awaie from his master and was often taken brought to him againe His master to correct his peruerse and froward conditions did manie times shut him as prisoner in some close place of his house and manie times caused him to be chained locked and clogged to staie his running awaie Yet all was in vaine for about the third yeare of hir maiesties reigne for his last farewell to his poore master he ran awaie from him and came to London to séeke his aduentures He was then constreined to seeke what trade he could to liue by and to get meat and drinke for his bellie and clothes for his backe His good hap in the end was to be interteined in place of seruice aboue his desert where he staied not long but shifted himselfe diuerse times from seruice to seruice and from one master to another Now he began to forget his old home his birth his education his parents his friends his owne name and what he was He aspired to greater matters he challenged the name and title of a great gentleman he vanted himselfe to be of kin and alied to noble and worshipfull he left his old name which he did beare and was commonlie called by in his childhood during all the time of his abode in the countrie which was William ap Harrie as the maner in Wales is And bicause he would séeme to be in déed the man which he pretended he tooke vpon him the name of Parrie being the sirname of diuerse gentlemen of great worship and hauiour And bicause his mothers name by hir father a simple priest was Conwaie he pretended kinred to the familie of sir Iohn Conwaie and so thereby made himselfe of kin to Edmund Neuill Being thus set foorth with his new name and new title of gentleman and commended by some of his good fauorers he matched himselfe in mariage with a widow in Southwales who brought him some reasonable portion of wealth She liued with him but a short time and the welth he had with hir lasted not long it was soone consumed with his dissolute 〈◊〉 wastfull maner of life He was then driuen to his woonted shifts his creditors were manie the debt which he owed great he had nothing wherewith to make paiment he was continuallie pursued by sergeants and officers to arrest him he did often by sleights and shifts escape from them In this his néedie and poore estate he sought to repare himselfe againe by a new match in mariage with another widow which before was the wife of one Richard Heiwood This matter was so earnestlie followed by himselfe and so effectuallie commended by his fréends and fauourers that the sillie woman yéelded to take him to husband a match in euerie respect verie vnequall and vnfit Hir wealth and yearelie liuelihood was verie great his poore and base estate worse than nothing he verie yoong she of such age as for yeares she might haue beene his mother When he had thus possessed himselfe of his new wiues wealth he omitted nothing that might serue for a prodigall dissolute and most vngodlie course of life His riot and excesse was vnmeasurable he did most wickedlie defloure his wiues owne daughter and sundrie waies pitifullie abuse the old mother he caried himselfe for his outward port and countenance so long as his old wiues bags lasted in such sort as might well haue sufficed for a man of verie good hauiour and degrée But this lasted not long his proud hart wastfull hand had soone powred out old Heiwoods wealth line 10 He then fell againe to his woonted shifts borowed where he could find anie to lend and ingaged his credit so far as anie would trust him Amongst others he became greatlie indebted to Hugh Hare the gentleman before named Who after long forbearing of his monie sought to recouer it by law For this cause Parrie conceiued great displeasure against him which he pursued with all malice euen to the seeking of his life In this murtherous intent he came in the night time to M. Hares chamber in line 20 the Temple broke open the doore assaulted him and wounded him grieuouslie and so left him in great danger of life For this offense he was apprehended committed to Newgate indicted of burgularie arreigned and found guiltie by a verie substantiall iurie and condemned to be hanged as the law in that case requireth He standing thus conuicted hir maiestie of hir most gratious clemencie and pitifull disposition line 30 tooke compassion vpon him pardoned his offense gaue him his life which by the law due course of iustice he ought then to haue lost After this he taried not long but pretending some causes of discontentment departed the realme and trauelled beyond the seas How he demeaned himselfe there from time to time and with whome he conuersed is partlie in his owne confession touched before This is the man this is his race which he feared should be spotted if he miscaried in the execution of his traitorous enterprise this hath béene the course of his life these are line 40 the great causes of his discontentment And whereas at his arreignement and execution he pretended great care of the disobedient popish subiects of this realme whom he called catholikes and in verie insolent sort séemed to glorie greatlie in the profession of his pretensed catholike religion the whole course and action of his life sheweth plainelie how prophanelie irreligiouslie he did alwaies beare himselfe He vaunted that for these two and twentie yeares past he had béene a catholike and during all line 50 that time neuer receiued the communion yet before he trauelled beyond the seas at three seuerall times within the compasse of these two and twentie years he did voluntarilie take the oth of obedience to the queenes maiestie set downe in the statute made in the first yeare of hir highnesse reigne by which amongst other things he did testifie and declare in his conscience that no forreine prince person prelat state or potentat hath or ought to haue anie iurisdiction power preeminence or authoritie ecclesiasticall line 60 or spirituall within this realme and therfore did vtterlie renounce forsake all forren iurisdictions powers and authorities and did promise to beare faith and true allegiance to the quéenes highnesse hir heires and lawfull successours With what conscience or religion he tooke that oth so often if so be he were then a papist in deed as since the discouerie of his treasons he pretended let his best freends the papists themselues iudge But perhaps it may be said that he repented those his offenses past that since those thrée oths so taken by him he was twise reconciled to the pope and so his conscience cleared and he become a new man and which is more that in the time of his last trauell he cast awaie all his former lewd maners that he changed his degrée and habit and bought or begged the graue title of
Winglesdon moore néere vnto Darington leading the bishop to Morpath and his brother the lord Beaumont vnto the castell of Mitford and so deteined them as prisoners till they had redéemed their libertie with great sums of monie Herewith the said sir Gilbert being aduanced line 60 in pride proclaimed himselfe duke of Northumberland and ioining in fréendship with Robert Bruce the Scotish king cruellie destroied the countie of Richmond Wiâ—â— such traitorouâ— parts Willâ—am Felton and Thomas Heton being not a little stirred first wan by force the castell of Mâ—â—ford and after apprehended sir Gilbert Middleton with his companion Walter Selbie and sent them vp to London where shortlie after they were drawne hanged and quartered Some write that the said sir Gilbert was put to death for robbing two cardinals to wit Gaucellino the popes chancellour and Lucas de Flisco that were sent from pope Iohn the two and twentith to consecrate the foresaid Lewes Beaumont bishop of Durham and to intreat a peace betwixt the realms of England and Scotland and also to make an agréement betwixt the king and the earle of Lancaster The which being met with vpon Winglesdon moore in Yorkeshire by the said Gilbert were robbed of such stuffe treasure as they brought with them but yet escaped themselues and came to Durham and from thence sent messengers to Robert Bruce to persuade him to some agreement But whereas he would not condescend to any reasonable conditions of peace at that time they determined to go into Scotland to talke with him themselues but before they came to the borders king Robert who iudged it not to stand with his profit to haue any peace in that season sent certeine of his people to forbid the cardinals the entrie of his realme The cardinals being thus iniuriouslie handled pronounced the Scots by their legantine power accursed and interdicted their whole realme And bicause they saw nothing lesse than any hope to doo good with king Robert touching any composition or agreement to be had they returned againe to the pope without any conclusion of that for the which they were sent After that Edward Bruce had atchiued such enterprises in other parts of Ireland as in the last yéere yee haue heard he went vnto Fenath and to Skeres in Leinister and there the lord cheefe iustice Edmund Butler rose against him with the lord Iohn fitz Thomas that was after erle of Kildare sir Arnold Power and diuerse other with a great armie But by reason of discord that chanced amongst them they scaled their armie and departed out of the field on the 26 daie of Februarie Edward Bruce then burned the castell of Leis and after returning into Ulnester he besieged the castell of Knockfergus and slue Thomas Mandeuile and his brother Iohn at a place called Down as they came thither out of England After this the foresaid Edward returned into Scotland In this season vittels were so scant and déere and wheat and other graine brought to so high a price that the poore people were constreined thorough famine to eat the flesh of horsses dogs and other vile beasts which is woonderfull to beléeue and yet for default there died a great multitude of people in diuers places of the land Foure pence in bread of the courser sort would not suffice one man a daie Wheat was sold at London for foure marks the quarter and aboue Then after this dearth and scarsitie of vittels insued a great death and mortalitie of people so that what by warre of the Scots and what by this mortalitie and death the people of the land were woonderfullie wasted and consumed O pitifull depopulation Edward Bruce before the feast of Easter returned againe into Ireland with the earle of Murrey and other noble men of Scotland hauing with them a great armie and besieged the castell of Knockfergus and after they went to another castell where they tooke a baron prisoner there Edward Bruce laie for a season Also Richard earle of Ulnester lay in saint Maries abbie by Dublin where the maior and communaltie of the citie tooke him and put him in prison within the castell of Dublin They also slue his men and spoiled the abbie After this the foresaid Edward Bruce went to Limerike after the feast of saint Matthew the apostle and there soiourned till Easter was past In the meane while Roger de Mortimer the kings deputie arriued at Waterford with a great armie by reason wherof Edward le Bruce for feare departed and got him into the vttermost parts of Ulnester and Iohn fitz Thomas was made earle of Kildare Also Occoner of Conneigh and manie other Irishmen of Cornagh and Meth were slaine néere to Aurie by the Englishmen of those parts There was a great slaughter also made of the Irishmen néere vnto Thistildermote by the lord Edmund Butler and an other also at Baliteham of Omorth by the same Edmund The lord deputie deliuered the earle of Ulnester out of prison and after Whitsuntide banished out of Meth sir Walter Lacie and sir Hugh Lacie giuing their lands awaie from them vnto his line 10 knights and they went ouer into Scotland with Edward Bruce who returned thither about that time The death still increased as by some writers it should appeare In the eleuenth yeare of king Edward the second his reigne vpon the saturdaie night before Midlent sundaie year 1318 the towne of Berwike was betraied to the Scots through the treason of Peter Spalding The castell held good tacke a while till for want of vittels they within were constreined to deliuer it into the Scotishmens hands who wan also the same time the line 20 castell of Harbotell Werke and Medford so that they possessed the more part of all Northumberland euen vnto Newcastell vpon Tine sauing that certeine other castels were defended against them In Maie they entred with an armie further into the land burning all the countrie before them till they came to Ripon which towne they spoiled and tarieng there thrée daies they receiued a thousand marks of those that were got into the church and defended it against them for that they should spare the towne and line 30 not put it to the fire as they had alreadie doone the townes of Northalerton and Bourghbridge as they came forwards In their going backe they burnt Knaresbourgh and Skipton in Crauen which they had first sacked and so passing through the middest of the countrie burning and spoiling all before them they returned into Scotland with a maruellous great multitude of cattell beside prisoners men and women and no small number of poore people which they tooke with them to helpe to driue the cattell line 40 In the 12 yeare of Edward the seconds reigne in August the king and the earle of Lancaster came to talke togither in a plaine beside Leicester where they were made freends to the outward shew so that in the yeare
