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

preiudiciall to Iohn Catesbie knight Thomas Reuell and William Ashbie esquiers in of vpon the manour of Kirkebie vpon Wretheke in the countie of Leicester nor in of and vpon anie other lands and tenements in Kirkebie aforesaid Melton Somerbie Thropseghfield and Godebie which they had of the gift feoffement of Thomas Dauers Iohn Lie And further notwithstanding this atteindor diuerse of the said persons afterwards were not onelie by the king pardoned but also restored to their lands and liuings Moreouer in this present parlement he caused proclamation to be made that all men were pardoned and acquited of their offenses which would submit line 10 themselues to his mercie and receiue an oth to be true and faithfull vnto him wherevpon manie that came out of sanctuaries and other places were receiued to grace and admitted for his subiects After this he began to remember his speciall freends of whome some he aduanced to honour and dignitie and some he inriched with goods and possessions euerie man according to his deserts and merits And to begin his vncle Iasper earle of Penbroke he created duke of Bedford Thomas lord Stanleie was line 20 created earle of Derbie and the lord Chendew of Britaine his especiall fréend he made earle of Bath sir Giles Daubeneie was made lord Daubeneie sir Robert Willoughbie was made lord Brooke And Edward Stafford eldest sonne to Henrie late duke of Buckingham he restored to his name dignitie possessions which by king Richard were confiscat and atteinted Beside this in this parlement was this notable act assented to and concluded as followeth to the pleasure of almightie God wealth line 30 prosperitie and suertie of this realme of England and to the singular comfort of all the kings subiects of the same in auoiding all ambiguities and questions An act for the establishing of the crowne in the line of Henrie the seauenth BE it ordeined established and enacted by this present parlement that the inheritance of the crown of this realme of England also of France with all the preheminence and dignitie roiall to the same apperteining all other seigniories to the king belonging beyond the sea with the appurtenances thereto in anie wise due or apperteining shall rest remaine and abide in the most line 50 roiall person of our now souereigne lord king Henrie the seuenth and in the heires of his bodie lawfullie comming perpetuallie with the grace of God so to indure and in none other Beside this act all atteindors of this king enacted by king Edward and king Richard were adnihilated and the record of the same iudged to be defaced and all persons atteinted for his cause and occasion line 60 were restored to their goods lands and possessions Diuerse acts also made in the time of king Edward and king Richard were reuoked and other adiudged more expedient for the common wealth were put in their places and concluded After the dissolution of this parlement the king remembring his fréends left in hostage beyond the seas that is to wit the marquesse Dorset sir Iohn Bourchier he with all conuenient spéed redéemed them and sent also into Flanders for Iohn Morton bishop of Elie. These acts performed he chose to be of his councell a conuenient number of right graue and wise councellors ¶ This did he that he might the more roiallie gouerne his kingdome which he obteined and inioied as a thing by God elected and prouided and by his especiall fauour and gratious aspect compassed and atchiued Insomuch that men commonlie report that seauen hundred nintie seauen yéeres passed it was by a heauenlie voice reuealed to Cadwalader last king of Britains that his stocke progenie should reigne in this land beare dominion againe Wherevpon most men were persuaded in their owne opinion that by this heauenlie voice he was prouided ordeined long before to inioy obteine this kingdome Which thing K. Henrie the sixt did also shew before as it were by propheticall inspiration at such time as the earle of Penbroke presented the said Henrie at that time a proper child vnto Henrie the sixt whome after he had beheld and a good while viewed the comelinesse of his countenance and orderlie lineaments of his bodie he said to such peeres as stood about him Lo suerlie this is he to whome both we and our aduersaries leauing the possession of all things shall hereafter giue roome and place so it came to passe by the appointment of God to whose gouernement gift and disposing all realmes and all dominions are subiect as king Dauid confesseth saieng Omnia sunt regno subdita regna Dei Now although by this meanes all things séemed to be brought in good and perfect order yet there lacked a wrest to the harpe to set all the strings in a monocord and perfect tune which was the matrimonie to be finished betweene the king and the ladie Elizabeth daughter to king Edward Which like a good prince according to his oth promise he did both solemnize consummate shortlie after that is to saie on the eightéenth daie of Ianuarie By reason of which marriage peace was thought to descend out of heauen into England considering that the lines of Lancaster and Yorke were now brought into one knot and connexed togither of whose two bodies one heire might succeed to rule and inioie the whole monarchie and realme of England year 1486 which before was rent and diuided into factions partakings whereby manie a mans life was lost great spoiles made of peoples goods wast of wealth worship and honor all which ended in this blessed and gratious connexion authorised by God as our Anglorum praelia saith Hoc Deus omnipotens pacis confecerat author Ciuilísque habuit tandem contentio finem Shortlie after for the better preseruation of his roiall person he constituted and ordeined a certeine number as well of archers as of diuerse other persons hardie strong and actiue to giue dailie attendance on his person whom he named yeomen of his gard which president men thought that he learned of the French king when he was in France For it is not remembred that anie king of England before that daie vsed anie such furniture of dailie souldiers ¶ In this same yéere a new kind of sickenes inuaded suddenlie the people of this land passing through the same from the one end to the other It began about the one and twentith of September and continued vntill the latter end of October being so sharpe and deadlie that the like was neuer heard of to anie mans remembrance before that time For suddenlie a deadlie burning sweat so assailed their bodies and distempered their bloud with a most ardent heat that scarse one amongst an hundred that sickened did escape with life for all in maner as soone as the sweat tooke them or within a short time after yéelded the ghost Beside the great number which deceassed within the citie of London two

he caused certeine bishops and other of the Nobles to sweare that they should not suffer his bodie to be committed to buriall till his sonnes had sworne to fulfill his last will and testament in all other things but especiallie in this behalfe wherin he iudged not amisse For though Henrie was loth to take his oth yet bicause his fathers line 50 bodie should not remaine vnburied he was contented to sweare But after he had obteined the kingdome of England his couetous desire increasing still with abundance alreadie obteined found meanes to procure of pope Adrian the fourth who was an Englishm●n borne a dispensation for that oth wherevpon hauing got licence to depart from the office both of right law and equitie neglecting his fathers ordinance he passed ouer into Normandie and making war against line 60 his brother the said Geffrey easilie expelled him out of those places which were assigned him by bequest in his fathers testament and so tooke the earledome of Aniou into his owne possession Howbeit he gaue vnto his said brother a pension of a thousand pounds English two thousand pounds of the monie of Aniou with the towne of Lodun and certeine other lands to liue vpon who neuerthelesse thinking himselfe euill vsed at the kings hands rebelled and died ¶ Here we haue to note the lacke of conscience and religion not onlie in the pretended successor of Peter in giuing a dispensasion for an oth but also in his good ghostlie sonne who was no lesse forward in reuolting from his oth than the other was willing to acquite him from the force thereof But if these men had beene profiting scholers in the vniuersitie of the pagans as they were arrand truants and ranke dullards in the schoole of christians they might haue learned by profane examples that as oths are not to be rashlie taken so they are not to be vnaduisedlie broken Herevnto alludeth Aristotle in his Metaphysikes shewing the cause why poetrie hath feigned that the gods in old time vsed to sweare by water as Iupiter is reported to haue doone in this manner per flumina iuro Infera sub terra Stygio labentia luco To signifie vnto vs that as water is a verie ancient and excellent element and so necessarie that without it the life of man cannot consist euen so we ought to estéeme of an oth than the which we should thinke nothing more religious nothing more holie nothing more christian Herevnto also tendeth the fable of the transmutation of mariners