraied with some cloths of silke of my said maisters came vnto me threatned vpon me that I should be the duke of Clarences sonne that was before time at Dublin But forsomuch as I denied it there was brought vnto me the holie euangelists and the crosse by the maior of the towne which was called Iohn Leweline and there in the presence of him and others I tooke mine oth as the truth was that I was not the foresaid dukes sonne nor none of his bloud And after this came vnto me an Englishman whose name was Stephan Poitron and one Iohn Water and laid to me in swearing great oths that they knew well that I was king Richards bastard sonne to whome I answered with like oths that I was not Then they aduised me not to be afeard but that I should take it vpon me boldlie and if I would so doo they would aid and assist me with all their power against the king of England not onelie they but they were well assured that the earle of Desmond Kildare should doo the same For they forced not what part they tooke so that they might be reuenged on the king of England and so against my will made me to learne English and taught me what I should doo and saie And after this they called me duke of Yorke second sonne to king Edward the fourth bicause king Richards bastard sonne was in the hanâ—s of the king of England And vpon this the said Water Stephan Poitron Iohn Tiler Hughbert Burgh with manie others as the foresaid earles entered into this false quarell and within short time others The French K. sent an ambassador into Ireland whose name was Loit Lucas and maister Stephan Friham to aduertise me to come into France And thense I went into France and from thense into Flanders from Flanders into Ireland and from Ireland into Scotland so into England When the night of the same daie being the fifteenth of Iune was come after he had stood all that daie in the face of the citie he was committed to the Tower there to remaine vnder safe kéeping least happilie he might eftsoones run awaie and escape out of the land to put the king and realme to some new trouble For he had a woonderfull dextèritie and readinesse to circumuent a heart full of ouerreaching imaginations an aspiring mind a head more wilie I wisse than wittie bold he was and presumptuous line 10 in his behauiour as forward to be the instrument of a mischeefe as anie deuiser of wickednesse would wish a féend of the diuels owne forging nursed and trained vp in the studie of commotions making offer to reach as high as he could looke such was his inordinate ambition wherewith he did swelâ— as coueting to be a princes peere much like the tode that would match the bull in drinking but in the end she burst in péeces and neuer dranke more as the poet telleth the tale by the imitation of the fabler saieng line 20 cupiens aequare bibendo Rana bouem rupta nunquam bibit ampliùs aluo In this yeare was an Augustine frier called Patrike in the parties of Suffolke the which hauing a scholer named Rafe Wilford a shoomakers sonne of London as Stow noteth had so framed him to his purpose that in hope to worke some great enterprise as to disappoint the king of his crowne and seat roiall tooke vpon him to be the earle of Warwike insomuch that both the maister and scholer hauing counselled betwéene themselues of their enterprise line 30 they went into Kent there began the yoong mawmet to tell priuilie to manie that he was the verie earle of Warwike and latelie gotten out of the Tower by the helpe of this frier Patrike To which saiengs when the frier perceiued some light credence to be giuen he declared it openlie in the pulpit and desired all men of helpe But the danger of this seditious attempt was shortlie remooued and taken awaie the maister and scholer being both apprehended line 40 and cast into prison and atteinted The scholer was hanged on Shrouetuesdaie at saint Thomas Waterings and the frier condemned to perpetuall prison For at that time so much reuerence was attributed to the holie orders that to a préest although he had committed high treason against his souereigne lord his life was spared in like case as to anie other offendor in murther rape or theft that had receiued anie of the three higher holie orders The chéefe cause saith Edward Hall of this line 50 fauour was this bicause bishops of a long time and season did not take knowledge nor intermix themselues with the search punishment of such heinous and detestable offenses by reason whereof they did not disgrade and depriue from the holie orders such malefactors and wicked persons which without that ceremonie by the canon lawes could not be put to death Furthermore what should a man saie it was also vsed that he that could but onelie read yea although line 60 he vnderstood not what he read how heinous or detestable a crime so euer he had committed treason onelie excepted should likewise as affines alies to the holie orders be saued and committed to the bishops prison And to the intent that if they should escape and be againe taken committing like offense that their liues be no more to them pardoned it was ordeined that murtherers should be burnt on the brawne of the left hand with an hot iron signed with this letter M. and théeues in the same place with this letter T. So that if they which were once signed with anie of these marks or tokens did reiterate like crime offense againe should suffer the paines and punishments which they had both merited and deserued Which decrée was enacted and established in a session of parlement kept in the time of this kings reigne and taken as I coniecture of the French nation which are woont if they take anie such offendor to cut off one of his eares as a sure token and marke hereafter of his euill dooing Perkin Warbecke as before ye haue heard being now in hold by false persuasions and great promises corrupted his kéepers Stranguish Blewet Astwood and long Roger seruants to sir Iohn Digbie lieutenant of the Tower Insomuch that they as it was at their arreignment openlie prooued intended to haue slaine their maister and to haue set Perkin and the earle of Warwike at large Which earle of Warwike had beene kept in prison within the Tower almost from his tender yeares that is
gaue the pope to drinke of the same wine which Ualentinois had sent who arriuing while his father was drinking drunke also of the same wine being but iust that they both should tast of the same cup which they had brued for the destruction of others All the towne of Rome ran with great gladnesse to saint Peters about the dead bodie of the pope their eies not satisfied to sée ded and destroied a serpent who with his immoderate line 50 ambition and poisoned infidelitie togither with all the horrible examples of crueltie luxurie and monstruous couetousnesse selling without distinction both holie things and prophane things had infected the whole world And yet was he accompanied with a most rare almost perpetuall prosperitie euen from his yoong age to the end of his life desiring alwaies great things and obteining most often that he desired An line 60 example of much importance to confound the arrogancie of those men who presuming to know and sée perfectlie with humane eies the depth of Gods iudgements doo assure that what happeneth either good or ill to mortall men procéedeth either of their merits or faults as though we saw not dailie manie good men vniustlie tormented wicked persons aboue their deseruings liue in case and honour wherein who makes an other interpretation derogates the iustice and power of God the greatnesse of which being not to be conteined within any scripts or tearms present knoweth how well and largely to discerne in an other time and place the iust from the vniust and that with rewards and eternall punishments In the meane time he powreth out his vengeance vpon the imaginers of mischéefe in this life so prouiding as that they are caught in their owne snares and ouertaken with such destruction as they had prepared for others according to that saieng of the Psalmist Effodit puteum foueámque eduxit ab imo Et miser in latebras incidit ipse suas In verticem ipsius recurrit Pernicies recidúntque fraudes At the same time died Giles lord Dawbenie the kings chéefe chamberleine whose office Charles bastard sonne to Henrie last duke of Summerset occupied and enioied a man of good wit and great experience Soone after the king caused Guidebald duke of Urbine to be elected knight of the order of the garter in like maner as his father duke Frederike had béene before him which was chosen and admitted into the order by king Edward the fourth Sir Gilbert Talbot and the other two ambassadors being appointed to kéepe on their iournie vnto pope Iulie the second elected after the death of the said Pius the third bare the habit and collar also vnto the said duke Guidebald which after he had receiued the same sent sir Balthasar Castalio knight a Mantrian borne as his orator vnto king Henrie which was for him installed according to the ordinances of the order This yeare that worthie prelate Thomas Sauage archbishop of Yorke departed this life at his castell of Cawood a man beside the worthinesse of his birth highlie estéemed with his prince for his fast fidelitie and great wisedome He bestowed great cost in repairing the castell of Cawood and the manor of Scrobie His bodie was buried at Yorke but he appointed by his testament that his hart should be buried at Macclesfield in Cheshire where he was borne in a chapell there of his foundation ioining to the south side of the church meaning to haue founded a college there also if his purpose had not béene preuented by death After him succeeded doctor Benbridge in the archbishops sée of Yorke being the fiftie and sixt archbishop that had sat in that see About this same time Lewes the French king the twelfe of that name who succéeded Charles the eighth that died at Amboise the night before the eighth daie of Aprill of a catarrhe which the physicians call an apoplexie the same rising in him with such aboundance as he beheld a match plaied at tennisse that in few houres he ended at the same place his life during the which he had with greater importunitie than vertue troubled the whole world with great apparance of danger to kindle eftsoones new fiers of innouation and troubles maried his eldest daughter named Clare vnto Francis de Ualois Dolphin of Uienne and duke of Angolesme which ladie was promised vnto Charles the king of Castile wherevpon by ambassadors sent to and fro betwixt king Henrie and the said king of Castile a mariage was concluded betwixt the said king of Castile and the ladie Marie daughter to king Henrie being about the age of ten yeares For conclusion of which mariage the lord of Barow other ambassadors were sent into England from the emperor Maximilian which with great rewards returned ¶ William Browne mercer maior of London this yeare deceassed year 1508 and foorthwith sir Laurence Ailmer draper was chosen and sworne and went home in a graie cloake with the sword borne before him on the eight and twentith daie of March. Item he tooke his oth at the Tower and kept no feast William Capell was put in sute by the king for things by him doone in his maioraltie Also Thomas Kneisworth that had beene maior of London and his shiriffes were sent to the kings Bench till they were put to their fines of foureteene hundred pounds In the moneth of Iune the citie of Norwich was sore perished neere consumed with fier that began in a Frenchmans house named Peter Iohnson a surgian in the parish of saint George Stephan Genings merchant tailor maior of London founded a free grammar schoole at Wlfrunehampton in Staffordshire with conuenient lodgings for the maister and vsher in the same place where he was borne He gaue lands sufficient line 10 for the maintenance leauing the ouersight thereof to the merchant tailors in London who haue hitherto iustlie dealt in that matter and also augmented the building there Maister Nichols who maried the onelie daughter and heire of the aforesaid Stephan Genings gaue lands to mainteine the pauements of that towne Also Iohn Leneson esquier about Anno 1556 gaue lands whereof foure pounds should be dealt euerie yeare on good fridaie to the poore people of Wlfrunehampton and six and twentie line 20 shillings eight pence yéerelie towards the reparation of the church there Moreouer about Anno 1566 sir Iohn Ligh a préest which had serued in that church there the space of thréescore years for fiue pounds six shillings eight pence the yeare without anie other augmentation of his liuing who would neuer take anie benefice or other preferment gaue twentie pounds to purchase twentie shillings the yeare lands the same to be giuen yearelie for euer to the poore of Wlfrunehampton line 30 vpon good fridaie twelue pounds thirteene shillings foure pence to purchase a marke a yeare lands the same to be giuen to the poore of Chifnall in the countie of Salope where the said Ligh was borne This man liued
Notingham and there lodged that night more sicke and the next daie he rode to line 10 Leicester abbeie and by the waie waxed so sicke that he was almost fallen from his mule so that it was night before he came to the abbeie of Leicester where at his comming in at the gates the abbat with all his conuent met him with diuerse torches light whom they honorablie receiued and welcomed To whom the cardinall said Father abbat I am come hither to lay my bones among you riding so still vntill he came to the staires of the chamber where he allighted from his mule and master Kingston line 20 led him vp the staires and as soone as he was in his chamber he went to bed This was on the saturday at night and then increased he sicker and sicker vntill mondaie that all men thought he would haue died so on tuesdaie saint Andrewes euen master Kingston came to him and bad him good morrow for it was about six of the clocke and asked him how he did Sir quoth he I tarrie but the pleasure of God to render vp my poore soule into his hands Not so sir quoth master Kingston with the grace of God yée shall liue and doo verie well if yee will be of line 30 good cheere Nay in good sooth master Kingston my disease is such that I can not liue for I haue had some experience in physicke Thus it is I haue a flux with a continuall feuer the nature whereof is that if there be no alteration of the same within eight daies either must insue excoriation of the intrailes or fransie or else present death and the best of them is death and as I suppose this is the eight daie if yée sée no alteration in me there is no remedie saue though I may liue a daie line 40 or twaine after but death must insue Sir quoth maister Kingston you be in much pensiuenes doubting that thing that in good faith yée néed not Well well master Kingston quoth the cardinall I sée the matter how it is framed but if I had serued God as diligentlie as I haue doone the king he would not haue giuen me ouer in my greie haires but it is the iust reward that I must receiue for the diligent paines and studie that I haue had to doo him seruice line 50 not regarding my seruice to God but onelie to satisfie his pleasure I praie you haue me most humblie commended vnto his roiall maiestie beseech him in my behalfe to call to his princelie remembrance all matters procéeding betwéene him me from the beginning of the world and the progresse of the same c. Master Kingston farewell I can no more saie but I wish all things to haue good successe my time draweth on fast And euen with that he began to draw his spéech line 60 at length his toong to faile his eies being set whose sight failed him Then they did put him in remembrance of Christ his passion caused the yeomen of the gard to stand by to sée him die and to witnesse of his words at his departure incontinent the clocke stroke eight and then he gaue vp the ghost and departed this present life which caused some to call to remembrance how he said the daie before that at eight of the clocke they should loose their master Here is the end and fall of pride and arrogancie of men exalted by fortune to dignitie for in his time he was the hautiest man in all his procéedings aliue hauing more respect to the honor of his person than he had to his spirituall profession wherin should be shewed all meekenes humilitie and charitie An example saith Guicciardin who handleth this storie effectuallie and sheweth the cause of this cardinals ruine in our daies woorthie of memorie touching the power which fortune and enuie hath in the courts of princes He died in Leicester abbeie in the church of the same abbeie was buried Such is the suertie of mans brittle state doubtfull in birth no lesse féeble in life which is as vncerteine as death most certeine and the meanes thereof manifold which as in number they excéed so in strangenesse they passe all degrees of ages diuersities of sexes being subiect to the same In consideration whereof it was notablie said by one that wrote a whole volume of infirmities diseases and passions incident to children A primo vitae diuersos stamine morbos Perpetimur diris affiâ—imúrque malis Donec in occasum redeat qui vixit ab ortu Antea quà m discat viuere vita cadit This cardinall as Edmund Campian in his historie of Ireland describeth him was a man vndoubtedly borne to honor I thinke saith he some princes bastard no butchers sonne excéeding wise faire spoken high minded full of reuenge vitious of his bodie loftie to his enimies were they neuer so big to those that accepted and sought his fréendship woonderfull courteous a ripe schooleman thrall to affections brought a bed with flatterie insatiable to get and more princelie in bestowing as appeareth by his two colleges at Ipswich and Oxenford the one ouerthrowne with his fall the other vnfinished and yet as it lieth for an house of students considering all the appurtenances incomparable thorough Christendome whereof Henrie the eight is now called founder bicause he let it stand He held and inioied at once the bishopriks of Yorke Duresme Winchester the dignities of lord cardinall legat chancellor the abbeie of saint Albons diuerse priories sundrie fat benefices In commendam a great preferrer of his seruants an aduancer of learning stout in euerie quarell neuer happie till this his ouerthrow Wherein he shewed such moderation and ended so perfectlie that the houre of his death did him more honor than all the pompe of his life passed Thus far Campian Here it is necessarie to adde that notable discourse which I find in Iohn Stow concerning the state of the cardinall both in the yeares of his youth and in his settled age with his sudden comming vp from preferment to preferment till he was aduanced to that step of honor which making him insolent brought him to confusion ¶ This Thomas Wolseie was a poore mans sonne of Ipswich in the countie of Suffolke there borne and being but a child verie apt to be learned by the meanes of his parents he was conueied to the vniuersitie of Oxenford where he shortlie prospered so in learning as he was made bachellor of art when he passed not fiftéene yeares of age and was called most commonlie thorough the vniuersitie the boie bachellor Thus prospering in learning he was made fellow of Mawdeline college and afterward appointed to be schoolemaster of Mawdelin schoole at which time the lord marquesse Dorset had thrée of his sonnes there at schoole committing vnto him as well their education as their instruction It pleased the said lord marquesse against a Christmas season to
heard him commended him estéeming his expedition to be almost beyond the capacitie of man The king gaue him at that time the deanrie of Lincolne From thense forward he grew more and more into estimation and authoritie and after was promoted by the king to be his almoner After the death of king Henrie the seuenth and in the florishing youth of king Henrie the eight this almoner handled himselfe so politiklie that he soone found the meanes to be made one of the kings councell and to grow in fauor with the king to whome the king gaue an house at Bridewell in Fleetstréet sometime sir Richard Empsons where he kept house for his familie and so dailie attended vpon the king and in his especiall fauor who had great sute made vnto him His sentences wittie persuasions in the councell chamber were alwaies so pithie that the councell as occasion mooued them continuallie assigned him to be the expositor to the king in all their procéedings in whome the king receiued such a leaning fantasie for that he was most earnest and readiest of all the councell to aduance the kings will and pleasure the king therefore estéemed him so highlie that all the other councellors were put from the great fauor that they before were in insomuch that the king committed all his will vnto his disposition which the almoner perceiuing tooke vpon him therefore to discharge the king of the weightie and troublesome businesse line 10 persuading the king that he should not néed to spare anie time of his pleasure for anie businesse that should happen in the councell And whereas the other councellors would diuerse times persuade the king to haue sometime recourse into the councell chamber there to heare what was doone the almoner would persuade him to the contrarie which delited him much and thus the almoner ruled all them that were before him such did his policie and wit bring to passe Who was now in high line 20 fauor but master almoner And who ruled all vnder the king but master almoner Thus he perseuered in fauor vntill at last in came presents gifts and rewards so plentifullie that he lacked nothing that might either please his fantasie or inrich his coffers And thus proceeding in fortunes blisfulnesse it chanced the warres betwéene the realmes of England and France to be open insomuch as the king was fullie persuaded in his most roiall person to inuade his forren enimies with a puissant armie line 30 wherefore it was necessarie that this roiall enterprise should be speedilie prouided and furnished in euerie degree of things apt conuenient for the same for the expedition wherof the king thought no mans wit so méet for policie and painefull trauell as was his almoner to whome therefore he committed his whole trust therein and he tooke vpon him the whole charge of all the businesse and brought all things to good passe in a decent order as all maner of vittels prouisions and other necessaries conuenient for so line 40 noble a voiage and armie All things being by him perfected the king aduanced to his roiall enterprise passed the seas and marched forward in good order of battell vntill he came to the strong towne of Terwine to the which he laid his siege and assailed it verie stronglie continuallie with such vehement assaults that within short space it was yéelded vnto his maiestie vnto the which place the emperor Maximilian repaired vnto the king with a great armie like a mightie prince taking line 50 of the king his graces wages which is a rare thing and but seldome seene an emperor to fight vnder a kings banner Thus after the king had obteined this puissant fort and taken the possession thereof and set all things there in due order for the defense and preseruation thereof to his vse he departed thense and marched toward the citie of Torneie and there laid his siege in like maner to the which he gaue so fierce sharpe assault that they were constreined of fine force to line 60 render the towne vnto his victorious maiestie at which time the king gaue the almoner the bishoprike of the same see towards his paines and diligence susteined in that iournie Now when the king had established all things agréeable to his will and pleasure and furnished the same with noble capteines men of warre for the safegard of the towne he returned againe into England taking with him diuerse noble personages of France being prisoners as the duke of Longuile and vicount Clarimont with other which were taken there in a skirmish After whose returne immediatlie the sée of Lincolne fell void by the death of doctor Smith late bishop there the which benefice his grace gaue to his almoner late bishop of Torneie elect who was not negligent to take possession therof and made all the spéed he could for his consecration the solemnization whereof ended he found meanes that he gat the possession of all his predecessors goods into his hands It was not long after that doctor Benbrike archbishop of Yorke died at Rome being there the kings ambassador vnto the which sée the king immediatlie presented his late and new bishop of Lincolne so that he had thrée bishopriks in his hands in one yeere giuen him Then prepared he for his translation from the see of Lincolne vnto the sée of Yorke after which solemnization doone he being then an archbishop Primas Angliae thought himselfe sufficient to compare with Canturburie and therevpon erected his crosse in the court and euerie other place as well within the precinct and iurisdiction of Canturburie as in anie other place And forsomuch as Canturburie claimeth a superoritie ouer Yorke as ouer all other bishopriks within England and for that cause claimeth as a knowledge of an ancient obedience of Yorke to abate the aduancing of his crosse in presence of the crosse of Canturburie notwithstanding the archbishop of Yorke nothing minding to desist from bearing thereof in maner as I said before caused his crosse to be aduanced as well in the presence of Canturburie as elsewhere Wherefore Canturburie being mooued therewith gaue vnto Yorke a certeine checke for his presumption by reason whereof there ingendered some grudge betwéene Yorke and Canturburie Yorke intending to prouide some such meanes that he would be rather superior in dignitie to Canturburie than to be either obedient or equall to him Wherefore he obteined to be made priest cardinall and Legatus de latere vnto whome the pope sent a cardinals hat with certeine buls for his authoritie in that behalfe Yet you shall vnderstand that the pope sent him this woorthie hat of dignitie as a iewell of his honor and authoritie the which was conueied in a varlets budget who seemed to all men to be but a person of small estimation Wherefore Yorke being aduertised of the basenes of this messenger of the peoples opinion thought it meete for his honor that this iewell
he gaue prisoners both bodies goods and lands On the other side he commanded forches and gallowes to be set vp in sundrie places as well within the citie as also in the countrie and did command and cause manie to be executed and put to death especiallie such as were noted to be chiefe and busie dooers ringleaders in this rebellion Among them all there was no one so exalted as was Welsh the vicar of saint Thomas neere the Exbridge at Excecester who was preferred and presented to that benefice by the lord Russell patrone thereof This man had manie good things in him he was of no great stature but well set and mightilie compact he was a verie good wrestler shot well both in the long bow as also in the crossebow he handled his handgun and péece verie well he was a verie good woodman and a hardie and such a one as would not giue his head for the polling nor his beard for the washing he was a companion in anie exercises of actiuitie of a courteous and gentle behauiour he descended of a good honest parentage being borne at Penuerin in Cornewall and yet in this rebellion an archcapteine and a principall dooer He was charged with thrée principall crimes The first was that he did not onelie persuade the people to the contemning of the reformed religion according to the kings procéedings and to keepe and obserue the Romish and popish religion but also did erect kéepe and vse the same in his parish church Secondarilie he was a capteine and a principall dealer in the cause of the rebellion which was chieflie directed by him his order aduise Thirdlie he caused one Kingwell a tinner of Chagford and seruant to master Iohn Charels of Tauestoke to be hanged bicause secretlie he had conueied letters betwéene my lord and his master and was earnest in the reformed religion which was then termed the kings procéedings an enimie to the popish state And being a sharpe inueier against the one and an earnest mainteiner of the other it procured vnto him great hatred and malice when the rebellion was begun he sought by all the meanes he could how to escape awaie but he was so narrowlie watched that he could neuer haue anie oportunitie so to doo They vsed all the deuises they could to recouer him to their opinions sometimes with faire words sometimes with threatenings and sometimes with imprisonments but still he inueied against them calling them rebels and traitors both against God and the king and foreprophesied vnto them that destruction and confusion would be the end reward of their dooings Thus when they could not reclame him to their disposition then by the order and iudgement of this vicar Welsh he was fetched out of the prison and foorthwith brought foorth before Caiphas and Pilat and condemned to be hanged which was executed vpon him foorthwith and he brought to an elme tree in Exilond without the west gate of the citie before the house of one Nicholas Caue and there hanged The like crueltie or rather tyrannie was doone at Sampford Courteneie where when a certeine Frankelin a gentleman named William Hellions who comming to Sampford to haue some communication with them for the staie of their rebellion line 10 and for the pacifieng of them in their due obedience was at the townes end taken prisoner caried to the churchhouse where he so earnestlie reprooued them for their rebellion so sharplie threatened them an euill successe that they all fell in a rage with him and not onlie with euill words reuiled him but also as he was going out of the churchhouse going downe the staires one of them named Githbridge with a bill strake him in the necke and immediatlie notwithstanding his pitifull requests and lamentations line 20 a number of the rest fell vpon him slue him and cut him into small péeces and though they counted him for an heretike yet they buried him in the church-yard there but contrarie to the common maner laieng his bodie north and south These things being called to remembrance and obiected against this vicar although some men in respect of his vertues and good gifts did pitie and lament his case and would haue gladlie beene sutors for his pardon yet the greatnesse of his lewdnesse line 30 and follies considered they left him vnto his deserts so was by order of the marshall law condemned to death And yet this one thing by the waie I must speake in his commendation There was among the rebels a stranger and an alien who was a verie skilfull gunner could handle his peece verie well and did much harme vnto the citie among others slue one Smith standing at a doore in northgate street with a great shot from saint Dauids hill This fellow tooke vpon him that he would set the whole citie on line 40 fire and it should be cleane burned within foure houres doo they what they could This his offer was so well liked that the daie and time was appointed when this should be doone The vicar hearing thereof assembleth vnto him as manie men as he could make and haue came to this companie when this fire should be kindled and was so hot and earnest against their attempts that he would in no wise suffer so lewd an act and wicked a thing to be doone For saith he doo you what line 50 you can by policie force or dint of sword to take the citie I will ioine with you and doo my best but to burne a citie which shall be hurtfull to all men and good to no man I will neuer consent therevnto but will here stand with all my power against you And so stout he was in this matter that he stopped them from their further enterprising of so wicked a fact But to the matter The execution of this man was committed to Barnard Duffeld who being nothing slacke to follow his commission caused a paire line 60 of gallowes to be made and to be set vp vpon the top of the tower of the said vicars parish church of S. Thomas and all things being readie and the stage perfected for this tragedie the vicar was brought to the place and by a rope about his middle drawne vp to the top of the tower and there in chains hanged in his popish apparell and had a holie water bucket and sprinkle a sacring bell a paire of beads such other like popish trash hanged about him and there he with the same about him remained a long time He made a verie small or no confession but verie patientlie tooke his death he had béene a good member in his common-wealth had not the weeds ouergrowne the good corne and his foule vices ouercommed his vertues The lord priuie seale remaining still in Excester was continuallie occupied in setting things in order he was verie seuere and sharpe against suth offendors as were chiefe and principall ringleders of this rebellion but to the common sort who
