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A16169	Beautiful blossomes, gathered by Iohn Byshop, from the best trees of all kyndes, diuine, philosophicall, astronomicall, cosmographical, historical, & humane, that are growing in Greece, Latium, and Arabia, and some also in vulgar orchards, as wel fro[m] those that in auncient time were grafted, as also from them which haue with skilful head and hand beene of late yeares, yea, and in our dayes planted: to the vnspeakable, both pleasure and profite of all such wil vouchsafe to vse them. The first tome	Bishop, John, d. 1613.	1577 (1577)	STC 3091; ESTC S102279	212,650	348

and the women running out of their houses sweeped the Temples of the Goddes and the sacred altars with the haires of their head and on their knées holding vppe their handes to heauen besought the Gods with aboundant teares loude shriches that they wold kéepe the citie and people of Rome in safetie But after that he was come and incamped within thrée miles of the citie he approched almoste to the harde walles with a chosen band of two thousand horse to viewe the citie with whom Fuluius one of the Consuls skirmished in the mids of the fight one thousād two hundreth Numidians which had reuolted frō Hanibal vnto the Romans were at the houre on the Auentine hil were commanded to march frō thence into a part of the citie called Exquiliae Nowe they running apace from the hil into the plain séemed vnto them which were ignorant of the counsell to be their enimies and thereof did such tumult arise in the whole citie and such a feare and trembling that if Hanibal had not incamped him selfe so néere vnto the citie that they could not flie but into the lappes of the enimie the dismayed multitude had quite forsaken the citie Yea Augustus whom all the world stoode in dreade of was put into such a feare with the newes of the ouerthrowe and slaughter of Q. Varus with thrée legions in Germanie by the Cherusi that although they were many hundreth miles off and the monsterous Alpes betwéene them and the losse were nothing in comparison of his great power yet as in almoste a desperate state he commaunded straight watche and warde to be kept that no tumult should arise within the citie he also prolonged vnto the gouernours of the prouinces the time of their charge that they might be kept in obedience by men of skil and suche as had béene vsed vnto them he vowed great playes vnto Iupiter Optimus Maximus if that of his woonted goodnesse he woulde chaunge the publique weale into a better state The people also following their prince were so afraide that they made their wils and conueyed away their goodes as though there had surely béene but one way with them and yet the Germanes neuer did set foorth on foote towardes Italie This people which conquered all nations were so affrighted with this one discomfiture that they would not go into Germanie vnto Tyberius aide who with great felicitie warred there so that the Emperour was forced to confiscate the goodes of them as the lot fell vpon them to note them with ignominie but when that neither would serue to reuoke the courages of the cowards but that many refused to go he put them to death that assured death might make them to winne doubtfull victorie Also I reade in Gregoras that when Iohn the brother vnto Michael Paleologus the Emperour of Constantinople besieged with a mightie armie the despote of Thessalie in the strong castle of Patras whither he had driuen him the Despote being almost in despaire howe to get him selfe and his out of this present perill attempted this way the whiche yet he durst not to communicate vnto any man in the world it was so desperate In a very darke night he did let downe him selfe from the wall by a rope and priuily went through the campe of the Emperials for other way had he none in clothes all to torne and ragged crying and gaping with a loude and boystrous voyce and with words halfe barbarous and clownish as though he had sought a horse which he had lost the souldiers laughing and flouting of him as some poore lob of the countrie By this meanes he escaping them came into Attica where vppon promise of much money and the marriage of his faire daughter he obteined of the Duke fiue hundreth souldiers with whome he marched towardes Patros where he founde many of the Emperialles abroad in the fieldes taking their pleasure of whome some he did take other of purpose hoping that which in déede happened he coursed into the campe By his souden and vnlooked for comming arose there such a tumult in the campe they imagining some mightie power had come vnto the Despotes ayde that before he could come vnto the munitions the Emperials were all fled some one way some an other leauing all the carriages and furniture of the campe behinde vaine feare making them to flée which twentie thousand men could not haue done And in his sixt booke writes he the like Andronicus Paleologus the yonger