into dolphins for periurie importing thus much for our instruction that the breaking of an oth in a case that may preiudice procureth greeuous punishments from God against them that so lewdlie doo offend But such is the impudencie of the pope that he will not grant dispensations onlie for oths but for incest for treason and for any other sinne which he may doo as he boasteth by vertue of his absolute and vniuersall iurisdiction as we haue latelie in most lamentable sort séene exemplified But to the course of our storie Shortlie after when king Henrie had dispatched his businesse in Normandie year 1156 and made an end of troubles there betwixt him and his brother Geffrey he returned into England bicause he receiued aduertisement that Malcolme king of Scotland began to make war against his subiects that bordered next vnto him wherevpon he hasted northwards and comming first into Cumberland he tooke the citie of Carleil seizing all that counrie into his hands and going after into Northumberland he wan the towne of Newcastell with the castell of Bamburg and tooke into his possession all that countrie which his mother the empresse had sometimes granted vnto king Dauid as before ye haue heard howbeit bicause he would not seeme to offer too much wrong and be esteemed vnmindfull of former benefites receiued he suffered king Malcolme to enioy the earledome of Huntington which king Stephan had giuen vnto his father earle Henrie sonne to king Dauid as before is partlie touched William also the earle of Mortaigne and Warren sonne of king Stephan were compelled to surrender to king Henrie the castell of Pemsey the citie of Norwich and other townes and castels which he held apperteining to the demeane of the crowne to whom the king in recompense restored those lands which his father king Stephan held in the daies of king Henrie the first About this time Theodorike earle of Flanders going with his wife vnto Ierusalem committed his sonne Philip with all his lands to the custodie of the king of England Hugh Bigot also resigned his castels into the kings hands But whilest king Henrie was about as before ye haue heard to recouer and get backe the portions of his kingdome made away and dismembred by his predecessors he was informed that the Welshmen raised a rebellion against him to represse whose attempts he hasted foorth with all diligence Now at his first approch to their countrie his souldiers being set vpon in the straits were verie fiercelie put back by the enimies in somuch that a rumor ran how king Henrie was slaine which puffed vp the Welshmen with no small hope and dawnted the Englishmen with great feare In déed diuerse of the English nobilitie were slaine and amongst others Eustace Fitz Iohn and Robert de Curcy men of great honor and reputation Those which escaped in returning backe not knowing that the king passed through the straits without danger declared to their fellowes that followed and were approching to the said straits that so farre as they knew the king and all the residue were lost These newes so discomforted the companies that line 10 Henrie of Essex which bare the kings standard by right of inheritance threw downe the same and fled which dishonorable déed was afterward laid to his charge by one Robert de Mountfort with whom by order taken of the king he fought a combat in triall of the quarrell and was ouercome but yet the king qualifieng the rigor of the iudgement by mercie pardoned his life and appointed him to be a shorne moonke and put into the abbey of Reading taking line 20 his lands and possessions into his hands as forfeited howbeit this combat was not tried till about the 9. yeare of this kings reigne Now the king hearing that his armie was discomfited came to his men and shewing himselfe to them with open visage greatlie reuiued the whole multitude and then procéeding against the enimies his people were afterwards more warie in looking to themselues insomuch that at length when the K. prepared to inuade the Welshmen both by water line 30 land they sought to him for peace and wholie submitted themselues vnto his grace and mercie About the same time king Henrie builded the castell of Rutland the castell of Basingwerke and one house also of Templers In the moneth of September also this yeare the kings third sonne was borne at Oxenford named Richard

to the earle of Cornewall beside Brehull and burned a place there called Segraue where Stephan de Segraue the lord chiefe iustice was line 20 borne and likewise a village belonging to the bishop of Winchester not farre from Segraue aforesaid This was the maner of those outlawes that they hurt no person but onelie those councellers about the king by whom they were exiled and therefore bearing stomach against them they did not onlie excogitate but also execute this reuenge which till they had obteined they were no lesse ill appaid than well pleased when the same was past for minuit vindicta dolorem line 30 Immediatlie within the octaues of the Epithanie the earle Marshall and Leolin prince of Wales wasted and robbed all the marshes betwixt Wales and Shrewsburie a part of which towne they also burnt King Henrie being hereof certified as yet soiourning at Glocester was sore troubled in his mind and calling togither his councell asked aduise what waie he might best take to redresse such iniuries After sundrie opinions amongst them declared they agreed all in one sentence that it should be most expedient to appease the minds of the rebels with gentle line 40 offers to grant them pardon of their offenses wiselie to winne them to tractablenesse and not roughlie afflicting them to exasperat their fiersenesse sith saepe acri potior prudentia dextra Also to banish from his court diuerse that bare great rule and namelie Peter the bishop of Winchester and his sonne or nephue Peter de Riuales by the counsell of which two persons all things had béene changed in the kings house Moreouer to put from him such strangers as bare offices and to restore line 50 Englishmen againe to the same The king allowing this aduise to be good followed it accordinglie and first of all discharging the bishop of Winchester of all publike administration of things he commanded him to repaire home to his diocesse and to sée to the gouernement thereof as to his dutie apperteined He also banished from his presence Peter de Riuales Stephan Segraue Robert Passelew and diuerse others of his chiefe councellers by whose means he had procured the euill will of line 60 his Nobilitie Then receiued he againe his old seruants officers finallie sent the archb of Canturburie the bishops of Chester Rochester vnto the barons in Wales to offer them peace pardon of all iniuries past if they wold returne to his obedience Thus in the end there was a truce taken betwixt the king and the rebels to begin at Candlemasse and to indure vntill Easter next insuing in which meane time Richard the earle of Penbroke hearing that Maurish Fitz Gerald with Walter Lacie Richard Burgh and others wasted his lands and possessions in Ireland according to such commission as they had receiued of late from king Henrie and his councell passed ouer thither and there incountering with his enimies was sore wounded and taken prisoner hauing entered the battell verie rashlie and with a small companie of his people about him onlie by the traitorous persuasion of Geffrey Maurish who with other fled at the first brunt and left him in maner alone to stand to all the danger Those that thus tooke him brought him into his owne castell the which the lord chiefe iustice Maurice Fitz Gerald had latelie woone This incounter in which Richard Marshall was thus taken chanced on a saturdaie being the first of Aprill and on the 16 of the same moneth by reason of the wound which he had receiued he departed this life We find also that the bishop of Winchester and his sonne or kinsman as some haue called him Peter de Riuales had procured the king to send commission vnder his seale vnto the foresaid noble men in Ireland that if the said Richard Marshall earle of Penbroke chanced to come thither they should doo their best to take him and in reward of their paines they should inioy all his lands and possessions which he held in that countrie But after his death and when the king had remooued those his councellers from him he confessed he had put his seale to a writing but that he vnderstood what were the contents thereof he vtterlie denied Finallie this was the end of the worthie earle of Penbroke Richard Marshall a man worthie to be highlie renowmed for his approued valiancie His death suerlie was greatlie bewailed of king Henrie openlie protesting that he had lost the worthiest capteine that then liued After this the lords that had remained in Wales by safe conduct came to the king and through the diligent trauell of the archbishop of Canturburie he receiued them into fauour Amongst them were these men of name Gilbert Marshall the brother of the foresaid Richard Marshall Hubert earle of Kent Gilbert Basset and Richard Sward be●ide diuerse other Unto Gilbert Marshall he deliuered his brothers inheritance and vpon Whitsundaie made him knight giuing vnto him the rod of the office of Marshall of his court according to the maner