men to his peace that would come and submit themselues those excepted which had beene at the siege of Tikehill castell or at the taking of the citie of Glocester or at the inuasion made vpon his men at Bridgenorth At his comming to a little village called Caldwell he sent afore him certeine bands to Burton vpon on Trent where he ment to haue lodged but the earles of Lancaster and Hereford the lords Roger Damorie Hugh Audelie the yonger Iohn de Mowbraie Bartholomew de Badelismere Roger de Clifford Iohn Gifford de Bremâ—sfield Henrie Tieis and many other being gotten thither before kept the bridge and affailing the kings people which he had thus sent before some of them they slue and some they wounded so defending the bridge that none could passe and by reason that the waters and speciallie line 10 the riuer of Trent through abundance of raine that was latelie fallen were raised there was no meane to passe by the foords wherevpon the king was constreined to staie the space of thrée daies in which meane time the earles and their complices fortified the bridge at Burton with barriers and such like defenses after the maner of warre but the king at length vpon deliberate aduise taken how to passe the riuer ordeined that the earle of Surrie with certeine armed men should go ouer by a bridge that line 20 was thrée miles distant from Burton that he might come vpon the backes of the enimies as they were fighting with those that should assaile them afront The earles of Richmond and Penbroke were appointed to passe by a foord which they had got knowledge of with thrée hundred horssemen in complet armour and the king with his brother the earle of Kent should follow them with the residue of the armie sauing that Robert Aquarie or Waters with certeine bands of footmen was commanded to assaile line 30 the bridge which he did verie manfullie causing the archers crossebowes to annoie them that kept it so as he might draw the whole power of the enimies that waie till the king and the earles were passed by the foord But after that the earles of Lancaster and Hereford with their complices heard that the king was passed with his armie they came foorth with their people into the fields and put them in order of battell but perceiuing the great puissance which the king had there readie to encounter them line 40 without more adoo they fled setting fire on the towne and leauing all their vittels and other things behind them The kings people comming spéedilie forward and entring the towne quenched the fire and fell to the spoile of such things as the enimies for hast had left behind them The king kept nothing to himselfe but onelie a faire cup that belonged to the earle of Lancaster a péece esteemed to be of some great value On the same night being wednesdaie the king line 50 came to Tutburie and lodged in the castell sending foorth the next day with all spéed letters to the shiriffe of Derbishire and Notinghamshire aduertising him both of the successe he had against his enimies and withall pronouncing them and all their adherents rebels and traitors to him and his realme and that for such they should be reputed taken and vsed Wherefore he commanded in the same letters or writs vpon forfeiture of all that the said shiriffe might forfeit he should pursue the said rebels that is the earles of line 60 Lancaster and Hereford the lords Roger Damorie Hugh Andelie the yoonger Iohn de Mowbraie Bartholomew de Badelismere Roger de Clifford Iohn Gifford de Brimesfield Henrie Tieis and all and euerie other person or persons that were of their confederacie or in their companies causing hue and crie to be raised vpon them in what part soeuer they might be heard of and in all places where the said shiriffe should thinke it expedient and to inioine and streightlie command all and singular persons the said rebels and enimies to pursue take and arrest and them to deliuer vnto the said shiriffe and that such as were not able to pursue them yet with hand or horne they should leuie hue and crie against them in paine that being found negligent herein to be accompted for fauourers and adherents to the said rebels and traitors and that the said shiriffe should thervpon apprehend them and put them in prison The writ was dated at Tutburie the eleuenth of March and the like writs were directed and sent foorth to all other shiriffes through the realme and likewise to the bishop of Durham and to the iustice of Chester Beside this he directed also other writs to the said shiriffes and others that although he had béene constreined to passe in forceable wise through diuerse parts of his realme and the marches of Wales to suppresse the malicious rebellion of diuerse his subiects and that as yet he was constreined to continue his iournie in such forceable wise neuertheles his pleasure was that the peace should be mainteined and kept throughout his realme with the statutes lawes and customes inuiolated and therfore he commanded the said shiriffes that they should cause the same to be proclaimed in places where was thought most expedient as well within liberties as without inhibiting that any maner of person of what state or condition soeuer he was vpon paine that might fall thereon to attempt any thing to the breach of peace but that euerie man should séeke to mainteine and preserue the peace and tranquillitie of the people with the statutes lawes and good customes of the land to the vttermost of his power this alwaies obserued that the rebels wheresoeuer they might be found should be arrested and committed to safe custodie The daie of this writ was at Tutburie aforesaid on the twelfth of March. The lord Roger Damorie laie sicke in his bed at the same time in the priorie of Tutburie who after he had heard what iudgement the king had pronounced against him departed this life within two daies after But the earles of Lancaster and Hereford with other in their companie that fled from the discomfiture at Burton lost manie men and horsses in their flieng away by reason of such pursuit as was made after them Diuerse of them that had taken part with the lords against the king came now and submitted themselues vnto him amongst the which were sir Gilbert de Ellesfield and sir Robert Helland knights The king yet had the said Holland in some suspicion bicause he had promised to haue come to him before The earle of Lancaster had sent him at this time to raise his tenants in Lancashire and to bring them vnto him but he deceiued him and came not to him at all wherevpon the earles of Lancaster and Hereford with the other barons being come vnto Pomâ—ret fell to councell in the Friers there and finallie after much debating of the matter and considering how by the vntrue dealing
disobeieng the arrest he should be dispatched out of life And in this maner ye imagined his death To the which I answered that it were conuenient the king should send for his councell and if they agréed herevnto I would not be against it and so I departed To this Bagot made no answer line 50 After this the king commanded that the lords Berkleie and Louell and sir knights of the lower house should go after dinner to examine the said Hall This was on a thursdaie being the fiftéenth of October On the saturdaie next insuing sir William Bagot and the said Iohn Hall were brought both to the barre and Bagot was examined of certeine points and sent againe to prison The lord Fitzwater herewith rose vp and said to the king that where the duke of Aumarle excuseth himselfe of the duke line 60 of Glocesters death I say quoth he that he was the verie cause of his death and so he appealed him of treason offering by throwing downe his hood as a gage to proue it with his bodie There were twentie other lords also that threw downe their hoods as pledges to proue the like matter against the duke of Aumarle The duke of Aumarle threw downe his hood to trie it against the lord Fitzwater as against him that lied falselie in that he had charged him with by that his appeale These gages were deliuered to the constable and marshall of England and the parties put vnder arrest The duke of Surrie stood vp also against the lord Fitzwater auouching that where he had said that the appellants were causers of the duke of Glocesters death it was false for they were constrained to sue the same appeale in like manner as the said lord Fitzwater was compelled to giue iudgement against the duke of Glocester and the earle of Arundell so that the suing of the appeale was doone by constraint and if he said contrarie he lied and therewith he threw downe his hood The lord Fitzwater answered herevnto that he was not present in the parlement house when iudgement was giuen against them and all the lords bare witnesse thereof Moreouer where it was alledged that the duke of Aumarle should send two of his seruants to Calis to murther the duke of Glocester the said duke of Aumarle said that if the duke of Norfolke affirme it he lied falselie and that he would proue with his bodie throwing downe an other hood which he had borowed The same was likewise deliuered to the constable and marshall of England and the king licenced the duke of Norfolke to returne that he might arraigne his appeale After this was Iohn Hall condemned of treason by authoritie of the parlement for that he had confessed himselfe to be one of them that put the duke of Glocester to death at Calis and so on the mondaie following he was drawne from the Tower to Tiburne and there hanged bowelled headed and quartered his head being sent to Calis there to be set vp where the duke was murthered On wednesdaie following request was made by the commons that sith king Richard had resigned and was lawfullie deposed from his roiall dignitie he might haue iudgement decréed against him so as the realme were not troubled by him and that the causes of his deposing might be published through the realme for satisfieng of the people which demand was granted Wherevpon the bishop of Carleill a man both learned wise and stout of stomach boldlie shewed foorth his opinion concerning that demand affirming that there was none amongst them woorthie or meet to giue iudgement vpon so noble a prince as king Richard was whom they had taken for their souereigne and liege lord by the space of two twentie yeares and more And I assure you said he there is not so ranke a traitor nor so errant a théef nor yet so cruell a murtherer apprehended or deteined in prison for his offense but he shall be brought before the iustice to heare his iudgement and will ye procéed to the iudgement of an anointed king hearing neither his answer nor excuse I say that the duke of Lancaster whom ye call king hath more trespassed to K. Richard his realme than king Richard hath doone either to him or vs for it is manifest well knowne that the duke was banished the realme by K. Richard and his councell and by the iudgement of his owne father for the space of ten yeares for what cause ye know and yet without licence of king Richard he is returned againe into the realine and that is woorse hath taken vpon him the name title preheminence of king And therfore I say that you haue doone manifest wrong to procéed in anie thing against king Richard without calling him openlie to his answer and defense ¶ As soone as the bishop had ended this tale he was attached by the earle marshall and committed to ward in the abbeie of faint Albons Moreouer where the king had granted to the earle of Westmerland the countie of Richmond the duke of Britaine pretending a right thereto by an old title had sent his letters ouer vnto the estates assembled in this parlement offering to abide such order as the law would appoint in the like case to anie of the kings subiects Wherevpon the commons for the more suertie of the intercourse of merchants besought the king that the matter might be committed to the ordering of the councell of either of the parties and of his counsell so as an end might be had therein which request was likewise granted After this the records of the last parlement were shewed with the appeales the commission made to twelue persons to determine things that were motioned in the same last parlement Héerevpon the commons praied that they might haue iustice Markham and maister Gascoigne a sergeant at the law ioined with them for counsell touching the perusing of the records which was granted them and day giuen ouer line 10 till the next morrow in the White-hall where they sat about these matters thrée daies togither On the morrow following being the éeuen of Simon and Iude the apostles the commons required to heare the iudgement of king Richard Wherevpon the archbishop of Canturburie appointed to speake declared how that the king that now is had granted king Richard his life but in such wise as he should remaine in perpetuall prison so safelie kept that neither the king nor realme should be troubled with line 20 him It was also concluded that if anie man went about to deliuer him that then he should be the first that should die for it After this the commons praied that the lords and other that were of king Richards counsell might be put to their answers for their sundrie misdemeanors which was granted On Wednesday following being the morrow after the feast of Simon and Iude all the processe of the parlement holden the 21 yéere of king Richards reigne was read openlie in which
this present parlement After the which words thus said as before is declared it was decréed also by the said lords arbitrators that the said lord of Winchester should haue these words that follow vnto my said lord of Glocester My lord of Glocester I haue conceiued to my great heauinesse that yée should haue receiued by diuerse reports that I should haue purposed and imagined against your person honor and estate in diuers maners for the which yée haue taken against me great displeasure Sir I take God to my witnesse that what reports so euer haue béene to you of me peraduenture of such as haue had no great affection to me God forgiue it them I neuer imagined ne purposed anie thing that might be hindering or preiudice to your person honor or estate and therefore I praie you that yee be vnto me good lord from this time foorth for by my will I gaue neuer other occasion nor purpose not to doo hereafter by the grace of God The which words so by him said it was decréed by the same arbitrators that my lord of Glocester should answer and saie Faire vncle sith yée declare you such a man as yée saie I am right glad that it is so and for such a man I take you And when this was doone it was decréed by the same arbitrators that euerie each of my lord of Glocester and Winchester should take either other by the hand in the presence of the king and all the parlement in signe and token of good loue accord the which was doone and the parlement adiorned till after Easter At this reconciliation such as loued peace reioised sith it is a fowle pernicious thing for priuat men much more for noblemen to be at variance sith vpon them depend manie in affections diuerse whereby factions might grow to the shedding of bloud though others to whom contention hartgrudge is delight wished to see the vttermost mischéefe that might therof insue which is the vtter ouerthrow and desolation of populous tribes euen as with a litle sparkle whole houses are manie times consumed to ashes as the old prouerbe saith and that verie 〈◊〉 and aptlie Sola scintilla perit haec domus aut 〈◊〉 illa But when the great fier of this 〈◊〉 betwéene these two noble personages was thus by the arbitrators to their knowledge and iudgement vtterlie quenched out and said vnder boord all other controuersies betwéene other lords taking part with the one partie or the other were appeased and brought to concord so that for ioy the king caused a solemne fest to be kept on Whitsundaie on which daie he created Richard Plantagenet sonne and heire to the erle of Cambridge whome his father at Southhampton had put to death as before yee haue heard duke of Yorke not foreséeing that this preferment should be his destruction nor that his séed should of his generation be the extreame end and finall conclusion He the same daie also promoted Iohn lord Mowbraie and earle marshall sonne and heire to Thomas duke of Norffolke by king Richard the second exiled this realme to the title name and stile of duke of Norffolke During this feast the duke of Bedford adorned the king with the high order of knighthood who on the same daie dubbed with the sword these knights whose names insue Richard duke of Yorke Iohn duke of Norffolke the earle of Westmerland Henrie lord Persie Iohn lord Butler sonne to the earle of Ormond the lord Rosse the lord Matrauers the lord Welles the lord Barkelie sir Iames Butler sir Henrie Greie of Tankaruile sir Iohn Talbot sir Rafe Greie of Warke sir Robert Uéere sir Richard Greie sir Edmund Hungerford sir Water Wingfield sir Iohn Butler sir Reginald Cobham sir Iohn Passheleu sir Thomas Tunstall sir Iohn Chedocke sir Rafe Langstre sir William Drurie sir William ap Thomas sir Richard Carnonell sir Richard Wooduile sir Iohn Shirdlow sir Nicholas Blunket sir William Cheinie iustice sir William Babington sir Rafe Butler sir Robert Beauchampe sir Edmund Trafford sir Iohn Iune cheefe baron and diuerse others After this solemne feast ended a great aid and subsidie was granted for the continuance of the conquest in France and so therevpon monie was gathered and men were prepared in euerie citie towne and countrie During which businesse Thomas duke of Excester great vncle to the king a right sage and discréet councellor departed out of this mortall life at his manor of Gréenewich and with all funerall pompe was conueied through London to Berrie and there buried ¶ In the same yeare also died the ladie Elizabeth halfe sister to the same duke and of the whole bloud with king Henrie the fourth maried first to the lord Iohn Holland duke of Excester and after to the lord Fanhope buried at the blacke friers of London Philip Morgan after the death of Iohn Fortham line 10 sometime treasuror of England year 1425 bishop of Elie and Durham both which bishopriks for anie thing that I can yet sée he inioied both at one time was made bishop of Elie in the yeare of our redemption 1425 in this sort Henrie the sixt and manie of the nobilitie had written to the conuent of the church of Elie to choose William Alnewicke doctor of both lawes confessor to the king and kéeper of the priuie seale to be their bishop Notwithstanding which they hauing more regard to their owne priuileges and benefit line 20 chose Peter the prior of Elie to succéed in the place of Iohn Fortham But none of both these inioied that roome for Martin bishop of Rome stepping into the matter to make the third part neither fauouring the kings motion nor approouing the monks election remooued this William Morgan from the see of Worcester vnto Elie sometime called Helix as I haue séene it set downe in Saxon characters in an ancient booke of the liues of saints written in the Saxon toong about the yeare of Christ 1010 before the time of Edward the confessor and much about the time of line 30 Albo Floriacensis This Morgan sat at Elie nine yeares twentie and six wéeks and foure daies departing this life in his manour of Hatfield in the yeare 1434 and was buried at the Charterhouse of London being the twentie and fourth bishop that was installed in that place While these things were thus a dooing in England year 1426 the earle of Warwike lieutenant for the regent in France entered into the countrie of Maine line 40 besieged the towne of Chateau de Loire the which shortlie to him was rendered whereof he made capteine Matthew Gough esquier After this he tooke by assault the castell of Maiet and gaue it for his valiantnesse to Iohn Winter esquier and after that he conquered the castell of Lude and made there capteine William Gladesdale gentleman Here he was informed that the Frenchmen were assembled in the countrie of Beausse wherevpon he hasted thitherwards to haue giuen them battell but they hauing line 50
