he required by way of a tallage eight thousand marks of the Iewes charging them on paine of hanging not to deferre that paiment The Iewes sore impouerished with gréeuous and often paiments excused themselues by the popes vsurers and reprooued line 10 plainelie the kings excessiue taking of monie as well of his christian subiects as of them The king on the other side to let it be knowne that he taxed not his people without iust occasion and vpon necessitie that droue him thereto confessed openlie that he was indebted by his bonds obligatorie in thrée hundred thousand marks and againe the yearelie reuenues assigned to his sonne prince Edward arose to the summe of fifteene thousand marks and aboue where the reuenues that belonged vnto the crowne were line 20 greatlie diminished in such wise that without the aid of his subiects he should neuer be able to come out of debt To be short when he had fléeced the Iewes to the quicke he set them to farme vnto his brother earle Richard that he might pull off skin and all but yet considering their pouertie he spared them and neuerthelesse to relieue his brothers necessitie vpon a pawne he lent him an huge masse of monie These shifts did the king vse from time to time not caring with what exactions and impositions he burthened line 30 the inhabitants of his land whereby he procured vnto himselfe the name of an oppressor and couetous scraper But what woonder is it in a king sith Maxima paris hominum morbo iactatur eodem About the same time Lewes the French king sent vnto king Henrie for a present an elephant a beast most strange and woonderfull to the English people sith most seldome or neuer any of that kind had béene séene in England before that time The French queene also sent for a present vnto the king of England line 40 an ewer of pearle like to a peacocke in forme and fashion garnished most richlie with gold siluer and saphires to furnish him foorth in all points of fine and cunning workemanship to the verie resemblance of a liuing peacocke ¶ Manie woonders chanced about this time The sea rose with most high tides riuers were so filled with abundance of water by reason of the great continuall raine that maruellous flouds followed therevpon A comet also appeared and manie high buildings were striken by force of line 50 tempests The death of Walter archbishop of Yorke followed these prodigious wonders who had gouerned that sée the space of fortie yeares After him succeeded one Seuall the 34 archbishop of that citie About the feast of S. Etheldred the ladie Elianor wife of prince Edward the kings son came to London where she was honorablie receiued of the citizens conueied through the citie to S. Iones without Smithfield and there lodged for a season and yer long she remooued to the Sauoy It was not long line 60 after that the king seized the liberties of the citie of London into his hands for certeine monie which the quéene claimed as due to hir of a certeine right to be paid by the citizens so that about the feast of S. Martine in Nouember they gaue vnto the king foure hundred marks and then had their liberties to them againe restored and the kings vnder-treasuror discharged which for the time was made custos or kéeper of the citie About the same time came another legat from the pope namelie one Ruscand a Gascoigne borne to whom with the archb of Canturburie and the bishop of Hereford the pope had granted authoritie to collect and gather the tenths of the spiritualtie within England Scotland and Ireland to the vse of the pope and the king notwithstanding all priuiledges for what cause or vnder what forme of words so euer the same had passed This Ruscand also absolued the king of his vow made to go into the holie land to the end he might go against Manfred king of Sicill He also preached the crosse against the same Manfred promising all those remission of their sins which should go to war against Manfred as well as if they should go into the holie land to warre against Gods enimies there whereat faithfull men much maruelled that he should promise as great méed for the shedding of christian bloud as the bloud of infidels The craftie and slie fetches which were vsed in this season by this Ruscand the bishop of Hereford and other their complices to get monie of the prelats and gouernors of monasteries within this realme were wonderfull verie greeuous to those that felt themselues oppressed therewith and namelie for the debt which the said bishop of Hereford had charged them with they being not priuie to the receipt nor hauing any benefit thereby Ruscand called a councell at London propounded great causes why the prelats ought to aid the pope and so therevpon demanded great summes of monie Amongst other summes he demanded six hundred marks of the house of S. Albons To conclude his demands were estéemed vnreasonable so that the bishops and abbats were in a maruellous perplexitie perceiuing into what miserable state by reason of immoderate exactions the church of England was brought The bishop of London sticked not to saie that he would rather lose his head than consent that the church should be brought to such seruitude as the legat went about to inforce And the bishop of Worcester openlie protested that he would sooner suffer himselfe to be hanged than to sée the church subiect to such oppression by their examples Other also taking a boldnesse vnto them affirmed that they would follow the steps of Thomas sometime archbishop of Canturburie which for the liberties of the church suffered himselfe to haue his braines cut out of his head Yet were those prelats euill troubled for the king was against them on the one side and the pope gaping after monie was become their vtter enimie on the other neither were the Noble men much mooued with pitie towards the church their mother as the terme then went now thus in miserie Finallie the prelats appealed from Ruscand vnto the popes presence and would not obeie the wilfull and violent oppressions of the same Ruscand so that much adoo there was and a great complaint made to the king by Ruscand of the stubborne disobedience of the prelats and namelie of the bishop of London The king was in a great chafe with him and threatned that he would cause the pope to punish him according to âhat he well deserued but the bishop answered thereto Let the pope and king saith he which are stronger than I am take from me my bishoprike which by law yet they cannot doo let them take awaie my miter yet an helmet shall remaine This yeare after S. Lukes daie the king assembled a great number of the nobilitie at London and thither came the bishop of Bologna la grasse from the pope bringing with him a
and vsed other hard shifts till God prouided remedie for their penurie by good successe of husbandrie In the moneth of Iune the earle of Huntington as Steward of Guien with two thousand archers and foure hundred speares was sent into Gascoigne as a supplie to the countrie and coÌmons of the same for the king of England and his councell were informed that the earle of Dunois laie in the frontiers of Tholouse secretlie by rewards and faire promises practising to procure diuerse townes in Guien to become French Wherefore this earle like a politike warrior altered not onelie the capteins in euerie towne and citie but also remoued the magistrates and changed the officers from towne to towne and roome to roome so that by this meanes the earle of Dunois at that time lost both trauell and âost In the same moneth also sir Richard Wooduile sir line 10 William Chamberleine sir William Peito and sir William Storie with a thousand men were sent to stuffe the townes in Normandie which at that time had therof great néed for the English capteins had small confidence in the Normans and not too much in some of their own nation For that harlot briberie with hir fellow couetousnesse ran so fast abroad with French crownes that hard was it to remaine vncorrupted In this yeare the Dolphin of France alied with Iohn duke of Alanson and Iohn duke of Burgognie line 20 rebelled against his father king Charles but in the end by wise persuasions and wittie handling of the matter the knot of that seditious faction was dissolued and the king with his sonne and the other confederates openlie and apparantlie pacified The Englishmen taking aduantage of this domesticall diuision in France raised an armie and recouered againe diuerse townes which had béene surprised from them before and prepared also to haue recouered the citie of Paris till they hard of the agréement line 30 betwixt the father and the sonne and then they left off that enterprise In Nouember of this yeare there was such a great frost and after that so déepe a snow that all the ground was couered therwith and all the diches frosen Which wether put the Englishmen in hope to recouer againe the towne of Ponthoise by the French king gotten before by corrupting with monie diuerse burgesses of the towne Hervpon the Englishmen clothed all in white with Iohn lord Clifford line 40 their capteine came in the night to the diches passed them without danger by reason of the frost scaled the walles slue the watch and tooke the towne with manie profitable prisoners ¶ After the regaining of this towne the lord Richard Beauchampe earle of Warwike died in the castell of Rone from whence conueied into England he was with solemne ceremonies buried at his college of Warwike in a verie faire and sumptuous sepulchre line 50 About the beginning of Lent the duke of Summerset and the lord Talbot with other capteins and men of warre to the number of two thousand which they had assembled in the marches of Normandie towards Rone marching forward towards Picardie passed ouer the riuer of Some and through the towne of Monteruell came before the fortresse of Folleuile which the duke besieged whilest the lord Talbot entered further into the countrie After that the duke had mounted his great artillerie and began line 60 to batter the hold the capteine within chanced to be slaine with a shot of the same artillerie shortlie after the batterie being still continued the rest of the men of warre that serued vnder him yéelded the place in which the duke left a competent garrison of souldiers which afterwards sore indamaged the countrie This doone the duke followed the lord Talbot who was alreadie entered a good waie within the countrie of Santhois and now ioining their powers togither they came to a fortresse called Lihons in Santhois which was also rendered vnto them after they had burnt the church which the countrie people kept against them and would not yeeld it till they were fired out burnt and slaine to the number of thrée hundred After the fortresse was deliuered into their hands by composition the duke with his power laie there about ten daies sending diuerse troops of his men of warre abroad into the countrie which spoiled the same tooke the fortresse of Herbonneres and the lord thereof within it who for his ransome and to haue his subiects and house saued from spoile and fire compounded with his takers for a thousand saluz of gold which he paid to them Finallie after the duke of Summerset and the lord Talbot with their power had laine in Lihons about ten daies they departed from thence and returned into Normandie without anie impeachment After the death of the earle of Warwike year 1441 the duke of Yorke was againe made regent of France which accompanied with the earle of Oxenford the lord Bourchier called earle of Ewe sir Iames of Ormond the lord Clinton sir Richard Wooduile diuerse other noble men sailed into Normandie Before whose ariuall the French king sore gréeued with the taking of the towne of Ponthoise assembled a great armie and besieged the said towne himselfe in person inuironing it with bastiles trenches and ditches beating the walles and bulworks with shot of great ordinance and giuing therevnto diuerse great and fierce assaults But Iohn lord Clifford like a valiant capteine defended the towne so manfullie that the Frenchmen rather lost than woone The duke of Yorke at his landing receiued true aduertisement of this siege wherevpon he sent for the lord Talbot and a great number of soldiers and so came neere to the towne of Ponthoise and there incamped himselfe who therewith sent word to the French king that thither he was come to giue him battell if he would come out of his strength and bastiles But the French king by aduise of his councell determined not to venture his person with men of so base degrée but meant to kéepe his ground bidding the lord regent to enter at his perill and in the meane season did what he could to stop the passage of the riuer of Oise so that no vittels should be brought to the English armie by that waie in hope so to cause them to recule backe The duke of Yorke perceiuing that the French king minded not to fight purposed to passe ouer the riuer of Oise and so to fight with him in his lodging Whervpon he remooued his campe and appointed the lord Talbot and other to make a countenance as they would passe the riuer by force at the port of Beaumont and appointed an other companie in boates of timber and leather and bridges made of cords and ropes whereof he had great plentie caried with him in chariots to passe ouer beneath the abbie Whilest the lord Talbot made a crie as though he would assault the gate certeine Englishmen passed the water in botes and drew a bridge of cords ouer so that a great
libertie fearing to fall further in disgrace of the French king by whose practise it was supposed that Barnabie gaue him the fatall drinke This was but whispered secretlie the author being no lesse doubtfull than the coniectures vncerteine He died if we consider the common opinion of men in verie great glorie and felicitie not so much line 60 for that by the surprising of Millan he saw himselfe deliuered of dangers expenses intollerable which hauing drained him of all store of monie and treasure he was constreined to aduance all meanes and maners for his supplie and reléeuing but also that a verie few daies afore his death he receiued aduertisement of the taking of Plaisanca and the verie daie he died newes came to him of the winning of Parâa a matter so greatlie desired by him that at such time as he debated to mooue warre against the Frenchmen it is verie well remembred that he said vnto the cardinall de Medicis labouring to dissuade hiâ that as he was in nothing more caried to the desiâe of that warre than to recouer to the church those two cities so when so euer God should blesse him with the effect of that desire it would not gréeue him to die He was a prince in whom were manie things worthie to be commended blamed and in the estate discourse of his life he deceiued greatlie the expectation that was had of him when he was created pope for that in his gouernement was great discretion but farre lesse bountie than was looked for After the death of the pope doctor Richard Pace was sent to Rome to make fréends in the behalfe of the cardinall of Yorke who was brought into a vaine hope thorough the kings fauour and furtherance to be elected pope But Adrian the sixt of that name was chosen before doctor Pace could come to Rome and so that sute was dashed ¶ This Adrian bishop of Derchuso after great contention in the college of cardinals touching the election of a new pope was preferred to the custome of lotting of voices in the conclaue without anie affection or parcialitie of voice he was of nation a Fleming in his youth hauing béene schoolemaister to Cesar and by his meane made cardinall vnder pope Leo did at that time gouerne Spaine in the absence of Cesar. And as there began some voices to publish for him so cardinall Xisto one of that election began vnder an oration speciall to recount and amplifie his vertues and knowledge by whose example certeine other cardinals yeelded and the residue from hand to hand followed though more by constraint than councell Thus was he chosen with the voices of all the cardinals and had his creation perfected the same morning Wherein this was to be woondered at that euen those that had elected him could giue no reason why amid so manie troubles dangers in the estate ecclesiastike they had raised to the souereigne sée a stranger a forrener and of long absence out of the countrie wherin were helping no respects of fauor no consideration of former merits nor anie conuersation had with anie of the other cardinals yea they scarselie knew his name he had neuer béene in Italie and had no hope nor cogitation to see it of which strauagant maner of dealing being not able to excuse themselues they attributed all to the working of the Holie-ghost who is woont for so they alleged to inspire the hearts of the cardinals in the electing of popes he receiued newes of his election in the towne of Uictoria in Biskaie and would not haue imposed vpon him anie other name than his owne which he caused to be published vnder Adrian the sixt Now he made his entrie into Rome the nine and twentith of August with a great concourse of the commons and the whole court of whome albeit his comming was desired with an vniuersall gladnesse for that without the presence forsooth of the popes Rome beareth more a resemblance of a sauage desart than of a citie yet that spectacle wrought sundrie impressions and diuersities of thoughts in the minds of all men when they considered that they had a pope for nation and language a stranger and for the affaires of Italie and the court altogither vnexperienced and also for that he was not of those regions and countries who by long conuersation were alreadie made familiar with the customes of Italie The enuie that stirred vp in men this consideration was redoubled by the accident of the plague which beginning in Rome at his arriuall afflicted the citie during the whole season of Autumne to the great calamitie and losse of the people a matter which in the fansies of men was construed to an euill prognostication of his pontificacie Nowithstanding this election of Adrian as you heare accomplished yet doctor Pace kept his iournie according to his commission This Pace was a right worthie man and one that gaue in counsell faithfull aduise Learned he was also and indued with many excellent good gifts of nature courteous pleasant and delighting in musike highlie in the kings fauour and well heard in matters of weight But the more the prince fauoured him the more was he misliked of the cardinall who sought onelie to beare all the rule himselfe and to haue no partener so that he procured that this doctor Pace vnder color of ambassage should be sent foorth of the realme that his presence about the king should not win him too much authoritie and fauour at the kings hands line 10 This yeare was a great death in London and other places of the realme Manie men of honour and great worship died and amongest other the bishop of London doctor Fitz Iames in whose place was doctor Tunstall elected The earle of Surrie returned out of Ireland and came to the court the fiue and twentith of Ianuarie Manie complaints were made by the merchants to the king and his councell of the Frenchmen year 1523 which spoiled them by sea of their goods For by reason that the wars were open betwixt the line 20 emperour and the French king manie ships of warre were abroad on both parts and now and then the Englishmen fell into their hands and were vsed as enimies namelie by the Frenchmen which naturallie hated the Englishmen The French kings ambassadors promised restitution of euerie thing but little was restored In this moneth of Ianuarie therefore the king commanded all his ships to be rigged and made readie which was doone with all diligence line 30 On the second daie of Februarie the king as then being at Gréenewich receiued a bull from the pope whereby he was declared Defendor of the Christian faith likewise his successors for euer The cardinall of Yorke sang the high masse that daie with all the pompous solemnitie that might be and gaue cleane râmission of sinnes to all that heard it This title was ascribed vnto the king bicause he had written a booke against Luther in Germanie
prescript forme of demeanor which the gentlemen yeomen attendant vpon him in France should vse during the time of their abode in those forren parts a copie of which letter being a testimoniall of the king of Englands inclinable mind to peace hereafter followeth out of the verie originall as the same was subscribed by the lords A copie of the said letters sent in post to sir Thomas Cheinie being vpon his voiage into France AFter our right hartie commendations to your good lordship The kings maiestie hath willed vs to signifie vnto you that his highnesse expresse pleasure and commandement is ye should in his maiesties name declare to such gentlemen as accompanie you into France that they haue in remembrance so to vse behaue them selues among the Frenchmen as well on the waie as at the court in such sort as they by communication vpon feats of the warre passed giue no occasion of priuat displeasure Wherein therefore it shall be expedient that either they saie nothing vnlesse they be prouoked or in that case call the things happened fortune de la guerre without comparison of things chanced on our part or on theirs but turne the communication to reioise in peace In the conditions whereof they shall pretend ignorance without speaking of the keeping still of Bullogne or deliuerance of it againe but as shall please the princes for the continuance of peace wherein by Gods grace the crueltie of warre shall be conuerted into extreamitie of friendship to the weale and commoditie of both realmes And forsomuch as there want not in the world naughtie men of the state of moonks and friers who for malice of the alteration of their estate here would gladlie defame our religion towards God as though we had with them cast out all his highnesse expresse pleasure and commandement is that considering at this first entrie of you the behauiour of your companie shall be much marked and noted in matters of religion and circumstances of the same they should therfore haue so much the more regard both to their communications and also behauiors and not onelie in speech to forbeare to dispute or intermedle with the state of their policy there but also in their diet on the fish daie and deuout hearing of masse follow the order of the kings maiesties relme so as their conuersation behauior maie be coÌfusion to such as would defame this realme in the contrarie Thus fare your good lordship right hartilie well From Greenewich the ninteenth of Iune 1546. Your lordships assured louing friends Thomas Wriothesleie canc W Saint-Iohn I Russell Cutâ Duresme Steph Winton Anthonie Brenne William Petres This letter was thus indorsed ¶ To our assured louing friend sir Thomas Cheinie knight of the order treasuror of the kings maiesties houshold and lord warden of the cinque ports presentlie in speciall commission from the kings maiestie into France Hast post hast for thy life to Douer Calis or where he shall chance to be hast hast Thus farre of sir Thomas Cheinie imploied about the kings affaires in France namelie the christening of the Dolphins daughter wherein we haue béene the more copious in words bicause it hath béen published that sir Henrie Kneuet was there vnto personallie deputed which to be vntrue both the letters patents and the letter missiue doo sufficientlie prooue both which we receiued at the hands of an ancient seruitor attendant vpon the same sir Thomas at his béeing in France to execute his charge in the kings behalfe Of which woorthie knight when we come to the yeare and daie of his death we will deliuer further report to his high commendation but yet none otherwise than as by warranted intelligence we shall be directed The same time was a combat fought before the French king betwixt two Spaniards Iulian Romerou and one Morow They both serued the king of England in the last wars against France but Morow had reuolted from his seruice to the French kings and for certeine spéeches which he had vttered was chalenged to fight the said combat by the said Iulian for whome sir Henrie Kneuet vndertooke that he should stand to his chalenge and trie it with his aduersarie which he now did and vanquished him in lists the fight being appointed on horssebacke Incontinentlie after sir Henrie Kneuet sickned and died at Corbell and was buried in Paris within the church of S. Paule Moreouer for the full establishment of the peace and to receiue the French kings oth the vicount Lisle lord admerall with the bishop of Duresme and diuerse other lords and gentlemen to the number of one hundred and aboue all in veluet cotes and chaines of gold with fiue and fortie yeomen right séemelie appointed went into France departing from Bullogne the tenth of Iulie and came to Mellune a towne beyond Paris where the French king then laie by whome and the Dolphin his sonne they were roiallie receiued feasted and banketted and hauing doone that for the which he was sent the said lord admerall Dudleie the first of August tooke his leaue of the French king line 10 who rewarded him with a cupboord of plate all gold valued at 1500 pounds The lords also and gentlemen had chaines of gold giuen to them and the yeomen had two hundred crownes bestowed amongst them and so the lord admerall returned into England This lord admerall during the time that he had to deale with the French so valiantlie demeaned himselfe and was such a terror and astonishment to the enimie as it is left written of him that they durst not quéech in his presence but were like a line 20 sort of timorous cattell giuing roome to the raging lion ranging ouer the pastures with hir yoonglings and making the verie heauens to ring with hir roring after she hath filled hir selfe with bulles flesh and laid hir selfe downe to rest being wearie with eating the comparison verie aptlie followeth Vtque iracundo cedunt armenta leoni Pascua cum plenus bacchante furore peragrat Solus cum catulis coelum rugitibus implens Conspicitur postquam taurorum carnibus atra line 30 Sit saturata fames lassúsque recumbit edendo Tantus terror erat Gallis Dudleius Heros In the same moneth of August monsieur Danebalt high admerall of France accompanied with the bishop of Eureux the earle of Nauteuill knight of the order the earle of Uilliers the chiefe president of Roan secretarie Bouchetell monsieur de Canaples knight of the order monsieur de Taies knight of the order monsieur de Masilerie viceadmerall of France monsieur de Desse the baron de la Gard line 40 with diuerse other lords and capteines of honor beside two hundred gentlemen well appointed leused from Déepe with twelue gallies and a right faire ship called the Sacre of Déepe and so making saile he staied not anie where to take land till he came into the Thames where at Blackewall he was receiued into the kings barge by the
about the feast of the Epiphanie Edward the Blacke prince eldest sonne to Edward the third being about the age of nine yeares was in the twelfe yéere of his father being the yeare of our redemption 1338 or as saith Matthew Parker 1337 made gardian of England in the absence of his father being as then sailed into Flanders to procure the Flemmings to aid him against the French king Under which prince as some write or rather as I for the time take it equall in commission line 10 to him it séemeth that Iohn archbishop of Canturburie had the cheefest rule of the land bicause that king Edward after his returne into England which was about the fouretéenth or the fifteenth of his reigne charged the said bishop with certeine negligences which he vsed in collections of monie whilest he had the chiefe rule of the land when he was in the wars of France Wherefore the words of Matthew Parker in the life of the said Iohn Stratford saieng that the king held a parlement in which Omnem regni line 20 curam gubernationem archiepiscopo coÌmisit must néeds be intended that he had that charge vnder or equallie with the said Blacke prince as chiefest councellor to support the tender yeares of his sonne After which also in the yeare of our redemption as hath the same Matthew Parker 1342 being about the sixteenth of the said Edward the third the king committed the care gouernement of the kingdome to the said archbishop whilest the king was beyond line 30 the seas in the warres for thus writeth the said Parker fol. 257. Ac paulo post nulla purgatione indicta speaking of the said bishop vniustlie accused to the king aut recepta omnibus penè parlamenti ordinibus pro archiepiscopo deprecantibus rex eum sua sponte legitimè purgatum excusatum pronuntiauit eúmque multo magis charum quà m antè habuit omnibúsque gerendis in Anglia rebus se in militia absente praefecit Of which archbishop being somtime chancellor and treasuror of England shall be set downe a more large discourse in my large booke of the liues of the chancellors line 40 Lionell third sonne to Edward the third was in the ninth yere of the reigne of the said king Edward the third being the yeare in which the word became flesh 1345 made gardian of England in the absence of his father who as then was sailed into the parts beyond the seas of Flanders Of this man there is more spoken in my following treatise of the dukes of England Henrie lord Persie Rafe lord Neuill when Edward line 50 the third was sailed into Normandie were in the twentith yere of the reigne of the said Edward the third being the yeare of our redemption 1346 appointed to be gardians of the realme in his absence with the archbishop of Yorke the bishop of Lincolne and Thomas Hatfield bishop of Durham Thomas of Woodstocke being verie yoong was made custos or gardian of England in the yere that God tooke on him the forme of a seruant 1359 being the thrée thirtith of the reigne of the said king Edward the third when he sailed into France with a line 60 1100 ships Of this man is more spoken in my discourse of the dukes of England set downe in the time of quéene Elizabeth and in my treatise of the conestables of England set downe in the time of Henrie the eight pag. 867. Iohn of Gant duke of Lancaster fourth sonne of Edward the third bicause the king his father was féeble and sicklie being now about thrée score fiue yeares of age though Bodinus in his Methodo historiae saie that he died in his climactericall yeare of thrée score and thrée for the truth is that the said Edward the third was fourtéene yeares old when he began to reigne and he reigned about one and fiftie yeares which make of his age thrée score and fiue yeares but especiallie for the sorrow which the king inwardlie conceiued for the death of that worthie prince his son commonlie surnamed the Blacke prince This Iohn of Gaunt after the death of the said Blacke prince which died in the yeare of Christ 1376 being the fiftith yeare of the reigne of Edward the third whose death was déemed to be hastned by the said Iohn of Gaunt aspiring to the crowne the plat whereof though it tooke not effect in the life of the said Iohn yet it was performed in his sonne Henrie of Bullingbrooke who deposed Richard the second was appointed by his father Edward the third to haue the rule of the realme vnder him the which he continued during his fathers life which was not a full yeare after that he had made the said Iohn of Gaunt gouernour of England After which death of king Edward the third when Richard the second a child of eleuen yeares of age began his reigne in the yeare of our redemption 1377 in the first yeare of the said Richard the second after his coronation the said Iohn of Gaunt duke of Lancaster Edmund of Langleie earle of Cambridge brother to the said Iohn of Gaunt were appointed to haue the gouernement of the kings person and the administration of the common-wealth But shortlie after in the same yere of the king in the yeare of our redemption 1378 the said Iohn of Gaunt gaue vp the same office Of this man is more said in my treatise of the dukes of England William Courtneie bishop of London but shortlie after his protectorship aduanced vnto the sée of Canturburie in the yeare of Christ 1381 about the ninth of Ianuarie being about the fourth of Richard the second was made gouernor of the realme in this maner After as is before said that the duke of Lancaster had wiselie weied the fickle estate of the realme and considered that by the euill gouernment of the nobilitie and inconstant mind of the yoong king there must néeds fall a change of the estate doubting that if any thing succéeded otherwise than the nobles liked the cause and negligence might be imputed to him as one who cheeflie had the gouernment in his hands and thanks howsoeuer the state was ruled he looked for none did in the end after a few months authoritie wholie misliking the maners of the court which commonlie are not of the best in the minoritie of princes surrender his protectorship and obteined licence of the king to depart and so got him quietlie to his castell of Kenelworth permitting others to haue the whole swaie of the kingdome Notwithstanding all which in the second yeare of Richard the second about the yeare of Christ 1379 being not altogither carelesse of the kings well dooing this duke before his departing to Kenelwoorth caused certeine graue persons with his full consent to be ordeined which should haue the gouernement of the kings person and administration of the common-wealth The names of whome were William Courtneie before mentioned Edmund Mortimer
could not prosper so long as she kept in hir hands any possessions of the church did frankelie and freelie resigne and render vnto them all those reuenues ecclesiasticall line 20 which by the authoritie of parlement in the time of king Henrie had béene annexed to the crowne called the first fruits and tenths of all bishopricks benefices and ecclesiasticall promotions The resignation whereof was a great diminution of the reuenues of the crowne ¶ In this parlement was granted to the king queene a subsidie of the laitie from fiue pounds to ten pounds eight pence of the pound from ten pounds to twentie pounds twelue pence of the pound from twentie pounds vpward sixtéene line 30 pence of the pound and all strangers double and the cleargie granted six shillings of the pound Doctor Storie and other were appointed by the cardinall to visit euerie parish church in London and Middlesex to see their relikes repared and the images of the crucifix with Marie and Iohn therevpon to be fixed During the time of this parlement Stephan Gardiner bishop of Winchester and chancellor of England died at his house called Winchester place beside saint Marie Oueries in Southworke the ninth daie of Nouember whose corps was shortlie line 40 after solemnly from thence conueied to his church of Winchester there buried The maner of whose death why should I blush to blaze as I find it by report ¶ One mistresse Mondaie being the wife of one maister Mondaie secretarie sometime to the old lord Thomas duke of Norffolke a present witnes of this that is testified thus openlie reported in the house of a worshipfull citizen bearing office in this citie in words and effect as followeth The same daie line 50 when as bishop Ridleie and maister Latimer suffered at Oxford being about the ninetéenth daie of October there came to the house of Stephan Gardiner the old duke of Norffolke with the foresaid Mondaie his secretarie aboue named reporter héerof The old aged duke there waiting and tarieng for his dinner the bishop being not yet disposed to dine deferred the time till three or foure of the clocke at after noone At length about foure of the clocke commeth his seruant posting in all possible spéed from Oxford line 60 bringing intelligence to the bishop what he had heard and séene of whom the said bishop diligentlie inquiring the truth of the matter hearing by his man that fire most certeinlie was set vnto them commeth out reioising to the duke Now saith he let vs go to dinner Wherevpon they being set downe meat immediatlie was brought and the bishop began merilie to eate but what followed The blouddie tyrant had not eaten a few bits but the sudden stroke of God his terrible hand fell vpon him in such sort as immediatlie he was taken from the table so brought to his bed where he continued the space of fiftéene daies in such intollerable anguish and torments that all that meane while during those fifteene daies he could not auoid by order of vrine or otherwise any thing that he receiued whereby his bodie being miserablie inflamed within who had inflamed so manie good martyrs before was brought to a wretched end And thereof no doubt as most like it is came the thrusting out of his toong from his mouth so swolne blacke with the inflammation of his bodie A spectacle worthie to be noted and beholden of all such bloudie burning persecutors But whatsoeuer he was séeing he is now gone I referre him to his iudge to whom he shall stand or fall As concerning his death and maner thereof I would they which were present thereat would testifie to vs what they saw This we haue all to thinke that his death happened so opportunelie that England hath a mightie cause to giue thanks to the Lord therfore not so much for the great hurt he had doone in times past in peruerting his princesse in bringing in the six articles in murthering Gods saints in defacing Christs sincere religion c as also especiallie for that he had thought to haue brought to passe in murthering also our noble quéene that now is For whatsoeuer danger it was of death that she was in it did no doubt procéed from that bloudie bishop who was the cause thereof And if it be certeine which we haue heard that hir highnesse being in the tower a writ came downe from certeine of the councell for hir execution it is out of controuersie that wilie Winchester was the onelie Dedalus and framer of that engine Who no doubt in that one daie had brought this whole realme into wofull ruine had not the lords most gratious councell thorough maister Bridges then the lieutenant comming in hast to the quéene certified hir of the matter and preuented Achitophels bloudie deuises For the which thanks be to the same our Lord and Sauiour in the congregation of all English churches Amen After whose death Nicholas heath archbishop of Yorke was preferred by the quéene to the office of the chancellor ¶ She likewise gaue the priuie seale to the lord Paget and made him lord priuie seale these were both Londoners borne In this moneth of Februarie the lord maior of London and the aldermen entered into Bridewell and tooke possession thereof according to the gift of king Edward now conâââmed by queene Marie In the moneth of March next following there was in maner no other talke but of the great preparation that was made for the quéens lieng in childbed who had alredie taken vp hir chamber and sundrie ladies and gentlewomen were placed about hir in euerie office of the court ¶ And now forsomuch as in the beginning of the moneth of Iune about Whitsuntide the time was thought to be nie that this yoong maister should come into the world and that midwiues rockers nurses with the cradle and all were prepared and in a readinesse suddenlie vpon what cause or occasion it is vncerteine a certeine vaine rumor was blowne in London of the prosperous deliuerance of the quéene and the birth of the child insomuch that bels were roong bonefiers and processions made not onelie in the citie of London and in most other parts of the realme but also in Antwerpe guns were shot off vpon the riuer by the English ships and the mariners thereof were rewarded with an hundred pistolets or Italian crownes by the ladie regent who was the quéene of Hungarie Such great reioising and triumph was for the quéenes deliuerie and that there was a prince borne Yea diuerse preachers namelie one the person of saint Anne within Aldersgate after procession and Te Deum soong tooke vpon him to describe the proportion of the child how faire how beautifull and great a prince it was as the like had not béene seene In the middest of this great adoo there was a simple man this I speake but vpon information dwelling within foure miles of Barwike that neuer had béene
Peter king of Castile and sister by the mother to Constance second wife to Iohn of Gant duke of Lancaster brother to this Edmund who was about the twentith yéere of Richard the second protector of England while the king was in Ireland which Isabell died in the yeere of Christ 1394 being about the eightéenth yéere of Richard the second by the kings commandement was buried in the friers of Langleie This Edmund had issue by his wife Isabell Edward earle of Rutland and duke Albermerle Richard earle of Cambridge and one daughter called Constance married to Thomas lord Spenser he died the second as some haue or rather the third as others haue of Henrie the 4 in the yéere of Christ as hath Ypodigma 1402 and was buried at Langleie Edward Plantagenet son and heire of Edmund of Langleie duke of Yorke was in the fouretéenth of Richard the second created erle of Rutland in his fathers life in the yéere of Christ 1390 and in the twentith yeare of Richard the second or rather the 21 of the same king being the yeare of Christ 1397 he was made duke of Albermerle or Aumerle and after his fathers death he was duke of Yorke he was slaine at the battell of Agincourt in the third yeare of Henrie the fift being the yeare of Christ 1415 he married Margaret or rather more trulie Philip the ladie Fitzwater and widow to sir Iohn Gollafer knight bastard sonne to sir Iohn Gollafer of Cercedone or Saresdone knight in Oxfordshire And here because I haue mentioned the name of Gollafer although it be digressing from my first purposes onelie to treat of the dukes of England I thinke it not amisse to saie somewhat of these two knights of the Gollafers sir Iohn the father and sir Iohn the sonne This sir Iohn Gollafer the father line 10 being the sonne of Iohn Gollafer esquier whose ancestors as farre as I can learne had their first originall from Roger Gollafer of Cercedone in the time of king Iohn and was buried in Domo capitulari de Bruera in com oxon married Anne the daughter and heire of sir Thomas Langleie lord of Langleie in Oxfordshire now at this daie in the yeare 1585 by grant of quéene Elisabeth in the possession of Robert Sutton or Dudleie earle of Leicester which Anne died shortlie after without anie issue by him line 20 After whose death this sir Iohn Gollafer married Isabell the ladie of Missenden dwelling at Missenden and of Queintone in Buckinghamshire she being daughter to sir Barnard Brocas But this sir Iohn Gollafer hauing no issue by the said Elisabeth and desirous by some meanes or other to continue his name which yet he could not make perpetuall nor of anie long continuance made choise in the life of his wife Isabell of another woman whome he vsed for procreations cause and by hir had issue two line 30 bastards one called Iennet Pulham after prioresse of Burneham by Windsore and an other bastard called after the father Iohn Gollafer who in following time became a knight Afterward this sir Iohn the father died at Queintone in the yeare of our redemption one thousand three hundred seauentie and nine falling partlie in the second and third yeare of Henrie the fourth and was buried at the Graie friers in Oxford whose wife Isabell was after buried in Missenden priorie line 40 After the death of this sir Iohn the father sir Iohn Gollafer knight his base sonne being lord of Langleie married Phillip ladie Fitzwater after maried to this duke of Yorke as before is said which sir Iohn Gollafer died at Wallingford in the yeare of our redemption one thousand three hundred ninetie and six being the twentith yeare of Richard the second and was buried at Westminster néere vnto the toome of Richard the second Which ladie Philip died in the time of Henrie the sixt and was line 50 buried at Westminster néere vnto hir husband whose statelie toome is yet extant on the south side almost directlie oueragainst the toome of Richard the second Thus this much for the name of Gollafer and so againe to the dukes of England Thomas Plantagenet otherwise called Thomas of Woodstocke sixt sonne to king Edward the third was created earle of Buckingham the first yeare of Richard the second in the yeare one thousand thrée line 60 hundred seauentie and seauen the daie of his coronation before dinner This man was high constable of England and created duke of Glocester in the eight yeare of Richard the second of whom is more especiall mention made in the treatise of the constables of England pag. 867. Thomas Holland brother by the mothers side to king Richard the second and sonne to the lord Thomas Holland earle of Kent in the right of Iane daughter and heire to Edmund Plantagenet surnamed of Woodstocke earle of Kent was aduanced to the title of duke of Surreie in the two and twentith yeare of king Richard the second being the yeare of Christ one thousand thrée hundred ninetie and seauen he maried Alice the daughter of Richard Fitzallen earle of Arundell He had issue six daughters heires Margaret married to Iohn Beaufort earle of Summerset and marquesie Dorset Alice maried to Thomas Montacute earle of Salisburie Elisabeth married to Iohn lord Neuill sonne to Rafe Neuill the first earle of Westmerland and after his death to Edward Chareleton lord Powis Ioane married to Edmund of Langleie duke of Yorke and Bridget a nun at Barking This man with others at a parlement held the first yeare of Henrie the fourth in the yeare of our redemption one thousand thrée hundred ninetie and nine was depriued of his name of duke of all honours togither with the dignities belonging to a duke was after in the same yeare rebelling against king Henrie the fourth taken by the men of Circester and beheaded in the same towne after that he had caused the towne to be set on fire Iohn Holland full brother to Thomas Holland and halfe brother to Richard the second was created earle of Huntington in the fourtéenth yeare of king Richard the second and made duke of Excester at a parlement holden in the one twentith yeare of the same king though some attribute that to the twentith yeare of king Richard This man at a parlement held in the first of Henrie the fourth in the yeare of Christ 1399 was disgraded from his title of dukedome and was after taken at Pritewell in Essex in a mill and beheaded at Plassie in the said shire in the said first yéere of the said king Henrie the fourth he married Elisabeth the daughter of Iohn of Gant duke of Lancaster and had issue Iohn Holland earle of Huntington Iohn Holland earle of Huntington was as it seemeth made by Henrie the fourth after the death of the duke of Excester his father admitted to be duke of Excester he married Anne the daughter of Edmund earle of Stafford he had issue Henrie Holland duke
of Excester and Anne maried to sir Iohn Neuill knight brother of Rafe the third of that name erle of Westmerland he died the six and twentith of king Henrie the sixt on the fift of August being the yeare of Christ 1448 and was buried at S. Katharins nigh the tower of London After which his first wife he maried Anne the daughter of Iohn Montacute earle of Salisburie by whome he had no issue Henrie Holland sonne of Iohn Holland was after the death of his father duke of Excester he was disherited in the first of Edward the fourth at a parlement held then in the yeare 1461 he maried Anne daughter to Richard duke of Yorke and sister to king Edward the fourth which Anne at hir owne sute on the twelfe of Nouember in the eleuenth yeere of king Edward the fourth being the yeare of Christ 1471 was diuorced from the said duke of Excester Shortlie after which in the yeare of Christ 1413 being in the thirteenth of Edward the fourth this duke was found dead in the sea betweene Douer Calis but how he came there none could certenlie declare He died without issue leauing his sister Anne his heire maried as before to Iohn Neuill brother to Rafe earle of Westmerland Robert Uere earle of Oxford and marquesse of Dubline was in the yéere of Christ 1386 in the tenth of Richard the second created duke of Ireland he died withoutissue at Louaine in great penurie and vexation of mind as hath Ypodigma in the yeere of Christ 1392 being about the sixtéenth of king Richard the second he maried the daughter of Ingerame de Cousie earle of Bedford and after diuorced from hir he married Lancecrona one of meane parentage Margaret ladie Segraue the daughter and heire of Thomas Brotherton earle of Norffolke and marshall of England was created duchesse of Norffolke in the one and twentith yeare of king Richard the second she had two husbands whereof the first was Iohn lord Segraue by whom she had issue Elisabeth married to Iohn Mowbreie the third of that name Hir second husband was sir Walter Mannie knight of the order by whome she had a daughter married to Iohn lord Hastings erle of Penbroke This duchesse line 10 Margaret died in the yeare of Christ 1399 being about the three and twentith of Richard the second and was buried in the frier Minors of London Thomas lord Mowbreie second sonne of Elisabeth Segraue and Iohn lord Mowbreie hir husband was aduanced to the dukedome of Norffolke in the one and twentith yeare of the reigne of Richard the second Shortlie after which he was appeled by Henrie earle of Bullingbroke of treason and caried to the castell of Windsore where he was stronglie line 20 and safelie garded hauing a time of combat granted to determine the cause betwéene the two dukes the sixtéenth daie of September in the two and twentith of the said king being the yeare of our redemption 1398. But in the end the matter was so ordered that this duke of Norffolke was banished for euer whervpon taking his iourneie to Ierusalem he died at Uenice in his returne froÌ the said citie of Ierusalem in the first yeare of king Henrie the fourth about the yeare of our redemption 1399. He maried Elisabeth line 30 one of the daughters and heires of Richard erle of Arundell Warren and Surreie by whome he had issue Iohn duke of Norffolke and three daughters Elisabeth maried to Michaell de la Poole the yoonger earle of Suffolke Margaret maried vnto sir Robert Howard knight and Isabell maried to sir Iames Barkeleie Iohn Mowbreie earle of Notingham marshall of England and duke of Norffolke baron Segraue and Bower was buried in the Charteââouse within the I le of Exholme he maried Katharine the daughter line 40 of Rafe the first earle of Westmerland by whom he had issue Iohn duke of Norffolke Iohn lord Mowbreie the sixt baron of the name of Mowbreie sonne to Iohn duke of Norffolke was after his father duke of Norffolke This Iohn was buried in Tetford priorie who marieng Elenor the daughter of William lord Burchier earle of Ewe had issue Iohn duke of Norffolke Iohn the last duke of Norffolke of the surnâme of line 50 Mowbreie the sonne of Iohn the last before mentioned was in his fathers life time created earle of Warren and Surreie by king Henrie the sixt and after the death of his father was duke of Norffolke This Iohn the last duke died in his castell of Fremingham in the yeare 1461 being the second yeare of king Edward the fourth He maried Elisabeth daughter to Iohn lord Talbot earle of Shrewesburie by whome he had issue one onelie daughter and heire maried to Richard duke of Yorke second son to Edward the fourth line 60 Thomas Plantagenet second sonne to Henrie the fourth was created duke of Clarence in the eleuenth yeare of his father being about the yeare of our redemption 1409 and was afterward in the 13 of the same king created earle of Aumerle and high steward of England he was slaine the two and twentith of March in the ninth yeare of the reigne of the victorious king Henrie the fift in the yeare of our redemption 1420 beginning the yeare of our Lord on the fiue and twentith daie of March He maried Margaret the daughter of Thomas Holland earle of Kent and died without issue legitimat hauing a base sonne called Iohn the bastard of Clarence Iohn Plantagenet third son to Henrie the fourth was by his father created duke of Bedford at the parlement of Leicester in the yeare of Christ 1414 in the second of king Henrie the fift Of this man is more large mention made in my discourse of the protectors of England Humfreie Plantagenet fourth sonne of Henrie the fourth was by his father created duke of Glocester who for the nobilitie of his mind and vertuous life was made protector of England Of whom is more spoken in my former discourse of the protectors of England Iohn Beaufort which name of Beaufort was giuen by Iohn of Gant to his children which he had by Katharine Swineford when they were made legitimate by parlement about the one and twentith yeare of king Richard the second as is before touched was created marquesse Dorset by Henrie the fourth and after aduanced to the honour of duke of Summerset in the first yeare of king Henrie the first being the yeare of our redemption 1413. He maried Margaret the daughter of sir Iohn Beauchampe lord of Powicke he had issue Margaret maried to Edmund Haddam earle of Richmond father to king Henrie the seuenth after the death of which Edmund she was maried to Thomas lord Stonleie afterward by Henrie the seuenth created earle of Darbie and after vnto Henrie sonne to Humfreie duke of Buckingham This duke of Summerset died the two and twentith yeare of king Henrie the sixt and was buried at Winborne in the yeare of Christ
1444. And his daughter the ladie Margaret died at Westminster on the nine and twentith of Iune in the first yeare of king Henrie the eight in the yeare of Christ a thousand fiue hundred and nine about three score and fiue yeares after the death of hir father Thomas Beaufort sonne to Iohn of Gant duke of Lancaster and Katharine Swineford was created duke of Excester in the fift yeare of K. Henrie the fift of whome is mention made in my protectors Edmund Beaufort sonne of Iohn Beaufort duke of Summerset was created earle Morton in the seuenth yeare of K. Henrie the fift He was created marquesse Dorset and duke of Summerset by king Henrie the sixt he was made regent of Normandie and lost the whole countrie to the French for which after his comming out of Normandie in the nine and twentith yeare of king Henrie the sixt he was on the sixt of December the same yeare being the yeare of our Lord 1450 apprehended and put vnder arrest and his goods by the commons fowlie despoiled and caried awaie from the Blacke friers He was slaine at the battell of S. Albons in Maie the thrée and thirtith yeare of king Henrie the sixt falling in the yeare of our Lord 1455 and was with Henrie Persie earle of Northumberland and Thomas lord Clifford buried at S. Albons He maried two wiues the first was Elenor the daughter of Richard Beauchampe earle of Warwike widow to Thomas lord Rosse by whom he had issue Henrie duke of Summerset Edmund duke of Summerset Iohn marques Dorset Margaret maried to Humfreie duke of Buckingham Elisabeth maried to sir Henrie Lewes knight Elenor maried to Iames Butler earle of Wilshire and after to sir Robert Spenser Anne maried to sir William Pastone knight and Ione maried to the lord Hooth of Ireland His second wife was Ione who was after maried to Henrie Bromefield knight of the which Edmund duke of Summerset and the other lords buried at saint Albons thus writeth the worthie poet Iohn Gower with these same verses hereafter following Quos mors quos Martis sors saeua suaeque sororis Bella prostrarunt villae medióque necarunt Mors sic occisos tumulauerat hîc simul ipsos Póstque necem requieÌ causauit habere perennem Et medium sine quo vult hîc requiescere nemo Hic lis hic pugna mors est qui terminat arma Mors sors Mauors qui strauerunt dominos hos Henrie Beaufort eldest sonne to Edmund duke of Summerset was after the death of his father erle line 10 Morton marquesse Dorset and duke of Summerset he was capteine of Calis who with other nobles in the nine and thirtith of Henrie the sixt slue the duke of Yorke at the battell of Wakefield in the yeare of our redemption 1460 according to the accompt of England Shortlie after which K. Henrie the sixt whom this duke supported all that he could was deposed Edward the fourth crowned Touching which deposing of the one crowning of the other although it be impertinent to the treatise of line 20 the dukes of England hauing here so good place therfore I will set downe such verses as I haue found in I. Whethamsted adding further such other verses also as I find in him concerning a battell fiercelie fought at Ferribrig in Yorkeshire in this sort X. numero seni lapsi sunt circiter anni Postquam successit lexiuris iuréue rexit Anglorum regnum vis non ius rexerat ipsum Iam noua progenies quia coelo venit ab alto line 30 Saturni soboles quae nomine dicitur altro Edwardus quartus Richardo sanguine iunctus Creditur à multis redeunt Saturnia nostris Temporibus saecla lis visque nephas simul vna Deperiunt iura lex pax sunt reditura Fraus etiámque dolus cessabunt aâ violentus Raptus auaritiae subeunt verúmque fidésque Haec spes plebis erat cleri chorus haecque putabat Det ceu speratur regnum Deus vt statuatur line 40 Et plebs tranquillè viuat clerus atque quietè Then of the time of that former recited warre in which the northerne men were ouercome there were these verses made vpon the excesse and euill which they outragiouslie committed in the south parts of England without regard of God obedience to their naturall prince reuerence to the church loue to their natiue countrie or benefite to themselues M. semel X. seno centum quater I. simul vno In Martis mense terdena denique luce line 50 In patria Boreae Ferrebrig propè iugera villae Pugna fuit plebis acris nimis satis atrox Vicerat Arcthos in bello Martius heros Iunior Edwardus Hector nouus alter Achilles Prostrauit multos Austro tunc cesserat Arcthos Et doluit casum supra X. bis millia quorum Quamplures domini plures erant generosi Illius patriae flos vt sors tunc cecidere Et meritò quoniaÌ spoliaruÌt nequiter Austrum line 60 Laus igitur Domino sit honor sit gloria Christo Cessat nunc flatus grandis Boreaeque boatus Inque Austrum redijt Acolus ventum variauit Est Bore as mordens valdè ventus adurens Est Auster iustus vult morsu rodere morsus Et malè mordentes bene vires tollere eidem Est Zephyrus placidus est suauis frater eius Hinc Boreásque Aquilo pro nuÌc clauduÌtur in antro Furthermore touching the title of the same king Edward the fourth to the gouernement of the kingdome of England and of his right and truth therevnto were these following verses composed to declare the deposition of king Henrie the sixt as beforesaid in the coronation of Edward the fourth and how the same kingdome of England with all the members thereof did belong to Edward the fourth as vnto the rightfull lineall heire to the same with his pedegrée proouing the same also in this sort In sibi coniunctis Edwardi semine natis Ortus erat primò Leonellus Iohnque secundò Cedat lex regni vult iunior vt seniori Attamen Henricus haeres genitúsque Iohannis Per vim sceptrigerum regimen tulerátque coronam Et tenuit multis sed non sine viribus annis Illi successit rex qui si non caruisset Iustitiae titulo non Hector dignior ipso Non iudex Eacus non ore politus Vlysses Ipso defuncto successit filius in quo Stirps ea cessauit Haeres rectus remeauit Scilicet Edwardus Leonelli proximus haeres Hic petijt regimen rex obstat dátque negamen Resagitur belli vicit sanguis Leonelli Et palmam tulerat Henricus rex fugiebat Bello finito multo quóque sanguine fuso Quum victor secum palmam ferrétque triumphum Vendicat hoc iterum plebs applaudebat eidem Clamabátque sibi Viuat foelicior omni Rege vel Augusto melior regat Octauiano Haec vox cunctorum clamor
