Orators pleading for the time in a bad cause with good words and handling an ill matter too-too well From thence he went couragiously against the whole company and what with the former Earles assaulting them on the one side and his owne charges on the other side as knowing how the Kings businesse stood to make an end of the warre the battaile began apace and not a man but prepared himselfe to fight it out till at last the Lord Dawbney engaged himselfe so farre that he was taken prisoner but whether for feare or through his owne wit and pollicie they quickly released him and he as quickly dispatched the matter and made an end of the warre For he put them all to flight so that a man may well say vnto them Via nulla saâ—utis Non fuga non virtus vix spes quoque mortis honestae and I may truely report of the contrary neuer was a battaile so well fought and so quickly determined For before the King was ready to goe to dinner there were slaine two thousand Rebels and many more taken prisoners the rest hardly escaped home who for all their defeature and vncomfortable newes to the people were rather accelerated to reuenge their companions wrongs then exanimated from further attempts or seemed grieued at the King and Countries molestation shewing sad lookes but stomachous hearts and so remained intoxicated in their braines and ready vpon euery occasion to a new rebellion as you shall heare hereafter When this battaile was ended and so delicately contriued for the King lost not aboue foure hundred men some imputed it to the Kings policy who appointing the same on Monday by way of anticipation fell vpon them on Saterday and so taking them somewhat vnprouided had the fortune to preuaile and thriue in his aduantage Such as were taken and apprehended had their pardon except the principall and fire-brands of the mischiefe For the Lord Audeley was drawne from Newgate to the Tower-Hill in a Coat of his owne armes painted vpon paper reuersed and all to torne and there beheaded the 28. of Iune Thomas Flamoch and Michael Ioseph were executed after the order of Traitors and their quarters sent into Cornwall for the terrifying of the people some were dispatched at sundry Townes as they deserued amongst whom the Smith and diuers others of his immodest friends had no excuse to make for this rebellion but whether they preuailed or no they were sure to be registred to eternity for daring to doe somewhat in behalfe of their Countries liberty and bidding battaile to Kings and Princes at their Pallace Gates and before the Citie Wals euen London it selfe that great Citie the Chamber for their treasury and strength of their roialtie which makes me remember a saying of Lucan Sed me velsola tueri Fama potest rerum toto quas gessimus orbe Et nomen quod mundus amat And in another place Quid plura feram tum nomina tanto Inuenies operi vel famam consule mundi and this was the end of the twelfth yeare In this time you must know that the King of Scots lay not idle but meerely vpon supposition of what would follow prepareth himselfe nor was so ill befriended but he had secret intelligences of all King Henries purposes and intendments whereupon he enlarged his Army barracadoed his passages entrenched and fortified the holds kept good Watch and Ward and stood on the pinacles of a high presumption to encounter with the proudest forces of England yea to giue defiance if need were to the King himselfe Notwithstanding he now lay a while only at defence watching with what warde the English would breake vpon him and wondring at my Lord Dawbneis retraction and why he came not forward as his espials had aduertised but when he vnderstood of the Westerne rebellion he then coniectured the truth and a while reposed himselfe till a Messenger of these Westerne men came vnto Perkin and profered their obedience and endeuours if he would come and ioine his Army with theirs and so as their Prince and Captaine reuenge there wrongs this was motioned to King Ieames who for all he confessed that if they would ioine with the Cornish men there might be a gate open indeed to preuaile and walke in the fields of Victorie yet he would by no meanes aduenture his people so farre and confessed plainly he wanted ships for transporting so great an Army into those parts Only because he would be doing to please the supposed Prince he meant to take this opportunitie of the King of Englands disturbance and once againe aduenture into his territories and so with a sufficient preparation he attempted the Castle of Norrham standing vpon the Riuer of Twede deuiding Scotland and England But Richard Fox Bishop of Durham a man of great learning courage experience and fidelitie suspecting as much had well stored and fortified the same and was in it with such power munition and prouision as he was able to raise sending the King word of the siedge and inuiting the Earle of Surrey to come to his reskue with all expedition The Earle was mustering of men in Yorke-shire when this newes extended it selfe and like a worthy seruitor hastned his iourney the rather and so with twelue Earles and Barons of the North Countrie one hundred Knights and Gentlemen of name and twentie thousand Soldiers well ordered and armed he came to raise the siedge in which this braue Prelate was so engaged Besides he furnished a hansome Nauy at Sea whereof the Lord Brooke was Admirall to giue their attendance whatsoeuer should chance But when the King of Scots and his counterfet Duke of Yorke had full and certaine notice of the Earle of Surreis approach and that the Lord Dawbenies army was also integrat and vnbroken yea ready to march forward as a second to the former they thought it better to retire with securitie then to tarry the aduenture with certeinty of losse if not hazzard both of life and honour and so by a voluntary consent they raised their campe and returned vnder colour of commiseration of the people whom they knew in the best war must be subiected to slaughter or captiuitie and to this purpose they could yield a reason out of our Poet to certain spirits that wondred at their affrightings and drawings back seeing no perill apparant nor hearing of any stedfast reports concerning a more forcible enemie and so calling for a book reading to them this leâ—â—on of satisfaction Potuit tibi Vulnere nullo Stare labor belli potuit fine caede subactum Captiuumque ducem violatae tradere paci Quiâ— furor â— Coeci scelerum Ciuilia bella Gesturimetuunt ne non cum sanguine vincant This answere of the Kings did rather harme then good to poore Perkin For they perceiued the King was weary of this warre and loth to take his part any longer and so they rested a while displeasingly pleased But the truth was the
in the like either mislike or contention From thence the King went to Norwich where he solemnised the feast of Christmas and so departed to Walsingham vnder pretence of deuotion as the superstition of those times coacted For according to that ancient Poet Ritus verâ— extra Iusticiam sunt reijcientes cultus deorum It was an instinct of Nature to confesse a Deity and maintaine the Sacrifices and offrings to the same Now because the most part of the World knew not the true God they inuented seuerall Idols to represent their seuerall Deities to whom they brought their praiers and oblations nor durst they enterprise any businesse without offertories and deuotion that their true intents might be acceptable to the God which commanded them yea such as professed Religion and abused their knowledge inuented Images deuises to please the naturall man because with the reason of Idolater they would not kneele to the aire in vaâ—ne which was and is the errors of Christians both of the Greeke and Latine Church Now because our Lady was in these times the mediator of the Papists and the Lady of Walsingham the most famous shrine of our Country as that of Loretto is at this hower for Italy The King went thither for the impetration of prosperity in his affaires and ouerthrow and dissipation of his enemies which finished he retourned to Cambridge and so to London In the meane while the fire-brand and fuell of this contention Lady Margaret Duches of Burgundy had blowne the coales to such a heat that there were two thousand Almaines in a readinesse vnder the conduct of Martin Swart a noble man of Germanie and a martiall man by profession bold expert and daring whom after great rewards and secret directions from a well contracted Oratory she sent into Ireland with al his company where they ariued aâ— Dublin and were ioyfully welcomed by the Prince and the other Lords the coufederates especially the Earle of Lincolne who well knew that no enterprise was to be entertained without men and money and good beginnings were the drawers on of successe in the end Thus they made no more adoe but in the pride and strength of their conspiracy they proclaimed yong Lambert King of England withall the glorious titles and glorious manner appropriat as the time and Countrie afforded which ended with other ceremonies and some circumstances to set as vpright their businesse as they could they protracted no time but knowing the secret of expedition which as their case stood must be their best friend prepared for England the Army consisting as yet principally of high Almaines and a multitude of beggerly Irish which according to the Roman saying were many men and few Soldiers For their best defences were Scains and Mantles and heere and there a slender dart more fitter for a maigame and to moue wonderment then to oppose against good defences and well ordred troopes Of these the Lord Thomas Gerardine was Captaine and with these and the rest they landed for a speciall purpose or if you will to vniâ—e themselues with Sir Thomas Broughton one of the chiefe commanders in this vnhappy conspiracy at the Pile of Foudray within a little of Lancaster These affaires so notorious and so publike could not haue so secret a passage and contriuance but the worthy and wise King must needes be made acquainted with the same whereupon he dispatched certaine horse and scout-masters through the West parts of the Realme to attend the arriuall of his enemies abroad yea peraduenture to ouerwatch the actions of his friends at home as much troubled with the vnconstancy of these as perturbed with the rebellion of them Presently after he raised a sufficient Armie ouer which the Duke of Bedford and Earle of Oxford were principall commanders whom he sent forward before him then he came in person to Couentrey where the principall rendezuous was appointed and where he first heard of the landing of his enemies Within a while he could fill vp a scedule with the chiefe Traitors names and the manner of their troopes and proceedings Last of all he called a Councell proposing only two principall matters vnto them First whether it were better to encounter with his enemies out of hand as Achitophel perswaded Absalom to do against Dauid and so to dissipate them by maine force and expedition according to the Poet Tolle moras semper nocuit differre paratis Secondly or weary them out by delaies and detracting of time as Quintus Fabius surnamed after Maximus did by Hannibal and so sent him far enough from Rome into Brutia and Apuleia whereupon he was eternized with Vnus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem The conclusion was that though many times great Armies whose fury at the first rushes could not be rebated were at last spent with time expectation and many inconueniences as want of pay commotions mutinies encombrances in a strange Country feare of forraine people mortalitie famine and such like yet as the affaires of the Kingdome stood all speed and an orderly festination was to be put in practise lest like a ball of snow in a moist cold and misty Country which by often rowling groweth greater and greater they might augment their numbers with their rage and madnesse being so neere the Scots open enemies and in the north parts dissembling friends Whereupon the King remooued to Nottingham and tooke a field neere vnto a wood called Bowers whither came vnto him the Lord George Talbot Earle of Shrewsbury the Lord Sâ—range Sr. Iohn Cheny and many other Commanders with sufficient forces and furniture to encounter better men then heauy Almaines and vnarmed Irish and so the Kings army wonderfully encreased had the fulnesse of his subiects obedience to his great satisfaction and the comfort of all the rest For a Prince can in nothing bee so well pleased as in the loyalty loue and obseruation of the subiect nor the souldier contented as in the amity and full assurance of one another especially being all of a nation and language to vnderstand the wants of such as would be supplied and be releeued with the willingnesse of those which are ready to performe the same In this space the Earle of Lincolne entred Yorke-shire by easie iournies for not ouerwearying his princely Nephew vnaccustomed to trauell and after his precize manner hee both commanded that no violence should be offered to any of the Inhabitants commended all those which repaired vnto him vsing such humility and affable demeanour that it wan the hearts of many as yet vnsettled vnto him and strengthened the loue of such as had already submitted themselues Notwithstanding being much frustrated in his expectation of many coadiutors and failing in that sufficiency which hee presumed vpon hee began a little to entertaine an ill companion to all noble designes feare and mistrust casting vp an vntoward reckoning of his proceedings in this manner To retire backe againe were to meet death and destruction by a
