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A trve relation of that memorable Parliament which wrought wonders begun at Westminster, in the tenth yeare of the reigne of K. Richard the second : whereunto is added an abstract of those memorable matters, before and since the said kings reigne, done by Parliament : together with a character of the said amiable, but unhappy King, and a briefe story of his life and lamentable death.; Historia sive narracio de modo et forma mirabilis Parliamenti apud Westmonasterium anno Domini millesimo CCCLXXXVI. English
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Fannant, Thomas.
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to put in baile provided they were sufficient and to goe into a place of England where they listed without any let or hindrance of any of the Kings Officers Moreover the six Iustices with the Bishop of Chichester who stood condemned with them were sent into Ireland there to remaine for tearme of life and thus they were to be divided viz. Robert Belknap and John Holt in the Village of Dromore in Ireland not to remaine as Iustices or any officers but to live as banished offenders not to be out of Towne above the space of two miles upon paine of death but the King out of his gracious bounty was pleased to give a yearly annuity of 40. pound to Robert Belknap of 20. markes to John Holt during their lives and to Roger Fulthorpe the King allowed 40. pound and to William Burleigh 40. pound during life confining them to the City of Dublin granting Burleigh the liberty of two miles and to Fulthorpe three miles for their recreation John Carey and John Locton with the yearely allowance of 20. pound during life are confined to the Tower of Waterford with the like liberty and the like penaltie and the Bishop of Chichester is likewise sent to Corke there to remaine with some allowance and the like penaltie Behold these men who feared not God nor regarded men but having the Lawes in their owne hands wrested them now this way now that way as pleased best their appetites wresting them at their pleasures for their owne commoditie were at the last brought downe to the depth of miserie from whence they were never able to free themselves On the third day of Iune which was the last day of the Parliament the King the Queene the Peeres of both Estates with the Commons came to the Abbey at Westminster whereas the Bishop of London because it was in his Diocesse sung Masse and the Masse being ended the Archbishop of Canterbury made an Oration concerning the former danger of the Oath which being although the Peeres and Commons had taken the Oath of Allegeance and homage to the King yet because the King was young when they tooke the Oath a new as at the first at his Coronation These Ceremonies being performed the Metropolitan of England with all his Suffragans there present having lighted a Candle and putting it under a stoole put it out thereby excommunicating all such as should seeme to distaste dislike or contradict any of the fore-passed Acts in the last Parliament And the Lord Chancellor by the Kings appointment caused all that were present to sweare to keepe the said Statutes inviolably whole and undissolved as good and faithfull Liege-people of the Kings and the forme of the Parliament was observed throughout all the Realme On the morrow which was the fourth day of June many courteous salutations and congratulations having passed betweene the King the Nobility and Comminalty the Parliament was dissolved and every man returned home And now let England rejoyce in Christ for that the net which was laid so cunningly for our destruction is broken asunder and wee are delivered To God be the praise for all FINIS THE Names of such as were charged and condemned of high Treason in this aforesaid Memorable Parliament Alexander Nevile Archbishop of Yorke-â—â—â—â— de Vere Duke of Ireland who was 〈…〉 into France where he was kil 〈…〉 le Earle of Suffolke and Lord 〈…〉 Robert Tressilian Lord chiefe Iustice of the Kings Bench Sir Nichola Bramber sometimes Lord Major of London made a Privie Counsellour John Blake a Serjeant at Armes Thomas Vske an Intelligencer of Tressilians All these except the Duke of Ireland were drawne and hanged at the Elmes now called Tyburne Robert Belknap John Holt. Roger Falthorp William Burleigh Iohn Locton Iohn Carey Baron of the Exchequer All these former 6. named men were as it seemes Iudges and although condemned yet their lives were saved at the intercession of some of the guiltlesse Peeres and they afterward were banished into Ireland Sir Symon de Burleigh was also condemned and beheaded he was a Knight Banneret and of the Garter a great and gallant Courtier and his body lyeth honourably buried and intombed in Pauls Church Sir John Branchamp Steward of the Houshold to the King and