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A43208	Englands chronicle, or, The lives & reigns of the kings and queens from the time of Julius Cæsar to the present reign of K. William and Q. Mary containing the remarkable transactions and revolutions in peace and war, both at home and abroad, as they relate to this kingdom, with the wars, policies, religion and customs, success and misfortunes as well of the ancient Britains, as Roman, Saxon, Danish, and Norman conquerors, with copper cuts and whatever else is conduceable to the illustration of history / by J. Heath.	Heath, James, 1629-1664.	1689 (1689)	Wing H1325; ESTC R29472	167,333	265

declaring they were granted in his nonage But this begat Hubert de Burgo his chief Justice who advised him to it a very great hatred amongst the People however the King with the Money thus gotten raised an Army and sailed for Britany winning many Places and driving them from their Encroachments but the Irish rebelling he was constrained to return sooner than he purposed but upon notice of his Preparations the Irish laid down their Arms and sneaked into their Eogs He about the same time quieted the Welsh that began to be mutinous and now it was that the Bishop of Winchester and others found an opportunity to accuse Hubert de Burgo of many high Crimes and Misdemeanours upon which he fled but being taken at Brent Wood in Essex he was brought bound to London and Imprisoned in the Tower when in his Place as chief Counsellour and Confident the King ordained Peter de Rupibus Bishop of Winchester but he being a Foreigner by Birth so greatly favoured Strangers that he procured them to be put into Offices and the most important Trusts of the Kingdom which made the English Noblemen confederate against him and the King summoning them to Parliament they sent him word that if out of hand he removed not the Bishop of Winchester and Strangers out of his Court they would drive both him and them out of the Kingdom and having removed him with his evil Counsellours they would consult about Creating a new King But animated by the Bishop of Winchester his Confident the King marched to Gloucester with an Army and sending for them by Name such as appeared not he burnt their Mannors and gave their Inheritances to his Strangers which made the Earl-Marshal and others that stood out contract a strict Alliance with Lewellin Prince of Wales and by way of Reprisal fell upon the Possessions of the Kings Favourites burning some Towns and many Castles but the Earl-Marshal crossing the Seas to recover his confiscated Possessions in Ireland was there wounded and of that wound he dyed whose Death instead of Rejoycing the King as some expected made him on the contrary burst into Tears declaring That he had not left his peer in England and the King plainly perceiving the People's hatred in general against the Bishop commanded him not to meddle any farther in Matters of State and finding the necessity of it he laid aside Peter Rivalis his Lord-Treasurer commanding the Poictuovians to depart the Land But the Disquiets ended not in this manner for the Pope perceiving the English Clergy did not greatly stickle for his Interest and Advantage he the better to support his Usurpation sent over 300 Romans requiring they should be placed in the first Benefices as they became vacant at the same time demanding great Summes of Money of the Clergy for the Maintenence of his Wars against the Emperour the which though at first denied was at length complyed with and soon after the Pope as he alledged out of a Curiosity from a Report he had heard of the Country's Fertility and Pleasantness was greatly desirous to come over and see it making his Suit to the King that he might be admitted but the Council considering he had some sinister end in it not only the Laity but the Clergy opposed it In the year 1240 Richard Earl of Cornwall with the Earls of Lincoln Salisbury Pembroke Chester and others departed with a great Train to the Holy-Land and two years after King Henry passed the Seas to recover Poictou but spent a great deal of Treasure without effecting any thing memorable which made him in his Return levy grievous Taxes to supply his Coffers and above all he sate heavy upon the Jews who were then great Usurers in this Kingdom draining them of what they had unlawfully gotten He likewise retrenched the Expences of his House condescending to such a meanness that to save Charges he would invite himself and his Court frequently to the Houses of such wealthy Persons as he thought best able to give him Entertainment getting likewise a great Summe of the Parliament under pretence of going to the Holy-Land and for his consenting again to restore the Liberties and Charters Anno 1257. Richard Earl of Cornwall the King's Brother was chosen King of the Romans by the Electoral Princes and with King Henry's consent passed into Germany yet he was obliged to purchase this Leave with a great Summe of Money as being accounted one of the richest Princes in Europe He was Crowned King of the Romans at Aquisgrave and received the Honour due to his Character from all the Princes and Estates of the Empire But after his Departure new Differences arose between King Henry and his Nobles upon the Account of the Return of Strangers contrary to the Agreement so that they came armed to the Parliament at Oxford binding themselves by Oath to have Things of that nature regulated and the King the better to quiet them without bloud-shed together with Prince Edward his Son was there content and the wide Differences being