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A02389	The last part of the Mirour for magistrates wherein may be seene by examples passed in this realme, vvith howe greenous [sic] plagues, vyces are punished in great princes & magistrats, and hovv frayle and vnstable vvorldly prosperity is founde, where fortune seemeth most highly to fauour.; Mirrour for magistrates. Part 3.	Baldwin, William, ca. 1518-1563?; Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. De casibus virorum illustrium.	1578 (1578)	STC 1252; ESTC S100555	162,047	374

Mortimers Fol. 4 3. Thomas of Woodstock Duke of Glocester murdred in prisō Fol. 8. 4. Thomas Mo●bray Duke of Northfolk banished and died in exile Fol. 12. 5. King Richard the secōd deposed miserably murdred Fol. 16 6. Owen Glendour Prince of Wales was chased to y moūtaynes where he miserably died for lacke of foode Fol. 19 7. Henry Percy Earle of Northumberland taken in battaile and put to death Fol. 25. 8. Richarde Plantagenet Earle of Cambridge put to death at Southampton Fol. 28 9. Thomas Montague Earle of Salisburye chaunceablye slaine at Orliaunce with a peece of ordinaunce Fol. 30 10. Iames the first King of Scotts ●ruelly murdred by hys owne subiects Fol. 36. 11. Humphrey Plantagenet Duke of Glocester Protector of England by practyse of Enemies was broughte to confusion Fol. 40. 12. Lord William Delapole Duke of Suffolke worthelye banished and beheaded Fol. 56 13. Iack● Ca●e worthely punished for rebellion Fol. 60. 14. Edmonde Duke of Somerset slaine in the firste battayle at S. Albanes Fol. 65. 15. Richard Plantagenet D. Of Yorke slaine through his ouer rashe boldnesse and hys youngest sonne the Earle of Rutland being a child cruelly murdred Fol. 77. 16. The Lord Clifford for his abhominable cruelly came to a sodaine death Fol. 80 17. The infamous end of the Lorde Tiptofte Earle of Worcester Fol. 82. 18. Richard Neuil Earle of Warwicke his brother Iohn Marquise Montacute slaine at Barnet field Fol. 86. 19. The vertuous kinge Henry the sixt cruelly murdred in the Tower of London Fol. 89. 20. George Plantagenet Duke of Clarence Brother to K. Edware the fourth cruelly drowned in a Vessell of Mal●sye Fol. 93. 21. A lamentacion vpon the death of King Edvvarde the 4. Fol. 100. 22. Sir Anthony Woduile Lord Riuers with his Nephewe Lord Richarde Graye and others causles imprisoned and cruelly beheaded at Pomfret Fol. 102 23. The Lord Hastings betrayed by his counsailour Ca●es●y and murdred in the tower of London Fol. 114. 24. Mayster Sackuils Induction Fol. 129. The Tragedy of H. duke Buckingham Fol. 138. 25. Collingbourne cruelly executed for making a fosish rime Fol. 153. 26. King Bichard the third slaine at Bosworth Fol. 159. 27 The fall of the blacke Smith and fatall end of the Lorde Awdeley Fol. 166. 28. The complaint of Shores wife one of the Concubins of King Edward the fourth Fol. 176. ❧ A BRIEFE MEMOriall of sundry vnfortunate Englishmen VVILLIAM BALDVVIN to the Reader WHEN the Printer had purposed with himself to Print Lidgates translation of Bochas of the fal of Princes hauinge made priuy thereto many both honourable and Worshippefull hee was coūsayled by dyuers of them to procure a continuance of the Storye from whereas Bochas left vnto this presēt time chiefly of such as Fortune had abused here in this Island which might bee as a Myrrour for men of all estates and degrees aswell Nobles as other to behold the slippery deceiptes of the wauering Lady the due reward of all kinde of vices Which aduice liked him so well that he required mee to take paynes therein but because it was a matter passing my wit skill and more thancklesse than gaynefull to enterprise I refused vtterly alone to vndertake it without the helpe of sutch as in wit were apt in learninge allowed and in iudgemente and estimation able to wield and discharge the weight of sutch a burden thinkinge so to shift my handes But hee earnest and diligent in hys affayres procure me an Athlas to laye the burden vppon my shoulders which I would not haue undertaken but that shortly after diuers learned men whose many giftes nede few prayses consented to take vpon them part of the trauaile And when certayne of them to the numof seuen were through a generall assent at an appoyncted time and place gathered together to deuise thereuppon I resorted vnto them bringinge with mee the booke of Bochas translated by Dan Lidgate for the better obseruation of his order which although wee did not mislyke yet would it not conueniently serue seing that both Bochas Lidgate were dead neither were there any alyue that had medled with like argumēt to whom the vnfortunate might