Canturburie a vacant place hauing manie broken neere walles 〈◊〉 to the towne gate in Sandwich called Canturburie gate In which void toome adioining to the riuer of Delfe is now erected a faire schoolehouse for the schoolemaster vsher certen boording scholers framed all of bricke stone For perpetuall continuance of which schoole the said sir Roger Manwood now lord chiefe baron in this yeare of our Lord 1586 procured letters patents from the quéene for incorporating and assurance of the same schoole with other lands and reuenues thereto belonging to the maior and his brethren of Sandwich and to their successors for euer by the name of the gouernours of the frée grammar schoole of Roger Manwood in Sandwich assuring to the said gouernors of his owne land the cleere yearelie value of 22 pounds and more Further thervnto procuring of his brother Thomas Manwood sometime maior of Sandwich the cleere yearelie value of ten pounds of lands and tenements and also of one Thomas Tompson iurat of Sandwich eight pounds by yeere De claro of his owne lands and tenements in the grosse summe amounting to fourtie pounds by yeare which lands being sufficientlie assured to the said gouernours with conuenient dwelling for the master and vsher lodging for sixteene boording scholers and with some beneuolence of parents for the teaching of their children is a large endowment for perpetuall maintenance of the same grammar schoole Besides which for the further benefit of the same schoole the same sir Roger Manwood hath obteined two scholers roomes in Gonuile and Caius college in Cambridge and two other scholers roomes in Lincolne college at Oxford with pension of foure markes yearelie to euerie of the said foure scholers to be remooued from that schoole of Sandwich and to be placed in those colleges from time to time as often as anie of the same college scholers roomes shall be void and that anie scholer shall be méet to come from that schoole of Sandwich Beyond all which that he hath doone for recompense of his birth place with a frée grammar schoole for the education of the youth there he also for reliefe of age hath néere vnto his dwelling place of saint Stephans in Hackington parish adioining to Canturburie built in the yeare of our redemption 1573 a faire row of seuen almes houses of bricke placing in euerie of the same almes houses poore folkes such as are counted to be honest good For perpetuall maintenance of which almes persons he hath endowed that building with a yéerelie allowance of the value of foure pounds by yeare to euerie of the same almes men houses in monie bread fewell And in the same parish church néere to those almes houses he hath newlie erected an Ile where his toome is made and placed in that church a new roome of seuen pewes and seates for the almes people to be bestowed in togither by themselues Likewise for setting to worke of middle age whereby they may eschew idlenesse this sir Roger Manwood did in the yeare of Christ one thousand fiue hundred seuentie and eight build a new house of correction in the Westgate street in the suburbs of Canturburie And moreouer whereas Rochester bridge standing on the riuer of Medweie being famouslie built of stone in the time of king Richard the second as is most likelie though some attribute the same to the time of Edward the third by one sir Robert Knolles knight with the helpe of Iohn lord Cobham of Cobham and Margaret Courtneie his wife being two of the principall benefactors therevnto after the decaie of a woodden bridge first erected ouer the same riuer some hundred yeares before that of stone had for the perpetuall maintenance of the same stone bridge the ancient contributarie lands giuen for the support of the woodden bridge after the ruine of the same woodden bridge reduced by act of parlement holden in the one and twentith of Richard the second to the maintenance of the same new stone bridge and that sundrie manors lands tenements rents in Kent London Essex were by deuise of sundrie persons assured for the vpholding of the same new stone bridge yet by want of due circumspection this new stone bridge became in so great decaie that in the latter time of quéene Marie and beginning of hir maiestie now reigning line 10 collection was made vpon all horssemen carriages passing ouer that bridge in manner of a tole or tax and more by reason of the queenes commission an vniuersall taxation was made in nature of a tenth and fiftéenth ouer all the countrie of Kent and the citie of Canturburie for and towards the reparations of the same bridge All which being an vnwilling burthen griefe to the people togither with the reuenues of the bridge lands did not yet suffice to saue the ruine of that famous line 20 stone bridge vntill by the carefull trauell of the said sir Roger Manwood then a iustice in the common plées a remedie was sound therefore without iniurie to anie person and without exaction of anie passenger Which remedie was that all the manors lands tenements and rents belonging vnto the bridge should be fréed from all leases thereof made at small rents and the same lands so let to be dulie improoued to a higher rate the same being a matter answerable to right and reason considering line 30 the cause of the first gift of those lands then sufficient and the now dearth of things which made it insufficient to support the said bridge the stone timber and other stuffe for repare of the same bridge with the works wages and carriages concerning it being now growne to farre greater prices than in old time they were Which deuised remedie to vndoo the old leases was much impugned by manie persons of wealthie hauior receiuing great profit by those old vnder rented leases line 40 All which notwithstanding this Roger Manwood prosecuted the same to a good successe for he making to appeare before the lords of the councell and the rest of the iudges of the realme in the presence of such as inioied these old leases and of their learned councell and other fauourers that the said manors lands and tenements belonging to the said bridge were giuen to the wardens communaltie owners of the contributorie lands and that their old leases line 50 made by the wardens onelie without consent of the communaltie were not good in law the farmers submitted themselues to surrender their old insufficient leases and to take such as might be auailable in law of the same lands Whereby the yearelie reueneues of the bridge lands grew to be of more value than triple that which they were before and yet the old farmers had new leases vnto their owne contentation bicause the same are not so improoued but that they are as reasonablie letten as other priuat line 60 mens lands be To which deuise a further remedie was then
destroied them all but in the end the Englishmen were distressed line 50 through the valiancie of Dauid one of the sonnes of the great Leolin and other capteines of the Welsh nation Neuerthelesse Matthew Westminster saith brieflie that the English men were treasonablie slaine so that it séemeth that Matthew Paris speaketh rather of an affection and good will which he bare to the Welsh procéedings in those daies than otherwise For who so marketh the course of his historie shall line 60 perceiue that he had no good liking of the state in those daies neither concerning the ecclesiasticall nor temporall policie in somuch that he sticketh not to commend the Welshmen greatlie for their holding togither against the oppression as he meaneth it of the English gouernement and no doubt there was cause that mooued him to such misliking namelie the often paiments and collections of monie by the popes agents and other such misorders as dailie were permitted or rather mainteined to the impouerishing of both estates spirituall and temporall Godfrey de Kinton was consecrated archbishop of Canturburie at Rome about the feast of Christmasse last past and so returned from thence home to his cure There was an ordinance made about this time for punishment to be had of the extortion of shiriffes so that aswell the receiuer as the giuer of bribes was punishable Which law if it were now executed vpon all officers occupiers whatsoeuer there would not be so much wealth and substance so great riches and treasure raked vp togither in the possession of some few men as the old sage saieng importeth Quisquis ditatur rapidos miluos imitatur The bishops of Worcester and Lincolne with the earles of Norfolke and Leicester were sent ouer in ambassage vnto a councell holden at Cambrey for a league and peace to be concluded betwixt the kingdoms of England and France and also the empire but bicause the French king looked to haue the king of England there when he heard that the same king came not he also staied at home and so no conclusion followed at that assemblie Ione countesse of Penbroke the wife of William de Ualence the kings halfe brother demanded hir right of dower in such lands as belonged to hir by title of inheritance At length she had to the value of fiue hundred marks assigned hir of the same lands notwithstanding hir heritage amounted to the sum of a thousand marks and aboue of yearelie reuenues but for that she should not aid hir husband with part thereof the one halfe was thought sufficient for hir maintenance About Aduent next insuing she went ouer vnto hir husband either for the desire she had to inioy his personall presence or for that she thought hirselfe not well dealt with to be abridged of those reuenues which by right of inheritance were hir owne In the first night of December there chanced a maruellous sore tempest of lightning and thunder with mightie winds and raine as a token and signe of the troubles that after followed the more noted for that thunder in the winter season is not commonlie heard of Guy de Rochford a Poictouin to whom about two yeares before the king had giuen the castell of Rochester was now banished the realme and depriued of all that he held in this land About this season there rose great variance amongst the scholers of Oxford being of sundrie countries as Scotishmen Welshmen Northern men and Southern men who fell so farre at square that they raised baners one against an other and fought togither in somuch that diuerse were slaine and manie hurt on both parties ¶ The Welshmen this yeare notwithstanding their good successe had in these late wars considered with themselues that if the barons of England did once ioine in one knot of fréendship they would with maine force easilie subdue them wherefore to preuent that which might chance vnto them by stubborne resistance they made suit to be receiued into the kings peace offering to giue vnto him the summe of foure thousand markes and to his sonne the lord Edward thrée hundred marks and to the queene two hundred marks Yet the king would not accept those offers and so the matter depended in doubtfull balance a certeine time The Welshmen in the meane season attempted not any exploit but rather sate still in hope to come at length to some reasonable agreement ¶ The moonks of Winchester meaning to prouide themselues of a bishop now that Athelmare aliàs Odomare the kings halfe brother was banished the realme elected one Henrie de Wingham the kings chancellor in hope that the K. would be contented with his election and so he was but yet conditionallie that if the pope would allow his said halfe brother for bishop then should the other giue place About the feast of S. Hilarie when knowledge was giuen that king Richard of Almaine meant to returne into England year 1259 there were sent ouer vnto him the bishop of Worcester the abbat of saint Edmundsburie Peter de Sauoy and Iohn Mansell as ambassadours from the baronage and communaltie of the realme to require of him an oth to stand vnto and obeie the ordinances of the late parlement holden at Oxenford When the said ambassadors came before his presence and declared to him the effect of their message he beheld them with a sterne looke and frowning countenance saieng and binding it with an oth that he would neither be sworne line 10 nor kéepe any such ordinances as had beene made without his consent neither would he make them of counsell how long his purpose was to staie within the realme which the ambassadours required also to vnderstand Herevnto he further added that he had no péere in England for he was the sonne of the deceased king and brother of the king that now reigned and also earle of Cornewall and therefore if the barons of England ment to reforme the state of the kingdome their duetie had beene first to haue sent line 20 for him and not to haue proceeded so presumptuouslie in such a weightie cause without his presence or consent When one of the ambassadours was about to haue made answer somewhat roundlie and also nippinglie vnto this spéech vttered by the king of Almaine he was staied by one of his associats And so the ambassadours vnderstanding his mind returned with all conuenient speed The king of Almaine had assembled a great host of men on the further side the sea meaning with all line 30 expedition to haue passed hither into England but when he had aduertisement giuen that there was a power raised in England and bestowed both by sea and land to resist him he changed his purpose by aduise of his freends so that he consented to receiue such manner of oth as the barons required and herewith taking the sea he arriued at Douer on saint Iulians daie with his owne houshold-seruants bringing with him no traine of strangers
Hugh Bigod his chéefe iustice to be good and grafious lord vnto the citie and to mainteine the liberties thereof vnhurt Herewith the people for ioy made a great shout The eight day line 30 of Nouember he rode through the citie towards the sea side and vpon the thirtéenth daie of Nouember he tooke the sea at Douer and arriued at Whitsand and so from thence he rode vnto Paris where of the French king he was most honorablie receiued The cause of his going ouer was chéefelie to conclude some assured peace with the French king that he should not néed to doubt any forren enimies if he should come to haue warre with his owne people whereof he saw great likelihoods year 1260 and therefore he line 40 made such agreement with king Lewes as in the French historie more at large appeareth which to be short I here omit This one thing is here to be noted that besides the monie which king Henrie had in hand amounting to the summe of an hundred and fiftie thousand crownes for his resignation then made vnto Normandie Aniou and Maine it was accorded that he should receiue yearelie in name of a tribute the sum of ten thousand crownes ¶ Others write that he had line 50 three hundred thousand pounds of small Turon monie which he receiued in readie paiment and was promised restitution of lands to the value of twentie thousand pounds of yearelie rent and that after the decease of the French king that then was the countrie of Poictou should returne vnto the English dominion Some write that immediatlie after king Henrie had concluded his agréement he began to repent himselfe thereof and would neuer receiue penie of the monie nor leaue out in his stile the title line 60 of duke of Normandie But it is rather to be thought that such an agreement was at point to haue béene concluded or at the leastwise was had in talke but yet neuer concluded nor confirmed with hands and seales as it ought to haue beene if they had gone through with it In the meane time that king Henrie was thus occupied in France dissention fell in England betwéene prince Edward and Richard earle of Glocester for the appeasing whereof a parlement was called at Westminster to the which the lords came with great companies and speciallie the said prince and earle They intended to haue lodged within the citie but the maior going vnto the bishop of Worcester to sir Hugh Bigod and to sir Philip Basset vnto whome and to the archbishop of Canturburie the K. had committed the rule of the land in