chaine which was interpreted to be Liber a booke Within this booke was written as is said A me Put these two togither and it maketh Liberame The chaine betokeneth prison or bonds and so maketh togither in English Deliuer me of bonds Then they tooke the end of the tilt line 50 Readie was monsieur Florengis and with him twelue men of armes with coursers barded the bards and apparell was crimsin veluet tawnie veluet and plunket veluet embrodered borderwise with sheepeheards hookes of cloath of siluer When they with honour had passed about the tilt due reuerence to the quéenes and ladies doone the two kings had their speares readie and then began the rushing of speares The king of England this daie ran so freshlie and so manie courses that one of his best coursers line 60 was dead that night this band was deliuered man after man of their pretense of iusts Then entered bands of monsieur de Rambeurs and monsieur de Puis ech hauing eleuen persons in number the one band all white sattin embrodered with blacke and the other all blacke dropped with siluer drops who after reuerence doone to the quéenes at the end of the tilt tooke their places Then began a new incounter hard and sore manie of them bare great strokes of the kings to their honour and with such violence they ran as they set their horsses in a sweating heat and themselues meeting with full force made the fragments or broken péeces of their staues mount aloft in the air like an arow out of a bow as the poet saith Hastae stridentis fractae petit aethera cuspis On saturdaie the seuentéenth daie of Iune the French king with a small number came to the castle of Guisnes about the houre of eight in the morning The king being in his priuie chamber had thereof knowledge who with glad hast went to receiue the same French king and him met and welcomed in friendlie and honorable maner and after communication betwéene them had the king of England departed leauing the French king there in the sumptuous place before named Then was busie the lord chamberleine the lord steward and all other officers to make readie feast and cheare It were too long to rehearse all for such a feast and banket was then made that of long time before the like had not bene séene The king of England thus departing he tooke his horsse and with a companie of noblemen rode to Ard where the French quéene and other noble men receiued him with much honour After which receiuing he was by the said quéene and lords brought into a chamber hanged with blew veluet embrodered with flowers delice of cloth of gold wherein was a great bed of like worke from whence he was conueied to another chamber in the which was a kings state This chamber was hanged and sieled with cloth of gold embrodered with great cordels or friers knots of cloth of siluer In the same chamber were two âupboords on either side one furnished with great and goodlie plate gilt Noble feasting and cheare was there made After dinner the ladies dressed them to danse and certeine yoong honourable lords of England apparelled after the maner of Rusland or farre Eastland whose hosen were of rich gold sattin called anreat sattin ouerrolled to the knée with scarlet and on their feet shooes with little pikes of white nailes after the Estland guise their dublets of rich crimsin veluet and cloth of gold with wide sléeues lined with cloth of gold ouer this they had clokes of crimsin veluet short lined with cloth of gold on euerie side of the clokes rings of siluer with laces of Uenice gold and on their heads they had hats made in the towne of Danske and purses of seales skinnes and girdels of the same all these yoong lords had visards on their faces and their hats were drawne with like hatbands full of damaske gold Other ten lords were apparelled in long gownes of blew sattin of the ancient fashion embrodered with reasons of gold that said Adieu iunesse Farewell youth they had tippeis of blacke veluet hats hanging therby on their heads hie violet standing caps and girdels of silke and purses of cloth of gold after the ancient maner with visards on their faces of like anciencie After all these triumphs and braueries great store of spices fruits iellies banketing viands were brought which being doone and ended the king tooke leaue of the French queene and ladies to whome were brought thirtie horsses trapped in damaske white and yellow and so passed he and his traine the towne of Ard into the field and campe Right roiallie also was the French K. interteined and all other after their degree and state Now when all this solemnitie was ended the French king tooke leaue of the quéene and ladies of the court The lord cardinall in statelie attire accompanied with the duke of Buckingham and other great lords conducted forward the French king and in their way they incountered and met the king of England and his companie right in the vallie of Anderne apparelled in their masking apparell which gladded the French king After reuerence doone the said two kings departed for that night the English to Guisnes and the French to Ard. On mondaie the eighteenth of Iune was such an hideous storme of wind and weather that manie coniectured it did prognosticate trouble and hatred shortlie after to follow betwéene princes On tuesdaie the nintéenth of Iune the two kings came to the campe againe armed at all peeces and there abode them that would come so that then began the iustes afresh On wednesdaie the twentith of Iune the two kings began to hold tournies with all the parteners of their chalenge armed at all péeces The quéene of France and the quéene of England were line 10 in the places for them prepared and there was manie a goodlie battell performed the kings dooing as well as the best so that the beholders spake of them honor On thursdaie the one and twentith of Iune the two kings likewise kept the tourneies so that all those noble men that would prooue their valiancies were deliuered according to the articles of the tourneies which this daie tooke end On fridaie the 22 of Iune the two kings with their retinue did battell on foot at the barriers and there deliuered all such as line 20 put foorth themselues to trie their forces On saturdaie the thrée and twentith of Iune the lord cardinall sang an high solemne masse by note aloft vpon a pompons stage before the two kings quéenes the which being finished indulgence was giuen to all the hearers The two kings dined in one chamber that daie and the two quéenes in another After dinner the two kings with their band entered the field on foot before the barriers so began the fight which continued battell after battell till all the commers line 30 were answered There were deliuered this day thus at the
in the beginning of this parlement were openlie called Robert Uéer duke of Ireland Alexander Neuill archbishop of Yorke Michaell de la Poole earle of Suffolke sir Robert Trisilian lord cheefe iustice of England to answer Thomas of Woodstoke duke of Glocester Richard earle of Arundell Henrie earle of Derbie and Thomas earle of Notingham vpon certeine articles of high treason which these lords did charge them with And forsomuch as none of these appeared it was ordeined by the whole assent of the parlement that they should be banished for euer and their lands and goods mooueable and vnmooueable to be forfeit and seized into the kings hands their lands intailed onelie excepted Shortlie after was the lord chéefe iustice Robert Trisilian found in an apothecaries house at Westminster lurking there to vnderstand by spies dailie what was doone in the parlement he was descried by one of his owne men and so taken and brought to the duke of Glocester who caused him forthwith the same daie to be had to the tower and from thence drawne to Tiburne and there hanged On the morrow after sir Nicholas Brambre that sometime had beene maior of London was brought foorth to iudgement and condemned although he had manie fréends that made sute to saue his life This man had doone manie oppressions within the citie of London as was reported In his maioraltie he caused great monstruous stocks to be made to imprison men therein and also a common axe to strike off the heads of them which should resist his will and pleasure for he was so highlie in the kings fauour that he might doo what he would And the report went that he had caused eight thousand or more to be indicted which before had taken part with the lords intending to haue put them all to death if God had not shortened his daies Manie other euill fauoured reports went abroad of him as that he meant to haue changed the name of London and to haue named it little Troie of which citie baptised with that new name he purposed to be intituled duke But these were forged rumors deuised and spred abroad in those daies as manie other were partlie by the vaine imagination of the people and partlie of purpose to bring those whome the king fauoured further out of the peoples liking But now touching sir Nicholas Brambre in the end being thus called to answer his transgressions he was found giltie and had iudgement neither to be hanged nor drawne but to be beheaded with his owne are which before he had deuised seruing him heerein as Phalaris the tyrant sometime serued Perillus the inuentor of that exquisite line 10 torment of the brasen bull wherein the offendor being put and the counterfet beast by force of fier made glowing hot hauing his toong first cut out through extreamitie of paine made a bellowing alwaies as he cried as if it had béene the verie noise of a naturall bull Of which strange torment Perillus himselfe first tasted suffering death by an engine of his owne deuising which he thought should haue purchased him a good liuing whereof the poet saith Vâ Phalaris tauro violentus membra Perilli line 20 Torruit infelix imbuit autor opus After this sir Iohn Salisburie sir Iames Berneis both knights and lustie yoong men were by iudgement of parlement drawne and hanged Then folowed Iohn Beauchampe of the Holt lord steward of the kings house that had serued king Edward the third and his sonne Lionell duke of Clarence who likewise by decrée of this parlement was drawne and hanged Also Iohn Blake esquier who in an infortunate houre stood against the lords in the councell line 30 at Notingham was now drawne and hanged and so was one Thomas Uske Last of all or as some hold first of all was sir Simon Burlie beheaded although the earle of Derbie did what he could to saue his life by reason whereof great dissention rose betwixt the said earle and the duke of Glocester for the duke being a sore and a right seuere man might not by any meanes be remooued from his opinion and purpose if he once resolued vpon any matter Some spite he bare as was thought towards the line 40 said sir Simon Burlie both as well for the faithfull fréendship which was growne betwixt the duke of Ireland and the said sir Simon as also for that he looked to haue had such offices and roomes which sir Simon inioied by the kings gratious fauour and grants thereof to him made as the Wardenship of the cinque ports and constableship of the castell of Douer and the office of high chamberleine ¶ But now bicause of all these which were condemned and executed at this parlement in our common chronicles there is least written and in Froissard and line 50 diuerse priuate pamphlets I haue read most of this sir Simon I haue thought good to set downe some part of his life so largelie as this volume may well beare although a great deale more briefe than where I found it This sir Simon was the son of sir Iohn Burlie knight of the garter and brought vp in his youth vnder his kinsman doctor Walter Burlie who as in the latter end of king Edward the third you haue heard was one of the chiefe that had charge in line 60 the bringing vp of the Blacke prince eldest sonne to the said king Edward By this occasion he grew into such fauour with the prince that afterwards the said prince committed vnto him the gouernance of his sonne Richard of Burdeaux who as he was of a genâle and courteous nature began then to conceiue so great loue and liking towards him that when he came to the crowne and was king he aduanced him highlie to great honours and promotions in somuch that at one time other he was made knight of the gartâr constable of Douer lord Waâden of the cinque ports lord chamberleine earle of Huntington and also one of the priuie councell to the king Neither was there any thing doone concerning the affaires apperteining vnto the state without his counsell appointment and direction wherein he so much fauoured and leaned to the partie of the duke of Ireland that he was sore enuied and greatlie hated of diuerse of the rest of the nobilitie speciallie of the kings vncle the duke of Glocester who vpon malice that he bare to the man not so much for his owne demeanour as for his alies and peraduenture for desire of his roomes more than of his life caused him to be accused of diuerse offenses against the crowne realme and church namelie for that he had as they surmized against him spoiled and wasted the kings treasure and withholden the paie of the souldiers and men of warre wherevpon he was arrested called to account hauing no clerke allowed him to make vp the same was found in arrerages 250000 franks And although for one part thereof he demanded allowance of monie which be had
it chanced that one Brereton a gentleman and capteine of a number of the aduenturers as he went about to spoile the towne of Wast was taken by the French horsemen and sold vnto the pezants of the countrie the which vnmercifullie slue him and sixtéene more that were taken with him after that the men of warre had deliuered them and were departed But this murther was reuenged shortlie by other of the aduenturers which comming vnto the same towne of Wast tooke thirtie eight prisoners of the inhabitants slue of them thirtie six burned the towne In this yeare thorough books of ephemerides and prognostications foreshewing much hurt to come by waters flouds many persons vittelled themselues and went to high grounds for feare of drowningâ speciallie one Bolton prior of saint Bartholomewes in Smithfield builded him an house vpon Harow on the hill onelie for feare of this floud and thither he went and made prouision of all things necessarie for the space of two moueths This great raine and waters should haue fallen in Februarie but no such thing happened whereby the follie of men was shewed The astronomers for their excuse did saie that in their computation they had miscounted in their number an hundred yeares A legat was sent from the pope to the king to mooue him to peace but the king declared to him the whole circumstance of his title for the which he made wars against the Frenchmen and thereof deliuered notes to the said legat the which departed with the same backe to Rome in post He had béene first with the French king and with the emperour but could not bring them to anie good conformitie as his desire was to haue doone so that his trauell was without frute in maner as it appeared Manie enterprises skirmishes forreis and other feats of warre were attempted and put in vre betwixt the Englishmen of Calis Guisnes and other fortresses there in those marches and the Frenchmen of Bullogne and other of the garrisons in the frontiers of Picardie and still sir William Fitz Williams as then capteine of Guisnes sir Robert Ierningham capteine of Newnam bridge sir Iohn Wallop and sir Iohn Gage were those that did to the Frenchmen most damage Also monsieur de Bees being capteine of Bullogne did for his part what he could to defend the frontiers there and to annoie his enimies Yet one daie in Maie sir William Fitz Williams and sir Robert Ierningham with seuen hundred men accounting in that number the Kreekers went to Bullogne and there skirmished with the Frenchmen whilest Christopher Coo a capteine of foure English ships tooke land and fought with them of base Bullogne on the one side as the Kréekers assailed them on an other There was a sharpe bickering and in the end the Frenchmen were driuen backe and diuerse of them slaine taken speciallie by the Kréekers that wan the barriers of them so when the tide was turned Christopher Coo with his men withdrew to his ships the Kréekers returned to sir William Fitz Williams who staid for them and then gathering his men togither by sound of a trumpet sent foorth such as might fetch the drifts of beasts and cattell in the coântrie néere adioning with the same returned backe in safetie On the eight of August monsieur de Bées accompanied with diuerse French lords and men of war to the number of eight hundred footmen and as manie horssemen came verie earlie in a morning to a village called Bonnings within the English pale and leauing there thrée hundred horssemen in ambush road to Kalkewell and there appointed to tarrie with other thrée hundred men and the residue of the horssemen and footmen with banner displaied went foorth and forraied all the countrie Sir Robert Ierningham also with foure score line 10 horssemen issued foorth of Calis to vnderstand the demeanor of the Frenchmen but being not able to resist the great number of the Frenchmen he was chased and saued himselfe by flight But this displeasure was shortlie after reuenged by the said Robert the which comming to Marguison the twelfe of August with three hundred footmen and thrée score horssemen he skirmished with the Frenchmen that stood at defense chased them into the church and fired them out of the same so that the Frenchmen leapt line 20 out of the church to their destruction for of thrée hundred there were saued but thrée score aliue On the one and twentith of Maie being Trinitie sundaie fiue hundred Scotishmen in the morning verie earlie entred by seuerall foords into England and laie couertlie by the high waies in purpose to haue surprised such market men as came to the faire that day kept at Berwike They tooke diuerse but finallie being espied the alarme rose and they were fought with right sharplie who defended themselues with line 30 such manhood in drawing backe to their aduantage that if the yoong lord of Fulberie had not come to the succours of the Englishmen the Scots had gone awaie with their bootie Notwithstanding in the end they were glad to séeke refuge by flight loosing 200 of their number which were taken in the chase On the fift of Iulie next insuing sir Iohn a Fenwike Leonard Musgraue and bastard Heron with diuerse other English capteins hauing with them nine hundred men of war entred the Mers minding line 40 to fetch out of the same some bootie and encountring with the Scots being in number two thousand after sore and long fight caused them to leaue their ground and to flie so that in the chase were taken two hundred Scots and manie slaine amongst them were diuerse gentlemen But sir Rafe a Fenwike Leonard Musgraue and the bastard Heron with thirtie other Englishmen well horssed followed so farre in the chase that they were past rescues of their companie whereof the Scots being aduised suddenlie line 50 returned and set on the Englishmen which oppressed with the multitude of their enimies were soone ouercome and there was taken sir Rafe a Fenwike Leonard Musgraue and six other and bastard Heron with seauen other were slaine The residue by chance escaped The other Englishmen with their 200 prisoners returned safelie into England On the seuenth of Iulie the Englishmen fought with like fortune against the Scots that were entered England at the west marches For in the beginning line 60 they put the Scots to the worse and tooke thrée hundred of them prisoners but afterwards bicause the Englishmen that had taken those prisoners withdrew out of the field with the same prisoners the Scots perceiuing the number of the Englishmen to be diminished gaue a new onset on the Englishmen and them distressed After this the Scots sued for a truce and had it granted to indure till the feast of saint Andrew This yeare the first of September was doctor Thomas Haniball maister of the rolles receiued into London with earles and bishops and diuerse other nobles and gentlemen as
the fire kindled he put his right hand into the fire and held it there a good space saieng that the same hand should first burne bicause it held the pen to subscribe against his Lord God Upon the death of this Cranmer I find these reuerend verses Infortunatè est foelix qui numine laeso Cuiusuis gaudet commoditate boni Infoelix ille est verò foeliciter orbi Inuisus quisquis trisâia fata subit Hoc Cranmere probas vitae praesentis amore Dum quaeris sanctam dissimulare fidem Et dum consilijs tandem melioribus vsus Praeponis vitae funera saeua tuae Immediatlie after the death of the said bishop Cranmer cardinall Poole a popish prelat and a sore enimie to the religion receiued established in king Henrie the eights time was made archbishop of Canturburie who during the life of the other would line 10 neuer be consecrated archbishop Who so desireth to see more of this matter maie see the same at large in the booke of the monuments of the church where you shall also find that about this time manie were in trouble for religion The eight and twentith daie of the aforesaid moneth of March by the negligence of the kéepers maid of the gaile of Newgate in London who had left a candle where a great deale of straw was the same was set on fire and burnt all line 20 the timber worke on the northside of the same gate The Summer next following was a new conspiracie brought to light which was to haue raised war in the realme against the quéene for maintenance whereof their first enterprise was to haue robbed the treasurie of the quéens excheker at Westminster called the receipt of the excheker in the which there was of the quéens treasure aboue fiftie thousand pounds the same time to the intent they might be able to mainteine warre against the queene as it fell out afterwards in proofe The vtterer of which line 30 conspiracie was one White who at the beginning was made priuie to the same wherevpon diuerse of the conspiracie namelie Henrie Peckham Daniell Dethicke Udall Throckmorton and capteine Stanton were apprehended and diuerse other fled into France Moreouer sir Anthonie Kingston knight was accused and apprehended for the same and died in the waie comming to London The eight and twentith of Aprill Throckmorton and Richard line 40 Ueale were drawen to Tiborne and there hanged quartered The ninetéenth of Maie Stanton was likewise executed The eight of Iune Rosseie Redike and Bedell suffered at Tiborne for the same offense The eightéenth of Iune one Sands yoonger son to the lord Sands was executed at S. Thomas Waterings for a robberie committed by him and others to the value of thrée thousand pounds The seuen and twentith of Iune eleuen men two women were had out of Newgate and in thrée carts conueied to Stratford the bow where for religion line 50 they were burnt to ashes The eight of Iulie in the beginning of this fourth yeare of the quéens reigne Henrie Peckham and Iohn Daniell were executed and after they were dead were headed on the tower hill their bodies were buried in Barking church ¶ About this time one Clober which sometime kept a schoole at Dis in Norffolke with three brethren whose names were Lincolne pretended an insurrection and would line 60 haue gathered the people at a mariage vnto the which the brethren promised either of them to bring an hundred horsse with men At which time by them appointed the said Clober gaue charge to a seruant of his to watch in a lane nigh to the church where they should méet and as soone as he saw anie horsseman comming thitherward to giue him warning with all spéed So it chanced by the will of God that certeine men riding through that lane to some other place about their businesse came about such an houre as Clober had appointed Upon sight of which men his said seruant returned to his maister and told him that his friends were come and immediatlie the said Clober stood vp in the parish church of Yarsleie and read a traitorous proclamation of purpose prepared which being ended and séeing his part was too weake for that his mates were not come began to flee But one maister Shireman pursued and tooke him at a towne called Eie in Suffolke and was kept in prison vntill the next sessions at saint Edmundsburie and his three mates being brought to him were there all togither drawne hanged and quartered This yeare the hot burning feuers and other strange diseases which began the yeare before consumed much people in all parts of England but namelie of most ancient and graue men so that in London betwéene the twentith of October and the last of December there died seuen aldermen whose names were Henrie Heardson sir Richard Dobs late maior sir William Laxton late maior sir Henrie Hoblethorne late maior sir Iohn Champneis late maior sir Iohn Aileph late shiriffe and sir Iohn Gresham late maior ¶ The one twentith of Nouember Iohn Fecknam late deane of Pauls in London now made abbat of Westminster was stalled and tooke possession of the same and fourtéene monks more receiued the habit with him that daie of the order of saint Benet The said one and twentith of Nouember a man was brought from Westminster hall riding with his face to the horsse taile and a paper on his head to the standard in Cheape and there set on the pillorie and then burned with an hot iron on both his chéekes with two letters F. and A. for false accusing one of the court of the common plées in Westminster of treason The sixtéenth of December Gregorie Carpenter smith and a Frenchman borne was arreigned for making counterfeit keies wherewith to haue opened the locks of Newgate to haue slaine the kéeper and let foorth the prisoners At which time of his arreignement hauing conueied a knife into his sléeue he thrust it into the side of William Whitrents his fellow prisoner who had giuen witnesse against him so that he was in great perill of death thereby For the which fact he was immediatlie taken from the barre into the street before the iustice hall where his hand being first stricken off he was hanged on a gibbet set vp for that purpose The kéeper of Newgate was arreigned indicted for that the said prisoner had a weapon about him and his hands loose which should haue beene bound The fourth of Ianuarie a ship before Gréenewich the court being there shot off hir ordinance one péece being charged with a bullet of stone which passed through the wals of the court and did no more hurt About this time came to London an ambassador to the queene from the emperor of Cathaie year 1557 Muscouia and Russeland who was honorablie receiued at Totenham by the merchants of London hauing trade in those countries
into our language referring the reader to the English historie in all matters betwixt vs and them to be confronted therewith as he seeth cause For the continuation thereof I vsed the like order in such copies and notes as Maister Wolfe in his life time procured me sauing that in these last yeares I haue inserted some such notes as concerned matters of warre betwixt vs and the Scots bicause I got them not till that part of the English historie was past the presse For Ireland I haue shewed in mine epistle dedicatorie in what sort and by what helps I haue proceeded therein onelie this I forgot to signifie that I had not Giraldus Cambrensis and Flatsburie vntill that part of the booke was vnder the presse and so being constreined to make post hast I could not exemplifie what I would out of them all neither yet dispose it so orderlie as had beene conuenient nor pen it with so apt words as might satisfie either my selfe or those to whose view it is now like to come And by reason of the like haste made in the impression where I was determined to haue transposed the most part of that which in the English historie I had noted concerning the conquest of Ireland by Hen. the second out of Houeden others I had not time thereto and so haue left it there remaining where I first noted it before I determined to make any particular collection of the Irish histories bicause the same commeth there well inough in place as to those that shall vouchsafe to turne the booke it may appeare For the computation of the yeares of the world I had by Maister Wolfes aduise followed Functius but after his deceasse M. W. H. made me partaker of a Chronologie which he had gathered and compiled with most exquisit diligence following Gerardus Mercator and other late Chronologers and his owne obseruations according to the which I haue reformed the same As for the yeares of our Lord and the kings I haue set them downe according to such authors as seeme to be of best credit in that behalfe as I doubt not but to the learned and skilfull in histories it shall appeare Moreouer this the reader hath to consider that I doo begin the yeare at the natiuitie of our Lord which is the surest order in my fansie that can be followed For the names of persons townes and places as I haue beene diligent to reforme the errours of other which are to be ascribed more to the vnperfect copies than to the authors so may it be that I haue some-where committed the like faults either by negligence or want of skill to restore them to their full integritie as I wished But what I haue performed aswell in that behalfe as others the skilfull reader shall easily perceiue and withall consider I trust what trauell I haue bestowed to his behoofe in this huge volume crauing onelie that in recompense thereof he will iudge the best and to make a freendlie construction of my meaning where ought may seeme to haue escaped my pen or the printers presse otherwise than we could haue wished for his better satisfaction Manie things being taken out as they lie in authors may be thought to giue offense in time present which referred to the time past when the author writ are not onelie tollerable but also allowable Therefore good reader I beseech thee to weigh the causes and circumstances of such faults and imperfections and consider that the like may creepe into a far lesse volume than this and shew me so much fauour as hath beene shewed to others in like causes And sithens I haue doone my good will accept the same as I with a free and thankefull mind doo offer it thee so shall I thinke my labour well bestowed For the other histories which are alreadie collected if it please God to giue abilitie shall in time come to light with some such breefe descriptions of the forren regions whereof they treat as may the better suffice to the readers contentation and vnderstanding of the matters conteined in the same histories reduced into abridgements out of their great volumes And thus I ceasse further to trouble thy patience wishing to thee gentle reader so much profit as by reading may be had and as great comfort as Gods holie spirit may endue thee with FINIS The politike Conquest of William the first THis William Duke of Normandie base son of Robert the sixt Duke of Normandie and nephew vnto Edward King of England surnamed the Confessor hauing vanquished line 10 the English power and slaine Harold in the field as you may read at large towards the end of the historie of England began his reigne ouer England the xv daie of October being sundaie in the yeare after the creation of the world 5033. as W. Harison gathereth and after the birth of our Sauiour 1066. which was in the tenth yeare of the emperour line 20 Henrie the fourth year 1066 in the sixt of pope Alexander the second in the sixt of Philip king of France and about the tenth of Malcolme the third surnamed Camoir king of Scotland Immediatlie after he had thus got the victorie in a pight field as before ye haue heard he first returned to Hastings and after set forward towards London wasted the countries of Sussex Kent Hamshire Southerie Middlesex and Herefordshire burning the townes and sleaing the people till he came line 30 to Beorcham In the meane time immediatlie after the discomfiture in Sussex the two earles of Northumberland and Mercia Edwin and Marchar who had withdrawne themselues from the battell togither with their people came to London and with all speed sent their sister quéene Aldgitha vnto the citie of Chester and herewith sought to persuade the Londoners to aduance one of them to the kingdome as Wil. Mal. writeth But Simon of Durham saith that Aldred archbishop of Yorke and the said earles with line 40 others would haue made Edgar Etheling king Howbeit whilest manie of the Nobilitie and others prepared to make themselues redie to giue a new battell to the Normans how or whatsoeuer was the cause the said earles drew homewards with their powers to the great discomfort of their freends Wil. Malm. séemeth to put blame in the bishops for that the lords went not forward with their purpose in aduancing Edgar Etheling to the crowne For the bishops saith he refused to ioine with the lords in that line 50 behalfe and so through enuie and spite which one part bare to another when they could not agrée vpon an Englishman they receiued a stranger insomuch that vpon king William his comming vnto Beorcham Aldred archbishop of Yorke Wolstane bishop of Worcester and Walter bishop of Hereford Edgar Etheling and the foresaid earles Edwin and Marchar came and submitted themselues vnto him whom he gentlie receiued and incontinentlie made an agréement with them taking their oth and hostages as some write and yet neuerthelesse he permitted
This yeare was Thomas Becket preferred to be the kings Chancellor The king holding his Christmas at Worcester in great royaltie year 1158 sat in the church at seruice with his line 40 crowne on his head as the kings vsed in those daies to doo on solemne feasts but as soone as masse was ended he tooke his crowne from his head and set it downe vpon the altar in signe of humblenes so that he neuer after passed for the wearing of a crowne The same yeare also the king altered his coine abrogating certeine peeces called basels In the moneth of August he went ouer into Normandie and came to an enteruiew with the French king neere to the riuer of Eata where they intreated line 50 of a league and of a marriage which was after agréed vpon betwixt Henrie the sonne of king Henrie and the ladie Margaret daughter to the French king at which time Thomas Becket then being the kings chancellor was sent to Paris in great araie to fetch hir who among other furnitures had nine long charrets as Matthew Paris writeth Now when this ladie was deliuered to Thomas Becket the lord chancellor and brought from Paris she was appointed from thencefoorth to remaine in the house line 60 of Robert de Newburge a Noble man of great honor vntill such time as the mariage should be solemnized After the two kings were departed in sunder K. Henrie prepared an armie against Conan duke of Britaine who had seized the citie of Naunts into his hands after the decease of Geffrey the kings brother who was earle of Naunts At length the same Conan perceiuing himselfe not able to resist the king of England vpon the daie of the feast of saint Michael the archangell came to king Henrie and surrendred the citie of Naunts into his hands with all the whole countrie therevnto belonging Soone after which resignation and vpon the 24. of August Geffrey the kings fourth sonne was borne of his wife queene Elianor In December following Theobald earle of Blois was accorded with king Henrie to deliuer to him two of his castels Likewise Petroke earle of Perch surrendred two castels vnto king Henrie which he had vsurped of the demeanes of Normandie in the daies of king Stephan one of which castels the king gaue him againe receiuing homage of him for the same Moreouer king Henrie and Raimond earle of Barzelone met togither at Blaime where they concluded a league by waie of allegiance so that Richard the sonne of king Henrie should take to wife the daughter of the said Raimond in time conuenient and that the king of England should giue vnto the said Richard the duchie of Aquitane the countie of Poictow This earle Raimond had married the daughter and heire of the king of Aragon In the meane time a secret grudge that had long depended betwéene king Henrie and king Lewes of France did still continue and though there was a friendship agreed betweene them as ye haue heard to haue extinguished the same yet was it but a fained friendship for vpon euerie new occasion they were readie to breake againe as it came to passe shortlie after William duke of Aquitane grandfather to queene Elianor married the daughter and heire of the earle of Tholouze and going vnto the warres of the holie land he engaged that earledome vnto Raimond the earle of saint Giles and died before he could returne His sonne William father to quéene Elianor suffered his earledome to remaine still vnredéemed either for want of sufficiencie or through negligence and carelesnesse so that the earle of saint Giles kéeping possession thereof vnto his dieng daie left it to his sonne Raimond who inioyed it likewise Now when king Lewes hauing married the foresaid Elianor demanded restitution as in the right of his wife earle Raimond flatlie at the first denied to restore it but after considering his lacke of power to resist the kings puissance he plied the K. with humble petitions and so preuailed by faire words that in the end king Lewes granted him his sister Constance in marriage which Constance as ye haue heard was married before vnto Eustace the sonne of king Stephan with hir granted him libertie to reteine the earldome of Tholouze as it were by waie of endowment whereto the other accorded Howbeit king Henrie hauing maried the foresaid quéene Elianor after the diuorse had betwixt hir and king Lewes made claime to the said countie of Tholouze in the right of his wife Herevpon earle Raimond trusting now to the aid of his brother in law king Lewes denied to restore it so that king Henrie determined to recouer it by force and entring by and by into Gascoine with an armie he drew towards the countrie of Tholouze began to inuade the same with great force and courage Diuers great lords of those parties ioyned with king Henrie in his war which he attempted against the earle of saint Giles as the earle of Barzelone and the lord William Trencheuile a man of great power in those quarters hauing vnder his rule manie cities castels and townes notwithstanding that he had of late lost many of them by violence of the foresaid earle of Tholouze but now by the aide of king Henrie he recouered them all Malcolme also king of Scotland came vnto king Henrie whilest he was foorth in this iournie to associate him in this businesse The earle hearing of king Henries comming with an armie was put in great feare and therevpon wrote letters to his brother in law king Lewes requiring him with all spéed possible to come vnto his aid King Lewes vpon receipt of the letters vnderstanding the present danger of the earle made such hast in continuing his iournie both daie and night that he came to Tholouze before king Henrie could arriue there Which when king Henrie vnderstood and perceiued how he was preuented he changed his purpose of besieging the citie and fell to spoiling of the countrie thereabouts at which time he line 10 recouered certaine places that latelâe before had reuolted from his gouernment amoâgst the rest the citie of Cahors which he furnished with men ãâã on and vittels appointing his chancellor Thomas Becket to the custodie and keeping thereof he forââfied other places also which he had gotten placing capteines and men of warre to looke vnto the defense of the same Whilest the king was thus abrode on his iournie in the parties of Aquitaine William earle of Bullongne and Mortaine the sonne of king line 20 Stephan and Hannon earle of Glocester departed this life which two earles went thither with him Finallie when he had set things at a staie in those parties he returned towards Normandie and comming to the citie of Toures he gaue the order of knighthood vnto Malcolme king of Scotland and so in the moneth of October he came backe into Normandie and there augmenting his armie with new supplies entred
should haue come Héere is to be noted that during the siege of Rochester as some write there came out of France to the number âeere hand of seauen thousand men sent from the French king vnto the aid of the barons at the suit of Saer de Quincie earle of Winchester and other ambassadours that were sent from the barons during the time of this siege although it should seeme by Matthew Paris that the said earle was not sent till after the pope had excommunicated the barons as after yée shall heare The Frenchmen that came ouer at this first time landed at Orwell and at other hauens there neere adioining About this season the canons of Yorke bicause the archbishops sée there had remained void a long time obteining licence of the king assembled togither about the election of an archbishop And though the king had once againe earnestlie mooued them to preferre Walter Graie bishop of Woâcester yet they refused so to doo and therefore chose Simon de Langton brother to the archbishop of Canturburie which election was afterward made voâ by the earnest trauell of the king to the pope bicause his brother the said archbishop of Canturburie was known to fauour the part of the barons against him so that the said Walter Graie was then elected and promoted to the guiding of the sée of Yorke according to the kings speciall desire in that behalfe About the same time also pope Innocent being certified how the barons of England would not obeie his prescript iudged them enimies to the church and gaue commandement to Peter the bishop of Winchester to the abbat of Reading and to the subdeacon Pandulph to pronounce the sentence of excommunication against them But they could not at the first execute the popes commandement herein by reason that the archbishop of Canturburie who fauoured the barons cause would not permit them Wherefore the same archbishop was interdicted out of the church and from saieng diuine seruice and also being cited to appeare at Rome was in danger to be depriued of his miter had not certeine cardinals intreated for him and obteined his pardon The archbishop being gone to Rome as well to excuse himselfe in this matter as to be present at the generall councell there holden at that time for he was readie to go take the sea thitherwards when the bishop of Winchester and Pandulph came to him with the popes letters the said bishop of Winchester Pandulph proceeded to the pronouncing of the excommunication against the barons renewing the same euerie sundaie and holieday albeit the barons bicause none of them were expresselie named in the popes letters made none account of the censure reputing it as void and not to concerne them in any manner of point But now to returne to king Iohn After he had woone the castell of Rochester as before you haue heard he hasted to S. Albons and there diuided his armie into two parts appointing the one to remaine about London whilest he himselfe with the other might go into the north to waste and destroie the possessions of certeine lords there which as he was informed went about to raise an armie against him He made capteins of that armie line 10 which he left behind him his brother William earle of Salisburie Sauerie de Mauleon Will. Brewer Walter Buc and others He himselfe departed from S. Albons about the 21 day of December leading his said armie northwards in which were chiefe capteins these that follow William erle of Albemarle Philip de Albeney and Iohn Marshall Also of strangers Gerard de Sotigam and Godstall with the Flemings the crossebowes and others The first night he laie at Dunstable and from thence passing forwards towards Northampton he destroied by the waie all the manours places and houses which belonged to the aduersaries and so kept on his iournie till he came to Notingham where he laie in the castell on Christmasse day year 1216 and in the morning being S. Stephans day he went to Langar and lodged there that night sending his summons in the morning to the castell of Beauer willing them within to yeeld This castell apperteined to William Albeney who had committed the custodie line 30 thereof vnto his sonne Nicholas de Albeney préest to sir William de Stodham and to sir Hugh Charnelles knights the which came to the king with the keies of the castell and surrendered the same vnto him with condition that he should be good to their master the said William Albeney and grant vnto them their horsses and armour wherwith they would remaine with him vnder his peace and protection On the next morrow being S. Iohns day the king line 40 went to the castell and receiuing the same deliuered it to the kéeping of Geffrey Buteuile and his brother Oliuer After this the castell of Iohn Lacie at Dunnington was taken and laid flat to the ground by commandement of the king who hauing accomplished his will in those parties drew towards Yorkeshire and at his comming thither destroied the houses townes and manours of those lords and gentlemen which were against him It is horrible to heare and line 50 lothsome to rehearse the crueltie which was practised by the souldiers and men of warre in places where they came who counting no honour or renowme more excellent nor glorie as warriours say Maior nulla quidem quà m bello parta videtur Horrida Mauortis tractare ferociter arma Hostilìque suam temerare in sanguine dextram and therfore were wholie bent to spoile and ransacke the houses of the people without pitie or compassion besides the robberies spoiles and great outrages line 60 vsed by the souldiers generallie against the common people Few there were in that countrie of great linage or wealth whom the king for their assembling themselues with the barons either spoiled not or put not to execution Thus with his armie to the great desolation of the countrie he passed foorth to the borders of Scotland and entring that realme tooke the castell of Barwike and other places of strength in those parts meaning to haue woone more from the Scots if other vrgent businesse had not called him backe againe This being doone he committed the countrie which lieth betwixt the riuer of These and the confines of Scotland to the keeping of Hugh de Balioll and Philip de Hulcotes assigning to them such conuenient number of men of warre as was thought expedient and the custodie of the castels in Yorkeshire he deliuered to Robert de Uepount to Brian de Lisle and to Geffrey de Lucie Finallie when he had so ordered things in the North parts as stood with his pleasure so that there remained no more but two castels that is to saie Mountsorrell and another in Yorkeshire that apperteined to Robert de Roos in possession of the barons he returned by the borders of Wales into the south parts and by all the way
French king whom they chose as arbitrator betwixt them Herevpon on the thirtéenth of September both the king and quéene with their sonnes and diuerse other of the nobles of this land tooke shipping and sailed ouer to Bullongne where the French king as then was at a parlement with a great number of the nobles and péeres of France The earle of Leicester also with diuerse of his complices went thither and there the matter was opened argued and debated before the French king who in the end vpon due examination and orderlie hearing of the whole processe of all their controuersies gaue expresse sentence that all and euerie of the said statutes and ordinances deuised at Oxford should be from thencefoorth vtterlie void and all bonds and promises made by king Henrie or anie other for performance of them should likewise be adnihilated fordoone and clearelie cancelled The barons highlie displeased herewith refused to stand to the French kings award herein bicause he had iudged altogither on the kings side Wherevpon after they were returned into the realme either partie prepared for warre but yet about the feast of S. Edward the king and the barons eftsoones met at London holding a new parlement at Westminster but no good could be doone Then when the king of Almaine and prince Edward with others of the kings councell saw that by rapine oppression and extortion practised by the barons against the kings subiects as well spirituall as temporall the state of the realme and the kings honour was much decaied and brought in manner vnto vtter ruine they procured the king to withdraw secretlie from Westminster vnto Windsore castell of which his sonne prince line 10 Edward had gotten the possession by a traine From Windsore he went to Reading and from thence to Wallingford and so to Oxford hauing a great power with him At his being at Oxford there came vnto him the lord Henrie son to the king of Almaine Iohn earle Warren Roger Clifford Roger Leiborne Haimond le Strange and Iohn de Uaux which had reeuolted from the barons to the kings side Iohn Gifford also did the like but he shortlie after returned to line 20 the barons part againe The kings sonne the lord Edward had procured them thus to reuolt promising to euerie of them in reward by his charter of grant fiftie pounds lands to aid the king his father and him against the barons After this the king went to Winchester and from thence came backe vnto Reading and then he marched foorth with his armie vnto Douer where he could not be suffered to come into the castell being kept line 30 out by the lord Richard Gray that was capteine there Herevpon he returned to London where the barons againe were entred through fauour of the commoners against the will of the chéefe citizens and here they fell eftsoones to treat of agréement but their talke profited nothing And so in the Christmasse wéeke the king year 1264 with his sonne prince Edward and diuerse other of the councell sailed ouer againe into France and went to Amiens where they found the French king and a great number of his Nobles Also for the barons Peter de Montford and other were line 40 sent thither as commissioners and as some write at that present to wit on the 24 daie of Ianuarie the French king sitting in iudgement pronounced his definitiue sentence on the bahalfe of king Henrie against the barons but whether he gaue that sentence now or the yeare before the barons iudged him verie parciall and therefore meant not to stand vnto his arbitrement therein The king hauing ended his businesse with the French king returned into England and came to line 50 London the morrow after S. Ualentines day And about seuen or eight daies after the lord Edward his eldest sonne returned also and hearing that the barons were gone to the marshes of Wales where ioining with the Welshmen they had begun to make warre against the kings freends and namelie against his lieutenant Roger lord Mortimer whome they had besieged in the castell of Wigmore the lord Edward therevpon with such power as he could get line 60 togither marched thitherwards to raise their siege but the lord Mortimer perceiuing himselfe in danger fled priuilie out of the castell and got to Hereford whither the prince was come The barons inforced their strength in such wise that they wan the castell Prince Edward on the other side tooke the castels of Haie and Huntington that belonged vnto the earle of Hereford yoong Henrie de Boun. The castell of Brecknoc was also deliuered into his hands which he béetooke to the kéeping of the lord Roger de Mortimer with all the territorie thereto belonging Robert earle of Darbie that tooke part with the barons besieged the citie of Worcester and tooke it by the old castell sacked the citizens goods and constreined the Iewes to be baptised The citie of Glocester also was taken by the barons but prince Edward following them and reparing the bridge ouer Seuerne which the barons had broken downe after they were come ouer he entred the castell of Glocester with his people The next day by procurement of Walter bishop of Worcester a truce was taken betwixt prince Edward and the barons that had taken the towne during the which truce the barons left the towne and the burgesses submitted themselues vnto prince Edward and so he hauing the castell and towne in his hands imprisoned manie of the burgesses fined the towne at the summe of a thousand pounds Then he drew towards his father lieng at Oxford or at Woodstoke gathering people togither on ech hand In the meane time the lords drew towards London and the new assurance by writing indented was made betweene the communaltie of the citie and the barons without consent of any of the rulers of the citie The commoners herewith appointed of themselues two capteins which they named constables of the citie that is to saie Thomas Piwelsoon Stephan Bukerell by whose commandement and âolling of the great bell of Paules all the citie was warned to be readie in harnesse to attend vpon the said two capteins About the beginning of Lent the constable of the towre sir Hugh Spenser with the said two capteins and a great multitude of the citizens and others went to Thistleworââ and there spoiled the manour place of the king of Almaine and then set it on fire and destroied the water milles and other commodities which he there had This déed was the cause as some haue iudged of the warre that after insued For where before this time the said king of Almaine had beéne by reason of the alliance betwixt him and the earle of Glocester continuallie an intreater for peace he was now euer after this time an vtter enimie vnto the barons and vnto their side so farre as laie in his power The king hearing of this riotââus act and being informed
the earle of Richmond Arundell Warren and Penbroke to agree vnto their purpose and likewise some of the bishops they compelled through feare to take an oth to ioine with them in their purpose for the expelling of the Spensers out of the line 20 realme and so comming all togither before the king they published certeine articles against the said Spensers both the father and sonne wherevpon they made an award that they should be disherited and banished the land during their liues if by the king and consent of all the lords in parlement assembled they should not be restored They had day and place appointed where to passe foorth of the land to wit at Douer and not elsewhere betwixt the daie of his award made and the feast of the decollation of saint Iohn Baptist that day to be counted for one Diuers line 30 articles as before is said were laid to the charge of those Spensers line 1 Amongst other things it was alledged First that Hugh Spenser the sonne being on a time angrie and displeased with the king sought to allie and confederate himselfe with the lord Gifford of Brimesfield and the lord Richard Gray to haue constreined and forced the king by strong hand to haue followed his will and pleasure line 40 Secondlie it was alledged that the said Spensers line 2 as well the father as the sonne had caused the king to ride into Glocestershire to oppresse and destroie the good people of his land contrarie to the forme of the great charter Thirdlie that where the earle of Hereford and the line 3 lord Mortimer of Wigmore had gone against one Thlewillin Bren who had raised a rebellion against the king in Glamorganshire whiles the lands of the earle of Glocester were in the kings hands the same line 50 Thlewillin yéelded himselfe to the said earle and to the lord Mortimer who brought him to the king vpon promise that he should haue the kings pardon and so the king receiued him But after that the said earle and lord Mortimer were out of the land the Spensers taking to them roiall power tooke the said Thlewillin and led him vnto Kardif where after that the said Hugh Spenser the sonne had his purpartie of the said earle of Glocesters lands he caused the said Thlewillin to be drawne headed and line 60 quartered to the discredit of the king and of the said earle of Hereford and lord Mortimer yea and contrarie to the lawes and dignitie of the imperiall crowne line 4 Fourthlie the said Spensers counselled the king to foreiudge sir Hugh Audlie sonne to the lord Hugh Audlie and to take into his hands his castels and possessions They compassed also to haue atteinted the lord Roger Damorie that thereby they might haue enioied the whole earledome of Glocester These and other articles of misdemeanour in the Spensers were exhibited to persuade the king and others that they were vnprofitable members in the common-wealth and not worthie of those places which they occupied Now after that their disheriting and banishment was concluded in manner as before is said the earle of Hereford and other the lords that had prosecuted the quarell against them came before the king and humblie on their knees besought him of pardon for all things which they had committed against him his lawes or any other person in the pursuit of the said Spensers The king being brought into a streict durst not but grant vnto all that which they requested establishing the same by statute The parlement being thus ended the king and quéene went to Canturburie there to visit the shrine of Thomas Becket somtime archbishop there From thence he went to the I le of Tenet that he might meet with his deare welbeloued councellour Hugh Spenser the yoonger whome he had of late sent in ambassage vnto the French king and now being returned by sea into those parts he was desirous to see him that he might haue conference with him and so comming togither they spent certeine daies in commoning of such matters as they thought good The king calling to him the mariners of the cinque ports committed to them the custodie of the said Hugh who for a time kept him with them in their ships and the king sailing alongst the coast to Porchester conferred with him of manie things From Porchester the king ment to returne vnto London there to méet the quéene who in hir returne from Canturburie would haue lodged one night in the castell of Léeds which the lord Bartholomew de Badelismere late steward of the kings house had by exchange of the king for other lands and now taking part with the barons had left his wife and children with other of his fréends and treasure in the same castell Those that were put in trust with keeping this castell would neither permit quéene nor other to enter therein without expresse commandement from their lord and maister and so they signified not onelie to the quéenes seruants that came before to make prouision for hir but also declared the same to hir selfe comming thither in person This chanced verie vnluckilie for the barons for where the queene had euer sought to procure peace loue and concord betwixt the king and his lords shée tooke such displeasure with this deniall made to hir for one nights lodging in that castell that vpon hir gréeuous complaint sent to the king he foorthwith raised a mightie armie out of Kent and Essex from the cinque ports and of the Londoners and hauing with him his brethren Thomas earle Marshall and Edmund earle of Kent also the earls of Richmond Penbroke Arundell and Atholl he hasted thither laid siege about the castell constreining them within by all meanes that might be deuised In the meane time at the suit of the lord Badelismere the earle of Hereford and other lords of the confederacie came with a great power vnto Kingstone about the feast of Simon and Iude and there staieng certeine daies for some of their companie that were to come vnto them they sent vnto the king the archbishop of Canturburie and the bishop of London with the earle of Penbroke requiring him to remooue his siege till by parlement some order might be taken but the king would not giue eare to their suit but continued his siege till the castell was yeelded to him For those that were at Kingstone cowardlie leuing their enterprise came not forward but returned backe againe They that were within the castell hauing simplie submitted themselues to the king caused twelue or thirtéene of them to suffer death Amongst other was one Walter Culpepper reckoned for the chéefe of them that defended the castell against the king The wife of the lord Badelismere with his nephue Bartholomew de Burwash was sent to the tower of London but his sister was sent to Douer castell there to remaine in safe kéeping The castell of Leeds being thus yéelded to the king he entred the same on
