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A01811	Annales of England Containing the reignes of Henry the Eighth. Edward the Sixt. Queene Mary. Written in Latin by the Right Honorable and Right Reverend Father in God, Francis Lord Bishop of Hereford. Thus Englished, corrected and inlarged with the author's consent, by Morgan Godwyn.; Rerum Anglicarum Henrico VIII, Edwardo VI, et Maria regnantibus annales. English	Godwin, Francis, 1562-1633.; Godwin, Morgan, 1602 or 3-1645.	1630 (1630)	STC 11947; ESTC S106901	197,682	360

Authoritie His Brother in law the Duke of Suffolke was lately deceased SEIMOVR the yong Princes Vnkle was a man whose Goodnesse was not tempered with Severity and being descended of a Family more ancient then noble as having vntill now never transcended Knighthood would be subiect to contempt They who more neerly participated of the Bloud Royall as they any way excelled in Power or Vertue were the more suspected and hated by him The Family of the HOWARDS was then most flourishing the chiefe whereof was THOMAS Duke of Norfolke a man famous for his exploits in France Scotland and elsewhere long exercised in the schoole of Experience many wayes deriving himselfe from the Crowne popular of great command and revenues But the edge of the old mans disposition made milde and blunted with age administred the lesse cause of suspition Of his eldest Sonne HENRY Earle of Surrey the King was certainly iealous and resolved to cut him off Hee had lately in the wars of France manifested himselfe heire to the glory of his Ancestors was of a ripe wit and endued with great learning so that Elogy afterwards given to his sonne HENRY that hee was the Learnedst among the Nobility and the Noblest among the Learned might have as fitly beene applied to him was very gracious with the people expert in the Art Military and esteemed fit for publique Government These great Vertues were too great Faults and for them hee must suffer Treason is obiected to him and vpon the surmise hee and his Father sent to the Tower On the thirteenth of Ianuary he is arraigned the chiefe point of his accusation whereon they insisted being for bearing certaine Armes which only belonged to the King and consequently aspiring to the Crowne Of other things hee easily acquitted himselfe and as for those Armes he constantly affirmed that they hereditarily pertained vnto him yet notwithstanding hee would not have presumed to have borne them but being warranted by the opinion of the Heralds who onely were to give iudgement in these cases The Iudges not approving of his answer condemne him and so the Flower of the English Nobilitie is on the nineteenth of Ianuary beheaded the King lying in extremity and breathing his last in Bloud The Duke was adiudged to perpetuall imprisonment where he continued vntill he was by Queene MARY set at libertie The King his disease growing on him at last makes his Will wherein by vertue of a Law lately enacted hee ordaines Prince EDWARD his Sucessour in the first place and in the second Prince EDWARD dying iss●lesse substitutes the Lady MARY begotten of CATHARINE of Arragon and vpon the like defect of issue in MARY in the third place substitutes the Lady ELIZABETH These three raigned successiuely and accomplished the number of fiftie six yeares at the expiration where of Queene ELIZABETH ended her long glorious Raine and left the Diadem to King IAMES in the many reguards of his Learning Religion Goodnesse peaceable and happy Raigne the Mirrour of late ages The next care was of his Executors whom hee also appointed Tutors shall I say or Counsailours to his Sonne and were in number sixteene viz. Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Wriothsley Lord Chancellour William Pawlet Lord Saint-Iohn Iohn Russel Lord Priuy Seale Edward Seimour Earle of Hertford Iohn Dudley Viscount Lisle Lord Ad-Admirall Cuthbert Tonstall Bishop of Duresme Sir Anthony Browne Master of the Horse Sir Edward Mountague Chiefe Iustice of the Common Pleas. Sir William Paget Sir William Harbert Sir Thomas Bromley Sir Anthony Denny Sir Edward North. Sir Edward Wotton Doctor Wotton Deane of Canterbury and Yorke To whom hee added as Assistants especially in matters of great consequence Henry Earle of Arundell William Earle of Essex Sir Thomas Cheny Steward of the Kings Houshold Sir Iohn Gage Comptroller Sir Anthony Wingfield Vice-chamberlaine Sir VVilliam Peter Secretarie Sir Richard Rich. Sir Iohn Baker Sir Ralph Sadler Sir Thomas Seimour Sir Richard Southwell Sir Edmond Pecham He ordained his body should be interred at Windsore in a Monument yet imperfect erected by Cardinall WOLSEY not for himselfe as many falsly surmise but for the King as by the Inscription is manifest which cannot be of later date For therein HENRY is stiled Lord of Irland without any mention of Supreme Head of the Church which two particles it is manifest were changed in the Title after WOLSEY his death In the same his last Will he commanded that the Monuments of HENRY the Sixt and EDWARD the Fourth both interred in Windsore should be made more magnificent and stately and other things of le●s● moment most of which were neglected This last Will aud Testament hee confirmed subscribed and sealed the last of December and survived a moneth after dying at Westminster the eight and twentieth