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dealing was too manifest although indeed he abused his fathers patience for a while who was desirous of nothing more than to win his sonnes by some courteous meanes and therfore diuerse times offered to pardon all offenses committed by his enimies at the suit of his sonne the king who in déed offered himselfe now and then as an intreatour but that was onelie to win time that his brother with such Brabanders and other souldiers as he had with him in aid beside the forces of the barons of Guien might worke the more mischéefe against their father and their brother earle Richard in wasting and destroieng their countries that stood stedfast on their side In the meane time Richard the archbishop of Canturburie and diuerse other bishops and abbats both of England and Normandie assembled togither at Caen and in the abbeie church of S. Stephan pronounced the sentence of excommunication against all those that did hinder and impeach their purpose which was to haue peace and concord concluded betwixt the king and his sonnes the same sonnes onlie out of the said sentence excepted Diuerse shiftes were made by king Henrie the sonne and his brother earle Geffrey also to get monie for the paiment of their souldiers as spoiling of shrines and such like But at length when things framed not to their purpose and that the harme which they could doo against their father was much lesse than they wished if power had béene answerable to their w●●es king Henrie the sonne through indignation and displeasure as some write fell into a gréeuous sicknesse in a village called Mertell no● farre from Limoges where his father laie at siege At the first he was taken with an extreame feuer and after followed a sore flixe Now perceiuing himselfe in danger of death and that the physicians had giuen him ouer he sent to his father better late than neuer confessing his trespasse committed against him and required of all fatherlie loueth 〈◊〉 sée him once before he died But for that the father thought not good to commit himselfe into the hands of such vngratious persons as were about his sonne he sent his ring vnto him in token of his blessing and as it were a pledge to signifie that he had forgiuen him his vnnaturall doings against him The son receiuing it with great humilitie kissed it and so ended his life in the presence of the archbishop of Burdeaux and others on the day of saint Barnabie the apostle He died as some write verie penitent and sorowfull And whereas in his life time he had vowed to make a iourneie into the holie land against Gods enimies and taken vpon him the crosse for that intent he deliuered it vnto his familiar freend William line 10 Marshall to go thither with it in his stead Moreouer when he perceiued present death at hand he first confessed his sinnes secretlie and after openly before sundrie bishops and men of religion and receiued absolution in most humble wise After this he caused his fine clothes to be taken from him and therewith a heare cloth to be put vpon him and after tieng a cord about his necke he said vnto the bishops and other that stood by him I deliuer my selfe an vnworthie and greeuous sinner vnto you the ministers of line 20 God by this cord beséeching our Lord Iesus Christ which pardoned the théefe confessing his faults on the crosse that through your praiers and for his great mercies sake it may please him to be mercifull vnto my soule wherevnto they all answered Amen Then he said vnto them Draw me out of this bed with this cord and laie me on that bed strawed with ashes which he had of purpose prepared and as he commanded so they did and they laid at his feet and at his head two great square stones Thus being prepared line 30 to die he willed his bodie after his deceasse to be conueied into Normandie and buried at Rouen And so after he had receiued the sacrament of the bodie and bloud of our Lord he departed this life as afore is said about the 28. yeare of his age His bodie after his death was conueied towards Rouen there to be buried accordinglie as he had willed but when those that had charge to conueie it thither were come vnto the citie of Mauns the bishop there and the cleargie would not suffer them to line 40 go any further with it but committed it to buriall in honourable wise within the church of saint Iulian. Whereof when the citizens of Rouen were aduertised they were sore offended with that dooing and streightwaies sent vnto them of Mauns requiring to haue the corps deliuered threatening otherwise with manie earnest oths to fetch it from them by force Wherefore king Henrie to set order in this matter commanded that the corps of his sonne the king should be deliuered vnto them of Rouen to be line 50 buried in their citie as he himselfe had willed before his death And so it was taken vp and conueied to Rouen where it was eftsoones buried in the church of our ladie ¶ Thus ended this yoong king in his floorishing youth to whome through his owne iust deserts long life was iustlie denied sith he delighted to begin his gouernement with vnlawfull attempts as an other Absolon against his owne naturall father seeking line 60 by wrongfull violence to pull the scepter out of his hand He is not put in the number of kings bicause he remained for the more part vnder the gouernance of his father so that he rather bare the name of king as appointed to reigne than that he may be said to haue reigned in deed So that héere by the waie a notable obseruation dooth occurre and offer it selfe to be noted of vs namelie that euen princes children though borne to great excellencie and in high deg●e● of dignitie a●e to consider with themselues that notwithstanding their statelie titles of souereigntie they haue a dutie to discharge vnto their parents which if it be neglected and that in place thereof disobedience is substituted God himselfe when politike lawes prouide not to punish such offenses will take the cause in hand will powre vengeance vpon such vngratious children For he will be true of his word both in blessing and curssing in blessing the dutifull child with long life and happie daies and in curssing the obstinate and froward with short life and vnfortunate daies according to the tenure of his law If this man had liued in the old Romans time when aged persons were so reuerenced and honoured much more parents he had beene cut off in the prime of his disobedience and present death had beene inflicted vpon him as a due and deserued reward which Iuuenal noteth excellentlie well in these words Credebant hoc grande nefas morte piandum Si iuuenis vetulo non assurrexerat si Barbato cuicunque puer licèt ipse videret Plura domi farra maioris