great for our enimies had burnt all the line 50 bridges as well on the one side of Tholouse as the other except the bridges with in Tholouse for the riuer runneth through the towne And the constable of France the marshall Cleremont and the earle of Arminac were with a great power within the towne the same time And Tholouse is a great towne strong faire and well walled and there was none in our host line 60 that knew the foord there but yet by the grace and goodnesse of God we found it So then we marched through the seigniorie of Tholouse tooke manie good townes inclosed and burnt and destroied them and all the countrie about Then we entred into the seigniorie of Carcason and we tooke manie good towns before we came to Carcason which towne we also tooke which is greater stronger fairer than Yorke And as well this towne as all other townes in the countrie were burnt and destroied And after we had passed by manie iournies through the countrie of Carcason we came into the seigniorie of Narbon and we tooke manie townes and wasted them till we came to Narbon which towne was holden against vs but it was woone by force and the said towne is little lesse than London and is situat vpon the Greekish sea for that the distance from the said towne vnto the Greekish sea is not past two leagues and there is an hauen and a place to arriue at from whence the water coÌ„meth vp to Narbon And Narbon is not but eleuen leagues distant from Mountpellier eighteene from Eguemortz thirtie from Auignion And may it please you to vnderstand that the holie father sent his messengers to my lord that were not past seuen leagues froÌ„ him and they sent a sergeant at armes that was sergeant at armes attendant on the doore of our holie fathers chamber with their letters to my lord praieng him to haue a safe conduct to come to declare to his highnesse their message from the holie father which was to treat betwixt my L. and his aduersaries of France and the said sergeant was two daies in the host before my lord would see him or receiue his letters And the reason was bicause he had vnderstanding that the power of France was come forth of Tholouse toward Carcason so that my lord was driuen to turne backe towards them suddenlie and so did On the third daie when we should haue come vpon them they had knowlege giuen before day and so retiring got them to the mounteins hasting fast toward Tholouse and the countrie people that were their guides to lead them that waie were taken as they should haue passed the water And bicause the popes sergeant at armes was in my keeping I caused him to examine the guides that were so taken and for that the guide which was thus examined was the constables guide and his countrieman he might well see and know the countenance of the Frenchmen vpon this examining him And I said to the same sergeant that he might well declare to the pope and to all them of Auignion that which he had heard or seene And as touching the answer which my lord made to them that were sent to treat with him you would be well apaid if you vnderstood all the maner for he would not suffer in any wise that they shuld come neerer vnto him But if they came to treat of any matter he would that they should send to the king his father for my lord himselfe would not doo any thing therin except by commandement from my lord his father And of my lords turning backe to follow after his enimies and of the passage of the riuer of Garonne and of the taking of castels and townes in this iournie and of other things which he hath doone against his enimies in pursuit of them in this iournie being things right worthie and honorable as manie know verie well in like maner as sir Richard Stafford sir William Burton can more plainelie declare than I to you can write for it were too much to put in writing And my lord rode thus abroad in the countrie of his enimies eight whole weekes and rested not past eleuen daies in all those places where he came And know it for certeine that since this warre began against the French king he had neuer such losse or destruction as he line 10 hath had in this iournie for the countries and good townes which were wasted at this iournie found to the king of France euerie yeare more to the maintenance of his warre than halfe his realme hath doon beside except the exchange of his monie which he maketh euerie yeare and the aduantage and custome which he taketh of them of Poictou as I can shew you by line 20 good remembrances which were found in diuerse townes in the receiuers houses for Carcason and le Moignes which is as great as Carcason and two other townes in the coasts of Carcason found to the king of France yeerelie wages for a thousand men of armes and beside that 100000 old crowns to mainteine the war And know you that by the remembrances line 30 which we found that the townes in Tholouse which are destroied and the townes in the countrie of Carcason and the towne of Narbonne and Narbonnois did find euerie yeare with the sums aforesaid in aid of his war foure hundred thousand old crownes as the burgesses of the great townes other people of the countrie which ought to know it haue told vs. And so by Gods assistance if my lord had line 40 wherewith to mainteine this warre and to make the kings profit and his owne honor he should well inlarge the English marches and gaine manie faire places for our enimies are greatlie astonied And at the making heereof my lord hath appointed to send all the earles and baronets to abide in certeine places on the marches to make roads and to annoie his enimies line 50 Now my lord at this present I know none other newes to send but you may by your letters command me as yours to my power My right honorable lord God grant you good life ioy and health long to continue Written at Burdeaux the tuesdaie next before Christmasse The tenor of an other letter written by sir Iohn Wingfield directed to sir Richard Stafford line 60 knight who had beene in Gascoigne and there leauing his familie was now returned into England RIght deare sir and right louing freend touching newes after your departure you may vnderstand year 1356 that there be taken and yeelded fiue townes inclosed to wit port saint Marie Cleirac Tonings Burgh saint Pierre Chastiell Sacret or Satrat and Brassake Also seauenteene castels to wit Coiller Buset Lemnake two castels called Boloines which ioine the one neere so the other Mounioy Uâ—resch Frechenet Mountender Pudeschales Mounpoun Montanac Ualeclare Cenamont Leistrake Plassac Cont Destablison and Mounriuell And will it please you to know that my lord Iohn Chandois my lord Iames Audeley
vnderstand that after his comming to London hée rested there but one daie or two at the most taking his iournie foorthright into Kent with all his armie folowing the bastard and other his complices to suppresse them if they were in anie place assembled againe to resist him But after they were once dispersed they durst not shew themselues againe in armor those onlie excepted that were withdrawne vnto line 10 Sandwich with the bastard which for the more part were mariners about eight or nine hundred beside certeine other euill disposed persons that accompanied him as his souldiers and men of warre with whose assistance the bastard kept that towne by strength hauing in the hauen seuen and fortie ships great and small vnder his gouernance But vpon the kings approching néere vnto those parties they sent to him for pardon promising that vpon a reasonable appointment for the safegard of line 20 their liues and other indemnities to be had for their benefit they would become his faithfull subiects and deliuer into his hands all the ships Their offer the king vpon great considerations and by good deliberate aduise of counsell thought best to accept and therevpon being at that time in Canturburie hée granted to their petitions and sent immediatlie vnto Sandwich his brother Richard duke of Glocester to receiue them to mercie togither with all the ships which according to their promise they deliuered into line 30 his hands But notwithstanding that as some write the bastard Fauconbridge and other of his companie that were got to Sandwich had thus their pardons by composition at the kings hand we find neuerthelesse that the said bastard Fauconbridge being afterwards at sea a rouing belike as he had vsed before came at length into the open hauen at Southhampton and there taking land was apprehended and shortlie after beheaded This chanced as should appeare line 40 by Fabian about the latter end of October Moreouer Roger Uaughan that had béene sent by king Edward into Wales anon after Teukesburie field being a man of great power in that countrie to intrap and surprise by some secret sleight the earle of Penbroke the said earle being thereof aduertised tooke the same Roger and without delay stroke off his head After this was the earle besieged in the towne of Penbroke by Morgan Thomas but the siege was line 50 raised by Dauid Thomas brother to the said Morgan a faithfull friend to the earle and then the earle by his helpe was conueied to Tinbie where he got ships and with his nephue the lord Henrie earle of Richmond sailed into Britaine where of the duke they were courteouslie interteined with assurance made that no creature should doo them anie wrong or iniurie within his dominions King Edward visiting diuerse places in Kent sate in iudgement on such as had aided the bastard in the last commotion line 60 of whome diuerse were condemned and executed as Spising one of the capteins that assaulted Algate whose head was set vp ouer the same gate and so likewise was the head of one Quintine a butcher that was an other capteine amongest them and chiefe of those that assaulted Bishops gate as some write Moreouer at Canturburie the maior of that citie was executed and diuerse other at Rochester Maidston and Blackeheath for the lord marshall and other iudges being appointed to hold their oier and determiner in that countrie of Kent there were aboue an hundred indicted and condemned Diuerse also of Essex men that had béene partakers in this rebellion with the bastard holpe to set fire on Bishops gate and Algate were hanged betwixt Stratford and London Manie also of the wealthie commons in Kent were put to grieuous fines Now when the king had made an end of his businesse in that countrie he returned to London comming thither againe vpon Whitsun éeuen being the first of Iune And hauing thus within the space of eleuen wéekes recouered in maner the whole possession of his realme being relieued of the most part of all his doubtfull feare he ment to remooue all stops out of the waie Wherefore he sent the archbishop of Yorke brother to the earle of Warwike and to the marques Montacute ouer to Guisnes there to be kept in safe custodie within the castell where he continued a long season till at length be was by friendship deliuered and shortlie after through verie anguish of mind departed this life whome Laurence Bath and after him Thomas Rotheram in the sée of Yorke did ordinarilie succeed Beside this Iohn earle of Oxford which after Barnet field both manfullie and valiantlie kept saint Michaels mount in Cornewall either for lacke of aid or persuaded by his friends gaue vp the mount and yeelded himselfe to king Edward his life onelie saued which to him was granted But to be out of all doutfull imaginations king Edward also sent him ouer the sea to the castell of Hammes where year 1472 by the space of twelue yeeres hée was in strong prison shut vp and warilie looked to King Edward was not a litle disquieted in mind for that the earls of Penbroke Richmond were not onlie escaped out of the realme but also well receiued and no woorsse interteined of the duke of Britaine he sent therefore in secret wise graue close messengers to the said duke the which should not sticke to promise the duke great and rich rewards so that he would deliuer both the earles into their hands and possession The duke after he had heard them that were sent made this answer that he could not with his honor deliuer them to whome he had giuen his faith to sée them preserued from all iniurie but this he said he would doo for the king of England that they should be so looked vnto as he néeded not to doubt of any attempt to be made against him by them or by their meanes The king receiuing this answer wrote louinglie to the duke of Britaine that he would consider his fréendship with conuenient rewards if it should please him to be as good as his promise The duke perceiuing gaine comming by the abode of the two English earles in his countrie caused them to be separated in sunder and all their seruants being Englishmen to be sequestred from them and in their places appointed Britains to attend them In the thirtéenth yeere of his reigne king Edward called his high court of parlement at his palace of Westminster in the which all lawes and ordinances made by him before that daie were confirmed and those that king Henrie had abrogated after his readeption of the crowne were againe reuiued Also lawes were made for the confiscation of traitors goods and for the restoring of them that were for his sake fled the realme which of his aduersaries had béene atteinted of high treason and condemned to die Moreouer towards his charges of late susteined a competent summe of monie was demanded and fréelie
