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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

so well to remember it as you for if you haue not fullie put your greatest things to be had in memorie in your box of obliuion you be not yet out of mind how the French king for all your power tooke from you the faire towne of Amiens and the strong pile of saint Quintins with diuerse other townes which you neither durst nor yet were able either to rescue or defend Since which time how he hath plagued you how he hath taken from you your fréends yea of your priuie chamber and secret councell by whome all your secrets be to him reuealed and made open you know or haue better cause to remember and not to forget them And when you determined to besiege the towne of Nusse you thought your selfe in a great doubt whether you should loose more at home by your absence the French king dreaming and waiting like a for for his preie or gaine more in Germanie by your power and presence And to kéepe the woolfe from the fold that is the French king from your castels and dominions was the cheefe and principall cause whie you so faire praid me so sore laboured and intised me to passe ouer the sea promising mounteins of gold which turned into snow and wasted into water boasting and craking to send horssemen and footmen and yet shewing neither lackie nor page If we had made our enterprise for our selfe solie and in our owne quarell thinke you that we would haue expected your comming If the aduenture had béene for to haue recouered our right imagine you that we would haue passed the sea so slenderlie as we did looking for line 10 your aid Nay nay you should haue well knowen if we had intended a conquest that we would haue so stronglie inuaded set on the realme of France that what with sauour of burning of townes and infection of the aier corrupted by the multitude of dead carcases of our slaine enimies your countries of Flanders Brabant should haue had causes enow to woonder at trusting that that which we had gotten we would haue kept as well as anie of our ancestors haue doone line 20 But bicause the verie occasion of the warre was yours and that you wilfullie I will not saie cowardlie did not prosecute the same the French king who neuer offended me nor my subiects except in mainteining the earle of Warwike for the displeasure that you bare him against me offered me being destitute of all your succour and aid both honourable and honest ouertures of peace which offers I was in maner inforced by verie reason to incline to and accept and so haue concluded a truce which God willing I will both keepe and obserue God send you line 30 ioy quoth the duke and so abruptlie ended his talke for that time H●erwith being in a great rage he bad the king of England farewell and suddenlie tooke his horsse and rode againe to Lutzenburgh promising not to enter into anie league with the French king till king Edward was passed the seas againe into England and had béene there thrée moneths but this promise was not performed for of necessitie he tooke a wiser waie line 40 and agréed with the French king vpon a truce immediatlie after the departure of the English armie out of his countrie The constable of France also doubting that his vntruth would be disclosed to his destruction by means of this agréement betwéene the kings of England and France as soone as he heard they were entred into communication thereof sent to king Edward requiring him not to credit the French kings promises which he would no longer obserue than vntill he should once vnderstand line 50 that he was on the other side of the sea and rather than he should agrée for want of monie he offered to lend him fiftie thousand crownes But the king of England sith the accord was passed and agréed would not change anie thing for the promises of so slipper a merchant as he knew the constable to be ¶ Then was the constable in maner on all sides in despaire but yet he wrote to the French king by his messengers beséeching him to giue no credit or beléefe to anie tale told or fained against him without line 60 hearing his answer affirming that the king had alwaies knowen his truth and fidelitie toward the crowne of France and so should he still find him till his dieng daie promising and warranting him if that it should stand with his pleasure that he would so compasse the duke of Burgognie that they two should vtterlie destroie the king of England and his armie yer they returned The councellors of the French king made answer that their master and the king of England were ioined and confedered in a sure amitie Wherfore they would in no wise know nor condescend to anie thing that might be either preiudiciall or once sound to the detriment of the Englishmen but they said that the king their master much trusted the constable and that for his sake he would talke with them in his priuie chamber The French king before their entrie into his chamber caused the lord of Contaie seruant vnto the duke of Burgognie accompanied with the lord of Argenton one of his priuie councell to stand secretlie behind a séeling or hanging in his chamber he himselfe sat in a chaire directlie before that place so that what soeuer were purposed to him they standing behind the cloth might plainlie sée and easilie heare the same Lewes de Creuell and his fellow entered into the kings chamber of nothing thinking lesse than of the spirits inclosed They declared what paine their master had taken for the French kings sake to send mooue and entise the duke of Burgognie to leaue and cléerelie to forsake the king of England which duke they found in such a rage and furie against the Englishmen that at their request he was not onelie vtterlie determined to forsake and refuse their amitie but also would send out aduenturers and lanceknights to rob and spoile them in their returning And in speaking these words thinking suerlie much to please the king the said Lewes counterfeited the fashion and gesture of the duke of Burgognie and began to stampe with his foot on the ground and beat with his fist on the table swearing by saint George that the king of England was not extracted of anie noble house but was a yeomans sonne and that when he was not woorth one halfepenie he was restored to his kingdome and made king onelie by his aid reprouing and reuiling him with such ill words and so shamefull termes that all the hearers abhorred it The French king faining that he was thicke of hearing caused him to reiterate his saieng againe who so counterfeited the verie gesture of the dukes angrie countenance and roring voice that no man hath séene a better counterfeitor or actor in anie comedie or tragedie The lord of Contaie was sore displeased to sée his master made a iesting

