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A08452	The valiant actes and victorious battailes of the English nation: from the yeere of our Lord, one thousand three hundred twentie and seuen: being the first yeare of the raigne of the most mightie Prince Edvvard the third, to the yeere 1558. Also, of the peaceable and quiet state of England, vnder the blessed gouernement of the most excellent and vertuous Princesse Elizabeth: a compendious declaration written by C.O. And newly translated out of Latine verse into English meeter. By I.S.; Anglorum prælia, ab anno Domini. 1327. anno nimirùm primo inclytiss. principis Eduardi eius nominis tertii, usque ad annum Do. 1558. carmine summatim perstricta. English	Ocland, Christopher, d. 1590?; Ocland, Christopher, d. 1590? Eirēnarchia. English. aut; Sharrock, John.	1585 (1585)	STC 18777; ESTC S110231	101,841	114

pes enter Sotland I eithe and Edenborowe ransacked The Scottes placed their ordinau●… full ag●… their g●… The Scottes forsake their Ordinaunce Preparation of wars against Fraunce The king of Fraunce his league with the Turke The Dukes of Northfolk●… and Suffolk●… the Earle of Arundeil Lord Paulet Lord Russell appointed chiefe in this warfar●… Sir Anthonie browne master of the horse Or Tita●… set that is or when the Sunne is set The discription of king Henry th●… 8. ●…ulcanus The descrip●…ion of the workeman ●…hip of kyng Henries har●…ish King Henry landeth at Callice Bullen besiged The English giue assault The gall●… resist The vse of the great gunne Iohn Dadley be●… chec●… the king that bee with his marriners might first scale the was Corona mur●… lis in old time he that first entred the Enemies fort wanne great honour and therefore crowned with a garland in the triumphe The oration of Iohn Dud●… ley to his m●… riners The King considering the daunger that Dudley with his men wear like to runne into commaundes them to desist Bullen rendred Iohn Dudley Lieuetenant of Bullen Preparation of the Frank against England The Frenchmen with a great nauy it uade the I le of wight ●…enry 8. af●…er 3●… yeares ●…yeth ●…dward the sixt begunne ●…o ●…aigne ●… 546. The Earle of 〈◊〉 created Duke of Sommerset Iohn Dudley made Earle of VVarwicke Expedition of souldiours into Scotland The Duke of Sommerset Ealre of VVarwicke and Lord Dacies assigned chiefe in this warfare Lord Grai●… captaine of the horsemen A light skirmage of the horsemen of both partes the day before the battaile VVhori it was neare sunne set The Farle Arreine gouernour of Scotland sen. deth an Herault vnto the the Duke of Somerset and the Harle of Huntley prouoketh him had to hand Huntley challenged The Duke of Somersets reply The aunswere of the Earle of VVarwick to the messenger The Earle of VVarwicke chalengeth Huntley to single cumbat The Engli●… army is set order The on set ●…uskelborow ●…lde The Scots send into Frauncc to intreate a league betweene the heires of Sc●… land and Fraunce Hymen God of wedl●…k To Dusson dale The Rebels ●…nclosed themselues with their cariages on euery side ●…o keep of the assaults of the Barle of war wickes horsemen The Harle of VVarwicke subdueth the rebels in Northsolke The Giants in old ti●…e rebelled against the Gods and would haue pulled ●…ubiter out of heauē The Earle of VVarwicke created Duk●… of Northumberland The death of king Edward King Edwards praise Mary beginneth to raign 1553. Queene Mary marrieth to king Phyllip S●…itium ●…ernum is 〈◊〉 the eight Calendes of Ianuary Christmas he meaneth Henry of Fraunce inuadeth Flaunders Preparation of warres against the Frenchmen Diuers nations in phillips 〈◊〉 Saint Quintinnes besieged Saint Quintines ●…ted Henry Dudley slayne Saint Quintinnes taken The Castell 〈◊〉 Houne taken ransackt The Admiral of England with too shipps sayleth into Fraunc●… and burneth Conque Sir VVilliam VVinter with many of the Queenes shipps taketh ●…gayne Alderne I le ●…ō he handes of ●…e Frenchmen The words of Sir VVilliam VVinter to his souldiours Sir VVillim VVinter meeting with the Frenche Captaine slaieth him valiantly The Frenchmen subdued C●…lice lost Thirlby Bishoppe of Elye Queene Mary dyeth Aegis the shield of Pallas The Censures of the Vniuersities of