sorily so that in the ende when his countrey was inuaded by the West Saxons he was easily constreyned to departe into exile And thus was the kingdome of Kent annexed to the kingdome of the West Saxons after the same kingdome had continued in gouernmente of kings created of the same nation for the space of .382 yeres The ende of the kingdome of Kent 827 yeres that is to say from the yeare of our Lord .464 vnto the yere .827 Suithred or Suthred K. of Essex was vanquished and expulsed out of his kingdom by Egbert K. The end of the Kingdome of Eastsex of West Saxons as before ye may reade in the same yere that the kentishmen were subdued by the said Egbert or else very shortly after This Kingdome continued .281 yeres from the yere .614 vnto the yere .795 as by the table of the Heptarchie set foorth by Alexander Neuill it appeareth After the decesse of Kenvulfe K. of Mercia his sonne Kenelme a child of the age of .7 yeares was admitted K. Mat. VVest 821 The wickednesse of QueÌ„dred about the yere of our Lord .821 Hee had two sisters Quendred and Burgenild of the which the one that is to say Quendrede of a malitious minde moued through ambition enuyed hir brothers aduauncemente and sought to make him away so that in the ende she corrupted y e gouernor of his person one Ashberte with greate rewardes and high promises perswading him to dispatch hir innocent brother out of life that shee might raigne in his place Ashbert one day vnder a colour to haue the yong king foorthe on hunting King Kenelme murthered led him into a thicke wood and there cut off the head froÌ„ his body an Impe by reason of his teÌ„der yeres innocent age vnto the world voyde of gilt yet thus trayterously murthered without cause or crime he was afterward reputed for a Martir There hath gone a tale that his death should be signified at Rome and the place where the murther was committed by a straunge manner for as they say a white Doue came and alight vpon the Aulter of Saint Peter bearyng a scroll in hir 〈◊〉 which she let fall on the same Aulter in which scroll among other things this was contreyned in Cleâ—…c Koâ—… Bath Keneline Kenbarne lieth vnder thorne heaued betraned that is at Clenc in a Cow pasture Keneline the Kyngs Child lieth beheaded vnder a thorne This tale I reherse 〈◊〉 for any credite I thinke it 〈◊〉 of but only for y t it seemeth the place where the yong Prince innocently lost his life After that Keneline was thus made away Ceolwolf K. of Mercia 823 his Vncle Ceolwolfe the Brother of King Kenulfe was â—…reaâ—…ed King of Mercia and in the seconde yeare of his raigne was expulsed by Bernwolfe Bernwolfe in the thirde yeare or seconde as Harrison hath of his raigne was vanquished and put to flight in battell by Egbert King of West Saxons and shortly after 〈◊〉 of the East angles as before ye haue heard Then one Ludiâ—â—nus or Ludicanus was created King of Mercia and within two yeres after came to the like ende that hapâ—…es to his predecessor before him as he 〈◊〉 about to reuenge hys death so that the Kingdome of Britayne began now to recâ—…e from their owne estate and leane to an alteration which grew in the end to the erectioÌ„ of a perâ—â—t Monarchie and finall subuersion of their perticular estates and regiments After Ludicenus succeeded Wightlafe Mat. VVest 728 who first being vanquished by Egbert King of West Saxons was afterwardes restored to the Kingdome by the same Egbert and raigned thirtene yeres whereof twelue at the least were vnder tribute which he payed to the said Egbert and to his sonne as to his Soueraignes and supreme gouernoures The Kingdome of Northumberlande was brought in subiection to the Kings of West Saxons as before is mentioned in the yeare of oure Lord .828 828 and in y e yeare of the raigne of K. Egbert .28 but yet here it tooke not ende as after shall appeare EThelwoulfus otherwise called by some writers Athaulfus Ethelwolfus began his raigne ouer y e West Saxons in the yeare .837 which was in the .24 yere of the Emperour Ludouicus Pius that was also K. of France in the .10 yeare of Theophilus y e Emperour of the East about the third yere of Kenneth the seconde of that name K. of Scottes This Ethelvoulf minding in his youth to haue bin a Priest entred into the orders of SubdeacoÌ„ Hen. Hunt Math. VVest and as some write he was Bishop of Winchester but howsoeuer the matter stoode or whether he was or not sure it is that shortly after he was assoyled of his vowes by authoritie of Pope Leo and then maried a proper Gentlewoman named Osburga which was his butlers daughter Hee was of nature curteous and rather desirous to liue in quiet rest than to be troubled with the gouernement of many countreys â—…V Mal. so that coÌ„tenting himselfe with the kingdome of West Saxons he permitted his brother Athelstan to enioy the residue of the countreys which his father had subdued as Kent and Essex with other He ayded the K. of Mercia Burthred against the Welchmen and greatly aduanced his estimation by gyuyng vnto him his daughter in marriage But now the fourth destruction which chanced to this lande by forraine enimies â—…our especiall â—â—structions 〈◊〉 this land was at hande for the people of Denmarke Norway and other of those Northeast regions which in that season were greate rouers by Sea had tasted the wealth of this land by such spoiles and prayes as they hadde taken in the same so that perceiuing they coulde not purchase more profit any where else they set their myndes to inuade the same on each side as they had partly begun in the days of the late kings Brightrike and Egbert Hen. Hunt Simon Dun. The persecutioÌ„ vsed by these Danes seemed more greeuous than any of the other persecutions either before or sithence that time for y e Romanes hauing quickly subdued the land gouerned it nobly withoute seeking the subuersion thereof The Scottes and Pictes only inuaded y e North partes And the Saxons seeking the conquest of the land when they had once gote it they kept it and did what they could to better and aduance it to a florishing estate And likewise the Normans hauing made a conquest graunted both life libertie and auntient lawes to the former inhabitants But the Danes long time and often assayling the land on euery side now inuading it in this place and now in that did not at y e first so much couete to conquere it as to spoyle it nor to beare rule in it as to wast destroy it who if they were at anye time ouercome the victorers were nothing the more in quiet for a new nauie and a greter army was ready to make some new inuasioÌ„ neither did they enter all at one place
coupled in mariage with Henry and Richard the sonnes of king Iohn vpon this paction and couenaunt that if the one dyed the other should succede to the crowne For the whiche it was couenanted that king William should giue a right large dower Also the castell which king Iohn had builded and king William rased it was agreed that it should remayne so defaced and neuer after again to be repaired For the sure performance of these articles thus betwixt the two kings coÌ„cluded nine noble men of Scotlande were appointed to be deliuered as hostages vnto king Iohn Scottishe hostages deliuered to kyng Iohn In that assemblie there at Yorke king William also surrendred into the haÌ„ds of king Iohn the landes of Cumberlande A surrender made to a vse Huntington and Northumberland to the intent he shuld assigne those landes again vnto his sonne prince AlexaÌ„der and he to do homage for the same according to the maner and custome in that case prouided for a knowlege and recognition that those lands were holden of the kings of Englande as superiour lordes of the same During the aboade of these two kynges at Yorke there was brought vnto them a chylde of singular beautie sonne and heire to a GentlemaÌ„ of great possessions in those parties beeing sore vexed with diuers and sundry diseases for one of his eies was consumed and lost through an issue which it had of corrupt and filthie humours the one of his handes was dryed vp the one of hys feete was so taken that he had no vse therof and his toung likewise that he could not speake The Physitions that sawe him thus troubled with suche contrary infirmities iudged him incurable A child healed by king Willyam Neuerthelesse king William making a crosse on him restored him immediatly to helth By reason wherof manie beleeued that this was done by miracle thorough the power of almightie God y t the vertue of so godlie a prince might be notified to the worlde After his returne from Yorke into Scotland Churches endowed by K. William he endowed the churches of Newbottell Melros holie Rood house Dunfermling and Abirdene with many faire possessions as the Letters patentes made thereof by him beare manifest testimonie He also erected one new bishops see called Argyle The erection of the sea of Argyle giuing therto sufficient landes towards the mayntenance and sustentation thereof After this coÌ„ming vnto the towne of Bertha he had not remayned there many dayes The towne of Bertha drowned by inundation but that there chaunced such a floud by reason of the rising inundation of the two riuers Taye and Almound that through violence of the streame the towne walles were borne downe and muche people in the town drouned ere they could make anye shifte to saue themselues The king in daunger of drowning in so muche that though the king wyth his wyfe and the moste parte of his familie escaped oute of that greate danger and ieopardie his yongest sonne yet named Iohn with his nourse and .xij. other women perished .xx. other of his seruantes beside Iohn the kinge sonne is drowned Here was heard such clamour noyse and lamentable cryes as is vsed in tyme when anye towne is sodenly taken and surprised by the enimies for as the common Prouerbe witnesseth fyre and water haue no mercie and yet of these two water is more terrible and daungerous for there is no force or witte of man able to resiste the violence of inundations wher they sodeynly breake in King William after that the towne of Bertha was thus destroyed and ouerflowed wyth water The towne of Perth buylded began the foundation of an other towne which was after called Perth by a man of that name that oughte the grounde where the same towne was buylded Furthermore to aduaunce the dignitie and augmentation of this towne Freedomes granted to the town of Perth the king graunted sundry beneficial priuiledges and freedoms therto that it myghte the sooner ryse in rychesse and wealth The first foundation thereof was layde after the incarnation of our Sauiour 1210. yeares but the name was chaunged afterwardes and called Saint Iohns towne Saint Iohns towne which name it beareth euen vnto this day Gothred moued a rebellioÌ„ in Cathnes About the same time there rose eft soones new trouble in Cathnes for one Gothred the sonne of MakuilÈem of whose rebellion ye haue heard before spoyled with often incursions and rodes the Countrey of Rosse and other boundes there aboutes His companie encreaseth His companie encreased dayly more and more by repayre of such number of Rebelles as came vnto him oute of Lochquhaber and the Westerne Iles. The Earles of Fife Athol sent agaynst him King William to represse these attemptes sent forth the Earles of Fife and Atholl with the Thane of Buthquhane hauing sixe thousande in their companie the which encountering with the enimies in set battail The Rebelles ouerthrowne Gothred taken and beheaded gaue them the ouerthrow and taking Gothred their chiefe Captaine prisoner brought him vnto the king who caused both him and diuerse other which were likewise taken prisoners to lose their heades Gothred himselfe was sore wounded before he was taken so that if his takers had not made the more speede in the conueying of him to the king he had dyed of his hurtes before execution had thus beene done on him accordingly as was appoynted The dissentioÌ„ betwixt the Pope and king Iohn About this tyme rose the dissention and variance betwixt Iohn King of Englande and Pope Innocent the thirde for that the Englishe Cleargie refused to ayde the sayde Iohn wyth suche summes of money as hee demaunded of them The cause Shortly after William king of Scotlande worne with long age departed out of this world at Striueling The death of K. William in the lxxiiij yeare of his age and in the .xlix. yeare of his raigne and after the incarnation of Christ .1214 yeares 1214 He was buryed in Aberbrothak before the high aulter within the Quiere The yeare afore his death two Comets or blasing starres appeared in the Month of March right terrible to behold Two blasing starres y e one did shine before the rysing of the Sunne and the other before the going downe thereof The yeare next following there was a Cow in Northumberlande that calued a right monstruous Calfe A monstrous Calfe for the head and necke resembled a verie Calfe in deede but the residue of the bodye was like to a Colte Two Moones In the Winter after there were seene also two Moones in the Fyrmament the one beeing seuered from the other and in shape naturally hoâ—…ned as yee see the Moone in hir encreasing or waâ—…ning King William in his life time founded the Abbay of Balmernocht The Abbay of Balmernocht founded but his wife Queene Ermengard endowed it with landes and possessions after his deceasse In the .xlvj. yeare of this
easie composition of money which she payed for hir mariage restored vnto hir againe all hir landes liuings suffring hir to enioy hir husbande without any more trouble or vexation Robert Bruce that was after king of Scotland is borne In the thirde yeare after the sayd Ladie was deliuered of the afore remembred Robert Bruce that was after king of Scotland And the same yeare which was the yeare after the byrth of our Sauiour 1274 1274. Dauid the seconde sonne of king Alexander deceassed and the thirde yeare after the brethren of Edward king of England came into Scotland to visite the Queene their sister and their brother in lawe the King K. Alexander with his wife the Queene came to London and after did attend them both in theyr iourney to London whither they went to be present at the coronation of the foresayde Edwarde as then returned forth of Affrike after the deceasse of his father King Henrie to take vpon him the gouernment of the Kingdome descended vnto him by right of inheritance He was crowned the same yeare on the day of the assumption of our Ladie in August wyth great solemnitie and tryumph The same time there was a Norman in king Edwardes Court A Norman of passing streÌ„gth of suche passing strength of bodye that he ouerthrewe all men with whome hee wrastled Ferquhard a Scottish man ouerthrew the sayd Norman tyll at length was Ferquhard a Scottish man borne of the Countrey of 〈◊〉 descended of noble 〈…〉 his great prayse and gouernment 〈…〉 King Alexander in guerdâ—…n of so 〈…〉 there done in the presence of so 〈…〉 â—…imble gaue vnto him the Earledome of â—…osse foreuermore 〈…〉 Ferquhard succeeded 〈◊〉 Earles 〈◊〉 of his surname The Earldom of Rosse giue William Rosse alias Leslie but the sixt Earle was named William Rosse otherwise Lesly in whose sonne the seuenth Earle fayled the dignitie of that house for fault of succession At the sometime prince Alexander king Alexanders sonne did homage vnto king Edward for the Earledome of Huntington as the Scottish writers do testifie Shortly after that king Alexander was returned forth of Englande at that time into Scotlande The death of Queene Margaret his wife Queene Margaret deceassed and was buried in Dunfermling She bare by him two sonnes Alexander and Dauid and one daughter named Margaret the which according to the assurance before made was maried about three yeares after hir mothers deceasse vnto Hanigo The mariage of Margaret K. Alexanders daughter or rather Aquine king of Norway and deceassed in the seconde yeare after the solemnization of the maryage leauing behinde hir a daughter named also Margaret But before this happe fell so oute euen immediately after the death of Queene Margaret the mother hir yonger sonne Dauid deceassed The death of Dauid sonne to king Alexander By reason whereof King Alexander being carefull for his succession procured a maryage for his elder sonne Prince Alexander The mariage of Alexander prince of Scotlande wyth the Earle of Flaunders his daughter the whiche beeing brought into Scotlande was maryed vnto the sayd Prince at Iedworth on the Sunday after the feast of Saint Martyn in Winter in the yeare 1279. 1279. The feast of this maryage was holden with great tryumph and solemnitie continually the space of .xv. dayes togither This yeare a number of the Scottish nobilitie which had attended the Ladie Margaret into Norway were lost by shipwracke as they would haue returned back againe into Scotland after the consummation of hir maryage there with king Hanigo or Aquine Shortly after by force of deathes dreadfull dint two grieuous losses chaunced vnto King AlexaÌ„der the one following in y e neck of another The death of Alexander prince of Scotlande For first his eldest sonne Prince Alexander being not past .xx. yeres of age departed out of this worlde without leauing any issue behinde him and not long after his daughter Margaret Queene of Norway deceassed also The death of Margaret Queene of Norway leauing behinde hir one onely daughter as before is mentioned being as yet but an infant A Councell at Lions In the same yeare was a generall counsell holden at Lions the Pope and a great multitude of the Prelates of Christendome being there assembled To this counsell were summoned to appeare all the Prouincials Wardens and ministers of the begging Friers And for y e there were so many sundry orders of theÌ„ ech man deuising of hys owne brayne some newe alteration all those orders were reduced into the foure orders which after by the church of Rome were approued and alowed The foure orders of Friers A general coÌ„mandement was also giuen A commaundement giuen against deuising new orders of Friers that no man should go about to begin any newe forme of such vaine superstitious orders whiche appoynt themselues to eschue labour to the ende they may liue in pleasure lust and ydlenesse vpoÌ„ the trauaile of other mens browes In this meane time after that the Christian army was retained home out of 〈◊〉 by reason of a truce contended with the Soldane The Soldane contrary to the truce inuadeth the Christians the same Soldan that truce notwithstanding ceassed not to make great slaughters and 〈◊〉 vpon those christen men that remayned behinde The christian Princes sore moued herewith made their apprests for a new expedition into the holy land The Scottes contribution for a iourney into the holy lande The Scots gaue the tenth priuie of all their landes or rather as some bookes haue the tenth part of all tythes belonging to churches to the furtherance of this iourney notwithstanding through such enuie and contentions as rose amongest the sayde Princes that iourney brake to the great domage and preiudice of the Christian fayth King Alexander hauing lost his wife and children in maner as is before expressed not only he himself but also all Scotland was in great pensiuenesse and sorrow eche man by a certaine soreiudgement and misgiuing in minde doubting the mishap that might therof ensue K. Alexander maryed the daughter of the Earle not of Champaign but of Dreux sayth Southw But yet did king Alexander by aduice of his Nobles in hope of new issue marrie the daughter of the Erle of Champainge in Fraunce named Iolant The mariage was celebrate at Iedburgh with greate feasting and triumph but that ioye and gladsome blythnesse endured not long after Ri. Southwel varieth somewhat from the Scottish writers in report of K. Alexanders death See in Englande For the same yeare on the .xviij. day of Aprill as he was galloping vpon a fierce horse at Kingorn forcing him in his race somwhat rashly he was throwne ouer the west clife towards the Sea by a wonderfull misfortune so rudely that hee brake his necke and so therewyth immediately dyed in the .xlij. 35. H.B. yeare of hys raigne He was buryed at Dunfermling in the yeare after the Incarnation
aduised before they had ioyned w t him in a pight field but true it is that after y e Duke had remayned there so long as vitayles might be had recouered frō any part he retyred with his army backe into Englād not without some losse of mē horse spoiles which y e Scots vnder the Erle of Huntley others tooke fro the Englishmē in that their retire specially as they passed ouer the riuer of Tweede After the Englishmē were thus departed withdrawē home foorth of Scotlād king Iames being of an high manly courage in reuenge of the harmes done by the Englishmē within his countrey thought good y t his whole army should passe forwarde inuade England himself to go therwith in proper person And herein he requested the cōsent of his nobilitie who after long resoning good aduisement takē in the mater gaue answere to the king in this sort y t they could not thinke it good that they should passe within Englād to seeke battayle y e king himself being with thē considering y t his .ij. sonnes were lately disceased so y t he had no successiō of his body for in case that they lost the field as the chaūce of battell is most vncertaine then the king of England hauing great substance might therewith folow the victory put the realme of Scotlande in greate hazarde Therefore they thought it sufficiently to defend their owne boundes to constrayne the enimie for feare to leaue the inuasion therof as presently they had done and declared that they were determined to haue giuen battayle to theyr enimies if they had cōtinued within the realme and doubted not by the helpe of God they hauing so iust a cause and being inuaded in theyr countrey but that they shoulde haue obteyned the victory The King hearyng theyr determination albeit his high courage pressed him to inuade The king breaketh vp his army yet the approued witte of his nobles and Coūsellours caused him to follow their aduise and so returned with his army backe againe the first of Nouember the army of England being first discharged and the Duke of Norffolke in his returne towardes London The king goeth to the west borders Shortly after the kyng of Scotlande went himself in person vnto the West marches of his realme where the Lord Maxwell was Warden whom togither with the Erles of Cassels and Glencarne and certaine other Lordes there with him the king appointed to inuade the English marches on that side taking with them the power of the bordurers and sente also with them Oliuer Sincler Oliuer Sincler the residue of the Gentlemen of his housholde These Erles Lordes entring into Englande on S. Katherines euen beyng the .xxiiij. of Nouember began to burne certayne townes vpō the water of Eske but as soone as the scrye was raysed in the countrey The Lorde Wharton the Lord Quharton Warden of the west marches of Englande sodenly raysed the power of the countrey and came to a little hill where they shewed themselues in sight vnto the Scottishe army The Scottishe Lordes perceyuyng the Englishmen gathered assembled thēselues togither and enquired who was Lieutenaunt general there by the Kings appointmēt and incontinently Oliuer Sincler was holden vp on twoo mennes shoulders The enuy of the Lordes agaynst Oliuer Sincler where he sheweth foorth the Kings commission instituting him Liuetenant to the Kyng of that armie but how soeuer that was redde the Erles and Lordes there present thought themselues embased too much to haue suche a meane Gentleman aduaūced in authoritie aboue them all and therefore determined not to fight vnder suche a Captayne but willyngly suffred themselues to be ouercome The Scottes discomfited by the English men and so were taken by the English men not shewyng any countenaunce of defence to the contrary and without slaughter of any one person on eyther side The kyng being in Carlauerocke vpon the borders not farre from Soloway Mosse when this misfortune fell vpon his men after he heard thereof he was maruellously amased the more in calling to remembrance the refusall made by his Nobles assembled with him in campe at Fala vpon his request to inuade Englande The griefe of the king for the ouerthrow of his men Herewith such an impression entered his minde that he thought with himself that all his whole nobilitie had conspyred agaynst him and therevpon tooke such a vehement and high displeasure increased with a melancolious thought that he departed sodenly from thence to Edenburgh and after remoued to Faulkeland where he remayned as a man desolate of comforte beyng sore vexed in spirite and bodie and woulde not permitte any maner of person to haue accesse vnto him his secrete and familiar seruants only excepted And as he was thus vnquieted The birth of the Scottes Queene newes was brought him that the Queene his wyfe was brought to bedde of a fayre yōg Princesse the .vij day of December the whiche newes he lyked very euill and added the griefe thereof to his former displeasantnesse in so muche that he perceyued the ende of his lyfe to approche and withall sayde that hee sorsawe great trouble to come vpon the realme of Scotlande for the pursuit whiche the King of England was like to make therevpon agaynst the same to the end hee might bryng it vnder his subiection eyther by mariage or by some other meane It was reported that he was disquieted with some vnkindly medicine but how soeuer the matter was he yeelded vp his sprite to almighty God departed this worlde the .xiiij. of December in the yeare of oure redemption .1542 the .xxxiij. yeare of his age The death of the King of ◅tes and .xxxij. of his raigne Shortly after hys departure hys body was conueyed from Falkeland vnto Edenburgh in most honorable wife the Cardinall the Erles of Arrane Arguile Rothes Marshall and dyuers other noble men being present and with all funerall pomp as was requisite it was buried in the Abbey Church of Holy Roode house beside the body of Queene Magdalene daughter to the King of Fraunce his first wife There was greate lamentation and moue made for his death throughout all parts of his Realme for hee was very well beloued among hys subiectes Queene Mary THe Eternall God calling to his mercy Iames King of Scotland the fifth of that name Mary his only daughter and heire began hir raigne ouer the Realme of Scotland the eyghtenth day of December in the yere of our Lord .1542 1542 Frauncis the firste of that name then raigning in Fraunce and Henry the eyght ouer the Englishmen She was not past seuen dayes olde when hir father departing this life left vnto hir his kingdome hir mother lying in childbed in the Castel of Lithquo The Lorde Leuingston of which place y e Lord Leuingston being Captayne had the charge committed to him both of the daughter and mother with the mothers good