was displeased and so returned to Brecknocke to you But in that iournie as I returned whither it were by the inspiration of the Holie-ghost or by melancholious disposition I had diuerse and sundrie imaginations how to depriue this vnnaturall vncle and bloudie butcher from his roiall seat and princelie dignitie First I santised that if I list to take vpon me the crowne and imperiall scepter of the realme now was the time propice and conuenient For now was the waie made plaine and the gate opened and occasion giuen which now neglected should peraduenture neuer take such effect and conclusion For I saw he was disdeined of the lords temporall abhored and accurssed of the lords spirituall detested of all gentlemen and despised of all the communaltie so that I saw my chance as perfectlie as I saw mine owne image in a glasse that there was no person if I had béene gréedie to attempt the enterprise could nor should haue woone the ring or got the gole before me And on this point I rested in imagination secretlie with my selfe two daies at Tewkesburie From thence so iournieng I mused and thought that it was not best nor conuenient to take vpon me as a conqueror For then I knew that all men and especiallie the nobilitie would with all their power withstand me both for rescuing of possessions and tenures as also for subuerting of the whole estate laws and customes of the realme such a power hath a conqueror as you know well inough my lord But at the last in all this doubtfull case there sprang a new branch out of my head which suerlie I thought should haue brought forth faire floures but the sunne was so hot that they turned to drie wéeds For I suddenlie remembred that the lord Edmund duke of Summerset my grandfather was with king Henrie the sixt in the two and thrée degrées from Iohn duke of Lancaster lawfullie begotten so that I thought sure my mother being eldest daughter to duke Edmund that I was next heire to king Henrie the sixt of the house of Lancaster This title pleased well such as I made priuie of my counsell but much more it incouraged my foolish desire and eleuated my ambitious intent insomuch that I cléerelie iudged and in mine owne mind was determinatlie resolued that I was indubitate heire of the house of Lancaster and therevpon concluded line 10 to make my first foundation and erect my new building But whether God so ordeined or by fortune it so chanced while I was in a maze either to conclude suddenlie on this title to set it open amongst the common people or to keepe it secret a while sée the chance as I rode betweene Worcester and Bridgenorth I incountered with the ladie Margaret countesse of Richmond now wife vnto the lord Stanlie which is the verie daughter and sole heire to lord Iohn duke of Summerset my grandfathers line 20 elder brother which was as cleane out of my mind as though I had neuer séene hir so that she and hir sonne the earle of Richmond be both bulworke and portcullice betwéene me and the gate to enter into the maiestie roiall and getting of the crowne Now when we had communed a little concerning hir sonne as I shall shew you after and were departed shée to our ladie of Worcester and I to Shrewsburie I then new changed and in maner amazed began to dispute with my selfe little considering line 30 that thus my earnest title was turned to a tittell not so good as Est Amen Eftsoones I imagined whether were best to take vpon me by election of the nobilitie and communaltie which me thought easie to be done the vsurper king thus being in hatred and abhorred of this whole realme or to take it by power which standeth in fortunes chance and difficile to be atchiued and brought to passe Thus tumbling and tossing in the waues of ambiguitie betwéene the stone and the sacrifice I considered first the office dutie and line 40 paine of a king which suerlie thinke I that no mortall man can iustlie and trulie obserue except he be called elected and speciallie appointed by God as K. Dauid and diuerse other haue beéne But further I remembred that if I once tooke on me the scepter and the gouernance of the realme that of two extreame enimies I was dailie sure but of one trustie friend which now a daies be gone a pilgrimage I was neither assured nor crediblie ascerteined such is the worlds mutation For I manifestlie perceiued that the daughters of king Edward line 50 and their alies and freends which be no small number being both for his sake much beloued and also for the great iniurie manifest tyrannie doone to them by the new vsurper much lamented and pitied would neuer ceasse to barke if they cannot bite at the one side of me Semblablie my coosine the earle of Richmond his aids and kinsfolks which be not of little power will suerlie attempt like a fierce greihound either to bite or to pearse me on the other side So that my life and rule should euer hang line 60 by a haire neuer in quiet but euer in doubt of death or deposition And if the said two linages of Yorke and Lancaster which so long haue striued for the imperiall diadem should ioine in one against me then were I suerlie mated and the game gotten Wherefore I haue cléerelie determined and with my selfe concluded vtterlie to relinquish all such fantasticall imaginations concerning the obteining of the crowne But all such plagues calamities and troubles which I feared and suspected might haue chanced on me if I had taken the rule and regiment of this realme I shall with a reredemaine so make them rebound to to our common enimie that calleth himselfe king that the best stopper that he hath at tenice shall not well stop without a fault For as I told you before the counfesse of Richmond in my returne from the new named king méeting me in the high waie pra●ed me first for kinred sake secondar●lie for the loue that I bare to my grandfather duke Humfrie which was sworne brother to hir father so mooue the king to be good to hir sonne Henrie earle of Richmond and to licence him with his fauour to returne againe into England And if it were his pleasure so to doo she promised that the earle hir sonne should marrie one of king Edwards daughters at the appointment of the king without anie thing to be taken or demanded for the said espousals but onelie the kings fauour which request I soone ouerpassed and gaue hir faire words and so departed But after in my lodging when I called to memorie with a deliberate studie and did circumspectlie ponder them I fullie adiudged that the Holie-ghost caused hir to mooue a thing the end whereof she could not consider both for the securitie of the realme as also for the preferment of hir child and the destruction and finall confusion of the common enimie king

and successour bicause his daughter the empresse had gréeuouslie displeased him But vnto this mans oth the archbishop and the o●her lords were so hastie in giuing of credit Now 〈◊〉 said Hugh for his periurie by the iust iudgement 〈◊〉 God came shortlie after to a miserable end But to our purpose King Stephan by what title soeuer he obteined the crowne immediatlie after his coronation year 1136 went first to Reading to the buriall of the bodie of his vncle Henrie the same being now brought ouer from Normandie from whence after the buriall he repaired to Oxenford and there calling a councell of the lords other estates of his realme amongst other things he promised before line 10 the whole assemblie to win the harts of the people that he would put downe and quite abolish that tribute which oftentimes was accustomed to be gathered after the rate of their acres of hides of land commonlie called Danegilt which was two shillings of euerie hide of land Also that he would so prouide that no bishops sees nor other benefices should remaine void but immediatlie after vpon their first vacation they should be againe bestowed vpon some conuenient person meet to supplie the roome Further line 20 he promised not to seize vpon any mans woods as forfeit though any priuate man had hunted and killed his déere in the same woods as the maner of his predecessour was ¶ For a kind of forfeiture was deuised by king Henrie that those should lose their right inheritance in their