Whose case bicause it is not so conuenient to be handled in this place as els where we will remit to the reigne of Edward the third in whose time Iohn Balioll was king of Scots and cleere him as well as we can from a Scotish slander Another example also we haue and that most notorious of Gabriel Prateolus the Iesuit who hauing neuer beene in England nor yet vnderstanding the English toong blusheth line 40 not to say that the translation of the English bible hath in it a thousand faults O singular and insufferable impudencie when men passe not what they vomit and cast vp out of a full gorge surfetting with malice and rancour But what shall we say Omne superuacuum pleno de pectore manat Indeed as Roger Houeden and other doo witnes the foresaid earle Reimond and also Aimer earle of Angolesme Geffrey de Racon and Geffrey de Lusignan with the most part of all the Nobles of line 50 Poictou made warre against earle Richard and he held tacke against them all and in the end ouercame them Amongst other of earle Reimonds part whom he tooke was one Peter Seille by whose counsell earle Reimond had taken diuerse merchants of Poictou that were subiects to earle Richard doone manie other displeasures to him and to his countrie wherefore earle Richard kept this Peter in verie close prison and would not put him to his ransome in somuch that earle Reimond tooke two of the king line 60 of Englands knights sir Robert Poer and sir Richard Fraser as they were returning from Compostella where they had béene to visit the bodie of S. Iames but they were quicklie set at libertie by the French kings commandement for the reuerence of S. Iames whose pilgrims they were After this earle Richard entred with a great armie into the lands of earle Reimond wasted the same and tooke by siege a castell of his situate néere vnto Tholouze called Moisac whereof the French king hearing sent out of hand to the king of England requiring to know if the damages doone by his sonne earle Richard vnto him his people in Tholouze were doone by his commandement for the which he demanded restitution Herevnto the king of England answered that his sonne earle Richard did nothing in that behalfe either by his knowledge or commandement but that as he had signified to him by the archbishop of Dublin what soeuer he did therin was doone by the counsell of the French king himselfe Howsoeuer this matter went certeine it is that king Philip taking weapon in hand vpon a sudden entred into Berrie and tooke from king Henrie Chasteau Raoull Brezancois Argenton Mountrichard Mountresor Uandosine Leprose Blanc en Berrie Culan and Molignon Wherfore king Henrie who was at this time in England about to prepare an armie to go therewith into the holie land when he heard thereof with all spéed possible he sent Baldwin archbishop of Canturburie and Hugh bishop of Durham ouer into France to appease the French kings displeasure with courteous words and reasonable persuasions if it might be but when that could not be brought to passe he sailed ouer into Normandie himselfe with an armie of Englishmen and Welshmen landing with the same at Herflue the 10. daie of Iulie after he had beene sore tossed by a cruell tempest that rose as he was on the sea to the great danger of his person all that were with him Now after his comming to land he repaired vnto Alencon increasing his power by gathering vp souldiers and men of warre out of Normandie and other his countries on that side the sea In the meane time his sonne Richard earle of Poictou entred into Berrie with a mightie armie and the French king deliuering Chateau Raoull vnto the keeping of sir William de Berres returned into France so that earle Richard spoiled and wasted the lands of those earls and barons which tooke the French part exceedinglie The French king kept him as yet within France and durst not come foorth now after the arriuall of king Henrie but manie enterprises were atchiued by the capteines on both sides Philip bishop of Beauuois inuading the frontiers of Normandie burned Blangeuille belonging to the earle of Angi and the castell Albemarle that belonged to William de Mandeuille whereof he bare the title of earle and wasted the countrie round about The French king alse came to the towne of Trow and burned it and tooke 40. men of armes there but the castell he could not win On the other part Richard earle of Poictou tooke a strong place called Les Roches beyond Trow towards Uandosme with 25. men of armes and 60. yeomen About this time king Henrie sent ambassadours vnto the French king as Walter the archbishop of Rouen Iohn bishop of Eureux and William Marshall to require restitution for the damages doone to him and his people And furthermore that if the French king refused to make restitution then had they in commandement to declare defiance against him Wherevnto the French king answered that he would not giue ouer to make warre till he had Berrie and the countrie of Ueuxin or Ueulgesine wholie in his possession Wherefore king Henrie with a mightie armie on the tuesdaie after the feast of the decollation of S. Iohn entred into the realme of France and burned manie townes and villages approching the same day néere to the towne of Maunt where the French king was thought to be Now as it chanced William de Berres and Drogo de Merlo encountred with Richard earle of Poictou and William de Mandeuille earle of Albemarle so that William de Berres was taken by earle Richard but by negligence of them that should haue taken héed to him he escaped awaie vpon his page◠horsse The morrow after also earle Richard departed from his father towards Berrie and vpon the thursdaie the Welshmen burned manie villages with the castell of Danuille that belonged to Simon Daneth and tooke manie rich preies and booties Also William Mandeuille earle of Albemarle burned a place called saint Clare that was belonging vnto the demaine of the French king But see when the English were fullie bent to prosecute the warres with all extremitie now in hand there came messengers vnto king Henrie from the line 10 French king requiring him that he would grant a peace to be had betwixt them with promise that if he would condescend therevnto that he should receiue by way of restitution all that the French king had now taken from him in Berrie Herevpon they came to a communication betwixt Trie Gisors and when they could not agrée the French king caused a great elme standing betwixt those two places to be cut downe at which the kings of England and France were accustomed to méet when they treated line 20 of matters in controuersie betwixt them swearing that from thencefoorth there should neuer be anie more méetings holden at that
Venturum virtutis indelebile lumen Celso animâ— prorsus leni quoque pectore ciues Nâ—n solum at iustos hostes fideÃquâ— probatae Dilexit niueo raro iraâ—undior ore Of learned men and writers these I find remembred by Bale and others to haue liued in the daies of this noble and valiant king Henrie the fift First Alaine de Lin borne in Lin and professed a Carmelite frier in that towne he at length became prior of that conuent proceeded doctor of diuinitie in Cambridge and wrote manie treatises Thomas Otterborne that wrote an historie of England is thought to liue about this season he was a Franciscan or graie frier as they called them a great student both in diuinitie and philosophie Iohn Seguard an excellent poet and a rhetorician kept a schoole and read to his scholers in Norwich as is supposed writing sundrie treatises reproouing as well the profaning of the christian religion in monks and priests as the abuse of poetrie in those that tooke vpon them to write filthie verses and rimes Robert Rose a frier of the Carmelites order in Norwich commonlie called the white friers both an excellent philosopher and diuine procéeded doctor at Oxenford promoted to be prior of his house and writing diuerse treatises amongst all the sophists of his time as saith Bale he offended none of the Wickleuists who in that season set foorth purelie the word of God as maie appeare by his workes Moreouer Iohn Lucke a doctor of diuinitie in Oxenford a sore enimie to the Wiekleuists Richard Caister borne in Norfolke vicar of saint Stephans in Norwich a man of great holinesse and puritie in life fauouring though secretlie the doctrine of the Wickleuists and reproouing in his sermons the vnchast manners and filthie example that appeared in the cleargie Of sir Iohn Oldcastell lord Cobham ye haue heard before William Walleis a blacke frier in Lin and prouinciall of his order here in England made a booke of moralizations vpon Ouids Metamorphôseis comparable to postils vpon Aesops Fables Richard Snetisham a student in Oxenford where he profited so greatlie in learning and wisedome that he was accounted the chéefest in all that vniuersitie in respect whereof he was made chancellor of the same chosen also to be one of the twelue to examine and iudge vpon Wickliffes doctrine by the archbishop of Canturburie Iohn Langdene a monke of Christes church in Canturburie an other of those twelue William Tailor a priest and a master of art in Oxenford a stedfast follower of Wickliffes doctrine burnt for the same in Smithfield at London the second day of March in the yeare of our Lord 1422 last of king Henrie the fift his reigne Furthermore Richard Grasdale student in Oxenford one of those twelue also William Lindwood a lawier excellentlie learned as well in the ciuill as canon lawes aduanced to the seruice of this king and made by him kéeper of the priuie seale sent in ambassage both to the kings of Spaine and Portingale about businesse of most weightie importance It is said that he was promoted to the bishoprike of saint Dauid Bartholomew Florarius supposed as Bale saith by Nicholas Brigham to be an Englishman wrote a treatise called Florarium whereof he tooke his surname and also an other treatise of abstinence in which he reprooueth certeine corrupt manners in the cleargie and the profession of friers mendicants Adam Hemmelington a Carmelite frier studied both in Oxenford and Paris William Batecombe is placed by Bale about the time of other learned men that liued in this kings time he was an excellent mathematician as by the the title of his works which he wrote it should appeare Titus Liuius de Foro Luuisiis liued also in these daies an Italian borne but sith he was both resiant here and wrote the life of this king I haue thought good to place him among other of our English writers One there was that translated the said historie into English adding as it were by waie of notes in manie places of that booke sundrie things for the more large vnderstanding of the historie a copie line 10 whereof I haue séene belonging to Iohn Stow citizen of London There was also about the same time an other writer who as I remember hath followed the said Liuius in the order of his booke as it were chapter for chapter onelie changing a good familiar and easie stile which the said Liuius vsed into a certeine poeticall kind of writing a copie whereof I haue séene in the life of this king partlie followed belonging to master Iohn Twine of Kent who as I was informed meant to leaue to posteritie some fruits of his labours for the due vnderstanding thereof Thus farre Henrie the fift sonne and successor to Henrie the fourth Henrie the sixt sonne and heire to Henrie the fift AFter that death had bereft the world of that noble prince king Henrie the fift his onelie sonne prince Henrie being of the age of nine moneths or thereabouts with the sound of trumpets was openlie proclamed king of England and France line 20 the thirtith daie of August by the name of Henrie the sixt in the yeare of the world fiue thousand three hundred eightie and nine after the birth of our Sauiour 1422 about the twelfe yeare of the emperour Frederike the third the fortith and two and last of Charles the sixt and the third yeare of Mordaks regiment after his father Robert gouernour of Scotland The custodie of this yoong prince was appointed to Thomas duke of Excester to Henrie Beauford bishop of Winchester The duke of Bedford was line 30 deputed regent of France and the duke of Glocester was ordeined protectour of England who taking vpon him that office called to him wise and graue councellors by whose aduise he prouided and tooke order as well for the good gouernment of the realme subiects of the same at home as also for the maintenance of the warres abroad and further conâ—uest to be made in France appointing valiant and expert capteins which should be readie when need required Besides this he gathered great summes of line 40 monie to mainteine men of warre and left nothing forgotten that might aduance the good estate of the realme While these things were a dooing in England the duke of Bedford regent of France studied most earnestlie not onelie to keepe and well order the countries by king Henrie late conquered but also determined not to leaue off warre trauell till Charles the Dolphin which was now assâ—te because king Charles his father in the moneth of October in this present yeare was departed to God should either be subdued or brought to obeisance And suerlie the death of this king Charles caused alterations in France For a great manie of the nobilitie which before either for feare of the English puissance or for the loue of this king Charles whose authoritie they followed held on the English part did now reuolt to the Dolphin with all indeuour
