Worcester Norwich Hereford Salisburie Durham Excester Carliell Bath Rochester and S. Dauies reuested and apparelled in pontificalibus with tapers according to the maner the sentence of excommunication was pronounced against all transgressors of the liberties of the church and of the ancient liberties and customes of the realme of England line 60 and namelie those which are conteined in the great charter and in the charter of forrest Whilest the sentence was in reading the king held his hand vpon his breast with glad and chéerefull countenance and when in the end they threw awaie their extinct and smoking tapers saieng So let them be extinguished and sinke into the pit of hell which run into the dangers of this sentence the king said So helpe me God as I shall obserue and kéepe all these things euen as I am a christian man as I am a knight and as I am a king crowned and annointed But afterward when he through other counsell brake his promise therein he was aduised by some to giue a portion of that monie which he got at this time to the Pope that he might of him be absolued Immediatlie after the breaking vp of the parlement that is to saie about the first of Iune the king being earnestlie called vpon by messengers sent from the Gascoignes to prouide in time for the defense and safegard of that countrie sith otherwise he stood in danger to loose it with all speed he resolued to go thither and therevpon caused summons to be giuen to all those that held of him by knights seruice to prepare to be at Portesmouth with horsse and armour in the octaues of the Trinitie Herewith he made great prouision of ships the which being assembled and the armie likewise come togither through lacke of conuenient wind he was inforced to stay a long time to his great gréefe and no lesse charges Finallie on the 6 of August he tooke the sea leauing his brother the earle of Cornewall and the quéene in charge with gouernance of the realme and of his sonne the lord Edward There departed with him from Portesmouth thrée hundred sailes of great ships besides a number of other smaller vessels And thus accompanied he tooke his course to Gascoigne about our ladie day named hir Assumption he arriued at Burdeaux where he was of the citizens honorablie receiued Immediatlie after his arriuall there he caused the towne of the Rioll to be compassed about with a strong siege within the which a great number of rebels were inclosed which valiantlie defended the place in hope of rescue which Gaston de Bierne that was fled to the king of Spaine had promised to procure for them But the king of England to preuent them in that point sent the bishop of Bath and his trustie chapleine sir Iohn Mansell vnto the said king of Spaine to conclude freendship and aliance with him so that the lord Edward his eldest sonne might marrie the king of Spaine his daughter After long treatie by the diligence of the said ambassadors a full conclusion followed of their motion And whereas the king of England had giuen and assigned the dominion of Gascoigne to his said sonne the lord Edward the king of Spaine in the instrument that conteined the couenants of the marriage resigned and quite claimed all the right and title within Gascoigne which he had or might haue by the gift of king Henrie the second and by confirmation of the kings Richard and Iohn In this meane while the townes and castels which the rebels held were won and deliuered into the kings hands and herewith followed a great dearth in the kings armie so that a hen was sold for six pence sterling a pound weight in bread was at two pence or three pence a gallon of wine at two shillings a coome of foure bushels of wheat at twentie shillings so that a knight with his esquire and coistrell with his two horsses might scarse be competentlie found for two shillings in siluer Wherefore the king to relieue his people there with him on that side the sea sent the prior of Newbourgh with other into England to cause prouision of vittels and other necessaries to be conueied and brought vnto him into Gascoigne and so there was a great quantitie of graine and powdred flesh taken vp and sent awaie with all conuenient spéed The earle of Leicester came to the king bringing with him out of France where he had remained for a time a faire companie of souldiers and men of warre to the kings aid and was verie courteouslie receiued The Gascoignes then perceiued the kings power to increase and saw how not onelie the castels wherein they trusted to haue refuge were woâ—ne and gotten out of their hands by the king of England but also that their vines wherein chéeflie consisted their hope of sustentation were burned vp and destroied they began to humble themselues and so by little and little returned to their due obedience after that the authors of their seditious tumults were either apprehended or chased out of the countrie This yeare died Richard Witz the bishop of Chichester a man of great vertue and singular knowledge Also that famous clearke Robert Grosted bishop of Lincolne departed this life on the day of S. Denise in the night at his manor of Bugdon whose learning coupled with vertue and vprightnesse of line 10 life wan to him perpetuall commendation He was a manifest blamer of pope and king a reproouer of prelats a corrector of moonks a director of preests an instructor of clearkes a susteinor of scholers a preacher to the people a persecutor of incontinent liuers a diligent searcher of the scriptures a contemnor and a verie mallet of such strangers as sought preferment in this realme by the popes prouisions in housekeeping liberall in corporall refection plentifull and in ministring spirituall food deuout and godlie line 20 affected in his bishoplike office diligent reuerend and neuer wearied a singular example of a bishop speciallie in those daies and at whose life our reformed bishops may fetch light to abandon their darkenesse and to amend that which is amisse in them sith Validiora sunt exempla quà m praecepta Et pleniùs docemur vita quà m verbo Moreouer there died in Gascoigne William de Uescie a baron of great fame in the north parts Also in the spring and summer of this yeare was a great line 30 drought and in the haruest season fell such wet that great floods by the rising of the riuers and ouerflowing their banks did much hurt in sundrie places of the realme Againe in the later end of haruest about Michaelmasse there was eftsoones such a drought that men could get no grinding at the milles but were constreined to go in some places a daies iournie off to haue their corne groond In the eight and thirtith yeare of king Henries reigne the quéene was deliuered of a daughter which was called
and made a roade into Berrie with foure hundred spears The earle of Arundell after he had laine at Marrant fiftéene daies returned to his ships and finallie came backe into England and Perot le Bernois likewise returned to his fortresse ¶ About the same time was a truce taken betwixt the parties English and French on the marches of Aquitaine to begin the first daie of August and to indure till the first of Maie next insuing ¶ In this yeare 1388 in Lent the Scots entred into the westerne borders what with killing as also with burning they did much mischiefe Moreouer they shewed extreme crueltie against young children and sucklings against women bigge with child and in trauell against weake and weerish men and crooked with age in the countrie of Gildisland within the lordship of the lord Dacres gathering them togither into houses and shutting them vp and locking the doores they burned without mercie or pitie to the number as it was said of two hundred and aboue This yeare in August the Scots inuaded the countrie of Northumberland and at Otterburne ouerthrew a power of Englishmen which the earle of Northumberland and his sonnes had leauied against them In this battell the earle Dowglas chiefe of that armie of Scots was slaine and the lord Henrie Percie and his brother sir Ralfe sonnes to the said earle of Northumberland were taken prisoners as in the Scotish chronicles ye may read more at large After the feast of the natiuitie of our ladie a parlement was holden at Cambridge in the which diuerse statutes were ordeined as For the limiting of seruants wages For punishment of vagarant persons For the inhibiting of certeine persons to weare weapons For the debarring of vnlawfull games For maintenance of shooting in the long bow For remouing of the staple of woolles from Middleburgh vnto Calis For labourers not to be receiued but where they are inhabiting except with licence vnder seale of the hundred where they dwell There was also an act made that none should go foorth of the realme to purchase anie benefice with cure or without cure except by licence obteined of the king and if they did contrarie herevnto they were to be excluded out of the kings protection There was granted to the king in this parlement a tenth to be leuied of the clergie and a fiftéenth of the laitie Moreouer during the time of this parlement as sir Thomas Triuet was riding towards Barnewell with the king where the king lodged by forcing his horsse too much with the spurs the horsse fell with him so rudelie to the ground that his entrails within him were so burst and perished that he died the next daie after Manie reioised at this mans death as well for that men iudged him to be excéeding haultie and proud as also for that he was suspected not to haue dealt iustlie with the bishop of Norwich in the iournie which the bishop had made into Flanders but speciallie men had an ill opinion of him for that he stood with the king against the lords counselling him in the yeare last past to dispatch them out of the way ¶ Sir Iohn Holland the kings brother on the mothers side that was latelie returned out of Spaine where he had béene with the duke of Lancaster was now made earle of Huntington ¶ In Iulie whiles the king was at Shéene year 1389 there swarmed togither in his court great multitudes of flies and gnats insomuch that in maner of skirmishing they incountered ech other and making great slaughters on both sides were in the end swept awaie from the place where they lay dead with brushes and béesoms by heaps This was deemed an vnluckie prognosticat of some mischiefe like to fall vpon the necke of the land Also in this twelfth yeare were commissioners appointed to méet at Balingham betwixt Calis and Bullongne to treat a truce to be had betwixt the realmes of England France and Scotland Walter Skirlow bishop of Durham that had béene latelie before remoued from Bath vnto Durham from line 10 whence Iohn Fordham had béene translated vnto Elie was sent as head commissioner for the king of England and with him were ioined sir Ihon Clanbow and sir Nicholas Dagworsh knights and Richard Rowhale clearke a doctor of law By Froissard it appeareth that the earle of Salisburie was one sir Thomas Beauchampe lord deputie of Calis appointed likewise as an assistant with them The bishop of Baieux the lord Ualeran earle of S. Poule sir Guillam de Melin sir Nicholas Bracque and sir line 20 Iohn le Mercier came thither for the French king And for the king of Scots there appeared the bishop of Aberdeine sir Iames and sir Dauid Lindsey and sir Walter Sankler knights After long treatie and much a doo at length a truce was concluded to begin at Midsummer next and to last thrée years after ¶ In this yeare of Grace 1389 in the Lent time there sprang a pitifull strife in Oxford the variance in the yeare before being not fullie allaied but both sides alwaies prouoking ech other For the Welsh line 30 scholers being euermore quarelous and hauing the southerlie scholers taking their parts rose against the scholers of the north so that to and fro manie a deadlie mischiefe happened betwéene them In the end this strife did so increase that there was a dai◠of skirmish appointed and agreed vpon by both sides to be tried in the field But by the meanes of Thomas of Woodstoke duke of Glocester all this sturre was appeased and manie of the Welsh scholers banished from the vniuersitie ¶ On the thursdaie before line 40 Easter being mawndaie thursdaie the lord Beaumont gardian of Carleill in the west marches entred Scotland fortie leagues spoiling Fowike made wast at his pleasure and brought awaie with him manie Scots prisoners captiues ¶ About this time a truce of thrée years was taken betwéene king Richard the kings of France Scotland Spaine Portingale and of Nauarre This truce began on the first daie of August in the néerer parts of the realme both by sea and land and on the fiftéenth of line 50 August in the further parts because knowledge could not be giuen thereof without some long time Whilest the commissioners were occupied in the marches betwixt Calis and Bullongne about this truce the Scots entring into Northumberland did much mischiefe leading awaie manie prisoners men and women besides other great booties and preies which they got abroad in the countrie The lord Thomas Mowbraie earle of Notingham was sent with fiue hundred spears to reuenge those attempts line 60 of the enimies but for that his power was small in comparison to theirs he preuailed litle or nothing against them Sir Iohn Clanbow and sir Richard Rouale clerke tooke the French kings oth and the earle of saint Paule that had maried the ladie Maud Courtnie with other noblemen came into England and receiued the kings
and yet the lord Scroope that was lord chamberleine had allowed for the earles diet foure thousand nobles yéerelie paid out of the kings coffers On the mondaie next after the arreignement of the earle of Warwike to wit the foure and twentie of September was the lord Iohn Cobham and sir Iohn Cheinie arreigned and found guiltie of like treasons for which the other had beene condemned before but at the earnest instance and sute of the nobles they were pardoned of life and banished or as Fabian saith condemned to perpetuall prison ¶ The king desirous to see the force of the Londoners caused them during the time of this parlement to muster before him on Blacke heath where a man might haue seene a great number of able personages And now after that the parlement had continued almost till Christmasse it was adiourned vntil the quinden of S. Hilarie then to begin againe at Shrewesburie The king then came downe to Lichfield and there held a roiall Christmasse which being ended he tooke his iournie towards Shrewesburie where the parlement was appointed to begin in the quinden of saint Hilarie as before yée haue heard year 1398 In which parlement there holden vpon prorogation for the loue that the king bare to the gentlemen and commons of the shire of Chester he caused it to be ordeined that from thencefoorth it should be called and knowne by the name of the principalitie of Chester and herewith he intituled himselfe prince of Chester He held also a roiall feast kéeping open houshold for all honest commers during the which feast he created fiue dukes and a duchesse a marquesse and foure earles The earle of Derbie was created duke of Hereford the earle of Notingham that was also earle marshall duke of Norfolke the earle of Rutland duke of Aubemarle the earle of Kent duke of Surrie and the earle of Huntington duke of Excester the ladie Margaret marshall countesse of Norfolke was created duchesse of Norfolke the earle of Summerset marques Dorset the lord Spenser earle of Glocester the lord Neuill surnamed Daurabie earle of Westmerland the lord William Scroope lord chamberleine earle of Wiltshire and the lord Thomas Persie lord steward of the kings house earle of Worcester And for the better maintenance of the estate of these noble men whome he had thus aduanced to higher degrees of honour he gaue vnto them a great part of those lands that belonged to the duke of Glocester the earles of Warwike and Arundell And now he was in good hope that he had rooted vp all plants of treason and therefore cared lesse who might be his freend or his fo than before he had doone estéeming himselfe higher in degrée than anie prince liuing and so presumed further than euer his grandfather did and tooke vpon him to beare the armes of saint Edward ioining them vnto his owne armes To conclude what soeuer he then did none durst speake a word contrarie therevnto And yet such as were cheefe of his councell were estéemed of the commons to be the woorst creatures that might be as the dukes of Aumarle Norfolke and Excester the earle of Wiltshire sir Iohn Bushie sir William Bagot and sir Thomas Gréene which thrée last remembred were knights of the Bath against whom the commons vndoubtedlie bare great and priuie hatred But now to proceed In this parlement holden at Shrewsburie the lord Reginald Cobham being a verie aged man simple and vpright in all his dealings was condemned for none other cause but for that in the eleuenth yéere of the kings reigne he was line 10 appointed with other to be attendant about the king as one of his gouernours The acts and ordinances also deuised and established in the parlement holden in the eleuenth yeare were likewise repealed Moreouer in this parlement at Shrewesburie it was decréed that the lord Iohn Cobham should be sent into the I le of Gernesie there to remaine in exile hauing a small portion assigned him to liue vpon The king so wrought brought things about that he obteined the whole power of both houses to be granted to certeine line 20 persons as to Iohn duke of Lancaster Edmund duke of Yorke Edmund duke of Aumarle Thomas duke of Surrie Iohn duke of Excester Iohn marquesse Dorset Roger earle of March Iohn earle of Salisburie and Henrie earle of Northumberland Thomas earle of Glocester and William earle of Wiltshire Iohn Hussie Henrie Cheimeswike Robert Teie and Iohn Goulofer knights or to seauen or eight of them These were appointed to heare and determine certeine petitions and matters line 30 yet depending and not ended but by vertue of this grant they procéeded to conclude vpon other things which generallie touched the knowledge of the whole parlement in derogation of the states therof to the disaduantage of the king and perillous example in time to come When the king had spent much monie in time of this parlement he demanded a disme and a halfe of the clergie and a fiftéenth of the temporaltie Finallie line 40 a generall pardon was granted for all offenses to all the kings subiects fiftie onelie excepted whose names he would not by anie meanes expresse but reserued them to his owne knowledge that when anie of the nobilitie offended him he might at his plesure name him to be one of the number excepted and so kéepe them still within his danger To the end that the ordinances iudgements and acts made pronounced and established in this parlement might be and abide in perpetuall strength and force the king line 50 purchased the popes buls in which were conteined greeuous censures and cursses pronounced against all such as did by anie means go about to breake and violate the statutes in the same parlement ordeined These buls were openlie published read at Paules crosse in London and in other the most publike places of the realme Manie other things were doone in this parlement to the displeasure of no small number of people namelie for that diuerse rightfull heires were disherited line 60 of their lands and liuings by authoritie of the same parlement with which wrongfull dooings the people were much offended so that the king and those that were about him and chéefe in councell came into great infamie and slander In déed the king after he had dispatched the duke of Glocester and the other noblemen was not a little glad for that he knew them still readie to disappoint him in all his purposes and therefore being now as it were carelesse did not behaue himselfe as some haue written in such discréet order as manie wished but rather as in time of prosperitie it often happeneth he forgot himselfe and began to rule by will more than by reason threatning death to each one that obâ—ied not his inordinate desires By means whereof the lords of the realme began to feare their owne estates being in danger of his furious outrage whome they tooke for a man
friers mendicants and other such religious men as soong for the dead celebrating as they termed it anniuersaries euerie of them gaue halfe a marke in reliefe of other of the cleargie that had still borne the burthen for them before Whervpon now they murmured and grudged sore for that they were thus charged at that present The same time the earle of Northumberland and the lord Bardolfe warned by the lord Dauid Fleming that there was a conspiracie practised to deliuer them into the king of Englands hands fled into Wales to Owen Glendouer This cost the lord Fleming his life for after it was knowne that he had disclosed to the earle of Northumberland what was meant against him and that the earle therevpon was shifted awaie certeine of the Scots slue the said lord Fleming Wherevpon no small grudge rose betwixt those that so slue him and the said lord Flemings friends For this and other matters such dissention sproong vp amongst the Scotish nobilitie that one durst not trust another so that they were glad to sue for a truce betwixt England and them which was granted to indure for one yeare as in some books we find recorded This truce being obteined Robert king of Scotland vpon considerations as in the Scotish historie ye may read more at large sent his eldest son Iames intituled prince of Scotland a child not past nine yeares of age to be conueied into France vnder the conduct of the earle of Orkenie and a bishop in hope that he might there both remaine in safetie and also learne the French toong But it fortuned that as they sailed neare to the English coast about Flambrough head in Holdernesse their ship was taken and staied by certeine mariners of Claie a towne in Norffolke that were abroad the same time and so he and all his companie being apprehended the thirtith of March was conueied to Windsore where though he had letters from his father which he presented to the king conteining a request in his sonnes behalfe for fauour to be shewed towards him if by chance he landed within any of his dominions yet was he deteined and as well he himselfe as the earle of Orkenie was committed to safe keeping in the Tower of London but the bishop got away and escaped as some write by what means I know not By the Scotish writers we find that this chanced in the yeare 1404 that is two yeares before the time noted in diuerse English writers as Thomas Walsingham and other But Harding saith it was in the ninth yeare of king Henries reigne to wit in the yeare 1408. But whensoeuer it chanced it is to be thought that there was no truce at that present betweene the line 10 two realmes but that the warre was rather open sith diuerse English rebels still remained in Scotland and were there succored to the high displeasure of king Henrie ¶ By authoritie of the parlement that all this time continued the Britons that serued the quéene with two of hir daughters were banished the realme Robert Halome chancellor of Oxford as then being in the popes court at Rome was created archbishop of Yorke ¶ Moreouer the same time the pope gaue vnto Thomas Langlie the bishoprike line 20 of Durham which by the death of Walter Skirlow was then void In the summer of this yeare the ladie Philip the kings yoonger daughter was sent ouer to hir affianced husband Erike king of Denmarke Norwaie and Sweden being conueied thither with great pompe and there married to the said king where she tasted according to the common spéech vsed in praieng for the successe of such as match togither in mariage both ioy and some sorrow among There attended hir thither Henrie Bowet bishop of line 30 Bath and the lord Richard brother to the duke of Yorke There was a iusts held at London betwixt the earle of Kent and the erle of Marre a Scotishman also sir Iohn Cornewall and the lord Beaumont against other two Scotish knights whereof the honor remained with the Englishmen In the parlement which yet continued the duke of Yorke was restored to his former libertie estate and dignitie where manie supposed that he had beene dead long before that line 40 time in prison Edmund Holland earle of Kent was in such fauour with king Henrie that he not onelie aduanced him to high offices and great honors but also to his great costs and charges obteined for him the ladie Lucie eldest daughter and one of the heirs of the lord Barnabo of Millane which Barnabo paied to him 100000 ducates in the church of S. Marie Oueries in Southwarke by the hands of Don Alfonso de Cainuola vpon the day of the solemnization of the marriage which was the foure and twentith line 50 of Ianuarie ¶ In this yeare Roger of Walden departed this life who hauing béene tossed vp and downe with sundrie changes of fortune tried in a short time how inconstant vncerteine variable wandering vnstable and flitting she is which when she is thought firmelie to stand she slipperinglie falleth and with a dissembling looke counterfaiteth false ioies For by the meanes of hir changeablenesse the said Roger of a poore fellow grew vp to be high lord treasuror of the line 60 realme and shortlie after archbishop of Canturburie but by what right the world knoweth considering that the lord Thomas Arundell was then liuing Anon after he was deposed from his dignitie and lead the life of an ordinarie priuat man a long time within a while after againe he was promoted and made bishop of London which sée he had not possessed a full yeare but was depriued and Nicholas Hobwith succeeded in his roome So that hereby men are taught not to be proud of their preferment nor to reckâ—â— of them as of perpetuities sithens they may be as soone dispossessed as possessed of them and for that all estates degrées depend vpon Gods power and prouidence whereof the poet diuinelie saieth Ludit in humanis diuina potentia rebus Et certam praesens vix habet hora fidem In this yeare the seuenth of Maie was Thomas Langlie consecrated bishop of Durham after the decease of Walter Skirlow In which place he continued one and thirtie yeares He among other his beneficiall déeds beautified the church of Durham for euer with a chanterie of two chapleines Besides which for the increase of learning wherwith himselfe was greatlie furnished be built two schooles the one for grammar to instruct youth whereby in following time they might be made more able to benefit themselues and serue their countrie and the other of musicke wherein children might be made apt to serue God and the church both which schooles he erected in a parcell of ground coÌ„monlie called The plaie gréene To which buildings for he was one that delighted much therein and like vnto the philosopher Anaxagoras supposed that there was not any more earthlie felicitie than to erect sumptuous palaces
