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A mis-led King, and a memorable Parliament.
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1643
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and to repulse either by Sea or Land the enemies of the Crowne wheresoever he should â—inde them And it was further agreed on that for the appeasing of all private discontents if any were the King and the rest of the Appellants with the rest of the Commissioners should dine together in the great Hall which they did and there was great joy at this reconciliation throw all the Kingdome When these things were concluded they then began this arraignment of the Traytors whereupon John Blake and Thomas Vske were indicted on the fourth day of March who although they were men of inferiout quality yet were they found to be parties in the said Treason Vske was a Sergeant at Armes and was indicted amongst the Conspirators so that being late made Sheriffe of Middlesex he had indicted the five Appellants and the Commissioners as Traytors and Blake was an Intelligencer of Tresilians one that used to goe and come between the Conspirators and relate the state and successe of the treason from one to another And when they could say nothing to prove themselves cleare sentence was pronounced upon them as their Masters were before them they were carried to the Tower and from thence were dragged at the horse tayle to Tyborne and there hanged But Vske obtained this favour that his head was cut off after he was hanged and set aloft upon Newgate for Fowles of the aire to take repast On the sixth day of March there were called to answer Robert Belknap John Holt Roger Falthorpe William Burleigh John Locton and John Carey Baron of the Exchequer for their conspiracie against the Commissioners at Nottingham but because it is not needfull to rehearse every part of their indictment they were all condemned like as the rest Whilst the Peeres were trying them the Clergie were retired into the Kings Chambers but when word was brought to them of the condemnation of the Judges the Archbishop of Canterbury the Bishop of Winchester the Chancellor the Treasurer Lord Keeper of the Privie Seale arose hastily and went into the Parliament House powring forth their complaints before the King and the Peeres humbly upon their knees beseeching them for the love of God the Virgin Mary and of all the Saints even as they hoped to have mercy at the day of Judgement they should shew favour and not put to death the said Judges then present and bitterly bewayling their iniquities in whose hearts the very life soule and spirit of our English Lawes lived flourished and appeared and there appeared great sorrow both on the one part of the Complainants and also of the Defendants The Duke of Gloucester likewise with the Earles of Arundel Warwicke Nottingham and Derby whose hearts began to be mollified and joyned with them in their latnentable Petition At length upon the intercession of the Clergie the execution upon the persons was ceased and their lives were granted them but were sent to the Tower to be kept close prisoners On the twelfth of March being Thursday it happened that the aforesaid Knights Simon de Burleigh John de Beauchamy James Baroverse and John Salesbury were brought into the Parliament House where their accusations was read proved they found guilty and not any way able to cleare themselves From this day almost till the Ascension of our Lord the Parliament House was only taken up with the tryall of Sir Symon Burleygh for three Appellants viz. The Duke of Glocester the Earles of Arundel and Warwick with the whole House of Commons urged that execution might be performed according to the Law and on the other side the King and Queen the Earles of Darby and Nottingham and the Prior of Saint John his Uncle with the major part of the upper House did labour to have him saved There was also some muttering amongst the common people and it was reported to the Parliament that the Commons did rise in divers parts of the Realm but especially about Kent in favour of the said Sir Simon Burleigh which when they heard those that before spake and stood for him now flew clean from him and by joynt consent on the fifth day of May sentence was pronounced only against the said Sir Simon that he should be drawne from the Tower to Tyborne and then to be hanged till he were dead and then to have his head strooke from his body But because he was a Knight of the Gaiter a gallant Courtier powerfull and once a Favourite of the Kings and much respected of all the Court the King of his speciall Grace was pleased to mittigate his doome that he should only be led to Tower-hill and there be beheaded On the twelfth of May the Thursday before Whitsontide in like manner were condemned John Beuchamp Steward of the houshold to the King James Bereverous and John Salsbury Knights Gentlemen of the privie Chamber whereof the two first viz. John Beuchamp and James Bereverous were beheaded on Tower-hill but John Salsbury was drawne from Tower-hill to Tyborne and there was hanged On the same day also was condemned the Bishop of Chichester the Kings Confessor but because of his great dignity he was pardoned And also concerning the translation of some Bishops because Pope Vrban the sixth after it came to his ears that the Archbishop of York was condemned to avoid all hope of Irregularity he created him