King Henrie hauing heard their sute and willing with spéed to performe the same raised a great tax among his subiects rated after euerie hide line 20 of land which they held taking of ech one thrée shillings towards the paiment of the monie which was couenanted to be giuen with hir at the time of the contract Which when the king had leuied with much more towards the charges to be emploied in sending hir foorth he appointed certeine of his greatest péeres to safe conduct hir vnto hir husband who with all conuenient speed conueied hir into Germanie and in verie honorable maner there deliuered hir vnto the foresaid emperour After this the king went into Normandie and there created his sonne William line 30 duke of that countrie causing the people to sweare fealtie and obedience to him whereof rose a custome that the kings of England from thencefoorth so long as Normandie remained in their hands made euer their eldest sonnes dukes of that countrie When he had doone this with other his businesse in Normandie he returned into England In this yeare about the fiftéenth daie of October the sea so decreased and shranke from the old accustomed water-markes and coasts of the land here in line 40 this realme year 1114 that a man might haue passed on foot ouer the sands and washes for the space of a whole daie togither so that it was taken for a great woonder It was also noted that the maine riuers which by the tides of the sea vsed to ebbe and flow twice in 24. houres became so shallow that in many places men might go ouer them without danger and namlie the riuer of Thames was so lowe for the space of a day and a night that horsses men and children passed line 50 ouer it betwixt London bridge and the tower and also vnder the bridge the water not reaching aboue their knées Moreouer in the moneth of December the aire appeared red as though it had burned In like maner the Winter was verie extreame cold with frosts by reason whereof at the thawing and breaking of the yce the most part of all the bridges in England were broken and borne downe Not long after this Griffin ap Rees tooke a great preie and bootie out of the countries subiect to the line 60 king within the limits of Wales and burned the kings castels bicause he would not restore such lands and possessions vnto him as apperteined to his father Rées or Rice Howbeit the king notwithstanding this businesse being not otherwise troubled with any other warres or weightie affaires deferred his voiage into those quarters and first called a councell of his lords both spirituall and temporall at Salisburie on the nintéenth daie of March wherein manie things were ordeined for the wealth and quiet state of the land And first he sware the Nobilitie of the realme that they should be true to him and his sonne William after his deceasse Secondlie he appeased sundrie matters then in controuersie betwixt the Nobles and great Péers causing the same to be brought to an end and the parties made freends the diuision betwixt the archbishops of Yorke and Canturburie which had long depended in triall and could not as yet haue end excepted For ambitious Thurstane would not stand to any decrée or order therin except he might haue had his whole will so that the king taking displeasure with him for his obstinate demeanor commanded him either to be conformable to the decrée made in Lanfranks time or else to renounce his miter which to doo rather than to acknowledge any subiection to the archbishop of Canturburie he séemed to be verie willing at the first but afterwards repented him of his speech passed in that behalfe Now when the councell was ended and the king went ouer into Normandie he followed trusting by some meanes to persuade the king that he might haue his furtherance to be consecrated without recognizing any obedience to the sée of Canturburie but the king would not heare him whereby the matter rested long in sute as heereafter shall appeare ¶ Hereby it is plaine as Polydor saith how the bishops in those daies were blinded with couetousnesse and ambition not considering that it was their duties to despise such worldlie pompe as the people regard and that their calling required a studious endeuour for the health of such soules as fell to their charge Neither yet remembred they the simplicitie of Christ and his contempt of worldlie dignitie when he refused to satisfie the humor of the people who verie desirouslie would haue made him a king but withdrew himselfe and departed to a mountaine himselfe alone They were rather infected with the ambition of the apostles contending one with another for the primasie forgetting the vocation where to Christ had separated them not to rule as kings ouer the gentiles but to submit their necks to the yokes of obedience as they had Christ their maister an example and president ¶ Here is to be noted that before this time the kings of England vsed but seldome to call togither the states of the realme after any certeine maner or generall kind of processe to haue their consents in matters to be decreed But as the lords of the priuie councell in our time doo sit onlie when necessitie requireth so did they whensoeuer it pleased the king to haue any conference with them So that from this Henrie it may be thought the first vse of the parlement to haue proceeded which sith that time hath remained in force and is continued vnto our times insomuch that whatsoeuer is to be decreed touching the state of the commonwealth and conseruation thereof is now referred to that councell And furthermore if any thing be appointed by the king or any other person to be vsed for the wealth of the realme it shall not yet be receiued as law till by authoritie of this assemblie it be established Now bicause the house should not be troubled with multitude of vnlearned cōmoners whose propertie is to vnderstand little reason and yet to conceiue well of their owne dooings there was a certeine order taken what maner of ecclesiasticall persons and what number and sort of temporall men should be called vnto the same and how they should be chosen by voices of free holders that being as atturnies for their countries that which they confessed or denied should bind the residue of the realme to receiue it as a law This counsell is called a parlement by the French word for so the Frenchmen call their publike assemblies The maner of their consulting heere in England in their said assemblies of parlement is on this wise Whereas they haue line 10 to intreat of matters touching the commoditie both of the prince and of the people that euerie man may haue free libertie to vtter what he thinketh they are appointed to sit in seuerall chambers the king the bishops and lords of the realme sit in
their churches were occupied by incumbents that were strangers promoted by the popes and their legats who neither instructed the people nor could well speake anie more English than that which serued for the collection of their tithes in somuch that for the insolencie of such imcumbents as well the Noble men and those of good reputation as other of the meaner sort by an vndiscréet presumption attempted a disorderlie redresse confederating themselues togither and taking vpon them to write and direct their letters vnto bishops and chapters commanding them by waie of inhibition not to séeme to interrupt those that should seize vpon the beneficed strangers or vpon their reuenues They also tooke vpon them to write vnto such religious men and others which were farmers vnto anie of those strangers forbidding them to stand accountable vnto the said strangers but to reteine the rents and profits in their hands to answer the same vnto such as they should appoint for the receipt therof The superscription of their letters was this ¶ Tali episcopo tali capitulo vniuersitas eorum qui magis volunt mori quà m à Romanis confundi salutem That is to say To such a bishop and chapter all those which had rather die than be confounded by the Romans send greeting In the seale wherewith the said letters were sealed were two swords ingrauen This matter went so farre foorth that thâ—â—e were sundrie persons armed and disguised like mummers which enterprised not onelie to take diuerse of those strangers that were beneficed men but also came to their barnes threshed vp their graine and either made sale therof or gaue it awaie for God his sake shewing counterfeited letters vnder the kings seale which they had procured for their warrant as they did pretend At length the pope vpon complaint made vnto him of such violent doings wrote to king Henrie blaming him not a little for suffering such disorders to be committed within his realme commanding him vpon paine of excommunication to cause a diligent inquirie to be had of the offendors and to sée them sharpelie punished to the example of others Moreouer he sent letters to the bishop of Winchester and to the abbat of saint Edmundsburie to make the like inquisition and to accurse all those that should be found culpable within the south parts of England as he did to the archbishop of Yorke to the bishop of Durham and to an Italian named Iohn a canon of Yorke to doo the like in the north parts so that the offendors should remaine accursed till they came to Rome there to fetch their absolution Herevpon therefore a generall inquisition was taken as well by the king as by the bishops and manie found guiltie some in fact and some in consent amongst which number there were both bishops and chapleins to the king with archdeacons and deanes knights and manie of the laitie There were some shiriffes and batliffes also which by the kings commandement were arrested and put in prison and diuerse of all sorts did kéepe themselues out of the waie and would not as yet be â—ound In like maner Hâ—beit earle of Kent lord cheefe iustice was accused to be chiefe transgressour in this matter as he that had giuen foorth the kings letters patents to those disguised and maâ—â—ing threshers who had taken vpon them so to sequester other mens goods whereto they had no right There came also to the king one sir Robert de Twing a knight of the north parts which named himselfe William Wetherso and had led about a companie of the foresaid maskers profesâ—ing that he had doone it vpon iust cause to be reuenged vpon the Romans which went about by sentence of the pope and manifest fraud to spoile him of the parsonage of a certeine church which he held and therfore he said he had rather stand accursed without iust cause for a time â—â—an to lose his benefice without due iudgement Howbeit the king and the other commissioners counseled him in the end to go to Rome to purchase his absolution sith he was fallen in danger of excommunication and there to sue for his pardon in the popes consistorie And to incourage him the better so to doo the king wrote also in his fauour to the pope testifieng the right which he claimed to the church whereby at length he obteined his suit as after ye shall heare The king called a parlement at Westminster wherein declaring what charges he had béene at diuers waies he required to haue a subsidie granted him for the releefe of his want which was flatâ—ie denied the Nobles and other estats excusing the pouertie amongst all degrees of men by manie euident reasons Herevpon the bishop of Winchester being a verie eloquent and faire-spoken man openlie counselled the king to fauour his people whom he had alreadie made poore and bare with continuall tributes and exactions And if it were so that he stood in such need as was alledged that then he should take line 10 into his hands againe such possessions and things which during the time of his yoong yeeres he had bestowed vpon his seruants without any good aduised consideration for lacke of ripe iudgement and discretion and againe to take from certeine couetous persons who now were become horsseleches and caterpillers in the commonwealth all such offices as they held and had verie much abused causing them to yeald vp their accounts and to vse them after the manner of sponges so that where he had in times line 20 past made them full of moisture he might now wring them drie following herein the example of Uespasian And by this means it was not to be douted but he should haue inough of his owne without dooing iniurie to any man The king gaue verie good eare to the bishops words and following his counsell caused his receiuers treasurers and other such as had medled with anie of his receipts to come to a reckoning And vnderstanding by the auditors appointed to take their line 30 accounts that the most part of them had receiued much more and by other means than they had entered into their reckoning he compelled them to restore it out of hand with interest Also he caused the magistrats to be called to a reckoning and manie of them being conuicted of fraud were condemned to make restitution And among other Ranulfe Briton treasurer of his chamber was put beside his office and fined at a thousand marks in whose place was set Peter de Riuales or after some copies de line 40 Oruiales a Poictouin nephue or rather sonne to the bishop of Winchester by whose aduice the king tooke a more strait account of his officers and often remooued such as he iudged guiltie At the same time also Hubert earle of Kent was deposed from the office of high iustice and Stephan Segraue appointed in his roome The said Hubert bicause he refused to answer a certeine dutie which was