his absence required to know their pleasure herein Wherevpon they thought it good to haue the aduise of Richard the king of Almaine and therevpon went to him where they concluded that neither the said prince nor earle nor anie of their partakers should come within the citie the gates whereof were by the maiors appointment closed and kept with watch and ward both day and night Soone after also for the more safegard of the citie the gates were by the maiors appointment closed and kept with diligent watch and ward both day and night Soone after also for the more safegard of the said citie and sure kéeping of the peace the king of Almaine with the said sir Hugh and sir Philip came and lodged in the citie with their companies and such other as they would assigne to strengthen the citie if need required Wherin their prouident consent to withstand so foule a mischeefe as sedition might haue bred in the citie deserueth high commendation for it was the next waie to preserue the state thereof against all occasions of ruine to vnite harts and hands in so swéet an harmonie which the law of nature teacheth men to doo and as by this sage sentence is insinuated and giuen to vnderstand Manus manum lauat digitus digitum Vir virum ciuitas seruat ciuitatem Shortlie after the king returned out of France and about the feast of S. Marke came to London and lodged in the bishops palace And bicause of certeine rumors that were spred abroad sounding to some euill meaning which prince Edward should haue against his father the king brought ouer with him a great power of men in armes being strangers howbeit he brought them not into the citie but left them beyond the bridge in the parts of Surrie notwithstanding being entred the citie he so kept the gates and entries that none was permitted to enter but such as came in by his sufferance The earle of Glocester by his appointment also was lodged within the citie and the prince in the palace at Westminster Shortlie after by the kings commandement he remooued to S. Iohns all the other lords were lodged without the citie and the king of Almaine remooued againe to Westminster In which time a direction was taken betweene the said parties and a now assemblie and parlement assigned to be kept in the quindene of S. Iohn Baptist and after deferred or proroged till the feast of saint Edward at the which time all things were paciâ—â—ed a while but so as the earle of Glocester was put beside the roome which he had amongst other the peeres and so then he ioined in fréendship with the earle of Leiscester as it were by way of confederacie against the residue and yet in this last contention the said earle of Leicester tooke part with the prince against the earle of Glocester This yeare the lord William de Beauchampe the elder deceassed ¶ The lord Edward the kings sonne with a faire companie of knights and other men of armes passed the seas to exercise himselfe in iusts but he himselfe and his men were euill intreated in manie places so that they lost horsse armour and all other things to his great griefe and disliking as may be estéemed yet as some write he returned home with victorie in the iusts This yeare at Teukesburie a Iew falling by chance into a iakes vpon the saturdaie in reuerence of his sabboth would not suffer any man to plucke him foorth wherof the earle of Glocester being aduertiseâ— thought the christians should doo as much reuerence to their sabboth which is sundaie and therefore would suffer no man to go about to take him foorth that day and so lieng still till mondaie he was there found dead Diuers Noble men departed this life in this yeare as the earle of Albemarle the lord William Beauchampe Stephan de Longespee lord cheefe iustice of Ireland and Roger de Turkeby one of the kings chéese councellors and iustices of the land William de Kickham bishop of Durham and Iohn de Crakehale treasurer of England a spirituall man but rich beyond measure also Henrie de Ba another of the kings iustices of the bench In the 45 yeare of king line 10 Henries reigne Alexander king of Scotland came to London anon after the feast of S. Edward with a
Yorke tenderlie desiring the wealth rest and prosperitie of this land and to set apart all that might be trouble to the same line 20 and considering the possession of the said king Henrie the sixt and that he hath for his time béene named taken and reputed for king of England and of France and lord of Ireland is contented agréed and consenteth that he be had reputed and taken for king of England and France with the roiall estate dignitie and preheminence belonging therevnto and lord of Ireland during his naturall life And for that time the said duke without hurt or preiudice of his said right and title shall take worship line 30 and honour him for his souereigne lord Item the said Richard duke of Yorke shall promit and bind him by his solemne oth in maner and forme as followeth In the name of God Amen I Richard duke of Yorke promise and sweare by the faith and truth that I owe to almightie God that I shall neuer consent procure or stirre directlie or indirectlie in priuie or apert neither as much as in me is shall suffer to be line 40 doone consented procured or stirred anie thing that may sound to the abridgement of the naturall life of king Henrie the sixt or to the hurt or diminishing of his reigne or dignitie roiall by violence or anie other waie against his freedome or libertie but if any person or persons would doo or presume anie thing to the contrarie I shall with all my might and power withstand it and make it to be withstood as far as my power will stretch therevnto so helpe me God and his holie euangelists line 50 Item Edward earle of March and Edmund earle of Rutland sonnes of the said duke of Yorke shall make like oth Item it is accorded appointed and agréed that the said Richard duke of Yorke shall be called and reputed from hencefoorth verie and rightfull heire to the crownes roiall estate dignitie and lordship aboue said and after the deceasse of the said king Henrie or when he will laie from him the said crownes estate dignitie and lordship the said duke and his heires line 60 shall immediatlie succéed to the said crownes roiall estate dignitie and lordship Item the said Richard duke of Yorke shall haue by authoritie of this present parlement castels manors lands and tenements with the wards marriages reliefes seruices fines amercements offices aduousons fées and other appurtenances to them belonging what soeuer they be to the yearelie value of ten thousand marks ouer all charges and reprises whereof fiue thousand marks shall be to his owne state three thousand fiue hundred marks to Edward his first begotten sonne earle of March for his estate and one thousand pounds to Edmund earle of Rutland his second sonne for his yearelie sustentation in such consideration and such intent as shall be declared by the lords of the kings councell Item if anie person or persons imagine or compasse the death of the said duke and thereof probablie be attainted of open déed doone by folkes of other condition that it be déemed adiudged high treason Item for the more establishing of the said accord it is appointed and consented that the lords spirituall and temporall being in this present parlement shall make oths to accept take worship and repute the said Richard duke of Yorke and his heires as aboue is rehearsed and kéepe obserue and strengthen in as much as apperteineth vnto them all the things abouesaid and resist to their power all them that would presume the contrarie according to their estates and degrées Item the said Richard duke of Yorke earles of March and Rutland shall permit and make other to helpe aid and defend the said lords and euerie of them against all those that will quarell or anie thing attempt against the said lords or anie of them by occasion of agréement or consenting to the said accord or assistance giuing to the duke and earles or anie of them Item it is agréed and appointed that this accord and euerie article thereof be opened and notified by the kings letters patents or otherwise at such times and places and in maner as it shall be thought expedient to the said Richard duke of Yorke with the aduise of the lords of the kings councell The king vnderstandeth certeinelie the said title of the said Richard duke of Yorke iust lawfull and sufficient by the aduise and assent of the lords spirituall and temporall and the commons in this parlement assembled and by authoritie of the same parlement declareth approoueth ratifieth confirmeth and accepteth the said title iust good lawfull and true and therevnto giueth his assent and agréement of his frée will and libertie And ouer that by the said aduise and authoritie declareth intituleth calleth establisheth affirmeth reputeth the said Richard duke of Yorke verie true and rightfull heire to the crownes roiall estate and dignitie of the realmes of England and of France and of the lordship of Ireland aforesaid and that according to the worship and reuerence that thereto belongeth he be taken accepted and reputed in worship reuerence by all the states of the said realme of England and of all his subiects thereof sauing and ordeining by the same authoritie the king to haue the said crownes realme roiall estate dignitie and preheminence of the same and the said lordship of Ireland during his life naturall And furthermore by the same aduise and authoritie willeth consenteth and agréeth that after his deceasse or when it shall please his hignesse to laie from him the said crownes estate dignitie and lordship the said Richard duke of Yorke and his heires shall immediatlie succéed him in the said crownes roiall estate dignitie and worship and them then haue and inioie anie act of parlement statute or ordinance or other thing to the contrarie made or interruption or discontinuance of possession notwithstanding And moreouer by the said aduise and authoritie establisheth granteth confirmeth approueth ratifieth and accepteth the said accord and all things therein conteined and therevnto fréelie and absolutelie assenteth agreeth and by the same aduise and authoritie ordeineth and establisheth that if anie person or persons imagine or compasse the death of the said duke probablie be attainted of open déed doone by folks of that condition that it be déemed and adiudged high treason And furthermore ordeineth and establisheth by the said aduise and authoritie that all statutes ordinances and acts of parlement made in the time of the said king Henrie the fourth by the which he and the heires of his bodie comming of Henrie late king of England the fift the sonne and heire of the said king Henrie the fourth and the heires of king Henrie the fift were or be inheritable to the said crownes and realmes or to the heritage of the same be annulled repealed damned cancelled void and of none effect line 10 And ouer this the king by the said aduise assent and authoritie ordeineth and establisheth that all other
would forsake their habit and all that were vnder the age of foure and twentie yéeres and the residue were closed vp that would remaine Further they tooke order that no men should haue accesse to the houses of women nor women to the houses of men except it should be to heare their seruice The abbat or prior of the house where anie of the brethren was willing to depart was appointed to giue to euerie of them a priests gowne for his habit and fortie shillings in monie the nunnes to haue such apparell as secular women ware and to go whither them liked best ¶ The eleuenth of Nouember was a great procession at London for â—oie of the French kings recouerie of health from a dangerous sicknesse ¶ In December a surueie was taken of all chanteries and the names of them that had the gift of them The princesse Dowager â—â—eng at Kâ—imbalton fell into hir last sicknesse whereof the king being aduertised appointed the emperors ambassador that was legier here with him named Eustachius Caputius to go to visit hir and to doo his commendations to hir and will hir to be of good comfort The ambassador with all diligence did his duetie therein comforting hir the best he might but she within six daies after perceiuing hir selfe to wax verie weake and féeble and to féele death approching at hand caused one of hir gentlewomen to write a letter to the king commending to him hir daughter and his beseeching him to stand good father vnto hir and further desired him to haue some consideration of hir gentlewomen that had serued hir and to sée them bestowed in marriage Further that it would please him to appoint that hir seruants might haue their due wages and a yéeres wages beside This in effect was all that she requested and so immediatlie herevpon she departed this life the eight of Ianuarie at Kimbalton aforesaid and was buried at Peterborow ¶ The nine and twentith of Ianuarie quéene Anne was deliuered of a child before hir time which was borne dead On the fourth of Februarie the parlement began in the which amongst other things enacted all religious houses of the value of three hundred marks and vnder were giuen to the king with all the lands and goods to them belonging The number of these houses were thrée hundred seauentie and six the value of their lands yearlie aboue two and thirtie thousand pounds their moouable goods one hundred thousand the religious persons put out of the same houses amounted to the number of aboue 10000. This yéere was William Tindall burnt at a towne betwixt Bruxels and Maclin called Uillefort This Tindall otherwise called Hichins was borne in the marches of Wales and hauing a desire to translate and publish to his countrie diuerse books of the bible in English and doubting to come in trouble for the same if he should remaine here in England got him ouer into the parties of beyond the sea where he translated not onelie the new testament into the English toong but also the fiue bookes of Moses Iosua Iudicum Ruth the books of the kings and Paralipomenon Nehemias or the first of Esdras and the prophet Ionas Beside these translations he made certeine tretises and published the same which were brought ouer into England and read with great desire of diuerse and of many sore despised and abhorred so that proclamations were procured foorth for the condemnation and prohibiting of his â—â—oks as before you haue heard Finallie he was apprehended at Antwerpe by meanes of one Philips an Englishman and then scholer at Louaine After he had remained in prison a long time and was almost forgotten the lord Cromwell wrote for his deliuerance but then in all hast because he would not recant anie part of his doctrine he was bâ—rned as before you haue heard Of whose conuersation and doctrine innocent in the world and sincere for truth as also of his death and martyrdome read the martyrolologie of Iohn Fox our ecclesiasticall chronographer Anno 1536. sub Hen. 8. On Maie daie were solemne iusts kept at Gréenwich and suddenlie from the iusts the king departed not hauing aboue six persons with him and in the euening came to Westminster Of this sudden departing many mused but most chéeflie the quéene ¶ On the next morrow the lord Rochford brother to the quéene and Henrie Norris were brought to line 10 the tower of London prisoners Also the same daie about fiue of the clocke in the after noone queene Anne of Bullongne was brought to the tower of London by sir Thomas Audleie lord chancellor the duke of Norffolke Thomas Cromwell secretarie and sir William Kingston constable of the tower and when she came to the tower gate entring in â—he fell on hir knées before the said lords beséeching God to helpe hir as she was not guiltie of that whereof she was accused and then desired the said lords to line 20 beséech the kings grace to be good vnto hir and so they left hir there prisoner On the fiftéenth of Maie quéene Anne was arreigned in the tower of London on a scaffold for that purpose made in the kings hall before the duke of Norffolke who sate vnder the cloth of estate as high steward of England with the lord chancellor on his right hand the duke of Suffolke on his left hand with marquesses and lords c and the earle of Surrie sat before the duke of Norffolke his father as earle marshall of England The kings commission being read the constable line 30 of the tower and the lieutenant brought the queene to the barre where was made a chaire for hir to sit downe in and there hir indictement was read wherevnto she made so wise and discréet answers that she seemed fullie to cleere hir selfe of all matters laid to hir charge but being tried by hir péeres whereof the duke of Suffolke was chiefe she was by them found guiltie and had iudgement pronounced by the duke of Norffolke line 40 Immediatlie the lord Rochford the queenes brother was likewise arreigned and condemned the lord maior of London his brethren the aldermen the wardens and foure persons mo of euerie the twelue principall companies being present The seauenteenth of Maie the lord Rochford brother to the quéene Henrie Norris Marke Smeton William Brierton and Francis Weston all of the kings priuie chamber about matters touching the quéene were beheaded on the tower hill the lord Rochfords line 50 bodie with the head was buried in the chappell of the tower the other foure in the churchyard there On the ninetéenth of Maie quéene Anne was on a scaffold made for that purpose vpon the gréene within the tower of London beheaded with the sword of Calis by the hands of the hangman of that towne hir bodie with the head was buried in the quéere of the chappell in the tower The words of queene Anne line 60 at hir death GOod christian people I am come hither to