Archbishop of S. Andrews in Scotland which Archbishop was under the power of Scots enemies to the Crown and in the gift of the Arch-Pope and because the Pope did chalenge halfe the title of all England to maintaine his wars but although he craved it yet he was denied therefore he dealt warily and craftily hoping to make up his mouth by the translation of Bishops the Bishop of Fly then Lord Chancellor was made Archbishop of York the Bishop of Dublin succeeded in his place the Bishop of Bath and Wells in his place the Bishop of Sarum in his place and the Lord John of Waltham Lord-keeper of the privie Seale in his place and this by his translation of Bishops he gained himself much money according to the laws of the Canon and when this came to the ears of the Parliament that such a sum of money should be transported out of the Land they strove what they could to hinder it but could not because the Clergie gave their consent On the last day of May the King appointed both Houses to meet at Keemington whereas they made a conclusion of all the trialls of the said treason granting license to Thomas Trenet William Ellingham and Nicholas Nagworth Knights Richard Metford Iohn Slake Iohn Lincolne Clerkes to put in bail provided they were sufficient and to go into a place of England where they listed without any let or hindrance of any of the Kings Officers Moreover the six Justices with the Bishop of Chichester who stood condemned with them were sent into Ireland there to remain for a tearm of life thus they were divided viz. Rob. Belknap Iohn Holr in the Village of Dromore in Ireland not to remain as Justices or any officers but live as banished offenders not to be out of Towne above the space of two miles upon paine of death but the King out of his gracious bounty was pleased to give a yearly annuity of 40. pound to Robert Belknap of twenty markes to Iohn Holt during their lives and to Roger Fulthrope the King allowed forty pound and to William Burleigh forty pound during life confining them to the City of Dublin granting Burleigh the liberty of two miles and to Fulthrope three miles for their recreation John Carey and John Locton with the yearly allowance of twenty pound during life are confined to the Towne of Waterford with the like liberty and the like penalty And the Bishop of Chichester is likewise sent to Corke there to remaine with some allowance and the like penalty On the third day of June which was the last day of the Parliament the King the Queen the Peeres of both Estates with the Commons came to the Abbey at Westminster whereas the Bishop of London because it was his Diocesse sung Masse and the Masse being ended the Archbishop of Canterbury made an Oration concerning the forme and danger of the Oath which being although the Peers and Commons had taken the Oath of Allegiance and homage to the King yet because the King was young when they tooke Oath anew as at the first at his Coronation These Ceremonies being performed the Metropolitan of England with all his Suffragans there present having lighted a Candle and putting it under a stoole put it out thereby excommunicating all such as should seeme to distaste dislike or contradict any of the fore passed Acts in the last Parliament And the Lord Chancellor by the Kings appointment caused all that were present to sweare to keep the said Statutes inviolably whole and undissolved as good and faithfull Liege-people of the Kings and the forme of the Parliament was observed throughout all the Realme On the morrow which was the fourth day of June many courteous falutations and congratulations having passed betweene the King the Nobility and Communalty the Parliament was dissolved and every man returned home And now let England rejoyce in Christ for the net which was laid so cunningly for our destruction is broken asunder and we are delivered To God be the praise for all This Parliament begunne at Westminster 1386. in the tenth yeare of the reigne of King Richard the second FINIS
like a Hive of Bees or a flocke of Cattell without a head without any stroke given they flung down their Armes and yeelded themselves to the mercy of the Appellants and a few being slaine and some drowned in the river gave an easie victory to the Conquerours When the newes of the victory was blowne to the eares of the rest of the conspirators who were then stricken with feare and carefull for their preservation under covert of the night they fled by water to the Tower drawing the King along with them On the other side Nicholas Brambre with a bold and resolute courage in the Kings name caused all the gates of the Citie to be shut against the Apellants and to be guarded with an able and sufficient Watch But these worthy and dauntlesse members of the Common-wealth marched towards London to confer with the King but when they heard that the said Nicholas Brambre had caused the gates of the Citie to be shut against them and to be strongly guarded and that the whole Citie did purpose to keep them out they stayed their resolution On the 27 day of September they encamped themselves in Clarkenwell within the liberties of the Citie of London And when as the Major with the Citizens came unto them with pleasing words promising unto them all that the Citie could affoord with reason and equity the Duke of Glocester said Now I know that liers speak nothing but lies neither can any man hinder them from the relating whereupon