was by hir set foorth had missed the cushin and lost both horsse and spurres she could not be quiet vntill she had practised a new deuise to put line 10 king Henrie to trouble And as the diuell prouideth venemous sauce to corrupt stomachs so for hir purpose she espied a certeine yoong man of visage beautifull of countenance demure and of wit craftie and subtill This youths name was Peter Warbecke one for his faintnesse of stomach of the Englishmen in derision called Perkin Warbecke according to the dutch phrase which change the name of Peter to Perkin line 20 of yoonglings and little boies which for want of age lacke of strength and manlike courage are not thought worthie of the name of a man This yoong man trauelling many countries could speake English and diuerse other languages for his basenesse of birth and stocke was almost vnknowne of all men and driuen to séeke liuing from his childhood was constreined to go and trauell thorough manie countries The duchesse glad to haue got so meet an organ for the conueieng of hir inuented purpose as line 30 one not vnlike to be taken and reputed for the duke of Yorke sonne to hir brother king Edward which was called Richard kept him a certeine space with hir priuilie Besides that she with such diligence instructed him both in the secrets and common affaires of the realme of England and of the linage descent and order of the house of Yorke that like a good scholer not forgetting his lesson he could tell all that was taught him promptlie without anie stackering or line 40 staie in his words And besides that he kept such a princelie countenance and so counterfeit a maiestie roiall that all men in manner did firmelie beléeue that he was extracted of the noble house and familie of the dukes of Yorke For suerlie it was a gift giuen to that noble progenie as of nature planted in the root that all the sequels of that line and stocke did studie and deuise how to be equiualent in honour and fame with their forefathers and noble predecessors line 50 When the duches had framed hir cloath méet for the market she was informed that king Henrie prepared to make warre against Charles the French king Wherefore she thinking that the time serued well for the setting foorth of hir malicious inuention sent this Perkin hir new inuented mawmet first into Portingale and so craftilie into the countrie of Ireland to the intent that he being both wittie and wilie might inuegle the rude Irishmen being at those daies more inclined to rebellion than to reasonable line 60 order to a new seditious commotion Shortlie after his arriuall in Ireland whether by his shrewd wit or the malicious exhortation of the sauage Irish gouernours he entred so farre in credit with the people of that I le that his words were taken to be as true as he vntruelie with false demonstrations set foorth and published them The French king aduertised hereof then being in displeasure with king Henrie sent into Ireland for Perkin to the intent to send him against king Henrie which was then inuading France as yée before haue heard Perkin thought himselfe aloft now that he was called to the familiaritie of kings and therefore with all diligence sailed into France and comming to the kings presence was of him roiallie receiued and after a princelie fashion interteined and had a gard to him assigned whereof was gouernour the lord Congreshall and to him being at Paris resorted sir George Neuill bastard sir Iohn Tailor Rowland Robinson and an hundred English rebels Now after that a peace as before is said was concluded betwixt the French king and the king of England the French king dismissed Perkin and would no longer kéepe him But some haue said which were there attending on him that Perkin fearing least the French king should deliuer him to the king of England beguiled the lord Congreshall and fled from Paris by night But whether the French king knew of his departure or not the truth is that he being in maner in despaire returned to his first founder the ladie Margaret of whome he was so welcomed to all outward appearance that it séemed she could not haue reioised at anie earthlie thing more than she did at his presence and as she could well dissemble she made semblance as though she had neuer séene him before that time Now as she had sore longed to know not once but diuerse times in open audience and in solemne presence she willed him to declare and shew by what means he was preserued from death and destruction and in what countries he had wandered and sought fréendship and finallie by what chance of fortune he came to hir court This did shée to the intent that by the open declaration of these fained phantasies the people might be persuaded to giue credit and beléeue that he was the true begotten sonne of hir brother king Edward And after this shee assigned to him a gard of thirtie persons in murrie and blew and highlie honoured him as a great estate and called him the white rose of England The nobilitie of Flanders did to him all reuerence All which port and pompe exhibited in most solemne sort he was well content to take vpon him forgetting the basenesse of his birth and glorieng in the counterfeit title of honour much like the iay that would be called a swan or like the crow that trimming hir selfe with the stolne feathers of a pecocke would séeme Iunos bird as the poet saith mentito nomine cygnum Graculus appellat sese cornicula plumas Pauonis furata cupit pauo ipsa videri ¶ In this yeare was one Hugh Clopton maior of London and of the staple a gentleman borne at Clopton village halfe a mile from Stratford vpon Auen by north who continued during his life a bacheler he builded the great and sumptuous bridge of Stratford vpon Auen at the east end of the towne This bridge hath fouretéene great arches and a long cawsie with smaller arches all made of stone new walled on each side At the west end of the bridge he builded a faire large chappell Toward the south end of that towne néere vnto the same a pretie house of bricke and timber where he laie and ended his life He glased the chancell of the parish church in that towne and made a waie of foure miles long three miles from Alesburie towards London and one mile beyond Alesburie But to returne to Perkin the brute of whome in England blowne throughout the realme sore disquieted the people insomuch that not onelie the meaner sort but also manie of the nobles and worshipfull personages beléeued and published it abroad that all was true which was reported of him And not onelie they that were in sanctuaries but also manie other that were fallen in debt assembled in a companie and passed ouer the seas into Flanders to their
staffe The which then with so valiant a courage he charged at one as it was thought Dandie Car a capteine among them that he did not onelie compell Car to turne and himselfe chased him aboue twelue score togither all the waie at the speares point so that if line 60 Cars horsse had not beene excéeding good and wight his lordship had surelie run him through in this race but also with his little band caused all the rest to flee amaine After whome as Henrie Uane a gentleman of the said earles and one of his companie did fiercelie pursue foure or fiue Scots suddenlie turned and set vpon him and though they did not altogither escape his hands free yet by hewing and mangling his head bodie and manie places else they did so crueltie intreat him as if rescue had not come the sooner they had slaine him outright Here was Barteuill run at sideling and hurt in the buttocke and one of the Englishmen slaine of Scots againe none slaine but thrée taken prisoners wherof one was Richard Maxwell and hurt in the thigh who had béene long in England not long before and had receiued right manie benefits both of the late kings liberalitie and of the earle of Warwike and of manie other nobles and gentlemen in the court beside But to conclude if the earle of Warwike had not thus valiantlie incountred them yer they could haue warned their ambush how weaklie he was garded he had béene beset round about by them yer he could haue bin aware of them or rescued of other Whereas hereby his lordship vndoubtedlie shewed his woonted valor saued his companie and discâ—mfited the enimie As Barteuill the Frenchman that daie had right honestlie serued so did the lords right honorablie acquite it for the earle of Warwike did get him a surgion and dressed he was streight after laid and conueied in the lord protectors owne chariot The rest that were hurt were here also drest Scots and others The armie hauing marched that same daie nine miles incamped at night by a towne standing on the Frith called Lang Nuddreie The next morning being thursdaie the eight of September in time of the dislodging of the English campe signe was made to some of the ships whereof the most part and chiefest laie a ten or twelue miles in the Forth beyond vs ouer against Lieth Edenborough that the lord admerall should come a shore to speake with the lord protector In the meane time somewhat earlie as our gallie was comming toward vs about a mile and more beyond our campe the Scots were verie busie wasting here on shore toward them with a banner of saint George that they had so to traine them to come on land there but the earle of Warwike soone disappointed the policie for making toward that place where the lord admerall should come on shore the Englishmen on the water by the sight of his presence did soone discerne their friends from their foes The lord admerall herevpon came to land and riding backe with the earle vnto the lord protector order was taken that the great ships should remoue from before Lieth and come to lie before Muskelborough and the Scotish campe which laie there in field alreadie assembled to resist the English power that marched thus towards them The smaller vessels that were vittelers were appointed to lie néerer to the armie The lord admerall herevpon being returned to the water the armie marching onward a mile or two there appéered aloft on a hill that laie longwise east and west and on the south side of them vpon a six hundred of their horssemen prickers wherof some within a flight shoot directlie against the Englishmen shewed themselues vpon the same hill more further off Toward these ouer a small bridge that laie ouer a little riuer there verie hardlie did ride about a dozen haquebutters on horssebacke and held them at baie so nie to their noses that whether it were by the goodnesse of the same haquebutters or the badnesse of them the Scots did not onelie not come downe to them but also verie courteouslie gaue place and fled to their fellowes The armie went on but so much the slowlier bicause the waie was somewhat narrow by meanes of the Forth on the one side and certeine marishes on the other The Scots kept alwaies pase with them till there were shot off two field peeces twise wherewith there was a man killed and the leg of one of their horsses striken off which caused them to withdraw so that the Englishmen saw no more of theâ—â— till they came to the place where they meant to incampe for there they shewed themselues againe aloft on the fore remembred hill standing as it were to view and take muster of the armie but when the lord Greie made towards them minding to know their commission they wiselie ment their waie and would not once abide the reasoning Little else was doone that daie but that George Ferrers one of the duke of Summersets gentlemen and one of the commissioners of the cariages in the armie perceiuing where certeine Scots were got into a caue vnder the earth stopping some of the line 10 vents and setting fire on the other smothered them to death as was thought it could be none other by coniecture of the smoke breaking forth at some of the other vents The English ships also taking their leaue from before Lieth with a score of shot or more and as they came by saluting the Scots in their campe also with as manie came and laie according to appointment The armie hauing marched this daie about a fiue miles incamped at Salt Preston by the Forth On fridaie the ninth of September line 20 the English armie lieng in sight view of the Scotish campe that laie two miles or therabouts from them had the Forth on the north and the hill last remembred on the south the west end whereof is called Faurside Braie on the which standeth a sorie castell and halfe a score houses of like worthinesse by it and had westward before the Englishmen the Scots lieng in campe About a mile from the English campe were the Scots horsemen verie busie pranking vp and downe faine would haue béene a counsell with the Englishmens doings who againe bicause line 30 the Scots seemed to sit to receiue them did diligentlie prepare that they might soone go to them and therfore kept within their campe all that daie The lord protector and the councell sitting in consultation the capteines and officers prouiding their bâ—nds store of vittels and furniture of weapons for furtherance whereof our vessels of munition and vittels were here alreadie come to the shore The Scots continued their brauerie on the hill the which the Englishmen not being so well able to beare line 40 made out a band of light horssemen and a troope of demilances to backe them the Englishmen and strangers that serued among them got vp aloft on the
and the bodie of the church conteining in length fortie foot and in breadth fourtéene foot The walles of the same church to be in height ninetie foot imbattelled vawted and charerooffed sufficientlie butteraced and euerie butterace fined with finials And in the east end of the same church shall be a window of nine daies and betwixt euerie butterace a window of fiue daies And betwixt euerie of the same butteraces in the bodie of the church on both sides of the same church line 30 a closet with an altar therein conteining in length twentie foot and in breadth ten foot vawted and finished vnder the soile of the I le windowes And the pauement of the church to be inhanced foure foot aboue the ground without And the height of the pauement of the quiere one foot and an halfe aboue the pauement of the church And the pauement of the altar thrée foot aboue that And on the north side of the quiere a vestrie conteining in length fiftie foot and in breadth twentie and two foot departed into two line 40 houses beneath two houses aboue which shall conteine in height twentie two foot in all with an entrie from the quiere vawted And at the west end of the church a cloister square the east pane conteining in length an hundred seuentie and fiue foot and the west pane as much The north pane two hundred foot and the south pane as much of the which the deambulatorie thirtéene foot wide and in height twentie foot to the corbill table with cleare stories and butteraces with finials vawted imbattelled And the ground line 50 thereof foure foot lower than the church ground And in the middle of the west pane of the cloister a strong tower square conteining foure and twentie foot within the walles And in the height one hundred and twentie foot to the corbill table And foure small turrets ouer that fined with pinacles And a doore into the said cloister inward but outward none And as touching the dimensions of the housing of the said colledge I haue deuised and appointed in the south-side of the said church a quadrant closing to both ends line 60 of the same church the east pane whereof shall conteine two hundred and thirtie foot in length and in breadth within the walles two and twentie foot In the same panes middle a tower for a gatehouse conteining in length thirtie foot and in breadth two and twentie and in height thréescore foot with thrée chambers ouer the gate euerie one ouer the other And on either side of the same gate foure chambers euerie one conteining in length fiue twentie foot and in bredth two and twentie foot And ouer euerie of these chambers two chambers aboue of the same measure or more with two towers outward and two towers inward The south pane shall conteine in length two hundred thirtie and eight foot and in breadth two and twentie foot within in which shal be seuen chambers euerie one conteining in length nine and twentie foot and in breadth twentie and two with a chamber parcell of the prouosts lodging conteining in length thirtie and fiue foot and with a chamber in the east corner of the same pane conteining in length twentie and fiue foot and in breadth thirtie and two foot And ouer euerie of all these chambers two chambers and with fiue towers outward and thrée towers inward The west pane shall conteine in length two hundred and thirtie foot and in breadth within twentie foure foot in which at the end toward the church shall be a librarie conteining in length an hundred and ten foot and in breadth twentie and foure foot And vnder it a large house for reading and disputations conteining in length eleuen foot And two chambers vnder the same librarie each conteining twentie and nine foot in length and in breadth foure and twentie foot And ouer the said librarie a house of the same largenesse for diuerse stuffe of the said colledge In the other end of the same pane a hall conteining in length an hundred foot vpon a vawt of twelue foot high ordeined for the cellar and butterie and the breadth of the hall six and thirtie foot On euerie side thereof a baie window And in the nether end of the same hall toward the middle of the same pane a pantrie butterie euerie of them in length twentie foot and in breadth seuentéene foot And ouer that two chambers for officers And at the nether end of the hall toward the west a goodlie kitchin And the same pane shall haue inward two towers ordeined for the waies into the hall and librarie And in euerie corner of the said quadrant shall be two corner towers one inward and one outward more than the towers aboue rehearsed And at the vpper end of the hall the prouosts lodging that is to wit more than the chambers for him aboue specified a parlour on the ground conteining six and thirtie foot in length and two and twentie foot in breadth two chambers aboue of the same quantitie And westward closing there to a kitchin for him a larderhouse stables and other necessarie housings and grounds And westward beyond these houses and the said kitchin ordeined for the hall a bakehouse a brewhouse and other houses of office betwixt which there is left a ground square of fourscore foot in euerie pane for wood and such stuffe And in the middle of the said large quadrant shall be a conduit goodlie deuised for the ease of the same colledge And I will that the edification proceed in large forme of my said colledge cleane and substantiall setting apart superfluitie of so great curious workes of intaile and busie moulding And I haue deuised and appointed that the precinct of my said colledge as well on both sides of the garden from the colledge to the water as in all other places of the same precinct be inclosed with a substantiall wall of the height of fourtéene foot with a large tower at the principall entrie against the middle of the east pane out of the high stréet And in the same tower a large gate and another tower in the middle of the west end at the new bridge And the same wall to be creafted imbattelled and fortified with towers as manie as shall be thought conuenient therevnto And I will that my said colledge be edified of the most substantiall best abiding stuffe of stone lead glasse and iron that maie best he had and prouided thereto ¶ Thus much I haue inlarged by occasion of reading this good kings will the cunning deuise wherof I leaue to the considerate iudgement of such as be expert in architecture heartilie desiring almightie God to put into the heart of some noble prince of this land one day to make perfect this roiall worke so charitablie begun But now to returne to king Edward Ye shall