Italy and Fraunce against the Pope The toune Princes of Europe more or le●…se are ment to be as ten hornes vnto this beast Hymeneus or Hymen God of mariage A solempne pompe at the mariage of Henry and Anno. Anne great by King Henry Anne crowned which hapneth to none but to the heires of the kingdom Nestor li●…ed three hudred yeares The condui●… ran with wine at the coronation of Queene Anne VVhit●…hall Sainct Peters at VVestminster Thomas Duke of Northfolke made chiefe Steward of England ●…rle of Arundeil T●…ster Phoebe two sillables vsed for the Moone Elizabeth borne on tht seuenth day of December being the sabboth day Elizabeth baptised and confirmed in the true faith Her sureties were the Archbishop of Cannterbury the duthesse of Norfolke and the Lady M●…ques of Exeter Elisabeth po●…laimed heite vnto the Crowne by ●…n Herault The surties giue gifts of p●…e gold The Englis●… people by o●… vowe their loyaltie and obedience vnto Queen Elizabeth The toward nes of Elizabeth in her childhood Description of the spring tyme. ●…orpheus ●…od of drea●…es ●…he dreame 〈◊〉 Queene 〈◊〉 where●… she was ●…ed of 〈◊〉 death at 〈◊〉 and of ●…ny other ●…ble c●…es A foreshew ●…ng of the exterminating and io●… ting out of Idols Rest●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by k●…g ●…dward Acheron o●… of t●…e ●…ue 〈◊〉 uers of hell where 〈◊〉 are ●…mented Maries gou●… nement Anne declareth her dreame vnto a noble matrone Anne dyeth Annes prayse for almes giuing Henry marieth Queene Iane. Edward borne Prince Edward and Elizabeth skilfull in the Greeke and Latin tong Henry 8. dyeth Edward 6. crowned Hatfield Periphrasis sixe yeare for the Sunne once a yeare ouerg es the x●… signes so that be meaneth by ouertaking the signes vi times vi yeare Edward the. 6 dieth Queene Mary ruleth The Bishoppe of VVinchester Holie sort Ironia cuius contrarium ve●… est licolas Ba●…ns Lord priuy seale Thomas Brockley Lord chauncolour VVilliam Paulet Marques of VVin chester Lord Cicill high treasurer of England Ae lus God the windes Baron of Burghley The Earles o Arundell an Penbroke Stewardes o the Queenes house Clinton Lord Admirall Earle of Lin colne Villiam ho●…ard ●…he Earle of ●…ssex high ●…hamberlaine ●…f England ●…e also was ●…esetenant in ●…eland Robart Dudly Castor Pol●…ux hatched ●…fan agge by ●…eda whom ●…upiter rauish ●…ed in forme of 〈◊〉 swanne Master of the horse Achates companion of Aeneas in all his toiles trauailes Farle of Lecester Hospitall built by the Earle Lecester Earle of Huntington liefe tenaunt of Yorke Scoolefellow and plaimare with king Edward the 6 Earle of warwicke Earle of Bedford Iord Hunsdon liesecenant of Barwicke Queene Anne aunt to the Lord Hunsden Syr Henry Sidney Lord President of wales Thomas Pary The Duke of Northsolke Syr Thomas Smith Syr Frauncis Knolls Syr Frauncis Knolls in Q. Maries dayes fled into Germanie Syr Ambrose Caue Syr Christopher Hatton master of the Garde Sir Raph Sadler Syr Gwaltor Mildmay Syr Iames a Crostes Secretary VValsingha●… D. VVilson 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉

Applauding euerie one their inward 〈◊〉 did they bewray UUhich noble conquest is to mortall men ●…nt to defray These thinges in August done Then after in Decembers frost The Frenchman it besieging was vnhappy Callice lost Unspeakable mishap which adge and feeble folke contaynd For the most part within her walles fewe souldiers fresh remaind Howbeit fewe souldiers cannot force of many men abide This auncient sort neglected and a woman Prince beside whome then a trecherous prelate made by peruerse councell stray Her noble spowse in forraine coastes disseuered far away Hereto add rough and boistrous flouds which raging sweld that tide And farre disiung'd beyond the seas the sandy Callice banke Unwilling it to take the towne might thrust vnto the Franke. This fortresse lost the Spanyardes wife gan to consume away whom eating eares with parching griefe brought to her fatall day Thus endeth the second Booke ELIZABETH QUEENE OR A SHORT AND compendious declaration of the peaceable state of England vnder the gouernment of the most mighty and vertuous Princesse ELIZABETH ¶ Wherevnto is added a briefe Catalogue or rehearsall