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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51324	The historie of the pitifull life, and unfortunate death of Edward the Fifth, and the then Duke of Yorke, his brother with the troublesome and tyrannical government of usurping Richard the Third, and his miserable end / written by the Right Honorable Sir Thomas Moore ...	More, Thomas, Sir, Saint, 1478-1535.	1641 (1641)	Wing M2688; ESTC R5586	127,018	478

glad to live under his obeisance as the people of this realme under his Whē the Protector had heard the Proposition he looked very strangely there at and made answere that albeit he knew partly the things by them alleged to bee true yet such entire love he bare to King Edward and his children much more regarded his honour in other Realmes about then the crowne of any one of which hee was never desirous for in all other nations where the truth were not well knowne it should peradventure bee thought that it were his owne ambitious mind and device to depose the Prince and to take the Crowne himselfe with which infamy hee would in no wise have his honour stayned for any crowne in which he ever had perceived much more labour and paine then pleasure to him that so would use it as hee that would not and were not worthy to have it Notwithstanding hee not onely pardoned them of the motion that they made him but also thanked them for the love and harty favour they bare him praying them for his sake to beare the same to the Prince under whom he was and would bee content to live and with his labour and counsaile as far as it should like the King to use it he would do his uttermost devoir to set the Realme in good estate which was already in the little time of his Protectorship praysed be God well begun in that the malice of such as were before the occasion of the contrary and of new intended to bee were now partly by good policy partly more by Gods providence then mans provision repressed and put under Vpon this answer given the Duke of Buckingham by the Protectors licence a little rounded as well with other noble men about him as with the Major and Recorder of London And after that upon like pardon desired and obtained he shewed alowd unto the Protector for a finall conclusion that the Realme was determined that King Edwards line should no longer reigne over them both that they had so far gone that it was now no suretie to retreate as for that they thought it the best way for the whole Realme although they had not yet begun it Wherefore if it would like his Grace to take the Crowne upon him they would humbly beseech him thereunto and if he would give them a resolute answer to the contrary which they would be loth to heare then must they seek and should not faile to find some other noble man that would These words much moved the Protector which as every man of small intelligence may judge would never have enclined thereto but when he saw there was no other way but that he must take it or else hee and his both to goe from it hee said to Lords and Commons sith it is we perceive well that all the Realme is so set whereof we be very sorry that they will not suffer in any wise King Edward his line to governe them whom no man earthly can governe against their wills And we also perceive that there is no man to whom the Crown can by so just title appertaine as to our selfe as very right heire lawfully begotten of the body of our most dread and deare Father Richard late Duke of Yorke to which title is now joyned your election the nobles and commons of the Realme which wee of all titles possibly take for most effectuall wee bee content and agree favorably to encline to your petition and request and according to the same here we take upon us the Royall estate of preheminence and Kingdome of the two Noble Realmes England and France the one from this day forward by us and our heires to rule governe and defend the other by God his grace and your good helpe to get againe subdue and establish for ever in due obedience unto this realme of England the advancement whereof we never aske of God longer to live then we intend to procure and set forth With this there was a great cry and shout crying King Richard and so the Lords went up to the King and so hee was after that day so called But the people departed talking diversly of the matter every man as his fantacie gave him but much they marvelled of this manner of delaying that the matter was on both parts made so strange as though never the one part had communed with the other part thereof before when they knew that there was no man so dull that heard them but he perceived well enough that all the matter was made betweene them Howebeit some excused that againe saying all things must bee done in good order and men must sometimes for the manner sake not bee knowne what they know For at the consecration of a Bishop every man perceiveth by payment of his Bulles that hee intendeth to bee one yet when hee is twice asked whether he will bee a Bishop he must twice say nay and at the third time take it upon him as compelled thereto by his owne will And in a stage play the people know right well that hee that playeth the Soldan is perhaps a cobler yet if one of his acquaintance perhaps of little nurture should call him by his name while hee standeth in his Majesty one of his tormentors might fortune to breake his head for marring the play And so they said these matters bee Kings games as it were stage-playes and for the most part played upon scaffolds in which poore men bee but lookers on and they that bee wise will meddle no further for they that step up with them when they cannot play their parts they disorder the play and doe themselves no good FINIS Richard the 3● King of Englād and France Lord of Ireland THE TRAGICALL HISTORIE OF THE LIFE AND REIGNE OF RICHARD THE THIRD Written by the Right Honorable Sir Thomas Moore Lord Chancellor of England LONDON Printed by T. Paine and M. Simmons 1641. THE TRAGICALL HISTORIE OF KING RICHARD THE THIRD I Am loth to remember but more I abhor to write the misery of this unfortunate King which by fraud entred by tyranny proceeded and by sodaine death ended his unfortunate life But if I should not declare the flagicious facts of the evill Kings aswell as I have done the notable acts of vertuous Kings I should neither animate nor encourage rulers of Realmes Countries and Seigniories to follow the steps of their profitable Progenitors for to attaine to the type of honour and worldly fame neither yet advertise Kings being prone to vice wickednesse to avoide and expell all sinne and mischiefe for dread of obloquie and worldly shame for contrary set to contrary is more apparent as white joyned to blacke maketh the fayrer shew Wherefore I will proceede in his acts after my accustomed usage Richard the third of that name usurped the Crowne of England and openly tooke upon him to bee King the ninth day of Iune in the yeare of our Lord one thousand foure hundred fourescore and three and

