of this great hall was for feare of raine whiche might haue perished the vawtes to the destruction of the whole Churche and the people that were therein And before the sayde yeare was fully ended all the sayde Isles of the sayde Church were made and framed of newe and maine Tymber and couered with lead and fully finished And the same yeare also the greate roufe of the West ende was framed and made of new great timber in Yorkshire and brought to London by Sea and set vp and couered with lead and fully finished And in like maner within the sayd yeare the whole roufe and frame of the East ende of the sayde Church was made in Yorkshyre and brought by Sea to London and there sayde readie to be raysed when the season of the yeare serued This one thing resteth to be tolde that by estimation of wise men ten M. pound more than is yet granted vnto it will not perfite and finishe the Church and Steple in such sore as it was before the burning thereof In this meane time also by reason of the Qeenes Maiesties letters directed to the Maior and his brethren of the Citie of London aboute the burning of Paules there were certain Aldermen and Commoners of the said City named called togither by the authoritie of the Maior so denise some good order â—…erdie remedie for the reliefe and comfort of the sayd Citie whensoeuer any chaunce of fire hereafter should happen as God forbyd wythin the sayde Citie or libertyes thereof And the persons so called after sundrie meetings and with good aduisement and deliberation agreed and penned a certaine order for the speedie remedie thereof as well for the readie knowledge of the place wheresoeuer the same fire should happen to be and for the sodain extinguishing and suppressing of the same as also for the safe keeping of the goodes of suche persons in whose house any fire should chaunce Which orders and rules vndoubtedly would be to the great comfort and safetie of the Citie and Citizens of the same if they were published and made knowne in tyme and executed accordingly But what should I say I can but lament not onely for this but also for manye such paynfull and profitable labours whiche for good gouernment of this Citie had beene taken And as soone as the talking thereof is done and the Bookes framed and delyuered so soone is it put in obliuion and nothing at all thought vppon vntill an houre after the myschiefe be past I cannot blame no bodie but there is a fault in some bodie This yeare was chosen Lorde Maior of London a woorthie Citizen named William Harper one of the companie of the marchant Taylers This man wishing in his lyfe time to benefite his Countrey founded a free schoole in the Towne of Bedford where he was borne and nowe lyeth buryed prouiding a competent stipende and lyuing for a Schoole maister there to traine vp and instruct children in vertue and learning for euer This yeare in Englande were many monstrous byrthes An. reg 4. in Marche a Mare brought forth a foale with one bodie and two heads Monstrous byrthes and as it were a long taile growing out betwene the two heades Also a Sow farrowed a pig with foure legges like to the armes of a man childe with handes and fingers c. In Aprill a Sow farrowed a Pigge with two bodies eight feete and but one head 1562 many calues and lambes were monstrous some with collers of skinne growing aboute their neckes like to the double ruffes of shyrtes and neckercheffes then vsed The .xxiiij. of May a man chylde was borne at Chichester in Sussex the heade armes and legges whereof were like a notamie the breast and belly monstrous bigge from the Nauell as it were a long string hanging about the necke a great coller of fleshe and skinne growing lyke the ruffe of a shyrt or neckerchefe comming vp aboue the eares pleyting and folding c. The Realme of France being in great trouble aboute this season by the meanes of ciuill dissentioÌ„ and warres that rose betwixt the house of Guise and other of that faction vpon the one side and the Prince of Condee and other that tooke part with him on the contrary side The Queenes Maiestie informed how that the duke of Guise and hys partakers hauing gotte into theyr possession the person of the yong King vnder a pretext of his authoritie sought the subuersion of many noble men and good subiects of the Crowne of Fraunce namely such as were knowne or suspected to be zealous for a reformation to bee had in matters of Religion Hir Maiestie therevppon considering that if theyr purpose myght bee brought to effect it was to bee doubted that they woulde not so rest but seeke to sette things in broyle also within thys hir Realme of Englande and other Countreys neare to them adioyning first as one that had euer wyshed a quyetnesse rather than the troubles of warre Sir Henrie Sydney sent Ambassador into France sent ouer Sir Henrie Sydney at that present Lorde President of Wales a manne of suche estimation as his worde ought to haue deserued credite to trye if hee myght doe any good to bryng the partyes to some attonement but such wilfull headynesse seemed to rest in some that were chyefe of the one faction that theyr desyre seemed altogyther bente to enter into to warres â—…other Amâ—…sade in Iuly Hir Maiestie yet hoping the best appointed to send another honorable ambassade which by their wisedomes good aduise might perswade the parties vnto concord whereby the due authoritie honor and dignitie might be restored to the King and euery other degree keepe their roomthes and places as to them apperteyned but all in vayne for this motion of a pacification to be hadde could take no place neyther might the will of the yong King or of his timerous mother as it then seemed bee regarded otherwise than as stoode with the pleasure and appoyntmente of those that were knowen to bee the chiefe authors and furtherers of all those troubles Whylest the Queenes Maiestie therfore did thus trauell in respect of the suretie whiche hyr grace bare to hir welbeloued brother the sayde King and to the commoditie and quietnesse of both the factions an open iniurie was offered to hir maiestie so as it might appeare what minds they bare towards hir that hadde thus excluded and refused all offers and meanes to growe to some good and indifferente conclusion of peace â—…hippes of London Exeter and Falâ—…outh spoiled by the French 〈◊〉 Britayne the thirtith of Iuly and ninetenth of August For whereas manye Merchauntes as well of London as of Exeter and other of the West partes of hir Realme were soiourning for cause of traffique in diuers portes and hauens of Britaigne and hauing dispatched their busines and gote their lading aboorde their Shippes were readye to hoyst vp sayles and to returne eache one towardes the place from whence he came
ryuer be not called Isis after it is past Isefield â—â—turewell The fift ryseth about Storuelgate and méeteth also wyth the maine streame aboue Linfield these are knowen to lye vpon the right hande as we rowed vp the ryuer On the other side are onely two whereof the first hath his originall néere vnto Wenefield and holding on his course towarde the East it méeteth with his maister betwéene Newicke and Isefield or Ifield as some reade it The last of all commeth from Plimodune or Plumpton â—…imus and hauing met in like sort with the maine riuer about Barcham it runneth forth with it and the rest in one chanell by Barcham Hamsey Malling Lewys Piddingburne and so forth into the maine sea 〈◊〉 The next ryuer that we came vnto West of Brighthemston is the Sore which notwithstanding I finde to be called Brember water in the auncient Mappe of Marton Colledge in Oxforde but in such sorte as I take it as the Rother is called Appledour streame bycause of the sayd towne that standeth therevpon But to procéede it is a pleasaunt water and thereto if you consider the scituation of his armes and braunches from the higher groundes very much resembling a fower stringed whip Wherabout the head of this riuer is or which of these braunches may safely be called Sora from the rising in good sooth I can not say for after we had passed nyne or tenne myles thereon vp into the lande sodainly the crosse waters stopped vs so that we were inforced to turne either east or west for directly forth ryght we had no way to go The first arme on the ryght hand as we went ryseth out of a Parke by South of Alborne and going on for a certayne space toward the Northwest it turneth southward betweene Shermonbury and Twinham and soone after méeteth with y e Bymar not much South from Shermonbury â—â—marus whence they run togither almost two myles till they fall into the Sore That on the Westside descendeth from about Billingeshirâ—…t going towarde the east it crosseth w t the 〈◊〉 which ryseth a little by West of Thacam east from Pulborow and so they run as one into the Sore that after this coÌ„fluence hasteth it self southwarde by Brember Burleis the Combes and ere long into the Ocean The Aron of which beside Arundel towne the Castell and the valey Arunus wherin it runneth is called Vallis Aruntina or Arundale in English is a goodly water and thereto increased with no small number of excellent pleasaunt brookes It springeth vp of two heades whereof one descendeth from the North not farre from Gretham going by Lis méeteth with the next streame as I gesse about Doursford house The second riseth by West from the hilles that lye towarde the rysing of the sunne from Eastmaine and runneth by Peterfield The thirde commeth from Beryton warde and ioyneth with the second betwéene Peterfield and Doursforde after which coÌ„fluence they go togither in one chanell still toward the East taking a rill with them that commeth betwéene Fernehirst and S. Lukes Chappell southwest of Linchemere meting with it East of Loddesworth as I doe reade and lykewyse sundrye other in one Chanell beneath Sopham to Waltham Bury Houghton Stoke Arundell Tortington forde Climping all on the West side and so into the sea Hauing thus described the west side of Arun let vs doe the lyke with the other in such sorte as we best may The first riuer that we come vnto therfore on the East side and also the seconde rise at sundry places in S. Leonards forrest and ioyning a lyttle aboue Horsham they mete with the thirde which commeth from Ifield Parke not verye farre from Slinfeld The fourth hath two heads whereof one ryseth in Witley Parke the other by west néere vnto Heselméere chappell and méeting by west of Doursfeld they vnyte themselues with the chanell growing by the confluence that I spake of beneath Slinfeld a little aboue Billingeshirst The last water commeth from the hilles aboue Lincheméere and runneth west and South and passing betwene Billingshirst and Stopham it commeth vnto the channell last mencioned so into the Arun beneath Stopham without anye farder increase at the least that I doe here of Burne hath his issue in a Parke Burne néere Aldingburne or rather a litle aboue y e same toward the North as I haue since béene informed and running by the bottomes toward the south it falleth into the sea betwéene north Berflete and Flesham Eryn Eryn riseth of sundry heddes by east of Erynley and directing his course toward the sunne rysing it pennisulateth Selesey and falleth into the Ocean betwéene Selesey towne on the southwest Pagham at north west Delus Del springeth about Benderton thence running betwéene midle Lauaunt and East Lauaunt it goeth by west of West Hampnet by east of Chichester or West of Rumbalde soowne and afterwarde by Fishburne where it méeteth with a ril comming North west from Funtingdon a little beneath the towne and then running thus in one streame towarde the sea it méeteth with another rillet comming by Northe of Bosham and so into Auant gulf by East of Thorney Island Racunus The Racon riseth by east of Racton or Racodunum and coÌ„ming by Chidham it falleth into the sea Northest of Thorney aforesayde Emill The Emill commeth first betwéene Racton and Stansted then downe to Emilsworth or Emmesworth and so vnto the Ocean separating Sussex from HaÌ„pshyre almost from the very head Hauing in this maner passed along the coastes of Sussex The next water that I remeÌ„ber ryseth by east of the forrest of Estbyry from whence it goeth by Southwijc West Burhunt Farham and so into the gulfe almost full South Badunus forté Then come we to Bedenham Créeke so called of a village standing thereby the mouth whereof lyeth almost directly agaynst Porchester Castell which is scituate about 3. miles by water from Portesmouth towne as Lelande doth report Then go we within halfe a myle farder to Forten Créeke Forten which eyther gyueth or taketh name of a village harde by Osterpole After this we come to Osterpoole Lake a great Créeke which goeth vp by west into the land and lyeth not far from a rounde tower of stone from whence also there goeth a chaine to another Tower on the east side directly ouer against it whereby the entraunce of great vessels into that part maye be at pleasure restrayned From hence wée goe further to Tichefeld water that riseth about Estmaine park ten or twelue myles by northeast or there about from Tichfeld Tichefield From Estmaine it goeth parting the forrestes of Waltham and Eastbery by the waye to Wicham or Wicomb a prety market towne and large thorowfare where also the water seperateth it selfe into two armelettes and goyng vnder two bridges of woode commeth ere long agayne vnto one Chanell From hence it goeth thrée or foure myles farder to a bridge
