and taken prisoners with a great number of their noblemen whereas they were in hope to haue gone awaie with the conquest and to haue had renowme line 20 for their reward Of which ouerthrow giuen to both these kings with the clemencie of king Edward in whose hands though their liues laie to be disposed as he list yet he was so far from violating the same that he shewed himselfe a woonderfull fauourer of their estates and in fine not onelie put them to their reasonable ransoms but restored them to their roialties from the which their sinister lot had deposed them Christopher Okland hath left this remembred Plantageneta duos reges iam illustris habebat line 30 Captiuos tenuit comites custodia mitis Multos ambabus claro regionibus ortos Sanguine quos saeuo bello cepere Britanni Attamen Eduardi viguit clementia regis Tanta tanta animo virtus innata sedebat Vt pretio pacto dimitteret aere redemptos In patriam ad propriae consanguinitatis amicos In this foure and thirtith yeare of king Edward men and cattell were destroied in diuerse places of this realme by lightening and tempest also houses line 40 were set on fier and burnt and manie strange and woonderfull sights seene ¶ The same yeare Edward prince of Wales married the countesse of Kent which before was wife vnto the lord Thomas Holland and before that she was also wife vnto the erle of Salisburie and diuorsed from him and wedded to the same lord Holland She was daughter vnto Edmund earle of Kent brother to king Edward the second that was beheaded in the beginning of this kings reigne as before yée haue heard And bicause line 50 the prince and shee were within degrees of consanguinitie forbidden to marrie a dispensation was gotten from the pope to remooue that let In this yeare also was a great death of people namelie of men for women were not so much subiect thereto This was called the second mortalitie bicause it was the second that fell in this kings daies This yeare also by the death of Richard fitz Rafe primat of Ardmach that departed this life in the court of Rome and also of Richard Kilminton deceassed line 60 here in England the discord that had continued for the space of three or foure yeares betwixt them of the cleargie on the one part and the foure orders of friers on the other part was now quieted and brought to end Moreouer this yeare appeared two castels in the aire of the which the one appeared to the southeast and the other in the southwest out of which castels about the houre of noone sundrie times were séene hosts of armed men as appeared to mans sight issuing foorth and that host which sailed out of the castell in the southeast seemed white and the other blacke They appeared as they should haue fought either against other and first the white had the vpper hâ—nd and after was ouercome and so vanished out of sight About the same time the souldiors which were discharged in France and out of wages by the breaking vp of the warres assembled togither and did much hurt in that realme as in the French histories yée may read Their cheefe leaders were Englishmen and Gascoignes subiects to the king of England The king assembled the states of his realme in parlement at Westminster in the feast of the Conuersion of S. Paule and there was declared vnto them the tenor and whole effect of the peace concluded betwixt England and France wherewith they were greatlie pleased and herevpon the nobles of the realme and such Frenchmen as were hostages came togither at Westminster church on the first sundaie of Lent next following and there such as were not alreadie sworne receiued the oth for performance of the same peace in a right solemne manner hauing the tenour of their oths written in certeine scrols and after they had taken their oths vpon the sacrament and masse booke they deliuered the same scrols vnto certeine notaries appointed to receiue and register the same The mortalitie yet during that noble duke Henrie of Lancaster departed this life on the éeuen of the Annunciation of our ladie and was buried at Leicester ¶ Iohn of Gant the fourth son to the king who had married his daughter the ladie Blanch as before yee haue heard succéeded him in that dutchie as his heire in right of the said ladie The same yeere also died the lord Reginold Cobham the lord Walter fitz Warren and thrée bishops Worcester London and Elie. This yeare vpon the fiftéenth day of Ianurie there rose such a passing wind year 1362 that the like had not béene heard of in manie yéeres before It began about euensong time in the south and that with such force that it ouerthrew and blew downe strong and mightie buildings as towers steeples houses and chimnies This outragious wind continued thus for the space of six or seauen daies whereby euen those buildings that were not ouerthrowne and broken downe were yet so shaken that they without reparing were not able long to stand After this followed a verie wet season namelie in the summer time and haruest so that much corne and haie was lost and spoiled for want of seasonable weather to gather in the same The lord Lionell the kings sonne went ouer into Ireland to be deputie to his father there and was created duke of Clarence and his brother Edmund was created earle of Cambridge also Edward prince of Wales was by his father king Edward inuested duke of Guien and did homage vnto his father for the same in like manner and forme as his father and other kings of England were accustomed to do for the said dutchie to the kings of France And afterwards about the feast of Candlemasse next insuing the said prince sailed into Gascoigne and arriued at Burdeaux taking vpon him the gouernment and rule of the countrie Moreouer this yeare the fiue first daies of Maie were kept roiall iusts in Smithfield by London the king and queene being present with a great multitude of the nobles and gentlemen of both the realms of England and France at which time came hither Spaniards Cipriots and Armenians requiring aid of the king against the infidels that sore molested their confines ¶ The staple of wols was this yeare remooued to Calis Also the sixtéenth of October a parlement began that was called at Westminster which continued till the feast daie of S. Brice on which daie the king at that time fiftie yeares then past was borne wherevpon as it were in the yeare of his iubile he shewed himselfe more gratious to his people granting pardon to offendors and reuoking outlawes Moreouer it was ordeined in this parlement that no maner of person of what estate or degrée soeuer he was the king the quéene and dukes onelie excepted should haue any purueiers of vittels nor should take vp any
he tormenteth where he vanquisheth what the will and power of a souereigne ouer a subiect may force in cases of iniquitie where by vertue and grace he be not restrained line 40 the zeale of a parent the pangs of a child but chéeflie the verie plague of Gods wrath and indignation vpon wilfull and obstinate offendors all which at those daies though touched in Naples yet at all times and euerie where so well seruing for example and warning it hath beene thought verie conuenient the same in our stories also héere to be noted which was thus At this time newes were brought into France how king Lancelot the aduersarie to Lewes king of Sicill was departed and in manner line 50 thus It hapned that he fell in loue with a yoong damosell his owne physicians daughter a puzell verie beautifull and he in hope to inioy hir the easilier caused hir father for his consent to be talked withall in the matter which he vtterlie refused to grant and shewed foorth manie reasons for him but at last all causes excuses reiected sith though constreined he must néeds assent feined himselfe willing and content And forceing talke with his daughter vpon his mind in the matter cheeflie how méet it were line 60 she vsed his counsell how best with the king to keepe hir still in grace he gaue hir a little box of ointment and instruction withall that when the king should come to haue his will she should afore with that balme annoint all hir wombe the damosell on good obseruation did after at oportunitie as hir father taught hir Héerevpon so pittifullie came it to passe that the verie same night the king laie with hir his bellie and hirs were by and by set as it were all on a sindging fier with torments of such vnquenchable scorching and burning euen into the verie entrailes that he of his kingdome his life his loue and she of hir princelie promotion thus soone both togither made a sorrowfull end After the plaie of this lamentable tragedie the physician fled for his safetie and straight vpon the newes king Lewes gathered a great assemblie wherewith to passe towards Naples and sent before a good companie vnder the lord Longnie marshall of France In the second yeare of his reigne king Henrie called his high court of parlement the last daie of Aprill in the towne of Leicester in which parlement manie profitable lawes were concluded and manie petitions mooued were for that time deferred Amongst which one was that a bill exhibited in the parlement holden at Westminster in the eleuenth yeare of king Henrie the fourth which by reason the king was then troubled with ciuill discord came to none effect might now with good deliberation be pondered and brought to some good conclusion The effect of which supplication was that the temporall lands deuoutlie giuen and disordinatlie spent by religious and other spirituall persons should be seized into the kings hands sith the same might suffice to mainteine to the honor of the king and defense of the realme fiftéene earles fiftéene hundred knights six thousand and two hundred esquiers and a hundred almesse-houses for reliefe onelie of the poore impotent and needie persons and the king to haue cleerelie to his coffers twentie thousand pounds with manie other prouisions and values of religious houses which I passe ouer This bill was much noted and more feared among the religious sort whom suerlie it touched verie neere and therefore to find remedie against it they determined to assaie all waies to put by and ouerthrow this bill wherein they thought best to trie if they might mooue the kings mood with some sharpe inuention that he should not regard the importunate petitions of the commons Wherevpon on a daie in the parlement Henrie Chichelie archbishop of Canturburie made a pithie oration wherein he declared how not onelie the duchies of Normandie and Aquitaine with the counties of Aniou and Maine and the countrie of Gascoigne were by vndoubted title apperteining to the king as to the lawfull and onelie heire of the same but also the whole realme of France as heire to his great grandfather king Edward the third Herein did he much inueie against the surmised and false fained law Salike which the Frenchmen alledge euer against the kings of England in barre of their iust title to the crowne of France The verie words of that supposed law are these In terram Salicam mulieres ne succedant that is to saie Into the Salike land let not women succeed Which the French glossers expound to be the realme of France and that this law was made by king Pharamond whereas yet their owne authors affirme that the land Salike is in Germanie betwéene the riuers of Elbe and Sala and that when Charles the great had ouercome the Saxons he placed there certeine Frenchmen which hauing in disdeine the dishonest maners of the Germane women made a law that the females should not succéed to any inheritance within that land which at this daie is called Meisen so that if this be true this law was not made for the realme of France nor the Frenchmen possessed the land Salike till foure hundred and one and twentie yeares after the death of Pharamond the supposed maker of this Salike law for this Pharamond deceassed in the yeare 426 and Charles the great subdued the Saxons and placed the Frenchmen in those parts beyond the riuer of Sala in the yeare 805. Moreouer it appeareth by their owne writers that king Pepine which deposed Childerike claimed the crowne of France as heire generall for that he was descended of Blithild daughter to king Clothair the first Hugh Capet also who vsurped the crowne vpon Charles duke of Loraine the sole heire male of the line and stocke of Charles the great to make his title seeme true and appeare good though in déed it was starke naught conueied himselfe as heire to the ladie Lingard daughter to king Charlemaine sonne to Lewes the emperour that was son to Charles the great King Lewes also the tenth otherwise called saint Lewes being verie heire to the said vsurper Hugh Capet could neuer be satisfied in line 10 his conscience how he might iustlie keepe and possesse the crowne of France till he was persuaded and fullie instructed that quéene Isabell his grandmother was lineallie descended of the ladie Ermengard daughter and heire to the aboue named Charles duke of Loraine by the which marriage the bloud and line of Charles the great was againe vnited and restored to the crowne scepter of France so that more cléere than the sunne it openlie appeareth that the title of king Pepin the claime of Hugh line 20 Capet the possession of Lewes yea and the French kings to this daie are deriued and conueied from the heire female though they would vnder the colour of such a fained law barre the kings and princes of this realme of England of their right and lawfull inheritance The archbishop