that he purposeth to be one though he paie for nothing else And yet must he be twise asked whether he will be bishop or no and he must twise saie naie and the third time take it as compelled therevnto by his owne will And in a stage plaie all the people know right well that one plaieng the Soldan is percase a sowter yet if one should can so little good to shew out of season what aquaintance he hath with him and call him by his owne name while he standeth in his maiestie one of his tormentors might hap to breake his head and worthie for marring of the plaie And so they said that these matters be kings games as it were stage plaies and for the more part plaied vpon scaffolds in which poore men be but the lookers on And they that wise be will meddle no further For they that sometime step vp and plaie with them when they can not plaie their parts they disorder the plaie and doo themselues no good Thus farre Edward the fift who was neuer king crowned but shamefullie by his vncle slaine as in the processe following appeereth Richard the third third sonne to Richard duke ofYorke and vncle to Edward the fift T He next daie the protector with a great traine went to Westminster hall there line 20 when he had placed himselfe in the court of the Kings bench declared to the audience that he would take vpon him the crowne in that place there where the king himselfe sitteth and ministreth the law bicause he considered that it was the chiefest dutie of a king to minister the lawes Then with as pleasant an oration as he could he went about to win vnto him the nobles the merchants the artificers line 30 and in conclusion all kind of men but especiallie the lawiers of this realme And finallie to the intent that no man should hate him for feare and that his deceitfull clemencie might get him the good will of the people when he had declared the discommodities of discord the coÌ„modities of concord vnitie he made an open proclamation that he did put out of his mind all enimities and that he there did openlie pardon all offenses committed against him And to the intent that he might shew a proofe therof line 40 he commanded that one Fog whom he had long deadlie hated should be brought then before him who being brought out of the sanctuarie for thither had he fled for feare of him in the sight of the people he tooke him by the hand Which thing the common people reioised at and praised but wise men tooke it for a vanitie In his returne homeward whom so euer he met he saluted For a mind that knoweth it selfe guiltie is in a manner deiected to a seruile flatterie which refuseth no dutifulnesse tend the same to neuer so hie a degrée of indignitie which one noteth saieng rides maiore cachinno Concutiâ—ur flet si lachrymas aspexit amici Frigescis friget si dixeris aestuo sudat When he had begun his reigne in the moneth of Iune after this mockish election then was he crowned king in the verie same moneth And that solemnitie was furnished for the most part with the selfe same prouision that was appointed for the coronation of his nephue * But here to shew the manner of his coronation as the same is inserted in this pamphlet of sir Thomas More by maister Edward Hall and Richard Grafton although not found in the same pamphlet thus we find it by them reported * First to be sure of all enimies as he thought he sent for fiue thousand men of the north against his coronation which came vp euill apparelled and worse harnessed in rustie harnesse neither defensible nor scowred to the sale which mustered in Finsburie field to the great disdaine of the lookers on By which beginning it appéered to the world that he had his state in suspicion otherwise he would not haue procured such a power to be attendant at his commandment and that at such time as all weapons laid aside peace and tranquillitie should haue béene sought after for the comforts of the peoples minds the safetie of his owne person but being verie mistrustfull fraught with carefull thoughts he was in a maze betwéene hope and feare according to this verie true saieng Sollicitae mentes spéque metúque pauent The fourth daie of Iulie he came to the Tower by water with his wife and the fift daie he created Thomas lord Howard duke of Norffolke and sir Thomas Howard his sonne he created earle of Surrie and William lord Berkeleie was then created erle of Nottingham and Francis lord Louell was then made vicount Louell and the king his chamberleine and the lord Stanleie was deliuered out of ward for feare of his sonne the lord Strange which line 10 was then in Lancashire gathering men as men said and the said lord was made steward of the king his houshold likewise the archbishop of Yorke was deliuered but Morton bishop of Elie was committed to the duke of Buckingham to kéepe in ward which sent him to his manour of Brecknocke in Wales from whence he escaped to king Richard his confusion The same night the king made seuenteene knights of the Bath whose names insue Sir Edmund the duke of Suffolks sonne sir George Greie the earle line 20 of Kents sonne sir William the lord Zouches sonne sir Henrie Aburgauennie sir Christopher Willoughbie sir William Berkeleie sir Henrie Babington sir Thomas Arundell sir Thomas Bologne sir Gerueis of Clifton sir William Saie sir Edmund Bedingfield sir William Enderbie sir Thomas Lekenor sir Thomas of Urmâ—n sir Iohn Browne sir William Berkeleie The next daie being the fift daie of Iulie the king line 30 rode through the citie of London toward Westminster with great pompe being accompanied with these dukes earles lords and knights whose names follow Edward prince of Wales the kings onelie sonne Dukes the duke of Norffolke the duke of Buckingham the duke of Suffolke Earles the earle of Northumberland the earle of Arundell the earle of Kent the earle of Surrie the earle of Wilshire the earle of Huntington the earle of Nottingham the earle of Warwike the earle of line 40 Lincolne Lords the lord Lisle vicount the lord Louell vicount the lord Stanleie the lord Audleie the lord Dacres the lord Ferrers of Chertleie the lord Powes the lord Scroope of Upsall the lord Scroope of Bolton the lord Greie Codner the lord Greie of Wilton the lord Sturton the lord Cobham the lord Morleie the lord Aburgauennie the lord Zouch the lord Ferrers of Grobie the lord Welâ—es the lord Lomleie the lord Matrouers the lord Herbert the lord Becham Knights sir Iames line 50 Tirell sir William Kneuet sir Thomas Aborow sir William Stanleie sir William Aparre sir George Browne sir Robert Middleton sir Iohn Henningham sir Nicholas Latimer sir Thomas Montgomerie sir Thomas Delamer sir Gilbert Debnam sir Terrie
preiudiciall to Iohn Catesbie knight Thomas Reuell and William Ashbie esquiers in of vpon the manour of Kirkebie vpon Wretheke in the countie of Leicester nor in of and vpon anie other lands and tenements in Kirkebie aforesaid Melton Somerbie Thropseghfield and Godebie which they had of the gift feoffement of Thomas Dauers Iohn Lie And further notwithstanding this atteindor diuerse of the said persons afterwards were not onelie by the king pardoned but also restored to their lands and liuings Moreouer in this present parlement he caused proclamation to be made that all men were pardoned and acquited of their offenses which would submit line 10 themselues to his mercie and receiue an oth to be true and faithfull vnto him wherevpon manie that came out of sanctuaries and other places were receiued to grace and admitted for his subiects After this he began to remember his speciall freends of whome some he aduanced to honour and dignitie and some he inriched with goods and possessions euerie man according to his deserts and merits And to begin his vncle Iasper earle of Penbroke he created duke of Bedford Thomas lord Stanleie was line 20 created earle of Derbie and the lord Chendew of Britaine his especiall fréend he made earle of Bath sir Giles Daubeneie was made lord Daubeneie sir Robert Willoughbie was made lord Brooke And Edward Stafford eldest sonne to Henrie late duke of Buckingham he restored to his name dignitie possessions which by king Richard were confiscat and atteinted Beside this in this parlement was this notable act assented to and concluded as followeth to the pleasure of almightie God wealth line 30 prosperitie and suertie of this realme of England and to the singular comfort of all the kings subiects of the same in auoiding all ambiguities and questions An act for the establishing of the crowne in the line of Henrie the seauenth BE it ordeined established and enacted by this present parlement that the inheritance of the crown of this realme of England also of France with all the preheminence and dignitie roiall to the same apperteining all other seigniories to the king belonging beyond the sea with the appurtenances thereto in anie wise due or apperteining shall rest remaine and abide in the most line 50 roiall person of our now souereigne lord king Henrie the seuenth and in the heires of his bodie lawfullie comming perpetuallie with the grace of God so to indure and in none other Beside this act all atteindors of this king enacted by king Edward and king Richard were adnihilated and the record of the same iudged to be defaced and all persons atteinted for his cause and occasion line 60 were restored to their goods lands and possessions Diuerse acts also made in the time of king Edward and king Richard were reuoked and other adiudged more expedient for the common wealth were put in their places and concluded After the dissolution of this parlement the king remembring his fréends left in hostage beyond the seas that is to wit the marquesse Dorset sir Iohn Bourchier he with all conuenient spéed redéemed them and sent also into Flanders for Iohn Morton bishop of Elie. These acts performed he chose to be of his councell a conuenient number of right graue and wise councellors ¶ This did he that he might the more roiallie gouerne his kingdome which he obteined and inioied as a thing by God elected and prouided and by his especiall fauour and gratious aspect compassed and atchiued Insomuch that men commonlie report that seauen hundred nintie seauen yéeres passed it was by a heauenlie voice reuealed to Cadwalader last king of Britains that his stocke progenie should reigne in this land beare dominion againe Wherevpon most men were persuaded in their owne opinion that by this heauenlie voice he was prouided ordeined long before to inioy obteine this kingdome Which thing K. Henrie the sixt did also shew before as it were by propheticall inspiration at such time as the earle of Penbroke presented the said Henrie at that time a proper child vnto Henrie the sixt whome after he had beheld and a good while viewed the comelinesse of his countenance and orderlie lineaments of his bodie he said to such peeres as stood about him Lo suerlie this is he to whome both we and our aduersaries leauing the possession of all things shall hereafter giue roome and place so it came to passe by the appointment of God to whose gouernement gift and disposing all realmes and all dominions are subiect as king Dauid confesseth saieng Omnia sunt regno subdita regna Dei Now although by this meanes all things séemed to be brought in good and perfect order yet there lacked a wrest to the harpe to set all the strings in a monocord and perfect tune which was the matrimonie to be finished betweene the king and the ladie Elizabeth daughter to king Edward Which like a good prince according to his oth promise he did both solemnize consummate shortlie after that is to saie on the eightéenth daie of Ianuarie By reason of which marriage peace was thought to descend out of heauen into England considering that the lines of Lancaster and Yorke were now brought into one knot and connexed togither of whose two bodies one heire might succeed to rule and inioie the whole monarchie and realme of England year 1486 which before was rent and diuided into factions partakings whereby manie a mans life was lost great spoiles made of peoples goods wast of wealth worship and honor all which ended in this blessed and gratious connexion authorised by God as our Anglorum praelia saith Hoc Deus omnipotens pacis confecerat author CiuilÃsque habuit tandem contentio finem Shortlie after for the better preseruation of his roiall person he constituted and ordeined a certeine number as well of archers as of diuerse other persons hardie strong and actiue to giue dailie attendance on his person whom he named yeomen of his gard which president men thought that he learned of the French king when he was in France For it is not remembred that anie king of England before that daie vsed anie such furniture of dailie souldiers ¶ In this same yéere a new kind of sickenes inuaded suddenlie the people of this land passing through the same from the one end to the other It began about the one and twentith of September and continued vntill the latter end of October being so sharpe and deadlie that the like was neuer heard of to anie mans remembrance before that time For suddenlie a deadlie burning sweat so assailed their bodies and distempered their bloud with a most ardent heat that scarse one amongst an hundred that sickened did escape with life for all in maner as soone as the sweat tooke them or within a short time after yéelded the ghost Beside the great number which deceassed within the citie of London two
they discerned seuerall mines wrought into manie parts of the towne and they found by lamentable experience that the lesse good they did the more painfullie they laboured for that their fortune had reduced them to these termes of extremitie that in abandoning one place to relieue another they put both in danger not hauing numbers sufficient to furnish the seruice and lesse expectation of rescue amid perils so raging and desperate so that what for that their necessities were greater than their hopes their defense lesse able by the continuall diminution of their numbers lastlie holding it no breach of honour to preserue by wisdome and composition that they could no longer defend by their valour and prowes they gaue place to their destinie and capitulated with the Turke as followeth That the great maister of their order should leaue the towne to him that as well he as all line 10 his knights should depart in safetie with libertie to earie with them as much of their goods as they could And for assurance of this capitulation the Turke should withdraw out of those seas his fléet or nauie and retire his armie by land fiue miles from Rhodes By vertue of which capitulation Rhodes remained to the Turkes and the christians passed into Sicilie and so into Italie kéeping their faith and profession vnuiolated They found in Sicilie an armie by sea compounded of a certeine number of vessels with line 20 great releafe of vittels and munitions and readie to hoise saile at the next wind to reuittle Rhodes The slownesse of this reseue was laid to the popes fault After they were departed Soliman for a more contempt of christian religion made his entrie into the citie vpon the daie of the birth of the sonne of God which daie being celebrated in the churches of christians with noise of musike holie inuocations he connected all the churches of Rhodes dedicated to the seruice of Iesus Christ into Mosqueis so they line 30 call their temples which after all the christian rites and ceremonies were abolished they made dedicatorie to Mahomet Good cause had the christians herevpon with heauie hearts to make their complaint to God by the president of the psalmist lamenting the libertie of the enimies exercising the vehemencie of his rage against Gods people full well with swolne eies testifieng the sorrow of their soules might sadlie sounding the dumps of their threnomina saie perde funditùs line 40 Hostes proteruos qui tuum sacrarium Manu nefanda polluunt Clangunt sonora buccina non quae tuas Laudes canat ludibrio Sed festa acerbo quae profanet in tuis Vexilla figunt turribus c. To vnderstand more of this historie touching the taking of Rhodes what mooued the Turke to couet the same his letter comminatorie to Philip de Uilliers who tooke part against him with other accidents line 50 and circumstances belonging to this martiall action read the report of Edward Hall which is verie copious and plentifull in this behalfe And now will we returne to our owne affaires here in England About this time the bishop of Durham departed this life the king gaue that bishoprike to the cardinall who resigned the bishoprike of Bath to doctor Iohn Clerke maister of the rolles and sir Henrie Marneie that was vicechamberleine was made lord priuie seale and shortlie after was created lord Marneie line 60 In the end of this yeare doctor Blith bishop of Chester was attached for treason but he acquited himselfe About this time the cardinall exercised his authoritie which he pretended by his power legantine verie largelie not onelie in proouing of testaments in his court calling the executors and administrators before him of what diocesse soeuer they were but also by prouisions he gaue all benefices belonging to spirituall persons and ran thereby within danger of the premuniâ—e as afterward was laid to his charge But after that he perceiued his owne follie and rash dooing herein contrarie to the lawes which would not permit that anie such things as were mooued within the prouince of Canturburie might bee concluded without the authoritie of the archbishop he sent them againe to Poules and sate himselfe at Westminster with his cleargie of the prouince of Yorke And euen as there was much adoo amongst them of the common house about their agréement to the subsidie so was there as hard hold for a while amongst them of the clergie in the conuocation house Namelie Richard bishop of Winchester Iohn bishop of Rochester held sore against it but most of all sir Rowland Philips vicar of Croidon and one of the canons of Poules béeing reputed a notable preacher in those daies spake most against that paiment But the cardinall taking him aside so handled the matter with him that he came no more into the house willinglie absenting himselfe to his great infamie and losse of that estimation which men had of his innocencie Thus the belwedder giuing ouer his hold the other yéelded and so was granted the halfe of all their spirituall reuenues for one yeare to bée paid in fiue yeres following that the burthen might the more easilie be borne The parlement being begun as ye haue heard the cardinall on the nine and twentith day of Aprill came into the common house and there shewing the great charges that the king necessarilie was at and dailie must be at in maintenance of his warres against the French and Scots demanded the summes of eight hundred thousand pounds to bée raised of the fift part of euerie mans goods and lands that is to wit foure shillings of euerie pound This demand was inforced on the morrow after by sir Thomas Moore then speaker of the parlement but he spake not so much in persuading the house to grant it but other spake as earnestlie against it so that the matter was argued to and fro and handled to the vttermost There were that proued how it was not possible to haue it leuied in monie for men of lands and great substance had not the fift part of the same in coine And sith the king by the loane had receiued two shillings of the pound which by this rate amounted to 400000 pounds and new to haue foure shillings of the pound it would amount in the whole vnto twelue hundred thousand pounds which is first and last six shillings of the pound being almost a third part of euerie mans goods which in coine might not be had within this realme For the proofe whereof was alleaged that if there were in England but twâ—ntie thousand parishes and euerie parish should giâ—â— an hundred markes that were but fiftéene hundrâ—â— thousand markes which is but an hundred thousand pounds and there be not verie manie parishes in England one with another able to spare an hundred markes out of cities and townes And where it is written that in England there be fortie thousand parish churches it was prooued that there