haue it causing a certeine number of harquebutters vpon appointment before to beset the castell and to watch that none should passe in or out that in the end the ladie of the house and other that were within in charge with it yéelded it vp to the lord protectors hands for the ladie doubting the losse of hir son that was prisoner with the Englishmen hauing the first daie béene with the lord protector and got respit till the next daie at noone in the meane time consulted with hir sonne and other hir friends the kéepers of the castell returned at the time appointed the next daie being the one and twentith of that moneth and made sute for a longer respit till eight of the clocke at night and therewith safe conduct for Andrew Hume hir second son and Iohn Hume lard of Coldan Knows a kinsman of hir husbands capteins of this castell to come and speake with his grace in the meane while It was granted hir Wherevpon these capteins about thrée of the clocke came to the lord protector and after other couenants with long debating on both parts agréed vpon she and these capteins concluded to giue their assent to render the castell so far foorth as the rest of the keepers would therewith be contented for two or thrée within said they were also in charge with kéeping it as well as they for knowledge of whose minds the duke sent Summerset his herald with this ladie to the castell vnto them who as the herald had made them priuie to the articles would faine haue had leisure for foure and twentie hours longer to send to their lord to Edenburgh where he laie hurt as before you haue heard and in danger of death which followed of the fall that he caught at the fridaies skirmish before the battell to know his will and plesure in this point of rendering vp the castell but being wiselie and sharplie called vpon by the herald they agréed to the couenants afore by their ladie and capteins concluded on whereof part as the sequele shewed were these That they should depart thense the next daie in the morning by ten of the clocke with bag and baggage as much as they could carie leauing all munition and vittels behind them in the castell Howbeit to be assured of them the lord protector prouiding ech waie to be readie for them caused eight péeces of ordinance fensed with baskets of earth to be planted on the southside toward the castell within power of batterie and the harquebutters to continue their watch and ward On thursdaie morning being the two and twentith of September the lord Greie was appointed to receiue the rendring of the castell into his hands and sir Edward Dudleie now lord Dudleie after to be capteine there They both departed to it and at the time set Andrew Hume and foure other of the chiefest there with him came out and yéelding the castell deliuered the keies to the said lord Greie his lordship causing the residue to come out then sauing six or seuen to keepe their baggage within who all were in number seuentie and eight entred the same with maister Dudleie and diuerse other gentlemen with him He found there indifferent good store of vittels and wine of ordinance two bastard culuerings one sacre also thrée falconets of brasse and of iron eight péeces beside The keeping of this castell the lord Greie betaking vnto sir Edward Dudleie accordinglie returned to the campe This doone the next daie being fridaie and the thrée and twentith of September they dislodged and went that morning to Rockesburgh incamping in a great fallow field betwixt Rockesburgh and Kelseie standing eastward a quarter of a mile off Here at Rockesburgh they began to build a fort within the compasse of an old ruinous castell the plot and site whereof standeth line 10 naturallie verie strong vpon a hill east and west of an eight score in length and three score in breadth drawing to a narrownesse at the east end the whole ground whereof the old walles did yet inuiron Beside the heigth and hardnesse to come to it is stronglie fensed on either side with the course of two great riuers Tiuet on the north and Twéed on the south both which ioining somwhat nigh togither at the west end of it Tiuet by a large compasse about the fields line 20 in which the campe laie at Kelseie dooth fall into this Twéed which with great depth and swiftnesse runneth from thense eastward into the sea at Berwike Ouer this betwixt Kelseie and Rockesburgh there hath béene a great stone bridge with arches the which the Scots in times past haue all to broken because the Englishmen should not that waie come to them Soone after the lord protectors surueie of the plot and determination to doo as much in déed for making line 30 it defensible as shortnesse of the time season of the yéere could suffer which was that one great trench of twentie foot broad with depth according and a wall of like depth bredth and heigth should be made crosse within the castell from the one side wall to the other and fortie foot from the west end and that a like trench and wall should likewise be cast a trauerse within about a coits cast from the east end and hereto that the castell walles on either side where néed was should be mended with turffe and made with lowps as well for shooting directlie forward line 40 as for flanking at hand the worke of which deuise did make that beside the safegard of these trenches and walles the keepers should also be much defended from the enimies force by both the end walles of the castell the pioners were set a worke and diligentlie applied in the same The lard of Sesseforth and manie other lards and gentlemen of Tiuidall and the Mers hauing come and communed with the lord protector and the councell made an assurance or as it were a truce for that line 50 daie till the next daie at night and on the next daie while assurance lasted these lards and gentlemen being the chiefest in the whole Mers and Tiuidale came in againe whome the dukes grace with wisedome and policie without bloudshed did win then vnto the kings obedience for the which they did willinglie then receiue an oth whose names in part insue The lard of Sesseforth the lard of Fernihurst the lard of Greenehead the lard of Hunthill the lard of Huntleie the lard of Markeston by Merside the line 60 lard of Boniedworth the lard of Ormeston the lard of Mailestaine the lard of Warmeseie the lard of Linton the lard of Egerston the lard of Marton the lard of Mow the lard of Reddell the lard of Reamerside George Trombull Iohn Holliburton Robert Car of Greiden Adam Kirton Andrew Kirton Andrew Meither Sander Spur of Erleston Marke Car of Littleden George Car of Faldenside Alexander Makdowell Charles Rotherford Thomas Car of the Yere Iohn Car of
or fift yeare of the reigne of this William Rufus at which time he entered the land as farre as Chester in the stréet whilest king William was in Normandie the fift time was now when he lost his life on saint Brices day by the hands of a verie valiant knight named Morkell King Malcolme being thus surprised by death his bodie was buried at Tinmouth as in the line 20 Scotish histories more plainelie appeareth where also ye may find how the sonnes of king Malcolme were aided by king William Rufus to obteine the crowne of Scotland wherevnto they were interessed whereas otherwise by the force and practise of their vncle Donald they had béene kept from the scepter and crowne of the kingdome This yeare England and Normandie were sore vexed with mortalitie both of men and beasts insomuch that tillage of the ground was laid aside in line 30 manie places by reason wherof there folowed great dearth famine Manie grizelie and hideous sights were seene also in England as hosts of men fighting in the aire flashes of fier stars falling from heauen and such like strange wonders About this time new occasions of breach of amitie grew betwixt the king and his brother Robert who accused him of periurie for not obseruing the articles of the last peace concluded betwixt them wherefore he purposed line 40 to saile ouer into Normandie and so came vnto Hastings about the first of Februarie where he soiourned for a time and caused the church of Battell abbeie to be dedicated in the honour of S. Martin He depriued Herbert bishop of Thetford of his bishops staffe bicause he meant to haue stolne awaie secretlie to Rome and there to haue purchased absolution of pope Urban for his bishoprike which he had bought of the king for himselfe and likewise for the abbasie of Winchester which he had purchased for his father paieng for them both a thousand pounds line 50 After this about midlent he passed ouer into Normandie with an armie purposing to trie the matter with his brother in plaine battell that thereby he might rather grow to some certeine point of losse or lucre than to stand euer vpon vncerteinties whether to haue peace or war that he must be constreined to be at all times in a readinesse to defend himselfe But after he was come into Normandie had forraied part of the countrie once or twice he fell to a line 60 parle with his brother duke Robert in the end condescended to put the matter in compromise to the arbitrement of certeine graue persons whose iudgement the king reiected bicause they gaue not sentence on his side Herevpon both parts prepared for war afresh insomuch that the king perceiuing how his brother was aided by the French king and that his power was too weake to withstand them both he sent his commission into England for the leuieng of 20. thousand men commanding that they should be sent ouer vnto him into Normandie by a daie which was diligentlie performed But as they were come togither about Hastings readie to enter a shipboord immediatlie commeth the kings lieutenant with a countermand and signifieth to them that the king minding to fauour and spare them for that iournie would that euerie of them should giue him 10. shillings as Matt. Paris hath or 20. shillings as others haue towards the charges of the war and therevpon depart home with a sufficient safeconduct which the most part were better content to doo than to commit themselues to the fortune of the sea and bloudie successe of the wars in Normandie In deed king William changing his mind was now determined to end the matter with monie and not with the sword as it afterward appeered for by bribing of king Philip in whome duke Robert had reposed his whole trust he concluded peace vpon such articles and conditions as he himselfe required Hauing dispatched his businesse in Normandie he returned into England where he happened to méet with new and more dangerous wars for the Welshmen hearing of the variance betwixt the brethren after their accustomed maner begin to inuade the English marshes taking booties of cattell destroieng the countries killing and spoiling many of the kings subiects both English and Normans After this waxing proud of their good successe they besieged the castell of Mountgomerie where though the garison made stout resistance for a time yet in the end the enimie finding shift to ouerthrow the walles entred perforce and slue all that they found within Wherewith though king William was offended when he heard of it yet could he not remedie the matter as then being troubled with a conspiracie newlie kindled against him by Robert earle of Northumberland who vpon displeasure conceiued against him bicause he was not rewarded nor thanked at his hands for his good seruice shewed in the killing of Malcolme king of Scotland refused to come vnto him being sent for by letters and herewith began to practise with certeine other Noble men of that countrie how to depose king William But yer he could bring anie peece of his purpose to passe the king hauing aduertisement of his attempts first appointed his brother the lord Henrie to go thither with an armie and foorthwith foloweth himselfe and comming to Newcastell where the most part of his complices were assembled he surprised them yer they could haue time to prouide for their safetie That doone he went to Tinmouth and in the castell tooke the earles brother there and after came to Banbourgh castell which the said earle with his wife and children did hold for their better safegard and defense Some authors write that when the king perceiued it would be hard for him to win Banbourgh castell by reason of the great strength thereof without famine he builded vp an other castell or bastilion fast by it calling the same Maluoisin wherein he placed a great power of men by whose meanes at length the earle was so narrowlie driuen that when he sought to haue escaped by night he was espied and therewith pursued so closelie by the kings souldiers that he was forced to take sanctuarie within the church of S. Oswins at Tinmouth from whence he was quicklie taken and brought as prisoner to the kings presence Notwithstanding those that remained within the castell vpon trust of the strength of that place would not yeeld by anie meanes but stood still to their tackling whervpon the king caused the earle their maister to be brought foorth before the gates and threatned that he should haue his eies put out if they within did not streightwaies giue vp the hold into his hands Herevpon it came to passe that the castell was yéelded and those that kept it were diuerslie punished some by banishment some by loosing their eares diuerse by the losse of their hands in example to others The earle himselfe was conueied to Windsor castell and there committed to
daie of Februarie they came foorth and submitted themselues and all that they had vnto the kings pleasure Who caused them to be safelie kept till he might take further aduisement what should be doone with them In the meane while also came the earle of Albemarle who by the helpe means of the archbishop of Yorke and the legat Pandulph purchased peace at the kings hands the rather indeed bicause he had line 40 faithfullie serued both the king and his father king Iohn in their wars before that time All those men of armes souldiers also which had submitted themselues and remained as prisoners were pardoned Which ouer-great clemencie caused other vnrulie persons to attempt the like offense of rebellion shortlie after At the very selfe same time the Welshmen began to sturre and vnder their prince and leader Leolin they entered vpon the English marshes and with great crueltie spoiled and robbed the same line 50 wherevpon it was determined by the councell that the king as he was comming toward the castell of Biham should diuide his armie and so he did sending one part thereof against the Welshmen whervpon Leolin after he vnderstood that the kings power came toward him as one not able to resist the same cast off his armour and submitted himselfe to his mercie There be which write that where prince Leolin had besieged the castell of Buet belonging to Reginald line 60 de Breuse the same Reginald besought the K. to helpe to remooue that siege The king contented with his request came with a puissant armie into those parts and therewith the siege was raised for the Welshmen according to their accustomed maner fled The king then entring further into the countrie came to the place where Mountgomerie now standeth and perceiuing the site of the same to serue well for fortification he caused a castell to be builded there to restreine the Welshmen from their accustomed trade of harrieng the countrie And so after he had foraied those quarters and taken order for the full accomplishment of that castell he returned the Nobles granting to him of euerie knights sée two markes of siluer Things being thus in quiet the king who by dailie experience of matters grew to more knowledge from time to time began now of himselfe to order his affaires for his owne behalfe namelie touching the estate of his kingdome and bicause he was minded to assaie the recouerie of those places which his father had lost in France he ordeined Sauerie de Mauleon to be his lieutenant in Guien whereof a gret part as yet remained in his hands and moreouer sent ambassadours vnto the French king requiring of him restitution of those places which he had taken from his father These oratours being come into France and admitted to the kings presence receiued answer that nothing ought to be restored which by law of armes was rightlie conquered and other redresse at that time would none be granted ¶ But a maruell it was to consider here at home in how short a space the state of the English common-wealth was changed and from a troubled fourme reduced to a flourishing and prosperous degrée chiefelie by the diligent heed and carefull prouision of the king himselfe So much auaileth it to haue him that ruleth to attend that which belongeth to his office After this to the intent that whiles he might be occupied in warres abroad he should not be troubled with ciuill discord at home he deuised to ioine in affinitie with the Scots giuing his sister Ione in mariage vnto Alexander the king of Scotland and Hubert of Burgh on the other side married the sister of the same Alexander called Margaret These marriages were solemnized at Yorke on the morrow after the feast of S. Iohn Baptist in the presence of a great number of the Nobles both of England and Scotland A councell also was holden by the archbishop of Canturburie at Oxford for reformation of the state ecclesiasticall and the religion of moonks ¶ In which councell two naughtie felowes were presentes before him that of late had beene apprehended either of them naming himselfe Christ and preached manie things against such abuses as the cleargie in those daies vsed Moreouer to prooue their errour to haue a shew of truth they shewed certeine tokens and signes of wounds in their bodies hands and féet like vnto our sauiour Iesus that was nailed on the crosse In the end being well apposed they were found to be but false dissemblers wherefore by doome of that councell they were iudged to be nailed vnto a crosse of wood and so those to whom the execution was assigned had them foorth to a place called Arborberie where they nailed them to a crosse and there left them till they were dead The one of them was an Hermophrodite that is to say both man and woman Also there were two women condemned of whom the one had taken vpon hir to be that blessed virgine Marie and the other fained hir selfe to de Marie Magdalene Ralfe Coghshall sheweth this matter otherwise and saith that there were two men and two women brought before the archbishop at this councell of the which one of the men being a deacon was accused to be an apostata for the loue of a woman that was a Iew he had circumcised himselfe being herof conuicted disgraded he was committed to the secular power so burnt by the seruants of Fouks de Brent The other being a yoong man was accused of contemning the sacraments of the church that he suffered himselfe to be crucified hauing the prints of the fiue wounds appearing in his bodie and counterfeiting himselfe to be Christ reioised to haue the two women giue out and spread the rumour abroad that he was Christ in déed one of the which women being verie aged was also accused of witcherie hauing with hir soâ—cerie and witchcraft brought that yoong man vnto such wicked foâ—â—ie and madnesse They two being hereof conuicted were closed vp betwixt two walles where they remained till they died the other woman being sister to the yoong man was pardoned and let go bicause she had reuealed the diuelish practise of the other This yeare also was the building of the stéeple belonging to the church of S. Paule in London finished And this yeare also vpon saint Iames day the line 10 citizens of London kept a plaie of defense and wrestling at the hospitall of saint Iames against other their neighbours of the suburbes and the quarters next adâ—â—â—ning In the end whereof it so fortuned that the Londoners had the vpper hand and amongst other that were put to the foile the steward of the abbat of Westminster with his folkes went awaie with the worst to their great gréefe Wherevpon the same steward deuised an other game of wrestling to be holden at Westminster on Lammas day next line 20 following and that whosoeuer could