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
earldome of Glocester as noteth Iohn Beuer in these words Richardus haeres comitis Glouerniae Margaretam filiam Hoberti de Burgo comitis Cantiae in vxorem accepit This Hubert of Burow was a verie old man who after manie persecutions by the king and after so manie chances of both fortunes departed this world on the fourth ides of Maie in the line 50 yeare of our redemption 1243 being the seuen and twentith yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the third at his manour of Banstud or Bansted Whose bodie was honorablie caried to London and there buried in the church of the frier preachers to whom in his life he had giuen great gifts and amongst other things his goodlie place which stood not far from the palace of earle Richard of Cornewall as I with some probable reasons coniecture néere vnto Westminster which afterward the archbishop of Yorke did procure His wife the countesse of Kent line 60 being likewise verie old a woman that kept verie great hospitalitie and that was well beloued died in the yeare of Christ 1259 being the three and fortith yeare of Henrie the third about sixteene years after the death of the earle hir husband Walter Greie archbishop of Yorke was made protector of the realme in this sort The French king hauing vniustlie giuen the earldome of Poitiers to his brother Adulphus Hugh Brune earle of March the greatest of the nobilitie in that prouince would not doo homage vnto Adulphus but wrote his letters to his son in law king Henrie the third whose mother Eleanor he had married that if he would come into those parts he should haue both aid of men and furniture of war for the perfect restoring of those dominions to the crowne of England For which cause Henrie the third assembling his power did with his brother Richard then latelie returned froÌ„ Ierusalem depart the realme in the yéere of our redemption 1242 being the six twentith yeare of his gouernment into Poitiers left the administration of the kingdome to Walter Greie archbishop of Yorke whilest he should remaine in those parts Which office the said archbishop held also in the yéere of Christ 1243 being the seauen and twentith yéere of king Henrie the third Of this man is more mention made in my collection of the chancellors of England in this place onelie further setting downe that this Walter died in the yeere of Christ 1255 being about the nine and thirtith yeare of this Henrie the third as hath Anonymus M. S. Eleanor daughter to Reimond earle of Prouince wife to king Henrie the third and quéene of England with Richard earle of Cornewall the kings brother to whose custodie was committed Edward Longshanks being after king of England by the name of Edward the first son to the said king Henrie were in the yéere of our redemption 1253 being the seuen and thirtith yeere of the reigne of king Henrie the third appointed gouernors and protectors of the realme in the kings absence whilest he went into Gascoine whither he went to pacifie the nobilitie and to kéepe the same in safetie from the French And because my pen hath here fallen vpon Richard earle of Cornwall I determine to say somewhat of him in this place not hauing other occasion offered to me therefore This Richard the son of king Iohn was borne in the yeare of Christ 1208 being the tenth yeare of the reigne king Iohn He was made and so called earle of Poitiers by Henrie the third about the ninth yéere of his reigne in the yéere of Christ 1225 who also that yéere with his vncle William earle of Sarisburie went into Poitiers where he was ioifullie receiued he putteth the earle of March to flight he recouereth that which was lost in Gascoine he went into the holie land refuseth the kingdome of Apulia offered vnto him he is chosen emperor and receiueth that honor at Colen being there crowned king of the Romans he subdued Alfonsus competitor with him for the empire he after returneth into England he is an enimie to Simon Montfort and the barons rebelling against his brother king Henrie the third he is taken prisoner by the barons and is afterward deliuered he was created knight and earle of Cornwall in the yeare of our redemption 1225 as hath Matthew Westminster but as saith William Packington he was created earle of Cornwall in the yeare of Christ 1227. He married foure wiues if that Elisabeth his first wife and Isabell the widow of Gilbert de Clare were not all one woman But leauing that to further knowledge I doo for this time make them but one person for so in truth it must be whatsoeuer otherwise shall be shewed in mistaking their names Elizabeth that was his first wife as noteth Leland was buried in the quéere of Belland being that woman which is called Isabell and was the daughter of William Marshall earle of Penbroke surnamed the great and the widow of Gilbert de Clare earle of Glocester was maried to this erle of Cornwall in the yeare of our Lord 1231 being the fiftéenth yeare of king Henrie the third This Isabell died in the yeare of our redemption 1240 being the foure and twentith yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the third after this manner For she being great with child and néere to the time of hir deliuerance fell into Merâ—um ictericum or the hicket and deliuering a child into the world which had life and was baptised by the name of Nicholas they both presentlie died therevpon Which thing when the earle vnderstood being then on his iourneie into Cornwall he burst out in teares and greatlie lamented that losse Wherefore hastilie returning and leauing his former iourneie he honorablie buried his wife at Belland or Beauleu an house of religion builded by king Iohn from the foundation and replenished with Charterhouse moonks line 10 His second wife was Sinthia or Sanclia daughter to Reimond earle of Prouince and sister to the queene of England wife to king Henrie the third brother to the said Richard earle of Cornwall who maried the said Sinthia in the yeare of our redemption 1243 being the seuen and twentith yéere of the reigne of king Henrie the third Leland also appointeth to him the third wife which was Beatrix de Famastais whom he calleth quéene of Almaine wife to king Richard brother to Henrie the third Which ladie died in the yere of our redemption 1277 being line 20 the sixt yéere of Edward the first and was buried at the friers minors in Oxford This noble Richard erle of Cornwall died in Februarie at Berkhamsted in the yeare of Christ 1271 in the fiue and fiftith yeare of king Henrie the third as saie Matthew Paris and Matthew Westminster but Nicholas Triuet referreth his death to the yeare 1270 being the foure and fiftith yéere of Henrie the third and the chronicle belonging to Euesham to the yeare 1272 being the six and fiftith yeare of Henrie the third After whose
vp an high waie that directed towards the market towne of Cerne and yet notwithstanding the hedges wherewith it was inclosed inuiron it still and the trées stand thereon bolt vpright sauing one oke trée that is well nigh twentie goads remooued the place whereas the ground had his being at the first is left like vnto a great hollow pit The same thirteenth daie of Ianuarie being sundaie about line 30 foure of the clocke in the afternoone the old and vnderpropped scaffolds round about the beare garden commonlie called Paris garden on the southside the Thames ouer against the citie of London ouercharged with people fell suddenlie downe whereby to the number of eight persons men and women were slaine and manie other sore hurt and brused A fréendlie warning to all such as more delight themselues in the crueltie of beasts to sée them rent one an other line 40 than in the works of mercie which are the fruits of a true professed faith and ought to be the sabboth daies exercise and not onelie a warning to works of mercie but a watchword to put vs in mind how we violate the sabboth daie the Lords owne daie which he sanctified himselfe that we by his example might sanctifie the same and not prophane it with such gentilisme as we doo as though God would not call vs to a râ—ckoning for abusing his holie ordinances and falsifieng the glorious title of christians in line 50 our odious actions for the which God will seuerelie expostulat with vs and with indignation demand of vs why we take his lawes in our mouths renounce them in our minds why we let them swim in our lips and slip from our liues as the vaine Iewes did vnto whome God said in displeasure as followeth Quid de lege mea declamas ore profano Non hoc officij debuit esse tui Cùm tamen mores leges oderis aequas Et verbi officium negligis omne mei line 60 On the third of Februarie being sundaie William Bruistar habardasher a man of more than threescore yeares old being lodged ouer the southwest porch of saint Brides church in Fleetstréet with a woman named Marie Breame whome the same Bruistar had bailed out of Bridewell were both found smothered to death in maner following On the same sundaie in the morning a marriage being solemnized in that church a strong fauour was felt which was thought to haue béene the burning of old shooes or such like in some gentlemans chamber there about thereby to suppresse the infection of the plague But in the afternoone before euening praier the parishioners espied a smoke to issue out of Bruistars chamber and therevpon made hast to the dore which they found fast locked and were forced to breake it open but could not enter till they had ripped vp the lead and roofe of the chamber to let out the smothering stench which being doone they found Bruistar dead sitting on a settle by his beds side in his apparell and close trussed his right thigh right arme vp to the elbow burnt or scorched with the fire of a small pan of coales that stood before him but now being cleane quenched with the dampe or lacke of aire The woman also laie dead ouer the pan so that hir armes were likewise burnt with the nether part of hir bodie before to hir brest and behind to the shoulders and nothing else in the chamber burnt but the bottome of the settle wheron Bruistar sat Of this lamentable accident people talked diuerslie and pamphlets were published to make the same more knowne howbeit to leaue the certeine meanes of the euent to his knowledge that vnderstandeth and séeth all things let it be a warning to all ages so to liue as that an honest report may attend their death shame flie from them as a cloud before the wind Sic sapient sic non insipientes erunt On the sixteenth of Aprill about six of the clocke in the morning Thomas Worth Alice Shepheard year 1583 were hanged on a gibbet at Shoolane end in Fléetstreet for killing of a prentice in the same Shoolane Also on the same daie about eight of the clocke in the morning a gunpowder house called the signe of the gun in Fetterlane néere vnto Fléetstréet and diuerse other houses néere adioining were blowne vp with the spoire of fiftie hundred weight of powder two men and one woman were slaine diuerse other persons as well men as women and children were sore hurt some blasted with the flame some brused with the fall of timber vpon them c. Albertus Alasco frée baron of Lasco Uaiuode or palatine of Siradia in Poland arriued at Harwich in Essex and on the last of Aprill came by water to Winchester house in Southworke where he remained for the most part of his abode heere of whome more hereafter at his returne into his owne countrie Elias Thackar tailor was hanged at saint Edmunds burie in Suffolke on the fourth of Iune and Iohn Coping shoomaker on the sixt of the same moneth for spreading and mainteining certeine bookes seditiouslie penned by one Robert Browne against the receiued booke of English common praier established by the lawes of this realme their bookes so manie as could be found were burned before them This yeare on the ninth of Iune deceased Thomas Ratclife earle of Sussex lord chamberleine to hir maiestie and knight of the garter at Barmundseie in the borough of Southworke besides London and was on the eight of Iulie next following conueied through the same citie of London toward Newhall in Essex there to be buried in forme folowing First went on foot before him fortie and fiue poore men in blacke gownes then on horssebacke one hundred and twentie seruingmen in blacke coats then ninetie and fiue gentlemen in blacke gownes or clokes besides the heralds at armes and other which bare his helme creast sword coat of armes and banners of armes c. Then the deceased earle couered with a pall of blacke veluet in a chariot likewise couered with blacke veluet drawne with foure goodlie geldings next after was led the earles stéed couered with blacke veluet then sir Henrie Ratclife the succéeding erle chiefe mourner and eight other lords all in blacke then the lord maior and his brethren the aldermen of London riding in murraie gownes then on foot the gentlemen of Greis in and last of all the worshipfull companie of the merchant tailors of London in their liueries for that the said earle was a brother of their companie as manie noble men and famous princes kings of this realme before him had béene as more at large is declared in the summarie of the chronicles of England in the eightéenth yeare of king Henrie the seuenth The maior and aldermen the gentlemen of Greis in and the merchant tailors accompanied the corps to the barres without Aldgate and returned This was the end of that nobleman who whiles he liued
