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
court for the French king as one that had béene better instructed in the matter repented himselfe that he had iudged euill of his answers at the last meeting and herevpon receiued him againe into his fauour and rested not to trauell so much in his cause that at length another méeting was assigned at a certeine place neere the confines of Normandie whither king Henrie came and there found king Lewes the archbishop of Rouen and diuerse other bishops together with the foresaid archbishop who after they had reasoned of the matter throughlie as they saw cause king Henrie receiued the archbishop into his fauour againe and promised to redresse all that had béene doone amisse and pardon all those that had followed him out of the realme Wherevpon the king and the archbishop being reconciled the archbishop the same day came before the king and talked with him Now among other things he required of the K. that it might be lawfull for him without offending of his maiestie to punish according to the censures of the church the iniurie doone vnto him by the archbishop of Yorke and other bishops in the coronation of his sonne The king granted this and shewed himselfe so courteous at that time that as it is said he held his stirrâ—p whiles he mâ—unted on horssebacke ¶ Notwithstanding which obsequiousnes of the king it is to be presumed that all inward repâ—â—iâ—g 〈◊〉 not be so abolished as that no fragments remained but that the archbishop for his part for the maintenance of his great title the K. for the sâ—ppoâ—â—ation of his souereigntie when opportunitie sâ—rued â—ought to get aduantage one of another acqâ—it their harts with a new reuenge of an old grâ—dgâ— for Immortalâ— odium nunquâ—m sâ—nabile vulum But whereas twise within a few daies after the king and the said archbishop met at masse the king refused to kisse the pax with him This was marked as a signe of a fained reconciliation though in déed he afterwards interteined him verie courteouslie and at his departure ouer into England tooke leaue of him in fréendlie manner and directed letters vnder his seale to his sonne the new king in forme as followeth A letter of the king touching line 10 the pacification betweene him and Thomas Becket KNow ye that Thomas the archbishop of Canturburie hath made his peace with me at my will and pleasure and therefore I command you that both he and his may remaine line 20 in peace and that he and al those which for his cause departed out of the realme may haue all their goods restored and in such quiet estate be now possessed of them as at any time within three moneths before their departure from thence And further cause to come before vs of the best and most ancient knights of the honor of Saltwood that vpon their oths they may find what fee the archbishop ought to haue within that honor that which shall line 30 appeare to apperteine vnto him as in fee let him inioy the same And thus farewell The archbishop before he tooke his iournie into England went to visit the French king and to giue him thanks for his great paines and trauell susteined in his cause who aduised him in no wise as yet to commit himselfe to present danger amongst his new reconciled enimies but rather to staie till their malice were somewhat asswaged For he perceiued line 40 by king Henries words countenance such a deepe rooted displeasure in his hart that he agréed to receiue him into fauour rather by compulsion and against his will than otherwise But when the archbishop would needs depart go ouer into England the French K. suffered him so to doo dooing him all the honor he could at his leaue taking Then the archbishop departing out of France came into England and landed at Sandwich about the first of December in the seuenth yeare after his line 50 first departure out of the realme Shortlie after his arriuall Roger the archbishop of Yorke Gilbert bishop of London and Iocelin bishop of Salisburie with diuerse other came vnto him as to the popes legat and required that it might please him to restore them to the ministration of their offices againe whose request he granted but yet vpon condition that they should vndertake to stand to his iudgement and order in all things which by the counsell line 60 of the archbishop of Yorke they vtterlie refused ¶ Here authors agrée not as Polydor trulie saith for some write that archbishop Thomas immediatlie vpon his returne into England denounced the archbishop of Yorke with the bishops of Salisburie and London accurssed whereas before they were depriued of the vse and administration of the sacraments Soâ—e â—â—hers write that now at his comming ouer into England from his â—â—ile he depriued them onlie of the ministration of the sacraments togither with the bishops of Eâ—â—ester Chester Rochester S. Asaph Landaâ—â— which had â—â—â—sonallie béene present at the coronation of king Henrie the sonne to the derogation of the dignitie of their primat the archbishop of Canturburie as before you haue heard It shuld seeme yet by Gâ—r Doroâ—â—eâ— that the archbishop of Yorke and the bishop of Durham were suspended and the bishops of London Salisburie and diuerse other excommunicated But how soeuer he vsed them the archbishop of Yorke the two bishops London and Salisburie being offended with his dooings sailed ouer into Normandie and there complained to king Henrie of iniuries doone to them by archbishop Thomas gréeuouslie accusing him that he went about to take awaie their libertie of priesthood to destroie corrupt and finallie to abolish both the lawes of God and man togither with the ancient decrées and statutes of their elders in somuch that he tooke vpon him to exclude bishops at his pleasure from the companie of christian men and so being excluded to banish them for euer to derogat things meerelie preiudiciall to the kings roiall prerogatiue and finallie to take awaie from all men the equitie of lawes and ciuill orders The king giuing eare to their complaint was so displeased in his mind against archbishop Thomas that in open audience of his lords knights and gentlemen he said these or the like words In what miserable state am I that can not be in rest within mine owne realme by reason of one onelie préest Neither is there any of my folkes that will helpe to deliuer me out of such troubles There were some that stood about the king which gessed by these words that his mind was to signifie how he would haue some man to dispatch the archbishop out of the waie The kings displeasure against the archbishop was knowne well inough which caused men to haue him in no reuerence at all so that as it was said it chanced on a time that he came to Strowd in Kent where the inhabitants meaning to doo somewhat to his infamie being thus out of the kings
Roderike king of Ulnestre being sore offended raised a mightie line 30 host and comming into the field fought with the lord cheefe iustice and in the end receiued tooke the ouerthrow at his hands although the lord cheefe iustice at that encounter lost no small number of his men Amongst prisoners that were taken the bishop of Dun was one whom yet the lord cheefe iustice released and set at libertie in respect of a request and suit made to him by a cardinall the popes legat that was there in Ireland at that time line 40 This cardinals name was Uiuiano intituled the cardinall of S. Stephan in Mount Celio he was sent from the pope the yeare before and comming into England though without licence was pardoned vpon knowledging his fault for his entring without the kings leaue first obteined and so permitted to go into Scotland whither as also into other the northwest regions he was sent as legat authorised from the pope Now when he had ended his businesse in Scotland he passed ouer into Man and there held line 50 his Christmasse with Euthred king of Man and after the feast of the Epiphanie sailed from thence into Ireland and chanced the same time that the Englishmen inuaded that countrie to be in the citie of Dun where he was receiued of the king bishops of that land with great reuerence The inuasion then of the Englishmen being signified to them of the countrie aforehand they asked counsell of the legat what he thought best to be doone in that matter who streightwaies told them that line 60 they