way which he looked not for To goe forward hee was yet too weake the King being so strong and enabled which irresolution made the Poet cry out Non satis est muris latebras quaesisse pauori And againe facilis sed vertere mentes Terror erat dubiamque fidem fortuna ferebat At last remembring that audaces fortunâ— iuuat and the aduentures of warre are not alwaies bound to numbers and multitude For King Henry himselfe had not two yeeres before with a small power vanquished King Richard and his mightie armie he absolutely determined to trie the fortune of a battell and encounter with his aduersaries who not onely expected the like as being in the same forwardnesse and resolution but determined to rouâ—e them in despight of anie protraction in what den or place soeuer they meant to obscure themselues whereupon he marched from Yorke to Newarck vpon Trent presuming the King to bee two or three daies iourney from him and so he was sure not to lose by the bargaine But before hee came thither King Henry was in his bosome as vnderstanding his egresse regresse and progresses which he vndertooke and when he came there was ready to flie in his face For hee settled himselfe the night before the battell approaching within three miles of the contrary The valiant and ouer-hardy Earle of Lincolne nothing terrified at the matter but rather duro adâ—isit gaudia vâ—ltu And came forward apace yet not in anie ouer-daring manner but vnstartled in his resolutions retained his accustomed grauity and verie neere the Kings armie at a village called Stoke quartred his forces and tooke vp the field with resolution the next day to call Fortune to the deciding of the controuersie The King likewise prepared himselfe and only acquainting the companie with matters of necessity in an equall and plaine field diuided the troops and darraigned the battalions To tell you of any signes wonders prodegies prophesies dreames deuises forewarnings or portentous accidents making sometimes a cause either good or bad would spend time to lose time and procure small thankes in the paines For the superstitious and ignorant would bee angrie at the opposition and repugnancy and the truely religious offended at the vanity and superfluity as abhorring the participation of diuine power to Men Deuills or Angells To enlarge my discourse concerning militarie proceedings of entrenchings fortifications encounters diuisions of squadrons ordring the companies setting forward the forces would preuent me from a fitter and more opportune occasion heereafter To discourse of the Captaines the Souldiers encouragements the Earle of Lincolnes orations the Kings forcible and gracious speech the intimation of the imposture and discouery of the treasons at large were to prolong the history without further profit then a poore inuention which would questionlesse extenuate the worthinesse of the businesse therefore I desist from all extraneall and superfluous discourses and apply my selfe to a more succinct enarration of the matter When the field was fully and orderly agreed vpon the precize Earle as if hee would amate the King with a kinde of precedency set forth the Vauâ—tguard of his armie and with a manly courage onely animated the Souldiers that day to remember his honour the Kings safety and their owne liues and liberties and so gaue a signe to the battell whereat the Irish began their accustomed cry or if you will Lullal lullo which neither affrighted nor troubled the English on the contrary side but ministred occasion rather to laugh at The Germanes perceiuing the skirmishes and violent meetings of these warlike bodies contrary to their vsuall keeping of their stands and close fights set vpon the Kings Vauntguard and as they were approoued and expert men in many encounters so did they for the time in all things as well as strength and policy could execute equalling and answering the English man to man or battell to battell and for the Generalls had the Earle of Lincolne beene as nimble and deliuer as he was vigilant valiant and wary he might well haue paralleld the best of his aduersaries But to decipher and truely to speake of Martin Swart I shall much disable his worthinesse and merit For he was heroike in spirit strong in heart and of great ability in body expert experienced and failing in nothing but his fortune Eor when the Irish being most of them as I sayd vnarmed were put by their light manner of skirmishing a farre off and charged with strong horses on the Flancks and as strong bodies of pikes in the Front to which you may adde the cunning of the Kings artillery and violence of the arrowes which fell downe like haile vpon these poore and naked soules they knew no way of resisting or retiring but were subiect to a terrible encounter and slaughter And although they held out a while as long as an equall met man-hood protracted the victory yet were they so pressed and oppressed that they quickly yeelded and shrunke vnder the stroakes of a mightier arme Againe the Kings Foreward being full of companie and well furnished continually supplied with Wings and Archers wonderfully encouraged with the high deseruing of the Commanders at last brake the bodie of the Almaines and scattered their company with a lamentable discomfiture yet I must needes say they were first more terrified to see the Irish killed so confusedly then exanimated with their owne disasters What should I report it is with staggering troops and dispersed companies as with a man falling downe a paire of staires who neuer leaues tumbling till he come to the bottome so these yeelded to the fortune of a defeat without recouery and onely met honor in the way to a glorious death Therfore I will stand the lesse on descriptions For neuer was a victorie so soon gotten nor a busines more quickly ended many being slain many taken prisoners many hurt and few or none escaped the cheefest reason because the Lord Louell the Earle of Lincolne other Commanders desperate of mercy or reconciliation wondring at the valiant Germans man-hood and exploits ioyned with him in a new aduenture cried alowd We will die with thee noble hart for thou art worthy to liue with Kings die with Princes yea to be buried in the fields of euerlasting renowne so they were as good as their words For after men and manhood had acted their parts on this bloâ—dy stage of fury and slaughter they were all found dead in the field that is to say the Lord Martin Swart or if you will Sward the Earle of Lincolne the Lord Geraldiâ—e the Lord Louell Sr. Th Broughton with the most part of the Commanders and fiue thousand Souldiers The report was that the Lord Louell tooke his horse and would haue fled ouer Trent but not able to recouer the highnesse oâ— the bancks he was drowned in the riuer some also maintaine that the King out of the generosity of his spirit commanded that none should kill or hurt the
when a second reply brought him to the sight of fairer particulars and that he saw the smoake though it was but a smother came from some fire he quickly recollected his spirits and with these verses of Euripides set himselfe downe at the table of preuention and reposednesse Ex amicis autem alios quidem non certos video amicos Qui vero sunt rectè impotentès sunt vt iuuent Talis res est hominibus ipsa infoelicitas Quā nullus vnquam quicunque vel mediocriter amicus mini Assequatur amicorum examen certissimum The same night vpon better consideration my Lord Chamberlaine was restrained from his liberty within the quadrant Tower and confined to his owne Chamber for a season but when the crime was openly prooued and the Councell had as it were with a charming hand of Hecate turned his inside outward and found all his excuses to consist in distinctions and his reasons of defence manifest astipulations of the matter he grew out of all patience and knew not what to say or to doe For one way like an Noble Prince commiserating his subiects he feared lest his brother Lord Thomas Stanley the life of his first roialty as a man should say take it grieuously Another way he misdoubted lest in remitting the fault some other might abuse his lenity and mercy and be the bolder to runne forward in the dangerous courses of further treasons At last by the aduise of his Councell and generall vouge of the Court seuerity considering the perill of those daies tooke place and mercy was put backe so that after a solemne arraignment he had iudgement to dye and accordingly was brought on the 16. of February to Tower-hill and had his head struck off The principall point of his enditement consisted in this that Sir William Stanley sware and affirmed that he would neuer fight nor beare Armor against the yong man Peter Warbeck if he knew of a truth that he was the indubitate sonne of Edward the fourth whereupon arose a coniecturall proofe that he bare no good will to King Henry Again the principall motiue of his distasting and murmuring at the King was for being denied the Earledome of Chester when his brother Lord Thomas was inuested with the sword of Derby yet the King besides many rewards other great offices made him his chiefe Chamberlaine what should I say it should seem ambition had blinded his eies peruerted his iudgement For he still thought on the benefits which the King receiued from the loue and seruice of his family neuer remembring the compensation and gratuities returned back againe to him selfe supposing that his vessell of oile should still be filled to the brims or else he harped on a Machiuilian position thankfulnesse is a burthen but reuenge is sweete and reckned as gaine But it should seeme that in possessing King Richards treasure at the conquest of Bosworth field which King Henry franckly bestowed vpon him and the command ouer the people in the Country he grew proud and elated and so vilepended the King or from a continual melancholy reuerberating mislike and hate vpon his staggering conceits he more and more ouer burthened his heart with rage and despight which as you haue heard vnpurged vented out those words of disloialtie to the losse of his life or in a word according to that of our old Tragedian Animorum Iupiter vindex est minis superborum the searcher of heart◠was weary of his tumors and ingratitude and so tooke the Kings cause in hand and vpon good inforcement thrust him into the house of destruction Otherwise he could not choose but remember how not twentie yeare before the Law had interpreted the profuse and lauish speeches of a Grocer named Waker dwelling at the signe of the Crowne in Cheapside who bad his sonne learne apace and he would make him heire of the Crowne meaning his house he dwelt in for which he was adiudged to die nor forget the Story of Burdet the Esquier within whose Parke King Edward hunting a white tame Hart was kild by chance which he had brought vp by hand which when Burdet heard of he wished the hornes in his belly that had moued the king to come first thither for which he was drawne hanged and quartered Thus you see there is no iesting with Princes nor distasting them in troublesome times nor presuming in such cases on their clemency For our Ouid tels vs Non ideo debet pelago se credere si qua audet in exiguo ludere cimba lacu After this many rumors and libels yea defamatory speeches both concerning the landing of the new Duke of Yorke proclaimed all ready in Ireland Richard the fourth and the Kings present feare and proceedings were spread abroad which compelled as strange prohibitions yea punishments and reuenges according to the example of that iudgement that hanged Collingbroke for a rime against the vsurper The Rat the Cat and Louel the Dog Rules all England vnder a Hog so that he was farther enforced to haue many politike searches through the whole Realme for such offenders and as many strong Guards and Watches for the defence of the whole Kingdome by which when he perceiued the care vigilancie and good will of the Subiect he entertained a greater fulnesse of contentment and shewed a better alacrity of spirit then his former griefes would remit Then he aduanced Giles Lord Dawbuy a man of wisedome experience and fidelitie to be the Chamberlaine of his house and haue the Guard of his person Afterwards he tooke order with the Citie and Merchants of the same and had thei◠faithfull Oath and protestation to looke to it and all the places of their traffique abroad concerning such things as might be offensiue and preiudiciall to the Kingdome The next thing hee tooke care for was the manning of the Cinqueports and fortifying diuers hauens with a stict commanding the Lieutenants Iustices of each Shire to repaire into their Countries by which good order obserued he grew somewhat secure and bolder to shew himselfe in publique assemblies vndaunted or any way discomfited But this was yet farre from the fulnesse of his establishment as long as Ireland remained corrupted and swelled againe in euery place with the ouerblowen reports and rumours of Perkins royalty to which each trayterous eare lay open and abused heart went quite away with the nouelty Whereupon hee resolued on the necessity of purging and cleansing the same and determined to performe it by new Officers and honest Surueyors So hee sent thither with powerfull authority Henry Deane late Abbot of Langhton to be his Chancellour and Sr. Ed. Poinings with a sufficient preparation to bee Lord Generall of his army These had a large Commission vnder his Deputy the Earle of Kildare to suppresse all innouations and spare no offenders For it was such a time that mercy and fauour would rather embolden men to abuses then lustice offend with extremity Besides the Maiesty of
restraint of his liberty and stomaching his former disgraces indignities would endure no longer but studied euery hower how to escape not yet knowing what to do when he did escape to which purpose by faire promises and false perswasions he corrupted his keepers Strangwaies Blewet Astwood and long Roger seruants of Sir Iohn Digby Lieutenant of the Tower to slay their said Master and set both Perkin and the true Earle of Warwicke at large and so to make their fortunes as they could either by domestike or forraine friends to which when the innocent Prince condiscended as glad any way to enioy his libertie and to be freed of his imprisonment for you see birds kept in golden cages beat and flutter vp and downe as scorning their enclosure to get out into their natiue Country the region of the aire mischiefe and misfortune which plaies the tyrant with many men all their liues long neuer affordeth one day or breathing time to giue them a taste of any pleasure or contentment discouered the whole conspiracy to the King and his Councell not leauing out any circumstance which might either exasperate his rage or pull forward death and destruction to the delinquents Whereupon without further disputing the matter Perkin Warbeck Iohn a Water sometimes Maior of Corck and his sonne were the 16. of Nouember arraigned and condemned at Westminster of high Treason and the 23. hanged at Tyburn Perkin mounted on a scaffold reading his confession and contrary to all expectation aâ—king the King and Country forgiuenesse and dying penitently with great remorce of conscience and compunction of spirit Et sic â—inis Priami Not long after Edward Earle of Warwick who had beene the 21. of Nouember arraigned at Westminster before the Earle of Oxford high Constable of England for the present was vpon the 28. 