Wake Gilbert Gifford Nicholas de Segraue Godfrey de Lucie Iohn de Ueisie William de Mountchensie with other The king answered this letter in charging them with rebellion and moouing of open war against him to the great disquieting of the realme Also he laid vnto their charge the burning of the manours houses and places of his nobles and councellors and herewith defied them by the same answer which was dated at Lewes aforesaid on the twelfth of Maie Also the king of Romanes and prince Edward sent their defiance to the barons at the same time in writing vnder their seales for that the barons in their letter to the king had burthened them and other with misleading the king with vntrue informations and sinister counsell Thus as they writ to and fro such nipping letters all the treatie of peace was forgotten and laid aside so that they prepared to battell The king had indéed the greater number of armed men but manie of them were vnfaithfull and cared not greatlie though the losse fell to his side and so whilest they went to it without order vnaduisedlie they fought at aduenture continued but faintly His capteines made thrée battels of their armie the lord Edward led the foreward and with him William de Ualence earle of Penbroke and Iohn de Warren erle of Surrey and Sussex In the second the K. of Almaine with his sonne Henrie were cheeftaines The third the king gouerned himselfe The barons diuided their host into foure battels the first was vnder the gouernment of the lord Henrie de Montfort and others The second was led by the lord Gilbert de Clare the lord Iohn Fitz Iohn and the lord William de Mountchensie The third in which the Londoners were placed the lord Nicholas de Segraue ruled The fourth was led by Simon Montfort earle of Leicester himselfe and one Thomas de Peuelston Thus being ordered on the fourtéenth of Maie being Wednesdaie they ioined in fight and at the first incounter the L. Henrie de Hastings the lord Geffrey de Lucie Humfrey de Bohun the yoonger were wounded and the Londoners forthwith were beaten backe for prince Edward so fiercelie assailed them that they were not able to abide the brunt He hated them indeed aboue all other namelie for that of late they had misvsed his mother reuiling hir and throwing durt and stones at hir when she passed the bridge as before ye haue heard which wrong and abuse by them committed was peraduenture on their parts forgotten line 10 but of prince Edward as it séemeth remembred for Puluere qui laedit sed laesus marmore scribit Herevpon prince Edward now to be reuenged of them after they began to flie most egerlie following them chased slue them by heaps But whilest he separated himselfe by such earnest following of the Londoners too farre from the residue of the kings armie he was the onelie cause of the losse of that field for the earle of Leicester perceiuing that the prince with the chiefest force of the kings armie was thus gone after the Londoners of whom he made no line 20 great account he exhorted his people to shew their valiancie at that instant and so comming vpon his aduersaries with great courage in a moment put them to flight There were taken the king of Almaine the lords Iohn de Burgh and Philip Basset with all other the chiefest that were about the king but the king himselfe retired with those few about him that were left into the priorie of Lewes and other there were that withdrew into the castell line 30 The barons pursuing them entered the towne and tooke or slue so manie as they found within the castell and priorie At length prince Edward returned from the chase of the Londoners whom he had pursued for the space of foure miles and finding the field lost began a new battell but the earle of Surrie William de Valence and Guy de Lucignan with Hugh Bigod and others hauing with them thrée hundred armed men streightwaies fled vnto the castell of Pemsie Prince Edward then perceiuing slaughter line 40 to be made on each hand cast about the towne and with his companie got into the priorie to his father In the meane time the barons gaue assault to the castell but they within valiantlie defended themselues with whose hardie dooings prince Edward incouraged gathered his people togither againe and meant eâ—tsoones to giue battell but the subtill head of the earle of Leicester beguiled them all for he caused certeine friers to take in hand to be intreators betwixt them which comming to the king and to the line 50 prince his sonne declared that the barons to auoid that more christian bloud should not be spilt would be contented to haue the matter put in compromise of indifferent persons but if it were so that the king and his sonne would néeds stand to the vttermost triall of battell they would not faile but strike off the heads of the king of Almaine and other prisoners which they would set vpon the ends of their speares in stéed of standards The king and his people hauing the respect of pitie line 60 before their eies changed their purposed intent to fight and falling to a parle which continued for the most part of all the night next following at length it was agreed vpon that the French king with thrée prelats and three other noble men of the temporaltie should choose foorth and name two noble men of France which comming into England should take a third person to them whom they thought good and they thrée should haue the hearing of all controuersies betwixt the king and the barons and what order so euer they tooke therein the same should stand and be receiued for a perfect conclusion and stable decrée This agréement was confirmed and prince Edward and Henrie sonne to the king of Almaine were appointed to remaine as hostages with the barons ¶ Other write otherwise of this battell at Lewes affirming that not onelie the king of Romans but also king Henrie himselfe hauing his owne horsse thrust through on both sides was taken and likewise his sonne prince Edward with other on their side to the number of fiue and twentie barons and bannerets and that moreouer there died on the kings side that day in the battell and chase six thousand and fiue hundred men as Polydor noteth howbeit Richard Southwell saith there died on both parts onlie 3400. But Matth. Westminster writeth that as the report went there died fiue thousand on both sides and amongst other these he nameth as chéefe William de Wilton one of the kings iustices the lord Fouke Fitz Waren a baron that tooke the kings part On the barons side the lord Rafe Heringander a baron also and William Blunt the earles standardbearer Of them that were taken on the kings side beside such as before are recited we find these named Humfrie
means we haue at length by aduise of our peruerse counsell defied our said lord the K. of England and haue put our selues out of his allegiance and homage sent our people into England to burne houses to take spoiles to commit murther with many other damages and also in fortifieng the kingdome of Scotland which is of his fee putting and establishing armed men in townes castels and other places to defend the land against him to deforce him of his fee for the which transgressions our said souereigne lord the king entring into the realm of Scotland with his power hath conquered and taken the same notwithstanding al that we could do against him as by right he may do as a lord of his fee bicause that we did render vnto him our homage and made the foresaid rebellion We therfore as yet being in our full power and free will doo render vnto him the land of Scotland and all the people therof with the homages In witnesse whereof we haue caused these letters patents to be made Yeuen at Brechin the tenth day of Iulie in the fourth yeare of our reigne sealed with the common seale of the kingdome of Scotland After this king Edward went forward to see the mounteine countries of Scotland the bishop of Durham euer kéeping a daies iournie afore him At line 10 length when he had passed through Murrey land and was come to Elghin perceiuing all things to be in quiet he returned towards Berwike and comming to the abbeie of Scone he tooke from thence the marble stone wherevpon the kings of Scotland were accustomed to sit as in a chaire at the time of their coronation which king Edward caused now to be transferred to Westminster and there placed to serue for a chaire for the priest to sit in at the altar The king comming to Berwike called thither vnto line 20 a parlement all the nobles of Scotland and there receiued of them their homages the which in perpetuall witnesse of the thing made letters patents thereof written in French and sealed with their seales as the tenor here followeth The instrument of the homages of the lords of Scotland to K. Edward A Touz ceux que cestes lettres verront ou orront c. To all those that these present letters shall see or heare we Iohn Comin of Badenaw c. Bicause that we at the faith and will of the most noble prince and our dearest lord Edward by the grace of God king ofEngland lord of Ireland and duke of Aquitaine doo vow and promise for vs and our heires vpon paine of bodie and goods and of all that we may haue that we line 40 shall serue him well and trulie against all men which may liue and die at all times when we shall be required or warned by our said lord the king of England or his heires and that we shall not know of any hurt to be doone to them but the same we shall let and impeach with all our power and giue them warning thereof and those things to hold and keepe we bind vs our heires and all our goods and further receiue line 50 an oth thereof vpon the holie euangelists and after all we and euerie of vs haue done homage vnto our souereigne lord the king ofEngland in words as followeth I become your liegeman of life members and earthlie honour against all men which may liue and die And the same our souereigne lord the king receiued this homage vnder this forme of words We receiue it for the land of the which you be now seized the line 60 right of vs or other saued and except the lands which Iohn Balioll sometime king of Scotland granted vnto vs after that we did deliuer vnto him the kingdome of Scotland if happilie he hath giuen to you any such lands Moreouer all we and euerie of vs by himselfe haue done fealtie to our said souereigne lord the king in these words I as a faithfull liege man shall keepe faith and loialtie vnto Edward king ofEngland and to his heires of life member and earthlie honor against all men which may liue and die and shall neuer for any person beare armour nor shall be of counsell nor in aid with any person against him or his heires in any case that may chance but shall faithfullie acknowledge and doo the seruice that belongeth to the tenements the which I claime to hold of him as God me helpe and all his saints In witnesse wherof these letters patents are made and signed with our seales Yeuen at Warke the foure and twentith of March in the 24 yeare of the reigne of our said lord the king of England Then was Iohn Warren earle of Surrey and Sussex made by king Edward warden of Scotland Hugh Cressingham treasurer and William Ormesbie high iustice whome the king commanded that he should call all those before him which held any lands of the crowne and to receiue of them in his name their homages and fealties Iohn Balioll the late king of Scotland was sent to London and had a conuenient companie of seruants appointed to attend him hauing licence to go any whither abroad so that he kept himselfe within the circuit of twentie miles néere to London Iohn Comin of Badenaw and Iohn Comin of Lowan and diuerse nobles of Scotland were brought into England on the south side of Trent being warned vpon paine of death not to returne into Scotland till the king had made an end of his wars with France After this at his returne into England king Edward held a parlement at saint Edmundsburie which began the morrow after the feast of All saints in which the citizens burgesses of good townes granted vnto him an eighth part of their goods and of the residue of the people a twelfth part The cleargie by reason of a constitution ordeined and constituted the same yeare by pope Boniface prohibiting vpon paine of excommunication that no talages nor other exactions should be leuied or exacted of the cleargie in any manner of wise by secular princes or to be paid to them of things that perteined to the church vtterlie refused to grant any manner of aid to the king towards the maintenance of his wars Wherevpon the king to the intent they should haue time to studie for a better answer deferred the matter to an other parlement to be holden on the morrow after the feast of saint Hilarie This yeare after the feast of the Epiphanie Elizabeth the kings daughter was married vnto king Iohn earle of Holland Humfrey de Bohun earle of Hereford and Essex was sent to conueie them into Holland there to take possession of the earledome as then descended vnto the said Iohn by the death of his father latelie before slaine by his owne subiects bicause he would haue disherited this Iohn and made a bastard sonne which he had to be his heire ¶ The day appointed for the parlement to be
and taken prisoners with a great number of their noblemen whereas they were in hope to haue gone awaie with the conquest and to haue had renowme line 20 for their reward Of which ouerthrow giuen to both these kings with the clemencie of king Edward in whose hands though their liues laie to be disposed as he list yet he was so far from violating the same that he shewed himselfe a woonderfull fauourer of their estates and in fine not onelie put them to their reasonable ransoms but restored them to their roialties from the which their sinister lot had deposed them Christopher Okland hath left this remembred Plantageneta duos reges iam illustris habebat line 30 Captiuos tenuit comites custodia mitis Multos ambabus claro regionibus ortos Sanguine quos saeuo bello cepere Britanni Attamen Eduardi viguit clementia regis Tanta tanta animo virtus innata sedebat Vt pretio pacto dimitteret aere redemptos In patriam ad propriae consanguinitatis amicos In this foure and thirtith yeare of king Edward men and cattell were destroied in diuerse places of this realme by lightening and tempest also houses line 40 were set on fier and burnt and manie strange and woonderfull sights seene ¶ The same yeare Edward prince of Wales married the countesse of Kent which before was wife vnto the lord Thomas Holland and before that she was also wife vnto the erle of Salisburie and diuorsed from him and wedded to the same lord Holland She was daughter vnto Edmund earle of Kent brother to king Edward the second that was beheaded in the beginning of this kings reigne as before yée haue heard And bicause line 50 the prince and shee were within degrees of consanguinitie forbidden to marrie a dispensation was gotten from the pope to remooue that let In this yeare also was a great death of people namelie of men for women were not so much subiect thereto This was called the second mortalitie bicause it was the second that fell in this kings daies This yeare also by the death of Richard fitz Rafe primat of Ardmach that departed this life in the court of Rome and also of Richard Kilminton deceassed line 60 here in England the discord that had continued for the space of three or foure yeares betwixt them of the cleargie on the one part and the foure orders of friers on the other part was now quieted and brought to end Moreouer this yeare appeared two castels in the aire of the which the one appeared to the southeast and the other in the south-southwest out of which castels about the houre of noone sundrie times were séene hosts of armed men as appeared to mans sight issuing foorth and that host which sailed out of the castell in the southeast seemed white and the other blacke They appeared as they should haue fought either against other and first the white had the vpper hâ—nd and after was ouercome and so vanished out of sight About the same time the souldiors which were discharged in France and out of wages by the breaking vp of the warres assembled togither and did much hurt in that realme as in the French histories yée may read Their cheefe leaders were Englishmen and Gascoignes subiects to the king of England The king assembled the states of his realme in parlement at Westminster in the feast of the Conuersion of S. Paule and there was declared vnto them the tenor and whole effect of the peace concluded betwixt England and France wherewith they were greatlie pleased and herevpon the nobles of the realme and such Frenchmen as were hostages came togither at Westminster church on the first sundaie of Lent next following and there such as were not alreadie sworne receiued the oth for performance of the same peace in a right solemne manner hauing the tenour of their oths written in certeine scrols and after they had taken their oths vpon the sacrament and masse booke they deliuered the same scrols vnto certeine notaries appointed to receiue and register the same The mortalitie yet during that noble duke Henrie of Lancaster departed this life on the éeuen of the Annunciation of our ladie and was buried at Leicester ¶ Iohn of Gant the fourth son to the king who had married his daughter the ladie Blanch as before yee haue heard succéeded him in that dutchie as his heire in right of the said ladie The same yeere also died the lord Reginold Cobham the lord Walter fitz Warren and thrée bishops Worcester London and Elie. This yeare vpon the fiftéenth day of Ianurie there rose such a passing wind year 1362 that the like had not béene heard of in manie yéeres before It began about euensong time in the south and that with such force that it ouerthrew and blew downe strong and mightie buildings as towers steeples houses and chimnies This outragious wind continued thus for the space of six or seauen daies whereby euen those buildings that were not ouerthrowne and broken downe were yet so shaken that they without reparing were not able long to stand After this followed a verie wet season namelie in the summer time and haruest so that much corne and haie was lost and spoiled for want of seasonable weather to gather in the same The lord Lionell the kings sonne went ouer into Ireland to be deputie to his father there and was created duke of Clarence and his brother Edmund was created earle of Cambridge also Edward prince of Wales was by his father king Edward inuested duke of Guien and did homage vnto his father for the same in like manner and forme as his father and other kings of England were accustomed to do for the said dutchie to the kings of France And afterwards about the feast of Candlemasse next insuing the said prince sailed into Gascoigne and arriued at Burdeaux taking vpon him the gouernment and rule of the countrie Moreouer this yeare the fiue first daies of Maie were kept roiall iusts in Smithfield by London the king and queene being present with a great multitude of the nobles and gentlemen of both the realms of England and France at which time came hither Spaniards Cipriots and Armenians requiring aid of the king against the infidels that sore molested their confines ¶ The staple of wols was this yeare remooued to Calis Also the sixtéenth of October a parlement began that was called at Westminster which continued till the feast daie of S. Brice on which daie the king at that time fiftie yeares then past was borne wherevpon as it were in the yeare of his iubile he shewed himselfe more gratious to his people granting pardon to offendors and reuoking outlawes Moreouer it was ordeined in this parlement that no maner of person of what estate or degrée soeuer he was the king the quéene and dukes onelie excepted should haue any purueiers of vittels nor should take vp any
