the MOWBRAYES who had beene all Dukes of Norfolke enioyed this Honour by right of Inheritance But because in Bosworth field where hee was slaine hee tooke part with the Vsurper both he and his Posteritie were deprived of that Honour This THOMAS dying in the yeare 1524. his Sonne of the same name succeeded him who deceased in the yeare 1554. His Sonne HENRY a young Lord of great hopes his Father then living was beheaded towards the end of this Kings Raigne Hee left Issue THOMAS the last Duke of Norfolke who also lost his head the yeare 1572. and HENRY at nurse when his Father died a very learned and wise man whom King IAMES no good man repining thereat created Earle of Northampton THOMAS Duke of Norfolke had three Sonnes that survived him PHILIP THOMAS and WILLIAM PHILIP Earle of Surrey and by his Mother of Arundell condemned the yeare 1589. and after dying in prison left Issue THOMAS then a little one who by King IAMES his favour succeeded his Father in his Honors His Vncle THOMAS out of the same fountaine of Royall Goodnes was created Earle of Suffolke with addition of the dignity of Lord Chamberlaine Beside these this Family hath CHARLES Earle of Nottingham Lord Admirall of England Nephew by the Lord WILLIAM his father to THOMAS Duke of Norfolke that famous Triumpher ouer the Scots This is he who in emulation of his grandfathers glory in the yeare 1588. vnder the fortune of Queene ELIZABETH most happily ouerthrew that vainely called Inuincible Armada of Spaine THOMAS also Viscount Bindon is deriued from THOMAS Duke of Norfolke by his sonne the Lord THOMAS So this noble House latély afflicted now gloriously flourishing hath foure Earles and a Viscount all braue and famous men and of whom there will be occasion of much to be spoken hereafter I therefore thought it good in briefe to set downe their Genealogie lest I should trouble the Reader with too often repetition of their Race vpon each mention of the Name At the time of this Dukes creation others were also honored with new titles CHARLES BRANDON made Duke of Suffolke and CHARLES SOMERSET Earle of Worcester and EDWARD STANLEY Lord Mountegle Sir WILLIAM BRANDON Standard bearer to HENRY the seuenth in Bosworth field and there slaine by the hand of RICHARD the Third was father to this new Duke of Suffolke of whose education he then a little one King HENRY hauing obtained the Crowne was verie carefull and made him rather a companion than a seruant to the young Prince of whose household hee was The Prince so greatly fauored him partly for his fathers deserts chiefely for his owne that he being afterward King created him Viscount Lisle and intending at least many were so persuaded to giue him to wife the Ladie MARY his sister who afterward was married to the King of France thought it first good to honour him with the Duchie of Suffolke which this yeare at the feast of Candlemas was performed But how he was frustrated of his hopes and afterward beyond all hope enioyed her shall be declared hereafter SOMERSET the naturall sonne of HENRY of the House of Lancaster the last Duke of Somerset tooke his surname of his fathâ—rs Honour whereas he should haue beene called BEAVFORT or rather PLANTAGENET according to the antient name of our English Kings Heâ— being Couzen german to HENRY the Seuenth whose mother was MARGARET Sister to the Duke of Somerset and famous for his many vertues of which that King was a quicke and exact Iudge was by him made L. high Chamberlaine of England But hauing behaued himself very valiantly in this last expedition against the French wherein GVICCIARDIN vntruly reporteth him to haue been slaine HENRY the eighth added this new title which his posteritie still inioyes to his antient honors He was great grandfather by his son HENRY nephew WILLIAM to EDWARD the now Earle who being one of his Maiesties most honorable priuy Counsel Lo. Priuy Seale doth by his vertues much more ennoble his so noble Ancestors The French King hearing of the ouerthrow of the Scots perceiuing himselfe depriued of such a frieud confederat seeing his kingdom on fire about his ears and none to relie vpon but himselfe determined if so he might fairely and with credit to craue his League with vs. Pope IVLIVS 2. the Incendiarie of Christendoine was lately dead and the French king himselfe was now a widower He therefore intends to try whither by marrying the lady MARY the kings sister he might secure himselfe from war on our side and by so neere alliance gaine the assured friendship of so potent a Prince LEO 10. succeeding IVLIVS 2. did openly side with the French against the Spaniard He therefore earnestly soliciting a reconciliation a Peace was cluded profitable to the French acceptable to vs and on the 9 of October the nuptials were with great pompe solemnised The French king was well stricken in yeres his wife a tender virgin of some 16. or 18. yeares of age but wonderfull beautifull Besides the forementioned reasons the desire of children for he had no masle issue on His part on Her part the publique weale the authoritie of her brother so willing and which beares chiefest sway in a womans heart the supremacy of honor in the title of a Queen were motiues to match so Vneuen a Paire But many not without cause were persuaded that she had rather haue made choice of BRANDON for her husband so her power had been answerable to her wil than the greatest Monarch in the world neither was it long before she enioyed her desire For the king as it often happens to elderly men that apply theÌ„selues to yong womeÌ„ died the last of Febr. hauing scarce 3 months suruiued his wedding The queenâ— might then lawfully according to the articles of agreemeÌ„t return into England which she earnestly desiring the Duke of Suffolke was sent to conduct her who becomming a fresh suitor vnto her so far easily preuailed that before their departure from Paris they were there priuatly married The marriage was afterward by the kings consent celebrated at Greenwich the 13 day of May of the ensuing yeare And now we must speake something of VVOLSEY'S sudden and for these our times incredible rising who hauing as we haue related before beene inuested in the Bishopricke of Tournay was within the yeare preferred to two other Bishopricks That venerable Bishop of Lincolne WILLIAM SMITH was lately deceased who beside many other monuments of his piety hauing begun in Oxford a Colledge for students called Brasen nose Colledge was immaturely taken away before he could finish so good a work So the Sea being vacant it is conferred on WOLSEY now high in the Kings fauour Hee was of verie meane parentage a Butchers sonne and Jpswiâ—h a towne in Suffolke but of Norwich Diocesse where hee afterward laid the foundation of a stately Colledge was the place of his birth He was brought vp at Oxford in
