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A68202	The first and second volumes of Chronicles. [vol. 3 (i.e. The Third Volume of Chronicles)] comprising 1 The description and historie of England, 2 The description and historie of Ireland, 3 The description and historie of Scotland: first collected and published by Raphaell Holinshed, William Harrison, and others: now newlie augmented and continued (with manifold matters of singular note and worthie memorie) to the yeare 1586. by Iohn Hooker aliàs Vowell Gent and others. With conuenient tables at the end of these volumes.; Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande. vol. 3	Holinshed, Raphael, d. 1580?; Stanyhurst, Richard, 1547-1618.; Fleming, Abraham, 1552?-1607.; Stow, John, 1525?-1605.; Thynne, Francis, 1545?-1608.; Hooker, John, 1526?-1601.; Harrison, William, 1534-1593.; Boece, Hector, 1465?-1536.; Giraldus, Cambrensis, 1146?-1223?	1587 (1587)	STC 13569_pt3; ESTC S122178	4,305,113	1,536

desires time to consult togither what they might 〈◊〉 there 〈◊〉 ●nd finallie they declared for answer that they would gladlie so doo but yet whereas they were bound by ●aith and oth and in the summe of two millians of ●lorens in the popes chamber not to make nor mooue any warre against the king of France whosoeuer he were on paine to lose that summe and beside to run in the sentence of cursing they besought him that it might stand with his pleasure to take vpon him the title and armes of France as the same apperteined to him of right and then would they obey him as rightfull K. of France and require of him acquittances in discharge of their bonds and he to pardon them thereof as rightfull king of France The king of England though he had iust cause to claime the crowne of France in right of his mother queene Isabell yet to take vpon him the name and armes of that realme before he had made conquest of any part thereof he thought it stood not with much reason but yet after he had caused the matter to be throughlie debated amongst them of his councell as well to satisfie the Flemings as for other respects he saw it should be the best waie that might be taken to the aduancement of his purpose Then he answered the Flemings that if they would sweare and seale to this accord and promise to mainteine his warre he would be contented to fulfill their desire and also he promised to get for them againe the townes of Lisle Dowaie and Be●hune Herevpon was a day assigned to meet at Gant the king came thither and the most part of the said lords and all the councellors of the good townes places in Flanders were there assembled and so all the foresaid matters were rehearsed sworne and sealed and the armes of France were then quartered with those of England and from thenceforth he tooke vpon him the name of king of France in all his writings proclamations and commandements This is noted by Christopher Okland where speaking of the mingling of the French and English armes he saith amongst other things vt haere● Legitimus regni Celtarum insignia gentis Ille suis immiscet a●r●x quòd auunculus orbus Carolus è vita ad superas migrauerat oras c. ¶ Sith then that we be come to this place it shall not be much amisse to rehearse somewhat of the right and title whereby king Edward did thus claime the crowne of France hauing of purpose omitted to speake thereof till now that he intituled himselfe with the name tooke vpon him to beare the armes also of France vpon occasion before expressed It is well knowne that Philip le Beau king of France had issue by his wife queene Ione three sons Lewes surnamed Hutine Philip le Long and Charles le Beau also two daughters the one dieng in hir infancie and the other named Isabell liued and was maried vnto Edward the second of that name king of England who begot of hir this Edward the third that made this claime The thrée sonnes of the foresaid Philip le Beau reigned ech after other as kings of France First after Philip the father succéeded his eldest sonne Lewes H●tine who had issue by his first wife Margaret daughter to Robert duke of Burgogne a daughter named Ione the which was anon giuen in mariage vnto Lewes earle of Eureux but she liuing not long died without issue Hir father the said Lewes Hutine married after the deceasse of his first wife an other wife named Clemence daughter to Charles Martell the father of K. Robert of Sicill whom he left great with child when he died The child being borne proued a son was named Iohn but liued not manie daies after Then Philip the Long was admitted vnto the cro●●e of France though manie stood in opinion that Ione the daughter of Lewes Hutine which yet was aliue ought to haue inherited the kingdome after hir father and namelie Odo duke of Burgogne w●●le to the said Ione was most earnest in that ma●ter in fauour of his néece But might ouercame right so that he was constreined to be quiet Philip le Long after he had reigned fiue yeares died also and left no issue behind him Then lastlie Charles le Beau tooke vpon him the kingdome and the seuenth yeare after died his wife big bellied which shortlie after brought foorth a maiden named Blanch