the point next beyond Gréenwich and there they turned backeward in another order that is to wit line 10 the maior and shiriffs officers first and the meanest craft next and so ascending to the vttermost crafts in order and the maior last as they go to Paules at Christmas and in that order they rowed downeward to Gréenwich towne and there cast anchor making great melodie At thrée of the clocke the queene appéered in rich cloth of gold entring into hir barge accompanied with diuerse ladies and gentlewomen and incontinent the citizens set forwards in their order their line 20 minstrelles continuallie plaieng and the bachelors barge going on the quéens right hand which she tooke great pleasure to behold About the quéenes barge were manie noble men as the duke of Suffolke the marques Dorset the erle of Wilshire hir father the erles of Arundell Darbie Rutland Worcester Huntington Sussex Oxford and manie bishops and noble men euerie one in his barge which was a goodlie sight to behold She thus being accompanied rowed toward the tower and in the line 30 meane waie the ships which were commanded to lie on the shore for letting of the barges shot diuerse peales of guns and yer she was landed there was a maruellous shot out of the tower as euer was heard there And at hir landing there met with hir the lord chamberlaine with the officers of armes and brought hir to the king which receiued hir with louing countenance at the posterne by the water side and then she turned backe againe and thanked the maior and the citizens with manie goodlie words line 40 and so entred into the tower After which entrie the citizens all this while houered before the tower making great melodie and went not on land for none were assigned to land but the maior the recorder and two aldermen But for to speake of the people that stood on either shore to behold the sight he that saw it not would scarse beleeue it On Fridaie at dinner serued the king all such as were appointed by his highnesse to be knights of the bath which after dinner were brought to their chambers and that night were bathed and shriuen line 50 according to the old vsage of England and the next daie in the morning the king dubbed them according to the ceremonies thereto belonging whose names insue the marques Dorset the erle of Darbie the lord Clifford the lord Fitzwater the lord Hastings the lord Mounteagle sir Iohn Mordant the lord Uaur sir Henrie Parker sir William Winsore sir Francis Weston sir Thomas Arundell sir Iohn Halston sir Thomas Poinings sir Henrie Sauell sir George Fitzwilliam sir Iohn Tindall sir Thomas line 60 Iermeie To the intent that the horsses should not slide on the pauement nor that the people should not be hurt by horsses the high stréets where the queene should passe were all grauelled from the tower to temple barre and railed on the one side within which railes stood the crafts along in their order from Grace church where the merchants of the stillâ—â—rd stood till the little conduit in Cheape where the aldermen stood and on the other side of the stréet stood the constables of the citie apparelled in veluet and silke with great slaues in their hands to cause the people to kéepe roome and good order And when the stréets were somwhat ordered the maior clothed in a gowne of crimsm veluet and a rich collar of SSS with two footmen clad in white and red damaske rode to the tower to giue his attendance on the quéene on whome the shiriffs with their officers did wait till they came to tower hill where they taking their leaue rode downe the high stréets commanding the constables to sée roome and good order kept and so went and stood by the aldermen in Cheape Now before the quéen and hir traine should come Cornehill and Gratious stréet were hanged with fine scarlet crimsin and other grained cloths and in some place with rich arras tapistrie and carpets and the most part of the Cheape was hanged with cloth of tissue gold veluet and manie rich hangings which made a goodlie shew and all the windowes were replenished with ladies and gentlewomen to behold the quéene and hir traine as they should passe by The first of the queenes companie that set forward were twelue Frenchmen which were belonging to the French ambassador clothed in coates of blew veluet with sléeues of yellow and blew veluet and their horsses trapped with close trappers of blew sarsenet powdered with white crosses after them marched gentlemen esquires and knights two and two after them the iudges and after them the knights of the bath in violet gownes with hoods purfled with miniuer like doctors after them abbats then barons after them bishops then earls and marquesses then the lord chancellor of England after him the archbishop of Yorke and the ambassador of Uenice after him the archbishop of Canturburie and the ambassador of France after rode two esquiers of honor with robes of estat rolled and worne bauldrike-wise about their necks with caps of estate representing the dukes of Normandie Aquitaine after them rode the maior of London with his mace and garter in his cote of armes which maior bare his mace to Westminster hall After all these rode the lord William Howard with the marshalles rod deputie to his brother the duke of Norffolke marshall of England which was ambassador then in France and on his right hand rode Charles duke of Suffolke for that daie high constable of England bearing the verder of siluer apperteining to the office of constableship and all the lords for the most part were clothed in crimsin veluet and all the queenes seruants or officers of armes in scarlet Next before the queene rode hir chancellor hareheaded the sargeants and officers of armes rode on both the sides of the lords Then came the quéene in a litter of white cloth of gold not couered nor bailed which was lead by two palfries clad in white damaske downe to the ground head and all led by hir footmen She had on a circut of white cloth of tissue and a mantell of the same furred with ermine hir haire hanged downe but on hir head shee had a coise with a circlet about it full of rich stones Ouer hir was borne a canopie of cloth of gold with foure guilt slaues and foure siluer belles For the bearing of which canopie were appointed sixtéene knights foure to beare it one space on foot and o ther foure another space according to their owne appointment Next after the quéene rode the lord Borough hir chamberleine next after him William Coffin maister of the horsses leading a spare horsse with a side saddle trapped downe with cloth of tissue After him rode seauen ladies in crimsin veluet turned vp with cloth of gold and of tissue and their horsses trapped with cloth of gold after them two chariots couered with red cloth of gold In
the duke of Glocester to the king A conspirâ—â—â—â— betwéene the duke of Glocester and the abbat of 〈◊〉 Albons Out of an 〈◊〉 French pamphlet belonging to Iohn Stow. Anno Reg. 1â— The purpâ—â—s of the conspirators The earle marshall discloseth the conspiraâ—ie The earle of Rutland saith R. Graâ—â—oâ— The duke of Glocester arrested Out of an old French pamphlet * For he was son to a king and vncle to a king The earle of Arundell apprehended The names of the appellants A gard of Cheshire men about the king The lords appointed to come in warlike manner to the parlemeÌ„t Polydor. The dukes of Lancaster Yorke assemble their powers to resist the kings dealings Caxton Fabian Polydor. The king and the dukes reconciled Caxton The great parlement The kings greeuanâ—â—â— opened in 〈◊〉 parlement Tho. Walâ—â—â— Iohn Busâ—â—â— William Bagot Thomas Greene. A new 〈◊〉 made within the palace of Westminster for the areignâ—ment of the lords indicted Additions to Polychron Sir Iohn Bushie speaker The archbishop of Canturburie sitting in parlement is acâ—â—sed of treason by the speaker Impudent flatterie 〈◊〉 Walsi The charters of pardoÌ„ granted to the lords made void by parlement Thom. Wals. The archb of Canturburie condemned to perpetuall banishment Six daies saith Grafton The earle of Arundell areigned The duke of LaÌ„caster high Steward of England at 〈◊〉 areignement The earle of Arundell his answers to the points of his indictmeÌ„t The earle of Arundell condemned The executioÌ„ of the earle of Arundell Ouid. The earle of Warwike arreigned of treason The parlemâ—â—â— adiourned to Shrewsburie The king kéepeth his Christmasse at Lichfield Cheshire made a priâ—â—cipalitie K. Richard prince of Chester Creation of dukes and earles K. Richard beareth saint Edward his armes The L. Reginald Cobham condemned The authoritie of both houses in parlement granted to certeine persons Thom. Wals. The K. procureth the popes buls against the breakers of his statuts Rightfull heires disherited Polydor. K. Richard his euill gouernment The duke of Hereford appealeth the duke of Norfolk of treson Thom. Wals. The duke of Surrie marshall and the duke of Aumarle constable of England The order of the procéeding in this appeale The obiection against the duke of Norfolke The duke of Norfolke his answer for himselfe The combat appointed to be doone at Couentrie The French pamphlet Iohn Stow. Fabian Anno Reg. â—â— The order of the combat The combat staied by the king The king his dome betwixt the two dukes The duke of Hereford beloued of the people The duke of Hereford is honorablie interteined with the French king Froissard Hor. lib. â—pist 1. Fabian Blanke charters The death of the duke of Lancaster Tho. Walsi The duke of Yorke misliketh the court goeth home The realme let to farme by the king Tho. Walsi New exactions The paimâ—â—â— of these 〈◊〉 Was called â— plesance as 〈◊〉 were to pleasâ—â— the K. withall but y◠〈◊〉 displeased manie that were thus constreined to paie against theiâ— willes The people confirme the oth of allegiance by writing sealed Indirect dealings Abr. Fl. out of Thom. Waâ—â— pag. 395. Abr. Fl. out of Thom. Waâ—â— pag. 395. Polydor. A iusts at Windesor The king saileth ouer into Ireland with a great armie Fabian Caxton The duke of Yorke lieutenant generall of England the king being in Ireland Hâ—n Marl. Out of a French pamphlet that belongeth to master Iohn Dec. Macmur Pioners set a worke to cut downe woods Macmur sendeth to the K. offering a parlee The earle of Glocester Anno Reg. 23. He came to Dublin the 28 of Iune as Henrie Marl. saith The duke of Aumarle In Angl. praelijs sub Rich. 2. The duke of Lancaster solicited to expell king Richard and to take vpon him the regiment The duke of Britaine a great â—riend â—o the duke of Lancaster The duke of Lancaster 〈◊〉 adherents 〈◊〉 into England Additions to Polychron Thom. Wals. â—hron Brit. Froissard â—ho â—aâ—sing The commoÌ„s â—enie â—o resist â—he duke of â—ancaster The duke of Lancaster laÌ„deth in Yorkshire Additions to Polychron The duke of 〈…〉 to the lords â—hat 〈◊〉 him The harts of the commoâ—â— wholie bent â—o the duke of Lancaster The duke of Lancaster marcheth to Bristow Scroope 〈◊〉 treasuror Bushie and Greene executed A politike â—â—dnesse Out of master Deeâ— French booke K. Richard returneth out of Ireland and landeth in Wales Thom. Wals. Additions to Polychron K. Richard in vtter despaire K. Richard stealeth awaie from his armie and taketh the castell of Flint A speciall note woorthie to be well weied Hor. lib. car 3. ode 1. The earle of Worcester leaueth the K. and fléeth to the duke Where fortune fauoureth thither the peoples fauour fléeth The duke of Lancaster comming to Chester Perkin a Lee. Out of master Dees booke Holt castell deliuered to the duke Some 〈◊〉 that the archbishop of Câ—â—â—turburie and the earle of Westmerland weÌ„t also 〈◊〉 the earle of Northumberland to Conwaie The earle of Northumberlands message to the king The king leaueth Conwaie castell and betaketh himselfe to his enimies A constant seruant The dukes behauiour to the king at their meéting The dukes demand The king and the duke iournie togither towards London K. Richard sumptuous in apparell The dukes receiuing into London The king coÌ„mitted to the tower A parlement in the kings name The king is persuaded to resigne the crowne to the duke Fabian This promise he made at Flint rather than at Conwaie as by that which goeth before it may be partlie coniectured â— Richards resignation confirmed by 〈◊〉 The demand of the archbishop of Canturburie to the commons Thom. Wals. The duke of Hereford placed in the regall throne The archbishop preached Abr. Fl. out of Fabian pag. 351. The words of the elected king Thom. Wals. The coronation proclaimed The parlemeÌ„t King Henrie the fourth proclamed T. Wats Aminâ— taâ— querela 5. K. Richard depriued Hall His personage Harding The noble house-kéeping of king Richard Excesse in apparell Ignorant prelats â—â—nenâ—is â—â—iscopus In Angl. praelijs New officers made The paâ—lemeÌ„t new suÌ„moned Record Tuâ—â—is Claiming of offices at the coronation Curtana The earle of Summerset The earle of Northumberland The I le of Man Lancaster sword The earle of Westmerland The duke of Norffolke Sir Thomas Erpingham The earle of Warwike Sir William Argentine Iuon Fitzwarren The lord Furniuall The lord Graie Great spâ—â—s The second sword The earle of Arundell The citizens of London Thomas Dâ—mocke Baldwin Freuill The lord Latimer William lâ— Uenour The barons of the cinquâ— ports Knights of the Bath The lord maior of London The earle of March enuied the K. preferment Edmund erle of Lancaster vntrulie fasned to be surnamed Crookebacke Sir Iohn Chenie speaker of the parlement dismissed and William Durward admitted Acts repealed Acts confirmed Fabian Sir Iohn Bagot discloseth secrets Henrie the fourth suspected not to be well affected towards the church before his comming to the crowne The duke of Aumarle accused The duke of Aumarle
the place as was to be seene many yeares after ¶ Touching these celestiall apparitions the common doctrine of philosophie is that they be méere naturall and therefore of no great admiration For of eclipses as well such as are proper to the sunne as also those that are peculiar to the moone the position is not so generallie deliuered as it is constantlie beléeued For the philosophers giue this reason of eclipses line 10 radios Phoebi luna interiecta repellit Nec sinit in terras claram descendere lucem Quippe aliud non est quà m terrae atque aequoris vmbra Quae si fortè ferit nocturnae corpora lunae Eclipsin facit In somuch as obseruing them to be ordinarie accidents they are ouerpassed and nothing regarded Howbeit Lucane maketh a great matter of eclipses and of other strange sights precéeding the bloudie battels betweene Pompeie and Cesar intimating thereby that prodigious woonders and other line 20 rare and vnaccustomed accidents are significations of some notable euent insuing either to some great personage to the common-wealth or to the state of the church And therefore it is a matter woorth the marking to compare effects following with signes and woonders before going since they haue a doctrine in them of no small importance For not manie yeares after the kings glorie was darkened on earth nay his pompe and roiall state tooke end a prediction line 30 whereof might be imported by the extraordinarie eclipse of the sunne a beautifull creature and the ornament of the skie Laurence archbishop of Dublin and Catholicus the archbishop of Tuamon with fiue or six other Irish bishops and diuerse both bishops and abbats of Scotland passed through England towards the generall councell and withall tooke their oth that they shuld not procure any damage to the king or realme of England There went but onelie foure bishops line 40 out of England to wit Hugh Putsey or Pudsey bishop of Durham Iohn bishop of Norwich Reignold bishop of Bath and Robert bishop of Hereford beside abbats for the English bishops firmelie stood in it that there ought but foure bish onlie to go foorth of England to any generall councell called by the pope This yeare Richard de Lucie lord chéefe iustice of England gaue ouer his office and became a canon in the abbeie of Westwood or Lesnos which he had founded and built vpon his owne ground endowing line 50 it with great reuenewes and in Iulie after he died there King Henrie the father called a parlement at Windsore at the which was present king Henrie the sonne and a great number of lords earles and barons At this parlement order was taken for partition of the realme so that it was diuided into foure parts certeine sage personages being allotted vnto euerie part to gouerne the same but not by the name of iustices albeit that Ranulfe de Glanuille was line 60 made ruler of Yorkeshire authorised iustice there as he that best vnderstood in those daies the ancient lawes and customes of the realme The same yeare Geffrey earle of Britaine by his fathers commandement leuied an armie and passing ouer into Britaine wasted the lands of Guidomer de Leons and constreined him to submit himselfe vnto him The 18. day of August the moone was eclipsed which was séene of king Henrie and his companie as he rode all that night towards Douer there to méet the French king who was comming towards England to visit the toome of archbishop Thomas Becket as he had before time vowed He landed at Douer the 22. day of August There came ouer with him Henrie duke of Louaine Philip earle of Flanders Baldwin earle of Guines earle William de Mandeuille and diuerse other earles lords barons and knights whome king Henrie was readie to receiue at the water side and the morow after brought them with great honor to Canturburie where they were with due reuerence and vnspeakeable ioy receiued of archbishop Richard and diuerse other bishops there assembled togither with the couent of Christes-church and an infinit multitude of Nobles and gentlemen The French king offered vpon the toome of the said archbishop Thomas a rich cup of gold and gaue to the moonks there an hundred tuns of wine to be receiued yearelie of his gift for euer at Poissie in France Further he granted to the same moonks that whatsoeuer was bought in his dominions of France to their vse should be free from toll tallage and paieng any maner of excise for the same These grants he confirmed with his charter thereof made deliuered to them by the hands of Hugh Putsey son to the bishop of Duresme that was his chancellor King Lewes hauing performed his vow and receiued manie rich gifts of king Henrie returned home into France and shortlie after causing his sonne to be crowned king resigned the gouernment to him as by some writers appeareth About the same time Cadwallon prince of Wales being brought before the king to make his answer to diuerse accusations exhibited against him as he returned toward his countrie vnder the kings safe conduct was laid for by his enimies and slaine to the kings great slander though he were not giltie in the matter After this king Henrie the father held his Christmasse at Notingham and William king of Scotland with him The same yeare fell discord betwixt the yoong king of France and his mother and vncles hir brethren earle Theobald and earle Stephan who thinking themselues not well vsed procured king Henrie the sonne to ioine with them in fréendship and to go ouer into England to purchase his fathers assistance in their behalfe against their nephue Who being come ouer to his father informed him of the whole mater and did so much by his earnest suit therin that before the feast of Easter his father went ouer with him into Normandie and immediatlie vpon their arriuall in those parts the old French queene mother to the yoong king Philip with their brethren the said earles and manie other Noble men of France came vnto him and concluding a league with him deliuered hostages into his hands and receiued an oth to follow his counsell and aduice in all things Herevpon king Henrie assembled a great armie in purpose after Easter to inuade the French kings dominions but before any great exploit was made he came to an enteruew with the new king of France betwixt Gisors and Treodsunt where partlie by gentle words and partlie by threatnings which king Henrie vsed for persuasion the French king released all his indignation conceiued against his mother and vncles and receiued them againe into his fauour couenanting to allow his mother for euerie day towards hir expenses seuen pounds of Paris monie during his father king Lewes his life time and after his death she should inioy all hir dower except the casâ—els which king Philip might reteine still in his hands Also at this assemblie king Henrie the
historie written of this prince he shall find that he hath beene little beholden to the writers of that time in which he liued for scarselie can they afoord him a good word except when the trueth inforceth them to come out with it as it were against their willes The occasion whereof as some thinke was for that he was no great freend to the clergie And yet vndoubtedlie his déeds shew he had a zeale to religion as it was then accompted for he founded the abbeie of Beauleau in the new forrest as it were in recompense line 30 of certeine parishchurches which to inlarge the same forrest he caused to be throwne downe and ruinated He builded the monasterie of Farendon and the abbeie of Hales in Shropshire he repaired Godstow where his fathers concubine Rosamund laie interred he was no small benefactor to the minster of Lichfield in Staffordshire to the abbeie of Crokesden in the same shire and to the chappell at Knatesburgh in Yorkshire So that to say what I thinke line 40 he was not so void of deuotion towards the church as diuers of his enimies haue reported who of meere malice conceale all his vertues and hide none of his vices but are plentifull inough in setting foorth the same to the vttermost and interpret all his dooings and saiengs to the woorst as may appeare to those that aduisedlie read the works of them that write the order of his life which may séeme rather an inuectiue than a true historie neuerthelesse sith we cannot come by the truth of things through the malice line 50 of writers we must content our selues with this vnfréendlie description of his time Certeinelie it should séeme the man had a princelie heart in him and wanted nothing but faithfull subiects to haue assisted him in reuenging such wrongs as were doone and offered by the French king and others Moreouer the pride and pretended authoritie of the cleargie he could not well abide when they went about to wrest out of his hands the prerogatiue of his princelie rule and gouernement True it is that to mainteine his warres which he was forced to take in hand as well in France as elsewhere he was constreined to make all the shift he could deuise to recouer monie and bicause he pinched their pursses they conceiued no small hatred against him which when he perceiued and wanted peraduenture discretion to passe it ouer he discouered now and then in his rage his immoderate displeasure as one not able to bridle his affections a thing verie hard in a stout stomach and thereby missed now and then to compasse that which otherwise he might verie well haue brought to passe It is written that he meant to haue become feudarie for maintenance sake against his owne disloiall subiects and other his aduersaries vnto Miramumeline the great king of the Saracens but for the truth of this report I haue little to saie and therefore I leaue the credit thereof to the authors It is reported likewise that in time when the realme stood interdicted as he was abroad to hunt one day it chanced that there was a great stag or hart killed which when he came to be broken vp prooued to be verie fat and thicke of flesh Oh saith he what a plesant life this déere hath led and yet in all his daies he neuer heard masse To conclude it may séeme that in some respects he was not greatlie superstitious and yet not void of a religious zeale towards the maintenance of the cleargie as by his bountifull liberalitie bestowed in building of abbeies and churches as before yée haue hard it may partlie appeare In his daies manie learned men liued as Geffrey Uinesaufe Simon Fraxinus alià s Ash Adamus Dorensis Gualter de Constantijs first bishop of Lincolne and after archbishop of Rouen Iohn de Oxford Colman surnamed Sapiens Richard Canonicus William Peregrine Alane Teâ—kesburie Simon Thurnaie who being an excellent philosopher but standing too much in his owne conceit vpon a sudden did so forget all his knowledge in learning that he became the most ignorant of all other a punishment as was thought appointed him of God for such blasphemies as he had wickedlie vttered both against Moses and Christ. Geruasius Dorobernensis Iohn Hanwill Nigell Woreker Gilbert de Hoiland Benet de Peterburgh William Parnus a moonke of Newburgh Roger Houeden Hubert Walter first bishop of Salisburie and after archbishop of Canturburie Alexander Theologus of whome yee haue heard before Geruasius Tilberiensis Syluester Giraldus Cambrensis who wrote manie treatises Ioseph Deuonius Walter Mapis Radulfus de Diceto Gilbert Legley Mauricius Morganius Walter Morganius Iohn de Fordeham William Leicester Ioceline Brakeland Roger of Crowland Hugh White alià s Candidus that wrote an historie intituled Historia Petroburgensis Iohn de saint Omer Adam Barking Iohn Gray an historiographer and bishop of Norwich Walter of Couentrie Radulphus Niger c. Sée Bale Scriptorum Britanniae centuria tertia Thus farre king Iohn Henrie the third the eldest sonne of king Iohn HEnrie the third of that name the eldest sonne of K. Iohn a child of the age of nine yeres began his reigne ouer the realme of England the ninetéenth day of October in the yeare of our Lord 1216 in the seuenth yeare of the emperour Frederike the second year 1216 and in the 36 yeare of the reigne of Philip line 10 the second king of France Immediatlie after the death of his father king Iohn William Marshall earle of Penbroke generall of his fathers armie brought this yoong prince with his brother and sisters vnto Glocester and there called a councell of all such lords as had taken part with king Iohn Anon after it was once openlie knowne that the sonnes and daughters of the late deceassed prince were brought into a place of safetie a great number of the lords and cheefe barons of the line 20 realme hasted thither I meane not onelie such as had holden with king Iohn but also diuerse other which vpon certeine knowledge had of his death were newlie reuolted from Lewes in purpose to aid yoong king Henrie to whome of right the crowne did apperteine Thither also came Uallo or Guallo the popes legat an earnest defender of the kings cause with Peter bishop of Winchester Iocelin bishop of Bath also Ranulph earle of Chester William Ferrers line 30 earle of Derbie Iohn Marshall and Philip de Albenie with diuerse other lords and peeres of the relme and a great number of abbats and priors who by and by fell to councell togither what waie should be best to take for the good order of things now in so doubtfull and perilous a time as this The péeres of the realme being thus assembled William earle of Penbroke bringing the yoong king into their presence and setting him before them spake these words following line 40 The earle of Penbroks short and sweet oration as it is borrowed out of maister Fox BEhold right honourable and welbeloued