of Scripture The eight of December the King graced three noble and worthy men with new titles of honour THOMAS BOLEN Viscount Rochfort the King 's future Father in law was created Earle of Wiltshire ROBERT RATCLIF Viscount Fitz-Walter of the noble Family of the FITZ-WALTERS Earle of Sussex in which honour his sonne THOMAS his nephevves THOMAS first then HENRY brother to THOMAS and now ROBERT the sonne of HENRY have succeeded him And GEORGE Lord Hastings was made Earle of Huntingdon who left it to his son FRANCIS Father of HENRY who deceased without issue and GEORGE Grandfather to HENRY the now Earle by FRANCIS who died before his Father Anno Dom. 1530. Reg. 22. WILLIAM TINDALL having translated the New Testament into English and procured it to be printed at Antwerp had secretly dispersed many copies thereof throughout England Whereat the Bishops and Clergy especially those that were most addicted to the Doctrine of Rome stormed excedingly saying that this Translation was full of errours and that in the prefaces and else where it contained many things contrary to the Truth The King being angry with the Pope had long since determined to free himselfe from his vsurped power And therefore admonished the murmuring Clergy to correct this booke not to suppresse it for it was a most profitable worke and very necessary for the discovery of the deceits of the Court of Rome the tyranny whereof was become intolerable to all the Princes of Christendome Whereupon he giveth order to the Bishops and some other learned men to set forth a new Translation which his subiects might reade with safety and profit The hope of prevailing with the Pope by the French King's meanes had drawne HENRY to send on a second Embassage to the Pope the Earle of Wiltshire Doctour STOKESLEY Elect of London and EDWARD LEE WOLSEY his Successor in Yorke They found the Pope at Bononia with the Emperour but had no other answer to their demands then that his Holinesse when he came to Rome would indevour to do the King iustice Till then he could do nothing Faire meanes not prevailing the King runs another course â—y publique Proclamation throughout the Kingdome he forbids all commerce betweene his subiects and the Bishop of Rome commanding that no man should receive any thing from or send any thing especially money vnto him either by exchange or any other meanes calling him Tyrant the Harpy of the World the common Incendiary and deeming him vtterly vnworthy of that glorious title which he had vaingloriously vsurped Christs Vicar This in September But the wealth of the Clergy being very great and considering how they had in the Raignes of his Predecessors strongly sided with the Pope the King was some what iealous of them To curbe them hee condemnes the whole Clergy throughout the Kingdome in a Praemunire for that without licence from his Maiesty they had beene obedient to the authority of the Pope in acknowledging WOLSEY for his Legate The Clergy of the Province of Canterbury being assembled in Convocation buy their pardon at a hundred thousand pounds and in this Synode he is with much ado by the Clergy of both Provinces declared next vnder Christ Supreme Head of the Church of England and all foraine power or authority whatsoever disclaimed The Province of Yorke is moreover fined at eighteene thousand eight hundred forty pounds So this one fault if it may be so accompted it being certaine that WOLSEY was licenced to exercise his authority Legantine cost the Clergy a hundred and eighteene thousand eight hundred and forty pounds Anno Dom. 1531. Reg. 23. THe only publique memorable occurrents of this yeare were that the Laity for the most part as deepe in a Praemunire as the Clergy were by Act of Parliament pardoned In which assembly Sir THOMAS MORE Lord Chancellour and other remarkable speakers related at large the Conclusions of the Vniversities concerning the vnlawfulnesse of the Kings marriage And yet perhaps the notorious villany of RICHARD ROSE Cooke to the Bishop of Rochester might crave a place in this History who with poysoned broth killed sixteene of the Bishops servants The Bishop himselfe who was especially aimed at that day contrary to his accustomed diet forbearing broth escaped The poisoner according to a Law lately enacted was throwne into a cauldron of boyling water But the offence deserved tortures of a most exquisite straine Anno Dom. 1532. Reg. 24. ON the three and twentieth of August died WILLIAM WARHAM Archbishop of Canterbury to whom THOMAS CRANMER at that time in Germany about the Kings affaires was appointed Successor He was not so ambitious as to aspire to such a dignity and some reasons made him vnwilling to accept it being offred He knew before he could be consecrated he must sweare obedience to the Pope which with a safe conscience he could not He feared what would be the issue of this abrupt seperation from the Sea of Rome Hee knew the King's disposition to be violent such sudaine changes to be full of danger and the Court although hee had not yet purchased the acquaintance of it to be a meere schoole of fraud and dissembling The Kings pleasure must necessarily be obeyed and if he slipped neuer so little enuy the mischievous attendant of great felicity would helpe him forward to a breake-necke CRANMER also having long since lost his Wife whom he had married in his youth had taken a liking to a certaine maide neipce to OSIANDERS wife whom he intended to make his second wife yet hee knew that the Canon Law permitted not Priests to marry and made them vncapable of holy Orders who had beene twice married These considerations made him linger in Germany six whole moneths after the dispatch of his businesle hoping that his absence might afford meanes to some other to worke a way to the Archbiâ—hopricke But the times were such that they to whom desert might give greatest hopes of attaining it did abhorre this still â—ottering and slippery dignity and even they who were already advanced to the like indeavoured to betake themselves to the safety of meaner fortune As did Sir THOMAS MORE the Lord Chancellour who by his continuall ernest petitions obtained leave of the King on the fifteene of May to resigne his place and Sir THOMAS AWDLEY on the fourth of Iune was in his steed made Lord Keeper CRANMER having privately married his wife at Norimberg at length returned into England where the Kings importunity prevailing beyond all scrupulous difficulties CRANMER is though much against his will made Archbishop of Canterbury the Pope also by his Bull confirming the Election He refusing the Arbishopricke because hee must take an oath to the Pope delivered the Bull to the King protesting that hee would never accept of any Bishopricke in England but from the King who was Supreme Head of the Church of England and that he would not take any oath that should any way derogate from the King's
the French vnder colour of reconciling him with the Emperour but his chiefe errant was to combine them both against HENRY Whereof hee having intelligence did by his Agent earnestly solicite FRANCIS That in reguard of their mutuall amity hee would cause POOLE to bee apprehended as guilty of high Treason and sent to him where hee should vndergo the punishment due therefore But because Religion and the Law of Nations had beene violated in betraying any especially the Popes Embassadour the French could not yeeld to the Kings request but to shew that hee would administer no cause of offence hee refused to admit of his Embassy and commanded him speedily to depart out of his Dominions HERCVLES stature might be guessed at by the proportion of his foot and by this one mans endeavours HENRY was taught what if need were hee was to expect of his Clergy So that hee was easily induced as any of them offended to send him to his grave for that a dead Lion biteth not And this course beeing taken with his professed enemies the feare of the like punishment would secure him of the rest On the twelfth of October the Queene having long suffered the throwes of a most difficult travaile and such a one wherein either the Mother or the Infant must necessarily perish out of her wombe was ripped Prince EDWARD who after succeeded his Father in the Crowne The Queene onely surviving two daies died on the fourteenth of October and on the twelfth of November was with great pompe buried at Windsore in the middle of the Quire on whose Tombe is inscribed this Epitaph Phoenix IANA iacet nato Phoenice dolendum Secula Phoenices nulla tulisse duas Here a Phoenix heth whose death To another Phoenix gaue breath It