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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14273	The honourable prentice: or, This taylor is a man Shewed in the life and death of Sir John Hawekwood, sometime prentice of London: interlaced with the famous history of the noble Fitzwalter, Lord of Woodham in Essex, and of the poisoning of his faire daughter: Also of the merry customes of Dunmow, where any one may freely haue a gammon of bacon, that repents not mariage in a yeere and a day. Whereunto is annexed the most lamentable murther of Robert Hall at the high altar in Westminster Abbey.	Vallans, William.	1615 (1615)	STC 24588; ESTC S101782	18,713	40

THE Honourable Prentice OR This Taylor is a man Shewed in the life and death of Sir John Hawkewood sometime Prentice of London interlaced with the famous History of the noble Fitzwalter Lord of Woodham in Essex and of the poisoning of his faire Daughter Also of the merry customes of Dunmow where any one may freely haue a Gammon of Bacon that repents not mariage in a yeere and a day VVhereunto is annexed the most lamentable murther of Robert Hall at the High Altar in Westminster Abbey ¶ Printed at London for Henry Gosson and are to be sold in Pannier alley 1615. TO MY MOST louing and respected friend Master Robert Valens health and all happines SVch is now and euermore hath been the inconstant and interchangeable estate of humane affaires good Sir that nothing hath beē which hath not had his increase his hight as also his declining and albeit it may bee said that among the rest martiall discipline was neuer in any age neglected or vnregarded Yet can it not be denyed but that in former ages the same hath been mannaged with much more honourable regard and reward then now it is Witnesse the many honoures which the Greekes and Romans allowed to Souldiers and men of high desert And in especiall the stately and costly Triumphs which were allowed to their Consuls or Generalls that were Victors and had conquered or subdued any Nation or Countrey to their obeysence Neyther haue writers left their atchiuements or worthy designes vnrecouered and smothered in obliuion which benefit many worthy Commanders of our Nation haue wanted Among which Iohn Hawkewood whose honour and memoriable exploits acted in Forraine Countries had been forgotten had not Paulus Iouius and some few others rather remembred them then expressed them according to their worth This moued me some few yeeres since for my owne recreation to collect these Histories ensuing hoping that some one or other better furnished then my selfe would haue vndertaken to deliuer them to the world in more ample manner and more plausible termes which not falling out according to my expectation but being put to the Presse I being most assured of your generous and worthy disposition haue imbouldened my selfe in this to make tender of that loue which I beare and owe to your vertues wishing to you all that happinesse which may equall your godly and vertuous intendments Yours in all W. U. The Introduction IT is obserued that the Almighty Creator and Gouernour of this great large vniuerse the world without diminishing his owne ininfinite vncircumscribed power or neglect of his protection and gouernement hath yet appointed the supe rior seauen planets by termes to gouerne the world vnder him each for the space of three hundred fifty and odde yeeres who according to their seuerall honoures and influences impart their seuerall natures and properties to mortall men Which is the cause that some ages are giuen to peace and quiet some to war some to studie and inuention of sciences some to trauaile and search strange and vnknowne lands to plant inhabitants some to propagate religion c. But if any age or time hath had Mars for gouernor I doubt not but about the daies of King Edward the third and his Father and his sonne this Gouernment must bee All Christian Princes yea and the heathen intending nothing but warres bloodshed stratagems and conquests In these times valor and magnanimity was esteemed had in price and bountifully rewarded Honour and promotion attending on such as could and had meanes to deserue it In these times men from meane estates arise to high promotion and dignities honour fame and renoune attending on such as could with wisedome and courage follow the warres THE Famous History of Sir Iohn Hawkewood sometimes PRENTICE of LONDON ABout the beginning of the raigne of King Edward the third there liued in the countie of Essex in the towne of Henningham Syble a man of honest report reputation named Gilbert Hawkewood by his trade and profession a Tanner who among other childrē had a son named Iohn a youth forward and apt for any good impression or matter which might be imposed on him Him hee brought vp in such learning as might after stand him in steed and such as those times affoorded which he diligently applyed insomuch as in writing reading and casting accounts and other rudiments of great scollership he exceeded his equalls So soone as hee came to reasonable yeers and was fit for the Cittie his Father brought him to London and bound him apprentize to a Taylor who were not then called Marchant Taylors but Taylors and linnen Armorers with this Taylor he remained performing all such duties as others that were his fellow prentises vsed to doe vnto and for their Masters vntill the King hauing imployed many thousands of men in his conquest of France and forced to plant and man many Garrisons in Citties Castles towns which he had wonne and taken sent yet againe into England for new supplie of Souldiers pressing many house-holders seruants to supplie his Armies and to mannage his intended conquest of France Then was Iohn Hawkhood albeit yong thought meet and able to serue Himselfe rather willing to be so imployed then to sit all day on a shoppe boord making trusses sowing stockins or fashioning or shaping of Garments His spirit Genius leading him rather to follow Arms after the sound of trumpet and drumme then be at the hand at the call of his master or mistres To France he went as also many other prentises of his acquaintance and familiars He serued an Archer with his bowe shafts in no better place then a common Sentinell or of the still watch as it then was termed and in short space such was his cariage valour and courage that he was promoted to be a commaunder or Corporall after a Sergeant then Ancient after that Liuetenaunt and last of all Captain and serued with his company of two hundred and fifty men all Archers with such good and happy successe as that he was euermore preferred to the best and most dangerous oppositions of the enemy The black Prince his generall hauing a watchfull eie of his behauiour and his valour louing him and esteeming him more then ordinary oftentimes called him to councell in weighty affaires and found him to bee of an excellent sharp and deep iudgement and often preferred his aduise before others who were esteemed much more worthy and were become famous for their councell neither was his estimation only for councell but for execution he surpassed in speede forwardnesse his fellow Captaines The particulars of his seruices are not recorded but lie vnknowne and couered in the names of chief Commannders and Generalls Let this sufice that for his valiant exploits and hardinesse hee was dignified with the honour of Knighthood Albeit hee was thought the poorest Knight in the Army He was in possibility of great preferment and of great riches if those wars of France had continued but