were led and carried and who did humble themselues he was pitifull and mercifull and did dailie pardon infinite numbers And his lordship thinking verelie that all things were now quieted the rebels pacified suddenlie newes were brought vnto him that there assembled at Sampford Courtneie both Deuonshiremen and Cornishmen and who were fullie bent to mainteine their quarrell and abide the battell These newes so troubled and tickled my lord that all businesse set apart he commandeth foorthwith the trumpet to be sounded and the drumme to be striken vp and all his armie to be foorthwith mustered which was then the greater by reason of the Welshmen and gentlemen of the countrie and of the commoners who vpon submission had obteined pardon and increased to the number of eight or ten thousand men and foorthwith he marcheth towards Sampford Courtneie where sir William Herbert requested to haue the fore-ward for that daie which was granted him And being come thither albeit the great companie of so manie good souldiers and well appointed might haue dismaied them being nothing nor in order nor in companie nor in experience to be compared vnto the others yet they were at a point they would not yéeld to no persuasions nor did but most manfullie did abide the fight and neuer gaue ouer vntill that both in the towne and in the field they were all for the most taken or slaine At which time one ap Owen a Welsh gentlman more boldie than aduisedlie giuing the aduenture to enter the rampier at the townes end was there slaine by the rebels and after carried backe to Exon where after the maner of wars he was honorablie buried in the bodie of saint Peters church few of the kings side besides him then slaine and so of a traitorous beginning they made a shamefull ending Neuerthelesse manie escaped and they fled towards Summersetshire after whom was sent sir Peter Carew and sir Hugh Paulet then knight marshall with a great companie attending vpon them and followed them as far as to King Weston in the countie of Summerset where they ouertooke them and ouerthrew them and also tooke one Coffin a gentleman their capteine prisoner and brought him vnto Excester The lord Russell himselfe minding to make all things sure taketh his iorneie and marcheth into Cornewall and following his former course causeth execution to be doone vpon a great manie and especiallie vpon the chéefe belwedders and ringleaders but the cheefe and principall capteins he kept as prisoners and brought them with him to Excester And when this lord had set all things in good order he returned to Excester remained there for a time but after departed towards London where he was receiued with great ioy and thanks and being come before the king he forgat not to commend vnto his maiestie the good seruice of this citie in this rebellion which as is before said was liberallie rewarded and considered After his departure and according to his order and appointment the chéefe capteins and principall heads of this rebellion whome he left in prison in the kings goale at Excester were caried to London and commanded to the tower and in their due time were afterwards executed to death namelie Humfreie Arundell esquier Wineslade esquier Iohn Berrie and Coffin gentlemen and Holmes yeoman which Coffin and Holmes were seruants to sir Iohn Arundell knight Of the number of them who were slaine there is no certeintie knowne but manie more be found lacke then numbred howbeit it was accounted by such as continued in the whole seruice of this commotion to be about foure thousand men But what number was of the contrarie side dispatched nothing is reported albeit it be well knowne that they escaped not scotfrée and especiallie the Burgonians who were abhorred of the one partie and nothing fauoured of the other Thus much line 10 concerning the description of the citie and of the sundrie inuasions and assaults against the same and especiallie of the last rebellion or commotion in the yeare of our Lord 1549 wherein much more might be spoken but this may suffice for this matter And for as much as the cathedrall church of this citie called by the name of S. Peters is a parcell of the citie and compassed within the wals of the same though in respect of certeine priuileges distinct from the iurisdiction thereof I thought it good to subnect herevnto line 20 the description of the said church and of the antiquitie of the same The antiquitie foundation and building of the cathedrall church of saint Peters in Excester AFter that corrupt religion and superstition was crept and receiued into the church and the people become deuout line 30 therein then began the erecting of religious houses and monasteries in euerie countrie And as this was vniuersall throughout all christendome vnder the gouernement of the Romane bishop so also was it generallie doone throughout all England in which generalitie this citie was of a particularitie for in this citie from time to time as opportunitie serued sundrie religious houses and monasteries were erected and builded of which there were thrée within the site circuit and line 40 place now called the close of S. Peters and which in time accrued and were vnited into one The first was a house for women called moniales or nuns which is now the deanes house or Kalendar haie The other was a house of moonks supposed to be builded by king Ethelred the third sonne to king Ethelwolph and these two were vnited by bishop Leofricus vnto the cathedrall church The third was a house for moonks of the order of S. Benet which was builded and founded by king Athelstane about the yeare of line 50 our Lord 932 and this is that part of the cathedrall church now called the ladie chappell For the said king hauing driuen out of this citie the Britons then dwelling therein and minding to make a full conquest both of them and of this their countrie which they then inhabited did so fiercelie follow and pursue them euen into Cornewall that in the end he conquered them and had the victorie After which he returned to this citie and here staieng and soiourning for a time did reedifie the citie incompassed it with line 60 a stone wall and founded the cathedrall church which he then appointed for a monasterie for moonks of S. Benets order For so is it written Hanc vrbem rex Adelstanus primus in potestatem Anglorum effugatis Britonibus redactam turribus muniuit muro ex quadratis lapidibus cinxit ac antiquitùs vocatam Munketon nunc Exester vocari voluit ac ibi sedens mansum quoddam dedit ad fundandum monasterium pro monachis Deo sancto Petro famulantibus Besides the charges which he was at the building of the said church he gaue also lands and reuenues vnto them sufficient for maintenance and liuelihoods whereof Morkeshull and Treasurors béere are parcell and which now are appendant
and apperteining to the treasuror of the cathedrall church After the time of king Athelstane the Danes with great hostilitie and crueltie hauing ouerrun this whole land they also came to this citie and in spoiling the same did also ransacke and spoile the said church whose continuall inuasions the moonks being not able to indure fled and forsooke their house and home and sought places of better safetie By which means this monasterie for sundrie yeares was left destitnted vntill the time of king Edgar who on a time made a progresse into these west parts to visit his father in law Odogarus then earle of Deuon and founder of the abbeie of Tauistoke whose daughter he had married And being come to this citie did here rest and staie himselfe where when he saw the distressed state of the said church pitieng the same caused search and inquirie to be made of the moonks which were scattered and yet left and when he had gotten them togither he restored them vnto their house and liuelihoods and appointed Sidemannus who was afterwards bishop of this diocesse to be abbat of the same And from thensfoorth they continued togither though sometimes in troubles vntill that king Swanus or Sweno the Dane with a mightie and a huge armie came to this citie besieged tooke spoiled and destroied it with sword and fier Howbeit not long after it was restored againe by king Cahutus or Canutus who being aduertised of the great cruelties which his father Sweno had doone to the said monasterie did at the request of Atheldredus one of his dukes make restitution vnto Athelwoldus then abbat of all their lands liuings and priuileges as dooth appeare by his charter dated in the yeare of our Lord 1019. After this about thirtie yeares king Edward the Confessor came to this citie and he by the aduise and at the motion of Leofricus bishop of Crediton and who sometimes was lord chancellor of England vnder the said king and one of his priuie councell partlie for the better safetie of the bishop and his successors who lieng and hauing their houses in the countrie were subiect to manie and sundrie perils and partlie to prouide a more conuenient place for the moonks did remooue the bishops sée from Crediton and remooued the moonks vnto Westminster and he the king in his owne person togither with quéene Edith his wife did install the said Leofricus in possession of this his new church and sée The bishop thus remooued from the old and placed in the new sée and church dooth endow the same with all those lands and liuelihoods which he had of the gift of the said king and which before did apperteine to his former church and to reduce and make his sanctuarie to his mind pulleth downe the two monasteries néere adioining the one being of moonks and the other of nuns and addeth and vniteth them vnto his owne church and hauing brought all things to effect according to his mind deuiseth and maketh lawes orders and ordinances for the good gouernment of his church and cleargie After the death of Leofricus all his successors for the most part procure the augmentation and increase of this their new erected see and church some in liuelihoods some in liberties and priuileges some in buildings and some in one thing and some in another William Warewest the third bishop of this church who had sometimes béene chapleine to the Conqueror and to his two sonnes William and Henrie was in such fauor and good liking with the Conqueror that at his request he gaue vnto him and to this his church Plimpton Brampton and S. Stephans in Excester which gift his said sonnes being kings of England did ratifie and confirme And then the said bishop hauing the ordering and distributing thereof giueth Plimpton to the regular moonkes there for whom he had founded and builded a monasterie and wherein he himselfe shortlie after leauing and yéelding vp his bishoprike became and was a moonke Brampton was reserued to the church and which afterwards was annexed to the deanerie And S. Stephans with the fee to the same apperteining he reserued to himselfe and to his successors whereby they are barons and lords of the parlement This bishop in the yeare of our Lord 1112 first began to inlarge his cathedrall and laid the foundation of that line 10 part which is now the chore or quier for before that time it was no bigger than that which since and now is called the ladie chapell After him William Brewer the bishop made and established in the yeare of our Lord 1235 a deane and a chapter of foure and twentie prebendaries and for the deane whome he appointed and whose name was Serlo and for his successors he gaue and impropriated Brampton and Coliton Rawleigh and for the prebendaries he purchased lands alloting and assigning line 20 to euerie of them Pro pane sale the like portion of foure pounds Peter Quiuell the bishop finding the chancell of his church to be fullie builded and ended beginneth to found and build the lower part or the bodie of his church in the yeare of our Lord 1284 from the chancell of his church vnto the west end of the said church This man first appointed a chanter and a subdeane to be in his church To the one of them he impropriated Paineton and Chudleie and to the other the personage line 30 of Eglosehaile in Cornewall After him Iohn Grandisson in the yeare of our Lord 1340 did increase the length of the bodie of the church from the funt westwards as also vaulted the roofe of the whole church and did fullie end and finish the same And albeit from the time of king Athelstane the first founder in the yeare of our Lord 932 vntill the daie of the death of this bishop Grandisson which was in the yeare 1369 there were about 437 yeares distant and in the meane time this church was continued line 40 in building by sundrie persons yet it is so decentlie and vniformelie compacted as though it had béene builded at one verie time and instant The successour of this Grandisson who was named Thomas Brentingham finished and ended the north tower of the church After this about the yeare of our Lord 1400 and in the time of bishop Stofford the cloister was added to the church and builded at the most part of the charges of the deane and chapiter line 50 And not long after Edmund Lacie bishop began to build the chapiter house which being not ended in his time his next successor George Neuill in the yeare of our Lord 1456 did fullie end and absolue the same and which is a verie faire beautifull and a sumptuous worke And thus much concerning the antiquitie foundation and building of this cathedrall church Thus far Iohn Hooker About the same time that this rebellion whereto all the foresaid discourse tendeth began in the west line
Bishops gate Pockthorpe gate Magdalene gate and Bearestréet gate with manie other houses in other parts of the line 10 citie were burned and fowlie defaced with fire The citizens were brought into such extreame miserie that they knew not which waie to turne them Some there were that fled out of the citie taking with them their gold and siluer and such short ware as they might conueie awaie with them abandoning wife and children to rest at the mercie of the rebels Other hid their goods in wels priuies and other such secret places out of the waie The rebels entering into the houses of such as line 20 were knowne to be wealthie men spoiled and bare awaie all that might be found of anie value But to speake of all the cruell parts which they plaied it would be tedious to expresse the same their dooings were so wicked and outragious There was shooting howling and wringing among them wéeping and crieng out of women and children To be short the staie of the citie at that present was most miserable The maiors deputie kept himselfe close in his house and might behold all this mischiefe and destruction of the citie but durst not come abroad nor line 30 go about to staie them at length a great multitude of the rebels that were come downe frō their campe entering by saint Augustines gate came straight to his house and stroue to breake open the doores but when they could not easilie bring their purpose to passe that waie foorth they began to fire the house Wherevpon for feare to be burned within his owne lodging he set open the doores and in came those vnmanerlie ghests tooke him plucked his gowne beside his backe called him traitor and threatened to line 40 kill him if he would not tell them where the lord marquesse of Northampton had hidden himselfe And when he had told them that vndoubtedlie he and all his companie were gone they were in a great rage and with terrible noise and rumbling they sought euerie corner of the house for him and taking what they found they departed But yet manie of them afterwards partlie pacified for a péece of monie and other things which they receiued of the line 50 maior and partlie reprooued for the wrongfull robberies by some that were in credit among them they brought againe such packs and fardels as they had trussed vp togither and threw them into the shops of those houses out of the which they had taken the same before but yet there were diuers of the citizens that were spoiled of all that they had by those rebels that entered their houses vnder a colour to séeke for the marquesse of Northamptons men Namelie the houses of those citizens that were fled were spoiled line 60 and ransacked most miserablie for they reputed and called them traitors and enimies to their king and countrie that thus had forsaken their houses and dwellings in time of such necessitie yet manie of the citizens bringing foorth bread beere and other vittels vnto the rebels to refresh them with somewhat calmed their furious rage and so escaped their violent hands although no small number were so fleesed as before yee haue heard that they haue liued the woorse for it all the daies of their life since that time But now the rebels hauing thus got possession of the citie chased awaie the kings people they tooke order to haue the gates kept hourelie with watch and ward of the citizens themselues thretning them with most shamefull death if they omitted the same These vnrulie persons were so farre stept into all kind of beastlie outrage that when it ramed they would kenell vp themselues in the churches abusing the place appointed for the seruice and worshipping of the almightie God in most prophane and wicked manner and neither praier nor yet threats of men or women that aduised them to modestie could take place The kings maiestie aduertised therefore that there was no waie to tame their diuelish and traitorous outrage but by force with the aduise of his councell caused a power to be put in a readinesse as well of his owne subiects as of strangers namelie lancequenets which were come to serue his maiestie against the Scots But now it was thought expedient to vse their seruice against these rebels whose power and desperate boldnesse was so farre increased that without a maine armie guided by some generall of great experience and noble conduct it would be hard and right dangerous to subdue them wherein violence and force was to be vsed sith they had shewed themselues in an extremitie of stubbornesse like buls that by baiting are to be tamed or like stifnecked stalions which with bit bridle must be managed as one saith Asper equus duris contunditur ora lupatis Heerevpon that noble chéefteine and valiant erle of Warwike latelie before appointed to haue gone against the Scots and Frenchmen into Scotland was called backe and commanded to take vpon him the conduction of this armie against the Norffolke rebels for such was the opinion then conceiued of that honorable earle for the high manhood valiant prowesse and great experience in all warlike enterprises sufficientlie tried and knowne to rest in him that either they might be vanquished and ouercome by him or by none other Capteine Ket and his rebellious armie hauing some aduertisement by rumors spred of this preparation and comming of an armie against them they were not slacke to make themselues strong and readie to abide all the hazard that fortune of warre might bring The earle of Warwike then after that his men and prouisions were readie did set forward and came vnto Cambridge where the lord marquesse of Northampton and other met his lordship Héere also diuerse citizens of Norwich came to him and falling downe vpon their knees before him besought him to be good lord vnto them and withall declared their miserable state great gréefe and sorrow which they had conceiued for the wretched destruction of their countrie beséeching him to haue pitie vpon them And if in such extremitie of things as had happened vnto their citie they had through feare or ignorance committed anie thing contrarie to their dutifull allegiance that it might please his honor to pardon them their offenses in such behalfe sith if anie thing were amisse on their parts the same came to passe sore against their wils and to their extreame greefe and sorrow The earle of Warwike told them that he knew indéed in what danger they had béene among those vnrulie ribalds and as for anie offense which they had committed he knew not for in leauing their citie sith matters were growne to such extremitie they were to be borne with but in one thing they had ouershot themselues for that in the beginning they had not sought to represse those tumults sith if they had put themselues in defense of their countrie to resist the rebels at the first such mischiefs as were now growne might
that wicked and abhominable assemblie And yet such was the excéeding greatnesse of the kings bountifull mercie and clemencie that he that was by him appointed to be a reuenger of their heinous treasons committed against his maiestie if they continued in their obstinate wilfulnesse should be also the interpretor and minister of his gratious and free pardon to so manie as would accept it Which vnlesse they now imbrased the said earle had made a solemne vow that they should neuer haue it offered to them againe but that he would persecute them till he had punished the whole multitude according vnto their iust deserts Manie that heard him hauing due consideration of their miserable estate were touched with some remorse of conscience fearing at length to tast the reuenge of such horrible crimes as they had been partakers of with others in committing the same But the more part finding themselues highlie offended with his words began to iangle as they had doone before vnto other that had béene sent to offer line 10 them pardon that he was not the kings herald but some one made out by the gentlemen in such a gaie coate patched togither of vestments and churchstuffe being sent onelie to deceiue them in offering them pardon which would prooue nought else but halters and therefore it were well doone to thrust an arrow into him or to hang him vp Although other séemed dutifullie to reuerence him and diuerse that had serued in Scotland and at Bullongne remembring that they had séene him there and knew line 20 him told and persuaded their fellowes that he was the kings herald indeed Wherevpon they became more mild and offered him no further iniurie but yet they could not be persuaded that this pardon teâ—ded to anie other end but to bring them to destruction and that in stéed of pardon there was prepared for them nought else but a barrell full of halters Such lewd speech was amongst them sauouring altogither of malicious mistrust and most line 30 wilfull treason Norreie neuerthelesse departing from thense accompanied with Ket came to another place where he made the like proclamation for the multitude was such that he could not be heard of them all in one place Heere before he had made an end of his tale there was a vile boie as some write that turned vp his bare taile to him with words as vnseemelie as his gesture was filthie with which spitefull reproch thus shewed towards the kings maiesties officer at armes one which in companie line 40 of some other that were come ouer the water to view things being greatlie offended with an harquebuse shot stroke that vngratious lad through the bodie a little aboue the reins Which when some of the rebels had séene a dozzen of their horssemen came gallopping out of the wood crieng We are betraied fréends we are betraied if you looke not about you doo you not see how our fellowes are slaine with guns before our faces What may we hope if we disarme our selues line 50 that are thus vsed being armed This herald goeth about nothing else but to bring vs within danger of some ambush that the gentlemen may kill and beate vs all downe at their pleasure Héerevpon they all shranke awaie and fled as they had béene out of their wits yet did their great capteine Robert Ket accompanie Norreie meaning as hath béene said to haue gone to the earle of Warwike himselfe to haue talked with him but as he was almost at the foot of the hill there came running after line 60 him a great multitude of the rebels crieng to him and asking him whither he went We are readie said they to take such part as you doo be it neuer so bad and if he would go anie further they would as they said suerlie follow him Norreie then perceiuing such numbers of people following them desired Ket to staie them who returning backe to them they were incontinentlie appeased and so they all returned with him backe to their campe When the earle of Warwike vnderstood that they were thus altogither set on mischéefe and neither with praier proffer of pardon threatening of punishment nor other meanes they could be reduced to quietnesse he determined to procéed against them by force And héerevpon bringing his armie vnto saint Stephans gate which the rebels stopped vp with the letting downe of the portculice he commanded those that had charge of the artillerie to plant the same against the gate and with batterie to breake it open As these things were in hand he vnderstood by Augustine Steward the maiors deputie that there was an other gate on the contrarie side of the citie called the Brasen gate which the rebels had rammed vp but yet not so but that it might be easilie broken open Herewith were the pioners called and commanded to breake open that gate also which being doone the soldiers entered by the same into the citie and slue diuerse of those rebels that stood readie to defend and resist their entrie In the meane time had the gunners also broken in sunder with their shot the portculice and néere hand the one halfe of the other gate by the which the marques of Northampton and capteine Drurie alià s Poignard that being sent from London met my lord of Warwike by the waie entered with their bands and droue backe the rebels with slaughter that were readie there to resist them Moreouer the maiors deputie caused Westwike gate to be set open at the which the earle of Warwike himselfe entring with all his armie and finding in manner no resistance came to the market place Here were taken a thréescore of the rebels the which according to the order of martiall law were incontinentlie executed according to the qualitie of their offense confessing no doubt in conscience that their punishment was proportioned to their trespasse and that in dieng the death were the same neuer so extreame dredfull they had but their desert and therefore might well saie with the poet Supplicia scelerum poenas expendimus omnes Shortlie after the carriages belonging to the armie were brought into the citie by the same gate and passing through the citie by negligence want of order giuen to them that attended on the same cariage they kept on forward till they were got out at Bishops gate towards Mousehold Whereof the rebels being aduised they came downe setting vpon the carters and other that attended on the cariages put them to flight and droue awaie the carts laden with artillerie powder and other munition bringing the same into their campe greatlie reioising thereof bicause they had no great store of such things among them but yet capteine Drurie with his band comming in good time to the rescue recouered some of the carts from the enimies not without some slaughter on either side Moreouer the enimies as yet being not fullie driuen out of the citie placed themselues in crosse stréets were readie to
shew all obedience to heathen kings shall we not willinglie and trulie be subiect to christian kings If one ought to submit himselfe line 50 by humilitie to another ought we not all by dutie to be subiect to our king If the members of our naturall bodie all follow the head shall not the members of the politicall bodie all obeie the king If good maners be content to giue place the lower to the higher shall not religion teach vs alwaie to giue place to the highest If true subiects will die gladlie in the kings seruice should not all subiects thinke it dutie to obeie the king with iust seruice But you haue not onelie disobeied like ill subiects but also taken stoutlie line 60 rule vpon you like wicked magistrates Ye haue béene called to obedience by counsell of priuat men by the aduise of the kings maiesties councell by the kings maiesties frée pardon But what counsell taketh place where sturdinesse is law and churlish answers be counted wisdome Who can persuade where treason is aboue reason and might ruleth right and it is had for lawfull whatsoeuer is lustfull and commotioners are better than commissioners and common wo is named common-wealth Haue ye not broken his lawes disobeied his councell rebelled against him And what is the common-wealth worth when the law which is indifferent for all men shall be wilfullie and spitefullie broken of head-strong men that séeke against laws to order lawes that those may take place not what consent of wise men hath appointed but what the lust of rebels hath determined What vnthriftinesse is in ill seruants wickednes in vnnaturall children sturdinesse in vnrulie subiects crueltie in fierce enimies wildnes in beastlie minds pride in disdainfull harts that floweth now in you which haue fled from housed conspiracies to incamped robberies and are better contented to suffer famine cold trauell to glut your lusts than to liue in quietnesse to saue the common-wealth and thinke more libertie in wilfulnesse than wisedome in dutifulnesse and so run headlong not to the mischiefe of other but to the destruction of your selues and vndoo by follie that ye intend by mischiefe neither séeing how to remedie that ye iudge faultie nor willing to saue your selues from miserie which stifneckednesse cannot doo but honestie of obedience must frame If authoritie would serue vnder a king the councell haue greatest authoritie if wisedome and grauitie might take place they be of most experience if knowledge of the common-wealth could helpe they must by dailie conference of matters vnderstand it best yet neither the authoritie that the kings maiestie hath giuen them nor the grauitie which you know to be in them nor the knowledge which with great trauell they haue gotten can mooue you either to kéepe you in the dutie ye ought to doo or to auoid the great disorder wherin ye be For where disobedience is thought stoutnesse and sullennes is counted manhood and stomaching is courage and prating is iudged wisedome and the eluishest is most méet to rule how can other iust authoritie be obeied or sad counsell be followed or good knowledge of matters be heard or commandements of counsellors be considered And how is the king obeied whose wisest be withstanded the disobedientest obeied the high in authoritie not weied the vnskilfullest made chiefe capteins to the noblest most hurt intended the braggingest braller to be most safe And euen as the viler parts of the bodie would contend in knowledge gouernement with the fiue wits so doo the lower parts of the common-wealth enterprise as high a matter to striue against their dutie of obedience to the councell But what talke I of disobedience so quietlie Haue not such mad rages run in your heads that forsaking and bursting the quietnesse of the common peace ye haue heinouslie and traitorouslie incamped your selues in field and there like a bile in a bodie naie like a sinke in a towne haue gathered togither all the nastie vagabonds and idle loiterers to beare armour against him whome all godlie and good subiects will liue and die withall If it be a fault when two fight togither and the kings peace broken and punishment to be sought therefore can it be but an outragious and a detestable mischiefe when so manie rebels in number malicious in mind mischiefous in enterprise fight not among themselues but against all the kings true and obedient subiects and séeke to prooue whether rebellion may beat downe honestie and wickednesse may ouercome truth or no If it be treason to speake heinouslie of the kings maiestie who is not hurt thereby and the infamie returneth to the speaker againe what kind of outragious horrible treason is it to assemble in campe an armie against him and so not onelie intend an ouerthrow to him and also to his common-wealth but also to cast him into an infamie through all outward and strange nations and persuade them that he is hated of his people whome he can not rule and that they be no better than vilans which will not with good orders be ruled What death can be deuised cruell enough for those rebels who with trouble seeke death and can not quench the thirst of their rebellion but with the bloud of true subiects and hate the kings mercifull pardon when they miserablie haue transgressed and in such an outrage of mischiefe will not by stubbornesse acknowledge themselues to haue faulted but intend to broile the common-wealth with the flame of their treason and as much as lieth in them not one-to annoie themselues but to destroie all others He line 10 that is miscontented with things that happen and bicause he cannot beare the miserie of them renteth his heare and teareth his skin mangleth his face which easeth not his sorrow but increaseth his miserie maie he not be iustlie called mad and fantasticall and woorthie whose wisedome should be suspected And what shall we saie of them who being in the common-wealth feeling a sore greeuous vnto them and easie to haue béene amended sought not the remedie but haue increased the gréefe and like frantike beasts raging against their head doo teare line 20 and deface as much as lieth in them his whole authoritie in gouernement and violentlie take to themselues that rule vpon them which he by policie hath granted vnto other And who weieng well the heauinesse of the fault maie not iustlie saie and hold them to be worse herein than any kind of brute beasts For we sée that the sheepe will obeie the shepheard and the neat be ruled by the neatheard and the horsse will know his line 30 keeper and the dog will be in aw of his maister and euerie one of them féed there and of that as his kéeper and ruler dooth appoint him goeth from thence and that as he is forbidden by his ruler And yet we haue not heard of that anie heard or companie of these haue risen against their heardman or gouernour but be alwaies