by Fyfeld Clatford Maulon and Preshute vnto Marlebury it holdeth on in lyke order to Ramsbury and northwest of little Cote taketh in a water by north descending from y e hils aboue Alburne chase west of Alburne town Thence it ruÌ„neth to little cote Charnham stréete and beneth Charnham stréete it crosseth the Bedwin which taking y e Chalkburn ril withal coÌ„meth froÌ„ great Bedwijne at HuÌ„gerford also Bedwijne Chalkes burne two other in one botom somewhat beneth the towne From hence it goeth to Auington Kinbury Hamsted marshall Euburne Newbery and beneath thys towne Lamburne taketh in the Lamburne water that coÌ„meth by Isbiry Egerston the Sheffords Westford Boxford Donington Castle and Shaw From Newbery it goeth to ThatchaÌ„ Wolhampton Aldermaston a little aboue which village it receyueth the Alburne an other broke increased w t sundry rilles Alburnus thus goyng on to Padworth Oston and Michael it commeth at last to Readyng where as I sayd it ioyneth with the Thames and so they go forward as one by Sonning to Shiplake and there on the east side receyue the Loddon that commeth downe thither from the south as by his course appeareth Lodunus The Loddon ryseth in Hamshire betwéene west Shirburne and Wootton towarde the southwest afterwarde directyng his course toward the northwest thorowe the vine it passeth at the last by Bramley and thorow a piece of Wiltshire to Stradfield Swallowfield Arberfield Loddon bridge leauyng a patch of Wiltshire on the right hande as I haue bene informed This Loddon not farre from Turges towne receyueth two waters in one botome whereof the westerly called Basingwater commeth from Basingstoke and thorow a parke vnto the aforesaid place The other descendeth of two heds from Mapledour well and goeth by Skewes Newenham Rotherwijc and ere it come at Hartly ioyneth with the Basing water from wheÌ„ce they goe togyther to Turges where they méete with the Loddon as I haue sayd alredy Diris vadum The next streame toward the south is called Ditford brooke It ryseth not farre from Vpton goeth by Gruell and beneath Wharnborow castle Ikelus receyueth the Ikell coÌ„myng from a parke of the same denomination froÌ„ whence they go togither by Maddingley vnto Swalowfield â—…luciâ—â— and so into the Loddon In this voyage also the Loddon méeteth with the Elwy or Eluey that commeth from â—â—der share not farre by west of 〈◊〉 and about Eluctham likewyse with another coÌ„ming from Dogmansfield named y e Deâ—…ke 〈…〉 and also the third not suferior to the rest â—…oÌ„nyng from Erâ—â— whose head is in Surrey 〈…〉 and goyng by Ashe becommeth a 〈◊〉 first betwene Surrey Hamshire then betwene Hamshire and Barkeshire and passyng by Ashe Erynley blackewater Yerâ—â—y Finâ—â—amsted it ioyneth at last with the Ditford before it come at Swalowfield 〈◊〉 therfore with our Loddon haâ—â—ng receiued all these waters and after the last 〈◊〉 with theÌ„ now beyng come to Loddon bridge it passeth on by a part of Wiltshire to Tâ—â—forde then to Wargraue and so into the Thames that now is merueilously intreâ—â—sed and grown vnto triple greatnesse to that it was at Oxford Being therfore past Shiplake and Wargraue it runneth by Horsependen or Hardyng then to Henley vpon Thames where sometyme a great will voydeth it selfe in the same Then to RemeÌ„ham Greneland goyng all this way from Shiplake iust north and now turnyng eastwards agayne by Medenham Hurley Bysham Marlow the greater Marlow the lesse Vse it méeteth with a brooke soone after that consisteth of the water of two rilles whereof the 〈◊〉 called the Vse ryseth about west Wickham out of one of the Chiltern hils and goeth froÌ„ thence to east Wickham or high Wickham a prety market towne The other named Higden Higâ—â—â— descendeth also from those mountaynes but a myle beneath west Wickham and ioyning both in one at y e last in the west ende of east wickham town they go togyther to Wooburn Hedsor and so into y e Thames Some call it the Tide and that word do I vse in my former treatise but to procéede After this confluence our Thames goeth on by Cowkham Topley Maydenhead aliâs Sudlington Bray Dorney Clure new Windsore takyng in neuerthelesse at Eaton by y e way the Burne which riseth out of a Moore and commeth thither by Burneham olde Windsor Wrayborow and a little by east therof doth crosse the Cole whereof I finde this short description ensuyng The Cole riseth néere vnto Flamsted froÌ„ whence it goeth to Redburn S. Mighels Colâ—â— Veâ—â— Vertâ—â— S. Albons AldeÌ„ham Watford and so by More to Richemansworth where there is a confluence of thrée waters of which this Cole is the first Gadus The second called Gadus riseth not farre from Asheridge an house or pallace belongyng to the prince From whence it runneth to great Gaddesden Hemsted betwene called Brane that is in the Britissh tong as Leland saith a frogge It riseth about Edgeworth and commeth from thence by Kingesbiry Twiford Periâ—â—ll Hanwell and Austerley Thence we followed our riuer to old BreÌ„tford Mortlach Cheswijc Barnelmes Fulham and Putney beneth which townes it crossed a becke from Wandlesworth that ryseth at Woodmans turne and goyng by Easthalton méeteth another comming from Croydon by Bedington and so goyng on to Mitcham Marton Abbey Wandlesworth it is not long ere it fall into the Thames Next vnto this is the Maryburne rill on the other side Mariburn which commeth in by Saynt Iames so that by this tyme we haue eyther brought the Thames or the Thames conueighed vs to London where we rested for a season to take viewe of the seuerall tydes there of which ech one differeth froÌ„ other by 24. minuts that is 48. in an whole day as I haue noted afore except the wether alter theÌ„ Beyng past London and in the way toward the sea the first water that it méeteth with al is on Kent side west of Grenewich whose hed is in Bromley parish and goyng from thence to Lewsham it taketh in a water froÌ„ by east so directeth hys course foorth right vnto the Thames Lée The next water that it méeteth withall is on Essex side almost agaynst Woolwiche and that is the Lée whose hed rileth shorte of Kempton in Hertfordshire 4. myles south east of Luton and goyng thorowe a péece of Brokehall park leauing Woodhall park on the north and Hatfield on the south with an other park adioyning it goeth toward Hartford towne But ere it come ther it receiueth a water peraduenture the Marran rising at northwest in Brodewater hundred froÌ„ aboue Welwin Marran northeast of Digeswell going to Hartingfeld bury wher the said coÌ„fluence is within one mile of the towne Beneth Hatfield also it receyueth the Beane as I gesse commyng from Boxwood by Benington Beane Aston Watton and Stapleford and a little lower the third arme of increase from aboue Ware which desceÌ„deth froÌ„ two heds whereof the greatest
by south ere it fall into y e mouth of this riuer which I doe now describe The chiefe hed of this streame ryseth in Wood forrest southwest of East grenested Medeuius This riuer is described alredy but here with more diligence better helpe and after their opinion that accompt it not to fall into the sea but into y e Thames goyng by Hartfield and Whetelin it receiueth a rill from the second hed that commeth in from south east and eyther from the north side of Argas hill or at the lest wise out of the south part of Waterdon forrest as Saxton hath set it downe After this confluence it is not long ere it take in another by west from â—…owden warde and the third aboue Pensherâ—… growing froÌ„ two heds wherof one is in Kingfield parke the other west of Crawhersteâ—â— ioyning aboue Edinbridge it doth fall into the Midway beneth Heâ—…er towne Chidâ—… 〈…〉 From Penhirst our 〈◊〉 stream â—â—steth to Kigh Eunbridge Twidley and beneth the towne it crosseth a water from North whereof one hed is at the Mote another at Wroteham the thirde at west Peckham and likewyse an other from south east that runneth east of Capell Next after this it receiueth the These whose forked hed is at Tisehirst which descendyng downe toward the north taketh in not froÌ„ Scowy a brooke out of the northside of WaterdeÌ„ forest whose name I find not except it be the Dour After this confuence our ryuer goeth to Goldhirst and commyng to the Twist it brauncheth in such wyse that one parte of it runneth into Midwaye another into the Garan or rather Cranebrooke if my coniecture be any thyng Garunus Cranus The Garan as Leland calleth it or the Crane as I do take it riseâ—…h nere to Cranebrooke and goyng by Sissinghirst it receyueth ere long one water that commeth by Fretingdon and another that runneth from great Charde by Sinerdon Hedcorn crossing two rils by the way from by north Hedcorne it selfe standing betwene theÌ„ both Finally the Garan or Crane méetyng with the Midway south of Yallyng they on y e one side and the These on the other leaue a prety Island in the midst of foure miles in leÌ„gth and two miles in bredth wherin is some hilly soyle but neyther towne nor village so far as I remember From Yalling forward the Midway goeth to west Farlegh east Farlegh and ere it come at Maidstone it entertayneth a rill that riseth short of Ienham goeth by Ledes and Otterinden Being past Maidstone the Midway runneth by Allington Snodland Hallyng Cuckstane Rochester Chatham Gillingham Vpchurch and sone after braunching it embraceth y e Grene at hys fall as his two heds do Ashdon forest that lyeth betwene them both I would haue spoken of one creke that coÌ„meth in at Cliffe and another that runneth downe from Haltsto by S. Maries but sithe I vnderstand not with what backewaters they be serued I let them passe as not skilfull of their courses And thus much of the riuers that fal into the Thames wherin I haue done what I may but not what I would for myne owne satisfaction till I came from the hed to Lechelade Auon 2. Being passed the Thames and hauing as I thinke sufficiently in my former treatise described all such waters as are to be found betwéene the Stoure in Kent Auon in Wiltshire it resteth that I procéede with this ryuer and here supply many thinges that I before omitted although not by mine owne ouersight so much as by the abuse of such as shoulde haue better preserued the pamphlets to be inserted Certes this Auon is a goodly riuer rysing as I sayde before néere vnto Wolfe hall although he that will séeke more scrupulouslye for the head in déede must looke for the same about the borders of the forrest of Sauernake that is Soure oke which lieth as if it wer embraced betwene y e first armes therof as I haue bene enformed These heds also do make a confluence by east of Martinshall hill and west of Wootton From wheÌ„re it goeth to Milton Powsey Manningfield Abbey Manningfielde crosse beneth Newington taketh in one rill west from Rudborow and another a little lower that riseth also west of Alcanninges and runneth into the same by Patney Merden Wilford Charleton and Rustisal Beyng therfore past Newington it goeth to Vphauen wherof Leland speaketh to Chestâ—…bury Cumpton Ablington little Almsbury Darntford Woodford olde Salisbury and so to newe Salisburye where it receiueth one notable riuer from by northwest and another froÌ„ north east which two I wyll first describe leauyng the Auon at Salisbury 〈◊〉 The first of these is called the Wilugh and riseth among the Deuerels and runnyng thence by hill Deuerell Deuerell long bridge it goeth toward byshops straw taking in one rill by west and another from Vpton by Werminster at northwest From bishops straw it goeth to NortoÌ„ Vpton Badhampton Stepiyngford and Stapleford where it méeteth with the Winterbury water from by north descending from Maddenton by Winterburne From Stapleford it hasteth to Wishford NewtoÌ„ Chilhampton Wilton and thither coÌ„meth a water vnto it from southwest which ryseth of two heds aboue Ouerdonet After this it goeth by Wordcastle to Tisbury and there receiueth a water on eche side whereof one coÌ„meth from Funthill the other from two issues of which one riseth at Ausâ—…y the other at Swalodise and so kepyng on still with his course our Wilugh runneth next next of all by Sutton Thence it goeth to Foâ—…ant Boberstocke Southburcombe Wilton 〈…〉 where it taketh in the Fomington or Naddet water Westharnam Salisbury and Eastharnam and this is the race of Wilugh The other is a naked arme or streame without any braunches It riseth aboue Collingburne Kingston in the hils and thence goeth to Colingburne the Tidworthes wherof y e more southerly is in Wiltshire Shipton Cholâ—…eâ—…ton Newton Toney Idmerson Porton the Winterburnes Lauerstock and so into 〈◊〉 east of Sarâ—…sbury And thus is the conflâ—â—â—â— made of the aforesayd waters with thys 〈◊〉 second Auon whereinto another water falleth called Becquithes brooke a myle beneth Harneham bridge 〈…〉 whose head is fiue miles from Sarum and thrée myles aboue Becquithes bridge as Lelande doth remember who noteth the Chalkeburne water to haue hys due recourse also 〈…〉 at thys place into the aforesayde riuer Certes it is a pretye brooke and riseth sixe miles from Shaftesbury 〈◊〉 in the way toward 〈…〉 botom on the right hand whenâ—… it 〈◊〉 by Knightâ—…̄ and Fennystratford to 〈◊〉 that is about 12. myles from the 〈…〉 about two miles and an halfe from Hoâ—…ington baneth Odstocke goeth into the 〈…〉 mile lower then Harnham bridge except â—…e forget himselfe This Harneham whereof A now entreaâ—… was sometime a prety village before the erection of new Salisbury had a church of S. Martine belonging vnto it 〈◊〉 now in steade of this church there is onely a barne standyng in a very low meadâ—…â—…n
Countie stone by Burros and soone after beneath Tunstal the Gretey Gretey which desceÌ„ding from about Ingelborow hill passeth by Twyselton Ingleton Thorneton Burton Wratton neare Thurlande castell toucheth finally with the Lune which brauncheth and soone after vniteth it selfe againe After this also it goeth on towarde New parke receyueth the Wenny Wenny Hinburne and the Hinburne both in one chanell of which this riseth north of the crosse of Grete and going by Benthams and Robertes hill aboue Wray taketh in the Rheburne that riseth north of Wulfcragge Rheburne After thys confluence also aboue New parke it maketh his gate by Aughton Laughton Skirton Lancaster Excliffe Awcliffe Sodday Orton and so into the sea Thus haue you both the descriptions of Lune make your conference or election at your pleasure for I am sworne to neyther of them both Docker Kery The next fall is called Docker and peraduenture the same that Lelande doth call the Kery it ryseth north of Docker towne and going by Barwijc hall it is not increased before it come at the sea Being past this we finde a forked arme of the sea called Kensandes into the first of which diuers waters doe runne in one chanell as it were from foure principal heades one of them comming from Grarrig hall another from by west of Whinfielde ioyning with y e first on the east side of Skelmere parke Sprota The third called Sprot or Sprota ryseth at Sloddale and commeth downe by west of Skelmer parke so that these two brookes haue the aforesayde parke betwéene them and fall into the fourth east of Barneside not very farre in sunder The fourth or last called Ken Ken. coÌ„meth froÌ„ Kentmeres side and going to Stauelop it taketh in a rill froÌ„ Chappleton Inges Then leauing Colnehed parke by east it passeth by Barneside to Kendall Helston Sigathe Siggeswijc Leuenbridge Milnethorpe and so into the sea Certes this Ken is a pretie déepe riuer yet not safely to be aduentured vpoÌ„ with Botes and Balingers by reason of rolling stones and other huge substaunces that oft annoy trouble the middest of the chanell there The other péece of y e forked arme Winâ—… is called Winstar y e head wherof is aboue Winstar chappell and going downe almost by Carpmaunsell and Netherslake it is not long eare it fall into the sea The Winander water ryseth about Dumbalrase stenes Winâ—… from whence it goeth to Langridge where it maketh a méere theÌ„ to Ambleside and taking in eare it come there two rilles on the left hande and one on the right that commeth by Clapergate it maketh as I take it the greatest méere or freshe water in Englande for as I reade it is well neare ten myles in length Therinto also doe thrée or foure waters come whereby the quantity thereof is not a little increased finally comming to one smal chanell aboue Newbridge it is not long eare it fall into the sea On the west side of the point also commeth another thorow Furnesse felles Spaâ—… and froÌ„ the hilles by north thereof which eare long making another Lake not farre from Hollinhow and going by Bridge ende in a narrow chanell passeth forth by Cowlton Sparke bridge and so into the sea There is in like sorte a water called the Fosse Fosse that ryseth neare vnto Arneside and Tillerthwates goeth forth by Grisdale Saterthwate Ruslande Powbridge Bowth so falleth with the Winander water into the maine sea