referred to a Parliament appointed to meet at London they were cemented But the Peace continued not long e● upon new Disgusts both Sides prepared for War so that the King seizing upon Oxford turned out the Students of that University to the number of 15000 whose Names were entered in the Matriculation Book which made many of them take part with the Barons and imbody themselves under a peculiar Standard so that when the King broke into Northampton where part of the Confederate Army lay the Students bore the brunt of the Battel and killed more Men than all the rest of the Soldiers which so incensed King Henry that he vowed a sharp Revenge but being told they were many of them the Sons and Kinsmen of the Noblemen in his Army and that such Rigour would alienate them from him he retracted his Resolution Yet heightned with this Success he pursued the Barons to Nottingham burning and wasting their Possessions which made them seek for Peace declaring by a submissive Letter their Loyalty to him and that they had no Design against his Person but their Quarrel was to his evil Counsellors the known Enemies of the Kingdom But the King reproaching them by the Name of Traitors sent them word that the Injury done to his Friends he took as done to himself and therefore held them as theirs and his own Enemies so that no good understanding being towards the Armies drew out and engaged in a mortal Battel wherein Prince Edward the King 's eldest Son behaved himself with much Bravery routing the Battalion composed of Londoners and following the pursuit four Miles which notwithstanding was prejudicial to his Father for in the mean while the King's Horse was slain under him and he made Prisoner together with his Brother the King of the Romans who a little before returned to England for the security of his Possessions so that the Prince not being able to restore the Battel Victory fell to the Barons and

and do great mischief especially in and about the City of London and had been greater but the Earl entered with his Army and put an end to those disorders and set King Henry at liberty who had been a Prisoner in the Tower for almost the space of Nine years conveying him to the King's Palace in great Triumph where on the 13th of October he was crowned again and went with the Crown on his head to St. Paul's Church the Earl of Warwick bearing up his Train and the Earl of Oxford carrying the Sword before him whilst the people cryed God save King Henry and a Parliament being called to sit at Westminster the 26th of November King Edward was declared a Traitor to his Country and a Usurper of the Crown his Goods and Lands were confiscated and his Adherents were attained The Earl of Worcester for his Cause lost his Head and all the Statutes made by Edward Revoked The Crowns of England and France were entailed to King Henry and his Heirs Male and for default of such Issue to George Duke of Clarence The Earl of Warwick to be Governour of the Land till it could be better settled Thus went the various change of Affairs in England 〈◊〉 the bloudy contest between the houses of York and Lancaster yet continued not the advancement of King Henry for King Edward holding Correspondency in England and gathering some Forces beyond the Seas landed at Ravenspur in Yorkshire where the better to insinuate with the People He at first pretended to come for his right as a private person but finding himself strong enough he siezed upon York and increasing in Power marched till ●he came near to the City of Warwick where his Brother the Duke of Clarence being reconciled to him by the means of a Maid-servant that had lived with the Old Dutches of York desiring the Earl to forsake King Henry's Cause and close with his Brother but that great Man more regarding his Engagement than Life or Interest sent him word that he had rather be an Earl and always like himself than a perjured Duke and that e'er his Oath should be falsified as the Dukes apparently was he would lay down his Life at his enemies Feet which he doubt not should be bought very dear whereupon King Edward hasted to London and was received by the Citizen no ways able to resist him when drawing out his Forces he marched against the Earl and his Accomplicies and on Easter day in the Morning Battel was joyned on Glad-more Heath near Barnet in which bloudy Conflict fortune at first seemed to favour VVarwick but by an unlucky mistake he lost the day for a great Mist falling the embroidered Stars upon the Coats of such as were commanded by the Earl of Oxford being taken for Suns which was King Edward's Cognizance VVarwick's Battallion charged by that Errour upon their Friends and they suspecting it done on purpose crying out Treason quitted the Field which the Earl perceiving and resolving not to out-live the loss of the day charged desperately into the King's Battel killing many with his own Hands but being cut off from the assistance of his own men he there was slain as likewise was his Brother the Lord Montacute in attempting to Rescue him on King Edward's Party dyed the Lords Cromwell Bourchier and Barns with Si● John Lisle and on both sides about 10000 of all sorts But thus ended not the Contests for the Crown for Queen Margaret in the right of her Husband and Son raised a strong Power Anno Domini 1471. and gave the King Battel at Tewxbury but Fortune now turned fatally averse to the Queen and her Family for losing the day with the death of John Lord Somerset John Courtney Earl of Devonshire Sir John Delues Sir Edward Hampden Sir Robert Whitingham Sir John Leukner and several