Oxford Whervpon he was beheded at Tower hill and buried in the blacke friers of London He had three wiues wherof the first was called Cicilie the daughter of Richard earle of Salisburie the second Elizabeth the daughter of Robert Greindoure the third was Elizabeth after married to sir William Stanleie which Iohn had by his third wife Edward lord Tiptost who died without issue so the inheritance went to the sisters of the said earle Iohn Tiptost And here I thinke it not amisse to say somewhat of the lord Beaumont who being in our chronicles named constable of England as may appeare in the fiue and twentith yeare of Henrie the sixt in which yeare he arrested Humfrie duke of Glocester that for any thing that I can yet sée or learne this Beaumont was not constable by patent during his life but for the present time to execute the princes pleasure and therefore not méet in this discourse to haue anie speciall place amongest such as were constables of England either by descent or patent Sir Richard Wooduile knight earle Riuers was high constable of England in the fourth yere of king Edward the fourth of whom is more large mention in the following discourse of the treasurors of England in the historie of the reigne of quéene Elizabeth George Plantagenet second sonne to Richard duke of Yorke was created amongst other estates duke of Clarence in the yeare of our redemption 1461 being the first yeare of king Edward the fourth immediatlie vpon his coronation and was made constable of England in the time of Edward the fourth He in the eight of Edward the fourth about the yeare of Christ 1468 maried Isabell the eldest daughter of Richard Neuill earle of Warwike and Salisburie by whom he had issue Edward earle of Warwike and Salisburie borne vpon the sea in the hauen of Calis who was in the time of Richard the third a continuall prisoner and so hauing béene a prisoner and thereto borne by a certeine fatall destinie was in the yere of our redemption 1485 being the first of king Henrie the seuenth committed to custodie in the Tower where he continued all the rest of his life was beheaded at Tower hill in the fiftéenth yeare of king Henrie the seuenth being the yeare of Christ 1499 was buried at Birsam néere to his ancestors Besides this Edward this George duke of Clarence had issue a daughter called Margaret created by king Henrie the eight countesse of Salisburie who married sir Richard Poole knight of the garter descended of the ancient familie of the Pooles in Wales Richard Plantagenet the third sonne to Richard duke of Yorke was aduanced to the title and honor of the dukedome of Glocester in the yeare of our redemption 1461 being the first yeare of king Edward the fourth soone after his coronation He was high constable of England he maried Anne second daughter to Richard Neuill earle of Warwike and Salisburie Which Richard after the death of his brother king Edward the fourth did by the murther of his nephues ascend to the highest gouernement of England and was crowned king by the name of Richard the third Henrie Stafford whome our chronicles doo in manie places corruptlie terme Edward was sonne to Humfrie earle Stafford was high constable of England and duke of Buckingham This man raising warre against Richard the third vsurping the crowne was in the first yeare of the reigne of the said Richard being the yeare of Christ 1483 betraied by his man Humfrie Banaster to whome being in distresse he fled for succour and brought to Richard the third then lieng at Salisburie where the said duke confessing all the conspiracie was beheaded without arreignement or iudgement vpon the second of Nouember in the said yere of our redemption 1483 he maried Katharine the daughter of Richard Wooduile sister to quéene Elizabeth wife to Edward the fourth had issue Edward duke of Buckingham and Henrie earle of Wilshire with two daughters which were Anne maried to George lord Hastings of whom is descended the erle of Huntington now liuing and Elizabeth married to Richard line 10 Ratcliffe lord Fitz Waters of whome is issued sir Henrie Ratcliffe knight now earle of Sussex Edward Stafford sonne to Henrie duke of Buckingham being also duke of Bukingham after the death of his father was constable of England earle of Hereford Stafford and Northhampton being in the first yeare of Henrie the seuenth in the yeare of our redemption 1485 restored to his fathers dignities and possessions He is tearmed in the books of the law in the said thirtéenth yeare of Henrie the eight line 20 where his arreignement is liberallie set downe to be the floure mirror of all courtesie This man as before is touched was by Henrie the seuenth restored to his fathers inheritance in recompense of the losse of his fathers life taken awaie as before is said by the vsurping king Richard the third He married Elianor the daughter of Henrie earle of Northumberland and had issue Henrie lord Stafford father to Henrie lord Stafford now liuing and thrée daughters Elizabeth married to Thomas Howard line 30 earle of Surrie Katharine married to Rafe Neuill earle of Westmerland and Marie married to George Neuill lord of Aburgauennie And thus much by Francis Thin touching the succession of the constables of England In this meane while were the emperour and the French king fallen at variance so that the warre was renewed betwixt them for the pacifieng wherof the cardinall of Yorke was sent ouer to Calis where line 40 the ambassadours of both those princes were appointed to come to him He arriued there the second of August There went ouer with him the erle of Worcester then lord chamberleine the lord of S. Iohns the lord Ferrers the lord Herbert the bishop of Duresme the bishop of Elie the primat of Armacane sir Thomas Bullen sir Iohn Pechie sir Iohn Hussie sir Richard Wingfield sir Henrie Guilford and manie other knights esquiers gentlemen doctors and learned men Thus honourablie accompanied he line 50 rode thorough London the twentie fift daie of Iulie and at Thomas Beckets house the maior and aldermen tooke leaue of him praieng God to send him good spéed Thus passed he to Canturburie where the archbishop of Canturburie and others receiued him in his statelinesse and brought him vnto his lodging vnder a canopie to the bishops palace On the eight daie of Iulie he came to Douer On the twentith he the other lords with their retinues tooke passage and arriued at Calis in safetie where the lord deputie line 60 and the councell receiued them with much honour and lodged the cardinall in the Staple hall Shortlie after his arriuall at Calis thither came the chancellor of France and the countie de Palice with foure hundred horses as ambassadors from the French king and likewise from the emperour came great ambassadors either partie being furnished with sufficient
of the French king by couenants that should passe betwixt them he determined therefore with himselfe to commit his whole safetie to his naturall brother and to no man else perceiuing that the French king made not so great accompt of him after the losse of his castels in England as he had doone before Herevpon comming to his brother king Richard he besought him to pardon his â—â—â—ense and though he had not dealt brotherlie towards him yet that he would brotherlie forgiue him his rebellious trespasse adding furthermore that whereas he had not heretofore beene thankefull for his manifold benefits which he had receiued at his hands yet he was now most sorie therefore and was willing to make amends wherewith he acknowledged the safegard of his life to rest in him for the which he was bound to giue him thanks if he would grant thereto The king mooued with his words made this answer as it is said that he pardoned him indéed but yet wished that he might forget such iniuries as he had receiued at his hands which he doubted least he should not easilie doo Herewith erle Iohn being yet put in good hope of forgiuenesse sware to be true euer after vnto him and that he would endeuour himselfe to make amends for his misdeeds past and so was shortlie after restored vnto his former degree honour and estimation in all respects line 10 But by some writers it should appeare that earle Iohn immediatlie vpon conclusion of the first truce came from the French king and submitted himselfe to his brother and by mediation of the quéene their mother was pardoned receiued againe into fauour and serued 〈◊〉 after against the French king verie dutifullie séeking by new atchiued enterpises brought about to the contentation of his brother to make a recompense for his former misdemeanor reputing it meere madnesse to make means to further line 20 mischeefe for stultum est hostem iritare potentem Atque malum maius tumidis sibi quaerere verbis But at what time soeuer he returned thus to his brother this yeare as Roger Houeden saith he was restored to the earledoms of Mortaigne in Normandie and Glocester in England with the honour of Eie the castels onelie excepted and in recompense of the residue of the earledoms which he had before inioied togither with certeine other lands his brother line 30 king Richard gaue vnto him a yeerelie pension amounting to the summe of eight thousand pound of Aniouin monie ¶ Now here to staie a while at matters chancing here about home I will speake somewhat of the dooings of Leopold duke of Austrich who as one nothing mooued with the pestilence and famine that oppressed his countrie in this season but rather hauing his hart hardened began to threaten the English hostages that they shuld loose their liues if king Richard kept not the couenants which he had line 40 vndertaken to performe by a day appointed Wherevpon Baldwin Betun one of the hostages was sent by common agréement of the residue vnto king Richard to signifie to him their estate King Richard willing to deliuer them out of further danger sent with the same Baldwin his coosen the sister of Arthur duke of Britaine and the daughter of the emperour of Cypres to be conueied vnto the said duke of Austrich the one namelie the sister of Arthur to be ioined in marriage with the dukes sonne and the line 50 other to continue in the dukes hands to bestow at his pleasure But in the meane time on saint Stephans day duke Leopold chanced to haue a fall beside his horsse and hurt his leg in such wise that all the surgions in the countrie could not helpe him wherevpon in extreame anguish he ended his life And whereas before his death he required to be absolued of the sentence of excommunication pronounced against him by the pope for apprehending of king Richard in line 60 his returning from his iournie made into the holie land he was answered by the cleargie that except he would receiue an oth to stand to the iudgement of the church for the iniurie doone to king Richard and that vnlesse other of the Nobilitie would receiue the like oth with him if he chanced to die whereby he might not fulfill that which the church héerein should decrée that yet they should see the same performed he might not otherwise be absolued Wherefore he tooke the oth and the Nobles of his countrie with him and therewithall released the English pledges remitted the monie that yet remained behind of his portion aforesaid and immediatlie therewith died After his deceasse bicause certeine péeâ—es of the countrie withstood the performance of the premisses his bodie laie eight daies longer aboue ground than otherwise it should haue doone for till such time as all the pledges were perfectlie released it might not be buried Also Baldwin de Betun approching neere to the confines of Austrich when he heard that the duke was dead returned with the two ladies vnto his souereigne lord king Richard Thâ—s as ye haue heard for feare of the censures of the church were the pledges restored and the residue of the monie behind released ¶ All this was â—â—th pleasant and profitable for king Richards soules helth as may 〈◊〉 thought bicause he tooke occasion therof to amend hiâ— owne former 〈◊〉 by considering how much he might be repreheâ—â—eâ— for his sundrie faults committed both against God and man A maruellous matter to â—eare how much froÌ„ that time forward he reformed his former trade of liuing into a better forme order Moreouer the emperour gaue to the Ciâ—teauâ— moonks 3000 marks of siluer parcell of king Richards ransome to make siluer censers in euerie church throughout where they had any houses but the abbats of the same order refused the gift being a portion of so wrongfull and vngodlie a gaine At which thing when it came to the knowledge of K. Richard he greatlie maruelled at the first but after commended the abbats in their dooings and cheeflie for shewing that they were void of the accustomed gréedinesse of hauing which most men supposed them to be much infected withall King Richard this yeare pardoned Hugh Nouant bishop of Couentrie of all his wrath and displeasure conceiued toward him and restored to him his bishoprike for fiue thousand marks of siluer But Robert Nouant the same bishops brother died in the kings prison at Douer Also whereas the archbishop of Yorke had offended king Richard he pardoned him and receiued him againe into fauour with the kisse of peace Wherevpon the archbishop waxed so proud that vsing the king reprochfullie he lost his archbishoprike the rule of Yorkeshire which he had in gouernment as shiriffe the fauour of his souereigne and which was the greatest losse of all the loue of God For Nemo superbus amat superos nec amatur ab illis Vult humiles Deus ac mites habitátque libenter Mansuetos animos procul