king Charles that he might shew himselfe conformable vnto such orders and decrées as they had taken appointed and agréed vpon and for his part he promised to worship loue and honor his father in law the said K. Charles in place of his owne father according to the true mening of this concord and agréement trusting the same to be a peace finall And to conclude he promised that if they shewed line 40 themselues true and loiall to him according to the same agréement the Ocean sea should sooner ceasse to slow and the bright sunne lose his light than he would desist from dooing that which became a prince to doo to his subiect or a father to his naturall child When he had thus persuaded the nobilitie and dispatched his businesse at Troies he with all his armie hauing with him the French king and the duke of Burgognie departed from thence the fourth of Iune and vpon the seauenth daie of the same moneth came before the towne of Sens in Burgognie line 50 which held on the Dolphins part but after foure daies siege it was yéelded vnto the king and there he made capteine the lord Genuille From thence he remooued to Monstreau on fault Yonne which towne was taken on the three and twentith daie of Iune by assault so that manie of the Dolphins part were apprehended before they could get to the castell Whilest the siege laie there and before the towne line 60 was entred the duke of Bedford came thither vnto the king bringing with him a faire retinue of soldiers out of England After the getting of the towne the castell being well vittelled and manned denied to render and therefore was it enuironed with a strong siege During the which the duke of Burgognie was informed in what place of the towne the duke his father was buried who was slaine there as before you haue heard and now his corps was taken vp againe by his sonnes appointment and ●eared and so conueied vnto Digeon in high Burgognie and there buried by his father Philip to the end that the remembrance of him should remaine to posterities by the reseruation of some monument abiding in the place of his interment after that his bodie was consumed and his naturall countenance forgotten Which is the last point of reuerend dutie as we may well thinke which pietie of children towards their parents dooth require namelie that they be decentlie buried when they be departed and that their graues or toome stones may put vs that are aliue in mind of going the same waie and to set no more by this flitting life than standeth with the vncerteintie and shortnesse of the same as one right well saith Cùm tumulum cernis cur non mortalia spornis Esto memor mortis quo viuis tempore fortis Bicause they within the castell of Monstreau gaue opprobrious words vnto the kings herald that was sent to them the king caused a gibet to be set vp before the castle on the which were hanged twelue of those spitefull offendors all gentlemen freends to the capteine named monsieur de Guitrie who at length perceiuing that by no means he could be succoured and fearing to be taken by force began to treat with the king of England who for the space of eight daies would hearken to none of his offers but in conclusion he and his rendred themselues simplie their liues onelie saued six wéekes after they had béene besieged The earle of Warwike was made capteine both of the towne and castell who fortified it with men munition and vittels About this time Robert the gouernour of Scotland the fiftéenth yéere after his brothers reigne and in the thirtith yeare of his owne regiment deceassed in whose steed and office his sonne Mordac duke of Albanie was by and by chosen who had sonnes three Walter Alexander and Iames whereof the two eldest beginning betimes to be obstinate grew soone after verie graceles and wicked that in one flagitious feat among the rest by this Walter verie impiouslie against his parents was vttered The gouernour had a faire a gentle and well flieng falcon whereby he set great store The sonne verie desirous of the same made manie meanes and motions to haue hir not without note of malapert importunitie and lacke of reuerence toward his parents pleasure which the father dissembling to sée would not yet in anie wise forgo his hawke Whereat this child reiecting regard of dutie and receiuing an vnnaturall hate and heat by broth of iniquitie set a boiling in his brest came in on a time where standing a while at a sudden braid pluckt awaie the bird from his fathers fist and straight before his face wrang of hir necke The gouernour heereat sore astonied for verie greefe gaue a great grone Well sonne quod he since yée cannot bridle your brunts for dutie and reuerence toward me your parent and souereigne I will bring in one that shall bridle vs both Heerevpon soone after he with one Calen Campbell a noble man of much authoritie vnto whome this Walter had doone a great despight and with other of the nobilitie fell straight in consultation about the calling home of their king Which all with one assent they did right well allow whereby soone after as is touched afore and followeth more at large he was by them in his kingdome right roiallie placed But this came of it These mischéefous children Walter and Alexander the verie cause of their fathers confusion and their owne within few yeares after condemned by law vpon a hill by Sterling castell had their heads chopt off at once Walters wife with hir two sonnes Andrew and Alexander ran for refuge awaie into Ireland thus for their long iniquities their hires iustlie paid all in a daie Now to procéed in our processe of France After the thus winning of the towne and castell of Monstreau the king departing from thence came to Melun vpon Seine the thirteenth daie of Iulie and besieged it round about hauing then in companie with him the French king and the yoong king of Scots the dukes of Burgognie Clarence Bedford Glocester and Bar the prince of Orainge and one and twentie earles besides lords barons knights equall to lords in degree to the number of seauen and fiftie what of England and France and beside also fiftéene maister soldiers This siege continued the space almost of seuen moneths or as Thomas Walsingham saith fouretéene wéekes and foure daies with skirmishing scaling assaulting and defending line 10 to the losse no doubt of both parts Capteine of this towne was one monsieur de Barbason a Gascoine of such experience and approoued valiancie in wars that his renowme and fame was spred through the world At the first laieng of the siege he called all the soldiers there in garrison and likewise the townesmen afore him and warned them all on paine of death that none of them should be so hardie as to treat or once to motion anie