woods that chanced to kill any of the kings déere within the same Moreouer be granted licence to all men to build either castell tower or other hold for defense of themselues vpon their owne grounds Al this did he chieflie line 30 in hope that the same might be a safegard for him in time to come if the empresse should inuade the land as he doubted she shortlie would Moreouer he aduanced manie yoong lustie gentlemen to great liuings For such as were of any noble familie and thereto through a certeine stoutnesse of stomach sought preferment easilie obteined of him the possession of castels and great lordships diuerse of whom he honored with titles of dignitie creating some of them earles and some lords Now such was their line 40 importunate sute in demanding that when he had little more to bestow amongst them hauing alreadie giuen sundrie portions that belonged to the crowne they ceassed not to be in hand with him for more and being denied with reasonable excuses on his behalfe they thought themselues ill dealt withall and so turning from him fortified their castels and holds making open warre against him as hereafter shall appeare There came ouer vnto him also a great number line 50 of Flemings and Britons to serue him as souldiers whom he reteined to be the stronger and better able to defend himselfe against the malice of the empresse by whom he looked to be molested he wist not how soone Wherefore he shewed himselfe verie liberall courteous and gentle towards all maner of persons at the first and to saie truth more liberall familiar and free harted than stood with the maiestie of a king which was afterward a cause that he grew line 60 into contempt ¶ But to such meanes are princes driuen that atteine to their estates more through fauour and support of others than by any good right or title which they may pretend of themselues Thus the gouernement of this prince at the beginning was nothing bitter or heauie to his subiects but full of gentlenesse lenitie courtesie and mildnes Howbeit whilest these things were a dooing certeine of the English Nobilitie abhorring both the king and the present state of his gouernment went priuilie out of the realme into Scotland to king Dauid declaring vnto him what a detestable act was committed by the lords of England in that contrarie to their oth made vnto the empresse Maud and hir issue they had now crowned Stephan Wherefore they besought the said king to take in hand to reuenge such a vile iniurie practised against hir and to restore the kingdome vnto the said empresse which if he did it should be a thing most acceptable both to God and man King Dauid hauing heard and well weied the effect of their request foorthwith was so mooued at their words that in all possible hast he assembled an armie and entring into England first tooke the citie and castell of Carleil afterward comming into Northumberland he tooke Newcastell and manie other places vpon the borders there Whereof king Stephan being aduertised streightwaies assembled a power and foorthwith hasted into Cumberland meaning to recouer that againe by force of armes which the enimie had stolen from him by craft and subtiltie At his approch néere to Carleil he pitched downe his field in the euening thinking there to staie till the morning that he might vnderstand of what power the enimie was whome he knew to be at hand King Dauid also was of a fierce courage and redie inough to haue giuen him battell but yet when he beheld the English standards in the field and diligentlie viewed their order and behauiour he was at the last contented to giue eare to such as intreated for peace on both sides Wherevpon comming to king Stephan he entred a freendlie peace with him wherein he made a surrender of Newcastell with condition that he should reteine Cumberland by the frée grant of king Stephan who hoped thereby to find king Dauid the more faithfull vnto him in time of need but yet he was deceiued as afterwards manifestlie appéered For when king Stephan required of him an oth of allegiance he answered that he was once sworne alreadie vnto Maud the empresse Howbeit to gratifie him he commanded his son Henrie to receiue that oth for the which the king gaue him the earledome of Huntington to hold of him for euer ¶ The Scotish chronicles set out the matter in other order but yet all agrée that Henrie sware fealtie to king Stephan as in the said historie of Scotland you may sée more at large Now after that king Stephan had concluded a peace with king Dauid he returned to London and there kept his Easter with great ioy and triumphes who whilest he was yet in the middest of all his pastime about Rogation wéeke he chanced to fall sicke of a litargie by reason wherof a rumor was spred ouer all the realme that he was dead Which though it was but a vaine tale and of no importance at the first yet was it after the occasion of much euill For vpon that report great sedition was raised by the kings enimies amongst the people the minds of his fréends were alienated from him manie of the Normans which were well practised in periuries treasons thought they might boldlie attempt all mischéefes that came to hand and hervpon some of them vndertooke to defend one place and

will aduenture to haue my head broken for the duke of Irelands pleasure Likewise the earle of line 20 Northumberland being at that time in the court spake these words to the king Sir there is no doubt but these lords who now be in the field alwaies haue beene your true and faithfull subiects and yet are not intending to attempt anie thing against your state wealth honor Neuerthelesse they féele themselues sore molested and disquieted by the wicked deuises of certeine persons about you that seeke to oppresse them And verelie without faile all your realme is sore greeued therewith both great and small as well line 30 lords as commons and I sée not the contrarie but they mind to aduenture their liues with the lords that are thus in armes speciallie in this case which they reckon to be yours and your realmes And sir now yée be in the cheefe place of your realme and in the place of your coronation order your selfe now therefore wiselie and like a king Send to them to come before your presence in some publike place where they may declare vnto you the intent and purpose of their comming accompanied with so great a line 40 number of people into these parts and I beléeue it verelie they will shew such reasons that you will hold them excused The archbishop of Canturburie and the lord chancellor bishop of Elie and other of the bishops also there present affirmed the earles aduise to be good And the king considering wiselie the case as it stood began to be appeased and accorded to follow their aduise desiring the archbishop of Canturburie and the bishop of Elie to aduertise them of his plesure which line 50 was that he willed them to come to him to Westminster on sundaie then next following and so they repairing to the lords made report to them of the kings mind and purpose But the duke of Glocester and the other lords were so fullie bent in their opinion that they swore all whole togither that they would neuer giue ouer their enterprise so long as they had a penie to spend in maintenance of their cause and if it chanced anie of them to depart this life the ouerliuers should persist therein vntill the time that line 60 they had brought their purpose to some good effect And bicause they doubted least