prisonae nostrae liberandos saluò securè in eadem per vicecomitem comitatus praedicti custodiendos it a quòd ab eadem prisona nullo modo deliberentur sine mandato nostro speciali line 60 Et ideo vobis mandamus quòd ad certos diem locum quos ad hoc prouideritis inquisitiones illas faciatis Et assumpto vobiscum sufficienti passe comitatus praedicti si necesse fuerit dictos malefactores coram vobis sic indictatos arrestetis ipsos prisonae nostrae liberetis informa praedicta etiam omnia bona catalla ipsorum malefactorū qui se subtraxerint fugam fecerint postquam de felonijs aliquibus coram vobis solenniter indictati fuerint per vicecomitem comitatus praedicti in manum nostram capiatis ea ad opus nostrum saluò custodire faciatis donec aliud inde vobis praeceperimus Mandamus enim vicecomiti nostro comitatus praedicti quòd ad certos diem locum quos vos prouidere duxeritis venire faciat coram vobis tot tales tam milites quà m alios quos habere decreueritis de comitatu illo tam infra libertates quà m extra per quos ipsa veritas meliùs sciri poterit inquiri Et quod omnes illos quos per inquisitionem culpabiles inuenire contigerit quos vos sic liberaueritis à nobis recipiantur quorum nomina eis scire faciatis assumpto secum sufficienti posse comitatus praedicti sine dilatione arrestari in prisona nostra saluò securè custodire faciat in forma praedicta communitati dicti comitatus quod simul cum vicecomite praedicto vobis quotienscúnque opus fuerit in praemissis pareat assistat intendat prout eis iniungetis ex parte nostra In cuius reitestimonium c. ¶ Heerevnto were annexed certeine articles by way of instructions of what points they should inquire as partlie aboue is noted out of the addition to Matthew West but not so fullie as in the said chronicle of Abington is found expressed and heere for breefenesse omitted In the three and thirtith yeare of his reigne king Edward put his sonne prince Edward in prison bicause that he had riotouslie broken the parke of Walter Langton bishop of Chester and bicause the prince had doone this déed by the procurement of a lewd and wanton person one Péers Gauaston an esquire of Gascoine the king banished him the realme least the prince who delighted much in his companie might by his euill and wanton counsell fall to euill and naughtie rule Moreouer the same yeare William Waleis was taken and deliuered vnto king Edward who caused him to be brought to London where on S. Bartholmewes euen he was conueied through the streets vnto Westminster and there arreigned of hie treason and condemned and therevpon hanged drawne and quartered his head was set ouer London bridge his right side ouer the bridge at Newcastell vpon Tine his left side was sent to Berwike and there set vp his right leg was sent to S. Iohns towne and his left vnto Aberden in which places the same were set vp for an example of terror to others Also about the same time the king of France required the king of England by messengers and letters sent vnto him that he would banish all the Flemings out of his realme in like manner as at his instance he had latelie before banished all the Scotishmen out of France The king of England was contented so to doo and by that means were all the Flemings auoided out of this land at that season but shortlie after they returned againe King Edward accused Robert archbishop of Canturburie vnto the pope for that he should go about to trouble the quiet state of the realme and to defend and succour rebellious persons wherevpon the said archbishop being cited to the popes consistorie was suspended from executing his office till he should purge himselfe by order of law of such crimes as were laid and obiected against him The king also obteined an absolution of the pope of the oth which against his will he had taken for the obseruing of the liberties exacted by force of him by the earls and barons of his realme namelie touching disforrestings to be made This yeare Robert Bruce contriuing waies how to make himselfe king of Scotland the nine twentith day of Ianuarie slue the lord Iohn Comin at Dunfrice whilest the kings iustices were sitting in iudgement within the castell there and vpon the day of the Annunciation of our ladie caused himselfe to be crowned king of Scotland at Scone where the countesse of Boughan that was secretlie departed from hir husband the earle of Boughan and had taken with hir all his great horsses was readie to set the crowne vpon R. Bruces head in absence of hir brother the earle of Fife to whom being in England soiourning at his manor of Whitwike in Leicestershire that office of right apperteined This countesse being afterwards taken the same yeare by the Englishmen where other would haue had hir put to death line 10 the king would not grant thervnto but commanded that she should be put in a cage made of wood which was set vpon the walles of the castell of Berwike that all such as passed by might behold hir too slender a punishment for so great an offense But the king counted it no honour to be seuere against that sex whom nature tendereth though malefactors and therfore was content with a mild correction tending rather to some shame than smart to recompense hir offense line 20 whereby she procured against hir selfe no lesse reproch than she susteined agréeable to the old saieng Saepe suum proprium fecit puer ipse flagellum There were present at his coronation foure bishops fiue earles and a great multitude of people of the land Immediatlie vpon the newes brought to the king of Bruces coronation he sent foorth a power of men vnder the conduct of the earle of Penbroke and of the lord Henrie Percie the lord Robert Clifford and others to resist the attempts of the Scots now readie to worke some mischéefe through line 30 the incouragement of the new king Edward prince of Wales was made knight this yeare at London upon Witsundaie a great number of other yoong bachelers with him 297 as Abington writeth the which were sent streightwaies with the said prince towards Scotland to ioine with the earle of Penbroke to resist the attempts of the new king Robert le Bruce and his complices King Edward himselfe followed The generall assemblie of the armie was appointed at Carleill fiftéene daies after the Natiuitie line 40 of saint Iohn Baptist from thence to march foorth vnder the guiding of the prince into Scotland In the meane time Robert le Bruce went abroad in the countries of Scotland receiued the homages of manie Scotishmen and got togither an
for felonies should incontinentlie be buried which ordinance hath béene euer since obserued The earle of Kent and the archbishop of Dubline going ouer into France could not light vpon anie good conclusion for the matter about the which they were sent bicause the same time or rather somewhat before the lord Rase Basset of Draiton being the kings seneshall in Guien had ouerthrowne a certeine towne newlie fortified by the Frenchmen on the frontiers for that the inhabitants trusting on the French kings fauour and maintenance refused to obeie the lawes and ordinances of the countrie of Aquitaine and séemed to despise and set at naught the authoritie of the said lord Basset in that countrie contrarie to all right good order or reason Neuerthelesse the French king tooke the matter so greeuouslie that except the lord Basset might be constreined to come vnto Paris and there make answer to his offense he would not hearken to anie other satisfaction And therevpon when the ambassadours were returned he sent his vncle the lord Charles de Ualois earle of Anio◠with a mightie armie against the English subiects into Guien where entring into Agenois he tooke and seized all that countrie into the French kings hands The earle of Kent being now gotten into those parts with a great number of other capteins and men of warre sent thither by the king of England resisted the enimies verie manfullie in so much that vpon their approch to the Rioll a strong towne in those parts the earle of Kent as then being within it did issue foorth and giuing them battell slue as some write fouretéene hundred of their men so that they were glad to lodge at the first somewhat further off the towne Whilest this siege remained before the towne of the Rioll the king of England wrote his letters to the duke of Britaine as one of the péeres of France declaring the iniurious dealing of the French king who had sent his vncle the earle of Aniou with an armie against his people in Agenois where he had taken manie townes destroied his people and now had besieged his nephue Edmund earle of Kent within the towne of the Rioll inforsing his whole puissance wrongfullie to bereaue him of all the duchie of Guien and against all reason and the prerogatiue of the peeres of France to an euill president or example in time to come of the perpetuall seruitude of the said péeres And although saith the king of England that the French alledge that we haue béen lawfullie summoned to come and doo homage and haue refused so to doo that is not so for we were neuer in due order required as was conuenient neither could we doo homage by reason of the great iniuries and hard dealings practised against vs from the feast of Easter last till the date of those his present letters which was the sixt of October in this eighteenth yeare of his reigne and yet saith he there was neuer anie lawfull processe had against vs before our péeres in the great chamber at Paris as had béene requisite Herevpon he requested the duke of Britaine that for the preseruation and maintenance of the honorable estate of the péeres of France for iustice sake he would helpe to aid him either by waie of request or other conuenient meanes so as the said streict dealings and iniurious wrongs may ceasse and the estate of the péereship may be mainteined as was requisite He wrote likewise to the lord Iohn the infant the lord of Biskie and to the ladie Marie of Biskie gouernesse of the king of Castile and Leon and to Iames king of Aragon requesting them to aid him with men of warre as well horssemen as footmen against his aduersarie the French king that most vniustlie went about to depriue him of his inheritance But howsoeuer the matter went no aid came to the earle of Kent from any part till at length the Frenchmen so reinforced the siege that the towne was deliuered to the earle of Aniou and a truce taken vpon certeine conditions that further talke might be had for the conclusion of some peace Then were sent ouer other ambassadors as the lord Iohn de Sullie a Frenchman borne and one maister Iohn de Shordich but the lord Sullie had so strange interteinment for some displeasure which the French king conceiued against him that if the French quéene had not the beter intreated for him he had lost his head and as for the other