ought to fight in defense of their countrie and at their setting forward he gaue them his benediction in waie of their good speed But they comming as ye haue heard to encounter with the Englishmen were put to flight and beaten backe into the citie which was herewith also woone by the Englishmen so that the Romane legat was glad to get him into the church for his more safegard and like a wise fellow had prouided afore hand for such haps if they chanced hauing there with him the king of Englands letters directed to the capteins in Ireland in the legats fauour so that by the assistance and authoritie of the same he went to Dublin and there in the name of the pope and the king of England held a councell But when he began to practise after the manner of legats in those daies somewhat largelie for his owne aduantage in the churches of that simple rude countrie the English capteins commanded him either to depart or else to go foorth to the wars with them whervpon he returned into Scotland hauing his bags well stuffed with Irish gold for the which it seemed he greatlie thirsted ¶ Where we haue to note the drift of the pope and all popelings to be far otherwise than they pretend For who vnlesse he will be wilfullie ignorant knoweth not that he and his neuer attempt any thing but the same beareth the hew and colour of holinesse and honestie Hereto tend the sendings out of his legats and cardinals to make pacifications to redresse disorders to appease tumults I wot not what infinit enormities for he must haue his ore in euerie mans bote his spoone in euerie mans dish and his fingers in euerie mans pursse but the end and scope of all his dooings consisteth in this namelie to set himselfe aboue all souereigntie to purchase and assure to himselfe an absolute and supereminent iurisdiction to rob christian kingdomes to impouerish churches chapels and religious places Our chronicles are full of these his pranks and here we haue one practised by a lim of his who as you sée verie impudentlie and licentiouslie preied vpon the church-goods and conuerted the same to his owne profit and commoditie which he had if not trembled yet blushed to doo considering that the goods of the church are the treasurie of Christ or at leastwise ought to be and that none ought to alienate or change the propertie of such goods as the canon law hath prouided Besides the wretch ought to haue remembred that which euen the verie pagans did not forget namelie Haud vllas portabis opes Acherontis ad vndâ—s Nudus ad infernas stulte vehere rates But now to the dooings of Iohn de Curcie and of those Englishmen that were with him who did not onelie defend such places as they had woone out of the Irishmens hands against those kings and their powers but also inlarged dailie more and more their frontiers and wan the towne of Armach wherein is the metropolitane see of all that land with the whole prouince thereto belonging About the same time came ambassadours vnto king Henrie from Alfonse king of Castile and Garsias king of Nauarre to aduertise him that in a controuersie risen betwiâ—t the said two kings touching the possession of certeine grounds néere vnto the confines of their realms they had chosen him for iudge by compromise promising vpon their oths to stand vnto abide his order and decrée therein Therfore they required him to end the matter by his authoritie sith they had wholie put it to his iudgement Furthermore either king had sent a most able and valiant knight furnished with horsse and armour readie in their princes cause to fight the combat if king Henrie should happilie commit the triall of their quarrell vnto the iudgement of battell King Henrie gladlie accepted their request so that thervpon calling his councellors togither he consulted with them of the thing and hearing euerie mans opinion at length he gaue iudgement so with the one that the other was contented to be agreeable therevnto Within a while after Philip earle of Flanders came ouer into England to doo his deuotions at the toome of Thomas archbishop of Canturburie of whome the most part of men then had conceiued an opinion of such holinesse that they reputed him for a saint The king met him there and verie fréendlie enterteined him and bicause he was appointed shortlie after to go ouer into the holie land to war against Gods enimies the king gaue him fiue hundred marks in reward and licenced William Mandeuile earle of Essex to go in that iourneie with other lords knights and men of warre of sundrie nations that were of his dominions The king then returning vnto London tooke order for the establishing of things touching the suertie of the realme and his owne estate And first he appointed the custodie of such castels as were of most importance by their situation vnto the keeping of certeine worthie capteins To sir William de Stuteuille line 10 he assigned the custodie of Rockesburgh castell to sir Roger de Stuteuille the castell of Edenburgh to sir William Neuille the castell of Norham to sir Geffrie Neuille the castell of Berwike and to the archbishop of Yorke he deliuered the castell of Scarborough and sir Roger Coniers he made capteine of the tower of Durham which he
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
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
second found means by intelligence had with sir William de Eland constable of the castell of Notingham to take the said earle of March with his sonne the lord Roger or Geffrey Mortimer and sir Simon Bereford with other Sir Hugh Trumpington or Turrington as line 10 some copies haue that was one of his chéefest fréends with certeine other were slaine as they were about to resist against the lord Montacute and his companie in taking of the said earle The manner of his taking I passe ouer bicause of the diuersitie in report thereof by sundrie writers From Notingham he was sent vp to London with his sonne the lord Roger or Geffrey de Mortimer sir Simon Bereford and the other prisoners where they were committed to prison in the tower Shortlie after was a parlement line 20 called at Westminster chéefelie as was thought for reformation of things disordered through the misgouernance of the earle of March But whosoeuer was glad or sorie for the trouble of the said earle suerlie the queene mother tooke it most heauilie aboue all other as she that loued him more as the fame went than stood well with hir honour For as some write she was found to be with child by him They kept as it were house togither for the earle to haue his prouision the better cheape laid his penie line 30 with hirs so that hir takers serued him as well as they did hir both of vittels cariages Of which mis-vsage all regard to honour and estimation neglected euerie subiect spake shame For their manner of dealing tending to such euill purposes as they continuallie thought vpon could not be secret from the eies of the people And their offense héerein was so much the more heinous bicause they were persons of an extraordinarie degree and were the more narrowlie marked of the multitude or common people line 40 nam lux altissima fati Occultum nil esse sinit latebrásque per omnes Intrat obtrusos explorat fama recessus But now in this parlement holden at Westminster he was attainted of high treason expressed in fiue articles as in effect followeth 1 First he was charged that he had procured Edward of Carnaruan the kings father to be murthered in most heinous and tyrannous maner within the castell of Berklie 2 Secondlie that the Scots at Stanop parke line 50 through his means escaped 3 Thirdlie that he receiued at the hands of the lord Iames Dowglas at that time generall of the Scots great summes of monie to execute that treason and further to conclude the peace vpon such dishonorable couenants as was accorded with the Scots at the parlement of Northampton 4 Fourthlie that he had got into his hands a great part of the kings treasure and had wasted and line 60 consumed it 5 Fiftlie that he had impropried vnto him diuers wards that belonged vnto the king and had béene more priuie with queene Isabell the kings mother than stood either with Gods law or the kings pleasure These articles with other being prooued against him he was adiudged by authoritie of the parlement to suffer death and according therevnto vpon