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A01354	The flovver of fame Containing the bright renowne, & moste fortunate raigne of King Henry the viii. Wherein is mentioned of matters, by the rest of our cronographers ouerpassed. Compyled by Vlpian Fulwell. Hereunto is annexed (by the aucthor) a short treatice of iii. noble and vertuous queenes. And a discourse of the worthie seruice that was done at Hadington in Scotlande, the seconde yere of the raigne of king Edward the sixt.	Fulwell, Ulpian, fl. 1586.; Harman, Edmund.	1575 (1575)	STC 11475; ESTC S102758	42,413	130

Which for thy wealth the Heauenly heste This order doth deuyse And I of Ioue the messenger this newes now bring to thee With bande of Peace as faithfull pledge If thou thereto agree What losse and languor thou hast had Thy selfe caust witnesse best And Mischiefe hath not sparde to spurne To purchase thy vnrest Wherefore the God that guydes all thinges doth charge thee that with speede Thou ioyne in knott of Mariage as thus he hath decreede There is a lande in Westerne soyle That Britaine hath to name Which coast doth now retayne the wyght that must thy quyet frame A proper youth of pregnant witt To whome with speede repayre Of Lancaster that noble house He is the ryghtfull heire His Princely porte doth well deserue To wear thy Regall Crowne By due discent to wield the Sworde with fame and bryght renowne This worthie wight shall turne the warre That long thy wealth hath wast This Earle Henry shall redresse Thy wayling woe forepast Now see the sequell of this hest That God appointed hath Marke well the meane against Syr Mars To pacifie his wrath A noble spouse within thy lande Of ryght must now be found To linke in sacred wedlockes state And Queene for to be crownde Beholde a Uirgin bryght of hue with vertues force bedect Of personage surpassing all that Nature hath elect Dianaes peere for chastitie A seconde Susan shee Her godly nature well deserues A Goddesse for to bee The daughter of a Royall king That rewlde thy lande of late The heyre of Yorke that long hath beene with Lancaster at bate Elizabeth this Lady hight The late king Edwardes chylde Shee shall bring forth a peerlesse Prince thy people for to shylde Now sith these houses twaine hath causde Such ruyne for to raygne Which bluddie broyle hath forced thee to feele the smarte and paine With speede repaire to Britaine lande This Henry home to call And place him in thy regall seate Be ye his Subiectes all As for his Foes take ye no feare For God his frende doth stande He is annoynted of the Lorde to rule thy famous lande Which being done let sacred state of Wedlocke ioyne these twayne Then be thou sure in perfect peace hereafter to remayne When Concorde had these wordes rehearst and all her message tolde To see the ioye that men did make was wonder to beholde With clapping handes and cheerefull shoutes They shewde foorth great delyght And thought eche day to bee a yere till he shoulde come in syght And when that Fame had blowne her blast that hee had taken lande Determining to chace the Bore with force of myghtie hande Eche man him selfe do then addresse This royall Prince to place With courage stoute and loyall hartes They serue his noble grace Of the Battaile fought at Bosworth betweene King Henry the vii Richard that then vsurped the Crowne AFter long cōtinuance of blody warre through ciuill contention betweene the two ●●ble houses of Lancaster Yorke for the imperiall Diademe of this Realme to the great effusion of English blood as well of the nobilitie as also of the Comons It pleased Almightie God to put into the mindes of the nobilitie of this Realme a meane how to preuent this eminent subuersion by ioyning in knot of Mariage the heires apparant of these two noble houses as is aforesaide to the perfect securitie of this noble Nation And here is to be noted that when kyng Edward the fourth dyed who was lineally discended from the house of Yorke whose variable chaunces of Fortune I ouer passe He lefte behynde him two sonnes and fyue daughters The elder of his sonnes was named Edwarde who was afterwardes proclaymed Kyng being of the age of xi yeres His yonger brother had to name Richarde who was Duke of yorke Now by reason of the nouage of the yong king Richard Duke of Gloucester being vncle vnto the yong kyng intruded him selfe to the Protectorship of the kyng and the Realme and also wrested into his tuition the kinges brother taking him from the Queene his Mother who then laye in the Sanctuarie at Westminster for doubt of the cruell tyrannie of the Protector whose Ambitious mynde shee knewe to bee insatiable of honor and dignities wholly bent to cruell tyrannie which shortly after he put in practyse For when he had got into his clawze these two yong Princes Like a cruell Tyger and rauenyng Wolfe moste vnnaturally he caused them to be pittifully murthered within the Tower of London And caused one Doctor Sha who better deserued to be called doctor Shame to preach at Paules Crosse perswading the people that king Edwarde the fowerth late deceased was not ryghtfull king Affirming that he was a Bastarde And that the Duke of Cloucester being lawfully begotten ought to