them with garrisons and weÌ„t from thence but by Counsel of Roberte Earle of Leicester the kings Castels were ouerthrowen the Castel besieged deliuered from daunger A diuorcement was made betwéen Lewes king of France 1152 Mathew Paris Geruasius Doro. and Elianor hys Quéene bycause they were a kinne in the fourth degrée moreouer she was defamed of adulterie with an infidel c. Henrie Duke of Normandie maried Elianor whoÌ„ Lewes king of Fraunce had deuorced from him and had by hir a son named William Kyng Stephen called a Parliamente at London declaryng to Theobalde Archebyshoppe of Canturburie and the other Byshoppes howe he woulde vtterly disherite Henrie duke of Normandie and confirme his owne sonne Eustace to be his successour by crowning him king but the Pope had sent a commaundement to the Archbishoppe prohibiting him to crowne king Stephens sonne bycause his father had vsurped the kingdome contrarie to his othe Whiche thing as was thought was brought to passe by the subtile policie of Thomas Becket a Chaplaine borne in London King Stephen and his sonne being not a little offended therewith caused the Bishops with their Primate to be closed vp in an house threatning with terrors to extort of them that which with prayers or price they could not obtain The Archbishop stiffely standing in his purpose some of the Bishops through fear went from him at length the Archbishop by a maruellous hap escaping got ouer the Thamis and so to Douer and thence transporting ouer the seas escaped the threates of the King and his sonne and depriued his son of his coueted honour Quéene Mawde deceased and was buried at Feuersham Anno reg 18 Norvvich increased Chronicle of Brom holma The people of Norwich obtained of the king to haue Coroners baylifes for before y t time they had no other Officer but a sergeant for the king that kept Courts and after this that is to say in the 37. yeare of Hemie the third they had licence to inclose that towne with ditches got of sundry hundreds c. Henrie Duke of Normandie furnished with an army came 1153 into Englande and at his first comming wan the Castell and towne of Malmesburie from thenceforth Roberte the noble Earle of Leicester began to take the Dukes part and to furnish him with things necessarie a thirtie Castels or moe through his counsel with them that kept them submitted themselues to the Duke at length it was decréed y â— the King should talke with the Duke touching peace to be had and so they met in a place wher y â— Thamis was most narrow the one standing on the one side the other on the other After long talke they returned the Duke to his men the king to his and so laying down weapon euery man departed in peace Eustace the kings sonne was angry with hys father for agréeing to this peace and therefore in a rage departed from Policraticon Iohn Sarisburien Iohn Taxtor Mathew Paris the Court towards Cambridge to destroy that Country CoÌ„ming to S. Edmunds Burie he was there honorablye receyued and feasted but when he coulde not haue such money as hée demanded to bestow among his men of war he went away in a rage spoyling the corne in the fields belonging to y e Abbay and caryed it into his castels thereby but as he sat him down to dinner he fel madde vpoÌ„ receiuing the first morsel and miserably died and was buried at Feuersham The Duke besieged Stamfort Castel and wanne it and Stamforde Notingham and Ipsvvich besieged then he went to Notingham and wan that The King in the meane time besieged Ipswich and wan it At length thorough the great labour of the Archbishop of Canturburie and the other Bishops the king commanded the nobles to méet Ex charta regia Anno reg 19 King Stephen adopted Henry Ypodigma 1154 at Winchester where the duke being receiued with gret ioy the King in sighte of all men adopted him his son and confirmed to him the principalitie of all Englande The duke receiued him in place of a father graunting to him al the dayes of his life to enioy the name and seate of the kings preheminence Duke Henrie in the Octaues of the Ephiphanye came togither with the king to Oxforde where the Erles and Barons by the kings commaundement sweare fealtie to Duke Henrie sauing the kings honor so long as he liued This assurance being made they departed asunder but shortly after they met againe at Dunstable there to entreate of the state and peace of the kingdome Shortlye after Duke Henrie with king Stephen and certaine Lords of England came to Canturburie and from thence to Douer where they had communication with Theodrike Erle of Flaunders the Countesse the Dukes aunte When the King and the Duke had dismissed the Earle of Flaunders and were turning towards Canturburie the slaughter of the Duke was prepared by a conspiracie of the Flemmings which enuied both y â— duke peace but behold sodainly y â— kings yoÌ„ger son WilliaÌ„ priuie with the conspirators on BarhaÌ„ down fel of his horsse breaking his leg he gathered all y â— company about him in sorrow The duke in the mean time vnderstanding the appointed treason got him to Canturburie and so escaped hys enimies hands from thence by Rochester and London he came to the sea and passed ouer into Normandie William Archbishop of Yorke going to Yorke in the feaste of Pentercost was poysoned at Masse and dyed within fewe dayes after In October the king met the Earle of Flaunders again at Douer and talked with him After the Earle was dismissed the king was taken with a sodaine paine of the Iliake passion K. Stephen died Gerâ—a Doro. Ralph Cogshal and with an olde disease or running of the Emerodes and there in y â— house of the Monkes dyed the xxv of October when he had raigned xviij yeres x. monthes and odde days He fouÌ„ded the Abbays of Cogshal in Essex of Furnes in Lancashire of Hurguilers and Feuersham in Kent where hys body was buried He founded an house for Nunnes at Carewe ¶ King Henrie the seconde HEnrie the seconde son of Geffrey Plantagenet and Mawde the Empresse began his raigne ouer this realme Anno reg 1. of England the xxv day of October in the yere of our Lord 1154. he was Crowned at Westminster the. xvij daye of December by Theobalde Archbishop of Canturburie he was somewhat red of face short of body and therwith fatte of speach reasonable wel learned noble in chiualry and fortunate in battayle wise in counsel one that loued peace lyberall to straungers but hard to his familiars vnstedfast of promise giuen to pleasure and a wedlocke breaker by his manhoode and policie the crowne of England was much augmented with the annexing of Scotland Ireland the Iles of Orcades Boytaine Peyters Guyen and other prouinces of Fraunce Thomas Becket Archdeacon of Canturbury was made the Kings Chancellour He held
to be set vp a royall chayre in purpose to chose a new king neare to the whiche the Prelates were set and on the other side sat the Lords and after the commoÌ„s in order first sat the Duke of Lancaster then the Duke of Yorke the Duke of Aumerle the Duke of Surrey the Duke of Excester and a Marques then in order the Earles of Arundale Norfolke March Stafford Penbroke Salisburie and Deuonshire the Erles of Northumberlande and Westmerlande sat not but went vppe and down and oftentimes knéeled as it fell in doing theyr offices The Archbishop of Canterburie made a Sermon and toke for his Theame Habuit Iacob benedictioneÌ„ a preÌ„ suo which sermon being ended in latin a Doctour of the law stoode vp and red an instrument in the which was contained that K. Richard had by his owne confession disabled himselfe to be worthy to raigne and that he woulde resigne the crowne to such a one as was sufficiente to rule this instrument being red the Archbishop perswaded theÌ„ to procéede to the election of a new K. perceyuing they were al coÌ„tented for ther wer not past four persons that wer of king Richards part they durst say nothing he asked each of theÌ„ whoÌ„ they wold haue to their King whether the Duke of Yorke or not and they aunswered no he asked if they would haue his eldest son the D. of Aumarle and they sayd no he asked if they would haue his yongest son and they sayd no and so of diuerse other theÌ„ staying a while he asked if they wold haue the D. of Lancaster and then they aunswered they would haue none other This Diamounde being made thrice they drew certain instruments and charters and red them in presence of all that were there TheÌ„ y e Archbishops coÌ„ming to the Duke fell on theyr knées declaring to him how he was chosen King and willed him to take regarde if he would consent thereto theÌ„ the D. being on his knées rose declared y â— he accepted the realm sith it was ordayned by God TheÌ„ y e Archbishop red what y t new K. was bound vnto with certain ceremonies signed him with the crosse theÌ„ he kissed the Achbishop and they toke the ring with which the Kings be wedded to the realme and bare it to the Lord Percy that was Conestable who receyuing it shewed it to al the assembly and then put it on the kings finger the King then kissed the Conestable and then the Archbishops led him to the 〈◊〉 Royal and y â— K. made his prayers on his knées before it and after spake vnto them all first to y e Prelates then to the Lords al other so set him down in the seate thus he was inuested and K. Richard put down he sat a good while kept silence and so did all the rest for they were in prayer for his prosperitie in his gouernement when they had ended wher the offices were voyde the K. created the Lord Percy Conestable and toke him the staffe Then was chosen Ralph Earle of Westmerland Marshal Iohn Skirley Chanceller sir Richard Clifforde kéeper of the priuy seale many other officers were newely confirmed After this the Arcbishoppe spake certayne things in latin praying for y â— Kings prosperitie and the realmes and after spake in English exhorting all other there present to pray the like and then euery man sat down Then the king rose made his eldest son Prince of Wales then the Lords were sworne to be true to the Prince as before they had done to his Father hys seconde sonne was there made Duke of Lancaster Thus was king Richard deposed when he had raigned two and twenty yeres thrée monthes and odde dayes ¶ Henrie of Bolengbroke HEnrie the fourth son to Iohn of Gâ—unte Duke Anno reg 1. of Lancaster was ordayned king of EnglaÌ„d more by force than by lawfull succession or election he began his raigne the 29. of September in the yere of our Lord God 1399. And was crowned at Westminster the xiij of October by Thomas Arundale Archbishop of Canterburie The Dukes of Yorke Surrey Aumarle and the Earle of Glocester bare the Canapie ouer him sir Thomas Dimmocke was champion and rode thrée times about the Hall This was a noble valiaunt Prince and after the Ciuill warres were appeased shewed himselfe louing to his subiectes He made Henrie his sonne Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwal Erle of Chester and heyre apparaunt to the crowne William Waldren William Hyde the. 28. of September Sherifes Maior Sir Thomas Knowles Grocer the. 28. of October After the solemnitie of the coronation the Lords commons streight procéeded to the ParliameÌ„t In which it was inquired out of the death of the Duke of Glocester how hée had bin murdered at Caleis by the Duke of Norsfolke vpon y â— Kings commaundement King Hentâ—e created hys eldest sâ—â—ne Prince of Wales Duke of 〈…〉 and Earle of Chester duke of Aquitaine In this Parliament it was ordained that the statutes made in the Parliament holden in the 21. yere of king Richard at Westminster and after proroged vnto Shrewesburie with all the circuÌ„stances to be adnulled reuoked made voyde and vtterly blotted out Also that the Parliament holdeÌ„ at Westminster in the xj yere of K. Richard be holden firme and stable Also that the Lords other persoÌ„s which were iudged forth in the Parliament holden the 21. yere of King Richard their heires that be deade shoulde be wholy restored to their possessions without any â—uing liuèrie thereof to be made excepted that the Lords and other shal haue nothing of y e issues receiued in y e mean time The â— gaue to the E. of Northumberland y e I le of Man to be holdeÌ„ of the K. by seruice to beare the sword w t which he entred into England And to the â— of Westmerland he gaue the CouÌ„tie of Richmond Also Judgement was giuen against the Appellauntes of the Duke of Glocester in this maner The Lords in this present Parliament by she Kings assent iudge that the Dukes of Aâ—â—erle Surrey and Excester now present and were appellantes shal loâ—e thryr names of Dukes and hâ—nors from heÌ„ceforth togither with the dignities of Dukes that the Marques Dorset that is present lose hys name of Macques the E. of Glocester which is preseÌ„t lose his name for him and his heires as y e aboue named persons do theirs that alâ— the castels possessions or manor's which they had of theÌ„ that belonged to those whom they appelled froÌ„ y e day of y â— arrest of the D. of Glocester the other Lords or after at any time simply without fauour or mercie they shal lose theÌ„ that al other castels possessioÌ„s manours Lordships liberties which they helde of the Kings gift that day or after shâ—ld rest in the kinge grace from y e hâ—â—re and that all letters patents and Charters whiche they or
Bridge but the warders or kéepers thereof kept them out by force as before they were commanded wherwith they being gréeuously discontented gathered to them a greater number of Archers and men of armes and assaulted the Gate with shot and other meanes of warre in so much that the commons of the Citie shut in their shoppes and spedde them thither in great number so that greate bloudshed woulde haue followed had not the wisedome of the Maior and Aldermen stayde the matter in time The Archbishop of Canterbury with the Prince of Portugale and other tooke great labour vpon them to pacifie this variance betwixt the two bréethren the Protector and the Bishop in so muche that they rode betwéene them eyght times ere they might bring them to any reasonable conformitie and lastly they agréed to stande to the rule of the Duke of Bedford Regent of France or of such as he would assigne wherevpon the Citie was set in more quiet and the Bishop of Winchester wrote a Letter to the Duke of Bedford Lord Regent as followeth RIght high and mighty Prince and right noble and after one leuest earthly Lorde I recommende me vnto your Grace with all my heart and as ye desire the welfare of the King our soueraigne Lorde and of his Realies of England and of France and your owne weale with all yours hast you hither for by my troth and ye tarrie long we shall put this Land in ieoperdy with a Field such a Brother yée haue héere God make him a good man For your wisedome knoweth well that the profite of France standeth in the welfare of England Written at London the last of October On the tenth day of January next ensuing the sayde Duke of Bedford wyth hys wife came vnto London with them also came the said Bishop of Winchester and the Maior and Citizens receyued him at Merton and â—onâ—ayde hym through the Citie vnto Westminster where he was lodged in the Kings Pallace and the Bishop of Winchester was lodged within the Abbots lodging On the morrow following the Maior presented the Regente with a paire of Basins of Siluer and ouer-gilt and in them a thousande Marke of gold The xxj of February began a great Counsayle at Saint Albons which was after reiorned to Northampton but for that no due conclusion mighte be made on the 1426 Parliament at Leycester xxv of March was called a Parliamente at Leycester the which endured till the xv day of June This was called the Parliamente of Battes bycause men being forbidden to bring Swords or other weapons brought great battes and staues on their neckes and wheÌ„ those weapons were inhibited theÌ„ they tooke stones and plomets of Leade During this Parliament the variance betwixt the two Lords was debated in so much that the Duke of Glocester put a Bill of complaynt against the Bishop conteyning sixe Articles all which Articles were by the Bishop sufficiently aunswered and finally by the counsell of the Lord Regent all the matters of variance betwéene the sayd two Lordes were put to the examination and iudgemente with the assistance of the Lordes of the Parliamente Henry Archbishop of Canterburie Thomas Duke of Excester Iohn Duke of Norffolke Thomas Bishop of Durham Philip Bishop of Worcester Iohn Bishop of Bath Humfrey Earle of Stafford Raulph Lord Cornewell and Maister William Alnewike then kéeper of the priuie Seale which Lordes made a decrée and awarde so that eyther party tooke other by the hande with friendly and louing words none hauing amends of other Upon Whitsonday following was a solemne feast holden at Leycester aforesayde where the Regente dubbed King Henry Knight and then forthwith the King dubbed Richard Duke of Yorke that after was father to King Edward the fourth and other to the number of fortie After the Parliamente the Kyng wente to Killingworth Castell Henry Chicheley Archbishop of Canterbury founded a Colledge at Higham Ferrers in Northamptonshire of eyght Colledge and Hospitall at Higham Ferrers fellowes foure Clearkes and sixe Choristers He also founded there an Hospitall for poore folke with many preferments to the sayd Towne which house for the poore his Anno reg 5. bréethren Robert and William Chichely Aidermen of London augmented with goodly legacies On Saterday the euen of Saint Michaell the Archangell Iohn Audley An Earthquake during tvvo houres in the morning before day betwixte the houres of one and two of the clocke began a terrible Earthquake with lightning and thunder whiche continued the space of two houres and was vniuersall through the world so that men had thought the world as then should haue ended and the generall dome to haue followed The vnreasonable Beasts rored and drew to the Townes with hideous noyse Also the Foules of the ayre likewise cryed out suche was the worke of God at that time to call his people to repentance Iohn Arnold Iohn Higham the 28. of September Sherifes Maior VVardes in London discharged of fifteenes Iohn Reynwell Fishmonger the 28. of October This Iohn Reynwell Maior of London gaue certayne Lands or tenements to the Citie of London for the whiche the same Citie is bound to pay for euer all such fiftéenes as shall be graunted to the King so that it passe not thrée fiftéenes in one yeare for thrée wardes in London to wéete Reignwels Testament Downegate warde Billingsgate warde and Aldgate warde This yeare the Tower at the Draw Bridge of London Tovver on LoÌ„don Bridge was begun by the same Maior of London On the Newyeares daye Thomas Beawford Duke of Excester deceassed at Greenewich and was buryed at Sainte Edmonds Burie in Suffolke About the Purification of our Lady the Duke of Bedford Regent of France with his wife and familie passed the seas vnto Caleis and so through Picardy into France but ere he departed from Caleis to wéete vpon the feast day of the Annuntiation 1427 of our Lady the Bishop of Winchester within the Church of our Lady of Caleis was created Cardinall and after the solemnitie done the Regente tooke him on hys righte hande and so conuayed hym vnto hys lodging This yeare was vnseasonable weathering for it reyned most part continually from Easter to Michaelmasse This yeare the Duke of Alanson that before was taken prisoner at the battayle of Vernole in Perch was deliuered for a raunsome of 200000. Scuttes of Golde whiche was Rob. Gagwin 50000. Markes sterling This yeare also the Earle of Salisburie accompanyed with the Earle of Suffolke the Lord Talbot and other layde Rob. Fabian a strong séege vnto the Citie of Orleance and hilde the Citiezens very streight and maugre the Duke of Orleance and the Marshall of France the Englishmen wanne from them diuers strong holdes adioyning to the Citie and forced them to bren a great part of their suburbes but one day as y e sayd Anno reg 6. Earle of Salisburie Thomas Mountagew rested him at a bay window a Gunne was leuelled out of the Citie which all
in my owne realm For I shall knowe what traytour dare be so bolde to arise anye people in mine owne lande where through I am in great disease and heauynesse by that Faith I owe vnto Saint Edwarde and vnto the Crown of England I shal destroy them euery mothers son and eke they to be hanged drawn and quartered that may be taken afterward of them in example to make all suche traytours to beware for to make anye rising of people within mine owne land and so trayterously to abyde theyr king and gouernour And for a conclusion rather than they shall haue any Lorde that here is with me at this time I shall this day for their sake in this quarrell my selfe liue and dye The wordes of the Duke of Yorke to all Gentlemen and other assembled with hym SIrs the king our soueraign Lord wil not be reformed at our beséeching ne prayer nor wil not in no wise vnderstaÌ„d the intente wherfore we be here asseÌ„bled gathered at this time but only is in ful purpose to destroy vs al and there vpon a great othe hath made that there is none other waye but that he with all his power will pursue vs and if we be taken to giue vs a shamefull death léesing our liuelodeand goods and also our heyres shamed for euer Therfore sirs now sith it will none otherwise be but y t we shall vtterly die better it is to vs to die in the field than cowardly 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 mischiefe thereof let euery man helpe to his power this daye and in that quarrell to quite vs like men to the crowne of England praying and beséeching vnto that Lord the which is eternal that raigneth in the glorious kingdome celestial to kéepe and saue vs thys day in our right and throughe the giftes of his holy grace we may be made strong to withstaÌ„d the greate abhominable and horrible malice of them that purpose to destroy vs and the realme of England and put vs to a shamefull death praye we therefore vnto that Lord to be our comfort and our defendour saying these wordes Domine sis clipeus defensionis nostri And when these wordes were sayde the Duke of Yorke and the Earles of Warwicke and Salisburie with their hoste betwéene eleauen and twelue at noone breake in in thrée seueral places of the sayd stréete The King theÌ„ being in the place of Edmond Westby Hundreder of the sayde Towne of Saint Albons hearing of the saide Dukes comming commaunded his hoste to slaye all manner Lordes Knightes Squiers Gentlemen and yeomen that might be taken on the party of the foresayd Duke of Yorke Thys done the Lorde Clifforde kepte so strongly the barriours of the same Towne that the forsayde Duke of Yorke might in no wise with all the power that hée hadde enter nor breake into the sayde Towne The Earle of Warwicke knowyng thereof tooke and gathered hys menne togyther wyth hym and brake in by the Garden side into the sayde Towne betwéene the signe of the keye and the Exchequere in Holywel stréete and anone as they were within the fayde Towne they blew vppethe Trumpet and cryed with an high voyce a Warwicke a Warwicke that maruayle it was to heare And tyll that tyme the Duke of Yorke might neuer haue entry into the Town and then with strong hande they brake vp the Barriers and foughte a fierce and cruell battayle in the whiche were slayne Lordes of name Edmonde Duke of Somerset the Earle of Northumberlande the Lorde Clifforde sir Barton Entewsell Knighte William Souche Iohn Botreaux Ralphe Balithorpe and his sonne William Coruin WilliaÌ„ Cotton receyuer of the Dutchie of Lancaster Gilbert Faldinger Reignalde Griffin Iohn Dawes Ellis Wood Iohn Cytâ—e Robert Woodwarde Gilbert Scarlocke and Ralph Willowby Esquires a Gentleman of the Courte Roger Mercraft the Quéenes messanger Hawbin the Kings Porter Malener Padington and William Butler Yeomen and fiue and twentie moe whose names were not knowne and of them that were slayne bene buryed at Saint Albons eighte and fourtie persons And at that battayle were wounded Lordes of name the King was shotte into the necke wyth an arrowe The Duke of Buckingham and the Lord Sudley in the visages wyth arrowes the Earle of Stafforde in the right hande with an arrowe the Earle of Dorset was so sore hurte that he might not goe but was fayne to be carried home in a carte and Syr Iohn Wenloke Knighte in likewise hurt and carried from thence in a Chayre and diuerse other Knightes and Esquiers sore hurt and the substaunce of the Kyngs hoste dispoyled of theyr harneis at their owne requeste made deliuerye to the Dukes hoste for sauation of theyr liues and fled The Earle of Wiltshire and Thorpe with many other fled and cast away their harneis in ditches and woods This done the Duke of Yorke the Erles of Warwicke and Salisburie came vnto the King where hée was and besoughte hym on theyr knées of grace and forgiuenesse of that they had done in his presence besoughte him of his highnesse to take theÌ„ to grace as his true liege men The king desired them to cease their people that there shoulde be no more hurte done and to obey hys commaundemeÌ„t did cause to be proclaymed in the Kings name that all maner of people shoulde cease off theyr malice and not to smite one stroke more and so ceased the battayle And vpon the day next after the King and the Duke of Yorke the Earles of Warwicke and Salisburie came to London and were lodged in the Bishoppes Pallaice of London where they kepte theyr Whitsontide with great ioye and solemnitye concluding there to holde a Parliament the same to begin on the ninth of July next following This yeare in the moneth of June appeared a comet or starre called Stella Cometa betwixt the North and the East extending his beames towards the South In the Parliament begun the ninth of July as is afore saide Richarde Duke of Yorke was made protectour of the realme The Earle of Salisburie was made Lord Chauncellour of Englande and Richarde Earle of Warwicke was made Captaine of Caleis Iohn Yong Thomas Owlgraue the. 28. of September Anno. reg 34 Sherifes Maior William Marrow Grocer the 28. of October This yeare by meanes of the Quéene and the Lordes of hir Counsell the Duke of Yorke was discharged of the Protectourship and the Earle of Salisburie of the Chauncellourship and being called by priuie seale to Couentrie they were like to haue bene intrapped there and hardlye escaped In the moneth of Maye an Italians seruaunte walkyng 1456 Robert Fabian throughe Cheape of London wyth a dagger hangyng at hys gyrdle a Merchauntes seruaunt that before tyme had bin in Italy and there blamed for wearing of the like weapon chalenged the straunger howe hée durst be so bolde
at Grenevviche Henrie Norice and other From this Iustes King Henrie sodainely departed to Westminster hauing only with him sixe persons of which sodayne departure many menne maruelled On the nexte morrowe the Lorde Rocheford brother to the Quéene and Henrie Norrice were brought to the Tower of London prisoners Also the same daye aboute fiue of the clocke in the afternoon Quéene Anne Bolleine was brought to the Tower of London by sir Thomas Audley Lord Chancelour the Duke of Norffolke Thomas Cromwell Secretary and sir William Kingston Constable of the Tower and when she came to the Tower gate entring in she fell on hir knées before the saide Lordes beséeching God to helpe hir as shée was not guiltie of that whereof she was accused and then desired the saide Lordes to beséeche the Kings Grace to bée good vnto hir and so they lefte hir there prisoner On the xv of May Quéene Anne was arraigned in the Tower of London on a Scaffold for y ◠purpose made in y ◠kings Hall before the Duke of Norffolke who sate vnder y e cloth of Estate as high Steward of England with the Lord Chancellour on his right hand the Duke of Suffolke on his left hande with Marquesses and Lords c. and the Earle of Surrey sate before the Duke of Norffolke his father as Earle Marshall of England The Kings commission being redde the Connestable of the Tower the Lieutenant brought the Quéene to the barre where was made a Chaire for hir to sit downe in and there hir inditement was redde whervnto she made so wise and discrete answeres that she séemed fully to cléere hirselfe of all matters layd to hir charge but being tried by hir Péeres wherof the Duke of Suffolke was chiefe she was by them found giltie and had iudgement pronounced by the Duke of Norffolke and immediatly the Lord Rochford the Quéenes brother was likewise arraigned and condemned the Maior of London his bréetherne the Aldermen the Wardens and four persons moe of euery the twelue principall companyes béeing present The xvij of May the Lorde Richford brother to the Quéene Henry Norris Marke Smeton William Brierton and Francis Weston all of the Kings priuie Chamber about matters touching the Quéene were beheaded on the Tower hill the Lord Rochfords body with the head was buryed in the Chappell of the Tower the other four in the Church-yard there On the xix of May Quéene Anne was on a Scaffold made for that purpose vpon the gréene within the Tower of London beheaded with the sword of Caleis by the handes of the hangman of that Towne hir body with the head was buryed in the Quéere of the Chappell in the Tower The xx of May the King marryed Lady Iane daughter King Henry married Lady Iane. to Sir Iohn Seymour Knight which at Whitsontide was openly shewed as Quéene and on Tuesday in the Whitson wéeke Sir Edwarde Seymour was created Uicount Beauchamp and Sir Walter Hungerford made Lorde Hungerford The eyght of June beganne a Parliamente and the Articles of Religion deuised by the King Cleargie held a Conuocation in Paules Churche where after much disputing and debating of matters they published a Booke of Religion entituled Articles deuised by the Kings highnesse On Saint Peters night the King Quéene stoode at the Mercers Hall and saw the watch The xxix of June the King held a great iusting triumph at Westminster where were ordeyned two Lighters made Triumph at VVestminster like Shippes to fight vpō the water one of the which brast in the midst whereby one Gates Gentleman a seruant of Maister Kneuits was drowned in his harneis In the other a Gunne brast hir Chamber maymed two of y e mariners Thomas Cromwell Secretary to the King and Mayster of the Rolles was made Lord Kéeper of the priuie Seale The ix of July the Lord Fitzwaren was created Earle of Bath and y e morrow after Thomas Cromwell was made Lord Cromwell The xviij of July Lord Thomas Cromwell Thomas Cromvvell Lord priuie Seale vicar generall was made Knight and high vicar generall ouer the Spiritualty vnder the King and sate diuers times in the Conuocation among the Bishops as head ouer them The xxij of July Henry Duke of Richmond and Somerset Henry Duke of Richmount Earle of Northampton a Bastard sonne of King Henry borne of the Lady Taileboise that time called Elizabeth Blunt dyed at Saint Iames and was buryed at Thetford in Norffolke This moneth of July Lord Thomas Howarde Lord Thomas Hovvard sent to the Tovver yongest brother to the Duke of Norffolke was sente to the Tower of London for making a priuie contract of Matrimonie with the Lady Margaret Dowglas daughter to y e Quéene of Scottes by the Earle of Anguish and néece to King Henry of England the said Lord Thomas was attaint by Parliament and also the saide Lady Margaret Dowglas was after committed to the Tower for the same In September Thomas Cromwell Lorde priuie Seale and Uizgerent sent out vnder the Kings Spiritual Seale certayne Iniunctions to the Prelates and Cleargie of the Realme charging Curates to preach and to teache their parishners the Pater noster Aue and Creede the Commaundements Pater noster creede and commandements articles of y e faith in English with other articles In the beginning of October at a Sise for the Kings Commotion in Lincolneshire Subsidie kept in Lincolneshire the people made an insurrection and gathered nye twenty thousand persons who tooke certayne Lords and Gentlemen of the Countrey causing them to be sworne to them vpon certayne Articles whiche they had deuised and such as refused to sweare they kepte prisoners and beheaded a Priest who was the Bishop of Lincolnes Chancellour Against those the King did send the Commotion appeased Duke of Suffolke the Earle of Shrewshurie and the Earle of Rutland with a strong power whereof when the Rebelles heard they desired pardon brake vp their armye and departed home but their Captaynes were apprehended and executed The ix of October a Priest and a Butcher were hanged A Priest and a Butcher executed at Windsore for wordes speaking in the behalfe of the Lincolneshiremen y e Butcher wished y e good fellowes as he tearmed them in Lincolneshire to haue the flesh on his stall rather than to sell it at such price as he was offered the Priest standing by likewise wished them to haue it for he said they had néede of it The men of Lincolneshire being pacifyed within sixe dayes Commotion in Yorkeshire after began an insurrection in Yorkeshire for the same causes there people gathered to the number of fortie thousand who tooke the Archbishop of Yorke and the Lord Darcy and caused them to be sworne to their partie Agaynste those Rebelles the Kyng sente the Duke of Norffolke the Duke of Suffolke the Earle of Shrewshurie and the Marquesse of Excester wyth a greate Armye wyth whome a Battayle was appoynted to haue béene
foughte on the euen of Saint Simon and Iude but as God woulde there fell suche rayne the nighte before that the two Armyes coulde not méete wherevppon they desyred the Duke of Northfolke to sue vnto the Kyngs Maiestie for theyr pardon and that they myghte haue their liberties c. whyche the Duke promised and rode poste to the Kyng then lying at Windesore to know his pleasure and so appeased them Sir Robert Aske Commotion appeased that was chiefe of this Rebellion came to London and was not only pardoned but rewarded with great giftes Sir Ralph Euers kept Skarbrow Castel in the North béeing Sir Ralph Euers his good seruice in the North. sixe wéekes beséeged by the Rebelles twentye dayes whereof he and all his companye whiche were his onely friends seruants and tenants and serued for good will to him were forced to susteyne themselues with bread and water and yet kept the same safe to the end of the sayd Rebellion and so deliuered it to King Henry who sente hym soone after to serue in the bordures against Scotland where in great credite he continued his seruice kéeping the Scottes without doing hurt to England and with such obedience of them as within twentie miles of the bordures of Scotlande fore against him there was not a Scotte but at his commandement and so continued till he was killed in Anno 1545. Robert Paget Mer. Taylor William Bowyer the 28. of Se. Sherifes Maior Sir Ralph Warreine Mercer the 28. of October The xij of Nouember Sir Thomas Newman Priest bare a faggot at Pawles Crosse for singing Masse with good ale Penaunce at Paules crosse The xiij of Nouember Maister Robert Pagington a Mercer of London was slaine with a gunne as he was going to Robert Pagington murthered morrow Masse to Saint Thomas of Akers nowe called the Mercers Chappell but the murtherer was neuer openly knowne till by his owne confession made when he came to the Gallowes at Banbery where he was hanged for felonie The 22. of December the Thames being frozen the king and Quéene Iane rode through London to Greenewich The third of February was Thomas Fitzgarret sonne The Barle of Kildare and fine of his Vnckle 's executed and heire to the Earle of Kildare beheaded and fiâ—e of hys Unckles drawne hanged and quartered at Tiborne for Treason In the same moneth Nicholas Musgraue Thomas Gilby and other stirred a new Rebellion and beséeged the A nevv commotion in Yorkeshire Another conspiracie Citie of Carelile from whence they were driuen and many of them taken and put to death Also the same moneth Sir Francis Bigot Sir Robert Constable and other beganneâ— conspiracie and for the same were attaynted The xxix of March were twelue men of Lincolne drawne 1537 to Tiborne and there hanged quartered fiue were priestes and seaâ—en were lay men one was an Abbot a Suffragan Lincolneshirâ— men executed Doctor Mackerell another was the Uicar of Louthe in Lincolneshire and two Priests In Aprill through certayne commissions sent into Sommersetshire Anno reg 29 A commotion in Sommersetshire to take vp Corne the people began to make an insurrection which was by Mayster Pawlet and other alayed the beginners to the number of thréescore were condemned whereof fourtéene were hanged and quartered one of them was a woman In June the Lord Darcy the Lord Hussey Sir Robert Constable Sir Thomas Percy Sir Francis Bigot Sir Stephen Hamelton Sir Iohn Bulmer and his wife William Lomley Nicholas Tempest Esquier Robert Aske William Thurst Abbot of Fountaynes Adam Sodbury Abbot of Gerâ—ax the Abbot of Riuers William Wold Prior of Birlington were all put to death Sir Robert Constable at Hull ouer the gate called Beuerley gate Aske hanged in chaynes on a Tower at Yorke Margaret Cheyny otherwise Lady Boulmer burned in Smithfield Lorde Darcy beheaded at Tower hill Lord Hussey at Lincolne and the other sixe in number suffered at Tiborne The xxvj of August the Lord Cromwell Lorde priuie Seale was made Knight of the Garter The xij of October about two of the clocke in the morning Prince Edvvard borne was borne at Hampton Court Prince Edwarde and Quéene Iane his mother left hir life the xiiij of October The xviij of October y e Prince was made Prince of Wales Duke of Cornewall and Earle of Chester Edward Seymour Lord Beauchamp the Quéenes brother was made Earle of Hertford and Sir William Fitz William Lord Admirall was made Earle of Hampton and Mayster Pawlet was made Uiztreasurer Sir Iohn Russell Comptroller of the kings house Mayster Henedge Maister Long Mayster Kneuet of the Kings priuie Chamber Knightes Mayster Coffin Mayster Listar and Mayster Seimour the Quéenes brother Knightes Iohn Gresham Thomas Lewen the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Sir Richard Gresham Mercer the 28. of October The xviij of October Edward Uiscount Beauchamp was created Earle of Hertford and Sir William Fitz william States created Lord Admirall was created Earle of Southampton at Hampton Court The same day and in the same place were made these Knightes Sir Thomas Hennedge Sir Thomas Seymer Sir Richard Long Sir William Coffin Sir Michaell Listar and Sir Henry Kneuet On Alhallowen euen Lord Thomas Howard brother to Lord Thomas Hovvard deceassed the Duke of Norffolke dyed prisoner in the Tower of London and was buryed at Thetford and then the Lady Margaret Dowglas was pardoned and releassed out of the Tower The xij of Nouember the corpse of Quéene Iane was with great solemnitie conuayde from Hampton Court toward Windsore and there buryed The xxiiij of February being Sonday the Roode of Roode of grace shevved at Povvles Boxley in Kent called the Roode of Grace made with dyuers vices to moue the eyes and lippes was shewed at Powles Crosse by the Preacher which was Bishop of Rochester and there it was broken and plucked in péeces The xxv of February Sir Iohn Allen Priest and also an Irish Gentleman of the Garets were hanged and quartered at Tiborne The second of March the Image of the Roode called Saint Sauiour at Bermondsey Abbey in Southwarke was taken down Saint Sauiour in Southvvarke by the Kings commandement The xxj of March Henry Harfam Customer of Pâ—â—mâ—â—â—â—â— Thomas Ewell were haÌ„ged quartered at Tiborne The xxij of May Frier Forest was hanged by the midle in a chaine of Iron and then brent in Smithfield for denying 1538 Anno reg 30 Frier Forest brent the King to be supreme head of the Church c. with hym was brent the Image of Daruell Gatherine of Wales and the next night following the Roode at Saint Margaret Paitins by Tower streete was broken all to pâ—eces with his Tabernacle that he stoode in The xxvij of May was a great fire in Saint Margaret Fire in Râ—â—dâ— Lane Patins Parish among the Basketmakers where were brent and perished in thrée houres aboue a dozen houses and nine persons cleane brent to death Battayle Abbey
Englande tooke leaue of the King and on Sonday came to Saint Dennis and after to Bolongne where they tooke shippe and returned into Englande the fourth of July The second of June in the morning betwéen the houres of seauen and eight Thomas Hawarde Duke of Norffolke was beheaded on a Scaffolde sette vpon the Tower hill The Duke of Norffolke beheaded Aboute the ninth of June Frauncis Duke of Momorencie French Embassadors chiefe Marshall of Fraunce Gouernour and Lieutenant of the Isle of Fraunce Generall to Charles the ninth Kyng of Fraunce and Paule de Foix of the priuie Councell to the saide King and Bertrande de Saligners Lorde de la Mothefenalon Knightes of the order of Saint Michael Embassadors for the same King arryued at Douer The fouretéenth day they shotte London bridge towards Somerset house at the Strande where they were lodged The fiftéenth daye beyng Sundaye the saide Embassadours League vvith Fraunce confirmed at VVestminster repayred to the White hall where they were honorablye receyued of the Quéenes Maiestie with hir Nobilitie and there in hir Graces Chappell aboute one of the clocke in the afternoone the Articles of treatie league or confederacie and sure friendship concluded at Blois the ninetéenth of Aprill as is afore shewed betwixt the Quéenes Maistie and the Frenche King being read the same was by his Maiestie and his Embassadours confirmed to be obserued and kepte wythout innouation or violation c. The reste of that day wyth great part of the night following was spent in greate triumph with sumptuous banquets The eightéenth of June the feaste of Saint George was holden at Windsore where the French Embassadoures were royally feasted and Frauncis Duke of Momorencie was S Georges feast at VVindsore stalled Knight of the moste honorable order of the Garter The eight and twentith daye of June the afore named Embassadoures departed from London towardes Fraunce The fouretéenth of June Thomas Lorde Wharton deceassed in his house of Chanon Rowe at Westminster The thyrtéenth daye of July the Qu 〈…〉 Maiestie at Lorde Treasorer Lord priuie Seale L. Chamberlaine vvyth other officers White hall made sir William Cecil Lorde o 〈…〉 〈…〉 hley Lorde highe Treasorer of Englande Lorde Willi 〈…〉 〈…〉 awarde late Lorde Chamberlaine Lorde priuie Seal 〈…〉 The Earle of Sussex Lorde Chamberlaine sir Thomas Smith principall Secretarie and Christopher Hatton Esquier Captaine of the Guarde c. The two and twentith of August Thomas Percie Earle Earle of Northumberland beheaded of Northumberlande late of Topcliffe who hadde béene béefore attainted by Parliament of highe Treason as béeyng one of the principall conspiratoures in the late rebellion and nowe broughte oute of Scotlande whether he hadde fledde was beheaded at Yorke aboute twoo of the clocke in the afternoone on a newe Scaffolde set vppe for that purpose in the Market place In this moneth of Auguste sir Thomas Smith one of the Englishmē sente to Vlstar in Irelande Quéenes Maiesties priuie Councell carefully tending the reformation of Irelande sent hys sonne Thomas Smith Esquyre thither with a Colonie of Englishemen to inhabite the Ardes in Vlster Richarde Pipe Nicholas Woodroffe the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Sir Lionell Ducket Mercer the 28. of October The eyghtéenth of Nouember in the mornyng was Anno reg 15 A strange Starre appeared séene a Starre Northwarde verye brighte and cleare in the Constellation of Cassiopeia at the backe of hir Chaire whiche wyth thrée chiefe fixed Starres of the saide Constellation made a Geometrical figure losinge wise of the learned menne called Rombus thys Starre in bignesse at the fyrste appearing séemed bigger than Iupiter and not muche lesse than Venus when she séemeth greatest also the said Starre neuer changing hys place was carryed about with the daylye motion of Heauen as all fixed Starres commonlye are and so contynued by little and little to the eye appearyng lesse for the space of almoste sixetéene Moneths at what tyme it was so small that rather thoughte by exercise of ofte viewyng myghte imagine the place than any eye coulde iudge the presence of the same and one thyng is herein chieflye to be noted that by the learned skill and consent of the best and most expect Mathematicians which obserued the state property and other circumstances belonging to the same Starre it was found to haue bin in place Celestiall farre aboue the Moone otherwise than euer anye Comet hathe bin séene or naturally can appéere Therefore it is supposed that the signification thereof is directed purposely and specially to some matter not naturall but celestiall or rather supercelestiall so straunge as from the beginning of the worlde neuer was the like The four and twentith of Nouember Edward Earle of Earle of Darby deceassed Darbie Lord Stanley and Strange of Knocking Lord and Gouernor of the Isle of Man Knight of the noble order of the Garter and one of the Quéenes Maiesties priuie Councell deceassed at his house called Latham in Lancashire His life and death deseruing commendation and crauing memorie to be imitated was suche as followeth His fidelitie vnto two Kings and two Quéenes in daungerous times and greate rebellions in whyche time and alwayes as cause serued He was lieutenant of Lancashire and Cheshire and lately offered tenne thousande men to the Quéenes Maiestie of his owne charge for the suppression of the last rebellion His godlye disposition to his tenantes neuer forcing anye seruice at their handes but due payment of their rent His liberalitie to strangers and such as shewed themselues gratefull to him His famous house kéeping 220. in checkroll neuer discontinuing y e space of xlij yere His féeding especially of aged persōs twice a day lx od besids al cōmers thrice a wéeke appoynted for hys dealing dayes and euerye Good Friday these xxxv yeres one with another 2700. with meate drinke money and money worth There was neuer Gentleman or other that waited in his seruice but had allowance from him to haue as wel wages as otherwise for horse and man His yearely portion for the dispenses of hys house 4000. l. His cunning in setting bones dis-ioynted or broke His deliuery of hys George and Seale to the Lord Straunge wyth exhortation that hée myghte kéepe it so vnspotted in fidelitie to his Prince as he had and his ioye that he dyed in the Quéenes fauoure his ioyfull parting thys world his takyng leaue of all his seruants by shaking of handes and his remembraunce to the last daye The eyght and twentith of Nouember Iohn Hall Gentleman Hall and VVilkinson executed and Oswald Wilkinson late of Yorke and Gailour of Yorke Castell béeyng before arraigned and condemned of treason were drawne from the Tower of London to Tiborne and there hanged bowelled and quartred Thys yeare a greate and sharpe frost almoste continuallye Greate froste a sharp vvinter lasted from before the feaste of all Saints till after the feaste of Epiphany of oure Lorde wyth sometimes
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Thomas Castleforde Thomas Sprote Thomas de Wike Thomas Walsingham Thomas Rudburne Thomas Delamore Thomas Hocline Thomas Moore Thomas Lanquet Thomas Cooper Thomas Churchyarde Vita Berini Vita Aldelmi Vita Erkenwaldi Vigetius Vita Albani Vita Guilelmi Longocampo Vopiscus Vox Clamantis Wolfangus Lazius William Norwel William Caxton William Beare William Lambert William Patten Ypodigma Neustriae Zozimus DROIT · ET · LOYAL HONI â—¦ SOIT â—¦ QVI â—¦ MAL â—¦ Y â—¦ PENSE To the right Honorable the Lord Robert Dudley Earle of Leicester Baron of Denbigh Knight of the most noble Orders of the Garter and of Saint Michaell one of hir Maiesties moste Honourable priuie Counsell and Maister of hir Horsse THe good acceptatioÌ„ of my Summarie dedicated to your Lordship fiue yeares since right honorable my singular good Lord hathe so emboldened this Treatise growne now to a greater Volume that it presumeth with assured hope of like acceptance to present it selfe to your Honor vnder the protectioÌ„ therof to venture into the world and viewe of men and that the more boldly being an Historical Discourse of this oure natiue Countrie setting before our eyes to our instruction profite the incredible inconstancie continuall alterations of this transitorie world wyth the worthie exploites of our Kings and Gouernors What I haue performed herein to the common commoditie in searching out the truth and what varietie of worthy matters I haue recouered with no small coste and care out of the graue of Obliuion wherein they haue laine buried I referre to your honorable censure and the indifferent Reader not doubting but your Lordship whiche hath gotten grounded experience by the administration of most weighty affaires furnished your wisedome wyth diligent reading of sundrie Histories will bothe vouche safe to accepte this Monument of my affectionate minde with your wonted curtesie and shield it vnder the autoritie of your name against those whiche in this age requite honest endeuours with vnhonest speeches The Almighty God preserue your Honor with continual encrease of his benefits to his glory and your aduauncement Your Lordships most humble to commaund IOHN STOW ¶ To the gentle Reader AMongst other Bookes which are in this our learned age published in great numbers there are few eyther for the honestie of the matter or commoditie which they bring to the common wealth or for the pleasantnesse of the studie and reading to be preferred before the Chronicles and Hystories What examples of men deseruing immortalitie of exploites worthy great renowne
therof came to death and destruction neither Eustachius himselfe escaped scot frée froÌ„ the snares for he within a while after being taken by the French men was burned aliue with a hotte yron and degraded froÌ„ the order of Knighthood by the cutting off his héeles and depriuing of his tong by alsitioÌ„ afterward he was haÌ„ged vp and laste of all beheaded and quartered receyuing iust punishment for his treason and false forswearing This yeare the Lord Furâ—uall giuing a rash enterprise vpon his enimies was taken prisoner in Gascoign Not long after king Edwarde prepared to make a voyage into France but the Earle of Lancaster returning out of Gascoigne signied that there was a truce taken by him by reason whereof the passage prepared by the king was layde aside This yeare on Saint Georges day the kiug held a great Tho. de la Morâ— Great feast at VVindsor of Saint George solemne feaste at his Castel of Windsor where he had augmented the Chappell which Henrie the firste and other hys progenitors kings of England had before erected of eight Canons he added to those eight Chanons a Deane fiftéene Chanons more and. xxiiij poore and impotent Knightes with other ministers and seruauntes as appeareth in his Tho. Walsing Ex charta regia First founders of the noble order of the Garter Records of the Garter Charter Dated the two and twentith of hys raigne Besides the king there were other also that were contributors to the foundation of this Colledge as followeth 1 The soueraigne King Edward the thirde 2 Edward his eldest sonne Prince of Wales 3 Henrie Duke of Lancaster 4 The Erle of Warwicke 5 Captain de Bouch. 6 Ralph Erle of Stafforde 7 William Montacute Erle of Salisburie 8 Roger Lord Mortimer Erle of March 9 Sir Iohn de Lisle 10 Sir Bartholmew Burwash 11 Sir Iohn Beauchampe 12 Sir Iohn de Mahune 13 Sir Hugh Courtney 14 Sir Thomas Hollande 15 Sir Iohn Grey 16 Sir Richard Fitz Simon 17 Sir Miles Stapleton 18 Sir Thomas Walle 19 Sir Hugh Wrothesley 20 Sir Nele Lering 21 Sir Iohn Chandos 22 Sir Iames de Audley 23 Sir Othes Hollande 24 Sir Henrie Eme. 25 Sir Sechet Dabridgecourte 26 Sir William Panell Al these togither with the King were clothed in gownes Tho. de la More of Russet poudered in gartiers blew wearing the like garters also on their right legges and mantels of blewe with First feast of Saint George scutcheons of Saint George In this sort of apparell they being bareheaded heard Masse which was celebrat by Simon Islipe Archbishop of Canterburie and the Bishops of Winchester and Excester and afterwardes they went to the feaste setting themselues orderlye at the Table for the honoure of the feast which they named to be of Saint George the Martyre and the chosing of the Knightes of the Garter In the Sommer following variaunce rysing betwéene the fléetes of Englande and Spaine the Spaniardes besette the Brytaine Sea with foure and fortie great ships of warre with the whiche they sonke ten English ships comming froÌ„ Gascoigne towardes Englande after they had taken and spoyled them thus their former iniuries being reuenged they entred into Sluce in Flaunders King Edwarde vnderstanding hereof furnished his nauie of fiftie shippes and Pinaces forecasting to méete wyth the Spaniardes in theyr returne hauing in his companye the Prince of Wales the Earles of Lancaster Northampton Warwicke Salisburie Arundale Huntington Glocester and other Barons and Knightes with their seruauntes and Archers and vpon the feast of the decolatioÌ„ of Saint Iohna about Euensong Ro. de Auesbery time the Nauies met at Winchelsea wher the great Spanish vessels surmounting our shippes and foystes like as Castels to cotages sharply asâ—ayled our men y e stone quarels flying froÌ„ the the tops sore cruelly wounded our meÌ„ who no lesse busie to fight alofe with launce and sword Battaile on the Sea with the foreward manfully defende themselues at length our archers perced theyr Arbalisters with a further retch thaÌ„ they coulde strike againe and thereby compelled them to forsake their place and caused other fighting from the Hatches to shade themselues with tables of the ships and compelled them that threwe stones from the toppes so to hyde theÌ„ that they durst not shew theyr heads but tumble down then our men enfring y e Spanish Uessels with swords Halberds killed those they met w tin a whyle make voyd y â— vessels furnish them wyth English men vntil they being beset with darknesse of the night could not decern the. xxvij yet remayning vntaken our men cast ancker studying of the hoped battayle supposing nothing finished whilest any thing remayned vndone dressing the wounded throwing the myserable Spaniards into the Sea refreshing themselues with victualles and sléepe yet committing the vigilant watche to the armed bande The night ouerpassed the Englishe men prepared but in vaine to a new battayle but when the sunne began to appeare they viewing the seas coulde perceyue no signe of resistaunce for xxvij shippes fléeing away by nighte lefte xvij spoyled in the euening to the kyngs pleasure but agaynste theyr wil. The King returned into England with victorie and triumphe the King preferred there 80. noble ympes to the order of Knighthoode greatlye bewayling the losse of one to witte sir Richard Goldesborough Knight Thys yeare Phillippe de Valoys Frenche Kyng Phillip the freÌ„ch king died deceased and hys eldest Sonne Iohn was crouned Iohn Notte William Worcester the. 28. of September Sherifes Maior Richard Killingburie the. 28. of October Two hyred souldiours of the Kyng of Armenia came into Englande into the presence of the King where they shewed the letters of the aforesayde King of Armenia wherein it was signified that the one of them to witte Iohn de Viscount a man borne in Cipres had slanderouâ—ly charged the other that is Thomas de la Marche a Frenche man borne and bastarde sonne to Phillippe late King of Fraunce saying that the sayde Thomas shoulde haue receyued of the Turkes a certaine some of Golde for the betraying the armye of the Christians vnto the Emperour of the Turkes and for the proofe of this slaunder this Iohn chalenged a combat wyth the sayde Thomas to be tryed by the iudgement of Edward King of Englande and that by him as by a moste worthy Prince all strife shoulde be ended For this therefore were these two worthy souldiours appointed to fight which they performed within the listes of the Kings Pallace at Westminster on Mondaye nexte following after the feaste of Saint Michael where Thomas in declaration of hys innocencie in that he was accused of ouercame his enimye but yet killed him not for he could not bycause he was not able to wounde hym beyng so armed with anye kynde of piercing weapon except it were in hys face whiche was bare For after that they hadde runne at the Tilte and foughte on foote as they were striuing togither on the
Battayle on the Sea Flemings and tooke fiue and twenty ships laden with salt The Frenchmen beséeged Rochell to the remouing whereof was sent the Earle of Penbroke with a number of men of armes vpon whome fell the Spanish Nauie in the Hauen of Rochell who slew and tooke the Englishmen and burnt their Nauie The Earle and many noble men were caried into Spayne togither with the Kings money King Edwarde with a great Nauie entred the Seas towardes Rochell to haue rescued the same but the winde being contrary with heauie chéere he returned agayne hauing spente in thys preparation as it was sayde nine hundred thousande pound Iohn Philpot Nicholas Brember the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Anno reg 47 1373 Iohn Piel Mercer the 28. of October Iohn Duke of Lancaster entred France with a strong power and passed through the Realme without battayle but in the Deserts and Mountaynes of Aluerne for lacke of victualles many of his armie dyed from thence he went to Burdeaux and brought scantly fortie horsses backe with him it was commonly talked that he lost thirtie thousande Horsses in that vnluckie voyage It was a great miserie â—bo Walsing to sée the poore state of the men of warre suche as were Knightes of great wealth in their Countrey hauing lost men and Horsses were glad to begge from dore to dore and found no reliefe for the Countrey was destroyed and not manured by reason whereof such dearth was in that Countrey that victualles could scant be gotten for any money The Duke yet wintered The tenth of Aprill following a day of battayle was appoynted betwixte him and the Duke of Aniow at Tholouse In the meane time truce was taken till the twentith of May next following but the King of England knew nothing of it When the day came a great power of armed men for the French appeared the which the Duke of Aniow had assembled but yet that daye passed without battayle to the great shame and reproch of the English for the Frenchmen sayd they were ready in fielde the day appoynted to looke for their comming that came not at all wherefore they spake many reprochfull wordes against the Englishmen calling them false cowards and haâ—â— lesse And such was the end of that iourney Iohn Northwold Mercer of London was slayne at the Blacke heath for whose sake began great debate among the Craftes of London at the White Friers in Fléetestréete for him and Sir William of Windsore Lib. Maior vic Lon. The Cleargie granted to the King tenthes and thâ— Laytie a fiftéenth Iohn Awbrey Iohn Fished the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Anno reg 48 1374 Adam of Bury Skinner the 28. of October Iohn Duke of Lancaster came againe out of Gascoigne after whose departure almost all Gascoigne fell from their allegeaunce which they had couenaunted with the King â—â— England sauing Burdeaux and Bayon Iohn Duke of Lancaster William Earle of Salisbuâ—â—â— Reignold Lord Cobham with Simon Sudbery and other assembled at Brudges to treate a peace betwéene y â— Realâ—â—â— of England and France where mette with them the Duke â— Aniow and many other Nobles of France This treatie continued almost two yeares and ended without conclusion of peace but on a truce Richard Lions William Woodhouse the 28. of Septem Sherifes Maior Anno reg 49 1â—75 Iohn Walworth Fishmonger the 28. of October The sixtéenth of Aprill died Iohn Hastings Earle of Penbroke comming into Englande after he had raunsomed himselfe for a great masse of money which he neuer payde The Isle of Constantine was deliuered to the French King to the great detriment of Englande for whiche cause afterward Sir Iohn Ansley appeached Thomas Catrington of Trenson A great heate was in England so that many both A hoâ—e sommer men and women died thereof Iohn Hadle William Newport the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Anno reg 50 Good Parliament Iohn Ward Grocer the 28. of October A Parliament commonly called the good Parliament was holden at Westminster in the which when a Subsidie was demaunded answere was made by Peter de la Mare Prolocâ—tor of the Parliamente that the King néeded not the substance of his poore Subiects if he were well and faithfully gouerned which he offered to proue effectually and promised that if it were found that the King had néede his subiects should be readie most gladlye to help him according to their power The Knightes required to haue the Lord Latimer with 1376 other remoued from about the King whome they sayd did giue him euill counsell whiche being done certaine Prelates Earles and other were ordeyned to gouerne the King who then was an olde man but this endured not long The commons also requested to haue remoued out of the Kings house a certayne proude woman called Alice Perce who by ouermuch familiaritie that she had with the King was cause of muche mischiefe in the Realme she excéeding the manner of Women sate by the Kings Justices and sometimes by the Doctours in the Consistories perswading and disswading in defence of matters and requesting things contrarie to law and honestie to the great dishonor of the King Also Richard Lious and Adam of Bury Citizens of London Adam Bury late Maior Richard Lions late Sherife a Goldsmith were accused by the commoÌ„s of diuers fraudes and deceipts which they had done to the King Richard Lions for money did wisely compouÌ„d and escaped the other conuayde himselfe into Flanders but Sir Peter de la Mere who tolde the troth was at the instance of Alice Pierce condemned to perpetuall prison at Notingham The eyght day of June Prince Edward departed out of Blacke Prince deceassed Adam Meriâ—o this life who was in his time the floure of Chiualrie he was buried at Canterbury and then King Edwarde created Richard sonne of Prince Edward Earle of Chester Duke of Cornewall and Prince of Wales and bycause the King waxed féeble and sicklie he betooke the rule of the lande to Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster The Earle of Warwickes men made a great spoyle of the Euisham spoyled Abbey of Euisham and the tenementes thereto belonging beating and sleying many of the Abbots men but by the King an agréement was made betwixt them but no full satisfaction Iohn Northampton Robert Laund the 28. of Septem Sherifes Maior Adam Staple Mercer the 28. of October In a Parliament at London there was granted suche a taxe as neuer was heard of before to wit of euery Lay person A great taxe both man woman aboue the age of fourtéene yeares four pence and of euen Religious person both man and woman that had any Ecclesiasticall promotion twelue pence and of them that had no promotion four pence except the four orders of begging Friers and also the Statutes of the good Parliament were disanulled and the abiured persons restored The Londoners at S. Iohns Inne of Ipres being stirred vp The Londoners meant to haue
but none came to helpe them and so they dyed there After a number of them hadde sacked the new Temple The ende of the Rebels what with labour and what with wine they lay down vnder the wals and howsing and were slaine like swine and one of them killed another for olde grudge and hatred and others also made quicke dispatch of them Watte Tiler being killed Iacke Strawe and other theyr principal Captaines hanged the hope and confidence of the commons decayed but bycause the mindes of the King and Nobles was yet wauering séeing the people readie to mischiefe they graunted to them Charters of manumission and suffered them to departe the whiche being done the king caused an army to be assembled from London and sente into al Countryes that those who were his friendes should make haste to come to hym to London furnished with horsse and armour and it came to passe that wythin thrée dayes he had a. xl thousande horssemen about him in séemely sort armed he mustered them on Blacke Heath himselfe ryding on a greate courser with hys standarde borne before hym when therefore so myghtye an armye was assembled the Kyng was aduertised that the Kentishe men had eftsoones conspyred wherevppon hée forth wyth sette forewarde but by the mediation of the Nobles and greate men of Kente that vndertooke for them he was stayde and pacisied wyth them and then firste Iustices were sente to séeke and inquire of malefactours and that Countrey became quiet at the sight of them Then the Maior of London sitting in iudgement caused the malefactours to be tryed as well of the Citie as also of Kente Essex Southsex Norffolke and Suffolke and other Countryes that might be taken within the liberties of the Citie and all those whome he founde guiltie of the foresayde Treason he caused to hoppe headlesse among the which were Iacke Strawe Iohn Kirkesty Alen Threder c. also Iohn Starling of Essex that gloryed to haue beheaded the Archbishoppe was beheaded hymselfe The king remayned nowe at London nowe at Waltham with a greate armye of armed menne considering what was to be done for the commoditie of the realme At length the Counsell thoughte good to sende the Kings commission into euerye shire for the resisting of the disquieters of the peace of the kyngdome These commissions did muche comforte the faythfull subiectes and troubled the false for they were nowe compelled to séeke corners that before toke vpon them to doe all things abroade lawyers nowe durst come forth of their dennes and those which before fledde from the tyrannie of the time looked for thâ—se that nowe feared iudgement and iustice to bée done on them The commons being thus feared but not in all places alike they of Essex gathering a newe multitude togither at Byllarica a village neare to Hatfielde Peuerell decréed eyther to inioye lybertye gotten by force or to dye in fyghting for the same they sente to the Kyng then béeyng at Waltham messengers to knowe if hée thoughte good to permitte them to inioye their permitted Anno reg 5. lybertie lyke to theyr Lordes and that they shoulde not be coÌ„pelled to come to Courts but only to gret Léetes twice in the yeare vnto the which the King answered thus Oh miserable and hateful both to Land and Sea not worthy to liue Do yée require to be equall to your Lordes yée were worthy to be put to moste shamefull death But fith yée are come as Messengers yée shall not dye nowe to the ende yée may declare your answeares to your fellowes declare to them therfore on the Kyngs behalfe that as they were Husbandmen and bondmen so shall they remaine in bondage not as before but more vile without comparison far vnto thys Whilest we lyue and by Gods sufferaunce shal gouerne the Kingdome with Wit Strength goods we wil endeuour our selues to kéepe you vnder so that the duety of your seruice may be an example for posteritie and that your matches both present and that shall succéede may euer haue before their eies and as it were in a Glasse your misery and to you matter to curse and feare to commit the like When the Messengers were gone there was sente straightwayes into Essex Thomas of Woodstocke Earle of Buckingham and sir Thomas Percy brother to the Earle of Northumberlande to represse the boldnesse of the sayde commons These Commons hadde fortified themselues wyth ditches and carriages neuerthelesse although there was a great number of them with small businesse they were scattred into the woods where the Lordes enclosed them least any of them might escape it came to passe that v. C. of them were slain viij C. of their horses taken the other y â— escaped this slaughter being gotteÌ„ togither hasted to Colchester began to stir the townesmen to a new tumult and when they profited not there they weut to Sudbury but the Lord Fitz Walter sir Iohn Harlestone followed them and slewe as many of them as they list shut vp the rest in prisons The king came to his Manour of Hauering at Boure after to Chelmesford where he appointed sir R. Trisilian his Iustice to set enquire of the malefactours wherfore y â— Essex men séeing the euils y â— hung ouer their heades there came aboue 500. humbly to the King barefooted bareheaded beséeching him of pardon and mercie To whom pardon was graunted with condition to delyuer the styrrers of the sayd trouble It came therefore to passe that many were committed to worde vpon whome the Iustice charged xxiiij men of their conscience to say the truth and many being condemned were put to execution by drawing and hanging nine or tenne being hanged on one beame The Iustices that before had sitte in Essex Kent London and other places for all the multitude that were to be executed vsed to head the commons till now it séemed not a kinde of death answerable to so many and manifest crimes These things were done in Essex the King being present the like by his Iustices was done in other Countreys Iohn Ball Priest being taken at Couentrie was brought Iohn Ball hanged to Saint Albons and there before the King condemned drawne and quartered the fiftéenth of Iuly He woulde not aske the King forgiuenesse but vtterly despised him Iohn Rote Iohn Hinde the 28 of September Sherifes Maior Iohn Northampton Draper the 28. of October About the feast of All Sainctes a Parliamente was beganne which endured long to small purpose by reason of contention among the Lords especially the Duke of Lancaster and the Earle of Northumberland whose quarrell in the ende was taken vp by the King and then the Lordes procéeded to treate of the Kings businesse and the Realmes but they lingered so long in vayne that nothing was brought to effect for hearing of the new Quéenes comming to Caleis the ParliameÌ„t was proroged There were diuers of y e Nobles sent to méete the Bride and she was conuayde with all
Cornewall and in the meane space the Kings seruants spoyled his goodes Iohn More Richard Northbery and other were likewise there conuict and condemned to perpetuall prison and their goodes confiscate to the King for certaine congregations by them made against the Fishmongers in the Citie of London Nicholas Exton Iohn French the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Sir Nicholas Brembar Grocer the 28. of October About the feast of Saint Martine a Parliament was holden at London in the whiche nothing was done worth the memorie but that which still was in hand and exacting of money of the Cleargie and common people to mainteine the men of warre And besides this there was a Combate fought in listes betwixte an Esquire of Englande and one of A Combate fought Nauarre that had accused the English Esquire whose name was Iohn Welch of Treason to the King and Realme but the effect was that when he was Captayne of Cherbrugh he forced the wife of this Nauaroys as the sayde Nauaroys being afterward ouercome and being readie to suffer death did â—penly confesse for the which cause by the Kings iudgemeÌ„t he was drawne and hanged although the Quéene and many other did make earnest intercessioÌ„ to haue his life saued The Parliament was not yet ended when newe â— came Bervvike lost and vvoâ—â—â— againe out of the North of the taking of Berwike Castell by the Scottes the custodie whereof the Earle of Northumberland Sir Henry Percy did possesse by right of his predecessors The Scottes by mediation of money got entrance into that Castel by one that was put in trust with kéeping of it The Duke of Lancaster that loued not the Earle was glad of this happe when he knew it It came to passe therefore by the Dukes procurement that the Earle was condemned by iudgement of the Lords there present the which execution was within a short while after releassed The Earle of Northumberland through the Kings fauour restored to his life and possessions without any long delayeâ— prepareth al furniture of warre to beséege and winne the sayd Castell of theÌ„ that were within it and after he had gathered a mighty armie he sodeinly beséeged it and after he had layne about it a certaine time it was compounded betwixt them without and them within that they within should forsake the Castell and haue their liues and moueable goodes and for surrendring the Castell they should haue of the Earle two thousand markes of English money and by this meanes did the Earle recouer the Castell foorth of the Scottishmens hands Through certaine yong men brought vp with the King Tho. Walâ— there arose great dissention betwixt him and the Duke of Lancastâ—r who departed from the Court and wente to his Castell of Pomfret whiche he had fortified but by meanes of the Kings mother this discorde was appeased for a time The third of May was an Earthquake 1â—85 The King entred Scotlande King Richard with a great armie entred Scotlande but the enimies would not shew themselues wherfore he brent the Countrey and returned The eightéenth of July there was an Earthquake Sir Iohn de Vienne that serued the French King was sent into Scotland with a great multitude of Shippes and men of warre that ioining with the Scottes they might inâ—eâ—t all England and that whilst they mightâ— draw the power of this Realme that way forth the Frenche King with his Nauie and army might the more at liberty enter other partes of the Realme few or none being left at home to prohibit them their entrie The arriuall of the sayd Iohn being knowne in England the King with all the Nobilitie prepared themselues to make a iourney thither The King maketh a iourney into Scotland there came flocking vnto the King such a number of Knightes Esquires and Archers as the like had not bin heard of in those dayes in so much as the number of Horsses amouÌ„ted to thrée hundred thousand as they were iudged The King reioyced héereat as well he might but the reioycing was shortly darkened at Yorke by fiercenesse of Sir Iohn Holland the Kings brother that slew the Lord Ralph Stafford Ralph Stafforde â—ayne sonne to the Earle of Stafford in the way as he went to the Quéene whose seruant of houshold he was and greatly in faâ—eur with hir and he was no lesse beloued of the King as he that had bin brought vp with him and bin his play-fellow from his tender age where the King taking greate indiguation determined to pursue the sayd Sir Iohn Holland he caused therefore his goodes to be coÌ„fiscate But Sir Iohn Holland fledde to Beuerley there to enioy the libertie of the Church The Lady Iane the Kings mother sente to intreate him for hir other sonne and his brother but when the messengers were returned to Wallingforde and that the mother could perceyue no hope of grace to be gotten in that behalfe of the King she tooke it heauâ—â—ie and fell sicke and Queene Iane the Kings mother dyed within foure or â—â—ue dayes departed this life hir body being seared and closed in Leade was kept at Wallingford till the Kings returne forth of Scotland then to be buried at Stanford in the Church of the Friers Minors In the moneth of August the King of England with a mightie power entred Scotland to whose force the Scottes and Frenchmen perceyuing themselues not able to matche they séeke to get them into the wooddes places where they might be out of the way The English army then the which there hath not bin séene a fairer stronger or greater rideth through the Countrey that was destitute of inhabitantes â—â—yd of Cattell wanting victualles for the land was left desolate as our men confessed that they saw not so much as a bird Owles only excepted They found gréene Corne on the grounde very faire and plentifull whiche they eyther eate vp with their Horsses or treade downe with theyr féete but the enimies fléeing battayle our men did nothing to be accompted of but brent the Abbey of Melroys and the Meltoys and Edenborough brent Towne of Edenborough with such houses as they found by the way When our armie was come to Edenborough and that victualles fayled them many of them beganne to ware sicke and some to die for hunger wherevpon the King returned with his armie into England While King Richarde was in Scotland the Scottes and Frenchmen entred into Englande brenning Townes taking spoyles and leading away many prisoners returned home into their Countrey Iohn Organ Iohn Churchman the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Sir Nicholas Brembar Grocer the 28. of October The Souldiers of Caleis went secretly forth into France and got a bootie of four thousand Shéepe and thrée hundred head of great beastes which they draw to their holdes About the feast of Saint Martine there was a Parliament at London in which the Laytie granted to the King a fiftéenth and a halfe with coÌ„dition that the Cleargie should giue a tenth