found at the taking of the same to the French king And for the sure paiment of the said sums the French king sent into England for hostages and pledges the counte de Anguien Lewes the duke of Uandosme his brother the Uidame of Charters and the duke de Aumale and others And on S. Markes daie next following being the fiue and twentith daie of Aprill about eight of the clocke in the morning line 10 the Englishmen did deliuer to the Frenchmen the possession of Bullongne and the castels and forts in the countie of Bullognois according to the agreements and articles of peace afore mentioned And the fiftéenth daie next following the French king entered into the said towne of Bullongne with trumpets blowne with all the roiall triumph that might be where he offered one great image of siluer of our ladie in the church there which was called our ladie church the which image he had caused speciallie to be made in the honor of the said ladie and caused the line 20 same to be set vp in the place where the like image before did stand the which before was taken awaie by the Englishmen at the winning of the towne ¶ On Candlemasse daie William lord S. Iohn earle of Wilshire lord great maister and president of the councell was made lord treasuror Iohn Dudleie earle of Warwike lord great chamberleine was made lord great maister William Parre marquesse of Northampton was made lord great chamberleine Lord Wentworth was made lord chamberleine line 30 of the household Sir Anthonie Wingfield capteine of the gard was made comptrollor of the kings house And sir Thomas Darcie knight was made vicechamberleine capteine of the gard And the earle of Arundell late lord chamberleine with the earle of Southampton were put off the councell and commanded to kéepe their houses in London ¶ On the 10 of Februarie one Bell a Suffolke man was hanged and quartered at Tiburne for moouing a new rebellion in Suffolke and Essex This time line 40 the lord maior of London and the aldermen purchased all the liberties of Southworke which were in the kings hands Soone after the aforesaid agreement betwéene England and France was concluded vpon the fore remembred capitulations bicause of suspicion of displeasure and hatred that was thought to remaine betwéene the earle of Warwike and the duke of Summerset latelie before deliuered out of the line 50 tower a meane was found that their fréendship should be renewed through aliance and a mariage was concluded betweene the earle of Warwikes eldest sonne and the duke of Summersets eldest daughter the which marriage was solemnized at Shene the king being then present After the solemnitie of this marriage there appeared outwardlie to the world great loue and fréendship betwéene the duke and the earle but by reason of carietales and flatterers the loue continued not long howbeit manie line 60 did verie earnestlie wish loue and amitie to continue betwéene them ¶ About this time was a new rebellion in Kent but it was soone suppressed and certeine of the chiefe were apprehended and put to death namelie Richard Lion Goddard Gorram and Richard Ireland This yeare was a parlement holden at Westminster where among other things by the authoritie of the said parlement priests children were made legitimate and vsurie for the loane of monie forbidden ¶ On wednesdaie in Whitsunweeke at a court of aldermen kept at the Guildhall sir Iohn Aliffe knight and maister of Blackwell hall was sworne alderman of the Bridge ward without to haue iurisdiction of the borough of Southworke and thus was he the first alderman that euer was there who made vp the number of six and twentie aldermen of London whereas befoâ—e that time had beene but fiue and twentie Trinitie tearme was adiourned till Michaelmasse for that the gentlemen should keepe the commons from commotion The eleuenth of Iune being S. Barnabies daie was kept holiedaie all London ouer and the same daie at night the high altar in Paules church was pulled downe and a table set where the altar stood with a veile drawne beneath the steps and on the sundaie next a communion was soong at the same table and shortlie after all the altars in London were taken downe and tables placed in their roomes This yeare was no such watch at Midsummer as had béene accustomed The thirtith of Iulie Thomas lord Wriothesleie erle of Southampton knight of the garter and one of the executors to king Henrie the eight deceassed at Lincolne place in Holborne and was buried in S. Andrewes church there Sir Andrew Iude for this yeare maior of London and skinner erected one notable fréeschoole at Tunbridge in Kent wherein he brought vp and nourished in learning great store of youth as well bred in that shire as brought from other countries adioining A noble act and correspondent to those that haue beene doone by like worshipfull men and other in old time within the same citie of London He also builded almesse houses for six poore almesse people nigh to the parish church of saint Helens within Bishopsgate of London gaue land to the companie of the skinners in the same citie amounting to the value of thréescore pounds thrée shillings eight pence the yeare for the which they be bound to paie twentie pounds to the schoolemaister and eight pounds to the vsher of his free schoole at Tunbridge yearelie for euer and foure shillings the wéeke to the six poore almesse people at S. Helens aforesaid eight pence the péece wéekelie and fiue and twentie shillings foure pence the yeare in coles amongst them for euer About this time there was at Feuersham in Kent a gentleman named Arden most cruellie murthered and slaine by the procurement of his owne wife The which murther for the horriblenesse thereof although otherwise it may séeme to be but a priuate matter and therefore as it were impertinent to this historie I haue thought good to set it foorth somewhat at large hauing the instructions deliuered to me by them that haue vsed some diligence to gather the true vnderstanding of the circumstances This Arden was a man of a tall and comelie personage and matched in marriage with a gentlewoman yoong tall and well fauoured of shape and countenance who chancing to fall in familiaritie with one Mosbie a tailor by occupation a blacke swart man seruant to the lord North it happened this Mosbie vpon some misliking to fall out with hir but she being desirous to be in fauour with him againe sent him a paire of siluer dice by one Adam Foule dwelling at the Floure de lice in Feuersham After which he resorted to hir againe and oftentimes laie in Ardens house in somuch that within two yeares after he obteined such fauour at hir hands that he laie with hir or as they terme it kept hir in abusing hir bodie And although as it was
poore The poore by impotencie Poore by casualtie Thriftlesse poore 1 The poore by impotencie are also diuided into three kinds that is to saie 1 The fatherlesse poore mans line 60 child 2 The aged blind and lame 3 The diseased person by leprosie dropsie c. 2 The poore by casualtie are of thrée kinds that is to saie 4 The wounded souldier 5 The decaied housholder 6 The visited with gréeuous disease 3 The thriftles poore are three kinds in like wise that is to saie 7 The riotor that consumeth all 8 The vagabond that will abide in no place 9 The idle person as the strumpet and others For these sorts of poore were prouided thrée seuerall houses First for the innocent and fatherlesse which is the beggers child and is in déed the séed and breeder of beggerie they prouided the house that was late Graie friers in London and now is called Christes hospitall where the poore children are trained in the knowledge of God and some vertuous eâ—ercise to the ouerthrowe of beggerie For the second degrée is prouided the hospitall of saint Thomas in Southworke saint Bartholomew in west Smithfield where are continuallie at least two hundred diseased persons which are not onelie there lodged and cured but also fed and nourished For the third degrée they prouided Bridewell where the vagabond and idle strumpet is chastised and compelled to labour to the ouerthrow of the vicious life of idlenes They prouided also for the honest decaied housholder that he should be relieued at home at his house and in the parish where he dwelled by a wéekelie reliefe and pension And in like manner they prouided for the lazer to kéepe him out of the citie from clapping of dishes and ringing of bels to the great trouble of the citizens and also to the dangerous infection of manie that they should be relieued at home at their houses with seuerall pensions Now after this good order taken and the citizens by such meanes as were deuised willing to further the same the report therof was made vnto the kings maiestie and his grace for the aduancement hereof was not onelie willing to grant such as should be the ouerséers and gouernors of the said houses a corporation and authoritie for the gouernement thereof but also required that he might be accounted as the chiefe founder and patrone thereof And for the furtherance of the said worke and continuall maintenance of the same he of his méere mercie and goodnesse granted that where before certeine lands were giuen to the maintenance of the house of the Sauoie founded by king Henrie the seuenth for the lodging of pilgrims and strangers and that the same was now made but a lodging of loiterers vagabonds and strumpets that laie all daie in the fields and at night were harboured there the which was rather the maintenance of beggerie than the reliefe of the poore gaue the same lands being first surrendred into his hands by the maister and fellowes there which lands were of the yearelie value of six hundred pounds vnto the citie of London for the maintenance of the foundation aforesaid And for a further reliefe a petition being made to the kings maiestie for a licence to take in mortmaine or otherwise without licence lands to a certeine yearelie â—alue and a space left in the patent for his grace to put in what summe it would please him he looking on the void place called for pen and inke and with his owne hand wrote this summe in these words foure thousand marks by yeare and then said in the hearing of his councell Lord God I yeeld thée most hartie thanks that thou hast giuen mée life thus long to finish this worke to the glorie of thy name After which foundation established he liued not aboue two daies whose life would haue béene wished equall to the patriarchs if it might haue pleased God so to haue protracted the same But he was too good a prince for so bad a people and therefore God remooued him and translated him to his owne kingdome foreséeing the euent of something which in his secret counsell he had purposed against a nation that knew not the benefit of the acceptable time of grace wherein God by this péerelesse princes means ment all good to this land as might be gathered by the reformation of religion wherin the kings care was exceeding great as his desire to establish Gods glorie was zealous according to that notable allusion of Iohn Leland recorded in praise of this most excellent prince as followeth in this epigram Quisquis Eaduerdum Romano expresserat ore Custodem fidei dixerit esse sacrae Hoc ego crediderim puero feliciter orto A superis nomen coelitùs esse datum Est pater antiquae fidei defensor amicus Degener nullo tempore natus erit But to returne where we left By example of the charitable act of this vertuous yoong king sir William Chester knight and alderman of London and line 10 Iohn Calthrop citizen and draper of the said citie at their owne proper costs and charges made the bricke walles and way on the backeside that leadeth from the said new hospitall vnto the hospitall of saint Bartholomewes and also couered and vauted the towne dich from Aldersgate to Newgate which before was verie noisome and contagious to the said hospitall This hospitall being thus erected and put in good order there was one Richard Castell alià s Casteller line 20 shoomaker dwelling in Westminster a man of great trauell and labor in his facultie with his owne hands and such a one as was named the cocke of Westminster for that both winter and summer he was at his worke before foure of the clocke in the morning This man thus trulie and painfullie labouring for his liuing God blessed and increased his labours so abundantlie that he purchased lands and tenements in Westminster to the yearelie value of fortie and foure pounds And hauing no child with the line 30 consent of his wife who suruiued him was a vertuous good woman gaue the same lands wholie to Christs hospitall aforesaid to the reliefe of the innocent and fatherlesse children and for the succor of the miserable sore and sicke harbored in the other hospitals about London whose example God grant manie to follow ¶ The third of August at Midlenton eleuen miles from Oxford a woman brought foorth a child which had two perfect bodies from the nauill vpward and line 40 were so ioined togither at the nauill that when they were laid in length the one head bodie was eastward and the other west the legs for both the bodies grew out at the midst where the bodies ioined and had but one issue for the excrements of both bodies they liued eightéene daies and were women children The eight of August were taken at Quinborow thrée great fishes called dolphins the weeke following at Blackewall were six more taken and line
