RICHARDUS II ANGLIAE ET FRANCIAE REX DOMINUS HIBERNIAE ETC. The true pourtraieture of Richard the 2. King of England and France Lord of Ireland and Prince of Chester he raigned 22 yeres was deposed and murther'd at Pomfraict Cast at the age of 33 yeares Buried first at Langley and 14 yeares after by K Henry the â—th 〈◊〉 to Westminster and their was honourably interred A TRVE RELATION OF THAT MEMORABLE PARLIAMENT which wrought Wonders Begun at Westminster in the tenth yeare of the Reigne of K. RICHARD the second Whereunto is added an Abstract of those Memorable matters before and since the said Kings Reigne done by Parliaments TOGETHER With a Character of the said amiable but unhappy King and a briefe Story of his Life and lamentable Death Printed in the Yeare 1641. AN HISTOIRCAL NARRATION of that Memorable Parliament begun at Westminster 1386 in the tenth year of the Reigne of King RICHARD the Second THis present occasion so opportunely be fitting me I am resolved to treat of that which hath beene omitted and slipped out of memory long since concerning divers and sundry changes and alterations in England in former times Nor will it be any way burthensome to write of that whereby every good and carefull Reader may learne to avoid diversities of miseries and the danger and feare of cruell death I will therefore speake of that which hath laine hid in the darksome shade of forgetfulnesse concerning men who have been led away by the deceitfull path of Covetousnesse and have come to a most shamefull and ignominious death a famous example to deter all men from practising those or the like courses ABout the yeere of Christ 1386 at such time as Richard the second of that name then in prime of his youth swayed the Imperiall Scepter of our Realme there flourished famous in his Court certain Peeres though some of them not of any honourable descent yet favoured by fortune by name Alexander Nevill Archbishop of Yorke Robert Vere D. of Ireland Michael de la Pool Earle of Suffolk then Lord Chancelor Robert Tresilian Lord Chiefe Justice of England and Nicholas Brambre sometimes Major of London These men being raised from meane estates by the speciall favour of the King and advanced to the degree of Privie Counsellors were the men who had the onely rule of the Common-wealth which they under the King governed for some small space with careful diligence meriting thereby deserved commendations But not long did they thus steere the Ship of the Kingdome for many of them being of inferiour ranke by birth not having their veines dignified with the streams of noble blood they were the sooner enticed with the libidinous baits of voluptuousnesse and infected with insatiable itch of avarice insomuch that despising the authority of the King and neglecting the commoditie of the Realme but onely desiring to keepe up the Revenues of the Kingdome so wrought that by their policie the King is impoverished the Treasure exhausted the Commons murmure at the multiplicity of Tenths Levies and Subsidies the Peeres repine to see themselves disgraced and their inferiors honoured and in a word the whole Kingdome endures an universall miserie The nobility seeing the miserable estate wherein the Kingdome lay bleeding as it were to death urged their King to summon a Parliament which was done shortly after In which amongst many other acts the afore-named Michaell de la Poole is dismist of his Chancelourship and being accused of divers and many points of injustice as briberie Extortion and the like he was sone after cast into the Castle of Windsor and all his Lands which were of no small Revenue were confiscated to the King Neither did the Parliament here give over but provided further for the whole state by the mutuall consent of the King and Prelates Barons and Commons with an unanimous conjunction they constitute and give plenarie and absolute power to certain Commissioners as well of the Spiritualty as of the Temporalty for the ordering and disposing of the publique affaires according as shall seeme best and most necessary for the desperate estate of the Commonwealth to depresse civill dissentions and to pacifie and appease the grudgings of the people Of the Spiritualty were chosen the Arch Bishop of Canterbury the afore-named Bishop of Yorke the Bishop of Ely lately made Chancelor of England the Bishop of Winchester Bishop of Hereford Lord Treasurer Bishop of Exeter Abbot of Waleham and the Lord John of Waltham Of the Layty were elected the Duke of Yorke the Earle of Arundel the Lord Coltham the Lord scroope and John Devoureux Knight these as men eminent in vertue were chosen by the generall Suffrage and sworne to carry themselves as dutifull and obedient subjects in all their actions And it was further enacted That if any should refuse or disobey the Ordinances so made for publique good the punishment of his first offence should be the confiscation of his goods and for the second the losse of life Thus disposing all things for the best the Parliament being dissolved every man returned to his own house Soone after the afore-named Chancelor with others of their Confederates being moved with implacable fury against the Statute of the late