Emperour of Constantinople went with an army against Archanes the great Turke who inuaded his dominions in Asia and before Philocrene a litle towne not farre from Nicea they fought vntill that the night parted them the Gréekes returning into their fortified campe but the Turke who by tryall made that day of the prowesse of the Gréekes thought that they woulde goe farther vp into the countrie the next day marched forwarde that night to take before hande the wayes for passage leauing yet behinde him neare vnto them a bande of thrée hundreth horsmen to watch what they would doe The emperour who had bene a little wounded in his foote in the sight went into the towne to haue his wound dressed Now the Gréekes who were ignorant wherefore he went thither thought that he had bene fled away for feare then also came this imagination into their braines that the Turke woulde be there that nighte with a mightie armie and that not one man of them shoulde escape and sée the sunne the nexte day Wherevpon they that had brought small boates thither for the towne stoode by the water side went aboard their boates leauing all their baggage behinde them other hasting to get into the towne some of them trode vppon and smouldered an other some standing one vpon an others shoulders got into the towne but other were pulled and other thrust downe by their fellowes and slaine in the fall There were some also that in this outragious feare dyed as they stoode But in the morning when the sunne was vp those 300. Barbarians beholding that incredible discomfiture of the Gréekes and in their campe horses armour and weapons without men yea and also the Emperours owne horses with red saddles two hundreth of them tooke the spoyle and went away the other hundreth came nearer and with many a shot galled and killed the poore Gréekes that were left An other such historie finde I in him when Ziges lay in siege before Trapesunt a poore woman that thought her hempe and flaxe whiche was all her wealth lay not safe enough in a bastil neare vnto the wall remoued it thence and brought it by night into the great castle where by misaduenture it falling a fire did also set on fire the house the chiefe of the citie and the people seing the fire thought that some traytors had betrayed the citie wherevpon they all fled out of the towne some by sea and some by land leauing the king in the citie

lamentable losse by sicknesse of the flourishing army of his countrimē in Naples vnder the conduct of the Lantrech and the dishonourable yealding of Auersa as he stoode musing on this so great a calamitie and staring vp into heauen fel down starke deade of pitifull pietie towards parents out of Campofulgoso the Toletane who by importunate prayers and flowing teares hardly at the length obteined of the magistrate to be hanged in his fathers stéede of fatherly sorrowe out of Appian Blauus who hearing a false tale that his sonne was slaine by the souldiers of Triumri of his owne accord went vnto them and obteined of them to be killed as one proscribed and out of Iulius Capitolinus Gordian the Romane Emperour who vnderstanding that his sonne was slaine in battell for intollerable griefe hanged vp him selfe that night in his chamber of brotherly loue out of Plinie Pub. Rutilius who being certified of his brothers repulse in his suite for the Consulship incontinently dyed being before but grieued a little with an ague and of the two Cappadocian brothers that contended whether of them was the elder for that Augustus had decréed that the elder shoulde be put to death with his father Adiatorix and when they had long after this manner striuen in deadly pietie scarse at the last Dyetentus by the earnest intreatie and prayers of his mother who sawe that she might be more easily founde and mainteined by him gaue place suffered his yonger brother to dye for him the elder Of sure affied heart vnto wife Marcus Plautinus who slue him vpon his dead wife and Sempronius Gracchus who did suffer him selfe to be slaine wittingly in his fight by killing of a male serpent that he might deliuer his wife from death by letting the female to escape for so the Soothsayers affirmed of feruent frendship Pylades and Pithias who incessantly sued to dye to saue his faithfull friendes Orestes and Damon and Philotinus out of Plinie that threwe him selfe in to the roge or funerall fire of his patrone who had made him heire of all his whole goodes of faithful seruice two bondmen in Dion who did chaunge apparell with their proscribed maisters that they by wished errour might be slaine for them Thus muche of mourning the next is riot wherunto may aptly be annexed too great lust of all thinges The sixte Chapter Of the great riot of man in apparel and the excesse therein of a Cardinals harlot of Poppea of the souldiours of Antiochus Sedetes Caligula Heliogabalus Charles duke of Burgonie the Marques of Astorga Lollia Paulina Agrippina of the Romanes the