At the day appointed there came to Uillefort the dukes of Brabant and Gelderland the earle of Heinault Gulike Namure Blackenheim Bergen sir Robert Dartois earle of Richmond the earle of Ualkenburgh and Iaques Arteueld with the other rulers of Flanders and manie others Here it was ordeined that the countries of Flanders Brabant and Heinault should be so vnited and knit in one corporation that nothing should be doone amongst them in publike affaires but by common consent line 40 and if anie warres were mooued against anie of them then should the other be readie to aid them against whome anie such warre was mooued and if vpon anie occasion anie discord rose betwixt them for anie matter they should make an end of it amongst themselues and if they could not then should they stand to the iudgement and arbitrement of the king of England vnto whome they bound themselues by oth to kéepe this ordinance and agréement The French king being informed that the king line 50 of England ment to laie siege vnto Tournie as it was indeed deuised at this councell holden at Uillefort tooke order for the furnishing thereof with men munition and vittels in most defensible wise There were sent to that towne the best men of warre in all France as the earle of Ewe constable of France the yoong earle of Guines his sonne the earle of Foiz and his brethren the earle Amerie de Narbon with manie other hauing with them foure thousand line 60 souldiers Sir Godmar du Foie was there before as capteine of the towne so that it was prouided of all things necessarie Howbeit the king of England according as it was appointed at the councell holden at Uillefort about the feast of Marie Magdalen departed from Gaunt and came to Tournie hauing with him seauen earles of his owne countrie as Darbie Penbroke Hereford Huntingdon Northampton Glocester and Arundell eight prelats eight and twentie baronets two hundred knights foure thousand men of armes and nine thousand archers besides other footmen He lodged at the gate called saint Martine in the waie that is toward Lisle and Dowaie Anon after came the dukes of Brabant and Gelderland the earle of Gulike the marquesse of Blanqueburgh the marquesse of Musse the earls of Bergen Sauines and Heinault also Iaques Arteueld who brought with him about fortie thousand Flemings So that there was at this siege to the number of six score thousand men as some writers affirme There was also an other armie of Flemings as of the townes of Ypres Popringue Furnes Cassell of the Chateleinie of Bergis being to the number of fortie thousand appointed to make warre against the Frenchmen that kept saint Omers and other townes there on the frontiers of Arthois which armie was led by the earle of Richmond otherwise called the lord Robert Dartois and by sir Henrie de Flanders the which approching one day to saint Omers were sharplie fought with for within saint Omers at that time laie a strong power of Frenchmen with the duke of Burgoine the earle of Arminacke and others The Flemings were not willing to serue for neither had they any trust in their capteine the said erle of Richmond neither would they willinglie haue passed out of their owne confines but onlie to defend the same from the inuasion of their enimies yet through much persuasion forward they went diuided into sundrie battels contrarie to their manner The enimies perceiuing some aduantage issued forth vpon them and assailed them verie stoutlie insomuch that the earle of Arminacke setting vpon them of Ypres ouerthrew them and chased them vnto a towne called Arques which they had a little before set on fire and burned An other companie of Frenchmen skirmishing with them of Franks Furnes and Bergis put them also to the worse Contrarilie those Frenchmen that encountered with the lord Robert Dartois and them of Bruges whome he led susteined great losse and were beaten backe into the citie the duke of Burgoine himselfe being in no small danger for a time so sharpe the bickering was betwixt them and the euent so variable Wherefore it is notablie and fitlie said in this behalfe that incerti fallax fiducia Martis There be that write that this fight continued from thrée of the clocke till euentide and that the earle of Richmond was twise put to flight for his people did leaue him in the plaine field but at length by the aduise of sir Thomas Uthred whome the king of England had appointed to attend the said earle with manie Englishmen and archers he assembled his people eftsoones togither againe and setting on his enimies Now when it was almost night neere to the gates of saint Omers he finallie ouercame them where were slaine of the French part fiftéene barons and fourescore knights beside a great number of other people Diuerse also were slaine on the earle of Richmonds part at this last encounter and among other an English knight that bare armes escheeked siluer and gules Finallie as the earle of Richmond returned towards his campe which laie in the vale of Cassell he met with certeine Artesines and Frenchmen which had béene chasing the other Flemings and though it was late in the euening that one could not take good view of an other yet here they fought againe and so diuerse of the Frenchmen were taken and killed and amongst other that were caught was a knight of Burgoine named sir William de Nillie But when the earle of Richmond and those that were with him came to the place where the campe laie they found that all the residue of the Flemings were fled and gone And when the said earle came to Cassell the people were readie to haue slaine him their former malice towards him being now much increased with the euill successe of this passed enterprise so that he was glad to get him thence and to repaire vnto king Edward that laie yet at the siege before Tournie during which siege manie proper feats of armes were doone betwixt those within and them without for few daies passed without the atchiuing of some enterprise Also the French king hauing made his assemblie at Arras and got thither a mightie host as well out of the empire as of his owne subiects came and lodged line 10 at the bridge of Bouuins thrée leagues from Tournie There were with him the king of Bohem the duke of Lorreine the bishop of Mentz the earles of Bar mount Belliard Sauoie also the dukes of Burgogne and Burbone with a great number of other earles and lords so that the greatest puissance of all France was iudged to be there with the king Whilest he laie incamped thus at Bouuins and the king of England at Tournie manie exploits were atchiued betwixt their people who laie not idle but line 20 still rode abroad and oftentimes met and then that part which was weakest paied for the others charges so that manie were slaine taken
this rule he was to be punished as a traitor 7 Item it was asked whether the king when soeuer it pleased him might not dissolue the parlement and command the lords and commons to depart from thence line 30 or not Wherevnto it was answered that he might 8 Item it was inquired that for somuch as it was in the king to remooue such iustices and officers as offend and to punish them for their offenses whether the lords commons might without the kings will impeach the same officers and iustices vpon their offenses in parlement or not To line 40 this answer was made that they might not and he that attempted contrarie was to suffer as a traitor 9 Item it was inquired how he is to be punished that mooued in the parlement that the statute wherin Edward the sonne of king Edward great grandfather to the king that now is was indicted in parlement might be sent for by inspection of line 50 which statute the said new statute or ordinance and commission were conceiued and deuised in the parlement To which question with one accord as in all the residue they answered that as well he that so summoned as the other which by force of the same motion brought the said statute into the parlement house be as publike offendors and traitors to be line 60 punished 10 Item it was inquired of them whether the iudgement giuen in the parlement against Michaell de la Poole earle of Suffolke were erronious and reuocable or not To which question likewise with one assent they said that if the same iudgement were now to be giuen the iustices and sergeant aforesaid would not giue the same bicause it seemed to them that the said iudgement is reuocable and erronious in euerie part In witnesse of the premisses the iustices sergeant aforesaid to these presents haue set their seals these being witnesses Alexander archbishop of Yorke Robert archbishop of Dubline Iohn bishop of Durham Thomas bishop of Chester Iohn bishop of Bangor Robert duke of Ireland Michaell erle of Suffolke Iohn Ripon clearke and Iohn Blake Now beside these iustices and sergeant there were called at that present vnto Notingham all other iustices of the realme and the shiriffes Also diuerse of the citie of London which the king knew would incline to his will the rather for that some of them hauing aforetime confessed treason against the king by them imagined and obteining pardon for the same were readie at his commandement to recompense such fauour in the accomplishment of whatsoeuer they knew might stand with his pleasure Herevpon they being impanelled to inquire of certeine treasons that were supposed to be committed by the lords which in the last parlement had so caused things to passe contrarie to the kings pleasure indicted the same lords of manie crimes informed against them ¶ The Londoners indeed were euill reported of in those daies by some writers for their vnstablenesse one while holding on the kings part and with such as were chéefe in counsell about him and an other while on the lords side that were of a contrarie faction according as the streame of their affections draue them and as they were carried awaie perforce by the floud of their variable willes whereby they were diuided into differing passions as they were assaulted by sundrie and vncerteine desires which is the nature of the people as the poet noteth saieng Scinditur incertum studia in contraria vulgus But now as concerning the cause whie the shiriffes were called hither it was chéeflie to vnderstand what power of men they might assure the king of to serue him against the lords and barons whome he tooke to be his enimies and further that where he meant to call a parlement verie shortlie they should so vse the matter that no knight might be chosen but such as the king and his councell should name But answer was made herevnto by the shiriffes that the lords were so highlie beloued of the commons that it laie not in their powers to assemble any great forces against the lords and as for choosing the knights of the shires they said that the commons would vndoubtedlie vse their ancient liberties and priuileges in choosing such as they thought meetest But yet after that the indictments were found according to the desire of the king and his councellors and that those which had béene called about this matter were licenced to depart home the king and the duke of Ireland sent messengers into euerie part of the realme to reteine men of warre to assist them in the quarell against the lords if néed were Manie made answer that sith they knew the lords to be faithfull and loiall to the king euen from the bottome of their hearts and were readie to studie to deuise and to doo all things that might tend to his honor and wealth of the realme they might not by anie meanes beare armour against them But a great number of other that tooke it that they were reteined for a good and necessarie purpose promised to be readie whensoeuer it should please the king to send for them The lords being in this meane while aduertised of these dooings were striken with great heauinesse for that not knowing themselues as they tooke it giltie of anie offense the king should thus seeke their destruction Herewith the duke of Glocester meaning to mitigate the kings displeasure receiued a solemne oth before the bishop of London and diuerse other lords protesting by the same oth that he neuer imagined nor went about any thing to the kings hinderance but to his power had alwaies doone what he might to aduance the kings honor prosperous state and good liking except onelie that he had giuen no good countenance to the duke of Ireland whom the king so much loued And suerlie for that the said duke had dishonored his kinswoman and the kings line 10 also he was firmelie determined to reuenge that iniurie vpon him and herewith he besought the bishop of London to declare what his words were vnto the king The bishop comming to the king made report of the duke of Glocesters protestation confirmed with his oth in such wise as the king began somewhat to be persuaded that it was true But when the earle of Suffolke perceiued that fearing least the reconciliation of the king and the duke his vncle should turne line 20 to his undooing he began to speake against the duke till the bishop bad him hold his peace and told him that it nothing became him to speake at all And when the earle asked why so Bicause said the bishop thou wast in the last parlement condemned for an euill person and one not worthie to liue but onelie it pleaseth the king to shew thée fauour The king offended with the bishops presumptuous words commâ—nded him to depart get him home to his church who foorthwith departed and declared to the duke of line 30 Glocester what he had heard and séene Herevpon the
so long as he bare the scepter The lord Reginald Graie of Ruthen by reason of his manour of Ashleie in Norfolke couered the tables and had for his fees all the tableclothes as well those in the hall as else-where when they were taken vp notwithstanding a petition exhibited by sir Iohn Draiton to haue had that office The same lord Graie of Ruthen bare the kings great spurs before him in the time of his coronation by right of inheritance as heire to Iohn Hastings earle of Penbroke Iohn erle of Summerset by the kings assignement bare the second sword before him at his coronation albeit that the said lord Graie of Ruthen by petition exhibited before the lord steward demanded the same office by reason of his castell tower of Penbroke and of his towne of Denbigh Thomas earle of Arundell cheefe butler of England obteined to exercise that office the daie of the coronation and had the fées thereto belonging granted to him to wit the goblet with which the king was serued and other things to that his office apperteining the vessels of wine excepted that laie vnder the bar which were adiudged vnto the said lord steward the said earle of Arundels claime notwithstanding The citizens of London chosen foorth by the citie serued in the hall as assistants to the lord cheefe butler whilest the king sate at dinner the daie of his coronation and when the king entered into his chamber after dinner and called for wine the lord maior of London brought to him a cup of gold with wine and had the same cup giuen to him togither with the cup that conteined water to allay the wine After the king had drunke the said lord maior and the aldermen of London had their table to dine at on the left hand of the king in the hall Thomas Dimocke in right of his moother Margaret Dimocke by reason of the tenure of his manor of Scriuelbie claimed to be the kings champion at his coronation and had his sute granted notwithstanding a claime exhibited by Baldwin Freuill demanding that office by reason of his castell of Tamwoorth in Warwikeshire The said Dimocke had for his fees one of the best coursers in the kings stable with the kings saddle and all the trappers harnesse apperteining to the same horsse or courser he had likewise one of the best armors that was in the kings armorie for his owne bodie with all that belonged wholie therevnto Iohn lord Latimer although he was vnder age for himselfe and the duke of Norfolke notwithstanding that his possessions were in the kings hands by his atturnie sir Thomas Graie knight claimed and had the office of almoner for that daie by reason of certeine lands which sometime belonged to the lord William Beuchampe of Bedford They had a towell of fine linnen cloth prepared to put in the siluer that was appointed to be giuen in almes and likewise they had the distribution of the cloth that couered the pauement and floors from the kings chamber doore vnto the place in the church of Westminster where the pulpit stood The residue that was spread in the church the sexten had William le Uenour by reason he was tenant of the manor of Liston claimed and obteined to exercise the office of making wafers for the king the daie of his coronation The barons of the fiue ports claimed and it was granted them to beare a canopie of cloth of gold ouer the K. with foure staues foure bels at the foure corners euerie staffe hauing foure of those barons to beare it also to dine and sit at the table next to the king on his right hand in the hall the daie of his coronation and for their fees to haue the forsaid canopie of gold with the bels and staues notwithstanding the abbat of Westminster claimed the same Edmund chambers claimed and obteined the office of principall larderer for him and his deputies by reason of his manour of Skulton otherwise called Burdellebin Skulton in the countie of Norfolke Thus was euerie man appointed to exercise such office as to him of right apperteined or at the least was thought requisit for the time present On mondaie then next insuing when the states were assembled in parlement order was taken that by reason of such preparation as was to be made for the coronation they should sit no more till the morow after saint Edwards daie On the sundaie following being the euen of saint Edward the new king lodged in the Tower and there made fortie six knights of the Bath to wit thrée of his sonnes the earle of Arundell the earle of Warwike his sonne the earle of Stafford two of the earle of Deuonshires sonnes the lord Beaumont the lord line 10 Willoughbies brother the earle of Staffords brother the lord Camois his sonne the lord of Maule Thomas Beauchampe Thomas Pelham Iohn Luttrell Iohn Lisleie William Haukeford iustice William Brinchleie iustice Bartholomew Rachford Giles Daubenie William Butler Iohn Ashton Richard Sanape Iohn Tiptost Richard Francis Henrie Persie Iohn Arundell William Strall Iohn Turpington Ailmer Saint Edward Hastings Iohn Greislcie Gerald Satill Iohn Arden line 20 Robert Chalons Thomas Dimocke Hungerford Gibethorpe Newport and diuerse other to the number of fortie and six On the morow being saint Edwards daie and the thirtéenth of October the lord maior of London road towards the Tower to attend the king with diuerse worshipfull citizens clothed all in red and from the Tower the king rode through the citie to Westminster where he was consecrated annointed and crowned king by the archbishop of Canturburie line 30 with all ceremonies and roiall solemnitie as was due and requisit Though all other reioised at his aduancement yet suerlie Edmund Mortimer earle of March which was coosine and heire to Lionell duke of Clarence the third begotten sonne of king Edward the third Richard earle of Cambridge sonne to Edmund duke of Yorke which had married Anne sister to the same Edmund were with these dooings neither pleased nor contented insomuch that now the diuision once begun the one linage ceassed not to line 40 persecute the other till the heires males of both the lines were cléerlie destroied and extinguished At the daie of the coronation to the end he should not séeme to take vpon him the crowne and scepter roiall by plaine extorted power and iniurious intrusion he was aduised to make his title as heire to Edmund surnamed or vntrulie feined Crookebacke sonne to king Henrie the third and to saie that the said Edmund was elder brother to king Edward the first and for his deformitie put by from the crowne line 50 to whom by his mother Blanch daughter and sole heire to Henrie duke of Lancaster he was next of blood and vndoubted heire But because not onelie his fréends but also his priuie enimies knew that this was but a forged title considering they were suerlie informed
was commanded with certeine ships of warre to waft the king ouer whether the wind turned so that he could not kéepe his direct course or that his ship was but a slug ran so far in the kings displeasure that he was attached indited for that as was surmized against him he had practised with the Frenchmen that the king might by them haue béene taken in his passage Yee haue heard that the pope by vertue of his prouision had giuen the archbishoprike of Yorke vnto maister Robert Halom but the king was so offended therewith that the said Robert might in no wise inioy that benefice and so at length to satisfie the kings pleasure maister Henrie Bowet was translated from Bath vnto Yorke and maister Robert Halom was made bishop of Salisburie then void by remoouing of Henrie Chichellie to S. Dauids The lord Henrie prince of Wales this yeare in the summer season besieged the castell of Abiruscwith and constreined them within to compound with him vnder certeine conditions for truce but the prince was no sooner from thence departed but that Owen Glendouer by subtill craft entered the castell put out the kéepers and charging them with treason for concluding an agréement without his consent placed other in that fortresse to defend it to his vse About the feast of the Assumption of our ladie that ancient warriour and worthie knight sir Robert Knols departed this life he was as before yée haue heard borne of meane parentage but growen into such estimation for his valiant prowesse as he was thought méet to haue the leading of whole armies and the rule and gouernment of large prouinces For not long before his deceasse he being gouernour of Aquitaine incumbred with age resigned his office vnto sir Thomas Belfort a right valiant capteine and therewith returned into England where he died at a manour place of his in Norffolke from thence brought to London in a litter with great pompe and much torch light was buried in the church of White friers in Fleetstreet by the ladie Constance his wife where was doone for him a solemne obsequie with a great feast and liberall dole to the poore Besides the diuerse noble exploits and famous warlike enterprises atchiued by this valiant sonne of Mars he to continue the perpetuall memorie of his name builded the bridge of Rochester ouer the riuer of Medwaie with a chappell at the end thereof he repared also the bodie of the church of the White friers where he was buried which church was first founded by the ancestour of the lord Greie of Codner He also founded a college of secular priests at Pomfret and did manie other things in his life right commendable Sir Thomas Rampston constable of the tower was drowned in comming from the court as he would haue shut the bridge the streame being so big that it ouerturned his barge This yeare the twentith of October began a parlement holden at Glocester but remooued to London as should appeare in Nouember for as we find in that moneth this yéere 1407 and ninth of this kings reigne a subsidie was granted by authoritie of a parlement then assembled at London to be leuied through the whole realme The lord Camois was arreigned the last of October before Edmund earle of Kent that daie high steward of England and by his péeres acquit of the offense whereof he had beene indicted as before yee line 10 haue heard and so dismissed at the barre was restored againe both to his goods lands and offices ¶ This yeare the winter was excéeding sharpe through frost and snow that continued couered the ground by all the moneths of December Ianuarie Februarie and March insomuch that thrushes blackbirds and manie thousand birds of the like smaller size perished with verie cold and hunger The earle of Northumberland and the lord Bardolfe year 1408 after they had béene in Wales in France and line 20 Flanders to purchase aid against king Henrie were returned backe into Scotland and had remained there now for the space of a whole yeare and as their euill fortune would whilest the king held a councell of the nobilitie at London the said earle of Northumberland and lord Bardolfe in a dismall houre with a great power of Scots returned into England recouering diuerse of the earls castels and seigniories for the people in great numbers resorted vnto them Héerevpon incouraged with hope of good line 30 successe they entred into Yorkeshire there began to destroie the countrie At their cōming to Threske they published a proclamation signifieng that they were come in comfort of the English nation as to reléeue the common-wealth willing all such as loued the libertie of their countrie to repaire vnto them with their armor on their backes and in defensible wise to assist them The king aduertised hereof caused a great armie to be assembled and came forward with the same towards line 40 his enimies but yer the king came to Notingham sir Thomas or as other copies haue Rafe Rokesbie shiriffe of Yorkeshire assembled the forces of the countrie to resist the earle and his power comming to Grimbaut brigs beside Knaresbourgh there to stop them the passage but they returning aside got to Weatherbie and so to Tadcaster and finallie came forward vnto Bramham more neere to Haizelwood where they chose their ground méet to line 50 fight vpon The shiriffe was as readie to giue battell as the earle to receiue it and so with a standard of S. George spred set fiercelie vpon the earle who vnder a standard of his owne armes incountred his aduersaries with great manhood There was a sore incounter and cruell conflict betwixt the parties but in the end the victorie fell to the shiriffe The lord Bardolfe was taken but sore wounded so that he shortlie after died of the hurts ¶ As for the earle of Northumberland he was slaine outright so that line 60 now the prophesie was fulfilled which gaue an inkling of this his heauie hap long before namelie Stirps Persitina periet confusa ruina For this earle was the stocke and maine root of all that were left aliue called by the name of Persie and of manie more by diuerse slaughters dispatched For whose misfortune the people were not a little sorrie making report of the gentlemans valiantnesse renowne and honour and applieng vnto him certeine lamentable verses out of Lucane saieng Sed nos nec sanguis nec tantùm vulnera nostri Affecere senis quantum gestata per vrbem Ora ducis quae transfixo deformia pil◠Vidimus For his head full of siluer horie heares being put vpon a stake was openlie carried through London and set vpon the bridge of the same citie in like maner was the lord Bardolfes The bishop of Bangor was taken and pardoned by the king for that when he was apprehended he had no armor on his backe This battell was fought the ninteenth day