make their moane To make therfore a state meete for the matter they al agreed that I shoulde vsurpe Bochas rome and the wretched Princes complaine vnto me and toke vpon themselues euery man for his part to be sundry personages and in their behalfes to bewaile vnto me their sundry chaunces heauy destenies and wofull misfortunes This done wee opened sutch Bookes of Chronicles as wee had there present and Maister Ferrers after hee had founde where Bochas left which was about the ende of Kinge Edward the thirdes raigne to begin the matter sayd thus I maruayle ꝙ hee what Bochas meaneth to forget among his myserable Princes such as were of our Nation whose number is as great as theyr Aduentures wonderfull For to let passe all both Britaynes Danes and Saxons and to come to the last Conquest what a sort are they and some also in the time of Bochas himselfe or not much before As for example William Rufus the second kinge of Englande after the Cōquest eyther by malice or misaduenture slayne hunting in the new forest by Walter Tirrell with the shot of an arrow Robert Duke of Normandy eldest sonne to William Conquerour depriued of his inheritaunce of England by Henry his youngest brother hauing both his eyes put out and after myserably imprisoned in Cardiffe Castel whereas hee died The most Lamentable case of William Rychard and Mary children of the sayde Henry the first called Beauclerke drowned vpon y Sea by the negligence of drunken Mariners and Kynge Rychard the fyrst slaine with a quarel in his chiefe prosperity The most vnnaturall murther of Artur Duke of Britayne right Heyre of Englande by king Ihon his vncle with the death of Isabell his Sister by Famyne The myserable ende of the sayd king Ihon their vncle by Surfet or as some write poysoned by a Monke of the Abbey of Swinsted in Lyncolneshrye Are not their Histories ruful and of rare Example But as it should appeare Bochas being an Italian minded most the Romayne and Italike Story or els perhaps hee wanted the knowledge of ours It were therefore a goodly and notable matter to search and discourse our whole story from the first beginninge of the inhabiting of the Isle But seeinge the Printers mynde is to haue vs supply where Lidgate left we wil● leaue that great labour to other that may intende it and as one being bold fyrst to breake the Ise I will begin at y reigne of Rychard the secōd a time as troublesome to the people as vnlucky to y Prince And for asmutch frende Baldwin as it shall be your charge to penne orderly the whole processe I will so far as my memory and iudgement serueth somewhat further you in the truth of the story And therefore omittinge the ruffle made by Iacke Straw his Lewd meiney with the

death opprest None ayde I lackt in any wicked deede For gayinge Gulles whom I promoted had Would further all in hoope of higher ●eede There can no Kinge ymagin ought so bad But shall fynde some to do the same most glad For sicknesse seldome doth so swiftly breede As humours ill do growe the griefe to feede Thus Kinges estatas bee worst of all bestad A●usde to wealth abandoned at neede And nearest harme when they be least adrad My lyfe and death the truth of this hath tryed For whyle I sought in Ireland with my foes Myne vncle Edward whom I left to guide My Realme at home rebelliously arose Traytors to helpe which plied my depose And cald fro Fraunce Earle Bolenkroke whom I Exiled had for ten yeares there to lye VVho tyrantlike did execute all those That in mine ayde durst looke but once awry Of which sort sooneafter some their liues did lose For comming backe this soden stur to staye My Steward false to whom I trusted most VVhiles I in Wales at Flint my castle laye Both to refresh and multiply myne Oste There in any Hall mindinge to fly the Coast His Staffe did breake which was my household stay Bad ech make shift and rode himselfe away See Princes see the strength whereof wee boast VVhom most wee trust at neede do vs Betray No better stay then in a rotten Post My Steward false thus being fled and gone My seruantes slye shrancke of on euery syde Then caught I was end led vnto my soen Who for their Prince no Pallaice did prouide But prison strong where Henry puft with pryde Causde we resigne abandonig my throane And so forsaken and left as post alone These holow frendes ●y Henrye sone espyed Became suspect and faith was geeuen to none Which caused them from fayth agayn to slyde Conspiring streight their new Prince to put downe Which to performe a solempne othe they swore To tender me my sce●ter and my crowne Wherof themselues depriued me before But ●ate medcines can helpe no festred sore When swelling flouds