be published in his or their custody contayning such matters as aboue are mentioned against the present order and gouernement of the Church of England or the lawfull ministers thereof or against the rites and ceremonies vsed in the Church and allowed by the lawes of this Realme that they and euery of them should presently after with conuenient speede bring in and deliuer vp the same vnto the Ordinary of the Diocesse or of the place where they inhabite to the intent they might be vtterly defaced by the sayd Ordinary or otherwise vsed by them And that from thenceforth no person or persons whatsoeuer should be so hardy as to write contriue print or cause to be published or distributed or to keepe any of the same or any other bookes libels or writings of the like nature and qualitie contrarie to the true meaning and intent of her Maiesties sayd proclamation and likewise that none after should giue any instruction direction fauour or assistance to the contriuing writing printing publishing or dispersing of the same or such like bookes libels or writings whatsoeuer as they tendered her Maiesties good fauour and would auoyd her Highnesse displeasure and as they would answere for the contrarie at their vttermost perils and vpon such further paines and penalties as by the law any way might be inflicted vppon the offenders in any of these behalfes as persons maintaining such seditious actions which her Maiestie affirmeth by that proclamation she mindeth to haue seuerely executed And if any person had knowledge of the anthors writers printers or disperers thereof that they should within one moneth after the publication of the sayd proclamation discouer the same to the Ordinary of the place where he had such knowledge or to any of her Maiesties priuie Councell as by the same proclamation plainly appeareth After that Martin Marprelate and his fellowes were restrained of setting foorth their seditious bookes they and such like vsed to assemble themselues in conuenticles where they had exercises as they termed them of religion contrary to the law whereupon a Statute was very necessarily made in the fiue and thirteth yeare of her Maiesties raigne to the effect following 35. El. cap. 1. If any aboue sixteene yeares of age shall obstinately refuse to come to some vsuall place of Common prayer to heare diuine Seruice established by the Queenes Maiesties lawes by the space of one moneth without lawfull cause or shall by printing writing or expresse words aduisedly and purposely practise or go about to moue or perswade any within her Maiesties dominions to denie withstand and impugne her Highnesse authority in causes ecclesiasticall vnited to the Crowne or to that end or purpose shall aduisedly and maliciously moue or perswade any whatsoeuer to forbeare or abstaine from comming to Church to heare diuine Seruice and receiue the communion according to her lawes or to come to or be present at any vnlawfull assemblies conuenticles or meetings vnder colour or pretence of any exercise of religion contrary to the Statutes of this Realme as afore is sayd euery person thereof conuicted shall be imprisoned without bayle or maynprise vntill they shall confirme themselues to come to Church and heare diuine Seruice according to her Highnesse lawes and make such open submission and declaration of their conformity as is there set downe If the offender aforesayd being thereof conuicted shall not within three moneths conforme himselfe in comming to Church and making submission and confession being required by the Bishop of the Diocesse or a Iustice of peace of the Shyre where the person shall be or be the Minister of the Parish the offender there so warned or required by a Iustice of peace where the offender shall be shall abiure the Realme by his oath afore the Iustice of peace at the quarter Sessions or Assises as was vsed by the Common law in case of fellony If he refuse to abiure or shall not go or returne without her Maiesties licence it is fellony and he shal loose his cleargie If any offender aforesayd afore they should abiure come to Church on some Sunday or Holy day and then and there heare diuine Seruice and make open submission and declaration of his conformitie to the lawes he should be discharged of all penalties and punishments appointed by this Satute And also if any after such submission refuse or forbeare to come to Church or come to such conuenticles as aforesayd he shall loose the benefit of this Act and be and stand in such case as though no such submission had bene had ne made Likewise if any keepe in his house or otherwise relieue any that shall obstinately refuse to come to Church and shall