he had also returned home without bringing any thing to passe of that for the which he was sent After this the pope line 10 sent the archbishop of Uienna and the bishop of Orange to the princes of either realme to exhort them to some agréement but they could doo no good and so taking monie of the cleargie for their expenses they returned After this about the twentith daie after Christmasse year 1325 there was a parlement called at London in the which the king required to haue the aduise of the lords how he might worke for sauing of the duchie of Guien sore molested by the French Hervpon line 20 it was concluded that the bishops of Winchester and Norwich and Iohn de Britaine earle of Richmond should go ouer as ambassadors to the French king who comming into France after manie argumentations allegations and excuses made on both parts at length receiued a certeine forme of pacification at the French kings hands with the which the bishop of Winchester was sent backe to England the bishop of Norwich and the earle of Richmond remaining there till it might be knowen how the king line 30 of England would like thereof Finallie it was thought good that the queene shuld go ouer to hir brother the French king to confirme that treatie of peace vpon some reasonable conditions She willinglie tooke vpon hir the charge and so with the lord Iohn Crumwell other foure knights without any other great traine taking sea she landed in France where of the king hir brother she was ioifullie receiued and finallie she being the mediatrix it was finallie accorded that the K. of England should giue to his eldest sonne the duchie of Aquitaine and line 40 the countie of Pontieu and that the French king receiuing homage of him for the same he should restore into his hands the said countie and the lands in Guien for the which they were at variance and for those countries which had beene forraied and spoiled the earle of Aniou should fullie see him satisfied as right did require Upon the couenants the French king wrote his letters patents into England and other letters also of safe conduct as well for the sonne as for the king line 50 himselfe if it should please him to come ouer himselfe in person Upon which choise great deliberation was had as well at Langdon as at Douer diuerse thinking it best that the king should go ouer himselfe but the earle of Winchester and his
perceiuing that this was doone of purpose to spare vittels would not driue them backe againe to helpe to consume the same but rather pitied them and therefore did not line 20 onelie shew them so much grace to suffer them to passe through his host but also gaue them meat and drinke to dinner and moreouer two pence sterling to euerie person which charitable déed wan him much praise and caused manie of his enimies to praie right hartilie for his good successe and prosperitie A most notable example of pitie and compassion teaching other to be in like sort affected and also to know that Spernit coelorum regem spretor miserorum line 30 The French king meaning to raise the siege from Calis which the king of England kept there sent for his sonne the duke of Normandie which had line long at the siege of Aiguillon and now by commandement of his father left it sore against his will In this meane while the earle of Derbie remained in the citie of Burdeaux and there had held him during all the time that the siege laie before Aiguillon When he once vnderstood that the siege was raised and that the duke of Normandie had broken vp his line 40 campe he sent into Gascoigne for all knights and esquires that held of the English part Then came to Burdeaux the lord Dalbret the lord de Lespare the lord de Rosam the lord of Musident the lord of Pumiers and a great sort more of the lords and nobles of Gascoigne so that the earle had twelue hundred men of armes two thousand archers and three thousand other footmen They passed the riuer of Garon betwixt Burdeaux and Blaie and tooke their waie to Zanctonge so to go vnto Poictiers and tooke by line 50 the waie the towne of Mirabell by assault they wan also the towne and castell of Aunaie Surgieres and Benon Also they tooke Maraunt in Poictow by force they burnt also the towne of Lusignen but the castell they could not win Moreouer they did win the bridge towne and castell of Tailburge and slue all that were found within it bicause a knight of the English part was slaine in the assaulting From thence the earle of Derbie went and laid siege to saint Iohn Dangelie which was yéelded to him by line 60 composition At Niort he made thrée assaults but could not win it and so from thence he came to Bourge saint Maximent the which was woone by force and all that were within it slaine and in like manner the towne of Montreuill Bonin was woone and the most part of them within slaine that tooke vpon them to defend it which were 200 coiners of monie that wrought in the mint which the French king kept there From thence he passed forward with his host and finallie came before the citie of Poictiers which was great and large so that he could not besiege it but on the one side The third daie after his comming thither he caused the citie to be assaulted in thrée places and the greatest number were appointed to assaile the weakest part of the citie As then there were no expert men of warre within Poictiers but a great multitude of people vnskilfull and not vsed to any feats of warre by reason whereof the Englishmen entered in at the weakest place When they within sawe the citie woone they fled out at other gates but yet there were slaine to the number of seauen hundred persons for all that came in the Englishmens waie were put to the sword men women and children The citie was sacked and rifled so that great store of riches was gotten there as well of the inhabitants as other that had brought their goods thither for safegard of the same The earle of Derbie laie there ten or twelue daies and longer might haue laine if his pleasure had so béene for there was none that durst go about to disquiet him all the countrie trembled so at his presence At his departure from Poictiers he left the citie void for it was too great to be kept his souldiers and men of warre were so pestered with riches that they wist not what to doo therewith they estéemed nothing but gold and siluer and feathers for men of warre The earle visited by the waie as he returned homewards to Burdeaux the towne of saint Iohn Dangelie and other fortresses which he had woone in going towards Poictiers and hauing furnished them with men munition and vittels necessarie at his comming to Burdeaux he brake vp his host and licencing his people to depart thanked them for their paines and good seruice All this while the siege continued still before Calis and the French king amongst other deuises which he imagined how to raise the K. of England from it procured the Scots to make warre into England insomuch that Dauid king of Scotland notwithstanding the truce which yet indured betwixt him and the king of England vpon hope now to doo some great exploit by reason of the absence of king Edward intangled thus with the besieging of Calis he assembled the whole puissance of his realme to the number of fortie or threescore thousand fighting men as some write and with them entered into England burning spoiling and wasting the countrie till he came as far as Durham The lords of England that were left at home with the queene for the sure keeping and defense of the realme perceiuing the king of Scots thus boldie to inuade the land and in hope of spoile to send foorth his light horssemen to harrie the countrie on ech side him assembled an host of all such people as were able to beare armour both preests and other Their generall assemblie was appointed at Newcastell and when they were all togither they were to the number of 1200 men of armes thrée thousand archers and seauen thousand other with the Welshmen and issuing out of the towne they found the Scots readie to come forward to incounter them Then euerie man was set in order of battell and there were foure battels ordeined one to aid another The first was led by the bishop of Durham Gilbert de Uinfreuile earle of Anegos Henrie lord Percie and the lord Henrie Scroope the second by the archbishop of Yorke and the lord Rafe Neuill the third by the bishop of Lincolne Iohn lord Mowbraie and the lord Thomas de Rokebie the fourth was gouerned by the lord Edward Balioll capteine of Berwike the archbishop of Canturburie and the lord Ros beside these were W. lord d' Eincourt Robert de Ogle and other The queene was there in person and went from ranke to ranke and incouraged hir people in the best manner she could and that doone she departed committing them and their cause to God the giuer of all victorie Shortlie herevpon the Scots set forward to begin the battell and likewise did the Englishmen and therewith the archers on both parts began to shoot the shot of the Scots did little hurt
Clifford lord Clinton sir Thomas Harington sir Iohn Wenlock Thomas Neuill Iohn Neuill sons of the earle of Salisburie Iames Pickering Iohn Coniers Thomas Par William Oldhall line 20 and Henrie Ratford knights Iohn Bowser Thomas Cooke Iohn Claie Richard Giton Robert Browne Edward Bowser Thomas Uaughan Iohn Roger Richard Greie Walter Deuoreux Walter Hopton Roger Kinderton Will. Bowes Foulke Stafford the lord Powis and Alice countesse of Salisburie their goods and possessions escheted and their heires disherited vnto the ninth degrée their tenants spoiled of their goods maimed and slaine the towne of Ludlow belonging to the duke line 30 of Yorke was robbed to the bare wals the dutches of Yorke spoiled of hir goods But saith another when the king should come to giue his consent vnto the acts passed in the same parlement and that the clerke of the parlement had read that statute of the attaindor of those lords such was the kings modestie and great zeale vnto mercie that he caused a prouiso to be put in and added vnto the same statute that it might be lawfull vnto him at all times fâ—llie without authoritie of anie other parlement line 40 to pardon the same noble men and restore them againe to their former estats degrees and dignities in all things so they would come in vnto him and in the spirit of humblenesse beséech him of grace and fauour ¶ Wherin the king gaue euident testimonie that he was indued with those qualities of mind which the poet ascribed vnto Cesar namelie slow to punish sad when he was constreined to be seuere sith the one commended his lenitie the other sauoured line 50 of tyrannie in this distichon of like termination Est piger ad poenas princeps ad praemia velox CuÃque dolet quoties cogitur esse ferox Herewith also order was taken for the defense of the hauens landing places alongst the sea coasts Sir Simon Montford with a great crew of men was appointed to keepe the downes and the fiue ports and all men passing into Flanders were vpon paine of death prohibited to passe by Calis least the lords there should borrow of them anie prest monie line 60 as they did latelie before of the merchants of the staple the summe of eighteene thousand pounds The lords were not ignorant of all the kings prouisions made against them but were ascerteined dailie what was doone euen in the kings priuie chamber wherefore first they sent a companie to Sandwich vnder the gouernance of the lord Fauconbridge who tooke the towne sir Simon or Osbert Montford within it and sent him with all his mates to Calis where incontinentlie he with twelue of his chiefe fellowes lost their heads on the sand before Risebanke ¶ The earles at Calis sent to the archbishop of Canturburie and to the commons of England at large certeine articles in writing beginning thus Worshipfull sirs we the duke of Yorke the earles of March Warwike and Salisburie sued and offered to haue come to the king our souereigne lords most noble presence to haue declared there afore him for our dutie to God and to his highnesse and to the prosperitie and welfare of his noble estate and to the common-weale of all his land as true liege men the matters following Articles sent from the duke of Yorke and the earles to the archbishop of Canturburie and the commons IN primis the great oppression extortion robberie murther and other violences doone to Gods church and to his ministers thereof against Gods and mans law 2 Item the pouertie and miserie that to our great heauinesse our souereigne lord standeth in not hauing anie liuelod of the crowne of England whereof he may keepe his honorable