Hauing passed the Leuen or Conysandes or Winander fall for all is one I come to the Lew which riseth at Lewike chappell Leuâ—â— falleth into the sea beside Plumpton The Rawther descending out of lowe Furnesse hath two heades Rawâ—… whereof one commeth froÌ„ Pennyton the other by Vlmerstone abbay and ioyning both in one chanell they hasten into the sea whither all waters dirâ—…ct theyr voyage Then come we to another rill south west of Aldingham descending by Glaiston castell and likewyse the fourth that ryseth neare Lyndell and running by DawltoÌ„ castell and Furnesse abbay not farre from the Barrow heade it falleth into the sea ouer against Wauey and Wauey chappell except myne aduertisementes misleade me The Dodon coÌ„meth froÌ„ the Shire stone hill bottome going by Blackhil Dodon Southwake s Iohns Vffay parke and Broughton it falleth into the saltwater betwéene Kyrby and Mallum castell and thus are we now come vnto the Rauenglasse point Comming to Rauenglasse I finde harde by the towne a water comming from two heades and both of them in Lakes or Poles wherof one issueth out of Denock méere is called Denock water â—…enocke the other named Eske from Eske pole â—…ske which runneth by Eskedale Dalegarth and soone after méeting with the Denocke betwéene Mawburthwate RaueÌ„glasse falleth into the sea On the other side of Rauenglasse also coÌ„meth the Mite brooke from Myterdale as I reade â—…ite Then finde we another which commeth from the hylles and at the fyrst is forked but soone after making a Lake they gather againe into a smaller chanell finally méeting with the Brenge â—…renge they fall into the sea at Carleton southeast as I wéene of Drig â—…ander The Cander or as Lelande nameth it the Calder commeth out of Copeland Forrest by Cander Sellefielde and so into the sea Then come we to Euer water descending out of a pole aboue Coswaldhow and thence going by Euerdale it crosseth a water from Arladon and afterward procéedeth to Egremond S. Iohns and taking in another ryll from Hide it is not long ere it méeteth with the sea The next fall is at Moresby wherof I haue no skill FroÌ„ thence therefore we cast about by s Bées to Derwentset haueÌ„ whose water is truely written Dargwent or Deruent Dargwent It riseth in the hilles about Borrodale from whence it goeth to the Graunge theÌ„ce into a Lake in which are certaine Islandes and so to Keswijc where it falleth into the Bursemere or the Burthmere pole In like sort the Burthmere water Burthâ—…éere rising among the hils goeth to Tegburthesworth Forneside S. Iohns and Threlcote and there méeting with a water from Grisdale by Wakethwate Grise called Grise it runneth to Burnesse Keswijck and there receiueth the Darwent From Keswijc in like sorte it goeth to Thorneswate there making a plash to Armanswate Isel Huthwate and Cokermouth here it receyueth the Cokar Cokar which rising among the hilles commeth by Lowsewater Brakenthwate Lorton and so to Cokarmouth towne froÌ„ wheÌ„ce it hasteth to Bridgeham and receiuing a rill called the Wire on the south side that ruÌ„neth by Dein it leaueth Samburne and Wirketon behinde it entreth in the sea Wire Leland sayth that the Wire is a creeke where shippes lie oft at rode and that Wirketon or Wirkington towne doth take hys name thereof But to procéede the Elme riseth in the mines aboue Amautrée Elmus
two myles beneath Pickering about Kyrby minster Finally Pickering water ariseth in Blackemore and halfe a myle beneath Pickering falleth into Costey meting by the way with the Pocklington becke Pocklington and an other small rill or two of whose names I haue no knowledge Hitherto Lelande but in mine opinioÌ„ it had béene far better to haue described them thus Of those waters that fal into the Darwent beneath Cotehouse the first commeth from Swenton the seconde from EbberstoÌ„ the thirde from Ollerston the fourth from ThornetoÌ„ and Pickering and the fift on the other side that commeth thither from Wintringham for so shoulde he haue dealt in better order rid his hands of them with more expeditioÌ„ referring the reast also vnto their proper places But to procéede after myne owne maner Being past Cotehouse eare the Darwent come at Wickham it crosseth the Rie which riseth of two heades Rie and ioyning west of Locton they run thorow Glansby parke Costey Finally receyuing the Costey it méeteth at the last with an other streame increased by the falles of sixe waters more eare it come into y e Darwent The most easterly of these is called Seuen Seuen ryseth as is aforesayde in Blackemore from whence it goeth by Sinnington Murton Normanby Newsounde How so into the Rie Doue or Doue The seconde named Dou hath his original likewise in Blackemore and desceÌ„ding by Rasmore Keldon and Edston where it receyueth the Hodge becke that commeth by Bernesdale Hodgebecke Ricoll Kirkedale and Welburne it goeth to Sawlton and there taketh in first the Ricoll that goeth by Careton whereof Ridall as some think but falsly doth séeme to take the name Then Fesse which ryseth aboue Fesse Bilisdale chappell méeteth with the Rie at the Shaking bridge from whence they go togyther vnder the Rie bridge to Riuis abbaye and thence after it hath crossed a becke from the west thorowe a parke of the Earle of Rutlandes to Newton Muniton and so to Sawton or Sawlton as I doe finde it written Here also it taketh in the Holbecke brooke Holbecke that commeth thither from by west by Gylling castell and Stangraue from whence it goeth on to Braby next into the Seuen then into the Rie and so into the Darwent which from theÌ„ce doth run to WickhaÌ„ Being past WickhaÌ„ it meteth with a water that coÌ„meth thereinto from Grynston to Setterington at southeast and thence it goeth on to Malton Malton Sutton Wellam Furby Kirkham receyuing by y e way one rill on the one side and another on the other whereof this commeth from Burdfall that other froÌ„ Conisthorpe From Kyrkeham it goeth to CraÌ„burne and Owsham bridge crossing by the way an other brooke comming from S. Edwardes gore by Faston then to Aldby Buttercram alias Butterham bridg Stamford bridg Kexby bridg Sutton Ellerton Aughton Bubwith Wresill Babthorpe so into y e Ouze wherwith I finishe the description of the Derwent sauing that I haue to let you vnderstand how Leland heard that an arme ran sometime from the hed of Darwent also to Scarborow till such time as two hils betwixt which it ran did shalder so choke vp his course Fosse The Fosse a slow stream yet able to beare a good vessell ryseth in Nemore Calaterio or among the wooddy hilles now called Galters forrest and in his descent froÌ„ the higher ground he leaueth Crake castel on his west side thence he goeth by Marton abbay Marton Stillington Farlington Towthorpe Erswijc Huntingdon and at Yorke into the Ouze Kile The Kile ryseth flat north at Newborow from whence it goeth by Thorneton on the hyll Ruskell parke Awne Tollerton and so into the Ouze about Newton vpon Ouze Swale The Swale is a ryght noble ryuer It riseth in the hilles aboue Kyrkedale and from this towne it goeth to Kelde chappell Carret house Crackepot Whiteside and néere vnto Yalen Barney taketh in the Barney water which commeth from the north east Thence it goeth by Harcaside to Reth where it méeteth with the Arcley and so to Flemington Arcley Holgate Grinton Marrike taking in the Holgate that commeth from by south in the way to Thorpe Mariske becke the Mariske becke or peradueÌ„ture Applegarth water as Leland calleth it that discendeth from the north then to Thorpe Applegarth Richmonde Easby and Brunton Here by North it entertayneth two or thrée waters in one chanell called Rauenswathe water whereof the twoo fardest doe ioyne not far from the Dawltons so go by Rauenswath Rauenswathe Hartforth Gilling at Skeby méete wyth the thirde comming from Richmonde Beaconwarde By west also of Brunton Rhe. the Swale méeteth with the Rhe runnyng from Resdale and beyng past Brunton it goeth to Caterijc bridge beneath Brunton then to Ellerton Kyrkeby Langton parua Thirtoft Anderby Steple and before it come vnto Gatenby it méeteth w t y e Bedall brooke Bedall alias Leming alias Leminges becke that coÌ„meth west of Kellirby by CuÌ„stable Burton Langthorpe Bedall and Leming chappell From Gattenby lykewise it goeth to Mawby and at Brakenbyry receiueth the Wiske Wiske which is a great water rysing betwéene two parkes aboue Swanby in one place and southeast of Mountgrace Abbaie in another and after the confluence which is about Siddlebridge goeth on betwéene the Rughtons to Appleton the Smetons Byrtby HuttoÌ„ Coniers Danby Wijc Yafford Warlaby and taking in there a ryll from Brunton by Aluerton it procéedeth to OtteringtoÌ„ Newley Kyrby Wiske Newson and Blackenbury there méeting as I sayde with the Swale that runneth from thence by Skipton bridge Catton Topcliffe and Ranyton and aboue Eldmyre méeteth with sundrye other rylles in one botome whereof the northwesterley is called Cawdebec 〈…〉 the south Easterly Kebecke which ioyne east of Thornton moore and so go to Thorneton in the streate Kiluington Thruske Sowerby Grastwijc and soone after crossing another growing of the myxture of the Willow and likewyse of the Cuckwolde beckes Cuckwolâ—â— becke which ioyne aboue Bridforth and running on till it come almost at Dalton it maketh confluence with the Swale and go thence as one by Thornton bridge Mitton vpon Swale and so into the Ouze The Skell ryseth out of the west two myles from Fountaines Abbay Skell and commeth as Lelande sayth with a fayre course by the one side of Rippon as the Vre doth on the other And on the bankes hereof stoode the famous Abbaie called Fountaines somuch renoumed for the lusty monkes that dwelled in the same It receiueth also the Lauer water Lauer. which ryseth thrée myles from Kyrby and méeteth withall néere vnto Rippon and finally falleth into the Vre a quarter of a mile beneath Rippon Towne and almost midde waye betwéene the North and Huicke bridges The Nidde ryseth among those hilles that lye by west northwest of Gnarresborowe Nidde fyue myles aboue Pakeley bridge going in short processe of
time by West houses Lodg houses Woodhall Newehouses Midlesmore Raunsgill Cowthouse Gowthwall Bureley Brymham Hampeswale soone after méeting with the Killingale becke Killingâ—â—â— it goeth after the confluence by Bylton parke Gnaresbridge Washforde Cathall Willesthorp Munketon or Nonniocke and so into the Ouze fouretéene miles beneath Gnaresborow beyng increased by the waye wyth very fewe or no waters of any countenance Lelande hauing said thus much of y e Nidde addeth herevnto the names of two other waters that is to say the Couer the Burne Couer Burne which doe fal likewise into the Vre or Ouze but as he sayth little of the same so among all my Pampheletes I can gather no more of them then that the first ryseth sixe myles aboue Couerham by west and falleth into y e Vre a little beneath Middleham bridge which is two myles beneath the towne of Couerham As for the Burne it ryseth at More hylles and falleth into the sayde ryuer a lyttle beneth Massham bridge and so much of these two â—…harfe â—â—ias â—…werfe The Wharffe or Gwerfe ryseth aboue Vghtershaw from whence it runneth to Beggermons Rasemill Hubberham Backden Starbotton Kettlewell CunnistoÌ„ in Kettlewell and here it méeteth with a rill comming from Haltongill chappel bp Arnecliffe ioyning withal north east of Kilnesey crag it passeth ouer by the lower groundes to Gyrsington and receyuing a ryll there also from Tresfelde parke it procéedeth on to Brunsall brydge Furthermore at Appletrewijc it méeteth wyth a ryll from by north thence goeth to Barden Towre Bolton Beth and Misley hall where it crosseth a rill comming froÌ„ by west Thence to AddinghaÌ„ taking in there also a another from by west and so to Ikeley and receyuing ere long another by north from Denton hall it hasteth to Weston Vauasour Oteley and Letheley where it taketh in the Padside the Washburne â—…adside â—…ashburn both in one streame from Lyndley ward and thence to Casley chappell there it crosseth one from by north another ere long from by south and so to Yardwoode castell Kereby Woodhall Collingham Linton Wetherby Thorpatche Newton Tadcaster and when it hath receyued the Cockebecke from southwest â—…ockeâ—â—cke that goth by Barwy Aberforth Leadhall and Grymston it runneth to Exton Kyrby Wharf Vskel Rither Nunapleton and so into the Ouze beneath Cawood a castell belonging to the Arche bishop of Yorke where he vseth oft to lye when he refresheth himselfe with chaunge of ayre shift of habitation for the auoiding of such infection as maye otherwise engender by his long abode in one place for want of due purgation and aiering of his house â—…ir The Air ryseth out of a Lake South of Darnbrooke wherin as I here is none other fish but red Trowt Perche Leland saith it riseth néere vnto OrtoÌ„ in Crauen wherfore the oddes is but litle It goeth therfore from thence to Mawlam Hamlithe Kyrby Moldale Calton hall Areton and so forth tyll it come almost to Gargraue there crossing the Otterburne water on the west â—…tterâ—â—rne â—…interâ—â—rne the Winterburne on the north which at Flasby receiueth a ryll from Helton as I here Being past Gargraue our Air goeth on to Eshton Elswoode and so forth on first receyuig a brooke from southwest wherof one braunch commeth by Marton the other by Thornet which méete about Broughton then another from northeast that runneth by Skipton castell After this confluence it hasteth to Newebiggin Bradley and Kildwijc by south east whereof it méeteth with one water from Mawsis and Glusburne or Glukesburne called Glyke Glyke another lykewyse a lytle beneath from Seton beside two rylles from by north after which confluence it runneth by ReddlesdeÌ„ ouer against this towne the Lacocke and the Worth doe méete withall in one chanell Lacocke Woorth Moreton as the Moreton water doth on the north although it be somewhat lower Thence it goeth to Risheforth hall so to Bungley where it taketh a ryll from Denholme parke to Shipeley there crossing another from Thorneton Leuenthorpe and Bradley it goeth to Caluerley to Christall and so to Léedes where one water runneth thereinto by north from Wettlewoode and two other from by south in one chanell whereof the first hath two armes of which the one commeth from Pudsey chappell the other from Adwalton their confluence being made aboue Farnesley hall The other lykewise hath two heades whereof one is aboue Morley the other coÌ„meth from Domingley and méeting with the first not far south west of Léedes they fall both into the Aire and so runne with the same to Swillington there taking in y e Rodwel becke south of the bridg it procéedeth to Ollerton Castelforde Redwell Went. Brotherton and Ferribridge there receiuing the Went a becke from Pontifract which ryseth of diuers heads wherof one is among y e cole pits TheÌ„ce to Beall Berkin KellingtoÌ„ middle Hodlesey TeÌ„plehirst Gowldall Snathâ—… Rawcliffe Newlande Army and so into the Ouze wyth an indifferent course Of all the ryuers in the North Lelande in so many ot hys bookes as I haue séene sayth least of this Mine annotations also are very slender in the particular waters whereby it is increased wherfore I was compelled of necessity to conclude euen thus with the description of the same had so left it in déede if I had not receyued one other note more to adde vnto it euen when the leafe was at the Presse which saith as followeth in maner worde for worde There is a noble water that falleth into Aire whose heade as I take it is about StaÌ„forde From whence it goeth to Creston chapell to Lingfield and there about receyuing one ryll néere Elfrabright bridge Hebden and also the Hebden by northwest it goeth to Brearley hall and so taking in the thirde by north it procéedeth on eastwarde by Sorsby bridge chappell and there a ryll from southwest and so to Coppeley hall Beneath this place I finde also that it receyueth one ryll from Hallyfaxe which ryseth of two heades two other from southwest of which one commeth by Bareslande and Stanelande in one chanell as I reade so that after this confluence the aforesayd water goeth on toward Cowforde bridge and as it taketh in two rilles aboue the same on the North side so beneath that bridge there falleth into it a prety arme increased by sundry waters comming from by south as from Marsheden chappell from Holmesworth chappell and Kyrke Heton eche one growyng of sundrie heades wherof I woulde say more if I had more intelligeÌ„ce of their seuerall gates and passages But to procéede from Cowford bridge it runneth to Munfeld receiuing ere long one ryll from Leuersage hall and another from Burshall by Dewesburye it goeth on North east of Thornehul south of Horbyry thornes therabout crossyng one ryll from by south from Woller by newe Milner Damme and soone after another from northwest Chalde called Chald rysing in the