of all the noble men which being nowe dead haue been or yet liuyng are of her Maiesties Counsaile Written in Latin verse by C. O. Done into Engl●…she by Iohn Sharrock Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit vtile dulci. AT LONDON Printed by Robert Walde-graue Anno. 1585. To the worshipfull his approued good frend M. IOHN ESTMOND Bacheiler of Law one of the fellowes of Sainte Mary Colledge commonly called the Newe Colledge in Oxenford WHen as at the request and earnest instigatiō of some of my frends worshipfull M. ESTMOND I had done into English meeter the two first bookes of that Poeme of C. O. cōtainyng the battailes high aduentures of the English Nation I was determined there to stricke sayle and to cast myne anker knowing that the longer my craced keele scoured the seas the more water she would leake fearing least that Scilla escaped I should be sunke in Charibdis or Libia shunned I should be swallowed in Syrtes If Cherilus that fielie Poet had brought but a brief Pamphlet when he dedicated a huge Volume vnto the Macedonian kyng Alexander his gayne peraduenture had bene the more his paine vndoubtedly the lesse in escaping a great many lashes whiche he suffred to his extreme grief and endlesse infamie Euen so was I perswaded of my selfe that the more I wrote the more want of skill I shewed whereby I might heape the more dislike and so by a consequēce the more reproch But when I called vnto mind Gentle Syr How greatly I should dye in your dett for your manifold benefites frendly yea rather fatherly affection where with you did imbrace me beyng your pupill in Oxon to my no lesse comfort the commoditie It were incredible to thinke with what celeritie and disdayne I shooke of those terrifying causes how ardently I burned with a vehement desire yet at the least by this kinde of writtyng in as much as I cannot otherwise sufficiently expresse my zeale and true affectiō to testifie my good wil and my hart full of all humilitie and sinceritie towardes you and to bring to passe if I might that in all ages and posterities as long as euer these my watchynges and writtynges shall liue amongst men your name should neuer dye but remayne as a patterne to our nephewes and ofspring of all gentilitie courtesie and humanitie and that as euery fautor and maintainer of good letters is called ALTER MAECENAS an other MAECENAS so euery one which imbraceth his frend with faythfull loue hateth no man is free from all basenes and slauerie of the mynd as beseemeth a gentleman might be named ALTER ESTMONDVS an other ESTMOND Take therfore well in worth deare Syr these my simple indeuours beyng a compendious declaration and treatise of the peaceable raigne of our renowmed Lady ELIZABETH compiled by Maister O. by me metrized as a certaine testimony and the expresse tipe of my good will Communicate them with your frendes shroude them from my foes This is all I doe request this me thinkes I already see your Courtesie and gentlenes to graunt me The Lord preserue you in health wealth and felicitie AMEN Yours assured in that he may Iohn Sharrock ❧ TO THE NOBLE AND most vertuous Lady indued with all kinde of good Literature excellent both in the Greek and Latine tongue the Lady MYLDRED Wife to the right honourable Lord Baron of Burghley Lord high Treasurer of England REnowmed Greece in elder age with learned dames did shine Whose written workes remaine as yet with phrase mellifluous fine Of Muses bright besprinckled drawne out of Parnassus spring Of female sexe erst mighty Rome a hugie troupe did bring All expert in the Latine tong how heit they lesser prayse Adornd with natiue language wanne their fame to heauen to rayse And euerlasting memorie by writing to attaine Than due is to those Noble Nymphes which seuered farre remaine In externe Regions wide in tender yeares whose natiue tong Is to be learnd the Romayne then by toiles and labours long Of forme renewde with limites straight and bondes incompast round As English Ladies many may of worthie name be found Which florish at this day which through the world swift Fame doth blase Who ioyne like learned men the Greekish tong with Latine phrase Yea which is more like skilfull Poets in dulcet verse