haue beene king when his brother was and therefore myght nowe iustlye challenge the Crowne Was not this a graceles sonne that caused his owne naturall and vertuous mother to be proclaimed at Powles Crosse a Harlot This and his vnnaturall homicide sownded moste abhominably in the eares of all honest men Notwithstandinge by this beastly and detestable policie wherunto he also added the death of the Lorde Hastinges and other noble men whome he supposed woulde by all meanes possible haue hindered his vngodlye proceedinges he hitt the marke whereat he shot which was the Crowne of Englande and in fine was crowned king by the name of king Rycharde the thirde But ere he had raigned little more then two yeres it pleased God to stir vp the nobilitie of this Realme to the ayde of Henrye Earle of Richemond to set him in his ryghtfull inheritaunce of the Imperiall Diadem of this Realme The large discourse wherof is exquisitely written by Sir Thomas More as appeareth in the Cronicle written by Edwarde Hall. In conclusion this noble Earle of Richemonde after manye doubtfull casualties harde euents arryued at Milforde Hauen in Wales wyth an armye of Britons and by the ayde of the Welshmen his power encreased And manye of the nobilitie of Englande with greate strength came to hys ayde vntill he came to a place in Leycester shiere called Bosworth where he met with kynge Richarde his armye and betweene them was fought a sharpe battaile in which conflict the king himselfe was slayne and his bodie caryed to Leycester on horsebacke as a Butcher caryeth a Calfe to the Market After whiche victorie won by this noble Earle he was proclaymed kyng of England by the name of king Henry the seuenth consequently he maried the lady Elizabeth daughter vnto king Enward the iiii they bothe crowned king and Queene of Englande to the greate ioy of the whole realme And thus were the noble houses of Lancaster Yorke vnited in one whiche was the finishing of long warre ¶ The Byrthe of the puisant Prince King Henry the eyght which was in the yere of our Lorde God. 1490. the xxii of Iune WHen Lady Concorde quencht the broyle

his graces behoote so that he woulde graunt pardon of lyfe vnto all the people of the town and licence to depart with bagg and boggage Whiche the king mercifully graunted on this condicion that none of them should departe with any Gonne charged And the Bulleiners departed the town with as much of theyr goodes as they could cary with them After which departure king Henrie with hys nobilitie entred the towne with Banners displayed lyke a conquerour And after hee had taried there by the space of fyue dayes or there about he returned againe into Englande leauing behinde him to defende the towne the Duke of Suffolke that most valiant Capitayne But when the kings maiestie was vppon departure newes was brought vnto him that the Dolphin of Fraunce was determined to come downe and repell him from thence and hys power whereunto the king aunswered that hee shoulde be verie welcome For quoth he the Dolphin is my God sonne and if he come he shall haue my blessing But he made no haste to come as he vaunted Wherefore the Duke of Suffolk and the Earle of Essex perswaded the king to returne home to Englande againe for that he had wonne as much honour theare as was to be had at that tyme Wherupon the king committed the defence of the towne to the Duke of Suffolke and the Earle of Essex ioyntly But before his departure he being doubtfull whether the Duke of Norfolke had any neede of help at Muttrell called vnto him syr Anthony Browne appointed him to go thither to the ayde of the Duke of Norfolke with all his power But Sir Anthony Browne answered that he had dismissed many of his souldiers by reason of sicknesse the rest were either wounded or wearied with trauaile and many of their Horses tyred Then the king demaunded of the Earle of Essex In what estate his bande was who had vnder his charge 1500 horsemen he aunswered the kyng that of his whole power he wanted not 60. And that hee was ready to fulfill his graces pleasure Wherupon the king thought to haue sent him to Muttrell but in the end that king hauing a speciall regarde for the keeping of Bullaine leatte the Earle with the Duke to defende the towne and sent Sir Ihon Gage to Muttrell to the ayde of the Duke of Norfolk And then the king returned into England againe with great triumph After whose departure out of Fraunce y frenchmen began to be verye busie against the englishmē But when they could preuaile nothing at all they began to entreat for peace always hoping to haue Bullayne againe by some meanes or other But king Henry was so affected to that towne that neyther strengthe of warre nor force of money could win it from hym And he would oft times saye that no true subiect of his woulde perswade him to yelde it vp Which towne he helde in despight of the Frenchmen during his life ¶ And thus I ende this discourse of the wynning of Bullayne Omitting to treate of the large circumstaunce heereof least I might seeme to rob Grafton or Halle of their laboures concluding this commemoration of king Henry with his conquest of Bullaine After which triumphant victorie no special warre