shal streightwaies hasting to follow hir father liued no while in this world By this means then the bloud roiall in the heires male of Philip le Beau was extinguished in his sonne the line 10 foresaid Charles le Beau whereof the contention tooke beginning about the right to the crowne of France betwixt the Frenchmen and Englishmen which hangeth as yet vndecided till these our daies For king Edward auerred that the kingdome of France apperteined vnto him as lawfull heire bicause that he alone was remaining of the kings stocke and touched his mothers father Philip le Beau in the next degree of consanguinitie as he that was borne of his daughter Isabell. line 20 Therefore immediatlie after the deceasse of the said Charles le Beau by ambassadours sent vnto the peeres of France he published to them his right requiring that they would admit him king according therevnto but his ambassadours could neuer be quietlie heard and therefore returned home without anie towardlie answer which mooued him in the end to attempt the recouerie of his lawfull inheritance by force sith by law he could not preuaile and now by aduise of his fréends to take vpon him both line 30 the title and armes of France to signifie to the world what right he had to the same After that this league therefore was concluded with them of Flanders and that king Edward had taken vpon him the name of king of France with the armes the duke of Gelderland and Iaques van Arteueld went vnto all the good townes and iurisdictions of Flanders to receiue their oths of fidelitie vnto king Edward persuading with the people that the supreme rule belonged vnto him sauing to the townes their ancient lawes and liberties line 40 and to their earle his right of proprietie About the latter end of this thirteenth yeare of K. Edwards reigne the mariners and sea-men of the cinque ports getting them aboord into a number of small ships and balingers well trimmed and appointed for the purpose passed ouer to Bullongne where they tooke land one day in a thicke foggie weather and setting on the Base towne they burnt nineteene gallies foure great ships and to the number of twentie smaller vessels togither with their tackle line 50 and furniture They set fire also on the houses that stood néere to the water side and namelie they burnt one great house wherein laie such a number of oares sailes armour and crossebowes as might haue sufficed to furnish so manie

procéeded doctor he was also confessor to the duke of Lancaster and to his wife the duchesse Constance a great setter foorth of pope Urbans cause against the other popes that were by him line 30 and those of his faction named the antipapes Thomas Maldon so called of the towne of that name in Essex where he was borne Iohn Edo descended out of Wales by linage and borne in Herefordshire a Franciscane frier Adde to the forenamed Nicholas Fakingham borne in Norfolke a greie frier procéeded doctor in Oxenford a great diuine and an excellent philosopher prouinciall of his order here in England Laurence Holbecke a monke of Ramsie well séene in line 40 the Hebrue toong and wrote thereof a dictionarie Iohn Colton archbishop of Ardmach Iohn Marrie so called of a village in Yorkeshire where he was borne a Carmelite of Doncaster Richard Chefer borne in Norfolke a diuine and an Augustine frier in Norwich Iohn Lathburie a Franciscane frier of Reading Nicholas Poutz Richard Scroope brother to William Scroope lord treasuror of England studied in Cambridge and proceeded there doctor of both the lawes became an aduocat in the court line 50 of Rome and afterwards was aduanced to the gouernement of the see of Couentrie and Lichfield and at length was remooued from thence and made archbishop of Yorke he wrote an inuectiue against king Henrie and at length lost his head as before ye haue heard Iohn Wrotham a Carmelite frier of London and after made warden of an house of his order in Calis Furthermore Iohn Colbie a Carmelite frier of Norwich William Thorpe a northerne man borne line 60 and student in Oxenford an excellent diuine and an earnest follower of that famous clearke Iohn Wickliffe a notable preacher of the word and expressing his doctrine no lesse in trade of life than in speech he was at length apprehended by commandement of the archbishop of Canturburie Thomas Arundell and committed to prison in Saltwood castell where at length he died Stephan Patrington borne in Yorkeshire a frier Carmelite prouinciall of his order through England of which brood there were at that season 1500 within this land he was bishop of saint Dauids and confessor to king Henrie the fift about the fift yeare of whose reigne he deceassed Robert Mascall a Carmelite frier of Ludlow confessor also to the said K. who made him bishop of Hereford Reginald Langham a frier minor of Norwich Actonus Dominicanus Thomas Palmer warden of the Blacke friers within the citie of London Boston of Burie a monke of the abbeie of Burie in Suffolke wrote a catalog of all the writers of the church and other treatises Moreouer Thomas Peuerell a frier Carmelite borne in Suffolke he was aduanced to the see of Ossorie in Ireland