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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

nobility and birth but his forwardnes and readines to conceiue and learne whatsoeuer was taught him ercéeded the common sort of his equals but chiefly hée excelled in exercise of Armes wherein he wholly delighted and ouer went the rest of his familiars and such as were brought vp with him When he came to mans estate he betooke himselfe to marriage and by his wife who liued not long with him who also may séeme not to haue liued with him so contentedly as was to bée required hée had one onely daughter whom he loued most entirely and caused her to be brought vp in vertue and learning wherein shée prospered to the great contentment and ioy of her Father and comfort of her mother who notwithstanding shortly after died and left her sole gouernor of her Fathers house which was great consisting of many people seruingmen and houshold seruants all which shée gouerned and vnder her father ruled with such discréet and modest behauiour as was of all people wondred at in respect of her tender age and youth besides shée was of such excellent and surpassing beauty as allured the eyes of all sorts of people to gaze and wonder at it nature hauing wrought in her mind an example of all womanhood and in her body and countenance a patterne and moddell of all perfection which being knowne at the Court as also throughout the land shée was commanded to attend the Court amongst Ladies of her regard and equall estimation being at Court and daily attendant on the Queene The King himselfe I meane King Iohn still respecting and gazing at her exquisite carriage and the perfection of her bewty fell so farre from himselfe and that which became his person and estate that he bent all his ende●ors to sollicite her of loue which shee as fully resolute most constantly denied The repulsed King left not so his vnlawfull sute for all her deniall but practised to procure her father to be a meanes for his vnlawfull and vngodly request a matter so farre from Kingly dignity a thing so dishonorable for him to attempt or vndergoe as that for it he euer after how euer for the time he bare faire weather persecuted and hated the King most deadly and it seemed to him being a man of high courage and resolution so prophane and so hainous a request as was from his very soule to be abhorred and detested nature not brooking the father to become a Pandor to his child but such was the loue or rather lust of this lasciuious King that the poore virgine not other wise able to auoid his importunate cute besough her father that shee might be professed a Nun or votary at Dunmow whereunto her father consented trusting that her absence would alay and asswage his lust and cause him to leaue his vnhallowed sute but it preuailed not but as a Lyon bereft of his pray grew more curaged then before appointing a messenger which he procured and hired of purpose whose arrand was either to perswade her to consent to the Kings request or by poison to take away her life in the end when nothing could perswade her he according to his direction poisoned her I haue read that it was secretly done with a poatched egge the sault being poisoned which was for her sauce Others say with a cup of poison which he enforced her to drinke but howsoeuer great mischiefe befell after this lamentable Tragedy which wel neere had ouerthrowne the Kingdome and Country This was about the yeere of our Lord 1213. Of the Barrons warre and the banishment of this Robert Fitz-walter FOr this occasion and many other grieuances the Barrons together with this Robert arose and made warre against the King driuing him to such extremity that he was forced to deliuer the City to the Barons and the Towre of London to the Archbishop of Canterbury on certaine conditions whereof I haue seene the coppie of a Charter or deed remaining in the Towre of London to this purpose The agreement betweene King Iohn of the one part and Robert Fitz-walter Marshall for the armie of God and the Church of England Richard Earle of Clare Geffrey Earle of Essex and Glocester Roger Bygot Earle of N●rfolke and Suffolke Sa●r Earle of Winchester Robert Earle of Oxford Henry Earle of Hereford and the Barrons vnderwritten that is to say William Marshall the younger Eustace de vescie William de Mowbray Iohn Fitz-roberts Roger de Mountbegon William de Lannauaile and other Earles and Barrons with those aboue wr●tten together with the fréemen of the whole kingdome that they aforesaid shall hold the Citty of London of the Kings deliuerance sauing to the King in the meane time all farmes rents and his cléere debts vntill the ascention of the Uirgin Marie which shall be in the 17. yéere of his raigne and the Lord of Canterbury shall likewise hold of the Kings deliuerance the towre of London vnto the foresaid terme sauing to the City of London their liberties and the customes and to euery man his right in the custody or kéeping of the Towre of London and if so bée that some things named in that Graunt bee performed by the King or that they be not hindred to be by him performed within the said terme that then the said City shall be deliuered to the King within the said terme sauing the liberty and customes of the said Citty and if they be not performed but hindered by the King Then the said Barrons to hold the said Citty and the Lord Archbishop the Towre vntill they be performed And in the meane time all men on either side to receiue the Lands Castles and Townes which they had the beginning of the warre betwéene the King and the Barons c. Hereby appeareth that the people of England had great affiance in the wisdome and valour of this Robert for they chose him for their chiefe commander and Generall of their Hoste by the name of Marshall The King after this agréement found meanes to banish Robert and diuers others of the Barons whereof some fled into Scotland some into France Thither also fled Robert Fitz-walter The king considering what dammage his owne subiects and people might doe vnto him in France prepared an Army and sailed ouer and met the French king where each armie being prepared and articles of peace and truce proposed they agréed vpon a truce for fiue yéeres Whilst both the hosts lay still about this composition There was an English knight which made offer to Iust with any knight of the French host which challenge Robert Fitz-walter obtained to answere on behalfe of the French So he ferryed ouer on horsebarke to the English Host there being a small Riuer betwixt them and in fight of both kings and armies Robert ouer threw and vnhorsed the English challenger or champion whereat king Iohn was wroth and swore by Gods tooth which was his vsuall oath that he were a king indeed that had such a knight Some of Roberrs friends enformed him and said

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