his lignage so long to reigne in wealth and felicitie in conclusion with his brother Rycharde fled again into Flaunders This departure of the Earle sore vexed the king doubting of some newe trouble to ensue thereof But yet to vnderstande the full meaning of the sayd Erle the King vsed his olde serche for immediately after the Erle was fled he appointed sir Robert Curson whom he had aduanced to the order of knighthoode and made Captaine of Hammes Castell a valiant man and a circumspect to dissemble himselfe to bee one of that conspiracie went into Flaunders to espie what was done there by the Ladie Margaret and his Nephewe the Earle of Suffolke After that the sayde sir Robert Curson was thus gone into Flaunders the king to put hym out of al suspition with the said ladie Margaret the Earle caused the sayde Earle and sir Robert Curson and fiue persons more to be accursed at Paules Crosse the first Sunday of Nouember as enimies to him and his realme To be briefe the king by this meanes and other such diligent inquisition as hee made tryed out such as he suspected partly to be deuisers of mischiefe agaynst him and partly to beare no sincere affection towardes his person so that hee coulde readilye name them whereof a greate parte were within fewe dayes apprehended and taken And amongest them William Lorde Courtney sonne to the Earle of Deuonshire whiche had maryed the Ladie Katherine daughter to king Edwarde the fourth Lorde William de in Pole brother to the foresayde Erle of Suffolk sir Iames Tyrrell sir Iohn Wyndam Both the Williams were rather taken of suspition bicause they were so neare of kinne to the Conspyrates than for any proued matter But Sir Iames Tyrrell and Iohn Windam bycause they were traytours Tyrrell and Windam beheaded and so attaynted the sixt day of May after theyr apprehension they were on the tower hill beheaded When the Earle of Suffolke hearde what fortune thus happened to his friendes as one in vtter dispayre to haue anye good successe in hys pretensed enterprice wandred about all Germanie and France to purchase some ayde and succour if by any meanes hee myght But when hee perceyued no stedfaste grounde to eatche anchor holde vpon he submitted himselfe vnder the Protection of Philip Archduke of Austriche But his brother Richarde being a politique man so wisely ordred himself in this stormy tempest that he was not entrapped either with net or snare The king not yet out of all doubt of ciuill sedition bycause a great number of euill disposed persons partakers of this conspiracie wâ—…ll fledde into â—…rie Sanctuaries demâ—… to haue al the Gates of Sainctuaries and places priuiledged 〈◊〉 and loâ—…ked vp so that 〈◊〉 shoulde issue one from thence to pâ—…turbâ—… and vnquyeâ—… him And for â—…he â—…ntent he wrote vnto Pope Alexander ofstring him by his authoritie to adiudge all English menne being fledde to Sainctuarie for the offence vâ—…asâ—… 〈◊〉 enimyes to the Christian sayth â—…ng and prouyding the refuge and priuiledge of Sainctuarie to all sâ—… as once haâ—… enioyed the libertie and protection of the â—…ame and after had sleâ—…de but and eftsoones returned againe Whiche thing after that the Pope had graunted Sanctuation restrayned turned to the great quâ—…tnesse of the King and his Realme For â—…ye that had offended for some to fall into daunger returned to the due â—…stion of theyr Princes and order 〈◊〉 were yet from peryll â—…e not hazarde themselues so â—…ly as they durst haue done before vpon hope of suche stâ—…tyng holes When the king had 〈◊〉 â—…led â—…ings to his owne contentation and pâ—…e there sodainly happened to him a lamentable chaunce For that noble Prince Arthure the â—…ings first begotten sonne after he had been maryed to the lady â—…atheryn his wife 〈◊〉 space of that monethes The death of Arthur Prince of Wales â—…e parted out of this it â—…r if 〈◊〉 in his â—…affel of Ludlow and with great 〈…〉 was baned in the Cathedrall Church at Worcester His brother the Duke of Yorke was stayed from the tylle of Prince by the â—…e of a moâ—… till to women it might appeare whether the Ladie Katheryn wyfe to the sayde Prince Arthure was conceyued with childe or not In 〈◊〉 xviij yeare the .xxiiij. day of Ianuarie An. reg 18. a quarter of an houre afore three of the clocke at after â—…e of the same day 1503 the still stone of our ladie Chapel within y e Monasterie of Westmynster was layde by the handes of Iohn Isâ—…ip Abbot of the same Monasterie Sir Reignaâ—…e Bray â—…ight of the â—…aâ—… â—…or Barnes master of the â—…lles Doctor Wall Chaplayen to the kings Maiestie Maister Hugh Oâ—…ham Chaplayne to the Countâ—… of Derbie Richmond the kings mother the Edwarde Stanhope knight and diuerse other Vpon the same stone was this scripture engrauen Pâ—…sti issâ—… Henrieus septimus rex Angâ—…ra Franciae Dominus Hibernaie posur hanc petram in honâ—…e beatae vngâ—… Maria. 24 â—…e â—…nuarij anno domini 1502 â—…no dicâ—… Regâ—…s Henrier sepriums decimo octauo Queene Elizabeth lying within the Tower of London was brought a bed of a fayre â—…der on Candlemasse day which was there christened and named Katherin and the .xj. of the same month the sayd Queene there deceased and was buryed at Westminster whose daughter also lyued but a small season after hir mother The .xviij. of Februarie the king at his Palace of Westminster created his onely sonne Henrie Prince of Wales Earle of Chester c. who afterwardes succeeded his father in possession of the regall Crowne of this realme Moreouer this yeare also after the deceasse of that noble Queene for hir vertue commonlye called good Queene Elizabeth departed oute of thys worlde also sir Reignalde Bray knight of the Garter Sir Reignold Bray his death a very father of hys Countrey for his high wisedome and singular loue to iustice well worthie to beare that tytle If any thing had beene done amysse contrarie to lawe and equitie Iust commendacions of Morton Archbishop of Canterbury and Sir Reynold Bray hee woulde after an humble sorte plainely blame the King and giue hym good aduertisement that he should not onely refourme the same but also hee more circumspect in any other the lyke case Of the same vertue and faythfull plainnesse was Iohn Morton Archbishop of Canterburie whiche dyed as is shewed aboue two yeares before So these two persoÌ„s were refrainers of y t kings vnbrydeled libertie where as the common people ignorant altogyther of the truth in suche matters iudged and reported that the counsayle of those two worthie personages corrupted y e kings cleane and immaculate conscience contrarie to his princelye disposition and naturall inclynation Suche is euer the errour of the common people About this tyme dyed Henrie the Archbishop of Canterburie whose rowmth Doctor William Warham Bishop of London supplyed And to the Sea of London William Barnes was appoynted and after his death succeded one
maintenance of themselues and their posteritie for euermore To be short therefore after the Gyantes and great Princes or mightie men of the world had conspired and slaine the aforesayd Osyris Hercules his sonne surnamed Libius in the reuenge of his fathers death proclaymed open warres agaynst them all and going from place to place he ceased not to spoyle their kingdomes and therewithall to kill them that fell into his handes Finally hauing among other ouercome the Lomnimi or Geriones in Spayne Lomnimi Geriones and vnderstanding that Lestrigo his sonnes did yet remayne in Italie he directed his voyage into those parts and taking the kingdome of the Celtes in his waye he remayned for a season with Lucus the king of that Countrie where he also maried his daughter Galathea Galathea and beg at a sonne by hir calling him after his moothers name Galates Galates of whome in my Chronologie I haue spoken more at large In the meane time Albion vnderstanding howe Hercules intended to make warres agaynst his brother Lestrigo he thought it good to stop him that tyde and therefore sending for hys brother Bergion Bergion out of the Orchades where he also reygned as supreme Lorde and gouernour they ioyned their powers Pomponius Laetus sayled ouer into Fraunce Being arriued there it was not long ere they met with Hercules and his armie neare vnto the mouth of the riuer called Rhodanus where happened a cruell conflicte betwéene them in which Hercules and hys men were lyke to haue lost the daye for that they were in maner weryed with loÌ„g warres and their munition sore wasted in the last voiage that he had made for Spaine Herevppon Hercules perceyuing the courages of his souldiours somewhat to abate séeing the want of munition likely to be the cause of his fatall day and present ouerthrowe at hande it came sodenly into his mynde to will eche of them to defende himselfe by throwing of stones at hys enimie wherof there lay great store then scattered in the place The policie was no sooner published than put in execution whereby they so preuayled in th ende that Hercules wan the fielde their enemies were put to flight and Albion and his brother both slayne Albion slayne and buried in that plot Thus was Britaine ridde of a tyrant Lucus king of the Celtes deliuered froÌ„ an vsurper that daily incroched vpon him also euen in his owne kingdome on that side and Lestrigo greatly weakened by the slaughter of his brethren Of this inuention of Hercules in lyke sort it commeth that Iupiter father vnto Hercules who in déede was none other but Osyris is feygned to throw downe stones from heauen vpon Albion and Bergion It rayned â—…ones in the defence of Hercules his son which came so thick vpon them as if great drops of raine or hayle should haue descended from aboue no man well knowing which waye to turne him from their violence they came so fast and with so great a strength But to go forwarde albeit that Albion and his power were thus discomfited and slayne yet the name that he gaue vnto thys Islande dyed not but still remained vnto the time of Brute who arriuing here in the 1127 before Christ and 2840. after the creation not onely chaunged it into Britayne after it had bene called Albion by the space of 595. yeares but to declare his souereigntie ouer the reast of the Islandes also that are about the same he called them all after the same maner so that Albion was sayde in tyme to be Britanniarum insula maxima that is the greatest of those Isles that bare the name of Britayne It is altogither impertinent to discusse whether Hercules came into thys Islande after the death of Albion Hercules â—…n Britayne or not althoughe that by an auncient monument séene of late and the Cape of Hartland in the West countrie Promontorium Herculis called Promontorium Herculis in olde tyme diuers of our Brytishe wryters doe gather great likelyhoode that he shoulde also be here But syth hys presence or absence maketh nothing wyth the alteration of the name of this our Region and Countrie I passe it ouer as not incident to my purpose Neyther will I spend any time in the determination â—…o Marius Niger coÌ„ment de Britannia Cap. 2. whether Brittayne hath bene sometyme a percell of the mayne althoughe it shoulde well séeme so to haue bene bycause that before the generall floudde of Noah we doe â—…t â—…eade of Islandes As for the spéedie and timely inhabitation thereof this is myne opinion that it was inhabited shortly after the diuision of the earth For I reade that when ech Captayne and his company had their portions assigned vnto them by Noah in the partition that he made of the whole earth among hys posteritie Theophilus Antiothenus ad Antolicum they neuer ceased to trauayle and search out the vtter most boundes of the same vntill they founde out their parts allotted and had séene and vewed the limites thereof euen vnto the very pooles It shall suffice therefore only to haue touched these things in this manner a farre of and in returning to our purpose to procéede with the reast concerning the denomination of our Island which was knowen vnto most of the Gréekes for a long time by none other name than Albion and to say the truth euen vnto Alexanders daies notwithstanding that Brute as I haue sayde had chaunged the same into Britayne manye hundred yeares before After Brutus I doe not find that any man attempted to chaunge it agayne vntill the tyme that one Valentinus a rebell Valentia in the dayes of Valentinianus and Valens endeuored to reygne there In supplemento Eusebij lib 28. and therevppon as Ierome sayth procured it to be called Valentia The lyke also dyd Theodosius in the remembraunce of the two aforesayde Emperours as Marcellinus saith but as neyther of these tooke anye holde among the common sort so it retayned stil the name of Britaine vntill the reygne of Echert who about the 800. yeare of grace gaue forth an especiall Edict dated at Wynchester that it shoulde be called Angles land or Angellandt AngellaÌ„dt or Angles land for which in our time we doe pronounce it England And this is all right Honourable that I haue to say touching the seuerall names of this Islande vtterly mislyking in the meane season their deuises which make Hengist the only parent of the later denomination wheras Echert bicause his auncestours descended from the Angles one of the seauen Nations that came wyth the Saxons into Britayne for they were not all of one but of diuers countries as Angles Saxons Germaynes Only Saxons arriued here at the first with Hengist Switchers Norwegiens c. and all comprehended vnder y e name of Saxons bicause of Hengist the Saxon his coÌ„pany that first aryued here before any of the other and therto hauing now the monarchie prehemineÌ„ce in
ouer with that nauie which was rigged on the coasts of Flanders or with some other I will not presume to affirme eyther to or froÌ„ bicause in deed Mamertinus 〈…〉 expresse mention either of Alectus or Asclepiodotus but notwithstanding it is euident by that which is coÌ„teined in his oration that 〈◊〉 Maximian but some other of his caâ—…itâ—…ng gouerned y e armie whiche slewe Alecâ—…us 〈…〉 we may suppose that Asclepiodotus was 〈◊〉 â—…ain ouer some number of ships directed to Maximinians appointment to passe ouer into this yle against the same Alectus and so may this which Maâ—…rtinus writeth agree with the truth of that whiche we fynd in Eutropius Here is to be remeÌ„bred Eutropius y t after Maximianus had thus recouered Britain out of ther 〈…〉 rule therof froÌ„ the Romans it shuld seem y t not only great numbers of artificers other people were conueyed ouer into Gallia there to inhabite and furnish such cities as were run into decay but also a power of warlike youthes was transported thither to defend the countrey from the inuasion of barbarous nations For we fynd that in the dayes of this Maximian the Britons expulsing the NeruiaÌ„s out of the citie of Mons in Henand held a castell there whiche was called Bretaiâ—â—ns after them wherevpon the citie was afterwarde called Mons reteyning the last sillable only as in such cases it hath ofteÌ„ hapned Moreouer this is not to be forgotten y t as Homf Llhuyd hath very wel noted in his book intitled Fragmentae historiae Britannicae Mamertinus in this parcell of his panegerike oration doth make first meÌ„tion of the nation of Picts of al other the ancient Roman writers so that not one before his tyme once nameth eyther Picts or Scots But now to returne wher we left After that Britain was thus recouered by the Romains Diocletian MaximiaÌ„ caling the Empire the I le tasted of the crueltie that Diorclesian exercised agaynste the Christians in persecutyng them wyth all extremityes continually for the space of ten yeeres Moreouer a great nuÌ„ber of Christians which were assembled togither to heare the word of lyfe preached by that vertuous manne Amphibalus were slayn by the wicked Pagans at Lychfield wherof that towne toke name as you wold say The field of dead corpses To be briefe this persecution was so greate greuous Gildas and therto so vniuersall that in maner the ChristiaÌ„ religion was therby destroyed The faithfull people were slayne their bookes brâ—â—t 〈…〉 churches ouerthrown It is recorded that 〈◊〉 in one monethes space in dyuers places of the worlde there were .xvij. M. godlye menne and women put to death for professing the christian faith in the dayes of that tyrant Dioclesian and his fellowe Maximian Coellus COellus Coellâ—… Earle of Colchester began hys dominion ouer the Brytons in the yeare of our Lord .262 262. 〈◊〉 This Coellus or Coell ruled the lande for a certayne tyme so as the Brytons were well contentented with his gouernement and lyued the longer in rest from inuasion of the Romains bicause they were occupied in other places but finally they findyng tyme for their purpose apointed one Constantius to passe ouer into this Isle with an armie the which Constantius put Coelus in suche dread that immediatly vpon his arriuall Coellus sent to him an ambassade and coÌ„cluded a peace with him couenaÌ„ting to pay y e accustomed tribute Caâ—… Galfrid and gaue to Constantius his daughter in mariage called Helene a noble Lady and a lerned Shortly after king Coell dyed after he had reigned as some write .27 yeares 〈◊〉 Caâ—â—â— or as other haue but 13. yeares Of the regiment of thys Prince Harrison maketh no mention in his Chronologie But verily if I shall speake what I thinke I will not denye but assuredly suche a Prince there was howbeit that he had a daughter named Helene whome hee maried vnto Constantius the Romain lieutenant that was after Emperour I leaue that to be decided of the learned For if the whole course of the lyues as well of the father and sonne Constantius and Constantine as lykewyse of the mother Helena bee considerately marked from tyme to tyme and yeare to yeare as out of authors both Greeke and latine y e same may be gathered I feare least such doubt may ryse in this matter that it wil be harder to proue Helene a Britayne than Constantine to be borne in Bithynia as Nicephorus auoncheth but for somuche as I meane not to steppe from the course of oure countreye writers in suche poynts Lib. 7. cap. 1. where the receyued opinion maye seeme to warrant the credite of the historie Iâ—â— with other admit bothe the mother and sonne to be Britons in the whole discourse of the historie following as thoughe I hadde forgot what iâ—… this place I haue sayd Constantius But as touching his reigne ouer the Britons wee haue not to saye further than as we fynde in our owne writers recorded but for his gouernment in the empire it is to be considered that first he was admitted to rule as an assistaÌ„t to Maximian vnder y e title of Cesar so from that time if you shall accompt his reigne it may comprehend xj xij or .xiij. yeares yea more or lesse according to the diuersitie founde in writers But if we shal recken his reign from the time onely that Diocletian and Maximian resigned their title to the Empire VVil. Haris we shall fynde that he reigned not fully .iij. yeares For where as betweene the slaughter of Alectus and the comming of Constantius are accompted .8 yeeres and odde monethes not only those .8 yeeres but also some space of tyme before maye be asended vnto Constantius for although before his comming ouer into Britayn now this last tyme for he had bin here afore as it well appeareth Asclepâ—…odetus gouerned as Legate albeit vnder Constantius who had a greate portion of the west partâ—…es of the empire vnder his regiment by the title as I haue sayd of Cesar although he was not sayde to reigne absolutelye till Diocletian and Maximian resigned wherof it is not amisse to giue this briefe aduertisement accordyng as in William Harrisons Chronologie is sufficiently proued But now to coÌ„clude with the doings of ConstaÌ„tius at leÌ„gth he fel sick at Yorke and there dyed about the yeare of our Lord .306 306. This is not to be forgotten that whylest hee lay on his death bed somewhat before he departed this life hearing that his sonne Constantine was come escaped from the emperours Diocletian Maximianus with whome he remained as a pledge as after shall be partly touched â–ª he receyued him with all ioye and raising himselfe vp in his bed in presence of his other sonnes and counsellours with a greate number of other people and strangers that wer come to visit him he sit the crowne vpon his sonnes head and adorned him with other imperiall roabes and garmentes executing as it were
that they were constrayned to keepe them within the I le of Tenet where he oftentymes assayled them with such shippes as he then had When Ronowen the daughter of Hengist perceyued the great losse that the Saxons susteyned by the martiall prowes of Vortimer shee found meanes that within a while the sayd Vortimer was poysoned after he had ruled the Brytayns by the space of sixe or seuen yeres and odde Monethes as William Har. reporteth By the Brytish Hystorie it should seeme that Vortimer before his death handled the Saxons so hardly keeping them besieeged within the I le of Tenet till at length they were constrayned to sue for licence to depart home into Germanie in safetie and the better to bring this to passe they sent Vortigerne whome they had kept styll with them in all these battayles vnto his sonne Vortimer to be a meane for the obteining of their sute But whilest this treatie was in hande they got them into theyr shippes and leauing theyr wyues and children behinde them returned into Germanie Thus farre Gal. Mon. But howe vnlikely this is to be true I will not make any further discourse but onely referre euery man to that whiche in olde autentique Hystoriographers of the Englishe Nation is found recorded as in William Malmes Henrie Hunt Marianus and others Vnto whome in these matters concerning the doings betwixt the Saxons and Brytaynes we may vndoubtedly safely giue most credite William Malmes wryting of this Vortimer or Guortigerne VVil. Malâ—… and of the warres which he made agaynst the Saxons varyeth in a maner altogither from Geffrey of Monmouth as by his wordes here following ye may perceyue Guortimer the sonne of Vortimer sayth he thinking not good long to dissemble the matter for that he sawe himselfe and his Countreymen the Brytayns preuented by the craft of the Englishe Saxons setteth his full purpose to dryue them out of the Realme and kyndleth his father to the like attempt He being therefore the Authour and procurer seuen yeares after their first comming into thyâ—… land the league was broken and by the space of xx yeres they fought oftentymes togither in many light encounters but foure times they fought puissance agaynste puissaunce in open fielde in the first battayle they departed with like fortune Hengist had the victorie this battaile sayth Râ—…llâ—… 458 Hors and Categerne 〈◊〉 whilest the one part that is to meane the Saxons lost their Captain Hors that was brother to Hengist and the Brytaynes lost Categerne an other of Vortigernes sonnes In the other battails when the Englishmen went euer away with the vpper hand at length a peace was concluded Guortimer being taken out of this worlde by course of fatall death the which muche differing from the softe and milde nature of his father right nobly would haue gouerned the realme if God had suffred him to haue liued But these battailes which Vortimer gaue to the Saxons as before is mentioned should appeare by that which some wryters haue recorded to haue chauÌ„ced before the supposed time of Vortimers or Guortimers atteyning to the crowne about the sixt or seuenth yeare after the first comming of the Saxons into this realme with Hengist And hereunto William Harison giueth his consent also in his Chronologie referring the mutuall slaughter of Horsus and Catigerne to the sixth yeare of Martianus and .455 of Christ Thus hath Polidore Virgile of the first breaking of the warres betwixt the Saxons and Britayns which chaunced not as should appeare by that which he wryteth thereof till after the death of Vortigerne Howbeit he denieth not y e Hengist at his first comming got seates for him and hys people within the Country of Kent and there began to inhabite This ought not to bee forgotten that king Vortimer as Sigebertus hath written restored the christian religion after he had vanquished the Saxons â—â—gebertus in such places where the same was decayed by the enimies inuasion Vortigerne the seconde time â—â— hath â—…at West 471 THen was Vortigerne agayne restored to the Kingdome of Brytayne in the yeare of our Lorde 471. All the tyme of his sonnes raigne he had remayned in the partyes nowe called Wales where as some wryte in that meane tyme hee buylded a strong Castell called Generon or Guanereu in the West side of Wales neare to the ryuer of Guana vpon a Mountayne called Cloaricus which some referre to be buylded in his second returne into Wales as shall be shewed hereafter And it is so much the more likely for that an olde Chronicle which Fabian had fight of affyrmeth that Vortigerne was kept vnder the rule of certayne Gouernours to hym appoynted in the towne of Caerlegion Caerleon Arwicke and behaued himselfe in such commendable sort towardes his sonne in ayding him with his counsail and otherwise in the meane season whilest his sonne raigned that the Brytayns by reason therof began so to fauour him that after the death of Vortimer they made him againe king Shortly after that Vortigerne was restored to the rule of the Kingdome 4000. hath Math. West He might easily returne for except I be deceyued he was neuer driuen out after he had once got foot within this I le Hengist aduertised thereof returned into the lande with a mightye armie of Saxons whereof Vortigerne being aduertised assembled his Brytaines and with all speede made towardes him When Hengist had knowledge of the huge host of the Brytains that was comming against him he required to come to a coÌ„munication with Vortigerne which request was graunted so that it was concluded that on May day a certain nuÌ„ber of Britains as many of the Saxons should meete togither vpon the plaine of Salisburie Hengist hauing deuised a newe kind of treason when the daye of theyr appoynted meeting was come caused euery one of his allowed number secretely to put into his Hose a long knyfe where it was ordeined that no man should bring any weapon with him at all and that at the verie instant when this watchworde shoulde be vttered by him Nempt your sexes what if it were mesles Nempt your sexes then should euery of them plucke out his knife and slea the Brytayne that chaunced to be next to him except the same shoulde bee Vortigerne whom he willed to be apprehended but not slaine At the day assigned the king with his appointed number of Brytaynes nothing mistrusting lesse than any such maner of vnfaythfull dealing came to the place in order before prescribed without armour or weapon where hee founde readie Hengist with his Saxons the whiche receyued the king with amiable countenance in moste louing sort but after they were entred a little into communication Hengist meaning to accomplish hys deuysed purpose gaue the watchwoorde immediately wherevpon the Saxons drewe oute theyr knyues and sodainly fell on the Brytayns There 〈◊〉 the nobleâ—… Brytaine 〈◊〉 as Gal â–ª 〈◊〉 and slue them as sheepe being fallen within the daunger of woolues For the
After this about the .xxj. yeare of his raigne Anno. 708 as is noted by Mat. VVest king Inas and his cosin Nun fought with â—…erent king of the Brytaynes In the beginning of the battaile one Higelbald a noble man of the West Saxons part was slaine H. Hunt but in the ende Gerent with his Brytains was chased In the .xxvi. yeare of his raigne Mat. VVest hath 718. the same Inas fought a mightie battaile against Cheolred King of Mercia at Wâ—â—enesburie with doubtfull victorie for it could not well be iudged whether part susteyned greater losse In the .xxxvi. yeare of his raigne king Inas inuaded the South Saxons with a mightie armie and 〈◊〉 in battaile Ealdbright or 〈◊〉 king of the South Saxons ioyned that kingdome vnto the kingdome of the West Saxons Mat. VVest hath 722. so that from thence forth the kingdome of those South Saxons ceassed after they had raigned in that kingdome by the space of fiue kings successiuely that is to wit â—…lla Cissa Ethelwalke The end of 〈◊〉 kingdome of the South Saxoes Berutius and this last Aldhinius or Ealdbright Finally when Inas had raigned .xxxvij. yeares and .x. or .xj. odde Monethes hee renounced the rule of his kingdome togither with all worldly pompe and went vnto Rome as a poore pylgryme Inas went to Rome and there dyed and there ended his life But before this during the time of his raigne hee shewed himselfe verie deuout and zealous towardes the aduauncement of the Christian Religion He made and ordeyned also good and wholesome lawes for the amendment of maners in the people whiche are yet extant and to bee reâ—â—e written in the Saxon tongue and translated into the Latine in tymes past and nowe lately agayne by maister William Lambert and imprinted by Iohn Day in the yeare .1568 togither wyth the lawes and Statutes of other Kings before the Conquest as to the learned it may appeare Moreouer king Ine or Inas buylded the Church of Welles dedicating it vnto saint Andrew where afterwardes a Bishops Sea was placed which at length was translated vnto Salisburie Ethelburga He had to wife one Ethelburga a woman of noble lynage who had beene earnest in hande with him a long time to perswade him to forsake the worlde but shee could by no meanes bring hir purpose to passe VVil. Malm. till vppon a time the king and she had lodged at a Manor place in the Countrey where all prouision had beene made for the receyuing of them and theyr trayne in most sumptuous manner that might be as well in riche furniture of householde as also in costly viandes and all other things needefull or that might serue for pleasure and when they were departed the Queene the foresayde Ethelburga caused the keeper of that house to remoue all the bedding The deuise of Queene Ethelburga to perswade hir husband to forsake the world hangings and other such things as had beene brought thither and ordeyned for the beautifull setting forth of the house and in place therof to bring ordure strawe and suche lyke fylth as well into the Chambers and Haâ—â— as into all the houses of office and that done to lay a Sowe wyth Pigges in the place where before the kings bed had stoode Herepon when she had knowledge that euerye thing was ordered according to hir appoyntment she perswaded the King to returne thyther agayne feyning occasions great and necessarieâ—… After he was returned to that house whiche before seemed to the eye a Palace of moste pleasure and nowe fynding it in suche a fylthie sâ—â—te as might lothe the stomacke of any man to beholde the same shee tooke occasion thereof to perswade him to the consideration of the 〈◊〉 pleasures of this worlde whiche in a moment turned to naught togyther with the corruption of the fleshe beeing a fylthie lumpe of Claye after it shoulde once be dyssolued by death and in fine where before shee had spente muche labour to moue hym to renounce the Worlde though all in vayne yet nowe the beholding of that chaunge in his pleasant Palayce wherein â—…o late hee had taken so greate delight wrought suche an alteration in hys mynde that hir wordes lastlye tooke effecte so that hee resigned the Kingdome to his cousin Ethelard and went himselfe to Rome as aboue iâ—… mentioned and his wife became a Nunne in the Abbey of Barking where she was made Abbesse and finally there ended hir lyfe This Inas was the fyrst that caused the money called Peter pens Peter pens to bee payde vnto the Bishop of Rome which was for euery houshold within his dominion a pennie In this meane time Edilred or Ethelred hauing gouerned the Kingdome of Mercia by the terme of .xxix. yeares King Ethelred becommeth a Monke became a Monke in the Abbey of Bardeny and after was made Abbot of that house Ostrida He had to wyfe one Ostryda the sister of Ecgfride King of Northumberlande by whome hee had a sonne named Ceolred But he appoynted Kenred the sonne of his Brother Vulfhere to succeed him in the kingdome Beda in Epit. The sayde Ostrida was cruelly slaine by the treason of hir husbandes subiectes about the yeare of our Lorde .697 697 King Kenreds The foresayde Kenred was a Prince of greate vertue deuoute towardes God a furtherer of the common wealth of his Countrey and passed hys lyfe in greate synceritye of maners In the fifth yeare of his raigne he renounced the worlde and went to Rome togither with Offa king of East Saxons where he was made a Monke â–ª and finally dyed there in the yeare of our Lord .711 711 Nauclerus By the ayde and furtherance of this Kenred a Monke of Saint Benetâ—… order cleped Egwin buylded the Abbay of Euâ—…shame Egwin Bishop of Worcester Afterwardes the same Egwine was made Bishoppe of Worcester Wee finde it recorded by wryters that this Egwine had warning giuen to him by visions as hee constantly affyrmed before Pope Constantine to set vp an Image of our Laâ—â—eâ—… in his Churche Herevppon the Pope approuing the testifications of this Byshoppe by hys Bulles wrytte to Bryghtwalde the Archebyshoppe of Canterburie to assemble a Synode and by authoritie thereof to establishe the vse of Images charging the kings of this lande to bee present at the same Synode vpon paine of excommunication This Sinode was holden about the yeare of our Lorde .712 in the dayes of Inas King of West Saxons Bale 710. and of Ceolred king of Mercia successor to the foresayde Kenred After Kenred succeeded Ceolredus the sonne of his vncle Edilred and died in the .viij. yeare of his raigne Harison hath three onely Henric. HuÌ„t and was buried at Lichfielde Then succeeded Ethelbaldus that was discended of Eopa the brother of king Penda as the fourth from hym by lineall succession Thys man gouerned a long time without any notable trouble some warres he had and sped diuersly In the