to vse and exercise as his ancesters had doone before him And herewith the earle of Kent Gilbert Basset and Richard Sward were receiued againe into the court and admitted to be of the kings priuie councell Soone after this Peter de Riuales Stephan Segraue Robert Passelew were called to accounts that it might appeare how the kings treasure was spent and how they had vsed themselues with the kings seale The two last remembred kept themselues out of the waie and could not be found Stephan Segraue shrowding himselfe in secret within the abbeie of Leicester and Robert Passelew feining himselfe sicke kept within the new temple at London Peter de Riuales also with his father the bishop of Winchester tooke sanctuarie at Winchester for they were afraid least their bodies should not be in safetie if they came abroad bicause they vnderstood that their manours and grange places were spoiled and burnt by those that bare them displeasure Howbeit at length vnder the protection of the archbishop of Canturburie they came to their answer were sore charged for their vniust dealing traitorous practise and great falshood vsed in time of their bearing office and as it appeareth by writers they could but sorilie cleare themselues in those matters wherewith they were charged but yet by reason of their protection they were restored to the places from whence they came or else otherwise shifted off the matter for the time so that we read not of anie great bodilie punishment which they should receiue as then In the end they were pardoned reconciled to the kings fauor vpon paiment of such fines as were assessed vpon them This yeare bicause the truce ended betwixt the kings of England and France king Henrie sent ouer to aid the earle of Britaine thréescore knights and two thousand Welshmen the which when the French king came with his armie to enter and inuade Britaine did cut off

Iohn Ufford archdeacon of Elie. For the French king Odo duke of Burgogne and Piers duke of Burbon were deputed commissioners Such diligence was vsed by the parties that finallie they agréed vpon this truce of thrée yeares year 1343 with certeine articles for meane to conclude some finall peace as that there should be sent from either king some personages of their bloud and others vnto the court of Rome with sufficient authoritie to agree confirme and establish vpon all controuersies and dissentions betwixt the said kings according to the agreement of the pope and such as should be so sent to treat thereof It was further agréed that they should haue libertie to declare and pronounce their arguments and reasons before the pope but not to haue power to decide and giue sentence but onlie by waie of some better treatie and order of agréement to be made And these commissioners were appointed to appeare before the pope afore the feast of saint Iohn Baptist next insuing and the pope to dispatch the businesse before Christmasse after if by consent of the said nobles the terme were not proroged And if it so were that the pope could make no agréement yet should the truce indure the prefixed terme to wit till the feast of S. Michaell the archangell and for the space of thrée yeares then next insuing betwixt the kings of France England and Scotland the earle of Heinault and their alies as the dukes of Brabant and of Gelderland also the marques of Gullikerland the lord Beaumont otherwise called sir Iohn de Heinault and the people of Flanders in all their lands and dominions from the date of the charter made hereof by all the said terme aforesaid to be obserued holden and kept Also the king of Scots and the earle of Heinault were appointed to send certeine persons as commissioners for them vnto the said court of Rome This truce was also accorded to be kept in Britaine betwixt the said kings and their adherents in which countrie as well as in Guien and other places euerie man should remaine in possession of that which he held at the time of concluding this truce saue that the citie of Uannes should be deliuered into the hands of the cardinall to be kept by them in the popes name during the truce and then to dispose thereof as should séeme to them good Manie other articles were comprised in the charter of this truce too long héere to rehearse all the which were confirmed with the oths of the said dukes of Burgoigne line 10 and Burbone on the French kings behalfe and of the earles of Derbie Northampton and Salisburie the lord Burghersts and the lord of Mannie for the king of England In witnesse whereof the said cardinals caused the charter to be made putting therevnto their seales the ninetéenth daie of Ianuarie in the yeare 1343 in presence of diuerse prelats and of the earles of Bullongne Ausserre Sancerre Iuignie and Porcien the lord Miles de Nohers the lord Ingram de Coucie and the foresaid lords Cantelowe line 20 Cobham and Berkeley with manie other lords barons nobles and gentlemen When this truce was thus confirmed manie of the English armie returned home through France so to passe ouer by the narrow seas into England but the king himselfe with a few other taking their ships to passe by long seas were maruellouslie tormented by tempest so that their ships were scattered and driuen to take land at diuerse hauens The dutchesse of Britaine with hir sonne and daughter came line 30 on land in Deuonshire Sir Peers de Ueele and his sonne sir Henrie Uéele and sir Iohn Raine knights were drowned togither with the ship in which they passed The king escaping verie hardlie landed at Weimouth and on the fift day of March came to London to the queene In the quindene of Easter he held a parlement at Westminster in which he created his eldest sonne Edward prince of Wales In this parlement were diuerse matters talked of and speciallie concerning wools and of the assessement of a certeine price of them more and lesse according line 40 to the seuerall parts of the realme and of the customes to be made of them to wit thrée marks and an halfe for euerie sacke to be transported foorth of the realme Also in the same parlement were ambassadors appointed foorth such as should go to the pope to treat of peace as in the charter of the truce among other articles it was conteined whose names follow Iohn bishop of Excester Henrie de Lancaster earle of Derbie Hugh le Dispenser lord of Glamorgan line 50 cousins to the king Rafe lord Stafford William de Norwich deane of Lincolne William Trussell knight and master Andrew de Ufford a ciuillian These persons were sent with commission to the pope to treat with him not as pope nor as iudge but as a priuat person and a common fréend to both parts to be a meane or mediator to find out some indifferent end of all controuersie betwixt the parties The date of their commission was at Westminster the foure and twentith of Maie in this seauenteenth line 60 yeare of the kings reigne Moreouer in this parlement a gréeuous complaint was exhibited by the earles barons knights burgesses and other of the commons for that strangers by vertue of reseruations and prouisions apostolike got the best benefices of this land into their hands and neuer came at them nor bare any charges due for the same but diminishing the treasure of the realme and conueieng it foorth sore indamaged the whole state The bishops durst not or would not giue their consents in exhibiting this complaint but rather seemed to stand against it till the king compelled them to giue ouer Herevpon a letter was framed by the lords of the temporaltie and commons which they directed vnto the pope in all humble manner beseeching him to consider of the derogation doone to the realme of England by such reseruations prouisions and collations of benefices as had béen practised here in England And therefore sith the churches of England had béene founded and endowed by noble and worthie men in times past to the end the people might be instructed by such as were of their owne language and that he being so farre off and not vnderstanding the default had like as some of his predecessors more than in times past had beene accustomed granted by diuerse reseruations prouisions and collations the churches and spirituall promotions of this land vnto diuerse persons some strangers yea and enimies to the realme whereby the monie and profits were carried foorth the cures not prouided for almes withdrawne hospitalitie decaied the temples and other buildings belonging to the churches ruinated and fallen downe the charitie and deuotion of the people sore diminished and diuerse other gréeuous enormities thereby growne cleane contrarie to the founders minds wherefore vpon due consideration therof had they signified to him that they could not suffer such