is to be lamented much The World at once ne'r knew two such On the eighteenth of October the Infant was created Prince of Wales Duke of Cornewall and Earle of Chester and with him his Vnkle EDWARD SEIMOVR brother to the deceased Queene Lord Beauchampe and Earle of Hereford which Honours onely and not those afterwards conferred on him hee left to his posterity WILLIAM FITZ-WILLIAMS Lord Admirall was made Earle of Southampton Then also WILLIAM POWLET and IOHN RVSSELL began their races in the lists of Honour POWLET being made Treasurer and RVSSELL Comptroller of the Kings Houshold and both sworne of the Privy Counsaile Neither was here their non vltra the one being afterward raised to Lord Treasurer of England and Marquis of Winchester the other to Earle of Bedford wherein hee dying in the yeare 1554 his Sonne FRANCIS that pious old man and liberall releiuer of the Poore succeeded him who at the very instant of his death lost his Sonne FRANCIS slaine by a Scot Anno 1587. Which FRANCIS was Father to EDWARD Earle of Bedford and brother to WILLIAM by King IAMES created Lord RVSSELL POWLET living to be a very decrepit old man had to his Successour his Nephew by his Sonne WILLIAM named also WILLIAM the sole Marquis of England And to end this yeare with death as it began THOMAS HOWARD youngest sonne to the Duke of Norfolke having beene fifteene moneths imprisoned for affiancing himselfe without the Kings consent to MARGARET Daughter to ARCHIBALD DOVGLAS Earle of Angus and Lady MARGARET the Kings Sister on the first day of November to the vnspeakeable good of this Island deceased in the Tower For this MARGARET beeing after married to MATHEW Earle of Lenox had by him HENRY the Father of King IAMES of sacred memory the most happy Vnitor of divided Britaine Anno Dom. 1538. Reg. 30. IT is at length after many ages resolved That through the superstitious abuse of Images God was robbed of his due honour The King much prone to Reformation specially if any thing might be gotten by it thought it fit to remove this stumbling blocke and the rather for that hee conceived his Treasury would be thereby supplied There were some Images of more especiall fame and Shrines of reputed Saints Whereunto Pilgrimages were made from the farthest parts of the Kingdome nay even from foraine Countries also the Oblations whereto were so many and so rich that they not onely suffised for the maintenance of Priests and Monkes but also to the heaping vp of incredible wealth The Shrine of THOMAS BECKET Archbishop of Canterbury was covered with plates of gold and laden with guifts of inestimable value The blinde zeale of those and former times had decked it with gemmes chaines of gold of great weight and pearles of that large size which in our Language finde no proper terme This Tombe was razed and his bones found entire in steed of whose head the Monkes vsually obtruded the skull of some other peradventure better deserving then did their supposed Martyr The spoile of this Monument wherein nothing was meaner then gold filled two chests so full that each of them required eight strong men for the portage Among the rest was a stone of especiall lustre called the Royall of France offered by LEWIS the Seventh King of France in the yeare 1179 together with a great massy cup of gold at what time hee also bestowed an annuity on the Monkes of that Church of an hundred tunnes of wine This stone was after ward highly prised by the King who did continually weare it on his thumbe ERASMVS speakes much of the magnificence of this Monument as also of the Image of our Lady of Walsingham both which hee had seene and admired This Image was also stripped of whatsoeuer worthy thing it had the like being also done in other the like places and the statues and bones of the dead digged vp and burned that they might bee no further cause of superstition Among the rest of these condemned Images there was a Crucifex in South-Wales called of the Inhabitants Darvell Gatharen concerning which there was a kinde of prophecy That it should one day fire a whole Forest It chanced that at this time one Doctor FOREST a Frier Observant who had formerly taken the Oath of Supremacy was vpon his relapse apprehended and condemned of Treason and Heresy For this Fryer a new Gallowes was erected whereon hee was hanged by the arme pits and vnderneath him a fire made of this Image wherewith hee was burned and so by his death made good the Prophecy Great was the Treasure which the King raised of the spoiles of Churches and Religious Houses But whether the guilt of sacriledge adhering like a consuming canker made this ill gotten treasure vnprofitable or that he found he had need of greater supplies to withstand the dangers that threatened him from abroad not content with what hee had already corraded hee casts his eyes on the wealth of the Abbeyes that had escaped the violence of the former tempest and not expecting as hee deemed it a needlesse Act of Parliament seizeth on the rest of the Abbeyes and Religious Houses of the Realme And first hee begins with that
The Emperor after all these passages of courtesy humanity departs toward Graueling mouÌ„ted on a braue horse couered with a foot cloth of cloth of gold richly beset with stones which the King had giuen him He would often speak of his Aunts happinesse that was matcht to so magnificent a Prince The King staied some few days after at Calais from whence passing to Douer he with all his traine arriued safe at London I cannot but enuy their happines who in so little time saw 3 the mightiest Monarchs in Christendom who for their exploits the great alterations happening vnder each of theÌ„ will without doubt be famous through all succeeding Ages Anno Dom. 1521. Reg. 13. EDWARD STAFFORD Duke of Buckingham was about this time arraigned of high Treason He was discended of a Family which whether it was more antient or noble is questionable He deriued himself by a direct line froÌ„ ROBERT de Stafford to whom WILLIAM the Conquerour gaue large revenues which his posterity greatly inlarged by matching with the heires female of many noble Families By the Lady ANNE daughter to THOMAS of Woodstocke Duke of Glocester who was Brother to EDWARD the Third hee participated of the Bloud Royall The first honourable title of the Family was of Lord Stafford the next of Earle of Stafford as was EDMVND that married the daughter to THOMAS of Woodstocke HVMFREY son to EDMVND was created Duke of Buckingham by HENRY the Sixt who left that Honor to his son HVMFREY who was grandfather to this EDWARD by his son HENRY the third Duke How HENRY assisted the Vsurper RICHARD the Third in oppressing EDWARD the Fifth how he after conspired with the Earle of Richmond afterwards HENRY the Seuenth against the Vsurper but was cut off by the Tyrant before he could bring any thing to passe the histories of those times declare EDWARD his son restored to Bloud Dignities by HENRY 7. for his discent wealth and Honors inferior to none but the King not content with this was by N. HOPKINS a Charterhouse Monke induced to beleeue that Heauen had decreed to cut off K. HENRY after whose death he should raigne and the Crowne be for euer established on his posterity This the Monke affirmed God the Gouernour of all things had reuealed vnto him He further aduised him by liberality aud curtesy to win the minds of the people for the time was at hand wherein this should certainly come to passe if it were not through his owne default The Duke no sot but blinded by ambition gaue such credit to the Monke who was either mad or else flattered him in hope of reward that although the time prefixed for these miracles were past yet was he still in hope fed the