and his magnificence By due execution by Oyere Determinere The fielde of Saint Albons was a battell violent Another the Lord Audley with the Earle of Salisburie The field of Northampton was a cruell cruciament Againe at Saint Albons was great immiserie â–ª And at Mortimer Crosse was much languitude But at Pamleson field was moste lamentation The deitie gaue the battailes of his true equitie Considering the title and true generation In Henries dayes the seuenth of famous memorie The Blackheath fielde to the commons was pernicious Martin Swarth and his adherents for all their pollicie Was slaine and percuted with clamor languishous And Bladis that burned Yorke was too impetuous But the iudgement of a traytor to him was adiect Thus was he rewarded for his acte iniurious With diuers other principals the which were suspect But for conclusion to ende and define Contributers and homagers the which hath rebelled Almost all storyes saithe the truthe to combine They were slain subdued or froÌ„ their realmes expelled â–ª As Ireland Scotland or Fraunce when they medled Within this our region and as for sedition Within realmes politike it hath cleane compelled The inuasion of aliants to their great submission When I had thus finished I had thought to haue named The blandishing Scorpions with discord most violate The Bishops of Rome for my espirites confremed But yet I refrained the stories most maculate Supplying to Anglia the Princesse prenominate Beseeching hir honor by the way of protestation What ample thing more shée would haue determinate And why shée commaunded me this declaration Hir bounteous beneuolence made me thus replie A Holme Holme my seruaunt inseparable This same late commotion that was the cause why Wherfore I beséeche thée their rising so variable To me to declare with their causes detestable I reconed to hir grace I durst not bring it to passe God will defend thée quod shée for he is not variable For inuincible is veritie so sayth Esâ—ras The Insurrection Then briefly I declared how the olde Leuiathan Whispered with the Papistes this region to deuide And they like true aduocates declared to euery man How Antechriste was borne this rumor went ful wide For of Abbeys they said there might not one abide And churches and chappels they shall be oppressed Fasting and prayer and good workes are set a side And the sacraments shal be naught these words they expressed When this could not auaile then properly they inuented Friers Pardoners to the people for to prate How burials and mariages they should be presented With churchings and christenings to pay a noble rate Plough nobles yéerely they were clere determinate And Hen Chicken Goose Capon Pig and Cony They should not be eaten but with men of estate Nor yet no white bread without a summe of money Also a perpetuitie of horsse and beast a grote With a penie a shéepe now these words fascinorous They moued the ignorant and debill wits God wote Thus persuaded by intisement of priests auaritidus A Cobler pretended a title ambitious In Lowth in Lincolnshire and made insurrection Some of worship was of counsel but mo was contrarious But as for the commons to arise had affection This noise and rumor redounded in Yorkeshire Then by appointment one Robert Aske gentleman Toke in hand for captaine to accomplishe their desire Then Houldeine and Beuerlay to insurge they began They would with Holdernesse collected to them than Thus of a smal vnion was aggregate a more Many men of woorship to fortresses they ran Some had their cattel taken their goods spoiled therfore Then Hul made a brag but anone it was yèelded Then Yorkshire in general it was nigh collected Yorke receiued them for there they abode and builded Til the Countreis adiacent with the rumor wer infected â–ª And as I suppose they had letters directed Wherby was raised all Richmondshire and Tindale The borders of Lancashire began to be suspected Bishoprike rose cleare with Sedbare Dent Kendale They spoiled and robbed those which were fugitiue To the Abbeys suppressed the people they restaurate Rudent incessantly with clamor excessiue Faith and common weale and in the way obuiate They were with procession and ringing insaciate And the Sacrament Christes body called Eucharistia Was borne by Prelates with the crucifixe associate With pipes Drums Tabrets and Fidlers alway A little beside Doncaster they came to Scanceby leyes And furnished their battell and set forth their vaward They were .xxv. M. of able mennes bodies Well horssed and harnessed right puissant to regarde The noble men were surrepted the truthe to awarde Of these Countreys predict from their