by Richard the second and after by pope Boniface the ninth remooued to Landaffe in Wales and from thence called by Henrie the fourth with consent of pope Gregorie the twelfe to gouerne the sée of Worcester and so continued bishop of that citie vntill he ended his life in the yeare of our Lord 1418 which was about the sixt yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the fift Iohn Purue●e an excellent diuine procéeded master of art in Oxenford he was apprehended for such doctrine as he taught contrarie to the ordinances of the church of Rome and was at length compelled by Thomas Arundell archbishop of Canturburie to recant at Paules crosse seuen speciall articles he wrote diuerse treatises was the second time committed to prison in king Henrie the fift his daies by Henrie Chichleie that succeeded Arundell in gouernement of the church of Canturburie William Holme a greie frier and a good physician for curing diseases of the bodie whatsoeuer his physicke was for the soule he liued vntill Henrie the fift his daies and deceassed about the fourth yeare of his reigne Nicholas Baiard a blacke frier a doctor of diuinitie professed at Oxenford Thomas Rudburne archdeacon of Sudburie and bishop of saint Dauids in Wales succéeding after Stephan Patrington he wrote a chronicle and certeine epistles as Iohn Bale noteth Finallie and to conclude Nicholas Riston who being sore greeued in mind as diuerse other in those daies to consider what inconuenience redounded to the church by reason of the strife and bralling among the prelats for the acknowleging of a lawfull pope two or thrée still contending for that dignitie wrote a booke intituled De tollendo schismate Iohn Walter an excellent mathematician being first brought vp of a scholer in the college of Winchester and after studied at Oxenford Thomas of Newmarket taking that surname of the towne in Cambridgeshire where he was borne he for his worthinesse as was thought was made bishop of Careleill well séene both in other sciences and also in diuinitie William Auger a Franciscane frier of an house of that order in Bridgewater Peter Russell a graie frier and of his order the prouinciall héere in England Iohn Langton a Carmelite Robert Wan●ham a moonke of Cernelie in Dorsetshire wrote a booke in verse of the originall and signification of words William Norton a Franciscane frier of Couentrie Hugh Sueth a blacke frier and a great preacher Richard Folsham a moonke of Norwich Robert Wimbeldon a singular diuine and an excellent preacher as appeareth by the sermon which he made vpon this text Redde rationem villicationis tuae Thus farre Henrie Plantagenet sonne to Iohn of Gaunt duke of Lancaster Henrie the fift prince of Wales sonne and heire to Henrie the fourth HEnrie prince of Wales son and heire to K. Henrie the fourth borne in Wales at Monmouth on the riuer of Wie after his father was departed tooke vpon him the regiment of this realme of England the twentith of March the morrow after proclamed king by the name of Henrie the fift in line 10 the yeare of the world 5375 after the birth of our sauiour by our account 1413 the third of the emperor Sigismund the thrée and thirtith of Charles the sixt French king and in the seuenth yeare of gouernance in Scotland vnder Robert brother to him that before entrance into his kingdome 1390 had Iohn to name which by deuise and order of the states was changed into Robert the third who at Rotsaie a towne in the Iland of Got 1406 deceassed by occasion thus As vpon hope in this gouernor to himselfe line 20 conceiued how to come to the crowne he at the castell of Falkland latelie had famisht his coosine Dauid the kings elder sonne and heire a dissolute yoong prince yet to his fathers excéeding sorrow at whose deceasse the father verie carefull and casting for the safegard of Iames his yoonger son and heire from Basse the rocke in a well appointed ship vnder charge of Henrie Saintcleere earle of Orkeneie into France to his old fréend king Charles for good education and safetie this yoong prince he sent who in the line 30 course whether for tempest or tendernes of stomach tooke

Englishmen would that king Charles should haue nothing but what it pleased the king of England and that not as dutie but as a benefit by him of his méere liberalitie giuen and distributed The Frenchmen on the other part would that K. Charles should haue the kingdome franklie and fréelie and line 60 that the king of England should leaue the name armes and title of the king of France and to be content with the dukedomes of Aquitaine and Normandie and to forsake Paris and all the townes which they possessed in France betwéene the riuers of Some and Loire being no parcell of the duchie of Normandie To be bréefe the demands of all parts were betwéene them so farre out of square as hope of concord there was none at all The cardinals séeing them so farre in sunder minded not to dispute their titles but offered them reasonable conditions of truce and peace for a season which notwithstanding either of frowardnesse or of disdaine on both parts were openlie refused Insomuch that the Englishmen in great displeasure