made much of that little he gotte and wrote himselfe King which tytle our Hystories doe allowe him bycause hee made the waye playne enioyed it a whyle and set open the gate vnto his Countreymen Turgesius atchieued the whole exployte and brought it to perfection and in these respectes eyther of them may bee called King and Conquerour of Irelande Turgesius therefore with hys Norwegyans the seconde tyme inuaded Irelande Turgesius what he did susteyned diuerse losses and ouerthrowes but in the ende fortefying himselfe by the Sea coastes and receyuing thereby hys friendes at hys pleasure waxed so strong that hee subdued the whole I le He buyldeth Fortresses styll erecting Castelles and Fortresses as hee wanne grounde so to mayster the Irishe that with such maner of strengthes of Walles and Rampyres had not as yet beene acquaynted for tyll those dayes they knewe no defence but Woods Bogs or strokes Turgesius so brydled the Irishe Kinges and kepte them in awe Turgesius raigned in Ireland .xxx. yeares that without interruption hee raigned lyke a Conquerour thirtie yeares He cryed hauocke and spoyle where anye riche pray was to bee had sparing neyther those of the laytie nor of the Cleargie neyther Church nor Chappell abusing hys victorie verie insolently Omalaghlilen King of Methe Omalaghlilen king of Methe was in some trust with the tyrant His onely daughter Turgesius craued for his Concubine The father hauing a readie witte and watching his tyme beganne to breake with Turgesius in this wise sauing your fancie my Lorde quoth he there are dyuerse Ladyes of bloud in thys Countrey meeter bedfellowes for a King than that browne grystle and therewyth he beganne to recken vppe a number of hys Neeces and Cousins indowed as he set them forth with such singular beautie as they seemed rather Angels than mortall creatures The tyraunt as it were rauished and doting in loue of those Peerelesse peeces before hee sawe them by reason of such exceeding prayses as hee thus heard of them doubted yet least Omalaghlilen extolled them to preserue his daughter out of hys handes The policie of Omalaghlilen and the subtile father cloked his drift with modest behauiour lyngering tyme to enflame the Leachers folly as he that wished anye thing more to bee suspected than that which hee ment most earnestly to bring to passe At length when Turgesius seemed to take his delaying thus of tyme somewhat dyspleasantly he vsed thys or the like speech If I shoulde saye quoth hee that I gaue you my sole daughter wyth good wyll to be deflowred your highe wisedome woulde soone gesse that I didde but flatter you and yet if tenne Daughters were dearer to mee than your good pleasure and contentation by whose bountifull goodnesse both shee and I and wee all are supported I were vnworthie that secrete and neare frendship wherin it lyketh you to vse me As for the wenche it will be in parte honourable to hir to be required to the bedde of such a prince sith Queenes haue not sticked to come from far and yelde the vse of their bodyes to noble conquerors in hope by them to haue issue and how soeuer it be taken tyme will weare it out and redeeme it but suche a friende as you are to mee and myne neyther I nor myne shall lyue to see And verily I mean not to hazard your displesure if it were for a greater matter than the value of twentie maydenheads seeyng fathers haue not sticked to giue vp their own wiues to quench the lustes of their sonnes Therefore am I thus agreed name the daye and place separate youre selfe from the viewe of your court confeere with those that haue a deyntie insight and skilfull eyes in discerning beauties I wil send you my daughter and with hir the choyce of .xij. or .xvj. gentlewomeÌ„ the meanest of the which may be an Empresse in comparison when they are before you make youre game as you lyke And then if my chylde please your fantasy she is not too good to be at your coÌ„maundement Only my request is that if any other shall presume vpon youre leauings your maiestie will remember whose chyld she is This liberal prosfer was of Turgesius accepted whose desire was insactable with many good wordes thankes and faire promises To be shorte the same day Omalaglilen put his daughter in princelyke apparell attired after the trimmest wyse and with hir .xvj. proper yong men The lyke vvas practised by Alexander son to Amyneas king of Macedonie agaynste the Persian ambassadours Carion lib. 3. â—â— 109. beautifull and amiable to behold and so being sent to the king were presented vnto him in his priuie chamber hauyng none aboute him but a fewe dissolute youthfull persons whervpon those disguised yong striplyngs drew foorth from vnder their long womannishe garmentes theyr skeynes and valiauntly besturring them selues first stabbed their weapon poyntes thorough the bodie of the tyrant and then serued all those youthes that were aboute him with the lyke sawce they making small or no resistance at all The bruite of this murder was quickly blowen abroade thoroughe all Irelande and the Princes readye to catche holde on suche aduauntage rose in armes wyth one assente in purpose to delyuer themselues from bondage and recouer libertie All Methe and Leynister were speedyly got together The persuasion of Omalaglilen resortyng vnto Omalaglilen the authour of this practise who lyghtly lept to horsse and commending their forwarde readynesse in so naturall a quarrell sayd My lordes and frends this case neyther admitteth delaye nor requireth a policie Harte and haste is all in all whylest the matter is freshe and greene and that some of oure enimies lye still and sleepe some lamente some curse some are togither in counsell and all the whole number dismayed lette vs preuente theyr furye dismember theyr force cut off their flyght seyse vppon theyr places of refuge and succoure It is no victorie to plucke their feathers but to break their neckes not to chase them in but to rouse them out to weede them not to rake them not to treade them downe but to roote them vp This lesson the tyraunt himselfe did teache me I once demaunded of him as it were in a parable by what good husbandrie the lande might be ridde of certayne rauening fowles that anoyed it He aduysed vs to watch where they bredde and to fyre their nests aboute their eares Goe wee then vpon these Cormorantes whyche shrowde themselues in 〈◊〉 possessions and let vs so destroye them 〈◊〉 neyther nest nor roote neyther seede 〈◊〉 neyther braunche nor stumpe shall â—â—tayne of this vngratious generation Scared hadde he ended his tale but that wyth greate shoutes and clamoures they extolled the Kyng as defendoure of theyr lyues and libertyes assuring hym both of theyr bolde and hardye stomackes and speedfull expedition ioyned with theyr confederates and with a runnyng Campe swepte euerye corner of the lande rased the Castelles to the grounde chased away the straungers slewe all that
Irelande 29. Roderick the Monarke and all the Princes of the whole Ilande they of Vlster onely excepted acknowledge him supreme Prince of all and become his liegemen 30 he feasteth al the Irish princes and calleth a Sinode of the Cleargie ibid. he appoynteth Captaines for the safe keeping of the countrey and returneth into England 31 Herbert Francis Alderman of Dublin sent to king Henrie 92 Hermion slayeth his brother Hiberus 5 Heruie de Monte Mauriseo rewarded by Dermote king of Lemster 23. taketh vpon him to lead the souldiours 33. enuieth Reymonde le Grace and styrreth king Henrie agaynst him 35. his description 37 foundeth the Abbey of DoÌ„brothy and becommeth a Monke 39 Hibernia why so called 5 Hiberus the Spaniard his arryuall in Irelande 22 Holland Robert lord Iustice of Chester 50 Holywood 64 Hollande sent Captaine to maister Salisburie 97 Hostages deliuered to be kept within the castel of Dublin by the lords of Ireland for their loyaltie to king Henry the second 53 Howard Thomas erle of Surrey and after duke of Norffolk is appoynted lieutenant 80. repulseth the Moores readie to inuade the Englishe pale ibid. his prayse ibid. is bound for the Erle of Kildare 83 Hussey Iohn a trustie and a valiant esquire his worthie exploit 54. his successors made Barons of Galirim ibid. I. IAcke Cade 73. Iohn a Leekes 5â—… Iohn sonne to king Henrie the second after king of Englande sent into Irelande 40.41 slayeth hir nephew 42. his voyage into Irelande 43. or his surrender thereof into the Popes handes 44 Iohn be in Mare 47. Iohn of Guesham 47 Iohn de Saint Paule 46 Ioiâ—…e Rowlande 51 Irelande by whome first inhabited â—… 3 conquered by the Grecians and 〈◊〉 by them 3. inuaded and spoyled by the Sâ—…ithians 4. how it was named ibid. conquered by the Spaniards 5. subiect to Arthur king of Britayn ibid. deuided by the Spaniards ibid. inuaded and conquered by the Norwegians 14. inuaded by the Danes .16 againe inuaded by the Danes 17. again inuaded by the Danes ibid. again by them ibid. againe by them 18. subiect to Henry the second 29. giueÌ„ by him to his son Iohn after king 40. giuen to Edwarde sonne to Henrie the third 44. inuaded and wasted by the Scottes 5â—… Irish franklings their behauiours 40 Irishe their outrages in time of Parliaments 70 Irish borne 64. Iâ—…p waker 56 Iuorus an Easterling fouÌ„der of Dublin 1â—… K. KArreck castell built by Fitz StepheÌ„s 24 Kemwrike Shereman Maior of Dublin a great benefactor 63 Kemun Castell burne 50 Kemni castell razed by the L. lieutenant 70 Kormacke Oletham sonne to the Prince of Desmonde committeth his father to prison 36 Keruill gouernour of the Irish men slain 〈◊〉 battaile by the Danes 17 Kettle Alice a Witch 58 Kildare Castel taken 47 Kilkenny the Suburbes walled by Robert Talbot 70 Knocâ—…ow field 75. Knights created 47.52 Knought sonne to Gurino king of Denmark slaine at the siege of Dublin 18 L. LAcy Iohn 51 Lacy Hugh 31. buildeth diuerse fortresses 39. and. 41. his good gouernment and descriptioÌ„ 40. is trayterously murthred 41 Lacy Richard made Lord deputie buyldeth dyuarse Castels 40 Lacye Huge the yonger rewarded with the Erledome of Vlster his acres 43. dyeth without issue male 44 Lacy Walter Lorde of Meth dyeth 44 Lacies their behauiour enquired of by an inquest impanelled 55. their traiterous practises with the Scottes ibid. proclaymed traytors 56 Laigria 1 Lambert the counterfeit erle of Warwike 75 Languinna 2. Laogerius 5.11 Laurence Archbishop of Dublin 26.46 Lech Iohn 49. Legate from Rome 79 Lemster Irish their outragious actes 59 Lenrouse Thomas 102.103 Letters from the Duke of Yorke to the erle of Salisburie 73 Letters of priuate seale 79 Letters from the Lorde Butler to Thomas Fitz Giralde 91 Ley towne burnt 49 Liberties called in what proceeded therof 61 Limerick by whoÌ„ founded 19. takeÌ„ by Reymond le grace 35. besieged 36 burnt ibid. Lionell duke of Clarence his mariage 60 he commeth into Irelande 64. his dealings there ibid. Lismore spoyled 33. Liuery 74 Loggan Iohn 55. Lorde Louell 75 Lordes of Ireland deliuer hostages 53 Luttrell chiefe Iustice of the coÌ„mon place 92 M. MAc Adam Mac Gilmore 67 Mac Nèmorre 75 Mac William 75. Mac Mourche 70 Mac Mahun 72. Macgolagh 67 Machelan 29. Machalther 50 Macgilinor Hugh slaine in a Church 68 Mac Coghlan 46 Macbuayn 10 Mac Carey 45. Madock 12 Maginors 69. Maggohigam 73 Maynoth Castell fortified by the rebels 96 besieged by Skeffington Lorde Deputie and betrayed 97 Maureuar Thom. baron of Serin slaine 70 Malachias 13.12 Malchus 13 Mandeuile Lorde of Barenselly his yearely reuenues in Henrie the fourth his dayes what 68 Mandueuile Iohn 52.53 Mandeuile Thomas knight 54 Maurius king of Britaine 6 Maritagh Oconghuir K. of Offaly slain 48 Mariges made for y e increase of amity 34.69 Martyrs of Ireland 12 Maurice de Prendelgast 22 Maupas Iohn 57 Meiller his valiancy 23.28 one of the chiefe conguerours of Irelande 37. his description ivid Kildare giuen to him 40 Melbrick king of Ireland slaine 17 Melingus 12 Mellesunt Abbey founded 24 Men eaten for want of vittailes 55 Marlyn his