little talke with the King they recited the conspiracie wherby they had bin indited and they shewed forthe also thâ— letters which he had sente to the Duke of Irelande that he shoulde assemble an armye to their distruction c. in the ende the King promised on the nexte morrow to come to Westminster and there to intreate at large for reformation of all matters In the morning the King came to Westminster wher after a little talke the Nobles sayde that for his honour and commoditie of his Kingdome it was behouefull that the traytours whisperers flatterers and vnprofitable people were remoued out of place and that other mighte be placed in theyr roomes which when the King had graunted they iudged that Alexander Neuell Archbishoppe of Yorke Iohn Forde Bishoppe of Durham Frier Thomas Rushoke the Kings Confessour Bishoppe of Chichester shoulde be banished They expulsed also the Lorde Souch of Haringworth Burnel and of Beamount Albery de Vere Baldwine de Bereforde Richard Aderburie Iohn Worth Thomas Clifford and Iohn Louel knights not as altogither dismissed but to appeare at the next ParliameÌ„t there were certain Ladyes also expelled the Courte as vnprofitable They arrested Simon Burley William Elmham Iohn Beauchamp of Holte stewarde of the kings house Iohn Salisburie Thomas Treuet Iames Barnes Ni. Dagworth and N. Brember Knightes They toke also the Chaplens Richarde Clifforde Iohn Lincolne Richard Mitforde Nicholas Slake Deane of y â— kings Chapel Iohn Blake an Aprentice of the lawe all whyche was sent to diuerse prisons The thirde day of Februarie a Parliament was begon at Westminster to y â— which the Lords came with a sufficiente army this Parliament continued vntil the feast of Pentecost 1388 The xj of Februarie was Robert Tresilian Justice of y â— Kings Bench a Cornishman arested at Westminster wher he had laine hid in sanctuarie and was the same day drawn from the Tower of London to Tiborne and there with a great adoe was hanged consequently by iudgemente of the Lords Nicholas Brembar Knight was put to the like execution After which Iohn Salisburie Iames Barnes knights were by iudgement of the Parliament drawn and hanged then Iohn Beauchampe of Holt the Kings stewarde whome the King purposed to haue made Baron of Bridgenorth was drawen and hanged Iohn Blake Esquire was hanged and drawne and Iohn Vske a Sergeaunt at armes was drawn and haÌ„ged Lastly on the fifth of May sir SimoÌ„ Burley Lord Chamberlayne to the King and Conestable of Douer was beheaded although the Earle of Darbie did what he coulde to saue him for the which great dissention rose betwixt hym and the Duke of Glocester There was condemned also in the same Parliamente these Justices Roberte Belknape Iohn Holte Roger Fulthorpe and William Brough Iohn Locton Richarde Graye Justices with the Lordes before fledde were all banished There was granted to the King of the Cleargie half a tenth and of the Laytie half a fiftéenth and of the MarchaÌ„ts twelue pence of the pounde thrée shillings of the Tunne liij shillings foure pence of the sack of Wool The Duke of Glocester and sir Iohn Cobham asked pardon of the Abbot of Westminster for violence done in y e sanctuarie of Westminster in the taking of the Justice Trisilian The laste saue one of May there were deliuered out of the Tower W. Elmhame T. Treuet and Nicholas Dagworth Knights Also the first of June Iohn Holand the Kings brother was created Erie of Huntington The thirde of June the king in the Church of Westminster renewed the othe which he toke when he was crowned and all the Lordes sware homage and fealtie to him and all the Bishoppes did excommunicate all those that would go about to hinder the statutes of this last Parliament or y â— Anno reg 12 great Charter After Whitsontide Richarde Earle of Arundale with a companye of valiaunte men wente to the sea and foughte with certain ships of his enemies taking drowning or breÌ„ning lxxx shippes he entred into the I le of Beas which he spoyled and brent The same yeare the Scottes prepared themselues that as soone as the truce was exspired they mighte be readie to inuade the North partes and with a great army entred Englande committing gret slaughters of people and toke booties in euery place and ledde away manye prisoners and burned Townes and approched to Newcastel vpon Tyne and picht theyr Tentes not farre from thence There was then in the same Towne sir Henrie Percy the yonger and Syr Ralph his brother both desirous of warlike renowme and sore enimies to the Scottes Thys sir Henrie came vpon them on the sodayne and assayled them in the campe making greate slaughter of them William Douglas also chiefe Captaine of the Scottes beholding the thing that a thousande times he hadde wished that is sir Henrie Percy within his Campe rydeth againste him but was slayne by the sayde Henrie and then commeth the Earle of Dunbar with an excessiue number of Scottes and toke the sayd Henrie with his brother Ralphe slaying many Englishe menne in that place but yet the Scottes loste manye of theyr beste men Thys battayle was at Otterborne the soarest fought that Battaile at Otterborne Iohn Belandine Iohn Maior â— Frosert â—â—h Rudborae Parliament at Cambridge euer was betwéene Englishe menne and Scottes sayeth Froysert The seauenth of September a Parliament was holden at Cambridge in which were newe statutes ordayned for seruauntes wages for beggers for weapons not to be born of playes or games none to be vsed but shooting of the staple to be brought from Middleborow to Caleis c. and in the ende a tenth of the Cleargie and a fiftéenth of the Laytie Thomas Austine Adam Carlehul the. 28. of September Sherifes Maior Sir Nicholas Twyforde Goldsmith the. 28. of October The sixth of October as sir Iohn Treuet rode wyth the King to the kings lodging whiche was at Bernewel as he forced his horsse too much with the spurres the horsse falleth and breaketh the inner parts of the rider who liued tyl the next day King Richard discharged the olde officers of his Courte 1389 and also his Counsellours appointing other at his pleasure he toke the Seale from Thomas Arundale Archbishop of Yorke and deliuered it to William Wickam Byshoppe of Winchester and made him Chauncellour the Bishoppe of Excester his Treasurer and Edmund Stafford Kéeper of the priuie Seale A truce was graunted for thrée yeares betwixt Englande and Fraunce A fighting among Gnats at the Kings maner of Shine where they were so thicke gathered that the ayre was darkned with them they fought and made a great battaile Two partes of them being slayne fel downe to the grounde the thirde part hauing got the victorie flew away no maÌ„ knew whether The number of the deade was such that mighte bée swepte vppe wyth Besomes and Bushels filled wyth Anno reg 13 them Michael at Pole sometime Earle of Suffolke and Chauncellour of England deceased at
Paris Iohn Walcotte Iohn Loueney the. 28. of September Sherifes Maior Sir William Vener Grocer the. 28. of October In the moneth of Nouember Iohn Duke of Lancaster came from the parties beyonde the seas into Englande after he had abidden in Spaine and Gascoigne thrée yeares space who in Spaine first tasted great misfortunes yet in the ende brought his matters to very good case not with the force of men but by the fauour of God for when he came firste to y t partes of Spaine with an armye sufficient ynoughe through wante of victualles they first dyed through hunger and after through flixe so that 1000. famous knightes of hys armye dyed miserably the residue leauing the Duke fled to the French army King Richard with his Quéene Anne held their Christmasse at Woodstocke and the Duke of Lancaster in the Castle of Hertforde The same time Iohn Hastings Earle of Penbroke as he was desirous to Just he was stroken about the priuie partes by the Knight that ranne against him called 1390 sir Iohn Saint Iohn where he dyed In a Parliamente at London it was ordayned that none shoulde purchase prouisions at the Popes hands ther was graunted to the King xl shillings of euery sack of wool and of the pound sixe pence Iohn Duke of Lancaster was made Duke of Aquitaine by the Rood and Bonet which the King gaue him and Edward the Duke of Yorkes sonne was made Earle of Rutlande to whom the king gaue the Castell of Okam Anno reg 14 A great Pestilence in the North parts of England so that in a little space a. 1100. were buried in the Citie of Yorke A Merchant of Dertmouth waged the Nauie of ships of the Ports of his own charges 34. ships laden with Wine to the summe of 1500. Tunne A wofull variaunce rose in Oxforde for the Welche and Southerne Schollers assaulted the Northerne whereby many murders were done on each side and a fielde was appointed but by helpe of the Duke of Glocester it was appeased and the Welch men bannished Iohn Francis Thomas Viuent the. 28. of September Sherifes Maior Adam Bawme Goldsmith the. 28. of October The. x. xj and. xij of October the King helde a greate Courte at London in the Bishops Palace and a greate insting in Smithfield to the whyche Courte came many strangers forth of Fraunce Almain Zealand and many other parts bringing with them horsses and armour in which pastimes there was giuen first the Badge of the White Harte wyth golden chaines and crownes And vpon Saint Edwardes day the King helde his feaste in his Regalibus sitting crowned at masse with his Scepter c. and likewise the Quéen and they sat likewise at the table at Kenington crowned at which solemnitie were presente the Earle of Sainte Paule and hys wyfe sister to the Kyng of Englande and the Earle of Ostreuaunt who was made Knyghte of the Garter The Duke of Glocester toke hys iourney toward Spruys 1â—91 but being tossed with infortunate stormes driuen nowe hyther nowe thyther was so farre distant of hope that he dispayred of life and at length after he had passed the Barbarous coastes of Denmarke Norway and Scotlande he arriued in Northumberlande and came to the Castel of Tinmouth where hauing refreshed himself certain dayes he toke his iourney towards his maner of Plecy Such a mortalitie increased in Norffolke and many other Countries that it was not vnlike to the greate pestilence within Yorke there dyed a. xj thousand persons The Citizens of London toke out of the Orphans cheste Anno reg 15 2000. markes to buye victualles and the. xxiiij Aldermen eache of them layde out twentie pounde to like purpose of buying corne which was bestowed in diuerse places where the poore mighte buye it at an appointed price and suche as lacked money to pay downe put in suretie to pay in y t yeare following A Brewer that dwelt at the signe of the Cocke in Westcheape by the little Conduite neare vnto Powles gate was murdered in the night time by a théef that came in at a gutter windowe as it was knowne long after by the confession of the same théefe when he was at the Gallowes to bée hanged for fellonie but the Brewers wife was firste brente therefore and thrée of his men drawne to Tiborne and there hanged wrongfully Iohn Chadworth Henrie Vamer the. 28. of September Sherifes Maior Sir Iohn Hinde Draper the. 28. of October A Parliament began at London on the Friday next after the feast of Al Saintes wherin halfe a tenth by the Ceargie and halfe a fiftéenth by the Laitie was granted to the king which mony should serue for the treatie to be had for peace with the French men whiche treatie the Duke of Lancaster should prosecute King Richarde with Quéene Anne his wife foure Bishoppes as many Erles the Duke of Yorke many Lords and fiftéene Ladyes helde a royall Christmasse at Langley neare to Saint Albons The same Christmasse day a Dolphin came forth of the sea and playde himselfe in the Thamis at London to the Bridge for shewing hapily the tempests that were to follow within a wéeke after the which being séene of the Citizens and followed was with much difficultie intercepted and broughte againe to London shewing a spectacle to many of the height of his bodye for he was ten foote in length These Dolphins are fishes of the sea y t followe the voyces of men and reioyce in playing of instrumentes and are wont to gather themselues at musicke These when they play in riuers with hastie springings or leapings do signify Tempest to follow The seas containt nothing more swift nor nimble for oftentimes with theyr skippes they mount ouer the sayles of shippes The King sent to the Londoners requesting to borrowe of 1392 Tho. Walsing them one thousande pounde whiche they stoutely denyed and also euil entreated bette and néere hand slew a certain Lumbard that woulde haue lent the King the sayde suâ—â—me which when the King heard he was maruellously angried and calling togither almost all the nobles of the lande hée opened to them the malitiousnesse of the Londoners and coÌ„playned of theyr presumption the whyche noble men gaue counsell that their insolencie shoulde with spéede be oppressed and theyr pride abated By the Kings iudgement therefore was the Maior of London and the Sherifes with other of the best Citizens arrested the Maior was sente to Windsor Castel and the other to other prisons til the King with his counsell should determine what should be done with them and there it was determined that from thenceforth the Londoners shoulde not chose nor haue anye Maior but that the King shoulde appointe one of his Knightes to be ruler of the Citie their priuiledges were reuoked their liberties adnulled and their lawes abrogated The king then appointed to be Warden of the Citie a certayne Knighte called sir Edwarde de Dalingrige but he was quicklye deposed by the King bicause men said
togither certaine cources but not the ful chaleÌ„ge for the Erle of Marre was cast both horsse and man and two of his ribbes broken with the fall so that he was borne out of Smithfielde and conuayed towarde Scotlande but died by the way at Yorke Sir William Darrel Knight y e Kings BaÌ„ner bearer of Scotland challeÌ„ged sir Pierce Courtney knight the kings Banner-bearer of Englande and when they had ruÌ„ certain courses they gaue ouer without conclusioÌ„ of victory Then Cockborne Esquire of Scotland challenged sir Nicholas Hawberke Knight rode v. courses but Cockborn was borne ouer horsse and man The seauenth of June Quéene Anne dyed at Shine in Southerie and was buried at Westminster Anno reg 18 The K. toke hir death so heauily that besides cursing the place where she dyed he did also for anger throw down the buildings vnto the whiche the former Kings beyng wearyed of the Citie were wonte for pleasure to resorte About the moneth of Auguste proclamation was made that all Irishmen shoulde auoyde the realme and gette them home before the feast of the nauitie of our Lady on pain of life William Bramstone Thomas Knowles the. 28. of Sept. Sherifes Maior Sir Iohn Froysh Mercer the. 28. of October King Richard went ouer into Ireland and y e Duke of Glocester with him and the Earles of March Notingham and Rutlande The Irish men being afrayde of suche preparation as was made durst not shewe themselues openly but with secrete assaultings they often troubled the Kings army yet when the Englishmen preuayled many Lords of the land submitted themselues to the King of which some the Kyng helde wyth hym leaste they shoulde attempte some new styre The King helde his Christmasse at Dublin in Irelande after that feast held a Parliament there also the same time the Lord Warden of England called a ParliameÌ„t at London to the which came being sent forth of Ireland the Duke of Glocester the which before al the states shewed the Kings néed who had now spent his treasure amongst the Irishme so that a tenth was granted by the Cleargie and a fiftéenth by the 1395 Laytie This voiage being chargeable to the King came to small effect for after Easter he was forced to returne again into England to appease certaine troubles begon by sir Rycharde Sturry sir Thomas Latimer sir Lewes Clifforde syr Iohn Montacute and other This yeare England suffered great losse by Pirates of y e Quéene of Donmarke who spoyled Marriners MerchaÌ„ts Anno reg 19 especially the men of Norffolke that assembled a multitude togither toke vppon them to fight with them but the enimies preuayling many of them were slaine and verye many taken prisoners were reserued to grieuous redemption with losse of twentie thousande poundes which they had a borde with them to make their merchandice Roger Elles William Sherington the. 28. of September Sherifes Maior Sir William More Vintener the. 28. of October In the month of Nouember King Richard caused the body of his deare friend Robert de Vere Duke of Ireland to be brought from Louaine after to be buried in the Priorie of Colne in Essex with solemne funerals which he honored w t his presence causing the Coâ—â—en of Cipres wherin his body being embalmed lay to be opened y â— he might behold his 1â—â—6 face touch him with his fingers openly shewing the loue to the dead carkasse which he ought to it being aliue Iohn Duke of Lancaster to whom the K. had giuen the Duchie of Aquitaine when he nowe had laide forth an estimable sum Anno reg 20 of treasure in those partes to purchase the good wils of those Countreymen should haue his desire he was sodainelye called home by the K. who returning into England came to Langley where the K. held his Christmasse was receyued of the K. with honor after taking his leaue of the Courte he made hast to Lincolne where he toke to wife Katheren Swinford This yeare according to the couenaunt before made established betwixt the kings of England Fraunce the sayde Kings mette at the place by Caleis which was appointed for them to talke in wher they concluded a peace toke a corporal othe to performe the same And K. Richard toke to wyfe Isabel the little daughter of the French king being but seuen or eight yeares old In a Parliament at Westminster Robert Bolgnope Iohn Holt William Brough Knightes of the Bathe were reuoked out of Ireland and pardoned these wer men of law and Judges Thomas Wilforde William Parker the 28. of Septem Sherifes Maior Sir Adam Bawme Goldsmith the. 28. of October And Richard Whittington the sixth of June The tenth of Nouember the K. was marryed at Caleis w t great solemnitie shortly after returned into England The xiij of Nouember the quéene came to London through Southwarke such a multitude of people went to sée hir that vpon 1â—97 Lon. bridge nine persons were crowded to death of whom y â— Prior of Tiptor in Essex was one a worshipfull matrone of Cornehil was another After Christmasse a ParliameÌ„t was holden at Lond. in which the D. of Lancaster caused his issue which he had by Katheren Swinford to be made legitimate Also Thomas son of the D. of Lancaster the said Katheren was created E. of Somerset the D. gaue him to surname Bello Fortie or Bewfort There was graunted to the K. halfe a tenth by the Cleargie This yeare when the realme of England séemed to inioy the chiefest peace y â— might be by reason of the Kings marriage the great riches y â— were heaped vp togither by the same by the reason of y â— truce of 30. yeares established the presence of so many noble men as y â— like no forrain realme was able to shew sodainely all things were troubled and brought into a turmoyle whiles the King at Anno reg 21 Plashy in Essex vpon a sodaine toke his vncle the D. of Glo. by force of armes he suspecting no such thing caused hym to be conueyed to Caleis there to be kept in prison and caused the Earle of Warwicke to be arrested and imprisoned the same day that he had biddeÌ„ him to dinner notwithstanding that he shewed him very good countenance and had promised him great friendship beside that he deceiued the E. of Arundale w t faire words who was wel able to haue defended himself to haue deliuered his friends the D. of Glocester the E. of Warwick who notwithstanding he yéelded himself quietly he sent him to the I le of Wight there to be imprisoned vntil y â— Parliament And to y â— end there should be no coÌ„motion among y â— coÌ„mons for the imprisoning of the nobles he caused to be proclaymed y â— the apprehension of them was not for any old displeasure but for new transgressions committed against y â— k. shortly after he caused y
◠said nobles to be indited at Notinghā suborned such as shold appeach thē in the next Parliament to wit Ed Erle of Rutland T. Moubery E. Marshal Tho. Holland E. of Kent Iohn Holland Erle of Huntington Tho. Bewford Erle of Somerset I. Mountacute Earle of Salisburie and Thomas Spencer William Scrope the Kings Chamberlayne And in mean y eseason the Kyng assembled togither to guarde his parson many malefactors of the Countie of Chester which kept watch and warde both day and night about him Then the K. caused a greate and generall Parliament to be summoned at Westminster when he caused a great Hall to be builded in the midst of the Pallaice betwixte the Clocke tower and the doore of the greate Hall This Parliament began aboute the fiftéenth of September at the beginning whereof Edwarde Stafforde Byshop of Excester L. chanceller made a proposition or sermō in the which he affirmed that the power of the K. was alone and perfect of it self those that impeached it were worthye to suffer pain of the law to this Parliament al the Nobles came with their retinue in armes for feare of the King the prelocutours were Knights in whō no goodnesse at al could be found but a natural couetousnesse vnsatiable ambition intollerable pride and hatred of the truth their names wer Iohn Bushy William Bagot and Thomas Grene. These required Tho. Wals chiefely to haue the Charters of pardons reuoked dissanulled and Bushy sayde to the K. bycause we are charged to say what they be that haue committed any offence against your maiestie regall aucthoritie we saye that Tho. duke of Glocester Richard E. of Arundale in the. xviij yeare of your raigne haue trayterously compelled you by mean of the new Archbishop of Canterburie then Lord Chancellour to graunt to them a commission to gouerne your Realme and to dispose of the state thereof to the preiudice of youre maiestie and royaltie The same daye was that commission dissanulled with all Articles dependyng therevppon Also the generall pardon graunted after the greate Parliament by them procured and one speciall pardon for the Erle of Arundale were reuoked Also there was a peticion made by y e commons I. Bushy speaking for them that the generall pardon procured and gotte forthe the Archebyshoppe of Canterburie then Lorde Chancellor procuring it should be disanulled and he to be iudged a Traytor for granting to it wherevpon the Archbishop rose and would haue answered but the King sayde to morrow to morrow but he came not into the Parliament house againe the King said that he would deliberate of the commons petition Also it was established that any Traytor conuicted to stand against the Kings regalitie should be adiudged worthie to suffer punishment to be appoynted for such offence Also it was enacted that criminall causes from thenceforth-should be determined in euery Parliament and then licence being had to depart a great sturre was made as is vsed wherevpon the Kings Archers in number four thousand compassed the Parliament house thinking there had bin in the house some broyle or fighting with their bowes bent their arrowes set in them and drawing readie to shoote to the terrour of all that were there but the King héerewith comming pacified them On the next day the Prelates were inioyned vpon payne of losing their temporalities that they should the same day agrée vpon some procurator to consent in their names to al things in that Parliament to be dispatched and the King had these words Sir Iohn Bushy bycause many desire that I would explane the fiftie persons exempted in y ◠general pardon I wil briefely that what man soeuer desireth this is worthie of death first bicause he fléeth secondly bycause I haue excepted those that are to be impeached in this Parliament thirdly bycause other of their associates hearing thē oppressed would be afraide where no feare is On the next day the Archbishop of Canterbury commeth to the palace to appeare in the Parliament but the King commanded him by the Bishop of Carelile that he shoulde returne to his house and from thenceforth he appeared not The Prelates made Thomas Percy the Kings Steward of houshold their procurator to consent in all things in this Parliament to be done Also Sir Iohn Bushy had these words our soueraigne Lord the King bycause the second Article in the Parliament is for punishmente to be appoynted for suche as violate the Kings royall authoritie I beséech your grace that you will authorice me by way of appealing of accusing or impeaching with licence to make declaration from one to the rest so often and when to me and to my fellowes it may séeme expedient and it was graunted then Bushy had these words I accuse Thomas of Arundell Archbishop of Canterbury of thréefold treason Frst of the commission in granting the regiment or gouernement of the Realme to Thomas Duke of Glocester and to Richard Earle of Arundell at his instance who rather bycause he was your Chancellour should haue refused it Secondly for that vnder pretext of that trayterous commission they trayterously vsurping the iurisdiction of your regalitie or royall authoritie held a solemne Parliament trayterouslie in preiudice of your regalitie Thirdly bycause that by the sayde trayterous vsurping Sir Simon de Burley and Sir Iames Barnes Knightes and faithfull lieges to you were trayterouslie murthered and put to death of which things we your commons demaund iudgement worthie of so high treason to be terribly pronounced by you and bycause the Archbishop is a man of great consanguinitie affinitie power and most politike witte and cruell nature for the preseruation of your estate and the whole Kingdomes by the petition of this present Parliament I require that he may be put into safecustodie vntill the finall execution of his iudgemente The King héerevnto answered that for the excellence of his dignitie he would take deliberation till the next morrow and all other that were put into the same commission he pronounced them to be his faithfull liege people and voyd from that treason and especially Alexander Neuell late Archbishop of Yorke and then Sir Edmond of Langley Duke of Yorke Unkle to the King and Sir William Wikeham Bishop of Winchester that were put into the same commission with teares fell downe on the ground before the King and gaue him humble thankes for that grace and benefite bestowed on them Also on Saint Mathewes day the Earle of Rutland the Earles of Kent Huntington Notingham Somerset and Salisburie with the Lordes Spencer and Scrope in a sute of redde Gownes of Silke garded and bordered with white Silke and embrodered with Letters of Golde proponed the appeale by them to the King at Notingham before set foorthe in the which they accused Thomas Duke of Glocester Richard Earle of Arundell Thomas Earle of Warwike and Thomas de Mortimere Knight of the premised treasons and of an armed insurrection at Haringey Parke trayterouslie attempted against the King and putting in
sureties for the prosecuting of their appeale Richarde Earle of Arundell was arreigned in a redde Gowne and a Scarlet whood and forthwith the Duke of Lancaster sayde to the Lorde Neuell take from hym hys girdle and whoode and so it was done and héerewith the Articles of appeale béeing to the sayde Earle declared with a valiaunt and a bolde mynde hée denyed that hée was a Traytor and required the benefite of the pardon protesting that he would not goe from the fauour of the King and his grace The Duke of Lancaster sayde to hym thou Traytor that pardon is reuoked The Earle answered truely thou lyest I was neuer Traytor Also the Duke of Lancaster sayde why diddest thou purchase thy pardon the Earle answered to escape the tongues of myne enimies of whome thou arte one and verily as farre forth as toucheth Treason thou hast more néede of pardon than I. The King sayde make answere vnto thyne appeale The Earle answered I sée well that these persons haue accused me of Treason shewing the appealementes but truely they all lye I was neuer Traytor but I aske alwayes the benefyte of my pardon the whyche youre Grace granted to me within these sixe yeares now last past being of full age and of your francke good will and proper motion Then sayd the King I did so grant it that it should not be against me then sayde the Duke of Lancaster then the graunt auayleth not The Erle answered truly of that pardon I know lesse than thy selfe that was then on the further side the Seas Then said Sir Iohn Bushy that pardon is reuoked by the King the Lordes and vs his faithfull people the Earle answered where be those faithful people I know thée well and thy company how ye are gathered togither not to deale faithfully for the faithful people of the Realme are not héere and therefore the people do lamente for me and well I know that thou hast bin euer false And then Bushy and his fellowes cried out Behold soueraigne Lord and King how this Traytor goeth about to reyse sedition betwixt vs and those people that are at home The Earle answered ye lye I am no Traytor Then rose the Earle of Darby and sayde didst not thou say thus to me at Huntington where we were first assembled togither to rise that it was the best afore all things to take the King The Earle sayd to the Earle of Darby thou lyest on thy head I neuer thought of my soueraigne Lorde the King but that that was good and for his honor Then sayd the King didst not thou say to me in time of thy Parliament in the Bath behinde the White Hall that Sir Simon de Burley was worthie of death for many causes and I answered that I knew no cause of death in him and yet thou and thy fellowes didst trayterouslie put him to death and then the Duke of Lancaster pronounced iudgement against him in this manner Richard I Iohn Steward of England iudge thée to be a Traytor and I condemne thée to be drawne and hanged to be beheaded and quartered and thy lands tailed and not tailed from thée and from thine heires of thy body descending to be confilcate then the King for reuerence of his bloud commanded him only to be beheaded and then was he ledde to the Tower hill and there beheaded and was buried at the Augustine Friers in London Also the same day the King appoynted the Lord Cobham accused by the commons to be arraigned Also vpon the Saterday Sir Thomas de Mortimer was sommoned vpon payne to be banished as a Traytor within sixe moneths to come to be tried in iudgement and then saide the King peraduenture the Earle of March can not take him and therefore I will so long stay for his certificate out of Ireland Also a declaration was made that all benefices or gifts granted or alienated by those that were already condemned or after were to be condemned in this Parliament and other whatsoeuer graunted sith the tenth yeare of this Kings raigne should be reuoked Also on Monday following the certificate giuen in of the Earle of Notingham then Captayne of Caleis in whose custodie the Duke of Glocester was that the same Duke might not be brought to be tried in iudgement bycause he was dead in his custodie at Caleis at the petition yet of the saide appellents the same sentence was pronounced against him which had bin pronounced earst against the Earle of Arundell Also the Archbishop of Canterbury first his temporalities being confiscated was banished the Realme On the Tuesday Rikell on of the Kings Justices borne in Ireland read certayne confessions drawne in writing vpon the said treasons put forth affirming that the same were the confessions of the said Duke by him put forth or discouered and written with his owne hand Also the Earledome of Chester was aduanced to the honor of a Duchie by annexing thereto the Lands of the sayd Earle of Arundell confiscate Also the same day the Earle of Salisburie made request to haue a Scire facias graunted to him against the Earle of March for the Lordship of Denbigh in Wales and the King answered therevpon that he would take deliberation Also on the Wednesday it was ordeyned that the Lands of the sayde Earle of Arundell annexed to the Duchie of Chester should enioy the liberties of the same Duchie excepted that to the Welchmen of those partes their olde Lawes and customes should still remayne and be continued Also it was ordeyned that such as gaue eyther counsell ayde or fauour to the children of them that were condemned or that shoulde be condemned in this Parliamente should be punished as Traytors On Friday the King appoynted a prefixed day to the Archbishop of Canterbury to wéete the third of the sixt wéeke to depart the Realme Also it was ordeyned that all the Lords Spiritual and Temporall should sweare inuiolably to obserue whatsoeeuer in this Parliament were enacted and that the censures of the Church should be pronounced by the Prelates against all those that should go against the same Also the Earle of Warwike was arreigned and his whood being taken off and the appeale read as he had bin some miserable old woman confessed all things conteyned in the appeale wéeping wayling and howling to be done trayterously by him and submitting himselfe to the Kings grace in all things sorowing that euer he had bin associate vnto the appellants Then the King demanded of him by whome he was allured to ioyne with them and he answered by Thomas Duke of Glocester and the Abbot of Saint Albons and a Monke recluse in Westminster and euer besought the King of grace and mercie and the King granted him life to be led in perpetuall prison out of the Realme his goodes moueable and vnmoueable to be confiscate as the Earle of Arundels had bin and the King commanded that he should be had to the Tower of London and after to be conuayde â—uer to the Castell within the Isle
of Man vnder the wardship of William Scrope then Lord of the sayd I le to remayne there in perpetuall prison and on the morrow the King granted to him his wife fiue â— Markes yearely during their liues Also the writ of Scire facias was granted to the Earle of Salisburie against the Earle of March for the sayd Lordship of Denbigh fiftéene dayes respite being giuen to put in an answere Item it was ordeyned that those which ought money to Rochester Bridge should be put in execution for the payment to the vse of the same Bridge Also Henry Bolenbroke Earle of Derby sonne and heire of Dukes created Iohn of Gaunt D. of Lancaster was created D. of Hereforde Edward Earle of Rutland was created Duke of Aumarle Thomas Earle of Kent Duke of Surrey the Earle of Notingham Duke of Norffolke Iohn Earle of Huntington Duke of Excester Iohn Earle of Somerset Marques of Dorset Thomas Lorde Spencer Earle of Glocester The Lorde Neuell Earle of Westmerland Thomas Percy Earle of Worcester William Scrope L. Treasourer Earle of Wiltshire Sir Iohn Mountagew Earle of Salisburie The K. added the armes of K. Edward the Confessor to his bare them togither part for pale and then the Parliament was proroged till the octaues of S. Hillary then to be holden at Shrewsburie Iohn Woodcocke William Askam the 28. of Septemb. Sherifes Maior VVestminster Hall repaired Sir Richard Whitington Mercer the 28. of October King Richard caused the great Hall at Westminster to be repaired both the walles windowes and ruffe with a maruellous worke and great costes whiche he leuied of Strangers banished out of their Countreys who obteyned licence to remayne in this CouÌ„trey by the Kings Charter which they had purchased with great sommes of money King Richard kept his Christmas at Liechfield and then 1398 tooke his iourney towardes Shrewsburie where the Parliament lately proroged began againe in the which it was ordeined that all Statutes ordeyned at Westminster in the xj yeare of y â— Kings raigne should be reuoked disanulled al y â— articles of the same and the heires of theÌ„ that were adiudged in y â— said Parliament should be recoÌ„ciled and restored to all their lands inheritances possessions excepted y â— they should haue no clayme against the with-holders of the profiles and reuenues of those lands in the meane time On the morrow it was ordeyned that the heires of them whiche were iudged and conuicted in the foure Articles of high treason should not enioy the Lands nor any possessions of their progenitors but should be excluded from all and euery action and clayme for euer The first Article of high treason was this if any man of what condition soeuer he were did imagin the kings death The second Article was if any man should haue an imagination to depose the King The third if any man did ride armed within the Realm of England in manner of warre against the King The fourth was if any maÌ„ disclaymed y â— kings homage Also the same day the Lord Cobham was arraigned to make answere vnto two Articles of high treason The first was that he the sayde Lorde Cobham was in counsell to make one commission against the state of the King and likewise that he vsed the same commission in doing iudgement against the Kings will and to the preiudice of him The seconde that he sate in iudgement to iudge Sir Simon de Burley and Iames Barnes Knightes of the kings in his absence and against his will and vpon this he was coÌ„uict and iudged to perpetuall prison within the I le of Iersey On the morrow Henry Duke of Hereford accused Thomas The Duke of Hereford accuseth the Duke of Norffolke Mowbray Duke of Norffolke of certaine words by him spoken as they rode betwéene London and Brayneford tending to the dishonor of the Kings person which the Duke of Norffolke vtterly denayd to haue spoken where vpon a Combate was granted them by the King to be fought at A Combate is granted Couentry vpon the seauentéenth of September A fiftéenth and a halfe was granted and the customes of woolles fiftie Shillings of euery Sacke of euery Englishman borne and thrée pound of euery Stranger This Parliament ended the King visited many places in the Weast part of England as Worcester Hereford Bristow and other places to wéete Glastonbury and Bath After this also the King caused a Theatre to be made at Anno reg 22 Bristow for a Combate to be fought betwixt two Scottes to wéete the one béeing an Esquire appellant and the other a Knight defendant and the appellant was ouercome and hanged but after this time he made a great and maruellous strong Theatre at Couentrie for the Combate betwixte the Duke of Hereford and the Duke of Norffolke and gaue them day for the fight the sixtéenth of September to wéete the feast day of Saint Edith at which day and place a great concourse and assemble of people was there gathered out of all partes of Englande When the sayde Champions appeared in the Listes readie to fighte the King commanded them to be quiet and not to fight and then the Kyng sitting in hys royall apparell within his Tente girt with his Sworde hée commanded hys decrée to bée proclaymed and thys was the Kings decrée that Henry Duke of Hereforde for hys disobedience towardes the King Dukes â—anished shoulde bée banished for tenne yeares and likewise the Duke of Norffolke to be banished for euer out of England taking of his reuenues a thousand Markes by yeare till the Towne of Caleis were repaired Iohn Wade Iohn Warner the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Sir Drew Barrentine Goldsmith the 28. of October At the feast of Saint Michaell the King caused seauentéene Counties in East England to bée indited and layde to theyr charges that they had bin agaynste him with the Duke of Glocester the Earles of Arundell and Warwike wherefore hée sente honourable men to induce the Lords both Spirituall and Temporall to make a submission by writing sealed with theyr owne handes acknowledging themselues to bée Traytors to the King though they neuer offended him in word or déede Moreouer he compelled all the Religious Gentlemen and commons to set Blancke Charters their Seales to blanckes to the ende he might as it pleased him oppresse them seuerally or all at once some of the commons payde a thousande Markes some a thousande pounde c. Also he ordeyned through euery Prouince in Englande that all Gentlemen and meÌ„ of substance should be sworne Vnâ—customed othes firmely to maynteyne according to their possible power all the Statutes Articles and Constitutions ordeyned in the last Parliament On Newyeares day néere vnto Bedforde a very déepe water which ranne betwixt the Townes of Swelstone and Harleswode stoode sodeinly still and deuided it selfe so that by the space of thrée miles the botome remained drie which wonder many one thought did signifie the deuision
of the people and falling away from the King whiche hapned shortly after Roger Mortimere Earle of March and of Vlstar in Ireland Earle of March slaine in Irelād Cro. Pet. Coledge W. l. Wilum lying there in a Castel of his there came on him a great multitude of wilde Irishmen to assayle him and he issuing out fought manfully till he was by them hewen to péeces whose death the King determined to reuenge About Candlemas dyed Iohn of Gaunt D. of Lancaster at the Bishop of Elyes Inne in Holborne by London and was Duke of Lancaster deceased 1399 honourably buryed in S. Paules Church at London his sonne Henry Duke of Hereford being then beyond the seas About Whitsontide King Richard with a Nauie of 100. Ships sayled from Milford Hauen towards Ireland and arriued King Richarde sayled into Ireland at Waterford on the last day of Maynfrem whence he marched with his armie of thirtie thousande to Kilkenny fourescore miles within the Countrey and there remayned xiiij dayes tarying for Edward Duke of Aumarle On Midsommer euen he went from thence toward Mackmore who Anno reg 23 remayned amongst the woods with 3000 mē right hardy and such as séemed but little to feare the Englishmen At the entring of the woods the King commanded fires to be vsed so that many a house and many a village was brent there the King made the Duke of Herefords sonne Knight with ten other 2500. Pioners were appoynted to fell the woods and make wayes for y e Englishmen The Irishmē feared greatly the shot of the Englishmen but yet with their Dartes they assayled and slewe diuers as they caught them at aduantage The Unkle of Mackmore came in and yéelded himselfe The Vnkle of Mackmore submitted to King Richard to the King with a withie about his necke and many other naked and bare legged did the like all which the King pardoned After this the King sente to Mackmore promising him that if he would come in as his Unkle had done with the withie about his necke he should be pardoned but he vtterly refusing sayd he would fight to death in defending his right for he knew the Englishmen wanted victualles and more than they had brought with them could not be bought for Gold or Siluer There was already such scarcitie that there were some four some sixe that had but a small lofe of bread to liue by the day and some that eate not a grayne in fiue dayes togither The King therefore departed the 28. day of June toward Diuelin at what time Mackmore sent a beggar with notice to the King that hée would be his friend and aske him mercy or else if it pleased him to treate of peace to send some noble mē to him whervpon the Earle of Glocester was sent who led with him the reregard wherof he was captayne being two C. Lances a M. Archers betwixt two woods farre from the Sea they mette with the Irish Mackmore himselfe rode on a white Mackmore a good horseman Horsse without saddle or other furniture that cost him as was sayde foure hundred Kowes whiche Horsse he ranne downe the hill that the beholders reported they neuer had séene Hare nor Déere to haue runne so swiftly In hys righte hande he bare a Darte greate and long whiche he threwe excéeding well He was a mightie strong man of personage There the Earle and hée talked a good whyle aboute the murthering of the Earle of March and after of other thynges but agrée they coulde not and so departed The Earle aduertised the King what he had foūd which was nothing but that the enimie woulde crie mercie so as he might be sure to haue peace without other griefe otherwise he would so long as he liued defend himselfe wherefore the King in his wrath not knowing what lette might happen sware that he would neuer depart Irelande till he had him eyther aliue or dead The host dislodged for lacke of victualles they were a thirtie thousands at their comming ouer that lay then at Diuelin fiftéene dayes the King forthwith deuiding his armie into thrée partes sente them out to séeke Mackemore promising an hundreth Markes to him that could bring him in which offer was well hearkened vnto for it sounded well but he could not be caught and the same day Edwarde Earle of Rutlande Duke of Aumarle Connestable of Englande arriued with an hundreth Sayle of whose comming the King was verie glad though he indéede had taried long and mighte haue come muche sooner They remayned sixe wéekes at Diuelin and heard no newes out of Englande the passage was so dangerous the winde béeing contrary and tempestes so greate at length came a Shippe with heauie newes how the Duke of Hereforde and now by the deceasse of his father Duke of Lancaster was arriued in England at Rauenspore The Duke of Hereford returned into Englande beside Wadlington in Yorkeshire and had beheaded William Scrope Earle of Wilshire Treasourer of Englande Iohn Bushy Henry Greene and other and had caused Thomas Arundell Archbishop of Canterbury to preach againste King Richarde who also shewed a Bull procured from Rome promising remission of sinnes to all those whiche should ayde the sayde Henry in conquering of his enimies and after their death to be placed in Paradise which preaching moued manye to cleaue to the Duke Upon this newes the King being perswaded to make hast ouer the Duke of Aumarle sayde it was better to stay till hys Shippes mighte bée brought togither for there were but an hundreth readie to make Sayle wherevpon Iohn Mountacute Earle of Salisburie was sente with a power whilest the King going to Waterforde mighte gather hys Fléete who promised within sixe dayes to haue followed hym The Earle of Salesburie landed at Conwey where hée was soone aduertised howe the Duke had taken the more parte of Englande and that all the Lords were got to him with more than thréescore thousand men The Earle of Salesburie caused to sommon the Welchmen and them of Cheshire to come to him so that wéening the King had bin arriued at Conwey within foure dayes there were come togither fortie thousand men ready to goe against the Duke of Hereford where they stayd fourtéene dayes but when they saw the King came not they stealed away and left the Earle of Salisburie in manner alone so that vnneath he had a C. men with him The Duke of Hereford aduanced towards the Earle of Salisburie who withdrew him into Conwey The King through euill counsell King Richard returned out of Ireland and landed at Milford Hauen stayd after the Earles departure eyghtéene dayes and then arriued at Milford Hauen from whence about midnight following desguised like a Priest for feare to be knowne with thirtéene persons only who went to Conwey thinking the Earle of Salisburie had there helde the fielde There were with him the Dukes of Excester and Surrey and the Earle of Glocester that continued faithfull vnto the last
Countrey but when it came to martial affayres their owne Archers turned theyr handes againste them whome they shoulde haue defended There were flayne aboue eleauen hundred of our men Sir Edmunde Mortimer was taken and the Welchwomen when y e battayle was done vsing the deade carcasses to shamefullye to bée spoken woulde not suffer them to be buryed without great raunsome The Kyng went wyth a greate power into Wales to pursue OweÌ„ Glendouerdew where he profited nothing but loste muche for the Welchmen conuayed themselues into vnknowen places wherefore the King constrayned by necessitie returned into Englande after he had spoyled brent the Countrey The same time the Scottes cruelly entred into England for they supposed all the Lords beyond Humber to be occupyed in the parties of Wales but the Erles of Northumberlande Henrie Percie and his sonne Henrie with the Earle of Dunbarre that a good whyle agone hauing forsaken the Scottes had sworne to be true to the King of England with a number of armed men plentie of archers sodainly came to resiste the Scottes as they woulde haue retourned home after they hadde spoyled and brente the Countrey but nowe vppon a sodayne theyr waye was forelayde so that they muste néedes abyde and take a place to fighte vppon they chose therefore a mountaine neare to the Towne of Wollor called Halydowe Hill in the whiche they place themselues wyth theyr armed men and Archers which when our men beheld leauing the way in which they stoode against the Scottes they clynie the hill that stoode ouer against the Scottes and without delaye of time our Archers placed in the valley set their arrowes against the Scottes battayle that they might by some means force them to come downe on the other side the Scottishe Archers let flye at our men who yet after they felt the grieuous waighte and as it had bin a shower or tempest of the arrowes shotte by the Englishmen they fledde The Earle Dowglas perceyuing his men so to flée for he was their generall leader tooke hys Speare and manfullye wyth a multitude came down the Hyll trusting doubtlesse in his armour and y e armour of hys complices that hadde bin thrée yeares in makyng and forced himselfe to runne vpon the Archers whiche when the Archers sawe they stepped backe and shotte so fiercely that they pierced the armed mens bodies stroke throughe theyr Helmets ryued their Speares and rente theyr armoure wyth lyghte adoe Earle Dowglas hymselfe was wounded in fiue places the residue of the Scottes that were not come beside the Hyll turnyng backe from the arrowes that flewe fledde awaye but theyr flyghte nothing auayled them whilest the Archers followed them but that they were compelled to yéelde themselues Earle Dowglas also was taken and manye drowned in the Riuer of Tweede whylest they knewe not the Fourdes to the number of fiue hundered as was sayde In thys battayle no Lorde no Knighte nor Squire gaue anye stroke to the enimyes but onely God gaue the victorie to the Englishe Archers the Lordes and armed menne béeyng onelye lookers on That daye the flower of the Scottishe Chiâ—alrye was taken to witte the Earle Dowglas Murdake the eldest sonne of the Duke of Albanie that was heyre apparente to the Realme of Scotlande The Earles of Murrey Angus and Orkeney the Lordes of Mountgomorie Erskin and Gram with manye other Knyghtes to the number of fourescore besides Esquires Yeomen whose number was not knowne There were slayne of Barons the Lord Gordon the Lord Iohn of Swinton that was false to both the Realmes c. This battayle was fought on the fourtéenth of September Richard Marlow Robert Chicheley the 28. of Septemb. Sherifes Maior Anno reg 4. Sir Iohn Walcot Draper the 28. of October Edmond Mortimere which before was taken by Owen Glendouer dewe now professed to take Owens part against King Henry and did contract mariage with the daughter of the sayd Owen In a Parliament at London which beganne the morrow after Michaelmas day and lasted seauen wéekes there was granted to the King a tenth and a halfe of the Cleargie a tenth of the borough townes and a fiftéenth of the commoÌ„s through the Realme The messengers that had bin sent for Ioane late wife to Iohn of Mountfort Duke of Briteyne returned with hir into England and landed at Falmouth in Cornewall The King met with hir at Winchester the seauenth of February where they were married in the Churche of Saint Swithen The sixe and twentith of February she was Crowned at Westminster In the Sommer following by the Townes of Bedforde 1403 and of Broklesward Monsters were séene oft-times mornings and euenings to come out of the woods vnder diuers coulours in the likenesse and similitude of meÌ„ of warre which met one with another and séemed to fight cruell battayles which although they that were a farre off might sée yet they that were néere hande could not sée nor finde whiche thing deceyued many that coueted to approch come néere Henry Percy the yonger did sodeinly shew himselfe to be the Kings enimie vnto whome ioyned Thomas Percy Earle of Worcester Unkle to the sayde Henry and to make their conspiracie excusable they did write vnto the Shires Battayle at Shrevvsburie about that they pretended nothing against the alleageance nor fidelitie which they ought to the King neyther to gather to any other ende an armie but only for the sauing of their persons and for the better gouernement of the common wealth bycause the payments and taskes graunted to the King for the safe custodie of the Realme were put to such vâ—es as they ought not to be and were vnprofitably consumed and wasted Moreouer they complayned that bycause of the euill slanders which their enimies had made of them they durst not personally appeare in the Kings presence vntill the Prelates Barons had intreated for them that they might be permitted to purge themselues before the King and bée lawfully iudged by their péeres so that many that saw these letters did praise their diligence extoll their fidelitie towards the common wealth But the King being disquieted with these doings that he might appease the communaltie he wrote to them that he maruelled much that séeing the Earle of Northumberland Henry his son had receiued the most part of the paymeÌ„ts summes granted to him by the Cleargy coÌ„munaltie for y â— defence of the Marches of Scotland what occasion they had to make such manifest slanders c. but the yong Henry Percy puting his coÌ„fidence in the ayd of Owen Glendouerdew and Edmond Mortimer Earle of March with the Welchmen and men of Cheshire published that King Richard was aliue and was with them whom if any maÌ„ would sée they should without delay come in armour to y â— Castell of Leycester which declaration made diuers variable motioÌ„s in the hearts of many caused theÌ„ to wauer King Henry considering all things wisely gathered togither as many as he could and came
waye of peace was founde betwixt those two Kings by aliance that is to say by a mariage to be made betwixt y â— most victorious K. of England the Lady Katherin daughter to y â— King Quéene of Fraunce but bicause they perceyued that many things mighte not be done w tout the presence of the kings as wel for y â— apposition of their seales for y e ratifying of y â— articles of this peace as for the solemnization of y e matrimony also y â— King Charles was a man of many yeres they condescended y â— the K. of EnglaÌ„d at a certain day amoÌ„gst them limited shoulde come to the foresayde Citie of Troys w t as great an armed power as he woulde At whiche day appointed if he fayled to be there al his coÌ„municatioÌ„ of peace shold be as voyde These things thus concluded set down in writing y â— erle of Warwicke w t his company returned to y â— K. of Englande to whoÌ„ they declared by order what they had done who was contente in all things to performe their appointments prepared for his iourney He called togither knights men of armes archers to y â— nuÌ„ber of xvj M. of theÌ„ the more part were Archers when the time came that he would depart toward Troys as he was accustomed he deuided his people in thrée parts battayles two wings and in that maner the. viij day of May he entred his iourny toward Troys in Campaine where he was met by the Duke of Burgoigne accompanyed with manye noble meÌ„ two leagues w tout the town whoÌ„ he receiued w t gret honor due obserâ—ance Then this most victorious king accompanyed bothe of English and Frenchmen of euery estate degrée entred the 〈…〉 resaid Citie of Troys y â— stréetes wherof w tout any abyding he passed vntil he came to the kings place wher K. Charles and the Quéene his wife abode his comming of whom the was receyued goodly and after a Princely maner When y â— King of England was thus royally receiued after the due resolutions on his part made to King Charles the Quéene he departed from them and by the Duke of Burgoine and other great estates as well of England as of Fraunce he was conueyed to his lodges The Cittie was deuided into two pâ—rts wherof the one half was assigned to the Frenchmen Burgonians and the other halfe to the Englishmen and bicause that parte assigned to the Englishmen suffised not to receyue them all within the walles but that a great part of theÌ„ must be lodged in the suburbes the King of Englande bicause hys people on that part shoulde haue frée concourse togither he caused the wall on that part of the Citie where he was lodged to be cast down to the ground King Charles gaue aucthoritie and power to Isabel his wife and Quéene to Phillip Duke of Burgoigne and to certaine other of his Counsell plenarily to conclude the peace with King Henrie for hym and for his realme of France vnder such conditions as shold be decréed also to proue ratify coÌ„firme the same by oth solemnized in the parsoÌ„ of K. Charles without fraude in al things to be obserued vnto the sayd K. Henrie his heyres successours by the sayde King Charles his heyres and successors c. On the xxj of May in the xl yere of the reigne of King Charles in the Cathedral Churche of Troys the King of Englande with the Duke of Clarence his brother and other Dukes Earles Bishops Barons Lordes of estat and other Prelates of Englande and Isabel the Quéene of Fraunce with the Duke of Burgoigne and other of the Kings Counsel of Fraunce and in that part hys especiall commissioners for and in the name of the king of Fraunce and also for themselues in their proper names in a great assembly of the iij. estates of Fraunce vulgarly called theyr Parliamente concluded a peace betwixt the two Realmes of England FraÌ„ce and the same ratified and approued with the conditions and Articles that in part shall follow wherevpon writings wer made sealed with the braoâ—e seale of the sayde king Charles Then immediately Isabel the Quéene and the Duke of Burgoigne in the name of King Charles made a solemne oth vpon the holy Euangelistes that y â— same Charles his heyres and successours shoulde obserue and kéepe without fraude the peace made betwixt the two Realmes And the same othe the Quéene and the Duke of Burgoigne in theyr owne names and for themselues theyr heyres successours made vnto the King for him his heyres and successours and after them as many as were there present both of the Kings counsel and also of the Parliament as Bishoppes Lords Knightes and commons made the same othe to the Kyng And the. xxiij and. xxiiij daye of May the Chauncellour of Fraunce and many other Lordes Bishops Prelates and noble men gaue the like fayth and othe The thirde of June being present the Counsell of K. Charles Isabel Quéene of Fraunce the Duke of Burgoigne and the Parliament of Fraunce and also the Duke of Clarence with many Bishops Lords and Knightes of England with King Henrie the matrimonie was solemnized betwixt the most victorious King Henrie of England and the excellent glorious Lady Katherin daughter to Charles of Fraunce and Isabel his Quéene The peace that was confirmed betwixte the sayd two kings and their realmes was red as foloweth King Henrie from nowforth during the life of Kyng Charles shall not name or write himselfe King of Fraunce nor shall not suffer himselfe of his people so to be named or written After the death of king Charles king Henry shal be king of Fraunce peaceably with hys heyres and successours And bicause King Charles by reason of his infirmitie is vnable to gouerne the common weale king Henrie during y e life of Charles shal rule and gouerne the realme of Fraunce to the profit honor of the same king Charles King Charles in al his writings shal name the same King Henrie our son and heyre of France during the life of the said king Charles King Henrie shall be written Henrie King of Englande and heyre and Regent of Fraunce and in the like maner hée shal write himselfe in all things that shall be aucthorized vnder his owne seale King Henrie shall call King Charles hys Father and Quéene Isabel hys mother and shall honoure them Nor King Henrie shal not prohibite with holde nor defraude King Charles his Father of the Crowne of France nor the issues or reuenues thereof And the Quéene his mother at all times during hiâ— life he shall kéepe in due estate as belongeth to hiâ— maiestie c. with diuerse other Articles which for libertie I set not downe in this place After the final end and accomplishing of this marriage couenants and conditions ratifyed in all partes King Henrie accompanyed of King Charles and of his counsel of the two Quéenes Isabel
Burgoigne with many other great Lordes alied with hym sought to conquere all for the yong King Henry of Englande who claymed then to be King of France and likewise in all Henry King of England and of France the money that was coyned the Axmes of both Realmes were quartered The Crownes that were stamped in the tyme of Charles and all other money more were forbidden to be currant and called to the Minte King Henry caused a péece to be stamped called a Salus worth two and twentie Shillings and Blans of eyghtpence a péece and so in no place of France where King Henry was obeyed any other money was receyued but suche as had the Armes of France and England stamped on it Charles Duke of Tourayne the Dolphin sonne to King Charles le biew ame clayming to be right inheritor to the Dolphin of France proclaymed King of France Realme of France by the auntient Edictes and customes of the sayde Realme as was alledged proclaymed himselfe King after the deceasse of hys father notwithstanding by the agréement made at the marriage of his Sister to the King of England it was otherwise concluded as before is recited and so there were two Kings in France Henry and Charles both which striuing for the Crowne the Realme Tvvo Kings of France Henry and Charles was in way of perdition A Parliament at London began the ninth of Nouember Parliament at London wherin was granted to the King a subsedie for thrée yeares fiue nobles of euery sacke of wooll that should passe out of the land This yeare the Weast Gate of London sometime called Nevvgate of London nevv builded Aâ—i S. Paul Lon. 1423 Chamberlaine Gate was begon to be new builded by the executors of Sir Richard Whitington late Maior of London King Charles of France began now to aduance himselfe into the D. of Burgoignes lands and the Connestable of Scotland accompanied with many Lords and men of war of K. Charles side layd séege to the towne of Carnens but the Marshall of Burgoigne assembled men of warre to raise the séege with whome went the Earle of Salisburie a valiant maÌ„ and The Earle of Salisburie vvan diuers holds in France and rased them now being come togither fought with their enimies wan the field tooke the Connestable whose sonne was slayne in the field Many of K. Charles men were slayne and taken to the number of tenne or twelue hundred good men of warre After whiche victorie the Earle of Salisburie layde séege to Montaguillon in Champeigne and continued there an eyght monethes before he could haue it rendred and then caused the same to be rased and throwne downe Then the Earle of Salisburie beséeged the Castell of Monnes which at length Anno reg 2. was yéelded to him this Castell he also rased bet downe which was the strongest place in all Champaigne it was after repaired by King Charles Nicholas Iames Thomas Wanford the 28. of Septemb Sherifes Maior Duke of Bedford married the Duke of Burgoignes daughter William Crowmar Draper the 28. of October About the same time the Duke of Burgoigne gaue his sister the Lady Anne in marriage to the Duke of Bedford and so the alliance was made more strong betwixt the English the Burgonians Phillip de Comines writeth that Iohn D. of Bedford was Phi. Comi Regent in France for the Englishmen his monethly allowaÌ„ce in that office amounting to 20000. Crownes at the least Also y â— Dukes of Burgoigne Bedford Britein met in y e town of Amiens there was also the Earle of Richmont brother to the Duke of Briteine and many other great Lordes whiche Earle of Richmont had married the Duke of Briteines eldest sister Margaret sometime wife to the Duke of Guyen and Dolphin of France These thrée Dukes were fiue or sixe dayes togither in Amiens in great friendship and reuerence each to other promising perpetuall amitie to continue After this the Duke of Briteine returned into his Countrey the Duke of Bedford Regent of France to Paris and the D. of Burgoigne to Arras but within a while after the Earle of Richmont reuolted to King Charles vpon some misliking he had conceyued against the Duke of Bedford King Charles receyued him ioyfully made him Connestable of France About the same time the Duke of Bedford caused Crotoy to be beséeged both by water and by land which after foure or fiue monethes séege was both Towne and Castell deliuered to the Duke where he ordeyned Ralph Butler to bée Captayne At that time the Duke of Bedford was obeyed as Regent in all places through Vimeu Pontieu and Picardy from Paris to Reins Chalons Troyes vp to the water of Loyre About the feast of Saint Andrew the Captaynes of King Charles assembled their forces about Le Fere and Nelle and tooke by night the Towne of Campeigne and spoyled the inhabitants of all their goodes Shortly after came the Duke of Bedford to Mondidier with twelue hundreth fighting meÌ„ and requested the Lord of Sanenses to lay séege to Campeigne and he woulde finde him men and money to wage them wherevnto he graunted and after fiftéene dayes séege had the same deliuered In the moneth of February Iames Steward the yong King of Scottes who was taken by the Englishmen in the King of Scottes releassed of imprisonment eyght yeare of King Henry the fourth and had remayned in England prisoner till this time was now deliuered and married in Saint Mary Oueryes Church in Southwarke to the Lady Iane daughter to Iohn Earle of Somerset Cousin to King Henry Sir Iohn Mortimer Knight was drawne to Tiborne and there hanged and quartered but his body was buryed in Saint Iohns Church at Clarkenwell King Henryes people beséeging the Castell of Dinry in 1424 the marches of Normandy they within compounded to yéeld at a day assigned if the Englishmen were not fought withall before the same day by the Frenchmen wherevpon as well King Charles as the Duke of Bedford made great leuies of men to kéepe the day appoynted and héerewith they drew both towards Yury but when King Charles heard how the The Battell of Vernole in Perche Duke of Bedford was comming towardes him with such a puissance he was counselled to draw backe and so he did towards Vernole in Perche whome the Duke of Bedford followed so that he found his armie néere to Vernole And when eyther armie was in sight of the other they put themselues in order of battell and the Englishmen made an hedge of their Horsse behind their battell bycause the French shoulde not strike in among them on the backes and the Frenchmen ordered themselues in battell array making a great battell of footemen in the which they put the floure and chiefest men They appoynted their Horssemen to set on the Englishmen a trauerse the battayles on foote came vpon and ioyned where was a sore fight betwixt them continuing two houres togither that no
man might iudge which way the victorie would encline but at length the men of King Charles began to breake and then the Englishmen began to thrust in among them and did so much that they discomâ—â—ted their enimies There were slayne the Earle Dowglas Duke of Turon Iames Dowglas Earle of Wighton Iohn Earle of Boughan with the Uicount Nerbon and many other to the number of tenne thousand sayth Fabian foure Robert Fabian thousande sayeth mine Author a Frenchman who sayeth that the Duke of Bedford bare himselfe most valiantly fighting with an axe so fiercely as he had the prayse of all other The Earles of Salisburie and Suffolke gouerned themselues also right valiantly The Lord of Torsy and other Lords of Normandy which before had taken part with the Englishmen this day turned to the French hoping that the Englishmen shoulde haue lost the battell True it is that the Frenchmen would neuer suffer their King Charles to be present in person at any battayle but when they thought to pitch a fielde they sent him into some strong Towne By the losse of this battayle fought on the seauentéenth of August before Vernole in Anno reg 3. Perche King Charles was put to great hinderance so that he was not able in puissance to giue the Englishmen any battayle hauing ynough to defende and kéepe his Townes and fortresses against them The Duke of Bedford returned into Normandy where he punished many that fledde from him the day of the battayle Then went he to Paris where he found the Duke of Burgoigne who receyued him and the Dutches of Bedforde The Duke of Burgoigne enamored vvith the Countesse of Salisburie vvhere of came great displeasure and losse to England by the breach of amity betvvixt the English and the Burgonions his wife the sayde Duke of Burgoignes Sister right ioyfully and made to them great feast at whiche feast also were the Earles of Salisburie and Suffolke the olde Quéene of France mother to King Charles and many other greate estates of diuers nations amongst the whiche the Duches of Bedford was holden for the most gallantest Lady of all other and with hir the Countesse of Salisburie a very faire Lady The Duke of Bedford that had neuer iusted before iusted there The Duke of Burgoigne was a very goodly amiable maÌ„ of personage doing excellently well whatsoeuer he tooke in hand and especially in dansing and iusting he excéeded all other of his Countrey At this feast he became desirous of the Countesse of Salisburie and some messages passed betwixt them which came to the Earle of Salisburies eare whereof he was nothing contented with the Duke and therfore sought to do him displeasure afterward This feast being ended the Duke of Burgoigne went into his Countrey of Burgoigne and there tooke to wife the Duches of Neuers which had bin wife to his Unkle the Duke of Neuers and had by hir two Children She was halfe sister to the Duke of Burbon but she liued not long with him The D. of Burgoigne also gaue his sister the yongest named Agnes The second cause of breach of amitle betvvixt England and Burgoigne in marriage vnto Charles de Barbon Earle of Cleremont for the which the Duke of Bedford and other Englishmâ— were wroth for that he made suche alliance with the enimies without their accord This yeare the Frenchmen repaired the Castell of Mouns in Champaigne which had bin a little before destroyd by the Englishmen and now it was well stuffed with victuals and men which began to make sore war to the Countrey but shortly after the Earle of Salisburie beséeged theÌ„ and with him Messire Iohn de Luxenburg who did so much that the Castell was yéelded to him The D. of Bedford with his wife the Duches lay for the most parte in Paris leading there a pleasant life with the Lady whom he greatly loued and was lodged in y e house of the Tournels â—éere to the Castel Saint Anthony where he made faire buildings and his men still made sore warres againste the French towards the Riuer of Loyre and other places vpon base Normandy and toward the Duchie of Alanson This yeare in Englande Edmond Mortimere Earle of March with many other Lords a great retinue were sent Earle of March sent into IrelaÌ„d into Ireland where the sayd Earle of March ended his life Simon Seman Bythewater the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Iohn Michaell Stockfish monger the 28. of October This yeare 1424. the warres began in Henault by reason of Iaqueline Duches of Henault daughter to Duke William Iaqueline Duches of Henault of Henault Unkle to Phillip Duke of Burgoigne and also daughter to Duke Iohn of Burgoignes sister wife to the â—â—renamed William and so double Cousin german to Philâ—â—p Duke Phillip now liuing This Iaqueline was married â—â— Iohn Duke of Brabant hir Cousin german Cousin gerâ—â—n also to Duke Philip of Burgoigne and before that she â—â—s married to the Earle of Pontioue son to King Charles le â—â—â—n aime eldest Brother to King Charles now liuing â—â—t notwithstanding that she was thus married to the Duke of Brabant yet was she conuayed by Sir Robersart Knight and brought into England to the Duke of Glocester and there married to the sayd Duke of Glocester and so she Iaqueline married to the D. of Glocester had two husbandes aliue at once Brabant and Glocester â— thing thought vnreasonable both against God the world and the Church for she had bin four or fiue yeares in companie with the Duke of Brabant but there had fallen some variance betwixt them and so she was come from him into Henault About the last of Aprill began a Parliament at Westminster wherein was graunted a Subsedie of twelue in the Robert Fabian Parliament at London First Subsedie payde pound of all manner Merchandize comming in or passing out of this Realme thrée Shillings of a Tunne of Wine for the tearme of thrée yeares to be holden And furthermore it was enacted that all Merchant strangers should be set to an English host within fiftéene dayes of their comming to their port sale and to make no sale of any Merchandize ere All Strangers to be lodged vvithin English hostes they were so lodged then within fortie dayes following to make sale of all they brought and if any remayned vnsold at the sayd fortie dayes end that then all such Merchandize vnsold to be forfeyted Also that all Strangers that caried any woolles out of this land should pay xliij shillings four pence for a sacke custome where the English Merchants and Denisons payde but fiue nobles c. After the marriage had bin solemnized betwéene the Duke of Glocester and Iaqueline Duches of Holland as is aforesayde The Duke of Glocester goeth into Holland within a moneth after the Duke of Glocester assembled an armie of twelue hundred fighting men at the least all Englishmen and taking the Duches with him in coÌ„panie
tosquashed his face whereof he dyed after which mishappe the Englishmen lost rather than wanne so that by little and little they lost all their possessions in France This yeare Humfrey Duke of Glocester tooke to wife Duke of Glocester married Elianor Cobham Elianor Cobham whome before hée hadde wantonlye kept Henry Frowike Robert Otley the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Parliament Subsedy Iohn Gidney Draper the 28. of October In a Parliament at Westminster was graunted to the King a Subsedie of euery Tunne of Wine thrée shillings and of other Merchandise excepte wooll fell and cloth xij 1418 pence of the pound Also of euery parish through y e Realme excepted Cities and Boroughes the benefice being in value x. Marke tenne of that parish should pay vj. s viij d. euery man viij d and of euery benefice that were x. pound x. parishners to pay xiij s iiij d and so rate and rate like of euery benefice from the lowest to the highest And for the inhabitants of Cities and Boroughes euery mā being in value of xx s aboue his houshold stuffe the apparell of him his wife should pay foure pence and so after that rate vnto the richest On Corpus Christi day a Briton that a good widdow and honest woman had cherished and brought vp of almes Murther quitte vvith murther dwelling in White Chappell parish without Aldgate murthered the sayd woman in a night sléeping in hir bedde and after conuayde such iewels and stuffe as he might carrie but he was so pursued vpon that for feare he tooke a Churche and there foresware the Kings land and the Connestables caused him to be brought to London and so intended to haue conuayde him Westward but so soone as he was come into the parish where before he had committed the murther the wiues cast vpon him so much filth and ordure of the stréete Anno reg 7. that notwithstanding the resistance made by the Connestables they slew him there out of hand On the first of September the Cardinall of Winchester Cardinall of VVinchester being returned from beyonde the Seas was mette by the Maior and his bréethren and certaine Citizens of London on horsebacke without the Citie and so brought to his pallace in Southwarke This yeare was a great fire at Baynards Castell in London Fire at Baynards Castell Sherifes Maior Thomas Duffehouse Iohn Abbot the 28. of September Henry Barton Skinner the 28. of October The viij of Nouember the Duke of Norffolke was like to haue bin drowned passing through London bridge hys Duke of Norffolke escaped drovvning Barge being set vpon the piles ouerwhelmed so that to the number of thirtie persons were drowned and the Duke with other that escaped were drawne vp with ropes The xxj of February Ri. Neuill was made Earle of Salisb 1429 The fifth day of June Frier Randolph a Mayster of Diuinitie that had bin long prisoner in the Tower of London 1. Treuise was there slayne by the Parson of the Tower In the moneth of June the Cardinall of Winchester with a warlike companye passed the Sea intending to haue made warre vppon them that then inhabited the Countrey of Prage but for néede of men that the Regente had in Fraunce the Cardinall chaunged his purpose and taryed there a season with the Regent William Ruffe Ralph Holland the 28. of September Sherifes Maior William Castfielde Mercer the. 28. of October The sixth of Nouember King Henrie being about the age of nintéene yeares was solempnely crowned in Saincte Peters Churche of Westminster at whose coronation were made xxxvj Knightes of the Bath and after solemnization in the Churche finished an honorable feaste in the greate Hall of Westminster was kept wherof yée may reade a large discourse in Robert Fabian After whiche feaste great preparation was made for the Kings iourney into France The. xxiiij of Januarie a battayle was done in Smithfielde 1430 within the listes before the King betwéene two men of Feuersham in Kent Iohn Vpton appellaunte and Iohn Downe defendaunt when they had long fought the Kyng toke vp the matter and forgaue both parties The. xxvij day of April the King toke shipping at Douer landed the same day at Caleis hauing in his company the Dukes of Yorke and Norffolke the Bishops of Bath Ely and Rochester the Earles of Huntington Stafforde Warwicke Oxforde Deuonshire Mortaine of Ewe and of Ormonde and Barrons the Lorde Boucher Beaumond Typtoft Fitz Water Roos Arundale Audley Faucōbridge Gray Codner Scrop and Welles Whilest the Kyng remayned at Caleis manye skirmishes were fought betwéene the Englishmen and the Frenche in diuerse partes of France and the Frenchmen preuayled greatly by helpe of a Woman which they named The Mayden of God So that lastlye she with hir companye came to the Towne of Champaigne to the end to remoue the siege layde therevnto by the Duke of Burgoigne and other of the Englishe Captaines and the. xxiij of Maye she gaue battaile to the Englishmen and fought with them a long time but in the ende by the manhoode of a Burgonian Knight named sir Iohn Luxemborough she was taken aliue and hir company distressed she was conuayed to the Citie of Roane and there kept a season where she fained hir selfe to be with child but when y e contrarie was known she was condēned brent After this King Henrie by small iorneyes into Fraunce came to Paris wher he was honorably receiued of y e Citizēs and taken for theyr soueraigne Lord and King whiles hée Robert Gagwine there remayned sayeth Gagwine the Frenchmen wan many holds of the Englishmen and the Burgonians in the country of Bry. The third of August dyed the the Countesse of Vrmonde and was buried at Saint Thomas of Acres in London Anno reg 9. Sherifes Maior Walter Chertesey Robert Large the. 28. of September Nicholas Wotton Draper the. 28. of October Soone after Easter the Lord protector was warned of an assembly of certaine lewde persons to be assembled at Abington wherefore he sent thyther certaine persons and also rode thyther himselfe and there arrested the Baylye of the Towne named William Mandeuil a Weauer the whiche was appointed for a Captain who had named himself Iack Sharpe of Wigmers lande in Wales who being examined confessed that he ment to haue done many mischiefes especially against Priests so that he would haue made their heads as cheape as Shéeps heads that is to say thrée for a peny or as some write ten for a penny manye of his complyces were taken and sent to dyuarse prisons Their Captaine was drawne hanged and headed at Abingdon and his head was sent to London and set on the bridge his other fautors were executed in diuerse places and Countreys to the terror of other The. xiij of Julye Richarde Russel a Wooll-man was drawn hanged and quartered for that he wold haue made Dukes and Earles at his pleasure Richard Robsert Lord Bourcher deceased and