the king might stirre the citie of London against them they determined first to aduertise the maior and the citie how their comming was onlie to reforme certeine great enormities which they set downe in writing sent it to the maior and citizens beseeching them of their fauour and counsell therin This doone they determined yet to kéepe their daie on the sundaie following to appeare before the kings presence but this was not got of them till that the lord chancellor with diuerse other noblemen of good credit had vndertaken vpon their oths for the kings behalfe that no fraud nor deceipt no perill nor euill pretense should be put in practise against the lords wherby they might come to losse either of life limme or goods or otherwise through the kings means but that if he should go about anie such things the said lord chancellor and other the mediators should forwarne the lords therof When therefore the lords were readie according to couenant to come vnto Westminster they were secretlie aduertised that there was an ambush laid in a place called the Mewes and so they staied and came not at the appointed houre Wherevpon when the king demanded how it fortuned that the lords kept not promise the bishop of Elie lord Chancellor made him this answer Bicause saith he there is an ambush of a thousand armed men or more laid in such a place and named it contrarie to couenant and therefore they neither come nor hold you for faithfull of your word The king hearing this was astonied and said with an oth that he knew of no such thing withall sent to the shiriffes of London commanding them to go to the Mewes and vpon search made if they found anie force of men there assembled to take and kill all such as they could laie hands vpon But sir Thomas Triuet and sir Nitholas Brambre knight that had in déed assembled such a number of men when they vnderstood what order the king had giuen therein they sent their men backe to London The lords after this receiuing a safe conduct from the king and perceiuing all to be safe and cleare came vnto Westminster with a strong power of men about them The king when he heard they were come apparelled himselfe in his kinglie robes and with his scepter in hand came into the great hall at Westminster The lords as soone as they had sight of him made to him their humble obeisance went foorth till they came to the nether steps going vp to the kings seat of state where they made their second obeisance then the king gaue them countenance to come néerer to him they so did kneeling downe before him foorthwith he rose from his place and louinglie welcomming them tooke each of them by the hand and that doone sate him downe againe Herewith the bishop of Elie lord chancellor as mouth to the king declared vnto these lords in effect as followeth My lords said he our souereigne lord the king hearing that you were assembled in Haringie parke in other maner than was conuenient would not foorthwith run vpon you with force to destroie you as he might easilie haue doone if he had not wished your safetie for no man doubteth but if his pleasure had béene to gather an armie he might haue had more people than you could haue got to haue taken part with you against him and so happilie much bloud might haue béene spilt which thing certeinlie our souereigne lord the king vtterlie abhorreth and therefore vsing patience and mildnesse he hath rather chosen to talke with you in peaceable wise that he may vnderstand the cause whie yée haue assembled so great a number of people togither The lords for answer héerevnto said that they assembled their forces togither for the profit both of the king and realme and speciallie to take awaie from him such traitors as remained continuallie about him to wit Robert de Ueer duke of Ireland Alexander Neuill archbishop of Yorke Michaell de la Poole erle of Suffolke Robert Trisilian that false iustice and sir Nicholas Brambre that disloiall knight of London for so they tearmed them all And to prooue their accusations true they threw downe their gloues protesting by their oths to prosecute it by battell Naie saith the king not so but in the next parlement which we doo appoint before hand to begin the morrow after the Purification of our ladie both they and you appearing shall receiue according to law all that which reason shall appoint And now to you my lords I speake by what meane or by what reason durst you so presumptuouslie take vpon

houre of his death ¶ I cannot tell saith master Hall whether I should call him a foolish wise man or a wise foolish man for vndoutedlie he beside his learning had a great wit but it was so mingled with taunting and mocking that it seemed to them that best knew him that hée thought nothing to be well spoken except he had ministred some mocke in the communication Insomuch as at his comming to the Tower one of the officers demanded his vpper garment for his fee meaning his gowne and he answered he should haue it and tooke him his cap saieng it was the vppermost garment that he had Likewise euen going to his death at the Tower gate a poore woman called vnto him and be sought him to declare what he had doone with euidences of hirs in the time that he was in office which after he was apprehended shée could not come by and that he would intreat shée might haue them againe or else she was vndoone He answered good woman haue patience a little while for the king is so good vnto me that euen within this halfe houre he will discharge me of all businesse and helpe thée himselfe Also when he went vp the staiers on the scaffold he desired one of the shirifes officers to giue him his hand to helpe him vp and said When I come downe againe let me shift for my selfe as well as I can Also the hangman knéeled downe to him asking him forgiuenesse of his death as the maner is to whome he said I forgiue thée but I promise thee thou shalt neuer haue honestie by striking off my head my necke is so short Also euen when he should laie downe his head on the blocke he hauing a great graie beard stroked out his beard and said to the hangman I praie you let me laie my beard ouer the blocke least you should cut it Thus with a mocke he ended his life God had in most bountifull sort powred his blessings vpon this man induing him with eloquence wisedome and knowledge but the grace of God withdrawne from him he had the right vse of none no not of reason as it should be rightlie vsed God had extraordinarilie blessed his children and namelie his thrée daughters to whome he had giuen an admirable dexteritie in the science of toongs and arts as Iohn Leland our reuerend antiquarie noteth in a proper and learned epigramme saieng Desine facundas nimiùm laudare diserti Natas Hortensi maxima Roma tui● Candida tres Charites nam Mori cura politi Obscurant multis nomina vestra modis Non illis studium Milesia vellera dextra Carpere non facili ducere fila manu● Sed iuuat eloquij crebro monumenta Latini Versare doctis pingere verba notis Nec minùs authores Graecos euoluere Homerum Et quem dicendi gloria prima manet Vt nec Aristotelis dicam quo pectore libr●● Scrutentur sophiae mystica dona deae Turpe viris posthac erit ignorare Mineruae Artes gre● adeò quas muli●bris amet And yet was not the will of God for the infusing of spirituall graces so linked to that of temporall as because the one was granted therefore the other must not be denied For the blessings of God which be outward are common to the wicked with the