of the said Robert Holland their side was much weakened it was concluded that they should go to the castell of Dunstanborough and there remaine till they might purchase the kings pardon sith their enterprise thus quailed vnder their hands and herewith setting forward that waie foorth they came to Borough bridge where sir Andrew de Herkley with the power of the countesse of Cumberland and Westmerland had forlaid the passage and there on a tuesdaie being the 16 of March he setting vpon the barons in the end discomfited them and chased their people In this fight was sâaine the earle of Hereford the lord William de Sullie with sir Roger de Bourghfield and diuerse others And there were taken Thomas earle of Lancaster the lord Roger Clifford son to that lord Roger which died in the battell of Bannockesborne in Scotland the lord Gilbert Talbot the lord Iohn âowbraie the lord Hugh de Willington the lord Thomas âanduit the lord Warren de Lisle the lord Phillip Darcie the lord Thomas Wither the lord Henrie de Willington the lord Hugh de Knouill the lord Philip de Beche the lord Henrie de Leiborne the lord Henrie de Bradborne the lord Iohn de Beckes the lord Thomas Louell the lord William fitz William Robert de Wateuille Iohn de Strikeland Odnell Heron Walter Pauelie of Stretton and a great number of other esquires and gentlemen This battell was fought on the fiftéenth day of March in the yeare 1322 after the accompt of them that begin the yeare at the Circumcision line 10 which was in the said fiftéenth yé ere of this kings reigne The bodie of the earle of Hereford was sent to Yorke two friers of the order of preachers being appointed to looke to it till the king tooke order for the burieng of it The lord Clifford also bicause he was wounded with an arrow was sent vnto Yorke At the same time the lord Henrie Percie tooke the lord Henrie Tieis and Iohn de Goldington knight with two esquires and within a few daies after Donald de Mar tooke the lord Bartholomew de Badelismere line 20 the lord Hugh Audelie the yoonger the lord Iohn Gifford the lord William Tucheâ and in maner all those which escaped by flight from this battell were taken in one place or other by such of the kings seruants and fréends as pursued them Upon the one and twentith of March came sir Andrew de Harkley vnto Pomfret bringing with him the earle of Lancaster and other prisoners The king was come thither a few daies before and had the castell yeelded to him by the constable that not manie daies past was line 30 appointed to the kéeping thereof by the earle which earle now being brought thither captiue was mocked scorned and in derision called king Arthur On the morrow after being mondaie the two and twentith of March he was brought before these noble men Edmund earle of Kent Iohn earle of Richmond Aimer earle of Penbroke Iohn erle of Surrie Edmund earle of Arundell Dauid earle of Atholl Robert earle of Anegos the lord Hugh Spenser line 40 the father the lord Robert de Malmesthorp iustice and others with them associate before whome he was arreigned of high treason for that he had raised warre against the king and defended the passage of Burton bridge for the space of thrée daies togither against him and after when it was perceiued that the king had passed the riuer he with Humfrie de Bohun earle of Hereford and other their complices like traitors set fire on the said towne and cruellie burnt part of the houses and men of the same towne and after the said earle of Lancaster with his complices line 50 arranged himselfe in field with his armie and banners displaid readie to fight against the king till that perceiuing the kings power to be ouerstrong for him his partakers to resist he togither with them fled committing by the waie diuerse felonies and robberies till they came to Burrough bridge where finding certeine of the kings faithfull subiects readie to resist them they assailed the said faithfull subiects with force of armes and banners displaied slaieng line 60 diuerse of them till finallie the said earle of Lancaster was caught and other of his complices some taken some slaine and the residue put to flight so that there wanted no good will in the said earle of Lancaster and others whie the king should not haue béene vanquished Which treasons murthers burning of houses destroieng of the kings people being plainlie manifestlie knowne to the earls barons lords and other people of the land the said earle of Lancaster was therevpon adiudged to die according to the law in such cases prouided that is to be drawne hanged and headed But bicause he was the queenes vncle and sonne to the kings vncle he was pardoned of all saue heading and so accordinglie therevnto suffered at Pomfret the two and twentith of March. Thus the king séemed to be reuenged of the displeasure doone to him by the earle of Lancaster for the beheading of Peers de Gaueston earle of Cornewall whom he so déerelie loued and bicause the erle of Lancaster was the chéefe occasioner of his death the king neuer loued him entirelie after ¶ So that here is verified the censure of the scripture expressed by the wisedome of Salomon that the anger and displeasure of the king is as the roring of a lion and his reuenge ineuitable Wherefore it is an hie point of discretion in such as are mightie to take héed how they giue edge vnto the wrath of their souereigne which if it be not by submission made blunt the burthen of the smart insuing will lie heauie vpon the offendor euen to his vtter vndooing and losse perhaps of life In this sort came the mightie earle of Lancaster to his end being the greatest péere in the realme and one of the mightiest earles in christendome for when he began to leauie warre against the king he was possessed of fiue earledomes Lancaster Lincolne Salisburie Leicester and Derbie beside other seigniories lands and possessions great to his aduancement in honor and puissance But all this was limited within prescription of time which being expired both honour and puissance were cut off with dishonour and death for O mutable state Inuida fatorum series summÃsque negatum Stare diu On the same day the lord William Tuchet the lord William fitz William the lord Warren de Lisle the lord Henrie Bradborne and the lord William Chenie barons with Iohn Page an esquire were drawne and hanged at Pomfret aforesaid and then shortlie after Roger lord Clifford Iohn lord Mowbraie and sir Gosein d' Eeuill barons were drawne and hanged at Yorke At Bristow in like manner were executed sir Henrie de Willington and sir Henrie Montfort baronets and at Glocester the lord Iohn Gifford and sir William Elmebridge knight and at London the lord Henrie Teies baron at Winchelsie sir Thomas
were The lords and knights of France came not to the assemblie togither for some came after in such hast and euill order that one of them troubled another There were of Genowaies crosbowes to the number of twelue or fifteene thousand the which were commanded to go on before and with their shot to begin the battell but they were so werie with going on foot that morning six leagues armed with their crosbowes that they said to their constables We be not well vsed in that we are line 20 commanded to fight this daie for we be not in case to doo any great feat of armes we haue more néed of rest These words came to the hearing of the earle of Alanson who said A man is well at ease to be charged with such a sort of rascals that faint and faile now at most néed Also at the same instant there fell a great raine and an eclipse with a terrible thunder and before the raine there came flieng ouer both armies a great number of crowes for feare of the tempest comming line 30 then anon the aire began to wax cleare and the sunne to shine faire and bright which was right in the French mens eies and on the Englishmens backs ¶ When the Genowaies were assembled togither and began to approch they made a great leape and crie to abash the Englishmen but they stood still and stirred not at all for that noise Then the Genowaies the second time made an other leape and huge crie and stepped forward a little and the Englishmen remooued not a foot The third time againe line 40 the Genowaies leapt and yelled and went foorth till they came within shot and fiercelie therwith discharged their crosbowes Then the English archers stept foorth one pase and let flie their arrowes so wholie and so thicke togither that it séemed to snowe When the Genowaies felt the arrowes persing their heads armes and breasts manie of them cast downe their crosbowes and cut the strings and returned discomfited When the French king saw them flee awaie he said Slea these rascals for they will let and trouble vs without reason line 50 Then ye might haue seene the men of armes haue dasht in amongst them and killed a great number of them and euer the Englishmen shot where they saw the thickest prease the sharpe arrowes ran into the men of armes and into their horsses and manie fell horsse and man amongst the Genowaies and still the Englishmen shot where they saw the thickest prease and when they were once downe they could not recouer againe The throng was such that one ouerthrew line 60 another also among the Englishmen there were certeine of the footmen with great kniues that went in among the men of armes and killed manie of them as they laie on the ground both earles barons knights and esquires The valiant king of Bohem being almost blind caused his men to fasten all the reines of the bridels of their horsses ech to other and so he being himselfe amongst them in the formost ranke they ran on their enimies The lord Charles of Boheme sonne to the same king and late elected emperour came in good order to the battell but when he saw how the matter went awrie on their part he departed and saued himselfe His father by the meanes aforesaid went so far forward that ioining with his enimies he fought right valiantlie and so did all his companie but finallie being entred within the prease of their enimies they were of them inclosed and slaine togither with the king their master and the next daie found dead lieng about him and their horsses all tied ech to other The earle of Alanson came right orderlie to the battell and fought with the Englishmen and so did the earle of Flanders also on his part These two lords coasted the English archers and came to the princes battell and there fought right valiantlie a long time The French king perceiuing where their banners stood would faine haue come to them but could not by reason of a great hedge of archers that stood betwixt them and him This was a perillous battell and sore foughten there were few taken to mercie for the Englishmen had so determined in the morning Certeine Frenchmen and Almaines perforce opened the archers of the princes battell and came to fight with the men of armes hand to hand Then the second battell of the Englishmen came to succor the princes battell and not before it was time for they of that battell had as then inough to doo in somuch that some which were about him as the earle of Northampton and others sent to the king where he stood aloft on a windmill hill requiring him to aduance forward and come to their aid they being as then sore laid to of their enimies The king herevpon demanded if his sonne were slaine hurt or felled to the earth No said the knight that brought the message but he is sore matched Well said the king returne to him and them that sent you and saie to them that they send no more to me for any aduenture that falleth so long as my son is aliue for I will that this iournie be his with the honor thereof With this answer the knight returned which greatlie incouraged them to doo their best to win the spurs being half abashed in that they had so sent to the king for aid At length when it drew toward euening and that the Frenchmen were beaten downe and slaine on ech hand king Philip as it were by constreint departed out of the field not hauing as then past three score persons about him of whome the lord Iohn of Heinault was one by whose persuasion he cheefelie consented to ride his waie for his owne safegard when he saw the losse was such as on that daie it could not be recouered The slaughter of the Frenchmen was great and lamentable namelie for the losse of so manie noble men as were slaine at the same battell fought betweene Cressie and Broy on the saturdaie next following the feast of saint Bartholomew being as that yeare fell the 26 of August Among other which died that daie these I find registred by name as chéefest Iohn king of Boheme Rafe duke of Lorraine Charles of Alanso brother germane to king Philip Charles earle of Blois Lewes earle of Flanders also the earle of Harecourt brother to the lord Geffrie of Harecourt with the earles of Ausserre Aumerle and saint Poule beside diuerse other of the nobilitie The Englishmen neuer brake out of their battels to chase any man but kept themselues togither in their wards and ranks and defended themselues euer against such as came to assaile them This battell ended about euening When the Frenchmen were clearelie ouercome and those that were left aliue fled and gone so that the Englishmen heard no more noise of them king Edward came downe from the hill on the which he stood
some copies haue Neuille and manie other There was also sir Eustace Dambreticourt and of the companions sir Perducas Dalbreth who in the beginning of these warres being turned French was by the persuasion of sir Robert Knols procured to returne againe to the princes seruice before the siege of Durmelle The prince being thus accompanied with these line 40 worthie capteins and men of armes to the number of twelue hundred beside a thousand archers and other footmen indeuored by all waies he could deuise to indamage them within In the end he caused the walles to be vndermined and quite reuersed into the ditch then giuing assault entered by the breach and made an huge slaughter of them within in somuch that of men women and children for none were spared in respect of age or sex there were slaine and beheaded that daie aboue thrée thousand The bishop line 50 with certeine knights and capteins were taken and had their liues granted though the bishop was in great danger to haue lost his head bicause he was a cheefe dooer in yéelding the citie before vnto the Frenchmen Whilest the prince laie at siege before Limoges a litle before he wan it thither came to him his brethren the duke of Lancaster and the earle of Cambridge the lord Ros sir Michaell de la Pole sir Robert Rous sir Iohn Saintâo and sir William Beauchampe line 60 with a faire number of men of war spears and archers The prince then after he had woone Limoges and executed some crueltie there to the terrour of other his maladie which still continued vpon him rather increased than diminished so that he was aduised by physicians to returne into England in hope that change of aire should restore him to health For the which consideration and other causes of businesse which he had to doo with his father touching certeine weightie affaires he tooke the sea and came ouer into England leauing the gouernement of Aquitaine vnto his brother the duke of Lancaster as his lieutenant there he landed at Plimmouth in the beginning of Ianuarie Moreouer in this 44 yeare of king Edward the king of Nauarre came ouer into England and at Claringdon found the king and there talked with him of such matters as they had to conclude betwixt them two But for that the king of Nauarre could not assure the king of such couenants as should haue passed betwixt them two it was not thought meet by the kings councell to worke too far vpon his bare word that had before time shewed apparant proofes of his inconstant dealing And suerlie this doubt arose not without cause as his dooings shortlie after declared for although he séemed now at this present to be a verie enimie to the French king yet shortlie after he was reconciled to him againe and became his great freend for the time it lasted This yeare in the moneth of Februarie was a parlement called in the which there was demanded of the spiritualtie a subsidie of fiftie thousand pounds and as much of the laitie The temporall men soone agréed to that paiment but the cleargie excused themselues with faire words and shifting answers in somuch that the king tooke displesure with them and deposed certeine spirituall men from their offices of dignitie as the chancellor the priuie seale the treasuror and such others in whose roomes he placed temporall men The bishop of Winchester and the bishop of Beauuois being both cardinals were put in commission by pope Gregorie the eleuenth to treat betwixt the kings of England and France for a peace But albeit they did their indeuour therein and mooued both kings to the vttermost of their powers yet their motions tooke none effect and therefore was the warre pursued to the vttermost betwixt the parties namelie in Aquitaine where the fortresses were so intermedled one with an other some English and some French that one knew not how to beware of an other nor to auoid the danger so that the countrie of Poictou and other the marches thereabout were in great tribulation Sir Robert Knols sir Thomas Spenser sir Iohn Triuet and sir Hugh Hastings diuiding their powers insunder went to recouer townes some in one quarter and some in an other and certeine they assaied but preuailed not the inhabitants doubting to be punished for their vntruths made such stout resistance After this the duke of Lancaster appointed sir Robert Knols to repaire againe to Calis and by the waie if occasion serued to attempt the recouerie of Ponthieu Sir Robert taking his iournie through France by Paris came into the marches of Picardie and bicause in comparison to this man all the English capteins were litle feared of the Frenchmen sir Berthram de Cleaquin the constable of France leauing the fortresses in the marches of Aquitaine sufficientlie stuffed with men of warre and munition followed sir Robert Knols still readie to assaile the hindermost companies or else to set on the sides of his enimies So that there chanced manie skirmishes betwixt them manie men were slaine on both parts but at length when sir Robert Knols saw no likelihood to atchiue his purposed intent in recouerie of the townes of Ponthieu as Abuile and other he drew streight to Calis and the constable retired backe into France In this 46 yeare sir Robert Ashton was sent into Ireland as lord deputie there and in the same yeare the duke of Lancaster being as then a widower maried the ladie Constance eldest daughter to Peter king of Spaine which was slaine by his bastard brother Henrie as before ye haue heard ¶ Also the lord Emund earle of Cambridge maried the ladie Isabell sister to the same Constance ¶ Their other sister named Beatrice affianced to Don Ferdinando son to Peter king of Portingale was departed this life a little before this time at Baionne where they were all three left as hostages by their father when the prince went to bring him home into his countrie as before yée may read Froissard writeth that the duke married the ladie Constance in Gascoigne and that shortlie after he returned into England with his said wife and hir sister leauing the capitall de Bueffz and other lords of Gascoigne and Poictou in charge with the rule of those countries By reason of that marriage the duke of Lancaster as in right of his wife being the elder sister caused himselfe to line 10 be intituled king of Castile and his said wife quéene of the same realme The earle of Hereford being sent to the sea with certeine ships of warre was incountered by the Flemish fléet before an hauen in Britaine called the Baie where was fought a sore battell and long continued for the space of thrée houres howbeit finallie the victorie abode with the Englishmen notwithstanding that the Flemings were more in number line 20 and better prouided for the matter There were taken of them fiue and twentie ships with their
within that if they would not send bread and wine foorth to vittell the host in that behalfe they would burne all their corne for doubt whereof the citizens sent foorth to the host six charets laden with as much bread and wine as they might carie Thus was their corne saued from destruction and the Englishmen by soft and easie iournies drew towards the citie of Trois in the which was the duke of Burgognie with the dukes of Burbon and Bar the earle of Ewe the lord Coucie sir Iohn de Uien high admerall of France and a great number of others of the French nobilitie They had made a bastide without the towne able to receiue a thousand men of armes but vpon the Englishmens approch to assault it they did forsake that strength and withdrew to the towne Sir Thomas Triuet was here made a baronet Also there were certeine new knights made as sir Peter Berton sir Iohn and sir Thomas Paulie or Paulet sir Iohn Stâugulie sir Thomas Dortingues sir Iohn Uassecoque sir Thomas Brasie sir Iohn Brauin sir Henrie Uernier sir Iohn Colenile sir William Euerat sir Nicholas Stiugulie and sir Hugh Lunit The English host perceiuing the Frenchmen to withdraw into the towne drew togither and stood in order of battell for the space of two houres and then returned to their lodgings The next day they remooued to Maillerois le vicount neere vnto Sens and there they remained two daies and after drew into Gastinois and so into Beause They were coasted all the waie by a great power of men of war as many or more in number as they were themselues But the French king being a politike prince wiselie considered what losses the realme of France had susteined afore time by giuing battell to the Englishmen and therefore was fullie resolued that in no wise he would giue licence to his people to fight with the earle of Buckingham but thought better as he had learned by good experience to keepe his townes close against his enimies and so in the end to wearie them than by giuing battell to put things in hazard whereas he knew they could not take from him his countries by this kind of warre though they sore in damaged the same for a time There chanced manie small skirmishes amongst those that rode foorth to discouer the countrie but no notable incounter at all For the Englishmen in those daies were cats not to be catched without mittens as Iacob Meir in one place saith againe the French men were as warie how they aduentured to come néere them peraduenture for feare as in the reigne of king Edward the 3 as C.O. noteth saieng Contra aciem magnam tremebundo corde Valesus In campum adiunctum vicina coeÌgerat arua Non tamen Angligânas aduersum est ausus aperto Tendere Marte feris confligere fortiter armis Onelie they sought how to inclose them vp in the countrie and to famish them that they might then fight with them at some great aduantage but still the English host passed forward holding on their voiage towards Britaine by Uandosme Pont Uolaine and so ouer the riuer of Sartre In this meane while the French king Charles the fift was taken with a sore sicknesse whereof he departed this life the same daie that the English armie passed ouer the riuer of Sartre which was on the six and twentith of September his brethren the dukes of Aniou Berrie Burbon and Burgognie were at Paris with him at the houre of his death where as a little before they had béene abroad in the countrie with their line 10 powers to defend the cities and townes of importance against the Englishmen and meant indeed if they could haue espied their aduantage and gotten licence thereto of the king to haue giuen their enimies battell But now they were otherwise occupied howbeit they had left their men abroad in the countrie to coast the Englishmen as they had doone before All the French power was assembled in the citie of Mans vnder the leading of the duke of Bar the lord Coucie and others line 20 In this meane while that the earle of Buckingham was passing through the realme of France the French and Spanish gallies did much mischéefe on the coast of England but about the latter end of Iune by a fléet of Englishmen of the west countries part of them were forced to retire and take harbour in an hauen in Ireland called Kingsale where being assailed of the Englishmen and Irishmen they were vanquished so that to the number of foure hundred of them were slaine and their chéefe capteins taken line 30 as Gonsalue de Uerse and his brother Iohn Martin de Motrigo Turgo lord of Morants also the lord of Reith Péers Martin of Uermew Iohn Modit of Uermew the seneshall of Wargarie the seneshall of S. Andrew Cornelis of S. Sebastiano Paschale de Biskey Iohn Martinis Sopogorge of S. Sebastiano and diuerse other There were taken foure of their barges with a ballenger and one and twentie English vessels recouered which they had robbed and taken awaie from line 40 their owners There scaped yet foure of their notable capteins froÌ the hands of our men Martin Grantz Iohn Peris Mantago Iohn Husce Gitario and one Garcias of S. Sebastiano so that the malice of those robbers ceased not For they with the French gallies still lieng on the seas when they espied anie aduantage would land their people and doo what mischeefe they could in taking preies and burning townes and villages although now and then they came short to their vessels againe losing sometimes line 50 an hundred sometimes fourescore that were ouertaken by the Englishmen that came foorth against them But among other inuasions which they made this summer on the coasts we find that they burnt the towne of Winchelsie put the abbat of Battell to flight with his people comming to succor that towne and tooke one of his moonks that was there in armor with the abbat ¶ Some write also that they burnt Rie Hastings and Portsmouth Finallie their boldnesse so farre increased that in August they entring line 60 with their gallies into the riuer of Thames came vp to Grauesend where they burnt the most part of the towne and on the other side of the riuer as well in Essex as Kent they burnt and spoiled diuerse places and with their prisoners and booties returned without receiuing anie hurt bringing with them to France both rich spoiles and good prisoners But to returne to the earle of Buckingham where we left The English armie drew still towards Britaine but with so small doubt of their aduersaries that they laie three or foure daies sometimes still in one place At their approching to the marches of Britaine they came to Uitrie a towne situate at the first entring into that countrie and from thence went to Chateau Briant and there rested whither came to them certeine knights
priuie councell deliuered that letter with foure other letters closed with the same seale first to the lord chancellor and after to the king the which being read and the seale knowne to be the said sir Rafe Ferrers his seale manie greatlie maruelled that so ancient a knight and one in whom so great trust was put should go about any such treasons One of the letters was directed to sir Bertram de Cleaquin an other to the lord de la Riuer the chamberlaine of France an other to the lord Clisson and an other to the patrone of the gallies and to the capteine of the armie of Frenchmen and Spaniards which at the same time wasting alongst the coasts did much hurt in diuerse places of the land Foorthwith the said Philpot and others were sent in post from the king to the duke of Lancaster that for somuch as the said sir Rafe Ferrers was then in the north parts with him intreating with the Scots he should arrest him and put him in safe kéeping which commandement the duke did accomplish and committed him to be safelie kept in the castell of Duresme but shortlie after in the next parlement he was set at libertie foure barons being bound for his foorth comming till time that he might more euidentlie declare his innocencie About the feast of S. Martine was a parlement holden at Northampton to the more trouble of them that came to it bicause in that season of the yeare they were constreined to come where there was no store of fewell to make them fiers and beside that lodgings were verie streict for so great a multitude But the cause that mooued the councell to appoint this parlement there was to the end that they might the more fréelie procéed to the triall of Iohn Kirkbie a citizen of London that had murthered the Genowâis as before ye haue hard which Kirkbie was condemned at this parlement and drawne and hanged in the sight of the Londoners that were come thither which execution if it should haue beene doone at London the lords doubted least some tumult might haue béene raised by the citizens who were reckoned in those daies verie rash and presumptuous in their dooings But now to the effect of this parlement There was a new and strange subsidie or taske granted to be leuied for the kings vse and towards the charges of this armie that went ouer into France with the earle of Buckingham to wit of euerie préest secular or regular six shillings eight pence and as much of euerie nunne and of euerie man woman married or not married being 16 yeares of age beggers certenlie knowne onlie excepted foure pence for euerie one Great grudging manie a bitter cursse followed about the leuieng of this monie much mischéefe rose thereof as after it appeared ¶ In this fourth yeare of king Richards reigne year 1381 immediatlie after Christmasse Thomas Brantingham bishop of Exeter and lord treasuror was discharged of his office of treasurorship and sir Robert Hales lord of S. Iohns was aduanced in his place a right noble and manlie knight but not beloued of the commons About this time did Iohn Wicliffe chieflie set foorth his opinion touching the sacrament of the altar denieng the doctrine of transubstantiation and that it ought not in any wise to be worshipped in such sort as the church of Rome then did teach ¶ There were ambassadors sent into Germanie to treat with the emperour for a marriage to be had betwixt the king of England and the emperours sister About the beginning of March they returned bringing with them the cardinall intituled of saint Praxed and the duke of Tarsilia and other nobles that came from the emperor to treat with the king his councell about the same marriage This cardinall whether he passed the bounds of his commission and authoritie to him granted by the pope as some write or whether he was furnished with such faculties he was very liberall in bestowing of them abrode on all such as would come with monie Indulgences which the pope had vsed onelie to reserue for himselfe to bestow this man granted the same liberallie both biennals and triennals He gaue also letters confessionall to all those that would paie for them admitting aswell beneficed men as other to be the popes chapleins He made notaries for monie and denied not altars portatiue to anie that would pay for them He receiued fortie pounds besides other gifts of the moonks of the Cisteaux order to grant to them a generall licence to eat flesh indifferentlie as well abroad as they had béene accustomed to doo at home within their monasteries To those that were excommunicate he gaue absolution those that had vowed line 10 to go in pilgrimage to Rome to the holie land or to saint Iames he would not first release them till he had receiued so much monie according to the true valuation as they should haue spent in their iornies and to be bréefe nothing could be asked but for monie he was readie to grant it And when he was requested to shew by what power he did all these things with great indignation he answered that he would let them vnderstand at Rome if they would needs know the authoritie which he had At length his males line 20 were so filled with siluer that his seruants disdained to make them anie answer except they brought gold saieng Bring vs gold for we are full of your siluer But at his departure he tooke all awaie with him both gold and siluer in such abundance as was maruellous This hath beene the practise of the Romanists from time to time wherevpon grew this common byword taxing the polling and shauing shifts of that execrable see gaping gulfe and insatiable sea Curia Romana non quaerit ouem sine lana line 30 But now to returne to other matters concerning the state of the realme After the returne of the earle of Buckingham it was ordeined by aduise of the councell that the duke of Lancaster should eftsoones go as ambassador from king Richard into Scotland to see if he might renew the truce which shortlie would haue beene expired for three yéeres longer Also whereas there was variance and open war mainteined betwixt Iohn king of Castile and Iohn king of Portingale the earle of Cambridge the lord William line 40 de Beauchampe the lord Botreux and sir Matthew Gournie were sent into Portingale with fiue hundred armed men and fiue hundred archers to aid the king of Portingale against the king of Castile who was sonne to the bastard Henrie for the duke of Lancaster reioised greatlie that he might haue such a fréend as the king of Portingale to ioine with him in aid against the king of Castile meaning as soone as opportunitie would serue to go ouer with an armie to chalenge his right and pursue his claime to the crowne of Castile and Leon against line 50 the vsurper in right of his wife quéene
strange on the other part speciallie in such kind of misgouerned people for in that spoiling of the dukes house all the iewels plate and other rich line 30 and sumptuous furniture which they there found in great plentie they would not that any man should fare the better by it of a mite but threw all into the fire so to be consumed and such things as the fire could not altogither destroie as plate and iewels they brake and crashed in péeces throwing the same into the Thames One of them hauing thrust a faire siluer peece into his bosome meaning to conueie it awaie was espied of his fellowes who tooke him and cast both him and the péece into the fire saieng they line 40 might not suffer any such thing sith they professed themselues to be zealous of truth and iustice and not théeues nor robbers There were 32 of them that being gotten into the celler of the Sauoie where the dukes wines laie dranke so much of such swéete wine as they found there that they were not able to come foorth but with stones wood that fell downe as the house burned they were closed in so that out they could not get They laie there showting crieng seuen daies line 50 togither and were heard of manie but none came to helpe them and so finallie they perished Now after that these wicked people had thus destroied the duke of Lancasters house and done what they could deuise to his reproch they went to the temple and burnt the men of lawes lodgings with their bookes writings and all that they might lay hand vpon Also the house of saint Iohns by Smithfield they set on fire so that it burned for the space of seuen daies togither On Friday a great number of them estéemed line 60 to 20 thousand went to the manor of Heiburie that belonged vnto the lord of saint Iohns and setting fire on it sought vtterlie to destroie the whole buildings about it They were now diuided into thrée parts one vnder the leading of Iacke Straw tooke in hand to ruinate that house and an other number of them lay on mile end greene and the third companie kept vpon the tower hill and would not suffer anie vittels to be conueied into the tower where the king at that time was lodged and was put in such feare by those rude people that he suffered them to enter into the tower where they sought so narowlie for the lord chancelor that finding him in the chappell they drew him foorth togither with the lord treasuror and on the tower hill without reuerence of their estates and degrees with great noise and fell cries they stroke off their heads There were also beheaded at the same time by those rude people one of the kings seruants that was a sergeant at armes called Iohn Leg who had vsed himselfe somewhat extremelie in gathering vp of the pole monie as by one writer it appeareth Also to make vp the messe they beheaded a Franciscane Frier whom they had taken there at the same time for malice of the duke of Lancaster bicause he was verie familiar with him ¶ Some write that this frier was confessor and other say that he was physician to the king but what soeuer he was the commons chopped off his head to beare the other companie not sparing for anie respect that might be alledged in any of their behalfes On the same day also they beheaded manie others as well Englishmen as Flemings for no cause in the world but onelie to satisfie the crueltie of the commons that then were in their kingdome for it was a sport to them when they gat any one amongst them that was not sworne to them and séemed to mislike of their dooings or if they bare but neuer so little hatred to him streightwaies to plucke of his hood with such a yelling noise as they tooke vp amongst them and immediatlie to come thronging into the stréets and strike off his head Neither had they any regard to sacred places for breaking into the church of the Augustine friers they drew foorth thirteene Flemings and beheaded them in the open streets and out of the parish churches in the citie they tooke foorth seuentéene and likewise stroke off their heads without reuerence either of the church or feare of God But they continuing in their mischéefous purpose shewed their malice speciallie against strangers so that entring into euerie stréet lane and place where they might find them they brake vp their houses murthered them which they found within and spoiled their goods in most outragious manner Likewise they entered into churches as before ye haue heard into abbeies monasteries and other houses namelie of men of law which in semblable sort they ransacked They also brake vp the prisons of newgate and of both the counters destroied the books and set prisoners at libertie and also the sanctuarie-men of saint Martins le grand And so likewise did they at Westminster where they brake open the eschequer and destroied the ancient bookes and other records there dooing what they could to suppresse law and by might to beate downe equitie and right as it is said Tunc ius calcatur violentia cum dominatur They that entered the tower vsed themselues most presumptuouslie and no lesse vnreuerentlie against the princesse of Wales mother to the king for thrusting into hir chamber they offered to kisse hir and swasht downe vpon hir bed putting hir into such feare that she fell into a swoone and being taken vp and recouered was had to the water side and put into a barge conueied to the place called the quéenes wardrobe or the tower riall where she remained all that day and the night following as a woman halfe dead till the king came to recomfort hir It was strange to consider in what feare the lords knights gentlemen stood of the cruell procéedings of those rude base people For where there were six hundred armed men and as manie archers in the tower at that present there was not one that durst gainesaie their dooings Finallie when they had eased their stomachs with the spoiling burning and defacing of sundrie places they became more quiet and the king by the aduise of such as were then about him vpon good deliberation of counsell offered to them pardon and his peace with condition that they should cease from burning and ruinating of houses from killing and murthering of men and depart euerie man to his home without more adoo and there to tarrie for the kings charters confirmatorie of the same pardon The Essexmen were content with this offer as they that were desirous to see their wiues and children being waxen wearie of continuall trauell and paines which they were constreined to take The king went foorth vnto Mile end and there declared vnto the line 10 commons that they should haue charters made to them of his grant to make them all free And further that euerie
such summes of monie as our progenitors lenâ vnto him and to his ancestors vpon gage of the said towne of Brest for the which reason and conscience will no lesse but that the towne should therevpon be to him restored Upon this multiplieng of woords in such presumptuous maner by the duke against the king there kindeled such displeasure betwixt line 10 them that it neuer ceassed to increase into flames till the duke was brought to his end The earle of saint Paule at his last comming into England to receiue king Richards oth for obseruing the truce had conference with the king of diuerse matters The king by waie of complaint shewed vnto him how stiffe the duke of Glocester was in hindering all such matters as he would haue go forward not onlie séeking to haue the peace broken betwixt the realmes of England France but also line 20 procuring trouble at home by stirring the people to rebellion The earle of saint Paule hearing of this stout demeanor of the duke told the king that it should be best to prouide in time against such mischéefs as might insue thereof and that it was not to be suffered that a subiect should behaue himselfe in such sort toward his prince The king marking his woords thought that he gaue him good and faithfull counsell and therevpon determined to suppresse both the duke and other of his complices and tooke more line 30 diligent regard to the saiengs dooings of the duke than before he had doone And as it commeth to passe that those which suspect anie euill doo euer déeme the woorst so he tooke euerie thing in euill part insomuch that he complained of the duke vnto his brethren the dukes of Lancaster and Yorke in that he should stand against him in all things and seeke his destruction the death of his counsellors and ouerthrow of his realme The two dukes of Lancaster and Yorke to deliuer line 40 the kings mind of suspicion made answer that they were not ignorant how their brother of Glocester as a man sometime rash in woords would speake oftentimes more than he could or would bring to effect and the same proceeded of a faithfull hart which he bare towards the king for that it grieued him to vnderstand that the confines of the English dominions should in anie wise be diminished therefore his grace ought not to regard his woords sith he should take no hurt thereby These persuasions quieted line 50 the king for a time till he was informed of the practise which the duke of Glocester had contriued as the fame went amongst diuerse persons to imprison the king For then the duke of Lancaster and Yorke first reprouing the duke of Glocester for his too liberall talking vttering vnaduisedlie woords that became not his person and which to haue concealed had tended more to the opinion of vertue than to lash out whatsoeuer his vnstaied mind affoorded which is a great fault as in effect the poet noteth line 60 Eximia est virtus praestare silentia rebuâ At contra grauis est culpa tacenda loqus and perceuing that he set nothing by their woords were in doubt least if they should remaine in the court still he would vpon a presumptuous mind in trust to be borne out by them attempt some outragious enterprise Wherefore they thought best to depart for a time into their countries that by their absence he might the sooner learne to staie himselfe for doubt of further displeasure But it came to passe that their departing from the court was the casting awaie of the duke of Glocester For after that they were gone there ceassed not such as bare him euill will to procure the K. to dispatch him out of the way The duke in déed sore stomached the matter that his counsell might not be followed in all things and speciallie for that he saw as he tooke it that the king was misled by some persons that were about him otherwise than stood with his honor for reformation whereof he conferred with the abbat of saint Albons and the prior of Westminster The abbat was both his câoâine and godfather and hauing on a daie both the duke and the prior at his house in saint Albons after dinner he âell in talke with the duke and prior and amongst other communication reqââred of the prior to tell truth whether he had anie vision the night before or not The prior séemed with to make a direct answer but at length being earnestlie requested as well by the abbât as the duke he declared that he had a vision in déed which was that the realme of England should be destroied through the misgouernement of king Richard By the virgine Marie said the abbat I had the verie same vision The duke herevpon disclosed vnto them all the secrets of his mind and by their deuises presentlie contriued an assemblie of diuerse great lords of the realme at Arundell castell that daie for might at what time he himselfe appointed to be there with the earles of Derbie Arundell Marshall and Warwike also the archbishop of Canturburie the abbat of saint Albens the prior of Westminster with diuerse others These estates being come to Arundell castell at the daie appointed about the verie beginning of the one and twentith yeare of king Richards reigne they sware âch to other to be assistant in all such matters as they should determine and therewith receiued the sacrament at the hands of the archbishop of Canturburie who celebrated masse before them the morow after Which doone they withdrew into a chamber and fell in counsell togither where in the end they light vpon this point to take king Richard the dukes of Lancaster Yorke and commit them to prison and all the other lords of the kings councell they determined shuld be drawne and hanged Such was their purpose which they ment to haue accomplished in August following But the earle marshall that was lord deputie of Calis and had married the earle of Arundels daughter discouered all their counsell to the king and the verie daie in which they should begin their enterprise The king bad the earle marshall take héed what h ehad said for if it proued not true he should repent it but the earle constantlie herevnto answered that if the matter might be proued otherwise he was contented to be drawne and quartered The king herevpon went to London where he dined at the house of his brother the earle of Huntington in the stréet behind All hallowes church vpon the banke of the riuer of Thames which was a right faire and statelie house After dinner he gaue his councell to vnderstand all the matter by whose aduise it was agreed that the king should assemble foorthwith what power he might conuenientite make of men of armes archers and streightwaies take horsse accompanied with his brother the earle of Huntington the earle marshall Herevpon at six of the clocke in the afternoone the
Froissard and also the chronicles of Britaine auouch that he should land at Plimmouth by our English writers it séemeth otherwise for it appeareth by their assured report that he approching to the shore did not line 30 streight take land but lay houering aloofe and shewed himselfe now in this place and now in that to sée what countenance was made by the people whether they meant enuiouslie to resist him or fréendlie to receiue him When the lord gouernor Edmund duke of Yorke was aduertised that the duke of Lancaster kept still the sea and was readie to arriue but where he ment first to set foot on land there was not any that vnderstood the certeintie he sent for the lord chancellor Edmund line 40 Stafford bishop of Excester and for the lord treasuror William Scroope earle of Wiltshire and other of the kings priuie councell as Iohn Bushie William Bagot Henrie Greene and Iohn Russell knights of these he required to know what they thought good to be doone in this matter concerning the duke of Lancaster being on the seas Their aduise was to depart from London vnto S. Albons and there to gather an armie to resist the duke in his landing but to how small purpose their counsell serued line 50 âhe conclusion thereof plainlie declared for the most part that were called when they came thither âoldlie protested that they would not fight against the duke of Lancaster whome they knew to be euill dealt withall The lord treasuror Bushie Bagot and Gréene perceiuing that the commons would cleaue vnto and take part with the duke slipped awaie leauing the lord gouernour of the realme and the lord chancellor to make what shift they could for themselues line 60 Bagot got him to Chester and so escaped into Ireland the other fled to the castell of Bristow in hope there to be in safetie The duke of Lancaster after that he had coasted alongst the shore a certeine time had got some intelligence how the peoples minds were affected towards him landed about the beginning of Iulie in Yorkshire at a place sometime called âauenspur betwixt Hull and Bridlington and with him not past thréescore persons as some write but he was so ioifullie receiued of the lords knights and gentlemen of those parts that he found means by their helpe forthwith to assemble a great number of people that were willing to take his part The first that came to him were the lords of Lincolnâshire and other countries adioining as the lords Willoughbie Ros Darcie and Beaumont At his comming vnto Doncaster the earle of Northumberland and his sonne sir Henrie Persie wardens of the marches against Scotland with the earle of Westmerland came vnto him where he sware vnto those lords that he would demand no more but the lands that were to him descended by inheritance from his father and in right of his wife Moreouer he undertooke to cause the paiment of taxes and tallages to be laid downe to bring the king to good gouernment to remooue from him the Cheshiremen which were enuied of manie for that the king estéemed of them more than of anie other happilie bicause they were more faithfull to him than other readie in all respects to obeie his commandements and pleasure From Doncaster hauing now got a mightie armie about him he marched foorth with all spéed through the countries comming by Euesham vnto Berkelie within the space of three daies all the kings castels in those parts were surrendred vnto him The duke of Yorke whome king Richard had left as gouernour of the realme in his absence hearing that his nephue the duke of Lancaster was thus arriued and had gathered an armie he also assembled a puissant power of men of armes and archers as before yée haue heard but all was in vaine for there was not a man that willinglie would thrust out one arrow against the duke of Lancaster or his partakers or in anie wise offend him or his freends The duke of Yorke therefore passing foorth towards Wales to méet the king at his comming foorth of Ireland was receiued into the castell of Berkelie and there remained till the comming thither of the duke of Lancaster whom when he perceiued that he was not able to resist on the sundaie after the feast of saint Iames which as that yeare came about fell vpon the fridaie he came foorth into the church that stood without the castell and there communed with the duke of Lancaster With the duke of Yorke were the bishops of Norwich the lord Berkelie the lord Seimour and other with the duke of Lancaster were these Thomas Arundell archbishop of Canturburie that had béene banished the abbat of Leicester the earles of Northumberland and Westmerland Thomas Arundell sonne to Richard late earle of Arundell the baron of Greistoke the lords Willoughbie and Ros with diuerse other lords knights and other people which dailie came to him from euerie part of the realme those that came not were spoiled of all they had so as they were neuer able to recouer themselues againe for their goods being then taken awaie were neuer restored And thus what for loue and what for feare of losse they came flocking vnto him from euerie part At the same present there was arrested and committed to safe custodie the bishop of Norwich sir William Elmam and sir Walter Burlie knights Laurence Drew and Iohn Golofer esquiers On the morowafter the forsaid dukes with their power went towards Bristow where at their comming they shewed themselues before the towne castell being an huge multitude of people There were inclosed within the castell the lord William Scroope earle of Wiltshire and treasuror of England sir Henrie Greene and sir Iohn Bushie knights who prepared to make resistance but when it would not preuaile they were taken and brought foorth bound as prisoners into the campe before the duke of Lancaster On the morow next insuing they were arraigned before the constable and marshall and found giltie of treason for misgouerning the king and realme and foorthwith had their heads smit off Sir Iohn Russell was also taken there who feining himselfe to be out of his wits escaped their hands for a time In this meane time king Richard aduertised how the duke of Lancaster was landed in England and that the lords gentlemen and commons assembled themselues to take his part he forthwith caused the lord Henrie sonne to the said duke of Lancaster and the lord Humfrie sonne to the duke of Glocester to be shut vp fast in the castell of Trimme and line 10 with all spéed made hast to returne into England in hope with an armie to incounter the duke before he should haue time to assemble his fréends togither But here you shall note that it fortuned at the same time in which the duke of Hereford or Lancaster whether ye list to call him arriued thus in England the seas were so troubled by tempests and
duke and with the archbishop of Canturburie his cousins And further he desired to haue a bill drawne of the said resignation that he might be perfect in the rehearsall thereof After which bill drawne and a copie thereof to him by me the said earle deliuered we the said lords and other departed and vpon the same afternoone the king looking for the comming of the duke of Lancaster at the last the said duke with the archbishop of Canturburie and the persons afore recited entered the foresaid line 10 chamber bringing with them the lords Roos Aburgenie and Willoughbie with diuerse other Where after due obeisance doone by them vnto the king he familiarlie and with a glad countenance as to them and vs appeered talked with the said archbishop and duke a good season and that communication finished the king with glad countenance in presence of vs and the line 20 other aboue rehearsed said openlie that he was readie to renounce and resigne all his kinglie maiestie in maner and forme as he before had promised And although he had and might sufficientlie haue declared his renouncement by the reading of an other meane person yet for the more suertie of the matter and for that the said resignation should haue his full force and strength line 30 himselfe therefore read the scroll of resignation in maner and forme as followeth The tenor of the instrument whereby king Richard resigneth the crowne to the duke of Lancaster IN the name of God Amen I Richard by the grace of God king of England and of France c lord of line 40 Ireland acquit and assoile all archbishops bishops and other prelats secular or religious of what dignitie degree state or condition so euer they be and also all dukes marquesses earles barons lords and all my liege men both spirituall and secular of what manner or degree they be from their oth of fealtie and homage and all other deeds and priuileges made vnto me and from all manner bonds of line 50 allegiance regalitie and lordship in which they were or be bounden to me or anie otherwise constreined and them their heires and successors for euermore from the same bonds and oths I release deliuer and acquit and set them for free dissolued and acquit and to be harmelesse for as much as longeth to my person by anie manner waie or title of right that to me might follow of the foresaid things or anie of line 60 them And also I resigne all my kinglie dignitie maiestie and crowne with all the lordships power and priuileges to the foresaid kinglie dignitie and crowne belonging and all other lordships and possessions to me in anie maner of wise perteining of what name title qualitie or condition soeuer they be except thâ lands and possessions for me and mine obits purchased and bought And I renounce all right and all maner of title of possession which I euer had or haue in the same lordships and possessions or anie of them with anie manner of rights belonging or apperteining vnto anie part of them And also the rule and gouernance of the same kingdome and lordships with all ministrations of the same and all things and euerie each of them that to the whole empire and iurisdictions of the same belongeth of right or in anie wise may belong And also I renounce the name worship and regaltie and kinglie highnesse clearelie freelie singularlie and wholie in the most best maner and forme that I may and with deed and word I leaue off and resigne them and go from them for euermore sauing alwaies to my successors kings of England all the rights priuileges and appurtenances to the said kingdome and lordships abouesaid belonging and apperteining For well I wote and knowledge and deeme my selfe to be and haue beene insufficient and vnable and also vnprofitable and for my open deserts not vnworthie to be put downe And I sweare vpon the holie euangelists here presentlie with my hands touched that I shall neuer repugne to this resignation demission or yeelding vp nor neuer impugne them in anie maner by word or deed by my selfe nor none other nor I shall not suffer it to be impugned in as much as in me is priuilie or apertlie But I shall haue hold and keepe this renouncing demission and giuing vp for firme and stable for euermore in all and euerie part thereof so God me helpe and all saints and by this holie euangelist by me bodilie touched and kissed And for more record of the same here openlie I subscribe and signe this present resignation with mine owne hand Now foorthwith in our presences and others he subscribed the same and after deliuered it vnto the archbishop of Canturburie saieng that if it were in his power or at his assignement he would that the duke of Lancaster there present should be his successour and king after him And in token heereof he tooke a ring of gold from his finger being his signet and put it vpon the said dukes finger desiring and requiring the archbishop of Yorke the bishop of Hereford to shew and make report vnto the lords of the parlement of his voluntarie resignation and also of his intent and good mind that he bare towards his cousin the duke of Lancaster to haue him his successour and their king after him ¶ All this doone euerie man tooke their leaue and returned to their owne Upon the morrow after being tuesdaie and the last daie of September all the lords spirituall and temporall with the commons of the said parlement assembled at Westminster where in the presence of them the archbishop of Yorke and the bishop of Hereford according to the kings request shewed vnto them the voluntarie renouncing of the king with the fauour also which he bare to his cousine of Lancaster to haue him his successour And moreouer shewed them the schedule or bill of renouncement signed with king Richards owne hand which they caused to be read first in Latine as it was written and after in English This doone the question was first asked of the lords if they would admit and allow that renouncement the which when it was of them granted and confirmed the like question was asked of the commons and of them in like manner confirmed After this it was then declared that notwithstanding the foresaid renouncing so by the lords and commons admitted and confirmed it were necessarie in auoiding of all suspicions and surmises of euill disposed persons to haue in writing and registred the manifold crimes and defaults before doone by king Richard to the end that they might first be openlie declared to the people and after to remaine of record line 10 amongst other of the kings records for euer All this was doone accordinglie for the articles which before yee haue heard were drawne and ingrossed vp and there shewed readie to be read but for other causes more néedfull as then to be preferred the reading of those articles at that season was deferred Then forsomuch as the lords