alien vj. pence Syr Richard Wich Uicar of Hermetsworth in Essex who 1440 had before abiured was breÌ„t on the Towre Hil the xvij of June After whose deathe was greate murmur among the people for some saide he was a good man and an holy and put to death by malice and some sayde the contrarie so that manye men and women wente by nighte to the place where he was brente and offered theyr money Images of waxe and other things making theyr prayers knéeling and kissing of the ground bare away with them the Ashes of hys body for holy reliques c. Thys endured eyght days tyll the Maior and Aldermen ordayned men of armes to restraine the people who apprehended manye and sente them to prison among whome was taken the Uicar of Berking Churche beside the Tower in whose Parishe al thys was done who had receyued the offering of the simple people And to excite them to offer the more feruentlye to the fulfilling of hys false couetousnesse he hadde medled Ashes wyth the poulder of spices and strewed them in the place where the Priest was brente and so the simple people were deceyued wéenyng the swéete sauour had come of the Ashes of the deade Priest All whiche the sayd Uicar of Barking Churche confessed in prison Thys haue I noted the more at large bycause some haue writen the Uicare of Berking to bée brente whiche is false for hée was not brente thoughe he better deserued than the other The eightéenth day of July the Posterne gate of London by East Smithfielde againste the Tower of London sancke by night more than seauen foote into the Earth The twelfth of Auguste the Starre in Breadstreet an Inne of London was fiered by lightning and aboute fiftye loade of Hey burnte The Eagle in Cheape was also burnt Anno reg 19 The first of September Iohn Knighte a souldiour prisoner of Newgate in London as he was led by one of the Sherifes Officers from thence towarde Guilde Hall fiue of hys fellow souldiours with their daggers drawn came sodainly out of the Pannier Alley and berefte him from the Officer thrusting him into Saint Martins Lane and so into y t church where they all claymed priuiledge of the Sanctuarie thinking to haue remained there but the same daye Phillip Malpas and Richard Marshal Sherifes came with a nuÌ„ber of other and by force toke them from theÌ„ce fettered fast to the Counter and from thence chayned by the neckes two togither sente them to Newgate where they remayned till the thirde of Nouember following at whiche tyme they were by the Kings Justice restored agayn to the same Sanctuarie of Saint Martin Iohn Sutton William Wetinhall the. 28. of Septemb. Sherifes Maior Iohn Paddesley Goldsmith the 28. of October The Duke of Yorke was made Regente of Fraunce 1441 and the sixtéenth daye of Maye the sayde Duke wyth the Earle of Oxforde the Earle of Ewe sir Richarde Wooduile Syr Iames of Ormonde the Lorde Clynton and manye other shipped at Portesmouth and Sayled thence into Normandie The sixe and twentith daye of Nouember was a challenge in armes done before Kyng Henrie within listes in Smithfielde betwéene Sir Richarde Woduile a Knighte of Englande and a Knighte of Spaine but the Kyng tooke the matter into his hands after the thirde stroke Also a Combat was foughte at Totehil betwéene two théeues the apealer and defendaÌ„t the apealer had the field of the defendant within thrée strokes Roger Bolingbroke a greate Astronomer with Thomas Southwell a Chanon of Sainte Stephens Chappell at Westminster wer taken as conspiratours of the kings deth for it was said that the same Roger shoulde laboure to consume the Kyngs person by waye of Negromancie and the sayde Thomas shoulde saye Masses in the lodge of Harnesey Parke beside London vpon certaine instruments with the whiche the sayde Roger shoulde vse hys crafte of Negromancye againste the Faythe and was assenâ—yng to the sayde Roger in all hys workes And the fiue and twentith daye of Julye beyng Sondaye Roger Bolingbroke wyth all hys instrumentes of Negromancye that is to saye a chayre paynted wherein hée was wonte to sitte vpon the foure corners of which Chayre stoode foure swordes and vppon euerye sworde an Image of Copper hangyng wyth manye other instrumentes hée stoode on a highe Scaffolde in Paules Churchyarde béefore the Crosse holding a Sworde in hys righte hande and a Scepter in hys lefte arrayed in a maruellous attyre and after the Sermon was ended by mayster Low Byshoppe of Rochester he abiured all Articles longing to the crafte of Negromancye or missownyng to the Faythe On the Twesday next following Dame Elianor Cobham Elianor CobhaÌ„ apprehended Dutchesse of Glocester fledde by nighte into the Sanctuarie at Westminster whiche caused hir to be suspected of treason In the meane tyme Roger Bolyngbroke was examined before the Kyngs Counsayle where he confessed that hée wroughte the sayde Negromancye at the styrryng and procurement of the sayd Dame Elianor to know what shoulde be fall of hyr and to what estate shée shoulde some wherevppon shée was cyted to appeare béefore Henrye Chicheley Archebyshoppe of Caunterburie Henrie Beauforte Bishoppe of Winchester Cardinall Iohn Kempe Archbishop of Yorke Cardinal William Ascothe bishoppe of Salisburie and other in Saint Stephens Chappell at Westminster there to aunsweare to certaine Articles of Negromancie Witchcrafte Sorcery Heresie and Treason where when she appeared the foresaid Roger was brought forth to witnesse against hir and sayde that she was cause and first styrred him to labour in the sayde Arte. Then shée was committed to the warde of sir Iohn Steward Knight and Iohn Stanley Esquire and other to be conueyed to the Castell of Ledes there to remayne tyll thrée wéekes after Michaelmasse Shortly after a commission was directed to the Earles of Huntington Stafforde and Suffolke and to certayne Iudges of bothe Benches to enquire of all manner of Treasons Sorceries and other thyngs that myghte bée hurtefull to the Kyngs Person before whome the sayde Roger and Thomas Southwel as principalles and dame Elianor as accessarie were indicted of Treason in the Guild Anno reg 20. Hall of London There was taken also Margerie Gurdemaine a witch The VVitch of Eye brent of Eye in Suffolke whose Sorcerie and Witchcrafte the said Elianor hadde long tyme vsed and by hyr medicines and Drinkes enforced the Duke of Glocester to loue hyr and after to wedde hyr wherfore and for cause of relapse the same Witch was brent in Smithfield on y e seuen twentith of October The one and twentith of October in the Chappel beforesayde before the Bishoppes of London Robert Gylbart of Lincolne William Alnewike of Norwich Thomas Brouns the sayde Elianor appeared and Adam Molins Clearke of the Kyngs Counsell redde certayne Articles obiected againste hyr of Sorcerye and Negromancie whereof some she denyed and some she graunted The thrée and twentith of October Dame Elianor appeared againe and witnesses were broughte forth and examined
and she was conuicte of the sayde Articles then was it asked if she woulde saye anye thing agaynste the witnesses wherevnto she aunsweared nay but submitted hyr selfe The seauen and twentith daye of October she abiured the Articles and was adioyned to appeare again the ninth of Nouember In the meane time Thomas Southwel dyed in the Tower of London as himselfe had prophesied that hée shoulde neuer dye by Justice of the Law William Combis Richarde Riche the. 28. of September Sherifes Maior Elianor CobhaÌ„ did penaunce Robert Clopton Draper the. 28. of October The ninth of Nouember Dame Elianor appeared béefore the Archbishoppe and other in the sayde Chappel and receyued hyr penaunce which she perfourmed On Monday the. xiij of Nouember she came froÌ„ Westminster by water and landed at the Temple Bridge from whence with a taper of waxe of two pounde in hir hande she went throughe Fleetestreete hoodlesse saue a kerchefe to Paules where she offered hyr Taper at the high Aulter On y e Wednesday next she landed at y e Swan in Thamis stréete then went through Bridgestreet Grace Church Streete streight to Leaden Hall and so to Christ Church by Aldegate On Fryday she landed at Queene Hiue and so went through Cheape to Saint Michels in Cornehil in fourme aforesayd at all which times the Maior Sherifes and Craftes of London receyued hir and accompanyed hir This being done she was committed to the ward of sir Thomas Stanley wherein she remayned duryng hyr life in the castel of Chester hauing yerely an hundred marks assigned for hyr finding whose pride false couetise and lecherie were cause of hir confusion The xviij of NoueÌ„ber Roger Bolingbroke with sir Iohn Hum Priest and William Woodham Esquire was arraigned in the Guild Hall of London where the sayde Iohn and William had their Charters but Roger Bolingbroke was condemned had iudgemeÌ„t of sir Iohn Hody chief Justice of the Kings Bench and the same day he was drawen froÌ„ the Tower to Tiborne there hanged and quartered when y e said Roger shold suffer he said y t he was neuer guilty of any treason against the kings person but he hadde presumed too far in his cunning whereof he cryed God mercie and the Justice that gaue on him iudgemente liued not long after Henrie Beauchampe succéeded in hys fathers inheritaÌ„ce who being kept two yeares in the Kings hands was restored to al his liuings with greate glory for he was crowned King of Wight by the kyngs owne handes and nominated chiefe Earle of England A challenge was done in Smithfield within listes before 1442 A Combat in Smithfielde the King by the Lorde Beawfe of Aragon and Iohn Ansley Esquire of the Kings house whiche Ansley hadde the fielde and at the Kings hande was made Knight and the Anno. reg 21 Lord Aragon offered his harneis at Windsor In the moneth of August was a great fray in Fleetstreete betwéene the yong Studentes of the Innes of Courte and the inhabitauntes of the same stréete whiche Fray began in the night and so continued the assaultes and bickeryngs till the next day in whiche season muche people of the Cytie was thyther gathered and diuerse men on both partes slaine and many hurte but lastly by the presence of the Maior and Sherifes this Fray was appeased of whiche was chiefe occasioner one of Cliffords Inne named Herbotel Thomas Beaumount Richard Norden the 28. of Sept. Sherifes Maior Iohn Athirle Ironmonger the. 28. of October Iohn Beaufort Earle of Somerset was made Duke of Somerset and Lord Talbot Earle of Shrewesburie The stéeple of Waltham Holy Crosse in Essex was brente with lightning on Candlemasse day The Citizens of Norwiche rose against the Priour of 1443 Christes Churche wythin the same Citie and would haue fiered the priorie they kept the towne by strength againste the Duke of Norffolke and all his power wherefore the Kyng sente thyther the chiefe Judge Iohn Fortescue wyth the Earles of Stafforde and of Huntington who indicted many Citizens and the Priour also The Liberties of the Citie were seysed into the Kings hand and Sir Iohn Clifton made Captaine there and manye of the Citizens fledde ouer the seas c. Anno reg 22. Sherifes Maior Nicholas Wilforde Iohn Norman the. 28. of September Thomas Catworth Grocer the. 28. of October Iohn Earle of Huntington at Windsore was made Duke of Excester Iohn Beauforde Duke of Somerset deceased and was buryed at Wimborne The Earle of Stafforde was created Duke of Buckingham Henrie Beauchampe Earle of Warwicke Duke of Warwicke 1444 Cro. of â—ewx vnto whom the King gaue the Castell of Bristowe with all the appurtenances which King Iohn had kept in his haÌ„ds he gaue vnto him also the Isles of Garnsey and Iarnsey The Earle of Dorset was made Marques of Dorset and the Earle of Suffolke Marques of Suffolke King Henrie sent into Fraunce Ambassadours William de la Pole Marques of Suffolke Adam Molens Bishoppe of Chichester and kéeper of the priuie seale sir Roberte Roos and other to treat of a marriage betwéene King Henrie and Margaret the kings daughter of Scicil which was concluded in the Citie of Towres in Touraine Anno reg 13 Sherifes Maior Stephen Poster Hugh Wich the. 28. of September Henrie Frowike Mercer the 28. of October In the moneth of Nouember William de la Pole Marques of Suffolke with other went againe into Fraunce for to conduct the sayd Lady Margaret into England On Candlemasse euen in diuerse places of England was heard terrible thunders wyth lightning wherby the church of Baldoke in Hertfordshire the Churche of Walden in Essex diuerse other were sore shaken And the stéeple of Saint Pauls in London about two of the clocke in the after noone was set on fire in the middest of the shaft but by the labour of many well desposed people the same was quenched and no man perished The stéeple of Kingstone was likewise fiered by the same lightnings Ladie Margaret landing at Portchester went from thence 1445 by water to Hampton rested there in a place called Gods house from thence she went to the Abbay of Tychfielde and Quene Margaret crovvned was there wedded to King Henry y e xxij of April She was receyued at the Blackeheath by the Citizens of London ryding on horsebacke in blewe gownes with brodered sleues and red hoods the 28. of May and on the 30. of May she was crowned at Westminster hir badge was the Daysie With the fall of Kingstone steple one man was slaine Kingston steple fell An reg 24. Sherifes Maior Leaden hall in Lon. builded and many sore hurt Iohn Darby Godfrey Filding the 28. of September Simon Eyre draper the 28. of October This Simon Eyre builded the Leaden hall in London to be a store house for graine and fewell for the poore of the Citie also a beawtifull Chappel in the East end of y e same ouer the gate whereof he
caused to be written Dextera Domini A notable example exaltauit me that is to say The Lordes right hand hath exalted me Whereby he doing so notable a worke for the common weale also left example to other Citizens comming 1446 Cronicle of Thevvkesbury Iohn Rovvse Duke of vvarvvik King of vvight died after him whoÌ„ God likewise exalteth with such temporall blessings that they be not vnthankfull to God and their common weale wherein they haue receiued them Henrie Duke of Warwike chiefe Erle of England Lorde Spencer and Aburgaueny King of the Isle of Wight Garnsey and Iarnsey and Lord of the Castell of Bristow died without issue and was buried at Tewksburie Iohn Dauid appeached his master William Catur an Armorer CoÌ„bat betvven a master the seruaunt dwelling in S. Dunstones Parish in Fletestreete of treason and a day being assigned them to fight in Smithfield the maister being wel beloued was so cherished by his friends and plied with wine that being therewith ouercome was also vnluckily slaine by his seruaunt An. reg 25. Baylifes Custos Robert Horne Godfrey Boleine the 28. of September Iohn Olney Mercer the 28. of October Pope Eugenius sent a golden Rose to the King of England expressing the propertie and aplicatioÌ„ of the same with the ceremonie that is yéerely vsed on Palme Sonday touching Record Ecclesi Canta the same Rose exhorting the Kyng agaynste the Turkes Which Rose Lodouicus Cordona Doctor of Diuinitie did present to the King in S. Stephens Chappell at Westminster vpon S. Andrewes day in presence of the Dukes of Yorke Excester Cardinall Kempe Archbishop of Yorke Iohn Stafford Archbishop of Caunterburie Chauncellor of England The x. of Februarie beganne a Parliament at Saint Edmondesburie Parliament at Burie in Suffolke at which time al the wayes about the same Towne were kept with armed men both daye and night so that many dyed with colde and waking Humfrey The Duke of Glocester arested sone after dyed Duke of Glocester being at the castell of the Vies in Wilshire came from thence to the Parliament and was lodged in the Hospitall where shortly after he was arrested by Iohn Lord Beaumount high Constable the Duke of Buckingham the Duke of Somerset and other who appointed certaine of the Kings housholde to waite vpon him but on the. xxiiij 1447 day he died for sorrow as some said that he might not come to his aunswere he was buryed at Saint Albons xxxij of his principall seruauntes were arrested and sent to diuers prisons and fiue of them were arraigned at London and condemned v. â—â—n hanged after pardoned whose names were sir Roger Chamberlain knight Middleton Herbert Arteyse Esquiers and Richard Nedam gentleman which were al fiue drawne from the Towre of London to Tiborne and there hanged letten downe quicke stript naked marked with a knife for to be quartered and then a charter shewed for their liues but the yoman of the crowne had their liuelode and the hangman had their clothes Henry Beauford Cardinal of Winchester deceased after him W. Wainflete Prouost of Eaton was made Bishop of Winchester The v. of August died Iohn HollaÌ„d duke of Excester An. reg 16. was buried at S. Catherins nygh the Towre of London William Abraham Thomas Scot the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Iohn Gidney Draper the 28. of October This yéere during y â— peace betwéene England Fraunce â— knight of the English part named sir Frances Aragonoyse toke a towne named Fogars vpoÌ„ the borders of NormaÌ„die belonging 1448 to y â— duke of Britaine For the which he complained him to y â— French king he at y e said dukes request sent vnto y â— king of England to aske restitutioÌ„ of the harme The which messengers were answered of y e kings CouÌ„sell that y â— déede was right displeasant vnto y e king that sir Francis Aragon had enterprised y â— feate of his owne presumption WhervpoÌ„ it folowed shortly after that y e French by like policie toke y â— towne castle of Pountallarche after that many other so y â— the taking of y â— foresaid towne of Fogiars by y e English men An. reg 27. was y â— occasion by y e which the French after gat al NormaÌ„dy William Catlow William Marow the 28. of September Sherifes Maior 1449 Roane yeelde â— to the French Steuen Browne Grocer the 28. of October This yéere the FrenchmeÌ„ got many townes in NormaÌ„dy out of the possession of y e EnglishmeÌ„ Also y â— citie of Roane was yéelded to the French with condition that the Captaines garrisons might depart with armour goods not long after was rendered with the like coÌ„ditioÌ„ as of Roane the towns of Harflewe Hounflewe A knight of France called sir Lewes de Breyll challenged an Esquier of England named Ralph Chalons of certaine feates of Warre the which to proue a day to them was giuen to méete at a towne in France named Maunce where y â— French king at that day was present But Chalons canne the French knight through the body with his An. reg 28. speare whereof the said Lewes dyed William Hulin Thomas Cannings the 28. of September Sherifes Maior B. of Chichester murdered Thomas Chalton Mercer the 28. of October The 9. of Januarie AdaÌ„ Molins Bishop of Chichester kéeper of the kings priuie seale through y â— procurement of Richard duke of Yorke was by shipmen slaine at Portesmouth The 9. of Februarie Thomas Thany otherwise Blewberd Blevvberd hanged 1450 a Fuller was taken beside Caunterburie for raising a rebellion who was hanged and quartered WilliaÌ„ Delapole duke of Suffolke was banished y e land for v. Duke of Suffolk murdered yéeres to appease y e rumor of y e coÌ„mons of England who taking ship at Ipswich the 3. of May sailed toward Fraunce but was mette on the sea by a ship of warre named Nicholas â—â— the Towre and beheaded and his corps was cast vp at Douer and buried in the Charter house at Hull This William de la pole Duke of Suffolke and Alice his wife daughter to Thomas Chawcer sonne to Geffrey Chawcer the famous Poet translated and increased the manner place of Eweline in Oxfordshire they builded a newe the parishe Churche of Gods house at nevv Evveline in Oxfordshire Eweline a comely péece of worke standing on a hyll and also hard adioyning to the West end of Eweline parishe Church they founded a pretie Hospitall or almes house for ij priests â—iber fundationis and xiij poore men to dwell and be sustained in for euer one of the priestes to be maister of the almes house the other priest a scholemaster fréely to teache the children of the tenaunts of the sayd Lordship of Eweline and other Lordships pertaining to the said almes house their GraÌ„mer eyther of those ij priests to haue x. pound the yeare One of
might in any wise grow vnto me hereafter And this I haue here promised and sworne procéedeth of myne owne desire and frée volunte and by no constraynyng or coaction In witnesse of all the which things aboue written I Richarde Duke of Yorke aboue writ subscribe with mine owne hand and seale This oth he also toke at Westminster and at Couentrey at sundry times Anno. reg 31 Sherifes Maior Richard Lee Richard Alley the 28. of September Godfrey Filding Mercer the 28. of October On the Twelfth day after Christmas the King holding a Robert Fabian 1453 solempne feaste at Westminster made his two bretherne on the mothers side Knightes he also made Edmunde the elder Earle of Richemonde and Iasper the yonger Earle of Penbrooke In the moneth of Marche as witnesseth Gagwine was the Towne of Harflewe wonne by the Frenchmen And soone after the Citie of Bayons was giuen vppe by appointment that the souldioures shoulde leaue theyr armoure behinde them The one and twentith of July Iohn Talbot Earle of Shrewsburie wyth his sonne Lorde Lisle and Syr Edwarde Hull Knight was slaine besides Burdeaux and the Lorde Molins was taken prisoner who was after deliuered for a greate raunsome On Bartholmewe daye at the Wrestling neare vnto Clearken well a Gentleman belonging to the Prior of Saint Iohns made a rumour or tumulte for the whiche by the commaundement of the Maior he was arrested by Richard Alley one of the Sherifes and deliuered to Paris a Sergeant but suche resistance was made by partes taking that the Sherife was faine to craue help of the Maior who with his brethren the Aldermen arose from the game strengthned the Sherifes and for the rescue of the said Gentleman one named Calleis came out of Saint Iohns with a greate strength of Archers to resiste the Maior in the which fray a Yeoman of Saint Iohns was â—laine and many other sore hurte the Maior himselfe escaped hardly for his Cap was smitten from his head with an arrowe but the Maior with his Citizens putte the other to flight sente the principall of them to Newgate and then toke his place again til y e games were ended by which time the Citizens had gathèred them selues in greate nuÌ„ber and fetched him home neuer Maior so strongly nor so honorably Anno reg 32 This yeare the King lay longsicke at Claringdon was in greate daunger to haue ended his life The thirtéenth daye of October the Quéene at Westminster was deliuered of hir firste sonne who was named Edwarde Iohn Waldren Thomas Cocke the 28. of September Sherifes Maior 1454 Iohn Norman Draper the 28. of October Before thys time the Maiors Aldermen and Commoners of the Cytie of London were wonte all to ride to Westminster when the Maior shoulde take hys charge but this Maior was rowed thyther by water for the whiche the watermen made of hym a song Rowe the boate Norman c. The ninth of Marche in the nighte was a greate fire nexte wythout Ludgate in a Cordwayners house whyche Cordwayner wyth hys wife thrée yong men and a mayde were all burnte the prisoners of Ludgate were remoued to Newgate bycause they were almoste smouldered An reg 35. Sherifes Maior Iohn Fielde William Tayler the 28. of September Stephen Foster Fishmonger the. 28. of October A greate Fray at London by the Sanctuarie men of Saint Martins le graunde who issued forth and hurte dyuerse Citizens but it was appeased by the Maior and hys brethren The one and twentith of May king HeÌ„ry taking his iorney 1455 from Westminster toward Saint Albons to mete with the Duke of Yorke the Earles of Warwicke and Salisburie lodged that nighte at Wateforde or Wadeforde on thys side Sainte Albons and on the morning earely he came to Saint Albons wyth hym assembled on hys partye the Dukes of Somerset and of Buckingham the. Earles of Penbroke Northumberlande Deuonshire Stafforde Dorset and Wiltshire the Lordes Clifforde Sudley Barons and Roos wyth diuerse Knights Esquiers Gentlemen and Yeomen to the nuÌ„ber of 2000. and more And at the same time were there assembled Richard Duke of Yorke Richarde Earle of Warwicke Richarde Earle of Salisburie with diuerse Knightes and Esquiers in the fielde called Keyfielde beside Saint Albons The King hearing of the dukes comming with the Lords aforesaid pight his banner in a place called Goselowe which place was sometimes called Sandforth in Saint Peters stréete commaunded in strong manner to kéepe the wardes and Barriers of the same Towne The Duke of Yorke knowing the strength made againste him abyding in the fielde afore sayde from seuen of the clocke in the morning vntill it was almost ten of the Clocke without any stroke smitten on eyther parte by the aduise of hys Counsell sente vnto the King vnder these wordes following Wordes in writing by the Duke of Yorke to the King PLease it vnto your excellente grace Richarde Duke of Yorke to take hym as your true liege manne and humble subiecte and to consider and tender at the reuerence of God and in the way of Charitie the true intent of my commyng and to be good and gratious Soueraigne vnto me and all other your true liege menne whych that with all their power and mighte will be readye to lyue and dye with you in your right and to do al things as shal like your Maiestie royal to commande vs if it be to the worship of the Crowne of England and the welfare of this your noble Realme Moreouer gratious Lorde please it vnto youre Maiestye Royall of youre greate goodnesse and rightewisenesse to encline youre will to heare and féele the rightwise parte of vs youre true Subiects and Liege men Fyrste praying and beséeching to oure Soueraigne Christe Jesus of hys hyghe aod mightye power to giue the vertue of Prudence and that throughe the prayer of the glorious Martyre Sainct Albon gyue you verye knowledge of oure trothes and to knowe the intent of our assembling at this time For God that is in Heauen knoweth oure intent is rightfull and true And therefore we praye vnto that mighty LORDE in these woordes Domine sis clypeus defensionis nostrae wherefore gracious Lorde please it your Maiestie royal to deliuer such as we will accuse and they to haue like as they haue deserued And this done you to be honorably worshipped as moste rightfull King and our true gouernour And if we shoulde nowe at this tyme be promised as afore thys time is not vnknown haue bin promises broken whiche haue bin full faithfully promised and therevpon greate othes sworne we will not nowe cease for no suche promises nor othe tyl we haue them which haue deserued death or else we to dye therefore The aunswere by the King to the Duke of Yorke I King Henrie charge and commaunde that no manner person of what degrée estate or condition soeuer he be abyde not but that they auoyde the field and not be so hardie to make resistaunce against me
credere quod dominus noster Iesus Christus post mortem descendit ad inferos Item quod non est de necessitate salutis credere in sanctorū communionem Item quod Ecclesia vniuersalis potest errare in hijs quae sunt fidei Item quod non est de necessitate salutis credere tenere illud quod consilium generale vniuersalis Ecclesia statuit approbat seu determinat in fauorem fidei ad salutē animarum est ab vniuersis Christi fidelibus approbandum tenendum Wherfore I miserable sinner which here before long time haue walked in darknesse now by the mercy and infinite goodnesse of God reduced into y ◠right way light of truth considering my selfe gréeuously haue sinned and wickedly haue enformed enfected the people of God returne come againe to the vnitie of our mother holy Church all heresies errors written conteined in my said bookes works writings here solemnly openly reuoke renounce which heresies errors all other spices of heresies I haue before this time before y e most Reuerēd father in God and my good Lord of Caunterbury in diuers and lawfull forme iudicially abiured submitting my selfe beyng then and also nowe at this time verye contrite and penitent sinner to the correction of the Churche and of my sayd Lorde of Caunterburie And ouer this exhorting and requiring in the name and vertue of almightie God in the saluation of your Soules and minde that no man hereafter giue fayth and credence to my sayd pernitious doctrines heresies and errors neyther my sayd Bookes kéepe holde or reade in any wise but that they all such Bookes workes and writings suspect of heresies delyuer in all goodly hast vnto my sayde Lorde of Caunterburie or to his Commissioners and Deputies in eschewing of many inconueniences great perils of soules the which else might be cause of the contrary And ouer this declaration of my conuersation and repentaunce I here openly assent that my sayde Bookes workes and writings for declaration and cause aboue rehearsed be deputed vnto the fire and openly brent in ensample and terrour of all other c. After this he was depriued of his Bishopricke hauing a certaine pencion assigned vnto him for to lyue on in an Abbey and soone after he dyed His Bookes were intituled 1. Of Christian Religion and a Booke perteyning therevnto 2. Of Matrimonie 3. Iust oppressing of holy Scripture deuided into three partes 4. The Donet of Christian Religion 5. The follower of the Donet 6. The Booke of Faith 7. The Booke filling the. 4. Tables 8. The Booke of Worshipping 9. The Prouoker of Christian men 10. The Booke of Councell In the moneth of Januarie dyed the Earle of Deuonshire in the Abbey of Abindon poysoned as men sayd being there at that tyme with Quéene Margaret to appease the malice betwéene the yong Lords whose fathers were slaine at Saint Albons and they that helde with the Duke of Yorke A méeting was appoynted by the King to be at London in obeying whose commaundement the Duke of Yorke came vnto London on the. xxvj day of Januarie and was lodged at Baynards Castle and afore him to wit the. xv of Januarie came the Earle of Salisburie and was lodged at his place called the Erber shortly after came the Dukes of Somerset Excester who were lodged without Temple Barre lykewise the Earle of Northumberland the Lord Egremond the yong Lord Clyfford were lodged in y e Suburbes And on the. xiiij day of Februarie came the Earle of Warwike from Calleis with a great band of men all arrayed in red Jaquets with white ragged staues vppon them who was lodged at the Grey Friers And the. xvij day of Marche the King Quéene with a great retinue came to London and were lodged in the Bishop of Londons Pallace And ye shall vnderstand that with these Lordes came great companies of men some had 600. some 500. and the least had 400. Wherefore the Maior had dayly in harnesse 5000. Citizens and rode dayly about the Citie and Suburbes of the same to sée the Kings peace were kept nightly 2000. men in harnesse to gyue attendance vpon iij. Aldermen which kept the night watch tyll vij of the clocke in the morning that the day watches were assembled by reason whereof good order and rule was kept and no man so hardie once to attempt the breaking of the Kings peace During this watch a great Coūsell was holden by the Lordes and a faygned agréement was made betwéen the King the Quéene and the Duke of Yorke with 1458 his retinue for ioy whereof the. xxv day of Marche a generall Procession was made in Saint Paules Church at London where the King in Royall habite with his Diademe on his head kept the state before whom went hand in hand y ◠duke of Somerset the Earle of Salisburie the Duke of Excester the Earle of Warwike and so one of the one faction an other of that other sort And behind the King the Duke of Yorke led the Quéene with great familiaritie to all mens sightes The. xiij of April there was a great fraye in Fletestreete The Queenes atturney slaine betwéene men of Courte and the inhabitantes of the same stréete in which fray the Quéenes Atturney was slaine For this facte the King committed the principall gouernours of Furniuals Clifforde and Barnardes Inne to prison in the Castle of Hertforde and William Taylour Alderman of that warde with many other were sent to Windsore Castle the vij of May. On Thursday in Whitson wéeke the Duke of Somerset Iusting in the Tovvre of London with Anthonie Riuers and other iiij kept Justes before the Quéene in the Towre of London agaynst thrée Esquiers of the Quéenes And in lyke manner at Greenewiche the Sonday following On the Trinitie Sonday or Munday following certaine The Earle of VVarvvike tooke Spanish Ships shippes appertayning to the Earle of Warwike met with a fléete of Spanyardes and after long and cruell fyght tooke vj. of their Shippes laden with Yron and other Marchandies drowned and chased to the number of xxvj not without shedding of bloud on both partes for of the Englishmen were slayne an hundred and many more wounded Anno reg 37 Sherifes Maior and sore hurt Ralph Ioseline Richard Medtham the 28. of September Thomas Scot Draper the 28. of October The King and Quéene beyng at Westminster the. ix day of Nouember fell a great debate betwéene Richard Earle of Warwike and them of the Kings house in so much that they woulde haue slayne the Earle and vnneth he escaped to his Barge and went after to Calleis for he was not long before made Captaine thereof by authoritie of the Parliament Soone after the young Duke of Somerset by stirring of them that hated the Earle of Warwike was made Captayne of Calleis and a Priuie Seale direct to the Earle for to discharge him of the
Captayneshyp but the Earle for as muche as he was made by Parliament he woulde not obey the Priuie Seale but continued forth in the sayd office The Noble Science of Printing was about this tyme 1459 Printing first inuented founde in Germanie at Magunce by one Iohn Cuthembergus a Knight One Conradus an Almaine brought it into Rome William Caxton of London Mercer brought it into England aboute the yeare a. 1471. And fyrst practised the same in the Abbay of Saint Peter at Westminster after which tyme it was likewyse practised in the Abbayes of Saint Augustine at Caunterburie Saint Albons and other Monasteries of England In a lyttle Towne in Bedfordshire there fell a bloudie It raigned bloud rayne whereof the red drops appeared in shéetes the which a woman had hanged out for to dry In this tyme the Realme of Englande was out of good order as it had bene of long tyme for the King béeyng symple and pitifull was ledde by couetous Counsell The King grewe in debte dayly but payment was not made All the possessions and Lordshippes that pertayned to the Crowne the King had giuen some to Lordes and some to others such as would begge them so that himselfe had almost nothing lefte to lyue on but such impositions as were put to the common people as Taxes Tallages Quinzimes all which was spent in vayne for he helde no houshold nor maintayned no warres for which misgouernaunce the heartes of the people were turned from them that had the Land in gouernaunce The Quéene with such as were of hir affinitie ruled the Realme as hir lyked gathering riches innumerable The Officers of the Realme especially the Earle of Wilshire Treasurer of England for to enriche himselfe pilled the poore people disherited rightfull heyres and did many wrongs The Quéene was defamed and sclaundered that the young Prince was not hir sonne but a Bastard gotten in adulterie wherefore she dreading that he shoulde not succéede his father in the Crowne of Englande allyed vnto hir all the Knightes and Esquiers of Chestershire for to haue theyr fauour she helde open housholde among them and made hir sonne the Prince to giue a liuerie of Swannes to all the Gentilmen of the Countrey and to many other through the land trusting through their strength to make hir sonne King making priuie meanes to some of the Lordes of England for to stirre the King that he should resigne the Crowne to her sonne but she could not bring their purpose about The. xxj day of September Richard Earle of Salisburie hauing An. reg 38. gathered a well appoynted armie for dread of his enemies especially of the Quéene tooke his way towarde Ludlowe where at that time the Duke of Yorke lay to the intent that they both together would haue rydden to the King to Colshull in Staffordshire to haue excused them of certaine articles layd against them by malice of their enemies as they sayd Wherevpon those that were about the King and also the Quéene who laye at Eglishall moued him to assemble a great powre whereof Iames Twichet Lorde Awdley was made chiefe and had the leading of them into the fielde called Bloreheath néere vnto Mucklestone by the which the sayde Bloreheath fielde Duke and the Earle must néedes passe there both hostes mette and fought a mortall battaile wherin the Lord Audley was slaine with Hugh Venables of Kinderton Thomas Dutton of Dutton Richard Mollynes William Trowtbek Iohn Legh del Bothes Iohn Donne of Vtkinton and Iohn Edgerton of Edgerton Knightes Richard Donne of Croton Iohn Duttes Esquiers and many other of Chestershire that had receyued the Princes liuerie of Swannes and there were takeÌ„ prisoners the Earle of Salisburies ij sonnes Thomas and Iohn and sir Thomas Harington which were sent to Chester but soone after deliuered After this discomfiture the Earle of Salisburie passed forth to Duke Richard to Ludlowe and thether came to them for Calleis the Earle of Warwike which all thrée writ a letter vnto King Henry whereof the tenure is this MOst Christian King right high and mighty Prince our most dread Soueraigne Lord after as humble recommeÌ„dations to your high excellencie as will suffice Our true intent to the prosperitie augmentation of your high estate and to the commoÌ„ Weale of this Realme hath beâ—â—â— shewed vnto your highnesse in such writing as wée make thereof And ouer that an Indenture signed by our hands in the Churche Cathedrall of Worcester comprehending y â— proofe of the truth duetie that God knoweth we beare to your saide estate and to the preheminence and prerogatiue thereof we sent vnto your good Grace by the Prior of the sayde Churche and diuers other Doctors and among other by M. William Lynwood Doctor of Diuinitie which ministred vnto vs seuerally the blessed Sacrament of the body of Jesus wherevppon we and euery of vs deposed for our sayde trueth and duetie accordyng to the tenor of the sayde Indenture And sith that time we haue certified at large in writing and by mouth by Garter King of Armes not onely to your said highnesse but also to the good worthie Lordes beyng about your most Noble presence the largenesse of our sayde trueth and duetie and our intent and disposition to serche all the motions that might serue conueniently to the affirmation thereof and to our perfect suerties from suche inconuenient and vnreuerent ieopardies as wée haue béene put in diuers tymes here before Whereof we haue cause to make and ought to make suche exclamation and complaint not without reason as is not vnknowen to all the sayde worthie Lordes and to all his land and wil offer vs to your high presence to the same intent if we myght so doe without sayd suertie which onely causeth vs to kéepe suche fellowshippe as we doe in our léefull manner And hereto we haue forborne and auoyded all thinges that might serue to the effusion of Christian bloud of the dreade that we haue of God and of your Royall Maiestie and haue also eschued to approche your sayde most Noble presence for the humble obeysaunce and reuerence wherein we haue and during our lyfe will haue the same And yet neuerthelesse we heare that we be proclaimed and defamed in our name vnrightfully vnlawfully and sauing your high reuerence vntruely and otherwise as God knoweth than we haue giuen cause knowing certainely that the blessed and noble intent of your said good grace and the righteousnesse thereof is to take repute and accept your true and lawfull subiectes and that it accordeth neyther with your sayd intent nor with your wyll or pleasure that we shoulde be otherwise taken or reputed And ouer that our Lordshippes and tenantes bene of high violence robbed and spoyled agaynst your peace and lawes and all ryghteousnesse Wée therefore as we suffice beséeche your sayde good Grace to take repute and receyne therevnto our sayde trueth and intent which to God is knowne as wée shewe it by the sayde tenor
of the same Indenture And not apply your sayde blessednesse ne the great righteousnesse and equitie wherewith God hath euer endued your high nobilitie to y e importune impacience and violence of such persons as intende of extreme malice to procéede vnder the shadowe of your high might and presence to our destructioÌ„ for suche inordinate couetise wherof God is not pleased as they haue to our Landes Offices and goods not letting or sparing therefore to put suche things in all lamentable and too sorrowfull ieoperdie as might in all wyse take effecte by the mysterie of Gods will and power nor not hauing regarde to the effusion of Christian bloud ne any tendernesse to the noble bloud of this Land such as serue to the tuition and defence thereof ne not waying the losse of your true liege men of your saydo Realme that God defend which knoweth our intent and that wée haue auoyded there from as farre as we may with our suerties not of any dreade that wée haue of the sayde persons but onely of the dreade of God of your said highnesse and will not vse our sayde defence vntil the time that wée be prouoked of necessitie whereof wée call heauen and earth vnto witnesse and recorde and therein beséeche God to be our Judge and to delyuer vs according to our sayde intent and our sayde trueth and duetie to your said highnesse and to the sayde Common Weale Most Christian King right high and mightie Prince and most dread Soueraigne Lorde wée beséeche our blessed Lorde to preserue your honour and estate in ioye and felicitie Written at Ludlowe the. x. day of October R. Yorke R. Warwike R. Salisburie After their excusation contayned in this letter sent to the King they withdrewe them and went into diuers partes beyond the Seas for the more suertie of their persons The Duke of Yorke went into Ireland where he was honorably receyued the Earle of Marche Salisburie and Warwike not without great ieoperdie and perill as well on the lande as on the sea went to Calleis and abode there Then was a Parliament holden at Couentrie wherein Parliament at Couentrie were attaint of treason Richard duke of Yorke Edward Erle of Marche his sonne and heire Richard Earle of Warwike Edmond Earle of Rutlande Richard Earle of Salisburie Iohn Duke of Yorke other attaint Lorde Clifford Lorde Clinton sir Thomas Harington sir Iohn Wenlocke Thomas Neuill Iohn Neuill sonnes of the Earle of Salisburie Iames Pickering Iohn Conyers Thomas Par William Oldhall and Henrie Ratforde Knightes Iohn Bowser Thomas Cooke Iohn Clay Richard Gyton Robert Browne Edward Bowser Thomas Vaughan Iohn Roger Richard Grey Walter Deuorux Walter Hopton Roger Kynderton William Bowes Foulke Stafforde the Lorde Powys and Alice Countesse of Salisburie their goods and possessions escheted and their heires disherited vnto the 9. degrée their tenauntes spoyled of their goods bemaymed Ludlovv spoyled and slayne the towne of Ludlowe longing to the Duke of Yorke was robbed to the bare walles and the Dutches of Yorke spoyled of hir goods The Earle of Warwike hauing a great Nauie kepte the Earle of VVarvvike fought vvith the Spaâ—â—â— ardes narrow seas and sought with the Spanyards kylled many of them tooke their great vessels with one Carrake of Iene and got in them great riches Iohn Plummer Iohn Stocker the 28. of September Sherifes Maior William Hulin Fishmonger the 28. of October In this moneth of October Henrie the yong duke of Somerset Henry Lorde Roos and Lorde Audley with men of Armes sailed toward Calleis to the intent the Duke shoulde haue bene Captaine there but when he came to lande they Duke of Somerset fled to Gvvynes The Lord Audley taken into Calleis The lord Roos fled into Flaunders of Calleis would haue taken him so that he hardly escaped to the Castle of Gwines his souldiors were stripped out of their harnesse and let go The Lord Audley was taken into Calleis and the Lord Roos fled into Flaunders and after returned into England Not long after Richard Lord Riuers was sent to SaÌ„dwich to kéepe the towne and certaine great ships which lay there at Anker but when the Earle of Warwike sawe time conuenient The Lord Riuers and the Lord VVoodvile by force caried from Sandvvicke he sent some of his men to Sandwich by night y e which tooke the Lorde Riuers and Antonie Wooduile his sonne in their beds led them ouer to Calleis with al the great ships saue one called Grace de Dieu the which might not be had away bicause she was broke in the bottome Sir Baudwyne Fulford vndertooke on paine of loosing his head y t he woulde 1460 Sir Baudvvin Fulford his enterprise destroy y t Earle of Warwike but when he had spent y e King a thousand markes in money he returned againe Then was the Duke of Excester Admirall sent to the sea with a great The Duke of Excester sent to the Seas Nauie for to distresse the Earle of Warwike and his Nauie he sailing from Sandwiche to Dertmouth for lacke of victuals and money his Souldiours forsoke him there And betwéene Sandwiche and Dertmouth he met the Earle of Warwike comming out of Ireland that had bin there for to speake with the Duke of Yorke and brought with him his mother that was sled thither for dread and led hir to Calleis but the Duke of Excester durst not set vppon the Earle of Warwike nor the Earle woulde not distresse him because he was Admirall and of the Kings bloud but let him passe by In y e moneth of June 500. men were sent to conduct the duke of Somerset froÌ„ Gwynes into England but abiding y e wind in y e port of Sandwich y e Earle of Warwikes men spoyled them of their harnes killed their captain MouÌ„ford many other The Earles at Calleis sent to the Archbishop of Caunterburie Captaine MouÌ„t sort slaine and at large to the commons of England certaine Articles in writing beginning thus Worshipful sirs we the Duke of Articles sent froÌ„ the Duke of Yorke and the Barles to the Archbishop of Caunterburie and to the commons Yorke the Earles of March Warwike and Salisburie sewed offered to haue come vnto the King our Soueraigne Lords most noble presence to haue declared there asore him for our dutie to God to his highnesse to the prosperitie and welfare of his noble estate and to the Common Weale of all his Lande as true liege men the matters following that is to say In primis the great oppression extortion robberie murther and other violences done to Gods Church and to his ministers thereof against Gods and mans law 2 Item the pouertie miserie that to our great heauinesse our Soueraigne Lord staÌ„deth in not hauing any liuelode of the Crowne of England whereof he may kéepe his honorable housholde which causeth the spoyling of his sayde liege men by the takers of his sayde housholde which lyuelode is
in their hands that haue bene destroyers of his sayd estate and of the sayde common Weale 3 Item how his Lawes be partially and vnrightfully guided and that by them that should most loue and tender his said Lawes the said oppression and extortion is most fauored and supported and generally that al righteousnesse and Justice is exiled out of the sayde land and that no man dreadeth to offend against the said Lawes 4 Item that it will please his saide good Grace to liue vpon his owne liuelode wherevpon his noble Progenitors haue in dayes heretofore lyued as honorably and as worthily as any Christian Princes and not to suffer the destroyers of the sayde land and of his true subiectes to lyue thervpon and therfore to lacke the sustenances that should be belonging to his sayd estate and finde his sayd houshold vpon his poore commons without payment which neyther accordeth with Gods nor mans lawe 5 Item how oft the said commons haue bene greatly maruellously charged with taxes tallages to their great empouerishing whereof little good hath eyther growne to the king or to the said land and of the most substance thereof the King hath left to his part not half so much and other Lordes and persons enimies to the sayd common Weale haue to their owne vse suffering all the old possessions that the King had in Fraunce Normandy Aniow Maine Gascoyn Gwiene won gotten by his father of most noble memory other his noble progenitors to be shamefully lost or sold 6 Item how they can not cease therwith but now begin a new charge of imposition and tallages vpon the said people which neuer afore was séen that is to say euery towne ship to finde men for y e Kings Gard taking ensample therof of our enimies aduersaries of Fraunce which imposition and tallage if it be continued to heire heires and successors will be the heauiest charge and worst ensample that euer grewe in Englande and the foresayde subiectes and the sayde heires successors in such bondage as their auncetors were neuer charged with 7. Item where the King hath now no more liuelode out of his Realme of Englande but onely the Lande of Ireland and the towne of Calleis and that no King Christened hath such a Lande and a Towne without his Realme diuers Lordes haue caused his highnesse to write letters vnder his Priuie Seale vnto his Irishe enemies which neuer King of Englande did here to fore whereby they may haue comfort to enter into the conquest of the sayde Lande which letters the same Irishe enemies sent vnto me the sayde Duke of Yorke and maruelled greatly that any such letters shoulde be to them sent speaking therein great shame and villanie of the sayd Realme 8 Item in like wise the King by excitation and labour of the same Lordes wrote other letters to his enemies and aduersaries in other lands that in no wise they should shew any fauour or good will to the towne of Calleis whereby they had comforte ynough to procéede to the wynning thereof Considered also that it is ordayned by the labour of the sayd Lords that no where victuall nor other thing of refreshing or defence should come out of Englande to the succour or reliefe of the sayde towne to the intent that they woulde haue it lost as it may openly appeare 9 Item it is déemed ought greatly to be déemed that after that the same Lordes would put the same rule of England if they might haue their purpose and intent into the handes and gouernaunce of the sayd enemies 10 Item howe continually sithe the piteous shamefull and sorrowfull murther to all Englande of that Noble worthie and Christian Prince Humfrey Duke of Glocester the Kings true vncle at Burie it hath bene laboured studyed and conspired to haue destroyed and murthered the sayde Duke of Yorke and the yssue that it pleased God to sende me of the Royall bloud and also of vs the saide Earles of Warwike Salisburie for none other cause but for the true hart that God knoweth we euer haue born and beare to the profite of the Kings estate to the Common Weale of the same Realme and defence thereof 11. Item howe the Earles of Shrewsburie and Wilshire and the Lord Beaumount our mortall and extréeme enemyes nowe and of long tyme past hauing the guiding aboute the most Noble person of our sayde Soueraigne Lorde whose highnesse they haue restrayned and kepte from the libertie and fréedome that belongeth to his sayde estate and the supporters and fauourers of all the premysses woulde not suffer the Kings sayde good grace to receyue and accepte vs as he would haue done if he might haue had his owne will into his sayde presence dreading the charge that woulde haue bene layde vppon them of the miserie destruction and wretchednesse of the sayde Realme whereof they becauses and not the King which is himselfe as noble as vertuous as rightuous and blessed of disposition as any Prince earthly 12. Item the Earles of Wilshire and Shrewsburie and the Lorde Beaumount not satysfyed nor content with the Kings possessions and his goods stirred and excited his sayd highnesse to holde his Parliament at Couentrie where an Acte is made by their prouocation and labour agaynst vs the sayde Duke of Yorke my sonnes Marche and Rutlande and the Earles of Warwike and Salisburie and the Sonnes of the sayde Earle of Salisburie and many other Knightes and Esquiers of diuers matters falsely and vntruely imagined as they will answere afore almighty God in the day of Dome the which the sayde Earles of Salisburie and Wilshire and the Lorde Beaumount prouoked to be made to the intent of our destruction and of our yssue and that they myght haue our lyuelode and goods as they haue openly robbed and dispoyled all our places and our tenementes and manye other true men and nowe procéede to hangyng and drawing of men by tyrannie and will therein shewe the largenesse of their violence and malice as vengeably as they can if no remedie be prouided at the Kings highnesse whose blessednesse is neither assenting nor knowing thereof We therefore séeyng all the sayde mischiefes hearing also that the Frenche King maketh in his lande great assembly of his people which is greatly to bée dreade for many causes purpose yet agayne with Gods grace to offer vs to come agayne to the sayde presence of our sayde Soueraygne Lorde to open and declare there vnto hym the mischiefes aboue declared and in the name of the land to sue in as reuerent and lowely wise as wée can to his sayde good Grace to haue pittie and compassion vppon his sayde true subiectes and not to suffer the same mischiefes to raygne vppon them Requiring you in Gods behalfe and praying you in our owne therein to assist vs doyng alway the duetie of liege men in our persons to our sayd Soueraigne Lord to his estate prerogatiue and preheminence and to the suertie of his most Noble person
wherevnto we haue euer bene and will be as true as any of his subiectes aliue wherof we call God our Lady S. Marie and all the Saintes in heauen vnto witnesse and record In the meane time the Earle of Wilshire treasurer of England The Earle of VVilshire and other spoyled Nevvbery the Lorde Scales and the Lorde Hungerforde went to Newberie whiche longed to the Duke of Yorke and there made inquisition of all them that in any wise had fauoured the sayde Duke whereof some were founde guiltie and were drawen hanged and quartered and all the inhabitauntes of the Towne were spoyled of their goods From thence the Earle of Wilshire went to Southampton where vnder The Earle of VVilshire stale ouer the Seas colour to take the Earle of Warwicke he armed fiue gret Caraks of Iene with souldioures taking victuals of the Kings price without payment and put a great part of hys treasure into the sayde Caraks and after sayled about in the sea and at laste stale into Dutchlande sending backe againe hys souldiours into Englande Then were the Kings Priuie seales for money priuie seales directed to all Bishops Abbots Priours and other states to lende the Kyng money therewith to wage souldiours to kéepe the Sea coasts but the commons of KeÌ„t dreading the like vengeance to be taken vpon them as was done vpon them of Newberie sent priuily messangers to Caleis The men of Kent sent to Galeis for the Earles to the foresayde Earles beséeching them in all haste possible to come to theyr succour whervpon the said Erles sent ouer into Kent the lord Fawconbridge to know if their déedes woulde accorde with theyr wordes and anone the people of Kent and other shires adioyning resorted to the sayde Lorde Fawconbridge in greate number When the Earles knewe the wylling heartes of those people they prepared to come into thys lande againste whose comming a long Ballet was fixed vpoÌ„ the gates of Canterburie made in fauour of the Duke of Yorke and the sayde Earles beginning thus In the daye of fast and spirituall affliction The celestiall influence of bodies transitorie c The Erles of March Warwick and Salisburie arriued at Sandwich where met wyth them Thomas Bourcher Archebyshop of Canterburie The Earle entred into London who with hys crosse borne before him and a greate number of other people accompanyed them to London into the whiche Citie they entred on the seconde of Julye wyth them came the Popes legate to treate of peace if néed wer Thâ—n was a conuocation of the Clergie holden in S. Paules Church where the sayde Earles being present the Earle of Warwicke recited the cause of their comming into the lande with the misgouernements thereof and then made open othe vpon the crosse of Canterburie that they had euer borne true faith and alegiaunce to King Henry Then the Earles of March and Warwicke with the Lords Fauconbridge Clinton Borser Priour of Saint Iohns Audley Burgavennie Say and Scrope the Archbyshop the Popes legate the Bishops of Excester Ely Salisburie and Rochester addressed theÌ„ forth to the King at Northampton leauing the Earle of Salisbury to be gouernour of the Citie in their absence The Lorde Scales and Hungerforde that before the comming of the Earles were in the Citie of London and would haue had the gouernance thereof went to the Towre of London and with them the Lordes Vessy Louel Delaware Kendale a Gascoigne Knightes sir Edmond Hampden Thomas Brune Sherife of Kent Iohn Bruyn of Kent Geruayes Clyfton treasurer of the King house Thomas Tyrel the Dutchesse of Excestex many other Then was the Tower of London besieged both by water and lande that no victualles might come to them And they that were within the Towre cast wilde fire into the Citie and shotte manye small Gunnes whereby they brent and slew meÌ„ women and children in the stréets also they of the Citie layde greate Gunnes on the furtherside of the Thamis against the Tower and brake the Wals in diuerse places The King lying in the Friers at NorthaÌ„pton ordayned a strong and myghtie fielde in the Meddowes beside the Nunrie hauing the riuer at his backe The Earles with their power comming to Northampton sent certaine Byshops to the King beséeching him to admit y â— Erle of Warwicke to come to his presence to declare their innocencie which request being denyed by the Duke of Buckingham the Earles sent an Heralde of Armes desiring to haue hostages for his safe comming and going but he might not be heard The thirde time the Erle of Warwicke sent worde to the King that at two houres after noone he would speake with him or dye in y â— field The Bishop of Hereford a white Frier the kings Confessour incouraged the kings parte to fight wherfore after the battayle he was committed to the Castelf of Warwicke where he was long prisoner The teÌ„th of July at two of y â— clocke after nooâ—re y â— Earles of March Warwicke let cry through the field y â— no man should lay hand vpon the King â—e on y â— coÌ„mon people but on the Lordes Knights Espuiers then both hosts incountred foughte halfe an houre the Lord Grey that was the Kings vaward breake the fielde and came to the Earles partie and was a great helpe to them in obtayning the victorie many on the kings side were flayn many y â— fled were drowned in y e riuer y â— Duke of Buckingham the Erle of Shrowesburie y e Lorde Beaumont the Lord Egremont were slain by y â— Kings â—eÌ„t w t many Knights Esquires y e kings ordinaunce of Guns might not be shot there was so gret rayne that day When the field was done the Earles had the victorie they came to the King he being in his tent said in this wise Most noble prince displease you not though it haue pleased God of his grace to grant vs the victorie of our mortal enemies y â— which by their venemous malice haue vntxuely stirred moued your highnesse to exile vs out of your land woulde haue vs put to finall shame and confusion we come not to y â— intent for to vnquiet ne grieue your sayde highnesse but for to please your noble person desiring tenderly the high welfare prosperitie therof of al your realme and to be your true liegemen while our liues shall endure The King of these words was greatlye recomforted anone was led to Northampton with procession where he rested thrée dayes came to London the sixtéenth of July and was lodged in the Byshops Pallaice The nintéenth of Julye they that were in the Tower of London for lacke of victualles yéelded and came forth of the which afterward some were drawn and headed The Lorde Scales late in an euening entred a Wherry with thrée persons and rowing towarde Westminster there to haue taken Sanctuarie was descried by a woman and anone the Wherry men fel on him killed him
othe Item it is accorded appointed and agréed that the said Richard Duke of Yorke shal be called reputed from hence forth very and rightfull heire to the crownes royall estate dignitie and Lordshippe aboue saide and after the decease of the saide King Henry or when he will lay from him the saide crownes estate dignitie and Lordshippe the sayde Duke and his heyres shal immediately succéed to the saide crownes royal estate dignitie and Lordship Item the saide Richard Duke of Yorke shall haue by authoritie of this present Parliament castels manors lands and tenementes wyth the wardes marriages reliefs seruices fines amercementes offices anowsions fées and other appurtenaunces to them belonging what soeuer they be to the yearely valewe of tenne thousande markes ouer al charges and reprises where of fiue thousand markes shall be to his owne state thrée thousande fiue hundred markes to Edward his first begotten sonne Earle of March for his estate and one thousande pounde to Edmond Earle of Rutland his seconde sonne for his yearely sustentation in suche considerations and suche intent as shall be declared by the Lords of the Kings Counsell Item if any person or persons imagine or compasse the death of the sayde Duke and thereof probably be attaynte of open déede done by folkes of other condition that it be déemed and adiudged high treason Item for the more establishing of the sayde accorde it is appointed and consented that the Lordes spirituall and Temporall being in thys present Parliament shal make othes to accepte take worship and repute the said Richard Duke of Yorke and hys heires as aboue is rehearsed and kéepe and obserue and strength in as muche as apperteyneth vnto them all the things abouesayd and resist to their power all them that woulde presume the contrarie according to their estates and degrées Item the sayde Richard Duke of Yorke Erles of March and Rutland shall permitte and make other to helpe ayde and defende the sayde Lords and euery of them against althose that wyll quarrell or any thing attempt against the sayde Lordes or anye of them by occasion of agréemente or consenting to the sayde accorde or assistaunce giuing to the Duke and Earles or any of them Item it is agréed and appointed that this accorde and euery Article thereof be opened and notifyed by the kings letters patents or otherwise at such times and places and in maner as it shall be thought expedient to the sayde Rycharde Duke of Yorke with the aduise of the Lordes of the Kings Counsel The King vnderstandeth certainely the sayde title of the sayde Richarde Duke of Yorke iust lawfull and sufficient by the aduise and assent of the Lordes spirituall and Temporall and the Commons in this Parliament assembled by aucthoritie of y ◠same Parliament declareth approueth ratifyeth confirmeth and accepteth the sayde title iust good lawfull and true and therevnto giueth his assent and agréemente of his frée will and libertie And ouer that by the sayd aduice and aucthoritie declareth entitleth calleth stablisheth affirmeth and reputeth the sayde Richarde Duke of Yorke very true and rightfull heire to the Corones Royal estate and dignitie of y ◠realms of England and of Fraunce and of the Lordship of Irelande aforesaid and that according to y ◠worship and reuerence that therto belongeth he be taken accepted and reputed in worship and reuerence by all the states of the sayde Realme of Englande and of all hys subiectes thereof fauyng and ordayning by the same aucthoritie the King to haue y ◠saide Corones Realme royal estate dignity and preheminence of the same and the sayde Lordshippe of Ireland during his life naturall And furthermore by the same aduice and authoritie will consenteth and agréeth that after his decease or when it shall please his highnesse to laye from hym the sayde Corones estate dignitie and Lordshippe the sayde Richarde Duke of Yorke and hys heyres shal immediatelye succéede him in the sayde Corones Royall estate dignitye and worshippe and them then haue and inioye any acte of Parliament statute or ordinance or other thing to the contrarie made or interruption or discontinuaunce of possession notwithstanding And moreouer by the saide aduise and aucthoritie stablisheth graunteth confirmeth approueth ratifieth and accepteth the said accorde and al things therein contayned and therevnto fréely and absolutely assenteth agréeth and by the same aduice and authoritie ordayneth and establisheth that if anye person or persons ymagine or compasse the deathe of the sayde Duke and probably be attaynt of open déede done by folkes of that conditions that it be déemed and adiudged highe Treason And furthermore ordayneth and establisheth by the sayde aduice and aucthoritie that all statutes ordinaunces and actes of Parliament made in the time of the said King Hērie the fourth by the whiche he and the heyres of his bodye comming of Henrie late King of England the fifth the sonne and heyre of the sayd King Henrie the fourth and the heires of King Henrie the fifth were or be inheritable to the saide Crownes and Realmes or to the heritage of the same bée adnulled repelled dampned cancelled voyde and of none effect And ouer this the King by the saide aduice assent authoritie ordayneth and establisheth that all other actes and statutes made afore thys time by acte of Parliamente not repelled or adnulled by like authoritie or otherwise voyde be in such force effecte and vertue as they were afore the making of these ordinaunces and that no letters pattents royalx of record nor actes Judicial made or done afore this tyme not repelled reuersed ne otherwise voyde by lawe be preiudiced or hurte by this present acte Also it was ordayned by the same Parliamente that the sayde Richarde Duke of Yorke shoulde be called Prince of Wales Duke of Cornewall and Earle of Chester and protectour of Englande In the moneth of December the Duke of Somerset and the Earle of Deuonshire wente into the Northe Countrey with eighte hundered men and anone after the saide Duke of Yorke the Earle of Rutlande his sonne and the Earles of Salisburie a little before Christmasse with a fewe persons wente into the Northe also for to represse the malice of the Northerne men the whiche loued not the Duke of Yorke ne the Earle of Salisburie and were lodged at the Castell of Sandale and at Wakefielde Then the Lorde Neuill brother to the Earle of Westmerlande vnder a colour of Friendshippe came to the Duke of Yorke requyring of hym a commission for hym to rayse the people for to chastice the Rebelles as he sayde but when he hadde raysed to the number of eighte thousande menne hée broughte them to the Lordes of that Countrey that is to saye the Earle of Northumberlande Lorde Clifforde and the Duke of Somerset that were aduersaries to the Duke of Yorke and on the laste of December they fell on the sayde Duke Richarde killed hym and his Sonne the Earle of Rutland and many other knights and Esquiers to witte the Lorde Harington
Thomas Harington Knighte Sir Thomas Neuil sonne to the Earle of Salisburie and Syr Henrie Ratforde Knight and other to the number of 2200. The Earle of Salisburie was taken aliue and ledde by the Duke of Somerset to the Castell of Pomfraite and had graunte of hys life for a greate summe of money but the common people of the Countrey whyche loued hym not toke hym out of the Castel by violence and smote off hys heade When the death of these Lordes was knowen â—â— the King he commaunded writs and commissions to be sent into the shires to the people and to goe againste the Rebelles into the Northe to suppresse them but they of the Northe came sodainelye downe to the Town of Dunstaple robbing all the Countrey and people as they came spoyling Abbayes Priories and Parish Churches bearing awaye Chalisses bookes ornamentes and other whatsoeuer was worth the carriage as thoughe they had bin Sarisens and no Christians againste whom the twelfth of Februarie the Duke of Norffolke and Suffolke the Erles of Warwicke and Arundale the Lord Bonuile and other with the King wente out of London towarde Saint Albons and when they heard that they of the Northe were so nyghe they tooke a fielde beside a little Towne called Sandriage not farre from Sainte Albons on Barnarde Heathe in a place called No mans Lande where the Kyng stoode and sawe hys menne slayne on bothe sydes tyll at the laste throughe the wythdrawyng manye of the Kentishmen with their Captaine Louelace that was the vaward King Henries parte lost the fielde the Lords fled and the King wente to Quéene Margaret that was come w t the Northerne men and hyr sonne Edwarde The Earle of Warwicke wente towarde the Earle of Marche that was comming towarde London out of Wales The Lord Bonuile woulde haue withdrawen him but the King assured hym to haue no bodylye harme neuerthelesse at the instance of the Quéene the Duke of Excester and the Earle of Deuonshire he was beheaded at Saint Albons and wyth hym Syr Thomas Kyriell of Kente This battayle was fought on Shroue Twesday the seauentéenth of February Exlibre Norwicensis in the whiche was slain 1916 persons The same day Thomas Thorpe Baron of the Exchequer was beheaded at High Gate by the commons of Kent Then the Citizens of London dreading the malice of the Quéene and the Duke of Somerset sente vnto them the Dutchesse of Buckingham with other to treate for to be beneuolent to the Citie for the which a summe of money was promised and that they shoulde come to the Citie wyth a certayne number of persons where vpon certayne speares and men of armes were sente to haue entred the Citie before the Dukes commyng whereof some were slayne some sore hurte and the remnaunte putte to flighte by the Commons who tooke the Keyes of the gates and manfully defended the Citie vntill the comming of Edwarde Earle of Marche where-throughe King Henrie wyth Quéene Margaret and the Northerne men were forced to return again Northwarde The thirde of Februarie Edwarde Earle of Marche foughte wyth the Welchmen beside Wigmore in Wales neare vnto Mortimers Crosse whose Captaynes were the Earle of Penbroke and the Earle of Wilshire where he put them to flight and slewe of the Welchemen aboute foure thousande Owen Tewther whome Iohn Leylande sayeth shoulde be called Meâ—â—dicke Father to the sayde Earle Penbroke whiche Owen hadde married Katherin mother to King Henrie the sixth was there taken and beheaded and afterward buried in the a Chapel of the Gray Friers Church in Hereforde the day before this battayle about tenne of the clocke before noone were séene thrée Suns in the firmameÌ„t shyning a like cleare which after closed togither all in one The eight and twentith of Februarie Edward Earle of March accompanied with the Erle of Warwicke a mightie power of Marchmen came vp to London where he was ioyfully receyued and on the seconde day of March being Sonday all hys hoste was mustered in Saint Iohns fielde where was redde among the people certaine Articles and pointes that King Henrie had offended in and then it was demanded of them whether the said Henrie were worthy to raigne still and the people cryed nay naye Then was it asked if they would haue the Erle of March to be theyr King and they sayde yea yea then certaine Captaynes were sente to Erle of March elected King the Earle of March at Baynardes Castel and tolde the Erle that the people had chosen him King whereof he thanked God and them and by the aduise of the Archbyshoppe of Canterburie the Byshoppe of Excester and the Earle of Warwicke wyth other hée tooke it vpon hym The Dutches of Yorke mother to Edwarde Earle of Marche fearing the fortune of the worlde sente hyr two yonger sonnes George and Richarde ouer the seas to the Citie of Vtricke in Almaine where they remayned tyll their elder brother had got the Crown Also Phillip Malpas Alderman of London Thomas Citizens of LoÌ„don fled Vaghan Esquire Maister William Atclife with many other fearing the Quéenes comming to London shypped them in a shippe of Antwerpe purposing to haue sayled thyther but by the way they were taken by a French shippe named the Colmapne and at length delyuered for greate raunsome Edwarde Earle of March being elected as is abouesaid Edvvard Erle of March toke on him the kingdome on the next morrowe went in procession at Paules and offered there and after Te Deum beyng sung he was with gret royaltie conueyed to Westminster and there in the Hall sette in the kings seate with Saint Edwards Scepter in his hand and then asked of the people if they would haue him King and they cryed yea yea Then after certaine homages by hym receyued he was with Procession conuayed into the Abbay there and sette in the Quire as King whyle Te Deum was singing that done he offered at Saint Edwardes Shryne and then returned by water vnto Saint Paules and was there lodged wythin the Bishops Pallaice Thus tooke he possession of the Realme vpon a Tuisday being the fourth of Marche and was proclaymed King of England by the name of Edward the fourthe when King Henrie hadde raigned thirtie yeares eight monthes and odde dayes ⸪ ¶ Edward Earle of March EDvvarde Earle of Marche borne at Roane sonne and heyre to Anno. reg 1 10. Rouse Richarde Duke of Yorke about the age of eightéene yeares began his raigne the fourth day of March by the name of Edward the fourth in the yeare 1460. he was a man of noble courage and greate wit but in his time was muche trouble vnquietnesse in the realme The twelfth of Marche Walter Walker a Grocer that VValter VValker beheaded dwelt in Cheape for words spoken touching King Edwarde was beheaded in Smithfield This Grocer is he whom Maister Hal mistaketh to be Burdet of whom ye shal finde in the xvij yeare of this King The same xij day of Marche in the afternoone
King Edward with great triumph rode through the Citie of London 1461 to Bishops Gate and so toke his iourney towarde the Northe where betwéene Shirburne in Elmet and Todcaster all the Northe partye mette hym and on Palme Sondaye the. xxix of Marche fought a greate battaile betwéene Towton and Saxton in which were slaine Henrie Percy Erle of Northumberlande Iohn Lorde Clifforde Iohn Lord Neuil Leo Lorde Welles Ranulph Lorde Dacre and many other on both parties to the number of fiue and thirtie thousand seauen hundred and eleauen persons but King Edwarde gatte the fielde Many of the Bones of these men were buried Iohn Leyland in the Churchyard of Saxton they were firste buryed in fiue pittes halfe a mile off by North in Saxton fielde yet appearing Towton village is a mile from Saxton where a gret Chappell was begonne by Richarde the third but not finished in whiche Chappel were buried also many of the men flaine at Palmsonday fielde This fielde was as muche in Saxton Parishe as in Towton yet it bare the name of Towton The Duke of Excester the Duke of Somerset the Lorde Roos the Hungerford and many other fled to Yorke to king Henrie and then they with the King Quéene and Prince King Henry fled into Scotlande fled towarde Scotlande to Barwicke and so to Edenborough King Edwarde wente to Yorke and then to Durham and when he had quieted the Countrey returned Southwarde Thomas Courtney Earle of Deuonshire was taken and beheaded in Yorke Castell Iames Butler Earle of Wilshire was beheaded at Newcastell the Lord Fitz Walter was drowned at Ferybridge The town of Barwicke was deliuered to the Scots by king Henrie the sixth on Saint Markes daye The. xxvj of June the Mayor of London with the Aldermen in Scarlet and the Commons in gréene broughte King Edwarde from Lambeth to the Tower of London where he made eight and twentie Knightes and on the morrowe he dubbed foure mo and on the eight and twentith of June he was crowned at Westminster with greate solempnitie of Bishops and other temporall Lordes And on the morow after the King was crowned againe in Westminster Abbay in the worship of God Saint Peter and on the next morow he went Crowned in Paules Church of London in the honour of God and Saint Paule there an Angell came downe censed him at which time was so great a multitude of people in Paules as euer was séene in any dayes And soone after his Coronation the King made his States created brother George Plantagenet Duke of Clarence and his other brother Richard duke of Glocester WilliaÌ„ Stafford Esquier Lord Stafford of Southwike sir William Hebert Lorde Herbert and after Earle of Penbroke and the sayd Lord Stafford Earle of Deuonshire After this he made Edward Lord Grey of Ruthen Earle of Kent Henrie Lorde Bourcher Earle of Essex Iohn Lorde of Buckingham Lorde of Mountioy sir Iohn Heyward Lord Heyward William Hastings Lord Hastings and after that great Chamberlaine Richard Woodvile Lord Riuers Denham Esquier Lord Denham c. Not long after Iohn Dauy had his hand striken of in Cheape the Coronation of King Edward one Iohn Dauy had his hand striken off at the Standard in Cheape because he smote a man before the Judges in Westminster Hall contrarie to the Lawe George Ireland Iohn Locke the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Hughe Wiche Mercer the 28. of October The. iiij of Nouember began a Parliament at Westminster wherein King Henrie his Quéene and his sonne were disherited of the Crowne Henrie Duke of Excester Henrie Duke of Somerset Thomas Earle of Deuonshire c. to the nuÌ„ber of 140. were attainted disherited Shortly the Earle Anno. reg 2. of Oxford and Awbrey his sonne sir Thomas Tudenham Knight William Tirrell and Iohn Mongomerie Esquiers 1462 were detect and at seuerall times beheaded at the Towre hyll and after that many other The. xxvij of Marche King Edward went Northwarde so farre as Stamforde where he was informed that King Henrie had procured the Frenchmen and Scots to enter this land in resisting whereof King Edwarde sent his Priuie Seale through England to moue men to giue him a certaine suÌ„me of money which they graunted liberally The Lord Fauconbridge Earle of Kent was appointed to kéepe the Seas with the Lorde Audeley Lorde Clinton Sir Iohn Heyward sir Richard Walgraue and other to the number of ten thousand which landed in Britaine and wanne the towne of Conqnet with the Isle of Reth c. In Michaelmas Terme king Edward sat in the Kings bench thrée dayes together in open court to vnderstande how his lawes were executed William Hampton Barthelmew Iames the 28. of Sep. Sherifes Maior Thomas Coke Draper the 28. of October Quéene Margaret wyfe to Henrie the sixt landed in the North where hauing but small succour and euill fortune she was faine to take the Sea againe by tempest of weather was driuen to Barwicke where she landed but lost hir shippes and goods In December King Edwarde laide siege to the Castels of Bambrugh Dunstonbrugh Alnewike Henrie Bowfort Duke of Somerset sir Ralph Percie and other yéelded Bambrugh on Christmas euen and were taken to the Kings fauour King Edward graunted to the Duke of Somerset a. 1000. marks by the yéere where of he was neuer paid the Earle of Penbroke sir Thomas Fyndern and other went into Scotland On S. Iohns day Dunstonburgh was yéelded On y â— Twelfe euen Peirsâ—e Brasile the great warrior of Normandie came to helpe the Quéene Margaret with Frenchmen xx thousande Scots to remoue King Edwardes men from Alnewike siege and the residue of other Castels there By whose comming King Edwardes men were afearde of the Scottes as reculing from the siege and the Scottes afearde of Edwardes men least they had reculed to bring them into a trap And Henries meÌ„ issuing out of too much boldnesse gaue Edwards meÌ„ opportunitie to enter into the Castle on the morow after the Twelfe day the Earle of Warwike made xv knights Anno reg 3. these iij. Castels were committed to y e kéeping of sir Ralph Grey and after againe King Henrie with his Quéene and 1463 their felowship entred them and kept them About Midsomer the Scots with many French Englishmen laid siege to the Castle of Norham but were forced to leaue it as they found it The Earle of Warwike wan the towne of Barwike where he made fiue Bannertes xxij knights and went into Scotland where he burnt Lawghmaban Iedeworth Galowey and many other Townes and returned to Barwike The Minster of Yorke the stéeple of Christes Church in Norwiche were brent Robert Basset Thomas Muschampe the 28. of Sept. Sherifes Maior Mathew Phillip Goldsmith the 28 of October In the moneth of Aprill King Edwarde made great Anno. reg 4. 1464 preparation against King Henrie and on Saint Markes day Ralph Percie Lorde Hungerforde with a great power purposing