good the sun shinesh vpon all the raine is kept from none naie God with a sparing hand reacheth out those things to the faithfull which with full gripes he filleth out and powreth into the laps and bosoms of infidels and epicures insomuch that the prophet Dauid noting no lesse with a kind of indignation opened his mouth saieng I was grieued at the wicked I doo also see the vngodlie in such prosperitie these florish in the world these haue riches in possession and I said Then haue I cleansed my heart in vaine line 10 and washed my hands in innocencie yea and I had almost said euen as they but lo then should I haue condemned the generation of Gods children But the end of these men being set in slipperie places are cast downe and destroied yea suddenlie doo they consume and come to a fearefull end euen like as a dreame when one awaketh so dooth God make their image to vanish out of the citie And albeit the fall of this sir Thomas More was reprochfull issuing from a treasonable offense yet as in pagans manie times there is somwhat which line 20 may teach christians lessons for their lerning to their shame so in this papist was one praise-worthie propertie among the rest most eminent which I will note to the rebuke of protestants ¶ The reuerend father doctor Elmer bishop of London in a sermon at Paules crosse by him made in a solemne audience assembled at the parlement time 1584 teaching diuerse points of doctrine and the duties of sundrie degrées said that it was commendable for noble men and gentlemen and a great furtherance to line 30 the loue of religion to be deuout he brought an example of sir Thomas More a man for his zeale saith the bishop to be honored but for his religion to be abhorred This knight would diuerse times put on a surplesse and helpe the préest in proper person to saie seruice insomuch that vpon a time being at Chelsie and busie about that exercise the duke of Norffolke then liuing came to the said sir Thomas then line 40 lord chancellor of England about speciall affaires and being informed that sir Thomas was at the church thither went the duke expecting the end of seruice In the end the duke and the lord chancellor met and after mutuall gréeting the duke said thus What! is my lord chancellor become a parish clarke What will the kings maiestie saie to this geere when he shall vnderstand that the lord chancellor of England a speciall péere of the realme and in highest roome of honor in the land next the prince is become line 50 a parish clarke Now trulie saith sir Thomas I thinke and verelie beléeue that his highnesse will be so farre to misdéeme or mislike me herein that when he shall heare of the care which I haue to serue both his maister and mine he will accept and take me for a faithfull seruant And thus much of him This yéere in the time that the king went his progresse to Glocester and to other places westward the king of Scots was installed knight of the garter at Winsore by his procurator the lord Erskin line 60 and in October following Stephen Gardner which after the cardinls death was made bishop of Winchester was sent ambassador into France where he remained thrée yeeres after ¶ In August the lord Thomas Fitzgerard sonne to the earle of Kildare was taken in Ireland and sent to the tower of London In the moneth of October doctor Lée and other were sent to visit the abbeies priories and nunries in England who set all those religious persons at libertie that

would forsake their habit and all that were vnder the age of foure and twentie yéeres and the residue were closed vp that would remaine Further they tooke order that no men should haue accesse to the houses of women nor women to the houses of men except it should be to heare their seruice The abbat or prior of the house where anie of the brethren was willing to depart was appointed to giue to euerie of them a priests gowne for his habit and fortie shillings in monie the nunnes to haue such apparell as secular women ware and to go whither them liked best ¶ The eleuenth of Nouember was a great procession at London for ●oie of the French kings recouerie of health from a dangerous sicknesse ¶ In December a surueie was taken of all chanteries and the names of them that had the gift of them The princesse Dowager ●●eng at K●imbalton fell into hir last sicknesse whereof the king being aduertised appointed the emperors ambassador that was legier here with him named Eustachius Caputius to go to visit hir and to doo his commendations to hir and will hir to be of good comfort The ambassador with all diligence did his duetie therein comforting hir the best he might but she within six daies after perceiuing hir selfe to wax verie weake and féeble and to féele death approching at hand caused one of hir gentlewomen to write a letter to the king commending to him hir daughter and his beseeching him to stand good father vnto hir and further desired him to haue some consideration of hir gentlewomen that had serued hir and to sée them bestowed in marriage Further that it would please him to appoint that hir seruants might haue their due wages and a yéeres wages beside This in effect was all that she requested and so immediatlie herevpon she departed this life the eight of Ianuarie at Kimbalton aforesaid and was buried at Peterborow ¶ The nine and twentith of Ianuarie quéene Anne was deliuered of a child before hir time which was borne dead On the fourth of Februarie the parlement began in the which amongst other things enacted all religious houses of the value of three hundred marks and vnder were giuen to the king with all the lands and goods to them belonging The number of these houses were thrée hundred seauentie and six the value of their lands yearlie aboue two and thirtie thousand pounds their moouable goods one hundred thousand the religious persons put out of the same houses amounted to the number of aboue 10000. This yéere was William Tindall burnt at a towne betwixt Bruxels and Maclin called Uillefort This Tindall otherwise called Hichins was borne in the marches of Wales and hauing a desire to translate and publish to his countrie diuerse books of the bible in English and doubting to come in trouble for the same if he should remaine here in England got him ouer into the parties of beyond the sea where he translated not onelie the new testament into the English toong but also the fiue bookes of Moses Iosua Iudicum Ruth the books of the kings and Paralipomenon Nehemias or the first of Esdras and the prophet Ionas Beside these translations he made certeine tretises and published the same which were brought ouer into England and read with great desire of diuerse and of many sore despised and abhorred so that proclamations were procured foorth for the condemnation and prohibiting of his ●●oks as before you haue heard Finallie he was apprehended at Antwerpe by meanes of one Philips an Englishman and then scholer at Louaine After he had remained in prison a long time and was almost forgotten the lord Cromwell wrote for his deliuerance but then in all hast because he would not recant anie part of his doctrine he was b●rned as before you haue heard Of whose conuersation and doctrine innocent in the world and sincere for truth as also of his death and martyrdome read the martyrolologie of Iohn Fox our ecclesiasticall chronographer Anno 1536. sub Hen. 8. On Maie daie were solemne iusts kept at Gréenwich and suddenlie from the iusts the king departed