cast manie heauinesses and seditious billes vnder the names of such labourers threatning rising with manie thousands and menacing of estates of the land and likewise seditious and euill language sowen and so continued and likelie to haue insued of purpose and intent of disobedience and rebellion To the redressing of which it seemed to my lord the chancellor that my said lord of Glocester did not his indeuour nor diligence that he might haue shewed For lacke of which diligence they that were disposed to doo disobeisance were incouraged imboldned so that it was like that they should haue made a gathering and that the king and his true subiects should haue béene compelled to haue made a field to haue withstand them the which field making had béene aduenturing of this land and in tokening that it was neuer my said lord chancellors intent to gather no field but as truth most stirred him against such as riotouslie would make such assemblie against our souereigne lord and the weale of this land he desired so hastilie the comming of my said lord of Bedford the which he would in no wise haue so greatlie desired if he would haue purposed him vnto any vnlawfull making of a field for he wist well that my said lord of Bedford would most sharplie haue chastised and punished all those that so would make any riotous assemblie When this answer was made the duke caused this writing following openlie to be proclamed BE it knowne to all folkes that it is the intent of my lord of Bedford and all the lords spirituall temporall assembled in this present parlement to acquite him and them and to proceed truelie iustlie and indifferentlie without any parcialitie in any maner of matter or quarels moued or to be moued betweene my lord of Glocester on that one partie my lord of Winchester chancellor of England on that other partie And for suer keeping of the kings peace it is accorded by my said lord of Bedford by my said lords spirituall and temporall an oth to be made in forme as followeth that is to saie The oth of the lords THat my said lord of Bedford and my said lords spirituall and temporall and ech of them shall as far forth as their cunnings and discretions suffice trulie iustlie and indifferentlie counsell and aduise the king and also procéed and acquit themselues in all the said matters and quarels without that they or any of them shall priuilie and apertlie make or shew himselfe to be partie or parciall therein not leauing or eschewing so to doo for affection loue méed doubt or dread of any person or persons And that they shall in all wise keepe secret all that shall be commoned by waie of councell in the matters and quarrels abouesaid in the said parlement without that they or any of them shall by word writing of the king or in any wise open or discouer it to any of the said parties or to any other person that is not of the said councell but if he haue a speciall commandement or leaue therevnto of the king or my said lord of Bedford And that ech of them shall with all his might and power assist by waie of counsell or else shew it vnto the king my lord of Bedford and to the rest of my said lords to put the said parties to reason and not to suffer that any of the said parties by them or by their assistance proceed or attempt by way of fight against the kings peace nor helpe assist or comfort any of them thereto but let them with all their might and power withstand them and assist vnto the king and my said lord of Bedford in keeping of the kings peace and redressing all such maner of procéeding by waie of fight or force Dukes the duke of Bedford the duke of Norffolke the duke of Excester Bishops the archbishop of Canturburie the bishop of Carleill the bishop of Bath the bishop of Landaffe the bishop of Rochester the bishop of Chicester the bishop of Worcester the bishop of saint Dauids the bishop of London the bishop of Duresme Earles the earle of Northumberland the earle of Stafford the earle of Oxford Lords the lord Hungerford the lord Tiptost line 10 the lord Poinings the lord Cromwell the lord Borough the lord Louell the lord Botreux the lord Clinton the lord Zouch the lord Audeleie the lord Ferreis of Groubie the lord Talbot the lord Roos the lord Greie the lord Greie of Ruthen the lord Fitz Walter the lord Barkeleie Abbats the abbat of Waltham the abbat of Glastenburie the abbat of S. Augustines in Canturburie the abbat of Westminster the abbat of S. Maries in Yorke the abbat of S. Albons not sworne bicause he was not present line 20 ¶ Which oth in manner and forme aboue rehearsed all the lords aswell spirituall as temporall being in this parlement at Leicester assembled the fourth day of March promised vpon their faith dutie and allegiance which they owe to the king their souereigne lord truelie to obserue and kéepe according to the true meaning and purport of the same The arbitrement line 30 IN the name of God Amen We Henrie archbishop of Canturburie Thomas duke of Excester Iohn duke of Norffolke Thomas bishop of Duresme Philip bishop of Worcester Iohn bishop of Bath Humfrie earle of Stafford William Alnwicke kéeper of the kings priuie seale Rafe lord Cromwell arbitrators in all maner of causes matters and quarrels of heauinesses greeuances with all incidents line 40 circumstances dependents or connexes being and hanging betweene the high worthie prince Humfrie duke of Glocester on the one partie and the worshipfull father in God Henrie bishop of Winchester and chancellor of England on the other partie by either of them for the peasing of the said quarrels and debates taken and chosen in maner and forme as it is conteined more plainelie in a compromise made therevpon of the which the tenor insueth in this forme line 50 Memorandum the seauenth daie of March in the fourth yeare of our souereigne lord the king Henrie the sixt the high and mightie prince Humfrie duke of Glocester at the reuerence of God and for the good of the king our souereigne lord in this land namelie at the reuerence and especiallie at the request and praier of the mightie and high prince my lord of Bedford his brother agréed him to put and putteth all maner matters and quarels indéed with all their incidents circumstances dependents and connexes line 60 that touchen him and his person that he hath in anie wise doo or féeleth himselfe gréeued or heauie against my lord his vncle my lord of Winchester or else that my lord of Winchester findeth him agréeued against him in as much as they touch him or his person from the beginning of the world vnto this daie in the aduise ordinance and arbitrement of the worthie father in God Henrie archbishop of Canturburie the high and noble prince Thomas duke of Excester and
Iohn duke of Norffolke the worshipfull father in God Thomas bishop of Duresme Philip bishop of Worcester Iohn bishop of Bath the noble lord Humfrie earle of Stafford the worshipfull persons maister William Alnewicke kéeper of the kings priuie seale and Rafe lord Cromwell promising and behighting by the faith of his bodie word of his princehood and kings sonne to doo kéepe obserue and fulfill for him and his behalfe all that shall be declared ordeined and arbitrated by the foresaid archbishop dukes bishops earle keeper of the priuie seale and lord Cromwell in all matters and quarels abouesaid Granting also and promising ouer that to be comprehended in the foresaid arbitrement as toward putting awaie all heauinesses and displeasures in anie wise conteined by my lord of Glocester against all those that haue in anie wise assisted counselled or fauoured vnto his said vncle of Winchester and as toward anie matters that be touching my lord of Glocester remitteth it and the gouernance thereof vnto the king his councell they to déeme it by the aduise of his councell as him thinketh it to be doon◠In witnesse of the which thing to this present compromise my said lord of Glocester hath subscribed his name with his owne hand Humfreie Glocester And in like forme my lord of Winchester in an other compromise hath subscribed with his owne hand vnder the word of his priesthood to stand at the aduise ordinance arbitrement of the persons abouesaid Mutatis mutandis A decree or order taken by the kings councell for the pacifieng of the quarels variances that were betweene the duke of Glocester and the bishop of Winchester THe causes aforesaid and quarels by vs séene heard and diligentlie examined and decréed by the assent of the said parties ordeine and award that my lords of Glocester and of Winchester for any thing doone or spoken by that one partie against that other or by anie of theirs or anie other person or persons afore the seuenth daie of this present moneth of March neuer hereafter take causes quarels displeasures or heauinesses that one against the other ne neither against the counsellers adherents or fauourers of that other for anie thing or things that are past And that my said lord of Glocester be good lord to my said lord of Winchester haue him in loue and affection as his kinsman vncle And that my said lord of Winchester haue to my said lord of Glocester true and sad loue and affection doo and be readie to doo him such seruice as apperteineth of honestie to my said lord of Winchester and his estate to doo And that each of them be good lord vnto all those adherents counsellers and fauourers of that other and shew them at all times fauourable loue and affection as for anie thing by them doone or said before the seauenth daie of March. And we decrée ordeine and award that my said lord of Winchester in the presence of the king our souereigne lord my lord of Bedford and my lord of Glocester and the residue of the lords spirituall and temporall and commons being in this present parlement saie and declare in maner and forme that followeth My souereigne lord I haue well vnderstand that I am noised among the states of your land how that the king our souereigne lord that was at that time being prince and lodged in the great chamber at Westminster by the baieng of a spaniell there was on a night taken behind a tapet in the same chamber a man that should haue confessed that he was there by mine excitation and procuring to haue slaine the foresaid prince there in his bed wherevpon he was sacked and foorthwith also drowned in the Thames Furthermore I am accused how that I should haue stirred the king that last died the time also that he was prince to haue taken the gouernance of this realme and the crowne vpon him his father liuing the same time being king Through which language and noising I féele my name and fame greatlie enblemished in diuerse mens opinions Wherevpon I take first God to my witnes and after all the world that I haue béene at all times and am true louer and true man to you my souereigne lord and shall line 10 be all my life And also I haue béene to my souereigne lord that was your father all the time of his reigne true man and for such he tooke me trusted me and cherished me to his liues end and as I trust no man will affirme the contrarie nor neuer in my life procuring nor imagining death nor destruction of his person ne assenting to any such thing or like thereto the time that he was king or prince or else in other state I was likewise true man to king Henrie the line 20 fourth all the time that he was my souereigne lord and reigned vpon me In which matters in all maner of wise that it liketh to you my souereigne lord for to command me I am readie for to declare me and furthermore where how and when it shall like you by the aduise of your councell to assigne me Wherfore I beséech you my souereigne lord as humblie as I can considering that there is no grounded processe by the which I might lawfullie in these matters abouesaid be conuict blessed be God to hold me line 30 and declare me by the aduise of all the lords spirituall and temporall being in this present parlement true man to you my souereigne lord and so to haue beene vnto my souereigne lords that were your father and grandfather and true man also to haue béene at all times to your said father whilest he was prince or else in anie other estate the said slander and noise notwithstanding and this same declaration to be inacted in this your said present parlement The which words declared in maner as it is abouesaid line 40 it seemeth to my said lords the arbitrators that it is méet that my said lord of Winchester draw him apart and in the meane time the lords being present be singularlie examined therevpon and saie their aduise And if it be assented by them in maner as my said lord of Winchester desireth let him be called againe and that then my lord of Bedford haue these words in effect that follow Faire vncle the king my lord by the aduise of his councell hath commanded me to saie to you that he hath well vnderstand line 50 and considered all the matters which yée haue heere openlie declared in his presence and therevpon yée desire a petition that he will declare you and by the aduise and assent of the lords spirituall and temporall being in this present parlement he declareth you a true man to him and that yée haue so béene to my lord his father and grandfather also true man to my lord his father while he was prince or else in anie other estate the said dislander and noising notwithstanding and will that the said declaration be so line 60 inacted in
tooke their barge at the crane by seauen of the clocke and came to Westminster where they were welcomed brought into the hall by master treasuror and others of the kings house and so gaue their attendance till the quéene should come foorth Betwéene eight and nine she came into the hall and stood vnder the cloth of estate and thâ—n â—ame in the kings chappell and the moonks of Westminster all in rich copes and manie bishops and abbats in copes and miters which went into the middest of the hall and there stood a season Then was there a raie cloth speed from the quéenes standing in the hall through the palace and sanctuarie which was raised on both sides to the high altar of Westminster After that the raie cloth was cast the officers of armes appointed the order accustomed First went gentlemen then esquiers then knights then the aldermen of the citie in their cloks of scarlet after them the iudges in their mantels of scarlet and coiffes Then followed the knights of the bath being no lords euerie man hauing a white lace on his left sléeue then followed barons and vicounts in their parlement robes of scarlet After them came earls marquesses and dukes in their robes of estate of crimsin veluet furred with ermine poudered according to their degrées After them came the lord line 10 chancellor in a robe of scarlet open before bordered with lettise after him came the kings chapell and the moonks solemnelie singing with procession then came abbats and bishops mitered then sargeants and officers of armes then after them went the maior of London with his mace and garter in his cote of armes then went the marquesse Dorset in a robe of estate which bare the scepter of gold and the earle of Arundell which bare the rod of iuorie with the doue both togither line 20 Then went alone the earle of Oxford high chamberleine of England which bare the crowne after him went the duke of Suffolke in his robe of estate also for that daie being high steward of England hauing a long white rod in his hand and the lord William Howard with the rod of the marshalship and euerie knight of the garter had on his collar of the order Then proceeded foorth the quéene in a circot and robe of purple veluet furred with ermine in hir here coiffe and circlet as she had the saturdaie and ouer hir was borne the canopie by foure of the fiue ports line 30 all crimsin with points of blue and red hanging on their sléeues and the bishops of London and Winchester bare vp the laps of the queenes robe The queenes traine which was verie long was borne by the old duches of Norffolke after hir folowed ladies being lords wiues which had circots of scarlet with narow sléeues the brest all lettise with bars of borders according to their degrées and ouer that they had mantels of scarlet furred and euerie mantell line 40 had lettise about the necke like a neckercher likewise poudered so that by the pouderings their degree was knowen Then followed ladies being knights wiues in gownes of scarlet with narow sléeues without traines onlie edged with lettise and likewise had all the queenes gentlewomen When she was thus brought to the high place made in the middest of the church betwéene the quéere and the high altar she was set in a rich chaire And after that she had rested a while she descended downe to the high altar and there prostrate hir selfe line 50 while the archbishop of Canturburie said certeine collects then she rose and the bishop annointed hir on the head and on the brest and then she was led vp againe where after diuerse orisons said the archbishop set the crowne of saint Edward on hir head and then deliuered hir the scepter of gold in hir right hand and the rod of iuorie with the doue in the left hand and then all the queere soong Te Deum c. Which doone the bishop tooke off the crowne of saint line 60 Edward being heauie and set on the crowne made for hir Then went she to saint Edwards shrine and there offered after which offering doone she withdrew hir into a little place made for the nones on the one side of the queere Now in the meane season euerie duches had put on their bonets a coronall of gold wrought with flowers and euerie marquesse put on a demie coronall of gold euerie countesse a plaine circlet of gold without flowers and euerie king of armes put on a crowne of coper and guilt all which were worne till night When the quéene had a little reposed hir the companie returned in the same order that they set foorth and the quéene went crowned and so did the ladies aforesaid Hir right hand was susteined by the earle of Wilshire hir father and hir left hand by the lord Talbot deputie for the earle of Shrewesburie and lord Forinfall his father Now when she was out of the sanctuarie and appéered within the palace the trumpets plaied maruellous freshlie then she was brought to Westminster hall so to hir withdrawing chamber during which time the lords iudges maior and aldermen put off their robes mantels and clokes and tooke their hoods from their necks and cast them about their shoulders and the lords sat onlie in their circots and the iudges and aldermen in their gownes And all the lords that serued that daie serued in their circots and their hoods about their shoulders also diuerse officers of the kings house being no lords had circots and hoods of scarlet edged with mineuer as the treasuror controllor master of the iewell house but their circots were not guilt While the queene was in hir chamber euerie lord and other that ought to doo seruice at coronations did prepare them according to their dutie as the duke of Suffolke high steward of England which was richlie apparelled his doublet and iacket set with orient pearle his gowne of crimsin veluet imbrodered his courser trapped with a cloth trapper head and all to the ground of crimsin veluet set full of letters of gold of goldsmiths worke hauing a long white rod in his hand on his left hand rode the lord William deputie for his brother as earle marshall with the marshals rod whose gowne was crimsin veluet and his horsse trapper purple veluet cut on white sattin imbrodered with white lions The earle of Oxenford was high chamberleine the earle of Essex caruer the earle of Sussex sewer the earle of Arundell cheefe butler on whom twelue citizens of London did giue their attendance at the cupbord The earle of Darbie cupbearer the vicount Lisle pantler the lord of Aburgaine chéefe larder the lord Braie almoner for him and his coparteners and the maior of Oxford kept the buttrie bar and Thomas Wiat was chéefe eurer for sir Henrie Wiat his father When all things were redie the quéene vnder hir canopie came to the hall and washed and sat downe in the
die for according to the law and by the law I am iudged to die and therfore I will speake nothing against it I am come hither to accuse no man nor to speake anie thing of that whereof I am accused condemned to die but I praie God saue the king and send him long to reigne ouer you for a gentler nor a more mercifull prince was there neuer and to me he was euer a good a gentle and a souereigne lord And if anie person will meddle of my cause I require them to iudge the best And thus I take my leaue of the world and of you all and I hartilie desire you all to praie for me Oh Lord haue mercie on me to God I commend my soule Iesu receiue my soule diuerse times repeting those words till that hir head was striken off with the sword Now bicause I might rather saie much than sufficientlie inough in praise of this noble quéene as well for hir singular wit and other excellent qualities of mind as also for hir fauouring of learned men zeale of religion and liberalitie in distributing almes in reliefe of the poore I will refer the reader vnto master Fox his volume of Acts and Monuments where he commendeth hir mild nature in taking admonition prooueth hir marriage lawfull defendeth hir succession ouerthroweth the sinister iudgements opinions and obiections of backebiters against that vertuous quéene sheweth hir faith and trust in Christ at hir death and finallie how the protestants of Germanie forsooke king Henrie for the death of so good a princesse ¶ Anglorum praelia saith that this good quéene was forwarned of hir death in a dreame wherein Morpheus the god of sléepe in the likenesse of hir grandfather appéered vnto hir and after a long narration of the vanities of this world how enuie reigneth in the courts of princes maligning the fortunate estate of the vertuous how king Henrie the eight and his issue should be the vtter ouerthrow and expulsion of poperie out of England and that the gouernment of quéene Elizabeth should be established in tranquillitie peace he saith vnto hir in conclusion by waie of prophesie as our poet hath recorded Forti sis animo tristis si nuncius adsum Insperata tuae velox necis aduenit hora Intra triginta spacium moriere dierum Hoc magnum mortis solamen habeto futurae Elizabetha suis praeclarè filia gestis Nomen ad astraferet patris matrÃsque suúmque Immediatlie after hir death in the wéeke before Whitsuntide the king married the ladie Iane Seimer daughter to sir Iohn Seimer knight which at Whitsuntide was openlie shewed as quéene And on the tuesdaie in Whitsunwéeke hir brother sir Edw. Seimer was created vicount Beauchampe and sir Water Hungerford lord Hungerford The eight of Iune began the parlement during the which the lord Thomas Howard without the kings assent affied the ladie Margaret Duglas daughter to the quéene of Scots and neece to the king for which act he was atteinted of treason and an act made for like offendors and so he died in the tower and she remained long there as prisoner In the time of this parlement the bishops and all the cleargie of the realme held a solemne conuocation at Paules church in London where after much disputation and debating of matters they published a booke of religion intituled Articles deuised by the kings highnesse c. In this booke is speciallie mentioned but thrée sacraments Also beside this booke certeine iniunctions were giuen foorth wherby a number of their holie daies were abrogated speciallie those that fell in haruest time ¶ The nine twentith of Iune the king held a great iusting and triumph at Westminster where were ordeined two lighters made like ships to fight vpon the water one of the which brake in the midst wherby one Gates a gentleman seruant to M. Knâ—net was drowned in his harnesse In the other a gun brake hir chamber maimed two of the mariners Thomas Cromwell secretarie vnto the king and maister of the rols was made lord kéeper of the priuie seale and the ninth of Iulie the lord Fitzwaren was created erle of Bath and the morrow after the said lord Cromwell was created lord Cromwell The eightéenth of Iulie he was made knight and vicar generall vnder the king ouer the spiritualtie and sat diuerse times in the conuocation amongst the bishops as head ouer them The two and twentith of Iulie Henrie duke of Richmont and Summerset earle of Northampton base sonne to the king begot line 10 of the ladie Tailebois then called Elizabeth Blunt departed this life at saint Iames and was buried at Thetford in Norffolke of whome you shall find more in the treatise of the dukes of this land In September Thomas Cromwell lord priuie seale and vicegerent sent abroad vnder the kings spirituall priuie seale certeine iniunctions commanding that the persons and curats should teach their parishioners the Pater noster the Aue Creed with the ten commandements and articles of the line 20 faith in English These articles and iniunctions being established by authoritie of parlement and now to the people deliuered bred a great misliking in the harts of the common people which had beene euer brought vp and trained in contrarie doctrine And herewith diuerse of the cleargie as moonks priests and others tooke occasion herby to speake euill of the late procéedings of the king touching matters of religion affirming that if spéedie remedie were not in time prouided the faith would shortlie be vtterlie line 30 destroied and all praier and diuine seruice quite abolished and taken awaie Manie sinister reports slanderous tales and feigned fables were blowne abroad and put into the peoples eares and diuerse of the nobilitie did also what they could to stir the commons to rebellion faithfullie promising both aid and succour against the king The people thus prouoked to mischiefe and deceiued through ouer light credence incontinentlie as it were to mainteine that religion which had so manie line 40 yeares continued and béene estéemed they stiffelie and stoutlie conspired togither and in a part of Lincolneshire they first assembled and shortlie after ioined into an armie being as it was supposed of men apt for the warres in number about twentie thousand Against these rebels with all the hast that might be the king in his proper person vpon intelligence therof had marched towards them being furnished with a warlike armie perfectlie appointed of all things that to such a companie should apperteine line 50 The rebels hearing that his person was present with his power to come thus against them began to feare what would follow of their dooings and such nobles and gentlemen as at the first fauoured their cause fell from them and withdrew so that they being destitute of capteines at length put certeine petitions in writing which they exhibited to the king professing that they neuer intended hurt