to haue distressed sir Iohn Neuil Lorde Mountacute was himselfe slaine with many other The. xv of May King Henries power beyng at Hexham the Lorde Mountacute with a power came thither and enclosed them round about There were taken slaine many Lords that were with King Henry but he himself was fled iiij dayes before into Lancashire where he and other liued in caues full hardly vnknowne more than a yéere On Trinitie Sonday King Edward made the Lord Mountacute Earle of Northumberland and warden of the Marches The Earles of Warwike and Northumberlande tooke Bambrugh Castle and beheaded sir Ralph Grey at Doncaster The Earle of Warwike was sent into Fraunce to conclude a mariage with the French Kings sisters daughter for K. Edward which he did K. Edvvard maried but in the meane while on the first of May King Edwarde tooke to wife Elizabeth Daughter to Iaquet Duches of Bedforde sister to the Earle of Saint Paule late wife to sir Iohn Grey slayne at Courton fielde on King Henries parte which mariage was kept secret almost halfe a yéere King Edward tooke the Chauncellorship from the Byshop of Excester brother to the Earle of Warwike and gaue it to the Byshop of Bathe In the moneth of May the Duke of Somerset the Lord Roos the Lord Molyns Talbois Earle of Kyme sir Philippe Wentworth sir Thomas Finderne gathered an hoste in the Duke of Somerset and other beheaded North Countrey sir Iohn Neuill Earle of Northumberland with x. thousand men came vpoÌ„ them whom the commons forsaking their Captaines were taken beheaded King Edward searing the Lord MouÌ„tacute the Earle of Warwike whom he had of late made Earle of Northumberland he caused the men of the Countrey to desire the rightfull heyre Percie sonne to Henrie y â— was slaine at Yorke fielde so Percie Earle of Northumberland made Marques Mountacute was restored and Mountacute was made a Marques his sonne Duke of Bedforde which shoulde wed the Kings eldest daughter which by possibilitie should be King of Englande Aboute Michaelmas the King held a Counsell at Reading where the Quéene was shewed openly and receiued as Coine enhauÌ„sed Quéene After this wedding knowne the Earle of Warwike and King Edward were neuer friends The King changed the Coyne both gold and siluer and ordained that y e newe Pestilence Grote waied scantly iij. d. and that the Noble of vj. sÌ„ viij d. should go for viij sÌ„ iiij d. c. A great Pestilence and the Thames ouer frosen In Michaelmas Terme were made Sergeantes at Lawe Thomas Young N. Geney Richard Serieants feast Regester of maiors Neale Thomas Brian Richard Pigot I. Grenefield I. Catesby and Gwy Fairfax which helde their feast in the Bishop of Eles place in Holborne to the which feast the Maior of London with the Aldermen Sherifes and Commons of diuers Craftes being bidden repayred but when the Maior looked to be set to kéepe the state in the Hall as it had béene vsed in all places of the Cittie liberties out of the Kings presence vnknowne to the Sergeauntes and against their willes as they sayd y â— Lord Grey of Ruthin then Treasurer The Maior of London departeth from the Serieants feast of England was there placed wherevpon the Maior Aldermen and Commons departed home and the Maior made all the Aldermen to dyne with him howbeit he and all the Citizens was greatly displeased that he was so delt with and the newe Sergeaunts and other were right sorie therfore and had leauer thâ—n much good it had not so happened This was then as my Recorde reporteth more at large recorded to be a president in time to come Iohn Tate Iohn Stone the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Nevv coyne Anno. reg 5. Ralph Iosseliâ— Draper the 28 of October A newe Coine was made a Rose Noble at x. shillings the halfe Noble fiue shillings the farthing two shillings sir pence an Angelet six shillings eight pence y e halfe thereof thrée shillings foure pence On the. xxvj of May Quéene Elizabeth was Crowned at 1465 Westminster beyng Trinitie Sonday against the which time King Edward made xxxix Knightes King Henrie was taken in Cletherwood beside Bungerley King Henrie taken Hyppingstons in Lancashire by Thomas Talbot sonne heire to sir Edward Talbot of Basshall and Iohn Talbot his cosyn of Colebry which deceiued him being at his dynner at Wadington Hall and brought him toward London with his legs bounde to the stirops where he was mette by the Earle of Wâ—rwike and arested at Esyldon Doctor Manning Deane of Windsore Doctor Bedle and yong Ellerton being in his companie with their féete bound vnder the horse bellyes were brought to the Towre of London A licence was grauÌ„ted to conuey certaine Coteswold shéepe Sheepe traÌ„sported ouet the seas Long piked Shone forbid into Spaine which haue since greatly multiplyed there It was proclaynied throughout England that the beakes or pikes of Shoone and Bootes should not passe ij ynches vpon paine of cursing by the Clergie and forfeting xx sÌ„ to be payde one Noble to the King one other to the Cordewayners of London and the thirde to the chamber of London and for other Cities and Townes the like order was takeÌ„ Before this time and since the yéere of our Lord. 1282. the pikes of shooes bootes were of such length that they were fayne to be tyed vp to their knées with chaynes of siluer and guilt or at the least with silke laces Henrie Wauer William Constantine the 28. of Sep. Sherifes Maior Sir Ralph Verney Mercer the 28. of October The. xj of Februarie Quéene Elizabeth was deliuered at Westminster of a Daughter also named Elizabeth who was long after married to King Henrie the seuenth whose Christening was done in the Abbey with y e most solemynitie that might be and the more because the King was assured by his Phisitions that the Quéene was conceyued with a Prince which proued otherwise as ye haue heard This yéere was the Lord Hungerford beheaded at Salisburie Anno. reg 6 1466 Also sir Thomas Hungerford Knight sonne to the Lord Hungerford and Henry Courteney of right Earle of DeuoÌ„shire were beheaded at Salisburie The Lord Stafford of Southwike procured the said Courteneys death to be made Earle of Deuonshire as in déede he was shortly after Iohn Browne Henrie Brice the 28. of September Sir Iohn Yong Grocer the 28. of October Sherifes Maior Iohn Stocton the 26. of Iune The. iij. of June beganne a Parliament at Westminster Anno. reg 7. 1467 All the Kings giftes reuoked wherin was resumed to y e Kings honor all maner of giftes that had bin giuen from the first day he tooke possession of y â— Realme to that time except certaine things then named On Thursday next after Corpus Christi Antonie Wooduile Iustes in Smithfielde Lorde Scales iusted in Smithfield with the Earle of the Roche called the Bastard of Burgoygne
and had the victorie of the fielde The listes were of length 120. Taylers yardes and. 10. foote and of bredth 80. yardes 10. foote double barred v. foote betwéene the barres c. Diuers persons Iurours in Assises falsely forsworn for rewards were iudged that they should ride from Newgate Iurours on the Pillery to the Pillerie in Cornehill with Myters of paper on their heades and there to stand on the Pillerie the space of one houre and then led againe to Newgate And this iudgement was giuen by the Maior Thomas Stalbroke Humfrey Heyford the 28. of Sept. Maior Sherifes Anno reg 8 1498 Thomas Olgraue Skinner the 28. of October The. viij of May beganne a Parliament at Westminster where was graunted two fiftenes and a demy The xviij of June Margaret syster to King Edward the Lady Margaret the Kings sister married to the Duke of Burgoigne fourth beganne hir iourney from the Wardrobe in London toward hir mariage w e Charles Duke of Burgoigne first she offred in the Church of S. Paule then rode through the Citie the Earle of Warwike riding before hir with Earles Barons a great number the Dutches of Norfolke with other Ladyes and Gentlewomen in great number And at hir entrie into Cheape the Maior of London and his brethren the Aldermen presented hir with a payre of riche Basons â— in them an 100. â— of golde that night she lodged at the Abbey of Stratford where the King then lay from thence she tooke hir iourney to CauÌ„terbury The King riding after to sée hir shipping on y e first of July she tooke y e sea at Margate there toke leaue of y e King hir brother departed There returned backe againe with y e King the Duke of Clarence the Duke of Glocester y e Earles of Warwike Shrewsburie NorthuÌ„berland And there abode with hir in the ship the Lorde Scales the Lorde Dacres hir Chamberlaine sir Iohn Wodvile sir Iohn Heyward and many other famous Knightes Esquiers she was shipped in the new Ellen of LondoÌ„ and in hir Nauie the Iohn of Newcastle the Marie of Salisburie and many other Royall ships the morrowe landed at Sluce in FlauÌ„ders as soone as hir ship coÌ„pany of ships were entred into y e Hauen there receiued hir sir SimoÌ„ de Leleyn and the water Bailie in diuers Boates Barks apparelled redie for hir laÌ„ding The first estate y â— receiued hir was y e Bishop of Vâ—right well accompanyed the Countesse of Shorne bastard daughter to Duke Phillip of Burgoygne with hir many Ladyes GentlewomeÌ„ so procéeding in at the gate of the towne the same towne was presented to hir she to be Soueraigne Ladie thereof also they gaue hir xij marks of gold Troy waight the which was 200. â— of English Money and so she procéeded through the towne to hir lodging euery housholder standing in the stréete with a torche in his hand burning On the morrow the olde Dutches of Burgoygne came to hir accompanyed with many great Estates On the. iij. of July came the Duke of Borgoigne to Sluce with xx persons secretly and was there openly affianced to the Ladie Margaret by the Byshop of Salisburie and the Lorde Scales in presence of the Lord Dacre the Duches of Norfolke the Ladie Scales and all the Knightes and Esquiers Gentlewomen enuironing the Chamber On the viij of July being Saterday by the Duke of Burgoignes appointment the Ladie Margaret remoued by water to the Dame And on the Sonday in the morning betwixt v. and. vj. of the clocke the mariage was solempnized betwixt them by the Bishops of Salisburie and of Turney there being present the olde Duches of Burgoigne the Lord Scales the Lord Dacre with the Knightes Esquiers Ladyes and GentlewomeÌ„ that came out of England the great triumphs feastings shewes of Pageants with other straunge deuises and Justings were such as I haue not read the like and would be ouer long in this place to set downe Sir Thomas Cooke late Maior of LondoÌ„ was by one named Robert Fabian Sir Thomas Cooke Hawkins appeached of treason for the which he was sent to the Towre and his place within London seased by the Lorde Ryuers and his wife and seruauntes clearely put out therof The cause was this The forenamed Hawkins came vpon a season vnto the sayd sir Thomas requesting him to lend a thousand markes vpon good suertie wherevnto he answered that first he would know for whom it should be and for what intent at length vnderstanding it shoulde be for the vse of Quéene Margaret he answered he had no currant wares whereof any shiftes might be made without too much losse and therfore required Hawkins to moue him no farther in that matter for he intended not to deale withall yet the sayde Hawkins exhorted him to remember what benefites he had receiued by hir when she was in prosperitie as by making him hir Wardrober and customer of Hampton c. but by no meanes the sayde Cooke woulde graunt goods nor money although at the last the sayd Hawkins required but an hundreth pouÌ„d he was fayne to depart without the value of a pennie and neuer came againe to moue him which so rested two or thrée yeares after tyll the sayde Hawkins was cast in the Towre and at length brought to the brake called the Duke of Excesters daughter by meane of which payne he shewed many things amongst y e which the motion was one that he had made to sir Thomas Coke and accused himselfe so farre that he was put to death by meane of which confession the sayde sir Thomas was troubled as before is shewed After the saide sir Thomas had lyen in the Towre from Whitsontide fyll about Michaelmas in the which seasoÌ„ many enquiries were made to finde him guiltie and euer quit till one iurie by meanes of sir Iohn Fogge endited him of treason after which an other determine was set at the Guildhall in the which sat with y e Maior the Duke of Clarence the Earle of Warwike y e Lorde Riuers sir Iohn Fogge with other of y e Kings counsell to the which place the saide Thomas was brought there arraygned vpoÌ„ life death where he was acquited of y e said inditement had to the Counter in Bredstreete from thence to the Kings bench After a certaine time that he was thus acquited his wife gat againe the possessioÌ„ of hir house y e which she found in an euill plight for such seruants of y â— Lord Riuers and sir Iohn Fogge as were assigned to kéepe it made hauoke of what they listed Also at his place in Essex named Guydy hall were set an other sort to kéepe that place the which destroyed his Deare in his Parke his Connies his Fishe without reason and spared not Brasse Pewter bedding and all that they might carie for the which might neuer one pennie be gotteÌ„ in recompence yet could not sir Tho. Cooke be
great companies so had come to the outer part of the Citie as to Ratcliffe Saint Katherins Southwarke and other the suburbes and many of them were entred the Citie where they robbed the Flemings at Blanchapeltoâ— and other places making them to flye out of the Citie with sorrow ynough On Wednesday folowing the tower of London was yéelded The tovvre of London yéelded to the Mayor of London to the Mayor and his brethren the AldermeÌ„ who forthwith entred the same and delyuered King Henrie of his imprisonment and lodged him in the Kings loding On the Fryday following came to London the Archbyshoppe of Yorke brother to the Earle of Warwike the Lorde Prior of Saint Iohns and other to the number of 2000. men of armes On the morrow following came the Duke of Clarence the Earle of Warwike the bastard Fawconbridge with other to the number of foure thousand men On the. vj. day of October Iohn Fortescue the Duke of Clarence the Earle of Warwike the Archbishop of Yorke the Lorde of Saint Iohns with other entred the Towre of London and King Henrie being there prisoner K. H. restored nigh the space of nine yéeres they elected him to be their lawfull King and forthwith rode with him through London to the Bishops Pallace where he rested til the. xiij of October on which day he went a procession Crowned in Paules Church the Earle of Warwike bare his traine and y e Earle of Oxforde his sworde c. King Edward was proclaimed vsurper of the Crowne and Iohn Tiptoft Earle of Worcester was founde in the top of an high trée in the Forest of Wabridge in the Countie of Huntington and brought to London and beheaded at y e Towre hill and was buried at the Blacke Friers Iohn Crosby Iohn Ward the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Sir Iohn Stockton Mercer the 28. of October Sir Iohn Crosby Knight one of the late named Sherifes of London for this yeare deceased in Anno Domini 1475 Sir Iohn Crosby his giftes to the Citie and was buryed in the Parishe Churche of Saint Helen in Byshoppes gate stréete vnto the repayring of which Parishe Churche he gaue fiue hundred markes and. xxx pounde to be distributed to poore housholders in the warde of Byshops gate to the repayring of the Parish Church at Heneworth in Myddlesex fortie pounde to the repayring of London Wall one hundred pounde toward the making of a new Towre of stone at the South ende of London bridge if the same were begun by the Maior and commonaltie within x. yéeres next after his deceasse one hundred pounde to the reparations of Rochester bridge x. pound to euerie the prisoners in and about London liberally Also he gaue to the Wardens and Commonaltie of the Grocers in London two large pottes of Siluer chaced halfe guilte waying xitj. pounde v. ounces of Troy weyght to be occupyed in their common hall and else where at their discretions Quéene Elizabeth wyfe to Edward the fourth being in the Sanctuarie at Westminster Prince Ed. born in the SaÌ„ctuarie was deliuered of a Prince on the. iitj. of Nouember who was after King Edward the fifth King Edward with the Lord Hastings the Lorde Say ix hundred Englishmen iij. hundred Flemings would haue landed in Essex but there the Erle of Oxfordes brother put them Anno reg 11 off and after he landed sore weather beaten at Rauenesporne within Humber on Holdernesse and there rose on him Holdernesse 1471 men whose Captayne was sir Iohn Westerdale a Priest after cast into the Marshalsea at London As K. Edward passed the countrey he shewed y e Erle of Northumberlandes letters and Seale that sent for him saying that he came to claime no tytle of the Crowne but only his Dukedome of Yorke nor would not haue done afore but at y e exciting of the Erle of Warwike and cryed in euery place K. Henrie and Prince Edwarde wearing an Estriche Feather Prince Edwardes lyuerie King Edward came to Notingham where sir William Stanley syr William Norres and diuers other broughte him men so that he had then 4000. or more Then Edward marched towarde Lecester where the Earle of Warwike and Marques Mountacute had 4000 men and would haue fought with King Edwarde but that he had receyued letters from the Duke of Clarence that the should not fight vntill he came Whervpon he kéeping Lecester still suffered Edwarde to marche towarde London A 〈…〉 of Clarence with seuen thousand 〈…〉 Edward agréed to him brake all the promises made in Fraunce King Edwarde comming to London by Master Vrswike the Recorders meanes and others entred into the Byshoppe of Londons Palaice by a King Henry againe sent to the Tovver Posterne and there tooke King Henrie and the Archbyshop of Yorke and sent them both to the Towre on MauÌ„dye Thursday The Earle of Warwike the Duke of Excester the Marques Barnet field Mountacute the Earle of Oxford w e many Knights came with their host towarde Barnet Wherefore King Edward tooke King Henrie with him preoccupied y e town of Barnet all the night the Earle of Warwike his retinue remained on the plaine without the towne shooting guÌ„nes one at the other And in y e morning being Easter day and y e xiitj of Aprill they fought in a thick mist from iitj. of y e clock in the morning till x. diuers times the Earle of Warwikes men supposed that they had gotte the victorie of the fielde but it happened that y e Earle of Oxfords men had a starre w e streames both before behinde on their liueries and King Edwards men had the sunne with streames on their lyuery whervpon the Earle of Warwikes men by reason of the myst not well decerning the badges so lyke shot at the Earle of Oxfordes men that were on their owne parte and then the Earle of Oxforde and his men cryed treason and fled with eight hundred men The Marques Mountacute was priuily agréed wyth King Edwarde and had gotten on hys lyuerie but one of his brothers the Earle of Warwikes men espying this fell vppon him and killed him The Earle of Warwike séeing all this lepte on a horse to flye and comming to a woodde where was no passage one of Kyng Edwardes men came to hym kylled hym and spoyled hym to the naked skynne Sir William Tirrell Knyghte was kylled on the Earle of Warwikes â—â—rt The Duke of Excester fought manfully and was dissâ—â—yled wounded and lefte for deade from seuen in the morning tyll 4. of the clocke in the afternoone and then beyng brought to a seruauntes house of his there by called Ruthland he had a Chirurgion and after was conueyed into Westminster Sanctuarie The Lorde Cromwell sonne and heire to the Earle of Essex the Lord Barnes sonne and heire to the Lord Say were slaine on King Edwardes partie and on both partes to the number of foure thousande which were buryed on the same playne where
after a Chappell was builded The morow after Easter day were y e bodyes of the Earle Iob. Rastall of Warwike and the Marques Mountacute layde naked in Paules Churche in London that all men might sée them King Henrie with the Archbyshop of Yorke were sent to the Towre of London At this time Quéene Margaret and Prince Edwarde hir sonne had lyne on y e sea xvtj. dayes letted with foule weather on Easter day at euen they landed with their Frenche Battell at Tevvkesburie Nauie at Weymouth and so came to Excester from thence to Tewkesburie and pitched his fielde by Seuerne Edwarde the fourth being come from London fought with Prince Edward Liber Tewx at Tewkesburie on the fourth of May tooke Quéene Margaret prisoner with Prince Edward hir sonne whom cruelly he smote on the face with his gawntlet and after his seruants slew him Edmond Duke of Somerset and sir Hugh Courteney fledde from Prince Edward and loste him the fielde There was slaine Courteney Earle of Deuonshire Lorde Iohn of Somerset Lorde Wenlocke sir Edmond Flamdene sir Robert Whittingham sir William Vaus sir Nicholas Haruie sir Iohn Deluis sir William Filding sir Thomas Fizhony sir Iohn Laukenor King Edward entring a Churche in Teweksburie with his sworde drawne a Priest brought the Sacrament against him and woulde not let him enter vntill he had graunted his pardon to these that followe the Duke of Somerset the Lorde of Saint Iohns sir Humfrey Audeley sir Geruis of Clifton sir William Crimeby sir William Carie sir Thomas Tresham sir William Newbrough Knightes Henrie Tresham Walter Courteney Iohn Florie Lewes Myles Robert Iackson Iames Gower Iames Deluis sonne and heire to sir Iohn Deluis all these where they might haue escaped tarryed in the Church trusting in the Kings pardon from Saterdaye tyll Mondaye when they were taken out and beheaded Aboute this time sir Walter Wroitile and sir Geffrey Thomas the Bastarde Gates Knightes gouernours of Caleis sente sir George Broke Knight from Caleis with 300. souldiours to Thomas the Bastarde Fauconbridge Captaine of the Earle of Warwickes Nauie willing him to raise the Countrey of Kente and to goe to London there to take King Henrie out of the Tower and then to goe against King Edwarde The fourtéenth day of May Thomas the Bastarde wyth a ryotous company of shipmen and other of Essex and Kent came to London where being denyed passage throughe the Citie he set vpon Bishops Gate Aldegate London bridge c. along the Thamis side shooting arrows and Gunnes into the Citie fiered the Suburbs and brent more than 60. houses wanne the Bulwarkes at Aldegate and entred the Citie but y e Parcolise being let downe suche as had entred were slaine and then the Citizens pursued the rest as farre as Stratforde and Blacke Wall slaying many and tooke manye prisoners Thomas the Bastarde went from London Weastwarde as farre as Kingstone vppon Thamis to prosecute King Edwarde but the Lorde Scales with Nicholas Faunte Maior of Canterburie by fayre wordes caused Fawconbridge to returne to Blacke Heath in Kent from whence in the night he stale from the hoste with sixe hundred horssemenne to Rochester and so to Sandwiche where he abode the Kyngs comming The one and twentith of May King Edwarde came to King Henrie murdered London with thirtie thousand men and the same nyght king Henrie was murdered in the Tower of London on the morrowe he was brought to Saint Paules Church in London in an open Cophen bare faced where he bled thēce he was carried to the Blacke Friers and there bled and thence to Chersey Abbay in a boate where he was then buryed but since remoued to Windsor where he resteth Thus ended the King his transitorie life hauing inioyed as great prosperity as fauourable fortune coulde aforde and as greate troubles on the other side as she frownyng coulde poure out yet in both states he was patiente and vertuous that he maye be a patterne of moste perfect vertue as he was a worthy example of Fortunes inconstancie he was plaine vpright far from fraude wholye giuen to prayer reading of Scriptures and almes-déedes of such integritie of lyfe that the Bishoppe whyche hadde bene hys Confessour tenne yeares auowched that hée had not all that tyme committed anye mortall cryme So continente as suspition of vnchaste life neuer touched hym and hauyng in Christmasse a shewe of yong womenne wyth theyr bare breastes layde out presented before hym he immediately departed wyth these wordes fie fie for shame forsooth you be to blame before his marryage he liked not that women shoulde enter into hys Courte and for thys respect he committed hys two brethren by the mothers side Iasper and Edmonde to moste honest and vertuous Prelates to bée broughte vppe so farre he was from couetousnesse that when the executors of hys vncle the Bishoppe of Winchester surnamed the rich Cardinall would haue giuen to him 2000. pounde he playnelye refused it willing them to discharge the will of the departed and woulde scarcely condescend at length to accept the same some of money towarde the endowing of his Colledges in Cambridge and Eaton he was religiously affected as the tyme then was that at principall holydayes he would were sackeclothe next his skinne Othe he vsed none but in moste earnest matters these wordes forsoothe and forsooth he was so pityfull that when hée sawe the quarter of a Traytour agaynste hys Crowne ouer Criple Gate hée willed it to be taken awaye wyth these wordes I wyll not haue anye Christian so cruellye handeled for my sake manye greate offences hée willinglye pardoned and receyuing at a tyme a greate blowe by a wicked manne whyche compassed hys deathe he onelye sayde forsooth forsooth yée doe fowelye to smite a Kyng annoynted so another also thruste him in the side wyth a sworde when hée was restoared to hys state and Kyngdome not long before hys death beyng demaunded why hée hadde so long helde the Crowne of Englande vniustlye he replyed my Father was Kyng of Englande quietlye enioying the Crowne all hys raigne and further my grandsire was Kyng of Englande and I euen a chylde in my Cradle was proclaymed and crowned King without anye interruption and so helde fortye yeares well neare all the states doing homage vnto me as to my antecessors Wherefore I may saye with King Dauid The lotte is fallen vnto me in a faire grounde yea I haue a goodlye heritage my helpe is from the Lorde whyche saueth the vprighte in hearte This good King of hymselfe alwayes naturally enclined The Kings Colledge in Cambridge to doe good and fearing leste he might séeme vnthankfull to almyghtye GOD for hys greate benefittes bestowed vppon hym since the tyme he firste tooke vppon hym the regimente of the Realme determyned aboute the sixe and twentith yeare of hys raygne for hys primer notable worke as by the wordes of hys wyll I finde expressed to erecte and founde two famous Colledges in the honoure and
he assured the King that the Conestable woulde deliuer into his handes both Saint Quintines and all his other places whiche the Kyng easilye beléeued partly bycause hée hadde marryed the Conestables Nieâ—e and partlye bycause hée sawe hym in so greate feare of the Kyng of Fraunce that hée thoughte hée durste not fayle hys promise made to the Duke and hym and the Duke beléeued iâ— also But the Conestable meante nothing lesse for the feare he was in of the Frenche Kyng was not so greate that it coulde force hym thus 〈…〉 but he vsed sâ—yl his â—onted dissimulation The King of Englande reioycyng at thys message sente by the Conestable departed from Peronnâ— wyth the Duke of Burgoigne towarde Saint Quintins wherevnto when hée approched a greate bande of Englishe menne ranne before thynkyng that the belles shoulde haue bene rong at theyr commyng and that the Citizens woulde haue receyued them wyth Crosse and Holye Water but when they drewe néere to the Towne the Artillâ—â—â—e shotte and the Souldiâ—urs â—â—â—ed for the 〈…〉 he 〈…〉 she bothe on horsâ—e backe and on foote so that two or three Englishe menne were slayne and some taken â— and in thys state returned they in great rage to theyr Campe 〈…〉 againste the Conestable The nexte morning the Duke of 〈…〉 woulde haue taken hys leaue of the King of Englande to departe to hys armye in Barrays promising to do maruayles in hys fauour The Frenche Kyng sente a seruaunte of the LORD Halles in the lykenesse of an Herraulte wyth a coate made of a Trumpets Banner to the Englishe Campe where when hée came hée was broughte to a Tente and after dynner talked wyth the Kyng hys message was chielely grounded vppon the greate desire the Kyng hadde of long time to bée in peace wyth the Kyng of Englande saying further that since hée was Crowned Kyng of Fraunce he neuer hadde attempted anye thyng againste the King of England or his realme Secondly he excused himselfe for the receiuing in times paste the Earle of Warwicke into his Dominions saying that hée dyd it onelyâ— agaynste the Duke of Burgoigne and not him Further he declared that the sayd Duke of Burgoigne had for none other cause called hym into Fraunce but that by the occasion of hys comming hée mighte conclude a bettâ—r peace for hymselfe wyth the Kyng And if happily anye other furthered the matter it was onely to amende the broken estate of theyr owne affaires and for their owne priuate commoditie but as touching the Kyng of Englandes good successe they were altogither carelesse thereof Hée putte hym also in mynde of the tyme of the yeare alleaging that Winter approched likewise the great charges he sustained Lastlye he sayde that notwithstanding a great number in Englande desyred Warre with Fraunce yet if the Kyng oâ— Englande inclyne to peace the Kyng for hys parte would condescende to suche conditions as he doubted not but hée and hys Realme woulde allowe of finally he demaunded a saâ—e conduite for certaine Ambassadours to come well enformed of his maisters pleasure The King of England and part of his Nobles liking these ouertures very well graunted to the Harrault of Fraunce as large a safe conducte as he demaunded and gaue him foure Nobles of golde in rewarde He also sente an Englishe Harrault with him to bring the like safe conducte And in the nexte morning in a Uillage neare to Amience the Commissioners of both Princes met being these For the King of France the bastard of Bourdon Admâ—ral of France the Lord of Saint Pierre and the Bishop of Eureux called Heberge And for the King of Englande the Lord Howard one Chalenger and Doctor Morton Many articles of peace were treated of but the laste resolutions were these That the French King shoulde paye to the King of Englande presently before his departure out of Fraunce 72. thousande crownes that the Dolphine shoulde marrye King Edwardes eldest daughter and that she shoulde haue the Duchie of Guien for hir maintainaunce or 5000. crownes yearly to be paid in the Tower of London the space of nine yeres which terme expired the Dolphine shoulde peaceably enioy the reuenues of the whole Dutchie of Gnien and then the Kyng of France to be clearly discharged of all payments to the King of Englande Further it was decréed that the two Primes shoulde méete togither and be sworne to the treatie which méeting was obserued in a town called Picquigny on the 29. of August The King of England vppon receit of hys money departed towarde Calâ—is in great haste fearing the Duke of Burgoignes malice and his subiectes At his departure he lefte for hostages with the King of Fraunce till his returne into England the Lorde Howarde and the Maister of his horse called sir Iohn Cheyney King Edward tooke shipping at Calais and landed at Douer and was receyued on the Blacke-heath by the Mayor of London and his brethren in Scarlet and 500. commoners all clad in Murrey and so conueyed to London through the Citie to Westminster on the 28. of September This yéere was one Iohn surnamed Gose brent on she Towre hill in the moneth of August Edmond Shawe Thomas Hill the 28. of September Maior Sherifes Robert Drope Draper the 28. of October This Robert Drope Maior of London inlarged the Condite vpon Cornehill making an East ende therevnto The. xviâ—j of Aprill were inhaunced to the honour of Anno reg 15 1475 Knights made by the King Knighth and after the custome of England in the time of peace his eldest sonne Edward Prince of Wales Duke of Connewall and Earle of Chester his seconde sonne the Duke of Yorke and with them the Earle of Lincolnes sonne and heire the Duke of Suffolke the Lord Thomas Grey y e Quéenes sonne Richard his brother the Earle of Shrewsburie the Earle of Wilshire Master Edward Woduile the Lorde Neuibâ— the Lorde Barkleys sonne and heire the Lord Awdeleys sonne and heire the Lord Saint Ainand the Lord Stanleys sonne and heire the Lorde Sturtons sonne and heire the Lorde Hastings sonne heire the Lorde Ferrors of Chartleys sonne and heire Master Harbert brother to the Earle of Penbroke Master Vaughon Brian chiefe Judge Litilton one of the Little 〈…〉 Judges of the Common place Master Bodringham Master Brian Stapleton Kneuit Pilkinton Ludlow Charleton c. The same day the King created the Lord Thomas Marques Dorset before dinner and so in the habit of a Marques aboue the habit of his Knighthood he beganne the table of Knights in Saint Edwards Chamber At that time he ordained that the Kings Chamberlaine shoulde goe with the auncient and well nurtred Knight to aduertise and teache the order of Knighthood to the Esquiers being in the bayne The King himselfe came in person and did honour to all y e companie with his noble Counsell and his handes Hugh Brite Robert Colwitch the 28. of Sept. Robert Basset Salter the 28. of October Sherifes Maior This Maior did sharpe correction
the King intended to bring him vp to his coronation accompanied with suche power of their friends that it should be harde for him to bring his purpose to passe without the gathering a greate assemble of people and in manner of open warre whereof the ende he wiste was doubtfull and in whiche the King being on their side his part should haue the face and name of a rebellion he secretly therfore by diners meanes caused the Quéene to be perswaded and broughte in the minde that it neyther were néede and also shoulde be ieopardous the King to come vppe strong For whereas nowe euerye Lorde loued other and none other thing studyed vppon but aboute the Coronation and honor of the King if the Lordes of hir kyndred shoulde assemble in the Kings name muche people they shoulde giue the Lordes at wixte whom and them hadde bin sometime debate to feare and suspect leaste they shoulde gather this people not for the Kings safegarde whome no man impugned but for their destruction hauing more regarde to theyr olde variaunce than their newe attonement for which cause they should assemble on the other partie much people againe for theyr defence whose power she wiste wel farre stretched And thus shoulde all the Realme fall on a â—ore And of all the hurte that thereof shoulde ensue which was likely not to be little and the moste harme there lyke to fall where she leaste woulde all the worlde woulde put hyr and hyr kyndred in the wight and saye that they hadde vnwisely and vntruely also broken the amitie peace that the Kyng hyr â—usbande so prudentlye made betwéene his kinne and hyrs in his death bed and which the other partie faithfully obserued The Quéene being in this wise perswaded suche worde sente vnto hir sonne and vnto hir brother béeing aboute the Kyng and ouer that the Duke of Glocester hymselfe and other Lordes the chiefe of his bende wrote vnto the King so reuerentlye and to the Quéenes friendes there so louingly that they nothing earthly mistrusting brought the King vp in greate haste not in good spéede with a sober companye Now was the King in hys waye to London gone from Northampton when the Dukes of Glocester and Buckingham came thither where remained behinde the Lord Riuers the Kings vncle intending on the morrowe to followe the King and be with him at Stonie Stratforde xij myles thence earelye or he departed So was there made that nighte muche friendlye cheare betwéene these two Dukes and the Lord Riuers a great whyle But incontinent after that they were openlye with greate curtesie departed and the Lorde Riuers lodged the Dukes secretely with a fewe of theyr moste priuie friendes set them down in counsaile wherein they spent a great parte of the nighte And at theyr rising in the dawning of the day they sente out priuilye to theyr seruantes in theyr Innes and lodgings about giuing theÌ„ commaundement to make theÌ„selues shortly readie for their Lordes were to horssebackewarde Uppon whyche messages manye of theyr folke were attendaunt when manye of the Lord Riuers seruauntes were vnreadye Nowe had these Dukes taken also into theyr custody the Keyes of the Inne that none shoulde passe forth without their liceÌ„ce And ouer thys in the highe waye towarde Stonie Stratforde where the King laye they hadde bestowed certaine of theyr folke that shoulde sende backe againe and compell to returne anye man that were gotten out of Northampton towarde Stonie Stratforde tyll they shoulde giue other licence For as much as the Dukes theÌ„selues inteÌ„ded for the shew of theyr diligence to be the firste that shoulde that daye attende vpon the Kings highnesse out of that Towne thus bare they folke in hande But when the Lord Riuers vnderstoode the Gates closed and the wayes on euery side beset neyther his seruauntes nor himselfe suffered to goe out perceiuing wel so great a thing without his knowledge not begun for naughte comparing thys manner present wyth hys last nights chéere in so fewe houres so great a change maruellously misliked Howbeit sith he coulde not gette awaye and kéepe himselfe close he would not least he should séeme to hyde himself for some secrete fear of his own fault wherof he saw no such cause in hymself He determined vpon the suretie of his own conscience to go boldelie to them and inquire what this matter mighte meane whome as sâ—one as they sawe they beganne to quarrel with him and saye that he intended to set distaunce betwéene the Kyng and them and to bring them to confusion but it should not lye in hys power And when he beganne as he was a very wel spoken man in goodly wise to excuse himselfe they tarryed not the ende of his aunsweare but shortly tooke hym The L. Riuers put in vvarde and put him in warde and that done forthwyth wente to horssebacke and tooke the waye to Stonie Stratforde where they founde the King wyth hys companye readie to leape on Horssebacke and depart forwarde to leaue that lodging for them bycause it was to straighte for both companyes And as soone as they came in hys preseÌ„ce they light adown with all their companye about them To whom the Duke of Buckingham sayd go afore Gentlemen and yeomen kéepe your roomes And thus in goodly aray they came to the King and on theyr knées in verye humble wyse salued his grace whiche receyued them in very ioyous and amiable maner nothing earthlye knowing nor mistrusting as yet But euen by and by in his presence they piked a quarrell to the Lorde Rycharde The Lord Grey Gray the Kings other brother by his mother saying that he with the Lorde Marques his brother and the Lorde Riuers his Uncle had compassed to rule the King and the Realme and to set variance among the states and to subdue and destroye the noble bloude of the Realme Toward the accomplishing whereof they sayd that the Lorde Marques had entred into the Tower of London and thence taken out the Kyngs Treasure and sente menne to the Sea All which things these Dukes wist well were done for good purposes and necessarie by the whole counsaile at London sauing that somewhat they must say Unto which words the King aunswered What my brother Marques hath done I cannot saye But in good faith I dare well aunsweare for mine vncle Riuers and my brother here that they be innocent of any suche matter Yea my liege quoth the Duke of Buckingham they haue kept theyr dealing in these matters farre fro the knowledge of your good grace And forthwyth they arested the Lord Richard and sir Th. VaughaÌ„ Knight in the Kings presence and brought the king and al back vnto Northampton where they tooke againe further Counsell And there they sent away froÌ„ the King whoÌ„ it pleased theÌ„ and set new seruaunts about him such as liked better theÌ„ than him At which dealing he wept and was nothing content but it booted not And at dinner the Duke of Glocester sente a dishe from his
and temporal from thence weÌ„t to the Tower of London by land ouer London bridge his nobles riding after the guise of FraÌ„ce vpon small Hackneys two and two vppon a Horsse and at London Bridge ende the Maior of London with his brethren and the Craftes met and receyued the King and the King procéeded to Grace Church corner and so to the Tower On the morrowe being the feast daye of Simon and Iude King Henrie created Thomas Lord Stanley Earle of Darby Edwarde Courtney Earle of Deuonshire and Iasper Earle of Penbroke was created Duke of Bedforde all at one time in the Tower of London On the thirtith of October King Henrie was Crowned at Westminster and ordayned a number of chosen Archers being strong and hardie persons to giue dayly attendaunce on his Parson whome he named Yeomen of the Guarde The seauenth of Nouember beganne a Parliamente at Westmiâ—ster for the establishing of all things in the whiche he caused to be proclaimed that al men were pardoned of al offences and shoulde be restored to their landes and goods which would submit themselues to his clemency After this he began to remember his especial friendes of whom some he aduannced to honor and dignitie and some he enriched with possessions and goods and to beginne the Lord Chandew of Brytaine he made Earle of Bath sir Gyles Dawbeney was made Lord Dawbeny sir Robert Willoughby Lorde Broke and Edward Stafford eldest sonne to Henrie late D. of Buckingham he restored to his dignitie and possessions The Parliament being dissolued the King redéemed the Marques Dorset and sir Iohn Bourcher whom he had left as pledges at Paris for mony there before borrowed And sent also into Flaunders for Iohn Morton Byshop of Ely The eightéenth daye of Ianuarie King Henrie married the Lady Elizabeth eldest daughter to Edward the fourth by whiche meanes the two families of Yorke and Lancaster which had long bene at great diuision were vnited made one King Henrie sente the Lorde Treasurer with Maister Bray and other vnto the Lorde Maior of London requiring 1486 Loane to the King hym and the Citizens of a Preste of 6000. markes wherefore the Maior with hys brethren and Commons graunted a prest of two thousand pound which was leuied of the coÌ„panies and not of the wards which prest was repayred againe in the yeare next following Anno. reg 2. Wheate was sold for iij. shillings the Bushell and Bay salt at the like price In the moneth of September Quéene Elizabeth was deliuered of hir first son named Arthur at Winchester Iohn Perciuall Hugh Clopton the 28. of Septemb. Sir Henry Collet Mercer the 28. of Octob. The beautifull Crosse in Cheape was newe builded towarde the building whereof Thomas Fisher Mercer gaue 600. markes Sir Richarde Simon a wily Priest came to Geralde erle of Kildare and Deputie of Irelande and presented to hym a lad his Scholler named Lambert whom he fained to be y e sonne of George duke of Clarence lately escaped the Tower of London And the childe hadde learned of the Prieste such Princely behauiour that he lightly moued the Earle and manye Nobles of Irelande tendering the bloude royall of Rycharde Plantagenet and George his sonne as also maligning the aduancement of the house of Lancaster in Henry the seauenth eyther to thinke or make the world wéene they thought verily this childe to be Edward Earle of Warwicke the Duke of Clarence lawfull sonne And althoughe King Henrie more thaÌ„ halfe marred their sport in shewing the right Earle thorowe all the streates of London yet the Lady Margaret Dutches of Burgoigne sister to Edwarde the fourth Iohn de la Poole hir nephewe the Lorde Louell sir Thomas Broughton Knight and other Capitaines of thys conspiracy deuised to abuse the colour of this yong Earles name for preferring their purpose which if it came to good they agréed to depose Lambert and to erecte the verye Erle in déede nowe prisoner in the Tower for whose quarrell had they pretended to fight they déemed it likely he should haue béene made awaye wherfore it was blazed in Ireland that the Kyng to mocke his subiects had schooled a boye to take vpon him the Earle of Warwickes name and had shewed hym aboute in London to blind the eies of simple folke and to defeate the lawfull inheritor of the Duke of Clarence theyr Countreyman and Protectour during hys lyfe to whose lynage they also diuided a tytle of the Crowne In al y e hast they assemble at Diueline and there in Christes Church they crowned this Idoll honouring him with tytles emperiall feasting and triumphing rearing mighty showtes and cries carying him thence to the Kings Castel vppon tall mens shoulders that he might be séene and noted as he was surely an honourable boy to looke vppon In thys meane tyme the Earle of Lincolne and the lord Edward Hall Louell hadde gotten by the ayde of the sayde Margaret aboute 2000. Almaines with Martin Swart a Germaine and in martiall actes verye experte to be their Capitaine and so sayling into Ireland and at the Citie of Diuelin caused yong Lambert to bée proclaymed King of Englande and so with a greate multitude of Irishemen of whome Thomas Gerardine was Capitaine they sailed into Englande wyth the newe king and landed at Fowdrey within a little of Lancaster trusting there to be ayded with money by sir Thomas Broughton one of the chiefest of thys conspiracy Kyng Henrie not sléepyng in his matters when he had gathered hys host togither ouer the whych the Duke of Bedforde and the Earle of Oxforde were chiefe Capitaines he went to Couentrie where he being certified that the Erle of Lincolne was landed at Lancaster with his newe King he remoued to Notingham to whom shortly after came George Talbot Earle of Shrewsburie the Lorde Straunge sir Iohn Cheyney with manye other In this space the Earle of Lincolne beyng entred into Yorkeshire directed his way to Newarke vppon Trent and at a little village called Stoke thrée or four miles from Newark nighe to the King and his armye planted his Campe. The nexte daye following the king diuided hys number into thrée battailes and after approched nighe the town of Stoke where bothe the armies ioyned and foughte egrelye on bothe partes but at the length the Kyngs forewarde sette vppon the aduersaries wyth suche a violence that they slewe manye and putte the reste to flighte For there their chiefe Capitaines the Earle of Lincolne and the Lord Louel sâ—r Thomas Broughton Martin Swart and the lord Grardin or after Champion Morise Fitz Thomas Captaine of the Irishemen were flaine and other aboue foure thousande This battaile was fought on the sixtéenth of June Lambert and the priest wer both taken to the no small griefe of Margaret Dutchesse of Burgoine Anno. reg 3 Sherifes Maior Iohn Fenkell William Remington the 28. of Septem Sir William Horne Salter the 28. of October The xxv of Nouember Quéen Elizabeth was Crowned at Westminster In the
fewell were rowed vp to Holborne Bridge as they of old time had bin accustomed which was a great commoditie to all the inhabitantes in that parte of London Also the Tower néere to the blacke Friers was taken downe by the commandement of the Maior The sixth of May Sir Iames Tirell Knight Lieutenant of Guisnes Castell and Sir Iohn Windham Knighte were beheaded on the Tower hill and a Shipman was hanged and quartered at Tiborne all for ayding Edmond de la Poole Earle of Suffolke Thys yeare were brought vnto the Kyng thrée men taken Men brought from the nevv found Ilands in the new found Ilands by Sebastian Gabato before named in Anno 1468. these men were clothed in Beastes Skinnes and eate raw Flesh but spake such a language Anno reg 18. as no man could vnderstand them of the which thrée men two of them were séene in the Kings Court at Westminster two yeares after clothed like Englishmen and could not bée discerned from Englishmen Henry Keble Nicholas Nines the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Bartholmew Rede Goldsmith the 28. of October The Chappell of our Lady aboue the East ende of the high Aultare of Westminster Churche with a Tauerne called King Henry the seauenths Chappell at VVestminster the white Rose néere adioyning was taken downe in whiche place a most beautifull Chappell was then forthwyth begonne to be buylded by Kyng Henrye the seauenth the charges whereof as I haue bene credibly informed amounted to the summe of fourtéene thousande pounds Elizabeth Quéene of England wife to Kyng Henry the Queene Elizabeth deceassed seauenth dyed of Childbed in the Tower of London on the twelfth of February and was solemnely buryed at Westminster King Henry the seuenth being himselfe a brother of the Sixe Kings of England breethren vvith the Taylors Company in London before they vvere entituled Merchant Taylors 1503 Taylors company in London as diuers other his predecessors Kings before him had bin to wéete Richard the third Edward the fourth Henry the sixth Henry the fifth Henry the fourth and Richard the second Also of Dukes eleuen Earles xxviij and Lords xiviij he now gaue to them the name and title of Merchant Taylors as a name of worship to endure for euer This yeare about the later end of March the prior of the Prior of Shene murthered Charterhouse of Shene was murthered in a cell of his owne house by meanes of one Goodwine a Monke of the same Cloyster and his adherents artificers of London On the xxv of June at the Bishop of Salisburies place in Fléetestréete was the noble Prince Henry the second sonne of King Henry the seauenth assured in matrimonie to the Lady Katherine late the wife of that excellent Prince Arthure The fifth of August deceassed Sir Reginald Bray Knight Treasurer of the Kings warres and was buryed at Windesore The eyght of August the King of Scottes marryed Margaret Margaret the Kings daughter maryed the eldest daughter of King Henry the seuenth A drye Sommer hauing no notable rayne from Whitsontide Anno reg 9. to the later Lady day in haruest Christopher Hawes Robert Wittes the 28. of Septemb. Sherifes Thomas Granger the 11. of Nouember Sir William Capell Draper the 28. of October Maior The xiij of Nouember was holden within the pallace Sergeants feast of the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth the Sergeants feast where dined the King and all his nobles and vpon the same day Thomas Granger newly chosen Sheriffe of London was presented before the Barons of the Kings Exchequer there to take his oth and after went with the Maior vnto the same feast whiche saued him money in hys pursse for if that day that feast had not bin kepte he must haue feasted the Maior Aldermen and others Worshipfull of the Citie This Feast was kept at the charge of tenne learned men newly admitted to be Sergeants to the Kings law whose names were Robert Bridnell William Greuill Thomas Marow George Edgore Iohn Moore Iohn Cutler Thomas Elyot Lewes Pollard Guy Palmis William Fayrefax On the xxj day of Nouember at night beganne a perillous Fire on London Bridge fire at the signe of the Panyer vpon London Bridge néere to Saint Magnus Church where sixe tenements were brent ere the same could be quenched The seauenth of January were certayne houses consumed Fire with fire againste Saint Butolphes Churche in Thamis stréete The xxv of January beganne a Parliament at Westminster Parliament of the which was chosen speaker for the commons Maister Edmond Dudley The xxvij of March was an house brent againste Sainte 1504 Martins le grand in London A newe Coyne was by Parliament appoynted that is Nevv Coyne to say Grote and halfe Grote which bare but halfe faces the same time also was coyned a Grote whiche was in value twelue pence but of those were but few coyned This yeare Alume which many yeares had bin sold for Alume deere sixe shillings an hundred and lower arose to fiue Nobles an hundred and after to foure Markes c. The forenamed Sir William Capell Maior of London caused in euery ward of London a Cage with a paire of Stocks Anno reg 20 Cages and Stockes ordeyned Hunsditch paued Sherifes Maior therein to punish vagabonds Also he caused all Hunsditch to be ouerpaued the which many yeares before lay full noyously and perilously for all trauellers that way Roger Acheley William Browne the 28. of Septemb. Iohn Winger Grocer the 28. of October About Christmas the more parte of the prisoners of the Marshalsey in Southwarke brake out and many of them béeing Prisoners of the Marshalsey brake out shortlye after taken were put to execution speciallye those which had layne for Felouie or Treason The xv of Aprill a money maker one of the Coyners of 1505 the Tower was drawne to Tiborne and there hanged There was great strife in the Guild hall about choosing Anno reg 21. of the Sheriffe for the Taylors woulde haue had Mayster Fitz Williams Tailor and the other commons chose Roger Groue Grocer Richard Shore Roger Groue the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Thomas Kniesworth Fishmonger the 28. of October This Thomas Kneisworth of his owne goodes builded the Conduit at Bishopsgate He gaue to the Fishmongers Conduit at Bishopsgate builded certayne tenements for the whiche they be bound to finde four Schollers that studie Arte two at Oxford and two at Cambridge euery of them foure pound the yeare They bée bound also to giue to twelue aged poore people of their company to euery one of them at Barthelmewtide a winter garment for euer Also to giue to the prisoners of Ludgate and Newgate euery yeare forty shillings c. The fifth of January in the night the Kings Chamber Richmond on fire was fiered at Richmond the which might not be quenched till many curteyns carpets rich beds and much other stuffe was consumed Through great
whereof he dyed slew many of his men and tooke many prisoners with two Shippes the one called the Lion the other a Barke called Ienny Perwine which Shippes were brought to Shippes taken from the Scots Blacke Wall the seconde of August and the Scottes to London where they were kept as prisoners in the Bishop of Yorkes Place and after sent into Scotland Nicholas Shelton Thomas Mirfine the 28. of Septemb. Sherifes Maior Roger Acheley Draper the 28. of October The fiftéenth of January began the Parliamente at Westminster Sir Robert Sheffeld Knight sometime Recorder Parliament of London was speaker for the Commons During this Parliamente in the moneth of March a Yeoman of the Crowne one of the Kings Gard named Nevvbolt hanged Newbolt slew within the Pallace of Westminster a sernant of Mayster Willoughbyes for the whiche offence the Kyng 1512 coÌ„manded to be set vp a new payre of Gallowes in y e same place where the sayde seruante left his life and vppon the same the sayd Newbold was hanged and there remayned on the Gallowes by the space of two dayes King Henry sente the Lorde Darcy with a goodly company Anno. reg 4. of men into Spayne to ayde the King hys Father in law against the Moores but ere he arriued a peace was concluded betwéene them In August Sir Edward Poynings accompanyed with the Lorde Câ—nton and diuers other was sente into Gelderland with fiftéene hundred Archers to ayde the Prince of Castell at the request of Margaret Duchesse of Sauoy and Regent of Flanders Edward Haward Lord Admirall of England through hys too much hardinesse was slayne before Brest in Britayne after whome hys brother Thomas Haward was made Admiral About the moneth of August the Nauyes of England and France méeting at Briteine Bay fought a cruell battayle in the which the Regent or Soueraigne of England and a Carike of Brest in France being crappeled togither were burned and their Captaynes with their men all drowned the English Captaine was Sir Thomas Kneuet who had with him Sir Iohn Carew and seauen hundred men In the Frenche Carrike was Sir Piers Morgan with nine hundred men which were all brent or drowned Robert Holdernes Robert Fenrother the 28 of Septemb. Sherifes Maior William Copinger Fishmonger the 28. of October Richard Hadden Mercer The Stéeple and Lantarne of Bow Church in Cheape Bovv Steeple builded was this yeare finished By Friers this yeare a great parte of the Kings Pallace Kings Pallace at VVestminsier brent Sca. Tempo of Westminster and the Chappell in the Tower of London and many other places in England were brent In a Parliament at Westminster was granted to the king two fiftéenes and four demies and head money of euery 1513 Duke tenne Markes an Earle fiue pound a Lorde four pound a Knight four Marke and euery man valued at Great subsedie eyght hundred pound in goods to pay four Markes and so after that rate till him that was valued at fortie shillings payd twelue pence and euery maÌ„ that tooke fortie shillings wages xij d. euery maÌ„ womaÌ„ at xv yeres or vpward 4. d. In Aprill the King sent a great Nauie of twelue thousand men to the Sea On May euen Edmond de la Poole was beheaded on the Tower hill his brother Richard was after slayne in France King Henry hauing sent ouer a great and puissant Armie King Henry beseegeth Turvvyne into France to beséege the Citie of Turwine himselfe accompanyed with many noble men and vj. C. Archers of his Gard all in white gabberdines tooke his Ship at Douer on the last of June in the morning When the King was shipped and made Sayle all his armie followed to the number of foure hundred Shippes and the winde was so that they were brought the same night into Caleis Hauen On the nexte morrowe being the first of July Thomas Lord Howard Admirall of England landed at Whitsandbay and entred spoyled and brent the Towne and returned to his Shippes The xxj of July the King passed out of the Towne of Caleis in goodly array of battell and tooke y e field and notwithstanding that the fore-ward of the Kings great Armie were before Turwine yet the King of his owne battayle made thrée battayles the Lord Lisle Marshall of the host was Captayne of the fore-warde and vnder him thrée thousand men Sir Richard Carew with thrée hundred men was the right hand wing to the fore-ward and the Lorde Darcy with thrée C. men wing on the left hand The scourers and fore-riders of this battayle were the Northumberland men on light geldings The Earle of Essex was Lieutenant Generall of the Speares and Sir Iohn Pechy was vicegouernour of the Horsemen Before the King wente viij C. Almaynes all in a plump after them came the Standert with the redde Dragon next the Banner of our Lady and nexte of the Trinitie vnder the whiche were all the Kings houshold Then went the Banner of the Armes of England borne by Sir Henry Guildford vnder which Banner was the King himselfe with diuers noble men and other to the number of thrée thousand meÌ„ The Duke of Buckingham with vj. C. men was on y e Kings left hand On the right haÌ„d was Sir Edw. Poynings with other vj. C. meÌ„ egall w t the Almains The L. of Burgainie w t viij C. meÌ„ was wing on the right hande sir William Compton with the retinue of the Byshoppe of Winchester Fox and Maister Thomas Wolsey afterward Cardinall of eighte hundred was in manner of a rerewarde sir Anthony Oughtred and sir Iohn Neuell with the Kings speares that followed were foure hundred and so the whole armye was eleauen thousande and thrée hundred men The Maister of the ordinaÌ„ce set forth the Kings artillerie as Faulcons Slyngs Bombards powder stones bowes arrowes and suche other things necessarye for the fielde the whole number of the carriages were thirtéene hundred the leaders and driuers of the same were ninetéene hundred men The King laye the firste nighte betwixte Calkewell and Freydon the nexte night before the Castel of Gwisnes at Bocarde the next night he laye beside Arde a good waye wythout the Englishe pale when he was a little beyonde Dernome there came a greate hoste of French men that purposed to haue sette vpon him but the Kyng with his hoste kepte their ground and shotte their greate ordinaunce wherewyth the aray of the French men was broken The fourth of August the King in good order of battell came before the Citie of Turwine and planted his siege in warlike wise The eleuenth day of August Maximilian the Emperor came to King Henrye who was receiued with greate triumph betwéene Aire and the campe The Emperor and all his seruants were reteyned with the King of Englande in wages by the daye euery person according to his degrée and the Emperor as the kings souldioure ware a Crosse of Saint George with a Rose and so hée and all
his traine came to the Kings Campe the thirtéenth of August and there was receyued wyth greate magnificence The thrée and twentith of August the towne of Turwine Turvvine yeelded to K. Henry was giuen ouer vnto the Kyng of England wyth condition that all men in the Towne mighte safely passe wyth horsse and harnesse and so on the foure and twentith of Auguste there came oute of the towne foure thouâ—and men of warre and moewell appointed whereof sixe hundred were well horsed theyr standardes borne before them The sixe and twentith of August the King remoued to Singate and there it was agréed that the walles gates bulwarkes and towers of Turwine shoulde be defaced razed and caste downe of whyche conclusion the Emperoure Turvviue raced and brent sent word to Saint Omers and to Aire whych being ioyous of that tydings sente thither Pioners and so they and the Englishe Pioners brake down the wals gates and towers and filled the ditch and fiered the towne except the Cathedrall Churche and the Palaice and all the ordinaunce was by the King sente to Aire to be kept to his vse After this it was concluded that the King in person shoulde laye hys siege to the Citie of Turney wherefore hée sente forwarde thrée goodly battayles the firste was conducted by the Earle of Shrewsburie the seconde battell led the King hymselfe wyth whome was the Emperour The rerewarde was conducted by the Lorde Harbert and so the firste nyghte they laye in campe beside Aire The fourtéenth of September the King and hys armye came to Beatwin and on the morrowe passed forwarde and came to a straite where was a Forde whiche with greate difficultie they passed and the next day they passed a bridge called Fount Anandiew c. The one and twentith daye of September the Kyng remoued hys Campe towarde Tourney and lodged wythin thrée myles of the Citie the whyche nighte came to hym the Emperour and the Palsgraue the people about King Henry beâ—ieged Turney Tourney were with theyr gòodes fledde to the Citie and yet the Citie hadde no menne of warre to defende it but wyth multitude of Inhabitantes the Citie was well replenished The Kyng came in aray of battell before Tourney planted his ordinaunce rounde abonte the Citie dyuers frenches were caste and rampiers made so that no Citizens coulde issue oute nor no ayde come to them Wherevpon at length to wéete on the nyne and twentith of September the Citie was yéelded Then the King appointed the Lorde â—isle the Lorde Burgeyny and the Lorde Willoughby to take possession whyche wyth sixe thousande menne entered the Citie and tooke the market place and the walles and then Mayster Thomas Wolsey the Kings Almoner called before him all the Citizens and sware them to the Kyng of Englande the number of whiche Citizens were four score thousande On the seconde daye of October the King entred the citie of Turney and there ordayned sir Edwarde Poynings Knight of the order of the Garter to be hys Lieuetenaunt wyth Captaines horsemen archers and artillerie conuenient hée made hys Almoner Thomas Wolsey Byshoppe of Tourney and then returned to Callaice and sayled Thomas VVoolsey Bishop of Turney from thence to Douer on the foure and twentyth of October In this meane tyme Iames King of Scottes notwithstanding he was sworne to kéepe the peace inuaded this lande with a mightye armye but by the good dilligence of the Quéene with the pollicie and manhoode of the Earle of Surrey the Kings Lieuetenannt he himselfe was slaine at Bramstone vpon Piperd hill with thrée Byshoppes two Abbots twelue Earles seuentéene Lords besides Knights and Gentlemen and seauentéene thousande Scottes and all the ordinaunces and stuffe taken the ninth of September there were slaine of the Englishe men aboute fiue thousande The dead body of the King of Scottes was broughte vp to London and so conueyed to Sheene where I haue séene the same lapped in Lead lye in an olde house vnburyed Iohn Dawes Iohn Bridges the 28. of September Sherifes Roger Bafford William Browne Mercer the 28. of October Iohn Tate Maior Mercer On Candlemasse daye the Kyng made Thomas Howard Earle of Surrey Duke of Norffolke Thomas Lorde Howard Earle of Surrey Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolke Charles Somerset Earle of Worcester at Lambeth in the Archbishop of Canterburies palace and not long after he maoe sir Edward Stanley Lorde Mountegle In March folowing Thomas Wolsey the Kings Almoner 1514 T. VVolsey B. of Lincolne Anno reg 6 Hedges plucked vp ditches filled and Bishoppe of Tourney was consecrate Byshoppe of Lincolne as successour to William Smith late deceassed All the hedges wythin one myle and more euery waye aboute London were pulled downe and the ditches fylled vp in a morning by a number of yong men Citizens of London bycause those enclosures hadde bin hinderaunce to their shooting The ninetinth of May was receyued into London a Cap of Maintenance and a sworde sente from Pope Iulie the seconde which was presented to the King on the Sonday nexte with greate solempnitie in Saint Paules Churche The seauenth daye of August a peace was proclaimed betwixte the Kings of England and of Fraunce duryng theyr lyues In October a marriage was made betwéene Lewis the twelfth King of Fraunce and Ladye Mary the Kyngs sister of England Iames Yarford Iohn Mundy the 28. of September Sherifes Maior George Monox Draper the 28. of October This George Monox Mayor of London of his godly disposition reedified the decayed stéeple of the parishe Churche of Waltham Stowe in the Countie of Essex adding thereunto a side I le with a Chappel where he lyeth buryed And on the North side of the Churchyarde there he founded a fayre large Almose house for an Almose Prieste or Schoolemaywomenster and thirtéene poore almes folke eight men and fiue women appointing to the sayde almes Priest or Schoolemayster for his yearely wages 6. l. 13. sÌ„ 4. d. and to euerye one of y e almes folke 7. d. a wéeke 5 l. to be bestowed yéerely 1515 among them in coles And ordeyned that the sayd almes Priest should on Sondayes and festiuall dayes be helping assistant to the Uicar or Curate there in the celebration of Anno reg 7. diuine seruice and on the wéeke dayes fréelie to apply and teache yong children of the saide parishe to the number of Free Schoole at VValtham Stovv thirtie in a Schoolehouse by him there builded for that purpose Moreouer he gaue to the parish Clearke there for the time being a yearly stipend of 26. sÌ„ 8. d. for euer a Chamber by the sayde Almes house to the intent he should helpe the sayd Schoolemayster to teach the said children And hath giuen faire lands and tenements in the Citie of London for the perpetual maintenance of the premisses to Gods glory foreuer He also for the great commoditie of trauellers on â—â—â—e made a continuall cawsey of Timber ouer the marâ—â—â—s from
an Esquier also a Cofferer béeyng a Doctor thrée Marshalles thrée yeomen Ushers in the Hall besides two groomes and Almoners Then in the Hal Kitchen two Clearks of the kitchen a Clearke comptroller a Surueyor of the Dressor a Clearke of the Spicerie the whyche togither kepte also a continuall messe in the Hal. Also in hys Hall kitchin hée had of Maister Cookes twoo and of other Cookes Laborers and children of the kitchin twelue persons foure yeomen of the Scullerie and foure yeomen of the siluer Scullerie two yeomen of the Pastry with two other Pastelers vnder the yeomen Then in his priuie Kitchin a Master Cooke who went daylye in Ueluet or in Sattin wyth a Chayne of Golde wyth two other yeomen and a groome In the Scalding house a yeoman and twoo groomes In the Pantery twoo persons In the Buttrey two yeomen two Groomes and twoo Pages And in the Yewrye lykewise In the Seller thrée yeomen and thrée pages In hys Chaundrey two In the Wafarie two In the Wardrobe of Beddes the Maister of the Wardrobe and â— other persons In the Laundry a yeoman a groome thirtie pages two yeomen purueyors and one groome In the Bake house a yeoman and two groomes In the Wood yarde a yeoman and a groome In the Barne one In the Garden a yeoman and two groomes Porters at the Gate twoo yeomen and two groomes a yeoman of hys Barge a maister of hys horse a Clearke of the Stable a yeoman of the same the Sadler the Farrier a yeoman of hys Chariot a Sumpter man a yeoman of his Styrrop a Muleter sixetéene groomes of hys Stable euery of them kepte foure Geldings In the Almorie a yeoman and a groome In Thomas VVolseys Chappell hys Chappel he hadde a Deane a greate Diuine and a man of excellent learning a Subdeane a Repeater of the Quire a Gospeller a Pistler of singing Priestes ten a master of the Children Seculars of the Chappell singing men twelue singing children tenne with one seruant to awaite vppon the children In the Reuestry a yeoman and two groomes ouer besides dyuers reteiners that came thither at principal feastes For the furniture of hys Chappell passeth my capacitie to declare the number of costly ornamentes and riche iewels that were to be occupyed in the same continuallye there hathe béene séene in Procession aboute the Hall 44. very rich Coapes of one sute worne besides the riche Crosses and Candlestickes and other ornamentes to the furniture of the same Hée had two crosse-bearers and two Piller bearers in hys great Chamber and in hys priuy Chamber these persons fyrste the chiefe Chamberlaine and Uizchamberlaine of Gentlemen Ushers besides one in his priuie Chamber he hadde twelue daylye wayters and of Gentlemen wayters in hys priuye Chamber he hadde sixe and of Lordes nyne or tenne who hadde eche of them two men allowed them to attend vpon them except the Erle of Darby who had allowed fiue men then had he of Gentlemen of Cup bearers Caruers and Sewers beth of the priuie Chamber and of the great chamber wyth Gentlemen dayly wayters there fortie persons Ofyeomen Ushers sixe of groomes in his Chamber eight of yeomen in his Chamber fiue and fortie daylye he had also Almose men sometime more in number than other sometime There was attending on his borde of Doctors and Chapleines besides them of his Chappell sixetéene daylye a Clearke of his Closet Secretaries two and two Clearkes of his Signet and foure Counsellours learned in the Lawe And for asmuche as it was necessarie to haue dyuers officers of the Chauncerie to attende vppon hym that is to saye the Clearke of the Crowne a ryding Clearke a Clearke of the Hamper and a chafer of the Waxe then a Clearke of the Checke as well vppon the Chapleins as of the Yeomen of his Chamber hée had also foure footemen whyche were garnished in riche running coates when so euer he rode in anye iourney then had hée an Harraulte of Armes and a Sergeant of Armes a Phisition a Poticarie foure Minstrels a kéeper of his Tents an Armorer an instructer of hys wards two yeomen of hys Wardrobe of hys Robes and a kéeper of hys Chamber continuallye in the Court he had also in his house the Surueyor of Yorke and a Clearke of the gréene Cloth All these were dayly attending downe lying and vprising and at meales he kepte in his greate Chamber a continuall borde for the Chamberers and Gentlemen officers hauing wyth them a messe of the yong Lords and an other of Gentlemen and besides all these there was neuer an officer Gentleman or worthy person but he was allowed in the house some thrée some two and al other one at the leaste whiche grewe to a greate number of persons Thus farâ—ute of the Checker roll besides other officers seruantes â—â—teyners and futers that moste commoulye dyned in the Hall Thomas VVolsey tvvice Embassador to the Emperour Charles After that he was thus furnished he was sente twice in embassade to the Emperor Charles the fifth for diuers vrgent causes touchyng the Kings Maiestie it was thought that so noble a Prince the Cardinall was moste méete to be sente wherefore being readye to take vppon hym the charge thereof was furnished in all degrées and purposes moste lyke a greate Prince for firste he procéeded forth furnished lyke a Cardinall hys Gentlemen béeyng verye many in number were clothed in Lyuerie coates of Crimosin Ueluet of the best wyth chaines of Golde aboute theyr neckes and hys yeomen and meane officers in coates of fine Scarlet garded with blacke Ueluet a hande broade Thus furnished he was twice sente into Flaunders to the Emperour then lying in Bruges whom he did most highly entertain discharging al his charges his meÌ„s There was no house within the town of Bruges wherein any GentlemaÌ„ of the Cardinals were lodged or had recourse but that the owners were commaunded by the Emperoures officers that they vpon paine of their liues shoulde take no mony for anye thing that the Cardinalles seruantes diode take of anye kinde of victuall no althoughe they were disposed to make anye costlye banquets commaunding forthermore their saide hostes to sée y â— they lacked no such things as they honestly required for their honesty pleasure Also the Emperors officers euery night weÌ„t through the town froÌ„ house to house whereas any English GentlemeÌ„ did repast or lodged serued their liueries for all night which was done in this maner First the Officers brought into the house a cast of fine Manchet of siluer two great pots with white wine and Sugar to the waighte of a pounde white lights and yellowe lightes of Ware a boule of siluer wyth a Goblet to drinke in and euerye night a staffe torche This was the order of the liueries euerye nighte and in the morning when the same officers came to fetch away their stuffe then woulde they accompte with the hostes for the Gentlemens costes spent in the daye before Thus
â—â—ces and then pleased them wonderous well Then â—â—â—pared they all that daye for the purposed deuise â—â— kepte them secret and close without anye noyse or â—â—tte off péeces within the Towne whyche gaue theyr Enimies the lesse â—eare of the assaulte but â—â—â—yghte wente to theyr Tentes and cowched 〈…〉 nothyng mistrusting that afterwarde immediately happened vnto them When the tyme came that all men were at rest the assaylants issued out of the Towne and there according to their appoyntment they gaue so cruell and fierce assault that they in the Camp had as much to do as was possible to resist them and euen as the Duke declared before to his Souldiours they within were compelled to turne their shotte that lay at the entrie against the assaylants With that issued the Duke and with him about fiftéene or sixtéene thousand men or more secretly in the night his enimies being not priuie of his comming vntill he was entred the fielde and at his entrie he tooke all the Ordinance that lay there and slew the Gunners then hée charged the péeces against his enimies and slewe them wonderfully he cutte downe the Tentes and Pauilions and murthered many within them ere they were ware of his comming so that he wanne the field or euer the King French King taken could arise to the rescue in so much as the King was taken in hys lodging or euer he were harnessed his Tentes were robbed and spoyled which were wonderous rith and in the spoyle and search of the Kings coffers the Duke of Burbon found the league vnder the great Seale of England newly made betwéene the King of England and the French King which once perceyued by him began to smell the impediment of his money which should haue come vnto him from the King hauing vpon due search intelligence that all the matter was deuised by the Cardinall of Englande The Duke conceyued suche an indignation héerevpon agaynst the Cardinall that incontinente hée wente vnto Rome and there intended to sacke the Towne and to haue taken the Pope where at the first assaulte of the walles the Duke was the first man that was stayne yet notwithstanding hys Captayne 's continued their assaulte and at the sast wanne the Towne and the Pope fledde Rome sacked the people fled vnto Castell Saint Angell where hée continued long in calamitie All this notwithstanding which yée haue hearâ— when newes was brought into England of the taking of the French King great triumph was made for ioy thereof on the ninth of March. About such time as Cardinall Wolsey was determined Cardinall VVolsey suppresseth Priories to build his Colledges in Oxford and in Ipsvvich to erect his new Colledges in Oxford and Ipswich he obteyned licence and authoritie of Pope Clement the seauenth to suppresse about the number of fortie Monasteries of good same and bountifull hospitalitie wherein the King bearing with all his doings neyther Bishop nor temporall Lorde in this Realme durst saye any worde to the contrarie In the executing of this businesse fiue persons were his chiefe instruments who on a time made a demaunde to the Prior and Couent of the Monasterie of Daintrie for occupying of certayne of theyr groundes but the Monkes refusing to satisfie their requests streightway they picked a quarrell agaynste the house and gaue information to the Cardinall agaynste them who taking a small occasion commaunded the house to bée dissolued and to bée coÌ„uerted to hys new Colledge but of thys irreligeous robberie done of no conscience but to patch vp pride whiche priuate wealth coulde not furnishe what punishmente hath since ensued at Gods hande sayeth myne Authour partly our selues haue séene for of those fyue persons two fell at discorde betwéene themselues and the one slewe the other for the which the suruiuor was hanged the thirde drowned hymselfe in a well the fourth béeing well knowne and valued worth two hundreth pounde became in thrée yeares so poore that hée begged to hys dying day and the fifth called Doctor Allane béeyng thiefe executor of these doyngs was cruelly maymed in Irelande euen at suche tyme as hée was a Bishop the Cardinall falling after into the Kings gréeuous displeasure was deposed and dyed miserably the Colledges whiche hée meante to haue made so glorious a building came neuer to good effect and Pope Clement himselfe by whose authoritie these houses were throwne downe to the ground was after enclosed in a dangerous séege within the Castell of Saint Angell in Rome by the Emperialles the Citie of Rome was pitifully sacked and himselfe narrowly escaped with his life The Tower at Greenewich was this yeare builded Greenevvich tovver builded Creations at Bridewell On the eyghtéenth of June Henry Fitz Roy which King Henry the eyght had by Elizabeth Creations at Bridevvell daughter to Sir Iohn Blunt Knight was created Earle of Notingham Duke of Richmond and Somerset Lieutenant Generall from Trent Northwards Warden of the East middle and West marches fore aneinst Scotlande Henry Earle of Deuonshire was created Marquesse of Exceter Henry Earle of Lincolne Thomas Earle of Rutlande Henry Earle of Cumberland were likewise created Robert Ratcliffe Lord Fitzwater created Uicount Egremunt Thomas Bolleyne Knight Treasourer of the Kings house was created Uicount Rochford Great murmuring was in all partes of the Realme for payment of money and Suffolke men to the number of four thousand rose in a tumult agaynste whome was sente the Duke of Norffolke and other commissioners by whose wisedome they were appeased and diuers executed Iohn Caunton Christopher Askew the 28. of Septemb. Sir Iohn Allen Mercer the 28. of October Sherifes Maior The eleuenth of February four Merchants of y e Stilyard did penance at Pawles Crosse and an Augustine Frier called Doctor Barnes bare a Fagot there was present the Lord Cardinall with eleuen Bishops Iohn Fisher Bishop of Rochester made the Sermon which was against Martine Luther of Germany and his doctrine A truce was taken betwéene Englande and France for a certayne space and Embassadors were sent into Denmarke 1526 for restoring of their King but the Danes woulde graunte nothing therevnto they did so deadly hate hym for hys crueltie The xxviij of Aprill came to the Court to Greenewiche Anno reg 18 Peace vvith France Mounsire Briond President of Roane and Iohn Iokin which President before the King and his Nobles made in the Latin tongue a solemne Oration the effect whereof was how dreadfull the warres had bin betwéene the Realmes of England and France He declared further of what power the King of Englande was and what conquest he might haue made in France the French King being prisoner whereof he humbly thanked him of his pitie and compassion that he had on them in their necessitie that he would consente to peace to the which Oration Sir Thomas Moore Chancellour of the Duchy of Lancaster made answere saying that it much reioyced the King that they first considered how by hys power he
