her Maiestie Heb. 12. Beware that no roote of bitternesse spring vp to trouble vs as S. Paul saith and many be defiled by it Isaeus ex Philastration Sophistis Isaeus the Zophist being demaunded of the walles of Sparta aunsweared that the walles of Sparta were man to man and sheilde to sheild Euen so the inner wall of England next to the blessed prouidence of God which is as a wall of defence round about her Maiestie and our Countrie is man to man and sheild to sheild Let all true subiectes of her Maiestie fortifie that inner wall of England with harte to harte man to man and sheild to sheild and then taking God to be our foreman and guide we shall not need to fâ—â—â—e the inuasions of forraine enemies Onely let vs feare God and be hartely thankfull to him for his great blessings and for his wonderfull woorke of late and vsing all good and ordinarie meanes as his giftes earnestly prayâ—â—â— to him that his fatherly prouidence will be the continuall protection of the royall person of our Queene her estate and our Countrie Thus of the inner wall of England and the true fortification thereof Now of the outward wall of Engnland and fortification of it which is the shipping The outward wall of England the shipping nauigation nauigation and the furniture thereof One not experienced in publike affayres cannot well esteeme the great blessing benefite strength and fortification that commeth to the realme by the shipping nauigation and furniture thereof For because we are inuironed with Seas it is the outward wall by Sea against inuasions by land And without it we cannot creepe out of our Countrie but we shal be cut off and there will be an open way by Sea vpon vs to be inuaded by land and the portes as the gates of our Countrie wil be naked and open to our enemies But this outward wall of the shipping nauigation and funiture thereof by the good mother of England our gracious Queene is so made vppe and fortified as vnder no Prince the like Many imploy themselues in building and furnishing of sumptuous houses but she as the great mother of manie children hath builte fortified and furnished the great and outwarde wall of England to the great comforte of our Countrie and safetie of the lande What want wee for the defence of the land if we want not the feare and fauour of God for without the feare and fauour of GOD all walls Arnobius in Psal 146. munitions and fortifications are nothing Arnobius the auncient father about the yeere of our Sauiour 329. saith my shippe may saile but it is God saith he which strengthneth both the maister and marriners of the shippe which sendeth prosperous windes and gales and conducteth the shippe in her course that shee may fetch the right hauen and before let my horse run furnished for the warres yet say thou it is the God of strength which geueth strength to my horse to runne Thus Arnobius What then are worldly forces fortifications and munitions without the feare and fauour of God Naham 3. As the Prophet Naham saith strong Cities shal be like Figgtrees if they bee shaken the fall into the mouth of the eater Let vs earnestlie praye for the grace of God that wee may feare him and for his continuall fauour in the preseruation of the long life and prosperous raigne of our Queene and our Countrie Nowe I will shewe you the experience of our owne Countrie in time past King Edgarâ— shipping â—ouching this outwarde wall of the shipping and nauigation and the fortifying and furnishing thereof King Edgar a valiant Prince so fortifyed and furnished this outward and woden wall of the shipping and nauigation that though there were great multituds of Danes vnder him Fabian in his Chro. of England the 6. part cap. 193. King Egelredus yet they were quailed and kepte vnder in his time And yeerely Fabian reporting it he scoured the Seas and brought great quietnesse to the land After him Egelredus his soone by Estrild or Alfride who succeeded Edward called the martyr slayne by treason of Estrild his steppemother to bring the Crowne to Egelred her sonne was so hunted and chafed of the Danes The Danes shippings partely by treasons within the lande and partly by meanes of their shipping nauigation and furniture thereof that hee was fayne to forsake the land and to fly into Normandy And in processe greatly they did preuaile ouer the land and by meanes of their shipping when they were prouided to be encountred in one cost then they would take their