saint Andrewes eeuen next insuing he was at London drawne and hanged at the common place of execution called in those daies The elmes now Tiborne as in some bookes we find His bodie remained two daies and two nights on the gallowes and after taken downe was deliuered to the friers minors who buried him in their church the morrow after he was deliuered to them with great pompe and funerall exequies although afterwards he was taken vp and carried vnto Wigmore whereof he was lord He came not to his answer in iudgement no more than any other of the nobilitie had doone since the death of Thomas earle of Lancaster Sir Simon de Bereford knight that had béene one of the kings iustices was drawne also and hanged at London vpon S. Lucies daie In this parlement holden at Westminster the king tooke into his hand by aduise of the states there assembled all the possessions lands and reuenues that belonged to the quéene his mother she hauing assigned to hir a thousand pounds by yeare for the maintenance of hir estate being appointed to remaine in a certeine place and not to go elsewhere abroad yet the king to comfort hir would lightlie euerie yeare once come to visit hir ¶ After that the erle of March was executed as yée haue heard diuerse noble men that were departed the realme bicause they could not abide the pride and presumption of the said earle now returned as the sonne and heire of the earle of Arundell the lord Thomas Wake the L. Henrie Beaumont sir Thomas de Rosselin sir Foulke fitz Warren sir Griffin de la Poole and diuerse other In the fift yeare of K. Edwards reigne Edward Balioll came foorth of France into England and obteined such fauour through the assistance of the lord Henrie Beaumont the lord Dauid of Strabogie earle of Athole the lord Geffrey de Mowbraie the lord Walter Cumin and others that king Edward granted him licence to make his prouision in England to passe into Scotland with an armie of men to attempt the recouerie of his right to the crowne of Scotland with condition that if he recouered it he should acknowledge to hold it of the king of England as superiour lord of Scotland The comming awaie of Edward Balioll out of France is diuerslie reported by writers some saie that he was aided by the French king whose sister he had married and other saie that he being in prison in France for the escape of an Englishman one Iohn Barnabie esquier which had slaine a Frenchman by chance of quarelling in the towne of Dampierre where the same Barnabie dwelled with the said Edward Balioll so it came to passe that the lord Henrie Beaumont hauing occasion of businesse with the French king that fauoured him well came ouer to France and there vnderstanding of Baliols imprisonment procured his deliuerance and brought him ouer into England and caused him to remaine in secret wise at the manor of Sandhall vpon Ouse in Yorkeshire with the ladie Uesci◠till he had purchased the kings grant for him to make his prouision of men of war and ships within the English dominions In the sixt yeare of king Edwards reigne Reignold earle of Gelderland married the ladie Elianor sister to this king Edward the third who gaue vnto the said earle with hir for hir portion fifteene thousand pounds sterling ¶ Isabell the kings daughter was borne also this yeare at Woodstoke ¶ After that Edward Balioll had prepared and made readie his purueiances for his iournie and that his men of warre were assembled and come togither being in all not past fiue hundred men of armes and about two thousand archers and other footmen he tooke the sea at Rauenspurgh in Yorkeshire and from thence directing his course northward he
calling such images as the people had in most veneration as that at Walsingham and the rood of the north doore at Paules in London rotten stocks and worme eaten blocks through which the vnskilfull people being mocked and deceiued were compelled most manifestlie to commit idolatrie The bishops saith Thomas Walsingham hearing beholding and knowing these things with much more to line 60 be true did little or nothing to redresse the same saue onlie the bishop of Norwich who stirred coles swearing and staring that if anie of that sect presumed to preach anie peruerse doctrine within his diocesse he would cause them either to hop headlesse or to frie a fagot for it he was therefore not a little praised and extolled by the moonks and other religious men as should appeare for that his zeale In Nouember the duke of Lancaster came foorth of Gascoigne into England after he had remained first in Spaine and after in Gascoigne thrée yeares togither Of his successe in Spaine is spoken before likewise of the agréement betwixt the king of Castâ—le the said duke which was not in all points confirmed till a little before his returne now into England About the same time the king had called a councell of his nobilitie at Reading to the which the duke of Lancaster made the more hast to come bicause he knew that the king would shew no good countenance to some of the noblemen and therefore he doubted least malicious offenses might arise betwixt them which to appease he meant the best he could and his trauell came to good effect for he did so much that as well the king as the lords departed from the councell as freends the lords taking their leaues of him in louing maner and he courteouslie bidding them farewell and so each of them resorted vnto their homes well pleased for that present ¶ The king held his Christmasse this yéere at Woodstoke and the duke of Lancaster laie at his castell of Hertford At the same time the lord Iohn de Hastings earle of Penbroke as he was practising to learne to iust year 1390 through mishap was striken about the priuie parts by a knight called sir Iohn S. Iohn that ran against him so as his inner parts being perished death presentlie followed The losse of this earle was greatlie bemoned by men of all degrees for he was liberall gentle humble and courteous to each one aboue all the other yoong lords in the land of his time Of this earles ancestors this is reported for a thing strange and maruelous that from the daies of Aimer de Ualence earle of Penbroke that was one amongst other that sat in iudgement of Thomas earle of Lancaster there was not anie earle of Penbroke succéeding the same Aimer de Ualence vnto the daies of this yoong earle by misfortune thus slaine that euer saw his father nor yet anie of their fathers might reioise in the sight of anie of their sonnes being still called hence before the time came for them so to doo ¶ Now héere bicause this Iohn Hastings being the last of that surname and armes of the whole blood which of that line inioied anie title of honor I thinke it not vnfit for this place since other occasion will not be giuen therefore to talke of the Hastings somwhat higher than this man though not from the shell to perpetuate the memorie of them the which I haue now doone least otherwise by ingrate obliuion it might neuer hereafter come to light In which I will not begin from the first honourable Hastings whose bloud by manie descents continued is thought by most ancient monuments which I haue séene and read to haue béene a baron before the conquest in this land and to haue borne the same cote in the field which this now slaine earle of Penbroke did whereof hereafter in my descriptions and lines of the earles of Penbroke I will make more ample discourse in a new booke if God giue good successe therein onelie at this time making some small repetition from that Henrie Hastings from whome the Hastings in respect of the mariage of Alda daughter to Dauie earle of Huntington brother to William king of Scots did descend who amongst others in the reigne of Edward the first made title to the kingdome of Scotland The originall of which name in this treatise I will neither flatteringlie defend nor obstinatlie reiect to haue growne from Hastings the Dane who in the reigne of Alured long before the conquest about the yeare of our redemption 890 came with Rollo into England and for a certeine space infesâ—ed this nation departing aside to France And now to the purpose Henrie lord Hastings who bare for his armes gold a manche gules married Alda or Ada the fourth daughter of Dauid earle of Huntington she being one of the heires to Iohn Scot earle of Chester of