the feast of Saincte Andrewe nexte ensuyng the late mencioned agreement Fabian And this shoulde seeme true for wheras these Authours whiche reporte Ran. Higd. that Earle Edryke was the procurer of his death they also write that when he knewe the acte to be done hee hasted vnto Cnute H. Hunt and declared vnto hym what he had brought to passe for his aduauncement to the gouernement of the whole realme Whervppon Cnute abhorryng suche a detestable facte sayde vnto hym Bycause thou haste for my sake made awaye the worthyest bodye of the world I shall rayse thy head aboue all the Lordes of Englande and so caused him to be put to death Thus haue some bookes Howbeit this reporte agreeth not with other writers whiche declare howe Cnute aduaunced Edryke in the beginning of his reigne vnto high honour and made hym gouernour of Mercia Some thinke that he vvas Dâ—…e of Mercia before and novv had Essex adioyned therto and vsed his counsell in manye things after the death of king Edmund as in banishing Edwin the brother of kyng Edmunde with his sonnes also Edmunde and Edward His body was buryed at Glastenbury neere his vncle king Edgar With thys Edmunde surnamed Ironsyde fell the glorious Maiestie of the English kingdome The whiche afterwarde as it had beene an aged bodye beyng sore decayed and weakened by the Danes that nowe got possession of the whole yet somewhat recouered after the space of .xxvj. yeres vnder kyng Edward surnamed the Confessor and shortely thervpon as it had bin falne into a resiluation came to extreme ruine by the inuasion and conquest of the Normans as after by gods good helpe and fauorable assistance it shall appeare Canute or Cnute Canute shortely after the death of king Edmunde assembled a Councell at London in the whiche he caused all the nobles of the realme to do vnto him homage in receiuing an othe of loyall obeysance Hee deuided the realme into foure parts assigning Northumberlande vnto the rule of Irke or Iricius Mercia vnto Edrike Eastangle vnto Turkyl reseruing the west part to his own gouernance He banished as before is sayd Edwyn the brother of king Edmunde but such as was suspected to bee culpable of Edmundes death he caused to be put to execution wherof it should appeare that Edrick was not then in any wyse detected or once thought to bee giltie VV. Malm. The foresayd Edwyn afterwards returned and was then reconciled to the Kings fauour as some do write and was shortly after trayterously slaine by his owne seruants Ran. Higd. He was called the king of Churles King of Churles VVil. Mal. Other write that he came secretely into the realme after he had bin banished and keeping himselfe closely out of sighte at length ended his lyfe and was buried at Tauestocke Moreouer Edwyn and Edwarde the sonnes of king Edmund were banished the lande and sent first vnto Sweno king of Norway to haue bin made awaye Ran. Higd. but Sweno vppon remorse of conscience sent them into Hungarie where they founde great fauour at the handes of king Salomon in so muche that Edmunde married the daughter of the same Salomon but had no issue by hir Edward was aduaunced to marry with Agatha the daughter of the Emperour Henrye and by hir had issue two sonnes Edmunde and Edgar surnamed Adelyng as many daughters Margarete and Christine of the whiche in place conuenient more shall be sayd When Kyng Cnute hadde established thynges as hee thoughte stoode moste to his suretie he called to remembrance that he had no issue but two bastarde sonnes Harrolde and Sweno Polidore K. Cnute marieth Queene Emme the vvidovv of Egelred in Iuly anno 1017. begotten of his concubine Alwyne Wherfore he sent ouer vnto Richarde Duke of Normandie requiring that he mighte haue Queene Emme the widow of king Egelred in mariage so obteyned hir not a little to the wonder of manye which thought a great ouersight both in the woman and in hir brother that woulde satisfye the requeste of Cnute herein considering hee hadde bin such a mortall enimie to hir former husbauÌ„d But Duke Richarde did not only consent Polidore that hys sayd sister should be maryed vnto Cnute but also he hymselfe tooke to wyfe the Lady Hestâ—â—tha syster to the sayd Cnute Heere ye haue to vnderstande that this mariage was not made without greate consideration and large couenants granted on the part of king Cnute for before he could obtain queene Emme to his wife it was fully condiscended and agreed that after Cnutes deceasse the crowne of Englande should remaine vnto the issue borne of this mariage betwixte hir and Cnute The couenant made at the mariage betvvixt Cnute and Emme whiche couenant although it was not perfourmed immediatly after the deceasse of kyng Cnute yet in the ende it tooke place so as the right seemed to bee deferred and not to be taken awaye nor abolished for immediatly vpon Haroldes death that had vsurped Hardicnute succeeded as right heire to the crown by force of the agreement made at the tyme of the mariage solemnised betwixt his father and mother and being once established in the Kingdome hee ordeyned his brother Edwarde to succede hym whereby the Danes were vtterly excluded from all ryghte that they hadde to pretende vnto the Crowne of this land and the Englishe bloud restored thereto The Englishe bloud restored The praise of Quene Emme for hir vvisedome chiefly by that gracious conclusion of this mariage betwixt king Cnute and Queene Emme for the which no small prayse was thoughte to bee due vnto the sayd Queene sith by hir politike gouernement in making hir matche so beneficiall to hir selfe and hir lyne the Crowne was thus recouered out of the handes of the Danes and restored againe in time to the right heire as by an auncient treatise whiche some haue intitled Encomium Emmae Encomium Emmae and was written in those dayes it doth and may appere Whiche booke although there bee but fewe Copies thereof abroade gyueth vndoubtedly greate light to the historie of that tyme. But nowe to our purpose Cnute the same yeare in whiche he was thus maryed Mat. VVest thorought perswasion of his wyfe Queene Emme sent away the Danishe nauie armie home into Denmark giuing to them fourscore and two thousande poundes of siluer whiche was leuied thoroughout this lande for their wages In the yeare a thousande and eighteene VVil. Mal. Edrycke de Streona Erle of Mercia was ouerthrowen in his owne turne for being called afore the King into his priuie chamber and there in reasoning the matter about some quarell that was piked to him hee beganne very presumptuously to vpbrayde the king of suche pleasures as he had before tyme done vnto him I did sayde he for the loue which I bare towardes you forsake my soueraigne Lorde king Edmunde and at length for your sake slewe him At whiche wordes Cnute beganne to change
the enimies hand◅ to withdraw into Wales leauing the residue of his Countreys vnto the Saxons who therevpon recouered not onely the Citie of London yeelding it selfe vnto them for doubt of some long s◅ege but also all those countreys and prouinces whiche Hengist the first of the Saxons that raigned as king within the boundes of Albion at any time had holden or enioyed ceassed not after recouerie of the same to vexe and disquiet the Scottes Brytaynes and Pictes with continuall incursions hoping by such meanes to keepe them still occupied In the middes of this trouble Vter king of the Brytaynes departed this worlde The death of Vter poisoned by drinking water of a wel poysoned as some haue written by drinking water taken out of a foūtain which the Saxons had enuenomed He died in the yeare after the byrth of our sauiour 521. and in the xviij of his owne raigne 521. After his deceasse Loth king of the Pictes sent his Ambassadours vnto the Lordes Loth requyreth the kingdome of Brytayne and other the estates of the Brytish dominions requyring thē according to the accustomed lawes and auncient ordenances of the Realme to receyue him as king sith he had maryed the sister and heyre of the two brethren Aurelius Ambrose and Vter their two last kings being as then both deceased without leauing behinde them any lawfull issue by reason whereof their estate was fallen vnto him to enioy the same during his life hauing maryed as is sayde theyr owne naturall and lawfull borne sister and after the deceasse of him and his wife the sayde sister then it ought by course of the lawes of all Realmes and Countreys to discende vnto such issue as hee had begot of hir whiche was two sonnes the one named Mordred Mordred and Gawane and the other Valuane or Gawane as some doe call him The Brytaynes disdainfully vsing the Pictish Ambassadours that came with this message The Brytaines refuse to receyue either Loth or any of his sonnes to raigne ouer them refused not onelye to come vnder subiection of Loth but also denyed that his sonnes begot of his lawfull wife the sister of Aurelius and Vter shoulde haue any rule or gouernment amongest them as those that were no Brytaynes borne but straungers vnto them being both borne and vpbred in a forraine countrey Those Ambassadours then hauing theyr answere and beeing sent home with reproche the Brytaynes contrarie to the lawes of all nations proclaymed Arthure Arthure proclaymed king of Brytayne beeing a bastarde borne king of their Realme and forthwith assembling theyr powers vnder his leading marched on agaynst the Saxons Arthure goeth forth against the Saxons in purpose to abate some part of their strength before the Pictes whiche was doubted woulde shortly co◅e to passe shoulde ioyne with them Therefore hauing procured ayde of the Armoryke Brytaynes forth of Fraunce The Armorik Brytaines in ayd of Arthur they fought with theyr enimies within ten myles of London at the first where the Saxons beeing at two seuerall tymes vanquished The Saxons vanquished are constrayned to pay tribute to the Brytaynes were constrayned not onely to pay trybute but also to receyue magistrates to gouerne them by the said Arthures appoyntment with other grieuous articles of agreement to the great reioysing of the Brytains for these so luckie beginnings in the first exploits of their late elected king London is wonne by the Brytaynes Afterwardes was London easily wonne by the Brytains wherein Arthure remayning for a season tooke aduise with his nobles howe to proceede in his warres against the rest of the Saxons Arthure rayseth a power against the Pictes Finally hauing prepared a mightie army he determineth to go agaynst those which inhabited beyond Humber northwards with whom as he had certaine knowledge the Picts were ioyned for Loth cōming to agreement with Colgerne A league concluded betwixt Loth and Colgerne concluded a league with him wherby they were bound to ayd one another agaynst the Brytains as cōmon enimies and aduersaries to them both The Brytaynes at theyr comming into Yorkshire pitched their campe not farre off from theyr enimes who were alreadie ioyned togither and encamped abrode in the field The next day after knowledge beeing had that they shoulde haue battail Howel leader of the Armorike Brytains Arthure appoynted Howel leader of the Armoryke Brytains to encounter with the battaile of the Pictes and he himselfe to matche with the Saxons Thus they mette togither on both partes very fiercely and a sore battaile was fought ther betwixt them so that for a good space it was doubtful whether part should haue the aduauntage of the day The Picts put to flight but at length the Pictes were put to flight which aduaunced the Brytaynes to the gayne of the whole fielde For the Saxons after they perceyued howe the Pictes were discomfited dreading to abyde the whole brunte by themselues The Saxons chafed made their race towards Yorke betooke them also to theyr heeles and made theyr rase towardes Yorke as faste as theyr feete myght beare them York besieged Arthure pursuing them thither besieged the Citie almost three Monethes togyther but the Saxons defended the Walles so stoutly making often issues forth vpon the Brytaynes that till hunger began to constrayne them they cared little for the siege In the end when they were determined to haue yeelded vp the Citie they had knowledge howe there was an huge armie of Pictes and Saxons newly assembled and readie to come forwarde to their succors also that king Occa escaping from the battayle wherein he had receiued the ouerthrow at Arthurs hands and fleing afterwarde into Germanie was now returned with a newe power and arryued within the mouth of Humber Occa returneth of ou◅ Germanie with a new power Which newes caused them to deferre all communication in hope that if they might abyde the siege but for a small tyme the Brytaynes shoulde shortly bee compassed in on eche syde and oppressed on the sodaine Arthur heard of the comming of theyr succours in like maner and iudging it no wisedom to tarie the comming of his so puissant enimies considering what a number of diseased and sicke persons he had alreadie in his host Arthure rayseth his siege by reason of their long lying abrode in the fielde raysed hys siege and withdrewe himselfe so speedily as was possible with his whole army into Wales where he appoynted the Armorike Brytaynes to soiourne for that Winter with other of the meaner sort of his own souldiers Arthure returneth to Lōdon Whilest he tooke the residue of his chosen bands and went to London there to prouide that no rebellion shoulde be raysed amongst the Saxons of Kent or other of the countreys neare about In the beginning of the next spring he gathered his host togither again and with the same went forth agaynst Colgerne and Occa who being issued forth of Northumberland were entred
filthie lust of the fleshe that hee defiled his owne doughters and for that his wife was aboute to diswade him from such vilanie he slew hyr with his owne handes A prophecie Thus continuing in his wickednesse certain yeares at length the nobles began to conspire against him so that they wold haue deuised mean howe to haue rid him out of the waye if Bishop Colman had not forbidden them that practyse prophesying as it wer by diuine inspiration that Ferquhard sore detesting his owne wicked doings should shortely be punished by the handes of Almightie God according to his deseruings And sure his wordes proued true The king is sicke for within a moneth after as the same Ferquhard followed in chase of a wolfe the beaste beeing enraged by pursuite of the houndes flewe backe vppon the king and snatching at him did wounde byte him righte sore in one of his sides immediately wherevpon whether thorough anguishe of his hurt or by some other occasion he fel into a most filthie disease for a venemous humoure with a soft consuming heate did so eate and waste hys membres and limmes that a lothesome sighte it was to beholde the same for out of his legges feete and priuie partes there issued filthie corruption and matter with so vile a sauour that vnneth myght any creature abide it His belly was swollen as though hee had ben infected with the dropsy therto was it verie hard withal Finally lyce bred so abundantly in his secrete partes that he might in no wise be rid or clensed of them The king being excō◅unicated is released Colman reioycing herat did not only release him of y e sentence of excōmunication pronoūced against him but also willed him to be of good cōfort to put his confidēce in y e mercy of almightie god who was ready to receiue al such sinners as turned vnto him with repentāt harts so that being put in hope by these y e like words of Colman to haue forgiuenesse of his sinnes with bitter teares he besought God to haue mercie vpon him humbly receiuing the sacrament got him into simple clothing of heare sackclothe Then causing himself to be born into y e next fieldes Ferquhard yeldeth vp the ghost he there yelded vp the ghost in y e presente of Colmā who according to the dutie of a good ghostly father was stil about him in exhorting him to cōmit himself wholy to the mercy of God not to doubt but he shoulde be sure to attayne the same Thus Ferquhard ended his life in the .xviij. yeare after he began his reigne ouer the Scottish men 664. and in the yeare of grace .664 There be that wryte how Penda the father also was baptised by this Colman and that the same Colman trauayled through the most parte of all the Englishe prouinces setting foorth the worde of life amōgst the people purchasing him greate fame for his woorthie merites He came to the church of Lyndefern in y e daies of Maldwyn that succeeded the last mencioned Ferquharde Lennox and Argyle are at variaunce Afterwardes there fell no small discorde betwixt them of Lennox Argile for first through brau◅ng amongst the heardes men theyr masters made a fray whereof rose suche deadly enimitie betwixt the parties by reason that the inhabitantes of the Westerne Isles ayded them of Argyle The westerne Isles take parte with Argyle Galoway with Lennox and the people of Galoway the other of Lennox that if the king had not come into those parties to apease the businesse and to haue punished the offendors there had ensued muche manslaughter to the greate daunger of the vtter ruyne of those countreys The king at his arriuall amongst them Maldwyne wēt about for to punishe the author of this commotion minded not to pursue the people that followed theyr Captaines but rather the Captaines and Authours of this tumulte themselues Whereof they hauing knowledge made an attonement togither being enforced thereto of necessitie The Captaines became frends togither and fled into the Isles so to auoyde the prepared punishment deuised by the king against them And foorthwith they fled ouer into the Isles but the inhabitants doubting the kings displeasure would not consent to succour them The Ilandmen apprehend the Captaines of the rebelles but contrary wise tooke them and deliuered them to the kings officers wherevpon they were safely conueyed to the places where they were borne and there suffered their deserued execution Thus that commotion vnaduisedly begonne was speedily appeased and the name of Maldwyn by reason hereof so feared amongst his subiectes that during his reigne no suche trouble chaunced in any parte of all his dominions After this he went ouer into Iona or Colmekill He buyldeth the churche of the abbay of Colmekill where perceyuing the Abbey Church wherin his auncestors had theyr sepultures to be in decay he caused it to be pulled quite downe and workemen foorth with set in hande to duylde it vp agayne at his owne proper costes and charges Suche speede also was vsed aboute this worke that before he departed out of this life the same was finished and dedicated vnto our Sauiour Christ and Saint Colme Aboute the same time there reigned through out the most part of the world a sore grieuous pestilence consuming a greater number of men A great pestilence death vpon earth before it ceassed then were left aliue for it continued the whole space of three yeares togither At length through cōmon prayer fastings giuing of almes and other vertuous workes the wrath of almightie God was pacified so that suche great mortalitie by his mercyfull appointment did stay and giue ouer The Scottish men were free from that infection aswel at that time Scotland was free of the pestilence and plague as also for many yeares after Neither were they in maner troubled with any sharpe feuers or agues till time that omitting the auncient and wholesome sparenesse of diet which theyr fathers in times past had vsed Riotousnesse the mother of sicknesses they fell vnto riotous banquetting and excessiue feeding whereby they became subiect vnto all kindes of diseases through malicious humors growing therevpon Colman bishop of Lyndefer seing wonderfull numbers of Englishmen perish dayly of that contagious sicknesse by licence of the king to auoyde the present daunger of death which by tarying there he saw no meanes how to escape he returned into Scotland with his disciples and after getting him ouer into one of the Westerne Isles Colman erected a monasterie he erected a monasterie there wherin he remayned during the residue of his life After the departure of Colman forth of Northumberland the people of that coūtrey ioyning with the Pictes made sundry roades into the Scottish bordures whiche iniurie when Maldwyne reuenged with more displeasure done to them of Northumberland than the Scottishmē had receiued it caused the Picts Northumbers to prepare
into Norway cursing the tyme that hee set forewarde on this infortunate iourney The other shippes whiche hee lefte behinde him within three dayes after his departure from thence The fleete of the Norwaygians suncke by vehement rage of winde were tossed so togyther by violence of an East winde that beatyng and russhyng one agaynst an other they suncke there and lie in the same place euen vnto these dayes to the greate daunger of other suche shippes as come on that coaste for being couered with the floudde when the tide commes at the ebbyng againe of the same some parte of them appeare aboue water The place where y e Danish vessels were thus lost is yet cleped Drownelow sandes Drownelow sandes This ouerthrow receiued in maner aforesaid by Sueno was right displeasant to him and his people as shoulde appeare in that it was a custome many yeares after that no Knightes were made in Norway The othe that knights tooke in Norway to reuenge the death of theyr frendes excepte they were firste sworne to reuenge the slaughter of theyr countreymen and frendes thus slayne in Scotland The Scottes hauing wonne so notable a victory after they had gathered and diuided the spoyle of the fielde Solemne processions for victory gottē caused solemne processions to be made in all places of the realme and thankes to be giuen to almightie God that had sent them so fayre a day ouer their enimies But whylest the people were thus at theyr processions A tower of Danes arriue at Kyncorne 〈◊〉 of Englād woorde was brought that a newe fleete of Danes was arriued at Kingcorne sent thyther by Canute king of England in reuenge of his brothers Suenoes ouerthrow To resist these enimies whiche were already landed The Danes vanquished by Makbeth and Banquho and busie in spoiling the countrey Makbeth and Banquho were sente with the kings authoritie who hauing with them a conuenient power encountred the enimies slewe parte of them and chased the other to their shippes They that escaped and got once to theyr shippes obtayned of Makbeth for a great summe of golde that suche of theyr freendes as were slaine at this last bickering might be buried in Saint Colmes Inche Danes buried in S. Colmes Inche In memorie whereof many olde Sepultures are yet in the sayde Iuche there to be seene grauen with the armes of the Danes as the maner of burying noble men still is and heretofore hath bene vsed A peace was also concluded at the same time betwixte the Danes and Scottishmen A peace concluded betwixt Scottes and Danes ratified as some haue wryten in this wise That from thence foorth the Danes shoulde neuer come into Scotlande to make any warres agaynst the Scottes by any maner of meanes And these were the warres that Duncane had with forrayne enimies in the seuenth yeare of his reygne Shortly after happened a straunge and vncouth wonder whiche afterwarde was the cause of muche trouble in the realme of Scotlande as ye shall after heare It fortuned as Makbeth Banquho iourneyed towarde Fores where the king as then lay they went sporting by the way togither without other companie saue only thēselues passing through the woodes and fieldes when sodenly in the middes of a laūde there met them .iij. women in straunge ferly apparell resembling creatures of an elder worlde whom when they attentiuely behelde wondering much at the sight ▪ The first of them spake sayde The prophesie of three womē supposing to be the weird sisters or feiries All hayle Makbeth Thane of Glammis for he had lately entred into that dignitie and office by the death of his father Synel The .ij. of them said Hayle Makbeth Thane of Cawder but the third sayde All Hayle Makbeth that hereafter shall be king of Scotland Then Banquho what maner of women saith he are you that seeme so litle fauourable vnto me where as to my fellow here besides highe offices yee assigne also the kingdome appointyng foorth nothing for me at all Yes sayth the firste of them wee promise greater benefites vnto thee than vnto him for he shall reygne in in deede but with an vnluckie ende neyther shall he leaue any issue behinde him to succeede in his place where contrarily thou in deede shalt not reygne at all but of thee those shall be borne whiche shall gouerne the Scottishe kingdome by long order of continuall discent Herewith the foresayde women vanished immediatly out of theyr sight A thing to wonder at This was reputed at the first but some vayne fantasticall illusion by Makbeth and Banquho in so muche that Banquho woulde call Makbeth in ieste kyng of Scotland Banquho the father of many kings and Makbeth againe would call him in sporte likewise the father of many kings But afterwards the common opinion was that these women were eyther the weird sisters that is as ye would say y e Goddesses of destinie or els some Nimphes or Feiries endewed with knowledge of prophesie by their Nicromanticall science bicause euery thing came to passe as they had spoken The Thane of Cawder condemned of treason Makbeth made Thane of Cawder For shortly after the Thane of Cawder being condemned at Fores of treason against the king committed his landes liuings and offices were giuen of the kings liberalitie vnto Makbeth The same night after at supper Banquho iested with him and sayde now Makbeth thou haste obtayned those things which the twoo former sisters prophesied there remayneth onely for thee to purchase that which the third sayd should come to passe Makbeth deuiseth how he might attaine the kingdom Wherevpon Makbeth reuoluing the thing in his minde began euen then to deuise howe he mighte attayne to the kingdome but yet hee thought with himselfe that he must tary a time whiche shoulde aduaunce him thereto by the diuine prouidence as it had come to passe in his former preferment Makbeth sore troubled herewith for that he sawe by this meanes his hope sore hindered where by the olde lawes of the realme the ordinance was that if he that shoulde succeede were not of able age to take the charge vpon himselfe he that was nexte of bloud vnto him shoulde be admitted he beganne to take counsell howe he might vsurpe the kingdome by force Makbeth studieth whiche way he may take the kingdome by force hauing a iuste quarell so to do as he tooke the mater for that Duncane did what in him lay to defraude him of all maner of title and clayme whiche hee mighte in tyme to come pretende vnto the crowne The woordes of the three weird sisters also Prophesies moue men to vnlawfull attemptes of whome before ye haue heard greatly encouraged him herevnto but specially his wife lay sore vpon him to attempt the thing as she that was very ambitious brenning in vnquenchable desire to beare the name of a Queene Womes desirous of high estate At length therefore communicating his