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
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
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
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
capteine thereof sir Rafe Greie defended it so manfullie for the space of twentie daies that king Iames being then aduertised that the earle of Northumberland was comming to fight with him fled with no lesse losse than dishonor and inough of both line 20 Shortlie after that the duke of Burgognie had béene before Calis at the desire of princes a truce for a time was moued to be had betwéene the king of England the said duke For which cause were sent to Grauelin for the king of England Henrie Beauford cardinall of Winchester Iohn lord Mowbraie duke of Northfolke Humfrie earle of Stafford and diuerse other well learned honorable personages And for the duke of Burgognie there appeared the duchesse his wife the bishop of Arras the lord of line 30 Croie and diuerse other At this treatie a truce was taken for a small time and for a lesse obserued which was concluded betweene the king of England and the duchesse of Burgognie interlacing the duke and his name Some thinke that the king of England would neuer enter in league with him bicause he had broken his promise oth and writing sealed to him and to his father Other imagined this to be doone of a cautell to cast a mist before the French kings eies to the line 40 intent he should beléeue that this feat was wrought by the duchesse without assent or knowledge of the duke or his councell and so he was not bound to accomplish anie act or thing doone in his wiues treatie Thus may you sée that princes sometime with such vaine glosses and scornefull expositions will hide their dooings and cloke their purposes to the intent they would not either be espied or else that they may plucke their heads out of the collar at their pleasure But as the common opinion goeth he which is line 50 a promise-breaker escapeth not alwaies with impunitie For it is well seene by dailie and vsuall euents both in princes and priuat persons that for violating their faith and breaking of promise manie discommodities arise and inconueniences not a few doo follow To the due keeping whereof the heathen bare such a religious conscience that a prophane man in respect of others preferreth it before sacrifice the sentence is of great excellencie out of a pagans mouth Non boue mactato coelestia numina gaudent line 60 Sed quae praestanda est sine teste fide About this season queene Katharine mother to the king of England departed out of this life and was buried by hir husband in the abbeie of Westminster This woman after the death of king Henrie the fift hir husband being yoong and lustie following more hir owne wanton appetite than fréendlie counsell and regarding more priuate affection than prince-like honour tooke to husband priuilie a galant gentleman and a right beautifull person indued with manie goodlie gifts both of bodie mind called Owen Teuther a man descended of the noble linage and ancient line of Cadwallader last king of the Britains By this Owen she brought foorth thrée goodlie sonnes Edmund Iasper and another that was a monke in Westminster and liued a small time also a daughter which in hir youth departed out of this transitorie life King Henrie after the death of his mother bicause they were his brethren of one wombe created Edmund earle of Richmund and Iasper earle of Penbroke which Edmund of Margaret daughter and sole heire to Iohn duke of Summerset begat Henrie who after was king of this realme called Henrie the seuenth of whome ye shall heare more in place conuenient This Owen after the death of the quéene his wife was apprehended and committed toward bicause that contrarie to the statute made in the sixt yeare of this king he presumptuouslie had maried the quéene without the kings especiall assent out of which prison he escaped and let out other with him but was againe apprehended and after escaped againe ¶ Polychronicon saith that he was a squier of low birth and like degrée the same author also reporteth that he was commanded to Newgate by the duke of Glocester then lord protector of the realme out of which prison he brake by the helpe of a preest that was his chapline Neuerthelesse he was apprehended afterwards by the lord Beaumont brought againe to Newgate whence when he had remained there a while he was deliuered and set at libertie The duchesse of Bedford also sister to Lewes erle of S. Paule more for affection than increase of honour without counsell of hir freends maried a lustie yoong knight called sir Richard Wooduile to the great displeasure of hir vncle the bishop of Terwine and the earle hir brother This sir Richard was made baron of Riuers and after earle and had by this ladie manie noble sonnes and faire daughters of the which one was the ladie Elizabeth after queene of England by reason she was married vnto Edward the fourth ¶ Whilest this marriage was a celebrating Iane late quéene of England and before duchesse of Britaine daughter to the king of Nauarre and wife to king Henrie the fourth died at the manor of Hauering and was buried by hir husband at Canturburie ¶ About the same time deceassed also the countesse of Warwike and Henrie archbishop of Yorke In this yeare also the duke of Summerset accompanied with the lords of Fauconbridge Talbot sir Francis Surien the Arrogonnois Matthew Gough Thomas Paulet Thomas Harington Walter Limbrike Iohn Gedding William Watton esquiers and Thomas Hilton bailiffe of Rone with a great companie of the English partie besieged the towne of Harflue latelie before gotten by the Frenchmen both by water and land the capteine within the towne was one sir Iohn d'Estouteuille hauing his brother Robert with him and a six hundred good fighting men The assailants cast trenches and so fortified themselues in their campe and lodgings that when the earles of Ew and Dunois the valiant bastard of Bourbon the lord Gawcourt and other famous capteins with a foure thousand men sent to the rescue of them within came bâ—fore the towne they could not succour their fréends nor annoie their enimies by anie meanes they could deuise so for feare to lose honour they returned backe againe with much trauell and little profit The capteins within the towne perceiuing they could not be aided did shortlie after render the towne to the duke of Summerset who after committed it to the kéeping of Thomas Paulet William Limbrike Christopher Barber and George saint George which manie yeares till the diuision began in England manfullie and valiantlie defended both the towne and the hauen But afterward when this duke of Summerset was regent and gouernour of Normandie he not onlie lost this towne of Harflue but also the citie of Rone and the whole duchie of Normandie whereas now being but a deputie he got it to his high praise and glorie In this yeare was Iames king of Scots murthered
little while departed thense And soone after one houre betwéene ten eleuen he returned into the chamber amongst them all changed with a woonderfull soure angrie countenance knitting the browes frowning and fretting and gnawing on his lips and so sat him downe in his place All the lords were much dismaid and sore maruelled at this maner of sudden change and what thing should him aile Then when he had sitten still a while thus he began What were they worthie to haue that compasse and imagine the destruction of me being so néere of bloud vnto the king and protector of his roiall person and his realme At this question all the lords sat sore astonied musing much by whome this question should be meant of which euerie man wist himselfe cléere Then the lord chamberlaine as he that for the loue betwéene them thought he might be boldest with him answered and said that they were worthie to be punished as heinous traitors whatsoeuer they were And all the other affirmed the same That is quoth he yonder sorâ—erâ—sse my brothers wife and other with hir meaning the queene At these words manie of the other lords were greatlie abashed that fauoured hir But the lord Hastings was in his mind better content that it was mooued by hir than by anie other whome he loued better albeit his heart somewhat grudged that he was not afore made of counsell in this matter as he was of the taking of hir kinred and of their putting to death which were by his assent before deuised to be beheaded at Pomfret this selfe same daie in which he was not ware that it was by other deuised that he himselfe should be beheaded the same daie at London Then said the protector Ye shall all sée in what wise that sorceresse and that other witch of hir councell Shores wife with their affinitie haue by their sorcerie and witchcraft wasted my bodie And therwith he plucked vp his dublet sléeue to his elbow vpon his left arme where he shewed a weerish withered arme and small as it was neuer other Herevpon euerie mans mind sore misgaue them well perceiuing that this matter was but a quarell For they well wist that the quéene was too wise to go about anie such follie And also if she would yet would she of all folke least make Shores wife of hir counsell whome of all women she most hated as that concubine whome the king hir husband had most loued And also no man was there present but well knew that his arme was euer such since his birth Naithelesse the lord chamberlaine which from the death of king Edward kept Shores wife on whome he somewhat doted in the kings life sauing as it is said he that while forbare hir of reuerence toward the king or else of a certeine kind of fidelitie to his fréend answered and said Certeinelie my lord if they haue so heinouslie doone they be worthie heinous punishment What quoth the protector thou seruest me I wéene with ifs and with ands I tell thée they haue so doone and that I will make good on thy bodie traitor and therewith as in a great anger he clapped his fist vpon the boord a great rap At which token one cried Treason without the chamber Therewith a doore clapped and in come there rushing men in harnesse as manie as the chamber might hold And anon the protector said to the lord Hastings I arrest thée traitor What me my lord quoth he Yea thée traitor quoth the protector And an other let flie at the lord Stanleie which shrunke at the stroke fell vnder the table or else his head had béene cleft to the téeth for as shortlie as he shranke yet ran the bloud about his eares line 10 Then were they all quickelie bestowed in diuerse chambers except the lord chamberleine whome the protector bad speed and shriue him apace for by saint Paule quoth he I will not to dinner till I sée thy head off It booted him not to aske whie but heauilie tooke a priest at aduenture made a short shrift for a longer would not be suffered the protector made so much hast to dinner which he might not go to vntill this were doone for sauing of his oth So was he brought foorth to the gréene beside the chappell within line 20 the Tower and his head laid downe vpon a long log of timber and there striken off and afterward his bodie with the head interred at Windsor beside the bodie of king Edward both whose soules our Lord pardon Thus began he to establish his kingdome in bloud growing thereby in hatred of the nobles and also abridging both the line of his life and the time of his regiment for God will not haue bloudthirstie tyrants daies prolonged but will cut them off in their ruffe according to Dauids words line 30 Impio fallaci auidóque caedis Filamors rumpet viridi in iuuenta A maruellous case is it to heare either the warnings of that he should haue voided or the tokens of that he could not void For the selfe night next before his death the lord Stanleie sent a trustie messenger vnto him at midnight in all the hast requiring him to rise and ride awaie with him for he was disposed vtterlie no longer to bide he had so fearfull a dreame in which him thought that a boare with his tuskes so line 40 rased them both by the heads that the bloud ran about both their shoulders And forsomuch as the protector gaue the boare for his cognisance this dreame made so fearefull an impression in his heart that he was throughlie determined no longer to tarie but had his horsse readie if the lord Hastings would go with him to ride yet so farre the same night that they should be out of danger yer daie Ha good Lord quoth the lord Hastings to this messenger leaneth my lord thy maister so much to line 50 such trifles and hath such faith in dreames which either his owne feare fantasieth or doo rise in the nights rest by reason of his daies thought Tell him it is plaine witchcraft to beléeue in such dreames which if they were tokens of things to come why thinketh he not that we might be as likelie to make them true by our going if we were caught brought backe as fréends faile fliers for then had the boare a cause likelie to rase vs with his tusks as folke that fled for some falsehood Wherefore either is there line 60 perill or none there is in deed or if anie be it is rather in going than biding And in case we should néeds fall in perill one waie or other yet had I rather that men should sée that it were by other mens falsehood than thinke it were either by our owne fault or faint heart And therefore go to thy maister man and commend me to him praie him be merie haue no feare for I insure him I am as sure of the man that he woteth of as I am of