prophecie fulfilled 30 Meth. why so called 3. spoyled by Dermotè king of Lemster 26. giuen to Hugh Lacy 31. spoiled by Radericke K. of CoÌ„nagh 32 Metropolitane Seas in Irelande which 20 Miles of Saint Dauid 35 Minot Thomas Archbishop of Dublin 64 Molossian hound 8 Monark of Ireland how he was reputed 20 Moores inuade the English pale 20 Morice king of Meth his wife abused 21 Morice Archbishop of Castell his answere touching the martyres of Irelande 12 Mortimer Roger Lorde of Meth. 51. is discomfited by the Scots 53. is made Lorde Iustice 55. chaseth the Lacies out of CoÌ„nagh 56. is slaine by the Irish 65 Mount Salanga 2. Muridus 9 N. NAuiculeri littus 1. Neale 4 Neal the great Monarch of Ireland 9 Neil Odonel takeÌ„ prisoner by six Thomas Stanley Lord Lieutenant 72 Nemodus wyth his foure sonnes sent into Irelande 3 Nigelius 12 Nobles of IrelaÌ„d in king Edward the first his dayes 47 Norwegians inuade Irelande 14. are expulsed 15 Norwagth burnt by Philip Stanton 46 Notingham Robert Maior of Dublin apprehendeth the Erle of Vlster and spoyleth y e Abbey of S. Mary nere to Dub. 55 O. OBren king of Thomond slaine 49 Obren 64 Obrenroth king of Thomond slaine 45 Oconghur king of Connagh 54 Ocaruell 29 Oconther his victories 69.70 Odempsi 71.49 Odoles 69 Offali chase 46. Oghgard burnt 67 Ohedian Rich. Bishop of Cashel accused 72 Okeroll 67. Okely 54.70 Oleyn Edmond 99. Omachealewy 29 Omalaghlilen King of Meth his policie to saue his daughters chastitie 14 Omalaghlen king of Ossorie 29 Omolinoy 51. Oinore 17 Onalan Castell buylded 40 Oneale 45 Oneale Con. 81. his rebellions 83.85.106 Onolan 67. Ophelan 29 Oration of the Lord Fitz Giralde at his reuolting 91 Oration of a Scithian Prince to the king of Irelande 6 Oration of Omalaghlilen 15 Oration of Crommer Lord Chancelor 92 Originall
proclayming could scant haue sufficed vnto the hare writing alone all had it bene but in Paper and scribled forth in haste at aduenture So that vpon the proclayming thereof one that was schoolmaister of Pauls of â—…aâ—…e standing by and comparing the shortnesse of the time with the length of the matter sayd vnto them y t stood about him here is a gay goodly east foule cast away for haste and a marchant aunswered him that it was written by prophecie Now then by and by as it were for anger not for couetise the Protectour sent into the house of Shores wife for hir husbande dwelled not with hir and spoyled hir of all that euer she had aboue the value of two or three thousand mark and sent hir bodie to prison And when he had a while layd vnto hir for the maner sake that she went about to bewitch him and that she was of couÌ„saile with the Lorde Chamberlaine to destroy him in conclusion when that no colour coulde fasten vpon these matters then hee layde heynously to hir charge that thing that hir selfe coulde not denie that all the world wyst was true and that naythelesse euerie man laughed at to heare it then so sodainly so highly taken that she was naught of hir bodie And for this cause as a goodlye continent prince cleane and faultlesse of himselfe sent oute of heauen into this vicious world for the amendment of mens maners he caused the Bishop of London to put hir to open penance going before the Crosse in Procession vpon a Sunday wyth a Taper in hir hande In whiche shee went in countenaunce and pace demure so womanlye and albeit she were out of all array saue hir kyrtle onely yet went she so fayre and lonely namely while the wondering of the people cast a comely rudde in hir cheekes of whiche shee before had most misse that hir great shame wanne hir much prayse among those that were more amorous of hir bodie than curious of hir soule And many good folk also that hated hir liuing and glad were to see sinne corrected yet pityed they more hir penaunce than reioyced therein when they consydered that the Protectour procured it more of a corrupte intente than any vertuous affection This woman was borne in London worshipfully friended The descriptiâ—…n of Shores 〈◊〉 honestly brought vp and verie well maryed sauing somewhat too soone hir husbande an honest Citizen yong and godly and of good substaunce But for asmuche as they were coupled ere she were well rype she not verie feruently loued for whome shee neuer longed which was happely the thing that the more easily made hir incline vnto the kings appetite when hee required hir Howbeit the respect of hys royaltie the hope of gay apparell ease pleasure and other wanton wealth was able soone to pierse a soft tender heart But when the King hadde abused hir anon hir husbande as hee was an honest man and are that coulde hys good not presuming to to â—…he a Kings Concubine left hir vp to him altogither When the king died the Lorde Chamberlaine looke hir which in the kings dayes albeit he was sore enamoured vpon hir yet he forbare hir eyther for reuerence or for a certaine friendlye faythfulnesse Proper she was and fayre nothing in hir bodie that you would haue chaunged but if you would haue wished hir somewhat higher Thus say they that knew hir in hir youth Albeit some that now see hir for yet she liueth deme hir neuer to haue bene wel visaged whose iudgement seemeth me somewhat like as though men should gesse the beautie of one long before departed by hir scalpe taken out of the charuell house for now is she old leane withered and dryed vp nothing left but riueld skinne and hard bone And yet beeing euen such who so well aduise hir vysage myght gesse and deuise which partes how filled woulde make it a fayre face Yet delyted not men so much in hir beautie as in hir pleasant behauiour For a proper wit had she and could both read well and write merrie in companie readie and quicke of aunswer neyther mute nor full of bable somtime taunting without displeasure and not without disport The king would say that he had three concubines King Edwarde three concubines which in three dyuerse properties diuersly excelled One the meriest another the wilyest the thirde the holyest harlot in his realme as one whome no man coulde gette out of the Churche lightly to any place but it were to his bed The other two were somewhat greater personages naythelesse of theyr humilitie coÌ„tent to be namelesse to forbeare the prayse of those propertyes But the meriest was this Shores wife in whom the King therefore tooke speciall pleasure For many he hadde but hir he loued whose fauoâ—…r to say the troth for sinne it were to velle the Diuell shee neuer abused to any mannes hurt but to many a mannes comfort and reliefe on where the king tooke displeasure she woulde mitigâ—… and appease hys mynde where men were out sauour shee woulde bring them in hys graâ—… For manye that had highly offended shee obteyned pardon Of great forfeytures she gat men remission And finally in many weightie suites shee stoode many men in great steaâ—… tâ—…her for none or verye small rewardes and these rather gaye than riche â–ª eyther for that shee was content wyth the deede selfe well done or for that shee delyted to bee sued vnto and to shewe what shee was able to doe wyth the King or for that wanton women and welthie hee not alwayes couetous I doubt not some shall thinke this woman to sleight a thing to bee written of and set among the remembraunces of greate matters whiche they shall specially thinke that happily shall esteeme hir onely by that they nowe see hir But me seemeth the chaunce so muche the more worthie to be remembred in howe much she is nowe in the more beggerly condition vnfriended and worne out of acquaintance after good substance after as great fauour with the Prince after as great sute and seeking to with al those that those dayes had businesse to speede as many other men were in theyr tymes which be now famous only by the infamy of theyr yll deedes Hir doyngs were not much lesse albeit they be much lesse remembred bicause they were not so euill For men vse if they haue an euill turne to write it in marble and who so doeth vs a good turne we write it in dust whiche is not worst prooued by hir for at this day shee beggeth of many at this day lyuing that at thys day had begged if shee had not beene Now was it so deuised by the Protector and his counsaile that the selfe day in which the Lord Chamberlaine was beheaded in the Tower of London and aboute the selfe same house 〈◊〉 there not without his assent beheaded at Pâ—…fret the fore remembred Lordes and Knightes that were taken from the King at Northampton and Stonie Stratforde Sir
tyme it lasted and therewith hauing made a reasonable breache for the Souldiours to enter they within yeelded wyth condition to haue these lyues saued which the Lorde Gray was contented to graunt to them all one onely excepted Vlpian Fulâ—… in the Floâ—… of Fame who during the siege vttered vnseemely wordes of the king abusing his Maiesties name wyth vile and most opprobrious tearmes They all comming forth of the Castell in theyr shyrtes humbled themselues to my Lordes Gray as became them and vpon strayte examination who shoulde bee the rayles that was excepted oute of the pardon it was knowne to be one Newton a Scot But hee to saue himselfe Newton and Hamilton tâ—… Scottish gentetlemen accuse ech othâ—â— put it to our Hamilton and so these two Gentlemen acussing one an other the truth coulde not be decided otherwyse than by a combate whiche they requyred and my Lorde Gray therevnto assented and pronounced iudgement so to haue it tryed At the appoynted tyme they entred the Lystes sette vppe for that purpose in the market place of Hadington without other apparell sauing their doublets and hosen weaponed wyth sworde buckles and dagger At the fyst entrye into the Lystâ—â— Hamilton kneeling downe A combat soght betweene them made hys heartie prayer to God that it myght please him to gyue victorie vnto the truth wyth solemne protestation that hee neuer vttered any such wordes of King Edwarde of Englande as his aduersarie changed him with On the other syde Newton being troubled as it seemed wyth his false â—…sation argued vnto the beholders hys guiltie conscience Nowe were the sticklers in a readinesse and the Combattours with theyr weapons 〈◊〉 fell to it so that betwyxt them were stryken sixe or seuen blowes ryght lustily But Hamylton being verye sieres and eagre vppon truste of hys innocencie constrayned Newton to 〈◊〉 ground almost to the ende of the Lystes and â—…he had dryuen him to the ende in deede then by the law of Armes he had woonne the victorie Newton perceyuing himselfe to bee almoste at poynt to bee thus ouercome slept forwardes agayne and gaue Hamilton suche a gashe on thâ—…leggâ—… that he was not able longer to stand but self therewith downe to the grounde He 〈◊〉 was vanquished â—â— slaine and then Newton falling on him incontinently 〈◊〉 him wyth a dagger There were Gentlemen present that 〈◊〉 as they tooke it for certain howe Newton was the offender although fortune had â—â—ered him in they Combate woulde gladlye haue ventured their lyues agaynst him man for man if it ryght haue beene graunted bat he chalenging the lawe of Armes had it graunted by my Lorde Gray 〈◊〉 reâ—… by my â—…ay who gaue him also his owne Gowne besyde hys backe and a chaine of golde whiche he then ware Thus was he well rewarded howe soeuer he deserued But he escaped not so for afterwardes as he was ryding betwyxt the borders of bothe the Realmes 〈◊〉 slaine 〈◊〉 he was slaine and cut in peeces The fourth of Iune the Towne of Dawketh was burnt and the Castell wonne by 〈◊〉 what 〈…〉 Scottes were slaine and three hundred 〈◊〉 prisoners among whome were of nauie the maister of Morton sonne in law to sir George Dowglas the Larde of Blâ—â—garâ—…ie the Larde of Wedexburne and one Alexander Hume a man of good reputation among them The same day the English horsemen burnt al the Milles round about Edenbourgh within the compasse of sixe miles on eche side the towne Muskelbourgh 〈◊〉 The .vij. of Iune they burnt Muskelbourgh Now after that my Lorde Gray had fortifyed Hadington and