1429. beheaded at the Tower Hill For he quietly confessed the enditement concerning his consent and willingnesse to obtaine his libertie though it were by violating the law in that kinde and breaking of prison whose simplicity I rather lament then condemne the offence For it was a dangerous time for any Plantaginet to liue in and I may well cry out Omne tulit secum Caesaris ira malum But the King was indeed glad of this occasion and fortune gaue vertue the check because as he had imprisoned him without a cause he knew not what to doe with him without a fault yet some report that the principall reason of accelerating his death was a speech of Ferdinando's king of Spaine who should sweare that the mariage betweene Lady Katherine his daughter and Prince Arthur of Wales should neuer be consummated as long as any Earle of Warwick liued For the very name and title was not only formidable to other Nations but superstitions to the wauâ—ring and vnconstant English whereupon the King was the gladder to take hold of this opportunitie where in the conuiction of Law had cast this stumbling-block of treason in his walke and race to a longer life and yet was there nothing done but by orderly proceedings and iustifiable courses more then when the silly Prince submitted to his mercy he thought it the greatest point of mercy to looke to himselfe and so for the benefit of his posteritie and the sedation of all troubles both present and to come struck off his head and with him the head of all diuision and dissention FINIS True Histories to be preferred before all prophane and deuised relâ—tions The house of Lancaster began the first wrong Rebellion in Ireland naturall Sparâ—ago Sebastian Mortimer Treason did neuer long prosper Margaret Duches of Burgundy chiefest enemy of Henry the seuenth The Lord Louel and Stafford rebell against Henry the seuenth No Saâ—ctâ—ary for Traitors â— new Earle of Warwick The end of diuelish deuices our destruction Lambert Earle of Wâ—rwicke saâ—â—eth into Ireland The Earle of Kildare a sauorer of this counterfet Margaret Duches of Burgundy entertaineth this quarrell Eurip. Mâ—dâ—â— Articles agreed vpon by the Councell to prâ—uent the warre The Earle of Warwicke shewne in publike Iohn de la Pooles sonne Duke of Susâ— folke by a sister of Edward the fourth Now Earle of Lincolne taketh part with Lambert The Earle of Lincolâ—e and Lord Louel goe into Ireland to Lambert The King raiâ—eth an Armie The Lord Marâ— quesse Dorceâ— sent to the Tower Eurip. Bacchâ— Mâ—rtinus Swart Lambert with his Armie commeth into England Lucan lib. 1. The King with his army is ready to the encounter Lucan lib. 2. The Earle of Lincolne commeth forward to Newarck to meet the King Stoke field The armies ioyne The King obtaineth the victory against the Rebells Lucan lib. 9. The Duches of Burgundy is rather enraged then daâ—nâ—ed with the newes Euriâ— Medea The Duches of Burgundy raiseth new troubles Another Richard the fourth Peter Warbâ—ck instructed by the Duches hâ—w to demeane himselfe Perkins Oration to the Irish Lords The French King sendeth for Perkin Lucan Lib. 7. Perkin welcommed to Lady Margaret Eurip. Hippolitus Coronatus England strangely possessed with the humor of Perkin Sr. Robert Clifford sent to Perkin Lucan lib 6. The King prepareth for Peâ—kin Paâ—â—â— Helâ—â—â— Embasie to the Arch-Duke Eurip. Andromache The Duches answer to Doctor Warrham oranâ—tion Oâ—id Epist. Petrâ—rck dâ— contemptu mu ndi dial 3. The Embassador returne into England Quid. de arte amandi lib. 3. Eurip. Iphigenia in aulide A riot 〈◊〉 the Esterlings Sir William Stanley accused Eurip. Herefuâ—â—â—â— Sir William Stanley beheaded Eurip Heraclida Libel â—rs hanged Speciall Commissioners sent into Ireland Lucan lib. 5. The North of Ireland Sueuorum morâ—scu Politianâ— The Earle of Kildare accused by Sr. Edward Poinings The King progresse intercepted vpon report of Perkins lanâ—ding 〈◊〉 lib. 9. Perkin commeth to Kent Eurip. Hecuba Perkins company defeated he driuen backe to seâ— Ouid. 6 6. â—aâ—torum Perkin resolueth for Ireland and so into Scotland Perkins Oration to the King of Scots The King of Scots resolueth to assist Perkin Ouid. Epist. Helena Paridi The King of Scoss prouideth Perkin of a wife The Ladies answer Perkin marieth the Ladie Katherin Gourdon daughter to the Earle Huntley The Scots inuade England in the behalfe of Perkin â—ucan lib. 2. Perkin lamenteth the English slaughters The Kings aâ—â—â—swer Lucan lib. 3. Perkins answer Eurip. Helena They prepare in England against Perkin Arebellionin the west diuerteth the army out of Scotland â—â—mock and Ioseph Captains of the Rebâ—lls Men in authority Eurip. Hâ—raâ—lida The Armies in England raised Lord Audley Captaine of the Rebels Black-Heathâ—ield London Lucan lib. 1. The Rebels â—uercome Lord Audeley executed Lib. 8. Lib. 9. The King of Scots prepareth against England King of Scots besiegeth Norham Castle The Earle of Surrey raiseth the siege Lucan lib. 7. The Earle of Surrey entreth Scotland The King of Scots offreth a priuate combate to the Earle of Surrey The King of Spaine would marry his daughter to Prince Arthur An Embassador to the King of Scots from Spaine Lucan lib. 7. An Embâ—ssador from Englâ—nd to Scotland The King of Scots will not deliuer Perkin Eurip suppliceâ— Perkin discharged out of Scotland Perkin retorneâ—h into Ireland Perkin ecâ—meth into England Perkin besiedgeth Excester Perkin discomfited leaueth Excester and departeth to Taunton The Lord Dawbney generall of the Kings forceâ— The King commeth forward with his Army The Duke of Buckingham Eurip. supplâ—ce◠〈…〉 Perkin desperat of all reliefe taketh Sauctuary Eurip. suppliceâ— The Lord Daubney sent after Perkin The Army of Perkin submitteth to the King without fighting The King râ—turneth to Exâ—ester Perkins Wife taken Eurip. Hecuba Perkin submittet to the King Lady Margaret much troubled with this discomfortable newes Perkin deceiueth his keepers anâ—â— escapeth Perkin commeth to the Prior of Shene Perkin once againe 〈◊〉 but ignominiously vsed 〈◊〉 lib. 5. Perkins confession Lib. 3. de pontâ— Perkin committed to the Tower Li. 4. de 〈◊〉 〈…〉 Perkin corrupting his keepers to escape out of the Tower is takâ—n and hanged at Tiburn The Earle of Warwicke beheaded
of the world and times For the Maiestie of Kings will not be tied vp with the slender bindings of rebellion nor taught any lesson against their wils either of fauouring or disfauouring whom they please As for personall faults Alas Princes Prelates Officers Maiestrates and all sorts of men will runne the race of mortality and if it were possible to remoue offenders at pleasure the persons may be changed but the imperfections continue Let them therefore alone a Gods name for they must stand or fall to the estate of their liues which he hath appointed only this I will be bold to say I would haue no man for any priuate respect runne in the outragious races of sinnes himselfe or defend any wickednesse in others beare with great men in their vices flatter or temporize for profit or preferment yeeld vnto base or degenerating actions either for feare or fauour or in a word doe any thing contrary to Gods word wherein as in a glasse men may perspicuously behold the way of life and death and the infallible positions which in the affirmatiue and negatiue conclude all things either by precept or interdiction Eurip. Orest. Paruis enim res magnas quomodò caperet quis laboribus stultum etiam velle conarihaec quando enim excanduerit populus ad iram prolapsus similis est igni ad extinguendum vehementi si vero pedetentim quis ei concitato quidem cedens obsecundârit tempus cautè obseruans cum autem emiserit flatus forsan exhalauerit THE TRVE AND wonderfull History of PERKIN VVARBECK THE contentions betweene the houses of Yorke and Lancaster are the subiects of many discourses and therefore I will insist the lesse either vpon Genealogies Titles Vsurpations Warres Factions Encounters Reuenges Battails Slaughters or other accidentall outrages which for 90. yeares filled the wrinckles of the face of our Common-wealth of England with the blood and sweat of tenne Kings and Princes of the race roiall 60 Dukes and Earles 1000 Lords and Knights and 150000 Soldiers and people Only I must make a little commorance and abiding in the wretched and ragged house of enuie and malice gouerned and ouerseene by a woman who was so opposite and aduerse to the Lancastrian family that for all King Henry the seuenth had obtained the Crowne by a strong hand and as we say diuinitùs praemunitus yea debarred all Titles or fuming shadowes of Titles by consummating that mariage with the Lady Elizabeth eldest daughter of Edward the fourth she yet contriued all the waies of his ouerthrow and inuit â fortunâ entertained euery occasion which might adde fuell to the fier of her inueterate hate and blood-thirstie humor of reuenge as if she had beene borne like certaine Antipathies in nature which cannot endure any neighbour-hood or commixture such as the Eugh and Palme the Figge and Vine the strings of Wolues and Sheep which makes me remember the story of Eteocles and Pollinices the sonnes of Oedipus whose hate was so great in their liues that after death the bones being burnt togeather the flame of the sacrifice deuided asunder This was Margaret Dutches of Burgundy sister of Edward the fourth and a sworne aduersary to cast the red Rose of England into the black pit of confusion who perceiuing her first hopes frustrated and annihilated concerning the progression of Lamberts enterprises studied night and day vpon further and further instigations yea houered ouer opportunitie like a hawke for her pray to torment and trouble the peace of England embracing euery strange and prestigious illusion and not caring with what pullies of ridiculous and impossible actions her malice and reuenges were woond vp so they might be hurried downe againe vpon the head of the King whom she cursed on her knees and hated euen beyond the tendernesse of her sex many of her owne friends for his sake Therefore to weary his patience a little more she set vp another puppet like the former one Peter Warbeck a Fleming to act a part of wonder on the Stage of dangerous Innouation and take vpon him the Title of Richard the fourth Prince of England and white Rose of the same But before I play the Midwife or if you will Phisitian with her to deliuer her wombe of this monstrous birth of Peter Warbeck whom she taught the cunning and audacious impudency of personating Richard Duke of Yorke murthered with his brother in the Tower by Richard the third some eight yeare before I thinke it not impertinent to our purpose in hand to tell you what this Lambert was and wherein he seemed cosened with the whorish smiles of an adulterate fortune by the only meanes and coadiutement of this Dutches of Burgundy The first and second yeares of Henry the seuenth swelled to so great a height of ioy blessednesse and contentment from the rivulets of King Richards slaughter the corroboration of his estate the amity of the Nobles the mariage with the eldest daughter of Yorke the birth of Prince Arthur the league and amitie of forraine Princes and the applause of all his subiects that the diuine prouidence thought it meet to temper and allay the excesse of the same with some mixtures of feares and displeasure lest mortalitie might presume too farre and man triumph that his owne arme of flesh had contriued his establishment So that the Lord Louel Humphrey and Thomas Stafford with Sir Thomas Broughton and diuers others attempted a dangerous rebellion and drew into the field a great Army against the King whom to preuent the Duke of Bedford with such forces as could be raised on a soddain made hast to an encounter but his fortune was so good that with a successefull Oratory not striking a stroake he preuailed to dissipate those threatning and thickning clouds of disturbance For after he had intimated the hainousnes of their transgression nature of their offences which were capital Treasons with al inferred the Kings great mercy which was willing to pardon their rashnesse and pitiful ouersights so they would desist and retire peaceably into their Countries the whole company surceased and quietly deposed their Armes whereupon the Lord Louel fled and the Staffords tooke Sanctuary in a Village called Culnaham two miles from Abington but because the Iudges of the law alledged that the Townes of refuge among the Iewes were ordained for other purposes and that Ioab was killed holding by the hornes of the Altar and the places of priuiledges in England were neuer meant to suborne Traitors Humphrey Stafford was taken by force from the Towne and sent to the Tower from whence they brought him to Tyborne and there put him to execution His yonger Brother Thomas was notwithstanding remitted as a man whom consanguinitie and brother-hood had rather deceiued then wilfulnesse and malice against the King abused O blessed wisedome that can so temper Iustice with the consideration of mens frailties and other maleuolent circumstances to keep her a while from contracting a brow of reuenge
a spredding tree of royalty and therefore hee requested their loyalty and resolued courages to take his part that the right heire of the crowne might bee restored to England and themselues eternized to heereafter memory for so meritorious a worke Little needed a spur saith our Prouerb to a forward horse all that saw him beleeued it and such as heard onely the report according to the Poet errorem vocis vt omen amo Clapt their hands for ioy that they should bee employed in an enterprize of such wonder and important greatnesse whereupon money horse armour men and all things else were promised which might be aduantagious to such a businesse But alas Ireland was too weake and of themselues they did onely discouer their malice curbed yet with insufficiency giuing the King notice how their wills exceeded their power and that they were ready to entertaine euerie opportunitie to doe any mischeefe Therefore they sent ouer into England acquainting many discontented persons with the businesse but most principally as to the life of their actions they submitted to Margaret Duches of Burgundy sister of King Edward the fourth for her directions This was a woman of a wonderfull composure so adorned with princely qualities and setled in Maiesticall authoritie as you shall heare heereafter that she was admired of all Europe and beloued in her owne countrey Onely as stinking flies lying secretly in boxes of sweet oyntments putrifie the same did an innated malice and virulent hatred to the Lancastrian Family corrupt her other vertues and as it were thrust vp her princely enduments into a meere bog poole of dirt and filthinesse For although shee knew the bloud of Yorke extinguished and that the Earle of Warwicke was in King Henries possession as taken forth together with the Lady Elizabeth now his wife out of the castle of Sherrington in Yorke-shire vnder the custodie of Sr. Robert Willoughby Yet insatiate in her hate and so consequently in her reuenge Nam ingentes parturit ira minas She admitted of euerie motion of disturbance and inuented meanes of her owne to set in combustion the whole sâ—ate of England vnder a hopefull pretence to see the King ouerthrowne and supplanted Thus did she pile vp together the fire of this disturbance and countenanced the matter more with her greatnesse and power then all the other complices besides but if you aske me how she continued in this authority being a widow amongst strangers and enemie to so great a Prince as the King of England I will answer in a word and measure out the cheefe and principall cord that bound her royaltie together Charles Duke of Burgoine hauing married this Lady Margaret daughter to Richard Duke of Yorke and sister to Edward the fourth had yet no issue by her but left one sole daughter behinde him named Mary which hee had by his first wife the daughter of the Duke of Bourbon this was married to Maximilian sonne to Frederick the Emperour by whom he had two Princes Philip and Margaret which children after the death of the Lady Mary their mother this Lady Margaret Duches Dowager so entirely beloued so tenderly brought vp so motherly nourished and so carefully preserued that she was highly reputed of and esteemed for the same To which when she added a politique ordring her affaires both for the maintenance of their honour and administration of Iustice in the Common-wealth so that I may say with the ancient Poet Saepenumero iam per subtiliores sermones iui ad contentiones veni maiores quam conueniat genus foemineum perscrutari c. The whole bodie of the gouerment willingly consented to be apparrelled and adorned after her fashion so that like an absolute Prince indeed she proceeded both in the gouernment for their benefit and the illustration of her owne greatnesse In this Orb of reputation thus moouing herselfe she still shined like a full planet from whose influence could proceede nothing but sweet presages till stepping aside into a contrary motion of despight and rankor against the King as an enemie to knowledge and her owne conscience she countenanced this ridiculous yet vnhappy coniuration which by her meanes grew apace like broad and stinking burs vnprofitable in themselues and spoiling all the grasse about them vntill at last they were by a politique hand of preuention pull'd vp by the roots and cast vnder foot into the dirt For when King Henry was certefied of all these tumults and comminations and knew the deepnesse and fulnesse of the channell in which the tottered barke of this rebellion steered he verily supposed the best point of wisdome was