Canturburie denounced an heretike remitted againe line 50 to the Tower of London from which place either by helpe of fréends or fauour of kéepers he priuilie escaped and came into Wales where he remained for a season After this the king kéeping his Christmasse at his manor of Eltham was aduertised that sir Roger Acâon knight year 1414 a man of great wit and possessions Iohn Browne esquier Iohn Beuerlie priest and a great number of other were assembled in armour against the king his brethren the clergie and realme line 60 These newes came to the king on the twelfth daie in Christmasse wherevpon vnderstanding that they were in a place called Fiâket field beside London on the backe side of saint Giles he streight got him to his palace at Westminster in as secret wise as he might and there calling to him certeine bands of armed men he repaired into saint Giles fields néere to the said place where he vnderstood they should fullie méet about midnight and so handled the matter that he tooke some and siue some euen as stood with his pleasure The capteins of them afore mentioned being apprehended were brought to the kings presence and to him declared the causes of their commotion rising accusing a great number of their complices The king vsed one policie which much serued to the discomfiting of the aduersaries as Thom. Walsingham saith which was this he gaue order that all the gates of London should be streictlie kept and garded so as none should come in or out but such as were knowen to go to the king Hereby came it to passe that the chiefest succour appointed to come to the capteins of the rebels was by that meanes cut off where otherwise suerlie had it not beene thus preuented and staied there had issued foorth of London to haue ioined with them to the number as it was thought of fiftie thousand persons one and other seruants prentises and citizens confederate with them that were thus assembled in Ficket field Diuerse also that came from sundrie parts of the realme hasting towards the place to be there at their appointed time chanced to light among the kings men who being taken and demanded whither they went with such spéed answered they came to meet with their capteine the lord Cobham But whether he came thither at all or made shift for himselfe to get awaie it dooth not appeare for he could not be heard of at that time as Thomas Walsingham confesseth although the king by proclamation promised a thousand marks to him that could bring him foorth with great liberties to the cities or townes that would discouer where he was By this it maie appeare how greatlie he was beloued that there could not one be found that for so great a reward would bring him to light Among other that were taken was one William Murlie who dwelt in Dunstable a man of great wealth and by his occupation a brewer an earnest mainteiner of the lord Cobhams opinions and as the brute ran in hope to be highlie aduanced by him if their purposed deuise had taken place apparant by this that he had two horsses trapped with guilt harnesse led after him and in his bosome a paire of gilt spurs as it was déemed prepared for himselfe to weare looking to be made knight by the lord Cobhams hands at that present time But when he saw how their purpose quailed he withdrew into the citie with great feare to hide himselfe howbeit he was perceiued taken and finallie executed among others To conclude so manie persons herevpon were apprehended that all the prisons in and about London were full the chiefe of them were condemned by the cleargie of heresie and atteinted of high treason in the Guildhall of London and adiudged for that offense to be drawen and hanged and for heresie to be consumed with fire gallowes and all which iudgement wis executed the same moneth on the said sir Roger Acton and eight and twentie others ¶ Some saie that the occasion of their death was onelie for the conueieng of the lord Cobham out of prison Others write that it was both for treason and heresie and so it appeareth by the record Certeine affirme that it was for feined causes surmized by the spiritualtie more vpon displeasure than truth and that they were assembled to heare their preacher the foresaid Beuerlie in that place there out of the waie from resort of people sith they might not come togither openlie about any such matter without danger to be apprehended as the manner is and hath beene euer of the persecuted flocke when they are prohibited publikelie the exercise of their religion But howsoeuer the matter went with these men apprehended they were and diuerse of them executed as before ye haue heard whether for rebellion or heresie or for both as the forme of the indictment importeth I néed not to spend manie words sith others haue so largelie treated thereof and therefore I refer those that wish to be more fullie satisfied herein vnto their reports Whilest in the Lent season the king laie at Killingworth there came to him from Charles Dolphin of France certeine ambassadors that brought with them a barrell of Paris balles which from their maister they presented to him for a token that was taken in verie ill part as sent in scorne to signifie that it was more méet for the king to passe the time with such childish exercise than to attempt any worthie exploit Wherfore the K. wrote to him that yer ought long he would tosse him some London balles line 10 that perchance should shake the walles of the best court in France ¶ This yeare Thom. Arundell archbishop of Canturburie departed this life a stout prelat and an earnest mainteiner of the Romish religion Henrie Chichelie bishop of saint Dauid succeeded the same Arundell in the sée of Canturburie and the kings confessor Stephan Patrington a Carmelite frier was made bishop of S. Dauid Henrie Persie then but a child sonne to the lord Henrie Persie surnamed Hotspur after his fathers deceasse line 20 that was slaine at Shrewesburie field was conueied into Scotland and there left by his grandfather where euer since he had remained the king therefore pitied his case and so procured for him that he came home and was restored to all his lands and earledome of Northumberland which lands before had béene giuen to the lord Iohn the kings brother A case verie strange and for manie causes alwaies right worthie of remembrance in this yeare 1414 the second of this kings reigne did befall which conteining line 30 in it so manie matters for knowledge of Gods great power and iustice of wilfull breaking his diuine lawes of the easie slip into ruine where his mercie dooth not sâaie vs the busie bogging of the diuell alwaies our weakenesse in combat with him into what outrage and confusion he haleth where he is not withstood with what tyrannie
intent to trouble my said lord of Glocester going to the king purposing his death in case that he had gone that waie set men of armes and archers at the end of London bridge next Suthworke and in forebarring of the kings high waie let draw the chaine of the stoupes there and set vp pipes and hurdles in manner and forme of bulworks and set men in chambers cellars windowes with bowes and arrowes and other weapons to the intent to bring finall destruction to my said lord of Glocesters person as well as of those that then should come with him 4 Item my said lord of Glocester saith and affirmeth that our souereigne lord his brother that was king Henrie the fift told him on a time when our souereigne lord being prince was lodged in the palace of Westminster in the great chamber by the noise of a spaniell there was on a night a man spied and taken behind a tapet of the said chamber the which man was deliuered to the earle of Arundell to be examined vpon the cause of his being there at that time the which so examined at that time confessed that he was there by the stirring and procuring of my said lord of Winchester ordeined to haue slaine the said prince there in his bed wherefore the said earle of Arundell let sacke him foorthwith and drowned him in the Thames 5 Item our souereigne lord that was king Henrie the fift said vnto my said lord of Glocester that his father king Henrie the fourth liuing and visited then greatlie with sickenesse by the hand of God my said lord of Winchester said vnto the king Henrie the fift then being prince that the king his father so visited with sicknesse was not personable therfore not disposed to come in conuersation and gouernance of the people and for so much counselled him to take the gouernance and crowne of this land vpon him The answer of the bishop HEre insue the answers to the accusations made by my lord of Winchester chancellour of England vnto the causes and matters of heauinesse declared in the articles against him by my lord of Glocester 1 First as of the refusall made vnto my lord of Glocester of opening the Tower to him of his lodging therein by the commandement of my said lord of Winchester he answereth that in the presence of my said lord of Glocester before his comming out of his countrie of Heinault for causes such as were thought resonable it séemeth lawfull that the Tower should haue béene notablie stored and kept with vittels howbâit it was not foorthwith executed and that in likewise after that my said lord of Glocester was gone into his said countrie of Heinault for seditious and odious billes and languages cast and vsed in the citie of London sounding of insurrection and rebellion against the kings peace and destruction aswell of diuerse estates of this land as strangers being vnder the defense in so much that in doubt thereof strangers in great number fled the land And for the more sure kéeping of the said Tower Richard line 10 Wooduile esquier so trusted with our souereigne lord the king that dead is as well ye know also chamberlaine and councellor vnto my lord of Bedford with a certeine number of defensible persons assigned vnto him was made deputie there by the assent of the kings councell being that time at London for to abide therein for the safegard thereof and streictlie charged by the said councell that during that time of his said charge he should not suffer any man to be in the Tower stronger than himselfe without speciall line 20 charge or commandement of the king by the aduise of his councell 2 Item that soone after vpon the comming of my said lord of Glocester into this land from his countrie of Heinault the said lords of the kings councell were informed that my said lord of Glocester grudged with the said maner of inforcing the Tower and let saie to them of London that he had well vnderstand that they had béene heauilie threatened for the time of his absence and otherwise than they shuld haue beene if he had béene in this land Wherefore he line 30 was right euill contented and especiallie of the said forcing of the Tower set vpon them in manner of a chased villain considering the good equitie and truth that they had alwaies kept vnto the king offering them therevpon remedie if they would 3 Item that after this Richard Scot lieutenant of the Tower by the commandement of my said lord of Glocester brought vnto him frier Randolph the which had long before confessed treason doone by him line 40 against the kings person that dead is for the which knowledge he was put to be kept in the said Tower streictlie commanded vnder great paine giuen vnto the said Scot to kéepe him streictlie suerlie not to let him out of the said Tower without coÌmandment of the king by aduise of his councell The which frier Randolph my said lord of Glocester kept then with himselfe not witting to the said Scot as he declared to my said lord of Winchester soone after that he had brought the said frier Randolph to my lord of Glocester line 50 saieng to my lord of Winchester that he was vndoone but he helped him expressed as for cause of the withholding of frier Randolph and saieng moreouer that when he desired of my said lord of Glocester the deliuerance of the said frier Randolph to lead him againe vnto the Tower or sufficient warrant for his discharge my said lord of Glocester answered him that his commandement was sufficient warrant and discharge for him In the which thing abouesaid it was thought to my lord of Winchester line 60 that my said lord of Glocester tooke vpon him further than his authoritie stretched vnto and caused him to doubt and dread least that he would haue procéeded further And at such time as the said Wooduile came vnto him to aske his aduise and counsell of lodging my said lord of Glocester in the Tower he aduised and charged him that before he suffered my said lord of Glocester or any person to lodge therein stronger than himselfe he should purueie him a sufficient warrant therof of the king by the aduise of his councell 4 Item as to the said article of the foresaid causes of heauinesse my said lord chancellor answereth that he neuer purposed to set hand on the kings person nor to remoue him or that he should be remoued or put in any manner of gouernance but by the aduise of the kings councell For he could not perceiue any manner of goodnesse or of aduantage that might haue growne to him thereof but rather great perill and charge and hereof my said lord of Winchester is readie to make proofe in time and place conuenient 5 Item as to the third article of the foresaid causes and heauines my said lord chancellor answereth that he was oft and diuerse times warned by
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 doonâ 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
with all funerall solemnitie buried in the cathedrall church of our ladie in Rone on the north side of the high altar vnder a sumptuous and costlie monument Which toome when king Lewes the eleauenth by certeine vndiscreet persons was line 50 counselled to deface affirming that it was a great dishonour both to the king and to the realme to see the enimie of his father and theirs to haue so solemne and rich a memoriall he answered saieng What honour shall it be to vs or to you to breake this monument and to pull out of the ground the dead bones of him whome in his life neither my father nor your progenitours with all their power puissance and fréends were once able to make flée one foot backward but by his strength wit and policie kept them line 60 all out of the principall dominions of the realme of France and out of this noble and famous duchie of Normandie Wherefore I saie first God haue his soule and let his bodie now lie in rest which when he was aliue would haue disquieted the proudest of vs all And as for the toome I assure you it is not so decent nor conuenient as his honour and acts deserued although it were much richer and more beautifull The frost was so extreame this yeare beginning about the fiue and twentith daie of Nouember and continuing till the tenth of Februarie that the ships with merchandize arriuing at the Thames mouth could not come vp the riuer so their lading there faine to be discharged was brought to the citâe by land After the death of that noble prince the duke of Bedford the bright sunne in France toward Englishmen began to be cloudie and dailie to darken the Frenchmen began not onelie to withdrawe their obedience by oth to the king of England but also tooke sword in hand openlie rebelled Howbeit all these mishaps could not anie thing abash the valiant courages of the English people for they hauing no mistrust in God and good fortune set vp a new saile began the warre afresh and appointed for regent in France Richard duke of Yorke sonne to Richard earle of Cambridge Although the duke of Yorke was worthie both for birth and courage of this honor and preferment yet so disdeined of Edmund duke of Summerset being cousine to the king that by all means possible he sought his hinderance as one glad of his losse and sorie of his well dooing by reason whereof yer the duke of Yorke could get his dispatch Paris and diuerse other of the cheefest places in France were gotten by the French king The duke of Yorke perceiuing his euill will openlie dissembled that which he inwardlie minded either of them working things to the others displeasure till through malice diuision betwéene them at length by mortall warre they were both consumed with almost all their whole lines and ofspring The Normans of the countrie of Caux being heartened by the death of the duke of Bedford began a new rebellion slue diuerse Englishmen robbed manie townes that were vnder the English obeisance and tooke the towne of Harflue by assault and diuerse other townes But the lord regent being aduertised sent foorth the lord Scales sir Thomas Kiriell and the lord Hoo which so afflicted those rebels of Caux that they slue aboue fiue thousand persons and burnt all the townes and villages in the countrie not being walled so that in that part was neither habitation nor tillage for all the people fled into Britaine and all the beasts of the countrie were brought to Caudebecke where a good sheepe was sold for an English penie and a Cow for twelue pence Dailie was skirmishing and fighting in euerie part in so much that the lord Scales at the Rie beside Rone discomfited the Hire and fiftéene hundred valiant Frenchmen of the which aboue thrée hundred were taken prisoners beside the gaine of seauen faire coursers Amongst other of the prisoners were sir Richard Reginald de Fountaines sir Alain Gerond Alain Monsaie and Geffrie Grame capteine of the Scots But yet this victorie and others the like staied not the Frenchmen from working treason dailie insomuch that diuers townes turned to the part of K. Charles and some were taken by practise as Diepe Bois Uincennes and others ¶ So that here partlie was accomplished the prophesie of Henrie the fift giuen out in the ninth yeare of his reigne when he laie at siege before Meaux that Henrie of Windsore should loose all that Henrie of Monmouth had gotten for so they are named according to the place of their natiuitie and this prediction was complet and full by that time the yeares of his regiment were expired But heere is one cheefe point to be noted that either the disdeine amongest the cheefe péeres of the realme of England as yée haue heard or the negligence of the kings councell which did not foresée dangers to come was the losse of the whole dominion of France betwéene the riuers of Sone and Marne and in especiall of the noble citie of Paris For where before there were sent ouer thousands foâ defense of the holds and fortresses now were sent hundreds yea and scores some rascals and some not able to draw a bowe or carrie a bill for the lord Willoughbie and the bishop of Terwine which had the gouernance of the great citie of Paris year 1436 had in their companie not two thousand Englishmen Which weakenesse king Charles well perceiued and therefore by authoritie appointed the constable Arthur of Britaine the earle of Dunois the lords de la Roch and Lisle Adam with other valiant capteins and men of warre as well Burgognions as French to go before Paris trusting by fauour of line 10 certeine citizens with whome he had intelligence shortlie to be lord of the citie without great losse or battell So these capteins came before the citie of Paris But perceiuing that all things succeeded not according to their expectation they returned to Mont Martyr and the next daie suddenlie set on the towne of saint Denis and constreined the Englishmen that kept it to flée into the abbeie and into the tower Uenin In this conflict two hundred Englishmen were slaine the residue vpon reasonable composition line 20 rendered vp the place and departed to Paris Thomas lord Beaumont who of late was come to Paris with eight hundred men issued foorth with six hundred souldiers intending to view the dooings and number of the French armie but suddenlie compassed about within a small space was discomfited and taken with him fourescore prisoners beside two hundred slaine in the field the remnant chased to the verie gates of the citie The Parisiens and especiallie line 30 the maister of the halles and some of the vniuersitie and Michaell Lallier and manie notable burgesses of the citie who euer with an English countenance couered a French hart perceiuing the weaknesse of the Englishmen and force of the French signified to the French capteins their toward minds
assembled the Frenchmen demanded amends with no small recompense The Englishmen answered that without offense nothing by iustice ought to be satisfied affirming the dooing of sir Francis Sureinnes to be onelie his act without consent either of the king of England or of the duke of Summerset his lieutenant line 20 and regent But whiles with long delaie they talked of this matter at Louuiers certeine Frenchmen by aduertisement of a wagoner of Louuiers vnderstanding that the towne of Pont de Larch was but slenderlie manned the wagoner laded his wagon and passed forward hauing in his companie two strong varlets clad like carpentars with great axes on their shoulders And hereto le seigneur de Bresse with a chosen companie of men of armes lodged himselfe in ambushment line 30 neere to the gate of S. Andrew and capteine Floquet accompanied with sir Iames de Cleremont and another great companie priuilie lurked vnder a wood toward Louuiers When all things were appointed for the purpose earlie in a morning about the beginning of October the wagoner came to the gate and called the porter by name praeing him to open the gate that he might passe to Rone and returne againe the same night The porter which well knew the voice of his customer line 40 tooke little heed to the other two companions and so opened the one gate and sent another fellow of his to open the formost gate When the chariot was on the draw-bridge betweene both the gates the chariot-maister gaue the porter monie and for the nonce let one peece fall on the ground and while the porter stooped to take it vp the wagoner with his dagger stroke him in at his throat so that he cried for no helpe and the two great lubbers slue the other porters and with their axes cut the axeltrée of the wagon so that the draw-bridge could not be shortlie line 50 drawen vp This doone they made a signe to capteine Floquet which with all spéed entered the towne slue and tooke all the Englishmen and amongst other the lord Fauconbridge capteine of the said towne was taken prisoner The losse of this place was of no small importance being the verie keie and passage ouer the riuer of Seine from France into Normandie being distant from Rone onelie foure leagues line 60 When request was made to haue it restored againe to the Englishmen answer was made that if they restord to the duke of Britaine the towne of Fougieres with condigne amends for the damages doone there the towne of Pont Larch should then be againe deliuered or else not And shortlie after in hope of like successe the French king assembled an armie and diuiding the same in three parts got by surrender after sundrie assaults and losse of diuerse of his men the townes of Louuiers Gerborie whereof William Harper was capteine Also the towne castell and great tower of Uerneueill in Perch were rendered into the French kings hands after twentie daies of respit granted to sée if rescues would haue come The French writers affirme the towne to be taken by assault Thus was the warre renewed before the terme of truce fullie expired the English capteins brought to their wits end what with appeasing dailie rumors within the townes and what with studie how to recouer castels lost and taken for while they studied how to kéepe and defend one place foure or fiue other turned to the French part The chiefe cause of which reuolting was for that it was blowen abroad thorough France how the realme of England after the death of the duke of Glocester by the seuerall factions of princes was diuided in two parts and that William de la Poole latelie created duke of Suffolke and diuerse other which were the occasion of the said duke of Glocesters death vexed and oppressed the poore people so that mens minds were not intentiue to outward affaires but all their studie giuen to keepe off wrongs offered at home The king little regarding the matter the queene led by euill counsell rather furthered such mischiefes as dailie began to grow by ciuill discord than sought to reforme them so that the Normans and Gascoignes vnderstanding in what state things stood here turned to the French part as hereafter it may appeare About the same time also began a new rebellion in Ireland but Richard duke of Yorke being sent thither to appease the same so asswaged the furie of the wild and sauage people there that he wan him such fauour amongst them as could neuer be separated from him and his linage which in the sequele of this historie may more plainelie appeare The Frenchmen hauing perfect vnderstanding of the vnreadinesse of the realme of England displaied their banners and set foorth their armies and in short space got by yeelding Constance Gisors castell Galliard Ponteau de Mere saint Lo Festampe Newcastell Tonque Mauleon Argenton Lisieux and diuerse other townes and places within the countrie of Normandie Likewise in Guien was the towne of Maulisson rendered to the earle of Fois These townes were not yeelded voluntarilie by the English souldiers but they were compelled thereto by the inhabitants of the townes which hauing intelligence of the féeble estate of the realme of England rose against the capteins opened the gates to the enimies or constreined them to render vpon composition By which inforcement was the rich citie of Rone deliuered for suerlie the duke of Summerset and the earle of Shrewesburie had well kept that citie if they had béene no more vexed with the citizens than they were with their enimies For after that the French king had giuen summons to the citie the inhabitants streightwaies did not onelie deuise which waie they might betraie the citie but also put on armor and rebelled openlie against their capteins who perceiuing the vntruth of them and their owne danger retired into the castell or palace where for a certeine space with arrowes handguns they sore molested the vntrue citizens But at length vnderstanding the great puissance of the French king at hand and despairing of all aid and succour they yeelded vpon condition that with all their goods and armour they should safelie depart to Caen and that certeine townes should be deliuered by a day And till the same townes were rendred the earle of Shrewsburie and the lord Butler sonne to the earle of Ormond were left behind as pledges which were sent to the castell of Eureux bicause they sore feared the malice of the citizens of Rone The Frenchmen following the successe in hand came to Harflue and fiercelie assaulted the walles but by the high prowesse and vndanted valiancie of the capteine sir Thomas Curson they were to their great losse manfullie by him repelled and beaten The Frenchmen learning wit by this great perill left their scaling and deuised dailie how to batter the walles make the breaches reasonable for them to enter This siege long continued to the great losse of both parties
holie father the cardinall the noble prince the duke of Warwike and also the realme of France the duchie of Normandie Gascoigne and Guion Aniou and Maine were deliuered and lost by the meanes of the said traitors line 10 and our true lords knights and esquiers and manie a good yeoman lost and sold yer they went the which is great pitie to heare of the great and gréeuous losse to our souereigne lord and his realme Item desireth the said capteine and commons that all extortions vsed dailie among the common people might be laid downe that is to saie the gréene war the which is falselie vsed to the perpetuall destruction of the kings true commons of Kent Also the kings Bench the which is too gréefefull to the shire line 20 of Kent without prouision of our souereigne lord and his true councell And also in taking of wheat and other graines béefe mutton all other vittels the which is importable to the said commons without the bréefe prouision of our said souereigne lord and his true councell they maie no longer beare it And also vnto the statute of labourers and the great extortioners the which is to saie the false traitors Sleg Cromer Isle and Robert Est. These billes when the councell had well perused they did not onelie disalow and condemne them and the authors as proud and presumptuous but also persuaded the king rather to suppresse those rebels by force than by faire promises Wherevpon the king remoued from Westminster vnto Gâeenewich from whence he would haue sent certeine lords with a power to haue distressed the Kentishmen but the men said to their lords they would not fight against them that laboured to amend the common-weale line 40 wherefore the lords were driuen to leaue their purpose And bicause the Kentishmen cried out against the lord Saie the kings chamberline he was by the king committed to the Tower of London Then went the king againe to London within two dais after went against the Kentishmen with fiftéene thousand men well prepared for the war but the said Kentishmen fled the night before his comming into the wood countrie neere vnto Senocke Wherevpon the king returned againe to London line 50 The quéene that bare rule being of his retrait aduertised sent sir Humfreie Stafford knight and William his brother with manie other gentlemen to follow the Kentishmen thinking that they had fled but they were deceiued for at the first skirmish both the Staffords were slaine all their companie discomfited The kings armie by this time comen to Blackheath hearing of this discomfiture began to murmur amongst themselues some wishing the duke of Yorke at home to aid the capteine his cousine line 60 sâme vndutifullie coueting the ouerthrow of the king and his councell other openlie crieng out on the quéene and hir complices This rumor published abroad caused the king and certeine of his councell for the appeasing thereof to commit the lord Saie treasuror of England to the Tower of London and if other against whome like displeasure was borne had beene present they had béene likewise committed Iacke Cade vpon victorie against the Staffords apparelled himselfe in sir Humfries briganâine set full of guilt nailes and so in some glorie returned againe toward London diuerse idle and vagarant persons out of Sussex Surreie and other places still increasing his number Thus this glorious capteine garded with a multitude of rusticall people came againe to the plaine of Blackheath there stronglie incamped himselfe to whome were sent from the king the archbishop of Canturburie and Humfrie duke of Buckingham to common with him of his gréefes and requests These lords found him sober in talke wise in reasoning arrogant in hart and stiffe in opinion as who that by no means would grant to dissolue his armie except the king in person would come to him and assent to the things he would require The K. vpon the presumptuous answers requests of this villanous rebell begining asmuch to doubt his owne meniall seruants as his vnknowen subiects which spared not to speake that the capteins cause was profitable for the common-wealth departed in all hast to the castell of Killingworth in Warwikeshire leauing onlie behind him the lord Scales to kéepe the Tower of London The Kentish capteine being aduertised of the kings absence came first into Southwarke and there lodged at the white hart prohibiting to all his retinue murder rape and robberie by which colour of well meaning he the more allured to him the harts of the common people After that he entred into London cut the ropes of the draw bridge strooke his sword on London stone saieng Now is Mortimer lord of this citie And after a glosing declaration made to the maior touching the cause of his thither comming he departed againe into Southwarke and vpon the third daie of Iulie he caused sir Iames Fines lord Saie and treasuror of England to be brought to the Guildhall and there to be arreigned who being before the kings iustices put to answer desired to be tried by his péeres for the longer delaie of his life The capteine perceiuing his dilatorie plee by force tooke him from the officers and brought him to the standard in Cheape and there before his confession ended caused his head to be striken off and pitched it vpon an high pole which was openlie borne before him thorough the stréets And not content herewith he went to Mile end and there apprehended sir Iames Cromer then shiriffe of Kent and sonne in law to the said lord Saie causing him likewise without confession or excuse heard to be beheaded and his head to be fixed on a pole and with these two heads this bloudie wretch entred into the citie againe and as it were in a spite caused them in euerie stréet to kisse togither to the great detestation of all the beholders After this succéeded open rapine and manifest robberie in diuerse houses within the citie and speciallie in the house of Philip Malpas alderman of London and diuerse other ouer and beside ransoming and fining of diuers notable merchants for the suertie of their liues and goods as Robert Horne alderman which paid fiue hundred marks He also put to execution in Southwarke diuerse persons some for breaking his ordinance and other being of his old acquaintance lest they should bewraie his base linage disparaging him for his vsurped surname of Mortimer The maior and other the magistrates of London perceiuing themselues neither to be sure of goods nor of life well warranted determined to repell and keepe out of their citie such a mischieuous caâtife and his wicked companie And to be the better able so to doo they made the lord Scales and that renowmed capteine Matthew Gough priuie both of their intent and enterprise beséeching them of their helpe and furtherance therein The lord Scales promised them his aid with shooting off the artillerie in the Tower and Matthew Gough was by him appointed to assist
liege men First praieng and beséeching to our souereigne Christ Iesus of his high and mightie power to giue you vertue of prudence and that through the praier of the glorious martyr S. Albon giue you verie knowledge of our truths and to know the intent of our assembling at this time for God that is in heauen knoweth our intent is rightfull and true And therefore we praie vnto that mightie Lord in these words Domine sis clypeus defensionis nostrae Wherfore gratious lord please it your maiestie roiall to deliuer such as we will accuse and they to haue like as they haue deserued and this doone you to be honorablie worshipped as most rightfull king and our true gouernour And if we should now at this time be promised as afore this time is not vnknowen haue béene promises broken which haue béene full faithfullie promised and therevpon great othes sworne we will not now ceasse for no such promises nor oth till we haue them which haue deserued death or else we to die therefore The answer by the king to the duke of Yorke I King Henrie charge and command that no manner person of what degrée estate or what condition soeuer he be abide not but that they auoid the field and not be so hardie to make resistance against me in my owne realme For I shall know what traitour dare be so bold to raise anie people in mine owne land wherethrough I am in great disease and heauines By the faith I owe vnto S. Edward and vnto the crowne of England I shall destroie them euerie mothers sonne and eke they to be hanged drawne and quartered that may be taken afterward of them in example to make all such traitors to beware for to make anie rising of people within mine owne land and so traitorouslie to abide their king and gouernour And for a conclusion rather than they shall haue anie lord that here is with me at this time I shall this day for their sake in this quarell my selfe liue and die The words of the duke of Yorke to all gentlemen and other assembled with him SIrs the king our souereigne lord will not be reformed at our beseeching ne praier nor will not in no wise vnderstand the intent wherfore we be here assembled and gathered at this time but onelie is in full purpose to destroie vs all And thervpon a great oth hath made line 10 that there is none other waie but that he with all his power will pursue vs and if we be taken to giue vs a shamefull death léesing our liuelod and goods and also our heires shamed for euer Therefore sirs now sith it will none otherwise be but that we shall vtterlie die better it is for vs to die in the field than cowardlie to be put to an vtter rebuke and shamefull death for the right of England standeth in vs. Considering also in what perill it standeth at this time and for to redresse the mischéefe thereof let euerie line 20 man helpe to his power this daie and in that quarell to quite vs like men to the crowne of England praieng and beséeching vnto that Lord the which is eternall thât reigneth in the glorious kingdome celestiall to kéepe and saue vs this daie in our right and through the gifts of his holie grace we may be made strong to withstand the great abhominable and horrible malice of them that purpose to destroie vs and the realme of England and put vs to a shamefull death Praie we therefore to the Lord to be our comfort line 30 and our defendour saieng these words Domine sis clypeus defensionis nostrae But another historie-writer saith that the king when first he heard of the duke of Yorks approch sent to him messengers the duke of Buckingham and others to vnderstand what he meant by his comming thus in maner of warre The duke of Buckingham to his message was answered by the duke of Yorke and his complices that they were all of line 40 them the kings faithfull liege subiects and intended no harme to him at all but the cause of our comming saie they is not in meaning anie hurt to his person But let that wicked and naughtie man the duke of Summerset be deliuered vnto vs who hath lost Normandie and taken no regard to the preseruation of Gascoigne and furthermore hath brought the realme vnto this miserable estate that where it was the floure of nations and the princesse of prouinces now is it haled into desolation spoile not line 50 so dreadfull by malice of forren enimie that indéed vtterlie as yee know seeketh our ruine as by the intollerable outrages of him that so long ago euen still appeares to haue sworne the confusion of our king and realme If it therefore please the king to deliuer that bad man into our hands we are readie without trouble or breach of peace to returne into our countrie But if the king be not minded so to do bicause he cannot misse him let him vnderstand that we will rather die in the field than suffer such a mischéefe line 60 vnredressed The king aduertised of this answer more wilfull than tollerable appointed him rather to trie battell than deliuer the duke of Summerset to his enimies Whereof they ascerteined made no longer staie but streightwaie sounded the trumpet to battell or rather as Hall saith while king Henrie sent foorth his ambassadours to treat of peace at the one end of the towne the earle of Warwike with his Marchmen entred at the other end and fiercelie setting on the kings fore-ward within a small time discomfited the same The place where they first brake into the towne was about the middle of saint Peters stréet The fight for a time was right sharpe and cruell for the duke of Summerset with the other lords comming to the succours of their companions that were put to the woorse did what they could to beat backe the enimies but the duke of Yorke sent euer fresh men to succour the wearie and to supplie the places of them that were hurt whereby the kings armie was finallie brought low and all the cheefteins of the field slaine and beaten downe For there died vnder the signe of the castell Edmund duke of Summerset who as hath béene reported was warned long before to auoid all castels and beside him laie Henrie the second of that name earle of Northumberland Humfrie earle of Stafford sonne to the duke of Buckingham Iohn lord Clifford sir Barthram Antwisell knight a Norman borne who forsaking his natiue countrie to continue in his loiall obedience to king Henrie came ouer to dwell here in England when Normandie was lost William Zouch Iohn Boutreux Rafe Bapthorp with his sonne William Corwin William Cotton Gilbert Faldinger Reginald Griffon Iohn Dawes Elice Wood Iohn Eith Rafe Woodward Gilbert Skarlock and Rafe Willoughbie esquiers with manie other in all to the number of eight thousand as Edward Hall saith in his chronicle
The king on this fridaie verie erlie in the morning aduanced his standards and in good order of battell hauing diuided his armie into thrée wards marched through the plaines of Cotteswold The daie was verie hot and hauing in his armie aboue thrée thousand footmen he trauelled with them and the residue thirtie miles and more By all which waie they could find neither horssemeat nor mans meat no not so much as water for their horsses except one little brooke of the which they receiued no great reléefe for what with the horsses and carriages that passed thorough it the water became so troubled that it serued them to no vse and still all that daie king Edward with his armie was within fiue or six miles of his enimies he in the plaine countrie and they among the woods King Edward had euer good espials to aduertise him still what his enimies did and which waie they tooke At length he came with all his armie vnto a village called Chiltenham like a fiue miles distant from Teukesburie where he had certeine knowledge that his enimies were alreadie come to Teukesburie and were incamped there purposing to abide him in that place and to deliuer him battell King Edward therevpon made no long delaie but tooke a little refection himselfe and caused his people to doo the like with such prouision of vittels as he had appointed to be conueied foorth with him for the reléefe of himselfe and his armie This doone he set forward towards his enimies and lodged that night in a field not past thrée miles distant from them On the morrow being saturdaie and fourth of Maie he drew towards his enimies and marshalled his armie diuided into thrée battels in this sort He put his brother the duke of Glocester in the foreward and himselfe in the midle-ward The lord Marques and the lord Hastings led the rere-ward Heerwith he approached the enimies campe which was right hard to be assailed by reason of the deepe ditches hedges trées bushes and cumbersome lanes wherewith the same was fensed both a front and on the sides so as the king could not well approach them to anie aduantage and to be the better in a readinesse to beat backe the kings power when he should come to assault them they were imbattelled in this order The duke of Summerset and his brother the lord Iohn of Summerset led the fore-ward The midle-ward was gouerned by the prince vnder the conduct of the lord of saint Iohn and the lord Wenlocke whome king Edward had aduanced to the degrée of a baron The rere-ward was appointed to the rule of the earle of Deuonshire Thus may yée perceiue that king Edward was put to his shifts how to anie aduantage to assault his enimies Neuerthelesse he being well furnished with great artillerie the same was aptlie lodged to annoie the enimies that they receiued great damage thereby and the duke of Glocester who lacked no policie galled them greeuouslie with the shot of arrowes and they rewarded their aduersaries home againe with like paiment both with shot of arrowes and great artillerie although they had not the like plentie of guns as the king had The passages were so cumbersome that it was not possible to come vpon anie euen hand to ioine at handblowes The duke of Glocester vpon a politike purpose as some haue written reculed backe with all his companie which when the duke of Summerset perceiued either mooued therewith or else bicause he was too sore annoied with the shot in that place where he and his fore-ward stood like a knight more couragious than circumspect came out of his strength with his whole battell and aduanced himselfe somewhaâ aside slips the kings voward and by certeine passages aforehand and for that purpose prouided to the kings part although vnknowne he passed a lane and came into a faire open close right before the king where he was imbattelled not doubting but the prince and the lord Wenlocke with the midle-ward had followed iust at his backe But whether the lord Wenlocke dissembled the matter for king Edwards sake or whether his hart serued him not still he stood and gaue the looking on line 10 The king or as other haue the duke of Glocester taking the aduantage that he aduentured for turned againe face to face vnto the duke of Summerset his battell and winning the hedge and ditch of him entred the close and with great violence put him and his people vp towards the hill from whence they were descended Héere is to be noted that when the king was come before his enimies yer he gaue the onset he perceiued that vpon the right hand of their campe there was a parke and much store of wood line 20 growing therein and doubting least his aduersaries had laid an ambush within that wood he chose foorth of his companies two hundred speares commanding them to keepe a stale like a quarter of a mile from the field to attend vpon that corner of the wood out of the which the ambush if anie were was to issue and to incounter with them as occasion serued but if they perceiued that there was no ambush at all then to imploie their seruice as they should see it expedient and behouefull for the time This politike prouision for danger that might line 30 haue insued although there was none that waie foorth serued yet before the end of the battell to great good purpose For when those speares perfectlie vnderstood that there was no ambush within the wood and withall saw conuenient time to imploie themselues they came and brake with full randon vpon the duke of Summerset and his voward a flanke in so violent wise vpon the sudden that where they had before inough to doo with those with whom they were line 40 first matched now with this new charge giuen on them by those two hundred speares they were not a little dismaied and to conclude so discouraged that streightwaie they tooke them to flight Some fled into the parke other into the mâadow there at hand some into the lanes some hid them in ditches each one making what shift he could by the which he hoped best to escape but manie neuerthelesse were beaten downe slaine and taken prisoners The duke of Summerset séeing this vnfortunate line 50 chance as some write turned to the midle-ward and there finding the lord Wenlocke standing still after he had reuiled him and called him traitor with his ax he stroke the braines out of his head The duke of Glocester pursuing after them that fled with the duke of Summerset to their campe where the rest of their armie stood entred the trench and after him the king where he bare himselfe so knightlie that therevpon the queenes part went to wracke and was put to flight the king and other falling in chase line 60 after them so that manie were slaine but especiallie at a mill in the meadow fast by the
towne a great sort were drowned Manie ran towards the towne some to the church and diuerse to the abbeie and other to other places where they thought best to saue themselues This was the last fought field or pight battell tried betwéene the potentats of this land in king Edward the fourths daies which chanced on the fourth of Maie being saturdaie in the eleauenth yeare of his reigne and in the yeare of our Lord 1471 as Anglorum praelia affirmeth saieng Vltima postremae locus est Teuxburia pugnae In the winning of the campe such as stood to it were slaine out of hand Prince Edward was taken as he fled towards the towne by sir Richard Crofts and kept close In the field and chase were slaine the lord Iohn of Summerset called marquesse Dorset Thomas Courtenie earle of Deuonshire sir Iohn Delues sir Edward Hampden sir Robert Whitingham and sir Iohn Leukener with thrée thousand others After the field was ended proclamation was made that whosoeuer could bring foorth prince Edward aliue or dead should haue an annuitie of a hundred pounds during his life and the princes life to be saued if he were brought foorth aliue Sir Richard Crofts nothing mistrusting the kings promise brought foorth his prisoner prince Edward being a faire and well proportioned yoong gentleman whom when king Edward had well aduised he demanded of him how he durst so presumptuouslie enter into his realme with banner displaied Wherevnto the prince boldlie answered saieng To recouer my fathers kingdome heritage from his father and grandfather to him and from him after him to me lineallie descended At which words king Edward said nothing but with his hand thrust him from him or as some saie stroke him with his gantlet whom incontinentlie George duke of Clarence Richard duke of Glocester Thomas Greie marquesse Dorcet and William lord Hastings that stood by suddenlie murthered for the which cruell act the more part of the dooers in their latter daies dranke of the like cup by the righteous iustice and due punishment of God His bodie was homelie interred with the other simple corpses in the church of the monasterie of blacke monks in Teukesburie After the victorie was thus atchiued the king repaired to the abbeie church there to giue God thanks for that good successe which it had pleased him to blesse him with and there finding a great number of his enimies that were fled thither to saue themselues he gaue them all his free pardon albeit there was no franchise there for rebels but that he might haue commanded them to haue béene drawen foorth without breach of anie liberties of that church He granted also that the dead bodies as well of the lords as other slaine in that battell might be buried in the same church or else where it pleased their freends or seruants without anie quartering heading or setting vp the heads or quarters in any publike places O the patience and clemencie of this good king who besides the putting vp of wrongs doone to him by violence of foes without vengeance fréelie forgaue the offendors and did so honorablie temper his affections There were found in the abbeie and other places of the towne Edmund duke of Summerset Iohn Lonstrother lord prior of S. Iohn sir Thomas Tressham sir Gerueis Clifton and diuerse other knights and esquiers which were apprehended and all of them being brought before the duke of Glocester sitting as constable of England and the duke of Norffolke as marshall in the middest of the towne they were arreigned condemned and iudged to die and so vpon the tuesdaie being the seuenth of Maie the said duke and the lord prior with the two forenamed knights and twelue other knights were on a scaffold set vp in the middle of the towne for that purpose beheaded and permitted to be buried without anie other dismembring or setting vp of their heads in anie one place or other The same tuesdaie the king departed from Teukesburie towards Worcester and by the waie had knowledge that quéene Margaret was found in a poore house of religion not far from thence into the which she was withdrawen for safegard of hir selfe on saturdaie in the morning being the daie of the battell She was after brought to London as prisoner and so kept till hir father ransomed hir with great summes of monie which he borowed of Lewes the eleuenth king of France And bicause he was not able to make repaiment thereof he sold vnto the said Lewes as the French writers affirme the kingdomes of Naples and both the Sicils with the countie of Prouance King Edward being at Worcester had aduertisements brought foorth of the north-parts that the people there were about to assemble in armour against him in fauour of king Henrie line 10 wherevpon he left the right way to London and rode to Couentrie meaning to increase the number of his people and so with a puissant armie to go northwards Herevpon comming to Couentrie the eleuenth of Maie and remaining there thrée daies he well refreshed such as had béene with him at Teukesburie field Hither was brought to him queene Margaret from whence she was conueied to London there to remaine in safe keeping as before you haue hard line 20 Whilest he was busie in sending abroad vnto his friends to leauie an armie he was aduertised that the commotion in the north was pacified For after it was knowen abroad how he obteined the victorie as well at Teukesburie as at Barnet and in manner subdued all his enimies the capteins that had stirred the people to that rebellion began to quaile and forsooke their companies Diuerse of them made sute to the earle of Northumberland that it might please him to be a mediator line 30 to the king for their pardon so that now there was no rebellion in all the north parts but that as well the citie of Yorke as all other places were at the kings commandement readie in all things to obeie him as true and loiall subiects And this was confirmed by the earle of Northumberlands owne mouth who on the fouretéenth of Maie came to the king as yet remaining at Couentrie by reason whereof it was not thought néedfull that the king should trauell anie further northward at that time line 40 either about the pacifieng of the people or to see execution doone vpon the offendors sith all was there in good tranquillitie and quiet But now when all things séemed to be at rest and no rebellion after so happie victories doubted newes came to him before his coÌming to Couentrie from the lords of his bloud abiding at London that one Thomas Neuill bastard sonne to that valiant capteine the lord Thomas Fauconbridge who had latelie before beene sent to the sea by the earle of Warwike line 50 and after fallen to practise pirasie had spoiled diuerse merchants ships Portingals and others in breach of the ancient amitie that long had continued betwixt the
gentlemen and lords seruants in euerie part with the citizens they were greatlie incouraged to withstand their enimies Yet the rebels vnder the leading of one Spising bare themselues so stoutlie at Algate that they wan the bulworks there and droue the citizens backe within the portculice entered with them to the number of six or eight but some of them were slaine with the fall of the portculice that was let downe vpon them to kéepe the residue line 50 out and those that were entered within the gate were suddenlie dispatched Héerewith they lashed freelie the one part at the other with guns and bowes although no great hurt was doone with shot till at length Robert Basset alderman that was appointed to the kéeping of this gate with the most part of the citizens and the recorder named Ursewike either of them being well armed in strong iackes commanded the portculice to be drawen vp and maintenantlie rushed foorth vpon line 60 their enimies putting them backe vnto saint Bothulpes church At the same instant the earle Riuers hauing got togither a foure or fiue hundred men well chosen and apparelled for the warre issued foorth at the posterne by the Tower and assailing the Kentishmen euen vpon the point as they were thus put backe mightilie laid vpon them And first he plaged them with the swift and thicke flight of his arrowes and after ioining with them at handstrokes slue and tooke manie of them prisoners so that the rebels were fullie put to flight and followed first to Mile-end and from thense some vnto Poplar some to Stratford and Stepnith and in maner each waie foorth about that part of the citie the chase being followed for the space of two miles in length Manie of them were of Essex and so made their course homewards but the more part of them fled to the water side and getting to their ships passed ouer the Thames to the rest of their companie The other likewise that were busie to assault Bishops gate when they vnderstood that their fellowes were discomfited and fled from Algate they likewise flipped awaie and made the best shift they could to saue themselues There were a seauen hundred of them that fled from Algate and other places flaine outright beside the prisoners And yet there were fiers burning all at once at Algate Bishops gate on the bridge and manie houses consumed with the same fiers But now the bastard vnder whome that companie was directed that had set fire on the bridge when he saw that he might not preuaile and vnderstood the euill succes of those which he had set ouer the Thames he withdrew also and left the bridge Here the hardie manhood of Rafe Iosselin alderman is not to be passed with silence who after he had valiantlie resisted the bastard his band that assaulted the bridge vpon their retire sallied foorth vpon them and following them in chase alongst the water side till they came beyond Ratcliffe slue and tooke verie manie of them The bastard notwithstanding gathered his companies togither and with such as were willing to remaine with him incamped on Blackeheath by the space of thrée daies next insuing to wit the sixteenth seauentéenth and eightéenth of Maie vtterlie despairing of his wished preie sith he had béene repelled from London to his vtter confusion And now to conclude hearing that king Edward was comming with a right puissant armie the said bastard and his people durst no longer abide but brake vp and dispersed themselues some one waie and some an other They of Calis got them thither againe with all spéed and such as were of other countries repaired likewise to their homes and manie of the Kentishmen went also to their houses The bastard with his mariners and such riotous rebels robbers and wicked persons as sought nothing but spoile got them to shipboord and with all their vessels drew downe to the coast King Edward hauing assembled an armie of thirtie thousand men as some write and accompanied in maner with all the great lords of England came to London the one and twentith of Maie being tuesdaie where he was honourablie receiued by the maior aldermen and other worshipfull citizens where euen vpon their first meeting with him he dubbed diuerse of them knights as the maior the recorder other aldermen and worshipfull commoners of the citie which had manfullie and valiantlie acquit themselues against the bastard Fauconbridge his wicked companie of rebels Moreouer here is to be remembred that poore king Henrie the sixt a little before depriued as ye haue heard of his realme and imperiall crowne was now in the Tower spoiled of his life by Richard duke of Glocester as the constant fame ran who to the intent that his brother king Edward might reigne in more suertie murthered the said king Henrie with a dagger Howbeit some writers of that time fauoring altogither the house of Yorke haue recorded that after he vnderstood what losses had chanced vnto his fréends and how not onelie his sonne but also all other his chéefe partakers were dead and dispatched he tooke it so to hart that of pure displeasure indignation and melancholie he died the three and twentith of Maie The dead corps on the Ascension euen was conueied with billes and glaues pompouslie if you will call that a funerall pompe from the Tower to the church of saint Paule and there laid on a beire or coffen bare faced the same in presence of the beholders did bléed where it rested the space of one whole daie From thense he was caried to the Black-friers and bled there likewise and on the next daie after it was conueied in a boat without priest or clerke torch or taper singing or saieng vnto the monasterie of Chertfeie distant from London fiftéene miles and there was it first buried but after line 10 it was remooued to Windesor and there in a new vawt newlie intoomed He reigned eight and thirtie yeares six moneths and od daies and after his readeption of the crowne six moneths He liued two and fiftie yeares hauing by wife one onelie sonne called Edward prince of Wales He was of a seemelie stature of bodie slender to which proportion all other members were answerable his face beautifull wherein continuallie was resident the bountie of mind with the which he was line 20 inwardlie indued Of his owne naturall inclination he abhorred all the vices as well of the bodie as of the soule His patience was such that of all the iniuries to him doone which were innumerable he neuer asked vengeance thinking that for such aduersitie as chanced to him his sinnes should be forgotten and forgiuen What losses soeuer happened vnto him he neuer esteemed nor made anie account therof but if anie thing were doone that might sound as an offense towards God he sore lamented and with line 30 great repentance sorowed for it So then verie vnlike it is that he died of anie wrath indignation and displeasure bicause