Parliament they buzzed into the Kings eares That the Statutes lately enacted were very prejudiciall to the honour of his Crowne and much derogatory to his Princely Prerogative insomuch that he should not have power without the consent of the new appointed Commissioners to doe any thing befitting a King no not so much as to bestow a Largesse a principal means to gain the peoples love upon any though never so well deserving By these and other the like impious instigations with which the Devil as never unmindfull of the end of those who by their lives doe prove themselves did continually supply them they practised to annihilate and disanull these Acts of the Parliament which seemed any wayes to abbreviate or curbe their usurped authority And first by their serpentine tongues ambitious projects flattery painted out with glosing discourses and covered over with the shadow of vigilancie for the good of the Kingdome they so bewitched the Noble inclination of the youthfull King whom they induced to beleeve that all the ill they did was a generall good that hee began to distaste and at last to abhorre the last passed Acts as treacherous Plots and most wicked Devices Next they studied how to ingrosse all or the most part of the Wealth and Riches of the Kingdome into their owne Coffers and to the same end dealt so cunningly yet pleasingly with the King that hee gave to the D. of Ireland John of Bloys the Heire of the Duchie of Britaine and his Ransome to others Townes to others Cities to others Lands to others Mony amounting to the summe of 100000 Marks to the great impoverishment both of King and Kingdome Neither did these King-eaters and Realme-devourers any thing regard it but setting unskilfull and insufficient Captaines and
Saham three thousand markes Robert Lithbury Master of the Râ—lls one thousand markes Roger Leicester one thousand markes Henry Bray Escheater and Judge for the Jewes one thousand markes But Sir Adam Stratton chiefe Baron of the Exchequer was fined in foure and thirty thousand markes These fines as the Rate of money goes now amount to neere three hundred thousand markes a mighty treasure to be gotten out of the hands of so few men which how they could a masse in those dayes when litigation and Law had not spred it selfe into those infiuit wreathings of contention as since it hath may seeme strange even to our greater-getting times In the Parliament Anno 2. of Edward the third held at Nottingham that great aspirer Mortimer was accused and condemned and sent up to London and drawne and hanged at the Common Gallowes at the Elmes now called Tiburne In the 50. yeare of the raigne of Edward the third Anno Dom. 1376 was held a Parliament at Westminster which was called the great Parliament where were divers complaints exhibited by the Parliament charging the Kings Officers with Fraud and humbly craving that the Duke of Lancaster the Lord Latimer then Lord Chamberlaine Dame Alice Peirce the Kings Concubine and one Sir Richard Sturry might be removed from Court their complaints desires are so vehemently urged by their Speaker Sir Peter la Moore that all these persons were presently put from Court By Parliaments all the wholesome fundamentall Lawes of this Land were and are established and confirmed By Act of Parliament the Popes power and Supremacie and all superstition and Idolatry and abrogated abolished and banished out of this Land By Act of Parliament Gods true Religion worship and service are maintained and established By Act of Parliament the two famous Vniversities of Cambridge and Oxford have many wholesome and helpfull Immunities By Parliament one Pierce Gaveston a great favorite and notable misleader of K. Edw. 2. was removed banished and afterwards by the Lords executed So were Hugh Spencer the Father and Hugh the Sonne By Parliament Empson and Dudley two notorious polers of the Common-wealth by exacting penall Lawes on the subjects were discovered and afterwards executed By Parliament the damnable Gun-pouder Treason hatched in Hell is recorded to bee had in eternall Infamie By Parliament one Sir Giles Mompesson a Moderne Caterpiller and poler of the Common-wealth by exacting upon Inholders c. was discovered degraded from Knighthood and banished by Proclamation By Parliament Sir Francis Bacon made by King James Baron Veralam and Viscount St. Albanes and Lord Chancellor of England very grievous to the Common-wealth by bribery was discovered and displaced By Parliament Sir John Bennit Judge of the Prerogative Court pernicious to the Commonwealth in his place was discovered and displaced By Parliament Lyonell Cranfield sometimes a Merchant of London made by K. James Earle of Middlesex and Lord Treasurer of England hurtfull in his place to the Common-wealth was discovered and displaced By Parliament one Sir Francis Mitchell a jolly Justice of Peace for Middlesex in the Suburbes of London another notable Canker-worme of the Common-wealth by corruption in exacting the penall Lawes upon poore Alehouse-keepers and Victuallers c. was discovered degraded from Knighthood and utterly disabled for being Iustice of Peace By Parliament Spaines late fraud was discovered and by Act the two Treaties