feast of All saints the parlement began to the which the duke of Lancaster came bringing with him an excéeding number of armed men and likewise the earle of Northumberland with no lesse companie came likewise to London was lodged within the citie hauing great friendship shewed towards him of the citizens who promised to assist him at all times when necessitie required so that his part séemed to be ouerstrong for the duke if they should haue come to anie triall of their forces at that time The duke laie with his people in the suburbs and euerie daie when they went to the parlement house at Westminster both parts went thither in armour to the great terror of those that were wise and graue personages fearing some mischiefe to fall foorth of that vnaccustomed manner of their going armed to the parlement house contrarie to the ancient vsage of the realme At length to quiet the parties and to auoid such inconueniences as might haue growen of their dissention the king tooke the matter into his hands and so they were made fréends to the end that some good might be doone in that parlement for reformation of things touching the state of the realme for which cause it was especiallie called but now after it had continued a long time and few things at all concluded newes came that the ladie Anne sister to the emperour Wenslaus affianced wife to the king of England was come to Calis whervpon the parlement was proroged till after Christmas that in the meane time the marriage might be solemnized which was appointed after the Epiphanie and foorthwith great preparation was made to receiue the bride that she might be conueied with all honor vnto the kings presence Such as should receiue hir at Douer repaired thither where at hir landing a maruellous and right strange woonder happened for she was no sooner out of hir ship and got to land in safetie with all hir companie but that foorthwith the water was so troubled and shaken as the like thing had not to any mans remembrance euer béene heard of so that the ship in which the appointed queene came ouer was terriblie rent in péeces and the residue so beaten one against an other that they were scattered here and there after a woonderfull manner Before hir comming to the citie of London she was met on Black-heath by the maior and citizens of London in most honorable wise year 1382 and so with great triumph conueied to Westminster where at the time appointed all the nobilitie of the realme being assembled she was ioined in marriage to the king and crowned quéene by the archbishop of Canturburie with all the glorie and honor that might be deuised There were also holden for the more honour of the same marriage solemne iustes for certeine daies togither in which as well the Englishmen as the new quéenes countriemen shewed proofe of their manhood and valiancie whereby praise commendation of knightlie prowesse was atchiued not without damage of both the parties After that the solemnitie of the marriage was finished the parlement eftsoones began in the which many things were inacted for the behoofe of the commonwealth And amongst other things it was ordeined that all maner manumissions obligations releasses and other bonds made by compulsion dures and menace in time of this last tumult and riot against the lawes of the land and good faith should be vtterlie void and adnihilated And further that if the kings faithfull liege people did perceiue any gathering of the cōmons in suspected wise to the number of six or seauen holding conuenticles togither they should not staie for the kings writ in that behalfe for their warrant but foorthwith it should be lawfull for them to apprehend such people assembling togither and to laie them in prison till they might answer their dooings These and manie other things were established in this parlement of the which the most part are set foorth in the printed booke of statutes where ye may read the same more at large In time of this parlement William Ufford the earle of Suffolke being chosen by the knights of the shires to pronounce in behalfe of the common-wealth certeine matters concerning the same the line 10 verie daie and houre in which he should haue serued that turne as he went vp the staires towards the vpper house he suddenlie fell downe and died in the hands of his seruants busie about to take him vp whereas he felt no gréefe of sickenesse when he came into Westminster being then and before merrie and pleasant inough to all mens sights Of his sudden death manie were greatlie abashed for that in his life time he had shewed himselfe courteous and amiable to all men ¶ The parlement shortlie therevpon line 20 tooke end after that the merchants had granted to the king for a subsidie certeine customes of their wools which they bought and sold called a maletot to endure for foure yeares ¶ The lord Richard Scroope was made lord chancellor the lord Hugh Segraue lord treasuror About the same time the lord Edmund Mortimer earle of March the kings lieutenant in Ireland departed this life after he had brought in manner all that land to peace and quiet by his noble and prudent line 30 gouernement In this season Wicliffe set forth diuerse articles and conclusions of his doctrine which the new archbishop of Canturburie William Courtneie latelie remooued from the sée of London vnto the higher dignitie did what he could by all shifts to suppresse and to force such as were the setters foorth and mainteiners thereof to recant and vtterlie to renounce What he brought to passe in the booke of acts and monuments set foorth by maister I. Fox ye may find at large The tuesday next after line 40 the feast of saint Iohn Port latine an other parlement began in which at the earnest sute and request of the knights of the shires Iohn Wraie priest that was the chiefe dooer among the commons in Suffolke at Burie and Mildenhall was adiudged to be drawen and hanged although manie beleeued that his life should haue béene redeemed for some great portion of monie A lewd fellow that tooke vpon him to be skilfull in physicke and astronomie caused it to be published line 50 thorough the citie of London that vpon the Ascension euen there would rise such a pestilent planet that all those which came abroad foorth of their chambers before they had said fiue times the Lords praier then commonlie called the Pater noster and did not eate somewhat that morning before their going foorth should be taken with sicknesse suddenlie die thereof Manie fooles beléeued him and obserued his order but the next day when his presumptuous lieng could be no longer faced out he was set on horssebacke line 60 with his face towards the taile which he was compelled to hold in his hand in stéed of a bridle and so was led about

to him a pasport but also liberallie disbursed to him a great summe of monie for his conduct and expenses necessarie in his long iournie and passage But the earle trusting in the French kings humanitie aduentured to send his ships home into Britaine and to set forward himselfe by land on his iournie making no great hast till his messengers were returned Which being with that benefit so line 50 comforted and with hope of prosperous successe so incouraged marched towards Britaine with all diligence intending there to consult further with his louers fréends of his affaires and enterprises When he was returned againe into Britaine he was certified by credible information that the duke of Buckingham had lost his head and that the marquesse Dorset and a great number of noble men of England had a little before inquired and searched for him there and were now returned to Uannes line 60 When he had heard these newes thus reported he first sorowed and lamented his first attempt and setting forward of his fréends and in especiall of the nobilitie not to haue more fortunatelie succéeded Secondarilie he reioised on the other part that God had sent him so manie valiant and prudent capteins to be his companions in his martiall enterprises trusting suerlie and nothing doubting in his owne opinion but that all his businesse should be wiselie compassed and brought to a good conclusion Wherefore he determining with all diligence to set forward his new begun businesse departed to Rheims and sent certeine of his priuie seruitours to conduct and bring the marquesse and other noble men to his presence When they knew that he was safelie returned into Britaine Lord how they reioised for before that time they missed him and knew not in what part of the world to make inquirie or search for him For they doubted and no lesse feared least he had taken land in England fallen into the hands of king Richard in whose person they knew well was neither mercie nor compassion Wherefore in all spéedie maner they galoped toward him and him reuerentlie saluted Which meeting after great ioy and solace and no small thanks giuen and rendered on both parts they aduisedlie debated and communed of their great businesse and weightie enterprise In the which season the feast of the Natiuitie of our sauiour Christ happened on which daie all the English lords went with their solemnitie to the cheefe church of the citie and there ech gaue faith and promise to other The earle himselfe first tooke a corporall oth on his honor promising that incontinent after he shuld be possessed of the crowne and dignitie of the realme of England he would be conioined in matrimonie with the ladie Elizabeth daughter to king Edward the fourth Then all the companie sware to him fealtie and did to him homage as though he had béene that time the crowned king and annointed prince promising faithfullie and firmelie affirming that they would not onelie loose their worldlie substance but also be depriued of their liues and worldlie felicitie rather than to suffer king Richard that tyrant