that at â—â—ght of the clocke they shoulde lose their Maister Here is the ende and fall of Pride arrogancie of men Example of pride and arrogancie exalted by fortune to dignities for in hys tyme he was the haughtiest man in all hys procéedings alyue hauing more respecte to the honor of his person than he had to his spirituall profession wherein should be shewed all méekenesse 〈◊〉 aâ—â— charitie The Cleargie of Englande beyng iudged by the Kings The Cleargie condemned in the Premunire learned Councel to be in the premunire for maintaining y â— power Leganâ—ine of the Cardinall were called by proâ—eâ—â— into the Kings Bench to aunsweare wherefore in their conuocation they concluded a submission where in they called the King Supreme head of the Church of England and were contented to giue the King 100000. poundes to pardon King Henrie supreame head their offences touching y â— premunire by acte of ParliameÌ„t The fift of Aprill one Richard Rose a Cooke was boyled 1531 A Cooke boyled in Smithfielde for poysoning of diuers persons at the Bishop of Rochesters place King Henrie purchased the Hospitall of Saint â—ames â—éere to Charing Crosse and al the medows to the same adioyning Anno reg 23 The Kings house at Saint Iames. gyuing the sisters of the house pencions during their liues and then builded thereof a goodly Mansion with a Parke whiche he caused to be walleâ— about with Bricke The 〈◊〉 of August Thomas Bilney a Bacheler T. Bylney burned of Law 〈…〉 Norwich Richard Gresham 〈◊〉 Althâ—â—â—â—hâ— 28. of September Sherifes Maior Rice Griffyn executed Sir Nicholas Lambard Gâ—â—cer the 28. of October The fourth of December sir Rice Gryffyn was beheaded at the Tower hill and buryed at the Crossed Friers Iohn Hewes hys man 〈◊〉 to Tyborâ—â— hanged and quartered The 17. of May deceassed Robert Thorne Bacheler and Merchant Taylour of London who gaue by his Testament his debts firste being paide is to be destributed in the citie Robert Thom his charitie in the Citie of London of London 500. l. to pore housholders in the xxv Wardes 20. l. in euery warde To reléeue prisoners in the Counters 50. l. To pore Maides mariages 50. l. To the foure prisons about London Newgate Ludgate Kings bench Marshalsea 100. l. To Aldermarie Church in London 10. l. Summe 710. poundes In the Citie of Bristow to the making vppe of the Frée Robert Thornâ— his charitie in the tovvne of Bristovve schoole of Saint Bartholomew 300. l. to be diuided in the parishes among the poore housholders 300. l. to the redemption of the frée farme of prisage there 200. l. to the Almes houses there 100. l. to Thomas Moffit Maister of the Grammer Schoole 25. l. and to Robert his sonne 10. l. to the poore prisoners in Bristowe 50. l. to poore maides Mariages there 50. l. towarde making of a place for Merchants for the stréete in Bristow 100. l. to the repayring of hyghe wayes from Camer Marche to Bristow at the discretion of his executors as néede requyred and to the other high ways about Bristow 100. l. to Saint Nicholas Churche in Bristowe 20. l. to the four orders of Friers there euerye order 20. l. more to the prisoners of Bristowe 100. l. to the Chamber of Bristow 300. l. for the prouision of corne and wood more to the Chamber 500. l. to the reléefe of yong men that practise Clothing to the pore people of Bristow 500. l. And ouer and besides all this to be distributed in déedes of Charitie at the discretion of his executors 1000. l. Summe 3735. poundes Legacies to his sisters children other kindred amounted to 5142. l. 6. sÌ„ 8. d. His debts forgiueÌ„ wer 83. l. 5. sÌ„ 10. d. The residue of hys goods he gaue to his brother Nicholas Thorne The 28. of May Fryer Forrest was put in prison for contrarying Frier Forrest the Preacher before the King The othe which the Clergie had vsed to make to the Bishop Clergy svvorâ—e to the King of Rome was made voyde by statute a new othe confirmed wherein they coÌ„fessed the king to be Supreme head The fiftéenth of May sir Thomas Moore after great sute Siâ— Thomas Moore made by him was discharged of the Chancelorship The fourth of June the King dubbed Thomas Audeley Lorde Audley made Lorde Chauncelour Knight made him kéeper of the greate Seale and not long after Lord Chancelor The fiftéenth of June fiue men were hanged and quartred Coyners and Clyppers executed Christes Church suppressed at Tower hill for coyning and clypping In the Moneth of July the King suppressed the Priorie of Christ church in London he sent the Chanons of that house to other Priories and gaue their Church plate and lands to sir Thomas Audley The thrée and twentith of Auguste William Warham Archebyshoppe of Canterburie deceassed The King repayred the Tower of London The firste of September the Lady Anne Bolleine was Marchionesse of Penbrooke made Marchionesse of Pembrooke at Windsore and then was gyuen hir by the King one thousande pounde by yeare The eleuenth of October King Henrie landed at Calleis with the Duke of Richemonde hys bastarde sonne the Duke of Norffolke Lord Treasurer of England the Duke of Suffolke the Marquesse of Excester the Erles of Darby Arundale Oxforde Surrey and Rutlande the Vicount Lisle King Edwarde the fourth his bastarde sonne the Lord Matrauers the Lord Sands Lorde Chamberlaine of the Kings house the Lorde William Hawarde the Lorde Bray the Lorde Montague the Lorde Cobham the Lorde Mordant the Lorde Dawbney the Lorde Grey the Lord Clinton the Lorde Vaux the Lorde Mountegle the Lorde Rocheford wyth diuers other Lordes the Bishoppes of Winchester London Lincolne and Bathe sir William Fitz William treasourer of the kings house sir William Pawlet Comptroller sir William Kingstone Capitaine of the Guarde sir Iohn Page sir Iames Boleine sir Anthony Browne sir Edwarde Neuell sir Thomas Cheyney sir Iohn Russell sir Richard Page sir Ralph Eldercare sir Edward Baynton sir Edwarde Santener sir Griffyth Deene sir Iohn Dudley sir Iohn Femer sir Henry Long sir Anthony Hungerforde sir Iohn Brudges sir Arthur HoptoÌ„ sir Anthony Wingfielde sir William Paston sir Edmonde Bedingfielde sir Thomas Strange sir William Hawte sir Edwarde Wotton sir William Askewe sir Iohn Marleant sir William Barington sir William Essex sir Giles Strangweis sir Edwarde Chamberlaine sir Giles Caple sir Iohn Sent-Iohn sir Walter Hungerforde sir William Gascoine sir Lionel Norrice sir Edwarde Boloine sir Thomas Lisle sir Iohn Ashton sir Thomas Palmer sir William Boloine sir William Finche sir William Pellam sir Thomas Rotherham sir Iohn Norton sir Richarde Sandes sir Iohn Neuell and thyrtie Esquiers with manye Gentlemenne and all theyr traines The towne of Calleis had at thys season xxiiij C. beddes and stabling for two thousande horses besides the Uillages about The xxj of October King Henrie rode towarde Boloigne and was by the
manye Bishops and Abbots in Coapes and Miters which went into the midst of the Hall and there stoode a season then was there a ray cloath spread from the Quéenes standing in the Hall through the Pallace and Sanctuarie whiche was rayled on both sides to the high Altare of Westminster after that the ray cloth was cast the Officers of Armes appoynted the order accustomed First went Gentlemen then Esquires then Knightes then Aldermen of London in their Cloakes of Scarlet cast ouer thier Gownes of Scarlet After them the Judges in their Mantles of Scarlet and Coyfes then followed the Knightes of the Bath béeing no Lordes euery man hauing a white lace on his left sléeue then followed Barons and Uicountes in their Parliament Roabes of Scarlet after them came Earles Marquesses and Dukes in their Roabes of Estate of Crimson Ueluet furred with Ermin poudered according to theyr degrées After them came the Lord Chancellor in a Roabe of Scarlet open before bordered with Lettice After hym came the Kings Chappell and the Monkes solemnely singing with procession Then came Abbots and Bishops mitered then Sergeants and Officers of Armes then the Maior of London with his Mace and Garter in his Coate of Armes then the Marquesse Dorcet in hys Roabe of Estate which bare the Scepter of Gold and the Earle of Arundell which bare the rodde of Iuorie with the Doue both togither then alone the Earle of Oxford high Chamberlayne of England which bare the Crowne After him the Duke of Suffolke in his Roabe of Estate for that day being high Steward of England hauing a long white rodde in hys hande and the Lorde William Haward with the rodde of the Marshalship and euery Knight of the Garter had on his coller of the order Then procéeded foorth the Quéene in a Circote and Roabe of purple Ueluet furred with Ermine in hir heare coyfe and circlet as she had the Saterday and ouer hir was borne the Canapie by foure of the Cinque Portes all in Chrimson with points of blew red hanging on their sléeues and the Bishops of London and Winchester bare vp the lappes of the Quéenes robe and hir trayne which was very long was borne by the old Duches of Norffolke After hir followed Ladyes being Lords wiues which had circotes of Scarlet with narrow sléeues the brest all Letice with barres of powders according to their degrées and ouer that they had mantels of Scarlet furred and euery mantel had Letice about the necke like a neckerchefe likewise poudered so that by the pouderings theyr degrées might be knowne Then followed Ladyes béeing Knightes wiues in gownes of Scarlet with narrowe sléeues without traynes only edged with Lettice likewise had all the Quéenes Gentlewomen When she was thus brought to the high place made in the midst of the Church betwéene the Quéere and the high Altare she was set in a rich Chaire and after that she had rested a while she descended downe to the high Altare and there prostrated hirselfe while the Bishop of Canterbury sayd certayne Collects ouer hir Then she rose and the Bishop annoynted hir on the head and on the brest and then she was led vp agayne to hir Chaire where after diuers orisons sayd the Archbishop set the Crowne of Saint Edward on hir head and then deliuered hir the Scepter of golde in hir right hand and the rodde of Yuory with the Doue in y t left hand and then all the Quéere song Te Deum c which done the Bishop tooke off the Crowne of Saint Edward being heauie and set on hir head the Crowne made for hir and so went to masse and when the offering was begonne she descended downe and offered being crowned and so ascended vp agayne and sate in hir Chaire till Agnus and then she wente downe and knéeled before the high Alter where she receyued of the Archbishop the holy Sacrament and then went vp to the place agayne After that Masse was done she went to Saint Edwards Shrine and there offered After whiche offering done she withdrewe hir into a little place made for that purpose on the one side of the Quéere now in the meane season euery Duchesse put on hir Bonet a coronell of Gold wrought with flowers and euery Marchionesse put on a demy coronell of Gold and euery Countesse a playne circle of Gold without flowers and euery King at Armes put on a Crowne of Copper and gilt all which were worne till night When the Quéene had a little reposed hir the company returned in the same order that they set forth and y ◠Quéene went Crowned and so did the Ladyes aforesayd hir right hand was susteyned by the Earle of Wilshire hir father and hir left hand by the Lord Talbot Deputie for the Earle of Shrewsburie and Lord Furniuall his Father and when she was out of the Sanctuarie within the Pallace the Trumpets playde maruellous freshly and so she was brought to Westminster Hall and so to hir withdrawing Chamber during which time the Lords Judges Maior and Aldermen put off their robes mantles and clokes and tooke theyr whodes from their neckes and cast them about their shoulders and the Lordes sate onely in their Circotes and the Judges and Aldermen in their Gownes and all the Lords that serued that day serued in their Circotes and their whodes about their shoulders Also diuers officers of the Kings house being no Lordes had Circotes and whodes of Scarlet edged with Miniuer as Treasurer Comptroller and Mayster of the Jewell house but their Circotes were not gilt While the Quéene was in hir Chamber euery Lorde The setting at dinner of Qu. Anne and other that ought to do seruice at the Coronation did prepare them according to their dutie as the Duke of Suffolke high Steward of England which was richly apparelled his Doblet and Jacket set with orient Pearle hys Gowne Chrimson Ueluet embrothered his Courser trapped with a close trapper head and all to the ground of Chrimson Ueluet set full of letters of Gold of Goldsmiths worke hauing a long white rodde in his hand On his left 〈◊〉 rode the Lord William Deputie for his brother as Earle Marshall with the Marshals rodde whose Gowne was Chrimson Ueluet and hys Horsse trapper purple Ueluet cut on white Sattin einbrothered with white Lions The Earle of Oxford was high Chamberlayne the Earle of Essex Caruer the Earle of Sussex Sewer the Earle of Arundell chiefe Butler on whome twelue Citizens of London did giue theyr attendance at the Cupbord the Earle of Darby Cupbearer the Uicount Lisle Panter the Lorde Burgeyny chiefe Larder the Lorde Bray Almouer for him and hys copartners and the Maior of Oxforde kepte the Buttrey barre and Thomas Wyat was chosen Ewerer for Sir Henry Wyat hys Father When all thyngs was readye and ordered the Quéene vnder hir Canapye came into the Hall and washed and sate downe in the middest of the Table vnder hir cloath of Estate On the right syde of hyr Chayre stoode the
Countesse of Oxforde Widowe and on hyr lefte hande stoode the Countesse of Worcester all the dynner season whyche dyuers tymes in the dynner tyme dyd holde a fyne cloath before the Quéenes face when she list to spitte or do otherwise at hir pleasure and at the Tables ende sate the Archbishop of Canterbury on the right hande of the Quéene and in the middest betwéene the Archbishop and the Countesse of Oxforde stoode the Earle of Oxforde with a white staffe all dynner tyme and at the Quéenes féete vnder the Table sate two Gentlewomen all Dinner tyme. When all these thyngs were thus ordered came in the Duke of Suffolke and the Lorde William Howarde on Horssebacke and the Serieants of Armes before them and after them the Sewer and then the Knightes of the Bath bringing in the first course which was eyght and twentie dishes beside sutelties and Shippes made of Waxe maruellous gorgeous to beholde all whych time of seruice the Trumpettes standing in the windowe at the neather ende of the Hall played When she was serued of two dishes then the Archbishops seruice was set downe whose Sewer came equall with the thirde dish of the Quéenes seruice on his left hande After that the Quéene and the Archbishop were serued the Barons of the Portes beganne the Table on the right hande next the wall then at the Table sate the Maysters and Clearks of the Chancerie and beneath them other Doctors and Gentlemen The Table next the wall on the left hand by the Cupbord was begonne by the Maior and Aldermen the Chamberlayne and Counsell of the Citie of London and beneath them sate substantiall Merchantes and so downeward other Worshipfull persons At the Table on the right hand in the midst of the Hall sate the Lord Chancellor and other Temporall Lordes on the right side of the Table in their Circotes and on the left side of the same Table sate Bishoppes and Abbots in their Parliamente Roabes beneath them sate the Judges Serieants and the Kings Counsell beneath them the Knightes of the Bathe At the Table on the left hand in the middle part sate Dutcheses Marqueses Counteses Baronesses in their Roabes and other Ladyes in Circotes and Gentlewomen in Gownes all whiche Gentlewomen and Ladyes sate on the lefte side of the Table along and none on the righte side and when all were thus set they were incontinent â—erâ—â—d so quickly that it was maruellous for the seruitors gaue so good attendance that meate nor drinke nor anye thing else néeded to be called for which in so great a multitude was maruell As touching the fare there could be deuised no more costly dishes nor suttelties The Maior of London was serued with foure and thirtie dishes at two â—â—â—rses and so were all hys bréethren and suche as sate aâ— hys Table The Quéene had at hir seconde course foure and twentye dishes and thirtie at the thirde course and betwéene the last courses the Kings of Armes Crowned 〈…〉 Officers of Armes 〈…〉 â—arges in three partes â—â— the Hall and after stoode in theyr place whiche was in the bekens of the Kings â—â—nâ—h and on the right hand out of the Claysteâ— of Saint Stephons Chappell was made a little closeâ— in which the King with diuers Embassadors stoode to beholde the seruice the Duke of Suffolke and the Lorde William rode oftentimes about y e Hal chéering the Lords Ladyes Maior his brethren After they in the Hall had dined they had Wafers and Ipocrase and then they washed and were commanded to rise and stand still in theyr places before the tables or on the formes till the Quéene had washed When she had taken Wafers and Ipocrase the Table was taken vp and the Earle of Rutland brought vp the surnape and layde it at the boordes ende which immediatly was drawne and cast by Mayster Reade Marshall of the Hall and the Quéene washed and after the Archbishop and after the surnape was withdrawne then she rose and stoode in the midst of the hall place to whome the Earle of Sussex in a goodly spice Plate brought a voyde of spice and coÌ„fections After him the Maior of London brought a standing cuppe of Gold set in a cuppe of Assay of Golde and after that she had drunke she gaue the Maior the cuppe with the cuppe of Assey bycause there was no couer according to the clayme of the Citie thanking him and all hys bréethren of their payne Then she vnder hir Canapie departed to hir Chamber and at the entrie of hir Chamber she gaue the Canapie with belles and all to the Barons of the Portes according to their clayme with great thankes then the Maior of London bearing his cuppe in his hande with his bréethren went through the Hall to their Barge and so did all other Noblemen and Gentlemen for it was sire of the Clocke On Mondaye were the Justes at the Tilt before the Iusting Kings Gate where the Maior and his bréethren had a godly standing but there were sew Speares broken by reasoâ— the Horsses would not coape On Wednesday the King sente for the Maior and â—â—â— bréethren to Westminster and there he himselfe gaue 〈…〉 them hartie thankes with many goodly words On Midsommer euen deceassed Mary the French Quéen Mary King Henries sister deceassed â—â—â—er to King Henrie the eyghte and wife to Charles Duke of Suffolke and she was buryed at Saint Edmondsburie The fifth of July Quéene Katherine was proclaymed Prince Arthures widowe The seauenth of July two Merchants were murthered on the Thamis by one Woolfe and hys wife It was this yeare enacted that Butchers shoulde sell Beefe and Mutton solde by vvaighte their Béefe and Mutton by waighte Béefe for a halfe penny the younde and Mutton for thrée far things whyche beyng deuised for the greate commoditie of the realme as it was thought hath proued farre otherwise for at that time fatte â—ren were solde for sixe and twentie shillings and eighte â—â—â—ce the péece fatte Weathers for thrée shillings and four pence the péece fatte Calues of the lyke price a fatte Lamb for twelue pence The Butchers of London solde peny péeces of Béefe for the reléefe of the pore euery péece two pound and a halfe sometime thrée pound for a peny and thirtéene sometyme fourtéene of these péeces for twelue pence Mutton eight pence the quarter and an hundred waight of béefe â—â— foure shillings and eight pence what price it hathe growen to sence it néedeth not to be sette downe At thys tyme also and not before were forraine Butchers permitted to â—â—ll their fleshe in Leaden hall market of London The seauenth of September being Sondaye betwéene Byrth of Lady Elizabeth and hir christning â—â—rée and foure of the clocke at afternoone the Quéene was â—â—lyâ—ered of a fayre Lady for whose good deliueraunceÌ„ Te 〈…〉 was sung incontinently and great preparation was â—â—de for the Christning The Maior and his brethren and â—â—â—tie of the chiefe Citizens were commaunded to be at the â—hristning the
a platter with porage and four pencâ— in money The xiiij of Nouember Hugh Ferringdon Abbot of Abbots of Reading Glastonbâ—â—y executed Reading and two Priests named Ruge and Onyon for denying the Kings Supremacie were hanged and quartered at Reading The same day was Richard Whiting Abbot of Glastonburie hanged and quartered on Torre hill beside his Monasterie for the same cause The first of December Iohn Beach Abbot of Colchester was likewise executed In December were appoynted to wayte on the Kings Pencioners appoynted highnesse person fiftie Gentlemen called Pencioners or Speres vnto whome was appoynted fiftie pound the péece pearely The third of January was the Lady Anne of Cleeue receiued King Henry married Lady Anne of Cleue at Blacke heath and brought to Greenewich with great triumph and the sixth day of y e same moneth she was maryed to King Henry After Christmas the Priorie Church of Saint Mary Ouery Saint Mary Oueryes made a parish Church in Southwarke was purchased of the King by the inhabitants of the Borow Doctor Gardener Bishop of Winchester putting to his helping hand they made thereof a parish church and the little Church of Mary Megdalen ioyning to the same Priorie was made all one Churche and Saint Margarets in Southwarke a parish was admitted to the same parish The xij of March Henry Bowrcher Earle of Essex riding Earle of Essex deceassed a yong Horsse was cast and brake his necke at his Manour in Essex He was the eldest Earle in England The xix of March Iohn Vere Earle of Oxforde high Earle of Oxford deceassed chamberlayne of Englande deceassed at his Manour in Essex Ther. of Aprill Sir William Peterson Priest late commissarie 1540 of Caleis and Sir William Richardson Priest of Saint Maryes in Caleis were both there drawne hanged Priests at Caleis executed and quartered in the Market place for the Supremacie The 18. of Aprill Sir Thomas Cromwell Lorde priuie Cromvvell Earle of Essex Seale was created Earle of Essex and high Chamberlayne of England Also Gregory hys sonne was made Lorde Cromwell In a Parliament which began the xviij of Aprill was Subsedie and four fifteenes graunted to the King a subsedie of two shillings the pound Lands and twelue pence goodes and four fiftéenes The xxiiij of Aprill Thomas Lord Audley Chancellor Anno reg 32 of England with Sir Anthony Browne Maister of the Kingâ— Lord Audley Knight of the Garter Horsse were made Knightes of the Garter On May day was a great triumph of Justing at Westminster which Justes had bin proclaymed in France Flaunders Iusting of challengers Scotland and Spayne for all commers that woulde against the challengers of Englande which were Sir Iohn Dudley Sir Thomas Seymer Sir Thomas Poynings Sir George Carew Knightes Anthony Kingston and Richarde Cromwell Esquiers which sayd challengers came into the listes that day richly apparelled and their Horsses trapped all in white Ueluet with certayne Knightes and Gentlemen riding afore them apparelled all in white Ueluet and white Sarsenet and all their seruants in white dublets and hozen cut after the Burgonion fashion and there came to Just against them the sayd daye of defendants xlvj the Earle of Surrey being the formost Lord William Heyward Lord Clinton and Lord Cromwell sonne and heire to Thomas Cromwell Earle of Essex and Chamberlayne of EnglaÌ„d with other which were all richly apparelled And that day Sir Iohn Dudley was ouerthrowne in the fielde by mischance of his Horsse by one Mayster Breme defendant neuerthelesse he brake diuers Speares valiantly after that and after the saide Justes were done the sayde challengers rode to Durham place where they kepte open housholde and feasted the King and Quéene with hir Ladyes and all the Court. The seconde of May Anthony Kingston and Richarde Cromwell were made Knightes at the sayd place The third of May the sayde challengers did turney on Tournying horssebacke with swords and against them came xxix defendants Sir Iohn Dudley and the Earle of Surrey running first which the first course lost both their gauntleâ—s and that day Sir Richard Cromwell ouerthrew Mayster Palmer in y e field off his Horsse to the great honor of the challengers The v. of May she said challengers fought on foote at the Barriers against theÌ„ came xxx defendants which â—ought Barriers valiantly but Sir Richard Cromwell ouerthrew that day at the Barriers Mayster Culpeper in the field and the sixth of May the sayd chalengers brake vp their houshold The vij of May Sir William Weston Knight Lorde Saint Iohns in Smithfield suppressed Prior of Saint Iohns without Smithfield dyed and the King tooke all the Lands that belonged to that order into hys hands to the augmentation of his Crowne and gaue vnto euery of the Chalengers aboue written for a rewarde of their valiantnesse a hundred Markes and a house to dwell in of yéerely reuenues out of the sayd lands for euer The 26. of May was sent to the Tower Doctour Wilson and Doctour Sampson Bishop of Chichester for reléeuing certayne prisoners which denyed the Kings Supremacie for the same offence Richard Farmer Grocer of London a rich Richard Farmer in the Premunire and wealthy man was committed to the Marshalsea and after arraigned and attaynted in the Premunire and lost all his goodes Also the kéeper of Newgate was sent to the Marshalsea for giuing libertie to Doctor Powell and Doctour Abell his prisoners The ninth of July Thomas Lord Cromwell Earle of Thomas Lord Cromvvell beheaded Essex béeing in the Counsell Chamber was sodeinly apprehended and committed to the Tower of London The ninetéenth he was attainted by Parliament of heresie and high Treason and y e xxviij of July he was beheaded on the Tower hill with the Lord Walter Hungerford of Heitisburie In this moneth of July King Henry by authoritie of King Henry deuorced from Lady Anne of Cleeue Parliament and Conuocation was deuorced from Lady Anne of Cleeue The xxx of July Robert Barnes Thomas Gerrard William Sixe Priestes three brent three hanged Ierome Priests were burned in Smithfield The same day Thomas Abell Edward Powell and Richarde Fetherstone all thrée Doctours were hanged and quartered for denying the Kings supremacie of the Church The fourth of August were drawne to Tiborne sixe persons Seauen executed at Tiborne and one ledde Lawrence Cooke Prior of Dancalfe William Horne a lay brother of the Charterhouse Giles Horne Gentleman Clement Philpot Edmond Bromham Darby Kenham Robert Birde Iaruis Carrow all put to death for Treason The Ditches about London were clensed The eyght of August Lady Katherine Haward daughter to Edmond Lord Haward was shewed opeÌ„ly as Quéene King Henry married at Hampton Court The xj of September was hanged in Moore field a StraÌ„ger Harlots cause many murthers named Iames Rinatian who had slayne his Maister one Capon a Florentine in a Garden for his Harlot The later end
into Englande Claude de Honne 〈…〉 highe Admirall of Fraunce who broughte with hym the Sacre of Deepe and twelue Galleis he landed at the Tower Admirall of France came to London Wharffe where he was honorably receiued and broughte to the Byshop of Londons Palaice where he lodged two nights and then â—ode to Hampton Courte where the King laye By the waye Prince Edwarde receiued him with a companye of 500. coates of Ueluet with one sléeue of cloth of Golde and halfe the coate embrodered with Golde there was in all to the number of 800. horses In September the water of Finsburie was brought to y e Condit in Loth burie Conduit at London wall Saint Stephens in Colmanstreete and Saint Margarets in Lothburie Richard Iaruis. Thomas Curteyse the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Duke of Norf. folke and Earle of Surrey sente to the Tovver Henry Hobrethorne Merchant Taylour the 28. of Octob. The twelfth of December Thomas Duke of Norffolke and Henry Earle of Surrey his son was sent to the Tower of London the one by water the other by lande The thirde of Januarye the Churche of the late Grey Friers in London was opened Masse sung there and that day preached at Paules Crosse the Bishop of Rochester who declared the Kings gifte to the Citie of London for the reléeuing King Henry his gift to the Citie of London of the poore people whiche was by Patent vnder hys greate Seale Saint Bartholomewe Spittle the Churche of the Grey Friers two Parish Churches the one of S. Nicholas in the Shambles the other Saint Ewine in Newgate Market all to be made one Parish Church of the Grey Friers Churche in lands he gaue for y e maintenance of the same 500. marke by yeare for euer and this Church to be named Christchurch founded by King Henrie the eight Henrie Howard Earle of Surrey was beheaded on the Tower Eatle of Surrey beheaded hill the xix of Januarie The xxviij of January king Henry deceased appointing King Henry deceassed his first son Prince Edward y e second Lady Mary his daughter by Quéen Katherine and the thirde Lady Elizabeth â—â— Quéene Anne Bolloine He deceassed when he had raignâ—â— 37. yeares 9. moneths and odde dayes and was buried â—â— Windsore ¶ Edward the sixt EDvvarde the sixt began his Anno reg 1. raigne the eyghte and twentith of Januarie Anno 1546. wheÌ„ he was but 9. yeares olde King Henrie his father by his will had appoynted for hys priuy councel Doctour Cranmer Archbishoppe of Canterburie Lord Wriothesly Lord chaÌ„ce celour Cuthbert Tonstall Byshop of Durham wyth other to the number of sixetéene The first of February the Earle of Hertford was nominate Earle of Hert forde made L. Protector elected and chosen by all the executors to be protector and chiefe Gouernor of the Kings person The sixt of February the Earle of Hertford Lord Protector King Edvvarde made Knight in the Tower of London endued King Edwarde with the order of Knighthoode and then immediatly the Kyng standing vp Henrie Hoblethorne Lorde Mayor of London was called who knéeling down the kyng tooke the Sword of the Lord Mayor of London made Knight Lorde Protectour and made hym Knight whiche was the firste that euer he made The fourtéenth of February the corps of King Henry the eighte was with great solempnitie and honor conueyed towardes Windsore and there buried in the Colledge The seauentéenth of February sir Edward Seimer Earle Duke and Lordes created of Hertforde and Lorde Protectour was created Duke of Somerset the Lorde Parre Earle of Essex was created Marques of Northampton sir Iohn Dudley Lorde Lisle Lorde Admiral was created Erle of Warwike and Lord Chamberlaine of Englande sir Thomas Wriothesley and Lorde Chauncelour was created Earle of Southampton sir Thomas Seymer was made Lorde of Sudley and highe Admirall sir Richard Riche was made Lord Rich sir William Willoughbey was made Lord Willoughbey of Parham sir Edmond Sheffeld was made Lorde Sheffielde of Buterwike King Ed. rode through y e citie of London towards Westminster and as he passed on the South side of Paules Churcheyarde an Argosine came from the Battlements of the Stéeple of Paules Churche vpon a Cable being made faste to an Paules steeple lay at ancker Ancker by the Deanes gate lying on his breast aiding himselfe neither with hande nor foote and after ascended to the middest of the Cable where he tumbled and played manye preasie toyes where at the King and the nobles hadde good pastime He was crowned at Westminster on the xx of February King Edvvarde crovvned The sixth of Marche the great Seale of Englande was taken 1547 from sir Thomas Wriothesley and on the morrowe the same was deliuered to the Lord Sent-Iohn Lord great Maister The fiftéenth of May Doctour Smith recanted at Paules Doctor Smith recanted Crosse The Lorde Protectour and the rest of the Councell sent Images forbiddeÌ„ Commissioners into all partes of the realme willing them to take all Images out of their Churches for the auoyding of Idolatrie wyth them were sent diuers Preachers to perswade the people from their beades and suche lyke ceremonies and at that time the going in Procession was forbidden Procesâ—ion forbidden to be vsed the Gospel and Epistle were read in English In the moneth of August Edwarde Duke of Somerset Lorde Protectour as Generall and Iohn Dudley Earle of Warwike Lorde Lieuetenant with a noble army were sente into Scotlande and neare to Edenborough at a place called Musclboroughe fielde Williom Patyn Muuscleborough the Englishemenne and Scottes mette where betwéene them the tenth of Septeptember was foughte a cruell battel The victorie whereof fell to the Englishmen and of the Scottes were slaine fouretéene thousande and taken prisoners fiftéene hundred whereof many were GentlemeÌ„ and not aboue thrée score Eeglishmen slaine The xxiiij of October Richarde Lorde Riche was made Lorde Rich L. Channcelor Lorde Chauncellour Thomas Whit Robert Chersey the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Free schoole at Holt. Sir Iohn Gresham Mercer the 28. of October This sir Iohn Gresham founded a Fréeschoole at Holt a Market towne in Norffolke Also at hys deceasse whiche was in Anno 1556. on the xxiij of October he gaue to euery warde in London ten pound to be distributed to the poore And to 60. poore men women euery one of them thrée yards of broade cloth of eight or nine shillings y e yard to be made in gowns readye to theyr backes He gaue also to Maides marriages and to the Hospitals in London aboue two hundred pounds in ready money The fourth of Nouember the Parliament beganne at Hestminster in the which was graunted to the King al ChaÌ„tries Chauntries and Chappels giuen to the King frée Chappels and Brotherhoodes and an acte was made for the receyuing of the Sacrament in both kindes of Breade and Wine Ther vij of Nouember was pulled
miles of length and gaue twentie pound in money toward the making of Roytton bridge thrée miles from Couentrie He made the high way to Kâ—lborne néere to London He made foure Bridges two of them of stone conteyning eyghtéene Arches in them both the one ouer the â—iâ—er of Seuerne called Aâ—â—â—â— bridge the other Terne bridge for that the water of Terne runneth vnder it the other two of Timber at Stoke and built a good part of Stoke Church He builded one notable Fréeschoole at Drayton in Shropshire Freeschoole at Drayton in Shropshire with Mayster and â—â—â—â—er and sufficient stipends for them both besides conuenient Lodgings for the same He also purchased a frée Faire to the sayd Towne with a frée market wéekely and a frée market for Cattell euery fourtéene dayes He gaue to the Hospitall of Christes Church in London in Gift to Christes hospitall his life time fiue hundred pound in ready money and a hundred pound at his deceasse The xxix of Nouember Robert Kete and William Kete Robert Kete and VVilliam Kete hanged his brother were deliuered out of the Tower of London to Sir Edmond Windham Knight and Sheriffe of Norffolke to be conueyed to Norwich where Robert Kete was hanged in theynes on the toppe of Norwich Castell and William Kete likewise hanged on the toppe of Windam Stéeple In December the Scottes tooke Burticragge in Scotland and Holds in Scotland lost other holdes then possessed by Englishmen where they slew man woman and child except Sir Iohn Lutterell the Captayne whome they tooke prisoner The xix of January Sir Iohn Russell Lord priuie Seale States created was created Earle of Bedford and Lord Saint Iohn Lorde great Mayster was created Earle of Wilshire and Sir William Paget Comptroller of the Kings house was made Lord Paget The same day at night were murthered by Saint Pulchers Peter Gambo and another Captayne murthered Church against the Kings head without Newgate of London two Captaynes that had serued the King at Boloigne and else where the one was Sir Peter Gambo the other Filicirga which murther was committed by Charles Gauaro a Fleming who came post from Berwike to do that acte on the morrow he with thrée of his company was taken in Smithfield by the Lorde Paget and sent to Newgate and the four and twentith of January they were all four Charles Gauaro and other hanged Gauaro Balthasar Gauaro Nicholas Disalueron and Francis Deualasco had in a Cart to Smithfield and by the way at the place where the murther was done Charles Gauaro had his right hand striken off on the Cart whéele and then all hanged in Smithfield The xxij of January Iohn Earle of Bâ—â—ford William 〈…〉 Paget 〈…〉 William Peter Knight one of the Kings Secretaries and Sir Iohn Mason Knight chiefe Clearkâ— of the Counsell were sent into France Embassadors to the French King The xxvij of January Humfrey Arundell Esquier Thomas Anno reg 4. Rebels executed Holmes Winslow and Bery Captaynes of the Rebels in Deuonshire were hanged and quartered at Tiborne On Candlemasse day William Lord Saint Iohn Earle Nevv Officers of Wilshire Lord great maister and president of the Counsell was made Lord Treasurer Iohn Dudley Earle of Warwike Lord great Chamberlayne was made Lord great maister William Parre Marques of Northampton was made Lord great Chamberlayne Lord Wentworth was made Lord Chamberlain of houshold Sir Anthony Wing field Captayne of the Gard was made Comptroller of the Kings house and Sir Thomas Darcy Knight was made Uizchamberlayne and Captayne of the Gard and the Earle of Arundell late Lord Chamberlaine with the Earle of Southampton were put off the Councell and commaunded to kéepe their houses in London The vj. of February the Duke of Somerset was deliuered out of the Tower and that night he supped at Sir Iohn Duke of Somerset deliuered Yorkes one of the Sheriffes of London The x. of February one Bell a Suffolke man was hanged and quartered at Tiborne for mouing a new Rebellion in Suffolke and Essex The last of March a generall peace was proclaymed betwéene 1550 Peace proclaymed The liberties of Southvvarke purchased the Kings of England France the Emperour the Scottes This time the Lord Maior of London and the Aldermen purchased all the liberties of Southwarke which was in the Kings hands The xij of Aprill Doctor Nicholas Ridley late Bishop of Rochester was enstalled Bishop of London at Powles Boloigne yeelded to the French The xxv of Aprill the Towne of Boloigne was yéelded â—â— the French â—ing The second of May Ioan Knell alias Butcher or Ioan of Ioan â—utcher brent Kent was brent in Smithfield for Heresie that Christ tooke no flesh of the virgin Mary Richard Lion Goddard Gorran and Richard Irelande Rebels of Kent executed were executed the xiiij of May for attempting a new Rebellion in Kent On Wednesday in Whitson wéeke at a Court of Aldermen kept at the Guild hall Sir Iohn Aliffe Knight and mayster Alderman of Southvvarke of Backewell hall was sworne Alderman of the Bridgewarde without to haue the iurisdiction of the Bourow of Southwarke and thus was he the first Alderman that euer was there who made vp the number of xxvj Aldermen of London whereas before that time had bin but xxv Trinitie Tearme was adiourned till Michaelmas for Tearme adiourned that the GentlemeÌ„ should kéepe the Commons from commotion The third of June the Lord Lisle sonne and heire to the Earle of Warwike was married to the Duke of Somersets A marriage â—aughter at Sheene the King Maiestie being there present The xj of June being Saint Barnabyes day was kepte Saint Barnaby kept holy holyday all London ouer and the same day at night the high â—â—â—tare in Paules Church was pulled downe and a table High Aultare in Paules pulled dovvne â—â—â— where the Aultare stoode with a vayle drawne beneath the steppes and â—n the Sonday next a Communion was 〈…〉 at the same table and shortly after all the Aultars in London were taken downe tables placed in their 〈…〉 This yeare was no such watch at Midsomer as had bin No vvatch at Midsomer 〈…〉 The xxx of July Thomas Lorde Wriothsley Earle of Earle of South-hampton deceassed â—â—uth-hampton Knight of the Garter and one of the execu 〈…〉 to King Henry the eyght deceassed at Lincolne place in 〈…〉 orne and was buryed in Saint Andrewes Churche 〈…〉 Augustine Hinde Iohn Lion the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Sir Andrew Iud Skinner the 28. of October This Sir Andrew Iud erected one notable Fréeschoole Freeschoole at Tonbridge at Tonbridge in Kent wherein be brought vp and nourished in learning great store of youth as well bred in that Shire as brought from other Countreys adioyning a noble acte and correspondent to those that haue bin done by like worshipfull men and other in old time within the same Citie of London He
also builded Almes houses for sixe poore almes Almes houses people nigh to the parish Church of Saint Helen within Bishopsgate of London and gaue Landes to the companye of the Skinners in the same Citie amounting to the value of thréescore pound thrée Shillings eyghtpence the yeare for the which they bée bound to pay twenty pound to the Schoolemayster and eyght pounde to the Usher of hys frée Schoole at Tonbridge yearely for euer and foure Shillings the wéeke to the sixe poore almes people at Saint Anno reg 5. Helens aforesayde eyghtpence the péece wéekely and fiue and twentie Shillings fourpence the yeare in Coales amongst them for euer On Saint Valentines daye at Feuersham in Kente â—nâ— Arden a Gentleman was murthered by procuremente Arden murthered of hys owne wife for the which fact she was the fouretéenth of Marth brente at Canterburie Michaell Mayster Ardens man was hanged in cheynes at Feuershaâ— and a mayden breâ—te Mosby and hys sister were hanged in Smithfielde at London Gréene which had fledde came agayne certayne yeares after and was hanged in cheynes in the high way agaynste Feuersham and Blacke Will the Ruffian that was hired to do that acte after his first â—scapâ— â—aâ— apprehended anâ—â—â—rente on a Scaffold al Flisâ—ing iâ— Zâ—laâ—d The fourtéenth of February Stephen Gardener Bishop Bishop of VVinchester depriued of Winchester was depriued of hys Bishopricke and committed to the Tower agayne into his place was â—â—anslated Doctor Poynet who before was Bishop of Rochester The fifth Aprill Sir Thomas Darcey â—iâ—â—hamâ—ertaine 155â— and Captayne of the â—ard was created Lord Darcey at Greenewich The four and twenty of Aprill George of Paris a Dutchman An Arian brent was brent in Smithfield for an Arian The fiue and twenty of May about noone was an Earthquake Earthquake at Blechingly Godstone Tâ—tser Rigâ—te Croydon Bâ—nâ—ngâ—â—â—â— Alâ—erie and diuers other places in Soutâ—ery The ninth of July the base moneys coyned in the time First fall of the base moneys of King Henry the eyght and King Edward the sixth was proclaymed the Shilling to goe for nine pence the grete for thrée pence which tooke effect immediatly after the Proclamation was made The fiftéenth of Aprill the infections sweating sickenesse Svveating sicknesse beganne at Shrewsburie which ended not in the North part of England vntill the ende of September In this space what number dyed it can not be well accompted but certayne it is that in London in few dayes nine hundred and Iohn Caiâ—s sixtie gaue vp the ghost it began in London the ninth of July and the twelfth of July it was most vehement which was so terrible that people being in best health were sodeinly taken and dead in four and twentie houres and twelue or lesse for lacke of skill in guiding them in theyr sweate And it is to bée noted that this mortalitie fell chieflye or rather on men and those also of the best age as betwéene thirtie and fortie yeares also it followed Englishmen as well within the Realme as in strange Countreys wherefore this Nation was much afeard of it and for the time beganne to repent and remember GOD but as the disease relented the deuotion decayed The first wéeke dyed in London eyght hundred persons The seauentéenth of August the Shilling which of late Second fall of the base moneys was called downe to nineyence was called downe to sixe pence the grote to two pence the halfe grote to one pennie the pennie to an halfe peny Iohn Lambert Iohn Cowper the 28 of September Sheriffes The â—â— of October at Hampton Court Lorde Marques Dukeâ— and Eâ—râ—es created Dorset was created Duke of Suffolke the Earle of Warwike was created Duke of Northumberland the Earle of Wilshire was created Marques of Winchester Sir William Harbert mayster of the horâ—â—e was made Lorde of Karmarden and created Earle of Pembroke He also made William Cicill his Secretarie Knight Mayster Iohn Checke one of hys Schoole maysters Knight Mayster Henry Dudley Knight Mayster Henry Deuell Knight The â—â—â— of October Edward Seymer Duke of Somerset Duke of Somerset brought to the Tovver the Lord Grey of Wilton Sir Ralph Vane Sir Thomas Palmer Sir Miles Partridge Sir Michaell Staâ—hope Sir Thomas Arundell Knightes and diuers other Gentlemen were brought to the â—ower of London The next morrow the Dutchesse of Somerset was also brought to the Tower The liberties Liberties of the Stilyard seased Maior Nevv Coyne of the Stilâ—ard were seased into the Kings handes Sir Richard Dobbes Skinner the 28. of October The xxâ— of October was proclaymed a new coyne both of Siluer and Gold Soâ—eâ—â—â—es of thirtie Shillings Angels of â—eâ—ne Shillings c. The vj. of Nouember the olde Quéene of Scottes rode through London towards Scotland with a great company of Queene of Scottes rode through London Englishmen wayâ—ing vpon hiâ— after she had layne four dayes in the Bishop of Londons pâ—â—â—ace The first of December the Duke of Somerset was arraigned Duke of Somerset arraigned at Westminster and there acquited of treaâ—oâ— but condemned of â—elâ—nie The vij of December was a muster of Horssemen before the King at Saint Iames. The xx of Muster of horssemen December the greâ—e Seaâ—e was taken from the Lord Rich and â—â—â—â—â—ereâ— to D. Gâ—â—â—â—â—eâ—e Bishop of Eâ—ly Doctor Dunstall Bishop of Durham was sent â—o y â— Tower of London The xxâ—â— of January Edward Duke of Somerset was beheaded on Duke of Somerset beheaded the Tower hâ—ct The â—ame morning early the Constables of euery warde in London according to a precept directed from the Counsell to the Maior stâ—eightly â—hâ—â—â—ged euery hâ—â—â—â—hold of the same â—â—â—â—e not to depart any of them out of their houses before tenne of the clocke of that day meaning therby to restreyne the great number of people that otherwise were like to haue bin at the sayde execution notwithstanding by seauen a clocke the Tower hill was couered with a great multitude repayring from all partes of the Citie as well as out of the suburbes and before eyght of the clocke the Duke was brought to the Scaffold inclosed with the Kings Gard the Sheriffes Officers the Warders of the Tower and other with halberds the Duke being ready to haue bin executed sodeinly the people were driuen into a Great feare vvith small cause great feare few or none knowing the cause wherefore I thinke it good to write what I sawe concerning that matter The people of a certayne Hamlet which were warned to be there by seauen of the clocke to giue their attendance on the Lieutenant now came through the posterne and perceyuing the Duke to be already on the Scaffold the forâ—â—st began to runne crying to their fellowes to follow fast after which â—odelnesse of these men being weaponed with billes and halberâ—s thus running caused the people which â—â—â—â—â— saw them to thinke some power had come to haue rescued the Duke from
execution and therefore to crie away away wherevpon the people ranne some one way some another many fell into the Tower Ditch and they which â—arried thought some pardon had bin brought some sayd it thundered some that the ground moued but there was no such matter The xvij of February on which day was receyued the Bookes of the reliefe of all the wardes of London towardes the new Hospitals by the Kings commissioners the Counsell dined aâ— Mayster Cowpers the Sheriffe and after dinner Mayster Thomas Curteys Alderman came thither to speake with the Lord Chancellour for a matter he had depending afore him in the Chancerie but for his misdeâ—â—â—â—oâ—r in words and â—â—gnes to the Lord Chancellour at that time the sayde Mayster Curteys was committed to warde in the Fleete The sixe and twentith of February Sir Ralphâ—a Vane Anno reg 6. Sir Ralpha Vane and other executed and Sir Miles Partridge were hanged on the Tower hill Sir Michaell Stanhope with Sir Thomas Arundell were beheaded there The last of Aprill through negligence of the Gunnepowlder 1552 makers a certayne houâ—e néere to the Tower of London with thrée Last of Powlder was blowne vp and House blovvne vp vvith Gunpovvlder brent the Gunpowlder makers being fiftéene in number were all slayne The xvj of May was a goodly muster of Horssemen made before the King in the Parke at Greenewich Under the Kings Banner his band of Pencioners in Muster of Horssemen number 15â— euery Pencioner two great Horsses and a Gelding the Lord Bray their Lieuetenaunt The Lord Marques of Winchester high Treasurer vnder his Banner the 〈…〉 one C men The Duke of Northâ—â—berlande greate mayster of the Kings honshold vnder the white Lion and the ragged staffe fiftie The Duke of Suffolke vnder the Unicorne in the Starre C. x. The Earle of â—â—â—forâ—â— Lorde Priâ—ie Seale vnder the Goate C. The Marques of Northumpton high Chamberlayne vnder the Mayden head C. The Earle of Warwike mayster of the Kings horses vnder the white Lion fifty The Earle of Huntington vnder his Banner fifty The Earle of Ruâ—laâ—d vnder the Peacocke fifty The Earle of Pembroke vnder the gréene Dragon fifty The Lord Darcy vnder the Maydens body fifty The Lord Cobham vnder the Sarizens head fifty The Lord Clinton Lord Admirall vnder y e Anker fifty The Lord Wâ—rden of the fiue Portes vnder the Rose in the Sunne bâ—â—â—â—es â— The xxvj of July began the preparing of the Grey Friers Grey Friâ—â—â— in London aâ— Hospiâ—allâ— house in London for the poore father â—esse Children and also in the later end of the same moneth began the repayring of Saint Thomas Hospitall in Southwarke for poore impotent and lame persons The iâ—j of August at Middleton xj miles from Oxford a A Monster woman brought fâ—â—th achild which had two perfect bodyes from the naâ—ell vpward and were so ioyned togither at the naâ—ell that when they were layd in length the one head body was Eastward and the other West the legges for both the bodyes grew out at the midst where the bodyes ioyned and had but one issue for the excrements of both bodyes they liued xviâ—j dayes and were women children The viâ—j of August were taken at Queeneborough iâ—â— great Great Fishes Fishes called Dolphins and the â—éeke following at Blacke Wall were vj. more taken and brought to London the least of them was more than any Horâ—â—e This moneth of August began the great prouiuÌ„on for the poore in London towardes the which euery man was contributorie and gaue certaine money in hand and coâ—enanted to giue a certayne wéekely The commons of the Citie of London being assembled in Four electione for one Sheriffe their Guild hall on the first of August elected Iohn Grimes Clothworker to be Sheriffe for the yeare following who refused and payd his fine of two hundred pound The vj. of August the commons chose Thomas Clayton Baker who likewise refused and payde his fine The xv of August the commons chose Iohn Browne Mercer who also refused and payde his fine The xix of August the commons chose Iohn Maynard Mercer who tooke the same in good part and serued William Garrard Iohn Maynard the 28. of September Sherifes Great Fisheâ— taken The seauenth of October were thrée great Fishes called Whirlepooles taken at Grauesend which were drawne vp to the Kings Bridge at Westminster In this moneth of October the King demaunded of the Merchant AdueÌ„turers by way of prest of euery broad cloath then shipped to Bawmes â—art twentie Shillings sterling to A preâ—t by the Merchant Aduenturers be payde at Antwarp for certayne dette there and they to haue the Kings band for the repayment thereof which did at that time amount to more than xlviiij thousand pound The xvij of October the Sergeants feast was kept at Sergeants feast Greys Inne by Oldborne Mayster Robert Brooke Recorder of London being the principall of the new Sergeants and sixe more besides him the Lorde Maior and Aldermen béeing bidden to the sayde feast rode from the Lord Maiors house vp Friday stréete through Cheape and out at Newgaâ—e all in their Scarlet Gownes to the said Greys Inne Sir George Barne Habeâ— dasher the 28. of October Maior This Sir George Barne gaue a Windâ—â—ill in Finsâ—â—r is Charitable deedes of Sir George Barne Field to the Haberdasherâ— of London the profites thereof to be distributed to the poore Alâ—es people of the same company Also to the parâ—â—â— Church of S. Barthelmew the little certayne tenements for the which the Parson and Church-wardens be bounde to distribute to the poore people of the same Parish xviâ—j pence in bread euery Sonday for euer The first of Nouember being the feast of All Saintes Booke of common Prayer the new Seruise Booke called Of common Prayer begonne in Paules Church and the like through the whole Citie the Bishop of London Doctor Ridley executing the seruice in Paules Church in the foreâ—â—â—ne in his Rochet only without Coape or Uestment preached in the Quire and at after nâ—â—ne he preached at Paules Crosse the Lord Maior Aldermen and Craftes in their best Liueries being present which Sermon tending to the setting forth the sayde late made Booke of common Prayer continued till almost fiue of the clocke at night so that the Maior Aldermen and companyes entred not into Paules Church as had bin accustomed but departed home by Torchlight By this Booke of common Prayer all Coapes and Uestments were forbidden through Englande and Prebendes of Paules left off their hoods the Bishops left their Crosses c. as by an Acte of Parliament more at large is set out After the feaste of all Saints the vpper Quéere in Saint Paules Churche in London where the highe Aâ—ltare stoode was broken downe and al the Quéere thereabout and the table of the CoÌ„munion was set in the lower Quéere where the Priests sing The thrée and twentith of Nouember the children were
First children in Christes hospital taken into y e hospital at the Grey Friers called Christes Hospitall to the number of almost foure hundred And also sâ—eke and pore people into the Hospital of Saint Thomas in Southwarke in whiche two places the children and pore people shoulde haue meate drinke lodging and cloth of the almes of the Citie On Christmasse daye in the afternoone when the Lorde Firste shevve of the children in Christs hospital Maior and Aldermen rode to Paules al the children of Christes Hospitall stoode in array from Saint Laurence Lane in Cheape toward Paules al in on Lyuerie of Russet Cotten the men children with red Caps the women children kerchiefs on their heades all the Maisters of the Hospitall foremost nexte them the Phiâ—â—tions and four Surgeons and betwéen euery twentie children one woman kéeper whych children were in number 340. The King kept his Christmasse with open housholde at Lorde of merry disportes Greenewiche George Ferrers Gentleman of Lincolns Inne being Lorde of the merry disportes all the twelue dayes who â—â—â—pleasantly and wisely behaued himselfe that the King had greate delight in his pastimes On Monday the fourth of January the saide Lorde of The Sherifes â— of Misrulâ— mery disportes came by water to London and landed at the Tower Wharffe entred the Tower and then rode through Tower streete where he was receyued by Vawce Lorde of Misrule to Iohn Mainaâ—d one of the Sheriffes of London and so conducted throughe the Citie with a great company of yong Lordes and Gentlemen to the house of sir George Barne Lorde Mayor where he with the chiefe of his company dyâ—ed and after had a greate banquet and at his departure the Lorde Mayor gaue him a standing Cup with a couer of siluer and guilt of the vale â—â—â— of ten pounde for a rewarde and also set a Hogâ—â—â—ad of 〈…〉 and a Barrel of Béere at hys Gate for his traine that folowed hym the residue of his Gentlemen and sâ—rn aâ—ntes dyned at other Aldermens houses and with the Sheriffes and so departed to the Tower Wharffe againe and to the Courte by water to the great commendation of the Maior and Aldermen and highly accepted of the King and Counaell In the moneth of January the King fell sicke of a cough Anno reg 7. at Whitehall whyche gréeuouslye encreased and at the laste ended in a Consumption of the Lights The firste of Marche beganne a Parliament at Westminster A Parliament and all the Lordes Spiritual and temporall assembled that daye in the Whitehall in their Robes where a Sermon was preached in the Kings Chappell by Doctor Ridley Bishoppe of of London and his Maiestie with diuers Lords receyued the Communion Which being done the King with the Lordes in order went into the Kings greate Chamber 1553 on the Kings side which that day was prepared for the Lordes house the King sitting vnder his cloâ—h of Estate and al the Lordes in their degrées the Bishoppe of Ely Doctor Godrike Lorde Chauncollor made a Proposition for the king whyche being ended the Lordes departed This was done bycause the King was sickly The 〈…〉 after the Burgesses sate in the Common house at Westminster and chose for their Speaker Maistâ—â— Diar one of the late made Sergeants at the lawe The â—1 of Marche being good Friday the Parliament brake vppe and was clearely dissolued at the Kinges Pallaice of White hall at seauen of the clocke at night The thirde of Aprill being Monday after Easter daye the children of Christs Hospitall in London came from theÌ„ce thorough the Citie to the Sermon kepte at Saint Marie Spittle all clothed in plonket Coates and red Cappes and the maiden childreÌ„ in the same Lyuerie with kerchefs on their heades all whiche with their matron and other 〈…〉 were there placed on a Scaffolde of eight Stages and there sate the same time whiche was a goodly shewe The tenth of Aprill the Lorde Mayor of London was sent Bridevvell gyuen to the Citie of London for to the Courte at White hall and there at that time the Kings Maiestie gaue to him for to be a wâ—rkâ— house for the â—â—re and ydle persons of the Citie of London â—â—â—◠〈…〉 of Bridewel and seauen hundred marke land of the Sauoy rents wyth all the beds and bedding of the Hospitall of the Sauoy towardes the maintenaunce of the saide work-house of Bridewell The eleauenth of Aprill the Lord Maior was presented to the King in his Pallaice of White hall at Westminster and was made knight by his Maiesty and the same day the king remoued in the afternoone to Greenewiche In this Moneth of April and in May commissions were Ievvelles and Church plate called into the Kings handes directed throughe Englandes for all the Churche goods remaining in Cathedrall and parishe Churches that is to saye Jewels of Golde and Siluer Crosses Candlestickes Senâ—â—â—â— Chalices and all other suche like with their readye money to be deliuered to the Maister of the Kings Jewels in the Tower of London all Coapes and Uestmentes of cloth of Gold cloth of Tissewe and Siluer to the Maister of the kings Wardrobe in London the other Coaps UestmeÌ„ts and ornaments to be solde and the money to be deliuered to the Kings Treasurer reseruing to euerie Churche one Chalice or Cuppe with Table clothes for the CommunioÌ„ board at the discretion of the Commissioners The twentith of May by the encouragement of one Sebastian Voyage to Moscouy Cabotte thrée great ships wel furnished were sette â—â—â—th for the aduenture of the vnknowen voyage to Muscoâ—â—â— and other easte partes by the North Seas diuers Merchants and other being frée of that voyage yéelded towards the charges of the some fiue and twentie pounds apéece â—â—â— George Barnes 〈…〉 William Garrard being y â— principall 〈…〉 there in About the same time two other ships were sent séeke aduentures Southwards Whiles King Edward lay dangerously sicke Lord Gilforde Three notable marriages at Dâ—rham place the Duke of Northumberlandes fourth sonne marryed Lady lane the Duke of Suffolkes daughter whose mother being then aliâ—e was daughter to Mary King Henries sister whiche was firste marryed to the Frenche King and after to Charles Duke of Suffolke Also the Earle of Pembrookes eldest son marryed Lady Katherine the said Dukes second daughter and the Erle of Huntingtons sonne called Lord Hastings marryed the Dukes yongest daughter King Edward being about the age of sixetéene yeares ended King Edvvarde deceassed his life at Grenewich on the sixth of July when he hadde raigned sixe yeares fiue moneths and odde dayes and was buried at Westminster He was in this his youth a Prince of such towardnesse in vertue learning and al godly gifts as seldome hath bin séeâ—â— the like The eight of July the Lorde Maior of London was sente King Edvvards death opened for to the Courte then at Greenewich and to bring with him fiâ—e Aldermen as many Merchaunts of the Staple an 〈…〉
deceyued for whyche of vs can washe hys handes cleane thereof and if we shoulde shrincke from you as from one that were culpable which of vs can excuse himselfe to be guiltlesse therefore herein your doubt is too farre caste I praye God it be quoth the Duke let vs go to dinner and so they sate downe After dinner the Duke wente in to the Quéene where his Commission was by that tyme sealed for his Lieutenantshippe of the army and then tooke his leaue of hir and so didde certaine other Lordes also Then as the Duke came through the Councell Chamber he tooke his leaue of the Earle of Arundale who prayed God be with his Grace saying he was sorie it was not his chance to goe with him and beare him companye in whose presence he could finde in hys hearte to spende hys bloâ—de euen at his féete then the Earle of Arundale tooke Thomas Louell the Dukes boy by the hande and saide farewel gentle Thomas with al my heart Then the Duke with the L. Marques of Northampton the Lorde Grey and dyuers other tooke their Barge and went to Dirham place and tâ— White hall where that night they mustred theyr men and the next day in the morning the Duke departed with the number of 600. menne or there aboutes And as they rode thorough Shordiâ—che saith the Duke to the Lorde Grey the people preasse to sée vs but not one sayeth God spéede vs. The same daye sir Iohn Gates and other went oute aâ—â—â—â— the Duke By this time worde was broughte to the Tower that the Lady Mariae was â—â—ed to Framingâ—aâ— Castell in Suffolke where the people of the Country almoste wholly resorted to hâ—â— â— that â—â—â— Edmond Pecâ—am sir Edward Hastings and the Lorâ— Windsore with otherâ— were 〈◊〉 Quéene Marie â—â— Bâ—ckinghamshire sir Iohn Williams in Oxfordshire c. About this time sixe ships well manned that were aâ—poynted to lye before Yarmouth and to haue taken the Lady Mary if she had fled that way were by force of weather driuen into the Hauen where one Maister Iernigham was raysing power on the Ladye Maries behalfe who hearing thereof came thither wherevppon the Captaines tooke a boate and wente to the Shippes but the Saylers and souldiors asked Maister Iernigham what he woulde haue and whether he would haue their Captaines or no and he said yea Mary saide they ye shall haue them or we will throwe them into the bottome of the Sea but the Captaines saide forthwith that they would serue Quéene Mary willingly and so broughte forth their men and conueyed with them their great ordinaunce Of the commyng of these Shippes the Ladye Mary was wonderfull ioyous and afterwarde doubted little the Dukes puissaunce but when newes therof was broughte to the Tower eche manne there beganne to draw backward and ouer that word of a greater mischiefe was broughte to the Tower that is to saye that the Noblemens tenaunts refused to serue their Lords against Quéen Marie The Duke thoughte long for his succoures and wrote somewhat sharplye to the councell at the Tower in that behalfe as well for lacke of men as of munition but a flender aunsweare had he againe And from that time forward certaine of the Councell to wéete the Earle of Pembrooke and sir Thomas Cheyney Lorde Warden and other sought to gette oute of the Tower to consulte in London but coulde not yet The sixetéenth of Iuly being Sonday Doctor Ridley Bishoppe of London by commaundement of the Councel preaâ—hed at Paules Crosse where he vehementlye perswaded the â—eople in the title of y e Lady Iane late proclaimed Quéene â—nd inueyed earnestly againste the title of Lady Mary c. The same sixetéenth of Iuly the Lorde Treasurer was â—â—ne oute of the Tower to his house in London at nighte and â—â—rthwith about seauen of the clocke the Gates of the Tower vpon a sodayne were shut vppe and the kayes borne vp to the Lady Iane which was for feare of some packing in the Lorde Treasurer but he was fetched agayne to the Tower about twelue of the clocke in the night The xviij daye the Duke perceyuing that the succours promised came not to him and also receyuing from some of the Councell Letters of discomforte he returned from Bury backe agayne to Cambridge The ninetéenth of July the Counsell partelye moued with the right of the Lady Maries cause partly considering that the moste of the realme was wholy bent on hir side changed theyr minds and assembled themselues at Bainardâ— Castel where they communed with the Earle of Pembrooke and immediately with the Maior of London certaine Aldermen the Sheriffes Garter King at Armes and a Trumpet came into Cheape where they proclaymed the Ladye Mary daughter to King Henry the eyght and Quéene Katherine Quéene of Englande Fraunce and Irelande Dofendor of the Faith c. and the same night the Earle of Arundele the Lord Paget rode in poste to Quéene Mary The xx of July Iohn D. of Northumberlande hauing sure knowledge y â— the Lady Mary was by the nobilitie others of the Councell remayning at London proclaymed Quéene aboute fiue of the clocke the same night he with suche other of the Nobilitie as were in his company came to the Market Crosse and callyng for an Harrault hymselfe proclaymed Quéene Mary and among other he threwe vppe hyâ— owne Cap and wythin an houre after he had Letters from the Councell as he said that he shoulde forthwith dismissâ— his army and not to come within tenne myles of London foâ— if he did they woulde fight wyth hym the rumour whereâ— was no sooner abroade but euerie man departed And shortlye after the Duke was arrested in the Kings Colledge 〈…〉 one Maister Slegge Sergeant at Armes At the laste letters were brought from the Councell at London that al 〈…〉 shoulde goe eche his way Wherevpon the Duke sayde 〈…〉 them that kepte him yée doe me wrong to withdrawe my libertie sée you not the Counsels letters wythoute exception that all men shoulde go whither they would At which wordes they that kepte hym and the other Noblemen sete them at libertie and so contynued they for that night insomuche that the Earle of Warwicke was readye in the morning to haue rode away but then came the Erle of Arundel froÌ„ the Quéen to y e Duke into his Chamber who went out to méete him as soone as he saw the Earle of Arundale he fel on hys knées desired hym to be good to him for the loue of God coÌ„sider saith he I haue done nothing but by the coÌ„sents of you and all the whole Councell My Lorde quoth the Earle of Arundale I am sente hither by the Quéenes Maiestie and in hir name I doe arreast you and I obey it my Lorde quoth he I beséeche you my Lorde of Arundale quoth the Duke vse mercy towardes mée knowing the case as it is my Lorde quoth the Earle yée shoulde haue sought for mercie sooner I muste doe accordyng to my commaundement and
the Quéens mercy and so had iudgement There of August Doctdure Watson Chaplaine to the Byshop of Winchester preached at Paules Crosse by the Quéenâ— appoyntment and for feare of the like â—unâ—â—lie as had béen the Sonday laste paste certaine Lordes of the Counsell repayred to the Sermon as the Lorde Treasourer the Lord priuie Seale y e Earle of Bedforde the Earle of Pembrooke the Lorde Wentworth the Lorde Bliche and sir Honrie Geâ—oâ—gâ—â— Capitayne of the Guarde wyth two hundred of the Guarde whych foode aboute the Preacher with Halbertâ— Also the Maior â—â—d warned the Companies of the Cittieâ—â— Preacher at Paules Crosse guarded be present in their Lyâ—â—eries whyche was well accepted of the Quéenes Councâ—â—l and the Sermon was quietly ended The xxij of August Iohn Duke of Northumberlande was beheaded on the Tower hill whose bodye with the head was buryed in the 〈…〉 by the bodye of Edwarde late Duke of Somerset â—o that there lyeth before the highe Aultare â—wâ— Dukes between two Quéenes to wéere the Duke of 〈…〉 and the Duke of Northumberlande betwéen Quéene Anne and Quéene Katherine all foure beheaded At the same time and place also was likewise beheaded sir Iohn Gates Sir Iohn Gates and sir Thomas Palmer beheaded and sir Thomas Palmer whyche sir Iohn Gates in that place vsed fewe words but laydâ— downe his heaâ— withoute anâ—â— kerchef and had the same stâ—â—â—en off at thrée blowes Syr Thomas Palmer as loone as he came to the Staffolde tooke euerye manne by the hande and desyred them to praye for hym then putting off his gowne he leaned vpon the Easte rayle and sayde these words in effecte My Maisters quoth he God saue 〈…〉 it is â—ot 〈…〉 â—â—â—o you wherefore I come hither whyche I haue worthilye well defeâ—â—â—ed at Gods handes for I knowe it to be hâ—â— diuine ordinance by this meanes to call me to his mercie and to teache me to knowe mysâ—tre what I am and wherevnto we are all subiecte I thanks hys mercifull goodnes for he hath caused me to learne more in one litle darke corne◠〈…〉 〈…〉 than euer I learned by any trauell in so many places as I haue bin for there I say I haue séene God what he is and how vnsearcheable his wonderous workes are and how infinite his mercies be I haue séene there my selfe throughly and what I am nothing but a lump of sinne earth dust and of all vilenesse most vilest I haue séene there and know what the world is how dayne deceiptfull transitorie and short it is how wicked and loathsome the workes thereof are in the sight of Gods Maiestie how he neyther regardeth she manâ—ees of the proude men and mighty ones neyther despiseth the humblenesse of the poore and lowly which are iâ— the same world Finally I haue séene there what death is how néere hanging ouer euery mans head and yet how vncertayne the time and how vnknowne to all men and how little it is to be feared and should I feare death or be sadde therefore haue I not séene two dye before mine eyes yea and within the hearing of mine eares no neyther the sâ—rinckling of the bloud or the sheading thereof nor the bloudy Axe it selfe shall make me afrayd and now taking my leaue to the same I pray you all to pray for me come on good fellow quoth he art thou he that must do the déede I forgiue thée with all my heart and then knéeled downe laying his head on the blocke sayd I will sée how méete the 〈…〉 is for my necke I pray thée strike not yet for I haue a few prayers to say and that done strike on Gods name good leaue haue thou his Prayers ended and desiring each man to pray for him he layd downe his head agayne and so the executioner tooke it from him at one stroke The xxiij of August the Quéene deliuered the greate Nevv Lord Chancellour Seale to Doctour Gardener Bishop of Winchester and made him Lord Chauncellour The xxvij of August the seruice began in Latin to bée Latine seruice song in Paules Church in London The xxvj of August in the euening the notablest Shippe Great Harry a Shippe brent in England called the great Harry was brent at Wolwich by negligence of the Mariners she was of burthen a M. tunne The â—â— of September the Quéene demanded a prest of â— Prest to the Queene Citie of London of twentie M. pound to be repayde agayne within fourtéene dayes after Michaelmas next following which summe was leuied of the AldermeÌ„ 120. coÌ„moners The third of September Edward Courtney was created Earle of Deuonshire created Earle of Deuonshire at Richmond The iiij of September was proclaymed certayne new coynes of gold and siluer a Soueraigne of gold of xxx sÌ„ the Nevv Coynes halfe Soueraigne xv sÌ„ an Angell of x. sÌ„ the halfe Angel v. sÌ„ Of silner the grote halfe grote and peny All base coynes to be currant as before Also the same day by Proclamation was pardoned the Subsidie of iiij sÌ„ the pound Landes Subsedie pardoned and two shillings eyghtpence the pound of mouable goods graunted in the last Parliament of King Edward the sixth The fourtéenth and fiftéenth of September Mayster Latimer and Doctour Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury were sent to the Tower of London Thomas Offeley William Huette the 28. of September Sheriffes The xxvij of September Q. Mary came to the Tower by water accoÌ„panied with y t Ladye Elizabeth hir sister other Ladies before whose ariual was shot a gret peale of guÌ„nes The last of September Quéene Mary rode through the Citie of London towards Westminster sitting in a Charryot Coronation of cloth of Tissew drawne with sixe Horsses all trapped with the like cloth of Tissew She sate in a gowne of purple Ueluet furred with poweered Grmin hauing on hir head a caule of cloth of tinsel beset with perle and stone aboue the same vpon hir head a round circlet of gold beset so richly with pretious stones that the value there of was inestimable the same caule and circle being so massy pâ—derous that she was fayne to beare vp hir head with hir hand and the Canapy was borne ouer hir Charyot Before hir rode a number of Gentlemen Knightes then Judges then Doctors then Bishops th Lords then y e Counsel after whom followed y â— Knightes of the Bath in their roabes the Bishop of Winchester â— Chancellour the Marques of Winchester L. high Treasurer next came y e D. of Norffolke and after him the Earle of Oxford who bare y e sword before hir the Maior of London in a gowne of Chrimson Ueluet bare the Scepter of gold c. after y e Quéenes Chariot Sir Ed. Hastings led hir horse in his haÌ„d then came another Chariot hauing a couering all of cloth of siluer all white vj. horsses trapped with she like therin sate the Lady Elizabeth and the Lady Anne of Cleue then Ladies
their horsses to the Courte then was taking of menne on all sides It is saide that in thys conflicte one Pikeman setting his backe to the wall at Saint Iames kepte seauentéene horssemen off hym a greate tyme and at the laste was slaine The whole number on bothe sides slaine at thys battaile passed not fortie persons as farre as coulde be learned by them that viewed the feld but there were many sore hurte The noyse of women and children when the conflicte was at Charing Crosse was so greate that it was hearde to the toppe of the white Tower and also the great shotte was well discerned there out of Saint Iames fielde there stoode vpon the Leades the Marques of Northampton sir Nicholas Poines sir Thomas Pope Maister Iohn Seimer and other About fiue of the clocke Thomas Wiat William Kneuet Thomas Cobham two brethren name Mantels and Alexander VViat sent to the Tovver Bret were broughte by sir Henrie Ierningham by water to the Tower prisoners where sir Philip Deny receyued them at the Bulwarke and as Wiat passed by he saide goe Traitor there was neuer suche a Traytor in Englande to whome sir Thomas Wiat turned and saide I am no Traitor I woulde thou shouldest well knowe thou arte more Traitor than I it is not the point of an honeste man to call me so and so went forth when he came to the Tower Gate sir Thomas Bridges Lieuetenant tooke in through the Wicket firste Mantele and saide Ah thou Traitour what hast thou and thy companye wrought but he holding down hys head saide nothing Then came Thomas Kneuet whome Maister Chamberlaine Gentleman Porter of the Tower tooke in Then came Alexander Bret whome sir Thomas Pope tooke by the bosome saying oh Traitoure howe couldest thou finde in thy hearte to worke suche a villany as to take wages and being trusted ouer a bande of men to fall to hir enimyes returning againste hir in battell Bret answered yea I haue offended in that case Then came Thomas Cobham whome sir Thomas Poines tooke in and said alas Master Cobham what wind headed you to worke such treason and he aunswered oh sir I was seduced Then came in sir Thomas Wyat whome sir Iohn Bridges tooke by the collar and saide oh thou villaine and vnhappy traytour howe couldest thou finde in thy hearte to worke such detestable treason to the Quéenes Maiestie who gaue thée thy life and liuing once already althoughe thou diddest béefore this time beare armes in the fielde against hir and now to yéeld hir battel c. if it were not saith he but that the law muste passe vpon thée I woulde sticke thée throughe with my Dagger to the whyche Wyat holding hys armes vnder his side and lookyng gréeuouslye with a grimme looke vpon the Lieutenant said it is no maistery nowe and so passed on Thomas Wyat hadde on a shyrte of Maile wyth sléeues very fayre thereon a Ueluet Cassocke and a yellow Lace with the windlace of his Dag hanging thereon and a paire of Bootes on his legges and on his head a fayre Hatte of Ueluet with broade bone-worke Lace aboute it William Kneuet Thomas Cobham Bret were the like apparelled On the morrow and the next day folowing were brought into the Tower prisoners George Cobham sir Wyllyam Cobham Anthony Kneuet Hugh Booth Thomas Vain Robert Rudstone sir George Harper Edwarde Wyat Edward Fogge George Moore and Cutbert Vaughan The tenth of February the Earle of Huntington and other Gentlemenne and to the number of thrée hundred horssemenne broughte into the Tower as prisoner the Duke of Suffolke and the Lord Iohn Grey hys brother from Couentrie where the Duke hadde remayned thrée dayes after his taking in the house and custody of Christopher Warren Alderman there The eleauenth day sir Henry Isley who had fledde was brought into the Tower prisoner in an old Fréese coate and olde payre of hosen all his apparell not worth foure shillings the same daye came in twoo of the Culpepers one Cromar Thomas Rampton the Duke of Suffolks secretary The twelfth of February being Monday about tenne of the clocke there went out of the Tower to the Scaffold on the Tower hill the Lorde Guilforde Dudley sonne to the Duke of Northumberlande husband to the Lady Iane Grey daughter to the Duke of Suffolke and without the Bulwarke gate Maister Thomas Offley one of the Sheriffes of London receyued hym and brought him to the Scaffolde where after a small declaration he knéeled downe and said his prayers then holdyng vppe hys eyes and handes to Heauen wyth teares at the last he desired the people to pray for hym and after was beheaded hys body beyng layde in a Carre and hys head in a cloth was broughte into the Chappel within the Tower where the Ladye Iane whose lodging was in Maister Partridges house did sée hys deade carcasse taken oute of the Carre as well as she did sée hym before aliue going to his death a sight to hir worse thā death By this time was there a Scaffolde made vpon the Gréene ouer againste the white Tower for the Lady Iane to dye vppon who béeing nothyng at all abashed neyther with feare of hir owne death whyche then approched neyther wyth the sighte of the dead carcasse of hir husbande when he was broughte into the Chappel came forth the Lieuetenaunt leading hir w t countenance nothing abashed neither hir eies any thing moistned with teares with a Booke in hir hande wherein she prayed vntill shée came to the said Scaffolde whereon when she was mounted she was beheaded whose deaths were the more hastened for feare of further troubles and stirre for hir Tytle lyke as hir father had attempted The fourtéenth and fiftéenth of February aboute the number of fiftie of Wyats faction were hanged on twenty paire of Gallows made for that purpose in diuers places about the Citie The xvij of Februarye was proclamation made that all Straungers shoulde auoide the Realme within xxiiij dayes nexte ensuing vpon paine of their goodes to be confiscate al Frée denizens Merchants and Embassadors excepted The xviij of February Bright one of the Captaines of the Londoners that fledde to Wiat and two and twentie persons more of the Kentishmen were deliuered to the Sheriffe of Kent to be executed in dyuers places of Kent but for the Kentishmen pardoned moste parte they were all pardoned The xxij of February certaine of Wiats faction to the number of four hundred and more were led to Westminster coupled togither with halters about their neckes and there in the Tylt yarde the Quéene who looked forth of hir Gallery pardoned them Duke of Suffolk beheaded The xxiij of February Henrie Grey Duke of Suffolke was beheaded on the Tower hill The xj of Marche William Lorde Howard Admirall of Englande was created Baron Howard of Effingham at Westminster Erle of Deuonshire sent to the Tovver The xv of March the Earle of Deuonshire was apprehended and committed to the Tower for suspition