principiâ—s obstare and so attempted with all care and vigilancy to turne the rage of those troubles another way or else to preuent them from flowing ouer the banks of his enclosures and although the collusion fraud of the inuention vexed him more then the matter or substance of such a rebellion yet hee moderated his anger and with Ianus looked both waies smiling with one face at the ridiculousnesse and deceit of the proiect and marking warily with another all the meanes to redact the confused Chaos of this molestation to better order and vniformity desiring onely at Gods hands to preuent effusion of bloud which must needes bee spilt in any settled warre and contracted army Besides in well ordred battells the euent was disputable and many times punishments were ordained as well to reduce good men ad correctionem and amendment as to bring bad men to ruinam and destruction And therfore if it were possible he would rebate the insolency by other meanes and diuert it from handy blowes and bloudy contentions whereupon he called his Councell together at the Charter-house besides his royal mannour of Richmond and there consulted how to pacifie this sudden tumult and conspiracy without any further disturbance or open defiance This motion of the Kings so tempered with grauity mercy and commiseration was so well accepted of the whole company that they presently applauded his high wisdome and religious care and put in practise whatsoeuer seemed conuenient for their intended affaires They first began with a generall pardon published to all offenders that were content to receiue the same and remain obedient to the Maiestie of England For although at this very instant Sr. Th. Broughton who had obscured the Lord Louell a great season from the King was in a manner ready to giue him battell with many friendly coadiutors and a well-settled army yet did the King thinke it policie to desist from a forcible ouerrunning them because as desperate of life or pardon considering their former treasons and abuses they would hardly be reclaimed in their rages but now fight for their liues and liberties Againe in shewing exemplarie Iustice vpon them once subiect to accusation or condemnation he must needes proceed against many yea such whose offences in standing out could admit of no pardon and therefore as I sayd he gently proclaimed the
same which was much auailable to his purpose For euen those which fauoured the Lord Louell most began to stagger in their resolutions when they perceiued the Kings benignitie and knew with what lenitie and commiseration he was willing to proceede Secondly they thought it necessary and pertinent to their peace to shew the sonne of Clarence personally abroad in the Citie and other publike places whereby the rumor might be dashed out of countenance and the purblinde eies of false opinion extinguished For such an impression this â—ictiue relation of his escape had made that though they beheld him present yet durst some of them sweare it was but a deuise of the Kings whereby you may obserue the danger and inconueniences of idle reports which if they be not strangled in the cradle with Hercules Serpents and smothered betimes ere they come to stronger groth and life will viper like after they haue receiued warmth in ones bosome fly in his face Nay such is the nature of deuices in a tottering Common-wealth that prohibitions to restraine them augment them the more and they who would haue spoken nothing but truth left to their owne liberty being prohibiâ—ed diuulge more then they meant Thirdly It was determined that Queene Elizabeth wife to Edward the fourth should loose her lands and be deposed from all manner of sway in the gouernment because she had voluntarily submitted her selfe and daughters to the hands of King Richard whereby all former contractâ— and pretences of establishment might haue beene frustrated through the inconstancie of a woman or as the State pretended a priuate ambition or couetousnesse to set any loome on worke to weaue the web of her owne pleasure and contentment which although was a heinous crime and very dangerous to the present Kings peace and tranquillitie yet questionlesse the doome and iudgement seemed ouer rigorous Durus fuit hic sermo and if euer 〈◊〉 ius proued summa iniuria it was verified in this verdict For questionlesse they forgot the turbulency of those times the rage of the tyrant the fearefulnesse of many accidents the seducingâ— of a King and the flattering promises of a whole Common-wealth wherein stronger iudgements might haue falled then a womans But it should seeme that God hath a speciall hand in the punishment of sinnes and disposing of Kingdomes For without controuersie if she consented to the murthering of King Richards wife for her owne ease and emolument if she seemed an aduersary to the good pretended to England by vniting the â—amilies or if she proiected her owne aduancement in the present glory of the Kingdome forgetting the losse of her husband the murther of her kindred the slaughter of her children the odiousnesse of the incest and the curse of Heauen vpon crying sins God would neuer suffer such horrible faults vnreuenged but as you heare inflicted her wauering and inconsiderate timerousnesse with this punishment For she was presently confined to the Abbey of Barmondsey in Southwarke and there deceased after she had liued a while in some calamitous distresse and excruciation both of soule and body such are all humane instabilities wordly chances and the condition of Princes themselues Otherwise she that being a poore widow had resisted the Kings importunity by her chast and modest behauiour attracted his good will to marry her she that had founded a Colledge in Cambridge bearing her name at this hower of Queenes Colledge for the propagation of learning and education of Children and Students she that had loued her husband and the glory of England endeauouring all things to the augmentation of the honor of them both she that seemed proud in workes of charity and to help forward the petitions of honest complainants and distressed suiters she that kneeled on her knees for Clarences liberty and importuned the King to remember his brother by the example of Richard the first who remitted his brother Iohn a farre greater delinquent had neuer fallen so low into the dangerous pit of a sonne in lawes displeasure and seene her selfe generally maligned through the kingdome or else as I said the reuealed things belong to vs the secret to God who questionlesse blew the coales of this displeasure to purge the contagion and infection of hiâ— heart which was only knowne to himselfe Fourthly because they knew that reward and hope of gaine might doe much with corrupted persons and irresolute men as all Rebels were they proclaimed a gratuity of aâ—housand pounds sterling to any one which would present the State with the body of this counterfeit Lambert to which they were the rather induced because not long before the Tyrant Richard the third had preuailed with the like against the Duke of Buckingham whom his owne seruant Banister betraied in hope of recompence from the State which is also a custome in Italy where the heads of the Banditi are vallued at so many checkinos or peeces of gold and so the Zaffi or other desperate Ruffiani obtaine many preies and booties Last of all it was concluded to haue forces in readinesse and an Army prepared whatsoeuer should chance with all prouision and furniture belonging to the setting forth of the same and honour of such a Kingdome that neither security or presumption one way of their owne greatnesse and establishment might make them too confident of themselues nor vilipending and slight regard of the contrary another way too negligent against their enemies When all things were thus befitted to the disposing and ordering their affaires On a Sunday ensuing Edward the yong Earle of Warwick was brought froÌ„ the Tower through the publike streetes of London to the Cathedrall Church of Pauls where he remained all Procession time and high Masse hauing open conference with many of the Nobilitie especially such whom the King suspected might haue been induced to the commotion vpon the full assurance of his escape But if he had asked them why he was imprisoned or what transgression the King could impute vnto him to detaine him in dures in that manner and after put him to death being an infant innocent without law or reason I meruaill what they would haue answered or how the Councell themselues would haue satisfied a iudicious questioner in that kinde yet by this occasion the imaginations of diuers were setled and the better sort belieued that these Irish newes were simulatory and represented Ixions boasting that he had laien with Iuno when it was but a cloude as by the monstrous birth of the Centaures did appeare But it was not so with all For as it often happens in the stopping of a violent inundation of water that it causeth it the more to rage and make a terrible noice whereas running in a deep channell it would goe quietly away So fell it out in the suppressing of these rumors and mens hatred and malice many were the more exasperated and by this gentle and saire course to reduce them thought all but trickes of policie to deceiue them proouing like certaine kinds
of burs and nettles which soughtly handled sting the more violently but hardly crushed together lose their force and energie Of this sort was the Earle of Lincolne sonne to Iohn de la Poole Duke of Suffolke and Elizabeth another sister to Edward the fourth who much maligning the aduancement of this Earle of Richmond farre his inferiour as he supposed tooke hold of this open Rebellion as a meet opportunitie to beate out his own ends on such a pestilent anuile and therefore determined to vphold fortifie support this Irish expedition and take part with his new cozen who as he made him selfe belieue was escaped indeed for all the prety conueiances of the State This Earle of Lincolne besides his blood experience wisedome in great important affaireâ— had a priuacy of humor which many men excepted against as fantasticall and precise For he was so cautelous in his words and singular in his phrases and actions that he would neither sweare nor tell a lie by reason his communication was still seasoned with sauorie Parenthesis and breakings off or if you will Aposâ—opesis As I will not confidently auerre it but it is so and so if men may be credited in their mortalitie The number amounts to so many if men faile not in their computations I dare not iustifie it further then one my credit another with such like Yea in his enterprises he was both curious and Roman like for stricknesse of discipline yet valiant enough To conclude in a word had not the mantle of greatnesse ouer-couered his gesture and actions the same garbe and fashion in an inferior might haue beene thought ridiculous but to our purpose in hanâ— When he apprehended a kind of feare and iealosie in King Henry through this false rumor he determined with the same water that draue the Mil to drowne it and out of this fiction to raise a matter of consequence whereupon he presently repaired to Sir Thomas Broughton and others who like the Theeues of Aegypt lying in the reedes by the Riuer Nilus breaking out vpon any hope of aduantage vpon the silly passengers watched all occasions to be reuenged on the King and yet could render no iust account of their discontentments and after diuers consultations concluded to saile into Flaeunders to his Aunt the Duches being his Mothers owne sister and so without further commorance after the King had dissolued the Parliament at London put the same in practise whither he was well commed with all worthy and kind embraces Not long after Francis Lord Louel repaired vnto him well accompanied where for the time secured and assembling themselues with this Position that omnia efficit consilium quod ferrum hostile efficere potest lest the World should laugh them to scorne for prosecuting idle and vaine attempts they resolue that the Earle of Liucolne and Lord Louel should repaire into Ireland and adde a better countenance to the businesse by their presence in attending and honouring their new King with all gracefull ceremonies and markes of maiestie Then with the power of the Irish-men to bring him into England by which time the Duches forces would be ready to ioine with them Last of all to giue King 〈◊〉 battaile wheresoeuer in which if they preuailed they might at their pleasures depose this counterfeit Lambert and deliuer the true Earle of Warwicke out of prison in all which they proceeded accordingly and with expedition But King Henry supposing he had setled and appeased the minds and vnstable humours of his Nobilitie by the personall presence of Edward Earle of Warwicke began to be lesse moued and disturbed yea as it were secure and carelesse of any further malice and dangerous attempt against his estate and dignitie mistrusting nothing lesse then any man to be so foolish and mad as to belieue that Lambert could be the Earle so that he coniectured nothing but the suppressing of those barbarous Irish and the sedation of that trouble vntill he heard how the Earle of Lincolne was fled out of the Realme vntill he heard how the Lord Louel was confederate with him vntil he heard how diuers were vnited vnto them vntill he heard how the Duches of Burgoine coadiuted the enterprise vntill he heard they had raised a strong party and were resolued to giue him battaile this somewhat moued him and exasperated his displeasure For when he saw no other cataplasme could serue the turne but that he must cauterise the sore and sere and cut away the putrified flesh of this corrupted and rebellious body he determined with strong hand and martiall power to doe the same Whereupon he commanded his Musters to goe forward and appointed the seuerall Captaines a Rendezvous where the whole Armie might meet as occasion and his aduersaries should incite him and lest others might pretend discontentments wants debts deuotion pilgrimages and such like and so goe out of the Realme after the rest he gaue order to all Lieutenants of Shires Sherifes Maiors Bailifes and officers to search and watch the Ports Hauens for the going out and recourse of strangers or passengers vnlicensed and vnlimitited Thus what he could not with the Foxes he was faine to compas with the Lions skin yet knowing that Victoria est tota â—ita in bona consultationâ— he did not cast away the other but when he saw no Councell nor policie could either lâ—niat their obduratnesse nor diuert their inficious intents against him he resolued with an equall strength to remoue the blocks of his peace and quietnesse cast thus in his way by flagitious contumacy and ridiculous innouation But some fires are not so easily quenched as raised or maintained for though all his aduises and good order consorted with successe yet were they not sufficient to stop the mouth or hinder the passage of the present disturbance with deputies or Commissioners therefore he set forward in person supposing they would arriue from Flanders side on some of those Coasts and so came to Saint Edmonds Bury where he was certified that the Lord Thomas Marquesse Dorcet was comming to him to excuse and purge himselfe of those crimes enforced against him or at least such ouersights in which he perfunctorily performed his duty while he was in France To him was sent the Earle of Oxford by way of anticipation to intercept at this time his iourney For the King was too full of troubles and cogitations about the suppressing his enemies and new raised tumults and so could not attend his businesse The Earle had only Commission to conuey him to the Tower which when some of the Councell supposed a hard doome he answered them plainly What need further words If he be my friend as I am confident thereof he will be contented a while to suffer a little reproach and rebuke for my sake yea peraduenture pleasure and contentment If he be otherwise it is a place of security and would I had my aduersaries as safe there as they would me