bowels are cut from their bodies and throwne into a fire prouided neare hand and within sight euen for the same purpose Sometimes if the trespasse be not the more hainous they are suffred to hang til they be quite dead and when so euer any of the Nobilitie are conuicted of high treason this maner of their death is coÌ„uerted into the losse of their heads onely notwithstanding that the sentence doe runne after the former order In triall of cases coÌ„cerning treason fellonie or any other gréeuous cryme the partie accused doth yelde yf he be a noble man to be tryed by his Péeres if a gentleman by gentlemen and an inferiour by God and by the countrie and being condemned of fellonie manslaughter c. he is eftsoones hanged by the necke til he be dead and then cut downe and buryed But yf he be conuicted of wilfull murder he is eyther hanged aliue in chaynes néere the place where the facte was commytted or else first strangeled with a rope and so continueth till his bones consume to nothing We haue vse neither of the whéele nor of y e barre as in other countries but when wilfull manslaughter is perpetrated beside hanging the Offendour hath his right hande commonly stricken of at the place where the acte was done after which he is led foorth to the place of execution there put to death according to the law Vnder the worde fellonie are manie grieuous crimes contained as breche of pryson An. 1. of Edward the second Disfigurers of y e Princes lege people An. 5. of Henry the fourth Hunting by nyght wyth painted faces and Visours An. 1. of Henry the seuenth Rape or stealing of women and maydens An. 3. of Henry the eight Conspiracy against the person of the Prince An. 3. of Henry the seauenth Embefilling of goodes committed by the maister to the seruaunt aboue the value of fourtie shillings An. 17. of Henry the eyght Carying of horses or mares into Scotland An. 23. of Henry the eyght Sodomy and Buggery An 25. of Henrye the eyght Stealing of Hawkes egges An. 31. of Henry the eyght CoÌ„suring sorcerie Witchcrafte and digging vp of Crosses An. 33. of Henry the eyght Prophecying vpoÌ„ armes cognisaunces names and badges An. 33. of Henry y e eyght Casting of slanderous billes An. 37. of Henry y e eyght Wilfull killing by poyson An. 1. of Edward y e sixt Departure of a soldier froÌ„ the field An. 2. of Edward y e sixt Diminution of câ—…yâ—… al offences within casâ—… premunire embeseling of recordes goodes taken froÌ„ dead men by their seruaunts stealing of whatsoeuer cattell robbing by the high way vpon the sea or of dwelling houses letting out of pondes cutting of purses stealing of Déere by night counterfectous 〈◊〉 coyne â–ª euidences charters and writings diuers other néedlesse to be remembred Periury is punished by the pillorie burning in the forehead w t the letter P. and losse of all y e mooueables Many trespasses also are punished by y e cutting of one or both eares from the heade of the offendour as the vtteraunce of sedicious words against the maiestrates fraymakers pettie robbers c. Roges are burned thorow the eares caryers of shéepe out of the land by the losse of their haÌ„ds such as kill by poyson are eyther skalded to death in lead or séething water Heretiks are burned quicke harlottes their mates by carting ducking and dooing of open pennaunce are often put to rebuke Such as kill theÌ„selues are buryed in the fielde with a stake driuen thorow their bodies Witches are hanged or sometymes burned but théeues are haÌ„ged euery where generally sauing in Halifax where they are beheaded after a straÌ„ge maner wherof I find this report There is hath ben of ancient tyme a law or rather a custome at Halifax that whosoeuer doth coÌ„mit any fellony and is taken with the same or confesse the facte vpon examination yf it by valued by fower counstables to amount to the somme of thirtéene pence halfe peny he is forthw t beheaded vpon the next market day which fall vsually vppon the tuesdayes thursdayes and saterdayes or else vpon the same day y t he is so conuicted yf market be then holdeÌ„ The engine wherw t the execution is done is a square blocke of wood of the length of foure foote and an halfe which doeth ryde vp and downe in a slot rabet or regall betwéene twoo péeces of timber that are framed and set vpright of fiue yards in height In the neather ende of the slyding blocke is an Axe keyed or fastened wyth Iron into the wood which being drawne vp to the top of the frame is there fastned with a woodden pinne the one ende set on a péece of woodde which goeth crosse ouer y e two rabets the other ende being let into the blocke holding the Axe with a notche made into the same after the maner of a Sampsons post vnto the middest of which pinne there is a long rope fastened that commeth downe among the people so that when the offendour hath made his confession and hath layde his neck ouer the neathermost blocke euery man there present doth eyther take hold of y e rope or putteth foorth his arme so néere to y e same as he can get in token that he is willing to sée true iustice executed and pulling out the pinne in this maner y e head blocke wherin the axe is fastened doth fall downe wyth such a violence that yf the necke of the transgressour were so bigge as that of a bull it should be cut in sunder at a strocke and roll from the bodie by an huge distaunce If it be so that the offendour be apprehended for an oxe or oxeÌ„ shéepe kine horse or any such cattell the selfe Beast or other of the same kinde haue the ende of the rope tyed somewhere vnto them so that they drawe out the pin whereby the offendour is executed And thus much of Halifax law which I set down onely to shew the custome of that country in this behalfe Roges and vagabondes are often stocked and whipped scoldes are ducked vpon cuckingstooles in the water Such fellons as stand mute and speake not at their arraynement are pressed to death by huge weightes and these commonly holde theyr peace thereby to saue their goodes vnto their wyues and children which yf they were condemned shoulde be confiscated to the prince Théeues that are saued by their bookes and cleargie are burned in the left hande vppon the brawne of the thombe with an hote IroÌ„ so that yf they be apprehended agayne that marke bewrayeth them to haue béene arrayned of fellonie before whereby they are sure at that time to haue no mercy I do not read that this custome of sauing by the booke is vsed any where else then in Englande neyther doe I finde after much diligent inquiry what Saxon Prince ordayned that lawe Howbeit this I generally gather therof that it was deuised at the first to traine the inhabiters
aforehand of the King that he would repeÌ„t his iourney and do the thing that should be preiudiciall to the Realme Other write Mat. VVest VVil. Malm. that Harrold lying at his manor of Boseham went aboord one day into his fishers boate or Crayer and caused the same to launche foorth to the Sea for his pleasure but by misfortune at the same time a contrary winde suddainly came about and droue the vessell a lande into Fraunce vppon the coast of Ponthieu where hee was taken by the countrey people and presented to the Earle of Ponthieu named Guy or Guido who kept him as a prisoner meaning to put him to a greeuous raunsome But Harrold remembring himselfe of a wile dispatched a messenger foorthe with all speede vnto William Duke of Normandy signifying vnto him that he beeyng sente from Kyng Edwarde to confirme suche Articles as other meane men that had him sente to him afore hadde talked of by chaunce hee was fallen into the handes of the Earle of Ponthieu and kepte as prisoner against all order of law reason or humanitie Duke William thus enformed by the messenger sent to the Erle of Ponthieu requiring hym to set Earle Harrold at libertie that he might repare to him according to his commissioÌ„ The Earle of Ponthieu at the Dukes request did not onely restore Harrolde to libertie Harold is preâ—…ecuted to Duke William Duke of Normandy Hen. Hunt but also broughte hym into Normandy and presented him there to the Duke of whome he was most ioyfully receyued There be that agree partly with this reporte and partly vary for they write that Earle Harrold tooke the Sea vppon purpose to haue sayled into Flaunders and that by force of wind he was driuen to the coast of Pouthieu and so after came into Normandy in manner as before is mentioned But by what meanes or occasion soeuer hee came thither certayne it is that hee was ioyfully receyued Harold was highly welcomed of duke William and had great cheere made vnto hym by Duke William y e which at that time was ready to make a iourney againste the Britaynes and tooke Earle Harrolde with him to haue his company in armes in that iourney that hee myghte haue the better triall of his valiancie Earle Harrold behaued himselfe so y t he shewed good proofe both of his wisedome and policie and also of hys forwardnesse to execute that with hand which by wit he had deuised so that Duke William hadde him in high fauour and as it hath bin sayd Erle Harrolde to procure him more friendship at the Dukes handes declared vnto him that Kyng Edwarde had ordeyned him his heire if hee dyed without issue that he woulde not fayle to keepe the Realme of England to the Dukes vse according to that ordenance if King Edwarde dyed without issue Math. VVest Duke William promised to Harrolde his daughter in marriage And to performe this promise he receyued a corporall othe whether willingly to winne the more credite or forced therto by Duke William writers report it diuersly At the same time Duke William promised vnto him his daughter in marriage whom Harrold couenaunted in like manner to take to wife Finally when he should returne into Englande Duke William deliuered vnto him his Nephew Hacun Polidor but kepte his brother Wilnote with hym still as a pledge Earle Harrold then returned into England and declared vnto King Edwarde what he had done who then sayde vnto him dyd not I tell thee that thou wouldest doe the thyng whereof thou shouldest repent thee and procure a mischiefe to follow vnto thy countrey But God of his mercie turne that euill happe from thys Realme or at the least if it be his pleasure that it must needes come to passe yet to stay it till after my dayes Thus they write that affirme howe Harrolde went ouer of purpose into Normandy and gather thereof that Kyng Edward foresaw the coÌ„ming of the Normanes and that he meante nothing lesse than to perfourme the promise maâ—…e vnto Duke William When the promise 〈◊〉 made by King Edwarde to make Duke William his heire as to adopt hym as hys heire which promise shoulde seeme to be made in time of his banishmente when hee stoode in neede of his friendshippe as the manner of men in suche cases is to promise muche howsoeuer they intend to fulfill But rather it may be thought that King Edwarde had made no such promise at al but perceiued the ambitious desire of Duke William and therefore would not that any occasion shoulde bee ministred vnto him to take holde of Wherefore he was so loth that Harrold shoulde goe ouer vnto him least that might happe which hapned indeede Hen. Hunt Mat. VVest Fabian Falling 〈◊〉 betwixt brethren In the four and twentith and last yeare of King Edwarde his raigne or thereabout there fell varriance betwixt the two breethren Erle Harrold and Erle Tostie at Windsor where the Courte then lay in so muche that Earle Harrold caught Tostie by the heare of the head in the Kings presence and stroke him Herevpon Tostie departing from the Courte in great anger came to Hereforde in the marches of Wales The cruell dealing of Earle Tostie where Harrolds seruants were preparing for the Kings comming to theyr maisters house which seruantes he tooke and slew chopped them in peeces and threwe into that hogshed of wine a legge into that barrell of cyder an arme into this vessel of ale an head and so into y e lomes of methe and tubbes of brine and other licor he bestowed the parties of the dead carcasses of his brothers seruauntes sending the king word that he had prouided at his brothers manor agaynste his comming good plentie of souse and poudred meate what so euer he should finde beside Thys rumor of this cruell deede sprang ouer all the Realme wherevpoÌ„ the Northumbers whom he hadde gouerned for the space of tenne yeares very cruelly tooke occasion to rebell againste him The NorthuÌ„bers Rebell against Tostie their Earle and slew his seruants both Englishmen and Danes spoyled his houses and tooke away his Horses his armoure and all other his goodes and household stuffe The chiefest cause as is remembred by some writers that mooued the Northumbers thus to rise and rebell against Tostie was for y e detestable murther of certain Gentlemen of their countrey seruauntes vnto Gospatricke whiche the Quene in behalfe of hir brother had caused to be slayne in the Courte by treason in the fourth night of Christmas last past and also in reuenge of other noble men which in the last yeare Tostie himselfe had commaunded to bee murthered in his owne chamber at Yorke whither hee had allured them to come vnder colour of concludyng a peace with them Also the greeuous payments wherewith hee charged the people of that countrey set them in a great rage agaynste hym But the Kyng aduertised heereof liked not their doings for that they had done it without