kings laws and so vilelie disobeie him flat contrarie to your bounden dutie and allegiance Ye haue not onelie spoiled the kings true subiects of their goods but also ye haue imprisoned their bodies which should be at libertie vnder the king and restreined them of their seruice which by dutie they owe the king and appaired both strength and health wherewith they liue and serue the king Is there anie line 30 honest thing more desired than libertie Ye haue shamefullie spoiled them thereof Is there anie thing more dutifull than to serue their lord and maister But as that was desired of the one part so was it hindered and stopped on your part For neither can the king be serued nor families kept nor the common-wealth looked vnto where fréedome of libertie is stopped and diligence of seruice is hindered and the helpe of strength and health abated Mens bodies ought to be frée from all mens bondage and crueltie and onelie in this realme be subiect line 40 in publike punishment to our publike gouernour and neither be touched of headlesse capteins nor holden of brainlesse rebels For the gouernement of so pretious a thing ought to belong vnto the most noble ruler and not iustlie to be in euerie mans power which is iustlie euerie liuing mans treasure For what goods be so deare to euerie man as his owne bodie is which is the true vessell of the mind to be measurablie kept of euerie man for all exercises line 50 seruices of the mind If ye may not of your owne authoritie meddle with mens goods much lesse you may of your owne authoritie take order with mens bodies For what be goods in comparison of health libertie and strength which be all setled and fastened in the bodie They that strike other doo greatlie offend and be iustlie punishable and shall they that cruellie and wrongfullie torment mens bodies with irons and imprisonments be thought not of others but of themselues honest and plaine and true dealing line 60 men What shall we say by them who in a priuat businesse will let a man to go his iourneie in the kings high waie Doo they not thinke ye plaine wrong Then in a common cause not onelie to hinder them but also to deale cruellie with them and shut them from dooing their seruice to the king and their dutie to the common-wealth is it not both disobedience crueltie and mischiefe thinke ye What an hinderance is it to haue a good garment hurt anie iewell appaired or anie estéemed thing to be decaied And séeing no earthlie thing a man hath is more pretious than his body to cause it to be cruellie tormented with irons feebled with cold weakened with ordering can it be thought anie other thing but wrong to the sufferer crueltie in the dooer great disobedience and transgression to the king How then be ye able to defend it But séeing ye so vnpitifullie vexe men cast them in prison lade them with irons pine them with famine contrarie to the rule of nature contrarie to the kings maiesties lawes contrarie to God holie ordinances hauing no matter but pretensed and fained gloses ye be not onelie disobedient to the king like rebels but withstanding the law of nature like beasts and so worthie to die like dogs except the kings maiestie without respect of your deseruing doo mercifullie grant you of his goodnesse that which you cannot escape by iustice Yet ye being not content with this as small things enterprise great matters and as though ye could not satisfie your selues if ye should leaue anie mischiefe vndoone haue sought bloud with crueltie and haue slaine of the kings true subiects manie thinking their murder to be your defense when as ye haue increased the fault of your vile rebellion with the horror of bloudshed and so haue burdened mischiefe with mischiefe whilest it come to an importable weight of mischiefe What could we doo more in the horriblest kind of faults vnto the greatest transgressours and offendors of God and men than to looke strictlie on them by death and so to rid them out of the common-wealth by seuere punishment whome ye thought vnworthie to liue among men for their dooings And those who haue not offended the king but defended his realme and by obedience of seruice sought to punish the disobedient and for safegard of euerie man put themselues vnder dutie of law those haue ye miserablie and cruellie slaine and bathed you in their bloud whose dooings ye should haue followed not to haue appaired the common-wealth both by destruction of good men and also by increase of rebels And how can that common-wealth by anie meanes indure wherin euerie man without authoritie may vnpunished slea whome he list and that in such case as those who be slaine shew themselues most noble of courage and most readie to serue the king and the common-wealth and those as doo slea be most vilanous and traitorous rebels that anie common-wealth did euer susteine For a citie and a prouince be not the faire houses and the strong walles nor the defense of anie engine but the liuing bodies of men being able in number and strength to mainteine themselues by good order of iustice to serue for all necessarie behouable vses in the common-wealth And when as mans bodie being a part of the whole common-wealth is wrongfullie touched anie way and speciallie by death then suffereth the common-wealth great iniurie and that alwaies so much the more how honester and nobler he is who is iniuriouslie murdered How was the lord Sheffeld handled among you a noble gentleman and of good seruice both fit for counsell in peace and for conduct in war considering either the grauitie of his wisedome or the authoritie of his person or his seruice to the common-wealth or the hope that all men had in him or the néed that England had of such or among manie notablie good his singular excellencie or the fauor that all men bare toward him being loued of euerie man and hated of no man Considered ye who should by dutie be the kings subiects either how ye should not haue offended the K. or after offense haue required the kings pardon or not to haue refused his goodnesse offered or at length to haue yéelded to his mercie or not to haue slaine those who came for his seruice or to haue spared those who in danger offered ransome But all these things forgotten by rage of rebellion because one madnesse cannot be without infinit vices ye slew him cruellie who offered himselfe manfullie nor would not so much as spare him for ransome who was worthie for noblenesse to haue had honour hewed him bare whome ye could not hurt armed and by slauerie slue nobilitie in deed miserablie in fashion cruellie in cause diuelishlie Oh with what cruell spite was violentlie sundred so noble a bodie from so godlie a line 10 mind Whose death must rather be reuenged than lamented whose death
men touched with plagues but also your owne house stoong with death and the plague also raised of your rising to fire your selues can ye thinke you to be anie other but mankillers of other and murtherers of your selues and the principals of the ouerthrow of so great a number as shall either by sword or punishment famine or some plague or pestilence be consumed and wasted out of the common-wealth And seeing he that decaieth the number of cottages or plowes in a towne seemeth to be an enimie to the common-wealth shall we not count him not onelie an enimie but also a murtherer of his countrie who by harebrained vnrulinesse causeth vtter ruine and pestilent destruction of so manie thousand men Grant this follie then and ouersight to be such as woorthilie ye maie count it and I shall go further in declaring of other great inconueniences which your dangerous and furious misbehauiour hath hurtfullie brought in séeing diuerse honest and true dealing men whose liuing is by their owne prouision hath come so before hand by time that they haue béene able well to liue honestlie in their houses paie beside the rents of their farmes trulie and now haue by your crueltie and abhorred insurrections lost their goods their cattell their haruest which they had gotten before and wherwith they intended to liue hereafter now be brought to this extremitie that they be neither able to liue as they were woont at home before nor to paie their accustomeable rent at their due time Whereby they be brought into trouble and vnquietnesse not onlie musing what they haue lost by you but also cursing you by whome they haue lost it and also in danger of loosing their holds at their lords hands except by pitie they shew more mercie than the right of the law line 10 will grant by iustice And what a griefe is it to an honest man to labor trulie in youth and to gaine painefullie by labour wherewith to liue honestlie in age and to haue this gotten in long time to be suddenlie caught awaie by the violence of sedition which name he ought to abhorre by it selfe although no miserie of losse followed to him thereby But what greater griefe ought seditious rebels to haue themselues who if they be not striken with punishment yet ought to line 20 pine in conscience and melt awaie with the griefe of their owne faults when they sée innocents and men of true seruice hindered and burdened with the hurt of their rebellion who in a good common-wealth should for honesties sake prosper they by these rebels onlie meanes be cast so behind the hand as they can not recouer easilie againe by their owne truth that which they haue lost by those traitors mischiefe And if vniust men ought not so to be handled at anie mans hands but onelie stand to the order of line 30 a law how much more should true and faithfull subiects who deserue praise féele no vnquietnesse nor be vexed with sedition who be obedientlie in subiection but rather séeke iust amends at false rebels hands and by law obteine that they lost by disorder and so constreine you to the vttermost to paie the recompense of wrongfull losses bicause ye were the authors of these wrongfull spoiles Then would ye soone perceiue the common-wealths hurt not when other felt it who deserued it line 40 not but when you smarted who caused it and stood not looked vpon other mens losses which ye might pitie but tormented with your owne which ye would lament Now I am past this mischiefe which ye will not hereafter denie when ye shall praise other mens foresight rather than your wicked dooings in be wailing the end of your furie in whose beginning ye now reioise What saie ye to the number of vagabonds and loitering beggers which after the ouerthrow of your campe and scattering of this seditious line 50 number will swarme in euerie corner of the realme and not onelie lie loitering vnder hedges but also stand sturdilie in cities and beg boldlie at euerie doore leauing labour which they like not and following idlenesse which they should not For euerie man is easilie and naturallie brought from labour to ease from the better to the woorse from diligence to slothfulnesse and after warres it is commonlie séene that a great number of those which went out honest returne home againe like roisters and as though line 60 they were burnt to the wars bottome they haue all their life after an vnsauorie smacke thereof smell still toward daiesleepers pursepickers highwaie-robbers quarrelmakers yea and bloudsheders too Doo we not sée commonlie in the end of warres more robbing more begging more murdering than before and those to stand in the high waie to aske their almes whome ye be affraid to saie naie vnto honestlie least they take it awaie from you violentlie and haue more cause to suspect their strength than pitie their need Is it not then dailie heard how men be not onelie pursued but vtterlie spoiled few maie ride safe by the kings highwaie except they ride strong not so much for feare of their goods which men estéeme lesse but also for danger of their life which euerie man loueth Worke is vndoone at home and loiterers linger in stréets lurke in alehouses range in highwaies valiant beggers plaie in towns and yet complaine of néed whose staffe if it be once hot in their hand or sluggishnesse bred in their bosome they will neuer be allured to labour againe contenting themselues better with idle beggerie than with honest and profitable labour And what more noisome beasts be there in a common wealth Drones in hiues sucke out the honie a small matter but yet to be looked on by good husbands Caterpillers destroie the fruit an hurtfull thing and well shifted for by a diligent ouerséer Diuerse vermine destroie corne kill pulleme engines and snares be made for them But what is a loiterer A sucker of honie a spoiler of corne a stroier of fruit a waster of monie a spoiler of vittels a sucker of bloud a breaker of orders a seeker of breakes a queller of life a basiliske of the commonwealth which by companie and sight dooth poison the whole countrie and staineth honest minds with the infection of his veneme and so draweth the commonwealth to death and destruction Such is the fruits of your labour and trauell for your pretensed commonwealth which iustice would no man should taste of but your selues that yée might trulie iudge of your owne mischéefe and fraie other by example from presuming the like When we sée a great number of flies in a yeare we naturallie iudge it like to be a great plague and hauing so great a swarming of loitering vagabonds readie to beg and brall at euerie mans doore which declare a greater infection can we not looke for a greeuouser and perillouser danger than the plague is Who can therefore otherwise déeme but this one deadlie
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
head in the yeare from which the angels sang at the birth of the Messias one thousand fiue hundred thirtie and fiue being the seauen and twentith of the reigne of that king Henrie the eight which deliuered his kingdome from all subiection to the bishop of Rome Clement the seauenth of that name Reginald Poole noblie borne yoong sonne to sir Richard Poole knight of the garter by his wife Margaret countesse of Salisburie daughter to George duke of Clarence brother to K. Edward the fourth was made deacon cardinall of the title of saint Marie in Cosmeden by pope Paule the third of that line 10 name in the yeare that the mother of God brought foorth the sonne of man 1536 being the eight and twentith yeare of king Henrie the eight This man legat of pope Iulius the third comming into England in the yeare of our Lord 1554 being the second yeare of quéene Maries reigne was after made bishop of Canturburie on the fiue and twentith of March in the yeare of Christ 1556 being the third yeare of the reigne of the said quéene Marie and died the seauentéenth daie of Nouember in the yeare of line 20 Christ 1558 being the last daie of the reigne of the said quéene Marie or rather the next daie erlie in the morning at his house at Lambeth and was honorablie conueied to Canturburie where he was buried This man was the last English cardinall that liued and inioied that title of honour in England For although the English cardinall which followeth were created after him yet I suppose that he died much before him but he liued not in England at the same time that cardinall Poole died as farre as I can line 30 lerne Wherfore I still make this cardinall Poole the last English cardinall that was liuing in England Peter Peto borne of an ancient familie and one of the order of the frier minors obseruants whome Onuphrius calleth Angliae legatus was created cardinall by Paule the fourth of that name chéefe bishop of Rome in the yeare that the word became flesh 1557 being the fift yeare of quéene Marie Besides this number of thirtie cardinals there haue been manie other to the number of ten or more line 40 before the time that pope Innocent the first of that name did weald the charge of the Romane bishoprike as Matthew Parker late bishop of Canturburie a worthie antiquarie dooth witnesse and I my selfe haue obserued besides those which Onuphrius and the said Matthew Parker in the Latine booke of the archbishops of his owne sée haue recited But bicause neither they nor I haue yet atteined to their names we must and doo omit them and yet it may be that these thrée which follow named by Onuphrius being line 50 English names were Englishmen and part of the said number of ten cardinals whose names we doo not know which thrée cardinals were Hugh Foliot Peter Mortimer and Simon Braie But bicause I cannot certeinlie gather out of Onuphrius that they were Englishmen I dare not presume so to make them though in mine owne conceit I verelie suppose that they were borne in England for in vncerteine matters I dare not set downe anie certeintie Wherefore to set end to this cardinals discourse I will knit vp this matter with one onelie note line 60 drawne out of Matthew Parkers beforenamed booke of the liues of the bishops of Canturburie which is as followeth That this number and remembrance of our cardinals is not so wonderfull as is that computation of the Romane bishops which pope Iohn the two and twentith of that name hath gathered of his predecessors For he doth recite that out of the order of saint Benet or Benedict whereof himselfe was there haue issued foure and twentie popes 183 cardinals 1464 archbishops 3502 bishops and abbats innumerable Thus concluding that of all these our English cardinals with the description of their liues I will more largelie intreat in my booke intituled the Pantogrophie of England conteining the vniuersall description of all memorable places and persons aswell temporall as spirituall I request the reader to take this in good part till that booke may come to light Thus much Francis Thin who with the whéele of George Ripleie canon of Bridlington after the order of circulation in alchimicall art and by a geometricall circle in naturall philosophie dooth end this cardinals discourse resting in the centre of Reginald Poole the last liuing cardinall in England by whose death the said Francis tooke occasion to pase about the circumference of this matter of the cardinals of this realme Of such learned men as had written and did liue in the reigne of quéene Marie there were manie of whome no small number ended their liues also during that short time of hir reigne some by fire and others in exile Iohn Rogers borne in Lancashire wrote diuerse treatises translated the bible into English with notes and published the same vnder the name of Thomas Matthew he suffred in Smithfield the fourth of Februarie in the yeare 1555. Nicholas Ridleie bishop first of Rochester and after of London suffered at Oxford in the said yeare 1555. Hugh Latimer borne in Leicestershire sometime bishop of Worcester a notable preacher and a most reuerend father suffered at the same place and in the same daie and yeare with bishop Ridleie Iohn Hooper borne in Summersetshire bishop first of Glocester and after of Worcester suffered at Glocester in the yeare of our Lord 1555. Iohn Bradford borne in Manchester a notable towne in Lancashire a sober mild and discréet learned man suffered at London the first of Iulie in the said yeare 1555. Stephan Gardiner bishop of Winchester borne in the towne of saint Edmundsburie in Suffolke of king Henrie the eights councell and in king Edwards daies committed to ward within the tower released by quéene Marie made lord chancellor and so died a stout champion in defense of the popes doctrine and a great enimie to the professours of the gospell Iohn Philpot borne in Hamshire sonne to sir Peter Philpot knight was archdeacon of Winchester ended his life by fire in the yeare aforesaid 1555 the 18 of December going then on the foure fortith yeare of his age Thomas Cranmer borne in Notinghamshire archbishop of Canturburie a worthie prelat in sundrie vertues right commendable suffered at Oxford the one and twentith of March one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and six Richard Morison knight borne in Oxfordshire wrote diuerse treatises and deceassed at Strausburge the 17 of March 1556. Iohn Poinet borne in Kent bishop of Rochester first after of Winchester deceassed likewise at Strausburgh about the tenth or eleauenth of August in the yeare of our Lord 1556. Robert Record a doctor of physicke and an excellent philosopher in arithmetike astrologie cosmographie and geometrie most skilfull he was borne in Wales descended of a good familie and finallie departed this life in the daies of quéene Marie Bartholomew Traheron descended of a worshipfull
countenance and words with hartie praiers for hir maiesties prosperous estate and preseruation which no doubt were acceptable to God as by the sequele of things it may certenlie be belieued sith his diuine maiestie hath so directed hir dooings that if euer the common-wealth of this land hath flourished it may rightlie be said that in hir most happie reigne it hath béene most flourishing in peace quietnesse and due administration of iustice mixed with mercifull clemencie so as those which cannot content themselues with the present state of things vnder hir rule no doubt they are such factious creatures as will not rest satisfied with anie kind of gouernement be it neuer so iust and commendable From the which sort of men the Lord deliuer hir roiall maiestie and all hir true and louing subiects and preserue hir in long life to all our comforts and continue hir in such happie procéedings as she hath begun to the end On mondaie the eight and twentith of Nouember about two of the clocke in the afternoone hir line 10 grace remooued againe and taking hir chariot rode from my lord Norths house alongst Barbican and entring by Criplegate into the citie kept along the wall to Bishops gate and so by blanch Chapelton vnto Marke lane At hir entring into blanch Chapleton the artillerie in the tower began to go off continuallie shooting for the space almost of halfe an houre but yet had made an end before hir maiestie was aduanced to Berkin church and so with great ioie and prease of people of whom all the streets were line 20 full as she passed declaring their inward reioisings by gesture words and countenance she entered the tower where she continued till the fift of December being mondaie on the which daie she remooued by water vnto Summerset place in the Strond where she arriued about ten of the clocke in the forenoone the same daie ¶ On thursdaie betwéene two and thrée in the morning the eight of December 1558 in the first yeare of our souereigne ladie quéene Elisabeths reigne died line 30 in the tower of London that honorable man sir Thomas Cheineie knight of the order treasuror of hir maiesties most honorable houshold warden of the cinque ports of hir highnesse priuie councell whose pulses by the report of his surgeon laboured more than thrée quarters of an houre after his death so stronglie as though life had not béene absent from the bodie By the report also of the same surgeon he had the swéetest face of death to behold for one of his yeares that euer he saw and died so quietlie and patientlie line 40 that neither his face mouth eies hands or féet were vncomelie vsed in the changing of this his life For twentie yeares before his departure he kept in his stable continuallie winter and summer twentie great horsse at the least and eight or nine geldings besides sixtéene or seuentéene geldings which were kept at grasse and had in a readinesse furniture for them all to serue in the field and no one of the same horsse or geldings but he was able and readie for anie man at armes to serue vpon Beside this he line 50 kept so bountifull a house and was so liberall and good to his men that well was that noble mans son gentlemans sonne or other that might happen to be preferred into his seruice And againe the number of his seruants to whom he gaue liueries were 205 wherof in houshold were six score besides strangers that were dailie comming and going And his seruants had no iust cause either for lacke of great wages trulie paid them euerie quarter and boordwages line 60 euerie sundaie or plentie of meat and drinke lodging on good featherbeds to liue out of order And such commoditie as might by chance fall within the iurisdiction of his office of wardenrie being a thing fit for his men he neuer turned the same to his owne vse but alwaies gaue it them Whether this realme hath not lost a worthie subiect and speciallie his men a good maister let all men iudge that knew him Before his departure out of this world he seemed to haue a great care for his men thinking least without some prouision for them they would after his death run at randon and liue disorderlie which like a noble man he preuented after this liberall sort as followeth In his last will and testament to some he gaue annuities during life and to others a whole yeares wages after his death but both to the one sort and the other he prouided that all things which he owght them might be paied and also so long as they vsed themselues like honest men and were not reteined in seruice they should haue meat drinke and lodging at his house till his sonne now lord Cheinie came to his lawfull age which was the space of thrée yeares in no lesse or worsse maner than they were woont and accustomed to haue in his life time In his last will he also remembred some of his freends as well those of nobilitie and worship as others some with one gift and some with an other desiring them to assist his executors for the performance of his last will His wit experience courtesie and valiantnesse in seruice was such as king Henrie the eight and his children to wit king Edward the sixt quéene Marie and queene Elisabeth vsed him as one of all their priuie councell and was treasuror of all their honorable housholds during his life He was brought vp in king Henrie the seuenths house was one of his henchmen So that it appeareth before he died he had serued thrée kings and two quéenes His truth was such to all these princes that he euer liued towards them Sine macula seruing in the court thrée score years And although he bare this great saile yet prouided he to paie euerie man iustlie that he owght them His bountifulnesse liberalitie and courtesie to diuerse noble men gentlemen and others attending in the court was such that they were euer glad to haue him there amongst them and his stoutnesse haltie courage was such and so well knowen to the Frenchmen as they both feared and loued him wonderfullie In the end he was so worthie a gentleman and such a necessarie member in the common-wealth as his want cannot but be lamented of all good and true English harts But the almightie must be serued when his good will and pleasure is The thirtéenth of December being tuesdaie the corps of quéene Marie was right honorablie conueied from hir manor of S. Iames vnto the abbeie of Westminster Hir picture was laid on the coffin apparelled in hir roiall robes with a crowne of gold set on the head thereof after a solemne manner In the abbeie was a rich and sumptuous hearse prepared and set vp with wax and richlie decked with penoâ—s baners and scutchions of the armes of England and France vnder which
capteine Parkinson capteine Saule master Whéeler and capteine Fisher with his band each of them with his hundred and capteine Pelham with the labourers were imbarked in the rode at Newhauen and sailed foorth towards Caen to come to the siege which the admerall of France had laid to the castell there The same daie as the counte Montgomerie had imbarked at the hauen of Diepe in an English vessell and was comming towards Newhauen there came out from Festampe thrée shallops by the appointment of the Reingraue as was said which made towards Montgomerie whose meaning when he perceiued he set vpon the strongest of the same shallops so that there followed a sharpe conflict betwixt them but in the end the victorie fell to Montgomerie the shallop being taken the capteine and maister slaine and three English vittellers rescued which the said shallops had taken Montgomerie herewith arriuing at Newhauen and bringing his prise with him was ioifullie receiued and after he had talked a while with the lord lieutenant and the councell he went aboord againe and sailed to Caen there to confer with the admerall line 10 The first of March in the morning they began to batter the castell of Caen in such wise that about foure of the clocke in the afternoone they within began to parlée but it tooke none effect and then went off the artillerie againe till night and in the morning the batterie eftsoones began And before that two tires of the said artillerie had gone off they within offered to parlee againe and finallie agréed by composition to yéeld and so on that tuesdaie by ten of the clocke the castell was surrendred into the hands of line 20 the French admerall and the marquesse Dalbeuf and other that had the place in keeping departed in safetie On wednesdaie the third of March the towne of Baieulx was also yeelded vnto the lord admerall of France and on the morrow following Faleise and afterwards S. Lo with diuerse other townes and castels yeelded likewise vnto him The tenth of March the great gallie and the foists were sent awaie from Newhauen with a canon and shot and powder vnto Hunflue where they met with monsieur line 30 de Mouie that came thither with a faire companie of horssemen and diuerse footmen French and of Englishmen capteine Tuttie with his two hundred and capteine Fisher with his hundred The canon which came from Newhauen was immediatlie planted and about ten of the clocke in the forenoone it was shot off and after it had beene six times discharged they within began to parlée and in the end they agréed to yéeld vp the castell vnto monsieur de Mouie with condition that their souldiers line 40 and men of warre might depart onelie with their rapiers and daggers leauing all the residue of their mooueables behind them And according to this capitulation capteine Lion with his hundred souldiers and capteine Nicholas with his hundred and fiftie other souldiers which were within departed and left the castell vnto monsieur de Mouie whereby his souldiers as well English as others gained greatlie by the spoile The twelfe of March proclamation was made in name of the lord lieutenant that no souldier should line 50 draw weapon to doo hurt therewith vnto anie of the French within the towne of Newhauen or limits of the same nor to molest them nor to spoile nor take anie thing violentlie awaie from anie of them nor to breake downe their houses nor to carrie awaie their timber on paine of death There was also a proclamation made in the name of the king admerall that no capteine burgesse souldier mariner or other of the French nation within the towne or without should draw anie weapon nor picke anie line 60 quarrell nor vse anie iniurious words against anie man to mooue them to wrath speciallie against the Englishmen on paine of death nor that anie burgesse or inhabitant of what qualitie or condition soeuer except capteins gentlemen and souldiers receiuing paie should beare anie weapon on the like paine The fiue and twentith of March sir Adrian Poinings knight marshall of Newhauen departed from thence and returning into England remained there still Whereas monsieur de Beauuois had by the admerall Chatillions commandement charged by publike proclamation all strangers forreners and French souldiers to depart the towne by the 23 of March last past and that all other hauing their wiues and families should depart with them within foure daies after the same proclamation to giue aid for the conseruation and keeping of the townes of Hunflue Caen Baieulx Faleise S. Lo and other places latelie brought into the obedience of the king vnder the authoritie of the prince of Conde vnder paine for making default to be taken as good prisoners of warre to those that should apprehend them Proclamation was also therevpon made in the lord lieutenants name the six and twentith of March being fridaie that it should be lawfull to the quéenes maiesties subiects and fréends to apprehend and take as their good and lawfull prisoners all such as contrarie to the former proclamation should remaine in the towne of Newhauen after fiue of the clocke after noone of the daie then next following being saturdaie those persons onelie excepted whose names had beene presented and inrolled in bils remaining with the lord lieutenants secretarie Prouided that no person seizing vpon the bodie of anie such offendor should by vertue or colour therof spoile anie of their houses meddle with their goods or mooueables without order and meane of iustice vpon paine of death On the sundaie yet being the eight and twentith of March another proclamation was made to giue respit to the said strangers forreners and French souldiers vntill foure of the clocke in the afternoone of the same daie And further there was another proclamation published this sundaie that none should seize vpon anie of those strangers forreners or French souldiers by colour of the two former proclamations vntill the lord lieutenants pleasure should more fullie be knowen therein The thirtith of March being tuesdaie proclamation was eftsoones made that whereas all forreners being not anie of the burgesses or proper inhabitants of the said towne of Newhauen nor of the garrison or armie of the Englishmen in the same towne had béene warned by seuerall proclamations to depart the towne and yet the same proclamations notwithstanding a great number made their abode still in the towne in contempt of those proclamations the lord lieutenant by this proclamation gaue full power and authoritie to the said prouost marshall of the garrison of the Englishmen in that towne to apprehend and take as good and lawfull prisoners all such forreners as well souldiers and mariners as other without exception which should be found in the towne at anie time after fiue of the clocke in the afternoone on saturdaie then next comming monsieur Beauuois and his familie