with that perfidious Nation for the match of the Prince our now gracious King and restitution of the Palatinate were dissolved and annihilated both which had cost the King and his Subjects much monie and much blood We may remember that that sage Counceller of State Sir William Cecill Lord Burleigh and Lord Treasurer of England was ofttimes heard to say Hee knew not what an Act of Parliament might not doe which sage saying was approved by King James and by his Majestie alleaged in one of his published speeches Which being so now the face of Christendome being at this present so torne and miserably 〈◊〉 and the Christian World distracted the Gospell in all places almost persecuted both Church Common-wealth where the Gospell is professed in all places beyond the Seas lying a bleeding as we may say and we our selves at home not without feare and danger To conclude what good may we not hope and pray for by this present and other ensuing Parliaments the onely meanes to rectifie and remedy matters in Church and Common-wealth much amisse The Character RIchard Son of the valiant and vidorious Edward the blacke Prince was borne at Burdeaux and grand-child to King Edward the third being â—1 yeeres old began his Reigne the 21. day of June in the yeare of our Lord 1377. and was crowned King at Westminster the 16. of July In beauty bounty and liberality he â—aâ—re passed all his Progenitors but was overmuch given to ease and quietnesse little regarding Military matters of Armes and being young was most ruled by youâ—g Counsell regarding little the Counsell of the sage wise men of the Realmâ— which thing turned this Land to great trouble and himselfe to extreame misery For being first disgraced by his Cousin Henry of Bullingbroke Duke of Hereford son of John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster he was at length by him with the generall consent of the whole Parliament deposed from his Crown and Kingdome the 29. of September 1399. and committed to prison and afterwards wickedly murdered For being sent to Pomfret Castle to be safely kept and Princely maintained he was shortly after by King Henries direction and commandment who feared lest his estate might be shaken whiles King Richard liv'd wickedly assaulted in his lodging by Sir Piers of Exton and 8. other armed men from one of which with a Princely courage he wrested a â—rown Bill and therewith slew 4. of them fought with all the rest untill comming by his owne Chaire in which the base cowardly Knight himselfe stood for his owne safety he was by him stricken with a Pole-Axe in the hinder part of his head that presently hee fell downe and dyed when he had raigned 22. yeares 14 weekes and 2 dayes More Memorable things done by Parliaments BY Parliament Richard Montague since made Bishop of Chichester and now Bishop of Norwich his pernicious Booke entituled Apello Caesarem First confuted by Doctor Carlton then B. of Chichester and divers other Reverend Orthodox Divines was displayed and by Proclamation dated 1628. the booke was called in and prohibited and he the said Montague was discovered to be a notable unorthodox man c. By Parliament Roger Manwayring D. of Divinity Parson of St. Giles in the Fields and the Kings Chaplaine was discovered to be an unorthodox man and brought on his knees to the Bar of the Honourable House of Parliament and the booke of his two seditious Printed Sermons against Parliaments entituled Religion and Allegeance was by Proclamation called in and prohibited and he the said Manwayring was censured and deprived of his Livings not to come neere the Court nor to exercise or use any Ministeriall Office c. But notwithstanding soone after the fatall dissolution of that Parliament 1629. He the said Manwayring by the power of a little great Prelate was not onely restored to his former Livings but soone after hee was preferred and made Deane of Worcester afterwards a Bishop and is now Bishop of St. Davids the first Bishoprick in Wales And in as much as so many Memorable things have bin done by Parliaments somewhereof in former Times have indeed done no lesse than write Wonders for Reformation of Corruptions and Grievances exemplary Executions in the State and Common-wealth And seeing th'other day viz. 22. of February there was that correspondence and happy agreement betwixt his sacred Majesty and both the houses of Parliament now sitting which made the Evening of that Day crowned with Bone-fires and Bells-ringing for joy Let us not cease to pray and beseech the Lord of Hosts still so to unite the heart of the Kings Majesty to the Parliament his great Counsell that the Upper and Lower Houses may unanimously agree and be reciprocally united to the Kings that many matters now much amisse in Church and Common-wealth may be reformed and this Yeare may be accounted Annus Aureus and that this present Parliament begun this Yeare may be inscribed and engraven in Marble and in Letters of Gold By Parliament the Earle of Strafford Deputy of Ireland grievous to the Common-wealth was discovered and after an Honourable Tryaâ—l was attainted of high Treason for which hee suffered death May the twelfth 1641. SACRED TO MEMORY POSTERITY THE LONG EXPECTED HAPPY PARLIAMENT Begun MDC.XL Ended and made a Session Vivat Rex Floreat Regnum Bene valeat Parliamentum Hallelujah FINIS