happened vnto him till death the conquerour of all mortall men subdued his body whose soule liueth with God in his Heauenlye kingdome KIng Henry in his life time would often tymes saye that if it woulde please God to endue hym with life vntill he might see three thinges brought to passe hee woulde not desire to liue anye longer The fyrst was to confirme true religion in this Realme The seconde to establish the Crowne The thyrde to see hys Sonne a man Also hee would say that if he knewe any one to bee a man of GOD and meete to gouerne a common welthe he would rather yelde his Crowne vnto him then weare it himself so that hee myghte doe it to the pleasure of God the weale publyke of his people ¶ An Epitaph of the deathe of the moste valyant and renowmed Prince King Henry the eyghth AWake ye worthies nyne that long in graues haue rest Powre out your plaints with wayling teares Let langor be your geast Do off your shrowding sheetes that clads you in the claye and decke your selues with black attyre your mourning to displaye Bedewe with saltie teares your manly faces stowte Laye downe those weapons that were wont to quell the raging rowte For nowe that pierlesse Prince that neuer yet tooke foyle The eyghth king Henry hath resynde his bodye to the soyle Recorde your dolefull tunes ye noble Peeres eche one Let gryping greefes gnawe on your breastes to shewe your pensiue moane With bryndie blubbered teares ye commons all lament Sende forth your sobbes from boyling breast let trynkling teares be spent For our Achilles nowe hath left vs in the fielde That wonted was with valiant force from foes our lyues to shylde And this hath death deuysde to wrecke his wrathfull spyght Wherefore O Mors wee curses yelde on thee both daye and nyght Oh noble Brutus lande howe much was death thy foe when he with cruell darte constraynde this Gemme from thee to goe But though the cursed dame that cuttes the fatall lyne So muche enuyed thy happie state in making him declyne Yet God through mercy great in spyght of death his darte Hath left a Blossome of his braunche to ease thy pensiue smarte For whome now let vs praye that shee the race may runne of Nestors yeres with like successe as yet her grace hath done And that his royall Impe Elizabeth by name May weare the Crowne and wielde the sworde with ioye and endlesse fame Whose lyfe doth render lyght vnto her fathers fame whose noble harte doth plainly shewe the stocke from whence shee came Though death hath done his woorst with drift of dyrefull darte By stryking of that valyant king and piercing of his harte Yet hath he not the powre his fame to ouercast which shall remaine in mouth of man whyle Pen and ynke doth last And eke the shyning Sunne shall cease his running race before king Henries worthie fame shall suffer one deface And as his soule is lodgde with Ioue in starrie Skye Euen so remembraunce of his name on earth shall neuer dye ¶ A Preamble to this parte of the Booke following LYke as the auncient Greekes haue painted out at large Their noble ladyes worthie lyues and therof taken charge And as the Romaine dames had writers of their actes Euen so the trowpe of Englysh trayne haue some to tell their factes Whose bryght and shyning fame deserues to haue a place Coequall with the best that hath runne on in vertues race Then let not Englande blushe to blase their ladies lyues Which no whit is inferiour vnto the Romayne wyues Let them vaunt if they list of Lucrece chastitie I prayse the greekes Penelope for her fidelitie A nomber myght be namde that wryters pennes haue praysde Who for their lyues and noble actes an

fame He was also endewed by God with inuincible Fortitude alwayes preuaylyng with glorious victorie And lyke as when moises helde vp his Rodde the Israelites had the better hande and while he helde downe the same their enemies had hope of victorie So likewyse on whose syde so euer king Henry helde vp his Sworde that parte had alwaye prosperous successe As the warres betweene the Emperor Charles the fifth and Frauncis the French kyng may sufficiently shewe More ouer the lyke blessing of God happened vnto him as seeldome or rather I thinke neuer chaunced vnto any kyng For where as hee hauing three chyldren and no mo at his departure out of this worlde they haue all three succeeded the father Not as priuate persons but successiuely in the regall seate Gouerning his landes and territories Also his noble magnanimitie was such that he being Lorde of Ireland was by the Erles Lordes Piers of the same Realme desyred to take vpon him the name of their king And they of their owne accordes in the name of the whole Realm of Ireland did vnto him Homage and Fealtie Besides all this when Maximilian the Emperor was dead the Princes Electors of the Empire of Rome with generall consent committed their full aucthoritie of Eleccion for the space of foure daies vnto kyng Henry eyther to take the Empire him selfe or els to nominate whom he would who thankfully accepted their good willes rendring vnto them againe their aucthoritie and refusing to be Emperor him selfe Thus we may saye and that trewely that he wan a kingdome without battaile or bludshed And he was of power not onely