purpose indeuided But toke vpon hand and was not retrograde This handfull folowing excepted and forprised The Earle of Northumberland for he was diseased The Earle of Westmerland for he had the Podagree The Earle of Comberland the commons displeased Lying in Shipton castell with all their artillerie Like to his auncestors his allegeance to fortefie And the Lord Dacres at the rising so variable Like an honorable man his truthe to magnifie Went straite to the South and there abode perdurable Sir Henrie Sauil sir Marmaduke Constable Sir BriaÌ„ Hastings sir Iohn Neuil the king they assisted Master Euers at Scarburgh to them was agreeable With all his companions and would faine haue resisted The Maire of Yorke wold but the coÌ„mons he mistrusted William Maunsel also and Knolles of Hullcleere With the Archdecon of Duresme of the same part coÌ„sisted And flée from the Riotors did Leonard Bequet Esquire Doctor Stephens phisitian to Th erle of NorthuÌ„berland And Ratclif had done wel if Yorke had bene contented The Parson of Castlegate was of the same comnant And the Bishop of Duresme of the same parte consented I know but another which ought to be presented But which after spoyler to the commons did resorte Yet sir Thomas Curwen earnestly inuented With sir Thomas Wharton to stay their counterporte Then with an ardent fury quod Anglia and frouned Holme it is but fiction I say thou doste deuise Shewedst thou not me that gentlemeÌ„ men that wer renoumed Fled to Castles fortresses what made them then to rise And it like your grace quod I bicause they wer not wise Yet diuers were coÌ„pelde for the CoÌ„mons did them take But mo were seduced with the Papistes deuise Drinking the venome of Aspes which neuer can awake They noysed the Emperour with them was participate And the Bishop of Rome with the Scotish king coÌ„nuxed With them to commilitare they were clerely fundate And Ireland and Wales of their parte was fixed The Earle of Darby outlawed and of their part mixed And the Duke of Norfolke euery cause accounted Al commoners coÌ„moned with the Earle Staffort enixed And as for they of Lincolnshire a great sum surmounted But the duke of Suffolke with such a power inuaded Lincolnshire predict that they had small esperaunce The lord Admiral and sir Anthony Brown theÌ„ persuaded With Richard Cromwell esquire there master of thordinaÌ„ce
battels by Otho was magnified But pouertie at the length was the diffinition Rose not Maxencius with Knights of the Pretorie Against Seuerus and Galerius Augustus And Seuerus Knightes betrayed him by Trecherie And then came assistaunce of noble Herculius Which was onely father to the saide Maxentius Prouoking Dioclesian for to take the dignitie But in my coniecture this was to them dolorous Pondring this mutable and sodeine diuersitie There Marcus the Consull in Italie confounded Three score thousand Riotors of that domination And also Metredas in force which abounded Contrarie to alegiance made great litigation Aboue twentie yeares with great confutation But in the sequele as Fortune did execute Destroyed was he and his procreation His posteritie slaine his Regions destitute The Bible is euident how Sichem congregation By slaying of Abimeleck them selues made fatigate And the storye Iudicum maketh cleare declaration How a Concubine was wrapped with lecherie insatiate Whose husband in twelue her members mutilate Sending to the Tribes with great lamentation Wherefore Israell had almost abrogate The whole tribe of Beniamin for their abomination In the seconde booke of Samuell it is playne expressed How Absolons disobedience and false peruersitie Made himselfe to be slayne and Israell oppressed With great effusion of bloude by his dualitie By the doughtinesse of Dauid and his nobilitie And eke Achitophell the counseller sapient Was so dispaired and in perplexitie That he hanged himselfe the traitor negligent Fiue hundred thousand of Israell were slaine necated Of the house of Ieroboam their king and principal In Paralipomenon it is cleare dilated How Abia of Iuda destroyed them for beliall And Iehu slew Achab and his sonnes collaterall Uanquished his bloud his stocke and Genealogie And also Ochosias of Iuda most royall Was slaine and his bretherne by Iehues conspiracie Sundry ingratitudes amongs the Iewes haue bene As Saul against Dauid and Ioab with Abnere And the séede of Ochozias with Alathia the Quéene With deuiding of Kingdomes as plainly doth appéere Of Iuda and Israell which was the cause cléere Of their captiuitie and the transmigration For diuers heades made diuers Gods seyre Wherefore God gaue them vp to their great damnation