protectors of England Henrie Beauchampe the sonne of Richard Beauchampe earle of Warwike by Isabell ladie Spenser his second wife succeeded his father in all his inheritances the twentith of Maie in the seuenteenth yeare of king Henrie the sixt being the yeare of our redemption 1439. For then the said Richard Beauchampe died at Rone in Normandie This Henrie after that his inheritance had béene kept two years in the kings hands was dismissed of his wardship and restored to his liuings with great glorie For he was crowned king of the I le of Wight as saith Iohn Stow by the kings owne hand and nominated chiefe earle of England in the twentith yeare of the said king Henrie the sixt being about the yeare of Christ 1442. Shortlie after in the two and twentith yeare of the said king Henrie the sixt in the yeare of our redemption 1444 he was created duke of Warwike vnto whome the king gaue the castell of Brightstow or Bristow with all the appurtenances with king Iohn kept in his hands to which duke also the king gaue the Iles of Garnseie and Ierseie About two years after which on the foure and twentith of the same king Henrie the sixt being the yeare of our redemption 1446 died this duke of Warwike whose stile was duke of Warwike chiefe earle of England lord Spenser and Aburgauennie king of the I le of Wight Garnseie and Ierseie and lord of the castell of Bristow He died without issue and was buried at Teukesburie whereby his inheritance came to his foure sisters which were by Elisabeth one of the daughters and heires of Thomas lord Barkeleie Lisle and Teies first wife vnto his father Margaret his eldest sister maried to Iohn Talbot first earle of Shrewsburie of that name Elenor the second sister first maried to Thomas lord Rosse and after to Edmund duke of Summerset c Elisabeth the third sister maried to George Neuill lord Latimer whose other fourth sister by Isabell the second wife vnto Richard earle Beauchampe daughter to Thomas lord Spenser and mother also to the aboue named Henrie duke of Warwike who died without issue was Anne maried to Richard Neuill earle of Salisburie Humfreie Stafford earle Stafford created duke of Buckingham in the two and twentith yeare of king Henrie the sixt being the yeare of our redemption 1444 was slaine at the battell of Northampton Of this man sée more in my discourse of the conestables of England pag. 868. Henrie sonne to the said Humfreie duke of Buckingham was beheaded in the first yeare of Richard the third in the yeare of our redemption 1483. Of this man is more set downe in my discourse of the conestables of England pag. 869. Edward Stafford sonne to the said Henrie was duke of Buckingham being beheaded in the thirtéenth yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the eight which was the yere of our redemption 1521 of whom also I haue intreated in the said discourse of the constables of England pag. 870. William de la Poole earle of Suffolke created marques of Suffolke in the two twentith of king Henrie the sixt being the yeare of our redemption 1444 was shortlie after also created duke of Suffolke in the eight twentith of the said king Henrie the sixt falling in the yeare 1450 was banished the realme for fiue yeares to pacifie the hard opinion which the commons had conceiued against him He tooke ship to performe his banishment the third of line 10 Maie and sailed towards France but was on the sea incountered by a ship of the tower named the Nicholas by which he was taken and beheaded and his bodie cast vp at Douer sands and buried in the charterhouse at Hull He maried Alice the daughter and heire of Thomas Chaucer son to that famous poet Geffreie Chaucer by which wife the maner of Ewelme commonlie called Newelme in Oxfordshire came to the Pooles This duke his wife did there build a new parish church of Ewelme standing line 20 on a hill and founded a pretie hospitall called Gods house at the west end of Ewelme parish church to which house he gaue the manours of Ramrige in Hampshire Conocke in Wiltshire and Mersh in Buckinghamshire He also founded an hospitall at Donnington castell This Alice wife of duke William suruiuing hir husband was after buried in the parish church of Ewelme on the southside of the high altar in a rich toome of alabaster with an image in the habit of a dutchesse crowned lieng on line 30 the same toome and hauing this epitaph Orate pro anima serenissimae principissae Alissiae Sulfolchiae huius ecclesiae patronae quae obijt 20 die mensis Maij anno Domini 1475 litera dominicali A. Iohn de la Poole son to the said William de la Poole duke of Suffolke was also duke of Suffolke after the death of his father This man on the eightéenth of Aprill in the fiftéenth yéere of king Edward the fourth being the yeare of our redemption 1415 was knighted by the king He married Elisabeth line 40 daughter to Richard duke of Yorke and sister to Edward the fourth by whom he had issue Edmund erle of Suffolke Iohn that by Edward the fourth was created earle of Lincolne and Anne who by procurement of king Richard the third was maried to the duke of Rothseie eldest son to the king of Scots Richard Plantagenet second sonne to king Edward the fourth was by his father created duke of Yorke in the 15 yéere of his reigne being the yeare of our Lord 1474 at a parlement in the said fiftéenth line 50 yeare of Edward the fourth This duke on the fiftéenth of Ianuarie in the seauentéenth yeare of king Edward the fourth being the yeare of our redemption 1477 was married to ladie Anne daughter and heire to Iohn Mowbreie duke of Norffolke and was in the first yéere of the reigne of the tyrant king Richard the third his vncle most vnnaturallie murthered in the tower in the yeare of Christ 1483. George Plantagenet third sonne to king Edward the fourth was created duke of Bedford by his line 60 father in the yéere of our redemption 1470 and died without issue being verie yoong Iohn Howard lord Howard the son of sir Robert Howard knight and of Margaret his wife one of the daughters and heires of Thomas lord Mowbreie duke of Norffolke earle of Notingham and marshall of England was created duke of Norffolke and marshall of England in the first yéere of the vsurping king Richard the third being the yéere of our redemption 1483. This man following the part of the said king Richard was at the battell of Bosworth in Lecestershire fought in the third yeare of the said king Richard in the yéere of Christ 1485 slaine with the said king Richard He had two wiues Katharine the daughter of William lord Molins by whome he had issue Thomas earle of Surreie after made duke of Norffolke by king
king Henrie the fourth He being kéeper of the priuie seale was made bishop of Excester the twentith of Iune in the yeare of our redemption one thousand thrée hundred ninetie fiue being the daie before king Richard the second began the one and twentith yeare of his reigne He was consecrated at Lambeth and kept the see of Excester three and twentie yeares He increased two fellowships in Stapletons inne in Oxford reformed the statutes of the house and called it Excester college he died the fourth of September in the seuenth yeare of king Henrie the fift being the yeare of Christ one thousand foure hundred and ninetéene About the making of this Stafford chancellor as farre as my memorie serueth Ypodigma is much deceiued if I haue not for want of the booke mistaken his iudgement line 10 Henrie Beauford the sonne of Iohn of Gaunt by Katharine Swineford made bishop of Lincolne in the yeare of our Lord one thousand three hundred ninetie and eight as hath Ypodigma was aduanced to the dignitie of chancellor in the yeare of Christ one thousand foure hundred thrée being the fourth yeare of king Henrie the fourth his elder brother by the daughter of the earle of Hereford in which office he was in the fift yeare of king Henrie the fourth line 20 and sixt of the same king as our chronicles doo remember He was made bishop of Winchester in the yeare of Christ one thousand foure hundred and foure being the fift yeare of Henrie the fourth Thomas Langleie priest and bishop of Durham was at Westminster made chancellor in the yeare of our saluation one thousand foure hundred and fiue being the sixt yeare of the reigne of the said king Henrie the fourth in which office he continued as farre as I know vntill he was made bishop line 30 of Durham which was on the seuenth of Maie being the seuenth yeare of the reigne of king Henrie last before named being the yeare of Christ one thousand foure hundred and six He was bishop one and thirtie yeares and died in the yeare of Christ one thousand foure hundred thirtie and seuen being the sixtéenth yeare of king Henrie the sixt Sée more following Thomas Fitzalen brother to Richard earle of Arundell being returned out of exile with Henrie line 40 of Bollingbroke duke of Hereford and Lancaster and after king of England by the name of Henrie the fourth was the third time being bishop of Canturburie made lord chancellor of England the ninth yeare of the said king Henrie the fourth and continued therein about two years being remooued from that place about September in the eleuenth yeare of the reigne of the said king being the yeare of our redemption one thousand foure hundred and ten line 50 Thomas Beauford knight the sonne of Iohn of Gaunt son to king Edward the third brother to king Henrie the fourth was made lord chancellor in the eleuenth yere of the said king Henrie the fourth being the yeare that the sonne of God tooke on him the forme of a seruant one thousand foure hundred and ten in which office he remained not full thrée yeares but left the same office togither with his life as I suppose in the thirtéenth yeare of the same king being the yeare of our redemption one thousand line 60 foure hundred and twelue Iohn Wakering clearke maister of the rolles was made kéeper of the great seale when Thomas Beauford left the office of chancellor which seale hée kept about the space of a moneth For in Ianuarie after that he receiued the seale there was a chancellor created Thomas Fitzalen or Arundell archbishop of Canturburie was the fourth time inuested with the chancellorship in the yeare of our saluation one thousand foure hundred and twelue being the thirtéenth yeare of king Henrie the fourth in which office hée continued during the life of the said king Henrie the fourth who died in the fourtéenth yeare of his kingdome and in the yere of our Lord one thousand foure hundred and thirtéene Henrie Beauford bishop of Winchester and after cardinall in the time of Henrie the sixt being vncle to king Henrie the fift then reigning was the second time made chancellor in the yeare of Christ one thousand foure hundred and thirteene being the first yeare of the fift king Henrie in which place he remained vntill the fift yeare of the said king Henrie being the yeare of our Lord one thousand foure hundred and seuentéene Thomas Langleie bishop of Durham was the second time made lord chancellor of England in the said yere of our redemption one thousand foure hundred and seuentéene being the fift yeare of that woorthie conqueror king Henrie the fift which office he receiued at Southwicke and continued in that honour as farre as I can learne by the space of six yeares or more whereof fiue yeares were fullie ended in the life and death of the said Henrie the fift and the sixt yeare ended in the last of the first or beginning of the second yeare of king Henrie the sixt Henrie Beauford bishop of Winchester before named was the third time made lord chancellor of England in the second yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the sixt being about the yeare of Christ one thousand foure hundred twentie and thrée or one thousand foure hundred twentie and foure For the second yeare of that king fell part in the one and part in the other of the said yeares of our Lord in which office he continued about foure yeares vntill he was made cardinall in the yeare of our Lord one thousand foure hundred twentie and six Iohn Kempe bishop of London was made lord chancellor of England in the fourth yere of that king Henrie who in his yoongest yeares was crowned first king of England and then king of France in Paris in which office he remained as I suppose about six yeares Iohn Stafford deane of S. Martine of Welles prebend of Milton in Lincolne church bishop of Bath and Welles lord chancellor and treasuror of England and bishop of Canturburie was made lord chancellor of England in the moneth of Februarie in the yeare of Christ one thousand foure hundred thirtie one falling in the tenth yeare of king Henrie the sixt he remained in that office vntill Iohn Kempe was againe made lord chancellor which was about the eight and twentith yeare of king Henrie the sixt And here I think it not vnméet to remember that some haue noted William Wanfleet that was bishop of Winchester and chancellor of Oxford to be chancellor of England when he built Magdalen college in Oxford in the fiue and twentith yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the sixt which possiblie can not be sith this Iohn Stafford held that office from the tenth of Henrie the sixt vntill the eight twentith of the same king which was eightéene yeares during which time they place this Wanfléet to bee chancellor of
long time at the seas and had no change of apparell nor laine in bed and now lieng vpon the ground without succor or reliefe were soone infected and all for the most part were sicke and some of them died and some one of them was distracted and this sickenesse verie soone afâer dispersed it selfe among all the residue of the prisoners in the gaole of which disease manie of them died but all brought to great extremities and verie hardlie escaped These men when they were to be brought before the foresaid iustices for their triall manie of them were so weake and sicke that they were not able to go nor stand but were caried from the gaole to the place of iudgement some vpon handbarrowes and some betwéene men leading them and so brought to the place of iustice The sight of these mens miserable and pitifull cases being thought and more like to be hunger starued line 10 than with sickenesse diseased mooued manie a mans hart to behold and looke vpon them but none pitied them more than the lords iustices themselues and especiallie the lord chiefe iustice himselfe who vpon this occasion tooke a better order for kéeping all prisoners thensefoorth in the gaole and for the more often trials which was now appointed to be quarterlie kept at euerie quarter sessions and not to be posted anie more ouer as in times past vntill the assises These prisoners thus brought from out of the line 20 gaole to the iudgement place after that they had béene staied and paused a while in the open aire and somewhat refreshed therwith they were brought into the house in the one end of the hall néere to the iudges seat and which is the ordinarie and accustomable place where they doo stand to their trials and arreignments And howsoeuer the matter fell out and by what occasion it happened an infection followed vpon manie and a great number of such as were there in the line 30 court and especiallie vpon such as were néerest to them were soonest infected And albeit the inâection was not then perceiued because euerie man departed as he thought in as good health as he came thither yet the same by little and little so crept into such as vpon whom the infection was seiâoned that after a few daies and at their home comming to their owne houses they felt the violence of this pestilent sickenesse wherein more died that were infected than escaped And besides the prisoners manie line 40 there were of good account and of all other degrées which died thereof as by name sargeant Floredaie who then was the iudge of those trials vpon the prisoners sir Iohn Chichester sir Arthur Basset and sir Barnard Drake knights Thomas Carew of Haccombe Robert Carie of Clouelleigh Iohn Fortescue of Wood Iohn Waldron of Bradféeld and Thomas Risdone esquires and iustices of the peace The losse of euerie of them was verie great to line 50 the commonwealth of that prouince and countrie but none more lamented than these two knights sir Iohn Chichester and sir Arthur Basset who albeit they were but yoong in yeares yet ancient in wisedome vpright in iudgement and zealous in the ministration of iustice Likewise Robert Carie a gentleman striken in yeares and a man of great experience knowledge and learning he had béene a student of the common lawes of the realme at the temple and verie well learned both therein and vniuersallie seene in all good letters an eloquent man line 60 of his spéech effectuall in deliuerie déepe in iudgement vpright in iustice and consider at in all his dooings The more worthie were these personages the greater losse was their deaths to the whole common wealth of that countrie Of the plebâian and common people died verie manie and especiallie constables réeues and tithing men and such as were iurors and namelie one iurie of twelue of which there died eleuen This âicknesse was dispersed through out all the whole shire and at the writing hereof in the fine of October one thousand fiue hundred fourescore and six it is not altogither extinguished It resteth for the most part about fouretéene daies and vpwards by a secret infection before it breake out into his force and violence At the first comming it made the people afraid and dismaid manie men then pretending rather than performing the amendement of life So long as the plague was hot and feruent so long euerie man was holie and repentant but with the slaking of the one followed the forgetfulnesse of the other euen as it is with a companie of shrewd children who so long as the rod is ouer the head so long feare of correction frameth them to aptnesse conformitie and obedience ¶ In the chronicles of Ireland vpon occasion of seruice in the highest office there mention was made here and there of sir Henrie Sidneie his saiengs and dooings where promise did passe by means of discoursing his death that the reader was to loâke for a full declaration of his life and death in the chronicles of England as course of time should giue direction Now therefore hauing entred into the eight and twentith yeare of hir maiesties gratious gouernment and the yeare of Christ 1586 the time most fitlie openeth a readie waie into the historie concerning that nobleman penned by one that could not be ignorant of his affaires considering the neerenesse and necessarinesse of his seruice and therefore as a truth to be receiued This right famous renowmed worthie vertuous and heroicall knight by father and mother verie noblie descended was from his infancie bred and brought vp in the princes court and in neerenesse to his person vsed familiarlie euen as a companion and manie times a bedfellow After that by course of nature and lawfull descent this yoong prince was inuested in the kingdome and imperiall crowne he aduanced this gallant noble gentleman partlie as it seemed for the singular loue and entire affection he formerlie bare him to be a principall gentleman of his priuie chamber For he was then reputed for comelinesse of person gallantnesse liuelinesse of spirit vertue qualitie beautie good composition of bodie the onelie od man paragon of the court And from time to time this good and most godlie king held such delight in his pleasant modest and swéet conuersation and companie as he would sildome or neuer giue him leaue to be absent from him till his last breth that he departed this life in his armes at Greenwich Such excéeding expectation hope was conceiued of this honorable gentleman in his yonger yeares as he was speciallie chosen and sent ambassador to Henrie the first then French king concerning matter verie important being at that time not fullie one and twentie yeares old and performed his charge with that singular commendation wisedome spirit and dexteritie as at sundrie times not long after he was emploied in ambassage both in France Scotland yea somtime twise in one yere He
they vsed to saie Benedicite and others to answer Dominus in like sort as the preest and his penitent were woont to doo at confession in the church Notwithstanding all this K. William sought to tame vanquish those of the English Nobilitie who would not be at his becke They againe on the other side made themselues strong the better to resist him choosing for their chéefe capteines and leaders the line 10 earles Edwine Edgar Etheling who valiantlie resisted the Normans and slue many of them with great rage and crueltie And as they thus procéeded in their matters king William being a politike prince forward and painefull in his businesse suffered them not altogither to escape cléere awaie but did sore annoy and put them off to remediles losses though he abode in the meane time many laborious iournies slaughters of his people and damages of line 20 his person Herevpon the English Nobilitie euer after yea in time of peace were hated of the king and his Normans and at length were kept so short that being mooued partlie with disdaine and partlie with dread they got them out of the realme some into Scotland some into Denmarke others into Norway and among these the two earles Edwine and Marchar with certeine bishops others of the cleargie besides manie also of the temporaltie escaped into Scotland Marleswine Gospatricke with a great number of other the Nobles of Northumberland line 30 Edgar Ethling with his mother Agatha and his sisters Christine and Margaret chanced also to be driuen into Scotland by tempest as they sailed towards the coasts of Germanie purposing to haue returned into Hungarie where the said Edgar was borne howbeit being arriued in Scotland he found so friendlie entertainment there that finallie Malcolme the third then king of that realme tooke his sister Margaret to wife and Christine became a nunne as in the Scotish chronicles more line 40 plainelie dooth appéere King William héereby perceiuing daily how vnwilling the Englishmen were to be vnder his obeisance was in feare of rebellious commotions and therfore to subdue them the better he builded foure castels one at Notingham another at Lincolne the third at Yorke and the fourth néere vnto Hastings where he landed at his first comming into England Moreouer to reduce the English people the sooner line 50 vnto obedience and awe he tooke from them all their armour and weapons He ordeined also that the maister of euerie houshold about eight of the clocke in the euening should cause his fire to be raked vp in aâhes his lights to be put out and then go to bed Besides this to the end that euerie man might haue knowledge of the houre to go to rest he gaue order that in all cities townes and villages where anie church was there should a bell be roong at the said houre which custome is still vsed euen vnto this daie line 60 and commonlie called by the French word Couer few that is Rake vp the fier This yeare on Whitsunday Maud the wife of king William was crowned Queene by Acldred archbishop of Yorke year 1068 The same yeare also was Henrie his sonne borne here in England for his other two sonnes Robert and William were borne in Normandie before he had conquered this land About the same time also Goodwine and Edmund surnamed the great the sonnes of K. Harold came from Ireland and landing in Somersetshire fought with Adriothus that had béene maister of their fathers horsses whom they ââue with a great number of others and so hauing gotten this victorie returned into Ireland from whence they came with a great bootie which they tooke in their returne out of Cornewall Deuonshire and other places thereabouts In like maner Excester did as then rebell and likewise the countrie of Northumberland wherevpon the king appointed one of his capteines named Robert Cumin a right noble personage but more valiant than circumspect to go against the northerne people with a part of his armie whilest he himselfe and the other part went to subdue them of Excester where at his comming before the citie the citizens prepared themselues to defend their gates and wals but after he began to make his approch to assaile them part of the citizens repenting their foolish attempts opened the gates and suffered him to enter Thus hauing subdued them of Excester he greeuouslie punished the chéefe offendors But the countesse Gita the sister of Sweine K. of Denmarke and sometime wife to earle Goodwine and mother to the last K. Harold with diuers other that were got into that citie found meanes to flie and so escaped ouer into Flanders King William hauing passed his businesse in such wise in Deuonshire hasted backe towards Yorke being aduertised in the waie that the Northumbers hauing knowledge by their spials that Robert generall of the Normans being come to Durham did not so diligentlie cause watch and ward to be kept about the towne in the night season as was requisite did set vpon him about midnight slue the same Robert with all his companie so that of seauen hundred which he brought with him there was but one that escaped to bring tidings to the king their souereigne He heard also how Edgar Etheling at the same time being in the countrie riding abroad with a troope of horsemen and hearing of the discomfiture of those Normans pursued them egerlie and slue great numbers of them as they were about to saue themselues by flight with which newes being in no small furie be made speed forward and comming at the last into Northumberland he easilie vanquished the foresaid rebels and putting the cheefe authors of this mutinie to death he reserued some of the rest as captiues and of other some he caused the hands to be chopped off in token of their inconstancie and rebellious dealing After this he came to Yorke and there in like sort punished those that had aided Edgar which doone he returned to London In the meane time year 1069 those Englishmen that were fled as you haue heard into Denmarke by continuall sute made to Sueine then king of that realme to procure him to make a iournie into England for recouerie of the right descended to him from his ancestors at length obteined their purpose in so much that king Sueine sent his sonnes Harold and Canutus toward England who with a nauie of two hundred saile in the companie of Osborne their vncle arriued in the mouth of Humber betwéene the two later ladie daies and there landing their people with the English outlawes whom they had brought with them they straightwaies marched towards Yorke wasting and spoiling the countrie with great crueltie as they passed Soone after also came Edgar and such other English exiles as had before fled into Scotland and ioined their forces with them When the newes of these things were brought to Yorke the people there were striken with a maruellous feare insomuch that Aeldred
to the earle of Cornewall beside Brehull and burned a place there called Segraue where Stephan de Segraue the lord chiefe iustice was line 20 borne and likewise a village belonging to the bishop of Winchester not farre from Segraue aforesaid This was the maner of those outlawes that they hurt no person but onelie those councellers about the king by whom they were exiled and therefore bearing stomach against them they did not onlie excogitate but also execute this reuenge which till they had obteined they were no lesse ill appaid than well pleased when the same was past for minuit vindicta dolorem line 30 Immediatlie within the octaues of the Epithanie the earle Marshall and Leolin prince of Wales wasted and robbed all the marshes betwixt Wales and Shrewsburie a part of which towne they also burnt King Henrie being hereof certified as yet soiourning at Glocester was sore troubled in his mind and calling togither his councell asked aduise what waie he might best take to redresse such iniuries After sundrie opinions amongst them declared they agreed all in one sentence that it should be most expedient to appease the minds of the rebels with gentle line 40 offers to grant them pardon of their offenses wiselie to winne them to tractablenesse and not roughlie afflicting them to exasperat their fiersenesse sith saepe acri potior prudentia dextra Also to banish from his court diuerse that bare great rule and namelie Peter the bishop of Winchester and his sonne or nephue Peter de Riuales by the counsell of which two persons all things had béene changed in the kings house Moreouer to put from him such strangers as bare offices and to restore line 50 Englishmen againe to the same The king allowing this aduise to be good followed it accordinglie and first of all discharging the bishop of Winchester of all publike administration of things he commanded him to repaire home to his diocesse and to sée to the gouernement thereof as to his dutie apperteined He also banished from his presence Peter de Riuales Stephan Segraue Robert Passelew and diuerse others of his chiefe councellers by whose means he had procured the euill will of line 60 his Nobilitie Then receiued he againe his old seruants officers finallie sent the archb of Canturburie the bishops of Chester Rochester vnto the barons in Wales to offer them peace pardon of all iniuries past if they wold returne to his obedience Thus in the end there was a truce taken betwixt the king and the rebels to begin at Candlemasse and to indure vntill Easter next insuing in which meane time Richard the earle of Penbroke hearing that Maurish Fitz Gerald with Walter Lacie Richard Burgh and others wasted his lands and possessions in Ireland according to such commission as they had receiued of late from king Henrie and his councell passed ouer thither and there incountering with his enimies was sore wounded and taken prisoner hauing entered the battell verie rashlie and with a small companie of his people about him onlie by the traitorous persuasion of Geffrey Maurish who with other fled at the first brunt and left him in maner alone to stand to all the danger Those that thus tooke him brought him into his owne castell the which the lord chiefe iustice Maurice Fitz Gerald had latelie woone This incounter in which Richard Marshall was thus taken chanced on a saturdaie being the first of Aprill and on the 16 of the same moneth by reason of the wound which he had receiued he departed this life We find also that the bishop of Winchester and his sonne or kinsman as some haue called him Peter de Riuales had procured the king to send commission vnder his seale vnto the foresaid noble men in Ireland that if the said Richard Marshall earle of Penbroke chanced to come thither they should doo their best to take him and in reward of their paines they should inioy all his lands and possessions which he held in that countrie But after his death and when the king had remooued those his councellers from him he confessed he had put his seale to a writing but that he vnderstood what were the contents thereof he vtterlie denied Finallie this was the end of the worthie earle of Penbroke Richard Marshall a man worthie to be highlie renowmed for his approued valiancie His death suerlie was greatlie bewailed of king Henrie openlie protesting that he had lost the worthiest capteine that then liued After this the lords that had remained in Wales by safe conduct came to the king and through the diligent trauell of the archbishop of Canturburie he receiued them into fauour Amongst them were these men of name Gilbert Marshall the brother of the foresaid Richard Marshall Hubert earle of Kent Gilbert Basset and Richard Sward beâide diuerse other Unto Gilbert Marshall he deliuered his brothers inheritance and vpon Whitsundaie made him knight giuing vnto him the rod of the office of Marshall of his court according to the maner to vse and exercise as his ancesters had doone before him And herewith the earle of Kent Gilbert Basset and Richard Sward were receiued againe into the court and admitted to be of the kings priuie councell Soone after this Peter de Riuales Stephan Segraue Robert Passelew were called to accounts that it might appeare how the kings treasure was spent and how they had vsed themselues with the kings seale The two last remembred kept themselues out of the waie and could not be found Stephan Segraue shrowding himselfe in secret within the abbeie of Leicester and Robert Passelew feining himselfe sicke kept within the new temple at London Peter de Riuales also with his father the bishop of Winchester tooke sanctuarie at Winchester for they were afraid least their bodies should not be in safetie if they came abroad bicause they vnderstood that their manours and grange places were spoiled and burnt by those that bare them displeasure Howbeit at length vnder the protection of the archbishop of Canturburie they came to their answer were sore charged for their vniust dealing traitorous practise and great falshood vsed in time of their bearing office and as it appeareth by writers they could but sorilie cleare themselues in those matters wherewith they were charged but yet by reason of their protection they were restored to the places from whence they came or else otherwise shifted off the matter for the time so that we read not of anie great bodilie punishment which they should receiue as then In the end they were pardoned reconciled to the kings fauor vpon paiment of such fines as were assessed vpon them This yeare bicause the truce ended betwixt the kings of England and France king Henrie sent ouer to aid the earle of Britaine thréescore knights and two thousand Welshmen the which when the French king came with his armie to enter and inuade Britaine did cut off
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This yeare after Easter a parlement was holden at London in the which manie weightie matters were intreated of touching the kings causes namelie about the conquest of the realme of Naples the pope hauing sent a messenger named Hurtred for the discharge of monie which the pope had receiued of merchants as it were to the kings vse and entred bonds for the paiment thereof Also whereas the king was sore disquieted for the warre which the Welshmen made against him he asked aduise of the states how he might procéed to seeke his iust reuenge of them who by reason of their good hap were become verie stout and loftie and had of late by the expiring of a truce which had beene accorded betwixt them spoiled and wasted the most part of Penbrokeshire of which iniurie the earle of Penbroke namelie William de Ualence sore complained But whereas the king knowing him to be rich willed him to lay out some great portion of monie towards the maintenance of his wars the erle tooke great displeasure therewith as though the king had made that request by the suggestion and setting on of some of the English lords in somuch that words passed in displeasant sort betwixt him and the earles of Glocester and Leicester so far foorth that the earle of Penbroke called the earle of Leicester traitor who therewith made towards him to haue reuenged the iniurie and so would haue doone indéed if the king had not beene moderator betwixt them Finallie at this parlement the lords told the king that they might not aid him with any great summes of monie except it should redound to their great impouerishment they told him also that he had not doone wiselie to enter into couenants for the purchase of the kingdome of Naples for his sonne without their consents They also declared to him what articles it should be good for him to propone vnto the pope if he would haue him to continue in bearing the charges of the wars against Manfred But when those articles were afterwards presented to the pope he allowed them not so the matter remained without any certeine assurance of the promises which had béene and still were from time to time made to set the king on dotage The archbishop of Yorke had his crosse taken from him by the popes commandement but the archbishop would not yet bow his knée vnto Baall to bestow the benefices of his church vpon aliens and such as were vnworthie persons as it had beene to cast pearles vnto swine ¶ There came from the pope as his Nuncio vnto king Henrie a frier minor named Mansuetus furnished with great power and authoritie in somuch that he tooke vpon him to absolue men for changing their vowes and to iustifie those that were excoÌmunicated persons false periured and such like Wherevpon manie of euill disposition presumed to offend for easinesse to purchase pardon bred boldnesse in manie howbeit the wise séemed to laugh at such dooings The parlement still continued till the sundaie after the Ascension day with hard hold betwixt the king and the lords who laid it fore to his charge that he had not performed the promises which he made touching the obseruing of the liberties conteined in the great charter They also complained greatlie of his misgouernance in that he so much aduanced the Poictouins and other strangers to the impouerishment of himselfe and the whole realme and further mainteined them so far foorth that they were readie to offer wrong vnto other vpon presumption of his fauour and bearing with them he hauing by commandement restreined that no processe should passe line 10 out of the chancerie against certeine of them that were his coosins as the earle of Penbroke and others Finallie when the lords were in doubt which way to worke for their owne safeties they caused the parlement to be proroged till the feast of saint Barnabe then to begin againe at Oxford In the meane time the lords of the realme as the earles of Glocester Leicester Hereford and Northfolke with other did confederate themselues togither bicause they stood in feare to be intrapped by the kings subtill sleights line 20 and by the craftie wiles of those strangers whom he retained against them In the same yeare by the wind which continuallie certeine months togither kept northerlie the flours with other growing things were so hindered that scarselie they appeared to anie purpose till the most part of Iune was past wherevpon the hope of receiuing the fruits of the earth was quite taken away so vpon the great dearth that happened a sore death and mortalitie followed for want of necessarie food line 30 to susteine the pining bodies of the poore people They died so thicke that there were great pits made in churchyards to laie the dead bodies in one vpon an other About the feast of the Ascension Seuall the archbishop of Yorke departed this life who constantlie had resisted the tyrannie of the court of Rome in defense of his church suffering in this world manie greeuous tribulations but now was remooued from thense vnto the kingdome of heauen to be crowned with line 40 the elect for his good deseruings as was then certenlie beleeued About this time a great number of Poictouins were come into England by reason of their aliance and coosinage to the king the which by the kings fauour being highlie aduanced began to war proud thereof and to require to be restored vnto such lands and liuings as before time they had possessed namelie the kings halfe brethren Athelmare or Odomare that was a préest with William Geffrey and Guie these were the sonnes of Hugh le Brun line 50 earle of Marsh by his wife queene Isabell the mother of king Henrie and being come into England they shewed themselues verie loftie high-minded partlie bicause of their coosinage to the king partlie by reason of his courteous interteining of them insomuch that forgetting themselues they began to despise vpon a presumptuous pride the English nobilitie looking still for preferment of honor aboue all other And suerlie Odomare obteined at the first a great peece of his purpose being made by the kings line 60 gift bishop of Winchester and by that means bare a stout port and greatlie holpe and mainteined his other brethren The English barons not well able to suffer such presumption in strangers who seemed to haue them in derision complained to the king in so much that at length as well for a reformation hereof as in other things a parlement was called as before you haue heard first at London and after reiorned to Oxenford there to be assembled about the feast of saint Barnabe in the moneth of Iune This of some writers is named Insanum parliamentum that is to say The mad parlement for at this parlement to the
was forsaken tooke great displeasure herewith But sith the king allowed of all the duke of Irelands dooings the duke of Glocester dissembled such iniuries doone to his neece for the time till opportunitie might serue to reuenge the same The duke of Ireland vnderstood all these things and therefore was the more circumspect for his owne safetie and studied how by some meanes he might dispatch the duke of Glocester out of the waie as the line 20 man whom he most feared least his life should be his destruction by one means or other Easter was now past the time as ye haue heard appointed before the which the duke of Ireland should haue transported ouer into Ireland yet was he not set forward But least somewhat might be thought in the matter and for feare of some stir to be raised by the lords of the realme that wished him gone according to the order prescribed at the last parlement the king as it were to bring him to the water side went with him into line 30 Wales where being out of the waie they might deuise how to dispatch the duke of Glocester the earles of Arundell Warwike Derbie and Notingham with others of that faction There were with the king beside the duke of Ireland Michaell de la Poole earle of Suffolke Robert Trisilian lord chiefe iustice and diuers other which doubtfull of their owne safegards did what they could as writers report to mooue the king forward to the destruction of those noblemen After the king had remained in those parties a good line 40 while he returned and brought the duke of Ireland backe with him againe so that it seemed his voiage into Ireland was now quite forgotten About the same time Robert Trisilian lord chiefe iustice of England came to Couentrie and indicted there two thousand persons The king and the quéene came to Grobie and thither came by his commandement the iustices of the realme There were also with him at the same time Alexander archb of Yorke Robert Ueere duke of Ireland Michaell de la Poole line 50 earle of Suffolke Robert Trisilian his fellowes of whom it was demanded if by the lawes of the realme the king might reuoke the ordinances made in the last parlement to the which he had giuen his consent in manner by constraint and they made answer that he might Then were the iustices commanded to come vnto Notingham where the king appointed to meet them and thither he came according to his appointment and held a solemne councell in the castell of Notingham the morrow after S. Bartholomews line 60 day In this councell were the aforesaid archbishop of Yorke the duke of Ireland the earle of Suffolke Robert Trisilian iustice Robert Bramble iustice and sundrie other all which iustices were commanded to set their hands vnto the question vnder written that by meanes thereof those persons that were about the king thought they might haue good occasion to put the duke of Glocester and other lords that were his complices vnto death which in the last parlement were ordeined to haue the gouernance of the realme and all such as were consenting to the same Diuerse of the iustices refused to subscribe but yet they were consâreined to doo as the rest did among the which was Iohn Belknap who vtterlie refused till the duke of Ireland and the earle of Suffolke compelled him thereto for if he had persisted in the refusall he had not escaped their hands and yet when he had set to his seale he burst out into these words Now said he here lacketh nothing but a rope that I might receiue a reward worthie for my desert and I know if I had not doone this I might not haue escaped your hands so that for your pleasures and the kings I haue doone it and deserued thereby death at the hands of the lords Which indéed shortlie followed for in the next parlement he was condemned and executed All this remained in record An act of councell touching this matter in manner as followeth MEmorandum that on the fiue and twentith day of August in the 11 yeare of the reigne of king Richard the second at the castell of Notingham aforesaid Robert Trisilian lord chiefe iustice of England Robert Belknap lord chiefe iustice of the coÌmon plees Iohn Holt Roger Fulthorpe William Borough knights and associats of the said Robert Belknap and Iohn Lockton one of the kings sergeants at the law being personalie required in presence of the lords and other witnesses vnder written by our said souereigne lord the king in that faith and allegiance in which to him they were bounden that they should trulie answer to certeine questions vnderwritten and vpon the same by their discretions to saie the law 1 First it was asked of them whether the new statute ordinance and commission made in the last parlement held at Westminster be hurtfull to the kings prerogatiue Wherevnto all of one mind answered that they were hurtfull and speciallie bicause they be against the kings will 2 Item it was inquired of them how they ought to be punished that procured the said statute ordinance and commission to be made Wherevnto with one assent they answered that they deserued death except the king of his grace would pardon them 3 Item it was inquired how they ought to be punished which moued the king to consent to the making of the said statute ordinance and commission Wherevnto they answered that vnlesse the king would giue them his pardon they ought to lose their liues 4 Item it was inquired of them what punishment they deserued that compelled the king to the making of that statute ordinance and commission Wherevnto they gaue answer that they ought to suffer as traitors 5 Item it was demanded of them how they ought to be punished that interrupted the king so that he might not exercise those things that apperteined to his regalitie and prerogatiue Wherevnto answer was made that they ought to be punished as traitors 6 Item it was inquired of them whether that after the affaires of the realme and the cause of the calling togither of the states of the parlement were once by the kings commandement declared and opened and other articles on the kings behalfe limited vpon which the lords and commons of the realme ought to intreat and proceed if the lords neuertheles would line 10 proceed vpon other articles and not meddle with those articles which the king had limited till time the king had answered the articles proponed by them notwithstanding the king inioined them to the contrarie whether in this case the king might rule the parlement and cause them to proceed vpon the articles by him limited before they proceeded any further To line 20 which question it was answered that the king should haue in this part the rule for order of all such articles to be prosecuted vntill the end of the parlement And if any presumed to go contrarie to
well affected towards some good conclusion by treatie to be had of a full and perfect peace About the same time by the king with the aduise of his councell proclamation was made and published at London that all beneficed men abiding in the court of Rome being Englishmen borne should returne home into England before the feast of S. Nicholas vnder paine to forfeit all their benefices and such as were not beneficed vnder a paine likewise limited The Englishmen hearing such a thunder clap a farre off fearing the blow left the popes court and returned into their natiue soile The pope troubled with such a rumbling noise sent in all hast as abbat as his nuncio vnto the king of England as well to vnderstand the causes of this proclamation as of statutes deuised and made latelie in parlement against those that prouided themselues of benefices in the court of Rome by the popes buls which séemed not a little preiudiciall to the church of Rome in consideration whereof the said nuncio required that the same statutes might be repealed and abolished so farre as they tended to the derogation of the church liberties but if the same statutes were not abolished the pope might not said his nuncio with a safe conââience otherwise doo than procéed against them that made those statutes in such order as the canons did appoint Moreouer the said nuncio declared to the king certeine dangerous practises betwixt the antipape and the French king as to make the duke of Touraine the French kings brother king of Tuscane and Lombardie and to establish the duke of Aniou in the kingdome of Sicile Moreouer he gaue the king to vnderstand that if the French king might compasse by the antipapes meanes to be chosen emperour he would séeke to vsurpe vpon ech mans right and therefore it stood the line 10 king of England chieflie in hand to prouide against such practises in time And as for the treatie of peace which the Frenchmen séemed so much to fauour it was to none other end but that vpon agreement once had they might more conuenientlie compasse their purpose in the premisses Furthermore the nuncio earnestlie besought the king of aid in the popes behalfe against the French king if as he threatned to doo he should inuade him in Italie with open force The king séemed to giue fauourable eare vnto line 20 the nuncio and after aduise taken appointed to staie till after Michaelmasse at what time a parlement was appointed to be assembled wherein such things as he had proponed should be weied and considered and some conclusion taken therein About this time or in the yeare 1391 according to Henrie Knightons account there was a prophane statute made against the church churchmen namelie that no ecclesiasticall person or persons should possesse manors glebeland houses possessions lands line 30 reuenues or rents whatsoeuer at the hands of the feoffer without the kings licence the chiefe lords And this statute extended it selfe as well to parish-churches chappels chanteries as abbeies priories other monasteries whatsoeuer likewise to citizens of cities to farmers burgesses hauing such rents or possessions for the common profit For men in those daies that would bestow land or liuelod vpon church fraternitie or conuent and were notable for cost and charges to procure a mortmane vnder the line 40 kings licence and chiefe lords were woont to feoffe some speciall men in whom they had confidence and trust vnder whose name and title churchmen or anie other fraternitie or conuent might inioy the profit of the gift and might haue the commoditie thereof in possession And it was prouided by that statute that all and euerie as well persons ecclesiasticall as parishioners both citizens burgesses and farmers or anie other whatsoeuer hauing such rents possessions manors or anie reuenues whatsoeuer in the hands line 50 of such feoffers without the licence of the king and chiefe lords that either they should obteine and get a licence of the king and the chiefe lords to make it a mortmaine or else set such things to sale raise profit of them on this side or before the feast of Michaelmasse next insuing or the said feast being past and expired that then the king and the chiefe lords in things not ordered and disposed accordinglie may enter and seize vpon the same and them haue and hold at his and their pleasure line 60 About the same time the duke of Glocester went into Prutzen land to the great griefe of the people that made account of his departure as if the sunne had beene taken from the earth doubting some mishap to follow to the common wealth by his absence whose presence they thought sufficient to stay all detriments that might chance for in him the hope of the commons onelie rested In his returne home he was sore tormented with rough weather and tempestuous seas At length he arriued in Northumberland and came to the castell of Tinmouth as to a sanctuarie knowen to him of old where after he had refreshed him certeine daies he tooke his iournie homewards to Plaschie in Essex bringing no small ioy for his safe returne to all the kingdome ¶ On the ninth of Iulie the sunne séemed darkened with certeine grosse and euill fauored clouds comming betwixt it and the earth so as it appeared ruddie but gaue no light from noone till the setting thereof And afterwards conâânualliâ for the space of six weeks about the middest of the daie clouds customablie rose and sometimes they continued both daie and night not vanishing awaie at all ¶ At the same time such a mortalitie and death of people increased in Northfolke and in manie other countries of England that it seemed not vnlike the season of the great pestilence In the citie of Yorke there died eleuen thousand within a short space ¶ Henrie Persie earle of Northumberland lieutenant of Calis was called home from that charge and created warden of the marches against Scotland and Robert Mowbraie was sent to Calis to be the kings lieutenant there On friday next after All soules day the parlement began at London in which the knights would in no wise agrée that the statute made against spirituall men for the prouiding themselues of benefices in the court of Rome should be repealed but yet they agréed thus much that it should be tollerated so as with the kings licence such spirituall men might purchase to themselues such benefices till the next parlement ¶ In this parlement aforsaid there was granted vnto our lord the king one tenth of the clergie and one fiftéenth of the people towards the expenses of Iohn duke of Lancaster who in Lent next following went ouer into France to the citie of Amiens for a finall peace betweene the kingdoms of England and France where the king of France met him with a shew of great pompe and honor sending before him first of all to welcome him thither the citizens of
