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A02855	The first part of the life and raigne of King Henrie the IIII. Extending to the end of the first yeare of his raigne. Written by I.H.; Historie of the life and raigne of Henry the Fourth	Hayward, John, Sir, 1564?-1627.	1599 (1599)	STC 12995; ESTC S103908	104,716	160

Father espied it in his bosome and demaunded what it was the Sonne humbly craued pardon and said that it nothing touched him by S. George quoth the Father but I will see it and so whether vpon a precedent iealosie or some present cause of suspition he tooke it away from him by force When he perceiued the contents he sodainely arose from the table with great fi●rcenesse both of countenance and speech vttered to his Sonne these wordes I see traytor that idlenesse hath made thee so wanton and mutinous that thou playest with thy faith as children doe with stickes thou hast been once already faithlesse to King Richard now again art false to King Henrie so that the like fish Sepia thou troublest all the waters wherin thou liuest Thou knowest that in open Parlament I became suertie and pledge for thy alleageance both in bodye and goods and can neither thy dutie nor my desert restreine thee from seeking my destruction in faith but I will rather helpe forwarde thine With that hee commaunded his Horses to bee made readie and presentlye tooke his iorneye towardes Windsore where the King then laye The Duke of Aumerle had no time eyther to consulte with his friends or to consider with himselfe what was best to bee doone but taking aduise vppon the sodaine he mounted likewise on horsebacke and posted towardes Windsore another way It was no neede to force him forwarde his youthfull bloud and his sodaine daunger were in steed of two winges to keep his horse in Pegasus pace so that he came to Windsore was alighted at the Castell before his stiffe aged Father could come neere Then hee entred the gates and caused them to be surely locked and tooke the Keyes into his owne hands pretending some secret cause for which he would deliuer them vnto the King When he came in presence he kneeled downe and humblie craued of the King mercie and forgiuenesse The king demaunded for what offence Then with a confused voice and sad countenance casting downe his eyes as altogether abashed partly with feare of his daunger and partly with shame of his discredit he declared vnto the King all the manner of the conspiracie The King seemed neither rashlie to beleeue nor negligentlie to distrust the Dukes report neyther stood it with pollicie to enterteine the discouerie with any hard and violent vsage therefore with gracious speeches he comforted the Duke and if this bee true sayd he we pardon you if it be feined at your extreame perrill be it By this time the Duke of Yorke was rapping at the Castle gates and being admitted to the Kings presence he deliuered to him the endenture of confederacie which hee had taken from his sonne When the King had redde it and was thereby perswaded of the trueth of the matter he was not a little disquieted in minde complaining of the vnconstant disposition of those men whom neyther crueltie he said could make firme to King Richard nor clemencie to him but vppon dislike of euery present gouernment they were desirous of any change So being possessed with deeper thoughts then to gaze vppon games he layde his iorney aside and determined to attend at Windsor what course his enemies would take and which waye they would set forward knowing right well that in ciuill tumults and aduised patience and opportunitie well taken are the onely weapons of aduantage and that it is a speciall point of wisdome to make benefit of the enemyes follie In the meane time he directed his letters to the Earle of Northumberland his high Constable and to the Earle of Cumberland his high Marshall and to others his most assured friends concerning these sodaine and vnexpected accidents The confederates all this time hearing nothing of the Duke of Aumerle and seeing no preparation for the Kings comming were out of doubt that theyr treason was betraied And now considering that once before they had beene pardoned the guilt of this their rebellion excluded them from all hope of further mercie wherevpon they became desperate and so resolued to prosecute that by open armes wherein their priuie practises had ●ailed And first they apparrelled Magdalen a man very like to King Richard both in stature and countenance and of yeares not disagreeable in princely attire and gaue foorth that hee was King Richard and that eyther by fauour or negligence of his keepers he was escaped out of prison and desired the faith and ayde of his louing subiects Then they determined to dispatche messengers to Charles King of Fraunce to desire his helpe and assistance on the behalfe of his sonne in lawe if need should require The common people which commonlie are soone changeable and on the sodaine as prone to pittie as they were before excessiuely cruell most earnestlie wished the enlargement of King Richard and earnestly wishing did easely beleeue it in which imaginarie conceit being otherwise men of no deepe search the presence of Magdalene most stronglie confirmed them and so eyther vpon ignorance of truth or delight in trouble they ioyned themselues in great troops to the Lords desiring nothing more then to be the meanes whereby King Richard should be restored as in a manner resuming their first affections and humors towards him Then the Lords of this association with great force but with greater fame as the manner is of matters vnknowne aduanced forward in battaile arraye towards Windsore against King Henrie as against an enemie of the common state hauing in theyr company aboue fortie thousand armed men The King vpon intelligence of theyr approache secretlye with a few horse the next Sunday night after Newyeres day departed from Windsore to the Tower of London and the same night before it was daye the confederates came to the Castle of Windsore where missing their expected praye they stood doubtfull and deuided in opinions which waye to bend their course Some aduised them with all speede to follow the King to London and not to leaue him any leaue and libertie to vnite an armie against them that Winter was no let but in idle and peaceable times that in ciuill discentions nothing is more safe then speede and greater aduantage alwayes groweth by dispatching then deferring that whilest some were in feare some in doubt and some ignorant the Citie yea the realme might easilye be possessed and that many armies whose furie at the first rush could not be resisted by delayes did weare out and waste to nothing Others who would seeme to bee considerate and wise but in verye deede were noe better then dastardes perswaded rather to set King Richard first at libertie for if their counterfeiting should be discouered before they possessed themselues of his person the people vndoubtedly would fall from them to the certaine confusion of them all Herevppon they gaue ouer the pursuite and retired to Colebrooke and there delayed out the time of dooing in deliberating beeing neyther courogiouslye quicke nor considerately stayed but faintlie and fearefullye shrincking backe and when they once beganne