Governours over Townes and Forts so obtained gave occasion to the Enemies of the Crowne to surprize them and dispossesse the King of them Thirdly vilifying the dignity of the King contrary to their allegeance they drew the King to sweare That with all his power during his life he should maintaine and defend them from all their Enemies whether foraine or domestick Fourthly whereas it was enacted by the last Parliament That the King at certaine seasonable times and when his leysure would permit him should sit at Westminster with his Councell there to consult of the publique Affaires through the perswasions of the aforesaid Conspirators hee was drawne into the most remotest parts of the Realme to the great disparagement of the fidelity of those Honourable grave and faithfull Peeres late made joynt Commissioners in whose hands the whole safety and prosperity of the Common-wealth did reside And when as the Lord Chancellor the Lord Treasurer Keeper of the Privie Seale or any other of the Privie Councell came to relate any of their owne actions or the state of the Realme they could not be granted accesse unlesse they related the businesse in the presence and hearing of the Conspirators who were alwayes ready to upbraid them if they uttered any thing that displeased them and to commend them for any thing though most nefarious that did content them for thus could they the sooner learne and dive into the acts of the Commissioners and the better finde evasions for their accusations Furthermore when as the King in company of the Conspirators went in progresse towards the parts of Cheshire Wales and Lancashire they made Proclamation in the Kings Name throughout the Shires as they journyed That all Barons Knights Esquires with the greatest part of the Commonalty able to beare Armes should speedily repaire to the King for his defence against the power of the Commissioners chiefly of the Duke of Gloucester and the Earle of Arundell because they above the rest did with their chiefest endevours study to suppresse and quell the devices of the Conspirators Fifthly contrary to the aforesaid Acts they caused the D. of Ireland to bee created Chiefe Justice of Chester thereby selling Justice as they listed condemning the guiltlesse and remitting the guilty never respecting or looking unto the equall ballance of Justice but poyzing downe the Scales with heaps of Bribery Sixthly by the procurement of the Confederates they caused certaine honest persons who would not consent to their extortions to be called and summoned to their Court and there to answer to certaine false accusations wherewith they were unjustly charged by perjured hirelings of which men so accused some were put to death some cast into prison all were vexed and troubled with delayes length of their iourney to and fro and excessive charges neither were they eased of any of these burthens unlesse they would part with round summes of money to the D. and his Complices Seventhly they gave pardons under the broad Scale to Felons Murtherers and such like only with this condition that they should murther any whomsoever they thought did mislike their Exaction Eightly they taught the Country of Ireland to looke to its pristine estate I meane of having a King for they plotted to have the Duke created King of Ireland and for the confirmation of which their designed they allured the King to send his Letters to the Pope Ninthly the aforesaid Nicholas Brambre in the time of his Maioraltie caused two and twenty to be falsly accused of Felonies and layd into Newgate under pretext and colour of divers Crimes and in the silent and dead time of the night to be fast bound and by a strong hand to be carried into Kent to a place commonly called Fawlocks and then to have their heads struck off except one who being favoured by the murtherers safely escaped the bloud of the rest dyed the streames of a small Rivelet adjoyning Tenthly soone after to adde one mischiefe to another they sent Letters under the Kings Signet to the Maior of London by John Rippon Clerke with a certaine Libell or Schedule inclosed in the said Letters the tenor of which is as followeth That the afore-named three Cōmissioners viz. the Duke of Gloucester the Earles of Arundel and Warwick and other of the Councell were to be arrested indicted condemned put to lamentable death as being such as had conspired against the King against his Prerogative and against his Crowne and Imperiall Dignity and to this they did in a manner constrain the King to assent unto Upon receit of these Letters the Major and Aldermen of the City of London called a Common Councell wherein they consulted what course were best to be taken in this matter and after long debate pro con it was on all sides agreed to deny and not to suffer that cruell and unheard of Tragicall Complot to be executed It ever happeneth one wicked Act drawes on a second and that second a third and so forwards till the weight cracks the Supporter Therefore the said Conspiratours being blinded with rashnesse principally sent Letters by John