of Englande not wel contented nor pleased in his mind that the Scottes shoulde enioy a great portion of the north partes of England aunciently belonging to his crowne as parcell thereof he raysed a great army and before any denouncing of war by him made inuaded Northumberland The castell of Anwike won by the English men tooke the Castell of Anwike putting all suche to the sworde as were founde in the same King Malcolme to withstande such exploytes attempted by his enimie leuied a great hoste of his subiectes and comming with the same into Northumberlande besieged the sayde Castell of Anwike The castell of Anwike besieged by the Scottes And nowe when the keepers of the hold were at poynt to haue made surrender a certaine English knight conceiuing in his mind an hardie and daungerous enterprise mounted on a swift horse without armor or weapon sauing a speare in his hand vpon the poynt wherof he bare the keyes of the castel so issued forth at y e gates riding directly towardes the Scottish campe They that warded mystrusting no harme brought him with great noyse and claymor vnto the kings tent Who hearing the noyse came forth of his panilion to vnderstande what the matter ment The Englishman herewith touched his staffe as though it had beene to the ende that the king might receyue the keyes whiche he had brought And whilest all mens eyes were earnest in beholding the keyes An hardie enterprice the Englishe man ranne the king through the left eye and sodainly dashing his spurres to his horse escaped to the next wood out of all daunger The poynt of the speare entred so farre into the kings head that immediately falling downe amongst his men he yeelded vp the ghost K. Malcolme is slaine This was the ende of king Malcolme in the middest of his armie It is sayde that king William chaunged the name of this aduenturous knight The name of the Percees had no suche beginning for they came forth of Normandie at the conquest Earles of Northumberland and called him Pers E and for that he stroke king Malcolme so right in the eye and in recompence of his seruice gaue him certaine landes in Northumberlande of whom those Percees are discended whiche in our dayes haue enioyed the honourable tytle of Earles of Northumberlande The Scottes after the slaughter of their king brake vp theyr campe K. Malcolme buryed at Tynmouth and buried his bodie within the Abbay of Tynmouth in England But his sonne Alexander caused it to be afterwardes taken vp and buryed in Dunfermling before the Aulter of the Trinitie The same tyme was Scotlande wounded with an other missehappe Edward prince of Scotlande dyed For Edwarde the Prince of Scotlande eldest sonne to king Malcolme dyed of a burt which be receyued in a skirmish not farre from Anwike and was buryed in Dunfermeling the fyrst of the bloud royall that hadde hys bones layde in that place Queene Margaret being aduertised of the death both of hir husbande and sonne as then lying in Edenbourgh Castell hir disease encreased through griefe thereof so vehemently Queene Margaret died that within three dayes after she departed out of this life vnto an other more ioyfull and blessed King Malcolme was slaine in the yeare of of oure redemption 1092. 1097. H.B. The Ides of October H.B. on the .xiij. day of Nouember and in the .xxxvj. yeare of hys raigne Strange wonders In the same yeare manye vncouth things came to passe and were seene in Albion By the highe spring Tydes whiche chaunced in the Almaine Seas Aâ—… huge tyde many Townes Castels and Wooddes were drowned aswell in Scotland as in England After the ceassing of which tempest the lands that somtime were Earle Goodwines of whom ye haue hearde before lying not farre from the towne of Sandwich by violent force and drift of the Sea were made a sande bed and euer sithence haue beene called Goodwine sandes Goodwin sandes The people haue thought that this vengeance came to that peece of grounde being possessed by his posteritie for the wicked slaughter of Alured which he so trayterously contriued Moreouer sundrie Castelles and Townes in Murry lande were ouerthrowne by the sea Tydes Thunder Such dreadfull thunder happened also at the same time that men and beastes were slaine in the fields and houses ouerturned euen from their foundations Trees corne burnt In Lonthian Fife and Angus trees and corne were burned vp by fire kindled no man knew how nor from whence In the dayes of this Malcolme Cammore liued that famous hystoriographer Marianus a Scottish man borne Marianus but professed a Monke in the Monasterie of Fulda in Germany Also Veremond a Spanish priest Veremonde but dwelling in Scotland florished about the same time and wrote the Scottish historie whome Hector Boetius so much followeth The sonnes of king Malcolm Cammore Malcolme had by his wife Queene Margaret otherwise called for hir holinesse of life S. Margaret vj. sonnes Edward as is said was slain Etheldred which died in his tender age and was buried in Dunfermling and Edmond which renounced the world liued an holy life in England the other three were named Edgar Alexander and Dauid There be that write how Edmond was taken and put to death in prison by his vncle Donalde Bane Donald Bane when he inuaded the kingdome and vsurped the crowne after the deceasse of his brother king Malcolme and so then was Edgar next inheritour to the crowne Donalde Bane fled into the Iles. This Donald Bane who as before is mentioned fled into the Iles to eschue the tyrannical malice of Makbeth after he once heard that his brother king Malcolme was dead Donalde Bane returneth into Scotlande His couenant for the gift of the Iles to the king of Norway returned into Scotland by support of the K. of Norway vnto whom he couenanted to giue the dominion of all the Iles if by his meanes and furtheraunce hee might obteyne the crowne of Scotland Herevpon landing with an armie in the Realme he founde small resistance and so with little a doe receyued the crowne for many of the people abhorring the riotous maners and superfluous gurmandice brought in amongst them by the English men The respect that the people had to receyue Donald Bane for their king were willing inough to receiue this Donalde for their king trusting bycause hee had beene brought vp in the Iles with the olde customes and maners of their auncient Nation without tast of the English lykerous delicacies they shoulde by his seuere order in gouernment recouer againe the former temperancie of theyr olde progenitors As soone as Edgar Adeling brother to Queen Margaret was aduertised that Donalde Bane had thus vsurped the crowne of Scotland K. Malcolmes sonnes sent for into Englande by Edgar their vncle he sent secretly for his thre nephews Edgar Alexander and Dauid with two sisters which they had
had giuen his faith once aforehand for those landes vnto the Empresse Maulde which he minded not to breake for the threatening wordes of any new inuasours King Stephan moued with this answere sent a power of men to the bordures of Northumberland whiche as then was vnder the dominion of the Scottes to make a rode vpon the inhabitants of that countrey The Englishmen inuade Northumberland They that had the charge of this enterpryse entring into the landes of theyr enimies put all to the fire and swoorde that came in theyr way The Scottes kindled with that displeasure The Scottes make rodes into England roded into England and did the like displeasures and hurtes there For the yeare after the Earles of Marche Menteth The Earle of Gloucester Robert was against K. Stephā but there might be some other happely vnto whom K. Stephan had giuen that title A resignatiō and Angus entred into England with a great armie against whom came the Earle of Gloucester and giuing them batayle at Northallertoun lost the fielde and was taken prysoner himselfe with diuers other nobles of England King Stephan therefore constreyned to redeeme the captiues gaue not onely a great some of money for them but also made resignation of all such title clayme and interest as eyther he or any of his successours might make or pretend to the counties of Northumberland and Cumberland Howbeit his nobles were no sooner returned home but that repenting him of that resignatiō King Stephan repenteth he gathered his puysance againe and entring into Northumberland fought with the Scottes that came foorth to resist him and obtayning the victorie tooke a great parte of the countrey into his possession King Dauid to redresse these iniuries gathered a mightie army with deliberate minde either to expell the Englishmen out of all the boundes of his dominions or els to vse in the payne But shortly after Thurstane Archbishop of Yorke came vnto Roxbourgh called in those dayes Marken to treate for a peace Roxburgh in old time Marken A truce where a truce was concluded for three monethes with condition that the Englishmen should deliuer vp the dominion of Northumberland vnto the lord Henry king Dauid his sonnes But for so muche as this couenant was not performed on king Stephens side King Dauid inuadeth Northumberland king Dauid inuaded that part of the cuntrey which the Englishmen helde making greate slaughter of all them that he found there about to resist him King Stephan passeth vnto Roxbourgh King Stephen moued herewith leuied his people and came in puissant aray vnto Roxborough but for that he had secrete knowledge that some of the nobles in his armie soughte hys destruction King Stephan returneth hee was constrayned to returne without atchieuing of any worthie enterprise The yeare next ensuyng a peace was talked vpon the Archbishops of Cantorbury Yorke appointed commissioners in the treatie therof on the behalfe of king Stephen and the bishops of Glasgewe Aberden and Saint Androws on the partie of king Dauid But Maulde queene of Englande the daughter of Eustace Earle of Boloigne and neece to king Dauid by his sister Marie was the chiefest doer in this matter to bring them to agreement The one of the kings that is to say Stephen lay at Duresme with his nobles and the other that is to say Dauid lay at Newcastell during all the time of this treatie which at length sorted to the conclusion of a peace A peace on these conditions that the counties of Northumberland and Huntingdon shoulde remaine in the gouernement of Henry Prince of Scotland Couenants of agreement as heire to the same by right of his mother But Cumberlande shoulde be reputed as the inheritance and right of his father king Dauid And for these landes and seigniories the forenamed Prince Henry and his successours Princes of Scotlande should doe homage vnto kyng Stephen and his successours kings of England for the tyme being Homage Carleil was repaired by William Rufus K. of England about the yeare of our Lorde 1092. The peace thus ratified betwixt the two kinges and their subiectes kyng Stephen returned into Kent and king Dauid repaired into Cumberland where he fortified the towne of Carleile with new walles and dyches Thus passed the three first yeres of king Stephens reigne In the fourthe yeare came Maulde the Empresse into Englande to clayme the crown therof as in the Englishe historie more playnely may appeare But whylest Englande was sore tormented with warres by contrarye factions of the nobles for the quarelles of those two persones no small sorrow hapned to Scotland for the death of Hērie the prince of that land and onely sonne vnto king Dauid The death of Henry prince of Scotland who died at Kelso and was buried in the Abbey church there in the yeare of our redemption .1152 1152. His death was greatly bemoned aswel of his father the king as of all other the estates and degrees of the realme for such singular vertue and noble conditions as appeared in hym But yet for that he lefte issue behynd him iij. Prince Henry his issue sons and. iij. daughters as before is mencioned the Realme was not thoughte vnprouided of heires The king also being mortified from the world tooke the death of his sonne very paciently The lawe of nature considering that al men are subiect vnto death by the lawe of nature and are sure no longer to remaine here than their day appointed by the eterne determination of him that giueth and taketh away lyfe and breath when pleaseth him as by dayly experience is most manyfest Therfore that king Dauid wayed the losse of his sonne in suche balance it maye appeare by an Oration which hee made to his nobles at what tyme after his sonnes decease they came to comforte hym For he perceyuing them to be ryghte heauie and sorowfull for the losse whiche he and they had susteyned by the death of so towardly a prince that was to haue succeeded him if God had lent him lyfe thereto in the ende of a royall feast the whiche he made vnto those nobles that came thus to visite hym hee beganne in this wyse Howe great your fidelitie and care is whiche you beare towards me An oration although oftētimes heretofore I haue proued it yet this present day I haue receyued most ample fruite therof for now do I plainely see that you lament no lesse for the losse of my late deceassed sonne than if you had buried some one of your own sonnes are therefore come to your great trauaile paine to comfort me whom you esteeme to be sore afflicted for the ouer timely death of my sayde moste obedient sonne but to let passe for this time due yelding of thanks to you for the same till occasion and leysure may better serue thereto this nowe may suffice that I acknowledge myself to be so much beholden to you that what
soeuer thing I haue in the worlde the same is ready to do you pleasure But coÌ„cerning the cause of your comming hither in shewing your courtesies therein you shall vnderstande that my parentes whom I truste to be in heauen and as Saintes enioy the fruytes of theyr vertuous trauayles here taken on earth did so instruct me from my tender youth that I should worship with all reuerence the most wise creatour prouident gouernour of all things and to thinke that nothing was done by him in vaine but that the same is prouided ordeyned to some good vse by his highe and insearchable counsell and therefore whylest day and nighte I haue and do reuolue and call to remembraunce the precepts and instructions of my parents His parentes godly instructions what so euer hath chaunced eyther touching aduersitie or prosperitie good happe or bad the same hath seemed to me at the firste receyuing all things with equall and thankefull minde and interpreting them to the beste farre more light than they commonly seeme to others and lesse they did disquiet me so as with vse I haue learned at length not onely paciently to beare all aduersities that may happen but also to receyue the same as things pleasant and euen to be desired And verily my happe hath bene 〈◊〉 â—…he greatly exercised in this behalfe Losse of friendes for I haue firste seene my father more deare do me thaÌ„ any earthly treasure His father and no lesse profitable than greatly desired of all the people and yet neyther the loue of the people nor of his kinsmenne and frendes might warrant him from this fatall necessitie of death His mother I haue knowen my mother right famous in the worlde for hyr singuler vertue to passe hence in like maner His brethren My bretherne that were so louing and againe so greatly beloued of me also my wife whom I esteemed more than all other creatures are they not gone the same way and compelled to beare deaths harde ordinaunce So verily standeth the case that no man might yet at any time auoyde the violence of his force when he commeth Death cannot be dispensed with for we all alike owe this life vnto him as a due debte that muste needes be payd But this is to be receyued with a thankfull minde in that the bountifull beneuolence of our God hath graunted that we shall be all immortall if we our selues through vice and as it were spotted with filthie diseases of the minde do not fall into the danger of eternall death Wherefore of right me thinke I haue cause to reioyce that God by his singular fauour hath graunted to me suche a sonne whiche in all mens iudgement was woorthie to be beloued whilest he was here amongst vs Why are ought to take the death of our children and friendes patiently and to be wished for now after he is departed from hence but ought we to take it heauily that he to whom he belonged and who had sent him vnto vs should call for him again and take him that was his owne For what iniurie is it if when I see occasion I shall aske that againe whiche you haue possessed through my benefite as lent to you for a time Neyther do I truste to want him long if God shal be so mercyfull vnto me as I wishe him to be for I hope shortly to be called hence by commaundement of that most high king and to be carried vp to rest among that felowshippe of heauenly spirites where I shall finde my father and mother my bretherne wife and sonne in far better estate than here I knew theÌ„ Therfore that I may repete it once again I reioyce I say to haue obtained in my son by y e grace of y e supernal God y t I am assured by faith he is already in y e place to the whiche all we do earnestly wishe that we may atteyne and do endeuour by all meanes that when the time coÌ„meth in whiche our soules are to be lâ—…wsed foorth of these frayle bodies of ours as out of prysons they may be found worthie of that companie in which our coÌ„fidence is that he now most blissefully is remayning Except any man may thinke that wee are so enuious that therefore we do lament bicause as yet we sticke fast ouerwhelmed drownes in suche fylthye myres and combered in suche thornye thickets and bushes oute of the whiche he beeing now deliuered of all cares hath escaped But let vs rather by followyng the foote steppes of him and other vertuous persons that are gone afore vs labour both day night that at length through heauenly fauour wee may come to the place where we do recken that by deuine power he is alreadie arriued After that the king had made an end of his Oration and thankes giuen to God for his bountifull munificence they rose from the table and departed to theyr lodgings they all greatly marueyling at the kings highe prudence and godly wisedome After this was Malcolme the eldest sonne of the before mencioned prince Henry Malcolme the sonne of Henry proclaimed prince of scotlande proclaymed in his place prince of Scotlande and conueyed through the moste partes of the realme by Duncane Earle of Fyfe and other of the nobles appointed to attende vpon and to receyue the othes of all the Barons for theyr allegiaunce in his name Erle of Northumberlande William the second sonne of prince Henry was conueyed into Northumberland by the foresayde nobles and there proclaimed and created Earle of that countrey Then went king Dauid himselfe vnto Carleile where he met with Henry the sonne of the Empresse who receyued the order of knighthood there at his hands This was a little before that the same Henry came to an agreemeÌ„t with king Stephen Henry the empresse hir son receyueth the order of knighthode whereby he was admitted to the possession of halfe the realme of Englande and promised by othe of assurance as the Scottish writers saye that he shoulde neuer be aboute to take the counties of Northumberland Cumberland and Huntingdon from the crowne of Scotland Shortly after was king Dauid taken with a sore disease and maladie which continued wyth him to the ende of his lyfe And so when hee perceyued himselfe to waxe faynte and feeble he required to be borne to the Churche where he receyued the sacrament of the Lordes bodie and bloud with most solemne reuerence and then beeing brought againe to hys chamber he called together his nobles and commending vnto theÌ„ his yong nephews the sonnes of his sonne the forenamed prince Henry he kissed eche one of them after an other most instantly desiring them in the honour of almighty God The exhortation of king Dauid to his nobles to seeke the preseruation of common quiet to the aduauncement of the publike weale This done he departed out of this life in the xxix King Dauid departeth out of this life yeare of his raigne
hys head and stomacke therewith But how soeuer it was the troth is taken he was in the .ix. Iames Prince of Scotland taken by the Englishmen H. B. 1404 yeere of his age the .xxx. day of March in the yere after the incarnation .1406 and was kept in captiuitie of the English men by the space of eighteene yeeres At his comming to the presence of King Henry he deliuered vnto him the letters directed from hys father Kyng Robert the tenor whereof here ensueth as in Scottish they be written Robert King of Scottes to Henry Kyng of Englaund greeting Thy greate magnificence The tenor of a letter as it is written in the Scottish tong humilitie and iustice are righte patente to vs by gouernaunce of thy last army in Scotlande howbeit sic things had bene vncertayne to vs afore For though thou seemed as enemie with most awfull incursions in our Realme Èit wee found mair humanities and pleasyres than dammage be thy cuÌ„ming to our subdittes Specially to yame that receyuit thy noble father y e Duke of Longcastell the time of his exill in Scotlande We may not ceys yairfore wuhile wee are on life bot aye luyf and loif thee as maist noble and worthy Prince to ioys thy Realme For yocht Realmes and nations contende amang themselfe for conquesis of glory and laundes Èit na occasion is amang vs to inuade athir Realmes or lieges with iniuries bot erar to coÌ„tend amang our selfe quhay sall persew othir with maist humanitie and kindnesse As to vs we will meis all occasion of battell quhare any occurres at thy pleasure Forther bycause we haue na lesse sollicitude in preseruing our children fra certayne deidly enimies than had sometime thy nobill fader we are constreyned to seeke supporte at vncowth Princes hands Howbeit the inuasion of enimies is sa greate that small defence occures agaynste yame without they be preserued by amitie of nobill men For the warld is sa full of peruersit malice that na crueltie nor offence may be deuisit in erd bot the samine may be wrocht be motion of gold and syluer Heirfore bycause we knawe thy hienesse full of mony nobill vertues with sic pyssaunce and riches that na Prince in our daies may bee compard thairto We desire thy humanitie and support at this time We traist it is not vnknowen to thy Maiestie howe oure eldest sonne Dauid is slayne miserably in Prison be oure Brother the Duke of Albany quhome wee chesit to be gouernoure quham wee were fallen in decrepit age to oure subdittes and Realme beseekaund thy hienes thairfore to be sa fauorable y t this bearer Iames our secound and allanerly sonne may haue targe to leife vnder thy faith and iustice to be some memory of our posteritie knawaund the vnstable condition of mans life sa sodanly altered Now flutisaund and suddaynely falling to vtter consumption Forthir beliefe well quhan Kings princes hes na other beild bot in thair awyn folkes thayr empyre is caduke and fragill For the minde of common pepyll ar euir flowaund and mair inconstant than wind Èœit quhen princes ar roborat be amitie of othir vncowth Kings thair brethir and nyghtbouris na aduersitie may occurre to eiect thaym fra thair dignitie ryall Forthir gif thy hienes think nocht expedyent as God forbeid to obtemper to thir owr desires Èœit we request ane thyng quhilk was ratifijt in our last trewes and condition of peace that y e supplication made be ony of the two Kings of Ingland and Scotland sall staund in manner of saufe conduct to the bearer And thus we desire to be obseruat to this our allanerly sonne And the gratious God conserue thee maist noble Prince After that King Henry had caused these letters to be opened and redde hee aduised himselfe thereon with great deliberation but in the end he determined to stay this Iames Prince of Scotland as his lawfull prisoner Iames the Prince of Scotland stayed as prisoner in England for that he was thus taken in time of warres and that moreouer there were diuers Rebelles of Englande succoured within the boundes of his fathers dominion to the high displeasure of the sayde Kyng Henry But such was the fauour shewed in his bringing vp His bringing vp that his captiuitie turned more to hys honor profite and commoditie than any other wordly hap that might by any meanes haue otherwise chaunced vnto him An happy captiuitie His instructors in the tongs He had such perfect instructors to teach hym aswell the vnderstanding of tongs as the sciences that he became right experte and cunning in euery of them His trayning in warlike exercises He was taughte also to ride to runne at the tilt and to handle all kind of weapons conuenient to be vsed of such a personage wherevnto hee was so apt and ready that fewe in any poynte of actiuitie might ouermatch him His knowlege in musike He had good knowledge in musike and coulde play on sundry instruments right perfectly To be briefe it appeered in all his behauioure and manners in what company so euer he came that his bringing vp had bin according to hys nature neyther of them differing from his birth and the qualitie of a noble and most vertuous prince The griefe of his father king Robert After it was signifyed vnto his father Kyng Roberte that his son was thus arrested in England he made full great and dolorous moue sore lamenting that euer he matched himselfe in mariage with a woman of so meane degree to the disperagement of his bloud as was Queene Annabell on whome he begate his sonnes whiche as he tooke it was the onely cause why aswell forayne Princes as his owne subiectes had hym thus in contempt He tooke this matter so sore to hart that within three dayes after the newes came vnto hym he departed this world through force of sicknesse The death of King Roberte the thirde now encreased by melancoly whiche had vexed hym a long time before He dyed in the sixtenth yeere of his raigne coÌ„plete and from the incarnation 1408. 1408 His body was buryed at Pasley His buriall with hys wife Queene Annabell before rehersed He was a man of a mighty stature His stature and qualities very liberall and gentle so that if he had not bin maymed with an Horse and thereby grewe lame that hee might not trauell about the affayres of y e Realm himselfe it was thoughte the common wealthe should haue prospered vnder his gouernemente as much as euer it did vnder any of his predecessors The gouernour Robert Duke of Albany The Duke of Albany confirmed gouernoure of the Realme after the decesse of his brother King Roberte was by new election chosen or rather confirmed in his office of gouernoure which he exercised more vprightly and with better iustice now after his brothers death than before In the meane time Iedword Castell taken the Castell of Iedworth whiche the Englishmen