houshold which causeth the spoiling of his said liege men by the takers of his said houshold which liuelod is in their hands that haue beene destroiers of his said estate and of the said common-weale 3 Item how his lawes be parciallie and vnrightfullie guided and that by them that should most loue and tender his said lawes the said oppression and extortion is most fauoured and supported and generallie that all righteousnesse and iustice is exiled out of the said land and that no man dreadeth to offend against the said lawes 4 Item that it will please his said good grace to liue vpon his owne liuelod wherevpon his noble progenitors haue in daies heretofore liued as honorablie and as worthilie as anie christian princes and not to suffer the destroiers of the said land and of his true subiects to liue therevpon and therfore to lacke the sustenances that should be belonging to his said estate and find his said houshold vpon his poore commons without paiement which neither accordeth with Gods nor mans law 5 Item how oft the said commons haue beene greatlie and maruellouslie charged with taxes and tallages to their great impouerishing whereof little good hath either growne to the king or to the said land and of the most substance thereof the king hath left to his part not halfe so much and other lords and persons enimies to the said common-weale haue to their owne vse suffering all the old possessions that the king had in France and Normandie Aniou and Maine Gascoine and Guien woone and gotten by his father of most noble memorie and other his noble progenitors to be shamefullie lost or sold. 6 Item how they can not ceasse therewith but now begin a new charge of imposition and tallages vpon the said people which neuer afore was seene that is to saie euerie towneship to find men for the kings gard taking example therein of our enimies and aduersaries of France Which imposition tallage if it be continued to heire heires and successors will be the heauiest charge and worst example that euer grew in England and the foresaid subiects and the said heires and successors in such bondage as their ancestors were neuer charged with 7 Item where the king hath now no more liuelod out of his realme of England but onelie the land of Ireland and the towne of Calis and that no king christened hath such a land and a towne without his realme diuerse lords haue caused his highnesse to write letters vnder his priuie seale vnto his Irish enimies which neuer king of England did heretofore wherby they may haue comfort to enter into the conquest of the said land which letters the same Irish enimies sent vnto me the said duke of Yorke and maruelled greatlie that anie such letters should be to them sent speaking therin great shame and villanie of the said realme 8 Item in like wise the king by excitation and labour of the same lords wrote other letters to his enimies and aduersaries in other lands that in no wise they should shew anie fauour or good will to the line 10 towne of Calis whereby they had comfort inough to procéed to the winning thereof Considered also that it is ordeined by the labour of
he perceiued his sisters good will towards the said duke and that he meant then to haue bestowed hir vpon him but that a better offer came in the waie But howsoeuer it was now he wan hir loue so as by hir consent he wrote to the king hir brother méekelie beséeching him of pardon in his request which was humblie to desire him of his good will and contentation The king at the first staid but after long sute and speciallie by meane of the French quéene hir selfe and other the dukes fréends it was agreed that the duke should bring hir into England vnmarried and at his returne to marrie hir in England but for doubt of change he married hir secretlie in Paris at the house of Clugnie as was said After he had receiued hir with hir dower appointed all hir apparell iewels and houshold stuffe deliuered they tooke leaue of the new French king and so passing thorough France came to Calis where she was honourablie interteined and after openlie married with great honour vnto the said duke of Suffolke Doctor West as then nominated bishop of Elie remained behind at Paris to go through with the full conclusion of a new league betwixt the king of England and the new French king ¶ The court lieng at Gréenewich the king and the quéene accompanied with manie lords and ladies road to the high ground of shooters hill to take the open aire and as they passed by the waie they espied a companieof tall yeomen clothed all in gréene with gréene hoods and bowes and arrowes to the number of two hundred Then one of them which called himselfe Robin hood came to the king desiring him to sée his men shoot and the king was content Then he whisteled and all the two hundred archers shot and losed at once and then he whisteled againe and they likewise shot againe their arrowes whisteled by craft of the head so that the noise was strange and great and much pleased the king the quéene and all the companie All these archers were of the kings gard and had thus apparelled themselues to make solace to the king Then Robin hood desired the king and quéene to come into the greene wood and to sée how the outlawes liued 〈◊〉 king demanded of the queene hir ladies if they durst aduenture to go into the wood with so manie outlawes Then the quéene said that if it pleased him she was content Then the hornes blew till they came to the wood vnder shooters hill there was an arbor made of boughes with a hall and a great chamber and an inner chamber verie well made and couered with floures swéet hearbs which the king much praised Then said Robin hood Sir outlawes breakefasts is venison and therefore you must be content with such fare as we vse Then the king and quéene sat downe and were serued with venison and wine by Robin hood and his men to their great contentation Then the king departed and his companie and Robin hood and his men them conducted and as they were returning there met with them two ladies in a rich chariot drawen with fiue horsses and euery horsse had his name on his head and on euerie horsse sat a ladie with hir name written On the first courser called Caude sat Humidite or Humide On the second courser called Memâ—on road ladie Uer. On the third called Pheton sat ladie Uegetiue On the fourth called Rimphon sat ladie Pleasant On the fift called Lampace sat sweet Odour And in the chaire sat ladie Maie accompanied with ladie Flora richlie apparelled line 10 and they saluted the king with diuerse goodlie songs and so brought him to Gréenewich At this maieng was a great number of people to behold it to their great solace and comfort The same after noone the king the duke of Suffolke the marquesse Dorset and the earle of Essex their bardes and bases of gréene veluet and cloth of gold came into the field on great coursers on whome waited diuerse gentlemen in silke of the same colour On the other side entered sixtéene lords and gentlemen all apparelled richlie after their deuises line 20 and so valiantlie they ran their courses appointed after that they ran volant one as fast as he might ouertake another which was a goodlie sight to sée and when all was doone they departed and went to a goodlie banket This summer the king tooke his progresse westward and visited his townes and castels there and heard the complaints of his poore communaltie and euer as he road he hunted and liberallie departed with venison This yeare in September the king being at his line 30 manour of Oking after his returne from his progresse which he made that yeare into the west parts the archbishop of Yorke came thither to him Whilest he soiourned there a letter was brought to the said archbishop from Rome aduertising him that he was elected cardinall which letter incontinentlie he shewed to the king disabling himselfe in words though his intent was otherwise and so the king did incourage him and willed him to take that dignitie vpon him and called him from thensefoorth my lord line 40 cardinall But his hat bull nor other ceremonies were not yet come In Nouember the king assembled his high court of parlement at Westminster wherein diuerse acts made in the sixt yeare were reformed and altered and especiallie the act of apparell and the act of labourers as by the booke of statutes more plainelie appéereth At the end of this parlement doctor Warham archbishop of Canturburie and as then lord chancellour perceiuing how the new lord cardinall medled line 50 further in his office of chancellorship than he could well suffer except he should aduenture the kings displeasure for this and for other considerations gaue vp his office of chancellor into the kings hands and deliuered to him the great seale which incontinentlie was deliuered by the king vnto the lord cardinall and so was he made lord chancellor He was no sooner in that office but he directed foorth commissions into euerie shire for the execution of the statutes of apparell and labourers and in all his dooings shewed line 60 himselfe more loftie and presumptuous than became him ¶ And he himselfe on a daie called a gentleman named Simon Fitz Richard and tooke from him an old iacket of crimsin veluet and diuerse brooches which extreame dooing caused him greatlie to be hated and by his example manie cruell officers for malice euill intreated diuerse of the kings subiects in so much that one Shinning maior of Rochester set a yoong man on the pillorie for wearing of a riuen or gathered shirt In the end of Nouember the cardinals hat was sent into England which the gentlemen of Kent receiued and brought to London with such triumph as though the greatest prince in Europe had béene come to visit the king much like that of the people at Rome in the yeare 1515 when were
not manie leagues from Fontarabie The torments of the gowt tooke hir by the waie which was the cause that she had lingred some time longer than the daie appointed of permutation But at last the eighteenth daie of March the French king accompanied with the viceroy and capteine Alarcon with fiftie horsse was presented vpon the shore of the riuer that diuideth the realme of France from the kingdome of Spaine And on the other side vpon the shore opposite appéered monsieur Lawtrech line 20 with the kings children and like number of horsse There was in the middest of the riuer a great barke made fast with anchors in which was no person The king was rowed néere to this barke in a little boat wherein he was accompanied with the viceroy capteine Alarcon and eight others all armed with short weapons and on the other side of the barke were likewise brought in a little boat monsieur Lawtrech with the ostages eight others weaponed according to the others line 30 After this the viceroy went into the barke with the king and all his companie and also monsieur Lawtrech with his eight that accompanied him so that they were within the barke a like number of both parts Alarcon and his eight being with the viceroy and Lawtrech and the others with the person of the king And when they were all thus within the barke Lawtrech fetched out of the boat into the barke the Dolphin who being giuen to the viceroy and by him committed to capteine Alarcon was foorthwith bestowed line 40 in their boate and after him followed the little duke of Orleance who was no sooner entred the barke than the French king leaped out of the barke into his boate which he did with such quicknesse and celeritie that the exchange or permutation was thought to be doone at one selfe instant so welcome to him was libertie without the which nothing is swéet nothing is comfortable as the poet saith Libertas perdulce bonum bona caetera reddit Assoone as the king was on the other side of the line 50 shore his new libertie making him fearefull of ambush he mounted vpon a Turkish horsse of a woonderfull swiftnesse which was prepared for the purpose and running betweene feare and gladnesse vpon the spurre he neuer staied till he came to S. Iohn de Lus a towne of his obedience foure leagues from the place And being there readilie relieued with a fresh horsse he ran with the same swiftnesse to Baion where after he had passed ouer the offices of court doone to him by his people he dispatched line 60 with great diligence a gentleman to the king of England to whom he wrote with his owne hand letters of his deliuerie charging the messenger vnder verie louing commission to tell the king of England that as he acknowledged the effect of his libertie to be wrought wholie by him and his operations so in