departed to Calis and so into England ¶ One writer affirmeth that they being warned of a secret conspiracie mooued against them suddenlie departed from Arras and so returned into their countrie But what cause so euer hindered their accord and vnitie sith this and that may be surmized certeine it is that the onelie and principall cause was for that the God of peace and loue was not among them without whom no discord is quenched no knot of concord fastened no bond of peace confirmed no distracted minds reconciled no true fréendship mainteined for had he beene among them their dissenting and waiward willes had sounded the swéet harmonie of amiable peace which of all things that God hath bestowed vpon man is the verie best and more to be set by than manie triumphs as the poet excellentlie well saith pax optima rerum Quas homini nouisse datum pax vna triumphis Innumeris potior pax custodire salutem Et ciues aequare potens Now whiles this treatie of peace was in hand the lord Talbot the lord Willoughbie the lord Scales with the lord Lisle Adam and fiue thousand men of warre besieged the towne of saint Denis with a strong band The earle of Dunois hearing hereof accompanied with the lord Lohac and the lord Bueill with a great companie of horssemen hasted thitherwards to raise the siege and by the waie incountred with sir Thomas Kiriell and Matthew Gough riding also toward saint Denis betwéene whom was a great conflict But suddenlie came to the aid of the Frenchmen the garrison of Pont Meulan which caused the Englishmen to returne without anie great harme or damage sauing that Matthew Gough by foundering of his horsse was taken and carried to Pont Meulan In the meane time was the towne of saint Denis rendered to the Englishmen the which raced the walles and fortifications sauing the walles of the abbeie and of the tower called Uenin Shortlie after the towne of Pontois where sir Iohn Ruppelleie was capteine rebelled and by force the Englishmen were expelled the inhabitants yeelding themselues to the French king This towne was small but the losse was great bicause it was the keie that opened the passage betwixt the cities of Paris and Rone But now to returne to the communication at Arras which after the departure of the English commissioners held betwixt the Frenchmen Burgognians till at length a peace was concluded accorded and sworne betwixt king Charles and duke Philip of Burgognie vpon certeine conditions as in the French histories more plainlie appeareth And after the duke of Burgognie to set a veile before the king of Englands eies sent Thoison Dore his chéefe herald to king Henrie with letters excusing the matter by way of information that he was constreined to enter in this league ●ith K. Charles by the dailie outcries complaints and lamentations of his people alledging against him that he was the onlie cause of the long continuance of the wars to the vtter impouerishing of his owne people and the whole nation of France Therefore sith he could not otherwise doo but partlie to content his owne people and chéefelie to satisfie the request of the whole generall councell was in manner compelled for his part to growe vnto a peace and amitie with king Charles He likewise wished that king Henrie vpon reasonable and honorable conditions of agréement offered should in no wise refuse the same whereby the long continued warre at length might ceasse and take end to the pleasure of almightie God which is the author of peace and vnitie hereto he promised him his aid and furtherance with manie gaie words which I passe ouer The superscription of this letter was thus To the high and mightie prince Henrie by the grace of God king of England his welbeloued cousine Neither naming him king of France nor his souereigne lord according as euer before that time he was accustomed to doo This letter was much maruelled at of the councell after they had throughlie considered all the contents thereof they line 10 could not but be much disquieted so far foorth that diuerse of them offended so much with the vntruth of the duke that they could not temper their passions but openlie called him traitor But when the rumor of the dukes reuolting was published amongst the people they left words and fell to bestowing of stripes for being pricked with these euill tidings they ran in great outrage vpon all the Flemings Hollanders and Burgognions which then inhabited within the citie of London and the line 20 suburbes of the same and slue and hurt a great number of them before they by the kings proclamation could be staied from such iniurious dooing for the king nothing more minded than to saue innocent bloud and to defend them that had not offended The officer at armes was willed to tell his maister that it stood not with his honor to be enimie to the English nation and that his dutie had béene to kéepe his ancient truth and allegiance rather than to be occasion of new warre And what a new reconciled enimie line 30 was in respect of an old tried fréend he might shortlie find When the messenger with this answer was dispatched and vpon consultation found a matter standing both with good policie in forceing the proud subiect to know his obedience and also with great equitie to twitch a quareller with such pinsars as wherewith afore he had nipt an other so was it anon brought about that sundrie of his good townes and cities rebelled against him whereby lesse to his liking than to his deseruing he was verie well made line 40 to bite of a chokepeare of his owne grafting This yeare the fourtéenth daie of September died Iohn duke of Bedford regent of France a man both politike in peace and hardie in warre and yet no more hardie than mercifull when he had the victorie whose bodie was