Greekes and the Alexandrines of the greate prices of a pearle and a precious stone whiche made his maister to be proscribed Howe man doth alter the natural constitution and ornamentes of his body and of Poppea her bath and of a Patriarche and a Cardinal that made themselues to be pale ALl other liuing thinges are contented with the clothing of nature and the ornamentes of it onely man couereth his carcase with forreigne furniture whiche were to be allowed in him séeing nature hathe afforded him none if he coulde be pleased with such things as are able to defend him from colde and heate and not to séeke the bottomes bothe of the seas ye the Arabian and Indian and al landes to garnishe their bodies withall robbing the Seas fishes of purple pearles stones and amber greace and the hidden and secret tresures of the whole earth for golde siluer precious stones and the poore vermine of the farthest colde countries of the Northe cruelly of their able garmentes for Sables Lucernes Hermines and suche like costly furres paying for a face of Sables 1000. ducates and wilde beasts of the East for muske ciuet to make them smel swéet They set pearles saies Plinie on their féete that not only vpon the vpper parts of their shooes but also on the soles ye in the memorie also of our fathers a Cardinals harlot wore al the vpper parte of her shooes set cleane ouer with pearles and precious stones and long before her Poppea wife to Nero would shooe suche horses as she liked of with golde as her husband did all his mules with siluer so that it is not greatly to be marueiled that the souldiers of Antiochus Sedetes king of Syria did peg their shooes with nails of golde Clemens Alexandrinus séemeth to make it a common thing in Greece and Asia or rather at Alexandria where he liued to set their shooes euery where full of studs of golde to weare pantafles made with diuerse kinde of workmanshippe of golde precious stones so that I do ceasse to woonder that Caligula vsed riding clokes couered ouer ouer with precious stones Heliogabalus all his garments ye and his shooes glistering with gemmes No what say you that our Barbarians wil boorde for brauerie those riotous Romanes gorgeous Gréekes for Charles the hautie the last Duke of Burgonie whē he receiued Frederike the Emperour wore a cloke of cloth of golde set with diamonds carbuncles valued at an hundreth thousand crownes And in our dayes at the coronation of Charles the fifth at Bologna a Spaniard the Marques of Astorga as Iouius reports wore a riche gowne of cloth of golde wrought ouer and ouer with dolphines of pearles and precious stones Plinie telleth that the stones pearles that Lollia Paulina wife vnto Caligula wore not at any solemne feast but onely at a nuptiall night vpon her head her haires her eares her neck her hands and fingers were worth quadringenties sestertium which after Budeyes account is tenne hundreth thousand french crownes and aboue thrée hundreth thousand pounde of our monie neither were they the gifts of the prodigal Prince but her graund fathers goods gotten by the spoiles of the prouinces This was the ende of rapines robberies this was it for the whiche Marcus Lollius infamed for the gyfts giuen vnto him by al the kings of the orient and therfore falling into the displeasure of Caius nephewe and sonne adopted vnto Augustus dranke poison that his néece might be séene by candle light couered ouer with 10000 crownes Against this excesse in pearles doeth Plinie exclame in his 9. booke 35. chap. speaking thus ye marry it had béen a small thing for the seas to be buried in our bellies vnlesse they were worne as well of men as women on their handes their eares their féete ye and the whole body What hath the sea to do with the garments and clothing what haue the waters and waues with the backe but nature you will say doth not friendely deale with vs in casting vs forth into the worlde naked Go to let there be so great societie betwéene the bellie and the sea but what with the backe let it be a small matter vnlesse that we that are fedd with daungers be also clothed with perilles so through the whole body thinges gotten with

they had supped together merrily abroade and threwe his bodie into Tyber for no other cause but for that his fathers minde was that Frauncis shoulde marrie and increase the name of the Borgiae the which he would make honourable with large dominions but Caesar he had as it were banished into the cloyster of religion disguising him with a redde hatt the whiche was farre inferiour vnto his royal harte and immesurable desire of earthly honours who bare in his ensigne this worde Aut Caesar aut nihil an Emperour or nothinge the which insatiable thirst of his the Colonnese fearinge that he would quenche with their bloude abandoned all their dominions and landes and fledde away folowing the Castor who some say bites off his owne stones when hee is hardly persued knowing that for them onely his death