recompense he offered to remaine to him a perpetuall and assured friend and to be guided in all his affaires by his counsell And afterwards he sent an other solemne ambassage into England to ratifie the peace which his mother had made with him as one that reapposed a verie great foundation in the amitie of that king When the French king was gotten into Baion being required by a gentleman of the viceroys to ratifie the accord according to the obligation of his word being come into a place free and assured he deferred it from one daie to another interposing reasons and excuses generall wherin to the end to hold still the emperour in hope he sent to aduertise him by a man especiall that he forbare for the present to accomplish the ratification not by omission or willing negligence but vpon this necessitie that before he procéeded reallie to such an act he was to labour to reappease and reduce the minds of his subiects ill contented with the obligations he had made tending to the diminution of the crowne of France Neuerthelesse he would in his time resolue all difficulties and obserue with fidelitie all that he had promised to him both in substance and circumstance By this dealing no lesse doubtfull for the manner than dangerous in meaning might easilie be comprehended what were his intentions the same being more manifestlie detected at the arriuall of the messengers sent to him not manie daies after by the pope and Uenetians in whome was no great néed of industrie or labour to sound out the plaine course of his inclination For after he had receiued them with manie demonstrations and offices of court he interteined them seuerallie and apart with sundrie spéeches of compassion such as tended to manifest complaints against the inhumanitie of the emperour who he said did neuer administer to him during his captiuitie anie one office apperteining to the ranks of a prince nor at anie time shewed himselfe touched with that affection and commiseration which one prince ought to expresse in the calamities of another and much lesse would vse anie course of common comfort either to relieue the heauinesse of his condition with anie propertie of apt consolation or once to enter into consideration that the same accident that had fallen vpon him might also be as heauilie heaped vpon his owne head In this complaint he alleaged the example of Edward king of England called of some Edward Long-shanke To whome when was presented as prisoner Iohn king of the Frenchmen taken by the prince of Wales his son in the battell of Poitiers he did not onelie receiue him with great comfort and compassion of his afflicted case but also all the time of his imprisonment within the realme of England he let him go at libertie vnder a frée gard Furthermore he had dailie familiar conuersation with him he would oftentimes haue him to accompanie him on hunting to communicate in the open aire and solace of the field and was not curious to call gim to eat with him at his table And by these humanities much lesse that he lost his prisoner or ranged him to an accord lesse fauourable but of the contrarie by the operation of those graces and good offices there grew betwéene them such a familiaritie and confidence that the French king after he had continued manie yeares in France made a voluntarie voiage into England to honour and gratifie vnder that propertie of office the liberalitie and frankenesse of the king He alleged that as there was onelie remembrance of two kings of France that had beene taken prisoners in battell king Iohn and himselfe so the diuersitie of the examples was also worthie of singular memorie séeing vpon the one was exercised all facilitie and mildnesse of the victor and to the other were ministred all those rigours and seuerities which tyrants in the height and pride of their fortune are woont to vse Herevnto he added manie circumstances discouering the discontentment of his mind wherevpon insued practises wherewith the emperour was not well pleased said that
peraduenture seruants that haue béene papists with whom I haue borne but I take God to witnesse I am line 10 none I vtterlie defie the pope and his religion and I hope to be saued onlie by my faith in Iesus Christ and I vtterlie abhorre all mans traditions And if at anie time I did giue countenance to anie papist whereby anie goodman or the church was offended I aske them mercie there is no man that alloweth better of this religion than I doo Then he was desired againe to be short Now touching the goodnesse of the queenes maiestie I am much bound to hir grace I doo thanke hir humblie for that she hath line 20 forgiuen all my offenses and hath prolonged my life so long You sée how good she hath béen to me I haue béene looked for here long before this time God send hir long ouer you to reigne she hath promised me to be gratious to my poore orphan children God grant my death maie end all troubles And if anie of you haue anie one faction or two or thrée or mo let him giue ouer forsake it Manie wish and desire diuerse things but they know not what they wish They seeke their owne destruction If euerie man should line 30 haue his wish God knoweth how manie would repent whatsoeuer they are The quéene hath promised in my death to forgiue all and I praie God that she maie liue manie yeeres I remember well the words of that good father and holie martyr Latimer He told the people that for their wickednesse God would take awaie his blessing from them I praie God the contrarie that your good life maie be such that God maie turne awaie those plagues that he hath thretned He spake it in an line 40 honorable place in the pulpit before king Edward yet let not this place discredit my words I praie God preserue the quéens maiestie and that she maie liue and reigne ouer you manie yeares euen to the worlds end which I beléeue that some one aliue shall sée Then he knéeled downe and praied and master Nowell knéeled downe by him and wept with manie others His praier was vnto God for the continuance of the truth of his gospell he praied also instantlie for the quéenes most prosperous reigne and line 50 knéeling vpon his knees he said two psalms to wit Miserere and Domine ne in furore and in the first psalme he praied to build the wals of Ierusalem according to the psalme Master Nowell said That is meant of Christs church I know that well said he I meane not the church of Rome I abhorre it but the church of England and of all the world wheresoeuer it be I haue forgotten one thing I thanke thée God that hast put me in mind of it I forgiue all the world and I aske all the world forgiuenesse and I protest line 60 before God if I knew anie particular man I had offended I would namelie aske him forgiuenesse Then he read the other psalme wherein adulterie is mentioned and when he came to that point he said I would I were as cleare in euerie thing as in that sauing for thought and that is as euill Then he said a collect and in the end he said In manus tuas Domine c in Latine and English And then he desired the people to praie for him while he liued for quoth he I looke not to haue anie excuse after my death Then he imbrased sir Henrie Leie and after a few secret words betweene them Master Nowell stood vp and said to the people He dooth desire you all with one voice to saie Lord haue mercie vpon him and after to saie no more words nor to make anie shout or shritching for troubling of him in his last visitation Then the duke knéeled downe and master Nowell bowed himselfe towards him with manie imbrasings and tooke there leaue each of other Then the executioner desired him knéeling to forgiue him and he tooke him by the hand and forgaue him and then requested sight of the axe Master Nowell said The sight will trouble you He answered No let me see it but he shewed it not then he laied his necke vpon the blocke Then the executioner said My lord your head lieth not well I will make it lie well saith he therewith lifting vp his bodie he laid his necke euen vpon the blocke which doone it was cut cleane off at one stroke This was the end of the duke of Northfolke a man whose life God had limited as also the estate wherein he sometimes flourished both which as all things else in a short time vanished Let all degrées therefore learne both by precept and example to know God principallie secondlie their souereigne Gods annointed and finallie themselues to be subiects forgetting their owne honour which puffeth men vp manie times with the wind of vainglorie euen to their owne ouerthrow whilest they become insolent and dreame that the transitorie aduancements of this world will make them princes princes péeres naie O monstrous madnesse gods whereas all things are mutable and momentanie and the higher that a man dooth clime the greater is his fall as verie aptlie saith the poet in these words Hoc fragili varijs voluuntur casibus orbe Omnia celsa ruit turris grauiore ruina The discourse and catalog of all the dukes of England by creation or descent since the time of the conquest TWo sentences the one an Italian prouerbe the other an old English byword haue mooued me to make this collection at the request of an other of all the dukes of England First the Italian said that France cannot abide anie treasurors England anie dukes nor Scotland anie kings the truth wherof need no confirming examples to be set downe sith as saith the philosopher things subiect to the sense néed no further proofe Secondlie the English saieng hath been that a Nag of fiue shillings shall beare all the dukes of England Scotland being spoken in no sense of disgrace to that honorable title but onelie to shew that the time should come wherein there should be no dukes in England or Scotland How true the same is in England and likelie againe to be in Scotland being once before verified in that realme for about fiue years past there was no duke there also when the duke of Lineux was banished euerie man dooth well perceiue For the death of this Thomas duke of Northfolke being the last of that honour hath iustified the same in England And the turmoils in Scotland may perhaps shortlie verifie the same in that countrie in which there were neuer so few dukes as that they cannot make the first and smallest number for being but one in that countrie and he verie yoong which is the duke of Lineux if he should miscarie the same would againe also be as true there as it is now héere For which cause to perpetuat the memories of such antiquities and titles
the child representing the common wealth spake to hir highnesse these words following Most gratious prince vndoubted souereigne queene Our onelie ioy next God and chiefe defense In this small shew our whole estate is seene The wealth we haue we find proceed from thense The idle hand hath here no place to feed The painfull wight hath still to serue his need Againe our seat denies our traffike heere The sea too neare decides vs from the rest So weake we were within this doozen yeare line 50 As care did quench the courage of the best But good aduise hath taught these little hands To rend in twaine the force of pining bands From combed wooll we draw this slender threed From thense the loomes haue dealing with the same And thense againe in order doo proceed These seuerall works which skilfull art dooth frame And all to driue dame need into hir caue Our heads and hands togither labourd haue We bought before the things that now we sell These slender impes their works doo passe the waues Gods peace and thine we hold and prosper well Of euerie mouth the hands the charges saues Thus through thy helpe and aid of power diuine Dooth Norwich liue whose hearts and goods are thine line 60 This shew pleased hir maiestie so greatlie as she particularlie viewed the knitting spinning of the children perused the loomes and noted the seuerall works and commodities which were made by these means and then after great thanks by hir giuen to the people marched towards the market place where was the second pageant thwarting the stréet at the enterance of the market betwéene master Skinner master Quash being in bredth two and fiftie foot of assise and was diuided into three gates in the midst a maine gate on either side a posterne the maine gate in breadth fourtéene foot each posterne eight foot their heights equall to their proportion ouer each posterne was as it were a chamber which chambers were replenished with musike Ouer all the gates passed a stage of eight foot brode in manerof a pageant curious rich delitefull The whole worke from the pageant downewards séemed