the Englishmen into the towne but that the enimies hauing planted that morning eight canons in batterie against the castell and the bulworke of the hauen caused the same to be shot off continuing the same till wednesdaie at noone being the eight and twentith of Iulie There were six other canons also planted by them in the meane space which likewise made batterie to the castell and to the townegate In this meane time also Cutbert Uaughan comptrollor departed out of this life a skilfull man of warre and no lesse circumspect than hardie both to preserue those which he had vnder his conduction and to incourage them to doo manfullie when time thereto serued Saturdaie the foure twentith of Iulie the batterie still continuing as before certeine peeces were bent also to beat and trauerse the hauen The Englishmen therefore setting fire on two windmils that stood there abandoned a trench which they kept and the Palisad capteine Poiet lieutenant of an other of the ensignes coronels of the French footmen vnder monsieur Dandelot entred with his band and tooke possession of a tower that stood at the end of the said Palisad The French yet had hot abiding there notwithstanding all the diligence and policie which they could vse to lodge there in safetie Among others capteine Richlieu maister of the campe was hurt in the shoulder with an harquebuse shot The marshall Montmorancie caused a platforme to be raised ioining to the Palisad where about euening the same daie he planted foure péeces of artillerie On sundaie the fiue and twentith of Iulie monsieur de Estrée great maister of the artillerie accompanied with the seneshall of Agenois vsed all diligence that might be to place the artillerie for batterie wherevnto also monsieur de Caillac applied himselfe by the conestables commandement who had compounded a matter in variance betwixt him and monsieur de Estrée This sundaie and mondaie following they were verie busie to bring their purpose in that behalfe to passe likewise to aduance their trench vnto the side of the breach The marshall de Burdelon abode in the trench there all sundaie and lost two of his gentlemen The marshall Montmorencie accompanied with diuerse lords knights of the order remained all mondaie in the trenches to prepare things readie for the batterie not without some danger of his person For the stones that were beaten with the bullets comming out of the towne flew verie fast about his eares of the which there was one that lent him a blow on the shoulder an other of them philipped him on the fingers and lighting also in other parts of his bodie if his armor had not defended him the better he had not escaped without further harme The same daie line 10 the prince of Conde and the duke of Montpensier came to the campe and alighting at the conestables lodging went from thence ' to the trenches to relieue the marshall Montmorencie and to supplie his roome whilest he might in the meane time go to sup with his father and so take his rest Monsieur Destrée and the other that had charge about the planting and ordering of the artillerie vsed such dilgence and were so earnestlie called vpon and incouraged by the prince of Conde continuallie remaining in line 20 the trenches that on tuesdaie in the morning the artillerie began to batter the bulworke of saint Addresses and other places This was doone not without great danger of the pioners and men of war that garded them for as the French desperatlie made their approch so they were made by English gunners to tast the bitter fruit that the canon culuerings yéelded But such was the multitude of the Frenchmen that were now assembled line 30 togither in hope to recouer that towne which being possessed by the English cut off all traffike from Rouen and Paris and so consequentlie from the chéefe parts of the whole realme of France that with their generall aid and drawing the water downe to the sea the marishes were made passable and firme ground which to men of great experience was thought a thing vnpossible The castell the walles and other defenses of the towne were battered breaches made and the trench which before the line 40 comming of the conestable was but brought to the point ouer against the bulworke of saint Addresses was now within foure daies aduanced néere hand the space of two miles vpon the causeie or breach which was all of stone without anie earth to couer them so that they were driuen to make the best shift they could with woolsacks sandbags baskets and fagots Yet all this had neuer come to passe nor could haue beene wrought without infinit slaughter and far more losse of French bloud that necessarilie line 50 should haue béene spilt if the great mortalitie of pestilence which entred the towne about the beginning of the summer throgh a malicious infection had not so greatlie increased that it â—â—ue tooke awaie dailie great numbers of men beside those that being sicke thereof escaped with life but were yet so feeble and weake that they were notable to helpe themselues nor to doo anie seruice auailable at all There died so manie dailie through the vehemencie of the infection that the stréets laie euen full of line 60 dead corpses not able to be remooued or buried by reason of the multitude that perished Herewith they were gréeuoâ—slie annoied for want of fresh vittels but chéeflie of fresh waters which the enimie by long siege had cut off And now the shot of the canon lieng within six and twentie paâ—es of the towne was so terrible as the like had not lightlie beene heard of and sundrie breaches therewith were alreadie made namelie two verie great and easie for the enimies to enter All these dangers and miseries notwithstanding the worthie earle of Warwike with his capteins and soldiors in couragious order stood at those seuerall breaches readie to defend the same if the enimies had presumed to haue giuen the assault nothing afraid of death nor bloudie wounds before which he preferred the seruice of his prince And albeit the aduenture was great yet by his owne example he incoraged other to cast awaie all dread of danger and to shew themselues bold which to a soldior in battell is a whetstone to set him on edge And surelie in this point he was warriorlike minded if a man may allow the poets words in the like sense Res magnae non absque graui discrimine fiunt In dubijs prodest generosa audacia rebus Which when the conestable perceiued he caused a trumpet to sound the blast of imparleacute e that talke might be had for the concluding of a composition betwixt both the parties This offer considering that sore contagious mortalitie wherwith the towne was most greeuouslie infected hauing so greatlie inféebled the English forces within the same was thought not vnméet to be receiued Herevpon
electus est Quod Bonifacius Cantuariensis archiepisc indignè tulit episcopis prouinciae suae cōuocatis in difficilimis quibusdam nodosis quaestionibus per Lincolniēsem episcopum compositis seriò examinauit deinde electione rescissa hunc Robertum repulit Richardum quendam de Wiz loco suo incōsulto rege substituit Next writeth Matthew Westminster that in the yeare of Christ 1233 being the seuentéenth of Henrie the third the nobilitie accused manie of the kings councellors amongst whome they placed Robertum Passelew thesaurarium Againe line 20 a little after he saith Et sic abscondit se iterum Robertus Passelew qui post Walterum Carleolensem officium thesaurarij administrauerat Of whose death Matthew Paris writeth thus Eodem quoque anno which was 1252 being the fiue and thirtith yeere of Henrie the third octauo idus Iunij obijt apud Waltham Robertus Passelew archidiaconus Lewis c whome I will here leaue although not in that place in which he should come if I had once resolued with my selfe that he had beene treasuror of England But because I had to speake line 30 of him with Peter de Riuallis I thought here in one place to set downe what I had read of them both and so to ioine them after their death which were so fast ioined in offices during their liues Hugh Pateshull treasuror of the excheker which was treasuror of the gréene wax or of the seale was also treasuror to the king in the eightéenth and ninetéenth yeare of his reigne and after made iustice of all England as Matthew Paris hath set downe in these words Rex autēfretus consilio saniori in the yere of line 40 Christ 1234 being the 18 yéere of Henrie the third Hugonem de Pateshull clericum filium videlicet Simonis de Pateshull quiquandóque habenas moderabatur totius regni iusticiarij virum fidelem honestum loco praedictorum which were Stephan Segraue chéefe iustice of England and Peter de Riuallis treasuror subrogauit Administrauerat enim idem Hugo officium scaccarij antea laudabiliter secundum quod appellatur secretum sigillum custodiendo definitam pecuniam à vicecomitibus recipiendo quare plenior fides est ei adhibita paterna fidelitate testimoniū line 50 fidei perhibente He was confirmed bishop of Couentrie in the yéere of Christ one thousand two hundred and fortie being the 24 yere of Henrie the third who hauing bin the kings tresuror before did now with great solemnitie take his leaue of the barons of the excheker with teares and they all rose vp and kissed him Of whose election in the yeare of our Lord one thousand two hundred thirtie and nine to that bishoprike thus further writeth the said Matth. touchching the moonks of Couentrie Eligerunt secundum line 60 praedictam formam dominum Hugonem de Pateshull c canonicum sancti Pauli London domini regis cancellariū in episcopum custodem animarum suarum Concerning whome I collected this note out of the register of Westminster that Philip Coleuille knight the sonne of William Coleuille the sonne of Agnes Foliot gaue to Richard abbat of Westminster all his part of the inheritance which was Robert Foliots brother to the said Agnes in Langden Morton and Chalneie witnesses Rafe bishop of Chichester chancellor and Hugh Pateshull treasuror in the ninetéenth yeare of the reigne of Henrie the third which Pateshull Matthew Westminster in the yeere of Grace 1234 calleth Summum thesaurarium Galfridus Templarius whome some will haue treasuror but by what reson I cannot conceiue as yet and therefore will not obstinatlie reiect him nor hastilie receiue him into this place of the treasuror of this man is more spoken amongst the chancellors William Hauerhull a canon of Paules church in London was made treasuror to king Henrie the third the yere of our redemption one thousand two hundred and fortie being the foure and twentith yeare of the reigne of the said Henrie in which place he continued in the eight and twentith yeare of the said Henrie the third being the yeare of our redemption 1244. He died at London in the yeare one thousand two hundred fiftie two being the six and thirtith yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the third as saith the addition to Matthew Paris fol. 1128 after which the said author fol. 1226 laied his death in the yeere of Christ 1256 being the 39 yeare of king Henrie the third such error is crept into histories by the negligence of the transcriber but I suppose the first note of his death to be the truer because the same is confirmed by Matth. West speaking in the said yeare 1252 of the death of this man for whose epitaph these folowing verses were made Hîc iacet Hauerhulle iaces protothesaurarie regis Hinc Hauerhulle gemis non paritura talem Fercula culta dabas empyrea vina pluebas A modo sit Christus cibus esca tibi I haue also read a note of one William Hauerhull which might be this man which saith that William Hauerhull the sonne of Brithmarus de Hauerhull gaue houses in Cheapeside to the abbeie of Westminster and that one Thomas de Hauerhull was the sonne and heire of William Hauerhull Richard de Barking abbat of Westminster as witnesseth the liues of the abbats was one especiall councellor to Henrie the third chéefe baron of the excheker and treasuror of England who I suppose did follow William Hauerhull For his death which happened on the thrée and twentith daie of Nouember in the thirtith yeare of king Henrie the third in the yeare of Christ 1246 after that he had béene abbat foure and twentie yéeres must needs prooue him to be treasuror before Philip Louell yea and peraduenture as is most likelie before Hugh Pateshull Yet Matthew Paris speaking of the death of Hauerhull will néeds haue Philip Louell to succéed William Hauerhull as after shall appéere This Richard de Barking was buried in Westminster church before the midle of the altar in our ladie chapell in a toome of marble which after in the time of William Colchester abbat of that place was pulled downe by frier Combe a sacrist of that house of Westminster who laied a faire plaine marble stone ouer him with this present epitaph thus inscribed Richardus Barking prior post inclytus abbas Henrici regis prudens fuit iste minister Huius erat prima laus insula rebus opima Altera laus éque Thorp census Ocham decimequ◠Tertia Mortone castrum simili ratione Et regis quarta de multis commoda charta Clementis festo mundo migrauit abisto M. Domini C. bis xl sextóque sub anno Cui detur venia parte pia virgo Maria. Philip Luuell or Louell was in this order aduanced to the office of treasuror as appeereth by these words of Matthew Paris vpon the death of Williliam Hauerhull Et cùm crederetur quòd dominus rex
and to set hir besides the cushion they themselues fell into the same snares which they had laied for others For not long after the queene by the helpe of the earle of Henauld and of sir Iohn his brother came into England with a great armie Whereof the king and the Spensers being affraied departed from London to Bristow leauing the bishop at London and made line 20 him custos of the same who requiring the keies of the gates of the citie of the maior the commoners tooke him and beheaded him as also his brother sir Richard Stapledon in Cheapside and carried his bodie to his house without Templebar there buried it in a sandhill namelie the fiftéenth of October in the yeare of our Lord one thousand thrée hundred twentie and nine But the quéene forgetting all discurtesies and reuerencing his calling commanded his corps to some more honourable buriall wherevpon line 30 the same was taken vp and brought to this citie and with great solemnitie was buried in his owne church vpon the eight and twentith of March where his epitaph by the writer thereof is set Thus after that he had béene bishop about twentie yeares he ended his daies 28 Iames Barkeleie vpon the six and twentith of March in the yeare of our Lord one thousand thrée hundred twentie and seauen before the buriall of his predecessor in his owne church was consecrated bishop line 40 of this citie He descended of the noble house of the lord Barkeleie and albeit he were reputed to be a verie godlie and a wise man yet he had no time to yéeld the triall thereof For he died in the fourth moneth after his consecration vpon the foure twentith daie of Iulie in the yeare of our Lord one thousand thrée hundred twentie and seauen and was buried in his owne church as some say but some thinke he neuer came hither at all 29 Iohn Grandesson being in Italie with pope line 50 Iohn the two twentith After the death of Iames Barkeleie the king presented him vnto the pope who accepted the presentation consecrated him bishop of this diocesse on the eight of October Anno 1327. He was borne and descended of the ancient house of the Grandessons dukes of Burgognie his father was named Gilbert the brother of Otho the great lord Grandesson Which Gilbert comming into this land was well interteined by the king and nobilitie and had a good liking of the countrie that by meanes of Henrie earle of Lancaster with whome he came line 60 into England he married ladie Sibill daughter and one of the heires to Iohn Tregos lord of the castell of Ewas néere Hereford east and by hir had issue fiue sonnes and foure daughters of which this bishop was one and was borne in the parish of Ashperton in the diocesse of Hereford He was from his childhood verie well afftected to learning and became a good scholar and professor of diuinitie of which method he wrote two books the one intituled Pontificales maiores and the other Pontificales minores He was also verie graue wise and politike and therby grew into such credit with pope Iohn the two and twentith that he was not onelie of his priuie councell but also Nuntius apostolicae sedis and in all matters of weight and importance an ambassadour for him to the emperour to the kings of Spaine of France of England and of all others the mightiest princes of christendome And being on a time sent in an ambassage to king Edward the third he did with such wisedome and grauitie behaue himselfe that the king was rauished in loue with him and did so tenderlie loue and fauour him that he neuer ceassed vntill he had procured him from the pope and then he gaue him the archdeaconrie of Notingham and bestowed great liuings on him He made him one of his priuie councell and in the end preferred him to this bishoprike After this there being some disliking betwéene pope Clement the sixt and the king he for his approoued wisedome was sent in an ambassage to the pope in the yeare of our Lord one thousand thrée hundred fortie and thrée for an intreatie of a peace and an amitie betweene them to be had and with such wisedome he did his message that he obteined his purpose and made a reconciliation After his returne home to his bishoprike he was altogither giuen in dooing some good things He builded founded the college of saint Marie Otreie and indowed the same with great and goodlie liuelihoods he was a liberall benefactor to the vicars chorall of his owne church as also to the college of Glasneie in Perrin he builded the two last arches in the west end of his church vauted the roofe of all the church and fullie performed and ended the buildings of the same and then inriched his said church with plate ornaments and great riches Also he builded a verie faire house in his sanctuarie at bishops Teington which he gaue and left full furnished unto his successors and did impropriate vnto the same the parsonage of Radwaie to the end as he setteth downe in his testament Vt haberent locum vndè caput suum reclinarent si fortè in manum regis eorum temporalia caperentur and which his halsening in the end came partlie to effect For not onelie the most part of the temporalties of this bishoprike but this new builded house and impropriation are come to be the possessions and inheritances of temporall men This bishop waxed old and féeling in himselfe a decaie of nature made his last will and testament wherein he made such large and bountious legacies to the pope emperour king queene archbishop bishops colleges churches and to sundrie persons of high estates and callings that a man would maruell considering his great and chargeable buildings works otherwise how and by what meanes he could haue atteined to such a masse of welth and riches but his wisedome and policie considered it was easie For first he sequestrateth from himselfe and out of his house the troope of manie men and horsses reteining and kéeping no more than to serue his reasonable estate his diet was frugall his receipts great his expenses no more than necessarie Moreouer he had taken and set an order with all the ecclesiasticall persons of his diocesse that at the time of their deaths they should leaue and bequeth all their goods to him or to some other in trust In pios vsus towards his chargeable buildings and so well he was beloued and his dooings liked that they all accepted this his order by meanes whereof he grew within the course of fortie yeares to infinite wealth and riches He was in all his life time a plaine man and void of all vaine glorie and pompe and preuenting that none should be vsed at his buriall commanded the same to be doone plainelie simplie and that none of his executors chapleins seruants nor none of his houshold should weare anie moorning blacke
writing praieng for reformation Which his spéeches were so effectuallie vttered and his articles so pithilie penned that both the king and the clergie did not onelie with great liking and allowance praise and commend the same but also tooke order that there should be a prouinciall councell called out of hand for a reformation Which was then promised but not performed by reason of the kings death which not long after followed But yet in the waie of good spéed it was then concluded and agréed that euerie third benefice being of the gift of anie of the prelats or of anie monasterie should from thenseforth for seauen yeares be giuen to some scholar of Oxford or Cambridge This bishop after he had liued fiue and thirtie yeares in this bishoprike died and was buried in the north wall of the queere in his owne church After whose death manie miracles were said and deuised to be doone at his toome wherevpon great pilgrimages were made by the common people to the same 34 George Neuill succéeded Edmund Lacie and was consecrated in the feast of saint Katharine in the yeare of Christ one thousand foure hundred fiftie line 10 and fiue he was of a noble parentage being the second son at Richard Neuill earle of Sarisburie he finished and ended the chapter house which his predecessor had begun And after that he had beene bishop about ten yeares he was remooued to Yorke and made archbishop there in the yeare of Christ one thousand foure hundred thrée score and fiue 35 Iohn Booth after the translation of George Neuill to Yorke was consecrated bishop vnder Thomas Burscher archbishop of Canturburie vpon line 20 the two and twentith daie of Februarie in the yeare of our Lord one thousand foure hundred three score and six He was by profession a ciuillian and a batchelor of the same he gouerned his church verie well and builded as some suppose the bishops sée in the queere But being werie of the great troubles which were in this countrie betwéene king Edward the fourth and the earle of Warwike he remooued from hense to his house of Horsleigh in Hamshire where in the twelfe yere of his bishoprike he died vpon the line 30 fift of Aprill in the yeare of our Lord one thousand foure hundred seuentie and eight and lieth buried at saint Clements in London 36 Peter Courtneie immediatlie after the death of Iohn Booth was presented to this bishoprike and consecrated by Thomas archbishop of Canturburie in Nouember in the yeare of our Lord one thousand foure hundred seuentie and seuen at saint Stephans in Westminster he was the son of sir Philip Courtnie of Powderham his mother was named Elisabeth line 40 daughter to Walter lord Hungerford He for his wisedome and good behauiour was in great fauor credit with king Henrie the seauenth by whose means he was translated from this church to Winchester in the ninth yeare of his being bishop here and in the fift yeare of his being there he died vpon the twentith daie of December in the yere one thousand foure hundred ninetie and one and lieth buried in his owne church He finished the north tower of saint Peters and gaue the clocke bell which is in the line 50 same and which beareth the name Peter 37 Richard Fox vpon the remoouing of Peter Courtneie was consecrated bishop of this church vnder Thomas archbishop of Canturburie in the yeare of our Lord one thousand foure hundred thrée score and six He was a verie wise man and in great credit and estimation with king Henrie the seuenth vnto whome he was a faithfull councellor and of his councell with whom he acquainted himselfe at Paris when he was there a student For king Henrie line 60 then erle of Richmond being at Uenice and aduertised how the nobilitie of England was bent to haue him for their king came from thense to Paris and sought vnto Charles then king of France for aid and helpe in which the earle his sutes this Fox was a speciall traueller and councellor and in the end God giuing the succes the erle obteined the crowne and hauing had due triall of the fidelitie wisedome trust of this bishop he made him lord priuie seale and kept and vsed him his aduise in all his weightie matters as well at home as abrode He being ambassador sundrie times to the kings of France and Scotland and of a verie hartie good will and loue the king made him godfather to his second son king Henrie the eight There was a kind of emulation betwéene this bishop and the earle of Surreie both of them being verie wise and of great seruice to the king and commonwealth howbeit in some diuersitie of respects the one hauing no issue to care for did deale without anie priuat affection or singular gaine and the other hauing issue was desirous to aduance his house and honor These affections did bréed some dislike betwéene them two yet the king finding a faith vnto himselfe and a commoditie to the commonwealth misliked it not if the same excéeded his measure and they more warme than commendable for their callings and estates The king then or the councell would deale betwene them for the appeasing and pacifieng of them and to them he was both friendlie louing and liberall The one he deliuered out of the tower pardoned him of his offenses restored him to his lands receiued him into speciall fauor made him of his priuie councell as also lord treasuror of England and his generall into Scotland augmented his liuelihoods The other he first made bishop to this church then remooued him to Bath and from thense vnto Durham and lastlie vnto Winchester Erasmus in his booke intituled The preacher or Ecclesiastes declareth how that the king vpon a time wanting some péece of monie was to borow the same of the commons and of the clergie And for the dealings with the clergie the matter was by commission committed to this bishop Who when they came before him vsed all the excuses that they could to shift themselues from lending of anie monie Some came verie séemelie and well apparelled and awaited vpon by their men according to their liuelihoods and these alledged that they were greatlie charged in hospitalitie and house kéeping with other charges incident to the same so that they had no monie therefore could paie none Some came poorelie and barelie apparelled and they alledged that their liuelihoods were but small and yet their charges were great and by that meanes the world was so hard with them that they had it not to spare This bishop hauing heard all these excuses vsed this dilemme To the richer sort he said Forsomuch as you are so well and séemelie apparelled and doo kéepe so great houses and haue all things necessarie about you it is a manifest argument that you haue some store about you or else you would not doo as ye doo and therefore yee must néeds lend To the other who pretended
woorsteds commmonlie called Norwich woorsted was first practised and tooke their beginning which tempest beat the corne flat vnto the ground rent vp manie great trees and shiuered them in peeces or woond them like withies At Hening more than a mile from Worsted the west doore of the church weieng more than thrée hundred pound weight was lifted off the hookes and throwne ouer the font within one yard of the chancell doore the top of the church was riuen vp and the lead as it were blowen awaie fiue webs of lead were ruffled vp togither like as they had béene clouts of linnen cloth and blowen into the field without the churchyard Also at east Russen were manie barnes blowen downe and houses vncouered This yeare Michaelmasse terme was reiourned from the vtas thereof vntill the fourth returne of the same called Mense Michaelis and from the said returne vntill the returne commonlie called Crastino animarum next insuing then reiorned from Westminster to the castell of Hertford in Hertfordshire there to begin in the said Crastino animarum and to be continued till the end of the same terme which was doone accordinglie where was plentie of good viands to be had for monie but lodging hard and scant besides the long and plashie waie that manie had vnto their hosts and then peraduenture sléepe in the chimneie corner or vpon the hard boords with a pillow vnder their heads Was not this a good amends This yeare Peter Moris frée denison hauing made an engine for that purpose conueied Thames water in pipes of lead ouer the stéeple of saint Magnus church at the north end of London bridge and so into diuerse mens houses in Thames stréet new Fish stréet and Grasse street vp vnto the northwest corner of Leaden hall the highest ground of the citie of Londâ—n where the waste of the first maine pipe ran first this yeare one thousand fiue hundred eightie and two on Christmasse éeuen which maine pipe being since at the charges of the citie brought vp into a standard there made for that purpose and diuided into foure seuerall spouts ran foure waies plentifullie seruing to the vse of the inhabitants néere adioining that will fetch the same into their houses and also clensed the chanels of the stréets north towards Bishopsgate east towards Aldgate south towards the Bridge and west towards the Stocks market No doubt a great commoditie to that part of the citie and would be farre greater if the said water were mainteined to run continuallie or at the least at euerie tide some reasonable quantitie as at the first it did but since is much aslaked thorough whose default I know not sith the engine is sufficient to conueie water plentifullie which being well considered by Barnard Randolph esquier common sergeant of the citie of London he being aliue gaue and deliuered to the companie of the fishmongers in London a round sum to be imploied toward the conducting of Thames water for the good seruice of the commonwealth in conuenient order Other legacies verie liberallie and bountifullie he gaue by his testament to be laid out in works of charitie as I haue noted more at large hereafter in due line 10 place vpon occasion of recording the daie of his death The publication of whose acts as also of diuerse others if they may mooue the rich of this world to part with some small portion of their store to the like christian vses I shall be glad and thinke my paines worth the printing otherwise I saie with one that persuading this age to walke worthie of their calling and doubting his words should be but wind concluded with this interrogatiue distichon Sed quid verba miser non proficientia per do line 20 Quid iuuat in vacuos missa loquela notos This yeare 1582 was there instituted and first founded a publike lecture or lesson in surgerie to begin to be read in the college of physicians in London in Anno 1584 the sixt daie of Maie against that time new reedified in a part of the house that doctor Linacre gaue by testament to them by Iohn Lumleie lord Lumleie and Richard Caldwell doctor in physicke to the honour of God the common profit of hir maiesties subiects and good same with line 30 increase of estimation and credit of all the surgians of this realme The reader whereof to be a doctor of physicke and of good practise and knowledge and to haue an honest stipend no lesse than those of the vniuersities erected by king Henrie the eight namelie of law diuinitie and physicke and lands assured to the said college for the maintenance of the publike lesson wherevnto such statutes be annexed as be for the great commoditie of those which shall giue and incline themselues to be diligent hearers for the obteining line 40 of knowledge in surgerie as whether he be learned or vnlearned that shall become an auditor or hearer of the lecture he may find himselfe not to repent the time so imploied First twise a wéeke thorough out the yeare to wit on wednesdaies and fridaies at ten of the clocke till eleuen shall the reader read thrée quarters of an houre in Latine and the other quarter in English wherein that shall be plainlie declared for those that vnderstand not Latine what was said in Latine And the first yeare to read Horatius Morus tables an epitome or briefe handling line 50 of all the whole art of surgerie that is of swellings or apostems wounds vlcers bonesetting and healing of bones broken termed commonlie fractions and to read Oribasius of knots and Galen of bands such workes as haue beene long hid and are scarselie now a daies among the learned knowen and yet are as the anatomies to the first enterers in surgerie and nouices in physicke but amongst the ancient writers and Grecians well line 60 knowne At the end of the yeare in winter to disseâ—t openlie in the reading place all the bodie of man especiallie the inward parts for fiue daies togither as well before as after dinner if the bodies may so last without annoie The second yeare to read Tagaultius institutions of surgerie and onelie of swellings or apostems and in the winter to dissect the trunke onelie of the bodie namelie from the head to the lowest part where the members are and to handle the muscles especiallie The third yeare to read of wounds onelie of Tagaultius and in winter to make publike dissection of the head onelie The fourth yeare to read of vlcers onlie the same author and to anatomize or dissect a leg and an arme for the knowledge of muscles sinewes arteries veines gristles ligaments and tendons The fift yeare to read the sixt booke of Paulus Aegineta and in winter to make anatomie of a skeleton therwithall to shew declare the vse of certeine instruments as Scamnum Hippocratis and other instruments for setting in of bones The sixt yeare to read Holerius of the matter