and decked with men and artillery to scoure and keepe that part of the sea that lieth against Britaine to the intent that if the Earle of Richmond would adventure to saile toward Englnad either he should be taken captive or be pro●●igate and driven from the coast of England And moreover to the intent that every cost way passage and corner should be diligently watched and kept he set at every dubious and suspected place men of warre to seeke search and enquire if any creature could tell tidings of the Duke of Buckinham or of any of his confederation adherents fautours or partakers While this busie search was diligently applied and put in execution Humphrey Banister were it more for feare of losse of life and goods or attracted and provoked by the avaricious desire of the thousand pounds he bewrayed his guest and master to Iohn Mitton then Sheriffe of Shropshire which suddenly with a strong power of men in armes apprehended the Duke in a little grove adjoyning to the mansion of Humphrey Banister and in great haste and evill speede conveighed him apparelled in a pilled blacke cloke to the cittie of Salisbury where King Richard then kept his houshold Whether this Banister bewrayed the Duke more for feare then covetousnes many men doe doubt but sure it is that shortly after hee had betrayed the Duke his Master his sonne and heire waxed mad and so died in a Bores stie his eldest daughter of excellent beautie was suddely stricken with a foule leprosie his second sonne very marvelously deformed of his limbes and made decrepid his younger sonne in a small puddle was strangled drowned and hee himselfe being of extreame age arraigned and found guilty of a murther and by his Clergy saved And as for his thousand pound King Richard gave him not one farthing saying that hee which would bee untrue to so good a master would bee false to all other howbeit some say that he had a small office or a ferme to stoppe his mouth withall The Duke being by certaine of the Kings councel diligently upon interrogatories examined what things he knew prejudiciall to the Kings person opened and declared frankely and freely all the conjuration without dissembling or glosing trusting because he had truely and plainely revealed and confessed all things that were of him required that hee should have licence to speake to the King which whether it were to sue for pardon and grace or whether hee being brought to his presence would have sticked him with a dagger as men then judged he sore desired and required But when hee had confessed the whole fact and conspiracie upon Alsoules day without arrignement or judgement he was at Salisbury in the open market-place on a new skaffold beheaded and put to death This death as a reward the Duke of Buckingham received at the hands of King Richard whom he before in his affaires purposes and enterprises had holden sustayned and set forward above all Gods forbode By this all men may easily perceive that hee not onely loseth both his labour travell and industry further stayneth and spotteth his line with a perpetuall ignominy and reproach which in evill and mischiefe assisteth and aideth an evill disposed person considering for the most part that hee for his friendly favour should receive some great displeasure or infortunate chance Beside that God of his justice in conclusion appointeth to him a condigne pain and afflction for his merits and deserts While these things were thus handled and ordered in England Henry Earle of Richmond prepared an army of five thousand manly Brittons and forty well furnished ships When all things were prepared in a readinesse and the day of departing and setting forward was appointed which was the twelfth day of the moneth of October in the yeare of the incarnation of our Redeemer one thousand foure hundred fortie eight and in the second yeare of King Richards raigne the whole army went on shipbord and hoysed up their sailes and with a prosperous winde tooke the sea but towards night the winde changed and the weather turned and so high and terrible a tempest suddenly arose that with the very power and strength of the storme the ships were dispersed severed and separated a sunder some by force were driven into Normandy some were compelled to returne againe into Britaine The ship wherein the Earle of Richmond was associate onely with one other barke was all night tossed and turmoyled In the morning after when the rage of the furious tempest was asswaged and the ire of the blustering was something appeased about the hower of noone the same day the Earle approached to the south part of the Realme of England even at the mouth of the Haven of Pole in the county of Dorset where hee might plainely perceive all the Sea bankes and shores garnished and furnished with men of warre and souldiers appointed and deputed there to defend his arrivall and landing as before is mentioned Wherefore hee gave straight charge and sore commandement that no person should once presume to take land and goe to the shore untill such time as the whole navie were assembled and congregate And while he expected and lingered tarring for that purpose he sent out a shippe-boate towards the land side to know whether they that stood there in such a number and so well furnished in apparrell defensive were his capitall foes and enemies or else his friends fosterers and comforters They that were sent in exploration and message were instantly desired of the men of warre keeping these coasts which thereof were before instructed and admonished to descend take land affirming that they were appointed by the Duke of Buckingham there to waite and tarry for the arrivall and landing of the Earle of Richmond and to conduct safely to the campe where the Duke not farre off lay encamped with a populous armie and an hoast of great strength and vigour to the intent that the Duke and the Earle joyning in puissaunces and forces together might prosecute and chase King Richard being destitute of men and in manner desperate and fugitive and so by that meanes and their owne labours and industry to obtaine the end of their enterprise which they had before begunne The Earle of Richmond suspecting their flattering request to be but a fraud as it was indeed after that hee perceived none of his ships to appeare in his sight he weighed up his ancors hoysed up his sayles having a prosperous and strenable winde and a fresh gale sent even by God to deliver him from that perill and jeopardie arrived safe and in securitie in the Dutchy of Normandy where he to 〈…〉 and solace his souldiers and peope tooke his recreation by the space of thredaies and clearely determined with part of his company to passe all by land againe into Britaine And in the meane season he sent Oratours to the French King called Charles the eight which newly succeeded his father King Lewis the eleventh not long before departed