The bookes of Machabes discribeth the perturbance Of the male Caliditie that came by Alcinous To them pestiserous and to their great doliance Besides the destruction of noble Machabeus And eke the discorde of yong Antiochus Against Phillip the Traytor disloyal With the treason of Triphon against King Demetrius With the vniustnesse of Iason the théefe most vnnaturall In Iosephus we may sée that the Iewes for Rebellion Were conquered of Titus the sonne of Vaspasian And other stories say ther was slayne a Mylion With a hundreth M. moe and C. thousand tane And afterward contempt oppressed them by Adrian And cleane deiect them from their habitation Making in Ierusalem Foreners remayne And now pay they tribute in euery other Nation What should I recounte the Rebellion of Cresius With a thousand such moe to make macrologie My matter to prolong it were but superfluous But yet I will rehearse to touch somewhat briefly As concerning England our owne natiue Countrey For why the Auctors do wonderously dissent Therefore I will rehearse to this antilloquie But only the cognisaunce which appéereth verament This Region was maculate and put to rapacitie With the force of the Danes by Buerne contention And slaine was King Edmund King Osbridge and Ellée And ouer this one Mordred he made false preuention With Arthur his Soueraigne with such great dissention That only it caused not greate desolation But also perturbed the Royall intention From the Romaine Diademe with the Coronation Iulius Caesar for all his audacitie Was twice expulsed of Cassibolanus And made to recuile for all his Artillerie To the maledict conflict of one Andragius The Earle of London a Traitour contagious Whose ayde procurement and false introduction Foundred al Britaine from the estate prosperous And made vs be subiect to our great destruction Sithens the Conquest hath ben mischiefe inestimable As against king Stephen Maude the Empresse excitation But Henry the yonger an acte more myrable Contended with his Father with strife and mination What sapience was héere in this procuration To subdue his Father by his conuexitie Was not the Deuill in this inclination To make such discorde amongst the commontie The well redoubted king in act as most martiall Richard Curedelion from his Conquest ineffable Was made to recule by his brother naturall Pretending the Crowne with wayes inexecrable But alas for sorowe this Prince inexpugnable Was taken by the way but yet difficulate At the last was he with Raunsom innumerable And his enimies were taken and cleane exuperate I am ashamed to pronounce to publish and declare The Baronage commotion against Iohn their King And how to extringe his Sonne they did compare It museth my mynde suche naughty demeaning But what was the finall that came by transgressing Murder and death to the Realme right exial Destroying of Fortresses which yet is remayning Subduing of Townes to vs all preiudiciall Thomas Earle of Lancaster was hanged and decollate With sixtene Barrons moe in Edward the secoÌ„ds days The filthy demeanor that then was approbate I abhor to recite they tooke such naughtie wayes For Tullius were not able at the full to disprayse The naughtinesse of the Queene with her malignitie But GOD doth requite with a corrosie alwayes For Mortimer was slaine for all his pompositie Iacke Straw Wat Tiler that Chiestains of Essex Kent Against Richard the seconde began to make pretence But after a little rumour on Gallous were they hente By fortie by fyftie this was their best defence And the Earâ—â— of Ratcot bridge which had the preheminence By processe were slaine with doth enterlarded For iniquitie by Iustice of very congruence Against true alegiance is oft thus rewarded The Dukes of Surrey and Exeter with treason infect With the Earle of Glocester the Earle of Salisburie Pretended in a mumming like traitours detect To â—lea their liege Lorde the noble fourthe Henry But headed were they with all their affinitie By the Commons purveyance and the diuine regiment In likewise with battell was slayne the yong Percie His Uncle hanged and drawen of Gallous first pendent The Archbishop of Yorke with the Earle Marshall of England For their insult was hanged their inquietude And the Lord Bardolfe with the Earle of NorthumberlaÌ„d Was instigate to insurge their Prince to illude To their intermission the veritie to conclude For by the Commons they were hanged and inquinate Here may be perceyued how that a small valitude Wyll reskue a Prince from subiects insaciate In the dayes of the sixth Henrie Iacke Cade made a brag With a multitude of people but in the consequence After a little insanie they fled tag and rag For Alexander Iden he did his diligence So interuention was Iacke Cades recompence And the commons were hanged in diuers partes séere By the kings iustices