Therefore I will say the lesse in this point vnto you because you haue euer beene faithful to my progenitors and willing to be counted a Nation for the defence of vertue and propulsing of iniuries As for the ill successe of Lambert in personating my cozen the Earle of Warwicke and setting a foot that title whereby you may be terrified in heereafter prosecutions Alas I confesse it was for my sake and a meere deuise to sound the foord of the troublesome streames of those times proceedings wherein if my Vncle of Lincolne had any way thriued you must be assured thogh they would not hazzard my person so yong yet it was only to make way to my fortunes For smal recompeÌ„ce should haue stopped his mouth vt maior â—nx extinguit minorem my presence quickly haue turned the streame and with the sonne exhaled the strength of his meâ—eor This tricke my Grand-father put vpon the State when he was Gouernor amongst you by lack Cade of Kent who proclaimed himselfe Mortimer to see how the people affected the Title or could remember the Genealogie in the truth of his precedencie as marrying the daughter of Lionel Duke of Clarence third son of our great Edward the third of England and Heroos of his time so that I hope this shall be no barre or interception either to my interest or your good will considering I am now come in person to offer vp my selfe a sacrifice if need be for you all and promise you by the secrets of my birth-right to make you a glorious and free Nation vnder me if I preuaile by your meanes These words were vttered so audaciously and yet with simulatory maiesty that they conceiued euery thing in his be halfe and not once disputed on the craft or cunning conueiance of the businesse but exalted and applauded him with all reuerence and due honor combining themselues with affectionate obedience to his aide and assistance wherein â—hat they might be the better induced iust at the same instant as if honour made hast to welcome him according to our Poet Nunc festmatos nimium sibi sâ—nsit honores and fortune determined to smile on them all Charles the French King in some diâ—pleasure with King Henry of England sent for Perkin out of Ireland with resolution to make him the roiall head of an Army against England which although it much animared the Irish to belieue the former seduction yet it was but a deuise of the French Kings to diâ—ert the warre which the King of England pretended out of France and so to enforce him backe againe to looke home to his owne affaires Howsoeuer this our Counterfet was not a little reuiued with such a message and supposed himselfe exalted to heauen in being thus called to the familiarity and acquaintance of Kings and Princes so that comming into France accordingly he was roially accepted and after a Princely manner entertained hauing a guard assigned him whereof the Lord of Congreshall was gouernour Hither also repaired vnto him especially while he lay in Paris Sir George Neuil the Bastard Sir Iohn Tailer Rowland Robinson and a hundred English Rebels But alas all these were but smoaking illusions For on a soddain Ingemâ—it rector sensitque deorum Esse dolos fata suae contraria menti And when a peace was to be determined and concluded betweene England and France the French King quickly dismissed the yong man and all his associats vnder colour of excuse that he durst no longer protect him against his new confederat and brother of England but some others attending vpon him yeelded a more forcible reason for his departure that he himselfe suspected how King Charles would deliuer him into the hands of the King of England and therefore he beguiled the Lord Congreshall and fled from Paris by night But howsoeuer this may be disputed and whether he departed without the Kings consent or no he was questionlesse deceiued in his expectation and in a manneâ— desperate of successe so that loth to remaine amongst such distrustfull enemies hee quietly returned to his most assured friend the Lady Margaret of Flanders the master builder of this worke The Duches before he came thought euery hower from his departure a whole yeare till his retorne For to heare how he proceeded was a quiet to her thoughts and to know how fortune would deale with him a ioy to her heart but to see him a very rauishment Yet when she vnderstood how he was abiected and repudiated in the French Court it could not choose but be a great agony and amasement vnto her Notwithstanding to preuent all suspition she seemed at his arriuall no lesse reuiued then a mother is glad for the retourne of her long absented sonne or a person condemned for a pardon and restauration to his life and dignity At his first approach she receiued him with large embraces and hanging ouer his neck seeming to shed teares of ioy and comfort for his escape from many dangers and aduentures O dissembling and deceiuable hypocrisie that euer a woman should be the author of such diuellish deuises and hellish proiects and yet ouer-daube her mischieuous imaginations with the sugred showes of loue and regard of pitty toward a Prince in distresse but this made Hippolitus long a goe cry out O Iupiter quodnam adulterinum hominibus malum Mulieres ad solis lucem habit are fecâ—sti c. and this she had learned of her owne Phisitians who in administring of bitter pils had shewed her to roule them ouer in some candide powder and this we haue taught our selues out of Gods one mouth who in seuerall places of Scripture hath puplished wherein a bad woman doth exceed all the creatures of the World After this extacy was past she proceeded with a cunning desire to haue him relate his first miraculous preseruation his after trauails and exploration of Countries his next entertainement in Ireland and France and finally his resolution to goe forward in his noble and necessary intendment for his inheritance and recouery of the Crowne of England wherein he proceeded so effectually and orderly without stammering or stuttering that the whole company verily belieued it and such as were not present the rather induced by the report of others sorrowing for nothing but that they heard him not Vina Voce and endeauouring what they could to present their personall obedience vnto him Whereupon when she perceiued how euery thing consorted to her owne wishes she assigned him a Guard of 50 persons in Murry and Blue and honoured him with a cloth of Estate and denomination of the White Rose and Prince of England From thence forward the Nobilitie of Flaunders and diuers of England with all obsequious diligence attended him and from a reuerent estimation of his auncestors performed all the good offices which belonged to the exornation of his maiestie and extention of their owne loues and dutâ—es so that in a word this Sinons horse entred the broken
suspition could not as yet detect any person of name or quality which troubled him so much the more But when hee perceiued indeede that this misty vapour was not quiâ—e vaniâ—hed nor the impression put out of the mad braines of the common people and vnderstood how Sr. Robert Clâ—fford was priuily fled into Flanders he resolued on a conspiracy against him and thought it expedient both for the saueguard of himselfe and his Realme whose reciprocall good or hurt were dependants one vpon another to prouide some remedy for the repressing of this abusing fraud and deceit and suppressing the insolency if it should extend to force and rebellion Wherefore hee disperâ—ed seuerall companies both of horse and foot to defend the sea coasts that no man might passe or repasse vnapprehended who had not license or safe conduct for his iourny busines and affaires Then hee sent downe the Lieutenants and lustices into their seuerall countries to detaine the people in obedience and muster the forces of the same as occasion should serue Which order obserued he vnderhand authorized wise and discreet Espiâ—lls into all the cities of the Low-Countries to discouer of what Prouince progeny parentage and estate this misnamed Richard was descended and propagated promising princely rewards to such persons as could relate the truth and as a man may say enucleate the secret Besides hee wrote louing letters to certaine trusty friends concerning the same who to doe their Prince and Countrey seruice dispersed themselues into seuerall townes and cities both of France and Burgundy where they were certified and assured by the testimony of many honest persons amongst whom some of especiall wit and behauiour repaired to the towne of Tourney that this fained Duke was of meane parentage and truly named Peter Warbeck which was principally confirmed by one Nathaniâ—l Osbeck of his owne kinred who as it should seeme in hope of reward tooke vpon him more then the rest and exprobrated him for so countersetting with this taunt out of the Poet Sed malè dissimulat quis enim celauerit ignem Lumine qui semper proditur ipse suo And alas howeuer he is now transhaped into a princely garb and fashion we of Peter named him Perkin for his effeminatenesse and childisnnesse With this newes and man the inquisitours returned into England and made a true report vnto his Maiesty of all that euer they knew and heard both concerning the assumpted presumption and impudency of the counterfet as also the proceedings and purposes of all the conspiratours which was seconded by the faithful letters of especial persons who had larger commission to make their commorance the longer out of England when the King was thus satisfied and as he supposed to all seeming reasonable vnderstanding had openly and apparantly manifested it heresolued to haue it further published and declared by open proclamations and sound of trumpet both in the Realmes of England and Ireland and in the courts of forraine Princes for which purpose he sent ouer diuers Embassadours to many Countries especially to Philip Arch-Duke of Burgoine and his Councellours as a place which neerest concerned him This Embasie was the charge and commission of Sr. Ed. Poinings a most valiant Gentleman and William Warrham Doctor of the lawes a man of great modesty learning and grauity The generall poynts of their commission had large fields to walke in but the principall matters to be enforced had these limitations FIrst to declare that the young man resident amongst them with the Lady Margaret was descended of a base and obscure parentage hauing falsly and vntruly vsurped the name of Richard Duke of Yorke who long before was murthered in the Tower with his brother the Prince by the commandement of King Richard their vncle as many men liuing can testifie Secondly that from the probability of the matter and enforcement of reason there was no likelihood that King Richard dispossessing the Prince both of his life and Kingdom would leaue the other brother stil to affright him and trouble him in his gouernment Thirdly that Queene Elizabeth their mother was therefore attainted in Parliament for surrendring her daughters into the Tyrants custody and committing them into his hands who she knew had already murthered their brethren Fourthly to desire the Arch-Duke and the principall Lords of his Councell not to giue any credit to such illusions nor suffer themselues to bee any more blinded or seduced with impostures or shadowing appearances of truth Last of all to remember how King Henry had some few yeeres since succoured and releeued Maximilian their principall Lord almost oppressed and ouercome with the forraine hostility of the French King and intestine rebellion of his owne subiects and therefore it must be vnprincely and a poynt of great ingratitude either directly or indirectly to abett or maintaine any traytour or trayterous practises against him or the peace and tranquility of his Kingdome With these instructions the Embassadours failed into Flanders and were gently receiued and honourably welcommed by the Arch-Duke and his Councell as appeared by the solemnity of their audience and quicke dispatch of their businesse wherein Doctor William Warrham in a well penned oration declared the Kings minde as before you heard and by the way touched the malice of Lady Margaret saying with the Poet Tantaenè animis coele stibus irae And vnder a kinde of reprehension rebuked her inficious disposition against a Prince of so great worth and deseruing that neuer wronged her nor entertained a preiudiciall motiue to inflict either her or hers with any malignant iniury wherin she only might be compared to a weak breath which spitting against a forcible winde had it returned bâ—cke againe into her face adding withall somewhat vehemently that in her olde age contrary to the nature of all births shee had brought forth two such detestable monsters that is to say Lambert before disputed vpon and now this Peter that the like was neuer heard of And whereas in the conception of children women were commonly deliuered in eight or nine moneths as nature did require she could not be released in eight or nine yeeres nay the youngest was fifteen yeeres old before her threnes were passed and they iustified to be shewed openly and this was not sufficient neither but they must bee at least extracted of Princes and able to giue Kings battell in the open field whereupon hee might well conclude with that ancient Poet Sedres excellens est contra reptiles bestias Remedia mortalibus deorum prebuisse aliquem Quae viperas ignem superant Sed nullus contra mulierem remedia inuenit adhuc Malam huiusmodi sumus hominibus malum This oration so effectually deliuered and in the publique assembly audaciously maintained did not so much trouble and vex the Duches as affâ—ight and dishearten poore Perkin who in a manner exanimated lest his fraud and pestilentiall enterprizes should not onely bee discouered but discouraged began to be somewhat appaled and by