within that if they would not send bread and wine foorth to vittell the host in that behalfe they would burne all their corne for doubt whereof the citizens sent foorth to the host six charets laden with as much bread and wine as they might carie Thus was their corne saued from destruction and the Englishmen by soft and easie iournies drew towards the citie of Trois in the which was the duke of Burgognie with the dukes of Burbon and Bar the earle of Ewe the lord Coucie sir Iohn de Uien high admerall of France and a great number of others of the French nobilitie They had made a bastide without the towne able to receiue a thousand men of armes but vpon the Englishmens approch to assault it they did forsake that strength and withdrew to the towne Sir Thomas Triuet was here made a baronet Also there were certeine new knights made as sir Peter Berton sir Iohn and sir Thomas Paulie or Paulet sir Iohn Stâ—ugulie sir Thomas Dortingues sir Iohn Uassecoque sir Thomas Brasie sir Iohn Brauin sir Henrie Uernier sir Iohn Colenile sir William Euerat sir Nicholas Stiugulie and sir Hugh Lunit The English host perceiuing the Frenchmen to withdraw into the towne drew togither and stood in order of battell for the space of two houres and then returned to their lodgings The next day they remooued to Maillerois le vicount neere vnto Sens and there they remained two daies and after drew into Gastinois and so into Beause They were coasted all the waie by a great power of men of war as many or more in number as they were themselues But the French king being a politike prince wiselie considered what losses the realme of France had susteined afore time by giuing battell to the Englishmen and therefore was fullie resolued that in no wise he would giue licence to his people to fight with the earle of Buckingham but thought better as he had learned by good experience to keepe his townes close against his enimies and so in the end to wearie them than by giuing battell to put things in hazard whereas he knew they could not take from him his countries by this kind of warre though they sore in damaged the same for a time There chanced manie small skirmishes amongst those that rode foorth to discouer the countrie but no notable incounter at all For the Englishmen in those daies were cats not to be catched without mittens as Iacob Meir in one place saith againe the French men were as warie how they aduentured to come néere them peraduenture for feare as in the reigne of king Edward the 3 as C.O. noteth saieng Contra aciem magnam tremebundo corde Valesus In campum adiunctum vicina coeÌ„gerat arua Non tamen Angligâ—nas aduersum est ausus aperto Tendere Marte feris confligere fortiter armis Onelie they sought how to inclose them vp in the countrie and to famish them that they might then fight with them at some great aduantage but still the English host passed forward holding on their voiage towards Britaine by Uandosme Pont Uolaine and so ouer the riuer of Sartre In this meane while the French king Charles the fift was taken with a sore sicknesse whereof he departed this life the same daie that the English armie passed ouer the riuer of Sartre which was on the six and twentith of September his brethren the dukes of Aniou Berrie Burbon and Burgognie were at Paris with him at the houre of his death where as a little before they had béene abroad in the countrie with their line 10 powers to defend the cities and townes of importance against the Englishmen and meant indeed if they could haue espied their aduantage and gotten licence thereto of the king to haue giuen their enimies battell But now they were otherwise occupied howbeit they had left their men abroad in the countrie to coast the Englishmen as they had doone before All the French power was assembled in the citie of Mans vnder the leading of the duke of Bar the lord Coucie and others line 20 In this meane while that the earle of Buckingham was passing through the realme of France the French and Spanish gallies did much mischéefe on the coast of England but about the latter end of Iune by a fléet of Englishmen of the west countries part of them were forced to retire and take harbour in an hauen in Ireland called Kingsale where being assailed of the Englishmen and Irishmen they were vanquished so that to the number of foure hundred of them were slaine and their chéefe capteins taken line 30 as Gonsalue de Uerse and his brother Iohn Martin de Motrigo Turgo lord of Morants also the lord of Reith Péers Martin of Uermew Iohn Modit of Uermew the seneshall of Wargarie the seneshall of S. Andrew Cornelis of S. Sebastiano Paschale de Biskey Iohn Martinis Sopogorge of S. Sebastiano and diuerse other There were taken foure of their barges with a ballenger and one and twentie English vessels recouered which they had robbed and taken awaie from line 40 their owners There scaped yet foure of their notable capteins froÌ„ the hands of our men Martin Grantz Iohn Peris Mantago Iohn Husce Gitario and one Garcias of S. Sebastiano so that the malice of those robbers ceased not For they with the French gallies still lieng on the seas when they espied anie aduantage would land their people and doo what mischeefe they could in taking preies and burning townes and villages although now and then they came short to their vessels againe losing sometimes line 50 an hundred sometimes fourescore that were ouertaken by the Englishmen that came foorth against them But among other inuasions which they made this summer on the coasts we find that they burnt the towne of Winchelsie put the abbat of Battell to flight with his people comming to succor that towne and tooke one of his moonks that was there in armor with the abbat ¶ Some write also that they burnt Rie Hastings and Portsmouth Finallie their boldnesse so farre increased that in August they entring line 60 with their gallies into the riuer of Thames came vp to Grauesend where they burnt the most part of the towne and on the other side of the riuer as well in Essex as Kent they burnt and spoiled diuerse places and with their prisoners and booties returned without receiuing anie hurt bringing with them to France both rich spoiles and good prisoners But to returne to the earle of Buckingham where we left The English armie drew still towards Britaine but with so small doubt of their aduersaries that they laie three or foure daies sometimes still in one place At their approching to the marches of Britaine they came to Uitrie a towne situate at the first entring into that countrie and from thence went to Chateau Briant and there rested whither came to them certeine knights
strange on the other part speciallie in such kind of misgouerned people for in that spoiling of the dukes house all the iewels plate and other rich line 30 and sumptuous furniture which they there found in great plentie they would not that any man should fare the better by it of a mite but threw all into the fire so to be consumed and such things as the fire could not altogither destroie as plate and iewels they brake and crashed in péeces throwing the same into the Thames One of them hauing thrust a faire siluer peece into his bosome meaning to conueie it awaie was espied of his fellowes who tooke him and cast both him and the péece into the fire saieng they line 40 might not suffer any such thing sith they professed themselues to be zealous of truth and iustice and not théeues nor robbers There were 32 of them that being gotten into the celler of the Sauoie where the dukes wines laie dranke so much of such swéete wine as they found there that they were not able to come foorth but with stones wood that fell downe as the house burned they were closed in so that out they could not get They laie there showting crieng seuen daies line 50 togither and were heard of manie but none came to helpe them and so finallie they perished Now after that these wicked people had thus destroied the duke of Lancasters house and done what they could deuise to his reproch they went to the temple and burnt the men of lawes lodgings with their bookes writings and all that they might lay hand vpon Also the house of saint Iohns by Smithfield they set on fire so that it burned for the space of seuen daies togither On Friday a great number of them estéemed line 60 to 20 thousand went to the manor of Heiburie that belonged vnto the lord of saint Iohns and setting fire on it sought vtterlie to destroie the whole buildings about it They were now diuided into thrée parts one vnder the leading of Iacke Straw tooke in hand to ruinate that house and an other number of them lay on mile end greene and the third companie kept vpon the tower hill and would not suffer anie vittels to be conueied into the tower where the king at that time was lodged and was put in such feare by those rude people that he suffered them to enter into the tower where they sought so narowlie for the lord chancelor that finding him in the chappell they drew him foorth togither with the lord treasuror and on the tower hill without reuerence of their estates and degrees with great noise and fell cries they stroke off their heads There were also beheaded at the same time by those rude people one of the kings seruants that was a sergeant at armes called Iohn Leg who had vsed himselfe somewhat extremelie in gathering vp of the pole monie as by one writer it appeareth Also to make vp the messe they beheaded a Franciscane Frier whom they had taken there at the same time for malice of the duke of Lancaster bicause he was verie familiar with him ¶ Some write that this frier was confessor and other say that he was physician to the king but what soeuer he was the commons chopped off his head to beare the other companie not sparing for anie respect that might be alledged in any of their behalfes On the same day also they beheaded manie others as well Englishmen as Flemings for no cause in the world but onelie to satisfie the crueltie of the commons that then were in their kingdome for it was a sport to them when they gat any one amongst them that was not sworne to them and séemed to mislike of their dooings or if they bare but neuer so little hatred to him streightwaies to plucke of his hood with such a yelling noise as they tooke vp amongst them and immediatlie to come thronging into the stréets and strike off his head Neither had they any regard to sacred places for breaking into the church of the Augustine friers they drew foorth thirteene Flemings and beheaded them in the open streets and out of the parish churches in the citie they tooke foorth seuentéene and likewise stroke off their heads without reuerence either of the church or feare of God But they continuing in their mischéefous purpose shewed their malice speciallie against strangers so that entring into euerie stréet lane and place where they might find them they brake vp their houses murthered them which they found within and spoiled their goods in most outragious manner Likewise they entered into churches as before ye haue heard into abbeies monasteries and other houses namelie of men of law which in semblable sort they ransacked They also brake vp the prisons of newgate and of both the counters destroied the books and set prisoners at libertie and also the sanctuarie-men of saint Martins le grand And so likewise did they at Westminster where they brake open the eschequer and destroied the ancient bookes and other records there dooing what they could to suppresse law and by might to beate downe equitie and right as it is said Tunc ius calcatur violentia cum dominatur They that entered the tower vsed themselues most presumptuouslie and no lesse vnreuerentlie against the princesse of Wales mother to the king for thrusting into hir chamber they offered to kisse hir and swasht downe vpon hir bed putting hir into such feare that she fell into a swoone and being taken vp and recouered was had to the water side and put into a barge conueied to the place called the quéenes wardrobe or the tower riall where she remained all that day and the night following as a woman halfe dead till the king came to recomfort hir It was strange to consider in what feare the lords knights gentlemen stood of the cruell procéedings of those rude base people For where there were six hundred armed men and as manie archers in the tower at that present there was not one that durst gainesaie their dooings Finallie when they had eased their stomachs with the spoiling burning and defacing of sundrie places they became more quiet and the king by the aduise of such as were then about him vpon good deliberation of counsell offered to them pardon and his peace with condition that they should cease from burning and ruinating of houses from killing and murthering of men and depart euerie man to his home without more adoo and there to tarrie for the kings charters confirmatorie of the same pardon The Essexmen were content with this offer as they that were desirous to see their wiues and children being waxen wearie of continuall trauell and paines which they were constreined to take The king went foorth vnto Mile end and there declared vnto the line 10 commons that they should haue charters made to them of his grant to make them all free And further that euerie
holie father the cardinall the noble prince the duke of Warwike and also the realme of France the duchie of Normandie Gascoigne and Guion Aniou and Maine were deliuered and lost by the meanes of the said traitors line 10 and our true lords knights and esquiers and manie a good yeoman lost and sold yer they went the which is great pitie to heare of the great and gréeuous losse to our souereigne lord and his realme Item desireth the said capteine and commons that all extortions vsed dailie among the common people might be laid downe that is to saie the gréene war the which is falselie vsed to the perpetuall destruction of the kings true commons of Kent Also the kings Bench the which is too gréefefull to the shire line 20 of Kent without prouision of our souereigne lord and his true councell And also in taking of wheat and other graines béefe mutton all other vittels the which is importable to the said commons without the bréefe prouision of our said souereigne lord and his true councell they maie no longer beare it And also vnto the statute of labourers and the great extortioners the which is to saie the false traitors Sleg Cromer Isle and Robert Est. These billes when the councell had well perused they did not onelie disalow and condemne them and the authors as proud and presumptuous but also persuaded the king rather to suppresse those rebels by force than by faire promises Wherevpon the king remoued from Westminster vnto Gâ—eenewich from whence he would haue sent certeine lords with a power to haue distressed the Kentishmen but the men said to their lords they would not fight against them that laboured to amend the common-weale line 40 wherefore the lords were driuen to leaue their purpose And bicause the Kentishmen cried out against the lord Saie the kings chamberline he was by the king committed to the Tower of London Then went the king againe to London within two dais after went against the Kentishmen with fiftéene thousand men well prepared for the war but the said Kentishmen fled the night before his comming into the wood countrie neere vnto Senocke Wherevpon the king returned againe to London line 50 The quéene that bare rule being of his retrait aduertised sent sir Humfreie Stafford knight and William his brother with manie other gentlemen to follow the Kentishmen thinking that they had fled but they were deceiued for at the first skirmish both the Staffords were slaine all their companie discomfited The kings armie by this time comen to Blackheath hearing of this discomfiture began to murmur amongst themselues some wishing the duke of Yorke at home to aid the capteine his cousine line 60 sâ—me vndutifullie coueting the ouerthrow of the king and his councell other openlie crieng out on the quéene and hir complices This rumor published abroad caused the king and certeine of his councell for the appeasing thereof to commit the lord Saie treasuror of England to the Tower of London and if other against whome like displeasure was borne had beene present they had béene likewise committed Iacke Cade vpon victorie against the Staffords apparelled himselfe in sir Humfries briganâ—ine set full of guilt nailes and so in some glorie returned againe toward London diuerse idle and vagarant persons out of Sussex Surreie and other places still increasing his number Thus this glorious capteine garded with a multitude of rusticall people came againe to the plaine of Blackheath there stronglie incamped himselfe to whome were sent from the king the archbishop of Canturburie and Humfrie duke of Buckingham to common with him of his gréefes and requests These lords found him sober in talke wise in reasoning arrogant in hart and stiffe in opinion as who that by no means would grant to dissolue his armie except the king in person would come to him and assent to the things he would require The K. vpon the presumptuous answers requests of this villanous rebell begining asmuch to doubt his owne meniall seruants as his vnknowen subiects which spared not to speake that the capteins cause was profitable for the common-wealth departed in all hast to the castell of Killingworth in Warwikeshire leauing onlie behind him the lord Scales to kéepe the Tower of London The Kentish capteine being aduertised of the kings absence came first into Southwarke and there lodged at the white hart prohibiting to all his retinue murder rape and robberie by which colour of well meaning he the more allured to him the harts of the common people After that he entred into London cut the ropes of the draw bridge strooke his sword on London stone saieng Now is Mortimer lord of this citie And after a glosing declaration made to the maior touching the cause of his thither comming he departed againe into Southwarke and vpon the third daie of Iulie he caused sir Iames Fines lord Saie and treasuror of England to be brought to the Guildhall and there to be arreigned who being before the kings iustices put to answer desired to be tried by his péeres for the longer delaie of his life The capteine perceiuing his dilatorie plee by force tooke him from the officers and brought him to the standard in Cheape and there before his confession ended caused his head to be striken off and pitched it vpon an high pole which was openlie borne before him thorough the stréets And not content herewith he went to Mile end and there apprehended sir Iames Cromer then shiriffe of Kent and sonne in law to the said lord Saie causing him likewise without confession or excuse heard to be beheaded and his head to be fixed on a pole and with these two heads this bloudie wretch entred into the citie againe and as it were in a spite caused them in euerie stréet to kisse togither to the great detestation of all the beholders After this succéeded open rapine and manifest robberie in diuerse houses within the citie and speciallie in the house of Philip Malpas alderman of London and diuerse other ouer and beside ransoming and fining of diuers notable merchants for the suertie of their liues and goods as Robert Horne alderman which paid fiue hundred marks He also put to execution in Southwarke diuerse persons some for breaking his ordinance and other being of his old acquaintance lest they should bewraie his base linage disparaging him for his vsurped surname of Mortimer The maior and other the magistrates of London perceiuing themselues neither to be sure of goods nor of life well warranted determined to repell and keepe out of their citie such a mischieuous caâ—tife and his wicked companie And to be the better able so to doo they made the lord Scales and that renowmed capteine Matthew Gough priuie both of their intent and enterprise beséeching them of their helpe and furtherance therein The lord Scales promised them his aid with shooting off the artillerie in the Tower and Matthew Gough was by him appointed to assist