The names of the chiefe townes in Connaght Aloane Galuoy Anry Louaghryagh Clare Toame Sligagh Rossecomman Arctlowne The names of the chiefe townes in Meeth Trymme Doonshaghlenne Rathlouth Nauanne Abooy Scryne Taraugh Kemles Doonboyne Greenock Duleeke The names of the townes in Westmeeth Molingare Fowre Loughfeude Kylkenywest Moylagagh Deluynne In the xxxiiij 1542. yeare of the reigne of King Henry the eight it was enacted in a parliament holden at Desâ—…yeâ—…re before Syr â—…thouâ—…e Setitleger knight Lorde deputie of Irelande that Méeth shoulde be deuided and made two shyres one of them to bée called the countie of Méeth the other to be called the county of West méeth and that there shoulde be two shayeles and offycers conuenyent within the same shyres as is moâ—… exprest in the acte The names of the chiefe hauen townes in Irelande Loughfoyle The Banne Wolderfrith Craregfergus Strangforde Ardglas Lougheuen Carlingforde Kylkeale Dundalk Kylclogher Dunnany Drogheda Houlepatrick Nany Baltray Brymore Balbriggen Roggers towne Skerrish Rushe Malahyde Banledooyle Houth Dublynne Dalkee Wickincloa Arckloa Weisford Bagganbun The Passage Waterforde Dungaruan Rosse noua Youghylle Corck mabegge Corck Kynsale Kyerye Rosse Ilbere Dorrye Baltynymore Downenere Downesheade Downelounge Attannanne Craghanne Downenâ—…bwyne Balyneskilyliodge Daugyne â—…house Traly Senynne Cassanne Kylnewyne Lymmetick Innyskartee Belalenne Arynenewyne Glanemaughe Ballyweyham Bynwarre Dowrys Woran Roskam Galway Kyllynylly Innesbosynne Owran Moare Kylcolken Burske Belleclare Rathesilbene Byerweisowre Buraueis hare Ardne makow Rosbare Kilgolynne Wallalele Rabranne Strone Burweis now Zaltra Kalbalye Ardnock Adrowse Sligaghe Innes Bowsenne Camb. lib. 1. Top. dist 2. rub 3. 4. Cambriense obserued in his time that when the sea doth ebbe at Dublyue it ebbeth also at Bristow and floweth at Mylford Weisford At Wyckloâ—… the son â—…bbeth wheâ—… in all other partes â—…f commonly floweth Furthermore thâ—… he 〈◊〉 that the ryuer which â—…uÌ„â—…eth by Wâ—…ycklâ—… vpoâ—… 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 〈…〉 the next hauâ—… towne the ryuer 〈…〉 when the 〈…〉 wryteth 〈…〉 Archâ—…â—…â—…ethâ—… rocke and whâ—… the sea â—…eth inâ—… side therof it 〈…〉 the other 〈◊〉 â—…st Cambrienâ—…e â—…er with dyuers Philosophicall â—…lons 〈…〉 the 〈◊〉 by obseruing the 〈…〉 is the empresse of â—…yâ—…ure But the 〈…〉 leaue for the schoole streetes Of the estâ—… gâ—…nd wonderfull places in Irelande Cap. 4. I Thinke it good to begâ—…ne with S. Patrike his Purgatorie S. Patrike his Purgatorie partly bycause it is most notoriously knowen partly the more that some wryters as the auctor of Polichroâ—…icon and others that were miscaryed by 〈◊〉 séeme to make great doubt where they néede not For they ascribe the finding out of the place not to Patrike that couerted the countrey but to another Patricke aâ—… Abbat whâ—…̄ likewise they affirme to haue done employed in conuerting the Islande 〈◊〉 heatheâ—…rie to Christianitie But the auctor that broacheth this opinion is not founde to carie any such crediâ—…e wyth him as that a man may certainly affirme it or probably coniecture it vnlesse we relye to the olde wythered woorme eaten Legend loded with as many lowde lyes as lewde lines The better and the more certaine opinion is that the other Patricke founde it out in such wise as CambrieÌ„se reporteth Camb. lib. â—… Topog. dist 2. rub 6. There is a poole as lake sayeth he in the partes of Vlster that enuironneth an Island in the one part whereof there standeth a Churche much lightned with the brightsome recourse of Aâ—…gelles the other part is onely and gastly as it were a bedlem allotted to the visible assemblies of horrible and grisly bugges This part of the Islande contayneth nyne caues And if any dare be so hardye as to take one night his lodging in any of these Innes which hath béene experimented by some rashe and harebrayne aduenturers straight these spirites claw him by the back and tugge him so ruggedly and tosse him so crabbedly that nowe and then they make him more francke of his bumme then of his tongue a payment correspondent to his intertaynemeÌ„t This place is called S. Patricke his purgatorie of the inhabitours For when S. Patrike laboured the conuersion of the people of Vlster by setting before their eyes in great heate of spirite the creation of the worlde the fall of our progenitours the redemption of man by the blessed and precious bloude of our Sauiour Iesus Christ the certayntie of death the immortalitie of the soule the generall resurrection our latter dumbe the ioyes of heauen the paynes of hell howe that at length euery man small and great young and olde riche and poore king and keaser potentate peasaunt must eyther through God his gracious mercy be exalted to the one to floorish in perpetuall felicitie or through his vnsearcheable iustice tumbled downe to the other to be tormented in eternall miserie these and the like graue and weightie sentences wherewith he was aboundantly stored so farre funcke into their heartes as they séemed very flexible in condescending to hys behest so that some proofe of his estraunge preaching coulde haue béene veryfied Wherevpon wythout further delay they spake to the prelate in this wyse Syr as we like of your preaching so we dislyke not of our libertie You tell vs of many gye gawes and estraunge dreames You woulde haue vs to abandonne infidelitie to cage vp our libertie to bridle our pleasure For which you promise vs for our toyle and labour a place to vs as vnknowen so as yet vncertayne You sermon to vs of a dungeon appointed for offenders and miscredentes In deede if we coulde finde that to be true we woulde the sooner be weaned from the swéete napple of our libertie and frame our selues plyaunt to the will of that God that you reueale vnto vs. s Patricke coÌ„sidering that these sealy soules were as all dulcarnanes for y e more part are more to be terryfied from infidelitie through the paynes of hell then allured to Christianitie by the ioyes of heauen most heartily besought God sort stoode wyth his gracious pleasure for the honour and glorie of his diuine name to giue out some euident or glimsing token of the matter they importunatly requyred Finally by the especiall direction of God he founde in the North edge of Vlster a desolate corner hemmed in rounde and in the middle thereof a pit where he reared a Church called Reglis or Reglas Reglasse at the East end of the Churchyarde a doore leadeth into a closet of stone lyke a long ouen which they call S. Patricke hys purgatorie for that the people resorte thither euen at this day for pennaunce and haue reported at their returne estraunge visions of paine and blisse appearing vnto them Polichr lib. â—… 36.1138 The auctor of Polichronicon wryteth that in the reigne of king Stephane a knight named Owen pilgrimaged to this purgatorie being so appalled at the straunge visions that there he sawe as that vpon his returne from thence he was wholly mortyfied and sequestring himselfe from the worlde he spent the
the whole worlde in so much as being as he thought in maner squised or prest to death with the heft of this huge monster he woulde haue departed with the whole substaunce of the worlde if he were thereof possest to be disburdened of so heauie a loade Vpon which wish he soddaynly awooke And as he bette his braynes in diuining what this dreame should import he bethought himself of the flocke committed to his charge howe that he gathered then fléeres yearely by receyuing the reuenue and perquisites of the Bishopricke and yet suffered his flocke to starue for lacke of preaching and teaching Wherefore being for his former flacknesse sore wounded in conscience he traueyled with all spéede to Rome where he resigned vp his Bishopricke a burden to heauie for his weake shoulders being vpon his resignation competently benificed he bestowed the remnaunt of his life wholly in denotion 1311. Iohanne Leche nephew to Haueriâ—…ges vpon the resignation was consecrated Archbishop This prelate was at contention wyth the Primas of Armach for their iurisdictioÌ„s insomuch as he did imberre the Primas froÌ„ hauing his crosse borne before him within the prouince of Leinster De priui excest pri c Archiep. which was contraâ—…e to the Canon law that admitteth the crosâ—… to beare the crosse before his Archbishop in an other prouince This man deceases in the yeare 1313. 1313. Alexander Bigenor was next Leche consecrated Archebishop with the whole consâ—…ne aswel of the chapter of Christ church as of S. Patrickes Howbeit vpon the death of Leche there arose a sysme and diuision betwéene Walter Thornebury L. CaÌ„celloure of Irelande Bigenor then theasâ—…rer of the same countrey The Cancellour to further his election determined to haue posted to 〈◊〉 but in y e way he was drowned w t the number of 156. passengers Bigenor staying in Irelande with lesse aduenture and better spéede with the consent of both the chapters was elected Archbishop And in the yere 1317. there came bulles from Rome to confirme the former election At which tyme the Archbishop and the Earle of Vlster were in Englande 1318. This prelate soone after returned L. Iustice of Irelande and soone after he had landed at Yoghyll he went to Dublyne where as well for his spirituall iurisdiction as his temporal promotion he was receyued with procession and great solemnitie 1320. In this man his tyme was there an Viâ—…et fifte fouÌ„ded in Dublin whereof M. William Rodyarde was chauncellour a well learned man and one that procéeded Doctor of the canon lawe in this Vniuersitie Bigenor deceased in the yeare .1349 1349. Iohanne de saint Paule was consecrated Archbishop vpon Bigenor his death He deceased in the yeare .1362 Thomas Mynot succéeded Iohanne 1363. dyed in the yeare 1376. Robert Wyckeford succéeded Thomas 1375. dyed in the yeare 1390. Robert Waldâ—…by succéeded Wykeforde 1390. This prelate was first an Augustine Fryer and a great Preacher and accompted a vertuous and sincere liuer He deceased in the yeare 1397. â—…chaâ—… Pâ—…thalis was remooued from an other Sée and chosen Archbishop of Dublyn 1397 â–ª wâ—… 〈◊〉 deceased the same yeare that he was elected Thomas Crauly an Englishe man succéeded â—…at the same yeare and came into Ireland in the companie of the Duke of Surrey This Archbishoppe was chosen L. Iustice of Ireland in the yere 1413. 1414. In whose gouernement the English did skirmish with the Irish in the countye of Kyldare néere Kilka The skirmish of Kylka where the English vanquished the enemie fiue and hundred of the Irishe during which 〈◊〉 the Archbishop being Lord Iustice went in procession with the whole cleargy in Tâ—…steldermot or Castledermot a towne adioyning to Kylka praying for the prosperous successe of the subiects that went to skirmishe with the enemie This prelate was of stature fall well â—…ed and of a sanguine complexion decâ—…ing hâ—… outwarde comlynesse with inwarde quantities For he was so liberall to the riche so charitable to the poore so déepe a clarcke so profounde a Doctor so sounde a Preacher so vertuous a liuer and so great a builder aâ—… he was not without good cause accompted the Phoenix of his time In daily talke as he was short so he was swéete Harde in promising bountifull in performing In the yere 1417. he sayled into England and ended his life at FaringdoÌ„ and was buried in New colledge at Oxford 1439. In the yere 1439. There hath bene one Richard Archbishop of Dubline and L. Iustice of Ireland before whom a Parliament was holden at Dublin in the xviij yeare of the reigne of king Henry the sixt 1460. In the yeare 1460. Walter was Archbishop of Dublin and deputie to Iasper Duke of Bedford lieuetenaunt of Ireland I found in an auncient register the names of certain bishops of Kyldare The Bishoppes of Kyldare that were in that sée since the tyme of S. Brigid the names of whome I thought good here to insert Lony was bishoppe in S. Brigides tyme which was about the yeare of our lord 448. 448. 2. Inor 3. Conly 4. Donatus 5. Dauid 6. Magnus 7. Richard 8. Iohn 9. Simon 10. Nicholas 11. Walter 12. Richard 13. Thomas 14. Robart 15. Bonifacius 16. Madogge 17. William 18. Galfride 19. Richard 20. Iames. 21. Wale 22. Baret 23. Edmunde Lane who flourished in the yeare 1518. There hath bene a worthy prelate canon by y e cathedrall church of Kildare named Maurice Iak Maurice Iak who among the rest of his charitable déedes builded the bridge of Kilcoollenne and the next yeare followyng 1319. The bridg of Kylcoollenne and Leighlinne he builded in lyke maner the bridge of Leighlinne to the great and daily commoditie of all such as are occasioned to trauaile in those quarters The lordes temporall as well English as Irishe which inhabite Ireland Chap. 6. GIrald fitz Girald Erle of Kildare This house was of the nobilitie of Florence came from thence to Normandy and so with Erle Strangbow his kinsmaÌ„ whose armes he giueth into Wales néere of bloud to Rise ap Griffin prince of Wales by Necta the mother of Maurice fitz Girald and Robart fitz stephannes with the sayd Earle Maurice fitz Girald remoued into Ireland in y e yeare 1169. 1169. The family is very properly toucht in a Sonet of Surreys made vpon the Erle of Kildares sister now Countesse of Lincolne From Tuscaâ—…e came my Ladies worthy race Fayre Florence was sometyme hir auncient seate The Westerne Isle whose pleasant shoare doth face Wâ—…ylde Cambers cliffes did gyue hir liuely heate Fastred she was with milke of Irish brest Hir sire an Earle hir dome of princes blouÌ„d From tender yeares in Britayne she doth rest With kinges childe where she tasteth costly foode Hunsdon did first present hir to mine eyne Bright is hir hew and Giraldine she hight Hampton me taught to wisheÌ„ hir first for myne And Wyndsor alas doth chase me from
in refusing the sworde or his frowardnesse ouer cruell in snatching it vpon the first proffer tooke the Lord Thomas by the wrest of the hand and requested him for the loue of God the teares trilling downe his cheekes to giue him for two or three wordes the hearing which graunted the reuerend father spake as ensueth The Chancellor his oration My Lorde although hatred be commonly the handmayden of truth bycause we see hym that plainely expresseth his minde to be for the more part of most men disliked yet notwithstāding I am so well assured of your Lordship his good inclination towardes me and your Lordship so certaine of mine entire affection towardes you as I am emboldned notwithstanding this companie of armed men freely and franckly to vtter that which by me declared and by youre Lordship folowed wil turne God willing to the auayle of you your friends alies this coūtrey I doubt not my Lord but you know that it is wisdome for any man to looke before he leape and to sowne the water before his ship hul theron and namely where the matter is of weight there it behoueth to follow sounde sage and mature aduise Wherefore my Lorde sithe it is no Maygame for a subiect to leuie an armye against his prince it lyeth your Lordship in hand to breath longer on the matter as well by forecasting the hurt whereby you may fall as by reuoluing the hope wherewith you are fed What should moue your Lordship to this sodaine attempt I know not If it be the death of your father it is as yet but secretly muttered not manifestly published And if I should graunt you that your zeale in reuenging your father his execution were in some respect to be commended yet reason would you should suspend the reuēge vntil the certaintie were knowne And were it that the report were true yet it standeth with the dutie and allegeance of a good subiect from whom I hope in God The subiects dutie towards his king you meane not to disseuer your selfe not to spurne and kicke against his prince but contrariewise if his soueraigne be mightie to feare him if he be profitable to his subiects to honour him if he commaunde to obey him if he be kinde to loue him if he bee vicious to pitie him if he be a Tyrant to beare with him considering that in suche case it is better wyth pacience to bowe than with stubburnnesse to breake For sacred is the name of a king and odious is the name of a rebellion The name of a king sacred the one from heauen deriued and by God shielded the other in hell forged and by the Diuell executed Rebellion frō whence it springeth And therefore who so wyll obserue the course of Hystories or weigh the Iustice of God in punishing malefactours shall easily see that albeit the Sunne shyneth for a tyme on them that are in Rebellion yet suche sweete beginnings are at length clasped vp with sharpe and sowre endes Now that it appeareth that you ought not to beare armoure agaynst your King it resteth to discusse whether you bee able although you were willing to annoy your King For if among meane and priuate foes it be reckened for a folly in a secrete grudge to professe open hatred and where hee is not able to hynder there to shewe a willing mynde to hurte muche more ought your Lordshippe in so generall a quarell as thys that concerneth the King that toucheth the Nobilitie that apperteyneth to the whole common wealth to foresee the King his power on the one side and your force on the other and then to iudge if you bee able to cocke with him and to put hym beside the Cushion and not whylest you striue to sit in the Saddle to lose to your owne vndoyng both the Horse and the Saddle King Henrie is knowne to bee in these our dayes so puissant a Prince and so victorious a woorthie that he is able to conquere foreyne dominions and thinke you that he cannot defend his owne He tameth kings and iudge you that he may not rule his owne subiectes Suppose you conquere the lande doe you ymagine that hee will not recouer it Therefore my Lorde flatter not your selfe ouer muche repose not so great affiance either in your troupe of horsmen or in your bande of footmen or in the multitude of your partakers What face soeuer they put now on the matter or what successe soeuer for a season they haue bycause it is easie for an army to vanquish them that doe not resist yet hereafter when the king shall send his power into this Countrey you shall see your adherents like slipper chaungelings plucke in theyr hornes and such as were cōtent to beare you vp by the chin as long as you coulde swim when they espie you sinke they will by little and little shrinke from you and percase will ducke you ouer head and eares As long as the gale puffeth full in your sayles doubt not but diuerse wil anerre vnto you and feede on you as Crowes on carion But if any storme happen to bluster then will they be sure to leaue you post alone sticking in the myre or sands hauing least helpe when you haue most neede And what will then ensue of this The braunches will be pardoned the roote apprehended your honour disteyned your house attainted your armes reuersed your Manours razed your doings examined at whiche time God knoweth what an heartburning it will be when that with no colour may bee denied which without shame cannot be confessed My Lorde I poure not out Oracles as a soothsayer for I am neyther a Prophet nor the sonne of a Prophete Cassandraes prophecie But it may be that I am some frātique Cassandra being partner of hir spirit in foretelling the truth and partaker of hir misfortune in that I am not when I tell the truth beleeued of your Lordship whome God defende from being Priamus Weigh therefore my Lord the nobilitie of your auncesters remember your father his late exhortation forgette not your duetie to your Prince consider the estate of this poore Countrey with what heapes of curses you shall bee loden when your souldiours shall rifle the poore Subiectes and so farre endamage the whole Realme as they are not yet borne that shall hereafter feele the smart of this vprore You haue not gone so farre but you may turne home the king is mercifull your offence as yet not ouerheynous cleaue to his clemencie abandon this headlong folly Which I craue in most humble wise of your Lordship for the loue of God for the duetie you owe your Prince for the affection you beare the Countrey and for the respecte you haue ◅o youre owne safetie whome God defende from all trayterous and wicked attempts Hauing ended his Oration which hee sette forth with suche a lamentable action as his cheekes were all beblubbered with teares the horsemen namely such as vnderstoode not Englishe began to diuine what the
fire and specially in the citie of London where vpon the .vij. day of Iuly a sodain flame began which burnt y e church of S. Paule Simon Dun. with a great part of the Citie downe to the very ground After that king William had taken the othe of obedience of all his Lordes Ran. Higd. Sim. Dun. Edgar Etheling who was reconciled vnto his fauour as you haue heard obteyning licence of him to bee out of the realme for a certaine season sayled into Puglia with two hundred souldiers but of his acts there and returne againe into Englande I finde small rehersall and therfore I passe ouer to speake any more of him An. reg 21. con◅ecting any stile to king William who hauing now brought the Englishmē so lowe and bare that little more was to be got out of their hands went once againe ouer into Normandie with an huge Masse of money and there soone after chaunced to fall sicke so that he was constrayned to keepe his bed longer than hee had bene accustomed to do wherat Philip the French king in leas◅ing maner sayde howe king William his cousin did nowe lie in childbed alluding partly to his great fat belly VVil. Mal Mat. Par. bycause he was very corpulent and withall added Oh what a number of Candles must I prouide to offer vp at his going to Church certenly I thinke that .100000 will not suffice c. which talke so moued the king when it came to his care that hee made this answere well I trust when I shal be churched that our cousin shall bee at no suche cost VVil. Malm. Ran. Higd. but I will helpe to finde him a thousande Candelles my selfe and light them vp to some of their paynes if God doe graunt mee life and this promise hee bound with an othe which in deed he performed for in the Moneth of Iuly ensuing when their corne fruit and grapes were most florishing He inuadeth Fraunce and readie to come to proufe he entred France with a great army set on fire many of their Cities and townes in the westside of that Countrey lastly came to the citie of Maunt Gemeticensis The Citie of Maunt burnt by K. William Mat. VVest which he bunrt with the Church of our Ladie and therein an Ankresse enclosed in the wall thereof as an holy recluse for the force of the fire was suche as all wente to wrecke Howbeit in this heate king William tooke such a sicknesse which was not diminished by the fall of an horse as he rode to and fro Math. Paris bycause hee was not able to trauaile on foote aboute his Palace by reason of his disease that cost him hys life in the ende King William departed this life Simon Dun. Mat. VVest The .lix. of his age hath VVil. Mal. so that when he had ordeyned his last will and taken order for the stay of things after his decease hee departed this life on the .ix. day of September in the yeare after the byrth of our Sauiour .1087 and .lxxiiij. as Polidor saith of his age hauing gouerned Normandie aboute lj yeares and reigned ouer Englande .xx. yeares tenne monethes and .xxviij. dayes as all the writers doe report Not long before his death he released also out of prison his brother Odo the bishop of Bayeux He set all prisoners at libertie sayth VVil. Malm. Marchar Earle of Northumberland and Wilnotus the sonne of king Harolde or as some say his brother Polidor Moreouer he repented him as some say when he lay on his death bed for his cruell dealing with the English men considering that by them he had atteyned to such honour and dignitie as to weare the crowne and scepter of a kingdome but whether he did so or not or that some Monke deuised the excuse in fauor of the Prince Surely he was a famous knight and though his time was troublesome yet hee was right fortunate in all his attempts Againe if a man shall consider howe that in a straunge realme he coulde make suche a conquest and so perfitely and speedily establish the same to his heyres with newe lawes orders and constitutions whiche as appeare are moste like euer to endure he woulde thinke it a thing altogither voyde of credite Yet so it was and so honourable were his doings and notable in sight of the worlde here that those kings which haue succeeded sithence his death beginne their account at him as from one that had by his prudence renued the state of the realme and instituted an other forme of regiment in atchieuing whereof he did not so much pretende a rightfull chalenge by the graunt of his cosin king Edwarde the Confessor as by the law of armes and plaine conquest than the which as he supposed there coulde be no better tytle Herevpon also those that haue sithence succeeded him vse the same armes as peculiar to the crowne of Englande which he vsed in his time that is to witte He bare but two Lions or rather Leopards as some thinke three Lions passant golde in a fielde gewles as Polidor writeth the three floure Delices were since that time annexed thereto by Edward the third by reason of his clayme to the crowne of Fraunce whereof hereafter yee shall heare more Polidor There be also that write how the inconstancie of the English people by their oft rebellions occasioned the king to be so heauie Lorde and master vnto them Where he of his naturall disposition was rather gentle and curteous than sharpe and cruell diuerse mē might be perswaded so to thinke of him in deed if he had ceassed frō his rough gouerning yet in the ende but sithence he continued his rigor euen to his last days we may rather beleeue that although happily from his childhoode he shewed some tokens of clemencie bountie and liberalitie yet by following the warres and practising to raigne with sternenesse he became so invred therewith that those peaceable vertues were quite altered in him in maner clearly extinct in whose place cruel rigor auaritious couetousnesse and vnmercifull seueritie caught roote and were planted Yet is he renoumed to haue reteyned still a certaine stoutenesse of courage and skil in feates of warre which good happe euer followed Moreouer he was free from lecherous lustes and without suspition of bodily vices quicke and subtile of wit desirous of honor and coulde very well susteyne trauail watching colde and heate though he were tall of stature and very grosse of bodie In like maner toward the ende of his dayes he began to waxe verie deuout and somewhat to bend toward the aduauncing of the present estate of the church insomuch that he builded three Abbayes in seuerall places endowing them with fayre lands and large possessions as two in England one at the place where hee vanquished King Harolde fiue miles distant from Hastings which he named Battaile of the field there foughten the other at Celby in Yorkshire y e third