furnished it with vittayles and mâ—…nitions sufficient the .xij. of Iune he departed from thence homewardes leauing there in garnison about two thousand footmen and .v. C. horsmen In this meane time Henrie the French king succeding hiâ—… father Fraunces the first who departed this lyfe the last of Marche in the yeare last past to wit 1547. made prouision of an army with a nauy of ships and galleys to passe into Scotland The French â—â—â—prepareth â—â—y in ayd the Scottes to the ayde of the Queene and other of his faction And first he had sent thither Monsieur de la Chapelle de Biron a Gentleman of good account to assyst the gouernour wyth hys aduice and counsaile whiche gouernour desirous to recouer the Castell of Broughtiecragge and loth to see it possessed by the English men raysed a power of eight thousande men â—â—â—htiecrag â—…gâ—…d and with eight peeces of artillerie came before that Fortresse meaning to winne it by siege but by the valyaunt prowes of Sir Andrewe Dudley and the hardie manhoode of suche Englishe Souldiours as serued there vnder hym the Scottes were repulsed and driuen to leuie theyr siege with dishonour Yet not thus contented the Earle of Arguile with and armie of his Irish Scots or Hielande men if I may so call them after this likewise came and besieged the place but glad to take truce for a time with sir Andrew Before the tearme of the same truce was expired there come newe succours to him and therevpon the Earle in the ende was constrayned to leuie his siege and suffer the Englishmen to become maisters of a little his not farre off from the Castel where afterwards they builded a fortresse But to returne to the French armie whiche was prepared to passe into Scotlande yee Hall vnderstande that when theyr Shippes and prouisions were once readie and the Capitaynes wyth theyr bandes come downe to Brest in Brytayne where the Nauie was rigged to receyue them Monsieur de Desse generall of the French armie Monsieur de Desse Generall of all the army reconed to conteyne a seuen or eight thousand men embarquâ—…d himselfe with all his people and sayled forth on his iourney He landeth at Lieth tyll they arriued in the Forth and there tooke land at Lieth the .xvj. of Iune Shortly after hauing got their great artillerie on lande and taken aduise with the Lorde Gouernour and other of the Scottish Nâ—â—itie whome they founde at Edenbourgh how to proceede in prosecuting the warre agaynst the Englishe men it was resolued that without delay they shoulde trie theyr forces aboute the recouering of Hadington The French men resolue to besiege Hadington and goe to besiege that Towne before they attempted any other exployte The gouernour and other of the Scottes Lordes hauing with them seuen or eight hundred light horsemen offered to goe with them to the better aduauncing forwarde of that enterprice Herevppon setting forwarde and comming to Muskelbourgh the Captaynes wyth a certaine numbers of horsemen and footemen as well of Scottes as Frenchmen were appoynted to goe before to view the sayde Towne of Hadington Vpon their approche neare to the towne there issued forth certaine Englishmen and Italians that were of Tiberia's bande which skirmished with them right stoutly all at length the Frenchmen and Scots retyred backe to Lauret a little from Muskelbourgh whore their armie
Willyam Herbert after Earle of Penbroke Sir Iohn Paulet Sir Hugh Paulet Sir Thomas Speake and others with a conuenient power of men of warre both on horsebacke and foote Straungers Amongst other there were certaine Straungers that came with my Lorde Grey as Captaine Germaine an Hennowyer with a band of horsemen most part Albanâ—…yses and Italians Also Captaine Paule Baptist Spinola an Italian borne of a noble house 〈◊〉 Genoa with a bande of Italian footemen But now the Lorde priuy seale that was ordeyned by the King and his Counsayle Generall of that armie 〈◊〉 vpon his first approching towardes them sent vnto them the Kings Maiesties Proclamation 〈◊〉 proclamatioÌ„ the effecte whereof was that all suche persons as were vnlawfullye assembled and did not wythin three dayes nexte after the proclaiming thereof yeelde and submitte themselues to the Lorde priuy Seale the Kings Lieutenaunt they shoulde from thenceforth bee deemed accepted and taken for Rebels against his royall person and his imperiall crowne and dignitie And further the Kings Maiestie for a more terrour to the Rebelles and the encouragement of such other his louing subiectes as shoulde helpe and ayde to apprehende anye of the sayde Rebelles hee by his sayde Proclamation graunted and gaue all the offices fees goodes and possessions which the sayde Rebelles had at and before their apprehension This Proclamation notwithstanding the Rebels continueth in their wicked deuises and traiterous purposes wherevpon yet once againe the Kings maiestie for the auoyding of the shedding of Christian bloude sent vnto them a most gentle and louing message in writing thereby to reduce them againe to their dutifull obedience but all woulde not serue nor auaile to moâ—…e their obstinate mindes to leaue off their desperate and diuelish enterprise The message was as followeth Although knowledge hath bene gyuen to vs and our dearest vnkle the Duke of Somerset Gouernour of our person The Kings message to the rebelles of Cornewal and Deuonshire and Protectour of all our Realmes Dominions and subiects and to the rest of our priuie Counsayle of diuerse assemblies made by you whiche ought of dutie to be our louing subiectes against all order of lawe and otherwise than euer anye louing or kinde subiectes hath attempted against their naturall and liege Souereygne Lorde yet we haue thought it meete at this verye firste time not to condemne and reiecte you as wee might iustly doe but to vse you as our subiects thinking that the diuell hath not that power in you to make you of naturall borne Englishmen so sodenly to become enimies to your owne natiue Countrey of our subiects to make you traytors or vnder pretence to relieue your selues to destroye youre selues youre wiues children landes possessions and all other commodities of this your life This we say that we trust that although ye be ignorantly seduced ye will not be vppon knowledge obstinate And though some amongst you as euer there is some Cockle amongst good corne forget God neglect their Prince esteeme not the state of the Realme but as carelesse desperate men delite in sedicion tumult and warres yet neuerthelesse the greater part of you will heare the voyce of vs your naturall Prince and will by wisedome and counsell bee warned and cease your euilles in the beginning whose endes will be euen by God almighties order your owne destruction Wherefore as to you our subiectes by ignoraunce seduced we speake and be content to vse our Princely authoritie like a father to his Children to admonishe you of your faultes not to punishe them to putte you in remembraunce of your dueties not to auenge your forgetfulnesse First your disorder to ryse in multitudes Disorder in subiects to assemble yourselues against one other louing subiectes to arraye your selues to the warre who amongst you all can aunswere for the same to almightie God charging you to obeye vs in all things Or howe can anye Englyshe good hearte aunswere vs oure lawes and the rest of oure verye louyng and faythfull subiectes who in deede by their obedience make our honour estate and degree Yee vse oure name in youre writings Abusing of the Kings name and abuse the same against our selfe what iniurie herein doe you vs to call those which loue vs to your euill purposes by the authoritie of our name God hath made vs your King by his ordinance and prouidence by our bloude and inheritaunce by lawfull succession and our Coronation but not to this ende as you vse our name Wee are your moste naturall Souereine Lorde and King Edwarde the sixth to rule you to preserue you to saue you from all your outwarde enimies to see oure lawes well ministred euerye manne to haue his owne to suppresse disordered people to correct traitours theeues pyrates robbers and such lyke yea to keepe our Realmes from other Princes from the malice of the Scottes of Frenchmenne of the Bishoppe of Rome Thus good subiectes our name is written thus it is honoured and obeyed this maiestie it hathe by Gods ordinaunce not by mannes So that of this your offence we cannot wryte to muche And yet doubt not but this is ynoughe from a Prince to all reasonable people from a royall King to all kynde hearted and louyng subiectes from the puissant King of Englande to euery naturall Englishe man False causes Your pretence whiche you saye moueth you to doe thus and wherewith you seeke to excuse this disorder we assure you is either false or so vayne that we doubt not that after that ye shall hereby vnderstande the truth thereof ye will all with one voyce acknowledge your selues ignorantly ledde and by errour seduced And if there be any one that will not then assure you the same bee ranke traytours enimies of oure Crowne sedicious people hererikes Papistes or such as care not what cause they haue to prouoke an insurrection so they maye doe it nor in deede can waxe so riche with their owne labours and with peace as they can doe with spoyles with warres with robberies and suche lyke yea with the spoyle of your owne goodes with the liuing of your labours the sweare of your bodies the foode of youre owne housholdes wyues and Children Suche they bee as for a tyme vse pleasaunt persuasions to you and in the ende will cutte your throates for youre owne goodes You be borne in hande that youre children though necessitie chaunce shall not be christened but vpon the holy dayes howe false this is learne you of vs. Our booke whiche we haue set forth by the free consent of our whole Parliament in the Englishe tongue teacheth you the contrarie euen in the first leafe yea the first side of the first leafe of that parte whiche intreateth of Baptisme Good subiectes for to other we speake not looke and be not deceyued They whiche haue put this false opinion into your cares they meane not the christening of Children but the destruction of you our christened subiectes Be this knowne vnto you that