forbeare to come to Church by a moneth together euery person so doing after notice to him giuen by the Ordinary Iustice of Assise Iustice of peace Curate of the parish or Church-warden shall forfeit ten pounds for euery moneth that he doth retaine or relieue any such person The Satute extendeth not to mens wiues children father mother wards sisters not hauing houses of Popish recusants or feeme couerts shall not be compelled to abiure The persons that shall abiure or refuse to abiure vt suprà shall forfeit their goods and chattels and all his lands during his life This act was made to continue to the end of the next session of Parliament and now is continued in the Parliament holden in the fortieth yeare of her Maiesties Raigne THE FORME OF submission I A. B. do humbly confesse and acknowledge The submission that I haue grieuously offended God in contemning her Maiesties godly and lawfull gouernment and authority by absenting my selfe from Church and from hearing diuine Seruice contrary to the godly Lawes and Statutes of this Realme and in vsing and frequenting disordered and vnlawfull conuenticles and assemblies vnder pretence and colour of exercise of Religion and I am hartily sory for the same and do acknowledge and testifie in my conscience that no other person hath or ought to haue any power or authority ouer her Maiestie and I doe promise and protest without any dissimulation or any colour or meanes of any dispensation that from hencefoorth I will from time to time obey and performe her Maiesties Lawes and Statutes in repayring to the Church and hearing diuine Seruice and will euer hereafter do mine vttermost indeuor to maintaine and defend the same ¶ Of diuerse and sundry victories obtayned in former time by the English nation both by sea and land against their forreyne enemies to the great encouragement of the posterity to maintaine the honor gotten by their progenitors CHAP. 11. ANd now as in the last part of this encouragement The last cause of incouragement what notable victories hath our nation obtayned against the French and Scots aswell in their owne territories and countries as when they haue inuaded this Realme and how most gaciously Almightie God hath alwayes assisted vs in our rightfull causes against our enemies when they haue greatly
that it is alwayes a doubtfull and hazardous matter to meddle with changing of lawes and gouernement or to disobey the orders of rule and gouernement which a man doth finde already established Bodinus sheweth Bodinus li. 4. fo 482. that the people of the East and of Affrica and the kings of Spaine most straightly did prohibite the same when great contention was amongst the Muscouites for religion the king deliuered to the Bishop and certaine men called Curiones a booke wherein was set downe what he would haue taught touching diuine matters to be preached taught to the people and commaunded that none vpon paine of death should adde or withdraw from it The Princes of Germanie by mutuall agréemēt after long ciuill battels amongst them for religion ordained that the religion of Rome and Saxonie should be suffered and that none should dispute of religion vpon paine of death Ibid. fol. 482. None to dispute of religion setled vpon paine of death Martin Mar-prelate which the Gouernours of Germanie especially of Augusta did execute whereby all Germany was quieted If then to dispute of religiō once allowed by authoritie or to encounter the same it be so dangerous to moue sedition ciuill discord was it not high time thinke you to suppresse Martin Mar-prelate who by seuerall writings did not let to affirme that we haue no Church no Bishop no Ministers nor Sacraments and therefore that all which loue Iesus Christ with all spéed ought to separate themselues from our Congregation affirming that our assemblies are prophane wicked and Antichristiā Could there be a greater dishonour offered to her Maiestie and to the state of the learned Cleargie yea to the whole Parliament whereby the religion now professed is established Was it not time to look vpon such as denied publike Baptisme if it be not done by a Preacher and bring in question what is become of them which were not so baptized as though they should not be saued Was it not high time to looke about when some of them durst vtter that if reformation were not had with spéed of such things as they disliked that the subiects ought not to tarie anie longer but to do it themselues and moreouer durst say that he and his fellowes are forced in conscience to speake for this new order and to vse it and that there is manie a thousand which desire that which he doth and that great troubles will come if it