the yoong babe condescended in effect that if he were not deliuered he should be fetched Howbeit they thought it all best in the auoiding of all maner of rumor that the lord cardinall should first assaie to get him with hir good will Wherevpon all the councell came vnto the Starre chamber at Westminster and the lord cardinall leauing the protector with the councell in the Starchamber departed into the sanctuarie to the quéene with line 10 diuers other lords with him were it for the respect of his honor or that she should by presence of so manie perceiue that this errand was not one mans mind or were it for that the protector intended not in this matter to trust anie one man alone or else that if she finallie were determined to kéepe him some of that companie had happilie secret instruction incontinent mangre hir mind to take him and to leaue hir no respit to conueie him which she was likelie to mind after this matter broken to hir if hir time line 20 would in anie wise serue hir When the quéene and these lords were come togither in presence the lord cardinall shewed vnto hir that it was thought vnto the protector and vnto the whole councell that hir kéeping of the kings brother in that place was the thing which highlie sounded not onelie to the great rumor of the people and their obloquie but also to the importable gréefe and displeasure of the kings roiall maiestie to whose grace it were as singular a comfort to haue his naturall line 30 brother in companie as it was their both dishonour and all theirs and hirs also to suffer him in sanctuarie as though the one brother stood in danger and perill of the other and therefore more conuenient it were they should be togither than parted asunder that the world may well thinke and saie both of their kinred and also of them when they shall see and heare how they kéepe continuall companie and liue in mutuall amitie as becometh brethren which bringeth commodities with it for number infinite and for line 40 vse comfortable and necessarie as it is truelie said Quaeligat vnanimes foelix concordia fratres O quales fructus vtilitatis habet The cardinall shewed hir likewise that the councell therefore had sent him vnto hir to require hir the deliuerie of him that he might be brought vnto the kings presence at his libertie out of that place which they reckoned as a prison and there should he be demeaned according to his estate and she in this dooing should both doo great good to the realme pleasure to the councell and profit to hir selfe succour to hir line 50 freends that were in distresse and ouer that which he wist well she speciallie tendered not onelie great comfort and honor to the king but also to the yoong duke himselfe whose both great wealth it were to be togither as well for manie greater causes as also for their both disport recreation Which thing the lord estéemed no slight though it séeme light well pondering that their youth without recreation and plaie cannot indure nor anie stranger for the conuenience line 60 of both their ages and estates so méetlie in that point for anie of them as either of them for other My lord quoth the quéene I saie not naie but that it were verie conuenient that this gentleman whome yée require were in companie of the king his brother and in good faith me thinketh it were as great commoditie to them both as for yet awhile to béene in the custodie of their mother the tender age considered of the elder of them both but speciallie the yoonger which besides his infancie that also needeth good looking to hath awhile béene so sore diseased vexed with sicknesse and is so newlie rather a little amended than well recouered that I dare put no person earthlie in trust with his kéeping but my selfe onelie considering that there is as physicians saie and as we also find double the perill in the recidiuation than was in the first sicknesse with which disease nature being sore laboured fore wearied and weakened waxeth the lesse able to beare out and susteine a new surfet And albeit there might be founden other that would happilie doo their best vnto him yet is there none that either knoweth better how to order him than I that so long haue kept him or is more tenderlie like to cherish him than his owne mother that bare him No man denieth good madame quoth the cardinall but that your grace were of all folke most necessarie about your children and so would all the councell not onelie be content but glad that ye were if it might stand with your pleasure to be in such place as might stand with their honour But if you doo appoint your selfe to tarrie héere then thinke they it more conuenient that the duke of Yorke were with the king honourablie at his libertie to the comfort of them both than héere as a sanctuarie man to their both dishonour and obloquie sith there is not alwaie so great necessitie to haue the child to be with the mother but that occasion may sometime be such that it should be more expedient to keepe him elsewhere Which in this well appeareth that at such time as your déerest sonne then prince and now king should for his honor and good order of the countrie keepe houshold in Wales farre out of your companie your grace was well content therewith your selfe Not verie well content quoth the queene and yet the case is not like for the tone was then in health and the tother is now sicke In which case I maruell greatlie that my lord protector is so desirous to haue him in his kéeping where if the child in his sicknesse miscarried by nature yet might he run into slander and suspicion of fraud And where they call it a thing so sore against my childes honor and theirs also that he bideth in this place it is all their honours there to suffer him bide where no man doubteth he shall be best kept and that is héere while I am heere which as yet intend not to come foorth and ieopard my selfe after other of my fréends which would God were rather héere in suertie with me than I were there in ieopardie with them Whie madame quoth another lord know you anie thing whie they should be in ieopardie Naie verelie sir quoth shee nor whie they should be in prison neither as they now be But it is I trow no great maruell though I feare least those that haue not letted to put them in duresse without colour will let as little to procure their destruction without cause The cardinall made a countenance to the other lord that he should harpe no more vpon that string and then said he to the queene that he nothing doubted but that those lords of hir honorable kin which as yet remained vnder arrest should vpon the matter examined doo well inough and as toward
sent from the lord of Rauenstein They laid siege on the north side of the towne in a marish ground then being drie and so déepelie ditched and rampired their campe about on which rampire they laid their ordinance that it was in maner impossible to enter their campe or doo them anie displeasure or damage The K. of England was dailie aduertised of these dooings which nothing lesse desired than to haue the English pale inuironed with French fortresses Wherefore to preuent that mischiefe in time with all expedition he sent ouer to the lord Daubeneie then his deputie of Calis the lord Morleie with a crue of valiant archers souldiers to the number of a thousand men with priuie instructions what they should doo At their comming ouer it was bruted abroad that they were sent onelie to defend the English pale against all attempts that might vpon the sudden in anie wise be made by the Frenchmen or Flemings but their enterprise was all otherwise For on a tuesdaie at the shutting of the gates at night the lord Daubneie chiefeteine of the armie the lord Morleie sir Iames Tirrell capteine of Guisnes sir Henrie Willoughbie sir Gilbert Talbot and sir Humfreie Talbot marshall of Calis with diuerse other knights and esquiers and other of the garisons of Hammes Guisnes and Calis to the number of two thousand men or thereabouts issued priuilie out of Calis passed the water of Graueling in the morning betimes and left there for a stale and to kéepe the passage sir Humfreie Talbot with six score archers and came to Newport where they found the souereigne of Flanders with six hundred Almaines and there they staied that night On the next daie they went toward Dixmew and by the guiding of a prisoner that should haue beene hanged on the next morning they issued out of the south gate of the towne of Dixmew and were conueied by their said guide by an high banke set with willowes so that the Gantois could not well espie them and so secretlie gat to the end of their enimies campe and there paused The lord Daubeneie commanded all men to send their horsses and wagons backe but the lord Morleie said he would ride till he came to hand strokes Thus they marched foorth till they came to a low banke and no déepe ditch where the ordinance laie and there the archers shot altogither euerie man an arrow and so fell prostrate to the ground The enimies herewith discharged their ordinance and ouershot them The Almains lept ouer the ditch with their morice pikes The Englishmen in the fore-front waded the ditch and were holpen vp by the Almains and set on their enimies and tooke manie prisoners The other Englishmen hasted by the causie to enter in at the north gate of the campe where the lord Morleie being on horssebacke in a rich coate was slaine with a gun When his death was knowen euerie man killed his prisoner and slue all such as did withstand them to the number of eight thousand men in so much that of two thousand that came out of Bruges as the Flemish chronicle reporteth there came not home one hundred On the English part was slaine the lord Morleie and not an hundred more The Englishmen tooke their ordinance and sent it to Newport with all the spoile and great horsses And by the waie hearing certeine Frenchmen to be at Ostend they made thitherward but the Frenchmen fled and so they burned part of the towne and came againe to Newport where the lord Daubeneie left all the Englishmen that were hurt and returned to Calis where he buried the bodie of the lord Morleie The Englishmen got great riches at this field for they that went foorth in cloth came home in silke and those that went out on foot came home on great horsses The lord Cordes being at Ipre with twentie thousand men was sore displeased with this ouerthrow therefore thinking to be reuenged besieged the towne of Newport right stronglie and shot dailie at the wals breaking them in manie places But the Englishmen that were hurt at Dixmew field before and might either stand or draw bowe neuer came from the wals On a daie the Frenchmen gaue a great assault to a tower and perforce entered it and set vp the banner of the lord Cordes But sée the chance During the time of the assault there arriued a barke with foure score fresh English archers which came streight to the tower and did so much that line 10 what with the helpe of such as before were wounded and hurtmen and of the couragious harts of the new come archers incouraged greatlie by the women of the towne crieng Shoot Englishmen shoot the tower was regained out of the Frenchmens hands and the banner of the lord Cordes rent in péeces and in place thereof the penon of saint George set vp Then the Frenchmen supposing a great aid of Englishmen to haue béene come to the towne by sea left the assault And the night following the enuious lord Cordes line 20 which so sore longed for Calis that he would commonlie saie that he could be content to lie seuen yeares in hell so that Calis were in possession of the Frenchmen brake vp his siege and returned to Helding with shame And the Englishmen glad of this victorie returned to Calis This yeare Iames the third of that name king of Scots was slaine by his owne subiects after they had vanquished him in a pighâ field About the same time one Adrian an Italian line 30 was sent in ambassage from pope Innocent the eight into Scotland to haue taken vp the variance betwixt the king there and his people But being arriued here in England he was informed that king Iames was slaine and therfore taried here certeine moneths And for that he was a man of excellent learning vertue and humanitie the archbishop of Canturburie Iohn Morton so commended him to the king that he made him first bishop of Hereford and line 40 shortlie after that resigned and giuen ouer he promoted him to the bishoprike of Bath and Welles And after that with these honors he was returned to Rome he was aduanced by all the degrées of spirituall dignities into the college of the cardinals And worâhie sure he was of great preferment for by his meanes learned men were mooued to séeke out the vse of eloquent writing and speaking in the Latine toong he being the first in the time of our fathers that taught the trade to choose and vse apt words and fit termes line 50 In the sixt yeare of king Henries reigne there came ambassadors to him from the French king the lord Francis of Lutzenburgh Charles Marignane and Robert Gaguine minister of the Bonnehommes of the trinitie The effect of their comming was to haue concluded a peace with king Henrie and that with good will the French king might dispose of the mariage of the yoong
English campe thorough a false report contriued by some malicious person which was that the capteins should be allowed eight pense for euerie common souldier where the truth was that they had allowed to them but onelie six pense The lord generall aduertised that the souldiers began to gather in companies found meanes to apprehend the cheefe beginner and deliuered him vnto William Kingston esquier then prouost marshall and so was he put to death to the terrour of all other Whilest the Englishmen laie thus in campe on the borders of Biskaie towards Guien the archers went oftentimes a forraging into the French confines almost to Baion and burnt manie pretie villages The king of Spaine raised an armie and sent foorth the same vnder the leading of the duke of Alua which came forward as though he meant to haue come to the Englishmen who being aduertised of his approch were maruellouslie glad thereof in hope that then they should be imploied about the enterprise for the which they were come But the duke intending an other thing when he was aduanced foorth within a daies iournie of them suddenlie remooued his armie toward the realme of Nauarre and entering the same chased out of his realme the king of that land and conquered the same to the king of Spains vse as in the historie of Spaine more plainelie it dooth appeare After that the king of Spaine was thus possessed of the kingdome of Nauarre he sent vnto the lord marquesse promising to ioine with him shortlie and so to inuade the borders of France but he came not Wherefore the Englishmen thought themselues not well vsed for it gréeued them much that they should lie so longidle sith there was so great hope conceiued at their setting foorth that there should be some great exploit atchiued by them thorough the aid that was promised by the king of Spaine Thus whilest the armie lingered without remoouing there chanced an affraie to rise betwixt the Englishmen and the townes-men of Sancta Maria a village so called wherevnto such Englishmen as fell sicke had their resort and therevpon the alarms brought into the campe the Englishmen and Almans ran in great furie to the succour of their fellowes and notwithstanding all that the capteins could doo to staie them they slue and robbed the people without mercie The Biskaines that could get awaie fled ouer that water into Guien The capteins yet so ordered the matter that all the pillage was restored and one and twentie souldiers were condemned which were apprehended as they were fléeing awaie with a bootie of ten thousand duckats into Gascoigne seauen of them were executed and the residue pardoned of life at the sute of certeine lords of Spaine which were as then present The Frenchmen hearing of this riot came foorth of Baion to see and vnderstand the maner thereof but perceiuing that the Englishmen had descried them suddenlie they returned The Englishmen followed comming to the towne of S. Iehan de Lucie they burnt and robbed it slue the inhabitants Diuerse other villages they spoiled on the borders of Guien but bicause they wanted both horsses of seruice and horsses to draw foorth their ordinance they could not doo anie such damage as they might and would haue doone if they had béene furnished according line 10 to their desires in that point Thus continued the English armie in such wearisome sort till the moneth of October and then fell the lord marquesse sicke and the lord Howard had the chéefe gouernance of the armie Then were sent from the king of Spaine diuerse lords of his priuie councell vnto the said lord Howard to excuse the matter for that he came not according to his promise requiring them that sith the time of the yeare to make warre was past it might line 20 please them to breake vp their campe and to diuide themselues abroad into the townes and villages of his realme till the spring time of the yeare that they might then go forward with their first pretended enterprise The lord Howard shewed well in words that the Englishmen could not thinke well of the king of Spaines fained excuses and vnprofitable deâaies to his small honor their great hinderance losse hauing spent the king their maister so much treasure and doone so little hurt to his aduersaries line 30 The Spaniards gaue faire words and so in courteous maner departed Then about the end of October it was agréed amongest all the lords of the English hoast that they should breake vp their campe and so they did The lord marquesse and his people went to saint Sebastian the lord Howard and his retinue to Rendre the lord Willoughbie to Garschang and sir William Sands with manie other capteins repaired to Foâterabie and so euerie capteine with his ãâã was placed in one towne or other The king of England line 40 aduertised of the king of Spaine his meaning sent an herald called Windsor with letters vnto his armie willing his men there to tarie promising to send ouer to them right shortlie a new supplie vnder the guiding of the lord Herbert his chamberleine When this letter was read and the contents thereof notified the souldiers began to be so highlie displeased and spake such outragious words as it was maruell to heare not contented with words they were bent to haue doone outragious déeds insomuch line 50 that in their furie they had slaine the lord Howard and diuerse others if they had not followed their intents and herevpon they were glad to hire ships and so imbarked themselues in the moneth of Nouember When the lord marquesse was brought aboord he was so weake and féeble of remembrance thorough sickenesse that he asked where he was In the beginning of December they landed here in England and were glad to be at home and got out of such a countrie where they had little health lesse line 60 pleasure and much losse of time The king of Spaine séemed to be sore discontented with their departure openlie affirming that if they had taried vntill the next spring he would in their companie haue inuaded France About the same time that the marquesse went into Spaine that is to wit about the middest of Maie sir Edward Howard lord admerall of England being on the sea afore Portesmouth made foorth againe to the sea and directing his course towards Britaine on Trinitie sundaie arriued at Berthram baie with twentie great ships and suddenlie set his men on land and there wan a bulworke which the Britains kept and defended a while but being ouercome fled out of their hold left it to the Englishmen Then the lord admerall passed seauen miles into the countrie burning and wasting townes and villages and in returning skirmished with diuerse men of ames and slue some of them and notwithstanding that the Britains âought valiantlie in defense of their countrie yet they were put to the worsse and so the lord admerall returned to his ships
the countie of Kent began an insurrection in disobedience of the statute of labourers and were atteinted therfore of high treason and had iudgement line 40 to be drawne hanged and quartered He shewed where and when this chanced It was further determined by the said Fineux and all the iustices of the land that vpon the said commission of oier and terminer in London the iustices named in the said commission might not arreigne the offendors and proceed to the triall in one selfe daie no more than might the iustices of peace But iustices in oier might so doo aswell as the iustices of gaole deliuerie and as the sufficiencie of the iurors within the citie line 50 to passe betwixt the king and the said traitors the iustices determined that he that had lands and goods to the value of an hundred marks should be inabled to passe vpon the said indictments And this by the equitie of the statute of Anno vndecimo Henrici septimi the which will that no man be admitted to passe in anie inquest in London in a plée of lands or other action in which the damages shall passe the value of fourtie shillings except he be woorth in lands or goods the value of an hundred markes line 60 On saturdaie the second of Maie in this ninth yeare all the commissioners with the lord maior aldermen and iustices went to the Guildhall where manie of the offendors were indicted as well of the insurrection as of the robberies by them committed against the truces Herevpon they were arreigned pleading not guiltie had day giuen till monday next insuing On which daie being the fourth of Maie the lord maior the duke of Norffolke the earle of Surrie and others came to sit in the Guildhall to procéed in their oier and terminer as they were appointed When the lords were set the prisoners were brought through the stréets tied in ropes some men and some lads of thirtéene yéeres of age Among them were diuerse not of the citie some priests some husbandmen and labourers The whole number amounted vnto two hundred thrée score and eightéene persons This daie was Iohn Lincolne indicted as a principall procurer of this mischieuous insurrection and therevpon hée was arreigned and pleading not giltie had daie giuen ouer till wednesdaie or as Hall saith till thursday next insuing He was charged with such matter as before ye haue heard concerning his sute vnto doctor Standish and doctor Bele for the reading of this bill in their sermons and opening the matter as before ye haue heard all which matter with the circumstances he had confessed on sundaie the third of Maie vnto sir Richard Cholmleie sir Iohn Dansie sir Hugh Skeuington Diuers other were indicted this mondaie and so for that time the lords departed The next daie the duke came againe the erle of Surrie with 2000 armed men which kept the stréets When the maior the duke the earles of Shrewesburie and Surrie were set the prisoners were arreigned and thirtéene found guiltie and adiudged to be hanged drawne and quartered For execution whereof were set vp eleuen paire of gallowes in diuerse places where the offenses were doone as at Algate at Blanchappelton Gratious stréete Leaden hall and before euerie counter one also at Newgate at saint Martins at Aldersgate and at Bishopsgate Then were the prisoners that were iudged brought to those places of execution and executed in most rigorous maner in the presence of the lord Edmund Howard son to the duke of Norffolke knight marshall who shewed no mercie but extreme crueltie to the poore yoonglings in their execution and likewise the dukes seruants spake manie opprobrious words some bad hang some bad draw some bad set the citie on fire but all was suffered On thursdaie the seuenth of Maie was Lincolne Shirwin and two brethren called Bets and diuerse other adiudged to die Then Lincolne said My lords I meant well for if you knew the mischiefe that is insued in this realme by strangers you would remedie it manie times I haue complained and then I was called a busie fellow now our Lord haue mercie on me They were laid on hardels drawne to the standard in Cheape and first was Iohn Lincolne executed And as the other had the ropes about their neckes there came a commandement from the king to respit the execution Then the people cried God saue the king and so was the oier and terminer deferred till another daie and the prisoners sent againe to ward the armed men departed out of London and all things set in quiet On the eleuenth daie of Maie the king came to his manor of Gréenwich where the recorder of London and diuerse aldermen came to speake with his grace and all ware gownes of blacke colour And when they perceiued the king comming out of his priuie chamber into his chamber of presence they knéeled downe and the recorder said Our most naturall benigne and souereigne lord we know well that your grace is displeased with vs of your citie of London for the great riot late doone we ascerteine your grace that none of vs nor no honest person were condescending to that enormitie and yet wée our wiues and children euerie houre lament that your fauour should be taken from vs. And forsomuch as light and idle persons were the dooers of the same we most humblie beséech your grace to haue mercie of vs for our negligence and compassion of the offendors for their offense and trespasse Trulie said the king you haue highlie displeased and offended vs and you ought to waile and be sorie for the same And where as you saie that you the substantiall persons were not consenting to the same it appeareth to the contrarie For you neuer mooued to let them nor stirred once to fight with them which you say were so small a number of light persons Wherefore we must thinke and you can not denie that you did winke at the matter but at this time we will grant to you neither our fauour nor good will nor to the offendors mercie but resort to the cardinall our lord chancellour and he shall make you an answer and declare our pleasure And with this answer line 10 the Londoners departed and made relation to the maior On the eightéenth day of this moneth the quéene of Scots which had béene at the court and at Bainards castell a whole yeare at the kings charge and was richlie appointed of all things méet to hir estate both of iewels plate tapistrie arras coine horsses all other things of the kings gift liberalitie departed out of London toward Scotland with great riches albeit she came into England with great pouertie line 20 and she entered into Scotland the thirtéenth daie of Iune whome hir husband receiued at Berwike but the Englishmen smallie regarded him All hir charges within the realme comming to the court and returning were of the kings pursse On thursdaie the
he caused his ships to be brought into Brest hauen and bruted it abroad that he would not go into Scotland that yeare The king of England being certified that the duke meant not to depart out of France of all that yeare about the middest of September commanded that his ships should be laid vp in hauens till the next spring The duke of Albanie being thereof aduertised boldie then tooke his ships and sailed into Scotland with all conuenient spéed as in the Scotish historie ye maie read more at large Shortlie after his arriuall there he wrought so with the Scots that an armie was leauied with the which he approched to the borders of England lodged at Cawdestreame readie to enter into England The king of England hauing aduertisement giuen to him from time to time of the proceedings of his aduersaries with all diligence caused to be assembled the people of the North parts beyond Trent in such numbers that there were three thousand gentlemen bearing coats of armes with their powers and strength which were all commanded to repaire to the erle of Surrie with spéed The noble marquesse Dorset was appointed with six thousand men to kéepe Berwike least the Scots should laie siege thereto The duke of Albanie hearing of the preparation which the earle of Surrie made against him sent to him an herald promising him of his honour to giue him battell and if he tooke him prisoner he would put him to courteous ransome his bodie to be safe To whome the earle answered that much he thanked the duke of his offer promising him to abide battell if he durst giue it that if the said duke chanced to be taken by him or his he would strike off his head and send it for a present to his maister the king of England and bade him that he should trust to none other At this answer the duke and the Scots tooke great despite The earle of Surrie being at Alnewicke there came to him the earles of Northumberland and Westmerland the lords Clifford Dacres Lumleie Ogle Darcie with manie knights esquiers gentlemen and other souldiers and men of warre to the number of fortie thousand And from the court there came the maister of the horsse sir Ncholas Carew sir Francis Brian sir Edward Bainton and others The last of October being saturdaie in the night before the same daie the duke of Albanie sent two or thrée thousand men ouer the water to besiege the castell of Warke which comming thither with their great ordinance beat the castell verie sore and wan the vttermost ward called the Barnekins On sundaie and mondaie being the first and second of Nouember they continued their batterie and then thinking that the place was assaultable couragiouslie set on the castell and by strength entered the second ward Sir William Lisle that was capteine of this castell perceiuing the enimies to haue woone the false breies and that nothing remained but onelie the inner ward or dungeon incouraged his men to the best of his power with words of great comfort and manhood and therewith issued foorth with those few that he had left about him for he had lost manie at other assaults and what with couragious shooting and manfull fighting the enimies were driuen out of the place and of them were slaine and namelie of those Frenchmen which the duke had brought foorth of France to the number of thrée hundred line 10 which laie there dead in fight when the earle of Surrie came thither besides such as died of wounds and were drowned Then the Scots and Frenchmen remooued their ordinance ouer the water in all hast and by that time that they were got ouer the earle of Surrie was come with fiue thousand horssemen and all his great armie followed He was sorie that his enimies were gone and much praised sir William Lisle for his valiancie The earle would gladlie haue followed his line 20 enimies into their owne borders but his commission was onelie to defend the realme and not to inuade Scotland and therefore he staid not onelie vnto the great displeasure of himselfe but also of manie a lustie gentleman that would gladlie haue séene further proofe of the Scotish mens manhood Shortlie after the quéene of Scots moother to the king sent to hir brother the king of England for an abstinence of warre vntill further communication might be had about the conclusion of some good agréement betwixt line 30 the two realmes of England and Scotland which request to hir was granted and so the English armie brake vp and the earle of Surrie returned to the court ¶ In this season the emperour Charles sent to the king of England two mules trapped in crimsin veluet curiouslie embrodered all the buckles stirrops and all such other garnishings were siluer and gilt of maruellous cunning worke He sent also eleuen genets full goodlie to behold trapped with russet veluet line 40 richlie wrought and foure speares and two iauelins of strange timber worke richlie garnished and fiue brâce of greihounds and to the queene he sent two mules with rich trappers and high chaires after the Spanish fashion All these presents were thankefullie receiued both of the king and quéene Whilest the earle of Surrie was in the marches of Scotland and the duke of Suffolke in France as before ye haue heard the cardinall sent out commissions in the moneth of October that euerie man being line 50 worth fortie pounds should paie the whole subsidie before granted out of hand not tarrieng till the daies of paiment limited This was called an anticipation that is to meane a thing taken before the time appointed and was a new tearme not knowne before those daies but they paied swéetelie for their learning ¶ In December were taken certeine traitors in Couentrie one called Francis Philip schoolemaister to the kings henchmen and one Christopher Pickering clearke of the larder and one Anthonie line 60 Mainuile gentleman which by the persuasion of the said Francis Philip intended to haue taken the kings treasure of his subsidie as the collectors of the same came towards London and then to haue raised men and taken the castell of Kilingworth and to haue arreared warre against the king The said Francis Christopher and Anthonie were hanged drawne and quartered at Tiborne the eleuenth of Februarie and the other were sent to Couentrie and there executed In this yeare the king sent the lord Morleie sir William Huseie knight doctor Lée his almoner to don Ferdinando the archduke of Austrich with the order of the garter which in the towne of Nuremberge receiued the same where all the princes of Germanie were then assembled at a diet or councell In this meane while diuerse enterprises and feats of warre were practised and archiued by them of the garrisons in the marches of Calis and the Frenchmen of Bullogne and the borders thereabouts but the Frenchmen commonlie were put to the worse Amongest other exploits
6 to haue ten or twelue benefices to be resident vpon none and to know manie well learned scholars in the vniuersities which were able to preach teach to haue neither benefice nor exhibition These things before this time might in no wise be touched nor yet talked of by anie man except he would be made an heretike or léese all that he had For t hebishops were chancellors and had all the rule about the king so that no man durst once presume to attempt anie thing contrarie to their profit or commoditie But now when God had illuminated the eies of the king and that their subtile dooings were once espied then men began charitablie to desire a reformation and so at this parlement men began to shew their grudges Wherevpon the burgesses of the parlement appointed such as were learned in the law being of the common house to draw one bill of the probats of testaments another for mortuaries and the third for non residence pluralities and taking of farmes by spirituall men The learned men tooke much paines and first set foorth the bill of mortuaries which passed the common house and was sent vp to the lords To this bill the spirituall lords made a faire face saieng that suerlie priests and curats tooke more than they should and therefore it were well done to take some reasonable order thus they spake bicause it touched them little But within two daies after was sent vp the bill concerning probats of testaments at the which the archbishop of Canturburie in especiall and all other bishops in generall both frowned and grunted for that touched their profit Insomuch as doctor Iohn Fisher bishop of Rochester said openlie in the parlement chamber these words My lords you sée dailie what billes come hither from the common house and all is to the destruction of the church For Gods sake sée what a realme the kingdome of Boheme was and when the church went downe then fell the glorie of the kingdome now with the commons is nothing but Downe with the church and all this me séemeth is for lacke of faith onlie When these words were reported to the commons of the nether house that the bishop should saie that all their dooings were for lacke of faith they tooke the matter gréeuouslie for they imagined that the bishop estéemed them as heretikes and so by his slanderous words would haue persuaded the temporall lords to haue restrained their consent from the said two billes which they before had passed as you haue heard before Wherefore the commons after long debate determined to send the speaker of the parlement to the kings highnesse with a gréeuous complaint against the bishop of Rochester And so on a daie when the king was at leasure Thomas Audleie speaker for the commons and thirtie of the chéefe of the common house came to the kings presence in his palace at Westminster whiâh before was called Yorke place and there verie eloquentlie declared what a dishonor to the king and the realme it was to saie that they which were elected for the wisest men of all the shires cities and boroughs within the realme of England should be declared in so noble and open presence to lacke faith which was equiualent to saie that they were infidels and no christians as ill as Turkes or Saracens so that what paine or studie soeuer they tooke for the common wealth or what acts or lawes soeuer they made or stablished should be taken as laâes made by Painims and heathen people and not woorthie to be kept by christian men Wherefore he most humbly besought the kings highnesse to call the said bishop before him and to cause him to speake more discréetlie of such a number as was in the common house The king was not well contented with the saieng of the bishop yet he gentlie answered the speaker that he would send for the bishop and send them word what answer he made and so they departed againe After this the king sent for the archbishop of Canturburie and six other bishops and for the bishop of Rochester also and there declared to him the grudge of the commons to the which the bishop answered that he meant the dooings of the Bohemians was for lacke of faith and not the dooings of them that were in the common house Which saieng was line 10 confirmed by the bishops being present who had him in great reputation and so by that onelie saieng the king accepted his excuse and thereof sent word to the commons by sir William Fitz Williams knight treasuror of his houshold which blind excuse pleased the commons nothing at all After diuerse assemblies were kept betwéene certeine of the lords and certeine of the commons for the billes of probats of testaments and the mortuaries the temporaltie laid to the spiritualtie their owne lawes line 20 and constitutions and the spiritualtie sore defended them by prescription vsage to whom this answer was made by a gentleman of Greies inne The vsage hath euer beene of théeues to rob on Shooters hill ergo is it lawfull With this answer the spirituall men were sore offended because their dooings were called robberies But the temporall men stood still by their saiengs insomuch that the said gentleman said to the archbishop of Canturburie that both the exaction of probats line 30 of testaments and the taking of mortuaries as they were vsed were open robberie and theft After long disputation the temporall lords began to leane to the commons but for all that the billes remained vnconcluded for a while In the meane season there was a bill assented to by the lords and sent downe to the commons the effect whereof was that the whole realme by the said act did release to the king all such summes of monie as he had borrowed of them at the loane in the fiftéenth yeare of his line 40 reigne as you haue heard before This bill was sore argued in the common house but the most part of the commons were the kings seruants and the other were so laboured to by other that the bill was assented vnto When this release of the loane was knowen to the commons of the realme Lord so they grudged spake ill of the whole parlement For almost euerie man counted it his debt and reckoned suerlie of the line 50 paiment of the same And therefore some made their willes of the same and some other did set it ouer to other for debt and so manie men had losse by it which caused them sore to murmur but there was no remedie The king like a good and discréet prince séeing that his commons in the parlement house had released the loane intending somewhat to requite the same granted to them a generall pardon of all offenses certeine great offenses and debts onelie excepted also he aided them for the redresse of their line 60 griefes against the spiritualtie and caused two new billes to be made indifferentlie both for the
former prouision that I speake of was sent vnto Yorke the same daie of his arrest and line 40 the next daie following for his arrest was kept as close as could be The order of his arrest was thus It was appointed by the king counsell that sir Walter Walsh knight one of the kings priuie chamber should be sent downe with a commission into the north vnto the earle of Northumberland who was sometime brought vp in house with the cardinall and they twaine being iointlie in commission to arrest the cardinall of high treason maister Walsh tooke his horsse at the court gate about noone vpon Alhallowes daie toward the earle of Northumberland line 50 And now haue I occasion to declare what happened about the same time which peraduenture signified the troubles following to the cardinall The cardinall sitting at dinner vpon Alhallowes daie hauing at his boords end diuerse chapleins sitting at dinner yée shall vnderstand that the cardinals great crosse stood in a corner at the tables end leaning against the hanging and when the boords end was taken vp and a conuenient time for the chapleins to arise one doctor Augustine a Uenecian and physician line 60 to the cardinall rising from the table with the other hauing vpon him a great gowne of boisterous veluet ouerthrew the crosse which trailing downe along the tappet with the point of one of the crosses brake doctor Bonars head that the bloud ran downe the companie there standing greatlie astonied with the chance The cardinall perceiuing the same demanded what the matter meant of their sudden amaze And they shewed him of the fall of his crosse vpon doctor Bonars head Hath it quoth he drawne anie bloud Yea forsooth my lord quoth they With that he cast his eies aside shaking his head said Malum omen therewith saieng grace rose from the table went to his chamber Now marke the signification how the cardinall expounded this matter at Pomfret after his fall First yée shall vnderstand that the crosse which he bare as archbishop of Yorke signified himselfe and Augustine the physician who ouerthrew the crosse was onelie he that accused the cardinall whereby his enimies caught an occasion to ouerthrow him it fell vpon doctor Bonars head who was maister of the cardinals faculties and spirituall iurisdictions and was then damnified by the ouerthrow of the crosse yea and more ouer drawing bloud of him betokened death which shortlie after did insue About the time of this mischance the same verie daie and season maister Walsh tooke his horsse at the court as nigh as could be iudged Now the appointed time drew neere of his installation and sitting at dinner vpon the fridaie next before the mondaie on the which daie he intended to be installed at Yorke the earle of Northumberland and maister Walsh with a great companie of gentlemen of the earles house of the countrie whome he had gathered togither in the kings name came to the hall at Cawood the officers being at dinner and the cardinall not fullie dined being then in his fruits The first thing that the earle did after he had set order in the hall he commanded the porter at the gates to deliuer him the keies thereof Who would in no wise obeie his commandement though he were roughlie threatened and streictlie commanded in the kings name to make deliuerie of them to one of the earles seruants Sir quoth he seeing that yee doo but intend to set one of your seruants in my place to kéepe the gates I know no seruant that yée haue but I am as able as he to doo it and kéepe the gates to your purpose whatsoeuer it be also the keies were deliuered me by my lord and maister wherfore I praie you to pardon me for whatsoeuer yée shall command me to doo in the ministration of mine office I shall doo it with a good will With that quoth the earle hold him a booke commanding him to laie his hand thereon Thou shalt sweare quoth he that thou shalt well and trulie kéepe the gates to the kings vse and to doo all such things as we shall command and that yée shall let passe neither in nor out at these gates but such as yée be commanded by vs. And with this oth he receiued the keies at the earles hands Of all these doings knew the cardinall nothing for they stopped the staires so that none went vp to the cardinals chamber and they that came downe could no more go vp againe At the last one escaped who shewed the cardinall that the earle was in the hall Whereat the cardinall maruelled and would not beléeue him but commanded a gentleman to bring him the truth who going downe the staires saw the earle of Northumberland and returned and said it was verie he Then quoth the cardinall I am sorie that we haue dined for I feare our officers be not prouided of anie store of good fish to make him some honorable chéere let the table stand quoth he With that he rose vp and going downe the staires he encountered the earle comming vp with all his taile And as soone as the cardinall espied the earle he put off his cap and said My lord ye be most hartilie welcome and so imbraced each other Then the cardinall tooke the earle by the hand and had him vp into the chamber whome followed all the number of the earles seruants From thence he led him into his bed-chamber and they being there all alone the earle said vnto the cardinall with a soft voice laieng his hand vpon his arme My lord I arrest you of high treason With which words the cardinall being maruellouslie astonied standing both still a good space At last quoth the cardinall What authoritie haue you to arrest me Forsooth my lord quoth the erle I haue a commission so to doo Where is your commission quoth he that I may sée it Naie sir that you may not said the erle Well then quoth the cardinall I will not obeie your rest But as they were debating this matter betwéene them in the chamber as busie was maister Walsh in arresting doctor Augustine at the doore of the palace saieng vnto him Go in traitor or I shall make thée line 10 At the last maister Walsh being entred the cardinals chamber began to plucke off his hood and after knéeled downe to the cardinall Unto whom the cardinall said Come hither gentleman let me speake with you Sir héere my lord of Northumberland hath arrested me but by whose authoritie he sheweth not if yée be ioined with him I praie you shew me Indéed my lord quoth maister Walsh he sheweth you the truth Well then quoth the cardinall I praie you let me see it Sir I beséech you quoth maister line 20 Walsh hold vs excused there is annexed to our commission certeine instructions which you may not see Well quoth the cardinall I trow yée are one of the kings priuie chamber your name
drawne into Smithfield and there burnt to ashes The third of Nouember Henrie Courtnie marques of Excester and earle of Deuonshire Henrie Poole lord line 20 Montacute and sir Edward Neuill brother to the lord Aburgauennie were sent to the tower being accused by sir Geffrie Poole brother to the lord Montacute of high treason They were indicted for deuising to mainteine promote aduance one Reginald Poole late deane of Excester enimie to the king beyond the sea to depriue the king The marques and the lord Montacute were arreigned the last of December at Westminster before the lord Audleie that was chancellor and for that present time high line 30 steward of England and there they found him giltie The third daie after were arreigned sir Edward Neuill sir Geffreie Poole two priests called Crofts and Collins one Holland a mariner all atteinted ¶ The sixteenth of Nouember was the blacke friers in London suppressed the next daie the white friers the graie friers and the moonks of the Charterhouse and so all the other immediatlie The foure and twentith of Nouember the bishop of Rochester line 40 preached at Paules crosse there shewed the bloud of Hales and affirmed the same to be no bloud but honie clarified and coloured with saffron as it had beene euidentlie prooued before the king and his councell Also foure anabaptists thrée men and one woman all Dutch bare fagots at Paules crosse the same daie The nintéenth of Nouember a man and a woman Dutch anabaptists were burnt in Smithfield The ninth of Ianuarie the lord marques and line 50 the lord Montacute year 1539 with sir Edward Neuill lost their heads on the Tower hill The two priests and Holland were drawne to Tiburne and there hanged and quartered Sir Geffreie Poole had his pardon ¶ On Ashwednesdaie Iohn Ihons Iohn Potter William Manering were hanged in the princes liueries bicause they were the princes seruants on the southside of Paules chuchyard for killing Roger Cholmeleie esquier in that place of malice prepensed The third of March sir Nicholas Carew of Bedington in the countie of Surrie knight of line 60 the garter and maister of the kings horsse condemned before of treason was beheaded on the Tower hill where he made a godlie confession both of his fault and superstitious faith giuing God thanks for that his hap was to be prisoner in the Tower where he first sauored the pleasant tast of Gods holie word meaning the bible in English which there he read by the exhortation of one Thomas Philips then kéeper of that prison and sometime a citizen and point-maker of London who had béene in some trouble for religion and examined before doctor Stokeslie bishop of London and sir Thomas More but through his wise demeanor and mild answers he escaped their hands The ninth of March the king created sir William Paulet knight treasuror of his house lord saint Iohn and sir Iohn Russell comptrollor of his household lord Russell Also either then or shortlie after was sir William Par created lord Par. The new abbeie of white moonks at the Tower hill and the Minories nuns without Algate were suppressed on the last of March The same time the king caused all the hauens to be fensed with bulworks and blockehouses and riding to Douer he tooke order to haue bulworks made alongst the sea coasts and sent commission to haue generall musters made through the realme Moreouer on Easter daie there were thréescore saile discouered that laie in the Downes and for that it was neither knowne what they were nor what they intended to doo all the able men in Kent rose and mustered in armour the same daie The eight and twentith of Aprill began a parlement at Westminster in the which Margaret countesse of Salisburie Gertrude wife to the marques of Excester Reginald Poole cardinall brother vnto the lord Montacute sir Adrian Foskew Thomas Dingleie knight of saint Iohns and diuerse other were atteinted of high treason which Foskew and Dingleie the tenth of Iulie were beheaded In this parlement the act of the six articles was established Of some it was named the bloodie statute as it prooued indéed to manie And euen shortlie after the making thereof when the first inquest for inquirie of the offendors of the same statute sat in London at the mercers chappell those that were of that inquest were so chosen foorth for the purpose as there was not one amongst them that wished not to haue the said statute put in execution to the vttermost insomuch that they were not contented onelie to inquire of those that offended in the six articles conteined in that statute but also they deuised to inquire of certeine branches as they tooke the matter belonging to the same as of those that came seldome to heare masse that held not vp their hands at the sacring time who tooke no holie bread nor holie water who vsed to read the bible in churches or in communication séemed to despise preests or images in the churches c. To conclude they inquired so diligentlie of them that had so offended in anie of those articles or the branches that they indicted presented to the number of fiue hundred persons and aboue so that if the king had not granted his pardon for that he was informed by the lord Audleie then lord chancellor that they were indicted of malice a great manie of them which alreadie were in prison had died for it in Smithfield in frieng a faggot But although the king at that present granted his gratious pardon and forgaue all those offenses yet afterwards during the time that this statute stood in force which was for the space of eight years insuing they brought manie an honest and simple person to death For such was the rigor of that law that if two witnesses true or false had accused anie and aduouched that they had spoken against the sacrament there was no waie but death for it booted him not to confesse that his faith was contrarie or that he said not as the accusers reported for the witnesses for the most part were beléeued The king being informed that the pope by instigation of cardinall Poole had mooued and stirred diuers great princes and potentats of christendome to inuade the realme of England without all delaie rode himselfe toward the sea coasts and sent diuerse of his nobles and councellors to surueie all the ports and places of danger on the coast where anie meet and conuenient landing place might be doubted as well in the borders of England as also of Wales in which dangerous places he caused bulworks and forts to be erected And further he caused the lord admerall earle of Southampton to prepare in a readinesse his nanie of ships for defense of the coasts Beside this he sent forth commissions to haue generall musters taken through the realme to vnderstand what number of able men he
thrée first as is found in their atteindor were executed for diuerse heresies but none alledged whereat saith Hall I haue much maruelled that their heresies were so manie and not one alledged as a speciall cause of their death And verelie at their deaths they asked the shiriffs what was their offense for which they were condemned Who answered they could not tell but most men said it was for preaching against the doctrine of Stephan Gardiner bishop of Winchester who chieflie as the same Hall saith procured their deaths The last thrée to wit Powell Fetherston and Abell suffered for treason as in their atteindor was speciall mention made to wit for denieng the kings supremacie and affirming his mariage with the ladie Katharin Dowager to be good The fourth of August Thomas Empson sometime a moonke of Westminster which had béene in prison for treason in Newgate now for the space of thrée yeares and more came before the iustices of gaole deliuerie at Newgate and for that he would not aske the kings pardon nor be sworne to be true to him his moonks garment was plucked from his backe and he repriued till the king were informed of his malicious obstinacie and this was the last moonke that was séene in his clothing in England till queene Maries daies The fourth of August were drawne from the Tower of London to Tiburne Giles Heron gentleman Clement Philpot gentleman late of Calis and seruant to the lord Lisle Darbie Genning Edmund Brindholme priest chapleine to the said lord Lisle William Horne late a laie brother of the Charterhouse of London and an other offendor which six persons were there hanged and quartered and had béene atteinted of treason by parlement The same daie also was one Charles Carew gentleman hanged for robbing of the ladie Carew The eight of August was the ladie Katharine Howard néece to the duke of Norffolke and daughter to the lord Edmund Howard shewed openlie as quéene at Hampton court The eleuenth of September a stranger was hanged in Moorefield named Iames Rinatian who had slaine his maister one Capon a Florentine in a garden for his harlot In the latter end of this summer was vniuersallie through the most parts of this realme great death by a strange kind of hot agues and fluxes and some pestilence in which season was such a drought that wels and small riuers were cleane dried vp so that line 10 much cattell died for lacke of water and the Thames was so shalow the fresh water of so small strength that the salt water flowed aboue London bridge till the raine had increased the fresh waters On the two and twentith of September Rafe Egerton seruant to the lord Audleie lord chancellor and one Thomas Harman seruant to one master Flightwood were drawne hanged and quartered the one for counterfeiting and antidating of the kings seale in a signât wherewith he sealed licences for deuizens vnder the name of the clearkes of line 20 the chancerie and the other that is to saie Harman for writing them One Tuckefield being of their faction robbed the lord Audleies chappell and fled who being afterward apprehended at Calis which towne he would haue betraied he slue himselfe with a dagger In the end of this yeare the French king made a strong castell at Ard and also a bridge ouer into the English pale which bridge the crew of Calis did beat downe and the Frenchmen built it vp againe but the Englshmen beat it downe againe line 30 After this the K. sent about fiftéene hundred workemen to fortifie the towne of Guisnes and sent with them fiue hundred men of warre to gard them It was reported in France that a mightie armie was come ouer foorth of England with great ordinance which brute caused the French king to send to the frontiers of Picardie the duke of Uandosme and other capteins with all spéed to defend the same The king of England hearing thereof sent line 40 the earles of Surrie and Southampton and the lord Russell high admerall into the marches of Calis to set order there and after them he likewise sent two hundred light horssemen of the borders of Scotland whom the Frenchmen called Stradiots The lords hauing set order in things shortlie returned A boie oneRichard Mekins not past fiftéene yeares of age was burnt in Smithfield for speaking against the sacrament and contrarie to the statute of the six articles The bishop of London was thought in great line 50 fault for procuring that terrible execution seeing the yoong fellow was but an ignorant foole without learning and gladlie recanted that wherewith he was charged About the latter end of this yeare doctor Samson bishop of Chichester year 1541 and doctor Wilson which had béene committed to the tower as before ye haue heard were now pardoned of the king and set againe at libertie In the beginning of this yeare fiue priests in Yorkeshire began a new rebellion line 60 with the assent of one Leigh a gentleman and nine temporall men all which persons were apprehended and in diuers places put to execution The said Leigh and two other the one named Taterfall a clothier the other Thornton a yeoman on the seuentéenth of Maie were drawne through London to Tiburne and there executed And sir Iohn Neuill knight and ten other persons died for the same cause at Yorke The same daie Margaret countesse of Salisburie that had remained a long time prisoner in the tower was beheaded there within the tower She was the last of the right line and name of Plantagenet The ninth of Iune for example sake two of the kings gard the one named Damport and the other Chapman were hanged at Greenwich by the friers wall for robberies which they had committed ¶ On the tenth of Iune sir Edmund Kneuet knight of Norffolke was arreigned before the kings iustices sitting in the great hall at Gréenewich maister Gage comptrollor of the kings household maister Southwell sir Anthonie Browne sir Anthonie Winkeâield maister Wrisleie and Edmund Peckham cofferer of the kings houshold for striking of one maister Clers of Norffolke seruant with the earle of Surrie within the kings house in the tenis court There was first chosen to go vpon the said Edmund a quest of gentlemen and a quest of yeomen to inquire of the said stripe by the which inquests he was found giltie and had iudgement to lose his right hand Wherevpon was called to doo the execution first the sergeant surgion with his instruments apperteining to his office the sergeant of the woodyard with the mallet and a blocke wherevpon the hand should lie the maister cooke for the king with the knife the sergeant of the larder to set the knife right on the ioint the sergeant ferrer with the searing irons to seare the veines the sergeant of the poultrie with a cocke which cocke should haue his head smitten off vpon the same blocke and with the same knife the yeoman