wel declare to you his maiestie an we of his counsaile here do not a little meruaile that you stay still with you the said master Secretarie and haue not as it were vouchsafed to send answer to his Maiestie neither by him nor yet any other And for our selues we do much more maruel and are sorie as both we and you haue good cause to be to see the maner of your doings beÌ„t with force of violence to bring the Kings Maiestie and vs to these extremities Which as we do intende if you wil take no other way but violence â—â—de hiâ—… sent 〈◊〉 Lordes 〈◊〉 Proâ—… what â—…ey required 〈◊〉 to do to defend as nature and allegiance doth binde vs to extremitie of death and to put all to Gods hande who giueth victorie as it pleaseth him so if that any reasonable conditions and offers would take place as hitherto none hath bin signified vnto vs from you nor wee doe not vnderstande what you do require or seeke or what your do meane and that you do seeke no hurt to the kings Maiesties person as touching all other priuate matters to auoyd the effusion of christian bloud to preserue the kings Maiesties person his realme subiects you shall And vs agreed is to any reasonable conditions that you wil require For we do esteeme the kings wealth and tranquilltey of the realm more than al other worldly things yea thaÌ„ our own life Thus praying you to send as your determinate answere bâ—â—â—n by 〈◊〉 or Secretarie Peter or if you wil not let him go by this beater we beseech God to giue both you and vs greate to determinat this matter as may be to gods honor the preseruation of the king the quiet of vs all which mayâ—â— if the fault be not in you And so we bid you most hartily farewel FroÌ„ the kings Maiesties castel of Winsor the .vij. of October .1459 Your Lordships louing friend Edward Somerset After the recept of these letters the lords seeming not greatly to regard the offers conteyned therin persisted in their intended purpose and coÌ„tinuing still in London coÌ„ferred with the Maior of London and his brethren first willing them to cause a good and substanciall watch by night and a good ward by day to be kept for the safegard of the Citie and the portes and gates thereof which was consented vnto and the companies of London in their turnes warned to watch and warde accordingly Then the said lords counsaylors demauÌ„ded of the Lord Maior and his brethren fiue C. men to ayde them to fetch the Lorde Protector out of Windsore from the king But thervnto the Maior answered that he could graunt no ayde without the assent of the coÌ„mon counsaile of the citie whervpon the next day a common counsail was sommoned to the Guildhall in London But in this meane time the said Lords of the counsaile assembled themselues at the L. Maiors house in London who then was sir Henry Amcotes Fishmonger and Iohn York and Richard Turke Sherifes of the said Citie A proclamatioÌ„ published against the lord Protector And there the said counsaile agreed and published forthwith a Proclamation against the L. Protector the effect of which Proclamation was as followeth First that the Lorde Protector by his malicious and euill gouernment was the occasion of all the sedition that of late had happened within the realme The losse of the kings peeces in France That he was ambicious and fought his owne glory as appeared by his building of most sumptuous and costly buildings specially in the time of the kings warres the kings soldiers vnpaid That he esteemed nothing the graue counsaile of the Counsaylers That he sowed sedition betweene the nobles the gentlemen and commons That the Nobles assembled themselues togyther at London for none other purpose but to haue caused the Protectour to haue liued within his limits to haue put such order for the kings Maiestie as apperteyned whatsoeuer the Protectors doings were which as they sayde were vnnaturall ingrate and trayterous That the Protector slaundered the counsaile to the king and did that in him lay to cause variance betwene the king and his nobles That he was a great traytor and therfore the Lords desired the Citie and commons to ayd theÌ„ to take him from the king And in witnesse testimonie of the contents of the said proclamation the Lords subscribed their names and tytles as followeth The Lord Riche Lorde Chancellor The Lord S. Iohn Lorde great maister and president of the Counsaile The Lord Marques of Northamton The erle of Warwike L. great chamberlaine The Erle of Arundel Lord Chamberlaine The Erle of Shrewsburie The Erle of Southamton Wriothesley Sir Tho. Cheyny knight treasurer of y e kings house and Lord wardâ—…n of the cinque portes Sir Iohn Gage knight conestable of y e tower Sir William Peter knight Secretarie Sir Edward North knight Sir Edward Montagew chiefe Iustice of the common place Sir Raufe Sadler Sir Iohn Baker Sir Edward Wootton Doctor Wootton deane of Canterburie Sir Richarde Southwell After the foresayd Proclamation was proclaimed the Lords or the most part of them continuing and lying in London came the next day to the Guildhal during y e time that the L. Maior and his brethren sat in their court or inuer chamber entred and comuned a long while with theÌ„ and at the last the Maior and his brethren came forth vnto the coÌ„mon counsaile The kings letter read to the Citizens where was read the kings letter sent vnto the Maior Citizens commaunding them to ayd him with a thousand men as hath master For and to send the same to his castel at Winsore and to the same letter was adioyned the kings band the Lord Protectors On the other side by the mouth of the Recorder it was requested that the Citizens would graunt their ayd rather vnto the Lords for that the protector had abused both the kings Maiestie and the whole Realme and without that he were taken from the king and made to vnderst and his folly this realme was in a great hazard and therefore required that the Citizens would willingly assent to ayde the Lords with slue hundred men herevnto was none other aunswere made but silence But the Recorder who at that time was a worthie gentleman called maister Broode still cryed vpon them for answere At the last steppes vp a wise good Citizen The saying George Stadlow named as maister Fox saith George Stadlow and sayde thus In this case it is good for vs to thinke of things past to auoyde the daunger of things to come I remember sayth he in storie writer in Fabian Chronicle of the warre betwene the king and his barons whiche was in the time of king Henrie the third and the same time the barons as out lords do now commauÌ„ded ayd of the Maior Citie of London that in a rightfull cause for the common weale which was for the executioÌ„ of
Cunidagâ—…us with an armie 21.13 Margan with his armie discomfited and slayn 21.24 Maesbell battaile fought against the Saxons 122.94 Mariguane Charles ambassadour from the French king 1436 55. Martinus Lieutenant of Britaine defendeth the innocencie of the Britaines against Paulus the Notarie 94.77 Martinus the LieutenaÌ„t slayeth himselfe 95.11 Maximianus beginneth hys reigne ouer Britayne 95.34 Maximianus cousin to the Emperour Constantinus sent for into Britayne from Rome 93.27 Maximianus commeth into Britayne and marryeth Octauius daughter 93.53 Maserfield field fought by the Mercians agaynst the Northumbers 170.7 Maximinianus goeth about to depose his sonne Mareutius and to take himselfe the Empire vpon him 91.11 Maximinianus fleeth vnto Constantinus into Fraunce 91.30 Maximinianus practiseth CoÌ„stantinus destruction 91.23 Maximinianus fleeth from Constantinus vnto Marsiles 91.42 Maximinianus strangled to death 91.46 Maximinus Lieutenant in Britaine vnder Constantinus 92.53 Maurice sonne to Conan Meridock sent to Rome for Maximianus 93.37 Maude Empresse disherited for marrying out of the Realme 365.55 Malcolme Camoir established in the Crowne of Scotland 275.61 Marshal Richard dyeth of a fall from his horse 701.5 Manlius younger brother to Mempricius rebelleth 17.72 Manlius slaine 17.76 Malcolme commeth into England to see King William Rufus 324.53 Malcolme inuadeth England with aâ—… armie 324.63 Malcolme slaine 324.67 Marcharus or Malcherus sonne to Earle Algar made Earle of Northumberland 279 25. Marcharus and Edwyn discomfited by the Norwegians neere to Yorke 284.65 Marcharus submitteth himselfe to King William 291.59 Malus Catulus Roger Vice chauncellour drowned 522.111 Mat. Westm reproued of errour 323.9 Maude wyfe to King William crowned Queene of England 299.18 Margaret Countesse of Salisbury attainted 1570.50 Marshâ—…ll William buryed in the new Temple Church at London 617.23 Mascutius an Archpirate sweareth to be true to King Edgar 231.78 I le of Man conquered 923.10 a. Malgo Nephue to Aurelius Canonus beginneth to raigne ouer Britaine 141.69 Malgo renoumed for beautie and courage 141.74 Malgo dyeth 140.90 Malgo defyled with incest and Sodomitrie 141.84 Maglocunus looke Malgo. Matt. Westin cyted 143.23 and. 153.17 and. 180.78 and. 192.95 and. 213.62 Malesert Castle taken 433.31 Malorie Aukctille 435.21 Malcolme King of Scottes doeth homage to king William of Englande for the Realme of Scotland 307.61 and. 322.53 Malelot 1038.7 b. Marleswyn fleeth into Scotland 298.64 Marshal William Earle of Pembroke dyeth 638.3 Margaret y e Scottish Queene fleeth into England with her newe husband the Earle of Angus 1498.40 returneth into Scotland 1503.30 Maydes drowned or slayne as they were sayling into lytle Britaine 95.104 Mare Tyrrhenum taken for Pyreticum 13.44 London Maior keepeth no feast at the Guild Hal. 1870.21 and. 1872.34 Magdalen a Priest like to king Richard the secoÌ„d pa. 1126. col 1. lin 36. counterfeited to be K. Richard pag. 1127. col 1. lin 19. fleeyng into Scotlandâ—… was taken and brought to the Towre of London pag. 1129. col 1. lin 24. beheaded at London pag. ibidem col ibidem lin 30. Margaret daughter to Henry the seuenth affâ—…ed to Iames the fourth king of Scotland 1456.38 is maryed to the king of Scots 1458.24 Martia wyfe to Guintolinus 28.99 Martia gouerneth Britayne in her sonnes nonage 29.23 Martian lawes first deuised 29.31 Mary daughter to Henry the seuenth promised to Charles king of Castill 1461.10 Maruey Henry knight Vice Chamberlaine made Lorde priuie seale and Lord Maruey 1524.15 Margaret daughter vnto Margaret the Scottishe Queene borne 1498. Matthew Cardinall of Sion Ambassadour from the Emperour 1499.51 Mandubracius sonne to Imanuentius fleeth to Cesar for succour 42.59 Margaret daughter to the French king affianced to Henry sonne to king Henrye the second 398.21 399.71 Marion Henry Counsellour to Prince Arthur 1456.56 Manswetus the Popes Nuncio sent to Henry the thyrde 750.18 Marueilous tempest of wynde on Christmas euen 199.61 Marishe William conspireth the kings death 654.46 Maior and Aldermen of London sworne to be true to king Henry the thyrde 761.58 Marshal William made Erle of Chepstow 475.51 Madoc of Wales taken prisoner 811.57 b. Marble stone brought out of Scotland 822.51 a. Magna Carta confirmed 830.50 a 834.30 b. Maximilian the Emperour elected knight of the Garter 1837.40 Magna Carta confirmed 914.35 b. Manus Citie and Castle taken and throwen downe 543.58 Marlbrough Castle rased by the friendes of king Henrie the third 611.67 Mathew Gourney pag. 1124 col 2. lin 55. Maior of London imprisoned 1081.50 a. Manner of fasting in the olde tyme. 175.7 Maldon battayle fought by the Danes against the Englishmen 238.54 Marshal William created Erle of Striguile and girded with the Swoorde of the same 545.37 Maluoylim Castle builded 326.13 Marchants sustayne great losses 1872.51 Machaire Castle in Fraunce wonne 627.10 Marke Castle betrayed and recouered agayne 1008.2 b. Earle Marshall giueth his inheritance to the king 839.39 a. Eustace Marwell reuolteth 901.13 a. Marius erecteth a stone in token of victorie ouer the Picts 67.73 Marius dyeth and is buried at Caerleil 68.10 Malcolne king of Cumberland sweareth to be true to king Edgar 231.78 Maundeuile Geffray 377.42 Marriage of Priestes absolutely forbidden in England 340.43 Marchenelaghe 29.38 Earle Marshal aydeth the Queene 877.55 b. Maunt taken by the English pag. 1198. col 2. lin 10. Marmion Robert slaine 380.60 Margerie Iordaine witch pa. 1268. co 2. lin 1.9 William Marques of Gulike made Earle 903.50 a. Manâ—…el Iohn Person of Maydstone 660.84 Mategriffon Castle in Sicile buylded by king Richard the first 489.17 Maior and AldermeÌ„ of London made knights 1033.16 a. Matt. Westmin cited 131.59 and. 140.54 Marie Countesse of Perch drowned by shipwracke 357 107. Maundeuile William Earle of Albemarke dyeth 480.44 Mansell Iohn Chaplein to Henrie the thyrd feasteth two kings and two Queenes 743.32 Mary daughter to Henry the seuenth married to Lewes the French king 1495.37 is crowned Queene of Fraunce 1496.29 married to Charles Duke of Suffolke 1497.58 and. 7. Manleon Sauary Lâ—â—utenant in Guyeâ—…ne 619.47 Malmesburie Castle besieged and deliuered 386 65. Marchaâ—…us released out of prison 315.17 Maude the Queene wife to king William dyeth 315.92 Marriage concluded betwixt the Prince of Rothsâ—…y and the Duke of Suffolkes daughter pag. 1407. col 1. lin 3. Marcell or Marcell William taken and kept prisoner in Wallingfoord Castle 380.8 Madan sonne to Lâ—â—â—â—us vndertaketh the gouernment of Britaine 17.52 Madan deuoured by wylde beastes 17.57 Madan Caister or Dancaster builded by Madan 17.60 Mariage concluded to be had betweene the French kings sonne and king Iohns neece 548.27 Maus deliuered to the English pag. 1225. col 2. lin 21. lost by the English pag. 1238. col 1. lin 40. agayne recouered by the English pag. 1238. col 2. lin 40. Maximianus persecuteth the Christians 95.42 Maximianus proclaimed Emperour in Britayne 95.60 Maximianus goeth ouer into Fraunce with an armie 95. Maximilian Duke of Burgoin imprisoned by the Citizens of Bruges 1435.4 subdueth the Rebels 1438.20 defrauded of the heyre of Britayne 1439.4 Maglanus Duke of Albania marrieth Regan