longer to rule and reigne ouer them Which solemne oths made and taken the earle of Richmond declared and communicated all these dooings to Francis duke of Britaine desiring most heartilie requiring him to aid him with a greater armie to conduct him into his countrie which so sore longed and looked for his returne and to the which he was by the more part of the nobilitie and communaltie called and desired Which with Gods aid and the dukes comfort he doubted not in short time to obteine requiring him further to prest to him a conuenient summe of monie affirming that all such summes of monie which he had receiued of his especiall fréends were spent and consumed in preparation of his last iourneie made toward England which summes of monie after his enterprise once atchiued he in the word of a prince faithfullie promised to repaie and restore againe The duke promised him aid and helpe Upon confidence whereof he rigged his ships and set foorth a nauie well decked with ordinance and warlikelie furnished with all things necessarie to the intent to saile forward shortlie and to loose no time In the meane season king Richard apprehended in diuerse parts of the realme certeine gentlemen of the earle of Richmonds faction confederation which either intended to saile into Britaine toward him or else at his landing to assist and aid him Amongst whome sir George Browne sir Roger Clifford and foure other were put to execution at London and sir Thomas Sentleger which had married the duchesse of Excester the kings owne sister and Thomas Rame and diuerse other were executed at Excester Beside these persons diuerse of his houshold seruants whome either he suspected or doubted were by great crueltie put to shamefull death By the obseruation of which mens names the place and the action here mentioned with the computation of time I find fit occasion to interlace a note newlie receiued from the hands of one that is able to saie much by record deliuering a summarie in more ample sort of their names whome king Richard did so tyrannicallie persecute and execute as followeth King Richard saith he came this yeare to the citie but in verie secret maner whome the maior his brethren in the best maner they could did receiue and then presented to him in a purse two hundred nobles which he thankefullie accepted And during his abode here he went about the citie viewed the seat of the same at length he came to the castell and when he vnderstood that it was called Rugemont suddenlie he fell into a dumpe and as one astonied said Well I sée my daies not long He spake this of a prophesie told him that when he came once to Richmond line 10 he should not long liue after which fell out in the end to be true not in respect of this castle but in respect of Henrie earle of Richmond who the next yeare following met him at Bosworth field where he was slaine But at his being here he did find the gentlemen of this countrie not to be best affected towards him and after his departure did also heare that the marquesse of Dorset the bishop of Excester and sundrie other gentlemen were in a confederacie against him for the assisting of the erle of Richmond line 20 Wherefore he sent downe Iohn lord Scroope with a commission to keepe a session who sat at Torington then there were indicted of high treason Thomas marquesse Dorset Peter bishop of Excester Thomas Sentleger and Thomas Fulford knights as principals and Robert Willoughbie and Thomas Arundell knights Iohn Arundell deane of Excester Dauid Hopton archdeacon of Excester Oliuer abbat of Buckland Bartholomew Sentleger William Chilson Thomas Gréenefield Richard line 30 Edgecombe Robert Burnbie Walter Courtneie Thomas Browne Edward Courtneie Hugh Lutterell Iohn Crocker Iohn Hallewell and fiue hundred others

accuse him rather of malice than otherwise they were by twelue honest substantiall men of the citie sworne to passe vpon their indictments cléerelie acquited and discharged The same daie also was a pewterer named Thomas Daie discharged by the pardon granted in the last parlement after he had remained in prison in Newgate the space of thrée yeares now past condemned long before the date of the same pardon for the article of auricular confession comprised within the same statute About the same time to wit the seuenth of Iune a great armie of Frenchmen came downe to Bullongne and néere to the hauen incamped themselues In this armie were reckoned to be twelue thousand lanceknights twelue thousand French footmen six thousand Italians foure thousand of legionarie soldiours of France a thousand or twelue hundred men of armes beside seuen or eight hundred light horsmen After some skirmishes not greatlie to their aduantage they began yet to build a fort which at length they accomplished as after shall appeare ¶ About the fiue twentith of Iune was a great tempest in Derbishire where thorough trées were ouerturned diuerse churches chappels and houses were vncouered Also in Lancashire there fell hailestones as big as mens fists which had diuerse prints in them some like mens faces some like gun holes c. The same moneth also the lord Lisle admerall of England with the English fléet entered the mouth of Saine and came before Newhauen where a great nauie of the Frenchmen laie to the number of a two hundred ships and six and twentie gallies wherof the pope as was reported had sent twentie well furnished with men and monie to the aid of the French king The Englishmen being not past an hundred and thréescore saile and all great ships determined not to set vpon the Frenchmen where they laie but yet approching néere vnto them shot off certeine péeces of ordinance at them and thereby caused the gallies to come abroad which changed shot againe with the Englishmen The gallies at the first had great aduantage by reason of the great ●alme Twise either part assaulted other with shot of their great artillerie but suddenlie the wind rose so high that the gallies could not indure the rage of the seas and so the Englishmen for feare of flats were compelled to enter the maine seas and so sailed vnto Portesmouth where the king laie for he had knowledge by his espials that the Frenchmen intended to land in the I le of Wight wherefore he repaired to that coast to see his realme defended After this the eighteenth of Iulie the admerall of France monsieur Danebalte hoised vp sailes and with his whole nauie came foorth into the seas and arriued on the coast of Sussex before bright Hamstéed and set certeine of his soldiors on land to burne and spoile the countrie but the beacons were fired the inhabitants thereabouts came downe so thicke line 10 that the Frenchmen were driuen to flie with losse of diuerse of their numbers so that they did little hurt there Immediatlie herevpon they made to the point of the I le of Wight called saint Helens point and there in good order vpon their arriuall they cast anchors and sent dailie sixtéene of their gallies to the verie hauen of Portesmouth The English nauie lieng there in the same hauen made them readie and set out toward the enimies and still the one shot hotlie line 20 at the other but the wind was so calme that the kings ships could beare no saile which greatlie grieued the minds of the Englishmen and made the enimies more bold to approch with their gallies and to assaile the ships with their shot euen within the hauen The twentith of Iulie the whole nauie of the Englishmen made out purposed to set on the Frenchmen but in setting forward thorough too much follie one of the kings ships called the Marie Rose line 30 was drowned in the middest of the hauen by reason that she was ouerladen with ordinance and had the ports left open which were verie low and the great artillerie vnbreeched so that when the ship should turne the water entered and suddenlie she suncke In hir was sir George Carew knight and foure hundred soldiours vnder his guiding There escaped not past fortie persons of all the whole number On the morrow after about two thousand of the Frenchmen landed in the I le of Wight where one of their line 40 chiefe capteins named le cheualier Daux a Prouencois was slaine with manie other and the residue with losse and shame driuen backe againe to their gallies The king perceiuing the great Armada of the Frenchmen to approch caused the beacons to be fired and by letters sent into Hamptonshire Summersetshire Wiltshire and into diuerse other countries adioining gaue knowledge to such as were appointed to be readie for that purpose to come with line 50 all spéed to incounter the enimies Wherevpon they repaired to his presence in great numbers well furnished with armor weapon vittels and all other things necessarie so that the I le was garnished and all the frontiers alongest the coasts fortified with excéeding great multitudes of men The French capteins hauing knowledge by certeine fishermen whom they tooke that the king was present so huge a power readie to resist them they disanchored and drew along the coast of Sussex and a small number line 60 of them landed againe in Sussex of whome few returned to their ships for diuerse gentlemen of the countrie as sir Nicholas Pelham and others with such power as was raised vpon the sudden tooke them vp by the waie and quickelie distressed them When they had searched euerie where by the coast and saw men still readie to receiue them with battell they turned sterne and so got them home againe without anie act atchiued woorthie to be mentioned The number of the Frenchmen was great so that diuerse of them that were taken prisoners in the I le of Wight and in Sussex did report that they were thrée score thousand The French king aduertised the emperor most vntrulie by letters that his armie had gotten the Ile of Wight with the ports of Hamton and Portesmouth and diuerse other places In August following the earle of Hertford entered againe into Scotland with twelue thousand men and destroied all the townes in the middle marches burned Coldingham abbeie and passed to the west marches sore annoieng and indamaging the Scots and yet neither they nor the Frenchmen that were sent into Scotland this yeare to the aid of the Scots vnder the leading of monsieur de Lorges Montgomerie his father durst once come foorth into the field to incounter with him Also in the beginning of this moneth the citie of London set foorth a thousand soldiors of archers harquebutters pikes and bils which went to Douer and so passed ouer vnto Calis to serue the king in his wars on that side the