be not prouided for Was it not time to looke to such as by these means distracted the minds of her Maiesties subiects in drawing them into factions and encouraging the number of malecontents and mislikers of the state which make no account of religion but to make cheir cōmoditie though it be with the spoile of their owne countrie if oportunitie serued in pulling away the good and faithfull hearts of many subiects from her Maiestie because she maintaineth the state of the Church gouernment which they mislike and which is protested by them to be prophane and Antichristian Was it not time to looke to those sorts of mē the publish such libels and such seditious books tending to such dishonor of this state gouernment as the like neuer was offred in any age Was it not time to looke to such as haue attempted these things with such impudent and desperate boldnesse as if they thought there were neither Prince law ruler nor magistrate that durst controll or séeke to represse them Was it not time to looke to such as haue vttered such bold spéeches against our setled state law the loose boldnesse of mind towards the superiors is ioyned with contempt contemptuous boldnesse is the verie roote and spring of discord dissention vprores ciuill warres and all desperate attempts that may breede trouble or danger to the state yea and if they might be hardened with some continuance of time and hope of impunity some multitude of assistāts gathering to thē what hereof might follow I leaue to the graue iudgement of those to whom it appertaineth All which matters aforesaid with manie other of like sort concerning Martin Marprelate are grauely answered by the the reuerēd Father in God the Bishop of Winchester B. of Winchester The mischiefes which might haue ensued by this seditious sect was so greatly disliked by her Maiestie her Counsell that her Highnesse did publish her Proclamatiō with the aduise of her honorable Counsel in the one and thirtith yeare of her raigne to the effect as followeth Her Maiestie considering how within few yeares certaine seditious euill disposed persons towards her Maiestie Proclamatiō 31. Eliz. the gouernmēt established for causes Ecclesiastical within her Highnesse dominions had deuised writtē printed or caused seditiously secretly to be published dispersed sundrie schismaticall seditious bookes defamatorie libels and other fantasticall writings amongst her Maiesties subiects containing in them verie erronious doctrine and other matters notoriously vntrue slanderous to the state and against the godly information of religion and gouernment Ecclesiasticall established by law and so long quietly continued and also against the persons of the Bishops and other placed in authoritie Ecclesiasticall vnder her Highnesse by her authoritie in rayling sort beyond all good humanitie all which bookes libels writings tend by their scope to perswade and bring in a monstrous and apparant daungerous innouation within her Maiesties domions and countries of all maner Ecclesiasticall gouernment now in vse and to the abridgement or rather to the ouerthrow of her Highnesse lawfull prerogatiue allowed by Gods lawes and established by the lawes of this realme and consequently to reuerse dissolue and set at libertie the present gouernment of the Church and to make a dangerous change of the forme of doctrine and vse of diuine seruice of God and the ministration of the Sacraments now also in vse with a rash and malicious purpose also to dissolue the state of the Prelacie being one of the three ancient estates of this realme vnder her Highnesse whereof her Maiestie mindeth to haue such reuerend regard as to their places in the Church and common-wealth appertaineth all which sayd seditious practises doe directly tend to the manifest wilfull breach of a great number of good lawes and Satutes of this Realme inconueniences nothing at all regarded by such innouations In consideration whereof her Highnesse graciously minding to prouide for good and speedy remedy to withstand such notable dangerous and vngodly attempts and for that purpose to haue such enormous malefactors discouered and condignly punished doth signifie by the same proclamation her Highnesse disliking and indignation of such dangerous and wicked enterprises and for that purpose doth thereby will and straightly charge and command that all persons whatsoeuer within any her Maiesties Realmes and dominions who then had or then after should haue any of the sayd seditious bookes pamphlets libels or writings or any of the like nature already published or then after to