they floe Wherewith Homerus frought his bookes or Mantuan Maro If cause requirde ex tempore their meeters framing fine O Nymphes O noble Sisters foure but Myldred vnto thine High fauour as the chiefest I appeale be thou mine aide And like an other Pallas let thine Aegis strong be laide Before my brest that this my booke feele not the byting i●… Of Theon Viper fell or carping Zoils slaunderous flawes If me beholding with thy shining lookes thou wilt defend The Enuious and Malicious crue dare not me once to rend So as in sanctuary shut I shall no daunger feere Inferiour farre I know my Muse vnto the vertue cleere Of the renowmed Prince howbeit the will of subiect true May here appeare if that the iust and courteous reader view And pondering way the worke aright and not with censure hard If that this long and prosperous peace hereafter 〈◊〉 ●…clarde By trompe more shril I wish and b●… these writinges vnto nought By sparkling flames to be consumde meane time I them haue brought Renowmed Lady to be shrinde vpheld and set in stay By your high honour turne not from your Clyent I you pray This doth your true Nobilitie and manners meeke in brest Ingraft this doth your Godlines require aboue the rest Your Ladiships in all humilitie C O. ¶ To the gentle Reader IF verses you delight with stately stile and sounding wordes VVhich loftie swell seeke Poetts bookes which such high thinges You will perchance affirme that of so high mighty a Queene affords A worke should of more maiestie and

furious rage doth roame and tortures vseth all Aboundant streames of Christian bloud most ruthfull moistes the land And goarie flouds alacke in pooles of hit reieeted stand Ay me and waile a day young childrens corpes fire brandes deuoures And difference none put twixt their sexe both men and weomen scoures For he gainst Ioue almightie is a foe outragious thought If anie man his enemie the Romish bishop cought Out of the word of God which takes away Christes honor due And falsely white that thing affirmes which is of duskish hue Yea so his heynous trecheries with gloses couered beene As at no time our graundsiers olde in elder age haue seene That both the sense of touching and of tast doe fading fayle If that ye take that priuiledge from bodies what auayle Can th' eare or twinckling eie vnto what vse shall fingers stand Aa haa in deepe Charibdis gulfe uplung'd the Britaine land For very grief doth grone and ginnes of safetie to dispaire Howbeit the ghost diuine of Ioue her pitying vnaware which with his bec●…e the heauens and seas and earthly regions shakes For the afflicted English state a gratefull plai●…er makes For from their hie vsurped seates proud potentates are drawne Downe headlong to the ground which reuerent worship to be showne Bad vnto Idols wrought in woode or forgd of moulten brasse The Prince with deepe perseuerance scelected of the best Of Britaine states a fewe which long vse had with wisedome frought And learning eke Parnassus Nimphes to deck their wits had brought By which proppes of eternall Fame vnder a mayden Queene Renowmed England through the world is bright blazed to beseene First of her Counsayle Bacon was a wise and prudent Knight Of polisht wit who Britaine lawes by iudgement scand aright Whose sweete and sugred eloquence in midst of Counsaile sage Hath such his endles Fame atchiu'de that though Fates headlong rage Him hath destroide he liues and after death his vertues blaze Lord Chauncelour he of England and the Brodeseales keeper was Whose honourable seat Sir Thomas Bromeley doth beseeme Thought worthie of that dignitie by censure of the Queene The prudent troupe of Senatours their suffrage yealding like UUhich lawes in equall ballance weyes and cancelling out doth strike UUhich ouer ponderous to him seemes that which is good and right May thereof spring and middle place possest may Vertue bright Next thy Lord Marques Winchester his worthie seat did take Renowmed whom the title high of Treasurer did make A man of wondrous grauitie whilst that he ran his race On earth but crookt through age at last to destinie he gaue place Before all these came forth blacke frowning Fortune spurning back UUhose faith in danger dire at hand from