the towne the other of the castell sir Gilbert Umfreuill earle of Kime or Angus sir Gilbert Talbot and made bailiffe there sir Iohn Popham and so departed from Caen the line 20 first of October and comming to the castell of Courfie within three daies had it rendred to him From whence the fourth of October he came vnto Argenion they within that towne and castell offered that if no rescue came by a daie limited they would deliuer both the towne and castell into the kings hands so that such as would abide and become the kings faithfull subiects should be receiued the other to depart with their goods and liues saued whither they would the king accepted their offer When the daie line 30 limited came and no succours appeared they yéelded according to the couenants and the king performed all that on his behalfe was promised The lord Graie of Codnor was appointed capteine there After this resorted dailie to the king of the Normans people of all sorts and degrées to sweare to him fealtie and homage The citie of Sées which was well inhabited and wherein were two abbeies of great strength one of them yéelded to the king and so likewise did diuerse other townes in those parties without stroke line 40 striken The towne of Alanson abode a siege for the space of eight daies they within defending it right valiantlie at the first but in the end considering with themselues what small hope there was for anie succours to come to remooue the siege they grew to a composition that if within a certeine daie they were not reléeued they should yéeld both the towne and castell into the kings hands which was doone for no succours could be heard of The king appointed capteine line 50 of this towne the duke of Glocester and his lieutenant sir Ralfe Lentall The duke of Britaine vnder safe conduct came to the king as he was thus busie in the conquest of Normandie and after sundrie points treated of betwixt them a truce was taken to indure from the seuenth daie of Nouember vnto the last of September in the yeare next following betwixt them their souldiers men of warre and subiects The like truce was granted vnto the quéene of Ierusalem and Sicill to hir sonne line 60 Lewes for the duchie of Aniou and the countie of Maine the duke of Britaine being their deputie for concluding of the same truce About the same time also at the sute of Charles the Dolphin a treatie was in hand at Tonque for a finall peace but it came to none effect From Alanson the king set forward towards the towne and castell of Faleis meaning to besiege the same where the Frenchmen appointed to the kéeping of it had fortified the towne by all meanes possible and prepared themselues to defend it to the vttermost The earle of Salisburie was first sent thither before with certeine bands of souldiers to inclose the enimies within the towne to view the strength therof After him came the king with his whole armie about the first of December and then was the towne besieged on ech side The king lodged before the gate that leadeth to Caen the duke of Clarence before the castell that standeth on a rocke and the duke of Glocester laie on the kings right hand and other lords noble men were assigned to their places as was thought expedient And to be sure from taking damage by anie sudden inuasion of the enimies there were great trenches and rampiers cast and made about their seuerall campes for defense of the same The Frenchmen notwithstanding this siege valiantlie defended their wals and sometimes made issues foorth but small to their gaine and still the Englishmen with their guns and great ordinance made batterie to the wals and bulworks The winter season was verie cold with sharpe frosts hard weather but the Englishmen made such shift for prouision of all things necessarie to serue their turns that they were sufficientlie prouided both against hunger and cold so that in the end the Frenchmen perceiuing they could not long indure against them offered to talke and agreed to giue ouer the towne if no rescue came by a certeine daie appointed About the same season was sir Iohn Oldcastell lord Cobham taken in the countrie of Powes land in the borders of Wales within a lordship belonging to the lord Powes not without danger and hurts of some that were at the taking of him for they could not take him till he was wounded himselfe At the same time the states of the realme were assembled at London for the leuieng of monie to furnish the kings great charges which he was at about the maintenance of his wars in France it was therefore determined that the said sir Iohn Oldcastell should be brought and put to his triall yer the assemblie brake vp The lord Powes therefore was sent to fetch him who brought him to London in a litter wounded as he was herewith being first laid fast in the Tower shortlie after he was brought before the duke of Bedford regent of the realme and the other estates where in the end he was condemned and finallie was drawen from the Tower vnto saint Giles field and there hanged in a chaine by the middle and after consumed with fire the gallowes and all When the daie was come on the which it was couenanted that the towne of Faleis should be deliuered to wit the second of Ianuarie year 1418 because no succours appeared the towne was yéelded to the king but the castell held out still into the which the capteine and gouernour both of the towne and castell had withdrawne themselues with all the souldiers and being streictlie besieged the capteine defended himselfe and the place right stoutlie although he was sore laid to vntill at length perceiuing his people wearied with continuall assaults and such approches as were made to and within the verie wals he was driuen to compound with the king that if he were not succoured by the sixt of Februarie then should he yeeld himselfe prisoner and deliuer the castell so that the souldiers should haue licence to depart with their liues onelie saued When the daie came the couenants were performed and the castell rendered to the kings hands for no aid came to the rescue of them within The capteine named Oliuer de Mannie was kept as prisoner till the castell was repared at his costs and charges because the same through his obstinat wilfulnesse was sore beaten and defaced with vnderminings and batterie Capteine there by the king was appointed sir Henrie Fitz Hugh After this king Henrie returned to Caen and by reason of a proclamation which he had caused to be made for the people of Normandie that had withdrawne themselues foorth of the baliwi●ks of Caen and Faleis he granted awaie to his owne people the lands of those that came not in vpon that proclamation and in speciall he gaue to the