such summes of monie as our progenitors lenâ vnto him and to his ancestors vpon gage of the said towne of Brest for the which reason and conscience will no lesse but that the towne should therevpon be to him restored Upon this multiplieng of woords in such presumptuous maner by the duke against the king there kindeled such displeasure betwixt line 10 them that it neuer ceassed to increase into flames till the duke was brought to his end The earle of saint Paule at his last comming into England to receiue king Richards oth for obseruing the truce had conference with the king of diuerse matters The king by waie of complaint shewed vnto him how stiffe the duke of Glocester was in hindering all such matters as he would haue go forward not onlie séeking to haue the peace broken betwixt the realmes of England France but also line 20 procuring trouble at home by stirring the people to rebellion The earle of saint Paule hearing of this stout demeanor of the duke told the king that it should be best to prouide in time against such mischéefs as might insue thereof and that it was not to be suffered that a subiect should behaue himselfe in such sort toward his prince The king marking his woords thought that he gaue him good and faithfull counsell and therevpon determined to suppresse both the duke and other of his complices and tooke more line 30 diligent regard to the saiengs dooings of the duke than before he had doone And as it commeth to passe that those which suspect anie euill doo euer déeme the woorst so he tooke euerie thing in euill part insomuch that he complained of the duke vnto his brethren the dukes of Lancaster and Yorke in that he should stand against him in all things and seeke his destruction the death of his counsellors and ouerthrow of his realme The two dukes of Lancaster and Yorke to deliuer line 40 the kings mind of suspicion made answer that they were not ignorant how their brother of Glocester as a man sometime rash in woords would speake oftentimes more than he could or would bring to effect and the same proceeded of a faithfull hart which he bare towards the king for that it grieued him to vnderstand that the confines of the English dominions should in anie wise be diminished therefore his grace ought not to regard his woords sith he should take no hurt thereby These persuasions quieted line 50 the king for a time till he was informed of the practise which the duke of Glocester had contriued as the fame went amongst diuerse persons to imprison the king For then the duke of Lancaster and Yorke first reprouing the duke of Glocester for his too liberall talking vttering vnaduisedlie woords that became not his person and which to haue concealed had tended more to the opinion of vertue than to lash out whatsoeuer his vnstaied mind affoorded which is a great fault as in effect the poet noteth line 60 Eximia est virtus praestare silentia rebuâ At contra grauis est culpa tacenda loqus and perceuing that he set nothing by their woords were in doubt least if they should remaine in the court still he would vpon a presumptuous mind in trust to be borne out by them attempt some outragious enterprise Wherefore they thought best to depart for a time into their countries that by their absence he might the sooner learne to staie himselfe for doubt of further displeasure But it came to passe that their departing from the court was the casting awaie of the duke of Glocester For after that they were gone there ceassed not such as bare him euill will to procure the K. to dispatch him out of the way The duke in déed sore stomached the matter that his counsell might not be followed in all things and speciallie for that he saw as he tooke it that the king was misled by some persons that were about him otherwise than stood with his honor for reformation whereof he conferred with the abbat of saint Albons and the prior of Westminster The abbat was both his câoâine and godfather and hauing on a daie both the duke and the prior at his house in saint Albons after dinner he âell in talke with the duke and prior and amongst other communication reqââred of the prior to tell truth whether he had anie vision the night before or not The prior séemed with to make a direct answer but at length being earnestlie requested as well by the abbât as the duke he declared that he had a vision in déed which was that the realme of England should be destroied through the misgouernement of king Richard By the virgine Marie said the abbat I had the verie same vision The duke herevpon disclosed vnto them all the secrets of his mind and by their deuises presentlie contriued an assemblie of diuerse great lords of the realme at Arundell castell that daie for might at what time he himselfe appointed to be there with the earles of Derbie Arundell Marshall and Warwike also the archbishop of Canturburie the abbat of saint Albens the prior of Westminster with diuerse others These estates being come to Arundell castell at the daie appointed about the verie beginning of the one and twentith yeare of king Richards reigne they sware âch to other to be assistant in all such matters as they should determine and therewith receiued the sacrament at the hands of the archbishop of Canturburie who celebrated masse before them the morow after Which doone they withdrew into a chamber and fell in counsell togither where in the end they light vpon this point to take king Richard the dukes of Lancaster Yorke and commit them to prison and all the other lords of the kings councell they determined shuld be drawne and hanged Such was their purpose which they ment to haue accomplished in August following But the earle marshall that was lord deputie of Calis and had married the earle of Arundels daughter discouered all their counsell to the king and the verie daie in which they should begin their enterprise The king bad the earle marshall take héed what h ehad said for if it proued not true he should repent it but the earle constantlie herevnto answered that if the matter might be proued otherwise he was contented to be drawne and quartered The king herevpon went to London where he dined at the house of his brother the earle of Huntington in the stréet behind All hallowes church vpon the banke of the riuer of Thames which was a right faire and statelie house After dinner he gaue his councell to vnderstand all the matter by whose aduise it was agreed that the king should assemble foorthwith what power he might conuenientite make of men of armes archers and streightwaies take horsse accompanied with his brother the earle of Huntington the earle marshall Herevpon at six of the clocke in the afternoone the
Montacute earle of Salisburie Thomas lord Spenser and the lord William Scroope lord chamberleine In the meane time the king fearing what might be attempted against him by those that fauoured these noblemen that were in durance sent for a power of Cheshire men that might day and night keepe watch and ward about his person They were about two thousand archers paid wéekelie as by the annales of Britaine it appeareth The king had little trust in any of the nobilitie except in his brother the earle of Huntington and the earle of Rutland sonne to the duke of Yorke and in the earle of Salisburie in these onelie he reposed a confidence and not in any other except in certeine knights and gentlemen of his priuie chamber In the meane time whiles things were thus in broile before the beginning of the parlement diuers other beside them of whom we haue spoken were apprehended and put in sundrie prisons The parlement was summoned to begin at Westminster the 17 of September and writs therevpon directed to euerie of the lords to appeare and to bring with them a sufficient number of armed men and archers in their best arraiâ for it was not knowen how the dukes of Lancaster and Yorke would take the death of their brother nor how other péeres of the realme would take the apprehension and imprisonment of their kinsemen the earles of Arundell and Warwike and of the other prisoners Suerlie the two dukes when they heard that their brother was so suddenlie made awaie they wist not what to saie to the matter and began both to be sorowfull for his death and doubtfull of their owne states for sith they saw how the king abused by the counsell of euill men absteined not from such an heinous act they thought he line 10 would afterwards attempt greater misorders from time to time Therefore they assembled in all hast great numbers of their seruants fréends and tenants and comming to London were receiued into the citie For the Londoners were right sorie for the death of the duke of Glocester who had euer sought their fauour in somuch that now they would haue béene contented to haue ioined with the dukes in seeking reuenge of so noble a mans death procured and brought to passe without law or reason as the common line 20 brute then walked although peraduenture he was not as yet made awaie Here the dukes and other fell in counsell and manie things were proponed Some would that they shuld by force reuenge the duke of Glocesters death other thought it méet that the earles Marshall and Huntington and certeine others as chéefe authours of all the mischeefe should be pursued and punished for their demerites hauing trained vp the king in vice and euill customes euen from his youth But the line 30 dukes after their displeasure was somewhat asswaged determined to couer the stings of their griefes for a time and if the king would amend his maners to forget also the iniuries past In the meane time the king laie at Eltham and had got about him a great power namelie of those archers which he had sent for out of Cheshire in whome he put a singular trust more than in any other There went messengers betwixt him and the dukes which being men of honour did their indeuour line 40 to appease both parties The king discharged himselfe of blame for the duke of Glocesters death considering that he had gone about to breake the truce which he had taken with France and also stirred the people of the realme to rebellion and further had sought the destruction and losse of his life that was his souereigne lord and lawfull king Contrarilie the dukes affirmed that their brother was wrongfullie put to death hauing doone nothing worthie of death At length by the intercession and meanes of those noble line 50 men that went to and fro betwixt them they were accorded the king promised from thencefoorth to doo noâhing but by the assent of the dukes but he kept small promise in this behalfe as after well appeared When the time came that the parlement should be holden at Westminster according to the tenour of the summons the lords repaired thither furnished with great retinues both of armed men and archers as the earle of Derbie the earle Marshall the earle of Rutland the lord Spenser the earle of Northumberland line 60 with his sonne the lord Henrie Persie and the lord Thomas Persie the said earles brother also the lord Scroope treasuror of England diuerse other All the which earles and lords brought with them a great strong power euerie of them in their best araie as it were to strengthen the king against his enimies The dukes of Lancaster and Yorke were likewise there giuing their attendance on the king with like furniture of men of armes archers There was not halfe lodging sufficient within the citie suburbes of London for such coÌpanies of men as the lords brought with them to this parlement called the great parlement in somuâh that they were constreined to lie in villages abroad ten or twelue miles on ech side the citie In the beginning of this parlement the king greatlie complained of the misdemeanour of the péeres and lords of his realme as well for the things doone against his will and pleasure whiles he was yoong as for the streit dealing which they had shewed towards the quéene who was thrée houres at one time on hir knées before the earle of Arundell for one of hir esquiers named Iohn Caluerlie who neuerthelesse had his head smit froÌ his shoulders all the answer that she could get was this Madame praie for your selfe and your husband for that is best and let this sute alone Those that set foorth the kings greeuances as prolocutors in this parlement were these Iohn Bushie William Bagot and Thomas Gréene The king had caused a large house of timber to be made within the palace at Westminster which he was called an hall couered aboue head with tiles and was open at the ends that all men might see through it This house was of so great a compasse that scarse it might stand within the roome of the palace In this house was made an high throne for the king and a large place for all estates besides to sit in There were places also made for the appellants to stand on the one side and the defendants on the other and a like roome was made behind for the knights and burgesses of the parlement There was a place deuised for the speaker named sir Iohn Bushie a knight of Lincolneshire accompted to be an excéeding cruell man ambitious and couetous beyond measure Immediatlie after ech man being placed in his roome the cause of assembling that parlement was shewed as that the king had called it for reformation of diuerse transgressions and oppressions committed against the peace of his land by the duke of Glocester the earles
it was found how the earle of Warwike had confessed himselfe guiltie of treason line 30 and asked pardon and mercie for his offense but the earle denied that euer he acknowledged anie such thing by woord of mouth and that he would prooue in what manner soeuer should be to him appointed Therein was also the appeale found of the dukes of Aumarle Surrie and Excester the marquesse Dorset the earles of Salisburie and Glocester vnto the which ech of them answered by himselfe that they neuer assented to that appeale of their owne frée wils line 40 but were compelled thereto by the king and this they affirmed by their othes and offered to prooue it by what manner they should be appointed Sir Walter Clopton said then to the commons If ye will take aduantage of the processe of the last parlement take it and ye shall be receiued therevnto Then rose vp the lord Morlie and said to the earle of Salisburie that he was chiefe of counsell with the duke of Glocester and likewise with king Richard so discouered the dukes counsell to the king line 50 as a traitor to his maister and that he said he would with his bodie prooue against him throwing downe his hood as a pledge The earle of Salisburie sore mooued héerewith told the lord Morlie that he falslie béelied him for he was neuer traitor nor false to his maister all his life time and therewith threw downe his gloue to wage battell against the lord Morlie Their gages were taken vp and deliuered to the constable and marshall of England and the parties were arrested and day to them giuen till another time line 60 On mondaie following being the morrow after All soules day the commons made request that they might not be entred in the parlement rols as parties to the iudgement giuen in this parlement but there as in verie truth they were priuie to the same for the iudgement otherwise belonged to the king except where anie iudgment is giuen by statute enacted for the profit of the common-wealth which request was granted Diuers other petitions were presented on the behalfe of the commons part whereof were granted and to some there was none answere made at that time Finallie to auoid further inconuenience and to qualifie the minds of the enuious it was finallie enacted that such as were appellants in the last parlement against the duke of Glocester and other should in this wise following be ordred The dukes of Aumarle Surrie and Excester there present were iudged to loose their names of dukes togither with the honors titles and dignities therevnto belonging The marquesse Dorset being likewise there present was adiudged to lose his title and dignitie of marquesse and the earle of Glocester being also present was in semblable maner iudged to lose his name title and dignitie of earle Moreouer it was further decréed against them that they and euerie of them should lose and forfeit all those castels lordships manors lands possessions rents seruices liberties and reuenues whatsoeuer had beene giuen to them at or since the last parlement belonging aforetime to any of those persons whom they had appealed and all other their castels manors lordships lands possessions rents seruices liberties and reuenues whatsoeuer which they held of the late kings gift the daie of the arrest of the said duke of Glocester or at any time after should also remaine in the kings disposition from thencefoorth and all letters patents and charters which they or any of them had of the same names castels manors lordships lands possessions and liberties should be surrendred vp into the chancerie there to be cancelled Diuerse other things were enacted in this parlement to the preiudice of those high estates to satisfie mens minds that were sore displeased with their dooings in the late kings daies as now it manifestlie appéered For after it was vnderstood that they should be no further punished than as before is mentioned great murmuring rose among the people against the king the archbishop of Canturburie the earle of Northumberland and other of the councell for sauing the liues of men whom the commons reputed most wicked and not worthie in anie wise to liue But the king thought it best rather with courtesie to reconcile them than by cutting them off by death to procure the hatred of their freends and alies which were manie and of no small power After that the foresaid iudgement was declared with protestation by sir William Thirning iustice the earle of Salisburie came and made request that he might haue his protestation entered against the lord Morlie which lord Morlie rising vp from his seat said that so he might not haue bicause in his first answer he made no protestation and therefore he was past it now The earle praied day of aduisement but the lord Morlie praied that he might lose his aduantage sith he had not entered sufficient plee against him Then sir Matthew Gournie sitting vnderneath the king said to the earle of Salisburie that Forsomuch as at the first day in your answers ye made no protestation at all none is entered of record and so you are past that aduantage and therefore asked him if he would saie any other thing Then the earle desired that he might put in mainprise which was granted and so the earle of Kent sir Rafe Ferrers sir Iohn Roch sir Iohn Draiton knights mainprised the said earle bodie for bodie For the lord Morlie all the lords and barons offred to vndertake and to be suerties for him but yet foure of them had their names entered that is to saie the lords Willoughbie Beauchampe Scales and Berkelie they had day till the fridaie after to make their libell After this came the lord Fitzwater and praied to haue day and place to arreigne his appeale against the earle of Rutland The king said he would send for the duke of Norffolke to returne home and then vpon his returne he said he would proceed in that matter Manie statutes were established in this parlement as well concerning the whole bodie of the common-wealth as by the booke thereof imprinted may appeare as also concerning diuerse priuate persons then presentlie liuing which partlie we haue touched and partlie for doubt to be ouer-tedious we doo omit But this among other is not to be forgotten that the archbishop of Canturburie was not onelie restored to his former dignitie being remooued from it by king Richard who had procured one Roger Walden to be placed therein as before ye haue heard but also the said Walden was established bishop line 10 of London wherewith he séemed well content Moreouer the kings eldest sonne Henrie alreadie created as heire to his father and to the crowne prince of Wales duke of Cornewall and earle of Chester was also intituled duke of Aquitaine and to auoid all titles claimes and ambiguities there was an act made for the vniting of the crowne vnto king
his men without honour or spoile returned line 30 into France After this the admerall of Britaine highlie incouraged for that the last yeere he had taken certeine English ships laden with wines acompanied with the lord du Chastell a valiant baron of Britaine and twelue hundred men of armes sailed foorth with thirtie ships from S. Malos and came before the towne of Dartmouth and would haue landed but by the puissance of the townesmen and aid of the countrie they were repelled in the which conflict the lord du line 40 Chastell and two of his brethren with foure hundred other were slaine and aboue two hundred taken prisoners and put to their ransoms amongst whom the lord of Baqueuille the marshall of Britaine was one All this summer Owen Glendouer and his adherents robbed burned and destroied the countries adioining néere to the places where he hanted and one while by sleight guilefull policie an other while by open force he tooke and slue manie Englishmen line 50 brake downe certeine castels which he wan and some he fortified and kept for his owne defense Iohn Trenor bishop of Assaph considering with himselfe how things prospered vnder the hands of this Owen fled to him and tooke his part against the king About the same time the Britaines and the Flemings tooke certeine ships of ours laden with merchandize and slue all the marriners or else hanged them Also the old countesse of Oxford mother to Robert line 60 Ueere late duke of Ireland that died at Louaine caused certeine of hir seruants and other such as she durst trust to publish and brute abroad thorough all the parts of Essex that king Richard was aliue and that he would shortlie come to light and claime his former estate honor and dignitie She procured a great number of harts to be made of siluer and gold such as king Richard was woont to giue vnto his knights esquiers fréends to weare as cognizances to the end that in bestowing them in king Richards name she might the sooner allure men to further hir lewd practises and where the fame went abroad that king Richard was in Scotland with a great power of Frenchmen and Scots readie to come to recouer his realme manie gaue the more light credit vnto this brute thus set foorth by the said countesse The persuasions also of one Serlo that in times past was one of king Richards chamber greatlie increased this errour for the same Serlo hearing in France whither he was fled that his maister king Richard was in Scotland aliue conueied himselfe thither to vnderstand the truth of that matter and finding there one indéed that greatlie resembled him in all lineaments of bodie but yet was not the man himselfe as he well perceiued vpon malice that he bare to king Henrie aduertised by letters sent vnto diuerse of king Richards freends that he was aliue indéed and shortlie would come to shew himselfe openlie to the world when he had once made his waie readie to recouer his kingdome to the confusion of his enimies and comfort of his fréends These forged inuentions caused manie to beleeue the brute raised by the countesse of Oxford for the which they came in trouble were apprehended and committed to prison The countesse hir selfe was shut vp in close prison and all hir goods were confiscat and hir secretarie drawen and hanged that had spred abroad this fained report in going vp and downe the countrie blowing into mens eares that king Richard was aliue affirming that he had spoken with him in such a place and in such a place apparelled in this raiment and that raiment with such like circumstances About the feast of saint Iohn Baptist at the kings commandement the earle of Northumberland came to Pomfret and brought with him his nephues and his nephues sonnes whereby he cleared himselfe of a great deale of suspicion manie doubting before his comming that he had giuen euill counsell to the yoong men whereby to mooue them to rebellion and to withstand the king Sir William Clifford also came with the earle and brought the foresaid Serlo with him whom he had apprehended vpon his comming to him at Berwike in hope to haue found succour at his hands in consideration whereof the king pardoned the said sir William Clifford of his disobedience shewed in keeping the castell of Berwike against him in which dooing he had committed manifest treason This Serlo being knowen to be the man that had béene the chiefe murtherer of the duke of Glocester when he was made awaie at Calis was diligentlie examined who were helpers with him in the execution thereof and after what sort they made him awaie Serlo knowing there was no waie with him but death would not vtter any other but confessed for his owne part he was worthie for that wicked déed to die ten thousand deaths and shewed such outward appearance of repentance that manie sore lamented his case and promised to hire priests to sing masses as the maner was for his soule of their owne costs and charges He was condemned to die at Pomfret and was drawen from thence through euerie good towne through which those that had the conueiance of him passed with him till they came to London where he was executed confessing euerie thing to be true concerning his wicked pretense as before is recited and further that when he perceiued how their counterfeit practise would come to light and he openlie reuealed he meant to haue returned into France but wanting monie he thought to haue béene relieued with some portion at the hand of the said sir William Clifford and this caused him to come vnto Berwike to shew him his necessitie who to make his owne peace did apprehend him and present him to the king as before ye haue heard King Henrie wanting monie in the feast of saint Faith the virgine assembled at Couentrie his high court of parlement in the which the lord Stephan Scroope of Masham and the lord Henrie Fitz Hugh obteined first to haue places of barons Moreouer it is to be noted that this was called The laie mans parlement bicause the shiriffes were appointed to haue a speciall regard that none should be chosen knights for the counties nor burgesses for the cities and townes that had any skill in the lawes of the land This was doone and when they came togither to talke of the weightie affaires of the realme speciallie line 10 how the king might be relieued with monie to beare such charges as he was knowen to be at as well in defending the realme from the Scots and Welshmen at home as from the Britains Flemings and Frenchmen abroad it was thought most expedient that the spiritualtie should be depriued of their temporall possessions to the reliefe of the kings necessitie Herevpon rose great altercation betwixt the cleargie and the laitie the knights affirming that they had oftentimes serued the king not onelie
this present parlement After the which words thus said as before is declared it was decréed also by the said lords arbitrators that the said lord of Winchester should haue these words that follow vnto my said lord of Glocester My lord of Glocester I haue conceiued to my great heauinesse that yée should haue receiued by diuerse reports that I should haue purposed and imagined against your person honor and estate in diuers maners for the which yée haue taken against me great displeasure Sir I take God to my witnesse that what reports so euer haue béene to you of me peraduenture of such as haue had no great affection to me God forgiue it them I neuer imagined ne purposed anie thing that might be hindering or preiudice to your person honor or estate and therefore I praie you that yee be vnto me good lord from this time foorth for by my will I gaue neuer other occasion nor purpose not to doo hereafter by the grace of God The which words so by him said it was decréed by the same arbitrators that my lord of Glocester should answer and saie Faire vncle sith yée declare you such a man as yée saie I am right glad that it is so and for such a man I take you And when this was doone it was decréed by the same arbitrators that euerie each of my lord of Glocester and Winchester should take either other by the hand in the presence of the king and all the parlement in signe and token of good loue accord the which was doone and the parlement adiorned till after Easter At this reconciliation such as loued peace reioised sith it is a fowle pernicious thing for priuat men much more for noblemen to be at variance sith vpon them depend manie in affections diuerse whereby factions might grow to the shedding of bloud though others to whom contention hartgrudge is delight wished to see the vttermost mischéefe that might therof insue which is the vtter ouerthrow and desolation of populous tribes euen as with a litle sparkle whole houses are manie times consumed to ashes as the old prouerbe saith and that verie ãâã and aptlie Sola scintilla perit haec domus aut ãâã illa But when the great fier of this ãâã betwéene these two noble personages was thus by the arbitrators to their knowledge and iudgement vtterlie quenched out and said vnder boord all other controuersies betwéene other lords taking part with the one partie or the other were appeased and brought to concord so that for ioy the king caused a solemne fest to be kept on Whitsundaie on which daie he created Richard Plantagenet sonne and heire to the erle of Cambridge whome his father at Southhampton had put to death as before yee haue heard duke of Yorke not foreséeing that this preferment should be his destruction nor that his séed should of his generation be the extreame end and finall conclusion He the same daie also promoted Iohn lord Mowbraie and earle marshall sonne and heire to Thomas duke of Norffolke by king Richard the second exiled this realme to the title name and stile of duke of Norffolke During this feast the duke of Bedford adorned the king with the high order of knighthood who on the same daie dubbed with the sword these knights whose names insue Richard duke of Yorke Iohn duke of Norffolke the earle of Westmerland Henrie lord Persie Iohn lord Butler sonne to the earle of Ormond the lord Rosse the lord Matrauers the lord Welles the lord Barkelie sir Iames Butler sir Henrie Greie of Tankaruile sir Iohn Talbot sir Rafe Greie of Warke sir Robert Uéere sir Richard Greie sir Edmund Hungerford sir Water Wingfield sir Iohn Butler sir Reginald Cobham sir Iohn Passheleu sir Thomas Tunstall sir Iohn Chedocke sir Rafe Langstre sir William Drurie sir William ap Thomas sir Richard Carnonell sir Richard Wooduile sir Iohn Shirdlow sir Nicholas Blunket sir William Cheinie iustice sir William Babington sir Rafe Butler sir Robert Beauchampe sir Edmund Trafford sir Iohn Iune cheefe baron and diuerse others After this solemne feast ended a great aid and subsidie was granted for the continuance of the conquest in France and so therevpon monie was gathered and men were prepared in euerie citie towne and countrie During which businesse Thomas duke of Excester great vncle to the king a right sage and discréet councellor departed out of this mortall life at his manor of Gréenewich and with all funerall pompe was conueied through London to Berrie and there buried ¶ In the same yeare also died the ladie Elizabeth halfe sister to the same duke and of the whole bloud with king Henrie the fourth maried first to the lord Iohn Holland duke of Excester and after to the lord Fanhope buried at the blacke friers of London Philip Morgan after the death of Iohn Fortham line 10 sometime treasuror of England year 1425 bishop of Elie and Durham both which bishopriks for anie thing that I can yet sée he inioied both at one time was made bishop of Elie in the yeare of our redemption 1425 in this sort Henrie the sixt and manie of the nobilitie had written to the conuent of the church of Elie to choose William Alnewicke doctor of both lawes confessor to the king and kéeper of the priuie seale to be their bishop Notwithstanding which they hauing more regard to their owne priuileges and benefit line 20 chose Peter the prior of Elie to succéed in the place of Iohn Fortham But none of both these inioied that roome for Martin bishop of Rome stepping into the matter to make the third part neither fauouring the kings motion nor approouing the monks election remooued this William Morgan from the see of Worcester vnto Elie sometime called Helix as I haue séene it set downe in Saxon characters in an ancient booke of the liues of saints written in the Saxon toong about the yeare of Christ 1010 before the time of Edward the confessor and much about the time of line 30 Albo Floriacensis This Morgan sat at Elie nine yeares twentie and six wéeks and foure daies departing this life in his manour of Hatfield in the yeare 1434 and was buried at the Charterhouse of London being the twentie and fourth bishop that was installed in that place While these things were thus a dooing in England year 1426 the earle of Warwike lieutenant for the regent in France entered into the countrie of Maine line 40 besieged the towne of Chateau de Loire the which shortlie to him was rendered whereof he made capteine Matthew Gough esquier After this he tooke by assault the castell of Maiet and gaue it for his valiantnesse to Iohn Winter esquier and after that he conquered the castell of Lude and made there capteine William Gladesdale gentleman Here he was informed that the Frenchmen were assembled in the countrie of Beausse wherevpon he hasted thitherwards to haue giuen them battell but they hauing line 50
aduantage 4 Item it is not vnknowen to you doubted lord how thorough your lands it is noised that the said cardinall and the archbishop of Yorke had and haue the gouernance of you and all your land the which none of your true liege men ought to vsurpe nor take vpon them And haue also estranged me your sole vncle my coosine of Yorke my coosine of Huntington and manie other lords of your kin to haue anie knowledge of anie great matter that might touch your high estate or either of your realmes And of lords spirituall of right the archbishop of Canturburie should be your chéefe councellor the which is also estranged and set aside And so be manie other right sad lords and well aduised as well spirituall as temporall to the great hurt of you my right doubted lord and of your realmes like as the experience and workes shewen cléerelie and euidentlie more harme it is 5 Item in the tender age of you my right doubted lord for the necessitie of an armie the said cardinall lent you foure thousand pounds vpon certeine iewels prised at two and twentie thousand markes with a letter of sale that and they were not quited at a certeine daie you should léese them The said cardinall séeing your monie readie to haue quited your iewels caused your treasuror of England at that daie being to paie the same monie in part of an other armie in defrauding you my right doubted lord of your said iewels kéeping them yet alwaie to his owne vse to your right great losse and his singular profit and auaile 6 Item the said cardinall then being bishop of Winchester and chancellour of England deliuered the king of Scots vpon certeine appointments as maie be shewed presumptuouslie and of his owne authoritie contrarie to the act of parlement I haue heard notable men of law say that they neuer heard the like thing doone among them which was too great a defamation to your highnesse and also to wed his neece to the said king whom that my lord of notable memorie your father whome God assoile would neuer haue so deliuered And there as he should haue paid for his costs fortie thousand pounds the said cardinall chancellour of England caused you to pardon him thereof ten thousand marks whereof the greater summe he paied you right a little what I report me to your highnesse 7 Item where the said cardinall lent you my redoubted lord great and notable summes he hath had and his assignes the rule and profit of the port of line 10 Hampton where the customers béene his seruants where by likelihood and as it is to be supposed standing the chéefe merchant of the wools of your land that you be greatlie defrauded and vnder that rule what wools and other merchandizes haue béene shipped and maie be from time to time hard is to estéeme to the great hurt and preiudice of you my right doubted lord and of all your people 8 Item howbeit that the said cardinall hath diuerse times lent you great summes of monie since the time of your reigne yet his loane hath béene so line 20 deferred and delaied that for the most part the conuenable season of the imploieng of the good lent was passed So that litle fruit or none came thereof as by experience both your realmes haue sufficientlie in knowledge 9 Item where there was iewels and plate prised at eleuen thousand pounds in weight of the said cardinall forfeited to you my right redoubted lord he gat him a restorement thereof for a loane of a little parcell of the same and so defrauded you wholie line 30 of them to your great hurt and his auaile the which good might greatlie haue eased your highnesse in sparing as much of the poore commons 10 Item the cardinall being feoff of my said lord your father whome God assoile against his intent gaue Elizabeth Beauchampe three hundred markes liuelihood where that his will was that and she were wedded within a yeare then to haue it or else not where in déed it was two or thrée years line 40 after to your great hurt and diminishing of your inheritance 11 Item notwithstanding that the said cardinall hath no maner of authoritie nor interest in the crowne nor none maie haue by anie possibilitie yet he presumeth and taketh vpon him in partie your estate roiall in calling before him into great abusion of all your land and derogation of your highnesse which hath not beene seene nor vsed in no daies heretofore in greater estate than he is without line 50 your expresse ordinance and commandement 12 Item the said cardinall nothing considering the necessitie of you my right doubted lord hath sued a pardon of dismes that he should paie for the church of Winchester for terme of his life giuing thereby occasion to all other lords spirituall to draw their good will for anie necessitie to grant anie disme and so to laie all the charge vpon the temporaltie and the poore people 13 Item by the gouernance and labour of the line 60 said cardinall and archbishop of Yorke there hath béene lost and dispended much notable and great good by diuerse ambassadors sent out of this realme First to Arras for a feigned colourable peace whereas by likelinesse it was thought and supposed that it should neuer turne to the effectuall auaile of you my right doubted lord nor to your said realmes but vnder colour thereof was made the peace of your aduersarie and the duke of Burgognie For else your partie aduerse the said duke might not well haue found meanes nor waies to haue communed togither nor to haue concluded with other their confederations and conspirations made and wrought there then at that time against your highnesse whereby you might haue right doubted lord the greater partie of your obeisance as well in your realme of France as in your duchie of Normandie and much other thing gone greatlie as through the said colourable treatie otherwise since the death of my brother of Bedford whome God assoile 14 Item now of late was sent an other ambassadour to Calis by the labour and counsell of the said cardinall and archbishop of Yorke the cause why of the beginning is to me your sole vncle and other lords of your kin and councell vnknowen to your great charge and against the publike good of your realmâ as it openlie appeareth The which good if it be imploied for the defense of your lands the merchandizes of the same might haue had other course and your said lands not to haue stand in so great mischéefe as they doo 15 Item after that to your great charge and hurt of both your realmes the said cardinall archbishop of Yorke went to your said towne of Calis and diuerse lords of your kin and of your councell in their fellowship and there as there was naturall warre betwéene the duke of Orleance and the duke of Burgognie for murther of their fathers a capitall enimitie like to haue indured for euer the said
lands gathering togither and making a monopolie of offices fées wards and farmes by reason whereof the kings estate was greatlie diminished and decaied and he and his kin highlie exalted inriched with manie other points which bicause they be not notable nor of great force or strength I omit and ouerpasse The quéene which intierlie loued the duke doubting some commotion and trouble to arise if he were line 10 let go vnpunished caused him for a colour to be committed to the Tower where he remained not past a moneth but was againe deliuered and restored to the kings fauour as much as euer he was before This dooing so much displeased the people that if politike prouision had not béene great mischeefe had immediatlie insued For the commons in sundrie places of the realme assembled togither in great companies and chose to them a capteine whome they called Blewbeard but yer they had attempted anie enterprise line 20 their leaders were apprehended so the matter pacified without anie hurt committed After this outrage thus asswaged the parlement was adiourned to Leicester whither came the king and quéene in great estate and with them the duke of Suffolke as chéefe councellour The commons of the lower house not forgetting their old grudge besought the king that such persons as assented to the release of Aniou and deliuerance of Maine might be dulie punished And to be priuie to that fact they line 30 accused as principall the duke of Suffolke with Iohn bishop of Salisburie and sir Iames Fines lord Saie and diuerse others When the king perceiued that there was no remedie to appease the peoples furie by anie colourable waies shortlie to pacifie so long an hatred he first sequestred the lord Saie being treasuror of England and other the dukes adherents from their offices and roomes and after banished the duke of Suffolke as the abhorred rode and common noiance of the whole realme for tearme of line 40 fiue yeares meaning by this exile to appease the malice of the people for the time and after when the matter should be forgotten to reuoke him home againe But Gods iustice would not that so vngratious a person should so escape for when he shipped in Suffolke intending to transport himselfe ouer into France he was incountered with a ship of warre apperteining to the duke of Excester constable of the Tower of London called the Nicholas of the Tower The capteine of that barke with small fight line 50 entered into the dukes ship and perceiuing his person present brought him to Douer road and there on the one side of a cocke bote caused his head to be striken off and left his bodie with the head lieng there on the sands Which corps being there found by a chapleine of his was conueied to Wingfield college in Suffolke and there buried This end had William de la Poole duke of Suffolke as men iudge by Gods prouidence for that he had procured the death of that good duke of Glocester as before is line 60 partlie touched Soone after an other disquiet befell here Those that fauoured the duke of Yorke and wished the crowne vpon his head for that as they iudged he had more right thereto than he that ware it procured a commotion in Kent on this manner A certeine yoong man of a goodlie stature and right pregnant of wit was intised to take vpon him the name of Iohn Mortimer cââfine to the duke of Yorke although his name was Iohn Cade or of some Iohn Mend-all an Irishman as Polychronicon saith and not for a small policie thinking by that surname that those which fauoured the house of the earle of March would be assistant to him And so in déed it came to passe as in such cases there is no bréeder of a broile but he shall find adherents enow no lesse forward to further his pernicious enterprise by their foolehardines than himselfe was in the plot of his deuise though in fine as it is the vnluckie lot of such tumults their attempts were withstood and their offense dulie rewarded as in processe of the storie shall more at large appeare according to the wisemans sentence Saepe in magistrum scelera redeunt sua This capteine assembling a great companie of tall personages assured them that the enterprise which he tooke in hand was both honourable to God and the king and profitable to the whole realme For if either by force or policie they might get the king and quéene into their hands he would cause them to be honourablie vsed and take such order for the punishing and reforming of the misdemeanours of their bad councellours that neither fiftéens should hereafter be demanded nor once anie impositions or taxes be spoken of The Kentish people mooued at these persuasions other faire promises of reformation in good order of battell though not in great number came with their capteine vnto the plaine of Blackeheath betwéene Eltham and Gréenewich and there kept the field more than a month pilling the countrie about to whome the citie of London at that time was verie fauourable ¶ And the said capteine as I find recorded saith Iohn Stow sent for such citizens of London as it pleased him to command to repaire vnto him vnder letters of safe conduct as followeth The safegard and signe manuell of the capteine of Kent sent to Thomas Cocke draper of London by the capteine of the great assemblie in Kent BY this our writing insealed we grant will permit trulie that Thomas Cocke of London draper shall come in good suertie and in safegard to our presence without anie hurt of his person and so auoid from vs againe at his pleasure with all other persons assigned at his denomination with him comming in likewise The commandement by the capteine of Kent sent vnto Thomas Cocke aboue said FOr your instruction first ye shall charge all Lumbards and strangers being merchants Genowais Uenetians Florentines and others this daie to draw them togither and to ordeine for vs the capteine twelue harnesses complet of the best fashion foure twentie brigandins twelue battell axes twelue glaues six horsses with sadle and bridle completlie harnessed and a thousand markes of readie monie And if this our demand be not obserued doone we shall haue the heads of as manie as we can get of them And to the intent the cause of this glorious capteins comming thither might be shadowed vnder a cloke of good meaning though his intent nothing so he sent vnto the king an humble supplication affirming that his comming was not against his grace but against such of his councellours as were louers of themselues and oppressors of the poore commonaltie flatterers of the king and enimies to his honor suckers of his purse and robbers of his subiects parciall to their fréends and extreame to their enimies thorough bribes corrupted and for indifferencie dooing nothing ¶ Here bicause a full report of this insurrection maie passe to the knowledge of
that time deceassed that then after the death of his father and grandfather all the said lands should wholie remaine to the next heire of their bloud either male or female being vnder the obeisance of the French king or his heires Manie other noble men whose hearts were good English made like compositions and some came into England and others went to Calis and bare great offices there as the lord Duras which was marshall of that towne and monsieur Uauclere which was deputie there vnder the earle of Warwike Thus were the Englishmen cléerelie displaced and lost the possession of all the countries townes castels and places within the realme of France so that onelie Calis Hammes and Guines with the marches thereof remained in their hands of all those their dominions and seigniories which they sometime held in the parties beyond the seas Whereby England suffered a partile but not a totall eclipse of hir glorie in continuall loosing nothing gaining of the enimie ¶ Which recouerie was of great facilitie to the French for that where they came they found litle or no resistance but rather a voluntarie submission yéelding as it were with holding vp of hands yer they came to handstroks So that in such victories and conquests consisted small renowme sith without slaughter bloudshed hardie enterprises are not atchiued Notablie therefore speaketh Anglorum praelia line 10 of these bloudlesse and sweatlesse victories saieng Delphinus totos nullo prohibente per agros Francorum transit priùs expugnata receptans Oppida perfacile est populum domuisse volentem Tendentemque manus vltrò nec clarior ornat Gloria vincentem fuso sine sanguine regna This yeare the king made a generall progresse and came to the citie of Excester on mondaie the sixtéenth of Iulie at after noone being the feast daie of saint Kenelme and was receiued from place to line 20 place verie honorablie through the whole countrie Before he came to this citie he was met by all the cleargie in their degrées some thrée miles some two miles and some at the citie all in their copes censing all the waies as they went As soone as he came to this citie he was first conducted to the cathedrall church in all most honourable order When he had doone his oblations he was conueied and lodged in the bishops house During his abode here there was a sessions kept before the duke of Summerset and line 30 certeine men condemned to die for treason and had iudgement to be executed to death The bishop and his clergie vnderstanding hereof with open mouth complained vnto the king that he caused a sessions to be kept within his sanctuarie contrarie to the priuilege of his church and that all their dooings being doone against law were of no effect And notwithstanding the king and his councell had discoursed vnto them the iust and orderlie procéeding the hainousnesse of the offendors and the line 40 necessitie of their punishment yet all could not auaile for holie church nor the sanctuarie might be prophaned as they said with the deciding of temporall matters Wherevpon the king in the end yéelding to their exclaimes released a couple of arrant traitors and reuersed all his former lawfull procéedings and so vpon the wednesdaie he departed and returned towards London The duke of Yorke pretending as yée haue heard line 50 a right to the crowne as heire to Lionell duke of Clarence came this yeare out of Ireland vnto London in the parlement time there to consult with his speciall fréends as Iohn duke of Northfolke Richard earle of Salisburie and the lord Richard his sonne which after was earle of Warwike Thomas Courtneie earle of Deuonshire Edward Brooke lord Cobham After long deliberation and aduise taken it was thought expedient to keepe their chéefe purpose secret and that the duke should raise an armie line 60 of men vnder a pretext to remooue diuerse councellors about the king and to reuenge the manifest iniuries doone to the common-wealth by the same rulers Of the which as principall the duke of Summerset was namelie accused both for that he was greatlie hated of the commons for the losse of Normandie and for that it was well knowne that he would be altogither against the duke of Yorke in his chalenge to be made when time serued to the crowne insomuch that his goods by the commons were foulie despoiled and borne awaie from the Blacke friers After which riot on the next morrow proclamation was made through the citie that no man should spoile or rob on paine of death But on the same daie at the standard in Cheape was a man beheaded for dooing contrarie to the proclamation Therefore when the duke of Yorke had thus by aduise of his speciall fréends framed the foundation of his long intended enterprise he assembled a great hoast to the number of ten thousand able men in the marches of Wales publishing openlie that the cause of this his gathering of people was for the publike wealth of the realme The king much astonied at the matter by aduise of his councell raised a great power and marched forward toward the duke But he being thereof aduertised turned out of that way which by espials he vnderstood that the king held and made streight toward London and hauing knowledge that he might not be suffered to passe through the citie he crossed ouer the Thames at Kingston bridge and so kept on towards Kent where he knew that he had both fréends well-willers and there on Burnt heath a mile from Dertford and twelue miles from London he imbatelled and incamped himselfe verie stronglie inuironing his field with artillerie and trenches The king hereof aduertised brought his armie with all diligence vnto Blackeheath and there pight his tents Whilest both these armies laie thus imbattelled the king sent the bishop of Winchester and Thomas Bourchier bishop of Elie Richard Wooduile lord Riuers Richard Andrew the kéeper of his priuie seale to the duke both to know the cause of so great a commotion and also to make a concord if the requests of the duke and his companie séemed consonant to reason The duke hearing the message of the bishops answered that his comming was neither to damnifie the king in honour nor in person neither yet anie good man but his intent was to remooue from him certeine euill disposed persons of his councell bloud-succours of the nobilitie pollers of the cleargie and oppressours of the poore people Amongst these he chéeflie named Edmund duke of Summerset whome if the king would commit to ward to answer such articles as against him in open parlement should be both proponed and proued he promised not onelie to dissolue his armie but also offered himselfe like an obedient subiect to come to the kings presence and to doo him true and faithfull seruice according to his loiall and bounden dutie ¶ But a further vnderstanding of the dukes meaning by
liege men First praieng and beséeching to our souereigne Christ Iesus of his high and mightie power to giue you vertue of prudence and that through the praier of the glorious martyr S. Albon giue you verie knowledge of our truths and to know the intent of our assembling at this time for God that is in heauen knoweth our intent is rightfull and true And therefore we praie vnto that mightie Lord in these words Domine sis clypeus defensionis nostrae Wherfore gratious lord please it your maiestie roiall to deliuer such as we will accuse and they to haue like as they haue deserued and this doone you to be honorablie worshipped as most rightfull king and our true gouernour And if we should now at this time be promised as afore this time is not vnknowen haue béene promises broken which haue béene full faithfullie promised and therevpon great othes sworne we will not now ceasse for no such promises nor oth till we haue them which haue deserued death or else we to die therefore The answer by the king to the duke of Yorke I King Henrie charge and command that no manner person of what degrée estate or what condition soeuer he be abide not but that they auoid the field and not be so hardie to make resistance against me in my owne realme For I shall know what traitour dare be so bold to raise anie people in mine owne land wherethrough I am in great disease and heauines By the faith I owe vnto S. Edward and vnto the crowne of England I shall destroie them euerie mothers sonne and eke they to be hanged drawne and quartered that may be taken afterward of them in example to make all such traitors to beware for to make anie rising of people within mine owne land and so traitorouslie to abide their king and gouernour And for a conclusion rather than they shall haue anie lord that here is with me at this time I shall this day for their sake in this quarell my selfe liue and die The words of the duke of Yorke to all gentlemen and other assembled with him SIrs the king our souereigne lord will not be reformed at our beseeching ne praier nor will not in no wise vnderstand the intent wherfore we be here assembled and gathered at this time but onelie is in full purpose to destroie vs all And thervpon a great oth hath made line 10 that there is none other waie but that he with all his power will pursue vs and if we be taken to giue vs a shamefull death léesing our liuelod and goods and also our heires shamed for euer Therefore sirs now sith it will none otherwise be but that we shall vtterlie die better it is for vs to die in the field than cowardlie to be put to an vtter rebuke and shamefull death for the right of England standeth in vs. Considering also in what perill it standeth at this time and for to redresse the mischéefe thereof let euerie line 20 man helpe to his power this daie and in that quarell to quite vs like men to the crowne of England praieng and beséeching vnto that Lord the which is eternall thât reigneth in the glorious kingdome celestiall to kéepe and saue vs this daie in our right and through the gifts of his holie grace we may be made strong to withstand the great abhominable and horrible malice of them that purpose to destroie vs and the realme of England and put vs to a shamefull death Praie we therefore to the Lord to be our comfort line 30 and our defendour saieng these words Domine sis clypeus defensionis nostrae But another historie-writer saith that the king when first he heard of the duke of Yorks approch sent to him messengers the duke of Buckingham and others to vnderstand what he meant by his comming thus in maner of warre The duke of Buckingham to his message was answered by the duke of Yorke and his complices that they were all of line 40 them the kings faithfull liege subiects and intended no harme to him at all but the cause of our comming saie they is not in meaning anie hurt to his person But let that wicked and naughtie man the duke of Summerset be deliuered vnto vs who hath lost Normandie and taken no regard to the preseruation of Gascoigne and furthermore hath brought the realme vnto this miserable estate that where it was the floure of nations and the princesse of prouinces now is it haled into desolation spoile not line 50 so dreadfull by malice of forren enimie that indéed vtterlie as yee know seeketh our ruine as by the intollerable outrages of him that so long ago euen still appeares to haue sworne the confusion of our king and realme If it therefore please the king to deliuer that bad man into our hands we are readie without trouble or breach of peace to returne into our countrie But if the king be not minded so to do bicause he cannot misse him let him vnderstand that we will rather die in the field than suffer such a mischéefe line 60 vnredressed The king aduertised of this answer more wilfull than tollerable appointed him rather to trie battell than deliuer the duke of Summerset to his enimies Whereof they ascerteined made no longer staie but streightwaie sounded the trumpet to battell or rather as Hall saith while king Henrie sent foorth his ambassadours to treat of peace at the one end of the towne the earle of Warwike with his Marchmen entred at the other end and fiercelie setting on the kings fore-ward within a small time discomfited the same The place where they first brake into the towne was about the middle of saint Peters stréet The fight for a time was right sharpe and cruell for the duke of Summerset with the other lords comming to the succours of their companions that were put to the woorse did what they could to beat backe the enimies but the duke of Yorke sent euer fresh men to succour the wearie and to supplie the places of them that were hurt whereby the kings armie was finallie brought low and all the cheefteins of the field slaine and beaten downe For there died vnder the signe of the castell Edmund duke of Summerset who as hath béene reported was warned long before to auoid all castels and beside him laie Henrie the second of that name earle of Northumberland Humfrie earle of Stafford sonne to the duke of Buckingham Iohn lord Clifford sir Barthram Antwisell knight a Norman borne who forsaking his natiue countrie to continue in his loiall obedience to king Henrie came ouer to dwell here in England when Normandie was lost William Zouch Iohn Boutreux Rafe Bapthorp with his sonne William Corwin William Cotton Gilbert Faldinger Reginald Griffon Iohn Dawes Elice Wood Iohn Eith Rafe Woodward Gilbert Skarlock and Rafe Willoughbie esquiers with manie other in all to the number of eight thousand as Edward Hall saith in his chronicle