shippes and woden horses and land in an other place and so by their shipping and nauigation they wearied the land and at last wonne the land King Edmond surnamed Ironside King Canutus And first king Edmond surnamed Ironside was faine to deuide the land with Canutus king of Danske and after the death of Edmond Canutus raigned ouer the land Thus by experience of our owne Countrie heretofore we see what a blessing and benifite it is when the outward wall of shipping and nauigation is fortified and furnished God blesse and long preserue the good mother of our Countrie which hath fortified and furnished this wall to the great benefite and comforte of our Countrie Thus of the outward wall of England the shipping and nauigation therof and of the fortifying and furnishing therof by Elizabeth our gracious Queene The tenth cheefe matter Of those that make breaches in these walles The tenth is of those that make breaches in these walles by a lingering hope and looking after inuasions of forrayne forces Those the haue such euil dispositions in theÌ„ doe not onely make breaches in these walles but seeke to betray as much as in them is their owne Countrie to forraine enemies Of those that make breaches in these walls And such are monsters not only in nature but also in the body politique of realmes and Countries The very heathen men abhorre such Cicero Cicero one of the consulls and great gouernours of the estate of Rome when it was heathen Cateline against Cateline and other conspirarours against the state bringeth out the great mother of their owne Countrie rebuking charging them to depart out of her Wherfore saith she should I thus be in continuall feare for you Thus Cicero in the behalfe of their common Countrie as their vniuersall mother and out of the bowels of nature it selfe in heathen people dealeth in charging the conspirators and traytors against the state of Rome Vipers The vipers eate through the wombe of the dam that breedeth them or through the coat and skin in which they lie as is written of them Such are of the generation of vipers as S. Iohn the baptist called the Pharisies and Scribes and so growen out of kind that they are monsters in nature Mat. 3. They were wont in old time to carry monsters of nature into farre Countries
Fabian termeth it and fawning flatterie and glauering glosing of the which hollow hypocrits make an art in Pallaces of Princes and houses of estate that he aduaunced him to one of the foure regimentes of England called Mercia Notwithstanding he could not keepe himselfe true to his Prince that hadde beene drawne through so many treasons for that is rooted in the marrow and bones will not out Hee was taken tardie in treason againe and being accused and conuicted iudgment was giuen immediatly executed his head cut off and his body cast into a foule and filthy place Ranulph saith Edricus the traytors death that he was slain by the kings agreement within his Pallace at London his bodie with the head throwne after into the towne ditch Whether for his treasons against king Edmond before he dyed as some write or for his treason against king Knoght after as others tell all agree that he dyed for his treasons whether his head were exalted on the highest gate of London for king Edmonds death or whether his head and bodie were cast into the towne ditch for treason against king Knoght Pol. Verg. Hist Au. li. â— So his treasons turned on his owne head Polidor telleth how king Knoght after the death of kinge Edmonâ— greatly endeuoured himselfe to banishe thâ—â— sonnes of kinge Edmond who as he sayth departed into Pannonia and there were well intreated and ended their liues in exile Chronica Fructus temp the 6. parte And Chronica Fructus temporum telleth how that after the death of king Edmond Edrick aforesaid surprised the sonnes of king Edmond and presented theÌ„ to king Knought to put himselfe in great fauour with him and that of the king they were sent after to Denmarke from whence by a Dane called Walgar that pittied them they were conuaied to the king of Hungarie Saxo Gram. Hist Danicae lib. 10. Saxo GraÌ„maticus the auncient famous wryter of the storie of the Danes telleth that king Kanutus was very careful not to be touched with suspition of the death of king Edmond whoÌ„ he called Edward And that some reporte the king Edmond whoÌ„ he calleth Edward by Kanutus commaundment and practise came to his death and that by his coÌ„maundment