shée was deade and gone did name the Mertian statutes Who turned them into latine as yet I doe not read howbeit as I said before of the lawes of Mulmutius so the same Alfrede caused those of thys excellently well learned Lady whome dyuers coÌ„mende also for hir great knowledge in the Gréeke tong to bée turned into hys owne language wherevpon it came to passe that they were dailye executed among hys subiectes afterwarde allowed of among the rest by the Normans and finally remaine in vse in these dayes notwithstanding that we can not disseuer them very redily from the other The 7. alteratioÌ„ of lawes was practised by the Saxons for I ouerpasse the lawes made by the Romaines whose order do partly remaine in publike notice vnder y e names of the mercian â—…ercian 〈◊〉 â—…xon 〈◊〉 â—…ne law and the Saxon Lawe Beside these also I reade of the Danelawe so that the people of middle england were ruled by the first the west Saxons by the seconde as Essex Norffolke Suffolke Cambridgshire and part of Herford shyre were by the third of al the rest the most inequal intollerable Among other things also vsed in the time of y e Saxons it shal not be amysse to set downe the forme of their Ordalian law which they brought hither with them from beyonde the Seas and vsed onely in the tryall of giltye and vngiltinesse Certes it conteyned not an ordinary procéeding by dayes and termes as in the Ciuile and common lawe we sée practised in these dayes but a shorte dispatch and tryall of the matter by fyre or water whereof at this present I wil deliuer the circumstance as I haue faithfully translated it out of an auncient volume and conferred wyth a prynted coppie lately published by M. Lambert nowe extaunt to be redde The Ordalian saith the aforesayd authour was a certaine maner of purgation vsed two wayes whereof the one was by fire the other by water In th execution of that which was done by fire the party accused shoulde go a certaine number of paces with an hote péece of yron in his hande or else bare footed vpon certaine plough shares redde hotte according to the maner This Iron was sometime of one pounde weight and then was it called single Ordalium sometimes of three then named treble Ordalium and whosoeuer did beare or treade on the same without hurt of his body he was adiudged giltlesse otherwyse if his skin were scorched he was foorthwith condemned as gylty of the trespasse wherof he was accused There were in lyke sorte two kinds of triall by y e water that is to say either by hote or colde in this tryall the partye thought culpeable was eyther tumbled into some pond or huge vessel of colde water wherein if he continued for a season without wrestling or strugling for lyfe he was foorthwyth acquited as giltlesse of the facte whereof hée was accused but if he beganne to plunge labor once for breath immediately vpon his falling into that lyqour he was by and by condemned as gilty of the crime Or else he did thurst his arme vp to the shoulder into a leade copper or Caldron of séething water from whence if he withdrewe the same without any maner of damage he was discharged of farder molestation otherwyse hée was taken for a trespasser and punished accordingly The fiery maner of purgation belonged onely to noble men and women and such as were frée borne but the husbandmen and villaines were tryed by water whereof to shewe the vnlearned dealing and blynde ignoraunce of those times it shall not bée impertiment to set foorth the whole maner which continued here in England vntill the time of King Iohn who séeyng the manifold subtilties in the same did extinguish it altogither as flat lewdenesse and bouerye The Rubrik of y e treatize entereth thus Here beginneth y e execution of Iustice whereby the giltie or vngiltie are tried by hote Iron TheÌ„ it followeth After accusatioÌ„ lawfully made and thrée dayes spent in fasting and prayer the Priest being cladde in all his holly vestâ—…es sauing his vestiment shall take the Iron layde before the alter with a payre of tongues and singing the himme of the thrée children that is to saye O all yée wookes of God the Lorde and in latine Benedicite omnia opera c. he shall cary it solemly to y e fire already made for y e purpose first say these words ouer the place where y e fire is kindled wherby this purgation shall bée made in latin as insueth Benedic domine deus locum istum vt sit nobis in eo sanitas sanctitas castitas virtê° et victoria et sanctimonia humilitas bonitas lenitas et plenitudo Legis et obedieÌ„tia deo patri et filio etspiritui sancto Hec Benedictio sit super hunc locum et super omnes habitantes in eo in English Blesse thou O Lorde this place that it may be to vs health holynesse chastity vertue and victory purenesse humilitie goodnesse gentlenesse and fulnesse of the lawe and obedience to God the father the sonne the holy ghost This blessing be vpon this place and all that dwel in it Then followeth the blessing of the fire Domine deus pater omnipotens lumen indeficiens exaudi nos quia tu es conditor omnium luminum Benedic domine hoc lumen quod aute sanctificatum est qui illuminasti omneÌ„ hominem venientem in hunc munduÌ„ vel mundum vt ab eo lumine accedamur igne claritatis tuae sicut igne illuminasti Mosen ita nunc illumina corda nostra et sensus nostros vt ad vitam eternam mereamur peruenire per christum c. Lord God father almightie light euerlasting heare vs sith y u art the maker of all lyghtes Blesse O Lord this light y t is already sanctified in thy sight which hast lightned all men that come into the worlde or the whole worlde to the ende that by the same lyght we may be lightned wyth the shining of thy brightnesse As thou diddest lighten Moyses so nowe illuminate our hearts and our senses that we may deserue to come to euerlasting lyfe thorowe Christ our c. Thys beyng ended let him saye the pater noster c. then these wordes Saluum fac seruum c. Mitte ei auxilium deus c. De Sion tuere eum c. Dominus vobiscuÌ„ c that is O Lorde saue thy seruant c. Sende him helpe O God froÌ„ thy holy place defende him out of Syon c. Lorde here c. The Lorde be with you c. The prayer Benedic domine sancte pater omnipotens deus per inuocationem sanctissimi nominis tui et per aduentum fihj tui atque per donum spiritus paracleti ad manifestaÌ„dum verum iudicium tuum hoc genus metalli vt sit sanctificatum et omni demonum falsitate procul remota veritas veri iudicij tui fidelibus
.xviij. yeare of his raigne he besieged Sommerton Ran. Cestren and wanne it Hee also inuaded Northumberlande and gotte there great ryches by spoyle and pyllage whiche hee brought from thence without any battaile offered to him The Welchmen he ouercame in battaile H. Hunt being then at quiet and ioyned as coÌ„federates with Cuthred K. of West SaxoÌ„s But in the .xxxvij. yeare of his raigne hee was ouercome in battaile at Bereforde by the same Cuthred Bereforde with whome he was fallen at variance and within foure yeres after that is to witte in the .xlj. yeare of hys raigne 755 Three miles from Tamworth hee was slaine in battaile at Secandone or Sekenton by his owne subiectes whiche arreared warres agaynste hym by the procurement and leading of one Bernred VVil. Malm. which after hee had slayne his naturall Prince tooke vppon him the Kingdome but he prospered not long being slaine by Offa that succeeded him in rule of the kingdome of Mercia 758 Math. VVest as after shall be shewed The bodie of Ethelbald was buried at Ripton Bonifarius the Archbishop of Menze or Maguntze The hystorie 〈◊〉 Magd. hauing assembled a Councell wyth other Byshoppes and Doctours deuised a letter and sent it vnto this Ethilbert commending him for his good deuotion and charitie in almes gyuing to the reliefe of the poore and also for his vpright dealing in administration of Iustice to the punishment of robbers and such lyke misdoers but in that he absteyned from maryage and wallowed in filthie lecherie with diuerse women and namely with Nunnes they sore blamed him and withall declared in what infamie the whole Englishe Nation in those dayes remayned by common report in other Countreys for theyr lycencious lyuing in sinfull fornication and namely the moste parte of the Noble men of Mercia by hys euill example did forsake theyr wyues Nunnes kept or concubines and defloured other women whiche they kept in adulterie as Nunnes and other Moreouer hee sheweth howe that suche euill women as well Nunnes as other vsed to make awaye in secrete wise theyr children whiche they bare oute of wedlocke and so fylled the graues wyth deade bodyes and hell wyth damned soules The same Bonifacius in an other Epystle whiche hee wrote vnto Cutbert the Archbyshop of Canterburie counsayleth him not to permitte the Englishe Nunnes to wander abrode so often on Pylgrymage Pilgrimage of Nunnes bycause there were fewe Cities eyther in Fraunce or Lombardye wherein might not bee founde English women that lyued wantonlye in fornication and whordome Kings of the East Saxons Bed li. 5. ca. 20 Offa king of East Saxons In this meane tyme Sigharde and Seufred Kings of the East Saxons being departed thys lyfe one Offa that was sonne to Sigerius succeeded in gouernment of that Kingdome a man of greate towardnesse and of right comely countenaunce but after hee had ruled a certayne tyme hee beeing mooued of a religious deuotion wente vnto Rome in companie of Kenred King of Mercia and of one Ergvine Byshoppe of Worcester and beeing there shauen into the order of Monkes so continued tyll hee dyed King Selred After him one Selred the sonne of Sigbert the good ruled the East Saxons the tearme of xxxviij yeares Harison .28 After that Aldulfe the King of East-Angles was departed thys life 688 whiche chaunced aboute the yeare of oure Lorde .688 his brother Eltwolde or Aekwolde succeeded him and raigned about .xij. yeares Harison .2 After whose deceasse one Beorne was made king of Eastangles and raigned about .xxvj. yeares Harison .36 In this meane while that is to witte in the yeare of oure Lorde .705 705 Alfride king of Northumberlande beeing deade his sonne Osred 〈…〉 Osred king of Northumberlande a childe of .viij. yeares of age succeeded hym in the kingdome and raigned .xj. yeares spending hys time when he came to rype yeares in fylthie abusing his bodie wyth Nunnes and other religious women About the seuenth yeare of his raigne 〈…〉 that is to witte in the yeare of oure Lorde .711 one of his Captayne 's named Earle Berthfride fought with the Pictes betwixte two places called Heue and Cere and obteyning the victorie Pictes oâ—…eâ—…throwne by the Northâ—â—bers 〈◊〉 an huge number of the enimies At length King Osred by the trayterous meanes of hys cousins that arreared warre agaynste him was slaine in battaile King Osred slaine in battaile and so ended his raigne leauing to those that procured his death the lyke fortune in tyme to come For Kenred raigning two yeares and Osricke tenne yeares were famous onely in this that beeing woorthilye punished for shedding the bloud of theyr naturall Prince and soueraigne Lorde they finished their lyues with dishonourable deathes as they had well deserued Osricke before his death whiche chaunced in the yeare of oure Lorde .729 appoynted Ceolvolfe the brother of his predecessour Kenred 729 to succeede him in the kingdome whiche hee did raigning as king of the Northumbers by the space of .viij. yeares currant and then renouncing his kingdome became a Monke in the I le of Lindesferne In this meane while Beda Acca Bishop of Hexham Byshoppe Wilfride being dead one Acca that was his Chaplain was made Bishop of Hexham The foresayde Wilfride had beene Bishop by the space of .xlv. yeares but hee lyued a long tyme in exyle For first beeyng Archbyshoppe of Yorke and exercising his iurisdiction ouer all the North partes hee was after banished by king Egbert and agayne restored to the Sea of Hexham in the seconde yeare of king Alfride and within fiue yeares after eftsoones banyshed by the same Alfride and the seconde tyme restored by his successour king Osred in the fourth yeare of whose raigne beeing the yeare after the Incarnation of oure Sauiour 709. hee departed this lyfe and was buryed at Rippon Moreouer after Iohn the Archebyshoppe of Yorke had resigned one Wilfride surnamed the seconde was made Archebishoppe of that Sea whiche Wilfride was Chaplayne to the sayde Iohn and gouerned that Sea by the space of fiftene yeares and then died Aboute the yeare of oure Lorde .710 710 the Abbot Adrian whiche came into this lande wyth Theodore the Archebyshoppe of Canterburie as before yee haue hearde departed thys lyfe aboute .xxxix. yeares after his comming thyther â—…wo Bishops 〈◊〉 Also Inas the king of West Saxons aboute the .xx. yeare of his raigne Mat. VVest deuided the Prouince of the West Saxons into two Byshoppes Seas where as before they had but one Daniel was ordeyned to gouerne the one of those Seas Bishop Daniel being placed at Winchester hauing vnder him Sussex Southerie and Hamshire and Aldhelme was appoynted to Shireburne hauing vnder him Barkeshire Wyltshire Sommersetshire Dorsetshyre Deuonshire and Cornwall This Aldhelme was a learned man Bishop Aldelm and was first made Abbot of Malmesburie in the yeare of our Lorde .675 by Eleutherius then Bishop of the