and foolish compassion toward the English people as though that rather mooued the Scots to the retreat then any thing else whereupon lest his cozening and illusion should bee discouered by reason so few resorted vnto him he thus complained to the Scottish King and as it were exclaimed of himselfe O wretch and hard-hearted man that I am thus remorselesse to forage my natiue countrey and purchase mine enheritance with such effusion of bloud cruelty and slaughter For now I see ere this businrsse can be brought to any good passe houses must bee fired countries depopulated women rauished virgins defloured infants slaine the aged murthered the goods rifled and the whole Kingdome subiect to deuastation which to my greefe of soule I must needes deplore Therefore great King I request you from henceforth doe not afflict my people nor deforme my country in such a lamentable and remorseâ—esse a manner For questionlesse I shall neuer endure it with a peaceable soule and conscience and had in a manuer rather lose my part and interest therein then purchase it with such losse and excruciation of minde especially effusion of bloud and barbarous enforcement Surely replied the King of Scots halfe angry and more then halfe mistrusting his dissembling yea fully resolued on his weaknesse and pusillanimity fletus quid fundis inanes Nec te sponte tua sceleriparere fateris Vsque adeo ne times quem tu facis ipse timendum Me thinkes your care is rather ridiculous then super fluous to bee thus dolent for another mans possessions yea I see not but your claime is so remote and disanulled that it must be an Herculean labour to settle you in any of their cities and petty prouinces But for calling England your land and Realme and the Inhabitants your people and subiects it is as wonderfull to me as displeasing to your selfe that in all this time neither Gentleman nor man of worth hath extended a daring hand or if you will commisserable arme of assistance toward you nay though the warre was begun in your name for your sake and within your Realme of which you say you are the indubitate heire and inuited to the same by your owne people and faction Alas replied the Prince I confesse as much as you say but if it will please you to acknowledge the truth the falling backe of the King of France yea when I was in the speed of my iourney the failing of many promises to mine aunt the Duches of Burgundy and the defect and protraction of my businesse by the losse of an hundred Lords Knights some in their liberties some in their liues some from their owne good motiues and intents and all from their true hearts and endeauours by the Kings forces and vigilant eye ouer them hath not onely deceiued my expectation but in a manner peruerted my fortune Besides you know with what difficulty the nature of aduersity and men in distresse attaine vnto any credit and estimation so that wee and you both haue had wofull experience of many great Princes deposed from their thrones and left friendlesse succourlesse and quite destitute of releefe in the hands of their enemies and therefore as mischeefe and misery are of mine olde acquaintance so am I not now vnprepared to entertaine the same but must submit to the calamity and attend the appointment of the highest God concerning my lowest deiection and so I conclude with an ancient saying of Euripides Turbam enim recipere me puduit Vt oculis viderent hunc meum turpem habitum Occultans praepudore meum infortunium quando enim vir Habuerit malè magnus in ineptias Caedit deteriores eo qui fuit dudum infoelix Although this came roundly of and sauoured some what better then the former yet the King replied not at all but was content with his first reproofe being more fearefull euery day then other that this intricate businesse would be a worke of wonder and to fashion the lump of such deformity to any handsome or substantiall proportion must be dangerous and preiudiciall for euer to the Scottish crowne After the Nobles had beene thus startled in Northumland with the clamours of the people and saw the Inhabitants flie euery way from the fury of the Scots they fortified their holds mustred their forces followed the enemies and certified the King of all this enterprize and inuasion who not a little abashed at the same as more fearing the naturall subiect for starting out of the sphere of his allegeance then any forraine comet in the greatest radiance and presages he presently tooke order for the repressing of each tumults and insurrections but assured of the Scots retreat and that they were returned loden with spoiles and great riches he resolued vpon another course hauing in the meane while so great occasions of displeasure against Scotland that all men either to please themselues or animate the King in his willing reuenges cried out to armes to armes and this was the eleuenth yeeres worke The twelfth yeere began with a Parliament both for the settling the vncertaine affaires of the Kingdome and the obtaining a subsidy or other disbursements of money for the furnishing an army into Scotland to which all the Nobility and Gentry opened willingly their cofers and cheerefully their hearts exclaiming against their immanity and proclaiming their loyalty and endeauours to prosecute them with all reuenge that durst so affright the Kingdome and affront the peace and tranquility of the Common-wealth Of this army was Giles Lord Dawbney the Kings Chamberlaine made Lieutenant Generall a man of no lesse wit then experience of no lesse experience then hardinesse of no lesse hardinesse then moderation and gouernment But see the changes of human life and the mischeefes to which the best men and greatest Princes are subiect as if the Poet were againe to cry out Heu non est quic quam fidum neque certa faelicit as As he was marching forward with his forces a strange innouation called him backe againe For as if Fortune meant to play the wanton with Perkin on the one side and bring him as weesay into a fooles paradise and misfortune on the other side try the Kings patience A new rebellion in the West had like to haue beene as a heauy burthen on his shoulders and set in combustion the whole Common-wealth For when the Parliament was dissolued and that Commissioners were speedily sent to gather in the money this excande scens populus to whom such taxes and impositions was a kinde of drawing bloud from their very life veins began to rebell especially the Cornish men inhabiting the remotest parts of the Kingdome westward who not onely complained on their owne penurie and wants as liuing in a barren and sterile soile ouercome with labour watches and toyles in the mineralls and getting a poore maintenance out of the cauerns of the earth with fearefull endurances but threatned the officers denying the taxes and began temeriously to
of these hurliburlies came ouer Embassadours from the French King who must be answered he grew somewhat perplexed againe till shaking off all the hindrances of his amasement he fell to practise and orderly performances Whereupon he called his Councel together they without any great difficulty determined the busines in this manner To attend vpon the Scots Thomas Howard Earle of Surrey a puissant and politike Captain prisoner at the ouerthrow of King Rich. the 3. and within two yeares set at liberty and after Iohn Lord Dinham made high treasurer of England was appointed to muster the forces of the Countie Palatine of Durham the borders round about so atteÌ„d that seruice To represse the Western Rebels the Lord Dawbney with his whole power prepared for Scotland was recalled to march against theÌ„ wheresoeuer they encamped to look vnto France Calice and Guisnes with the Garisons were much augmented and prouided for To preuent Flaunders the Nauy was prepared the Staples for the Merchants setled To keep Warbeck from comming into England ioining with the Rebels the whole nobility combined themselues especially the earle of Essex Lord Montioy who came of purpose to London to offer their seruice to his Maiesty so all places were looked vntâ— with a vigilant eye manned with strength of soldiers and to answere the Embassadors of Charles the French King he sent honourable persons to receiue them and conueigh them to Douer and there a while to detaine them till some of these tumults and rebellions were extinguished and suppressed which indeed was so wisely and politikely handled that none of the Embassadors were troubled so much as with the rumors of these commotions But see the horror of despight and with what a contracted brow misfortune can looke vpon Kings themselues so that a man may well say to this Rebellion as Ouid did to Cupido in his first booke of Elegies Sunt tibi magna puer nimiumque potentia regna Cur opus affectas ambitiose nouum For as these Rebels and Cornish men departed from Wels they entertained for their chiefe Captaine Iames Twichet Lord Audley whose countenance and authoritie in the Countrie strengthened them much For by this occasion they went without intermission to Salsbury and so to Winchester and from thence into Kent hoping for further and further assistance but they were deceiued in their expectation For the Earle of Kent George Lord Aburgaueâ—y Iohn Brooke Lord Cobham Sir Edward Poinings Sir Richard Guilford Sir Thomas Burchier Sir Iohn Pechy William Scot and many others with a well mustred army were not only ready to defend their Countrie from al mischiefe and destruction but determined to offend them in their facinorous attempts and preiudiciall intrusion which loialtie somewhat rebated the forwardnesse of the Cornish-men and they began to suspect themselues being so farre from their Countrie and remote from any supply Notwithstanding loth to disâ—earten their spirits with any depressing humor they cast away all doubts and presuming on their owne strength and forces as also animated by their leaders and conductors they were now asmuch exasperated against the Kentish-men for deceiuing their assistance as against the King for vsurping their liberty swearing reuenge against both In which â—age and heat of repining they came as farre as Black-Heath within foure mile of London and tooke a field in an arrogant ouer-daring manner on the top of an hill supposing all things consortable to their arrogancy and deceiuable hopes because as yet they passed and repassed without fighting or strong encounters But alas Blanditiae Comites tibi erunt terrórque furorque and they were abused with a vale of ignorance and couering of obstinacy For the King disposed of his affaires with great policie and circumspection not determining to giue them battaile or exagitate them at all till he had them farre from their proper dwellings and flattering friends till they were in despaire of reliefe and wearied with long and tedious iournies till their treasure was spent their vitaile consumed and prouision failing till their company dropped from them like rotten hangings on a moistned wall and their whole designes and expectation quite disanulled and then when he imagined their soules vexed with the terror of a guiltie conscience their fury asswaged with compunction and penitency their spirits daunted with repentance and remorse and all their army affrighted with madnesse and doubtfull extacies would he set vpon them and in some conuenient place circumuent and inuiron them to his owne best aduantage and their irrecouerable damage and destruction As for the Citie of London I cannot but remember and compare it vnto Rome both when Hannibal passed the Alpes to threaten the Monarchy being yet farre off himselfe and also Marius and Silla couered her fields with armed men and trampled on the bosome of their Countrie with ambitious steps and cruell feet of vsurpation then spake the Poet in this manner Quoties Romam fortuna lacessit Hâ—c iter est bellis gomitu â—ic quisque latenti Non aufuâ—timuisse palam Vox nulla dolori Credita There was chaining the streetes shutting vp the shops making strong the gates doubling the watches hiding their treasure cries feares terrors and euery one more disturbed for the losse of his priuat goods then the encuÌ„brances of the Common-wealth Here was mustering of soldiers watching all day in armor staccadoing the riuer filling the streets with companies of horse and foot cutting down the Bridge locking vp their dores shutting the Gates and what else named before to be put in practise with aduantage of many peeces of ordnance both in Southwarke and the Suburbs and the strength of the Tower which they knew was reserued for the King himselfe Notwithstanding such was the instabilitie of the Citizens being a little disturbed from their quietnesse and rest their dainties and ease their banquetings and meetings their feasts and sumptuousnesse their pastimes and pleasures that they rather complained on the King and his Councell for the first occasion of these tumults then exprobrated the rebell for ingratitude and disobedience But the King without further disputing against their peeuishnesse or laying open the abuses of such refractary people deliuered them of this feare For he presently sent Iohn Earle of Oxford Henry Burchier Earle of Essex Edmond de la Poole Earle of Suffolke Sir Rice ap Thomas Humphrey Stanley and other worthy martiall men with a company of Archers and horsemen to enuiron the Hill where the Rebels were encamped round about Him-selfe with the maine battaile and forces of the Citie much ordnance and great prouision tooke St. Georges field where on a Friday at night he quartred himselfe and on the Saterday very early in the morning he poasted Lord Dawbney to Dertford who by breake of day gat the bridge of the Strand in despight of resisters which manfully defended it a while shooting arrowes a full yard long and demeaning themselues like scholerly and eloquent
Earle of Surrey was so enraged at the bragging and ouer-daring Prince that he followed him at the heeles and in reuenge of many mischiefes perpetrated by him in such audacious manner he entred Scotland defaced the Castle of Cundrestins deuasted the Tower Hedonhaâ—â— vndermined the Tower of Edington ouerthrew the Pile of Fulden and sent Norey King of Armes to the Captaine of Haiton Castle the strongest fortification betweene Barwick and Edinborough to deliuer the same which he absolutely denied vntill the worthy Generall set himselfe downe before it made his approches and cast vp a strong rampart or battery for the expugnation preuailing so farre that at last it was surrendred their liues onely saued who were no soooner departed according to the conditions but our Generall quite ouerthrew and demolished the same The King of Scots was within a mile of the siedge and yet durst not reskue the same only by way of ostentation he sent Marchemount and another Herrald to the Earle of Surrey with a kind of defiance and challenge either to encounter with him Army to Army or body to body conditionally that if the victory fall to his maiesty the Earle should deliuer and surrender for his ransome the Townâ— of Barwicke with the fish-garthes of the same if the Earle againe were Victor the King would pay 1000. pound sterling for his redemption The noble Generall welcommed these Herralds and like a couragious yet vnderstanding Captaine quickly answered all the points of their commission First he was ready to abide the battaile in the plaine field and would if he pleased for the same purpose lay open the trenches and make the passages so easie that victory should haue comfort of comming amongst them Secondly he thought himselfe much honoured that so noble a Prince and great a King would vouchsafe to descend to so low a dregree of contention as a priuate duello with him for which he would not onely repute him heroike and magnanimous but setting his loyalty to his Prince aside performe all good offices which belonged to the sweet contract of a perpetuall amity if it were possible betweene them Thirdly for the towne of Barwicke it was none of his but the King his masters which hee would not so much as coniâ—cture vpon without his consent and aduice as he himselfe might well iudge in the affaires of Princes what was to bee done Fourthly hee thought his owne life worth all the townes of the world and so would gladly hazard himselfe yea was proud as hee said before that so great a Maiesty would parallel him in such a kinde onely he desired pardon for a little vaine-glory that if hee conquered the King hee would release him freely if the King vanquished him hee would either yeeld him his life or pay such a tribute and competency as is befitting the state and degree of an Earle to all which he was the rather induced because he was confident that Causa iubet melior superos sperare secundos But it should seeme these affronts were meere flourishes For neither battell nor combat nor any enterprize worth the recording was put in practise