Impostor with gifts who fed him with aire secretly vilified the King and gaue profusely to all Nay he could not forbeare but at longth he must brag of the Iuglers promises as hee did to a gentleman named CHARLES KNEVET to whom he boldly vnmasked himselfe and gaue a reason of his actions Vpon KNEVETS accusation he was arraigned condemned the thirteenth of May and on the seuenteenth publiquely beheaded His death was lamented by many the rather for that he was no way faulty but in his vanity and pride which ouerthrew him Being a childe I haue heard antient men say that by his brauery of apparell and sumptuous feasts he exasperated the King with whom in these things he seemed to contend But he could by no meanes beare with the intolerable pride of the Cardinall whose hatred not improbably prooued fatall vnto him rather than did the Kings displeasure for many times Princes are with lesse danger offended than their Mignons There goes a tale That the Duke once holding the basen to the King the Cardinall when the King had done presently dipped his hands in the same water the Duke disdaining to debase himselfe to the seruice of a Priest shed the water in his shoos The Cardinall therewith incensed threatned him That he would fit vpon his skirts The Duke to shew that hee slighted his threats withall that the King might take notice of the Cardinalls malice came the next day to Court richly as he vsually was apparelled but without skirts to his dublet The King many others demanding what he meant by that strange fashion he answered readily That it was done by way of preuention for the Cardinall should not now sit vpon his skirts Hee thought he had put a jest vpon the Cardinal to whose informations as proceeding from enuy and spleen he hoped the King would hereafter giue the lesse credit But he missed his marke for most men were of opinion that the Cardinalls malice crushed him rather than did the weight of his owne offences It was the saying of CHARLES the Emperor vpon the report of his death That the Butchers Dog had killed the fairest Hart of England Howsoeuer it came to passe the king who had hitherto ruled without bloudshed induced by the former reasons so the Records run permitted his hands to be stained with the bloud of this poore Prince many lamenting that the indiscreet credulity of one man hauing not attempted ought against the Estate should be the ouerthrow of so noble a Family If I might lawfully pry so far into Gods iudgements which are indeed inscrutable I would be bold to impute the punishment of the Sonne to the Fathers treachery who conspired with the Vsurper against his lawfull Prince EDW. 5. who by his assistance was depriued of his life and kingdome But forasmuch as that being touched in conscience hee manifestly repented this fact for seeking to oppresse the Tyrant whom he himselfe had raised he perished miserably the Diume Iustice I thinke so far regarded his repentance that his posterity are neuerthelesse Peeres of the Realme by the title of L. Stafford The first point of wisdome is not to run into error the next quickly to ameÌ„d it The King hauing written a booke against MARTIN LVTHER sent it as a Present to Pope LEO the Tenth This LEO not yet thirty eight yeares old was by the combination of the Iunior Cardinallâ— elected Pope In which dignity hee behaued himselfe according to his yeares profusely spending the treasures of the Church in hawking and hunting and other pleasures not deemed ouer honest Need began at length to pince him and money must be had Wherupon he resolues to make vse of his Keyes against the most subtill lockes and strongest bars euer yet held preualent Indulgences of all sorts without distinction of time or place must now publiquely be sâ—t to sale Saint Peters Church this was the pretence was out of repaire towards which a certaine summe of money giuen would purchase pardon of sinnes not onely for the Liuing but for the Dead also whose soules should thereby bee redeemed from the paines of Purgatorie But whatsoeuer was pretended euery one palpably saw that these Pardons were granted to get money for his owne reliefe And
Sonne a Prince of excellent forme and endowments whâ— deceased the two and twentieth of Iuly for whom the King a long time after mourned In the meane time on the nineteenth of Iuly IOHN BOVRCHIER Lord Fitz-waren was created Earle of Bathe whose successours in that Honour were his Sonne IOHN who begat IOHN deceased before his Father whose Sonne WILLIAM is now Earle of Bathe At what time also THOMAS CROMWELL a poore Smiths Sonne but of a dexterous wit whose first rising was in the Family of Cardinall WOLSEY in whose service by him faithfully performed he grew famous was made Lord CROMWELL many dignities being also conferred on him to the increase of his estate and honour For first he was Master of the Rolls and principall Secretary of Estate then Sir THOMAS BOLEN Earle of Wiltshire resigning he was made Lord Privy Seale and after that dignified with the vnheard of Title of The Kings Vicar generall in affaires Ecclesiasticall For the authority of the Pope being abrogated many businesses dayly happened which could not bee disparched without the Kings consent who not able to vndergo the burthen alone conferred this authority granted him by Act of Parliament on CROMWELL not for that he thought a Lay man fitter for this dignity than a Clergy man but because hee had determined vnder colour and pretence thereof to put in execution some designes wherein the Clergy in all probability would haue moved very slowly and against the haire Hee was therefore President in the Synod this yeare Certainly a deformed spectacle to see an vnlearned Lay man President over an assembly of sacred Prelates and such as for their learning England had in no preceding ages knowne the like For indeed HENRY is for that much to be commended who would not easily advance any one to place of government in the Church but whome his learning should make worthy By the authority of this Synod a booke was set forth wherein many points of Doctrine being proposed to be by the Curates expounded to their Parishioners mention was made of onely theee Sacraments Baptisme the Eucharist and Penance some holy dayes also were abrogated and other things pertaining to Religion and Ecclesiasticall discipline somewhat changed wherewith many were offended who preferred prescript Errors before the Truth The same time the Parliament assembled the fourth of Ianuary permitted all Monasteries the revenues whereof exceeded not two hundred pounds a yeare to the Kings disposall who causing them to be suppressed to the number of three hundred seventy and six entred vpon their lands amounting to thirty two thousand pounds a yeare and selling their goods even at very low rates most men accompting it sacrilegious to set to sale the goods of the Church raised aboue an hundred thousand pounds These things of themselves were distastfull to the vulgar sort Each one did as it were claime a share in the goods of the Church for many who being neither Monkes nor relied to Religious persons did receive no profit of Ecclesiastieall goods did notwithstanding conceiue that it might herafter come to passe that either their children friends or kinred might obtaine the places yet supplied by others whereas of these goods once confiscated they could not hope that any commodity should redound vnto them But the commiseration of so many people to the number of at least ten thousand who were without any warning giuen thrust out of dores and committed to the mercy of the world was a more forcible cause of generall distaste Which notwithstanding of it selfe sufficient was augmented by the malice