shrewde bugges in the bordures for the Earle of Kildare to feare the Earle nay the Kyng of Kildare for when you are disposed you raigne more lyke than rule in the land where you are malitious the truest subiects stand for Irishe enimies where you are pleased the Irish enimie standeth for a duetifull subiect harts and hands liues and landes are all at your courtesie who fawneth not thereon he cannot rest within your smell and youre smel is so ranke that you trake them out at pleasure Whilest the Cardinall was speaking the Earle chaufed and changed coloure and sundry profers made to aunswere euery sentence as it came at last hee brake out and interrupted hym thus Kildare interrupteth the Cardinals tale My Lord Chancellor I beseech you pardon me I am short witted and you I perceyue intende a long tale if you proceede in this order halfe my purgation will be lost for lacke of carriage I haue no schoole trickes nor arte of memorie excepte you heare me while I remember your wordes your second processe will hammer out the former The Lords associate who for the most parte tenderly loued him and knew the Cardinall his manner of tauntes so lothsome as wherewith they were invred many yeares agone humbly be sought his grace to charge him directly with particulars and to dwell in some one matter vntill it were examined throughly that graunted it is good reason quoth the Earle that youre grace beare the mouth of thys boorde He answereth the Cardinals obiection but my Lorde those mouthes that put these things into your mouth are verye wyde mouthes suche in deede as haue gaped long for my wracke and nowe at length for wante of better stuffe are fayne to fill their mouthes with smoke What my cousin Desmonde hathe compassed as I knowe not so I beshrew his naked hearte for holding out so long If hee can bee taken by my agents that presently waite for him then haue mine aduersaries bewrayed their malice and this heape of heynous wordes shall resemble a scarcrowe or a man of strawe that seemeth at a blushe to carrie some proportion but when it is felt and peysed discouereth a vanitie seruyng only to feare Crowes and I verily trust youre honours shall see the proofe by the thing it selfe within these few dayes But go too suppose hee neuer be hadde what is Kildare too blame for it more than my good brother of Ossorie who notwithstanding his high promises hauing also the King his power is yet content to bring him in at leysure Cannot the Earle of Desmonde shift but I must be of counsell cannot hee hyde him except I winke if hee bee close am I hys mate if he be friended am I a Traytour This is a doughty kynde of accusation whiche they vrge agaynste me wherein they are stabled and mired at my firste deniall You woulde not see him say they who made them so familiar with mine eyesight or when was the Earle within my viewe or who stoode by when I let hym slippe or where are the tokens of my wilfull hudwinke but you sente him worde to beware of you who was the messenger where are the letters conuince my negatiues see how loosely this idle geare hangeth togither Desmonde is not taken Well you are in fault why bycause you are who proueth it no body what coniectures so it seemeth to whome to your enimies who tolde it them they will sweare it What other groūd none wil they sweare it my Lord why then of like they know it eyther they haue mine hād to shewe or can bring forth y e messenger or were present at a conference or priuie to Desmonde or some body bewrayed it to them or they themselues were my carriers or vicegerentes therein whiche of these partes wyll they choose for I know them too well To recken my selfe conuict by their bare wordes or headlesse sayings or frantike othes were but a mere mockerie My Letter were some read were any such wryting extant my seruants and friends are readie to be sifted of my cousin of Desmonde they may li◅ lewdly since no man here can well contrarie them Touching my selfe I neuer noted in them eyther so much wit or so fast sayth that I would haue gaged vpon their silence the life of a good hounde much lesse mine owne I doubt not may it lyke your honours to appose them how they came to the knowledge of those matters which they are so readie to depose but you shall finde their tongues chayned to an other man his trencher and as it were knightes of the post suborned to say sweare and stare the vttermoste they can as those that passe not what they say nor wyth what face they say it so they saye no truth But of an other side it grieueth mee that your good grace whom I take to be wise sharpe who of your blessed disposition wisheth me well shoulde be so farre gone in crediting these corrupt informers that abuse the ignorance of your state and Countrey to my perill Little knowe you my Lorde how necessarie it is not onely for the gouernour but also for euery Noble man in Irelande to hamper his vnciuil neighbours at discretion wherein if they wayted for processe of lawe and had not those lyues and landes you speake of within theyr reach they might happe to lose their owne liues and landes without lawe You heare of a case as it were in a dreame and feele not the smart that vexeth vs. In Englande there is not a meane subiect a what case and the noble men of Irelād with rebels that dare extend his hande to fillippe a peere of the Realme In Irelande except the Lord haue cunning to his strength strength to saue his crowne and sufficient authoritie to take theeues and varlets when they sturre he shal finde them swarme so fast that it will be to late to call for iustice If you wil haue our seruice take effect you must not tie vs alwayes to these iudiciall proceedings wherewith your realme thanked be God is inured Touching my kingdome I know not what your Lordship shoulde meane thereby If your Grace imagin that a kingdom consisteth in seruing God in obeying the prince in gouerning with loue the common wealth in shouldering subiects in suppressing Rebelles in executing iustice in brideling blind affections I would be willing to be inuested with so vertuous and royall a name But if therefore you terme me a king in that you are perswaded that I repine at the gouernment of my soueraigne or winke at male factors or oppresse ciuill liuers I vtterly disclayme in that odious tearme marueyling greatly that one of your Grace his profound wisdome woulde seeme to appropriate so sacred a name to so wicked a thing But howsoeuer it be my Lorde I woulde you and I had chaunged Kingdomes but for one Moneth I woulde trust to gather vp more crummes in that space than twise the reuenues of my poore Earledome but you are well
some write the Earle of Leicester placed Kyng Henry in the fronte of his battell whome he had there with him as captiue and had arrayed him in his owne coate armour that if fortune went against him whilest the enimies should be earnest to take the K. bearing the semblaunce of the chiefe Captayne hee mighte himselfe escape but King Henry wheÌ„ they came to ioyne fought not but called to his people and declared who he was whereby hee escaped the daunger of deathe for being knowen of them he was saued The Welchmen whiche in greate numbers the Earle of Leicester had there on his side â—…e Welchâ—… fledde at the firste onset fledde and ranne away whiche their demeanor when the Earle sawe hee exhorted those that were about him to play the men and so rushing foorth into the prease of his enimies hee was enclosed about and slayne â—…e Earle of â—…cester â—…e togither with his sonne Henry Herevpon his death beeing knowen hys people tooke them to flight as men vtterly discomfited There dyed in that battell about 4000. men as Polidor hathe but Richarde Southwell saith there were killed of Knightes or rather men of armes 180. and of yeomen or rather dimelances 220. of Welchmen 5000. and of such footemeÌ„ as were of the Earle of Leicesters owne retinue 2000. so that there dyed in all to the number of tenne thousand men as the same Southwell affirmeth Among whiche of noble men these are reckoned Hugh Spencer Lord chiefe Iustice the Lord Raulf Basset the Lord Peter de Mountford 〈◊〉 VVest the Lord Iohn Beauchampe Sir William Yorke the Lorde Thomas de Esterley the Lord Walter de Creppings Guy de Baillioll a Frenchmen the Lord William de Maundeuill the Lord Roger Saint Iohn the Lord Roberte Tregoz and other This ruine fell to the BaroÌ„s by the discord whiche was sproong lately before betwixt the Earles of Leicester and Gloucester The pride of the Earle of Leicesters sonnes bringeth the Barons to confusion through the insolency and pride of the Earle of Leicesters sonnes who as I sayde before despising other of the nobilitie spake many reprochfull wordes by the sayde Earle of Gloucester and vsed him in such euill sorte that he vpon displeasure thereof hadde not onely procured the scape of Prince Edwarde but ioyned with him in ayde agaynste the sayde Earle of Leicester and other of the Barons to the vtter confusion both of them and of theyr cause The body of the same Earle was shamefully abused and cut in peeces his head and his priuie members were cutte off and fastned on eyther side of his nose and presented vnto the wife of the Lord Roger Mortimer The people conceyued an opinion Polidor that thys Earle beeing thus slayne fighting in defence of the liberties of the Realme and performance of his oth as they tooke it dyed a Martir whiche by the bruted holynesse of his passed lyfe and miracles ascribed to him after his death was greatly confirmed in the nexte age but the feare of the Kyngs displeasure stayed the people from the hasty honoring hym as a Saint at thys tyme where otherwise they were enclined greatlye thereto reputing him for no lesse in their conscience as in secret talke they woulde not sticke to vtter There were wounded and taken Mat. VVest beside the other that were slayne at that battayle of Euesham Guy de Mountfort the Erle of Leicesters sonne the Lordes Iohn Fitz Iohn Henry de Hastings Humfrey de Bohun the yonger Iohn de Vescy Peter de Mountfort the yonger and Nicholas de Segraue with others The Kyng being now deliuered out of his aduersaries haÌ„ds and likewise the King of Romaines went vnto Warwike and there encreasing his power determined to pursue his enimies But fyrste about the Natiuitie of oure Lady A Parliament at Winchester was a Parliament holdeÌ„ at Winchester where the statutes of Oxford were cleerely repealled Also all suche as hadde fauoured the Barons and were as then eyther in prison or abrode should be disenherited It was also ordeyned at this Parliamente that the welthiest Citizens of London should bee cast into prison and that the Citie should bee depriued of hir liberties Also that the Stulpes and cheynes wherewith the streates were fenced should be hadde away bycause that the Citizens had ayded the Earle of Leicester against the king and his Realme All this was done for the chiefe Citizens were committed to warde within the Castell of Windsor till they had payde no small summes of money for theyr fynes The liberties of the Citie were suspended and the Tower of London was made stronger by the stulpes and cheynes whiche were broughte into it out of the Citie Moreouer bycause Simon de Mountfort might not agree with the King beeing come to this Parliamente vpon assurance he was restored to the Castell of Kenelworth After this A Parlâ—… at Welâ—…ster in the feast of the translation of Saint Edwarde a Parliamente was holden at Westminster and the sentence of disenheriting the Kyngs aduersaries was pronounced against them whose lands the King forthwith gaue vnto his trusty subiectes where her thoughte good Some of the disenherited men redemed their possessions with a portion of money in name of a fyne Other of them flocking togither got them into the woddes and deserte places where keeping them out of sighte as outlawes they liued by spoyle and robberies The chiefest of theÌ„ was Robert Earle of Ferrers who neuerthelesse Earle 〈◊〉 was restored to his landes but yet with condition that if afterwards hee fell into the like cryme hee shoulde forfeit his Earledome for euer Fabian An. 