an abstinence of warre to indure from the feast of S. Hilarie for one whole yere purposing in the meane time to make a finall peace and agréement In which season Baldwine earle of Flanders came into England to doo his deuotions vnto the shrine where Thomas the archbishop laie buried at Canturburie The same yeare also some what before this time Rise ap Griffin king of Wales departed this life after whose death there fell discord betwixt his sonnes for the succession till the archbishop Hubert went to the marshes of that countrie and made an agréement betwixt them Not long after Roger the brother of Robert earle of Leicester elected bishop of saint Andrews in Scotland receiued the order of priesthood and was consecrated bishop by the hands of the bishop of Aberdine This yeare it was ordeined that measures of all manner of graine should conteine one quantitie throughout the realme that is to saie one resonable horsselode and that the measures of wine and ale with all maner of liquors should be of one iust quantie according to the diuersitie of the liquor also that weights should be of like rate throughout the relme and that cloth should conteine two yards in breadth within the lists of perfect goodnesse throughout as well in the middest as by the sides and that one manner of yard should be vsed through the relme It was also ordeined that no merchants within the realme should hang any red or blacke clothes before their windowes nor set vp any pentises or other thing whereby to darken the light from those that come to buy their cloth so as they might be deceiued in choosing thereof Also it was enacted that there should be foure or six substantiall honest men chosen in euerie towne and likewise in shires with the head officers of cities and boroughes which had a corporation to see that the assises aforesaid were truelie kept and that if any were found to be offending in the premisses to cause their bodies to be attached and committed to prison and their goods to be seized to the kings vse and if those that were chosen to haue regard thereto were tried to be negligent so that by others and not by them any offendors chanced to be conuicted before the iustices then should the regarders be put to their fines for the negligent looking to their offices King Richard held his Christmasse this yeare at Roan and Hubert the archbishop of Canturburie legat of the apostolike sée year 1198 named lord chéfe iustice of England was about the same time in the marshes of Wales at Hereford and there receiued into his hands the castels of Hereford Bridgenorth and Ludlow remoouing those that had the same in kéeping and appointing others in their roomes Afterwards comming by Couentrie he placed the moonks againe in the cathedrall church of that citie by commandement of pope Celestine and chased out the secular canons which the bishop Hugh Nouant had brought into the same church when he remooued the moonks In the Christmasse wéeke also there came messengers to Rouen from the archbishops of Cullen and Mentz and from other states of the empire which declared vnto king Richard that all the princes of Germanie were appointed to assemble at Cullen the two twentith of Februarie about the choosing of a new emperour in place of the late deceassed Henrie and therefore they commanded him by force of the oth and league in which he was bound to the emperour and empire that all excuse of deniall or occasions to the contrarie ceasing and set apart he should make his repaire vnto Cullen at the aforesaid day to helpe them in choosing of some worthie personage that might and was able to haue the empire King Richard doubting to put himselfe in danger bicause he had not discharged all the debts due for his ransome staied at home but yet he sent diuerse noble men thither and did so much in fauour of his nephue Otho that by the helpe of the foresaid two archbishops of Cullen and Mentz the same Otho was elected emperour But of this matter more shall be said hereafter Moreouer about the same time king Richard required by the archbishop of Canturburie his chéefe iustice an aid of 300 knights to be found by his subiects of England to remaine with him in his seruice for one whole yeare or else that they would giue him so much monie as might serue to reteine that number after the rate of thrée shillings a daie of English monie for euerie knight Whereas all other were contented to be contributors herein onelie Hugh line 10 bishop of Lincolne refused and spake sore against the archbishop that moued the matter But how soeuer that request tooke place king Richard as we find leuied this yeare a subsidie of fiue shillings of euerie hide of land within the realme two commissioners that is to say one of the spiritualtie a knight of the temporaltie being appointed as commissioners in euerie shire with the assistance of the shiriffe and others to see the same assessed rated after an hundred acres of land to the hide of land according line 20 to the custome The same yeare also the moonks of the house of the holie Trinitie otherwise called Christes church in Canturburie exhibited their complaint vnto pope Innocent that their archbishop Hubert contrarie to his order and dignitie exercised the office of high iustice and sate in iudgement of bloud being so incumbred in temporall matters that he could not haue time to discharge his office touching spirituall causes wherevpon the pope sent vnto king Richard line 30 admonishing him not to suffer the said archbishop to be any longer troubled with temporall affaires but to discharge him thereof and not to admit any spirituall person from thencefoorth vnto any temporall administration He further prohibited by vertue of their obedience all manner of prelats and men of the church that they should not presume rashlie to take vpon them any maner of secular function or office Whervpon the archbishop was discharged of his office of line 40 chéefe iustice and Geffrey Fitz Peter succeeded in gouernement of the realme in his steed ¶ Geruasius Dorobernensis saith that the archbishop resigned that office of his owne accord and that not till after his returne from the marshes of Wales where he had ouerthrowne the Welshmen and slaine fiue thousand of them Which victorie other ascribe vnto Geffrey Fitz Peter which Geffrey as the said Dorobernensis saith succeeded the archbishop in the office of lord cheefe iustice but not vntill August in the line 50 tenth yeare of the kings reigne In this yeare immediatlie vpon the expiring of the truce which was taken till haruest might be ended the warre betwixt the two kings of England France began eftsoones to be pursued with like earnestnesse as before wherevpon manie encounters chanced betwixt the parties with taking of townes and fortresses as commonlie in such cases
the queene of France of whome as he said he had receiued fiue thousand marks to hinder his proceedings In this heat if the earle of Chester and other had not béene at hand he had suerlie slaine the chéefe iustice euen there with his drawne sword who was glad to auoid his presence till his angrie mood was somwhat ouerpassed In the meane time there arriued Henrie earle of Britaine on the ninth of October which should haue conducted the king into his countrie But sith winter was come vpon them he aduised him to stay till the next spring and so he did Then euerie man was licenced to depart home and the earle of Kent reconciled againe into fauour The erle of Britaine in like maner did homage to the king for Britaine and the king restored him to all his rights in England and further giuing him fiue thousand marks to defend his countrie against the enimies sent him home againe in most courteous and louing maner In this yeere of our Lord 1230 king Henrie held his Christmasse at Yorke togither with the king of Scots whome he had desired to come thither at that time that they might make merrie and so for the space of thrée daies togither there was great banketting and sport betwéene them On the fourth day they tooke leaue either of other the king of Scots with rich gifts returning towards his countrie and the king of England towards London Upon the fiue and twentith day of Ianuarie also while the bishop of London was at high masse within the church of S. Paule in London a sudden darknesse ouershadowed the quiere and therewith such a tempest of thunder and lightning that the people there assembled thought verelie the church and stéeple had come downe vpon their heads There came moreouer such a filthie sauour and stinke withall that partlie for feare and partlie for that they might not abide the sauour they voided the church falling on heapes one vpon another as they sought to get out of the same The vicars and canons forsooke their deskes so that the bishop remained there onelie with one deacon that serued him at masse Afterward when the aire began to cleare vp the people returned into the church and the bishop went forward and finished the masse In the meane time the king leuied a great summe of monie of the prelats of his land towards his iournie into France he had also a great reléefe of the citizens of London And the Iewes were constreined to giue to him the third part of all their moueable goods In the moneth of Aprill Leolin prince of Wales caused William de Breuse whom he had taken prisoner long before as aboue is mentioned to be hanged on a paire of gallowes for that he was taken as was reported in adulterie with the wife of the said prince And on the last day of Aprill the king with a puissant armie tooke the sea at Portesmouth and landed at saint Malos in Britaine on the third day of May where he was right ioifullie receiued of Henrie earle of that countrie After he was thus arriued in Britaine he entered into the French dominions with the said earle and the earle of Marsh his father in law dooing much hurt within the same His armie dailie increasing by the great numbers were beaten downe on all parts and vtterlie vanquished with losse of 20 thousand men as it was crediblie reported The king of Connagh was also taken and committed to prison In the meane time king Henrie hauing spent a great deale of treasure in his iournie made into France year 1221 there was granted vnto him a fiftéenth of the temporaltie with a disme and a halfe of the spiritualtie towards the furnishing out of a new power of men to be sent into Spaine against the Saracens which made sore warres vpon the christians in line 10 that countrie wherevpon king Henrie being required of the K. of Aragon to aid him with some number of souldiers he sent a great power thither with all speed and so likewise did the French king By means whereof the Spaniards being ioined with Englishmen and Frenchmen obteined a noble victorie in vanquishing those their enimies Thus saith Polydor. But other write that the king on the seauen and twentith of Ianuarie holding a parlement line 20 at Westminster where the Nobles both spirituall and temporall were assembled demanded escuage of all those that held any baronies of him that is to saie forren knights fée fortie shillings or thrée marks Moreouer the archbishop of Canturburie as they say stood against the king in this demand mainteining that the cleargie ought not to be subiect vnto the iudgement of laie men sith this escuage was granted in the parts beyond the seas without their line 30 consent Wherevpon the matter as touching the bishops was deferred till the quindene of Easter albeit that all the laitie and other of the spiritualtie consented to the kings will ¶ About this time also there chanced to rise a great strife and contention betwixt Richard the archbishop of Canturburie and Hubert the earle of Kent who as gardian to the yoong erle of Glocester had got into his hands the castell of Tunbridge with the towne and certeine other possessions which belonged to the archbishops sée and therefore line 40 did the archbishop complaine to the king of the iniurie which he susteined Now when he perceiued no hope likelie to come for any redresse a◠the kings hands he tooke an other way and first by his pontificall authoritie accursed all those that withheld the same possessions and all their mainteiners the king excepted and therewith appealing to the pope he went to prosecute his appeale at Rome whither the king and the earle sent also their procurators and made the pope their arbitratour line 50 to iudge of the matter In the end pope Gregorie hauing heard the whole processe of the controuersie iudged the right to remaine with the archbishop who hauing then obteined his desire hasted toward England but as he was returning homewards he died by the way not farre from Rome whereby the popes iudgement tooke no place for whilest the sée was void there was none that would follow the suit and such was the end of this controuersie for this time line 60 After the deceasse of this archbishop Richard the moonks elected Ralfe Neuill bishop of Chichester the kings chancellor an vpright man and of iust dealing in all his dooings In whome also it is to be noted he would not giue one halfepenie to the moonks towards the bearing of their charges in their iournie to Rome which they should take vpon them from thence to fetch his confirmation according to the manner least he should burthen his conscience with the crime of simonie which he greatlie abhorred although some imputed this to proceed rather of a cloked spice of couetousnesse Which practise of his maketh greatlie
discharged by Iohn Mansell one of the kings iustices afore whom and other the kings councell the inquisition was taken and then was the custodie of the citie assigned vnto the constable of the tower and in place of the shiriffes were appointed Michaell Tonie and Iohn Audrian At length the maior shiriffes and Aldermen that were accused perceiuing the kings displeasure towards them submitted themselues wholie to his mercie sauing to them and to all other the citizens their liberties franchises and so in the excheker chamber at Westminster afore the king there sitting in iudgement vpon the matter they were condemned to paie their fines for their offenses committed and further euerie of them discharged of his ward and office Shortlie after was William Fitz Richard by the kings commandement made maior and Thomas Fitz Thomas and William Grapisgate shiriffes The archbishop of Yorke was accurssed by the popes commandement through all England with booke bell and candle that by such terror his constancie might he weakened But the archbishop saith Matthew Paris informed by the example of Thomas Becket and by the example and doctrine of saint Edmund sometime his instructor and also taught by the faithfulnesse of blessed Robert late bishop of Lincolne despaired not of comfort from heauen in bearing patientlie the popes tyrannie neither would he bestow the wealthie reuenues of his church vpon Italians being vnworthie persons and strangers neither would he obeie and incline to the popes will like a faint-harted person by leaning and setting apart the rigor of the law least therby he might séeme to result from his pastorlike office and animate the woolfe of Rome to breake into the shéepfold of the church whose purpose was to sucke the verie bloud quite and cleane out of euerie veine yea to bite out bowels and all Which qualitie to rest in him wofull experience hath taught and the testimonie of written verities hath shewed among which this one for the truth thereof is worthie to be reported euen to the praise of the deuiser for his prettie deuise therein comprised and here set downe as fit for the purpose Non pontifex sed potifex Non potifex sed panifex Non panifex sed carnifex Est papa pater pontifex About â—he beginning of the two and fortith yeare of king Henries reigne the lord Iames Audelie that had béene ouer with the king of Almaine and was latelie returned home in companie of the lord Henrie sonne to the said king who came backe from his father about the feast of saint Michaell last past vnderstanding how the Welshmen in his absence had burnt wasted and destroied his lands possessions and castels which belonged vnto him in the confines of Wales he meant to be reuenged of those iniuries and inuading them he slue a great number of them so reuenging the death of those his freends seruants and tenants whome they before had murthered The Welshmen were not so discouraged herewith but that they brake vpon him out of their starting-holes and places of refuge through the marishes and slaieng their enimies horsses put them backe to their power ceassed not to doo what mischeefe they could line 10 by spoiling killing and burning houses and castels where they might come vnto them and so the realme of England was dailie put to losses hinderances For out of Wales England was accustomed to be furnished with horsses cattell and other things to the great profit of both the countries About the same time there was an ambassage sent from the king of England to the French king by the bishop of Worcester the elect of Winchester the abbat of Westminster the earle of Leicester Hugh Bigod earle line 20 Marshall with Peter de Sauoy and Robert Walcron The effect of their message was to require restitution of those countries lands cities and townes which had bene euicted out of the hands of king Iohn and others apperteining by right of inheritance to the king of England These lords did their message but as was thought they had no towardlie answer but rather were put off with trifling words scornefull â—awnts so that they returned shortlie againe all of them the abbat of Westminster onelie excepted line 30 who remained there behind for a fuller answer not â—nelie to those requests exhibited on the part of the king of England but also on the behalfe of the king of Almaine The marshes towards Wales in this season were brought almost desert by reason of the continuall wars with the Welshmen for what with fire sword neither building nor liuing creature nor any other thing was spared that fire sword might bring to ruine line 40 In this yeare was an exceeding great dearth in so much that a quarter of wheat was sold at London for foure and twentie shillings whereas within two or thrée yeares before a quarter was sold at two shillings It had beene more déerer if great store had not come out of Almaine for in France and in Normandie it likewise failed year 1258 But there came fiftie great ships fraught with wheat and barlie with meale and bread out of Dutchland by the procurement of Richard king of Almaine which greatlie releeued the poore for proclamation was made and order line 50 taken by the king that none of the citizens of London should buy any of that graine to laie it vp in store whereby it might be sold at an higher price vnto the needie But though this prouision did much ease yet the want was great ouer all the realme For it was certeinelie affirmed that in three shires within the realme there was not found so much graine of that yeares growth as came ouer in those fiftie ships The proclamation was set foorth to restreine the Londoners from ingrossing vp that graine and not without cause for the wealthie citizens were euill spoken of in that season bicause in time of scarsitie they would either staie such ships as fraught with vittels were comming towards the citie and send them some other way foorth or else buy the whole that they might sell it by retaile at their plesure to the needie By means of this great dearth and scarsitie the common people were constreined to liue vpon hearbs roots and a great number of the poore people died through famine which is the most miserable calamitie that can betide mortall men and was well marked euen of the heathen but notablie by Ouid who making a description of famine setteth hir foorth in most ouglie and irkesome sort intending therby the dreadfulnes of that heauie plague saieng Quaesitámque famem lapidoso vidit in antro Vnguibus raris vellentem dentibus herbas Hirtus erat crinis caua lumina pallor in ore Labra incana situ scabrirubigine dentes Dura cutis per quam spectari viscera possent Ossa sub incuruis extabant arida lumbis Ventris erat pro ventre locus pendêre putares Pectus à spinae tantummodo