Calis about the middle of Maie The lord Herbert called sir Charles Summerset line 50 lord chamberleine to the king in the end of the same moneth followed the said earle of Shrewesburie with six thousand men in whose companie were the erls of Northumberland Percie of Kent Greie of Wilshire Stafford the lord Dudleie the lord Delaware and his sonne sir Thomas West sir Edward Husseie sir Edward Dimmocke sir Dauid Owen with manie other knights esquiers and gentlemen After they had soiourned certeine daies in Calis and that all their necessaries were readie they issued foorth of the towne so to begin their line 60 campe And first the earle of Shrewesburie and his companie tooke the field and after him the lord Herbert with his retinues in manner of a rere-ward Then followed that valiant knight sir Rice ap Thomas with fiue hundred light horssemen and archers on horssebacke who ioined himselfe to the fore-ward a gentleman of such spirit and hardinesse that he is named the floure of the Welshmen as the poet saith Ricius Thomas flos Cambrobritannûm These two lords thus imbattelled did remooue the seuentéenth of Iune to Sandifield on the eightéenth they came to Marguison on the further side of the water as though they would haue passed streightwaies to Bullongne But they meaning an other thing the next daie tooke an other waie and so coasted the countrie with such diligence that the two and twentith of Iune they came before the strong citie of Terrouan and pight their tents a mile from the towne The same night as certeine capteins were in councell within the lord Herberts tent the baron Carew was slaine with a bullet shot out of the towne which sudden aduenture much dismaied the assemblie but the lord Herbert comforted them with manlie words and so his death was passed ouer All the countrie of Artois and Picardie fortified their holds and made shewes as the English armie passed but they durst not once assaile them The citie of Terrouan was stronglie fortified with walles rampiers bulworks and large ditches The lord Pontremie was gouernour within it hauing with him six hundred horssemen and 2500 Almans besides the inhabitants The walles towers were full of ordinance which oftentimes did much displeasure to the Englishmen The earle of Shrewesburie planted his siege on the northwest side of the towne and the lord Herbert on the east side causing great trenches to be made to couer his people withall for on that side there was no hill to succour or defend him The Frenchmen and Almans would diuerse times issue out but the archers were euer readie to beat them into the citie againe The earle of Shrewesburie got into an hollow ground or vallie néere to the citie and likewise the lord Herbert by reason of his trenches approched likewise verie néere to the ditches The seuen and twentith daie of Iune being mondaie sir Nicholas Uaux and sir Edward Belknap hauing with them foure hundred and thrée score men set from Guisnes to conduct foure and twentie carts laden with vittels towards the siege at Terrouan but the duke of Uandosme lieutenant of Picardie with eight hundred horssemen set on them as they passed through Ard and found them so out of order that notwithstanding all that the English capteins could doo to bring men into arraie it would not be for the Frenchmen set on so readilie that they kept the Englishmen in sunder Yet the horssemen of Guisnes being not past foure and twentie in all tooke their speares and ioined with the Frenchmen right manfullie and likewise thrée score archers shot freshlie at their enimies but the Frenchmen were so manie in number that they obteined the place slue eight gentlemen and diuerse archers Sir Nicholas Uaux and sir Edward Belknap fled toward Guisnes Thus were the vittels lost and yet the Frenchmen went not awaie with cleere hands for those few archers that closed togither shot so egerlie that they slue and hurt diuerse Frenchmen and on the field laie foure score and seuen great horsses which died there in the place and neuer went further On the fiftéenth day of Iune the K. departed from Gréenewich taking his iourneie towards Douer whither he came by easie iournies and the quéene in his companie After he had rested a season in the castell of Douer and taken order for the rule of the realme in his absence he tooke leaue of the queene and entring his ship the last daie of Iune being the daie of saint Paule he sailed ouer to Calis where he was receiued with great ioy by the deputie sir Gilbert Talbot and all other there At his entring into Calis all the banished men entred with him and were restored to the libertie of the towne The king laie in Calis a certeine time till all his prouisions were readie but the armie laie in campe at Newnham bridge On the one and twentith of Iulie the kings maiestie passed foorth of Calis and tooke the field diuiding the armie which he had there with him into three battels The lord Lisle marshall of the host was capteine of the fore-ward and vnder him thrée thousand men sir Richard Carew with three hundred kept on the right side of the same fore-ward as a wing thereto and the lord Darcie with other three hundred men was a wing on the left hand The fore-riders of this battell were the Northumberland men on light geldings The earle of Essex was lieutenant generall of the speares and sir Iohn Pechie was vicegouernour line 10 of all the horssemen and sir Iohn Burdet standard-bearer to the kings spears An eight hundred Almans went on a plumpe by themselues before the kings battell and the duke of Buckingham with six hundred men was on the kings left hand equall with the Almans in like maner as sir Edward Poinings was on the right hand with other six hundred men equall with the Almans In the kings battell where was the standard of the armes of England borne by sir Henrie Guilford line 20 there were thrée thousand the lord of Aburgauenie with eight hundred men was wing on the right hand and sir William Compton with the retinue of the bishop of Winchester and of maister Woolseie the kings almoner being in number eight hundred was in manner of a rere-gard Sir Anthonie Oughtred and sir Iohn Neuill with the kings speares that followed were foure hundred and so the whole armie conteined eleuen thousand and three hundred men The number of the cariages were thirtéene hundred line 30 and the number of them that attended the same were ninetéene hundred men and all these were reckoned in the battell but of good fighting men souldiers appointed for the purpose there were not full nine thousand In this order the king with his armie marched forward through the confines of his enimies to the siege of Terrouan entring into the French ground the fiue and twentith of Iulie being mondaie On the morrow after
as the armie marched forward by negligence of the carters that mistooke line 40 the waie a great curtall called the Iohn Euangelist was ouerthrowne in a déepe pond of water and could not quicklie be recouered The king being aduertised that the Frenchmen approched to fight with him left the gun bicause the maister carpenter vndertooke to weie it shortlie out of the water set forward passing on by Tornohan which he left on his right hand and a little beyond pitched downe his field abiding for his enimies the which as he was informed were not far off On the line 50 morrow after being wednesdaie the Reliefe of the speares brought word that they had ascried the French armie comming forward in order of battell to the number of eleuen thousand footmen and foure thousand horssemen Capteins of this armie were the lord de la Palice the lord de Priennes the duke of Longuile the earle of S. Paule the lord of Floringes the lord of Cleremont Richard de la Poole a banished man son to Iohn duke of Suffolke They came within two miles of the kings armie and there line 60 the footmen staled and came no further But certeine of the horssemen to the number of thrée thousand came forward and at the end of a wood shewed themselues in ope◠〈◊〉 of the English armie And thus they stood countenancing the Englishmen Some of the northerne prickers made to them and in skirmishing with them tooke some of them prisoners About noone the same daie that valiant Welsh knight sir Rice ap Thomas with his retinue of horssemen being departed from the siege of Terrouan came to the king and streightwaies was sent to the earle of Essex which with two hundred speares was laid in a stale if the Frenchmen had come neerer When they were ioined togither they drew about the hill hauing with them sir Thomas Guilford with two hundred archers on horssebacke meaning to set on the Frenchmen which perceiuing that and doubting least more companie had followed they suddenlie drew backe and ioined them with their great battell Then the earle of Essex and the English horssemen followed them till they came néere to the armie of France and then scaled and sent foorth light horssemen to view the demeanor of the Frenchmen When the Frenchmen of armes were returned to their battell then both the horssemen and footmen withdrew in order of battell and still the English currors followed them for the space of three leagues and then returned to the earle making report to him of that they had séene who then brake vp his stale and came to the king declaring to him how the Frenchmen were gone backe This was called the drie wednesdaie for the daie was woonderfull hot and the king with his armie stood in order of battell from six of the clocke in the morning till three of the clocke in the after noone And some died for lacke of moisture and generallie euerie man was burned about the mouth with heat of the stomach for drinke lacked and water was not neere After this the king remooued toward Terrouan and as he was setting forward the lord Walon of Flanders came to him with his horssemen which were alreadie in the kings wages As the armie passed by negligence the same daie in a lane was ouerthrowne one of the kings bombards of iron called the red gun and there left The king lodged that night two miles from saint Omers on the north side of the towne On the thursdaie being the eight and twentith of Iulie the maister carpenter with an hundred carpenters and labourers without knowledge of the marshall went to weie vp the great gun that was in the pond as ye haue heard and by force of engins drew it vp and carted it readie to bring awaie but suddenlie there came an eight hundred Frenchmen with speares crossebowes and handguns which set on the labourers so fiercelie that notwithstanding their manfull defense the most part of them were slaine and the residue taken and both they and the péece of ordinance conueied to Bullongne The Frenchmen glad of this chance assembled a great number to fetch the other gun which laie yet in the lane But the lord Berners being capteine of the pioners and hearing all these things prepared to recouer that gun and so in the morrow ment to fetch it There were appointed to go backe to see him safe conducted the earle of Essex with his companie of speares sir Rice ap Thomas with his retinue and sir Iohn Neuill with the Northumberland men The Almans also were commanded to retire backe to the succours of them that were gone for the gun The Almans went foorth till they came within two miles of the place where the gun laie and further they would not go The Frenchmen to the number of nine or ten thousand men as some estéemed were abroad and came toward the place where the Englishmen were carting the peece of ordinance The Northumberland horssemen hauing espied them gaue knowledge to the residue of the Englishmen who prepared themselues to defend their ground against the enimies and the earle of Essex sent to the lord Walon willing him with his companie to come to his aid but the lord Walon sent word againe that he was come to serue the king of England more than for one daie and therefore he wished that all the Englishmen would returne sith that with the great power of France they were not able to match This answer was much displeasant to the earle of Essex and the other capteins In this mâ—ane time the foreriders of the French part were come to the hands of the Englishmen and so they fell in skirmish very hotlie but at length all things considered and speciallie the small number of the Englishmen being not aboue seuen hundred horssemen it was thought best that they should returne and follow the gun which they had sent forward Herevpon they retreited in order and not in anie flieng manner still following the gun The Frenchmen perceiuing that pricked forward to the number line 10 of two thousand horssemen came iust to the backs of the Englishmen who therewith cast about and made returne to the Frenchmen Sir William Tiler and sir Iohn Sharpe were the first that charged and after all the other Englishmen The Frenchmen fled immediatlie so fast backe that happie was he that might be formost The whole host séeing their horssemen thus had in chase suddenlie returned The earle of Essex withdrew to an hill and there caused his trumpet to blow to the standard for feare of subtile line 20 dealing and when his men were come in and gathered togither he returned On the same daie being fridaie the nine and twentith of Iulie the king came to Arkes there incamped whither the earle of Essex came to him and declared what had beene doone that daie the king thanking him and other the capteins for their paines and diligence
might make account of and further to haue the armor and weapons séene and viewed Nothing left he vndoone that tended to the foreséeing and preuenting of a mischiefe to insue line 10 which in a prince is counted a vertue because such prouidence and circumspection is reputed no lesse in a priuat ordinarie man as the poet Plautus saith Virtus est vbi occasio admonet dispicere Sir William Forman knight at that present maior of London was commanded to certifie the names of all the able men within the citie and liberties thereof betwéene the ages of thrée score and of sixtéene with the number of armors and weapons of all kinds of sorts Wherevpon the said maior and his brethren ech one in his ward by the oth of the line 20 common councell and constable tooke the number of men armor and weapons And after well considering of the matter by view of their bookes they thought it not expedient to admit the whole number certified for apt and able men and therefore assembling themselues againe they chose forth the most able persons and put by the residue speciallie such as had no armor nor for whom anie could be prouided But when they were crediblie aduertised by line 30 Thomas Cromwell lord priuie seale to whome the citie was greatlie beholden that the king himselfe would see the people of the citie muster in a conuenient number and not to set forth all their power but to leaue some at home to kéepe the citie then eftsoons euerie alderman repaired to his ward and there put aside all such as had iacks cotes of plate of maile and brigandines and appointed none but such as had white armor except such as should beare morish pikes which ware no armor but sculles and line 40 there was no stranger although he were a denisine permitted to be in this muster Euerie man being of anie abilitie prouided him selfe a cote of white silke and garnished their basenets with turues like caps of silke set with owches furnished with chaines of gold and feathers or caused their armor to be guilt and likewise their halberds and pollaxes Some and especiallie certeine goldsmiths had their whole armor of siluer bullion The lord maior the recorder the aldermen and euerie line 50 other officer beside were gorgeouslie trimmed as for their degrees was thought séemelie The maior had sixteene tall fellowes on foot attending on him with guilt halberds apparelled in white silke doublets and their hose and shooes were likewise white cut after the Almaine guise pounsed and pulled out with red sarsenet their ierkins were of white leather cut and chains about their necks with feathers and brooches in their caps The recorder and euerie alderman had about him foure halberders trimmed line 60 also in warlike sort The chamberleine of the citie the councellors aldermens deputies were appointed to be wiflers on horssebacke which aloft on their armor ware white damaske cotes mounted on good horsses well trapped with great chaines about their necks and proper iauelins or battell axes in their hands and caps of veluet richlie trimmed The wiflers on foot being in number foure hundred proper light persons were clad in white ierkins of leather cut with white hose and shooes euerie man with a iauelin or slaughsword in his hands to kéepe the people in arraie They had chaines about their necks and fethers in their caps The minstrels were in white with the armes of the citie and so was euerie other person at this muster without anie diuersitie the lord maior recorder and aldermen onelie excepted who had crosses of veluet or satin pirled with gold The standard bearers were the tallest men of euerie ward for whome were made thirtie new standards of the deuise of the citie beside baners Euerie alderman mustred his own ward in the fields to sée that euerie man were in furniture prouided as was requisite The eight of Maie being the daie appointed for to shew themselues before the king euerie alderman in order of battell with those of his ward came into the fields at Mile end and then all the gunners seuered themselues into one place the pikes into another and the archers into an other and likewise the bilmen and there cast themselues in rings and other formes of battell which was a beautifull sight to behold for all the fields from white Chapell to Mile end and from Bednall greene to Ratcliffe Stepnie were all couered with armour men and weapons and especiallie the battell of pikes séemed to be as it had béene a great forrest Then was euerie part diuided into thrée battels a for-ward a midle-ward and a rere-ward About seauen of the clocke marched forward the light péeces of ordinance with stone and powder After them followed the drums and fifes and immediatlie after them a guidon of the armes of the citie Then followed master Sadler capteine of the gunners on horssebacke armed and in a cote of veluet with a chaine of gold and foure halberders about him apparelled as before is recited Then followed the gunners foure in a ranke euerie one going fiue foot in sunder which shot altogither in diuerse places verie liuelie and in speciallie before the kings maiestie which at that time sat in his new gatehouse at his palace of Westminster where he viewed all the whole companie In like maner passed the other companies of all the three battels in good and séemelie order The foremost capteine at nine of the clocke in the morning by the little conduit came and entered into Paules churchyard and from thense directlie to Westminster and so through the sanctuarie and round about the parke of S. Iames and vp into the field comming home through Holborne and as the first capteine entered againe to the little conduit the last of the muster entered Paules churchyard which was then about foure of the clocke in the afternoone The number beside the wiflers and of other waiters was fiftéene thousand ¶ The eight of Iulie Griffith Clearke vicar of Wandsworth with his chapleine and his seruant frier Waire were all foure hanged and quartered at S. Thomas Waterings The tenth of Iulie sir Adrian Fortescue and Thomas Dingleie were beheaded The ninth of September the nunnerie of Clerkenwell and diuerse others were suppressed This yeare the sixtéenth of September came to London duke Frederike of Baniere the Palsgraue of the Rhine and the eightéenth of the same moneth came to London the marshall of Hans Frederike prince elector of Saxonie and the chancellor of William duke of Cleue Gulicke Gelderland and Berghen The Palsgraue was receiued and conducted to Windsore by the duke of Suffolke and the other were accompanied with other noble men and the thrée and twentith of the same moneth they all came to Windsore where eight daies togither they were continuallie feasted and had pastime shewed them in hunting and other pleasures so much as might be The Palsegraue shortlie after departed homewards