is sought but the Orsines allured with his liberal interteinemente to serue him in the warres were almoste all murdered Baptista the cardinall at Rome Frauncis the Duke of Grauina and Paulo in the territorie of Perugia Liberto Prince of Firma Vitelloccio Vitelli one of the Princes of Ciuita de Castello at Senogallia the which caused all the rest of the Vitelli to flie and by their liues with the losse of their liuinges And also the noble men of the house of Gaieta who possessed the towne of Sermoneta in Campagna di Roma Iames Nicholas and Bernardine beeing slaine some one way and some an other yealded their castels lands and goodes vnto Caesar And also the Dukes of Camerino Caesar Anibal and Pyrrhus were expelled their dominions and strangled Astor Manfredi Prince of Fauenza yealdinge the towne and himselfe vppon promisse of safetie was slaine and cast into Tyber Furthermore Pandulpho Malatesta Iohn Sforza and Guido Vbaldo had rather by flight leaue their dominions of Rimini Pesaro and Vrbine vnto the inuading tyranne then be murdered And also Iames Appiano let him haue the principalitie of Piombino But Catharine Sforza who reigned at Forly and Imola hauing lost by force her dominions being taken prisoner was brought in triumphe to Rome But while by this bloudy way he encroched on al the principalities about him he also commaunded the prince of Beselio base sonne vnto Alfonse kinge of Naples yea and his sisters husbande to be slaine in her chamber yea in her bed being before wounded in the Courte of the church of Saint Peter but so that it was thought he woulde escape And by the same meanes he dispatched the yonger Borgia the Cardinal because he had seemed to fauour the duke of Candia his brother he also sauagely slue as he came from supper Iohn Cerbellion a man of greate nobilitie both at home and also in the warres because he had seuerely kept the honestie of a gentlewoman of the house of Borgia He did also put to death Iames Santatrucio a noble man of Rome thē whome there was no man more friende and familiar with Caesar neither for anie other cause but for that he was able vpon a soudeine to gather together a stronge bande of lustie felowes of the Orsine faction make them couragiously to attēpt anie exploite But whē for this cursed and vnquenchable desire of Empire he and his father had appointed to poyson at a feast certeine noble and riche princes his man mistaking the flagon gaue thereof vnto the vngratious father and worse sonne whereof the father beeing olde died but his blessed byrde a lustie younge man was by manie medicines conserued to greater punishmente for after the deathe of Alexander the Colonese and the Orsines that were lefte returned vnto Rome Then Caesar that he might not be ouermatched by haueing warres with both the families restored vnto the Colonese all their possessions on whome in diuerse places he had sumptuously buylt Guido Defeltrie recouered Vrbine Iohn Sforza Pesaro excepte the castle Malatesta Riminie but the castle was stil retayned by Caesar and the Baleones Perugia through the helpe of the Orsines who also toke Tuderto with the castell and put to shamefull deathe the capteine and with like successe at Viterby Ameria and all the cities there aboutes either they restored the Princes of their owne faction or else strengthened them and had also beesieged Caesar in Nepe if hée had not fearefully fledde into Rome the whiche hee obteyned of the newe Pope Pius as a safe refuge but Pope Pius dying within twentie seuen dayes the Orsines also entered the citie with a greate power whome the greatest parte of the citizens fauoured and the Orsines requested that Caesar might according to iustice be put to death for his manifolde murthers or els kept in sure warde in the castell vntill that his cause were hearde But while the matter was prolonged with outragious altercations Caesar being afrayde stale away out of his house in the Suburbes into the Popes palace then his souldiours who vntil that time had valiantly guarded him perceiuing that their Capteines courage quayled and that he sought for hyding holes fled also awaye some to one place and some vnto another leauing him guardlesse among the cruell companies of his enimies and forceing him because hee could otherwise stande in no suretie of his life to desire as a greate benefite to be cast into the castell of Sainct Angelo vntil that a new Pope were created the which béeing Iulius the seconde would not set him at libertie before that he had deliuered vp all the Castels and townes that he had in the territorie of Rome Romandiola and the duchie of Spolieto But not long after preparing at Naples an expedition into Romandiola he was at the Popes earnest suite imprisoned in the newe castell and shortly after carried into Hispanie where he brake prison and fledde vnto the kinge of Nauarre whose néere cousine he had married and there was slaine in a skirmishe with this euent