as well sundrie waies foresee and prouide for our owne safegards as anie of you by betraieng vs can doo for yours But now vpon the onelie trust and faithfulnesse of your honors whereof we thinke our selues most assured we doo hazzard our liues Which trust and promise if yée shall violate hoping thereby of life and promotion yet shall not God count you innocent of our blouds neither acquite you of the sacred and holie oth of allegiance made fréelie by you to this vertuous ladie the queenes highnesse who by your and our intisement is rather line 40 of force placed therein than by hir owne séeking and request Consider also that Gods cause which is the preferment of his word feare of papists entrance hath beene as ye haue here before alwaies laid the originall ground wherevpon ye euen at the first motion granted your goodwils and consents therevnto as by your handwritings appeareth and thinke not the contrarie but if ye meane deceit though not foorthwith yet hereafter God will reuenge the same line 50 I can saie no more but in this troublesome time wish you to vse constant hearts abandoning all malice enuie and priuat affections And therewithall the first course for the lords came vp wherefore the duke shut vp his talke with these words I haue not spoken to you in this sort vpon anie mistrust I haue of your truths of which alwaies I haue euer hitherto conceiued a trustie confidence but I haue put you in remembrance thereof what chance of variance so euer might grow amongst you in mine absence and this I praie you wish me not worsse good spéed in this line 60 iorneie than yée would haue to your selues My lord saith one of them if yee mistrust anie of vs in this matter your grace is farre deceiued for which of vs can wash his hands cleane thereof And if we should shrinke from you as from one that were culpable which of vs can excuse himselfe to be giltlesse Therefore herein your doubt is too farre cast I praie God it be quoth the duke let vs go to dinner and so they sat downe After dinner the duke went in to the quéene where his commission was by that time sealed for his lieutenantship of the armie and then tooke his leaue of hir and so did certeine other lords also Then as the duke came through the councell chamber he tooke his leaue of the earle of Arundell who praied God be with his grace saieng he was sorie it was not his chance to go with him and beare him companie in whose presence he could find in his heart to spend his bloud euen at his féet Then the earle of Arundell tooke Thomas Louell the dukes boie by the hand and said Farewell gentle Thomas with all my heart Then the duke with the lord marquesse of Northampton the lord Greie and diuerse other tooke their â—â—rge and went to Durham place and to White 〈◊〉 where that night they mustered their men and the next daie in the morning the duke departed with the number of six hundred men or thereabouts And as they rode through Shordich said the duke to the lord Greie The people prease to see vs but not one saith God spéed vs. The same daie sir Iohn Gates and other went out after the duke Now as the duke went forward on his waie with his commission from the whole councell and his warrant vnder the broad seale of England without mistrust of that which after fortuned to his owne destruction as in the historie of quéene Marie shall appeare accompanied with no small number of lords and gentlemen hauing notwithstanding his times prescribed and his iourneies appointed by the councell to the intent he would not seeme to doo any thing but vpon warrant what a doo there was what stirring on euerie side what sending what riding and posting what letters messages instructions went to and fro what talking among the souldiers what hartburning among the people what faire pretenses outwardlie inwardlie what priuie practises there were what speeding and sending foorth ordinance out of the tower yea euen the same daie that quéene Marie at euen was proclaimed quéene what rumors and comming downe of souldiers as there was from all quarters a world it was to see and a processe to declare enough to make as saith master Fox a whole volume euen as big as an Ilias The greatest helpe that made for the ladie Marie was the short iourneies of the duke which by commission were assigned vnto him before as aboue is mentioned and happilie not without the politike forecast of some in fauour of the ladie Marie for the longer the duke lingered in his voiage the ladie marie the more increased in puissance the hearts of the people being mightilie bent vnto hir Whervpon she in the meane time remaining at Fremingham and hearing of this preparation against hir gathered togither such power of the noblemen other hir fréends in that countrie as she could get And first of all the noblemen that came vnto hir aid were the earles of Sussex Bath and Oxford the lord Wentworth sir Thomas Cornewallis sir Henrie Ierningham sir William Walgraue with diuerse other gentlemen and commons of the counties of Norffolke and Suffolke Here as master Fox noteth the Suffolke men being the first that resorted to hir promised hir their aid and helpe to the vttermost of their powers so that she would not go about to alter the religion which hir brother had established and was now vsed and exercised through the realme To this condition she agréed with such promise as no man would haue doubted that anie innouation of matters in religion should haue followed by hir sufferance or procurement during hir reigne but how soone shée forgat that promise it shall shortlie after plainelie appeare In this meane season the lord Windsor sir Edmund Peckham sir Robert Drurie and sir Edward Hastings raised the commoners of the shire of Buckingham vnto whome sir Iohn Williams which afterward was lord Williams of Thame and sir Leonard Chamberleine with the cheefe power of Oxfordshire And out of Northamptonshire came sir Thomas Tresham and a great number of gentlemen out of diuerse parts whose names were too long to rehearse These capteins with their companies being thus assembled in warlike manner marched forward towards Norffolke to the aid of the ladie Marie and the further they went the more their power increased ¶ About this time six ships well manned that were line 10 appointed to lie before Yarmouth and to haue taken the ladie Marie if she had fled that waie were by force of weather driuen into the hauen where one maister Ierningham was raising power on the ladie Maries behalfe who hearing therof came thither Whervpon the capteins tooke a bote and went to the ships but the sailers and souldiers asked master Ierningham what he would haue and whether he would haue their capteins or no and he said yea Marrie
before the high altar two dukes betwéene two quéenes to wit the duke of Summerset the duke of Northumberland betweene quéene Anne and quéene Katharine all foure beheaded At the same time and place also was likewise beheaded sir Iohn Gates and sir Thomas Palmer which line 50 sir Iohn Gates in that place vsed few words but laid downe his head without anie kercher and had the same striken off at thrée blowes Sir Thomas Palmer as soone as he came to the scaffold tooke euerie man by the hand and desired them to praie for him then putting off his gowne he leaned vpon the â—ast raile and said these words in effect The effect of such words as sir Thomas Palmer vttered on the line 60 scaffold at his death MY maisters quoth he God saue you all It is not vnknowne vnto you wherefore I come hither which I haue worthilie well deserued at Gods hands for I know it to be his diuine ordinance by this meanes to call me to his mercie and to teach me to know my selfe what I am and wherevnto we are all subiect I thanke his mercifull goodnesse for hee hath caused me to learne more in one little darke corner in yonder tower than euer I learned by anie trauell in so manie places as I haue beene For there I saie I haue seene God what he is how vnsearchable his woonderous works are how infinit his mercies be I haue seene there my selfe throghlie and what I am nothing but a lumpe of sin earth dust and of all vilenesse most vilest I haue seene there and know what the world is how vaine deceitfull transitorie and short it is how wicked and lothsome the works thereof are in the sight of Gods maiestie how he neither regardeth the manaces of the proud men and mightie ones neither despiseth the humblenesse of the poore lowlie which are in the same world finallie I haue seene there what death is how nie hanging ouer all mens heds and yet how vncerteine the time and how vnknowne to all men and how little it is to be feared And should I feare death or be sad therefore Haue I not seene two die before mine eies Yea and within the hearing of mine eares No neither the sprinkling of the bloud nor the sheading thereof nor the bloudie ax it selfe shall make me afraid And now taking my leaue of the same I praie you all to praie for me Come on good fellow quoth he art thou he that must doo the deed I forgiue thee with all my hart then kneeling downe laieng his hed on the blocke he said I will see how meet the blocke is for my necke I praie thee strike not yet for I haue a few praiers to saie and that doone strike on Gods name good leaue thou His praiers ended and desiring ech man to praie for him he laid downe his head againe and so the executioner foorthwith tooke it from him at one stroke On the thrée and twentith of August the quéene deliuered the great seale to doctor Gardiner bishop of Winchester and made him lord chancellor The seauen and twentith of August the seruice began in Latine to be soong in Pauls church in London The six and twentith of August in the euening the notablest ship in England called the great Harrie was burnt at Woolwich by negligence of the mariners she was of burthen a thousand tuns The first of September the quéene demanded a prest of the citie of London of twentie thousand pounds to be repaied againe within fouretéene daies after Michael masse next folowing which sum was leuied of the aldermen and one hundred twentie commoners The fourth of September was proclamed certeine new coins of gold and siluer a souereigne of gold of thirtie shillings the halfe souereigne fiftéene shillings an angell at ten shillings the halfe angell fiue shillings Of siluer the grote halfe grote and pennie all base coines to be currant as before Also the same daie by proclamation was pardoned the subsidie of foure shillings the pound of lands and two shillings eight pence the pound of moouable goods granted in the last parlement of king Edward the sixt Soone after this Thomas Cranmer archbishop of Canturburie and late before of king Edwards priuie councell was committed to the tower of London being charged of treason not onelie for giuing aduise to the disheriting of quéene Marie but also for aiding the duke of Northumberland with certeine horsse and men against the queene in the quarrell of the ladie Iane of Suffolke wherein if he were culpable he lacked the prouidence and foresight of after-claps which doctor Parker in the insurrection Ket vsing saued both his life and estimation ¶ On the seuen and twentith of September quéene Marie came to the tower by water accompanied with the ladie Elizabeth hir sister and other ladies before whose arriuall there was shot a great peale of guns The last of September quéene Marie rode through the citie of London towards Westminster sitting in a chariot of cloth of tissue drawne with six line 10 horsses all trapped with the like cloth of tissue She sate in a gowne of purple veluet furred with powdered ermins hauing on hir head a kall of cloth of tinsell béeset with pearle and stone and aboue the same vpon hir head a round circlet of gold béeset so richlie with pretious stones that the value thereof was inestimable the same kall and circle being so massie and ponderous that she was faine to beare vp hir head with hir hand and the canopie was borne ouer hir chariot Before hir rode a number of gentlemen line 20 knights then iudges then doctors then bishops then lords then the councell after whome followed the knights of the Bath in their robes the bishop of Winchester lord chancellor and the marques of Winchester lord high treasuror next came the duke of Norffolke and after him the earle of Oxford who bare the sword before hir the maior of London in a gown of crimsin veluet bare the scepter of gold c. After the quéenes chariot sir Edward Hastings led hir horsse in his hand then came another chariot line 30 hauing a couering of cloth of siluer all white and six horsses trapped with the like therein sate the ladie Elizabeth and the ladie Anne of Cleue then ladies and gentlewomen riding on horsses trapped with red veluet and their gownes and kirtles likewise of red veluet after them folowed two other chariots couered with red sattin and the horsses betrapped with the same and certeine gentlewomen betwéene euerie of the said chariots riding in crimsin sattin their horsses betrapped with the same the number line 40 of the gentlewomen so riding were six and fortie besides them in the chariots At Fanchurch was a costlie pageant made by the Genowaies at Gracechurch corner there was an other pageant made by the Easterlings At the vpper end oâ— Gracesstréet there was
cistis recludentes sigilla sua apponentes praeceperunt idem sepulchrum ante maius altare celeriter collocari retentis externis capitibus propter populi deuotionem apposita huiusmodi scriptura Haec sunt ossa nobilissimi regis Arthurij quae anno dominicae incarnationis 1278 decimo tertio calendas Maij per dominum Eadueardum regem Angliae illustrem hîc fuerunt sic collocata praesentibus Leonora serenissima eiusdem regis consorte filia domini Ferandi regis Hispaniae magistro William de Middleton nunc Norwicensi electo magistro Thoma de Becke archidiacono Dorsitensi praedicti regis thesaurario domino Henrico de Lasciae comite Lincolniae domino Amideo comite Subaudiae multis magnatibus Angliae Thus farre the moonke of Glastenburie Richard Warren or de Ware abbat of Westminster was made abbat about the yeare of Christ 1260 being about the foure and fortith yeare of king Henrie the third who was made treasuror as hath Iohn de Euersden in the yeare of our redemption a thousand two hundred foure score being the eight yeare of king Edward the first which yeare of Christ a thousand two hundred and foure score some doo falslie make to fall in the tenth some in the eleuenth yeare of the said Edward the first which contrarietiâ— hath onelie risen by the default of the transcriber But most certeine it is that he was treasuror in the ninth eleuenth and part of the twelfe of the said king Edward the first This man going to Rome for his consecration brought from thense certeine workemen and rich purphyrie stones whereof and by whom he made that rare pauement conteining a discourse of the whole world which is at this daie most beautifull and to be seene at Westminster before the communion table a thing of that singularitie curiousnesse and rarenesse that England hath not the like againe in which pauement are circularie written in letters of brasse these ten verses following Silector posita prudenter cuncta reuoluat line 10 Hìc finem primi mobilis inueniet Sepes trina canes equos homines superaddas Ceruos coruos aquilas immania cete Mundum quódque sequens praeeuntis triplicat annos Sphericus archetypuÌ„ globum hic monstrat microcosmum Christi milleno bis centeno duodeno Cum sexageno subductis quatuor anno Tertius Henricus rex vrbs Odoricus abbas Hos compegere purphyreos lapides The full explanation of which verses shall be at line 20 large set downe in the whole discourse of this abbats life in my large booke of the liues of the lord treasurors Which abbat with those workemen and those stones did also frame the shrine of Edward the confessor with these verses carued out of stone and also gilded set about the same shrine or monument Anno milleno Domini cum septuageno Et bis centeno cum completo quasideno Hoc opus est factum quod Petrus duxit in actum Romanus ciuis Homo causam noscere sivis line 30 Rex fuit Henricus sancti praesentis amicus This abbat died the second daie of December in the yeare of our redemption a thousand two hundred foure score and thrée being the twelfe yeare of king Edward the first after that he had gouerned the monasterie three and twentie yeares and more and was buried there at Westminster in the foresaid plaine pauement of purphyrie on the north side neere vnto the toome as is yet well to be séene of Odomer or Aimer de Ualence earle of Penbroke on which line 40 graue is ingrauen this bréefe epitaph héere insuing Abbas Richardus de Wara qui requiescit Hîc portat lapides quos hic portauit ab vrbe Walter Wenlocke abbat of Westminster whom Matthew Westminster calleth William de Wenloke was made abbat of Westminster after the death of Richard de Ware was treasuror to king Edward the first as hath the register of the liues of the abbats of Westminster and other records that I haue seene Which office it séemeth that he had meane line 50 betwéene the twelfe and the foureteenth yeare of the said king Edward the first as I suppose This man after that he had beene abbat six and twentie yeares lacking six daies died the fiue and twentith of December on the Christmas daie at night in his manour of Pireford in Glocestershire in the first yeare of Edward the sonne of Edward which was Edward the second being the yeare of our redemption one thousand thrée hundred and seuen and was buried in the church of Westminster besides the high line 60 altar then standing without the south doore of saint Edwards shrine before the presbiterie there vnder a plaine pauement and a marble stone decentlie adorned with this epitaph to his high commendation Abbas Walterus iacet hîc sub marmore tectus Non fuit austerus sed mitis famine rectus A bishop of Couentrie and Lichfield was treasuror of England in the fourteenth yéere of king Edward the first being the yeare of our redemption 1286 in whose place in the same yeare came Iohn Kirkbie Iohn Kirkbie deane of Winburne and archdeacon of Couentrie treasuror to king Edward the first was on the seuenth calends of August in the yeare of our Lord 1286 being the fouretéenth yeare of the said Edward then at Paris made bishop of Elie whome Leland the refiner of all names dooth in his coÌ„ment vpon his song of the swan in the word Winchelsega thus terme Iohannes Chercheâ—ius episcopus Anguillarinus regi à thesauris This man was tresuror in the sixtéenth seuentéenth part of the eightéenth of Edward the first in which yeare as it séemeth being part of the yeare of Christ 1290 this bishop died the seuenth calends of Aprill after that he had béene bishop three yeares some moneths and some daies and was buried by Walepoole bishop of Norwich in the church of Elie on the north part of the quéere before the altar of saint Iohn Baptist. William de Marchia or Gulielmus Martius was treasuror in Easter terme in the eightéenth yeare of the reigne of king Edward the first in which office he continued about fiue yeares was remooued from that place on the 23 yeare of the said king Edward the first and Peter of Leicester baron of the excheker with the two chamberleins executed all functions of that office vntill a new treasuror was made This William de Marchia was made bishop of Bath and Welles in the yeare of Christ 1293 being the 22 yeare of king Edward the third in which sée he remained almost ten yeares and died in the yeare of our Lord 1302 being about the 32 yeare of the said king Edward the first and was buried in the church of Welles in the wall betwéene the doore of the cloister and the altar of saint Martine at whose toome in time past as the nature of that credulous age did hastilie beléeue were manie miracles doone as
the said Henrie the first being chosen bishop in the yere of Christ one thousand one hundred and two and consecrated in the yeare one thousand one hundred and seuen Galfridus Rufus bishop of Durham witnesse to a déed wherein Henrie the first confirmed to the priorie of Christs church a peece of ground without Aldgate called Knighton guild in the presence of Geffrie chancellor Geffrie Clinton and William Clinton he was also chancellor in the two and twentith yéere of Henrie the first and so vntill the thrée and thirtith yeare of the reigne of Henrie the first and then was made bishop of Durham which Geffrie died about the yere of our redemption one thousand one hundred fortie and one Ranulphus called by Matthew Westminster Arnulphus chancellor to Henrie the first and Richard the chapleine kéeper of the great seale being at one time This Ranulph was chancellor in the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred and sixtéene being the sixtéenth of king Henrie the first in which office I suppose that he continued vntill the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred twentie and thrée being the thrée and twentith of the said Henrie in which yeare this chancellor for so is he then called fell from his horsse and brake his necke on a hill not far from Dunstable where the king kept his Christmasse Reginald chancellor to king Henrie the first as Leland hath set him downe writing in this sort in his notes of Montacute abbeie Reginaldus cancellarius so named béelike of his office he was a man of gret fame about king Henrie the first he fell to religion and was prior of Montacute and inlarged it with great buildings and possessions c. Roger bishop of Salisburie againe chancellor in the latter end of the reigne of king Henrie the first and in the beginning of king Stephan in the yere of Christ one thousand one hundred thirtie and six which Henrie the first died in the yeare of our redemption one thousand one hundred thirtie and fiue being the fiue and thirtith yeare of the reigne of the said Henrie This Roger died in the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred thirtie and nine being about the fourth yeare of king Stephan Godfreie chancellor to Henrie the first as I gather out of Matthew Parker in the life of William Corbell or Corbris the six and thirtith archbishop of â—â—â—â—â—rburie to which dignitie this William was 〈◊〉 in the three and twentith yeare of Henrie 〈…〉 being the yeare of Christ 1123 of which Godâ—â—â—â—e the said Matthew further writeth in this sort speaking of the said William the archbishop returned from Rome with the pall Deinde Alexandrum Lincolniensem episcopum Cantuariae Godefredum regni cancellarium Bathoniensem episcopum Londini conseâ—rauit Concerning which Godfreie we will speake more hereafter in the liues of the chancellors onelie at this time setting downe that this Godefredus was the line 10 quéenes chapleine and could not be that Galfridus before named which was bishop of Durham for this Godefredus died six yeares before that Galfridus for this bishop of Bath died in the yeare of our Lord 1135 being the last of king Henrie Beauclerke and the first of king Stephan that bishop of Durham died in the yeare of our Lord 1141 being about the sixt yeare of the said king Stephan and this Godfreie was the second bishop of Bath and Wels line 20 after the vniting of those two cities to one bishoprike by Iohn de Towres the first bishop of those two places in the yeare of our Lord 1092 being about the fift yeare of William Rufus Alexander bishop of Lincolne as may be after a sort gathered out of Wilhelmus Paruus lib. 1. cap. 6. being cousine or nephue to Roger bishop of Salisburie was chancellor the words of which W. Paruus be these Eidem that was to king Stephan quoque sublimato in regem se that was Roger bishop of Salisburie line 30 talem exhibuit vt obsequiorum gratia praeclaram apud illum habere fiduciam videretur Tantis ille beneficijs ingratus in ipsum episcopum cuius opera nunquam episcopalia fuere vltor diuinitus ordinatus eundem tanquam exigui hominem momenti primo carcerati custodia postmodum etiam cibi inopia nepoti eius qui cancellarius fuerat regis intentato supplicio ita coarctauit vt duo illa praeclara castella which were the castels of Uise otherwise called de Deuises and the castell of Shirburne in quibus thesauri eius erant repositi resignaret Thus much Wilhelmus line 40 Newburgensis the truth whereof I leaue to other to consider sith the words of those authors may be diuerslie expounded either that this Alexander was chancellor or his sonne or else the sonne of Roger bishop of Salisburie But be it any or none of them as the truth shall hereafter be made plaine yet bicause I haue mentioned Alexander in this place I thinke it not amisse to set downe such verses as Henrie Huntington hath recited of this Alexander which are Splendor Alexandri non tam renitescit honore Quà m per eum renitescit honor flos námque virorum line 50 Dando tenere putans thesauros cogit honoris Et gratis dare festinans ne danda rogentur Quod non dum dederit non dum se credit habere Oh decus oh morum directio quo veniente Certa fides hilaris clementia cauta potestas Lene iugum doctrina placens correctio dulcis Libertásque decens venere pudórque facetus Lincoliae gens magna prius nec maxima semper Talis iste diu sit nobis tutor honoris Robert chancellor of England in the time of line 60 king Stephan but I find not in what yeare bicause the charter is without date neither can I learne what he was bicause I know not his surname Philip chancellor to king Stephan about the fourth yeare of his reigne being about the yeare of our Lord 1139 witnesse to manie déedes which king Stephan made to the moonks of Elie and to Nigellus the bishop of that sée Reinold abbat of Walden whome I haue séene in one anonymall briefe written chronicle to be termed chancellor but in what time he liued or what other name he had I doo not yet know but by the course of the historie much about this time Iohn chancellor of England in the time of king Henrie the second but what he was or in what yeare of king Henrie he liued I doo not know and therefore leaue it to him that both can and ought to giue life to these persons whom he imprisoneth in the east castell of London not doubting but in time he will doo his countrie good and correct other men though now he be so streict laced as that he will not procure anie furtherance of other mens trauels Thomas Becket made chancellor as some write in the first yeere of the reigne of king Henrie