And sainct Patrikes staffe sainct Williams head pardy And sainct Cornelis horne with a thousand mo to tell The sixth Article To the sixt article where the Commons swarued Finding fault that the Counsel shuld be of smal progenie At this sayd the king we are greatly marueled For we are not obliuious of what habilitie This our Counsell was at our incepte entrie For we had not very noble but onely Earles twayne And the lord Merney and Darcy of a meane generositie To they were preferred by our father and vs playne Lawyers and Priestes quod he were all mo than these Therfore he maruelled they were so obstinate Considering his counsell now so noble in degrees As two dukes one Marques with thrée Earles associate Two lords two knights with foure bishops congregate And bicause they thoght it more than somwhat necessarie To haue men learned to haue their mindes approbate The lord Cromwel lord Audley they put in authoritie And I perceue quod the king that some of you do enterprise As counsaylers to vs which we neuer did admit But we well aduise you to leaue such preiudice And to meddle not of vs and our counsayle any a whit For certainely for our part we will not take it Therfore eftsones eschue such things exprobate For we haue wit sufficient our counsayle to admitte And néede for that matter no counsayle interrogate To the Article Now doubtlesse the diuell poured out his venome here To prouoke them to demaund so naughtie a request For of the seauen bishops there was but one clere Of the kings counsayle as playnly was exprest And how transuerse was it reason to coÌ„plaine of the rest And to rayle and to riot with great words tumultuous And by a cloked colour to say they were opprest And all to obteine their heresie voluptuous To finde fault with their bloud that was a great vanitie For true noblenesse procéedeth vpon mans condition And not by inheritaunce vpon olde antiquitie For then were vertue to riches in subiection Of Gaius Haminius who liste to haue inspection Agaynst Publius Cornelius did alleage the same And let theÌ„ see how gentlenesse came at the first inception And they shall be abashed vnto their owne shame And further let them looke vpon their owne gentlenesse Their estates their bloud and their long annositie And few of them shal find their own worldly noblenesse Fiue degrées constant without mutabilitie For fortune turneth hir whéele somtime to gret furnitie And sometime to illumine to a great donation As from an Earle to a gentleman of small habilitie And a squire to a duke thus is hir mutation And among experience it may well be noted Of the lord Audley the lord Cromwel the which they do diffame Whose Auncetors ere this were Barons wel promoted Til their fortune was traÌ„sact that which subdued their name And by credible information discended are these same Of these two Barons of a worthy parentage Therfore I maruell these people did not shame To make suche petition in suche a furious rage To speake of very noble where may one compare The kings grace reserued whose high progenitors Haue reigned kings in Britaine aboue a thousand yere Before Christes natiuitie as the first inheritors To Cadwallader surseased and his mother predecessors Haue reigned 〈◊〉 the conquest and of king Priamus Before the reigne of EnglaÌ„d his bloud haue ben gouernors SitheÌ„ce the condigne reigne of the anâ—iont prince 〈◊〉 Therfore why the diuel did the slowormes 〈◊〉 such 〈◊〉 As to raile of so noble a prudent prince purueyaunce When Michael the Archangell durst not be so hault As to the fetous Deuill to giue rayling sentence Striuing for Moses and for his deliueraunce Peraduenture to this text some wil replye Why raylest that then thy selfe with suche trenous distance To whom I do answere this is the reason why For myne owne cause I do it not but only for displeasure Doone to my God Prince against diuine ordinance And Christ rebuked the Pharesies whipt by incussion Diuerse which were naught for his fathers constitution And the Galathians were rebuked very sore by Paule And diuers more than they ouer long for rehearsall Now here is to be noted how Michaell the Archangel For the words sayd to him with the Deuil wold not rebel â–ª Thus of the Articles to make a shorte conclusion If they saye they do it for the faythe 's reformation The scripture is against their false cloked collusion Ouer that it is well knowen their false imagination For auarice was the cause to their owne preseruation