mortis habet On the seuenth of Februarie were arreigned at Westminster Iames Fenne George Haddocks Iohn Munden Iohn Nutter and Thomas Homerford all fiue were found guiltie of high treason and had iudgement to be drawne hanged bowelled and quartered and were executed at Tiborne on the twelfe daie of Februarie ¶ In this yeare 1584 euen at the prime of the yeare namelie in Aprill maister Walter Raleigh esquier a gentleman from line 20 his infancie brought vp and trained in martiall discipline both by land and sea and well inclined to all vertuous and honorable aduentures hauing built a ship and a pinesse set them to the sea furnished with all prouisions necessarie for a long viage and committed the charge of them to two gentlemen his owne seruants the one called Philip Amadis the other Arthur Barlow with direction to discouer that land which lieth betwéene Norembega and Florida in the west Indies who according to their line 30 commission made as sufficient a discouerie thereof as so short a time would permit for they returned in August next following and brought with them two sauage men of that countrie with sundrie other things that did assure their maister of the goodnesse of the soile and of great commodities that would arise to the realme of England by traffique if that the English had anie habitation and were planted to liue there Wherevpon he immediatlie prepared for a second viage which with all expedition nothing line 40 at all regarding the charges that it would amount vnto did presentlie set in hand This countrie of Norembega aforesaid and the land on this side of it sir Humfrie Gilbert brother to sir Walter Raleigh a man both valiant and well experienced in martiall affaires did attempt to discouer with intention to settle an English colonie there in the yeare 1578 hauing in his companie his two brethren Walter and Carew Raleighs Henrie Knolles George Carew William Careie line 50 Edward Dennie Henrie Nowell Miles Morgan Francis Knolles Henrie North and diuerse other gentlemen of good calling and ten sailes of all sorts of shipping well and sufficientlie furnished for such an enterprise weighed anchor in the west countrie set to the sea But God not fauoring his attempt the iourneie tooke no good successe for all his ships inforced by some occasion or mischance made their present returne againe that onelie excepted wherein his brother Walter Raleigh was capteine who being desirous to doo somewhat woorthie honor tooke line 60 his course for the west Indies but for want of vittels and other necessaries needfull in so long a viage when he had sailed as far as the Ilands of Cape De Uerde vpon the coast of Africa was inforced to set saile and returne for England In this his viage he passed manie dangerous aduentures as well by tempests as fights on the sea but lastlie he arriued safelie at Plimouth in the west countrie in Maie next following Sir Humfreie Gilbert notwithstanding this vnfortunate successe of his first attempt enterprised the said viage the second time and set to the sea with thrée ships and pinesses in the yeare 1584 in the which iourneie he lost his life but in what sort no man can witnesse For being by force of foule weather separated from his companie he was neuer heard of afterwards ¶ In this yeare and the twentith daie of Maie departed out of this life that famous father of physicke and surgerie the English Hippocrates and Galen I meane doctor Caldwell and was buried on the sixt of Iune immediatlie following at S. Benets church by Paules wharfe at the vpper end of the chancell his bodie was verie solemnelie accompanied to the church with a traine of learned and graue doctors besides others of that facultie the heralds of armes dooing him such honour at his funerall as to him of dutie apperteined Of this mans rare loue to his countrie hath béene spoken before where mention is made of the institution of a surgerie lecture perpetuallie to be continued for the common benefit of London and consequentlie of all England the like whereof is not established nor vsed in anie vniuersitie of christendome Bononie and Padua excepted and therefore the more to be esteemed Indéed the like institution was in towardnesse whiles Francis the French of that name the first liued but when he died as the court that he kept in his time was counted a vniuersitie but after his deth made an exchange thereof with another name so likewise discontinued or rather vtterlie brake off that purposed institution of a surgerie lecture at Paris so that in this point London hath a prerogatiue excelling the vniuersities This D. Caldwell in his last will and testament gaue manie great legacies to a great number of his poorest kinsfolkes as also vnto others nothing alied vnto him He gaue in his life time two hundred pounds to be lent gratis foreuer to the Clothiers in Burton whereby clothing might be mainteined the poore artificers set on worke and the poore citizens in Lichfield also benefited the corporation of the said towne being bound for the receiuing and deliuering thereof euerie fiue yeares to the yoongest and poorest occupiers He gaue great summes of monie to the poore towneships in Staffordshire where he was borne both towards the reléeuing of their priuat estate as also to the reparing of their bridges and amending of their high waies for the commoditie of all the countrie He left large sums of monie to be emploied by his executors at their discretion where charitie moued as also to the publishing of such learned bookes of physicke and surgerie with sundrie chargeable formes grauen in copper and finished in his life as he meant if he had liued to sée extant Diuerse good works in his daies he had doone and hath left order to be doone after his death which was verie mild and still not vnlike the deceasse of a babe in the cradle hauing béene assailed with no extremitie of sicknesse his ordinarie infirmitie excepted which was intermissiue that either might wring him or wearie him to make him vnpatient So that he died as sléeping hauing left behind him both credit of lerning cunning other good ornaments the very beautie of his age which was exactlie found by true computation to be threescore and fouretéene in which yeare he died as may be gathered by his counterfet so naturallie conueied into colours with his white beard the hollownesse of his cheekes the wrinkels of his browes the liuelie sight of his eies and other accessaries and all within a module the circumference whereof excéedeth not six inches if it amount to so much in exact measure as a man beholding the said representation would swer◠that it were not possible for art to draw more néere in imitation to nature So that this doctor dieng in so ripe an age was committed to holie ground where he rested in peace his cote
deliuered in the Star-chamber and after published in a booke intituled A true and summarie report of the declaration of some part of the earle of Northumberlands treasons deliuered publikelie in the court at the Starchamber by the lord Chancellor and others of hir maiesties most honorable priuie councell councell learned by hir maiesties speciall commandement togither with the examinations depositions of sundrie persons touching the maner of his most wicked and violent murther committed vpon himselfe with his owne hand in the Tower of London the 20 daie of Iune 1585. MAlice among other essentiall properties perteining to hir ouglie nature hath this one not inferior to the rest and the woorst incredulitie wherewith the commonlie possesseth the minds and affections of all those that are infected with hir so blinding the eies iudgement of the best and clearest sighted that they cannot see or perceiue the bright beames of the truth although the same be deliuered with neuer so great puritie proofe circumstance and probabilitie It is said that no truth passeth abroad vnaccompanied with hir contrarie and as they go truth is euer constreined to yeeld the precedence and preheminence to hir yokefellow falshood whose lodging is alwaies first made and prepared without a harbenger in the corrupt nature of mankind by whome she is first receiued interteined and harbored at all times wherof in our dailie experience there happen manie and dangerous demonstrations especiallie in matters of the highest moment tending to excuse or accuse the actions of the greatest personages There was of late deliuered in publike by persons of honour credit and reputation a large declaration of certeine treasons practised by the late earle of Northumberland of the maner of his vntimelie death being with his owne hand murthered in the Tower and of the causes that wrought him therevnto The particularities whereof are such and so manie as for the helpe of my memorie comming then to the Starchamber by occasion and not looking for anie such presence of the nobilitie and priuie councell as I found there at that time and not looking for anie such cause of that nature to haue béene handled there that daie I tooke notes of the seuerall matters declared by the lord chancellor maister attourneie and solicitor generall the lord chiefe baron and maister vicechamberlaine for as I remember they spake in order as they are here marshalled and therefore I place them in this sort and not according to their precedence in dignitie Upon the hearing of the treasons with their proofs and circumstances and the desperat maner of the earles destruction deliuered in that place and by persons of that qualitie I supposed no man to line 10 haue beene so void of iudgement or the vse of common reason that would haue doubted of anie one point or particle thereof vntill it was my chance falling in companie with diuerse persons at sundrie times as well about the citie of London as abroad to heare manie men report variablie and corruptlie of the maner and matter of this publike declaration possessing the minds and opinions of the people with manifest vntruths as that the earle had béene vniustlie deteined in prison without proofe or line 20 iust cause of suspicion of treason and that he had beene murthered by deuise and practise of some great enimies and not destroied by himselfe These slanderous reports haue ministred vnto me this occasion to set forth vnto thy view and consideration gentle reader this short collection of the said treasons and murther as neere vnto the truth as my notes taken may lead and permit me with the view of some of the examinations them selues concerning this cause for my better satisfaction since obteined Which I line 30 haue vndertaken for two respects the one to conuince the false and malicious impressions and constructions receiued and made of these actions by such as are in heart enimies to the happie estate of hir maiesties present gouernement the other because it may be thought necessarie for the preuenting of a further contagion like to grow by this créeping infection in the minds of such as are apt though otherwise indifferent in these and the like rumors to receiue the bad as the good and they the most in number Wherein if I haue séemed more bold than line 40 wise or intermedled my selfe in matters aboue my reach and not apperteining vnto me I craue pardon where it is to be asked and commit my selfe to thy friendlie interpretation to be made of my simple trauell and dutifull meaning herein Upon the three and twentith daie of Iune last assembled in the court of Starchamber sir Thomas Bromleie knight lord chancellor of England William lord Burleigh lord treasuror of England line 50 George earle of Shrewsburie lord marshall of England Henrie earle of Derbie Robert earle of Leicester Charles lord Howard of Effingham lord chamberlaine Henrie lord Hunsdon lord gouernor of Berwike sir Francis Knollis knight treasuror sir Iames Croft knight comptrollor of hir maiesties houshold sir Christopher Hatton knight vice-chamberlaine to the quéenes maiestie the lord chiefe iustice of hir maiesties bench the maister of the rolles and the lord chiefe baron of the excheker line 60 and others The audience verie great of knights esquiers and men of other qualitie the lord chancellor began briefelie and summarilie to declare that whereas Henrie late earle of Northumberland for diuerse notable treasons and practises by him taken in hand to the danger not onelie of hir maiesties roiall person but to the perill of the whole realme had béene long deteined in prison and looking into the guilt of his owne conscience and perceiuing by such meanes of intelligence as he by corrupting of his keepers and other like deuises had obteined that his treasons were by sundrie examinations and confessions discouered grew thereby into such a desperat estate as that therevpon he had most wickedlie destroied murthered himselfe Which being made knowen to the lords of hir maiestees priuie councell order was therevpon taken and direction giuen to the lord chiefe iustice of England the maister of the rolles and the lord chiefe baron of the eâ—cheker to examine the maner and circumstances of his death which they with all good indeuor and diligence had accordinglie performed And least through the sinister meanes of such persons as be euill affected to the present estate of hir maiesties gouernement some bad and vntrue conceipts might be had as well of the cause of the earles deteinement as of the maner of his death it was therefore thought necessarie to haue the truth thereof made knowen in that presence and then he required hir maiesties learned councell there present to deliuer at large the particularities both of the treasons and in what sort the earle had murthered himselfe Then began Iohn Popham esquier hir maiesties attourneie generall as followeth The earle of Northumberland about the time of the last rebellion in the north in
priests masse 11. b 60 Deposed by king Henrie the seuenth 1364. b 10. His faculties granted to Parsons and Campian for England 1362 b 60. Parries letters to him wherto they tended 1389. a 50. A lewd sermon and full of papisticall adulation made at his funerals 1397. b 40. c. 1398. c. vnto 1400. Deceaseth 1397. a 20. His new kalendar touched 30.40 c. Pope Honorius his legat a bawdie knaue sent into England about reformation 42. b 40. His legat to king Henrie the third 208 a 10. Mainteiner of king Iohns cause 193. b 50 Pope Hildebrand the first that made warre against the emperor 1364. a 40 Pope Innocent summoneth a generall councell 236. b 20 His request for maintenance of the warres against the Turks 164. a 20. Offereth to king Henrie the third the kingdome of Sicill 250. b 20. And hath England tributarie 177. b 20. Would not confirme archbishop Reignolds of Canturburies election and whie 169. a 60. His answere to the English ambassadors 187. a 60. b 10. His licence to king Richard the first to gather riches 120. a 60. Commandeth that the church of Lameth should be raced 154 a 30. His councell held at Cleremont 44. a 50. He findeth fauor at king Henrie the first his hands and is thankfull 44. a 50. Sendeth cardinals about a treatie of peace 391. a 30. Aided with monie by king Henrie the third against the emperor 224. b 30. Deceaseth 193. b 50. 274. a 30 Pope Iulies election a description of his qualities and how he came to the popedome 811 b 30. c. Sendeth king Henrie the eight a cap of maintenance c. Compared to Anteus his purposes and death a malcontent 830. b 10. c. Intituleth king Henrie the eight Christianissimo his daughters request a description of his properties 831. a 20.50.60 Gaue cardinall Pooles authoritie apostolike 1123. b 10. Dieth a porkish pope his monstrous blasphemie against God about a pecocke 1128. a 10. c 50. Pope Leo the tenth his creation 831. b 60. His coronation a poore prisoner on the same daie twelue moneth of his election and inthronization 832. a 10. 30. He soliciteth all the princes of christendome against the Turke 846. a 10. Receiueth two elephants for a present note 837. b 10. His craftie feare 845. b 30. His decease supposed by poison the maner and order of his death 871. a 40 c Pope Martine legateth the bishop of Winchester vnlegateth him againe 602. a 60. b 60 Pope Othobone named Adrian the fift 274. a 40 Pope Paschall his bulles vnto Anselme of Canturburie 27. b 60. Grieued bicause his authoritie is not regarded in England 37. b 20. Courteouslie receiueth the English ambassadors 31. b 20. Authoriseth Anselm to order things to his owne liking 34. a 10. His stout words to bishop Warâ—wast touching the inuestiture of churches 31. b 50. Hath the determining of the strife about bishops inuesting and consecrating 31. b 10. Writeth most courteouslie to king Henrie the first in Anselms behalfe 32. a 10 Sicke at Beneuento dieth 40. a 10 Pope Paule a Romane borne created 935 b 60 Pope Pius an ambassage to him out of England certeine notes concerning him 794. b 50.60 His bull against queen Elisabeth the effect thereof 1359 a 60. The practises of traitors to execute it b 10.20 Harts confession of the interpretation thereof 1363. a 10. His bull seditious hanged on the bishop of Londons gate 1221. a 20 c. A tresonable action 1366. b 20 Pope Sixtus Quintus successor to Gregorie the thirteenth excommunicateth princes and is by them defied 1401. a 10 Pope Urban in mislike with king William Rufus and whiâ— note 24. b 30. His legat for the crowning of erle Iohn king of Ireland 110. b 20. Whie he could not redresse the English enormities 18. b 40 Calleth a councell at Cleremont and whie 22. a 40. Giueth faculties to a frier Carmelite 455. a 60. His beneficiall pardons to such as would fight against Clement antipape note 441. a 60. b 60.442 a 40 Sendeth to Richard the second for aid against an antipape 421. a 50 Pope Wibteth aduanced by the emperor against pope Urban 24. b 20 Pope sendeth a frier minor into England to restore Henrie the thirds halfe brethren to their possessions 261 b 50. His nuncio commanded to auoid the realme sent awaie 237. a 10.30 Allowed eleuen thousand marks among them of the spiritualtie 239. b 50. Out of fauour with the lords temporall of England 211. a 10. Sendeth his legat to pacifie Henrie the third and his nobles 271. a 20 Complaineth to Henrie the third and blameth him and commandeth offendors to be curssed 214 b 20. Requireth maintenance for his warres against the emperor 210. b 60 His demands out of spirituall liuings in England 208. a 40 50 c. Lacketh monie to mainteine his estate note 208 a 40. His chapleine inhibited to leuie monie 315. b 30. Exhorteth king Edward the first to make war against France 311. a 60. His decree of peace betwixt the king of England and France 308. b 40. His request for the releasing of Iohn Balioll b 40. Intermedleth in princes matters 297. a 10.20 Deâ—â—rous of peace betweene the kings of England and France note 388. b 40. His pretended right to be iudge for the title of the realme of Scotland answered note 309. b 60.310 a 10. c. His letters the deliuerers of them hanged 392. a 20. Sendeth two bishops to the prince of Wales 383. b 50. Interdicteth Flanders 358. a 10. Taketh vpon him to bestow and deale in benefices at his pleasures note 365. a 60. b all 366. a 10. Sendeth a bull for the apprehension of Wicliffe 419. a 20. Two at diuision for the dignitie of S. Peters chaire 484. b 50. Sendeth his nuntio to Richard the second note whie 474. b 60. A disputation betwixt diuines of Oxford and Cambridge for their obedience to him 534 b 50.60 Beareth out the moonks against the king the archbishop of Canturburie 155. a 50. Offended at king Richard the firsts imprisonment 138. b 40. Into what a lamentable case he brought king Iohn and his nobles 186. b 20.30.40 His messengers to persuade the K. of England the French king to peace 146 b 10. Sendeth to take awaie the interdiction vpon conditions 181. b 20. He king Iohn reconciled 178 b 40. His decree and inhibition contemned 187. b 30. Threateneth interdiction against king Iohn and the clergie 171. b 60.172 a 10. Dismisseth two archbishops at strife and electeth a third 170. b 60. His dispensation for a marriage note 160. b 60. Giueth sentence with the moonks of Canturburie against the bishops 170. b 10.20 Interdicteth France and Normandie 160 a 60. Sendeth his nuncio to France 166 b 30. He dispenseth for an oth of allegiance broken by the duke of Yorke 659 b 60. Sendâ—â—â— Lionell bishop of Concorâ—ia to the French king 771. b 10. Poisoned with the
Montferrat note 136 a 40 50. Is deliuered to the emperor he is committed close prisoner 137 a 30. And the cause of displeasure betwixt him the duke of Austrich 136 a 20 The confession of his leud life in a chapell 126 b 10. Uanquisheth the Cipriots chaseth them out of their campe 127 b 60. His nauie setteth foorth towards the holie land 123 a 20. Returneth home out of the holie land 135 b 20 Slandered for the death of the marquesse Montferrat 30 He commeth to Uienna 50 Submitteth himselfe to the duke of Austrich 136 a 10 Discomfiteth the Saracens néere to port Iaph 134 a 30 Fell sicke at Cephas and recouereth 135 a 50. His talke with king Cancred 126 b 50 His expenses out of reason measure 126 b 30. What were the causes of grudge betwene him and the French king 126 a 30 c. He and the king of France receiued a solemne oth 123 a 40 His demands for the dowrie of his sister wife to king William 124 b 40. Arriueth at Messina 124 b 10. Blameth the court of Rome for couetousnes 123 b 50. Setteth forward to the holie land his fléet staied by contrarie winds 123 b 10 20 Taketh a castell and hangeth the owner 123 a 20. Passeth ouer into Normandie 121 a 20. Desirous of monie and of his shifts 120 b 40. Findeth his fathers treasure the order of his coronation 118 a 20 30. He and the king of France determine to go into the holie land 117 b 30. Besiegeth Chalus he is wounded despaireth of his life ordeineth his testament 155 b 30 c. His bequests and legacies his death his stature shape of bodie his disposition of mind the vices that were in him 156 all Richard the second borne 397 b 60. Counterfeited note 515 a 50. Created prince of Wales 411 a 10. Prince of Chester 492 b 40. Beginneth his reigne the Londoners commend themselues to his fauour before the death of king Edward 415 a 40 b 40. The solemne maner of his coronation note 416 a 60. c. Maried the solemnitie therat 487 a 10 50 60. c. His euill gouernement 493 a 60. The emperor agréeth with him for his ransome 139 a 10. Lands assigned vnto him 30. Order taken for leuieng of monie for his ransome 50. Leaueth Conwaie castell and betaketh himselfe to his enimies 500. b 30. His cognisance or badge 500 b 60. The parlement house aâ— dissention he absenteth himselfe for the space of fortie daies note 452 b 10 50 Loued earle de Ueere of Oxford excéedinglie 453 b 20 ¶ Sée Earle Ueere His inordinat affection towards the duke of Ireland and the earle of Suffolke 454 a 20. Retriâ—eth souldiors on all sides against the lords 457 b 60. His maner of gréeting and speaking to the lords that were banded against him 459 b 30 40 50 60.460 a 10. A report that he ment to yeeld vp Calis into the French kings hands 462 a 10. Kéepeth his Christmas in the Tower of London 462 a 50. Brought to his wits end 462 b 60. His inconstancie he is compelled to the nobles request 463 a 10 30. Ruled not but was ruled note 465 a 40. His question to his lords in the councell chamber taking vpon him the gouernment of all things he displaceth diuerse officers c. 466 b 10 40. Kept open houshold in the bishop of London his palace 474 a 10. Passeth ouer into Ireland with a mightie armie 481 b 20 Knighteth the foure Irish kings and others 481 b 30 482 a 20. Openeth his greeuances in the parlement 490 b 10. Saileth ouer into Ireland with a great armie 497 a 10. Letteth the realme to farme 496 a 60. A gard of Cheshire men about him 489 b 50. Roiallie receiued into London and his fauor recouered with gifts 479 b 50 60 479 a 10. Taketh the death of quéene Anne his wife gréeuouslie 481 a 20. Goeth ouer to Calis the interuiew betwéene him and the French king both their oths 486 a 60 b 20 40. Expenses at the interuiew betwéene him the French king 487 a 40 50. He and the duke of Glocesters priuie grudge 487 b 40. Conspireth the death of the duke of Glocester 489 a 60. He and the dukes of Lancaster and Yorke reconciled 490 a 50 He beareth saitn Edwards arms 492 b 60. Greatlie vexed in his sléepe after the execution of the erle of Arundell 392 a 20. Procureth the popes bull against the breakers of his statutes 493 a 50 His doome betwéene the dukes of Lancaster Norfolke 495 a 60. Affianced and maried to the emperors sister 439 b 50. Sumptuous in apparell he is committed to the Tower 501 b 40 60. Articles obiected against him wherby he was counted worthie to be deposed 502 a 20 c. He is persuaded to resigne the crowne to the duke 503 a 50. A copie of the said voluntarie renunciation b 10 504 a 30. His resignation is confirmed 505 a 10. The publication of the same a 30. Returneth out of Ireland and landeth in Wales 499 a 60. He despaireth of his safetie stealeth awaie from his armie taketh the castell of Flint b 20.30 He and his quéene in progresse 444 b 30. Appointed to be kept in perpetuall prison 513 a 10 20. He and his nobles at dissention 458 a 30. Goeth with an armie against the Scots 447 a 30 Burneth Edenburgh castell b 10. Returneth out of Ireland his dealing against the Wickleuists and their fauourers 482 a 20 40 b 30.483 a 50 c. Remooueth to saint Albans to sée execution doone vpon the rebels 437 a 20 Calleth in his letters of infranchising granted vnto the bondmen 437 a 10. Calleth in all such letters of manumission as the abbat of saint Albans had granted vnto his bondmen 438 a 10. He and the duke of Lancaster accorded 446 b 60. Maketh an agréement betweene the duke of Lancaster and the earle of Northumberland 439 b 20 Depriued he deliuereth to king Henrie the fourth all the goods that he hath his death personage fortune 507 b 50 60. His noble housekéeping and excesse in apparell the state of the relme in his time 508 a 10 20. The commons request against him 513 b 30 His desperat manhood in prison he is murthered he is brought to the Tower he is buried at Langlie forren princes abhor to heare of the shamefull murthering of him how the Gascoignes tooke his death 515 all The sundrie reports of his death 516 b 50 60. Reported to be aliue againe 525 a 60 b 10.520 a 10 533 a 60.522 b 20. And what harme it bred 525 a 60 Richard the third described the maner of his natiuitie his qualities 712 a 60 b 10. Dispraised 737 b 60. Beginneth his vsurped reigne 732 a 20 b 20. He createth seuentéene knights of the Bath what péeres and estates were attendant on him at his coronation the solemne ceremonies vsed thereat his wife quéene Anne and hir traine 733 all Practiseth the murthering of his
a synod holden at Paules 271 a 60 Suspicion in a prince how mischiefous 738 a 30. Sometimes good and aduantageable 1087 a 50 Cause of apprehension and execution note 259 b 60.260 a 10. Of Henrie the fourth grounded vpon a guiltie conscience note 520 b 10. That he had in his sonne prince Henrie 539 a 10. ¶ Sée Enuie and Mistrust Sutors what shifts they made to be heard 799 b 30 Swanescombe in Kent where the Kentishmen met against duke William 2 a 10 Sward ¶ Sée Martine Sweine king of Denmarke maried earle Goodwins widow 6 b 20 Reported to intend an inuasion of England 14 a 40. Sendeth his sonnes into England for recouerie of his right 6 b 50 Sweting sickenesse 794 a 60 The maner thereof 765 b 60 And the remedie therefore 764. a 10. Speedie and deadlie 844. a 50. Whereof died both mariners and others 906 a 60. b 10. And remedie against it 1066 a 60. b 20 Synod called by the archbishop of Canturburie 256. a 30. Held by Anselme present therat Henrie the fourth with earles and barons 34 b 10. At Dunstable 182. a 40. At Lambeth 280. b 30. At London 95. b 50.58 b 40.224 a 40.11 b 60. At Northampton 271. a 60. At Oxford 203 b 40. At Reading 280. a 10. Of bishops held at Westminster 30. a 60. At Winchester and what was there decreed 8. b 60. At Windsore about the archbishops primasie 9. a 10. b 10. At Yorke by the archbishop of Canturburie 148. a 10. ¶ See Assemblie and Councell T. TAilors their malapertnesse at the election of an alderman 623. a 40. They and the Goldsmiths of London togither by the eares 274. a 50. They had six kings of England brethren of their companie 790. b 60 Talbot William defendeth Hereford in Wales 48. b 60 Talbot knight with his six score archers 770 b 30. Talbot lord saileth into France 608. b 60.609 a 10. A valiant capteine 597. b 10. Ransomed by exchange 606 b 30. Created erle of Shrewesburie 623. b 10. ¶ See Erle Tallage of an eight thousand marks leuied vpon the Iews 25â— a 10 Tame lord of Tame his gentle hart to the ladie Elisabeth 1156 a 10.20.50 Tartas besieged 619. b 60 Tax or tribute leuied on the coÌ„mons by duke William 8. b 50 Leuied throughout the relme 144. a 20. Of fiue shillings of euerie plough land 155. a 60 Leuied of the thirteenth part of euerie mans goods 170. b 40. Leuied of an hundred thousand pounds 174. b 60. Taxes and subsidies raised in duke Williams time 5. b 10. Greeuous of D. William vpon the English 8. a 30. ¶ See Lone Subsidie and Toll Teemen toll or Theyme toll ¶ See Subsidie Teeth men borne with fewer than in times past 379. b 50. Tempests that did much hurt 473. a. 20.204 b 20.480 b 50.60.793 a 60. b 10. Grislie and hideous 166. a 60. The like neuer seene procuring peace 393 b 60. That made great waste 395. a 40. That stroke manie high biuldings 252. a a 50 Woonderfull 164 a 40. Most terrible with a stinke 19. a 60. Of wind and raine veriâ— hideous 60. a 10. That did exceeding much hurt note 254. a 30. Uerie sore that lasted sixteene houres 239. a 30. Boisterous vpon the seas 1136. b 30.40 That scattered Richard the first his ships sailing into the holie land 127. a 60.423 a 60. c. Generall 424. a 20. By sea and land dooing harme in most shires of England 1222 b 10. c. 1223.1224 a 10 c. Great on Easter daie in the morning 282 b 30 Sore of lightening and thunder c. 82. a 60. b 10.46 a 20.231 a 10. Of raine and thunder with an eclipse note 372 a 30. Few the like note 244 b 20. Uerie woonderfull note 1142. a 30. That did much hurt 1185 a 10.20 In December 260. b 30. At Chelmesford 1208. b 30. Great in Leicester towne note 1198. b 40. Strange at London 211. b 40. By lightening and thunder with sore hurt doone 1205. b 10. In Northfolke strange vehement and hurtfull note 1348. b 20. In Richmondshire 1270. a 20. In Suffolke that did much hurt note 1270 b 40. ¶ See Wind. Temple gatehouse newlie builded 918. a 10. Templers lands belonging to them 33â— a 40. Three knights of this order in the French kings displeasure 68 b 60. ¶ See Knights Temptation great with large offers 747. b 10. Preuaileth euen to violent death noâ—e 1092. b 10.30.40 ¶ See Murther Tenants rebell against their landlord the erle of Winchester note 240. b 10 Tenths leuied for Henrie the seconds behoofe 111 b 60. Three granted 402. a 60. Of spirituall mens liuings for the space of three yeares 405. a 20. For three yeares space granted of the clergie vnto Henrie the third 248 a 40. Granted vnto king Henrie by the cleargie 213. a 10. Of the spiritualtie granted to the pope 211. a 10. Of all the mooueables in England Wales and Ireland required by the pope 210. b 60. Of â—clesiasticall liuings granted to Edward the second by the pope 325. a 50. Demanded of the cleargie by Henrie the third 246. b 40. To the pope withstood by the earle of Chester 211. a 50. They and first frutes restored to the crowne 1180. b 10. ¶ See Subsidie Terme kept at Hereford castell 1206. a 40.1348 b 40. Begun at Oxford and adiorned to Westminster 844. b 60. Adiourned 1260. a 10. Adiorned bicause of the plague 1211 b 60 Termes foure yearlie kept by whome instituted 8. a 50 Terrouan woone by force by the English 374. b 60 Terwin besieged 817 b 20. By the English Henrie the eight being present 821. all Sore beaten with the English ordinance 819 a 50. Yeelded vp to Henrie the eight the citizens sworne vnto him it is burnt and spoiled 822 b 10.40.50 Testament new translated into English 913. b 60. ¶ See Gospell Teukesburie field 687 b 60. Teuther with others taken and beheaded 660. a 30. ¶ See Mariage Thames frosen ouer 1208. a 60 Exceedinglie note 274. a 60.263 b 60.58 a 60. And not passable 942. b 20. Ships and vessels could not come vp the riuer 612. a 60 Rose with an high tide 220 a 30. Swolne with high spring tides c note 26. b 10. So high that Westminster hall was on a floud 1271. b 50 Ouerfloweth and dooth much hurt 274. b 10. Drowneth all the countrie for the space of six miles about Lambeth 231. a 10. Passable from London bridge to the Tower it was so shallow 38. a 40.50 The water thereof conueied ouer saint Magnus steeple 1348 b 50. ¶ See Tides Thankfulnes for old seruice 203 a 40. Of H. the eight to his good militarie seruitors 829. b 50. Of queene Elisabeth vnto hir subiects c note 1566. b 40 c. Theater erected for the duke of Alanson to stand vpon and shew himselfe to the people 1334 a 50 Theefe that robbed pilgrims taken and hanged 123 a 20. ¶ See Murtherer Osulfe Theeues and robbers