durst not to represse the rages of the people which they might haue done so therof also insued such a scab as passed their cure and such a fire as they were not able to quench For the commons hauing now their willes were set vpon a pin that the game was theirs and that they had woone the garland before they had runne the race nothing forecasting what might insue nor yet accounting what follie it is to triumph before the victorie Wherfore they assemble confederat themselues throughout the whole shire in great troops and companies and doo associat and flocke vnto them the Cornish people minding to ioine togither and foolishlie to mainteine what rashlie they had begun The king and councell then occupied in the weightie causes concerning the state of Scotland being aduertised of this towards rebellion respecting the speedie redresse thereof sent foorthwith for sir Peter Carew knight who then was in Lincolneshire and for sir Gawen Carew who was then attendant at the court and to them commandement was giuen that foorthwith and with all spéed they should hasten and depart into Deuon and there to vse by the aduise of the iustices all the best meanes and waies that they might for the appeasing of this rebellion quieting of the people and pacifieng of the countrie and to cause euerie man quietlie to returne to his home and to refer the causes of their griefs and complaints if they had anie vnto the king and councell and if they then refused so to doo they to vse such other good means and waies as might be for the suppressing of them And the councell being dailie more and more aduertised that these begun rebellions did more and more increase and doubting of the sequele thereof by reason that in other places of the realme the like tumults were begun though not for the like causes doo direct and giue an order to the lord Russell then lord priuie seale and after earle of Bedford that he also should follow and dispatch himselfe into Deuon and he had a commission to deale in such order as he might best doo for the pacifieng of the said tumults and vprores The foresaid two knights hauing receiued their commission vnder the kings hand came in post into the countrie and making their repaire to this citie doo foorthwith send for sir Péers Courtneie then shiriffe and the iustices of the peace of the countrie and vnderstanding that a great companie of the commons were assembled at Crediton which is a towne distant about seauen miles from Excester and that among them were the Sampford men who were the chiefe of them tooke councell aduise what was best to be doone and what waie méetest to be taken In the end it was concluded that the said sir Peter and sir Gawen with others should ride to Crediton there to haue conference and spéeches with the said commons and to vse all the good waies and meanes they might to pacifie appease them they then supposing and being persuaded that by good spéeches and gentle conferences they should haue béene able to haue compassed and persuaded the said commons But the people being by some secret intelligence aduertised of the comming of the gentlemen towards them and they fullie resolued not to yéeld one iote from their determinations but to mainteine their cause taken in hand doo arme and make themselues strong with such armors and furnitures as they had they intrench the high waies and make a mightie rampire at the townes end and fortifie the same as also the barns next adioining to the said rampires with men and munition hauing persed the walles of the barns with loopes and holes for their shot The foresaid gentlemen knowing nothing hereof line 10 rode on their iourneie and being come almost to the towne they were aduertised how the waies were stopped and rampired and that they could not ride into the towne Whervpon they alighted from their horsses and after a little conference had they agréed to go into the towne on foot nothing thinking lesse that they should be stopped or denied to go in on foot But when they came to the rampires they found the contrarie for they not onelie were denied to come néere the rampire but vtterlie were refused to be talked withall no offers of persuasions nor motions line 20 of conference at all could be allowed For the sun being in cancer the midsummer moone at full their minds were imbrued in such follies and their heads caried with such vanities that as the man of Athens they would heare no man speake but themselues and thought nothing well said but what came out of their owne mouths The gentlemen vpon such checks taking the matter in euill part to be so vnreuerentlie and discourteouslie intreated with one consent doo agree to line 30 make waie ouer the rampire But in the aduenture thereof they were so galled both by them which kept the rampires and speciallie by such as were within the barnes that they were faine to retire and giue place with the losse of some and the hurt of manie In which distresse a certeine seruing man named Fox and reteining to sir Hugh Pollard suddenlie set one of the barnes on fire wherevpon not onelie such as were therein but all they also which were in the rampires fled and ran awaie And then the gentlemen line 40 hauing recouered the rampire went into the towne but there they found none except a few poore and old people the residue trusting better to their héeles than to their armes were fled to a further place and then they returned againe to Excester without anie thing doone The noise of this fire and burning was in post hast and as it were in a moment carried and blazed abroad throughout the whole countrie and the common line 50 people vpon false reports and of a gnat making an elephant noised and spread it abroad that the gentlemen were altogither bent to ouer-run spoile and destroie them And in this rage as it were a swarme of wasps they cluster themselues in great troops and multitudes some in one place and some in an other fortifieng and intrenching themselues as though the enimie were readie to inuade and assaile them And among other places one was at a village belonging to the lord Russell named S. Marie Clift distant from Excester about two miles line 60 where the commons of the countrie thereabout had begun to fortifie the towne for their defense safetie The cause and pretense of their dooings herein was not onelie the burning of the barnes at Crediton aforesaid which all the commons generallie did vse for a cloke of this their rising and rebellion but this one thing also increased their disposition It happened that a certeine gentleman named Walter Raleigh dwelling not far from thense as he was vpon a side holie daie riding from his house to Excester ouertooke an old woman going to the parish church of saint Marie
verie small gard about him he liued in more feare than he was feared for the rebels dailie increased and his companie decreased and shrunke awaie and he not altogither assured of them which remained Wherefore distrusting himselfe by a false rumor being aduertised that the citie was taken in the possession of the rebels as also how that there was a new sturre or rebellion begun about Sarisburie he tooke aduise and counsell of the gentlemen and such as were with him what were best to be doone The gentlemen of Dorsetshire were of the mind and gaue him aduise that it were best for him to returne into Dorsetshire and there to remaine for a time because it was a place of a more safetie vntill such time as he were better prouided And accordinglie the next daie following he tooke his iournie rode backe againe with the said Dorsetshire gentlemen Sir Peter Carew then being at Mohorosoton and aduertised hereof tooke his horsse and came against the said lord Russell met him vpon Blacke downe where was a long conference betweene them both and in the end he so persuaded the lord and with such pithie reasons he caried him that leauing his former determination he dooth returne againe into Honiton where he continued thenceforth sauing one night spent at Oterie saint Marie where as it fell out he was in more feare than perill At his being line 10 in Honiton and dailie waiting and looking for the promised helpe and supplie which came not he was in an agonie of a heauie chéere not onelie for the want of the men monie which he had long in vaine looked for but also because he had spent all that he had brought with him and could not tell how otherwise to helpe and prouide to supplie his present need but as it fell out all happened for the best For it chanced that there were then three merchants of the citie following and attending vpon him Thomas Prestwood notlong before maior of line 20 the citie Iohn Bodlie and Iohn Periam men of great wealth These men vnderstanding of the heauinesse and griefe of his lordship make their resort vnto him and promise to helpe and relieue his agonie and want and forthwith did procure vpon their credit from the merchants of Bristow Linne Tawnton and elsewhere such a masse of monie as which when he had receiued his griefe was eased For forthwith he so prouided and furnished himselfe with such necessaries and with a greater number of line 30 men that he was now in the better safetie as also the better able to incounter with the enimie and it was not long after but that he had a further supplie from the king euen to his content And being now somewhat reuiued newes was brought vnto him that the rebels vnderstanding of his distressed state were comming and marching toward Honiton to assaile him and were come as far as Fenington bridge which is about thrée miles Wherevpon he tooke aduise with sir Peter Carew sir Gawen Carew line 40 others what were best to be doone And in the end after manie spéeches it was concluded that they should march towards them and giue the onset vpon them accordinglie without further delaies or much talke it was doone out of hand For vpon the next morning being a holie daie they set forth and came to the bridge aforesaid where the rebels were indéed some at the bridge but the greatest companie in a medow beneath the bridge who as soone as line 50 they perceiued the lord Russell and the gentlemen with all their troope to be come they make themselues readie to the fight But the riuer the bridge being betwéene them the lord Russell vseth all the policies that he can how to recouer the bridge which by bold aduenturing he did in the end but with the hurt of sundrie of his companie amongst whome sir Gawen Carew was one being hurt with an arrow in the arme And hauing recouered the bridge and the riuer line 60 all the rebels such as were escaped were gathered togither in a medow néere adioining in the lower side of the bridge vpon whome they so fiercelie followed and gaue the onset that though not without good store of blowes and bloudshed they in the end gaue the enimie the ouerthrow and had the vpper hand And thinking that the victorie was cleere with them and that the enimie was cleane gone the souldiers and seruingmen gaue themselues all to the spoile and being in the middle of their game and they nothing thinking lesse than of anie more enimies to be comming towards euen suddenly march towards a new crue of Gornishmen to the number of two hundred or two hundred and fortie persons vnder the conduct of one Robert Smith of saint Germans in Cornewall gentleman and who taking these spoilers napping manie of them paied deerelie for their wares The lord Russell forthwith setteth all his companie in good araie as the others did the like and gaue the onset vpon them betwéene whome the fight for the time was verie sharpe and cruell For the Cornishmen were verie lustie and fresh and fullie bent to fight out the matter neuerthelesse in the end they were ouerthrowne and their capteine whose combe was cut sheweth a faire paire of héeles and fled awaie In these two fights there were reported to be slaine about thrée hundred rebels which were verie tall men lustie and of great courage and who in a good cause might haue doone better seruice The lord Russels companie followed the chase neere thrée miles he himselfe then throughlie minded and bent to haue passed through to the citie But one Ioll his foole who was then in hast come from Honiton and where he had heard as also by the waie as he came did heare bels ringing in sundrie parish churches and supposing the same to be alarum came with a foule mouth to my lord and cried that all the countrie behind him were vp and comming vpon him Which his report considering the cruell fights past was credited and thought that a new companie was in preparing to follow the former quarels Wherevpon they all retired and returned againe to Honiton and from thense his lordship sent his comfortable letters secretlie by a boy apointed and accustomed for the same vnto the maior of his successe as also aduertising him of his determination that he would be shortlie with him for the deliuerance of the citie Which letters the citie being then but in a doubtfull and dismaied estate came in verie good season and yet in the end scarselie credited by some men because his comming was not so spéedie as was looked for Within verie short time after this ouerthrowe was giuen the lord Greie of Wilton with a crue of horssemen and one Spinola an Italian with three hundred shot came to my lord who being aduertised of the ouerthrow of the enimie and that there were slaine about three hundred persons of them
the assault which continued for the space of an houre and a halfe the French shot off their flankers and mainteined their shot from the wals so thicke that it seemed a verie hell for the time line 60 They also hurled downe ouer the wals vpon the assailants heads great plentie of stones logs and mightie péeces of timber which did much hurt to the Englishmen and Scots that forced themselues to clime vp But yet neuerthelesse manie there were that entred the towne in sundrie places of the which some came backe againe although others were beaten downe and slaine To conclude at length all that escaped with life were forced to retire with the losse of seauen or eight score Englishmen some haue said two hundred which were slaine outright beside those that were wounded being in number at the least two or three hundred and amongst other there were diuer se capteins and gentlemen that were hurt as sir Thomas Hesketh master Sutton master Newport master Conweie capteine Wood Thomas Fitton with others Upon the repulse thus giuen to our men by the French they aduanced and set vp fouretéene ensignes presentlie about the towne and continued otherwise quiet all that daie Wednesdaie the eight of Maie in the afternoone sir George Howard and sir Richard Lée departed towards Barwike with certeine companies of horsmen for their safe conduction Thursdaie the ninth of Maie the Frenchmen wrought verie earnestlie within the towne to fortifie the necessarie places and repare the breaches euen in the face of the English ordinance which went off diuerse times and did them much hurt The same daie also the French had manned to the sea wards a bote fraught with fiftie harquebusiers meaning to conueie them ouer to Insketh but the English ships discouering them prepared certeine botes to encounter them whereof they being aware returned Fridaie the tenth of Maie master Inglebie capteine Pickman and capteine Browne came to the campe from Barwike with a supplie of foure hundred and fiftie souldiors The same daie about ten of the clocke at night there chanced a brall to fall out among the Scots that watched in the trenches néerest vnto the towne of Leith on the west side insomuch that one of them fell to and killed an other which disorder being perceiued of the French within Leith they issued out and meant to haue vsed the vantage but the Englishmen that watched néere vnto the Scots staied the fraie and did not onelie bring them to quiet but also put the Frenchmen to flight On sundaie the twelfe of Maie about midnight the Frenchmen to the number of two hundred sallied foorth of the towne minding to giue a camisado to the Englishmen who kept watch that night in the trenches at the westside of Montpelham but they were descried and certeine of them killed and so had the repulse Wednesdaie the fiftéenth of Maie sir Francis Leake came to the campe with a supplie of fiue hundred men from Barwike Thursdaie the sixteenth of Maie towards night the Frenchmen to the number of one hundred footmen and thirtie horssemen came abroad and shewed themselues verie braue skirmishing with the Englishmen at the west end of their towne Tuesdaie the one and twentith of Maie about seauen of the clocke at night