thither though he was earnestly called vpon for the same Hys estimation was such amongst forraine Princes that Phillip King of Fraunce beeing newly entred into the gouernemente of that Realme after his fathers decesse committed himselfe and hys Kingdome to the disposition and order of Kyng Henry as if he had bin regent of his Realme and gouernour of his person There lyued in the dayes of this King Henry the seconde diuers honorable personages Captaynes of great fame for their approoued valiancie and experience in warlike enterprises as Roberte Earle of Leicester Hugh Biger Earle of Northfolke Reginald Earle of Cornewale Robert Ferers Earle of Derby Richard Lacy Roger Mowbray Raufe de Fulgiers Humfrey Bohun Connestable of England Ranulf Glandeuille William Vescy and Bernard de Balliol â—…le Also there flourished in his time heere in thys land men of singular learning in artes and sciences as Nicholas Breakespeare Serlo surnamed Grammaticus William Rheualensis Adam de Euesham Thomas of Munmouth Adelbertus Leuita Geruasius Cicestrensis Odo CaÌ„tianus Ealred Rhieuellensis Iohannes Sarisburiensis Clemens Lanthoniensis Walter Daniel Robert Knought alias Camtus Roberte Folioth William Ramsey Senatus Brauonus Robert the Scribe Odo Miremuth Hugh of Readyng Richard of Douer WilliaÌ„ of Peterburgh Cicerciensis Bartholmew Iscanus and Gilberte de Sempringham with other And heere to make an ende with this high and mighty Prince Henry the secoÌ„d I haue thought good to make you partaker of an Epitaph which wee fynde in Mathew Paris and others written of hym as followeth An Epitaph of King Henry the seconde REx Henricus eram mihi plurima regnaÌ„ subegi Multiplicique modo duxque comesque fui Cui satis ad votum non essent omnia terrae Climata terra modò sufficit octo pedum Qui legis haec pensa discrimina mortis indè Humanae specula conditionis habe Quod potes instanter operate bonum quia mundus Transit incautos mors inopina rapit An other TVmuli regis superscriptio breuis exornat Sufficit hic tumulus cui non sufficerat orbis Res breuis est ampla cui fuit ampla breuis The first is thus Englished OF late King Henry was my name I. H. whiche conquerde many a lande And diuers Dukedomes did possesse and Earledomes held in hande And yet while all the earth could scarce my greedy mind suffice Eight foote within the ground now serues wherein my carcas lyes Now thou that readest this note well my force with force of death And let that serue to shew the state of all that yeeldeth breath Do good then here foreslowe no time cast off all worldly cares For brittle world full soone doth fayle and death doth strike vnwares The other thus SMall Epitaph now serues to decke this tombe of stately King L. H. And he who whilome thought whole earth could scarce his minde content In little roome hath roome at large that serues now life is spente Richarde the firste An. reg 1. RIcharde the firste of that name and seconde sonne of Henry the second beganne hys raigne ouer England the sixth day of Iuly in the yeare of oure Lord. 1189 1189. in the seuen and thirtith yeare of the Emperour Frederick the first in the eleuenth yere of the raigne of the second Phillip K. of Fraunce VVil. Par. and Kyng William surnamed the Lion as yet liuing in the gouernement of Scotland Mat. Paris At leÌ„gth King Richard remembring himselfe of his mother Queene Eleanor which had beene separated from the bed of hir husband for the space of sixteene yeres and was as yet deteyned in prison in Englande wrote his letters vnto the Rulers of the Realme The King mother set at libertie commaunding them to set hir agayne at libertie and withall appoynted hir by his letters pateÌ„ts to take vpon hir the whole gouernement of the Kingdome in his absence The Queene being thus deliuered and hauing nowe the chiefe authoritie and rule in hir hands she rode in progresse about the Realme to see y e estate therof and as shee passed froÌ„ place to place she shewed gladsome countenance to the people wheresoeuer she became doing also what she could to pleasure theÌ„ that she might therby win their good willes to hir and to hir sonne but specially remembring by hir late experience and tast thereof what an irksome and most greeuous thing imprisonmente was she caused the iayles to be opened and forthwith set no small number of prisoners at libertie by the way as she passed through the couÌ„treys according to the verse of Virgill Non ignara mali miseris suceurrere disco Which may be thus englished By proofe earst had of others ill Their woe to ease I learne the skill In the meane time King Richard concluding a league with Phillippe King of Fraunce receyueth all those places againe which were taken froÌ„ his father by the same Phillip togither with his wife Adela whom vpon suspition that she had bin dishonested in hir person before without any sufficient proofe therof had he forsaketh sendeth hir home with hir dower and otherwise with greate and princely giftes most bountifully enriched hauing already concluded a marriage with the Lady Berengaria daughter to Garsias Kyng of Nauarre who was sente into Sicill vnto hir syster Ioane that hee mighte marry hir there as hee passed that way toward the holy lande Moreouer vnto William Marshall he gaue in marriage the daughter of Richard Erle of Chepstow togither with the Earledome which hir father possessed and to Gilbert Fitz Roger the son of Ramfrey he gaue the daughter of William de Loncaster After he was landed as before ye haue heard he hasted to Winchester where his mother Queene Eleanor with the most part of the English nobilite hadde layne a good space to attende his comming and there on the euen of the assumption of our Lady the King was by them receyued with great ioy and triumph VVi. Paruus Vpon this day of King Richards CoronatioÌ„ the Iewes y t dwelt in LondoÌ„ and in other parties of the Realm being there assembled had but sory hap as it chanced for they meaning to honor the same Coronation with their presence and to present to the K. some honorable gift The Iewes meant to preâ—…ent him with 〈◊〉 rich gifte whereby they might declare themselues glad for his aduauncement and procure his friendship toward them for the confirming of their priuiledges and liberties according to the grauntes and charters made to them by the former Kings King Richard of a zelous minde to Christes Religion Math. Paris abhorring their nation and doubting some sorcerie by them to be practised commaunded that they should not come within the Church when he should receyue the Crowne nor within the Palace whilest hee was at dinner But at dinner time among other that pressed in at the Palace gate diuers of the Iewes were about to thrust in till one of them was striken by
Caunterbury Legate of all Englande by hys Bulles directed to hym bearing date at hys Palace in Rome called Laterane the fifteene Kalendes of Aprill in the fourth yeare of hys Papacie And further the Pope wrote also to the Englishe Cleargie giuing them to vnderstande that hee had created the sayde Archbishop of Caunterbury hys Legate commaunding them so to accept him by vertue of whiche letters the Archbyshop Huberte beeyng nowe both Archbyshoppe of Caunterbury Legate of the Apostolike sea and Lorde chiefe Iustice of Englande appoynted to holde a Counsell at Yorke and therefore gaue knowledge by the Abbot of Binnham in Northfolke and one master Geruise vnto the Canons of Yorke and to the Archbishoppes officials of his purposed intention The sayd Canons and officials well considering of the Popes letters whiche were delyuered vnto them by the messengers signifyed for answere that they woulde gladly receyue hym as Legate of the Apostolyke See but not as Archbyshoppe of Caunterbury nor as theyr primate Heerewith he came vnto Yorke vppon Sainte Barnabees day beeing Sunday and was receyued with Procession On the morrowe after he helde court of pleaes of the Crowne of assises and suche other matters touching the King and on the nexte daye beeyng Twesday he entred into the monasterie of Sainte Maries in Yorke and deposed the Abbot bycause of his infirmitie of body at the request of the Monkes but the Abbot appealed to the Popes consistory After this comming to Isoldun hee wanne the Towne and besieged the Castell but Kyng Richarde aduertised thereof The hast which king Richard made came with quicke speede making of three dayes iourney but one and entred into the Castell of Isoldun to defend the same againste his aduersaries and forthwith there resorted suche numbers of men vnto hym when they hearde howe he was besieged that the Frenche Kyng doubting howe to retire from thence in safetie made sute first to haue licence to depart and after when that would not be graunted he required at the least wise to talke with the Kyng of EnglaÌ„d about some agreement whervnto Kyng Richard condescended and so comunyng togyther The two kings againe talke togither of peace they concluded vppon a truce to endure from that day being Saterday next after the feast of Saint Nicholas vnto the feast of S. Hillarie next ensuing and then to meete againe neere vnto Louiers with their counsels that they might grow by some reasonable way vnto a finall peace and concord And according to thys Article 1196. shortly after the same feast of Sainte Hillarie The conditioÌ„s of the peace concluded betwixt the two kings Math. Paris they mette at Louiers wher finally they were accorded to conclude a peace on these conditions that the French King shoulde releasse to the King of England Isoldun with the Countrey aboute wonne by him sith the beginning of these warres Likewise all the right which he had in Berry Auuergne and Gascoigne and the County of Aubemarle Math. VVest Vpon the other parte the King of Englande should resigne Gisors and certayne other places and namely Veuxin or Veulquessine to y e Kyng of Fraunce Mat. VVest Mat. Par. Herevpon were sureties also bounde for performance and the forfeyture of fifteene thousande markes assigned to be payde by y e partie that first brake the peace Wherevppon shortly after when the French Kyng repenting hym selfe of the agreement began to make war a new King Richard seased into his hands all y e goodes and possessions that belonged to the Abbots of the order of the great Monastery of Cluny and of Saint Denice and la Charitie whiche hadde become suretie for the French King in y e summe of 1500. markes aforesayde Rog. HouedeÌ„ The Erle of Albemarle departed his life This yeare dyed William de Forz Earle of Albemarle in whose place succeeded Baldwine de Betun by the Kinges gifte and married the Countesse of Albermarle Otho sonne to the duke of Saxony There was a motion also made for a marriage betwixte the Lorde Otho sonne to Henry Duke of Saxony Kyng Richardes nephewe by hys syster and the Lady Margaret daughter to the Kyng of Scottes so as they should haue enioyed the Countreys of Lothian Northumberlande Lawnes and the Countie of Careleil with the Castels For the conclusion of this marriage the Archbishop of Caunterbury was sente about Christmas to commune with the Kyng of Scottes but bycause the Scottish Queene was then conceyued of childe hir husbande in hope that God woulde sende hym a sonne refused to stand vnto the aboue mentioned couenauntes About thys time also VVil. Pâ—… Ran. Hâ—… The Abâ—… Caen seâ—… Englanâ—… King Richarde sente the Abbot of Caen that was also the elect of Durham into England to take an accompts of those that hadde the receyptes of the Kyngs money for this Abbot had enformed the Kyng that his receyuors and officers heere in the Realme dealt not iustly in their accomptes makyng but both deceyued the King Fraudulâ—… dealing â—…ficers and oppressed hys people in exacting more than was due and concealing that which they ought to stand accomptable for The Kyng supposing hys wordes to be true or at the least wayes likely so to bee and that in reforming such vntroth in his officers it shoulde bee both profitable to him and well liked of the people sent this Abbot ouer with commission to be as it were his generall Auditor Howbeeit the Byshoppe of Caunterbury Hubert whiche was gouernour of the Realme in causes both Temporall and spirituall by reason he hadde both the Kings authoritie as his vicegerent and also the Popes as his Legate authorised dyd somewhat stomacke y e matter in that it shoulde be thought that he did suffer such abuses in the Kyngs officers and not reforme them but he helde hym coÌ„tente and sayde little sith the Abbot shewed him the Kings commssion to do that which he wente aboute although hee brought it not to passe for whereas hee came ouer in the Lente season and gaue out commaundements that all such as had any thing to doe in receipt of the Kyngs money should appeare before him at after Easter he tarried not to see Easter himselfe but was called into another world by the stroke of death there to render an accomptes for his owne actes heere in thys life committed At the same time Fabiaâ—… VVil. Pâ—… Mat. Pâ—… Ran. Higâ—… William â—…bert there was another person in London called William with the long berde alias Fitz Osbert whyche hadde lykewise enformed the Kyng of certayne great oppressions and excessiue outrages vsed by rich men against the poore as namely the Worshipfull of the Citie the Maior and Aldermenne the whyche in theyr hoystings when any tillage was to bee gathered burdened the poore further than was thought reason to ease themselues The foule 〈◊〉 order in the Citizens of London wherevppon the sayde William beeyng a seditious person and of a busie nature seassed not to make
authoritie to cause Lewes to stay his iorney and not to succor those rebels in Englande which he had alreadie excommunicated The Pope desirous to helpe king Iohn in all that he might bycause he was now his Vassall An. 〈…〉 Cardiâ—… Guâ—…lo Maâ—… sent his Legate Gualo into Fraunce to disswade king Philip from taking any enterprise in hande against the king of England The 〈◊〉 kings â—…tions 〈◊〉 Popes 〈◊〉 Gualâ—… But king Philip though he was content to heare what the Legate coulde say yet by no meanes he coulde be turned from the execution of his purpose alledging that king Iohn was not the lawful king of England hauing first vsurped taken it away from his nephew Arthur the lawful inheritor And that now sithence as an enimie to his owne royall dignity he had giuen the right of his sayde kingdome away to the Pope which he could not do without consent of his nobles 〈◊〉 VVest And therefore thorow his owne fault he was worthily depriued of all hys kingly honour 〈◊〉 Par. For the kingdome of Englande saith he neuer belonged to the patrimonie of S. Peter nor at any tyme shall for admit that hee were rightfull king yet neyther he nor any other Prince may giue away his kingdome withoute the assent of his Barons which are bounde to defende the same and the prerogatiue royall to the vttermost of their powers Furthermore saith he if the Pope do meane to maintaine this error he shall giue a perilous example to al kingdome of the worlde Herewithall the nobles of France 〈◊〉 present protested also with one voyce that in defence of this article they would stand vnto death which is that no king or prince at his will and pleasure might giue away his kingdom or make it tributarie to any other poâ—…tate whereby the Nobles shoulde become thrall or subiect to a forrain gouernor These things were done at Lions in the quindene after Easter On the morrow following being the .xxvj. of Aprill by his fathers procuremeÌ„t Lewes came into the Councell Chamber and with frowning looke behelde the Legate â—…es the â—…ch kings â—…e mainteiâ—… his preâ—…ed title to â—…rowne of â—…ande where by his procurator he defended the cause that moued him to take vppon him this iourney into Englande disprouing not onely the right which king Iohn had to the crowne but also alledging his owne interest not only by his new election of the barons but also in the title of his wife whose mother the Queene of Castile remayned only in life of all the brethren sisters of Henry the second late king of England as ye before haue heard The Legate made answere herevnto that king Iohn had taken vpon him the Crosse as one appoynted to goe to warre agaynst Gods enimies in the holy land 〈◊〉 priuilege â—…ose that â—…e vpon the crosse wherfore he ought by decree of the general CouÌ„cell to haue peace for foure yeares to come and to remaine in suretie vnder protection of the Apostolike Sea But Lewes replied thereto that king Iohn had first inuaded by warre his Castels and landes in Picardy and wasted the same as Buncham castell Liens with the countie of Guisnes which belonged to the fee of the sayd Lewes But these reasons notwithstanding 〈◊〉 Paris the Legate warned the French king on paine of cursing not to suffer his sonne to goe into Englande and likewise hys sonne that he should not presume to take the iorney in hand But Lewes hearing this declared that his father had nothing to do to forbid him to prosecute his right in y e realm of England which was not holden of him And therefore he required his father not to hinder his purpose in such things which belonged nothing to him but rather to lycence him to seake the recouery of his wines right which he â—…ent to pursue with perâ—…ll of life if 〈◊〉 should require The Legate perceyuing he coulde not preuaile in his sute made to k. Philip thought that he would not spend time longer in vaine in further treating with him but sped him forth into England obteining yet a safecoÌ„duct of the french king to passe through his realme â–ª The French kings sonne sendeth to the Pope Lewes in like maner purposing by all meanes to preueÌ„t the Legate first dispatched forth Ambassadors in aâ—…ast vnto the Court of Rome to excuse himselfe to the Pope and to render the reasons that most specially moued him to proceede forwarde in his aâ—…erprise against king Iohn being called by the Barons of England to take the crowne thereof vpon him And this done with all coâ—…hieâ—…e speed he came downe to Calice He commeth to Calice where be found 〈◊〉 ships wel appointed and trimmed which Enstate â—…urnamed the Monke had gathered and prepared there readie agaynst his comming King Iohn about the same time that Lewes thus arriued came to Douer meaning to fight with his aduersaâ—…yes by the way as they shoulde come forwarde towardes London But yet vpon other aduisement taken he chaunged his purpose Mat. Par. bycause hee putte some doubt in the Flemings and other straungers of whome the most part of his armye consisted bycause hee knewe that they hated the Frenche men no more than they did the English Therefore furnishing the Castell of Douer with men munition and vittails he left it in the keeping of Hubert or Burgh a man of notable prowes and valiancie and returned himselfe vnto Canterburie and froÌ„ thence tooke the high way towardes Winchester Lewes being aduertised that king Iohn was retyred out of Kent passed through the countrey without any encounter and wanne al the castels and holdes as he went but Douer he coulde not wynne At his comming to Rochester he layde siege to the castel there wan it Rochester â—…stell wâ—… causing at the straungers that were found within it to be hanged Lewes commeth to London This done he came to London and there receyued the homage of those Lordes and gentlemen whiche had not yet done theyr homage to him at Sandwich And he on the other part toke an othe to mainteyn and performe the old lawes and customes of the realme and to restore to euerie man his rightfull heritage and landes requyring the Barons furthermore to continue faythfull towardes him assuring them to bring things so to passe that the realme of Englande shoulde recouer the former dignitie and they their auncient liberties Moreouer hee vsed them so courteously gaue them so fayre wordes and made such large promises that they beleeued him with all theyr heartes And the rumor of this his outward courtesie being once spred through the Realme caused great numbers of people to come flocking to him amongst whoÌ„ there were diuerse of those which before had taken part with king Iohn as William Erle Warren Noble men reuolting froÌ„ king Iohn vnto Lewes William erle of Arundell William Earle of Salisburie William Marshall the yonger and diuerse other supposing verily
come 〈◊〉 it be long when as many that meruayle at your misfortune as do nowe at myne The death of this erle was much lamented among the people considering his sodeyn fall and miserable ende where as not long before among all the noble men of this land within the whiche was such a nuÌ„ber as no countrey in the worlde had greater store at that present there was none more estemed so noble and valiant he was that all men spake honour of him After his death as the fame went the K. was sore vexed in his slept with horrible dreames imaginyng that he sawe this Earle appeare vnto him threatening him and putting him in horrible fear with which visions being sore troubled in his sleepe hee curssed the daye that euer he knewe the Earle And he was the more vnquiet bicause he heard it reported that the common people tooke the Earle for a martyr in so muche that some came to visite the place of his sepulture for the opinion they had conceiued of his holines and where it was bruted abroade as for a miracle that his head shold be growen to his bodie againe the .x. day after his buriall the king sent aboute .x. of the clocke in the night certaine of the nobilitie to see hys body taken vp that he might be certified of the truth Whiche done and perceiuing it was a fable he commanded the Friers to take down his armes that were sette vp aboute the place of his buriall to couer the graue so as it should not be perceyued where he was buryed But nowe to returne to the parliament After the death of this earle The Earle of VVarvvicke areigned of 〈◊〉 the lorde Thomas Beauchamp earle of Warwicke was brought forth to abide his triall by Parliament when his accusers charged him of like points of treason suche as before were imposed to the Earle of Arundell he answered that he neuer ment euill to the kings person nor thought that those roades and assembles that were made in companie of the Duke of Gloucester the Earle of Arundel and others might be accompted treason But when the Iudges had shewed hym that they could not be otherwise taken than for treason he humblie besought the king of mercy and grace The king then asked of hym whether he had ridde with the Duke of Gloucester and the earle of Arundell as had bin alledged he answered that he could not deny it and wished that he had neuer seen them Then said the king doe ye not knowe that you are guiltie of treason hee answered againe I acknowledge it and with sobbing teares besought all them that were present to make intercession to the kings maiestie for him Then the king and the duke of Lancaster commuâ—…ed and after the K. had a while with silence considered of the matter he saide to the erle by S. Iohn Baptiste Thomas of Warwik this confession that thou hast made is vnto me more agreable than al the duke of Gloucesters the earle of Warwikes landes Herewith the Erle making still intercession for pardon the Lordes humbly besought the K. to graunt it Finally the king pardoned him of life but he banished him into the Isle of Man which then was the L. Scropes promising y e both hee his wife children shuld haue good enterteinment whiche promise notwithstanding was but slenderly kept for bothe the earle and the Countesse liued in great penurie as some write and yet the lorde Scrope that was L. ChaÌ„berlaine had allowed for the erles diet .iiij. M. nobles yerely paid out of the kings coffers On the Monday nexte after the arreignement of the erle of Warwick to witte the .xxiiij. of September was the Lorde Iohn Cobham and Syr Iohn Cheyney arreigned and founde guiltie of like treasons for whiche the other had bin condempned afore but at the earnest instance suite of the nobles they were pardoned of life and banished or as Fabian hath condempned to perpetuall prison The king desirous to see the force of the Londoners caused them during the time of this parliament to muster before hym on Blacke Heath where a man might haue seene a great number of able personages And now after that the parliameÌ„t had continued almoste till Christemasse The parliament adiourned to Shrevvsbury it was adiourned vntill the Quinden of saint Hillarie then to begin agayne at Shrewesbury The Kyng then came downe to Lichefield The K. keepeth his Christmasse at Lichefielde 1398 and there helde a Royall Christmasse whiche being ended he took his iorny towards Shreusbury where the parliament was appointed to begin in the quinden of S. Hillarie as before ye haue hearde In which parliament there holdeÌ„ vpon prorogation for the loue that the K. dare to the gentlemen coÌ„mons of the shire of Chester he caused it to be ordeined Cheshire made a Principalitie that from thence forth it shuld be called and knowe by the name of the Principalitie of Chester and herewith he entitiled himself prince of Chester King Richarde Prince of Chester He helde also so a total feast keping open houshold for al honest coÌ„mers during the which feast he created v. dukes a duchesse a Marques and .iiij. ertes Creation of dukes and Earles The Erle of Derbie was created duke of Hereford the erle of Notingham y t was also erle of Marshall the duke of Norfolk the erle of Rutlande Duke of Aubemarle the Earle of Kent Duke of Surrey and the Earle of Huntington Duke of Excester The Lady Margaret Marshall Countesse of Norfolke was created Duchesse of Norfolke The Earle of Sommerset Marques Dorset the Lorde Spencer Earle of Gloucester the Lorde Neuill surnamed Dauraby Earle of Westmerlande The Lorde William Serope Lorde Chamberlaine Earle of Wilteshire and the Lorde Thomas Percie Lorde Stewarde of the Kynges house Earle of Worceter And for the better mayntenaunce of the estate of these noble men whom he had thus aduaunced to higher degrees of honour hee gaue vnto them a greate parte of those landes that belonged to the Duke of Gloucester the earles of Warwicke and Arundell And nowe hee was in good hope that hee had rooted vp all plantes of treason and therefore cared lesse who might be his friende or foe than before he hadde done esteeming hymselfe hygher in degree than any Prynce lyuing and so presumed further than euer his grandefather did King Richarde peareth Sainct Edvvaâ—…de hys armes and tooke vpon hym to beare the armes of Sainct Edwarde ioyning them vnto his owne armes To conclude whatsoeuer hee then did none durste speake a worde contrarie thereto And yet suche as were chiefe of his couÌ„sell were estemed of the commons to bee the worst creatures that might be as the Dukes of Aumarie Norfolk and Excester the Erle of Wilteshire sir Iohn Bushie sir William Bagot and Sir Thomas Grene which three last remembred were Knightes of the Bathe againste whome the commons vndoubtedly bare greate and priuy hatred The Lorde Reignolde
Earle Dowglas the Towne of Berwike The craue aid of the Scots and a parte of Northumberlande and to other Scottish Lordes greate Lordships and seigniories if they obteined the vpper hand The Scottes in hope of gaine and desirous to be reuenged of their olde greefes came to y e Erle with a great company The Archbish of Yorke of 〈◊〉 sell with 〈◊〉 Percies in 〈◊〉 conspiâ—…cie The Percies to make theyr part seeme good deuised certayne articles by the aduice of Richard Scrope Archebyshoppe of Yorke brother to the Lorde Scrope whome King Henry had caused to be beheaded at Bristowe Thâ—… VVals These articles being shewed to dyuers noble men and other states of the Realme moued theÌ„ to fauoure theyr purpose in so muche that manie of them did not onely promise to the Percies ayde and succoure by woordes but also by theyr writings and seales confirmed the same Howbeit when the matter came to tryall the moste parte of the confederates abandoned them and at the day of the conflict left them alone Thus after that the conspirators had discouered themselues the Lorde Henry Percy desirous to proceede in the enterprice vpon truste to be assisted by Owen Glendor the Earle of Marche and other assembled an armye of men of armes and archers forthe of Cheshire and Wales The earle of Worcester gouernour to the prince slippeth from him Hall and incontinently hys Vncle Thomas Percie Earle of Worcester that hadde the gouernement of the Prince of Wales who as then laye at London in secrete manner conueyed hymselfe out of the Princes house and commyng to Stafforde where hee mette hys nephewe they encreased theyr power by all wayes and meanes they coulde deuise The Earle of Northumberlande hymselfe was not with them but being sicke hadde promised vpon hys amendmente to repayre vnto them as some write with all conueniente speede These noble men to make theyr conspiracie to seeme excusable besides the Articles aboue mentioned sente letters abroade The pretence of the Percies as they published it abrode wherein was conteyned that theyr gathering of an armye tended to none other ende but onely for the safegarde of theyr owne persons and to putte some better gouernemente in the common wealthe For whereas taxes and tallages were daylye leuyed vnder pretence to bee employed in defence of the Realme the same were vaynely wasted and vnprofitably consumed and where through the slaunderous reportes of their enimies the King hadde taken a greeuous displeasure with them they durst not appeare personally in the Kings presence vntill the Prelates and Barons of the Realme hadde obteined of the King licence for them to come and purge themselues before him by lawfull tryall of theyr peeres whose iudgemeÌ„t as they pretended they would in no wise refuse Many that saw heard these letters did commend theyr diligence and highly praised theyr assured fidelitie and trustinesse towardes the common wealthe But the King vnderstanding theyr cloked drift deuised by what meanes he might to quiet and appease the commons and deface theyr contriued forgeries The kings answere to the Percies libell and therefore he wrote an aunswere to their Libelles that he maruelled muche sith the Earle of Northumberland and the Lord Henry Percie his sonne had receyued the most parte of the summes of money graunted to him by y e Cleargie and coÌ„munaltie for defence of the marches as he could euidently proue what shoulde moue them to compleyne and reise such manifest slanders And where as he vnderstood that the Erles of Northumberlande and Worcester and the Lorde Percy hadde by their letters signified to their friends abroade that by reason of the slanderous reportes of their enimies they durst not appeare in his presence without the mediation of the Prelates and nobles of the Realme so as they required pledges whereby they might safely come afore him to declare and alledge what they had to say in proofe of their innocencie hee protested by letters sente forthe vnder his seale that they mighte safely come and goe without all daunger or any manner of indempnitie to be offered to their persons but this coulde not satisfie those men but that resolued to goe forwardes wyth their enterprise they marched towardes Shrewesburie vppon hope to be ayded as men thought by Owen Glendour and his Welchmen publishing abroade through out the Countreys on eache side Poore K. Richarde is still alyue with theÌ„ that wish king Henries ouerthrowe that King Richarde was aliue whome if they wished to see they willed theÌ„ to repaire in armour vnto the Castel of Chester where without all doubt he was at that present and ready to come forwarde This tale beeyng reysed though it were most vntrue yet it bredde variable motions in mens minds causing them to wauer so as they knewe not to whiche parte they shoulde sticke and verily diuers were well affected towardes King Richard specially suche as had tasted of his princely bountifulnesse of which ther was no small number and to speake a troth no maruell it was if many enuyed the prosperous state of King Henry sith it was euident inough to the world that hee hadde with wrong vsurped the Crowne and not only violently deposed King Richarde but also cruelly procured his death for the whiche vndoubtedly both he and his posteritie tasted such troubles as put them still in daunger of their states till their direct succeeding line was quite rooted out by the contrarie faction as in Henry the sixth and Edward â–ª â—…e fourth it may appeare But now to returne where we lefte Kyng Henry aduertised of the proceedings of the Percies forthwith gathered about him suche power as hee mighte make and beeing earnestly called vppon by the Scotte the Earle of Marche to make hast and giue battell to his enimies before their power by delaying of time should still too muche encrease hee passed forwarde with suche speede The kinges speedy diligence that he was in sight of his enimies lying in camp neere to Shrewesburie before they were in doubt of any such thing for the Percies thought that he would haue stayed at Burton vppon Trent till his Counsell had come thither to him to giue their aduice what he were best to do The Pâ—…reyes troubled with the kinges sodayn coÌ„ming By reason of the Kings suddaine comming in thys sort they stayed from assaulting the Towne of Shrewesburie which enterprise they were ready at that instante to haue taken in hande and forthwith The L. Pâ—…rcye exhorteth his complices to sticke to their tackle the Lorde Percie as a Captaine of high courage began to exhorte the Captaynes and Souldiers to prepare themselues to battell sith the matter was growen to that poynt that by no meanes it could be auoyded so that sayde hee thys daye shall eyther bring vs all to aduauncement and honor or else if it shall chaunce vs to bee ouercome shall deliuer vs from the Kings spitefull malice and cruell disdeyne for playing the menne as we