not hauing aboue six persons with him and in the euening came to Westminster Of this sudden departing many mused but most chéeflie the quéene ¶ On the next morrow the lord Rochford brother to the quéene and Henrie Norris were brought to line 10 the tower of London prisoners Also the same daie about fiue of the clocke in the after noone queene Anne of Bullongne was brought to the tower of London by sir Thomas Audleie lord chancellor the duke of Norffolke Thomas Cromwell secretarie and sir William Kingston constable of the tower and when she came to the tower gate entring in ●he fell on hir knées before the said lords beséeching God to helpe hir as she was not guiltie of that whereof she was accused and then desired the said lords to line 20 beséech the kings grace to be good vnto hir and so they left hir there prisoner On the fiftéenth of Maie quéene Anne was arreigned in the tower of London on a scaffold for that purpose made in the kings hall before the duke of Norffolke who sate vnder the cloth of estate as high steward of England with the lord chancellor on his right hand the duke of Suffolke on his left hand with marquesses and lords c and the earle of Surrie sat before the duke of Norffolke his father as earle marshall of England The kings commission being read the constable line 30 of the tower and the lieutenant brought the queene to the barre where was made a chaire for hir to sit downe in and there hir indictement was read wherevnto she made so wise and discréet answers that she seemed fullie to cleere hir selfe of all matters laid to hir charge but being tried by hir péeres whereof the duke of Suffolke was chiefe she was by them found guiltie and had iudgement pronounced by the duke of Norffolke line 40 Immediatlie the lord Rochford the queenes brother was likewise arreigned and condemned the lord maior of London his brethren the aldermen the wardens and foure persons mo of euerie the twelue principall companies being present The seauenteenth of Maie the lord Rochford brother to the quéene Henrie Norris Marke Smeton William Brierton and Francis Weston all of the kings priuie chamber about matters touching the quéene were beheaded on the tower hill the lord Rochfords line 50 bodie with the head was buried in the chappell of the tower the other foure in the churchyard there On the ninetéenth of Maie quéene Anne was on a scaffold made for that purpose vpon the gréene within the tower of London beheaded with the sword of Calis by the hands of the hangman of that towne hir bodie with the head was buried in the quéere of the chappell in the tower The words of queene Anne line 60 at hir death GOod christian people I am come hither to

were led and carried and who did humble themselues he was pitifull and mercifull and did dailie pardon infinite numbers And his lordship thinking verelie that all things were now quieted the rebels pacified suddenlie newes were brought vnto him that there assembled at Sampford Courtneie both Deuonshiremen and Cornishmen and who were fullie bent to mainteine their quarrell and abide the battell These newes so troubled and tickled my lord that all businesse set apart he commandeth foorthwith the trumpet to be sounded and the drumme to be striken vp and all his armie to be foorthwith mustered which was then the greater by reason of the Welshmen and gentlemen of the countrie and of the commoners who vpon submission had obteined pardon and increased to the number of eight or ten thousand men and foorthwith he marcheth towards Sampford Courtneie where sir William Herbert requested to haue the fore-ward for that daie which was granted him And being come thither albeit the great companie of so manie good souldiers and well appointed might haue dismaied them being nothing nor in order nor in companie nor in experience to be compared vnto the others yet they were at a point they would not yéeld to no persuasions nor did but most manfullie did abide the fight and neuer gaue ouer vntill that both in the towne and in the field they were all for the most taken or slaine At which time one ap Owen a Welsh gentlman more boldie than aduisedlie giuing the aduenture to enter the rampier at the townes end was there slaine by the rebels and after carried backe to Exon where after the maner of wars he was honorablie buried in the bodie of saint Peters church few of the kings side besides him then slaine and so of a traitorous beginning they made a shamefull ending Neuerthelesse manie escaped and they fled towards Summersetshire after whom was sent sir Peter Carew and sir Hugh Paulet then knight marshall with a great companie attending vpon them and followed them as far as to King Weston in the countie of Summerset where they ouertooke them and ouerthrew them and also tooke one Coffin a gentleman their capteine prisoner and brought him vnto Excester The lord Russell himselfe minding to make all things sure taketh his iorneie and marcheth into Cornewall and following his former course causeth execution to be doone vpon a great manie and especiallie vpon the chéefe belwedders and ringleaders but the cheefe and principall capteins he kept as prisoners and brought them with him to Excester And when this lord had set all things in good order he returned to Excester remained there for a time but after departed towards London where he was receiued with great ioy and thanks and being come before the king he forgat not to commend vnto his maiestie the good seruice of this citie in this rebellion which as is before said was liberallie rewarded and considered After his departure and according to his order and appointment the chéefe capteins and principall heads of this rebellion whome he left in prison in the kings goale at Excester were caried to London and commanded to the tower and in their due time were afterwards executed to death namelie Humfreie Arundell esquier Wineslade esquier Iohn Berrie and Coffin gentlemen and Holmes yeoman which Coffin and Holmes were seruants to sir Iohn Arundell knight Of the number of them who were slaine there is no certeintie knowne but manie more be found lacke then numbred howbeit it was accounted by such as continued in the whole seruice of this commotion to be about foure thousand men But what number was of the contrarie side dispatched nothing is reported albeit it be well knowne that they escaped not scotfrée and especiallie the Burgonians who were abhorred of the one partie and nothing fauoured of the other Thus much line 10 concerning the description of the citie and of the sundrie inuasions and assaults against the same and especiallie of the last rebellion or commotion in the yeare of our Lord 1549 wherein much more might be spoken but this may suffice for this matter And for as much as the cathedrall church of this citie called by the name of S. Peters is a parcell of the citie and compassed within the wals of the same though in respect of certeine priuileges distinct from the iurisdiction thereof I thought it good to subnect herevnto line 20 the description of the said church and of the antiquitie of the same The antiquitie foundation and building of the cathedrall church of saint Peters in Excester AFter that corrupt religion and superstition was crept and receiued into the church and the people become deuout line 30 therein then began the erecting of religious houses and monasteries in euerie countrie And as this was vniuersall throughout all christendome vnder