and there ouermatched fell to galoping Which thing when the king beheld he was not yet any whit therewith abashed but like an hardie captein as he was no lesse indéed comforted his footmen whom he had about him and rushing vpon his enimies bare them downe and ouerthrew so manie as stood before him so that with the point of his weapon he made himselfe waie His footmen who were but a few in number to the multitude of his enimies counteruailed in all points the prowes and manlike dooings of their king and capteine insomuch that few battels had beene better fought nor with greater slaughter on both sides if the kings fore ward which in maner at the first shranke backe and was disordered not without some supicion of treason had staied the brunt of the enimies a while as it had béene requisite At length the king encountring with the earle of Chester being ouercharged with multitude was taken prisoner by one William de Cahames Earle Baldwine who had made the oration in the kings behalfe was also taken after he had fought valiantlie and receiued manie sore wounds likewise Richard Fitzvrse who on that daie had shewed good proofe of his manhood and had giuen and receiued manie a sore stripe To conclude all those that abode with the king and namelie all the footmen were taken prisoners those which were slaine in the place excepted This battell was fought in the sixt yeare of king Stephans reigne vpon Candlemas daie being sundaie as Niger saith The king being apprehended and brought to the empresse lieng at Glocester was commanded by hir to be conueied in safetie vnto Bristow where he was kept as prisoner from that time of his taking vntill the feast of All saints next ensuing Not long after this field fought as ye haue heard Geffrey earle of Aniou husband to the empresse receiuing aduertisement of this victorie atchiued in England foorthwith inuaded Normandie inducing all the Nobles of the countrie to incline vnto him for by publishing the captiuitie of king Stephan it was easie for him to come by the possession of the same Moreouer Dauid king of Scotland entred into Northumberland and by commandement of the empresse tooke the countrie into his hands whilest she like a woman of great wisedome as she was no lesse indéed iudging that it stood hir vpon to vse the victorie which fell to hir lot slept not hir businesse but went forward and setting from Glocester she came to Winchester where she was honorablie receiued of bishop Henrie though he was king Stephans brother and inwardlie lamented the misfortune of the king Then came she backe againe to Wilton and so to Oxenford from thence to Reading and then to S. Albons into all which cities and townes she was receiued with great triumph and honour Hauing thus passed through all the south parts of the realme on that side she finallie came to London where the citizens welcomed hir in most ioifull and hartie maner Now being come to London and consulting with those of hir councell for the quieting of the whole state of the realme queene Maud wife to king Stephan for so she was also called made humble suit vnto hir to haue hir husband set at libertie promising that he should resigne his whole claime and title into hir hands and content himselfe with a priuate life But hir suit was so farre off from being granted that she was reiected and cast off with reprochfull words Wherevpon she conceiued a most high displeasure and vnderstood well inough that peace was to be purchased by force of armes onelie and not by any other meanes insomuch that with all diligence she sent to hir sonne Eustace then being in Kent willed him to prepare an armie which he did most spéedilie It chanced at the same time that the citizens of London made great and laborious suit vnto the said empresse that they might haue the lawes of king Edward the Confessour restored and the straight lawes of hir father king Henrie abolished But for so much as they could get no grant of their petition and perceiued the empresse to be displeased with them about that importunat request wherein onelie she ouershot hir selfe they deuised how and by what meanes they might take hir prisoner knowing that all the Kentishmen would helpe to strengthen them in their enterprise But reckoning with hir selfe that Nil pâ—terit propera tutius esse fuga And being warned thereof she fled by night out of the citie and went to Oxenford determining to be reuenged vpon hir aduersaries when time should serue hir turne Herewith she began to wax more displeased both against those Nobles whom she kept in prison other also whom she troubled but namelie king Stephan whom she commanded to be loden with yrons and serued with verie slender diet line 10 Now when she had thus fled out of London which was about the feast of the natiuitie of S. Iohn Baptist the tower of London was besieged which Gefferey de Mandeuile held and valiantlie defended The same Geffrey rushing out on a time came to Fulham where he tooke the bishop of London then lodging in his manor place being one of the contrarie faction Henrie bishop of Winchester perceiuing the wrath of the empresse more and more to increase dailie against line 20 hir people thinking it wisedome to serue the time manned all the castels which he had builded within his dieces as at Waltham Farnham and other places and withdrew himselfe into the castell of Winchester there to remaine till he might sée to what end the furie of the woman would grow This being knowne the empresse tooke vnto hir Dauid king of Scotland that was hir vncle who immediatlie ioining their armies togither went to Winchester and besieged the castell In the meane time the line 30 quéene and hir sonne Eustace with the helpe of their freends as the Kentishmen the Londoners and other had assembled a great armie and appointed the gouernement and generall conduct thereof vnto one William of Ypres a Fleming who for his valiancie was by king Stephan created earle of Kent he was sonne to Philip of Flanders begotten of a concubine his father also was sonne to Robert earle of Flanders surnamed Frisius This William was banished out of his countrie by Theodorike Elsas earle line 40 of Flanders bicause he attempted to bereaue him of his earledome The quéenes armie thus committed to his guiding came néere vnto Winchester and kept the empresse and hir people in maner besieged at length perceiuing the aduantage after the comming of a great supplie of Londoners to their aid they set vpon hir armie as the same was departing with such violence that straightwaies hir host was put to flight and discomfited The empresse was glad to saine hir line 50 selfe dead and so to be conueied in a coch as a dead corps vnto Glocester Hir brother
castell of Newmarch and sent foorth the lord Geffrey with a strong power to win the castell of Anger 's Duke Henrie aduertised hereof departing from the place where he soiourned hasted foorth to succour his people that were besieged but the castell of Newmarch was deliuered to the French king through treason of those that had it in kéeping before the duke could come to their rescue Wherevpon the said duke hauing knowledge by the waie that he should come too late thither he encamped line 20 first vpon the fide of the riuer of Andell and wasted a great part of the countrie of Ueuxin or Ueulquesine surnamed Le Normant which lieth betwixt the riuer of Epte and Andell This countrie belonged somtime to Normandie but Geffrey earle of Aniou the dukes father had resigned it to the French king to the end he should not aid king Stephan The duke also burned the castels of Bascheruisle Chitrey Stirpiney and the castell of Fort that belonged to Hugh de Gourney with diuerse other line 30 About the end of August he left his townes in Normandie sufficientlie furnished with garisons of souldiers and went into Aniou where he besieged the castell de mount Sotelli till he had taken it and all those that were within it amongst whome was the lord thereof named William The French king on the other side entring into Normandie burnt part of the borough of Rieule and either then or shortlie after that duke Henrie was gone ouer into England he tooke the towne and castell of Uernon line 40 Whilest these things were thus a dooing in France K. Stephan would haue caused the archbishop of Canturburie diuerse other bishops whom for that purpose he had assembled to crowne annoint and confirme his sonne Eustace king ouer the realme of England But the archbishops and bishops refused so to doo bicause the pope by his letters sent to the archbishop had commanded to the contrarie namelie that he should in no wise crowne the kings son bicause his father king Stephan had got line 50 the possession of the land against his oth receiued in behalfe of the empresse The father and sonne being not a litle offended herewith committed most of his bishops to ward séeking by threats and menacings to bring them to his purpose The bishops also were in no small perplexitie for according to the truth the king neuer seemed greatlie to fauor churchmen bicause of their strength as in former times by his rigor vsed against the bishops of Salisburie and Lincolne it plainelie appeared and yet would not line 60 these men yéeld to his pleasure wherevpon although they were set at libertie they were neuerthelesse depriued of their temporall possessions which notwithstanding afterwards vpon the kings owne motion were restored vnto them Howbeit the archbishop of Canturburie persisting still in his opinion was forsaken of diuerse of the bishops who throgh feare durst not stand against their princes pleasure But the archbishop when he perceiued how the matter went that all the blame was like to light and rest on his shoulders he got himselfe by a maruellous hap ouer the Thames and with spéed riding to Douer passed the sea to auoid both the fathers and sonnes reuengefull displeasure Herevpon the king seized into his hands all the lands possessions that belonged to the archbishop This yeare quéene Maud wife to king Stephan departed this life at Hangey castell that belonged to earle Alberike de Uéer about the third daie of Maie and was buried in the abbeie of Feuersham which she with hir husband king Stephan had latelie founded This yeare through great and immoderate raine that fell in the summer the growing of corne was so hindred that a great death of people insued This yeare also was the battell of Monadmore fought in Ireland where the flower and chiefest personages of Mounster and Leynister were slaine Moreouer one Iohn a moonke of Sagium was made the second bishop of the I le of Man the first bishop that was there instituted hight Wimond a moonke of Sauinie who for his importunate misdemenour in some respects had his eies put out and was displaced Iohn Papirio a cardinall being sent from the pope as legat into Ireland ordeined foure archbishops there one at Dublin an other at Ardmach the third at Cassels and the fourth at Connach The sée of Dublin he changed into an archbishops sée one Gregorie at that time possessing the same to whom he gaue the first and chiefe pall and appointed the church of the blessed Trinitie to be church metropolitane As this cardinall passed through England he receiued an oth of fealtie vnto king Stephan The same yeare also king Stephan by siege and force of assault did win the castell of Newberie not far from Winchester This doone he went to Wallingford and besieging the castell he builded at the entring of the bridge a fortresse to stop them within from issuing out and likewise from receiuing any reliefe or succour by their fréends abroad The defendants perceiuing themselues so hardlie laid at sent to the duke of Normandie in whose name they kept that castell desiring him either to succour them or else giue them licence to yéeld vp the castell to the king Herevpon duke Henrie hauing dispatched his businesse on the further side of the sea began to be kindled with a feruent desire once againe to attempt his fortune here in England for recouerie of that kingdome and so with three thousand footmen 7. score horssemen with all spéed possible failed ouer into England where he landed about the 12. daie in Christmasse He was no sooner arriued but a great number of such as tooke part with his mother came flocking in vnto him wherevpon being now furnished with a great and puissant armie he marched foorth to Malmesburie where in the castell was a great garison of soldiers placed by king Stephan Duke Henrie planted his siege about this castell the thirtéenth daie of Ianuarie and enforced himselfe to the vttermost of his power to win it Now king Stephan hearing of his enimies arriuall with all hast possible got his armie on foot and comming suddenlie towards the place where his enimies were pitched he caused duke Henrie to raise his siege and following after offered him battell But duke Henrie knowing that his enimies were far more in number than he was at that present and also conceiuing with himselfe that by prolonging of time his owne power would increase absteined from fighting and kept him within the closure of his campe ¶ Thus haue some written but other authors write that Henrie kept himselfe indeed within his campe and refused to giue battell but yet remoued not his siege till the king departed from thence after he saw he could not haue his purpose and then did duke Henrie win the castell of Malmesburie or rather the maister tower or chéefe dungeon of that castell
Othobone held a synod and according to line 60 that he had in commandement pronounced all the kings aduersaries accurssed and namelie all the bishops which had aided the barons against the king in time of the late warres of whome afterward he absolued the most part But Iohn bishop of Winchester Henrie bishop of London and Stephan bishop of Chichester were sent to Rome to purchase their absolution of pope Clement the fourth as well for other points of disobedience as chéeflie for that where the quéene had procured a cursse of pope Urbane the fourth that was predecessor to this Clement to accursse all the barons and their supporters which warred against the king hir husband the said bishops to whome the commission was sent to denounce that cursse for feare of the barons deferred the execution Walter bishop of Worcester chancing to fall sicke at that time died about the beginning of Februarie confessing first that he had greeuouslie erred in mainteining the side of the erle of Leicester against the king and therefore directed his letters to the popes legat requiring to be absolued which his petition the legat granted Moreouer in this councell at Northampton there was published by the cardinall a grant made to the king by the pope of the dismes of the english church for one whole yeare then next insuing A little before the kings departure from London now in this last time he ordeined sir Iohn Linde knight and maister Iohn Waldren clearke to be gardians of the citie and tower by the names of seneshals or stewards but such earnest suit was made to the king to obteine a perfect pardon for the Londoners that at length after the aforesaid seneshals had taken suerties for the paiment of their fine the K. caused his charter of pardon to be made vnder his broad seale and sent it vnto them wherein all former trespasses committed by them in the last warres was cleerelie pardoned certeine persons whose bodies and goods were giuen vnto his eldest sonne Edward excepted out of the same pardon This charter was dated at Northampton the tenth day of Ianuarie in the fiftith yere of king Henries reigne year 1266 Then also were discharged the foresaid seneshals and the citizens of themselues chose for maior William Fitz Richard and for shiriffs Thomas de la Fourd and Gregorie de Rockesleg Whilest the king laie at Northampton the lord Simon de Montfort put himselfe vpon the doome and order of the legat Othobone and was therefore permitted to be at large in the kings court but at the kings comming to London he suddenlie departed