Inuenting such a tale by a false vnanimitie To prouoke all other to haue mitigation In their myndes for defence against their obscenitie The ende of the Insurrection Then Anglia the Empresse inclusiue Sayde Holme thy long processe and thy prolixitie Hath last so long from our matter fugitiue That almost I am east into a liturgie And drowned in a dumpe with a tremous extasie Therefore I beséech thée in this thing contentious To shewe what the commons dyd after this replye For the truth greatly to knowe I am desirous And iâ— like your grace quod I to reason of this responsioÌ„ The Commons met at Yorke to Counsell in this thing And there being permanent about the same conclusion They had to them deliuered a letter from the King His graces pleasure to them there pronouncing That the Duke of Norfolk with other moe of grauitude Should méete them at Doncaster there to haue coÌ„moning â–ª This matter to exsolue or else not to conclude â–ª To this the commons agréed vniuersall And so the daye was set at Doncaster to meete Wherevnto the commons apointed men seuerall By the Baronage aduise whome they thought discréete Thus they appointed their numbre whole complete Of euery wapintage whome they thought florulent And prouided seuen thousand to be phalarate at Pomfrei Conduct together as a stale for entisement So at the daye appoynted bothe the partes met At Doncaster predict to make their placitation But assoone as they had their matter trounsed and bet The commons part abashed of their shameful obiurgatioÌ„ Howbeit the kings counsell to make a good pausation Promised if faultes were they should be amended So it could be proued by any true probation Those articles or things the which they had pretended And so by the Duke of Norfolkes intercession There was graunted a pardon and that in generall From Done to Twede for their whole transgression Of all contemptes and trespasses as well as things vitall Nyne only reserued for whome with promise cordiall The Dukes grace behight for them to make prouidence And so was al acquite for these causes actuall And mercifully pardoned for all their yl offence Yet this ought to be marked in time of vacation Or the pardon was giuen by the Kings magnificence U. thousand Cotes offence by the countryes preparation Was wrought and made for their corporall defence And Boyes went a processioÌ„ as they wold make pretence And
Their wepoÌ„s armor was lost by gods puruciaÌ„ce They did I assure you behaue themselues nobly To requite the kings grace they had good perseuerance Pondeâ—ing the preferment by his magnanimitie This notwithstanding the commons besides Doncaster Ascribed a Carter to a King coequall in degrée With coshe Crommoke coshe I would we had thée here Like sauage beastes loosed and put to their libertie Enioying in the splendent after obscuritie Deuising and inuenting Articles presumptuous Euery one discording from other verily Two Gentlemen did open their quarel contentious But one lanterne of Englande and patrone of defence A shield for vs Borials and floure of audacitie The Duke of Norfolke with all his violence To the kings armie Royall to Doncaster came he With the noble prince Pere of the kings consanguinitie The Marques of Exeter nigh to the bloud Royall With the auncient Lord th therle of Shrewesbury Whose truthe in decrepitie approueth the tryall Their veritie to their Prince my hart hath enrachened Like a woman rauished with the rase of loue esprised And many nobles mo them selues so well demeaned That of me their worthynesse it can not be deuised As Th erle of Surrey with these Earles comprised That is to say of Huntington and Rutlande also With many other nobles which was there surmised And as for Lords honorable there was many mo Thus lay they in Doncaster with Curtall Serpentine With Bombard Basilisk with men prone vigorous The Commons knew it not to them it was claudestine That made them more malapart and also more rigorous For they sent home for money their harts was so furious Purposing openly at London to holde a Parliament But the king herauld came to know their minds furious Uiewing them twise or thrise with faire words diligeÌ„t But ere the Battell was ready procincte and proponed Sir Arthure Darcy knight with the coÌ„mons was segregate And fled to the kings grace and by the way commoned With the duke of Norff. where promtly he promulgate All the Commons priuitie and I suppose effugate He was by the consent of his brother confiducion For at the first rising sir George with letters ornate Aduertised all gentlemen to leaue that ill conclusion But wheÌ„ the duke of Norf. of the Barons had intelligeÌ„ce And