he might lawfullie demand anie summe by commission and that by the consent of the whole councell it was doone and tooke God to witnes that he neuer desired the hinderance of the commons but like a true councellor deuised how to inrich the king The king indéed was much offended that his commons were thus intreated thought it touched his honor that his councell should attempt such a doubtfull matter in his name and to be denied both of the spiritualtie and temporaltie Therefore be line 10 would no more of that trouble but caused letters to be sent into all shires that the matter should no further be talked of he pardoned all them that had denied the demand openlie or secretlie The cardinall to deliuer himselfe of the euill will of the commons purchased by procuring aduancing of this demand affirmed and caused it to be bruted abrode that through his intercession the king had pardoned and released all things Those that were in the Tower and Fleet for the line 20 rebellion in Suffolke and resisting the commissioners aswell there as in Huntington shire and Kent were brought before the lords in the Star chamber and there had their offenses opened and shewed to them and finallie the kings pardon declared and thereon they were deliuered ¶ In this season a great number of men of warre laie at Bullongne and in other places thereabout which diuerse times attempted to indamage the Englishmen and to spoile the English pale but they could neuer spoile the marishes line 30 where the greatest part of the cattell belonging to the inhabitants was kept Tindale men with aid of the Scots did much hurt in England by robberies which they exercised and therefore were sent thither sir Richard Bulmere and sir Christopher Dacres to restreine their dooings Diuerse came to them and submitted themselues but the greatest théeues kept them in the mounteins of Cheuiot and did much hurt yet at length they seuered and manie of them were taken The cardinall by his power legantine sent one of line 40 his chapleins called doctor Iohn Allen to visit the religious houses of this realme about this season which doctor practised amongst them greatlie to his profit but more to the slander both of himselfe and of his maister On the eightéenth daie of Iune at the manor place of Bridewell the kings sonne which he had begot of Elizabeth Blunt daughter to sir Iohn Blunt knight called Henrie Fitzroie was created first earle of Notingham and after on the selfe same daie he was created duke of Richmond and Summerset line 50 Also the same daie the lord Henrie Courtneie earle of Deuonshire and coosine germane to the king was created marquesse of Excester and the lord Henrie Brandon sonne to the duke of Suffolke and the French queene a child of two yeares old was created earle of Lincolne and sir Thomas Manners lord Roos was created earle of Rutland and sir Henrie Clifford earle of Cumberland and the lord Fitzwater sir Robert Ratcliffe was created vicount Fitzwater and sir Thomas Bullen treasuror line 60 of the kings houshold was created vicount Rochefort The French kings mother as then regent of France procured a safe conduct for an ambassador to be sent into England to treat of peace and therewith sent Iohn Iokin called monsieur de Uaux which as yée haue heard in the last yeare was kept secret in maister Larks house By his procurement a truce was granted to indure from the thirtéenth of Iulie for fortie daies betwéene England and France both by sea and land In the later end of Iulie came into England the chéefe president of Rone with sufficient authoritie to conclude anie agréement that should be granted At his sute the king was contented that a truce should be taken to endure from the foureteenth of August till the first of December This yeare the king sent doctor Henrie Standish bishop of saint Asse and sir Iohn Baker knight into Denmarke to intreat with the nobles of that countrie for the reduction of their king Christierne to his realme and former dignitie but the Danes hated him so much for his crueltie that they could not abide to heare of anie such matter and so these ambassadors returned without speeding of their purpose for the which they were sent But the French ambassadors did so much both by offers and intreaties that the king condescended to a peace which being concluded was proclamed in London with a trumpet the eight of September By the couenants of this peace the king of England should receiue at certeine daies twentie hundred thousand crownes which then amounted in sterling monie to the summe of foure hundred thousand pounds sterling of which one paiment of fiftie thousand pounds was paid in hand In October were sent into France sir William Fitzwilliam treasuror of the kings house and doctor Tailor as ambassadors from the king of England to the ladie regent whome they found at the citie of Lion where of hir they were honorablie receiued and in their presence the said ladie regent tooke a corporall oth in solemne wise and according to the custome in such cases vsed to performe all the articles and couenants passed and concluded in the league and treatie of peace by hir commissioners The emperour was nothing pleased in that the king of England had thus concluded peace with the Frenchmen and therefore the English merchants were not so courteouslie dealt with as they had béene afore time In this winter was great death in London so that the terme was adiourned and the king kept his Christmasse at Eltham with a small number and therefore it was called the still Christmasse ¶ In Ianuarie was a peace concluded betwixt the realmes of England and Scotland for thrée yeares and six moneths year 1526 The cardinall about this time comming to the court which then laie as before yée haue heard at Eltham tooke order for altering the state of the kings house Manie officers and other seruants were discharged and put to their pensions and annuities In which number were fourescore and foure yeomen of the gard which before hauing twelue pence the daie with checke were now allowed six pence the daie without checke and commanded to go home into their countries Diuers ordinances were made at that season by the cardinall touching the gouernance of the kings house more profitable than honorable as some said and were called long after The statutes of Eltham On Shrouetuesdaie there was a solemne iusts held at the manor of Gréenewich the king eleuen other on the one part and the marquesse of Excester with eleauen other on the contrarie part ¶ At those iusts by chance of shiuering of a speare sir Francis Brian lost one of his eies The eleuenth of Februarie being sundaie the cardinall with great pompe came to the cathedrall church of Paules where he sat in pontificalibus vnder his cloth of estate of rich cloth of gold

through both armes and mooued him out of his place For the which fact the said Thomas being apprehended and condemned to death was on the one and twentith of Iulie brought to the water side where was a gibbet set vp directlie placed betwixt Dartford and Gréenewich But when the hangman had put the halter about his necke the right honorable sir Christopher Hatton capteine of the gard and one of hir maiesties priuie councell shewed the queenes maiesties most gratious pardon and deliuered him from execution This yeare Iohn Fox of Woodbridge William Wickneie of Portsmouth and Robert More of Harwich Englishmen hauing béene prisoners in Turkie about the space of thirteene or foureteene yeares with more than two hundred and sixtie other christians of diuerse nations by killing their kéeper maruellouslie escaped and returned into their natiue countries This yeare in the moneths of September and October fell great winds and raging flouds in sundrie places of this realme as in the towne of Newport the cotages were borne downe the corne lost pasture ground ouerwhelmed and cattell drowned In the towne of Bedford the water came vp to the market place where cup boords chests stooles and fourms swam about the houses their fewell corne and haie was wrackt borne awaie Also the towne of saint Edes in Huntingtonshire was ouerflowed suddenlie in the night when all men were at rest the waters brake in with such force that the towne was almost all defaced the swans swam downe the market place and all the towne about the botes did flote The towne of Gormanchester was suddenlie supprest their houses flowed full of water when men were at rest and their cattell with other things were destroied The one and twentith of Nouember sir Thomas Gresham knight agent to the quéenes highnesse who had in his life built the roiall Exchange in London betwéene six and seuen of the clocke in the euening comming from the same Exchange to his house which he had sumptuouslie builded in Bishopsgate stréet of London suddenlie fell downe in his kitchin and being taken vp was found spéechlesse and presentlie dead who afterwards was solemnlie buried in his owne parish church of saint Helen there where he had prepared for himselfe a sumptuous toome or monument without anie epitaph or inscription therevpon This sir Thomas Gresham in his testament which long before his death he had ordeined bequeathed diuerse large legacies not yet performed The eight and twentith daie of March year 1580 one Francis aliàs Marmaduke Glouer was hanged on a gibet set vp for that purpose by the standard in Cheape for wilfullie murthering sergeant Grace after he was by him arrested Also on the next morrow being the nine and twentith daie of March the same gibet was set vp at Hog lane end vpon east Smithfield néere vnto the tower of London thereon to haue hanged one Richard Dod for murthering of mistresse Skinner a widow in hir house there by But sir Owen Hopton lieutenant of the tower cōmanding the officers perteining to the shiriffes of London backe againe to the west side of the crosse tooke the shiriffe of the out shire with the prisoner into an house and after long talke brought the prisoner forth againe deliuered him to the officers to be by them brought backe to London Then he caused the gibet to be taken downe and carried awaie line 10 at his pleasure and without further contention to my knowledge the said Richard Dod was in the after noone of the same daie hanged at Tiborne On the sixt of Aprill being wednesdaie in Easter weeke about six of the clocke toward euening a sudden earthquake happening in London and almost generallie throughout all England caused such an amazednesse among the people as was woonderfull for the time and caused them to make their earnest praiers to almightie God The great