out of the court and rode to Winchelsie where he associated himselfe with rouers and after some prices taken departed from them and went into France where he offered his seruice to the French king and was receiued Thus saith Matthew Westminster and other But Polydor saith that by Othobons means he was reconciled to the kings fauour and therevpon to auoid occasion of further displeasure he commanded that the castell of Killingworth should be restored vnto the king which the capteine refused to deliuer hauing fortified it with all manner of prouision and things necessarie to defend a siege The wardens of the cinque ports which during the time of the barons warre had doone manie roberies on the sea as well against the Englishmen as other were at length reconciled to the king who was faine to agrée with them vpon such conditions as they thought good bicause at that time as the cōmon fame went they had the dominion of the sea in their owne hands But in some writers we find it thus recorded that when certeine prisoners which were kept by the barons of the cinque ports in the castell of Douer heard how all things prospered on the kings side they got possession of a tower within the same castell and tooke vpon them to defend it against their keepers whereof when aduertisement was giuen to the king and to his sonne the lord Edward they hasted forth to come succour their freends The kéepers of the castell perceiuing themselues beset with their enimies sent to the king for peace who granting them pardon of life and limme with horsse armour and other such necessaries the castell was yeelded vnto his hands From thence prince Edward departing visited the sea coasts punishing diuerse of the inhabitants within the precinct of the cinque ports and putting them in feare receiued diuerse to the king his fathers peace The inhabitants of Winchelsie onelie made countenance to resist him but prince Edward with valiant assaults entred the towne in which entrie much guiltie bloud was spilt but yet the multitude by commandement of prince Edward was spared And thus hauing woone the towne he commanded that from thencefoorth they should absteine from piracies which they had before time greatlie vsed Thus were the seas made quiet and those of the cinque ports brought to the kings peace and throughlie reconciled line 10 In this meane while diuerse of the disherited gentlemen sore repining at the sentence and order giuen against them had taken the Ile of Oxholme in Lincolneshire whither a great number of euill dooers immediatlie resorted and began to doo mischéefe in all the countries next adioining They tooke and sacked the citie of Lincolne spoiled the Iewes and slue manie of them entred their synagog and burnt the booke of their law At length prince Edward or as other saie his brother earle Edmund was sent line 20 against them who compelled them by force to come to the kings peace which to obserue they receiued an oth shortlie after at London but neuerthelesse were as soone readie to breake and renounce the same and began a new broile in sundrie parts of the realme Diuerse of them fortified the castell of Killingworth prouiding themselues of all things necessarie for defense out of the countries adioining The king aduertised hereof sent vnto them a purseuant commanding them to cease frō such rebellious attempts line 30 but the messenger had one of his hands cut off and so with a contemptuous answer was sent back againe Prince Edward in passing through the forrest of Aulton got sight of sir Adam Gurdon one of the disherited men with whome he coped and tooke him prisoner with his owne hand yet sauing him and pardoning the offense of rebellion in respect of the valiancie which he tried by proofe to rest in him but his soldiers and complices being there taken he caused to be hanged vpon trées within the same forrest Robert line 40 earle Ferrers contrarie to his oth of late receiued accompanied with the lord d'Euille and others did much hurt by way of open war against the kings freends in the north parts Against whom the lord Henrie sonne to the king of Almaine was sent with a great power the which comming to Chesterfield fell vpon his enimies in such wise on the sudden that
of the said Robert Holland their side was much weakened it was concluded that they should go to the castell of Dunstanborough and there remaine till they might purchase the kings pardon sith their enterprise thus quailed vnder their hands and herewith setting forward that waie foorth they came to Borough bridge where sir Andrew de Herkley with the power of the countesse of Cumberland and Westmerland had forlaid the passage and there on a tuesdaie being the 16 of March he setting vpon the barons in the end discomfited them and chased their people In this fight was sâ—aine the earle of Hereford the lord William de Sullie with sir Roger de Bourghfield and diuerse others And there were taken Thomas earle of Lancaster the lord Roger Clifford son to that lord Roger which died in the battell of Bannockesborne in Scotland the lord Gilbert Talbot the lord Iohn â—owbraie the lord Hugh de Willington the lord Thomas â—anduit the lord Warren de Lisle the lord Phillip Darcie the lord Thomas Wither the lord Henrie de Willington the lord Hugh de Knouill the lord Philip de Beche the lord Henrie de Leiborne the lord Henrie de Bradborne the lord Iohn de Beckes the lord Thomas Louell the lord William fitz William Robert de Wateuille Iohn de Strikeland Odnell Heron Walter Pauelie of Stretton and a great number of other esquires and gentlemen This battell was fought on the fiftéenth day of March in the yeare 1322 after the accompt of them that begin the yeare at the Circumcision line 10 which was in the said fiftéenth yé ere of this kings reigne The bodie of the earle of Hereford was sent to Yorke two friers of the order of preachers being appointed to looke to it till the king tooke order for the burieng of it The lord Clifford also bicause he was wounded with an arrow was sent vnto Yorke At the same time the lord Henrie Percie tooke the lord Henrie Tieis and Iohn de Goldington knight with two esquires and within a few daies after Donald de Mar tooke the lord Bartholomew de Badelismere line 20 the lord Hugh Audelie the yoonger the lord Iohn Gifford the lord William Tucheâ— and in maner all those which escaped by flight from this battell were taken in one place or other by such of the kings seruants and fréends as pursued them Upon the one and twentith of March came sir Andrew de Harkley vnto Pomfret bringing with him the earle of Lancaster and other prisoners The king was come thither a few daies before and had the castell yeelded to him by the constable that not manie daies past was line 30 appointed to the kéeping thereof by the earle which earle now being brought thither captiue was mocked scorned and in derision called king Arthur On the morrow after being mondaie the two and twentith of March he was brought before these noble men Edmund earle of Kent Iohn earle of Richmond Aimer earle of Penbroke Iohn erle of Surrie Edmund earle of Arundell Dauid earle of Atholl Robert earle of Anegos the lord Hugh Spenser line 40 the father the lord Robert de Malmesthorp iustice and others with them associate before whome he was arreigned of high treason for that he had raised warre against the king and defended the passage of Burton bridge for the space of thrée daies togither against him and after when it was perceiued that the king had passed the riuer he with Humfrie de Bohun earle of Hereford and other their complices like traitors set fire on the said towne and cruellie burnt part of the houses and men of the same towne and after the said earle of Lancaster with his complices line 50 arranged himselfe in field with his armie and banners displaid readie to fight against the king till that perceiuing the kings power to be ouerstrong for him his partakers to resist he togither with them fled committing by the waie diuerse felonies and robberies till they came to Burrough bridge where finding certeine of the kings faithfull subiects readie to resist them they assailed the said faithfull subiects with force of armes and banners displaied slaieng line 60 diuerse of them till finallie the said earle of Lancaster was caught and other of his complices some taken some slaine and the residue put to flight so that there wanted no good will in the said earle of Lancaster and others whie the king should not haue béene vanquished Which treasons murthers burning of houses destroieng of the kings people being plainlie manifestlie knowne to the earls barons lords and other people of the land the said earle of Lancaster was therevpon adiudged to die according to the law in such cases prouided that is to be drawne hanged and headed But bicause he was the queenes vncle and sonne to the kings vncle he was pardoned of all saue heading and so accordinglie therevnto suffered at Pomfret the two and twentith of March. Thus the king séemed to be reuenged of the displeasure doone to him by the earle of Lancaster for the beheading of Peers de Gaueston earle of Cornewall whom he so déerelie loued and bicause the erle of Lancaster was the chéefe occasioner of his death the king neuer loued him entirelie after ¶ So that here is verified the censure of the scripture expressed by the wisedome of Salomon that the anger and displeasure of the king is as the roring of a lion and his reuenge ineuitable Wherefore it is an hie point of discretion in such as are mightie to take héed how they giue edge vnto the wrath of their souereigne which if it be not by submission made blunt the burthen of the smart insuing will lie heauie vpon the offendor euen to his vtter vndooing and losse perhaps of life In this sort came the mightie earle of Lancaster to his end being the greatest péere in the realme and one of the mightiest earles in christendome for when he began to leauie warre against the king he was possessed of fiue earledomes Lancaster Lincolne Salisburie Leicester and Derbie beside other seigniories lands and possessions great to his aduancement in honor and puissance But all this was limited within prescription of time which being expired both honour and puissance were cut off with dishonour and death for O mutable state Inuida fatorum series summÃsque negatum Stare diu On the same day the lord William Tuchet the lord William fitz William the lord Warren de Lisle the lord Henrie Bradborne and the lord William Chenie barons with Iohn Page an esquire were drawne and hanged at Pomfret aforesaid and then shortlie after Roger lord Clifford Iohn lord Mowbraie and sir Gosein d' Eeuill barons were drawne and hanged at Yorke At Bristow in like manner were executed sir Henrie de Willington and sir Henrie Montfort baronets and at Glocester the lord Iohn Gifford and sir William Elmebridge knight and at London the lord Henrie Teies baron at Winchelsie sir Thomas
sonne the lord chamberleine that neither durst go ouer themselues with the king nor abide at home in his absence gaue contrarie counsell and at length preuailed so that it was fullie determined that the kings eldest line 60 sonne Edward should go ouer which turned to their destruction as it appeared afterward Herevpon the king made a charter of grant vnto his sonne of the duchie of Guien and countie of Pontieu to haue and hold to him his heires kings of England with condition that if he chanced to depart this life whilest his father liued those lands should returne to his father againe so as the French king might not marrie the kings sonne at his pleasure nor appoint vnto him any gardians or gouernours This ordinance was made at Douer by the kings charter with consent of the prelats and other noble men of the realme there present the morrow after the Natiuitie of our ladie and on the thursdaie following the kings sonne tooke the sea and with him Walter bishop of Excester and others in competent number and about the feast of saint Matthew the apostle he did homage to his vncle the French king at Bois de Vincennes vnder certeine protestations made as well on the one part as the other The summer this yeare prooued excéeding hot and drie so that springs and riuers failed to yéeld their accustomed course of waters by reason wherof great numbers of cattell and beasts both wild and tame died through lacke of conuenient liquor to asswage their vehement thirst In the beginning of the next spring king Edward sent into France vnto his wife and sonne commanding them now that they had made an end of their businesse to returne home with all conuenient speed The queene receiuing the message from hir husband whether it was so that she was staied by hir brother vnto whome belike she had complained after what manner she was vsed at hir husbands hands being had in no regard with him or for that she had no mind to returne home bicause she was loth to see all things ordered out of frame by the counsell of the Spensers whereof to heare she was wearie or whether as the manner of women is she was long about to prepare hir selfe forward she slacked all the summer and sent letters euer to excuse hir tarriance But yet bicause she would not run in any suspicion with hir husband she sent diuerse of hir folkes before hir into England by soft iournies A lamentable case that such diuision should be betwéene a king and his quéene being lawfullie married and hauing issue of their bodies which ought to haue made that their copulation more comfortable but alas what will not a woman be drawne and allured vnto if by euill counsell she be once assaulted And what will she leaue vndoone though neuer so inconuenient to those that should be most déere vnto hir so hir owne fansie and will be satisfied And how hardlie is the reuoked from procéeding in an euill action if she haue once taken a taste of the same As verie truly is reported by the comedie-writer saieng Malè quod mulier incoepit nisi efficere id perpetrat Id illi morbo id illi senio est ea illi miserae miseria est Si bene facere incoepit eius eam cito odium percipit Nimisque paucae sunt defessae male quae facere occoeperint Nimisque paucae efficiunt si quid occoeperint benefacere Mulieri nimiò malefacere melius est onus quà m benè But to the