although the English forces had layen long in the Countrey to the same purpose wherupon the Lord Generall loth to spend his time so inconsiderately and somewhat wearied with the distemperature of the Climate and vnseasonablenesse of 〈◊〉 weather the Countrey affoording nothing but mists and foggs at this time of the yeere raised his camp and retired to Barwicke But when the truth was further enlarged the King commauded him so to doe by his letters of priuate intelligence For now came a time in which the windowes of heauen seemed to open and the God of mercy thought to recompence his patience and goodnesse with a quiet end of his troubles and happy successe in his enterprizes which fell out vpon this occasion Ferdinando King of Spaine and Elizabeth his wife hauing a purpose to marry their daughter Lady Katherine to Arthur Prince of Wales and very loth that any content on betweene the King of Scots whom he much fauoured and the King of England whom he highly respected should be as it were a wall of partition betweene their proiected amity and royall affinity especially that either probability of an interest or counterfet deuice of the issue-male from the house of Yorke should cast any blockes or hinderances in the way of these pretences he most prouidently sent one Peter Hialos a man of great learning experience and prudency as an Embassadour to Iames King of Scots by way of mediation to contract a league of peace and absolute amity betweene the King of England and him who proceeded with such faire conditions and preuailed so well in his proposed message that hee perceiued a glimmering sun-shine of this peace a farre off but that there were certaine thickning clowds of mischeefe and disturbance which by some effectuall heat from the King of Englands breath must bee remooued and dissipated and therefore hee wrote to King Henry that if it would please him to send some worthy man to be his associate in this enterprize he perswaded himselfe that an honest oratory would quickly conclude the profitable articles of amity For the Poet had assured him and hee found by some experience that Addidit inualidae rebus facundia causae And for an entrance into 〈◊〉 same he assured the King that there was gâ—â—at likelihood to lay downe the bloudy colours of defiance and flourish the pleasant ensignes of tranquility For the King of Scots had already protested hee was onely emulous of King Henries vertues and not maligned or despighted his person and for Perkins title he made it a matter of conscience and charity For he knewe him the right heire if he were the right creature and the Cleargy warranted the actions as meritorious The better sort disclaimed all tyrannous prosecutions For except their obedience to the King they spent and consumed their estates and onely returned with teares and lamentations for the loâ—se of 〈◊〉 friends The inferiour sort imputed all to the superiour commands and as for the formidable effects and bloudy issue of warre it was only the chance and fortune of encounters the action of fury and the vengeance or curse appropriate to dissentions according to that worthy author of excellent sentences and proprositions Sed mentibus vnum Hoc solamen erat quod votiturba nefandi Conscia quae patrum iâ—gulos quae pector a fratrum Sperabat gaudet monstris mentisque tumustu Atque omen scelerum subitos putat esse furores Whereupon King Henry boasting of the character of Prince of peace so that he might not be branded with ignominy of basenesse pusillanimity and dishonour quickly consented to such agreement and for the same purpose sent Richard Fox Bishop of Durrham who stilllay in the baÌ„ttered Castle of Norrham as his cheefe Commissioner who accordingly associated himselfe with Peter Hialos at the towne of Iedworth in Scotland whither the
marches to the ioy and fulnesse of contertment both of the towne and Countrey But when the King was aduâ—rtized of their returning to Taunton he hasted thither But first he welcommed Edward Duke of Buckingham a young noble and well regarded Prince in whose company came along an hundred Knights and Esquires of speciall name and credit in their countries amongst whom Sir Alexander Bainham Sir Mâ—urice Barckley Sir Robert Fame Sir Iohn Gmise Sir Robert Points Sir Henry Vernon Sir Iohn Mortymer Sir Thomas Tremaile Sir Edward Sutton Sir Amias Paulet Sir Iohn Bickwell Sir Iohn Sapcotes Sir Hugh Lutterâ—l and Sir Francis Cheny were principall O what a glorious thing it is to see a Noble man either stand by the chaire of thâ— Prince as a Court starre and Supportation that at last the King may aske what shall be done to the man hee meanes to honor or mooue in his own orb that is the loue and credit of his Country firme to the State and gracefull in all his actions and proceedings still hauing a care to the gouernment of the people and an eye to the dignity of the Common-wealth so shall his fame be extended abroad and his renowne enlarged at home which makes me remember the description of Capaneus in that ancient Euripides who may be a President to all young Noblemen yeal wish with mine heart that such as are not too presumptuous on their owne gifts of nature and education would take the booke in hand and make vse both of precept and example for the illustration of their Honours and administration of their liues the Poet is somewhat large and more pleasant in the Greeke then the Latine He thus beginneth Cappaneus hic est cui facult as viuendi erat abundans Minimè verò diuitijs insolens erat magnitudineÌ„ verò animi Non maiorem habebat quam pauper vir Fugiens splendido victu quicunque intumesceret minis Sufficientia vili pendens Non enim in pastu ventris Virtutem esse mediocria verò sufficere dicebat c. But to our story againe When the King approached the towne of Tawnton whether out of policie not to hazard the whole army at once or out of suspicion of some reuolters in his company or humbly considering there might be a turning of Fortunes wheele as still Rota fortunae in Gyro in the encounters of a battell or harping vpon some stratagem and enterprize as prouidently forecasting both the worst and best which might chance Hee sent before him Robert Lord Brooke the Steward of his house Giles Lord Daubney and Sr. Rice app Thomas to giue the onset and beginne the battell that hee with the rest as a strong Ambuscado and releefe might come to the reskue if they were wearied and deâ—atigated But little needed this policy or procrastination For poore Perkin desperate of his fortunes and quite exanimated to encounter with the Kingsforces in so warlike a manner and fearefull a preparation contrary to all the motiues of a true Roman Honour and without knowledge of his army about midnight accompanied with sixty horse departed in wonderfull celerity to a Sanctuary towne besides Southampton called Beâ—dly where he Iohn Heron Thomas a Water and others registred themselues as persons priuiledged O what a God art thou that canst one way humble settled Princes with the very shadowes of perill and danger making them confesse their frailty and ticklish estate of mortality by the seuerall encumbrances and mischeefes to which they are subiect and another way confound the mightiest proiects and annihilate their enterprizes turning all actions and mountaines of pride sedition conspiracies and ambition to powder and dust and then blowing it away like smoake and vapour and another way protect the right of the innocent and distressed sending remedy and comfort when they least thinke of it or know to helpe and aduance themselues and another way whip with the rods of vengeance the freneticall and vaine multitude who know nothing but rudenesse and clamorous outcries nor practize any thing but vndecencies and outragiousness so that we may well say O Iupiter cur nam miserâ—s sapere dicunt Homines ex te enim pendemus Agimvsque ea qua tu volueris O nihili homines Qui arcum extendentes tanquam vltra articulum Et iure vitque mala patientes multa Amicis non quidem creditis sed ipsis rerum euentibus c. When King Henry knew that Perkin was fled and departed from his camp he sent the Lord Daubney with fiue hundred horse to intercept him but he was lodged before they came although most of his company were surprized and taken who as miserable caitiffs and poore wretched delinquents were presented to his Maiesty But when the residue of this fearefull and staggering army could neither vnderstand what was become of their Generall nor see their accustomed Penons and Ancients nor their quarters so well ordred as was the manner of Souldiers nor their companies so cheerefull and well heartned they knew not what to say or to doe some supposing he was fraudulently slaine some suspecting he was traiterously fled some reporting the manifestation of his deceit some wondering at the strangenesse of his proceedings in that he had so myraculously begun and presumptuously prosecuted such a dangerous worke some exclaiming vpon the simplicity of the matter that built vpon no better grounds then vaine hopes and presumptuous titles some cursing themselues that they had so farre engaged their loialties against their Soueraigne Lord and King some continuing in their rancorous malice sware nothing but reuenge and obstinacy and some neuer to be reclaimed euen when their forces failed cried out to goe forward rayling at the misfortune of their businesse that they must now faile when they were ready to pull downe the Towne wals with their hands Yet when they were assured of his cowardly flight and base pusillanimity the common feare common mischiefe and common danger made them cast away their armour and submit to the King to whom though they came with affrighted countenances and venemous hearts sad lookes and little repentance curses in their soules and promises of faith loyaltie and obedience out of their mouthes yet did the King entertaine them with all cheerefulnesse and acceptable comfort as the greatest benefit which God could at that time bestow vpon him nor disputing of their hypocrisie nor determining by more narrow searches or artificiall incantations to try out the depth and search the bottome of their resolutions Thus as a conquerour without manslaughter and effusion of blood he roade triumphantly into the Citie of Excester and knowing Praemium and Poena to be the mastering curbes of all the things in the World not only praised and applauded the Citizens but opened the Treasure house of reward and honour amongst them giuing some presents aduancing others to the order of knighthood granting many petitions according to the worthy condition of a Prince and the full corroboration
of their obedience Then proceeded he to some exemplary punishment of diuers refractary Cornish-men whom their owne companies accused as Delinquents and the Maiestie of the gouernment would not endure without correction But all this was nothing in comparision of that which followed For his horsemen prosecuted the chase so diligently and honestly that they pursued the Lady Katherine Gourden wife to this Perkin euen to Michaels Mount who notwithstanding had she not been betraied by some of her owne followers might haue escaped For transhaping her selfe into one of her seruants habits she had gone quite away to her ships But that some pittying the distresse of the King and turmoiles of the Kingdome and perceiuing the end of the warre and pacification of these troubles to depend vpon her surprising would by no meanes giue way vnto new disturbances but tooke her and presented her to the Kings Commissioners what should I say when shee herselfe said nothing but perceiuing them Gentlemen of worth with Hipsiphile to Iason she cried out Sivâ—s nobilitas generosaque nominatangunt I know you will vse me like your selues and vnderstand I am a Prince euery way so they gaue her leaue to adorne her selfe and brought her like a bondâ—woman and captiue to the King who wondering at her beawtie and attractiue behauiour lifted vp his hands to Heauen in her behalfe to see so great a worth betraied to fanaticall hopes and freneticall deceit thanking God for himselfe that he had such a Trophe of his endurances and victories in his hands nor was the Emperour Aurelius more proud of Zenobia then he reioiced in this aduenture some say he fantasied her Person himselfe and kept her neere vnto him as his choisest delight yea so doted on her perfections that he forgat all other things then the contentment which he receiued by her insomuch that many dared to libell against him with that saying of Deianira to Hercules Quem nunquam Iuno seriesque immensa laborum fregerit huic Iolen imposuisse iugum Some report he durst not let her marry for feare of ambitious tumors in such as could attaine to such a fortune Some confirme that she was of that greatnesse of spirit that she scorned all others in regard of her selfe both by the priuiledge of her birth-right and the possibility of her greatnesse Howsoeuer he intreated her most honorably and amiably such a power hath beauty and comlinesse euer in distresse and sent her to the Queene so maiestically attended as if she had beene a Queene indeed In the meane while my Lord Dawbney imploied himselfe and his company so effectually that enuironing the sanctuary wherein Perkin was with two companies of light horse who were vigilant cautelous strong and couragious and so lay in the aduantage â—f watching the place that Perkin could no way escape but the King was not satisfied with thiâ— protraction and therefore loth to loose him or giue him liberty to runne with the blinde mole into further cauerns of the earth to cast vp heaps and little hills of commotion and affrighting his estate and yet daring not to infringe the priuiledge of these holy places such a hand had superstition and the Popes fulmination got ouer all the Princes of Europe he went more politikely to worke and sent diuers persons of account to perswade his submission and render himselfe wholly into the Kings hands who not only promised him pardon of life but comfort of liberty yea honourable maintenance vpon the easie conditions of desisting to perturb the Common-wealth any further and disclaiming so iniuriously to pretend any title to the Diadem When Perkin saw to what streights his Barke was driuen and that he must either split on the rocks of despaire or retire back againe into the troublesome Ocean of despight according to the nature of cowardly and irresolute men he chose the worst part to saue his life and submit to the Kings acceptation not remembring because he was neuer acquainted with the secrets of maiesty that he which hath beene once a Prince must neuer looke for a setled quietnesse in a priuat estate because he is still subiect to the Conquerors pleasure but an ignominious life then which an honourable death is tenne thousand times better which made the noble Hecuba as a worthy patterne to al vnfortunate Princes thus answere the proudest conquerors themselues Porrigam collum cordatè intrepidè Liberam vero me vt libera moriar Per deos queso dimittentes occidite Apud manes enim Serua vocari Regina cum sim pudet me But as I said he now only recounted the difficult passages of his former trauailes the dangers escaped the deceit pretended the perill imminent and the misfortune too-too apparant as being in no securitie in the place he was fled vnto nor hauing any confidence in the persons he had chosen For though he knew there was a reuerence appropriate to sanctuaries yet kings if they pleased vvill be tied neither to law nor Religion but performe what they list or vnder colour of their owne security say they are compelled vnto Therefore without any further aggrauation relying on the Kings Pardon and those honourable conditions propounded he voluntarily resigned himselfe and came to his maiesty as a messenger of glad tidings that now all warres troubles and commotions were by this meanes ended and determined The King not much wondred at him for he only found him superficially instructed of a naturall wit of reasonable qualities wel languaged and indifferent apprehension but farre from that highnesse of spirit or heroick disposition to deserue the character of a Prince or lay claime to a Diadem yet loth with any boisterous strength to handle a bruized arme or draw the feltow into a new selfe-loue or good opinion of himselfe hee passed ouer his examination the slightlier and brought him immediately to London being met all the way with great coâ—courses of people who both came to gratifie him and his auspicious successe and to see Perkin like some strange meteor or monster or if you will because wee will deale more cleanlier with him like a triumphant spectacle to mooue amazement delight and contentment according to that saying of our Poet Nocte pluit tota redeunt spectacula manè But when they began to capitulate that being a stranger and an alien borne hee durst not onely abuse so many Princes and Common-wealths with lies fictions and abominable deceit but euen bid battell to Kings and Princes yea bring Kings and Princes into the field for his assistance they fell from wondring at him to raile and abuse him both with checkes and opprobrious taunts yea diuers dared to put in practise many vndecencies both of rage and indignation had not the reuerence of his Maiesties presence diuerted their inconsideration and commanded no further rumour gazing vpon him or violent threatnings against him To conclude the King brought him quietly to London and for all he had giuen him life and affoorded him a kinde of