likewise more greeuous execution was don on the traytors to cleere him selfe of the suspitioÌ„ thereof yet notwithstanding saith he the same thing did greatlie rack the kings fauour in his houshould those that were neere him Thus out of Saxo. Fabian reporteth of him Fab. in Chro. the 6. part cap. 205. that he did so abhorre the vnnaturall treason of the English men that hadde sworne to bee true to the blood of kinge Edmond that though by their treasons the Crowne wholy was deuolued to him and his posteritie yet hee hadde the workers against kinge Edmond his sonnes in continuall mistrust whereas they thought they should haue beene in high fauour with him And as Fabian telleth he dispatched the more part of them some by banishment some were slaine some by Gods punishment soddenly died Canutus loâ—thed traytors though he gained by them Thus traytors are loathed of them that gayne by them and their treasons turne on the heades of the workers of them Touching the end of kinge Edmond his sonnes Fabian thus reporteth it out of the opinion of some that kinge Canut sent Edmond and Edward king Edmond his sonnes to Swanus his brother kinge of Denmarke to bee made away And that hee abhorring the deede sent them to Salomon king of Hungarie where Edmond died and Edward suruiuing was surnamed the outlaw because he neuer returned into England againe Caesar Caesar was wont of treasons traytors to say that he loued treasons but he loued not traytors he loued treasons to serue his turne Plutarchus in vita Rom. but he shunned traytors as moÌ„sters in the ciuil body the wold be ready to practise on him that they haue proued in others Plutarch telleth Plutarcus in Apoth Rom. that the king of Thraci vpbraied him at the table that from Anthonie he had reuolted to him He rouned 〈◊〉 other king that satte by him in the eare anâ— sayeth that he loued treason but not traytors In like sort king Philip said Philip. that hee loue not traytors but those that would betray meaning though he had his turne serued by them he would not trust them Io. Stub There was in the time of this Edrick of Sratton Elfricus vnder king Egelred and when the Danes pressed the land in diuers places an other traytor of great countenance and estate called Elfricus maister or Admirall of the kings Nauie Fab. in Chro. the 6. part cap. 197. as Fabian calleth him who was bought and sold of Danes against his Prince and Countrie When with the kings nauie furnished he lay for the Danes to encounter them he was blinded with bribes and the Danes had their chase and rechase by sea and land notwithstanding him Fabian the 6. part cap. 199. He was by sea like to the scharcrow by land which standeth with bow bent and the arrow set in the bow and yet is blind and cannot discharge Such a watch was Elfrick by sea the Portes and passages were open to the Danes Polidore saith he was a hot and fierce man Polidor Hist Angl. lib. 7. but the Danes so cooled his courage with corruption that there was no valew in him for his Prince and Countrie When he shoulde fight a battaile with the Danes by sea and trye for the maine chance then Elfrik fled to the Danes Pol. Angl. Hist li. 7. the Nauie was dispersed some taken some drowned Thus Elfrick by sea and Edrick by land played their partes in flying when they should fight and when they were most trusted betraying their Prince and Countrey This Elfrick after his first fight was recoÌ„ciled to the king againe After he fled the 2. time Then the king as Fabian saith in wreak of the father commaunded the eyes of the sonne Algarus to be plucked out of his head Fab. the 6. part cap. 197 Polidor reporteth that wheÌ„ the Danes came not of with their rewardes to Elfrick his contentment hee put himselfe to the mercie of kinge Eldred or Egelred to whom saith he the king Effossis oculis vitam condonauit After his eyes were plucked out of his head pardoned his life Thus traytors come short of their reckning and Gods iudgmentes suddenly ouertake them as they did Elfrick and Edrick Polidor Hist Angl. lib. 7. Because Elfrick was blind when he should see the kings enemies therefore the king plucked out his eyes that he should not see his own freindes It was the iust iudgment of God reuenge suddenly ouerreacheth the wicked in the parts they offend eftsoones they are punished What marueile when ther were 2. such as Elfrick and Edricâ— were though king Eldred or Egildred was fayne to flee the lande the Councell of the land was bewrayed the seruices