and to be freends each to other both obedient to the king were accorded by award wherof writings were sealed signed and deliuered to effect as followeth The award made at Westminster on the three and twentith of March Anno regni regis 36. FIrst that at the costs charges and expenses of the duke of Yorke the earles of Warwike and Salisburie fourtie fiue pounds of yearelie rent should be assured by waie of a mortisement for euer vnto the monasterie of S. Albons for suffrages and obits to be kept and almes to be imploied for the soules of Edmund late duke of Summerset Henrie late erle of Northumberland and Thomas late lord Clifford late slaine in the battell of saint Albons and buried in the abbeie church and also for the soules of all other slaine in the same battell The said duke of Summerset the earle of Northumberland and lord Clifford by vertue of the same award were declared for true and faithfull liegemen to the king and so to be holden and reputed in the daie of their deaths aswell as the said duke of Yorke the earles of Warwike and Salisburie Moreouer it was decreed that the duke of Yorke should giue to Elenor duchesse of Summerset and to Henrie duke of Summerset hir sonne the summe of fiue thousand markes of good assignements of debts which the king owght him for his wages due during the time of his seruice in Ireland to be diuided as the king should thinke conuenient betwixt the brethren sisters of the said duke of Summerset Also that the earle of Warwike should giue vnto the lord Clifford the summe of a thousand markes in good and sufficient assignements of debts which the king owght him to be distributed betwixt the said lord Clifford his brethren and sisters Also where Thomas Persie knight lord Egremond and Richard Persie his brother sonnes of the ladie Elenor countesse of Northumberland had béen in a sessions holden within the countie of Yorke before Richard Bingham and Rafe Pole the kings iustices and other commissioners condemned vnto the earle of Salisburie in the summe of eight thousand markes and to the same earle and to his wife Alice in the summe of fiue thousand marks and to Thomas Neuill knight son to the said earle of Salisburie in the summe of a thousand marks and to the said Thomas and Mawd his wife in the summe of two thousand marks and to Iohn Neuill knight sonne to the said earle of Salisburie in the summe of eight hundred marks for transgressions and trespasses there found to be doone by the said lord Egremond and Richard his brother vnto the said earle of Salisburie Alice Thomas Neuill Mawd and Iohn Neuill as by the record appéered It was ordeined that the said earle and his sonnes should release all the said summes of monie and the executions thereof and likewise release vnto Rafe Uerneie and Iohn Steward late shiriffes of London vnto whose custodie the said lord Egremond had beene for the same condemnations committed and from them escaped all actions which they or anie of them might haue against the said Uerneie and Steward for the same escape Yet it was decreed by this award that the said lord Egremond should be bound by recognisance in the Chancerie to kéepe the peace toward the said erle and his wife children seruants and tenants Also where diuerse knights esquiers and other seruants and tenants to the said earle of Northumberland and to the said lord Egremond were by their seuerall obligations bound by occasion of the said debates vnto the said duke of Yorke earle of Salisburie or anie of their children to stand to their order and gouernement it was ordeined that the same obligations should be deliuered to them that so stood bound before the feast of saint Peter ad vincula next insuing at the citie of Yorke or else that the parties so bound should haue sufficient acquitances in discharge of the same obligations It was further awarded that all variances discords debates controuersies appeales and actions personals that were or had béene betwixt any of the said persons or any of their seruants or tenants should be for euer determined ended sauing to euerie one his title action and right which he had by any euidence of arrerages of rents or seruices accounts detinues or debts due by reason of anie lawfull contract or deed had and made for anie reasonable considerations other than the variance before said And for the more assurance of both parties it was ordeined that either should release to other all maner of actions that were méere personals and appeales line 10 which anie of them might haue against the other by reason of the variances and discords before mentioned Also it was decreed that if anie action sute or quarell chanced betwixt anie of the seruants or tenants of anie of the parties for matter or title supposed to be had occasioned or mooued before this time that from thenceforth none of the said parties should mainteine support or aid any of them that will so sue and mooue strife and debate but should rather so line 20 deale as the matter may be brought to peace and quietnesse It was further awarded that if anie man complained pretended or surmised that this award was not kept but in some point broken by anie of the parties for the which breach he would haue a Scire facias or some other action prosecuted in the kings name vpon anie recognisance made to the king for the performance of this award yet should not the same Scire facias or action be prosecuted till the kings line 30 councell might be throughlie certified of the matter by the complainant and vpon consideration sée iust cause whie the same Scire facias or action ought to be had and prosecuted in the kings name And if anie variance rose betwixt the councell of both the parties in making of the recognisances releases acquittances or other writings the same variance should be determined by the two lords cheefe iustices that should be fullie instructed of the kings intention in this behalfe line 40 And besides this it was notified and declared by the same award that the parties being seuerallie bound in the Chancerie in great sums to obeie and performe this award ordinance iudgement made by the king it was the kings will and pleasure that the same recognisances should stand in force and no parcels of the summes therein conteined to be pardoned in anie wise without the agréement and consent of the partie for whose assurance the same recognisance was taken line 50 And if anie of the said summes or anie parcell thereof should be recouered by action or execution taken and prosecuted in the kings name vpon anie of the said recognisances the partie to whose hinderance the award was broken should haue the one halfe of the monie so recouered and the other moitie should be assigned to the treasuror of the kings house ¶ This ordinance award and agréement
to apprehend him if by anie means he might The lord Audelie according to his commission assembled aboue ten thousand men of Chesshire and Salopshire and knowing by his espials which waie the earle kept approached néere to line 50 him vpon a faire plaine called Bloreheath within a mile of a towne called Draiton in Shropshire The earle perceiuing in what ieopardie he stood determined to abide the aduenture with fame and honour rather than to flie with shame and reproach and so incamped himselfe all the night on the side of a little brooke not verie brode but somewhat deepe In the morning earlie being the daie of saint Tecle he caused his souldiers to shoot their flights towards line 60 the lord Audelies companie which laie on the other side of the said water and then he and all his people made a signe of retreit The lord Audelie supposing his aduersaries had fled in déed caused his trumpets quicklie to blow vp and setting foorth his voward speedilie passed the water The earle of Salisburie which knew the sleights of warlike policie suddenlie returned and set vpon the lord Audelie and his cheefe capteins yer the residue of his armie could passe the water The fight was sore and dreadfull The earle desiring the sauing of his life and his aduersaries coueting his destruction fought sore for the obteining of their purpose but in conclusion the earles armie as men not looking for other succours nor meane to escape but by their owne manhood so egerlie assaulted their foes that they slue the lord Audelie and all his capteins and discomfited all the remnant of his people In this battell were slaine foure and twentie hundred persons but the greatest losse fell vpon the Chesshire men bicause one halfe of the shire was on the one part and the other halfe on the other of which number were sir Thomas Dutton sir Iohn Doune and sir Hugh Uenables sir Richard Molineur sir William Trowtbecke sir Iohn Legh of the Both and sir Iohn Egerton knights Iohn Done and Iohn Dutton esquiers But the earles two sonnes the one called sir Iohn Neuill and the other sir Thomas Neuill were sore wounded the which soberlie iornieng into the north countrie were apprehended by the quéenes fréends and togither with sir Thomas Harington that was likewise taken were conueied to Chester but their kéepers deliuered them shortlie after or else had the Marchmen destroied the goales Such fauour bare the commons of Wales to the duke of Yorks band that they could not suffer anie wrong to be offered or euill word to be spoken against him or his freends After this battell at Bloreheath the said duke of Yorke perceiuing the destruction of him and his fréends was intended and that his deuises were alreadie disclosed to the king and the queene he thought now no longer to linger his businesse but with all diligence to set forward the same And therfore sending for his cheefe freend the earle of Salisburie after long conference of their weightie affaires they determined to raise an armie and by fine force either to win their purpose or end their liues in the same Héerevpon were men foorthwith assembled freends sent for and a puissant armie gathered both of Northerne and Welshmen who in good order came into the marches of Wales adioining to Shropshire determining there to abide their enimies or to méet them if occasion serued There came to him from Calis the earle of Warwike bringing with him from that towne a great number of expert men in martiall feates whereof two were capteins knowne for men of great experience and approoued policie as they had well declared the same in the warres of Normandie and Guien the one called Andrew Trollop and the other Iohn Blunt The king hauing aduertisement of the dukes dooings sent foorth commissioners to leuie a power in all parts of the realme where he thought to haue any faithfull fréends of fauourers by reason whereof a great number of men of warre was assembled Manie for the loue they bare to the king resorted to his side but more for feare of the quéenes displesure whose frowning countenance was their vndooing and hir indignation their death To be bréefe the king accompanied with the dukes of Summerset and Excester and other of the line of Lancaster determined either by force or by policie to bring the duke of Yorke to confusion and therevpon marching forward they came vnto Worcester where as well to refresh his people as to take further aduise what was best to be doone he staied for a time And at length it was determined that the K. should first send vnto the aduersaries a messenger of good account as the bishop of Salisburie Richard Beauchampe to offer vnto them a cleere and free generall pardon of all trespasses offenses and transgressions whatsoeuer if they would giue ouer their enterprise and become true and obedient subiects When the bishop was come vnto them and had declared his message they first withdrew themselues apart and fell togither in councell and after they gaue answer by the mouth of the erle of Warwike which consisted in thrée points First that as concerning the pardon they durst not trust vnto it considering they had diuerse pardons before and the same confirmed by parlement and yet nothing auaileable to their assurance Secondlie that notwithstanding such pardons those that were about the king were presumptuous and vnrulie that they cared not at all to breake the kings commandements nor were any thing abashed to be noted for the breach thereof Thirdlie although by law of the land and right of the statute euerie lord by vertue of the kings writ line 10 being called to the parlement ought safelie to come safelie there to remaine and safelie to depart and returne home this notwithstanding the said earle of Warwike himselfe at a certeine councell holden at Westminster by vertue of the kings writ of priuie seale being there in person labouring to his knowledge to giue good aduise and counsell for the profit of the common-wealth was yet in danger of death if the Lord aboue had not the better prouided for his escape line 20 more than anie humane power or force of the kings pardon For the which cause quoth he sith the kings pardon maie be likened in these daies to a buckler of glasse or to a staffe of réed in which is no trust we dare not commit our selues vnto the defense of anie such pardons But if anie other waie might be deuised for their suerties where vnto they might safelie trust he said they were readie to come to his grace and to sue for his fauour The king receiuing such answer in these words line 30 or other to the like effect was nothing contented therewith and so commanded his standards eftsoones to aduance But yet before he came neere to the place where they were incamped the said lords wrote to him a letter in their owne excuse
true and infallible heire to the wise and politike prince king Henrie the third as sonne and heire to king Edward the second sonne and heire to king Edward the first the very heire and first begotten sonne of the said noble and vertuous prince king Henrie the third Which king Richard of that name the second was lawfullie iustlie possessed of the crowne and diadem of this realme and region till Henrie of Derbie duke of Lancaster and Hereford sonne to Iohn of Gant duke of Lancaster the fourth begotten sonne to the said king Edward the third and yoonger brother to my noble ancestor Lionell duke of Clarence the third begotten sonne of the said king Edward by force line 10 and violence contrarie both to the dutie of his allegiance and also to his homage to him both doone and sworne raised warre and battell at the castle of Flint in Northwales against the said king Richard and him apprehended and imprisoned within the Tower of London during whose life and captiuitie he wrongfullie vsurped and intruded vpon the roiall power and high line 20 estate of this realme and region taking vpon him the name stile and authoritie of king and gouernour of the same And not therewith satisfied and contented compassed and accomplished the death and destruction of his naturall prince and most worthie souereigne lord not as a common homicide and butcherlie murtherer but as a regicide and destroier of his king After whose pitious death and execrable line 30 murther the right and title of the crowne and superioritie of this realme was lawfullie reuerted returned to Roger Mortimer earle of March sonne and heire to ladie Philip the onelie child of the aboue rehearsed Lionell duke of Clarence vnto which Rogers daughter called Anne my most deerest and welbeloued moother I am the verie true and lineall heire which descent line 40 all you can not iustlie gainesay nor yet trulie denie Then remember this if the title be mine why am I put from it If I be true heire to the crowne as I am in deed why is my right withholden If my claime be good why haue I not iustice For suerlie learned men of great science and knowledge say and affirme that lineall descent nor vsurped possession can nothing line 50 preuaile if continuall claime be lawfullie made or openlie published For the auoiding of which scruple and ambiguitie Edmund earle of March my most welbeloued vncle in the time of the first vsurper in deed but not by right called king Henrie the fourth by his coosines the earle of Northumberland the lord Persie he being then in captiuitie with Owen line 60 Glendouer the rebell in Wales made his title righteous claime to the destruction of both the noble persons Likewise my most deerest lord my father so farre set foorth that right and title that he lost his life worldlie ioy at the towne of South-hampton more by power than indifferent iustice Since whose death I comming to my full age haue neuer desisted to pursue my title and require my right which by meanes of sinister counsell and vniust detention I can neither obteine nor recouer So that of fine force I am compelled to vse power in steed of praier and force in steed of request not as I said before for my priuat emolument and peculiar profit but to restore peace loue and quietnesse to this our naturall region which euer since the first vngodlie vsurpation of the aforenamed Henrie vntrulie called king Henrie the fourth hath beene cleerelie banished and out of the same vniustlie exiled What murthers and manslaughters haue beene perpetrated and committed within this countrie since the beginning of that vngratious vsurpation What number of noble men haue beene slaine destroied executed since that infortunate daie It is too lamentable and manifest For although Henrie of Lancaster earle of Derbie tooke vpon him the scepter and the crowne and wrongfullie bare the name and stile of a king and was not much tickled with mine vncle the earle of March at that time being within age yet was he neuer in suertie of himselfe nor had or inioied any profit quietnesse either in mind or in bodie For suerlie a corrupt conscience neuer feeleth rest but looketh when the sword of vengeance will descend and strike His sonne also called king Henrie the fift obteined notable victories and immortall praises for his noble acts doone in the realme of France yet God for the offense of his vntrue parent suddenlie touched him vnbodieng his soule in the flower of his youth and in the glorie of his conquest And although he had a faire sonne and a yoong heire apparant yet was this orphan such a one as preachers say that God threatned to send for a punishment to his vnrulie and vngratious people saieng by his prophet Esaie I shall giue you children to be your princes and infants without wisedome shall haue the gouernance of you The prophet lied not if you note all things in an order for after this Henrie the fift whose fame no man can iustlie reprooue or deface succeeded his sonne whom all we haue called our naturall prince and obeied as his heire In whose time and wrongfull reigne I require you diligentlie to consider with what great torments and afflictions God hath whipped scourged this miserable I le yea with such and so manie scourges and plagues as no nation the Aegyptians onelie excepted were euer tormented or afflicted withall I will not speake of rebellious murthers and oppressions which of late haue beene doone and exercised heere among vs. But I will declare manifest to you how the crowne and glorie of this realme is by the negligence of this sillie man and his vnwise councell minished defaced and also dishonoured Is not Normandie which his father gat regained conquered againe by the insolencie of him his couetous councell Is not the whole duchie of Aquitaine by two hundred and odyeares peaceablie possessed by the kings of this realme in one yeare and a little more gotten out of our hands seigniorie What should I speake of Aniou Maine or the losse of the I le of France with the rich citie of Paris Alas it is too apparant Neither will I molest you with the recitall of all the particulars thereof But now in the middest of this affliction and to make an end of the same God of his ineffable goodnesse looking on line 10 this countrie with his eies of pitie mercie hath sent me in the truth to restore againe his decaied kingdome to his ancient fame and old renowme whereof heere in open parlement according to my iust true title I haue and doo take possession of this roiall throne not putting diffidence but firme hope in Gods grace that by his diuine aid and assistance of you the peeres of this realme I shall beautifie mainteine line 20 the same to the glorie of him honour of my bloud and to the publike wealth as well of you
acts and statutes made afore this time by act of parlement not repealed or annulled by like authoritie or otherwise void be in suth force effect and vertue as they were afore the making of these ordinances and that no letters patents roialx of record nor acts iudiciall made or doone afore this time not repealed reuersed ne otherwise void by law be preiudiced or hurt by this present act line 20 This agreement put in articles was ingrossed sealed and sworne vnto by the two parties and also enacted in the parlement For ioy whereof the king hauing in his companie the duke of Yorke road to the cathedrall church of saint Paule in London and there on the day of All saints with the crowne on his head went solemnelie in procession and was lodged a good space after in the bishops palace néere to the said church And vpon the saturdaie next insuing line 30 Richard duke of Yorke was by sound of trumpet solemnelie proclamed heire apparant to the crowne of England and protectour of the realme After this the parlement kept at Couentrie the last yeare was declared to be a diuelish councell and onelie had for destruction of the nobilitie and was indéed no lawfull parlement bicause they which were returned were neuer elected according to the due order of the law but secretlie named by them which desired rather the destruction than the aduancement of the line 40 common-wealth When these agréements were enacted the king dissolued his parlement which was the last parlement that euer he ended The duke of Yorke well knowing that the queene would spurne against all this caused both hir and hir sonne to be sent for by the king But she as woont rather to rule than to be ruled and thereto counselled by the dukes of Excester and Summerset not onelie denied to come but also assembled a great armie intending to take the king by fine force out of the lords hands The protector in London hauing knowledge line 50 of all these dooings assigned the duke of Norffolke and erle of Warwike his trustie fréends to be about the king while he with the earles of Salisburie and Rutland and a conuenient number departed out of London the second daie of December northward and appointed the earle of March his eldest sonne to follow him with all his power The duke came to his castell of Sandall beside Wakefield on Christmasse éeuen there began to make muster of his tenants and fréends The quéene there of ascerteined determined line 60 to cope with him yeâ his succour were come Now she hauing in hir companie the prince hir sonne the dukes of Excester and Summerset the earle of Deuonshire the lord Clifford the lord Ros and in effect all the lords of the north parts with eightéene thousand men or as some write two and twentie thousand marched from Yorke to Wakefield and bad base to the duke euen before his castell gates He hauing with him not fullie fiue thousand persons contrarie to the minds of his faithfull councellors would needs issue foorth to fight with his enimies The duke of Summerset and the quéenes part casting vpon their most aduantage appointed the lord Clifford to lie in one stale and the earle of Wilshire in another and the duke with other to kéepe the maine battell The duke of Yorke with his people descended downe the hill in good order and arraie and was suffered to passe on towards the maine battell But when he was in the plaine field betweene his castell and the towne of Wakefield he was inuironed on euerie side like fish in a net so that though he fought manfullie yet was he within halfe an houre slaine and dead and his whole armie discomfited with him died of his trustie fréends his two bastard vncles sir Iohn and sir Hugh Mortimers sir Dauie Hall sir Hugh Hastings sir Thomas Neuill William and Thomas Aparre both brethren and two thousand and eight hundred others whereof manie were yoong gentlemen and heires of great parentage in the south parts whose kin reuenged their deaths within foure moneths next as after shall appeare In this conflict was wounded and taken prisoner Richard earle of Salisburie sir Richard Limbricke Rafe Stanleie Iohn Harow capteine Hanson and diuerse others The lord Clifford perceiuing where the earle of Rutland was conueied out of the field by one of his fathers chapleins and scholemaister to the same earle and ouertaking him stabbed him to the heart with a dagger as he kneeled afore him This earle was but a child at that time of twelue yeares of age whome neither his tender yeares nor dolorous countenance with holding vp both his hands for mercie for his speach was gone for feare could mooue the cruell heart of the lord Clifford to take pitie vpon him so that he was noted of great infamie for that his vnmercifull murther vpon that yoong gentleman But the same lord Clifford not satisfied herewith came to the place where the dead corpse of the duke of Yorke laie caused his head to be striken off and set on it a crowne of paper fixed it on a pole and presented it to the quéene not lieng farre from the field in great despite at which great reioising was shewed but they laughed then that shortlie after lamented and were glad then of other mens deaths that knew not their owne to be so néere at hand ¶ Some write that the duke was taken aliue and in derision caused to stand vpon a molehill on whose head they put a garland in steed of a crowne which they had fashioned and made of sedges or bulrushes and hauing so crowned him with that garland they knéeled downe afore him as the Iewes did vnto Christ in scorne saieng to him Haile king without rule haile king without heritage haile duke and prince without people or possessions And at length hauing thus scorned him with these and diuerse other the like despitefull words they stroke off his head which as yee haue heard they presented to the quéene Manie déemed that this miserable end chanced to the duke of Yorke as a due punishment for breaking his oth of allegiance vnto his souereigne lord king Henrie but others held him discharged thereof bicause he obteined a dispensation from the pope by such suggestion as his procurators made vnto him whereby the same oth was adiudged void as that which was receiued vnaduisedlie to the preiudice of himselfe and disheriting of all his posteritie After this victorie by the quéene the earle of Salisburie and all the prisoners were sent to Pomfret year 1461 and there beheaded whose heads togither with the duke of Yorkes head were conueied to Yorke and there set on poles ouer the gate of the citie in despite of them and their linage The earle of March now after the death of his father verie duke of Yorke lieng at Glocester was woonderfullie amazed when the sorrowfull newes of these mishaps came vnto him but after
these things were adooing in the south-parts king Henrie being in the north countrie assembled a great armie trusting for all this to subdue his enimies namelie sith their chiefe ringleader the duke of Yorke was dispatched out of the waie line 20 But he was deceiued for out of the ded stocke sprang a branch more mightie than the stem this Edward the fourth a prince so highlie fauoured of the people for his great liberalitie clemencie vpright dealing and courage that aboue all other he with them stood in grace alone by reason whereof men of all ages and degrees to him dailie repaired some offering themselues and their men to ieopard their liues with him and other plentiouslie gaue monie to support his charges and to mainteine his right line 30 By which meanes he gathered togither a puissant armie to the intent by battell sithens none other waies would serue at once to make an end of all So his armie and all things prepared he departed out of London the twelfe daie of March and by easie iournies came to the castell of Pomfret where he rested appointing the lord Fitz Walter to kéepe the passage at Ferribridge with a good number of tall mân King Henrie on the other part hauing his armie in readinesse committed the gouernance thereof line 40 to the duke of Summerset the earle of Northumberland and the lord Clifford as men desiring to reuenge the death of their parents slaine at the first battell at saint Albons These capteins leauing king Henrie his wife and sonne for the most safegard within the citie of Yorke passed the riuer of Wharfe with all their power intending to stop king Edward of his passage ouer the riuer of Aire And the better to bring that to passe the lord Clifford determined to make a charge vpon them that line 50 kept the passage of Ferribridge and so he departed with his light horssemen from the great armie on the saturdaie before Palmesundaie and earelie yer his enimies were aware slue the kéepers and wan the bridge The lord Fitz Walter hearing the noise suddenlie rose out of his bed and vnarmed with a pollar in his hand thinking that it had béene but a fraie amongst his men came downe to appease the same but yer he knew what the matter meant was slaine and with him the bastard of Salisburie brother to the earle of Warwike a valiant yoong gentleman and line 60 of great audacitie When the earle of Warwike was informed hereof like a man desperat he mounted on his hacknie and hasted puffing and blowing to king Edward saieng Sir I praie God haue mercie of their soules which in the beginning of your enterprise haue lost their liues And bicause I sée no succors of the world but in God I remit the vengeance to him our creator and redéemer With that he alighted downe and slue his horse with his sword saieng Let him flée that will for suerlie I will tarrie with him that will tarrie with me and kissed the crosse of his sword as it were for a vow to the promise King Edward perceiuing the courage of his trustie friend the earle of Warwike made proclamation that all men which were afraid to fight should depart and to all those that tarried the battell he promised great rewards with addition that anie souldier which voluntarilie would abide and afterwards either in or before the fight should seeme to flee or turne his backe then he that could kill him should haue a great reward and double wages After this proclamation ended the lord Fauconbridge sir Walter Blunt Robert Horne with the fore-ward passed the riuer at Castelford three miles from Ferribridge intending to haue inuironed the lord Clifford and his companie But they being therof aduertised departed in great hast toward king Henries armie yet they met with some that they looked not for were so trapt yer they were aware For the lord Clifford either for heat or paine putting off his gorget suddenlie with an arrow as some saie without an head was striken into the throte and immediatlie rendred his spirit and the earle of Westmerlands brother and all his companie almost were there slaine at a place called Dintingdale not far from Towton This end had the lord Clifford which slue the earle of Rutland kneeling on his knees whose yoong sonne Thomas Clifford was brought vp with a sheepheard in poore habit euer in feare to be knowne till king Henrie the seuenth obteined the crowne by whom he was restored to his name and possessions When this conflict was ended at Ferribridge the lord Fauconbridge hauing the fore-ward bicause the duke of Norffolke was fallen sicke valiantlie vpon Palmesundaie in the twilight set foorth his armie and came to Saxton where he might apparantlie behold the host of his aduersaries which were accompted thréescore thousand men and thereof aduertised king Edward whose whole armie amounted to eight and fortie thousand six hundred and thréescore persons which incontinentlie with the earle of Warwike set forward leauing the rere-ward vnder the gouernance of sir Iohn Wenlocke sir Iohn Dinham and other And first of all he made proclamation that no prisoner should be taken So the same daie about nine of the clocke which was the nine and twentith daie of March being Palmesundaie both the hostes approched in a faire plaine field betweene Towton and Saxton When ech part perceiued other they made a great shout and at the same instant there fell a small sléete or snow which by violenee of the wind that blew against them was driuen into the faces of king Henries armies so that their sight was somewhat dimmed The lord Fauconbridge leading K. Edwards fore-ward caused euerie archer vnder his standard to shoot one flight which before he caused them to prouide and then made them to stand still The northerne men feeling the shot but by reason of the sléet not well viewing the distance betweene them and their enimies like forward men shot their theafe arrowes as fast as they might but all to losse for they came short of the southerne men by thréescore yards So their shot almost spent the lord Fauconbridge marched forward with his archers which not onelie shot their whole sheafes but also gathered the arrowes of their enimies and let a great part flie against their first owners and suffered a great sort of them to stand which sore troubled the legs of the northerne men when the battell ioined The earle of Northumberland and Andrew Trollop chiefe capteins of king Henries vawward séeing their shot not to preuaile hasted to ioine with their enimies and the other part slacked not their pase This battell was sore foughten for hope of life was set aside on either part taking of prisoners proclamed a great offense so euerie man determined to vanquish or die in the field This deadlie conflict continued ten houres in doubtfull state of victorie vncerteinlie heauing and setting on both
of victorie against their gainstanders But as commonlie the euents of enterprises fall out flat contrarie to mens expectation and hope so came it to passe with these whose hope though it were gréene and flourie in the prosecuting of their affaires yet in the knitting vp of the matter and vnluckie successe thereof it fell out in triall to be a flattering a false and a fruitlesse hope and therefore that is a true and a wise sentence of the comiall poet well seruing the purpose Insperata accidunt magis saepè quà m quae speres All this season was king Henrie in Scotland and quéene Margaret being in France found such line 10 friendship at the French kings hands that she obteined a crue of fiue hundred Frenchmen with the which she arriued in Scotland And after that she had reposed hir selfe a time she sailed with hir gallant band of those ruffling Frenchmen toward Newcastell and landed at Tinmouth But whether she were afraid of hir owne shadow or that the Frenchmen cast too manie doubts the truth is that the whole armie returned to their ships and a tempest rose so suddenlie that if she had not taken a small carauell and that with good spéed arriued at Berwike she had line 20 beene taken at that present time by hir aduersaries And although fortune was so fauourable to hir yet hir companie with stormie blasts was driuen on the shore before Banburgh castell where they set their ships on fire and fled to an Iland called holie Iland where they were so assailed by the bastard Ogle and an esquier called Iohn Manners with other of king Edward freends that manie of them were slaine and almost foure hundred taken prisoners but their coronell Peter Bressie otherwise called monsieur line 30 de Uarenne happened vpon a fisherman and so came to Berwike vnto queene Margaret who made him capteine of the castell of Alnewike which he with his Frenchmen kept till they were rescued Shortlie after quéene Margaret obteined a great companie of Scots and other of hir friends and so bringing hir husband with hir and leauing hir sonne called prince Edward in the towne of Berwike entered Northumberland tooke the castell of Banburgh line 40 and stuffed it with Scotishmen and made thereof capteine sir Rafe Greie and came forward toward the bishoprike of Durham When the duke of Summerset heard these newes he without delaie reuolted from king Edward and fled to king Henrie So likewise did sir Rafe Persie and manie other of the kings friends But manie mo followed king Henrie in hope to get by the spoile for his armie spoiled and burned townes and destroied fields whersoeuer he came King Edward aduertised of all these things prepared an armie both by sea and land line 50 Some of his ships were rigged and vittelled at Lin and some at Hull and well furnished with souldiers were herewith set foorth to the sea Also the lord Montacute was sent into Northumberland there to raise the people to withstand his enimies And after this the king in his proper person accompanied with his brethren and a great part of the nobilitie of his realme came to the citie of Yorke furnished with a mightie armie sending a great part thereof line 60 to the aid of the lord Montacute least peraduenture he giuing too much confidence to the men of the bishoprike and Northumberland might through them be deceiued The Lord Montacute then hauing such with him as he might trust marched foorth towards his enimies and by the waie was incountered with the lord Hungerford the lord Roos sir Rafe Persie and diuerse other at a place called Hegelie moore where suddenlie the said lords in maner without stroke striking fled and onelie sir Rafe Persie abode and was there manfullie slaine with diuerse other saieng when he was dieng I haue saued the bird in my bosome meaning that he had kept his promise and oth made to king Henrie forgetting belike that he in king Henries most necessitie abandoned him and submitted him to king Edward as before you haue heard The lord Montacute séeing fortune thus prosperouslie leading his saile aduanced forward learning by espials that king Henrie with his host was incamped in a faire plaine called Liuels on the water of Dowill in Examshire hasted thither and manfullie set on his enimies in their owne campe which like desperate persons with no small courage receiued him There was a sore foughten field and long yer either part could haue anie aduantage of the other but at length the victorie fell to the lord Montacute who by fine force entered the battell of his enimies and constreined them to flie as despairing of all succours In which flight and chase were taken Henrie duke of Summerset which before was reconciled to king Edward the lord Roos the lord Molins the lord Hungerford sir Thomas Wentworth sir Thomas Husseie sir Iohn Finderne and manie other King Henrie was a good horsseman that day for he rode so fast awaie that no man might ouertake him and yet he was so néere pursued that certeine of his henchmen were taken their horsses trapped in blue veluet and one of them had on his head the said king Henries helmet or rather as may be thought as some say his high cap of estate called Abacot garnished with two rich crownes which was presented to king Edward at Yorke the fourth day of Maie The duke of Summerset was incontinentlie beheaded at Exham the other lords and knights were had to Newcastell and there after a little respit were likewse put to death Beside these diuerse other to the number of fiue and twentie were executed at Yorke and in other places Sir Humfrie Neuill and William Tailbois calling himselfe earle of Kime sir Rafe Greie and Richard Tunstall with diuerse other which escaped from this battell hid themselues in secret places but yet they kept not themselues so close but that they were espied and taken The earle of Kime was apprehended in Riddesdale and brought to Newcastell and there beheaded Sir humfrie Neuill was taken in Holdernesse and at Yorke lost his head After this battell called Exham field king Edward came to the citie of Durham and sent from thence into Northumberland the earle of Warwike the lord Montacute the lords Fauconbridge Scroope to recouer such castels as his enimies there held and with force defended They first besieged the castell of Alnewike which sir Peter Bressie and the Frenchmen kept and in no wise would yéeld sending for aid to the Scots Whervpon sir George Dowglas erle of Angus with thirteene thousand chosen men in the day time came and rescued the Frenchmen out of the castell the Englishmen looking on which thought it much better to haue the castell without losse of their men than to leese both the castell and their men considering the great power of the Scots their owne small number and so they entered the castell and
Orleance after French king he was with mischarging of a speare by fortunes peruerse countenance pitifullie slaine and brought to death leauing after him one line 50 onelie son named Iohn which being banished Scotland inhabited maried in France and there died How dolorous how sorrowfull is it to write and much more painefull to remember the chances and infortunities that happened within two yeares in England Scotland betwéene naturall brethren For king Edward set on by such as enuied the estate of the duke of Clarence forgetting nature and brotherlie amitie consented to the death of his said brother Iames king of Scots putting in obliuion that line 60 Alexander his brother was the onelie organ and instrument by whome he obteined libertie fréedome seduced and led by vile and malicious persons which maligned at the glorie and indifferent iustice of the duke of Albanie imagined and compassed his death and exiled him for euer What a pernicious serpent what a venemous toade and what a pestiferous scorpion is that diuelish whelpe called priuie enuie Against it no fortresse can defend no caue can hide no wood can shadow no fowle can escape nor no beast can auoid Hir poison is so strong that neuer man in authoritie could escape from the biting of hir teeth scratching of hir pawes blasting of hir breth filth of hir taile Notable therefore is the Gréeke epigram in this behalfe touching enuie of this kind which saith that a worsse thing than enuie there is not in the world and yet hath it some goodnesse in it for it consumeth the eies and the hart of the enuious The words in their owne toong sententiouslie sound thus ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã Although king Edward reioised that his businesse came to so good a conclusion with the Scots yet he was about the same time sore disquieted in his mind towards the French king whome he now perceiued to haue dallied with him as touching the agreement of the mariage to be had betwixt the Dolphin and his daughter the ladie Elizabeth For the lord Howard being as then returned out of France certified the king of his owne knowledge how that he being present saw the ladie Margaret of Austrich daughter to duke Maximilian sonne to the emperor Frederike receiued into France with great pompe and roialtie and at Ambois to the Dolphin contracted and espoused King Edward highlie displeased with such double and vniust dealing of the French king called his nobles togither and opened to them his gréefes who promised him for redresse thereof to be readie with all their powers to make warres in France at his pleasure and appointment But whilest he was busie in hand to make his purueiance for warres thus against France whether it was with melancholie and anger which he tooke with the French kings dooings and vncourteous vsage or were it by any superfluous surfet to âhe which he was verie much giuen he suddenlie fell sicke and was so gréeuouslie taken that in the end he perceiued his naturall strength in such wise to decaie that there was little hope of recouerie in the cunning of his physicians whome he perceiued onlie to prolong his life for a small time Wherefore he began to make readie for his passage into another world not forgetting as after shall appeare to exhort the nobles of his realme aboue all things to an vnitie among themselues And hauing as he tooke it made an attonement betwixt the parties that were knowne to be scant freends he commended vnto their graue wisedoms the gouernment of his sonne the prince and of his brother the duke of Yorke during the time of their tender yeares But it shall not be amisse to adde in this place the words which he is said to haue spoken on his death-bed which were in effect as followeth The words of king Edward vttered by him on his death-bed MY welbeloued and no lesse betrusted fréends councellors and alies if we mortall men would dailie and hourlie with our selues reuolue and intentiuelie in our hearts ingraue or in our minds seriouslie ponder the fraile and fading imbecillitie of our humane nature and the vnstablenesse of the same we should apparantlie perceiue that we being called reasonable creatures and in that predicament compared and ioined with angels be more worthie to be named and déemed persons vnreasonable and rather to be associate in that name with brute beasts called vnreasonable of whose life and death no creature speaketh rather than in that point to be resembled to the angelicall societie and reasonable companie For while health in vs florisheth or prosperitie aboundeth or the glosing world laugheth which is he so reasonable of vs all that can saie if he will not âr from the truth that he once in a wéeke remembreth his fatall end or the prescribed terme of his induring or once prouided by labour studie or otherwise to set a stedfast and sure order for the securitie profit and continuance either of his possessions dominions or of his sequele and posteritie which after him shall naturallie succéed Such is the blindnesse of our fraile and weake nature euer giuen to carnall concupiscence and wordlie delectations dailie darkened and seduced with that lithargious and deceiuable serpent called hope of long life that all we put in line 10 obliuion our duetie present and lesse remember the politike purueiance for things to come for blindlie we walke in this fraile life till we fall groueling with our eies suddenlie vpon death The vanities of this world be to vs so agreeable that when we begin to liue we estéeme our life a whole world which once ouerpassed it sheweth no better but dust driuen awaie with a puffe of wind I speake this to you of my selfe and for your selues to you sore lamenting and inwardlie bewailing that I line 20 did not performe finallie consummate such politike deuises good and godlie ordinances in my long life and peaceable prosperitie which then I fullie determined to haue begun set forward and completlie to haue finished Which now for the extreame paines and tortures of my angrie maladie and for the small terme of my naturall life I can neither performe neither yet liue to sée either to take effect or to sort to anie good conclusion For God I call to record my heart was fullie set line 30 and my mind deliberatlie determined so to haue adorned this realme with wholesome lawes statutes and ordinances so to haue trained and brought vp mine infants and children in vertue learning actiuitie and policie that what with their roiall puissance your fréendlie assistance the proudest prince of Europe durst not once attempt to mooue anie hostilitie against them you or this realme But oh Lord all things that I of long time haue in my mind reuolued and imagined that stealing théefe death goeth line 40 about to subuert and in the moment of an houre cléerelie to ouertred Wherefore as men saie I now being driuen to the verie
himselfe as king had it shewed vnto him that he should not reigne but his vncle shuld haue the crowne At which word the prince sore abashed line 30 began to sigh and said Alas I would my vncle would let me haue my life yet though I leese my kingdome Then he that told him the tale vsed him with good words and put him in the best comfort he could But foorthwith was the prince and his brother both shut vp all other remooued from them onelie one called Blacke Will or William Slaughter excepted set to serue them and sée them sure After which time line 40 the prince neuer tied his points nor ought rought of himselfe but with that yoong babe his brother lingered with thought and heauinesse vntill this traitorous death deliuered them of that wretchednesse For sir Iames Tirrell deuised that they should be murthered in their beds To the execution whereof he appointed Miles Forrest one of the foure that kept them a fellow fleshed in murther before time To him he ioined one Iohn Dighton his owne horssekéeper a big broad square and strong knaue line 50 Then all the other being remooued from them this Miles Forrest and Iohn Dighton about midnight the séelie children lieng in their beds came into the chamber suddenlie lapping them vp among the clothes so to bewrapped them and intangled them keeping downe by force the fether-bed and pillowes hard vnto their mouths that within a while smoothered and stifled their breath failing they gaue vp to God their innocent soules into the ioies of heauen leauing to the tormentors their bodies dead in the line 60 bed Which after that the wretches perceiued first by the strugling with the paines of death and after long lieng still to be thoroughlie dead they laid their bodies naked out vpon the bed and fetched sir Iames to sée them which vpon the sight of them caused those murtherers to burie them at the staire foot meetlie déepe in the ground vnder a great heape of stones Then rode sir Iames in great hast to king Richard and shewed him all the maner of the murther who gaue him great thanks and as some saie there made him knight But he allowed not as I haue heard the burieng in so vile a corner saieng that he would haue them buried in a better place bicause they were a kings sonnes Lo the honourable coucourage of a king Whervpon they saie that a priest of sir Robert Brakenberies tooke vp the bodies againe and secretlie interred them in such place as by the occasion of his death which onelie knew it could neuer since come to light Uerie truth is it and well knowne that at such time as sir Iames Tirrell was in the Tower for treason committed against the most famous prince king Henrie the seauenth both Dighton and he were examined and confessed the murther in maner aboue written but whither the bodies were remooued they could nothing tell And thus as I haue learned of them that much knew and little cause had to lie were these two noble princes these innocent tender children borne of most roiall bloud brought vp in great wealth likelie long to liue reigne and rule in the realme by traitorous tyrannie taken depriued of their estate shortlie shut vp in prison and priuilie slaine and murthered their bodies cast God wot where by the cruell ambition of their vnnaturall vncle his despiteous tormentors Which things on euerie part well pondered God neuer gaue this world a more notable example neither in what vnsuertie standeth this worldlie weale or what mischeefe worketh the proud enterprise of an high heart or finallie what wretched end insueth such despiteous crueltie For first to begin with the ministers Miles Forrest at S. Martins péecemeale rotted awaie Dighton in déed yet walketh on aliue in good possibilitie to be hanged yer he die But sir Iames Tirrell died at the Tower hill beheaded for treason King Richard himselfe as ye shall hereafter heare slaine in the field hacked and hewed of his enimies hands haried on horsse-backe dead his haire in despite torne and tugged like a curre dog and the mischéefe that he tooke within lesse than three yeares of the mischeefe that he did and yet all in the meane time spent in much paine trouble outward much feare anguish and sorow within For I haue heard by credible report of such as were secret with his chamberleine that after this abhominable déed doone he neuer had a quiet mind Than the which there can be no greater torment For a giltie conscience inwardlie accusing and bearing witnesse against an offendor is such a plague and punishment as hell it selfe with all the féends therein can not affoord one of greater horror affliction the poet implieng no lesse in this tristichon Poena autem vehemens ac multo saeuior illis Quas Caeditius grauis inuenit Radamanthus Nocte diéque suum gestare in pectore testem He neuer thought himselfe sure Where he went abroad his eies whirled about his bodie priuilie fensed his hand euer vpon his dagger his countenance and maner like one alwaies readie to strike againe he tooke ill rest a nights laie long waking and musing sore wearied with care and watch rather slumbered than slept troubled with fearefull dreames suddenlie sometime start vp lept out of his bed and ran about the chamber so was his restlesse heart continuallie tossed and tumbled with the tedious impression and stormie remembrance of his abhominable déed Now had he outward no long time in rest For herevpon soone after began the conspiracie or rather good confederation betweene the duke of Buckingham and manie other gentlemen against him The occasion where vpon the king and the duke fell out is of diuerse folke in diuerse wise pretended This duke as I haue for certeine béene informed as soone as the duke of Glocester vpon the death of king Edward came to Yorke there had solemne funerall seruice for king Edward sent thither in the most secret wise he could one Persall his trustie seruant who came to Iohn Ward a chamberer of like secret trust with the duke of Glocester desiring that in the most close and couert maner he might be admitted to the presence and spéech of his maister And the duke of Glocester aduertised of his desire caused him in the dead of the night after all other folke auoided to be brought vnto him in his secret chamber where Persall after his maisters recommendations shewed him that he had secret sent him to shew him that in this new world he would take such part as he would wait vpon him with a thousand good fellowes if need were line 10 The messenger sent backe with thanks some secret instruction of the protectors mind yet met him againe with further message from the duke his master within few daies after at Notingham whither the protector from Yorke with manie gentlemen of the north countrie to the