to be iasper marble In the forefront towards hir maiestie was the armes of England on the one side the gate on the other side the falcon with crowne and scepter The other side was beautified with the arms of England on the one side of the gate the crest of England on the other The pageant was furnisht with fiue personages apparelled like women The first was the citie of Norwich the second Debora the third Iudith the fourth Hester the fift Martia sometime quéene of England At the first sight of the prince till hir maiesties comming to the pageant the musicians vsed their lowd musike and then ceassed wherewith hir highnesse staied to whome the personage representing the citie of Norwich did speake in these words Whom fame resounds with thundring trump that rends the And perseth to the hautie heauens and thense descending flies Through flickering aire and so conioines the sea shore togither In admiration of thy grace good queene th art welcome hither More welcome than Terpsicore was to the towne of Troie Sea-faring men by Gemini conceiue not halfe my ioie Strong Hercules to Theseus was neuer such delight Nor Nisus to Eurialus as I haue in this sight Penelope did neuer thirst Ulysses more to see Than I poore Norwich hungred haue to gaine the sight of thee And now that these my happie eies behold thy heauenlie face The Lord of lords I humblie praie to blisse thy noble grace With Nestors life with Sibils helth with Cresus stocke store With all good gifts of Salomon and twise as manie more What shuld I saie Thou art my ioy next God I haue none other My princesse my peerlesse queene my louing nursse and mother My goods lands my hands and hart my lims and life are thine What is mine owne in right or thought to thee I doo resigne Grant then oh gratious souereigne queene this onlie my request That that whâ—ch shall be doone in me be construed to the best And take in part my slender shewes wherein my whole pretense Is for to please your maiestie and end without offense So shall I clap my hands for ioy and hold my selfe as rich As if I had the gold of Iude and double twise as mich Where princes sitting in their thrones set God before their sight And liue according to his law and guide their people right There doth his blessed gifts abound there kingdoms firmlie stand There force of foes cannot preuaile nor furie fâ—et the land My selfe oh peerlesse prince doo speake by proofe of matter past Which proofe by practise I performd and foild his foes at last For Iabin king of Canaan poore Israell did spite And meant by force of furious rage to ouerrun vs quite Nine hundred iron chariots he brought into the field With cruell capteine Sisera by force to make vs yeeld His force was great his fraud was more he fought we did defend And twentie winters long did last this warre without an end But he that neither sleepes nor slackes such furies to correct Appointed me Debora for the iudge of his elect And did deliuer Sisera into a womans hand I slue them all and so in rest his people held the land So mightie prince that puisant Lord hath plast thee here to be The rule of this triumphant realme alone belongs to thee Continue as thou hast begun weed out the wicked rout Uphold the simple meeke and good pull downe the proud stout Thus shalt thou liue and reigne in rest mightie God shalt please Thy state be sure thy subiects safe thy commonwealth at ease Thy God shall grant thee length of life to glorifie his name Thy deeds shall be recorded in the booke of lasting fame Oh floure of grace oh prime of Gods elect Oh mightie queene and finger of the Lord Did God sometime by me poore wight correct The champion stout that him and his abhord Then be thou sure thou art his mightie hand To conquer those which him and thee withstand The rage of foes Bethulia did oppresse The people faint were readie for to yeeld God aided me poore widow nerthelesse To enter into Holofernes field And with this sword by his directing hand To slaie his fo and quiet so the land If this his grace were giuen to me poore wight If widowes hand could vanquish such a fo Then to a prince of thy surpassing might What tyrant liues but thou maist ouerthro Perseuere then his seruant as thou art And hold for aie a noble victors part The fretting heads of furious foes haue skill As well by fraud as force to find their preie In smiling lookes dooth lurke a lot as ill As where both sterne and sturdie streams doo swaie Thy selfe oh queene a proofe hast seene of this So well
nothing can be cruell and yet vpon whom nothing hath béene doone but gentle and mercifull The execution of iustice in England for maintenance of publike and christian peace against certeine stirrers of sedition and adherents to the traitors and enimies of the realme without anie persecution of them for questions of religion as is falslie reported and published by the fautors and fosterers of their treasons IT hath béene in all ages and in all countries a common vsage of all offendors for the most part both great and small to make defense of their lewd and vnlawfull facts by vntruths and by colouring and couering their déeds were they neuer so vile with pretenses of some other causes of contrarie operations or effects to the intent not onelie to auoid punishment or shame but to continue vphold and prosecute their wicked attempts to the full satisfaction of their disordered and malicious appetites And though such hath beene the vse of all offendors yet of none with more danger than of rebels and traitors to their lawfull princes kings and countries Of which sort of late yeares are speciallie to be noted certeine persons naturallie borne subiects in the realme of England and Ireland who hauing for some good time professed outwardlie their obedience to their souereigne ladie quéene Elisabeth haue neuerthelesse afterward beene stirred vp and seduced by wicked spirite first in England sundrie yeares past and secondlie and of later time in Ireland to enter into open rebellion taking armes and comming into the field against hir maiestie and hir lieutenants with their forces vnder banners displaied inducing by notable vntruths manie simple people to follow and assist them in their traitorous actions And though it is verie well knowen that both line 10 their intentions and manifest actions were bent to haue deposed the quéenes maiestie from hir crowne and to haue traitorouslie set in hir place some other whome they liked whereby if they had not béene spéedilie resisted they would haue committed great bloudsheds and slaughters of hir maiesties faithfull subiects and ruined their natiue countrie yet by Gods power giuen vnto hir maiestie they were so spéedilie vanquished as some few of them suffered by order of law according to their deserts line 20 manie the greatest part vpon confession of their faults were pardoned the rest but they not manie of the principall escaped into forren countries there bicause in none or few places rebels and traitors to their naturall princes and countries dare for their treasons chalenge at their first muster open comfort or succour these notable traitors and rebels haue falselie informed manie kings princes and states and speciallie the bishop of Rome commonlie called the pope from whom they all had secretlie their first line 30 comfort to rebell that the cause of their flieng from their countries was for the religion of Rome and for maintenance of the said popes authoritie whereas diuerse of them before their rebellion liued so notoriouslie the most part of their liues out of all good rule either for honest maners or for anie sense in religion as they might haue béene rather familiar with Catiline or fauourers to Sardanapalus than accounted good subiects vnder anie christian princes As for some examples of the heads of line 40 these rebellions out of England fled Charles Neuill earle of Westmerland a person vtterlie wasted by loosenesse of life and by Gods punishment euen in the time of his rebellion bereaued of his children that should haue succéeded him in the earledome and his bodie now eaten with vlcers of lewd causes as his companions doo saie that no enimie he hath can wish him a viler punishment a pitifull losse to the realme of so noble a house neuer before in anie age atteinted for disloialtie And out of Ireland ran line 50 awaie one Thomas Stukeleie a defamed person almost thorough all christendome and a faithlesse beast rather than a man fléeing first out of England for notable pirasies and out of Ireland for trecheries not pardonable which two were the first ringleaders of the rest of the rebels the one for England the other for Ireland But notwithstanding the notorious euill and wicked liues of these others their confederats void of line 60 all christian religion it liked the bishop of Rome as in fauour of their treasons not to colour their offenses as themselues openlie pretend to doo for auoiding of common shame of the world but flatlie to animate them to continue their former wicked purposes that is to take armes against their lawfull quéene to inuade hir realme with forren forces to pursue all hir good subiects their natiue countries with fire and sword for maintenance whereof there had some yeares before at sundrie times procéeded in a thundering sort buls excommunications and other publike writings denouncing hir maiestie being the lawfull quéene and Gods annointed seruant not to be the queene of the realme charging and vpon paines of excommunication commâ—â—â—ing all hir subiects to depart from their naturall allegiances whereto by birth and by oth they were bound prouoking also and authorising all persons of all degrees within both the realmes to rebell And vpon this antichristian warrant being contrarie to all the lawes of God and man nothing agréeable to a pastorall officer not onelie all the rable of the foresaid traitors that were before fled but also all other persons that had forsaken their natiue countries being of diuerse conditions and qualities some not able to liue at home but in beggerie some discontented for lacke of preferments which they gaped for vnworthilie in vniuersities and other places some bankerupt merchants some in a sort learned to contentions being not contented to learne to obeie the laws of the land haue manie yeares running vp and downe from countrie to countrie practised some in one corner some in an other some with séeking to gather forces and monie for forces some with instigation of princes by vntruths to make warre vpon their naturall countrie some with inward practises to murther the greatest some with seditious writings and verie manie of late with publike infamous libels full of despitefull vile termes and poisoned lies altogither to vphold the foresaid antichristian and tyrannous warrant of the popes bull And yet also by some other meanes to further these inuentions bicause they could not readilie preuaile by waie of force finding forren princes of better consideration not readilie inclined to their wicked purposes it was deuised to erect by certeine schooles which they called seminaries to nourish and bring vp persons disposed naturallie to sedition to continue their race trade and to become seedmen in their tillage of sedition and them to send secretlie into these the quéenes maiesties realmes of England Ireland vnder secret maskes some of priesthood some of other inferiour orders with titles of seminaries for some of the meaner sort and of Iesuits for the stagers and ranker sort