is slaine who encountering with Lugtake at a vyllage called Essen in Bogdale slue him and discomfited his whole power ordring the matter with them in such wise that afterwardes there was no more trouble attempted in that behalfe After this the realme continued in peace certaine yeares A bande of theeues till it chaunced a great number of theeues and robbers assembling themselues togither at Cocbourne pethes did much hurt by robbing and spoyling the people in the countreys of Mers Patrike Dunbar vanquisheth the theeues and robbers of the countrey and Louthian howbeit at length one Patryke Dunbar of Dunbar by commaundement of the king fought with them slue their captaine with six hundred of his companie and tooke fourscore prisoners the which he caused to be hanged And thus hauing deliuered the countrey of those pyllers with losse of fortie of his owne men hee returned to the king with the head of the captain of that route Patrike Dunbar Earle of March so that for his manhood herein shewed he was made by the king Earle of March and for the maintenaunce of his estate had the landes of Cocbourne pethes giuen to him and his heyres for euer vpon this condition that in tymes comming the Earles of March shoulde purge Mers and Lonthian of all theeues and robbers In memorie whereof The heade of a theefe or fellon giuen in armes hee was commaunded to beare in his armes a fellons heade sprinckled with bloud Shortly after he got knowledge howe there were certaine Gentlemen that had conspired to a slea him conspiracie and therefore taking occasion to goe a hunting where this act should haue bene executed he calleth the chiefe authour of the conspiracie apart into a certaine valley which was closed on euery side with thick woods and there brake the matter vnto him in reprouing him right sharply for that hee had so trayterously conspired hys death whose preseruation hee ought chieflye to haue wished considering the manifolde benefites he had receyued at his handes The manly courage of K. Malcolme And herewith leaping from his horse drew his sword commaunding the other likewise to draw his that 〈◊〉 hauing conuenient time and place thereto they might trie the matter betwixt them who should be thought most worthie of life by opeâ—… force of knightly prowes The conspirator hearing these wordes as a man altogither astonished fell downe vpon hys knees at the kings feete beseeching his grace of mercie for his wicked purpose and haynous offence who seeing him thus penitent bad him arise and sayde I am content hereupon to forgiue thee so that thou be not of counsell hereafter in any such trayterous practise Whylest things passed thus in Scotlande great and marueylous chaunces came to passe within the Realme of Englande For after the death of king Edward surnamed the Confessor See more here of in England Harold the sonne of Earle Eoodwin tooke vpon him the kingdome But William bastard Duke of Normandie pretending tytle to the crowne of Englande at length inuaded the land â—…eaing Harold in fielde made a full conquest of the realme and was crowned king at London by Eldred Archbishop of Yorke Here ye haue to vnderstand that king Edwarde in his life time had sent for his nephew Edwarde the sonne of his brother Edmonde Ironside to come home forth of Hungarie whither after his fathers deceasse he and his brother Edwin had beene sent away as in the Hystorie of Englande it appeareth more at large This Edwarde had maried the daughter of the Emperour Henrie named Agatha William Malmesbury sister to the Queene of Hungarie and not the king of Hungaries daughter although the Scottishe writers do so affirme By hir he had issue a sonne named Edgar and two daughters the one named Margaret and the other Christyne Hector Boetius King Edward ment that his nephew the sayd Edwarde shoulde haue succeeded him and as some wryte he would in his life time haue resigned the crown vnto him But he a thing worthie of admiration vtterly refused it and would not once meddle therewith during his vncles life rynce and as it chaunced he died whilest his vncle king Edward was yet liuing His sonne Edgar therefore to whom it seemed that the crowne was due when he sawe the realme conquered by the Nâ—â—mans dispairing to recouer it out of their hands got a ship and determined with his mother and sisters to passe ouer into Germanie to his friends and kinsfolk there The Queenes Ferrye but by contrary winds he was driuen a shore in the Forth at a place called vnto this day the Queenes ferrye Malcolme being at the same time at Dunfermâ—…ling when he heard of the arriuall of this ship and vnderstoode what they were that were abourd in hir he resorted thither with an honourable coÌ„panie about him to visit them for honors sake vpon fauour he bare towards them for that they were discended of that noble Prince king Edwarde in whom afore time he had founde so much gentlenesse and friendship Finally when he vnderstood their estate hee brought theÌ„ home with him to his palace shewing them all the loue and friendship he could deuises and in the end coÌ„sidering the excellent beautie wisdome noble qualities of the lady Margaret eldest sister vnto the same Edgar Malcolm Cammore marieth Margaret sister to Edgar Atheling he required of Agatha hir mother to haue hir in mariage wherevnto Agatha gladly condiscended Shortly after with an assemble of all the nobles of Scotland this mariage was made solemnised after the Octaues of Pasch in the yeare 1067. 1067. H. B. with al ioy and triumph that might be deuised King William the Conqueror of England being enformed hereof feared least this alliance betwixt Malcolm and Edgar might breed some trouble disquietnesse to his estate sith the same Edgar had many friendes through all the partes of England To preuent therfore the occasions of intestine trouble he confined all the lynage of the foresayd Edgar English men fled into Scotlande by reason whereof a great number of Englishe men came into Scotlande vnto king Malcolme and many of them obteyning liuings at his handes remayned there continually during their liues leauing to their posteritie their names and possessions Amongst whoÌ„ were these Lindsey Vaus Ramsay Louell Towris Surnames of English men in Scotland Prestoun SandelaÌ„ds Bissart Sowlis Wardlaw Maxwel with diuerse other There came diuerse also oute of Hungarie with Queene Margaret who likewise left theyr names to their families Surnames of Hungarians which yet remaine euen vnto this day as Creichtoun Fotringham Giffart Meluil Borthwike and other Also there haue come at sundrie seasons out of Fraunce diuerse surnames into Scotlande as Fraseir Sinclare Boswell Mowtray Surnames of French men Mountgummery Campbel Boys Betoun or Betuin Taillefer and Bothwell besides sundrie other whiche were but superfluous to rehearse at this tyme. But to the order of the
to the Archebishop The knightes put on their armour and sayd My Lord they arme themselues Then sayd he What forceth it let them arme themselues Nowe when they were once armed and with many other about theÌ„ entred into the Archbishops palace Those that were about the Archbishop cryed vppon him to flee but he sat still and woulde not once remoue til the Monkes brought him euen by force and againste his will into the Churche The Monkes vvith force bring the Archbishop into the Church The comming of the armed men beeing knowne some of the Monkes contynued in singing of euensong some sought places where to hide themselues other came to the Archbishop who was lothe to haue entred into the Churche and when he was within he woulde not yet suffer them to make fast the dores so that there was a great sturre among them but chiefly when they perceyued that the armed men went about to seke for the Archbish â–ª by meane wherof their euensong was left vnfinished The knightes enter the churche At length y e knights w t their seruaunts hauing sought the palace came rushing into the Churche by the Cloyster dore with theyr swordes drawen As thoughe Archebishops caÌ„ be no traitours some of them askyng for the Traytor and some of them for the Archbyshoppe who came and mette them saying here am I no traytor but the Archebishop The formost of the knightes sayde vnto him flee thou art but deade To whome the Archebishop saide I will not flee The knight stepte to hym taking him by the sleue and with his sworde caste his cappe besides hys heade and sayde come hither for thou art a prisoner I will not sayde the Archbishop doe wyth me here what thou wylte and plucked his sleeue with a myghty strength out of the knights hand Wherwith the knight stepped back .ij. or three paces The courage â—â— the Archbishop Then the Archebishope turning to one of the knightes sayde vnto him what meaneth this Reygnolde I haue done vnto thee many hygh pleasures and coÌ„mest thou now vnto me into the Church armed vnto whom the knight answered and sayde Thou shalte knowe a none what is ment Thou arte but deade It is not possyble for thee longer to liue Vnto whome the Archbyshop sayde And I am redy to dye for my God and for the defence of his Iustice and the lybertye of the Church gladdely do I imbrace death so that the Church may purchase peace and lyberty in the shedding of my bloud And herewith takyng on other of the knightes by the Habergeon hee sloung him from him with suche violence that hee hadde almoste throwne hym downe to the grounde This was syr Wylliam Thracye as he himself did after confesse After this the archbyshoppe inclyned hys heade after the manner of one that shoulde pray pronouncing these his laste wordes Vnto God and to Saint Marye and to the Saintes that are Patrons of thys Churche and to Sainte Denise I commende my selfe and the Churches cause There wyth Sir Reignalde Fytz Vrse strykyng a full blowe at hys heade chaunced to light vpon the arme of a clerke named Edwarde of Cambridge Edvvarde de Cambridge who caste vp his arme to saue the Archebyshoppe but when hee was not able to beare the weight of the blowe hee plucked his arme backe and so the stroke stayed vppon the Archbyshoppes heade in suche wyse that the bloud ran down by hs face and then they stroke at hym one after an other The Archbish. is slayne and thoughe hee fell to the grounde at the seconde blowe they lefte hym not tyll they hadde cutte and tourned out his braynes and strowed them aboute vppon the Churche panement whiche done they went to the ryfling of hys house spoyled all his goodes and toke them to their owne vses supposing it lawefull for them so to doe beeyng the kinges seruauntes But yet doubtyng howe the matter woulde bee taken after they hadde wrought theyr feate they gotte them into the Byshoprike of Duresme there to remayne tyll they myght heare howe the Kyng woulde take thys theyr vnlawfull enterpryse Althoughe as they tooke it and alledged they hadde lustily defended hys cause and reueÌ„ged his quarell as faithful seruaÌ„ts ought to do but it chaunced otherwise than they looked it should haue done for King Henry conned them so little thanke for these presumptuous acte sounding to y e euill exaÌ„ple of other in breache of his lawes that they dispairing vtterly of pardon fledde one into one place The murtheâ—…rs come to â—… euil ende Math. Paris VV. Paruus and another into another so that within four years they al dyed an euill death as it hath bin reported Some write that they wente to Rome by the Kinges commaundement and there presented them selues before the Pope to receiue suche pennaunce for their wicked acte as he should enioyne them Herevpon the Pope appointed them to goe vnto Ierusalem there to doe their penaunce where they remained certaine yeares applying themselues right diligently to performe the satisfaction of there offer according to the maner prescribed to them by the Pope and so at length they departed this life Herevpon the yong king being arriued in Englande called an assemblie of the Lords spiritual and temporal at Winchester Rog. Houd where both he and his sayde wife Margaret daughter to the French king was crowned with all solemnitie by the handes of the said Rotrode Archbishop of Roan vpon the .xxj. of August In the meane tyme sayeth one writer his father king Henry might haue foreseen founde meanes to haue auoyded the discord which euen nowe began to spring vp betwixt him and hys children causing a sore and ciuile warre if hee had not bin a man that vtterly did deteste all superstitious admonitions for being told I wote not by whom that if he did not repent and take more regarde to minister Iustice which is a vertue that conteyneth in it selfe all other vertues it would come to passe that within shorte tyme he shoulde fall into great and manyfold calamities In his returne also out of Irelande sayth an other vpon the Sunday nexte after the feast of Easter commonly called Lowsunday as he should take his horse at Cardiffe in Wales there appeared vnto him a man of pale and wanne colour barefooted and in a white kirtell the which boldly in the Dutche language spake vnto him and admonished him of amendmente of lyfe and to haue regard that the Sabboth day commonly called the Sundaye myghte bee more duely kept and obserued so that no markettes nor bodily workes be holden vsed or done vppon that day within the boundes of hys domynions excepte that whyche apperteyneth to dressing of meates And if thou doe sayeth hee after thys commandemente I assure thee that all things whiche thou doest enterprise of good intente and purpose shall sort to good effect very lucky end But the K. was not greatly pleased with these wordes and in