time 1186 b 40 c. 1187 1188. 1189. The French men driuen into it 1188 b 10. A fire in it and augmented with shot of ordinance and windie wether 1190 a 50. Maipoles set vp therein on Maie daie b 10. Whie the describing of the siege thereof is so largelie set downe 1193 a 20. Peace concluded thereabouts a 40 c. Burned to the ground 963 a 20 Leofwins malicious mind against Liuifus note 12 b 30 Leolin prince of Wales summoned to come and doo his homage 278 a 10. And the Welsh rebels accurssed 281 a 20. His wife taken from him he beginneth to make wars maketh sure for peace 278 a 50 60. Restored to hir husband 279 b 10. He sueth for peace 278 b 10. Beginneth new warres 279 b 60. Inuadeth Edward the firsts fréends 281 b 10. Discomfited 205 a 30. Inuadeth the English borders 213 b 60. His courage 214 a 10. Spoileth the marches of England 217 a 20. Made cuckold and how he reuenged it 211 b 60. Wasteth and spoileth all the marches betwixt Wales and Shrewesburie 218 a 30. Deceaseth 224. Slaine his head presented to Edward the first 281 b 40 60 Leopald ¶ Sée duke of Austrich Lerning in the earle of Mellents sonnes note 44 a 60 Letter of king Iohn to his nobles of England touching his victories and taking of duke Arthur prisoner 165 ● 10. Of the proud bishop of Elie to the shiriffe of Kent 130 b 30. Of the pope to the cleargie of England for the celebrating of a holie daie 85 b 10. Of king Richard the first to the states of England for the deposing the bishop of Elie 132 a 30. Of the emperor to the states of England touching his deliuerance 140 b 20. Of Richard the first to the archbishop of Canturburie touching his deliuerance out of prison 140 a 50. To the duke of Austrich cléering Richard the first of the death of the marquesse of Montferrat 136 a 50. Of Henrie the fourth to pope Gregorie and the cardinals 535 a 40 c. Of William Northbourgh the kings confessor describing the kings voiage into France 373 b 50 c. Seditious of a préest 437 b 30. Of E. W concerning the earle of Essex Walter Deuereux 1266 a 60 b 10 c. Of cardinall Como to Parrie for resolution to kill quéen Elisabeth 1388 b 10. Of Creitchton to sir Francis Walsingham touching Parries intended murthering of the quéene 1388 a 10. Of Boner vn●o cardinall Poole concerning persecution 1164 a 10. Of the councell to Edmund Boner as touching quéene Marie conceiued with child 1123 b 60. Of the ladie Marie touching hir chalenge vnto the crowne 1084 b 50. With an answer of the lords 1085 a 40. Of the king to the lord Cheinie at his going into France note 1123. Right excellent of the duke of Summerset to the Scotish nobilitie touching the marriage betwéene Edward the sixt and the quéene of Scots 998 b 10 c. 999 1000 1001 a 10. Of defiance from the Scotish K. to Henrie the eight 820. Of the French king prisoner to his mother the regent of France 884 b 50 60. Of Gefferie the kings base sonne to Richard archbishop of Canturburie 104 b 10. Of Gardiner to Boner touching the cel●brating of pope Iu●ies funerals 1128 a 60 b 10. Of yoong king Henrie touching the disappointment of archbishop Richards consecration 86 a 10. Of Henrie the second touching the pacification betweene him and Thomas Becket 78 a 20. Of the popes ¶ See Pope Letters of the duke of Summerset and the lord Russell 1057 a 60 b 20. Of Henrie the sixt to the duke of Yorke 638 a 60. Of the duke of Yorke to Henrie the sixt 637 b 60 638 a 10 c. Of the duke of G●lderland to Richard the second note 475 b 60 c. 476 a 10 c. Concerning prince Edwards dooings and proceedings beyond s●a 384 a 10 c. Of Parrie to quéene Elisabeth lords of the councell after his voluntarie confession note 1387 a 20 b 10. Of submission and sute of one Francis Throckmorton traitor against quéene E●isabeth and the realme 1373 a 60 b 60 1374. He is executed 1375 b 30. Missiue taken from the quéenes ambassadors seruants 1195 b 20. Seditious of a bishop sent into a forren realme note 17 a 10. Treasonable 428 a 60. Of protection from the French king to the king of England 102 a 60 Letters intercepted 329 b 10. Letters patents reuoked 526 b 50 Lewin a Welshman hanged note his treacherie 299 b 60 300 a 10 c Lewis the French king inclineth to peace with Henrie the third 201 b 10. Deceaseth 208 b 60 209 a 10. His sons intituled to the kingdome of England 201 b 20. Sendeth to his father for aid 200 b 60. An armie prepard in France to succour him 201 a 10 His faire 200 b 10. Mainteineth his title pretended to the crowne of England 191 a 50 ¶ Sée French king Lewis le grosse 34 b 60 Lewis ¶ Sée