Godfrey knight to the King of France the Kings adversary to conclude a five yeares Truce should come over to Callis and from thence should send for the Duke of Gloucester the Earles of Arundel and Warwick and for some other of the Commissioners as though the King were unwilling to determine of any thing without their advice and being thus circumvented should be condemned as Traitors and so put to an ignominious and cruell death And for the doing and performing of these things the King of France was to recover all the Castles Townes and Lands lying in these Countreys and belonging to the King of England To prove these things to be true there were certaine Writings produced by the Commissioners wherein were contained Letters from the King of France to the King of England and from the Conspirators in the King of Englands Name to the King of France Moreover there were other Letters intercepted directed to the said King of France the substance whereof was to incite the King of France to levie a puissant power both horse and foot and to draw them down to Bulloigne and thence to transport them into England against the Duke of Gloucester the Earls of Arundel and Warwick and the rest of the Commissioners and all those that did either countenance or favour the said Statute and Commissioners which as they falsly alleaged was made in derogation of the Kings Prerogative and the aforesaid Commissioners to vanquish oppresse and put to death and consequently the whole Nation and Language utterly to ruine Not here concluding their devillish Conspiracy the five aforesaid Conspiratours departed from Westminster to the Castle of Nottingham and sent a writ for Robert Beale Lord chiefe Justice of the Common Pleas John Holt Roger Fulthorp and William Burleigh Judges of the said court and for John Locton the Kings Sergeant at Law who being come into the Councel Chamber
rest of the Commissioners to subscribe as parties to their Appellation When these things came to the eares of the King he sent unto them requiring to know what their request was and what they wished to have beene done They returned answer thus That they did desire that the Traytors which were alwayes about him filling his eares with false reports and did dayly commit insufferable Crimes and Injuries might be rewarded with condigne punishment for it were better that some few should dye for the people then the whole Nation should perish And they likewise craved that they might have safe liberty of going and comming to his Grace When the King heard their Request hee gave them his Royall consent and commanded them to appeare at Westminster and the King sitting on his Throne in the great Hall the three aforesaid Peeres Appellants with a gallant Troup of Gentlemen entred and making three lowly obeysances on their bended knees they reverenced the King and drawing neere the cause of their comming being alledged they there againe appealed the Archbishop Duke of Ireland Earle Treasurer and Brambre of high Treason according as they had done before at Waltham Crosse but they betaked themselves to the private corners of the Palace even as Adam and Eve from the presence of God not having the heart to appeare to justifie themselves The King called forth the Appellants to prove and prosecute the Appellation prescribing them a day and place for the Tryall which was to be on the morrow after Candlemas day and in the meane time the King commanded them upon their Honours not any party to molest the other untill the next Parliament Those things thus passed were publiquely proclaimed throughout all England and they departed joyfully The Duke of Ireland under the guide of his Grand Captain the devil marching into Cheshire Lancashire and Wales raised a new power amounting to the number of 6000 fighting men in the Kings name to overthrow and confound the Appellants from thence marched towards London with his Armie with a furious intent and resolution to performe his bloudy designe But God beholding their foolish hearts filled them with vain hopes that they should accōplish their enterprises And whilest these Plots were laid the Appellants being suddenly advertised thereof raised a power and joyning with them the Earle of Derby and the Earle of Nottingham and other Commissioners marched with long and wearied Marches into a Field neere a Village called Whitney at a place called Locford Bridge In which Field the Duke of Ireland was with the Army having a River on the one side of them whereas they stood ready prepared to give an overthrow to the Appellants and displaying the Kings Standard contrary to the Laws of the Land But although they were so valiant at the beginning yet were they discouraged at the end for when they saw the Army of the Appellants march downe from the Mountaines like a Hive of Bees and with such a violent fury feare benummed them and they were so amazed that when they should give the Assault God not suffering the effusion of bloud they stood like a Hive of Bees or a flock of Cattell without a head making no shew or countenance of resisting but without any stroke given they flung downe their Armes and yielded themselves to the mercy of the Appellants and a few being