purpose King Edward not a little offended with king Charles by whole meanes he knew that the woman thus lingered abroad he procured pope Iohn to write his letters vnto the French king admonishing him to send home his sister and hir sonne vnto hir husband But when this nothing auailed a proclamation was made in the moneth of December the nineteenth yeare of this kings reigne that if the quéene and hir sonne entred not the land by the octaues of the Epiphanie next insuing in peaceable wise they should be taken for enimies to the realme and crowne of England ¶ Here authors varie for some write that vpon knowledge had of this proclamation the queene determined to returne into England foorthwith that she might be reconciled to hir husband Others write and that more truelie how she being highlie displeased both with the Spensers and the king hir husband that suffered himselfe to be misled by their counsels did appoint indéed to returne into England not to be reconciled but to stir the people to some rebellion wherby she might reuenge hir manifold iniuries Which as the proofe of the thing shewed séemeth to be most true for she being a wise woman considering that sith the Spensers had excluded put out and remooued all good men from and besides the kings councell and placed in their roomes such of their clients seruants and freends as pleased them she might well thinke that there was small hope to be had in hir husband who heard no man but the said Spensers which she knew hated hir deadlie Wherevpon year 1326 after that the tearme prefixed in the proclamation was expired the king caused to be seized into his hands all such lands as belonged either to his sonne or to his wife About the same time one sir Robert Walkfare knight a right hardie man of his hands but craftie and subtill who being taken in the warres which the line 10 lords raised against the king had beene committed to prison in the castell of Corfe found means now to kill the constable of that castell most cruellie and escaping awaie got ouer to the quéene into France and so the number of them that ran out of the realme vnto hir dailie increased This sir Robert Walkfare was a great procurer of the discord betwixt the king and the lords and a chéefe leader or rather seducer of that noble man Humfrie de Bohune earle of Hereford and whilest other gaue themselues to line 20 seeke a reformation in the decaied state of the commonwealth he set his mind vpon murders and robberies Diuerse other about the same time fled out of the realme vnto the queene and vnto hir sonne the earle of Chester But in the meane time Walter Stapleton bishop of Excester which hitherto had remained with the queene in France stale now from hir and got ouer into England opening to the king all the counsell and whole mind of the queene which thing turned first of all vnto his owne destruction line 30 as shall after appeare About the same time one sir Oliuer de Ingham a yoong lustie and valiant knight was by the kings sonne the duke of Aquitaine not without his fathers consent established lord warden of the marches of Guien the which sir Oliuer gathering an armie of hired soldiers Spaniards Aragons and Gascoins inuaded the countrie of Agenois which the French king held yet in his hands contrarie to
some write there were of the rebels at the â—east twentie thousand men Whâ—â— the earle of Westmerland perceiued the force of thâ— aduersaries and that they laie still and attempted noâ—â—o come forward vpon him he subtillie deuised how to â—uaile their purpose and foorthwith dispatched messengâ—â—s vnto the archbishop to vnderstand the cause as it weâ—â— of that great assemblie and for what cause contrarie to the kings peace they came so in amour The archbishop answered that he tooke nothing in hand against the kings peace but that whatsoeuer he did tended rather to aduance the peace and quiet of the common-wealth than otherwise and where he and his companie were in armes it was for feare of the king to whom he could haue no free accesse by reason of such a multitude of flatterers as were about him and therefore he mainteined that his purpose to be good profitable as well for the king himselfe as for the realme if men were willing to vnderstand a truth herewith he shewed foorth a scroll in which the articles were written wherof before ye haue heard The messengers returning to the earle of Westmerland shewed him what they had heard brought from the archbishop When he had read the articles he shewed in word and countenance outwardly that he liked of the archbishops holie and vertuous intent and purpose promising that he and his would prosecute the same in assisting the archbishop who reioising hereat gaue credit to the earle and persuaded the earle marshall against his will as it were to go with him to a place appointed for them to commune togither Here when they were met with like number on either part the articles were read ouer and without anie more adoo the earle of Westmerland line 10 and those that were with him agréed to doo their best to see that a reformation might be had according to the same The earle of Westmerland vsing more policie than the rest Well said he then our trauell is come to the wished end and where our people haue beéne long in armour let them depart home to their woonted trades and occupations in the meane time let vs drinke togither in signe of agreement that the people on both sides maie sée it and know that it is true line 20 that we be light at a point They had no sooner shaken hands togither but that a knight was sent streight waies from the archbishop to bring word to the people that there was peace concluded commanding ech man to laie aside his armes and to resort home to their houses The people beholding such tokens of peace as shaking of hands and drinking togither of the lords in louing manner they being alreadie wearied with the vnaccustomed trauell of warre brake vp their field and returned homewards line 30 but in the meane time whilest the people of the archbishops side withdrew awaie the number of the contrarie part increased according to order giuen by the earle of Westmerland and yet the archbishop perceiued not that he was deceiued vntill the earle of Westmerland arrested both him and the earle marshall with diuerse other Thus saith Walsingham But others write somwhat otherwise of this matter affirming that the earle of Westmerland in deed and the lord Rafe Eeuers procured the archbishop line 40 the earle marshall to come to a communication with them vpon a ground iust in the midwaie betwixt both the armies where the earle of Westmerland in talke declared to them how perilous an enterprise they had taken in hand so to raise the people and to mooue warre against the king aduising them therefore to submit themselues without further delaie vnto the kings mercie and his sonne the lord Iohn who was present there in the field with baâ—ners spred redie to trie the matter by dint of sâ—â—rd line 50 if they refused this counsell and therefore he willed them to remember themselues well if tâ—â—y would not yeeld and craue the kings pardon â—e bad them doo their best to defend themselues Herevpon as well the archbishop as the earle marshall submitted themselueâ— vnto the king and to his sonne the lord Iohn that was there present and returned not to their armie Wherevpon their troops scaled and fled their waies but being pursued manie were taken manie slaine and manie spoiled line 60 of that that they had about them so permitted to go their waies Howsoeuer the matter was handled true it is that the archbishop and the earle marshall were brought to Pomfret to the king who in this meane while was aduanced thither with his power and from thence he went to Yorke whither the prisoners were also brought and there beheaded the morrow after Whitsundaie in a place without the citie that is to vnderstand the archbishop himselfe the earle marshall sir Iohn Lampleie and sir Robert Plumpton ¶ Unto all which persons though indemnitie were promised yet was the same to none of them at anie hand performed By the issue hereof I meane the death of the foresaid but speciallie of the archbishop the prophesie of a sickelie canon of Bridlington in Yorkeshire fell out to be true who darklie inough foretold this matter the infortunate euent thereof in these words hereafter following saieng Pacem tractabunt sed fraudem subter arabunt Pro nulla marca saluabitur ille hierarcha The archbishop suffered death verie constantlie insomuch as the common people tooke it he died a martyr affirming that certeine miracles were wrought as well in the field where he was executed as also in the place where he was buried and immediatlie vpon such bruits both men and women began to worship his dead carcasse whom they loued so much when he was aliue till they were forbidden by the kings fréends and for feare gaue ouer to visit the place of his sepulture The earle marshals bodie by the kings leaue was buried in the cathedrall church manie lamenting his destinie but his head was set on a pole aloft on the wals for a certeine space till by the kings permission after the same had suffered manie a hot sunnie daie and manie a wet shower of raine it was taken downe and buried togither with the bodie After the king accordinglie as séemed to him gooâ— had ransomed and punished by gréeuous fines thâ— citizens of Yorke which had borne armour oâ— their archbishops side against him he departed 〈◊〉 Yorke with an armie of thirtie and seuen thousaâ—â— fighting men furnished withall prouision necâ—sarie marching northwards against the earle of Northumberland At his coÌ„ming to Durham â—e lord Hastings the lord Fauconbridge sir Ioâ—n Colleuill of the Dale and sir Iohn Griffith â—eing conuicted of the conspiracie were there beâ—â—aded The earle of Northumberland hearing â—at his counsell was bewraied and his confeâ—â—rats brought to confusion through too much 〈◊〉 of the archbishop of Yorke with thrée hundred â—orsse got him to Berwike The king comming â—orward quickelie wan the castell of
was giuen vp vnder the kings great scale at the kings palace of Westminster the foure and twentith daie of March line 60 in the six and thirtith yeare of his reigne For the open publishing of this ioifull agréement there was vpon our ladie daie in March a solemne procession celebrated within the cathedrall church of saint Paule in London year 1459 at the which the king was present in habit roiall with his crowne on his head Before him went hand in hand the duke of Summerset the earle of Salisburie the duke of Excester and the earle of Warwike and so one of the one faction and another of the other and behind the king the duke of Yorke and the quéene with great familiaritie in appeerance leading hand in hand But what shall be said As goodlie apples corrupted at core how faire coated so euer they seeme can neuer be made to become sound againe nor rotten walles new plastered without can euer the more staie their mooldering inward till the putrified matter fret through the crust laie all in the mire so fared it on all parts in this dissembled and counterfet concord For after this apparant peace but inward discord diuerse of the nobles smallie regarding their honors forgot their oth and brake their promise boldlie Not long after this of pretensed purpose as it was thought a fraie was made vpon a yeoman of the earle of Warwiks by one of the kings seruants in the which the assailant was sore hurt but the earles man fled Héerevpon the kings meniall seruants séeing their fellow hurt and the offendor escaped assembled togither and watched the earle when he returned from the councell chamber toward his barge and suddenlie set on him the yeomen with swords the blacke gard with spits and fier-forks After long fight and manie of the earls men maimed and hurt by helpe of his fréends he gat a wherrie and so escaped to London The quéene aduertised héerof incontinentlie commanded that he should be apprehended and committed to the tower where if he had béene taken he had shortlie ended his daies By this vnhappie fraie there arose anon after such trouble and terrible warre that the whole realme was thereby disquieted For after this displeasure doone to the earle and the quéens good mind towards him by his secret fréends reuealed he wish all diligence tooke his iournie to Warwike and after into Yorkeshire where he found the duke of Yorke and the earle of Salisburie declaring vnto them the assault made vpon him by the kings seruants and the pretensed euill purpose of the quéene After which complaint made he fearing to be dispossessed of his roome at Calis with great spéed imbarked himselfe and sailed thither He was not onelie deputie or lieutenant of Calis but also high admerall of the seas which office was to him confirmed for the space of fiue yeares Wherevpon whether before his arriuall now at Calis or shortlie after I cannot say but this yeare about the middest of summer the said earle hauing with him a fouretéene well appointed ships sailed abroad to scowre the seas and by chance met with fiue great ships whereof thrée were caraks of Genoa and the other two were of Spaine bigger in heigth and length than the caraks The earle though he was scarse able to deale against them yet he valiantlie incountred them There was a verie sore and long continued battell fought betwixt them for it lasted almost the space of two daies Yet in the end the victorie fell to the English so that two of those ships being forced to saue themseluesby flight the other thrée were taken which the earle brought vnto Calis with all the merchandize aboord the same the value whereof in wine oile wax iron cloth of gold and other riches was estéemed to the summe of ten thousand pounds aboue By reason whereof that was sold now for twelue pense which would not haue béene bought before for two shillings There were taken a great number of prisoners beside a thousand of the enimies slaine in fight Of the earles part there were fiftie slaine The earles fame héereby increased not a little and manie a blessing he had for this peece of seruice ¶ The noble science of Printing was about this time found in Germanie at Magunce by one Iohn Cuthembergus a knight one Conradus an Almaine