some another Hugh Bigot erle of Norfolke a valiant chieftein entred into Norwich Baldwin Reduers tooke Excester Robert Quisquere got certeine castels also into his hands King Stephan hearing what his enimies had doone though he was somewhat mooued with this alteration of things yet as one nothing afraid of the matter he said merilie to those that stood about him We are aliue yet God be thanked and that shall be knowne to our enimies yeâ— it be long Neither doubted he any thing but some secret practise of treason and therfore vsing all diligence he made the more hast to go against his enimies whose attempts though streightwaies for the more part he repressed yet could he not recouer the places without much adoo that they had gotten as Excester and others which when he had obteined he contented himselfe for a time and followed not the victorie any further in pursuing of his enimies Wherevpon they became more bold afterward than before in somuch that soone after they practised diuerse things against him whereof God willing some in places conuenient shall appeare howbeit they permitted him to remaine in quiet for a time But whilest he studied to line 10 take order in things at home perceiuing how no small number of his subiects did dailie shew themselues to beare him no hartie good will he began by little and little to take awaie those liberties from the people which in the beginning of his reigne he had granted vnto them and to denie those promises which he had made according to the saieng That which I haue giuen I would I had not giuen and that which remaineth I will kéepe still This sudden alteration and new kind of rough dealing purchased line 20 him great enuie amongst all men in the end About the same time great commotions were raised in Normandie by meanes of the lord Geffrey earle of Aniou husband to Maud the empresse setting the whole countrie in trouble but yer any newes thereof came into England king Stephan went against Baldwin Reduers who being latelie though not without great and long siege expelled out of Excester got him into the I le of Wight and there began to deuise a new conspiracie Howbeit the king comming suddenlie into the I le tooke it at the first assault line 30 and exiled Baldwin out of the realme Hauing thus with good successe finished this enterprise and being now aduertised of the businesse in Normandie he sailed thither with a great armie and being come within two daies iournie of his enimie the earle of Aniou he sent foorth his whole power of horssemen diuided into three parts which were not gone past a daies iournie forward but they encountred the earle finding him with no great force about him Wherevpon giuing the charge vpon him line 40 they put him to flight and slue manie of his people Which enterprise in this maner valiantlie atchiued euen according to the mind of king Stephan he ioined in freendship with Lewes the seuenth king of France and hauing latelie created his sonne Eustace duke of Normandie he presentlie appointed him to doo his homage vnto the said Lewes for the same Now whereas his elder brother Theobald earle of Blois at that time in Normandie found himselfe line 50 greeued that Stephan the yoonger brother had vsurped the lands that belonged to their vncle king Henrie rather than himselfe Stephan to stop this iust complaint of his brother and to allaie his mood agréed with him couenanting to paie him yearelie two thousand marks of such currant monie as was then in vse Furthermore wheras Geffrey the earle of Aniou demanded in right of his wife the empresse the whole kingdome of England to be at an end with him king Stephan was contented to satisfie line 60 him with a yearelie pension of fiue thousand marks which composition he willinglie receiued Thus when he had prouided for the suertie of Normandie he returned againe into England where he was no sooner arriued but aduertisement was giuen him of a warre newlie begâ—n with the Scots whose king vnder a colour of obseruing the oth to the empresse made dailie insurrections and inuasions into England to the great disturbance of king Stephan and the annoiance of his people Wherwith being somewhat mooued he went streightwaies toward the north parts and determined first to besiege Bedford by the waie which apperteined to the earledome of Huntington by gift made vnto Henrie the sonne of king Dauid and therevpon at that present kept with a garison of Scotish men This place did the king besiege by the space of 30. daies togither giuing thereto euerie daie an assault or alarme in somuch that coÌ„ming thither on Christmasse daie he spared not on the morow to assaile them and so at length wan the towne from them by méere force and strength King Dauid hearing those newes and being alreadie in armour in the field entred into Northumberland and licensed his men of warre to spoile and rob the countrie thereabout at their pleasure Herevpon followed such crueltie that their rage stretched vnto old and yoong vnto preest and clearke yea women with child escaped not their hands they hanged headed and slue all that came in their waie houses were burnt cattell driuen awaie and all put to fire and sword that serued to any vse for reléefe either of man or beast ¶ Here we see what a band of calamities doo accompanie and waite vpon warre wherein also we haue to consider what a traine of felicities doo attend vpon peace by an equall comparing of which twaine togither we may easilie perceiue in how heauenlie an estate those people be that liue vnder the scepter of tranquillitie and contrariwise what a hellish course of life they lead that haue sworne their seruice to the sword We may consider also the inordinat outrages of princes their frantike fiersenes who esteeme not the losse of their subiects liues the effusion of innocent bloud the population of countries the ruinating of ample regions c so their will may be satisfied there desire serued And therefore it was aptlie spoken by a late poet not beside this purpose Reges atque duces dira impelluntur in arma Imperiúmque sibi miserorum caede lucrantur O caeci ô miseri quid bellum pace putatis Dignius aut melius nempe hoc nil turpius nil Quod magis humana procul à ratione recedat Candida pax homines trux decet ira feras But to our storie King Stephan hearing of this pitifull spoile hasted forward with great iournies to the rescue of the countrie The Scots put in feare of spéedie comming to encounter them drew backe into Scotland but he pursued them and entring into their countrie burned and destroied the south parts of that realme in most miserable maner Whilest king Stephan was thus about to beat backe the forren enimies and reuenge himselfe on them
side and perceiuing the citie would not be woone within any short time began to wax wearie and to repent himselfe as afore for taking in hand so chargeable and great a warre for another mans quarell Wherevpon he caused William bishop of Sens and Theobald earle of Blois to go to king Henrie and to promise vpon forbearance from warre for a time to find means to reconcile him and his sonnes betweene whome vnnaturall variance rested Whereof K. Henrie being most desirous and taking a truce appointed to come to Gisors in the feast of the natiuitie of our ladie there to meet king Lewes that they might talke of the matter and bring it to some good end The French king so soone as he knew that truce was taken raised his siege and returning home within a few daies after according to the appointment came to Gisors and there communed with king Henrie but bicause he could not make any agréement betwixt him and his sonnes at that time he appointed another time to meet about it King Henrie the father whilest the truce continued with the French king and his sonne Henrie went to Poictou where his sonne Richard whilest his father had beene occupied in other places had gotten the most part of the countrie into his possession But now hearing of his fathers comming and that a truce was taken with the French king and with his brother he considered with himselfe that without their assistance he was not able to withstand his fathers power Howbeit at length choosing rather to trie the matter with force of armes than cowardlie to yéeld he prepared for defense furnishing diuerse townes and castels with garisons of men and assembling togither all the other power that he was able to make câ—me into the field pitched his tents not far off from his father In the meane while which way soeuer his father passed the townes and castels submitted themselues vnto him so that Richard began to despaire of the matter insomuch that he durst line 10 not approch néere his father but kept aloofe doubting to be entrapped At length when he had considered his owne state and weled how vnthankefullie the French king and his brother had dealt with him in hauing no consideration of him at such time as they tooke truce he determined to alter his purpose and hauing some good hope in his fathers clemencie thought best to trie it which he found to be the best waie that he could haue taken For oftentimes it chanceth that latter line 20 thoughts are better aduised than the first as the old saieng is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Herevpon Richard laieng armour aside came of his owne accord vnto his father on the 21. of September and asked pardon His father most courteously receiuing him made so much of him as though he had not offended at all Which example of courtesie preuailed much to the alluring of his other sons to come to a reconciliation For the bringing whereof line 30 to speedie effect he sent this Richard vnto king Lewes and to his other sonne Henrie to commen with them of peace at which time earle Richard did so effectuallie his message that he brought them both in good forwardnesse to agree to his fathers purpose so that there was a daie appointed for them to meet with their father betwixt Towres in Touraine and Ambois King Henrie reioising hereat kept his daie being the morrow after the feast of S. Michaell and line 40 there met him both king Lewes and his two sonnes Henrie and Geffrey where finallie the father and the sonnes were accorded he promising to receiue them into fauour vpon these conditions 1 First the prisoners to be released fréelie without ransome on both sides and their offenses which had taken either the one part or the other to be likewise pardoned 2 Out of this article were excepted all those which before the concluding of this peace had alreadie line 50 compounded for their raunsomes as the king of Scots the earles of Leicester and Chester and Rafe Fulgiers with their pledges 3 It was also agréed that all those castels which had beene builded in time of this warre should be raced and throwne downe and all such cities townes castels countries and places as had beene woone by either part during these wars should be restored vnto those persons that held the same and were in possession of them 15. daies before the departure of the line 60 sonnes from king Henrie the father 4 That king Henrie the father should assigne to his sons more large reuenues for maintenance of their estates with a caution included that they should not spend the same riotouslie in any prodigall sort or maner 5 To the king his sonne he gaue two castels in Normandie with an increase of yearelie reuenues to the summe of 15. thousand pounds Aniouin 6 To his sonne Richard he gaue two houses in Poictou with the one halfe of all the reuenues of the countie of Poictou to be receiued and taken in readie monie 7 And to his sonne Geffrey he granted in monie the moitie of that which he should haue by the mariage of earle Conans daughter and after he had maried hir by licence purchased of the pope he should enioy all the whole liuings and reuenues that descended to hir as in hir fathers writing therof more at large was conteined 8 On the other part king Henrie the son couenanted to with the king his father that he would performe and confirme all those gifts which his father should grant out of his lands also all those gifts of lands which he either had made and assured or hereafter should make and assure vnto any of his men for any of their seruices likewise those gifts which he had made vnto his sonne Iohn the brother of king Henrie the sonne namelie a thousand pounds in lands by yeare in England of his demaine and excheats with the appurtenances and the castell and countie of Notingham with the castell of Marlebrough the appurtenances Also a thousand pounds Aniouin of yearelie reuenues in Normandie and two castels there And in Aniou a thousand pounds Aniouin of such lands as belonged to the earle of Aniou with one castell in Aniou and one in Touraine and another in Maine Thus were the father and sons agréed and made freends the sonnes couenanting neuer to withdraw their seruices and bounden dueties from their father but to obeie him in all things from that day forward Herewith also the peace was renewed betwixt king Henrie and king Lewes and for the further confirmation a new aliance was accorded betwixt them which was that the ladie Adela the daughter of king Lewes should be giuen in mariage vnto earle Richard the sonne of king Henrie who bicause she was not yet of age able to marie she was conueied into England to be vnder the guiding of king Henrie till she came to lawfull
of the French king by couenants that should passe betwixt them he determined therefore with himselfe to commit his whole safetie to his naturall brother and to no man else perceiuing that the French king made not so great accompt of him after the losse of his castels in England as he had doone before Herevpon comming to his brother king Richard he besought him to pardon his â—â—â—ense and though he had not dealt brotherlie towards him yet that he would brotherlie forgiue him his rebellious trespasse adding furthermore that whereas he had not heretofore beene thankefull for his manifold benefits which he had receiued at his hands yet he was now most sorie therefore and was willing to make amends wherewith he acknowledged the safegard of his life to rest in him for the which he was bound to giue him thanks if he would grant thereto The king mooued with his words made this answer as it is said that he pardoned him indéed but yet wished that he might forget such iniuries as he had receiued at his hands which he doubted least he should not easilie doo Herewith erle Iohn being yet put in good hope of forgiuenesse sware to be true euer after vnto him and that he would endeuour himselfe to make amends for his misdeeds past and so was shortlie after restored vnto his former degree honour and estimation in all respects line 10 But by some writers it should appeare that earle Iohn immediatlie vpon conclusion of the first truce came from the French king and submitted himselfe to his brother and by mediation of the quéene their mother was pardoned receiued againe into fauour and serued 〈◊〉 after against the French king verie dutifullie séeking by new atchiued enterpises brought about to the contentation of his brother to make a recompense for his former misdemeanor reputing it meere madnesse to make means to further line 20 mischeefe for stultum est hostem iritare potentem Atque malum maius tumidis sibi quaerere verbis But at what time soeuer he returned thus to his brother this yeare as Roger Houeden saith he was restored to the earledoms of Mortaigne in Normandie and Glocester in England with the honour of Eie the castels onelie excepted and in recompense of the residue of the earledoms which he had before inioied togither with certeine other lands his brother line 30 king Richard gaue vnto him a yeerelie pension amounting to the summe of eight thousand pound of Aniouin monie ¶ Now here to staie a while at matters chancing here about home I will speake somewhat of the dooings of Leopold duke of Austrich who as one nothing mooued with the pestilence and famine that oppressed his countrie in this season but rather hauing his hart hardened began to threaten the English hostages that they shuld loose their liues if king Richard kept not the couenants which he had line 40 vndertaken to performe by a day appointed Wherevpon Baldwin Betun one of the hostages was sent by common agréement of the residue vnto king Richard to signifie to him their estate King Richard willing to deliuer them out of further danger sent with the same Baldwin his coosen the sister of Arthur duke of Britaine and the daughter of the emperour of Cypres to be conueied vnto the said duke of Austrich the one namelie the sister of Arthur to be ioined in marriage with the dukes sonne and the line 50 other to continue in the dukes hands to bestow at his pleasure But in the meane time on saint Stephans day duke Leopold chanced to haue a