〈◊〉 The LoÌ„doners with much adoe at length obteyned pardon of the Kyng Cardinall Otâ—…bone the Popes Legate Fabian About all hallowen tide Cardinall Othobon came from the Pope into Englande as hys Legate to help towards some agreemente to be had betwixte the K. and hys BaroÌ„s He was coÌ„mitted to prison as some write by the Londoners for that hee spake againste theyr doyngs when they shutte theyr gates agaynste the Kyng but hee was shortly releassed as shoulde appeare The sixth daye of Nouember in the fiftish yeare of hys raigne King Henry came to Westminster and shortly after hee gaue away the noÌ„ber of threescore houses with the houshold stuffe in the same conteyned so that the owners were compelled to redeeme them agayne of those hys seruauntes to whome hee hadde giuen the sayde houses togyther with all suche landes goodes and cattayles as the same Citizens had within any part of England One Oâ—… made 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 Londâ—… Then was one called sir Othon made Custos or gardein of the Citie who was also Connestable of the Tower hee chose to bee Baâ—…liâ—… had to bee accomptable to the Kings vse Iohn Adrian and Walter Henry Citizens of the 〈◊〉 Citie The Kyng also tooke pledges of the heâ—… mâ—…nâ—…nes of the Citie the wâ—… pledges hee caused to be put in the Tower and there
thought that whatsoeuer we did the same had bin done by his authoritie Finally when we had got power ynough that we needed not to feare any force that might be made forth against vs we would haue slayne all such noble men as mighte either haue giuen counsell or made anye resistance againste vs specially the Knightes of the Rhodes and lastly wee woulde haue kylled the Kyng and all menne of possessions with Byshoppes Monkes Chanons and parsons of Churches onely Friers Mendicants we would haue spared that myghte haue suffised for the ministration of the Sacramentes and when we hadde made a riddance of all those wee woulde haue deuised lawes according to the whych the subiectes of thys Realme shoulde haue liued for we woulde haue created Kyngs as Watte â—…ler in Kente and other in other Countreys 〈◊〉 bycause thys oure purpose was disappoynted by the Archbyshoppe of Caunterbury that woâ—…e not permitte the King to come vnto vs we sought by all meanes to dispatch hym out of the way as at length we did Moreouer the same euening that Watte Tiler was kylled wee were determined hauyng the greatest parte of the commons of the Citie bent to ioyne with vs to haue sette fyre in foure corners of the Citie and so to haue deuided amongst vs the spoyle of the chiefest ryches that myghte haue beene founde at oure pleasure and thys sayde hee was oure purpose as God maye help me now at my last ende Thus maye you see after what sorte they were conspired to the destruction of the Realme And least this one mans confession might seeme insufficiente diuers other of them confessed the same or muchwhat the lyke in effect when they sawe no remedie but presente deathe before their eyes To declare the occasion why suche mischiefes happened thus in the Realme wee leaue to the iudgemente of those that maye coniecture a troth thereof by conferring the manners of that age and behauior of all states then sith they that wrote in those dayes maye happely in that behalfe misse the trueth in construing things according to theyr affections but truely it is to bee thoughte that the faultes as well in one degree as other specially the synnes of the whole nation procured suche vengeaunce to rise The câ—…e of the late â—…multes whereby they myghte bee warned of theyr euill doings and seeke to reforme the same in tyme conuenient But as it commeth still to passe when the daunger is once ouershotte repentaunce lykewise is putte ouer and is no more regarded till an other scourge commeth eftsoones to putte menne in remembraunce of theyr duetie so in lyke manner as seemeth it chaunced in this Kynges dayes as by that whiche followeth it may more playnely appeare In thys meane tyme that these troubles were at the hottest in Englande the Duke of Lancaster beeyng in Scotlande so behaued hymselfe in the treatie whyche hee hadde in hande with the Scottes dissembling the matter so as if he had not vnderstoode of any trouble in Englande at all A truce 〈◊〉 Scotlande Tho. VValâ—… Froissart that finallye before the Scottes hadde knowledge thereof a truce was concluded to endure for two yeares or as other haue for three yeares When hee hadde made an ende there and that all thyngs were agreed vppon and passed for the confirmation of that accorde hee returned to Berwike but at his comming thither the Captayne sir Mathew RedmaÌ„ would not suffer him to enter y e towne The captain of Berwyke will not suffer the duke of Lancaster to enter into the town bycause of a commaundement giuen to him froÌ„ the Earle of Northumberlande Lord Warden of the marches wherefore the Duke was glad to returne into Scotlande agayne obteyning licence of the Scottes to remayne amongst them till the Realme of England was reduced to better quiet Herevpon the Commons in England that fauored hym not tooke occasion to reporte the worst of hym that myghte bee deuised calling him nowe in tyme of their rebellious commotions a traytor to the Realme declaring that hee hadde ioyned hymselfe to the Scottes and meant to take part with them against his owne natiue countrey The Kyng indeede hadde sente commaundemente during the time of the rebellious troubles vnto the Earle of Northumberlande that hee shoulde haue good regard to the safekeeping of all the Townes and Castels vnder his rule and not to suffer anye person to enter the same hauing forgot to except the Duke of Lancaster beeyng then in Scotlande wherevppon the Duke tooke no small displeasure with the Earle of Northumberlande as after hee well shewed at hys coÌ„ming home But before hee returned foorth of Scotlande he wrote to the Kyng to vnderstaÌ„d his pleasure in what sort he should returne humbling hymselfe in such wise as hee made offer to come with one Knight one Esquier a grome if it should please the Kyng so to appoynt him or if it so were that by his presence it was thoughte the Realme was like to fall in anye trouble hee was ready to departe into exile neuer to returne into his Countrey agayne if so bee that through his absence the King and Realme mighte enioy peace and quietnesse The Kyng hearing such offers wrote to him that his pleasure was to haue hym to returne home with all hys whole trayne and if the same were not thoughte sufficiente to guarde him hee should take of euery Towne by the which he passed a certayne nuÌ„ber of men to attend hym vnto the next Towne for hys safegarde and so it was done the Kyng sending him commission to that effect and thus coÌ„ming to the Courte he was of the Kyng right honorably receyued Within a few dayes after his commyng hee exhibited a greeuous complaynte agaynst y e Erle of Northumberland for abusing hym in dyuers sortes The Duke of Lancaster that 〈◊〉 the earle of Northumâ—… ioyth â—…alty crimes in time of the late troubles so as his honor was greatly thereby touched for whych the Earle was sente for and commaunded to come vnto Barkhamsteede where all the Lordes in manner of the land were assembled in Counsell Heere after the Duke had laâ—…de dyuers things so the Earles charge for his disobedience vnfaithfulnesse and ingratitude the Earle after the manner of his Countrey not able to forbeare brake out into reprochfull wordes againste the Duke although hee was commaunded by the Kyng to ceasse where the Duke kept silence in humble manner at the first word when the king commaunded hym to holde his peace so that by reason of the Earles disobedience in that behalfe he was arrested But yet the Erles of Warwike and Suffolke vndertaking for his appearance at the nexte Parliament he was suffered to depart and so the Counsell brake vp About the feast of all Sainctes The duke of Lancaster and the Earle of Northumberland come to the parliameÌ„t with greate troupes of armed men the Parliamente beganne to the whiche the Duke of Lancaster came bringing with him an exceedyng number
The names of the captaines â—â— the rebels gouernour of the Mount Iames Rosogan Iohn Rosogan Iohn Payne Thomas Vnderhill Iohn Soleman and William Segar Moreouer of Priestes whiche were principall stirets and some of them chiefe gouernours of the Campes and after executed there were to the number of eyght whose names we finde to be as follow Robert Bocham Iohn Thompson Roger Barret Iohn Wolcock Willyam Alsa Iames Mourton Iohn Barrowe Richarde Benet besides a multitude of other Priestes whiche ioyned with them The number â—â—he rebels â—… Deuonshire The whole companies of these rebels mounted little lesse than to the number of tenne thousand stoute and valiant personages able in dede if their cause had bene good and fauoured of the Lorde and giuer of victories to haue wrought great feates But being as they were ranke and malicious traytours the almightie God confounded their deuises and brought them to their deserued confusion A straunge case that those mischieuous and wicked traytours coulde not be warned by the euill successe of their diuelish attempted outrage in the yeare last past at what time certaine sedicious persons in Cornewale fell vpon one of the K. commissioners named maister Body sent thither with others for the reformation of matters in religion in like maner as other were sent the same tyme into other shires of the Realme for the which murther a Priest being apprehended arreygned and condemned was drawne into Smithfielde and there hanged and quartered the vij day of Iuly in the sayd last yeare before mencioned to wit .1548 Other of his coÌ„plires and associates were executed and put to death in diuerse other parts of the Realme Finally nothing was left vndone whiche the enimie coulde imagine to serue his purpose for the winning of that Citie And albeit there wanted not lustie stomacks among the Citizens to withstande this outwarde force of the enimie yet in processe of time such scarcitie of breade and vittayles increased that the people waxed weary and loâ—…he to abyde such extremitie of famine Howbeit the Magistrates though it grieued them to see the multitude of the Citizens in such distresse yet hauing a speciall regarde