houshold chapleine in armes against the king 17. a 60. Founder of vniuersitie colledge in Oxford 13. a 60. Besieged at Durham forced to yeeld and exiled 18. a 10. Restored and dieth for sorrow and whie 18. a 30 William earle of Ew renounceth Robert and becommeth king William Rufus man 22. a 10 Willoughbie lord ambassador into Denmarke his oration in Latine to the king inuesteth the king into the order of the gâ—rter returneth and arriueth in England 13 48. a 20 c. Willoughbie knight found frozen to death in his ship note 1083. a 60. Willoughbie capteine honourablie buried 1428. a 60 Wincâ—ester an erls sonne bishop there 42. a 60. ¶ See Bishop Wind monstrous and big and dooing much harme 170 b 50. Full of annoiance 914. b 30. 245. a 60 1310. b 30.1579 a 20 c. That troubled the skie 226 a 10. Extreme terrible 243. a 20. Big and boisterous that blew open Paules gates 1209. a 20. Tempestuous out of the south 1260. a 40. That ouerthrew houses 348. b 40. 220. a 60. In diuerse places of England note 19. b 10. Continuing six or seuen daies 395 b 40. For three moneths space hindering the spring 250. a 50. Prognosticating trouble 861. a 10. Upon the seas 1211. a 50 Windsore castell repared 392. a 50. And of the chamber there built called the round table 366 a 20 Windsore lord ¶ See Iusts triumphant Wine prised at a rate 161. a 20. Sold for thirteene shillings foure pense the tun 455. a 10 Winter sharpe following a drie summer 1210. a 60. With great frost 1257. b 30. An enimie to warlike enterprises 7. a 30. Extreame note 38. a 50. More than ordinarie 163. a 50. Neuer the like 166. a 60 That killed all kind of small foules 534. a 10. With a deth 892. b 30 Winter sir William knight and viceadmerall saileth towards Sotland 1187. a 10. Wisedome of Richard the first in making his answer 138 b 40 Witch hanged at Feuershom wherein note the indirect course of iustice 1560. a 10. Of one that allured the Dolphin of France to take vpon him the title of K. of France 602. a 20 Witchcraft punished with famine 203. b 60.204 a 10 Wood knighted ¶ See Maior of Norwich Woodstocke manour by whome builded 45. b 30 Wooduile lord aideth the duke of Britaine without Henrie the seauenths consents 768. a 40. Slaine 768. b 40 Wooll sold dog chepe by the stone 476. b 50. Sessed at a certeine price and what for the transporting out of the realme 365 a 40. Transporting ouer sea an act against it 353 a 60. What K. Edward the third might spend a daie there by that which was transported 383. b 10 Granted in subsidie by the merchants 440 a 20. ¶ Sée Subsidie Staple Wolâ—en cloth of two shillings the â—rode yard 789 b 40 Waites wiâ—e a notable harlot 〈◊〉 shamefull end 937 b 30 c. Wolâ—eâ—â— described 829 b 60.830 a â—â— Made bishop of Durâ—am 〈◊〉 demandeth a great subsidie his obstinat answer to the motion of the commons 877 a 50 60 b 10. Taketh it in scorne to be called brother by the archbishop 848 a 10. Reprooued by Henrie the eight dissolueth the archbishop of Canturburie his conuocation 878 a 20.40 His princelie pâ—rt at a banket and other recreations note 848 b 50 60. He will haue euerie man sworne what he is woorth 874 b 60 Deuiseth 〈◊〉 destruction of the duke of Buckingham 862 b 50. Imboldeneth Kneâ—â—t against him b 60. Accuseth him to Henrie the eight 863 b 10 20. What forren chronicâ—ers report of him 886 b 30. Altereth the state of Henrie the eight his household 892 b 40. Erecteth twâ— new colleges he excuseth himselfe touching the streiâ—â— commission for the tax 891 a 10 40 60. His authoritie impugned 884 a 10. Offended at a plaie and punisheth the author and actors of the same â—94 a 50. Goeth ambassador into France his pompe the maner of his receiuing by the French king 897 b 10 20 40 Suspected to be against Henrie the eight his mariage with quéene Kathâ—rine his brothers wife 906 b 30. Articles exhibited against him 911 b 20. At his manor of Câ—wood kéepeth a good house was to be arrested of treason prognostications of his fall arrested taketh the action in good part 915 a 10 30 b 50 60 His commissions to take vp monie by anticipation 882 a 50. His ambitious humor the ordering of the two kings of England and Spaine their interuiew committed to him 853 a 20 c. b 10 20 c. 854 all 855 a 10 c. His great pompe put in great trust by the king of England and France 858 a 20 30. His liberalitie by vertue forsooth of his spirituall power 872 b 50. He hateth the duke of Buckingham causeth the earle of Kildare to be committed to ward 855 b 20 30 c. His crueltie 894 b 30. His excessiue pride 845 a 60 b 10 847 b 50. A caueat giuen him by a libell set vp in London he cannot abide the citizens 895 a 30 40 50. His pompe when he receiued the emperor Charles at Douer his pride at high masse 873 a 50 b 40 Returneth out of France 898 a 60. Is sent ouer to Calis the emperor receiueth him carrieth the great seale with him and there sealeth writs and patents 870 a 40 b 10 20 40. Maketh means to be elected pope 871 b 10. Singeth masse before the two kings of England France 861 a 20. Desireth to sée the commission of the arrest committed to the custodie of certeine gentlemen sickneth sitting at the table falleth into a flux that cost him his life 916 a 20. In displesure with Henrie the eight articles exhibited against him sued in a premunire loth to part from the great seale but yet discharged calleth all his officers to accounts goeth to Asher and hath his plentie turned into penurie condemned in a premunire 909 a 10 20 30 40 60 b 30 50. Archbishop of Yorke cardinall chancellor of England his cardinals hat receiued by Kentish gentlemen with great solemnitie iustice executed by him vpon offendors he erecteth new courts by Henrie the eights commission 838 b 50 60. He taketh vpon him to determin causes diuerse péeres offended at him he hindereth the duke of Suffolks hope an enimie to peace 839 a 50 60 b 10. His aduise to the maior of London at Ill Maie daies riot 841 b 30 40. Licenced to repaire into Yorkeshire his college lands seized vpon to the behoofe of Henrie the eight 913 b 10. Remooue â—o Richmond prepareth for his iourneie into the North 914 a 60 b 10. Auoucheth that he cannot liue ascribeth his fall to the iust iudgement of God the complet historie of his behauiors life and death 917 918 919 920 921 922 Wolstan bishop of Worcester and others resist the erle of Hereford rebelling 11 a 50. Refuseth a place of safegard against the Normans 17 a 60 b 10. Like to haue béene deposed for his
iudgement of the appeale Froissard The French king sent to defie the king of England Polydor. A parlement assembled Thrée fiftéens and thrée tenths granted Fabian Froissard Sir Nicholas Louaigne taken The 〈◊〉 of Pontâ—â—â—â— taken by tâ—e French 〈◊〉 The prince 〈◊〉 Wales disâ—â—sed with sicknesse The citie of Cahors â—â—uolteth Succors 〈◊〉 into Gascoigne Burdille â—â—sieged Sir Hugh Caluerlie Sir Iohn Chandois Burdille woonâ— Sir Robert Knols Bâ— Gerard. Aquitaine full of warre The duke of Bauier The duke of Burbons mother taken The French king prepareth a nauie The duke of Lancaster seÌ„t into France with an armie The duke of Lancaster fortifieth his campe The duke of Burgognie Fabian Froissard Sir Robert de Namur Caxton The earle of Warwike Froissard The queene of England departeth this life Hir thrée petitions to the king The praise of queene Philip The quéenes colledge The duke of LaÌ„caster maketh a iournie into France S. Riquier Fabian The master 〈◊〉 the crosbowes of France taken Froissard The third mortalitie Caxton Polychron The earle of Warwike departeth this life Polydor. Froissard Thom. Wâ—â—â— Sir Iohn Chandois slaine Froissard Sir Thomas Percie A dearth Hen. Marle The duches of Lancaster Fabian Polychron Anno Reg. 44. Froissard Polychron Sir Robert Knolles with an armie sent into France Truce with Scots Iac. Meir The number of men of war in this armie Froissard The suburbs of Arras burnt The towne of Roy burnt The French meÌ„ withdraw into their forâ—esses stroÌ„g townes The Englishmen before Paris Thom. Wals. Sir Simon Minsterworth Bermondsey Sir Robert Knolles borne in Cheshire Sir Robert Knolles counsell not followed Discord what commeth of it Câ—xton Froissard The citie of Limoges besieged Limoges taken by â—orce Polydor. Froissard The prince returned into England Thom. Wals. The king of Nauarrâ— câ—meth ouer â— to England Polydor. The king of Nauare câ—â—stancie suspected Froissard 1371 Anno Reg. â— Caxton A subsidie Spirituall men deposed Cardinals appointed 〈◊〉 treat of peace Polydor. The feare which the â—â—â—mies had of sir Ro. Knols Sir Berthâ—â— de Cleaquin 1372 Anno Reg. â—â— Sir Guichard Dâ—ngle made knight of the Garter Polydor. Caxton The earle of Penbroke set into Gaâ—en Froissard These foure last remembred came forâ—h of Rochell to aid the earle Froissard Yuans a Welsh gentleman Sir Edmund Rous. The prosperous successe of the French men in Poictou Towars in danger to be lost Th. Walsing 1373 Anno Reg. 47. The duke of Britaine The lord Neuill sent into Britaine Englishmen discomfited by the constable of France Townes woone by him The constable of FraÌ„ce sent into Britaine Sir Robert Knols The duke of Britaine coÌ„meth ouer into England The earle of Salisburie Polydor. The duke of Lancaster sent ouer into France with an armie Ia. Meir Froissard Noble men that went with him in that iournie They 〈◊〉 through the counâ—rie wâ—â—â—out assauling any townes Fabian The Frenchmen meant not to fight with the Englishmen Polydor. The order of the duke of Lancasters armie in marching He coÌ„meth 〈◊〉 to Burdeaux Froissard The archb of Rauenna 〈◊〉 from the pâ—pâ— Caxton Messengers sent to the pope about râ—seruations oâ— benefices Cathedrall churches CoÌ„missioners appointed to meet and commune of peace Death of the archb of Can. Simon Sudberie elected archbishop The begining of thâ— statute of Premunire Caxton 1275 Anno Reg. 49. The commissioners méet at Bruges A truce taken betwixt England FraÌ„ce Fabian Froissard Tho. Wals. An armie sent ouer into Britaine with the duke Towns woon Sir Iohn Deureux This truce was coÌ„cluded to indure from midsummer in this 1375 vnto midsummer in the yeare next insuing Tho. Walsi The duke of Britaine disappointed by the truce S. Sauiour le vicount yeelded Thom. Wals. Fabian The lord Spenser departeth this life Polydor. The earle of Penbroke deceasseth Iohn Stow. Froissard Commissioners eftsoones met to common of peace The demaÌ„ds on both parts 13â—â— Anno 〈◊〉 â— A parlemeâ—â— The lord Latimer Dame Alice Perers Sir Richaâ—â— Sturrie The request of the commons The blacâ—â— prince depaâ—teth this 〈◊〉 Polydor. He is buried at Canturburie Froissard Sir Péers de la Mere. Fabian The truce prolonged Polydor. Polydor. A riot Caxton The nobles sworne to the prince of Wales 1377 Anno Reg. 51. Froissard Comissioners seÌ„t to Bruges CoÌ„missioners sent to Montreuill The truce eftsoones prolonged Sir Hugh Caluerlie lieutenant of Calis Tho. Walsi Fabian Sir Iohn Minsterworth beheaded Thom. Wals. Thom. Walsi Iohn Wiclife The chéefest articles preached by Wiclife Wiclife his felowes mainteined by certeine lords The duke of Lancaster in danger by the Londoners The lord Percie Tho. Walsi The deceasse of K. Edward the third Fabian pag. 262 263. His issue His praise His proâ—â—â—tion of 〈◊〉 Prosperitie vnstable Iohn Sâ—ow 〈◊〉 conâ—eâ—â—â— referreth 〈◊〉 to the last yeare of king Edward the first Mines of gold siluer Pope 〈◊〉 the fift Anno Reg. â— 1377 Fabian Thom. Wals. The Londoners sent to K. Richard commending themselues to his fauour before the death of K. Edward Iohn Philpot The duke of Lancaster the LoÌ„doners submit their quarels to the kings order The maner order of the kings coronation Froissard Rie burnt by yâ— Frenchmen Tho. Wals. The Frenchmen spoile the I le of Wight Sir Hugh Tirrell Froissard Tho. Walsi Portsmouth Dartmouth Plimmouth burnt by the French Hastings burnt An ouerthrow giuen by the FreÌ„ch to the Englishmen Polydor. The duke of Lancaster the earle of Cambridge appointed protectors In Angl. prael Froissard Berwike castell woone by the Scots Berwike castell recouered by the Englishmen An ouerthrow 〈◊〉 by the 〈◊〉 to the Englishmen The siege of Mortaâ—gâ—s raised A parlemâ—â—â— Thom. Waâ—â— The citizenâ— of London appointed 〈◊〉 kéepe the â—â—â—sidie graâ—â—â— by parleâ—â—â— Sir Hugh 〈…〉 Marke castell recouered by sir Hugh Caluerlie the same daie it was lost 1â—78 Iohn Wickliffe Hen. de Knightâ—n canon abbat Leicest in annaliâ— de Rich. secundo The nauie setteth foorth and is beaten backe by tempest Exploits doone by sir Hugh Caluerlie The duke of Lancaster misliking the maners of the court getteth himselfe home to the castell of Killingworth Iohn Philpot Alderman of London setteth foorth a fléet at his own charges to recouer certeine English ships taken by the Scots Chierburg deliuered to the Englishmen Additions to Adam Merimuth The English nauie is ouermatched and ouercome by the Spanish fléet Rokesburgh burnt by the Scots Anno Reg. 2. The duke of LaÌ„caster saileth into Britaine with a great power Additions to Adam Merimuth Hall â— Shâ—â—kerlie hath Grafton Polydor. Thom. Wals. A cruell 〈◊〉 in Westminster church A parlement at Glocester The pope sendeth to the king for aid Berwike castell woone by the Scots Alexander Ramsie was onlie saued as Froissard saith Berwike castell recouered by the earle of Northumberland Sir Robert Rous a valiaÌ„t capteine 137â— The sanctuarie at Westminster confirmed by parlement A subsidie to be paid by the great men the commons go free Anno Reg. 3. A notable
Ambassadors from the French king for a perpetuall peace Froissard A proclamatiâ— that all English benefited men in Rome should return into Englaâ—â— The pope sâ—â—deth his nuâ—cio to king Richard The popes nuncio openeth to the king the FreÌ„ch kings priuie practises Nuncio Abr. Fl. out of Henrie Knighton canon of Leicester abbeie A sore bridle for the clergie The duke of Glocester his iournie into Prutzen land The duke of Glocester in great fauor with the commons Anno Reg. 15. A great death in Yorke and sundrie other places A parlement at London Abr. Fl. out of Henrie Knighton canon of Leicester abbeie The duke of Lancaster ambassador for the king right honorablie receiued into France Abr. Fl. out of Henrie Knighton canon of Leicester abbeie The flix gâ—â—ten by excessiue feeding on fruits The lord â—â—ior of Londâ—â— commended for his carefull prouision of corne from beyond the seas in the time of dearth Abr. Fl. out of Henrie Knighton canon of Leceister abbeie The cause of the scarsitie was not want of breader corne Wooll sold dogcheape 〈◊〉 the stone Prouision against scarâ—â—tie to relieâ—â— the poore O charitie of London A dolphin taken at London bridge Ambassadors sent to the French king to treat of peace Sir Robert Briquet a Frenchman of king Richard his priuie chamber The dukes of Lancaster Yorke the earls of Derbâ—e and Huntington the lord Thomas Persie the bishops of Durham and London were sent oâ—er as Froâ—ssard saith A roiall ambassage The duke of Lancaster a prince of great renowme The truce prolonged for a yeare Thom. Wals. A councell at Stamford The duke of Gelderland commeth into England The duke of Gelderland dissuadeth the king from peace with the French and Scots The Londoners refuse to lend the king a thousand pounds A great fire kindled about a litle sparke A riot by the Londoners vpon the bishop of Salisburies men Walter Romane The bishop of Salisburie maketh a greéuous coÌ„plaint of the Londoners to the king The maior shiriffes of London sent for to Windsore to the king there imprisoned The liberties of London seized A gardian appointed to gouerne the citie of London Anno Reg. 16. Sir Edward Darlingrug lord warden of London Darlingruâ— remoued 〈◊〉 Baldwine Radington made lord warden oâ— London The liberties of London 〈◊〉 part confirmed in part condemned A sweét sacrifice He was 〈◊〉 with procesâ—â—on of the bishop clergie at S. Georges churches Southwâ—â—â— Gifts preâ—â—â—â—ed to the K. by the Londoners to pâ—cifie dâ—spleasure coâ—ceiued agaiâ—â—â— them K. Richard roiallie 〈◊〉 into Lâ—â—â—don More gifts by the LoÌ„doners to the king Tho. Walsin The liberties of London ratified by king Richard Abr. Fl. out of Henrie Knighton canon of Leceister abbeie The duke of Glocester made duke of Ireland His iournie into Ireland vnluckilie staied Uéere late duke of Ireland dieth at Louaine Tho. Walâ—â— A parlement at Winchester The chancerie and kings bench kept at Yorke and froÌ„ thence remooued to LondoÌ„ Eures The I le of Man The dukes of Lancaster Glocester sent â—o FraÌ„ce to treat of a peace The French comissioners would haue Calis raced to the ground The demand of the English coÌ„missioners Order taken that the demands on either side should be set downe in writing the better to be considered of The English gentlemen mainteined by the French warres The 〈◊〉 of the Frenchmen The commissioners meet againe The king oâ— Armenie Obscure and doubtâ—ull words to be opened A truce for foure yeares betweene England and France Anno Reg. 1â— Great tempests Much hurt doone by greâ—â— flouds in Suffolke A great 〈◊〉 in Essex Uariance betweene the duke of Lancaster and the earle of Arundell The death of queene Anne The K. defaceth the house of Shene bicause the queéne died there Anno Reg. 18. A proclamation that all Irishmen shuld returne into their countrie The English pale in IrelaÌ„d almost left desolate The yearelie reuenues of Ireland in K. Edward the third his daies The duke of Lancaster saileth into Aquitaine with an armie The Gascoignes flatlie refuse to accept the duke of Lancaster for their souereigne K. Richard passeth ouer into Ireland with a mightie armie Froissard Foure Irish kings submit themselues to K. Richard A parlement holden in Ireland A parlement at Westminster king Richard being in Ireland The Wickleuists wrote against the clergie The clergie complaine to the king of the Wickleuists and their fauorers K. Richard knighteth the foure Irish kings and others Froissard K. Richard returneth out of Ireland K. Richards dealings against the fauorers of the Wickleuists Abr. Fl. out of Henrie Knighton canon of Leicester abbeie Archbishop of Canturburies visitatioÌ„ Wickleuists excommunicated A ridiculous penance * For the papists saie that the sacrificing préest is the maker of his maker namelie God Boldnesse of women in ecclesiasticall matters taâ—ed A fierie appâ—rition of diuerse likenesses A head of waâ— wrought by necromancie speaketh A fierie dragon seen in diuers places Abr. Fl. out of Thom. Walâ—â—â— in Rich. 2. pag. 341. A coniunctioÌ„ of Iupiter Saturne A schisme betwéene two popes for the dignitie of â— Peters chaâ—re The Danes 〈◊〉 the Englâ—sh merchaÌ„ts on the seas Great prises woone by the Danish pirets of the Englishmen Waltham bishop of Salisburie buried at Westminster amongst the kings Anno Reg. 19. The duke of IrelaÌ„ds corps conueied from Louaine into England and there roiallie interred Froissard The Gascoignes send vnto K. Rich. signifieng vnto him that they ought not to be diuiâ—ed from the crowne The grant of the duchie of Aquitaine to the duke of Lancaster reuoked Ambassadors sent into France to treat a marriage betwéene king Richard the French K. daughter Thom. Wals. The duke of Lancaster mâ—rieth a ladie of a meane estate whome he had kept as his concubine Wickleuists increase The earle marshall affieth the French kings daughter in the name of king Richard Anno Reg. 20. A truce for 30 yeares betwéene England and France Tho. Walsin The popes letters to K. Rich. against yâ— Wickleuists K. Richard goeth ouer to Calis The maner of the interview betweene king Richard and the French king Fabian Froissard Fabian The oth of the two kings The chapell of our ladie of peace The French K. giueth his daughter to king Richard in marriage The order of the French kings seruice at table The expenses of king Richard at this interview The mariage solemnized at Calis The maior of London and the citizens meete the K. the quéene on Blackeheath Certeine thrust to death in the prease on London bridge Iohn Stow. The quéens coronation The duke of Lancaster his bastards madâ— legitimate by parlement The iustices reuoked out of exile Brest yéelded vp to the duke of Britaine Priuie grudge betwixt the king and the duke of Glocester The talke betwixt the king and the duke of Glocester Out of a French pamphlet The earle of saint Paule his counsell to K. Richard Polydor. The dukes of Lancaster Yorke excuse
the duke of Glocester to the king A conspirâ—â—â—â— betwéene the duke of Glocester and the abbat of 〈◊〉 Albons Out of an 〈◊〉 French pamphlet belonging to Iohn Stow. Anno Reg. 1â— The purpâ—â—s of the conspirators The earle marshall discloseth the conspiraâ—ie The earle of Rutland saith R. Graâ—â—oâ— The duke of Glocester arrested Out of an old French pamphlet * For he was son to a king and vncle to a king The earle of Arundell apprehended The names of the appellants A gard of Cheshire men about the king The lords appointed to come in warlike manner to the parlemeÌ„t Polydor. The dukes of Lancaster Yorke assemble their powers to resist the kings dealings Caxton Fabian Polydor. The king and the dukes reconciled Caxton The great parlement The kings greeuanâ—â—â— opened in 〈◊〉 parlement Tho. Walâ—â—â— Iohn Busâ—â—â— William Bagot Thomas Greene. A new 〈◊〉 made within the palace of Westminster for the areignâ—ment of the lords indicted Additions to Polychron Sir Iohn Bushie speaker The archbishop of Canturburie sitting in parlement is acâ—â—sed of treason by the speaker Impudent flatterie 〈◊〉 Walsi The charters of pardoÌ„ granted to the lords made void by parlement Thom. Wals. The archb of Canturburie condemned to perpetuall banishment Six daies saith Grafton The earle of Arundell areigned The duke of LaÌ„caster high Steward of England at 〈◊〉 areignement The earle of Arundell his answers to the points of his indictmeÌ„t The earle of Arundell condemned The executioÌ„ of the earle of Arundell Ouid. The earle of Warwike arreigned of treason The parlemâ—â—â— adiourned to Shrewsburie The king kéepeth his Christmasse at Lichfield Cheshire made a priâ—â—cipalitie K. Richard prince of Chester Creation of dukes and earles K. Richard beareth saint Edward his armes The L. Reginald Cobham condemned The authoritie of both houses in parlement granted to certeine persons Thom. Wals. The K. procureth the popes buls against the breakers of his statuts Rightfull heires disherited Polydor. K. Richard his euill gouernment The duke of Hereford appealeth the duke of Norfolk of treson Thom. Wals. The duke of Surrie marshall and the duke of Aumarle constable of England The order of the procéeding in this appeale The obiection against the duke of Norfolke The duke of Norfolke his answer for himselfe The combat appointed to be doone at Couentrie The French pamphlet Iohn Stow. Fabian Anno Reg. â—â— The order of the combat The combat staied by the king The king his dome betwixt the two dukes The duke of Hereford beloued of the people The duke of Hereford is honorablie interteined with the French king Froissard Hor. lib. â—pist 1. Fabian Blanke charters The death of the duke of Lancaster Tho. Walsi The duke of Yorke misliketh the court goeth home The realme let to farme by the king Tho. Walsi New exactions The paimâ—â—â— of these 〈◊〉 Was called â— plesance as 〈◊〉 were to pleasâ—â— the K. withall but y◠〈◊〉 displeased manie that were thus constreined to paie against theiâ— willes The people confirme the oth of allegiance by writing sealed Indirect dealings Abr. Fl. out of Thom. Waâ—â— pag. 395. Abr. Fl. out of Thom. Waâ—â— pag. 395. Polydor. A iusts at Windesor The king saileth ouer into Ireland with a great armie Fabian Caxton The duke of Yorke lieutenant generall of England the king being in Ireland Hâ—n Marl. Out of a French pamphlet that belongeth to master Iohn Dec. Macmur Pioners set a worke to cut downe woods Macmur sendeth to the K. offering a parlee The earle of Glocester Anno Reg. 23. He came to Dublin the 28 of Iune as Henrie Marl. saith The duke of Aumarle In Angl. praelijs sub Rich. 2. The duke of Lancaster solicited to expell king Richard and to take vpon him the regiment The duke of Britaine a great â—riend â—o the duke of Lancaster The duke of Lancaster 〈◊〉 adherents 〈◊〉 into England Additions to Polychron Thom. Wals. â—hron Brit. Froissard â—ho â—aâ—sing The commoÌ„s â—enie â—o resist â—he duke of â—ancaster The duke of Lancaster laÌ„deth in Yorkshire Additions to Polychron The duke of 〈…〉 to the lords â—hat 〈◊〉 him The harts of the commoâ—â— wholie bent â—o the duke of Lancaster The duke of Lancaster marcheth to Bristow Scroope 〈◊〉 treasuror Bushie and Greene executed A politike â—â—dnesse Out of master Deeâ— French booke K. Richard returneth out of Ireland and landeth in Wales Thom. Wals. Additions to Polychron K. Richard in vtter despaire K. Richard stealeth awaie from his armie and taketh the castell of Flint A speciall note woorthie to be well weied Hor. lib. car 3. ode 1. The earle of Worcester leaueth the K. and fléeth to the duke Where fortune fauoureth thither the peoples fauour fléeth The duke of Lancaster comming to Chester Perkin a Lee. Out of master Dees booke Holt castell deliuered to the duke Some 〈◊〉 that the archbishop of Câ—â—â—turburie and the earle of Westmerland weÌ„t also 〈◊〉 the earle of Northumberland to Conwaie The earle of Northumberlands message to the king The king leaueth Conwaie castell and betaketh himselfe to his enimies A constant seruant The dukes behauiour to the king at their meéting The dukes demand The king and the duke iournie togither towards London K. Richard sumptuous in apparell The dukes receiuing into London The king coÌ„mitted to the tower A parlement in the kings name The king is persuaded to resigne the crowne to the duke Fabian This promise he made at Flint rather than at Conwaie as by that which goeth before it may be partlie coniectured â— Richards resignation confirmed by 〈◊〉 The demand of the archbishop of Canturburie to the commons Thom. Wals. The duke of Hereford placed in the regall throne The archbishop preached Abr. Fl. out of Fabian pag. 351. The words of the elected king Thom. Wals. The coronation proclaimed The parlemeÌ„t King Henrie the fourth proclamed T. Wats Aminâ— taâ— querela 5. K. Richard depriued Hall His personage Harding The noble house-kéeping of king Richard Excesse in apparell Ignorant prelats â—â—nenâ—is â—â—iscopus In Angl. praelijs New officers made The paâ—lemeÌ„t new suÌ„moned Record Tuâ—â—is Claiming of offices at the coronation Curtana The earle of Summerset The earle of Northumberland The I le of Man Lancaster sword The earle of Westmerland The duke of Norffolke Sir Thomas Erpingham The earle of Warwike Sir William Argentine Iuon Fitzwarren The lord Furniuall The lord Graie Great spâ—â—s The second sword The earle of Arundell The citizens of London Thomas Dâ—mocke Baldwin Freuill The lord Latimer William lâ— Uenour The barons of the cinquâ— ports Knights of the Bath The lord maior of London The earle of March enuied the K. preferment Edmund erle of Lancaster vntrulie fasned to be surnamed Crookebacke Sir Iohn Chenie speaker of the parlement dismissed and William Durward admitted Acts repealed Acts confirmed Fabian Sir Iohn Bagot discloseth secrets Henrie the fourth suspected not to be well affected towards the church before his comming to the crowne The duke of Aumarle accused The duke of Aumarle
Frenchmen in womens apparell Blacke mondaie The Frenchmen win the trench Maister Barkeleie taken prisoner The Frenchmen repelled and some of them slaine Maister Arthur Greie hurt in the shoulder A new supplie commeth to the armie the capteines names An hot alarum of an houres continuance Ordinance planted in trenches The bishop of Ualence and his companie A skirmish of two houres continuance More ordinance planted The enimies ordinance displaced A sort raiseâ— A skirmish The French repelled The new 〈◊〉 called Montpelham Another skirmish Iames Hamilton taken prisoner Prisoners taken and slaine The armie râ—mooueth from Lesterâ—ke to the red Braies A skirmish and what was doone in the same The planting 〈◊〉 the great artillerie A trench 〈◊〉 from the 〈◊〉 Great ordinance planted 〈◊〉 discharâ—â—â— A skirmish A fire in 〈◊〉 and augmented with shot of ordinance and 〈…〉 weather Capteine Uaughan Maie poles set vp in Leith on Maie daie A trench woon from the French Capteine Uaughan vieweth the enimies flankers The French repelled by the English The mils burnt by the English and the French driuen from thense Capteine Reades arme broken The earle of Argile with his armie commeÌ„th to Edenburgh The assault giuen to Leith the seauenth of Maie The horsmen appointed to gard the field The English men repelled by the policies and deuises of the French The number slaine hurt at the assault Sir George Howard and sir Richard Lée A supplie froÌ„ Barwike of foure hundred and fiftie soldiors Sir Francis Leake bringeth a supplie to the campe A skirmish bâ—â—twéene the English and French The Frenchâ—men chased Summerseâ— mount Sir Peter Carew senâ— from the court 〈…〉 wherein 〈◊〉 French 〈…〉 〈◊〉 English 〈◊〉 taken 〈◊〉 quéene Dowager 〈…〉 life 〈◊〉 French 〈…〉 to their 〈◊〉 Sir William 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 Wotton 〈◊〉 to Eâ—â—â—â—urgh Frenchmen 〈…〉 as they gathered 〈◊〉 Scattergood 〈…〉 the Frenchmen Order taken for the restreining of all signes of hostilitie The peace concluded and word sent to the French that it should be proclamed Sir Francis Leake and sir Gerueis Clifton banketted by monsieur Doisell Schardius in rebus gestis suâ— imperatore Maximiliano secundo Whie this historiographer is so large in the description of this siege of Leith The articles of the peace at the siege of Leith The end of this peace thus concluded Sée more herof in ScotlaÌ„d pag. 374. The commenâ—dation of the foresaid concluded peace T. Church-yard The quéeneâ— meaning in remoouing 〈◊〉 French out 〈◊〉 Scotland The quéenes armie reuoke out of Scotland Iohn Stow. A fall of basâ— monie making of new coines Anno Reg. 3. Additions to Lanquet The quéene furnisheth hiâ— land with armour and munition The merchaÌ„t â—â—â—lors frée sâ—hoole William Geffreie whipped A false Christ whipped till he changed his song Paules stéeple on fire by lightening The quéene 〈◊〉 gréeued with the losse of Paules stéeple prouideth means to repare it The quéenes beneuolence to excite others Ouerséers appointed to 〈◊〉 the reparing of Paules All the iles of Paules made and framed of new timber Ten thousand pounds insufficient to repare Paules as it was at the first Good orders nothing worth if they be not put in execution Fréeschoole in Bedford towne founded by William Harper maior of London elect New coines of small péeces as six pence c. Anno Reg. 4. Monstruous births in diuerse places of England France at diuision in it selfe by ciuill warres The quéenes maiesties mistrust of inconuenience and the same remedied Sir Henrie Sidneie sent ambassador into France An other ambassage in Iulie directed into France Ships of LoÌ„don Excester Falmouth spoiled by the French in Britaine the thirtith of Iulie and ninetéenth of August Letters taken from the quéens ambassadors seruants The French troubles touch most the quéene of England The chiefe causes that mooued the quéenes maiestie to send a power into France The earle of Warwike sent into Normandie with an armie The earle of Warwike â—â—ndeth at Newhauen Light horssemen Scots An oth receiâ—ed by the lord lieutenant â—nd other ofâ—â—cerâ— A skirmish betwéene the Scotishmen and them of Mondeuille A prise of winâ—s to the quantitie of two hundred tuns An alarum in 〈◊〉 towne of Newhauen Stephan Medcalfe trumpettor The earle of Warwike and the Reingraue talke togither The church of Hauteuille recouered A proclamation for good orders to be kept by the souldiors A skirmish before Harflue The Englishmen retire to Newhauen with honor Monsieur Beauuois Prises taken and brought to Newhauen A proclamation for harquebut shot An alarum vpon occasion of fier made by the papists Execution A proclamation to restreine the outrage of souldiors Prises brought to Newhauen A supplie of souldiors out of Essex arriue at Newhauen A proclamation for the assemblâ—ng of souldiors at same Addresses Sir Iohn Portinarie a Florentine and an excellent enginer Sir Iohn More bringeth a supplie of soldiors to Newhauen out of Deuonshire A present sent by the Reingraue to the earle of Warwike Edward Dudleie The castell of Tankeruille woone by the Englishmen A skirmish 〈◊〉 Harflue The French 〈◊〉 beaten 〈◊〉 Harflue Monsieur Beauuois 〈◊〉 Antwisell hurt A proclamation for obserâ—ing of orders The death of the lord Greie of Wilton A hoie recouered which the French had taken Certeine apprehended for conspiracie A great tempest in Leicester An alarum giuen to Mondeuille An alarum giuen to Harflue The castell of Tankeruille deliuered to the Reingraue Tremaine Francis Clerke Frenchman Prises taken by him of about 50000 crownes value Capteine Emerie taken by the Scotish horsmen A proclamation for the obseruing of orders A prise brought to Newhauen Thrée other prises of sackes bastards c. A souldier executed for fighting contrarie to the orders in that case giuen Thrée other pardoned The admerall of France summoneth Hunflue The great gallie of Hunflue taken The French beholden to the English Noble men sent from the admerall of France to the earle of Warwike Sir Nicholas Throckmorton arriueth at Newhauen Caen castell besieged The marquesse Dalbeuf brother to the duke of Guise Aid sent to the siege of Caeâ— The counte 〈…〉 a French 〈◊〉 MoÌ„tgomerie â—â—th to Caen to speake with 〈◊〉 admerall The castell of Caen batteâ—â—â— It is rendred to the admerall Baieulx Faleise and S. Lo yéelded to the admerall The canon 〈◊〉 to the â—â—stell of â—â—ndue 〈◊〉 yéelded A proclamaâ—â—on vpon 〈◊〉 of death A proclamaâ—â—â—n in the FreÌ„ch kings 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Adrian Pâ—â—â—ings 〈◊〉 French appointed to depart out of Newhauen Proclamation for the lawfull taking of prisoners Another proclamation in the behalfe of strangers Another proclamation for the lawfull apprehending of prisoners Exceptions against the foresaid proclamation The Reingraue with his horssemen Execution on Easter euen A proclamation to be packing out of Newhauen Garter king of armes bringeth the garter to the lord lieutenant A proclamation for auoiding Ministers excepted Places forbidden by proclamation to be resorted vnto Execution for pilfering A proclamation for the auoiding of the French out of Newhauen