fall beside his horsse and hurt his leg in such wise that all the surgions in the countrie could not helpe him wherevpon in extreame anguish he ended his life And whereas before his death he required to be absolued of the sentence of excommunication pronounced against him by the pope for apprehending of king Richard in line 60 his returning from his iournie made into the holie land he was answered by the cleargie that except he would receiue an oth to stand to the iudgement of the church for the iniurie doone to king Richard and that vnlesse other of the Nobilitie would receiue the like oth with him if he chanced to die whereby he might not fulfill that which the church héerein should decrée that yet they should see the same performed he might not otherwise be absolued Wherefore he tooke the oth and the Nobles of his countrie with him and therewithall released the English pledges remitted the monie that yet remained behind of his portion aforesaid and immediatlie therewith died After his deceasse bicause certeine péeâ—es of the countrie withstood the performance of the premisses his bodie laie eight daies longer aboue ground than otherwise it should haue doone for till such time as all the pledges were perfectlie released it might not be buried Also Baldwin de Betun approching neere to the confines of Austrich when he heard that the duke was dead returned with the two ladies vnto his souereigne lord king Richard Thâ—s as ye haue heard for feare of the censures of the church were the pledges restored and the residue of the monie behind released ¶ All this was â—â—th pleasant and profitable for king Richards soules helth as may 〈◊〉 thought bicause he tooke occasion therof to amend hiâ— owne former 〈◊〉 by considering how much he might be repreheâ—â—eâ— for his sundrie faults committed both against God and man A maruellous matter to â—eare how much froÌ„ that time forward he reformed his former trade of liuing into a better forme order Moreouer the emperour gaue to the Ciâ—teauâ— moonks 3000 marks of siluer parcell of king Richards ransome to make siluer censers in euerie church throughout where they had any houses but the abbats of the same order refused the gift being a portion of so wrongfull and vngodlie a gaine At which thing when it came to the knowledge of K. Richard he greatlie maruelled at the first but after commended the abbats in their dooings and cheeflie for shewing that they were void of the accustomed gréedinesse of hauing which most men supposed them to be much infected withall King Richard this yeare pardoned Hugh Nouant bishop of Couentrie of all his wrath and displeasure conceiued toward him and restored to him his bishoprike for fiue thousand marks of siluer But Robert Nouant the same bishops brother died in the kings prison at Douer Also whereas the archbishop of Yorke had offended king Richard he pardoned him and receiued him againe into fauour with the kisse of peace Wherevpon the archbishop waxed so proud that vsing the king reprochfullie he lost his archbishoprike the rule of Yorkeshire which he had in gouernment as shiriffe the fauour of his souereigne and which was the greatest losse of all the loue of God For Nemo superbus amat superos nec amatur ab illis Vult humiles Deus ac mites habitátque libenter Mansuetos animos procul
that by force which otherwise he could not obteine by quiet meanes ¶ This yéere the people paid a fifteenth to the king of all their temporall goods which was said to be granted first to his father The same yeere departed this life Iohn Breton line 30 bishop of Hereford who being verie expert in the lawes of the land compiled a booke of them called Le Breton The 11 of September a generall earthquake chanced betwixt the first houre and the third of the same daie the church of S. Michaell on the hill without Glastenburie was therwith throwne down to the ground After this it rained bloud in the countrie of Wales as a prodigious euill token to that nation with whose bloud shortlie after that region was in manie places moistened and stained For as line 40 it chanced shortlie after Leolin the sonne of Griffin came to haue the gouernment of Wales who partlie to raise new seditions in England and partlie to purchase him friendship and aliance in France sent vnto king Philip requiring of him that he might haue in marriage the ladie Eleanor daughter to Simon Montfort earle of Leicester the which togither with hir mother and brother Emerike remained as banished persons in France The French king granted his request and sent hir vnder the conduct of line 50 hir said brother to be conueied into Wales vnto Leolin who had promised to marrie hir But yer they approched to Wales at the I le of Sillie both the brother sister were taken by foure ships of Bristow the owners whereof that so tooke them sent them vnto king Edward When Leolin vnderstood that his wife was taken from him by the waie as she was comming he was not a little wroth and incontinentlie began to make warre vpon king Edwards subiects that bordered neere vnto Wales killing the line 60 people spoiling their goods and burning vp their townes and houses on each side Herewith the king of England was so mooued that although the said Leolin made sute for peace and offred no small sum of monie to haue the daughter of the earle of Leicester his fianced wife deliuered to him yet would not the king by any meanes consent to that marriage nor receiue any monie of him except he would restore vnto the right owners such lands as he had inuaded and got into his possession and further repaire such castels as he had destroied Herevpon grew no small grudge betwixt the Welshmen and Englishmen so that to represse the inuasion of the enimies in the parts towards Bristow Mountgomerie and Chester the king sent three hundred men in armes on horssebacke In the quindene of Easter the king departing from Westminster hasted towards Wales with a mightie power and caused the courts of the excheker and of his bench to remooue vnto Shrewesburie that they might be néere vnto him making forward with all conuenient speed to come to the aid and succour of his liege people Hervpon entring into Wales he tooke the castell of Rutland and sent into Westwales a valiant capteine named Paine de Camureâ—js who with fire and sword wasted that countrie so that the people offering themselues to the kings peace deliuered vnto the said Paine the castell of Stridewie with the countrie adioining Then Leolin the prince of Wales perceiuing that he was not able to resist the kings power and knowing that if he did attempt the conflict against him the danger would redound to himself his traine did as th' old verse counselleth Peruigili cura semper meditare futura and therefore made suit for peace in so much that finallie it was agreed that commissioners for both parts should talke concerning certeine articles and whatsoeuer they concluded aswell the king as the said Leolin should hold the same for firme and stable The king appointed one of his commissioners to wit the lord Robert de Tiptost to take an oth for him authorised the said Robert Anthonie Beke and frier William de Southampton prior prouinciall of the friers preachers commissioners nominated on his behalfe to receiue the like oth of the said Leolin Which Leolin appointed commissioners for his part Tuder ap Edeuenet and Grono ap Helin the which commissioners with good deliberation concluded vpon certeine points and articles of which the principall were as followeth First that the said Leolin should set at libertie all line 1 prisoners which he held in captiuitie for the king of Englands cause freelie and without all challenge Secondlie that to haue peace and the kings of line 2 Englands fauour he should giue vnto the said king fiftie thousand pounds sterling the daies of the paiment whereof to rest in the kings will and pleasure Thirdlie that the land of the foure cantreds without line 3 all contradiction should remaine for euer to the king and his heires with all lands conquered by the king and his people the I le of Anglesey excepted which I le was granted to the prince so that he should paie for the same yearelie the summe of one thousand marks and fiue thousand marks for an income Prouided that if the prince chanced to die without issue then the said Ile to reuert againe into the kings hands Fourthlie that the prince shall come to Rothelan line 4 or Rothland as it is commonlie called there to doo fealtie to the king and before his comming thither he should be absolued and haue the interdiction of his lands released and at his being at Rothelan a daie shall be appointed him by the king for his comming to London there to doo his homage Herevpon was order taken for his safe conduct aswell in his comming to Rothelan as to London There be that write that he was appointed to come vnto London at the feast of the natiuitie of our Lord. Fiftlie it was couenanted that all the homages line 5 of Wales should remaine to the king except onelie of fiue barons which inhabited néere vnto the castell of Snowdon for otherwise the said Leolin could not conuenientlie call himselfe prince except he haâ— some barons vnder him Sixtlie that he should receiue the title and name of line 6 prince so long as he liued and after his deceasse the homages of those fiue barons should reuert to the king and to his heires foreuer line 7 Seuenthlie the king granted vnto the said Leolin the lands that belonged 〈◊〉 his brother Dauid for â—â—arme of the said Leolins life and in recompense thereof was contented to saâ—â—fie the said Dauid with other lands in some other place the which after the decease of the said Leolin 〈◊〉 Dauid should reuert to the king and his heires For the assurance of which articles and couenants the prince deliuered for hostages ten persons of the best in Wales which he could get without imprisonment line 10 disheriting or terme of deliueraâ—â—e and of euerie cantred twentie persons of the best and most sufficient to be chosen by such
the towne and hauing lost the suburbes to the Englishmen he fled out in the night and so left the towne without anie souldiers to defend it so that the townesmen yeelded it vnto the earle of Derbie and sware themselues to be true liege men vnto the king of England After this the earle of Derbie passed further into the countrie and wan diuerse castels and towns as Lango le Lake Moundurant Monguise Punach Laliew Forsath Pondair Beaumont in Laillois Bounall Auberoch and Liborne part of them by assault and the residue by surrender This doone he returned to Burdeaux hauing left capteins and souldiers in such places as he had woone This yeare the king sent foorth a commission vnto certeine persons in euerie countie within the realme to inquire what lands and tenements euerie man aboue fiue pounds of yeerelie reuenues being of the laie fée might dispend bicause he had giuen order that euerie man which might dispend fiue pounds and aboue vnto ten pounds of such yeerelie reuenues in land of the laie fee should furnish himselfe or find an archer on horssebacke furnished with armour and weapon accordinglie He that might dispend ten pounds should furnish himselfe or find a demilance or light horsseman if I shall so terme him being then called a hobler with a lance And he that might dispend fiue and twentie pounds should furnish himselfe or find a man at armes And he that might dispend fiftie pounds should furnish two men at arms And he that might dispend an hundred pounds should find thrée men at armes that is himselfe or one in his stéed with two other And such as might dispend aboue an hundred pounds were appointed to find more in number of men at armes accordinglie as they should be assessed after the rate of their lands which they might yearelie dispend being of the laie fée and not belonging to the church About this season the duke of Britaine hauing with him the earles of Northampton and Oxenford sir William de Killesbie one of the kings secretaries and manie other barons and knights with a great number of men of armes passed ouer into Britaine against the lord Charles de Blois where they tarried a long time and did little good to make anie accompt of by reason that the duke in whose quarrell they came into those parts shortlie after his arriuall there departed this life and so they returned home into England But after their comming from thence sir Thomas Dagworth knight that had béene before and now after the departure of those lords and nobles still remained the kings lieutenant there so behaued himselfe against both Frenchmen and Britains that the memorie of his worthie dooings deserueth perpetuall commendation Sir Iohn de Heinault lord Beaumont about the same time changed his cote and leauing the king of Englands seruice was reteined by the French king In this ninetéenth yeare of king Edward I find that about the feast of the Natiuitie of saint Iohn Baptist he sailed ouer into Flanders leauing his sonne the lord Lionell warden of the realme in his absence He tooke with him a great number of lords knights and gentlemen with whome he landed at Sluse The cause of his going ouer was to further a practise which he had in hand with them of Flanders the which by the labour of Iaques Arteueld meant to cause their earle Lewes either to doo homage vnto king Edward or else if he refused then to disherit him and to receiue Edward prince of Wales for their lord the eldest sonne of king Edward King Edward promising to make a dukedome of the countie of Flanders for an augmentation of honour to the countrie there came vnto Sluse to the king Iaques van Arteueld and a great number of other appointed as councellors for their chéefest townes The king with all his nauie lay in the hauen of Sluse where in his great ship called the Catharine a councell was holden vpon this foresaid purpose but at length those of the councellors of the cheefest townes misliked the matter so much that they would conclude nothing but required respit for a moneth to consult with all the cōmunaltie of the countries and townes and as the more part should be inclined so should the king receiue answer The king line 10 and Iaques Arteueld would faine haue had a shorter daie and a more towardlie answer but none other could be gotten Herevpon the councell brake vp and Iaques Arteueld tarieng with the king a certeine space after the other were departed promised him to persuade the countrie well inough to his purpose and suerlie he had a great gift of eloquence and had thereby induced the countrie wonderfullie to consent to manie things as well in fauour of king Edward as to his line 20 owne aduancement but this suit which he went now about to bring to passe was so odious vnto all the Flemings that in no wise they thought it reason to consent vnto the disheriting of the earle At length when Iaques Arteueld should returne vnto Gant king Edward appointed fiue hundred Welshmen to attend him as a gard for the preseruation of his person bicause he said that one Gerard Denise deane of the weauers an vnquiet man maliciouslie purposed his destruction line 30 Capteins of these Welshmen were Iohn Matreuers and William Sturine or Sturrie and so with this crue of souldiers Arteueld returned vnto Gant and earnestlie went in hand with his suit in king Edwards behalfe that either the earle should doo his homage to the king of England to whome it was due or else to forfeit his earledome Then the foresaid Gerard as well of his owne mind as procured thereto by the authoritie of earle Lewes stirred the whole citie against the said Arteueld and gathering line 40 a great power vnto him came and beset Arteuelds house round about vpon each side the furie of the people being wonderfullie bent against him crieng Kill him Kill him that hath robbed the tresurie of the countrie and now goeth about to disherit our noble earle Iaques van Arteueld perceiuing in what danger he was came vnto a window and spake to that inraged multitude in hope with faire and courteous words to appease them but it could not be whervpon line 50 he sought to haue fled out of his house but the same was broken vp and so manie entred vpon him that he was found out and slaine by one Thomas Denise as some write But other affirme that on a sundaie in the after noone being the 17 of Iulie a cobler whose father this Iaques van Arteueld had sometime slaine followed him as he was fléeing into a stable where his horsses stood there with an ax cloue his head asunder so that he fell downe starke dead on the ground And this was the end of the foresaid line 60 Iaques van Arteueld who by his wisedome and policie had obteined the whole gouernment of all Flanders This wofull