Huntington which died without issue son of the said Dauid and brother to the said Ada. To this Henrie and Ada did Henrie the third king of England in the two twentith of his reigne in place of the portion of hir brothers lands which should haue descended to hir as parcell of the earledome of Chester for that the king would not haue the said earledome diuided amongst distaues giue in exchange certeine lands mentioned in this déed following The grant of Henrie the third to Henrie Hastings and Ada his wife for the exchange of lands for hir part of the line 10 earledome OMnibus ad quos c salutem Sciatis quòd concessimus pro nobis haeredibus nostris Henrico de Hastings Adae vxorieius pro rationabili parte sua qùae praedictam Adam contingent de haereditate Iohannis quondam comitis Cestriae fratris ipsius Adae in Cestershire facieÌ„do eis rationabile excambium ad valentiam praedictae partis ipsam line 20 Adam contingentis de praedicto com Cestershire Et ad maiorem securitatem coÌ„cessimus eidem Henrico Adae manerium nostrum de Bremesgraue cum pertinentibus in comitatu Wigorniae manerium nostrum de Bolisoure cum castris pertinentibus in com Derby manerium nostrum de Mountesfeld cum Soka cuÌ„ pertinentibus in comitatu Notingham manerium de Worsfeld cum pertinentibus in com Salop. manerium line 30 de Stratton cum pertinentibus in eodem com manerium de Wiggutton cum pertinent in com Stafford maneriuÌ„ de Woluerhamton cuÌ„pert in eodeÌ„ com in tenentiam Tenendum eisdem Henrico Adae haeredibus ipsius Adae quo vsque praedicta pars ipsam Adam contingens de praedicta haereditate extenta fuerit rationabile excambium in praedictis terris vel alias eis assignauerimus In cuius c. Teste rege apud Ditton 11. Innij anno line 40 regni nostri 22. The which manours the said Henrie and Ada did hold during the life of the said Ada in peaceable and quiet possession After hir death the said Henrie goeth into
Gascoigne where he remained steward vntill the comming of Henrie the third at what time the said Henrie surrendered his office but the king importunate with him still to reteine the same he flatlie denied it and would no longer remaine there suddenlie returning into England without licence line 50 or knowledge of the king for which contempt the king greeuouslie incensed in reuenge and for satisfaction of the same made the same lands to be extended by Thomas Paslew and others who by the kings processe extended part thereof to a â—reble value after which extent returned into the chancerie the king seized the manour of Bremesgraue Bolesoure Strattondale in Norton left in his hands the manours of Lierton Oswardbecke Cundoner Wourfeld and Wigutton whereof the said Henrie line 60 died seized Two yeares before which grant of the lands before said to this Henrie to wit in the twentith yeare of Henrie the third the said Henrie Hastings made his petition to serue in the pantrée as he was bound by tenure at the coronation of euerie prince the record whereof in the ancient written booke of the earls of Huntington is in these words following The record by which Henrie Hastings executed the office of the panteller VIcesimo Henr. tertij quo coronata fuit regina Elionara filia Hugonis comitis Prouinciae apud Westm. factae sunt contentiones magnae de seruitijs ministralibus de iuribus pertinentibus ad eorum ministeria sed respectuatur iuribus singulis saluis vt tumultus requiesceret vsque ad quindena Paschae sequeÌ„tis c. Et Henricus de Hastinges cuius officium seruiendi de mappis à veteri vendicauit officiuÌ„ illud habuit Nam quamuis Thurstanus vendicauit officium illud asserens suum esse debere à veteri tamen rex repulsat admisit Henricum de Hastinges ea die assignans eisdem diem de contentione finienda ad praedictum terminum Extractas verò post prandium mappas tanquam suas ad officium pertinentes recepit This Henrie had by Ada his wife his sonne heire Henrie Hastings from whome Buchanan dooth saie that Henrie Hastings now earle of Penbroke is descended whereof I will not now heere dispute Henrie Hastings knight sonne of Henrie after the death of his father finding himselfe greeued that the inheritance which should haue descended vnto him from his mother was so withholden from him for the offense of his father contrarie to law and iustice and without iudgement but by the kings power pursued a bill against the king therby to haue remedie and restitution for the supposed false returne of the extent which was made against his father and vpon the same bill this Henrie Hastings obteined a new writ to make a fresh extent directed to maister Thomas of Wimundham Robert de la Laie Robert de Solham Hugh Peeche Thomas de Braie to vnderstand if the remnant of the lands to him descended beside that by the king extended would counteruaile the value of such lands as he should haue by descent from and of the earle and earledome of Chester which maâ—ter neuer being ended in his time was afterward prosecuted of the Hastings from parlement to parlement vntill the thirtie fourth yeare of Edward the first as more plainelie shall after appeare Of this Henrie Hollingshed intreateth much in the reigne of Henrie the third this man being he that in the time of Edward the first made title to the crowne of Scotland maried Ione one of the daughters of William Cantulpe lord of Aburgauenie in the right of Eua one of the daughters and heires of William Bewsa or Brewcusa for I find both written of which Ione this Henrie had issue Iohn Hastings his sonne and heire Edmund which maried Isabell had great possessions in Wales Ada first maried to Robert de Champane Lora maried to sir Thomas the sonne of sir Iohn de Latimer and Ione which was a nun at Notingham Iohn Hastings knight sonne of the last Henrie was borne at Asleghe in the yéere of our Lord 1262 and in the six fortith yeare of the reigne of Henrie the third This man after his fathers death did in the yeare of our Lord 1274 and the second yeare of the reigne of Edward the first being the kings ward demand the execution of his office of the pantrie at the coronation of queene Elianor wife to Edward the first but could not execute the same by reason of his nonage and also for that he was in ward to the said king After when he was growne to full yeares there arose in the yeare of our Lord 1305 and in the thirtie third yeare of the reigne of Edward the first great contention betweene Antonie Beake bishop of Durham this Iohn Hastings Iohn Balioll and Robert Bruse for the manors of Penrith Castlesoure Salgkill regis Lange Worthbie Carlaton and of Werkine Tinehale whereof Henrie king of Scots kinsman of the said Robert Bruse Iohn Balioll and Iohn Hastings whose heire they were died seized in his demesne of fee. In which sutes after manie delaies made and manie summons against the said bishop the plée went without daie bicause the bishop must go to Rome But after his returne the sute being reuiued and continued it went once more without daie bicause the king seized the same into his hands and held it all the time of his reigne These things thus doone and Edward the first departed this Iohn Hastings as yet not hastie to renew his sute of the land but rather to execute his right of the pantrie did in the first yeare of Edward the second demand the executing of that office line 10 at the coronation of the said Edward the second and Isabell his wife at Westminster which he obteined and laid the clothes and napkins in the great hall by him and other his knights one the tables whereat the king the quéene and other great states should dine which according as I haue seene noted was in this sort The order and number of clothes laied line 20 at the kings table and how Iohn Hastings had them for his fee. AD altam sedem ipsius regis tres mappas super alias mensas in eadem aula 28 mappas vnde quaelibet pecia continebat 4 in parua aula coram regina alibi in illa parua aula 14 quaruÌ„ quaelibet pecia continebat 3. Et dum fueruÌ„t ad comestum mappas per se suos custodiebat line 30 post comestum illas trahebat deferre faciebat seruientes ad seruiendum istas cum suis loquelis â—abebat sine voluntate vel cum voluntate eas deâ—inebat per totum festum coronationis licèt petitae erant deliberatione primò à senescallo regis postea ab ipso rege per quod idem rex praecepit domino Willielmo Martin alijs senescallis suis quòd plenam celerem iusticiam ei facerent deliberationem de mappis praedictis