the Lorde chiefe Iustice sitting vppon the benche spake openly these wordes You sirs that be attorneys of my Lords the Archbishoppes Byshops Abbots Priors and all other the Cleargie declare vnto youre masters and tell them that from hencefoorthe there shall no Iustice be done vnto them in the Kyngs courte for anye manner of thing although neuer so heynous wrong be done vnto them but iustice shall be hadde agaynste them to euery one that will complayne and require to haue it The Clearkely handling of the matter by the Archbyshop of Yorke his suffraganes The elect Bishoppe of Yorke Henry de Newarke with the Bishops of Durham Elie and Salisburie with certayne other fearing the Kynges indignation thus kindled against them ordeyned to lay downe in the Churches a fifte parte as yee haue hearde of all theyr goodes towardes the defence of the Realme and mayntenaunce of the Kynges warres in suche time of great necessitie and so the King receyuing it they were restored to the Kinges protection agayne The Friendes of the Byshoppe of Lincolne founde meanes that the Sherife of the Shire leuied and tooke the fifth parte of all his goodes and restored to him agayne hys landes and possessions Also all the Monasteries within his diocesse and within the whole prouince of Caunterbury were seased into the Kings handes and warâ—… appoynted whiche only ministred necessary â—…ding vnto the Monkes and other religious persons and conuerted the ouerplus vnto the kings vse Wherevpon the Abbots and Priors were glad to followe the Courte and such to redeâ—… not their sinnes but their goodes with giuing of a fourth parte thereof The Cleargie suffered many iniuries in that season for religious men were spoyled and robbed in the Kynges hygh way and could not haue anye restitution nor remedie againste them that thus euill intreated them till they had redeemed the Kyngs protection Persons and Vicars The 〈◊〉 of Câ—… and other of the Cleargie when they rode soorthe any whether were gladde to apparell themselues in lay mens garmentes so to passe through the Countrey in safetie The Archbyshoppe of Caunterbury lost all the goodes that hee hadde The 〈◊〉 shop of â—…terâ—… goâ—…â—…cale for hee woulde neyther agree to giue anye thing nor to lay any thyng downe in the Churche that the Kyng myghte receyue it Wherevpon he was brought to such extreame miserie that all his seruauntes wente from hym and commaundemente was giuen foorthe that no man shoulde receyue him neyther within Monasterie nor without and so not hauing anye one place of all hys Byshopricke where to laye hys head hee remayned 〈◊〉 the house of a poore person onely with one Pâ—…eâ—… The 〈…〉 the 〈…〉 â—â—rbury and one Clearke yet he stiffely stoode in the matter affirming certaynely that all those whyche graunted anye thing eyther to the Kyng or to any other temporall person withoute the Popes leaue ranne withoute doubte into the daunger of the sentence pronounced in the Canon Aboute the feast of Saint Mathewe in Februarie A Parâ—… at Saâ—… the Kyng called a Parliamente of hys nobles not admitting thereto any of the Cleargie at Salisburie and there required certayne of hys Nobles to passe ouer into Gascoigne but euery of them seemed to excuse hymselfe whereat the Kyng beeyng moued threatned that they shoulde eyther goe or hee woulde gyâ—… theyr landes to other that woulde goe with whyche wordes many of them were greeuously offended in so muche that the Earles of Hereforde and Marshall Humfrey Bohun and Roger Bigod declared that they woulde bee ready to goe with the Kyng if hee wente himselfe or else not And when the Earle Marshall was eftsoones required to goe hee aunswered I will willingly goe with the King and marche before hym in the fore warde as by righte of inheritance I am â—…unden Yea sayeth the Kyng and you shall goe with other though I goe not I am not 〈◊〉 bounde sayth the Earle neyther doe I purpose to take the iourneye in hande with you The king then in a greate chafe burst out and sware By God sir Earle eyther thou shalt goe or hange and I swane fayth the Erle the same othe that I will neyther goe nor hang and so departed from the Kyng without leaue taking 〈◊〉 disloyall demeanour of â—…he tvvo erles And immediatly herevpon those two Erles assembled many noble men and other of their frendes togither to the number of thirtie Banâ—…rettes and aboue so that in all they were founde to be xv C men of armes appoynted and ready for battayle and herewith they withdrew into their countreys and kepte suche sturre there that they woulde not permitte the kyngs Officers to take neyther Woolles leather nor any thing againste the owners wyl but forbad them on pain of loosing theyr heads to come within theyr coâ—…thes and wythall prepared them selues to resyste if neede were They hadde â—…th them six â—…eedmen 〈◊〉 armes and 〈◊〉 thousande â—…otmen as Aâ—…ngdon hath In this meane tyme the warre was prosecuted in Gascoyne The thursdaye before the Purification of our Lady Henry Earle 〈◊〉 Lyncolne and the lord Iohn Saint Iohn departing from Bayonne towardes Bellegard a place besieged as then by the Earle of Arthoys to succour them within the same with victuals wherof they stoode in neede as they approched to a wood distant from the fortresse a three miles they deuided themselues into two seuerall battailes the Lord Iohn Saint Iohn leadyng the fyrst and the Earle of Lyncolne the seconde â—…tayle beâ—…ixt the erle 〈◊〉 Lincoln and â—…e Erle of Arâ—… vvho had â—…n him .1500 〈◊〉 of armies as â—…bingdoÌ„ hath The Lord Saint Iohn therfore hauyng passed the wood with his battayle and entryng into the playne fieldes was encountred by the Earle of Arthoys who tarried there for hym wyth a greate power where immediatly at the first ioynyng of the battayles the Earle of Lincolne retyred backe so that the Lorde Iohn Saint Iohn and his companye ouersette with preasse of enimies were vanquished and the said Lorde Saint Iohn with Syr William de Mortymer Sir William Burmengham and other to the number of eyght Knyghtes and diuers Esquires were taken the whiche were sente to Parys as Prisoners Abingdon Other wryte somewhat otherwyse f thys battayle as that vppon the firste encounter the Englishmen droue backe one regimente of the Earle of Arthoys hys men of armes whome hee deuided into foure partes but when they once ioyned wyth the seconde regiment to the whyche they were beaten backe forewarde they come agayne and so chargyng the Englishemenne with helpe of theyr thyrde squadrone whiche was nowe come to them also they easily put the Englishmen oppressed with multitude vnto flyghte and followe them in chase After thys came the Englyshemen whyche were in the rerewarde and encountryng wyth the fourthe squadrone or regiment of the Frenchemenne streyghte wayes brake the same Heerewith was the nyghte come vppon them so so that one coulde not knowe an other a friende
inquiri Et quod omnes illos quos per inquisitioneÌ„ culpabiles inuenire contigerit et quos vos is sic liberaueritis à nobis recipiaÌ„tur et qucruÌ„ nomina eis scire faciatis assuÌ„pto secuÌ„ sufficieÌ„ti posse comitatus praedicti sine dilatione arrestari in prisona nostra saluo securè custodire faciat in forma praedicta communitati dicti comitatus quod simul cum vicecomite praedicto vobis quocienscunque opus fuerit in praemissis pareat assistat intendat prout eis iniungetis ex parte nostra In cuius rei testimonium c. Heerevnto were annexed certaine articles by way of instructions of what pointes they should enquire as partly aboue is noted out of the addition to Mathewe West but not so fully as in the said Chronicle of Abingdon is found expressed 〈◊〉 reg 33. â—…305 â—…ce Edâ—… coÌ„mitâ—… ward â—…on â—…an and heere for breefenesse omitted In the 33. yere of his raigne K. Edward putte his son Prince Edward in prison bycause y t hee had riotously brokeÌ„ the parke of Walter Langton B. of Chester and bycause the Prince hadde done this dede by the procurement of a lewd and wanton person one Peers Gauaston an Esquire of Gascoigne the K. banished him the Realme least the prince who delited much in his company might by his euil wanton counsel fall to 〈◊〉 and naughty rule Moreouer the same yere William Walace taken and put to deathe Ri. South Wil. Walace was taken deliuered vnto K. Edwarde who caused him to be brought to LoÌ„don where on S. Bartholmewes euen hee was conueyed through the streetes vnto Westminster there arreigned of his treasons condemned therevppon hanged drawen quartered his head was set ouer LondoÌ„ bridge his right side ouer the bridge at New-castell vppon Tine his left side was sent to â—…erwike and there set vp his right legge was sent to S. Iohns Towne and his left vnto Aberden in which places the same were set vp for an example of terror to others Also about the same time the K. of Fraunce required the K. of Englande by messengers and letters sent vnto him that he would banish al the Flemings out of his Realme Nich. Triuet in like manner as at his instance he had lately before banished al the ScottishmeÌ„ out of France The K. of Englande was coÌ„tented so to doe and by that meanes Flemings banished the land at contemplation of the Kyng of Fraunce Abingdon The Archbyshop of Caunterbury accused by the K. Nich Triuet He is suspended were all the Flemings auoided out of this laÌ„d at y e season but shortly after they returned againe King Edward accused Robert Archbishop of Canterbury vnto the Pope for y t he should goe aboute to trouble the quiet state of the Realme to defende and succour rebellious persons wherevppon the said Archb. beeing cited to the Popes consistory was suspended from executing his office till hee shoulde purge himselfe by order of lawe of suche crimes as were laid obiected againste him The K. also obteined an absolution of the Pope of the othe which against his will he had taken for the obseruing of the liberties exacted by force of him by the Erles and Barons of his Realm namely touching disforrestings to be made This yere Robert Bruce contriuing wayes how to make himself K. of Scotland An. reg 34. 1306 Iohn Lorde Comin flayne by Roberte Bruce the 29. day of Ianuarie slew y t Lord Iohn Comin at DuÌ„frice whilest the Kinges Iustices were sitting in iudgemeÌ„t within the Castell there and vpon the day of the annunciation of our Lady caused him self to be Crowned K. of Scotlande at Scone where the Countesse of Boughan that was secretely departed from hir husbande the Earle of Boghan had taken with hir The Countes of Boughan set the Crowne on Roberte Bruce his head all his greate horses was ready to set the Crowne vpon the Bruces head in absence of hir brother y e Erle of Fife to whom being then in England soiourning at his manor of Whitwike in Leicestershire y e office of right apperteined She is taken This Countesse beyng afterwardes taken the same yeare by the Englishmen where other woulde haue had hir put to death the King woulde not grant therevnto but commanded that he shuld be put in a cage made of wood Hir punishment whiche was set vppon the walles of the Castell of Berwike that all suche as passed by might behold hir There were present at his Coronation four bishops fiue Erles a great multitude of people of the lande Immediately vppon y e newes brought to the K. of Bruces coronatioÌ„ he sente forthe a power of men An army sent into Scotland vnder the conduit of the Erle of Pembroke and of the Lord Henry Perey the Lord Robert Clifford and others to resist the attemptes of the Scottes now ready to worke some mischiefe through the encouragement of y e new King Prince Edward made Knight Edward Prince of Wales was made knight this yeare at LondoÌ„ vpoÌ„ Whitsonday Thre hundred hath M. West a great number of other yong bachelers with him 297. as Abingdon writeth the whyche were sent straightwayes with y e saide Prince towards ScotlaÌ„d to ioyne with the Earle of PeÌ„broke to resist the attemptes of the new K. Robert le Bruce and his complices Prince Edward sent into Scotland K. Edwarde himselfe followed The general assemblie of y e army was appointed at Careleill a fifteene dayes after the Natiuitie of S. Iohn Baptist froÌ„ theÌ„ce to marche forth vnder the guiding of the Prince into ScotlaÌ„d Robert Bruce In the meane time Roberte le Bruce went abroade in the countreys of Scotlande receyued the homages of many Scottishmenne and got togither an army of men with the whiche he approched neere to S. Iohns Towne into the which the Earle of Pembroke was alittle before entred to defende it Abingdon with three hundred menne of armes beside footemen The Bruce sent vnto the Erle to come out giue battell y e Erle sent vnto him word againe that he would not fight y e day being sunday It was the next sunday after Midsomer day but vpoÌ„ the next morow he would satisfie his request Robert Bruce herevpoÌ„ withdrew a mile backe froÌ„ the towne determining to rest himselfe and his people that night About euening tide coÌ„meth the Earle foorth of the towne with his people in order of battell and assayling his enimies vpon a suddaine Robert Bruce put to flight by the Earle of Pembroke slew diuers ere they could get their armour on their backes Roberte Bruce and others that hadde some space to arme theÌ„selues made some resistance for a while but at length the English meÌ„ put them to the worse so that they were constreyned to flee Robert Bruce fled into Cantir The Earle following y e chase pursued theÌ„ eueÌ„
Sir Iohn Chandos if by the false coâ—…ance of the said Katrington it had not hiâ—… maâ—… away and alienated into the enimies hands hee offered therefore to trie the quarrell by 〈◊〉 against the saide Katrington wherevpon was the same Katrington apprehended and 〈…〉 prison but shortly after set at libertie againe Whilest the Duke of Lancaster during the time that his father King Edward lay in hys last sicknesse did in al things what liked 〈◊〉 and so at the contemplation of the Lord Latimer as was thought hee releassed Katrington for the time so that Sir Iohn Annesley could not come to the effect of his sute in all the meane time 〈◊〉 nowe Such as feared to be charged with the like offences stayed the matter till at length by the opinion of true and auntiente Knightes â—…t was defyned Triall by 〈…〉 in 〈◊〉 case laâ—… that for such a foraine controuersie that hadde not risen within the limmitâ—… 〈◊〉 the Realme but touched possession of thynges on the further side the sea it was lawfull to haue it tryed by battayle if the cause were firste notified to the Connestable and Marshall of the realme and that the combate was accepted by the parties Herevpon was the day and place appoynted and all things prouided readie with lystes rayled and made so substantially as if the same shoulde haue endured for euer The concourse of people that came to LoÌ„don to see this tried was thought to exceede that of the kings coronation so desyrous men were to beholde a sight so straunge and vnaccustomed The King and his Nobles and all the people beeing come togyther in the morning of the day appoynted to the place where the lystes were set vp The order of the Combate the knight beeing armed and mounted on a fayre courser seemely trapped entereth first as appellant staying till his aduersarie the defendant should come And shortly after was the Esquier called to defende his cause in this fourme Thomas Katrington defendant come and appeare to saue the action for whiche sir Iohn Annesley â–ª Knight and appellant hath publiquely by wryting appelled thee He being thus called thriseâ—…y an Herault at armes at the thirde call hee commeth armed likewise and ryding on a Courser trapped with Trappes embrodered with his armes At his approching to the lystes he alyght from his horse least according to the lawe of armes the Conestable shoulde haue chalenged the horse if he had entered within the lystes but his shifting nothing auayled him for the horse after hys maister was alyght beside him ranne vp and downe by the rayles The Erle of Buckingham day meth the horse nowe thrusting his heade ouer and nowe both heade and breast to that the Earle of Buckingham bycause he was highe Conestable of Englande claymed the Horse afterwardes swearing that hee woulde haue so much of hym as had appeared ouer the rayâ—…s and so the horse was adiudged vnto him But now to the matter of the combate for this chalenge of the Horse was made after as soone as the Esquier was come wythin the lysts the Indenture was brought forth by the Marshall and Conestable which had â—…eene made and sealed before them with consent of the partyes in which were conteyned the Articles exhibited by the knight agaynst the Esquier and there the same was read afore all the assemble The Esquier whose conscience was thought not to be cleare but rather guiltie went about to make exceptions that his cause by some meanes might haue seemed the soundâ—…e But the Duke of