approching towards them sent vnto them the kings maiesties proclamation the effect whereof was that all such persons as were vnlawfullie assembled and did not within thrée daies next after the proclaming thereof yéeld and submit themselues to the lord priuie seale the kings lieutenant they should from thenceforth be déemed accepted and taken for rebels against his roiall person and his imperiall crowne and dignitie And further the kings maiestie for a more terrour to the rebels and the incouragement of such other his louing subiects as should helpe and aid to apprehend anie of the said rebels he by his said proclamation granted and gaue all the offices fées goods and possessions which the said rebels had at and before their apprehension This proclamation notwithstanding the rebels continued in their wicked deuises traitorous purposes hastening to the hazzards of their owne deaths vndooings as the poet saith of the foolish fish swiming to the hidden hooke Occultum visus decurrere piscis ad hamum Wherevpon yet once againe the kings maiestie for the auoiding of the shedding of christian bloud sent vnto them a most gentle and louing message in writing thereby to reduce them againe to their dutifull obedience but all would not serue nor auaile to mooue their obstinate minds to leaue off their desperate and diuelish enterprise The message was as followeth The kings message to the rebels of Cornewall and Deuonshire ALthough knowledge hath beene giuen to vs and our deerest vncle the duke of Summerset gouernor of our person and protector of all our realms dominions and subiects and to the rest of our priuie councell of diuerse assemblies made by you which ought of dutie to be our louing subiects against all order of law and otherwise than euer anie louing or kind subiects haue attempted against their naturall and liege souereigne lord yet we haue thought it méet at this verie first time not to condemne and reiect you as we might iustlie doo but to vse you as our subiects thinking that the diuell hath not that power in you to make you of naturall borne Englishmen so suddenlie to become enimies to your owne natiue countrie of our subiects to make you traitors or vnder pretense to relieue your selues to destroie your selues your wiues children lands possessions and all other commodities of this your life This we saie that we trust that although ye be ignorantlie seduced ye will not be vpon knowledge obstinate And though some amongst you as euer there is some cockle amongst good corne forget God neglect line 10 their prince estéeme not the state of the realme but as carelesse desperat men delite in sedition tumults wars yet neuerthelesse the greater part of you will heare the voice of vs your naturall prince and will by wisedome and counsell be warned and cease your euils in the beginning whose ends will be euen by God almighties order your owne destruction Wherfore as to you our subiects by ignorance seduced we speake and be content to vse our princelie authoritie like a father to his children to admonish line 20 you of your faults not to punish them to put you in remembrance of your duties not to auenge your forgetfulnesse First your disorder to rise in multitudes to assemble your selues against our other louing subiects to arraie your selues to the war who amongst you all can answer for the same to almightie God charging you to obeie vs in all things Or how can anie English good hart answer vs our lawes and the rest of our verie louing and faithfull subiects who in deed by their obedience make our line 30 honour estate and degrée Ye vse our name in your writings and abuse the same against our selfe What iniurie herein doo you vs to call those which loue vs to your euill purposes by the authoritie of our name God hath made vs your king by his ordinance and prouidence by our bloud and inheritance by lawfull succession and our coronation but not to this end as you vse our name We are your most naturall souereigne lord king Edward the sixt to rule you to preserue you to saue line 40 you from all your outward enimies to sée our lawes well ministred euerie man to haue his owne to suppresse disordered people to correct traitors théeues pirats robbers such like yea to keepe our realms from other princes from the malice of the Scots of Frenchmen of the bishop of Rome Thus good subiects our name is written thus it is honored and obeied this maiestie it hath by Gods ordinance not by mans So that of this your offense we cannot write too much And yet doubt not but this is inough line 50 from a prince to all reasonable people from a roiall king to all kindharted louing subiects frō the puissant K. of England to euerie naturall Englishman Your pretense which you saie moueth you to doo thus and wherewith you séeke to excuse this disorder we assure you is either false or so vaine that we doubt not that after that ye shall hereby vnderstand the truth thereof ye will all with one voice acknowlege your selues ignorantlie led and by errour seduced And if there be anie one that will not then assure line 60 you the same be ranke traitors enimies of our crowne seditious people heretikes papists or such as care not what cause they haue to prouoke an insurrection so they may doo it nor in deed can wax so rich with their owne labors with peace as they can doo with spoiles with wars with robberies and such like yea with the spoile of your owne goods with the liuing of your labors the sweat of your bodies the food of your owne households wiues and children such they be as for a time vse pleasant persuasions to you and in the end will cut your throtes for your owne goods You be borne in hand that your children though necessitie chance shall not be christened but vpon the holie daies how false this is learne you of vs. Our booke which we haue set foorth by free consent of our whole parlement in the English toong teacheth you the contrarie euen in the first leafe yea the first side of the first leafe of that part which intreateth of baptisme Good subiects for to other we speake not looke be not deceiued They which haue put this false opinion into your eares they meane not the christening of children but the destruction of you our christened subiects Be this knowne vnto you that our honor is so much that we may not be found faultie of one iote or word proue it if by our laws you may not christen your children when ye be disposed vpon necessitie euerie daie or houre in the wéeke then might you be offended but seeing you may doo it how can you beléeue them that teach you the contrarie What thinke you they meane in the rest which moue you to breake your obedience against vs your king souereigne