to be an Emperor but also to make an Emperor And thus I may boldly asseuer that he was blest of God aboue all kynges and Princes that euer I haue read of And happy was that Prince that might stande moste in his fauour For the which dyuers made great suite specially when they stoode in neede of ayd against their enemies because they perceiued that Fortune followed his power as handmayd to all his proceedings A rare example no doubt it is me seemeth most strange that one king should raigne 38. yeres and that almost in continuall warres and neuer take foyle but alwaies preuailed as a victor inuicted which without the assistaunce of almyghtie God he could neuer haue atchyued An euident token that God was on his syde and therefore who coulde stande agaynst him But to write at large of his worthinesse and incomparable actes would fill a bigg volume and were too great a charge for my vnskilfull penne Finally he was a Prince of singuler Prudence of passing stoute courage of inuincible Fortitude of dexteritie wonderfull He was a springing well of Eloquence a rare spectacle of Humanitie Of ciuilitie or good nurture an absolute president A speciall paterne of Clemencie and moderation a worthie example of Regall iustice A bottomlesse spring of larges and benignitie He was in all the honest Artes and Faculties profoundlye seene In all liberall disciplines equall with the best In no kynde of literature vnexperte Hee was to the worlde an ornament To Englande a treasure To his frendes a comforte To hys foes a terror To his saythfull and louing Subiectes a tender Father To Innocents a sure Protectour To wilfull malefactours a sharpe scourge To his Common weale and good people a quyet Hauen and Aucor of safegarde To the disturbers of the same a Rocke of Extermination In haynous and intollerable crymes against the comon welth a seuear Iudge In the lyke offences committed against him selfe a redye porte and refuge of mercye except to such as would persist incorrigiblye A man he was in all gifts of nature of Fortune and of grace pierles And to conclude a man aboue all prayses Suche a kyng did God set to raigne ouer England whereof this Realme may well vaunt aboue other nations whose worthines is more treated of by forreyn wryters then by any of our owne countrey men Which may iustly redownd to the reproche of all our English Poets and Historiographers ¶ A Discourse of the vnyting the two noble howses of Lancaster Yorke from which vnyted howse king Henry was the first king that proceeded WHen mightie Ioue from heauenly throne Behelde the blody broyle That Mars had made through ciuill sworde within this countrey soyle And pitying the ruthfull rage that on this Realme did rayne Most louingly did bend his eares to heare our moane and plaine The earth that earst was brewd with blood beginneth now to ioye The Bore is chaced that was wont this Realme so to annoy The Lady Concord came from Heauen To stablysh this decree That Lancaster Yorke henceforth vnyted shall agree Meethought I hearde the golden wordes That Concorde did resite And eke mee seemde myne eyes behelde This noble heauenly wighte Who pierst the Skyes with warbling winges and Scepter in her hande Uppon her hed a Diadem ycompast with a bande Whereat my mynde was all amazde To muse I coulde not ceace Till at the last I myght perceiue It was the bande of peace Her face as bright as Phebus beames Her heares lyke burnisht Golde Her feature like an Angell shape As ioyed mee to beholde With comly grace shee did commaund that scylence should be synde To rule the prease that then was thear Till shee had saide her mynde When all was whus ht and euery man with listning eares was bent To heare her speake then with these wordes shee shewd forth her intent Oh noble lande since first the tyme that Brute in thee did raygne Whose lyne intestine warre did ende As fame doth yet remaine Turmoilde and tost with ciuill Sworde Thou sundry tymes hast bene Such was thy lott and such mishap as yet in thee is seene Thy noble peares haue yeld their soules When fatall Sworde had slayne Unto the Theater of Ioue on Mars for to complayne Thy vulgar sorte in hugie heapes do prease their plaintes to showe With humble sute that perfect peace in English land may growe And Ioue that long haue rewde thy cace hath sent mee for to ceace These bluddie broyles and now to turne thy warre to perfect peace Where discorde raignes and breedes debate Subuertion is at hande And dayly proofe doth shewe that hate confoundeth many a lande Let Troyans testifye the same Let Pryam witnesse beare What Seignorie cannot bring forth Examples bought too deare Desire of rule doth oft tymes dymme And clips the fame and lyfe When Subiects touche the Princes seate by sowing seede of stryfe The Romaine rowt can well declare The smart of Pompeies broyle Numidia remembreth well The brunt of Iugurthes spoyle With thousandes more whome to resite were tyme but vainly spent But ryght shall sit in Regall seate The Tyran to preuent And God that all these turmoyles vewes at last will worke his wyll When false vsurper shall take foyle then ryght shall florish still To thee oh famous Realme I speake whose brute doth pierce the Skyes