dearth increased still almost by the space of 40 yeares till the death of Edward the second in so much that sometime a bushell of wheat London measure was sold at ten shillings The king after he had remained and continued three yeares two moneths and fiftéene daies in Gascoine and in other parts there beyond the sea he returned into England on the fourth day of August and vpon the euen of the Assumption of our ladie he came to London where he was most ioifullie receiued so â—ame to Westminster where shortlie after were presented vnto him manie gréeuous complaints and informations against diuerse of his iustices as sir Thomas Weiland Adam Stretton and others the which were had in examination and thervpon found giltie of manie trespasses and transgressions in so much that it was giuen him to vnderstand that there were among them that had giuen consent to the committing of murthers and robberies and wittinglie had receiued the offendors Wherevpon the king caused streight inquirie to be made by an inquest of 12 substantiall personages who found by verdict that Thomas Weiland lord chéefe iustice of the kings bench had caused a murther to be doone by his seruants and after succoured and mainteined them hervpon he was by the kings officers arrested but escaping their hands he tooke sanctuarie in the church of the friers minors at saint Edmundesburie and was admitted into their habit but within fourtie daies after order was giuen by the king that no kind of vittels should be suffered to be conueied to that house so that all the friers came foorth except three or foure and at length he was constreined to take vpon him a laie mans apparell and comming foorth was deliuered to the hands of Robert Malet knight who had before the custodie of him and now hauing him againe brought him to the towre of London At length he was put to his choise of thrée waies which soeuer of them he would take that is whether to be tried by his péeres or to remaine in perpetuall prison or to abiure the realme he chose the last and so bare-footed and bare-headed bearing a crosse in his hand he was conueied from the towre to Douer where taking the sea he was transported to the further side of the sea his goods mooueable and vnmooueable being confisâ—atâ— to the kings coffers William Brampton Roger Leicester Iohn Luneth associats of the said Thomas and iustices of the kings bench also Robert Lithburie chapleine and maister of the rolles being accused of wrongfull iudgements and other trespasses were committed to prison within the tower and at length with much adoo escaped with paieng their fines so that he which paied least gaue a thousand marks Moreouer Salomon of Rochester Thomas de Sudington Richard de Boiland and Walter de Hopton iustices itinerants were likewise punished and for the semblable offenses put to their fines Sir Rafe de Hingham line 10 a iustice also to whome in the kings absence the ordering of the realme chéefelie apperteined being accused of diuerse transgressions and committed to the tower redeemed his offense for an infinit summe of monie Adam de Stratton lord chéefe baron of the excheker being conuicted of manie hainous crimes a man plentifullie prouided both of temporall possessions and ecclesiasticall reuenues lost all his temporall liuings and foure and thirtie thousand marks in readie coine beside other mooueables in cattell line 20 iewels and furniture of houshold which were all confiscated and forfeited wholie and it was thought he was gentlie dealt with that he escaped with life and such spirituall liuings as to him remained Henrie Braie escheator and the iudges ouer the Iewes were reported to haue committed manie greeuous offenses but for monie they bought their peace To conclude there was not found any amongst all the iustices and officers cleere and void of vniust dealing except Iohn de Metingham and Elias de Bekingham line 30 who onelie among the rest had behaued themselues vprightlie When therfore such gréeuous complaints were exhibited to the king he appointed the earle of Lincolne the bishop of Elie and others to heare euerie mans complaint and vpon due examination triall to sée them answered accordinglie as right and equitie should require In which administration of iustice against euill iusticiaries the king performed the charge imposed and laid vpon all such as are in gouernement and magistracie namelie line 40 Nunc igitur reges resipiscite quaerite rectum Quorum iudicijs terra regenda data est In the eighteenth yeare of his reigne the king married two of his daughters that is to saie Ioane de Acres vnto Gilbert de Clare earle of Glocester and the ladie Margaret vnto the lord Iohn sonne to the duke of Brabant ¶ The king ordeined that all the wooll which should be sold vnto strangers should be brought vnto Sandwich where the staple thereof was kept long time after In the same yeare was a line 50 parlement holden at Westminster wherein the statutes of Westminster the third were ordeined It was also decreed that all the Iewes should auoid out of the land in consideration whereof a fifteenth was granted to the king and so héervpon were the Iewes banished out of all the kings dominions and neuer since could they obteine any priuilege to returne hither againe All their goods not mooueable were confiscated with their taillies and obligations but all other their goods that were mooueable togither with line 60 their coine of gold and siluer the king licenced them to haue and conuey with them A sort of the richest of them being shipped with their treasure in a mightie â—all ship which they had hired when the fame was vnder saile and got downe the Thames towards the mouth of the riuer beyond Quinborowe the maister mariner be thought him of a wile and caused his men to cast anchor and so rode at the same till the ship by ebbing of the streame remained on the drie sands The maister herewith entised the Iewes to walke out with him on land for recreation And at length when he vnderstood the tide to be comming in he got him backe to the ship whither he was drawne vp by a cord The Iewes made not so much hast as he did bicause they were not ware of the danger But when they perceiued how the matter stood they cried to him for helpe howbeit he told them that they ought to crie rather vnto Moses by whose conduct their fathers passed through the red sea and therefore if they would call to him for helpe he was able inough to helpe them out of those raging flouds which now came in vpon them they cried indéed but no succour appeared and so they were swallowed vp in water The maister returned with the ship and told the king how he had vsed the matter and had both thanks and reward as some haue written But other affirme and more truelie as should seeme
to be tried by his countrie and so was pressed to death as the law in such case appointeth Diuerse other were saued by their bookes according vnto the order of clerkes conuict as Alexander Brid person of Hogeset Iohn Rugham person of little Welnetham Iohn Berton cordwainer and diuerse other Some were repriued as one woman named Iulian Barbor who being big bellied was respited till she were deliuered of child Benedict Sio and Robert Russell line 30 were repriued and committed to the safe kéeping of the shiriffe as triers or appeachers as we tearme them of other offendors and bicause there was not anie as yet attached by their appeales they were commanded againe to prison One Robert de Creswell was saued by the kings letters of speciall pardon which he had there readie to shew As for Robert Foxton Adam Cokefield and a great number of other whome the shiriffe was commanded to apprehend he returned that he could not heare of them line 40 within the precinct of his bailiffewéeke wherevpon exigents were awarded against them and the shiriffe was commanded that if he might come to attach them he should not faile but so to doo and to haue their bodies there at Burie before the said iustices the thursdaie in Whitsunwéeke next insuing Diuerse also were arreigned at the same time of the said felonies and thereof acquited as Michaell Scabaille Rafe Smeremonger and others Indéed line 50 those that were found guiltie and suffered were the chéefe authors and procurors of the commotion bearing others in hand that the abbat had in his custodie a certeine charter wherein the king should grant to the inhabitants of the towne of Burie certeine liberties whereby it might appeare that they were free and discharged from the paiment of diuerse customes and exactions wherevpon the ignorant multitude easilie giuing credit to such surmised tales were the sooner induced to attempt such disorders as line 60 before are mentioned ¶ Thus haue yée heard all in effect that was doone in this first yeare of king Edward the third his reigne by and against those offendors But bicause we will not interrupt matters of other yeares with that which followed further of this businesse we haue thought good to put the whole that we intend to write thereof here in this place Yée shall therefore vnderstand that diuerse of those against whome exigents were awarded came in and yéelded their bodies to the shiriffes prison before they were called on the fift countie daie Albeit a great manie there were that came not and so were outlawed Robert Foxton got the kings pardon and so purchasing foorth a supersede as the suit therevpon against him was staied The shiriffe therefore in Whitsunwéeke in the second yeare of this kings reigne made his returne touching Benedict Sio Robert Russell Iulian Barbor so that he deliuered them vnto the bailiffes of the libertie of the abbat of Burie by reason of an ancient priuilege which the abbat claimed to belong to his house The bailiffes confessed they had receiued the said prisoners but forsomuch as they had beene arreigned at a Portmane mote which was vsed to be kept euerie thrée wéeks and vpon their arreignment were found guiltie of certeine other felonies by them committed within the towne of Burie and therevpon were put to execution Adam Finchman the kings attournie there tooke it verie euill laid it greeuouslie to the charge of the abbats officers for their hastie and presumptuous proceeding against the said prisoners namelie bicause the said Sio and Russell were repriued to the end that by their vtterance many heinous offenses might haue béene brought to light On the same daie that is to wit the thursdaie in Whitsunweeke the foresaid Robert Foxton and diuerse other came in and were attached by the shiriffe to answer the abbat to his action of trespasse which he brought against them and putting the matter to the triall of an inquest they were condemned in sixtie thousand pounds to be leuied of their goods and chattels vnto the vse of the abbat and in the meane time they were committed to prison But first they made suit that they might be put to their fines for their offenses committed against the kings peace and their request in that behalfe was granted so that vpon putting in sufficient suerties for their good abearing their fines were assessed as some at more and some at lesse as the case was thought for to require Thus rested the matter a long season after vntill the fift yeare of this kings reigne in which the thursdaie next after the feast of the blessed Trinitie the K. being himselfe in person at S. Edmundsburie aforesaid a finall agreement and concord was concluded betwixt the said abbat and his conuent on the one partie and Richard Draiton and others of the inhabitants of that towne on the other partie before the right reuerend father in God Iohn bishop of Winchester and chancellor of England and the kings iustices Iohn Stonore and Iohn Cantbridge sitting there at the same time by the kings commandement The effect of which agreement was as followeth The articles of agreement betweene the moonks of Burie and the inhabitants of Burie FIrst wheras the said abbat had recouered by iudgement before the said Iohn Stonore and other his associats iustices of oier and determiner in the said towne of Burie the summe of seuen score thousand pounds for trespasses to him and his house committed and doone by the said Richard Draiton and other the inhabitants of Burie now at the desire of the said king and for other good respects him moouing he pardoned and released vnto the said Richard Draiton and to other the inhabitants of Burie to their heires executors and assigns the summe of 122333 pounds eight shillings eight pence of the said totall summe of 140000 pounds And further the said abbat and conuent granted and agreed for them and their successors that if the said Richard Draiton other the inhabitants of the said towne of Burie or any of them their heires executors or assignes should paie to the said abbat conuent or their successors within twentie yeares next insuing the date of that present agreement 2000 marks that is to saie 100 marks yearelie at the feasts line 10 of S. Michaell Easter by euen portions that then the said Richard other the inhabitants of the towne of Burie should be acquited discharged of 4000 marks parcell of 17666 pounds thirteene shillings foure pence residue behind for euer Moreouer whereas the said abbat and conuent the said abbat by himselfe since the 19 yeare of the reigne of king Edward line 20 the second vnto that present time had sealed certeine charters deeds writings as well with the proper seale of the abbat as with the common seale of the abbat conuent if the said Richard and the inhabitants of the said towne of Burie did restore vnto the said abbat conuent all the same
this rule he was to be punished as a traitor 7 Item it was asked whether the king when soeuer it pleased him might not dissolue the parlement and command the lords and commons to depart from thence line 30 or not Wherevnto it was answered that he might 8 Item it was inquired that for somuch as it was in the king to remooue such iustices and officers as offend and to punish them for their offenses whether the lords commons might without the kings will impeach the same officers and iustices vpon their offenses in parlement or not To line 40 this answer was made that they might not and he that attempted contrarie was to suffer as a traitor 9 Item it was inquired how he is to be punished that mooued in the parlement that the statute wherin Edward the sonne of king Edward great grandfather to the king that now is was indicted in parlement might be sent for by inspection of line 50 which statute the said new statute or ordinance and commission were conceiued and deuised in the parlement To which question with one accord as in all the residue they answered that as well he that so summoned as the other which by force of the same motion brought the said statute into the parlement house be as publike offendors and traitors to be line 60 punished 10 Item it was inquired of them whether the iudgement giuen in the parlement against Michaell de la Poole earle of Suffolke were erronious and reuocable or not To which question likewise with one assent they said that if the same iudgement were now to be giuen the iustices and sergeant aforesaid would not giue the same bicause it seemed to them that the said iudgement is reuocable and erronious in euerie part In witnesse of the premisses the iustices sergeant aforesaid to these presents haue set their seals these being witnesses Alexander archbishop of Yorke Robert archbishop of Dubline Iohn bishop of Durham Thomas bishop of Chester Iohn bishop of Bangor Robert duke of Ireland Michaell erle of Suffolke Iohn Ripon clearke and Iohn Blake Now beside these iustices and sergeant there were called at that present vnto Notingham all other iustices of the realme and the shiriffes Also diuerse of the citie of London which the king knew would incline to his will the rather for that some of them hauing aforetime confessed treason against the king by them imagined and obteining pardon for the same were readie at his commandement to recompense such fauour in the accomplishment of whatsoeuer they knew might stand with his pleasure Herevpon they being impanelled to inquire of certeine treasons that were supposed to be committed by the lords which in the last parlement had so caused things to passe contrarie to the kings pleasure indicted the same lords of manie