chappell as he crossed ouer the stréet from his house to the church was suddenlie murthered with a gun the cracke whereof was heard of the line 30 neighbors and of a great number of laborers that stood at Soper lane end and saw the said Packington go foorth of his house but there was such a thicke mist that morning as the like had not béene séene by couert whereof the murtherer found shift the more easilie to escape Manie were suspected but none found in fault albeit forsomuch as he was one that would speake his mind freelie and was at the same time one of the burgesses of the parlement for the citie of London line 40 and had talked somewhat against the couetousnesse and crueltie practised by the cleargie it was mistrusted least by some of them he came thus to his end At length the murtherer in déed was condemned at Banburie in Oxfordshire to die for a fellonie which he afterwards committed and when he came to the gallowes on which he suffered he confessed that he did this murther and till that time he was neuer had in anie suspicion thereof ¶ The nine and twentith of March were twelue of the Lincolneshire rebels line 50 drawne to Tiburne and there hanged and quartered fiue of them were priests the residue laie men One of the priests was doctor Makarell and an other was the vicar of Louth About this season the maner of casting pipes of lead for the conueiance of water vnder the ground without occupieng of soulder to the same was inuented by Robert Brocke clearke then one of the kings chapleins an inuention right necessarie for the sauing of expenses for two men and a boie will line 60 doo that in one daie which before could not be doone by manie men in manie daies Robert Cooper goldsmith was the first that made the instruments and put this inuention in practise ¶ In the verie beginning of this yeare certeine commissioners being sent into Summersetshire to take vp corne the people began to make an insurrection but by the wisedome and diligence of yoong master Paulet others the same was suppressed and the beginners thereof to the number of thréescore were apprehended condemned and fourtéene of them were hanged and quartered one of the number being a woman the residue were saued by the kings mercifull pardon In Iune the lord Darcie the lord Huseie were arreigned at Westminster before the marquesse of Excester then high steward where they were found guiltie and had iudgement as in cases of high treason Shortlie after also were arreigned sir Robert Constable sir Thomas Persie sir Francis Bigod sir Stephan Hamilton sir Iohn Bulmer and his wife or rather as some report his paramour also William Lomleie Nicholas Tempest William Thurst abbat of Founteins Adam Subburie abbat of Ierueux William Wold prior of Birlington also the abbat of Riuers and Robert Aske They were all found guiltie of high treason and all put to death Sir Robert Constable was hanged in chains ouer Beuerleie gate at Hull and Robert Aske was also hanged in chains on a tower at Yorke and Margaret Cheineie sir Iohn Bulmers paramour burnt in Smithfield in London The other suffered at Tiburne In the latter end of Iune was the lord Darcie beheaded at the Tower hill and shortlie after the lord Huseie was likewise beheaded at Lincolne This yeare at saint Georges feast was the lord Cromwell made knight of the garter In October on saint Edwards euen which falleth on the twelft of that moneth at Hampton court the quéene was deliuered of hir sonne named Edward for whose birth great ioie was made thorough the realme with thanksgiuing to almightie God who had sent such a yoong prince to succéed his father in the crowne of this realme as afterwards he did by the name of king Edward the sixt His godfathers at the fontstone were the archbishop of Canturburie the duke of Norffolke the ladie Marie was his godmoother and at the bishopping the duke of Suffolke was his godfather On the eightéenth of October he was made prince of Wales duke of Cornewall and erle of Chester But as ioie is often mixed with sorrow so at that time it came to passe by the death of his moother that noble and vertuous ladie queene Iane which departed out of this life the fourteenth daie of this moneth of October to the great griefe of the whole realme but namelie the king hir husband tooke it most grieuouslie of all other who remoouing to Westminster there kept himselfe close a great while after The eight of Nouember the corps of the quéene was caried to Windsor with great solemnitie and there buried in the midst of the quire in the castell church There was also a solemne hearse made for hir in Paules church and funerall exequies celebrated as well as in all other churches within the citie of London Thus was the king left againe a widower and so continued the space of two yeares togither Upon the death of which quéene Iane and the birth of prince Edward hir son this distichon following was made Phoenix Iana iacet nato Phoenice dolendum Saecula Phoenices nulla tulisse duas The king held his Christmas at Gréenewich and as well he as all the court ware mourning apparell till the morrow after Candlemas daie then he and all other changed year 1538 This yeare Edward Seimer vicount Beauchampe the quéenes brother was created earle of Hertford sir William Fitzwilliams lord high admerall was created earle of Southhampton ¶ and master Paulet was made vicetreasuror sir Iohn Russell comptrollor of the kings house master Henedge master Long master Kneuet of the kings priuie chamber knights master Coffin master Liftar master Seimer the quéenes brother knights On Allhallowes euen the lord Thomas Howard brother to the duke of Norffolke died prisoner in the Tower of London and was buried at Thetford and then the ladie Margaret Dowglas was pardoned and released out of the Tower The foure and twentith of Februarie being sundaie the rood of Boxleie in Kent called the rood of grace made with diuerse vices to mooue the eies and lips was shewed at Paules crosse by the preacher which was the bishop of Rochester and there it was broken and plucked in peeces The fiue and twentith of Februarie sir Ihon Allen priest and also an Irish gentleman of the Garets were hanged quartered at Tiburne The second of March the image of the rood called saint Sauior line 10 at Bermonseie abbeie in Southworke was taken downe by the kings commandement The one and twentith of March Henrie Harsam customer of Plimmouth and Thomas Ewell were hanged and quartered at Tiburne In Maie a frier obseruant called frier Forrest was apprehended for that he was knowne in secret confessions to haue declared to manie of the kings liege people that the king was not supreame head of the church
15 William Warlewast a Norman borne and line 60 chapleine both to the Conqueror and his two sons William and Henrie he was a graue and a wise man and for the same was preferred by Henrie the king to this bishoprike in the yere one thousand one hundred and seuen and was consecrated by Anselmus archbishop of Canturburie in the moneth of August the same yeare He first began to inlarge his church which at that time was no bigger than that which is now called the ladie chappell He founded and builded the monasterie of Plimpton and placed therein regular canons in his latter daies he waxed and became blind And yet notwithstanding for his wisdome the king sent him in ambassage vnto pope Paschalis the second wherein he so wiselie dealed and so discréetlie behaued himselfe in his message that he made a reconciliation betweene the pope and the king and returned with great praise and commendation Not long after his returne and hauing small ioie of the world he gaue ouer his bishoprike and became one of the religious canons in his owne house of Plimpton where he died and was buried he was bishop about twentie yeares 16 Robert Chichester deane of Sarisburie was consecrated bishop vnder Anselmus archbishop of Canturburie Anno 1128 and the eight and twentith yeare of king Henrie the first He was a gentleman borne and therefore estéemed for his zeale in religion wherein he was deuout according to those daies and thinking his labours to be best imploied that waie did eftsoons go in pilgrimage sometime to Rome sometime to one place