for so much as they had with gret gentlenesse restored him to his honor dignitie that he most ernestly desired to â—ee them restored to the heauenly court vnitie of y e church The nexte day the whole Courte of Parliament drewe out the fourme of a supplication the summe whereof was that they greatlye repented them of that Scisme that they hadde lyued in and therefore desired the King Quéene and Cardinal that by their means they might be restored to the bosome of the Churche and obedience of the Sea of Rome The nexte daye the King Quéene and Cardinall being present the Lorde Chauncellour declared what the Parliament had determined concerning the Cardinalles request and offered to the King and Quéene the Supplication béefore mentioned which being read the Cardinall in a large Oration declared howe acceptable Repentance was in the sight of God c. And immediately makyng prayer vnto God by aucthoritie to him committed absolued them WheÌ„ al this was done they wente all vnto the Chappell and there singing Te Deum wyth greate solempnitie declared the ioy that for this reconciliation was pretended The xxviij of Nouember the Lorde Maior of London The Queene bruted to bee vvith childe wyth the Aldermen in Scarlet and the Commons in their Lyueries assembled in Paules Churche at nine of the clocke in the forenoone where Doctoure Chadsey one of the Prebendes preached in the Quéere in presence of the Bishoppe of London and nine other Bishoppes and read a Letter sent from the Quéenes Counsell the tenour whereof was that the Byshoppe of London shoulde cause Te Deum to be sung in all the Churches of hys Diocesse wyth continuall prayers for the Quéenes Maiestie whiche was conceyued and quicke with chylde the Letter being read he beganne his Sermon wyth this Antitheme Ne timeas Maria inuenisti â—nim gratiam apud Deum His Sermon being ended Te Deum was sung and solempne Procession was made of Salue festa dies all the circuit of the Churche The seconde of December Cardinall Poole came from Lambeth by water and landed at Paules Wharffe and from thence to Paules Churche with a Crosse two Pillers and two Pollaxes of siluer borne before him He was there receyued by the Lord Chauncelor with Procession where hée tarryed til the King came from Westminster by laÌ„d at eleauen of the clocke and then the Lorde Chauncellour entred Paules Crosse and preached a Sermon taking for his Theame these wordes Fratres scientes quia hora est iam nos de somno surgere c. In the whyche Sermon he declared that the Kyng and Quéene had restored the Pope to his supremacie and the thrée estates assembled in the Parliament representing the whole body of the Realme had submitted themselues to the same The sermon beyng ended the king departed towards Westminster and with him the Lord Cardinall wyth the Crosse onelye borne before hym The xxvij of December Emanuell Philibert Prince of Prince of Piamount Piamont and Duke of Sauoy wyth other Lordes were receiued at Grauesende by the Lorde priuie Seale and other and so conueyed along the riuer of Thamis vnder London bridge to Westminster The ninth of Januarye the Prince of Orange béeing receyued at Grauesend was conueyed along the Riuer of Thamis and landed at the Duke of Suffolkes place The xij of January the said Prince of Orange with other Prince of Orange Lordes was conducted by the Lorde Chamberlaine to the Tower of London where was shewed vnto hym the ordinaunce artillerie munitions and armourie with the mint c. and so was broughte into the white Tower froÌ„ whence as he returned throughe the long Gallorie al the prisoners saluted hym vnto whome the Prince said he was sorie for their captiuitie and trusted the King and Quéene woulde be good vnto them at his departing from the Tower he gaue the Gunners ten péeces of Flemish Golde at v. sÌ„ the péece and the warders other ten péeces as a rewarde The xviij of January the Lord Chancellor the Bishop of Ely the Lorde Treasorer the Earle of Shrewsburie the Comptroller of the Quéenes house Secretary Bourne and sir Richard Southwell Maister of the Ordinaunce and Armorie came to the Tower of London and there sitting in commission discharged prisoners as followeth the Archbishop of Yorke sir Ioh. Rogers sir Iames Crofts sir Nicholas Throck Prisoners discharged morton sir Nicholas Arnolde sir Edward Warner sir George Harper sir William Sentlow sir Andrew Dudley sir Gawin Carrewe Knights William Gibs esquire Cuthbert Vaughan Harington Tremaile and others The fourth of February Iohn Rogers Uicar of Saint Sepulchres Iohn Rogers brent was brent in Smithfielde The seuenth of February the Lord Strange being marryed Iuogo de Can. to the Earle of Comberlands daughter at the Courte the same daye at night was a goodly pastime of Iuogo de Canne by Cresset light The xviij of February Thomas Thurlebe Bishop of Ely Embassadours sent to Rome 1558 Erle of Deuonshyre deliuered and Anthony Lord Montacute with other tooke their iorny towardes Rome Embassadors from the King and Quéene Agaynst Easter the Lord Courtney Earle of Deuonshire came againe to the Courte and about ten dayes after the Lady Elizabeth came likewise to the Quéene both at Hampton Court where the Quéene had taken hir Chamber to bée delyuered of childe but all proued contrarie for she neyther hadde childe nor greate hope to haue anye On Easter daye a Prieste sometime a Monke at Biciter VVilliam Flovver brent at VVestminster named William Branche alias Flower with a Wood knife wounded an other Priest as he was ministring the Sacrament to the people in Saint Margarets Churche at Westminster for the whiche facte the saide William Flower the xxiiij of Aprill had his right hand smitten off for opinions in matters of religion was burned in the Sanctuary nighe to Saint Margarets Churchyarde In May Cardinall Poole the Lorde Chauncellor the Embassadoures sent ouer to Callais Earle of Arundale and the Lorde Paget wente ouer Sea to Callais and neare vnto Marke treated with the Emperors French Kings coÌ„missioners for a peace to be had betwéen the said Princes Cardinall Poole being president there who returned againe into Englande aboute the middest of June without any agréement making The x. of May William Conestable alias Fetharstone a Millars son about the age â—â— eightéene yeres who had published King Edwarde the sixth A Millers sonne fained to bee K. Edvvarde the â—ixte to be alyue and sometime named himselfe to be King Edwarde the sixth was taken at Eltham in Kent and conueyed to Hampton Courte where beyng examined by the Counsell he requyred pardon and saide he wiste not what he did but as he was perswaded by manye from thence he was sent to the Marshalsea and the xxij of May he was carryed in a Cart thoroughe London to Westminster wyth a paper on hys head wherein was written that he hadde named hymselfe to be Kyng
feaste was kepte at Greis Inne neare vnto Holborne and there were at that time Sergeants feaste made seauen newe Sergeants of the lawe The xxvij of May in the towne of Milnal in Suffolke eight Milnal in Suffolke brent myle from Newmarket 37. houses besides barnes stables such like were coÌ„sumed with fire in the space of two houres Shane Oneale who had most trayterously rebelled against Shane Oneale discomfited Statuta Regni Hiberniae Edmond Campion the Quéenes Maiestie in Ireland had done manye greate outrages in the partes of Vâ—ster was this yeare wyth hys greate losse manfully repelled from the siege of Dundalke by the garrison thereof and afterward through the great valiancie of sir Henrie Sidney Knight of the order Lord Deputie of Irelande he was so discomfited in sundry conflictes with the losse of 3500. of his men that nowe foreséeyng hys declination to be iminant he determined to put a colleâ— about his necke disguising himselfe to repayre to the Lord Deputy patiently to require his pardon to haue his life But Neil Maâ—keuer hys Secretary who had incited him to this rebellion perswaded hym firste to trye and treate the friendship of certaine wilde Scots that then say 〈…〉 in Clan Ibon vnder the conducting of Alexander Oge and Mec Gilliam Buske whose father and vncle Shane Oneale hadde lately kylled in an ouerthrow giuen by the Scots neuerthelesse he wel liking this perswasion went to the saide camp the second of June where after a dissembled entertainment and quaffing of Wine Gilliam Buske burning wyth desire of reuenge of his fathers and vncles death and ministryng Shane Oneale slayne quarrelling talke issued out of the Tent and made a feay vppon Oneales men and then gathering togither hys Scots in a throng sodainely entred the Tent againe who there wyth their slaughter Swordes hewed in péeces Shane Oneale hys Secretarie and all hys company excepte a verye fewe whych escaped by flyght The 8. of June sir Thomas Sackuile Knight was created Baron of Buckhurst at Westminster in the Quéenes Palaice On Saint Iohns euen at nighte was the like standyng VVatche at Midsomer watche in London as had béene on Saint Peters euen in the yeare before passed The xxix of July Charles Iames the yong Prince of Creation in Scotlande Scotlande after a Sermon made by Iohn Knokes was crowned King of Scots at Sterling Churche where were read certaine Commissions wyth the Quéenes priuy seale at them for the establishing of the same The first for hir resignation of the Crowne and gouernement of the yong Prince hir sonne The seconde to aucthorize the Earle of Murrey to be Regent during his minoritie The thirde to gyue authoritie and power to seauen other ioyning with the sayde Erle of Murrey in case he shoulde refuse to exercise the same alone that is to saye the Duke of Chaâ—â—leroy the Earles of Leunex Argyle Athelmorto â—lencarne and Marre the commissions béeing ended the Byshoppe of Akelley wyth twoo Superintendents procéeded to the Coronation the Earle Morton and Lorde Hume tooke â—the for the King that hée shoulde rule in the faith feare and loue of God to maintaine the Religion then preached in Scotlande and persecute all aduersaries to the same c. The whole ceremony of the coronation was done in their mother tongue and at that time the Quéene of Scottes was prisoner at Loughleuen Thomas Ramsey William Bonde the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Sir Roger Martin Mercer the 28. of October After a drye Summer followed a sharpe Winter wyth suche a scarcitie of Fodder and Hay that in dyuers places the same was solde by waighte as in Yorkeshire and in the Peake Haye was solde for fiue pence the stone there followed also a greate death of cattel especially of horse shéepe In the moneth of January the Quéenes Maiestie sente into the narrow seas thrée of hir ships named the Antelope the Swallow and the Aide and one Barke named the Phoenix the whiche were manned with v. C. men and hir Highnesse appointed the charge of those ships and men to Mayster William Holstoke Esquier Comptroller of hir Highnesse shippes who had commaundement to stay the subiects of King Philip and according to hys duetie and charge hée vsed suche diligence that on the eleauenth of Marche nexte following he mette with eleauen saile of Flemishe Hoyes vppon Bolongne whyche came from Roanâ— and in them foure hundred and odde Tuunes of Gascoigne and French Wines whyche they intended to haue conueyed into Flaunders but William Holstoke stayed al the saide Hoyes sent them to London where they made their discharge and the Flemings disappointed Moreouer on the eight and twentith of March the said William Holstoke seruing in the Antelope at that present Admirall in his company being William Winter the yonger at that time Uizadmirall seruing in the Ayde and â— Basing Capitaine of the Sâ—â—llowe and Thomas Generley Captaine of the Phoenix meâ—te in the narrowe Seas wyth fouretéene sayle of greate Hâ—lkes whych were come out of Portingale and bounde to Flaunders theyr chiefe lading béeyng Portingale Salte and yet hadde good store of Spanishe Rialles of Plate and also greate store of Spices the which fourtéene Hulkes did mainteyne their fight for the space of two houres and after that they did perceyue that they could not preuayle the sayd W. Holstoke and hys company tooke eyght of the same Hulkes whereof sixe were sent into the Riuer of Thamis and the Admirall and Uizadmirall of the sayd Hulkes being two great Shippes which W. Holstoke himselfe did take were conuayed to Harwich and there discharged The xxviij of March through vehement rage and tempest Great vvinds of windes many vessels in the Thamis with two Tiltebeates before Grauesend were sunke and drowned The xxvj of June deceassed Thomas Yong Archbishop Archbishop of Yorke deceassed of Yorke at his manour of Shefield and was honourably buryed at Yorke This yeare Carâ—â—nall Odet Chastilion fléeth out of Peter Ramâ—â— France into England where he remayned till the yeare of our Lord 1570 and then dyed at Canterbury and was there bâ—ryed in Christes Church Iohn Oleph Robert Harding the 28. of September Sheriffes The xj of October were taken in Suffolke at Downam bridge â—éere vnto Ipswich eyghtéene monstrous fishes some Monstrous fishes of them conteyning xxvij foote in length the other xxiiij or xxj foote a péece at the least Sir Thomas Roe merchant Taylor the 28. of October Maior Sherife Iames Bacon the 26. of Nouember At the costes and charges of the Citizens of London a new Conduit was builded at Walbrooke corner néere to Nevv Conduit at VValbroke Anno reg 11 Downegate which was finished in the moneth of October the water whereof is conuayed out of the Thamis The xvij of January Philip Mestrell a Frenchman and A Frenchman executed two Englishmen were drawne from Newgate to Tiborne and there hanged the Frenchman quartered who
Naylor were called to bring in the sayd Naylor Champion for Simon Lowe shortly thervpon sir Ierome Bowes leading Nailor by the hand entreth with him the lystes bringing hym downe that square by which he entred being on the left haÌ„d of the Judges so about til he came to the next square iust against the Judges there making curtesiâ— first with one leg then wyth the other passed forth til be came to the middle of the place then made the lyke obeysance so passing till they came to the Bar there he made the like curtesie and his shield was held vp aloft ouer his head Nailor put off his nether stocks so bare foote and bare legged saue his silke Sâ—auilonions to y e ankles his dublet sléeues tyed vp aboue the elbow bare-headed came in as is aforesaid Then were the sureties of George Thorne called to bring in the same Thorne immediatly sir Henrie Cheyney entring at the vpper ende on the right hand of the Judges vsed the like order in coming about by hys side as Naylor had before on that other side so comming to the Bar with like obeysance helde vp his shield Proclamation was made that none should touch the Bars nor presume to come within the same except such as were appoynted After all this solempne order was finished the Lâ—chiefe Justice rehearsing the maner of bringing the Writ of right by Simon Low of the answere made thervnto by Paramore of the procéeding therein and how Paramore had chalenged to defend his right to the lande by battel by his Champion Thomas Thorne and of the accepting the tryall that was by Lowe with his Champion Henrie Naylor then for default in appearance in Lowe he adiudged the land to Paramore dismissed the Champions acquitting the sureties of their bandâ— He also willed Henrie Naylor to render againe to George Thorne his Gauntlet wherevnto the sayde Naylor aunsweared that hys Lordeshyp myghte commaunde hym any thing but willingly he would not render the saide Gaâ—tlet to Thorne excepte hée coulde winne it and further he chalenged the saide Thorne to playe wyth hym halfe a score blowes to shew some pastime to the Lorde chiefe Justice and the other there assembled but Thorne aunsweared that hée came to fighte and woulde not playe Then the Lordo chiefe Justice commending Naylor for his valiaunt courage commaunded them bothe quietly te departe the fielde c. The sixetéenth of July Rebecca Chamber late wyfe to A vvoman breÌ„t at Maydstone Thomas Chamber of Herieitesham was founde culpable of poysonyng the saide Thomas Chamber hir husbande at the assises holden at Maidstone in the Countie of Kent For the which farre hauyng well deserued she was there brent on the nexte morrowe The seauenth of September the Duke of Norffolke was Duke of Norffolke sent to the Tovver remoued from the Charterhouse to the Tower of London prisoner The two and twentith of September deceassed Iohn Iewell Bishoppe of Salisbury deceassed Byshoppe of Sâ—lisburie in hys life a most eloquent and diligent Preacher but a farre more painfull and studious Writer as hys workes remayning beare witnesse whereby hys fame shall neuer dye Henrie Milles Iohn Braunche the 28. of September Sherifes Maior The Christians victorie againste the Turkes Sir William Allin Mercer the 28. of October The ninth of Nouember great reioycing was made at London with hanquetting and bonefyres for ioye of the late come newes of a maruellous victorie obtayned by the christian army by sea against the Turkes the sixth of October last passed wherein were taken and sunke of the Turkes Galleis and Brygantines two hundred and thyrtie there were slaine of the Turkes more than thyrtie thousande besides a great number of prisoners taken and aboute twelue thousande Christians that had bin slaues wyth the Turkes were set at libertie The Christians loste seauen Galleys and Anno reg 14 were slaine aboute sixe or seauen thousande The thyrtith of December Reynolde Grey was by the Earle of Kent Quéenes Maiestie restored Earle of Kent The thyrtéenth of January deceased Sir William Peter Sir VVilliam Peter deceassed Knight who for hys iudgement and pregnant witte hadde béene Secretary and of priuie Councell to foure Kings and Quéenes of thys Realme and seauen times Lorde Embassador abroade in forraine landes he augmented Exceter Colledge in Oxforde with landes to the value of an hundred pounde by yeare and also builded â—enne Almes houses in the parishe of Ingerstone for twenty pore people ten within the house and tenne wythout the house hauyng euerye one two pence the daye a winter gowne and two loade of wood and among them féedyng for sixe Kyâ—e Winter and Sommer and a Chaplaine to saye them seruice daylye The sixetéenth of January the Lorde Thomas Hawarde Duke of Norffolke arraigned Duke of Norffolke was arraigned in Westminster hall before George Lorde Talbot Earle of Shrewsburie hyghe Steward of Englande for that daye and there by hys Péeres founde guyltie of hyghe treason and hadde iudgement accordynglye The eleauenth of February Kenelme Barney and Edmonde Mather Barney and Roliâ— executed Mather were drawne from the Tower of London and Henrie Rolfe from the Marshalsea in Southwarke all thrée to Tyborne and there hanged bowelled and quartred for treason Barney and Mather for conspiracie and Rolfe for counterfayting the Quéenes Maiesties hande The Quéenes Maiestie hearing credibly by report that Conueyers of Belles Lead other churche goods are to be punished to the example of their too many follovvers certaine lewde persons vnder pretence of executing Commissions for inquiries to be made for lands concealed contrarye to hir Maiesties meaning chalenging lands â—â—ocks of money Plate c. letting not also to make pretence to the Belles Lead and other suche thyngs belonging to Parishe Churches or Chappels Hir Maiestie meaning spéedily to wythstande suche manner of vnlawfull practises commaunded that al Commissions then extant and not determined for inquisition of any manner of concealementes â—houlde be by Supersidias oute of hir Exchequer reuoked â—â—d also appoynted spéedye remedye to be had against suche 〈◊〉 as more aâ— large appâ—â—â—â—th by a Proclamation â—â—is 〈…〉 〈◊〉 â—◠〈◊〉 â—â— haue some speciall â—â—r◠〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to the 〈◊〉 but also to the reforâ—â—ng â—◠〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and iniurious attempts of dyuers that of late time by other colour thâ— for hir Maiesties vse had taken away the lead of Churches and Chappels yea and Belles also out of Stéeples and other coâ—mon gâ—â—dâ—â— belonging to parishes an example not to be suffred vnpunished nor vnreformed And so hir Maiestie eâ—tâ—â—â—â—es chargeth hir Justices of hir Assise to prouide seuere remedy bothe for punishement and reformation thereof Dated at Westminster the thirtéenth daye of February the fourteenth yers of hir raigne The tenth of March deceassed sir William Pawlet knight Sir VVilliam Pavvlet Lorde Treasourer deceassed Lorde Sent-Iohn Earle of Wiltshire Marques of Winchester Knight of the Honourable
greate and déepe snowes and sometimes raines whych fréezed as faste as the same fell to the ground where-through at Wrotham in Kent and manye other places the armes boughes of trées béeing ouer-charged wyth Ice brake off and fel froÌ„ the stockes of the same trées also the wind continued north and east till after the Ascention day wyth sharpe frostes and snowes whereby followed a late Spring The twelfth of Januarye William Lorde Haward Baron Lorde priuie Seale deceassed of Effingham Lorde priuie Seale Knight of the noble order of the Garter and one of the priuie Councell deceassed at Hampton Courte The eyghtéenth of January William Lorde Somerset Earle of VVorcester sente into Fraunce Earle of Worcester beganne hys iorney towardes Fraunce to the christning of the Kings daughter there in steade of the Quéenes Maiestie of Englande who sente wyth hym a Font of Golde for that purpose weyghing 326. ounces The saide Earle wyth manye of his company were robbed Earle of VVorcester robbed on the Sea vpon the Sea by Pyrates of muche of their baggage and thrée or four of their men slaine In Fraunce he and his traine were honorablye receyued At the christning he gaue the chylde to name Elizabeth and returned into Englande the seauen and twentith of Februarye In the Moneth of February through sundry hainous coÌ„plaintes brought to the Quéenes Maiestie and hir Counsel of Pyrates that kepte the narrowe seas doing manye robberies as also the robbing of the Earle of Worcester as is aforesaid hir Highnesse by the aduice of hir honorable counsell tooke order wyth the Lorde Admirall of Englande that he shoulde sende to the Seas shippes and men to scowre the narrow Seas and to apprehende so manye Pyrates ships as mighte be mette with and for the better doing thereof it pleased hir Maiestie to sende one of hir owne shippes named the Swallowe to be the Admiral vnder the charge of William Holstocke of London Esquyre Comptroller of hyr Highnesse shippes who hadde wyth hym the Gyllian the Barke Garet and the Barke of Yarmouth and 360. able marriuers gunners souldiours in the saide thrée shippes and and one Barke whyche scowred the narrowe seas from the North Forelande as farre Weastwardes as Falmouth in Pyrates on the VVeast Seat Cornwall and tooke twentie shippes and Barkes of sundrye nations viz. Englishe Frenche and Flemings but all Pirates and in fashion of warre He apprehended in those shippes and Barkes to the number of 900. men of all nations and sent them to warde to Sandwiche Douer Wighte and Portesmouth wherof thrée of them that robbed the Earle of Worcester were shortlye after executed at Wight also the said Pirats executed William Holstocke did rescue and take from the abouesaide Pyrats shippes fiftéene other Merchant shippes laden with Marchandise that were their prises being of sundry nations and set at libertie the said fiftéene Merchaunt shippes and goodes whiche done he returned to Portsmouth and there ended his voyage in March Peter Ramus in hys Commentaries of the wars of France Peter Ramus writeth thus The Earle of Worcester passing into France certaine Frenchemen and Flemings set vppon hym tooke from him one of his ships and kylled certaine of hys men wherevpon the Quéene of Englande takyng displeasure sente the Lorde Admirall saith he wherein he mistooke the matter for Maister William Holstocke was sente as is aforesaide who set vpon all the shippes French and Flemings tooke and carryed awaye what so came to hande so that xx of Mongomeries shippes were lost who was goyng to Rochell with the number of fiftie shippes well furnished oute of Englande wyth money there borrowed but neuer repayed thus his nauie being diminished of those twenty shippes when hée saw the kings nauie néere to Rochel he directed his course an other way landed at Bel Isle and tooke bothe the Isle and Castel The fourth of Marche a man was hanged in chaines in A man hanged in Saint Georges fielde Saint Georges fielde beyonde Southwarke of London for murdethe the Gaylour of Horsham in the same fielde The seauentéenth of Marche deceassed Reinolde Grey of Earle of Kent deceassed Ruthen Earle of Kent at Hernesey and was buryed at Saint Giles withoute Creeplegate Aboute the same time dyed Edmonde Lorde Chandos The fiue and twentith of Marche beyng Wednesday in 1573 George SauÌ„ders murdered at Shooters hill Easter wéeke and the feaste of the Aâ—nâ—â—ciation of our Lady George Browne cruelly murdered two honest men néere vnto Shooters hill in Kent the one of them was a wealthie Merchant of London named George Saunders the other Iohn Bean of Wolwich whyche murder was committed in maner as followeth On Tuisdaye in Easter wéeke the foure and twentith of Marche the saide George Browne receyuing secreate intelligence by letter froÌ„ Maistresse Anne Drewrie that maister Saunders shoulde lodge the same night at the house of one Maister Barnes in Woolwiche and from thence goe on foote to Saint Mary Cray the nexte morning lay in wayte for him by the waye a little from Shooters hill and there slewe bothe hym and Iohn Bean seruant to Maister Barnesâ— but Iohn Bean hauyng senne or eleauen woundes and béeyng left for dead by Gods prouidence reuiued agayne and créeping awaye on all foure was founde by an olde manne and his maiden and conueyed to Woolwiche where he gaue euident markes of the murtherer Immediatelye vpon the déede doing Browne sent Maistresse Drewrie worde thereof by Roger Clement among them called Trustie Roger he himselfe repaired forthwith to the Courte at Greenewiche and anone after him came thither the report of the murther also Then departed he theÌ„ce vnto London and came to the house of Maistresse Drewrie where thoughe he spake not personallye wyth hir after coÌ„ference hadde with hir seruant Trustie Roger she prouided him twentie pounde that same daye for the whych she laide certaine Plate of hir owne and of Maistresse Saunders to guage On the nexte morrowe being Thurseday hauing intelligence that Browne was soughte for they sente hym sixe poundes more by the same Roger warnyng hym to shift for hymself by flight whyche thing he forflowed not to doe neuerthelesse the Lordes of the Quéenes Maiesties Councell caused spéedy and narrowe searche to be made for hym that vppon the eight and twentith of the same moneth hée was apprehended in a mans house of his owne name at Rochester and being brought backe againe to the Court was examined by the Councel to whom he confessed the déede as you haue hearde and that he had often times before pretended sought to do the same by the instigation of the sayde Maistresse Drewrie who had promised to make a marriage betwéene hym Maistresse Saunders whome he séemed to loue excessiuely neuerthelesse he protested thoughe vntrulye that Maistresse Saunders was not priuie nor consenting therevnto Upon his confessioÌ„ he was arraigned at y â— Kings Bench in Westminster hall the xviij of Aprill where hée acknowledged himselfe guiltie
doth séeme to beginne in the yeare of our Lord. 591. which number being added do bring forth 905. Adhelwoldus King of the Pagans brought a great armye from Eastsex and the East English whiche robbed and spoyled through all Mercia and the Weaste Countrey vntill they came to Crickalde and there went ouer the Thamis and tooke great spoyles about Bradney King Edward gathered an army and went towarde the Danes but while he tarried his army out of Kent Adhelwolf King of the Danes came vpon him with a great power and badde him battayle wherein Cochricus Adelwolfe kings of the Pagans were slaine In the yeare 910. a battaile was fought at Wodnesfielde a mile North from Wolfrune Hampton in Staffordeshire where VVodnesfielde in Staffordshire VVlfrune Hampton Cowilfus Healidene kings of y â— Pagans with many Erles and Nobles were slaine but of the common people innumerable Aethered Earle of the Mercies dyed and king Edwarde toke into his Dominion London and Oxenforde and all the Countrey adioyning therevnto In the yeare 913. by the Kings commaundement at Hertforde betwixt the riuers of Memeran Benefician and Legian in the North side a Citie is builded In the yeare 914. the Pagans of Northumberlande and Leycester in the Countie of Oxforde toke spoyles and in the kings towne called Hokenorton and in manye other places they slew many people and retourned home againe another army of y â— Danes being horssemen were sent into Hartfordeshire towardes Legeton with whom the men of y â— Countrey encountered and slaying manye of them put the rest to â—â—ight taking theyr horsses and armour with a great praye King Edward leauing certaine to builde a Citie in y â— South Maldon iâ— Essex part of the riuer Lâ—gea with more parte of his armye wente into Essex and encamped at Mealdune where he tarried til a Towne was builded at Witham In the yeare 915. a great Nauie of Danes sayled aboute the West Countrey and landed in diuerse places taking gret prayes and went to their shippes againe The King for strengthning of the Countrey made a Castel at y â— mouth of the water of Auon and another at Buckingham the thirde fast by that is on eyther side of the riuers course one then wente into Northampton and Bedfordshires and subdued the Danes there with their leader called Turketils King Edward builded or new repayred the towns of Tocester Tocester VVigmore and Wigmore In the yeare 918. the Kentish Southrey and East Saxons besieged Colchester and wanne it by force and slew all therein Cogshal a fewe excepted that escaped by flight The same yeare king Colchester in Essex Edward wente to Colchester with an army repayred y â— wals and put a great garrison of souldiours into it The next yeare died the noble Princesse Elfleda wife to HeÌ„rie Bradshaw Reynulâ— Hygden Etheldredus Duke of Mercia and was buryed in the Monasterie of Saint Peter whiche hir Lorde and she before had builded in the Towne of Glocester whiche Monasterie was after throwen to the grounde by the Danes but Aeldredus Bishoppe of Yorke of Worcester made there another which is now the chiefest Church in the towne This noble woman Elfleda réedified the Cittie of Chester she repayred the towne of Tomworth beside Lichfielde Chester Tomvvorth Lichfielde Stafford VVarvvike Shrevvesburie VVatersburie Eldesburie Leycester repayred Runcorn tovvn and castell and Brimsbery vvith the bridge builded Stafford Warwicke Shrewesburie Watrisburie Eldisburie Legeceaster with a towne and Castell in the North ende of Mercia vpon the Riuer of Merse that is called Runcorne she builded a bridge ouer Seuerne called Brimesberie bridge c. When she had once assaied the paines that women suffer in trauayling with childe she euer after refused the embracing of hir husbande saying it was not séemely for any noble woman to vse such fleshly lyking whereof shoulde ensue so great sorrow and paine tamed the Walchmen and in diuerse battayles chased the Danes after whose death Edward helde that Prouince in hys owne hande King Edward builded a newe town against the old town of Notingham on the South side of the Riuer of Trent made Marianus Scotus Wil. Thorne Henrie Hunting Alredus Riual Thilvval built Manchester repayred a bridge ouer the sayde riuer betwéene the two townes he subdued the kings of Scotland Wales he builded a town in y t North end of Mercia by y â— riuer of Merse named it Thilwal and repayred the Towne of Manchester after al which déeds by him done he deceased at Faringdon and was buried at Winchester in the new Church whiche hys father Aâ—lfrede had builded when he had raygne xxiiij yeares A Delstane after the deathe of Edwarde Senior his father 924 Alfridus Beuerla Iohn Leyland Speculum histo Rich. Cirenc was Crowned at Kingstone by Athelmus Archbishoppe of Canturburie His corenation was celebrated in the market place vpon a stage erected on hic that the King mighte beÌ„e séene the better of the multitude He was a Prince of worthy memorie valiant and wise in all his actes and brought W. Malâ—â— thys lande into one Monarchie for he expelled vtterly the Danes and quieted the Walchmen He caused them to paye hym yearely tribute twentie pounde of golde 300. pounde of siluer and 2500. heade of Neate with houndes haukes to a certaine number And after that he had by battayle conquered Scotlande hée made one Constantine king of Scottes vnder him adding this Princely word that it was more honoure to hym to make a King than to be a King He made seuen coyning mintes at Canturburie foure for the King two for the Archbishoppe and one for the Abbot at Rochester iij. two for the king and one Canturb recordes for the Byshoppe besides these in London eight in Winchester W. Lâ—â—bâ—â—â— Sax. Lawes sixe in Lewes two in Hastings two in Chichester one in Hampton two in Warham two in Excester two in Shaftesburie two and in euery good towne one Coyner He founded Saint Germaines in Cornewal which was since T. Rudborn Girardus Coâ—â—ubi a Bishops sea he founded Saint Peâ—rocus at Bodmin he founded Pilton Priorie Midleton and Michelney In his time Guy Earle of Warwicke in acombate slewe Guy of VVarvvicke slevv Colbrond Colbrond the Danish Giant in Hide Meade neare vnto Winchester Athelstane raigned fiftéene yeares and was buried at Io. Lidgat Malmesburie EDmunde the brother of Adelstan tooke on him the gouernaunce 940 of thys realme whose shorte raigne tooke from him the renoume of moste hyghe prayses that should haue redounded to this posteritie for he was a maÌ„ disposed Marianus of nature to noblenesse and Justice hée toke out of the Danes handes the Townes of Lincolne Notingham Darbie Leicester and Stanforde and brought all Mercia to hys Dominion he expulsed the two kings Anlafus the sonne of Sithricus Io. Taxtor and Reginalde the sonne of Cuthberte out of Northumberlande and subdued the Countrey to
themselues to drinking and gulling and spent both day and night in such exercises till they vomited The Saxons ware their garmentes to the midde knée their heare rounded and their beardes shauen all saue the ouerlip their armes adorned with golden bracelets and W. Malme their skinne paynted and printed c. ¶ Thus endeth the Reigne of the Saxons who were first sent for by Vortiger about the yeare of our Lord. 450. and had nowe continued sometimes in warres with the Britaines then with the Danes and now with the Normans the space of sixe hundred yeares Verses A thousand sixe and sixtie yeare it vvas as vve do reade When that a Comete did appeare and Englishmen lay dead Of Normandie Duke William then to Englandvvard did sayle And conquerde Harold vvith his men and brought this Land to bale ¶ King VVilliam Conquerour WIlliam Duke of Normandie Anno. reg 1. surnamed Conquerour Bastarde sonne of Robert the sixte Duke of that Duchie and Coosin germane vnto King Edward on the mothers side beganne his dominion ouer the Realme of England the fourtéenth day of October being Saterday in the yeare of our Lord 1066. After the battayle at Hastings Duke William came to London where with great ioy he was receyued both of the Cleargie and people and was proclaymed King When the Citie of London was thus yéelded vnto him he tooke his iourney towardes the Castell of Douer to subdue that and the rest of Kent also which when the Archbishop Stigand and Egelsin the Abbot of Saint Augustines being as it were the chiefest Lords and gouernours of all Kent did perceyue and consider that the whole Realme was in an euill state and that whereas in this Realme of England before the comming of the foresayd Duke William there were no bondmen now all as well noble men as the common people were without respect made subiecte vnto the perpetuall bondage of the Normans taking an occasion by the perill and danger that their neighbors were in to prouide for the safegard of themselues and their Countrey they caused to assemble at Canterbury all the people of the Countie of Kent and declared to them the perils and dangers imminent the miserie that their neighbours were come into the pride and insolencie of the Normans and the hardnesse and griefe of bondage and seruile estate wherevpon all the people rather choosing to end their vnfortunate life than to submit themselues to an vnaccustomed yoke of seruitude and bondage with a common consent determined to méete Duke William and to fight with him for the laws of their Countrey And y ◠foresayd Stigand the Archbishop and the Abbot Egelsin choosing rather to die in battell than to sée their nation in so euill an estate being encouraged by the examples of the holy Machabees became Captayne of the armie And at a day appoynted all the people met at Swanescombe two miles west from Graues-end and being hidden in the woods lay priuily in wayte for the comming of the foresayd Duke William And bycause it can not hurt to be very wary in such cases they agréed before hande that when the Duke was come and the passages on euery side stopped to the end he should no way be able to escape euery one of them as well Horsemen as footemen should beare boughes in their hands The next day after whē the Duke was come into the fields and territories néere vnto Swanescombe and saw all the Countrey set and placed round about him as it had bin a stirring mouing wood and that with a meane pace they approched and drewe néere vnto him with great discomfiture of mind he wondered at that sight And as soone as the Captaynes of the Kentishmen sawe that Duke William was enclosed in the middest of their armie they caused the trumpets to be sounded their banners to be displayed and threw downe their boughes and with their bowes bent their swords drawne and their speares and other kinde of weapons stretched forthe they shewed themselues readie to fight Duke William and they that were with him stoode as no maruell it was sore astonied and amazed and he which thought that he had already all England fast in his fist did now dispaire of his owne life Therefore on the behalfe of the Kentishmen were sent vnto Duke William the Archbishop Stigand and Egelsin Abbot of Saint Augustines who told him their message in this sort My Lord Duke behold the people of Kent commeth forth to méete you and to receiue you as their liege Lord requiring at your hands the things which pertayne to peace and that vnder this condition that all the people of Kent may enioy for euer their antient liberties and may for euermore vse the lawes and customes of the Countrey otherwise they are ready presently to bidde battell to you and them that be with you and are minded rather to die héere altogither than to departe from the lawes and customes of their Countrey and to submit themselues to bondage whereof as yet they neuer had experience The Duke séeing himself to be driuen in such a straight and narrow pinch consulted a while with them that came with him prudently considering that if he should take any repulse or displeasure at the hands of this people which be the key of England all that euer he had done before should be vndone againe and of no effect and all his hope and safetie shoulde stande in danger and ieopardy not so willingly as wisely he granted the people of Kent their request So when the couenant was established and pledges giuen on both sides the Kentishmen being ioyfull conducted the Normans who also were glad vnto Rochester and yéelded vp to the Duke the Earledome of Kent and the noble Castell of Douer Thus the antiente liberties of Englande and the lawes and customes of the Countrey whiche before the comming of Duke William out of Normandy were equally kept throughout all England do through this industrie and earnest trauell of the Archbishop The antient liberties and lavves of England remayne in Kent only Thomas Sprot Wil. Thorne Stigand and Egelsin Abbot of Saint Augustines remayne inuiolably obserued vntill this day onely in the Countie of Kent Thus farre Thomas Sprot after him William Thorne After this Duke William wasted Sussex Hampshire Southery Marianus Floriacen Wigor Middlesex and Hertfortshire not ceassing to burne Townes and sley the people till he came to Barkehamsteed where the Archbishop Alredus Wolstan Bishop of Worcester Wilferus Bishop of Hereford Clito Edgar the Earles Edwine and Morcare and euery one of the noble men about London came to him and giuing pledges submitted themselues and sware fealtie to him with whome also he made a league neuerthelesse permitted his army still to burne Townes and to take spoyles Chro. S. Albani There was at that time an Abbot of Saint Albons called Frederike Abbot of S. Albons his policie against Duke VVilliam Fretherike who hearing of the comming of Duke William
emptied their quiuers in vain being armed only with swords and Targets are fayn to encounter with them that were laden with armour Then bestirreth hymselfe the worthye Prince of Wales cutting and hewing the French men with a sharp sword In the mean time Captain de la Buch marcheth a compasse about vnder the hangyng of the Hil which he with the Prince a little before forsoke and priuily compassing about the fielde at the length commeth close vnder the place where the Frenche Campe laye from thence he ascended to the toppe of the Hill that waye whiche the French men had beaten with theyr trauayle and so sodainely breaking forth vnloked for and shewing by the ensigne of Saint George that he was our friend the Prince with great courage giueth a freshe charge on the French armye being desirous to breake their ranckes before the captaine aforesayde shoulde set on the side of the battayle The Prince lustilye encountring with his enimies goeth into the middle of the throng and where he séeth most companye there hée layeth aboute hym on euerye side In the meane time on the other side his friends which serued with Captaine de la Buche were at the backes of the enimies beating down and killing without pittie and the Archers also placed for the purpose shot so thick wounding the backes and sides of the French men in suche sorte that the forme of the battayle was quite spoyled neyther could they put themselues in order or array any more This was the courage of the Prince who at the lenghth thrusteth thorough the throngs of them that guarded the Frenche Kyng then shoulde you sée an auntient beginne to nod and stumble the bearers of them to fall downe the bloud of flaues and Princes ran mingled togither into the waters whiche were nigh In like sort the Bore of Cornwal rageth who séeketh to haue none other way to the French Kings standard thaÌ„ by bloud only but when they came there they met w t a â—oÌ„pany of stout men to withstand them the English meÌ„ fight the Frenche men also lay on but at length Fortune making hast to turne hir whéele the Prince preaceth forewarde on his enimies and like a fierce Lion beating down the proud he came to yéelding vp of the French Kyng The French men being scattered abroade in the fieldes of Poycers perceyuing that the standard with the flouerdeluce was beaten down fledde with all spéede towards the Towne which was not farre off the Englishe menne perceyuing them to be fléeing though themselues were eyther sore wounded or wearied followed them in chase euen to the gates of Poyters wher in a great skirmishe and verie daungerous they slewe a great number of French men At the last our meÌ„ being called back by retreate with y e sound of trumpet assembling togither there were diuerse Pauilians and tentes set vp in the fieldes and the whole company being throughlye comforted wyth this victorie gaue theyr whole endeauour to prouide for them that were wounded for the quiet rest of them that wer wearied for safe kéeping of them that wer taken prisoners and for the refreshing of them that were almoste famished vntill they had ful vnderstanding who and how many were wanting among them which were founde halfe dead was founde the Lord Iames Dawdeley by reason of his broade bucklet and being caried in the armes of his souldiours was brought to the Princes lodging and the Prince hymselfe rise from his supper and came to him and caused him to be stripped and layd in a soft bedde and being somewhat better come to his remembraunce the Prince comforted him swearing vnto him that he had the Frenche King yéelded vnto him whiche newes when the languishing Noble man hearde he streight wayes reuiued The Prince returning to the French King willed him not to deny that to bée an vnworthy déede of his that rose from his supper to comfort him that was almost deade who spared not hys owne bloude to purchase victorie After that they hauing had some talke concerning the warres whiche Iames Dawdeley made the Frenche king sayde that amongst all other stoute Champions which valiauntly that day behaued themselues he did gretly wonder at the noble déeds of that knight and he spake not muche more in all his supper but what he spake to the Prince who comforted his noble praye Such like wordes it is sayde that the French king spake Although it be our chaunce to fall into an euerlasting sorrowe yet for all that we thoughte it good to refrayne from the same by a kinde of measure for though we be vnder subiection by law and righte of war vnder our noble cousin yet are we not as rascals or faint harted runne-awayes or taken lying hidde close in a corner but after the maner of the fielde by the end and successe of warre where we were as readie to dye as liue for iustice sake And in the same fielde were many richmen taken whose liues were reserued for raunsome the fainte harted and lewde chased away but the worthyest and stoutest were spoyled of theyr liues This battayle of Poyters was fought on the ninetéenth day of September The nexte day after the battayle al the prisoners were numbred to wit the French king also Phillip his sonne the Archbishop of Senon the Erle of Pontue the Erle of Longuile the Earle of Ewe the Erle of Tankeruile the Earle Daunter the Earle of Vendadour the Earle of Slauncer the Earle of Wademount the Earle of Vandome the Erle of Iuyny the Erle Don Martin the Earle of Selabruse the Earle of Sasso Vicount Nerbon the Lord Daubeny Marshal Dawdenam the Lord Guincâ—arde de Angle Seneshal de Seintong the Lord Mores Mawnimet the Lord Leonard de Guilhoy the Seneshal of Poyters the Lord great Maister the chiefe maister of the Hospitall of Spaigne the Lorde of Saint Tigre the Lorde Damboyd Seneshal of Annar the Lorde Tower the Lord Dars the Lorde Durual the Lorde of the Towne of Ernell the Lorde Maugeler the Lorde Planke the Vicount de Belimount and the Lorde of Suly there were also the bodyes founde of many that were slayne as the Duke of Burbon the Duke Dasines the Conestable of Fraunce Marshal de Garimount the Lorde Geffrey de Charney the Lorde Pounce y â— Bishop of Chaloner the Lord of Laundas y t Lord RipemouÌ„t the Lord Chaneny the Lorde Ioâ—e the Lord Nele the Lord Aunger the Lord de Mount Iohn the Lord Dargenton the Lorde Groose the Lorde Ruas the Lord Rochechicheward the Lord de Vilem The Prince bought all the prisoners Captiues of them that kept them and carryed them wyth him to Burdeaux there to remain in safe custodie during his abode there Richard Notingham Thomas Dossel the. 28. of Septem Sherifes Maior â—â— 1â—57 Anno reg 21 Henrie Picarde Vintener the. 28. of October Edward Prince of Wales returning into Englande wyth Iohn the French King Phillip his son and many other prysoners arriued at Plymouth on the
from his subiectes by such petitions or demaundes but liue of his owne and continue his warre for as it was aunsweared there his owne goods pertayning to the crowne sufficed both to the finding 1378 of his house and mayntayning of his warres of the same were bestowed by fitte ministers and for the kéeping of the money two Citizens of London were appointed William Walworth and Iohn Philpot. The English men hearing of a number of Spanishe shippes to remayne at sluce for wante of winde assembling a great companye of armed men and a great nauie meant to take the seas their chiefe Captaynes were Thomas of Woodstocke Erle of Buckingham the duke of Brytaine the Lord Latimer the Lord Robert Fitz Walter sir Robert Knowles and many other valiaunt personages who being entred the Sea tasted Fortune disfauourable for by a tempestuous winde that rose theyr shippes were scattered in sunder theyr mastes are broken downe theyr sayles rent and many of the small vessels that were victuallers were drowned at length the shippes got togither againe and arriued in Englande and being nowe rigged are eftsoones freight with men and to the Sea they go About y â— same time sir Hugh Caluerley making a iourney towards Bulloign found a Barge in y â— hauen of y e town y â— bare y e name of the towne another that was the French Kings a xxvj other vessels more and lesse all the which with a great part of the suburbes of Bulloigne he caused to be dispoyled taking with him whatsoeuer was there to be desired with certayne prisoners he droue afore him also a gret bootie of shéepe and beastes whiche he founde pasturing néere the towne which might well serue to victuall Caleis for a great time he recouered the same day the castel Marke of which through negligence before had bin lost The English fléete whereof we spake returned without any great good successe they toke an eyght Spanish shippes in the Brytish coastes neare to Brest and more had takeÌ„ if there businesse had bin so well done as was pretended and therefore the fléete returned home so tossed with stormes and contrarie weather and after with intestine discorde that it séemed there wanted among them gods fauour The Lorde Percy this fléete remaining for the mending of his shippes whilest the other were abrode went now to the sea wyth a great ship and some smaller vessels and méeting with fiftie ships laden with French wares and marchandize of whiche some were of Flaunders some of Spaine he set on them al who beholding his bolde enterprice and thinking that he hadde some ayde at hande gaue ouer to make resistaunce and so xxviij escaping by flight xxij yéelded themselues to the sayd Thomas Lord Percy Sir Hugh Caluerley with a power secretly armed wente to the towne of Staple where the fayre was then to the which were come manye Merchauntmen from Bulloigne Mutterel Amience and Paris where he falling on them that were vnarmed slewe many toke many to be put to their ransomes sacked al the goods and set fire in the town so that it was wholy consumed few places excepted This done he returned to Caleis with his men in safetie bringing from that faire wares which turned to the greate profit of the Calisians many yeares after The men of Winchelse and Rie gathered a gret number of people togither and imbarqued themselues towardes Normandie desirous to requite y e losses which before they had receiued and so in the night arriuing in a Town called Peters Hauen entred the same slaying so many as they met those whom they thinke able to pay raunsome they carry to their shippes they spoyled the houses with the Churches where they founde many rich spoyles which sometime had bin by the French men fet from Ric and especially the belles and such like which they shipped set the rest on fire and theÌ„ they land at Wilet not far from thence wher they practised y e like cheuance so with theyr riche spoyle returned home About the same time Iohn duke of Lancaster requested y e y e mony granted to the K. by y e cleargie laitie might be coÌ„mitted to his custodie affirming y t he would kepe y e enimies of from the coastes of England by the space of one yeare with y t mony moreouer bring to passe some further great commoditie to whose importunate petitioÌ„ the Lords although against theyr willes agréed They appoint therfore y e firste day of Marche to méete in counsel in which euery of those shold go forth on this iourney least y e sea should in y e mean time want those y â— shold kéepe it there wer ix ships hired of theÌ„ of Baion to defend y e sea land froÌ„ incursions of the FreÌ„ch others These ships being furnished with sufficieÌ„t nuÌ„bers of armed meÌ„ w ein a short time coasting y e seas met the nauy marchandice of y e Spaniards entring battayle with them in short time take xiiij of their ships laden w t wines other marchandize returne to England ioyfully vnto sir Robert Knowles captain of Brest they giue the firste fruites of theyr pray an C. tunne of their beste wines as they passed by him homewardes In the meane time Henrie y e bastard calling himself King of Spain hearing y â— they of Baion had done such harme vnto his people that the D. of LaÌ„caster had prepared a gret nuÌ„ber to enter y e sea he was sore afraid thinking y e he minded not only to defeÌ„d the sea but rather to séeke his kingdome which by right of his wife y e lawful inheritour of Spaine he ment to chalenge wherfore y e said Henrie coÌ„manded a nauie to be prepared of al his land y t he might stay the said D. from entring his country if he might to take him prisoner which happily they had done if y e king of Portingale w t almost an inumerable nuÌ„ber had not entred y e kingdome of Spain y e self same time y t the bastard Henrie prepared him selfe against y e D. but the D. deferring his iourney from day to day they y â— wer appointed captains ouer the nauie w e certain meÌ„ of war got theÌ„ to y e sea there to stay for the Dukes comming estéeming it more glorious to liue on the sea by prayes taking froÌ„ the enimies than to liue by spoile of their owne countreymen at home When they had certain dayes waâ—ted vp downe the Seas the Spaniardes met with them with an armed company of men so that either part in hope of pray ioyned togyther in fighte but oure menne hauyng the winde and weather contrary to them lost the victory to theyr enimies some escaping by flight and some being taken amongst the which sir Hugh Courtney a noble Knight was one About the same time Iohn Mercer a Scotte gathering togither no small number of French men Scots and Spaniards set vpon certaine ships of Scaborow
toke them and led them into Scotlande this he did in reuenge of his Fathers iniurie who was before taken by the English men and kept prisoner in the Castel of Scarborow Iohn Philpot a CitizeÌ„ of London a maÌ„ of iolly wit very rich in substance considering the want of y e Duke of Lancaster and other Lords that ought to haue defended y e realm Anno reg 2. and lamenting the oppressions of the inhabitauntes hyred wyth his owne money to the number of a thousand souldiours the whiche mighte take from the sayde Iohn Mercer both his shippes and goods whiche he had by reuenge takeÌ„ and defended the Realme of England from suche incursions and it came to passe within a small time that his hyred meÌ„ toke the sayde Iohn Mercer with all his ships which he had violently taken from Scarborow and fiftéene Spanish shippes that were laden with muche riches and were with hym in ayde at that present There was greate ioy made among y e people all men praysing that worthy mans bountifulnesse and loue towards the king The Earles and Barons séeing so laudable an acte atchieued by Iohn Philpot tooke it grieuously althoughe they knewe themselues guiltie firste they secretly lye in awayte to do him some displeasure and after they spake against him openly saying it was not lawfull for him to doe such things without the counsell of the King and Realme certayne of the Lordes but the chiefe being Hugh Earle of Stafforde that rehearsed these things thus against him were aunsweared by the same Iohn Philpot sir know sayth he that I neyther sente my money nor men to the daunger of the Seas that I shoulde take from you or your fellowes the good renoume of Chilualrie and winne it to me but being sorrowfull to sée the peoples myserie in my Countrey whych nowe through your slouthfulnesse of the most noble Lady of Nations is brought to lye open to the spoyling of euerye vilest nation when there is not one of you that doth put hys hande to the defence thereof I haue therefore set forth my selfe and mine for the sauing of my nation and Countrey the Earle had not to aunswere The. xi of August certaine wicked persons of the Kings Murder in the Church of VVestminster Tho Walsing house being armed at high Masse tyme entred the Churche of Westminster Abbay and there set vppon two valiaunt Esquiers Iohn Schakel and Robert Hawley whyche had escaped out of the Tower of London to the sayde Abbay for refuge of Sanctuarie they slewe the sayde Robert Hawley in the quire before the Priours stal and slewe a Monke which intreated them to spare the sayde Robert in that place Syr Ralph Ferreis and sir Alan Buxule Captain of the Tower some say the Lord Latimer wer the captaines of this mischiefe The aforesayd two Esquires Robert Hawley and Iohn Shakell in the battayle of Nazers in Spaine toke the Erle of Dene poisoner who deliuered vnto him his soÌ„ for a pledge and bycause they would not present the sayde Earles son to the King who woulde giue them little or nothing for hym the foresayde Allen Buxule with other were sent to do thys myschiefe who slewe the one and caste the other in prison Iohn Boseham Thomas Cornewalis the. 28. of Septem Sherifes Maior Iohn Philpot his charitie Sir Iohn Philpot Grocer the. 28. of October This Iohn Philpot Maior of London gaue to the same Citie certaine tenementes for the which the Chamberlain payeth yearely to xiij poore people euerye of them seauen pence the wéeke for euer and as any of those thirtéene persons dyeth the Maior appointeth one and the Recorder another The Scottes beganne to Rebell and a Squire of theirs 1379 Tho. Walsing called Alexander Ramsey with fortye persons in a nighte toke the Castell of Berwicke but the ninth day following the Erle of Northumberland recouered it and slew the Scots that were therein The Marchauntes of London wickedly slew a rich marchaunt of Genua for that he woulde carry to a better market the spices that he had promised to bring into this Country the doers wherof were after apprehended and some for that fact executed as after shal appeare So great a mortality of men hapned in the North parts Pestilence in the North. Tho. Wals of England as neuer had bin séene before which the Scots séeing raunged through and slewe with the sworde them that were sicke of the plague and so pursued them that had not the plague that they droue out of the Countrey almost all the able men In a Parliament at London it was decréed that euerye Taxe Duke should pay ten markes to the King the Archbishops the like Earles Bishops and mitered Abbots shoulde giue sixe markes and euery Monke xl pence no religious person man or woman Parson Uicar or Chapleine escaped this taxe Iohn Mountfort Duke of Brytaine returned to his countrey where he was receyued with great honour A bushel of Wheate was solde for sixe pence a gallon of Anno reg 3. VVheat and VVine cheape white Wine sixe pence and a gallon of red Wine for foure pence Iohn Heylisdom William Barret the. 28. of September Sherifes Maior Tho. Walsing S. Iohn AruÌ„dale drovvned Iohn Hadley Grocer the. 28. of October Iohn of Arundale brother to the Earle of Arundale was sent to helpe the Duke of Brytaine with manye other noble knightes and Esquires who beginning their voyage wyth spoyling their own Countrey rauishing wiues widowes and Uirgins and robbing of Churches were by tempeste driuen on the rockes of a certaine Islande in Ireland when they were al most miserablye drowned with their treasure and prouisions which was of inestimable value Sir T. Banister Cro. Matoris Lon. sir Roger Trumpington sir Nicholas Kâ—riel sir Thomas Dale sir Iohn Sentcler and sixe other knightes perished there the sixtéenth of December In a Parliamente at London was graunted to the Kyng 1380 a tenth of the Ecclesiastical persons and a fiftéenth of the secular vpon condition that no other Parliament shoulde be holden from the Calendes of March til Michaelmasse A combat was foughte at Westminster in the kings presence A combat at VVestminster betwéene Iohn Ausley knight and Thomas Catrington Esquire whom the forsayde knight had appealed of treson for selling the Castel of Saint Sauiours whiche the Lord Chandos had builded in the I le of Constantine in France and the knight ouercame the Esquire Thomas of Woodstocke Earle of Buckingham Thomas Percy Hugh Caluerley Robert Knowles Lorde Basset sir Iohn Harleston William of Windsore approued and tryed Knightes were sent with a great power to ayde the Duke of Brytaine who were conuayed to Caleis and from thence rode aboute throughe Fraunce spoyling the Countrey and slaying the people to the borders of Brytaine and entred the same without losse eyther of man or beast In this iourney sir Iohn Philpot Citizen of London Iohn Philpot his good seruice deserued great commendations
and a halfe William Courtney Archbishop of Canterbury standing there against said the Church ought to befrée and in no wise to be taxed by the Laytie whiche answere A bill put against the Cleargie for their temporalties so moued the commons that they forthwith presented to the King a bill against the Cleargie of the Realme mouing him to take from them their temporalities and thereby to abate their pride but the King hearing the inordinate cryings out on this side and the iust answeres of the other he commanded that the Bill should be cancelled and such inordinate petitiōs to ceasse saying that he would preserue the Churche during his time in as good state as he found it or in better The Archbishop therefore hauing made the Cleargie priuie wente to the King and declared to him that he with his Cleargie of their whole consents and frée willes had prouided for his vses a Tenth which graunt the King so thankefully receyued that hée openly affirmed that he had rather haue this frée graunt than any other foure times double that were constreyned The eleuenth of Noueinber Robert Vere Earle of Oxford States created was made Marquesse of Diuelin in Ireland Thomas of Woodstocke Duke of Glocester and his brother Edmonde Earle of Cambridge Duke of Yorke Michaell de la Poole Chancellour of England was made Earle of Suffolke and had giuē him by the King a thousand markes by the yeare The Earle of March Mortimer was proclaymed heire apparant Lib. Peter col to the Crowne Also King Richarde at the earnest request of the Bishops restored to the Bishop of Norwich his temporalities which he had holden from him manye yeares King Richard with Quéene Anne his wife kept their Christmas at Eltham whether came to him the King of Ermony vnder pretence to reforme peace betwixte the Kings of England but what his comming profited he onely vnderstoode for beside innumerable giftes that he receyued of the King and of the Nobles the King granted to him a Charter of a thousand pounds by yeare during his life He was as he affirmed chased out of his Realme by the Tartarians and for that cause he got great giftes of the Christian 1386 Priuces About the feast of Easter Iohn Duke of Lancaster with a great company of Knightes Esquires and Archers prepareth to go into Spayne which was due to him by the inheritable righte of his wife the Lady Constance daughter sometime to Peter King of Castile and Lion so that now he meant to challenge it eyther with consente of the inhabitants or by law of armes He with a greate power tooke the Seas and landed in Spayne at the Hauen of Greyne on the euen of Saint Lawrence with all his Nauie in safetie At the sute of the King of Spayne King Richard releassed out of prison Iohn Northampton Iohn More and Richarde Norburie The Londoners fearing y ◠comming of the French K. ranne to their walles pulled downe houses néere about y e Citie About Michaelmas the Nobles came to the Parliamēt at London with great numbers of armed men to the ende they might be readie to withstand the Frenchmen who were comming but through contrarie windes returned The King created Robert Vere Marquesse of Irelande Robert Vere Duke of Ireland Duke of Ireland Not lōg after this Michaell de la Pole was by y ◠Knights of the Parliament deposed from his Chancellorship and amerced to pay to the King 20000. Markes but the King caused this to take small effect William Stondon William More the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Nicholas Exton Fishmonger the 28. of October Richard Earle of Arundell and Tho. Mowbray Earle of Notingham went to the Sea of the which the first was made Admiral vpon y ◠Uigill of our Lady the Annuntiation a great Nauie of Flanders France Spayne fraught with mē of 1387 warre diuers engins was discouered with whome the Earles encountred and tooke of them 100. ships and more the which conteined xix M. Tonnes of Wine whiche they Rochell VVine taken brought to diuers parts of England wherby Wine was then sold for thirtéene shillings four pence the Tonne Robert de Vere Duke of Ireland for sooke his wife a yong Lady noble faire borne of the Lady Isabell daughter to y ◠noble K. Edward maried another that came with Quéene Anne forth of Boheme she was called in the vulgar tong of hir Conntrey Lancecrona The Lordes tooke indignation héerewith especially the Duke of Glocester Unkle to y e yong Lady that was forsaken The Duke of Ireland studied how to take the Duke of Glocester out of y e way Easter was now past the time in whiche the Duke of Ireland shoulde haue transported into Ireland but least there shoulde be too muche sturre in the Realme among the Lords the King as it were to bring him to the water side goeth with him into Wales as not to leaue him but there to kéepe him that they might denise how to take away the D. of Glocester the Earles of Arundell Warwike Darby Notingham with other There were with thē the Earle of Suffolke Michaell at Pole Robert Tresilian Justice many other which no more slowly than the D. of Ireland conspired the death of the said noble mē After a great time was passed the King as if the Duke of Irelāds iourney had bin forgotten returned with him and the other forth of Wales to the Castell of Notingham there to treate of Anno reg 11 the death of the said noble men there therfore he sent for diuers from Lōdon whome he knew would be readie to which way soeuer they should be moued he called thither also all the Sherifes and Justices of the Realme and there interdited the Lords of many crimes which the King had imagined against them In the meane time the rumor of this doing came to the Lords eares whervpon first of all y e Kings Unkle the D. of Glocester that he might mitigate the Kings displeasure before the Bishop of London and manye other Nobles swearing vpon the Euangelistes tooke it vpon his oth that he neuer had imagined any thing to the kings hinderance or done any thing to his displeasure except that he had not giuē good countenāce to the D. of Ireland nor would héereafter giue him any who had dishonested his kinswoman the which he firmelie had determined to reuenge William Venor Hugh Forstalfe the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Sir Nicholas Exton Fishmonger the 28. of October The D. of Glocester calling togither secretly the Earles of Arundell Warwike Darby that were in like danger of cōdemnatiō if they prouided not the more spéedily he discouereth to thē the matter they therfore gathering their armies togither determine to talke with the King vpon the premises Contraryly the King for his party did deliberate howe he might take each of thē by themselues out of the way and first he sent to
the Castell of Rigate where the Earle of Arundell lay the Earle of Northumberland with many other so arrest him who perceyuing a great nūber of mē of warre about him fearing to do that he was commanded departed without doing his errand for which he came after whome there were sent many that by night should haue takē him or haue slaine him but a messenger sent frō the D. of Glocester preuēted their cōming that caused him to ride al night so that in the morning he was come to Haringey hauing passed with his army a xxx miles not without great trauayle where he found assembled the D. of Glocester the Earle of Warwike with a great power of men The K. being enformed of this assembly in Harnesey wood as is said demāded of his familiars what was to be done in this case but in y ◠end by the mediation of thē that came betwixt thē the matter was brought to this issue that y ◠Lords should come to Westminster to receiue answere before y ◠King of those things the Bishop of Ely with many other mē of worthy credit taking an oth for y ◠Kings part that no fraude deceipt or peril should be prepared Whē the Lords had prepared thēselues according to y e couenant the foresaid mediators for peace sent thē word y t treason was deuised by an ambush laid for thē in a place called the Mewes néere to Charing Crosse therfore willed thē not to come but with sure hand whervpō they stayd there the K. demanding why the Lords kept not couenāt the B. of Ely answered bycause saith he there is an ambush laid of a M. armed men or more in such a place contrary to the couenant and therefore they neyther come nor repute you to be faithfull the King moued forthwith sware he knew of no such thing and therefore commanded the Sheriffes of London that going to the Mewes they shoulde kill if they founde any assembled there for that cause but Thomas Treuit and Nicholas Brembar Knightes had secretly sente away the armed men to London the King therefore sent agayne to the Lords who streightwayes came to Westminster with a strong power agaynst whose comming the King adorning himselfe with Kingly robes with Crowne and Scepter entreth Westminster Hall where the Bishop of Elie Lord Chancellour speaking for the King demanded the cause of their assembling of such a power whervnto the Lords answered that it was done for the Kings profit and the Realmes to plucke from him the Traytors whiche he kept about him whome they named to be Robert de Vere Duke of Ireland Alexander Neuell Archbishop of Yorke Michaell at Pole Earle of Suffolke Robert Trisilian a false Justice Nicholas Brembar a false Knight of London and therevpon they threwe downe their gloues swearing that they would prosecute it by battayle nay sayth the King it shall not be so but in the next Parliament which was appoynted to be holden the morrow after the Purification of our Lady all this was pacified for that time A maner of exhalation in likenesse of fire appeared in y ◠Strange likenesse of fire Iohn Leycester night in many places of England which went with men as they went and stayde as they did sometime like a Whéele sometime like a Barrell sometime like a Timberlogge but when many went togither it appeared to be farre off The Lords departing frō the K. notwithstanding kept togither which séemed great wisdome in them for the D. of Ireland in the partes of Chester Wales had assembled a great nūber whose Captaine was y e Connestable of Chester Thomas Moleneux a mā of great wealth hardy The D. of Ireland with such a multitude hasted towards London y t ioyning with the Londoners he might make thē both as it were an inuincible army but y e D. of Ireland riding forth in stately glorious array with y e armie thinking none durst haue encountred him sodeinly as he loked on the one side he beheld where the host of the Lords was ready not far frō them tarying his cōming in the midst of the valley with which sight his heart streightwayes fayled and he said friends I must flie for a greater puissance séemeth to be yōder against you they haue no quarell so y e I being shifted away ye shall escape wel ynough forthwith setting spurres to his horse he fléeth away There was then y e foresaid Tho. Moleneux y ◠prepared himselfe to the battayle for the Lordes were not yet al come to that place who when he had fought a while being awearied entred the riuer which was there by Amōg other sir Thomas Mortimer knighte exhorted him to come vp or else he would shoote him through in the riuer if I do come vp sayth Thomas Moleneux wilt thou saue my life I doe make no such promise sayeth he but eyther come vp or y u shalt steight die for it To whō he answered suffer me to come vp and let me fight eyther with thée or some other and dye like a man As he came vp the knight caught him by the Helmet and plucked it off his heade and streighte wayes with hys dagger strucke hym into the braynes The Duke of Ireland fléeing came to the riuer of Thamis and forced his horsse to enter in the which being made of an horsseman a swimmer he gotte to the other side his horsse Helmet gauntlets and brest plate came to the share of the Lordes so that he was thoughte long after to be drowned but he got ouer into Flaunders The Archbishoppe of Yorke fledde and Robert Tresilian and Michael de la Pole got him to Caleis The Lords béeing returned from the battayle which had bin nere to Burforde fast by Bablack made great ioy for the ouerthrowe of their enimies but muche lamented the escape of the Duke of Ireland A heade of Earthe was made at Oxforde by Arte of Negromancie that at a time appointed spake these words Caput decidetur The head shall be cut off Caput Eleuabitur The heade shall be lift vp Pedes eleuabuntur super caput The feete shall be lift aboue the heade Dissention fel at Oxford betwéen the Sotherne and Welch men on the one parts and Northerne Schollers on the other where through manye were slaine and the more part went to their Countryes wherfore the Chauncellour was depriued and Doctour Nicholas Brightwel Deane of Newerke in Leicester was made Chancellour The Lordes hasted to London where the king kepte hys Christmasse in the Tower of London they hauing assembl◠an army of neare hande 40000. the morrowe after Christmasse day came to London and mustered in the fields where they might be séene of thē in the Tower the Londoners were then in greatfeare waying diuerse perils as the Kings displeasure if they opened their gates to the Lords and if they shut them forth the indignatiō of the vndiscrete multitude The Duke of Glocester with other entred the Tower and hauing a
houre There were thrée Bishops also of which two did not like good men the Bishop of Lincolne and Saint Dauids but the third continued faithfull that was the Bishop of Carelile He had also two Knightes Stephen Scrope and William Fireby and Ianico a Gascoigne The King rode so warely that he came to Conwey at the breake of the daye Great sorrow and lamentation was made by the King and the Earle at their méeting for that the Earles host was dispersed and gone some to the Duke and some otherwayes The Duke of Aumarle Connestable and chiefe gouernour of the Kings armie at Milford immediately wheÌ„ the Kings departure was knowne he sayde to the Souldiers let vs shift for our selues maysters for the King is fledde wherevpon euery man trussed and away Sir Thomas Percy Steward of houshold talking with the Connestable also departed and tooke their way through Wales The Welshmen séeing such disorder assembled them togither and spoyled the Englishmen of all their goodes and sent them packing in their dublets with white staues in their hands for there rode héere tenne héere twentie héere fiftie héere an hundred and so the Welchmen comming downe the Mountaynes the English lost that they had The King had many Horsses of beyond the Sea broode and great riches in apparell and iewels which was in the kéeping of Sir Thomas Percy who with the Connestable came to Duke Henry of Hereford and more than fiue hundred of their companye all naked whome the Welchmen had despoyled and beaten well The King being at Conwey in great discomfort sent the Dukes of Excester and Surrey to Henry Duke of Hereford and Lancaster to know what his meaning was himselfe remayning still at Conwey in great perplexitie and with him the Earle of Salisburie the Bishop of Carelile Sir William Ferebe Knight Sir Stephen Scrope mine Author and another Frenchman in all but xvj persons then was newes brought to the King how his Connestable had demeaned him and likewise his Steward that had caused his riches to be brought aland and going through Wales with it the Welchmen had taken it The King then by the aduise of the Earle of Salisburie departed from Conwey vnto Beawmareis a ten miles off and from thence he went to Carnaruan Beawmaris was a strong Fortresse if it had bin manned and victualled Carnaruan is a faire Towne and a strong Castell but these were vnprouided of all things so that for fiue or sixe nightes he lay very hard and base and for victualles there was none wherefore he returned againe to Conwey where he sore lamented his estate The Dukes of Excester and Surrey entring the Citie of Chester which Duke Henry had taken were brought streight to the Castell to the Duke who was glad to sée them and forthwith asked the Duke of Excester what newes who tolde him from poynt to poynt what shame and dishonour it woulde be to him if he dealt so vniustly towardes his Prince and that through him he were deposed hée therefore demaunded anâ—were with spéede but the Duke of Lancaster was as slow to dispatch him and tolde hym he shoulde not goe for one wéeke and that the King was not well aduised to sende hym and his fellow béeing men of such calling sith he had other ynow of meaner estate to do the message so they remayned to their great discomfort The Duke of Excester Duke Henry still kepte in hys company but the Duke of Surrey was committed to safekéeping within the Castell of Chester There is a Castell sixe miles from Chester called Beston Castell builded on a Rocke verye strong by scituation therein were an hundred men of armes chosen and able men but not diligent for they deliuered it to the Duke where they might well ynough haue kept it the ascending is so stéepe it was victualled for sixe yeares There was founde within it Coyne better than an hundred thousande Markes beside other Jewels which King Richard caused to be kepte to the value of two hundred thousande Markes all which Duke Henry tooke wyth him and returned to Chester and there taking counsell of his friendes what was best to bée done the Archbishop of Canterburie sayde that sith the Kyng was in Wales whych was a Countrey strong by reason of the Mountaynes so that it was impossible for an Armie to passe wyth bagge and baggage hée thought it best to sende vnto King Richarde and to make hym beléeue that hée sought nothing but peace and a Parliamente to bée made wherein those that had offended in putting to death his Unkle the Duke of Glocester shoulde bée punished and so from thenceforth the King and the Duke to be good friendes and that it should be at the Kings pleasure to appoynte the day and place for thys Parliamente for withoute thys shifte it shoulde bée vnpossible for the Duke to gette hym into his handes for hée mighte departe by Sea when hée woulde hauing retayned at Conwey Shippes for that purpose All the other Lords assenting to this counsell the Duke appoynted the Earle of Northumberland to go to the King with four huÌ„dred Launces and a thousand Archers which Earle when he came to Flint Castell had it deliuered to his hands from thence he hasted to Rudland which was also giuen ouer to him then laying vnder a rocke two great embushments of his people with commandemente to kéepe that passage he went with fiue other in his company by the Sea coast till he came before the Towne and then he sent an Herault to the King for a safeconduct to come to his presence to declare his message from the Duke about an agréement which safeconduct being granted he passed the water and entred the Castell of Conwey where he founde the King and the Earle of Salisburie he declared to them that peace woulde be made if he would be a good Judge and a true and cause those that should be named to be tried by iustice at a certayne day of Parliament at Westminster which he and the Duke should holde togither and that the Duke might kéepe his place of high Judge as his father and other auncesters before him had done for the space of one hundred yeares Those that he would haue to be tried by the Law were the Duke of Excester the Duke of Surrey the Earle of Salisburie the Bishop of Carelile and Thomas Marke which fiue had giuen the King counsell to put his Unkle y â— Duke of Glocester to death and then if it should please him to pardon the Duke his wrath he would be readie to come to him on his knées to aske him mercie and so they might goe to London togither or the one one way and the other another The Earle offered to sweare that all this shoulde be perfourmed and that the Duke had assured him by oth to stand to it The King liking that it should be at his libertie to go eyther in companie with the Duke or alone vnto London purposed to take the offer and so