was displeased and so returned to Brecknocke to you But in that iournie as I returned whither it were by the inspiration of the Holie-ghost or by melancholious disposition I had diuerse and sundrie imaginations how to depriue this vnnaturall vncle and bloudie butcher from his roiall seat and princelie dignitie First I santised that if I list to take vpon me the crowne and imperiall scepter of the realme now was the time propice and conuenient For now was the waie made plaine and the gate opened and occasion giuen which now neglected should peraduenture neuer take such effect and conclusion For I saw he was disdeined of the lords temporall abhored and accurssed of the lords spirituall detested of all gentlemen and despised of all the communaltie so that I saw my chance as perfectlie as I saw mine owne image in a glasse that there was no person if I had béene gréedie to attempt the enterprise could nor should haue woone the ring or got the gole before me And on this point I rested in imagination secretlie with my selfe two daies at Tewkesburie From thence so iournieng I mused and thought that it was not best nor conuenient to take vpon me as a conqueror For then I knew that all men and especiallie the nobilitie would with all their power withstand me both for rescuing of possessions and tenures as also for subuerting of the whole estate laws and customes of the realme such a power hath a conqueror as you know well inough my lord But at the last in all this doubtfull case there sprang a new branch out of my head which suerlie I thought should haue brought forth faire floures but the sunne was so hot that they turned to drie wéeds For I suddenlie remembred that the lord Edmund duke of Summerset my grandfather was with king Henrie the sixt in the two and thrée degrées from Iohn duke of Lancaster lawfullie begotten so that I thought sure my mother being eldest daughter to duke Edmund that I was next heire to king Henrie the sixt of the house of Lancaster This title pleased well such as I made priuie of my counsell but much more it incouraged my foolish desire and eleuated my ambitious intent insomuch that I cléerelie iudged and in mine owne mind was determinatlie resolued that I was indubitate heire of the house of Lancaster and therevpon concluded line 10 to make my first foundation and erect my new building But whether God so ordeined or by fortune it so chanced while I was in a maze either to conclude suddenlie on this title to set it open amongst the common people or to keepe it secret a while sée the chance as I rode betweene Worcester and Bridgenorth I incountered with the ladie Margaret countesse of Richmond now wife vnto the lord Stanlie which is the verie daughter and sole heire to lord Iohn duke of Summerset my grandfathers line 20 elder brother which was as cleane out of my mind as though I had neuer séene hir so that she and hir sonne the earle of Richmond be both bulworke and portcullice betwéene me and the gate to enter into the maiestie roiall and getting of the crowne Now when we had communed a little concerning hir sonne as I shall shew you after and were departed shée to our ladie of Worcester and I to Shrewsburie I then new changed and in maner amazed began to dispute with my selfe little considering line 30 that thus my earnest title was turned to a tittell not so good as Est Amen Eftsoones I imagined whether were best to take vpon me by election of the nobilitie and communaltie which me thought easie to be done the vsurper king thus being in hatred and abhorred of this whole realme or to take it by power which standeth in fortunes chance and difficile to be atchiued and brought to passe Thus tumbling and tossing in the waues of ambiguitie betwéene the stone and the sacrifice I considered first the office dutie and line 40 paine of a king which suerlie thinke I that no mortall man can iustlie and trulie obserue except he be called elected and speciallie appointed by God as K. Dauid and diuerse other haue beéne But further I remembred that if I once tooke on me the scepter and the gouernance of the realme that of two extreame enimies I was dailie sure but of one trustie friend which now a daies be gone a pilgrimage I was neither assured nor crediblie ascerteined such is the worlds mutation For I manifestlie perceiued that the daughters of king Edward line 50 and their alies and freends which be no small number being both for his sake much beloued and also for the great iniurie manifest tyrannie doone to them by the new vsurper much lamented and pitied would neuer ceasse to barke if they cannot bite at the one side of me Semblablie my coosine the earle of Richmond his aids and kinsfolks which be not of little power will suerlie attempt like a fierce greihound either to bite or to pearse me on the other side So that my life and rule should euer hang line 60 by a haire neuer in quiet but euer in doubt of death or deposition And if the said two linages of Yorke and Lancaster which so long haue striued for the imperiall diadem should ioine in one against me then were I suerlie mated and the game gotten Wherefore I haue cléerelie determined and with my selfe concluded vtterlie to relinquish all such fantasticall imaginations concerning the obteining of the crowne But all such plagues calamities and troubles which I feared and suspected might haue chanced on me if I had taken the rule and regiment of this realme I shall with a reredemaine so make them rebound to to our common enimie that calleth himselfe king that the best stopper that he hath at tenice shall not well stop without a fault For as I told you before the counfesse of Richmond in my returne from the new named king méeting me in the high waie praâed me first for kinred sake secondarâlie for the loue that I bare to my grandfather duke Humfrie which was sworne brother to hir father so mooue the king to be good to hir sonne Henrie earle of Richmond and to licence him with his fauour to returne againe into England And if it were his pleasure so to doo she promised that the earle hir sonne should marrie one of king Edwards daughters at the appointment of the king without anie thing to be taken or demanded for the said espousals but onelie the kings fauour which request I soone ouerpassed and gaue hir faire words and so departed But after in my lodging when I called to memorie with a deliberate studie and did circumspectlie ponder them I fullie adiudged that the Holie-ghost caused hir to mooue a thing the end whereof she could not consider both for the securitie of the realme as also for the preferment of hir child and the destruction and finall confusion of the common enimie king
Clifford as concerning Perkin which falselie vsurped the name of K. Edwards sonne sir William Stanleie said that if he knew certeinlie that the yoong man was the indubitate heire of king Edward the fourth he would neuer fight or beare armour against him This point argued that he bare no hartie good will toward king Henrie as then But what was the cause that he had conceiued some inward grudge towards the king or how it chanced that the king had withdrawen his speciall fauor from him manie haue doubted Some indéed haue gessed that sir William Stanlie for the seruice which he shewed at Bosworth field thought that all the benefits which he receiued of the king to be farre vnder that which he had deserued in preseruing not onelie the kings life but also in obteining for him the victorie of his enimies so that his aduersarie was slaine in the field Wherfore desiring to be created earle of Chester and therof denied he began to disdeine the king And one thing incouraged him much which was the riches and treasure of king Richard which he onlie possessed at the battell of Bosworth by reason of which riches and great power of men he set naught by the king his souereigne lord and maister The king hauing thus an hole in his coat doubted first what he should doo with him for loth he was to lose the fauour of his brother the earle of Derbie and againe to pardon him he feared least it should be an euill example to other that should go about to attempt the like offense And so at length seueritie got the vpper hand mercie was put backe in so much that he was arreigned at Westminster and adiudged to die and line 10 according to that iudgement was brought to the Tower hill the sixtéenth daie of Februarie year 1495 and there had his head striken off This was the end of sir William Stanleie the chiefest helper of king Henrie to the crowne at Bosworth field against king Richard the third and who set the same crowne first vpon the kings head when it was found in the field trampled vnder féet He was a man while he liued of great power in his countrie and also of great wealth in somuch as the common line 20 same ran that there was in his castell of Holt found in readie coine plate and iewels to the value of fortie thousand markes or more and his land and fees extended to three thousand pounds by yeare Neuerthelesse all helped not neither his good seruice in Bosworth field neither his forwardnesse euen with the hazard of life to prefer K. Henrie to the crowne neither his faithfulnesse in cleauing to him at all brunts neither the bond of aliance betwixt them neither the power that he was able to make neither line 30 the riches which he was worth neither intercession of fréends which he wanted not none of these nor all these could procure the redemption of his lost life Oâluxum decus hominum ô variabile tempus ¶ On the sixtéenth of Nouember was holden the sergeants feast at the bishops place of Elie in Holborne where dined the king queene and all the chiefe lords of England The new sergeants names were maister Mordant Higham Kingsmill Conisbie Butler Yakesleie Frowicke Oxenbridge Constable line 40 In digging for to laie a new foundation in the church of saint Marie hill in London the bodie of ãâã Hackneie which had béene buried in the church ãâ¦ã of 175 yeares was found whole of skinne the ioints of hir armes pliable which corpse was kept aboue ground foure daies without annoiance and then buried againe ¶ Also this yeare as maister Grafton saith at the charges of maister Iohn Tate alderman of London was the church of saint Anthonies founded annexed vnto the college of Windsore line 50 wherein was erected one notable and frée schoole to the furtherance of learning and a number of poore people by the name of almesmen which were poore aged and decaied housholders releeued to the great commendation of that worthie man who so liued in worship that his death by his worthie dooings maketh him still aliue for he was not forgetfull to beautifie the good state of this citie in which by wealth he had tasted of Gods blessings About this same time diuerse men were punished line 60 that had vpon a presumptuous boldnesse spoken manie slanderous words against the kings maiestie hoping still for the arriuall of the feigned Richard duke of Yorke After the death of sir William Stanleie Giles lord Daubenie was elected and made the kings chéefe chamberleine Also the K. sent into Ireland to purge out the euill wicked séeds of rebellion amongest the wild sauage Irish people sowed there by the craftie conueiance of Perkin Warbecke sir Henrie Deane late abbat of Langtonie whome he made chancellor of that Ile sir Edward Poinings knight with an armie of men The fauourers of Perkin hearing that sir Edward Poinings was come with a power to persecute them withdrew streightwaies and fled into the woods and marishes for the safegard of themselues Sir Edward Poinings according to his commission intending to punish such as had aided and aduanced the enterprise of Perkin with his whole armie marched forward against the wild Irishmen bicause that all other being culpable of that offense fled and resorted to them for succour But when he saw that his purpose succéeded not as he would haue wished it both bicause the Irish lords sent him no succour according to their promises and also for that his owne number was not sufficient to furnish his enterprise bicause his enimies were dispersed amongst woods mounteins and marishes he was constreined to recule backe sore displeased in his mind against Gerald earle of Kildare being then the kings deputie Now the cause of this his discontentment was for that the said earle was suspected to be the meane that he had no succours sent him and was so informed in déed by such as bare the earle no good will And therefore suddenlie he caused the earle to be apprehended and as a prisoner brought him in his companie into England Which earle being examined and sundrie points of treason laid to him he so auoided them all laid the burthen in other mens necks that he was dismissed and sent into Ireland againe there to be deputie and lieutenant as he was before The king being now in some better suertie of his estate did take his progresse into Lancashire the fiue twentith daie of Iune there to make merrie with his moother the countesse of Derbie which then laie at Lathome in the countrie In this meane while Perkin Warbecke being in Flanders sore troubled that his iuggling was discouered yet he determined not to leaue off his enterprise in hope at length to atteine the crowne of England and so gathering a power of all nations some bankrupts some false English sanctuarie men some théeues robbers
gaue the pope to drinke of the same wine which Ualentinois had sent who arriuing while his father was drinking drunke also of the same wine being but iust that they both should tast of the same cup which they had brued for the destruction of others All the towne of Rome ran with great gladnesse to saint Peters about the dead bodie of the pope their eies not satisfied to sée ded and destroied a serpent who with his immoderate line 50 ambition and poisoned infidelitie togither with all the horrible examples of crueltie luxurie and monstruous couetousnesse selling without distinction both holie things and prophane things had infected the whole world And yet was he accompanied with a most rare almost perpetuall prosperitie euen from his yoong age to the end of his life desiring alwaies great things and obteining most often that he desired An line 60 example of much importance to confound the arrogancie of those men who presuming to know and sée perfectlie with humane eies the depth of Gods iudgements doo assure that what happeneth either good or ill to mortall men procéedeth either of their merits or faults as though we saw not dailie manie good men vniustlie tormented wicked persons aboue their deseruings liue in case and honour wherein who makes an other interpretation derogates the iustice and power of God the greatnesse of which being not to be conteined within any scripts or tearms present knoweth how well and largely to discerne in an other time and place the iust from the vniust and that with rewards and eternall punishments In the meane time he powreth out his vengeance vpon the imaginers of mischéefe in this life so prouiding as that they are caught in their owne snares and ouertaken with such destruction as they had prepared for others according to that saieng of the Psalmist Effodit puteum foueámque eduxit ab imo Et miser in latebras incidit ipse suas In verticem ipsius recurrit Pernicies recidúntque fraudes At the same time died Giles lord Dawbenie the kings chéefe chamberleine whose office Charles bastard sonne to Henrie last duke of Summerset occupied and enioied a man of good wit and great experience Soone after the king caused Guidebald duke of Urbine to be elected knight of the order of the garter in like maner as his father duke Frederike had béene before him which was chosen and admitted into the order by king Edward the fourth Sir Gilbert Talbot and the other two ambassadors being appointed to kéepe on their iournie vnto pope Iulie the second elected after the death of the said Pius the third bare the habit and collar also vnto the said duke Guidebald which after he had receiued the same sent sir Balthasar Castalio knight a Mantrian borne as his orator vnto king Henrie which was for him installed according to the ordinances of the order This yeare that worthie prelate Thomas Sauage archbishop of Yorke departed this life at his castell of Cawood a man beside the worthinesse of his birth highlie estéemed with his prince for his fast fidelitie and great wisedome He bestowed great cost in repairing the castell of Cawood and the manor of Scrobie His bodie was buried at Yorke but he appointed by his testament that his hart should be buried at Macclesfield in Cheshire where he was borne in a chapell there of his foundation ioining to the south side of the church meaning to haue founded a college there also if his purpose had not béene preuented by death After him succeeded doctor Benbridge in the archbishops sée of Yorke being the fiftie and sixt archbishop that had sat in that see About this same time Lewes the French king the twelfe of that name who succéeded Charles the eighth that died at Amboise the night before the eighth daie of Aprill of a catarrhe which the physicians call an apoplexie the same rising in him with such aboundance as he beheld a match plaied at tennisse that in few houres he ended at the same place his life during the which he had with greater importunitie than vertue troubled the whole world with great apparance of danger to kindle eftsoones new fiers of innouation and troubles maried his eldest daughter named Clare vnto Francis de Ualois Dolphin of Uienne and duke of Angolesme which ladie was promised vnto Charles the king of Castile wherevpon by ambassadors sent to and fro betwixt king Henrie and the said king of Castile a mariage was concluded betwixt the said king of Castile and the ladie Marie daughter to king Henrie being about the age of ten yeares For conclusion of which mariage the lord of Barow other ambassadors were sent into England from the emperor Maximilian which with great rewards returned ¶ William Browne mercer maior of London this yeare deceassed year 1508 and foorthwith sir Laurence Ailmer draper was chosen and sworne and went home in a graie cloake with the sword borne before him on the eight and twentith daie of March. Item he tooke his oth at the Tower and kept no feast William Capell was put in sute by the king for things by him doone in his maioraltie Also Thomas Kneisworth that had beene maior of London and his shiriffes were sent to the kings Bench till they were put to their fines of foureteene hundred pounds In the moneth of Iune the citie of Norwich was sore perished neere consumed with fier that began in a Frenchmans house named Peter Iohnson a surgian in the parish of saint George Stephan Genings merchant tailor maior of London founded a free grammar schoole at Wlfrunehampton in Staffordshire with conuenient lodgings for the maister and vsher in the same place where he was borne He gaue lands sufficient line 10 for the maintenance leauing the ouersight thereof to the merchant tailors in London who haue hitherto iustlie dealt in that matter and also augmented the building there Maister Nichols who maried the onelie daughter and heire of the aforesaid Stephan Genings gaue lands to mainteine the pauements of that towne Also Iohn Leneson esquier about Anno 1556 gaue lands whereof foure pounds should be dealt euerie yeare on good fridaie to the poore people of Wlfrunehampton and six and twentie line 20 shillings eight pence yéerelie towards the reparation of the church there Moreouer about Anno 1566 sir Iohn Ligh a préest which had serued in that church there the space of thréescore years for fiue pounds six shillings eight pence the yeare without anie other augmentation of his liuing who would neuer take anie benefice or other preferment gaue twentie pounds to purchase twentie shillings the yeare lands the same to be giuen yearelie for euer to the poore of Wlfrunehampton line 30 vpon good fridaie twelue pounds thirteene shillings foure pence to purchase a marke a yeare lands the same to be giuen to the poore of Chifnall in the countie of Salope where the said Ligh was borne This man liued
chappell as he crossed ouer the stréet from his house to the church was suddenlie murthered with a gun the cracke whereof was heard of the line 30 neighbors and of a great number of laborers that stood at Soper lane end and saw the said Packington go foorth of his house but there was such a thicke mist that morning as the like had not béene séene by couert whereof the murtherer found shift the more easilie to escape Manie were suspected but none found in fault albeit forsomuch as he was one that would speake his mind freelie and was at the same time one of the burgesses of the parlement for the citie of London line 40 and had talked somewhat against the couetousnesse and crueltie practised by the cleargie it was mistrusted least by some of them he came thus to his end At length the murtherer in déed was condemned at Banburie in Oxfordshire to die for a fellonie which he afterwards committed and when he came to the gallowes on which he suffered he confessed that he did this murther and till that time he was neuer had in anie suspicion thereof ¶ The nine and twentith of March were twelue of the Lincolneshire rebels line 50 drawne to Tiburne and there hanged and quartered fiue of them were priests the residue laie men One of the priests was doctor Makarell and an other was the vicar of Louth About this season the maner of casting pipes of lead for the conueiance of water vnder the ground without occupieng of soulder to the same was inuented by Robert Brocke clearke then one of the kings chapleins an inuention right necessarie for the sauing of expenses for two men and a boie will line 60 doo that in one daie which before could not be doone by manie men in manie daies Robert Cooper goldsmith was the first that made the instruments and put this inuention in practise ¶ In the verie beginning of this yeare certeine commissioners being sent into Summersetshire to take vp corne the people began to make an insurrection but by the wisedome and diligence of yoong master Paulet others the same was suppressed and the beginners thereof to the number of thréescore were apprehended condemned and fourtéene of them were hanged and quartered one of the number being a woman the residue were saued by the kings mercifull pardon In Iune the lord Darcie the lord Huseie were arreigned at Westminster before the marquesse of Excester then high steward where they were found guiltie and had iudgement as in cases of high treason Shortlie after also were arreigned sir Robert Constable sir Thomas Persie sir Francis Bigod sir Stephan Hamilton sir Iohn Bulmer and his wife or rather as some report his paramour also William Lomleie Nicholas Tempest William Thurst abbat of Founteins Adam Subburie abbat of Ierueux William Wold prior of Birlington also the abbat of Riuers and Robert Aske They were all found guiltie of high treason and all put to death Sir Robert Constable was hanged in chains ouer Beuerleie gate at Hull and Robert Aske was also hanged in chains on a tower at Yorke and Margaret Cheineie sir Iohn Bulmers paramour burnt in Smithfield in London The other suffered at Tiburne In the latter end of Iune was the lord Darcie beheaded at the Tower hill and shortlie after the lord Huseie was likewise beheaded at Lincolne This yeare at saint Georges feast was the lord Cromwell made knight of the garter In October on saint Edwards euen which falleth on the twelft of that moneth at Hampton court the quéene was deliuered of hir sonne named Edward for whose birth great ioie was made thorough the realme with thanksgiuing to almightie God who had sent such a yoong prince to succéed his father in the crowne of this realme as afterwards he did by the name of king Edward the sixt His godfathers at the fontstone were the archbishop of Canturburie the duke of Norffolke the ladie Marie was his godmoother and at the bishopping the duke of Suffolke was his godfather On the eightéenth of October he was made prince of Wales duke of Cornewall and erle of Chester But as ioie is often mixed with sorrow so at that time it came to passe by the death of his moother that noble and vertuous ladie queene Iane which departed out of this life the fourteenth daie of this moneth of October to the great griefe of the whole realme but namelie the king hir husband tooke it most grieuouslie of all other who remoouing to Westminster there kept himselfe close a great while after The eight of Nouember the corps of the quéene was caried to Windsor with great solemnitie and there buried in the midst of the quire in the castell church There was also a solemne hearse made for hir in Paules church and funerall exequies celebrated as well as in all other churches within the citie of London Thus was the king left againe a widower and so continued the space of two yeares togither Upon the death of which quéene Iane and the birth of prince Edward hir son this distichon following was made Phoenix Iana iacet nato Phoenice dolendum Saecula Phoenices nulla tulisse duas The king held his Christmas at Gréenewich and as well he as all the court ware mourning apparell till the morrow after Candlemas daie then he and all other changed year 1538 This yeare Edward Seimer vicount Beauchampe the quéenes brother was created earle of Hertford sir William Fitzwilliams lord high admerall was created earle of Southhampton ¶ and master Paulet was made vicetreasuror sir Iohn Russell comptrollor of the kings house master Henedge master Long master Kneuet of the kings priuie chamber knights master Coffin master Liftar master Seimer the quéenes brother knights On Allhallowes euen the lord Thomas Howard brother to the duke of Norffolke died prisoner in the Tower of London and was buried at Thetford and then the ladie Margaret Dowglas was pardoned and released out of the Tower The foure and twentith of Februarie being sundaie the rood of Boxleie in Kent called the rood of grace made with diuerse vices to mooue the eies and lips was shewed at Paules crosse by the preacher which was the bishop of Rochester and there it was broken and plucked in peeces The fiue and twentith of Februarie sir Ihon Allen priest and also an Irish gentleman of the Garets were hanged quartered at Tiburne The second of March the image of the rood called saint Sauior line 10 at Bermonseie abbeie in Southworke was taken downe by the kings commandement The one and twentith of March Henrie Harsam customer of Plimmouth and Thomas Ewell were hanged and quartered at Tiburne In Maie a frier obseruant called frier Forrest was apprehended for that he was knowne in secret confessions to haue declared to manie of the kings liege people that the king was not supreame head of the church
of the chandrie with seare cloths the yeoman of the skullerie with a pan of fire to heate the irons a chafer of water to coole the ends of the irons and two formes for all officers to set their stuffe on the sergeant of the cellar with wine ale and béere the yeoman of the yewrie in the sergeants stead who was absent with bason ewre and towels Thus euerie man in his office readie to doo the execution there was called foorth sir William Pickering knight marshall to bring in the said Edmund Kneuet and when he was brought to the bar the chiefe iustice declared to him his trespasse and the said Kneuet confessing himselfe to be giltie humblie submitted him to the kings mercie for this offense he was not onelie iudged to lose his hand but also his bodie to remaine in prison and his lands and goods at the kings pleasure Then the said sir Edmund Kneuet desired that the king of his benigne grace would pardon him of his right hand and take the left for quoth he if my right hand be spared I maie hereafter doo such good seruice to his grace as shall please him to appoint Of this submission and request the iustices foorthwith informed the king who of his goodnesse considering the gentle heart of the said Edmund and the good report of the lords granted him his pardon that he should lose neither hand lands nor goods but should go frée at libertie The lord Leonard Greie being indicted of certeine points of treason by him committed as was alledged against him during the season that he was the kings lieutenant in Ireland to wit for deliuering his nephew Girald Fitzgerard brother vnto Thomas Fitzgerard before executed and also for that he caused certeine Irishmen to inuade the lands of the kings friends whome he fauoured not on the fiue and twentith of Iune he was arreigned at Westminster in the kings bench and appointed to be tried by knights because he was a lord by name and no lord of the parlement but he discharged the iurie and confessed the indictement wherevpon he had iudgement and on the eight and twentith of Iune being saint Peters euen he was beheaded at tower hill where he ended his life verie quietlie and godlie This noble man as he was come of high linage so was he a right valiant and hardie personage hauing in his time doone his prince and countrie good seruice both in Ireland France and other places greatlie to his commendation although now his hap was thus to loose his head as conuicted by law and his renowme ouercast with a cloud of disgrace vanished as future chances befell to the abolishing of the present honor which sometime he inioied Howbeit his estimation he might haue preserued vnblemished had prouident circumspection vndertaken the direction of his dooings and that he had borne his eies in his forehead to foresee all afterclaps which a wise man will in no case neglect line 10 Nam sapiens in fronte oculos habet omnia spectans Omnia prudenti cum ratione videns The same daie that he suffered there was executed at saint Thomas Waterings thrée gentlemen Iohn Mantell Iohn Frowds and george Roidon they died for a murther committed in Sussex as their indictement imported in companie of Thomas Fines lord Dacres of the south The truth whereof was thus The said lord Dacres through the lewd persuasion of some of them as hath béene reported line 20 meaning to hunt in the parke of Nicholas Pelham esquire at Laughton in the same countie of Sussex being accompanied with the said Mantell Frowds and Roidon Iohn Cheinie and Thomas Isleie gentlemen Richard Middleton and Iohn Goldwell yeomen passed from his house of Hurstmonseux the last of Aprill in the night season toward the same parke where they intended so to hunt and comming vnto a place called Pikehaie in the parish of Hillingleie they found one Iohn Busbrig Iames Busbrig and Richard Sumner standing togither and line 30 as it fell out through quarelling there insued a fraie betwixt the said lord Dacres and his companie on the one partie and the said Iohn and Iames Busbrig and Richard Sumner on the other insomuch that the said Iohn Busbrig receiued such hurt that he died thereof the second of Maie next insuing Wherevpon as well the said lord Dacres as those that were there with him and diuerse other likewise that were appointed to go an other waie to méet line 40 them at the said parke were indicted of murther and the seauen and twentith of Iune the lord Dacres himselfe was arreigned before the lord Audleie of Walden then lord chancellor sitting that daie as high steward of England with other péeces of the realme about him who then and there condemned the said lord Dacres to die for that transgression And afterward the nine and twentith of Iune being saint Peters daie at eleuen of the clocke in the forenoone the shiriffs of London accordinglie as they line 50 were appointed were readie at the tower to haue receiued the said prisoner and him to haue lead to execution on the tower hill But as the prisoner should come forth of the tower one Heire a gentleman of the lord chancellors house came and in the kings name commanded to staie the execution till two of the clocke in the afternoone which caused manie to thinke that the king would haue granted his pardon But neuerthelesse at three of the clocke in the same afternoone he was brought forth of the tower line 60 and deliuered to the shiriffs who lead him on foot betwixt them vnto Tiburne where he died His bodie was buried in the church of saint Sepulchers He was not past foure and twentie yéeres of age when he came through this great mishap to his end for whome manie sore lamented and likewise for the other thrée gentlemen Mantell Frowds and Roidon But for the sad yoong lord being a right towardlie gentleman and such a one as manie had conceiued great hope of better proofe no small mone and lamentation was made the more indéed for that it was thought he was induced to attempt such follie which occasioned his death by some light heads that were then about him The first of Iulie a Welshman a minstrell was hanged and quartered for singing of songs which were interpreted to be prophesies against the king This summer the king tooke his progresse to Yorke and passed through Lincolneshire where was made to him an humble submission by the temporaltie and confessing their faults they humblie thanked him for his pardon which he had granted them The towne of Stanford gaue to him twentie pounds the citie of Lincoln fortie pounds Boston fiftie pounds that part of the shire which is called Linscie gaue thrée hundred pounds and Kesterne and the church of Lincolne presented him with fiftie pounds At his entring into Yorkeshire he was met with two hundred gentlemen of the same shire in cotes of veluet and foure
themselues within a litle trench or counterscarpe made for the purpose and out of the same be readie with their harquebusses to shoot at the Englishmen so soone as anie of them should once shew his head out of the trenches to the great danger of them that warded in the same The lord Mountioie perceiuing this deuised with himselfe how to rouse the enimies out of that lurking place and withall came to the duke of Norfolke and desired licence to put the deuise which he had alreadie forecast in his mind in practise But the duke being not willing that he should put himselfe in such danger was loth to grant thereto but rather persuaded with him not to attempt it for said he my lord yée may doo the king better seruice than so to hazard your life and cast your selfe awaie as it is verie like you should in aduenturing vpon such a desperat peece of seruice and therfore I would not wish you to meddle therewith for we shall otherwise prouide for the matter well inough But the lord Mountioie still persisted in his sute verie earnestlie declaring that he doubted not by Gods helpe but to atchiue his purpose to his good contentation without anie great danger if that were executed which he tooke to be necessarie for the accomplishment of his deuise and that was to haue certeine line 10 peeces of the great ordinance shot off that waie forth at what time the wind stood méet to carrie the smoke full vpon the place where the Frenchmen laie At length vpon his earnest sute the duke gaue him licence to trie what he could doo commanding the great ordinance to be laid and charged readie to shoot off as he should appoint it Herewith the lord Mountioie taking with him fouretéene of his owne soldiors of the which number one of them forsooke to go through with him when it came to the line 20 point immediatlie vpon the shooting off of the artillerie that all the ground about was couered ouer with smoke he came to the place where those Frenchmen laie vnder couert of their trench and so displaced them that they had no liking eftsoones to lodge so neere vnto such vnfriendlie neighbors Manie other valiant and politike feats no doubt were atchiued during this siege happilie as worthie the rehearsall as this But sith it was the inuention of so noble a yoong gentleman I haue estéemed line 30 it not impertinent to speake thereof and withall to lament the losse of the inuentor who being taken awaie shortlie after in his returne homewards by vntimelie death was like if he had liued to greater yéers of experience to haue prooued comparable in valor to anie of his noble progenitors But now to speake of other incidents that chanced whilest this siege remained before Muttrell you must vnderstand that the most part of the vittels that was spent in the campe was brought to them either from the kings campe at Bullogne or else from S. Omers line 40 to conueie the same so far off it was néedfull to haue the carriage garded with good troops and bands both of horssemen and footmen for the French fortresses were stronglie furnished with great numbers of men of war which vpon occasions were readie to take aduantages offered And as it fortuned at one time among other there was a conuoie of certeine wagons loden with vitels appointed to come from saint Omers the same being line 50 garded with diuerse bands of Englishmen and Burgonions sent thither for that purpose the which marching forward from saint Omers kept not so good order as had béene requisit whereof certeine companies of French horssemen that were abroad being aware set vpon the Burgonions that were attendant vpon the foremost carriages and finding them in some disorder easilie discomfited them followed and slue them in the chase till they came to the hindermost carriages where six hundred English men that attended on the same impaled themselues line 60 with their wagons so as the Frenchmen could take no aduantage but with shot of the English archers were so curried and galled that they were driuen to retire and that in such hast as they left diuerse of their companie captiues in the Englishmens hands beside those that were faire laid to take their last sléepe there on the ground Neuerthelesse of the Burgonions there were slaine foure hundred and much good vittels lost the bottoms of the hogsheads and other vessels being beaten out and manie a good Flemish mare killed or taken For the Frenchmen found small resistance as before ye haue heard till they approched to the Englishmen by whose accustomed manhood some part of the vittels of that conuoie was saued to the releefe of the campe which notwithstanding by losse of the residue suffered great want for the time Moreouer somewhat towards the latter end of this siege the earle of Surreie son vnto the duke of Norffolke and marshall of his field accompanied with the lord warden of the cinque ports and diuerse other valiant capteins English Burgonions marched forth into the countrie towards Abuile where they tooke and burnt a proper towne called saint Requiers and after comming to another towne called Rieu they found no bodie at home but women and children for the men were departed out of it before their comming thither When they had taken their pleasure in sacking all such goods as they found there fit to be carried awaie they spared the towne from fire and so departed And thus after they had béene two daies and two nights abroad in the countrie they returned home to the campe with a great bootie of beasts sheepe and other things which they had got in that voiage But now to conclude with this siege of Muttrell after the king had woone Bullongne and vnderstood how the emperor had agréed with his aduersarie the French king he resolued to haue his armie to raise that siege which thus had lien before Muttrell and with all coÌuenient spéed to draw toward Calis And because it was signified that the Dolphin of France Henrie was comming forward with a great power which had béene raised by his father the French king to resist the emperor and now was sent vnder the conduct of the said Dolphin to the succours of them that were besieged in Muttrell the king sent the earle of Arundell sir Iohn Gage sir George Carew sir Iohn Reinsford and others with a chosen number of lustie soldiors vnto Muttrell to reinforce his armie there that in leuieng the campe and withdrawing backe they might be the better able to withstand anie attempt which the enimies might put in execution to their annoiance And verelie this was doone with good aduise and necessarie consideration for the Englishmen that had lien so long time at the siege before Muttrell wanting such behoouefull refreshment as those were stored with that laie before Bullongne hauing the seas open and all things at pleasure brought vnto them forth of England were
seas In the same moneth that valiant capteine sir Thomas Poinings knight lord Poinings and the kings lieutenant of his towne and marches of Bullogne departed this life after he had to his great honor atchiued manie woorthie enterprises in seruice of his prince against the enimies so that his death was much lamented A gentleman vndoubtedlie deseruing to be had in perpetuall memorie and pitie it is that diuerse such valiant feats as he in his life time atchiued were not committed to writing to remaine for examples sake to posteritie Also in the same moneth at Guilford died the noble and valiant duke of Suffolke Charles Brandon lord great maister of the kings houshold a right hardie gentleman and yet not so hardie as almost of all estats and degrees of men high low rich and poore hartilie beloued his death of them greatlie lamented his bodie was honorablie buried at Windsore at the kings costs This man in his daies had doone to the king and realme right agreeable seruices as well in peace as in wars both in England France Scotland and Ireland he died the kings generall lieutenant of his armie then appointed to resist the Frenchmen if they durst haue landed But now whereas in this meane time we haue spoken nothing of the dooings in Scotland where the warre was still continued the king of France sent thither certeine bands of Frenchmen vnder the gouernement of monsieur de Lorges to aid the Scots against the Englishmen and the king of England waged manie strangers and sent them with certeine Englishmen to the borders for defense of the same against the inuasions of the enimies for after the arriuall of the Frenchmen a great armie of Scots was raised and approched néere to the borders where for a certeine time they incamped so that manie thought some notable enterprise would haue béene attempted But after they had laine in campe a certeine time they brake vp and departed without attempting anie further exploit Shortlie after the earle of Hertford lieng on the borders as lieutenant of the north parts of England calling to him an armie of twelue thousand men or thereabouts what of Englishmen and strangers entred Scotland with the same and burnt a great part of the Mers and Teuidale as Kelsaie abbeie and the towne Melrosse abbeie Driborne abbeie also Iedworth abbeie and diuerse other places townes and villages to the number of fiue score Kelsaie abbeie was defended a while by thrée hundred Scots but in the end the most part of them were slaine taken by the strangers and others that gaue the assault Thus the earle of Hertford sore indamaged the Scots by this inuasion and yet neither they nor the Frenchmen their assistants durââ come foorth into the field once to incounter with him On the sixtéenth of September a number of Scots and Frenchmen attempted to enter into England on the east borders But the Englishmen perceiuing them about to passe by a certeine streict set vpon them and slue and tooke of them to the number of seuen score Among the prisoners that were taken the lord of Humes sonne and a French capteine were accompted chiefest Also in another rode made into the west borders the lord Maxwels sonne and diuerse others were taken But at an other time about the same season also certeine Englishmen to line 10 the number of fiue hundred making their entrie by the west borders into Scotland were discomfited by the Scots and the more part of them either taken or slaine Thus were they occupied as well on the borders betwixt England and Scotland in this season as also in the marches of Calis Guisnes and Bullognois where the garrisons lieng in those places made continuall rodes forraies into the marches of the enimies countrie and oftentimes chanced to incounter with some of their troops line 20 The capteine of Ard monsieur de Dampiere hauing got for a supplie from the French campe at Bullogne the companie of the men of armes that belonged to the duke of Orleance led by his lieutenant monsieur de Tauannes chanced on a daie to incounter with the Englishmen guided by that valiant baron the lord Greie of Wilton capteine of the towne of Guisnes who being accompanied with a number of valiant gentlemen soldiers distressed their enimies slue the capteine of Ard the foresaid line 30 lord de Dampiere there in field Diuerse other skirmishes and incounters chanced in that summer on the further side the seas And moreouer now after that the French nauie was withdrawen as ye haue heard from the coasts about Portesmouth that martiall chiefteine sir Iohn Dudleie lord Lisle and high admerall of England hauing all his ships men munition furniture readie set forward from Portesmouth hauen to haue fought with the Frenchmen if they had still kept the seas but they were withdrawâe line 40 home into harborough Wherevpon the lord admerall meaning to reuenge their brauados and presumptuous attempts made at Portesmouth and in the I le of Wight approched to the coasts of Normandie and landed with six thousand men at Treport burnt the suburbes of that towne with the abbeie and certeine villages and houses thereabouts Also they destroied thirtie ships and a barke there found in the hauen and after they had wrought their pleasures they returned to line 50 the sea and so home not hauing lost past fourtéene persons in the execution of this whole enterprise Of this great spoile ouerthrow giuen at Treport by the kings admerall I find these verses remembred Treportem passibus aequis Ordine seruato qui mus est militis intrant Obuius vt quisque est is stricto sternitur ense Ast alius volucri traiectus membra sagitta Occidit exanguis foedátque cruore plateas Dum reclusa alius vult prospectare fenestra line 60 Nec conferre pedem nec aperto praelia Marte Commiscere audet glandis transfigitur ictu Omne genus telorum ad caedem immittitur atram In this meane while monsieur de Biez being incamped néere to Bullogne with such a puissant armie as before you haue heard busied about the building of a fort there was not such diligence vsed therin as was promised on his part in accomplishing the same to the French kings great displeasure as some write who had meant with that armie if this fort had béene finished at the appointed time to haue gone to besiege the towne and castell of Guisnes but now the time being prolonged and not without some suspicion least monsieur de Biez cared not how long the warres indured in that sort so as he might command ouer so manie princes and great lords as were there vnder his gouernance at length before the fort were fullie finished he remooued to mount Lambert with the more part of the armie pretending as though he meant to fight with the Englishmen the which as he said he vnderstood were purposed to come with a
sir Iohn Suliard sir William Walgraue sir Iohn Cuts sir Thomas Cornewallis knights togither line 30 with a great manie of other knights esquiers and gentlemen and a small band of Italians vnder the leading of a capteine named Malatesâa The lord marquesse being approched within a mile of Norwich sent sir Gilbert Dethicke knight now Garter then Norrie king at armes vnto the citie to summon them within to yéeld it into his hands or vpon refusall to proclame warre against them Herevpon Augustine Steward the maiors deputie sent to the maior that was in the campe with line 40 Ket aduertising him what message he had receiued from the marquesse The maior sent word againe that nothing was more greeuous vnto him than to sée into what miserie the citie and countrie about were brought by the rage of these commotions and declaring in what case he stood being kept by force among the rebels wheras otherwise he would according to his dutie haue come to his honor But as for the citie he had committed the gouernance vnto Augustine Steward who should be readie to surrender line 50 it into his lordships hands and that if Ket would giue him leaue he would come himselfe to his honor submitting all things wholie to his lordships order and disposition This message being brought backe by the said Norrie Augustine Steward the maiors deputie with the shiriffs and a great number of the citizens came to the lord marquesses campe and deliuered vp the sword to his lordship declaring how the maior himselfe would gladlie haue come if he could line 60 haue got from the rebels and that although a great rowt of the lewd citizens were partakers with the rebelles yet a number of the substantiall honest citizens would neuer consent to their wicked doings but were readie to receiue his lordship into their citie The lord marquesse giuing good woords to the citizens and willing them to be of good comfort sith he trusted to appease these troubles verie shortlie deliuered the sword vnto sir Richard Southwell who bare it before the lord marquesse as he passed foorth towards the citie entring the same by saint Stephans gate And incontinentlie was proclamation made that they should all resort into the market place where they consulted togither how they might best defend the citie against the enimies and to represse their furie Herevpon was order giuen for the placing of watch and ward about the gates and the wals as might séeme expedient The lord marquesse supped that night and lodged in the maiors deputies house but his lordship as well as other kept their armour on their backs all that night for doubt of some sudden assault to be made against the citie by the rebels Here it chanced that the strangers either by appointment or otherwise went foorth and offered skirmish to the rebels vpon Magdalen hill The rebels came foorth with their horssemen but it séemed that they were better practised to fetch in booties than to make their manage or careire and therefore not able to match the strangers which being perceiued of their fellowes that were footmen they put foorth their archers before their horssemen and such numbers herewith came swarming foorth of their campe meaning to compasse in those strangers that they perceiuing the maner and purpose of the enimies cast themselues in a ring and retired backe into the citie againe But they left one of their companie behind them a gentleman that was an Italian who more valiantlie than warilie ventured too farre among the enimies and through euill hap being ouerthrowne beside his horsse he was inuironed about with a great multitude of those rebels that tooke him prisoner and like vile wretches spoiling him of his armor and apparell hanged him ouer the wals of mount Surrie Which act well shewed what courtesie might be looked for at such cruell traitors hands that would thus vnmercifullie put such a gentleman and worthie souldior to death for whose ransome if they would haue demanded it they might haue had no small portion of monie to haue satisfied their gréedie minds But it séemed that their beastlie crueltie had berest them the remembrance of all honest consideration and dutifull humanitie The marquesse of Northampton causing as before yee haue heard diligent watch to be kept vpon the walles and at the gates appointed the same to be visited right often that through negligence no mishap should follow Moreouer besides the watch at the gates and walles the residue of the soldiors making a mightie huge fire in the market place so as all the stréets were full of light they remained there all that night in their armour readie vpon anie occasion to resist the enimies if they should make anie attempt Sir Edward Warner marshall of the field gaue the watch-word sir Thomas Paston sir Iohn Clere sir William Walgraue sir Thomas Cornwallis and sir Henrie Bedingfield were appointed to the defense of other parts of the citie And now when euerie thing was thought to be safelie prouided for and that the lord marquesse and other were laid to take their rest the rebels about the middest of the night began to shoot off their great artillerie towards the citie so thicke as was possible but the bullets passed ouer their heads that were lodged in the citie without dooing anie great hurt at all The lord marquesse by reason of the often alarums that were giuen whilest the enimies thus ceased not to rage with continuall shot of ordinance was called vp by the marshall sir Edward Warner and comming into the market place accompanied with the nobles and gentlemen of the armie fell in councell with them how to foresée that the citie in such danger might be safelie defended against the enimies with such small power as he had there with him It was therefore determined that all the gates which were on the contrarie part of the towne from the rebels campe and likewise the ruinous places of the walles should be rampired vp that if the enimies should chance to giue an assault to the citie they might more easilie be repelled But as these things were in dooing and almost brought to end in a manner all the whole multitude of the rebelles came out of their cabins running downe in most furious maner to the citie and with great shouts and yelling cries went about to set fire on the gates to clime ouer the walles to passe the riuer and to enter the citie at such places where the walles were through age decaied and ruinous The soldiors that were there with the lord marquesse did line 10 shew their vttermost indeuor to beat backe the enimies This fight in most cruell wise continued for the space of thrée houres without ceasing the rebels forcing themselues to the vttermost of their powers to enter perforce vpon them and they within the citie shewed no lesse courage to repell them backe The hardie manhood of diuerse knights and other men of worship was here right apparant
contented not onelie to obeie them but also to suffer them to take profit of them And we sée furthermore that all heards all sorts be more egre in fiercenesse against all kind of strangers line 40 than they be against their owne rulers will easilier offend him who hath not hurt them than touch their ruler who séeketh profit on them But ye that ought to be gouerned by your magistrates as the heards by the heardman and ought to be like shéepe to your king who ought to be like a shéepeheard vnto you euen in the time when your profit was sought and better redresse was intended than your vpstirs and vnquietnesse could obteine haue beyond the crueltie of all beasts fowlie risen against your ruler and shewed your selues woorthie to line 50 be ordered like beasts who in kind of obedience will fall from the state of men A dog stoopeth when he is beaten of his maister not for lacke of stomach but for naturall obedience you being not striken of your head but fauoured not kept downe but succoured and remedied by law haue violentlie against law not onelie barked like beasts but also bitten like helhounds What Is the mischiefe of sedition either not knowne vnto you or not feared Haue not examples aforetimes both told the end of rebels line 60 and the wickednesse of rebellion it selfe But as for old examples let them passe for a while as things well to be considered But at this present one thing more to be weied Looke vpon your selues after ye haue wickedlie stept into this horrible kind of treason doo ye not sée how manie bottomlesse whirlepooles of mischiefe yee be gulât withall and what lothsome kinds of rebellion ye be faine to wade through Ye haue sent out in the kings name against the kings will precepts of all kinds without commandement commanded his subiects and vnrulâlie haue ruled where yée listed to command thinking your owne fansies the kings commandements and rebels lusts in things to be right gouernement of things not looking what should follow by reason but what your selues follow by affection And is it not a dangerous and a cruell kind of treason to giue out precepts to the kings people There can be no iust execution of lawes reformation of faults giuing out of commandements but from the king For in the king onelie is the right herof the authoritie of him deriued by his appointment to his ministers Ye hauing no authoritie of the king but taking it of your selues what thinke ye your selues to be Ministers ye be none except ye be the diuels ministers for he is the author of sedition The kings maiestie intendeth to mainteine peace and to oppresse warre ye stirre vp vprores of people hurliburlies of vagabonds routs of robbers Is this anie part of the kings ministerie If a vagabond would doo what he lust and call himselfe your seruant and execute such offices of trust whether yée would or no as yee haue committed vnto another mans credit what would euerie one of you saie or doo herein Would ye suffer it Ye wander out of houses ye make euerie daie new matters as it pleaseth you ye take in hand the execution of those things God by his word forbidding the same which God hath put the magistrates in trust withall What can ye saie to this Is it sufferable thinke ye If ye told a priuat message in another mans name can it be but a false lie I praie you And to tell a feined message to the common-wealth and that from the king can it be honest thinke ye To command is more than to speake what is it then to command so traitorous a lie This then which is in word a deceitfull lie and in déed a traitorous fact noisome to the common-wealth vnhonourable to the king mischiefous in you how can ye otherwise iudge of it but to be an vnheard of and notable disobedience to the king and therefore by notable example to be punished and not with gentlenesse of pardon to be forgiuen Ye haue robbed euerie honest house and spoiled them vniustlie and pitiouslie wronged poore men being no offendors to their vtter vndooing and yet ye thinke ye haue not broken the kings lawes The kings maiesties law and his commandement is that euerie man should safelie kéepe his owne and vse it reasonablie to an honest gaine of his liuing ye violentlie take and carie awaie from men without cause all things whereby they should mainteine not onelie themselues but also their familie leaue them so naked that they shall féele the smart of your curssed enterprise longer than your owne vnnaturall vngodlie stomachs would well vouchsafe By iustice ye should neither hurt nor wrong man and your pretensed cause of this monstruous sturre is to increase mens wealth And yet how manie and saie truth haue ye decaied and vndoone by spoiling and taking awaie their goods How should honest men liue quietlie in the common-wealth at anie time if their goods either gotten by their owne labor or left to them by their friends shall vnlawfullie and vnorderlie to the féeding of a sort of rebels be spoiled and wasted and vtterlie scattered abrode The thing that ye take is not your right it is an other mans owne The maner of taking against his will is vnlawfull against the order of euerie good common-wealth The cause why ye take it is mischiefous and horrible to fat your sedition Ye that take it be wicked traitors and common enimies of all good order If he that desireth an other mans goods or cattell doo fault what dooth he thinke you whose desire taking followeth and is led to and fro by lust as his wicked fansie void of reason dooth guide him Hée that vseth not his owne well and charitablie hath much to answer for and shall they be thought not vniust who not onelie take awaie other mens but also misuse and wast the same vngodlie They that take things priuilie awaie and steale secretlie and couertlie other mens goods be by law iudged worthie death and shall they that without shame spoile things openlie and be not affeard by impudencie to professe their spoile be thought either honest creaturs to God or faithfull subiects to their king or naturall men to their countrie If nothing had mooued you but the example of mischeefe and the foule practise of other mooued by the same ye should yet haue absteined line 10 from so licentious and vilanous a shew of robberie considering how manie honester there be that being loth their wickednesse should be blazed abrode yet be found out by prouidence and hanged for desert What shall we then thinke or saie of you Shall we call you pickers or hid theeues naie more than théeues daie théeues heard stealers shire spoilers and vtter destroiers of all kinds of families both among the poore and also among the rich Let vs yet further see Be there no mo things wherein ye line 20 haue broken the