Lancaster hearing him so staye at the matâ—…er â—…ware that except according to the conditions of the combate and the lawe of armes hee woulde admit all things in the Indentures comprysed that were not made without his owne consent he shoulde as guiltie of the treason forthwith be had forth to execution The Duke with those wordes wanne greate commendation and auoyded no small suspition that had beene conceyued of him as partiall in the Esquires cause The Esquier hearing this sayd that he durst fight with the knight not onely in those poyntes but in all other in the worlde what soeuer the same might be For he trusted more to his strength of bodie and fauour of his friendes than in the cause whiche he had taken vpon hym to defende Hee was in deede a mightie man of stature where the knight among those that were of a meane stature was one of the least Friendes to the Esquier in whom he had great affyance to be borne out through their assystance were the Lordes Latimer and Basset wyth other Before they entred battaile they tooke an othe as well the knight as the Esquier that the cause in which they were to fight was true and that they delt with no witche craft nor arte Magicke whereby they â—…ughe obteyne the victorie of their aduersarie for had about the any herb or stone or other kind of experiment with which Magicians vse to triumph ouer theyr enimies This othe receyued of eyther of them and there with haâ—…g made their prayers deuoutly they begin the battayle first with speares after with swordes and lastly with daggers They â—…ght long 〈…〉 the knight had bereft the esquier of all his weapons The Esquire is ouerthrowne 〈…〉 length 〈◊〉 Esquier 〈…〉 ouerthrowne by the knight but as the knight woulde haue fallen vppon the Esquier through 〈…〉 downe by his helmet his sighte was Hâ—…d so that thinking to fall vpon the Esquires hee fell downe sideâ—…ing himselfe not comming more to the Esquier whâ—…â—…yâ—…g what had happened although he 〈…〉 come with long fighting made to the knight and threw himselfe vpon him so that many thought the knight shoulde haue beene ouercome other doubted not but that the knight woulde recouer his feete againe and get the victorie of his aduersarie The king in the meane tyme caused it to bee proclaymed that they shoulde stay and that the knight shoulde be raysed vp from the ground and so ment to take vp the matter betwixt them To be short such were sent as should take vp the Esquier but comming to the knight hee besought them that it might please the king to permit them to lie still for he thanked God hee was well and mistrusted not to obteyne the victorie if the Esquier might be layde vpon him in maner as he was earst Finally when it woulde not bee so graunted hee was contented to be raysed vp and was no sooner set on his feete but hee cheerefully went to the King without any mans helpe where the Esquier coulde neyther stand nor go without the helpe of two men to holde him vp and therefore was set in his Chaire to take his ease to see if hee might recouer his strength The knight at his comming before the king besought him and his nobles to graunt him so much that hee might bee eftsoones layde on the ground as before and the Esquier to be layd aloft vpoÌ„ him for the knight perceyued that the esquire through excessiue
they were mured in so that oute they coulde not gette They lay there showting and crying seuen dayes togyther and were hearde of manye but none came to helpe them and so finally they perished Now after that these wicked people had thus destroyed the duke of Lancasters house and done what they coulde deuise to his reproch The lawiers lodgings in the temple â—…nt by the rebels they went to the Temple and burnt the men of lawes lodgings with their bookes writings and all that they might lay hande vpon Also the house of S. Iohns by Smithfielde they set on fire so that it burned for the space of seuen dayes togither On Friday a great number of them esteemed to .xx. thousande went to the Manour of Heyburie that belonged also to the Lorde of Saint Iohns and setting fire on it sought vtterly to destroy all the whole buildings about it They were nowe deuided into three partes one vnder the leading of Iacke Strawe tooke in hande to ruinate that house and an other number of them lay on Mile ende greene and the thirde companie kept vpon the Tower hill and woulde not suffer anye vittayles to be conueyed into the Tower where the king at that tyme was lodged and was put in suche feare by those rude people that hee suffered them to enter into the Tower where they soughte so narrowly for the Lorde Chauncellour The L. Chanâ—…elor and the L. Treasurer â—…wne out of â—…eÌ„ Tower 〈◊〉 to death â—…y the rebels that fynding him in the Chapell they drewe him forth togyther with the Lorde Treasorer and on the Tower hill without reuerence of theyr estates and degrees with greate noyse and fell cryes they stroke off theyr heades There were also beheaded the same tyme by those rude people one of the kings seruaunts that was a Sergeant at armes called Iohn Legge who had vsed himselfe somewhat extreemely in gathering vp of the pole money as by one writer it appeareth â—…h VVals Also to make vp the messe they beheaded a Franciscan Frier whom thee had taken there the same time for malice of the Duke of Lancaster bycause he was verie familiar with him Some write that this Frier was Confessor and other say that he was Phisition to the King but whatsoeuer he was the Commons chopped off his head to beare the other companie not sparing for any respect that might be alledged in any of their behalfes The same day also they beheaded manye others as well English men as Flemings for no cause in the worlde but onely to satisfie the crueltie of the Commons that then were in theyr kingdome for it was a sport to them when they gat any one amongst them that was not sworne to them and seemed to myslike of their doings The raging rebels make a pastime to kil meÌ„ or if they bare but neuer so little hatred to him streyghtwayes to plucke off his Hoode with such a yelling noyse as they tooke vp amongst them and immediatelye to come thronging into the streetes and stryke off hys heade Neither had they any regarde to sacred places for breaking into the Churche of the Augustine Friers they drew forth thirtene Flemings No respect of place with the rebels and beheaded them in the open streetes and out of the parishe Churches in the Citie they tooke forth .xvij. and lykewyse stroke of theyr heades wythout reuerence eyther of the Churche or feare of God But they continuing in theyr mischieuous purpose shewed their malice specially against straungers so that entring into euery streete lane and place where they might finde them they brake vp their houses murthered them whiche they founde wythin and spoyled theyr goodes in most outragious maner Likewise they entred into Churches as before yee haue heard into Abbeyes Monasteries The outragious dealings of the rebels and other houses namely of men of law whiche in semblable sorte they ransacked They also brake vp the prisons of Newgate and of both the Counters destroyed the bookes and set prisoners at libertie and likewise the Sanctuarie men of Saint Martyne le grand And so likewise dyd they at Westminster where they brake open the Eschequer and destroyed the ancient bookes and other Recordes there They that entred the Tower vsed themselues most presumptuously and no lesse vnreuerently agaynst the princesse of Wales mother to the K. for thrusting into hir ChaÌ„ber they offred to kisse hir and swasht themselues downe vpon hir bed putting hir into suche feare that shee fell into a sowne and being taken vp and recouered was had to the water side and put into a Barge and coÌ„ueyed to the place called the Queenes Wardrobe or the tower Ryall where she remayned all that day and night following as a woman halfe deade till the King came to recomfort hir It was straunge to consider in what feare the Lordes knightes and gentlemen stoode of the cruell proceedings of those rude base people For where there were six huÌ„dred armed men and as many archers in the tower aâ—… that present there was not one that durst gainsay theyr doings Finally when they hadde cased theyr stomackes wyth the spoyling burning and defacing of sundrye places they became more quiet and the king by the aduice of such as were theÌ„ about him The K. offreth the rebels pardoÌ„ vpon good deliberation of counsaile offred to theÌ„ pardon and his peace with condition that they should cease from burning and ruinating of houses from killing and murthering of men and depart euerie man to his home without more adoe and there to tarrie for the kings Charters confirmatorie of the same pardon The Essex men were content with this offer as they that were desirous to see their wiues and children being waxen wearie of continuall trauaile and paynes which they were constrayned to take Froissart The king went forth vnto Mile ende and there declared vnto the coÌ„mons that they shoulde haue charters made to them of his grauÌ„t to make them all free And further that euery shire towne lordship and libertie should haue banners of his armes deliuered vnto them for a confirmation of his graunt Herevpon they seemed well appeased and the king rode to the Queenes Wardrobe otherwise called the Tower ryall to visit his mother and so did comfort hir so well as he coulde and taried with hir there all night The Essex men satisfied with the kings promises immediately departed homewarde They appoynted yet certaine of their companie to remayne still and tarie for the kings Charters The Kentish men also remayned and were as busie in maner the next day being Saterday in all kinde of mischieuous dealings as they had bene before to wit in murthering of men ouerthrowing and burning of houses The king therfore sent vnto them such as declared in what sort their fellowes were gone home well satisfied and from thenceforth to liue in quiet and the same forme of peace he was contented to graunt vnto them if it lyked them to accept the
Earle of Kente was appoynted about this time to keepe the Seas 1462 being accompanyed with the Lord Audeley the Lord Clinton Sir Iohn Howard Sir Richard Walgraue and other to the number of tenne thousand who landing in Britayne wanne the Towne of Conquet and the Isle of Keth and after returned When all things were brought in order An. reg 2. The Duke of Somerset and other submit them to King Edwarde and framed as Kyng Edwarde in manner coulde wishe Henrye Duke of Somerset Sir Raufe Percye and diuers other being in despaite of all good chance to happen vnto King Henrye came humbly and submitted themselues vnto Kyng Edward whome he gently receyued Shortly after Queene Margaret obteyned a great company of Scottes other of hir friēds and so bringing hir husbande with hir and leauing hir sonne called Prince Edward in the towne of Berwike Banborough Castell entred Northumberlande tooke the Castell of Banborough and stuffed it with Scottishmen and made thereof Captaine Sir Raufe Grey and came forwarde towarde the Bishopricke of Durham When the Duke of Somerset heard these newes The Duke of Somerset reuolteth hee without delay reuolted from King Edwarde and fledde to King Henry So likewise did Sir Raufe Percie and many other of the kings friēds but many moe followed King Henrye in hope to get by the spoyle for his army spoyled and brenned townes destroyed fields wheresoeuer he came King Edwarde aduertised of all these things prepared an army both by sea and land Some of hys Shippes were rigged and vittailed at Linue and some at Hull and well furnished with soldiers herewith were set forth to the sea Also the Lorde Montacute was sent into Northumberlande there to reyse the people to withstand his enimies And after this the King in his proper person acompanyed with his breethren and a greate parte of the nobilitie of hys Realme came to the Citie of Yorke furnished with a mightie army sending a great part therof to the ayde of the Lord Montacute least peraduenture he giuing too much confidence to the men of the Bishopricke and Northumberlande might through them be deceyued The Lorde Montacute The Lorde Montacute then hauing suche with him as hee might trust marched forth towards his enimies and by the way was encountred with the Lorde Hungerford the Lord Roos Sir Raufe Percy and diuers other Hegely More at a place called Hegely more where suddaynely the saide Lordes in manner without stroke striking fled and only sir Raufe Percy abode and was there manfully slayne Sir Raufe Percyeslaine with diuers other saying when he was dying I haue saued the bird in my bosome meaning that he had kept his promise and oth made to K. Hēry forgetting belike that hee in King Henries most necessitie abandoned hym and submitted him to king Edward as before you haue heard Beside these diuers other to the number of fiue and twentie were executed at Yorke and in other places Sir Humfrey Neuill and William Taylvoys calling hymselfe Earle of Kyme Sir Raufe Grey and Richard Tunstall with dyuers other which escaped from this battel hidde themselues in secrete places but yet they kepte not themselues so close but that they were espyed The earle of Kyme otherwise Angus beheaded and taken The Earle of Kyme was apprehended in Riddesdale and brought to Newcastell and there beheaded Sir Humfrey Neuill was taken in Holdernes and at Yorke lost his head After this battell called Exam field Kyng Edwarde came to the Citie of Duresme and sent from thence into Northumberland y e Erle of Warwike the Lord Montacute the Lordes Fawconbridge and Scrope to recouer suche Castels as his enimies there held and with force defended ◅e Castel besieged They first besieged the Castell of Alnowike whiche Sir Peers Bresse and the Frenchmen kepte Eight thousād hath ◅ar dyng and in no wise woulde yeelde sending for ayde to the Scottes wherevppon Sir George Douglas earle of Angus wyth thirteene thousande chosen men in the daye tyme came and rescued the Frenchmen out of the Castell the Englishmen looking on which thought it much better to haue the Castell without losse of theyr men than to leese both the Castell and theyr men considering the greate power of Scottes and their owne small number and so they entred the Castell and manned it After this they wanne the Castell of Dunstanborough by force and likewise the Castel of Bamborough Iohn Goys seruant to the Duke of Somerset being taken within Dunstanbourough was brought to Yorke and there beheaded and Syr Raufe Grey beeing taken in Bamborough for that he had sworne to be true to King Edward was disgraded of the high order of Knighthood at Doncaster by cutting off his gilt spurres rēting his coate of armes and breaking his sword ouer his head and finally he was there beheaded for his manifest periurie After this King Edwarde returned to Yorke where in despite of the Earle of Northumberlande whiche then kepte himselfe in the Realme of Scotland he created Sir Iohn Neuill Lorde Montacute Earle of Northumberlande and in reproofe of Iasper Earle of Pembroke he created William Lorde Herbert Earle of the same place but after when by mediation of friends the Earle of Northumberland was reconciled to his fauoure hee restored him to his possessions name and dignitie and preferred the Lord Montacute 1464 to the title of Marques Montacute so that in degree he was aboue his elder brother the Earle of Warwike but in power policie and possessiōs far meaner King Edwarde An. reg 4. though all things myghte seeme nowe to rest in good case yet hee was not negligent in making necessarie prouisiō against all attemptes of his aduersarie King Henrye and his partakers and therefore reysed Bulwarkes and buylded fortresses on eache side of his Realme where anye daunger was suspected for the landing of any armie He caused also espials to be laide vpon y e marches fore aneinst Scotlande that no person shoulde goe out of the Realme to King Henrie and his companie whiche then soiourned in Scotland But all the doubtes of trouble that might ensue by the meanes of K. Henries being at libertie were shortly taken away and ended for he himselfe whether he was past all feare or that he was not wel established in his w◅s and perfect minde or for that he could not long keepe himselfe secret in a disguised apparell boldly entred into England He was no sooner entred King Henry taken but he was knowen and taken of one Cantlow and brought toward the King whome the Earle of Warwike mette on the way by the kings commandement brought him through London to the Tower and there he was layde in sure hold Queene Margaret his wife hearing of the captiuitie of hir husband mistrusting the chance of hir sonne al desolate and comfortlesse departed out of Scotland sailed into France where she remayned with hir father Duke Reigner tyll she returned into Englande to