to pretend some excuse for his going alone after he should méete with the Duke as lacke of victualles or such like and so to take a byway thorough Wales and there to rayse a power he accorded to goe to the Duke and then Masse being celebrate the Earle of Northumberlande sware vpon the host that the Duke should holde all that he had tolde the king The Earle hasted the king forwarde to horssebacke but the King prayed the Erle to go before vnto Rutland there to prepare dinner The erle rode a pace till he came where he mighte sée his people vnder the mountaine whom he muche commended for obseruing his commaundement The King passing the water rode a four miles before he came to the Rock where when he sawe the ambushes was K. R. betraye◠sore abashed knowing well he was betrayed by the Earle for he was in such a place as he coulde not escape The Sea beating on the one side and the Rock kéeping him in on the other and if he shoulde haue fled backe they woulde haue caught him or he could haue come to Conway for he had not past thrée and twentie in all of his company The K. dissēding the Rocke the Earle came and knéeling down excused the matter saying he hadde caused those people to come to guarde his person but the king tolde him fewer wold haue serued and that it was contrarie to his othe for he had promised to haue but sixe in his company and sayde therefore that he would goe backe to Conway but the Earle aunsweared that nowe sith he had him he would leade him to the Duke as he had promised ten dayes since and so he caused Breade and Wine to bee broughte and offered the king who durst not refuse it and after leaping on horssebacke againe they rode to Rutlande to dinner and after to Flinte where they lay that night The Morrow being the two and twentie day of August the King got him to the Castell Wals where he beheld the D. with al his host of an hundred thousand men comming by the sands there came before that were departed from the army the Archbishop of Canterburie sir Thomas Percy and the Earle of Rutland from whom the Duke had taken the office of Conestable more for a colour than for displeasure for they bare the Dukes order and not the Harte whyche was the kings the Archbishoppe entred firste and after the other with a great traine they went vp to the dungeon and then the King came downe from the walles vnto whō they did reuerence lowlye on their knées the King toke them vp and drew the Archbishop apart and they two talked lōg togither but the Earle of Rutland kept him aloof They toke horsse againe and rode towards the Duke that now approched neare The Kyng went vp againe to the walles lamēting sore when he saw the Dukes hoste within two bowe shootes of the Castell who compassed it rounde about down to the sea The Earle of Northumberland wente forthe to the Duke who after long talke concluded that the duke should not enter the Castel before the King had dyned for he was fasting so the Earle returned and the King was set to dynner with whome sate his assured friends the Earle of Salisburie and the Bishop of Carlile sir Steuen Scrope and Feribe they sat long and eate little for they had no haste to rise After dinner the Duke entred the Castel all armed his Basenet excepted King Richard came downe to méete the Duke who as soone as he saw the King fell downe on hys knées and comming neare vnto him he knéeled the second time with his hat in his hand and the king then put off his hoode and spake first faire cousin of Lancaster yée are righte welcome The Duke bowing lowe to the grounde answeared my Lord I am come before you sent for me the reason why I wil shew you The cōmon fame among your people is suche that yée haue for the space of twentie or two and twentie yeares ruled them very rigorously but if it please our Lorde I will helpe you to gouerne better The Kyng aunswered fayre cousin of Lancaster sith it pleaseth you it pleaseth mée wel The Duke spake as yée haue heard to the king he spake also to the Bishop of Carlile to sir Stephen Scrope and to Feribe but to the Earle of Salisburie he spake not whereby the Earle perceyued that the Duke hated him deadly The duke with an high sharp voyce bad bring forth the Kings horsses and then two little nagges not worthe fortie franks were brought forth the King was set on the one and the Earle of Salisburie on the other and thus the Duke brought the King from Flinte to Chester where he was delyuered to the Duke of Glocesters sonne and to the Earle of Arundales sonne that loued him but a little for he had put theyr fathers to death who ledde hym strayghte to the Castel The thirde day they went to Nantwich and the next daye to newe Castle and there the Earle of Warwickes son mette thē and so iournying forth the next day they came to Stafford after they departed to Lichfield where the K. thought to haue escaped slypping downe into a Gardaine out of a Windowe of a great Tower but he was espyed and thrust into the Tower againe from Liechfielde the Duke went to Couentrie but before they coulde come thyther the Welchmen did them much harme and slew many of them and the Englishmen when they by great chaunce coulde take anye of the Welchmen they tyed them to their horsse tayles and drewe them after them through ways ful of stones caused them to die miserablye The Duke passed from Couentrie to Deintrie the next day to Northampton from thence to Dunstable then to Saint Albons and a fiue or sixe miles before hys comming to London the Maior and the Companyes in their lyueries with greate noyse of Trumpets mette the Duke doyng more reuerence to hym than to the Kyng reioycing that God had sente them suche a Prince that had conquered the Realme within one monthes space When the Duke came within two miles of the Citie the duke caused the hoste to stay and then said to the commons of the Citie My maisters beholde here youre King consider what yée will doe wyth him They answered they woulde he should be ledde to Westminster wherevppon he was deliuered vnto them and they ledde him to Westminster and from thence by water to the Tower of London The D. entred into London by y e chief gate rode through Cheape to Sainte Paules where he was after lodged in the Bishops Pallace fiue or sixe dayes and after at Saint Iohns without Smithfield where he remained xv days from thēce he remoued to Hertforde where he abonde thrée wéekes and then came backe to London to hold the Parliament that began the firste Wednesday of October in Westminster Hall which they had hung and trimmed sumptuously and hadde caused
the other an Italian chalenged to fighte within listes against sir Iohn Cornewall and Iames of Artois which two straungers were ouercome in battaile and Chalenge of coÌ„bat at Yorke sir Iohn Cornewal obtaining the Kings fauour maried the kings sister that had bin wife to sir Iohn Holland Earle of Huntingdon The Welchmen taking occasion by the Kings absence The VVelchmen rebel when he was in Scotlande beganne to rebel by the settyng on of OweÌ„ Glendouerdew son to Griffyth VichaÌ„ an esquier of Wales so called Glendour bicause his dwelling was in a place called GleÌ„dordwy for Glyn in Welch is a vale and Dor is water bycause the place was in a dale at the side of y e water or Riuer of Dew in the Parish of Corwrn in the Countie of Merâ—â—neth in Northwales He serued King Richarde at the tyme of his oppression by Henrie Duke of Lancaster at Flint Castell The first cause of this stirre was about a péece of land in controuersie betwixte him and the Lord Reignolde Gray of Ruthiue for when he saw his cause not fauoured firste hée began to spoyle the landes of the sayde Lord Gray whereof the king being certified went with an army into Wales but the Welchmen fledde to the mountaines the King brente the Countrey slew the people with whom he mette and returned with a great pray of Cattaile Iohn Wakel William Ebot the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Anno reg 2. Geffrey Chavvcer chief Poet of Brytaine Sir Iohn Frauncis Goldsmith the. 28. of October Geffrey Chawcer the most excellent Poet of Englande deceased the xxv of October who was buried at Westminster where of late at the charges of one maister Bridgeham is made ouer him a faire monument on the Southside of the Quire his workes for the most part are published in print by sir Iohn Thinne Knight and somewhat increased by my trauell in the last impression Not long after deceased the like famous Poet Iohn Gower Iohn Govver a most excellent Poet of EnglaÌ„d who lyeth buried in Sainte Marie Oueries Church in Southwarke He new builded a great part of that Church and coÌ„piled thrée famous bookes The first in Latine Vox ClamaÌ„tis The second in French Speculum Meditantis The third in Englishe Confessio Amantis which last booke is in Print the other hard to come by of the first I haue séen thrée very faire copies but of the seconde I neuer sawe any one The Emperour of Constantinople came into Englande to requyrs ayde agaynste the Turkes whome the King wyth sumptuous preparation mette at Blacke Heath vpon Saint Thomas daye the Apostle and brought him to London and paying for the charges of his lodging presented him with giftes worthy for one of so high degrée Soone after came newes that the King of Leto had â—lain in battayle Bassacke the sonne of the noble Balthazardan â— destroyed Ierusalem and all the Countrey rounde aboute And bycause he had by Gods grace so ouercome contrarye to his opinion he became christened and 60000. men of his secte The Emperour of Constantinople hearing this was very 1401 The Emperour returned gladde and departed out of Englande being honored by the King with precious giftes The fiue and twentith day of July Isabel late wife to K. Isabel late vvife to K. R. returned into Fraunce Richarde not yet twelue yeares of age departed from Douer towardes Caleis and so into Fraunce to hyr Father Owen Glendouerdew w e his Welchmen did much harme to the Englishmen and returned There was founde in the Kings bedde clothes an yron K. H. escapeth â— great daunger with thrée sharp pikes slender and round standing vpright layde there by some Traytour that when the Kyng should haue layde him downe he might haue thrust himselfe vpon them This time was vsed excéeding pride in garmentes gownes with déepe and broade sléeues commonlye called poke sléeues the seruauntes ware them as well as theyr Tho. Wals Aditions to polic maisters whiche mighte well haue bene called receptacles of the Diuel for what they stole they hidde in their sléeues whereof some hung downe to the féete and at leaste to the knées ful of cuttes and iagges whervpon were made these Anno reg 3 verses Now hath this lande little neede of Bromes To sweepe away the filth out of the streete Thâ— Hocâ—liâ—â— Sen side sleeues of pennilesse gromes will it vp licke be it drie or weete O England stand vpright on thy feete so foule a waste in so simple a degree Banish or it shal â—ore repent thee William Venor Iohn Fremingham the. 28. of Septem Sherifes Maior Sir Iohn Chadworth Mercer the. 28. of October The Conduit vpon Cornehil in London was made which before time had bene a prison called the Tunne in Cornehill wherevnto nightwalkers that were taken in suspition of fellonie or other trespasses were committed In the moneth of March appeared a blasing starre first betwixt the East and the North and last of all putting firie beames towards the North foreshewing peraduenture the effusion of bloud about the partes of Wales and Northumberlande Owen Glendouerdew with his Welchmen wasted y â— lands 1402 of the Lord Reignalde Gray tooke him prisoner and slewe many of his people Certaine men affirmed King Richarde to be aliue and Conspiracie against K. Henrie that he should shortly shew himself openly reward them y â— wer faithful vnto him But after a certain priest was taken at Warwike who had written y e names of many which were the aucthours of these troubles both the hope and feare of this conspiracie vanished The Priest was drawen hanged and quartered Also Walter Waldocke late Priour of Lande a Priorie in Leicestershire bycause he confessed he knew euill against the king and did conceale it was likewise hanged and headed Moreouer certaine gray Friers were taken of the whiche one Richard Friseby doctour of Diuinitie being A stout Frier executed asked what he would do if K. Richard were present answered that he woulde fight in his quarrel against any man euen to the death wherfore he was condemned drawen and hanged in his religious habit and wéede At Daneburie in Essex vpon Corpus Christi day the Diuell appeared in likenesse of a Gray Frier who entring the Church raged insolentlye to the greate feare of the Parishioners and the same houre with a tempeste of whyrlewinde and thunder the toppe of the Stéeple was broken downe and halfe the Chauncel scattered abrode Shortlye after sir Roger Claringdon Knighte a bastard sonne to Edward the blacke Prince and wyth him a Squire and a yeomanne were beheadded and eyghte Graye Friers hanged and beheaded at London and two at Leicester all whiche hadde published King Richard to bée aliue Owen Glendouerdew with a company of Welchmen inuaded all the shires that bordered neare vnto hym wherefore sir Edmund Mortimer wyth manye Knightes and Esquiers wente out to encounter with Owen stronger than he was of the
Colledges are called the new Colledges dedicated to our blessed Lady He builded the great body of the Church of Saint Swithens in Winchester where the Sermons are made where his body is enterred a very princely worke neyther did he for all this diminish any thing of his ordinarie housholde charges and fedde as the writing engraued on his Sepulchre sheweth both rich and poore He deceassed at the age of fourescore yeares He dyed rich for beside that he gaue to his kinsefolke and to the poore he gaue somewhat to euery Church in his Dioces He gaue many things to the King and to his owne seruants and to his Colledges neyther do I doubt but y t he that thus liued is now with God whome I beséech to reyse vp many like Bishops in England Iohn Leyland writeth by the reporte of Doctor London Iohn Leyland that this William Wikeham was borne at Wickham in Hampshire and was sonne to one William Perot parishe clarke there of which place he tooke his surname and that one Mayster Wodale of Wickham brought him vp at schole where he learned his Grammer and to write faire After this the Connestable of Winchester Castell at that time a great ruler in Hampshire gote Perot alias Wickham of Wâ—dall and made him his Clearke Edward the third comming to Winchester Castell liked Wickham and tooke him to seruice and vnderstanding that he had mind to be a Priest made him first Parson of Saint Martins in London and then Deane of Saint Martins le Graund and then Archdeacon of Buckingham He made him also surueyor of his buildings as of Windsore Quinborow in Kent and other buildings After this he preferred him to be bearer of the priuie Sealt mayster of the Wardes and Forrests and Treafourer of the Kings reuenues in France then Bishop of Winchester Chancellour and Treasourer of England as it very manifestly sayth Iohn Leyland appeareth by writing The blacke Prince scant fauoured Wickham wherefore Wickham procured to kéepe the Prince in battell out of the Realme but at length Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster and Alice Peeres Concubine to Edward the third caused him to be banished the Realme and then he dwelled in Normandy and Picardie seauen yeares Edward the thirde yet liuing but he was restored about the second yeare of Richard the second of whome he had a generall pardon Aboute the feast of Saint Valentine the sonnes of the Barle of Marches sonnes Earle of March were taken out of the Castell of Windsore and ledde away into Wales to Owen Glendouerdewe but shortly after were recouered againe The Smith that made the keyes by the which they that conuayde them got into them had first his hands and then his head cut off The Lady Spencer Sister to the Duke of Yorke and widow of Thomas Lord Spencer before executed at Brestow being apprehended and committed to prison accused hit brother the Duke of Yorke to be chiefe author in stealing away of the Earle of Marches sonnes wherefore the sayde Duke was kept by Sir Iohn Pelham in the Castell of Pemsey till the next Parliament After the feast of the Purification of our Lady the King assembled his Barons at London to treate of the gouernement of the Realme and to haue ayde of money to be giuen him but the Nobles would not at that time obey his request In the Lent following therefore the King caused the Cleargie and the Barons to assemble at Saint Albons for the matter aforesayd but by reason the Nobles stroue against him there was nothing done and so departed on Palme sonday About the fiftéenth of March in a fight betwixt the Englishmen 1405 Conspiracy against King Henry by the Archbishop of Yorke other and Welchmen the sonne of Owen Glendouerdewe was taken and fiftéene hundred with him were taken or slayne Henry Percy Earle of Northumberlande Richard Scrope Archbishop of Yorke Thomas Mowbray Earle Marshall Thomas Lord Bardolph and other coÌ„spiring against King Henry assembled togither the Citizens of Yorke and many other to stand with them for the commoditie of the Realm And to animate the commons to be the readier vnto this businesse they set articles vpoÌ„ the dores of the Monasteries Churches of the same Citie written in English agaynste the King bycause he had put downe King Richard offering themselues for those articles to liue and die which caused great number of people to resort to them but Ralph Neuill Earle of Westmerland that was not farre off togither with Iohn Duke of Lancaster the Kings sonne being enformed of these things gathered an armie with spéede to goe against the Archbishops company but all was in vayne for the Archbishops power was farre greater than theirs wherevpon the Earle of Westmerland sente messengers to enquire of the Archbishop the cause of so great an assembly in armour contrarie to the Kings peace wherevnto the Archbishop answered that he tooke nothing in hand against the Kings peace and he was in armour and munited with men only for feare of the King whome he could not safely come vnto to speake but his purpose he said was good and coÌ„modious both for y e King Realme if happily they would know it theÌ„ he shewed a scedule in which y e articles were conteyned which when the Earle of Westmerland had read he with word and countenance praysed the Bishops holy and vertuous intent and promised that he and his would prosecute the same with the Archbishop The Archbishop being glad of this beléeued the Earles words perswaded the Earle Marshall being vnwilling therevnto to go with him to a place appointed to talke togither to whome they with like number came and the writing with the Articles was read ouer streightway the Earle and they that were with him gaue their assent to these articles then sayde the Earle being subtiller than the rest behold the labour that we haue takeÌ„ in hand is come to such end as we would haue it and the people hath now bin long in armour let some of your meÌ„ beare word vnto the people to go their way home and to lay downe their armour and euery maÌ„ to fall to his occupation and accustomed labour in the meane season we in token of concord will drinke togither that the people on both sides shall sée it and without delay after they had takeÌ„ each other by the hands a Knight was sent on the Archbishops behalfe to beare word to y e people that it was peace and to command euery man to lay downe their armour and to go to their owne home The people beholding signes of peace the Lords drinking togither being awéeried with the vnaccustomed trauell of war turned the reines of their bridles homewards and so it came to passe y â— wheÌ„ the people of y e Archbishops side went away y e nuÌ„ber of the aduersaries increased as before it was appointed the Archbishop did not perceiue y t he was betrayd vntill such time as y e Earle
Aquitaine to Wynter there and the Duke of Orleaunce wente home to hys Countrey Anno reg 14 Ralph Leuenhynd William Seuenocke the. 28. of Sep. Sherifes Maior Sir William Waldren Mercer the. 28. of October About this tyme the Lorde Herle Marshall of Fraunce with manye other noble men and men of armes to the number of foure thousande besieged a certayne holde in Aquitaine whyche was in the kéepyng of Iohn Blunte Knight who with thrée hundered that ayded hym putte to flight the whole army of the Frenchmen and toke twelue of their men of name and other gentlemen to the number of 120. Kyng Henrie kept his Christmasse at his manour of Eltham being so sore sick that sometime men thought that he had bin dead notwithstanding it pleased God that he recouered his strength againe a little After Christmasse he called the Nobles of y e realm togither to a Parliament at London but he liued not to the end therof for now after the great and fortunate chaunces hapned Titus Liuius to him and being deliuered of all Ciuill diuision hée was taken with sicknesse of the which he languished til his appointed houre during which sickenesse some euil disposed people laboured to make dissention betwéene the King and the Prince his sonne by reason wherof and by the acte of youth which he exercised more than meanely and for the great recourse of people vnto him of whom his Court was at all times more aboundant than the King his father the King suspected that he would presume to vsurpe the crown he being aliue which suspitious iealousie was occasion that he in part withdrewe his affection and singular loue from the Prince But when this noble Prince was aduertised of his fathers iealousie he disguised himself in a gown of blew â—atten made full of small Oylet holes and at euery Oylet the néeble wherwith it was made hanging stil by a thréede of silke And about his arme he ware a dogges coller set ful of S S of golde and the Tirets of the same also of fine gold Thus apparelled with a great companye of Lordes and other noble men of his Court he came to the king his father who at that time laye at Westminster where at his coÌ„ming by his owne commaundement not one of hi 〈…〉 panye auaunced himselfe further thaÌ„ the fire in the Hall notwithstanding that they were greatly and ofte desired to the contrarie by the Lordes and great estates of the Kings Court and that the Prince had commanded to giue the lesse occasion of mistrust to the King his father but he himselfe only accompanyed of the kings house passed forth to the king his Father to whom after due salutation he desired to shewe the intent of his minde in secrete manner Then the Kyng caused himselfe to be borne in his chayre into his secrete chamber bycause he was deseased and might not goe wher in the presence of thrée or foure persons in whom the King had most confidence he commaunded the Prince to shewe the effect of his minde Then the Prince knéeling down before his Father saide to him these wordes most redoubted Lord and Father I am this time come to your presence as your liegman and as your sonne naturall in all thyngs to obay your grace as my soueraigne Lord and father And whereas I vnderstand yée haue me suspect of my behauiour against your grace and that yée feare I would vsurpe your Crowne againste the pleasure of your highnesse of my coÌ„uersation youre grace knoweth that if yée were in feare of any man of what estate soeuer he were my duetie were to the endaungering of my life to punishe that person therby to race that sore from your hearte And then howe muche rather oughte I to suffer death to bring your grace from the feare that yée haue of me that am your naturall sonne and your liegeman And to that intente I haue thys daye by confession and receyuing the Sacramente prepared my selfe and therefore moste redoubted Lorde and Father I beséeche you in the honour of God for the easing of youre harte heretofore your knées to slea me with this dagger and at that worde wyth all reuerence he deliuered to the king hys dagger saying my Lorde and Father my lyfe is not so desirous to mée that I woulde liue one daye that shoulde be to you displeasure nor I couet not so much my life as I doe your pleasure and welfare and in your thus doing here in the presence of these Lordes and tofore God at the daye of iudgemente I clearelye forgiue you my deathe At these wordes of the Prince the King taken with compassion of hearte cast from him the dagger and imbracing the Prince kissed him and with effusion of teares saide vnto him my right deare and hartily beloued sonne it is of trueth that I had you partly suspecte and as I now perceyue vndeserued on your partie but séeing this your humilitie and faithfulnesse I shall neyther slay you nor from henceforth haue you any more in mistrust for no report that shall be made vnto me and thereof I assure you vpon mine honor Thus by his great wisedome was the wrongfull imagination of his Fathers hate vtterly auoyded and hymselfe restored to the Kings former grace and fauour After thys as was reported by the Earle of Ormonde to the translatour of myne author Titus Liuius the king gaue to his sonne the Prince diuerse notable doctrines insignments among which eruditioÌ„s one is this the King lying grieuously diseased called before him the Prince his sonne sayd vnto him My sonne I feare me sorâ— after my departure from this life some discord shal grow arise betwéene thée and thy brother Thomas Duke of Claâ—ence whereby the realme may be brought to destruction and miserie for I knowe you both to be of greate stomacke and courage Wherefore I feare that he throughe his high mynde wyll make some enterprise against thée intending to vsurpe vpon thée whiche I knowe thy stomacke maye not abyde tasily And for dreade hereof as ofte as it is in my remembraunce I soare repente me that euer I charged my selfe wyth the Crowne of this Realme To these wordes of the King the Prince aunsweared thus Righte redoubted Lorde and Father to the pleasure of GOD your grace shall long continue with vs and rule vs both but if God haue so prouided that euer I shall succéede you in thys Realme I shall honour and loue my brethre aboue all menne as long as they be to me true faythfull and obediente as to theyr soueraigne Lord but if anye of them fortune to conspyre or rebell againste mée I assure you I shall as soone execute iustice vppon one of them as I shall vpon the worst and most simplest person within this your Realme The Kyng hearing thys aunsweare was therewith maruellouslye reioyced in hys mynde and sayde My deare and wel beloued Sonne wyth thys aunswere thou haste deliuered me of a greate and ponderous
to be made to any Prince of England The King gaue them all generallye thankes for theyr good mindes towardes hym and therewyth exhorted them to the zeale of the publike prosperitie and honoure of the Realme If anye man hadde offended hym he pardoned theyr trespasse and desyred heartily of GOD that if hée shoulde rule and doe all things well to the honoure of GOD and the prosperous commoditie of the Realme that then God woulde suffer him to be Crowned But if hys fortune shoulde bée to doe otherwyse that then GOD shoulde take hym to hys mercye and suffer hym rather to be buried than to enterprise the charge of the Realme The ninth day of April he was crowned at Westminster by Thomas Arundell Archebyshoppe of Canterburie after whyche Coronation he called vnto hym all those young Lords and Gentlemen that were the folowers of his yong actes to euerye one of whome he gaue rich and bounteâ—â—s giftes and then commanded that as many as would chaÌ„ge their maners as he intended to doe should abide with him in his Courte and to all that woulde perseuer in theyr former light conuersation he gaue expresse commaundemente vpon paine of their heades neuer after that day to come in his presence About this time Thomas Duke of Clarence the Kings brother came from the coastes of Aquitaine who as we said before was sent to ayde the Duke of Orleaunce againste the Duke of Burgoine A great part of the Citie of Norwich was brent with all Tho. Wals the house of the Frier Preachers and also two Friers of that order Sir Iohn Oldcastle at that time Lorde of Cobham for diuerse pointes touching the Sacrament before the Archebyshoppe of Canterburie the Bishops of London Winchester other was conuict and committed to the Tower of London out of the which he brake ouer the walles in the night and escaped about the feast of Simon and Iude. Iohn Stutton Iohn Michel the. 28. of September Sherises Maior Sir William Cromer Draper the. 28. of October Richard the second somtime king of England which was at the first enterred in the church of the preaching Friers of Langley was takeÌ„ vp and royally buried at Westminster with no small charges to the King The K. kéeping his Christmasse at his manour of Eltham vij miles from London was warned y â— certain had conspired against him eyther to haue taken or sodainly slain him his brethren on Twelfth day â—t night whervpon the king sent word to the Maior of LondoÌ„ y t he should arrest all suspitious persons wherevpon the Maior forthwith caused euery AldermaÌ„ in his ward to kéep great watch and about tenne of the clocke at nighte wente hymselfe wyth a strong power to the signe of the Are wythoute Byshoppes Gate where they apprehended the man of the house called Iohn Burgate Carpenter and vij other sent them to Eltham where they confessed before the Kyng that they were confederate with Sir Iohn Oldcastell to fight against him and his Lords in Saint Giles fielde aboue Holborne On the morrow after the Twelfth day the King King Henry kept the field by S. Giles vvithout Holborne reâ—â—â—ued priuily to Westminster and with a greate armie kept the fielde of Sâ—â—â—t Gâ—les for he was warned that Sir Iohn Oldcastell and Sir Roger Acton woulde be in the same field on the next day following with fiue and twentie thousand people and the same night were taken more than fourescore men in armour of the same faction Also the King being told of an amâ—â—shment gathered in Harengay Parke â—â—nte thither certayne Lordes who tooke many among whome was one William Murlâ— a rich â—aultmaÌ„ or Bruer of Dunstaple who had his two Horsses trapped with Golde following him and a paire of gilt Spurres in his bosome for he thought to haue bin made Knight on the morrow by the handeâ—â—â— Sir Iohn Oldâ—â—stell The twelfth of January thréesâ—â—râ— and nine of them were condemned of treafoâ—â— Many men hanged and some brent in Ficketâ— field at Westminster and on the morrow after seauen and thirtie of thâ—â— were drâ—â—â—â—â— from the Tower of London to Newgate and so to Saint Gâ—â—â—â— and there in a place called Fickets fielde were all hanged and â—eâ—â—ien of them brent Gallowes and â—â— The xix of January were drawne and hanged Sir Iohn Beâ—erley Priest Iohn Bâ—â—gate Carpenter a Text writer in Sâ—â—â—â— Iohns stréete and a Glouer on London bridge and shortly after Sir Roger Aâ—â—on Knight was taken who on the tenth of February was drawne hanged and buryed vnder the Gallâ—wes The twentith of February deceassed Thomas Arundell Archbishop of Conterburie Anno reg 2. The King taking compassion vpon Henry Percy a yong 1414 man who by his Grandfather Henry Percy Earle of Northâ—â—â—â—erland was caryed into Scotland after the death of his father who was sâ—aine in the battell of Shrewsburie when this yong man was then but a child commanded theÌ„ that were of his kindred and néerest friends to solicite for his reclayming home agayne out of Scotland minding not only to honor him by calling him home agayne but also to â—â—â—â—â— him Earle of Northumberland In the moneth of May a Parliament was begon at Leycester Parliament at Leycester Porter of the Tovver executed and there was a Porter of y â— Tower of LoÌ„don drawne hanged and headed whose head was sent to London and set ouer the Tower gate for consenting to one that brake out of the Tower named 〈◊〉 In this Parliamente Iohn the Kings brother was made Duke of Bedford Humfrey Dukes created his brother Duke of Glocester and Richard brother to the Duke of Yorke was made Earle â—â— Cambridge To this Parliament came the Embassadors of the French King and also of the Duke of Bâ—â—gâ—â—dy but not with like inâ—â—â—te and purpose for the D. of â—â—â—gâ—ndy desired ayde against the â— of Orleance promising as men layd more than he was able to perfourme wherefore the King of England â—â—â—◠〈◊〉 Embassadors to them both amongst whome were the Bishops of Durham and Norwich as chiâ—f 〈…〉 were oft times sent into France and the French Kings Embassadors were sente hither with great cost on both â—â—â—â—s but no hope of peace to be had On Mary Magdalens day in London Iohn â—â—â—nser Esquire with mine of his men set vpon and â—lew The Queenes Chancellour flayne Iohn Tâ—â—bey Clearke Archdeacon of Hunâ—â—â—gâ—â— and Chancellour to Quéene Ioane late wife to Henry the fourth for the which fact the sayd Esquire and foure of his men fled to Saint Annes Church within Aldersgaiâ— where they were mured vp with boord and watched day and night till the xxj of August on the which day they forsware the lande Men foresvvare the land and passed through the Citie towards Caleis in their shirtes and bréeches eache of them hauing a Crosse in hys hand This yeare dyed the â—oalours of Newgate and Ludgate Prisoners dyed of London and many prisoners in Newgate to
of God I will kéepe the right way towardes Caleis if our aduersaries do attempt to disturbe vs in oure iourney we thinke they shall not do it without their owne great danger and perill From thence King Henry remoued Enguerant to a Uillage called Forceuile aduancing his host towardes the Riuer of Miramont and the next day they passed by the Cheue and the King lodged that night at Bonyers lestaillon The next day the King remoued vnto Bangy The Titus Liuius next day late in the night the King came to a Uillage named Agencourt Enguerant sayeth Masencelles where they lodged not distant from the French host the space of two hundred and fiftie spaces The Frenchmen fixed their Banners Enguerant and Standerts with the Banner Royall whereof the Connestable had the conduct in the field by them deuised and chosen which was in the Countie of S. Paule in y ◠groūd of Agencourt by whiche the day following the Englishmen The Battell of Agencourt Titus Liuius should passe to go to Caleis The xxv day of October the King of England in the morning very earely set forth his host in array He commanded that his Horsses and other carriages shoulde be left in the Uillage where he had lodged The order of his field was thus The middle battell whereof the King was conductor was set in the midst of the field directly against the middle battell of his aduersaries On the right side was the first battell and therewith the right wing and on the left side the last battell and the left wing And these battayles ioyning nigh togither by the prouidence of God proued vnto this King a defensible place for his host for the Uillage wherein he was lodged before defended his host from all inuasions on the backe and the field wherein he was was defended on both sides with two small Riuers This noble King was armed with sure and right beautifull armour On his head a bright Helmet wherevpon was set a Crowne of Golde repleate with pearle and pretious stones maruellous rich In his Shield he bare the armes both of England and France And thus armed he was mounted vpon a goodly great Horsse and after hym were ledde certayne noble Horsses with their bridles and trappers of Goldsmithes worke and vpon them also were beaten the Armes of England and of France Thus this victorious King prepared to battell encouraged his people to the field that approached at hand The night before this cruell battell by the aduise and counsell as it is said of the Duke of Yorke the King had giuen commandemēt through his host that euery mā should puruey him a stake sharp at both ends which the Englishmen fixed in the ground before them in the field to defend them from the oppression of Horssemen The Frenchmen had such confidence in the great multitude of their people and in their great Horsses that many of their great Princes and Lordes leauing behinde them their Souldiers Standerts and other Ensignes came towards the Englishmen in right great hast as if they had bin assured of victory The battayles of the Englishmen were as large as the Enguerant field wherein they fought would suffer which was greatly to their aduantage for by that meanes their enimies were letted to come vpon them at the sides and backes of their host The Frenchmen had ordeyned their battels with two sharpe fronts like vnto two hornes which alwayes backward was broader and broader and these sharp battels set vpon the Englishmens middle ward intending to haue runne thorough the whole fielde but the Frenchmen were slayne and wounded by the English Archers and by the helpe of the stakes which the Englishmen had fixed before them in the grounde whereby the Horssemen were constreyned to returne or else to runne vpon the stakes where many of them were ouerthrowne and wounded and many both Horsses and men slayne The battell and fight encreased maruellously by the space of thrée houres in all whych time no man was taken prisoner but innumerable were slaine vpon whose dead bodyes they that followed were ouerthrowne and slayne Thus after a long and cruell battell there approched no man to battell but to death of whome after that an innumerable company were slayne and that the victorie remayned to the Englishmen they spared to sley and take prisoners of the Frenchmen In this mortall battell the noble King of England fought with his enimies as a famished Lion for his pray receyuing on his Helmet and other armour many and greate strokes at the last the victorie obteyned and the greate host of the Frenchmen slayne taken wounded and vanquished forthwith another host of Frenchmen no lesse than the firste supposing the Englishmen now to be wéeried prepared themselues to begin agayne a newe battayle The King of England séeing this second assemble of his aduersaries Titus Liuius sente his Heraults vnto them commaunding them eyther forthwith to come to battayle or else immediately to depart and if they delayed to departe or if they came to battell both those of theirs which were already taken prisoners and also all those that after should be taken without redemption should be put to death which message when the Frenchmen had heard fearing the strength of the Englishmen and also the death of themselues of the prisoners taken with heauinesse they departed forthwith Then the King of England being assured of the victory gaue the greatest laude and prayse to God that might be In this battayle were slayne on the French parte the Dukes of Alaunson Barry and Braban and the Lord of Helly Enguerant the Lord Labret chiefe Connestable of France the Archbishop of Saunce eyght Earles an hundred and mo Barons fiftéene hundred Knightes and aboue tenne thousand of all estates whereof scarcely fiftéene hundred were Souldiers or labourers the rest were of cote armour At this battayle were taken prisoners of the Frenchmen Titus Liuius the Dukes of Orleaunce and of Burbon Arthure brother to the Duke of Briteine the Earles of Vandisme of Ewe and Enguerant Richmount and Sir Boumeycault Marshall of France and Titus Liuius many other to the number of fiftéene hundred Knightes and Esquiers And of the English partie were slayne the Duke of Yorke the Earle of Suffolke and to the number of an C. persons in the vantgard and of all estates on y e English Enguerant partie were not found dead aboue vj. C. in the field When night approched the K. of England returned with his host into that Uillage wherein they harbored the night before where he found his Horsses other baggages cariages y e he left there before the field stolne caried away by the Frenchmen On the day next ensuing the King with his people entred his iourney towarde Caleis Titus Liuius William Cambridge Allin Euerard the 28. of Septemb. Sherifes Maior Sir Nicholas Wotton Draper the 28 of October The morrow after
fiftéene dayes they were not deliuered from thys séege they should deliuer to the King the Towne and Castell and when the day was come they perfourmed promise and this was the first Bridge ouer the Riuer of Seene that the King subdued to his power After the King had thus obteyned that Bridge ouer the Riuer of Seene and that there was none other Riuer or floud mighte lette his iourney with all the hast he might he entred hys iourney towardes Roane The Citizens hearing the approche of their enimies and fearing least they shoulde bée lodged in the Suburbes whiche were muche larger than the Citie was within the walles and was also muche replenished with Monasteries Churches and Towers burned the same and made all euen with the grounde To this Citie on the thirtith day of Julye thys victorious King approched agaynste whome came the Citizens with theyr Garrisons and men of warre where the more parte of all that day they continued in battell and fought sore on both partes but the Frenche were forced to séeke their succour within the walles of the Citie whome in theyr recoyle the King pursued still before the Citie where hée ordered his séege in this maner First the King with a noble company of yong hardy men lodged himselfe before the gate of Saint Hillarie The Duke of Clarence with his power was lodged before the gate of Caulx The Duke of Excester after he was câ—me to the king was lodged with his people before the gate of y e Castel called Beanuice Erle Marshal was lodged before y e gate called Markeuile The Earle of Warwicke after he was come from the Castle of Donfrounte was lodged vpon the Hil where the strong Monasterie of Saint Katherie was The Erles of Salisburie and Huntingdon were lodging ther vpon the other side of the Riuer of Seene vpon whom their enimies made many assaults and bycause the Riuer of Seene diuided the English hoaste in two partes the King caused to be made a strong bridge of Tymber ouer the same Riuer that when néede shoulde require they might haue frée passage on foote and horsse and bycause their enimies shoulde not approch vnto it w t their ships or Galleys the K. caused to be made a great cheyne to be drawen ouer the Riuer betwixt the citie and the Bridge At that tyme the King of Portingale coâ—â— to the King of England sent a nauie of shippes wel manneâ— into the Kings ayde whom the King commaunded to lye betwixte the Citie and the sea to enclose the Citie from all succours by Water The towne of Caudbeke fearing the daunger of the time couenaunted with the King of England that when the Citie of Roane were taken and deliuered into the Kings obeysaunte they in like manner woulde yéelde them to him without any assaulte and vnder the same appointed according with the King xiiij other defensible Townes and Castels that were nigh borderers vnto Roane After many cruell battayles and assaultes the Citizens fearing at leÌ„gth to be famished dayly put out of the Citie gret number of poore people and other but the hunger encreasing they were forced to eate their horsses dogges cattes rattes and mise and these and other like things were consumed eaten Then the plague of famine entred the Citie so that the people for defaulte of reliefe dyed that the liuing might scarcely burie the deade whereby that noble Citie was brought into so muche miserie that it is not lesse maruayle than pitiful to heare In this mean time during this siege of Roane The duke of Excester besieged the Citie of Eneroys also about the xx of August king Henrie had thrée maruellous victories in Normandie The first was that one hundered Englishmen take iij. great Lords at a place called Kilbuife and put to flight thrée hundred and fourescoure persons besides The second was foure hundered of his enimies entred within the suburbes of the Towne of Ebroicens and eleauen Englishmen chased them away and toke foure of them and slew twelue tooke 40. of their horsses The thirde was the enimies would indéede haue taken the town which was called Leuers but the Captaine of the same with an hundered of our men wente out against a thousand of them and ouercame them toke 180. gentlemen of the enimies Aboute thys tyme also Captaine de la Bouche toke the Towne of Pontoys by Paris The Parson of Wrotham in Norffolke whiche haunted New market Heath and there robbed and spoyled many was with his Concubine brought to Newgate of London where he dyed in prison Iohn Brian Ralphe Barton the. 28. of Sep. Iohn Parnesse Sherifes the. 28. of October This Iohn Brian Sherife as he came one a time from Wapping in the Woose thinking to haue eased himselfe beyond Saint Katherines Mill fell into the Thamis and was dragged vp againe by his men and the Miller but dyed therof within a seauen-night in whose place was chosen Iohn Parnesse William Seuenoke Grocer the. 28. of October Maior This William Seuenoke when he was a newe borne babe was founde at a Town called Seuenoke in Kent where by charitable people he was christened by the name of William and for that hys father or mother could not be known they gaue him to surname Seuenoke being by theÌ„ broughte vp till he was able to serue they then bounde him prentise with a Citizen of London where after his good seruice God indued him with such wisedome and wealthe that he came to be Maior of that Citie who being not vnthankefull to God and the common wealth among other his charitable workes founded in the Towne of Seuenoke where he hadde bin nourished a Frée schole and thirtéene almes houses When the Citizens of Roane perceyued themselues maruellously afflicted by famine as is before shewed and also to be in dispaire of succour from the Frenchmen nowe after halfe a yeares siege and more vpon certaine conditions they deliuered to the king of England their Citie castle Tower Abbayes Churches houses Citizens Captaynes Garisons and generallye all things that were within the Citie whatsoeuer they wer The xix day of Januarie there had dyed within this Citie as was sayde for defalt of victuals during this siege mo than xxx thousand people This Anno reg 7. 1419 noble King the rather to relieue this oppressed Citie ordayned the same to be the chiefe Chamber of all Normandie and ordayned hys exchequer hys Treasurie and hys coynage to be kepte in the same he also â—dified a strong tower behinde the Castle Whilest the King ordered his businesse at Roane he sente diuerse Lordes with strong puissaunce of people to receyue the Castelles of Townes borderyng vppon Roane amongst whom the Duke of Clarence in short tyme redused to the King the mightie Castell of Galiarde the Towne of Vernon the Towne of Naunte the Castall of Bandmounte and manye other strong places and holdes The Earle of Salisburie wyth the Garrison to hym assigned tooke the Town of Hounslowe the
and Katherin and of the Duke of Burgoigne departed from Troys and toke his iourney to Paris and from Paris not many dayes after they all went to laye siege to the Citie of Sens whiche was to them contrarie but before the whole hoste were setled in their places the Captaine Citizens and Garisons submitted their bodyes and Citie with all that they had to the King Then they hasted to Monstrean which Towne they toke by force On the xv of July they went to the Citie of Melune and inuironed the same with a strong siege for there were the Kings of Englande of France and Scotlande the Duke of Burgoigne Tho. Wals Bauier Clarence Bedforde and Excester the Earles of March Warwicke Huntington and Somerset c. This siege coÌ„tinued xiiij wéekes and odde dayes from the feast of Mary Magdalen to the feaste of All Saintes not without in a maner euery day a conflict and sore skirmishe but at length for wante of victualles the besieged yéelded themselues to the Kyngs of Englande and Fraunce from whence the forsayde Kyngs with a greate parte of theyr armye wente to Paris Iohn Butler Iohn Wels the. 28. of September Sherifes Maior William Cambridge Grocer the. 28. of October King Henrie kept hys Christmasse in the Citie of Paris in the Castle of Saint Anthony And after he had holden a Parliamente there he went to Roane and therewith hys Titus Liuius Normans and Englishmen helde a Parliament And theÌ„ when he had established sure guarde for this Realme of Fraunce Dutchie of Normandie he passed throughe Picardie to Caleis and so to Douer where with his Quéene he landed on Candlemasse day The fourtéenth of Februarie Quéene Katherin was Crowned at Westminster vnto whom the King assigned to hir dowrie 10000. markes also he consented to the deliuerie of the King of Scots who had bin long prisoner in Englande with condition that before his departure out of Englande he shall take to wiâ—e the Duke of Somersets sister niece to the Cardinal of Winchester Anno reg 9. 1421 The. xxij of March the duke of Clarence with many other Lords were slaine beyond the Water of Leire in Fraunce many Lords were taken prisoners of the which the Earle of Huntington and the Earle of Somerset were principal In a ParliameÌ„t at Westminster it was ordayned that no man should profer gold in payment but if it helde waight wherfore was ordayned Balances and weightes The king suppressed the French houses of religious Monkes and Friers and such like in Englande bycause they thought ill of the Conquest ouer Fraunce theyr lands were giuen by him and Henrie the sixth to Monasteries and Colledges of learned men In this Parliament was demaunded subsidie The Bishop of Winchester lent the king â—0000 pounde to straine y â— matter The King hauing disposed all thing in order coÌ„cerning the realme of England and the wars in Scotland leauing in Englande his Quéene with a greate power to the number after Enguerant of thirtye thousande returned into Fraunce where after he hadde visited the King and Quéene of Fraunce at Paris he tooke the Castell of Dâ—wex by assault And when he heard that his enimies prepared themselues to battaile he approched the floude of Loyre aboute whyche Titus Liuius floud it was said his enimies were but against him came no man Wherfore the Kyng ledde his hoste to laye siege to the City of Sens commonlye called the Kings new Town whiche Towne for lacke of victualles yéelded themselues and the Town to the King Iohn Mortimer brake foorthe of the Tower of London and beyng afterwards taken hée was drawen and hanged Richarde Gosselin William Weston the 28. of Septemb. Sherifes Maior Sir Robert Chicheley Grocer the 28. of October This Syr Robert Chicheley when he deceased in Anno 1439. willed in his Testament that vppon his mind day a competent dinner should be ordained for 2400. pore men housholders of the Citie and twenty pounde in mony to be distributed amongest them whyche was to euery man two pence He also with his brother William Chicheley Alderman of London gaue liberally to the Almes houses founded by his brother Henrie Chicheley Archebyshop of Canterbury at Higham Ferrers in Nothamptonshire in whych Towne they were borne In the Moneth of October when King Henry had deliuered Tiâ—us Liuius the Citie of Paris from all annoyaunces he with his hâ—ste went to besâ—ege the Citie of Meaulx in Brye to whych City nigh adioyning is a place called y â— Market of Meaulx betwixt which two places floweth the riuer of Marne whiche also enuironeth bothe the same places Thys Citie was besieged all the Winter wherein were so manye and so greate stormes and flouds of raine that the kings host was often annoyed with huÌ„ger colde The sixth of December Lady Katherine Quéen of Englande broughte forth hir firste begotten sonne in the Castell of Windsore and his name was gyuen him Henry for there receyued hym at the Fonte Iohn Duke of Bedford hys vncle Lord Warden of England and Henrie the Kings vncle B. of Winchester and Iaquelyn dutches of Holland that remained then in England Henry Archbishop of Canterburie doing the office of Baptisme In the moneth of Februarie the Knights that were in Garison and the principall of y â— Citie of Mealx perceyuing that the Sommer comming shoulde cause the siege to be more light and lesse painefull to the Englishmen and difficil vnto themselues departed the Citie and wente into that Anno reg 10 1422 place that is called the Market of Mealx as to the more defensible holde after whose departing the coÌ„mon people hauing none ability to resist the Kings power yéelded themselues and the Citie to the King After this in the moneth of May when the King had sore beaten the forsayd Market of Meaulx he constrayned the Frenchmen that were besieged to condescende vnto certaine couenauntes and to deliuer the place vnto him and shortly after were deliuered to the King the towne of Orepy in Valois the Castle of Pier Pountmeralaw OffemouÌ„t and many others After the rendering of these Townes and Castles the King returned to Paris In the moneth of Aprill Katherin Quéene of Englande shipped at Hampton and sayled ouer into Fraunce with a strong power vnder the conducte of Iohn Duke of Bedforde y â— kings brother Humfrey Duke of Glocester being appointed Warden of England in the Duke of Bedfordes place wheÌ„ the comming of Quéene Katherin was knowne to Kyng Henry hir husband and to Charles king of France both these Kings and with them the Quéene of Fraunce accompanyed with many great Lordes and estates as well of Englande as of Fraunce went to méete hir at Boys de Viscenne wher she was ioyfully receyued of them as if she had bin an Angell sente from God The. xxx day of May the two Kings of Englande and Fraunce with theyr Quéenes departed from Bois de Viscenne and went to Paris the king of
passed ouer to Caleis and streight from thence to Lâ—â—â— in Artois and so into Henault making no outrage as he passed through Duke Phillips Countreys At their comming into Henault many townes obeyed theÌ„ and other refused â—â— to do likewise were y â— Nobles diuided The D. of Burgoigne hearing of this was sore offended for the iniurie done to his Cousin of Brabant the dishonor of his Cousin the Duchâ—â— Iaqueline and the euill dealing of the Duke of Glocester A third cause of the amitie to be broken betvvixt England and Burgoigne and the losse of many Tovvnes in France and therefore to ayde the Duke of Brabant he appoynted many of his Captaynes with xij C. fighting meÌ„ Pickards to go against the Duke of Glocester The Duke of Brabant was a man but of weake complexion and therefore by the Counsell of Brabant it was ordeyned that his yonger brother Philip Earle of Saint Pol should be chiefe Captayne of the warre against the Duke of Glocester He had a great Armye as the more part of the Nobles of Brabant of Henalt and of Burgoigne in all 50000. Piere de Luxenburge Earle of Conuarson his néere kinsman had the leading of the Armie for himselfe was but yong The Duke of Burgoigne had put of his men in garrison within the towne of Braine in the Countie of Henault who made sore warre to the Countrey about but the Earle of Saint Pol and Conuarson did come and beséege Braine continuing afore it twelue dayes before they within yéelded compounding to departe with bodyes and goodes saued these hauing wonne Braine destroyde it vtterly and that done tooke the Field with all puissance which was great and the Duke of Glocester likewise came into the fielde so that they approched néere togither and the vauntcurrers skirmished but the battayle ioyned not The Duke of Glocester had sent his Heraulte and Humfrey Duke of Glocester chalengeth the Combate vvith Phillip Duke of Burgoigne written to the Duke of Burgoigne calling him Traytor and disloyall to the King of England and France for that he had sente men in ayde against him and offered him the Combate wherevnto the Duke of Burgoine aunswered that hée would accept the Combate denying that euer he had fayled of his promise but that the Duke of Glocester had done great wrong to the Duke of Brabant to haue bereft him of his wife contrarye to the ordinance of God and of holye Church and for other wordes which the Duke had vttered against the Duke of Burgoignes honor he gaue him the lye and so farre the matter went in words betwixt them that the day was appoynted for the Combate and the Duke of Burgoigne chose for Iudge of the Combate the Emperour of Almayne and the Duke of Burgoigne sent the Duke of Glocester a safeconduct to departe safely into England to prepare himselfe of things necessarie for the Combate wherevpon both the Campes brake vp the Duke of Glocester wente to Mons in Henalt to the Duches his wife so tearmed gaue hir to vnderstand that he was desirous to trie the Combate with the Duke of Burgoigne and many other things he told hir which he performed not for within four dayes after he tooke all his power with him and returned into EnglaÌ„d and left the Duches in Mons smally accoÌ„panyed with y e people of that Countrey Shortly after his departure the Duke of Burgoigne sent the Lord Lilladam to the Towne of Mens to receyue Iaqueline the Duches who being deliuered vnto him he conueyed hir to Gaunt where the Duke and she made great semblance of ioy togither she promising to bée gouerned alwayes by his aduise but to goe to hir olde husband the Duke of Brabant she would not and when she espied hir time she stale away into hir Countrey of Holland where she was well receyued of many Lordes and began forthwith to mainteyne warre against Duke Philip of Burgoigne and sent to the Duke of Glocester for ayd who sente to hir a thousand fighting men vnder the conduct of the Lorde Fitzwaters The Duke of Burgoigne fearing least Iaqueline would deliuer the Countrey of Holland into the possessioÌ„ of the D. of Glocester he assembled his power and wente into Holland to put the CouÌ„trey into obeysance At his comming thither Iaqueline accompanyed with many Nobles of the Countrey and the Lord Fitzwaters woulde haue defended his landing but notwithstanding al the defence they could make he entred vpoÌ„ theÌ„ there néere to y e Towne of Brusseils they ioyned in battaile the D. of Burgoigne his people against the Englishmen Hollanders taking y e Duches Iaquelines part there was a fierce battayle on all sides but in the end the Hollanders and Englishmen were all discomfited and there dyed in that place aboue seauen or eight hundred besides those that were taken prisoners the Lord Fitzwater hardly escaped After this battell gote by the Duke of Burgoigne 1425 diuers Townes of the Countrey reuolted to him against Iaqueline the Duches as Dordrecht Sericzee and many other Shortly after the Duke of Burgoigne leauing garrisons in those Townes that obeyed him to make resistaÌ„ce against the Duches that lay in the Towne of Gaunt hée returned into his Countrey of Flanders and Artoyes there to prepare such abiliments as were necessary for him to vse at the Combate appoynted betwixt him and the Duke of Glocester The Duke of Glocester likewise in England made his pronision of his habilimentes and furniture but the Duke of Bedforde brother to the Duke of Glocester tooke greate paynes to make them friends and also the counsell of the yong King of England were nothing content with this variance doubting least it might be occasion that the Duke of Burgoigne mighte withdrawe himselfe from their amitie whereby their businesse in France should be hindered The Duke of Bedford therefore tooke hys iourney from Paris to Caleis and so into Englande to the ende to agrée the sayde Anno reg 4. Dukes he tooke with him the Duches his wife and not past a four or fiue hundred men About Michaelmasse the Prince of Portugale came into England and was honorably receyued and feasted by the Kings Uncles William Mildred Iohn Brokell the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Rob. Fabian Iohn Couentry Mercer the 28. of October The morrow after Simon and Iudes day when the Maior of London had bin at Westminster to take hys charge as Debate betvveene the Duke of Glocester and the Bishop of VVinchester the custome is at suche tyme as hée was holding hys greate dinner hée was by the Duke of Glocester Lord Protector sent for in spéedie manner when hée came to hys presence he gaue to hym commaundement to sée the Citie were surely watched in the night following and so it was done On y e next morrow about ix of the clock certain seruaÌ„ts of y â— Bishop of Winchester brother to y e said Protector would haue entred the Citie by the
and his Cardinalles 14â—5 after long laboure coulde make no peace betwixte King Henry of England and France and Charles also named King of Fraunce they at length made a peace betwixte the said Charles and Philip Duke of Burgoigne whereby the said Duke of Burgoigne became vtter enimy to the King of England and soone after the said Duke beganne his order of the Lillie and the Golden fléece and ordayned certaine Knightes of that order and made thervnto many Statuts wherof some of them were like vnto the Statutes of the Garter On the fourtéenth daye of September at Roan in Normandy dyed the noble Prince Iohn Duke of Bedforde and Regent of Fraunce and was after with great solemnitie â—â—ryed within the Churche of Noâ—ir Dame of the same â—itie Anno reg 14 Sherifes Maior Thomas Catworth Robert Clopton the. 28. of Septemb. Henry Frowike Mercer the 28. of October King Charles of Fraunce recouered the Citie of Paris and at Newyeares tide wanne the Towne of Harflewe and 1436 Sainct Denis and manye other Townes and holdes expellyng and murdering the Englishe people in greate number The nintéenth daye of Julye the Duke of Burgoigne wyth a great multitude of Burgonians and Flemmings appeared Caleis besieged before Caleis and there pight his pauilions and tentes at which season was Lieutenaunt of Caleis Sir Iohn Ratclife Knight and of the Castell was Lieutenant the Baron of Dudley this siege endured about thrée wéekes in whiche season many knightlye actes were done exercised on both partes On the second day of August the Duke of Glocester protectour Robert Fubâ—â—â— of Englande with 500. sayles as some write landed at Caleis and entended vppon the thirde day following to haue issued out of the Towne and to haue gyuen battel to the Flemmings but as testifyeth our Englishe writers so soone as the Duke of Burgoigne was ware of the great power of the Lorde Protector he toke with him of his ordinaunce that he might lightly carrye and the other that were cumberous he left behind When the Duke with his host was thus fledde the Lorde Protectour with his people followed hym into the Countrey by the space of eleauen dayes in whiche season he brente the two Townes of Popering and Bell and returned to Caleis and so into England This yeare was the Castel or Towne of Rokesborough in Scotlande besieged by the Kyng of Scottes but when hée Anno. reg â—â— hearde that Syr Ralph Graye Knyghte was commyng thyther with a competente number to remoue the siege anone he departed leauyng some parte of hys Ordinaunce behynde hym to hys greate shame and dishonour Thomas Norstede William Gregory the. 28. of Sep. Sherifes Maior Iohn Michel Fishmonger the. 28. of October The second of Januarie Quéene Katherin late wife to Henrie the fifth and mother to King Henrie the sixth dyed at Bermondsey and was buried at Westminster but being takeÌ„ Part of London bridge fel. vp againe in the raigne of Henrie the seauenth when he layde the foundation of his new Chappel there she was neuer buried since but lyeth still aboue ground in a Coffin of bordes behinde the East end of the Friers The. xiiij of Januarie at noone of the day the gate on LoÌ„don bridge wyth the Tower vpon it nexte to Southwarke fell down and two of the furdest Arches of the same bridge and no man perished Ralph Lord Cromwel erected the Colledge of Taâ—eshall 1437 Taâ—eshall Colledge in Lincolneshire King Henrie put downe the Maior of Norwich sente the Aldermen some to Linne some to Canterburie toke their fraÌ„chises into his hande and appointed Iohn Wels Alderman sometime Maior of London to be Warden of Norwich who so continued eight moneths as I haue red on his Monument in Saint Antholines Churche in London whiche Monument is nowe amongest manye other by lewde persons defaced The ninth of July Quéene Iane wife to King Henrie the fourth dyed at Hauering a Boure and was buried at Canterburie All the Lyons in the Tower of London dyed Anno reg 18 Sherifes Maior William Hales William Chapman the. 28. of Septemb. William Eastfielde Mercer the. 28. of October This William Eastfield Maior of his own costes caused to be builded the Water Conduite in Fleetestreete of London On Easter daye Iohn Gardener was taken conuaying 1438 Gardeneâ—brent the Sacrament from his mouth with a soule cloth after he had receyued the same at the Priests hande in Saint Marie at the Axe Churche of London for the whiche he was brent in Smithfielde the xiiij of May. Owen Tewther â—ouly hurting hys kéeper brake out of Newgate but was againe taken afterwarde thys Owen had priuilye as it was sayde maryed Quéene Katherin late wife to Henrie the fifth and had foure children by hir whiche was not knowen tyll she was dead and buried On the Uigil of Mary Magdalen the town of Nantwich in the Countie of Chester was pitifully consumed with fire A great dearth of corne for wheate was in some places Dearth of corne Anno reg 17 Sherifes Maior solde for two shillings sixe pence the Bushell Hugh Diker Nicholas Yoo the. 28. of September Stephen Browne Grocer the. 28. of October The fiue and twentith of Nouember a great winde dyd Great vvâ—nâ—es muche harme in manye places In London it bare muche leade of the Gray Friers Churche and almost blewe downe the one side of the stréete called the Olde Change so that the same was faine to be vnderset with Timber On New yeres day a stacke of woodde fell downe at Baynardes Castell and killed thrée men manye moe were sore hurte By fall of a Staire at Bedforde where the shire daye was kepte eightéene persons were slayne and manye moe hurte Richard Beauchampe Earle of Warwicke dyed at Roane in NormaÌ„die the last of May and the fourth of October next folowing his corpse was honourably conueyed as well by water as by land from Roane vnto Warwicke and there worshipfully buried in the Colledge of our Lady Church founded by his noble auncestours Wheate was sold at London for thrée shillings y e bushel Malt at thirtéen shillings y â— quarter Otes at eight pence the bushel which caused men to eate beans pease and barley more than in a hundred yeares before Anno reg 18 StruÌ„pets vvare Raye hoodes Manye Stumpets were sette on the Pyllerye and banyshed the Cytye excepte they ware theyr Raye hoodes Phillip Malpas Robert Marshal the 28. of September Sherifes â—â—ior Robert Large Mercer the. 28. of October In a Parliament at Reading it was ordayned that all Marchaunt straungers shoulde goe to host with Englishmen and to make sale of theyr Merchaundises and buy again what they woulde wythin the space of sixe monethes geuing theyr hoste for euerye twentye shillings worth two pence except the Esterlings And that euery housholder that Order for straungers was alien should pay to the King xuj. pence the yeare and euery seruant
the 13. poore men to be called minister to present the faultes of the other to the maister and to ring their common bell to seruice and to haue xvj pence the wéeke the other xij poore mâ— to haue euery of them xiiij pence y â— wéeke This house hath to name Gods house or the house of almes vnto the which he gaue iij. Manors Ramruge in Hampshire Conocke in Wilshire and Mershe in Buckinghamshire with their appurtenaunces Hospital at Donington Castle they also founded the Hospitall of Donnington Castle In the moneth of May the commons of Kent in great Iacke Cade Captaine of the rebels in Kent numbers assembled hauing to their Captaine Iacke Cade who named himselfe Mortimer cosin to the Duke of Yorke or as he was named of some Iohn amend all this Captaine brought a great number of people to the Blackcheath there kept the fielde more than a moneth pilling the countrey about to whom the Citie of London at that time was full fauourable And the said Captaine as I finde recorded sent for such Citizens of London as it pleased him to command to repayre vnto him vnder letters of safe conduct as followeth The safegard and signe manuell of the Captaine of Kent sent to Thomas Cocke Draper of London by the Captaine of the great assemble in Kent BY this our writing ensealed we grant and wil permit truly that Thomas Cocke of LondoÌ„ Draper shal come in good suertie and in safegard to our presence without any hurt of his person and so auoyde from vs againe at his pleasure with al other persoÌ„s assigned at his denominatioÌ„ with him comming in likewise The commaundement by the Capitaine of Kent sent vnto Thomas Cocke aboue sayd FOr your instruction first ye shall charge all Lumbardes strangers being marchaunts Ieneweâ—s Venetians Florentines and other this day to draw them together and to ordaine for vs the Captain xij Harnises complete of the best fashion xxiiij Brigandines xij battaile Axes xij Glaues vj. Horses with saddle and bridle completely harnessed and a thousande markes of readie money and if this oure demaund be not obserued and done we shall haue the heades of as many as we can get of them What answere to this demaund was returned I finde not but like it is the same was graunted and performed for I finde not thesaid Captaine and Kentishmen at their being in the Cittie to haue hurt any straunger In the meane time the King sent notable men to the sayd Captaine and his fellowship to knowe their purpose and the cause of their insurrection vnto whom the Captaine answered that he and his company were assembled there to redresse and reforme the wrongs that were done in the Realme and to withstand the malice of them that were destroyers of the common weale and to amend the defaultes of them that were chiefe counsellers to the King and shewed vnto them the articles of complaints touching the misgouernment of the realm wherein was nothing conteined but séemed reasonable wherof a copie was sent to the Parliament holden that time at Westminster with also one other byll of requestes by them made of things to be reformed and to haue answere thereof agayne but he had none The bill of Articles they intituled The complaint of the Commons of Kent and causes of the assembly on the Blackheath 1 Inprimis it is openly noysed that Kent shoulde be destroyed with a Royall power and made a wylde forest for the death of the Duke of Suffolke of which the Commons of Kent thereof were neuer guiltie 2 Item the King is styrred to lyue onely on his Commons and other men to haue the reuenues of the Crown the which hath caused pouertie in his excellencie and great paymentes of the people nowe late to the King graunted in his Parliament 3 Item that the Lordes of his Royall bloud béen put from his dayly presence and other meane persons of lower nature exalted and made chiefe of his Priuie Counsell the which stoppeth matters of wronges done in the Realme from his excellent audience and may not be redressed as lawe will but if bribes and giftes be messengers to the handes of the sayde Counsell 4 Item the people of his Realme be not payde of debts owing for stuffe and purueyaunce taken to the vse of the Kings housholde in vndoyng of the sayde people and the poore Commons of this Realme 5 Item the Kings meniall seruauntes of housholde and other persons asken dayly goods and lands of empeached or indited of treason the which the King graunteth anon ere they so endaungered be conuict The which canseth the receyuers thereof to enforge labours and meanes applyed to the death of such people so appeached or indited by subtyl meanes for couetyse of the sayde grauntes the people so empeached or indited though it be vntrue may not be committed to the Lawe for their deliueraunce but helde stil in prison to their vttermost vndoyng and destruction for couetyse of goods 6 Item though diuers of the poore people and Commons of the Realme haue neuer so great right trueth and perfite tytle to theyr lande yet by vntrue clayme of enfeffement made vnto diuers States Gentles and the Kings meniall seruauntes in maintenaunces againste the ryghte the true owners dare not holde clayme nor pursue their right 7 Item it is noysed by common voyces that the Kings landes in Fraunce bene aliened and put awaye from the Crowne and his Lordes and people there destroyed with vntrue meanes of treason of which it is desyred enquiries thorough all the Realme to bée made howe and by whom and if suche Traytors may be found guiltie them to haue execution of Lawe without any pardon in example of other 8 Item Collectors of the. xv pennie in Kent be greatly vexed and hurte in paying great summes of money in the Eschequere to sue out a Writ called Quorum nomina for the allowaunce of the Barons of the Ports which nowe is desyred that hereafter in the lieu of the Collectors the Barons aforesaide may sue it out for their ease at their owne costes 9 Item the Sherifes and Undersherifes let to ferme their offices and Bayliwikes taking great suertie therfore the which causeth extortions done by them by their Baylifes to the people 10 Item simple poore people that vse not hunting be greatly oppressed by inditements fained done by the saide Sherifes Undersherifes Baylifs and other of their assent to cause their encrease for paying of their said Ferme 11 Item they returne in names of Enquests in writing into diuers Courtes of the Kinges not somoned nor warned where through the people dayly léese great suÌ„mes of money welny to the vttermost of their vndoyng make leuie of amercementes called the Gréene Waxe more in summes of money than can be founde due of recorde in the Kings bookes 12 Item the ministers of the courte of Douer in Kent vexe and arest diuers people through all the Shire out of Castle
warde passing their bands and libertie vsed of olde time by diuers subtile and vntrue meanes and actions falselye fained taking great sée at their lust in great hurt of the people on all the Shire of Kent 13 Item the people of the saide Shire of Kent may not haue their frée election in the chosing Knights of the Shire but letters bene sent from diuers estates to the great Rulers of all the Country the which enbraceth their tenaunts and other people by force to choose other persons than the common will is 14 Item where as Knightes of the Shire should chose the kings collectors indiffereÌ„tly without any bribe taking they haue seÌ„t now late to diuers persons notifying them to be collectors wherevpon giftes and bribes be taken and so the collectors office is bought and sold extortionously at the Knightes lust 15 Item the people be sore vexed in costes and labour called to the Sessions of peace in the sayd Shire appearing froÌ„ the farthest vttermost part of the West vnto the East the which causeth to some men v. dayes iourney where vpon they desire the saide appearaunce to be deuided into two partes the which one part to appeare in one place an other part in an other place in releuing of the gréeuaunce and intollerable labours and vexations of the said people The requestes by the Captaine of the great assemble in Kent INprimis desireth the Captaine of the commons the welfare of our soueraigne Lord the King al his true Lords spirituall and temporall desiring of our saide soueraigne Lorde and of al the true Lordes of his counsell he to take in al his demaines that he may raigne like a King royall according as he is borne our true Christian King annoynted and who so will saye the contrarye we all will liue and die in the quarrell as his true liege men Item desireth the said Captaine that he will auoide al the false progenie and affinitie of the Duke of Suffolke the whiche béene openlye knowne and they to be punished after the custome and Lawe of this Land to take about his noble person the true Lordes of his Royal bloud of this his Realme that is to say the high and mightie Prince y e duke af Yorke late exiled from our saide Soueraigne Lordes presence by the motion and stirring of the traiterous and false disposed the Duke of Suffolke and his affinitie the mightie Princes Dukes of Excester Buckingham and Norfolke and all the Earles and Barons of this land and then shal he be the richest King Christen Item desireth the said Captaine commons punishment vpon the false traitors the which contriued and imagined the death of the high mightful excellent Prince the Duke of Glocester the whiche is too much to rehearse y e which duke was proclaimed as traitor Upon the which quarrell we purpose all to liue and die vpon that it is false Item the Duke of Excester our holy father the Cardinal the noble Prince Duke of Warwike and also the Realme of Fraunce the Dutchie of Normandie Gascoyne and Gwiâ—â— Anioy and Mayne were deliuered and lost by the meanes of the sayd traytors and our true Lords Knights and Esquiers and many a good yoman lost and sold ere they weÌ„t y e which is great pitie to heare of the great and gréeuous losse to our Soueraigne Lorde and his Realme Item desireth the sayd Captayne and Commons that all the extortions vsed dayly among the Common people might be layde downe that is to say the Gréene Waxe the which is falsely vsed to the perpetuall destruction of the kings true Commons of Kent Also the kings Bench the which is too gréefefull to the shire of Kent without prouision of our Soueraigne Lord and his true Counsell And also in taking of Wheate and other graynes Béefe Mutton and all other victual the which is importable to the sayde Commons without the briefe prouision of our saide Soueraigne Lorde and his true Counsell they may no longer beare it And also vnto the statute of laborers and the great extortioners the which is to say the false traytors Slegge Crowmer Isle and Robert Este These bylles when the Counsell had well perused they did not onely disalowe and condemne them the authors as proude and presumptuons but also perswaded the King rather to suppresse those rebels by force than by fayre promises Whervpon the King remoued from Westminster vnto Greenewiche from whence he woulde haue sent certayne Lordes with a powre to haue destressed the Kentishmen but the men sayde to their Lordes they would not fight against them that labour to amend the common Weale wherevppon the Lordes were driuen to leaue their purpose And because the Kentishmen cryed out against the Lorde Say the Kings Chamberlayne he was by the King committed to the Towre of London Then went the King agayne to London King Henrie vvent against the Kentishmen vvith a great povver and within ij dayes after went against the Kentishmen with xv thousand men well prepared for the warre but the sayd Kentishmen fled the night before his comming into the wood countrey néere vnto Senocke wherevpon the King returned againe to London and sent sir Humfrey Stafforde Knight with William Stafford his brother and other Gentlemen to follow the KentishmeÌ„ who finding them at Senock set vppon the rebels and fought with them a long time but in the ende both the Staffordes were slaine with many other King Henries povver ouercome of their people When Iacke Cade had thus ouercome the Staffordes he forthwith apparelled himself with the knightes apparell and after he had refreshed his people he returned to the Blackeheath and there pight agayne his fielde and lay there from the. xxix daye of June tyll the first day of July in which season came vnto him the Archbyshop of Caunterburie and the Duke of Buckingham with whom they had a long communication and founde him ryght discrete in his aunsweres Howbeit they coulde not cause him to submit himselfe and lay downe his people In the meane while the King and Quéene hearing of the increasing of his rebels and also the Lordes fearing King Henrie vvent to Killingvvorth their owne seruaunts least they would take the Captaines part remoued from London to Killingworth leauing the Citie without ayde except onely the Lorde Scales which was left to kéepe the Towre and with him a manly and warly man named Mathewe Gowghe Then the Captaine of Kent thus houering at Blackeheath to bring himselfe the more in fame that he kept good Justice beheaded there a petie Captayne of his named Paris for so muche as he had offended agaynst such ordinaunces as he had established in Captaine of Kent his Kâ—ttishmen entred the Citie of London his hoste and hearing that the King and his Lordes were thus departed drewe him néere vnto the Cittie so that vppon the first of July he entred the Borough of Southwarke then beyng Wednesday and lodged him there at