of Edgar king of England after he had lost his retinue in hunting withdrew him selfe to the Castle of Corf where Queene Elfride or Estrild his stepmother with Egelredus her yong sonne kepte house Fab. in chro 6. par ca. 117 where being courteously inuited to lodge that night 〈◊〉 courteouse manner excusing himselfe as he sat on his horse drinking and the cuppe at his mouth of a traytor and murtherer suddenly set on by his stepmother he was stabbed and when he felt himselfe stricken suddenly he set spurres to his horse King Edward surnamed the martyr Fabian in Tab. 6. part and by ryding and much bleeding fainting fell and his foot hanging fast in the stirrop was trailed of his horse to a place named Corinsgate where hee was found dead This Edward was surnamed the martyr and being induced of a curteouse nature to visit his friends as he supposed and not suspecting any treason fell into the mouth of his enemies Charles of Fraunce Charles king of Fraunce surnamed the simple returning out of ciuill warre with victorie on Duke Robert that rebelled against him Ro. Gag in an Re. Fran. lib. 6. was by Hebert Earle of Vermendois in the waye of gratulation for his victory humbly inuited to lodge at his Castle of Peron The king of simplicitie not forecasting treason and ouercom with curtesie humbly offered yeelded to his request and after he was lodged there and his strength gon from him then Hebert set on by his wife tooke the kinge prisoner Earle Hebert his treason Fabian in Chro. 5. part cap. 89. and made him away that hee neuer came abroad to raigne any more Hengist the Saxon inuited Vortigern king of Britain with his Lords to his Castle called Thongcastle whither the king with his Lordes came Hengist Fabian in Chro. 5. part cap. 89. 〈◊〉 the middest of the feast and mirth a fayned fray began the Saxons fell on the Lordes and slew them all and tooke the king prisoner A daungerous thing it is for Princes to aduenture their royall persons with them of whome they haue not vndoubted assurance and in places where they are not garded with their strengthes The same Hengist fearing the great hoast of Britons appointed in readinesse made meanes for a parley and treaty of peace a day was prefixed on a May day on the plaine of Salisburie and so many Britons for so many Saxons should meete Thither king Vortigerne came with a certaine of Britons in peaceable manner In midest of the parley Hengist gaue the watch Nempnith your sexes as Fabian telleth it that euery one should draw his long knife out of his hose and the Britons were slaine like sheepe among Woolues as Fabian saith The Deuill neuer more raueneth then vnder the visard of friendly parles meetings entertainments curtesies and such like deuices which he vseth as occasions of aduantages opportunities to put placs of high treason in practise Trayterous and hypocriticall hartes are like a deepe hel on earth Queene Ethelburg alwayes gaping after opportunities to deuoure theÌ„ whose destruction they seeke Fab. in chro 6. par ca. 157 Ro. Gag in an Reg. Fraâ— lib. 2. Brightricus the first 〈◊〉 of the west Saxons was by Ethelburge 〈◊〉 wifâ—e after sundry attempts of treason for making him away poysoned with many other of his meany Fredegund Queene of Soisous in Fraunce before mentioned hired and sent two murtherers into the campe of Sigisbert king of the Countrie of Mees or Austracie as Fabian termeth it her brother in lawe who awayted for opportunitie aduauntage and they slew the king Queene Fredigond The same Fredigond that by treason procured the death of king Chilperick her owne husband and of king Sigisbert her husbands brother inflamed with enuy against Queene Brunchild because she was set vp in more fauour and honour then she as Gagwin reporteth it was conceiued with new treasons against her Ra. Gag in an reg Fran. lib. 2. and fell in trauel for the execution of them in this sorte There was an old executioner of murthers called Holderick Holderick the traytor a fit instrument to vndertake her treason him shee sent into Queene Brunchilds Court he according to the method of maisteries in the Deuils art of practising treasons first began with flattering and fawning about in the court as the Scorpion doth fawne with his taile ere hee strike but there he met with as cunning in that art as himselfe By his great flatterie he grewe in suspition and being coÌ„mitted 〈◊〉 