to studie and knowledge So that vnto these hopes was much helping the manner of the election being made in his person sincerelie and line 10 without simonie or suspicion of other corruption The first act of this new pope was his coronation which was represented according to the vsage of his predecessors in the church of saint Iohn de Lateran The pompe was so great both of his familie and his court and also of the prelates and multitudes that were there togither with the popular and vniuersall assemblies of people that by the opinion and iudgement of men the pride and maiestie of that action did farre surpasse all the celebrations doone in Rome line 20 since the tyrannies of the Goths and sauage nations In this same solemnitie the Gonfalon of the church was caried by Alfonso de Este who hauing obteined a suspension of his censures paines was come to Rome with great hope that by the clemencie and facilitie of the pope he should be able to compound for his affaires The Gonfalon of the religion of Rhodes was borne by Iulio de Medicis mounted vpon a statelie courser armed at all points by his nature he bare an inclination to the profession of line 30 armes but by destinie he was drawen to the life ecclesiastike in which estate he maie serue as a wonderfull example of the variation of fortune One matter that made the memorie of that daie wonderfull was this consideration that the person who then in so high rare pompe was honored with the most supreme and souereigne dignitie of the world was the yéere before and on the verie same daie miserablie made prisoner The great magnificence that appéered vpon his person and his expenses confirmed in the generalitie and multitude of men line 40 the expectation that was had of him euerie one promising that Rome should be happie vnder a pope so plentifullie indued with the vertue of liberalitie whereof that daie he had giuen an honorable experience his expenses being aboue an hundred thousand duckats But wise men desired in him a greater grauitie and moderation they iudged that neither such a maiestie of pompe was conuenient for popes neither did the condition of the present time require line 50 that he should so vnprofitablie disperse the treasures that had beene gathered by his predecessour to other vses The vessell of amitie betwéene the king of Enggland the French being first broched by this popes letters the French king by an herald at armes sent to the king of England requiring of him a safe conduct for his ambassadors which should come to intreat for a peace and attonement to be concluded betwixt them and their realmes Upon grant obteined thereof the French king sent a commission with the line 60 president of Rome and others to intreat of peace and aliance betwixt both the princes And moreouer bicause they vnderstood that the mariage was broken betwéene the prince of Castile and the ladie Marie they desired that the said ladie might be ioined in mariage with the French king offering a great dowrie and suerties for the same So much was offered that the king mooued by his councell and namelie by Woolsie the bishop of Lincolne consented vpon condition that if the French king died then â—he should if it stood with hir pleasure returne into England againe with all hir dowrie and riches After that they were accorded vpon a full peace and that the French king should marrie this yoong ladie the indentures were drawen ingrossed sealed and peace therevpon proclamed the seuenth daie of August the king in presence of the French ambassadors was sworne to kéepe the same and likewise there was an ambassage sent out of England to see the French king sweare the same The dowrie that was assigned vnto the bride to be receiued after hir husbands deceasse if she suruiued him was named to be 32000 crownes of yearelie reuenues to be receiued out of certeine lands assigned foorth therefore during all hir naturall life And moreouer it was further agreed couenanted that the French king should content and paie yearelie vnto king Henrie during the space of fiue yeares the summe of one hundred thousand crownes By conclusion of this peace was the duke of Longuile with the other prisoners deliuered paieng their ransoms and the said duke affied the ladie Marie in the name of his maister king Lewes In September following the said ladie was conueied to Douer by the king hir brother the queene and on the second daie of October she was shipped and such as were appointed to giue their attendance on hir as the duke of Norffolke the marquesse Dorset the bishop of Durham the earle of Surreie the lord de la Ware the lord Berners the lord Monteagle the foure brethren of the said marques sir Maurice Berklie sir Iohn Pechie sir William Sands sir Thomas Bulleine sir Iohn Car and manie other knights esquiers gentlemen and ladies They had not sailed past a quarter of the sea but that the wind arose and seuered the ships driuing some of them to Calis some into Flanders and hir ship with great difficultie was brought to Bullen not without great ieopardie at the entering of the hauen for the maister ran the ship hard on shore But the boats were readie and receiued the ladie out of the ship and sir Christopher Garnish stood in the water and tooke hir in his armes and so caried hir to land where the duke of Uandosme and a cardinall with manie other great estates receiued hir with great honor From Bullen with easie iournies she was conueied vnto Abuile there entered the eighth of October where she was receiued by the Dolphin with great honour she was apparelled in cloth of siluer hir horsse was trapped in goldsmiths worke verie richlie After hir followed 36 ladies all their palfries trapped with crimsin veluet embrodered After them followed one chariot of cloth of tissue the second cloth of gold the third crimsin veluet embrodered with the kings armes hirs full of roses After them followed a great number of archers and then wagons laden with their stuffe Great was the riches in plate iewels monie apparell and hangings that this ladie brought into France On the morrow following being mondaie and S. Denise day the mariage was solemnized betwixt the French king and the said ladie with all honour ioy roialtie both apparelled in goldsmiths worke Then a great banket and sumptuous feast was made where the English ladies were honorablie interteined according to the dignitie of the persons and to the contentment of them that had no dregs of malice or misliking settled in their harts For vnpossible it is that in a great multitude meeting togither though all about one matter be it of pleasure and delight there should not be one of a repugnant disposition and though not apparantlie perceiued trauelling with grudge malignant mind as we sée some apples
immediatlie sent to the tower and three daies after Connesbie was committed thither also They remained there in ward about ten daies and were then deliuered Sir Humfreie Browne was the kings sargeant at law sir Nicholas Hare was one of the kings councellors and speaker of the parlement who being then depriued was now againe thereto restored William Connesbie was attorneie of the dutchie of Lancaster In this parlement were freelie granted without contradictions foure fiftéenes and a subsidie of two shillings of lands and twelue pence of goods toward the kings great charges of making Bâ—lworkes The eighteenth of Aprill at Westminster was Thomas lord Cromwell created earle of Essex and ordeined great chamberleine of England which office the earles of Oxford were woont euer to enioie also Gregorie his sonne was made lord Cromwell The foure and twentith of Aprill Thomas lord Audleie chancellor of England with sir Anthonie Browne maister of the kings horsses were made knights of the night honourable order of the garter On Maie daie was a great triumph of iusting at Westminster which iusts had beene proclaimed in France Flanders Scotland and Spaine for all commers that would against the challengers of England which were sir Iohn Dudleie sir Thomas Seimer sir Thomas Poinings sir George Carew knights Anthonie Kingston and Richard Cromwell esquiers which said challengers came into the lists that daie richlie apparelled and their horsses trapped all in white veluet with certeine knights and gentlemen riding afore them apparelled all in white veluet and white sarsenet and all their seruants in white dublets and hozen cut after the Burgonion fashion and there came to iust against them the said daie of defendants fortie six the earle of Surrie being the formost lord William Howard lord Clinton and lord Cromwell sonne and heire to Thomas Cromwell earle of Essex and chamberleine of England with other which were richlie apparelled And that day sir Iohn Dudleie was ouerthrowne in the field by mischance of his horsse by one master line 10 Breme defendant neuerthelesse he brake diuerse speares valiantlie after that And after the said iusts were doone the said challengers rode to Durham place where they kept open houshold and feasted the king and quéene with hir ladies and all the court The second of Maie Anthonie Kingston Richard Cromwell were made knights at the said place The third of Maie the said challengers did tournie on horssebacke with swords against them came nine and twentie defendants sir Iohn Dudleie and the line 20 earle of Surrie running first who in the first course lost both their gantlets and that daie sir Richard Cromwell ouerthrew master Palmer in the field off his horsse to the great honor of the challengers On the fift of Maie the said challengers fought on foot at the barriers and against them came thirtie defendants which fought valiantlie but sir Richard Cromwell ouerthrew that daie at the barriers master Culpeper in the field The said challengers brake vp their houshold after line 30 they had kept open hospitalitie and feasted the king quéene and all the lords beside all the knights and burgesses of the common house in time of the parlement and the maior aldermen and all their wiues to their no small honor though great expense In the parlement which began the eightéenth of Aprill last past the religion of saint Iohns in England commonlie called the order of knights of the Rhodes was dissolued on the ascension day being the fift of Maie sir William Weston knight prior line 40 of saint Iohns departed this life for thought as was reported which he tooke to the heart after he heard of that dissolution of his order ¶ For the king tooke all the lands that belonged to that order into his hands to the augmentation of his crowne and gaue vnto euerie of the challengers aboue written for a reward of their valiantnesse a hundred marks and a house to dwell in of yearelie reuenues out of the said lands for euer The same moneth were sent to the Tower doctor line 50 Samson bishop of Chichester and doctor Wilson for reléeuing certeine traitorous persons and for the same offense was one Richard Farmer a grocer of London a rich and welthie man and of good estimation in the citie committed to the Marshalseie after at Westminster hall arreigned and atteinted in the premunire so that he lost all his goods ¶ The ninth daie of Iulie Thomas lord Cromwell late made earle of Essex as before you haue heard being in the councell chamber was suddenlie apprehended committed line 60 to the Tower of London the which manie lamented but more reioised and speciallie such as either had béene religious men or fauoured religious persons for they banketed triumphed togither that night manie wishing that that daie had béene seuen yeares before some fearing that he should escape although he were imprisoned could not be merie Other who knew nothing but truth by him both lamented him and heartilie praied for him But this is true that of certeine of the cleargie he was detestablie hated and speciallie such as had borne swinge and by his meanes were put from it for in déed he was a man that in all his dooings seemed not to fauor anie kind of poperie nor could not abide the snuffing pride of some prelats which vndoubtedlie whatsoeuer else was the cause of his death did shorten his life and procured the end that he was brought vnto which was that the ninteenth daie of the said moneth he was atteinted by parlement and neuer came to his answer which law manie reported that he caused first to be made howbeit the plaine truth thereof I know not The articles for which he died appeare in the records where his attaindor is written which are too long here to be rehearsed but to conclude he was there atteinted of heresie and high treason and the eight twentith of Iulie was brought to the scaffold on the Tower hill where he said these words following The words of the lord Cromwell spoken at his death I Am come hither to die and not to purge my selfe as may happen some thinke that I will for if I should so doo I were a verie wretch and a miser I am by the law condemned to die and thanke my Lord God that hath appointed me this death for mine offense For since the time that I came to yeares of discretion I haue liued a sinner and offended my Lord God for the which I aske him hartilie forgiuenesse And it is not vnknowne to manie of you that I haue beene a great traueller in the world and being but of a base degree was called to high estate And since the time I came therevnto I haue offended my prince for the which I aske him hartilie forgiuenesse and beseech you all to praie to God with me that he will forgiue me O Father forgiue me O Sonne forgiue me O Holie ghost