of Ianuary and that in this manner The King having long languished the Physicians finding apparant symptomes of approaching death wished some of his friends to admonish him of his estate which at last Sir ANTHONY DENNY vndertooke who going directly to the fainting King told in few but those plaine words That the hope of humane helpe was vaine wherefore he beseeched his Maiestie to erect his thoughts to Heaven and bethinking him of his forepassed life through Christ to implore Gods Mercy An advise not very acceptable to him But finding it grounded vpon the iudgement of the Physicians hee submitted himselfe to the hard law of necessitie and reflecting vpon the course of his Life which hee much condemned he professed himselfe confident that through Christ his infinite Goodnesse all his sinnes although they had beene more in number and waight might bee pardoned Being then demanded whether he desired to confer with any Divines With no other saith he but the Archbishop CRANMER and not with him as yet I will first repose my selfe a little and as I then finde my selfe will determine accordingly After the sleepe of an houre or two finding himselfe fainting hee commanded the Archbishop then at Croydon should be sent for in all hast Who vsing all possible speed came not vntill the King was speechlesse As soone as he came the King tooke him by the hand the Archbishop exhorting him to place all his hope in Gods Mercies through Christ and beseeching him that if hee could not in words he would by some signe or other testifie this his Hope Who then wringed the Archbishops hand as hard as he could and shortly after expired having lived fiftie five yeares and seven moneths and thereof raigned thirty seven yeares nine monethes and six dayes Thus ended HENRY the Eighth his Life and Raigne which for the first yeares of his Government was like NERO'S Five yeares Admirable for often Victories and happy Successe in war Glorious for the many Changes vnder it Memorable For the Foundation of the Churches Reformation Laudable to Queenes most vnhappy for the Death of so many for the most great Personages Bloudy and for the frequent Exactions and Subsidies and Sacrilegious Spoile of the Church much

Aire I doe not thinke it was the Kings fault although wee might iustly suspect that the great treasure left him by his Father beeing almost spent and the French secretly offering peace vpon good termes the friendship betweene him and the Emperour which hee had so dearely purchased began at length to grow cold Certainely to speake nothing of the League which was afterwards concluded with France the Treasurie was now growne so bare that the King was driuen to inuent new wayes for the raising of money The care of this businesse as almost of all others was committed to Cardinall WOLSEY who casting vp the Exchequer accompts found many deeply indebted to the King and whither by the negligence or treacherie of the Officers neuer yet called to accompt Among others the Duke of Suffolke was found to be a great debtor who besides his own reuenues receiued yerely out of France his wiues ioincture amounting to 60000 crownes Yet notwithstanding he was fain to withdraw himselfe from Court that by liuing thriftily in the countrey he might haue wherewith to pay his debt The Cardinal next bethinks himselfe of publicke misdemeanors of what sort soeuer as periury rapes oppression of the poore riots and the like the offenders without respect of degree or persons hee either publiquely punished in bodie or set round fines on their heads By which means the Treasurie before empty was replenished and the Cardinall by the people much applauded for his Iustice These things hauing thus succeeded to his minde he vndertakes more in the same kinde He institutes a new Court where the Lords of the Priuie Counsell with other of the Nobility should sit as Iudges The aforesaid crimes which then greatly raigned in this Kingdome were punishable in this Court which as I coniecture from the stars painted in the roofe is called the Star-chamber He erected also the Court of Requests where the complaints of the Poore were to be heard and ordained many other things in the ciuile gouernment of the Kingdome that were acceptable to the people and are in vse at this day wherein hee alike manifested his wisedome and loue of his Countrey Certainly they that liued in that age would not sticke to say That this Kingdome neuer flourished more than when WOLSEY did to whose wisdome they attributed the wealth and safetie that they enioyed and the due administration of Iustice to all without exception Anno Dom. 1517. Reg. 9. THe Spring growing on the feare of a commotion in London increased with the yeare The originall and successe whereof I will lay open at large forasmuch as enormities of this nature by our wholesome Lawes seuerely restrained are so rare that I remember when I was a childe old men would reckon their age from this day by the name of Jll May day Long peace hauing with vs begate plentie the Mother and Nurse both of good and bad Arts allured the most excellent artificers of foreine Nations to partake of our happinesse by frequenting the Citie of London But the giddie multitude not conceiuing what good became of communicating their skill vnto vs tooke it verie hainously that Strangers should be permitted to