and amongst them the blacke Smith and other the chiefe Captaines which were shortely after put to death When this battel was ended the K. wanted of al his numbers but three hundred which were slayne at that conflict Some affirme that the King appointed to haue fought with them not till the Monday and preuenting the time set on thē on the Saterday before taking the vnprouided and in no aray of battel and so by that policie obteyned the field and victory The prisoners as well captaines as other were pardoned sauing the chiefe captaynes and first beginners to whome hee shewed no mercye at all Iames Lorde Audeley beheaded The L. Audeley was drawen frō Newgate to the Tower hill in a coate of hys owne armes paynted vppon paper reuersed and all to torne and there was beheaded the four and twētith of Iune Tho. Flammock Mighel Ioseph were hanged drawen and quartered after y e maner of Traitors and their heads and quarters were pitched vpon stakes and set vp in Londō and in other places Although at the first the K. meant to haue sent thē into Cornewal to haue bin set vp there for a terror to all others but hearing that the Cornishmen at home were readie to begin a new cōspiracy least he should y e more irritate and prouoke them by that displeasaunte sight he changed his purpose for doubte to wrap himselfe in more trouble than needed Foxe bishop of Durham The Bishop of Durham Richard Foxe being owner of that Castell had well furnished it both with men and munitions aforehand doubting least that would follow which came nowe to passe The Byshoppe after that the Scottes made this inuasion aduertised the King as then being at London of all things that chanced in the North parts and sent in all post hast to y e Erle of Surrey to come to the rescue The Earle being then in Yorkeshire and hauing gathered an army vpon knowledge giuen to hym from the Byshop with al diligence marched forward and after him folowed other noble men out of all the quarters of the North euerye of them bringing as many men as they coulde gather for defence of their countrey Amongst whom the chiefe leaders were these Raufe Erle of Westmerlād Thomas Lord Dacres Raufe Lord Neuill George Lord Straunge Richard Lorde Latimer George Lorde Lumley Iohn Lorde Scrope Henrye Lorde Clifford George Lord Ogle William Lord Conyers Thomas Lord Darcy Of Knightes Thomas Baron of Hilton Sir William Percy Sir William Bulmer Sir William Gascoigne Sir Raufe Bigod Sir Raufe Bowes Sir Tho. a Parre Sir Raufe Ellecker Sir Iohn Connestable Sir Iohn Ratclif Sir Iohn Sauill Sir Tho. Strangweys a great nūber of other knightes and Esquiers besydes The whole armye was little lesse than twentie thousand men beside the nauie whereof the Lord Brooke was Admirall When the Scottes had diuers wayes assaulted and beaten the Castell of Norham but coulde make no batrie to enter the same they determined of their owne accorde to reyse the siege and returne and that so much the sooner in very dede bycause they heard that the Erle of Surrey was within two dayes iourney of them with a great puissance Wherefore King Iames reysed hys siege and returned home into his owne Realme When the Earle knew of the Kings returne he followed him with all hast possible trustyng surely to ouertake him and to giue him battayle When the Earle was entred Scotlande he ouerthrewe and defaced the Castell of Cawdestreymes the tower of Hetenhall the tower of Edingtō the tower of Fulden and he sent Norrey King at armes to the Captayne of Hayton Castel whiche was one of the strongest places betwixt Berwike and Edēburgh to deliuer him the Castel which he denied to do affirming that he was sure of speedie succours The Erle heerevpon layde his ordinance to the Castel and continually beate it from two of the clock till fiue at night in such wise that they within rendered vp the place their liues only saued The Earle caused his miners to rase and ouerthrow y e fortresse to the playn groūd The Scottish K. was w tin a mile of the siege both knew it sawe y e smoke but would not set one foote forward to y e rescue While the Earle lay at Hayton the K. of Scottes sent to him Machemont and an other Herrauld desiring him at his election eyther to fight with whole puissance against puissance or else they two to fight person to person requiring that if the victorie fell to the Scottish K. that then the Earle should deliuer for his raunsome the town of Berwike with the fishgarthes of the same The Earle made aunswere heereto that the Towne of Berwike was the Kyng his maisters and not his the whiche hee neyther oughte nor woulde lay to pledge without the King of Englands assent but he woulde guage his bodie which was more precious to him than all the townes of the worlde promising on hys honour that if he tooke the king prisoner in that singular combate he would release to him all his part of his fine and raunsome and if it chaunced the king to vanquish him hee woulde gladly pay such raunsome as was conuenient for the degree of an Earle and thanked him greatly for the offer for surely he thought himselfe much honored that so noble a Prince woulde vouchsafe to admit so poore an Erle to fight with him body to body When he had rewarded and dismissed the Heraulds he set his armie in a readinesse to abide the comming of the king of Scots and so stoode all day But K. Iames not regarding his offers wold neyther performe the one nor the other fearing to cope with the English nation in anie cōdition and so therevpon fled in the night season with all his puissance Whē the Erle knew that the king was reculed and had beene in Scotlande sixe or seuen dayes being dayly and nightly vexed with continuall wind and raine vpon good and deliberate aduise returned backe to the town of Berwik and there dissolued his armie tarying there himself till hee might vnderstande further of the Kings pleasure This Spanish Ambassador so earnestly trauailed in his message to the king of Scottes that at length he found him conformable to his purpose and therfore wrote to the king of England that it would please him to sende one of his Nobilitie or counsayle to be associate with him in concluding of peace with the Scottish king The king of England was neuer daūgerous to agree to any reasonable peace so it mighte stand with his honour and therfore appoynted the Bishop of Durham doctor Fox to go into Scotland about that treatie which Peter Hyalas had begon The Bishoppe according to his commission went honorably into Scotland where he Peter Hyalas at the town of Iedworth after iōg arguing and debating of matters with the Scottishe Commissioners in steade of peace concluded a truce for certaine yeares vppon condition that Iames king of Scottes
request was graunted hee therefore demaunded of them if they knew him or euer had any conuersation with him and they all said no. Then the letter being shewed and redde he declared the very trueth of the matter and vpon what occasion he tolde Greeke of blacke Wil neuerthelesse hee was condemned and suffered These coÌ„demned persons were diuersly executed in sundry places for Michaell maister Ardens man was hanged in chaynes at Feuersham and one of the maides was brent there pitifully bewarling hir case and cryed out on hir mistres that had brought hir to this ende for the whiche she would neuer forgiue hir Mosby and his sister were haÌ„ged in Smithfielde at London mistres Arden was burned at Caunterbury the .14 of Marche Greene came againe certayne yeares after was apprehended condenmed and hanged in cheynes in the hygh way betwixt Ospring and Boughton agaynste Feuersham black Wil was brent on a scaffolde at Flishing in Zeland Adam Foule that dwelte at the floure de lice in Feuersham was broughte into trouble about this matter and caried vp to London with his legges bound vnder the horse belly and committed to prison in the Marshalsey for that Mosby was heard to say had it not bin for Adam Foule I hadde not come to thys trouble meaning that the bringing of the siluer dice for a token to him from mistres Arden as ye haue heard occasioned him to renue familiaritie with hir againe but when the matter was throughly ripped vp and that Mosby had clered him protesting that he was neuer of knowledge in any behalfe to the murther the mans innocencie preserued him This one thing seemeth verye straunge and notable touching master Arden that in the place where he was layd being dead all the proportion of his body might be seene two yeares after and more so playne as could be for the grasse did not growe where his body hadde touched but betweene his legges betweene hys armes and about the holownes of his necke and rouÌ„d about his body where his legges armes head or any parte of his body hadde touched no grasse growed at all of all that time so that many strangers came in that meane time beside the Townesmen to see the print of his body there on the ground in that field which field he hadde as some haue reported cruelly taken from a woman y t had bin a widow to one Cooke and after maried to one Richarde Read a mariner to the great hinderance of hir and hir husband the sayd Read for they had loÌ„g enioyed it by a leasse whiche they had of it for many yeares not then expired neuerthelesse he got it from them for the which y e saide Reades wife not only exclaymed against him in sheading many a salte teare but also cursed him most bitterly euen to his face wishing many a vengeance to light vpon him and that all the worlde might wonder on hym which was thought then to come to passe when hee was thus murthered and lay in that fielde from midnight till the morning and so all that day being the fayre day till night all the whyche daye there were many hundreds of people came wondering aboute hym And thus farre touching this horrible and haynous murther of master Arden To returne then where we lefte About this tyme A Parliament â–ª the Kyngs maiestie calling hys hygh Couer of Parliamente helde the same at Westminster the three and twentith daye of Ianuary in thys fifth yeare of hys raigne and there continued it vntill the fiftenth daye of Aprill in the sixth yeare of his sayd raigne In this Parliamente the Booke of common prayer which in some part had bin corrected and amended was newly confirmed and established And in the ende of thys Parliamente The sweatâ—… sicknesse there chanced a great and contagious sicknesse to happen in the Realme whych was called the sweating sicknesse whereof a great number of people dyed in a small time namelye in the Citie of London And it seemed that God hadde appoynted the sayde sicknes onely for the plague of Englishmenne for the most that dyed thereof were men and not women nor children And so it folowed the Englishmen that suche Merchants of England as were in Flaunders and Spayne and other Countreys beyonde the Sea were visited therewithall and none other nation infected therewith And it began first in Aprill in y e North parts and so came through the Realme and continued vntill September nexte following The disease was suddayne and greeuous so that some beeyng in perfect health in one houre were gone and dead within foure houres nexte following And the same being hote and terrible inforced the people greately to call vppon God and to doe manye deedes of charitie but as the disease ceased so the deuotion quickly decayed At this time also the Kinges maiestie The embasiâ—… of the coyne with the aduice of hys priuie Counsaile and hauyng also great conference with merchants and other perceyuing that by suche coynes and copper moneys as hadde bin coyned in the time of the King his father and now wâ—â—â— commonly cuâ—…râ—â—t in 〈◊〉 Realme and in diedâ—… a great walâ—…r of them not 〈◊〉 thy halfe the valbeâ—… thâ—…t they were 〈◊〉 at to the greate dishonour of the Kings mâ—…dist 〈◊〉 and the Realme and to the deceit and aâ—…dinâ—… 〈◊〉 hindetaure of all the Kynges maiesties 〈◊〉 of subiectes did nowe purpose not onely the aâ—…sirâ—… of the saâ—…â—…pper moneys but also meant whâ—…lly to 〈◊〉 oâ—… them into Bâ—…llyoÌ„ to the intent deliuer fine and good moneys for them And therfore in the monetâ—… of Iuly by his graces Proclamation he abased the peece of .xij. peâ—…ce commonly called a teston vnto nine pees and the peece of four pence vnto three prince And in Augusturâ—…t following the peece of nine pence was abased to sixe pence and the pâ—…ece of three pence vnto hys pence and the pennie to an halâ—… pennie The eleuenth daye of October there was it greate creation of Dukes and Earles as the L. Marques Dorset was created D. of Suffolke the Earle of Warwike made Duke of Northumberlande and the Earle of Wilshire made Marques of Winchester and sir William Harbert maister of y e horse was made Erle of Pembroke diuers Gentlemen were made Knights â—…e Duke of â—…arter aâ—… appreâ—… and committed to â—…e Tower The sixtenth day of the saide moneth beeing Friday the D. of Sâ—â—erset was agayne apprehended and his wife also and committed to the Tower and with hâ—â— also were committed sir Michaell Stanhope sir Thomas Arundell Sir Rauf Auane sir Miles Partridge and other for suspition of treason and â—…elonie whereof they all were shortly afterindicted and so standing endicted the seconde day of December next following the said Duke was brought out of y e Tower of London with the axe of the Tower borne before him with a greate nuÌ„ber of villes gleiues howards and pollaxes attending vpon him and so came into Westminster Hall where was made in