crimes informed against them ¶ The Londoners indeed were euill reported of in those daies by some writers for their vnstablenesse one while holding on the kings part and with such as were chéefe in counsell about him and an other while on the lords side that were of a contrarie faction according as the streame of their affections draue them and as they were carried awaie perforce by the floud of their variable willes whereby they were diuided into differing passions as they were assaulted by sundrie and vncerteine desires which is the nature of the people as the poet noteth saieng Scinditur incertum studia in contraria vulgus But now as concerning the cause whie the shiriffes were called hither it was chéeflie to vnderstand what power of men they might assure the king of to serue him against the lords and barons whome he tooke to be his enimies and further that where he meant to call a parlement verie shortlie they should so vse the matter that no knight might be chosen but such as the king and his councell should name But answer was made herevnto by the shiriffes that the lords were so highlie beloued of the commons that it laie not in their powers to assemble any great forces against the lords and as for choosing the knights of the shires they said that the commons would vndoubtedlie vse their ancient liberties and priuileges in choosing such as they thought meetest But yet after that the indictments were found according to the desire of the king and his councellors and that those which had béene called about this matter were licenced to depart home the king and the duke of Ireland sent messengers into euerie part of the realme to reteine men of warre to assist them in the quarell against the lords if néed were Manie made answer that sith they knew the lords to be faithfull and loiall to the king euen from the bottome of their hearts and were readie to studie to deuise and to doo all things that might tend to his honor and wealth of the realme they might not by anie meanes beare armour against them But a great number of other that tooke it that they were reteined for a good and necessarie purpose promised to be readie whensoeuer it should please the king to send for them The lords being in this meane while aduertised of these dooings were striken with great heauinesse for that not knowing themselues as they tooke it giltie of anie offense the king should thus seeke their destruction Herewith the duke of Glocester meaning to mitigate the kings displeasure receiued a solemne oth before the bishop of London and diuerse other lords protesting by the same oth that he neuer imagined nor went about any thing to the kings hinderance but to his power had alwaies doone what he might to aduance the kings honor prosperous state and good liking except onelie that he had giuen no good countenance to the duke of Ireland whom the king so much loued And suerlie for that the said duke had dishonored his kinswoman and the kings line 10 also he was firmelie determined to reuenge that iniurie vpon him and herewith he besought the bishop of London to declare what his words were vnto the king The bishop comming to the king made report of the duke of Glocesters protestation confirmed with his oth in such wise as the king began somewhat to be persuaded that it was true But when the earle of Suffolke perceiued that fearing least the reconciliation of the king and the duke his vncle should turne line 20 to his undooing he began to speake against the duke till the bishop bad him hold his peace and told him that it nothing became him to speake at all And when the earle asked why so Bicause said the bishop thou wast in the last parlement condemned for an euill person and one not worthie to liue but onelie it pleaseth the king to shew thée fauour The king offended with the bishops presumptuous words commâ—nded him to depart get him home to his church who foorthwith departed and declared to the duke of line 30 Glocester what he had heard and séene Herevpon the
some naughtie traitorous persons had conueied into his bed a certeine iron made with smiths craft like a caltrop with three long prickes sharpe and small standing vpright in such sort that when he had laid him downe that the weight of his bodie should come vpon the bed he should haue beene thrust in with those pricks and peraduenture slaine but as God would the king not thinking of any such thing chanced yet to féele and perceiue the instrument before he laid him downe and so escaped the danger ¶ Howbeit he was not so soone deliuered from feare for he might well haue his life in suspicion prouide for the preseruation of the same sith perils of death crept into his secret chamber and laie lurking in the bed of downe where his bodie was to be reposed and to take rest Oh what a suspected state therefore is that of a king holding his regiment with the hatred of his people the hartgrudgings of his courtiers and the peremptorie practises of both togither Could he confidentlie compose or setle himselfe to sleepe for feare of strangling Durst he boldly eat and drinke without dread of poisoning Might he aduenture to shew himselfe in great méetings or solemne assemblies without mistrust of mischeefe against his person intended What pleasure or what felicitie could he take in his princelie pompe which he knew by manifest and fearefull experience to be enuied and maligned to the verie death The state of such a king is noted by the poet in Dionysius as in a mirror concerning whome it is said Districtus ensis cui super impia Ceruice pendet non Siculae dapes Dulcem elaborabunt saporem Non auium cytharaeque cantus This yeare the eight day of Aprill deceassed the lord Thomas Beauchampe earle of Warwike year 1402 In the moneth of March appeared a blasing starre first betwéene the east part of the firmament and the north flashing foorth fire and flames round about it and lastlie shooting foorth fierie beams towards the north foreshewing as was thought the great effusion of bloud that followed about the parts of Wales and Northumberland For much about the same time Owen Glendouer with his Welshmen fought with the lord Greie of Ruthen comming foorth to defend his possessions which the same Owen wasted and destroied and as the fortune of that daies worke fell out the lord Greie was taken prisoner and manie of his men were slaine This hap lifted the Welshmen into high pride and increased meruelouslie their wicked and presumptuous attempts About Whitsuntide a conspiracie was deuised by certeine persons that wished the kings death mainteining and bruting abroad that king Richard was aliue and therefore exhorted men to stand with him for shortlie he would come to light and reward such as tooke his part with iust recompense Herewith there was a priest taken at Ware or as some books haue at Warwike who had a kalendar or roll in which a great number of names were written more than were in any wise guiltie of the fact as afterwards appeared by the same priests confession For line 10 being examined whether he knew such persons as he had so inrolled were there present before him he said he neuer knew them at all and being demanded wherefore he had then so recorded their names he answered bicause he thought they would gladlie doo what mischiefe they could against king Henrie vpon any occasion offered in reuenge of the iniuries doone to king Richard by whom they had beene aduanced and princelie preferred When therfore there line 20 appeared no more credit in the man he was condemned drawen hanged and quartered and diuerse that had beene apprehended about that matter were released and set at libertie Shortlie after the prior of Laund who for his euill gouernment had béene depriued of his state and dignitie was likewise executed not for attempting any thing of himselfe but onlie for that he confessed that he knew euill counsell and concealed it His name was Walter Baldocke a canon sometime in Dunstable and by king Richard line 30 promoted to the priorship of Laund Also the same time certeine greie friers were apprehended for treason which they had deuised to bring to passe and one of them whose name was Richard Frisebie being asked what he would doo if king Richard had béene aliue and present with them answered stoutlie that he would fight against any man in his quarrell euen to death Herevpon he was condemned drawen and hanged in his friers wéed to the great confusion of his brethren but they made line 40 earnest instance to haue his bodie taken downe and buried with diriges and exequies and had their sute granted Sir Roger of Claringdon knight was also put to death about this conspiracie with two of his seruants the one an esquier the other a yeoman He was base sonne as was reported vnto Edward eldest sonne to king Edward the third surnamed the blacke prince On Corpus Christi daie at euensong time the diuell as was thought appeared in a towne of Essex called Danburie entring into the church in line 50 likenesse of a greie frier behauing himselfe verie outragiouslie plaieng his parts like a diuell indéed so that the parishioners were put in a maruellous great fright At the same instant there chanced such a tempest of wind thunder and lightning that the highest part of the roofe of that church was blowen downe and the chancell was all to shaken rent and torne in péeces Within a small while after eight of those greie friers that had practised treason against the king line 60 were brought to open iudgement and conuicted were drawen and headed at London and two other suffered at Leicester all which persons had published king Richard to be aliue Owen Glendouer according to his accustomed manner robbing and spoiling within the English borders caused all the forces of the shire of Hereford to assemble togither against them vnder the conduct of Edmund Mortimer earle of March But cōming to trie the matter by battell whether by treason or otherwise so it fortuned that the English power was discomfited the earle taken prisoner and aboue a thousand of his people slaine in the place The shamefull villanie vsed by the Welshwomen towards the dead carcasses was such as honest eares would be ashamed to heare and continent toongs to speake thereof The dead bodies might not be buried without great summes of monie giuen for libertie to conueie them awaie The king was not hastie to purchase the deliuerance of the earle March bicause his title to the crowne was well inough knowen and therefore suffered him to remaine in miserable prison wishing both the said earle and all other of his linage out of this life with God and his saincts in heauen so they had béene out of the waie for then all had béene well inough as he thought But to let these things passe the king this yeare sent
Richard Which thing she neither then thought I am sure as I by hir words could make coniecture nor I my selfe cast not hir desire to be so profitable to the realme as I now doo perceiue But such a Lord is God that with a little sparkle he kindleth a great fire and to the admiration of the world of impossibilities he maketh possibilities of small beginnings mightie increasings of drops great flouds And so finallie to declare to you the verie conclusion to the which I am both bent and set my mind is and my power and pursse shall helpe that the earle of Richmond verie heire of the house of Lancaster in the quarrell of the which linage both my father and grandfather lost their liues in battell shall take to wife ladie Elizabeth eldest daughter to king Edward by the which mariage both the houses of Yorke and Lancaster may be ioined and vnited in one to the cleere establishment of the title to the crowne of this noble relme To which conclusion if the mothers of both parts and especiallie the earle himselfe and the ladie will agrée I doubt not but the bragging bore which with his tuskes raseth euerie mans skin shall not onelie be brought to confusion as he hath deserued but that this empire shall euer be certeine of an vndubitate heire then shall all ciuill and intestine warre cease which so long hath continued to the paring of manie mens crownes and this realme shall be reduced againe to quietnesse renowme and glorie This inuention of the duke manie men thought after that it was more imagined for the inward hatred that he bare to king Richard than for anie fauor that he bare to the earle of Richmond But of such doubtfull matter it is not best to iudge for erring too farre from the mind and intent of the author But whatsoeuer he intended this deuise once opened to king Richard was the verie occasion that he was rounded shorter by the whole head without attaindor or iudgement When the duke had said the bishop which fauoured euer the house of Lancaster was woonderous ioifull and much reioised to heare this deuise For now came the wind about euen as he would haue it sith all his imagination tended to this effect to haue king Richard subdued and to haue the lines of king Edward and king Henrie the sixt againe raised and aduanced But lord how he reioised to thinke how that by this marriage the linages of Yorke and Lancaster should be conioined in one to the verie stedfastnesse of the publike wealth of this realme And least the dukes courage should swage or his mind should againe alter as it did often before as you may easilie perceiue by his owne tale he thought to set vp all the sailes that he had to the intent that the ship of his pretended purpose might come shortlie to some sure port and said to the duke My lord sith by Gods prouision and your incomparable wisedome and policie this noble coniunction is first mooued now is it conuenient yea and necessarie to consider what personages and what fréends we shall first make line 10 priuie of this high deuise and politike conclusion which is not rashlie without aduisement to be aduentured for therin is danger as the wiseman saith Semper habet damnum mentis temerarius ardor By my truth quoth the duke we will begin with the ladie Richmond the earles mother which knoweth where he is either in captiuitie or at large in Britaine For I heard saie that the duke of Britaine restored him to libertie immediatlie after the death of king Edward by whose means he was restreined line 20 Sith you will begin that waie said the bishop I haue an old fréend with the countesse a man sober secret and well witted called Reginald Braie whose prudent policie I haue knowne to haue compassed things of great importance for whome I shall secretlie send if it be your pleasure and I doubt not but he will gladlie come and that with a good will So with a little diligence the bishop wrote a letter to Reginald Braie requiring him to come to Brecknocke line 30 with speed for great and vrgent causes touching his mistresse and no other thing was declared in the letter So the messenger rode into Lancashire where Braie was with the countesse and lord Thomas Stanlie hir husband and deliuered the letter which when he had read he tooke it as a signe or presage of some good fortune to come Then he with the messenger came to the castell of Brecknocke where the duke and the bishop declared what thing was deuised both for to set the relme line 40 in a quiet stedfastnesse as also for the high preferment of the earle of Richmond sonne to his ladie and mistresse willing hir first to compasse how to obteine the good will of quéene Elizabeth and also of hir eldest daughter bearing the same name and after secretlie to send to hir sonne into Britaine to declare what high honor was prepared for him if he would sweare to marrie the ladie Elizabeth assoone as he was king and in roiall possession of the relme Reginald Braie with a glad heart forgetting nothing line 50 giuen to him in charge in great hast and with good spéed returned to the countesse his ladie and mistresse When Braie was departed and this great doubtfull vessell once set abroach the bishop thirsting for nothing more than for libertie when he saw the duke pleasant and well minded toward him he told the duke that if he were in his Ile of Elie he could make manie fréends to further their enterprise and if he were there and had but foure daies warning he line 60 litâ—le regarded the malice of king Richard his countrie was so strong The duke knew well all this to be true but yet loth he was that the bishop should depart for he knew well that as long as the bishop was with him he was sure of politike aduise sage counsell and circumspect procéeding And so he gaue the bishop faire words saieng that he should shortlie depart and that well accompanied for feaâ—e of enimies The Bishop being as wittie as the duke was wilie did not tarrie till the dukes companie were assembled but secretlie disguised in a night departed to the dukes great displeasure and came to his sée of Elie where he found monie and fréends and so sailed into Flanders where he did the earle of Richmond good seruice and neuer returned againe till the erle of Richmond after being king sent for him and shortlie promoted him to the see of Canturburie Thus the bishop woond himselfe from the duke when he had most néed of his aid for if he had taried still the duke had not made so manie blabs of his counsell nor put so much confidence in the Welshmen nor yet so temerariouslie set forward without knowledge of his fréends as he did which things were his sudden ouerthrowe as they that knew