Duke of Yorke haue attempted to set forthe his title to the Crowne as hee afterwardes didde to the greate disquieting of the Realme and destruction of Kyng Henry and of many other noble men beside This is the opinion of menne but gods iudgementes are vnsearcheable against whose decree and ordinaunce preuaileth no humaine counsaile But to conclude with this noble Duke he was no doubt a right mirrour of an vpright and politike gouernour bending all his endeuoures to the aduauncement of the common wealth no lesse louing to the poore commons than beloued of them again Learned he was and wise full of curtesie and voide of all pride and ambition a vertue rare in personages of suche high estate albeit where the same chaunceth most commendable But sithe the praise of this noble man deserueth a large discourse and meete for suche as haue cunning howe to handle the same I referre the readers vnto Maister Fores booke of Actes and Monumentes fyrste Volume Page 833. In this sixe and twentieth yere of the raign of this King An. reg 26. but in the firste of the rule of the Queene I finde nothing done worthye of rehearsall within the Realme of Englande but that the Marques of Suffolke by greate 〈◊〉 of the Kyng and more desire of the Queene was erected to the title and name of Duke of Suffolke whiche dignitie hee shorte time inioyed for Richard duke of Yorke being greatly alyed by hys wife to the chiefe Peeres and Potentates of the Realâ—…e ouer and beside hys own progeny perceiuing the king to be a ruler not ruling and the whole burthen of the realm to reste in the ordinaunces of the Queene and the Duke of Suffolke began secretly to allure his friendes of the Nobilitie and priuily declared vnto them hys tytle and ryghte to the crowne and likewise didde he to certaine wise and sage gouernours and rulers of diuers Cities and Townes whych priuy attempt was so pollitickely handled and so secretly kepte that his prouision was ready before his purpose was openly published and his friendes opened themselues ere the contrary parte coulde them espie for in conclusion time reueled truthe and olde hidde hatred soddainely sprong out as yee maye hereafter both learne and heare During these doings Henry Beauford Bishop of Winchester 1448 and called the riche Cardinall departed out of this worlde and was buried at Winchester The deathe of the Bishoppe of â—…Vinchester â—…s description This man was sonne to Iohn Duke of Lancaster deseâ—…ded of an honourable linnage but borne in baste more noble in bloud than notable in learning hault of stomacke and highe of countenaunce riche aboue measure but not very liberall dysdainfull to his kinne and dreadefull to hys louers preferring money before friendeshippe manye things beginning and fewe performing hys couetous insaciabilitie and hope of long lyfe made hym bothe to forgette God his Prince and hymselfe of the getting of his goodes both by power Legantine and spirituall bribery I will not speake but the keeping of them for his ambitious purpose was bothe greate losse to hys naturall Prince and natiue countrey for hys hydden riches might haue well holpen the King and his secret treasure might haue relieued the communaltie when money was seâ—…nte and importunate chardges were dayly immenent An. reg 27. After the deathe of this Prelate the affaires in Fraunce were neither well looked to nor the gouernors of the countrey wel aduised Sir Frauncis Suriennes for an english capitain called sir FraÌ„cis Suriennes surnamed the Aregonois of the countrey wher he was borne a man for his wit and actiuitie admitted into the order of the Garter tooke by skaling soddainely in the nyght of the euen of our Lady day in Lent Fongieres a Town on the Fronters of Normandy belonging to the Duke of Britaine called Fougiers spoylyng the same and killing the inhabitantes The Duke of Britaigne beeing hereof aduertised sent worde by the bishop of Remines to the Frenche Kyng beseching him of his aid and counsaile in the matter The French King foorthwith sent his â—…uer Iohn Hauart and Iohn Cosinet one of the Maisters of his requestes to the King of Englande and to the Duke of Somerset he dispatched Peter de Fontaines the Maister of his horse to the whiche messengers aunswere was made aswell by the Kyng as the duke that the fact was done without their knowledge And for the truce to be kepte and not onely restitution but also amends to be made to the Duke of Britayne a daye of dyet was appoynted to be kepte at Louniers where the commissioners on both partes being assembled the frenchmen demaunded amendes wyth no small recompence The Englishemen aunswered that without offence nothing by Iustice ought to be satisfied affirming the doing of Sir Frauncis Sureinnes to be only his act without consent eyther of the Kyng of Englande or of the Duke of Somerset hys lieuetenaunt and Regent But whiles wyth long delay they talked of this matter at Louniers certain Frenchmen by aduertisement of a wagoner of Louniers Pont de Larcâ—… taken by the Frenchmen by a subeâ—… 〈◊〉 vnderstaÌ„ding that the town of Pont de Larche was but slenderly manned The wagoner laded his wagon and passed forward hauing in his companye twoo strong Varlettes clad like Carpenters wyth greate axes on their shoulders and hereto le Seigneur de Breze wyth a chosen company of men of armes lodged himselfe in a bushement neare to the gate of Saint Andrewe and Capitayne Floquet accompanied wyth sir Iames de Cleremont and another greate companye priuily lurked vnder a woode towarde Louniers When all things were appointed for the purpose earely one morning about the beginning of the moneth of October deuised to take the same town on this maner The wagoner came to the gate and called the porter by name praying hym to open the gate that hee myghte passe to Roan and retourne agayne the same nyght The Porter whiche well knewe the voyce of hys customer tooke little heede to the other twoo companions and so opened the one gate and sent another fellowe of hys to open the formoste gate When the Chariot was on the drawe bridge betwene both the gates the chariot Maister gaue the Porter money and for the nonce let one peece fall on the grounde and while the Porter stouped to take it vp the wagoner wyth hys dagger stroke hym in at hys throate so that he cried for no helpe and the .ij. great lubbers slewe the other porters and with their axes cut the axeltree of the wagon so that the drawe bridge coulde not be shortly drawen vppe This done they made a signe to Capitaine Floquet whyche wyth all speede entred the Towne slewe and tooke all the Englishemenne and amongest other the Lorde Fauconbridge Capitaine of the saide Towne was taken prisoner The losse of this place was of no small importance being the very kay passage ouer the riuer of Seyne from France into Normandy
them or bearing hymselfe theyr fauoure hee brake vnto them some by mouthe some by writyng and secret messengers that it neyther was reason nor in any wise to bee suffered that the yong Kyng their Maister and kinsman shoulde bee in the handes and custodye of his mothers kinred sequestred in manner from their company and attendaunce of whiche euery one oughte hym as faithfull seruice as they and manye of them farre more honourable parte of kinne than his mothers side Whose bloude quod hee sauing the Kings pleasure was full vnmeetelye to bee matched wyth his whiche nowe to bee as who saye remoued from the Kyng and the lesse noble to bee left aboute hym is quod he neyther honourable to his Maiestie nor vnto vs and also to his grace no suretie to haue the mightlest of his friendes from hym and vnto vs no little ieoperdye to suffer our well proâ—…ed euill willers to growe in ouer great auctoritie with the prince in youth namely whiche is lighte of beleefe and soone perswaded Yee remember I trowe King Edwarde hymselfe albeit he was a man of age and of discretion yet was he in many things ruled by the bende more than stoode either with his honour or our proue or w t the condition of any 〈…〉 only the 〈…〉 of 〈◊〉 Which whether they â—…rer 〈…〉 own weale or our â—…o it were hard I went â—…gesse And if some 〈◊〉 〈…〉 houldeâ—… better place wyth the Kyng 〈◊〉 â—…ny respect of 〈◊〉 thys myght pâ—…d 〈…〉 easilye haue be trapped and broughte 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 some of vs â—…re this Why not 〈…〉 as they haue done 〈◊〉 other already 〈◊〉 of his royall 〈…〉 hathe wroughte his will and 〈…〉 grace that perill is passe How 〈…〉 is growing it we suffer this yong 〈…〉 enemies hande whiche wythout his 〈◊〉 myght abuse the name of hys coâ—…ment to any of out â—…ndooyng whiche 〈◊〉 God and good prouision forbidde Of whiche good prouision none of 〈◊〉 hath anything the lesse neede for the laâ—… 〈◊〉 attonement in which the kings plesure had 〈◊〉 place than the parties willes Nor none of 〈◊〉 I beleeue is so vnwise ouersoone to lesse a newe friende made of an olde for or to thinke that an hourely kindenesse sodainely â—…tracte in one houre continued yet scante forâ—…yght shoulde bee deeper settled in their stomackeâ—… than a long accustomed malice many yeâ—…s â—…ted Wyth these wordes and writyngs and suche other the Duke of Gloucester same set a fire them that wer of themself ethe to kindle in especiall twayn Edward duke of Buckingham William Lord Hastyngs Chamberlain both men of honour and of great power The tone by long succession from his auncestrie the tother by his office and the Kyngs fauoure These twoo not bearing ethe to other so muche loue as hatred bothe vnto the Quenes part in this poynt accorded togyther wyth the Duke of Gloucester that they woulde vtterly amoue from the kings companye all hys mothers frends vnder the name of theyr enemies Vppon this concluded the Duke of Gloucester vnderstandyng that the Lordes whiche at that time were aboute the King entended to bring him vp to his coronation accompanied with suche power of their friends that it shuld bee harde for hym to bring his purpose to passe without the gathering great asseÌ„ble of people in maner of open warre wherof y e â—…nd he wist was doubtfull in which the K. being on their side his parte shuld haue the face and name of a rebellion he secretly therfore by diuers meanes caused the Queene to bee perswaded brought in the minde that it neyther were neede â—…so shoulde bee ieopardous the Kyng to coâ—…p strong For whereas nowe euerye Lorde loued other and none other thyng 〈◊〉 vpon but about the Coronation and honour of the King if y e Lordes of hir kindred should assemble in the Kings name muche people they shoulde gâ—…e the Lordes atwixte whome and them had â—…in sometime debate to feare and suspect leaste they should gather thys people not for y e Kings safegard whome no man impugned but for theyr destruction hauing more regarde to theyr olde variance than theyr new attonement For whiche cause they shoulde assemble on the other partie muche people agayne for theyr defence whose power the wist well farre stretched And thus should all the Realme fall on a core And of all the hurt that thereof should ensue which was likely not to bee little and the most harme there like to fall where she least would all the worlde would put hir and hir kindred in the wight and say that they hadde vnwisely and vntruely also broken the amitie and peace that the Kyng hir husband so prudently made betweene his kinne and hirs in his deathe bed and whiche the other partie faithfully obserued The Queene beeing in this wise perswaded such word sent vnto hir sonne and vnto hir brother beeing about the King and ouer that the Duke of Gloucester himselfe and other Lordes the chiefe of his bende wrote vnto the King so reuerently and to the Queenes friendes there so louingly that they nothing earthly mistrusting brought the King vp in great hast not in good speede with a sober companye Now was the King in his way to London gone froÌ„ Northampton when these Dukes of Gloucester and Buckingham came thither where remayned behinde the Lord Riuers the Kings Vncle intending on the morrowe to followe the Kyng â—…he with him at Stome Stratford myles thence earely or he departed So was there made that night muche friendly cheere betweene these Dukes and the Lorde Riuers a greate whyle But incontinente after that they were openly with great curtesie departed and the Lorde Riuers lodged the Dukes secretely with a fewe of 〈◊〉 most priuie friends set them downe in couÌ„sayle wherein they spente a greate parte of the â—…ight And at their rising in the dawning of the day they sente about priuily to their seâ—…untes in their Innes and lodgings about giuing them commandement to make themselfe shortly readie for their Lordes were to horsebacke warde Vppon whiche messages manye of theyr folke were attendaunce when many of the Lord Riuers seruauntis were vnready Nowe had these Dukes taken also into their custodie the keyes of the Inne that none shoulde passe foorth without theâ—… licence And ouer this in the high way toward Stonie Stratford where the King lay they had bestowed certaine of their folke that shoulde sende backe agayne and compell to returne any man that were goten out of Northampton towarde Stonie Strafforde till they shoulde giue other licence For as much as the Dukes themselfe intended for the shewe of theyr diligence to bee the firste that shoulde that daye attende vpon the Kings highnesse out of that Towne thus bare they folke in hand But when the Lorde Riuers vnderstoode the gates closed and the wayes on euery side beset neyther his seruauntes nor hymselfe suffered to gone out perceyuing well so great a thing without his knowledge not begun for
to bee broughte vnto hym in hys secrete Chamber where Persall after hys masters recommendation shewed hym that hee hadde secretely sente hym to shewe hym that in thys newe worlde hee woulde take suche parte as hee woulde and wayte vppon hym with a thousande good fellowes if neede were The Messenger sent backe with thankes and some secrete instruction of the Protectors minde yet mette him agayne with farther message from the Duke hys master within few days after at Nottingham whither the Protector from Yorke with manye Gentlemen of the North Countrey to y e number of sixe hundred horses was come on his way to Londonwarde and after secret meeting and communication had eftsoone departed Wherevpon at Northampton the Duke met with the Protector hymselfe with three hundred Horses and from thence still continued with hym partner of all hys deuises till that after his Coronation they departed as it seemed very great frieÌ„ds at Gloucester From whence assoone as the duke came home he so lightly turned from him and so highly conspired againste him that a manne woulde maruell whereof the change grew And surely the occasion of their varriance is of diuers men diuerslie reported Some haue I heard say that the Duke alittle before the Coronation among other things required of the Protector the Duke of Herefordes lands to the which hee pretended himselfe iust inheritor And forasmuch as the title whiche he claymed by inheritance was somewhat interlaced with y e title to the Crowne by the line of King Henrye before depriued the Protector conceyued such indignation that hee reiected the Dukes request with manye spitefull and minatorie wordes whiche so wounded hys heart with hatred and mistrust that he neuer after coulde endure to looke a righte on King Richard but euer feared his own life so farre forth that when the Protector rode through London towarde his Coronation hee fayned hymselfe sicke bycause he would not ride with hym And the other taking it in euill part sent hym worde to rise and come ride or he would make hym bee carried Wherevpon he rode on with euill wyll and that notwithstanding on the morrowe rose from the feast fayning hymselfe sicke and King Richard sayde it was done in hatred and despite of hym And they sayde that euer after continually eache of them liued in suche hatred and distrust of other that the Duke verily looked to haue bin murthered at Gloucester From whych naythelesse hee in faire manner departed But surely some right secrete at that days denie this and manye righte wise men thinke it vnlikely the deepe dissembling nature of those both men considered and what neede in that greene world the Protector had of the Duke and in what peril the Duke stoode if hee fell once in suspicion of the Tyrant y t eyther the Protector would giue the Duke occasion of displeasure or the Duke the Protector occasion of mistrust And verily men thinke that if King Richard had anye such opinion conceyued he would neuer haue suffered him to escape his hands Very truth it is 〈◊〉 was an high minded man and euill coâ—… beare the glorie of an other so that I haue 〈◊〉 of some that say they saw it that the Duke at 〈◊〉 time as the Crowne was first set vpon the Protectors head his eye coulde not abyde the 〈◊〉 thereof but wried his head another way But men saye that he was of troth not well at ease and that both to King Richarde well knoâ—… and not ill taken nor any demaund of the dukes vncurteously reiected but hee both was greate giftes and high behestes in most louing aâ—…â—…stie manner departed at Gloucester But 〈◊〉 after his comming home to Brecknocke hauing there in his custodie by the commaundement of King Richarde Doctor Morton Byshop of Elie who as ye before heard was taken in the Counsell at the Tower waxed with hâ—… familiar whose wisedome abused hys pride so his owne deliuerance and the Dukes destraction The Byshop was a man of great naturall witte very well learned and honorable in behauiour lacking no wise wayes to winne fauour He had bin fast vpon the parte of King Henrye while that part was in wealth and naythelesse lefte it not nor forsooke it in woe but fledde the Realme with the Queene and the Prince while King Edwarde hadde the King in prison neuer came home but to the fielde After whiche loste and that part vtterly subdued the tother for hys fast fayth and wisedome not only was contente to receyue hym but also woed him to come and had him from thenceforth both in secrete trust and very speciall fauour whiche hee nothing deceyued For he being as ye haue heard after king Edwards death firste taken by the Titante for his troth to the King founde the meane to sette this Duke in hys toppe ioyned Gentlemen togither in aide of King Henry deuising firste the marriage betweene him and King Edwardes daughter by whiche his faith declared the good seruice to both his masters at once with infinite benefite to the Realme by the coniunction of those two blouds in one whose seueral titles had long enquieted the lande he fledde the Realme went to Rome neuer mynding more to meddle with the world till the noble Prince King Henry the seauenth gate him home againe made him Archbyshoppe of Caunterburie and Chancellor of England wherevnto the Pope ioyned the honor of Cardinall Thus lyuing many dayes in as much honor as one man mighte well wishe ended them so godly that his deathe with Gods mercie well changed his life This man therefore as I was about to tell you by the long and often alternate proofe 1484 An. reg 2. as well of prosperitie as aduers fortune hadde gotten by great experience the very mother and mistresse of wisedome a deepe insighte in politike worldly driftes Whereby perceyuing now this Duke glad to comune with him fedde him with faire words and many pleasaunt prayses And perceyuing by the processe of their communicacions the Dukes pride nowe and then balke out a little bredde of enuie towarde the glory of the King and thereby feeling him ethe to fall out if the matter were well handled he craftely sought the wayes to pricke him forwarde taking alwayes the occasion of his commyng and so keeping himselfe so close within his boundes that hee rather seemed to followe hym than to leade him For when the Duke firste beganne to prayse and boast the King and shew how much profite the Realme shoulde take by his raigne my Lorde Morton aunswered Surely my Lord follie were it for me to lie for if I woulde sweare the contrarie your Lordship woulde not I weene beleeue but that if the worlde woulde haue gone as I woulde haue wished Kyng Henries sonne had hadde the Crowne and not King Edward But after that God had ordered him to leese it and King Edwarde to raigne I was neuer so madde that I woulde with a dead man striue againste the quicke So was I to King Edward a
and dishonor spoken by the king hir husband the lyuing in adnontrie layde to hir charge the bastarding of hir daughters forgetting also the faythfull promise and open othe made to the Countesse of Richmonde mother to the Earle Henrie blynded by auaricious affection and seduced by flattering words The 〈◊〉 constauncie of Queene Elizabeth first deliuered into King Richards hands hir fiue daughters as Lambes once againe committed to the custodie of the rauenous Woolfe After the sent letters to the Maâ—… 〈…〉 being then at Paris with the Erle 〈…〉 willing him in anynoyse to leaue the 〈…〉 without delay to repayre 〈◊〉 Englande 〈◊〉 for 〈◊〉 proâ—… great honour 〈…〉 〈◊〉 promotions a sâ—…ning him and heâ—… all offences on doth parties was 〈…〉 forgyuen and both 〈◊〉 and shee highly 〈◊〉 rated in the Kings heart Suche the 〈…〉 of this woman were much to â—…cheâ—… 〈…〉 aâ—… if all woman hadde dâ—…th â—…e 〈…〉 〈…〉 spâ—… yee women of the 〈…〉 follow thâ—… 〈…〉 After that king Richarde had 〈…〉 â—…rious promises and flattering wâ—… 〈◊〉 and appeased the mâ—… and mynde of Queene Elizabeth which â—…ue nothing it 〈…〉 moâ—… 〈◊〉 he 〈…〉 â—…â—…ers to be conueyed and hys Palayes 〈◊〉 lâ—…â—…yuing 〈…〉 with his aâ—… makes and louing intence y e aâ—… they 〈◊〉 forget and in theyr myndes blotte onâ—… 〈…〉 committed inâ—… and sette 〈…〉 Nowe nothing was 〈…〉 and 〈…〉 his deuelish purpose but that his 〈◊〉 was not â—…uyde of his wiâ—… whiche thing hee 〈…〉 wiâ—… aâ—…ged necesâ—… to be done But there was â—…le thing that so muche feare and stay to hâ—… from committing thys abhominable â—…ther bycause as you haue hearde before hee beganne to counterfeyte the Image of a good and well disposed person and therefore hee was afearde least the sodaine death of his wyfe once openly knowne he shoulde lease the good and credible opinion which the people had of him without desert conceyued and reported But in conclusion euill Counsayle preuayled in a wytte lately mynded to myschiefe and turned from all goodnesse So that hys buâ—…eacious desire ouercame hys honest feare And fyrst to enter into the gates of hys imagined enterprice he absteyned doth from the beâ—… and companie of his wife After he complayned to diuerse noblemen of the realme of the infortunate sterilitie and harmonesse of his wife bycause shee brought forth no fruite and generation of hir bodie And in especiall he recounted to Thomas Rotheram Archbishop of Yorke whome lately hee had delyuered out of warde and captiuitie these impeâ—…mentes of his Queene and diuerse other thinking that he woulde reueale to hir all these things trushing the sequele hereof to take hys effect that shee hearing this grudge of hir husband and taking therefore an inward thought would not long liue in this world Of this the Bishop gathered whiche well knewe the complexion and vsage of the King that the Queenes dayes where short and that he declared to certaine of his secret friendes 〈◊〉 spred â—…e a the â—…es death After this be procured a common rumor but he would not haue the authour knowne to bee published and spred abroade aâ—…ng the common people that the Queene was deade to the â—…ent that shee taking some conceyte of this straunge fame shoulde fall into some sodaine sicknesse or grieuous maladie and to proue if afterward shee shoulde fortune by that or anye other wayes to lease hir life whether the people would impute hir death to the thought or sicknesse or thereof would lay the blame to him When the Queene heard tell that so horrible a rumor of hir death was sprung amongest the comunaltie she sore suspected iudged the worâ—… to be almost at an ende with hir and in that sorowful agonie she with lamentable countenance and sorrowfull cheare repayred to the presence of the king hir husband demaunding of him what it shoulde meane that hee had iudged hir worthes to die The king answered hir with fayre words and with smiling and flattering leasings comforted hir and bidde hir bee of good cheare for to his knowledge she should haue none other cause But howsoeuer that it fortuned either by inward though and pensiuenesse of heart or by infection of poyson which is affyrmed to bee most likely within few dayes after the Queene departed and of this transitorie life â—…e Queene â—…e 〈◊〉 King 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 sodainely 〈◊〉 and was with due solemnitie buried in the Church of S. Peter at Westminster This is the same Anne one of the daughters of the Earle of Warwicke which as you haâ—… heard before at the request of Lewes the French king was maried to Prince Edwarde sonne to king Henrie the sixth The king thus according to his long desire losed out of the bandes of matrimonie began to cast a foolish fantasie to Ladie Elizabeth his nece making much suyte to to haue hir ioyned wyth him in lawfull matrimonie But bycause al men and the mayden hirselfe most of all detested and abhorred this vnlawfull and in maner vnnaturall copulation hee determined to prolong and deferre y e matter till he were in a more quietnes For all that verie season he was oppressed wyth great weâ—…ightie and vbrgene causes and businesses on euerie side considering that dayly parâ—… of the Nobilitie myled into Fraunce to the Earle of Richmond Other priuily fauoured and arden certaine of the coniuration so that of hys shorte ende fewe or none were in doubt And the common people for the moste part were brought to such desperation that many of them had rather be reputed and taken of him in the number of hys enimies than to abyde the chaunce and hazarde to haue theyr goodes taken as a spoyle of victorie by his enimies Amongst the noble men whom he most mistrusted those were the principall Thomas lord Stanley sir William Stanley his brother Gilbert Talbot was 〈◊〉 hundred other of whose purposes although king Richard wer not ignorant yet he gaue neyther conference nor credence to anye one of them and least of all to the Lorde Stanley bycause hee was ioyned in matrimonie with the Ladie Margaret mother to the Earle of Richmonde as afterwarde apparantly yee may perceyue For when the sayde Lord Stanley woulde haue departed into his Countrey to visite his familie and to recreate and refresh his spirites as he openly sayde but the truth was to the intent to be in a perfite readinesse to receyue the Earle of Richmond at his first arriuall in Englande the king in no wise woulde suffer him to depart before he had left as an hostage in the Court George Stanley Lorde Straunge his first begotten sonne and heyre While king Richard was thus troubled and vexed with imaginations of the troublous tyme that was like to come Lo euen sodenly he heard newes that site was spring oute of the smoke and the warre freshly begonne and that the Castell of Hermines was deliuered into the handes of the Earle of Richmonde by the meanes of the Earle of Oxford and that not onely he but also Iames