sometime to another and euer he would bring with him some one relike or other He was a liberall contributor to the buildings of his church In his time was founded and builded the monasterie of S. Stephans in Lanceston and furthered by Reinold erle of Cornewall but vnto it this bishop was an aduersarie not for misliking the worke but for feare of an intrusion vpon his liberties Likewise at this time was builded the priorie of saint Nicholas in Excester by the abbat of Battell vnto which abbeie this priorie was a cell In this mans time also king Henrie made William Rideuers a Norman and his kinsman earle of Deuon and therewith the lordshop of Twifordton and the honor of Plimpton togither with the third pennie of his reuenues in Deuon which in the whole was then thirtie marks whereof this earle had ten Also in this mans time king Henrie died and king Stephan entred and tooke vpon him the crowne whereof insued great warres This bishop after that he had occupied the place two and twentie yeares died and was buried in his owne church But the moonke of Westminster writeth that he should be bishop seuen and twentie yeares and died in the yeere one thousand one hundred fiftie and fiue but he neuer saw the records of this church which are to the contrarie 17 Robert Warlewast nephue to William the bishop of this church deane of Sarisburie was consecrated bishop by Theobaldus archbishop of Canturburie in the yeare one thousand one hundred and fiftie he nothing degenerated from the steps of his predecessors but was altogither of the same bent and disposition In his time king Stephan died and Henrie the second was crowned king This Robert after that he had occupied this sée nine yéers or thereabout died was buried at Plimpton by his vncle 18 Bartholomeus Iscanus otherwise Bartholomew of Excester was consecrated bishop of Excester vnder Theobald archbishop of Canturburie in the yeare a thousand one hundred fiftie nine he was called Iscanus of Isca which is one of the ancientest names of this citie He was a meane citizens son but being verie apt vnto learning his parents and friends kept him to schoole and he so well profited therein that he came and prooued to be a verie well learned man and being bishop he wrote sundrie bookes as of predestination fréewill penance and others Of all men he could not brooke nor fauor Thomas Becket archbishop of Canturburie for his contempt and disobedience against the king for the which he sharplie improoued rebuked and inueighed against him openlie in the parlement house holden at Northampton and with such effectuall reasons and pithie arguments he did so temper the same that the whole parlement relied vnto his iudgement and opinion herein against Thomas Becket And after his death such was the gravitie modestie and wisedome of the man that he was speciallie chosen to be ambassador for the king vnto pope Alexander the third and so wiselie and with such discretion vsed the same that notwithstanding his cause and message had manie aduersaries yet he reconciled the pope and the king obteined the goodwill and fauour of the pope and brought his message to good effect This bishop was in great familiaritie and acquaintance with Baldwin of Excester his countriman line 10 now archbishop of Canturburie who was a poore mans sonne in this citie but for his learning aduanced to this estate In this bishops time about the yeare of our Lord one thousand one hundred thrée score and eight William Fitzralfe a citizen of this citie founded a cell for moonks within this citie and dedicated the same to saint Alexius which not long after was united to saint Iohns within the east gate of the same citie In his time also Reinold of Courtneie a nobleman of Normandie the son of Elorus line 20 the son of Lewes named Lewes le Grosse king of France came into this land and married Hawise daughter and heire to Mawd the daughter and heire to Adelis sister and heire to Richard de Briono the first vicount of Deuon and in hir right was vicount of Deuon This Bartholomew after he had béene bishop about fouretéene yeares in the yere one thousand one hundred eightie and foure died but where he died and where he was buried it dooth not appeere In this bishops time about the yeare one thousand line 30 one hundred and seuentie one Iohannes Coriniensis a Cornish man borne was a famous learned diuine he was a student at Rome and other places in Italie and by that meanes grew into great acquaintance with pope Alexander the third he wrote diuerse bookes and namelie one De incarnatione Christi against Peter Lombard who affirmed Quòd Christus secundum quod homo est aliquid non est and this he dedicated to pope Alexander 19 Iohn the chanter of the cathedrall church of line 40 this citie was consecrated and installed bishop of this church in the yeare one thousand one hundred eightie and foure he was well reported of for his liberalitie in continuing the buildings of this church wherein he was nothing inferior to his predecessors In his time king Henrie Fitzempresse died and he himselfe hauing beene bishop about six yeares died in the yeare of our Lord one thousand one hundred ninetie and one 20 Henrie Marshall archdeacon of Stafford the line 50 brother to Walter earle
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
a 50. Excommunicated but to no purpose 219. b 10. Accused committed to prison 244. a 60 Usurpation note the whole storie of Richard the third and Edward the fift hath no good end ¶ See Bruse 314 315 316. Commeth to an euill end 323. a 60. W. WAinfleet ¶ See Paten Wales inuaded by king William Rufus and wasted 22. b 10. Subdued by duke William 12. a 20. Diuided into shires 282. a 40. The marches thereof sore impouerished 257 a 40 Walden his variable fortune note 532. a 10 Walon lord came to serue Henrie the eight 818. b 60 Wallop knight his martiall acts in Normandie 831. b 40 Walkhelme bishop of Winchester 9. a 20 Walkeher bishop of Durham had the whole rule of Northumberland 13. a 40. A furtherer of monasteries to be erected 11. a 20. Slaine by the Northumbers whie note 12. b 20 Walteof sonne of Siward 5. a 10 Ualiant reconciled into the kings fauor 7. a 50. Earle of Northumberland Northhampton and Huntington 11 b 20. Maried duke Williams neece and his issue 11. b 10. He and Gospatrike depriued 10 b 50. Beheaded as a rebell though he disclosed the same note 11. a 60. Described and where he was buried 11. b 10 Walter bishop of Hereford submitteth himselfe to duke William 1 a 50. Walter knight ¶ See Mildmaie and Raliegh Warre betweene two brethren kings sonnes 106 a 50. In Normandie betwixt king Rufus and his brother Robert 21 a 50.60 Of barons against king Iohn note 18â— b 10. c. Proclamed against England by the king of Scots 5â—8 b 10. Prepared against France â—12 a â—0 Betwixt England and France 290. a 60. b 20. Proclamed betwixt England and France 353. a 10. Prosecuted with egernesse 354 355 Upon a light occasion 39. b 20. Renewed 219. a 20. Betweene diuerse nations in one yeare ended 1192. b 60. Ciuill and the miserie of England then 60. b 60. Maketh no difference of time note 1188. b 30. c. Certâ—ine ordinances deuised for that time 125. a 40 The frutes thereof 610. b 10. Forren better than sedition at home 1054. b 50. Open not so ill as ciuill the occasion of manie great inconueniences 729. a 10. 