earles of Darbie and Essex who brought him to Gréenewich where he landed and lodged there that night The next daie he came vp with all his gallies line 50 and landed at the Tower wharfe Upon all the banks by the water side were laid péeces of artillerie which shot off freelie and so likewise did all the artillerie in the ships but speciallie from the Tower was shot a maruellous great peale of ordinance From whence being landed they rode thorough London in great triumph the maior and the crafts standing in the streets in verie good order vnto the bishops palace by Paules where the French admerall lodged till Bartholomew euen on which daie he was conueied line 60 toward Hampton court where in the waie the prince hauing with him the archbishop of Yorke the earles of Hertford and Huntington and aboue two thousand horsse met him and imbrased him in such courteous and honorable wise that all the beholders greatlie reioised and much maruelled at the said princes high wit and great audacitie and so the French admerall came to the court giuing the prince the vpper hand as they rode And at the vtter gate of the court the lord chancellor and all the kings councell receiued him and brought him to his lodging On Bartholomew daie the king admitting him to his presence welcomed him and in great triumph went to the chappell where the king receiued his oth to performe the articles of the league as it was couenanted To speake of the bankettings huntings and such like honorable sorts of interteinements it were much to vtter and hard to beléeue But on fridaie following being the seuen and twentith of August he being rewarded with a cupboord of plate to the value of twelue hundred pounds returned to London and on the sundaie next insuing tooke his gallies and departed Beside the kings gifts he had giuen to him by the citie of London two flaggons guilt and two other that were parcell guilt valued at one hundred thirtie six pounds beside wine wax and torches There were diuerse of his companie also that went not awaie vnrewarded hauing both plate and also manie horsses and greihounds giuen them Although this peace pleased both the English and French nations yet suerlie both mistrusted the continuance therof And verelie the old prouerbe séemed to be throughlie verefied which saith that what the eie séeth the hart rueth for the Frenchmen still longed for Bullogne and the Englishmen meant not willinglie to giue it ouer For during the French admerals being in England monsieur de Chatillon capteine of Montplaisier began to make a new bastilion euen at the verie mouth of the hauen naming it Chatillons garden Wherevpon that noble gentleman the lord Greie of Wilton shortlie after appointed to be deputie of the towne and countie of Bullogne perceiuing the great inconuenience that this new building would bring to the towne if it went forwards did aduertise the king thereof earnestlie beséeching his grace that the matter might be throughlie considered of Sir Thomas Palmer was the messenger The king vpon the intelligence asked his councels aduise which onelie went wholie that the conditions of the peace were not in anie wise to be infringed This resolued secretarie Paget then knight and afterwards lord was commanded accordinglie to draw a letter to the lord Greie the which âhe king himselfe did signe willing that the messenger should further know of his pleasure before he departed Wherevpon sir Thomas Palmer hauing his dispatch at the secretaries hands did get word to be giuen to the king who presentlie sent for him into his priuie chamber and betwixt them two vsed these words Palmer you haue there a letter from vs to the lord Greie that he doo in no wise deale in the matter that he hath by you aduertised vs of Notwithstanding I will that you deliuer him this message from vs. Bid him call to mind how that his brethren and himselfe not a short time but euen from tender yeares nor farre off but still neere to our person we haue brought him vp which tell him not vniustlie if that be in him that we conceiue dooth bréed in vs an od trust of feruencie to serue vs of him more than a common seruant or subiect By that token will him whatsoeuer I haue written to the contrarie that he presentlie impeach the fortification of Chatillons garden and rase it if it be possible and this my message shall be his cléering therein the seruice gratefullie accepted Sir Thomas Palmer somewhat astonied hereat considering the weightinesse of the cause and the contrarietie of the letter and message began to put the king in mind of the small credit that his bare errand of right was like to haue so flat against that which his maiesties letters imported But the king cutting off his tale Deliuer thou the message quoth he at his choise then be the executing thereof Sir Thomas thus dispatched with great spéed arriued at Bullogne immediatlie vpon the opening of the gates at after noone His letters and message deliuered the lord Greie streight assembled the councell shewed them the kings letters which read he caused sir Thomas to pronounce before them the message also Euerie man was to saie his aduise it went roundlie through the boord without anie question that the letter was to be followed the message not to be staied on The lord Greie hauing heard and not replieng anie thing willed sir Thomas to be called line 10 in againe bad him repeat his message and therwhilest made a clearke of the councell to write the same Verbatim This doone he praied the whole table to set their hands vnto it which they did and the lord Greie taking the same into his hands without further opening declaring his resolution brake vp councell commanded streight the gates to be shut gaue priuie warning that certeine bands with armour and weapon and likewise pioners should that night by an houre be in a readines line 20 The houre came himselfe with the warned companie issued out passed ouer the water and without anie alarum of the enimie did ouerthrow in thrée or foure houres what in two or three moneths had bin raised and so in great quietnesse returned into the towne Presentlie he dispatched sir Thomas Palmer backe againe to the king with the newes whose returne was so sudden as the king himselfe being in the chamber of presence séeing him said alowd What Will he doo it or no Sir Thomas giuing no line 30 other answer but presenting his letters and saieng that thereby his maiestie should know The king againe in earnest mood Naie tell vs I saie whether he will doo it or not Then sir Thomas told him that it was doone and the whole fortification cleane rased Whereat the king taking great ioy presentlie called to certeine of the lords of the councell that were by and said How saie you my lords Chatillons garden the new fort is laid as flat
Lords goodnesse through prudent circumspection of some interrupted the course of their furious beginning For first came the kings gratious and frée pardon discharging pardoning all them and the rest of the rebels of all treasons murthers felonies other offenses doone to his maiestie before the one twentith of August 1549. Which pardon although Ombler contemptuouslie reading persisted still in his wilfull obstinacie dissuaded also the rest from the humble accepting of the kings so louing liberall pardon yet notwithstanding with some it did good who of likelihood submitted themselues assuredlie belieuing if they perseuered in their enterprise there was no way with them but one namelie deserued death wherewith there was no dispensing after the contempt of the princes pardon and refusall of his mercie so that in this heauie case they might verie well complaine and saie Funditùs occidimus nec habet fortuna regressum To make short it was not long after this but Ombler as he was riding from towne to towne twelue miles from Hummanbie to charge all the conestables and inhabitans where he came in the kings name to resort to Hummanbie by the waie he was espied and by the circumspect diligence of Iohn Word the yoonger Iames Aslabeie Rafe Twinge and Thomas Conestable gentlemen hée was had in chase and at last by them apprehended and brought in the night in sure custodie vnto the citie of Yorke to answer vnto his demerits After whome within short time Thomas Dale Henrie Barton the first chiefteins and ringleaders of the former commotion with Iohn Dale Robert Wright William Pecocke Weatherell and Edmund Buttrie busie stirrers in this sedition as they trauelled from place to place to draw people to their faction were likewise apprehended committed to ward lawfullie conuicted and lastlie executed at Yorke the one and twentith of September in the yere of our Lord 1549. Exactis iudicij publici a registro exceptis notatis Whilest these wicked commotions and tumults through the rage of the vndiscréet commons were thus raised in sundrie parts of the realme to the great hinderance of the common-wealth losse and danger of euerie good and true subiect sundrie wholsome and godlie exhortations were published to aduertise them of their dutie and to laie before them their heinous offenses with the sequele of the mischiefs that necessarilie followed thereof the which if they should consider togither with the punishment that hanged ouer their heads they might easilie be brought to repent their lewd begun enterprises and submit themselues to the kings mercie Among other of those admonitions one was penned and set forth by sir Iohn Chéeke which I haue thought good here to insert as a necessarie discourse for euerie good English subiect Wherein to a reader of iudgement and capacitie such learning and wisedome with a true loiall subiects heart bewraieth it selfe to haue béene setled in that gentleman as the verie reading of this treatise is able to turne a rebellious mind to méekenesse if reason be not altogither led awaie captiue by lust ¶ The hurt of sedition how greeuous it is to a common-wealth set out by sir Iohn Cheeke knight in the yeare 1549. The true subiect to the rebell AMong so manie and notable benefits wherewith God hath alreadie and plentifullie indued vs there is nothing more beneficiall than that we haue by his line 10 grace kept vs quiet from rebellion at this time For we see such miseries hang ouer the whole state of the common-wealth through the great misorder of your sedition that it maketh vs much to reioise that we haue béene neither partners of your doings nor conspirers of your counsels For euen as the Lacedemonians for the auoiding of drunkennesse did cause their sons to behold their seruants when they were drunke that by beholding their beastlinesse they might auoid the like vice euen so hath God like a line 20 mercifull father staied vs from your wickednesse that by beholding the filth of your fault we might iustlie for offense abhorre you like rebels whome else by nature we loue like Englishmen And so for our selues we haue great cause to thanke God by whose religion and holie word dailie taught vs we learne not onelie to feare him trulie but also to obeie our king faithfullie and to serue in our owne vocation like subiects honestlie And as for you we haue surelie iust cause to lament you as brethren line 30 and yet iuster cause to rise against you as enimies and most iust cause to ouerthrow you as rebels For what hurt could be doone either to vs priuatlie or to the whole common-wealth generallie that is now with mischiefe so brought in by you that euen as we sée now the flame of your rage so shall we necessarilie be consumed hereafter with the miserie of the same Wherefore consider your selues with some light of vnderstanding and marke this gréeuous and horrible fault which ye haue thus vilelie line 40 committed how heinous it must néeds appeare to you if ye will reasonablie consider that which for my duties sake and my whole countries cause I will at this present declare vnto you Ye which be bound by Gods word not to obeie for feare like men-pleasers but for conscience sake like christians haue contrarie to Gods holie will whose offense is euerlasting death and contrarie to the godlie order of quietnesse set out to vs in the kings maiesties lawes the breach whereof is not vnknowne to you taken line 50 in hand vncalled of God vnsent by men vnfit by reason to cast awaie your bounden duties of obedience and to put on you against the magistrats Gods office committed to the magistrats for the reformation of your pretensed iniuries In the which dooing ye haue first faulted grieuouslie against God next offended vnnaturallie our souereigne lord thirdlie troubled miserablie the whole common-wealth vndoone cruellie manie an honest man and brought in an vtter miserie both to vs the kings subiects line 60 and to your selues being false rebels And yet ye pretend that partlie for Gods cause and partlie for the common-wealths sake ye doo arise when as your selues cannot denie but ye that seeke in word Gods cause doo breake in déed Gods commandements and ye that séeke the common-wealth haue destroied the common-wealth and so ye marre that ye would make breake that ye would amend because ye neither seeke anie thing rightlie nor would amend anie thing orderlie He that faulteth faulteth against Gods ordinance who hath forbidden all faults and therefore ought againe to be punished by Gods ordinance who is the reformer of faults For he saith Leaue the punishment to me and I will reuenge them But the magistrate is the ordinance of God appointed by him with the sword of punishment to looke streightlie to all euill dooers And therefore that that is doone by the magistrate is doone by the ordinance of God whome the scripture oftentimes dooth call God because he hath the execution
men touched with plagues but also your owne house stoong with death and the plague also raised of your rising to fire your selues can ye thinke you to be anie other but mankillers of other and murtherers of your selues and the principals of the ouerthrow of so great a number as shall either by sword or punishment famine or some plague or pestilence be consumed and wasted out of the common-wealth And seeing he that decaieth the number of cottages or plowes in a towne seemeth to be an enimie to the common-wealth shall we not count him not onelie an enimie but also a murtherer of his countrie who by harebrained vnrulinesse causeth vtter ruine and pestilent destruction of so manie thousand men Grant this follie then and ouersight to be such as woorthilie ye maie count it and I shall go further in declaring of other great inconueniences which your dangerous and furious misbehauiour hath hurtfullie brought in séeing diuerse honest and true dealing men whose liuing is by their owne prouision hath come so before hand by time that they haue béene able well to liue honestlie in their houses paie beside the rents of their farmes trulie and now haue by your crueltie and abhorred insurrections lost their goods their cattell their haruest which they had gotten before and wherwith they intended to liue hereafter now be brought to this extremitie that they be neither able to liue as they were woont at home before nor to paie their accustomeable rent at their due time Whereby they be brought into trouble and vnquietnesse not onlie musing what they haue lost by you but also cursing you by whome they haue lost it and also in danger of loosing their holds at their lords hands except by pitie they shew more mercie than the right of the law line 10 will grant by iustice And what a griefe is it to an honest man to labor trulie in youth and to gaine painefullie by labour wherewith to liue honestlie in age and to haue this gotten in long time to be suddenlie caught awaie by the violence of sedition which name he ought to abhorre by it selfe although no miserie of losse followed to him thereby But what greater griefe ought seditious rebels to haue themselues who if they be not striken with punishment yet ought to line 20 pine in conscience and melt awaie with the griefe of their owne faults when they sée innocents and men of true seruice hindered and burdened with the hurt of their rebellion who in a good common-wealth should for honesties sake prosper they by these rebels onlie meanes be cast so behind the hand as they can not recouer easilie againe by their owne truth that which they haue lost by those traitors mischiefe And if vniust men ought not so to be handled at anie mans hands but onelie stand to the order of line 30 a law how much more should true and faithfull subiects who deserue praise féele no vnquietnesse nor be vexed with sedition who be obedientlie in subiection but rather séeke iust amends at false rebels hands and by law obteine that they lost by disorder and so constreine you to the vttermost to paie the recompense of wrongfull losses bicause ye were the authors of these wrongfull spoiles Then would ye soone perceiue the common-wealths hurt not when other felt it who deserued it line 40 not but when you smarted who caused it and stood not looked vpon other mens losses which ye might pitie but tormented with your owne which ye would lament Now I am past this mischiefe which ye will not hereafter denie when ye shall praise other mens foresight rather than your wicked dooings in be wailing the end of your furie in whose beginning ye now reioise What saie ye to the number of vagabonds and loitering beggers which after the ouerthrow of your campe and scattering of this seditious line 50 number will swarme in euerie corner of the realme and not onelie lie loitering vnder hedges but also stand sturdilie in cities and beg boldlie at euerie doore leauing labour which they like not and following idlenesse which they should not For euerie man is easilie and naturallie brought from labour to ease from the better to the woorse from diligence to slothfulnesse and after warres it is commonlie séene that a great number of those which went out honest returne home againe like roisters and as though line 60 they were burnt to the wars bottome they haue all their life after an vnsauorie smacke thereof smell still toward daiesleepers pursepickers highwaie-robbers quarrelmakers yea and bloudsheders too Doo we not sée commonlie in the end of warres more robbing more begging more murdering than before and those to stand in the high waie to aske their almes whome ye be affraid to saie naie vnto honestlie least they take it awaie from you violentlie and haue more cause to suspect their strength than pitie their need Is it not then dailie heard how men be not onelie pursued but vtterlie spoiled few maie ride safe by the kings highwaie except they ride strong not so much for feare of their goods which men estéeme lesse but also for danger of their life which euerie man loueth Worke is vndoone at home and loiterers linger in stréets lurke in alehouses range in highwaies valiant beggers plaie in towns and yet complaine of néed whose staffe if it be once hot in their hand or sluggishnesse bred in their bosome they will neuer be allured to labour againe contenting themselues better with idle beggerie than with honest and profitable labour And what more noisome beasts be there in a common wealth Drones in hiues sucke out the honie a small matter but yet to be looked on by good husbands Caterpillers destroie the fruit an hurtfull thing and well shifted for by a diligent ouerséer Diuerse vermine destroie corne kill pulleme engines and snares be made for them But what is a loiterer A sucker of honie a spoiler of corne a stroier of fruit a waster of monie a spoiler of vittels a sucker of bloud a breaker of orders a seeker of breakes a queller of life a basiliske of the commonwealth which by companie and sight dooth poison the whole countrie and staineth honest minds with the infection of his veneme and so draweth the commonwealth to death and destruction Such is the fruits of your labour and trauell for your pretensed commonwealth which iustice would no man should taste of but your selues that yée might trulie iudge of your owne mischéefe and fraie other by example from presuming the like When we sée a great number of flies in a yeare we naturallie iudge it like to be a great plague and hauing so great a swarming of loitering vagabonds readie to beg and brall at euerie mans doore which declare a greater infection can we not looke for a greeuouser and perillouser danger than the plague is Who can therefore otherwise déeme but this one deadlie
fell to secret consultation for redresse of things but namelie for the displacing of the lord protector And suddenlie vpon what occasion manie maruelled but few knew Euerie line 30 lord and councellor went through the citie weaponed and had their seruants likewise weaponed attending vpon them in new liueries to the great woondering of manie And at the last a great assemblie of the said councellors was made at the earle of Warwiks lodging which was then at Elie place in Holborne whither all the confederats in this matter came priuilie armed and finallie concluded to possesse the towre of London which by the policie of sir William Paulet lord treasuror of England line 40 was peaceablie obteined who by order of the said confederats immediatlie remooued sir Iohn Markam then lieutenant of the towre and placed in that roome sir Leonard Chamberleine And after that the said councell was broken vp at Elie place the earle of Warwike remooued foorthwith into the citie of London and laie in the house of one Iohn Yorke a citizen of London who was then chéefe maister of the mint kept at Suffolke place in Southworke The lord protector hearing of the maner of the assemblie line 50 of this councell and of the taking of the towre which séemed to him verie strange and doubtfull did presentlie the said night remooue froÌ Hampton court taking the king with him vnto the castell of Windsore and there began to fortifie the same and withall wrote a letter to that noble gentleman the lord Russell lord priuie seale remaining as yet in the west countrie aduertising him of these troubles as followeth A letter of the lord protectors âo the lord Russell lord priuie seale concerning troubles working against him AFter our right hartie commendations to your good lordship Here hath of late risen such a conspiracie against the kings maiestie vs as neuer hath béene séene the which they can not mainteine with such vaine letters and false tales surmised as was neuer ment nor intended on vs. They pretend and saie that we haue sold Bullongne to the French and that we doo withhold wages from the soldiers other such tales and letters they doo spread abroad of the which if anie one thing were true we would not wish to liue the matter now being brought to a maruellous extremitie such as we would neuer haue thought it could haue come vnto especiallie of those men towards the kings maiestie and vs of whome we haue deserued no such thing but rather much fauour and loue But the case being as it is this is to require praie you to hasten you hither to the defense of the kings maiestie in such force and power as you maie to shew the part of a true gentleman and of a verie friend the which thing we trust God shall reward and the kings maiestie in time to come and we shall neuer be vnmindfull of it too We are sure you shall haue other letters from them but as ye tender your dutie to the kings maiestie we require you to make no staie but immediatlie repaire with such force as ye haue to his highnesse in his castell of Windsor and cause the rest of such force as ye maie make to follow you And so we bid you right hartilie farewell From Hampton court the sixt of October Your lordships assured louing friend Edward Summerset An answer to the lord protectors letter TO this letter of the lord protectors sent the sixt of October the lord Russell returning answer againe vpon the eight of the said moneth first lamented the heauie dissention fallen betweene the nobilitie and him which he tooke for such a plague as a greater could not be sent of almightie God vpon this realme being the next waie said he to make vs of conquerors slaues and like to induce vpon the whole realme an vniuersall thraldome and calamitie vnlesse the mercifull goodnesse of the Lord doo helpe and some wise order be taken in staieng these great extremities And as touching the dukes request in his letters forsomuch as he had heard before of the broile of the lords and feared least some conspiracie had beene meant against the kings person he hasted forward with such companie as he could make for the suertie of the king as to him apperteined Now perceiuing by the lords letters sent vnto him the same sixt daie of October these tumults to rise vpon priuat causes betwéene him and them he therefore thought it expedient that a conuenient power should be leuied to be in a readinesse to withstand the woorst what perils soeuer might insue for the preseruation both of the king and state of the realme from inuasion of forren enimies and also for the staieng of bloudshed if anie such thing should be intended betwixt the parties in the heat of this faction And this he thinking best for the discharge of his allegiance humblie besought his grace to haue the same also in speciall regard and consideration first that the kings maiestie be put in no feare and that if there be anie such thing wherein he hath giuen iust cause to them thus to procéed he would so conforme himselfe as no such priuat quarrels doo redound to the publike disturbance of the realme certifieng moreouer the duke that if it were true which he vnderstood by the letters of the lords that he should send about proclamations and letters for raising vp of the commons he liked not the same Notwithstanding he trusted well that his wisedome would take such a waie as no effusion of bloud should follow And thus much being conteined in his former letters the eight of October in his next letters againe written the eleuenth of October the said lord Russell reioising to heare of the most reasonable offers of the lord protector made to the lords wrote vnto him and promised to doo what in the vttermost power of him and likewise of sir William Herbert ioined togither with him did lie to worke some honorable reconciliation betwéene him them so as his said offers being accepted and satisfied some good conclusion might insue according to their good hope and expectation signifieng moreouer that as touching the leuieng of men they had resolued to haue the same in readinesse for the benefit of the realme to occurre all inconueniences whatsoeuer that either by forren inuasion or otherwise might happen so hauing line 10 their power at hand to draw néere wherby they might haue the better oportunitie to be solicitors and meanes for this reformation on both parts c. And thus much for the answer of the lord Russell to the lord protectors letters But now to procéed and go forward with the matter of the lords who togither with the earle of Warwike vpon what occasion God knoweth were assembled at London as ye haue heard against line 20 the lord protector When the king with his councell at Hampton court heard therof first secretarie Peter with the kings
found at the taking of the same to the French king And for the sure paiment of the said sums the French king sent into England for hostages and pledges the counte de Anguien Lewes the duke of Uandosme his brother the Uidame of Charters and the duke de Aumale and others And on S. Markes daie next following being the fiue and twentith daie of Aprill about eight of the clocke in the morning line 10 the Englishmen did deliuer to the Frenchmen the possession of Bullongne and the castels and forts in the countie of Bullognois according to the agreements and articles of peace afore mentioned And the fiftéenth daie next following the French king entered into the said towne of Bullongne with trumpets blowne with all the roiall triumph that might be where he offered one great image of siluer of our ladie in the church there which was called our ladie church the which image he had caused speciallie to be made in the honor of the said ladie and caused the line 20 same to be set vp in the place where the like image before did stand the which before was taken awaie by the Englishmen at the winning of the towne ¶ On Candlemasse daie William lord S. Iohn earle of Wilshire lord great maister and president of the councell was made lord treasuror Iohn Dudleie earle of Warwike lord great chamberleine was made lord great maister William Parre marquesse of Northampton was made lord great chamberleine Lord Wentworth was made lord chamberleine line 30 of the household Sir Anthonie Wingfield capteine of the gard was made comptrollor of the kings house And sir Thomas Darcie knight was made vicechamberleine capteine of the gard And the earle of Arundell late lord chamberleine with the earle of Southampton were put off the councell and commanded to kéepe their houses in London ¶ On the 10 of Februarie one Bell a Suffolke man was hanged and quartered at Tiburne for moouing a new rebellion in Suffolke and Essex This time line 40 the lord maior of London and the aldermen purchased all the liberties of Southworke which were in the kings hands Soone after the aforesaid agreement betwéene England and France was concluded vpon the fore remembred capitulations bicause of suspicion of displeasure and hatred that was thought to remaine betwéene the earle of Warwike and the duke of Summerset latelie before deliuered out of the line 50 tower a meane was found that their fréendship should be renewed through aliance and a mariage was concluded betweene the earle of Warwikes eldest sonne and the duke of Summersets eldest daughter the which marriage was solemnized at Shene the king being then present After the solemnitie of this marriage there appeared outwardlie to the world great loue and fréendship betwéene the duke and the earle but by reason of carietales and flatterers the loue continued not long howbeit manie line 60 did verie earnestlie wish loue and amitie to continue betwéene them ¶ About this time was a new rebellion in Kent but it was soone suppressed and certeine of the chiefe were apprehended and put to death namelie Richard Lion Goddard Gorram and Richard Ireland This yeare was a parlement holden at Westminster where among other things by the authoritie of the said parlement priests children were made legitimate and vsurie for the loane of monie forbidden ¶ On wednesdaie in Whitsunweeke at a court of aldermen kept at the Guildhall sir Iohn Aliffe knight and maister of Blackwell hall was sworne alderman of the Bridge ward without to haue iurisdiction of the borough of Southworke and thus was he the first alderman that euer was there who made vp the number of six and twentie aldermen of London whereas befoâe that time had beene but fiue and twentie Trinitie tearme was adiourned till Michaelmasse for that the gentlemen should keepe the commons from commotion The eleuenth of Iune being S. Barnabies daie was kept holiedaie all London ouer and the same daie at night the high altar in Paules church was pulled downe and a table set where the altar stood with a veile drawne beneath the steps and on the sundaie next a communion was soong at the same table and shortlie after all the altars in London were taken downe and tables placed in their roomes This yeare was no such watch at Midsummer as had béene accustomed The thirtith of Iulie Thomas lord Wriothesleie erle of Southampton knight of the garter and one of the executors to king Henrie the eight deceassed at Lincolne place in Holborne and was buried in S. Andrewes church there Sir Andrew Iude for this yeare maior of London and skinner erected one notable fréeschoole at Tunbridge in Kent wherein he brought vp and nourished in learning great store of youth as well bred in that shire as brought from other countries adioining A noble act and correspondent to those that haue beene doone by like worshipfull men and other in old time within the same citie of London He also builded almesse houses for six poore almesse people nigh to the parish church of saint Helens within Bishopsgate of London gaue land to the companie of the skinners in the same citie amounting to the value of thréescore pounds thrée shillings eight pence the yeare for the which they be bound to paie twentie pounds to the schoolemaister and eight pounds to the vsher of his free schoole at Tunbridge yearelie for euer and foure shillings the wéeke to the six poore almesse people at S. Helens aforesaid eight pence the péece wéekelie and fiue and twentie shillings foure pence the yeare in coles amongst them for euer About this time there was at Feuersham in Kent a gentleman named Arden most cruellie murthered and slaine by the procurement of his owne wife The which murther for the horriblenesse thereof although otherwise it may séeme to be but a priuate matter and therefore as it were impertinent to this historie I haue thought good to set it foorth somewhat at large hauing the instructions deliuered to me by them that haue vsed some diligence to gather the true vnderstanding of the circumstances This Arden was a man of a tall and comelie personage and matched in marriage with a gentlewoman yoong tall and well fauoured of shape and countenance who chancing to fall in familiaritie with one Mosbie a tailor by occupation a blacke swart man seruant to the lord North it happened this Mosbie vpon some misliking to fall out with hir but she being desirous to be in fauour with him againe sent him a paire of siluer dice by one Adam Foule dwelling at the Floure de lice in Feuersham After which he resorted to hir againe and oftentimes laie in Ardens house in somuch that within two yeares after he obteined such fauour at hir hands that he laie with hir or as they terme it kept hir in abusing hir bodie And although as it was
said they ye shall haue them or we will throw them line 20 into the bottome of the sea But the capteins said foorthwith that they would serue quéene Marie willinglie and so brought foorth their men and conueied with them their great ordinance Of the comming of these ships the ladie Marie was woonderfull ioious afterward doubted little the dukes puissance but when newes thereof was brought to the tower each man there began to draw backward and ouer that word of a greater mischeefe was brought to the tower that is to saie that the noblemens tenants line 30 refused to serue their lords against quéene Marie The duke thought long for his succors and wrote somewhat sharplie to the councell at the tower in that behalfe as well for lacke of men as munition but a slender answer had he againe And from that time forward certeine of the councell to wit the erle of Penbroke and sir Thomas Cheineie lord warden and other sought to get out of the tower to consult in London but could not On the sixtéenth of Iulie being sundaie doctor Ridleie bishop of London line 40 by commandement of the councell preached at Paules crosse where he vehementlie persuaded the people in the title of the ladie Iane late proclamed quéene and inueied earnestlie against the title of ladie Marie c. The same sixteenth of Iulie the lord treasuror was gone out of the tower to his house in London at night and foorthwith about seauen of the clocke the gates of the tower vpon a sudden were shut vp and the keies borne vp to the ladie Iane which was for feare of some packing in the lord treasuror line 50 but he was fetched againe to the tower about twelue of the clocke in the night The lords of the councell being in this meane while at London after they vnderstood how the better part of the realme were inclined and hearing euerie daie newes of great assemblies began to suspect the sequell of this enterprise So that prouiding for their owne suertie without respect of the duke who now was at Burie they fell to a new councell and lastlie by assent made proclamation at London in the name of the ladie Marie by the name of Marie quéene of England France Ireland defender of the faith of the churches of England Ireland supreme head Of which proclamation after the duke of Northumberland being then at Burie was aduertised by letters of discomfort from the councell he incontinentlie according to the new order receiued from them returned with his power againe to Cambridge Now so sudden change of minds foorthwith appeared in his armie that they which before séemed most forward in that quarrell began first to flie from him so euerie man shifting for himselfe he that late before was furnished of such multitude of souldiers was suddenlie forsaken of all sauing a few whose perils were ioined with his But now before I proceed anie further in the historie of quéene Marie who was now receiued and proclamed quéene as then to succeed hir brother I will speake somewhat of the learned men that wrote published anie pamphlets or treatises in his daies as in deed there were manie but for that the more part of them died in quéene Maries time or in the quéenes maiesties time that now is or else are yet liuing I doo omit those here meaning to speake of them hereafter if God shall permit as occasion maie serue For the residue that ended their liues in this kings daies these I find Dauid Clapham a lawyer and well séene in the Latine toong wrote sundrie treatises Robert Talbot a prebendarie of Norwich verie skilfull in antiquities Edward Hall a counsellor in the common law but excellentlie séene in histories wrote a notable chronicle of the vnion of the two houses of Yorke Lancaster Furthermore Richard Tracie of Todington in Glocestershire an esquier and verie well learned sonne to William Tracie doctor Ioseph an excellent preacher George Ioie a Bedfordshire man that wrote diuerse treatises concerning diuinitie and died either in the last yeare of king Edward or in the beginning of quéene Maries reigne as appeareth by master Bale Alexander Barkleie a Scot a notable poet and a good rhetorician departed this life in the yeare one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and two William Hugh a Yorkeshireman wrote besides other things a notable treatise called the troubled mans medicine he deceassed by the bursting of a veine in the yeare one thousand fiue hundred fortie and nine Thomas Sternehold borne in South-hampton turned into English méeter seuen thirtie psalmes chosen foorth of Dauids psalter Of strangers that liued and died here in this kings daies excellentlie learned and renowmed for such treatises as they published to the world Martine Bucer and Paulus Fagius are most famous To end now with this part of the booke concerning king Edward I haue thought good to set downe Ierom Cardans verses written as an epitaph of him and recorded by master Fox in his historie as here followeth Flete nefas magnum sed toto flebilis orbe Mortales vester corruit omnis honor Nam regum decus iuuenum flos spésque bonorum Deliciae secli gloria gentis erat Dignus Apollineis lachrymis doctaeque Minerua Flosculus heu miserè concidit ante diem Te cumulo dabimus musa supremáque flentes Munera Melpomene tristia fata canet Thus farre the good and vertuous yoong prince Edward the sixt successor to Henrie the eight of most famous memorie Marie the eldest daughter of king Henrie the eight successor to Edward the sixt MArie eldest daughter of K. Henrie the eight by the ladie Katharine of Spaine his first wife and sister vnto king Edward the sixt by the fathers side began hir reigne the sixt daie of Iulie which daie the king hir brother died and she was proclamed at London as is before remembred in the end of the historie of king Edward the sixt the nineteenth line 30 daie of the same moneth year 1553 in the yeare of our Lord 1553 after the creation of the world 5520 in the fiue and thirtith yeare of Charles the fift emperor of Almaine in the seuenth yéere of Henrie the second of that name K. of France in the eleuenth of Marie quéene of Scotland The twentith of Iulie the duke of Northumberland being come backe to Cambridge heard that the proclamation of queene Marie was come thither whereof he being aduertised called for a trumpetter and an herald but none line 40 could be found Whervpon he riding into the market place with the maior and the lord marques of Northampton made the proclamation himselfe and threw vp his cap in token of ioy ¶ Within an houre after he had letters from the councell as he said that he should forthwith dismisse his armie and not come within ten miles of London for if he did they would fight with him the rumor whereof was no sooner
great commodities that might insue thereof that they not onlie thought it very honorable but expedient both for the wealth of our realme and also of all our louing subiects And as touching my selfe I assure you I am not so desirous of wedding neither so precise or wedded to my will that either for mine owne pleasure I will choose where I lust or else so amorous as néeds I must haue one For God I thanke him to whome be the praise thereof I haue hitherto liued a virgine and doubting nothing but with Gods grace shall as well be able so to liue still But if as my progenitors haue done before it might please God that I might leaue some fruit of my bodie behind me to be your gouernour I trust you would not onelie reioise thereat but also I know it would be to your great comfort And certeinlie if I either did know or thinke that this marriage should either turnâ to the danger or losse of anie of you my louing subiects or to the detriment or impairing of anie part or parcell of the roiall estate of this realme of England I would neuer consent therevnto neither would I euer marrie while I liued And in the word of a quéene I promise and assure you that if it shall not probablie appéere before line 10 the nobilitie and commons in the high court of parlement that this marriage shall be for the singular benefit and commoditie of all the whole realme that then I will absteine not onelie from this marriage but also from anie other whereof perill maie insue to this most noble realme Wherefore now as good faithfull subiects plucke vp your harts and like truâ men stand fast with your lawfull prince against these rebelles both our enimies and yours and feare them not for assure you that I feare them nothing line 20 at all I will leaue with you my lord Howard and my lord treasuror to be your assistants with my lord maior for the defense and safegard of this citie from spoile and saccage which is onelie the scope of this rebellious companie After this oration ended the citizens séeming well satisfied therewith the queene with the lords of the councell returned to White hall from whence she came and foorthwith the lord William Howard line 30 was associate with the lord maior of London whose name was sir Thomas White for the protection and defense of the citie And for more suertie as well of hir owne person as also of hir councellors and other subiects she prepared a great armie to méet with the said rebelles in the field of which armie William Herbert earle of Penbroke was made generall which earle with all spéed requisite in such a case prepared all things necessarie to such a seruice belonging The same daie sir Thomas Wiat hauing with line 40 him foureteene ensignes conteining about foure thousand men although they were accounted to be a farre greater number marched to Detford strand eight miles from Detford and within foure miles of London where vpon such aduertisement as he receiued by spiall of the quéens being in the Guild-hall the order of the people to hir wards he remained that night the next whole daie diuerse of his owne companie doubting by his longer tarrieng there than in other places and vpon other presumptions which they gathered that he would haue passed line 50 the water into Essex His prisoners Christopher Roper George Dorrell and Iohn Tucke esquiers who were kept somewhat strict for that they seemed sicklie and finding within the towne no conuenient harborough or attendance were licenced by sir Thomas Wiat vpon promise of their worships to be true prisoners to prouide for themselues out from the towne where they best might But they breaking promise with him line 60 sought waies to escape and come no more at him On saturdaie following verie earlie Wiat marched to Southworke where approching the gate at London bridge foot he called to them within to haue it opened which he found not so readie as he looked for After he had beene a little while in Southworke and began to trench at the bridge foot and set two peeces of ordinance against the gate diuerse of his soldiors went to Winchester place where one of them being a gentleman began to fall to rifling of things found in the house Wherewith sir Thomas Wiat seemed so much offended that he threatned sore to hang him euen presentlie there vpon the wharfe and so as he made others to beleeue he meant to haue doone if capteine Bret and others had not intreated for him The lord William Howard lord admerall of England being appointed by the queens commission capteine generall with the lord maior sir Thomas White watched at the bridge that night with three hundred men caused the draw bridge to be hewen downe into the Thames made rampiers and fortifications there fensing the same with great ordinance Wiat yet aduentured the breaking downe of a wall out of an house ioining to the gate at the bridge foot whereby he might enter into the leads ouer the gate came downe into the lodge about eleuen of the clocke in the night where he found the porter in a slumber and his wife with other waking and watching ouer a cole but beholding Wiat they began suddenlie to start as greatlie amazed Whist quoth Wiat as you loue your liues sit still you shall haue no hurt Glad were they of that warrant and so were quiet and made no noise Wiat and a few with him went foorth as farre as the draw bridge on the other side whereof he saw the lord admerall the lord maior sir Andrew Iud and one or two others in consultation for ordering of the bridge wherevnto he gaue diligent heed and eare a good while and was not séene This doone he returned and said to some of his companie This place sirs is too hot for vs. And herevpon falling in counsell what was best to doo some gaue aduise that it should be good to returne to Gréenewich and so to passe the water into Essex whereby their companie as they thought should increase and then assaie to enter into London by Aldgate and some were of opinion that it were better to go to Kingston vpon Thames and so further west Other there were among which sir Thomas Wiat himselfe was chiefe would haue returned into Kent to méet with the lord of Aburgauenie the lord Warden the shiriffe sir Thomas Moile sir Thomas Kempe sir Thomas Finch and others that were at Rochester comming on Wiats backe with a great companie well appointed persuading himselfe whether truelie or not I know not that he should find among them more friends than enimies But whether his desire to returne into Kent grew vpon hope he had to find aid there or rather to shift himselfe awaie it was doubted of his owne companie and some of them that knew him well except they were much deceiued reported not
did see Iohn Fitzwilliams here euen now who can testifie that he neuer shewed me of any displesure betwixt them and as I know nothing of the displeasure betwixt them so I know nothing of the cause I pray you my lords let him be called to depose in this matter what he can Then Iohn Fitzwilliams drew to the barre and presented himselfe to depose his knowledge in the matter in open court I praie you my lords suffer him not to be sworne neither to speake we haue nothing to doo with him Why should he not be suffered to tell truth And why be ye not so well contented to heare truth for me line 10 as vntruth against me Who called you hither Fitzwilliams or commanded you to speake You are a verie busie officer I called him and doo humblie desire that he maie speake and be heard as well as Uaughan or else I am not indifferentlie vsed especiallie séeing maister attourneie dooth so presse this matter against me Go your waies Fitzwilliams the court hath nothing to doo with you peraduenture you would not be so readie in a good cause Then Iohn Fitzwilliams line 20 departed the court and was not suffered to speake Sithence this gentlemans declaration may not be be admitted I trust you of the iurie can perceiue it was not for anie thing he had to saie against me but contrariwise that it was feared he would speake for me And now to maister Arnolds depositions against me I saie I did not tell him anie such words so as if it were materiall there is but his yea and my naie But bicause the words be not sore strained against line 30 me I praie you maister atturneie why might not I haue told maister Arnold that Iohn Fitzwilliams was angrie with William Thomas and yet know no cause of the anger It might be vnderstand to disagrée oftentimes Who dooth confesse that I know anie thing of William Thomas deuise touching the quéenes death I will answer No man For maister Arnold dooth mention no word of that matter but of the displeasures betwixt them And to speake that dooth neither proue treason nor knowledge line 40 of treason Is here all the euidence against me that you haue to bring me within the compasse of the indictment Me thinke the matters confessed by others against you togither with your owne confession will weie shrewdlie But how saie you to the rising in Kent and to Wiats attempt against the quéens roiall person at hir palace Why doo you not read Wiats accusation to him which dooth make him partener to his treasons line 50 Wiat hath gréeuouslie accused you and in manie things that others haue confirmed Whatsoeuer Wiat hath said of me in hope of his life he vnsaid it at his death For since I came into this hall I heard one saie but I know him not that Wiat vpon the scaffold did not onelie purge my ladie Elizabeth hir grace and the erle of Deuonshire but also all the gentlemen in the tower saieng they were all ignorant of the sturre and commotion In which number I take my selfe line 60 Notwithstanding he said all that he had written and confessed to the councell was true Naie sir by your patience maister Wiat said not so that was maister doctors addition It appeareth you haue had good intelligence Almightie God prouided that reuelation for me this daie since I came hither for I haue bin in close prison these eight and fiftie daies where I heard nothing but what the birds told me which did flie ouer my head And now to you of my iurie I speake speciallie whome I desire to marke attentiuelie what shall be said I haue béene indicted as it appeareth and now am arreigned of compassing the queenes maiesties death of leuieng war against the quéene of taking the tower of London of deposing and depriuing the quéene of hir roiall estate and finallie to destroie hir and of adherence to the quéenes enimies Of all which treasons to proue me guiltie the quéens learned councell hath giuen in euidence these points materiall that is to saie for the compassing or imagining the quéenes death and the destruction of hir roiall person sir Nicholas Arnolds depositions which is that I should saie to the said sir Nicholas in Glocestershire that maister Iohn Fitzwilliams was angrie with William Thomas Wherevnto I haue answered as you haue heard both denieng the matter and for the proofe on my side doo take exceptions because there is no witnesse but one And neuerthelesse though it were granted the depositions proue nothing concerning the quéenes death For leuieng of warre against the quéene there is alleged my conference with sir Thomas Wiat sir Iames Crofts sir Edward Rogers sir Edward Warner Against the mariage with Spaine and the comming of the Spaniards hither which talke I doo not denie in sort as I spake it and ment it and notwithstanding the malicious gathering this daie of my conference proueth yet no leuieng of warre There is also alleged for proofe of the same article sir Iames Crofts confession which as you remember implieth no such thing but generall talke against the mariage with Spaine And of my departing westward with the earle of Deuon which the said Iames dooth not auow therefore I praie you consider it as not spoken There is also for proofe of the said article the duke of Suffolks confession with whome I neuer had conference and therefore he auouched the tale of his brothers mouth who hath made my purgation in those matters and yet if the matter were proued they be not greatlie materiall in law There is also alleged for the further proofe of the same article and for deposing and depriuing the quéene of hir roiall estate and for my adhering to the quéenes enimies Cutbert Uaughans confession whose testimonie I haue sufficientlie disprooued by sundrie authorities and circumstances and principallie by your owne law which dooth require two lawfull and sufficient witnesses to be brought face to face Also for the taking of the tower of London there is alleged Winters depositions which vttereth my misliking when he vttered vnto me sir Thomas Wiats resolution and deuise for attempting of the said péece And last of all to inforce these matters mine owne confession is ingréeued against me wherein there dooth appeare neither treason neither concelement of treason neither whispering of treason nor procurement of treason And forsomuch as I am come hither to be tried by the law though my innocencie of all these points materiall obiected be apparant to acquit me whereto I doo principallie cleaue yet I will for your better credit and satisfactions shew you euidentlie that if you would beléeue all the depositions laid against me which I trust you will not doo I ought not to be attainted of the treason comprised within my indictment considering the statute of repeale the last parlement of all treasons other than