sincere heart extract The Prince had tried Lord Cicill and of all the Counsaile sage By Princesse verdict chiefe assignd now stroke with drowping age And worne in yeares with study leane and sickly on his feat For great affaires white hoary heares and crooked age to fleet Doe cause before their time which then scarse fortie yeares had rought Seldome to sleepe addict from slender diett seldome brought Still graue and modest found at no time giuen to dallying play UUhere that he talkt or musing sate it earnest was alway A fuutor of religion true of right he studious was In this our age thinges of great waight borne for to bring to passe UUhose loue towardes his natiue soile and faith towardes his Queene UUhose wisedome busied still about his countries causes seene Beyond Europa borders hath achiu'd him endles Fame Nor here he first to aid his Prince with learned counsell came For in king Edwardes noble Court he wondrous credite wanne And Counsellour to his leich to be in bloming youth began UUhen mongst the Britaine Peeres he hurlie hurlie tumultes wrought By prudent circumspection to quaile and bring to nought And whil'st some others furrowes deepe in gurtie channels cast Their hollow hulls tos'd and turmoild with Aeolls whurling blast And sometime downe with headlong fall the infernall pitts do see He both his honour and his seat and name preserueth free How wary in Queene Maryes dates he did himselfe behaue And sailes which hung aloft at Mast to windes relenting gaue Because it better is to yeeld to rough and mightie force Of raging floud then stand against and to resist his course which doth a deadly perill prest and certaine harme procure By iudgement plaine apparant doth expresse his wisedome sure That for sixe yeares amidst his foes vnhurt he vpright stoode Though persecuted with the hate of Cayphas wicked broode In euerie way in euery streete in London royall mart To all mens dew proceeding forth when as the greatest part In forreine nations bannisht straide him Ioue preseru'd at hand Forth honour of our noble Queene and profite of our land He externe Princes Legates heard attentiue whilest the hest They of their Lordes declarde and aunswere prompt againe express In counsell graue a Nestor which now noble Burghley hight Of woodes and auncient farmes and Castles strong adiacent pight which doth the common Treasurie of goods confiscate keepe He being full aduertised of waightie causes deepe It worth rehearsall is forthwith with what industrious care He doth disside the strife and right ascribes by iudgement rare Not aboue two daies space deferring it or three at most Unlesse of pointes so intricate the matter stand composde That without longer trackt of time it may not be vnfold which laud as chiefest veriest eke let this high Lordling hold The mightie Earle of Arundel is in this order tide The Penbrooke prudent Peere insuing ioyntly by his side Both Stewardes of the royall house of their renowmed guide The warlike Mauy of the Queene came Clinton to thy care whereof full thirtie yeares agoe thou hast tuition bare Nor to thy little honour it redoundes three Princes strong That thou hast seru'd thy selfe of bloud of auncient Peeres esprong Atchiuing many hard exploites a shipborde and on shore Lincolne this warlike Earle hath with title due vphore Next of the Princes Chamber was Lord Haward chiefe assignd A man to anger prone howbeit of gentle courteous minde Whose vncle title high of Duke and Nephew erst did binde Whome dead in like degree the Earle of Sussex did succeede A most redoubted Peere of courage haut and bold indeed Thy royall Parsons gardon strong and faithfull tride alwaies Elizabeth prest to attempt the brunt at all assayes In fearfull Mauors bickering iars through minde vnconquered haut Who oftentimes the saluage Rerne subdued hath in assaut Whom noble victorie did adorne in blouddy warres atchiu'de Yet from a righteous Iusticer he chiefest laud deriu'de UUhen Mary did her flickering sp'rite out breath the Britaine guide By chaunce at Hatfield with her troupe of Ladyes did abide Her noble parson with a true of yeomen garded strong Lord Dudley on a palfray sterce vp mounted swift along Doth thither post his colour