the yearlie value of one hundred twentie pounds for the which it is decreed that the maior burgesses and communaltie of Bristow in the yeare of our Lord 1567 and so yearelie during the tearme of ten yeares then next insuing should cause to be paid at Bristow one hundred pounds of lawfull monie The first eight hundred pounds to be lent to sixtéene poore line 40 yoongmen clothiers fréemen of the same towne for the space of ten yeares fiftie pounds the péece of them putting sufficient suerties for the same and at the end of ten yeares to be lent to other sixteene at the discretion of the maior aldermen and foure of the common councell of the said citie The other two hundred pounds to be imploied in the prouision of corne for the reléefe of the poore of the same citie for their readie monie without gaine line 50 to be taken And after the end of ten yeares on the feast daie of saint Bartholomew which shall be in the yeare of our Lord 1577 at the merchant tailors hall in London vnto the maior and communaltie of the citie of Yorke or to their atturnie authorised an hundred foure pounds to be lent vnto foure yoongmen of the said citie of Yorke fréemen and inhabitants clothiers alwaie to be preferred that is to euerie of them fiue and twentie pounds to haue and occupie the same for the tearme of ten yeares without line 60 paieng anie thing for the loane the foure pounds ouerplus of the hundred and foure pounds at the pleasure of the maior and communaltie for their paines to be taken about the receipts and paiments of the said hundred pounds The like order in all points is taken for the deliuerie of an hundred and foure pounds in the yeare 1578 to the citie of Canturburie In the yeare 1579 to Reading 1580 to the companie of the merchant tailors 1581 to Glocester 1582 to Worcester 1583 to Excester 1584 to Salisburie 1585 to Westchester 1586 to Norwich 1587 to South-hampton 1588 to Lincolne 1589 to Winchester 1590 to Oxenford 1591 to Herefordeast 1592 to Cambridge 1593 to Shrewesburie 1594 to Lin 1595 to Bath 1596 to Derbie 1597 to Ipswich 1598 to Colchester 1599 to Newcastell And then to begin againe at Bristow an hundred and foure pounds the next yeare to the citie of Yorke and so foorth to euerie of the said cities and townes in the like order as before and thus to continue for euer as in the indentures tripartite more plainelie maie appeare At this time manie were in trouble for religion and among others sir Iames Hales knight one of the iustices of the common plées which iustice being called among other by the councell of king Edward to subscribe to a deuise made for the disheriting of queene Marie and the ladie Elizabeth hir sister would in no wise assent to the same though most of the other did yet that notwithstanding for that he at a quarter sessions holden in Kent gaue charge vpon the statutes of king Henrie the eight and king Edward the sixt in derogation of the primasie of the church of Rome abolished by king Henrie the eight he was first committed prisoner to the Kings bench then to the Counter last to the Fléet where whether it were thorough extreame feare or else by reason of such talke as the warden of the Fleet vsed vnto him of more trouble like to insue if he persisted in his opinion or for what other cause God knoweth he was so mooued troubled and vexed that he sought to rid himselfe out of this life which thing he first attempted in the Fleet by wounding himselfe with a penknife well neere to death Neuerthelesse afterward being recouered of that hurt he séemed to be verie conformable to all the queenes procéedings and was therevpon deliuered of his imprisonment and brought to the quéenes presence who gaue him words of great comfort neuerthelesse his mind was not quiet as afterward well appeared for in the end he drowned himselfe in a riuer not halfe a mile from his dwelling house in Kent the riuer being so shalow that he was faine to lie groueling before he could dispatch himselfe whose death was much lamented For beside that he was a man wise vertuous and learned in the lawes of the realme he was also a good and true minister of iustice whereby he gat him great fauour and estimation among all degrees During the aforesaid parlement about the eightéenth daie of October there was kept at Paules church in London a publike disputation appointed by the quéenes commandement about the presence of Christ in the sacrament of the altar which disputation continued six daies doctor Weston then being prolocutor of the conuocation who vsed manie vnseemelie checks tawnts against the one part to the preiudice of their cause By reason whereof the disputers neuer resolued vpon the article proponed but grew dailie more and more into contention without anie fruit of their long conference and so ended this disputation with these words spoken by doctor Weston prolocutor It is not the queens pleasure that we should herein spend anie longer time and yeare well inough for you haue the word and we haue the sword But of this matter ye maie read more in the booke of the monuments of the church At this time was cardinall Poole sent for to Rome by the quéene who was verie desirous of his comming as well for the causes before declared as also for the great affection that she had to him being hir neere kinsman and consenting with hir in religion This message was most thankefullie receiued at Rome and order taken to send the said cardinall hither with great expedition but before his comming quéene Marie had married Philip prince of Spaine as after shall appeare But here to touch somewhat the comming of the said cardinall When he was arriued at Calis there was conference had amongest the councellors of the quéene for the maner of his receiuing some would haue had him verie honourablie met and interteined as he was in all places where he had before passed not onelie for that he was a cardinall and a legat from the pope but also for that he was the quéenes néere kinsman of the house of Clarence Neuerthelesse after much debating line 10 it was thought méetest first for that by the lawes of the realme which yet were not repealed he stood attainted by parlement and also for that it was doubtfull how he being sent from Rome should be accepted of the people who in fiue and twentie yeares before had not béene much acquainted with the pope or his cardinals that therefore vntill all things might be put in order for that purpose he should come without anie great solemnitie vnto Lambeth where in the archbishops house his lodging was line 20 prepared The third of Nouember next following Thomas Cranmer archbishop of Canturburie notwithstanding that he had once refused
priuie councell and lord high treasuror of England at his line 30 manor of Basing This worthie man was borne in the yeare of our Lord 1483 the first yeare of king Richard the third and liued about the age of foure score and seauen yeares in six kings and quéenes daies He serued fiue kings and quéenes Henrie the seauenth Henrie the eight Edward the sixt queene Marie and quéene Elisabeth All these he serued faithfullie and of them was greatlie fauoured Himselfe did sée the children of his childrens children growing to the number of one hundred and line 40 thrée A rare blessing giuen by God to men of his calling On the fiue and twentith and six and twentith of March by the commandement of the quéenes maiestie hir councell the citizens of London assembling at their seuerall halles the maisters collected and chose out the most likelie and actiue persons of euerie their companies to the number of thrée thousand whome they appointed to be pikemen and shot line 50 The pikemen were foorthwith armed in faire corslets and other furniture according thervnto the gunners had euerie of them his caliuer with the furniture and murrians on their heads To these were appointed diuerse valiant capteins who to traine them vp in warlike feats mustered them thrise euerie wéeke sometimes in the artillerie yard teaching the gunners to handle their peeces sometimes at the Miles end in saint Georges field teaching them to skirmish In the which skirmish on the Miles end the line 60 tenth of Aprill one of the gunners of the goldsmiths companie was shot in the side with a peece of a scouring sticke left in one of the caliuers wherof he died and was buried the twelfe of Aprill in Pauls churchyard all the gunners marching from the Miles end in battell raie shot off their caliuers at his graue On Maie daie they mustered at Gréenwich before the quéenes maiestie where they shewed manie warlike feats but were much hindered by the weather which was all daie showring they returned that present night to London and were discharged the next morrow The fourth of Maie Walter Deuexeur lord Ferrers of Chartleie and vicount of Hereford was created earle of Essex and Edward Fines lord Clinton and Saie high admerall of England was created earle of Lincolne The eight of Maie the parlement began at Westminster and that same daie in the parlement by the quéenes maiesties writs sir Henrie Compton knight lord of Compton in the Hole sir Henrie Cheinie knight lord of Todington sir William Paulet knight of Basing sir Henrie Norris knight lord of Ricot were called barons into the higher house In this parlement for so much as the whole realme of England was excéedinglie pestered with roges vagabunds and sturdie beggers by meanes whereof dailie happened diuerse horrible murthers thefts and other great outrages it was enacted that all persons aboue the age of fouretéene yéeres being taken begging vagarant wandering disorderlie should be apprehended whipped and burned through the gristle of the right eare with a hot iron of one inch compasse for the first time so taken The foure twentith of Maie Martine Bullocke was hanged on a gibet by the well with two buckets in Bishops gate stréet of London for robbing and most shamefullie murthering of a merchant named Arthur Hall in the parsonage of S. Martine by the said well This Martine had procured the said Arthur Hall to come to the said parsonage to buie of him certeine plate But after the said Arthur had well viewed the same he said This is none of your plate it hath doctor Gardeners marke and I know it to be his That is true said Martine Bullocke but he hath appointed me to sell it c. After this talke whilest the said Arthur was weieng the plate the same Martine fetcht out of the kitchin a thicke washing beetle and comming behind him stroke the said Arthur on the head that he felled him with the first stroke and then strake him againe and after tooke the said Arthurs dagger and sticked him and with his knife cut his throte and after would haue trussed him in a Danske chest but the same was too short Whervpon he tumbled him downe a paire of staires and after thinking to haue buried him in the cellar his legs being broken with the first fall and stiffe he could not draw him downe the cellar stairs being winding Wherfore he cut off his legs with an hatchet and in the end trussed him with straw in a drie vat and saieng it was his apparell and bookes caused the same to be carried to the water side and so shipped to Rie But as God would haue it there was suspicion gathered against the murtherer wherby he was examined before alderman Branch then one of the shiriffes of London but so small likelihood appéered that he should be guiltie that there was an honest man dwelling in saint Laurence Pontneis named Robert Gée a clothworker who supposing the offendor to be cléere in the matter vndertooke for his foorth comming Wherevpon Bullocke being suffered to go at libertie slipt awaie first to Westminster and there taking bote passed vp the riuer and comming on land beyond Kingston passed foorth till he came to Okingham in the forrest of Windsore an eight miles beyond the towne of Windsore and from thense what mooued him I leaue to the secret iudgement of God he came backe againe vnto London lodging at the red lion in Holborne In the meane time the foresaid Gée vpon knowledge had that Bullocke was withdrawen out of the waie was not onelie had in some suspicion but also committed toward albeit so as he had libertie to take order to send abrode such as should make sute after Bullocke And amongst other that went foorth one of his seruants was sent to Rie whither the drie vat was conueied and comming thither the same drie vat was opened wherein the mangled corps of Hall was found whereby the truth of the matter came to light and by the good prouidence of God the reuealer of such euill facts Bullocke was at the verie same time discouered at the place in Holborne afore mentioned and there apprehended did receiue as ye haue heard due punishment for his heinous and most wicked offense The six and twentith of Maie the right honorable earle of Lincolne departed from London towards France ambassador being accompanied with the lord Dacres the lord Rich the lord Talbot the lord Sands and the lord Clinton sir Arthur Chambernowne line 10 sir Ierome Bowes and sir Edward Hastings knights with diuerse other gentlemen who taking ship at Douer cut ouer to Bullongne where they were verie honorablie receiued and conueied by iournies to Paris where they were lodged in a house of the kings named le chasteau de Louure being attended vpon of the kings officers Fiue daies after they went to the king at a house called Madrill
losse of this right bountifull almoner For by his means their succour was the more now it is to be feared it will be so much the lesse by how much it may be supposed he incresed their reliefe Thus regarded he not so much his priuat thrift as the cōmon good giuing therein to the world a testimonie of christian prudence whose nature is to prefer the benefit of manie before the profit of one according to that of the poet Publica priuatis qui sapit anteferet Th's gentlemans distributions are so diuerse and so manie that the rehersall of them requireth a large discourse It is well knowen and that can the worshipfull companie of the Stationers witnesse that this gentleman for the space of these fouretéene or fiftéene yeares whiles he liued was pitifull to the poore of the parish of S. Faiths and other parishes in which said parish church euerie fridaie ordinarilie throughout the yeare distribution was made of their allowance by the hands of the said worshipfull Stationers to whome that charge was and is committed namelie to twelue poore people twelue pence in monie and twelue pence in bread Neither is this charitable déed laid asleepe but continued euen to the worlds end for the perpetuall succor of the poore and impotent a legacie of six pounds thirtéene shillings and foure pence allowed to that end the bestowing whereof is in the hands of the said worshipfull societie of Stationers the distributors of this almesse to the poore who are put in mind to praise God for that prouision in this request of the benefactor grauen in mettall and fixed fast in the wall hard by his toome I praie you all that receiue bread and pence To saie the Lords praier before ye go hence As for Christes hospitall vnto the which he hath prooued himselfe a fatherlie benefactor towards the bringing vp of the poore children he hath giuen six pounds which they shall inioie for the terme of fiue hundred yeares Moreouer marke the rare liberalitie of this vertuous gentleman he hath giuen to the said hospitall one hundred pounds in readie monie wherewith to purchase lands that their reliefe by the reuenues of the same might be perpetuall a notable deed and an vndoubted worke of perfect christianitie As for S. Thomas spitle in Southworke toward the succour of the sicke and diseased he hath giuen foure poundes yearelie and for euer so that we may sée in all his procéedings with what mercie he was mooued with what pitie pricked and finallie in all respects how godlie giuen And here by the waie it is to be noted that wheras it was reported that he gaue to the hospitall commonlie called the Sauoie founded by king Henrie the seuenth to purchase lands for the behoofe of the said hospitall one hundred pounds in monie it is nothing so For his beneficence towards that hospitall was staid not thorough anie default in him but bicause such agréements could not be concluded vpon as he reasonablie required Wherefore his contribution that waie ceased sore I dare saie against his godlie will Thus much I was desired to speake touching that matter to the intent that nothing but plaine truth might be reported with the contrarie whereof he was not a little offended And although offendors deserue rather to be punished than fauoured wherevpon by politike gouernement it is prouided that their bodies apprehended be committed to appointed places of imprisonment yet this good gentleman remembring that the holie Ghost willeth vs not to withdraw our hand from anie of our brethren in distresse considering that charitie should not be parciall but indifferent hath for the reléefe of the poore prisoners of the two Counters of Newgate of Ludgate of the Marshalseie of the Kings Bench and of the white Lion dealt verie bountifullie and discréetlie giuing vnto the two Counters six pounds to be paied vnto them both by twentie shillings a moneth and to the other prisons aboue mentioned six mattresses a péece the whole number being two doozen and a halfe In consideration of which charitable déed how deepelie they are bound if they haue anie sparkle of grace to thanke God for his goodnesse shewed vnto them by the ministerie of this gentleman all the world maie perceiue It were iniurie offered to let slip vnremembred his mindfulnesse of poore maides marriages and how willing he was to helpe them it appeareth by his good gift of twentie pounds to be equallie diuided among fortie such in number by equall portions of ten shillings a péece with this caueat that these poore maides so to be married should be of good name and fame wherein marke how in all his bequests wisedome is ioined as a yokefellow with his bountie Lastlie and for conclusion this discréet gentleman line 10 carried awaie with the zeale of a good conscience tendering the state of his seruants left them also at a resonable good staie For besides their halfe yeares boord freelie giuen and granted he hath béene beneficiall to them in diuerse other respects which I passe ouer vnremembred But alas these sorowfull seruants doo not a little lament the losse of so louing a maister I omit the hundred eight fréese gownes readie made which he bequeathed at his funerall to poore people both men and women with the disspersing line 20 of the remnant of all his goods after his buriall where need and reason required And thus you see what monuments this gentleman hath left behind him to beare witnesse to the world of the fruitfulnesse of his faith which if as saint Iames saith it maie be iudged by works and that it is a dead and a barren faith which declareth not it selfe by déeds then the sequele maie be this that the faith wherewith he of whome this is written was indued sheweth line 30 it selfe to be the same faith which is wished and I would to God were in the heart of euerie christian As for his religion it was sound his profession sincere his hearing of Gods word attentiue diligent his vse of praier deuout in his sickenesse patient willing to forsake the world and to be with Christ in whose faith he died and lieth intoomed in a faire large vawt in saint Faiths vnder Paules this epitaph grauen in brasse or copper fixed vpon his graue stone comprising a note of our mortalitie line 40 As I was so are ye As I am you shall be That I had that I gaue That I gaue that I haue Thus I end all my cost That I left that I lost Hitherto concerning maister Lambes almes-déeds wherein thus much hath at large beene spoken for others example whome as God hath indued with riches so it were to be wished they would vse them line 50 no woorse The first daie of Maie after twelue of the clocke in the night was an earthquake felt in diuerse places of Kent namelie at Ashford great Chart c which made the people there to rise out