the gouernement of the Romane bishop so also was it generallie doone throughout all England in which generalitie this citie was of a particularitie for in this citie from time to time as opportunitie serued sundrie religious houses and monasteries were erected and builded of which there were thrée within the site circuit and line 40 place now called the close of S. Peters and which in time accrued and were vnited into one The first was a house for women called moniales or nuns which is now the deanes house or Kalendar haie The other was a house of moonks supposed to be builded by king Ethelred the third sonne to king Ethelwolph and these two were vnited by bishop Leofricus vnto the cathedrall church The third was a house for moonks of the order of S. Benet which was builded and founded by king Athelstane about the yeare of line 50 our Lord 932 and this is that part of the cathedrall church now called the ladie chappell For the said king hauing driuen out of this citie the Britons then dwelling therein and minding to make a full conquest both of them and of this their countrie which they then inhabited did so fiercelie follow and pursue them euen into Cornewall that in the end he conquered them and had the victorie After which he returned to this citie and here staieng and soiourning for a time did reedifie the citie incompassed it with line 60 a stone wall and founded the cathedrall church which he then appointed for a monasterie for moonks of S. Benets order For so is it written Hanc vrbem rex Adelstanus primus in potestatem Anglorum effugatis Britonibus redactam turribus muniuit muro ex quadratis lapidibus cinxit ac antiquitùs vocatam Munketon nunc Exester vocari voluit ac ibi sedens mansum quoddam dedit ad fundandum monasterium pro monachis Deo sancto Petro famulantibus Besides the charges which he was at the building of the said church he gaue also lands and reuenues vnto them sufficient for maintenance and liuelihoods whereof Morkeshull and Treasurors béere are parcell and which now are appendant

by speciall commissioners confirmed in king Edwards time and the lord treasuror being an executor also to the duke Charles solie and wholie tooke vpon him before the said commissioners to discharge the same If it be true that you saie quoth the bishop I will shew you fauor But of an other thing maister Bertie I will admonish you as mening you well I line 10 heare euill of your religion yet I hardlie can think euill of you whose mother I know to be as godlie and catholike as anie within this land your selfe brought vp with a maister whose education if I should disallow I might be charged as author of his error Besides partlie I know you my selfe and vnderstand of my friends inough to make me your friend wherfore I will not doubt of you but I praie you if I maie aske the question of my ladie your line 20 wife is she now as readie to set vp the masse as she was latelie to pull it downe when she caused in hir progresse a dog in a rochet to be caried called by my name Or dooth she thinke hir lambs now safe inough which said to me when I vailed my bonnet to hir out of my chamber window in the tower that it was merie with the lambs now the woolfe was shut vp Another time my lord hir husband hauing inuited me and diuerse ladies to dinner desired euerie ladie to choose him whome she loued best and so line 30 place themselues My ladie your wife taking me by the hand for that my lord would not haue hir to take himselfe said that for so much as she could not sit downe with my lord whome she loued best she had chosen me whome she loued worst Of the deuise of the dog quoth master Bertie she was neither the author nor the allower The words though in that season they sounded bitter to your lordship yet if it should please you without offense to know the cause I am sure the one will purge the line 40 other As touching setting vp of masse which she learned not onelie by strong persuasions of diuerse excellent learned men but by vniuersall consent and order whole six yeares past inwardlie to abhorre if she should outwardlie allow she should both to Christ shew hir selfe a false christian and vnto hir prince a masking subiect You know my lord one by iudgement reformed is more woorth than a thousand transformed temporizors To force a confession of religion by mouth contrarie to that in the heart worketh damnation where saluation is pretended Yea marie line 50 quoth the bishop that deliberation would doo well if she neuer required to come from an old religion to a new But now she is to returne from a new to an ancient religion wherein when she made me hir gossip she was as earnest as anie For that my lord said M. Bertie not long since she answered a friend of hirs vsing your lordships spéech that religion went not by age but by truth and therefore she was to be turned by persuasion and not by commandement I praie you quoth the bishop line 60 thinke you it possible to persuade hir Yea verelie said master Bertie with the truth for she is reasonable inough The bishop therevnto replieng said It will be a maruellous griefe to the prince of Spaine and to all the nobilitie that shall come with him when they shall find but two noble personages of the Spanish race within this land the quéene and my ladie your wife and one of them gone from the faith Master Bertie answered that he trusted they should find no fruits of infidelitie in hir So the bishop persuading master Bertie to trauell earnestlie for the reformation of hir opinion and offering large friendship released him of his band from further appearance The duchesse and hir husband dailie more and more by their friends vnderstanding that the bishop meant to call hir to an account of hir faith whereby extreamitie might follow deuised waies how by the quéenes licence they might passe the seas Master Bertie had a redie meane for there rested great summes of monie due to the old duke of Suffolke one of whose executors the duchesse was beyond the seas the emperour himselfe being one of those debtors Master Bertie communicated this his purposed sute for licence to passe the feas and the cause to the bishop adding that he tooke this time most meet to deale with the emperour by reason of likelihood of marriage betwéene the quéene and his sonne I like your deuise well quoth the bishop but I thinke it better that you tarrie the princes comming and I will procure you his letters also to his father Naie quoth master Bertie vnder your lordships correction pardon of so liberall spéech I suppose the time will then be lesse conuenient for when the marriage is consummate the emperour hath his desire but till then he will refuse nothing to win credit with vs. By saint Marie quoth the bishop smiling you gesse shrewdlie Well procéed in your sute vnto the quéene and it shall not lacke my helping hand Master Bertie found so good successe that he in few daies obteined the quéenes licence not onlie to passe the seas but to passe and repasse them so often as to him séemed good till he had finished all his businesse and causes beyond the seas So he passed the seas at Douer about the beginning of Iune in the first yeare of hir reigne leauing the duchesse behind who by agréement and consent betwixt hir and hir husband followed taking barge at Lion keie verie earlie in the morning on the first daie of Ianuarie next insuing not without some perill There was none of those that went with hir made priuie to hir going till