enioy the priuiledges of the City and our home-bred Artificers did most especially complaine That their meanes were euery day curtalled forasmuch as no small part was necessarily to be defalked for the maintenance of these Strangers This was now growne the common discourse and had gon so far that one LINCOLNE a ringleader of this tumultuous rout did not stick to persuade some Preachers publiquely in the Pulpit to lay open these common grieuances before the Estates of the Realme Our Ladies Hospitall in London commonly called the Spittle is famous for the Easter Sermons one of which was to be preached by Doctor HENRY STANDISH afterward Bishop of S. Asaph a graue and learned man LINCOLNE had assaied him and had the deniall as in a matter the very mention whereof a good Patriot should abhorre But Doctor BELL a Diuine who was after STANDISH to preach in the same Place without feare or wit seconding their seditious attempts did publiquely in his Sermon read the Bill by them exhibited to him taking for his text that of the Prophet in the 115 Psalme The heauens euen the heauens are the Lords but he hath giuen the earth to the sonnes of men Thence most foolishly concluding that England was giuen to Englishmen only and that therfore it was not to be endured that Aliens should enioy any part therof Many things by him spoken to this purpose were accepted with great applause and approbation of the Vulgar who out of extreame hatred to Strangers breathed nothing but sedition And to adde more fuell to this fire it happened that many outrages were about that time committed by some of these Strangers This euill then thus spreading it selfe foreiners were euery where ill intreated and commonly knockt downe in the streets hauing not offered iniurie to any man The authors of these riots being by the L. Maior committed to prison a sudden rumor ran through the Citie That on May day next all Strangers should be massacred This without doubt proceeded from some of this vnruly crue and was intended as a watchword to all the faction but the Strangers made so good vse of it that they had all withdrawne themselues before that time and the Magistrates very carefully attended each occasion endeauouring to crush all tumultuous designes in the shell On May day Eue therefore the next day being the feast of the Apostles Philip and Iacob the solemnitie thereof is vsually augmented by the liberty granted to the younger fort to sport themselues and to make merrie the Citisens in generall are by Proclamation commanded to keepe fast their doores and to restraine their Seruants from going abroad vntill nine of the clocke the next day But before this had beene throughly proclaimed an Alderman walking in the streets saw a troupe of young men consisting of Apprentices and such like gathered together and playing at cudgels He sharpely reprooued them for not obeying the Kings Edict withall threatening to punish them if they the sooner betooke not themselues euery one to his home Words not preuailing he laid hold on one or two intending to haue committed them But what reckoning they made of Authoritie their resistance in rescue of their Companions shewed and by outcries giuing an Alarme drew together all the rest of their Faction in that quarter of the Citie The fame of this hurly-burly encreased their numbers by sending mariners gentlemens seruants beggars Citisens but the greatest part were Apprentices Sedition like a torrent carried them headlong and animated them to all villanie They breake open the prisons set those at libertie that were imprisoned for their outrages on straungers flie about the Citie as in a whirle-wind rob all forreiners houses and not content with their goods seeke after them for their liues They found their nests but the birds were fled Hauing thus spent

Garter by whom Hee did congratulate his late victorious successe admonishing him to a close pursuit of his fortunes That if his Jmperiall Maiesty intended with greater forces to oppresse the already Vanquished in regard of the strict ●y of friendship betweene them his necessary endeauors should in no sort be wanting What answer the Emperor gaue I know not It is very likely he paid the King in his owne coine and dissembled with the Dissembler but hauing courteously entertained our Embassadours as courteously dismissed them But the King wants money and must now dissemble with his subiects He pretended war with France and with this key hopes to open his Subiects coffers The expectation of supplies by a Parliament would prove tedious some shorter course must be taken Money is therfore demanded by Proclamation that no lesle then according to the sixth part of euery mans Moveables Divers great personages appointed Commissioners vse all faire meanes to draw the people to contribute But although they sate in Commission in divers parts of the Kingdome at one and the same time they were so far from preuailing that as if the people had vniuersally conspired it was every where denied and the Commissioners very ill entreated not without further danger of sedition and tumult Hereupon the King calls a Parliament to be held at London wherein he professeth himselfe to be vtterly ignorant of these intollerable courses by such burthenous taxations The King disclaiming it euery one seekes to free himselfe The Cardinall was