and leauing of idolatrie to be the cause of penurie wherfore by wilfull aduise they intended to forsake the prophets councell and thought to serue God most trulie by their rooted accustomed idolatrie When the christian men were persecuted in the primitiue church dailie suffered martyrdome for Christs profession such faire season of weather was for thrée or foure yeares togither that the heathen iudged therevpon line 60 God to be delighted with their crueltie and so were persuaded that with the bloud of the martyrs they pleased God highlie Such fansies light now in papists and irreligious mens heads and ioine things by chance happening togither and conclude the one to be the cause of the other and then delight in true worshippers hurt bicause they iudge cursedlie the good to be bad and therefore reioise in the punishment of the godlie For they being fleshlie iudge by outward things and perceiue not the inward for that they lacke the spirit and so iudge amis not vnderstanding God what diuersitie he suffereth to blind still the wilfull and how through all dangers he saueth his forechosen And thus haue ye giuen a large occasion to stubborne papists both to iudge amisse and also to reioise in this wicked chance contented with our mischeefe not liking our religion and thinking God dooth punish for this better change and haue thereby an euill opinion of Gods holie truth confirmed in them by no sure scripture but by following of mischance which they ought to thinke to come for the pride and stubbornnesse of the people who dooth not accept Gods glorie in good part nor giue no due praise to their Lord and maker What should I saie more Ye hurt euerie waie the dangers be so great and the perils so manie which doo dailie follow your diuelish enterprise that the more I seeke in the mater the more I continuallie see to saie And what words can worthilie declare this miserable beastlines of yours which haue intended to diuide the realme and arme the one part for the killing of the other For euen as concord is not onelie the health but also the strength of the realme so is sedition not onelie the weaknesse but also the apostume of the realme which when it breaketh inwardlie putteth the state in great danger of recouerie and corrupteth the whole common-wealth with the rotten furie that it hath béene long putrified withall For it is not in sedition as in other faults which being mischéefous of themselues haue some notable hurt alwaies fast adioined to them but in this one is there a whole hell of faults not seuerallie scattered but clustered on a lumpe togither and comming on so thicke that it is vnpossible for a region armed with all kinds of wisedome and strength thereto to auoid the dangers that issue out thereof When sedition once breaketh out sée ye not the lawes ouerthrowne the magistrates despised spoiling of houses murthering of men wasting of countries increase of disorder diminishing of the realms strength swarming of vagabonds scarsitie of laborers and all those mischiefes plentiouslie brought in which God is woont to scourge seuerelie withall warre dearth and pestilence And séeing ye haue theft murther plague famine confusion and idlenesse linked togither can ye looke for anie more mischéefe in one shamefull enterprise than ye euidentlie sée to grow herein As for warre although it be miserable yet the one part getteth somewhat and reioiseth in the spoile and so goeth lustier awaie and either increaseth his countrie with riches or inhanseth himselfe with glorie but in sedition both parts loose the ouercommer cannot flie the ouercommed cannot spoile the more the winner winneth the more he looseth the more that escape the more infamous men liue all that is gained is scarselie saued the winning is losse the losse is destruction both wast themselues and the whole most wasted the strengthening of themselues the decaie of the countrie the striuing for the victorie is a preie to the enimie and shortlie to saie the hellish turmoile of sedition so farre passeth the common miserie of warre as to slaie himselfe is more heinous than to be slaine of another O noble peace what wealth bringest thou in how doo all things flourish in field and in towne what forwardnesse of religion what increase of learning what grauitie in counsell what deuise of wit what order of maners what obedience of laws what reuerence of states what safegard of houses what quietnesse of life what honor of countries what friendship of minds what honestie of pleasure hast thou alwaies mainteined whose happinesse we knew not while now we féele thy lacke and shall learne by miserie to vnderstand plentie and so to auoid mischiefe by the hurt that it bringeth and learne to serue better where rebellion is once knowen and so to liue trulie and kéepe the kings peace What good state were ye in afore ye began not pricked with pouertie but sturred with mischiefe to séeke your destruction hauing wa●es to redresse all that was amisse Magistrats most readie to tender all iustice and pitifull in hearing the poore mens causes which sought to amend matters more than you can deuise and were readie to redresse them better than ye could imagine and yet for a headinesse ye could not be contented but in despite of God who commandeth obedience and in contempt of the king whose line 10 lawes doo seeke your wealth and to ouerthrow the countrie which na●urallie we should loue ye would proudlie rise and doo ye wot not what and amend things by rebellion to your vtter vndooing What state leaue ye vs in now besieged with enimies diuided at home made poore with spoile and losse of our haruest vnordered and cast downe with slaughter and hatred hindered from amendments by our owne diuelish hast indangered with sickenesse by reason of misorder laid open to mens pleasures line 20 for breaking of the lawes and féebled to such faintnesse that scarselie it will be couered Wherefore for Gods sake haue pittie on your selues consider how miserablie ye haue spoiled destroied and wasted vs all and if for desperatnesse ye care not for your selues yet remember your wiues your children your countrie and forsake this rebellion With humble submission acknowledge your faults and tarie not the extremitie of the kings sword leaue off with repentance and turne to your line 30 duties aske God forgiuenesse submit ye to your king be contented for a common-wealth one or two to die And ye capteins for the residue sacrifice your selues ye shall so best atteine the kings gratious pardon saue the assemblie and helpe the common-wealth to declare your dooings to procéed of no stubbornesse but all this mischiefe to grow out of ignorance which séeing the miserie would redresse the fault to recouer best the blot of your disorder and staie the great miseries which be like to follow line 40 Thus if ye doo not thinke trulie with your selues that God