by a joynt consent in the evening they removed their tents and pitched them before divers gates of the Citie On the morrow there happened an enterview between the King and the Appellants so far that they opened their mindes one to the other but because the King loathed to speak with them with such a rabble of men and in regard of an intolerable boldnes some quarrell which was like to arise and on the other side refusing to go out of the Tower to speak with them and the Appellants fearing some violence or wrong to be offered to them would not speak with the king without a strong guard of valiant warriors Therefore the most wise of the Appellants after divers disputations had resolved to go and confer with the King but first they sent a strong Troop well armed to search al the Corners Caves of the Tower and relation being made of the safety of the place with a selected band of valiant Cavaliers they entred the Tower and seizing the gates placing a guard appeared before the King and there the third time appealed the aforesaid conspirators in the same sort and forme as before which appellation being ended the King swore That he would adhere to their counsell as a good King and a just Judge so farre as the rule of Law Reason and Equity did require Then it was published and made knowne in the presence of the King and throughout the Dominions that on the morrow after Candlemas day the aforesaid conspirators should personally appeare to answere to the appellation whereby they were charged of so many treasons They expulsed divers of the Officers of the Houshold viz. in the place of John Beauchamp Steward of the Houshold they appointed John Devonvex Knight one of the Commissioners Peter Courtney Knight was made Chamberlaine in stead of Robert Duke of Ireland And the foresaid John de Beauchamp Simon de Burleigh Vice Chamberlaine Iohn Salisbury Thomas Trynet Iames Barats William Ellingham and Nicholas Nagworth Knights and Officers of the Clergy viz. Richard Mecford Secretary Iohn Blake Deane of the Chappell John Lincolne Chancellor of the Exchequer and Iohn Clifford Clerke of the Chappell were kept under arrest too and were as partakers in the aforesaid Treason for that they knowing and having intelligence of the said Conspiracy they did not discover them And thus this hideous brood of Monsters so often shaken was quite overthrowne And on the Vigill of the Purification of Saint Mary in the Privy Chamber at Westminster be joynt consent of all the Commissioners the aforesaid Iohn _____ Iohn Holt Roger Fulthorp William Burleigh Iohn Locton and Iohn Carey were displaced from their Offices and without any further adoe arrested of Treason and by the command of the Chancelor were clapt into the Tower and Roger Carleton in the place of Belknap Walter Clapton in the place of Tressilian were constituted The great Parliament began the second of February following in this manner All the Peeres as well of the Spiritualty as of the Temporalty being assembled in the great Hall at Westminster the King soone after came and sate downe in his Throne and after him appeared the five Noblemen Appellants the fame of whose admired worth ecchoed through all the Land entred the House in their costly robes leading one another hand in hand with an innumerable company following them and beholding where the King sate all at once with submissive gestures they reverenced the King Brambre was taken a little before and cast into the Gaole of Gloucester The Clergy then placing themselves on the right hand and the Nobility on the left hand of the King according to the ancient custome of the High Court of Parliament the Lord Chancelor standing with his back toward the King by the Kings command declared the cause of their summons to the Parliament which being ended the five aforesaid Appellants arising declared their aforesaid Appellation by the mouth of Robert Pleasington their Speaker who thus spake Behold the Duke of Gloucester comes to purge himselfe of treasons which are laid to his charge by the conspirators To whom the Lord Chancelor by the command of the King answered My Lord Duke the King conceiveth so honourably of you that he cannot be induced to beleeve that you who are of affinity to him in a collaterall line should attempt any treason against his sacred Majesty The Duke with his foure Companions upon their knees humbly gave thankes to the King for his gracious opinion of their fidelity Then after silence proclaimed they arose and delivered in certain Articles in writing wherein were contained the particularity of the Treason When the Articles were read the Appellants requested the King that sentence of condemnation might be given against the Conspirators and they to receive the guerdon of their deserts which the King promised to grant And when the third day came of their proceedings against the Conspirators the Lord Chancelor in the name of the Clergy in open Parliament made an Oration shewing that they could not by any meanes be present at the proceeding whereas there is any censure of death to be passed For the confirmation whereof they delivered in a Protestation which being read they spake That neither in respect of any favour nor for feare of any mans hate nor in hope of any reward they did desire to absent themselves but onely that they were bound by the Canon not to bee present at any mans arraignment or condemnation They likewise sent their