the prisoner The iurie did as they were inioined How saie you is maister Throckmorton knight there prisoner at the bar giltie of the treasons wherof he hath bene indicted and arreigned in maner and forme yea or no No. How saie you did he flie vpon them No we find no such thing I had forgotten to answer that question before but you haue found according to truth and for the better warrantie of your dooings vnderstand that I came to London and so to the quéenes councell vnbrought when I vnderstood they demanded for me yet I was almost an hundred miles hence where if I had not presumed vpon my truth I could haue withdrawne my selfe from catching How saie you the rest of you is Whetstons verdict all your verdicts The whole inquest answered Yea. Remember your selues better haue you considered substantially the whole euidence in sort as it was declared recited the matter dooth touch the quéenes highnesse and your selues also take good héed what you doo My lord we haue throughlie considered the euidence laid against the prisoner and his answers to all these matters and accordinglie we haue found him not giltie agréeable to all our consciences If you haue doone well it is the better for you It is better to be tried than to liue suspected Blessed be the Lord God of Israell for he hath visited and redéemed his people and hath raised vp a mightie saluation for vs in the house of his seruant Dauid And it may please you my lord cheefe iustice forsomuch as I haue bene indicted and arreigned of sundrie treasons and haue according to the law put my triall to God and my countrie that is to saie to these honest men which haue found me not giltie I humblie beseech you to giue me such benefit acquitall and iudgement as the law in this case dooth appoint ¶ When the prisoner had said these words the commissioners consulted togither Maie it please you my lord chéefe iustice to pronounce sentence for my discharge Whereas you doo aske the benefit that the law in such case dooth appoint I will giue it you to wit that where you haue béene indicted of sundrie high treasons haue béene héere this daie before the queenes commissioners and iustices arreigned of the said treasons where vnto you haue pleaded not giltie and haue for triall therein put your selfe on God your countrie and they haue found you not giltie the court dooth award that you be cléerlie discharged paieng your fees Notwithstanding master lieutenant take him with you againe for there are other matters to charge him withall It maie please you my lords masters of the Q. highnesse priuie councell to be on my behalfe humble sutors to hir maiestie that like as the law this daie God be praised hath purged me of the treasons wherewith I was most dangerouslie charged so it might please hir excellent maiestie to purge me in hir priuat iudgement and both forgiue forget my ouerrash line 10 boldnesse that I vsed in talke of hir highnes marriage with the prince of Spaine matters too far aboue my capacitie and I verie vnable to consider the grauitie thereof a matter impertinent for me a priuat person to talke of which did apperteine to hir highnesse priuie councell to haue in deliberation And if it shall please hir highnesse of hir bountifull liberalitie to remit my former ouersights I shall thinke my selfe happie for triall of the danger that I haue this daie escaped and maie thereby admonish line 20 me to eschue things aboue my reach and also to instruct me to deale with matters agréeable to my vocation And God saue the quéens maiestie and grant the same long to reigne ouer vs. And the same Lord be praised for you the magistrats before whome I haue had my triall this daie indifferentlie by the law and you haue procéeded with me accordinglie the grace of God be amongst you now and euer ¶ There was no answer made by anie of the bench to the prisoners sute but the atturnie did speake these line 30 words And it please you my lords forsomuch as it séemeth these men of the iurie which haue strangelie acquited the prisoner of his tresons wherof he was indicted will foorthwith depart the court I praie you for the quéene that they and euerie of them maie bée bound in a recognisance of fiue hundred pounds a péece to answer to such matters as they shall bée charged with in the quéenes behalfe whensoeuer they shall be charged or called line 40 I praie you my lords be good to vs and let vs not be molested for discharging our consciences trulie We be poore merchantmen and haue great charge vpon our hands our liuings doo depend vpon our trauels therefore it maie please you to appoint vs a certeine day for our appearance for perhaps some of vs maie be in forren parties about our businesse ¶ Thus much for sir Nicholas Throckmortons arreignement wherein is to be considered that the repealing of certeine statutes in the last parlement line 50 was the chiefe matter he had to alledge for his aduantage whereas the repealing of the same statutes was meant notwithstanding for an other purpose as before you haue partlie heard which statutes or the effect of the chiefe branches of them haue béene since that time againe reuiued as by the bookes of the statutes it maie better appeare to the which I referre the reader The eight and twentith of Aprill the lord Thomas Greie brother to the duke of Suffolke was beheaded at the tower hill a proper gentleman and one that had serued right valiantlie both in line 60 France and Scotland in the daies of the late kings Henrie and Edward Upon saturdaie the eight and twentith of Aprill sir Iames Crofts and maister William Winter were brought from the tower to the Guildhall in London where sir Iames Crofts was arreigned but bicause the daie was farre spent maister Winter was not arreigned but caried backe againe to the tower with the said sir Iames Crofts William Thomas of whome mention is made before in the historie of sir Thomas Wiat with certeine other were arreigned and condemned for the conspiring of the murther and killing of the quéene vpon the sudden and for that offense the said William Thomas was the eightéenth daie of Maie drawne hanged and quartered at Tiburne The ninetéenth daie of Maie next following the ladie Elisabeth sister to quéene Marie was deliuered out of the tower and committed to the custodie of sir Iohn Williams knight afterward lord Williams of Tame by whome hir grace was more courteouslie intreated than some would haue wished Wherefore shortlie after she was committed to the manour of Woodstocke vnder the custodie of sir Henrie Beningfield of Oxenborough in the countie of Norffolke knight at whose hands she found not the like
London towards Rome as ambassadors sent from the king and quéene to confirme this new reconciliation to the pope A yoong stripling whose name was William Fetherstone a millers sonne about the age of eightéene yeares named and bruted himselfe to be king Edward the sixt whereof when the quéene and the councell heard they caused with all diligence inquirie to be made for him so that he was apprehended in Southworke or as other haue at Eltham in Kent the tenth of Maie line 50 and brought before the councell at Hampton court and there examined And it was demanded of him why he so named himselfe To which he counterfetting a maner of simplicitie or rather frensie would make no direct answer but praid pardon for he wist not what he said affirming further that he was counselled so to saie and to take vpon him the name whereof he accused certeine persons but his talke was not found true wherefore he was committed to the Marshalseie as a lunatike foole line 60 On the eight and twentith daie of Maie next following the aforesaid counterfet prince was brought in a cart from the Marshalseie thorough the citie of London with a paper ouer his head wherein was written that he named himselfe king Edward And from thense was conueied to Westminster being led round about the hall and shewed to all the people there and afterward he was taken out of the cart and stripped and then whipped round about the palace at the same carts taile and then thorough Westminster into Smithfield and then banished into the north in which countrie he was borne and had béene sometime lackie to sir Peter Mewtas and without more punishment was discharged and set at libertie But the next yeare following for that he had spred abroad that king Edward was aliue and that he had spoken with him he was againe apprehended and arreigned of high treason whereof being condemned he shortlie after was drawne vnto Tiburne and there hanged and quartered the thirtéenth of March ¶ Here as in a fit and conuenient place the obseruation of the daie and moneth offering no lesse it is not amisse to set downe the speech of quéene Marie vttered to sundrie of hir lords touching a motion which no doubt certeine popish prelats had put into hir mind the effect whereof followeth as I find it in master Fox Before I passe this moneth of March saith he I cannot but leaue a little memorandum of the words or consultation of quéene Marie vsed to certeine of the councell the eight twentith daie of the said moneth of March touching the restoring againe of the abbeie lands Who after she had called vnto hir presence foure of hir priuie councell the daie and moneth aforesaid the names of which councellors were these William lord marquesse of Winchester high treasuror of England sir Robert Rochester knight the queenes comptrollor sir William Peter knight secretarie sir Francis Inglefield knight master of wards the said queene Marie inferred these words the principall effect summe whereof here followeth You are here of our councell and we haue willed you to be called to vs to the intent yee might heare of me my conscience and the resolution of my mind concerning the lands and possessions as well of monasteries as other churches whatsoeuer being now presentlie in my possession First I doo consider that the said lands were taken awaie from the churches aforesaid in time of schisme and that by vnlawfull means such as are contrarie both to the law of God and of the church For the which cause my conscience dooth not suffer me to deteine them and therefore I here expresselie refuse either to claime or to reteine the said lands for mine but with all my heart fréelie and willinglie without all paction or condition here and before God I doo surrender and relinquish the said lands and possessions or inheritances whatsoeuer doo renounce the same with this mind and purpose that order and disposition thereof may be taken as shall séeme best liking to our most holie lord the pope or else his legat the lord cardinall to the honour of God and wealth of this our realme And albeit you may obiect to me againe that considering the state of my kingdome the dignitie thereof and my crowne imperiall cannot be honorablie mainteined and furnished without the possessions aforesaid yet notwithstanding I set more by the saluation of my soule than by ten kingdoms and therefore the said possessions I vtterlie refuse here to hold after that sort and title and giue most hartie thanks to almightie God which hath giuen me an husband likewise minded with no lesse good affection in this behalfe than I am my selfe Wherefore I charge and command that my chancellor with whom I haue conferred my mind in this matter before and you foure to morrow together doo resort to the most reuerend lord legat and doo signifie to him the premisses in my name giue your attendance vpon him for the more full declaration of the state of my kingdome and of the foresaid possessions accordinglie as you your selues doo vnderstand the matter and can informe him in the same This charge as the sequele gaue proofe was followed with no lesse diligence of the lords than it was imposed with willingnes vpon them by the quéene insomuch that shortlie after as anon you shall heare the performed hir promise to âhe pith But to leâ this matter passe till due time place require a declaration of the conclusion thereof I am héere saith master Fox as occasion serueth to intreat of pope Iulius death for so much as he made his end about the latter end of this foresaid moneth of March. Concerning the déeds and acts of which pope to make a full declaration it were not so much tedious to the reader as horrible to all good eares Under this Iulius florished the archbishop of Beneuentanus a Florentine named Iohannes a Casa deane of the popes chamber and chéefe legat to the line 10 Uenetians who well declaring the fruit of that filthie see so farre forgat both honestie and nature that he shamed not onelie to plaie the filthie Sodomite himselfe and to boast openlie of the same but also tooke vpon him most impudentlie in Italian metre to all mens eares to set foorth the praise and commendation of that beastlie iniquitie saieng that he himselfe neuer vsed other and this booke was printed at Uenice by one Troianus Nauus And yet the pope could suffer this so great iniquitie and shamelesse line 20 beastlinesse euen vnder his nose in his owne chamber which could not abide the true doctrine of Christ in christian bookes Amongst other pranks and déeds of this foresaid pope in his Iubilée and in the synod of Trent and in confirming of the idoll of Lauretane this is also reported of him in his life that he delighted greatlie in porke flesh and peacocks Upon a time when he
riding in veluet coates and chaines of gold who bare all his costs and charges from the time of his entrie into England out of Scotland for thither by tempest of weather he was driuen and there forced to land ¶ The lord Montacute with the quéens pensioners met him at Islington townes end and at Smithfield barres the lord maior and aldermen in scarlet receiued him and conueied him through the citie vnto maister Dimmocks house in Fanchurch street where he lodged vntill the twelfe of Maie all which time he wanted no resort And after his message and ambassage doone to the quéene he departed againe with thrée faire ships from Grauesend into his countrie when he had remained here by the space of two moneths and more Also about this time the lord Sturton for a verie shamefull and wretched murther committed by him vpon two gentlemen the father and the son of the surnames of Hargill being his neere neighbors whom he caused to be smitten downe with clubs then their throtes to be cut and after to be buried in his owne house fiftéene foot deepe for the which heinous offense he was apprehended and committed to the tower of London And although the quéene séemed to fauour him much as one professing the catholike religion yet when she vnderstood the truth of his vile line 10 déed she abhorred him commanded that he should be vsed according to iustice wherefore shortlie after he was brought to Westminster there arreigned found guiltie had iudgement as a murtherer to be hanged And for the same fact were likewise condemned foure of his seruants And the second daie of March next following the said lord with his foure seruants were conueied by the queens gard from the tower of London through the citie he hauing line 20 his armes pinioned at his backe his legs bound vnder the horsse bellie and so caried to Salisburie where the sixt daie of March next he was hanged in the market place and his foure seruants were hanged in the countrie neere vnto the place where the murther was committed ¶ This yeare before haruest wheat was sold for foure marks the quarter malt at foure fortie shillings the quarter beans rie at fortie shillings the quarter pease at six and fortie shillings and eight line 30 pence but after haruest wheat was sold for fiue shillings the quarter malt at six shillings eight pence rie at thrée shillings foure pence So that the penie wheat loafe that weied in London the last yéere but eleuen ounces Troie weied now six and fiftie ounces Troie In the countrie wheat was sold for foure shillings the quarter malt at foure shillings eight pence and in some places a bushell of rie for a pound of candles which was foure pence The seauenth of September at seauen of the clocke at night in a line 40 blacke rainie cloud in the west was séene a rainbow the moone in the east risen one houre before and faire shining and at the full the daie before This present moneth of March king Philip who a long season had béene in Flanders to take possession gouernment of the low countries as is aforsaid did now returne into England and passed through London being accompanied with the quéene and diuerse nobles of the realme The foure and twentith of Aprill Thomas Stafford line 50 second sonne to the lord Stafford with other to the number of two and thirtie persons comming forth of France by sea arriued at Scarborough in Yorkeshire where they tooke the castell and held the same two daies and then were taken without effusion of bloud by the earle of Westmerland The said Stafford and Richard Sanders otherwise called capteine Sanders with three or foure others of the which one was a Frenchman were sent vp to London there committed to prison in the tower line 60 The said Stafford and foure others were arreigned and condemned Wherevpon the eight and twentith of Maie being fridaie the said Stafford was beheaded on the tower hill and on the morrow thrée of his companie as Strellie Bradford and Proctor were drawen from the tower to Tiborne and there executed Their heads were set ouer the bridge and their quarters ouer the gates about the same citie Capteine Sanders had his pardon and so escaped The first of Maie Thomas Persie was made knight and after lord and on the next daie he was created earle of Northumberland The queene gaue vnto him all the lands which had béene his ancestors remaining at that time in hir hands In this season although the French king as was said was verie loth to hâue warres with England yet the quéene tangling hir selfe contrarie to promise in hir husbands quarrell sent a defiance to the French king by Clarenceaux king of armes who comming to the citie of Remes where the said king then laie declared the same vnto him the seuenth of Iune being the mondaie in Whitsunwéeke On the which daie Garter and Norreie king of armes accompanied with other heralds and also with the lord maior and certeine of the aldermen of the citie of London by sound of three trumpets that rode before them proclamed open war against the said French king first in Cheape side and after in other parts of the citie where customarilie such proclamations are made the shiriffes still riding with the heralds till they had made an end although the lord maior brake off in Cheape side and went to saint Peters to heare seruice and after to Paules where according to the vsage then he went on procession King Philip bicause of the warres towards betwixt him and the French king the sixt of Iulie passed ouer to Calis and so into Flanders where on that side the seas he made prouision for those warres at which time there was great talke among the common people muttering that the king making small account of the quéene sought occasions to be absent from hir Neuerthelesse she shortlie after caused an armie of a thousand horssemen and foure thousand footmen with two thousand pioners to be transported ouer to his aid vnder the leading of diuerse of the nobilitie and other valiant capteins whose names partlie follow the earle of Penbroke capteine generall sir Anthonie Browne vicount Montacute lieutenant generall vnder the said earle the lord Greie of Wilton lord marshall the earle of Rutland generall of the horssemen the lord Clinton earle of Lincolne coronell of the footmen the lord Russell earle of Bedford the lord Robert Dudleie earle of Leicester and maister of the ordinance the lord Thomas Howard sir William West lord de la Ware sir Edward Windsore after lord Windsore the lord Braie sir Edmund Briges lord Shandois the lord Ambrose Dudleie earle of Warwike the lord Henrie Dudleie Edward Randall esquier sergeant maior maister Whiteman treasuror of the armie Edward Chamberleine esquier capteine of the pioners sir Richard Leigh trenchmaster Iohn Higate esquier prouost marshall Thomas
Reingraue after he had laine about it eight daies with two thousand horssemen and footmen It was now yéelded by composition after it had béene kept by the space of thirtie eight daies that those within should depart with bag and baggage the gallie being sent from Newhauen to fetch them awaie There were no more within it at that time when it was thus deliuered but capteine Iohn Ward capteine Edward Dudleie and capteine Saule his lieutenant Rileie with seuentie English souldiers thirtie French The 19 of Ianuarie there landed at Newhauen capteine Tremaine with 50 horssemen verie well appointed to serue the quéenes maiestie there The foure and twentith of Ianuarie Francis Clerke Frenchman arriued at Newhauen with two tall ships of his owne right well appointed for the wars bringing with him thrée rich prises valued at about fiftie thousand crownes one of them was a line 10 mightie great hulke laden with wood allume The 26 of Ianuarie capteine Tremaine with all his horssemen capteine Clerke with his Scotish horsmen and 600 footmen went foorth of Newhauen towards Mondeuille by the waie in a little village there was a French capteine came foorth of Mondeuille named monsieur Emerie hauing with him thirtie souldiers where falling in hand to spoile the same village the pezzants about gathered themselues line 20 togither and set vpon him and his souldiers Now whilest they were thus in fight the Scotish horssemen came suddenlie vpon them tooke the said capteine sore wounded slue twelue of his soldiers tooke foureteene other of them prisoners whome with their capteine wounded as he was they brought home the same night vnto Newhauen The three and twentith of Ianuarie a proclamation was made for orders to be obserued by the souldiers and other resiants within the towne of Newhauen line 30 concerning politike gouernement thereof as well for the better defense against the enimies without as the quiet demeanor of the men of warre and inhabitants within The fift of Februarie two ships of Britons laden with Gascoigne wines butter bakon lard salt and other vittels were brought into Newhauen by a shallop of Killebeuf that was resiant with other Frenchmen in Newhauen seruing against the papists and had taken those two vessels as they were going to vittell the enimies line 40 The sixt of Februarie thrée faire mightie ships of warre belonging to Francis Clerke brought into Newhauen thrée rich prises laden with sackes bastards sugar orenges graines and other merchandizes This Clerke had not béene foorth past six weeks at this time and yet he had got aboue eightéene prises well worth by iust valuation the summe of fiftie thousand pounds On saturdaie the sixt of Februarie a souldier of capteine Appleyards band was executed in the market place for that contrarie to order line 50 taken and published afore that time by proclamation he had not onelie drawen his weapon against another souldier but also maimed him and plaied other lewd parts in contempt of the lord lieutenants commandements There was another also condemned to die and two others adiudged to lose their hands but the lord lieutenant of his mercifull clemencie granted to those thrée his pardon for their passed offenses On sundaie the seuenth of Februarie was Hunflue summoned by an herald line 60 sent from the French admerall monsieur de Chatillon On mondaie the eight of that moneth the said admerall came before Hunflue with six thousand horssemen Reisters and other of his owne retinues beside footmen and a thousand horssmen of the countries thereabout And about six of the clocke at night there was a great peale of ordinance shot off at Newhauen for a welcome to the said admerall The twelfe of Februarie the French gallies of Newhauen passing foorth and wasting about Hunflue to séeke aduentures in hope of suertie by reason the lord admerall of France laie therby at Touque rode at an anchor whilest some of them that were aboord in hir went on land to gaine somwhat of the enimies But they within Hunflue perceiuing this made out their great gallies with fiftie good mariners and souldiers who comming vpon the gallies of Newhauen lieng at anchor put hir in great danger of taking For there were but fifteene men left aboord in hir at that present wherof thrée of them were Englishmen who perceiuing in what danger they stood waied anchor with all spéed and drew towards the shore to take in the rest of their companie and getting them aboord vnto them they manfullie stood to their defense being in all but foure and twentie men Neuerthelesse they so behaued themselues that continuing in fight aboue a long houre at length they ouercame their enimies slue seuen of them outright wounded seuen and thirtie tooke their gallie and brought hir to Newhauen with thirtéene bels diuerse copes and church ornaments shéepe and other spoiles which they had got abroad in the countrie togither with thrée and fortie good prisoners and the artillerie which was found aboord in the foresaid great gallie wherewith she was verie well appointed and furnished Of the French protestants there were but thrée slaine and six hurt and one of the thrée Englishmen was also hurt As it hath béene crediblie reported the French protestants might thanke those thrée Englishmen that were with them in their gallies for that their good hap for if they had not manfullie stood to it at the first and bestowed such artillerie as they had aboord with them freshlie against the enimies the French had yeelded But by Gods good helpe and their worthie courage the victorie remained on their side The fouretéenth of Februarie there came from the lord admerall of France lieng then at Touque monsieur de Rohen and monsieur de Grandemont a knight of the order monsieur Telegnie the admerals sonne in law and diuerse other French gentlemen to confer with the lord lieutenant who receiued them right gladlie and made them great cheere They remained in Newhauen till the eightéenth of Februarie and then departed and went to Caen whither the said lord admerall was remooued had entred the towne laie within it preparing with all spéed to besiege the castell The same daie that the French lords departed from Newhauen towards Caen monsieur Briquemault and sir Nicholas Throckmorton knight arriued at Newhauen in one of the quéenes ships called the Aid The admerall Chatillon being got into the towne of Caen kept the castell besieged within the which was inclosed the marquesse Dalbeuf There were sent to him from Newhauen the fiue twentith of Februarie seuen canons two demie culuerings one minion On the morrow following being fridaie and six and twentith of Februarie sir Nicholas Throckmorton knight monsieur Briquemault and monsieur Beauuois with a thousand souldiers French and as manie English to wit capteine Zouch capteine Twedie capteine Higate ech of them with two hundred capteine Iohn Ward
at that time his viceadmerall seruing in the Aid and Iohn Basing capteine of the Swallow and Thomas Gouarlie capteine of the Phenix met in the narrow seas with fouretéene saile of great hulkes which were come out of Portugall and bound to Flanders their chiefe lading being Portugall salt and yet had good store of Spanish roials of plate and also of good spices The which fourteene hulkes did mainteine their fight for the space of two houres And after that they did perceiue that they could not line 40 preuaile hauing tasted of the ordinance of the queens ships to their great hurt as well in slaughter of their men as also in spoile of their ships the said Holstock and his companie tooke eight of the said hulks wherof six were sent into the riuer of Thames And the admerall and viceadmerall in the said hulks being two great ships which the said Holstocke himselfe did take were caried vnto Harwich and there discharged The eightéenth of March through vehement rage line 50 and tempest of winds manie vessels on the Thames with two tiltbotes before Grauesend were sunke and drowned The six and twentith of Iune deceased Thomas Yoong archbishop of Yorke at the manour of Sheffield and was honourablie buried at Yorke The eleuenth of October were taken in Suffolke at Downam bridge neere vnto Ipswich seuentéene monstrous fishes some of them conteining seuen and twentie foot in length the other foure and twentie or one and twentie foot at the least At the costs line 60 and charges of the citizens of London a new conduit was built at Walbrooke corner neere to Dowgate which was finished in the moneth of October the water whereof is conueied out of the Thames The seuen and twentith of Ianuarie Philip Mestrell a Frenchman and two Englishmen were drawne from Newgate to Tiburne and there hanged the Frenchman quartered who had coined gold counterfeit the Englishmen the one had clipped siluer the other cast testons of tin The eight and twentith of March the pensioners well appointed in armor on horsbacke mustered before the queenes maiestie in Hide parke beside Westminster A great lotterie being holden at London in Poules church yard at the west doore was begun to be drawne the eleuenth of Ianuarie and continued daie and night till the sixt of Maie wherein the said drawing was fullie ended Sir Thomas Ro lord maior of London caused to be inclosed with a wall of bricke nigh one acre of ground néere vnto Bedlem without Bishops gate to be a place of buriall for the dead of such parishes in London as lacked conuenient ground within their said parishes ¶ On the southside whereof ouer a folding gate this inscription is grauen in stone in great letters Thomas Ro miles cùm praetor esset Londinensis hunc locum Reipublicae in vsum publicae sepulturae communem suo sumptu dedicauit Anno Domini 1569. Which writing I haue here recorded for that in viewing the same I saw some of the letters defaced and vtterlie made awaie which in time might likewise befall to the residue and so the memorie of the gentleman there fixed to so good an end vanish and die He also of a godlie motion builded a conuenient roome in Pauls churchyard on the southside of the crosse to receiue a certeine number of hearers at the sermon time as may appeare by some remembrances of his name there fixed Howbeit this gentleman thus well disposed and like inough to haue procéeded in more such godlie actions was called out of this life the next yeare immediatlie following forgoing all the pompe of this life with no lesse good will than he was forward by death to passe to eternall rest His bodie was buried in Hacknie church in the southside of the chancell where besides a monument of himselfe and his wife this epitaph remaineth to be read in faire great letters as followeth An. 1570. Septemb. 2. Sir Thomas Ro lieth buried heare Of London knight and alderman Who late was maior and rule did beare To right the cause of euerie man A merchant venturer was he Of merchant tailors companie A citizen by birth also And eke his wife dame Marie Ro. In wedlocke one and thirtie yeare They did continue man and wife Eleuen children she did beare But fiue of them haue left this life And six aliue doo yet remaine Foure of them sons and daughters twaine His soule with God we hope is blest And dooth remaine in Abrams brest A standing watch on S. Iohns euen at Midsummer and sir Iohn White alderman rode the circuit as the lord maior should haue doone The seuen and twentith of August Andrew Gregorenich Sauin ambassador from Muscouie landed at the tower wharfe and was there receiued by the lord maior of London the aldermen and shiriffes in scarlet with the merchants aduenturers in cotes of blacke veluet all on horssebacke who conueied him riding through the citie to the Muscouie house in Seding lane there to be lodged The plague of pestilence somewhat raging in the citie of London Michaelmas terme was first adiourned vnto the third of Nouember and after to Hilarie terme next following The eleuenth of October Thomas Howard duke of Norffolke was brought from Burnam beside Windsore by land to Westminster and from thence by water to the tower of London prisoner sir Henrie Neuill being his kéeper This yeare the lord maior of London went by water to Westminster and there tooke his oth as hath béene accustomed but kept no feast at the Guildhall least through comming togither of so great a multitude infection of the pestilence might haue increased That wéeke from the one and twentith vnto the eight and twentith of October there died in the citie and out parishes of all diseases one hundred fiftie and two of the which one and fiftie were accounted to die of the plague On thursdaie the ninth of Nouember Thomas Persie erle of Northumberland receiued the queens maiesties letters to repaire to the court And the same night other conspirators perceiuing him to be wauering and vnconstant of promise made to line 10 them caused a seruant of his called Beckwith after he was laid in his bed to bustle in and to knocke at his chamber doore willing him in hast to arise and shift for himselfe for that his enimies whome he termed to be sir Oswold Ulstrop and maister Uaughan were about the parke and had béeset him with great numbers of men Wherevpon he arose conueied himselfe awaie to his kéepers house In the same instant they caused the bels of the towne to be roong backeward and so raised as manie as they line 20 could to their purpose The next night the earle departed thense to Branspith where he met with Charls earle of Westmerland and the other confederats Then by sundrie proclamations they abusing manie of the queens subiects commanded them in hir highnesse name to
whose line 20 attempts when the lord Hunsdon lord warden of the east marches and gouernor of Berwike heard he prepared to go against him and hauing with him sir Iohn Forster lord warden of the middle marches they set forward towards the place where they thought they should find him They had with them 300 chosen soldiors of the garrison of Berwike and twelue hundred borderers and other of the garrisons there about the borders so that they were in all fiftéene hundred footmen and horssemen They marching line 30 therewith foorth approched néere to a towne and castell called Naworth which was in the kéeping of the said Leonard Dacres And vpon a moore through the middle whereof a litle riuer called Chelt hath his course the said Leonard Dacres the two and twentith of Februarie was readie with his power in order of battell ranged set in arraie after the forme of a triangle compassed and inuironed about with horssemen And now vpon the lord Hunsdons approch the said Dacres with great and stout courage line 40 gaue an hardie onset vpon the said lord Hunsdon and his companie neere vnto the foresaid riuer The fight was sharpe and cruell and the euent verie doubtfull for a while the rebels were so stiffelie bent to doo their vttermost indeuor in defense of their wicked quarrell There were amongst them manie desperat women that gaue the aduenture of their liues and fought right stoutlie Manie therfore were slaine on both sides to the number at the least of three hundred persons But such was the forward valiancie line 50 of the lord Hunsdon that his people incoraged by his example whome they might see so noblie acquit himselfe in aduenturing so farre as anie other of the whole troope behaued themselues in such manfull wise that the victorie in the end fell to him and his companie and the said Leonard Dacres was forced to flée from his séelie slaine and miserable people taking his waie into Scotland so fast as his horsse might beare him Capteine Reade and the other capteins and soldiors of Berwike bare themselues right valiantlie and shewed proofe of their skill and line 60 hardie manhood in this skirmish After the which these holds and castels were taken and deliuered vnto the said lord Hunsdon Naworth which was committed vnto the kéeping of maister Scroope Kestwood Greistocke and Rockleie which were deliuered to the kéeping of diuerse of the duke of Norffolks officers On good fridaie the seauen and twentith of March Simon Digbie of Askue Iohn Fulthorpe of Isilbecke in the countie of Yorke esquiers Robert Peneman of Stokesleie Thomas Bishop the yoonger of Poklinton in the same countie of Yorke gentlemen were drawne from the castell of Yorke to the place of execution called Knaues mire halfe a mile without the citie of Yorke and there hanged headed and quartered their foure heads were set on foure principall gates of the citie with foure of their quarters the other in diuerse places of the countrie Osclope Clesbe was with them drawne to the gallows and returned againe to the castell William earle of Penbroke baron of Cardiffe knight of the garter one of the priuie councell and lord steward of the quéenes maiesties houshold deceased the eightéenth of Aprill and was buried in saint Paules church at London ¶ This noble man liued in great credit and estimation with king Henrie the eight king Edward the sixt quéene Marie and quéene Elisabeth and was by euerie of the said princes imploied in matters of great importance and for his good and faithfull seruice greatlie honored as appéereth in an epitaph fixed vpon his toome in the cathedrall church of saint Paule in London which I thought good here to laie downe Perpetuae pietati sacrum GVlielmo Herberto Penbrochiae comiti equiti aurato praenobilis ordinis Anglici Hen. viij R. A cubiculis Edoard vi R. equitum magistro Walliae praesidi Tumultu occidentali cum Russello Grato baronibus paribus auspicijs summae rerum praeposito Mariae R. contra perduelles ac expeditione ad Augustam Veromanduorum bis totius exercitus duci bis summo in agro Caletum limitum praefecto Elisab R. officiorum seu Magno Regiae magistro Pariter Dominae Annae ex vetusta Parrorum gente oriunda Sorori Catharinae R. Henr. viij R. vi matrimonio coniunctae ac Marchionis Northamptonij Prudentiss foeminae pietatis religionis probitatis omnÃsque auitae virtutis retinentiss fidiss Comitis coniugi Henr. F. ac comes Pp. chariss sibi ac suis moerens P. Olijt aetatis Ann. 63. Secunda coniuge superstite Georgio Salopiae comite genita insigni praeter antiquum probitatis decus virtute foemina Olijt salutis Ann. 1569. Secunda coniuge superstite Georgio Salopiae comite genita insigni praeter antiquum probitatis decus virtute foemina Liberis relictis ex prima Henrico Pemb. Comite Secunda coniuge superstite Georgio Salopiae comite genita insigni praeter antiquum probitatis decus virtute foemina Edoardo equite Aurato Secunda coniuge superstite Georgio Salopiae comite genita insigni praeter antiquum probitatis decus virtute foemina Domina Anna Baroni Talbot nupta Secunda coniuge superstite Georgio Salopiae comite genita insigni praeter antiquum probitatis decus virtute foemina The earle of Sussex in reuenge of the euill demeanor of the Scots inhabiting néere to the English marches as well in receiuing and succouring diuerse of the English rebels as other naughtie practises assembled such forces as he thought expedient in the night that followed the seauen and twentith of Aprill and hauing with him the lord Hunnesdon gouernour of Berwike and lord warden of the east marches sir William Drurie marshall of the said armie and towne of Berwike came to Warke being twelue miles distant from the said towne of Berwike then the next daie being the eightéenth of the same moneth they entered into Tiuidall in Scotland where marching in warlike order they burned ouerthrew wasted and spoiled all the castels townes and villages as they passed till they came to a tower called the Mosse tower standing in a marish and belonging to the lard of Buclewgh which likewise was rased ouerthrowne and burned and so marching forward wasted the whole countrie before them vntill they came to a great towne called Crauling The same daie sir Iohn Forster warden of the middle marches with all the garrisons and forces of the same entered likewise into Tiuidall at Espesgate distant sixteene miles from Warke where in like order they burned and spoiled the countrie before them till they came to a castell in the possession of the lard of Ferniherst being parcell of hir sons lands which likewise was ouerthrowne rased and burned with all other castels piles townes and villages all alongst the said countrie till they came to Crauling ioining there with the lord lieutenants power This towne was likewise burned and spoiled Thus they passed
discharged of such their oth and also from all fealtie and seruice which was due to hir by reason of hir gouernment c. Héere hath euerie true subiect to sée whether Felton was not a fréend to Pius Quintus in so easilie being induced and drawne to prefer his procéedings against the lords annointed for whose sake if he had had a thousand liues true loialtie would haue inuited him to the losse of them all if occasion had so required considering that hir maiestie hath alwaies deserued well of hir people for whome she euer had a tender care as one reporteth that saith he heard with his owne ears hir maiestie commending hir subiects to the carefull and wise gouernment of hir councell and iudges when shée spake thus vnto them Haue care ouer my people You haue my place Doo you that which I ought to doo They are my people Euerie man oppresseth them and spoileth them without mercie They cannot reuenge their quarell nor help themselues See vnto them see vnto them for they are my charge I charge you euen as God hath charged me I care not for my selfe my life is not deare to me my care is for my people I praie God whosoeuer succéed me be as carefull as I am They which might know what cares I beare would not thinke I tooke anie great ioie in wearing the crowne Could a mother speake more tenderlie for hir infant than this good quéene speaketh for hir people And shall the people be so vngratious to a prince so gratious as to attempt anie thing that should discontent hir highnesse A mercifull hart shée hath alwaies had before shee atteined the crowne a mercifull hart shée hath now possessing the scepter manie times remitting and pardoning offenses intended and practised against hir owne person which C. O. noteth in his Eirenarchia siue Elisabetha speaking of hir maiestie in this point verie trulie vncontrollablie Nobilis praestans est ignoscentia virtus Haec quanquam potis est si vult excelsior vis Mentis inest iram strictis compescit habenis Delictis mulctam grauibus quandóque remittens Hoc priuata priùs nondum diademate sumpto Fecerat hoc facit princeps diademate sumpto The seauen and twentith of Male Thomas Norton and Christopher Norton of Yorkshire being both condemned of high treason for the late rebellion in the north were drawen from the tower of London to Tiborne and there hanged headed and quartered In this yeare also conspired certeine gentlemen with other in the countie of Norffolke whose purpose was on Midsummer daie at Harlestone faire with sound of trumpet and drum to haue raisâd a number and then to proclame their diuelish pretense against strangers and others This matter was vttered by Thomas Ket one of the conspiracie vnto Iohn Kenseie who foorthwith sent the same Ket with a conestable to the next iustice before whome and other iustices he opened the whole matter Wherevpon maister Drue Drurie immediatlie apprehended Iohn Throckmorton and after him manie gentlemen of the citie of Norwich and the countie of Norffolke who were all committed to prison and at the next sessions of goale deliuerie at the castell of Norwich the seauentéenth of Iulie before sir Robert Catlin knight lord chéefe iustice Gilbert Gerard the quéenes attornie generall and other iustices ten of them were indicted of high treason and some others line 10 of contempt Diuerse of them were condemned and had iudgement the one and twentith of August and afterward thrée of them were hanged bowelled and quartered which were Iohn Throckmorton of Norwich gentleman who stood mute at his arreignment but at the gallows confessed himselfe to be the chéefe conspirator and that none had deserued to die but he for that he had procured them With him was executed Thomas Brooke of Rolsbie gentleman on the thirtith of August and George Dedman of Cringleford line 20 gentleman was likewise executed the second of September The fourth of August the duke of Norffolke was remooued from the tower of London to the Charterhouse néere vnto Smithfield The same daie was arreigned at the Guildhall of London Iohn Felton for hanging the foresaid bull of pope Pius Quintus on the gate of the bishop of Londons palace and also two yoong men for coining clipping of coine who all were found guiltie of high treason and had line 30 iudgement to be drawne hanged quartered The eight of August Iohn Felton was drawen from Newgate into Paules churchyard and there hanged on a gallows new set vp that morning before the bishops palace gate and being cut downe aliue he was bowelled and quartered After this the same morning the shiriffes returned to Newgate and so to Tiborne with two yoong men which were there executed for coining and clipping as is aforesaid The two and twentith of August the earle of Sussex line 40 lord lieutenant generall for the queenes maiestie in the north and the lord Scroope warden of the west marches with diuerse others marched from Carleill with the quéens armie and force of the north as well of horssemen as footmen into Scotland passing ouer the riuers of Eske Leuine Sarke which riuer of Sarke parteth England and Scotland and so to Dornocke wood belonging to Edward Urone the lord of Bonshow and then to Annan a strong house of the lord Harris which they rased and ouerthrew line 50 with others thereabouts from thense to Hodham which they burnt and blew vp from thense to Kennell a towne belonging to the lord Cowhill which they burnt from thense to Donfrise which they sacked and spoiled of such paltrie as the fugitiues had left and also rased and ouerthrew a sumptuous house belonging to the quéene of Scots in the kéeping of the lord Harris Then passing the riuer of Longher they burnt and spoiled Cowhilles and Powtracke and returned to Donfrise and so to the towne of Bankend which they burnt with another house perteining line 60 to william Maxwell of the Iles and so to the castell of Carlauarocke standing in a marish iust to an arme of the sea which parteth Annerdale and Gallowaie which castell they blew vp and returned homeward transporting their ordinance ouer quick-sands and bogs where neuer the like was doone before and so came to Dornocke wood The eight of August they marched towards Carleill where by the waie they burnt and ouerthrew two houses the one being Arthur Greams alià s Carleill the other rich George two notable théeues The same daie at night after the lord lieutenants comming to Carleill he made knights sir Edward Hastings sir Francis Russell sir Ualentine Browne sir William Hilton sir Robert Stapleton sir Henrie Curwen sir Simon Musgraue This yéere the fift of October chanced a terrible tempest of wind and raine both by sea and land by meanes whereof manie ships perished much hurt was doone in diuerse parts of the realme as by a little pamphlet set foorth
great galleasses The Turks had their gallies galliots and foists to the number of two hundred and fiftie as appeareth by the account afore made of those that were taken line 40 abandoned and escaped There were deliuered and set at libertie about twelue thousand some say fourteene thousand christian captiues whome the Turks kept for slaues and had them chained there aboord with them in their gallies But this victorie was not got without great losse of the christians for beside Augustine Barbarigo the principall proueditore of the Uenetians there died seuentéene other gentlemen of Uenice being men of good estimation Iohn Cardone Barnardine Cardone Spaniards line 50 Uirginio and Horatio Ursini Romans Troilo Sabello Marco Molino besides diuerse other nobles and gentlemen of name as well Italians as Spaniards and Almans In all there died of the christians to the number of seauen thousand six hundred fiftie and six beside those that were hurt being in like number to them that were slaine among whom was don Iohn de Austria generall of all the christian armie there Sebastian Ueniero the Uenetians generall the counte de Santa Fiore with diuerse others Moreouer line 60 there were christian gallies bouged thrée of the Uenetians one of the popes one belonging to the duke of Sauoie and another to the knights of Malta There was one also taken led awaie by Ochialie and his companie Such was the successe of this battell which continued for the space of six houres in the end whereof the victorie remaining with the christians caused no small reioising through all parties of christendome For if this victorie had béene followed with his gratious helpe and assistance that was the giuer thereof the proud and loftie horne of the Ismaelite had béene so brused as peraduenture his courage would haue quailed to put foorth the same so spéedilie as he did But such is the malice of the time that the christians haue more pleasure to draw their weapons one against another than against that common enimie of vs all who regardeth neither protestant nor catholike they may be sure those of the Gréekish church nor others as if the mercifull prouidence of the Lord of hosts doo not in time disappoint his proceedings it will be too soone perceiued though happilie too late to stop the breach when the floud hath got head and once woone passage through the banke It were therfore to be wished of all those that tender the suertie of the christian commonwealth that princes would permit their subiects to liue in libertie of conscience concerning matters of faith and that subiects againe would be readie in dutifull wise to obeie their princes in matters of ciuill gouernment so that compounding their controuersies among themselues with tollerable conditions they might emploie their forces against the common enimie to the benefit of the whole christian world which the more is the pitie they haue so long exercised one against another to each others destruction And as for matters in variance about religion rather to decide the same with the word than with the sword an instrument full vnfit for that purpose and not lightlie vsed nor allowed of by the ancient fathers in time of the primitiue church But fith this is rather to be wished than hoped for by anie apparant likelihood considering the strange contrarietie of humors now reigning among men in sundrie parts of christendome let vs leaue the successe of our wish to the plesure of God the author of all good haps who ruleth the harts of princes as the poet saith verie trulie eius In manibus sunt regum animi quotúnque voluntaâ Fert sua vertit eos and frameth the peoples minds as séemeth best to his diuine prouidence And withall let vs also humblie offer to him our praiers instantlie beseeching him to spare vs in mercie and not to reward vs after our iniquities but rather by his onmipotent power to turne from vs the violence of our enimies in abridging their forces as it may séeme good to his mercifull fauour and great clemencie The thirtith of December Reinold Greie was by the quéenes maiestie restored earle of Kent ¶ The thirtéenth of Ianuarie deceassed sir William Peter knight who for his iudgement and pregnant wit had béene secretarie and of the priuie councell to foure kings and quéenes of this realme and seauen times ambassador abroad in forren lands he augmented Exceter college in Oxford with lands to the value of an hundred pounds by yeare and also builded ten almes houses in the parish of Ingerstone for twentie poore people ten within the house and ten without the house hauing euerie one two pence the daie a winter gowne and two load of wood and among them féeding for six kine winter and summer and a chapleine to saie them seruice dailie The sixteenth of Ianuarie the lord Thomas Howard duke of Norffolke was arreigned at Westminster hall before George lord Talbot earle of Shrewesburie high steward of England for that daie and there by his péeres found giltie of high treason and had iudgement accordinglie The eleuenth of Februarie Kenelme Barneie and Edmund Mather were drawen from the tower of London and Henrie Rolfe from the Marshalsea in Southworke all thrée to Tiburne and there hanged bowelled and quartered for treason Barneie and Mather for conspiracie and Rolfe for counterfeiting of the quéens maiesties hand ¶ The queenes maiestie hearing crediblie by report that certeine lewd persons vnder pretense of executing commissions for inquiries to be made for lands concealed contrarie to hir maiesties meaning chalenging lands stocks of monie plate c letting not also to make pretense to the bels led and other such things belonging vnto parish churches or chappels Hir maiestie meaning spéedilie to withstand such manner of vnlawfull practises commanded that all commissions then extant and not determined for inquisition of anie manner of concealements should be by Supersedias out of hir excheker reuoked line 10 And also appointed speedie remedie to be had against such extorcioners as more at large appeareth by proclamation concluding thus Finallie hir maiestie would hir iustices of assise to haue some speciall care not onelie to the premisses but also to the reforming of certeine couetous iniurious attempts of diuerse that of late time by other colour than for hir maiesties vse had taken awaie the led of churches and chappels yea and bels also out of steeples and other common goods belonging to parishes an line 20 example not to be suffered vnpunished nor vnreformed And so hir maiestie eftsoones chargeth hir iustices of hir assise to prouide seuere remedie both for punishment and reformation thereof Dated at Westminster the thirtéenth daie of Februarie the fourtéenth yeare of hir reigne The tenth of March deceased sir William Paulet knight lord saint Iohn earle of Wilshire marquesse of Winchester knight of the honorable order of the garter one of the quéenes maiesties
valentibus occurrit ipsis dominus cum suis copijs obuià m porrigendóque ipsis dextram traxit eos per manus in campum Maâtium iuxta votum suum Thus much Whethamsted of Edmund Greie lord Ruthine who was made earle of Kent in the fift yeare of king Edward the fourth being the yeare of our redemption 1464. This Edmund Greie being lord Hastings Weisford and Ruthine before he had the honour of this earledome did by his déed of indenture dated the 18 of Nouember in the fiue and twentith yeare of king Henrie the sixt falling in the yeare of our redemption 1446 giue to Iohn Pinchbecke prior of Duffield in Northamptonshire in almesse during the life of the said prior his field called Challocke belonging to the manour of Challocke to kéepe the obits of sir Iohn Greie father to the said sir Edmund and of dame Custance the widow of the earle marshall and daughter of Iohn Holland duke of Excester and erle of Huntington mother to the said sir Edmund with masse c and such other collects as the said Edmund should deliuer vnto the said prior Out of this house of the Greies haue issued manie noble houses and those of great antiquitie whereof at this daie there yet remaineth two honourable houses the one being Henrie Greie earle of Kent now liuing a man of singular estimation in the countrie of Bedford where he now liueth as well for the nobilitie of his race being descended of this Edmund Greie lord treasuror of England for the good gouernment and carriage of himselfe and for the orderlie and wise managing of the affaires of that countrie deseruing no lesse honourable place in the common-wealth than the honour of his race and woorthinesse of his behauiour doo well merit The other house at this daie in honour is the lord Greie of Wilton knight of the garter and somtime deputie of Ireland a man of no lesse merit for his seruice abrode in the feats of armes than is the other Greie for his seruice at home in the affairs of peace But I will not saie all that I thinke and know of them both least some more maliciouslie than trulie line 10 blemish me with the note of flatterie For I protest I am so farre estranged from that as I being not at all knowne to the one and but slenderlie to the other and neuer benefited by anie of them both there is no cause why I should vse anie flatterie and yet such force hath vertue as it will shine euen in despite of malice But againe to the matter There haue out of this house of the Greies besides manie noble houses issued one duke of Suffolke two marquesses of Dorset and fiue earles of Kent line 20 Againe I thinke it not impertinent for the continuance of antiquities and of deserts of honour to mention how manie seuerall houses there haue bin of the nobilitie of these Greis and in what time they liued First there was Reignold Greie lord Greie of Codnor in the time of king Stephan the second was Reignold lord Greie of Rotherfield in the time of Richard the second the third Iohn Greie earle of Tankeruile in Normandie in the time of Henrie the fift the fourth this Edmund Greie lord Ruthine line 30 earle of Kent and treasuror of England in the time of king Edward the fourth the fift house Thomas Greie marquesse Dorset in the time of king Edward the fourth the sixt Edward Greie lord Lisle in the time of king Edward the fourth the seuenth Edward Greie lord Powes in the time of king Edward the fourth the eight Henrie Greie duke of Suffolffe in the time of Edward the sixt So that there were at one time in one kings daies which was the time of Edward the fourth six noble men liuing line 40 of the name of Greies which were the marquesse Dorset the earle of Kent the lord Lisle the lord Powes the lord Greie of Wilton and the lord Greie of Rotherfield Wherefore to draw to an end of this lord treasuror who hath occasioned me to be more liberall in treating of him and the Greies than of any lord treasuror or noble name besides for manie priuat reasons which I reserue to my selfe I will yet speake more liberallie of him and the Greies in my large line 50 booke of the liues of the lord treasurors of England and knit vp this Edmund Greie lord treasuror with the marieng of his wife Katharine the daughter of Henrie Persie earle of Northumberland by whome he had issue George Greie earle of Kent Elisabeth maried to Robert baron of Greiestocke and Anne maried to Iohn lord Greie of Wilton Sir Walter Blunt knight who was the first lord Montioie possessed the place of the lord treasurorship of England in the fift yeare of king Edward line 60 the fourth which fell in the yeare that the word of the father tooke flesh in the wombe of the virgine 1465. Of this man is mention made in the booke of the law called Long Quinto of Edward the fourth He maried the daughter of one Dirham and had issue William Iohn and Iames. Sir Richard Wooduile knight chamberleine to the king and constable of England was made baron on the ninth of Maie in the second yeare of king Henrie the sixt being the yeare of Christ 1424 and was after created earle Riuers in the fift yeare of king Edward the fourth being the yeare of our redemption 1465 who thus aduanced was after lord treasuror in the sixt seuenth eight of Edward the fourth In which eight yeare of Edward the fourth Thomas Cooke late maior of London was accused of treason and arreigned for the same Who after that he had béene manie times purged thereof was yet at last found giltie and by this lord Riuers then lord treasuror so handled as that he could not be deliuered vntill he had paied eight thousand pounds to the king and eight hundred to the quéene This lord treasuror maried Iaquet the widow of Iohn duke of Bedford daughter to Peter of Lucenburgh earle of S. Paule by whom he had issue Richard earle Riuers Antonie lord Scales in the right of his wife Edward Wooduile knight slaine at the battell of S. Albine in Britaine in the third yeare of Henrie the seuenth Lionell bishop of Salisburie Margaret maried to Thomas erle of Arundell Margaret maried to William Herbert erle of Huntington Anne first maried to William Burcher erle of Essex and after to George Greie erle of Kent Iaquet maried to Iohn lord Strange Elisabeth maried to sir Iohn Greie yoonger sonne to the lord Greie of Ruthine and after the death of the said sir Iohn Greie to king Edward the fourth and Katharine maried to Henrie duke of Buckingham Besides all which I haue read of one Iohn which was sonne to this earle Riuers which Iohn maried the old duchesse of Norffolke was beheaded with his father the truth wherof I leaue to further triall This Richard erle