kings laws and so vilelie disobeie him flat contrarie to your bounden dutie and allegiance Ye haue not onelie spoiled the kings true subiects of their goods but also ye haue imprisoned their bodies which should be at libertie vnder the king and restreined them of their seruice which by dutie they owe the king and appaired both strength and health wherewith they liue and serue the king Is there anie line 30 honest thing more desired than libertie Ye haue shamefullie spoiled them thereof Is there anie thing more dutifull than to serue their lord and maister But as that was desired of the one part so was it hindered and stopped on your part For neither can the king be serued nor families kept nor the common-wealth looked vnto where fréedome of libertie is stopped and diligence of seruice is hindered and the helpe of strength and health abated Mens bodies ought to be frée from all mens bondage and crueltie and onelie in this realme be subiect line 40 in publike punishment to our publike gouernour and neither be touched of headlesse capteins nor holden of brainlesse rebels For the gouernement of so pretious a thing ought to belong vnto the most noble ruler and not iustlie to be in euerie mans power which is iustlie euerie liuing mans treasure For what goods be so deare to euerie man as his owne bodie is which is the true vessell of the mind to be measurablie kept of euerie man for all exercises line 50 seruices of the mind If ye may not of your owne authoritie meddle with mens goods much lesse you may of your owne authoritie take order with mens bodies For what be goods in comparison of health libertie and strength which be all setled and fastened in the bodie They that strike other doo greatlie offend and be iustlie punishable and shall they that cruellie and wrongfullie torment mens bodies with irons and imprisonments be thought not of others but of themselues honest and plaine and true dealing line 60 men What shall we say by them who in a priuat businesse will let a man to go his iourneie in the kings high waie Doo they not thinke ye plaine wrong Then in a common cause not onelie to hinder them but also to deale cruellie with them and shut them from dooing their seruice to the king and their dutie to the common-wealth is it not both disobedience crueltie and mischiefe thinke ye What an hinderance is it to haue a good garment hurt anie iewell appaired or anie estéemed thing to be decaied And séeing no earthlie thing a man hath is more pretious than his body to cause it to be cruellie tormented with irons feebled with cold weakened with ordering can it be thought anie other thing but wrong to the sufferer crueltie in the dooer great disobedience and transgression to the king How then be ye able to defend it But séeing ye so vnpitifullie vexe men cast them in prison lade them with irons pine them with famine contrarie to the rule of nature contrarie to the kings maiesties lawes contrarie to God holie ordinances hauing no matter but pretensed and fained gloses ye be not onelie disobedient to the king like rebels but withstanding the law of nature like beasts and so worthie to die like dogs except the kings maiestie without respect of your deseruing doo mercifullie grant you of his goodnesse that which you cannot escape by iustice Yet ye being not content with this as small things enterprise great matters and as though ye could not satisfie your selues if ye should leaue anie mischiefe vndoone haue sought bloud with crueltie and haue slaine of the kings true subiects manie thinking their murder to be your defense when as ye haue increased the fault of your vile rebellion with the horror of bloudshed and so haue burdened mischiefe with mischiefe whilest it come to an importable weight of mischiefe What could we doo more in the horriblest kind of faults vnto the greatest transgressours and offendors of God and men than to looke strictlie on them by death and so to rid them out of the common-wealth by seuere punishment whome ye thought vnworthie to liue among men for their dooings And those who haue not offended the king but defended his realme and by obedience of seruice sought to punish the disobedient and for safegard of euerie man put themselues vnder dutie of law those haue ye miserablie and cruellie slaine and bathed you in their bloud whose dooings ye should haue followed not to haue appaired the common-wealth both by destruction of good men and also by increase of rebels And how can that common-wealth by anie meanes indure wherin euerie man without authoritie may vnpunished slea whome he list and that in such case as those who be slaine shew themselues most noble of courage and most readie to serue the king and the common-wealth and those as doo slea be most vilanous and traitorous rebels that anie common-wealth did euer susteine For a citie and a prouince be not the faire houses and the strong walles nor the defense of anie engine but the liuing bodies of men being able in number and strength to mainteine themselues by good order of iustice to serue for all necessarie behouable vses in the common-wealth And when as mans bodie being a part of the whole common-wealth is wrongfullie touched anie way and speciallie by death then suffereth the common-wealth great iniurie and that alwaies so much the more how honester and nobler he is who is iniuriouslie murdered How was the lord Sheffeld handled among you a noble gentleman and of good seruice both fit for counsell in peace and for conduct in war considering either the grauitie of his wisedome or the authoritie of his person or his seruice to the common-wealth or the hope that all men had in him or the néed that England had of such or among manie notablie good his singular excellencie or the fauor that all men bare toward him being loued of euerie man and hated of no man Considered ye who should by dutie be the kings subiects either how ye should not haue offended the K. or after offense haue required the kings pardon or not to haue refused his goodnesse offered or at length to haue yéelded to his mercie or not to haue slaine those who came for his seruice or to haue spared those who in danger offered ransome But all these things forgotten by rage of rebellion because one madnesse cannot be without infinit vices ye slew him cruellie who offered himselfe manfullie nor would not so much as spare him for ransome who was worthie for noblenesse to haue had honour hewed him bare whome ye could not hurt armed and by slauerie slue nobilitie in deed miserablie in fashion cruellie in cause diuelishlie Oh with what cruell spite was violentlie sundred so noble a bodie from so godlie a line 10 mind Whose death must rather be reuenged than lamented whose death
was no lacke to himselfe but to his countrie whose death might euerie way béene better borne than at a rebels hand Uiolence is in all things hurtfull but in life horrible What should I speake of others in the same case diuerse and notable whose death for manhood and seruice can want no woorthie praise so long as these vglie sturrers of rebellion can be had in mind God hath himselfe ioined mans bodie and his soule togither line 20 not to be departed asunder afore he euer disseuer them himselfe or cause them to be disseuered by his minister And shall rebels and heedlesse camps being armed against God and in field against their king thinke it no fault to shed bloud of true subiects hauing neither office of God nor appointment of ministers nor cause of rebellion He that stealeth anie part of a mans substance is woorthie to lose his life What shall we thinke then of them who spoile men of their liues for the maintenance whereof not onelie line 30 substance riches be sought for but also all common-welths be deuised Now then your owne consciences should be made your iudges none other set to giue sentence against ye Séeing ye haue beene such bloudshedders so heinous manquellers so horrible murderers could ye doo anie other than plainlie confesse your foule and wicked rebellion to be gréeuous against God and traitorous to the king and hurtfull to the common-wealth So manie gréeuous line 40 faults meeting togither in one sinke might not onelie haue discouraged but also driuen to desperation anie other honest or indifferent mind But what féele they whose hearts so déepe mischéefe had hardened and by vehemencie of affection be made vnshamefast and stop all discourse of reason to let at large the full scope of their vnmeasurable madnesse Priuat mens goods séeme little to your vnsatiable desires yée haue waxed gréedie now vpon cities and haue attempted mightie spoiles to glut line 50 vp and yée could your wasting hunger Oh how much haue they néed of that will neuer be contented and what riches can suffice anie that will attempt high enterprises aboue their estate Ye could not mainteine your camps with your priuat goods with your neighbours portion but yée must also attempt cities bicause ye sought great spoiles with other mens losses and had forgotten how yee liued at home honestlie with your owne and thought them worthie death that would disquiet yée in your house line 60 and plucke awaie that which yée by right of law thought to be your owne Héerein in sée what yée would haue doone spoiled the kings maiesties subiects weakened the kings strength ouerthrowne his townes taken awaie his munition drawne his subiects to like rebellion yea and as it is among forren enimies in sacking of cities no doubt thereof yee would haue fallen to slaughter of men rauishing of wiues deflouring of maidens chopping of children fiering of houses beating downe of stréets ouerthrowing of altogither For what measure haue men in the increase of madnesse when they can not at the beginning staie themselues from falling into it And if the besetting but of one house to rob it be iustlie deemed worthie death what shall we thinke of them that besiege whole cities for desire of spoile We liue vnder a king to serue him at all times when he shall néed our strength and shall ye then not onlie withdraw your selues which ought as much to be obedient as we be but also violentlie plucke other awaie too fro the dutie vnto the which by Gods commandement all subiects be strictlie bound and by all lawes eueriâ nation is naturallie led The townes be not onelie the ornament of the realme but also the seat of merchants the place of handicrafts that men scattered in villages and néeding diuerse things maie in little roome know where to find the lacke To ouerthrow them then is nothing else but to wast your owne commodities so that when ye would buie a necessarie thing for monie ye could not tell where to find the same Munition serueth the king not onelie for the defense of his owne but also for the inuasion of his enimie And if ye will then so strictlie deale with him that ye will not let him so much as defend his owne ye offer him double iniurie both that ye let him from dooing anie notable fact abrode and also that ye suffer not him quietlie to inioie his owne at home But herein hath notablie appéered what cities haue faithfully serued and suffred extreme danger not onelie of goods but also of famine death rather than to suffer the kings enimies to enter and what white liuered cities haue not onlie not withstood them but also with shame fauored them and with mischiefe aided them And I would I might praise herein all cities alike which I would doo if all were like worthie For then I might shew more faith in subiects than strength in rebelles and testifie to men to come what a generall faith euerie citie bare to the kings maiestie whose age although it were not fit to rule yet his subiects hearts were willing to obeie thinking not onelie of the hope which all men conceiue hereafter to be in him but also of the iust kind of gouernment which in his minoritie his councell dooth vse among them And here how much and how worthilie maie Excester be commended which being in the middest of rebels vnuittelled vnfurnished vnprepared for so long a siege did noblie hold out the continuall and dangerous assault of the rebell For they susteined the violence of the rebell not onlie they had plentie enough of vittels but also eleuen or twelue daies after the extreme famine came on them and liuing without bread were in courage so manfull in dutie so constant that they thought it yet much better to die the extreme death of hunger shewing truth to their king and loue to their countrie than to giue anie place to the rebell and fauor him with aid although they might haue doone it with their lesse danger Whose example if Norwich had followed had not rather giuen place to traitor Ket than to kéepe their dutie and had not sought more safegard than honestie and priuat hope more than common quietnesse they had ended their rebellion sooner and escaped themselues better and saued the losse of the worthie lord Shefféeld in whome was more true seruice for his life than in them for their goods And although this can not be spoken against a certeine honest sort that were amongst them whose praise was the greater bicause they were so few yet the greater number was such that they not onelie obeied the rebell for feare but also folowed him for loue and did so traitorouslie order the kings band vnder my lord marquesse that they suffered more damage out of their houses by the towns men than they did abrode by the rebelles Whose fault as the kings maiestie maie pardon so I
earldome of Glocester as noteth Iohn Beuer in these words Richardus haeres comitis Glouerniae Margaretam filiam Hoberti de Burgo comitis Cantiae in vxorem accepit This Hubert of Burow was a verie old man who after manie persecutions by the king and after so manie chances of both fortunes departed this world on the fourth ides of Maie in the line 50 yeare of our redemption 1243 being the seuen and twentith yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the third at his manour of Banstud or Bansted Whose bodie was honorablie caried to London and there buried in the church of the frier preachers to whom in his life he had giuen great gifts and amongst other things his goodlie place which stood not far from the palace of earle Richard of Cornewall as I with some probable reasons coniecture néere vnto Westminster which afterward the archbishop of Yorke did procure His wife the countesse of Kent line 60 being likewise verie old a woman that kept verie great hospitalitie and that was well beloued died in the yeare of Christ 1259 being the three and fortith yeare of Henrie the third about sixteene years after the death of the earle hir husband Walter Greie archbishop of Yorke was made protector of the realme in this sort The French king hauing vniustlie giuen the earldome of Poitiers to his brother Adulphus Hugh Brune earle of March the greatest of the nobilitie in that prouince would not doo homage vnto Adulphus but wrote his letters to his son in law king Henrie the third whose mother Eleanor he had married that if he would come into those parts he should haue both aid of men and furniture of war for the perfect restoring of those dominions to the crowne of England For which cause Henrie the third assembling his power did with his brother Richard then latelie returned froÌ Ierusalem depart the realme in the yéere of our redemption 1242 being the six twentith yeare of his gouernment into Poitiers left the administration of the kingdome to Walter Greie archbishop of Yorke whilest he should remaine in those parts Which office the said archbishop held also in the yéere of Christ 1243 being the seauen and twentith yéere of king Henrie the third Of this man is more mention made in my collection of the chancellors of England in this place onelie further setting downe that this Walter died in the yeere of Christ 1255 being about the nine and thirtith yeare of this Henrie the third as hath Anonymus M. S. Eleanor daughter to Reimond earle of Prouince wife to king Henrie the third and quéene of England with Richard earle of Cornewall the kings brother to whose custodie was committed Edward Longshanks being after king of England by the name of Edward the first son to the said king Henrie were in the yéere of our redemption 1253 being the seuen and thirtith yeere of the reigne of king Henrie the third appointed gouernors and protectors of the realme in the kings absence whilest he went into Gascoine whither he went to pacifie the nobilitie and to kéepe the same in safetie from the French And because my pen hath here fallen vpon Richard earle of Cornwall I determine to say somewhat of him in this place not hauing other occasion offered to me therefore This Richard the son of king Iohn was borne in the yeare of Christ 1208 being the tenth yeare of the reigne king Iohn He was made and so called earle of Poitiers by Henrie the third about the ninth yéere of his reigne in the yéere of Christ 1225 who also that yéere with his vncle William earle of Sarisburie went into Poitiers where he was ioifullie receiued he putteth the earle of March to flight he recouereth that which was lost in Gascoine he went into the holie land refuseth the kingdome of Apulia offered vnto him he is chosen emperor and receiueth that honor at Colen being there crowned king of the Romans he subdued Alfonsus competitor with him for the empire he after returneth into England he is an enimie to Simon Montfort and the barons rebelling against his brother king Henrie the third he is taken prisoner by the barons and is afterward deliuered he was created knight and earle of Cornwall in the yeare of our redemption 1225 as hath Matthew Westminster but as saith William Packington he was created earle of Cornwall in the yeare of Christ 1227. He married foure wiues if that Elisabeth his first wife and Isabell the widow of Gilbert de Clare were not all one woman But leauing that to further knowledge I doo for this time make them but one person for so in truth it must be whatsoeuer otherwise shall be shewed in mistaking their names Elizabeth that was his first wife as noteth Leland was buried in the quéere of Belland being that woman which is called Isabell and was the daughter of William Marshall earle of Penbroke surnamed the great and the widow of Gilbert de Clare earle of Glocester was maried to this erle of Cornwall in the yeare of our Lord 1231 being the fiftéenth yeare of king Henrie the third This Isabell died in the yeare of our redemption 1240 being the foure and twentith yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the third after this manner For she being great with child and néere to the time of hir deliuerance fell into Merâum ictericum or the hicket and deliuering a child into the world which had life and was baptised by the name of Nicholas they both presentlie died therevpon Which thing when the earle vnderstood being then on his iourneie into Cornwall he burst out in teares and greatlie lamented that losse Wherefore hastilie returning and leauing his former iourneie he honorablie buried his wife at Belland or Beauleu an house of religion builded by king Iohn from the foundation and replenished with Charterhouse moonks line 10 His second wife was Sinthia or Sanclia daughter to Reimond earle of Prouince and sister to the queene of England wife to king Henrie the third brother to the said Richard earle of Cornwall who maried the said Sinthia in the yeare of our redemption 1243 being the seuen and twentith yéere of the reigne of king Henrie the third Leland also appointeth to him the third wife which was Beatrix de Famastais whom he calleth quéene of Almaine wife to king Richard brother to Henrie the third Which ladie died in the yere of our redemption 1277 being line 20 the sixt yéere of Edward the first and was buried at the friers minors in Oxford This noble Richard erle of Cornwall died in Februarie at Berkhamsted in the yeare of Christ 1271 in the fiue and fiftith yeare of king Henrie the third as saie Matthew Paris and Matthew Westminster but Nicholas Triuet referreth his death to the yeare 1270 being the foure and fiftith yéere of Henrie the third and the chronicle belonging to Euesham to the yeare 1272 being the six and fiftith yeare of Henrie the third After whose
50 brought to London the least of them was more than anie horsse Much about this season there were thrée notable ships set foorth and furnished for the great aduenture of the vnknowne voiage into the east by the north seas The great dooer and incourager of which voiage was Sebastian Gabato an Englishman borne at Bristow but was the sonne of a Genowaie These ships at the last arriued in the countrie of Moscouia not without great losse and danger line 60 and namelie of their capteine who was a woorthie and aduenturous gentleman called sir Hugh Willoughbie knight who being tossed and driuen by tempest was at the last found in his ship frozen to death and all his people But now the said voiage and trade is greatlie aduanced and the merchants aduenturing that waie are newlie by act of parlement incorporated and indued with sundrie priuileges and liberties About the beginning of the moneth of Maie next following there were thrée notable mariages concluded shortlie after solemnized at Durham place The first was betwéene the lord Gilford Dudleie the fourth sonne of the duke of Northumberland and the ladie Iane eldest daughter to Henrie duke of Suffolke the ladie Francis his wife was the daughter of Marie second sister to king Henrie the eight first maried to Lewes the French king and after to Charles Brandon duke of Suffolke The second mariage was betwéene the lord Herbert son and heire to William earle of Penbroke and the ladie Katharine second daughter of the said ladie Francis by the said Henrie duke of Suffolke And the third was betwéene Henrie lord Hastings sonne and heire to Francis earle of Huntington and ladie Katharine yoongest daughter to the forenamed duke of Northumberland These mariages were compassed concluded chieflie vpon purpose to change alter the order of succession to the crowne made in the time of king Henrie the eight from the said kings daughters Marie and Elizabeth and to conueie the same immediatlie after the death of king Edward to the house of Suffolke in the right of the said ladie Francis wherein the said yoong king was an earnest traueller in the time of his sickenesse all for feare that if his sister Marie being next heire to the crowne should succéed that she would subuert all his lawes and statutes made concerning religion whereof he was most carefull for the continuance whereof he sought to establish a meet order of succession by the aliance of great houses by waie of marriage which neuerthelesse were of no force to serue his purpose For tending to the disheriting of the rightfull heirs they proued nothing prosperous to the parties for two of them were soone after made frustrate the one by death the other by diuorse In the meane while the king became euerie daie more sicke than other of a consumption in his lungs so as there was no hope of his recouerie Wherevpon those that then bare chiefe authoritie in councell with other prelats and nobles of the realme called to them diuerse notable persons learned as well in diuinitie as in the lawes of the land namelie bishops iudges other who fell to consultation vpon this so weightie cause and lastly concluded vpon the deuise of king Edwards will to declare the said ladie Iane eldest néece to king Henrie the eight and wife to the said lord Gilford to be rightfull heire in succession to the crowne of England without respect had to the statute made in the fiue and thirtith yeare of king Henrie the eight the true meaning of which statute they did impugne and ouerthrow by diuerse subtill sinister constructions of the same to disherit the said kings daughters to whome the succession of the crowne of England of right apperteined as well by the common lawes of this realme as also by the said statute made in the said fiue and thirtith yeare of king Henrie as aforesaid To which new order of succession all the said kings councell with manie bishops lords doctors and iudges of the realme subscribed their names without refusall of anie except sir Iames Hales knight one of the iustices of the common plées who being called to this councell would in no wise giue his assent either by word or writing as ye shall heare more in the historie of quéene Marie Now when these matters were thus concluded and after confirmed by a number of hands as aforesaid then the noble prince king Edward the sixt by long lingering sickenesse and consumption of his lungs aforesaid approched to his death and departed out of this life the sixt daie of Iulie in the seuenth yeare of his reigne and seuentéenth of his age after he had reigned and noblie gouerned this realme six yeares fiue moneths and eight daies And a little before his departing lifting vp his eies to God hee praied as followeth The praier of king Edward the sixt at his death LOrd God deliuer me out of this miserable and wretched life take me among thy chosen howbeit not my will but thy will be doone Lord I commit my spirit to thee oh Lord thou knowest how happie it were for mee to be with thee yet for thy chosens sake if line 10 it be thy will send me life and helth that I maie trulie serue thee Oh my Lord blesse thy people and saue thine inheritance Oh Lord God saue thy chosen people of England Oh my Lord God defend this realme from papistrie and mainteine thy true religion that I and my people maie praise thy holie name And therewithall he said I am faint Lord haue mercie vpon me and take my spirit line 20 Thus did this good yoong king yéeld vp to God his ghost the sixt daie of Iulie as before is mentioned whome if it had pleased God to haue spared with longer life not vnlike it was but he should haue so gouerned this English common-wealth that he might haue béene comparable with any of his noble progenitors so that the losse of so towardlie a yoong king greatlie discomforted the whole English nation that looked for such a reformation in the state of line 30 the common-wealth at his hands as was to be wished for of all good subiects which bred such a liking in them toward him that euen among verie traitorous rebels his name yet was had in reuerence although otherwise they neuer so much forgat their dutie both towards him and other appointed to gouerne vnder him through a malicious and most wilfull error as if his tender yeares had not sufficientlie warranted his roiall authoritie but that the same had béene vsurped by others against his will and pleasure line 40 And as he was intierlie beloued of his subiects so with the like affection of kindnes he loued them againe of nature and disposition méeke much inclined to clemencie euer hauing a regard to the sparing of life There wanted in him no promptnes of wit grauitie of sentence ripenesse of iudgement as his age might
countenance and words with hartie praiers for hir maiesties prosperous estate and preseruation which no doubt were acceptable to God as by the sequele of things it may certenlie be belieued sith his diuine maiestie hath so directed hir dooings that if euer the common-wealth of this land hath flourished it may rightlie be said that in hir most happie reigne it hath béene most flourishing in peace quietnesse and due administration of iustice mixed with mercifull clemencie so as those which cannot content themselues with the present state of things vnder hir rule no doubt they are such factious creatures as will not rest satisfied with anie kind of gouernement be it neuer so iust and commendable From the which sort of men the Lord deliuer hir roiall maiestie and all hir true and louing subiects and preserue hir in long life to all our comforts and continue hir in such happie procéedings as she hath begun to the end On mondaie the eight and twentith of Nouember about two of the clocke in the afternoone hir line 10 grace remooued againe and taking hir chariot rode from my lord Norths house alongst Barbican and entring by Criplegate into the citie kept along the wall to Bishops gate and so by blanch Chapelton vnto Marke lane At hir entring into blanch Chapleton the artillerie in the tower began to go off continuallie shooting for the space almost of halfe an houre but yet had made an end before hir maiestie was aduanced to Berkin church and so with great ioie and prease of people of whom all the streets were line 20 full as she passed declaring their inward reioisings by gesture words and countenance she entered the tower where she continued till the fift of December being mondaie on the which daie she remooued by water vnto Summerset place in the Strond where she arriued about ten of the clocke in the forenoone the same daie ¶ On thursdaie betwéene two and thrée in the morning the eight of December 1558 in the first yeare of our souereigne ladie quéene Elisabeths reigne died line 30 in the tower of London that honorable man sir Thomas Cheineie knight of the order treasuror of hir maiesties most honorable houshold warden of the cinque ports of hir highnesse priuie councell whose pulses by the report of his surgeon laboured more than thrée quarters of an houre after his death so stronglie as though life had not béene absent from the bodie By the report also of the same surgeon he had the swéetest face of death to behold for one of his yeares that euer he saw and died so quietlie and patientlie line 40 that neither his face mouth eies hands or féet were vncomelie vsed in the changing of this his life For twentie yeares before his departure he kept in his stable continuallie winter and summer twentie great horsse at the least and eight or nine geldings besides sixtéene or seuentéene geldings which were kept at grasse and had in a readinesse furniture for them all to serue in the field and no one of the same horsse or geldings but he was able and readie for anie man at armes to serue vpon Beside this he line 50 kept so bountifull a house and was so liberall and good to his men that well was that noble mans son gentlemans sonne or other that might happen to be preferred into his seruice And againe the number of his seruants to whom he gaue liueries were 205 wherof in houshold were six score besides strangers that were dailie comming and going And his seruants had no iust cause either for lacke of great wages trulie paid them euerie quarter and boordwages line 60 euerie sundaie or plentie of meat and drinke lodging on good featherbeds to liue out of order And such commoditie as might by chance fall within the iurisdiction of his office of wardenrie being a thing fit for his men he neuer turned the same to his owne vse but alwaies gaue it them Whether this realme hath not lost a worthie subiect and speciallie his men a good maister let all men iudge that knew him Before his departure out of this world he seemed to haue a great care for his men thinking least without some prouision for them they would after his death run at randon and liue disorderlie which like a noble man he preuented after this liberall sort as followeth In his last will and testament to some he gaue annuities during life and to others a whole yeares wages after his death but both to the one sort and the other he prouided that all things which he owght them might be paied and also so long as they vsed themselues like honest men and were not reteined in seruice they should haue meat drinke and lodging at his house till his sonne now lord Cheinie came to his lawfull age which was the space of thrée yeares in no lesse or worsse maner than they were woont and accustomed to haue in his life time In his last will he also remembred some of his freends as well those of nobilitie and worship as others some with one gift and some with an other desiring them to assist his executors for the performance of his last will His wit experience courtesie and valiantnesse in seruice was such as king Henrie the eight and his children to wit king Edward the sixt quéene Marie and queene Elisabeth vsed him as one of all their priuie councell and was treasuror of all their honorable housholds during his life He was brought vp in king Henrie the seuenths house was one of his henchmen So that it appeareth before he died he had serued thrée kings and two quéenes His truth was such to all these princes that he euer liued towards them Sine macula seruing in the court thrée score years And although he bare this great saile yet prouided he to paie euerie man iustlie that he owght them His bountifulnesse liberalitie and courtesie to diuerse noble men gentlemen and others attending in the court was such that they were euer glad to haue him there amongst them and his stoutnesse haltie courage was such and so well knowen to the Frenchmen as they both feared and loued him wonderfullie In the end he was so worthie a gentleman and such a necessarie member in the common-wealth as his want cannot but be lamented of all good and true English harts But the almightie must be serued when his good will and pleasure is The thirtéenth of December being tuesdaie the corps of quéene Marie was right honorablie conueied from hir manor of S. Iames vnto the abbeie of Westminster Hir picture was laid on the coffin apparelled in hir roiall robes with a crowne of gold set on the head thereof after a solemne manner In the abbeie was a rich and sumptuous hearse prepared and set vp with wax and richlie decked with penoâs baners and scutchions of the armes of England and France vnder which
the Englishmen into the towne but that the enimies hauing planted that morning eight canons in batterie against the castell and the bulworke of the hauen caused the same to be shot off continuing the same till wednesdaie at noone being the eight and twentith of Iulie There were six other canons also planted by them in the meane space which likewise made batterie to the castell and to the townegate In this meane time also Cutbert Uaughan comptrollor departed out of this life a skilfull man of warre and no lesse circumspect than hardie both to preserue those which he had vnder his conduction and to incourage them to doo manfullie when time thereto serued Saturdaie the foure twentith of Iulie the batterie still continuing as before certeine peeces were bent also to beat and trauerse the hauen The Englishmen therefore setting fire on two windmils that stood there abandoned a trench which they kept and the Palisad capteine Poiet lieutenant of an other of the ensignes coronels of the French footmen vnder monsieur Dandelot entred with his band and tooke possession of a tower that stood at the end of the said Palisad The French yet had hot abiding there notwithstanding all the diligence and policie which they could vse to lodge there in safetie Among others capteine Richlieu maister of the campe was hurt in the shoulder with an harquebuse shot The marshall Montmorancie caused a platforme to be raised ioining to the Palisad where about euening the same daie he planted foure péeces of artillerie On sundaie the fiue and twentith of Iulie monsieur de Estrée great maister of the artillerie accompanied with the seneshall of Agenois vsed all diligence that might be to place the artillerie for batterie wherevnto also monsieur de Caillac applied himselfe by the conestables commandement who had compounded a matter in variance betwixt him and monsieur de Estrée This sundaie and mondaie following they were verie busie to bring their purpose in that behalfe to passe likewise to aduance their trench vnto the side of the breach The marshall de Burdelon abode in the trench there all sundaie and lost two of his gentlemen The marshall Montmorencie accompanied with diuerse lords knights of the order remained all mondaie in the trenches to prepare things readie for the batterie not without some danger of his person For the stones that were beaten with the bullets comming out of the towne flew verie fast about his eares of the which there was one that lent him a blow on the shoulder an other of them philipped him on the fingers and lighting also in other parts of his bodie if his armor had not defended him the better he had not escaped without further harme The same daie line 10 the prince of Conde and the duke of Montpensier came to the campe and alighting at the conestables lodging went from thence ' to the trenches to relieue the marshall Montmorencie and to supplie his roome whilest he might in the meane time go to sup with his father and so take his rest Monsieur Destrée and the other that had charge about the planting and ordering of the artillerie vsed such dilgence and were so earnestlie called vpon and incouraged by the prince of Conde continuallie remaining in line 20 the trenches that on tuesdaie in the morning the artillerie began to batter the bulworke of saint Addresses and other places This was doone not without great danger of the pioners and men of war that garded them for as the French desperatlie made their approch so they were made by English gunners to tast the bitter fruit that the canon culuerings yéelded But such was the multitude of the Frenchmen that were now assembled line 30 togither in hope to recouer that towne which being possessed by the English cut off all traffike from Rouen and Paris and so consequentlie from the chéefe parts of the whole realme of France that with their generall aid and drawing the water downe to the sea the marishes were made passable and firme ground which to men of great experience was thought a thing vnpossible The castell the walles and other defenses of the towne were battered breaches made and the trench which before the line 40 comming of the conestable was but brought to the point ouer against the bulworke of saint Addresses was now within foure daies aduanced néere hand the space of two miles vpon the causeie or breach which was all of stone without anie earth to couer them so that they were driuen to make the best shift they could with woolsacks sandbags baskets and fagots Yet all this had neuer come to passe nor could haue beene wrought without infinit slaughter and far more losse of French bloud that necessarilie line 50 should haue béene spilt if the great mortalitie of pestilence which entred the towne about the beginning of the summer throgh a malicious infection had not so greatlie increased that it ââue tooke awaie dailie great numbers of men beside those that being sicke thereof escaped with life but were yet so feeble and weake that they were notable to helpe themselues nor to doo anie seruice auailable at all There died so manie dailie through the vehemencie of the infection that the stréets laie euen full of line 60 dead corpses not able to be remooued or buried by reason of the multitude that perished Herewith they were gréeuoâslie annoied for want of fresh vittels but chéeflie of fresh waters which the enimie by long siege had cut off And now the shot of the canon lieng within six and twentie paâes of the towne was so terrible as the like had not lightlie beene heard of and sundrie breaches therewith were alreadie made namelie two verie great and easie for the enimies to enter All these dangers and miseries notwithstanding the worthie earle of Warwike with his capteins and soldiors in couragious order stood at those seuerall breaches readie to defend the same if the enimies had presumed to haue giuen the assault nothing afraid of death nor bloudie wounds before which he preferred the seruice of his prince And albeit the aduenture was great yet by his owne example he incoraged other to cast awaie all dread of danger and to shew themselues bold which to a soldior in battell is a whetstone to set him on edge And surelie in this point he was warriorlike minded if a man may allow the poets words in the like sense Res magnae non absque graui discrimine fiunt In dubijs prodest generosa audacia rebus Which when the conestable perceiued he caused a trumpet to sound the blast of imparleacute e that talke might be had for the concluding of a composition betwixt both the parties This offer considering that sore contagious mortalitie wherwith the towne was most greeuouslie infected hauing so greatlie inféebled the English forces within the same was thought not vnméet to be receiued Herevpon
end should not be had of that ciuill dissention which hath so long continued betwixt the king of Spaine and his subiects in those countries not onelie to the hinderance of themselues but also of others that haue to trade among them speciallie for traffike line 20 sake and intercourse of merchandize But at length they haue compounded their controuersies and are growen to a full agréement and perfect conclusion of peace which God grant may take place so effectuallie as may turne to the quietnesse and publike commoditie not onlie of those countries but of their neighbors whereby merchants and passengers may in suertie passe to and fro without disturbance so as no occasion be giuen of breach of leagues and amities betwixt princes and countries but that the same line 30 may be mainteined to Gods glorie and the suertie of the christian commonwealth In this yeare the right honorable Walter Deuereux earle of Essex and Eu earle marshall of Ireland vicount Hereford and Bourcher lord Ferrers of Chartlie Bourcher Louaine knight of the most noble order of the garter fell sicke of a loosenesse of his bodie the one and twentith of August being fridaie and for the space of two and twentie daies togither he was so grieuouslie tormented therwith that line 40 finallie on saturdaie the two twentith of September he departed out of this transitorie life passing from hence to the ioies of heauen as by his godlie end all that were about him gaue testimonie The losse of this noble man was greatlie béemoned aswell by the English as Irish for the noble courage vertuous qââlities and tender zeale to the aduancement of thâ commonwealth which appéered in him ¶ So that it were a fowle fault in the highest degree line 50 not to laie vp some commemoration of so worthie and well deseruing a gentleman both of prince and people in perpetuall records which I will doo by Gods grace none otherwise than I am lead by such matter yea memorable matter as I find in a funerall sermon made by the reuerend father in God Richard bishop of saint Dauis at the buriall of this right honorable earle of Essex in the parish church of Caermerthin in Wales where the said bishop taking for his text these words of S. Iohn in the 14 of line 60 the reuelation Audiui vocem de coelo dicentem Beati mortui c. I heard a voice from heauen saieng Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord c. After he had discoursed vpon the text as the spirit of God gaue him vtterance he descended at last to a particular treatise tending wholie to the praise of this right noble man saieng in sort as followeth Behold the heauie hand of God for our sins vpon all the whole countrie in the death of this noble man which is not onelie a messenger of Gods wrath towards this towne and countrie wherein he was borne but also in verie déed a great losse to the whole realme And although this countrie who shall misse so noble and so worthie a ruler and magistrate that bore them so great affection so readie to benefit all and hurt none and for the high calling he was of so able to pleasure and to doo good although I saie this countrie by the death of this noble earle is most earnestlie eââectuallie cited to appéere before the Lord and to fall to a reckoning yet doo I beléeue that the queenes maiestie hir highnesse councell and all the nobilitie of the realme may hereby receiue admonition and cause of further circumspection and aduigilancie For such valiant and couragious noble men are the bulworks and walles of defense of the whole realme They saie the realme is walled about bicause it is inuironed with the sea but I hold rather with their iudgements that make the fidelitie and true harts of the subiects and especiallie of such of the nobilitie that haue made themselues by Gods especiall grace expert to gouerne and rule vnder hir maiestie aswell in warre as peace the strong towers of defense both of hir maiestie and hir highnesse realme This noble earle was one of these number for I beléeue there is no prince in the world that had a more faithfull noble subiect than hir maiestie had of him in his time And for the notable valiantnesse experience and vertues that were in him I am persuaded that hir maiestie if he had liued might haue vsed his seruice to be a terrour to all enimies forren or domesticall And now that I may speake somewhat of his great nobilitie his excellent vertuous and worthie qualities first I thinke I may saie thus much in a generalitie that it was easie for a man of any iudgement that should behold his countenance and behauiour to find in him nobilitie maiestie and honor planted by the especiall gift of God euen from his mothers wombe When I consider the nature of nobilitie with the causes efficient and finall it séemeth vnto me that nobilitie may be compared vnto a riuer or a floud which in the originall issueth out of foure principall wels and all the foure rise out from the compasse of one hill The welles of nobilitie are prudence fortitude iustice and temperance the hill whence they spring is the feare of God or true religion Although this worthie earle by progenie was of noble bloud whose ancestors were of great honour which of it selfe if a man degenerat not too far from his forefathers deserueth honorable acceptation in this world yet was he not therewith satisfied as it may appéere by his studie and trauell in his life time for he séemed to be of that iudgement that Alphonsus king of Aragon of whome we read in stories was of When a certeine man tooke in hand to set out the land and praise of his nobilitie he stood much in recitall that he was a king a kings sonne a kings nephue a kings brother and such like titles The king interrupting his tale answered that he neuer estéemed much of that kind of glorie and that it was the praise and commendation of his ancestors who by vertue and worthie qualities had deserued such high callings and honour and not of him and that his praise stood not in that which might fall vnto him by testament but in the imitation and performing of the noble acts prowesse and valiantnesse of his forefathers This noble earle likewise not answered to his expectation in that he was a noble man by bloud and inheritance gaue himselfe wholie all the daies of his life to purchase and win the nobilitie that springeth immediatlie from the verie originall founteins of the same as parâlie I will put you in remembrance of We will begin with prudence which may be thus defined Prudence is a power or facultie of the mind giuen of God whereby man is made wise prouident and circumspect and whereby man atteineth knowledge cunning and expertnesse in all matters that the children
Now a word or two to shew who they be that die in the Lord and then an end They principallie are said to die in the Lord which suffer death vnder the beast for confession of Christs religion for they properlie die in the Lords cause Such are the martyrs as well of the primitiue church vnder the cruell emperours as the martyrs of all ages since vnder antichrist of Rome They also die in the Lord which though they die not by the crueltie of the beast yet they die in the faith of Iesus Christ and are therefore blessed Of this number was this godlie earle as I haue before declared Wherfore I will conclude and direct my spéech for two or thrée words to this good earle O noble earle of Essex in thy time the pearle of nobilitie the mirrour of vertue and worthie qualities the child of chiualrie the beautifull floure of England the pretious iewell and comfort of Wales the trustie staie of Ireland Thy life was most honourable thy worthinesse incomparable thy death pretious in the sight of God for thou diedst in the Lord a right inheritour of the euerlasting kingdome of heauen Wherefore by authoritie of the heauenlie oracle that saint Iohn was commanded to write thou art to be pronounced blessed for euer Our sins haue shortened thy life so that we could inioie the same no longer Thou hast notwithstanding bequeathed thy bodie to be buried amongst vs here in Wales Of verie dutie therefore O noble earle thy toome shall be with vs in reuerence estimation and honor the fame and name of thy nobilitie valiantnesse vertue and woorthinesse shall neuer be forgotten but shall liue and be kept with vs in memorie from generation to geration while the world standeth Thus far the words of the bishop vttered in a sermon preached in the ears of no meane audience either for reputation or number Now then brieflie considering wherein true and perfect noblenesse consisteth that the heroicall vertues with their naturall vse were most firmelie fixed in his heart and practised by his hand there is great reason to mooue euen his enimies if it were possible for so good a gentleman to haue anie to confesse in him most absolute nobilitie and that this epitaph alluding to his right honorable ensignes is deseruedlie to be recorded being an abstract of that notable line 10 epitaph intituled Epitapium genealogicum in obitum illustrissimi Gualteri comitis Essexiae Euiae comitis marischalli regni Hiberniae vicecomitis Hereford Bourghcher domini Ferrers de Chartleie Bourgcher Louein praenobilis ordinis garterij militis qui obijt Dublinij 21. Septemb. 1576. aetatis suae 36 sepulti apud Maridunum 26. Nouemb. c. Si quisquam claret veterum splendore parentum Aut famam meritus morum probitate perennem line 20 Profiteatur in hijs nomen Essexius heros Qui praeclara virûm gestat monumenta tot vnus Quot rarò licuit multis gestaminaferre Qui intrepidè ob patriam tot mille pericula passus Quot rarò poterint vlla aulica corporaferre Aureolus partus matris patriae decus ingens Quo non exultat moderante Herefordia sola Aut Trinobantum titulo probitatis honorem Plebs referens strenuum validúmue Britannia sola Sensit in aduersos Boreales dum benegessit line 30 Tota sed heroem cognouit marte feroci Eugeniae tellus Hibernica bella probantem Regia cum proprijs expendens bella per annos Dura gerit binos multa pericula tentans Vltoniae fines vultu dextrà que quieti Perficit hinc comitis donatur nomine belli Nec tamen is potuit gladio finire labores Mors nemini parcens Dublinia funera fletu Trans mare transuexit Maridunica sydera voluens Clotho colum tenuit post septem lustra per annum line 40 Quinque dieâ Lachesis post haec sua fila trahebat Térque dies septem septeno mense videns heu Atropos eximij fulgentia lumina clausit Quatuor ast pueris illustria stamina spondent In tribus regnis titulos gestabat honoris Nam comitem Euensem cognouit Gallia fortem Aureus heroem demonstrat circulus Essex Ob bello vires comes est is martis Hibernus Nobilitas innata tibi probitatis honorem Armipotens Gualtere dedit probitásque laborem line 50 Perpetuámque labor vitam sic vita salutem This epitaph with the said earles whole genealogie or pedegree comprised in heroicall verse and ioined with the funerall sermon was presented to the right honourable lord Robert now earle of Essex and Ew vicount of Hereford and Bourchier lord Ferrers of Chartleie Bourchier Louaine at such time as he was the quéenes maiesties ward with an epistle of the presenter which bicause it is a veine of godlie deuise tending to a verie honorable purpose line 60 deserueth here to be placed answering the president heretofore set out in print as followeth The epistle of E. W. prefixed before the genealogicall epitaph and funerall sermon published at the interring of the right honourable the lord Walter earle of Essex c. MY lord your absence latelie from the funerals of my lord your father was lamented by such in Wales as would gladlie haue beheld the liuelie image of him in you and if the tendernesse of your yeares vnmeet for so tedious and so vnseasonable trauell had not by necessitie disappointed their hope then should the lamentable speech of the graue and reuerend father the bishop of saint Dauies expressed with abundance of dolour tears haue left in you a déepe impression of griefe for the intollerable losse of so honourable a parent But it maie be iudged that God hath turned your absence to your more benefit sith the importunacie of such as loue honour you and who couet to haue your fathers vertues descend with his inheritance hath obteined the publishing of that learned sermon wherin you maie at good leasure view in the iust report of his life death the paterne forme of true nobilitie The heroicall description that the bishop maketh of nobilitie comparing it vnto a mounteine from which foure famous riuers must issue the mounteine true religion the riuers prudence iustice fortitude and temperance is a rule to you first to follow your father in truth of religion then to be as he was wise iust valiant and temperat The naturall and vnforced courtesie affabilitie that was in your father and that excellent mixture of disposition and aptnesse both for warre and peace dooth promise to the world a singular perfection in you hereafter For as your grandfather who died in his yoong yeares did make shew of much more honour than was in the noble vicount his father and this our earle by famous actions did altogither eclipse the vertuous hope conceiued of your grandfather so considering that God in nature continueth as it were the race by outward shew of good parts in you and that you haue