added and set foorth by the said iustice Manwood who for perpetuall supplie when need should be procured that the ancient contributorie lands almost growne into obliuion should be to that end reduced into a conuenient order answerable vnto right and iustice And likewise for good direction in yearelie elections of wardens and other officers with the accounts prouision works and other such necessaries required for perpetuall maintenance of that bridge obteined an act of parlement in the eightéenth yeare of this quéenes reigne as appeareth in the printed booke of statutes wherein were manie things ordâ—ined for the good ordering of the said bridge and the officers belonging therevnto After all which a charge of fiue hundred pounds was of record demanded and leuied vpon the wardens of the said bridge for arerages of the stipends of chanterie priests sometime seruing in the chappell at the east end of the said bridge to the great damage and ouerthrow of the bridge had not the said iustice Manwood by his trauell vpon due and lawfull triall at the assises deliuered discharged the bridge of that great demand as appeareth by record in the court of the excheker before the said sir Roger Manwood came to be chiefe baron there And yet abuse and slackenesse being had in these things the wardens notwithstanding that great beneuolence and reléefe was at sundrie times and of sundrie persons procured vnto the said bridge by the carefull and diligent trauell of Thomas Wooten of Bocton Maleherbe of Kent esquier a deere father and fauourer of his countrie as well at the times of the elections of the wardens and the accounts of the officers were forced to disburse great sums of their owne monie from time to time to dispatch the néedfull charges and works required for the bridge without anie conuenient allowance of the contributorie persons at the yearelie elections of the wardens and without due regard had for order of the said land belonging and contributorie to the bridge For auoiding wherof the said sir Roger Manwood then now lord chiefe baron of the excheker procured to passe another act of parlment in the seuen twentith yeare of hir maiestie reigne wherein is further prouision made for the said bridge as in the printed booke of statutes at large appeareth By which fullie prouided meaneâ— and by reasonable following the presidents of the works and accounts written in great lâ—gear books by the said chiefe baron and William Lambard esquier in the yeare next after the said last mentioned act of parlement of the seauen and twentith of the quéenes reigne they then executing the office of wardens all néedfull reparations be so doone and prouision before hand so made as it is now growne out of all controuersie that the said famous stone bridge of Rochester for euer like to last according vnto the intent of the first building and the indowment thereof for the good and beneficiall seruice of the commonwealth This sir Roger Manwood hauing had before an other wife issued of the gentlemanlie familie of the Theobalds is at this daie ioined in marriage with Elisabeth descended of an ancient and worshipfull familie the daughter of Iohn Copinger of Alhallowes in the countie of Kent esquier which Elisabeth being a woman of such rare modestie and patience as hir verie enimies must néeds confesse the same occasioned these verses following to be composed touching hir hir husband the said sir Roger Manwood Scaccarij protho barâ— Manwoode beatum Quem faciunt leges lingua loquela virumâ— Coniuge foeliciâ—r tamenes quae nata Copinger Egregâ—â— est summa foemina digna viro Quae viduata thâ—ro Wilkins coniunctáque Manwood 〈◊〉 coniux est â—oriata binis In the moneth of Ianuarie deceassed Edward Fines lord Clinton earle of Lincolne and lord admerall of England knight of the garter and one of hir maiesties priuie councell a man of great yéeres and seruice as well by sea as land he was burieâ— at Windsor leauing manie children behind him honorablie married Of this noble man whiles he liued one to whome the honorable lords of the courâ— were not obscurelie knowne writing of the peaâ—eable regiment of the queenes maiestie comprising in an orderlie discourse their high places of seruice to the crowne amongest others speaketh verie commendablie and deseruedlie of this deceassed earle who at such time as the said booke was published vnder the title aforenamed had béene lord great admerall of England thirtie yeares and of councell vnto thrée princes alwaies of vnspotted report speciallie for allegiance and therefore as singularlie beloued in his life so accordinglie bemoned at his death The words that concerne this noble mans memoriall are thus extant to the aduancement of his honour testified by report of two English poets line 10 O Clintone tuae concessa est regia classis Tutelae totos ter denos circiter annos Consuluisse tribus nec haec tibi gloria parua Principibus veterum satraparum sanguine clares Multa gerens pelago praeclarè multáque terris Hunc decorat comitem grandi Lincolnia fastis And before this namelie in the yeare 1564 at what time the said noble man was honored with the title of Praefectus maris and attendant vppon hir maiestie in presence at hir being in Cambridge where line 20 she was magnificallie interteined with all hir troope of lords and traine of ladies c thus did an academike write in praise of the forenamed earle Regnatórque maris Clintonus cuius in vndis Excellens nomen praecipuúmque decus Ille mihi Neptunus aquas mouet ille tridente Hunc Triton hunc pelagi dijque deaeque colunt On the one and twentith daie of Ianuarie one and twentie Iesuites seminaries and other massing priests late prisoners in the Tower of London line 30 Marshalsee and Kings bench were shipped at the Tower wharffe to be conueied towards France banished this realme for euer by vertue of a commission from hir maiestie as may more fullie appeare by that which followeth A vew of the said commission from the queenes maiestie WHere as the queenes most excellent line 40 maiestie foreseeing the danger that hath and might grow vnto the realme by accesse of Iesuits and seminarie priests and other like wandering and massing priests comming hither to seduce and withdraw hir louing subiects from their due obedience to God and hir maiestie and there withall traitorouslie to practise the mouing and stirring of rebellion within the realme as hath appeared by sufficient proofe against them and line 50 by confession of sundrie of themselues for the which diuerse of the said Iesuits and seminaries haue béene tried condemned and executed by the ordinarie and orderlie course of hir maiesties lawes and yet they haue not refrained dailie to practise and attempt the like treasons Hir maiestie notwithstanding following the accustomed course of hir princelie clemencie liking rather for this time to haue them onelie banished out of the
an other pageant made by the Florentins verie high on the top whereof there stood foure pictures and in the middest of them and most highest there stood an angell all in gréene with a trumpet in his hand and when the line 50 trumpetter who stood secretlie in the pageant did sound his trumpet the angell did put his trumpet to his mouth as though it had béene the same that had sounded to the great maruelling of manie ignorant persons this pageant was made with three thorough faires or gates c. The conduit in Cornehill ran wine and beneath the conduit a pageant made at the charges of the citie and an other at the great conduit in Cheape and a founteine by it running wine The standard in Cheape new painted with the waits line 60 of the citie aloft theron plaieng The crosse in Cheape new washed and burnished An other pageant at the little conduit in Cheape next to Paules was made by the citie where the aldermen stood when the quéene came against them the recorder made a short proposition to hir and then the chamberleine presented to hir in the name of the maior and the citie a purse of cloth of gold and a thousand marks of gold in it then she rode foorth and in Paules church-yard against the schoole one master Heiwood sat in a pageant vnder a vine and made to hir an oration in Latine English Then was there one Peter a Dutchman that stood on the weathercâ—cke of Paules stéeple holding a streamer in his hand of fiue yards long and wauing thereof stood sometimes on the one foot and shooke the other and then knéeled on his knees to the great maruell of all people He had made two scaffolds vnder him one aboue the crosse hauing torches and streamers set on it and an other ouer the ball of the crosse likewise set with streamers torches which could not burne the wind was so great the said Peter had sixteene pounds thirtéene shillings foure pense giuen him by the citie for his costs and paines and for all his stuffe Then was there a pageant made against the deane of Paules gate where the quéeristers of Paules plaied on vials and soong Ludgate was newlie repared painted and richlie hanged with minstrels plaieng and singing there Then was there an other pageant at the conduit in Fleetstréet and the temple barre was newlie painted and hanged And thus she passed to Whitehall at Westminster where she tooke hir leaue of the lord maior giuing him great thanks for his pains and the citie for their cost On the morrow which was the first daie of October the quéene went by water to the old palace and there remained till about eleuen of the clocke and then went on foot vpon blew cloth being railed on either side vnto saint Peters church where she was solemnlie crowned and annointed by Stephan Gardiner bishop of Winchester for the archbishops of Canturburie and Yorke were then prisoners in the tower which coronation and other ceremonies and solemnities then vsed according to the old custome was not fullie ended till it was nigh foure of the clocke at night that she returned from the church before whom was then borne three swords sheathed one naked The great seruice that daie doone in Westminster hall at dinner by diuerse noblemen would aske long time to write The lord maior of London twelue citizens kept the high cupboord of plate as butlers and the quéene gaue to the maior for his fée a cupboord of gold with a couer weieng seuentéene ounces At the time of this quéenes coronation there was published a generall pardon in hir name being interlaced with so manie exceptions as they that néeded the same most tooke smallest benefit thereby In which were excepted by name no small number not onelie of bishops and other of the cleargie namelie the archbishops of Canturburie and Yorke the bishop of London but also manie lords knights and gentlemen of the laitie beside the two chiefe iustices of England called sir Edward Montacute and sir Roger Cholmeleie with some other learned men in the law for counselling or at the least consenting to the depriuation of quéene Marie and aiding of the foresaid duke of Northumberland in the pretensed right of the before named ladie Iane the names of which persons so being excepted I haue omitted for shortnesse sake As soone as this pardon was published and the solemnitie of the feast of the coronation ended there were certeine commissioners assigned to take order with all such persons as were excepted out of the pardon and others to compound with the queene for their seuerall offenses Which commissioners sat at the deane of Paules his house at the west end of Paules church and there called before them the said persons apart and from some they tooke their fees and offices granted before by king Edward the sixt and yet neuerthelesse putting them to their fines and some they committed to ward depriuing them of their states and liuings so that for the time to those that tasted thereof it seemed verie grieuous God deliuer vs from incurring the like danger of law againe The fift daie of October next following the quéene held hir hie court of parlement at Westminster which continued vntill the one and twentith daie of the said moneth In the first session of which parlement there passed no more acts but one and that was to declare queene Marie lawfull heire in descent to the crowne of England by the common lawes next after hir brother king Edward and to repeale certeine causes of treason fellonie and premunire conteined in diuers former statutes the which act of repeale was for that cardinall Poole was especiallie looked for as after ye shall heare for the reducing of the church of line 10 England to the popes obedience and to the end that the said cardinall now called into England from Rome might hold his courts legantine without the danger of the statutes of the premunire made in that case whereinto cardinall Wolseie when he was legat had incurred to his no small losse and to the charge of all the clergie of England for exercising the like power the which act being once passed foorthwith the queene repaired to the parlement line 20 house and gaue therevnto hir roiall assent and then proroged the parlement vnto the foure and twentith daie of the said moneth In which second session were confirmed and made diuerse and sundrie statutes concerning religion wherof some were restored and other repealed ¶ Sir Thomas White for this yéere maior and merchant tailor a woorthie patrone and protector of poore scholers lerning renewed or rather erected a college in Oxenford now called saint Iohns college before Bernard college He also erected schooles at Bristow line 30 and Reading Moreouer this worshipfull citizen in his life time gaue to the citie of Bristow two thousand pounds of readie monie to purchase lands to