The lord lieutenants procéeding to be gathered by his proclamations The Englishmen for their owne suâ—rtiâ— were forced to double their watch nightly The Reingraue with his forces An alarum giuen to the new fort by the Reingraue The hardie onset of the Englishmen made vpon their aduersaries The Almaâ—â— put to flight Another skirmish The Frenchmen driuen to retire Capteine Horseies valiant Another skirmish The number which the French lost in tâ—is skirmish Bassompéere Capteine Gilbert and capteine Pelham hurt Edward Dudleie A new supplie 〈◊〉 Berwike souldiers Capteine Randoll appointed knight marshall Sir Thomas Fâ—nch Sir Thomas Finch droâ—ned Edward Randoll prouost marshall A supplie of souldiers arriue at Newhauen Sir Francis Knolles arriuall Execution of souldiors for drawing vpon their capteins A proclamation forbidding resort of souldiors to Newhauen without licence A long skirmish without anie great hurt Canons placed to beate the towne Six hundred ouâ— of Northfolke and thrée hundred out of Suffolke Capteine Sanders hurt and dieth Ordinance planted and discharged in great numbers The ordinance in the stéeple dismounted William Robinson killed William Bromfield hurt A new supplie of Wiltshire and Glocestershire men The galeasse burnt by casuâ—ltie The conestable of France commeth to the siege The conestable summoneth the towne Sir Hugh Paulets answer to the conâ—stable Capteine Monines Capteine Leighton The castell battered Cutbert Uaughan departeth this life his woorthie praise Windmils set on fire Richlieu maâ—â—ster of the campe hurt Monsieur de Estrée Monsieur de Caâ—lac The marshall Montmorencie The prince of Conde and the duke of Montpensier The bulworke of saint Addresses battered Thus we sée 〈◊〉 in opinion vnpossible by industrie possible The great 〈◊〉 of pestilence in Newhauen Additions to Lanquet The high valiancie of the 〈◊〉 of Warwike Capteine Pelham went foorth to talke with the commissioners The commissioners appointed to talke with the conestable Additions to Lanquet The earle of Warwike hurt The conestable tooke vpon him to be chiefe in authoritie on the French part Additions to Lanquet The earle of Warwike commended The French king commeth to the campe before Newhauen Iohn Stow. Maister Edward Randoll full of pitie and commiseration Chiefe personages that died of the plague at Newhauen Diuerse of name by canon shot c. slaine Iohn Stow. Pestilence transported from Newhauen to London One hundred and eight parishes in London besides eleuen in the suburbs Tempest at London by lightning and thunder King Philipâ— proclamation at Bruxels Thréefold plague to the poore citizens 〈◊〉 London An earthquake in diuerse places 〈◊〉 England No maiors feast kept at the Guildhall Anno Reg. 6. Lightning thunder in December A monstrous fish driuen to shore Terme kept at Hertford Rich. Grafton A peace betweene England and France The noble descent of the lord of Hunnesdon The plague in Germanie whereof three hundred thousand died Watch on S. Peters night Abraham Hartwell in regina literata The quéenes progresse thorough Cambridge A. F. Tho. Newtoâ— Duo stimuli quibus mouebatur regia maiestat 〈◊〉 in Academiâ—orum coeâ—u nonâ—ihil eloqueretur Regia maiestas pollicetur se aliquod monumentum in academia relicturam Si non ante saltem post mortem profitetur se prestituram quod pollicetur Duterier and Belman for the daie Great flouds in the Thames Ex I. S. pa. 1123 Creation of a baron namelie sir Robert Dudleie baroÌ„ of Denbigh The statelie attendance aâ— this creation The executioÌ„ of the ceremonies orders at this creatioÌ„ Creation of an earle and namelie the earle of Lacester The quéene hir selfe girteth the sword and girdle about the earles necke The officers fées fiftéene pounds at this creation Ex Schardio Ferdinand foretelleth the verie vttermost daie of his own death Lord let me know mine end and the number of daies that I may be â—â—â—tified how long I haue to liue The goodlie 〈◊〉 male and female that God gaue Ferdinand Fierrie impressions Anno Reg. 7. Houses shattered with gunpowder The Thames frozen ouer Owes bridge borne downe Henrie Stuart married the quéene of Scots Commissioners chosen to go to Bruges Ladie Lineux sent to the tower Standing watch at at midsummer in London Tempest at Chelmesford of lightning thunder and raine The margraue or marques of BadeÌ„ and his wiâ—e great with child come to London She is deliuered of a child The quéene giueth the name Mariage of the earle of Warwike Robert Thomas maister gunner slaine by casualtie Anno Reg. 8. Paules gate blowen open Order of saint Michaell The marques of Baden returneth into his owne countrie Ground for the Bursse in Cornehill first purchased The first stone of the Bursse laid The quéenes progresse to Oxford Misfortune at Oxford at the plaieng of a tragedie The quéene maketh an oration to the vniuersitie Souldiers transported into Ireland to vanquish Shane Oneil Yoong prince of Scots christened Anno Reg. 9. K. of Scots murthered The countesse of Lineux deliuered out of the tower Seuen aldermen deceassed in London 〈◊〉 before pag. 1132. The towne of Ossestrie burnt thrise in thirtie yeares Sergeants 〈◊〉 Milnal in Suffolke burnt Shane Oneil discomfited Sâ—â—tuta regni Hâ—berniae Edm. Câ—pian Shane Oneil mangled and backt in péeces Standing watch at midsummer maintained in London The emperor Maâ—imilian inuested into the order of the garter The earle of Susseâ— visiteth madame de Parma The iournies of the earle of Sussex during his abode beyond the seas The emperor interteineth the earle of Sussex Charles duke of Austria the earle of Sussex salute each other The earle of Sussex departeth from Uienna c. Iohn Stow. Anno Reg. 10. A sharpe winter following a drie summer Rich. Graston The quéenes ships sent forth into the narrow seas Eleuen saile of Flemish hoies laden with wines surprised by admerall Holstocke Six Spanish hulks laden with diuerse things taken by the English Iohn Stow. Great winds Archbishop of Yorke decesed Monstrous fishes New conduit at Walbrooke Anno Reg. 11. 1569 A FrenchmaÌ„ two Englishmen executed Muster of pensioners A lotterie at London Buriall for the dead prepared by sir Thomas Ro called the New churchyard A. F. The inscription or writing ouer the south gate of the new churchyard The death of sir Thomas Ro knight and lord maior of London The epitaph of sir Thomas Ro wherein his issue male and female is conteined Ambassadors from Muscouie land at tower wharfe Terme adiourned Duke of Norffolke sent to the tower No maiors feast at Guild-hall The earle of Northumberland and â—estmerland 〈◊〉 The earles 〈◊〉 the quéene and hir sâ—bâ—ects Rebels rent the bible communion books and behaue themselues like Spanish â—â—res Anno Reg. 12. The number of rebels 2000 horssemen and â—000 footmen Bernards castell besieged and defended The earles â—roclamed traitors The earle of Sussex went against the rebels The earle of Rutland and the lord Hunsdon with others against the rebels The rebels and Edward Dacres consult about their weakenesse The earle of Warwike and the lord
euerie true subiect to be read with reuerence of the person No iot of their good will wanted if God did not as he dailie dooth preuent their purposes Campion nor his fellowes will grant to anie thing but raile and vse bold speeches whereby their guiltie consciences were discouered * M. A. Campion couereth their traitorous intenâ—s vnder the sauing of soules A holie kind of life were it not for the B Note here the perfect image of hypocrisie When manifest proofes of their treasons were laid before them they would in no wise granâ— their guiltinesse Consider euerie matter and then iudge how they concord and agreé togither A booke which they vse as their instruction how to answer to euerie question sophisticallie To doo their dutie is a weightie burden to their consciences and therefore they abide in their obstinacie and blindnesse Campion his owne answer as concerning his allegiance to hir maiestie The cause why this pope hath tolerated the former bull of Pius Quinius Our English doctors conferring with the cardinals found out the meane for this toleration An other booke how to handle all maner of persons to win them to their intent Campion sent for from Praga to go with other priests appointed for England The priests are there onelie mainteined for this purpose and none come from thense but about this cause which proueth them altogither giltie Campion granteth he came as the other priests did to reconcile shrine but he wil not allow that he came for anie treason Iames Bosgraue his hastie comming from Uilna wheÌ„ he heard that priests were appointed for England Campion frequenteth his accustomed order of subtil answering Traitors will neuer beleeue anie truth especiallie if it touch themselues Robert Iohnson his comming from Auinion in France Edward Rishtons letter to Richardson one of the condemned Campions letter to maister Pownd in the Tower Campion was resolute in the chiefe matter Sentence of death denounced against Campion and his confederats A verie holie thing but verie méet for his deuotion Execution of Campion Sherwin and Brian Campion in his confession implieth a defense of his innocencie Camâ—ion noted to be verie vainglorious Campion described A further description of Edmund Campion Campions curious care to keepe the credit he had woone in England The true occaâ—ion of Campions other of his stâ—mpe comming into England The euill practises of the Iesuits in Ireland The procéeding of iustice against Campion c defaâ—ned Campion and his comâ—lices offense was ranke treaâ—on The suâ— and driâ—t of pope Pius his sâ—ditious bull Much mischiefe preuented by the timelie attaching of Campion and his like How the traitors stood opinioned to the said factioâ—s bull c. Rafe Sherwins behauiour at his death Alexander Brians demenour at his death Ex libello quodam famoso * Alludit ad Angliam Abr. Fl. Ex concione apud crucem Paulinam per D. Sellar 6. Feb. 1586. Monsieur the duke of Aniou departeth out of England * Nempe Annae Henrici 8 vxâ—â— sereniss reginae Elisabethae genetrix The quéenes maiestie lodgeth at Rochester The quéenes maiestie accoÌ„panied the monsieur to Canturburie where they their traine parted The prince of Orange taketh order for the interteinment of the monsieur Nephue the monsieurs secretarie The lord of S. Aldegond the prince of Orange and the prince of Espinoie c Embracing of the knée The mounsier landeth Lustie discharging of guns on all sides The monsieur verie ioifullie receiued Antwerpe reioiseth at the monsieurs comming English lords and their retinues Thrée waies to Middleborough The monsieur is met going to Middleborough The deputies of the states of the earledome of Zeland The monsieur would doo as the companie did The earle of Leicester and other English lords Burning cressets on each side The monsieur Taiard recorder of Gant A solemne feast held in the townehall The monsieur goeth to see the towne of Ermwiden The monsieurs ships painted with his owne colours The fort of Lislo The monsieur prepareth to make his entrie into Antwerpe The finest shew that can be made what it is The triumphs of the Romans excelled all their other shewes Other shewes of the RomaÌ„s verie gallant A comparison betwéene the pleasures of the bodie and delights of the mind A questioÌ„ vndecided touching gallant and glorious â—hewes The respit that Antwerp had to prouide for this triumphanâ— shew Paris for multitude of people passeth Monsieur of Brabant his attire and habit The cause why this report was published in print The moÌ„sieur saileth toward Antwerpe The monsieur landeth at a village in Brabant A theater erected for the monsieur to shew himselfe vpon to the people Prince Dolphin the earle of Leicester c Kissing the monsieurs hand A chaire of estate Banners with the armes of Aniou The summe of monsieur de Hesseiles oration to the monsieur The states thankefulnes signified They acknowledged themselues indebted to thâ— monsieur The secretarie vnto the states falleth to the point of the matter The king of Spaines officers full of tyrannicall lordlines and villanie The cause why the states of Brabant made the monsieur their prince lord The states loialtie and fealtie signified by their secretarie The monsieurs answer to the foresaid oration The monsieurs promise euen to the shedding of his bloud The monsieur is content to sweare to the articles agréed vpon Two oths that the dukes of Brabant were accustomed to take The mantle and bonnet of the dutchie of Brabant The monsieur created duke of Brabant The states promise their fealtie and obedience An offer of the marquesship of the sacred empire made to the monsieur The magistrates of Antwerps thankfulnesse to the monsieur signified The souereigntie of what places the monsieur had vndertaken Antwerpe and the marquesship promiseth humble subiection The oth that the monsieur should take openlie read to the people A largesse cast among the standers by The monsieurs posie A shew of meÌ„ in armour The Frenchmen maruell at the monsieurs strange habiliments c. The order of the monsieurs entering into Antwerpe Lords of England and France well horssed The earle of Leicester on the right hand of prince Dolphin The companies of the guilds An inscriptioÌ„ congratulaâ—orie to the moÌ„sieur The chariot of the maiden of Antwerpe described 〈◊〉 Wâ—sedome Emblems of peace 〈◊〉 Discréet gouernement Attonement Faithfulnes Watchfulnes Union Defense Offense A canopie carried ouer the monsieurs â—ead The signification of the shâ—wâ—s concerning the K. of Spaine and the monsieur A statelie pageant important to the present purpose An oliphant bearing a castell of stone with soldioâ—s and artillerie A damsell representing Antwerpe holding a coffer of priuileges c. A triumphall arch diuerslie garnished Six ensignes with the ensigne of the youth vnder a greene standard A cunning deuise of a giant turning his head A whale carrieng Neptune what 〈◊〉 betokened An arch wholie applied to the monsieurs owne posie Cherisheth
Chaseth The monsieurs posie interpreted in a shew The ornaments of the arch aloft A monstrous sea horsse of twentie foot high what it signified Three score and ten pillers with a space of two and twentie foot betweene each Proper emblems and their meanings Enuie and Slander Concord holding Discord in a chaine c. Light with torches and cressets as cléere as the noone daie Thrée graces Uertue Glorie and Honor in a compartement Twentie or thirtie thousand harquebusses shot off The night resembled the daie Solemnities vsed whiles the monsieur was taking his peculiar oth to Antwerpe Two pageants one of mount Parnassus and the other a mossie rocke A scaffold hoÌ„g with scarlet and richlie adorned A chaire of estate of cloth of gold frized Beautifull emblems about the chaire of estate what they signified 1 A little vnder at the right hand vnder the armes of Brabant were these verses 2 On the left hand vnder the armes of Antwerpe was written thus 3 This was written somwhat lower Banished and condemned men in fetters crauing mercie pardoned All promises kept on the monsieurs part they could doo no lesse The monsieur is readie to take his oth of the magistrate people of Antwerpe Good successe wished to the mutuall othâ—akers The monsieurs o th red in French The monsieur casteth largesse of gold siluer among the people Two peales of great ordinance with other signes of ioy What was doone by the waie of courteous dutie when all the triumphs were ended Dukes of Burgognie issued out of the house of France Under whom the state hath beene aâ—uanced Philip duke of Burgognie surnamed the hardie Duke Iohn the second and Philip the second aduancers of the state Philip the second a verie rich prince surnamed Philip the good He directeth his spéech to the monsieur A suâ—e mooued to the monsieur Francis the monsieurs grandfather commended A good sute to the moÌ„sieur the like of all princes and great men to be preferred and granted Learning and chiualrie must go togither Causes that mooued the making of this sute He speaketh in the behalfe of all the rest of like profession and facultie The monsieur speaketh well whatsoeuer his meaning was A good beginning in prince and people Iohn Paine executed at Chelmsford A blasing â—tarre Execution of Thomas Foord Iohn Shert and Robert Iohnson priests of the popes order To perseuere in wickednes is no constancie but obstinacie Consolation ministred to them as they went to their â—eaths The shiriffe himselfe trieth what he can doo to conuert them He was the eccho of a false and antichristian voice Thomas Foord his words touching his innocencie * The writer of this pamphlet who séemed to be acquainted with all their dealings A shamelesse negatiue voice to a manifest charge of offense and euident conuiction Iohn Shert his vaine spéeches at the sight of Tom Foords dead bodie dismembred Sherts oration to the people iustifieng the forme of a goâ—lie martyres death Note Sherts obstinacie Shâ—rt is peremptorie in his spéech to iustifie his religion Hudling vp of praiers mangled and â—eeced togither after the popish maner * Who séemed acquainted with all their practises Execution of Luke Kirbie William Filbie Thomas Coteham and Laurence Richardson préests of the popes order * Who was an obseruer as he pretended of all their dooings Most manifest and vndoubted toâ—ens of a resolute votarie to the pope his 〈◊〉 * Thâ—obseruer â—nd writer of 〈◊〉 their plots and deuises â—s he pretended One of these two must néeds be in a fowle errour for both holding contraries could not speake truth Repetitio beneficij est exprebratio Master shiriffes words vttered by the waie of interception This was great verie mercifull forbearance to let all this talke passe to and fro at the place of execution Men indéed vse to repose their trust in such whom they suppose to be like themselues Mercie offered to Kirbie notwithstanding his conuiction of treason To such as are proditoriouslie minded it is a matter disputable but to a good subiect a matter determinable Prou. 8.15 16. Rom. 13.1 2 3 4. This counsell of the apostle they had not the grace to follow Iohn 19.10 11. This demand implieth a kind of suspicion or secret charge that hir maiestie is such a one Not of the pope then belike who is not to â—oore into oâ—her princes prouinces c. Vox popili Dei vox fertur esse Dei Laurence Richardson and Thomas Coteham their gestures and spéeches of their deaths For he was not so furnished for England as to 〈◊〉 seules so easilie to papistrie * He should haue said Daemon Philip Price hanged in Fleetstreet for killing of a sergeant Lord Willoughbie ambassador sent into Denmarke The lord ambassadors oration in Latine to the king of Denmarke c The king of Denmarke inuested into the right honorable order of the garter Misfortune by gunpowder Strange tempest in Norffolke Anno reg 2â— Terme kept at Hertford Thames water conueied ouer saint Magnus stéeple Iustice Randolph hâ—s charitie Publike lecture of surgerie founded in London presentlie red as also in the life of the founder by doctor Forster to his high praise credit What exercises are to be followed in the said college by the will of the founder The first yeares exercises The second years exercises The third yeares and fourth yeares exercises The fift and sixt yeares exercises and so to continue with Reâ—eâ—nâ—iâ— principâ— Ab. Fl. Spectator auditor Doctor Gilsord president of the college of physicians Francis of Ualois attempteth diuerse exploits the issue whereof fell out to his misfortune The monsiâ—urs ambition spreading like â— canker The French gentlemen ware armor vnder their garments with good meaning no doubt The monsieur was glad to retire notwithstanding this confident clamor Noblemen othâ—r French 〈◊〉 prisonâ—â—s Noblemen of France slaine Francis duke of Aniou and Alanson retireth Generall Norris with 23. ensignes Francis duke of Alanson and of Aniou sickeneth Abr. Fl. ex lib. cui tit Regret funebre contenant le discours de la morâ— de Monseigneuâ— fils de France frere vnicque du roy * Meaning Berson the monsieurs preacher and the writer of this discourse The maner of the monsieurs sickenesse Bersons words of comfort to the monsieur whether his disease were naturall or procéeding â—rom God The monsiâ—urs resoluâ—e to die * Namelie Berson * Berson who was then busie about certeine ceremonies incident to the time and his office Great hope conceiued of the monsieur if he had not beene preuented with dâ—ath The monsieur falleth into an extremitie of his maladie and past hope of recouerie Doo men â—te thus saith the monsieâ—r drawing tâ— his end Bersons words to the monsieur in the hearing of diuerse gentlemen present His will meaning Gods be doone saith the monsieur with a forced spéech on his death bed The institution and vse of the sacrament of the bodie and bloud of Christ. Bersons
〈◊〉 and affâ—ction of the lord lieutenant to performe the premisses sigâ—nified and by good proofe 〈◊〉 stified The states agnise the pâ—â—â—emptorie authoritie put into the lord lieutenants hands in respect of his gouernment Like authâ—â—â—tie giuen to the lord lieutenant as other gouernours his 〈◊〉 â—â—â—decessors 〈◊〉 had in the 〈◊〉 countries â—n acknowledgement and performance of dutie and elegiance inioined to all persons of the low countries vnder paine of punishâ—ent to the lord lieutenant All pretense of ignorance cut off least the course of obeâ—â—ence might be hindered Councellors 〈◊〉 matters of late elected by the lord â—â—eutenant â—â—wes for capteinâ— and souldiours The lord lâ—eutenant commeth from the Hage to Harlem how he was receiued Utricht people commended for their great kindnes shewed to the Englishmen S. Georges feast solemntlie obserued at Utricht S. Georges feast solemnlie obserued at Utricht L. lieutenant inuested in the robes of order Martin Skinke knighted who promised Portcullis to shew him seuentie ensignes that he had now in the field Seminarie préests execâ—â—tâ—d at Tiburne A wench burnt in Smithfield Archbishop Canturburiâ— lord Cobhaâ— lord Buckâ—hurst of the priuie councell Pag. 1435 〈◊〉 The numâ—â—â— of archbishâ—â— of Canturâ—â—â—rie from thâ— first to the 〈◊〉 Considerations whie the building of Douer hauen is here recorded Douer the néerest place of England to France Douer the most conuenient place of England for a hauen Reasons whie a harbor at Douer would be so beneficiall A true commendation of quéene Elisabeth The 〈…〉 Douer wâ—ll mainteine a hauen there for euer In peramb. Cant. 〈◊〉 Douer Douer castell reedified by queene Elisabeth Edward the fourth bestowed ten thousand pounds vpon reparations of Douer castell The situation of Douer harbour A naturall rode for ships at Douer The hauen of Rie decaied whereby more néed of a harbour at Douer Ships lost for lacke of sufficient harbour at Douer The first benefit bestowed on Douer harbour Little paradise In the reigne of Edward the Confessor Sir Iohn Thomson préest his supplication Fiue hundred pounds giuen by Henrie the eight towards a beginning of Douer works The maison de Dieu of Douer Surueiors ouerséers Sir Iohn Thomsons deuise discouered The Molehead Douer pierre when it was taken in hand and whereof it consisted A notable dâ—uise to carrie great rocks by water Foure pence a daie A Gaboth The charge of the pierre The kings care for Douer pierre The kings repaire to Doâ—er The cause of the decaie of the pierre Officers about the pierre The ruine of Douer pierre Stone called beach or bowlder choked vp Douer hauen Two causes of the decaie of Douer pie rre Someâ—iâ—e no harborough at all at Douer How Douer was made desolat That beach which destroied the pierre helpeth now the hauen A bountifull gift of quéene Elisabeth towards the reparing of Douer hauen The patent of the quéenes gift sold vnto two merchants The act of parlement for Douer hauen 23. Elisab Thrée pence the tun of euerie vessell allowed towards Douer hauen The tunnage amounted to 1000 pounds yearelie The tenure of the quéens commission for Douer hauen Iohn True suruâ—ior generall of Douer hauen The deuise of Iohn True Stone heâ—ed at Folkestone amounting to 1288 pounds Infinit charge to accomplish the stone wall Iohn True had ten shillings a day for his fée Iohn True is dismissed Ferdinando Poins Poins his groine The pent 16 acres The length of the long wall The crosse wall The rode for ships One thousand pounds to Ferdinando Poins Customer Smith Uarietie of deuises Sir W. Winter sent to Douer to surueie the harbor c. Sir Thomas Scot. The wals of Romneie marsh subiect to the raging seas All the commissioners ioine with sir Thomas Scot and allow his deuise Seuen inuincible reasons against the woodden wall The lord treasurors resolution Of Woolwich and Erith breaches Secretarie Walsingham the chiefe director and furtherer of Douer hauen No dealing by great in matters of excessiue charge and danger Sir Thomas Scots notes Douer pent finished in thrée moneths Reinold Scot and Rafe Smith examined by maister secretarie about the wals of the pent Questions propounded to Poins and the Plumsted men Sir Thomas Scots deuise allowed by the lords of the councell The resolution at a conference at Douer Officers elected at Douer The commoditie of the pent Woolwich breach recouerable Euerie degrée willing to set forward this worke Six hundred courts imploied at once in these works Iohn Smith the â—â—penditor Iohn Keies gentleman chiefe purueior A horsâ—e a court and a driuer for twelue pence the daie The quantitie of one court or tumbrell A benefit to 〈◊〉 â—east The 〈◊〉 substance of the walâ—s The disposing of the works Henrie Guilford esquier capteine of Arcliffe castell The beginning of the great works at Doâ—â—r Reasons for the difficultie of the crosse wall This worke vndertaken and other reiected by sir Thomas Scots means Bowle a notable good workman Commissioners Treasuror Two iuraâ—â— called directors Eight guâ—ders Eight vntingers Eight sheâ—uers Eight â—â—â—gers Laborers Scauelmen Béetlemen Armors The order of arming Inferior purueiors Clerke Expenditor The groine kéeper The maneâ— of the wall worke How the wall was saued from being wasted The inconuenience which would haue folâ—owed the diuerting of the riuer another waie A sluse made for diuerse good purposes A difficult and dangerous worke Gods blessing and fauour shewed to the works of Doâ—er Dangers happilie escaped Boies plaie The flag of libertie * Or six A commendation of them which wrought or had anie charge about Douer works Sir Thomas Scot fell sicke in Douer works The death of the ladie Scot. The bredth depth length and charge of the long and crosse wall with the â—â—â—ming c. A necessarie remedie if water draine vnder the wall Expedition necessarie and profitable The state of the wals A sure triall latelie made of the good effect of the pent A gaâ—e of the â—â—use broken Edward Wootton esquire ambassador into France The effect of the pent Of the sluse The lord Cobham remaineth at Douer one whole moneth Sir Francis Walsingham principall fréend to these works Of the latâ— works The note of Iohn Hooker aliâs Vowell concerning the sudden and strange sickenesse of late happening in Excester The originalâ— cause of this infection whereto imputed Barnard Drake esquier The mischiefe of nastie apparell The assise at Excester appointed to be quarterlie kept This sicknes was contagious mortall Principall men that died of that infection Sir Iohn Chichester and sir Arthur Basset bemoned and commended Eleuen of the iurie with other officers die of this â—â—ckenesse Affliction draweth men to God c. An introductâ—â—â— to the historicall remembrance of the Sidneis the father and the sonne c. The note of Edmund Molineux touching sir Henrie Sidneis life and death His education in his youth His â—â—â—â—â—â—ment in ambassage Foure times lord iustice thrise lord deputie of Ireland He suppressed by force and policie
thrée actuall rebellions He reuiued and put in execution the lawes for the abolishing of coine and liuerie He deuised the planting of presidents in the remoter prouinces He deuised the lawes for the distribution of the Irish couÌ„tries into shire ground He increased the reuenues ten thousand pounds yerlie His buildings fortifications and other necessarie works for the benefit and good of the countrie He built conuenient rooms for the kéeping and preseruation of the records which before were neglected He caused thâ— statutes of Ireland to bâ— imprinted which neuer before were published He procured some Englishmen to be sent ouer for the better administration of iustice A great fuâ—therer of all publike works The great loue he got him in all plâ—â—ces where he serued His carefulnesse in the seruice of the state Uerie expert and able he was of a bad clerke in time to frame a good secretarie Of great facilitie in dispatch of common causes A great desire to doo for all men A tender father to his children and a louing master to his seruants Solâ—â—ario homini atque in agro vitam agenti opinio iustitiae necessaria est He was intirelie beloued of the officers of hir maiesties houshold He was dubbed knight the same daie sir William Cecill was He died at the bishops palace 〈◊〉 Worcester His death greatlie bemoned His corps was buried at Penshurst The time of my ladie Sidneis death Sir Philip sir Robert and maister Thomas Sidneis Marie countesse of Penbroke William lord Herbert of Cardiffe The commendation of sir Philip Sidneie Lord gouernor oâ— Uâ—â—ssingen commonlie called Flâ—â—shing He surpriseâ— Arell in Flanders He drowned the countrie by making 〈◊〉 entrie into thâ— sea No resistance made by Mondragon Grauelin His hurt at the incounter néere Zutphen The daie of the death of sir Philip Sidneie Omnis virtus nos ad se allicit facÃtque vt diligamus eos in quibus inesse videatur tamen iusticia liberalitas id maximè efficit Thomas Louelace condigâ—liâ— punished by iudgement of the honorable court in the Star-chamber for counterfeiting of letters c. I. S. Henrie Ramelius ambassador out of Denmarke The Danish ambassador honorablie interteined The maiestie of the English court Heuenlie musike in the queens chapell The ambassador of Denmarke seeth the roiall seruice of the quéene of England Recreations and disports for prince and people This Crosbie â—as a knight 〈◊〉 his gift to 〈◊〉 of â—ondon pag. â—â— â—50 The ambasâ—â—dor deparâ—â—th home toâ—ards Denâ—arke â—ord Edâ—ard earle of Rutland ambassador into Scotland The quéenes maiestie hath speciall care of christian religion to be preserued and propagated â— league betweene England and Scotland confirmed Sée more of this ambassage in the historie of Scotland pag. 456. 〈…〉 The horrible conspiracie of â—abington â—ther his 〈◊〉 traitors 〈◊〉 sâ—oursed by â— F. Sir Wolstan Dixie lord maior of London Anthonie Ratcliffe and Henrie Prannell shiriffes Sir Francis Drake his turne into England 〈◊〉 his last 〈◊〉 finished Hispaniola in old time called Ophir The returne of sir Francis Drake into England with great riches c. Manie voiages of great difficultie haue beene vndertaken but failed in the issue Traitors indicted arreigned and condemned at Westminster I. S. The first seuen condemned without anie iurie The effect of the last seuen their tresons notable The place of their execution was sometime the méeting place of their consultation The order of the traitors executed Iohn Ballard preest persuader of Babington to these odious treasons executed How Ballard was affected at his death Ballards sophisticall asking of the queens maiestie forgiuenesse Anthonie Babington esquier executed A note of Babingtons pride at the verie instant of his execution Iohn Sauage gentleman executed The fruites that issue from listening to the counsell of Iesuits Romanists and Rhemists Robert Barnewell gentleman executed Chidiocke Tichborne esquire executed Charls Tilneie a pensioner executed Edward Abington esquier executed his thretning spéech Throgmortons prophesie and Abingtons of like truth in euent Thomas Salisburie esquier executed The last seuen traitors executed with great fauour Salisburie acknowledgeth his greeuous offense a note of repentance Uiolence forbidden by Salisburie Henrie Dun gentleman executed The ambitious humour of Henrie Dun. Edward Iones esquier executed Forren inuasion reproued by Iones Iohn Trauers Iohn Charnocke gentlemen executed Robert Gage executed Hir maiesties gratiousnesse commended by this traitor Hypocrisie of Robert Gage Ierom Bellamie gentleman executed One of the Bellamies hanged himselfe in the Tower Ex libello I. Nich. typis C.B. excuso 1581. Sée be fore pag 1357 a 60 c. 1358 v 60 c. The causes that haue so long hindered king Philip to inuade England The reuerend regard that subiects ought to haue of their souereignes c. A gentleman iudged to die because he once thought to haue killed his prince A seuere law against treason A woman tratoresse well rewarded Against séeking after nouelties and to teach men to be well aduised c. Extreame kinds of torments in other countries for treason c. Traitors iustlie rewarded and yet nothing so as they deserue A prettie apolog allusorie to the present case of malcontents Seldome commeth the better Barnardino de Mendoza alwaies mischéefouslie minded against the state of England note his practises with Ballard The Scotish quéene is an actor in this purposed conspiracie Iohn Sauage had vowed and sworne to kill the quéene Babington vndertaketh the managing of the whole action note their tresons The Scotish quéene writeth vnto Babington in cipher with his aduise direction and request The Scotish quéenes aduise in this mischiefous plot fauoring altogither of inhumanitie Six gentlemen of resolution c. Ballard apprehended being readie to be imbarked and transported ouersea The conspirators disguised themselues thinking by that meane to shift the matter Magna est veritas praeualet How the popish catholiks are affected to the Scotish queene What the fugitiue diuines must doo for their parts Iu nefariam Babingtoni caeterorumque coniurationem hexastichon Sir Philip Sidneie slaine at Zutphen in Gelderland of whome sée more pag. 1554. Seminarie préests executed at Tiborn A tempestuous wind in October terrible and hurtfull The accidents noteworthie by meanes of this blustering wind A strange accident of a walnut trée blowne downe with the wind c. The third strange chance Ludgate of London newlie builded Parlement at Westminster Anno Reg. 29. The earle of Leicester returned from the low countries and arriued in England In reditum magnanimi herois Roberti Comitis Lecestrij 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 gratulatorium T. N. The parlement proroged line 30 The danger of the ouerthrow of the true religion The perill of the state of the realme The sentence giuen against the Scotish queene solemnlie proclamed An abridgment of the orders deuised for the reléefe of the poore in this time of dearth c. Starch F. T. Anonymall or namelesse chronicles treating wholie or in part of England The conclusion