that not béeing knowen he was spoyled of all his armour and clothes and left starke naked and so brought by one of his seruauntes vnto the citie of Pompelona where he had sometimes béene Bishoppe a notable document of mannes miserie But as I saide before I passing ouer in silence all those greate worldlinges whome Fortune at the last ouerthrewe will examine the liues and infortunities onely of those whome the worlde doth account most fortunate and search whether that God did not oftē make them to féele his force and to confesse their owne frailtie The xxxi Chapter The vnluckie chaunces of Augustus AND first I will beginne with him that thought so well of his owne fortune that when he sent his nephue Caius into Armenia against the Par●thians he wished that the loue good will of Pompey the hardinesse prowesse of Alexander the Fortune of him self might accompanie him Neither had hee alone this opinion of his good Fortune but it was also generally receiued of all men in so muche that it was decréede and also kept vntil the time of Iustinian that the people shoulde crie at the creation of a

enimies Cassius lieftenaunt in Syria But not long after that he had fortunately escaped this doubtful perill fell hée into a greater when that the Parthian tooke Hierusalem with king Hyrcanus and placing there in his roome Antigonus forced Herodes his brother Phaselus to dashe out his owne braines against a wall that he might not come aliue into their bondage and Herodes himselfe very hardly escaped their hands and fearefully fledde vnto Rome where he was created king of Iudea The whiche he had not long enioyed but that he was sent for to come before Antonius at Seleucia to be arreigned for the vnworthie murther of his wiues brother Alexander the high priest at what time he knowing the great hatred towards him of Antonius his swéete heart Quéene Cleopatra who insatiably thirsted for his kingdome he was almost in vtter despaire of returne But not long after he fell into greater perill of his state through ayding of Antonius against Octauian wherefore after that Antonius was ouercome he sailed into Rhodes vnto Caesar and there in priuate apparell without diademe suppliantly desired pardon of Caesar the which being happely obteined and his kingdom also by his liberalitie augmented hée fell in his old age into many domesticall dolours the beginning whereof came thorough his wife Mariemne one descended of the auncient bloud royal whom he loued as immoderately as shee hated and abhorred him both hartily and openly vpbrayding him often with the cruell murthering of her graundfather and brother but in the ende hee did wrongfully put her to death for sinister opinion of adulterie betwixte her and his vncle Iosippus and then as immoderately bewailed and lamented her death as before he had rashly slaine her This vnworthie murther of their mother did her two sonnes whome Herodes had appointed to bee his successours in the kingdome stomache in so much that they fled to Rome and accused their father vnto Augustus who made an attonement betwéene the wretched father and his wicked sonnes but it was not long but that Herodes accused them for treason against his person before Archelaus king of Cappadocia whose daughter the one of them had married but Archelaus againe reconciled them but the ill patched friendshipp brake out againe not long after to the destruction of the two innocent sonnes After the dolefull death of his two déere sonnes Alexander Aristobulus the wofull father found out the treason of his sonne Antipater whome he had nominated his heire and how he not onely had caused him by suborning of false witnesses wrongfully to murther his two brothers Alexander and Aristobulus and exasperated him also against two other of his brothers Archelaus Philippe the poison was brought where with Antipater had gone about to poison him whereuppon he obteyned of the Emperour that he might worthily be put to death This domestical calamitie and continual treasons and murtherings of his sonnes did so afflict the aged father that hee ledde a lothsome life wrapped all in wailefulnesse taking no ioy at all in his large Empire great heapes of treasure and beautifull and pleasaunt buildinges And this heauinesse was heaped by long cōtinuance of many dolefull diseases He had no smal ague and an intollerable itche thoroughout all his body then was he also vexed with a painefull torment in his necke and his féete were swollen with the dropsie and his bellie as bigge as a barrell with winde the whiche griefes were augmented with a filthie putrefaction of his priuie parts the which bred aboundance of stinking wormes Moreouer he was very short winded sighing often and had al his lymmes contracted and cramped the tormentes were so intollerable that he thought his friendes did heynously iniurie him when that they did let him to ende his wofull life by friendly stroke of fatall meate knife And then to double