others and a great many of lesser note The Queen in this rout fled and betook her self to a religious house for sanctuary but was takan thence and made close Prisoner young Prince Edward her Son was taken in his flight by Sir Richard Crofts who presented him to King Edward who having a while beheld him with a stern countenance demanded how he durst presume with Banners displayed to disturb his Kingdom to which the Prince replied that what he did was to recover his Father's Kingdoms and his most rightfull Inheritance But how dare you continued the Prince being but a Subject display your Colours against your Liege Lord Upon this resolute replie King Edward unworthily struck him on the Mouth with his Gantlet when Richard Duke of Gloucester basely taking the hint stabbed him and the Wound being seconded by some of the Servants the poor Prince fell dead at the King's feet Things being carried at an extraordinary highth Edmund Duke of Somerset the Prior of St. John's with divers Knights and Esquiers who had taken sanctuary were contrary to the Custome of those times taken thence by force and executed at Tewxbury and soon after Richard Duke of Gloucester the King's Brother stabbed the pious King Henry to the heart in the Tower of London and his body was exposed in a Coffin at St. Paul's to convince the People he was dead As for the Queen she continued several years a Prisoner but at length her Father mortgaged most of his Principalities to pay her Ransome and she thereupon was sent over Sea where in much sorrow and perplexity she languished ●ut the rest of her days and by this means the Lancastrians being utterly disabled to make head King Edward more assured in his Throne betook himself to his Pleasure and hearing of the Fame of Jane Shoar Wife to a Goldsmith in Gracechurch-street he sent for her and took her to his Bed upon which her Husband renounced her and for Grief and the Disgrace betook himself to travel beyond the Seas never returning into England He had likewise two other Concubines high in his esteem and being in the Year 1474. in France at an Interview with the French King Lewis told him that he would one day invite him to court the fair Ladies of Paris to which Offer Edward readily consented insomuch that the French King not being pleased with his forwardness whispering to Philip Comines his Bosome Friend told him that he repented of his Offer considering that there had been too many English Princes already at Paris so that the King returned without having any opportunity to prosecute such Amours Anno 1478. by the contrivance of Richard Duke of Gloucester George Duke of Clarence was accused of sundry Crimes and committed to the Tower where soon after he was smothered in a Butt of Malmsey Wine and 't is reported the King consented to so great a Wickedness upon a Prophecy That a G. should succeed an E. which however proved true though he mistook the Man for Richard Duke of Gloucester usurped the Throne and murthered his two Sons as will appear hereafter Two Acts yet more of this King's Cruelty are memorable viz. 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passionately sought for by Buckingham's declaring that none of Edward's Race should Reign over them and therefore they had offered the Crown to him which if he refused they would give to another of a different Family that should be worthy of it Hereupon with a seeming unwillingness he told them seeing they were so bent against the Linage of his dear Brother which he was sorry to hear rather than they should be destitute of a King of the Royal Bloud in the house of the Plantagenets he should be content to submit to their desires and take the Government upon himself These words ended the people cryed King Richard King Richard and from this time is accounted the end of Edwards the Fifths Reign Thus by false seeming Friendship the poor Prince Betray'd and Murther'd in his Innocence Without a Crown goes down into the Grave Yet so had rest which others could not have The Reign and Actions of Richard the Third King of England c. RIchard by the means mentioned in the foregoing Reign having obtained Possession o● the Throne and laid his Nephews aside he kep● them strict Prisoners in the Tower when calling ● Parliament the Crown was confirmed to him and his Heirs and great preparations were made fo● the placing it on his Head but fearing the Nobility when gather'd in a body might oppose it he sent for his trusty Friend Robert of Risdale wh● gathering about 5000 of the Northern Rable came to London as his Guard when at Westminster the Ceremony was performed with great Splendour Quee● Ann Daughter to the great Earl of Warwick being Crowned with him who had been contracted to Prince Edward Son to Henry the Sixth and the more to ingratiate with the people he discharged the Arch-Bishop of York and the Lord Standly from their Imprisonment taking his Seat likewise in the Court of King's-Bench and there pronouncing pardon for all Offences committed against him and a● the Intreaty of the University of Oxford John Morton Bishop of Ely was delivered into the hands o● the Duke of Buckingham who sent him in close confinement to his Castle of Brecknock in VVales and then suffered him to continue upon his Parole King Richard by this time notwithstanding he had Possession found himself but slenderly settled in the Throne whilst the young Princes his Nephews were alive and therefore to make sure he sent his Letter by John Green to Sir Robert Brackenbury Lieutenant of the Tower to make them away privately bu● he detesting so great