there issued foorth of Leith six horssemen and one hundred footmen harquebusiers marching toward Montpelham to offer skirmish Wherevpon capteine Uaughan went foorth to them verie orderlie and skirmished with them a prettie while and in the meane time off went the great ordinance on both sides In the end the Frenchmen were driuen to retire into the towne for the Englishmen shewed themselues verie egre and valiantlie charged their enimies put them to retire and chased them in at their gates to the which they followed them right hardilie The same night maister Francis Summerset and other capteins were appointed to kéepe a â—ort built aboue the campe and now finished tooke name of him being capteine thereof and was after called Summersets mount The same daie a souldiour of capteine Druries band was hanged for going to Edenburgh contrarie to a proclamation inhibiting anie soldiour so to doo without speciall licence Wednesdaie the two and twentith of Maie sir Peter Carew came to the campe being sent from the court Thursdaie the foure and twentith of Maie at seuen of the clocke at night the French sallied foorth to the number of two hundred footmen and twentie horssemen at the reléefe of the warders when the watch should be set meaning as it appeared to haue woone the trenches from the Englishmen Wherevpon a sore skirmish followed diuerse slaine and manie hurt on both parties yet in the end the Frenchmen were driuen home by plaine force This was at the west side of the towne where they had fortified towards the sea The same daie the Frenchmen of Dunbar tooke an English hoie laden with double béere béefe oxen line 10 and sâ—itches of bacon Saturdaie the eight of Iune sir Iohn Neuill with three hundred men capteine Bridges and capteine Drurie with other thrée hundred set from Barwike towards the campe where they arriued on mondaie the tenth of Iune on which daie the queene Dowager departed this life The thirtéenth of Iune sir William Cicill principall secretarie to the queenes maiestie and doctor Wotton deane of Canturburie and Yorke came to Barwike appointed commissioners on hir said maiesties line 20 behalfe to treat of an accord with the conte de Randon and the bishop of Ualence commissioners sent for that purpose from the French king and his wife Marie queene of Scotland The fouretéenth of Iune being fridaie a certeine number of Frenchmen came foorth of Leith to gather cockles on the sands towards Montpelham which the Englishmen perceiuing set vpon them slue thréescore and ten and tooke sixtéene of them prisoners On sundaie the sixtéenth of Iune the fore remembred line 30 commissioners came to Edenburgh and as master secretarie and doctor Wotton passed the English forts and campe they were saluted with a gallant peale of the harquebusiers that shot off their harquebusies verie liuelie Mondaie the seuentéenth of Iune about eight of the clocke an abstinence of warre was concluded warning being giuen by the discharging of two péeces of the great artillerie out of the castell and then the Frenchmen shewed and aduanced themselues vpon their rampiers Saturdaie the two and twentith of Iune the abstinence line 40 was broken off which till then had beene trulie kept and obserued Thursdaie the fourth of Iulie about thrée of the clocke in the after noone the French came out of Leith according to their accustomed maner to gather cockles Whervpon the lord lieutenant being at that present in Montpelham sent a drum vnto monsieur Doisell to signifie to him that his soldiours had gone further without their bounds than they might doo by the order taken by the commissioners line 50 of both parts Doisell answered that
through both armes and mooued him out of his place For the which fact the said Thomas being apprehended and condemned to death was on the one and twentith of Iulie brought to the water side where was a gibbet set vp directlie placed betwixt Dartford and Gréenewich But when the hangman had put the halter about his necke the right honorable sir Christopher Hatton capteine of the gard and one of hir maiesties priuie councell shewed the queenes maiesties most gratious pardon and deliuered him from execution This yeare Iohn Fox of Woodbridge William Wickneie of Portsmouth and Robert More of Harwich Englishmen hauing béene prisoners in Turkie about the space of thirteene or foureteene yeares with more than two hundred and sixtie other christians of diuerse nations by killing their kéeper maruellouslie escaped and returned into their natiue countries This yeare in the moneths of September and October fell great winds and raging flouds in sundrie places of this realme as in the towne of Newport the cotages were borne downe the corne lost pasture ground ouerwhelmed and cattell drowned In the towne of Bedford the water came vp to the market place where cup boords chests stooles and fourms swam about the houses their fewell corne and haie was wrackt borne awaie Also the towne of saint Edes in Huntingtonshire was ouerflowed suddenlie in the night when all men were at rest the waters brake in with such force that the towne was almost all defaced the swans swam downe the market place and all the towne about the botes did flote The towne of Gormanchester was suddenlie supprest their houses flowed full of water when men were at rest and their cattell with other things were destroied The one and twentith of Nouember sir Thomas Gresham knight agent to the quéenes highnesse who had in his life built the roiall Exchange in London betwéene six and seuen of the clocke in the euening comming from the same Exchange to his house which he had sumptuouslie builded in Bishopsgate stréet of London suddenlie fell downe in his kitchin and being taken vp was found spéechlesse and presentlie dead who afterwards was solemnlie buried in his owne parish church of saint Helen there where he had prepared for himselfe a sumptuous toome or monument without anie epitaph or inscription therevpon This sir Thomas Gresham in his testament which long before his death he had ordeined bequeathed diuerse large legacies not yet performed The eight and twentith daie of March year 1580 one Francis aliàs Marmaduke Glouer was hanged on a gibet set vp for that purpose by the standard in Cheape for wilfullie murthering sergeant Grace after he was by him arrested Also on the next morrow being the nine and twentith daie of March the same gibet was set vp at Hog lane end vpon east Smithfield néere vnto the tower of London thereon to haue hanged one Richard Dod for murthering of mistresse Skinner a widow in hir house there by But sir Owen Hopton lieutenant of the tower cōmanding the officers perteining to the shiriffes of London backe againe to the west side of the crosse tooke the shiriffe of the out shire with the prisoner into an house and after long talke brought the prisoner forth againe deliuered him to the officers to be by them brought backe to London Then he caused the gibet to be taken downe and carried awaie line 10 at his pleasure and without further contention to my knowledge the said Richard Dod was in the after noone of the same daie hanged at Tiborne On the sixt of Aprill being wednesdaie in Easter weeke about six of the clocke toward euening a sudden earthquake happening in London and almost generallie throughout all England caused such an amazednesse among the people as was woonderfull for the time and caused them to make their earnest praiers to almightie God The great clocke bell in line 20 the palace at Westminster strake of it selfe against the hammer with the shaking of the earth as diuerse other clocks bels in the stéeples of the citie of London and elsewhere did the like The gentlemen of the Temple being then at supper ran from the tables and out of their hall with their kniues in their hands The people assembled at the plaie houses in the fields as at the Whoreater the Theater I would saie were so amazed that doubting the ruine of the galleries they made hast to be gone A péece of the line 30 temple church fell downe some stones fell from saint Paules church in London and at Christs church neere to Newgate market in the sermon while a stone fell from the top of the same church which stone killed out of hand one Thomas Greie an apprentise and an other stone fell on his fellow seruant named Mabell Eueret and so brused hir that she liued but foure daies after Diuerse other at that time in that place were sore hurt with running out of the church one ouer another for feare The tops of diuerse chimneies line 40 in the citie fell downe the houses were so shaken a part of the castell at Bishops Stratford in Essex fell downe This earthquake indured in or about London not passing one minute of an houre and was no more felt But afterward in Kent and on the sea coast it was felt thrée times as at Sandwich at six of the clocke the land not onelie quaked but the sea also fomed so that the ships tottered At Douer also the same houre was the like so that a péece of the cliffe fell into the sea with also a péece of line 50 the castell wall there a péece of Saltwood castell in Kent fell downe and in the church of Hide the bels were heard to sound A peece of Sutton church in Kent fell downe the earthquake being there not onlie felt but also heard And in all these places and others in east Kent the same earthquake was felt three times to moue to wit at six at nine and at eleuen of the clocke The nineteenth daie of Aprill the ferrie at Lambeth was drowned with fiue men and foure horsses other two men and fiue horsses swam to land and were saued line 60 On the one and twentith of Aprill in the yeare 1580 departed this life master William Lambe esquier sometime gentleman of the chappell in the reigne of king Henrie the eight citizen of London and frée of the clothworkers Of this mans almes-deeds and manifold charities some before some since his death put in effectuall practise thus reporteth a memoriall recorded in print agréeing in truth with his last will and testament an extract whereof for others imitation is necessarilie here to be inserted This gentleman remembring that learning bringeth preferment yea euen to them which are put baselie borne as it pleased God to mooue him by his good and gratious spirit he prooued himselfe by testimonials of his dooings a louer of learning and a fauourer of euerie honest profession For in the
the length whereof was from the necke vnto the taile seuenteene yards and one foote hauing a big head for the chap of the saw was thrée yards and a quarter in length with téeth of three quarters of a yard compas great eies and two great holes ouer them to spout out water hir taile was fourteene foot broad c she laie in the sands and was soonken therein a yard and a halfe déepe and yet was she aboue the sands so high that a lather of fourtéene staues would but reach to the top of hir backe so that in thicknesse from the backe to the bellie she was foure yards and a halfe Iohn Slade sometime a schoolemaister and Iohn Bodie a maister of art of Oxford being both indicted and condemned of high treason were drawne hanged and quartered Slade at Winchester on the thirtith daie of October and Bodie at Andouar on the second daie of Nouember line 10 About this time one named Ditch a notable horssestealer was apprehended at the sessions holden for the goale deliuerie at Newgat on the fourth of December ninetéene times indicted whereof he confessed eightéene who also betwéene the time of his apprehension and the said sessions appeached manie for stealing of horsses whereof diuerse being apprehended ten of them were condemned and hanged in Smithfield on the sixt daie of December being Fridaie and horsse market there He also holpe diuerse more to their horsses againe which had béene line 20 stolne from them taking of euerie one of them ten shillings the péece or more that so recouered their horsses wherby he made fiftéene pounds of currant monie towards his charges Iames earle of Desmond in Ireland secretlie wandering without anie succour as a miserable begger being taken in his cabbin by one of the Irishrie his head was cut off and sent into England where the same as the head of an archrebell was set vpon London bridge on the line 30 thirteenth daie of December Looke for the manner of his rebellion and his death more at large set downe in the historie of Ireland The tenth daie of December through negligence of vndiscréet persons brewing in the towne of Nantwich in a place called Waterlode the fire being careleslie left tooke hold as should séeme vpon some straw or such light matter so burst foorth to the roofes of the house and in short time so increased that from the west end of the towne the wind at line 40 south-southwest the flame was dispersed so furiouslie into the towne on the southside that in short space a great part of the said southside and some of the east-side was burned downe to the ground Which fire beginning at six of the clocke in the euening and continuing till six of the clocke in the morning following neuer ceased burning till it had consumâ—d aboue the number of two hundred houses besides brew houses barnes stables c in all about six hundred houses so that by estimation of manie the losse of houses and goods amounted to aboue thirtie line 50 thousand pounds as more at large appeared by a particular booke printed of that matter About this time Iohn Someruile a furious yoong man of Elstow in Warwikeshire of late discouered and taken in his waie comming with full intent to kill the quéenes maiestie whom God long prosper to reigne ouer vs confessed the treason and that he was moued therevnto in his wicked spirit by certeine traitorous persons his kinsmen and alies and also by often reading of certeine seditious bookes latelie line 60 published for the which the said Someruile Edward Arden a squire of Parkehall in Warwikeshire Marie Arden his wife father and mother in law to the said Someruile and Hugh Hall priest being with other before indicted at Warwike were on the sixtéenth of December arreigned in the Guildhall of London where they were found guiltie and condemned of high treason On the nintéenth of December Iohn Someruile and Edward Arden being brought from the tower of London to Newgate of the same citie and there shut vp in seuerall places within two hours after Someruile was found desperatlie to haue strangled himselfe And on the morrow being the twâ—ntith of December Edward Arden was drawne from Newgate into Smithfield and there hanged bowelled and quartered whose head with Someruiles was set on London bridge and his quarters on the gates of the citie but the bodie of Someruile was buried in the Morefields néere vnto the windmils without Moregate A dreadfull example of Gods heauie iudgement vpon those two offendors but speciallie against the last whome God deliuered to a reprobat mind in somuch that his owne hands became his hangman preuenting the office of the common executioner who should haue performed that last action vpon him whereof the iustice of God in vengeance made himselfe the finisher and fulfiller Thus much by the waie of terror that the remembrance hereof by the reading reporting of the same maie make men euill minded amazed at the rigorous reuengement which God taketh when he séeth his due time vpon the wicked after his long sufferance and patience most wickedlie abused wherof the poet saith Vltio procedit fateor diuina gradatim Nec quoties peccant fulmina vibrat eis Supplicij verò iusta grauitate rependit Turpia quae longo tempore facta tulit In this yeare 1583 which should haue béene noted in the fore part of the yeare by the meanes of a certeine astrologicall discourse vpon the great and notable coniunction of the two superior planets Saturne and Iupiter prognosticated to be the eight and twentith of Aprill the common sort of people yea and no small multitude of such as thinke scorne to be called fooles or counted beggers whilest they were in expectation of this coniunction were in no small imaginations supposing that no lesse would haue béene effectuated than by the said discourse was prophesied Into these fansies not void of feare and mistrust they were drawne with the more facilitie for that they had read and heard pondered and suspected and in part beléeued the predictions of such euents as should insue by influence of that coniunction For it was termed the great and notable coniunction which should be manifested to the ignorant sort by manie fierce and boisterous winds then suddenlie breaking out It was called the greatest and most souereigne coniunction among the seuen planets why so Because lawes and empires and regions are ruled by the same which foretelleth the comming of a prophet the destruction of certeine climats and parts of the earth and new found heresies and a new founded kingdome and damages through the pestilence and abundant showers which dooth prognosticat the destinie of a great and mightie king much sorrow heauinesse to men losses to rich and noble men yea and those too which are accounted and reputed like to prophets and a multitude of locusts which dooth foreshew that weightie and woonderfull things shall come into the