Physician Libell against cardinall Woolseie 895 a 30. Seditious against Henrie the seuenth and the libellors executed 778 a 60. Causing losse of life 746 b 10 Set on the duke of Northfolks gate forewarning him of trecherie against Richard the third and of his owne safetie 759 b 10. Against the quéene and realme are false 1363 a 40. Published in Italian against quéene Elisabeth and the same answered 1418 a 40. Printed against quéene Elisabeth 1370 b 60. Against the cleargie 558 b 20. ¶ Sée Bookes seditious Liberalitie of Richard the first woonderfull 126 b 30. Of the earle of Arundell no●e 454 b 50. Of Edward the first to his nobles 308 a 40. Of sir Thomas Sackuill to the French 1224 b 60 1225 a 10. Of William Rufus 27 a 20. Repented note 20 b 10. In a prince commended 16 b 10 Libertie preferred before a kingdome 726 b 60. Obteined by gentle language 673 a 60 b 10. Bought with monie 140 a 20 b 60. ¶ See Ransome Obteined by great words and proud brags 23 b 60 24 a 10. Desired aboue all things note 1046 a 30 60 Liberties ¶ Sée Lawes Londoners Priuileges and Southworke Licence to build castels 47 a 30 Of king Richard the first to gather riches 120 a 60. For the English iusts and turme note 145 b 60. Asked of Henrie the third of the commonaltie to passe ouer sea 262 a 30. To burie the bodies of the rebels 335 a 60. And that without it none should depart the realme 20 b 40. To depart the realme sought and obteined 14 b 10 Li● how dangerous to credit note 587 a 50 Life to saue what shifts noblemen can be content to make 460 b 30 Lightening ¶ Sée Th●nder Limerike a kingdome 101 b 10 Limoges besieged taken by force 406 a 10 40. Rendered to king Henrie the second 107 b 20 Lincolne besieged 56 b 10. Taken 272 a 10. Woo●e o● the French 192 b 60 Lincolne castell 6 a 40 Lincolne Iohn the author

the other act for labourers of these two acts was much communing and much businesse arose For the labourers would in no wise labour by the daie but all by taske in great and therefore much trouble fell in the countrie and in especiall in haruest time for then husbandmen could skarse get workemen to helpe in their haruest This parlement continued vntill Easter in the which diuerse subsidies were granted to the king toward his great costs and charges that he had béene at in his viage roiall to France After Easter the nineteenth daie of the moneth of Aprill the king deliting to set foorth yoong gentlemen called Nicholas Carew and Francis Brian and caused diuerse other yoong gentlemen to be on the counter part and lent to them horsse and harnesse to incourage all youth to séeke déeds of armes This yeare died at Rome by poison as was reported the archbishop of Yorke and cardinall called doctor Benbrike who was the kings ambassadour there this was a wiseman and of a iollie courage The king then gaue the said archbishoprike to Thomas Wolsie then bishop of Lincolne who at that time bare all the rule about the king and what he said was obeied in all places Now when he was once archbishop he studied daie and night how to be a cardinall and caused the king and the French king to write to Rome for him and at their requests he obteined his purpose as you shall heare afterward At this time was much communing and verelie as it appeared it was intended that the king in person would passe the sea to Calis and there on the marches of the same the French king and quéene to come and sée the king their brother and for the same iournie manie costlie works were wrought much rich apparell prouided and much preparation made against the next spring but death which is the last end of all things let this iournie For before the next spring the French king died at the citie of Paris the first daie of Ianuarie when he had béene married to the faire ladie Marie of England foure score and two daies whom he so feruentlie loued that he gaue himselfe ouer to behold too much hir excellent beautie bearing then but eighteene yeares of age nothing considering the proportion of his owne yeares nor his decaied complexion so that he fell into the rage of a feauer which drawing to it a sudden flux ouercame in one instant the life that nature gaue ouer to preserue anie longer He was a king iust much beloued of his people but touching his condition neither before he was king nor after he had the crowne he neuer found constancie nor stabilitie in either fortune For rising from a small duke of Orleance with great happinesse to the crowne and that by the death of Charles yoonger than he and two of his sonnes he conquered with a verie great facilitie the duchie of Millan and the kingdome of Naples and almost line 10 all the residue of the regions of Italie being gouerned for manie yeares by his direction he recouered with a verie great prosperitie the state of Genes that was in rebellion and vanquished with no lesse glorie the armies of the Uenetians being in person at both those victories But on the other side euen when he was in his youth and best disposition of bodie he was then constreined by king Lewes the eleuenth to marrie his daughter that was both barren and deformed and yet could neuer get the good will