nigh one hundred years He bestowed besides his owne labour which was great in hearing of stones c. aboue twentie pounds on the high waies about that towne of Wlfrunehampton This towne of Wlfrunehampton is now corruptlie called Wolnerhampton for in Anno 996 in king Ethelredstime who wrote himselfe Rex Anglorum line 40 princeps Northumbrorum Olympiade tertia regni sui for so he wrote the count of his reigne then which was the fiftéenth yeare it was then called Hampton as appeareth by an old charter written by the notarie of the said king Ethelred which charter I haue seene and read And for that a noble woman named Wlfrune a widow sometime wife to Althelme duke of Northampton did obteine of the said king to giue lands vnto the church there which she had founded the line 50 said towne tooke the addition of the same Wlfrune for that charter so nameth hir Wlfrune and the towne Hampton In this yeare was finished the goodlie hospitall of the Sauoie néere vnto Charing crosse which was a notable foundation for the poore doone by king Henrie the seauenth vnto the which he purchased and gaue lands for the releeuing of one hundred poore people This was first named Sauoie place by Peter earle of Sauoie father to Boniface archbishop of Canturburie about the nine and twentith yeare of line 60 king Henrie the third who made the said Peter erle of Richmond This house belonged since to the duke of Lancaster and at this time was conuerted to an hospitall still reteining the first name of Sauoie King Henrie also builded three houses of Franciscane friers which are called obseruants at Richmond Gréenewich and Newarke and three other of the familie of Franciscane friers which are called conuentuals at Canturburie Newcastell and Southhampton ¶ This yeare was Thomas Ruthall made bishop of Durham by Henrie the seauenth touching whose place of birth being at Cirencester now Cicester and himselfe I will not refuse to set downe what Leland about the yeare 1542 hath written not being vnfit héere to be recorded Cirencester saith he in Latine called Corinium standeth on the riuer Churne There haue beene thrée parish churches whereof saint Cicilies church is cleane downe being of late but a chappell Saint Laurence yet standeth but it is no parish church There be two poore almes women endued with land There is now but one parish church in all Cirencester that is verie faire the bodie of which church is all new worke to the which Ruthall bishop of Durham â—borne and brought vp in Cirencester promised much but preuented by death gaue nothing One Anne Aueling aunt to doctor Ruthall by the mothers side gaue one hundred markes to the building of that church King Henrie the first made the hospitall of saint Iohns at Cirencester Thus farre Leland This man thus borne at Cirencester in Glocestershire and made bishop of Durham was after the death of king Henrie the seauenth one of the priuie councell to king Henrie the eight in whose court he was so continuallie attendant that he could not steale anie time to attend the affaires of his bishoprike But yet not altogither carelesse though not so much as he ought to haue béene of the place and cause from whence and for which he receiued so great reuenues as came vnto his hands from that see He repaired the third part of Tine bridge next vnto the south which he might well doo for he was accompted the richest subiect through the realme To whome remaining then at the court the king gaue in charge to write a booke of the whole estate of the kingdome bicause he was knowne to the king to be a man of sufficiencie for the discharge thereof which he did accordinglie Afterwards the king commanded cardinall Woolseie to go to this bishop and to bring the booke awaie with him to deliuer to his maiestie But see the mishap that a man in all other things so prouident should now be so negligent and at that time most forget himselfe when as it after fell out he had most need to haue remembred himselfe For this bishop hauing written two bookes the one to answer the kings command and the other intreating of his owne priuate affaires did bind them both after one sort in vellame iust of one length bredth and thicknesse and in all points in such like proportion answering one an other as the one could not by anie especiall note be discerned from the other both which he also laid vp togither in one place of his studie Now when the cardinall came to demand the booke due to the king the bishop vnaduisedlie commanded his seruant to bring him the booke bound in white vellame lieng in his studie in such a place The seruant dooing accordinglie brought foorth one of those bookes so bound being the booke intreating of the state of the bishop and deliuered the same vnto his maister who receiuing it without further consideration or looking on gaue it to the cardinall to beare vnto the king The cardinall hauing the booke went from the bishop and after in his studie by himselfe vnderstanding the contents thereof he greatlie reioised hauing now occasion which he long sought for offered vnto him to bring the bishop into the kings disgrace Wherefore he went foorthwith to the king deliuered the booke into his hands and bréefelie informed the king of the contents thereof putting further into the kings head that if at anie time he were destitute of a masse of monie he should not need to séeke further therefore than to the cofers of the bishop who by the tenor of his owne booke had accompted his proper riches and substance to the value of a hundred thousand pounds Of all which when the bishop had intelligence what he had doon how the cardinall vsed him what the king said and what the world reported of him he was striken with such gréefe of the same that he shortlie through extreame sorrow ended his life at London in the yeare of Christ 1523. After whose death the cardinall which had long before gaped after the said bishoprike in singular hope to atteine therevnto had now his wish in effect which he the more easilie compassed for that he had his nets alwaies readie cast as assuring himselfe to take a line 10 trout following therein a prophane mans cautelous counsell and putting the same in practise who saith Casus vbique valet semper tibi pendeat hamus Quo minimè credis gurgite piscis erit The sicknesse which held the king dailie more and more increasing he well perceiued that his end drew néere and therefore meaning to doo some high pleasure to his people granted of his frée motion a generall pardon to all men for all offenses doone committed line 20 against anie his lawes or statutes théeues murtherers certeine other were excepted He paied also the fées of all prisoners in the gaoles in and about London
two twentith daie of Maie the king came into Westminster hall for whome at the vpper end was set a cloth of estate and the place hanged with arras With him was the cardinall the dukes of Norffolke and Suffolke the earles of Shrewsburie of Essex of Wiltshire Surrie with line 30 manie lords and other of the kings councell The maior aldermen with all the chiefe of the citie were there in their best liuerie according as the cardinall had appointed them by nine of the clocke Then the king commanded that all the prisoners should bée brought foorth so that in came the poore yoonglings and old false knaues bound in ropes all along one after another in their shirts and euerie one a halter about his necke to the number of foure hundred men line 40 and eleuen women And when all were come before the kings presence the cardinall sore laid to the maior and communalti◠their negligence and to the prisoners he declared that they had deserued death for their offense Then all the prisoners togither cried Mercie gratious lord mercie Herewith the lords altogither besought his grace of mercie at whose sute the king pardoned them all Then the cardinall gaue vnto them a good exhortation to the great gladnesse of the hearers line 50 Now when the generall pardon was pronounced all the prisoners showted at once all togither cast vp their halters into the hall roofe so that the king might perceiue they were none of the discréetest sort Here is to be noted that diuerse offendors which were not taken hearing that the king was inclined to mercie came well apparelled to Westminster and suddenlie stripped them into their shirts with halters and came in among the prisoners willinglie to be partakers of the kings pardon By which line 60 dooing it was well knowne that one Iohn Gelson yeoman of the crowne was the first that began to spoile and exhorted other to doo the same and bicause he fled and was not taken he came in with a rope among the other prisoners and so had his pardon This companie was after called the blacke wagon Then were all the gallowes within the citie taken downe and manie a good praier said for the king and the citizens tooke more héed to their seruants But the kings mercie ministred abundant matter of communication euerie one speciallie the pardoned and their alies sounding the benefit of his roiall clemencie whereby of dead men they became liuing and had susteined the seuere sentence of law had not mercie remitted the fault and the punishment which breaketh the force of iudgement as the poet trulie saith Iudicij neruos frangit miseratio clemens In Iune the king had with him diuerse ambassadours for solace of whome he prepared a costlie iustes he himselfe twelue more against the duke of Suffolke and other twelue His base and bard was the one halfe cloth of siluer the other halfe blacke tinsell On the siluer was a curious lose worke of veluet imbrodered with gold cut on the siluer and euerie cut ingrailed with gold so that that side was gold siluer and veluet On the blacke tinsell side was blacke veluet imbrodered with gold and cut and euerie cut was ingrailed with flat gold of damaske The base and bard were brodered with great letters of massie gold bullion full of pearles and stones maruellous rich all his companie were in like sute sauing that they had no iewels The king had on his head a ladies sleeue full of diamonds On the king attended gentlemen armourers and other officers to the number of an hundred and twentie fiue persons all in white veluet and white sattin horsse and harnesse for horssemen caps and hosen for footmen all white at the kings cost Thus roiallie the king and his companie with his waiters came to the tilts end Then entered the duke of Suffolke with the marques Dorset the earls of Essex and Surrie and eight other of his band in bards and bases of white veluet and crimsin sattin losenged set full of letters of C. M. of gold for Charles and Marie and they tooke the other end of the tilt Then the trumpets blue and the king and the duke ran fiercely togither and brake manie speares and so did all the other that it was hard to saie who did best But when the courses were run they ran volant one at another so that both by the report of sir Edward Gilford maister of the armourie and also of the iudges and heralds at these iustes were broken fiue hundred and six spears and then the king the same night made the ambassadours a sumptuous banket with manie riddels and much pastime After this great triumph the king appointed his ghests for his pastime this summer but suddenlie there came a plague of sickenesse called the sweating sickenesse that turned all his purpose This maladie was so cruell that it killed some within thrée houres some within two houres some merrie at dinner and dead at supper Manie died in the kings court the lord Clinton the lord Graie of Wilton and manie knights gentlemen and officers For this plague Michaelmasse tearme was adiourned And bicause that this maladie continued from Iulie to the midst of December the king kept himselfe euer with a small companie and held no solemne Christmasse willing to haue no resort for feare of infection but much lamented the number of his people for in some one towne halfe the people died and in some other towne the third part the sweat was so feruent and infectuous By the extremitie whereof and the multitudes with such suddennesse and present mortalitie dropping awaie it should seeme that they little remembred or at leastwise neglected the preseruatiue remedie vsed in the first great sweating sickenesse in king Henrie the seuenths time whereby as then manie a mans life was saued so now the like benefit by applieng of the same wholsome meanes might haue redounded to the patients In the beginning of this yeare Trinitie tearme was begun at Oxenford where it continued but one daie and was againe adiourned to Westminster This yeare came to Calis from pope Leo a legat De latere called Laurence Campeius borne in Bullogne la Grasse commonlie called cardinall Campeius to require the king of aid against the Turke At the request of the king of England and also of the French king which sought now to be receiued into fréendship with the king of England chéeflie by cardinall Woolsies meanes pope Leo constituted the said cardinall Woolsie his legat in England ioining him in commission with the said Campeius the which staid at Calis vntill the bulles were brought from Rome touching that matter There was also line 10 another cause that staid Campeius at Calis that was a sute which cardinall Woolsie had mooued for the obteining of the bishoprike of Bath which benefice cardinall Adrian Castalian inioied by the collation of king Henrie the seuenth This