the instant but an old gentleman called master Robert Cranwell whome master Bertie had speciallie prouided for that purpose She tooke with hir hir daughter an infant of one yeare and the meanest of hir seruants for she doubted the best would not aduenture that fortune with hir They were in number foure men one a Gréeke borne which was a rider of horsses an other a ioiner the third a brewer the fourth a foole one of the kitchin one gentlewoman and a landresse As she departed hir house called the Barbican betwixt foure and fiue of the clocke in the morning with hir companie and baggage one Atkinson an herald kéeper of hir house hearing noise about the house rose and came foorth with a torch in his hand as she was yet issuing out of the gate wherewith being amazed she was forced to leaue a male with necessaries for hir yoong daughter a milkepot with milke in the same gatehouse commanding all hir seruants to spéed them before awaie to Lion keie and taking with hir onelie the two women and hir child so soone as she was out of hir owne house perceiuing the herald to follow she slept in at Garterhouse hard by The herald comming

a 60 b 10 c His standard what ensigne it bore 673 a 10. The fruits of his malice 673 a 30. Beareth a continuall grudge vnto king Edward the fourth his persuasions to his two brethren against him 670 b 20 50 671 b 10 c b 50. Offended with king Edward the fourths marriage 668 a 60. He kéepeth his gréefe secret b 20. Sent ouer into France about K. Edward the fourths marriage 667 b 60. His corage a trustie fréend to king Edward the fourth 664 a 60 b 10. The right one order taken for the shewing of him abrode 765 b 30. Had in feare gelousie in forren regions 787 b 60. Shewed openlie in procession 766 a 10. His manlie corage 982 a 50. His presence greatlie incorageth the English souldiors 987 a 10 His request and message to the erle of Huntleie 984 a 20. Arreigned of treason Confesseth it submitteth himselfe is pardoned 492 a 50 60 b 10. In highest authoritie 1061 b 10. Commended he is slaine 727 a 60. Sent against the rebelles in the north 1212 b 40. Commended 1205 a 50. Deceaseth 404 b 20. His valiantnesse 1204 a 60. Shot thorough the thigh with an harquebuse b 50. Noble men of France sent vnto him from the admerall about conference 1199b 30. Landeth at Newhauen 1196 a 20. An oth taken by him and his officers 30. He and the Rheingraue talke togither b 10. He appointed to go against Norffolke rebels 1034 b 30. Commeth to Cambridge b 40. He sendeth an herald at armes to the rebels offering pardon c 1036 a 10 c. Counsell giuen him to abandon Norwich goeth foorth to giue the enimies battell 1038 a 60 b 70. The rebels yéeld to him sheweth them mercie 1039 b 20 Counter●et of Warwike ¶ Sée Simene●● Of Wiltshire and others spoile Newberie he saileth ouer seas 653 b 20 30. The duke of Buckinghams brother 803 b 20. Of Winchester besieged by his owne tenants 240 b 10. Reprochfullie executed 339 a 50. Of Worcester gouernor to the prince slippeth from him 522 b 30. And others beheaded 523 b 60 Erles of Chester the true and famous genealogie 221 a 10 Tooke end in Iohn Scot 221 a 10. Of Leicester from the first to the last by succession set downe in a collection 1419 a 40 c vnto 1424 b 10. Of Richmond line that first bare their title of honor of the said castle and towne 7 b 20 Erles created 332 a 20 568 a 60 347 b 60. 892 a 50.912 b 50. And dukes created 395 b 50. And barons 960 a 20. And lords 1061 a 40 1228 a 60 b 10. At a parlement 353 a 30. Thrée taken and beheaded 183 b 10 Erledome of March purchased 102 a 50. Erminfred bishop of Sion or Sitlen a chéefe commissioner from pope Alexander 8 b 60. Ermingard vicount Beaumonts daughter married to William king of Scots 110 a 60 Erthquake 217 b 50. In Kent c 1313 10. Ouer all England 109 a 40. Generall in England 11 b 50. In H. the firsts time 39 b 10. Sensible and visible 44 b 40. That did much hurt 440 b 40. In the fourtéenth of duke Williams reigne 14 a 30. Uniuersall how frightfull and hurtfull 1311 a 20. c That ouerthrew buildings 239 b 20. At saint Albons counted strange and whie 243 a 60. That ouerthrew houses 241 a 60. Generall did much hurt 278 a 30. In diuerse places of England 1206 a 20 30 In sundrie places of England and what harme was thereby doone 1260 b 10. After a thunder 204 b 40 With lightening and thunder c 277 b 40 note Erth lifted vp it selfe like a huge towre 102 b 60. Remooued in Dorsetshire 1353 a 20. And trées soonke and swallowed vp in Kent note 1413 b 20 30. Strangelie moouing in the countie of Hereford 1224 b 10 Esc●age demanded note 213 a 20. Granted 233 b 40 248 a 40 262 a 10. Paid 203 a 60. Gathered twentie shillings of euerie knights fée 230 b 50. Termed the great 229 a 50 Espeke Walter the first that brought the order of white monks into England 26 a 60 Essexmen beginers of a shrewd rebellion 429 b 60. They prosecute it 430 c. Ester daie fell at the highest namelie on saint Marks daie 167 a 60 Esterlings ¶ Sée Riot Estouteuille Robert taken prisoner 33 a 40 Euill Maie daie ¶ Sée Rebellion of Lincolne Euers constable of Douer castell c 480 a 20. Lord that now liueth his noble ancestrie 412 b 50. Knight his good seruice in the North 942 b 30. His prowesse and valiant seruice 962 b 30. Slaine 968 a 60 Eureux citie yéelded vnto the Frenchmen 386 b 50. Taken by treason 619 b 60 Eustace earle of Bullongne against William Rufus 17 b 60. Sonne to king Stephen duke of Normandie 48 a 40. Angrie with his father 60 a 60. He dieth ¶ Sée Moonke Exactions cause commotions 626 b 10. Great 145 a 40. With shifts of extortion practised 146 a 10. New and strange note 496 a 20. Intollerable 239 b 10. ¶ Sée Couetousnes Subsidies c. Taxes Tenths and Tributes Example euill how it preuaileth 430 a 60. Of great ones what it dooth for imitation 845 b 60 Execution without iudgement vpon noblemen 673 a 30 693 a 50. Of the duke of Buckingham without arreignment or iudgement 744 b 10 Excester rebelled against duke William and is subdued 6 b 10. Preserued from fier 784 a 10. Besieged the loialtie of the citizens 1002 b 40 60. Citie described with the sundrie assaults of the same 1007 b 10 1008 1009 1010 1011 1012 1013 1014. Commended for loue and loiall seruice to the king and state note 1047 b 40 50. Noble true 1048 a 10. Great practises to procure the citizens thereof to ioine with the Deuonshire rebels note 1020 a 30 c. The antiquitie foundation and building of the cathedrall church of saint Peters in Excester 10●7 a 20 c. ¶ Sée Clergie Edward the fourth and Richard the third Excommunication denounced against the rebell●ous barons in king Iohns time 188 b 60 Of Romish vsurers and the excommunicator called to his answer 219 b 10. A ●art that made both king and people to quaile 223 b 60. Of préest for incontinencie 242 a 60. And suspension thre●tned against the English clergie 239 a 40. Thretned to such as assisted king Iohn 181 a 50. Of Lewis the French kings sonne by name 192 a 20. By name and in particular 190 a 10. Of king Iohn when it was to be released 178 b 40. Of Guie de Montfort 277. a 40. Of duke Leopald for unprisoning of Richard the fourth 147. a 50. Extended to the dead buried note 392 a 10. Flashed and thundered out against the Wicleuists note 484 a 10 c Threatened against attempters of tumults 205 b 60. The feare thereof constreined a contribution 211 a 10. Of pope Sixtus quintus estéemed as nothing note 1401 a 40 c ¶ Sée Legats Popes and Préests