of their dutie towarde the Prince The great loialtie of the citizens of Exceter and loue to the common wealth left no wayes vnsought to quiet the people and stay them in their dutifull obedience to resiste the enimies so that comforting the people with fayre promises and relieuing their necessities verye liberally so farre as their power might extende did in such sorte vse the matter that euery of them within resolued with one generall consent to abide the ende in hope of some speedie reliefe And in the meane while when their corne and meale was consumed the Gouernors of the citie caused branne and meale to be moulded vp in cloth for otherwise it wold not sticke togither Also they caused some excursions to be made out of the Citie to take and fetche into the Citie suche cattayle as were founde pasturing abroade neare to the walles which being brought in were distributed among the poore To conclude into suche extremitie were the miserable Citizens brought that albeit maâ—…es nature can scarcely abide to feede vpon any vnaccustomed foode yet these siely men were glad to eate horse fleshe and to holde themselues well content therewith Whylest the siege thus remained before Exceter the Rebels spoyled and robbed the countrie abroade and laying their trayterous heads togither they consulted vpon certaine articles to be sent vp to the King M. Foxe but herein such diuersitie of heades and wits was among them that for euery kinde of braine there was one maner of article so that neither appeared any consent in their diuersitie nor yet any constancie in their agreement Some seemed more tollerable other altogither vnreasonable Some woulde haue no Iustices Some no state of Gentlemenne The Priestes euer harped on one string to ring the Bishop of Rome into Englande againe and to hallowe home Cardinall Poole their countrieman After much a doe at length a fewe articles were agreed vppon to bee directed vnto the King with the names of certayne of their heades sette therevnto the copie whereof here ensueth The articles of the Commons of Deuonshere and Cornewall sent to the King with aunsweres afterwarde following vnto the same FIrst Sacrament of Baptisme forasmuch as man except he be borne of water and the holy ghost cannot enter into the kingdome of God and forasmuche as the gates of heauen â—…e not open without this blessed sacrament of Baptisme therefore we will that our Curates shall minister this sacrament at all times of neede as well on the weeke dayes as on the holy dayes 2 Item Confirmation we will haue our children confirmed of the Bishop whensoeuer we shall within the Dioces resort vnto him 3 Item Consecrating of the Lordes bodie forasmuch as we constantly beleeue that after the Priest hath spoken the wordes of consecration being at Masse there celebrating and consecrating the same there is verye really the bodye and bloude of our Sauiour Iesu Christ God and manne and that no substaunce of breade and wine remayneth after but the verye selfe same bodie that was borne of the Virgin Marie and was giuen vpon the Crosse for our redemption therefore wee wyll haue Masse celebrated as it hath bene in times past without any man communicating with the Priestes for as muche as many rudely presuming vnworthily to receyue the same put no difference betweene the Lordes bodie and other kinde of meate some saying that it is breade before and after some saying that it is profitable to no man except he receyue it with many other abused termes 4 Item we will haue in our Churches Reseruation of the Lordes bodie consecrated reseruation 5 Item we will haue holye breade and holy water in the remembrance of Christes precious bodie and bloude Holy breade and holy water 6 Item wee will that oure Priestes shall sing or saye with an audible voyce Gods Seruice in the Quiere of the Parishe Churches and not Gods seruice to be set forth like a Christmas play 7 Item The single life of Priests forasmuche as Priestes be meane dedicated to God for ministring and celebrating the blessed sacraments and preaching of Gods worde we will that they shall lyue chaste without mariage as Saint Paule did being the elect and chosen vessell of God saying vnto all honest Priestes bee you followers of me The sixe articles to be reâ—…d Item we will that the vj. Articles whiche our Souereigne Lorde King Henrie the eyght sette forth in his latter dayes shall be vsed and to taken as they were at that time Item we pray God saue King Edwarde for we be his both bodie and goodes For the pacifying of these Rebelles were appoynted by the King and his Counsaile The captaines appointed to go against the Deuonshire rebels sir Iohn Russell knight Lorde priuie seale the L. Grey of Wilton Sir
hospital in Yorke founded 334. line 71 Saint Fridancus Church in the I le of Anglesey made a kennel for houÌ„ds 328.97 Saint Martins Churche high Ludgate in London builded 167.49 Sainte Paules counsell in winning of all sorts to the faith 168.1 Saxons â—…ee vnto Badon hill for defence 128.63 Saxons besieged in Badon hill by the Britains 128.72 Sanctuaries restrayned froÌ„ shrowding of Traytors 1447.10 Saint Edmondes land in Suffolke spoyled by the Danes 249.73 Sainte Friswides steeple in Oxforde burned 251. line 61 Saxons ouerthrowen by the Britaine 's at Maesbell 122.94 Saint Mary bow Church roofe in Châ—â—pe in London ouerthrowen by a wynde 322.12 Saint Germaine in Lay a Castell yeelded to the Englishe page 1202. col 2. line 32 Saxon bloud ceasseth to reigne in Englande 288. line 6 Samothes founder of the kingdome of Celtica 1.101 and. 2.46 Saint Edmondesburie in olde time called Eglesdon 211.37 Sainte Edmondesburie Abbey buylded 211.34 Saxton third King of the Ceires 3.2 Saint Iohns Churche in Chester builded 277. line 34. Sainte Werbroughes Church in Chester builded 277.35 Sainte Marye Queries Church burnt 574.23 Sacred persons not to be touched with violente hands 378.47 Salisburie Iohn Chauncellor to Archbishoppe Thomas Becket 416. line 24. Saffron Walden in Essex 255.78 Sabart Kyng of the East Saxons departeth thys life 157.66 Sabarts sonnes refuse to be christened page 157. line 89 Sabartes sonnes slayne and their army discomfited by the West Saxons 158 28 Sainte Dauid called in olde tyme Mineuia taken 123.42 Sainte albans battayle foughte and wonne by the Britaine 's agaynste the Saxons page 128. line 40 Saint Oswils bones traÌ„slated from Bardona to Saint Peters in Gloucester 222.46 Saint Edmonde fighteth for the wealthe but not for the slaughter of hys people 249.80 Salisburie vse seruice in the Churche compiled 316.48 Saint Peters Minister in Yorke consumed wyth fyre 300.51 Saint Leonardes Hospitaâ—… at Yorke page 1319. col 1. line 25 Sabart King of the East Saxons 152.31 Samothei a sect of Philosophers and their originall 2.69 Sabart Kyng of the East Saxons receyueth the fayth of Christ 152.36 Samothea the fyrst pecunar name of Britaine 2.76 Sainte Albons Abbey repaired 32.68 Saint Paules Church in London builded 150.53 Saint Andrewes Church in Rochester builded 150.62 Sarasins enter Fraunce and are ouerthrowen 191.63 Saxons sue to the Romaines for peace which is graunted vppon condition 106.7 Saxons permitted to departe out of Britaine 106.14 Saxons sette vpon by an Ambushe of Romaines are all slayne page 106. line 33 Saint Audrie of Ely 185. line 77 Sainte Andrewes Church in Welles builded 188. line 27 Sainte Edmonds Church builded and Monkes there established 250. line 46 Sainte Quintins wonne 1769.30 Sainte Mary Hall in Oxforde founded 8â—…4 line 47. a Saint Thomas in India 2â—…7 45 Saint Agnes Churche in Caunterbury buylded 158.71 Saint Peters Churche at Yorke erected 161.102 Saxons to enioy quietely their lands in i Brtaine 128.22 Saint Valeries Towne 285.55 Salisburie steeple ouerthroweÌ„ by a winde 322.17 Salike Lawe page 1168. col 2. line 31 Sarronides a kinde of Philosophers whence discended 3.17 Earles of Salisburie and Suffolke takeÌ„ prisoners at Lile 908.3 b Sanison Byshop of Worceters aunswere concerning the obedience of the Archbyshop of Yorke to the Archbyshop of Canterburie 350.18 Saint Michaels College in Cambridge founded 872.26 a Salle Roberte Knighte slayne by Rebelles 1031.50 a SaxoÌ„s inuading Britain are repulsed 105.93 Sainte Edmondes ditche cast 250.42 SaxoÌ„s renue their league with the Pictes agaynst the Britaines 120.16 Saxons discomfyted by the zeale and policie of Germane 120.46 Sackuill Nigel accursed 417.26 Sackuille Tho. Knyghte is sent Ambassadour into Fraunce 1857.21 Salestine a Barde 4.42 Saxons sente for out of Germany to aide the Britaines againste the Scots and Picts 111.57 Saxons appointed places in Kent to inhabite 112. line 10 Saxons come into Britaine to seeke new habitations 112.44 Saxons in the North subiect to the Saxon Kings in Kent 114.24 Saxons arriue and settle in Northumberlande 114.14 Saxons greate numbers suspected by the Britaines 114.31 Saxons miserably spoyle Britaine from sea to sea 114.66 Saxons ouerthrowen in battayle by the Britaines 115.24 Saxons begin to raigne in Britaine 118.76 Saxons being Paganes extinguishe the Christian Religion in Britain 118.22 Saxons Scottes and Pictes inuade the Romaine prouince in Britayne 106.60 Sauoy spoyled and brent by Rebels 1026.30 b Saint Martins Churche nigh Caunterburie frequented by Augustine and when builded â–ª 148. line 23 Salisburie in olde tyme called Ambrie 118.36 Saturnalia feastes howe celebrated 48.77 Saint Cutbert appeareth to King Alured in a vision 214.15 Saint Edwards fair holden at Westminster 719. line 60 Saint Alban first Martir of this land 194.105 Sainte Albanes bones taken vp and shrined 194. line 107 Saint Albanes Monasterie builded 194.108 Saint Andrewes Church in the I le of Andresey builded 208.18 Sainte Omer Tosses a Knighte Templer 400. line 69 Sainte Valerie taken by the Frenche page 1250. colum 1. line 32 yeelded agayne to the Englishe page 1251. col 1. line 19 Sainte Iohns Hospitall nigh Caunterburie builded 320.64 Sarasins beheaded by K. Richard the firste at Acres 501.43 beateÌ„ backe and repulsed in a conflicte by King Richarde the first 503.40 Saxton fielde page 1311. col 1. line 52 Sanctuary page 1364. col 2. line 41. page 1365. col 2. line 19. abused pa. 1366. col 1. line 4. Saint Martins Sanctuarie page 1365. col 2. line 52 Sapcote William of the Countie of Huntington attainted 1425.47 Saint Germain Geoffrey attainted 1415.49 Sauage Iohn Knyghte slayne 1440.35 Lesley Richard 1443.43 Lorde Saint Iohn taken prisoner 825.14 b S. Ambrose cited 89.17 Sanders Captaine rebelling with Tho. Stafford is condemned but pardoned 1767.26 Sands William Knyghte Treasourer of Calaice his vallor 1521.45 Saunders George murthered and the historie thereof 1865.55 Sauage Tho. remoued from the Bishopprike of London to York 1455.38 Samson Doctor Bishoppe of Chichester in the premunire 1578.20 pardoned 1580.47 S. Iohn de Lucy burnte 1474.34 Sauage Thomas Archbishoppe of Yorke dyeth his coÌ„mendatioÌ„s 1461.50 Saint Maure William 1450.45 Sapcots Iohn Knighte 1450.17 Sandwich spoiled by Danish Pirates 270.26 Saint AlboÌ„s Abbey spoyled 380.46 Saint Bartholmewes by Smithfild founded 341. line 52 Sauill Io. Knight 4448. line 50 Sarron fyrst Auctor of the Philosophers called Sarronides 3.17 Saint Augustines Monasterie nigh Caunterbury builded 150.38 Saint Amphibolus bodye founde out and translated 450.69 Samothes called by Moses Mesech by others Dis. 2.38 Samothe a subdued by Albion 5.34 Sainte Balters Churche destroyed 227.73 Saint Albons towne and monasterie builded 88.17 Sandwiche spoyled by french 1290. by Io. Dynham 1298. taken by Lord Fauconbridge 1298. kept by Bastarde Fauconbridge 1344.10 Sainte Benets Abbey in Norffolk builded 262.94 Sampson Abbot of S. Edmonsburie 483.11 Salomon King of Hungarie 259.31 Salisburie made a Byshops sea 309.65 Sarron buildeth publike places for learning 3.10 Saint Denise in Fraunce rendred to the Englishe page 1255. col 1. line 39 Sandiforde pa. 1299.42 Say Wil.