great seale vntill some part of the two and thirtith yeare of Henrie the third in the yeare of Christ 1248. Iohn Mansell againe kéeper of the great seale line 60 who at Woodstocke in the two and thirtith yeare of king Henrie the third did receiue the great seale of the said Iohn Lexinton which he kept as I suppose and that with some good proofe vntill the thrée thirtith yeare of the said king being the yeare of our redemption 1248. Of which Iohn Mansell thus writeth an old anonymall chronicle concerning the barons warres Sed Iohannes Mansell multarum in Anglia ecclesiarum rector seu potiùs incubator reddituum quoque quorum non erat numerus possessor magnificus ita quòd ditior eo clericus non videbatur in orbe episcopali puta dignitate minimè insignitus metu baronum aufugit latenter vltra mari de turri London in qua rex Angliae regina sua tunc temporis tenuerunt se. Quem quum Henricus filius regis Alemaniae fugientem insequeretur ipse capitur quum applicuisset Bononiae à magistro Gerando de Fenes procuratore vt putabatur reginae c. Radulphus de Diceto was chancellor as I read suppose much about this time but for certeintie I refer the same to the large booke of their liues where he shall not faile to haue his right time and place William of Kilkennie being a modest wise and faithfull man learned in the canon and ciuill lawes was made kéeper of the great seale in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred and fiftie being the foure thirtith yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the third He was elected to the bishoprike of Elie as saith the historie of Elie the eighteenth kalends of September in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred fiftie fiue being about the nine and thirtith yere of Henrie the third But others saie that he being then vicechancellor was elected bishop of Elie in the yeare of our Lord one thousand two hundred fiftie and foure being the eight and thirtith yeare of Henrie the third after that he had faithfullie and to his great commendation vsed and borne the great seale he was coÌ„secrated to that bishoprike in the yere of Christ 1255 and died in the yere 1256 being about the one and fortith yeare of king Henrie the third whose heart was buried at Elie. Henrie de Wingham was made chancellor in the nine and thirtith yeare of Henrie the third and continued in the one and fortith and two and fortith yeare of Henrie the third in which yeare as some haue and in the 43 of Henrie the third as others haue He was chosen bishop of Winchester vpon condition that he should giue place to Athelmer halfe brother to king Henrie the third son to Hugh Brune earle of March and of Eleanor king Henrie the thirds mother being banished by the barons if that he should againe returne into England and then leaue the bishoprike of Winchester vnto him which he did vpon the comming againe of the said Athelmer into England and for that cause was after chosen bishop of London being chosen thereto in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred fiftie and nine being the thrée and thirtith yeare of king Henrie the third and still chancellor and is buried in Paules on the south side of the quier next to Eustachius bishop of London in a monument of marble with this inscription on the wall to tell who it was Hîc iacet Henricus de Wingham quondam epicscopus huius ecclesiae qui multa bona contulit ministris ecclesiae sancti Pauli Walter Merton chancellor in the foure and fortith yere of king Henrie the third being the yeare 1260. Nicholas of Elie made chancellor by the barons in the said yeare of our redemption one thousand two hundred and sixtie and Walter Merton displaced But king Henrie the third disdaining to haue officers appointed him by his subiects did in the moneth of October following in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred and sixtie or rather one thousand two hundred sixtie and one depriue the said Nicholas and replaced the said Walter Merton Walter Merton bishop of Rochester the second time made chancellor as before appeareth Iohn de Chesill archdeacon of London and treasuror of England was made keeper of the great seale in the yeare of our redemption one thousand two hundred sixtie and foure being the eight and fortith yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the third This man was consecrated bishop of London in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred seuentie foure the third kalends of Maie as hath Matthew Westminster he died in the yeare that the word of the father became flesh one thousand two hundred seuentie and nine the fourth ides of Februarie in the seuenth yeare of the scourge of the Scots and Welshmen Thomas de Cantelupe borne of the noble house of the lords Cantelupes the son of William Cantelupe and Millesent 〈◊〉 as saith Leland drew hir originall from the counteâ—ses of Yorke being archdeacon of Stafford was doctor and after bishop of Hereford in the yeare one thousand two hundred seuentie and six and before that made chancellor after the feast of saint Peters chaire in the yeare of our redemption one thousand two hundred sixtie fiue being the nine and fortith yeare of the reigne of king line 10 Henrie the third He died beyond the seas comming from the court of Rome in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred seuentie and eight being the sixt yeare of the reigne of king Edward the first or more trulie as others haue in the yeare one thousand two hundred eightie thrée being the eleuenth yeare of king Edward the first whose bâ—nes were brought to Hereford Walter Gifford bishop of Bath and Welles whome manie doo call William did inioy the state line 20 of the chancellor in the yeare of our Lord one thousand two hundred sixtie six being the fiftith yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the third he was translated from Bath to Yorke in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred fiftie and nine being the nine and fortith yeare of the same Henrie the third and died the seuenth kalends of Maie in the twelfe yeare of his bishoprike in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred seuentie seuen being the sixt yeare of king Edward the first or as hath Nicholas Triuet line 30 in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred seuentie and nine being the seuenth yeare of king Edward the first Geffreie Gifford was chancellor also in the one and fiftith yeare of king Henrie the third being the yeare of our redemption one thousand two hundred sixtie and seuen This man was bishop of Worcester about the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred ninetie and nine where he sat foure and thirtie yeares foure moneths and
foure daies and died line 40 in the yeare one thousand thrée hundred and foure being about the two and thirtith yeare of king Edward the first Iohn de Chesill was the second time honoured with the place of the chancellor in the yeare that the word became flesh one thousand two hundred sixtie and eight being the thrée and fiftith yeare in which king Henrie the third of that name did hold the scepter of England Richard de Middleton so surnamed of the place line 50 where he was borne was aduanced to the office of the chancellorship in the said three and fiftith yeare of king Henrie the third in the moneth of Iulie in the yeare of our redemption one thousand two hundred sixtie and eight and was also as appeareth by a charter which I haue séene witnesse to the same déed in the foure and fiftith yeare of the said king Henrie who as farre as I can gather died in August in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred seuentie and one being the six and fiftith yeare of the long gouernment line 60 of king Henrie the third There was a writer of England that wrote many volums of this name liuing at this time whom I doubt not for anie thing that I can yet learne to be the same man which was chancellor Iohn de Kirbie after the death of Richard Middleton was made kéeper of the great seale in the said six and fiftith yere of king Henrie the third Whether this were the same Iohn Kirkbie which after was bishop of Elie and treasuror of England I haue not as yet to determine although I rather hold the affirmatiue than the contrarie Walter Merton the third time made chancellor of England in the yeere of our Lord one thousand two hundred seuentie and thrée being the first yeare of the reigne of that famous prince king Edward the first of that name he was bishop of Rochester and built Merton college in Oxford and died in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred seauentie and eight being the sixt yeare of the reigne of king Edward the first Robert Burnell the eleuenth bishop of Bath and Wels after the vniting of those two sées in one by Iohn de Toures in the yeare of Christ one thousand ninetie and two was made bishop of Bath in the yeare of our Lord as saith Euersden one thousand two hundred seuentie foure and chosen archbishop of Canturburie in the yeare one thousand two hundred seuentie and eight but reiected by the pope he was chancellor in the second yeare of the said Edward the first in which place it séemeth that he long continued of whom thus writeth an anonymall chronicle Dominus Edmundus comes Cornubiae fundauit nouum studium ordinis Cisterciensis apud Oxonias monachos de Thame primò ibidem introduxit dedit eis prima donatione manerium de Erdington fecit dedicare locum abbatiae tertij idus Decembris per dominum Robertum Burnellepiscopum Bathon Welles cancellarium regis posuit fundamentum nouae ecclesiae eodem die Northosneiae This bishop was required with the son of Edward the first and Gilbert de Clare earle of Glocester in the time of Edward the first to be deliuered for pledges for Lheweline prince of Wales for his safe returne if he came to the parlement wherevnto he was summoned by the said king Edward In the time of this chancellor the court of chancerie was kept at Bristow This man died in the yéere of Christ one thousand two hundred ninetie and thrée being the one and twentith yere of the reigne of king Edward the third Iohn de Langhton made chancellor of England in the yéere of our Lord one thousand two hundred ninetie and thrée being the one and twentith yeare of the scourger of the Scots king Edward the first in which office he remained vntill the thirtith of the said king being the yeare of our redemption one thousand thrée hundred and two He was made bishop of Chichester about the six and twentith or rather the seauen and twentith yeare of king Edward the first being the yeare of our Lord one thousand two hundred ninetie and eight or rather one thousand two hundred ninetie and nine and in the said yeare one thousand two hundred ninetie and nine he was before chosen bishop of Elie but reiected by the pope who made him archdeacon of Canturburie from which Langhton this Edward did take the great seale in the thirtith yeare before said and deliuered it to Iohn Drokensford Iohn Drokensford kéeper of the wardrobe was made keeper of the great seale in the thirtith yere as before in which office he continued from about the fiftéenth daie of August vntill Michaelmas William de Greinfield deane of Chichester and canon of Yorke was aduanced to the place of the chancellor in the yeare that God became man one thousand three hundred and two being about the thirtith yeare of the said king Edward the first which office was giuen vnto him at saint Radigunds as saith Anonymus M.S. He was after chosen bishop of Yorke in the yeare of our redemption one thousand thrée hundred and thrée who in the yeare of our Lord one thousand three hundred and eight buried the bodie of the said king Edward the first at Westminster though that king died in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand thrée hundred and seauen This bishop died about the yere of our saluation one thousand thrée hundred and fifteene being about the sixt yeare of king Edward the second at Cawood after that he had béene bishop nine yeares eleuen moneths and two daies and was buried in saint Nicholas porch of Yorke receiuing his consecration at Rome in the yeare of Christ one thousand thrée hundred and fiue after that he had béene there two yéeres of pope Clement This Greinfield was a man verie eloquent and pithie in counsell William de Hamelton deane of Yorke was created chancellor of England in the yeare that the virgine brought foorth the sonne of God one thousand line 10 thrée hundred and fiue being the thrée and thirtith yeare of that noble prince king Edward the first This William surrendred his borrowed life in the yeare of our Lord one thousand thrée hundred and seuen being about the fiue and thirtith yeare of the said king at the abbeie of Fontnesse in Yorkshire being a man that well deserued of the common-wealth Ralfe de Baldocke chosen bishop of London in the yeare of Christ one thousand thrée hundred and thrée was confirmed at Titneshall by Robert of line 20 Winchelseie bishop of Canturburie and consecrated at Lions by Peter of Spaine bishop of Alba the third calends of Februarie in the yere of our redemption one thousand thrée hundred and fiue He was made lord chancellor of England after the death of the said William Hamelton in the said fiue thirtith yere of king Edward
king Henrie the fourth He being kéeper of the priuie seale was made bishop of Excester the twentith of Iune in the yeare of our redemption one thousand thrée hundred ninetie fiue being the daie before king Richard the second began the one and twentith yeare of his reigne He was consecrated at Lambeth and kept the see of Excester three and twentie yeares He increased two fellowships in Stapletons inne in Oxford reformed the statutes of the house and called it Excester college he died the fourth of September in the seuenth yeare of king Henrie the fift being the yeare of Christ one thousand foure hundred and ninetéene About the making of this Stafford chancellor as farre as my memorie serueth Ypodigma is much deceiued if I haue not for want of the booke mistaken his iudgement line 10 Henrie Beauford the sonne of Iohn of Gaunt by Katharine Swineford made bishop of Lincolne in the yeare of our Lord one thousand three hundred ninetie and eight as hath Ypodigma was aduanced to the dignitie of chancellor in the yeare of Christ one thousand foure hundred thrée being the fourth yeare of king Henrie the fourth his elder brother by the daughter of the earle of Hereford in which office he was in the fift yeare of king Henrie the fourth line 20 and sixt of the same king as our chronicles doo remember He was made bishop of Winchester in the yeare of Christ one thousand foure hundred and foure being the fift yeare of Henrie the fourth Thomas Langleie priest and bishop of Durham was at Westminster made chancellor in the yeare of our saluation one thousand foure hundred and fiue being the sixt yeare of the reigne of the said king Henrie the fourth in which office he continued as farre as I know vntill he was made bishop line 30 of Durham which was on the seuenth of Maie being the seuenth yeare of the reigne of king Henrie last before named being the yeare of Christ one thousand foure hundred and six He was bishop one and thirtie yeares and died in the yeare of Christ one thousand foure hundred thirtie and seuen being the sixtéenth yeare of king Henrie the sixt Sée more following Thomas Fitzalen brother to Richard earle of Arundell being returned out of exile with Henrie line 40 of Bollingbroke duke of Hereford and Lancaster and after king of England by the name of Henrie the fourth was the third time being bishop of Canturburie made lord chancellor of England the ninth yeare of the said king Henrie the fourth and continued therein about two years being remooued from that place about September in the eleuenth yeare of the reigne of the said king being the yeare of our redemption one thousand foure hundred and ten line 50 Thomas Beauford knight the sonne of Iohn of Gaunt son to king Edward the third brother to king Henrie the fourth was made lord chancellor in the eleuenth yere of the said king Henrie the fourth being the yeare that the sonne of God tooke on him the forme of a seruant one thousand foure hundred and ten in which office he remained not full thrée yeares but left the same office togither with his life as I suppose in the thirtéenth yeare of the same king being the yeare of our redemption one thousand line 60 foure hundred and twelue Iohn Wakering clearke maister of the rolles was made kéeper of the great seale when Thomas Beauford left the office of chancellor which seale hée kept about the space of a moneth For in Ianuarie after that he receiued the seale there was a chancellor created Thomas Fitzalen or Arundell archbishop of Canturburie was the fourth time inuested with the chancellorship in the yeare of our saluation one thousand foure hundred and twelue being the thirtéenth yeare of king Henrie the fourth in which office hée continued during the life of the said king Henrie the fourth who died in the fourtéenth yeare of his kingdome and in the yere of our Lord one thousand foure hundred and thirtéene Henrie Beauford bishop of Winchester and after cardinall in the time of Henrie the sixt being vncle to king Henrie the fift then reigning was the second time made chancellor in the yeare of Christ one thousand foure hundred and thirteene being the first yeare of the fift king Henrie in which place he remained vntill the fift yeare of the said king Henrie being the yeare of our Lord one thousand foure hundred and seuentéene Thomas Langleie bishop of Durham was the second time made lord chancellor of England in the said yere of our redemption one thousand foure hundred and seuentéene being the fift yeare of that woorthie conqueror king Henrie the fift which office he receiued at Southwicke and continued in that honour as farre as I can learne by the space of six yeares or more whereof fiue yeares were fullie ended in the life and death of the said Henrie the fift and the sixt yeare ended in the last of the first or beginning of the second yeare of king Henrie the sixt Henrie Beauford bishop of Winchester before named was the third time made lord chancellor of England in the second yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the sixt being about the yeare of Christ one thousand foure hundred twentie and thrée or one thousand foure hundred twentie and foure For the second yeare of that king fell part in the one and part in the other of the said yeares of our Lord in which office he continued about foure yeares vntill he was made cardinall in the yeare of our Lord one thousand foure hundred twentie and six Iohn Kempe bishop of London was made lord chancellor of England in the fourth yere of that king Henrie who in his yoongest yeares was crowned first king of England and then king of France in Paris in which office he remained as I suppose about six yeares Iohn Stafford deane of S. Martine of Welles prebend of Milton in Lincolne church bishop of Bath and Welles lord chancellor and treasuror of England and bishop of Canturburie was made lord chancellor of England in the moneth of Februarie in the yeare of Christ one thousand foure hundred thirtie one falling in the tenth yeare of king Henrie the sixt he remained in that office vntill Iohn Kempe was againe made lord chancellor which was about the eight and twentith yeare of king Henrie the sixt And here I think it not vnméet to remember that some haue noted William Wanfleet that was bishop of Winchester and chancellor of Oxford to be chancellor of England when he built Magdalen college in Oxford in the fiue and twentith yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the sixt which possiblie can not be sith this Iohn Stafford held that office from the tenth of Henrie the sixt vntill the eight twentith of the same king which was eightéene yeares during which time they place this Wanfléet to bee chancellor of