can find in England they are not for my profit What thinke you my lords will anie Englishman counsell me or be fréend to me against the K. pleasure that is his subiect Naie forsooth And as for my counsell in whom I will put my trust they be not here they be in Spaine in my owne countrie And my lords I am a poore woman lacking wit to answer to anie such noble persons of wisedome as you be in so weightie a matter therefore I praie you be good to me poore woman destitute of fréends here in a forren region and your counsell also I will be glad to heare And therewith she tooke the cardinall by the hand and led him into hir priuie chamber with the other cardinall where they tarried a season talking with the quéene Which communication ended they departed to the king making to him relation of hir talke Thus this case went forward from court to court till it came to iudgement so that euerie man expected that iudgment would be giuen the next day At which daie the king came thither and set him downe in a chaire within a doore in the end of the gallerie which opened directlie against the iudgement seat to heare the iudgement giuen at which time all their proceedings were red in Latine That doone the kings councell at the barre called for iudgement With that quoth cardinall Campeius I will not giue iudgement till I haue made relation to the pope of all our procéedings whose counsell and commandement in this case I will obserue the case is verie doubtfull and also the partie defendant will make no answer here but dooth rather appeale from vs supposing that we be not indifferent Wherfore I will adiourne this court for this time according to the order of the court of Rome And with that the court was dissolued and no more doone This protracting of the conclusion of the matter king Henrie tooke verie displeasantlie Then cardinall Campeius tooke his leaue of the king and nobilitie and returned towards Rome Whilest these things were thus in hand the cardinall of Yorke was aduised that the king had set his affection vpon a yoong gentlewoman named Anne the daughter of sir Thomas Bullen vicount Rochford which did wait vpon the quéene This was a great griefe vnto the cardinall as he that perceiued aforehand that the king would marie the said gentlewoman if the diuorse tooke place Wherfore he began with all diligence to disappoint that match which by reason of the misliking that he had to the woman he iudged ought to be auoided more than present death While the matter stood in this state and that the cause of the quéene was to be heard and iudged at Rome by reason of the appeale which by hir was put in the cardinall required the pope by line 10 letters and secret messengers that in anie wise he should defer the iudgement of the diuorse till he might frame the kings mind to his purpose Howbeit he went about nothing so secretlie but that the same came to the kings knowledge who tooke so high displeasure with such his cloked dissimulation that he determined to abase his degrée sith as an vnthankefull person he forgot himselfe and his dutie towards him that had so highlie aduanced him to all honor and dignitie When the nobles of the line 20 realme perceiued the cardinall to be in displeasure they began to accuse him of such offenses as they knew might be proued against him and thereof they made a booke conteining certeine articles to which diuerse of the kings councell set their hands The king vnderstanding more plainlie by those articles the great pride presumption and couetousnesse of the cardinall was sore mooued against him but yet kept his purpose secret for a while Shortlie after a parlement was called to begin at Westminster the line 30 third of Nouember next insuing In the meane time the king being informed that all those things that the cardinall had doone by his power legantine within this realme were in the case of the premunire and prouision caused his atturneie Christopher Hales to sue out a writ of premunire against him in the which he licenced him to make his atturneie ¶ And further the seuentéenth of Nouember the king sent the two dukes of Norffolke and Suffolke to the cardinals place at Westminster line 40 who went as they were commanded and finding the cardinall there they declared that the kings pleasure was that he should surrender vp the great seale into their hands and to depart simplie vnto Asher which was an house situat nigh vnto Hampton court belonging to the bishoprike of Winchester The cardinall demanded of them their commission that gaue them such authoritie who answered againe that they were sufficient commissioners and had authoritie to doo no lesse by the kings line 50 mouth Notwithstanding he would in no wise agrée in that behalfe without further knowledge of their authoritie saieng that the great seale was deliuered him by the kings person to inioy the ministration thereof with the roome of the chancellor for the terme of his life whereof for his suertie he had the kings letters patents This matter was greatlie debated betwéene them with manie great words in so much that the dukes were faine to depart againe without their purpose and rode to Windsore to the king and made report line 60 accordinglie but the next daie they returned againe bringing with them the kings letters Then the cardinall deliuered vnto them the great seale and was content to depart simplie taking with him nothing but onelie certeine prouision for his house and after long talke betwéene him and the dukes they departed with the great seale of England and brought the same to the king Then the cardinall called all his officers before him and tooke accompt of them for all such stuffe whereof they had charge And in his gallerie were set diuerse tables wherevpon laie a great number of goodlie rich stuffe as whole péeces of silke of all colours veluet sattin damaske taffata grograine and other things Also there laie a thousand peeces of fine Holland cloth There was laid on euerie table bookes reporting the contents of the same and so was there inuentaries of all things in order against the kings comming He caused to be hanged the walles of the gallerie on the one side with cloth of gold cloth of tissue cloth of siluer and rich cloth of bodken of diuerse colours On the other side were hanged the richest sute of coapes of his owne prouision made for his colleges of Oxford and Ipswich that euer were séene in England Then had he two chambers adioining to the gallerie the one most commonlie called the gilt chamber and the other the councell chamber wherein were set vp two broad and long tables vpon trestles whervpon was set such a number of plate of all sorts as was almost incredible In the gilt chamber were set out
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
houre of his death ¶ I cannot tell saith master Hall whether I should call him a foolish wise man or a wise foolish man for vndoutedlie he beside his learning had a great wit but it was so mingled with taunting and mocking that it seemed to them that best knew him that hée thought nothing to be well spoken except he had ministred some mocke in the communication Insomuch as at his comming to the Tower one of the officers demanded his vpper garment for his fee meaning his gowne and he answered he should haue it and tooke him his cap saieng it was the vppermost garment that he had Likewise euen going to his death at the Tower gate a poore woman called vnto him and be sought him to declare what he had doone with euidences of hirs in the time that he was in office which after he was apprehended shée could not come by and that he would intreat shée might haue them againe or else she was vndoone He answered good woman haue patience a little while for the king is so good vnto me that euen within this halfe houre he will discharge me of all businesse and helpe thée himselfe Also when he went vp the staiers on the scaffold he desired one of the shirifes officers to giue him his hand to helpe him vp and said When I come downe againe let me shift for my selfe as well as I can Also the hangman knéeled downe to him asking him forgiuenesse of his death as the maner is to whome he said I forgiue thée but I promise thee thou shalt neuer haue honestie by striking off my head my necke is so short Also euen when he should laie downe his head on the blocke he hauing a great graie beard stroked out his beard and said to the hangman I praie you let me laie my beard ouer the blocke least you should cut it Thus with a mocke he ended his life God had in most bountifull sort powred his blessings vpon this man induing him with eloquence wisedome and knowledge but the grace of God withdrawne from him he had the right vse of none no not of reason as it should be rightlie vsed God had extraordinarilie blessed his children and namelie his thrée daughters to whome he had giuen an admirable dexteritie in the science of toongs and arts as Iohn Leland our reuerend antiquarie noteth in a proper and learned epigramme saieng Desine facundas nimiùm laudare diserti Natas Hortensi maxima Roma tuiâ— Candida tres Charites nam Mori cura politi Obscurant multis nomina vestra modis Non illis studium Milesia vellera dextra Carpere non facili ducere fila manuâ— Sed iuuat eloquij crebro monumenta Latini Versare doctis pingere verba notis Nec minùs authores Graecos euoluere Homerum Et quem dicendi gloria prima manet Vt nec Aristotelis dicam quo pectore librâ—â— Scrutentur sophiae mystica dona deae Turpe viris posthac erit ignorare Mineruae Artes greâ— adeò quas muliâ—bris amet And yet was not the will of God for the infusing of spirituall graces so linked to that of temporall as because the one was granted therefore the other must not be denied For the blessings of God which be outward are common to the wicked with the good the sun shinesh vpon all the raine is kept from none naie God with a sparing hand reacheth out those things to the faithfull which with full gripes he filleth out and powreth into the laps and bosoms of infidels and epicures insomuch that the prophet Dauid noting no lesse with a kind of indignation opened his mouth saieng I was grieued at the wicked I doo also see the vngodlie in such prosperitie these florish in the world these haue riches in possession and I said Then haue I cleansed my heart in vaine line 10 and washed my hands in innocencie yea and I had almost said euen as they but lo then should I haue condemned the generation of Gods children But the end of these men being set in slipperie places are cast downe and destroied yea suddenlie doo they consume and come to a fearefull end euen like as a dreame when one awaketh so dooth God make their image to vanish out of the citie And albeit the fall of this sir Thomas More was reprochfull issuing from a treasonable offense yet as in pagans manie times there is somwhat which line 20 may teach christians lessons for their lerning to their shame so in this papist was one praise-worthie propertie among the rest most eminent which I will note to the rebuke of protestants ¶ The reuerend father doctor Elmer bishop of London in a sermon at Paules crosse by him made in a solemne audience assembled at the parlement time 1584 teaching diuerse points of doctrine and the duties of sundrie degrées said that it was commendable for noble men and gentlemen and a great furtherance to line 30 the loue of religion to be deuout he brought an example of sir Thomas More a man for his zeale saith the bishop to be honored but for his religion to be abhorred This knight would diuerse times put on a surplesse and helpe the préest in proper person to saie seruice insomuch that vpon a time being at Chelsie and busie about that exercise the duke of Norffolke then liuing came to the said sir Thomas then line 40 lord chancellor of England about speciall affaires and being informed that sir Thomas was at the church thither went the duke expecting the end of seruice In the end the duke and the lord chancellor met and after mutuall gréeting the duke said thus What! is my lord chancellor become a parish clarke What will the kings maiestie saie to this geere when he shall vnderstand that the lord chancellor of England a speciall péere of the realme and in highest roome of honor in the land next the prince is become line 50 a parish clarke Now trulie saith sir Thomas I thinke and verelie beléeue that his highnesse will be so farre to misdéeme or mislike me herein that when he shall heare of the care which I haue to serue both his maister and mine he will accept and take me for a faithfull seruant And thus much of him This yéere in the time that the king went his progresse to Glocester and to other places westward the king of Scots was installed knight of the garter at Winsore by his procurator the lord Erskin line 60 and in October following Stephen Gardner which after the cardinls death was made bishop of Winchester was sent ambassador into France where he remained thrée yeeres after ¶ In August the lord Thomas Fitzgerard sonne to the earle of Kildare was taken in Ireland and sent to the tower of London In the moneth of October doctor Lée and other were sent to visit the abbeies priories and nunries in England who set all those religious persons at libertie that