20. Cannot be mainteined without monie ¶ See Armie Battell Beneuolence Frenchmen France Monie Munition Scots Subsidie Warbecke ¶ See Perkin Warbecke Ward Richard ¶ See Iusts Triumphant Wards ¶ See London Warham doctor of lawes the sum of his speach to the archduke of Burgognie 777. b 10 Warke castell burned by the Scots 444. b 60 Warlwast William taketh from Anselme all that he had note 26. a 10 Warning of amendment of life 44. b 10. Reiected both by woonders and dreames and lested at 26. b 10.20 Neglected cause of inconuenience note 83. a 10.20.30.40 Of a French preest giuen to Richard the first note 156. b 10 ¶ See Uisions Warren ¶ See Erle Warwike castell taken and rased 267 a 50.60 Waste ¶ See Northcountrie Wat Tiler ¶ See Tiler Watch appointed to be kept by night in cities and burrowes 248. a 10 It and ward from foure till six and from six till foure 327. b 10. The mischiefe that groweth by the negligence of them 597. b 60. In sleepe what aduantage to the enimie 380. a 60. Found sleeping iustlie serued 819 b 20. At Midsummer discontinued 1062. b 10. ¶ See Midsummer Water conueied from out the Thames by pipes into seuerall houses 1348. b 50. ¶ See Tides and Thames Waters executed for Treason 313. b 40. ¶ See Traitors Waterquake 440. b 50.1311 a 50.439 b 40 Wednesdaie 818. b 20. ¶ See Drie Weights and measures 152 b 10 Reformed after one standard 209 b 60 Weiland lord cheefe iustice of the kings bench his storie 284. b 40 Well ¶ See Founteine Welshmen vnder their kings waste Herâ—ford 5. a 20. Cruellie handled in their ouerthrow 23. a â—0 Inuaded by William Rufus flie into the woods 23. a 10. Uanquished at Brooknocke by William Rufus 20. b 40. Inuade England 21 b 20. They dare not fight in open field but worke all vpon aduantage 22. a 20. Preuaile greatlie against the Engâ—ish 2 17. Besieged the castell of Montgomerie 210. a 60. They are discomfites b 10. c. Put to flight 214 a 10. Sent ouer to the aid of the earle of Britaine 219 a 10 Warre against the lord Mortimers tenants 263. b 50. Subiect to the English laws 244. a 50. Take castels 329.10 Wastfull without remorse 351. b 20. Appointed to Iaques Arteueid for a gard against Gerard Denise 368. a 20. Molest the English subiects 524. a 20. Rebell by the setting on of Owen Glendouer 518. a 60. Waste Cheshire â—6 b 40. Up in armes they sue for peace to Henrie the first 42. a 20.30 Fickle and by what meanes allured to Henrie the firsts side 30. a 60. Moue rebellion discomfited and punished 176. a 30. Not well delt withall 95. b 30. Their good seruice against the French 113. a 10. Slaie the shiriffe of Glocestershire 106. a 20 Their good seruice 93. b 20. Make war on the English marches seuerelie punished 73. b 10. Uanquished and slaine 154. b 20. Win Cardigan 73. b 40. Rebell inuaded subdued 66. b 60 c Their valiancie against the French 874. b 20. Make a riot at Calis 879. b 10. Discomfited by the Northerne men 672. b 20. Inuade the English marches 37. b 60. Slaine and discomfited by Henrie the first on all hands note 3â—â— a 10. Subdued 203. a 60. Flie 270 a 60. Submit themselues 67. a 30. Slaine 673. b 10. Drowned within an ambush note â—36 a 60. Welshwomens villanie against the English dead corpses 520 a 60. Their beastlie and barbarous crueltie vpon the dead carcases of the English 528. a 30. See Fraie and Lewin Wentworth lord deputie of Calis sendeth to the French to demand parlee 1135. b 50. Taken prisoner 1136. a 50. Arreigned and acquited 1184. a 50 Westminster spoiled by soldiors 273. b 20. The palace of the king burned 815. b 60. The new church there begun 202. b 10. Inlarged and repared 237 a 40. Of a cruell murther there committed 420. b 10.60 The sanctuarie confirmed by parlement 421 b 60 The hall founded note 23. a 60. b 10. Ouerflowne with waters note 1129. b 50. Full of water and not to be gotten into but on horssebacke 231 a 10. Where botes might haue beene rowed vp and downe 220. a 40. The new worke there begun 282 b 60. A new house made within the palace for the arreignment of the lords 490. b 20 Wesell in Cleueland a free towne note 1144 a 40 Weston doctor the duke of Suffolks ghostlie father 1100 b 50. Against the ladie Elisabeth the lord maiors iudgement of him 1101 b 40.50 resigneth the deanrie of Westminster by compulsion and is recompensed 1134 b 40 Wether intemperat by coniuring as was thought 520. b 20. ¶ See Tempest Wharton lord Thomas deceaseth 1238. a 50 Wheat and other corne scarse with politike orders to
insufficiencie of learning 12 a 10. His miracle whereby he kept his bishoprike 12 a 10. Submitteth himselfe to duke William 1 a 50. Dieth 27 b 60. Woluerhampton and how to be rightlie called note 796 a 40 Womans request preuaileth in a great matter with a great personage 32 a 50. Pitifull note 378 a 20. Their dissimulation 336 b 30. Hanâ—ed drawne and quartered 944 a 60. Ones request denied occasion of much broile 327 b 40 328 a 10. One treateth for peace preuaileth betwéene two kings note 360 a 30 One brought to bed of a monster note 1314 a 40. One of fourscoure yeres old brought a bed of a monster 1313 b 60 1314 a 10. One brought to bed of foure children at one burthen 1261 b 60 Women will hardlie be of one mind 158 a 60. Their boldnes in ecclesiasticall matters note 484 a 50 60. That to be seuere against them is dishonorable note 314 a 10. Causers of mischéefe note 562 a 20. Counterfeiting themselues one our Ladie the other Marie Magdalen 203 b 50. Their 〈◊〉 what mischéefe it bréeâ—e â— note 626 b 6â— 627 a all Reuenge a murther doone vpon one 605 b 60. Hard to be reconciled 378 a 60. Their peace 115â— a 60 Wonders 37 a 40 38 a 40. â—â—â— b 10 44 b 40.82 a 60 b 10 10â— a 30.102 b 30.166 a 60.204 b 60 c. 210 b 50 216 b 10 20 30 225 b 60.226 a 10 239 b 20 245 b 30.252 a 50 c. 277 b 40 395 a 40 439 b 40 484 b 10 c 493 b 60.645 b 10.793 b 10 c 40. Of a Dutchman standing on Pauls wethercocke note 1091 a 60 b 10. Of peâ—son without tilth growing vpon hard stone pible 1129. a 60 b 10. Of a man preserued from drowning 1223 b 10 Of a lad drowned in a kennell 1259 b 60 1260 a 10. Of a child speaking strange spéeches 1315 a 10 c. Of mice deuouring grasse 1315 a 60. Of the ground swallowed vp 1413 b 20 30. Strange estéemed to be warnings note 26 b 10. Strange in heauen and earth 21 a 30. In the aire or element 142 a 10. Great and whereof they were tokens 204 b 50. What they betoken 156 b 60.157 a 10 b 10 Of baie trées 496 b 60. Of a fish like a man note 168 a 10. Of fighting fishes 115 a 10. Of Rosamunds coter 115 b 60. In the sunne moone and the earth 102 b 40 50 60. Of a dead carcase 1066 a 30. To be noted in a dead corps that laie long in the ground 779 a 40. ¶ Sée Fish Mirâ—cle and Monsters Worcester assalted 58 b 20. By the Normans 17 a 60. With the valiantnâ—sse of the people b 10. Besieged and taken 266 a 60. The citie burnt by casualtie 37 b 50 Words malicious and foolish of a French lord note 771 a 20 Of Henrie the second that cest Becket his lâ—fe 78 b 30 Of displeasure vttered by the father to his sonne 114 a 40 Stout of a prelat to a peere 458 a 20. Of a graue gentleman spoken on his death bed doo good 197 b 40. Whet Henrie the third vnto warre 209 a 10. Faire ouercome 32 a 50. Make fooles faine 191 b 60. 144 a 20. Preuaile not 112 a 20. With fraud note 111 a 30 Smooth how mightilie they preuaile euen in the enimie 673 a 60 b 10. Faire with ill meaning note 136 a 10. Procure wounds and death 954 a 20. Procure wounds and bloudshed 447 a 40. Wounds and slaughter note 13 b 40. Shamefull slanderous against Edward the fourth 698 b 30. Obscure and doubtfull to be opened 480 b 40. Unaduisedlie spoken against the prince the price of life note 703 a 10. Undecent to the lord chancellor punished in the speaker 1081 a a 50. Gentle appeased strife 880 b 50. That kindled heat and indignation to reuenge 172 b 10. Of wrath kindle displeasure and warre 3â— b 10 Faire and gentle wich like behauiour how forceable 518 a 10. Purchase displeasure though trâ—â—lie spoâ—en 513 b 40 50 60. Miscontruâ—d by the Scots note 423 a 20. Multiplied kindle displeasure 487 b 50 60. Roiall and well bâ—séeming a king to rebellious lords note 400 a 10 Wische vttered appease the wrath of a king 458 a 10 c 50. Opprobrious procure ill will note 421 a 20. Of reproch how mischéefous in issue note 412 a 20. Great with litle manhood 23 b 60 24 a 10. Of desdaine bréeding mischéefe note 645 a 30. Punished with standing on the pillorie and losse of both the cares 1084 a 20. Mixed with breadfull allegation preuaile much note 143 b 60. ¶ Sée Gifts Oth and Promises Works good of duke William before his death 14 b 50 Of king Henrie the first to win the peoples fauour 28 b 20 Workemanship verie cunning of comprising much matter in a little roome 1262 b 10. Of a locke and a keie weighing but one wheatcorne 1299 b 50 60 Worship to creatures not permitted to be doone without the bishops authoritie 31 a Wotton embassador into Scotland of an ancient familie note 1402 b 30 c. 1403 c. Wrecks by sea pardoned by K. Richard the first through all his dominions 126 a 60 Wrestling at the hospitall of S. Iames betwixt the Londoners and all commers 204 a 10 20 c. At Clerkenwell a great fraie there 641 a 60 Wrâ—othesleiâ— lord ¶ See Erle of South hampton Writing of much matter within a penie