a little groue adioining to the mansion of Humfreie Banaster and in great hast and euill speed conueied him apparelled in a pilled blacke cloake to the towne of Shrewesburie where king Richard then kept his houshold Whether this Banaster bewraied line 60 the duke more for feare than couetous manie men doo doubt but sure it is that shortlie after he had betraied the duke his master his sonne and heire waxed mad so died in a bores stie his eldest daughter of excellent beautie was suddenlie striken with a foule leprosie his second sonne maruellouslie deformed of his lims and made lame his yoonger sonne in a small puddle was strangled and drowned and he being of extreame age arreigned and found guiltie of a murther and by his cleargie saued And as for his thousand pounds K. Richard gaue him not one farthing saieng that he which would be vntrue to so good a maister would be false to all other howbeit some saie that he had a small office or a farme to stop his mouth withall The duke being by certeine of the kings councell diligentlie vpon interrogatories examined what things he knew preiudiciall vnto the kings person opened and declared franklie and fréelie all the coniuration without dissembling or glosing trusting bicause he had trulie and plainelie reuealed and confessed all things that were of him required that he should haue licence to speake to the king which whether it were to sue for pardon and grace or whether he being brought to his presence would haue sticked him with a dagger as men then iudged he sore desired and required But when he had confessed the whole fact conspiracie vpon All soules daie without arreigment or iudgement he was at Salisburie in the open market place on a new scaffold beheaded and put to death This death as a reward the duke of Buckingham receiued at the hands of king Richard whom he before in his affaires purposes and enterprises had holpen susteined and set forward aboue all Gods forbode By this all men may easilie perceiue that he not onelie loseth both his labour trauell and industrie and further staineth and spotteth his line with a perpetuall ignominie and reproch which in euill and mischiefe assisteth and aideth an euill disposed person considering for the most part that he for his freendlie fauour should receiue some great displeasure or importunate chance Beside that God of his iustice in conclusion appointed to him a condigne paine and affliction for his merits and deserts Auailable therefore and for his best aduantage had it béene to haue followed the wise counsell of him that willed him and such as he to kéepe them from the man that hath power to slaie so shalt thou doubt saith he the feare of death And if thou come vnto him make no fault least he take awaie thy life remember that thou goest in the middest of snares that thou walkest vpon the towers of the citie Which aduise a learned man in good place and necessarie seruice about the prince neatlie comprised in these few veries Vtere principibus modicé nimis esse propinquus Si cupis in vitae multa pericla rues Situa te fortuna facit seruire potenti Dispice ne titubes atque repentè cadas Sollicicè vigiles laquei sunt vndiquefusi Turribus in summis es situs ergo caue While these things were thus handled and ordered in England Henrie earle of Richmond prepared an armie of fiue thousand manlie Britons and fortie well furnished ships When all things were prepared in a readinesse and the daie of departing and setting forward was appointed which was the twelfe daie of the moneth of October the whole armie went on shipbord and halsed vp their sailes and with a prosperous wind tooke the sea But toward night the wind changed and the weather turned and so huge and terrible a tempest so suddenlie arose that with the verie power and strength of the storme the ships were disparkled seuered separated asunder some by force were driuen into Normandie some were compelled to returne againe into Britaine The ship wherein the earle of Richmond was associat onelie with one other barke was all night tossed and turmoiled In the morning after when the rage of the furious tempest was asswaged and the ire of blustering wind was some deale appeased about the houre of noone the same daie the earle approched to the south part of the realme of England euen at the mouth of the hauen of Pole in the countie of Dorset where he might plainelie perceiue all the sea bankes shores garnished and furnished with men of warre and souldiers appointed and deputed there to defend his arriuall and landing as before is mentioned Wherefore he gaue streict charge and sore commandement that no person should once presume to take land and go to shore vntill such time as the whole nauie were assembled and come togither And while he taried and lingered he sent out a shipboate toward the land side to know whether they which stood there in such a number and so well furnished in apparell defensiue were his foes and enimies or else his fréends and comfortors They that were sent to inquire were instantlie desired of the men of warre keeping the coast which line 10 thereof were before instructed admonished to descend and take land affirming that they were appointed by the duke of Buckingham there to await and tarie for the arriuall and landing of the earle of Richmond and to conduct him safelie into the campe where the duke not far of laie incamped with a mightie armie and an host of great strength and power to the intent that the duke and the earle ioining in puissances and forces togither might prosecute and chase king Richard being destitute of men and in maner line 20 desperate and so by that meanes and their owne labours to obteine the end of their enterprise which they had before begun The earle of Richmond suspecting their flattering request to be but a fraud as it was in déed after he perceiued none of his ships to appeare in sight he weied vp his anchors halsed vp his sailes hauing a prosperous and streinable wind and a fresh gale sent euen by God to deliuer him from that perill and ieopardie arriued safe and in all securitie in the duchie line 30 of Normandie where he to refresh and solace his soldiers and people tooke his recreation by the space of thrée daies and cléerelie determined with part of his companie to passe all by land againe into Britaine And in the meane season he sent ambassadors to the French king called Charles the eight which newlie succéeded his father king Lewes the eleuenth not long before departed to God requiring of him a safe conduct and licence to passe thorough his countrie of Normandie into Britaine line 40 This yoong king hauing compassion of the misfortune of the earle of Richmond not onelie gentlie granted and assigned
Clifford as concerning Perkin which falselie vsurped the name of K. Edwards sonne sir William Stanleie said that if he knew certeinlie that the yoong man was the indubitate heire of king Edward the fourth he would neuer fight or beare armour against him This point argued that he bare no hartie good will toward king Henrie as then But what was the cause that he had conceiued some inward grudge towards the king or how it chanced that the king had withdrawen his speciall fauor from him manie haue doubted Some indéed haue gessed that sir William Stanlie for the seruice which he shewed at Bosworth field thought that all the benefits which he receiued of the king to be farre vnder that which he had deserued in preseruing not onelie the kings life but also in obteining for him the victorie of his enimies so that his aduersarie was slaine in the field Wherfore desiring to be created earle of Chester and therof denied he began to disdeine the king And one thing incouraged him much which was the riches and treasure of king Richard which he onlie possessed at the battell of Bosworth by reason of which riches and great power of men he set naught by the king his souereigne lord and maister The king hauing thus an hole in his coat doubted first what he should doo with him for loth he was to lose the fauour of his brother the earle of Derbie and againe to pardon him he feared least it should be an euill example to other that should go about to attempt the like offense And so at length seueritie got the vpper hand mercie was put backe in so much that he was arreigned at Westminster and adiudged to die and line 10 according to that iudgement was brought to the Tower hill the sixtéenth daie of Februarie year 1495 and there had his head striken off This was the end of sir William Stanleie the chiefest helper of king Henrie to the crowne at Bosworth field against king Richard the third and who set the same crowne first vpon the kings head when it was found in the field trampled vnder féet He was a man while he liued of great power in his countrie and also of great wealth in somuch as the common line 20 same ran that there was in his castell of Holt found in readie coine plate and iewels to the value of fortie thousand markes or more and his land and fees extended to three thousand pounds by yeare Neuerthelesse all helped not neither his good seruice in Bosworth field neither his forwardnesse euen with the hazard of life to prefer K. Henrie to the crowne neither his faithfulnesse in cleauing to him at all brunts neither the bond of aliance betwixt them neither the power that he was able to make neither line 30 the riches which he was worth neither intercession of fréends which he wanted not none of these nor all these could procure the redemption of his lost life Oâ—luxum decus hominum ô variabile tempus ¶ On the sixtéenth of Nouember was holden the sergeants feast at the bishops place of Elie in Holborne where dined the king queene and all the chiefe lords of England The new sergeants names were maister Mordant Higham Kingsmill Conisbie Butler Yakesleie Frowicke Oxenbridge Constable line 40 In digging for to laie a new foundation in the church of saint Marie hill in London the bodie of 〈◊〉 Hackneie which had béene buried in the church 〈…〉 of 175 yeares was found whole of skinne the ioints of hir armes pliable which corpse was kept aboue ground foure daies without annoiance and then buried againe ¶ Also this yeare as maister Grafton saith at the charges of maister Iohn Tate alderman of London was the church of saint Anthonies founded annexed vnto the college of Windsore line 50 wherein was erected one notable and frée schoole to the furtherance of learning and a number of poore people by the name of almesmen which were poore aged and decaied housholders releeued to the great commendation of that worthie man who so liued in worship that his death by his worthie dooings maketh him still aliue for he was not forgetfull to beautifie the good state of this citie in which by wealth he had tasted of Gods blessings About this same time diuerse men were punished line 60 that had vpon a presumptuous boldnesse spoken manie slanderous words against the kings maiestie hoping still for the arriuall of the feigned Richard duke of Yorke After the death of sir William Stanleie Giles lord Daubenie was elected and made the kings chéefe chamberleine Also the K. sent into Ireland to purge out the euill wicked séeds of rebellion amongest the wild sauage Irish people sowed there by the craftie conueiance of Perkin Warbecke sir Henrie Deane late abbat of Langtonie whome he made chancellor of that Ile sir Edward Poinings knight with an armie of men The fauourers of Perkin hearing that sir Edward Poinings was come with a power to persecute them withdrew streightwaies and fled into the woods and marishes for the safegard of themselues Sir Edward Poinings according to his commission intending to punish such as had aided and aduanced the enterprise of Perkin with his whole armie marched forward against the wild Irishmen bicause that all other being culpable of that offense fled and resorted to them for succour But when he saw that his purpose succéeded not as he would haue wished it both bicause the Irish lords sent him no succour according to their promises and also for that his owne number was not sufficient to furnish his enterprise bicause his enimies were dispersed amongst woods mounteins and marishes he was constreined to recule backe sore displeased in his mind against Gerald earle of Kildare being then the kings deputie Now the cause of this his discontentment was for that the said earle was suspected to be the meane that he had no succours sent him and was so informed in déed by such as bare the earle no good will And therefore suddenlie he caused the earle to be apprehended and as a prisoner brought him in his companie into England Which earle being examined and sundrie points of treason laid to him he so auoided them all laid the burthen in other mens necks that he was dismissed and sent into Ireland againe there to be deputie and lieutenant as he was before The king being now in some better suertie of his estate did take his progresse into Lancashire the fiue twentith daie of Iune there to make merrie with his moother the countesse of Derbie which then laie at Lathome in the countrie In this meane while Perkin Warbecke being in Flanders sore troubled that his iuggling was discouered yet he determined not to leaue off his enterprise in hope at length to atteine the crowne of England and so gathering a power of all nations some bankrupts some false English sanctuarie men some théeues robbers
like a fether being hollow with one eare growing on the lower part of the chéeke his bellie big and hard the armes big hauing fiue fingers and a thumbe on either hand and in place of toes on the left foot fiue fingers and a thumbe on the right foot a thumbe and seuen fingers in the place of priuitie the shape both of male female a strange sight to be seene and I feare signifieth our monstrous line 50 life which God for his mercie giue vs grace to amend without procrastination or putting off from daie to daie as the poet significantlie saith Cras vultis sed vult hodie vindex Deus cras Aut non vult aut vos obruet atra dies The eight daie of October immediatlie after the new moone there appeared a blasing star in the south bushing toward the east which was nightlie séene the aier being cléere more than two moneths The eighteenth of October were made eight sergeents line 60 at law to wit William Fléetwood recorder of London Edward Flowerdue Thomas Snag William Periam Robert Halton Iohn Clench Iohn Pickering Thomas Warmsleie maister Snag before named was sicke and therefore was sworne in his chamber at Greies inne the other seuen were sworne at Westminster and held their feast at the new Temple at London The quéenes maiestie being informed that in sundrie places of this realme certeine persons secretlie taught damnable heresies contrarie to diuers principall articles of our beléefe and christian faith who to colour their sect named themselues the familie of loue and then as manie as were allowed by them to be of that familie to be elect and saued and all others of â—hat church soeuer they be to be reiected and damned And for that vpon conuenting of some of them before the bishops ordinaries it was found that the ground of their sect is mainteined by certeine lewd hereticall and seditious books first made in the Dutch toong and lastlie translated into English and printed beyond the seas secretlie brought ouer into the realme the author whereof they name H. N. c. And considering also it is found that those sectaries held opinion that they may before anie magistrat or ecclesiasticall or temporall or anie other person not being professed to be of their sect by oth or otherwise denie anie thing for their aduantage so as though manie of them are well knowne to be teachers and spreaders abroad of these dangerous and damnable sects yet by their owne confession they can not be condemned Therefore hir maiestie being verie sorie to sée so great an euill by malice of the diuell to be brought into this hir realme and by hir bishops and ordinaries she vnderstandeth it verie requisit not onelie to haue those dangerous heretiks and sectaries to be seuerelie punished but that also all other meanes be vsed by hir maiesties roiall authoritie which is giuen hir of God to defend Christs church to root them out from further infecting of hir realme she hath thought méet and conuenient and so by hir proclamation commandeth that all hir officers and ministers temporall shall in all their seuerall vocations assist the bishops of hir realme and all other person to search out all persons dulie suspected to be either teachers or professors of the foresaid damnable sects and by all good meanes to proceed seuerelie against them being found culpable by order of the lawes ecclesiasticall or temporall and that all search be made in all places suspected for the books and writings mainteining the said heresies and sects and them to destroie and burne c as more at large may appéere by the said proclamation giuen at Richmond the third of October and proclamed at London on the ninetéenth daie of the same moneth About this time there arriued vpon the west coast of Ireland a certeine companie of Italians and Spaniards sent by the pope to the aid of the earle of Desmond in his rebellion which fortified themselues stronglie néere vnto Smerwike in a fort which they called castell del Ore there erecting the popes banner against hir maiestie Which when the lord Greie of Wilton deputie of Ireland vnderstood he marched thitherward and on the sixt of Nouember hearing of the arriuall of the Swift the Tigre the Aid the Merlion other of the quéenes maiesties ships and also of thrée barks fraughted from Corke and Limerike with vittels on the morrow after marched towards the fort vnto the which he gaue so hot an assault that on the ninth of Nouember the same was yéelded all the Irishmen and women hanged and more than foure hundred Spaniards Italians and Biscaies put to the sword the coronell capteins secretarie and others to the number of twentie saued for ransome In which fortresse was found good store of monie bisket bakon oile wine and diuerse other prouisions of vittels sufficient for their companie for halfe a yeare besides armour powder shot and other furniture for two thousand men and vpwards The eight and twentith daie of Nouember were arreigned in the kings bench William Randoll for coniuring to know where treasure was hid in the earth and goods felloniouslie taken were become Thomas Elks Thomas Lupton Rafe Spacie and Christopher Waddington for being present aiding and procuring the said Randoll to the coniuration aforesaid Randoll Elks Spacie and Waddington were found guiltie had iudgement to be hanged Randoll was executed the other were repriued About the 24 of December in the town of Walsham in the countie of Sussex a child of eleuen yéers old named William Withers laie in a trance for the space of ten daies without anie sustenance and at the last comming to himselfe he vttered to the standers by manie strange spéeches inueieng against pride couetousnesse coldnesse of charitie and other line 10 outragious sins To behold this child there resorâ—â—d diuerse godlie zelous preachers as also knights esquiers gentlemen all of them hearing and séeing that which was woonderfull And among others that came thither there was a gentleman of great credit and worship with certeine of his men to heare and behold the child who hauing espied a seruingman that had béene there with his maister two times whom he had sharplie tawnted for his great and monstrous ruffes spake vnto him verie vehementlie line 20 and told him that it were better for him to put on sackecloth and mourne for his sinnes than in such abhominable pride to pranke vp himselfe like the diuels darling the verie father of pride and lieng who sought by the exercise of that damnable sinne to make himselfe a preie to euerlasting torments in helfire Wherevpon the seruingman as one prickt in conscience sore sorowed and wept for his offense rent the band from his necke tooke a knife and cut it in péeces and vowed neuer to weare the like againe line 30 This for the strangenesse thereof will be condemned as a lie speciallie of vnbeléeuers and peruers