although we haue persecuted the father of this yoong prince for his euill demeanor and worthilie yet this yoong child whome heere line 50 you see before you as he is in years tender so is he pure and innocent from those his fathers dooings Wherefore in so much as euerie man is charged onelie with the burthen of his owne works and transgressions neither shall the child as the scripture teacheth vs beare the iniquitie of his father we ought therefore of dutie and conscience to pardon this yoong and tender prince and take compassion of his age as yee see And now for so much as he is the kings naturall and eldest sonne and must be our souereigne king and successour in this kingdome come and let vs appoint him our king gouernour let vs remooue from vs this Lewes the French kings sonne and suppresse his people which are a confusion and shame to our nation and the yoke of their seruitude let vs cast from off our shoulders When the barons had heard this earles words after some silence and conference had they allowed of his saiengs and immediatlie with one consent proclaimed the yoong gentleman king of England whome the bishops of Winchester and Bath did crowne and annoint with all due solemnities at Glocester vpon the day of the feast of the apostles Simon Iude in presence of the legat Being thus crowned he was committed to the gouernance of his brother in law the foresaid William Marshall earle of Penbroke who to win the good will of the people towards the yoong king sent foorth messengers with letters into all parts of the realme to signifie the newes of the kings coronation with an offer also of pardon to all such of the barons side as would turne to his part and likewise of great rewards to those which hauing hitherto continued faithfull would so remaine vntill this trouble should be ouerpast By this means it came to passe that his freends greatlie reioised at these newes and manie of those which till that time had aided the Frenchmen reuolted from them and in hope of pardon and reward turned to king Henrie It is reported by writers that amongst other things as there were diuerse which withdrew the hearts of the Englishmen from Lewes the consideration of the confession which the vicount of Melune made at the houre of his death was the principall The order whereof in the later end of the life of king Iohn yée haue heard Truelie how little good will inwardlie Lewes and his Frenchmen bare towards the English nation it appéered sundrie waies And first of all in that they had them in a manner in no regard or estimation at all but rather sought by all means to spoile and keepe them vnder not suffering them to beare anie rule nor putting them in trust with the custodie of such places as they had brought them in possession of Secondlie they called them not to councell so often as at the first they vsed to doo neither did they procéed by their directions in their businesse as before they were accustomed Thirdlie in all manner of their conuersation neither Lewes nor his Frenchmen vsed them so familiarlie as at their first comming but as their maner is shewing more loftie countenances toward them they greatlie increased the indignation of the English lo●ds against them who might euill abide to be so ouer-ruled To conclude where great promises were made at their entring into the land they were slowe inough in performing the same so as the expectation of the line 10 English barons was quite made void for they perceiued dailie that they were despised scoffed at for their disloialtie shewed to their owne naturall prince hearing now and then nips and tawnts openlie by the Frenchmen that as they had shewed themselues false and vntrustie to their owne lawfull king so they would not continue anie long time true vnto a stranger Thus all these things laid togither gaue occasion to the English barons to remember themselues and to take iust occasion to reuolt vnto king line 20 Henrie as before wée haue mentioned But now to the purpose of the historie Ye haue heard how Lewes had spent long time in vaine about the besieging of the castell of Douer for although he plagued them within verie sore yet Hubert de Burgh and Gerard de Sotigam bare themselues so manfullie and therwith so politikelie that their aduersaries could not come to vnderstand their distresse danger within the castell in so much that despairing to win it in anie short time euen before line 30 the death of king Iohn was knowne as some write Lewes was contented to grant a truce to them that kept this castell till the feast of Easter ne●t insuing but as it appeareth by other this truce was not concluded till after the death of king Iohn was signified to Lewes who greatlie reioising therat supposed now within a short time to bring the whole realme vnder his subiection and therefore raising his siege from Douer in hope to compasse enterprises of greater consequence he came backe vnto line 40 the citie of London When they within the castell of Douer saw the siege remooued they came foorth and burnt such houses and buildings as the Frenchmen had raised before the same castell and comming abroad into the countrie got togither such vittels and other necessarie prouision as might serue for the furnishing of their fortresse for a long season After that Lewes was returned vnto London he remained not long there but with a great armie marched foorth vnto line 50 Hertford where he besieged the castell which was in the keeping of Walter de Godardule seruant in household vnto Fouks de Brent who defended the place from the feast of S. Martine vntill the feast of S. Nicholas and then deliuered it by composition that he and his people might depart with all their goods horsse and armour From thence Lewes went vnto Berkehamstéed and besieged the castell which was valiantlie defended by a Duch capteine named Waleron who with his people behaued himselfe so line 60 manfullie that a great number of Frenchmen and other of them without were left dead in the ditches At an issue also made vpon the side towards the north where the barons lay they spoiled the carriage and trusse of the said barons and tooke therewithall the standard of William Mandeuile Finallie about the ●0 day of December they yet yéelded the place vnto Lewes bicause they were no longer able to keepe it their liues goods horsse and armour saued Lewes hauing furnished this castell with a sufficient garrison returned backe towards London and comming to S. Albons constreined the abbat to giue vnto him foure score marks of siluer for a fine 〈◊〉 recognisance of dooing his homage till the feast of the purification of our ladie next insuing Which poore abbat was made to beléeue that he ought to take this dealing to be an act of great courtesie the