brought it into Rome William Caxton of London mercer brought it into England about the yeare 1471 and first practised the same in the abbie of saint Peter at Westminster after which time it was likewise practised in the abbies of S. Augustine at Canturburie saint Albons and other monasteries of England In a little towne in Bedfordshire there fell a bloudie raine whereof the red drops appeered in shéets the which a woman had hanged out for to drie But now to the former purpose After that the earle was gone ouer to Calis the duke of Yorke and the earle of Salisburie falling in consultation togither it was at length agréed betwixt them with aduise of their freends that the said earle of Salisburie line 10 with a warlike companie should march toward the king and signifie to him by waie of complaint both the manifest iniurie doone to his sonne and also the vncourteous breach of the sworne amitie and late agréement In which sute if he preuailed he should not then let passe the occasion giuen for reuenge of displeasures to him doone both by the quéene and hir sinister councellors After conclusion of this deuise the earle of Salisburie remooued from Middleham castell accompanied with foure or fiue thousand men line 20 and tooke his waie through Lancashire to passe that waie towards London In the meane season the quéene assisted and ruled by the dukes of Summerset and Buckingham hauing a vigilant eie to all hir businesse imagined that the earle of Warwike had kindled this fier to the intent to set the crowne on the duke of Yorks head Wherefore she appointed Iames Twichet lord Audelie bicause his power laie in those parties by the which the earle of Salisburie must passe to raise line 30 an hoast of men with all speed and to giue battell to the same earle if he saw cause and place conuenient She had deuised a cognisance of the white swan which she willed all such as she knew to beare fauor vnto hir sonne to weare for a signification of their good minds and hartie loue towards him which cognisance she had giuen to manie gentlemen of Chesshire and other countries thereabout The quéene hir selfe laie the same time at Ecclesale in Staffordshire but the K. remained at Colleshill line 40 in Warwikeshire whither the earle of Salisburie meant to come in pretense to haue communed with him for a reformation of matters depending in controuersie betwixt himselfe the duke of Yorke and others But the queene construing that they ment no good neither to hir nor hir husband requested the lord Audelie
and so deadlie fought as was in that kings daies that dead is God forgiue it his soule In whose time and by whose occasion what about the getting of the garland keeping it leesing and winning againe it line 20 hath cost more English bloud than hath twise the winning of France In which inward war among our selues hath beene so great effusion of the ancient noble bloud of this realme that scarselie the halfe remaineth to the great infeebling of this noble land beside manie a good towne ransacked and spoiled by them that haue beene going to the field or comming from thence line 30 And peace long after not much surer than war So that no time was therein which rich men for their monie and great men for their lands or some other for some feare or some displeasure were not out of perill For whom trusted he that mistrusted his owne brother Whome spared he that killed his owne brother Or who could perfectlie loue him if his owne brother could not line 40 What maner of folke he most fauoured we shall for his honour spare to speake of Howbeit this wote you well all that who so was best bare alwaie least rule more sute was in his daies to Shores wife a vile and an abhominable strumpet than to all the lords in England except vnto those that made hir their proctor Which simple woman was well named honest line 50 till the king for his wanton lust and sinfull affection bereft hir from hir husband a right honest substantiall yoong man among you And in that point which in good faith I am sorie to speake of sauing that it is in vaine to keepe in counsell that thing that all men know the kings greedie appetite was insatiable and euerie where ouer all the realme intollerable line 60 For no woman was there anie where yoong or old rich or poore whome he set his eie vpon in whome he anie thing liked either person or fauour speech pase or countenance but without anie feare of God or respect of his honour murmur or grudge of the world he would importunelie pursue his appetite and haue hir to the great destruction of manie a good woman and great dolor to their husbands and their other freends which being honest people of them selues so much regard the cleannesse of their house the chastitie of their wiues and their children that them were leauer to leese all that they had beside than to haue such a villanie doone them And all were it that with this and other importable dealing the realme was in euerie part annoied yet speciallie yee heere the citizens of this noble citie as well for that amongest you is most plentie of all such things as minister matter to such iniuries as for that you were neerest at hand sith that neere heere abouts was commonlie his most abiding And yet be yee the people whome he had as singular cause well and kindlie to intreat as anie part of his realme not onelie for that the prince by this noble citie as his speciall chamber the speciall well renowmed citie of this realme much honourable fame receiueth among all other nations but also for that yee not without your great cost sundrie perils ieopardies in all his warres bare euen your speciall fauor to his part Which your kind minds borne to the house of Yorke sith he hath nothing worthilie acquited there is of that house that now by Gods grace better shall which thing to shew you is the whole summe and effect of this our present errand It shall not I wot well need that I rehearse you againe that yee haue alreadie heard of him that can better tell it and of whome I am sure yee will better beleeue it And reason is that it so be I am not so proud to looke therefore that yee should reckon my words of as great authoritie as the preachers of the word of God namlie a man so cunning and so wise that no man better woteth what he should saie and thereto so good and vertuous that he would not saie the thing which he wist he should not saie in the pulpit namelie into the which no honest man commeth to lie Which honorable preacher yee well remember substantiallie declared vnto you at Paules crosse on sundaie last passed the right title that the most excellent prince Richard duke of Glocester now protector of this realme hath vnto the crowne and kingdome of the same For as the worshipfull man groundlie made open vnto you the children of king Edward the fourth were neuer lawfullie begotten forsomuch as the king leauing his verie wife dame Elizabeth Lucie was neuer lawfullie maried vnto the queene their mother whose bloud sauing that he set his voluptuous pleasure before his honor was full vnmeetlie to be matched with his and the mingling of whose blouds togither hath beene the effusion of a great part of the noble bloud of this realme Wherby it may well seeme the mariage not well made of which there is so much mischeefe growne For lacke of which lawfull coupling also of other things which the said worshipfull doctor rather signified than fullie explaned which things shall not be spoken for me as the thing wherein euerie man forbereth to say that he knoweth in auoiding displeasure of my noble lord protector bearing as nature requireth a filiall reuerence to the duchesse his mother For these causes I say before remembred that is to wit for lacke of other issue lawfullie of the late noble prince Richard duke of Yorke to whose roiall bloud the crowne of England and of France is by the high authoritie of parlement intailed the right and title of the same is by the iust course of line 10 inheritance according to the cōmon lawes of the land deuolued commen vnto the most excellent prince the lord protector as to the verie lawfullie begotten sonne of the foreremembred noble duke of Yorke Which thing well considered and the great knightlie prowesse pondered with manifold vertues which in his noble person singularlie abound the nobles and line 20 commons also of this realme and speciallie of the north part not willing anie bastard bloud to haue the rule of the land nor the abusions before in the same vsed anie longer to continue haue condescended and fullie determined to make humble petition to the most puissant prince the lord protector that it maie like his grace at our humble request to take vpon him the guiding and line 30 gouernance of this realme to the wealth and increase of the same according to his verie right and iust title Which thing I wote it well he will be loth to take vpon him as he whose wisdome well perceiueth the labor and studie both of mind and bodie that come therewith to whomsoeuer so will occupie the roome as I dare say hee will if he take it Which roome I warne you well is no childs office And that the
can find in England they are not for my profit What thinke you my lords will anie Englishman counsell me or be fréend to me against the K. pleasure that is his subiect Naie forsooth And as for my counsell in whom I will put my trust they be not here they be in Spaine in my owne countrie And my lords I am a poore woman lacking wit to answer to anie such noble persons of wisedome as you be in so weightie a matter therefore I praie you be good to me poore woman destitute of fréends here in a forren region and your counsell also I will be glad to heare And therewith she tooke the cardinall by the hand and led him into hir priuie chamber with the other cardinall where they tarried a season talking with the quéene Which communication ended they departed to the king making to him relation of hir talke Thus this case went forward from court to court till it came to iudgement so that euerie man expected that iudgment would be giuen the next day At which daie the king came thither and set him downe in a chaire within a doore in the end of the gallerie which opened directlie against the iudgement seat to heare the iudgement giuen at which time all their proceedings were red in Latine That doone the kings councell at the barre called for iudgement With that quoth cardinall Campeius I will not giue iudgement till I haue made relation to the pope of all our procéedings whose counsell and commandement in this case I will obserue the case is verie doubtfull and also the partie defendant will make no answer here but dooth rather appeale from vs supposing that we be not indifferent Wherfore I will adiourne this court for this time according to the order of the court of Rome And with that the court was dissolued and no more doone This protracting of the conclusion of the matter king Henrie tooke verie displeasantlie Then cardinall Campeius tooke his leaue of the king and nobilitie and returned towards Rome Whilest these things were thus in hand the cardinall of Yorke was aduised that the king had set his affection vpon a yoong gentlewoman named Anne the daughter of sir Thomas Bullen vicount Rochford which did wait vpon the quéene This was a great griefe vnto the cardinall as he that perceiued aforehand that the king would marie the said gentlewoman if the diuorse tooke place Wherfore he began with all diligence to disappoint that match which by reason of the misliking that he had to the woman he iudged ought to be auoided more than present death While the matter stood in this state and that the cause of the quéene was to be heard and iudged at Rome by reason of the appeale which by hir was put in the cardinall required the pope by line 10 letters and secret messengers that in anie wise he should defer the iudgement of the diuorse till he might frame the kings mind to his purpose Howbeit he went about nothing so secretlie but that the same came to the kings knowledge who tooke so high displeasure with such his cloked dissimulation that he determined to abase his degrée sith as an vnthankefull person he forgot himselfe and his dutie towards him that had so highlie aduanced him to all honor and dignitie When the nobles of the line 20 realme perceiued the cardinall to be in displeasure they began to accuse him of such offenses as they knew might be proued against him and thereof they made a booke conteining certeine articles to which diuerse of the kings councell set their hands The king vnderstanding more plainlie by those articles the great pride presumption and couetousnesse of the cardinall was sore mooued against him but yet kept his purpose secret for a while Shortlie after a parlement was called to begin at Westminster the line 30 third of Nouember next insuing In the meane time the king being informed that all those things that the cardinall had doone by his power legantine within this realme were in the case of the premunire and prouision caused his atturneie Christopher Hales to sue out a writ of premunire against him in the which he licenced him to make his atturneie ¶ And further the seuentéenth of Nouember the king sent the two dukes of Norffolke and Suffolke to the cardinals place at Westminster line 40 who went as they were commanded and finding the cardinall there they declared that the kings pleasure was that he should surrender vp the great seale into their hands and to depart simplie vnto Asher which was an house situat nigh vnto Hampton court belonging to the bishoprike of Winchester The cardinall demanded of them their commission that gaue them such authoritie who answered againe that they were sufficient commissioners and had authoritie to doo no lesse by the kings line 50 mouth Notwithstanding he would in no wise agrée in that behalfe without further knowledge of their authoritie saieng that the great seale was deliuered him by the kings person to inioy the ministration thereof with the roome of the chancellor for the terme of his life whereof for his suertie he had the kings letters patents This matter was greatlie debated betwéene them with manie great words in so much that the dukes were faine to depart againe without their purpose and rode to Windsore to the king and made report line 60 accordinglie but the next daie they returned againe bringing with them the kings letters Then the cardinall deliuered vnto them the great seale and was content to depart simplie taking with him nothing but onelie certeine prouision for his house and after long talke betwéene him and the dukes they departed with the great seale of England and brought the same to the king Then the cardinall called all his officers before him and tooke accompt of them for all such stuffe whereof they had charge And in his gallerie were set diuerse tables wherevpon laie a great number of goodlie rich stuffe as whole péeces of silke of all colours veluet sattin damaske taffata grograine and other things Also there laie a thousand peeces of fine Holland cloth There was laid on euerie table bookes reporting the contents of the same and so was there inuentaries of all things in order against the kings comming He caused to be hanged the walles of the gallerie on the one side with cloth of gold cloth of tissue cloth of siluer and rich cloth of bodken of diuerse colours On the other side were hanged the richest sute of coapes of his owne prouision made for his colleges of Oxford and Ipswich that euer were séene in England Then had he two chambers adioining to the gallerie the one most commonlie called the gilt chamber and the other the councell chamber wherein were set vp two broad and long tables vpon trestles whervpon was set such a number of plate of all sorts as was almost incredible In the gilt chamber were set out