nor countenance of his father in law line 20 And after his death such was the greatnesse of the ladie of Burbon that he could neuer get the institution of the new king being then in minoritie being almost compelled to retire himselfe into Britaine where being taken in the battell of saint Aubin he liued two yeares in the calamitie of a prisoner To these afflictions maie be added the siege and famine of Nauarre the manie discomfits he had in the realme of Naples the losse of the estate of Millan Genes and all the townes which he had taken line 30 from the Uenetians and lastlie the gréeuous warre he had in France against verie mightie enimies his eies beholding into what lamentable perils his realme was brought neuerthelesse before he died it séemed he had conquered all his aduersities and fortune shewed good tokens of hir reconcilement both for that he had defended his kingdome against mightie enimies and also established a perpetuall peace and aliance with the king of England with whome line 40 by how much his amitie was great and assured by so much it gaue him hope to be able to reconquer the duchie of Millan The king of England being aduertised of the French kings death caused a solemne obsequie to be kept for him in the cathedrall church of S. Paule with a costlie hearse at which manie nobles were present After this he sent a letter to comfort the quéene his sister requiring to know hir pleasure whether she would continue still in France or returne into England And when he was aduertised line 50 of hir mind which was to returne into England the duke of Suffolke sir Richard Wingfield deputie of Calis and doctor West with a goodlie band of gentlemen and yeomen all in blacke were sent into France and comming to Paris were well receiued of the new French king Francis the first of that name who was the next heire male of the bloud roiall and of the same line of the dukes of Orleance he was preferred to the succession of the kingdome before line 60 the daughters of the dead king by vertue and disposition of the law Salike a law verie ancient in the realme of France which excludeth from the roiall dignitie all women so long as there is anie issue male of the same line The world had such a hope in his vertues and such an opinion of his magnanimitie and such a conceipt of his iudgement and wit that euerie one confessed that of verie long time there was none raised vp to the crowne with a greater expectation He was made the more agreeable to the fansies of men by the consideration of his age bearing then but two and twentie yeares his excellent feiture and proportion of bodie his great liberalitie and generall humanitie togither with the ripe knowledge he had in manie things But speciallie he pleased greatlie the nobilitie to whome he transferred manie singular and great fauours Unto this king Francis de Angoulesine did the foresaid English nobilitie declare the effect of their commission which was to receiue the quéene Dowager according to the couenants of the marriage The councell of France by the kings appointment assigned foorth hir dowrie and the duke of Suffolke put in officers and then was the quéene deliuered to the duke by indenture who behaued himselfe so towards hir that he obteined hir good will to be hir husband It was thought that when the king created him duke of Suffolke

authorities of this kind the number being so great as that they would fill vp Erotostthenes siue and to saie somewhat of seueritie that by opposition of countrie to countrie in that respect we maie sée the great difference betwéene ours and theirs It is seueritie to flea men quicke to chaine them aliue to a stake in such sort as they maie run round line 60 thereabout the fier inuironing them on all sides it is seueritie to haue collops of flesh pluckt from the bodie with hot burning tongs it is seueritie to be cast downe from a stéepe place starke naked vpon sharpe stakes it is seueritie to be torne in péeces with wild horsses and to haue the bones broken vpon a whéele All these be extremities of torments awarded by law and at this daie practised in forren regions for treason and sometime for crimes of nothing so dangerous a nature Finallie if we confer the seueritie of this execution exercised vpon rebellious and traitorous subiects in a superlatiue degree of disloialtie with that of other nations commonlie vsed namelie in principall affaires which concerne peace and warre and matters of gouernment to accept theseruice of runnagate slaues to place them in authoritie to change or depose at pleasure anie whatsoeuer yea to strangle them vpon the least suspicion or dislike our seueritie is clemencie For in this is ripe reason and iudiciall processe in the other will without wit as commonlie they saie Omnia pro imperio nihil pro officio And therefore we conclude that ingratitude being counted vnnaturall and treason a vice vomited out of hell mouth linked togither with manie knots of other shamefull sinnes and all concurring in the hearts and liues of these outragious conspirators as in a centre whie should it be thought seueritie to haue iustice iustlie administred that