would haue said bicause he ended with the king and there so suddenlie stopped and exhorted him so familiarlie betweene them twaine to be bold to saie whatsoeuer he thought whereof he faithfullie promised there should neuer come hurt and peraduenture more good than he would weene and that himselfe intended to vse his faithfull secret aduise counsell which he said line 10 was the onelie cause for which he procured of the king to haue him in his custodie where he might reckon himselfe at home and else had he béene put in the hands of them with whome he should not haue found the like fauour The bishop right humblie thanked him and said In good faith my lord I loue not to talke much of princes as a thing not all out of perill though the word be without fault forsomuch as it shall not be taken as the partie ment it but as it pleaseth the prince to construe it line 20 And euer I thinke on Aesops tale that when the lion had proclaimed that on paine of death there should no horned beast abide in that wood one that had in his forehed a bunch of flesh fled awaie a great pace The for that saw him run so fast asked him whither he made all that hast And he answered In faith I neither wote nor recke so I were once hence bicause of this proclamation made of horned beasts What foole quoth the fox thou maiest abide well inough the lion ment not by thée for it is no horne line 30 that is in thine head No marie quoth he that wote I well inough But what and he call it an horne where am I then The duke laughed merilie at the tale and said My lord I warrant you neither the lion nor the bore shall pike anie matter at anie thing héere spoken for it shall neuer come néere their eare In good faith sir said the bishop if it did the thing that I was about to say taken as well as afore God I ment it could deserue but thanke and yet taken line 40 as I wéene it would might happen to turne me to to little good and you to lesser Then longed the duke yet much more to wit what it was Wherevpon the bishop said In good faith my lord as for the late protector sith he is now king in possession I purpose not to dispute his title but for the weale of this realme whereof his grace hath now the gouernance and whereof I am my selfe one poore member I was about to wish that to those good habilities whereof he hath alreadie right manie little néeding line 50 my praise it might yet haue pleased God for the better store to haue giuen him some of such other excellent vertues meet for the rule of a realme as our Lord hath planted in the person of your grace and there left againe The duke somewhat maruelling at his sudden pauses as though they were but parentheses with a high countenance said My lord I euidentlie perceiue and no lesse note your often breathing and sudden stopping in your communication so that to my line 60 intelligence your words neither come to anie direct or perfect sentence in conclusion whereby either I might perceiue and haue knowledge what your inward intent is now toward the king or what affection you beare toward me For the comparison of good qualities ascribed to vs both for the which I my selfe acknowledge and recognise to haue none nor looke for no praise of anie creature for the same maketh me not a little to muse thinking that you haue some other priuie imagination by loue or by grudge ingrauen and imprinted in your heart which for feare you dare not or for childish shamefastnesse you be abashed to disclose and reueale and speciallie to mee being your fréend which on my honor doo assure you to be as secret in this case as the deafe and dumbe person is to the singer or the tree to the hunter The bishop being somewhat bolder considering the dukes promise but most of all animated and incouraged bicause he knew the duke desirous to bee exalted and magnified and also he perceiued the inward hatred and priuie rancor which he bare toward king Richard was now boldened to open his stomach euen to the verie bottome intending thereby to compas●● 〈◊〉 to destroie and vtterlie confound king Richa●● and to depriue him of his dignitie roiall or else to set the duke so on fire with the desire of ambition that he himselfe might be safe and escape out of all danger and perill Which thing he brought shortlie to conclusion both to the kings destruction and the dukes confusion and to his owne safegard and finallie to his high promotion And so as I said before vpon trust and confidence of the dukes promise the bishop said My singular good lord since the time of my captiuitie which being in your graces custodie I may rather call it a liberall libertie more than a streict imprisonment in auoiding idlenesse mother and nourisher of all vices in reading bookes and ancient pamphlets I haue found this sentence written that no man is borne frée and in libertie of himselfe onelie for one part of dutie he oweth or should owe to his parents for his procreation by a verie naturall instinct and filiall courtesie another part to his fréends and kinsfolke for proximitie of bloud and naturall amitie dooth euerie dutie chalenge and demand but the natiue countrie in the which he tasted first the swéet aires of this pleasant and flattering world after his natiuitie demandeth as a debt by a naturall bond neither to be forgotten nor yet to be put in obliuion Which saieng causeth me to consider in what case this realme my natiue countrie now standeth and in what estate and assurance before this time it hath continued what gouernour we now haue and what ruler we might haue For I plainelie perceiue the realme being in this case must needs decaie and be brought to vtter confusion and finall extermination But one hope I haue incorporat in my brest that is when I consider and in my mind doo diligentlie remember and dailie behold your noble personage your iustice and indifferencie your feruent zeale and ardent loue toward your naturall countrie and in like manner the loue of your countrie toward you the great learning pregnant wit and goodlie eloquence which so much dooth abound in the person of your grace I must needs thinke this realme fortunate yea twise more than fortunate which hath such a prince in store méet and apt to be a gouernour in whose person being indued with so manie princelie qualities consisteth and resteth the verie vndoubted similitude and image of true honour But on the other side when I call to memorie the good qualities of the late protector and now called king so violated and subuerted by tyrannie so changed and altered by vsurped authoritie so clouded and shadowed by blind and insatiable ambition yea and so suddenlie in manner by