England Which error I suppose they haue commited in that they finding him chancellor at the time of the building of his college in the said fiue and twentith yeare of king Henrie the sixt haue taken him to be chancellor of England when he was then but chancellor of Oxford although in deed afterward he was chancellor of England in the fiue and thirtith yeare of the said king as after shall appeare Iohn Kempe bishop of Yorke and cardinall was the second time made lord chancellor in the eight and twentith of king Henrie the sixt being about the yeare of our redemption one thousand foure hundred and fiftie in which oâ—â—â—ce he died being bishop of Canturburie in the yeare of our redemption as saith Matthew Parker one thousand foure hundred fiftie and thrée being the two thirtith yeare of the reigne of the simple king Henrie the sixt This man was first bishop of Rochester next of Chicester thirdlie of London then of Yorke where he sat eight and twentie yeares and lastlie he was archbishop of Canturburie Richard Neuill earle of Salisburie the sonne of Rafe Neuill earle of Westmerland and father to the valiant Richard Neuill earle of Warwike was line 10 after the death of Iohn Kempe by parlement made lord chancellor in the two thirtith yeare of K. Henrie the sixt though others make it to be in the three thirtith yeare of the same king in which place he continued not long For in the yeare following an other was substituted and he remoued Thomas Bourchier brother to Henrie Bourchier earle of Essex bishop of Elie and bishop of Canturburie was made chancellor in the three thirtith yeare of the gouernement of king Henrie the sixt in which he remained much about two yeares In line 20 whose time as saith Matthew Parker about the yeare of our redemption one thousand foure hundred thréescore and one was the art of printing inuented at the citie of Argentorat in Germanie About the which matter and especiallie for the exact certeine time thereof manie writers although their count about one time doo disagree yet at the inuention of that woorthie thing were these verses composed in the commendation of the same most excellent art line 30 O foelix nostris memoranda impressio tectis Inuentore nitet vtraque lingua tuo Desierat quasi totum quod fundis in orbe Nunc paruo doctus quilibet esse potest Omnes te homines igitur nunc laudibus ornent Te duce quando ars haec mira reperta fuit William Patan or Paten borne of gentlemanlie familie being commonlie called William Wanfled of the place of his birth and being prouost of Eaton and bishop of Winchester was lord chancellor line 40 in the fiue and thirtith six and thirtith and the seuen and thirtith yeare of the vnfortunat king Henrie the sixt as haue the records of the excheker By which appeareth the error of those as I haue before noted that mistaking the fiue and twentith of king Henrie the six in which time he was but chancellor of Oxford for the fiue and thirtith of the said king in which he was chancellor of England George Neuill the sonne of Richard Neuill earle of Salisburie and brother to Richard Neuill line 50 earle of Warwike being made bishop of Excester came to that sée in the yeare of our redemption one thousand foure hundred fiftie and fiue in which sée he continued ten yeares and was remoued to Yorke in the yeare that God became man one thousand foure hundred three score and fiue he was made lord chancellor in the eight thirtith yeare of the reigne of the after deposed K. Henrie the sixt in which office he remained about eight yeares then was remoued in the seuenth yeare of the woorthie K. Edward line 60 the fourth being the yeare that the word became flesh one thousand foure hundred thréescore seuen He was a great friend to saint Albons procured Edward the fourth in the fourth yeare of his reigne to giue confirme to Iohn Whethamsted abbat of saint Albons the priorie of Penbroke This bishop Neuill did after in the thirtéenth yeare of king Edward the fourth grow in such disgrace with the king that he was spoiled at one time of twentie thousand pounds as in his life shall be more at large declared To this man did Hugh Ueine giue the manour of Hener Cobham and Hener Brokas in Kent in the fourth yeare of king Edward the fourth He died at Blithlaw comming from Yorke being almost fortie yeares old and was buried at Yorke And heere I thinke it not amisse to note the mistaking of time of such historiographers as haue set downe that Edward the fourth did in the fourth yeare of his reigne take the chancellorship from the bishop of Excester brother to the earle of Warwike which must néeds be this George Neuill gaue the same to the bishop of Bath For by that which I haue seene this Neuill liued vntill the seuenth yeare of Edward the fourth and that for this time I suppose to be the truest Robert Kirkeham maister of the rolles was made lord kéeper of the great seale vppon the remouing of George Neuill in the moneth of Iulie in the said yeare of Christ one thousand foure hundred threescore and seuen being the seuenth yeare of king Edward the fourth Robert Stillington doctor of the lawes kéeper of the priuie seale in the third yeare of Edward the fourth bishop of Bath Wels being made chancellor in the seuenth yeare of king Edward the fourth did still so continue as I gather vntill the thirtéenth yeare of the said king Henrie Bourchier earle of Essex and first aduanced to that title of honor by Edward the fourth came in place of the last chancellor about the fourtéenth yeare as some vntrulie haue noted of Edward the fourth But in my poore opinion the same was in the thirtéenth yeare of the said Edward the fouth in which place he remained not much more than one Trinitie terme For in the said thirtéenth yeare about the moneth of August was Booth lord chancellor of England Laurence Booth sometime maister of Penbroke hall bishop of Durham and after of Yorke was made lord chancellor about August or rather before betwéene that and Trinitie terme after Henrie Bourchier in the said thirteenth yeare of the valiant king Edward the fourth after his redemption of the kingdome of England This bishop being brother to William Booth sometime bishop of Yorke did build the bishop of Yorks house at Baterseie which manour he before bought of Nicholas Stanleie whome Leland the minser and refiner of all English names dooth most curiouslie in Latine call Nicholaum Stenelegium He continued in the sée of Yorkâ— thrée yeares nine moneths and died at Southwell in the yeare of our redemption one thousand foure hundred and foure score being the twentith yeare of king Edward the fourth Thomas Scot surnamed
excuse of their pouertie he thus replied vnto them that forsomuch as they were so bare in their apparell and so sparing of their expenses it must néeds be that they saued their pursses and had monie and therefore they must néeds paie and so adiudged them to lend vnto the prince Now as he arose by learning so he was a great fauorer and furtherer of learning and for the good increase of the same he builded and founded Corpus Christi college in Oxenford In his latter daies he waxed and was blind and dieng in Winchester he was there buried in his owne church after that he had beene bishop of Excester six yéers he was remoued to Bath in the yeare of our Lord one thousand foure hundred ninetie and two 38 Oliuer King immediatlie vpon the transferring of bishop Fox was consecrated bishop of this church in Februarie one thousand foure hundred ninetie and two Iohn Morton then archbishop of Canturburie This Oliuer was chapleine to king Henrie the seuenth and deane of Windesor and register of the order of the garter In his time were the rebellions of Ioseph the blacke smith in Cornewall and of Perken Warbecke This bishop after that he had occupied this sée about fiue yeares he died in the yeare of our Lord one thousand foure hundred ninetie and seuen and as some suppose he was buried at Windesor 39 Richard Redman immediatlie vpon the death of bishop Oliuer King was translated from his bishoprike in Wales to this citie but after fiue yeares he was remooued vnto the bishoprike of Elie and installed there in September in the yeare of our Lord one thousand fiue hundred and one He was a gentleman borne and descended of a verie worshipfull house which ioined with his wisedome and learning did much increase his credit and good report line 10 40 Iohn Arundell next after the translation of bishop Redman was remooued from Couentrie and Lichfield vnto this citie and was installed the fifteenth of March one thousand fiue hundred and one Wherein he sought not the preferment for anie liuelihoods but rather desirous to be a dweller and resiant in his countrie where he was borne for he was descended of the Arundels of Lanherne in Cornewall a house of great antiquitie and worship line 20 He long inioied not his new bishoprike for after two yeares after his installing he had occasion to ride vnto London and there died and was buried in S. Clements church without Templebar in the yeare one thousand fiue hundred and three 41 Hugh Oldham vpon the death of Arundell by the preferment of the countesse of Richmond and Derbie vnto whom he was chapleine was preferred vnto this bishoprike and installed in the same He was a man hauing more zeale than knowledge line 30 and more deuotion than learning somewhat rough in spéeches but friendlie in dooings He was carefull in the sauing and defending of his liberties for which continuall sutes was betwéene him and the abbat of Tauestoke he was liberall to the vicars chorall of his church and reduced them to the kéeping of commons and towards the maintenance thereof he gaue them certeine reuenues and impropriated vnto them the rectorie of Cornewood He albâ—it of himselfe he were not learned yet a great fauourer and a line 40 furtherer of learning and of learned men Notwithstanding he was sometime crossed in his honest attempt therein He first was minded to haue inlarged Excester college in Oxford as well in buildings as in fellowships but after being a requester to the fellowes for one Atkins to be a fellow in whose fauour he had written his letters and was denied he changed his mind and his good will was alienated About the same time doctor Smith bishop of Lincolne was building of the college named Brasen nose and was verie willing and desirous to ioine line 50 with him but being denied to haue the nomination of a founder his mind was changed Not long after being aduertised that bishop Fox of Winchester was minded to erect found a new college he ioined with him and contributed vnto him a great masse of monie and so a college was builded for scholars and great liuelihoods prouided for them then the house was named Corpus Christi college Whereof the one of them bare the name of a founder and line 60 the other of a benefactor Howbeit some diuersitie was betwéene these two bishops at the first to what vse this college should be imploied For the founder was of the mind that he would haue made it for a house of moonks but the benefactor was of the contrarie mind and would haue it for scholars alleging that moonks were but a sort of buzzing flies whose state could not long indure wheras scholars brought vp in learning would be profitable members to the commonwealth and good ornaments to the church of God and continue for euer The founder being a wise man and of a déepe iudgement when he had paused and considered hereof yeeldeth herevnto and so it was concluded betweene them to make and build a college for scholars And forthwith for the good direction guiding and gouernement of the said college and scholars such wise good politike statutes and ordinances were by good aduise and counsell deuised established and ordeined as whereby the said college hath beene and yet continueth one of the best nursseries for training and instructing of good scholars in learning within that vniuersitie This bishop and the abbat of Tauestoke did still contend and continue in law during their liues and during which sute this bishop died being excommunicated at Rome and who could not be suffered to be buried vntill an absolution from Rome was procured for him After that he had béene bishop about sixteene yeares he died the fiue and twentith of Iune one thousand fiue hundred and ninetéene and was buried in his owne church 42 Iohn Uoiseie otherwise Harman succéeded Oldham by the preferment of king Henrie the eight whose chapleine he then was and deane of his chapell as also of this church he was doctor of the lawes verie well learned and wise and in great fauour with the king who sent him sundrie times in ambassages to forreine princes he was lord president of Wales had the gouernement of the kings onlie daughter ladie Marie princesse of Wales Of all the bishops in the land he was accounted the court likest and the best courtier And although he were well reported for his learning yet better liked for his courtlike behauiour which in the end turned not so much to his credit as to the vtter ruine and spoile of the church for of two and twentie lordships and manors which his predecessors had and left vnto him of a goodlie yearelie reuenue he left but three them also leased out And where he found fouretéene houses well furnished he left onelie one house bare and without furniture and yet charged with sundrie fées and annuities and by these means
his warres against the French kinâ— The possesâ—â—ons of the Normans confiscated Matth. Paris The occasâ—â—â— why the Nâ—â—â—mans were disherited Polydor. Matth. Paris Matt. VVest Dauid 〈◊〉 of Wales â—â—â—neth to submit himselfe to the pope Matth. Paris pag. 880. The Welshmen discomfited Dauid fled into Scotland He prouoketh the king of Scots to make warre against England The king of Scots inuadeth EnglaÌ„d Matth. Paris King Henrie requireth an aid of monie of his subiects New orders deuised by the lords Unreasonable requests The pope sendeth for some aid of monie to mainteine wars against the emperour Escuage graÌ„ted the king The K. with an armie goeth towards Scotland The king of England and Scotland made fréends The lords sweare to sée the couenants performed The letter of the lords to pope Innocent The Welshmen stirre coles Matth. Paris The deceasse of the bishop of Cicester Anno. Reg. 29. P. V. A subsidie of the richer sort Matth. Paris The citizens of London The seneshall of Gascoine vanquished the king of Nauarre Anno 1242. as Matt. West saith Matth. Paris Dauid king or prince of Wales Sir Hubert Fitz Matthew slaine The castell â— Monthault taken by the Welshmen A generall councell The popes letters staied The valnaâ—â— of benefices taken that perteined to strangers This Gilbert was erle of Glocester Hereford lord of Clare Ambassadors sent to the generall councell These were barons A iusts and tornie appointed and by the kings commandement disappointed Fouke Fitz Warren commandeth the popes Nuncio to auoid the realme The kings answer vnto the popes Nuncio Matth. Paris Matth. West The Popes Nuncio sent out of the realme S. Peters church at Westminster The English ambassadors come to the councell The English ambassadors threaten the pope that he should not haue any tribute out of England Matth. Paris The king inuades Wales He buildeth a castell at Gannoke The decease of the countesse of Oxford and of the earle of Deuonshire Geffrey de March deceaseth The decease of Raimond earle of Prouance The decease of the lord Humfreuile Anno. Reg. 30. The king ' returneth foorth of Wales Irishmen destroied Anglesey A dearth Brine pits destroied in wales The lord Maurice chéefe iustice of Ireland Iohn Fitz Geffrey lord iustice of Ireland Matth. Paris The deceâ—se of Walter erle Marshall Mal. Pal. in suo cap. The pope requireth the French king to make war against England The French king refuseth to gratifie the pope therein The countesse of Prouance dealeth vniust lie with the king of England hir sonne in law Charles the French kings brother is made earle of Prouance The archb of Canturburie purchaseth grant of the pope to leuie monie Dauid prince of Wales departeth this life Ap Griffin chosen prince of Wales Iews robbeâ— in Oxenford The Londoners paie a talage A parlement A statute against hunters The earle of Sauoy dooth homage to the K. of England Roger Bigod intitled to the office of earle Marshall Matth. Paris Harold king of Man Welshmen receiued to the kings peace vp on their submission A decrée of the pope A proclamation inhibiting monie to be sent to the pope A sore tempest of haile Isabell the kings mother departeth this life Roger de Quincie earle of Winchester Iohn lord Neuill departed this life with diuers other Anno Reg. 31. Matth. Paris Intollerable exactions Peter de Sauoy earle of Richmond An earthquake A strange woonder Continuall raine Acts made to restraine presumptuous authoritie of the spiritualtie The popes collectors A shift by forbearing the name of legat The emperor of Constantinople commeth into England A cardinall coÌ„meth into England receiuing an oth not to preiudice the realme The kings halfe brethren came to sée the king The cardinall maketh shift for 〈◊〉 William de Ualence marrieth lord MontcheÌ„cies daughter Gaston de Bierne maketh war against the kings lieutenant Préests of the prouince of Canturburie suspended Sir Fouke de Newcastell the kings coosen by his mother departeth this life Pardon granted by bishops Knights made Anno Reg. 32. The earle of Winchester besieged in Galloway by his owne tenants William earle Ferrers departeth this life The countesse of Prouance commeth into England A parlement A subsidie dâ—manded Polydor. Matth. Pariâ— The king charged for his immoderate inriching of strangers The parlemeÌ„t proroged An ordinance for monie Inquirie made for washers clippers of monie Matth. Paris The parlemeÌ„t dissolued The king driuen to sell his plate S. Edwards faire at Westminster Sir Richard Sward deâ—â—â—â—eth Death of bishops An eclipse Newcastell burnt by casuall fire The archb of Cant. curseth Anno Reg. 33. An erthquake The bishop of Durham resigneth his bishoprike Matth. Paris The king practiseth to get monie A nest of théeues brokeÌ„ The archbish of Rone Matth. Paris Great raine The earle of Salisburie other go into the holie land Matth. Paris The spite of the French towards the Englishmen Peter de Geneure The deceasse of Roger Fitz Iohn The death of Hugh le Brun. Anno Reg. 34. The archb of Canturburie inthronized A tornie holden at Brackley or as some copies haue at Barkley Edmond son to Richard earle of Cornwall borne An ambassage sent to the pope The king taketh on him the crosse The lord Roger de Monthault Gaston de Bierne submiteth himself to the king The earle of Leicester his service in Gascoigne The bishop of Lincolne An inhibition procured by the king of the pope The earle of Cornwall râ—â—turneth from the pope The king spâ—â—reth to bring himselfe out of debt The Iewes constreined to helpe the king with monie Matth. Paris A generall chapter of the friers preachers Matth. Paris Strife betwixt the LoÌ„doners and the abbat of Westminster William de Kilkennie keéper of the great seale Robert de Lexinton departeth this life The lord Henrie Hastings deceaseth Robert Muschampe Athelmarie the kings half brother made bishop of Winchester The earle of Salisburie slaine by the Saracens A mightie wind Matth. Paris The sea seemeth to burne Ships lost Hertburne Winchelsey Anno Reg. 35. The practise of the bishops to disappoint the archbi of Canturburie of his purpose An erthquake at S. Albons The pope sueth for licence to soiorne at Burdeaux The popes presence more like to impaire than amend things Thunder and lightening Guy de Lusignan brother to the king The earle of Leicester returneth He had of the king 3000 marks Rutters A iustice accused for taking bribes Henrie de Bath put to his fine Athelmare or Odomare bishop of Winchester confirmed A conuocatioÌ„ of the bishops Six thousand marks giuen to the pope The bishop of Lincolne visiteth abbeies The bishop of Lincolne suspended by the pope Wales subiect to the English lawes Alain lord Zouch Usurers called Caorsini Controâ—ersie betwixt prelats The earle of Leicester prospereth in Gascoigne A sore tempest of thunder lightning Windsore High tides The nunrie of Marâ—an founded Paule Peiuer The lord Wâ—lâ— Graie marrieth the wife of Paule Peâ—uer Anno Reg. 3â— Matth. Parâ—â— The church
Walsin Hypod. pag. 164. The Frenchmens demand of the I le of Wight The answer of the Ilandmen The duke of Orleance his challenge The answer of king Henrie The duke of Orleance besiegeth Uergi in Guien The lord du Chastell slaine Owen Glendouer wasted the English marches Crueltie of the Britains Flemings The â—â—untes of Oxford K. Richard once againe aliue Serlo one of K. Richards chamber The countesse of Oxford committed to prison Hir secretarie executed The earle of Northumberland coÌ„meth to the king Sir William Clifford bringeth Serlo to the king Serlo examined for the duke of Glocesters death He is drawen through euery good towne He is executed at LoÌ„don Anno Reg. 6. The lâ—ymens parlement Strife betwixt the laitie and spiritualtie The archbishop of Canturburie answereth for his brethren Sir Iohn Cheinie speaker of the parlement The archb chafeth He spake like a â—ord The kings answer to the archbishop Abr. Fl. oâ—t of Thom. Walfi Hypod. pag. 167. Two fiftéens granted Letters patents reuoked A tenth and â— halfe granted by the cleargie Ouer 〈◊〉 of the sea The death of WilliaÌ„ Wickham He was also at one time treasuror of England as Leland gathereth The earle of Marches sonnes Thom. Walsin The ladie Spenser coÌ„mitted to ward She accuseth hir brother the duke of Yorke WilliaÌ„ Maidstone esquier offred to fight in his ladies quarrell The earle marshall accused The K. wanteth monie can get none of the lords Abr. Fl. out of Thom. Wals. Hypod. pag. 159. Iust. lib. 1. Herod lib. 1. Val. Max. lib. 8. cap. 7 The castell of Marke besieged about the middest of Maâ—e as Iac. Meir saith Sir Philip Hall The earle of S. Paule put to flight Ia. Meir Arde assaulted by Englishmen The marques du Pount An armie sent to Calis and to the sea Chr. Fland. Ia. Meir The English men besieged the castell of Sluis A great fight by sea Threé caricks are taken Townes in Normandie burnt The duke of Burgognie prepareth to besiege Calis The chéefe 〈◊〉 of the malice betwixt the dukes of Burgognie Orleance A new coÌ„spiracie against king Henrie by the earle of Northumberland others The archbishop of Yorke one of the cheéfe conspirators The archbishop in armor The estimation which men had of the archbishop of Yorke The earle of Westmerland and the lord Iohn of Lancaster the kings sonne prepare themselues to resist the kings enimies The forest of Galtrée The subtill policie of the earle of Westmerland The archbishops protestation why he had on him armes The earle of WestmerlaÌ„ds politike dealing The archbishop of Yorke and the earle marshall arrested Eiton The archbishop of Yorke the earle marshall others put to death Abr. Fl. out of Thom. Walsin Hypod. pag. 168. * Archiepisâ—â—â—â— The archbishop reputed a martyr The lords executed The earle of Northumberland Berwike castâ—ll yéelded to the king The sonne 〈◊〉 the lord Greistoke and others put to death Exton The castell 〈◊〉 Alnewike yeelded to the king The K. paâ—seth into Wales He looseth his cariages He returâ—â—â—â— Hâ—ll The marshall MoÌ„tmeraÌ„cie sent to aid Owen Glendouer Carmarden woone by the French Hereford west manfullie defended Enguerant de Monstrelleâ— saith they burnt the townes but could not win the castell The suburbs of Worcester burnt French lords slaine The Frenchmen returne home Anno Reg. 7. Abr. Fl. out of Thom. Walsin Roiston burned A parlement A fiftéenth graÌ„ted by â—he temporaltie A new kind of subsidie granted by the cleargie The lord Fleming lost his life for giuing knowledge to the earle of Northumberland of that which was meant against him Dissention amoÌ„g the Scotish nobilitie Eleuen years saith Harding The prince of Scotland staid here in England Hall Robert Halome archb of Yorke The king and the queéne brought hir to Lin where she tooke shipping Tho. Walsi Anno Reg. 8. The duke of Yorke restored to libertie The earle of Kent in fauor with the king He marrieth a daughter of Barnabo lord of Millane Abr. Fl. out oâ— Thom. Walsi Hypod. pag. 161. Roger of Waldens variable fortune Ouid. lib. â—â— Pont. 4. An additiâ—â— of Franâ—â— Thin * Coniers * Ogle The duke of Orleance besâ—â—geth towns in Gascoigne Henrie Paie â— valiant sea man k. Richard still aliue as was â—eigned The king in danger to be taken by French pirats Sir Thomas Rampston taken The king escaped through swiftnesse of his ship The lord Camois put in blame Henrie Bowet archbishop of Yorke Abiruscwith Owen Glendouer Sir Robert Knols departeth this life Bermondsey S. Albons He was buried in the White friers He built Rochester bridge commonlie called Knols bridge Thom. Wals. Anno Reg. 9. Thom. Wals. A subsidie The lord Camois arreigned acquited The earle of Northumb. the lord Bardolfe returne into EnglaÌ„d The shiriffe of Yorkeshire His hardie corage to fight The earle of Northumberland slaine Abr. Fl. out of Tho. Walsin Hypod. pag. 172. The abbat of Hails hanged The earle of Kent sent to the sea Briake in Britaine assaulted by the Englishmen The earle of Kent wouÌ„deâ— to death Briake taken by force The countes of Kent maketh hir owne choise of hir second husband A disputation betwixt diuines of Oxford Cambridge for their obedieÌ„ce to the pope Anno Reg. 10. The cardinal of Burges coÌ„meth into England in disfauor of pope Gregrie The resolutioÌ„ of the French king concerning the two pâ—pes A coÌ„uocation at S. Paules in London Ambassadors appointed to go to the councell at Pisa. The contents of the kings letters to the pope Abr. Fl. out of Thom. Wals. Hypod. pag. 159. Wicklifs doctrine mainteined by the learned SenteÌ„ce pâ—â—nounced against Wicklifs books Fabian Iusts in Smithfield Owen Glendouer endeth his life in great miserie Anno Reg. 11. Officers made A paâ—lement Tho. Walsi Fabian Thom. Wals. King Henrie a â—â—uorer of the clergie Iohn Badbie burnt Tho. Walsi The prince being present at the execution offereth him pardon Notable constancie of Badbie The kings demand in the parlement A long parlement A fiftéenth granted Earle of Surrie deceasseth Preparation made to win Calis Thom. Walsi Abr. Fl. out of Thom. Wals. Hypod. pag. 175. The engines of the duke of Burgognie against Caliâ— that shot out barrels of pâ—â—â—son Sir Robert Umfreuill viceadmerall Harding His 〈◊〉 Scotland His surname Robert Mendmarket By what occasion he came by that surname The earle of Angus Umfreuill coÌ„monlie called erle of Kime 1411 Anno Reg. 12. A great death by the flix Iohn Prendergest and William Long. Long committed to the Tower The archbishop of Canturburie not suffred to visit the vniuersitie of Oxenford France disquieted with two factions The duke of Orleance murthered The earles of Arundell and Angus with others sent to aid the duke of Burgognie Anno Reg. 13. Saint Clou taken by the helpe of the Englishmen Sir Manserd de Bos put to death Harding Recor. Turris Creations of noblemen Hall The Orleantiall factioÌ„ sueth to the K. of England for aid The confederates of the Orleantiall