councell deceased at his house called Latham in Lancaâhire His life and death deseruing commendation and crauing memorie to be imitated was such as followeth His fidelitie vnto two kings and two queenes in dangerous times and great rebellions in which time and alwaies as cause serued he was lieutenant of Lancashire and Chesshire and latelie offered ten thousand men vnto the quéenes maiestie of his owne charge for the suppression of the last rebellion His godlie disposition to his tenants neuer forcing anie seruice at their hands but due paiment of their rent His liberalitie to strangers and such as shewed themselues gratefull to him His famous housekéeping and eleuen score in checkroll neuer discontinuing the space of twelue yeares His féeding especiallie of aged persons twise a daie thrée score and od besides all commers thrise a wéeke appointed for his dealing daies and euerie good fridaie these fiue and thirtie yeares one with another two thousand seauen hundred with meat drinke monie and monie worth There was neuer gentleman or other that waited in his seruice but had allowance from him to haue as well wages as otherwise for horsse and man His yeerlie portion for the expenses of his house foure thousand pounds His cunning in setting bones disiointed or broken his surgerie and desire to helpe the poore his deliuerie of the George and seale to the lord Strange with exhortation that he might kéepe it so vnspotted in fidelitie to his prince as he had and his ioie that he died in the quéenes fauour His ioifull parting this world his taking leaue of all his seruants by shaking of hands his remembrance to the last daie The eight and twentith of Nouember Iohn Hall late of Battell in Sussex gentleman and Oswold Wilkinson late of Yorke and gailor of Yorke castell being before arreigned and condemned of treason were drawne from the tower of London to Tiborne and there hanged bowelled and quartered This yéere a great and sharpe frost almost continuallie lasted from before the feast of All saints till after the feast of the Epiphanie of our Lord with somtime great and déepe snowes and sometime raines which fréesed as fast as the same fell to the ground wherethrough at Wrotham in Kent and manie other places the armes and boughs of trées being ouercharged with I se brake off and fell from the stockes of the same trées Also the wind continued north and east till after the Ascension daie with sharpe frosts and snowes whereby followed a late spring The twelfe of Ianuarie William lord Howard year 1573 baron of Effingham lord priuie seale knight of the noble order of the garter and one of the priuie councell deceased at Hampton court The eightéenth of Ianuarie William lord Smmerset earle of Worcester began his iourneie towards France to the christening of the kings daughter there in stead of the quéenes maiestie of England who sent with him a font of gold for that purpose weieng thrée hundred and six and twentie ounces The said earle with manie of his companie were robbed vpon the sea by pirats of much of their baggage and thrée or foure of their men slaine In France he and his traine were honorablie receiued At the christening he gaue the child to name Elisabeth They returned into England the seauen and twentith of Februarie In the moneth of Februarie thorough sundrie heinous complaints brought to the quéenes maiestie and hir councell of pirats that kept the narrow seas dooing manie robberies as also the robbing of the earle of Worcester as is aforesaid hiâ highnesse by the aduise of hir honourable councell tooke order with the lord admerall of England that he should send to the seas ships and men to scowre the narow seas to apprehend so manie pirats ships as might be met with And for the better dooing thereof it pleased hir maiestie to send one of hir owne ships named the Swallow to be the admerall vnder the charge of William Holstocke of London esquier comptrollor of hir highnesse ships who had with him the Gillian the barke Garet and the barke of Yarmouth and thrée hundred and thrée score able mariners gunners and souldiors in the said thrée ships and one barke which scowred the narrow seas from the north foreland as farre westward as Falmouth in Cornewall and tooke twentie ships and baâks of sundrie nations to wit English French and Flemmings but all pirats and in fashion of warre He apprehended in those ships and barks to the number of nine hundred men of all nations and sent them to ward to Sandwich Douer Wight and Portesmouth whereof thrée of them that robbed the earle of Worcester were shortlie after executed at Wight Also the said William Holstocke did rescue and take from the aboue said pirats ships fiftéene other merchants ships laden with merchandize that were their line 10 prises being of sundrie nations and set at libertie the said fiftéene merchants ships and goods which doone he returned to Portesmouth and there ended his voiage in March The fourth of March a man was hanged in chains in saint Georges field beyond Southworke of London for murthering the gailor of Horsham in the same field The seuentéenth of March deceassed Reinold Greie of Ruthin earle of Kent at Herneseie and was buried at saint Giles without Creplegate line 20 About the same time died Edmund lord Shandois The fiue and twentith of March being wednesdaie in Easter wéeke and the feast of the Annuntiation of our ladie George Browne cruellie murthered two honest men néere to Shooters hill in Kent the one of them was a wealthie merchant of London named George Sanders the other Iohn Beane of Woolwich which murther was committed in manner as followeth On tuesdaie in Easter wéeke the foure and twentith of March the said George Browne receiuing line 30 secret intelligence by letter from mistresse Anne Drurie that master Sanders should lodge the same night at the house of one master Barnes in Woolwich and from thense go on foot to saint Marie Craie the next morning he laie in wait for him by the waie a little from Shooters hill and there slue both him Iohn Beane seruant to master Barnes But Iohn Beane hauing ten or eleuen wounds being left for dead by Gods prouidence did reuiue againe and créeping awaie on all foure was found line 40 by an old man and his maiden and conueied vnto Woolwich where he gaue euident marks of the murtherer Immediatlie vpon the déed dooing Browne sent mistresse Drurie word thereof by Roger Clement among them called trustie Roger he himselfe repaired foorthwith to the court at Greenewich anon after him came thither the report of the murther also Then departed he thense vnto London and came to the house of mistresse Drurie where âhough he line 50 spake not personallie with hir after conference had with hir seruant trustie Roger she prouided him twentie pounds that same daie for
those that bled till they died stroue so much with their sickenesse that the bloud issued out at their vents but yet had perfect memorie euen to the yéelding of their breath as was verie well perceiued by sir William Babington who neuer ceased to call vpon God in his great agonie c. This reported W. B. as a certeine truth to stop the flieng rumors of those that as he saith haue spoken vntrulie in this behalfe and published their owne fantasies On sundaie the fourth of August betwéene the houres of nine and ten of the clocke in the forenone whilest the minister was reading of the second lesson in the parish church of Bliborough a towne in Suffolke a strange and terrible tempest of lightening and thunder strake thorough the wall of the same church into the ground almost a yard déepe draue downe all the people on that side aboue twentie persons then renting the wall vp to the reuestre clefâ the doore and returning to the steeple rent the timber brake the chimes fled toward Bongie a towne six miles off The people that were striken downe were found groueling more than halfe an houre after whereof one man more than fortie yeares and a boie of fiftéene yeares old were found starke dead the other were scorched The same or the like flash of lightening and cracks of thunder rent the parish church of Bongie nine miles from Norwich wroong in sunder the wiers and whéeles of the clocks slue two men which sat in the belfreie when the other were at the procession or suffrages and scorched an other which hardlie escaped The tower on London bridge being taken downe and a new foundation drawne sir Iohn Langleie lord maior of the citie of London laid the first stone on the eight and twentith line 10 daie of August in the presence of the shiriffes of London the two bridgemasters which new tower was finished in the moneth of September Anno 1579. The thirtith daie of Nouember Cutbert Maine was drawne hanged and quartered at Lanceston in Cornewall for preferring Romane power The seuentéenth of Ianuarie one Simon Penbrooke dwelling in saint Georges parish in Southworke being a figureflinger and vehementlie suspected to line 20 be a coniurer by commandement of the ordinarie iudge for those parties appeared in the parish church of saint Sauiors in Southworke at a court holden there Which Simon being busied in interteining a proctor and hauing monie in his hand leaned his head vpon a pew wherein the proctor stood which after he had doone a certeine space the proctor began to lift vp his head to sée what he ailed and found him departing out of life and streightwaie the said Simon fell downe ratling a little in the throte and neuer line 30 spake word after This was doone euen as the iudge came into the church who said it was the iust iudgement of God towards those that vsed sorcerie and a great example to admonish other to feare the iustice of God After his clothes being opened there were found about him fiue diuelish bookes of coniuration and most abhominable practises with a picture of tin of a man hauing thrée dice in his hand with this poesie Chance dice fortunatlie diuerse papers of such like matters as he had dealt in for men such line 40 men I meane as are mentioned in Leuiticus the twentith chapter and sixt verse If anie soule turne himselfe after such as woorke with spirits and after soothsaiers to go a whooring after them saith the Lord I will put my face against that soule and will cut him off from among my people The third daie of Februarie Iohn Nelson for denieng the quéenes supremasie and such other traitorous words against hir maiestie was drawne from Newgate to Tiburne and there hanged line 50 bowelled and quartered And on the seuenth of the same moneth of Februarie Thomas Sherewin was likewise drawne from the tower of London to Tiburne and there hanged bowelled and quartered for the like offense The fiue and twentith of Februarie Iohn de Loy a Frenchman and fiue English gentlemen was conueied from the tower of London towards Norwich there to be arreigned and executed for coining of monie counterfeit And on the ninth of March seuen pirats were hanged at Wapping line 60 in the ouze beside London The ladie Margaret countesse of Lennox deceased on the tenth of March year 1578 at hir house in the parish of Hackneie besides London and was buried at Westminster on the third of Aprill The one and thirtith and last of Maie Martine Frobisher with fifteene saile of good ships manned vittelled and otherwise well appointed departed from Harwich in Essex on his third voiage towards Cataia And on the one and thirtith and last daie of Iulie after manie attempts and sundrie times being put backe by Ilands of ice in the streicts he recouered his long wished port and came to anchor in the Ilands newlie by hir maiestie named Meta incognita where as in the yeare before they fraught their ships with the like stone or gold ore out of the mines and then on the last of August returning thense arriued safelie in England about the first of October The two and twentith of Ianuarie being thursdaie about seuen of the clocke at night Iohn Cassimere countie palatine of Rhene duke of Bauare landing at the tower of London was there by diuerse noble men and others honourablie receiued and conueied by cresset light and torch light to sir Thomas Greshams house in Bishops gate street where he was receiued with sounding of trumpets drums fiefs and other instruments of musicke and there both lodged and feasted till sundaie next that he was by the nobilitie fetched and conueied to the court at Westminster where after he had talked with hir maiestie he returned vnto Summersets house at the strand and was there lodged In the wéeke following he hunted at Hampton court On sundaie the first of Februarie he beheld a valiant iusting and running at the tilt at Westminster On the next morrow in the same place he saw them fight at barriers with swords on horsse backe On tuesdaie he dined with the lord maior of London on wednesdaie with the dutchesse of Suffolke at hir house called the Barbican in Red crosse stréet on thursdaie at the Stilliard c. On sundaie the eight of Februarie the quéene made him knight of the garter by deliuering to him the collar putting the garter on his leg at White hall And on the fourteenth of Februarie he departed from London to Rochester homewards with great rewards giuen to him by the quéenes maiestie the nobilitie men of honour the lord maior of London and other citizens of that citie The same moneth of Februarie to wit on the fourth daie and in the night next following year 1579 fell such abundance of snow that on the fift daie in the morning the same snow was found in London to lie two foot
of the citie of Norwich which was supposed almost two miles Before she came there maister maior brake to my lord chamberlaine that he was to vtter to hir maiestie an other oration whereof my lord seemed to haue good liking but before they came to the said confines maister maior was wilâed to forbeare the vtterance of the same his oration bicause it was about seauen of the clocke and hir maiestie had then fiue miles to ride Neuerthelesse he gaue to hir maiestie both his orations in writing which she thanked him for She also thanked the maior euerie alderman and the commoners not onelie for the great chéere they had made hir but also for the open housholds they kept to hir highnesse seruants and all others Then she called maister maior and made him knight and so departing said I haue laid vp in my breast such good will as I shall neuer forget Norwich and proceeding onward did shake hir riding rod and said Farewell Norwich with the water standing in hir eies In which great good will towards vs all I beséech God to continue hir maiestie with long and triumphant reigne ouer vs Amen Now to come to the returne of the queenes maiestie from Norfolke and Suffolke in which two counties hir highnesse knighted certeine gentlemen as namelie in Suffolke George Colt Philip Parkar Robert Iermine William Spring Thomas Barnardiston Thomas Kidson Arthur Hedingham In Norffolke Thomas Knouât Nicholas Bacon William Pastons Edward Cléeâe Rafe Shelton Henrie Woodhouse Thomas Gaudie Robert Wood maior Roger Woodhouse Thâse gentlmen hir maiestie knighted for that they should all their life time after haue the greater regard to God and their prince Now the queenes maiestie passing from Norwich she came to sir Roger Woodhouses that night where she was well receiued and noblie interteined From thense to Wood rising at sir Edward Cleeres From thense to sir Thomas Kidsons where in verie déed the fare and bankets did so excéed a number of other places that it is worthie the mention A shew representing the feiries as well as might be was there séene in the which shew a rich iewell was presented to the queenes highnes From thense to master Reuets where all things were well and in verie good order and meat liberallie spent But now to speake a little by the waie of Gods mightie hand and power that framed mens hearts so âell in manie parts before the quéenes highnesse câââe to Cambridgeshire and to tell how blessedlie oâr great and good God did deale with our deere souereigne ladie in causing euerie person to shew the dutie is a matter of great discourse and of no little weight and comfort to all good minds that shall consider of the same Such a Lord is our great God that can frâme all things to the best and such a souereigne ladie we haue that can make the crooked paths streight where she commeth draw the harts of the people after hir whersoeuer she trauelleth So from master Reuets hir highnesse came to my lord Norths who was no whit behind anie of the best for a franke house a noble heart and well ordered interteinement And there was an oration made by a gentleman ofCambridge with a statelie and a faire cup presented from the vniuersitie all the ambassadors of France beholding the same And the gentlemen line 10 of the shire as in manie other places did beare the quéenes meat to the table which was a great liking gladnesse to the gentlemen a solemne sight for strangers subiects to looke vpon From my lord Norths to sir Giles Allingtons where things were well and well liked From thense to sir Iohn Cuts From thense to M. Kapels where was excellent good cheere interteinement From thense to Hide hall where I heard of no great cheere nor banketting line 20 From thense to Rockwood hall but how the traine was there interteined I am ignorant of From thense to master Stonars and from thense to my lord of Leicesters house where the progresse ended to knit vp all the good chéere was reuiued not onelie with making a great feast to the quéene and the French ambassador but also in feasting solemnelie at seuerall times the whole gard on sundaie and mondaie before the queene came at his owne table vsing such courtesie vnto them for the space of two daies as was and is worthie of perpetuall line 30 memorie Thus much of the quéenes highnesse returne whom God hath so well preserued that she like a worthie prince to our great comfort prospereth in peace to the great disgrace of the enimies of God and aduersaries of our common weale and countrie wherin God continue hir maiestie Amen The quéenes maiestie now gone from Norwich carried awaie with hir all the gladnesse of the citie which sprang from hir presence in place whereof succéeded line 40 melancholie sadnes in somuch that the verie aier altered with the change of the countrie cheere proceeding from the departure of hir highnes roiall person which he meant that made these verses wherwith the description of this progresse shall end Splendide Phoebe redi cur te sub nube recondis Innuba Pallas adest splendide Phoebe redi Hasta minax procul est non Gorgonis ora videbis Pallas inermis adest splendide Phoebe redi Scilicet à tanto metuis tibi lumine forsan line 50 Ne superet radios foemina Phoebe tuos Pulcher Apollo tibi ne sit regina rubori Ipse decore tuo vincis illa suo Euge redux reducem quia pulsa nocte reducis Phoebe diem toto est gratius orbe nihil Haec pepulit tetri tenebras noctémque papismi Et liquidum retulit relligione diem Euge nigras nebulas radijs quiasaepe repellis Phoebe tuis pene est gratius orbe nihil Texuerant remoras discrimina mille papistae line 60 Neceptum princeps continuaret iter Nec tamen hunc nebulae potuerunt condere solem Quamuis tu nebulis cedis Apollo tuis Ergô iubar nostrum repulisse obstaculo cernis Sic age sol nebulas lumine pelle tuo Splendide Phoebe redi cur te sub nube recondis Innuba Pallas adest splendide Phoebe radi Sustinet ornat habet regnum literaria formam Prouida docta decens Iuno Minerua Venus Singula dona trium simul Elizabetha dearum Prouida docta decens sustinet ornat habet Esse deas lusi diuinam dicimus istam Quamuis nec liceat nec libet esse deam In shadowing clouds why art thou cloâd O Phebus bright âetire Unspoused Pallas present is O Phebus bright retire The thretning speare is flong far off doubt not grim Gorgââs ire Unarmed Pallas present is O Phebus bright retire Perhaps thou art afraid And why at this so large a light Least that a woman should excell thy beams O Phebus bright Let not a queene a virgine pure which is and euer was O faire
worldlings whose hearts are so hardened that they will not beléeue though one rise from the dead or though God should speake vnto them from heauen as the poet noteth trulie which he hath doone in times past solióque tremendus ab alto Altitonans coelo signa stupenda dedit About the twelfe daie of Ianuarie proclamation was published at London for reuocation of sundrie line 40 the quéenes maiesties subiects remaining beyond the seas vnder colour of studie and yet liuing contrarie to the lawes of God and of the realme and also against the reteining of Iesuits and massing priests sowers of sedition and other treasonable attempts c. The thirtéenth of Ianuarie a man was drawne to saint Thomas of Waterings and there hanged headed and quartered for begging by a licence wherevnto the quéenes hand was counterfeited On the sixteenth daie of Ianuarie the lords line 50 and barons of this realme began to sit in the parlement house at Westminster and on the twentith daie of Ianuarie the quéenes maiestie went from White hall to the parlement house by water Whereas a great chalenge of iusts was signified by waie of deuise before hir maiestie on Twelfe night last past to haue beene performed the fiftéenth daie of Ianuarie hir maiesties pleasure was for diuerse considerations the same should be deferred vntill the two and twentith daie of the same moneth on which line 60 daie the same was most couragiouslie accomplished in the accustomed place at Westminster where manie staues were valiantlie broken but through the great concourse of people thither repairing manie of the beholders as well men as women were sore hurt some maimed and some killed by falling of the scaffolds ouercharged This yeare about Hallowntide last past in the marishes of Daneseie hundred in a place called Southminster in the countie of Essex a strange thing happened There suddenlie appéered an infinite multitude of mice which ouerwhelming the whole earth in the said marishes did sheare and gnaw the grasse by the roots spoiling tainting the same with their venemous teeth in such sort that the cattell which grased thereon were smitten with a murreine and died thereof Which vermine by policie of man could not be destroied till now at the last it came to passe that there flocked togither all about the same marishes such a number of owles as all the shire was not able to yeeld whereby the marsh holders were shortlie deliuered from the vexation of the said mice This yeere against the comming of certeine commissioners out of Francis into England by hir maiesties appointment year 1581 on the six and twentith daie of March in the morning being Easter daie a banketting house was begun at Westminster on the south west side of hir maiesties palace of White hall made in maner and forme of a long square thrée hundred thirtie and two foot in measure about thirtie principals made of great masts being fortie foot in length a peece standing vpright betwéene euerie one of these masts ten foot asunder and more The walles of this house were closed with canuas and painted all the outsides of the same most artificiallie with a worke called rustike much like to stone This house had two hundred ninetie and two lights of glasse The sides within the same house was made with ten heights of degrées for people to stand vpon and in the top of this house was wrought most cunninglie vpon canuas works of iuie and hollie with pendents made of wicker rods and garnished with baie rue and all maner of strange flowers garnished with spangles of gold as also beautified with hanging toseans made of hollie and iuie with all maner of strange fruits as pomegranats orenges pompions cucumbers grapes carrets with such other like spangled with gold and most richlie hanged Betwixt these works of baies and iuie were great spaces of canuas which was most cunninglie painted the clouds with starres the sunne and sunne beames with diuerse other cotes of sundrie sorts belonging to the quéenes maiestie most richlie garnished with gold There were of all manner of persons working on this house to the number of thrée hundred seuentie and fiue two men had mischances the one brake his leg and so did the other This house was made in thrée wéeks and three daies and was ended the eightéenth daie of Aprill and cost one thousand seuen hundred fortie and foure pounds nineteene shillings and od monie as I was crediblie informed by the worshipfull maister Thomas Graue surueior vnto hir maiesties workes who serued and gaue order for the same as appeareth by record On the sixteenth daie of Aprill arriued at Douer these noblemen of France commissioners from the French king to hir maiestie Francis of Burbon prince dolphin of Auergne Arthur Cossaie marshall of France Lodouic Lusignian lord of Laneoc Tauergius Caercongin countie of Tillir Bertrand Salignacus lord Mot Fenelon monsieur Manaissour Barnabie Brissen president of the parlement of Paris Claud Pinart monsieur Marchmont monsieur Ueraie these came from Grauesend by water to London where they were honorably receiued and interteined and shortlie after being accompanied of the nobilitie of England they repaired to the court and banketting house prepared for them at Westminster as is afore said where hir maiestie decus illa Britannûm Gemmáque non alijs inuenienda locis with amiable countenance great courtesse receiued them and afterward in that place most roiallie feasted banketted them Also the nobles gentlemen of the court desirous to shew them all courtesie possible fittest for such estates and to sport them with all courtlie pleasure agréed among them to prepare a tâiumph which was verie quicklie concluded and being deuised in most sumptuous order was by them performed in as valiant a manner to their endlesse fame and honor The chiefe or chalengers in these attempts were these the earle of Arundell the lord Windsore maister Philip Sidueie and maister Fulke Greuill who calling themselues the foure foster children of desire made their inuention of the foresaid triumph in order and forme following line 10 The gallerie or place at the end of the tiltyard adioining to hir maiesties house at Whitehall wheras hir person should be placed was called and not without cause The castell or fortresse of perfect beautie for as much as hir highnesse should be there included whereto the said foster children laid tiâle and claime as their due by descent to belong vnto the them And vpon deniall or anie repulse from that their desired patrimonie they vowed to vanquish and conquer by force who so should séeme to withstand it line 20 For the accomplishing whereof they sent their challenge or first defiance to the quéenes maiestie which was vttered by a boie on sundaie the sixtéenth of Aprill last as hir maiestie came from the chappell who being apparelled in red and white as a martiall messenger of Desires fostered children without making anie precise reuerence
withdrawen from their naturall allegiance due to the quéenes maiestie and by these meanes to be readie in their hearts and minds and otherwise prouided to ioine their forces as well with such as their heads and superiors which sent them intended speedilie to procure to be sent into this relme line 30 as with other rebellious subiects by them to be thereto also excited of purpose to depriue hir maiestie of hir life crowne and dignitie in like maner as latelie hath béene notoriouslie attempted and put in execution by doctor Sanders an arrant and detestable traitor and whilest he liued one of the said Campions companions and by other English and Irish Iesuits and traitors in Ireland where they had first by their like secret meanes and persuasions intised a great multitude of people of that land first to line 40 change their profession of religion and to acknowledge the popes authoritie and to renounce the iust authoritie of hir maiestie so departing from their allegiance vpon the arriuall of forten forces they did enter into a manifest rebellion against the which almightie God the iust auenger of rebels by his goodnesse hath giuen hir maiestie through hir good ministers power to the vanquishing not onelie of those forren forces but also of a great number of the rebels there Yet it is maliciouslie falselie and traitorouslie line 50 by some of the secret fauourers of the said Campion and other the said condemned traitors whispered in corners that the offenses of these traitors were but for their secret attemptings as Iesuits by exhorting and teaching with shriuing massing and such like acts to mooue people to change their religion to yeeld their obedience to the pope as Christs vicar although the same be of themselues offenses verie heinous and séeds of sedition not allowable by the lawes of the realme whereas in verie line 60 truth neuerthelesse it did manifestlie appeere vpon their indictments and at their arreignements by sundrie confessions of some of their owne companions and by manie good proofes and witnesses produced and sworne before their faces that their facts whereof they were arreigned and condemned were such as were in truth hie tresons committed against hir maiesties roiall person and against the ancient lawes and statutes of this realme which manie hundred yeres past were in force against like traitors and not for facts of doctrine or religion nor yet for offenses against anie late or new statutes the same being manie conspiracies at sundrie times beyond the seas at Rome in Italie and other places and lastlie at Rheimes in France where there are nourished by the popes authoritie in seminaries multitudes of English Iesuits seminarie priests and fugitiues whereof their heads and gouernors vse continuallie in their sermons and in their bookes publikelie printed as traitors to declare their traitorous minds as far forth as they can to the depriuation of the queenes maiestie of hir life and crowne to which ends the said Campion and his said companions by procurement of their said heads came secretlie into this realme to mooue the subiects to renounce their naturall obedience according to a bull of the last pope Pius published to persuade all sorts with whom they durst secretlie deale that hir maiestie by the said popes excommunication was not the lawfull quéene of the realme nor that the subiects were bound to obeie anie of hir lawes or ministers but that they were all frée and discharged of their obedience and allegiance and that they might lawfullie yea that when time might serue they ought to take armes against hir maiestie as in the late rebellion in the north was manifestlie by like meanes put in execution and as now also latelie was notoriouslie attempted in Ireland by stirring vp the people in the popes name and vnder his stândard to an open generall rebellion And to haue brought these things to passe in this realme was the comming into this realme of the said Campion and his complices most manifestlie tried and prooued as if by Gods goodnes by their apprehensions after their secret wandrings and disguisings of themselues in a great part of the shires of the realme these traitors had not beene now staied and by iust punishmments ordered to be eâecuted there would haue appéered such mischiefe as islamentable to be thought of to the danger of hir maiesties person and to the hazard and ruine of the whole realme by inuasion of the same with forren enimâes and by raising of inward warre within the realme the end and euent whereof as of warre ciuill can not be without great greefe mentioned or imagined And to the further reproofe and condemnation of the said Campion and other the traitours now condemned they being all seuerallie and earnestlie required at the place of their arreignement to declare what they thought of the said popes bull by which hir maiestie was in the popes intention depriued of the crowne and of doctors Sanders and of Bristowes traitorous writings in maintenance of the said bull and allowance of the rebellion in the north and of Sanders traitorous actions in Ireland and being likewise demanded what they did thinke if the present pope should publish the like bull none of them all but one onelie named Rushton could be persuaded by anie their answers to shew in anie part their mislikings either of the former bull or of doctor Sanders or Bristowes traitorous writings or actions or of the pope that now is if he should now publish the like bull against hir maiestie so as they did apparantlie shew their traitorous harts still fired to persist in their diuelish minds against their naturall allegiance whereof God giue all good subiects being true Englishmen borne grace to beware and in no sort to giue eare or succour to such pernicious traitors howsoeuer they shall be couered with hypocrisie false and fained holines of Rome This aduertisement read and heard the time by pitifull delaies began to passe awaie in somuch that the executioner was now to fall to his charge whervpon Campion was exhorted to praie with the people in English naie to doo so he was desired howbeit he would not but said his Pater noster in Latine and desired all those of the household of faith to saie one Credo for him Manie indirect answers he made as when he was mooued to aske the quéene forgiuenesse and when the preacher requested him to shew some signe of a penitent sinner then shortlie he replied You and I we are not of one religion After a few silent praiers to himselfe the cart was drawen awaie he committed to the mercie of God There he hanged till he was dead when being cut downe he was bowelled and quartered according as it was appointed by iustice Rafe Sherwin séemed a line 10 man of better iudgement more learned and more obedient he said the Lords praier in English beléeuing in God that made him in Christ his sonne that saued him and in the
amongst the which were the earle Fernaugus the bishop of Constance and manie other notable personages And amongst the dead were the earle of saint Agnau and his sonne the earle of Chasteaurousse the sonne of the marshall of France Biron monsieur de Saisonall gouernor of Uilnord the sonne of the lord Miranbeau and others A maruellous act of citizens in their defense without anie soldiors against old soldiors and tried men of armes and number of so great nobilitie A maruellous continencie clemencie of rough citizens against their enimies in kéeping their hands from the killing of prisoners whome they had in their power and surelie a woonderfull worke of God The prince of Orange with others had refused to go foorth and his danger was not small with other gentlemen more and lords of the religion The prince Dolphin the earle Lamall and others were with the duke lookers on and intercessors for their friends whom they reckoned dead After that fact the duke with his campe was forced for lacke of vittels and necessaries to retire him with his armie toward Machlin and from thense with great difficultie passing great waters with losse of manie a man got to Dermond where he was kept in by the generall Norris with three and twentie ensignes Englishmen and Scots so that he lacked vittels and necessaries whereby he was forced as also to haue his prisoners restored to enter into a treatie with the estates to surrender all the townes by his men possessed and to retire him to Dunkirke where further with the estates by intercession of princes was hoped a reconcilement to be made But he séeing the countrie vnwilling and finding himselfe sicke as it was thought of melancholie he retired from Dunkirke toward France And so as he was retired the prince of Parma for king Philip caused Dunkirke to be besieged few Frenchmen left within it And as the states Generall and the prince of Orange would haue sent thither to rescue the towne the marshall Biron with his Frenchmen and Swissers the Flemings chéeflie they of Gaunt partlie for hatred of the French and partlie that manie now were become Spanish would not suffer him to come ouer into Flanders whereby Dunkirke was forced to surrender and this losse being imputed to the duke increased his sickenesse so that he died at Chasteau Thierie the tenth of Iulie 1583 was roiallie buried at saint Diones by Paris ¶ But before we passe the absolute coÌmemoration of the monsieur sith in some remembrances we haue atteined to a perfection it shall not be amisse héere to annex the manner of his sicknesse as also the verie speeches which he vttered as they are reported by Iames Berson Parisien preacher to the French king and to the said monsieur in a discourse by him published vnder the title of A funerall complaint c. Wherein whatsoeuer is spoken deserueth the greater credit for that the said Berson was vpon his owne certeine knowledge able to giue out the truth and therfore intimateth to the readers of his treatise that they are not to looke for either flatteries or hautie proud and lieng arguments he being the man who assuredlie was able to answer and beare witnes of the pietie religion and departure of monsieur a sonne of France and the kings onelie brother in the fauor of God as the same vpon whome he reposed himselfe concerning his conscience soule and saluation and hauing from the beginning of his sickenes administred vnto him the holie sacrament and did assist him to the end You are therfore to vnderstand that after my said lords crosse haps and danger of life in the low countries and his returne into his duchie of Castle Thierie his naturall brotherlie resolution taken to go alone to Paris there to yéeld him selfe to his maiesties armes a déed to be accounted and taken as a strong bulworke against whatsoeuer the popular and enuious slanders after his returne home he conceiued an extreame contentation in dailie hearing of sermons yea not satisfied with the onelie hearing of them he greatlie delited to talke of the same also to haue the same repeated vnto him Thus did our Lord in conuenient time dispose his soule which he purposed shortlie to visit in his next sickenesse and that was an ague that continued without equalitie vntill the thirtéenth of March and then he fell into so strange a iudgement that all euen the physicians began to doubt of him For a flux of bloud issued so continuallie out of his nose and mouth that they were still forced to hold him line 10 a basen whereinto he voided the pure and cléere bloud When all men were as it were astonied therat himselfe began with a perfect mind and vnderstanding to saie My friends helpe me will you suffer a christian prince thus to die Now is the time come that God will call me to account cause monsieur Berson to come hither When I came ha monsieur Berson said this good prince I am dead I must acknowledge my God my frend flatter me not I will reconcile my selfe line 20 Alas I am a great sinner will not God haue mercie on me Will not he forgiue me I answered There is no dout my lord but vpon humbling your selfe before his holie maiestie with contrition you shall obteine remission of your sinnes My lord you are verie sicke I will not flatter with you but your whole life and your selfe resteth in the hands of God Sickenes is naturall or sent by God for a warning if your disease be naturall there is hope we will vse all means for remedie On the one side the physicians line 30 are here readie who shall imploie themselues On the other side all the world is in praier deuotion for your health If it procéedeth from God it is a warning to you for the rest of your life to the end to draw you neerer to him either else to aduertise you of your naturall condition that is that you are mortall must once paie this debt and restore your soule to God who lent it to you at whatsoeuer time he shall call for it Now my lord sith we can not certeinlie discerne the one from the other is it not best line 40 for you to conforme your will to Gods will Also in case God granteth you to ouerliue this sickenesse are you not resolued to better your life and to liue more in his feare than before Againe if he be determined to call you out of this world are not you content to go into Abrahams bosome and there to rest vnder the protection of his mercie Resolue your selfe my lord you haue a goodlie soule I am said this good prince fullie resolued in the will of my God let him doo with me whatsoeuer line 50 shall please him onelie that he will vouchsafe to haue mercie on me I wold reconcile me but I shall hardlie speake and in truth the bloud still belched out into
vp an high waie that directed towards the market towne of Cerne and yet notwithstanding the hedges wherewith it was inclosed inuiron it still and the trées stand thereon bolt vpright sauing one oke trée that is well nigh twentie goads remooued the place whereas the ground had his being at the first is left like vnto a great hollow pit The same thirteenth daie of Ianuarie being sundaie about line 30 foure of the clocke in the afternoone the old and vnderpropped scaffolds round about the beare garden commonlie called Paris garden on the southside the Thames ouer against the citie of London ouercharged with people fell suddenlie downe whereby to the number of eight persons men and women were slaine and manie other sore hurt and brused A fréendlie warning to all such as more delight themselues in the crueltie of beasts to sée them rent one an other line 40 than in the works of mercie which are the fruits of a true professed faith and ought to be the sabboth daies exercise and not onelie a warning to works of mercie but a watchword to put vs in mind how we violate the sabboth daie the Lords owne daie which he sanctified himselfe that we by his example might sanctifie the same and not prophane it with such gentilisme as we doo as though God would not call vs to a râckoning for abusing his holie ordinances and falsifieng the glorious title of christians in line 50 our odious actions for the which God will seuerelie expostulat with vs and with indignation demand of vs why we take his lawes in our mouths renounce them in our minds why we let them swim in our lips and slip from our liues as the vaine Iewes did vnto whome God said in displeasure as followeth Quid de lege mea declamas ore profano Non hoc officij debuit esse tui Cùm tamen mores leges oderis aequas Et verbi officium negligis omne mei line 60 On the third of Februarie being sundaie William Bruistar habardasher a man of more than threescore yeares old being lodged ouer the southwest porch of saint Brides church in Fleetstréet with a woman named Marie Breame whome the same Bruistar had bailed out of Bridewell were both found smothered to death in maner following On the same sundaie in the morning a marriage being solemnized in that church a strong fauour was felt which was thought to haue béene the burning of old shooes or such like in some gentlemans chamber there about thereby to suppresse the infection of the plague But in the afternoone before euening praier the parishioners espied a smoke to issue out of Bruistars chamber and therevpon made hast to the dore which they found fast locked and were forced to breake it open but could not enter till they had ripped vp the lead and roofe of the chamber to let out the smothering stench which being doone they found Bruistar dead sitting on a settle by his beds side in his apparell and close trussed his right thigh right arme vp to the elbow burnt or scorched with the fire of a small pan of coales that stood before him but now being cleane quenched with the dampe or lacke of aire The woman also laie dead ouer the pan so that hir armes were likewise burnt with the nether part of hir bodie before to hir brest and behind to the shoulders and nothing else in the chamber burnt but the bottome of the settle wheron Bruistar sat Of this lamentable accident people talked diuerslie and pamphlets were published to make the same more knowne howbeit to leaue the certeine meanes of the euent to his knowledge that vnderstandeth and séeth all things let it be a warning to all ages so to liue as that an honest report may attend their death shame flie from them as a cloud before the wind Sic sapient sic non insipientes erunt On the sixteenth of Aprill about six of the clocke in the morning Thomas Worth Alice Shepheard year 1583 were hanged on a gibbet at Shoolane end in Fléetstreet for killing of a prentice in the same Shoolane Also on the same daie about eight of the clocke in the morning a gunpowder house called the signe of the gun in Fetterlane néere vnto Fléetstréet and diuerse other houses néere adioining were blowne vp with the spoire of fiftie hundred weight of powder two men and one woman were slaine diuerse other persons as well men as women and children were sore hurt some blasted with the flame some brused with the fall of timber vpon them c. Albertus Alasco frée baron of Lasco Uaiuode or palatine of Siradia in Poland arriued at Harwich in Essex and on the last of Aprill came by water to Winchester house in Southworke where he remained for the most part of his abode heere of whome more hereafter at his returne into his owne countrie Elias Thackar tailor was hanged at saint Edmunds burie in Suffolke on the fourth of Iune and Iohn Coping shoomaker on the sixt of the same moneth for spreading and mainteining certeine bookes seditiouslie penned by one Robert Browne against the receiued booke of English common praier established by the lawes of this realme their bookes so manie as could be found were burned before them This yeare on the ninth of Iune deceased Thomas Ratclife earle of Sussex lord chamberleine to hir maiestie and knight of the garter at Barmundseie in the borough of Southworke besides London and was on the eight of Iulie next following conueied through the same citie of London toward Newhall in Essex there to be buried in forme folowing First went on foot before him fortie and fiue poore men in blacke gownes then on horssebacke one hundred and twentie seruingmen in blacke coats then ninetie and fiue gentlemen in blacke gownes or clokes besides the heralds at armes and other which bare his helme creast sword coat of armes and banners of armes c. Then the deceased earle couered with a pall of blacke veluet in a chariot likewise couered with blacke veluet drawne with foure goodlie geldings next after was led the earles stéed couered with blacke veluet then sir Henrie Ratclife the succéeding erle chiefe mourner and eight other lords all in blacke then the lord maior and his brethren the aldermen of London riding in murraie gownes then on foot the gentlemen of Greis in and last of all the worshipfull companie of the merchant tailors of London in their liueries for that the said earle was a brother of their companie as manie noble men and famous princes kings of this realme before him had béene as more at large is declared in the summarie of the chronicles of England in the eightéenth yeare of king Henrie the seuenth The maior and aldermen the gentlemen of Greis in and the merchant tailors accompanied the corps to the barres without Aldgate and returned This was the end of that nobleman who whiles he liued
themselues nor they shall not suffer anie other folkes to haue anie recourse by their meanes to wash anie bucks or other clothes neither woollen or linnen at the well nor in anie other part of the same yards but onelie themselues for annoieng of the tenants with filth foule waters running through their yards houses there adioining And if anie of the rest of the said widowes doo or shall know that anie of them or more haue offended anie of these articles aforesaid and doo not shew the same vnto such persons as shall haue authoritie to correct and amend the same then all such persons shall be in the like danger as the partie that hath so offended if it may be proued that they did know thereof and if they or anie of them shall offend in anie of these articles they shall be put from their houses as is aforesaid and not be admitted anie more into anie of them 4 Also I will that they and either of them shall most vsuallie vse the parish church of saint Benets néere Paules wharfe and especiallie vpon the sabboth daie and vpon mondaie wednesdaie and fridaie in euerie wéeke if there be anie seruice in the same church on the said daies and if they or anie of them shall be absent from the same church at seruice time being in the citie and being not sicke they shall paie two pence for euerie time so offending which shall be put into the poores bore among themselues or into the poores box in the said parish church 5 Also I will that none of them doo occupie anie water aboue the staires of anie of the same houses for decaieng of the same houses and perishing of the séelings and if anie of them shall so offend she or they shall loose the fiue shillings that they should receiue the next quarter daie following by vertue of my will 6 Also I will haue them to put in two sufficient suertis to be bound in twentie pounds before they be admitted into anie of the same houses to performe these articles or else to auoid the said houses within twentie daies as is aforesaid quietlie 7 Also I will that the two widowes that doo or shall dwell in the two houses next the stréet on either side of the gate shall hang out one lanthorne betwéene them both and a whole candell in it burning according vnto the custome in the citie of London vsed in the winter season that is to saie the one widow one wéeke to hang it out and the other widow another wéeke and so to continue from time to time and the said lanthorne to be mainteined by those two widowes that shall haue the hanging of them out And I will that they doo mainteine them to be faire large and cléere lanthorns and for the prouision of the candels I will that the other foure widowes dwelling in the other foure houses shall buie either of them one pound of cotton candels and deliuer them vnto the two widowes that shall hang out the lanthorne so as alwaies there shall not be aboue ten candels in the pound And if any of the same widows shall not performe this my meaning I will that twise so much more as will performe the premisses shall be staid out of the fiue shillings that they or either of them should receiue the next quarter daie following by vertue of my last will and testament God grant that they which are better able may haue no lesse good will to doo the like or better that the godlie poore may be relieued here on earth vpon whom be it litle or much that is bestowed Christ Iesus no doubt will reward it a hundred fold in heauen and who would not by workes of faithfull charitie line 10 endeuour to dwell in God whome the scripture calleth charitie Considering that the apostle exhorteth all christians in no case to forget to doo good and distribute sith with such sacrifices he is well pleased On the 12 daie of Nouember the quéens maiestie returning after hir progresse came to hir manor of S. Iames where the citizens of London to the number of two hundred of the grauest sort in cotes of veluet and chaines of gold on horssebacke and a thousand of the companies on foot hauing with line 20 them a thousand men with torches readie there to giue light on euerie side for that the night drew on receiued and welcomed hir grace And on the foure and twentith daie of the same moneth hir maiestie and the lords rode to the parlement which was that daie begun at Westminster ¶ In the foresaid parlement held at Westminster were manie necessarie lawes ordeined for the commonwealth amongst which was one speciall act procured by sir Roger Manwood knight thiefe baron of line 30 the excheker for the maintenance of the famous stone bridge of Rochester And here bicause there is mention made of sir Roger Manwood Rochester bridge I thinke it conuenient sith I haue alwaies determined to set foorth what soeuer might come to my mind and pen touching my sweet and natiue countrie of Kent and such persons of the same as either by honorable descent in that countrie or by office of hie place in the commonwealth or by worthie remembrance deserue not to be forgotten to speake line 40 somewhat of the same sir Roger Manwood and such things as he hath doone for that countrie especiallie sith master Lambard a man of rare iudgement hath not for gotten to treat of him in his booke of the perambulation of Kent vnder the title of Sandwich Wherfore thinking him worthie remembrance for that which he hath doone in his owne countrie of Kent I enter in discourse of him a Kentishman ân this sort This man being borne at Sandwich in the yeare of our redemption one thousand fiue hundred and line 50 fiue and twentie was first instructed in the grammar schoole of that towne as then but a meane thing and taught by a chanterie préest of the foundation of one Thomas Ellis Afterwards when as by dissolution of chanteries in the time of king Edward the sixt this chanterie schoole was taken away the children of the townes people being manie in number were forced to be taught in the grammar schooles far distant from Sandwich to the great charges of their parents whereby manie poore mens children line 60 for capacitie and paines taking méet for learning were put by the course of learning which otherwise might haue prooued learned and become good members of the commonwealth the said sir Roger Manwood by stâdie in the law and reader in the inner temple well considering the same and minding to restore to Sandwich towne his birth place a better grammar schoole than thaâ wherein he was first brought vp did in the yeare of our redemption one thousand fiue hundred thrée scoâe and three vpon his mânie charges procure from the deââe chapter of Christs church of
of the wall it selfe which neuer left sinking till it came to the foundation of the rocke except by some ouersight of the workemen some part thereof were set vpon the beach which should by order haue béene first remooued in that case they benched it digging a trench at the foot of that part of line 10 the wall and filling the same with earth they made it verie tight and so might anie such place be perfected and amended if need should require But at this houre there leaketh not a drop of water vnder or through anie part of the wall that anie man maie perceiue or see so as a full pent shrinketh not anie whit at all betwixt tide and tide whereas the allowance of one foot leakage or fall at the least was required of them which exhibited the plot of the woodden line 20 wall which being measured from the top or face of the high pent diminisheth almost one quarter thereof And thus betwixt the first of Maie and midst of August this pent which was thought vnpossible to be doone in three yeares was perfectlie finished in lesse than thrée months and remaineth in so good and sure state as the longer it standeth the better and tighter it will be If neuer anie thing should be added herevnto this pent by reason of the abundance of water reteined therein and issuing out of the sâuse would mainteine line 30 a good hauen in that place for the violent course therof will alwaies open the hauens mouth and make a fret there euen downe to the rocke although it be distant from the same threescore rods in so much as at this instant there maâe come in at quarter floud a barke of fortie or fiftie tun and at full sea a ship of thrée hundred tun and vpwards But when the two iustie heads are once finished which are now in hand so as the hauens mouth be perfected anie ship what soeuer maie enter in thereat line 40 and remaine within that rode in good safetie But as at manie other times heretofore there hath béene sure triall had of the good effects of this pent so now in this last moneth of October one thousand fiue hundred fourescore and six one gate of the sâuse being by mischance broken so as by the space of foure daies there could be no water reteined within she pent to scowre the mouth of the hauen the same was so choked and swarued vp with sand and beach line 50 in that space as no bote could enter in or passe out of the same insomuch as Edward Wootton esquire being then at Douer to passe thense in an ambassage from hir maiestie to the French king was forced to send to Sandwich for a craier to transport him to Calis because no bote of Douer lieng within the rode could passe out at the hauens mouth But assoone as the said gate of the sluse was repared euen the next tide following a vessell of thrée hundred tun might and did easilie passe in and out thereat line 60 one pent of water had so scowred and depthened the same Whereby it maie appeare that neither the cost bestowed nor the worke performed hath béene vnprofitablie imploiâd or vnnecessarilie vndertaken Now you shall vnderstand that the small sluse which was first made and laied in the crosse wall in such sort and for such purpose as hath béene declared was taken vp after the said walles were finished and a sluse of far greater charge was made by the aforesaid Peter Pet who vndertooke to doo it by great and had for the same foure hundred pounds the laieng whereof did cost two hundred pounds more at the least This sluse conteineth in length fourescore foot in bredth sixtéene foot in depth thirtéene and hath in it two draw gates It was one whole moneth in laieng all which time the said lord Cobham made his abode there and kept a most honorable and costlie table furthering those works not onelie with his continuall presence and countenance but also with his good direction and that not at starts but from morning till night and from daie to daie vntill the full accomplishing thereof And in the meane time sir Francis Walsingham hir maiesties principall secretarie was not vncarefull of this action as being the man without whom nothing was doone directing the course and alwaie looking into the state thereof and gaue continuall life thervnto by prouiding monie for it whereof when anie want approched he neuer failed to see or rather to send a sure supplie Since the finishing of these wals and sluses there hath beene much worke and charge imploied about one of the iuttie heads and beautifieng of the harborough wherin one George Carie of Deuonshire esquire and one Iohn Hill an auditor haue béene the principall directors But because that worke remaineth as yet vnperformed the report thereof shall also remaine to be made by others that shall hereafter haue occasion to write of such affairs ¶ At the assises kept at the citie of Excester the fourteenth daie of March in the eight and twentith yeare of hir maiesties reigne before sir Edmund Anderson knight lord chiefe iustice of the common plees and sargeant Floredaie one of the barons of the excheker iustices of the assises in the countie of Deuon and Exon there happened a verie sudden and a strange sickenesse first amongst the prisoners of the gaole of the castell of Exon then dispersed vpon their triall amongst sundrie other persons which was not much vnlike to the sickenesse that of late yeares happened at an assise holden at Oxford before sir Robert âell knight lord chiefe baron of the excheker and iustice then of that assise and of which sickenesse he amongst others died This sickenesse was verie sharpe for the time few escaped which at the first were infected therewith It was contagious and infectious but not so violent as commonlie the pestilence is neither dooth there appeare anie outward vlcer or sore The origen and cause thereof diuerse men are of diuerse iudgements Some did impute it and were of the mind that it procéeded from the contagion of the gaole which by reason of the close aire and filthie stinke the prisoners newlie come out of a fresh aire into the same are in short time for the most part infected therewith and this is commonlie called the gaole sickenesse and manie die thereof Some did impute it to certeine poore Portingals then prisoners in the said gaole For not long before one Barnard Drake esquier afterwards dubbed ââight had béene at the seas and meeting ãâã certeine Portingals come from New found land and laden with fish he tooke them as a good prise and brought them into Dartmouth hauen in England and from thense they were sent being in number about eight and thirtie persons vnto the gaole of the castell of Exon and there were cast into the deepe pit and stinking dungeon These men had béene before a