Earle of Lincolne that being brought vnto him hee might discouer the secrets of this mischeefe and the viperous brood of false-hearted subiects but the souldiers would not permit it lest the sauing of his life might by such detection endanger diuers others as good as himselfe and so killed him by way of anticipation After this victory the King would needes solemnize a thanksgiuing to God in the open field as well to aâ—cyd ingratitude as to giue good example and when it was vrged he might better defer it till he came to some religious place or house of deuotion he more religious assured them that God was euery where and neither the place nor the manner graced the sacrifice and the intentiuenesse of the heart and true meaning of the soule which he had learned of the Poet and so alledged these verses out of Lucan Estque Deisedes vbiterra pontus aer Et coelum virtus superos quid quaerimus vltra Iupiter est quodcunque vides quodcunque moueris This the Bishops present durst neither deny nor would willingly approoue for feare of any diminution in their settled ceremonies and glorious Cathedralls but at this time the Kings ardency preuailed and he kneeled downe on the bare ground in the open fields and rendred thankes and praises to God Afterward hee gaue order for the funeralls of the dead shedding teares himselfe in commiseration of so many worthy men slaine for such an vniustifiable businesse the people yet vnmooued and the souldiers not so much as daunted though they saw the bleeding carkasses and wounded bodies according to the saying Exemploque carens nulli cognitus aeuo Luctus erat mortem populos deflere potentis Then he proceeded to the casting vp a new accounts of mercy and forgiuenesse proclaiming pardon to all that would penitently admit of the same and to his eternall fame not onely gaue Lambert and the Priest their liues but commanded that no man should abuse them with contumely and reproach as perceiuing the one for his yeeres vncapable of the apprehension of treason or flagicious circumstances concerning the same the other for his orders profession to be a priuiledged person yet most heroikly and wisely he told him that he which rolleth a stone vp a hill may peraduenture haue it fall vpon his own head and he that looketh too high in a dangerous entrenched ground may fall into the ditch Notwithstanding for his pennance he was committed to perpetuall imprisonment but Lambert admitted into the palace and from place to place came at last to bee one of his Maiesties Faulkoners Last of all he looked ioyfully on his owne company and in remuneration of their loyalty and noble seruices spred the mantle of honour ouer diuers and imparted seuerall rewards to the rest according to their places of eminency This battell was fought on a Saturday the sixteenth of Iune 1489. and in the end of the second yeere of Henry the seuenth And thus was all this high enterprize of Lady Margaret represented to a ball blown out of a box of sope and water which when it comes to a swelling fulnesse at last hursts in peeces of it selfe of which when she was aduertized and had cause sufficient of exclamation and repining against her misfortune and disastrous preuention of her malice yet was she so farre from relaxation or pacifying her hate that it rather exasperated the same and made her more forward to contriue more â—ellish proiects as we shall see by and by so that I may well exclaime Orabiosamulier Quà m sit manisesta phrenesis Yea she set vp such a loome out of her pestilent inuention that a man would thinke it impossible for a woman to contriue or prosecute but that the old Poet hath so long agoe told vs Praeterea nos sumus mulieres Ad bona quidem ineptissimae Malorum vero omnium effectrices sapientissâ—mae Yet for the time she deplored the miscarrying of the matter but was not ashamed to confesse that she cared not by what meanes King Henry might be debased After this great mischeefe like a peece of Ordnance ouercharged was thus broken in the fulnesse and that with little trouble tumult and expences compared to many other warres The King as you heard returned thankes to the Decider of all controuersies and presently sent word to London of his prosperity and aduenture seeming sorry for nothing but the death of the Earle of Lincolne assuring the Duke of Bedford and Earle of Shrewsbury that he delighted in his humours and had a determination to haue saued his life adding yet this by the way that hee was amazed at nothing more then the audaciousnes of the man that durst so meanly accompanied set vpon such a great puissâ—nt an army Therfore it must needs be that he presumed on further suppliment or some breakings out amongst themselues But seeing it hath pleased God that we haue not onely escaped this threatning storme of commotion and disturbance but also choaked with the dust of their owne dissention the interiour diuisions and conspiracies of the Kingdome Let vs my Lords I pray you be somewhat considerate touching tumultuous and discontented persons that they may be orderly satisfied in their honest demands and discreâ—tly preuented from vnlawfull â—onuenticles or associated asâ—emblies of vnquiemesse and murmuring against our gouernment vnder colour of hunting faires markets horâ—â—-races weddings and such like Let vs also haue a care of our ports harbours and hauens to preuent wanderers and trauellers who from the excuses of deuotion to visit Rome and curiosity to explore forren countries doe many time deceiue our trust with indirect and preposterous businesse In this triumphant prosperity he returned to London and was as well welcommed to the people as contented in himselfe and so ran forward in the race of all mundane felicitie and maiesticall happinesse But neither his owne wisdome the vigilancy of the Officers the fidelity of his Nobles the policy of his Councellours the loyalty of his subiects nor the whole regard of the Common wealth could turne the frame of heauen about nor preuent his destiny concerning following mischeefes Nam fato prudentia minor That is to say could put a scarlet cloth ouer the sting of that serpent Enuy to pull it out of the heart no not out of the mouth no not out of the hands of the Duches of Burgundy but she must be tampering with the edge tooles of diuellish despight and beating on the annile of malicious calumniation or if you will conspiracy hoping at one time or other to hammer out such a worke of disturbance that neither the King should be able to quench the flames nor the Subiect daring to disable the enterprize Whereupon to preuent all claimes exceptions and meanes of distrust Some foure yeeres after she set vp another I doll of defiance personating Richard Plantaginet second sonne to King Edward the fourth and Duke of Yorke supposed to be murthered with his
Kings was not to be controlled either in their fauour or reuenges but they would simply command and haue the subiect honestly to obey with which instructions and the doctrine of Probity out of our ancient author Probi enim viri officium est Iustitiae iâ—seruire Et maleficos punire vbique semper They arriued in Ireland and disposed of themselues accordingly Now because the countrey was already infected with a superstitious credulity of the preseruation of one of the sons of Edward the fourth and that the barbarous Irish once beleeuing a thing would neuer bee diuerted by reason or perswasion they proceeded the more cautelously and circumspectly in their businesse First assembling the Nobility and better sort before the new Chancellour who with all attractiue demeanour and elocution perswaded them not onely to persist in obedience to the King and loyalty to the gouernment but to aide and assist his Maiesties forces vnder Sr. Ed. Poinings with their power strength and ability especially against such rebells as rather through factious malice and wilfull reuolts then blindnesse of errour or folly had adhered vnto Perkin or any of his associates in which they knew there was reason and sufficiency of enforcement For amongst themselues the petty Lords would endure no competition of soueraignty and their Law-Tanist established him that for his heroike actions deserued to bee honoured and by his worthy endeauors obtained the jurisdiction and inheritance So that their owne Priests could tell them Ex paruis magna comparantur and if it were so in petty gouernments what was it in mighty Monarchies and with regardable Kings amongst whom Nulla fides regni socijs omnisque potestas Impatiens consortis erat Therefore to auoyde the imputation of treason and the fearefulnesse of reuenge from a Princes incensed indignation hee aduised them to a tenacity and strong continuance in their loyalty To this their answer was as souldiers in a camp after a mutiny sad lookes and small repentance faire words but little performance For they all promised assurance off aith but no man determined the due performance onely the better sort or if you will such as dwelled within the English pale or had beene enobled or enabled by the Prince to liue in richer forme and eminence then others answered directly they would acknowledge no King but Henry nor supreame Lord but such as should be extracted from the vnion of the mariage betweene the two Roses and to this they were the rather emboldned because the Earle of Kildire being Deputy seemed to maintaine their submission and iustifie their intents so that Sr. Ed. Poinings had little to say at that time more then hee hoped in the confidence of their promises and relied on their worthy integrity yet I dare sweare if hee had beene examined on his conscience and brought to the barre of discouery for his thoughts he would haue cried out with the Poet At paucos quibus haec rabies aucthoribus arsit Non Caesar sed Poena tenet c. Whereupon hee prepared all his forces against the wilde Irish to whom as hee was enformed diuers of the rest had fled for succour I could heere enlarge this discourse with a topographicall description of the countrey and conditions of the people because I haue personally ouerlooked their actions and beene a passenger euen from one side of the countrey to the other but the times are full of the experience of many men and diuers explorations haue discouered the vnswept corners of this sauage and superstitious people whom neuer man shall see ciuill or once affecting the handsomnesse and wealth of the other parts of Europe till either it grow more populous or the King be as willing as hee is able to extirpate as it were by the roots the Bards Rimers Harpers and Priests that hang vpon them and sticke close vnto them as some deformed wen in a straight growing tree or if you will venemous cankour which will in time either eat out root and rinde or for the time disfigure and disproportion the proudest comelinesse of the best Cedars in the forrest But to our story Sr. Edward Poinings according to his commission marched into the North But alas hee neither found France to trauell in nor French-men to fight withall Heere were no glorious townes to load the Souldiers home with spoiles nor pleasant vine-yards to refresh them with wine Heere were no plentifull markets to supply the salary of the army if they wanted or stood in neede Heere were no cities of refuge nor places of garrison to retire vnto in the times of danger and extremity of weather Heere were no musters ordered nor Lieutenants of shires to raise new armies heere was no suppliment either of men or prouisions especially of Irish against the Irish nor any one promise kept according to his expectation Heere was in plaine termes boggs and woods to lie in foggs and mists to trouble you grasse and ferne to welcome your horses and corrupt and putrifie your bodies heere was killing of kine and eating fresh beefe to breed diseases heere was oats without bread and fire without wood heere were smoking cabins and nasty holes heere were boggs on the tops of mountaines and few passages but ouer marishes or through strange paces heere was retiring into fastnesse and glins and no fighting but when they pleased themselues heere was ground enough to bury your people in being dead but no place to please them while they were aliue heere you might spend what you brought with you but be assured thâ—re was no hope of releefe here was roome for all your losses but scarse a castle to reserue your spoiles and treasure To conclude heere was all glory vertue buried in obscurity obliuion not so much as a glimmering of hope that how valiantly soeuer a man demeaned himselfe it should be registred and remembred which makes me consider what that worthy Politician writes of the Sweuians and Heluetians in those dayes and apply them to these times and people Heluetij Vsipetesque atque effera corda Sueui Queis vnum praedaestudium ac durare subipsis Corpora fluminibus telque assuscere dextram Non vrbis non cura domus agriuè colendi Venatu ducunt vitam atque è lacte liquente Et quod Marte sibispoliatâ— ex hoste parariâ—t Bella placent fususque hostili è corpore sanguis Whereupon the worthy Generall with his other Captaines began to complaine but knew no way of redresse his men died the Souldiers were slaine the army decayed the Irish insulted the auxiliaries failed and not a man which promised assistance came in to help him so that he was enraged at the perfidiousnesse and compelled to retire to Dublin all exasperated to despight by which hee aimeth at the highest in his displeasure laying the fault and blame of his preposterous proceedings on Gerald Earle of Kildare his Maiesties principall Deputy who remembring his owne greatnesse could not confine it within a little