slaine and some drowned in the River gave an easie Victory to the Conquerors The Duke of Ireland himselfe putting spurres to his Horse tooke the River and hardly escaped and though he was pursued yet hee escaped through the middest of the Troupes And thus by the mercy of God they obtained the glorious Palme of Victory from the Hand of Heaven When the news of the Victory was blowne to the eares of the rest of the Conspirators who went then stricken with feare and carefull for their preservation under covert of the night they fled by Water to the Tower drawing the king along with them On the other side Nicholas Brambre with a bold and resolute courage in the kings Name caused all the Gates of the City to be shut against the Appellants and to be guarded with an able and sufficient Watch But these worthy and dauntlesse Members of the Common-wealth marched towards London to conferre with the king but when they heard that the said Nicholas Brambre had caused the Gates of the City to be shut against them and to be strongly guarded and that the whole City did purpose to keepe them out they stayed their resolution On the 27 day of September in the same yeare with a melodious sound of divers kinds of Instruments as well of Warre as of Peace they encamped themselves in Clarkenwell within the Liberties of the Citie of London not purposing on the one side rashly or unadvisedly to enter the City nor on the other side to make any shew of feare but with a stayed minde as befitting wise men with good deliberation to conclude every thing in its due time And when as the Major with the Citizens came unto them with pleasing words promising unto them all that the City could afford with reason and equity the Duke of Gloucester said Now I know that Lyers speakes nothing but Lyes neither can any man hinder them from the relating Where upon by a joint consent in the Evening they removed their tents and pitched them before divers Gates of the City On the morrow there hapned an enterview betweene the King and the Appellants so farre that they opened their minds one to the other but because the king loathed to speak with them with such a rabble of men and in regard of an intolerable boldnes and some quarrell which was like to arise and on the otherside refusing to goe out of the Tower to speake with them and the Apellants fearing some violence or wrong to bee offered to them would not speake with the King without a strong guard of valiant Warriours Therefore the most wise of the Appellants after divers disputations had resolved to goe and conferre with the King but first they sent a strong troupe well armed to search all the Corners and Caves of the Tower and relation being made of the safety of the place with a selected band of valiant Cavaliers they entred the Tower and seising the Gates and placing a guard appeared before the King and there the third time appealed the aforesaid Conspirators in the same sort and forme as before which Appellation being ended the King swore That he would adhere to their connsell as a good King and a just Judg so farre as the rule of Law Reason and Equity did require These things being accomplished they departed from the Tower to their Tenements and Lodgings And then it was published and made known in the presence of the King and throughout the Dominions That on the morrow after Candlemas day the aforesaid Conspirators should personally appeare to answer to the Appellation whereby they were charged of so many Treasons And
to put in baile provided they were sufficient and to goe into a place of England where they listed without any let or hindrance of any of the Kings Officers Moreover the six Iustices with the Bishop of Chichester who stood condemned with them were sent into Ireland there to remaine for tearme of life and thus they were to be divided viz. Robert Belknap and John Holt in the Village of Dromore in Ireland not to remaine as Iustices or any officers but to live as banished offenders not to be out of Towne above the space of two miles upon paine of death but the King out of his gracious bounty was pleased to give a yearly annuity of 40. pound to Robert Belknap of 20. markes to John Holt during their lives and to Roger Fulthorpe the King allowed 40. pound and to William Burleigh 40. pound during life confining them to the City of Dublin granting Burleigh the liberty of two miles and to Fulthorpe three miles for their recreation John Carey and John Locton with the yearely allowance of 20. pound during life are confined to the Tower of Waterford with the like liberty and the like penaltie and the Bishop of Chichester is likewise sent to Corke there to remaine with some allowance and the like penaltie Behold these men who feared not God nor regarded men but having the Lawes in their owne hands wrested them now this way now that way as pleased best their appetites wresting them at their pleasures for their owne commoditie were at the last brought downe to the depth of miserie from whence they were never able to free themselves On the third day of Iune which was the last day of the Parliament the King the Queene the Peeres of both Estates with the Commons came to the Abbey at Westminster