so many knights squires with the coÌ„mons in defeÌ„ce It incrampished his hart that they should make pretence Weying his fathers honor by their magnificence Their antique zeale amitie he thought to recompence Bringing both the parts to a communication So diuers of the principals met with diligence Concluding a purpose with good deliberation So sir Rafe Ellerker and Robert Bowes Esquire With the articles intitled went to the kings maiestie The battels both prorumped and went euery where For the duke behight to intercéede in their sedulitie In causes reasonable but not in their cecitie And so within a moneth according to promission An answere correspondent to their secularitie Was made by the kings grace to their whole petition The firste Article To the first article Fayth the kings grace replied It was a terme to general that which they did present But if they meaned christes faith he was the prince the certified That the sincere puritie therof was his intent And like a valiaunt prince he spake these words vrgent Who dare set his foote to ours the contrary to proue And said he reckned learned he was what the faith ment Marueling that the ignorant in this thing shold him moue To the Article To know which fayth was prudeÌ„ce perceiuing we Christians He hath herd of such heresies as of the Selcucians Of Sabelline and Neotus with the Patrispassians The Origenistes the Ebionites and the Donacianes The Epicures the Iacobites with the Nestoriens Of Seuerus of Menander and eke of Valentine The Antropomorphites and also the Spalmeniens The Ariens and Manacheis of Pallas and Scotine Also of Marcio Basillid es and Saturnius Of Carpocrates of Photyne and of Macedonius Of Chiliastes of Corinthius and of Heluidius Of Eutiches Galanus and also Seleucius Of Eunonius Elsesates with many a secte mo Of Montanus of Apelles and also Nouatus And Samosatenses and Appolinarius also With Antichrist the Romane the Idoll monstruous This is the groue image which the sinful world Manasses Put in the congregation the house perpetuall This is the Idoll shepheard which Zachary doth expresse And also the deuourer the false God Baall An vnshamefull King with faces Daniell doth him call This is the Iudge in earth in the xviij of Luke expressed For wée haue lost our Husband Chryst with his bloud royal And Sathan our enimie he is not yet oppressed This is the childe of perdition prophesied of by Paule In our conscience sitting Gods Temple verament The Apocalips fysgyg the whoore Babilonicall Of whom Prophets Apostles rehearseth words tâ—rgâ—t Nowe to this particle fayth was it not expedient They to haue recognised what fayth was their intention For besides Christs faith there reigneth faithes negligeÌ„t As Turke Iew Pagane with Mahâ—mites inuention As touching Christes faith sithence Christes incarnation Neither Emperour nor king nor prince of nobilitie Was like to the kings grace for in his conuocation The Anabaptists and Pelagians confuted hath he And permitted shadowes positiue of olde antiquitie For error of the people by a new altercation And also shewed like Gods knight elect in fidelitie Chrystes bloud and his death with the true iustification Of Fayth But to the misbeléeuers I put this proposition By way of interrogatorie if one of them should dye And know no refuge nor no propiciation But in Mormet in fistill they should euer lye And the prince they offended should fortune come theÌ„ by And say loue my friends and forgiue as I will thée And when thou can not repent my sonne shal for thée die And doo but this to day and rewarded shalt thou bée For to morrow thy riches shal abounde like to Croesus Thy force â–ª like Hercules thy sapience like Salomon Thou shalt haue meates delicate far aboue Vitellus In fame like Alexander thy fortune like Gedeon The luste of Augustus the pulchritude of Absolon The science of Aristotle and his Philosophie As facunde in Rethorike as was king Amphion With the health of Galen and age of Methusalie What man liuing considering this gratitude But for loue of this Prince feare of this miserie And for hope of this ioy but with his fortitude He would one day labour and suffer aduersitie And passe for no riches nor yet of iocunditie Nor of no fortune dolorous nor yet of no payne Nor of meate drinke ne cloth ne no felicitie But would fayne haue to morrow this glory to obtayne Then may we consider Adams disobedience By whose transgression equitie hath giuen death eternal And as for Moyses law it gathered more offence To the highe deitie and Plasmator potentiall Tooke pitie and mercy to make his sonne carnall And Sathanas hath loste him for all his temptation