ordinance the victorie and the cause why the rebels preuailed not was bicause all the catholikes had not béene dulie informed that the queenes maiestie was declared to be as they terme it an heretike which want of information to the intent to make the rebels mightier in number and power was diligentlie and cunninglie supplied by the sending into the realme of a great multitude of the seminaries and Iesuits whose speciall charge was to informe the people thereof as by their actions hath manifestlie appéered A supplement to amend the former errour And though doctor Sanders hath thus written yet it may be said by such as fauoured the two notable Iesuits one named Robert Persons who yet hideth himselfe in corners to continue his traitorous practise the other named Edmund Campion who was found out being disguised like a roister and suffered for his treasons that doctor Sanders treason is his proper treason in allowing of the said bull and not to be imputed to Persons and Campion Therefore to make it plaine that these two by speciall authoritie had charge to execute the sentence of this bull these acts in writing following shall make manifest which are not fained or imagined but are the verie writings taken about one of their complices euen immediatlie after Campions death although Campion before his death would not be knowen of anie such matter Whereby may appéere what trust is to be giuen to the words of such pseudomartyrs Facultates concessae pp. Roberto Personio Edmundo Campiano pro Anglia die 14 Aprilis 1580. PEtatur à summo domino nostro explicatio bulla declaratoria per Pium Quintum contra Elisabetham ei adhaerentes quam catholici cupiunt intelligi hoc modo vt obliget semper illam haereticos catholicos vero nullo modâ— obliget rebus sic stantibus sed tum demum quando publica eiusdem bullae executio fieri poterit Then followed manie other petitions of faculties for their further authorities which are not néedfull for this purpose to be recited but in the end followeth this sentence as an answer of the popes Has praedictas gratias concessit summus pontifex patri Roberto Personio Edmundo Campiano in Angliam profecturis die 14 Aprilis 1580. Praesente patre Oliueriâ— Manarco assistence The English of which Latine sentences is as followeth Faculties granted to the two fathers Robert Persons and Edmund Campion for England the fourteenth daie of Aprill 1580. LEt it be asked or required of our most holie lord the explication or meaning of the bull declaratorie made by Pius the fift against Elisabeth such as doo adhere or obeie hir which bull the catholikes desire to be vnderstood in this maner that the same bull shall alwaies bind hir and the heretikes but the catholikes it shall by no meanes bind as matters or things doo now stand or be but hereafter when the publike execution of that bull maie be had or made Then in the end the conclusion was thus added The highest pontife or bishop granted these foresaid graces to father Robert Persons Edmund Campion who are now to take their iournies into England the 14 daie of Aprill in the yeare of our Lord one thousand fiue hundred and eightie Being present the father Oliuerius Manarke assistant Hereby it is manifest what authoritie Campion had to impart the contents of the bull against the quéens maiestie howsoeuer he himselfe denied the same for this was his errand And though it be manifest that these two Iesuits Parsons and Campion not onelie required to haue the popes mind declared for the bull but also in their owne petitions shewed how they and other catholikes did desire to haue the said bull to be vnderstood against the quéene of England yet to make the matter more plaine how all other Iesuits and seminaries line 10 yea how all papists naming themselues catholikes doo or are warranted to interpret the said bull against hir maiestie and hir good subiects howsoeuer they will disguise it you shall see what one of their fellowes named Hart who was condemned with Campion and yet liueth did amongst manie other things declare his knowledge thereof the last daie of December in the same yeare one thousand fiue hundred and eightie in these words following The bull of Pius Quintus for so much line 20 as it is against the quéene is holden amongest the English catholikes for a lawfull sentence and a sufficient discharge of hir subiects fidelitie and so remaineth in force but in some points touching the subiects it is altered by the present pope For where in that bull all hir subiects are commanded not to obeie hir and she being excommunicate and deposed all that doo obeie hir are likewise innodate and accurssed which point is perillous to the cathâ—likes for if they obeie hir they be in the popes cursse line 30 and if they disobeie hir they are in the quéenes danger therefore the present pope to reléeue them hath altered that part of the bull and dispensed with them to obeie and serue hir without perill of excommunication which dispensation is to indure but till it please the pope otherwise to determine Wherefore to make some conclusion of the matters before mentioned all persons both within the realme and abroad maie plainelie perceiue that all the infamous libels latelie published abroad in sundrie line 40 languages and the slanderous reports made in other princes courts of a multitude of persons to haue béene of late put to torments and death onelie for profession of the catholike religion and not for matters of state against the queenes maiestie are false and shamelesse and published to the maintenance of traitors and rebels And to make the matter seeme more horrible or lamentable they recite the particular names of all the persons which by their owne catalog exceed not for these fiue and line 50 twentie yeares space aboue the number of thrée score forgetting or rather with their stonie and senselesse harts not regarding in what cruell sort in the time of quéene Marie which little excéeded the space of fiue yeares the quéenes maiesties reigne being fiue times as manie there were by imprisonment torments famine and fire of men women maidens and children almost the number of foure hundred besides such as were secretlie line 60 murthered in prisons and of that number aboue twentie that had béene archbishops bishops and principall prelats or officers in the church lamentablie destroied and of women aboue thrée score and of children aboue fortie and amongest the women some great with child and one out of whose bodie the child by fire was expelled aliue and yet also cruellie burned examples beyond all heathen crueltie And most of the youth that then suffered cruell death both men women and children which is to be noted were such as had neuer by the sacrament of baptisme or by confirmation professed or was euer taught or instructed or euer had heard of anie other kind
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
of the French king concerning peace 388 b 10 Denie Edward ¶ Sée Iusts triumphant Denmarke king arriueth in England the citie of London banket him he departeth into Flanders 878 a 60 b 10. Inuested into the order of the garter 1348 a 50 Derision of the Englishmen in a â—ime 347 a 40. Of quéene Ione called Ione Make-peace 347 b 50. Of the duke of Yorke aspiring to the crowne 659 b 50. Lewis his faire 200 b 10 Derth 381 a 50. Of corne 473 a 20 204 b 30 292 b 40. Increaseth 323 a 30 260 a 10. By means of raine 404 b 60 58 a 60. By extreame cold weather 217 b 50. After a wet season 898 b 40. Or vittels note 959 b 50 616 b 10. 237 b 50. For space of thrée yeares 156 b 60. Made markets déere 284 b 20. Through out all England 150 b 30. Excéeding great 257 a 40. In Henrie the thirds campe note 248 b 50 Derth and plentie 1133 a 30. Without scarsitie and plentie to them that had monie 1259 b 10. Where none néeded 476 b 40 Derth and death 323 b 50 258 a 30 97 a 50 323 a 10 351 a 40. ¶ Sée Scarsitie Desire hard to be brideled note 576 a 10 Desmond Iohn his miserable end note 1366 a 10 c. ¶ Sée more in earle of Desmond Desperation 677 a 10 Destinie cannot be auoided 639 b 10 Deth of great personages 312 b 30 295 b 60 263 a 10 247 a 20 236 a 50 239 a 60 241 a 50 240 b 10 352 b 10 20 231 b 10 244 b 40 230 b 50 228 b 50 223 b 30 514 b 10 1171 b 50 60 795 b 10 c. 30 791 a 10 950 a 60 944 b 60 108 a 30 c 481 a 20 30. In Spain through heat of that countrie 450 a 60 b 10 395 b 30 237 b 30. And multitudes of people 410 a 30. Of learned bishops 249 a 10. In one yeare 778 b 20. Of seauen aldermen in London within the space of ten moneths 1209 b 60. ¶ Sée Aldermen Deth preferred before losse of monie 252 b 40. Great by the flux 537 a 20. Of people 21 a 30. Desperate of Summeruile 1366 a 20. In Winter 892 b 30. Of much people in London c 825 a 60. By strange diseases note 1132 b 10. By the sword preferred before famishment 166 b 20. Of old people 1142 a 50. After a great derth 97 a 50. Of horsse and men in the English host 445 b 30. In the North countries with spoile doone by the Scots 422 b 60 In Yorke and sundrie other places 475 b 10. Of men and beasts called the third mortalitie 404 b 20. After a sort sudden 397 b 50. Most men few women 395 a 50. Of people betwixt Candlemas and Easter 379 b 30. Lamentable 323 b 50. It endeth discord note 395 a 60. ¶ Sée Buriall Death sudden of sir Thomas Gresham 1310 b 50. Of a woman that forsware hir selfe ¶ Sée Periurie Of a sorcerer note 1271 a 20. Of quéene Anne the wife of Richard the third 751 a 40. Sudden and dreadfull of a blasphemous preacher 1128 b 60 1129 a 10. Of a merciles tyrannicall bishop 1130 a 60. Of the erle of Suffolke note 440 a 10. ¶ Sée Abbat Deth and derth 323 a 10 258 a 30 217 b 50 953 a 10 note 1049 a 10 404 b 60 378 b 20 30. ¶ Sée Mortalitie Plage Pestilence Sweating sicknesse Deuotion superstitious of Henrie the yoong prince note 107 a 20. ¶ Sée Moore knight Diches about London clensed 789 b 40 50 Diet of frée cost note 1425 b 60 Moderated by an ordinance made by the maior and aldermen 959 b 60 960 a 10. Excessiue restreined 111 b 40 A statute coÌ„cerning it note 396 a 50 Digbie Edward ¶ Sée Iusts triumphant Digcon ¶ Sée Gun Dimmocke knight his challeng at Richard the thirds coronation 734 a 40. The kings champion the manner of his tenure at a coronation 802 a 20. His championlike office 1180 a 40 Dinham esquier high treasuror of England 650 b 30. Ualiant 651 a 20. He and baron Carew with their powers come to Excester 676 a 40. Diram and Culpepper quéene Katharins paramors arreigned at Guildhall executed 954. b 30 60 955 a 10 Discord what commeth of it 406 a 10. Unnaturall of brethren abhorred 30 a 10. Betwéene the French king and his nobles 103 b 40. Betwéene Henrie the second and the French king 107 b 30. Causing ciuill warre that might haue béene foreséene 83 a 10. Mainteâ—ned betwéene sonnes by the mother 86 b 60 87 a 10. Sowne betwixt Henrie the father and Henrie the son 84 a 20. Increseth betwéene Henrie the second and Thomas Becket note 69. b 40. Enuious among the christians 134 a 20. Betwixt the pope and the emperor 75 b 10. Betwixt the cardinall and the archbishop of Canturburie 182 a 40. Betwixt king Iohn and his barons with the causes 184 b 20. It and concord with their differing effects 1054 b 20. What it bréedeth 672 b 40. In an armie the hinderer of all profitable enterprises 126 a 30. Ciuill inconueniences thereof 636 a 30 b 20. c 60. Among the French nobles 557 a 60. Giueth opportunitie to the enimie note 19 b 10. Offereth occasion of inuasion note 21 b 20. How inconuenient 1 a 40 50. About trifles and how vnhappie it fell out 13 b 30 c. Betwixt Sauerie de Maâ—leon and the earle of Salisburie 206 a 20. Betwixt the Norman mariners and them of Baion 288 b 30. Betwixt Edward the firsts men and the Gantners 306 a 50 Betwixt préests and friers 392 a 20. Of thrée or foure yeares ended by the death of one man 395 a 60. ¶ Sée Contention and Malice Disme granted of the clergie 409 a 10. To Edward the first and his brother 277 b 10. To Henrie the third by the pope for one whole yeare 271 b 10 Disobedience of the bishop of Norwich to Richard the second punished 445 a 20. Of the archbishop Thurstane against Henrie the first 38 b 10. To Richard the firsts commandement 140 b 50. 10. Mainteined 86 b all 87 a 50. Of erle Robert of Leicester 89 b 50. In Henrie the sonne to Henrie the second his father 76 b 10 c. 77 a 20. To the prince a sinne most abhominable 1044 a 40. To the king is disobedience to God 1004 b 60. Of a subiect against hâ—s king senâ—ing for him 21 b 30. Of the nobles to Edward the first note 302 a 60 b 10. It and presumption of the bishop of Durham against Edward the first note 315 a 60 99 b 10 ¶ Sée Rebelâ—ion Dispensation ¶ Sée Mariage and Pope Disputation of grammar scholers 1129 b 10 c. Dissemblers punished 203 b 40 50 Dissention among the Noblemen 451 b 40. Betwéene Richard the second and the parlement house 4 2 b 10. And his nobles 458 a 30. The frutes thereof 1052 b 40. In France made the earle of