about ten yeares died and was buried in his owne church 6 Alfwoldus as Matthew Westminster writeth was next bishop after Algarus and consecrated by the aduise of Dunstane in the yeare 952. In this time Odogarus earle of Deuon and father in law to king Edgar builded the abbeie of Tauestoke and king Edgar called home all the monkes of saint Peters which were dispersed and without anie abbat and made Sidemannus abbat who was afterwards bishop This Alfwoldus after sixtéene yeares that he was consecraâeâ died and was buried in his owne church 7 Alfwolfus as Dicetus affirmeth was consecrated bishop in the yeare of our Lord 969 and after nine yeares died and was buried in his owne church 8 Sidemannus of an abbat was made a bishop in the yeare 978. In this mans time the Danes ouerran and spoiled the whole countries of Deuon and Cornewall burned the towne of Bodmen and the cathedrall church of saint Petrokes with the bishops house Wherevpon the bishops sée was remoued from thense to saint Germans where the same continued vntill the remouing and vniting thereof vnto Crediton Sidemannus in the twelfe yeare after his consecration died and was buried at Crediton in his owne church 990. 9 Alphredus whome Dicetus calleth Alfricus abbat of Malmesburie was consecrated bishop and installed at Crediton he was taken for a learned man because he wrote two bookes the one intituled Derebus coenobij sui and the other De rerum naturis In this bishops time king Ethelred endowed the bishoprike of saint Germans with lands liberties and priuileges The Danes made a fresh inuasion in and vpon all Deuon and Cornewall burned and spoiled the abbie of Ordolphus at Tauestoke they besieged Excester and being remoued from thense were fought withall at Pinneho about thrée miles from the citie and ouerthrowne Alphredus after he had béene bishop about nine yeares died in the yeare 999 and was buried in his owne church 10 Alwolfus as Dicetus writeth was the next bishop In his time Sweno king of Denmarke by intisement of one Hugh then earle of Deuon came with a great host and besieged the citie of Excester tooke it and burned it and with great crueltie vsed the people vntill in the end Almarus then earle of Deuon and the gentlemen did yéeld and submit themselues and so obteined peace This Alwolfus about the fiftéenth yeare of his bishoprike in the yeare 1014 died and was buried in his owne church 11 Arnoldus by the report of the archdeacon of London succéeded Alwolfus and was installed at Crediton In this mans time king Canutus gaue to Athelwold abbat of S. Peters of this citie great gifts and sundrie priuileges in recompense of his fathers great iniuries Arnoldus in the fiftéenth yeare of his bishoprike 1030 died and was buried in his owne church 12 Leuigus or Leuingus abbat of Tauestoke and nephue to Brithwaldus bishop of Cornewall was chosen the next bishop and according to the orders then vsed consecrated and installed He was in great fauour and credit with king Canutus vppon whome he attended in pilgrimage to Rome and after his vncle the bishop of saint Germans being dead obteined of the king that the bishops sée was remoued from saint Germans vnto Crediton and both were thereby reduced and vnited into one bishoprike and so hath euer since continued Hée was after the death of Brithegus bishop of Worcester remoued to that church and there died and was buried as some suppose but some affirme that in the time of Hardicanutus the king at the accusation of Alfredus then archbishop of Yorke for that he should be consenting to the death of Alfredus the sonne of Etheldred that he should be deposed of his bishoprike there and so did returne vnto Tauestoke where he died But Dicetus affirmeth that he purged himselfe of this crime and by that meanes was restored both to the fauour of the king and to his bishoprike againe and died bishop of Worcester It is recorded that he was bishop of Crediton fiftéene yeares 13 Leofricus a man descended of the bloud and line of Brutus but brought vp in the land of Lothoringia or Loreine was so well commended for his nobilitie wisedome and learning that king Edward the Confessor had him in great fauour and made him first one of his priuie councell then lord chancellor of all England and lastlie the bishoprike line 10 of this prouince being void he was made consecrated and installed bishop of the same By him and by his meanes the bishops sée was remoued from Crediton vnto this citie of Excester for at his request king Edward togither with quéene Edith his wife came to Excester remouing the monkes from hense to Westminster did also remoue the bishops sée from Crediton vnto his citie and did put the bishop in possession For he conducting the bishop on the right hand and the quéene on the line 20 left hand brought him to the high altar of his new church and there placed him in a seat appointed for him He suppressed sundrie houses or cels of religion within his sanctuarie and appropriated and vnited them to his owne church as also by the good liberalitie of the king obteined great reuenues possessions priuileges and liberties to be giuen vnto the church In this mans time William duke of Normandie made a conquest of this whole realme as also in the yeare 1068 besieged this line 30 citie of Excester which after by composition he restored to his former estate againe Also in his time Richard de Brion a noble man of Normandie the sonne of Baldwin of Brion of Albred the néece to the Conqueror was made baron of Okehampton warden of the castell of Excester and vicount of Deuon This Leofricus after that he had well and worthilie ruled his church and diocesse by the space of three and twentie yeares he ended his daies in peace and died in the yeare 1073 and was buried line 40 in the cemiterie or churchyard of his owne church vnder a simple and a broken marble stone which place by the since inlarging of his church is now within the tower of the same where of late in the yeare 1568 a new monument was erected in the memorie of so good woorthie and noble a personage by the industrie of the writer hereof but at the charges of the deane and chapter 14 Osbertus or Osbernus a Norman borne and brother to an earle named William was preferred to this bishoprike and in the yeare 1074 was line 50 consecrated and installed to the same Polydorus writeth that one Galfrid who ioined with Odo earle of Kent and bishop of Baion against William Rufus should be bishop of Exon but it was not nor could not so be In this mans time William the Conqueror and William Rufus his sonne died This Osbertus or Osbernus after he had béene bishop thirtie yeares was blind and died and lieth buried in his owne church
Spanish ambassador with these papers as he hath confessed when he made him partaker of the rest of his traitorous practises deuises as you haue heard and thought his casket of treasons to be most safelie committed to his hands It may be thought that there is no man of so simple vnderstanding that will iudge to the contrarie vnlesse he be parciallie affected to excuse the treasons And now to shew vnto you what mind this man hath carried towards hir maiestie you are to be informed that Francis Throckemorton after he had discouered to hir maiestie his course of practising repenting himselfe of his plaine dealing in the bewraieng thereof said to some of the commissioners vpon occasion of speach I would I had béene hanged when I first opened my mouth to declare anie of the matters by me confessed And being at other times sent vnto by hir maiestie with offer of pardon if he would disclose the whole packe and complices of the treasons he vsed this argument to persuade hir maiestie that he had confessed all saieng that Sith he had alreadie brought himselfe by his confessions within the danger of the lawes to the vtter ruine of his house and familie he wondered why there should be anie conceit in hir maiestie that he had not declared all But to persuade such as were sent vnto him for these purposes the rather to beleeue that he could discouer no more at one time he vsed these speeches following with great vehemencie Now I haue disclosed the secrets of hir who was the déerest thing vnto me in the world meaning the Scotish quéene and whom I thought no torment should haue drawen line 10 me so much to haue preiudiced as I haue doone by my confessions I sée no cause why I should spare anie one if I could saie ought against him and sith I haue failed of my faith towards hir I care not if I were hanged And when he began first to confesse his treasons which he did most vnwillinglie after he was entered into the declaration of them before all the commissioners vpon aduisement he desired he might deliuer his knowledge but to one of them onelie wherevnto they yéelded And therevpon remoouing aside line 20 from the place where he sat by the racke he vsed this prouerbe in Italian Chi a perso la fede a perso l'honore that is He that hath falsed his faith hath lost his reputation meaning thereby as it may be conceiued that he had giuen his faith to be a traitor and not to reueale the treasons then he began to confesse as you haue heard By this discourse conteining the principall heads of his treasons and the proofes and circumstances of the same you that are not transported with vndutifull minds and affections will line 30 cléerelie perceiue how impudéntlie and vntrulie he denied at his arreignement the truth of his confessions charging hir maiestie with crueltie and hir ministers with vntruths in their proceeding against him But the cause that mooued him thereto was the vaine conceit he had taken that his case was cleere in law by the intermission of the time betweene his confession made and his arreignement grounding himselfe vpon a statute of the thirtéenth yeare of hir maiesties reigne in the which there are certeine treasons line 40 specified and made of that nature that no person shal be arreigned for anie of those offenses committed within anie of the quéenes maiesties dominions vnlesse the offendor be thereof indicted within six moneths next after the same offense committed and shall not be arreigned for the same vnlesse the offense be prooued by the testimonie and oth of two sufficient witnesses or his voluntarie confession without violence wherein he was greatlie deceiued For it was made manifest vnto him by the line 50 lord chiefe iustice and other of the iudges in commission at his triall that his treasons were punishable by a statute of 25. Edw. 3. which admitted no such limitation of time or proofe Herein his skill failed him and forgot the aduise giuen vnto him by some of the commissioners who pitieng his misfortune for sundrie good gifts of the mind appearing in him assured him that there was no waie so readie for him to redéeme his life as by submission and acknowleding of his offense which for a time after he had confessed line 60 his treasons he was contented to follow and now eftsoones after his condemnation by a new submission to the quéens maiestie the fourth of Iune had resumed that course The submission Verbatim written with his owne hand followeth To hir most excellent maiestie euen to hir owne roiall hands MOst excellent prince and my most gratious souereigne sith to me the most miserable of all your maiesties poore distressed subiects being iustlie condemned by the ordinarie and orderlie course of your maiesties laws there resteth no further meane of defense but submission vouchsafe most excellent prince gratiouslie to accept the same which prostrate in all humilitie I here present vnto the hands of your most excellent maiestie beseeching the same that as iustice hath beene deriued from your highnesse as from the founteine to the triall of mine actions so I may receiue from the same spring some drop of grace and mercie for the great grieuous offense wherof I rest by your maiesties lawes iustlie condemned some part I saie of that your accustomed gratious clemencie wherof most your distressed subiects haue tasted and few beene depriued And albeit the inconsiderate rashnesse of vnbridled youth hath withdrawen me from that loiall respect which nature dutie bound me to owe vnto your maiestie as to my lawfull naturall dread souereigne and that the naturall care in me of the defense of my life mooued me latelie to the vntrue vndutifull gainesaieng of some such points as had beene before by me in most humble sort confessed neuerthelesse I most humblie beseech your most excellent maiestie that in imitation of God whose image both in respect of the happie place you hold as also in regard of your singular wisdome and other the rare and singular vertues perfections wherwith God nature hath plentifullie indued you you represent vnto vs here in earth it may please your maiestie to commiserate the lamentable estate of me now the most miserable of all your maiesties subiects and gratiouslie to grant vnto me remission and forgiuenes that not onelie doo most humblie confesse my selfe worthie of death but also in shew of my repentance and sorowfull afflicted mind doo not craue at your maiesties hands the prolonging of my life if the same shall not stand with your gratious good plesure but rather desire the trebling of the torment iustlie by your maiesties lawes imposed vpon me if the same may be anie satisfaction to your maiestie for the heinous crime whereof I remaine by your maiesties lawes iustlie condemned or anie mitigation of your maiesties indignation worthilie conceiued against me that desire
herein I repose my selfe vpon that zeale which I perceiue in euerie one to commend him whereby I maie line 20 shortlie sée so manie poesies verses and rimes with such histories so manie orations and volumes to his honor that all these things as well such as I can not touch as the rest which I mention and speake of shall brieflie be deciphered and liuelie set foorth For to rehearse all the holie works of our good shéepheard or to indeuour to set foorth that verie patterne of a bishop which he hath expressed in himselfe to saie truth I thinke vnpossible and much lesse to beléeue that the verie summarie of those things that line 30 he hath doone maie be drawne into anie annals or chronicle Neither can I conceiue anie means to atteine thereto vnlesse some one haue in forme of remembrances béene dailie collecting the course of his déeds and works For my part in this short discourse that I haue to prosecute as one not able to restreine the whole sea I will go sée if I maie gather the water at the riuers and brooks from whense this sea doth arise that is from his vertues which in him haue wrought so manie holie works Notwithstanding I line 40 might at once in generall words saie that all vertues beséeming a bishop which saint Paule others doo speake of were to be found in him Alas how this holie pastor burning in loue made himselfe leane for you O ye poore artificers ladies yoong infants and poore beggers Alas ye all haue lost your father the shéepheard is dead the sheepe remaine a preie to the wolues How soeuer it is hereof maie we plainelie sée O Rome that he bare thée singular good will and in déed for I will not line 50 conceale thy commendation it is euident that thou diddest answer his good will with reciprocall amitie witnesse this thy assemblie these sobs these teares doo testifie thy acknowledging thereof besides all other things alas too bitter and too swéet togither euen the night of his departure was to you and to me infortunate O great O great pitie what could be séene more worthie compassion and teares than the fearefull stirre of the people It seemed when the most horrible sound of the bell called Aue Maria that gaue notice of his death to the end to praie to God line 60 for him sent furies to all both men and women One ran here an other there some two togither others without order or reason all wept all cried all howled out saieng Ah good God whereto are we brought What shall become of vs If the infection dooth afflict vs who shall praie for vs Ah that we had not deserued it Oh how God is wroth with vs With manie other exclamations sufficient to haue rent the marble stones and clouen the wals in sunder He was a man of much praier and reading as euer was anie and in priuat behauior had not his like Two things there were that made him woonderfull wise The one he would in all affaires heare counsell The other he had still recourse vnto praier Truelie he was as wise as holie I confesse that in respect of his example onelie I learned to vnderstand this place of saint Paule concerning his care of all the churches Quis infirmatur ego non infirmor Quis scandalizatur ego non vror Who is weake and I am not sicke Or who is offended and I burne not And that which followeth To be briefe toward the end of his daies and being hore haired he conceiued two excellent imaginations The one concerning that great and woonderfull college that is now at building in your Rome for the teaching a woonderfull matter of all languages in the world The other the same which he propounded and began to put in execution touching the recouerie of the goods of the catholike apostolike Romish church The same was it which he did so highlie commend to the clergie yea to the christian princes and vnto his successor to the end that the Romane sée might recouer the full brightnesse of hir glorie and to depriue the enimie of mankind of that innumerable gaine of soules that through his subtiltie he dooth dailie make These were his last words when he left vs with the water in our eies and sorrow in our harts for the losse of a thing of so great value Neuerthelesse sith it is to no purpose to wéepe it resteth that we doo two things The one that so much as in vs lieth we indeuour to reteine those notable institutions and walke in that path which he hath prescribed for vs. The other that we haue recourse to God with praier that he will send vs a successor worthie him and that as Simplician succéeded saint Ambrose so to this Ambrose an other Simplician in vertue and holinesse maie succéed This is that small matter Oh blessed soule which my foolish and vnméete toong is able this day to vtter of thée in middest of these sighs and lamentations Now shall it cease howbeit at time conuenient both this daie and euer my heart shall discourse of thée Oh wretch that I am O ye Romane people to whome happeneth still the contrarie of that which happened to the Romane souldior that was wounded and maimed vpon one of his legs at a certeine victorie that he obteined For he said that at euerie step that he set and vpon the least paine that he felt of his leg he called to mind the most honorable blason of his glorie but I contrariwise in the least commendations that I may obteine shall thinke vpon my losses For when soeuer I shall boast that I haue béene seruant to such a holinesse and so great a personage I must necessarilie withall remember what a good I am depriued of Let vs therefore praie to our good God that it may please him of his grace with his holie spirit to inspire the most reuerend cardinals the electors of the holie apostolike and Romish sée to the end his holinesse successor succéeding in the holie sée may likewise succéed in those vertues and holinesse wherewith he was indued and replenished ¶ This is the parasiticall and flattering sermon of a popeling patched togither like a beggers mantle of sundrie rotten rags diuerslie colored wherein there is as much learning as wit and as much of both as of truth and goodnesse in this praiser and the praised of whome because it is sinne against the holie ghost to speake otherwise than according to the motion of a good and sound conscience an epitaph imprecatorie as fit for him as a pudding for a friers mouth is here placed as a conclusion of this his memoriall and appliable vnto all and euerie one of that antichristian and diabolicall succession Albus an ater lector cognoscere sivis Papa tibi dicam qua ratione licet Tumetamorphôsin lepidam spectabis olorem Fac papam ceruus protinus ater erit Vt quocunque meat sordes
of them were likewise arreigned at Westminster who pleading not giltie were tried by a iurie found giltie and had iudgement accordinglie The effect of whose treasons shortlie to touch them were these Iohn Sauage remaining long in France at Rheims was persuaded by doctor Gilbert Gifford that great honor should redound to him if he would take in hand to change religion to inuade the realme by forren power to dispossesse the quéene of England and to proclame the Scotish queene and set hir in hir place All which Sauage promised to doo or else to lose his life and therevpon returned into England where he imparted his purpose to Anthonie Babington requiring his aid therein Then Iohn Ballard préest also persuaded the said Babington to the purpose before expressed promising him aid of threescore thousand men that secretlie should be landed and told him both how when as he thought Wherevpon Babington promised and concluded to make a slaughter vpon the councell of hir maiestie in the Starchamber then to haue sacked London to haue burned the nauie and chéefest ships to kill or displace the lords knights and magistrats that remained true subiects to our right lawfull quéene and realme and also to haue cloied and poisoned the greatest ordinance c. These were their purposes Now touching the names of the traitors their behauiours and speaches with the maner of their executions you shall vnderstand that vpon the twentith daie of September being tuesdaie Iohn Ballard a preest and first persuader of Babington to these odious treasons was laid alone vpon an hurdell and six others two and two in like sort all drawne from Tower hill through the citie of London vnto a field at the vpper end of Holborne hard by the high waie side to saint Giles in the field where was erected a scaffold for their execution a paire of gallows of extraordinarie hight as was that wherevpon haughtie Haman was hanged for his ambition c the place likewise so railed to kéepe off horssemen as the people might plainelie see the execution On the first daie the traitors were placed vpon the scaffold that the one might behold the reward of his fellowes treason Ballard the preest who was the first brocher of this treason was the first that was hanged who being cut downe according to iudgement was dismembred his bellie ript vp his bowels and traitorous heart taken out throwne into the fire his head also seuered from his shoulders was set on a short stake vpon the top of the gallows and the trunke of his bodie quartered and imbrued in his owne bloud wherewith the executioners hands were bathed and some of the standers by but to their great loathing as not able for their liues to auoid it such was the throng beesprinkled This Ballard at the verie time of his death not denieng his treason died an obstinate papist and in his protestation doubtfullie said that If he had offended the queens maiestie or anie man else he was sorie and so conditionallie desired forgiuenesse The malicious affection of his heart towards hir highnesse appeared in the trembling passage of death that whereas his treasons were impious odious and damnable as the most wicked to wit his confederats for the most part confessed as the common fame goeth that they excéeded the greatnesse of hir maiesties mercie which maie not be measured where there is anie measure in offending And yet in his desire of remission at hir highnesse hands he added this condition If as one that doubted if he had offended hir person Next vnto this préest Anthonie Babington was made readie to the gallowes who in euerie point was handled like vnto Ballard in whome a signe of his former pride was to be obserued For whereas the rest through the cogitation of death were exercised in praier vpon their knées and bare-headed he whose turne was next stood on his féet line 10 with his hat on his head as if he had béene but a beholder of the execution Concerning his religion he died a papist His treasons were so odious as the sting of conscience compelled him to acknowledge himselfe a most gréeuous trespasser against the diuine maiestie and the quéens highnesse Next vnto Babington Sauage was likewise prepared for the execution This notable traitor as the fame goeth was the man that conferred with doctor Gifford at Paris and by the confirmations of the line 20 English fugitiues at Rhemes was resolued and resolutelie determined to kill the quéene It is likewise said that vpon the apprehension of Ballard the préest Babington accellerated and hastened this Sauage to dispatch his resolution and that he onelie deferred the matter for the making of a court-like sute of apparell When Sauage was executed Barnewell was made readie to die an obstinat papist who for his treason made conscience his best excuse howbeit a line 30 rotten conscience which was infected with the murther of a vertuous quéene which sith it was so bad few there were that heard him but forbad their conscience to pitie him otherwise than charitablie to be sorowfull for his offense deseruing so shamefull a fall and damnable before God and man After this Barnewell Tichborns turne was serued a proper yoong gentleman whose humilitie and mone moued much compassion Tilneie one of the queens maiesties pensioners next vnto Tichborne made worke for the hangman a wretch well worthie of line 40 death who went about to take awaie hir highnesse life The last of these seuen that suffered was Edward Abington whose father was an officer of good credit in hir highnesse house and for manie aduancements was bound to saie God saue good Q. Elisabeth But his sonne was a notable papist an archtraitor who at his death did all that in him laie to fix a feare in the hearts of the ignorant multitude with this speech that there could not choose but be great effusion of bloud in England verie shortlie But line 50 Gods prouidence maketh it apparant that the prophesies of traitors prooue not euermore scripture For Throgmorton the traitor said that before one yeare was expired the prosperitie peace of England should be turned into generall calamitie Howbeit the date of that diuination is out they both as maie béetide the rest of that rebellious rout in their appointed time by Gods grace partakers of semblable destinie This Abington was the last of the first seuen that were executed and thus ended line 60 that daies worke to the comfort of Israell for that the execrable thing which troubled the whole land and highlie offended the diuine maiestie was taken awaie On the daie following according to generall expectation being the one and twentith daie of September Salisburie was laid alone vpon an hurdell and other six two and two in like maner all drawne from Tower hill through the citie of London vnto the former place of execution Salisburie was the first
fourth and the earle of Warwike 682 a 50. Weighing the inconuenience of discord wareth wise slow to aid the earle of Warwike his dissimulation 681 a 60 b 1050 60. He and the earle of Warwike soiourned at Excester to passe ouer the seas they arriue on the English coasts 676 b 10 60. A conspirator against his brother Edward the fourth he taketh the seas 674 a 40. His promise to a damsell persuading him to peace 675 a 10 20 Drowned in a but of Malmescie 703 a 40 Duke of Excester his pithie saieng 546 a 60. Uncle to Henrie the fift 560 a 30 40. Capteine of Harflue 556 a 60. His ouerthrow by the French b 10 With a power at Newarke 680 b 60. Left for dead but recouered note 685 a 60. Deceaseth 596 b 60 598 b 50. Found dead in the sea 694 b 10 Duke of Gelderlands letters to Richard second 475 b 50. CoÌmeth into England disuadeth Richard the second ârom peace with the French K. 477 b 30 Duke of Glocesters protestation vpon his oth 458 a 10. Arested 489 a 30. Confesseth all wherwith he was charged he is smoothered to death note 489 a 60 b 10. He Richard second at priuie grudge talke betwéene them 487 b 40 50. Excused to K. Richard second by the duke of Lancaster Yorke he the abbat of S. Albons conspire 488 a 40 b 10 c. Made duke of Ireland his iournie thither vnlucklie staied 479 b 50 60. His iournie into Prutzenland in great fauour with the commons 475 a 60. A seuere man 464 a 40. His death the dooers therein exempted from king Henrie the fourths pardon 514 a 50. In question 525 b 40. His deth in part reuenged 513 b 20 Much adoo about it note 512 a 50 60 513. a 10. His complaint to Henrie sixt against the cardinall of Winchester 620 a 50. Liketh well of the kings mariage with the earle of Armenaks daughter note 624 b 60. Winneth Rockesburgh castell 657 a 60. His deth what mischiefe followed it 627 a 60. He is commended note b 10 c. Discharged of all gouernment the faint quarell piked against him he is suddenlie murthered 627 a 10. Ill practises against him vnder faire countenances 622 b 60. Spoileth Flanders 614 b 60. Calleth a parlement Henrie the sixt in France 607 b 10. Articles against the bishop of Winchester 591 a 60. Mariage in question he waxeth werie of his wife 590 a 60 He and bishop of Winchester at dissention 590 a 60 591 a 10 c. Murthereth Henrie the sixt in the Towre 690 b 60. An enimie to peace 697 a 10. Proclamation against the lord Hastings c 724 a 20. Marieth another mans wife note 586 a 30. His behauiour in the assemblie of lords 722 b 10. His oration to the lords against the quéene 717 a 10. His resolution to go through with his diuelish enterprise 721 b 20 Solicitations tending wholie to trouble and bloudshed 714 a 60. His Buckinghams practises 715 a 30. Made protector 716 b 50. ¶ Sée duke of Buckingham Duke of Guise with a great armie commeth towards Calis entreth the English frontiers his policie 1135 a 20 40 b 10. His proclamation to bring in monie plate c 1136 a 10. Marcheth to the towne and fort of Guisnes 1137 a 40. And monsieur Dandelot with their powers in a rage with his soldiors a trumpetter from him to the lord Greie they haue communication one whole houre 1139 a 10 30 b 30 Appointed to be a principall leader and executor of forren inuasion 1371 b 30 40 c b 60 Duke of Hereford appealeth the duke of Northfolke of treason 493 b 20. Beloued of the people honourablie interteined with the French king 493 b 30 Duke of Irelands passage stopped by the lords his souldiors reuolt from him he flieth from his armie getteth him into Holland letters found in his trunks 421 a 10 50 60. He and his associats attainted of treason by parlement 463 b 30 Duke of Lancaster and the Londoners submit their quarels to the kings order 416 a 20. He Yorke excuse the duke of Glocester to king Richard the second 488 a 40. High steward of England at an arreignment 491 a 60. He Yorke assemble their powers to resist Richard the seconds dealings 490 a 10. Returneth into England out of Gascoigne 467 a 60. Created 380 b 50. Debate betwixt him and the duke of Brunswike 381 a 10. Goeth ouer sea with a nauie and two of Edward the thirds sonnes with him 382 a 30. Is sent to aid the king of Nauarre 386 b 30. Persuadeth Edward the third to peace with the French king 393 b 50. Maketh a iournie into France 404 a 50. Sent into France with an armie fortifieth his campe 403 b 30 50. Commeth to Burdeaux 408 a 50 c. In danger by the Londoners note 412 a 20. Goeth into Spaine with an armie 448 b 60. He landeth at Brest and winneth two bastides from the French landeth at Groigue 449 a 50 60. He the king of Portingall alied they inuade Castile he returneth out of Portingale into Gascoigne 450 a 20. Reconcileth the king and the lords 467 b 10. Made duke of Aquitaine 473 a 10. Commeth to Chester citie the countrie submit them selues vnto him Holt castell deliuered vnto him 500 a 10 30. He and Glocester sent into France to treat of peace 480 a 30. The grant of the duchie of Aquitane vnto him reuoked 485 b 10. He marieth a ladie of meane estate whom he kept as his concubine b 60. Calleth a parlement in Richard the seconds name 502 a 10. His behauiour to the king their méeting his demand receiuing into London 501 b 10 20 50. His bastards made legitimat 487 b 10. Ambassador for the K. into France 475 b 30 A prince of great renowme 477 a 60. Saileth into Aquitaine 481 a 60. Solicited to expell king Richard the second b 60. And to take vpon him the regiment 497 b 60. The duke of Britain his great fréend the commons denie to resist the duke he landeth in Yorkeshire his oth to the lords that aided him the harts of the commons wholie bent vnto him he marcheth to Bristow 498 a 10 50 60 b 10 30 60. Feasteth strangers 474 a 20. Enuied of the rebels note 431 a 20 c. Not suffred to enter into the towne of Berwike 439 a 10. Chargeth the erle of Northumberland with manie crimes commeth to the parlement with a great troopâ of men 439 a 20 60 b 10. Sent into France to treat of peace 446 a 40. Misliking the manners of the court getteth himselfe to Killingworth castell 419 b 20. He the erle of Cambridge appointed protectors 418 a 20. Saileth to Britaine with a great power 420 a 60. Getteth him to his castell of Pomfret and fortifieth it 446 b 60. Laieth challenge to the crowne 505 b 40. He is placed in the regall throne b 60. King elect his words
to the lords 507 a 60. His coronation proclamed by the name of Henrie the fourth 507 b 10 30. Inuaded Scotland with an armie 445 b 10. Appeached of treason 445 b 40. His decease 395 b 10 496 a 20. ¶ Sée Edmund Duke of Normandie commeth downe into Britaine 364 b 10 Duke of Northfolke in armes against Wiat ariueth at Stroud 1094 b 50. He with the capteine of the gard put to their shifts 1095 a 10. He and Suffolke elected into the order of S. Michaell 929 a 10. Ambassador into France 950 a 50. Henrie the eights lieutenant 942 b 60. CoÌmeth with a power against the rebels in Suffolke 891 b 40. He the earle of Surrie on Richard the thirds side 755 b 20. His constancie allegiance to Richard third he is slaine 759 b 10. Accused of treson 493 b 20. Obiections against him 494 a 30. Committed to the Towre atteinted and the atteindor reuersed 976 b 10 50. Deceaseth 514 a 60 b 10 891 a 60 1121 b 30. Inuested into the order of S. Michaell 1209 a 20 Sent to the Towre 1211 b 60. Remoued from the Towre to the Charterhouse 1222 a 20. CoÌmitted to the Towre 1226 b 30. Arreigned condemned and iudged 1227 b 60. Beheaded forren nations write therof his attire behauior spéech at his execution note 1229 a 50 60 b 10 c 1230 Duke of Northumberlands enterprise against the ladie Marie incouraged 1085 b 50 60. His words to the lords of the councell about quéene Iane who adhered vnto him he setteth forward with all speed 1086 a 10 c b 10 20. Writeth for more succours 1087 a 30. His sons released out of the Towre 1127 a 10. Arrested by the earle of Arundell and committed to the Towre with his adherents 1088 a 60 b 30. Arreigned his request to vnderstand the opinion of the court in two points 1089 b 40 50 His foure requests after his iudgment to die he with others are executed at Towre hill 1090 a 10 50 Duke of Orleance partaker with the duke of Britaine against the French king 768 b 10. How long prisoner in England his ransome and release 618 b 20 50. Chalenge 524 b 60 He besieged Uergi in Guien 525 a 20. Besiegeth townes in Gascoigne 533 a 50. Commeth to the English armie 540 b 30. Murthered 537 a 60 Duke Richard his singular dissimulation 731 b 10. He speaketh otherwise than he meaneth 731 b 20. His electioÌ hard to be preferred 730 b 20. Preferred at last by voices of confederacie 730 b 60. Adiured by bishop Morton their conference he openeth himselfe and his secrets to the bishop complaineth of lacke of preferment in K. Edwards daies 738 all His title to the crowne with the office and dignitie of a king he is commended to the people as worthie and sufficient 730 a 20 30. ¶ Sée Duke of Glocester and Richard Duke of Richmond a martialist or warrior Henrie the eights base sonne 929 a 10. Henrie Fitzroie Henrie the eights base sonne deceasseth 941 a 10 Duke of Saxonie in disfauour and exile 105 b 60. Commeth into England his goodlie stature 212 b 40. Pardoned and reuoked out of exile 108 a 10 Duke of Suffolke created 627 b 30. Winneth the goodwill of the quéen Dowager of France 836 b 10. They married togither b 30. Entreth France with an armie 879 a 50. Breaketh vp his armie commeth to Calis 881 a 40. Chiualrie valiant seruice in France he knighteth diuerse gentlemen 879 b 60 880 all Hope hindered by cardinall Woolfeie 839 a 60. And others sent into France to fetch the French quéene into England 836. a 50. Incountereth with a strong and tall Almaine 833 b 60. He foileth the Almaine 834 a 10. Deceasseth his iust commendation 969 b 30. The commons exclaime against him 631 a 10 20 40. Committed to the Towre his wretched dèth 632 a 10 50. He with others brought to the Towre 1099 a b 10. Committed to the Towre and released 1088 b 40. Goeth downe into Leicestershire is a fauourer and furtherer of Wiats practises he is kept out of Couentrie apprehended 1095 a 40 60 b 10. Arreigned condemned beheaded 1100 b 20 40 50. What words he spake to the people at his death b 60. Duke of Summerset made regent of Normandie and the duke of Yorke discharged 625 b 30. Made capteine of Calis 650 b 60. His valiantnesse 619 a 30. Reuolteth from Edward the fourth taken beheaded 666 a 40 c b 20 c. Made lord protector 979 a 40 50. His returne from Scotland 992 a 60. Not desirous of slaughter 988 b 20. With his power against Scotland 980 a 30 c b 30. Sendeth an herald to summon a castell 981 a 10 20. Answer to a Scotish herald at armes 983 b 60. His diligence to further the fortification to Rockesburgh 991 b 10. His statelie stile with his epistle exhortatiue sent to the Scotish nobles c 998 b 10 c. He the earle of Warwike outwardlie fréends 1062 a 50. And others submit themselues to Edward the fourth 665 b 60. Againe apprehended and committed to the Towre 1066 b 60 Charged sir Peter Carew with the rebellion 1022 b 30. He and the earle of Deuonshire comfort quéene Margaret 685 b 60. Politiké puissant 687 b 60. More hardie than wise 687 b 60 688 a 10 c. Striketh out the lord Wenlocks brains 688 a 50. His infortunatnesse 615 b 60. Arested 642 a 20. Set at libertie made deputie of Calis 40 50. Accuseth the earle of Yorke of high treason 639 a 50. Burthened with all things that happened amisse 643 a 40. He is slain b 10. His displacing out of his protectorships consulted on remoueth in hast with K. Edward sixt to Windsore his letter to the lord priuie seale 1057 a 20 50 60. His letters to the lords 1058 a 30. A proclamation with articles against him b 20 30 c. Prisoner conmitted to the Towre articles obiected against him 1059 b 10 30 40 1060 a 10 c. Released restored 1060 b 10 20. Deliuered out of the Towre 1062 a 50. Arreigned both of fellonie treason condemend of fellonie people murmur at his condemnation deliuerd to be executed his behauior at his death 1067 a 10 30 40 50 b 40 60. His words at his death a sudden noise feare among the people assembled 1068 a 10 c 50 b 19 1069 a 60. Described b 10. Beheaded 688 b 60 Duke of Surrie marshall of England 493 b 50 Duke of Yorke lieutenant generall of England 497 a 10. Misliketh the court goeth home 496 a 60. Noted for crueltie what maner of man he was his end 712 a 10 20. Plantagenet afterwards Richard third 595 b 40. Made regent of France enuied of duke of Summerset 612 b 10 617 b 10 619 a 30. Appointed againe to be regent of Normandie 625 b 50. A persecuting enimie to the duke of Summerset note 630 b 20. Assembleth an armie his
hée ariueth in Ireland saileth into France all aââant returneth vnto the ladie Margaret his first founder named by hir the white rose of England 776 a 10 c. Counterfeteth the duke of Yorke verie cunninglie his true linage his conspiring fautors 777 a 20 40 b 50. Sir William Stanlie his fauourer 778 b 40. He attempteth to land in Kent his men discomfited his capteins taken and executed he reculeth into Flanders 779 b 40 60. Saileth into Ireland and is in sundrie opinions hée marrieth the earle of Huntlies daughter saith that he is Edward the fourth his lawfull sonne telleth the Scotish K. how he was preserued kept aliue calleth the ladie Margareth his aunt craueth aid of the Scotish K. toward the recouerie of the crowne of England from Henrie the seuenth 780 a 20 c. His counterfet compassion 781 a 40. Hée is faine to packe out of Scotland his thrée counsellors hée assalteth Excester 783 b 50 c. He taketh sanctuarie his wife presented to Henrie the seuenth all his partakers in their shirts with halters about their necks appéere before Henrie the seuenth he is assalted in sanctuarie submitteth himselfe to the K. and is strictlie séene vnto 784 a 60 b 10 c. Escapeth from his kéepers his confession as it was written with his owne hand and read openlie vpon a scaffold by the standard in Chepe 786 a 10 20 c. 787 a 10. Hée corrupted his kéepers he is executed at Tiburne 787 a 10 b 30 Periurie punished 46 b 20.680 a 60. By God 1262 a 20. Laid to William Rufus charge by his brother Robert 21 a 40. ¶ Sée Oth Promise Laid to Henrie the fourths charge 524 a 10. ¶ Sée Baffuling Perot sir Thomas knight ¶ Sée Iusts triumphant Persecution in England ceaseth and the protestants returne out of exile 1181 b 50. ¶ Sée Martyr Religion Priests sâmââarie Persie lord sent against the Scots 303 b 60. Put to flight by the king of Scots 315 a 10. ¶ Sée Conspiracie and Erle Persiuall ¶ Sée Maior and Officer Peson ¶ Sée Woonder Pestilence 473 a 20. In Calis 803 b 30. Followeth famine 1049 b 40. In manie places speciallie in London 787 b 60. In diuerse parts of the realme 704 a 60 That deuoured woonderfull multitudes note 703 b 20. Hot in London 1211 b 60. In London 961 a 40.525 a 60. Among the soldiors at Newhauen 1204 a 50. The cause that Newhauen fell into the hands of the French 1205 b 10 20 30. Transported from thense to London 1205 b 50. And what a consumption of people it wroght in the citie and suburbs this was called the great plague b 60. Like to haue increased 1260 a 10 20. In Germanie whereof thrée hundred thousand died 1206 b 10 Peterburrough spoiled 194 a 30 Peter pence forbidden to be anie more gathered in England 397 b 20 Peter Landoise ¶ Sée Landoise Peters William knight deceaseth his charitie 1227 b 50 Petitions thrée that quéene Philip made to hir husband on hir death bed note 404 a 20 30 c. ¶ Sée Demands and Requests Peâo cardinall became a begging frier note 1365 b 10 Peuerell William disherited 65 b 40 Philip his preparation to come into England the English ambassadors méete him at saint Iames of Compostella his arriuall in Southhampton receiued of the nobilitie interteined of quéene Marie married vnto hir what nobles were attendant on him the conditions of their mariage 1118 all Installed at Windsor he and she go throgh London to Westminster 1120 b 50 60. Passeth ouer into Flanders to incounter the French king 1133 b 20 1129 b 40. His returne into England 1133 a 40. Philip the hardie and whie so surnamed 401 b 60. Philip of Austrich afterwards K. of Castile or Spaine landeth in west parts of England 792 b 40. His honorable interteinment his bow inuiolablie kept his deth and description 793 a 10 50 60 Philip the French king bribed to procure peace betwéene William Rufus and Robert 21 b 10. Setteth Robert the sonne against his father William duke of Normandie 12 a 30. His iest at duke William lieng sicke 14 b 20. His death 34 b 60 205 a 60. ¶ Sée French king Philip king Richard the firsts base sonne slue the vicount of Limoges 160 b 60 Philip quéene of England ¶ Sée Quéene Philpot a worthie citizen of London and alderman 419 b 60. Discloseth treasons 428 a 60 Physician Lewes sheweth to quéene Elizabeth the whole conceit and deuise of vniting the house of Lancaster and Yorke in one 741 b 50 Physicians counsell neglected dangerous to the death 45 a 10 20 Piemount prince commeth into England 1126 b 10 Piers Exton ¶ Sée Exton Pilgrime his scrip and staffe 123 b 10 Pilgrims robbed and the théefe hanged note 122 a 20 Pilgrimage cloked 183 b 50 The holie pilgrimage 942 a 20 Pilgrimages ¶ Sée Images Pipes of lead vnder the ground to conueie water and when the casting of them was inuented 944. a 60. ¶ Sée Water Pirat Barton ¶ Sée Barton Campbell Pirats on the west seas taken and executed 1258 a 10. Hanged at Wapping 1258 b 40 1271 a 60 1354 b 10 20 ¶ Sée Clinton c. Pirats had like to haue taken Henrie the fourth 533 b 10 Followed so that they durst not péepe out 537 a 30. To the number of twentie and two condemned and iudged to die 1262 a 10 Pittie of Henrie the second to the poore note 115 a 50. Of Henrie the seuenth on a companie of haltered rebels 784 b 40. Of Henrie the sixt notable note 691. b 20. Of king Henrie the fift note 560. b 60 Of Hubert de Burgh toward duke Arthur of Britaine in prison 165. b 10. Of Edward the third towards the poore notable 375. a 20. Of a queene of England vnto six burgesses of Calis note 378. a 20. Of captaine Randoll notable 1205. b 10. Foolish in dearing with pardoning offendors note 1049. a 60. Of one the casting awaie of another note 41. b 30. On the dead pardon to the liuing 688. b 30 40. Procureth perill 423. b. 10.20 ¶ See Charitie Plage called The great plage asswaged in London 1262 a 10. Threefold to the poore citizens 1209 a 20. A natural prognostication therof 1050. b. 30. Great in Essex 480. b 60. In diuerse places of England great 805. a 10. ¶ See Pestilence Plaie pubâike and conference there to further the rebellion in Northfolke but note the issue 1028. b 20.30.1029 1030. Of a tragedie in Oxford with misfortune 1209. b 10. Plaies and enterludes forbidden for a time 1184. a 50. Planets superiors coniunction 484. b. 40. Plantagenet the true earle of Warwike a verie innocent he is executed note 787. b 20.50 Knight deceaseth in the tower the cause of his trouble 955. a 60. b 10. c. The last of the right liâe and name 953 a 60. In whome that name rested 703. b 20. A counterfeit of the ladie Margarets imagining 775. a 60. ¶ See Arthur and
Montferrat note 136 a 40 50. Is deliuered to the emperor he is committed close prisoner 137 a 30. And the cause of displeasure betwixt him the duke of Austrich 136 a 20 The confession of his leud life in a chapell 126 b 10. Uanquisheth the Cipriots chaseth them out of their campe 127 b 60. His nauie setteth foorth towards the holie land 123 a 20. Returneth home out of the holie land 135 b 20 Slandered for the death of the marquesse Montferrat 30 He commeth to Uienna 50 Submitteth himselfe to the duke of Austrich 136 a 10 Discomfiteth the Saracens néere to port Iaph 134 a 30 Fell sicke at Cephas and recouereth 135 a 50. His talke with king Cancred 126 b 50 His expenses out of reason measure 126 b 30. What were the causes of grudge betwene him and the French king 126 a 30 c. He and the king of France receiued a solemne oth 123 a 40 His demands for the dowrie of his sister wife to king William 124 b 40. Arriueth at Messina 124 b 10. Blameth the court of Rome for couetousnes 123 b 50. Setteth forward to the holie land his fléet staied by contrarie winds 123 b 10 20 Taketh a castell and hangeth the owner 123 a 20. Passeth ouer into Normandie 121 a 20. Desirous of monie and of his shifts 120 b 40. Findeth his fathers treasure the order of his coronation 118 a 20 30. He and the king of France determine to go into the holie land 117 b 30. Besiegeth Chalus he is wounded despaireth of his life ordeineth his testament 155 b 30 c. His bequests and legacies his death his stature shape of bodie his disposition of mind the vices that were in him 156 all Richard the second borne 397 b 60. Counterfeited note 515 a 50. Created prince of Wales 411 a 10. Prince of Chester 492 b 40. Beginneth his reigne the Londoners commend themselues to his fauour before the death of king Edward 415 a 40 b 40. The solemne maner of his coronation note 416 a 60. c. Maried the solemnitie therat 487 a 10 50 60. c. His euill gouernement 493 a 60. The emperor agréeth with him for his ransome 139 a 10. Lands assigned vnto him 30. Order taken for leuieng of monie for his ransome 50. Leaueth Conwaie castell and betaketh himselfe to his enimies 500. b 30. His cognisance or badge 500 b 60. The parlement house aâ dissention he absenteth himselfe for the space of fortie daies note 452 b 10 50 Loued earle de Ueere of Oxford excéedinglie 453 b 20 ¶ Sée Earle Ueere His inordinat affection towards the duke of Ireland and the earle of Suffolke 454 a 20. Retriâeth souldiors on all sides against the lords 457 b 60. His maner of gréeting and speaking to the lords that were banded against him 459 b 30 40 50 60.460 a 10. A report that he ment to yeeld vp Calis into the French kings hands 462 a 10. Kéepeth his Christmas in the Tower of London 462 a 50. Brought to his wits end 462 b 60. His inconstancie he is compelled to the nobles request 463 a 10 30. Ruled not but was ruled note 465 a 40. His question to his lords in the councell chamber taking vpon him the gouernment of all things he displaceth diuerse officers c. 466 b 10 40. Kept open houshold in the bishop of London his palace 474 a 10. Passeth ouer into Ireland with a mightie armie 481 b 20 Knighteth the foure Irish kings and others 481 b 30 482 a 20. Openeth his greeuances in the parlement 490 b 10. Saileth ouer into Ireland with a great armie 497 a 10. Letteth the realme to farme 496 a 60. A gard of Cheshire men about him 489 b 50. Roiallie receiued into London and his fauor recouered with gifts 479 b 50 60 479 a 10. Taketh the death of quéene Anne his wife gréeuouslie 481 a 20. Goeth ouer to Calis the interuiew betwéene him and the French king both their oths 486 a 60 b 20 40. Expenses at the interuiew betwéene him the French king 487 a 40 50. He and the duke of Glocesters priuie grudge 487 b 40. Conspireth the death of the duke of Glocester 489 a 60. He and the dukes of Lancaster and Yorke reconciled 490 a 50 He beareth saitn Edwards arms 492 b 60. Greatlie vexed in his sléepe after the execution of the erle of Arundell 392 a 20. Procureth the popes bull against the breakers of his statutes 493 a 50 His doome betwéene the dukes of Lancaster Norfolke 495 a 60. Affianced and maried to the emperors sister 439 b 50. Sumptuous in apparell he is committed to the Tower 501 b 40 60. Articles obiected against him wherby he was counted worthie to be deposed 502 a 20 c. He is persuaded to resigne the crowne to the duke 503 a 50. A copie of the said voluntarie renunciation b 10 504 a 30. His resignation is confirmed 505 a 10. The publication of the same a 30. Returneth out of Ireland and landeth in Wales 499 a 60. He despaireth of his safetie stealeth awaie from his armie taketh the castell of Flint b 20.30 He and his quéene in progresse 444 b 30. Appointed to be kept in perpetuall prison 513 a 10 20. He and his nobles at dissention 458 a 30. Goeth with an armie against the Scots 447 a 30 Burneth Edenburgh castell b 10. Returneth out of Ireland his dealing against the Wickleuists and their fauourers 482 a 20 40 b 30.483 a 50 c. Remooueth to saint Albans to sée execution doone vpon the rebels 437 a 20 Calleth in his letters of infranchising granted vnto the bondmen 437 a 10. Calleth in all such letters of manumission as the abbat of saint Albans had granted vnto his bondmen 438 a 10. He and the duke of Lancaster accorded 446 b 60. Maketh an agréement betweene the duke of Lancaster and the earle of Northumberland 439 b 20 Depriued he deliuereth to king Henrie the fourth all the goods that he hath his death personage fortune 507 b 50 60. His noble housekéeping and excesse in apparell the state of the relme in his time 508 a 10 20. The commons request against him 513 b 30 His desperat manhood in prison he is murthered he is brought to the Tower he is buried at Langlie forren princes abhor to heare of the shamefull murthering of him how the Gascoignes tooke his death 515 all The sundrie reports of his death 516 b 50 60. Reported to be aliue againe 525 a 60 b 10.520 a 10 533 a 60.522 b 20. And what harme it bred 525 a 60 Richard the third described the maner of his natiuitie his qualities 712 a 60 b 10. Dispraised 737 b 60. Beginneth his vsurped reigne 732 a 20 b 20. He createth seuentéene knights of the Bath what péeres and estates were attendant on him at his coronation the solemne ceremonies vsed thereat his wife quéene Anne and hir traine 733 all Practiseth the murthering of his
Anno Reg. 6. Simon Dun. Hen. Hunt Matth Paris The king being sicke promiseth amendment of life Polydor. Eadmerus Anselme elected archbishop of Canturburie Eadmerus Matth. Paris Polydor. Robert Bluet L. Chancelor elected bishop of Lincolne Hen. Hunt Polydor. A proclamation that none should deparâ the realme Ran. Higd. Rées king of Wales slaine Wil. Thorne Malcolme king of Scots commeth to Glocester Wil. Malm. Polydor. K. Malcolme inuadeth England Simon Dun. Ran. Higd. Anno Reg. 7. 1094 Ran. Higd. Wil. Malm. Simon Dun. Death murren of cattell Strange woonders Matth. Paris Polydor. Simon Dun. King William passeth ouer into Normandie Wars betwixt the king and his brother Matth. West Polydor. A peace concluded betwixt the king and his brother Robert Hen. Hunt Simon Dun. The Welshmen inuade England The castell of Mountgomeriâ won by the Welshmen Anno Reg. 8. 1095 Robert earle of Northumberland refuseth to come to the king Matth. Paris Hen. Hunt Maluoisin a fortresse built against Banbourgh Polydor. Banbourgh yéelded to the king Sâmoâ Dun. âhe earle of âwe Matth. Paris King William inuadeth Wales The king returneth out of Wales with dishonour Eadmeâus Murcherdach king of Ireland The councell of Clermount The iournie into the holie land Godfray be Bullion Anno Reg. 9. 1096. Hen. Hunt Wil. Thorne Simon Dun. A subsidie Eadmerus Polydor. The duchie of Normandie morgaged to king William Eadmerus Polydor. Anno Reg. 10. 1097 Eadmerus Waterford in Ireland made a bishoprike The archbishop of Canturburie primate of Ireland Murcherdach K. of Ireland Malchus consecrated bishop of Waterford The king eftsoones inuadeth the Welshmen Polydor. The Welshmen withdraw into the woods H. Hunt Simon Dun. R. Houed Anno Reg. 11. 1098 Matth. Paris Gyral Cam. Hugh earle of Shrewsburie slaine âab ex Guido de Columna Anno Reg. 12. 1099 Fabian Ran. Higd. Matth. Paris Polydor. The king goeth ouer into Normandie Finchamstéed Ran. Higd. Hen. Hunt Matth. West Wil. Malm. Hen. Hunt Matth. Paris Wil. Malm. The saieng of king William Rufus Man 's deliuered from an asséege Helias Hen. Hunt Polydor. Uariance betwixt the king and the archbishop Anselme Matth. Paris A thousand maâkes demanded of Anselme Eadmerââ Matth. Paris The king could not abide to âeare the pope named Eadmerus The kings demand to Anâelme A councell at Rockingham in Rutlandshire * If they be Gods people The king renounceth the archbishop for his subiect The bishops driuen to their shifts how to shape an answer The meane to pacifie the king The stiffenes of Anselme in withstanding the kings pleasure Matth. Paris Eadâeruâ Fabian Matth. Paris Anselme comming to Rome complaineth of the king Ranulfe bishop of Chichester Finess of préests that had wiues as by some writers it séemed Polydor. Robert Losaunge Ran. Higd. Wil. Malm. Stephan Harding a moonke Ran. Higd. Iacobus Philippus Berigonias Anno Reg. 13. 1100 The kings lauish prodigalitie Strange woonders Wil. Malm. A dreame Matth. West Wil. Malm. Sir Walter Tirell The king slaine Wil. Malm The liberall hart of king William Iewes An answer of a good Iew. A pretie deuision King William suspected of infidelitie Eadmerus Praieng to saincts His stature Whereof he tooke his surname Rufus Wil. Malm. Couentrie church ioined to the sée of Chester Anno Reg. 1. 1100. Wil. Thorne Geruasius Dorobernensis Matth. Paris The king âââketh to win the peoples fauour Simon Dun. Hen. Hunt Matth. Paris Anselme called home Wil. Malm. William Gifford bishop of Winchester Hen. Hunt Rafe bishop of Durham committed to the Tower Simon Dun. The first ordeining of the yard measure Wil. Malm. Wil. Malâ Polydor. The archbishop of Uienna the popes legat He is not receiued for legat Ran. Higd. Duke Robert chosen king of Hierusalem Polydor. Anno Reg. 2. Duke Robert is solicited to come into England to claim the crowne Wil. Malm. Simon Dun. In the Kal. of Februarie R. Houe Hen. Hunâ Polydor. Duke Robert arriued at Portsmouth Simon Dun. Wil. Malm. Hen. Hunt Polydor. Wil. Malm. Simon Dun. Hen. Hunt Hen. Hunt Wil. Thorne Matth. West Geruasius Dorober Simon Dun. Robert de Belesme earle of Shrewsburie Stafford wasted Arundell castell besieged Bridgenorth besieged Anno Reg. 3. The earle of Shrewsburie banished the realme A synod of bishops Eadmerus Abbats priors âepriued Matth. Parââ The cause why they wer depriued Hen. Hunt Sim. Dun. Eadmerus Mariage of préests forbidden Hen. Hunt Decrées instituted in this councell Against préests that were alehouse hunters Archdeaconries Subdeacons Préests sons Préests to wear crowns Tithes Benefices New chapels Consecration of churches Abbats Moonks Farmes Parsonages Contracts Wearing of haire Buriall Fond worshipping of men The cursse to be read euerie sundaie S. Bartholomewes by Smithfield founded Smithfield sometimes a common laiestall a place of execution Anno Reg. 3 Polydor. The king bestoweth bishopriks Matth. Paris Sim. Dunel Anselme refuseth to consecrate the bishops inuested by the king Gerard inuested archbishop of Yorke W. Gâfford bishop of Winchester Matth. Paris Wil. Thorne Polydor. Polydor. 1102 Anno Reg. 4. Ambassadors sent to Rome Anselme goeth also to Rome Eadmerus The saieng of Wil. Warlewast to the pope The popes answer to him Polydor. Wil. Malm. The pope writeth courteouslie to the king The earle of Mellent Anno Reg. 4. The K. persuaded to renounce his title to the inuestiture of prelats Eadmerus Duke Robert commeth into England to visit his brother Wil. Malm. Factious persons practise to set the two brethren at variance The earle of Mortaigne Richard earle of Chester A power of men sent into Normandie Gemeticenâis The k. passeth ouer to Normandie Anno Reg. 6. Simon Dun. Gemeticensis Polydor. 1106 Anno Reg. 7. The brethren depart in displeasure K. Henrie passeth into Normandie to pursue his brother They ioine in battell The Normans vanquished The earle of Mortaigne Eadmerus W. Crispine W. Ferreis Robert de Estoutuille The number slaine Gemeticensis Wil. Malm. Robert de Belesme The 27. of September chro de Nor. Simon Dun. Matth. West Anselme returneth home Duke Robert prisoner in the castell of Cardiff Gemeticensis Polydor. Maâth West Iohn Pike Richard prior of Elie. Polydor. Ran. Higd. Flemings coÌming ouer into England haue places appointed them to inhabit Wil. Malm. A councâll Sim. Dunel Eadmerus Anno Reg. 9. Préests are sequâstred froÌ their wiues Archdeacons and canons Archdeacons to be sworne Penance Polydor. Philip king of Fran. dead Lewis le gros K. of France Ambassadors from the emperour Maud the kings daughter fianced vnto the emperour Eadmerus The death of Gerard archbish of Yoâke Thomâs the kings chapleine succéeded in that sée The doubt of Anselme Anselme writeth to the Pope The popes answer to Anselme The archbishop of Yorke refuseth to come vnto Canturburie to be consecrated Looke in the 9. page and the first columne of the debate betwéen Thomas of Yorke Lanârenke of Canturburie The bishop of London deane to the archbishop of Canturburie The bishop of Rochester his chapleine A stout prelat Anselme senââeth to the king Ansâlme