thinking that notwithstanding the answer before made yet because the most part of the citizens were of their opinions and of the like affections in religion would not resist them as also that they had manie friends within the citie more readie to ioine with them than to follow the maior if they might haue the choise what to doo they came being in number about two thousand persons to the citie vpon the second of Iulie 1â—49 first making proclamation that if the citie would not yeeld line 60 and ioine with them they would enter with force and take the spoile of it so then they vpon the deniall compassed the same round about and gained vnto them at the first all the suburbs And hereof they conceiued such a vaine hope to haue their full desire vpon the citie that not onelie the number in hope did dailie more more increase but also manie of them brought their wiues horsses and pâ—niers persuading themselues and promising them by such a daie and vpon such a daie to enter into the citie and then to measure veluets and silks by the bow and to lade their horsses home with plate monie and other great riches The maior and his brethren forecasting the perils which might in such a case insue doo prouide all things necessarie and méet wherewith to defend themselues and to annoie the enimie The citie therefore is viewed for armor men are mustered soldiers are reteined capteins in euerie ward appointed warders for the daie and watchmen for the night assigned great péeces of ordinance laid in euerie gate and placed in all conuenient places of the wals mounts in sundrie places erected as well for laieng of ordinance as for sauing of the soldiers watchmen from the enimies shot and nothing was left vndoone which in anie respect that present state and necessitie required The rebels likewise intrench the high waies plash downe trées breake downe bridges kéepe watches and wards in euerie place so that no man could passe to or from the citie without their sufferance The markets are stopped vittels are kept from it and all dealings and intercourses shut and cut off and hauing as they bragged penned and shut vp the townesmen in a coope or mew they plant their ordinance against euerie gate and in all other such places as best to serue their turne and to hurt them within they burnt the gates they brake vp the pipes and conduits aswell for the taking awaie of the water comming to the citie as also to haue the led to serue for their shot and pellets But for the burning of the gates there followed rather a benefit than a hurt thereof for foorthwith there were made certeine rampiers within the gate which were farre stronger and of more defense than the gates as also there were fiers continuallie kept euerie night betwéene the rampiers and the gates and as for water the citie so standeth vpon a little hill that it is full of springs in euerie quarter within the same and by that means full and plentifull of euerie good and swéet waters Also they in sundrie places did vndermine the wals minding thereby with gunpowder and with other matters fit for fier to haue blowne vp the wals and so to haue entered in that waie but herein they were also preuented by this means and in this maner The citie it selfe as is before said is set vpon a little hill and lieth verie stéeping towards two of the gates And at one of these named the west gate the said rebels had vndermined on the one side and filled the place with certeine barels of powder pitch and other stuffe méet and apt to receiue fier and had appointed the night when the same should be set on fier and so to haue blowne the wals vp At the same time there was a certeine tinner in the citie whose dwelling was at Teingemouth named Iohn Newcombe who depended much vpon the goodwill and fréendship of maister William Hurst one of the aldermen of the citie and he vnderstanding of such an vndermining to be in working aduertised the same to maister Hurst and maketh him priuie how he would preuent the same which was doone in this maner For whereas he by a noise vnder the ground did suspect the vndermining to be in working he tooke a pan of water did put the same on the ground by shaking of the water in the pan he by remoouing the pan from place to place came at length to the verie place whereas the miners were working and foorthwith he countermined against the same and wrought so néere vnto it vntill that he might and did sée looke into it That â—oone he caused all the wals and tirpits in the citie towards euerie stréet hauing a fall that waie to be drawne at one time and euerie man to fill therewith a great tub of water at his foredoore which being 〈◊〉 he caused them all at one instant to be cast out and emptied which water running in great abundance towards the said west gate was conueied into the place countermined so entered and drowned the place which before was mined at which time also by the goodnesse of God there fell a great showre as the like for the time had not beene séene manie years before and which at that instant greatlie serued this turne The rebels perceiuing themselues disappointed of their purpose gaue ouer to deale anie further in those attempts howbeit otherwise they left nothing vndoone which might be to annoie the citizens For sometimes they made alarums as though they with all might and maine would haue giuen the line 10 scale and indeed they had prouided ladders for the same purpose Sometimes they by policies would séeke to come to the gates to burne them and herein they vsed this stratagem They prouided carts laden with old haie driuing the whéeles before them would come to the gate without danger and so set fier in the gate But notwithstanding they escaped not scotfrée for both at the west gate and at the south-gate their commings being perceiued the great port péeces were charged with great bags of flint-stones line 20 and haileshot and as they were approching vnto the gates the gates were secretlie opened and the said port péeces discharged and so they were spoiled diuerse of them by that means they had small pleasure to follow those deuises as also the citizens to preuent the same did from thensefoorth kéepe the gates open Likewise they would kéepe themselues close in sundrie houses in the suburbs neere the wals and would so watch the garrets that if anie within the citie would looke out at the garrets was line 30 in the danger of their shot and some thereby were killed and manie hurt Upon which occasion the citizens set some part of the suburbs on fier and some part which was next to the wals they beat and brake downe and so draue the rebels out
strangers Which brutish beastlie opinion then seemed to me reason and wrought in me such effects that it led me headlong into the practise of this detestable crime of treason But now being better persuaded and vnderstanding the great commoditie honor which the realme should receiue by this marriage I stand firme and fast in this opinion that if it should please the queene to be mercifull vnto me there is no subiect in this land that should more trulie and faithfullie serue hir highnes than I shall nor no sooner die at hir graces féet in defense of hir quarrell I serued hir highnesse against the duke of Northumberland as my lord of Arundell can witnesse My grandfather serued most truelie hir graces grandfather and for his sake was set vpon the racke in the tower My father also serued king Henrie the eight to his good contentation and I also serued him and king Edward his son And in witnesse of my bloud spent in his seruice I carrie a name I alledge not all this to set foorth my seruice by waie of merit which I confesse but dutie but to declare to the whole world that by abusing my wits in pursuing my misaduised opinion I haue not onelie ouerthrowne my house and defaced all the well dooings of me and my ancestors if euer there were anie but also haue béene the cause of mine owne death and destruction Neither doo I alledge this to iustifie my selfe in anie point neither for an excuse of mine offense but most humblie submit my selfe to the queenes maiesties mercie and pitie desiring you my lord of Sussex and you maister Hastings with all the rest of this honorable bench to be meanes to the quéenes highnesse for hir mercie which is the greatest treasure that maie be giuen to anie prince from God such a vertue as God hath appropriate to himselfe Which if hir highnesse vouchsafe to extend vnto me she shall bestow it on him who shall be most glad to serue truelie and not refuse to die in hir quarrell For I protest before the iudge of all iudges I neuer meant hurt against hir highnesse person Then said the quéenes attorneie Maister Wiat you haue great cause to be sorie and repent for your fault whereby you haue not onelie vndoone your selfe and your house but also a number of other gentlemen who being true men might haue serued their prince and countrie yet if you had gone no further it might haue beene borne withall the better But being not so contented to staie your selfe you haue so procured the duke of Suffolke a man soone trained to your purpose and his two brethren also by meanes whereof without the quéenes greater mercie you haue ouerthrowne that noble house And yet not so staied your attempt hath reached as far as in you laie to the second person of the realme in whom next to the quéenes highnesse resteth all our hope and comfort wherby hir honor is brought in question and what danger will folow and to what end it will come God knoweth of all this you are the author Wiat answered As I will not in anie thing iustifie my selfe so I beseech you I being in this wretched estate not to ouercharge me nor to make me séeme to be that I am not I am loth to touch anie person by name but that I haue written I haue written Then said the iudge Maister Wiat maister attornie hath well mooued you to repent your offenses and we for our parts with you the same Then said sir Edward Hastings maister of the quéens horsse Maister Wiat doo ye remember when I and maister Cornwallis were sent vnto you from the quéenes highnesse to demand the cause of your enterprise and what you required Were not these your demands that the quéenes grace should go to the tower and there remaine and you to haue the rule of the tower and hir person with the treasure in kéeping and such of hir councell as you would require to be deliuered into your hands saieng that you would be trusted and not trust Which words when Wiat had confessed then said the quéenes solicitor Your presumption was ouer great your attempt in this case hath purchased you perpetuall infamie and shall be called Wiats rebellion as Wat Tilers was called Wat Tilers rebellion Then said the attorneie Maister Wiat were you not priuie to a deuise whereby the quéene should haue béene murthered in a place where she should walke I doo not burthen you to confesse this for thus much I must saie on your behalfe that you misliked that deuise That deuise said Wiat was the deuise of William Thomas whome euer after I abhorred for line 10 that cause Then was a letter shewed which Wiat being in Southworke had written to the duke of Suffolke that he should méet him at Kingstone bridge and from thense to accompanie him to London although he came with the fewer number Wiat at the first did not séeme to remember anie such letter but when it was shewed him he confessed his hand Then was it demanded of him among other things whie he refused the queenes pardon when it was offered line 20 him My lords quoth he I confesse my fault and offense to be most vile and heinous for the which first I aske God mercie without the which I cannot chalenge anie thing such is my offense alreadie committed And therefore I beséech you to trouble me with no more questions for I haue deliuered all things vnto hir grace in writing And finallie here I must confesse that of all the voiages wherein I haue serued this was the most desperat and painfull iorneie that euer I made And where you asked whie I receiued not the quéenes pardon when it was offered line 30 vnto me Oh vnhappie man What shall I saie When I was entred into this diuellish desperat aduenture there was no waie but wade through with that I had taken in hand for I had thought that other had béene as farre forward as my selfe which I found farre otherwise So that being bent to keepe promise with all my confederats none kept promise with me for I like a moile went through thicke and thin with this determination that if I should come line 40 to anie treatie I should séeme to bewraie all my friends But whereto should I spend anie more words I yéeld my selfe wholie vnto the quéenes mercie knowing well that it is onelie in hir power to make me as I haue deserued an open example to the world with Wat Tiler or else to make me participant of that pitie which she hath extended in as great crimes as mine most humblie beséeching you all to be means for me to hir highnesse for mercie which is line 50 my last and onelie refuge The will of God be doone on me Upon this confession without further triall he receiued the iudgement accustomed in cases of treason which was to be hanged drawne and quartered And the