of ill disposed and seditious persons who in their assemblies exaggerated these proceedings as the beginnings of greater evills that this was but a triall of their patience as yet the shrubs and vnderwoods were but touched but without speedy remedy the end would bee with the fall of the lofty oakes While these generall discontents thus vented themselves in private CROMWELL in September sent forth certaine Injunctions to the Clergy by vertue whereof each â—urate was to expound to his parishioners the Apostles Creed the Lords Prayer the Aue Maria and the Ten Commandements and earnestly to endeauour that they might learne them in the English Tongue This drave these Male contents into such extremes that the midwifry of any occasion served to produce the prodigious issues of their madnesse For in Lincolneshire the Commons being assembled about the beginning of October concerning Subsidies to be paid to the King as if the spirit of fury had generally animated them they suddenly to the number of twenty thousand tooke armes forcing certaine Lords and Gentlemen to be their leaders and to sweare to such Articles as they should propound such as refused were either imprisoned or put to death as was a certaine Priest Chancellor to the Bishop of Lincoln The King being certified of this Commotion sent against the Rebels with great Forces the Duke of Suffolke and the Earles of Shrewsbury and Kenâ— either to appease or suppresse them The rumonr of an Army marching against them so quailed their courages that they sent to excuse themselves vnto the King pretending That their endeavours tended to no other than the safety of his Maiesly and good of the Realme That â—ee hauing followed the advice of bad Counsellors had lately beyond the example of any of his Ancestors changed many things in the estate of Commonwealth and Church That having dispossessed the religious Inhabitants he had demolished many Monasteries where the poore had daily reliefe and God was wont to be deuoutly worshipped by godly men That the Feasts of Saints instituted many yeares since were profaned by his command That new Tenets which the Catholique Church did abhor were every where preached and obtruded to the people That now in each aged person was to be seene the Embleme of Jgnorance who having one foot in the grave were faine to betake them to their ABC Bookes that they might learne new kinde of Prayers never before vsed by any Christians That many vniust and pernicious Lawes had lately beene enacted and great Subsidies exacted both of the Clergy and Laity even in the time of Peace which were not wont to be demanded but for the maintenance of Wars That the Commons in generall did distaste these things and the rather for that they conceived them to be but trialls of their patience and the beginnings of more insupportable euills Wherefore they humbly beseeched his Maiesty whom they could not safely petition vnarmed that the Authours of these pernicious counsailes might sit no longer at the sterne but that others who should faithfully endeavour the amendment of the aforesaid evills might supply their places and that it might not be any way preiudiciall to them that they had taken Armes which even with the losse of their deerest bloud they were ready to imploy for his Maiesties safety and the defence of the Realme The King had a Spirit befitting his greatnesse and perceiving them to shrinke could not
pardon to all They did set forth in May and returned a little before Christinasse Anno Dom. 1513. Reg. 5. ABout the beginning of this yeare the King assembled the high Court of Parliament wherein war against France was determined a mightie masse of mony granted by the Commons Wherevpon in the very beginning of the spring a Fleet is set forth consisting of two and fortie men oâ— warre besides victuallers and lesser vessels The Lord Admirall who had the charge of this Fleet too too eagerly hunting after honour by his rashnesse frustrated the designes of so goodly preparations Hee attempts to land in the hauen neere adioyning to Brest where striving in person to set foot first in the Enemies countrey hee with a speare borne over board and drowned was the only man of all that Fleet that came short home He therein performed rather the part of a private Souldier then of a Commander For his death brought backe this headlesle Fleet into England Where the King makes the Lord THOMAS HOWARD Admirall in the place of his deceased younger brother exhosting him by imploying his service for his Countries honour to reuenge his brothers inglorious death This new Admirall with great speed brings his Nauy out of harbour and scouring vp and downe the Seas strooke such a terrour into the French that not so much as a fisher boate durst peepe abroad At last he lands in Witsand Bay ransacks all the Countrey thereabout and without resistance returnes safe to his ships In the meanâ— time the King having raised a mightie Army arriues at Calaâ—s the last of lune with a Fleet of foure hundred saile The one and twentieth of Iuly he marcheth with all his forces into the French Territorie and having sent some Ensignes before to besiege Terouenne a Citie in Picardie hee takes his way thither intending in person to sit downe before it with all the strength of his Armie By the way hee meets the French neere Dernom They at first seeme resolved to fight but whether they distrusted their owne strength and so purposely declined an vnequall combate or as by our side it is reported that our Ordinance being conveniently placed disordred them and that so they beto oke themselues to flight as if it had beene all one for vs to see them and conquer them away they went and could not any where afterward bee descried by vs. So without any let our Army came before Terouenne This Citie had according to the relation of our Writers foure thousand defendants whereof sixe hundred were horse The place being so well fortified it had beenâ— no hard matter to haue defended it against a mighty Army if so be they had beene accordingly provided of other necessaries but they were wanting Wherefore they certified their King to what an exigent they were brought But hee had his hands full else where For the Opaniard had made an inroade into Aquitaine and Navarre and the Suisses having lately overthrowne TREMOVILLE at Novarre had now coopt him vp in Dijon in Burgoigne insomuch that his forces being by these occasions distracted heâ— himselfe had not vnder his Colours aboue twenty thousand Foot the moity whereof were Lansquenets vnder the command of the Duke of Gueldres and two thousand fiue hundred Launces With these he comes to Amiens that the hope of succours hee being so neere might encourage the defendants For it much concerned him that the siege should be drawne out at length In our Army were forty thousand Foot and fiue thousand Horse so that there was no likelihood of doing any good against vs. Neither indeed did the French intend especially at that time to hazard the fortune of a battaile the losse whereof in the iudgement of the more expert would haue beene accompanied with no losse then the losse of the Kingdome which would easily haue followed our victorie The French King therefore sitting still at Amiens least he might seeme to neglect such a Citie the danger whereof did thorowly grieue him sends some troupes toward Therouenne with instructions to put into the Citie eighty horsemen compleatly armed but without horses the besiâ—ged desiring no other aide if possibly it could bee offected as it easily was by reason of the negligence of our centinels For indeed the desuetude of a long peace had made our men altogether vnapt for warre But the indiscretion of