a Murther refused it with expressions of the horrour he conceived at such a proposition but this changed not the Usurpers determination rather making him more earnest least the design should be discovered before it was put in practice wherefore being wished by some of his Privados to one Sir James Tirrel a Man of desperate Fortune and wicked Principles he disclosed the Matter to him and he promised if he might have the Keys of the Tower delivered to him for one day he would see it effected hereupon the King Wrote to the Lieutenant on pain of high displeasure to deliver they Keys to this Person and he not daring to refuse least his own Life should go for it unwillingly surrendered them whereupon Tirrel when the young Princes were in Bed and a sleep sent in two of his Hell-hounds viz. Miles Forrest and John Dighton who wraping the innocent Youths close in the Bed-cloaths and clapping a Bolster on their Fa●es Forrest being a heavy squat Fellow lay upon them whilst the other kept down their Bodys and ●o continued to do for the space of an hour till they found no more strugling life or motion in them at what time Tirrel came in and finding them dead caused their Bodys to be buried under the Stairs deep in the Ground and a great heap of Stones were laid upon them The business being done the Murtherers redelivered the Keys and went to give an account of the Wickedness and receive the Wages of Iniquity but the Usurper in this was mistaken for instead of contributing to his peace it added exceedingly to his disturbance and disquiet for he never after en●oyed any content of mind not through any Remorse but through the terrour of a guilty Conscience fearing every one that looked wishfully on him ●ame to kill him and in his sleep he fancied horrible Apparitions of Devils and Spirits came to ●ear him so that he often would start out of his Bed run up and down the Chamber crying out for help As for the Instruments of this Murther Tirrel was beheaded for High-Treason in the Reign of Henry the Seventh Forrest Rotted alive and Dighton dyed miserably beyon the Seas As for the Bodies of the Children they were by Richard's Order taken up and being enclosed in a Leaden Coffin full of holes they were said to be carried to the black deeps in the Thames mouth and there thrown in out of a Fancy that this would appease the Terrour of his Dreams The Duke of Buckingham who had been mainly Instrumental in raising Richard to the Throne soon after this Murther fell into discontent some say for that the King refused him the Duke of Herefords Lands to which he pretended himself rightfull Heir others because he was not looked upon and esteemed at Court as he expected but he declared it was from a Remorse for the Murther of the two Princes of which he could not but conceit himself somewhat Guilty because he had raised one to the Throne that had caused them to be Murthered though he was ignorant of the Fact or its Contrivance and hereupon leaving the Court he retired to his Castle of Brecknock and there conferring with Bishop Morton that crafty Clergy-man to gain his entire Liberty so fed the Dukes Ambition who was naturally of an aspiring Spirit that after having founded his Inclinations he plainly told him that nothing grived him so much since there was so worthy a person allied to the Crown that a Tyrant and Murtherer should sit upon the Throne commending the Duke to be a person of such rare vertues that none merrited to wear the Crown so much as himself and although the Duke excused it in telling him Henry Earl of Richmond had a right before him he was prompt enough to harken to so pleasing a Subject These debates that seemed at first in jest came at last to earnest for Buckingham resolving if possible to displace King Richard Communicated his designs to divers of his trusty Friensd amongst whom it was agreed that the Earl of Richmond Heir of the House of Lancaster should Marry Elizabeth Daughter to Edward the Fourth Heiress to the House of York and by that means unite the two Families Whereupon the Mothers of the Earl and Princess being made acquainted and apropving the Project Bishop Morton was sent with ample Instructions to let the Earl know what was agreed upon and desire him with such Forces as he could raise to come over where he would find his Friends

gave those persons leave for the most part to escape and the Earls light Horse-men coming on the Rebels gave back and at length betook them to open flight and were pursued three miles with the slaughter o● 3500 of them yet such as had Barrocaded themselves with Carts and Waggons amongst the Ordinance as men in despair resolved to sell their live● at a dear rate but upon offer of Pardon they threw down their Arms crying God save King Edward and the next day Kett being siezed in a Barn was hanged in Chains upon the Castle of Norwich and his Brother William Kett was hanged on Womanha● Steple and Nine others on the Oake of Reformation The pretence of this Rebellion was about throwing open Inclosures which the King by his Proclamation had commanded to be done but it was neglected These Commotions were no sooner over but another Rebellion broke out in the North Headed by Thomas Dale a Parish Clark one Stephenson a ●ost-master and William Ombler a Yeoman pretending to restore Church rights and redress Grievances declaring the power of the Pope above that of the Kings and that the Church had power of ●oth Swords but this feeble Rebellion not exceeding ●000 vanquished upon the Kings sending his For●es and offer of Pardon yet Ombler Dale and four others were