est When the Prince doth ordain punishment to any he is sad also where any is punished he taketh it as it were don to himself She is a most milde Prince not fearefull to behold or to be spoken vnto Ouid metamor li. 2. f 30. Nullae in fronte minae nec formidabile lumen But with most benign and gracious countenances receiueth and answereth the petitions supplications of her subiects she is of that honorable and princely disposition in all things that euen the greatest Princes do honor her And in that hir Ma. 4 cause of incoragemēt hath fortified the borders of this realme in places dāgerous for inuasion with such castels and strong holds with a mighty nauy of warlike ships Fortification of the realme and furnished her kingdome with such abundāce of armor all other things necessary for the wars and defence of her cuntry people as the like hath not bin seen in any Princes dayes before her time If we will consider the miserable conditions of such Nations as liue vnder Princes where the pleasure of the Prince standeth for law Miserable cōditions of other people and where the king saith Sic volo sic Iubeo stat pro ratione voluntas So I will Iuuenal so I command my will shall stand for reason And compare the same with our happy state we haue iust cause to thinke our selues much bound to God for our Princes not only make good and wholsome lawes Good lawes but are wel pleased also to be ordered by them in the day of their Coronation take a solemne Oath vpon the holy booke of God to indeuor themselues Othe that the same lawes shall be obserued and executed to all indifferently Osor fo 105. And therein is the difference saith Osorius betwixt a kind and a Tyrant Non mediocre discrimen est inter regematque tyrannum quòd Rex legibus s◠deuinctum profitetur Tyrannus vero in interitu legum omnem dignitatem suam collocandam existimet Among many other what an Honorable law was made in the 9. yeere of king Henry the third 9. Hen. 3. A most honorable Law as followeth No frée man shal be takē or imprisoned or be desseised of his freehold liberties or frée customes or be outlawed or exiled or anie waies destroyed nor we shall not passe vppon him nor deale with him but by lawfull iudgement of his peeres or by the Lawes of the land we shall sell to no man wee shall deny nor deferre no man 42. li. Ass either of iustice right or equitie By which statute a Commission granted out of the Chancerie to take I. N. and seize his goodes and chattels was iudged void for that it was done without iudgement or sute of the partie or other due processe How happie be we in respect of the Russes amongst whom there is a lawe Russes if any man die without issue male though he haue many daughters yet the Prince seizeth all his goods to his own vse except perhaps of his goods he giueth some part amongest the daughters to bestowe them in marriage And likewise if a man that is vnfit in his owne person for the warres hath such wealth that thereby many warriours might be maintained or that if any of the Courtiers hauing knowledge thereof doe present his name to the Emperour the vnhappie man by and by is sent for and in that instant depriued of all his riches which with great paines and trauaile all his life time he hath gotten togither except perchāce some small porcion thereof be left to maintaine himselfe his wife children and familie withall and then the Emperour bestoweth these goodes amongst his Courtiers according to their deserts Booke of Nauigation fol. 788. 417. as appeareth in the booke of Nauigation But no such vse lawe nor custome is amongst vs. For if a man haue no sonnes then his daughters or some other of his line possesse his landes and his Executor his goodes as pleaseth the owner to limit And when our Prince would haue ayde of her subiects towards the maintenance of her warres or for other necessarie respects she taketh not her subiects lands or goodes from them neither can so doe by her Highnesse lawes except they be first thereby condemned and so forfait them for some offence but vseth to call a Parliament and by the assent of all her Nobles and Commons hath Subsidies and other aydes of her subiects towards the defraying of som of these charges and the subsidie or ayde thus granted if it be of lande for the most part amounteth not to the thirtieth part of the yeerely rent of the same and if it be of goods reacheth not oftentimes to the fiftieth part thereof Againe whereas in France Tributes for meat drink in other countries Flanders and other Countries the people pay certain tribute to their princes for some sort of meat and drinke and for their dwellinges We are not charged with any such impositions Neither is such torment vsed heer in execution of offenders Torments in execution as