the French farre surpassed our negligence For whereas with the same hazard they might haue victualled the besieged and furnished them with other necessaries which they wanted desiring but too late to amend this errour they would needs effect it the same way as before But our men had by this time raised a new Fortification to hinder their entrance and had withall placed in ambush store of horse with fifteene thousand foot to cut them off in their retreat The French came neere the walls but finding all entrance debarred returned without suspition of any intended mischiefe They had not gone farre when some as if they had beene out of their Enemies reach impatient of the heate cast off their Helmets some fell a drinking most leaue their horses of service and for their ease mount on little nags Our men charge them vnawares and without any resistance made put them to route The French in this encounter lost three hundred horse there were taken prisoners LEWIS de LONGVEVILLE Marquis of Rotelin BADI CLERMONT d' ANIOV BVSSY d' AMBOISE BAYARD la FAYET and PALISSE who escapt out of prison with many others It was then the opinion of most men that this victory if wee had but made due vse of it laid an easie way for vs to the conquest of France For the French were so affrighted with the newes of this overthrow that they thought of nothing but flying and the King himselfe with teares in his eyes bewailing his hard fortune cast about for some place of refuge and determined to post into base Bretaigne But wee looking no farther then Therouenne brought our prisoners into the Campe and without farther prosecution left the Enemies to their feares The French call this the Battaile of Spurres because they trusted more to their heeles then their swords The Therouennois after this overthrow despairing of succour come to a parley and by the advice of their King yeild vp the Citie the three and twentieth of August vpon Condition That the Souldiers might depart with Bagge and Baggage Colours flying and Drums beating and the Citizens permittted to carrie away their goods A few dayes before the Citie was yeilded MAXIMILIAN the Emperour came to our Campe and which deserves to be recorded to the eternall honour of our Nation taking for pay a hundred Crownes a day besides what was disbursed among his Souldiers disdained not to serve vnder our Colours wearing the Crosse of England and a party coloured Rose the vsuall Cognizance of our English warfare But hee rather came to bee a Spectator then a Partaker in the danger Wherefore when
shall not need to speake any thing of it WOLSEY being removed from the Chancellorship is presently after accused of Treason and that which hath beene seldome seene in the Parliament that so without hearing hee might be condemned by Act. But hee perceiving the drift of his Adversaries procured one of his attendants THOMAS CROMWELL hee who afterward became so potent to bee elected a Burgesse of the Lower House The Cardinall being daily informed by him what things were laid to his charge did by letter instruct him what to answer CROMWELL although no Scholler was very wise and eloquent Which good parts hee so faithfully imployed in the defence of his Lord that the House acquitted him and himselfe became famous opening withall by these meanes a way to those Honours to which the current of a few yeares aduanced him Even they who hated WOLSEY honoured CROMWELL whose wisdome industrie but above all fidelitie in defending his deiected Lord was admirable Now the Cardinall because he would not be found a Traitor is falne into a Praemunire Wherevpon he is thrust as it were naked forth his owne house his great wealth is seised on by the King's Officers and hee faine to borrow furniture for his house and money for his necessary expences Iudges are sent into the house whereto he was confined to take his answer to the obiected crime which was that without leave from the King hee had dared so many yeares to exercise his power Legatine To which calumny for can any man beleive it to be other Hee made this answer J am now sixty yeares old and have spent my dayes in his Maiesties service neither shunning paines nor indeavouring any thing more then next my Creatour to please Him And is this that hainous offence for which J am at this age deprived of my estate and forced as it were to beg my bread from doore to doore Jexpected some accusation of a higher straine as treason or the like not for that J know my selfe conscious of any such matter but that his Maiesties wisdome is such as to know it little beseemes the constancy magnanimity of a King for a slight fault to condemne and that without hearing an ancient servant for so many yeares next his Person greatest in his favour and to inflict a punishment on him more horrid then death What man is he who is so base minded that hee had not rather a thousand times perish then see a thousand men so many my Family numbreth of whose faithfull service hee hath bad long triall for the most part to perish before his eyes But finding nothing else obiected J conceive great hope that J shall as easily breake this machination of combined envy as was that late one against me in the Parliament concerning Treason It is well knowne to his Maiesty of whose iustice J am confident that I would not presume to execute my power Legatine before he had beene pleased to ratifie it by his Royall Assent given vnder his Seale which notwithstanding I cannot now produce that and all my goods as you well know being taken from me Neither indeed if I could would J produce it For to what end should I contend with the King Go therefore and tell his Maiesty that I acknowledge all that J have but alasse what speake J of what I have Who indeed have nothing left me or whatsoever I had to be derived from his Royall Bounty and do thinke it good reason that he should revoke his gifts if he thinke me vnworthy of them Why then do I not remit my cause to his Maiesties arbitrement at his pleasure to be either condemned or absolved To him then if you will have me acknowledge my fault behold I will make short worke for you I confesse it The King knowes my innocencie so that neither my owne confession nor the calumnies of my adversaries can deceiue him I am therefore content to confesse my selfe guilty His Maiesty from the fountaine of his naturall Clemency doth often derive the stremes of his mercy to the delinquent And I know though I should not desire it Hee will reguard my innocence Vpon his confession the penalty of the Law was forthwith inflicted only he was not as the Law requires committed to perpetuall imprisonment The furniture of his house of infinite value incredible store of plate great treasure had bin already seised to the King's vse There remained nothing but the Lands wherewith he intended to indow his Colledge the greatest part whereof were his owne purchase the rest were the demesnes of the demolished Monasteries These Lands amounted to above foure thousand pounds per annum and were all confiscated But God would not suffer so brave a work to perish The King afterward bestowed on the Colledge in Oxford called Christ Church revenues for the maintenance of a Deane eight Prebendaries a hundred Students twelue Chaplaines and Singing men and foure and twenty Almes men for which this Colledge acknowledgeth HENRY the Eighth for its Founder But the King arrogated to himselfe what was truly to be ascribed to the Gardinall Who was now in the case of the poore Mouse whom the Cat intends to devoure The King had marked him out for destruction yet permitted him to live but so as that he could never escape and yet never despaire of escaping Scarce any day throughout those few