compasse 1262 b 10 Y. YArd ¶ Sée Mesure Yeoman of the gard his shift to saue himselfe from hanging 844. One hanged 812 b 10. Two hanged for robbing 953 a 60 b 10. Their institution or first bringing in 763 b 50. Defend the preacher at Pauls crosse 1089 b 30 1090 a 20 Yeare of Iubile 788 a 60. Of woonders 1588 note 1356 b 60. More talked of than feared 1357 a 10 20 Yorke besieged by duke William 7 a 60. Burned by the Normans and whie 6 b 60 7 a 10 The shire subdued to Lewis the French kings son 193 a 10. The people in a perplexitie by the means of two aduerse parties 6 b 60. The castell 6 a 40 Yorke place inâ—coffed to Henrie the eight 923 a 10 Yorkeshire ¶ Sée Commotion Ypres William warlike 43 b 30 52 a 10. A Fleming earle of Kent 54 a 30. Departeth the realme 65 b 20 Ypresse besieged 443 b 20. The siege broken vp 444 a 10 These faults to be amended For sir Iohn Perot read Pollard pag. 1551 b 20. For sealed seldome 1555 b 50 For Henrie the first read the second 1548 b 50 The rest good reader as iudgement shall lead thee reforme FINIS propositi laus Christo nescia FINIS Finished in Ianuarie 1587 and the 29 of the Queenes Maiesties reigne with the full continuation of the former yeares at the expenses of Iohn Harison George Bishop Rafe Newberie Henrie Denham and Thomas Woodcocke AT LONDON Printed in Aldersgate street at the signe of the Starre
of king Edward Sir Iohn Fox 〈◊〉 the Acts Monuments â—nder the title of Edward the sixt The noble memorie of â—ing Edward and his rare wâ—t I. Stow. 1â—â—8 K. Edwards death opened Ladie Iane proclamed quéene I. Stow. 1059. Gilbert Pot punished in Cheape Men drowned at London bridge The ladie Maries challenge to the crowne by right of succession She certifieth the lords that she knoweth what is intended against hir She chargeth the lords vpon their loialties to cause hir right to the regiment to be proclamed The lords aduertise the ladie Marie that the ladie Iane is queene A subtill shift to prooue the ladie Marie illegitimate Ladie Marie remooueth froÌ„ Keningall to Fremingham castell Abr. Fl. ex I. S. 1059. The councell persuade the duke to vndertake this enterprise Câ—rts laden 〈◊〉 munitioÌ„ The dukes 〈◊〉 to the 〈◊〉 of the councell 〈◊〉 meaneth 〈◊〉 new quéen 〈◊〉 depriued 〈◊〉 executed The conclusiâ—â— of the 〈◊〉 talke 〈◊〉 the lords The earle of Arundell professeth himselfe sorie that he goeth not with the duke of Northumberland Much a do on all sides during this stir broched betwéene the duke and the ladie Marie The old prouerbe verâ—fied Delaie bréedeth danger Suffolke men the first that resorted to the ladie Marie Assistants to the ladie Marie Abr. Fl. ex I. S pag. 1062. Aid by wind and wether for quéene Marie that was bent against hir The duke of Northumberland writeth for more succours Doctor Ridleie persuadeth the people in the title of queene Iane c. The lords of the councell suspecting that all would go against them proclamed the ladie Marie quéen Learned 〈◊〉 that wrote 〈◊〉 the reigne of king Edward Carmen 〈…〉 in obitum regiâ— Edâ—ardi â—uéene Marie proclamed Abr. Fl. ex I.S. pag. 1064. The duke submitteth â—â—â—selfe and â—s arrested by the earle of Arundell The lord Hastings discharged out of the tower Duke of Suffolke committed to the tower Quéene Marie commeth to London Prisoners discharged Stephan Gardiner made lord chancellor Edward Courtneie created earle of Deuonshire Bishops restored and others depriued Why Ridleie was more rigorouslie handled than the rest Abr. Fl. ex I.S. pag. 1067. The buriall of king Edward Doctor Boorne a chapleine of bishop Bonner A dagger throwne at the preacher The preacher at Paules crosse defended by the gard The duke of NorthumberlaÌ„d arreigned The dukes request to vnderstand the opinion of the court in two points Abr. Fl. ex 〈◊〉 1069. The duke of Northumberlands foure requests after 〈◊〉 iudgment Preacher at Pâ—ules crosse â—â—ded Sir Iohn Gates and sir Thomas Palmer beâ—ded New lord chancellor Latine seruice Great Harrie a ship burnt Prest to the quéene New coineâ— Subsidie pardoned The archbishop of Canturburie committed to the tower * Sée before pag. 1030 1031 Abr. Fl. ex I. Stow 1067. Coronation of quéene Marie hir pompe and traine Who rode before and after hir The ladie Elizabeth and the ladie Anne of Cleue A pageant made by strangers The conduit in Cornewall ran wine The recorder of London maketh a short spéech to the quéene passing by A Dutchman on the Weathercocke of Paules A pageant wherein the queeristers of Paules 〈◊〉 on vials Quéene Marie crowned quéene by Stephan Gardiner A pardon with exceptions Commissioners A parlement Treason Felonie Premunire The parlement proroged Abr Fl. ex I. S. pag 1075. Charitable deeds of sir Thomas White A president of monie well emploied after death Prouision of corne for the poore A perpetuall order of an hundred and foure pounds â—ent yearelie by course Sir Iames Hales in trouble for religion Sée before pag. 1083. Sore temptations in afflictions against which we are to praie for patience He drowneth himselfe A publike disputation about the reall presence in the sacrament Iohn Fox Cardinall Poole sent for home The councell diuided about the receiuing of the cardinall Cranmer archbishop of Canturburie arreigned of treason Ambassadors from the emperour Ab. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 1077. Stephan Gardiner maketh an oration to the lords of the councell c. touching the quéenes marriage Gardiner coÌ„mendeth the king of Spaine Wiat pubâ—â—sheth a proclamation at Maidstone He commeth to Rochester Sir George Harper Christopher Roper taken Maister Dorrell maister Tucke taken Sir Thomas â—iat writeth 〈◊〉 sir Robert Southwell The shiriffe of kent and the 〈◊〉 of Aburgauennie assemble a power against 〈◊〉 In herald sent â—rothaÌ„ Wiat. The lord â—arden is 〈◊〉 to Wiat. â—eldishmen 〈◊〉 is such 〈◊〉 dwel in the 〈◊〉 of Kent 〈◊〉 heath Barrow greéne Wrotham hill Yallam Blacke soll field The skirmish The duke of Norffolke arriueth at Stroud The reuolting of the Londoners The duke with the capteine of the gard c put to their shifts The shiriffe of Kent rideth to the councell The duke of Suffolke goeth downe into Leicestershire The citie of Couentrie The duke of Suffolke kept out of Couentrie The duke of Suffolke apprehended The lord Iohn Greie taken The lord Thomas Greie taken Cowling castell The lord Cobham 〈◊〉 requests Proclamation that the duke of Suffolke and others were fled The emperors ambassaâ—ors flée from Wiat. Quéene Maries oration to the Lâ—ndoners Demands are pretended to be sent from M. Wiat and his companie to quéene Marie How he pretended the spoile of their goods it appeareth in that he comming to Southworke did hurt neither man woman nor child neither in bodie nor in a pennie of their goods Quéene Marie excuseth hir mariage The promise of quéene Marie touching hir mariage Wiat marched to Detford strand Wiat suffereth his prisoners to go abrode vpon their word Wiat coÌ„meth into Southworke Sir Thomas Wiats desperat attempt Wiat and his complices 〈◊〉 into consultation The lord Warden of the cinque ports verie willing to followe after Wiat. Wiat at his wits end 〈◊〉 marcheth to kingstone â—â—at repareth the bridge 〈◊〉 kingstone 〈◊〉 Grafton The earle of Penbroke 〈◊〉 the arâ—â—â— in order 〈◊〉 comâ—â—th to the parke corner 〈◊〉 A skirmish at 〈◊〉 betwéen 〈…〉 and the 〈…〉 Wiat marcheth alongst the wall of saint Iames towards London An herald sent to Wiat willing him to desist from his enterprise Sir Thomas Wiat submitteth himselfe to the quéene The stout courage of quéene Marie Proclamation that none should kéepe in his house anie of Wiats faction Abr. Fl. ex I.S. pag. 1087 1088 1089. Wiat sent to the tower Sir Thomas Bridges lieutenant of the tower The zeale of the lieutenant sheweth it self by his hot language The duke of Suffolke and the lord Greie brought to the tower Sir Henrie Isleie The lord Gilford Dudleie executed on the tower The 〈◊〉 of the ladie Iane lead to execution The executioner asked the ladie Iane forgiuenesse I. Stow. Iohn Fox Iudge Morgan fell mad Abr. Fl. ex I. F. 〈◊〉 The duke of Suffolke Iohn Fox The duke of Suffolke beheaded Doctor Weston The duke of Suffolke described Great pitie that so manie good gifts concurring should suffer disgrace * The number of them that thus had their pardon were