breaking of their legs armes and backe and so laide on a whéele of a cart pitched on a pole and there to lie till hee be dead which is common in other Realmes by the Ciuill lawes but is executed here by hāging onely till he be dead except it be in case of high treason Therfore I say we are in these respects most happy in regarde of other Nations ¶ How much we are bound to God that doth assist her maiesty with such graue wise and most honourable Counsellers and also diuers and sundry perswasions in respect of the premisses and other things why we should all resolutely fight in the defiance of the enimy And of the miseries of warre where the enimy preuaileth Chap. 3. AS a further cause of this incouragment Fift cause of incoragemēt how much are we bound to God in that it hath pleased him alwaies to assist her Ma. with such honorable counsellers men of such grauity Wise Counsellers truth faithfulnesse and wisdome of such deep skil consideration policie forecast and experience as to speak it plainly simply no Prince vnder the sun is furnished with the like or at least with a better by whose great wisdome trauel and indeuour this common peace and quietnesse hath bin so long preserued and mantained If any thing hath bin intended to the perill of her maiesties person or danger of the state that hath been by them quickly espied deeply looked into and with greate wisdome pollicie in time preuented and auoided to their great honors immortall fame so as in the choise of them her maiesty hath most graciously wisely considered of the saying of Osorius Osor sol 292. Necesse est vt Regis consiliarij sint maximo ingenio praediti bonis artibus exculti longo rerum vsu per ti in historijs diligentissimè versati What men must be
was slaine with a small shot and this was the end of this noble Earle after he had with much honor more fame and great renowne serued his Prince in warrs foure and twenty years in France and was honorably interred amongst them on whose Tombe in ingrauen as followeth Inscription on the tomb of Iohn first Earle of Shrewsbury Here lieth the right noble knight Iohn Talbott Earle of Shrewsbury Washford Waterford and Valence Lord Talbot of Goodrige and Vrchengfield Lord Strange of the blacke Meere Lord Verdon of Alton Lord Crumwell of Wingfield Lord Louetoft of Worsop Lord Furniuall of Sheffield Lord Faulconbrige knight of the most noble order of S. George S. Michaell and the Golden fleece Great Marshall to king Henry the sixt of his realme of France who died in the battell of Burdeaux in the yeare of our Lord 1453. 1453. If I should set downe euery particular seruice of such as haue discended of this noble house done from time to time in the warres for their prince and countrey it would aske very long time therefore he that desireth to knowe more thereof I referre him to the Chronicles of this realme where they are set forth at large to their great honor and glory And touching the loyalty of this noble house to the Crowne I find it not attainted for any disloyalty to the same sithens the conquest of this realme for which they are most deepely bound to yeeld their most humble thankes to the goodnesse of Almighty God that so from time to time hath blessed the same and so much the more for that a great number of other Peeres and Nobles of this land haue bene attainted sithens that time for their disloyalty In honor of which house of the Lord Talbot I haue made these few verses following TAlbot I am that euer haue bene true Vnto my Prince her crowne and dignity And hope in God my fathers to ensue So as my bloud shall neuer stained be Prest I will be my countrey to defend As doth belong to men of my degree And on her foes my life and land will spend As each man ought for her securitie The acts of warre performed by my name I shall increase as God shall giue me might To serue my Prince when she commands the same As doth belong vnto a faithfull knight My gracious Prince hath honored me With name of thorder of the garter knight Of which great kings haue much desired to be Wherein these words with golden letters bright Hony soyt qui mal y pense are seene As much to say as ill to him befall That ill doth wish vnto so good a Queene And so I pray and during life I shall And for some among many examples of the loyaltie of that noble house Holinsh 368. first I find that William Lord Talbot in king Stephen his time tooke vppon him to defend Hereford in Wales as diuerse other nobles of this Realme did other Castles and townes in England to the vse of Maud the Empresse and her sonne against the sayd king Stephen who vsurped and detayned the Crowne against her sayd son contrary to his oath made to