haue ouerflowen the towne To late it is to saue them that shal drowne Tyl sayles he spred a shyppe may keepe the shore No anchor hold can keepe the vessel downe When winde and streame hath set the seas in rore For though the P●eres set Henrye in such state Yet could they not dispiace him thence agayne And where with ease my pride they did abate They ●ere to weake to set me vp agayne Thinges hardly mend but may be mard amayne And when a man is fallen by froward fate Stil mischiefes ●ight one on anothers pace And meanes w●l ment al mishaps to restraine Waxe wretched moanes whereby his ioyes a bate Due proofe whereof in this appeared playne For whan the kinge did know that for my cause His Lordes in Maske would murder him by ●ight To da●h al doubtes he tooke no further pause But Pi●rs of Exto● a cruel cutt throate knight To P●●fret Castel sent with great dispite Who reft my lyfe by force against al Lawes Thus lawlesse lyfe to lawlesse death ay drawes Wherfore 〈◊〉 kinges be rulde and rule by right And so I end concluding with this clause That God though sate at last wil surely smyte FINIS G. F. WHen Maister Ferrers had ended this so woful a Tragedye and to all Princes a right worthy instruction hauing passed through a miseable time full of piteous Tragedies we paused a while And seeing the reign of Henry the fowerth ensued a Prince more ware and Prosperous in his doinges although not vntroubled with warres both of outfoorth and inward enemies we began to search what Peer●s were fallen therein where of the nomber was not small And yet because their examples were not much to be noted for our purpose we passed ouer all the Maske●s of whom king Richardes brother was chiefe which were al slaine and put to Death for their trayterous attempt And fynding Owen Glendour a great Prince in Wales next in succesion of ill Fortune with the stout Percies his confederates I thought it not meete to ouerpasse so great persons with silence and therefore sayd thus to the sylent company What my maisters is euery man at once in a browne study hath no mā affectiō to any of these stories you minde so much some other belike that these do not moue you and to say the truth there is no special cause why they should Howe be it Owen Glendour because he was one of Fortunes owne darlingrs and affected to bee Monark of Wales although to his owne mischiefe and destruction rather then he should be forgottē I wil pray Maister Phaer who of late hath placed hymselfe in that country haply hath met with his ghost in the forest of Kylgarran that he wil say somwhat in his person which Owen comming out of the wylde Mountaines of Wales like the image of Death in al pointes his harte onely excepted as a ghost forpined with extreame famine cold and hunger may lamente his great misfortune in sutch maner as you maister Phaer are able most aptly to vtter and set forth HOVV OVVEN GLENdour seduced by false Prophecies tooke vpon him to be Prince of VVales was by Henry Prince of England chased to the Mountaynes where he most miserably starued for hunger Anno. 1401. I Pray thee Baldwin sith thou dost entend To shewe the fall of sutch as climbe to hye Remember mee whose miserable ende May teach all men Ambition to flye Oh false Fortune Fortune vengeaunce on thee I crye VVhich offeringe a Sop of sweete receyt Haste made me byte the Hooke in steede of Bayt A Brytton borne and of the Tropan bloud But ill brought vp whereby full well I finde That neyther byrth nor Linage make vs good Though it be true that Cat will after kinde Fleshe gendreth fleshe but not the Soule or Minde They gender not but fouly do degender When men to vice from vertue they surrender Eche thinge by nature tendeth to the same Whereof it came and is disposed like Downe sincks the mould vp mountes the fiery flame With Horne the Hart with Hoofe the Horse doth strike The Wolfe doth spoyle the suttle Foxe doth pike And to conclude no fishe fleshe foule or plant Of their true dame the property doth want But as for men syth seuerally they haue A minde whose maners are by learninge made Good bringinge vp al onely doth them saue In honest actes which with their Parentes fade So that true gentry standeth in the trade Of vertues life not in the fleshly lyne For bloud is brute but Gentry is deuine Experience doth cause me thus to say And that the rather for my countrey men Which vaunt boast themselues aboue the day If they may straine their stocke fro worthy men VVhich let be true are they the better then Nay farre the worse if so they bee not good For why they stayne the beuty of ther blood How would we mocke the burden bearinge Mule If hee would brag he were