Barton the Scotish pirat 426 b 20. Incountreth the lord Howard he is slaine 811 a 20 c. Bastard of Burgogne ambassadour into England iusts betwixt him and the lord Sâ—ales 669 a 10 20 Bastard to a king made a bishop 99 b 60 Bastards made legitimat 487 b 10 Bath taken by the bishop of Constance 17 a 40. It and Welles when and by whome vnited 27 b 50 Battell of Agincourt 552 b 60 553 a 10 c. At Barnet 684 a 10 c. 685 a 10 c. Of Bloreheath 649 a 50 60 b 10. Of S. Edmundsbuâ—ie 90 b 20. Of Northhampton 654 b 20. Of Palmesundaie 664 a 40. Of Saxton ¶ Sée Palmesundaie At Hedgcote or Banberie 672 b 30. At Exham 666 b 10. At Teukesburie 687 b 60. The first at saint Albons 643 a 60 644 a 20. At Wakefield 659 b 10. Of thrée long houres betwéene the English French great losse on the English side 601 b 30. Second at saint Albons 660 a 60. Of Mortimers crosse 660 a 20. Of Uerneull 588 a 50 b 40. Of Ferribrig the thirtéenth of March one thousand foure hundred thrée score and one wherein twentie thousand were slaine most knights and gentlemen 1234 a 50. Betwéene duke William and his sonne Robert note 12 a 40. Betwéene the Danes and Normans verie fierce 7 a 40. Begun with praier note 371 a 60. At Kenils crosse 376 a 20. Of Aulrâ—ie 396 b 10 c. Of Sluise where the English were victors 358 b 10. Of Baâ—okesburie 322 a 40. Called the White battell and why 325 a 10. Of Borroughbridge 341 a 10. Of Câ—meran in Uister 322 b 60. At Dunbar betwéene the English and Scots in Edward the first time 299 b 30. Betwéene the earle of Lincolne and the earle of Arthois 302 b 30 40 c. Of Fowkirke 307 b 30. Betwéene Henrie the third and his barons note 267 b all Of Euesham 270 a 50. Of Chesterfield 272 a 40. Betwéene king Richard the third and the earle of Richmond called Bosworth field 758 b 60. At Stoke néere to Newarke betwéene the earle of Lincolne c and Henrie the seuenth 766 b 40 50 767 a 10 20. Of saint Aulbin in Britaine betwéene the duke of Britaine and the French king 769 a 30. At Black-heath 782 b 10. Of Spurs 822 a 50. At Floddon betwéen the English and the Scotish 426 427 428. Of Pauia 884 a 60 b 10 c. At Muskleborrow ¶ Sée Leith and Scotland Staied by Gods prouidence note 943 a 30. Of the bridge of Bouins 183 a 60. Sharpe and bloudie betwéene duke Robert and Henrie the first brethren 33 a 10 20 c. Thrée things to be forséene by them that shall giue it 52 b 50 60. Of Monadmore in Ireland 59 b 10 Battell betwixt fishes 225 b 60. Of herrings 600 a 40. Betwixt flies and gnats 465 b 60. Their slaughter 466 a 10. ¶ Sée warres Battell abbeie why so called and by whome built 15 a 40. The church to what saint dedicated 21 a 40. Their abbie roll 3 4 5 Baulbason a French knight valiant fightâ—th with Henrie the fift hand to hand 577 a 10 60 Becket Thomas archdecon of Canturburie 64 b 20. Lord chancellour 65 a 40. Sent into France 67 a 50. His Henrie the seconds first falling out 68 b 20. His authoritâ—e 69 a 10. A better courtier than a preacher 69 a 30. Practiseth secret treason 69 b 10. Receiueth an oth 70 b 10. Repenteth him thereof and would haue fled the realme 70 b 20 c. Cited to appéere before the king and sentence against him 70. b 60. Condemned in fiue hundred markes 71 a 10. Called to an account 71 a 20. Will not be persuaded to submit himselfe to the king appealeth to Rome goeth to the court is reputed a traitor and disallowed to be archbishop 71 all His stout courage 72 a 10. His flight by night 72 a 40. His complaint to the pope 72 b 50. Resigneth his pall 73 a 50. His cursse 74 b 20. An edict against him 74 a 20. Six years in exile 77 a 30. His arrogancie and wilfulnesse in opinion in fauour with the French king reconcâ—led to Henrie the second the king of England 77 b all Is aduised by the French king returneth into England is complained of to Henrie the second by the archbishop of Yorke he is killed 78 all 79 all His death discussed 82 b 50. The king purgeth himselfe of his death 83 b 30. Canonized a saint his holie daie and collect for the same 85 b 10 20. His toome visited by the French king 103 a 60. His toome visited by the archbishop of Cullen 107 b 60. His shrine visited by the earle of Flanders 152 a 60. His sword in the ministration of an oth 303 b 40. His shrine taken awaie and his dead bones burnt 945 b 50 Becons and the vse of them in countries néere the sea 752 a 30 Bedford castell besieged 206 b 20. Deliuered to the barons 185 a 60 Bele doctor an vndiscréet and seditious preacher 841 a 10 20 Belesme ¶ Sée Erle Bell a seditious préest arreigned condemned his prophesie his sermon to the rebels his seditious letter his execution at saint Albons 437 a 40 c. Bell roong at eight of the clocke at night by whom appointed and whie 6 a 50. ¶ Sée Chime Bell castell assaulted and yeélded vp to the English 879 b 30 Belman ¶ Sée Common crier Benbrike doctor poisoned at Rome 835 b 50 Benefices belonging to strangers their valuation taken 236 b 40. The value of them in strangers hands 247 b 20. Bestowed without consent of patrones 224 a 10. Impropriat 214 b 60. With request to the pope that he would not meddle with their reseruations 408 b 60 409 c. Inhibited by the king how note 363 b 60. The best in strangers hands 365 a 60. A proclamâ—tion that all English beneficed men in Rome should returne into England 474 b 50 60. ¶ Sée Adbeies Bishops Churches Clergie Pope Sequestrâ—tion Beneuolence granted to Edward the fourth 694 a 50. Put into Henrie the seuenths head to be leuied ouer the whole land 792 a 20. An exaction of monie of whose deuise 771 b 60. ¶ Sée Subsidie Beneuolence of the French king to the earle of Richmond note 745 a 40 Beningfield knight his churlish vsing of the ladie Elisabeth his prisoner and in his kéeping 1117 b 40. He is too streict and seuere in his office against the ladie Elisabeth 1155 b 10 c. He grudgeth at the gentle interteinement of hir his rude and vngentle behauiour 1156 a 60 b 10 20 c. 60. His cruell dealing towards hir 1157 a 30 Berebeating on sundaie reuenged by Gods iust iudgment note 1353 a 30 Berds shauen and rounded haire in vse with the Normans 5 b 10 Berengaria daugther to the king of Nauarre king Richard the firsts wife 126 b 40 127 a 40 Berkhamstéed castell surrendred 198 a 60 Bertie husband to
to a kings daughter 7 b 30 Concubine of the duke of Lancaster married vnto him 485 b 60 486 a 10. Of the duke of Glocester whom he marieth 590 a 60. Thrée of Edward the fourth 725 a 10. ¶ Sée Shores wife Perers and Préests Concubines loue to hir paramour notable 149 b 60 Conduit at Walbrooke new built 1211 a 60. In Holburne founded and finished 1311 b 60. In Cheapside builded 704 b 10. At Bishopsgate builded 792 b 10 Confession of the duke of Suffolke at his beheading 1100 b 60 1101 a 10. Of sir Thomas Palmer on the scaffold at Tower hill 1090 a 60. Uoluntarie of Francis Throckmorton the traitor written to quéene Elisabeth with his letters of submission note 1373 b 60 1374 c. Uoluntarie of Parrie the notable traitor that ment to haue murthered the quéene 1384 b 60 1385 1386 1387. Of the ladie Iane at hir beheading 1099 b 60 1100 a 10. Of sir Thomas Wiat before iudgement passed against him 1104. Of the duke of Northfolke when he should be executed on Tower hill note 1229 b 20 c 1230. Of Richard the first his lewd life note 126 b 10. Of Iack Straw at the time of his death 438 b 10. Of the duke of Summerset at his death on the Towerhill 1068 a 10 b 50. Of the lord Cromwell when he was beheaded 951 b 20. Of Elisabeth Barton the holie maid of Kent at hir execution 937 a 40. Auricular spoken against and how the same was punished note 968 b 30 Confirmation of children by the bishop 1003 a 40 Coniers knight a capteine of Durham tower 101 a 20. Of rare valiantnesse 672 a 50 Coniunction of Iupiter and Saturne 484 b 40. Prophesied but the prophesier deceiued 1356 b 30 c. Coniuror suddenlie dieth when a case of his should haue béene tried in law note 1271 a 20. Punished note 348 a 50 60 b 10. Hanged 1314 b 60 Connagh in Ireland how seated 81 b 60. A kingdome 96 b 40. The king thereof entreth into the marches of England he and his are vanquished 212 b 50 60. The king is taken and committed to prison 213 a 10 Conquet and diuerse other places burnt by the lord admerall of England 814 b 10. Taken and burned 1151 a 10 Conrade duke of Austrich ¶ Sée duke Conscience guiltie of an oftendor vnquiet note 1228 b 50 60. Guiltie in extremitie of sicknesse pincheth sore 541 a 40. Grudging and accusing what a torment 735 b 50. Troubled for offense of rebellion note 18 a 30. Guiltie ¶ Sée Suspicion Consecration of bishop Samuell note 22 a 40. Of Richard archbishop of Canturburie disturbed by yoong king Henrie 85 b 60 86 a 10. Of churches in what respect allowed 30 b 50. Of Thomas archbishop of Yorke vpon his submission and recouereth his pall 36 b 40. Of the archbishop of Yorke deferred note 35 all Of bishops denied bicause of their inuestiture by the king note 31 a 60 b 10. Of the archbishop of Canturburie by pope Calixtus 40 a 50. Of Eadmer whereabout was contention 41 a 20. Of the Lords bodie 1003 a 50 c. Of an Irish bishop 22 b 60 Conspiracie against king William Rufus to put him beside the crowne 17 a 10 20 Of Robert earle of Northumberland and whie 21 b 30. In Northfolke towards and how extinguished note 1221 b 60 1222 a 10. Of the lords against Henrie the third 209 a 50 60 c b 10. Of Foukes de Brent against Henrie the third and his â—oule end 206 a 40. Against the lord chéefe iustice 205 a 40. To set prisoners at libertie 333 a 30. Of lords against king Iohn 184 a 10 185 a 30 c. Of lords banding themselues against king Iohn 185 a 10. Of great men against king Stephan 48 b 60. Disclosed and the discloser slaine 531 b 40. What an ill euent it hath 530 a 40 60 b 30 c. A fresh against Henrie the fourth by the earle of Northumberland and others 529 a 60. Of the Persies with Owen Glendouer 521 b 50 522 523. Deuised but not practised and yet punished note 520 a 10. c. Against Henrie the fourth the parties executed 516 â— 50 60 b 10 c. Of the noblemen strangelie disclosed note 515 a 10 20. Of the abbat of Westminster against Henrie the fourth note 514 b 20 Betwéene the duke of Glocester and the abbat of saint Albons their purpose is disclosed 488 b 10 40 50. Of Richard the second against the duke of Glocester 489 a 60. Of Frenchmen against the English 568 b 60. Of nobles against Edward the fourth note 670 b 20 30 671 672 c. Of the Parisiens against the duke of Bedford punished with death 586 a 60 At Excester against Richard the third some of the parties executed 746 a 10 30. Of the duke of Buckingham against Richard the third had ill successe note 743 a 10 c 744 a 10 c. Against Henrie the seauenth and what an ill end it had 765 766 767 a 10 c. Against the prince falleth out alwaie to the coÌ„spirators shamefull death 790 a 30 40. Traitorous note 941 vpon a malcontentment ¶ Sée Lincolneshiremen Against the ladie Elisabeth whiles she was in trouble 1157 a 50 60 b 10 c. Against quéene Marie sorting to an euill end note 1132 a 20 40 60. Of quéene Maries death and the offendors executed 1117 a 60. ¶ Sée Duke of Buckingham Noblemen Rebellion Conspirators ouerthrowne and discomfited note 18 a 10 20. Extreamlie punished and that diuerslie 21 b 60. Uanquished and punished note 188 a 30 40 An league and inuade Henrie the seconds dominions 87 b all Against Henrie the first to put him bâ—side the crowne 29 b 20 Constable ¶ Sée France Constables of England called high constables the office ending in the duke of Buckingham 865 b 60 866 c. Constance the mother of duke Arthur ¶ Sée Duke Constance wife to Eustace sent home 61 a 30 Constancie of the archbishop of Yorke 256 b 40. Of the earle of Carlill at his death 334 a 60. In martyrdom 536 a 60. Of a good Iew in christianitie 27 a 60 Constantia the daughter of Margaret countesse of Britaine how married 7 b 30 Constantinople the emperor thereof commeth into England 222 a 60 Contention betwixt the earles of Leicester and Glocester 261 b 10. Betwéene the two princes of Wales pursued note 226 b 20 c. Betwixt prâ—lats 244 b 10. Betwéene Henrie the third and the bishop of Lincolne 228 b 40. Betwixt Frederike the emperour and pope Innocent 224 b 30. Betwixt two Welsh princes for the principalitie 224 b 10. Betwéene the archbishop of Canturburie and the earle of Kent 213 a 40 c. Newlie broched by the archbishop of Canturburie 204 b 60. Betwixt the earles of Leceister and Glocester 259 a 60. About the choosing of the emperor 155 a 20. Betwéene bishops for superioritie 133. a 60. Betwixt two ambitious bishops 121 a 50.