Sir Iames Beverous were also condemned beheaded at Tower-hill Sir Iohn Salisbury was condemned drawne from Tower-hill to Tiburne and then hanged There were also detected and condemned of the aforesaid Treason The Bishop of Chichester the Kings Confessor Sir Thomas Trinet Knight Sir William Ellingham Knight Sir Nicholas Nagworth Knight Richard Metford Clerke Iohn Slake Clerke Iohn Lincoln Clerke An Abstract of many memorable matters done by PARLIAMENTS in this Kingdome of ENGLAND BY Parliament Sir Thomas Wayland chiefe Justice of the Common-Pleas 17. Ed. 1. was attainted of Felony for taking bribes and his lands and good forfeited as appeares in the Pleas of Parliaments 18. Edward 1. and he was banished the Kingdome as unworthy to live in that state against which he had so much offended By Parliament Sir William Thorpe chiefe Justice of the Kings Bench in Ed. 3. times having of five persons received five severall bribes which in all amounted to but one hundred pounds was for this alone adjudged to bee hanged and all his goods and lands forfeited The reason of the Iudgement is entred in the Roll in these vvords Because that as much as in him lay he had broken the Kings Oath made to the people which the King had intrusted him withall By Parliament holden Anno. 22. Hen. the second assembled at Nottingham and by advise thereof the King caused the Kingdome to be divided into 6 parts and Justices Itinerants appointed for every part with an Oath by them to be taken for themselves to observe and cause inviolablie to be observed of all his subjects of England the Assises made at Claringdon and renued at Northton By Parliament In the 11. of Edw. the first the Dominion of Wales was united to the Crowne of England in the Parliament in Anno 16. of Edw. the first 1289 upon the generall compes made of the ill administration of Iustice in the Kings absence by divers great Officers and Ministers of Iustices these penalties were inflicted upon the chiefe Ministers thereof whose manifest corruptions the batred of the people to men of that profession apt to abuse their science and authority the necessity of reforming so grievous a mischiefe in the Kingdome gave easie thereunto by the Parliament then assembled wherein upon due examinations of their offences they are fined to pay to the King these sums following First Sir Ralph Hengham chiefe Justice of the higher Bench seaven thousand markes Sir Iohn Loveton Justice of the Lower Bench three thousand markes Sir William Bromton Iustice sixe thousand markes Sir Soloman Rochester foure thousand markes Sir Richard Boyland foure thousand markes Sir Thomas Sadington two thousand markes Sir Walter Hopton two thousand markes These foure last were Justices Itenerants Sir William
because the Harvest was now ripe time convenient to cut up those pestiferous Cockles and Thistles by the assent of the King consent of the said Commissioners and Appellants they expulsed divers of the Officers of the Houshold viz. in the place of John Beauchamp Steward of the Houshold they appointed John Devourex Knight one of the Commissioners Peter Couriney Knight was made Chamberlaine in the stead of Robert Duke of Ireland And the aforesaid John de Beauchamp Simon de Burleigh Vice-Chamberlaine John Salisbury Thomas Trynett James Barats William Ellingham and Nicholas Nagworth Knights and Officers of the Clergie viz. Richard Metford Secretary John Blake Deane of the Chappell John Lincolne Chancelour of the Exchequer and John Clifford Clerke of the Chappell were kept under arrest too and were as partakers in the aforesaid Treason for that they knowing and having intelligence of the said Conspiracie they did not discover them Others also as Servants of the aforesaid Conspirators and drawn in by craft yet guiltless were dismissed and sent away as men unprofitable and good for no use And thus this hideous brood of Monsters so often shaken was quite overthrown And on the Vigil of the Purification of Saint Mary in the Privie Chamber at Westminster by joynt consent of all the Cōmissioners the aforesaid John 〈◊〉 John Holt Roger Fulthorp William Burleigh John Locton and John Carey were displaced from their Offices and without any further adoe arrested of Treason and by the command of the Chancelor were clapt into the Tower and Roger Carleton in the place of Belknap Walter Clapton in the place of Tressilian were constituted and so for that time they departed and went to dinner And because Shrovetide was thought a fit time to punish the Delinquents according to their deserts therefore the great Parliament began the second of February following in this manner All the Peeres as well of the Spiritualty as of the Temporalty being assembled in the great Hall at Westminster the King soone after came and sate down in his Throne and after him appeared the five Noblemen