his tormentes came this toy into his heade that all the Iewes and people woulde reioyce at his desired death wherefore he commaunded that out of euerie village and towne of the Iudea should the gentlemen be brought into the castell and be all slaine when he shoulde yelde vp his cruell and gastly ghoste that all the whole lande yea and euerie house might weepe and lamente at his death against their willes The xl Chapter Of Mahumet MAhumet the first founder of the secte of the Mahumetanes who possesse nowe farre the greatest parte of the worlde of a beggers bratt and slaue became conquerour and kinge of all Syria and Aegypt and by the consente of the moste of the beste approued authors of the whole Empire of Persia and yet had he also sowre often mingled with his swete for when he firste preached his seditious superstition at Mecha he was driuen by armes out of the towne with his bande of bondmen Neither founde he fortune more friendely at Medina Thalnabi whether he fledde for the Iewes taking armes against him discomfited him in manie skirmishes in one of whom they wounded him in the face strucke out his fore teeth and hurled him into a diche And afterward also in his first inuasion of the Persian was he foiled in fight and forced to retire home where entring in societie with the Sinites that had lately for reprochfull wordes reuolted from the Greekes and returninge with them into Persia fortunately atchiued his exploite But howe pitifully he was tormented with the terrible fallinge sicknesse I thinke it vnknowen vnto fewe Moreouer verie shorte was his reigne for sixe yeares after he beganne his conquestes he died and in the fourtéenth yeare of his age But what cause did depriue this furious fierbrand of mankinde of his enuied life authors do not agrée Some holde that he was poysoned by a Greeke other that he died madde But the cōmon opinion in the East saies Theuet that he was sicke thirty daies of a Pleuresie in seuen of whom he was distraught of his witts but comminge vnto him selfe a little before hee died he tolde his friendes that within three dayes after his death his bodie shoulde be assumpted into heauen The which wordes did witnesse that he was starke madde still as the euente did after proue for when his illuded sectaries had longe time in vaine expected his assumption at last they washing embaulminge his stincking bodie were forced to burie it The xliii Chapter Of Hismaell the Sophie HIsmaell who beganne in our age a newe secte of Mahumetanes amonge the Persians whereof he and all his successors are called Sophies as we shoulde say the wise men thorough the helpe of his folowers threwe downe from the Emperiall siege of Persia the auncient bloude royall and placed himselfe therein making also subiect therevnto manie other countries borderinge there on but Selim the Turke plucked this Pecockes taile discomfiting and woundinge him in a bloudie battell fought in the boweles of his realme the which he himselfe had caused to be all wofully wasted that his fierce enimies shoulde finde nothinge to susteine the necessities of them selues and their horses and also takinge his

foūdation do kingdoms stand on so tottering a stoole do princes sitt that sporting Fortune séemes oftentimes to put them into the hand of a madd man But nothing did more manifestly shewe vnto him his brittle blisse then the reuolting of all the noble men of the farther Hispaine except the duke of Alua vnto Philip duke of Burgogie who had maried his eldest daughter and heire at his arriual in Hispaine after the death of Quéene Isabell they eftsones saying that they would rather adore the sunne rising then going downe The griefe of this shamefull forsaking of him did so gripe the aged princes heart that not being able to endure the dishonour to be a subiecte where hee had long reigned he left Hispaine and sailed with his newe wife vnto Naples chosing rather to cōmit himselfe vnto the doubtfull faith of the gouernour and conquerour of that flourishing kingdome whom the report was minded to reuolt make himselfe king of Naples the which hée might easily haue done then vnto the open ill wills and rebellion of the vnfaithful Hispaniards And doubtlesse hee was in very great danger of being vtterly excluded out of his kingdomes of Castill Lions if that God had not shortly after taken out of the world his sonne in lawe who was so alienated from him that when the courteous king laden with wearisome yeares had taken a lōg paineful iourney to receiue him at the water the proud and vnciuil duke would not vouchsafe to shew him any countenaunce But after he had giuen him scornefully a word or two and them too in French which the king vnderstood not he flange away from him al the nobilitie with him The xlix Chapter Of William Conquerour BVt nowe after that wee haue romed long abroad in all forreigne lands let vs returne home vnto our owne countrie take a view of such Princes as haue by