words tending to the rebuke of sinne and improuing of suche new opinions as then began to rise And to bring the people the more in beliefe with hir hypocriticall doings she was counselled to say in those hir traunses that she should neuer be perfectly whole till shee had visited an Image of our Lady at a place called Court at Streete within the parish of Aldington aforesaid Thither was she brought and by the meanes of the sayd Richard Master and Edward Bocking that was now made of counsel in the matter there assembled a two thousand persons at the day appointed of hir thither comming to see the miracle At which day shee being thither brought afore all that assemble and multitude of people she falsely feigned and shewed vnto the people in the Chappel of our Lady there at Court at Streete A forged miracle many alteracions of hir face and other outwarde sensible partes of hir body and in those traunces she vttered wonderous words as she was before subtilly and craftely induced and taughte by the said Edward Bocking and Richard Master And amongst other things she vttered that it was the pleasure of God that the sayde Bocking should be hir ghostly father and that she should be a religious woman And within a while after suche feigned and counterfeite traunses shee appeared to the people to be suddaynely relieued from hir sicknesse and afflictions by the intercession and meane of the Image of our Lady being in the same Chappel By reason of whiche hipocriticall dissimulation the said Elizabeth was broughte into a maruellous fame credite and good opinion of a greate multitude of the people of this Realme and to encrease the same Elizabeth Barron becommeth a Nunne by the counsell of the said Edward Bocking she became a Nunne in the priorie of S. Sepulchres at Canterbury to whome the said Edwarde Bocking had commonly hys resorte not withoute suspition of incontinencie pretending to be hir ghostly father by Gods appoyntment And by conspiracie betwene hir and him she still continued in practising hir dissimuled trannses alledging that in the same she had reuelations from almightie God his Saincts and amoÌ„gst other that which as before we haue mentioned touching the Kinges mariage as yee haue heard This mater proceeded so farre that ther was a booke writteÌ„ by hir complices and namely by Thomas Laurence register to the Archbyshop of Caunterbury of hir feigned and counterfaite miracles reuelations and hipocriticall holynesse All things were handled so craftely that not only the simple but also the wise and learned were deceiued by the same in so muche The Archbyshop of Canterbury and the Byshop â—… Rochester giue crediâ—… to hir hypocriticall praâ—…tises that William Warham the late Archbyshop of Caunterbury and Iohn Fisher Byshop of Rochester and dyuers other beeing enformed thereof gaue credite thereto All whiche matters and many other had bin traiterously practised and imagined amongst the parties many yeares chiefly to interrupt the diuorse and to destroy the King and to depriue him from the Crowne and dignitie royall of this Realme as in the acte of their atteinder made more at large it may appeare and likewise in y e Chronicles of maister Edward Hall Therefore to conclude with hir and hir adherents the one and twentith of Aprill nexte following shee with diuers of them before condemned was drawen to Tiborne Elizabeth Barton executed and there executed as iustly they had deserued At the very time of hir deathe shee confessed howe she had abused the world and so was not only the cause of hir own death but also of theirs that there suffred with hir and yet they could not as shee then alledged bee worthy of lesse blame than she considering that they being learned and wise enoughe myght easily haue perceyued that those things which she did were but fained Neuerthelesse bycause the same were profitable to them they therefore bare hir in hand that it was the holy Ghost that did them and not she so that puffed vp wyth their praises shee fell into a certayne pryde and foolishe fantasie supposing shee might faine what she would whiche thyng had brought hir to that ende for the whiche hir misdooings she cried God and the Kyng mercy and desired the people to praye for hir and all them that there suffred with hir In this Parliament also was made the acte of succession for the establishing of the Crowne The acte of the establishing of the Crowne to the whiche euery person beyng of lawfull age shoulde be sworne On Monday the three twentith of Marche in the Parliament time Ambassadors forth of Scotland were solemnely receyued into London Ambassadors from Iames the fifth King of Scottes the Byshop of Aberdine the Abbot of Kynlos and Adam Otterborne the Kings attourney with diuers Gentlemen on them attendaunte whiche were broughte to the Taylers Hall and there lodged And on the day of the Innunciation they were brought to the kings Palaâ—…ce at Westminster where they shewed their commission and message forthe which the king appoynted them dayes to counsayle During the Parliament time euery Sunday at Paules Crosse preached a Bishop declaring the Pope not to bee supreeme heade of the Church The .xxx. day of March was the Parliament proroged â—…e Lordes 〈◊〉 to the â—…ion and there euerie Lorde knight and burges and all other were sworne to the Acte of succession and subscribed the inhandes to a parcâ—…ment fired to the sâ—…e The Parliament was proroged till the thirde of Nouember next After this were Commissioners sent into all parts of the realme to take the othe of al men and women to the act of succession Doctor Iohn Fisher and sir Thomas Moore knight and doctor Nicholas Wilson Parson of Saint Thomas Apostles in London expressely denied at LaÌ„beth before the Archbishop of Canterb. to receyue 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 so dissembling the matter escaped out of further daunger The .ix. of Iuly was the Lord Dacres of the North arraigned at Westminster of high treason An. reg 26. where the Duke of Norffolke sat as Iudge and high steward of England The sayd Lorde Dacres being brought to the hares with the Axe of the Tower before him after his Inditement read so improued the same answering euery part and matter therein conteyned and so plainly and directly confuted his accusers whiche were there readie to aâ—…ouch their accusations that to theyr great shames and his high honor he was founde that day by his Peeres not guiltie whereof the Commons not a little reiâ—…sed as by their shawt and crie made at those wordes not guiltie they freely testified The 〈◊〉 of August were all the places of the obseruant Friers suppressed as Greenwich Stow. Canterburie Richmont Newarke and Newcastell and in their places were set August in Friers and the obseruant Friers were placed in
to West mynster and there arraigned of high treason the Earle of Sussex sir Edwarde Hastings and sir Thomas Cornewallis with other being his Iudges The effect of whose Inditement among other things specially was that hee the fourtenth day of Februarie last before with force of armed multitude and Ensignes displayed hadde at Braynforde raysed open warres agaynst oure soueraigne Ladie the Queene trayterously pretending and practising to depryue hir of hir Crowne and dignitie and the question was demaunded of him whether he was guiltie or no Wheâ—â—â— hee stayed and besought the Iudges that he myght fyrst asked question before hee aunswerde directly to the poynt and hee 〈◊〉 〈…〉 doe The question was â—â— if hee shoulde confesse himselfe guiltye wheâ—â— the saâ—â— shoulde not bee preiuditiall vnto hym so aâ—â— by that confession shoulde bee barred from 〈◊〉 suche thinges as hee hadde more to say Wherevnto it was answered by the Court Maister Wyat say do they yee shall haue both leaue do â—â— to say what you can Then my Lordes quoth â—â—e I muste confesse my selfe guiltie and in the ende the truth of my case must enforce me I must acknowledge this to be a iust plague for my sonnes which most grieuously I therefore haue committed against God who suffered me thus brutely and hastly to fall in to this horrible offence of the law wherfore aly on lords and gentlemen with other hee present note well my wordesâ—â—o here and set in me the same ende which all other commonly had which haue attempted lyke enterprise from the beginning â–ª for pervse the Chronicles through and you shall see that neuer Rebellion attempted by subiectes agaynst theyr Prince and Countrey from the begynning did euer prosper or had better successe except the case of King Henrie the fourth who although he became a Prince yet in hys acte was but a Rebell for so must I call him and though he prepayled for a tyme yet was it not long but that his heyres were depryued and those that had right agayne restored to the kingdome and Crowne and the vsurpation so sharply reuenged afterwarde in his bloud as it well appeared that the long delay of Gods vengeaunce was supplyed with more grieuous plague in the thirde and fourth generation For the loue of God all you Gentlemen that bee here present remember and bee taught as well by examples past as also by this my present infalicitie moste wretched case Oh most miserable mischieuous brutishe and beastlye furious ymaginations of mine I was perswaded that by the maryage of the Prince of Spaine the seconde person of thys Realme and next heyre to the Crowne shoulde haue beene in daunger and that I being a free borne man should with my Countrey haue beene brought into the bondage and seruitude of Aliens and straungers Which brutishe beastlye opinion then seemed to mee reason and wrought in mee suche effectes that it ledde mee headlong into the practise of thys detestable cryme of Treason But nowe beeyng better perswaded and vnderstanding the great commoditye and honour whiche the Realme should receyue by this maryage I stande firme and fast in this opinion that if it shoulde please the Queene to be mercifull vnto me thereis no subiect in this lande that shoulde more â—â—aly and faythfully serue hir highnesse than I shall nor no sooner die at hir graces ferte in defence of hir quarell I serued hir highnesse agaynst the Duke of Northumberlande as my Lorde of Arundell can witnesse my Grandfather serued moste truely hir Graces grandfather and for his sake was vpon the â—…alke in the Tower My father also serued King Henrie the eight to his good comentation and I also serued him and King Edwarde hys sonne in witnesse of my bloud spent in his seruice I carie a name I alledge not all this to set forth my seruice by way of merit which I coÌ„fesse but dutie but to declare to the whole worlde that by abusing my wittes in pursuing my misaduised opinion I haue not onely ouerthrowne my house and defaced all the well doinges of mee and my Auncestours if euer there were anye but also haue bene the cause of mine owne death and destruction Neither do I alledge this to iustifie my selfe in any poynt neither for an excuse of mine offence but most humbly submit my selfe to the Queenes Maiesties mercie and pitie desiring you my Lorde of Sussex and you maister Hastings with all y e rest of this honorable bench to bee meanes to the Queenes highnesse for hir mercie which is the greatest treasure that may be giuen to any Prince from God such a vertue as God hath appropriate to himselfe which if hir highnesse vouchsafe to extende vnto me she shall bestow it on him who shall be most glad to serue truly and not refuse to die in hir quarell for I protest before the iudge of all iudges I neuer ment hurt agaynst hir highnesse person Then sayde the Queenes attourney master Wyat ye haue great cause to be sorie and repeat for your fault whereby you haue not onely vndone your selfe and your house but also a number of other gentlemeÌ„ who being true men might haue serued theyr Prince and Countrey yet if you had gone no further it might haue beene borne withall the better But being not so contented to stay your selfe you haue so procured the Duke of Suffolke a man soone trayned to your purpose and his two brethren also by meanes whereof without the Queenes greater mercie you haue ouerthrowne that noble house and yet not so stayed your attempt hath reached as in you lay to the seconde person of the Realme in whome next to the Queenes highnesse resteth all our hope and comfort whereby hir honour is brought in question and what daunger will follow and to what ende it will come God knoweth of all this you are the authour Wyats aunswere Wyat answered as I will not in any thing iustifie my selfe so I beseech you I being in thys wretched estate not to ouercharge mee nor to make me seeme to be that I am not I 〈◊〉 to touch any person by maine but that I haue writteÌ„ I haue written The Iudge Then sayde the Iudge maister Wiat maister Attorney hath well moued you to repeat your offences and we for our partes withe you the same Then sayde Sir Edwarde Hastings maister of the Queenes horse Sir Edwarde Hasting maister Wiat doe you remember when I and master Cornwallis were sent vnto you from the Queenes highnesse to demaund the cause of your enterprise what you required were not these your demaunded that the Queenes grace shoulde go to the town and there remayne and you to haue the rule of the tower and hir person with the treasure in keeping and such of hir counsaile as you woulde require to be deliuered into your hands saying that you woulde bee trusted and not trust Whiche woordes when Wyat had confessed then sayde the Queenes Solicitor Maister Cordall now maâ—…ster of the
Ponthieul 277.88 Dintingdale pag. 1311. col 1. lin 38. Dissimulation pag. 1293. col 2. lin 51. Disorder in the French campe at Tressy 933.16 a. Deuision of the offerings giuen to Thomas Becket Archbyshop of Cantorburie 463.56 Discipline of the Church howe to be practised 149.47 Digby Iohn knight Lieutenant of the towre 1453.57 Walter Diffe a Frier 1058.45 b. Dion Câ—…sues cited 48.61 .80.19 Dissention betweene king William Rufus and Anselme Archbyshop of Cantorburye 330.6 Dioclesian persecuteth y e Christians in Britaine and all other places of the world 75.30 Discordance among writers touching the death of Kyng Edmond Ironside 258.41 Dioclesianus mistaken for Danaus 6.110 Die one of the names of Samothes 2.39 Diepe towne wonne from the Englishmen by the Frenchmen 527.73 Description of Richard Duke of Glocester pag. 1357. col 2. lin 35. Disagreement among writers touching the British Kyngs that reigned from Elidurus to â—…ud 32.30 Dissention in Britaine made many Gouernours 45.9 Diuma first Christian Byshop in the kingdome of Mercia 170.18 Discorde falleth out betweene the Kinges of England 〈◊〉 Fraunce in their viageâ—… wardes the holy land 489.38 Dionethus Duke of Cornwal and gouernour of Brytaine 95.88 Disputation betweene Christians and Iewes 335.79 Drought great 1580.45 Dyuclyue citie committed to the keeping of Hugh Lacy. 450.21 Discord in the Englishe armie 990.30 a. Dinuhoc Castle in Cornwall 128. Dicalidones a kind of Pictes 104.5 Discord betwixt the Cardinall and the Archbyshop of Cantorbury 583.62 Diouionensis cited 137.71 Diuers sundry reportes of the death of King Iohn 605.77 Dearth 1519.9 Diet at Tours pag. 1269. col 1. lin 34. Discent of the Saxons in Brytaine 113.27 Dioclesanus and Maximianus fellowes in the gouernment of the Empire 83.16 Diocleslanus and Herculeus Maximianus renounce the rule of the Empyre 89.34 Doll castle in Britaine besieged 309.37 Douer castle besieged in vayne by Lewes kyng of France 609.9 Douer castle 271.76 Dorchester ordeyned a Bishops See 169.15 Doll castle towne fortified by the Barons 510.25 Donebant tooke Dunwallo Donwald king of Scottes sendeth Corman a learned clerk into England 167.77 Dogges hauen neare to Douer 415.66 Douer Castle deliuered vp to kyng William 292.37 Douer castle deliuered to kyng Stephons wyfe 369.17 Douer Castle deliuered to kyng Henry the thyrd 776.39 Douer castle furnished with necessaries by kyng Iohn 600.1 Douer castle valiantly defended agaynst Lewes by the captaynes Hubert de Burgh and Gerard de Gotingam notwithstanding al his foule and fayre offers made to the sayd captaynes 602.66 Douer castle confirmed to Philip Earle of Flaunders 427 13. Douer Abbey 393.78 Domitianus elected Emperor of Rome 73.46 Domitianus enuyeth the prosperous successe of Agricola in Britaine 73.49 Domitianus Nero Emperour of Rome 59.47 William L. Dowglas 891.7 a. Doctor Russell bishop of Lincolne made Lord Chancelor pag. 1363. col 2. lin 50. Dorcetshyre spoyled and wasted by the Danes 241.46 and. 252.10 Dole citie and castle in Britain wonne by kyng Henry the second 429.50 Dolpâ—…ine called king of Berry pag. 1213. col 2. lin 50 Dowglas Archimbald Earle of Angus commeth into England 1532.26 Dowglas Archimbald earle of Angus banished man maketh a rode into Scotland and discomfiteth a power of State 1559.18 Dowglas Archimbald Earle of Angus hath a thousande markes of yearely fed of king Henry the eight and returneth into Scotland 1589.36 Dowglas Margaret Countesse of Lindux sent to the Tower 1835.40 is deliuered 1837.25 Dowglas Margaret daughter to the Scottish queene commytted to the Tower for marying the Lord Thomas Howard 1565.2 Dowyll Walter pag. 1714. col 2. lin 12. Doncaster pag. 1315. col 1. lin 44. pag. 1329. col 1. lin 12. Druis or Dryus established king of Celtica 3.36 Drues aucthor of the Philosophers called Druides 3.48 Druides aboade principally in the I le of Anglesey 3.56 Druides charge and aucthoritie 3.62 Druides opinion concerning y e soules of men 3.69 Druides could foretell thinges to come 3.74 Druides opinion concerning y e immortalitie of the soule and of the one and euerlasting God 3.76 Druides accustomed to all men 3.86 Druides sect condemned and dissolued in Gallia 3.91 Druides sect abolished here in Britaine 3.93 Dragons firie seene flying 200.33 Danes beyng great Rouers land in the North partes of England 202.25 Danes lande in Northumberland and obtein a great part thereof without resistance 202.33 Danes arriue and make warre on the coastes of the lande 204.52 Dreme of King Richard the .iii. pag. 1417. col 1. lin 1. Drie Sommer 876.3 a. Drury William Marshal of the towne of Barwicke and also of the armie conducted into Scotland by Sussex is made knight 1846.44 is ordeyned Generall of an army into Scotland 1846. eftsons Generall of a power into Scotland where he besiegeth the castle of EdeÌ„borough 1866.50 winneth it 1868.30 Drommond a great ship of the Sarasins chased and vowged by the Englishmen 494.15 Dreur besieged and yeelded to the Englishe pag. 1213. col 2. lin 9. Drought 948.56 a. Dragons seene fighting in the ayre 642.27 Drayton in Shropshire pag. 1295. col 2. lin 5. Drax Castle wonne 393.23 Drincouer otherwise called Newcastle besieged won 429.30 Druides in the I le of Anglesey against the Romanes 59.101 Dustan reuoked made Byshop of Worcester and of London 232.7 Dunstan in high feuour wyth King Edgar ruleth all at his pleasure 232.15 Dunstan putteth King Edgar to penatice for his youthfull licenciousnes 233.52 Dunstan succeedeth Odo in the Archbyshoprick of antorbury 233.71 Dunstan denounceth plagues to fal vpon King Egelredus 238.61 Dunstans countrey and parentage 238.73 Dunstan driuen into a frensie runneth wildly aboute the fieldes 238.78 Dunstan in his sleepe walketh daungerously about the top of a Church 238.85 Dunstan reported to haue addiuced himselfe to coniuring and sorcerie 238.99 Dunstan aduaunced to the seruice of King Adelstane 238.105 Dunstans harpe suddenly playeth a Psalme alone 238.108 Dunstan accused of Necromancie and banished the Court 238. Dunstan shorne a Monke 239.8 Dunstans dreame of a Beare that would deuour him 239 13. Dunstan plucketh the deuill by the nose with a payer of pynsors 239.19 Dunstan preferred for declaring his dreames and visions 239.27 Dunstan dyeth 238.67 Dunstan seeth the deuill dauncing and wayting at the table 228.109 229 15. Dunstan made keeper of Kyng Edreons treasure 230.27 Dunstan certified by an Angell of King Edredus death 230.44 Dunstan frankly reproueth K. Edwyn for his shamefull abusing of his body 230.86 Dunstan vanished the remâ—â—e at the fute of King Edwyns Concubines 230.98 Dunwallo mulmucius sonne to Cloten getteth the Monarchie of all Britaine 23.18 Dublin citie in Ireland wonne by the Englishmen 419.9 Dublin chiefest Citie of al Ireland 420.50 Duneane a Scottish captaine wasteth Kendall with an armie 434.15 Duetie of a good preacher 177 72. Dublyn in Ireland ordeined an Archbyshoprick 386.31 Dunfoader in Scotland 225.68 Duke of Britaine accoumpted liege man to the Duke of Normandie 491.20 Dun Citiein Ireland taken by Iohn Lord Curcy 448.10 Duffuall a Welch King 231.81 Dunstan
hym selfe with Duke William of Normandie for his othes sake 286 38. Gunthildis sister to king Swanus commeth into England and is baptised there 247 18. Guyse Iohn knight 1450.14 Gundulfe byshop of Rochester 328.39 Gunthildes sister to king Swanus with her husband and Sonne murthered 247.30 Guilthdacus king of Denmark ouercommeth Brennus in battile and taketh his wyfe prisoner 24.2 Guildebald Duke of Vrbin elected knight of the garter 1461.34 Guilthdacus departeth into Denmarke and becommeth tributarie vnto Belinus 24.52 Guana riuer in Wales 117.55 Guintolsnus appeaseth olde dissentions in the Realme 28.114 Gnintolinus dyeth and to buried at London 29.5 Gurgustus dyeth and is buried at Yorke 21.81 Guanius king of the Hunnes 95.106 Guanius king of the Hunnes sent against Marimus friendes 95.109 Gurdon Adam taken prisoner and pardoned 777.2 Guintolinus Sonne to Gurguintus admitted king of Britaine 28.89 Guyshard Robert Duke of Puglia 346.75 Gunhardus or Suardus a great Duke in Fraunce 2.51 Guanius and Melga flee out of Britaine into Ireland 96 7. Guyon Father to Duke Rollo of Normandie slayne 288.97 Guy or Guido Earle of Ponthreu 277.107 Gualter de Maunt. 270.83 Gurmundus arriueth in Britaine to ayde the Saxons 144.3 Gurgustus Sonne of Riuallon beginneth to reygne in Britaine 21.72 Gurden Barthram kyller of king Richard the first 540 37. forgiuen and rewarded 540.52 cruelly put to death 540.63 Gutlacke a man of great vertue and holinesse 197.18 Gurmond called also Guthryd 219.66 Guorōgus gouernor of Kēt vnder Vortigernus 113.104 Guintelinus loke Guintolinus Guenhera dyeth in Scotland and is buried in Angus 137 45 Guynes Castle taken by Iohn Dancaster 946.50 a. Guillomer vanquished and dooth fealtie to the king of England 133. ◅2 H. Harold ordeyned by kyng Edward to succeede him in the kingdome of England 282.111 Harold setteth the crowne vpon his own head 283.2 Harold seeketh to win his peoples fauour by courtesie 283.12 Harold denyeth to deliuer the kingdome of Englande vnto Duke William of Normandie 283.40 Harold refuseth to take to wife the dauthter to Duke Williliam of Normandie 283.79 Harold prepareth to withstand the sodeyne inuasion of the Normans 283.98 Harold leadeth that name against Tostie which he had prepared against the Norm◅ns 284.18 Harold Harfager king of Norway arriueth in Englande with a great Name of ships 284.49 Harold Harfager slayne and his armie discomfited 284.90 Harold leeseth the hartes of his people in vnequally diuiding the Norwegian spoyles amongst them 285.24 Harold hated of the Pope and Cardinals 285.106 Harold goeth ouer into Normandie to visite his brother and Nephue 277.86 Harold going vppon the Sea for pleasure is driuen vppon the coast of Ponthien and taken prisoner 377.99 Harold presented to William Duke of Normandie 278.9 Harold hyghly welcommed by Duke William of Normandie 278.9 Harold accompanyeth Duke William in armes agaynst the Britaines 278.22 Harold taketh an othe to keepe the Realme of England to Duke Williams vse 278.31 Harold hasteth out of the North partes to encounter with the Normans 286.18 Harold slaine by a wound in the eye 287.25 Harold fleeth to Westchester and there becommeth an Ancre 287.60 Harold last king in England of the Saxon blood 288.6 Harold a scourge to the Welchmen 288.42 Harold surnamed Harefoote why 263.99 Harold not sonne to king Cnute but to a Shoemaker 264.3 Harolds treason against queen Emma and her children 264.97 Harolds counterfeit letters sent to Queene Emmas children in Normandie 264.108 Harold departeth out of this world 266.58 Harold returneth into England 278.46 Harold striketh his brother Tostie in the presence of the king 278.79 Harold sent against the rebellious Northumbers with an armie 279.3 Harold after the death of king Edward proclaymeth hymselfe king of England 282.104 Hasting a Dane entreth the Thames with a fleete and is constrayned by siege 216.4 Hasting causeth his two sonnes to be baptised 216.18 Hasting euer most vntrue of woorde and deede 216.19 Harold base sonne to king Cnute succeedeth his father in the kingdome of England 263.30 Earle of Hare court slayne at Cressy 934.32 b. Hatfielde battaile fought by the Britaine 's against the Englishmen 163.56 Hardicnute returneth out of Denmarke into England 266.80 Hardicnute proclaymed and crowned king of England 266.89 Hasting fortresse builded by the Normans 286.10 Hasting battaile fought by the Normans agaynst the Englishmen 286.56 Harbert William knyght one of king Henry the eyght his executors 1611.51 represseth the Rebels in Somer◅etshire 1648.24 master of the horse and created Earle of Penbroke 1709.25 is generall of the armie agaynst What. 1731.20 is generall of an armie into Fraunce 1767. 17. Lord Stward of her maiesties house dieth 1841.52 Harold and Canutus Sonnes to king Swanus of Denmarke sent into Englande with a Nauie 300.25 Harrison William cited 81.58 and .81 92. and .88.75 and 89.73 and .99.90 Harold and Leofwin inuade the shires of Somer◅et and Durcet and slay the Inhabitants 272.68 Harolds bodye taken vp and throwen into the Thames 267.3 Harald byshop of Elsham 195.13 Hardiknought looke Hardicnute Harold king of man made knight 715.100 Harington Iames attaynted 1425.42 Hastings Robert a knyght temple◅ 400.70 Har. William cited 111.77 and .115.64 and .116.94 Har. William cited 291.16 Hartfoord Castle builded 220.78 Har. William cited 180.62 and .192.96.194.9 and .194.46 and .198.62 Godfray Harecourt fleeth out of Fraunce 928.58 b. Hall Iohn executed 1864.28 Iohn Hastings Earle of Penbroke slaine 1075.50 b. Hay Rauife sent ouer into England with a band of souldiours 433.51 Harold succeedeth his father Godwyn in the Earledome of Kent 275.5 Harold William cyted 130. 70. and .131.40 and .133 58. and .137.63 and .140 15. Haruie first Byshop of Ely there appointed 349.92 Haruie translated from Bangor to Ely 349.93 Hardicnute dyeth suddeinly 267.112 Hammes abandoned to the Frenchmen 1777.20 Hales Iames knyght hys sundry molestations and ende 1723. Har. William cited 121.3 and 125.77 and .127.30 and 128.40 and .129.16 Hayles Abbey founded 781.95 Hayles bloud brought into England 781.100 Harold Generall of kyng Edwardes armie against Algar and kyng Griffin 276. 37. and .277.52 Haymon Earle of Gloucester departeth this life 399.46 Hart burning among the Nobitie 746.61 Harold banished the land 272.12 Haroldes landes giuen to Algar 272.22 Robert Hal murdered in Westminster church 1010.12 b Haco a Danish Earle arriueth in Enlgand wyth an armie agaynst King William 309 26. Harding Stephan a Monke of Shirebourne 333.84 Haldene a leader or kyng of the Danes 209.115 Halewell Thomas knight 1450.43 Harold and Canutus wyth their armie put to flight by king William escape to their shippes 301.18 Haddington chase 1637.8 Hayle of the bignesse of hennes egges 556.27 Halden a Danishe King 212.12 Harrison William cited 44.89 and .74.23 and .74.39 Hambletew rendered to the French king 1695.4 Hamelton Stephan knight put to death 1570.10 Sir Iohn Hankewoods prase 1001.33 a. Harflew wonne by the English pag. 1262. col 1. lin 2. Hacun set at libertie and sent into England 278.44 Hatton Christopher made captaine of the