Appellants the fame of whose admired worth ecchoed through all the Land entred the House in their costly Robes leading one another hand in hand with an innumerable company following them and beholding where the King sate all at once with submissive gestures they reverenced the King The Hall was so full of Spectators that the very Roofes were filled with them and yet amongst this infinite multitude of the people there could not be found any of the Conspirators or of their Complices but Brambre was taken a little before and cast into the Gaole of Gloucester The Clergie then placing themselves on the right hand and the Nobility on the left hand of the King according to the ancient Custome of the High Court of Parliament the Lord Chancelor standing with his back towards the King by the Kings command declared the cause of their Summons to the Parliament Which being ended the five foresaid Appellants arising declared their Appellation by the mouth of Robert Pleasington their Speaker who thus spake Behold the Duke of Gloucester comes to purge himselfe of Treasons which are laid to his charge by the Conspirators To whom the Lord Chancelor by the command of the King answered My Lord Duke the King conceiveth so honourably of you that hee cannot be induced to beleeve that you who are of affinity to him in a collaterall Line should attempt any Treason against his sacred Majestie The Duke with his foure Companions upon their knees humbly gave thanks to the King for his gracious opinion of their fidelity Then after silence proclaymed they arose and delivered in certaine Articles in Writing wherein were contained the particularity of the Treason Which said Articles were read by Godfrey Martin the Clerk of the Crowne standing in the midst of the Parliament House by the space of two houres with an audible voice At the reading of which there was a wonderfull alteration in the House For whereas before the people were glad of the discovery of the Treason at the rehearsall of it their hearts were so overcome with griefe that they could not refrain from teares When the Articles were read the Appellants requested the King that sentence of condemnation might be given against the Conspirators and they to receive the guerdon of their deserts which the king promised to grant This was the first dayes worke The second was ended with variation of divers consultations which I will not relate in particular but treat of the whole Parliament in generall And when the third day came of their proceedings against the conspirators the Lord Chancelor in the name of the Clergie in open Parliament made an Oration shewing that they could not by any meanes by present at the proceeding whereas there is any censure of death to be passed For the confirmation whereof they delivered in a Protestation which being read they spake That neither in respect of any favour nor for feare of any mans hate nor in hope of any reward they did desire to absent themselves but onely that they were bound by the Canon not to be present at any mans Arraignment or condemnation They likewise sent their Protestation to the Chappell of the Abbey where the Commons sate which was allowed of And then when the Appellants called for Justice against the conspirators the Lords of the Spiritualty arose and went into the Kings chamber neere adjoyning But the King being moved in conscience and in charitie perceiving that in every worke they are to remember the end and being willing contrary to the rigour of the Law to favour rather these that were guilty then the Actours in that Treason if they were able to alledge any thing in their defence caused the Processe to cease but the Peeres being earnest requested That no businesse past present or to come might be debated untill this Treason were adjudged to which Petition the king graciously granted his assent On the 11 day of February when nothing could be alledged nor no witnesse produced in justification of the conspiratours but that the definitive Sentence of condemnation must be pronounced against them the aforesaid John Devoreux Marshall of the Court and for that time the Kings Lievtenant adjudged them this heavy Doome That the said Archbishop of Yorke Duke of Ireland Earle of Suffolke Tressilian and Brambre should be drawn from the Tower to Tyburne and there to be hanged upon a Gibbet untill they were dead and all their Lands and Goods to be confiscated that none of their posterity might be by them any way enriched On the 12 day of February which was the first day of Shrovetide Nicholas Brambre appeared in Parliament and being charged with the aforesaid Articles of Treason hee craved favour to advise of Counsell learned and some longer time for his more full answer to his Accusation but yet hee desired a thing neither usuall nor allowable by the Law and required a thing which the