among those of the contrarie part hauing caused the death of no man but onely in the fielde Then was an oath exacted of the King to stand to the gouernment of the Lordes and also an oath was taken of all the Subiects within the Realme to be true and faithfull vnto the King The king in taking this oath of the Lordes bewrayed his inward conceite by his open countenance looking pleasantly on those he fauoured and angerly on those whome hee hated by which vntimely discouery hee made them more heedefull and himselfe more hatefull which were occasions afterwarde both to preuente the reuenge which he much desired and to procure the mischiefs which hee little feared Lastly a subsidie was graunted and to the King comming as it were to a capitulation with the lordes hee to haue the name of a King and they the authority and maiesty the contention for that time ceased All this was done in the xj yeere of the kings reigne he being yet vnder age and in gouernement of others But the yeere following he beganne to take vpon him more liberty and rule and vpon extreame disdaine that both his pleasure and his power were by the Lords thus restrained he did euer after beare a hard minde against them And first he assembled them in the Councell chamber and there demanded of what yeeres they tooke him to be they answered that he was somewhat aboue one and twenty then sayd he I am of lawfull age to haue the regiment in mine owne hand and therefore you doe me wrong to holde me still vnder gouernement as though the condition of a king were harder then of a subiect This the Lords were neither willing to grant nor able to denie and therefore they either kept silence or spake little to the purpose Well sayd the king since I am no longer an Infant I heere renounce your rule and take vpon me such free administration of the Realme as the Kings thereof my predecessours heeretofore haue lawfully vsed Then presently he began his Phaetons flourish and commaunded the Bishop of Elie being L. Chancellour to resigne his seale which the king receiued and put vp and therewith departed out of the chamber but soone after he returned againe and deliuered the same to William Wickham bishop of Winchester constituting him L. Chancellour thereby Many other officers he likewise deposed and placed new in their roome partly to manifest his authority and partly to satisfie his displeasure Also he remooued the Duke of Gloucester the Earle of Warwicke and many others from his Priuy councell and tooke those in their places which more regarded the humour of the King but lesse his honour Soone after it was suggested to the King that the Duke of Gloucester was gathering of forces against him but vpon examination there was found not onely no trueth but no shew or colour of any such matter The Duke would not quietly haue disgested the raysing of these reportes but the King whether vpon a generall delight to be tickled in the eares with such tales or vpon particular desire to haue some quarell against the Duke charged him to silence In the 13. yeare of the Raigne of King Richard the Citizens of Genua desired his ayde against the Barbarians of Afrike who with dayly incursions infested and spoyled all the Sea coasts Ilands of Italy and Fraunce which fronted vppon thē The King sent a choyse companie of Souldiers ynder the cōduct of Henrie Earle of Derby who behaued himselfe in this charge with great integritie courage inciting his men the good by prayse the bad by example rather then reproofe as more ready to commend the vertues of the one then to vpbraide the vices of the other And first hee passed into Fraunce and there ioyned himselfe to certaine French forces appointed likewise for this seruice then with might and minds vnited they sayled together into Afrike At their arriuall the Barbarians were ready in armes to keepe them from landing but the Earle commaunded his Archers to breake through and make passage dispising the enemie whome he knew to be weake and vnskilfull in seruice and not to haue that aduantage in place which hee had in men the Frenchmen also sharply set in seconded the English and so whilest both companies contended the one to be accompted a helpe the other to seeme to neede no help the enemies were forced to flie and leaue the shoare vnto the Christians In this conflict three Dukes of the Barbarians and aboue three hundred Souldiers were slaine and in the flight fower Dukes were taken and a great yet vncertaine number of common people Then the Christians marched directly towards Tunis the head Cittie of that Countrie this they besieged in short time tooke chiefely by the prowes of the English souldiers who first scaled the Wals and reared thereon the Earles banner When they were entred the Towne the Englishmen bent their endeuour to the housing of their enemies and beating downe of such as made resistance but the Frenchmen straight waies turned to their lasciuious pleasures so that there was presented a spectacle both pitiful and shamelesse in one place butchering of men in another ryoting with women here streames of bloud heapes of slaughtered bodies hard by dissolute and licentious wantonnesses in some all the miseries of a cruell warre and the loosenesse of a secure peace Here were slaine and taken aboue fower thousand Barbarians the Kings brother also was slaine but the King himselfe fled into the Castle which was strongly scited and well fortified and furnished with men The Christians laide siege to this Castle the space of fiue weekes during which time they lost many of their men yet not by sword but by sickenesse the Barbarians also were distressed with want of victuall hauing but litle prouision and many vnprofitable mouthes to consume it herevpon they sent vnto the Christians to desire peace offering them a great summe of money to depart out of their countrie this the Christians accepted vpon condition that they might also freely carry with them all their pray and prisoners and that the Barbarians should from thenceforth surcease from making spoyle vpon any of the coastes of Italy or Fraunce Thus had this voyage a prosperous and speedie end the onely seruice as I suppose which the English and Frenchmen performed together without iotte of iarre And yet the Earle abused not the fortune of this successe to vaine vaunting or brauing in words but moderately im●arted to the rest the honour of the exployt so by valyan●y performing his charge and sparingly speaking thereof his glorie encreased without bit of enuie In the fifteenth and sixteenth yeres of the reigne of King Richard certaine causes of discontentment did grow betweene the King and the Londoners which set the fauour of the one and the faith of the other at great separation and distance One was for that the King would haue borrowed of them a thousand poundes which they feeling much