protest hath beene my gréedie desire and hungrie will that of your consultation line 30 might haue fallen out some other meanes to worke my safetie ioined with your assurance than that for which you are become such earnest sutors as I protest I must néeds vse complaint though not of you but vnto you and of the cause for that I doo perceiue by your aduises praiers and desires there falleth out this accident that onelie my iniurers bane must be my lifes suertie But if anie there liue so wicked of nature to suppose that I prolonged this time onelie Pro forma line 40 to the intent to make a shew of clemencie thereby to set my praises to the wierdrawers to lengthen them the more they doo me so great a wrong as they can hardlie recompense Or if anie person there be that thinke or imagine that the least vaine-glorious thought hath drawne me further herein they doo me as open iniurie as euer was doone to anie liuing creature as he that is the maker of all thoughts knoweth best to be true Or if there be anie that thinke that the lords appointed in commission line 50 durst doo no other as fearing thereby to displease or else to be suspected to be of a contrarie opinion to my safetie they doo but heape vpon me iniurious conceipts For either those put in trust by me to supplie my place haue not performed their duties towards me or else they haue signified vnto you all that my desire was that euerie one should doo according to his conscience and in the course of his procéedings should inioie both fréedome of voice and libertie of opinion and what they would not openlie line 60 declare they might priuatlie to my selfe haue reuealed It was of a willing mind and great desire I had that some other meanes might be found out wherein I should haue taken more comfort than in anie other thing vnder the sun And sith now it is resolued that my suretie can not be established without a princesse end I haue iust cause to complaine that I who haue in my time pardoned so manie rebels winked at so manie treasons and either not produced them or altogither slipt them ouer with silence should now be forced to this procéeding against such a person I haue besides during my reigne séene and heard manie opprobrious books and pamphlets against me my realme and state accusing me to be a tyrant I thanke them for their almes I beleeue therein their meaning was to tell me news and news it is to me in déed I would it were as strange to heare of their impietie What will they not now saie when it shall be spread that for the safetie of hir life a maiden queene could be content to spill the bloud euen of hir owne kinswoman I maie therefore full well complaine that anie man should thinke me giuen to crueltie whereof I am so giltlesse and innocent as I should slander God if I should saie he gaue me so vile a mind yea I protest I am so far from it that for mine owne life I would not touch hir neither hath my care beene so much bent how to prolong mine as how to preserue both which I am right sorie is made so hard yea so impossible I am not so void of iudgement as not to sée mine owne perill nor yet so ignorant as not to know it were in nature a foolish course to cherish a swoord to cut mine owne throte nor so carelesse as not to weigh that my life dailie is in hazard but this I doo consider that manie a man would put his life in danger for the safegard of a king I doo not saie that so will I but I praie you thinke that I haue thought vpon it But sith so manie haue both written spoken against me I praie you giue me leaue to saie somewhat for my selfe before you returne to your countries let you know for what a one you haue passed so carefull thoughts Wherein as I thinke my selfe infinitlie beholding vnto you all that seeke to preserue my life by all the meanes you maie so I protest vnto you that there liueth no prince that euer shall be more mindfull to requite so good deserts And as I perceiue you haue kept your old woonts in a generall séeking of the lengthning of my daies so am I sure that I shall neuer requite it vnlesse I had as manie liues as you all but for euer I will acknowledge it while there is anie breath left me Although I maie not iustifie but maie iustlie condemne my sundrie faults and sinnes to God yet for my care in this gouernment let me acquaint you with my intents When first I tooke the scepter my title made me not forget the giuer and therefore began as it became me with such religion as both I was borne in bred in and I trust shall die in Although I was not so simple as not to know what danger and perill so great an alteration might procure me how manie great princes of the contrarie opinion would attempt all they might against me and generallie what enimitie I should breed vnto my selfe which all I regarded not knowing that he for whose sake I did it might and would defend me For which it is that euer since I haue béene so dangerouslie prosecuted as I rather maruell that I am than muse that I should not be if it were not Gods holie hand that continueth me beyond all other expectation Then entered I further into the schoole of experience bethinking what it fitted a king to doo and there I saw he scant was well furnished if either he lacked iustice temperance magnanimitie or iudgement As for the two latter I will not boast my sex dooth not permit it but for the two first this dare I saie amongst my subiects I neuer knew a difference of person where right was one nor neuer to my knowledge preferred for fauour whome I thought not fit for woorth nor bent my eares to credit a tale that first was told me nor was so rash to corrupt my iudgement with my censure before I heard the cause I will not saie but manie reports might fortune be brought me by such as might heare the case whose parcialitie might mar sometime the matter for we princes maie not heare all our selues But this dare I boldlie affirme my verdict went euer with the truth of my knowledge As full well wished Alcibiades his fréend that he should not giue anie answer till he had recited the letters of the alphabet so haue I not vsed ouer sudden resolutions in matters that haue touched me full neere you will saie that with me I thinke And therefore as touching your counsels and consultations I conceiue them to be wise honest line 10 and conscionable so prouident and carefull for the safetie of my life which I wish no longer than maie be for your good that though I neuer can yéeld you of recompense your due yet shall I indeuour
no respect to deale with the pope note 24. Their authoritie notablie exemplied in Anselme note 24 25. Their election annulled vpon good causes note 210 a 10. Six at London in time of the parlement 256 a 10 Archbishoprike of Canturburie void more than thrée yeares 225 a 60. Uoid foure yeares note 18 b 10. Let out to farme 206 a 40 Archbishopriks giuen to strangers by duke William 9 a 20 Archdecons should be decons 30 b 30 Archdeconries not to be let out to farme 30 b 30 Archer good was Henrie the eight 806 a 40 Archer English of the garrison of Calis a notable péece of seruice against the enimie 380 a 60 Archers of England driue the French from their siege 363 a 10. Notable seruice against the Genowaies note 372 a 40 50 Uictorious against the French 373 a 60. Seruice against the Scots 987 a 60. Fulfill a prophesie note 388 b 50. Force against the French 389 a 40 Worthie actiuitie 396 b 60. Ualiancie against the Spaniards 399 a 30. Good seruice vnder sir Hugh Caluerlie 422 b 50. Under the conduct of a préest 443 b 50 Shot killeth in a quarell 447 a 50. Great seruice against the Spanish French 448 a 10. Good seruice against the Saracens 473 a 60. In the time of a conspiracie note 516 a 30. The greatest force of the English armie note 553 a 60. Good seruice at Teukesburie field 687 b 60. Good seruice vnder sir Humfreie Talbot 770 b 30. Good seruice against the enimie 771 a 10. Of the Cornish rebels whose arrowes were in length a full cloth yard 782 b 10. Game made with laieng wast of gardenâ in Moore field 785 a 20. A shew of two hundred in a maigame before king Henrie the eight 836 b 40. Gall the French horssemen 966 a 60 Archers Irish 986 a 20. Discomfited 984 b 40. ¶ Sée Inclosures Ard assaulted by the Englishmen 528 b 40 Arden murthered by the means of his wife a notable whoore note 1062 b 40 c. Arden ¶ Sée Sumeruill Arks besieged 819 a 30 Arlet duke William Conquârors mother the daughter of a burgesse 20 a 10 Armach in Ireland where the sée metropolitane is 100 b 40 Armenia the king thereof commeth ouer into England for aid against the Turkes 448 b 50. Sueth for a safe conduct to come into England which is denied him 453 b 30. Would gladlie that a peace betwéene England and France should be concluded 480. b 30 Armetridâ the wife of Hugh Lou earle of Chester 20 a 40 Armie called the armie of God and the holie church 185. a 50 Armour and an ordinance for the same 105 a 30. ¶ See England Arnalt knight his valiantnesse 997 a 10 40 Arrogancie of Becket blamed 77 b 10. ¶ Sée Ambition and Pride Arsacidâ ¶ Sée Saracens Arthur made awaie by meanes of his vncle king Iohn and whie 7 b 30 Arthur the eldest and first son of Henrie the seuenth borne 769 b 10. Had carnall knowledge with his wife he is sent into Wales 789 a 50 60 b 20. Deceaseth 790 b 10 Arthur Plantagenet created vicount Lisle 878 a 50. Deceaseth in the tower 955 a 60. ¶ Sée Plantagenet Arthur of Britaine ¶ Sée Duke Arundell castell besieged 30 a 50 Arundell knight drowned his excesse and sumptuous apparell 423 b 10 60 Aske a notable rebell pardoned note 942 b 30. He and others practise to raise a new rebellion 944 a 10 c. He with his coparteners is exeecuted 944 b 10 Assassini ¶ Sée Saracens Assemblies vnlawfull an act there against 1061 a 30 Assise of bread published by proclamation note 166 a 20 30 Astronomers deceiued and how they excused their false predictions 882 b 20. Deceiued in their predictions 1356 b 30 c. Attaindors at parlament 946 b 20. 995 a 10. ¶ Sée Treason Audleie lord chéefe capteine of the Cornish rebels ignominiouslie drawne vnto Tiburne and executed 782 a 10 b 30. Slaine 649 b 10 Audleie knight lord chancellor 929 b 20. Kéeper of the great seale 928 b 20 Auricular confession ¶ Sée Confession Auxerre citie taken by sir Robert Knols 391 b 30 B. BAbington and his confederats ¶ Sée Traitors Bacon knight lord kéeper deceaseth 1271 b 60. His epitaph in Paules 1272 a 10. Sée more of him 1286 b 40. ¶ Sée Chancellors Badbie his notable constancie 536 a 60 Badge of the bright sunne the earle of Marches badge 660 a 20. Of the earle of Warwike worne in euerie mans cap note 678 b 40. Of Richard the second 500 b 60. Of quéene Elisabeth note 1290 b 10 Badges a bill against the wearing of them 472 b 60 Baffuling what it is among the Scots 427 a 30 Bagot knight and prisoner discloseth secrets of trouble 512 b 50 60 c 513 a 10 c. Bailiffes first that bare rule in London 119 b 60. ¶ Sée London and Officers Bainards castell new built 788 a 10 Baion yéelded to the Englishmen 293 b 20 Bakers sell bread lacking six or seuen ounces weight in a penie lofe 282 b 60. Punished by the pillorie 259 b 40 Bales writing within the compasse of a penie 1262 b 10 Balioll king of Scots obteineth the kingdome of Scotland 288 b 60. The forme of his fealtie to the king of England 288 b 60. 289 b 50. His homage 290 a 20. Crowned king of Scotland 349 b 60. Chased out of Scotland 350 a 20. Doth homage to Edward the third 350 b 20. Departeth this life 308 b 60 Banbourgh ¶ Sée Castell Banket roiall note 254 a 50.825 a 30. Of two hundred and thrée score dishes 849 a 40. Of two hundred dishes vpon the sudden 922 b 20. Of thirtie or fortie dishes and not one of them fish nor flesh 1192 b 50. Full of proper deuises 1425 a 30 Banketting house of French king describeth 849 b 10 c. Of Henrie the eight in his palace at Guisnes 857 b 60. Within the towne of Calis 861 b 20 c. At Westminster builded 1315 b 10. How garnished and decked 30. The costs and charges thereof 40 Bankerupts practise 812 b 20 Banishment of bishops and other English in duke Williams time 8 a 30. By whome ordeined 33 b 50. For twelue moneths 269 b 10. Of the earle of Cornewall out of the realme 319 b 60. Perpetuall 465 a 30 Banister the duke of Buckingham seruant receiueth the duke in perill of life into his house 743 b 50. Betraieth him into the hands of his enimies for monie Gods secret iudgements vpon him and his children note 744 a 50 60 Barnabées daie kept holie daie all London ouer 1062 b 10 Barnard of Newmarch a Norman 17 a 60 Barnes doctor and two merchants of the Stilliard did penance at Paules crosse for heresie 892 b 60. For a sermon inuectiue against bishop Gardiner asketh him forgiuenesse 950 b 10. He and others executed 952 b 30 Barnet towne how seated 684 a 10 Barnet field ¶ Sée Battell Barons foure vnder thâ earle of Chester 20 a 20
parlement 340 b 10. Saueth into Wales 338 b 60. His âaâourie to the Welshmen 339 a 10. Sought vnto to resigne his crowne his griefe therat 340 b 50 60. Betraied into his enimies hands brought to Killingworth castell 339 b 50 Wiâhstood in armes by his wife 336 337 338. Sendeth for his wife and sonne home out of France 336 b 10 2â Writeth to the duke of Britaine 335 b 30. Like to be betraied the traitors executed 333 334. Goeth to Scotland with an armie 332 b 50. Subdueth his barons 330 331 332 a 10. In armes against his enimies his proclamation 329 b 60. Passeth by a foord commeth to Tutburie causeth hue crie to be made 330 a 30 50. Durst not but yeeld to his nobles request 327 b 10. He goeth to Canturburie talketh with lord chamberleine besiegeth the castell of Léeds 327 b 10. Affection and loue to Pâers Gaueston 320 a 10. His request for his life his displeasure for his deth 321 a 30 60. Passeth ouer to France 318 b 50. Dooth homage to the French king marrieth his daughter returneth is receiued into London crowned 318 b 60 319 a 10. Goeth to Berwike 324 b 50. Passeth into Scotland what issue his armie had there he escapeth danger of death 322 a 20 40. Murthered 341 b 60. His nature and conditions his issue 342 a 10 c Edward the third borne 321 b 10. Beginneth his râigne 343 a 60. Passeth ouer into Calis inuadeth France returneth for want of vittels the constable of France demandeth battell of him 383 a 10. Lodgeth his armie néere Berwike the Scots yéeld vnto him the realme of Scotland resigned vnto him 386 a 50 60. Thrée kings come vn-him about businesse 396 a 50. Aduanceth his sons to degrée of honor 395 b 50. Prepareth to make a iournie to France arriueth at Calis 392 b 10 30 Draweth towards Paris 393 a 60. Returneth out of France into England 394 b 30. His foure sons take part with the lord maiors c chalenge at âusts 392 a 50. Sore afflicteth the Scots 386. b 20. His honorable hart to his enimie 379 b 10 Hath Calis surrendred vnto him ¶ Sée Calis His pitie towards the poore note 375 a 20. His voiage inuasion and victorie against the French summarilie set downe in a letter missiue 373 b 30 c. His words behauior to his son the yoong prince after his victorie against the French 372 b 60. Passeth ouer into Normandie his armie landing ordering of his soldiors 369 b 40 c. His enterprises and atchiuements against towns people his spoile booties he is in danger 370 all Beginneth his enterprise against the enimie with praier to God his demâanor before the battell 371 a 10 b 30. Hath towns restored him 360 a 60. Taketh into his hands all the profits that the cardinals c held within his realme 369 b 30. Goeth ouer into Flanders 367 b 60. Passeth ouer into Britaine 364 a 40. Returneth by sea out of Britain he is in danger of drowning 365 a 30. Feasted by the erle of Flanders he goeth into Zeland arriueth at the Towre deleth roundlie with his officers 360 b 10 c. Is offended with the archbishop of Canturburie 361 a 10. Taketh sea setteth vpon his enimies the French getteth the victorie goeth to Gaunt couenants betwixt him his confederats 358 a 50 60 b 50 359 a 40. Signifieth his right to crowne of France taketh vpon him the title and armes thereof 357 a 20 30. Taketh vpon him the name of K. of France 356 b 30 and by what right he clamed it 40 c. Besiegeth Cambrie 355 b 20. He raseth his siege b 40. Hath Flanders at commandment he saileth to Antwerpe 354 b 60. His confederats 355 a 10. Practiseth to alâenat the Flemings harts from obedience to their earle 353 b 50. Entreth into Scotland with an armie 351 a 10. Maketh spoile by fier and sword the Scots ordeine a statute in fauor of him towns fortified by him there he studieth to gather monie to mainteine his wars 352 all Aideth the K. of Scots and whie 350 a 10. Passeth the sea apparelled like a merchant 348 b 40. Waxeth féeble sicke 411 a 20. Deceasseth his issue praise proportion of bodie and vertues 412 a 40 c 413. Edward the fourth borne 623 a 30. Feasteth the maior and aidermen of London 705 a 10. He and the French king their interview the manner thereof note 699 a 30 40 c. His shift to get monie note 694 a 40 c. He passeth ouer into France and sendeth a defiance to the French king 694 b 10 40. Returneth into England 701 a 10. Without interruption passeth forward to Yorke marcheth to the citie gates receiueth the sacrament an oth the marquesse Montacute suffereth him to passe by he cometh to Northhampton 680 a 30 c. Dispraised and âowlie spoken of by the earle of Warwike 671 a 20. His communication with the duke of Burgognie note 697 a 50 60 b 10 c. Shamefull and slanderous words against him 698 b 30. His politike foresight 688 a 20. Commeth to Leicester prouoketh the earle of Warwike to fight commeth to Warwike he and his brother the duke of Clarence reconciled vnwitting to the earle of Warwike 681 a 10 c. His victorie and the offering vp of his standard 685 b 10. Lodgeth with his armie before his enimies 684 a 10. Set forward against his enimies the nobles of England 686 a 40. His painfull march with his armie the ordering of his battels 687 b 10 30. Passeth to London 682 b 30. The Londoners resolue to receiue him the Towre recouered to his vse he entreth into London 683 a 60 b 10. Arriueth on the coast of Northfolke then at the head of Humber landeth at Rauenspurgh the people let him passe hearing the cause of his comming into the countrie he passeth towards Yorke 679 a 10 c. Iudged a vsuâper 678 a 10. His fréends take sanctuarie 677 b 10. Receiued verie honorablie into the citie of Excester 676 b 30. The citizens beneuolence to him how long he continued there b 30 50. Commeth to Lin taketh ship to passe ouer sea the number that passed ouer with him he arriued at Alquemarâe 675 b 10 20 40. Taken prisoner and brought to Warwike castell 673 a 60. He is deliuered out of captiuitie commeth to London b 10 20. His proclamation to such as were assembled vnder him 664 b 10. His title to the crowne 663 b 60 664 a 10. Proclamed K. 725 b 10. Notablie slandered and spoken against in the duke of Buckinghams oration 728 a 50 60 c 729. a 10 c. His words to his mother about marriage 726 b 30. Slandered in a sermon 727 b 50. His flight into Holland 727 a 50. The chéefest deuise of the conspirators to depose him 725 b 60. Described his qualities 711 a 40 c. His thrée concubines 725 a 10. His last words vttered on his
Concordia sent from the pope to the French king The duchesse of Britaine maried to K. Charles A parlement wherin king Henrie openeth the iust cause of making warres against France Who first deâed the exaction of monie called a beneuolence Sée pag. 694. 1491. Albert the duke of Saxonies policie to get the towne of Dam. The duke of Saxonie senâeth for aid to king Henrie to win Sluis Gu. Hae. in Tob. 4. Sir Edward Poinings a valianâ capiteine sent into Flanders with an armie One Uere brother to the earle oâ Oxford slaine Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 866. Abr. Fl. ex Edw. Hall in Hen. 7. fo xxiiâ c. Granado woone from the Turkes or Saracâââ The citie of Granado conteined an huââdred and fiftie thousand houses besides cotages ãâã dwellings Hostages deliuered to the K. of Spaine for his securitie The banquished people hâmblie submit theÌselues to the kings vicegerent deliuer vp the keies of the citie The maner of the Spanish kings giuing of thanks for victorie The Spaniards reioising triumphing after the conquest of the Moores The lord Euerus de MeÌdoza made capteine of the house roiall A great number of states with their traine enter triumphantlie into Granado to take reall possession * Namelie doctor Morton of whom mentioÌ is made in the bâginning of this historie Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. â66 Sir Iames Parker by casualtie at iustes mortallie wounded Two pardonâes set on the pillorie Robert Fabian King Henrie and Maximilian agrée to plague the Frenchmen Anno. Reg. 7. The cause of Maximilians malice against Charles of France Maximilian dealeth dishonestlie with the king of England to his great vâxation Maximilian king of Romans breaketh ãâã with king Henrie in iâââning with ãâã to inuade France The disââââlation of the French king A motion on the French part for a treatie of peace with the English Commissioners sent ouer to Calis about the said âeace Bullogne besiâged by the Englishmen the king himselfe pâesent Why the English preferred warre before peace Polydor. Sir Iohn Sauage slaine at this siege Richard PlaÌtagenet a counterfeit of ladie Margarets imagining The conclusion of peace betwéene the English and French AlphoÌse duke of Calabre made knight of the garter Abr. Fl. ex Guic. pag. 43. The French king described The birth of Henrie duke of Yorke after crowned king by the name of Henrie the eight The malice of the duchesse of Burgognie to the line of Lancaster Perkin Warbecke the counterfeit duke of Yorke The readie wit of Perkin to learne all that made for his preferment to honor The emulatioÌ of the dukes of Yorke Perkin Warbecke arriueth in Ireland Perkin âââleth into France ãâã afâant Perkin reâââneth to the ladie Margaret his first founder Perkin nâmed by the dutches of Burgognie the white roâe of England 149â M. Pal. ãâ¦ã Abr. Fl. ex I.S. pag. 865. Stratford bridge vpon Auen builded Such long and looked for alteratiân of states False rumors ââcasions of great disquietnes Anno Reg. 8. Perkin counterfeiteth the duke of Yorke verie cunninglie Perkins true linage Ambassadors sent to Philip archduke of Burgognie The sum of D. Wariaââs spéech to the archduke Anno Reg. 9. Espials sent into Flanders from the king for a subtill policie The conspiring faâtors of the counterfeit duke of Yorke Abr. Flem. Flemish wares forbidden The mart kept at Calis English commodities banished out of Flanders A riot made vpon the Easterâings Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 867. Execution for seditious bils against the kings person Uittels âââtie sold good cheape 1494 Anno Reg. 1. Policie of K. Henrie against Robert Clifford Sir William Stanleie a fauourer of Perkin The offense of sir William Stanleie Coniectures of sir William Stanleies alienated from king Henrie King Henrie in a quandaâe Sir William Stanleie beheaded ãâã Flem. See pag. 760. Iâhn Stow. pag. â69 The king and queene dine at sergeants feast kept at Elie place A wonder to be noted in a cââpse that ãâ¦ã the ground Rich. Grafton Anno Reg. 11. Lord Daubenie the kings cââefe chamberleine Sir Edward Pâinings sânt into Irelââd with an ââmie Gerald earle of Kildare deputie of Ireland apprehended King Henries progresse into Lancashire Perkin attempteth to land in Kent in hope of historie Perkins men discomfited Perkins capteins taken executed Perkin reâââleth into Flanders Perkin ãâã into Ireland and is in âândrie opinions Katharine daughter to the earle of Huntleie maried to Perkin M. Pal. in Virg. Abr. Flem. ex Edw. Hall fol. xxxviij xxxix Perkin saith that he is Edward the fourths lawfull sonne Perkin telleth the king how he was preserued and kept aliue Perkin calleth the ladie Margaret ââchesse of Burgognie his owne ãâã Perkin craueth aid of the Scotish king toward the recouerie of the crowne of England from king Henrie the seuenth The Scotish king inuadeth EnglaÌd with a great armie in Perkin his behalfe The counterfeit compassion of Perkin Anno Reg. 12. A parlement of the thrée estates of the realme A subsidie The king of England and ScotlaÌd prepare for mutuall warre A rebellion in Cornewall for the paiment of a subsidie The two capteins in this commotion The prouosâ of Perin slaine by the rebels Thomas Howard earle of Surrie high treasuror of England Iames Twichet lord Audelie chéefe capteine of the Cornish rebels Manie of the Cornishmen take their héels by night The citie of London sore afraid of the rebels Blackheath field Thrée hundred slaine a thousand fiue hundred taken prisoners as Iohn Stow saith Iames lord Iuâelie ignominâouslie drawne to execution and beheaded Anno Reg. ââ The Scots inuade the English borders Fox bishop ãâã Durham owner of Norham castell What lords knights with their companies went to the rescued of the castel against the Scots The earle of Surrie entreth Scotland defacing castels and towers The valiant âart of the erle of Surrie reââsing at his haplikelie to fight hand to hand with the k. of Scots An ambassadour from the â of Spaine ãâã a ãâã betwixt England and Scotland Luc. lib. 10. The English merchants receiued into Antwerpe with generall procession Perkin is faine to pack â out of Scotland Perkin Warbeck arriueth in Cornwall Another rebellion by the Cornishmen Perkins thrée councellors Excester asââsaulted by Perkin the Cornishmen The citie of Excester preserued from fire by fire The king maketh out his power against Perkin Edward the yoong duke of Buckingham and his companâe ioine with the king Perkin fléeth and taketh Braudlie sanctuarie The beautifull ladie katharine Perkins wife presented to the king Iohn Hooker alià s Vowell All Perkins partakers in their shirts with halters about their necks appâââ before the king Perkin in sanctuarie assaulted Perkin submitteth hiâselfe to the king and is streictlie séene ãâã M Pal. in Virg. CoÌmissioners appointed for âââessing of their âines that fauoured the Cornish rebels Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag 872. Gardens in Moore field ãâã wast to make archers game Price of haie doubled
somtime recorder of Couentrie Empson indicted âound guiltie ãâã plague 1ââ0 The king run ãâã at tilt in ãâã owne âerson ãâã Hall in ãâ¦ã vj. The king ãâã other ãâã disguised ãâã Robin ââods men ãâã disport â banket The king and others disguised after the Turkish âââhion A maske wherein the king was an actor Certeine ladies richlie attired and aâter a strange fashion The ladie Marie sister to the king Edw. Hall in Hen. 8. fol. vij Running at the ring The king verie roiallie arraied runneth at the ring in the sight of the ambassadours beareth the prise awaie King Henrie goeth a maieng with other of his courtiers The king a good archer The king chalengeth all commers at sundrie exercises of actiuitie Abr. Fl. ex I.S. pag. 894. Pouls schoole The king ââparelâed ãâã one of the gard The king fighteth witâ a battle are against an Almaine The king with his ââsistants chalengeth all commers at tilt A roiall ãâã A maske of fourteene ãâ¦ã The birth of ãâã first ãâã sonne of king Henââ the eight â goodlie ãâã of a moueââ pageant A sâlemne ãâã at Westminster â pageant ãâã like a ãâã forrest ãâ¦ã The foure knights issue out of the pageant all armed Gorgeous shewes in apparell The king vnder a pauilion of cloth of gold and purple veluet c. Sir Charles Brandon on horssebacke in a long robe of russet sattâre like a religious person Henrie Guilford esquier in russet cloth of gold with his deuise The marquesse Dorset and sir Thomas Bullen like pilgrims The great O neall made knight A pageant deuised to run vpon whéeles A goodlie sheâ of the king fiue other with him The rudeneââ of the people assembled to sée the sheweâ The departure of the kings yoong sonne out of this life Ambassadorâ from the king of Spaine ãâã aid against tââ Moores Lord Darcâe knight of the garter Anno reg â The seuenth ãâã hath Iohn Stow. Empson and Dudleie beheaded The king lost much monie at tenise Anno Reg. 3. ãâã Hill in ãâã 8. fol. xj 1â The king and three other courtiers challengers A deuise of a ship vnder sââle The king brake more staues than the rest and had the prise giuen him The lord Darcie and his companie readie at Plimmouth Abr. Fl. ex Edw. Hall in Hen. 8. fol. xij The vnruliâ behauiour of the Englishmen The lord Darcie honorablie receiued of the K. of Aragons councell The lord Darcie discontented at the bishops declaration A shrewd traie begun vpon a small occasion Edw. Hall The English men desire to sée the Spanish court The lord Darcie returneth out of Spaine The duchesse of Sauoie seÌdeth to king Henrie for aid against the duke of Gelders Thom. ãâã gouernour of the English ordinance The sort is woone The towne of Aiske burned Uenlow besieged by the English The duchesse of Sauoie bestoweth new coats on the English soldiors Andrew Barton a âââtish pirat A cruell fight ãâã the sea beââeene the said pirat and ãâã lârds Howards Andrew BartoÌ slaine ãâã Fl. ex Edâ Hall in ãâã fol. xvj The Scots prisoners in ãâã bishop of âorks place King Henrie the eight taketh the popes part against the French king Abr. Fl. ex Guic. pag. 314. Cardinall S. Petri ad vââcula made pope Pope Iulie a factious fellow and an enimie to peace Indirect meanes to atteine the popedome A prouerbe vpon the popes dissembling Guiâc 305. Buch. in Psal. 15. Abr. Fl. ex Ed. Hall in Hen. 8 fol. xv Christmasse pastimes or delights at Gréenwich The king fiue other assaile the castell Maskers disguised after the Italian fashion A parlement The summe of the bishop of Canturburies oration in the parlement Abr. Fl. ex ãâã pag. 896. Newbolt a yeoman of ãâã gard hangeâ Gâ Ha. in ãâã 5. Edw. Hall in Hen. 8. fol. xij Ierome Boââuise the popes collector and proctor in England a false knaue The Frenââ king hath ãâã hands full of troubles Anno Reg 4 Sir Edmuââ Howard ãâã admerall Noblemen appointed ãâã the viage Biskaie The English nobles arriue on the câast of Bisâââe The English campe greatlie hindered for want of beasts to draw their ârdinance A gentle offer by the king of Nauarre to the Englâshmen The effect of the bishops message sent from the king of Aragon to the lord marquessâ Great death of the flix by vnwoonted diet The lord marquesse sendeth to the K. of Spaine to performe promise The king of Spaines armie vnder the conduct of the duke of Alua. The kingdom of Nauarre gotten to the K. of Spaine A fraie betwéene the Englishmen the townesmen of Sancta Maria. S. Iâhans burnt by the English The English campe in Biskaie breaketh vp The armie dispersed into sundrie villages Unappeaceable rage amongest the English souldiers The English armie returneth out of Biskaie The lord admerall in Britaine Conquer and diuerse other places burnt by sir Edward Howard lord admerall of England Diuers gentlemen knighted by the lord admerall The request of the lords of Britaine to the lord admerall A truce required for six daies â description ãâ¦ã sâewes ãâã triumphs ãâ¦ã The king ãâã to Porââsââuth ãâã capâââs ouer ãâã ships The kings ãâã setteth ãâã The English ãâã incounââreth with the French ãâã the coast ãâã Britaine A cruell fight betwixt the two nauies The English Regent and the French Carrik burnt togither The French nauie flieth The kings ship roiall called Henrie grace de Dieu A parlement wherein it was concluded that king Henrie in proper person should inuade France Abr. Fl. ex I.S. pag. 897. Great subsidie Bow stéeple builded Kings palace at Westminster burned Edmund de la Poole behâaded Fâl Hall in ãâã 8. fol. xxij ãâã descriptâân of a rich mount being â Christmasse ãâã Sir Charles Brandon created vicount Lisle The nauie set out againe The English nauie purposing to set vpon the French in the hauen are defeated by a mischaÌce The lord admerall would haue the king present in person at the encounter and is rebuked Guic. pag 32â Anno Reg. 5. A consultatiââ about the assaulting of Prior Iehââ The admerall roweth into the baie where the Prior laie Sir Edward and Howard admerall drowned The French gallies land in Sussex and ãâã certeine cotages The lord Thomas Howard made admerall The earle of Shrewesburie sent into France with ãâã armie The English armie marcheth vnto Terwine The baron of Carew slaine The lord Pontremie capteine of Terwine Terwine besieged The king in person pasteth ouer into France The order of the kings armie * This man was afterward cardinall The French armie approcheth their number The northern prickers plaie the men The drie wednesdaie The bombard called the red gun ouerthrowne The great gun gotten by the French by the foolish hardinesse of the maister carpenter The lord Walon sendeth the earle of Essex word that he is come to serue the king of England The king incampeth to Arkes The king nameth to ââsiege Edâ Hall in ãâã 8. fol. 28.
incountreth a tall and strong Alman The duke foiles the Alman The yoong lord Greies prowesse A description of the pompe and brauerie in apparell at this solemne tilt Anthonie Bounarme with his ten speares all at once about him Abr. Fl. eâ Guic. pag. 6â5 Difficulties about the practise of peace The French councell accord for peace The ãâã of the capitulation for peace The French king marriâââ the ladie Mâârie sister to the king of England Richard Hun âânged in âollards ãâã ãâã Edw. Hall H. â fol. l li ãâã ãâã death ãâã and ãâã what ãâã ãâã Hall in ãâ¦ã fol. lv vlj. ãâã gorgious ãâã maske ãâã the âing was ãâ¦ã A tent of cloth âf gold with a âhâw of ârâed men The king and the marquesse Dorset make a challenge at iusts A parlement wherein sir Thomas Neuill was prosâquutor or speaker Doctor Benbrike archbishop of Yorke and cardinall poisoned at Rome The K. in person purposed to passe the seas to sée the French king his brother Abr. Fl. ex Guic. pag 684. The variablenesse of his fortune The duke of Suffolke and others sent into France to bring the French quéene into England Abr. Fl. ex Guic. pag. 685. Francis the first coms to the crowne His praise-worthie properties The duke of Suffolke winneth the good will of the quéene Dowager of France Polydor Edw. Hall Anno Reg. 7. The French quéene married to the duke of Sufâfolke Edw. Hall in Hen. 8. fol lvj Robin hood and his twâ hundred men present theââselues to the king ãâã in a ãâã A shew of two ladies in a rich chariot drawne with fiue horsses The king and certeine nobles ran their horsses volant The archbishop of Yorke elected cardinall A parlement at Westminster Cardinall Wolsie made lord chancellor Edw. Hall in Hen. 8. fol. lvij The cardinals hat recâiued by the Kentish gentlemen with great solemnitie Guic. pag. 682. Two elefants presented to the pope Gu. Hâ The lord Mountioy made gouernour of Tornaie A mutinie amongst the soldiers at Tornaie The king kept his Christmasse at Eltham Courtlie pastime on the Twelf night The birth of Margaret daughter to the queene of Scots and of the earle Angus afterwards maried to the earle of Lenox Edw. Hall The queene of Scots and the earle of Angus hir husband come into England The birth of ladie Marie the kings daughter afterwards queene Anno Reg. 8. The king sendeth for the queene of Scots and hir husband to his court The queene of Scots comming to London and so to Greenewich Three queenes in the English court at once The second daie of solemne iusts held by the king and others against all commers A castell buâââded by the king at Tornaie Iustice execâted by cardinal Wolsie vpâ offendors of sundrie quaââties and degrees Erection of new courts by the kings commissioâ ãâã Hall Polydor. ãâã is âââtrarie to ãâã ââlla in lac 4. The duke of Suffolkes âope hindeâed by the cardinall Edw. Hall An ambassaâââ from the emâerour Maximilian The cardinall an enimie to peace Ed. Hall in Hen. 8. fol. lix A moueable garden called the garden of Esperance verie costlie artificiallie wrought Iohn Hooker alià s Vowell Corpus Christi college in Oxford founded by Richard Fox bishop of Winchester Bishop Oldom of Excester is vtterlie against Foxs mind to found a college for moonks Oldom giueth Fox the name of âounder contenteth himselfe with the name of benefactor Hall in H. 8. fol. lix The insolent sawcinesse of the Frenchmen against the English The diuelish malice of the Frenchmen Strangerâ outlace Eâgâlishmâ all honestiâ equitie ãâã conscience Iohn Lincolne the ââthor of the ââsurrection ãâã ill Maie ãâã The gréeâeâ particularâââ in Lincolââ bill for the cities behooft Lincolne a great enimiâ to strangerâ Lincolne pââsecuteth his information ãâã gréeuances by specialties ãâã Hall in Hen. 8. fol. 60. In vndiscret preacher Note the saâcie brode shamelesse and dishonest boasting of the strangers in their lewdnes Anno Reg. 9. Strangers iniuriouslie abused of diuerse yoonkers The cardinals aduise to the maior in this hurli-burlie Councell taken by the maior and his brethren how to preuent the hurt at hand Euill Maie daie as Edw. Hall noteth it The heat of the hurlie burlie The raging madnesse of the mutiners Nicholas Downes sore hurt The rioters malicious purpose against one Mewtas Sir Thomas Parre informeth the king of the riot and rebellion Certeine lords with their powers come to London about this riot A ãâã of oier and determiner to âââquire and pânish the oââââdors Abr. Fl. ex Edw. Hall in H. 8. fol. lxiâ The cause why the citie thought the duke of Norffolke bare them an old grudge Sir Iohn Fineux This statute bringeth the rioters wâââin compasse of treason Diuers truâes betweene ãâã king and ãâã forren princes Iudge Fineux interpreteth the said statute Order for proceeding against the said offendors Manie of the offendors indicted at Guildhall The whole number of the rebellious rânt What was laid to Lincolnes charge Eleuen paire of gallows erected for the executing of the rebels Edw. Hall in Hen. 8. fol. lxij Iohn Lincolne the author of ill Maie daie executed in Cheape side Edw. Hall in H. 8. fol. lxii The recordeâ in the behalfe of the citie speaketh humblie to the K. touching the riot The kings answer wherin their sute is denied The quéene of Scots returneth toward Scotland The king coÌmeth to Westminster hall and there sitteth in iudgement himselfe The kings gratious and generall pardon The blacke wagon that followed ill Maie daie Solemne ââstes between the king and others A gallant and glorious shââ The king the duke run personallie The sweting sicknesse peremptorie and deadlie Abr. Flem * Sée before pag. 763 764 1519 Anno Reg. 1â The tearme begun at Oxford and adiourned to Westminster âardinall ãâ¦ã from ãâã pope ãâã ãâã Hall ãâã of ãâ¦ã at ãâã âbr Fl. ex Edw. Hall in H â fol. lxiiij Cardinall Cââpeius ââceiued with âreat pompe What trumperie was in dosed in the lord legats chests The glorious shewes or pompous port of the two cardinals going to the court Sée after in the extract out of Guicciardine A craftie feare of the pope The court of the legat erected by the cardinall Examples of great ones what it dooth Gu. Ha. in Eccl. cap. 10. Abr. Fl. ex Guic. pag. 756. The pope soliciteth all the princes of christendome against the Turke The ambition and tyrannie of Selim against his father affines Selim ouerthroweth the Sophi of Persia. The state of the Soldan king of Soria and Aegypt By whole election the Soldans were chosen The Turks slaieth the ãâã Soldans and subdueth all Soria and Aegypt The Turks ambition hath no bounds oâ circumscription The pope put of feare that ãâã Turke ãâã ouerrun ãâã territories ãâã Italie The pope ãâã him ãâã his securiâââââ tuition ââlitike deuiââs to ãâã preueÌt âhe Turkes âââposes Why it was generallie thought that this warre would haue ââckie succes This opeâââh the
persecutor ãâã inuenting new ãâ¦ã for the martyrs Storie apprehended Storie conueied himselfe ouer the seas where he continued a bloudie persecutor Storie âbteined a commision to search for English bookes Storie intendeth the ouerthrow of England A platforme laid to apprehend Storie Storie searched the English ships for bookes and is apprehended and brought into England Storie a traitor hanged drawne and quartered A combat appointed at Turhill but not tried Thorne and Nailer comââttants The quarell ãâã combat ãâã by the quéenes maieâtie The maner of all things ãâã redinesse for the combat The lord chiefe iustice set and his associats with ãâã Nailer prepaâeth himselfe ãâã the incounâââ against Thorne The lord chéefe iustice toucheth the present case Nailer chalengeth Thorne at a few blowes A woman burnt at Maidston for poisoning Duke of Norffolke sent to the tower Bishop of Salisburie deceassed A sermon in Paules church for victorie against the Turkes The assemblie at this sermoÌ Contareno Principals among the Turkes slaine The whole number of the slaine Bizari Contareno Bizari Persons that escaped from this discomfiture Booties that fell into the christians hands The number of the christian gallies the Turkes Christian captiues set at libertie 14000. Contareno The number of christians that died Bizari Contareno The space how long the battell continued A common fault among christians Good counsell if that faith be the faith of Christ his true church Anno Reg. 14. Reinold Greââ earle of Kent I St. pag. 115â Sir Willia Peter decâââsed His charitable déeds 157â Duke of Norffolke arreigned Mather Barneie and Rolfe executed I.S. pag. 1â55 Conueiers of bels lead and other church goods are to bâ punished to the example of their too manie followers Sir William Paulet lord treasuror deceassed His ancient and honorable seruice Thrée thousand chosen persons for pikemen and gunners out of halles Training vp of yoong solââââs in the fââld â muster at Greenewich ãâã the ãâã Earles of ãâã and ãâã created Barons made Roges burnt through the eare Martin Bullocke hanged at the well with two buckets Fellonie and murther combined The maner of the murther committed Ah mercilesse murtherer The murtherer examined He hath libertie notwithstanding his offense The drie vat wherein the murthered man was put to be transported descried Earle of Lincolne and other ambassadors into France The maner of the ambassadors interteinement League with France confirmed in France The ambassadours returned out of France The duke of Norffolke beheaded Schaerdius in reb gest sub Maximil imperat secundo pag. 2513. Forren nations heare and write of the quéenes vnbloudie gouernement The ãâã behauiour gesture of the duke at his execution Maister Nowell deane of Paules the dukes ghâstlie father The duke confesseth his offense against the quéenes maiestie He is sorie for the violating of his promise made to the quéene He maketh shew to cléere himselfe in diuerse points He meaneth confession of his religion He confesseth himselfe much ââund to the quéenes maiestie âe exhorteth ãâã beware of âââons He putteth the people in mind of Latimers words vttered before king Edward He praieth and manie more with him the effect of his praier He asketh all the world forgiuenesse c. He iustifieth himselfe against the ãâã sânne of âââterie He knéeleth downe and submitteth himselfe to the axe The collectioÌ of Francis Boteuille aliâs Thin in the yeare of Christ 1585. Edward the blacke prince duke of Cornwall Henrie Plantagenet duke of Lancaster Iohn of Gant duke of Lancaster Henrie Plantagenet duke of Lancaster and Hereford king of England LionellPlantagenet duke of Clarence Edmund Plantagenet duke of Yorke Edward Plantagenet duke of Albermerle and Yorke Thomas Plantagenet surnamed of Woodstocke duke of Glocester Thomas Holland duke of Surreie Iohn Holland duke of Excester Iohn Holland duke of Excester Henrie Holland duke oâ Excester Robert Uere duke of Ireland Margaret Segraue duchesse of Norffolke Thomas lord Mowbreie duke of Norffolke Iohn Mowbreie duke of Norffolke Iohn Mowbreie duke of Norffolke Iohn Mowbreie duke of Norffolke Thâ Plantagenet duke of Clarence Iohn Plantagenet duke of Bedford Humfreie Plantagenet duke of Glocester Sée pag. 106 Iohn Beaufort duke of Summerset Thomas Beaufort duke of Excester Edmund Beaufort duke of Summerset HeÌrie Beaufort duke of Summerset In the yeare of Christ 1460. The battell of Ferribrig the thirteenth of March in the yeare 1461 according to the âââempt of theÌ that begin the yeare at Ianuarie Aboue 20000 ãâã wherof ãâã knights â gentlemen a King Edward the third b Lionell duke of Clarence third sonne to Edward the third c Iohn of Gant fourth sonne to Edward the 3. d Henrie the fourth e Henrie the fift f Henrie the sixt g Edward the fourth h Henrie the sixt i Henrie the sixt k Edward the fourth l King Henrie the sixt his disposition described m Henrie the fift n Henrie the sixt o Edward erle of March after king Edward the fourth The 17 of Februarie 1461 after the account of such as begin the yeare at Ianuarie * Southerne men Edmund Beaufort duke of Summerset Richard PlaÌtagenet duke of Yorke George Plantagenet duke of Clarence Richard PlaÌtagenet duke of Glocester Henrie Beauchampe duke of Warwike Humfreie Stafford duke of Buckingham Henrie Stafford duke of Buckingham Edward Stafford duke of Buckingham William de la Poole duke of Suffolke Iohn de la Poole duke ãâã Suffolke Richard Plantagenet duke of Yorke George Plantagenet duke of Bedford Iohn Howard duke of Norffolke Thomas Howard duke of Norffolke Thomas Howard duke of Norffolke Thomas Howard duke of Norffolke Henrie Teuther duke of Yorke Iasper of Hatfield duke of Bedford Charles Brandon duke of Suffolke Henrie Fitz Roie duke of Richmont Ad illustrissimum Henricum ducem Richmontanum Edward Seimor duke of Summerset Henrie Greie duke of Suffolke Iohn Sutton of Dudleie duke of Northumberland French ambasadors froÌ Charles the ninth came into England League with France confirmed at westminster S. Georges âeast at Windsor Sir William Cicill lord treasuror lord priuie seale lord chamberleine with other âââers Collected by Francis Thin in this yeare of Christ 1ââ5 Saint Dunstane Hugoline Odo bishop of Baieux Geffreie lord Clinton Ranulph bishop of Durham Roger bishop of Sarisburie William de Pontlearch Nigellus bishop of Elie. Richard of Elie. William of Elie. A deane of Paules treasuror Walter Greie bishop of Worcester Geffreie archdeacon of Norwich Iohn Ruthall Eustace de Fauconbridge bishop of London Iohn de Fontâes or Founââs Walter Malclerke bishop of Carleill Ranulph Briton Peter de Oriall Robert Passâlew whether treasuror of England or no Hugh Pateshull Galfridus Teâplarius William Hâuerhull * Pariturâ * Poâuâ Richard de Barking Philip Louell Iohn Crakehall Iohn abbat of Peterborow Nicholas de Elie. Thomas de Wimundham Iohn Chisull Philip de Eie Ioseph de Chancie William bishop of Bath Robert Burnell Ioseph de Chancie Thomas Becke Richard de Ware Anno Domini 1268 Henricus tertius vrbs Roma Odoricus
fourth of Nouember 5500 one with another slain drowned and burned A conclusion of peace betwéene the parties before diuided Walter Deuereux earle of Essex departeth this life Abr. Fl. ex concione funebri vt patet in contextu The place of the erls birth what losse all EnglaÌd hath of him What noblemen are the wals of the realme The praise of the earle for sundrie considerations Comparison of true nobilitie vnto a riuer or floud c. âanor lib. ââ it rebââ gesââ Alphoâsi The disposition of the earle to inlarge and augment his nobilitie Prudence a noble vertue wherewith this erle was indueâ How he bestowed his youthfull yeares The bishops report of him vpon his own knowledge The erle perfect in the scriptures and matters of religion He was a fauourer of preachers His expertnesse in chronicles histories c. Fortitude a noble vertue wherewith ãâã earle was ãâã Exod. 28 21 The earles chiualrie marâiall knowledge and prowesse aduanced Fortitude néedfull both in time of peace and warre Iustice a noble vertue wherwith this erle was indued The bishop reporteth of the earles iustice vpon his owne knowledge Iob. 29 15. The paterne of a good earle indéed Suetonius The humanitie courtesie affablenesse and other verâues of this earle Temperance a noble vertue wherewith this erle was indued The bishops report of the earle vpon his owne knowledge Eccles. 7.9 Luke 6.45 The earle could not awaie with swearing chasing nor anie disordered dealing c. The disposition and deuotion of this earle in the time of his sickenesse Numb 21. â The heauenlie contemplation of this earle drawing to his end A woonderfull gift of the holie Ghost and most worthie to be chronicled How his seruants were affected at his last spéeches Who they be that die in the Lord. A spéech conclusorie of the bishop directed to the earlâ departed The earle eternâllie blessed The death of the earle much lamented The heroicall description of true nobilitie A persuasorie reason to mooue the yoong earle now liuing to an excellent imitation of his ancestors Notable counsell to the earle to deserue well of his souereigne and countrie The quéenes testimonie of the earle Uertues naturallie incident to the erle by coursâ of descent To what end âhe epitaph genealogicall was added to the funerall sermon The old earls counsell at his death to the yoong earle now aliue touching the shortnesse of life A proclamation for the fââe traffike of merchants as before c. â Stow. An vnnaturall brother murthereth his naturall brother but the vnnaturall brother was hanged as he well dâserued Anno Reg. 19. A tempest in Richmondshire Tower on LondoÌ bridge ââken downe Robinson hanged for clipping of gold Second voiage to Cataia StraÌge sickenesse at Oxford Ab. Fl. ex relatu W. B. impress 1577. Tempest in Suffolke The tower on London bridge new builded Anno Reg. 20. Cutbert Maine executed An example of sorcerers and such as seeme to worke woÌders to deceiue men of their monie Nelson and Sherewood executed Counterfetters of coine executed Pirats hanged Frobishers third voiage Anno Reg. 21. The receiuing of Cassimere Déepâ snow Great land waters A murtherer hanged on Mile end gréene Lord kéeper deceased Ab. Fl. collect ex epitaph ãâã praenobilis On the south side these verses On the north side these Great snow in the moneth of Aprill Sir Thomas Bromleie lord chancellor The collection of Francis Thin Turketill Saint Swithin Wlfinus Adulphus Hist. Eliens lib. 2. written in the time of K. Stephan Leofricus Wlfinus Resenbaldus Mauricius Osmundus Arfastus Hirmanus William Uelson William Gifford Robert Bluet Ranulphus Waldricus Herbertus Roger. Galfridus Ranulphus Reginald Roger. Godfreie Alexander bishop of Lincolne This was about the beginning of the fourth yeere of K. Stephan being An. Do. 1138 but Mat. ãâã giueth it to An. Dom. 1139 who saith Collo ãâã qui ãâã fuit ãâã anne ãâã c. And Henrie Huntington agreeth wholie with W. Parââs Robert Philip. Reinold Iohn Thomas Becket * Christes church in Canturburie Rafe Warneuile Walterus de Constantijs Geffreie William Longchamp Eustachius Hubert Walter or Walter Hubert Simon Hugh de Welles Walter Braie Richard de Marischo Rafe Neuill bishop of Chichester Geffreie the Templer Hugh Pateshall chanon of Paules Simon the Norman Richard Grasse abbat of Euesham Iohn de Lexinton Ranulfe Briton Syluester de Euersden Iohn Mansell Iohn de Lexinton Iohn Mansell Radulphus de Diceto William of Kilkennie Henrie de Wingham Walter Merton Nicholas of Elie. Walter Merton the second time Iohn de Chesill Viâa Thomae Cantelupi Walter Gifford bishop of Bath Geffreie Gifford Iohn de Chesill Richard de Middleton Iohn de Kirbie Walter Merton Robert Burnell Iohn de Langhton Matthew Paâker Iohn Drokensford William de Greinfield William de Hamelton Ralfe Baldocke Iohn Langhton William Melton Walter Reinolds Iohn de Sandall Iohn Hotham Iohn Salmon bishop of Norwich * Or Pabeham * Yorke * Twelue miles from Yorke Robert Baldocke Histor. episc Norwich William Airemee kéeper of the seale Iohn Hotham bishop of Elie. Henrie Cliffe master of the rolles Henrie Burghwash bishop of Lincolne Iohn Stratford Richard de Burie or Richard de Angeruile Iohn Stratford archbishop of Canturburie Robert de Stratford Richard de Bintwoorth bishop of London Iohn Stratford archbishop of Canturburie Robert bishop of Chichester Robert de Bourchier Robert Perning iustice at the law Robert de Saddington Iohn Offord or Ufford Iohn Thorsbie William de Edington Simon Langham William de Wikeham Robert Thorpe Sir Iohn Kniuet Adam de Houghton * Ralfe Neuill ãâã Sir Richard Scroope Simon Sudburie Sir Richard Scroope lord Scroope of Bolton Robert Braibrooke bishop of London Michaell de la Poole earle of Suffolke * Michael de puteaco or of the Poole Thomas Arundell bishop of Elie. William Wickham Thomas Arundell Iohn Serle master of the rols Edmund Stafford Henrie Beauford Thomas Langleie bishop of Durham Thomas Fitzalen Thomas Beauford Iohn Wakering clearke Thomas Arundell archbishop of Canturburie Henrie Beauford bishop at Winchester Thomas Langleie bishop of Durham Henrie Beauford bishop of Winchester Iohn Kempe bishop of London Iohn Stafford bishop of Bath Iohn Kempe bishop of Yorke Richard Neuill earle of Salisburie Thomas Bourchier bishop of Elie. In vita Thomae Boââcheri âpisco ãâã William Patan or Paten ãâã William Wanfled George Neuill archbishop of Yorke Robert Kirkham maister of the rolles Robert Stillington doctor of the lawes Henrie Bourchier earle of Essex Laurence Booth bishop of Durham Thomas Scot aliâs Rotheram Iohn Alcot bishop of Rochester Thomas Rotheram Iohn Russell bishop of Lincolne Thomas Barow maister of the rolles Thomas Rotheram Iohn Alcot bishop of Worcester Iohn Moorton bishop of Elie. William Warham archbishop of Canturburie Thomas Woolseie Thomas Moore Thomas Audleie Hâsto Cântab per Caium 78. Thomas Wriotheslie William Paulet Sir Richard Rich Sir Nicholas Hare Stephan Gardener Nicholas Heath Nicholas Bacon Thomas Bromleie Ab. Fl. ex publicis aeditionibus B.G. T.
ãâã and affâction of the lord lieutenant to performe the premisses sigânified and by good proofe ãâã stified The states agnise the pâââemptorie authoritie put into the lord lieutenants hands in respect of his gouernment Like authâââtie giuen to the lord lieutenant as other gouernours his ãâã âââdecessors ãâã had in the ãâã countries ân acknowledgement and performance of dutie and elegiance inioined to all persons of the low countries vnder paine of punishâent to the lord lieutenant All pretense of ignorance cut off least the course of obeââence might be hindered Councellors ãâã matters of late elected by the lord ââeutenant ââwes for capteinâ and souldiours The lord lâeutenant commeth from the Hage to Harlem how he was receiued Utricht people commended for their great kindnes shewed to the Englishmen S. Georges feast solemntlie obserued at Utricht S. Georges feast solemnlie obserued at Utricht L. lieutenant inuested in the robes of order Martin Skinke knighted who promised Portcullis to shew him seuentie ensignes that he had now in the field Seminarie préests execââtâd at Tiburne A wench burnt in Smithfield Archbishop Canturburiâ lord Cobhaâ lord Buckâhurst of the priuie councell Pag. 1435 ãâã The numâââ of archbishââ of Canturââârie from thâ first to the ãâã Considerations whie the building of Douer hauen is here recorded Douer the néerest place of England to France Douer the most conuenient place of England for a hauen Reasons whie a harbor at Douer would be so beneficiall A true commendation of quéene Elisabeth The ãâ¦ã Douer wâll mainteine a hauen there for euer In peramb. Cant. ãâã Douer Douer castell reedified by queene Elisabeth Edward the fourth bestowed ten thousand pounds vpon reparations of Douer castell The situation of Douer harbour A naturall rode for ships at Douer The hauen of Rie decaied whereby more néed of a harbour at Douer Ships lost for lacke of sufficient harbour at Douer The first benefit bestowed on Douer harbour Little paradise In the reigne of Edward the Confessor Sir Iohn Thomson préest his supplication Fiue hundred pounds giuen by Henrie the eight towards a beginning of Douer works The maison de Dieu of Douer Surueiors ouerséers Sir Iohn Thomsons deuise discouered The Molehead Douer pierre when it was taken in hand and whereof it consisted A notable dâuise to carrie great rocks by water Foure pence a daie A Gaboth The charge of the pierre The kings care for Douer pierre The kings repaire to Doâer The cause of the decaie of the pierre Officers about the pierre The ruine of Douer pierre Stone called beach or bowlder choked vp Douer hauen Two causes of the decaie of Douer pie rre Someâiâe no harborough at all at Douer How Douer was made desolat That beach which destroied the pierre helpeth now the hauen A bountifull gift of quéene Elisabeth towards the reparing of Douer hauen The patent of the quéenes gift sold vnto two merchants The act of parlement for Douer hauen 23. Elisab Thrée pence the tun of euerie vessell allowed towards Douer hauen The tunnage amounted to 1000 pounds yearelie The tenure of the quéens commission for Douer hauen Iohn True suruâior generall of Douer hauen The deuise of Iohn True Stone heâed at Folkestone amounting to 1288 pounds Infinit charge to accomplish the stone wall Iohn True had ten shillings a day for his fée Iohn True is dismissed Ferdinando Poins Poins his groine The pent 16 acres The length of the long wall The crosse wall The rode for ships One thousand pounds to Ferdinando Poins Customer Smith Uarietie of deuises Sir W. Winter sent to Douer to surueie the harbor c. Sir Thomas Scot. The wals of Romneie marsh subiect to the raging seas All the commissioners ioine with sir Thomas Scot and allow his deuise Seuen inuincible reasons against the woodden wall The lord treasurors resolution Of Woolwich and Erith breaches Secretarie Walsingham the chiefe director and furtherer of Douer hauen No dealing by great in matters of excessiue charge and danger Sir Thomas Scots notes Douer pent finished in thrée moneths Reinold Scot and Rafe Smith examined by maister secretarie about the wals of the pent Questions propounded to Poins and the Plumsted men Sir Thomas Scots deuise allowed by the lords of the councell The resolution at a conference at Douer Officers elected at Douer The commoditie of the pent Woolwich breach recouerable Euerie degrée willing to set forward this worke Six hundred courts imploied at once in these works Iohn Smith the ââpenditor Iohn Keies gentleman chiefe purueior A horsâe a court and a driuer for twelue pence the daie The quantitie of one court or tumbrell A benefit to ãâã âeast The ãâã substance of the walâs The disposing of the works Henrie Guilford esquier capteine of Arcliffe castell The beginning of the great works at Doââr Reasons for the difficultie of the crosse wall This worke vndertaken and other reiected by sir Thomas Scots means Bowle a notable good workman Commissioners Treasuror Two iuraââ called directors Eight guâders Eight vntingers Eight sheâuers Eight âââgers Laborers Scauelmen Béetlemen Armors The order of arming Inferior purueiors Clerke Expenditor The groine kéeper The maneâ of the wall worke How the wall was saued from being wasted The inconuenience which would haue folâowed the diuerting of the riuer another waie A sluse made for diuerse good purposes A difficult and dangerous worke Gods blessing and fauour shewed to the works of Doâer Dangers happilie escaped Boies plaie The flag of libertie * Or six A commendation of them which wrought or had anie charge about Douer works Sir Thomas Scot fell sicke in Douer works The death of the ladie Scot. The bredth depth length and charge of the long and crosse wall with the âââming c. A necessarie remedie if water draine vnder the wall Expedition necessarie and profitable The state of the wals A sure triall latelie made of the good effect of the pent A gaâe of the ââuse broken Edward Wootton esquire ambassador into France The effect of the pent Of the sluse The lord Cobham remaineth at Douer one whole moneth Sir Francis Walsingham principall fréend to these works Of the latâ works The note of Iohn Hooker aliâs Vowell concerning the sudden and strange sickenesse of late happening in Excester The originalâ cause of this infection whereto imputed Barnard Drake esquier The mischiefe of nastie apparell The assise at Excester appointed to be quarterlie kept This sicknes was contagious mortall Principall men that died of that infection Sir Iohn Chichester and sir Arthur Basset bemoned and commended Eleuen of the iurie with other officers die of this ââckenesse Affliction draweth men to God c. An introductâââ to the historicall remembrance of the Sidneis the father and the sonne c. The note of Edmund Molineux touching sir Henrie Sidneis life and death His education in his youth His ââââââment in ambassage Foure times lord iustice thrise lord deputie of Ireland He suppressed by force and policie