Earle Pledges that duke William led ouer with him into Normandie 5 a 10. Scotish appointed to passe into England 1187. b 40. ¶ See Hostages Plentie and abundance note 284. a 40. And dearth 11â—3 a 30. Of vittels but scarsitie of monie 353. a 10. See Uittels Plimmouth burnt 355. a 60. Pocks wherof manie died 397. b 50. Poâ—r Ranulfe slaine 106 a 20. Poictiers battell when it was 390. a 10 Poictouins reuolt from king Iohn 164 b 10. Send king Henrie the third word of their readines to reuolt from the French king 207. a 10. Suspected to haue poisoned the English lords 259. b 50. Discomfited 217. b 40 Poinings knight lieutenant of Turnaie 825. a 10. Discharged of keeping it 837. b 40 A valiant captaine sent into Flanders 772. a 60. Sent into Ireland with an armie his valiantnes and successe 779. a 60. b 10. c. His decease 969 b. 20. Poisoning a woman burnt for it at Tunbridge 1262. a 60. And also at Maidstone 1226.40 Punished with boiling to death in hot water 926. b 60. Practised and the parties punished with standing on the pillorie 1258. b. 40. For the which a wench was burnt in Smithfield 1434 b 10. And execution for the same 259. b 60. 260. a 10. Bewraied by the sweating of pretious stones 194. b 20. Of earle Scot of Chester with his wife 220 b 60. Of the earle of Deuonshire 646. b 60. In Italie practised note 795. a 10. c. Polander ¶ See Albertus de Lasco Policie whereby Compiegne was surrendered to the English 587. a 60. Of the Parisions to outreach the duke of Bedford 586. a 6. Of the French in taking Ponâ— de Larch 629. a 20. In buieng peace of the English 700. b 10. c. Of Edward the fourth against his enimies 684 a 50. Of Richard the third mischiefous and incestuous note 350. a 60. Ungratious tending to the slaughter of princelie innocents 739. a 20. Of the earle of Richmond in getting the sun at the backe of his souldiers 758. b 60. To auoid danger 748. a 38. Of Henrie the seuenth against sir Robert Clifford 778. b 20. In senting forth espials into Flanders 777. b 30. To preuent an intended mischiefe note 536. b 20 Of duke Albert of Saxonie to get the towne of Dam 772. a 20. Of the English archers against their enimies shot 770. b 40. Of Henrie the seuenth to match suspected persons especiallie if they fled 780. a In surprising the towne of Pont Meulan a 10. b 10. For a bridge 617. b 60. Of sir Francis the Arragonois 619. b 10. Of Henrie the fift in the time of a commotion 544 b 10. Oftentimes passeth force 648. a 60. Of the earle of Huntington 617. Of Henrie the fift against the French horsemen 553. b 10 note 564. b 50. For redie bridges 571. b 40 Of a priest fauoring conspirators note 516. a 40. Of the earle of Westmerland 529 b 40.50.530 a 10. Of the English against the Flemish 454. b 10. Of the French king against the English 426. b 50.4222 a 60. Dastardlie of the French king to make Edward the third raise his siege from Calis 375 b 30. Of the Scots discomfiting the English 324. b. 60. Of a captaine against the Welshmen 236. a 60. a 60. Of the English 295. a 60. Of the duke of Guise against the English 1135. b 20. Of the French to make bridges 1138 b. 60. To restraine the people at the duke of Summersets execution 1067. a 60. b 50. Of a yeoman of the gard a rebell whereby he gat pardon 844. Of Scattergood a guner to deceiue the French 1192. a 60. Of Frenchmen disguised in womans aparell 1188. b 50. Of warre by the Kentishmen 2. a 20. Of the French to giue the English a repulse 1191. a 50 Of duke William in making a part of England waste 11. a 40. Of the French king to get possession of Uernueill 8.88 a 50. ¶ See Dissimulation Stratagâ—m Pomfret castle rendred to Edward the second 331. a Pontoise surprised by the Englishmen 570. a 30. Recouered by them 17. a 40. Besieged by the French king but valiantlie defended b 20. Gotten by French 618 a 30 Pont Mâ—ulan surprised by entrance of a common priuie 610. b 10 Pontorson rendered vnto the Englishmen 895 a 30. Poole Cardinall ¶ See Cardinall Poole and Pope Pope Adrian 274. a 40. An Englishman borne 66. a 50 His election to the popedome wondered and whie he commeth to Rome 871. b 30.50 His creation corruption of the cardinals in his election corrupted with manie vices 767. a 40 50. b 21. His pride note 69. a 40. His grant to make Iohn king of Ireland 101. a 30. Maketh profit of his great pardon or heauenlie grace 788. a 60. Letters for the reliefe of the Holie land 104. b 50. Fatherlie words to archbishop Lanfranke note 9. a 50. Depriueth bishops and restoreth them 9 a 40. Heareth the contention for the primasie betweene the archbishops 9. a 30. Sent commissioners into England 8. b 60. He and the emperor Frederik at debate 75. b 10. His answer to Beckets complaint 73. a 30. Pope Boniface prohibiteth Edward the first further to vex the Scots 309. b 30. Pope Calixius held a councell at Reimes and consecrateth the archbishop of Canturburie with his owne hands 40 a 50. A sutor for archbishop Thurstane 40. b 40. His cursse against both archbishops of Canturburie and Yorke 42. a 10. Pope Calestine a friend to archbishop Geffreie of Yorke 130. b 20. Maketh an archbishop of Canturburie legat of all England 147 b 50. Pope Clements reformation in England 315. b 40. And what summes of monie are had of the archbishop of Yorke note 315. a 30. Procureth a peace for one yeare betwixt the two kings of England and France 379. b 40. Sent two cardinals to accord the two kings of England and France 377. b 50. Letters in fauor of the bishop of Elie and how he defendeth his chapleins 132. a 60. Sendeth Henrie the eight a golden rose 883. a 60. Pretended a title to the realme of Sicill 124. b 60. Requireth Henrie the eight personallie to appeare at a generall councell 930. a 10. Taken prisoner by the emperors armie 1365. a 30. Deceseth more infortunat than fortunat 935. b 10. His death preiudiciall 131. b 60 Pope Eugenie sendeth a legat to treat a peace betweene the two kings of England and France 607. a 50 Pope Gelasius the second his death 40. a 10 Pope Gregorie sendeth the bishop of Rauennâ— to treat a peace betwixt England and France 408. b 50. Messengers sent to him about reseruations of benefices b 60.409 c. Denied to be true pope note 225. a 60. Sendeth cardinall Otho into England 221. b 30. His meanes to mooue the people to a iorneie against the Saracens 209. b 40. Disgraced by the cardinall of Burgis 514. b 60 His plaine song whereabouts was great fliâ—â—e 13. b 30. His bull against the hearing of a married
〈◊〉 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
giuen knowledge by reuelation from God and his saints that if the king procéeded to the diuorse and maried another he should not be king of this realme one moneth after and in the reputation of God not one daie nor houre This Elizabeth first through sickenesse being oftentimes brought as it were into a transe whereby hir visage and countenance became maruellouslie altered at those times when shee was so vexed at length by the incouraging procurement and information of the forenamed Richard Master person of Aldington she learned to counterfeit such maner of transes after she came to perfect health as in hir sickenes by force of the disease she had bene acquainted with so that she pracâ—â—sed vsed and shewed vnto the people diuerse maruellous and sundre alterations of the sensible parts of hir bodie craftilie vttering in hir said feigned and false transes diuerse and manie counterfeit vertuous and holie words tending to the reâ—uke of sin and reproouing of such new opinions as then began to rise And to bring the people the more in beliefe with hir hypocriticall dooings she was counselled to saie in those hir transes that she should neuer be perfectlie whole till she had visited an image of our ladie at a place called Court at Stréet within the parish of Aldington aforesaid Thither was she brought and by the meanes of the said Richard Master and Edward Bocking that was now made of counsell in the matter there assembled about two thousand persons at the daie appointed of hir thither comming to sée the miracle At which daie being brought before all that assemblie and multitude of people shee falselie feigned and shewed vnto the people in the chappell of our ladie there in Court at Street manie alterations of hir face and other outward sensible parts of hir bodie and in those transes she vttered woonderous words as she was before subtilie and craftilie induced and taught by the said Edward Bocking and Richard Master And amongst other things she vttered that it was the pleasure of God that the said Bocking should be hir ghostlie father and that she should be a religious woman And within a while after such feigned and counterfeit transes she appeared to the people to be suddenlie relieued from hir sickenesse and afflictions by the intercession and meane of the image of our ladie being in the same chappell By reason of which hypocriticall dissimulation the said Elizabeth was brought into a maruellous same credit and good opinion of a great multitude of the people of this realme And to increase the same by counsell of the said Edward Bocking she became a nun in the prsorie of saint Sepulchres at Canturburie to whome the said Edward Bocking had commonlie his resort not without suspicion of incontinencie pretending to be hir ghostlie father by Gods appointment And by conspiracie betwene hir him she still continued in practising hir dissembled transes alledging that in the same she had reuelations from almightie God and his saints and amongst other that which as before we haue mentioned touched the kings mariage as ye haue heard line 10 This matter proceeded so farre that there was a booke written by hir complices and namelie by Thomas Laurence register to the archbishop of Canturburie of hir feigned and counterfeit miracles reuelations and hypocriticall holinesse All things were handled so craftilie that not onelie the simple but also the wise and learned sort were deceiued by the same insomuch that William Warham the late archbishop of Canturburie and Iohn Fisher bishop of Rochester and diuerse line 20 others being informed thereof gaue credit thereto All which matters and manie other had bene traitorouslie practised and imagined amongest the parties manie yeres chieflie to interrupt the diuorse and to destroie the king and to depriue him from the crowne and dignitie roiall of this realme as in the act of their attaindor made more at large it maie appeare and likewise in the chronicles of maister Edward Hall Therefore to conclude with hir and hir adherents on the one and twentith of Aprill next line 30 following she with diuerse of them before condemned was drawen to Tiburne and there executed as iustlie they had deserued where and when she made this conâ—ession following euen at the present time that she suffered in the hearing of the people The words of Elizabeth Barton otherwise called the holie maid of Kent at the houre of hirdeath in maner of a confession HIther am I come to die and I line 40 haue not beene the onelie cause of mine owne death which most iustlie I haue deserued but also I am the cause of the death of all these persons which at this time here suffer and yet to say the truth I am not so much to be blamed considering that it was wel known vnto these learned men that I was a poore wench without learning and therefore line 50 they might haue easilie perceiued that the things that were doone by me could not proceed in any such sort but their capacities and learning could right well iudge from whence they proceeded and that they were altogither feined but bicause the things which I feined were profitable vnto them therefore they much praised mee and bare me in hand that it was the holie ghost and not I that did them and then I line 60 being puft vp with their praises fell into a certeine pride and foolish fantasie with my selfe and thought I might feine what I would which thing hath brought me to this case and for the which now I crie God and the kings highnes most hartilie mercie and desire all you good people to praie to God to haue mercie on me and on all them that suffer here with me In this parlement also was made the act of succession for the establishing of the crowne to the which euerie person being of lawfull age should bée sworne On mondaie the thrée twentith of March in the parlement time were solemnlie receiued into London ambassadours from Iames the fift king of Scots the bishop of Aberdine the abbat of Kinlos and Adam Otterborne the kings attourneie with diuerse gentlemen on them attendant which were brought to the tailors hall and there lodged And on the daie of the Annunciation they were brought to the kings palace at Westminster where they shewed their commission and message for the which the king appointed them daies to counsell During the parlement time euerie sundaie at Paules crosse preached a bishop declaring the pope not to be supreme head of the church The thirtith of March was the parlement proroged and there euerie lord knight and burges and all other were sworne to the act of succession and subscribed their hands to a parchment fixed to the same The parlement was proroged till the third of Nouember next After this were commissioners sent into all parts of the realme to take the oth of all men and women to the act of succession Doctor Iohn Fisher