traitors should be drawne vpon hurdels strangled in a halter cut downe aliue dismembred their bellies ripped their bowels taken out and burned their heads chopt from their shoulders their bodies clouen in foure quarters and set ouer the gates of London for the foules of the aire to féed vpon at full Unto which fowle end maie all such come as meane anie mischiefe against good quéene Elisabeth the lords of hir highnesse councell the bodie politike of the land the slander or innouation of true religion c wherein God make prince and people of one mind and plant in all subiects a reuerend regard of obedience and contentment of present estate supported with iustice and religion least longing after nouelties it fare with them as with the frogs who liuing at libertie in lakes and ponds would néeds as misliking their present intercommunitie of life with one consent sue to Iupiter for a king and so did Whereat he woondering granted their desires and cast them an huge trunke of a trée which besides that it made a great noise in the water as it fell to their terrifieng so it was cumbersome by taking vp their accustomed passage insomuch that discontented therewithall they assaulted Iupiter with a fresh petition complaining that besides diuerse mislikes otherwise the king whom he gaue them was but a senselesse stocke and vnworthie of obedience wherefore it would please him to appoint them another indued with life Wherevpon Iupiter sent the herne among them who entring into the water deuoured vp the frogs one after another insomuch that the residue séeing their new king so rauenouslie gobling vp their fellowes lamentablie wéeping besought Iupiter to deliuer them from the throte of that dragon and tyrant But he of purpose vnchangeable made them a flat answer that will they nill they the herne should rule ouer them Whereby we are taught to be content when we are well and to make much of good quéene Elisabeth by whom we enioie life and libertie with other blessings from aboue beséeching God we maie sée a consummation of the world before the scepter of the kingdome be translated to another For as the prouerbe saith seldome commeth the better But to the purpose this execution being dispatched and the testimonies thereof dispersed and visible in diuerse places about the citie as at London bridge where the traitors heads were ranged into their seuerall classes manie rimes ballads and pamphlets were set foorth by sundrie well affected people wherein bréefelie were comprised the plot of their conspiracie the names of the traitors and their successiue suffering which growing common and familiar both in citie and countrie were chanted with no lesse alacritie courage of the singer than willinglie and delightfullie listened vnto of the hearer So that what by one meane and what by another all England was made acquainted with this horrible conspiracie not so much admiring the maner of the mischéefes intended as comforted that hir highnesse had the holie hand of God ouershadowing hir the surest protection that prince or people can haue against perill So that England is replenished with faithfull and louing subiects though here and there like darnell among wheate lurke a viper or aspe waiting opportunitie to bite or sting Now to make a complet discourse of all these heauie tragicall accidents hauing thus far continued line 10 much important matter concerning the same the reader is with due regard to peruse the addition following wherein is argument of aggrauation touching these treasons which being aduisedlie read considered and conferred with the former narration will yéeld as sound pithie and effectuall information for the knowledge of the conspirators purposed plot as anie subiect would desire and more than without gréefe or teares anie true English heart can abide to read or heare Where by the waie is to be line 20 noted that Marie the Scotish Q. was a principall It is apparant by the iudiciall confessions of Iohn Ballard preest Anthonie Babington and their confederats that the said Iohn Ballard being a preest of the English seminarie at Rheims in Lent past after he and sundrie other Iesuits and preests of his sect had trauelled throughout all parts almost of this realme labored to their vttermost to bréed in hir maiesties subiects an inclination to rebell against hir he went into France and there treated line 30 and concluded with Barnardino de Mendoza the Spanish ambassador resiant at Paris with Charles Paget Thomas Morgan two English fugitiues and inexcusable traitors for an inuasion to be made by forren forces into this kingdome And because no assurance could then be made vnto Mendoza for the interteining assisting and good landing of those whome the king his maister the pope and the house of Guise should dispatch for that seruice he sent the said Ballard into England at Whitsuntide last line 40 with expresse charge to informe the catholikes that for sundrie important considerations the king his maister had vowed vpon his soule to reforme England or to loose Spaine and for that purpose had in readinesse such forces warlike preparations as the like was neuer séene in