â—â—ture confessed the whole plat One might 〈◊〉 that Queene Fred. in plats of treasons 〈◊〉 peere Queene Brunchild but Queene BruÌ„child king Sigisberts wife the aforsaid far surpasseth her hath won the prize of such plats practises froÌ„ her She was charged at her death to haue bene the death of ten Princes Continually she was traueyling with some plat or other as soone as she was deliuered she conceiued and fell in taruaile againe about the execution and practise of her plats Notwithstanding outwardly who was couÌ„ted so deuout as Brunchild Ro. Gag in an Reg. Fran lib. 2. the foundresse of many Colledges of Priestes Monkes in BurguÌ„dy as father Gag writeth of her Thus the Diuell vnder mists of hypocrisie worketh maisteries of murthers and treasons against Princes and vnder pretence of religion committeth such outrages in the world And in the taruaile and execution of their plattes the cheife point of practise of masteries in the Diuels art concerning the execution of suche things is fawning flaterie for life and double diuellish diligence seruile at all assaies to creepe into credit and fauour and to win opportunitie of the place for execution Gagwin the generall of his order in Fraunce saieth that Holderick mentioned before Holderick the traytors boldnes was Audax assuetus caedibus bolde and draween through many murthers He kept his course aforesaid for the execution of his plat vpon Queene Brunchild but that his cunning was soone incountered there Cum multis iam diebus saith Gagwin consuetudinem familiaritatis apud Reginam Brunchildem assentatiunculis blanditijsque comparasset WheÌ„ saith hee by the space of many dayes by flattery and fawning he grew to be familiar and conuersant with Queene Brunchild His fawning flateries familiarities at last hee began to bee blasted with suspition when in flattering and currying he went beyond himselfe and beganne to be too broade in it as Gagwin saith Blandior indies visus in suspicionem venit This is the monstrous method of the Deuils art and cheifly in these latter dayes The serpent The Aspe The SerpeÌ„t wil craule into the very bosome the Aspe wil be familier and play Plutarch wryteth and Volateran reporteth it out of him that in Egypt they haue familiar Aspes at their Tables Rapha Vela lib. 25. Plin. naâ— Hist lib. 10. cap. 74. they bring them vp with their childreÌ„ to eate with them to
hee had conceiued before Thus what trauailing is The 2. of this part Who setteth them on trauaile The 2. point of this part is who setteth thē on to trauaile After the Diuel is entred them as he did into Iudas and that they are resolute in their treasons wicked intents he mightilie effectually worketh in children of disobedience as the woorde 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 importeth which S. Paul vseth Ephe. 2. Then they fall in trauaile with them if they stay he wil set spurres to thē by secret suggestiōs affections passiōs For of mad moodes raging passions the wicked in the scriptures are called Reshaim because they are vnstable cannot stay in one state as Pagnin voucheth out of R. Abrahā The prophet Esai cōpareth thē to troublesome Seas that cānot rest Esay 57. The diuel rideth in their humors as horses he neuer leueth spurring of thē with inward suggestions outward occasions occurrents till he set thē in trauaile They must needs go as cōmonly they say whō the Diuel driueth he driueth them on in their own humors passions like horses mules without vnderstanding Psal 31. as Dauid saieth till hee bring them to their trauaile to work his will When the good spirit was departed from king Saul 1. Sam. 16. the euill spirit did towse trouble him as the scripture saith Turbauit cum spiritus malus à domino the euil spirit sent of God did trouble him so the euill spirit will be continually troubling tesing of them on to their trauail Thus of the second note who setteth them on to trauaile The 3. note is The third of this part How they watch for oportunities 1. Sam. 18. how after they begin to trauail they watch for oportunities occasions After they fall in trauaile they bend thēselues to take all occasions oportunities as king Saul did against Dauid hee deuised to haue him slaine in the wars of the Philistines and at home he sought to dispatch him Whē Dauid plaid before him as hee sate in his house the euill spirit being on him 1. Sam. 19. sodainly in a rage he would haue nailed him to the wal with his