whereas the Bishop of London because it was in his Diocesse sung Masse and the Masse being ended the Archbishop of Canterbury made an Oration concerning the former danger of the Oath which being although the Peeres and Commons had taken the Oath of Allegeance and homage to the King yet because the King was young when they tooke the Oath a new as at the first at his Coronation These Ceremonies being performed the Metropolitan of England with all his Suffragans there present having lighted a Candle and putting it under a stoole put it out thereby excommunicating all such as should seeme to distaste dislike or contradict any of the fore-passed Acts in the last Parliament And the Lord Chancellor by the Kings appointment caused all that were present to sweare to keepe the said Statutes inviolably whole and undissolved as good and faithfull Liege-people of the Kings and the forme of the Parliament was observed throughout all the Realme On the morrow which was the fourth day of June many courteous salutations and congratulations having passed betweene the King the Nobility and Comminalty the Parliament was dissolved and every man returned home And now let England rejoyce in Christ for that the net which was laid so cunningly for our destruction is broken asunder and wee are delivered To God be the praise for all FINIS THE Names of such as were charged and condemned of high Treason in this aforesaid Memorable Parliament Alexander Nevile Archbishop of Yorke-â—â—â—â— de Vere Duke of Ireland who was 〈…〉 into France where he was kil 〈…〉 le Earle of Suffolke and Lord 〈…〉 Robert Tressilian Lord chiefe Iustice of the Kings Bench Sir Nichola Bramber sometimes Lord Major of London made a Privie Counsellour John Blake a Serjeant at Armes Thomas Vske an Intelligencer of Tressilians All these except the Duke of Ireland were drawne and hanged at the Elmes now called Tyburne Robert Belknap John Holt. Roger Falthorp William Burleigh Iohn Locton Iohn Carey Baron of the Exchequer All these former 6. named men were as it seemes Iudges and although condemned yet their lives were saved at the intercession of some of the guiltlesse Peeres and they afterward were banished into Ireland Sir Symon de Burleigh was also condemned and beheaded he was a Knight Banneret and of the Garter a great and gallant Courtier and his body lyeth honourably buried and intombed in Pauls Church Sir John Branchamp Steward of the Houshold to the King and Sir Iames Beverous were also condemned beheaded at Tower-hill Sir Iohn Salisbury was condemned drawne from Tower-hill to Tiburne and then hanged There were also detected and condemned of the aforesaid Treason The Bishop of Chichester the Kings Confessor Sir Thomas Trinet Knight Sir William Ellingham Knight Sir Nicholas Nagworth Knight Richard Metford Clerke Iohn Slake Clerke Iohn Lincoln Clerke An Abstract of many memorable matters done by PARLIAMENTS in this Kingdome of ENGLAND BY Parliament Sir Thomas Wayland chiefe Justice of the Common-Pleas 17. Ed. 1. was attainted of Felony for taking bribes and his lands and good forfeited as appeares in the Pleas of Parliaments 18. Edward 1. and he was banished the Kingdome as unworthy to live in that state against which he had so much offended By Parliament Sir William Thorpe chiefe Justice of the Kings Bench in Ed. 3. times having of five persons received five severall bribes which in all amounted to but one hundred pounds was for this alone adjudged to bee hanged and all his goods and lands forfeited The reason of the Iudgement is entred in the Roll in these vvords Because that as much as in him lay he had broken the Kings Oath made to the people which the King had intrusted him withall By Parliament holden Anno. 22. Hen. the second assembled at Nottingham and by advise thereof the King caused the Kingdome to be divided into 6 parts and Justices Itinerants appointed for every part with an Oath by them to be taken for themselves to observe and cause inviolablie to be observed of all his subjects of England the Assises made at Claringdon and renued at Northton By Parliament In the 11. of Edw. the first the Dominion of Wales was united to the Crowne of England in the Parliament in Anno 16. of Edw. the first 1289 upon the generall compes made of the ill administration of Iustice in the Kings absence by divers great Officers and Ministers of Iustices these penalties were inflicted upon the chiefe Ministers thereof whose manifest corruptions the batred of the people to men of that profession apt to abuse their science and authority the necessity of reforming so grievous a mischiefe in the Kingdome gave easie thereunto by the Parliament then assembled wherein upon due examinations of their offences they are fined to pay to the King these sums following First Sir Ralph Hengham chiefe Justice of the higher Bench seaven thousand markes Sir Iohn Loveton Justice of the Lower Bench three thousand markes Sir William Bromton Iustice sixe thousand markes Sir Soloman Rochester foure thousand markes Sir Richard Boyland foure thousand markes Sir Thomas Sadington two thousand markes Sir Walter Hopton two thousand markes These foure last were Justices Itenerants Sir William