at last faine to take all vpon himselfe protesting That as a faithfull Seruant he had no further end in it than the profit of his Lord the King and that hee had aduised not onely with his Maiesties Councell which they all acknowledged but also with the Learned in the Lawes both Diuine and Humane whose opinion it was that the King might lawfully take the same course that PHARAOH did who by the ministery of IOSEPH sequestred a certaine portion of euery mans priuate estate for the publique good But the dislike of the people occasioned by this though fruitlesse proiect was greater than could be removed by this excuse And yet this proiect was not altogether fruitlesse the Kings apparant want affording a sufficient pretext of deferring the war with France vntill another yeare Neither was it the Kings intent to make vse of his advantages ouer the French who now lay open to all his blows HENRY hauing put away his wife the Emperour must needs be netled and then the amity of France would stand him in some steed Indeed CATHARINE was a noble and a vertuous Lady but shee had liued so long as to make her Husband weary of her He affected the daughter of Sir THOMAS BOLEN Treasurer of his Houshold Her he intends to marry and to be diuorced from the other For he did in his soule abhor this incestuous Match and it stood not with the publique weale that He should live single especially the lawfulnesse of his Daughters birth being so questionable Hee married not againe for his pleasure but to settle the Kingdome on his lawfull Issue The Learned as many as Hee had conferred with did generally pronounce the first marriage void yet would Hee haue it lawfully decided that with a safe conscience He might make choice of a second Thus far had WOLSEY willingly led him hoping to haue drawne him to a Match in France But Hee was of age to choose for himselfe and had already els where setled his affections And the more to manifest his love on the eighteenth of Iune he created his future Father in law Sir THOMAS BOLEN Viscont Rochfort At the same time were created HENRY FITZ-ROY the Kings naturall fonne by ELIZABETH BLOVNT Daughter to Sir IOHN BLOVNT Knight Earle of Nottingham and Duke of Richmond and Somerset HENRY COVRTNEY Earle of Devonshire the Kings Couzen german Marquis of Excester HENRY BRANDON eldest sonne to the Duke of Suffolke by the Kings Sister the Dowager of France Earle of Lincolne THOMAS MANNERS Lord Roos Earle of Rutland Sir HENRY CLIFFORD Earle of Cumberland and ROBERT RATCLIF Lord Fitzwalter Viscont Fitzwalter Cardinall WOLSEY this yeare laid the foundation of two Colledges one at Ipswich the place of his birth another at Oxford dedicated to our Sauiour CHRIST by the name of Christ-Church This later though not halfe finished yet a magnificent and royall Worke a most fruitfull Mother of Learned Children doth furnish the Church and Common-wealth with multitudes of able men and amongst others acknowledgeth me such as I am for her Foster-childe The other as if the Founder had also been the foundation fell with the Cardinall and being for the most part pulled downe is long since converted to private vses The Cardinalls private estate although it were wonderfull great being not sufficient to endow these Colledges with revenues answerable to their foundation the Pope consenting he demolished fourty Monasteries of meaner note and conferred the lands belonging to them on these his new Colledges It hath been the observation of some That this businesse like that proverbiall gold of Tholouse was fatall to those that any way had a hand in it We will hereafter shew what became of the Pope and the Cardinall But of five whom he made vse of in the alienation of the guifts of so many religious men it afterward happened that two of them challenging the field of each other one was slaine and the other hanged for it a third throwing himselfe headlong into a Well perished wilfully a fourth before that a wealthy man sunke to that low ebbe that he after begged his bread and Doctor ALLEN the fift a man of especiall note being Archbishop of Dublin was murthered in Jreland I could wish that by these and the like examples men would learne to take heed how they lay hands on things consecrated to God If the Divine Iustice so severely punished those that converted the abused yet not regarding the abuse but following the sway of their ambitious desires goods of the Church to vndoubtedly better vses what can we expect of those that take all occasions to rob and spoile the Church hauing no other end but onely the inriching of themselues LVTHER had notice of HENRY his intended Divorce and that from CHRISTIERNE the expelled King of Denmarke who eagerly solicited him to write friendly vnto the King putting LVTHER in hope that HENRY being a courteous Prince might by milde persuasions be induced to embrace the reformation which LVTHER had begun And indeed LVTHER foreseeing the necessary consequences of this Divorce was easily entreated and did write vnto the King in this submissiue manner He doubted not but he had much offended his Majesty by his late reply but he did it rather enforced by others then of his owne accord Hee did now write presuming vpon the Kings much bruited humanity especially being informed That the King himselfe was not Author of the Booke against him which thing