and sir Thomas More knight and doctor Nicholas Wilson parson of saint Thomas apostles in London expreslie denied at Lambeth before the archbishop of Canturburie to receiue that oth The two first stood in their opinion to the verie death as after ye shall heare but doctor Wilson was better aduised at length and so dissembling the matter escaped out of further danger ¶ In this yéere it chanced that two merchant strangers fell in loue with a harlot which was called Woolfes wife and this harlot had often hanted the strangers chambers And so on a time the said harlot appointed these strangers to come to Westminster and she had prepared for them a bote in the which bote was but one man to row which was a strong theefe and in the end of the bote laie Woolfe hir husband couered with a leather that botemen vse to couer their cushins with and so these strangers sat them down mistrusting nothing Now when this boteman had brought them as farre as a place called the turning tree suddenlie stepped vp the said Woolfe and with his dagger thrust the one of them through the other cried out to safe his life and offred great sums of monie to the boteman and him to saue his life But no proffers would be heard nor mercie would they extend but as cruell murtherers without pitie slue the other also and bound them face to face and so threw them into the Thames in the foresaid place where they were long after before they were â—ound But immediatlie the harlot Woolfes wife went to the strangers chambers tooke from thence so much as she could come by And at the last she and hir husband as they deserued were apprehended arreigned and hanged at the aforesaid turning trée On the ninth of Iulie was the lord Dacres of the north arreigned at Westminster of high treason where the duke of Norffolke sate as iudge and high steward of England The said lord Dacres being brought to the barre with the axe of the Tower before him after his indictment read so improoued the same answering euerie part and matter therein conteined and so plainlie and directlie confuted his accusers which were there readie to auouch their accusations that to their great shames and his high honor he was found that day by his péeres not guiltie whereof the commons not a little reioised as by their shout and crie made at those words not guiltie they fréelie testified The two and twentith of Iulie was Iohn Frith burned in Smithfield for the opinion of the sacrament and with him the same time and at the same stake suffered also one Andrew Hewet a yoong man by his occupation a tailor The eleuenth of August were all the places of the obseruant friers suppressed as Gréenwich Canturburie Richmont Newarke and Newcastell and in their places were set Augustine friers and the obseruant friers were placed in the roomes of the graie friers ¶ The one and twentith of September doctor Tailor master of the rolles was discharged of that office and Thomas Cromwell sworne in his place the nintéenth of October Moreouer the third of Nouember the parlement line 10 began againe in the which was concluded the act of supremacie which authorised the kings highnes to be supreme head of the church of England and the authoritie of the pope abolished out of the realme ¶ In the same parlement also was giuen to the king the first fruits and tenths of all spirituall dignities and promotions This yeare came the great admerall of France into England ambassadour from the French king and was honorablie receiued In this time died the earle of Kildare prisoner line 20 in the Tower and his sonne Thomas Fitzgaret began to rebell year 1535 and tooke all the kings ordinance and sent to the emperour requiring him to take his part also he slue the bishop of Dublin and robbed all such as would not obeie him In the beginning of this yeare the duke of Norffolke and the bishop of Elie went to Calis and thither came the admerall of France On the two twentith of Aprill the prior of the Charterhouse at London the prior of Beuall the prior of Erham Reinalds a brother of Sion Iohn line 30 vicar of Thistleworth were arreigned and condemned of treason and therevpon drawne hanged and quartered at Tiburne the fourth of Maie their heads and quarters were set ouer the bridge gates of the citie one quarter excepted which was set vp at the Charterhouse at London ¶ On the eight of Maie the king commanded that all belonging to the court should poll their heads to giue example caused his owne head to be polled and his beard from thencefoorth was cut round but not shauen which line 40 fashion the courtiers imbraced and would no doubt haue put in practise though they had not beene therevnto bound by precept for the people imitate the prince as the poet long ago well noted saieng Regis ad exemplum totus componitur orbis ¶ The fiue and twentith daie of Maie was in saint Paules church at London examined ninetéene men and six women borne in Holland whose opinions were first that in Christ is not two natures God and man secondlie that Christ tooke neither flesh nor line 50 bloud of the virgin Marie thirdlie that children borne of infidels shall be saued fourthlie that baptisme of children is to none effect fiftlie that the sacrament of Christs bodie is but bread onelie sixtlie that he who after his baptisme sinneth wittinglie sinneth deadlie and cannot be saued Fourtéene of them were condemned a man a woman of them were burned in Smithfield the other twelue were sent to other townes there to be burnt On the ninetéenth of Iune were three moonkes line 60 of the Charterhouse hanged drawne and quartered at Tiburne and their heads and quarters set vp about London for denieng the king to be supreme head of the church their names were Exmew Middlemoore and Nudigate Also the one and twentith of the same moneth and for the same cause doctor Iohn Fisher bishop of Rochester was beheaded for denieng of the supremacie and his head set vpon London bridge but his bodie buried within Barking churchyard This bishop was of manie sore lamented for he was reported to be a man of great learning and of a verie good life The pope had elected him a cardinall and sent his hat as far as Calis but his head was off before his hat was on so that they met not On the sixt of Iulie was sir Thomas Moore beheaded for the like crime that is to wit for denieng the king to be supreme head And then the bodie of doctor Fisher was taken vp and buried with sir Thomas Moores in the Tower This man was both learned and wise and giuen much to a certeine pleasure in merie taunts and â—easting in most of his communication which maner he forgat not at the verie
of religion but onelie of that which by their bloud and death in the fire they did as true martyrs testifie A matter of an other sort to be lamented in a christian charitie with simplicitie of words and not with puffed eloquence than the execution in this time of a verie few traitors who also in their time if they excéeded thirtie yeares of age had in their baptisme professed and in their youth had learned the same religion which they now so bitterlie oppugned And besides that in their opinions they differ much from the martyrs of quéene Maries time for though they which suffered in queene Maries time continued in the profession of the religion wherein they were christened and as they were perpetuallie taught yet they neuer at their death denied their lawfull quéene nor mainteined anie of hir open and forren enimies nor anie procured rebellion or ciuill warre nor did sow anie sedition in secret corners nor withdrew anie subiects from their obedience as these sworne seruants of the pope haue continuallie doone And therefore all these things well considered there is no doubt but all good subiects within the realme doo manifestlie sée and all wauering persons not being led cleane out of the waie by the seditious will hereafter perceiue how they haue béene abused to go astraie And all strangers but speciallie all christian potentats as emperours kings princes and such like hauing their souereigne estates either in succession hereditarie or by consent of their people being acquainted with the verie truth of these hir maiesties late iust and necessarie actions onelie for defense of hir selfe hir crowne and people against open inuadours and for eschewing of ciuill warres stirred vp by rebellion will allow in their owne like cases for a truth and rule as it is not to be doubted but they will that it belongeth not vnto a bishop of Rome as successour of saint Peter and therein a pastour spirituall or if he were the bishop of all christendome as by the name of pope he claimeth first by his bulles or excommunications in this sort at his will in fauour of traitors and rebels to depose anie souereigne princes being lawfullie inuested in their crownes by succession in bloud or by lawfull election and then to arme subiects against their naturall lords to make warres and to dispense with them for their oths in so dooing or to excommunicat faithfull subiects for obeieng of their naturall princes lastlie himselfe to make open warre with his owne souldiers against princes moouing no force against him For if these high tragicall powers should be permitted to him to exercise then should no empire no kingdome no countrie no citie or towne be possessed by anie lawfull title longer than one such onelie an earthlie man sitting as he saieth in saint Peters chaire at Rome should for his will and appetite without warrant from God or man thinke méet and determine an authoritie neuer chalenged by the Lord of lords the sonne of God Iesus Christ our onelie Lord and sauiour and the onelie head of his church whilest he was in his humanitie vpon the earth nor yet deliuered by anie writing or certeine tradition from saint Peter from whome the pope pretendeth to deriue all his authoritie nor yet from saint Paule the apostle of the gentils but contrariwise by all preachings precepts and writings conteined in the gospell and other scriptures of the apostles obedience is expresselie commanded vnto all earthlie princes yea euen vnto kings by especiall name and that so generallie as no person is excepted from such dutie of obedience as by the sentence of saint Paule euen to the Romans appeareth Omnis anima sublimioribus potestatibus sit subdiâ—a that is Let euerie soule be subiect to the higher powers within the compasse of which law or precept saint Chrysostome being bishop of Constantinople writeth that Euen apostles prophets euangelists and moonks are comprehended And for proofe of saint Peters mind herein from whome these popes claime their authoritie it can not be plainelier expressed than when he writeth line 10 thus Proinde subiecti estote cuiuiâ— huâ—ane ordinationi propter Dominum siue regi vt qui superâ—mâ—eâ—a siue praesidibus ab eo missis that is Therefore be you subiect to euerie humane ordinance or creature for the Lord whether it be to the king as to him that is supereminent or aboue the rest or to his presidents sent by him By which two principall apostles of Christ these popes the pretensed successors but chieflie by that which Christ the sonne of God the onelie maister of truth said to Peter and his fellow apostles Reges gentium line 20 dominantur vos autem non sic that is The kings of the gentils haue rule ouer them but you not so maie learne to forsake their arrogant and tyrannous authorities in earthlie and temporall causes ouer kings and princes and exercise their pastorall office as saint Peter was charged thrise at one time by his Lord and maister Pasce oues meas Féed my shéepe and peremptorilie forbidden to vse a sword in saieng to him Conuerte gladium tuum in locum suum or Mitte gladium tuum in vaginam that is Turne thy line 30 sword into his place or Put thy sword into the scabbard All which precepts of Christ and his apostles were dulie followed and obserued manie hundred yeares after their death by the faithfull and godlie bishops of Rome that dulie followed the doctrine and humilitie of the apostles and the doctrine of Christ and were holie martyrs and thereby dilated the limits of Christs church and the faith more in the compasse of an hundred yeares than the latter popes haue line 40 doone with their swords and cursses these fiue hundred yeares and so continued vntill the time of one pope Hildebrand otherwise called Gregorie the seuenth about the yeare of our Lord one thousand thrée score and fourtéene who first began to vsurpe that kind of tyrannie which of late the late pope called Pius Quintus and since that time Gregorie now the thirteenth hath followed for some example as it séemeth that is where Gregorie the seuenth in the yeare of our Lord one thousand thrée score and line 50 fourtéene or thereabout presumed to depose Henrie the fourth a noble emperor then being Gregorie the thirtéenth now at this time would attempt the like against king Henrie the eights daughter and heire quéene Elisabeth a souereigne and a maiden quéene holding hir crowne immediatlie of God And to the end it may appeare to princes or to their good councellors in one example what was the fortunat successe that God gaue to this good christian emperor Henrie against the proud pope Hildebrand line 60 it is to be noted that when the pope Gregorie attempted to depose this noble emperor Henrie there was one Rodulph a noble man by some named the count of Reenfield that by the popes procurement vsurped the name of the emperor who was ouercome by the