it did report and might perhaps haue béene auoided by the bishops wisdome for the dukes saftie as his owne sith Qui sapit ille potest alios sapuisse docere When Reginald Braie had declared his message and priuie instruction to the countesse of Richmond his mistresse no maruell though she were ioious and glad both of the good newes and also for the obteining of such a high fréend in hir sonnes cause as the duke was Wherefore she willing not to sléepe thi● matter but to further it to the vttermost of hir power and abilitie deuised a means how to breake this matter to quéene Elizabeth then being in sanctuarie at Westminster And therevpon she hauing in hir familie at that time for the preseruation of hir health a certeine Welshman called Lewes learned in physicke which for his grauitie and experience was well knowne and much esteemed amongest great estates of the realme brake hir mind to him For with this Lewes she vsed sometime liberallie and familiarlie to talke and now hauing oportunitie and occasion to expresse hir hart vnto him in this weightie matter declared that the time was come that hir sonne should be ioined in marriage with ladie Elizabeth daughter and heire to king Edward and that king Richard being taken and reputed of all men for the common enimie of the relme should out of all honor estate be deiected of his crowne and kingdome be cléerelie spoiled and expelled and required him to go to quéene Elizabeth with whome in his facultie he was of counsell not as a messenger but as one that came fréendlie to visit and consolate hir and as time place should require to make hir priuie of this deuise not as a thing concluded but as a purpose by him imagined This physician did not long linger to accomplish hir desire but with good diligence repaired to the queene being still in the sanctuarie at Westminster And when he saw time propice and conuenient for his purpose he said vnto hir Madame although my imagination be verie simple and my deuise more foolish yet for the entier affection that I beare toward you and your children I am so bold to vtter vnto you a secret and priuie conceit that I haue cast and compassed in my fantasticall braine When I well remembred and no lesse considered the great losse and damage that you haue susteined by the death of your noble and louing husband and the great dolour and sorow that you haue suffered and tollerated by the cruell murther of your innocent children I can no lesse doo both of bounden duetie and christian charitie than dailie to studie and hourelie imagine not onelie how to bring your hart to comfort and gladnesse but also deuise how to reuenge the righteous quarell of you and your children on that bloudie bloudsupper and cruell tyrant king Richard And first consider what battell what manslaughter what mischéefe hath risen in this realme by the dissention betwéene the two noble houses of Yorke Lancaster Which two families as I haue contriued if they may be ioined in one I thinke yea and doubt not but your line shall be againe restored to the pristinate estate and degrée to your great ioie and comfort and to the vtter confusion of your mortall enimie the vsurper king You know verie well madame that of the house of Lancaster the earle of Richmond is next of bloud who is liuing and a lustie yoong batcheler and to the house of Yorke your daughters now are heires If you could agree and inuent the meane how to couple your eldest daughter with the yoong earle of Richmond in matrimonie no doubt but the vsurper of the realme should be shortlie deposed and your heire againe to hir right restored line 10 When the queene had heard this friendlie motion which was as farre from hir thought as the man that the rude people saie is in the moone lord how hir spirits reuiued and how hir heart leapt in hir bodie for ioie and gladnesse And first giuing laud to almightie God as the chiefe authour of hir comfort secondarilie to maister Lewes as the deuiser of these good newes tidings she instantlie besought him that as he had beene the first inuenter of so great an enterprise so now he would not relinquish nor desist line 20 to follow the same requiring him further bicause he was apperteining to the countesse of Richmond mother to the erle Henrie that he would with all diligent celeritie resort to hir then lodging in hir husbands place within the citie of London and to declare on the quéenes behalfe to the countesse that all the friends and fautors of king Edward hir husband should assist and take part with the earle of Richmond hir sonne so that he would take a corporall oth after the kingdome obteined to espouse and line 30 take to wife the ladie Elizabeth hir daughter or else ladie Cicilie if the eldest daughter were not then liuing Maister Lewes with all dexteritie so sped his businesse that he made and concluded a finall end and determination of this enterprise betwene the two mothers And bicause he was a physician and out of all suspicion and misdéeming he was the common curror and dailie messenger betweene them aiding and setting foorth the inuented conspiracie against king line 40 Richard So the ladie Margaret countesse of Richmond brought into a good hope of the preferment of hir sonne made Reginald Braie hir most faithfull seruant chiefe sollicitor and priuie procuror of this conspiracie giuing him in charge secretly to inuegle and attract such persons of nobilitie to ioine with hir and take hir part as he knew to be ingenious faithfull diligent and of actiuitie This Reginald Braie within few daies brought vnto his lure first of all taking of euerie person a solemne oth to be true and secret sir Giles Daubneie sir Iohn Cheinie knight line 50 Richard Gilford and Thomas Rame esquiers and diuers other The countesse of Richmond was not so diligent for hir part but quéene Elizabeth was as vigilant on the other side and made friends and appointed councellors to set forward and aduance hir businesse In the meane season the countesse of Richmond tooke into hir seruice Christopher Urswike an honest and wise priest and after an oth of him for to be secret line 60 taken and sworne she vttered to him all hir mind and counsell adhibiting to him the more confidence and truth that he all his life had fauoured and taken part with king Henrie the sixt and as a speciall iewell put to hir seruice by sir Lewes hir physician So the mother studious for the prosperitie of hir son appointed this Christopher Urswike to saile into Britaine to the earle of Richmond and to declare and reueale to him all pacts and agréements betwene hir the quéene agréed and concluded But suddenlie she remembring that the duke of Buckingham was one of the first inuentors and a secret founder of this enterprise