the marquesship of the sacred empire c 1336 all His posie strange habillements the order of his entring into Antwerpe 1337 a 10 c. Saileth towards Antwerpe landeth at a village in Brabant a theater erected for him kissing of his hand his chaire of estate obeisance done to him 1334 all The states loialtie vnto him his answere vnto an oration made in their behalf his promise euen to the shedding of his bloud he is content to sweare to articles agâ—éed vpon 1335 b 10 c. Keies of Antwerpe presented to him a canopie caried ouer his head 1338 a 10 60. Readie to take his oth of the magistrats and people it is read in French he casteth largesse of gold siluer among the people 1342 a 10 c. The manner of his disease 1351 a 10. His resolutenes to die 50. Great hope conceiued of him if he had not béene preuented with death b 20. Falleth into an extremitie of his maladie and past recouerie 40. His words vpon his death bed 1352 a 10 30. His departure out of this world like a lampe whose light faileth for want of oile 30. His death gréeuouslie lamented 50 60 1353 a 10 Duke Alphonse of Calabrie made knight of the garter 775 b 20 Duke Arthur of Britaine made knight 160 a 10. His mistrust in his vncle king Iohn 160 b 60. Dooth homage to K. Iohn 162 a 20. Proclameth himselfe earle of Aniou c 164 b 10. Taken prisoner 164 b 60. His mother accuseth K. Iohn for the murther of hir sonne 166 a 10 20. Committed to streict prison 165 a 50. His death verie lamentable 165 b all Duke of Aumarle constable of England 495 b 50. Accused 512 a 10. His answere vnto Bagots bill he is appealed of treason chalengeth triall with the lord Fitzwater 512 a 10 c. Duke of Austrich whie he bore king Richard no goodwill 136 a 10. Threatneth the English hostages with losse of life 147 a 40. He catcheth a fall beside his horsse dieth of the hurt a 60 Duke Beauford of Summerset son vnto him that was slaine 645 a 10. Conan of Britaine deceasseth 75 a 10. Geffreie of Britaine his homage 75 b 60. Guildebald of Urbin in Italie made knight of the garter 795 b 10. Iohn the second Philip the second aduancers of the state 1343 a 30. Philip of Burgognie surnamed the Hardie 1343. Siward ¶ Sée Siward William of Aquitaine his feined fréendship 67 b 20. William of Normandie his politike conquest of England 1 a 10. ¶ Sée William Duke of Bauier commeth to K. Henrie the fift with a number of horsemen 577 a 50. He his troope departeth with king Henrie the fifts fauor 578 b 10 Duke of Bedford against the lord Louell in armes 764 b 10. Regent of England 558 b 10. Calleth a parlement 581 a 60. He rescueth Cosnie 582 b 60. Giueth the French a great ouerthrow by sea 557 a 40. Returneth into France 596 a 60. His endeuors in France where he was regent 585 a 40 b 20 c. His decease note 612 a 50 Duke of Britaine pretendeth a right to the earledome of Westmerland 513 b 60. Sendeth ambassadors to Henrie the fift 582 b 60. His loue to the erle of Richmond and care of his safetie 748 b 20. In armes against the French K. 767 a 10 c 768 a 10 c. The battell is tried he dieth a 60. Restored to his dukedome 422 b 20. A fréend to the Englishmen 444 a 60. His dissimulation he the French K. accorded 427 b 50 60. Commeth ouer into Britaine 408 a 40. Deceaseth 367 b 40 Duke of Buckingham highlie commended 737 b 40. Rich arraie 801 a 10. Enuied hated of cardinall Woolseie 855 b 10 c. Means to wind him out of Henrie the eights fauor 855 b 40 40 60. Bils of complaints exhibited to him he depriueth Kneuet of his office 856 a 10. He his companie ioine with Henrie the seuenth against Perkin Warbecke 784 a 50. His words to Q. Elisabeth 717 b 40. His oration to the maior aldermen and commons at Guildhall 728 a 60 c. He Glocester fall out and whie 376 a 30. They mistrust one an other 736 a 50. Conspired against Richard the third he is a professed enimie to him his power of wild Welshmen false-harted doo faile him a great water his vndooing his adherents their power dispersed 743 a 30 50 b 10 30 60. The principall cause whie he conceiued such inward grudge against duke Richard the third 739 b 20. His imaginations to depriue Richard the third 739 b 40 60. Rewards promised by proclamation for the attaching of him betraied of his owne seruant beheaded without arreignment or iudgement 744 a 20 50 b 10. Conuinced with others to worke mischief 715 a 30. His resolution noâ— to meddle in séeking to obteine the crowne but by deposing Richard the third to prefer the earle of Richmond thereto the summe of his purpose 740 a 60 b 40 60. Is sent to the duke of Yorke to know the cause of his being in armes 643 a 40. Destruction deuised and practised 862 b 50 60. He is accused indicted of treason 863 a 10 c 864 a 10 c. Areigned at Westminster conuinced of hie treason iudgement giuen vpon him beheaded on Towre hill the last lord high constable of England 865 a 20 40. ¶ Sée Duke of Glocester Duke of Burbons practises to make the Englishmen reuolt from their owne king 517 b 50. Incampeth néere Rone slaine at the assalt 895 b 30 60. Dieth at London 610 a 40 Duke of Burgognie chiefe dooer in France 560 b 40. Prepareth to besiege Calis 528 b 40. Enuieth the glorie of the English 616 b 10. His oth to Henrie the fift 572 b 40. Prepareth an armie against Calis 613 b 40. His armie of 40000 men b 60. Besiegeth it his enterprise to bâ—r the hauen his bastile taken he breaketh vp his siege flieth 614 all He Charles of France at peace and what mischiefe insued it 611 a 50 60 612 a 10 c. Commeth to king Edward the fourth 695 a 20. He departeth suddenlie to the kings discontentment a 60 b 10. Departeth from Edward the fourth in a rage 698 a 30. Commeth in hast to Edward the fourth 697 a 50. His behauiour and spéech a 60 b 10 c. Sendeth ambassadors to Calis 678 a 60. He inuadeth Edward the fourth c 678 b 60 679 a 10. Deceaseth 690 a 60 702 b 20. Murthered 571 a 60 Dukes of Burgognie issued out of the house of France 1342 b 60 1343 a 10 c. Duke of Clarence lord Lionell 395 b 50. Sent to aid the duke of Orleance 539 b 60. Marcheth towards Guisnes 540 a 20. Made a rode into Aniou 579 b 60. He is betraied by Ferguse a Lombard 580 a 10. He and diuerse nobles slaine a 20 30. Before Paris with his armie 570 b 20. Séeketh to make peace betwéene Edward the
Scots deliuered out of prison with other Matth. Paris Prisoners released Castels deliuered by the K. of Scots N. Triuet Matth. Paris Rog. Houed The kings of England and France méet at Gisors Philip earle of Flanders Polydor. Enuious persons readie to forge matters of suspicion The two kings the father and the sonne returne into England William de Breause The WelshmeÌ„ not well dealt withall N. Triuet Reignold erle of Cornewall departed this life Matth. West A synod held at London W. Paruus The king of Scots dooth homage to the king of England R. Houed A parlement at Windsor Ambassadors from K. Connagh A tribute of ox hides The tenor of the charter of the agréement A great derth Anno Reg. 22. 1176 A parlement at Northhampton Matth. Paris An act against preests that were hunters Polydor. Obedience of the church of Scotland to the church of England Rog. Houed The king of Scots commeth to the parlement R. Houed Diuision of circuits for iustices itinerants The oth of the iustices Ger. Dor. The presumptuous demeanor of the archbishop of Yorke Pub. Mim Pub. Mim Appeales made The conuocation dissolued N. Triuet R. Houed N. Triuet A tribut graÌ„ted by the Irish R. Houed The wals of the towne and castell of Leicester raced Elianor the kings daughter married to the king of Castile Gilbert Fitz Fergus Richard earle of Poictow Wil. Paruus lib. 3. cap. 3. The departure of the legat foorth of the Realme Liberties obteined for churchmen N. Triuet The yoong K. beginneth new pâ—actises against his father R. Houed Rog. Houed The citie of Aques or Aigues Anno Reg. 23. Polydor. Geffrey the kings base sonne made bishop of Lincolne Préests displaced caâ—â—ns regular put in their râ—omes R. Houed Nunnes of Amesburie Philip earle of Flanders Iohn de Curcie Roderike K. of Ulnestre vanquished Uiuiano a cardinall 〈◊〉 Paruus The legat holdeth a councell at Dublin Pâ—â—p lib. 3 Matth. Paris Polydor. R. Houed Polydor. R. Houed Durham tower Henrie de Pudsey A parlement at Oxford Iohn the kings sonne created king of Ireland Polydor. It rained bloud R. Houed William Fitz Adelme Robert de Poer Hugh Lacie Philip de Breause Matth. Paris Polychr Iewes in England R. Houed The kings meet at Yurâ—e R. Houed A law The purchase of the erldome of March. Anno Reg. 24. A generall councell summoned at Rome Ger. Dor. A strange sight about the moone A strange eclipse of the sunne Anno. Reg. â—5 R. Houed A strange wonder of the earth M. Pal. in Aquar Luc. lib. 1. Richard de Lucie lord chéefe iustice of England deceasseth A parlement at Windsore Ranulfe de Glanuille Geffrey earle of Britaine son to king Henrie Guidomer de Leons The moone eclipsed The French K. commeth a madding to visit the archbishop Beckets toome The French word is Muis. Polydor. Matth. Paris Cadwallon prince of Wales Anno Reg. 26. R. Houed 1180. Discord betwixt the French K. and his nobles R. Houed The earle of Flanders doth homage to the king of England Matth. Paris Tailbourg woone Matth. Paris W. Paruus The forme of the kings coine changed Anno Reg. 27. R. Houed 1181. Matth. Paris R. Houed The danger of the holie land An ordinance for armour Iewes might haue no armour Matt. Paris The decâ—sse of Hugh earle of Chester Ran. Higd. The archbish of Yorke deceasseth The k. passeth ouer into Normandie The K. his sonne eftsoons reconciled Rog. Houed The duke of Saxonie The duchesse of Saxonie deliuered of a sonne Ranulfe Poer slaine Anno Reg. 29. 1183. Wil. Paruus Polydor. Ger. Dor. Rog. Houed war betwixt the brethren The father séeketh to appease the quarell betwixt his sonnes Earle Geffrey dealeth vnfaithfullie The disloiall dissembling of the yoong king King Henrie the sonne falleth sicke He sendeth to his father 〈…〉 His repentance before hâ—s death A strange kind of superstitious deuotion if this report of our author be true He is drawne out of his bed a thing vnlike to be true His death N. Triueâ— The bodie of the yong king lastlie buried at Rouen Iuuen. saâ— 13. Limoges rendred to king Henrie Ueulquesine The kings of England and France talke togither Anno Reg. 30 The duchesse of Saxonie deliuered of a sonne The archbish of Colen Hugh Nouant The duke of Saxonie pardoned and reuoked out of exile Death of Noble men The gouernement of the forests diuided Heraclius patriarch of Ierusalem A councell at Clerkenwell Baldwin archbishop of Canturburie exhorteth men to go to warre against the Saracens Fiue thousand marks saieth Genâ— Dor. Ran. Higd. The words of the partriarch to the king Rash iudgement in an holie father R. Houed Iohn the kings sonne made king of Ireland Ger. Dor. An earthquake The king and the patriarch passe ouer into France The kings message to his sonne earle Richard Erle Richard obeieth his father Rog. Houed Particular and not generall saith Ger. Dor. Anno Reg. 32. King Henrie returneth into England Ger. Dor. Hugh prior of Witham made bishop of Lincolne Hugh Lacie slaine Hugh Lacies diligence to inlarge his possessions in Ireland King Henrie not sorie for the death of Lacie The death of Geffrey the kings sonne The ladie Ermengard the vicount Beaumonts daughter maried to William king of Scots Castell of Edenbourgh Ambassadors sent to the French king Sir William de Walles The king of Englands subiects arested in FraÌ„ce The French subiects arested in Normandie Anno Reg. 33 1187 Octauianus a cardinall King Henrie passeth ouer into Normandie Ger. Dor. Ierusalem taken Out of the annales of France written by Nicoll Gallis Ger. Dor. A truce granted Erle Richard giueth his father faire words He seizeth vpon his fathers treasure Anno Reg. 34. 1188 King Henrie returneth into England King Henrie passeth againe into Normandie Polydor. Heauie newes from the east paris An enteruiew betwixt the two kings The two kings receiue the crosse The French ware red crosses The English white The Flemings gréene An aid granted to them in the holie land Wil. Paruus Good orders and discipline instituted The king returneth into England A councell helden at Gaitington Ger. Dor. A tenth leuied The king of Scots The good meaning of the two kings disappointed Polydor. Reimond erle of Tholouze * where he shall be fullie sufficientlie answered Horat. in art poet Rog. Houed The nobles of Poictou rebell against earle Richard Peter Seille Erle Richard inuadeth the earle Tholouze lands Annales de France Rog. Houed The archbishop of Canturburie with the bishops of Chester saith Ger. Dor. Ger. Dor. Chateau Roux it is called in the French annales but that chronicles of Aniou name it Chasteau Raoul and rightlie as I thinke Sergeants The Welshmen The two kings come to a treatie An elme cut downe A commendable protestation and worthie to be noted Castellium Another treatie betwixt the two kings Erle Richard reuolteth from his father to serue the French king Polydor. Rog. Houed Beuerley burnt William de Sempringham decesseth Gilbert de Ogerstan A strange
〈◊〉 The lord Greie is quarelled against The death of the lord Riuers other The quéene taketh sanctuarie Tâ—â—ul lib. 2. eleg 3. The desolate state of the quéene Neuerthelesse he was depriued thereof shortlie after The kings comming to London The duke of Glocester made protector The bishop 〈◊〉 Lincolne made lord chancellor 〈◊〉 protecâ—ors oration The lord cardinall thought the fittest man â—â— deale with â—he queéne for 〈◊〉 surrenâ—â—â—ing of hir 〈◊〉 Reasons why it was not thought méet to fetch the quéens son out of sanctuarie The duke of BuckinghaÌ„s words against the quéene Of sanctuaries Westminster and saint Martins The abuse of sanctuaries The vse of sanctuaries Protector The quéenes answer The quéene is loth to part with hir son The quéenes mistrust of the lord protector The lord Howard saith Edw. Hall The quéenes replie vpon the lord cardinall This that is heere betwéen this marke * this marke * was not writâ—eÌ„ by him in English but is translated out of this historie which he wrote in Latine The lord cardinall vseth an other waâ—â— to persuade the queéne She falleth 〈◊〉 a resolution touching hâ—r sonnes deliuerie O dissimulation This that is here betwene this marke * this marke * was not written by him in English but is translated out oâ— his historie which he wrote in Latine The dukes full resolution to go thorough with his enterprise Catesbie and his conditions described An assemblie of lords in the Tower The behaâ—â—â—â— of the lord pâ—â—â—tector in the assemblie of the lords The lord Stanleie wounded Lord Hastings lord chamberleine beheaded 〈◊〉 in psal â—â— The lord Stanleies dreame 〈…〉 misfortune to the lord Hastings Mani lib. 4 Astro. The description of the lord Hastingâ— The protectors proclamation The life and déeds of the lord chamberleine laid open Shores 〈◊〉 spoiled of 〈◊〉 that she had Shores 〈◊〉 put to open penance The descriptioÌ„ of Shores wife Eob. Hess 〈◊〉 cles Sal. * 〈◊〉 when this storie was written K. Edwards three concubines Sir Richard Ratcliffe The lord Riuers other beheaded Edmund Shaw maior of London Doct. Shaw Frier Penker The chiefest deuise to depose the prince Sée before pag. 667 668. Dame Elizabeth Greie A wise answer of a chast and continent ladie The kings mother The kings answer to his mother Libertie preferred before â— kingdome 〈◊〉 Elâ—zabeth Lucie The kings mariage The king fled The prince borne king Henrie the sixt set vp Of the earle of warwike The earle of warwike sâ—aine Doc. Shawâ— sermon This preacher was taught his lesson yer he came into the pulpit K. Edward sâ—andered in a sermon A maruelous deuise to mooue the assemblie K. Richard commended by the preacher Note the course of Gods iudgement Ouid. lib. 3. met A notable persuaâ—â—n Burdet Markam Cooke Open warre not so ill as 〈◊〉 Ciuill warre the occasion of manie great inconueniences Shores wife more sued vnto than all the lords in England He directeth his spéech to the communaltie of the citie London the kings especiall chamber Doct. Shaw commended by the duke of BuckinghaÌ„ A slanderous lie confirmed The title of K. Richard to the crowne The dignitie and office of a king full of care studie The election of K. Richard hardlie to be preferred Fitz William recorder K. Richards election preferred by â—â—â—ces of confederacie The maiors comming to Bainards castell vnto the lord protector O singular dissimulation of king Richard K. Richard spake otherwise than he meant The protectoâ— taketh vpon him to be king A made match to cousen the people Iuuenal sat 2. Anno Reg. 1. 1483 (*) This that is here betwéene this marke this marke * was not written by maister More in this historie written by him in English but is translated out of this historie which he wrote in Latine From this marke * to this * is not found in sir Thomas More but in maâ—â—â—eâ— Hall and Grafton Seuentéene knights of the bath created by king Richard What â—eers stâ—tes were attendant on him going to his coronatâ—â—n The solemne ceremonies vsed at king Richards coronation Quéene Anne wife to king Richard and daughter to Richard earle of Warwike and hir traine The king queene crowned Sir Robert Dimmocke the kings champion his challenge in the behalfe of king Richard A gaâ—e pretense of iustice and equitie Sir Thomaâ— More agaiâ—â— Perkin Werbecke Close dealing is euer suspected Iohn Gréeâ—â— Robert Brakenberie constable of the Tower The murther of the two yoong princes set abroch Sir Iames Tirrell described Authoritie â—â—ueth no partners The constable of the Tower deliuereth the keies to sir Iames Tirrell vpon the kings commandement The two princes shut vp in close 〈◊〉 The two murtherers of the two princes appointed The yoong K. and his brother murthered in their beds at midâ—ight in the Tower The murther confessed The iust iudgement of God seuerelie reuenging the murther of the innocent princes vpon the malefactors Pers. sat 3. The outward and inward troubles of tyrants by meanes of a grudging conscience * Persinall saith Ed. Hall Causes of the duke of Buckingham and K. Richards falling out The duke of Buckingham and king Richard mistrust each other Doctor Nâ—â—â—ton bishop of Elie what pageants hâ— plaied The high â—â—â—nour of 〈◊〉 Morton Bishop Nâ—â—â—tons subâ—â—ll vnderminiâ—â— of the duâ—e Princes matters perillous to meddle in Here endeth sir Thomas Moore this that followeth is taken out â—â— master Hall Bishop Morton buildeth vpoÌ„ the dukes ambition The duke of Buckingham highlie commended Dispraise of the lord protector or king messe Suspicion in a prince how mischéefous it is The bishop adiureth the duke to release the realme by some deuise from the present euill state A new confereÌ„ce betweene the bishop and the duke The duke openeth himselfe and his secrets to the bishop The duke complaineth of want of preferment in king Edwards daies * An vnhappie policie tending to slaughter bloushed The principall cause why the duke of Buckingham coÌ„ceiued such inward grudge against king Richard The imaginations of the duke of Buckingham to depriue K. Richard Note the working of ambition in the duke The office of a king verie hard to discharge The dukes resolution not to medle in seéking to obteine the crowne The duke of Buckinghâ—â— resolued to helpe to depose king Richard and to prefer the 〈◊〉 of Richmond to the crowne * The duke of Glocester now king The 〈◊〉 of the dukâ—s purpose The motion for the coniunction of the two houses of Lancaster Yorke deuised by the duke furthered Bishop Mortons deuise for to be at his owne libertie in his bâ—shoprike of Elie. The bishop of Elie saileth into Flanders to the earle of Richmond Lewes the physician sheweth the quéene the whole conceipt and deuise of the matter The coniunction of the two families mooued to the Q. by the physician The quéenes readinesse to sâ—t forward this coÌ„clusion The countesse of Richmond vttereth the matter to Urswike hir chapleine swearing him to be secret