Parrie the same mondaie in the euening though not so knowne to him should be sent vnto maister secretaries house in London he being then there who according vnto such direction as he receiued from hir maiestie did let him vnderstand that hir highnesse in respect of the good will she knew he line 40 bare vnto the said Parrie of the trust that Parrie did outwardlie professe to repose in maister secretarie had made especiall choice of him to deale with him in a matter that concerned hir highlie and that the doubted not but that he would discharge his dutie towards hir according vnto that extraordinarie deuotion that he professed to beare vnto hir And therevpon he told him that hir maiestie had béene aduertised that there was somewhat intended presentlie against hir owne person wherwith she line 50 thought he could not but be made acquainted considering the great trust that some of hir woorst affected subiects reposed in him and that hir pleasure therefore was that he should declare vnto him his knowledge therein and whether the said Parrie himselfe had let fall anie spéech vnto anie person though with an intent onelie to haue discouered his disposition that might draw him in suspicion as though he himselfe had anie such wicked intent But line 60 Parrie with great and vehement protestations denied it vtterlie Whervpon maister secretarie the rather to induce him to deale more plainelie in a matter so important declared vnto him that there was a gentleman of qualitie euerie waie as good or better than himselfe and rather his friend than enimie that would auouch it to his face yet Parrie persisted stubbornelie in his former deniall and iustification of his owne innocencie and would not in anie respect yéeld that he was partie or priuie to anie such motion enterprise or intent Being lodged that night at M. secretaries house the next morning he desired earnestlie to haue some further spéech with maister secretarie which granted Parrie declared to him that he had called to remembrance that he had once some spéech with one Neuill a kinsman of his so he called him touching a point of doctrine conteined in the answer made to the booke intituled The execution of iustice in England by which booke it was resolued that it was lawfull to take awaie the life of a prince in furtherance of the catholike religion but he protested that they neuer had anie speech at all of anie attempt intended against hir maiesties person Which deniall of his at two sundrie times after so much light giuen him dooth set forth most apparantlie both the iustice and prouidence of God his iustice for that though he was one of a sharpe conceipt he had no power to take hold of this ouerture thereby to haue auoided the danger that Neuils accusation might bring him into by confessing the same as a thing propounded onelie to féele Neuils mind whome before he had reported vnto maister secretarie he found a person discontented and therefore his confession might to verie great purpose haue serued to haue cléered himselfe touching the intent his prouidence for that of his great mercie he would not suffer so dangerous and wicked a member to escape and liue to hir maiesties perill The same daie at night Parrie was brought to the earle of Leicesters house and there eftsoons examined before the said earle of Leicester maister vicechamberlaine and maister secretarie he persisted still in his deniall of all that he was charged with Wherevpon Neuill being brought before him face to face iustified his accusation against him He notwithstanding would not yet yéeld to confesse it but verie proudlie and insolentlie opposed his credit against the credit of Neuill affirming that his no was as good as Neuils yea as by way of recrimination obiected the crime to Neuill himselfe On the other side Neuill did with great constancie affirme all that he had before said and did set downe manie probable circumstances of the times places and maners of their sundrie conferences and of such other accidents as had happened betwéene them in the course of that action wherevpon Parrie was then committed to the Tower and Neuill commanded by their honors to set downe in writing vnder his hand all that which before he had deliuered by words which he did with his owne hand as followeth Edmund Neuill his declaration the tenth of Februarie 1584 subscribed with his owne hand WIlliam Parrie the last summer soone after his repulse in his sute for the maistership of saint Katharins repaired to my lodging in the White friers where he shewed himselfe a person greatlie discontented and vehementlie inueighed against hir maiestie and willed me to assure my selfe that during this time and state I should neuer receiue contentment But sith said he I know you to be honorablie descended and a man of resolution if you will giue me assurance either to ioine with me or not to discouer me I will deliuer vnto you the onelie meanes to doo your selfe good Which when I had promised him he appointed me to come the next daie to his house in Feuterlane repairing thither accordinglie I found him in his bed wherevpon he commanded his men foorth and began with me in this order My lord said he for so he called me I protest before God that thrée reasons principallie doo induce me to enter into this action which I intend to discouer vn to you the replanting of religion the preferring of the Scotish title and the aduancement of iustice woonderfullie corrupted in this common-wealth And therevpon entred into some discourses what places were fit to be taken to giue entrance to such forren forces as should be best liked of for the furtherance of such enterprises as were to be vndertaken And with these discourses he passed the time vntill he went to dinner after which the companie being retired he entered into his former discourses And if I be not deceiued said he by taking of Quinborough line 10 castell we shall hinder the passage of the quéenes ships foorth of the riuer Wherevnto when he saw me vse no contradiction he shooke me by the hand Tush said he this is nothing if men were resolute there is an enterprise of much more moment and much easier to performe an act honorable and meritorious to God and the world Which séeing me desirous to know he was not ashamed to vtter in plaine termes to consist in killing of hir maiestie wherein saith he if you will go with me I will line 20 loose my life or deliuer my countrie from hir bad and tyrannous gouernment At which spéeches finding me discontented he asked me if I had read doctor Allens booke out of which he alledged an authoritie for it I answered no and that I did not beléeue that authoritie Well said he what will you saie if I shew further authoritie than this euen from Rome it selfe a plaine dispensation for the killing of hir wherein you shall find
apperance in the aire Anno. Reg. 35. 1189 A legat Matth. Paris R. Houed King Philip entereth the countrie of Maine The words of king Henrie in his displeasure towards earle Richard Mauns yéelded to the French king Wil. Paruus Polydor. The earle of Flanders séeketh to agrée the parties Matth. Paris A peace concluded Thirtie thousand to the 〈◊〉 and twentie 〈◊〉 the barons 〈◊〉 France 〈◊〉 Ger. Dor. Rog. Houed It Gisorâ— saith Ger. Dor. Strange thunder lightning King Henrie departeth this life His surname whereof it came A strange maner of fight betwixt fishes The issue of Henrie the second His sonnes His daughters His base sons The constitution of his bodie His stature His qualities and conditions of mind Radulphus de Diceto Radulphus de Diâ—eto Bishops chosen principall iustices The vices of K. Henrie His incontinencie Rosamund his concubine Ran. Higd. Hiâ— negligeÌ„ce in aâ—ding the Christians against the Saraceâ—s Bale Anno Reg. 1. Wil. Paruus Matt. Paris Stephan de Turnham committed to prison Matth. Paris Polydor. Isabell daughter to the earle of Glocester married to Iohn the kings brother She is named by diuerse authors Haâ—isia Matth. Paris R. Houed Matt. Paris The kings mother set at libertie The 2. kings of England France determine to go into the holie land At South-hampton the 21 of August saith Ger. Dor. Rog. Houed Matth. Pariâ— His fathers treasure R. Houed Gau. Vinsaf Nic. Triuet The second of September saith Ger. Dor. The order of his coronatioÌ„ Matth. Paris Rog. Houed Rog. Houed The king his oth Wil. Paruâ—s The Iewes meant to present him with a rich gift Matt. Paris A Iew striken The people fall vpon the Iewes and beat them Their houses are set on fire Iewes burnt to death Pal. in suo sag. A councell at Pipewell Wil. Paruus The bishop of Whitherne consecrated Rog. Houed Matt. Par. Wil. Paruus The bishop of Durham Sadberge The bishop of Durham made an earle The citizens of London present monie to the king Polydor. Liberties granted to London Two bailiffes Port Greues Apprentises Fréemen Wards The Maior K. Richard setteth things on sale Ran. Higd. Wil. Paruus R. Houed William king of Scots A councell câ—lled at Canturburie Polydor. An oth Matth. Paris Matth. Paris Polydor. Restitution made to the K. of Scots Wil. Paruus Rog. Houed N. Triuet Matth. Paris Hugh bishop of Durham gouerneth the north parts Matth. Paris William LoÌ„gchampe bishop of Elie. R. Houed King Richard passeth ouer in to Normandie Vadum sancti Remegij A league betwixt the kings of England and France R. Houed Contention betwixt two ambitious bishops M. Palâ—n sua vâ—â—g Earle Iohn licenced to returne into England The bishop of Elie returneth Polydor. W. Paruuâ— The hatred borne to the Iewes Iohn Textor Five hundred saith Houeden and Textor The slaughter made of the Iewes at Lin. The citizens of Yorke put to their fine for slaughter of the Iewes Matt. Wesâ— The bishop 〈◊〉 Durham restreined of libertie William de Chisi The kings nauie is set foorth Baion Sablius or Sabuille Polydor. Sleiers of men Brallers Punishment for bloud-drawers Reuilers Theft and pickerie Wil. Paruus Polydor. King Richard set forward on his iourneie Rog. Houed Anno Reg. 2. The English fléet staied by contrarie winds Twentie gallies twelue other vessels saith Houed Upon the seauenth day of August saith Houeden Rog. Houed King Richard blameth the court of Rome for couetousnesse The king of Portingale Almiramumoli king of the Saracens Robert de Sabuuille Richard de Camuille A mutinie betwixt the Englishmen and the townsmen of Lisbone Englishmen committed to prison The English ships méet togither They arriue at Messina K. Richard arriueth at Messina A chaire of gold K. Richards demands for the dowrie of his sister wife to K. William k. Richard assalteth and entreth the citie by force The two kings of England and France receiue a solemne oth Ordinances deuised Plaie forbidden Borrowing Souldiers or mariners departing from their masters Uittelers Polydor. The French king setteth foorth from Messina towards the holie land Quéene Elianor returneth by Rome Matth. Paris 150. ships and 53. galies saith Rog. Houed The Englishmen take land chase their enimies King Richard with a camisado vanquiâ—heth the Cypriots chaseth them out of their campe Iohn Textor The K. of Ierusalem and other noble men doo fealtie vnto king Richard The offers of the king of Cypres The king of Cypres submitteth himselfe Robert de Turneham The king of England marieth the ladie Berengaria She is crowned quéene Castels deliuered to the king of England The king of Cypres again submitteth himselfe to the king of England Rafe Fitz Geffrey He arriued there on the saturdaie in Whitsunwéek being the saturdaie also next before the feast of S. Barnabie Galfridus Vinsant Pisans and Geneuois Matt. Paris Nic. Triueâ— Saphaldine the brother of Saladine Matth. Paris N. Triueâ— An eclipse of the sunne The seuenth houre of the daie saith Matth. Paris Richard de Camuille deceasseth Polydor. The Lord chancellor called the popes legat in England The statelie port of the lord chancellor Ran. Higd. A conuocation Moonks of Couentrie displaced Polydor. Ran. Higd. Wil. Paruus The occasion Ran. Higd. Wil. Paruuâ— Ran. Higd. Polydor. The L. chancellors reason The bishop of Durham The bishop of Winchester The lord chancellors meaning to kéepe earle Iohn lowe Palâ—in suo cap. Walter the archbishop of Rouen sent into England He is little regarded of the lord chancellor The lord chancellor besiegeth the castell of Lincolne Earle Iohn winneth the castels of Notingham and Tickhill The chancellor raiseth his siege with dishonor The lord chancellor and earle Iohn are agréed The chancellor breaketh the agréement The lord chancellor and earle Iohn make another agréement Castels deliuered in trust to the keeping of certeine persons Anno Reg. 3. Matth. Weâ—â— Polydor. Geffrey the archbishop of Yorke Rog. Houed Matth. Pariâ— Polydor. The death of the archbiâ—hop of Canturâ—â—rie Io. Textor The arcâ—bishop arriued and is committed toward R. Houed The chancellour summoned to appeare The chancellour retireth to London A declaration made against the lord chancellour The tenor of this leter shall héereafter appeare The citizens of London The chancellour yéeldeth vp the tower The print of the legats crosse The bishop of Elie late lord chancellour disguiseth himselfe in womans apparell He is bewraied Earle Iohn not the bishops fréend Ouid. lib. â— de rem am Matth. Paris The bishop of Elie complaineth of his wrongs receiued The popes letters vnto the archbishop and bishops of England Note how the pope defendeth his chaplins The archâ—ishop of Rouen chéefe gouernour of England R. Houed Wil. Paruus Fiftene saith Functius but others agrée with Houed as Gerardus Mercator citing Albericus a moonke The citie of Acres The French K. returneth home Saladine causeth the christian prisoners to be beheaded R. Houed Ger. Dor. Strife betwixt the archbishop of York and the bishop of Durham Roger Lacie conestable of Chester The euill