the sayd Empresse her said son being the right heyre to Henry the first his Realme of England Iohn Earle of Shrewsbury was slaine at North taking part with Henry the sixt against the Duke of Yorke others then I find how Sir Gilbert Talbot was sent by the yong Earle of Shrewsbury being within age and ward to Richard the third with two thousand of his tenants and friends to ayde Henry Earle of Richmond against the sayd King Richard Stow. 121. being not onely an horrible murtherer of his Nephewes king Edward the fourth his childrē but also an vsurper of the Crowne whom the sayd Earle ouerthrew at Bosworth field and so obtayned the Scepter Royall of this Realme I note also the great loyalty of the right noble George fourth Earle of Shrewsbury that where diuerse euill disposed persons in the rebellion in the North parts of this Realme about the 28 yeare of the raigne of King Henry the eight gaue forth very slanderous and dishonorable speeches against the sayd Earle Holinsh 1567. as though he had fauored more the part of the rebels then of the king his Maister for a full testimony and declaration of his truth to his Prince he caused his Chapleyn to minister to him an oath in the presence of a great number of people assembled by him to represse the sayd rebels by which oath he did protest that as his Auncesters had bene euer true to the Crowne so be wold not staine his bloud in ioyning with a sort of rebels and traytors against their Prince but sayd he would liue and die in defence of the Crowne if it did stand but vpon a stake How faithfully did the Lord George last Earle of Shrewsbury discharge the great trust reposed in him by her Maiestie and her whole Councell in the garding safe keeping of the Quéene of Scots by the space of seuenteene yeares at the least a matter of such importance as the like so long time was neuer committed to any State or Péere of this Realme sithens the conquest thereof and how carefully he did preuent the sundry deuises and subtill practises wrought by her selfe and others for her escape it is sufficiently knowne The trust was the greater for that if she had escaped no small danger might haue ensued to the person of our most gracious Queene and to the whole Realme as may appeare by her sundry conspiracies against the same In like manner when any matter of great importance for the seruice of the Realme in those parts was committed to him as often many were how carefully and painefully Camden 463. and with what expedition he would dispatch the same the world can testifie what great confidence was reposed in him by the Queenes Maiestie when he was made Lieutenant of the counties of Darby and Stafford in those dangerous dayes and how he performed the same trust to the preseruation of the common peace and quietnesse of those Shires is well knowne to all men what great trust was committed to himselfe also when he had authority in times of rebellion and other outrageous actions in those parts to suppresse the same in forcible manner and to execute the offenders by Marshall iustice without further proceeding in law against thē by the large Commission directed vnto him is manifest Gilbert now the seuenth Earle of Shrewsbury And lastly was not the right honourable Gilbert now Earle of Shrewsbury in the xxxviij yeare of her Maiesties most gracious Raigne sent into Fraunce to receiue the oath of the French king for the confirmation of the most honorable league betwixt her Maiestie and the said king and did not he performe that Embassage to his great honour And did not the sayd king in proofe of his great good acceptation thereof His Embassage most honorably performed in Fraunce giue him
helpe of the said persons being commanded to serue in warres or otherwise to find men on horses or on foot within this realme or without nor for the gift reward aid or helpe reserued or couenanted to be paid or giuen to anie person appointed to serue in warres or to find horse or man to serue by reason of anie grant couenant reseruation custome or tenure any thing in the said act to the contrarie notwithstanding as by that Act and Prouiso more plainly appeareth Yet by the said Act of 4 and 5 of Philip and Marie it is enacted that no person or persons shall or may by colour of the Prouiso mentioned in the sayd Act of 2 and 3 of Edward the sixt Imployed in seruice exact or demaund or leauie any summe or summes of money horse armour or any other thing other then shal be imployed forthwith in the present seruice of those warres for which it is leauied the which summe or summes of money horse armour or other thing Money rendred backe or asmuch thereof as shall not be left spent or consumed in