discouered his experience to such as were officers in the worke who presentlie put in practise execution the same deuise making prouision of great strong barrels and pipes of wood caried them to Folkstone and at low water fastened therto with chaines such huge stones as laie on the shore neere the low water marke where the quarrie or mine of those rocks is so as when the floud or full sea came the said vessels with the stones thereto fastned rose vp swam And if the stone were of such quantitie as two or thrée emptie casks could not lift it vp then did they ad a barrell or two more which would not faile to doo it then did they drag with small botes the casks stones therevnto tied to the place where they were disposed to sinke them so the worke wherein consisted the greatest difficultie in appearance was with most ease and least charge accomplished And for this deuise the said Iohn Yoong had a yéerelie stipend giuen vnto him by the king during his life With these stones as also by this means was the greatest worke doone and with great cost and labor these piles were filled vp The chalke and filling thereof being brought from the north pierre was conueied thither in a great bote called a Gaboth which had nine kéeles There stands yet of the timber worke of the old pierre foure score foot in length and â—oâ—es vpon that part of the pierre where stood a fort line 10 named the Blacke bulworke Now that which was doone on that side with the helpe of nature at the other two sides made an excellent roâ—e or harborough for the time it continued and had maintenance The king for his part spared no charge for he spent hereabouts as I am crediblie informed fiftie thousand pounds nor yet did forbeare anie trauell which might further the worke For in person he purposelie repaired thither diuerse and sundrie times being distant from the court fiftie miles at line 20 the least yea his highnes had such care that it should be well performed that no expert man in water works either on this side or beyond the seas but if it might be he was brought thither or at the least conferred withall And during the time of all the worke the kings cofers séemed to stand wide open But alas thâ— kings care and charge and the continuall trouble and trauell of officers was such about the worke present that the prouision for the future maintenance thereof was vtterlie neglected For the kings absence at his line 30 being at Bullen his sickenesse at his returne and finallie his death méeting with the nonage of his son king Edward the sixt made an end of all this worke which being once in the state of decaie there was no reparations nor further proceeding therein till the time of quéene Marie in the beginning of whose reignâ— by the space of two yeares there was some rumbling thereabout But the workmen and officers were not well paid and after bad paiment no paiment and so all was giuen ouer Sir Anthonie Aucher line 40 was treasuror in these works and manie other inferior officers also there were and manie other inferior officers also there were but especiallie of clerks But now I am to declare vnto you the lamentable ruine and decaie of this worke before the end and finishing whereof there was brought along the coast from by south-southwest a maruellous quantitie of beach and bowlder stone whereof there had béene neuer anie séene before in those parts of that coast and a great quantitie thereof rested vpon the backe of the pierre especiallie before the Blacke bulworke which so long line 50 as it might lie there without further annoiance was in appearance a singular helpe for the strength and preseruation of the said worke but it fell out otherwise For besides that that an easterlie great wind would remooue and driue it from that coast and consequentlie from the pierre which then would lie naked as before vntill the south and westerne wind turned it backe againe the pierre through negligence decaieng especiallie at the Blacke bulworke where the greatest abundance of beach vsuallie rested it passed through line 60 the decaied places thereof in such measure as in short time thereby grew a shelfe of beach from that point of the pierre to the east part of the baie butting to the Castell Raie so as no entrance thereinto for anie ship remained And the more that the furthest point of the pierre decaied and waxed shorter the néerer was the shelfe brought vnto the shore insomuch as if the residue of the pierre had not béene preserued that shelfe would soone haue béene brought to the verie towne and so haue choked vp the baie and béerest all possibilitie of euer hauing a harbor in that place The decaie of the pierre grew now more and more partlie as is said through want of prouidence and cost to be imploied therevpon and sufficient prouision to mainteine the same but especiallie through the disorder of the poorer sort of the townesmen who dailie purloined timber iron and all that was anie thing woorth which they could pull or catch from the decaieng places of the pierre And now by meanes of this shelfe the hauen waxed woorse than euer it was insomuch as oftentimes a bote that drew but foure foot of wâ—ter could not enter into the mouth thereof and sometime none at all for the baie was altogither shut vp so as the harborough was become a pent out of the which nothing could passe out or in sauing the water that soked through the beach But the riuer which issueth out of the towne at a water gate standing at the northeast end of the said pent in continuance of time would make an issue through some part of the same beach into the sea sometime at one end sometime at another sometime verie shallow and neuer verie déepe which issue was alwaies their hauens mouth vntill a contrarie wind did stop it vp againe and then they had no entrance at all vntill the riuer had made a new fret or that they had digged a chanell through the beach which manie times they were driuen to doo The losse of this hauen and the losse of Calis which happened about one time made such an alteration or rather desolation in and of the towne as was lamentable and woonderfull to behold For of a braue rich and populous towne it presentlie became a poore and desolate village reteining onelie the name and liberties of the famous port of Douer Neuerthelesse the necessitie and expedience of a good hauen in that place did still remaine a conuenient meane also was left for the accomplishment thereof as it séemed to diuerse which were wise and of good experience insomuch as that verie matter which was supposed to be the destruction of the late harborough should now become a principall helpe and furtherance to a
sauing that because these works were so great and required such expedition as the expenditor was ouercharged with busines though an expert man trained vp in Romneie marsh in those affaires trustie diligent and euerie waie sufficient vnto whose office naturallie belonged the purueiance of all necessaries anie waie apperteining to the mainteinance of the wals There was appointed by the commissioners as chiefe purueior a gentleman of good sufficiencie named Iohn Keies by whose countenance and discreet dealing men were brought to yéeld willinglie anie of their commodities towards the helpe and furtherance of these proceedings for their iust values which was dulie answered vnto them so as no man was séene to complaine of anie iniurie or hard dealing But when the works or rather the workers grew to be greater and more in number than was expected which came to passe by reason of the multitude of courts and workemen who proffered their seruice so fast as from the rate of two hundred which was at the first set downe they increased to six hundred all pastures néere the towne being imploied that waie manie men were content to make their owne prouision conditionallie to be admitted into the works insomuch as some hired pasture for their working horsses seuen or eight miles from Douer and neuerthelesse came to worke with the first and continued the whole daie with them that wrought longest For they came at six of the clocke in the morning and departed at six of the clocke at night except extraordinarie causes in preuenting inconueniences of great and fowle tides caused them to worke longer Diuerse brought thither courts from besides Maidstone and Seuenocke being thirtie or fortie miles from Douer and in the end the officers were driuen to put backe and refuse such as made sute to bring courts into the works and yet had they for their horsse their court and their driuer but onelie twelue pence a daie Which because it séemeth incredible I thought good to discouer and vnfold to the reader in such sort as he might be resolued and satisfied in the certeintie thereof and throughlie conceiue not onelie the possibilitie but also the reason of it First therefore the time of yeare when that worke was to be doone must be considered which was intended and by proclamations in certeine market towns notified to haue had beginning the thirtéenth of Maie when in those parts barleie season is ended and from that time till haruest or haieng time little is to be doone in husbandrie and assoone as haruest should begin their purpose was to leaue this workâ— vntill the yere following So as in this meane time that is to saie from Aprill till haruest the seruants speciallie the cattell of farmers are rather chargeable than anie waie gainefull vnto them and therefore at such a time to raise profit by them is double aduantage Neuerthelesse he that should make his best commoditie herein was to looke circumspectlie into the matter and then might he sée that it was requisit to haue two courts for one boie might driue them both because whilest the one was driuen the other was filled the same being vnloden or discharged he went for the other leauing that to be filled This filler was a labourer allowed to euerie man which had two courts for whome the owner of the two courts had ten pence the daie so as he had for his fâ—ller his driuer his two horsses and his two courts two shillings and ten pence the daie which amounteth to seuentéene shillings the wéeke He paied out of the same for the boord of his filler and driuer six shillings weekelie and so had the owner of cléere wéekelie gaine for his two seruants and two horsses nine shillings which must all this while haue lien at his charge There were among this number certeine double courts which had double wages because they were furnished with two horsses in a court being double in quantitie to the rest and were speciallie imploied about the cariage of sléech a more weightie mould than either the chalke or the earth A single court conteined in length fiue foot in bredth two foot and in depth sixteene inches wherevnto the expenditor looked â—erie narrowlie as also to the suffâ—ciencie anâ— deligence of euerie workemâ—n and â—orse so as vpon euerie default their wâ—ges was totted and defalâ—â—â— or the offendors excluded from the woâ—ks or some times punished with stocks and other 〈◊〉 An entrance into this worke was made in the beginning of Maie one thousand fiue hundred foure 〈◊〉 and thâ—ee in the fiue and twentith yeare of hir maiesties reigne with six courts onelie at the crosse wâ—ll such was the towardlines thereof as yéelded line 10 so great a brute promise of good successe that from that daie fâ—â—ward there were continuallie cariages brought at the rate before set downe beyond all expectation in so much as by the 27 of Iune there were assembled in those works 542 courts and almost 1000 workemen And truelie there consisted so great difficultiâ— in marshalling this multitude for all were to worke at once none might staie for other or be impediment to others worke as without the paterne of fâ—â—mer experience the worke could line 20 hardlie haue béene performed Heerein Richard Coast and William Norris inrâ—ts and the aforenamed Reginald Smith clearke of Romneie marsh were chéefe directors and as it were marshals as hauing dailie experience in the like works For in Romneie marsh there are euerie yeare commonlie imploied at one time about making or mending of some one wall 200 courts at the least in each court for the most part being two oxen for whome the owners hire feeding in the marsh as line 30 they can agrée with the landholders and yet haue had hitherto for their court and deiuer but ten pence the daie And this togither with their manner of working would be woonderfull famous and much spoken of throughout England if the continuance of so manie hundred yeares exercise thereof had not qualified the strangenesse and admiration of it For here though at Douer it could not be so bicause they wrought altogither with horsbeasts the mights féeding preuaileâ—h so much ouer the daies working that line 40 bullocks brought to those works leane and out of flesh are returned from the works most commonlie in verie good plight The stuffe carried by these courts for the erection of the walles at Douer was earâ—h being of a haselie mould chalke and fleeâ—h wherevnto the carriages were seuerallie imploid the most number for earth whereof the greatest part of the wall consisted the second for chalke which mingled and beaten togither with the earth did make the same more firme line 50 and was placed in the midst of the wall the smallest number for sléech which serued for the out sides onlie For the same being beaten with béetles to the sides of the wall would by and by cleaue so fast and close therevnto as thereby the
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 EnglaÌ„d 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. â—anor lib. â—â— it rebâ—â— gesâ—â— Alphoâ—si 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 〈◊〉 earle was 〈◊〉 Exod. 28 21 The earles chiualrie marâ—iall 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 verâ—ues 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 eternâ—llie 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 â—he 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 fâ—â—e traffike of merchants as before c. â— Stow. An vnnaturall brother murthereth his naturall brother but the vnnaturall brother was hanged as he well dâ—serued Anno Reg. 19. A tempest in Richmondshire Tower on LondoÌ„ bridge â—â—ken downe Robinson hanged for clipping of gold Second voiage to Cataia StraÌ„ge 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 woÌ„ders 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 〈◊〉 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. 〈◊〉 giueth it to An. Dom. 1139 who saith Collo 〈◊〉 qui 〈◊〉 fuit 〈◊〉 anne 〈◊〉 c. And Henrie Huntington agreeth wholie with W. Parâ—â—s 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 Viâ—a 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 Paâ—ker 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 〈◊〉 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 Boâ—â—cheri â—pisco 〈◊〉 William Patan or Paten 〈◊〉 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 Hâ—sto Câ—ntab 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.
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 conâ—â—â—med 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
before halfe waie to London which said concerning the bonefires made for quéene Maries child Here is a ioifull triumph but at length all will not proue woorth a messe of pottage as in déed it came to passe for in the end all prooued cleane contrarie and the ioy expectations of men were much line 10 deceiued For the people were certified that the quéene neither was as then deliuered nor after was in hope to haue anie child At this time manie talked diuerslie Some said this rumour of the quéenes conception was spread for a policie some other affirmed that she was deceiued by a timpanie or some other like disease to thinke hirselfe with child and was not some thought shée was with child and that it did by some chance miscarie or else that she was bewitched but what was the truth therof the Lord knoweth line 20 to whome nothing is secret One thing of mine owne hearing and séeing I cannot passe ouer vnwitnessed There came to me whome I did both heare and sée one Isabell Malt a woman dwelling in Aldersgate stréet in Horne allie not farre from the house where this present booke was printed who before witnesse made this declaration vnto vs that she being deliuered of a man-child vpon Whitsundaie in the morning which was the eleuenth daie of Iune Anno line 30 1555 there came to hir the lord North and another lord to hir vnknowne dwelling then about old Fishstréet demanding of hir if she would part with hir child and would sweare that she neuer knew nor had no such child Which if she would hir sonne they said should be well prouided for she should take no care for it with manie faire offers if she would part with the child After that came other women also of whome one she said should haue beene the rocker but she in no line 40 wise would let go hir sonne who at the writing hereof being aliue and called Timothie Malt was of the age of thirtéene yeares and vpward Thus much I saie I heard of the woman hir selfe What credit is to be giuen to hir relation I deale not withall but leaue it to the libertie of the reader to beleeue it they that list to them that list not I haue no further warrant to assure them Among manie other great preparations made for the quéenes deliuerance of child there was a cradle verie sumptuouslie and gorgeouslie line 50 trimmed on the which cradle for the child appointed these verses were written both in Latine and in English as they are set downe here in record Quam Maria sobolem Deus optime summe dedisti Anglis incolumem redde tuere rege The child which thou to Marie ô Lord of might hast send To Englands ioie in health preserue keepe and defend About this time there came ouer into England a certeine English booke giuing warning to the line 60 Englishmen of the Spaniards and disclosing certeine close practises for recouerie of abbeie lands which booke was called A warning for England Whereof ye shall vnderstand much more at large where we speake of the Spanish inquisition So that by the occasion of this booke vpon the thirteenth daie of this moneth came out a certeine proclamation set foorth in the name of the king and the quéene repealing and disanulling all maner of bookes written or printed whatsoeuer should touch anie thing the impairing of the popes dignitie wherby not onelie much godlie edification was hindered but also great perill grew among the people This proclamation is recorded at large with other appendents in the Acts and Monuments vnder the title of quéene Marie ¶ In this yeare died sir Iohn Gresham who bare the office of lord maior of London 1547 a man of a mercifull nature and good deuotion both to God and his countrie He founded a frée schoole at Holt a market towne in Norffolke gaue to euerie ward in London ten pounds to be distributed to the poore and to thréescore poore men and women euerie one of them thrée yeards of brode cloth of eight or nine shillings the yard to be made in gownes readie to their backs He gaue also to maids mariages and to the hospitals in London aboue two hundred pounds in readie monie A blasing starre was seene at all times of the night the sixt seuenth eight ninth and tenth of March. About this time Brookes bishop of Glocester was by the cardinall sent downe as commissioner from the pope to Oxford there to sit vpon the examination of Thomas Cranmer archbishop of Canturburie in such things as should be laid to his charge by Iohn Storie and Thomas Martin doctors in the lawes sent speciallie in commission from the quéene At which time the said archbishop making low obeisance to them that sate in the queenes name shewed no token of reuerence to the bishop that was the popes commissioner who neuerthelesse procéeded against him as iudge and conuicted him of heresie According to the which sentence the one and twentith daie of March next following he was disgraded by Edmund Boner and Thomas Thirlebie bishops of London and Elie sent downe for that purpose and he was burned in the same place where Ridleie and Latimer before had suffered Before his death by the persuasion of a Spanish frier named frier Iohn a reader of diuinitie in Oxford and by the counsell of certeine other that put him in hope of life and pardon he subscribed to a recantation wherein he submitted himselfe wholie to the church of Rome and continued in the same mind to outward appearance vntill he was brought out of prison to go to the fire Afore whose execution a sermon was made by doctor Cole deane of Paules in saint Martins church in Oxford And in the end of his sermon the said doctor Cole praied the people to incline their eares to such things as the said Cranmer would declare vnto them by his owne mouth For saith he he is a man verie repentant and will here before you all reuoke his errors Neuerthelesse he did cleane contrarie For when he came to the place where the holie bishops and martyrs of God Hugh Latimer and Ridleie were burnt before him for the confession of the truth knéeling downe hée praied to God not tarieng long in his praiers putting off his garments to his shirt he prepared himselfe to death His shirt was made long downe to his féet his féet were bare Likewise his head when both his caps were off was so bare that one heare could not be séene vpon it His beard was long and thicke couering his face with maruellous grauitie Such a countenance of grauitie mooued the hearts both of his friends and of his enimies And as for the recantation aforesaid with manie tears he protested that he had subscribed to the same against his conscience onelie for feare of death and hope of life Which seemed true for when he came to the stake