on the 12th of September 1549. Execu●ed at York as Seducers and Ring-leaders These and the like disturbances qeieted considerable ones began at Court for Thomas Seymour Baron of Sudley High Admiral of England having married Queen Catharine Parr Widow to Henry the Eighth and some words and contest happening between her and the Dutches of Somerset Wife to the Protector for precedences the two Brothers so unadvizedly espoused their Wives Quarel which was fomented by secret Enemies that the Admiral by the Protector 's procurement being accused in Parliament for attempting to get the King's person and Government into his hands c. Upon slender proofs was Sentenced and lost his Head on Tower-Hill on the 20th of March to the great grief of the young King who aboured to prevent it but by Somerset's removing this Brother he stood open to the malice and revenge of his implacable Enemies for soon after by the contrivance of Northumberland and others divers Articles were exibited against him for abusing his Trust Animating the Rebels sowing Sedition amongst the Nobles keeping a Court of Requests in his own house whereupon he was deprived of his Authority and sent to the Tower but the King soon released him yet was he not restored to his Trusts Whilst these heats lasted at Court the Affairs abroad were neglected insomuch that the Scots recovered most of the Town the English had taken and the French attempted to surprize Bullenberg with seven thousand men but were beaten off wit● the loss of one hundred and fifty and had no better sucsess in their attempts upon Guernsey and Jersey Islands however things not going well at home Bullenberg and Bulloin were surrendred to the Frenc● upon Conditions and the payment of a large Sum● of Mony and now to add to the Calamity th● Mortal Disease called the Sweating Sickness raged in England carrying off many thousands pursuing the English into Forreign Countrys where none but they were afflicted with it And now the Duke of Northumberland being grown great at Court laboured to remove the Duke of Somerset and by a● Stratagem found an opportunity for the Duke by some of his flatters being perswaded there was a● design against his life went privately Armed to the Council but his Gown opening as he sate at the Board it was laid hold of as a design in him to kill some of the King 's Privy Counsellors and that with some light matters being urged with agravation they procured his imprisonment and soon after being tryed and found guilty of Felony though he might have come off by his Clergy yet his Council nor himself not foreseeing to claim it he was on the 22d of February Anno 1550 brought to Tower-Hill and there after having declared his Innocence and made a most Christian Speech he was beheaded which some looked upon as a Judgment for so rigorously persecuting his Brother Upon the Death of this Uncle though Plays and other Devices were made to divert the King he grew Melancholly and the people were greatly Incensed against Northumberland however he taking the occasion from the King's Sickness and Disorder procured him to disinherit his two Sisters Mary and Elizabeth and settle the Crown on Jane Eldest Daughter to the Duke of Suffolk by the Lady Frances Daughter to Charles Brandon and Mary Queen of France younger Sister to King Henry the eighth who was married to Guilford Dudly Fourth Son to Northumberland and to this Will of the Kings the Council Bishops and all the Judges except Sir John Hollis Subscribed and the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London afterward promised their Assistance and Protection but this was supposed to hasten the King's Death For Northumberland having gotten what he expected viz. The Crown in his own Family removed his Physicians ●nd trusty Friends putting him into the hands of a ●he Doctress who wittingly or unskilfuly brought him to his End on the 6th of July 1553. This good Prince is accounted a second Josia exceeding in Charity and Piety all that went before him having Learning and Understanding far above his years ●nd had he lived a longer Date he had proved more perspicuously the Mirror of Kings This Edward was King of England France and Ireland the only Son of King Henry the Eighth by Jane his third Wife he Reigned six Years five Months and eight Days and was the one and For●ieth sole Monarch of England dying in the 16th of his Age and was buried at Westminster Thus England's Phoenix early left the Stage His Death was much Lamented of the Age Yet he contented dy'd from 's Throne to rise In Angels Arms to everlasting joys The Life and Bloudy Reign of Queen Mary UPon the Death of King Edward according to his Will the Lady Jane was proclaimed in London and elsewhere and confirmed by the Council but Mary Eldest Daughter to King Henry the Eighth being then at Fremingham Castle sent to complain against their Proceedings in giving away her right commanding them to acknowledge he● their lawfull Queen but they returned her a very slight answer commanding her to be obedient to Queen Jane her Sovereign whereupon with such Friends as she had about her she prepar'd for London and to her a great many of the Suffolk men repaired offering her their Service in case their Religion might be asured insomuch that by that means and the siezure of several Ships in the Ports out of which she caused the Cannon and Ammuition to be taken she became formidable whereupon an Army of 13000 men under the Command of the Duke of Northumberland marched out against her but by that time the Duke was got as far as Cambridge he had notice that