the said seruice shall be rendred and restored to such person or persons as paid or deliuered the same vpon the penalties and forfeitures contained in the said Act. And by a braunch in the statute of 4 and 5 of Philip and Marie cap. 2. it is ordained Sale of harnesse horse or weapon that if any souldier shall make sale of his horse harnesse and weapons or any of them contrarie to the forme of the statute made in the second and third yeare of Edward the sixt that then not only the said souldier shall incurre the penalties of the statute but also that the said sale made by such souldiers Sale void against the setter forth by anie person knowing him to be a souldier shall be void against him that sold or set forth the said horse harnesse and weapon or any of them to or for the furniture of such souldier to serue with the same Also touching Sea-markes Sea-marks for that they are necessary for the safetie of her Maiesties Nauie and others to be conueyed into the Ports and hauens it is ordained by a statute made in the eight yeare of the Quéenes Maiesties raigne that now is 8. Eliz. that the Maisters wardens and assistants of the Trinitie house at Detford Scrond shall at all times at their costs make erect and set vp such Beacons markes and signes of the sea in such places of the sea shores and lands neare the sea coasts or fore-lands of the sea onely for seamarks Beacons Markes as to them shall séeme most méet néedfull and conuenient wherby the danger may be auoyded and escaped and ships come into their ports without perill And that all the said Beacons marks signes at the sea coasts shall be continued Renued renewed and maintained from time to time And it is further ordained by that statute Steeples Trees that no stéeples trées or other things now standing as Beacons or marks for the sea whereof to the owner or occupier of the place where the same doth grow or stand before the first day of March next comming Notice notice shall be giuen by the Quéenes Maiestie vnder her signet shall be at anie time after taken downe felled or otherwise cut downe vpon paine of an hundred pound Forf 100 li. and if the offender be not worth so much then to be déemed outlawed ipso facto to all intents and purposes And lastly Outlawed Statute of Armour for that there is a notable law set downe touching how euerie man must furnish himselfe with harnesse and armour for the warres I haue thought good to set downe this Table whereby you may shortly see the effect of the statute concerning the same made in the fourth and fift yeares of Philip and Mary And thus with my most humble prayers to the Lord of Hosts for the preseruation of the Quéenes Maiesties person and this noble Realme and to giue vs grace to be true and faithfull subiects to her Highnesse and her Crowne and to discouer all traiterous and false hearted Subiects to the same in time I end this simple Treatise the 20 day of Ianuarie 1599 in the one fortieth yere of the most peaceable raigne of our most gratious Qnéene whom Almightie God for his great mercie graunt long to liue and raigne ouer vs. Amen Armour Euerie person teÌ„porall shall keepe c. which hath estate of inheritance or freehold in lands c. Horses or geldings demilaÌ„â—es with armour for them whereof the one halfe shall be horses at the least with furnitue Light Horses with thâ—r furniture of harnesse weapon oâ—stets furnished Almain riuets plate coates BrigaÌ„dines or Cor slets furnished Pilies Long bowes Sheafes of arrowes Steele caps or Sculs Blacke Bils or halbards Harquebuses Morians or Salets 1000 lib. 6 10 40 40 40 30 30 30 20 20 20 1000 marks 6 30 30 30 20 20 20 10 10 10 400 lib. 2. 4 20 20 20 15 15 15  6 6 200. lib. 1. 2 10 10 10 8 8 8  3 3 100. lib. 2 3 3 3 3 3 3  2 2 100 marks 1 2 2 2 2 2 2  1 1 40 lib  2 2 2 1 1 1  2 2 20 lib.  1  1 1 1 1  1 1 10 lib.  1 1  1 1 1  1 1 5 lib.   1  1 1 2 1 1  Goods 1000 markes 1 or 18 corslets furnished 1 2 2 2 4 4 4  3 3  400 lib. 1 or 9 Corslets  1 2 2 2 2  1   200 lib.  1 2 1 2 2 2  1 1  100 lib.  1 1 1 2 2 2     40 lib.   2  1 1 1 1    20 lib.   1  2 2 2 1    10 lib.     1 1 1 1   Penalties forfeited for not hauing in three moneths to the Queene an informer c. 10 lib. the horse 3 lib. the furniture 3 lib. the demilance 10 lib. the gelding 3 lib. the furnit 40. shillings 20 shillings  10 shillings 10 shillings 10 shillings 10 shillings 101 shillings 10 shillings THE AVTHOVR TO his Booke Farewell to learned skill thy selfe submit Of this to write I thinke thou art not fit For TVLLIES eloquence a thing more meet How to perswade with words both mild sweet Yet maist thou serue I hope without disgrace Till better come then thou must giue place