of inke wrote in tearmes brode inough of the tumults line 20 and slaughters happening in hir vnhappie daies among whome I will set downe for a saie a few verses drawne out of an hundred and od presented to Henrie the French king of that name the second touching the conquest of Calis whereat for ioy the French were rauished Thus therfore he saith Regina pacem nescia perpeti I am spreta m●●ret foedera iam Dei Iram pauet sibi imminentem Vindicis furiae flagellum line 30 Ciues hostes iam pariter suos Odit pauétque ciuium hostium Hirudo communis cruorem Aequè auidè sitiens vtrúnque Huic luce terror Martius assonat Diraeque caedis mens sibi conscia Vmbraeque nocturnae quietem Terrificis agitant figuris These short verses were thus subscribed La. B. Te. line 40 And thus much here as in the closing vp of this storie I thought to insinuat touching the vnluckie and rufull reigne of quéene Marie not for anie detraction to hir place and state roiall wherevnto shee was called of the Lord but to this onlie intent and effect that forsomuch as she would needs set hirselfe so confidentlie to worke and striue against the Lord and his proceedings all readers and rulers not onelie maie sée how the Lord did worke against hir therfore but also by hir maie be aduertised and learne line 50 what a perillous thing it is for men and women in authoritee vpon blind zeale and opinion to stirre vp persecution in Christs church to the effusion of christian bloud least it prooue in the end with them as it did here that while they thinke to persecute heretikes they stumble at the same stone as did the Iewes in persecuting Christ and his true members to death to their owne confusion and destruction Leauing quéene Marie being dead gone you are to vnderstand and note that the same euening or as line 60 some haue written the next daie after the said quéens death Cardinall Poole the bishop of Romes legat departed out of this life hauing béene not long afore made archbishop of Canturburie he died at his house ouer against Westminster commonlie called Lambe●h and was buried in Christs church at Canturburie This cardinall was descended of the noble house of Clarence that is to saie of one of the yoonger sonnes of Margaret countesse of Salisburie daughter of George duke of Clarence brother to K. Edward the fourth ¶ So that hereby you haue a proofe of the noblenesse of his birth but how barbarous he was of behauiour and how vnnaturall in the course of his life which blemished the honour of his descent it maie appeare by the order and maner of his visitation in Cambridge with the condemning taking vp and burning both the bones and bookes of Bueer and Paulus Phagius as also by the despitefull handling and madnesse of the papists towards Peter Martyrs wife at Oxford taken vp from hir graue at the commandement of the said cardinall and after buried in a dunghill so that in his actions he shewed himselfe as he is noted earnest in burning the bodies of the dead And for further testimonie of his crueltie it shall not be impertinent out of maister Fox here to adioine and set forth to the eies of the world the blind and bloudie articles set out by cardinall Poole to be inquired vpon within his dioces of Canturburie Whereby it maie the better appeare what yokes and snares of fond and fruitlesse traditions were laid vpon the poore flocke of Christ to intangle and oppresse them with losse of life and libertie By the which wise men haue to sée what godlie fruits proceeded from that catholike church and see of Rome In which albeit thou seest good reader some good articles insparsed withall let that nothing mooue thée for else how could such poison be ministred but it must haue some honie to relish the readers tast Here follow the articles set forth by cardinall Poole to be inquired in his ordinarie visitation within his dioces of Canturburie Touching the cleargie FIrst whether the diuine seruice in the church at times daies and houres be obserued and kept dulie or no. 2 Item whether the parsons vicars and curats doo comlie and decentlie in their maners and dooings behaue themselues or no. 3 Item whether they doo reuerentlie and dulie minister the sacraments or sacramentals or no. 4 Item whether anie of their parishioners doo die without ministration of the sacraments through the negligence of their curats or no. 5 Item whether the said parsons vicars or curats doo haunt tauerns or alehouses increasing thereby infamie and slander or no. 6 Item whether they be diligent in teaching the midwiues how to christen children in time of necessitie according to the canons of the church or no. 7 Item whether they see that the font be comelie kept and haue holie water alwaies readie for children to be christened 8 Item if they doo keepe a booke of all the names of them that be reconciled to the dutie of the church 9 Item whether there be anie priests that late vnlawfullie had women vnder pretensed mariage and hitherto are not reconciled and to declare their names and dwelling places 10 Item whether they doo diligentlie teach their parishioners the articles of the faith the ten commandements 11 Item whether they doo decentlie obserue those things that doo concerne the seruice of the church and all those thi●gs that tend to a good and christian life according to the canons of the church 12 Item whether they doo deuoutlie in their praiers praie for the prosperous estate of the king and quéens maiesties 13 Item whether the said parsons and vicars doo sufficientlie repare their chancels rectories and vicarages and doo kéepe and mainteine them sufficientlie repared and amended 14 Item whether anie of them doo preach or teach anie erronious doctrine contrarie to the catholike faith and vnitie of the church 15 Item whether anie of them doo saie the diuine seruice or doo minister the sacraments in the English ●oong contrarie to the vsuall order of the church 16 Item whether anie of them doo suspiciouslie kéepe anie women in their houses or doo keepe companie with men suspected of heresies or of euill opinions 17 Item whether anie of them that were vnder pretense of lawfull matrimonie maried and now reconciled doo priuilie resort to their pretensed wiues line 10 or that the said women doo priuilie resort vnto them 18 Item whether they go decentlie apparelled as it becommeth sad sober and discréet ministers and whether they haue their crowns and beards shauen 19 Item whether anie of them doo vse anie vnlawfull games as dice cards and other like wherby they grow to slander and euill report 20 Item whether they doo kéepe residence and hospitalitie vpon their benefices and doo make charitable contributions according to all the lawes ecclesiasticall line 20 21 Item whether they doo keepe the booke