moneths passed wherein hee indured not something or other that would have animated a senselesse thing with anger neither was the Cardinall composed of patience yet did he never despaire His sorrowes were alwayes tempred with some mixture of ioy For he was often visited from the King but that very secretly and commonly by night often certified of the King's affection towards him in token whereof the Visitants did sometimes from the King present him with a Iewell or some such thing willing him to be of good comfort for that shortly they would assure him he should be raised to his former degree of favoâ—r and power Adversity at length prevailing hee fell into a disease from the extremiâ—ie whereof few expected his recouery And the King demanding of one of his Physicians whose patient the Cardinall was what disease WOLSEY had the Doctor replied What disease soever he hath if You desire his death You may be secure for I promise You he will not live to seâ— the end of three dayes more The King striking the table with his hand cried out I had rather loose twenty thousand pounds then he should die Make hast therefore you and as many other Physicians as are about the Court and by all meanes indeavour his recovery The Physician then certifying him that he was sicke more in minde then body the King dispatched away a Gentleman with a Ring which WOLSEY had formerly given to him willing him withall to tell the Cardinall that the King's anger was now past who was sorry that he had so long given eare to detraction and that he should shortly finde that the
Preiudiciall to the Estate Grievous and Burthensome to the Subiect FINIS ANNALES OF ENGLAND EDVVARD THE SIXT The Second Booke LONDON Printed by Adam Islip and William Stansby 1630. Vae tibi Jerra cuius Rex Puer est ANNALES OF ENGLAND The second Booke EDWARD the Sixt. Anno Dom. 1547. Reg. 1. ROyalty like a Pythagorean Soule transmigrates Although HENRY were dead the King was still alive and survived in the person of young EDWARD who began his Raigne the eight and twentieth of Ianuary then in the tenth yeare of his age and having beene on the last of the same moneth proclaimed King came the same day from Enfield where the Court had then beene to the Tower there according to the ancient custome of our Kings to abide vntill his Inauguration at Westminster The next day the Counsaile assembled for the managing of the Estate conferred on the Kings Vnckle EDWARD SEIMOVR Earle of Hertford the honour and power of Protector of the King's Person and Kingdome Who to season his new Dignitie with some memorable act on the sixt of February dubbed the King Knight the King presently imparting the same Honour to RICHARD HOBLETHORNE Lord Maior of London On the fifteenth of February King HENRY his Funerals were solemnized and his Body Royally interred in the middle of the Quire in the Church at Windsore Two daies after were some of the Nobilitie dignified with greater Honours some new created The Lord Protector Earle of Hertford was made Duke of Somerset WILLIAM PARR Earle of Essex Marquis of Northampton IOHN DVDLEY Viscount Lisle Earle of Warmicke and the Lord Chancellour WRIOTHSLEY Earle of Southampton Sir THOMAS SEIMOVR brother to the Protector and Lord Admirall Sir THOMAS RICH Sir WILLIAM WILLOVGHBY and Sir EDMOND SHEFFEILD were inrolled among the Barons Other two daies being fled after their Predecessours the King passed triumphantly from the Tower through London to Westminster where he was solemnely crowned anointed and inaugurated by CRANMER Archbishop of Canterbury At what time also with incredible indulgence pardon of all crimes whatsoever was publiquely proclaimed and granted to all persons throughout the Realme six only being exempted from the benefit thereof namely the Duke of Norfolke Cardinall POOLE the lately beheaded Marquis of Excester his eldest Sonne one THROCMORTON FORTESCVE and RICHARD PATE late Bishop of Worcester who least hee should be constrained to acknowledge the King Head of the Church had some yeares passed fled to Rome On the nineteenth of Iune in the Cathedrall Church of Saint PAVL in London were celebrated the Exequies of FRANCIS King of France He deceased the two and twentieth of the precedent March having beene after the death of our HENRY much disposed to melancholy whether for that hee failed in the hope of strengthening their late contracted amity with some stricter tie or that being some few yeares the younger hee was by his death admonished of the like approaching fate They were also of so conspiring a similitude of disposition and nature that you shall hardly finde the like betweene any two Princes of what ever different times This bred a mutuall affection in them and as it were forcibly nourished the secret fire thereof betweene them vnlesse peradventure when emulation or the respect of publique vtilitie swaied them the contrary way so that the death of the one could not but much grieve the surviver He therefore in the Cathedrall at Paris celebrated the Funerals of HENRY though excommunicated by the Pope He also left one only Sonne named HENRY inheritor of his Crowne whose Raigne lasted but to the beginning of Queene ELIZABETH And now the affaires of Scotland which have without doubt beene great and memorable crave a part in our History Wee have before made mention of our League with Scotland wherein it was determined concerning the marriage betweene the now King EDWARD and the Queene of Scots The times since then were full of continuall iarres Wee at length resolved not to dally with them but to vndertake the war with forces agreeable to the cause The Duke of Somerset by consent of the Privie Counsaile is sent into Scotland with ten thousand Foot and six thousand Horse beside pioners and artificers thirteene hundred and fifteene peeces of brasse Ordnance To the Lord CLINTON is assigned a Navy consisting of foure and twenty men of war one Galley and thirty Ships of burthen wherewith hee was to scowre the Seas and infest the maritime parts of Scotland On the third of September the Duke of Somerset made an hostile entrance vpon the Enemies Countrey and forthwith dispatched letters to the Earle of Arren Regent of Scotland much to this effect That he wished the Scots would consider that this war was waged among Christians that our ends were no other then a iust Peace whereto the endevours of all good men should tend An occasion not only of a League but of a perpetuall Peace was now happily offred if they would suffer the two differing and emulous Nations by vniting the Head to grow together This as it had beene formerly sought by vs so had it beene generally assented to by the Estates of Scotland Therefore he could not but wonder why they should rather treacherously recurre to Armes the events of war being vsually even to the Victor sufficiently vnfortunate then maintaine in violate their troth plighted to the good of both Nations They could not in reason expect that their Queene should perpetually live a Virgin life And if shee married where could shee bestow her selfe better then on a puissant Monarch inhabiting the same Island and parlying the same language They saw what inconveniences were the consequents of foraine matches whereof they should rather make triall by the examples of others then at their owne perill He demanded nothing but equity yet he so much abhorred the effusion of Christian bloud that if hee found the Scots not vtterly averse from an accord hee would endevour that some of the Conventions should be remitted he would also permit that the Queene should abide and be brought vp among them vntill her age made her marriageable at what time she should by consent of the Estates her selfe make choice of a Husband In the meane time there should be a Cessation of Armes neither should the Queene be transported out of her Realme nor entertaine treatise of marriage with the French or any other forainer This if they would faithfully promise he would forthwith peaceably depart out of Scotland and whatsoever damages the Countrey had suffred by this invasion he would according to the esteeme of indifferent Arbitrators make ample satisfaction The Scottish Army consisted of thirty thousand Foot some speake a greater number The chiefe Commanders whereof puffed vp with confidence of their strength although they had lately lost eight hundred in a tumultuary skirmish and misconceiving our offers to proceed out of feare reiect all Conditions of Accord and least vpon knowledge of the equitie of our demands the Counsaile should