speare if Dauid had not shunned the blow fled frō him He sent murderers to his house to kill him in his bed but by Michol his wiues helpe he escaped out at a window Hee chased him frō wildernes to wildernes he hūted him frō couert to couert as a birde as some translate the beginning of Dauids Psalme Psal 11. In the Lorde put I my trust how say yee then to my soule that she shuld flie as a bird vnto the hil For lo the vngodly bend their bow make readie their arrowes wtin their quiuers that they may priuily shoot at them which are true of heart Thus how his enemies bended their forces to do him mischiefe 2. Sam. 31. and watch all occasions And in another Psalm he saith Psal 56. They hold altogether and keep themselues close and mark my steppes while they lay wayt for my soule And likewise in another Psalme Psal 10. Hee sitteth lurking in theeuish corners of the streetes and priuilie in his lurking dens doth hee murther the innocent his eyes are set against the pore for he lyeth wayting secretly euen as a Lion lurketh in his denne that hee may rauish the poore He rauisheth the poore when hee getteth him into his net Thus farre his words After Saul fell in trauaile with mischiefe against him hee sought for occasions to take him at a sodaine lift and to rid him and hee neuer gaue him vp 1. Sam. 31. till in the warres against the Philistines to whose swordes he thought to haue betraide him hee was himselfe woūded and after being distressed with diuelishe dispayre furiously hee fell on his owne sword and killed himselfe So his wicked trauaile turned on himselfe It is a notable example to shewe howe after the wicked fall in trauaile with their diuelish intents they are readie to take all occasions and occurrentes within without in bedde abroade to accomplishe their prepensed plats Cicero When Catilin and the Conspiratours against the state of Rome while it was as yet heathen trauayled with their treasons and conspiracies Cicero being then one of their consuls and great gouernours of the state complayned that nether his house nor his bedde could be free and safe from their trayterous attemptes and that they would haue giuen him a bloody breakefast in his bed but that they were preuented by a watch and gard prouided against them Isboseth 2. Sam. 4. Isboseth the son af Saul as he rested on his bed in the heat of the day Duke Hum. Fabian the 2 part in anno 1447. Cron. Fruct temp part 7. Edward 2. was slaine of Rechab and Baanah Humfrey Duke of Gloster and vncle to Henry the 6. and in his minoritie protector of the land was found sodenly strangly dead on his bed Edward the 2. surnamed of Carnaruen because he was there borne as he was fast a sleepe in his bedde in the Castle of Corf as the Chronicle called Fructus Tenpots noteth but in the Castle of Barkley as Fabian sayth where he was prisoner sodenly hadde a greate Table caste on him therewith to presse him to death Fabian in an 1326. Valentinian the Emp. and by trayterous and cruell meanes was made away Valentinian the Emperor was slaine by the practise of Eugenius and treason of those that were of his Chamber Frederick the second Emperor of that name as he lay on his sick bed was stifled with a pillow as Albert by reporte of some noteth it of Manfrid his base sonne Peter of Besinguen K. of Cyprus a victorious Prince vpon Turkes Souldans as Iohn Froysarth writeth who tooke Alexandria in Egypt Sir Iohn Froysart the 3. 4. booke the 40. chap. Triple in Surry Laias in Armeni Scitalie in Turkie with diuers others was trayterously killed in his bedde of his owne brother called Iaquet by practise of the infidels who so greatly feared his forces Albert the Emp. Alber. Krāz. Wan lib. 7. cap. 32. Albert the Emperour as he passed by the banke of the riuer of Rein slenderly accompanied was sodenly set on and slayne of his neere kinsman Iohn his owne brothers sonne Aurelius the Emperour as hee was on his way Alber. Kranz Saxo. Lib. 3. cap. 3. Ro. Gag in an Re. Fran. lib. 2. was of his own traine sodenly slaine as Albertus writeth Chilperich king of Soisons in Fraunce as he came from hunting slenderly garnished with retinue was of one Laūdri a noble man of his court and by counsell of Queene Fredegund his wife at a soddaine slayne as he drew homeward neere his Palace Fabian the 5 part cap. 117 as Fabian telleth but within the court of his Palace according to the French Chronicle as he light frō his horse Edward the sonne