The earle of Kent rescued and conueied into Wales Polydor. The king entreth into Wales with an armie Polydor. The king returneth out of Wales The earle of Penbroke in danger He is rescued The Poictouins discomfited Dearth Tempests An earthquake A death Matth. Paris Iohn Monmouth receiueth an ouerthrow Polydor. Matth. Paris A part of the towne of Shrewsburie burnt Polydor. Matth. Paris Matth. Paris The earle of Penbroke passeth ouer into Ireland He is taken prisoner Geffrey Maurish The death ãâã the earle of Penbroke Polydor. Matth. Pariâ Gilbert Marshall earle of Penbroke Officers called to accounts The truce ended Welshmen sent ouer to the aid of the earle of Britaine The earle of Britaine submitteth himselfe to the French king Anno Reg. 19. 1235 Polydor. Fabian * Sée the like in pag. 56. col 1. Matth. Paris The emperor Frederike marieth the king of Englands sister A great and sumptuous feast Matth. Paris Usurers called Caorsini of whome sée more in pag. 211. col 1. The bishop of London his doctrine Anno Reg. 20. King Henrie marrieth the ladie Elianor daughter to the earle of Prouance Matth. Paris The earle of Chester The constable of Chester The earle of Penbroke The wardeÌs of the cinque ports The earle of Leicester Erle Warren The earle of Hereford Lord William Beauchampe The citizens of London The citizens of Winchester A parlement at London Polydor. Strange sights Matth. Paris Great raine Matth. Paris Matth. West A great thunder A drie summer Gilbert Norman founder of Merton abbeie Anno Reg. 21. High tides Matth. Paris Wisbech people perishing by rage of waters A subsidie Matth. Paris Iohn Scot earle of Chester departed this life Ran. Higd. His sisters Cardinall Otho or Othobon The lords grudge at the king for receiuing the cardinall without their knowledge The legat praised for his sober behauiour A tournie at Blie Earle Bigot Anno Reg. 22. The legat holdeth a synod at London The legat coâmeth to Oxford A fraie betwixt the legats men and the scholers of Oxford A cookes almes The legats cooke slaine The legat complaineth to the king The earle Waren sent to apprehend the offendors The legat cursseth The regents of yâ Uniuersitie absolued Polydor. Matth. Paris The emperor of Constantinople coÌmeth into England The countesse of Peâbroke sister to the king married to Simon de Montford Polydor. The archbishop of Canturburie displeased with the marriage He goeth to Rome to coÌplaine of the king The earle of Cornewall ââ also offended for the same marriage Matth. Paris The earle of Leicester gathereth ãâã He goeth to Rome to get â dispensation or rather confirmation of his marriage Aid sent forth of England ââ the emperour Henrie Trubleuille Iohn Mansel Wil. Hardell The bishop of Winchester departeth this life Matth. Paris A naughtie wretch meant to haue destroied the K. * Sée his end in pag. 230. Seneca in Octa Hippol. Anno Reg. 23. 1239 Matth. Paris Uariance betwixt the king and the earle of Penbroke Simon earle of Leicester fled ouer into France The birth of king Edward the first Polydor. A strange star Matth. Paris Ranulfe Briton taken out of his house and led to the tower Great raine The legat beginneth to looke to his owne coÌmoditie Sir Robert de Twing The Iewes punished by the pursse A synod holden at London Anno Reg. 24. 1240 Matth. Paris Matth. West Baldwin de Riuers earle of the I le of Wight The woods about Leicester féeld Leolin prince of Wales departeth this life Griffin ap Maddockeâ King Henrie aided the pope with monie against the âââperour Complaint to the king of the collections made for the pope The answer of the king Polydor. The causes that mooued archbishop Edmund to depart the realme Matth. West Matth. Paris Polydor. The death of Edmund archbishop of Canturburie surnamed of Pontney A Charterhouse moonke apprehended Iustices itinerants William de Yorke Robert Lexinton iustices The earle of Cornewal goeth into the holy land The earle of Leiceâster goeth thither also The earle of Albemarle The dedication of the church of S. Paule in London The death of Isabell the countesse of Cornewall The lord Iohn Fitz Robert A comet A battell betwixt fishes Matth. Paris The kings manour at Mortlake A great wind An oth receiued The seneshall of Aquitaine Peter Rosso Peter de Supino got a vintiesme that is the 20 part of préests benefices Anno Reg. 25. 1241 Boniface de Sauoie elected archb of Canturburie Matth. Paris The earle of Cornewall ãâã intercessor ãâã a peace to be had betwixt the pope and the emperour He returneth into England Warres betwéene the Welshmen King Henrie goeth into Wales with an armie Dauid driuen to his wits end Dauid deliuereth his brother to the K. Matth. Pariâ page 765. Matth. Paris page 830. Iohn Maââsell Death of âââble men Lacie lâft ãâã issue maâe behind him so that his daughters inheritââ his lands Cardinall Somercotean Englishman An eclipse Anno Reg. 26. The death of the empresse Isabell. Wars renued betwixt the kings of England France The earle of March Gaguinus Matth. West Sundrie opinions in the kings councellers Charugage a certeine dutie for euerie Plowland The bishops of Durham sent into Scotland The king of Scots warden of the English marshes The archbishop of Yorke gouernor of the realme Thirtie barrels of English coine The king passeth ouer into France The French king inuadeth the earle of Marches land The number of the English armie Tailborge Xainctes An encounter betwixt the English and French The valiancy of the earle of Leicester and others Iohn Mansell Sir Iohn Barris Wil. de Sey. Gilbert de Clare slaine The earle of March is reconciled to the French king Matth. Paris The countesse of Bierne The reuolting of other French lords Sée pag. 42 43 44. pag. 152. of the historie of England Death in the French camp Truce ãâã betwixt the two kings Polydor. The queen ãâã England deliuered of a daughter William Marisch executiâ Sée pag. 223. The seas trâebled with men of warre Escuage gathered 20 shillings of euerie knights fée Matth. West Death of noble men Anno. Reg. 27. The earle of Cornwal and other returne home Prouision of graine and victuals taken vp and sent to the king The king led by strangers He is euill spoken of A truce taken for fiue years Nicholas de Mueles his lieutenant in Gascoigne Death of Noble men Hugh Lacie Fabian Matth. Paris Stars fallen after a strange manner Anno Reg. 28. The countesse of Prouance mother to the quéene commeth ouer into England The earle of Cornewall maried to the ladie Sanctia William Ralegh bishop of Norwich He is consecrated bish of Winchester by the pope He steleth out of the realme He giueth to the pope 6000 marks Martine the popes collectour Antichasis de Christi papae facinorb sub authore anânymo The nobles complainâ ãâã the king ãâ¦ã popes ãâã The king writeth to the pope Polydor. The king asâketh counsel how to procââ in
dealing of the Londoners to the hurt of the coÌmon-welth Ouid. lib. 8. Meta. fab 11. A parlement Matth. Paris Hurtred a messenger froÌ the pope The Welshmen spoile Penbrokeshire Uariance betwixt the earle of Penbroke and others The archbishop of Yorke depriued of his crosse Mansuetus the popes Nuncio The parlemeÌt proroged A late growth I dearth accompanied with a death Seuall archb of Yorke departeth this life Matth. Paris The kings halfe brethren Insanum parliamentum The demand of the lords Ordinances made An oth exacted of the king The earle of Leicester threatneth the earle of Penbroke The kings halfe brethren shift awaie They depart the Realme Henrie MoÌtfort pursueth the kings haâ brethren They sent to the French â Richard Gray capteine of Douer castell and lord warden of the ports Matt. VVest Foure and twentie gouernours The abuses of those gouernours M. Pal. in Virg. Fabian Contention betwixt the earles of Leicester and Glocester The lords come to the Guildhall to haue their ordinances confirmed A proclamation against purueâers A parlement The iustices sit at S· Sauiours Bailiffes and other officers punished Bakers punished Matth. Paris The Poictouins suspected to haue poisoned the English lords Walter Scotonie arreigned and condemned He suffereth A late haruest Dearth of corne increaseth Fasts processions vsed Richard Gray lord warden of the ports Erlotus the popes Nuncio returneth houie Matth. Paris The lord of Kedwellie slaine Matth. Paris Matth. Paris not well affected towards the gouernement of the realme as it then stood Godfrey de Kinton archbishop of Canturburie An ordinance against extortion Anno Reg. Ambassadors sent to the councell at Cambrey Ione countesse of Penbroke A great tempest of lightning and thunder Guy de Rochford banished Uariance and debat betwixt the studeÌts ãâã Oxford The Welshmen seeke to agreé with the king Henrie de Wingham elected bishop of Winchester Ambassadors sent to the K. of Almaine His protestation to their demand He changeth his purpose and commeth ouer into England He receiueth an oth not to infringe the statutes of Oxford A parlement A peace concluded vpon betwixt the kinges of England France The countesse of Leicester Contention betwixt the earles of Glocester and Leicester The friers preachers begin to inhabit at Dunstable The moonks hindred by the the comming of the friers Richard Gray discharged of his office of lord warden Walascho a frier sent from the pope The bishop of Bangor sent froÌ the prince of Wales to king Henrie The welshmen offer to resort vnto Chester Anno Reg. 44. I parlement The statutes of Oxenford read and the breakers of the same denounced accurssed Escuage granted Knights feés how manie were then in England Fabian I folkemote The king asketh licence to passe the seas Matth. West The king saileth ouer into France He compoundeth all differences with the French k. Polydor. N. Triuet Wil. Risang Matt. VVest Dissention betwixt prince Edward and the earle of Glocester Prince Edward and the earle of Glocâster are not suffered to come within the citie of London The king returneth into England The earle of Glocester confederateth ãâã selfe with the earle of Leicester Chr. Dunstab Matth. West A Iew at Teukesburie falleth into a iakes Matt. Westm. Death of Noble men Bach rather Matth. West Anno. Reg. 45. The king of Scots commeth to London Matt. West Chro. Dun. Fabian A folkemote holden at Pauls crosse An oth to be true to the king The lord Spenser discharged of his office Anno Reg. 46. The presumptuous procéedings of the baroÌs against the king I bull read at Pauls crosse Matth. West Many gouernors pernicious to a common-wealth The king of Almaine goeth ouer into Germanie Fabian The king hauing licence passeth ouer into France He falleth sick of a feuer quartane Chro. Dun. Death of noble men The earle of Glocester departeth this life Anno Reg. 47. Iewes slaine Matth. Westm. The Welshmen warre against the lord Mortimers tenants He séeketh his reuenge against them Fabian Thames frosen Uariance betwixt the citizens of LoÌdon and the constable of the towre Matth. West Prince Edward goeth against the Welshmen The archb of Canturburie goeth to Rome Fabian The lord maior of London sworne to be true to the king Cloked malice bursteth out The barons raise people The lord Clifford Chron. Dun. Prince Edward taketh monie out of the treasurie of the temple Mars lib. 11. Hor. lib. car 3. ode 24. The Londoners rob the house of the lord Gray Iohn MaÌsell fléeth into France The baronâ that rosâ against the king Their chéefe capteins The baronâ that tooke part with the king Risanger noteth this to be 1264. The barons make hauocâ The diligence oâ the lord maiâr of London The misdemeanor of lewd persons towards the quéene Chron. Dunst. Manh. West Chron. Dunst. Bishops trauell to make peace Strangers kéepe the castell of Windsore The great disorder in the citie of London Abington Nic. Treuer A parlement Abingâon The kings protestation against the articles at Oxeniord The matter put to the French king The French king giueth sentence against the barons Anno Reg. 4 8. Matth. Wesâm The lords that reuolted to the king Chron. Dun. Abington The king goeth again ouer to the French king Fabian Nic. Triueâ Castels gotten by prince Edward Worcester taken Matth. Weââ The citie of Glocester ãâã couered and put to finâ The coÌmoners of the citie of London agree with the barons R. Fabiaâ The manor ãâã Thistleworth spoiled The chéefâ cause that ãâã the K. of ââmaine so ãâã against the barons The lords that followââ the king Northamptââ taken by ãâã Scholers fight against the king Some write that Iohn de Balioll and Robert de Bruis and Peter de Bruis came to him here and not before Matt. West The castell of Turburie defaced The castell of Warwike taken The castell of Warwike raced The Iewes are killed Rochester besieged N. Triueâ Matth. West The kings halfe brethren come out of France to his aid The king incampeth at Lewes The barons send a letter to the king The answer to yâ barons He defieth them Matth. West N. Triuet The ordering of the battels The battels ioine Chron. Dunst. Prince Edward pursueth the Londoners The kings part put to the worse Matt. Westm. Nic. Triuer Matth. Paris Seuen hundred hath Abington Prince Edward commeth backe to his father Friârs suborned to treat a peace An agréement taken Matth. West Polydor. Matth. Westâ Lords taâââ on the kings side Fabian N. Triueâ Matth. Wesâ Peace proclaimed A new ãâã of the ãâã Matth. West N. Triuet The Londoners spoiled at Croidon Matt. West The earle of Darbie commeth to Chester with 20 thousand men The lords Mortimer and Audeliâ banished An armie lodged on Barham-downe Matth. West Chr. Dunstab Abington Prince Edward escapeth awaie Matth. West The earle of Leicesters sonne raiseth an armie He wan Winchester The armie of the earle of Leicesters sonne is discomfited N. Triuet The castell of Monmouth taken The battell of Euesham Polydor. The
Ambassadors from the French king for a perpetuall peace Froissard A proclamatiâ that all English benefited men in Rome should return into Englaââ The pope sââdeth his nuâcio to king Richard The popes nuncio openeth to the king the FreÌch kings priuie practises Nuncio Abr. Fl. out of Henrie Knighton canon of Leicester abbeie A sore bridle for the clergie The duke of Glocester his iournie into Prutzen land The duke of Glocester in great fauor with the commons Anno Reg. 15. A great death in Yorke and sundrie other places A parlement at London Abr. Fl. out of Henrie Knighton canon of Leicester abbeie The duke of Lancaster ambassador for the king right honorablie receiued into France Abr. Fl. out of Henrie Knighton canon of Leicester abbeie The flix gââten by excessiue feeding on fruits The lord ââior of Londââ commended for his carefull prouision of corne from beyond the seas in the time of dearth Abr. Fl. out of Henrie Knighton canon of Leceister abbeie The cause of the scarsitie was not want of breader corne Wooll sold dogcheape ãâã the stone Prouision against scarââtie to relieââ the poore O charitie of London A dolphin taken at London bridge Ambassadors sent to the French king to treat of peace Sir Robert Briquet a Frenchman of king Richard his priuie chamber The dukes of Lancaster Yorke the earls of Derbâe and Huntington the lord Thomas Persie the bishops of Durham and London were sent oâer as Froâssard saith A roiall ambassage The duke of Lancaster a prince of great renowme The truce prolonged for a yeare Thom. Wals. A councell at Stamford The duke of Gelderland commeth into England The duke of Gelderland dissuadeth the king from peace with the French and Scots The Londoners refuse to lend the king a thousand pounds A great fire kindled about a litle sparke A riot by the Londoners vpon the bishop of Salisburies men Walter Romane The bishop of Salisburie maketh a greéuous coÌplaint of the Londoners to the king The maior shiriffes of London sent for to Windsore to the king there imprisoned The liberties of London seized A gardian appointed to gouerne the citie of London Anno Reg. 16. Sir Edward Darlingrug lord warden of London Darlingruâ remoued ãâã Baldwine Radington made lord warden oâ London The liberties of London ãâã part confirmed in part condemned A sweét sacrifice He was ãâã with procesââon of the bishop clergie at S. Georges churches Southwâââ Gifts preââââed to the K. by the Londoners to pâcifie dâspleasure coâceiued agaiâââ them K. Richard roiallie ãâã into Lâââdon More gifts by the LoÌdoners to the king Tho. Walsin The liberties of London ratified by king Richard Abr. Fl. out of Henrie Knighton canon of Leceister abbeie The duke of Glocester made duke of Ireland His iournie into Ireland vnluckilie staied Uéere late duke of Ireland dieth at Louaine Tho. Walââ A parlement at Winchester The chancerie and kings bench kept at Yorke and froÌ thence remooued to LondoÌ Eures The I le of Man The dukes of Lancaster Glocester sent âo FraÌce to treat of a peace The French comissioners would haue Calis raced to the ground The demand of the English coÌmissioners Order taken that the demands on either side should be set downe in writing the better to be considered of The English gentlemen mainteined by the French warres The ãâã of the Frenchmen The commissioners meet againe The king oâ Armenie Obscure and doubtâull words to be opened A truce for foure yeares betweene England and France Anno Reg. 1â Great tempests Much hurt doone by greââ flouds in Suffolke A great ãâã in Essex Uariance betweene the duke of Lancaster and the earle of Arundell The death of queene Anne The K. defaceth the house of Shene bicause the queéne died there Anno Reg. 18. A proclamation that all Irishmen shuld returne into their countrie The English pale in IrelaÌd almost left desolate The yearelie reuenues of Ireland in K. Edward the third his daies The duke of Lancaster saileth into Aquitaine with an armie The Gascoignes flatlie refuse to accept the duke of Lancaster for their souereigne K. Richard passeth ouer into Ireland with a mightie armie Froissard Foure Irish kings submit themselues to K. Richard A parlement holden in Ireland A parlement at Westminster king Richard being in Ireland The Wickleuists wrote against the clergie The clergie complaine to the king of the Wickleuists and their fauorers K. Richard knighteth the foure Irish kings and others Froissard K. Richard returneth out of Ireland K. Richards dealings against the fauorers of the Wickleuists Abr. Fl. out of Henrie Knighton canon of Leicester abbeie Archbishop of Canturburies visitatioÌ Wickleuists excommunicated A ridiculous penance * For the papists saie that the sacrificing préest is the maker of his maker namelie God Boldnesse of women in ecclesiasticall matters taâed A fierie appârition of diuerse likenesses A head of waâ wrought by necromancie speaketh A fierie dragon seen in diuers places Abr. Fl. out of Thom. Walâââ in Rich. 2. pag. 341. A coniunctioÌ of Iupiter Saturne A schisme betwéene two popes for the dignitie of â Peters chaâre The Danes ãâã the Englâsh merchaÌts on the seas Great prises woone by the Danish pirets of the Englishmen Waltham bishop of Salisburie buried at Westminster amongst the kings Anno Reg. 19. The duke of IrelaÌds corps conueied from Louaine into England and there roiallie interred Froissard The Gascoignes send vnto K. Rich. signifieng vnto him that they ought not to be diuiâed from the crowne The grant of the duchie of Aquitaine to the duke of Lancaster reuoked Ambassadors sent into France to treat a marriage betwéene king Richard the French K. daughter Thom. Wals. The duke of Lancaster mârieth a ladie of a meane estate whome he had kept as his concubine Wickleuists increase The earle marshall affieth the French kings daughter in the name of king Richard Anno Reg. 20. A truce for 30 yeares betwéene England and France Tho. Walsin The popes letters to K. Rich. against yâ Wickleuists K. Richard goeth ouer to Calis The maner of the interview betweene king Richard and the French king Fabian Froissard Fabian The oth of the two kings The chapell of our ladie of peace The French K. giueth his daughter to king Richard in marriage The order of the French kings seruice at table The expenses of king Richard at this interview The mariage solemnized at Calis The maior of London and the citizens meete the K. the quéene on Blackeheath Certeine thrust to death in the prease on London bridge Iohn Stow. The quéens coronation The duke of Lancaster his bastards madâ legitimate by parlement The iustices reuoked out of exile Brest yéelded vp to the duke of Britaine Priuie grudge betwixt the king and the duke of Glocester The talke betwixt the king and the duke of Glocester Out of a French pamphlet The earle of saint Paule his counsell to K. Richard Polydor. The dukes of Lancaster Yorke excuse
the duke of Glocester to the king A conspirââââ betwéene the duke of Glocester and the abbat of ãâã Albons Out of an ãâã French pamphlet belonging to Iohn Stow. Anno Reg. 1â The purpââs of the conspirators The earle marshall discloseth the conspiraâie The earle of Rutland saith R. Graââoâ The duke of Glocester arrested Out of an old French pamphlet * For he was son to a king and vncle to a king The earle of Arundell apprehended The names of the appellants A gard of Cheshire men about the king The lords appointed to come in warlike manner to the parlemeÌt Polydor. The dukes of Lancaster Yorke assemble their powers to resist the kings dealings Caxton Fabian Polydor. The king and the dukes reconciled Caxton The great parlement The kings greeuanâââ opened in ãâã parlement Tho. Walâââ Iohn Busâââ William Bagot Thomas Greene. A new ãâã made within the palace of Westminster for the areignâment of the lords indicted Additions to Polychron Sir Iohn Bushie speaker The archbishop of Canturburie sitting in parlement is acââsed of treason by the speaker Impudent flatterie ãâã Walsi The charters of pardoÌ granted to the lords made void by parlement Thom. Wals. The archb of Canturburie condemned to perpetuall banishment Six daies saith Grafton The earle of Arundell areigned The duke of LaÌcaster high Steward of England at ãâã areignement The earle of Arundell his answers to the points of his indictmeÌt The earle of Arundell condemned The executioÌ of the earle of Arundell Ouid. The earle of Warwike arreigned of treason The parlemâââ adiourned to Shrewsburie The king kéepeth his Christmasse at Lichfield Cheshire made a priââcipalitie K. Richard prince of Chester Creation of dukes and earles K. Richard beareth saint Edward his armes The L. Reginald Cobham condemned The authoritie of both houses in parlement granted to certeine persons Thom. Wals. The K. procureth the popes buls against the breakers of his statuts Rightfull heires disherited Polydor. K. Richard his euill gouernment The duke of Hereford appealeth the duke of Norfolk of treson Thom. Wals. The duke of Surrie marshall and the duke of Aumarle constable of England The order of the procéeding in this appeale The obiection against the duke of Norfolke The duke of Norfolke his answer for himselfe The combat appointed to be doone at Couentrie The French pamphlet Iohn Stow. Fabian Anno Reg. ââ The order of the combat The combat staied by the king The king his dome betwixt the two dukes The duke of Hereford beloued of the people The duke of Hereford is honorablie interteined with the French king Froissard Hor. lib. âpist 1. Fabian Blanke charters The death of the duke of Lancaster Tho. Walsi The duke of Yorke misliketh the court goeth home The realme let to farme by the king Tho. Walsi New exactions The paimâââ of these ãâã Was called â plesance as ãâã were to pleasââ the K. withall but yâ ãâã displeased manie that were thus constreined to paie against theiâ willes The people confirme the oth of allegiance by writing sealed Indirect dealings Abr. Fl. out of Thom. Waââ pag. 395. Abr. Fl. out of Thom. Waââ pag. 395. Polydor. A iusts at Windesor The king saileth ouer into Ireland with a great armie Fabian Caxton The duke of Yorke lieutenant generall of England the king being in Ireland Hân Marl. Out of a French pamphlet that belongeth to master Iohn Dec. Macmur Pioners set a worke to cut downe woods Macmur sendeth to the K. offering a parlee The earle of Glocester Anno Reg. 23. He came to Dublin the 28 of Iune as Henrie Marl. saith The duke of Aumarle In Angl. praelijs sub Rich. 2. The duke of Lancaster solicited to expell king Richard and to take vpon him the regiment The duke of Britaine a great âriend âo the duke of Lancaster The duke of Lancaster ãâã adherents ãâã into England Additions to Polychron Thom. Wals. âhron Brit. Froissard âho âaâsing The commoÌs âenie âo resist âhe duke of âancaster The duke of Lancaster laÌdeth in Yorkshire Additions to Polychron The duke of ãâ¦ã to the lords âhat ãâã him The harts of the commoââ wholie bent âo the duke of Lancaster The duke of Lancaster marcheth to Bristow Scroope ãâã treasuror Bushie and Greene executed A politike ââdnesse Out of master Deeâ French booke K. Richard returneth out of Ireland and landeth in Wales Thom. Wals. Additions to Polychron K. Richard in vtter despaire K. Richard stealeth awaie from his armie and taketh the castell of Flint A speciall note woorthie to be well weied Hor. lib. car 3. ode 1. The earle of Worcester leaueth the K. and fléeth to the duke Where fortune fauoureth thither the peoples fauour fléeth The duke of Lancaster comming to Chester Perkin a Lee. Out of master Dees booke Holt castell deliuered to the duke Some ãâã that the archbishop of Câââturburie and the earle of Westmerland weÌt also ãâã the earle of Northumberland to Conwaie The earle of Northumberlands message to the king The king leaueth Conwaie castell and betaketh himselfe to his enimies A constant seruant The dukes behauiour to the king at their meéting The dukes demand The king and the duke iournie togither towards London K. Richard sumptuous in apparell The dukes receiuing into London The king coÌmitted to the tower A parlement in the kings name The king is persuaded to resigne the crowne to the duke Fabian This promise he made at Flint rather than at Conwaie as by that which goeth before it may be partlie coniectured â Richards resignation confirmed by ãâã The demand of the archbishop of Canturburie to the commons Thom. Wals. The duke of Hereford placed in the regall throne The archbishop preached Abr. Fl. out of Fabian pag. 351. The words of the elected king Thom. Wals. The coronation proclaimed The parlemeÌt King Henrie the fourth proclamed T. Wats Aminâ taâ querela 5. K. Richard depriued Hall His personage Harding The noble house-kéeping of king Richard Excesse in apparell Ignorant prelats âânenâis ââiscopus In Angl. praelijs New officers made The paâlemeÌt new suÌmoned Record Tuââis Claiming of offices at the coronation Curtana The earle of Summerset The earle of Northumberland The I le of Man Lancaster sword The earle of Westmerland The duke of Norffolke Sir Thomas Erpingham The earle of Warwike Sir William Argentine Iuon Fitzwarren The lord Furniuall The lord Graie Great spââs The second sword The earle of Arundell The citizens of London Thomas Dâmocke Baldwin Freuill The lord Latimer William lâ Uenour The barons of the cinquâ ports Knights of the Bath The lord maior of London The earle of March enuied the K. preferment Edmund erle of Lancaster vntrulie fasned to be surnamed Crookebacke Sir Iohn Chenie speaker of the parlement dismissed and William Durward admitted Acts repealed Acts confirmed Fabian Sir Iohn Bagot discloseth secrets Henrie the fourth suspected not to be well affected towards the church before his comming to the crowne The duke of Aumarle accused The duke of Aumarle
Walsin Hypod. pag. 164. The Frenchmens demand of the I le of Wight The answer of the Ilandmen The duke of Orleance his challenge The answer of king Henrie The duke of Orleance besiegeth Uergi in Guien The lord du Chastell slaine Owen Glendouer wasted the English marches Crueltie of the Britains Flemings The ââuntes of Oxford K. Richard once againe aliue Serlo one of K. Richards chamber The countesse of Oxford committed to prison Hir secretarie executed The earle of Northumberland coÌmeth to the king Sir William Clifford bringeth Serlo to the king Serlo examined for the duke of Glocesters death He is drawen through euery good towne He is executed at LoÌdon Anno Reg. 6. The lâymens parlement Strife betwixt the laitie and spiritualtie The archbishop of Canturburie answereth for his brethren Sir Iohn Cheinie speaker of the parlement The archb chafeth He spake like a âord The kings answer to the archbishop Abr. Fl. oât of Thom. Walfi Hypod. pag. 167. Two fiftéens granted Letters patents reuoked A tenth and â halfe granted by the cleargie Ouer ãâã of the sea The death of WilliaÌ Wickham He was also at one time treasuror of England as Leland gathereth The earle of Marches sonnes Thom. Walsin The ladie Spenser coÌmitted to ward She accuseth hir brother the duke of Yorke WilliaÌ Maidstone esquier offred to fight in his ladies quarrell The earle marshall accused The K. wanteth monie can get none of the lords Abr. Fl. out of Thom. Wals. Hypod. pag. 159. Iust. lib. 1. Herod lib. 1. Val. Max. lib. 8. cap. 7 The castell of Marke besieged about the middest of Maâe as Iac. Meir saith Sir Philip Hall The earle of S. Paule put to flight Ia. Meir Arde assaulted by Englishmen The marques du Pount An armie sent to Calis and to the sea Chr. Fland. Ia. Meir The English men besieged the castell of Sluis A great fight by sea Threé caricks are taken Townes in Normandie burnt The duke of Burgognie prepareth to besiege Calis The chéefe ãâã of the malice betwixt the dukes of Burgognie Orleance A new coÌspiracie against king Henrie by the earle of Northumberland others The archbishop of Yorke one of the cheéfe conspirators The archbishop in armor The estimation which men had of the archbishop of Yorke The earle of Westmerland and the lord Iohn of Lancaster the kings sonne prepare themselues to resist the kings enimies The forest of Galtrée The subtill policie of the earle of Westmerland The archbishops protestation why he had on him armes The earle of WestmerlaÌds politike dealing The archbishop of Yorke and the earle marshall arrested Eiton The archbishop of Yorke the earle marshall others put to death Abr. Fl. out of Thom. Walsin Hypod. pag. 168. * Archiepisââââ The archbishop reputed a martyr The lords executed The earle of Northumberland Berwike castâll yéelded to the king The sonne ãâã the lord Greistoke and others put to death Exton The castell ãâã Alnewike yeelded to the king The K. paâseth into Wales He looseth his cariages He returââââ Hâll The marshall MoÌtmeraÌcie sent to aid Owen Glendouer Carmarden woone by the French Hereford west manfullie defended Enguerant de Monstrelleâ saith they burnt the townes but could not win the castell The suburbs of Worcester burnt French lords slaine The Frenchmen returne home Anno Reg. 7. Abr. Fl. out of Thom. Walsin Roiston burned A parlement A fiftéenth graÌted by âhe temporaltie A new kind of subsidie granted by the cleargie The lord Fleming lost his life for giuing knowledge to the earle of Northumberland of that which was meant against him Dissention amoÌg the Scotish nobilitie Eleuen years saith Harding The prince of Scotland staid here in England Hall Robert Halome archb of Yorke The king and the queéne brought hir to Lin where she tooke shipping Tho. Walsi Anno Reg. 8. The duke of Yorke restored to libertie The earle of Kent in fauor with the king He marrieth a daughter of Barnabo lord of Millane Abr. Fl. out oâ Thom. Walsi Hypod. pag. 161. Roger of Waldens variable fortune Ouid. lib. ââ Pont. 4. An additiââ of Franââ Thin * Coniers * Ogle The duke of Orleance besââgeth towns in Gascoigne Henrie Paie â valiant sea man k. Richard still aliue as was âeigned The king in danger to be taken by French pirats Sir Thomas Rampston taken The king escaped through swiftnesse of his ship The lord Camois put in blame Henrie Bowet archbishop of Yorke Abiruscwith Owen Glendouer Sir Robert Knols departeth this life Bermondsey S. Albons He was buried in the White friers He built Rochester bridge commonlie called Knols bridge Thom. Wals. Anno Reg. 9. Thom. Wals. A subsidie The lord Camois arreigned acquited The earle of Northumb. the lord Bardolfe returne into EnglaÌd The shiriffe of Yorkeshire His hardie corage to fight The earle of Northumberland slaine Abr. Fl. out of Tho. Walsin Hypod. pag. 172. The abbat of Hails hanged The earle of Kent sent to the sea Briake in Britaine assaulted by the Englishmen The earle of Kent wouÌdeâ to death Briake taken by force The countes of Kent maketh hir owne choise of hir second husband A disputation betwixt diuines of Oxford Cambridge for their obedieÌce to the pope Anno Reg. 10. The cardinal of Burges coÌmeth into England in disfauor of pope Gregrie The resolutioÌ of the French king concerning the two pâpes A coÌuocation at S. Paules in London Ambassadors appointed to go to the councell at Pisa. The contents of the kings letters to the pope Abr. Fl. out of Thom. Wals. Hypod. pag. 159. Wicklifs doctrine mainteined by the learned SenteÌce pâânounced against Wicklifs books Fabian Iusts in Smithfield Owen Glendouer endeth his life in great miserie Anno Reg. 11. Officers made A paâlement Tho. Walsi Fabian Thom. Wals. King Henrie a ââuorer of the clergie Iohn Badbie burnt Tho. Walsi The prince being present at the execution offereth him pardon Notable constancie of Badbie The kings demand in the parlement A long parlement A fiftéenth granted Earle of Surrie deceasseth Preparation made to win Calis Thom. Walsi Abr. Fl. out of Thom. Wals. Hypod. pag. 175. The engines of the duke of Burgognie against Caliâ that shot out barrels of pâââson Sir Robert Umfreuill viceadmerall Harding His ãâã Scotland His surname Robert Mendmarket By what occasion he came by that surname The earle of Angus Umfreuill coÌmonlie called erle of Kime 1411 Anno Reg. 12. A great death by the flix Iohn Prendergest and William Long. Long committed to the Tower The archbishop of Canturburie not suffred to visit the vniuersitie of Oxenford France disquieted with two factions The duke of Orleance murthered The earles of Arundell and Angus with others sent to aid the duke of Burgognie Anno Reg. 13. Saint Clou taken by the helpe of the Englishmen Sir Manserd de Bos put to death Harding Recor. Turris Creations of noblemen Hall The Orleantiall factioÌ sueth to the K. of England for aid The confederates of the Orleantiall
Seuerine besieged * Goche A legat from Rome sent to treat a peace betwixt the English and French A truce for six yeares Chartres taken by treason notwithstanding the truce The two errours A parlement called by the duke of Glocester the king being in France A peace concluded with the Scots King Henrie returneth out of France into England The duchesse of Bedford sister to the duke of Burgognie deceassed The duke of Bedford marieth with the earle of saint Paules daughter The Frenchmen breake the peace and take the town of Saint Ualerie Laignie besieged Anno Reg. ââ The castell of Rone like tâ be taken by treason of the capteine The lord of saint Paule deceassed Anno Reg. ââ Prisoners killed The lord Talbot sââleth into France The lord Talbot Earle of Arundell Louiers besieged Saint Selerine won by assault An insurrection in Normandie The earle of Arundell deceassed The duke of Bourbon dieth at London W. P. Anno Reg A tourne sââprised by eâtrance of a common priuie The ãâ¦ã warre W. P. 14â4 Onuphrius Panâânâââ An. 3. Nichol. 143â A solemne tretie of peace at Arras Abr. Fl. Sil. Ital. lib. 11. * Or rather Goche * Or Goche S. Denis t aken by the Englishmen A peace betwéen Charls of France and the duke of Burgognie Spoile vpon the Burgognian people in London W. P. Anno Reg. 14. The death of the duke of Bedford regent of FraÌce A worthy saieng of a wise prince The duke of Yorke made regent of France Abr. Fl. Sée before pag. 581. The treson of the Parisiens Paris yéelded to the French king The duke seÌt into France too late The duke of Burgonie prepareth an armie against Calis The duke of Burgognie with fortie thousand meÌ Calis besieged by the duke of Burgognie The dukes enterprise to bar yâ hauen The dukes bastile woone The duke of Burgognie breaketh by the siege before Calis and fléeth the 26 of Iulie A gun callââ Digeon The duke of Glocester spoileth Flanders âââland Enguerant The king of Scots fled ârom his siege ãâã Rockesâurgh Anno Reg. 15. A truce taken betwéene the king of England and the duchesse of Burgognie Hall 14â7 Katharine mother to king Henrie maried Owen Teuther Abr. Fl. Quéene Elizabeth * Or rather Goche Harflue besieged and woon by the Englishmen The duke of Summersets infortunatââs Iames king of Scots murthered Abr. Fl. ex Polychr The earle of Warwike made regent of France Anno Reg. 16. The earle of Warwike regent came into France Croitoy bâââeged by the duke of Burgogâe Croitoy rescued 14â8 Anno Reg. 17. Dearth of vittels Abr. Fl. ex Polychr Bread made of ferne roots A seat of a politike capteine wise councellor Two shrewd persuaders Anno Reg. 18. Ponthoise recouered by the English Anno Reg. 19. Eâguerant The duke of Yorke againe made regent of France Ponthoise besieged by the French king but valiantlie defended A policie for a bridge Enguerant de Monstrelleâ Edw. Hall Anno Reg. 20. Ponthoise gotten by the French Enguerant Sir Nicholas Burdet slaine The duke of Orleance deliuered Lewes the twelfe W. P. Earle of saint Paule fréend to the English This should be as Enguerant noteth two yeares after this present yere 19 to ãâã An. 1440. Thrée thousand hath Nicolas Giles The earle of saint Paule reuolteth to the French Tartas besieged The change in warre The lord Talbot The earle of Dunois An excellent finesse in warre Quid. 1. de art A new breach betwéene the duke of Glocester and the bishop of Winchester Ex Ed. Hall 143 144 145 146. Aliâs Iohn ãâã ãâã Fl. King Edward the fourth borne Aâr. Fl. A great fraie by night Abr. Fl. ex âaâian 438. Tailors malepertnesse at the election of an alderman 1442 ânno Reg. 21. Iohn lord Talbot created earle of Shrewesburie Fr. Thin The earle of Arminacks daughter affied vnto king Henrie The erle with his ladie his sonne and two daughters taken Abr. Fl. ex Fabian 441. A law against buâeng and selling on the sundaie Abr. Fl. ex Fabian 441. Polychr Paules stéeple burnt Anno Reg. 22. The diet at Tours for a peace to be had betwéene England and France A truce ãâã â moneths The ãâã misliked ãâã second ãâã of the kings mariage Creations of estates Anno Reg. 23. 1445 Margaret daughter to Reiner K. of Sicill Ierusalem maried to Henrie the sixt Abr. Fl. ex Polychron An âminous mariage Ouid. 2. de arâ Anno Reg. 24. The duke of Summerset made regent of NormaÌdie and the duke of Yorke discharged The duke of Yorke appointed to the charge againe The appointmeÌt disappointed and pointed to the marquesse of Suffolke The marques of Suffolks request Thâ marques of Suffolke chéefest in fauour and authoritie with the king and quéene A commotion in Norwich The libeâtââs of Norwich seized intâ ãâã kings hands Indirect meanes to reforme wrongs Abr. Fl. ex Fabian 343. Polychron Combats in cases of appeales touching treason Drunkennesse the ouerthrow of right and manhood Anno Reg. 25. The description of the quéene The quéâââ taketh ãâã hir the gouernement and dischargeth the ãâã of Glocesteâ The faint quarell piked to the duke of Glocester A parlement at saint Edmândesburie The duke of Glocester suddenlie murthered Edâ Hall A pardon at a pinch Dukes of Glocester ââfortunate W. P. Anno Reg. â6 Marquesse of Suffolke made duke The duke of Yorke tempering about his title to the crowne The death of the bishop of Winchester his descriptioÌ W. P. Lib. 23. Bale WilliaÌ Wâââfleet bishop ãâã Winchester lord chancellor of England founder of Magdelââ college in Oxford An. Dom 44â Malmesbâââe Abr. Fl. et Fabian 447. A combat vpon triall of manhood betwéene a French and an Englishman The compassion of the Englishman to his eniâââ Anno Reg. ââ Sir Francis Suriennes Fougiers PoÌt de Larch taken by the FreÌchmen by a subtill sleight The warres renewed befor the end of the truce A rebellion in Ireland The English loose all in France Rone yeélded to the French men Harflue besieged Sir Thomas Curson Harflue yéelded to the French Anno Reg. 28. Sir Thomas Kiriell with a new band into France The English men ouerthrowne at Formignie * Or rather Goche Caen besieged and yéelded to the French The irreconciliable hate betwéene the two dukes * Goche All Normandie lost The state of it The causes of the losse The mortell mischéefe of malice and diuision ând realme Anno Reg 2â W. P. The commoÌs ãâã against the duke of Suffolke The parlemeÌt adiourned froÌ London to Leicester and from thence to Westminster Edw. Hâll The duke of Suffolke coÌmitted to the Tower Blewbeard capteine of the rebels The wretched death of the duke of Suffolke Iacke Cades rebellion in Kent Abr. Fl. eâ I. S. 653. Abr. Fl. ex ãâã 654 655 6â6 657 c. King Henrie went against the Kentishmen with a great power The Staffords slaine at Senocke by Iacke Cade The lord Saie beheaded at the staÌdard in Cheââ *
bright sunne Owen Teuther and other taken and beheaded Whethamsted The northern men enter into S. Albons They passe through it The second battell at S. Albons The ãâã part ãâã 1916 as Iohn Stow noteth Sir Iohn Graie slainâ Thomas ãâã esquier sent to the northerne lordâ Edw. Hall Prince Edward ãâã knight The northern âen spoile the towne of saint ãâã The queéne sândeth to the mâior of Londoâ for vittels Uittels sent by the maior and staid by the commons The quéene returneth northward The great hopâ of the people conceiued of the erle oâ March The earle of March elected king The lord Fauconbridge The earle of March taketh vpon him as king Abr. Flem. * Wakefield Peter Basset wrote king Henrie the fift his life Fabian and Caxton Anno Reg. 1. The earle of March taketh vpon him as king His title declared He is proclamed king The lord Fitz Water slaine The earle of Warwike A proclamaâtion The lord Clifford ãâã Dintingdale Crueltie paid with sudden mischiefe The lord Fauconbridge Saxton Whethamsted saith that K. HeÌries poweâ excéeded in number king Edwards ãâã twentie thousand men An heauie proclamatioÌ Palmesundaie field The earle ãâã Northuâberland The obstinate minds of bâth parts King Henries part discomfited Cocke or riuer The number slaine in battel of SaxtoÌ otherwise called Palmesunâaie field King Henrie withdraweth to Berwike from thence into Scotland Queene Margaret with hir sonne goeth into France Iohn Stow. Anno Reg. 2. The duke of Summerset other submit them to king Edward Plant. in Mostel 1463 Anno Reg. 3. The quéene returneth foorth of France Banburgh castell The duke of Summerset reuolteth The lord Montacute Hegelie moore Sir Rafe Persie Exham field The duke of Summerset taken King Henrie fled The duke of Summerset beheaded The earle of Kime otherwise Angus beheaded Alnewike castell besieged 1464 Anno Reg. 4. King Henrie taken Abr. Fl. ex I.S. pag. 717. The earle of Penbroke Ab. Flem. Vir. Acâ 6. New coinâ stamped Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 716. Sergeants feast Register of maiors The maior of London departeth from the sergeantâ feast The earle of Warwike sent into France about a marriage The ladie Elizabeth Graie Ouid. de rem am lib. 1. 1465 Anno Reg. 5. The earle of Warwike offended with the kings mariage The earle of Warwike kéepeth hâs gréefe secret Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 717. Long piked shooes forbidden 1466. Anno Reg 6. Cotteshold shéepe transported into Spaine Truce with Scots 1467 Anno Reg. â The bastard of Burgognie ambassadour into England Iusts betwixt the bastard of Burgognie the lord Scales The law of armes The death of the duke of Burgognie George Neuill archbishop of Yorke 1468. Anno Reg. 8. The ladie Margaret sister to king Edward sent ouer to the duke of Burgognie Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 719 720. in Quart Abr. Fl. * Giuen at Richmont on the first of October An. Dom. 1585. Anno Reg. 27. Fabian 497. Sir Thomas Cooke Abr. Fl. ex Edw. Hall it Edw. 4. fol. cxcviij c. 1469 Anno Reg. 9. A commotion in Yorkeshire Saint Leonards hospitall in Yorke A rebellion Robert Huldorne capteine of the rebâls taken and beheaded Sir Iohn Coniers The earle of Penbroke The lord Stafford The Welshmen discomfited Hedgecote BaÌberie field Discord what it bréedeth The valiant manhood of sir Richard Herbert Iohn Clappam The Welshmen slaine Abr. Flem. Robin of Reddesdale The erle Riuers and his sonne beheaded The lord Stafford of Southwike beheaded King Edward taken prisoner Middleham caâtell Abr. Flem. Sir William Stanleie K. Edward is deliuered out of captiuitie He commeth to London Sir Thomas Dimmocke Anno Reg. 10. The lord Welles and Thomas Dimmocke beheaded Losecote field The faithfulnesse of the lord Stanlie The duke of Clarence and the earle of Warwike take the sea The earle of Warwike kept out of Calis Monsieur de Uauclere made deputie of Calis The double dealing of monsieur de Uauclere The lord Duras was â Gascoigne also The earle of Warwike laâded at Diepe Ambois Iohn marques Montacute The earles ãâã Penbroke â Oxford A league Edward prince of Wales mâried The promise of the duke of Clarence The loue which the people bare to the earle of Warwike A pâoclamaâion King Edward coÌmeth to Lin and taketh ship to passe ouer seas The lord Hastings The number that passed ouer with king Edward Abr. Fl. King Edward arriued at Alquemarâ The lord Gronture Edw. Hall fol. ccix Abr. Flem. Iohn Hooker alià s Vowell Lord DinhaÌ and baron Carew with their power come to Excester The duke of Clarence ãâã the earle of Warwike ââiorne at Eâcester and in pursue of the king The king is receiued ãâã honorablie ãâã to the citie of Excester The citizenâ be neuoleâââ to the king How long the king continued in the citie The duke of Clarence ãâã the earle of Warwike ãâã on the English coasts The practise ãâã knight ãâã chiefe ãâã at the ãâã to rid ãâã of ãâã In vniust or âurmised charge of the ânight against the keeper of his parkâ The kéeper killeth his maister the knight with an arrow Abr. Flem. ãâã 5. K. Edwards fréends take sanctuarie Queéne Elizabeth deliuered of a prince Ab. Flem. The Kentishmen make an hurlie burlie King Henrie fetched out of the Tower restored to his kinglie gouernement A parlement K. Edward adiudged an vsurper Abr. Fl. ex I.S. pag. 725. The earle Tiptoât beheaded The crowne intailed Abr. Fl. ex I.S. pag. 722 723. The earle of Warwike his housekéeping Fabian The earle of Warwike instituted gouernour of the realme Iasper earle of Penbroke Margaret countesse of Richmond and Derbiâ The saieng of king Henrie the sixt of Henrie of Richmond after king Henrie the seuenth Ab. Flem The ragged staffe The duke of Burgognie sendeth ambassadors to Calis 14â1 He asketh K Edward vnder hand W. Fleetwood He arriueth on the coast of Norffolke Anno Reg. 11. The earle of Oxford He arriueth at the head of Humber He landeth at Rauenspurgh Martine de la Mare or Martine of the sea He passeth toward Yorke Sée before page 664. K. Edward without interruption passeth forward to Yorke Thomas Coniers recorder of Yorke K. Edward commeth to Yorke He receiueth an oth The marques Montacute suffereth king Edward to passe by him K. Edward commeth to NorthamptoÌ Edw. Hall The duke of Excester and a power aâ Newarke K. Edward commeth to Leicester The earle of Warwike in Couentrie K. Edward prouoketh the earle of Warwike to fight He coÌmeth to Warwike A treatie for peace The duke of Clarence Préests vsed for priuie messengers K. Edward and his brother of Clarence reconciled vnwitting to the earle of Warwike The dissimulation of the duke of Clarence The brethren méet louinglie togither Buchan in psal 133. The duke of Clarence seéketh to make peace betwixt the king and the earle of Warwike The earle ãâã Warwike âââswer to the duke of Câârence ãâã K. Edward passeth London The archbishop of Yorke
fourth of Nouember 5500 one with another slain drowned and burned A conclusion of peace betwéene the parties before diuided Walter Deuereux earle of Essex departeth this life Abr. Fl. ex concione funebri vt patet in contextu The place of the erls birth what losse all EnglaÌd hath of him What noblemen are the wals of the realme The praise of the earle for sundrie considerations Comparison of true nobilitie vnto a riuer or floud c. âanor lib. ââ it rebââ gesââ Alphoâsi The disposition of the earle to inlarge and augment his nobilitie Prudence a noble vertue wherewith this erle was indueâ How he bestowed his youthfull yeares The bishops report of him vpon his own knowledge The erle perfect in the scriptures and matters of religion He was a fauourer of preachers His expertnesse in chronicles histories c. Fortitude a noble vertue wherewith ãâã earle was ãâã Exod. 28 21 The earles chiualrie marâiall knowledge and prowesse aduanced Fortitude néedfull both in time of peace and warre Iustice a noble vertue wherwith this erle was indued The bishop reporteth of the earles iustice vpon his owne knowledge Iob. 29 15. The paterne of a good earle indéed Suetonius The humanitie courtesie affablenesse and other verâues of this earle Temperance a noble vertue wherewith this erle was indued The bishops report of the earle vpon his owne knowledge Eccles. 7.9 Luke 6.45 The earle could not awaie with swearing chasing nor anie disordered dealing c. The disposition and deuotion of this earle in the time of his sickenesse Numb 21. â The heauenlie contemplation of this earle drawing to his end A woonderfull gift of the holie Ghost and most worthie to be chronicled How his seruants were affected at his last spéeches Who they be that die in the Lord. A spéech conclusorie of the bishop directed to the earlâ departed The earle eternâllie blessed The death of the earle much lamented The heroicall description of true nobilitie A persuasorie reason to mooue the yoong earle now liuing to an excellent imitation of his ancestors Notable counsell to the earle to deserue well of his souereigne and countrie The quéenes testimonie of the earle Uertues naturallie incident to the erle by coursâ of descent To what end âhe epitaph genealogicall was added to the funerall sermon The old earls counsell at his death to the yoong earle now aliue touching the shortnesse of life A proclamation for the fââe traffike of merchants as before c. â Stow. An vnnaturall brother murthereth his naturall brother but the vnnaturall brother was hanged as he well dâserued Anno Reg. 19. A tempest in Richmondshire Tower on LondoÌ bridge ââken downe Robinson hanged for clipping of gold Second voiage to Cataia StraÌge sickenesse at Oxford Ab. Fl. ex relatu W. B. impress 1577. Tempest in Suffolke The tower on London bridge new builded Anno Reg. 20. Cutbert Maine executed An example of sorcerers and such as seeme to worke woÌders to deceiue men of their monie Nelson and Sherewood executed Counterfetters of coine executed Pirats hanged Frobishers third voiage Anno Reg. 21. The receiuing of Cassimere Déepâ snow Great land waters A murtherer hanged on Mile end gréene Lord kéeper deceased Ab. Fl. collect ex epitaph ãâã praenobilis On the south side these verses On the north side these Great snow in the moneth of Aprill Sir Thomas Bromleie lord chancellor The collection of Francis Thin Turketill Saint Swithin Wlfinus Adulphus Hist. Eliens lib. 2. written in the time of K. Stephan Leofricus Wlfinus Resenbaldus Mauricius Osmundus Arfastus Hirmanus William Uelson William Gifford Robert Bluet Ranulphus Waldricus Herbertus Roger. Galfridus Ranulphus Reginald Roger. Godfreie Alexander bishop of Lincolne This was about the beginning of the fourth yeere of K. Stephan being An. Do. 1138 but Mat. ãâã giueth it to An. Dom. 1139 who saith Collo ãâã qui ãâã fuit ãâã anne ãâã c. And Henrie Huntington agreeth wholie with W. Parââs Robert Philip. Reinold Iohn Thomas Becket * Christes church in Canturburie Rafe Warneuile Walterus de Constantijs Geffreie William Longchamp Eustachius Hubert Walter or Walter Hubert Simon Hugh de Welles Walter Braie Richard de Marischo Rafe Neuill bishop of Chichester Geffreie the Templer Hugh Pateshall chanon of Paules Simon the Norman Richard Grasse abbat of Euesham Iohn de Lexinton Ranulfe Briton Syluester de Euersden Iohn Mansell Iohn de Lexinton Iohn Mansell Radulphus de Diceto William of Kilkennie Henrie de Wingham Walter Merton Nicholas of Elie. Walter Merton the second time Iohn de Chesill Viâa Thomae Cantelupi Walter Gifford bishop of Bath Geffreie Gifford Iohn de Chesill Richard de Middleton Iohn de Kirbie Walter Merton Robert Burnell Iohn de Langhton Matthew Paâker Iohn Drokensford William de Greinfield William de Hamelton Ralfe Baldocke Iohn Langhton William Melton Walter Reinolds Iohn de Sandall Iohn Hotham Iohn Salmon bishop of Norwich * Or Pabeham * Yorke * Twelue miles from Yorke Robert Baldocke Histor. episc Norwich William Airemee kéeper of the seale Iohn Hotham bishop of Elie. Henrie Cliffe master of the rolles Henrie Burghwash bishop of Lincolne Iohn Stratford Richard de Burie or Richard de Angeruile Iohn Stratford archbishop of Canturburie Robert de Stratford Richard de Bintwoorth bishop of London Iohn Stratford archbishop of Canturburie Robert bishop of Chichester Robert de Bourchier Robert Perning iustice at the law Robert de Saddington Iohn Offord or Ufford Iohn Thorsbie William de Edington Simon Langham William de Wikeham Robert Thorpe Sir Iohn Kniuet Adam de Houghton * Ralfe Neuill ãâã Sir Richard Scroope Simon Sudburie Sir Richard Scroope lord Scroope of Bolton Robert Braibrooke bishop of London Michaell de la Poole earle of Suffolke * Michael de puteaco or of the Poole Thomas Arundell bishop of Elie. William Wickham Thomas Arundell Iohn Serle master of the rols Edmund Stafford Henrie Beauford Thomas Langleie bishop of Durham Thomas Fitzalen Thomas Beauford Iohn Wakering clearke Thomas Arundell archbishop of Canturburie Henrie Beauford bishop at Winchester Thomas Langleie bishop of Durham Henrie Beauford bishop of Winchester Iohn Kempe bishop of London Iohn Stafford bishop of Bath Iohn Kempe bishop of Yorke Richard Neuill earle of Salisburie Thomas Bourchier bishop of Elie. In vita Thomae Boââcheri âpisco ãâã William Patan or Paten ãâã William Wanfled George Neuill archbishop of Yorke Robert Kirkham maister of the rolles Robert Stillington doctor of the lawes Henrie Bourchier earle of Essex Laurence Booth bishop of Durham Thomas Scot aliâs Rotheram Iohn Alcot bishop of Rochester Thomas Rotheram Iohn Russell bishop of Lincolne Thomas Barow maister of the rolles Thomas Rotheram Iohn Alcot bishop of Worcester Iohn Moorton bishop of Elie. William Warham archbishop of Canturburie Thomas Woolseie Thomas Moore Thomas Audleie Hâsto Cântab per Caium 78. Thomas Wriotheslie William Paulet Sir Richard Rich Sir Nicholas Hare Stephan Gardener Nicholas Heath Nicholas Bacon Thomas Bromleie Ab. Fl. ex publicis aeditionibus B.G. T.