to be tried by his countrie and so was pressed to death as the law in such case appointeth Diuerse other were saued by their bookes according vnto the order of clerkes conuict as Alexander Brid person of Hogeset Iohn Rugham person of little Welnetham Iohn Berton cordwainer and diuerse other Some were repriued as one woman named Iulian Barbor who being big bellied was respited till she were deliuered of child Benedict Sio and Robert Russell line 30 were repriued and committed to the safe kéeping of the shiriffe as triers or appeachers as we tearme them of other offendors and bicause there was not anie as yet attached by their appeales they were commanded againe to prison One Robert de Creswell was saued by the kings letters of speciall pardon which he had there readie to shew As for Robert Foxton Adam Cokefield and a great number of other whome the shiriffe was commanded to apprehend he returned that he could not heare of them line 40 within the precinct of his bailiffewéeke wherevpon exigents were awarded against them and the shiriffe was commanded that if he might come to attach them he should not faile but so to doo and to haue their bodies there at Burie before the said iustices the thursdaie in Whitsunwéeke next insuing Diuerse also were arreigned at the same time of the said felonies and thereof acquited as Michaell Scabaille Rafe Smeremonger and others Indéed line 50 those that were found guiltie and suffered were the chéefe authors and procurors of the commotion bearing others in hand that the abbat had in his custodie a certeine charter wherein the king should grant to the inhabitants of the towne of Burie certeine liberties whereby it might appeare that they were free and discharged from the paiment of diuerse customes and exactions wherevpon the ignorant multitude easilie giuing credit to such surmised tales were the sooner induced to attempt such disorders as line 60 before are mentioned ¶ Thus haue yée heard all in effect that was doone in this first yeare of king Edward the third his reigne by and against those offendors But bicause we will not interrupt matters of other yeares with that which followed further of this businesse we haue thought good to put the whole that we intend to write thereof here in this place Yée shall therefore vnderstand that diuerse of those against whome exigents were awarded came in and yéelded their bodies to the shiriffes prison before they were called on the fift countie daie Albeit a great manie there were that came not and so were outlawed Robert Foxton got the kings pardon and so purchasing foorth a supersede as the suit therevpon against him was staied The shiriffe therefore in Whitsunwéeke in the second yeare of this kings reigne made his returne touching Benedict Sio Robert Russell Iulian Barbor so that he deliuered them vnto the bailiffes of the libertie of the abbat of Burie by reason of an ancient priuilege which the abbat claimed to belong to his house The bailiffes confessed they had receiued the said prisoners but forsomuch as they had beene arreigned at a Portmane mote which was vsed to be kept euerie thrée wéeks and vpon their arreignment were found guiltie of certeine other felonies by them committed within the towne of Burie and therevpon were put to execution Adam Finchman the kings attournie there tooke it verie euill laid it greeuouslie to the charge of the abbats officers for their hastie and presumptuous proceeding against the said prisoners namelie bicause the said Sio and Russell were repriued to the end that by their vtterance many heinous offenses might haue béene brought to light On the same daie that is to wit the thursdaie in Whitsunweeke the foresaid Robert Foxton and diuerse other came in and were attached by the shiriffe to answer the abbat to his action of trespasse which he brought against them and putting the matter to the triall of an inquest they were condemned in sixtie thousand pounds to be leuied of their goods and chattels vnto the vse of the abbat and in the meane time they were committed to prison But first they made suit that they might be put to their fines for their offenses committed against the kings peace and their request in that behalfe was granted so that vpon putting in sufficient suerties for their good abearing their fines were assessed as some at more and some at lesse as the case was thought for to require Thus rested the matter a long season after vntill the fift yeare of this kings reigne in which the thursdaie next after the feast of the blessed Trinitie the K. being himselfe in person at S. Edmundsburie aforesaid a finall agreement and concord was concluded betwixt the said abbat and his conuent on the one partie and Richard Draiton and others of the inhabitants of that towne on the other partie before the right reuerend father in God Iohn bishop of Winchester and chancellor of England and the kings iustices Iohn Stonore and Iohn Cantbridge sitting there at the same time by the kings commandement The effect of which agreement was as followeth The articles of agreement betweene the moonks of Burie and the inhabitants of Burie FIrst wheras the said abbat had recouered by iudgement before the said Iohn Stonore and other his associats iustices of oier and determiner in the said towne of Burie the summe of seuen score thousand pounds for trespasses to him and his house committed and doone by the said Richard Draiton and other the inhabitants of Burie now at the desire of the said king and for other good respects him moouing he pardoned and released vnto the said Richard Draiton and to other the inhabitants of Burie to their heires executors and assigns the summe of 122333 pounds eight shillings eight pence of the said totall summe of 140000 pounds And further the said abbat and conuent granted and agreed for them and their successors that if the said Richard Draiton other the inhabitants of the said towne of Burie or any of them their heires executors or assignes should paie to the said abbat conuent or their successors within twentie yeares next insuing the date of that present agreement 2000 marks that is to saie 100 marks yearelie at the feasts line 10 of S. Michaell Easter by euen portions that then the said Richard other the inhabitants of the towne of Burie should be acquited discharged of 4000 marks parcell of 17666 pounds thirteene shillings foure pence residue behind for euer Moreouer whereas the said abbat and conuent the said abbat by himselfe since the 19 yeare of the reigne of king Edward line 20 the second vnto that present time had sealed certeine charters deeds writings as well with the proper seale of the abbat as with the common seale of the abbat conuent if the said Richard and the inhabitants of the said towne of Burie did restore vnto the said abbat conuent all the same
were persuaded than vanquished taught than ouerthrowne quietlie pacified than rigorouslie persecuted Ye require to haue the statute of six articles reuiued And know you what ye require Or know ye what ease ye haue with the losse of them They were lawes made but quicklie repented too bloudie they were to be borne of our people yet at the first in deed made of some necessitie Oh subiects how are ye trapped by euill persons We of pitie bicause they were bloudie tooke them awaie and you now of ignorance will aske them againe You know full well that they helped vs to extend rigour and gaue vs cause to draw our sword verie often And since our mercie mooued vs to write our lawes with milke and equitie how are ye blinded to aske them in bloud But leauing this maner of reasoning and resorting to the truth of our authoritie we let you wit the same hath béene adnulled by parlement with great reioise of our subiects and not now to be called in question And dareth anie of you with the name of a subiect stand against an act of parlement a law of the realme What is our power if lawes should be thus neglected Or what is your suertie if lawes be not kept Assure you most suerlie that we of no earthlie thing vnder the heauen make such reputation as we doo of this one to haue our lawes obeied this cause of God to be throughlie mainteined from the which we will neuer remoue a heares bredth nor giue place to anie creature liuing but therein will spend our whole roiall person our crowne treasure realme and all our state whereof we assure you of our high honor For herein resteth our honor herein doo all kings knowledge vs a king And shall anie one of you dare breath or thinke against our kingdome and crowne In the end of this your request as we be giuen to vnderstand ye would haue them stand in force till our full age To this we thinke that if ye knew what ye spake ye would not haue vttred the motion nor neuer giuen breath to such a thought For what thinke you of our kingdome Be we of lesse authoritie for our age Be we not your king now as we shall be Shall ye be subiects hereafter and now are ye not Haue we not the right we shall haue If ye would suspend and hang our dooings in doubt vntill our full age ye must first know as a king we haue no difference of yeares but as a naturall man and creature of God we haue youth and by his sufferance shall haue age We are your rightfull king your liege lord the souereigne prince of England not by our age but by Gods ordinance not onelie when we shall be one and twentie yeares of age but when we were of ten yéers We possesse our crowne not by yeares but by the bloud and descent from our father king Henrie the eight If it be considered they which mooue this matter if they durst vtter themselues would denie our kingdome But our good subiects know their prince and will increase not diminish his honor inlarge his power not abate it knowledge his kingdome not deferre it to certeine yeares All is one to speake against our crowne and to denie our kingdome as to require that our lawes maie be broken vnto one and twentie yeares Be we not your crowned annointed and established king Wherein be we of lesse maiestie of lesse authoritie or lesse state than our progenitors kings of this realme except your vnkindnes your vnnaturalnesse will diminish our estimation We haue hitherto since the death of our father by the good aduise and counsell of our deare and intirelie beloued vncle the duke of Summerset and gouernor and protector kept our estate mainteined our realme preserued our honour defended our people from all enimies We haue hitherto béene feared and dread of our enimies yea of princes kings and nations Yea herein we be nothing inferiour to anie our progenitors which grace we acknowledge to be giuen vs from God and how else but by good obedience line 10 good counsell of our magistrates and by the authoritie of our kingdome England hitherto hath gained honour during our reigne it hath woone of the enimie and not lost It hath béene maruelled that wée of so yoong yeares haue reigned so noblie so roiallie so quietlie And how chanceth that you our louing subiects of that our countrie of Cornewall and Deuonshire will giue occasion to slander this our realme of England to giue courage to the enimie to note our realme of line 20 the euill of rebellion to make it a preie to our old enimies to diminish our honour which God hath giuen our father left our good vncle and councell preserued vnto vs What greater euill could ye commit than euen now when our forren enimie in Scotland and vpon the sea seeketh to inuade vs to doo our realme dishonour than to arise in this maner against our law to prouoke our wrath to aske our vengeance and to giue vs an occasion to spend that force vâ—on you which we meant to bestow vpon our enimies to line 30 begin to slaie you with that sword that we drew forth against Scots and other enimies to make a conquest of our owne people which otherwise should haue beene of the whole realme of Scotland Thus farre we haue descended from our high maiestie for loue to consider you in your simple ignorance and haue béene content to send you an instruction like a father who of iustice might haue sent you your destructions like a king to rebels And now we let you know that as you sée our mercie abundantlie line 40 so if ye prouoke vs further we sweare to you by the liuing God ye shall féele the power of the same God in our sword which how mightie it is no subiect knoweth how puissant it is no priuat man can iudge how mortall no Englishman dare thinke But suerlie suerlie as your lord and prince your onlie king and maister we saie to you repent your selues and take our mercie without delaie or else we will foorthwith extend our princelie power and execute our sharpe sword against you as against infidels line 50 and Turks and rather aduenture our owne roiall person state and power than the same should not be executed And if you will proue the example of our mercie learne of certeine which latlie did arise as they perceiuing pretended some griefes and yet acknowledging their offenses haue not onelie most humblie their pardon but féele also by our order to whome onelie all publike order apperteineth present redresse of their griefes In the end we admonish you of line 60 your duties to God whome ye shall answere in the daie of the Lord of your duties toward vs whom ye shall answere by our order and take our mercie whilest God so inclineth vs least when ye shall be constreined to aske we shall be two much hardened in heart to grant it
you And where ye shall heare now of mercie mercie and life ye shall then heare of iustice iustice and death Written the eight of Iulie in the third yeare of our reigne Although the rebels receiued this princelie message wholesome admonition from the kings maiestie yet would they not reforme themselues as dutifull subiects ought to haue doone but stood still in their wicked begun rebellion offering to trie it at the weapons point There wanted not priestes and other busie bodies among them such as by all waies and meanes possible sought to kindle the coles of malice and hatred betwixt the king and his subiects which as the maner is among all the like wicked disposed people contriued to raise and strew abroad false forged tales and feined rumors giuing it out that the people should be constreined to paie a ratable taske for their sheepe and cattell and an excise for euerie thing that they should eate or drinke These and such other slanderous brutes were spred abroad by those children of Beliall whereby the cankered minds of the rebels might the more be hardened and made stiffe from plieng vnto anie resonable persuasion that might be made to moue them to returne vnto their dutifull obedience as by the lawes both of God and man they were bounden and so it came to passe For the rebellious ront were growne to an obstinacie séeming so far from admitting persuasions to submission that they became resolute in their pestilent actions wilfullie following the woorst which they knew full well would redound to their detriment and auoiding the best which they doubted not might turne to their aduantage agreable in sense and meaning vnto that of the poet Quae nocüere sequar fugiam quae profore credam Herevpon when no hope was left to procure them by anie quiet meanes to laie downe armes the lord priuie seale and the lord Greie with their forces although not comparable with the rebels in number about the latter end of Iulie set vpon them and by great manhood put them from their ground notwithstanding they fought verie stoutlie gaue it not ouer for a little and although they were thus driuen to giue place at this first onset yet they got togither againe and aboad a new charge defending their ground dooing what they could to beat backe and repell those that came to assaile them But neuerthelesse through the power of the almightie God fauouring the rightfull cause the rebels were distressed and followed in chase with great slaughter for the space of two miles This was about the beginning of August Their chiefe capteines to wit Humfreie Arundell Whinsland Holms and Burie were taken and brought vp to London There were taken also others of their capteins as Thomas Underhill Iohn Soleman William Segar Tempson and Barret which two last were priests also Boier and Henrie Lée two maiors all the which were executed in one place or other as they had well deserued The said Boier being maior of Bodmin in Cornewall as Grafton reporteth had béene a busie fellow among the rebels to set them forward in mischiefe howbeit some that loued him sought to excuse him as if he had béene forced hereto against his will by the rebels who would haue killed him and burnt his house if he had not consented to them But howsoeuer it was sir Anthonie Kingston that was prouost marshall in the kings armie vnder the lord priuie seale wrote his letter vnto the said maior signifieng to him that he and other with him would come and dine with him such a daie The maior séeming to be glad thereof made the best purueiance he could to receiue them and at the time appointed sir Anthonie Kingston came with his companie and were right hartilie welcomed of the maior But before they sat downe to dinner calling the maior aside he told him that there must be execution doone in that towne and therefore willed him that a paire of gallowes might be framed and set vp with spéed so that they might be readie by that time that they should make an end of dinner The maior with all diligence caused the same to be doone so that when dinner was ended sir Anthonie calling the maior to him and asking whether the gallowes were set vp accordinglie as he had willed the maior answered that they were readie Wherewith sir Anthonie taking the maior by the hand desired him to bring him to the place where they stood and comming thither and beholding them he said to the maior Thinke you maister maior that they be strong inough Yea sir quoth he that they are Well line 10 then said sir Anthonie get you euen vp vnto them for they are prouided for you The maior greatlie abashed herewith said I trust you meane no such thing to me Sir said he there is no remedie ye haue béene a busie rebell and therefore this is appointed for your reward and so without respit or staie there was the maior hanged At the same time neere the same place dwelled a miller that had beene a great dooer in that rebellion for whom also sir Anthonie Kingston sought but the line 20 miller being thereof warned called a good tall fellow that he had to his seruant and said vnto him I haue businesse to go from home if anie therefore come to aske for me saie thou art the owner of the mill and the man for whome they shall so aske and that thou hast kept this mill for the space of three yeares but in no wise name me The seruant promised his maister so to doo And shortlie after came sir Anthonie Kingston to the millers house and calling for the miller the seruant came forth line 30 and answered that he was the miller How long quoth sir Anthonie hast thou kept this mill He answered thre yeares Well then said he come on thou must go with me and caused his men to laie hands on him and to bring him to the next trée saieng to him Thou hast béene a busie knaue and therefore here shalt thou hang. Then cried the fellow out and said that he was not the miller but the millers man Well then said sir Anthonie thou art a false knaue to be in two tales therefore said line 40 he hang him vp and so incontinentlie hanged he was in déed After he was dead one that was present told sir Anthonie Surelie sir this was but the millers man What then said he could he euer haue doone his maister better seruice than to hang for him Manie other were executed by order of the marshall law a great part of the countrie abandoned to the spoile of the souldiers who were not slouthfull to gleane what they could find for the time their libertie line 50 lasted ¶ Thus far the report of this rebellious broile wherevpon it first kindled by what meanes the same sparkled and became a flame and what deuises were vsed to extinguish quench it Wherein we sée
this Iohn Sitsylt and had by hir sir Iohn Baskeruile knight 11 Sir Iohn Sitsylt knight tooke to wife Alicia the sister of the said sir Roger Baskeruile and sir Roger married his sister as is aforesaid This sir Iohn Sitsylt had Iohn Sitsylt and Roger Sitsylt In the time of the warres that king Edward the third made against Scotland at a place called Halidon hill néere Barwike anno 6. of Edward the third there arose a great variance and contention betweene sir William de Facknaham knight on the one side approuant this sir Iohn Sitsylt knight on the other side defendant for an ensigne of armes that is to saie The field of ten barrets siluer and azure supported of fiue scutcheons sable charged with so manie lions of the first rampants incensed geuls which ensigne both the parties did claime as their right But as both parties put themselues to their force to mainteine their quarrell and vaunted to mainteine the same by their bodies it pleased the king that iustice should be yéelded for triall of the quarrell without shedding of bloud and so the bearing of the ensigne was solemnelie adiudged to be the right of the said sir Iohn Sitsylt as heire of blood lineallie descended of the bodie of Iames Sitsylt lord of Beauport slaine at the siege of Wallingford as before is declared The finall order and determination of which controuersie is laid downe by Iohn Boswell gentleman in his booke intituled The concords of Armorie fol. 80. This sir Iohn Sitsylt had a charge of men at arms for the custodie of the marches to Scotland in the eleuenth yeare of king Edward the third 12 Iohn Sitsylt the sonne of sir Iohn Sitsylt knight tooke to wife Ione daughter of sir Richard Monington knight and had by hir Iohn Sitsylt that died his father being aliue and Thomas Sitsylt 13 Thomas Sitsylt married Margaret the daughter and heire of Gilbert de Winston and had by hir Philip Sitsylt and Dauid Sitsylt This man was a great benefactor to the moonks of Dore and forgaue them great sums of monie which they did owe him 14 Philip Sitsylt married Margaret the daughter of Iohn Philips and had by hir Richard Iohn and Margaret 15 Richard Sitsylt or Cecill married Margaret the daughter of Philip Uaughan and had by hir Philip Cecill Margaret Cecill Iohn Cecill Dauid Cecill and Iames or Ienkin Cecill * These pedegrées descents I gathered faithfullie out of sundrie ancient records and euidences wherof the most part are confirmed with seales autentike therevnto appendent manifestlie declaring the antiquitie and truth therof which remaine at this present in the custodie of the right honourable sir William Cecill knight of the noble order of the garter lord Burghleie and lord high treasuror of England who is lineallie descended from the last recited Richard Sitsylt father to Dauid Cecill grandfather to the said sir William Cecill now lord Burghleie And at this daie William Sitsylt or Cecill esquier coosen german to the said lord Burghleie remooued by one degrée onelie is possessed of the foresaid house of Halterennes in Ewyas land as the heire male of the house of Sitsylts and is descended of Philip Cecill elder brother to the said Dauid This sir William Cecill lord Burghleie liuing at this instant in the yeare of Christ one thousand fiue hundred eightie and six to the great support of this commonwealth dooth worthilie inioy the place of the lord treasuror of England of whome for auoiding the note of flatterie I may not saie that good which we the subiects of England doo féele by his meanes and all the world dooth sée in his rare and wise gouernment And therefore leauing what may be said of him for his honorable deserts from his countrie his prince and his countriemen as well for rare gouernement at home as for graue managing of the matter of state abroad I beseech the almightie Lord to lengthen his yeares with perfect health and happie successe of all his good desires to answer the worth of those his honourable deserts Thus knitting vp this discourse of the treasurors with no lesse honorable person of the temporaltie in this our age than I began the same discourse with a rare person of the spiritualtie in that their age this being knowne as singular in policie as the other line 10 was supposed to be in prelacie I here set end to that which with much labour of bodie trauell of mind and charge of pursse I haue brought to this forme what so euer it be Thus this much by Francis Thin touching the treasurors of England The 22 of August Thomas Persie earle of Northumberland late of Topclife who had beene before attainted by parlement of high treason as one of the principall conspirators in the late rebellion and line 20 now brought out of Scotland whither he had fled was beheaded at Yorke about two of the clocke in the afternoone on a new scaffold set vp for that purpos◠in the market place In this moneth of August sir Thomas Smith one of the quéenes maiesties priuie councell carefullie tendering the reformation of Ireland sent his son Thomas Smith esquier thither with a certeine number of Englishmen to inhabit the Ards in Ulster after the maner of a colonie vsed by the Romans The eighteenth of Nouember in the morning was line 30 séene a star northward verie bright and cléere in the constellation of Cassiopeia at the backe of hir chaire which with thrée chéefe fixed stars of the said constellation made a geometricall figure losengwise of the learned men called Rhombus This starre in bignes at the first appeering séemed bigger than Iupiter not much lesse than Uenus when she seemeth greatest Also the said starre neuer changing his place was caried about with the dailie motion of heauen as all fixed starres commonlie are and so continued line 40 by little and little to the eie appearing lesse for the space of almost sixtéene moneths at what time it was so small that rather thought by exercises of off vewing might imagine the place than anie eie could iudge the presence of the same And one thing is herein cheefelie to be noted that by the skill and consent of the best and most expert mathematicians which obserued the state propertie and other circumstances belonging to the same starre it was found line 50 to haue beene in place celestiall far aboue the moone otherwise than euer anie comet hath béene séene or naturallie can appéere Therefore it is supposed that the signification therof is directed purposelie and speciallie to some matter not naturall but celestiall or rather supercelestiall so strange as from the beginning of the world neuer was the like The foure and twentith of Nouember Edward earle of Darbie lord Stanleie Strange of Knocking lord and gouernor of the Iles of Man knight line 60 of the noble order of the garter and one of the quéens maiesties priuie
councell deceased at his house called Latham in Lancaâ—hire His life and death deseruing commendation and crauing memorie to be imitated was such as followeth His fidelitie vnto two kings and two queenes in dangerous times and great rebellions in which time and alwaies as cause serued he was lieutenant of Lancashire and Chesshire and latelie offered ten thousand men vnto the quéenes maiestie of his owne charge for the suppression of the last rebellion His godlie disposition to his tenants neuer forcing anie seruice at their hands but due paiment of their rent His liberalitie to strangers and such as shewed themselues gratefull to him His famous housekéeping and eleuen score in checkroll neuer discontinuing the space of twelue yeares His féeding especiallie of aged persons twise a daie thrée score and od besides all commers thrise a wéeke appointed for his dealing daies and euerie good fridaie these fiue and thirtie yeares one with another two thousand seauen hundred with meat drinke monie and monie worth There was neuer gentleman or other that waited in his seruice but had allowance from him to haue as well wages as otherwise for horsse and man His yeerlie portion for the expenses of his house foure thousand pounds His cunning in setting bones disiointed or broken his surgerie and desire to helpe the poore his deliuerie of the George and seale to the lord Strange with exhortation that he might kéepe it so vnspotted in fidelitie to his prince as he had and his ioie that he died in the quéenes fauour His ioifull parting this world his taking leaue of all his seruants by shaking of hands his remembrance to the last daie The eight and twentith of Nouember Iohn Hall late of Battell in Sussex gentleman and Oswold Wilkinson late of Yorke and gailor of Yorke castell being before arreigned and condemned of treason were drawne from the tower of London to Tiborne and there hanged bowelled and quartered This yéere a great and sharpe frost almost continuallie lasted from before the feast of All saints till after the feast of the Epiphanie of our Lord with somtime great and déepe snowes and sometime raines which fréesed as fast as the same fell to the ground wherethrough at Wrotham in Kent and manie other places the armes and boughs of trées being ouercharged with I se brake off and fell from the stockes of the same trées Also the wind continued north and east till after the Ascension daie with sharpe frosts and snowes whereby followed a late spring The twelfe of Ianuarie William lord Howard year 1573 baron of Effingham lord priuie seale knight of the noble order of the garter and one of the priuie councell deceased at Hampton court The eightéenth of Ianuarie William lord Smmerset earle of Worcester began his iourneie towards France to the christening of the kings daughter there in stead of the quéenes maiestie of England who sent with him a font of gold for that purpose weieng thrée hundred and six and twentie ounces The said earle with manie of his companie were robbed vpon the sea by pirats of much of their baggage and thrée or foure of their men slaine In France he and his traine were honorablie receiued At the christening he gaue the child to name Elisabeth They returned into England the seauen and twentith of Februarie In the moneth of Februarie thorough sundrie heinous complaints brought to the quéenes maiestie and hir councell of pirats that kept the narrow seas dooing manie robberies as also the robbing of the earle of Worcester as is aforesaid hiâ— highnesse by the aduise of hir honourable councell tooke order with the lord admerall of England that he should send to the seas ships and men to scowre the narow seas to apprehend so manie pirats ships as might be met with And for the better dooing thereof it pleased hir maiestie to send one of hir owne ships named the Swallow to be the admerall vnder the charge of William Holstocke of London esquier comptrollor of hir highnesse ships who had with him the Gillian the barke Garet and the barke of Yarmouth and thrée hundred and thrée score able mariners gunners and souldiors in the said thrée ships and one barke which scowred the narrow seas from the north foreland as farre westward as Falmouth in Cornewall and tooke twentie ships and baâ—ks of sundrie nations to wit English French and Flemmings but all pirats and in fashion of warre He apprehended in those ships and barks to the number of nine hundred men of all nations and sent them to ward to Sandwich Douer Wight and Portesmouth whereof thrée of them that robbed the earle of Worcester were shortlie after executed at Wight Also the said William Holstocke did rescue and take from the aboue said pirats ships fiftéene other merchants ships laden with merchandize that were their line 10 prises being of sundrie nations and set at libertie the said fiftéene merchants ships and goods which doone he returned to Portesmouth and there ended his voiage in March The fourth of March a man was hanged in chains in saint Georges field beyond Southworke of London for murthering the gailor of Horsham in the same field The seuentéenth of March deceassed Reinold Greie of Ruthin earle of Kent at Herneseie and was buried at saint Giles without Creplegate line 20 About the same time died Edmund lord Shandois The fiue and twentith of March being wednesdaie in Easter wéeke and the feast of the Annuntiation of our ladie George Browne cruellie murthered two honest men néere to Shooters hill in Kent the one of them was a wealthie merchant of London named George Sanders the other Iohn Beane of Woolwich which murther was committed in manner as followeth On tuesdaie in Easter wéeke the foure and twentith of March the said George Browne receiuing line 30 secret intelligence by letter from mistresse Anne Drurie that master Sanders should lodge the same night at the house of one master Barnes in Woolwich and from thense go on foot to saint Marie Craie the next morning he laie in wait for him by the waie a little from Shooters hill and there slue both him Iohn Beane seruant to master Barnes But Iohn Beane hauing ten or eleuen wounds being left for dead by Gods prouidence did reuiue againe and créeping awaie on all foure was found line 40 by an old man and his maiden and conueied vnto Woolwich where he gaue euident marks of the murtherer Immediatlie vpon the déed dooing Browne sent mistresse Drurie word thereof by Roger Clement among them called trustie Roger he himselfe repaired foorthwith to the court at Greenewich anon after him came thither the report of the murther also Then departed he thense vnto London and came to the house of mistresse Drurie where â—hough he line 50 spake not personallie with hir after conference had with hir seruant trustie Roger she prouided him twentie pounds that same daie for