seeme a miracle and is a great argument both of rare vertue in the succeeding King and of a right iudgement in the subject For this great Lady was so farre beyond example that even the best Princes come short of her and they who most inveigh against that Sexe contend that Woman is incapable of those vertues in her most eminent Wisdome Clemency Learning variety of Languages and Magnanimity equall to that of Men to which I adde feruent Zeale of Piety and true Religion But in these things peraduenture some one or other may equall her What I shall beyond all this speake of her and let me speake it without offence to my most excellent Soueraigne IAMES the Paterne of Princes the Mirrour of our Age the Delight of Britaine no age hath hitherto paraleld nor if my Augury faile not none ever shall That a Woman and if that be not enough a Virgin destitute of the helpe of Parents Brothers Husband being surrounded with enemies the Pope thundring the Spaniard threatening the French scarce dissembling his secret hate as many of the neighboring Princes as were devoted to Rome clashing about her should containe this warlike Nation not only in obedience but in peace also and beyond all this Popery being profligated in the true Divine worship Hence it comes to passe that England which is among the rest of it selfe a Miracle hath not these many yeares heard the noise of war and that our Church which she found much distracted transcends all others of the Christian world For you shall at this day scarce finde any Church which either defiled with Popish superstitions or despoiled of those Revenues which should maintaine Professors of the Truth hath not laid open a way to all kinde of Errors grosse Ignorance in learning especially Divine and at length to Ethnique Barbarousnesse But to what end do I insist on these or the like they beeing sufficiently knowne even to the Barbarians themselves and Fame having trumpetted them throughout the world Which things when and how they were done how bountifully she aided and relieved her Allies how bravely she resisted brake vanquished her Enemies I have a desire in a continued History to declare and will God willing declare if I can attaine to the true intelligence of the passages of those times have leasure for the compiling it and that no other more able then my selfe which I wish may happen in the meane time ingage themselves therein LAVS DEO Errata PAg. 4. Lin. 20. read five dayes p. 6. l. 36. wearying p. 11. l. 36. dele of p. 26. l. 27. for crave read renew p. 27. l. 7. after her part read the good of the. p. 31. l. 9. into Scotland p. 32. l. 31. this debt p. 38. l. 13. Tournay lin 24. sixtieth p. 41. l. 13. oblations at Beckets tombe p. 51. l. 1. these p. 64. l. 6. mutemque l. 7. Falsus p. 72. l. 12. doth p. 95. l. 2. for Protector read Proctor pag. 97. lin 8. Ziâ— p. 133. l. 12. sticklers p. 139. l. 14 31. SMETON p. 142. l. 12. for just read vnjust p. 193. l. 33. MEVTAS p 198. l. 34. for passed r. posted p. 214 l. 20. Heads p. 223. l. 13. sictitious p. 227. l. 3. for of r. by p. 238. l. 21. for greatly r. gently p. 2â—6 l. 28. disceptation p. 2â—8 l. 14. dele and. ibid. read could hardly p. 318. l. 30. read out of contempt p. 319. l 1 for vnity read vnion p. 3â—0 l. 13. read vnion Henry 8. 1509. His priuie Counsaile The funerals of Henry the 7. S. Stephens Chappell The Coronation of Henry the 7. His marriage The death of Lady Margaret Countesse of Richmond Empson and Dudley An expedition into Afrique Into Gueldres Barton a Pirat takâ—n Warre with France Afruitlesse Voyage into Spaine The Spaniard seâ—seth on Navarrâ— The Lord Admirall drowned Terouenne besieged The battaile of Spurres Terouenne yeilded Maximilian the Emperor serveth vnder King Henry The siegâ— of Tournay Tournay yeilded Wolsey Bishop of Tourney The King of Scots slaine Flodden field The descent and honours of the Howards Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolke Charles Somerset Earle of Worcester Peace with Frauce The Ladie Mary the Kings sister married to Levis 12. K. of France Cardinall Wolsey A breach with France The Starre-chamber and The Court of Requests instituted by Wolsey Ill May day The sweating sickenesse Peace with France The death of the Emperor Maximilian The Emperour Charles the in Fifth England Canterburie Enterview betwixt the Kings of England and France Henry visits the Emperor at Graueling The Duke of Buckingham accused of treason King Henry writeth against Luther Luthers departure from the Church Rome The Kings of England by the Pope stiled Defenders of the Faith The death of Leo the Tenth Cardinall Wolsey and others sent embassadors to the Emperour and French King The Emperor Charles the second time in Enland Windsore The Conditions of the League concluded with the Emperor Rhodes taken by the Turke Christierne King of Denmarke The Duke of Bourbon reuolts The death of Adrian the Sixth Clement the Sâ—uenth succeedeth and Wolsey suffereth the repulse Wolsey persuades the King to a diuorce Richard Pacey Deane of Pauls falleth mad The battel of Pavy Money demanded and commanded by Proclamation The King fals in Loue with Anne Bolen A creation of Lords Wolsey to build two Colledges Demolisheth fou Monasteries Sacrileoge punished Luther writes to the King The Kings answer A breach with the Emperor The King endevours to râ—lieve the French King A League concluded with the French King The French King set at liberty The King of Hungary slaine by the Turkes Wolsey seâ—kes to bee Pope Sede nondum vacante Rome sacked Montmorency Embassadour from France War proclaimed against the Emperor The inconstancie of the Pope Cardinall Campegius sent into England The Kings Speech concerning his Divorce The suite of the Kings Divorce The Queens speech to the King before the Legates The Queene depart th Reasons for the Divorre Reasons against the Divorce The Popes inconstancy Wolsey fals The Legates repaire to the Queene Their conference with her Her answer Cardinall Campegius his Oration Wolsey discharged of the great Seale Siâ— Thomas Moore Lord Câ—ancell our Thâ— Câ—rdinall accused of treâ—son Wolseyes speech to the Iudges Christ Church in Oxford Wolsâ—y falls sickâ— Wolsâ—y is confined to Yorke The 〈◊〉 â—s apprehended His lâ—st words He dieth And is buried His greatnesse His buildings The peace of Cambray The first occasion of Cranmers rising Creation of Earles The Bible translated into English An Embassie to the Pope All commerce with the Sea of Rome forbiddâ—n The Clergy fined The King declared Supreme Head of the Church The death of William Warham Archbishop of Canterbury Cranmer though much against his will succeedoth him Sir Thomas More resignes the place of Lord Chanceâ—lour An enterview betweene the Kings of England and France Catharina de Medices married to the Duke of Orleans The King marrieth Anne Bâ—len The