that he did sweare to me at diuerse times that all the aduancement she could giue should serue but for hir scourge if euer time and occasion should serue and that although he would not laie hand vpon hir in a corner his hart serued him to strike off hir head in the field Now leauing him to himselfe thus much to make an end I must confesse of my sefe I did meane to trie what might be doone in parlement to doo my best to hinder all hard courses to haue praied hearing of the queenes maiestie to mooue hir if I could to take compassion vpon hir catholike subiects and when all had failed to doo as I intended If hir maiestie by this course would haue eased them though she had neuer preferred me I had with all comfort and patience borne it 13 but if she had preferred me without ease or care of them the enterprise had held ¶ God preserue the quéene incline hir mercifull hart to forgiue me this desperat purpose and to take my head with all my hart for hir better satisfaction line 10 W. Parrie After which for the better manifesting of his treasons on the fouretéenth of Februarie last past there was a letter written by him to hir maiestie verie voluntarilie all of his owne hand without anie motion made to him The tenor whereof for that which concerneth these his traitorous dealings is as followeth line 20 A letter written by Parrie to hir maiestie YOur maiestie maie see by my voluntarie confession the dangerous fruits of a discontented mind how constantlie I pursued my first conceiued purpose in Venice for the releefe of the afflicted catholikes continued it in Lions and resolued in Paris to put it in aduenture for the restitution line 30 of England to the ancient obedience of the see apostolike You maie see withall how it is commended allowed and warranted in conscience diuinitie and policie by the pope and some great diuines though it be true or likelie that most of our English diuines lesse practised in matters of this weight doo vtterlie mislike and condemne it The enterprise is preuented and conspiracie discouered by an honourable gentleman my kinsman and late familiar friend maister Edmund Neuill priuie line 40 and by solemne oth taken vpon the bible partie to the matter wherof I am hardlie glad but now sorie in my verie soule that euer I conceiued or intended it how commendable or meritorious so euer I thought it God thanke him and forgiue me who would not now before God attempt it if I had libertie and oportunitie to doo it to gaine your kingdome I beseech Christ that my death and example maie as well satisfie your maiestie and the world as it shall glad and content me line 50 The queene of Scotland is your prisoner let hir be honourablie intreated but yet surelie garded The French king is French you know it well enough you will find him occupied when he should doo you good he will not loose a pilgrimage to saue you a crowne I haue no more to saie at this time but that with my hart soule I doo now honour loue you am inwardlie sorie for mine offense and readie to make you amends by my death and patience Discharge me A culpa but not A poena good ladie And line 60 so farewell most gratious and the best natured and qualified queene that euer liued in England From the Tower the fourteenth of Februarie one thousand fiue hundred eightie and foure W. Parrie After which to wit the eightéenth of Februarie last past Parrie in further acknowledging his wicked and intended treasons wrote a letter all of his owne hand in like voluntarie maner to the lord treasuror of England and the earle of Leicester lord steward of hir maiesties house the tenor wherof is as followeth William Parries letter to the lord treasuror and the earle of Leicester MY lords now that the conspiracie is discouered the fault confessed my conscience cleared and mind prepared patientlie to suffer the paines due for so hainous a crime I hope it shall not offend you if crieng Miserere with the poore publicane I leaue to despaire with curssed Caine. My case is rare and strange and for anie thing I can remember singular a naturall subiect solemnlie to vow the death of his naturall queene so borne so knowne and so taken by all men for the releefe of the afflicted catholikes and restitution of religion The matter first conceiued in Venice the seruice in generall words presented to the pope continued and vndertaken in Paris and lastlie commended and warranted by his holinesse digested and resolued in England if it had not beene preuented by accusation or by hir maiesties greater lenitie and more gratious vsage of hir catholike subiects This is my first and last offense conceiued against my prince or countrie and dooth I cannot denie conteine all other faults whatsoeuer It is now to be punished by death or most gratiouslie beyond all common expectation to be pardoned Death I doo confesse to haue deserued life I doo with all humilitie craue if it may stand with the queenes honor and policie of the time To leaue so great a treason vnpunished were strange to drawe it by death in example were dangerous a sworne seruant to take vpon him such an enterprise vpon such a ground and by such a warrant hath not beene seene in England to indict him arreigne him bring him to the scaffold and to publish his offense can doo no good to hope that he hath more to discouer than is confessed or that at his execution he will vnsaie anie thing he hath written is in vaine to conclude that it is impossible for him in time to make some part of amends were verie hard and against former experience The question then is whether it be better to kill him or least the matter be mistaken vpon hope of his amendment to pardon him For mine owne opinion though parciall I will deliuer you my conscience The case is good queene Elisabeths the offense is committed against hir sacred person and she may of hir mercie pardon it without preiudice to anie Then this I say in few words as a man more desirous to discharge his troubled conscience than to liue Pardon poore Parrie and releeue him for life without liuing is not fit for him If this may not be or be thought dangerous or dishonorable to the queenes maiestie as by your fauors I thinke it full of honor and mercie then I beseech your lordships and no other once to heare me before I be indicted and afterwards if I must die humblie to intreat the queenes maiestie to hasten my triall and execution which I praie God with all my heart may prooue as honorable to hir as I hope it shall be happie to me who will while I liue as I haue doone alwaies praie to Iesus Christ for hir maiesties long and prosperous reigne From the
articles to the French king The emperor â—â—mmeth at 〈◊〉 houre of â—â—dience The words of Clarenceâ—ux king of armes to the emperor The emperor giueth the heralds libertie to speake The inconueniences of warre mooued to the emperor The herald prosecuteth the state of Rome the pope in lamentable sorâ— The herald mooueth the emperor with the king of Englands example c. The herald commmeth to the verie drift of his message What the king of EnglaÌ„d desireth of the emperour in the French kings behalfe The king of Englands meaning and the French kings for the returne of the emperours subiects out of their countries and contrariwise The emperors words to Guien the French kings herald How the emperor was affectioned for the pope in his captiuitie The emperor seemeth loth to incur the â— of Englands displeasure The report of the herald falleth out iustifiable by Guicciardines discourse lib. 18. The king of England fauoured the French king The herald useth an argument drawne from benefits receiued to mooue the emperour The herald of England sheweth the emperour what is the king of Englands present determination â—f his offers be refused The disposition of the king of England to the pope and the French king The defiance intimated to the emperor by the herald of England Libertie granted to the emperors subiects in England and France to returne to their owne countries and the like demanded on the contrarie part The emperors modestiâ— in this point notable The English herald is coÌ„manded by the emperour to leaue his oration behind him in writing Guic. pag. 1085. Accord betwéene the pope the emperours agents Heauie paiments for the pope to discharge Guic. pag. 1085 The manner of the popes going out of prison The emperors words to the French herald This the emperor inferreth to iustifie his owne dealings by waie of comparison The heralds receiue the emperors answer in writing The sâ—auen twentith â—â—th Guic. pag. 1â—â—1 This speach of the kings dooth wholie concerne the emperor and fauoureth of displeasure What induced the French king to vse some discourtesie against the emperors ambassadors The king answereth the emperours words vttered to Guien his herald The French K. saith that constraint and necessitie made him tractable to the emperor The emperors ambassador refuseth to read the French kings letters sent to his souereigne The French king deliuereth his mind with a corage as vtter enimie to the emperour The French kings allegations in defense of his honor charged with vntruth The French king giueth the emperor the lie sée Guic. pag 10â—â— This Robertet was one of the secretaries to the estate The emperor answereth the French kings letters What states both natiue and forren were present in the French kings hall Who stood on either side of the French kings seate roiall The king sheweth the first cause of this assemblie of honorable personages Further causâ— whie the said assemblie was procured The French king in 〈◊〉 of all his 〈…〉 that he 〈◊〉 gaue his faith to 〈◊〉 of his 〈◊〉 ergo not to the emperour The king â—rosecuteth the discourtesâ—e of the emperour in his â—eclaration The field that is a place where they may safelie come to fight in 〈◊〉 before indifferent iudges Guic. pag. 1091. The French kings talke and communication to the emperors ambassador vttered with indignation The herald requireth libertie to depart The emperoâ—â— defied by the kings of England and France English merchants staied in Spaine The incoÌ„moditie rising of lacke of intercourse for traficke An abstinence of war granted vpon sute made to the king of England Creation of the earle of Osserie Sir Edmund Walsingham A truce and the benefits insuing from the same The sweating sickenesse whereof died both courtiers and others Sir William Compton Abr. Fl. ex 〈◊〉 pag 959. A prisoner brake froÌ„ the sessions house Register of Greie friers DoctorLongland bishop of Lincolne Why the cardinall was suspected to be against the marriage Polydor. Edw. Hall The king is desirous to be resolued by the opinions of the learned touching his marriage Cardinall Campeius sent into England The matter touching the kings marriage debated The quéene chooseth lawyers for hir part Polydor. Doctor StephaÌ„ Gardner Doctor Pace falleth out of his wits Anno Reg. 21. Edw. Hall Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 959. The maner of the session euerie personage of account in his place The king and queene called into the court Quéene Katharines lamentable and pâ—â—hie spéech in presence of the court The quéene iustifieth the mariage The quéene departing onâ— of the court is called againe The cardinall requireth to haue that declared which was well enough known The king confesseth that the sting of conscience made him mislike this mariage The state of the question The king submitteth himselfe to the censures of the learned in this case of diuorse The quéene accuseth cardinall Wolsie She appeleth to the pope The king mistrusteth the legats of séeking delaies The present mariage whie thought vnlawfull Quéene Katharine and the cardinals haue câ—mmunication in hir priuie chamber The quéene refuseth to make sudden answer to so weightie a matter as the diuorse The king quéenes matter commeth to iudgement Cardinall Campeius refuseth to giue iudgement The kings affection and goodwill to the ladie Anne Bullen The secret working and dissimulation of cardinall Wolseie The king coÌ„ceiueth displeasure against the cardinall Edw. Hall Articles exhibited against the cardinall The cardinall sued in a premunire Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 966 967. The cardinall is loth to part from the great seale The cardinall discharged of the great seale The cardinall calleth all his officers to accounts The cardinall of Yorke goeth to Asher and hath his plentie turned into penurie Iohn Scute and Edmund Iennie The cardinall condemned in a premunire The bishoprike of Duresme giuen to doctor Tunstall The duchesse of Sauoy and the duchesse â—â— Angolesme méet about â— treatie oâ— peace Edw. Hall in H. 8. fo clxxxâ—â— Read more hereof in Guic. pag. 1145. deinceps The womens peace Sir Thomas Moore lord chancellor Edw. Hall in H. 8. fo clxxxâ—â— An oration made in the audience of the parlement by sir Thomas Moore Wherein the person of the king is properlie reputed a ruler Thomas â—udleie chosen speaker An oration made by the speaker of the parlement The commoÌ„s of the lower house complaine against the clergie The bishops sticke hard against these billes The saieng of Iohn Fisher bishop of Rochester A complaint made to the king against the bishop of Rochester The bishops excuse to the kings maiestie Hard hold betwéene the lords spirituall and temporall about the probats of willes and mortuaries The loane of monie released to the king which he borowed in anno reg 15. The matter of testaments and mortuaries moderated by the king All against the cleargie both head and taile Articles â—â—hâ—bited against the cardinall of Yorke Creation of earles at Yorke place A speciall argument in disproofe of the