dint of sword atteined the imperial crowne thereof or enlarged the dominions least we may be thought to be like vnto the Lamiae in Poets whome they do faine to sée very exactly when they are abroad but to be starke blinde at home William bastard sonne vnto Robert duke of Normandie who left him his heire although by puissance he cōquered this land discomfited in battel the king of Denmarke forced the king of Scotland for feare to do him homage sweare him fealtie yet the often rebellions and secrete treasons of the Englishmen Normans the perfidiousnes of his owne déere brother Odo in whom he reposed his greatest trust the wicked reuolting of his eldest sonne Robert vnto the French king with his aide his daungerous inuasion of Normandie his arme thrust through in fight and his vnhorsing by that vnnaturall child and his bowelles sore brused by a leape off his horse in his last voyage against the French king of the intollerable torments whereof he died will not suffer him to be enrolled among the happie But nothing in my mind doth more manifestly bewray his infelicitie then that he had not so much ground at his death as could couer his carcase without doing an other man wrong and that which the begger hath without contradiction was denied and forbidden this mightie king Hée had built S. Stephens Church at Cane in Normandie where he would be buried vppon an other mans ground and had not payed the owner for it who being then a very poore man yet nothing fearing the funeral pompe and the great number of nobles attending on the corps did thrust through the thickest thronge of the solemne traine like vnto a madd man and got him to the Church doore wherein he stoode stoutly to withstand the bearing into the Church of the kings body crying out with a lowde voice Hée that in his life time oppressed kingdomes by his furious force hath hitherto with feare also oppressed mee but I that do suruiue him that hath done me the wronge will not graunt rest and peace vnto him now he is dead The place whereinto ye doe carrie this dead man is mine I claime that it is not lawfull for any man to lay a dead body in an other mans ground But if that the case do so stand that when as now at the length through the grace of good God the author of this so vnworthie a wrong is extinguished yet force still doth flourish I do appeale vnto Rhollo the founder father of this nation who alone is of greater power by the lawes which he ordeyned then is any mans iniurie And therewithal I know not whether by hap or mans fraud there soudeinly was séene a great fire which raged on the Church the houses neere adioyning then euery body spéedily running to quench the fire left the kinges corps desolate all alone onely Henrie the kings youngest sonne could not be gotten frō his fathers body who being feared with as it were the manifest wrath of God presently paid the poore mā for his ground discharged his fathers iniurious spirite But these blisselesse bones of his which so hardly obteined entumbing did afterward as vnluckily againe lose it in Anno Domini 1562. when Chastillion conducting reliquias Danaum atque immitis Achillis those that had escaped at the battell at Dreax toke the citie of Cane For certaine sauage souldiours accompanied with foure Capteynes did beate downe and vtterly deface the noble tumbe and monument of that renowmed conquerour and victorious king and pulled out all his bones which they spitefully threwe away when that they could not finde the treasure that they falsly surmised had béen layed vp there as I haue béene certainly enformed by Englishmen of very good credite faithfull fauourers of the reformed who sawe this sorrowfull sight scarse without distilling teares And also Theuet maketh mention of this matter in his vniuersall Cosmographie writing of Cane The l. Chapter Of Henrie the second HENRIE the second had by his father the Earledomes of Aniow Toures and Maine by his mother the kingdome of England and the duchie of Normandie and by his wife the mightie duchie of Aquitane and the earledome of Poitow conquered the kingdome of Ireland and toke prisoner in battell the king of Scottes but this his glistering glorie was fouly darkened by the shamefull submission of his crowne vnto the Romane Sée as Platina their recorder doth report or certes by binding himselfe vnto vnreasonable conditions to abate the enuie of the murther of Thomas the archbishop of Canterburie as our Chronicles do record and by the daungerous and wicked warres a long time kept in Normandie Fraunce and England with al his vngodly sonnes Henrie Richard Gefferie and Iohn yea and his owne wife and their mightie confederats the kings of Fraunce and Scotland with a great number of the English nobilitie and after the death of his vngracious sonne Henrie by the second reuolting of his sonne Richard vnto the French king who wan from him in those warres a great part of the duchie of Normandie and besieged him in the