clocke bell in line 20 the palace at Westminster strake of it selfe against the hammer with the shaking of the earth as diuerse other clocks bels in the stéeples of the citie of London and elsewhere did the like The gentlemen of the Temple being then at supper ran from the tables and out of their hall with their kniues in their hands The people assembled at the plaie houses in the fields as at the Whoreater the Theater I would saie were so amazed that doubting the ruine of the galleries they made hast to be gone A péece of the line 30 temple church fell downe some stones fell from saint Paules church in London and at Christs church neere to Newgate market in the sermon while a stone fell from the top of the same church which stone killed out of hand one Thomas Greie an apprentise and an other stone fell on his fellow seruant named Mabell Eueret and so brused hir that she liued but foure daies after Diuerse other at that time in that place were sore hurt with running out of the church one ouer another for feare The tops of diuerse chimneies line 40 in the citie fell downe the houses were so shaken a part of the castell at Bishops Stratford in Essex fell downe This earthquake indured in or about London not passing one minute of an houre and was no more felt But afterward in Kent and on the sea coast it was felt thrée times as at Sandwich at six of the clocke the land not onelie quaked but the sea also fomed so that the ships tottered At Douer also the same houre was the like so that a péece of the cliffe fell into the sea with also a péece of line 50 the castell wall there a péece of Saltwood castell in Kent fell downe and in the church of Hide the bels were heard to sound A peece of Sutton church in Kent fell downe the earthquake being there not onlie felt but also heard And in all these places and others in east Kent the same earthquake was felt three times to moue to wit at six at nine and at eleuen of the clocke The nineteenth daie of Aprill the ferrie at Lambeth was drowned with fiue men and foure horsses other two men and fiue horsses swam to land and were saued line 60 On the one and twentith of Aprill in the yeare 1580 departed this life master William Lambe esquier sometime gentleman of the chappell in the reigne of king Henrie the eight citizen of London and frée of the clothworkers Of this mans almes-deeds and manifold charities some before some since his death put in effectuall practise thus reporteth a memoriall recorded in print agréeing in truth with his last will and testament an extract whereof for others imitation is necessarilie here to be inserted This gentleman remembring that learning bringeth preferment yea euen to them which are put baselie borne as it pleased God to mooue him by his good and gratious spirit he prooued himselfe by testimonials of his dooings a louer of learning and a fauourer of euerie honest profession For in the

Armie put to flight 54 a 30. Goeth to Bristow 51 b 30. Followeth the victorie she commeth to London 53 b 40. Besieged in Arundell castell 51 b 10. Landed in England and what power she brought 51 a 50. Married to the earle of Aniou 43 a 50. True to the crowne of England 43 a 10. Confesseth hir selfe to bée naught of hir bodie 63 b 50. Hir deceasse 75 a 60 Maud duke Williams wife the daughter of earle Baldwine earle of Flanders 15 a 60. Crowned quéene 6 a 60. Hir deceasse 15 a 40 Maud daughter and heire to Robert Fitzhammon Henrie the first his base sonne 37 a 50 Maud the wife of Henrie the first a professed nun 29 a 10 Maud Henrie the first his daughter affianced to the emperor Henrie 35 a 10 Maud quéene deliuered of a daughter after hir own name 30 a 30 ¶ Sée Quéene Mauns a citie in Normandie besieged and deliuered 23 b 20. Besieged and taken 158 b 10. Lost by treason of the citizens recouered 598 a 50 b 30 Yéelded to the French king 114 a 40 Maunt citie in France burnt by duke William 14 b 40 Maupasse ¶ Sée Uernon Maximil●an king of Romans prisoned at Bruges by the townesmen 770 a 40. He and Henrie the seuenth agrée to plague the Frenchmen the cause of his malice he dealeth dishonestlie with the king of England to his great vexation breaketh promise with him 774 a 60 b 20 30. Incourageth his men to plaie the men 822 a 40 Meaux besieged by the English men taken by assault 581 a 50 b 50. The conditions of the surrender thereof vnto Henrie the fift 582 a 50 Mekins burnt in Smithfield 953 a 40 Mellent ¶ Sée Erle Melune vicount discouereth the purpose of Lewis and the English barons his death 193 b 10 Melune besieged by king Henrie the fift 576 b 60. Yéelded vp to Henrie the fift 577 b 20 Men barbarous brought from the new sound Ilands 789 b 60 Mendmarket ¶ Sée Umfreuill Mendoza the Spanish Ambassador ¶ Sée Throckmorton Francis Mercia an earldome 1 a 30 Mercie in a warrior note 549 b 20. 550 b 60. ¶ See Charitie Merchant of London hanged at Noringham for murthering a merchant stranger of Genoa note 428 b 30 Merchants of England receiued into Antwerpe with generall procession 783 b 40 Sore hindered by a restreint 778 a 20. Restreined out of Spaine 1206 a 10. Euillie intreated in Duch land 1263 a 10. Susteine great losse by sea 1262 b 20. Complaine vnto quéene Elisabeth of their wrongs 1262 b 40. Proclamation for their frée traffike as before c 1267 b 10. Robbed of the Danish pirats and haue great prises taken from them 485 a 10. Murther a stranger Genoa 422 b 60 Staie● in Spaine 905 b 60 Merchants strangers fauoured of king Richard the second their goods restored 453 b 60. A proclamation concerning them 927 a 50. Staied in England 905 b 60. Two of the stilliard doo penance for heresie 892 b 60. ¶ Sée Strangers Mesure of one length vsed thorough out England 28 b 30 ¶ Sée Weights Meta incognita ¶ Sée Frobisher Meulone a strong towne yéelded to the English 571 b 60 Meutas Hercules ¶ Sée Iusts triumphant Mice deuoure grasse in Dansi● hundred and how deuoured ● note 1315 a 60 b 10 Michaels mount how seated a great fortification 19 a 40 Midleton knight proclameth himselfe duke 323 a 60 Midsummer watch 1206 b 10 1208 b 30. Mainteined 1210 a 50. ¶ Sée Watch. Mildmaie knight founder of Emanuell college in Cambridge note 1396 a 10 Mile and gréene whie so called 1271 b 60 Miles Couerdale preacher in the time of Deuoushire rebellion 1023 b 60 Miles vicar of saint Brides slaine and the partie executed 914 b 30 Millain woon and rased by Richard the first 146 b 50 Millers man hanged for his maister 1007 a 30 Milnall in Suffolke burned 1210 a 20 Mines of gold siluer in England 413 a 40. ¶ Sée Siluer Ministers more fauoured than other men 1201 a 40 Minsterworth knight executed as a traitor 411 b 10. Miracles of Fitzosbert wherby he was thought to be a saint 149 a 20. Whereby Robert duke of Normandie was made king of Ierusalem 29 a 60 wrought by Woolstane to his aduantage 12 a 10 Seén forsooth in the daie of Cainpians execution 1329 a 60 Miracles of the holie maid of Kent 936 b 50 Mirth that after it commeth heauinesse note 26 b 40 50 41 b 10 Miserie vpon miserie 422 b 60 423 a 10 c. ¶ See Derth and Deth M●st thicke and blind 373 a 20 Made Henrie the eight and his souldiers vnable to find the waie to his campe 823 a 60 Mistrust in murtherers one of of another 1063 b 60. Causeth carefull custodie 586 a 60 b 10. On all sides of all estates and degrées note 173 a 10. An enimie to peace 457 b 10 60. Of king Henrie the third in his officers 216 b 40 That the earls of Hereford Marshall had of Edward the first 307 a 30. Of the Flemings in the earle of Richmond 359 b 20. That the dukes of Buckingham and Glocester had in each other 736 a 50. Of duke Arthur in his vncle king Iohn 160 b 60. ¶ Sée Suspicion Mocke of Henrie the first against his brother Robert Curthose 44 b 60. At the maior of Norwich 1032 b 60 ¶ Sée Derision and Iest. Molineux constable of Chester castell 460 b 60. Knight slaine note 461 b 10 Monasteries erected in the north parts at the sute trauell of thrée moonks c 11 a 20. When none lest in all the north parts 11 a 20. ¶ Sée Abbeies and Religious houses Monie two falles thereof 1066 b 50. Henrie the sixts priuie seales for some 653 b 30. Refused to be lent purchaseth disfauor and reuenge 162 a 40. Largelie giuen to mainteine war against the Turks 164 a 20. Carried out of the realme by a legat note 170 b 10. Sutes preferred for it 187 b 20. And what practises Gualo vsed to get it 193 a 20 A perpetuall order of an hundred and ●oure pounds lent yearelie by course to certeine townes note 1092 a 60 b 10 Bu●eth liberties and priuileges 119 b 60. And what shi●ts king Richard the first made for it 120 b 40. And of inquisitions to get it note 153 b 40. Gotten with extortion to procure Richard the first his ransome 139 a 60 b 10. To make it offices set to sa●e by Richard the first 142 b 40. Great summes gotten by Richard the first without making of recompense 143 b 60 144 a 10. The practises of Richard the first to get it note 144 a 10 20. Much gotten for licences and grants of iust and turnie 145 b 60. The meanes practised to get it note 145 a 60. Purchaseth erldoms 102 a 50. Maketh marriages betwéene great states 84 b 10. Purchaseth fauor to a murtherer 98 b 40 What shifts Edward the fourth made for it 694 a 40 50. The want thereof procureth peace