against the Kings Regalitie and his Lawes and nought setting by the Kings Grace and pardons grauÌ„ted not onely to him but to al the Kings subiectes the which by his deceyt haue assembled with him the which he with great reuerence receiued on Munday last passed and so did all that were assembled with him not withstanding al this he laboureth now of newe to assemble the Kings people againe to that intent beareth them on hand that the Kings letters of pardon graunted to him and them be not auaileable nor of none effect without authoritie of Parliament wheras the contrarie is true as it is openly knowen by that that the King grauntes from tyme to tyme his Charters of Pardon to such as him lyst of all manner of crimes and offences both generall and speciall The King therfore willeth and commaundeth that none of his subiectes giue fayth nor credence to the said falsâ— Informations of the sayde false â—raylor nor accompany with him in any wise nor comfort nor sustaine him nor his with victuall nor with any other things But will whosoeuer of the Kings subiectes may take him shall take him and that who so euer taketh him and bringeth him quicke or dead to the King or to his CouÌ„sel shal haue a thousand markes for his labour truely payde him without faile or delaye by the prouision of the Kings Counsell And who so euer taketh any of those that from this day forth accompany with him shal haue v. marke for his reward truely to be paide in maner and forme aboue saide And ouer this commaunding all Constables Ministers Officers of the said Shire that none of them on paine of death take vpoÌ„ them to execute any coÌ„mandement by word or writing sent or made vnto them by the said Cade calling himselfe Mortimer Captaine be it to rere any people or to any other intent but to arest and make to be arested such as take vpoÌ„ them to bring any such coÌ„maundemeÌ„t by writing or by word Et hoc nullatenus omittatis Teste me ipso apud Westminster x. die Iulij anno regni 28. After which Proclamation Captaine of Kent taken and beheaded thus published a Gentleman of Kent named Alexander Eden awayted so his time that he tooke the sayde Cade in a Garden in Snssex And there he was slaine at Hothfield and brought to LondoÌ„ in a cart there quartered his head set on LondoÌ„ bridge and his quarters sent to diuers places in Kent This done y â— King sent his CoÌ„missioners into Kent rode after himself caused inquiry to be made of this riot in CauÌ„terbury where for y â— same vitj. meÌ„ were iudged executed in other townes of Kent Sussex was dane y â— like execution This yeare the Commons also in diuers partes of England and in Sussox Salisbury Wilshire and other places didde much harme to many persons among the which on the xxix of June William Ascoth Bishop of Salisburie after he had sayde Masse at Edington was by his owne tenauntes drawen from y e Altar in his Albe with his Stole about his necke to the toppe of an hill and there by them shamefully murthered and after spoyled to the naked skynne they renting Bishop of Salisburie murdered his bloudy shirt tooke euery man a péece made boast of their wickednesse The day before his Chariot was robbed An. reg 29. to the value of x. thousand markes Iohn Middleton William Deere the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Fray in LondoÌ„ against the Maior Nicholas Wilforde Grocer the 28. of October Souldiours made a fraye against the Maior of London the same day he tooke his charge at Westminster at nyght comming from Saint Thomas of Acres after he had bene at Paules The. vj. of Nouember began a Parliament at Westminster and the first of December the Duke of Somerset which was newly come out of Normandie was put vnder arest 1451 and his goods by the Commons was foulely despoyled and borne away from the Blacke Eryers After which ryot on the nexte morrowe Proclamation was made through the Cittie that no man should spoyle or robbe vpon paine of death and the same day at the Standard in Cheape was a man beheaded for doyng contrarie to the Proclamation And thus beganne malice to spring between the Lordes of the Lande and specially against the Duke of Somerset and other of the Quéenes Counsell for the léesing of Normandie whereof the chiefe Cittie of Roane was lost or giuen vp by appoyntment the yeare procéeding as witnesseth Gagwyne vpon condition that the Duke of Somerset Robert Gagwyne with his wife English souldiours shoulde with such goods as they might carrie depâ—rte fréely from the Cittie For which frée passage he shoulde paye vnto the French king lvj M. Scuâ—s which amount to fourtèene thousand marks sterling And also he was bounde to deliuer into the French Kings possession all Townes and Castels that at that day were in the possession of Englishmen wythin the Dutchie of Normandie for performaunce of whiche couenauntes the Lord Talbot was sent for one of the pledges and so by one Floquet all the Townes and Castelles were to the Frenche Kyngs vse receyued Harfleete onely excepted whereof the Captaine named Curson with the assistance of sir Thomas Auringham in despight of al the French Kings power laide both by Sea and lande helde the same a full moneth or more and then for lacke of rescue gaue it vppe by appoyntment An. reg 30. Matthew Phillip Christopher Warton the 28. of Sep. Sherifes Maior William Gregorie Skinner the 28. of October The sixtéenth of Februarie King Henrie accompanyed with the Duke of Somerset and many other Lords tooke towardes the Marches of Wales for as muche as he was credibly informed that the Duke of Yorke assisted wyth diuerse other Lordes and men of name had in those partes gathered a strong power of people and with them was entring the land and so helde on his iourney towarde him but wheÌ„ the Duke had witting of the Kings greate power he returned from the way which was taken by the Kings hoste and hasted towardes London and when he had receyued knowledge from the Citie that he might not there be receyued he went ouer Kingstone Bridge and so into Kent and there vpon Brent Heath neare vnto Dertforde he pight his fielde wherof the king hauing knowledge sped him after lastly came vnto Blacke Heath and there pighte hys fielde When both the hostes were thus embattelled mediation of peace was made betwéene them for furtheraunce whereof to the Duke were sente the Bishops of Winchester and of Ely with the Earles of Salisburie and Warwicke To whom it was answered by the Duke that he nor none of his company entended any hurt to the Kings person nor to any of hys couÌ„sayle beyng louers of the Common wealth and of him and hys land but his intent and purpose was to remoue from the King a
to fall hereafter in your sayde Realme which God defende but if by your highnesse prouision couenable be made for due reformation and punishment in this behalfe Wherfore I your humble subiect true leigeman Richard Duke of Yorke willing as effectuallye as I can and desiring the suretie and prosperitye of your moste royall person and the welfare of thys your noble Realme counsell and aduertise your excellency for the conuersation of good tranquility and peaceable rule among all other subiectes for to ordain and prouide that true iustice be had against all such that so bée endited or openly named wherin I offer my selfe and wil put my endeuour for to execute youre commaundemente in the premisses for the punishing of suche offendours and redresse of the sayde misrules to my might and power And for the hastie execution hereof like it your highnesse to addresse these letters of priuie seale and writs to your officers and ministers to doe take and arrest all suche persons so noysed and endited of what estate degrée or condition soeuer they be and them to committe to the Tower of London and to other of your prisons there to abyde without Bayle or mayne prise vntil the tyme they be vtterly tryed and determined termined after the course of your lawes COosin as touching your Bill last put vp to vs we vnderstande Aunsvvere of K. Henrie to the Duke of Yorke well that yée of good harte counsayle and aduertice vs to y â— setting vp of Justice and to the spéedy punishing of some persons endited or noysed offering your seruise to bée readie at commaundemente in the same sithe it is that for manye causes mouing vs to haue determyned in our soule to stablishe a sadde and a substancial counsell giuing them more ample aucthoritie and power than euer we did afore this in the whiche we haue appointed you to be one but sithe it is not accustomed sure nor expedient to take a conclusion and conduct by aduise or counsell of one Person by hymselfe for the conseruation it is obserued that the greatest and the beste the riche and the poore in libertye Uertue and effect of your voyces be equall we haue therefore determyned wythin our selfe to sende for our Chauncellour of England and for other Lords of our Counsel yea and al other togither within short time ripelye to common these and other our greate matters in the whiche communication suche conclusion by the grace of God shal be takeÌ„ as shal sound to his pleasure the Weale of vs and our land as well in these matters as in any other At length it was agréed by the King that the Duke of Somerset shoulde be committed to warde there to abyde and answere suche Articles as the Duke of Yorke would laye against him vpon which promises so made by the Kyng to the Duke who sawe that the people of Kent and of other places came not to him as they had promised and that they were not strong ynough for the Kings part was much more than his he brake vp his fielde on the first of Marche and yéelded himselfe to the King at Dertforde where contrarie to promise before made he founde the Duke of Somerset chiefe about the King Then was the Duke of Yorke sent before to London and holden partly as prisoner and streighter shoulde haue bene kepte but it was noysed that sir Edward Earle of March sonne to the sayde Duke of Yorke was comming towarde London with a strong power of Welchmen whych feared so the Quéene and Counsell that the Duke was set at full libertie And on the tenth of March the saide Richarde Duke of Yorke made his submission and toke hys othe to be true faythfull and obedient subiect to King Henrie the sixth King of England in Saint Paules Church at London there being present the King and most of his nobilitye that is to saye the Dukes of Buckingham Northampton and Somerset the Earles of Warwicke Arundale Salisburie Shropshire Deuonshire Wiltshire Northumberlande Stafford and Dorset viconnts of Beaumount and Welles Barons Fitz Warren Sainmounde Cobham Douglas and others Bishoppes the Cardinall Archbyshoppe of Yorke and Canterburie Winchester Ely and London in these wordes following I Richard Duke of Yorke confesse and beknowe that I am and oughte to bée humble subiecte and liegeman to you my soueraigne Lorde King Henrie the sixth and owe therefore to beare you Fayth and trueth as to my soueraigne liege Lorde and shall doe all dayes vnto my liues ende shall not at any time wyll or assente that any thing attempted or done againste your moste noble person but where so euer I shall haue knowledge of anye suche thing imagined or purposed I shall with all spéede and diligence possible to mée make that youre hyghenesse shall haue knowledge thereof And ouer that doe all that shall be possible to me to the withstanding and lette thereof to the vttermoste of my lyfe I shall not anye thing take vppon me agaynste youre royall estate or obeysaunce that is due thereto nor suffer anye other man to doe as farre forthe as it shal be in my power to let it And also shall come at youre commaundemente whensoeuer I shall be called by the same in humble and obeysaunte wise but if it be letted by any sicknesse of impotence of my person or by such other cause as shal bée thoughte by you my soueraigne LORD reasonable I shall neuer hereafter take vpon me to gather any rowâ—e nor to make any assembly of your people without your coÌ„maundement or licence or in my lawfull defence in interpretation or declaration of the which my lawfull defence I shall reporte me at all times to your highnesse and if the case require to my péeres nor any thing attempt againste any of your subiects of what estate degrée or condition y e they be But when soeuer I finde my selfe wronged and agréeued I shal sue humblye for remedie to your highnesse and procéede after the course of your lawes and in none otherwise sauing in mine owne lawfull defence in manner aboue saide and otherwise haue to your highnesse as an huÌ„ble and true subiecte oughte to haue him to his soueraigne Lorde All these things aboue sayde I promise you truely to obserue and kéepe by the holy Euangelistes contayned in the booke that I laye my hande here vpon and by the holye Crosse I here touch and by the blessed Sacrament of oure Lordes bodye that I shall nowe with hys mercye receiue And ouer I agrée me and wil that if I any tyme hereafter as by the grace of our Lord God I neuer shall any thing attempt by waye of feate or otherwyse againste your royall Maiestie and obeysaunce that I owe thereto or any thyng take vppon me otherwise than is aboue expressed I from that tyme forth be vnabled helde and taken as an vntrue and openly foresworne man and vnable to all manner of worship estate and degrée be it such as I now occupye or any other that
to beare weapon consydering he was out of hys natiue Countrey knowyng that in his Countrey no straunger was suffered to wear y â— like To the which questioÌ„ such answere was made by the straunger that the Merter toke from him hys dagger and brake it vpon his heade wherevpon the stranger complayned to the Maior who on the morrow sent for the yong man to y e Guilde Hall wherfore after his aunswere made vnto the complaynt by agréemente of a full Courte of AldermeÌ„ he was sent to ward and after the Court was finished the Maior and Sherifes walking homewarde thoroughe Cheape were there mette by suche a number of Mercers seruauntes and other that they mighte not passe for ought they coulde speake or doe till they hadde deliuered the yonug manne that before was by them sente to prison And the same daye in the afternoone sodainely was assembled a multitude of lewde and pore people of the City which without heade or guide ranne vnto certaine Italians houses and especially to the Florentines Lukesses and Venetians and there toke and spoyled what they founde and dyd great hurt in sundry places but moste in foure houses standing in Breadstreete warde whereof thrée stoode in Saint Bartholmewes Parishe the little and one in the Parish of Saint Beniâ—s Finke The Maior Aldermen and worshipful Commoners of the Citie with all theyr diligence resisted them what they coulde and sente diuerse of them to Newegate and fynallye not wythout shedding of bloude and mayming of diuerse Citizens the rumour was appeased The yong manne beginner of all thys businesse tooke Sanctuarie at Westminster and not long after the Duke of Buckingham with other noble menne were sente from the Kyng into the Cytie who there charged the Maior by Uertue of a Commission that inquirie shoulde hée made of thys ryot and so called an Oyer determyner at the Guilde Hall where satte for Judges the Maior as the Kyngs Lieuetenaunte the Duke of Buckingham on hys ryghte hande the chiefe Justice on the lefte hande and manye other men of name where whyle they were enpanelyng theyr inquestes the other Commons of the Citie manye of them secretly putte them in armour and ment to haue roong the common bell so to haue raysed the whole force of the Citie and so to haue deliuered such persons as before for the robberie were committed toward But this matter was discretely handled by the counsel and labour of some discrete Commoners which appeased their neighbours in such wise that all this furie was quenched but when worde was brought to the Duke of Buckingham that the commonaltie were in harnesse he with the other Lordes tooke leaue of the Maior and departed and so ceased the inquirie for that day Upon the morrow the Maior commaunded the common counsell with the Wardens of fellowships to appeare at the Guild Hall where by the Recorder in the Kings name and the Maiors was commaunded euery 〈…〉 den that in the afternoone eyther of them should asseÌ„ble his whole fellowship at their coÌ„mon Halles and there to giue straight commaundement that euery maÌ„ sée the kings peace kept within the Citie After which time the Citizens were brought to such quietnesse that after that day the enquirie was duly perused and. iij. persons for the said ryot put in execution and hanged at Tyborne whereof ij were Sanctuarie men of Saint Martins le graunde the other Anno reg 35 a shipman for robbing of Anthony Mowricine and other Lumbardes Iohn Steward Raph Verney the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Thomas Canings Grocer the 28. of October In the moneth of Nouember in the I le of Portland not farre from the towne of Weymouthe was séene a Cocke comming out of the Sea hauing a great crest vpoÌ„ his head and a great red beard and legges of halfe a yarde long he stoode on the water and crewe iij. times and euery time turned 1457 him about and beckened with his head toward the North the South and the West and was of colour like a Fesaunt Robert Fabian and when he had crowed iij. times he vanished away And shortly after were taken at Erithe within xij myles of London iiij great and wonderfull Fishes whereof one was called Mors Marina the second a Sworde Fishe the other two were Whales The. xxvitj day of August Peter Brice Steward of Normandie Iohn Maior with a flete of Frenchmen landed at Sandwiche and with fyre and sword wasted the Towne to ashes and slewe the inhabitauntes almost to the last man Also Fowey in Deuonshire was spoyled by Pirates in the moneth of August In this yeare was a great fray in the Northe Countrey Robert Fabian betwéene the Lorde Egremond and the Earle of Salisburies sonnes whereby many were maymed and slaine but in the ende the Lorde Egremonde was taken who was by the Kings Counsell found in great default and therefore condemned in great summes of mony to be payde to the Earle of Salisburie and in the meane time committed to Newgate Not long after this sir Thomas Percie Lord Egremount and sir Richard Percie his brother beyng prisoners in Newgate condemned in a great summe to the Earle of Salisburie as is aforesaid brake out of prison by night and went to the King the other prisoners tooke the leades of the gate and Regester of Maior defended it a long while against the Shriues and all their officers in so much that they were forced to call more ayde Anno reg 36 Sherifes Maior of the Citizens whereby they lastly subdued them William Edwards Thomas Reyner the 28. of September Godfrey Boleyne Mercer the 28. of October Maister Reginald Pecocke Byshop of Chichester a secular Doctor of Diuinitie that had labored many yéeres to translate the holy Scripture into Englishe was accused to haue passed the bonds of Diuinitie and of Christian beléefe in certaine Articles of the which he was conuict before the Archbyshoppe of Counterburie and other Byshoppes and Clerkes and after vtterly abiured reuoked and renounced those Articles openly at Paules Crosse in his mother tongue on the fourth day of December as followeth In the name of the Trinitie Father Sonne and holy Ghost I Reynold Pecocke Byshoppe of Chichester vnworthie of myne owne power and will without any manner coertion or dread coÌ„fesse and knowledge that I here before this time presuming of myne naturall witte and preferring my iudgement and naturall reason before the newe and the olde Testament and the authoritie and determination of our mother holy Churche haue helde written taught otherwise than the holy Romane and Uniuersall Churche teacheth preacheth or obserueth And one is against the true Catholike and Apostles faith I haue written taught and published many and diuers perilous doctrines bookes workes and writings conteining Heresies and errors contrarie to the fayth Catholike and determination of holye Church and especially these Heresies and errours following that is to say In primis quod non est de necessitate fidei
cast hym a lande beside Saint Marie Oueries When Quéene Margaret heard that the king was takeÌ„ she wyth hir sonne and eight persons fled to the Castel of Hardlagh in Wales and was robbed by the way in Lancashire of all hir goodes to the valewe of ten thousande markes from thence she went into Scotland The tenth of August Iames King of Scottes besieging the Castle of Rockesborough was slaine with a Gun that brake in his Campe. The one and twentith of September the Duke of Somerset came from Gwines into England Anno. reg 39 Sherifes Maior Richard Flemming Iohn Lambert the 28. of September Richard Lee Grocer the. 28 of October The vitj. of October a ParliameÌ„t was begun at Westminster vnto the which came Ri. duke of Yorke that a little before Parliament was come out of Irelande and being lodged in the Pallaice the Kyng being there he brake vp the dores of the Kyngs Chamber so that the King giuing hym place tooke an other Chamber Then the sayde Duke as right heyre by lyneall descent from Richard the seconde chalenged the realme purposing to haue bin crowned on Alhallown day next following and herevppon sente to the Parliament in wryting hys sayde clayme title and pedigrée The whych clayme after diligent deliberation had and approued by the sayde Parliamente peace and concorde betwéene the king and Duke on the Uigil of Alhalow was established and coÌ„cluded as in Articles followeth BLessed be Iohn in whose handes and bountie refieth The Articles betvvixt King Henrie the Duke of Yorke and is the peace and vnitie betwixte Princes and the Weale of euerye Realme I knowe by whose direction agréed it is appointed and accorded as followeth betwixte the moste high and moste mightis Prince King Henrie the sixth King of England and of Fraunce and Lord of Irelande on y â— one party and the right high and mightie Prince Richard PlaÌ„tagenet Duke of Yorke on that other party vpon certain matters of variaunce moued betwixt them and especially vpon the clayme and title vnto the Crownes of England and of Fraunce and Royall power estate and dignitie appertayning to the same and Lordship of Irelande opened shewed and declared by the sayde Duke afore all the Lordes spirituall and Temporall being in this present Parliament First where the saide Richarde Duke of Yorke hath declared and opened as aboue is sayde title and clayme in maner as followeth That the right noble and worthy Prince Henrie Kyng of Englande the third had issue and lawfullye got Edwarde his first begotten sonne borne at Westminster the xv Kalendes of July in the yeare of our Lord 12â—9 and Edmond his second sonne which was borne on Saint Marcels day the yeare 1200. the whiche Edwarde after the death of Kyng Henrie hys Father intituled and called Kyng Edwarde the firste had issue Edward his first begotten sonne called after the decease of his Father Kyng Edward the seconde the whiche had issue Edward the thirde which Edward the third had issue Edward Prince of Wales William of Hatfield hys seconde sonne Leonel the thirde Duke of Clarence Iohn of Gaunâ— fourth Duke of Lancaster Edmond of Langley fifth Duke of Yorke Thomas of Woodstocke the sixth Duke of Glocester W. of Windsor the seuenth The said Edward Prince of Wales which dyed in the life time of hys Father had issue Richard which succéeded Edwarde the thirde his grandsire Richarde dyed without issue William of Hatfield the second sonne of Edwarde the thirde dyed without issue Leonel the thirde sonne of Edwarde the thirde Duke of Clarence hadde issue Phillip his daughter and heyre whych was coupled in matrimony vnto Edmond Mortimer Earle of Marche and had issue Roger Mortimer Earle of Marche hyr Sonne and heyre which Roger had issue of Edmond erle of March Roger Mortimer Anne and Elianor which Edmonde Roger and Alianor dyed without issue And the sayde Anne coupeled in matrimony to Richard Earle of Cambridge the sonne of Edmond of Langley the fifth sonne of Henrie the third and had issue Richard Plantagenet commonly called Duke of Yorke Iohn of Gaunt the fourth son of Edward the yonger brother of the sayde Leonel had issue Henrie Earle of Darby whiche incontinent after that King Richard resigned the Crownes of the Realmes and Lordship of Irelande vnrighteously entred vppon the same then being aliue Edmonde Mortimer Earle of Marche sonne to Roger Mortimer Earle of March sonne and heyre of the saide Phillippe daughter and heyre of the sayde Leonel the thirde sonne of the sayde King Edward the thirde to the whiche Edmonde the right and title of the sayde Crownes and Lordship by lawe and custome belonged To the whiche Richard Duke of Yorke as sonne to Anne daughter to Roger Mortimer Earle of March sonne and heyre of the sayd Phillip daughter and heyre of the sayde Leonell the third sonne of Kyng Edwarde the thirde the righte title dignitie Royall and estate of the Crownes of the Realmes of England and FraÌ„ce and the Lordshippe of Irelande pertayneth and belongeth a fore anye issue of the saide Iohn of Gaunt the fourth sonne of the same King Edwarde The sayde title notwithstanding and without preiudice of the sayde Richarde Duke of Yorke tenderly desiring the wealth reste and prosperitie of this land and to set apart all that might be trouble to the same and consyderyng the possession of the sayde Kyng Henne the sixth and that he hathe for hys tyme bene named taken and reputed for Kyng of Englande and of Fraunce and LORDE of Irelande is contented agréede and consenteth that hée bée hadde reputed and taken for Kyng of Englande and Fraunce wyth the Royall estate dignitye and preheminence belonging therevnto and Lorde of Irelande during hys naturall lyfe And for that time the saide Duke without hurte or preiudice of his saide righte and title shall take worshippe and honor him for his soueraigne Lorde Item the saide Richard Duke of Yorke shall promis and binde him by his solempne othe in maner and forme as foloweth In the name of God Amen I Richarde Duke of Yorke The othe of Richard Duke of Yorke promise and sweare by the faith and truth that I owe to Almightie God that I shal neuer consent procure or stirre directly or indirectly in priuie or aperte neyther as much as in me is shall suffer to be done consented procured or stirred any thing that may sound to the abridgement of the natural life of King Henry the sixth or to y â— hurt or diminishing of his raigne or dignitie royall by violence or anye otherwise againste his fréedome or libertie but if anye person or persons wold do or presume any thing to y â— contrary I shal with all my might power withstande it and make it to be withstoode as farre as my power wil stretche thereâ—herevnto so helpe mée GOD and his holie Euangelistes Item Edward Earle of March and Edmund Earle of Rutlande sonnes of the saide Duke of Yorke shall make like
prouosts lodging And at the vpper ende of the Hall the Prouosts lodgins that is to witte moe than the Chambers for him aboue specifyed a Parlour on the grounde contayning sixe and thirtie foote in length and two and twentie in breadth and two chambers aboue of the same quantitie And westwarde closing thereto a Kitchin for him a Larderhouse Stables and other many housings and grounds And westwarde The Bake house and Brevvhouse beyonde these houses and the saide Kitchin ordayned for a Hall a Bakehouse a Brewhouse and other houses of office betwéene which there is lefte a grounde square of foure scoure foote in euery pane for wood and suche stuffe The vvoodyarde The vvater Conduite And in the middle of the sayde large Quadraunt shall bée a Conduite goodly deuised for ease of the same Colledge And I will that the edification procéede in large forme of my sayde Colledge cleane and substancial setting apart superfluitie of too greate curious workes of entaile and busye moulding And I haue deuised and appointed that the precinct The Precinct of the Colledge of my sayde Colledge as well on both sides of the garden from the Colledge to the Water as in all other places of the same precinct be inclosed with a substanciall Wall of the height of fourtéene foote with a large Tower at the principall entrie againste the middle of the East pane out of the highe stréete And in the same Tower a large Gate The vvater Gate and another Tower in the middle of the Weast ende at the newe bridge And the same Wall to bée creasted embattelled and fortifyed with Towers as manye as shall bée thought conuenient therevnto And I will that my sayde Colledge be edified of the moste substantiall and best abyding stuffe of stone leade glasse and Iron that maye beste be hadde and prouided thereto Thus much I haue enlarged by occasion of reading this good Kings Will the cunning deuise wherof I leaue to be considered by such as be experte in Architecture hartily desiring almightie God to putte into the hearte of some notable Prince one day to make perfecte thys princely worke so charitably begonne And nowe to returne agayne to Kyng Edwarde At this hys commyng to London at Bishoppes Gate hée made these Knyghtes of Aldermen Syr Iohn Stocton Syr Ralphe Verney sir Richard Blee sir Iohn Yong sir William Tayler sir George IrelaÌ„d sir Iohn Stokar sir Matthew Phillip sir William Hampton sir Thomas Stalbroke sir Iohn Crosby sir Thomas Vrswike Recorder of London The foure and twentith of May King Edward with hys hoste rode through Kent to Canterburie and so to Sandwiche where Bastarde Faulconbridge submitted himselfe and all hys to King Edwarde and yéelded to him lvj shippes gret and small whych had bene vnder his leading wherevppon King Edward pardoned him made him Knight and vâ—zeadmiral of the sea The L. DenhaÌ„ sir Iohn Fog with others were lefte in Kent to sit in iudgement of the rebels wherof were a greate number punished by the purse Nicholas Faunt Mayor of Caunterburie with other were hanged and headed there the heads of Spicing and Quinton were set on Aldegate of London The fourth of June George Neuill Archebishop of Yorke and brother to the Earle of Warwike was deliuered oute of the Tower of London The firste of July Edwarde the sonne of King Edwarde was made Prince of Wales Duke of Lancaster and Earle of Cornewall In September Thomas the Bastarde of Fauconbridge was taken at Southampton and beheaded at the Castle of Midleham in Yorkeshire hys heade was sette on London bridge Iohn Allein Iohn Shelley the 28. of September Sherifes Maior William Edward Grocer the. 28. of October The xij of Nouember the Ladye Anne the Kings sister was deuorsed from the Duke of Excester by hyr owne sute Kyng Ed. on Christmasse day was Crowned at Westminster and the Quéene also likewise the twelfth day the Kyng was agayne Crowned wente on Procession crowned Anno. reg 12 1472 but the Quéene was not at that time crowned bycause she was great with childe Thys yeare were sente Ambassadours from King Edwarde to the Duke of Burgoigne who landed at Bridges on the seconde of Aprill where they were honorablye receyued wythout the Towne by the Lorde Grantehuse The names of the Ambassadors was sir Iohn Scot Knight Marshall of Caleis Mayster William Hatclofe Secretarie to the Kyng Mayster Iohn Russel Doctour and Archdeacon master Richarde Marten Archdeacon of London sir Iohn Yong Knighte and Merchaunte of London on the fourth of April they were conueyed on horssebacke to the Dukes lodging c. George Neuill Archebishoppe of Yorke being at Windsor with Kyng Edwarde on hunting the King promised the Archebishoppe to come to the More a place in Hartfordeshire whiche the Archebishoppe hadde purchased and buylded commodiouslye there to hunte and make merry with hym wherevppon the Archebishoppe made greate prouision for the Kyng and sente for muche plate that hée hadde hydde â—at the tyme of Barnet and Tewkesburie fields and besides this borrowed muche of hys friendes thys beyng done the King sodaynely sente for the Archbishoppe to come to Windsor where he was arrested of Treason that he shoulde helpe the Earle of Oxforde and so was sente to Caleis and to Hames where he continued long after prisoner In thys meane whyle sir William Parre Knight and sir Thomas Vahan Esquire and other were sente to the More to cease all hys goods for the Kyng which came there to the samme of twentie thousande pounde Kyng Edward at thys time brake the Bishops miter that had many riche stones and made therof a Crowne for himselfe Also the Earle of Oxforde that had withdrawen hymselfe from Barnet fielde first into Scotland after into France then getting muche goods on the Sea landed in the Weast Countrey and entred Saint Michaels Mounte with 397. men the last of September wheron he was by the kings appointmeÌ„t besieged by Bodrigan and other but wyth such fauour that the Earle reuictualled the Mount Then was Fortescue sente thyther to continue the siege and King Edwarde sending pardons to the Erles men so long practised with them that at the last if the Earle had not submitted himselfe to King Edward he had bin taken of his own meÌ„ so Fortestue entring y â— Mount the fiftéenth of Februarie found victuall ynough there to haue serued them till Mydsommer after Iohn Vere Earle of Oxforde the Lord Beaumonde two brothers of the sayde Earle and Thomas Clifforde were brought prisoners to the King The Earle of Oxforde was sente prisoner to Gwines where he remayned so long as thys Kyng raygned In all whyche tyme the Ladye hys wife myghte neuer come to hym or had anye thyng to liue vppon but what people of theyr Charityes woulde giue hyr or what shée gotte by hyr néedle In the moneth of September Lewes de Bruges Lorde Grantehuse came into Englande from Charles Duke of Burgoigne and on the thirtéenth of
vpon Bakers for making Anno. reg 16. 1476 of light bread he caused diuers of them to be set on the Pillorie in Cornehill And also one Agnes Daintie a Butter-wife for felling of butter new and olde myngled together Agnes Daintie set on the pillerie being first trapped with butterdishes was then set on the pilery The Countesse of Oxforde deceassed and was buryed at Windsor Richard Rawson William Horne the 28. of Sept. Sherifes This Richard Rawson one of the Sherifes of LondoÌ„ caused to be builded one house in the Church yarde of S. Marie Hospitle without Byshopsgate of London where the Maior of that Cittie and his brethren the Aldermen vse to sit and heare the Sermons in the Easter holydayes as in tymes past appeared by an inscription on the front of the same house now by wethering defaced which I haue red in these wordes Pray for the soules of Richard Rawson late Mercer and Alderman of London and Isabel his wife of whose goods this worke was made and founded Anno Domi. 1488. Ralph Ioâ—celine Draper the 28. of October Maior By the diligence of this Maior the Wall about London was newe made betwixte Aldgate and Creplegate the caused Part of London vvâ—â—â— nevv builded the Moore field to be fearched for Clay the Bricke â—o be made burnt there he also caused Chalke to be brought out of Kent and in the same Moore fielde to be brent into Iohn Rouse Lyme for the furtheraunce of that worke The Maior with his company of the Drapers made all that parte betwixte Byshops gate and Athalowes Church in the same Wall And Byshops gate itselfe newe builded by the Marchauntes Almaynes Byshops gate nevv builded of the Stillyard and from Alhallowes Churche toward Mooregate a great part of the same was builded of the goods and by the executors of sir Iohn Crosseby late Alderman of London as may appeare by his armes in two places fixed Anno reg 17. 1477 The companie of Skynners made that parte of the wait betwéene Aldgate and Buryes Markes towardes Byshops gate as may appeare by their armes in thrée places fixed the other companyes of the Cittie made the other deale of the sayde Wall which was a great worke to be done in one yeare Thomas Burdet an Esquier of Arrowe in Warwikeshire Burdet for a vvord spoken beheaded sonne to sir Nicholas Burdet who was great butlar of Normandie in Henry y â— sixt dayes was beheaded for a worde spoken in this sort K. Edward in his progresse hunted in Tho. Engwarant Burdets parke at Arrow flew many of his Deare amongst the which one was a white bucke wherof Tho Burdet made great account therfore when he vnderstoode therof he wished Register of the Grey Friers the buckes head in his belly y â— moued the King to kyll it Which tale being told to the King Burdet was appreheÌ„ded accused of treason for wishing the buckes head hornes all in the Kings belly he was condemned drawne from the Towre of London to Tyburne and there beheaded then buried in the grey friers Church at London Henrie Collet Iohn Stocker the 28. of Sept. Sherifes Maior Humfrey Heyford Goldsmith the 28. of October The. xv day of Januarie K. Edward the fourth solemnized the Matrimoniall feast of his sonne the Duke of Yorke and Lady Aâ—â—e daughter sole heire to Iohn Duke of Norfolke The. xvj day of Januarie began a Parliament at Westminster Duke of Clarence murdred Anno reg 18 where George Duke of Clarence K. Edwards brother was attainted of treason and y â— xj of March after he had offred his owne Masse penny in y â— Tower of LondoÌ„ made his end in a vessell of Maluesey after buried at Tewkesburie by his wife somtime daughter to y â— erle of Warwike which being with childe died of poyson but a little before him Margaret Dutches of Burgoygne sent to hir brother King 1478 Edward of England for aide against the Frenche King which he would in no case graunt to do but sent Ambassadors to y â— French King with leâ—ing letters requiring him to growe to â—â—â—e reasonable agréement w t the sayd Lady of Burgoygne Robert Hâ—â—ding Robert Byfield the 18. of Sept. Sherifes Maior Anno. reg 19 1479 Richard Gardiner Mercer the 28. of October This yere was a great mortalitie death of y â— pest not onâ—â—â—â— LondoÌ„ but in diuers partes of y â— Realme which begaÌ„ in the â—â—tter end â—â—â—â—pt in the yéere laâ—â— befor a passed continued all this yéere till the beginning of Noue â—â—her which was aboute xiiij monethes in the which space dyed innumerable of people in the saâ—d Citie and else where This yéere the Maior of London being in Paules knéeling in his deuotions at Saint Erkenwaldes shrine Robert Byfield one of the Sherifes vnaduisedly knéeled downe nigh vnto the Maior whereof afterward the Maior charged him to haue done more then becommed him but the Sherife answering rudely and stubbornly would not acknowledge to haue committed any offence for the which he was afterwarde by a court of Aldermen fyned at fiftie pounde to bée payde towarde the reparations of the Condites in London which was truely payde Thomas Ilam Iohn Ward the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Sir Bartholmew Iames Draper the 28. of October This Thomas Ilam one of the Sherifs last before named newly builded the great Condite in Cheape of his owne charges This yéere King Edward began his Christmas at Waking and at fiue dayes end remoued to Greenewich where he kept out the other part of his Christmas with great Royaltie The. xxij day of Februarie were fiue notable théeues put to death for robbing the Church called S. Martins le graund Anno reg 20 1480 in London and other places thrée of them were drawne to the Towre hill hanged and brent the other two were pressed to death Thomas Daniell William Bacon the 28. of Sept. Iohn Browne Mercer the 28. of October King Edwarde required great summes of money to bée tent him the Citizens of London graunted him 5000. marks Anno. reg 21 1481 which was sessed of the. xxv wardes which 5000. markes was truely repayde againe in the next yéere following This yéere on Whitsonday King Edward the fourth created the Lord Barkeley Uicount Barkeley at Grenewiche An house on London bridge called the common siege or priuie fell down into the Thames where through it fiue persons â—ala tempo were then drowned Robert Tate William Wiking the 28. of Sept. Sherifes Maior Richard Chawrie the first of Februarie William Harriot Draper the 28. of October This yéere King Edward with his Quéene kept a Royal Christmas at Windsor About the ende of Januarie deceassed William Wiking one of the Sherifes of London In whose place was chosen Richard Chawrie on the first of Februarie King Edwarde so greatly fauoured this Maior that he Anno
knewe at variaunce himselfe in his death bed appeased he had lefte all gathering of money which is the onely thing that withdraweth the hartes of Englishmen from the Prince nor any thing intended he to take in hande by which he shoulde be driuen thereto for his tribute out of Fraunce he had before obtayned Tribute and the yéere foregoing his death he had obtained Barwike And albeit that all the time of his raigne he was with his people so benigne courteous and so familiar that no part of his vertues was more estéemed yet the condition in the ende of his dayes in which many Princes by a long continued soueraintie decline into a proude porte froÌ„ debonair behauiour of their beginning maruellouslye in him grew increased so farre forth that in Sommer the last y â— euer he sawe his highnesse being at Windsor in hunting sent for the Maior and Aldermen of London to him for none other errand but to haue them hunt be merie with him where he made them not so stately but so friendly and so familiar theare and sent venison froÌ„ thence so fréely into the Citie that no one thing in many dayes before gat him either â—o heartes or more heartie fauour amongest the common people whiche oftentimes more estéeme and take for greater kindnesse a little courtesie than a great benefite So deceassed as I haue sayd this noble King in that time in which his lyfe was most desired Whose loue of his people and their entire affection towarde him had béene to his noble children hauing in themselues also as many giftes of nature as many Princely vertues as much goodly towardnesse as their age could receiue a maruellous fortresse and sure armour if diuision dissention of their friends had not vnarmed them left them destitute the execrable desire of soueraintie prouoked him to their destruction which if either kind or kindnesse had holden place must néedes haue bene their chiefe defence For Richard the duke of Glocester by nature their vncle by office their Protector to their father beholdeÌ„ to themselues by othe allegiaunce bounden all bandes broken that binden man man togither without any respect of God or the world vnnaturally contriued to bereue them not only their dignitie but also their lyues But for as much as this Dukes demeanor ministreth in effect all the whole matter whereof this booke shal intreate it is therfore conuenient somewhat to shew you ere we farther goe what manner of man this was that could finde in his heart so much mischiefe to conceiue Richard Duke of Yorke a noble man a mightie began not by warre but by law so chalenge the Crowne putting Richard Duke of Yorke hys claime into the Parliament where his cause was eyther for right or fauour so farre forth auaunced that Kyng Henry his bloud albeit he had a goodly Prince vtterly reiected the Crowne was by aucthoritie of Parliamente entailed vnto the Duke of Yorke and his issue male in remainder immediatly after the death of King Henrie But y e duke not enduring so long to tarrie but intending vnder pretext of dissention and debate arising in the Realme to preuent his time and to take vpon him the rule in King Henrie his life was with many nobles of the Realme at Wakefielde slaine leauing thrée sonnes Edward George and Richard All thrée as they were great states of birthe so were they great and stately of stomack gréedie ambitious of aucthoritie and impatient of partners Edwarde reuenging his Edvvarde fathers death depriued King Henrie attained y e Crowne George Duke of Clarence was a goodly noble Prince and at George Duke Clarence al points fortunate if either his owne ambition had not set him against his brother or the enuie of his enimies his brother against hym For were it by the Quéene and Lords of hir bloud which highly maligned the Kings kinred as women commonly not of malice but of nature hate them whoÌ„ their husbandes loue or were it a proude appetite of the Duke hymselfe intending to be King at the least wise heinous treasoÌ„ was there laid to his charge and finally were he faultie were he faultlesse attaynted was he by Parliament and iudged to the death and therevpon hastily drowned in a butte of Malmesey whose death King Edward albeit he commaunded it when he wyst it was done piteously bewayled and sorowfully repented Richarde the thirde sonne of whom wée nowe intreate The discription of Richard the third was in wit and courage egall with either of them in body prowes farre vnder them both little of stature yll featured of limmes crooke backed his left shoulder much hygher than his right hard fauoured of visage such as is in states called warlye in other men otherwise he was malicious wrathfull enuious from afore his byrth euer froward It is for truth reported that the Dutches his mother had so much a doe in hir trauaile y t she coulde not be deliuered of him vncut that he came into the world with the féete forward as meÌ„ be borne outward as y e fame runneth also not vntoothed whether meÌ„ of hatred report aboue y e truth or else y â— nature chauÌ„ged hir course in his beginning which in the course of his life many things vnnaturally committed None euil captaine was he in y e warre as to which his dispotioÌ„ was more méetely thaÌ„ for peace Sundry victories had he somtimes ouerthrows but neuer in default as for his own person either of hardines or politike order frée was he called of dispence somewhat aboue his power liberall w t large giftes he gat him vnstedfast friendship for which he was faine to pill spoile in other places get him stedfast hatred He was close secrete a déepe dissimuler lowly of countenaunce arrogant of heart outwardlye coumpinable where he inwardlye hated not letting to kisse whom hée thought to kill dispiteous cruell not for euill wil alway but ofter for ambition either for the fuertie or increase of his estate Friend foe was much what indifferent where his aduauntage grewe he spared no mans death whose life wythstoode his purpose He slewe with his owne handes King Henry the sixt being prisoner in the Tower as men The death of King Henrie the sixte constantly said that without commaundement or knowledge of the King which would vndoubtedly if he had intended that thing haue appointed that butcherly office to some other than his owne borne brother Some wise men also wéen that his drift couertly conueyed lacked not in helping forth his brother of Clarence to his death which he resisted openly howbeit somewhat as men déemed more faintly than he that were hartily mynded to his wealth And they y â— thus déeme thinke that he long time in K. Edwardes lyfe forethought to be King in case that the King his brother whose life he looked that euill diet should shorten should happen
a pestilent Serpent is ambitioÌ„ Ambition desire of vaine glory soueraintie which amoÌ„g states where he once entreth créepeth forth so farre til w t deuision variaunce he turneth all to mischiefe first longing to be next the best afterward egall with the best at last chiefe aboue y â— best Of which immoderate appetite of worship thereby of debate dissentioÌ„ what losse what sorowe what trouble hath w t in these few yéeres grown in this Realme I pray God aswel forget as we wel remeÌ„ber Which things if I could aswel haue foreséen as I haue w t my more paine theÌ„ pleasure proued by godes blessed Lady y â— was euer his othe I would neuer haue won y â— courtesie of mens knées w t y â— losse of so many heads But sithen things passed cannot be gainecalled much ought we the more beware by what occasion we haue taken so great hurt afore that we eft soones fall not in that occasion againe Now be those griefs passed and all is God be thanked quiet likely right well to prosper in wealthfull peare vnder your cousins my children if God send them life and you loue Of which two things the lesse losse were they by whom though God did his pleasure yet should the Realme alway finde Kings and peraduenture as good Kings But if you among your selues in a childes raigne fall at debate many a good man shall perish and haply he to and ye to ere this land finde peace againe Wherfore in these last wordes that euer I looke to speake with you I exhorte you and require you all for the loue that you haue euer borne to mée for the loue that I haue euer borne vnto you for the loue that our Lord beareth to vs all from this time forward all griefes forgotten eche of you loue other Which I verely trust you will if ye any thing earthly regarde eyther God or your King affinitie or kinred this Realme your owne countrey or your owne suertie And therewithall the King no longer induring to sit vp laid him downe on his ryghte side his face toward them and none was there present that could refraine from wéeping But the Lordes recomforting him with as good wordes as they could and answering for the time as they thought to stand with his pleasure there in his presence as by theyr wordes appeared eche forgaue other and ioyned their handes together when as it after appeared by their déedes their hartes were farre a sunder As soone as the King was departed the noble Prince his sonne drew toward London which at the time of his deceasse kept his housholde at Ludlowe in Wales which countrey béeing farre off from the lawe and recourse to Justice was begon to be farre out of good will and waxen wylde robbers and reuers walking at libertie vncorrected And for this encheason the Prince was in the life of his father sent thither to y â— eude y â— the auâ—thoritie of his presence shoulde refraine euill disposed persons fro the boldenesse of their former outrages To the gouernaunce and orderyng of this yoÌ„g prince at his sending thither was there appointed sir Anthonie Woodâ—ile Lorde Riuers and brother vnto Lord Riuers the Quéene a right honorable man as valiant of hande as politike in Counsell Adioyned were there vnto him other of the same partie and in effect euery one as he was nearest of kinne vnto the Quéene so was planted nexte aboute the Prince That drifte by the Quéene not vnwisely deuised wherby hir bloude might of youth be rooted in the Princes fauor the Duke of Glocester tourned vnto theyr destruction and vpon that grounde sette the foundation of all his vnhappye building For whom soeuer he perceyued eyther at variaunce with them or bearing himselfe their fauour he brake vnto them some by mouth some by writing and secret messengers that it was neyther reason nor in any wise to bée suffered that the yong King theyr Maister and kinsman shoulde be in the handes and custodie of his mothers kinred sequestered in maner from theyr companye and attendaunce of whiche euerye one ought him as faithful seruice as they and many of them farre more honorable parte of kinne than hys mothers side Whose bloud quoth he sauing the Kings pleasure was full vnméetelye to be matched with hys whiche nowe to be as who saye remoued froÌ„ the King and the lesse noble to be left about him is quoth he neyther honorable to his maiestie nor vnto vs and also to hys grace no suretie to haue the mightiest of his friends from him and vnto vs no little ieopardie to suffer oure well proued euill willers to growe in ouer great auctority wyth the Prince in youth namely which is light of beliefe and soone perswaded Yée remember I trowe King Edward himselfe albeit he was a manne of age and discretion yet was hée in manye things ruled by the bende more than stoode eyther wyth hys honour or our profitte or with the commoditie of any man else excepte onely the immoderate aduancemente of themselues Which whether they sort thirâ—ted after their owne weale or our wo it were harde I wene to gesse And if some folkes friendship had not holden better place with the King than any respect of kinred they might peraduenture easilye haue betrapped and brought to confusion some of vs ere this Why not as easilye as they haue done some other alreadye as néere of his royall bloude as wée But our Lorde hath wrought his will and thankes be to his grace that peril is past Howbeit as great is growing if we suffer this yoÌ„g king in our enemies haÌ„d which without his witting might abuse the name of hys commaundement to any of our vndoing which thing God and good prouision forbidde Of whiche good prouision none of vs hath any thing the lesse néede for the late made attonement in which y â— Kings pleasure hadde more place than the parties willes Nor none of vs I beléeue is so vnwise ouersoone to truste a newe friend made of an old foe or to thinke that an hourely kindenes sodainly contracte in one houre continued yet skant a fortnight should be déeper settled in their stomacke than a long accustomed malice manye yeares rooted With these wordes and writings and suche other the Duke of Glocester soone set a fire them that were of themselues eathe to kindle and in especial twayne Edwarde Duke of Buâ—kingham and Wiliam Lord Hastings and Chamberlain both men of honour and of great power The tone by long succession from his auncestrie the tother by his office and the Kings fauour These two not beryng eache to other so muche lone as hatred both vnto the Quéenes parte in this point accorded togither wyth the Duke of Glocester that they would vtterly amoue from the Kings company all hys mothers friendes vnder the name of theyr enimies Uppon this concluded the Duke of Gloucester vnderstanding that the Lordes whyche at that time were about
owne table to the Lord Riuers praying him to be of good cheare all should be well ynough And he thanked the Duke and prayed the messenger to beare it to his nephew the Lord Richard with the same message for hys comforte as one to whome such aduersitie was strāge but himselfe had bin all his dayes in vre therewith therfore could beare it the better But for all this cōfortable curtesie of the Duke of Glocester he sent the Lord Riuers the The death of the L. Riuers and others Lord Richarde with sir Thomas Vaughan into the Northe Countrey into diuerse places to prison and afterwarde all to Pomfraite where they were in conclusion beheaded In this wise the Duke of Glocester toke vppon hymselfe the order and gouernaunce of the yong King whom with muche honoure and humble reuerence hée conueyed vpward toward the Citie But anone the tydings of this matter came hastily to the Quéene a little before the midnighte following and that in the sorest wise that the King hir son was taken hir brother hir sonne and other friends arrested and sente no man wist whether to bée done with God wot what With which tydings the Quéene in great flight and heauinesse bewayling hir childes raigne hir friendes mischaunce and hir owne infortune damning the time that euer she disswaded the gathering of power aboute the Kyng gatte hyr selfe in all the haste possible wyth hir yōger Sonne and hyr daughters out of the Pallaice of Westminster in whiche she then laye into the Sanctuarie The Qu. taketh Sanctuarie lodging hyr selfe and hyr companye there in the Abbots place Now came there one likewise not long after midnighte from the Lorde Chamberlayne vnto the Archbishoppe of Yorke then Chancellour of Englande to his place not far frō Westminster And for that he shewed his seruauntes that hée had tydings of so great importaunce that hys maister gaue him in charge not to forbeare his reste they letted not to wake him nor he to admitte this messenger into his bedde side Of whome he hearde that these Dukes were gone backe wyth the Kings grace from Stonie Stratforde vnto Northampton Notwythstanding Syr quoth he my Lorde sendeth your Lordshippe worde that there is no feare for he assureth you that all shall be well I assure him quoth the Archebishoppe be it as well as it will it wyll neuer be so well as we haue séene it And therevpon by and by after the messenger departed he caused in all the haste all his sernauntes to be called vp and so with his owne housholde about him and euerye man weaponed he tooke the greate seale with him and came yet before daye vnto the Quéene About whom he founde much heauinesse rumble hast and businesse cariage and conueyaunce of hyr stuffe into Sanctuarie chestes coffers packes fardels trussed all on mens backes no man vnoccupied some lading some going some discharging some comming for more some breaking down the walles to bring in the next way and some yet drewe to them to helpe to carry a wrong way The Quéene hir selfe sate alone alowe on the rushes al desolate and dismayde whome the Archebishoppe comforted in the beste manner he coulde shewing hir that he trusted the matter was nothing so sore as she toke it for and that he was putte in good hope and out of feare by y e message sent him from the Lord Chamberlaine Ah wo worth hym quoth she for he is one of them that laboureth to destroye me and my bloud Madam quoth he be yée of good chéere for I assure you if they Crowne any other King than your son whom they nowe haue with them we shall on the morrowe Crowne hys brother whom you haue here with you And here is the greate seale whyche in likewise as that noble Prince your husbande deliuered it vnto me so héere I deliuer it vnto you to the vse and behoofe of your sonne and therewith he betooke hir the greate seale and departed home againe yet in the dawning of the daye By whiche time he mighte in his chamber windowe sée all the Thamis full of boates of the Duke of Glocesters seruauntes watching that no man shoulde go to Sanctuarie nor none could passe vnsearched Then was there great commotion and murmur as well in other places about as specially in the Citie the people diuersly diuining vpō this deling And some Lords Knightes and Gentlemen eyther for fauour of the Quéen or for feare of themselues assembled in sundry companies and wente flockmeale in harneys and manye also for that they reckoned thys demeanour attempted not so speciallye against the other Lords as against the King himselfe in the disturbaunce of his Coronation But then by and by the Lordes assembled togither towarde whiche méeting the Archbishoppe of Yorke fearing that it woulde be ascribed as it was indéede to his ouermuch lightnesse that he so suddainely hadde yéelded vppe the greate seale to the Quéene to whom the custodie thereof nothing perteyned wythout speciall commaundement of the King secretely sent for the seale againe and brought it with him after the customable manner And at this méeting the Lorde Hasting whose trouth toward y e king no man doubted nor néeded to doubt perswaded the Lordes to beléeue that the Duke of Glocester was sure and fastly faithfull to his Prince that the Lord Riuers and Lorde Richarde with the other Knightes were for matters attempted by them against the Dukes of Glocester and Buckingham put vnder arest for their suretie not for the Kings ieopardie and that they were also in safegarde and there no longer shoulde remayne than till the matter were not by the Dukes onely but also by all the other Lords of y e Kings counsayle indifferently examyned by other discretions ordered and eyther iudged or appeased But one thing he aduised them beware that they iudged not the matter too farre forth ere they knew the trueth nor turning theyr priuate grudges into the common hurte yrking and prouoking men vnto anger and disturbing the Kings coronation toward which the Dukes were cōming vp that they might peraduenture bring the matter so farre out of ioynte that it shoulde neuer be broughte in frame againe Whiche strife if it should happe as it were lykely to come to a fielde though both parties were in all things equal yet shoulde the aucthoritie be on that side where the King is himselfe With these perswasions of the Lord Hastings whereof part himselfe beleeued of parte he wist the contrarie these commotions were somwhat appeased but specially by that that the Dukes of Glocester and Buckinghā wer so néere and came so shortly on with the king in none other manner with none other voyce or semblance than to his coronation causing the fame to be blowen about that these Lords and Knights which were taken had contriued the destruction of the dukes of Glocester and Buckingham and of other the noble bloud of the Realme to the end that thēselues would alone demeane
and gouern the King at their pleasure And for the coulourable proofe therof such of the Dukes seruauntes as rode with the cartes of their stuffe that were taken among which stuffe no maruel thoughe some were harneys which at the breaking vppe of the housholde must néedes eyther be brought awaye or cast away they shewed vnto the people all the wayes as they went loe héere be the â—â—rels of harneys that these Traytours hadde priuilye conueyed in theyr carriage to destroy the noble LORDES withal This deuise albeit that it made the matter to wise men more vnlikely well perceyuing that the intendours of such a purpose would rather haue hadde theyr harneys on their backes than to haue bound them vppe in barrels yet much part of the commoÌ„ people were therwith very wel satisfied and sayd it were almoyse to hang them When the King approched néere to the Citie Edmonde Shaa Goldsmith then Maior with William White Iohn Matthew Sherifes and al the other Aldermen in Scarlet with fiue hundered Horsse of the Citizens in violet receyued him reuerently at Harnesey and ryding from thence accompanyed The Kings coÌ„ming to LondoÌ„ him into the Citie whiche he entred the fourth daye of Maye the first and laste yeare of his raigne But the Duke of Gloucester bare hym in open sight so reuerently to the Prince with all semblaunce of lowlinesse that from the great obloquie in which he was so late before he was sodainly fallen in so gret trust y e at the counsel next asseÌ„bled he was made the only maÌ„ chose and thought most méete to be Protector of y e King and hys Realme so that The protectour made were it destenie or were it follie the Lambe was betaken to the Woolfe to kéepe At whych Counsayle also the Archbyshop of Yorke Chauncelor of Englande whyche hadde delyuered vppe the greate Seale to the Quéene was thereof greately reprooued and the Seale taken from hym and delyuered to Doctor Russell Byshoppe of Lincolne a wise The Bishop of Lincolne made Lord Chauncellour man and a good and of muche experience and one of the beste learned menne vndoubtedly that Englande had in hys time Dyuers Lordes and Knightes were appointed vnto dyuers roumes The Lorde Chamberlaine and some other kepte still theyr offices that they had before Nowe all were it so that that the Protector so sore thirsted for the finishing of that he had begunne that thought euery daye a yeare till it were atchéeued yet durste hée no further attempte as long as he had but halfe hys pray in his hande well witting that if he deposed the one brother all the Realme woulde fall to the other if hée either remaynèd in Sanctuarie or shoulde happily be shortelye conueyed to hys fathers libertie Wherfore incontinent at the nexte méeting of the Lordes at the Counsaile he proposed vnto them that it was a hainous déede of the Quéen The protectours oration and procéeding of greate malice towarde the Kyngs Counsailours that she shoulde kéepe in Sanctuarie the Kings brother from hym whose speciall pleasure and comforte were to haue his brother with hym And that by hir done to none other intente but to bring all the Lordes in obloquie and murmure of the people As thoughe they were not to be trusted with the Kings brother that by the assente of the Nobles of the lande were appointed as the Kings nearest friendes to the tuition of hys owne royall person The prosperitie whereof standeth quoth he not all in kéeping from enimies or ill vyande but partly also in recreation and moderate pleasure whiche he cannot in hys tenuer youth take in the companye of auncient persons but in the familiar conuersation of those that be neither far vnder nor farre aboue his age and naythelesse of estate conuenient to accompanye hys noble Maiestie wherefore with whome rather than wyth hys owne brother And if anye man thinke this consideration whyche I thinke no manne thinketh that loueth the King let him consider that sometyme wythout small things greater cannot stande And verilye it redoundeth greatlye to the dishonour both of the Kings hyghnesse and of all vs that bene aboute his grace to haue it runne in euerye mans mouth not in this realme only but also in other lands as euil words walke far y e the kings brother shold be fain to kepe SaÌ„ctuary For euery maÌ„ wil wéene y e no maÌ„ wil so do for nought And such euil opinioÌ„ once fastned in mens hearts hard it is to wraste out may grow to more grief thaÌ„ any maÌ„ can here deuine Wherfore me thinketh it were not worst to send vnto y â— Q. for the redresse of this matter some honorable trustie man suche as both tendereth the Kyngs weale and the honoure of hys counsayle and is also in fauour and credence wyth hyr For all which considerations none séemeth me more méetely than our reuerende Father héere present my Lord Cardinall who maye in this matter doe most good of any man if it please him to take the payne which I doubt not of hys goodnesse he will not refuse for the Kings sake and ours and wealth of the yong Duke himself the kings most honorable brother and after my soueraigne Lord himselfe my most déere nephew considered that thereby shal be ceassed the slaunderous rumor and obloquie nowe going and the hurtes auâ—yded that thereof mighte ensue and muche reste and quiet growe to all the Realme And if she be percase so obstinate and so precisely set vpon hir own wil that neyther his wise and faithful aduertisement can not moue hir nor anye mannes reason contente hir then shall we by mine aduise by the Kings authoritie fetche him out of that prison and bring hym to hys noble presence in whose continuall companye he shall be so well chéerished and so honorablye intreated that al the world shal to our honor and hir reproche perceyue that it was onely malice frowardenesse or follie that caused hir to kéepe him there this is my minde in this matter for this time except any of your Lordshippes any thing perceiue to the contrarie for neuer shall I by Gods grace so wedde my selfe to mine owne wil but that I shal be readie to change it vpon your better aduises When the Protectoure hadde sayde all the Counsayle affirmed that the motion was good and reasonable and to the King and the Duke his brother honorable and a thing that should cease greate murmure in the Realme if the mother mighte be by good meanes enduced to deliuer him Which thing the Archbishop of Yorke whom they all agréed also to be thereto most conuenient tooke vpon him to moue hir and therin to doe his vttermost deuoire Howbeit if she coulde be in no wise intreated with hyr good will to deliuer him then thought he and such other as were of the Spiritualtie present that it were not in any wise to be attempted to take him out against hir wil. For it would be
come in agayne as though those places gaue them not only a safegarde for the harme they haue done but a licence also to do more Howbeit much of this mischief if wise men would set their hands to it might be amended with great thanks of God and no breach of the priuiledge The residue sith so long ago I wote neare what Pope and what Prince more piteous than politike hath granted it and other men since of a certaine religious feare haue not broken it lette vs take a payne therewyth and let it a Gods name stand in force as farre forth as reason wil whiche is not fully so farre forthe as may serue to let vs of the fetching forthe of thys noble man to hys honor and wealth out of that place in whych he neyther is nor can be a Sanctuarie man A Sanctuarie serueth alway to defende the body of that man that standeth in daunger abroade not of greate hurte only but also of lawful hurt for against vnlawful harmes neuer Pope nor King inteÌ„ded to priuiledge any one place for that priuiledge hath euery place knoweth any man any place wherein it is lawfull one man to do an other wrong That no man vnlawfully take hurt that libertie the K. the law very nature forbiddeth in euery place maketh to that regarde for euerye man euerye place a Sanctuarie But where a man is by lawfull meanes in peryll there néedeth he the tuition of some speciall priuiledge which is the onely ground and cause of all Sanctuaries from which necessitie this noble Prince is farre whose loue to his King nature and kindred proueth whose innocencie to all the world his tender youth proueth and so Sanctuarie as for him neither none he néedeth nor also none can haue Men come not to SaÌ„ctuarie as they come to Baptisme to require it by theyr Godfathers he must aske it himself that must haue it and reason sith no man hath cause to haue it but whose conscience of his owne fault maketh him fayne néede to require it what will then hath yonder babe which and if he had discretion to require it if néede were I dare say would now be ryght angrie wyth them that kéepe hym there and I would thynke without any scruple of conscience without any breach of priuiledge to be somwhat more homely wyth them that be there Sanctuarie men in déede For if one goe to Sanctuarie with an others mans goods why should not the King leauing his body at libertie satisfie the partie of his goods euen wythin the Sanctuarie for neyther Kyng nor Pope can gyue any place suche a priuiledge that it shall discharge a man of hys debtes being able to pay and with that dyuers of the Clergie that were present whither they said it for his pleasure or as they thought agréed playnely that by the law of God and of the Church the goods of a Sanctuarie man shoulde be deliuered in payment of hys debtes and stollen goods to the owner onely lybertie reserued hym to get hys liuing with the labour of hys handes verily quoth the Duke I thynke you say very trueth and what if a mans wyfe will take Sanctuarie bycause she list to runne from hir husband I woulde wéene if she could alledge none other cause he may lawfully wythout any displeasure to Saint Peter take hir out of Saint Peters Church by the arme And if no body may be taken out of Sanctuarie that sayth he will byde there then if a childe wyll take Sanctuarie because he feareth to goe to Schole hys maister must let him alone And as simple as that sample is yet is there lesse reason in our case than in that for therein thoughe it be a chyldishe feare yet is there at the leastwyse some feare and herein is there none at all And verily I haue often heard of Sanctuarie men but I neuer heard earst of Sanctuarie children And therefore as for the conclusion of my mynde who so may haue deserued to néede it if they thinke it for their suertie let them kéepe it But he can bée no Sanctuarie man that neyther hath wisedome to desire it nor malice to deserue it whose life or libertie can by no lawfull processe stand in ieoperdie And he that taketh one out of Sanctuarie to doe him good I saye playnely that he breaketh no Sanctuarie When the Duke had done the Temporall men whole and a good part of the spiritual also thinkyng no hurt earthly ment toward the yong babe condiscended in effect that if he were not delyuered he should be fetched Howbeit they thought it all best in the auoyding of all manner of rumor that the Lorde Cardinall should first assay to get him with hir good will And therevppon all the Counsell came vnto the Starre Chamber at Westminster and the Lorde Cardinall leauyng the Protector with the Counsell in the Starre Chamber departed into the Sanctuarie to the Quéene with dyuers other Lordes with him were it for the respect of hys honour or that shée should by presence of so many perceyue that thys errande was not one mans mynde or were it for that the Protector intended not in this matter to trust any one man alone or else that if shée finally were determyned to kéepe hym some of that companie had happily secrete instruction incontinent maugre hir mynde to take him and to leaue hir no respite to conuey him which shée was lykely to mynde after this matter broken to hir if hir time would in any wise serue hir When the Quéene and these Lordes were come togyther in presence the Lorde Cardinall shewed vnto hir that it was thoughte vnto the Protector and vnto the whole Counsell that hir kéepyng of the Kings brother in that place was the thing whych highly sounded not onely to the great rumour of the people and their obloquie but also to the importable griefe and displeasure of the Kings royal Maiestie to whose grace it were as singular comforte to haue hys naturall brother in companye as it was their both dishonour and all theyrs and hirs also to suffer hym in Sanctuarie as though the one brother stoode in danger and perill of the other And he shewed hir that the Counsell therefore had sent hym vnto hir to require hir the deliuerie of hym that he myght bée broughte vnto the Kyngs presence at hys libertie out of that place which they reckoned as a pryson and there shoulde he bée demeaned accordyng to hys estate and shée in thys doyng shoulde both doe great good to the Realme pleasure to the Counsell and profite to hir selfe succour to hyr friendes that were in distresse and â—uer that which he wiste wel shée specially tendred not onely great comforte and honour to the Kyng but also to the young Duke hymselfe whose both greate wealth it were to bée together as well for many greater causes as also for theyr both disporte and recreation which thyng the Lord estéemed no â—leyght though it séeme lyghte Protector well pondering
so He shall heare him aske it and he will Howbeit this is a gaâ— matter suppose he coulde not aske it suppose he woulde not aske it suppose he woulde aske to goe out if I say he shall not if I aske the priuiledge but for my selfe I say he that against my will taketh him out breaketh y e Sanctuarie Serueth this libertie for my person only or for my goods to Ye may not hence take my horse from me may you take my child fro me He is also my ward for as my learned counsell sheweth mée sithe he hath nothing by discent holden by knightes seruice the law maketh his mother his gardaine Then may no man I suppose take my warde from me out of Sanctuarie without the breache of Sanctuarie And if my priuiledge coulde not serue him nor he aske it for himselfe yet sith the law committeth to me the custodie of him I may require it for him except the law giue a childe a gardaine onely for his goods and landes discharging him of the â—â—e safekéeping of hys bodie for which onely both landes and goods serue ¶ And if examples be sufficient to obtaine priuiledge for This that is here betvveene this marke ¶ and this marke * vvas not vvritten by him in englith but is translated out of this Historie vvhich he vvrot in Latten my child I néede not far to séeke For in this place in which now be which is now in questioÌ„ whether my childe may take benefit of it mine other sonne now king was borne kept in his cradle preserued to a more prosperous fortune which I pray God long to continue And as all you know this is not the first time that I haue taken Sanctuarie For when my Lorde my husbande was banished and thrust out of hys Kingdome I fled hither being great with childe and here I bare the Prince And when my Lorde my husband returned safe agayne and had the victorie then went I hence to welcome him home and from hence I brought my babe the Prince vnto his father when he first tooke him in his armes And I pray God that my sonnes palace may be as great sauegarde vnto him nowe raigning as this place was somtime to y e kings enimie In which place I inteÌ„d to kéepe his brother sith c. * Wherfore here intend I to kéepe him since mans law serueth y e gardaine to kéepe the infant The law of nature will y e mother kéepe hir child Gods law priuiledgeth y â— Sanctuarie the Sanctuarie my son sith I I feare to put him in y e Protectors hands y t hath his brother alreadie were if both fayled inheritor to y e Crowne The cause of my feare hath no man to doe to examine And yet feare I no farther than y e lawe feareth which as learned meÌ„ tell me forbyddeth euery maÌ„ the custodie of them by whose death he may inherite lesse land than a kingdome I can no more but whosoeuer he be y e breaketh this holy Sactuarie I pray God shortly send him néede of Sanctuarie when he may not come to it For taken out of Sanctuarie woulde I not my mortall enimie were The Lord Cardinall perceyuing that the Quéene wared euer the longer the further off and also that she began to kindle and chafe and speake more byting words against the Protector and such as he neither beléeued was also loath to heare he said to hir for a finall conclusion that he woulde no longer dispute the matter but if she were content to deliuer the Duke to him and to the other Lordes present he durst lay his owne body and soule both in pledge not onely for his suertie but also for his estate And if she woulde giue them a resolute answere to the contrarie he woulde forthwith depart there with all and shift who so would with this businesse afterwardes for he neuer intended more to moue hir in that matter in which she thought that he and al other also saue hirself lacked either wit or truth Wit if they were so dull that they could nothing perceiue what the Protector intended truth if they should procure hir sonne to be delyuered into his handes in whom they shoulde perceyue toward the childe any euill intended The Quéene with these wordes stoode a good while in a greate studie And forasmuch as hir séemed the Cardinall ready to departe than some of the remnant and the Protector himselfe readie at hand so that she verily thought shée coulde not kéepe him there but that he shoulde incontinent be taken thence and to conuey him else-where neither had she time to serue hir nor place determined nor persons appointed all things vnreadie this message came on hir sâ— sodainely nothing lesse looking for than to haue him fetcht out of Sanctuarie which she thoughte to be nowe beset iâ— such places about y â— he could not be conueyed out vntaken and partly as she thoughte it might fortune hir feare to be false so wel she wiste it was eyther néedelesse or bootlesseâ— wherfore if she should néedes goe froÌ„ him she déemed it best to deliuer him And ouer that of the Cardinals faith she nothing doubted nor of some other Lordes neither whom she there sawe Which as she feared least they might be deceiued so was she wel assured they would not be corrupted theÌ„ thought she it should yet make them y e more warely to looke to him the more circumspectly to sée to his suertie if she w e hir owne hands betooke him to theÌ„ of trust And at y e last she tooke y e yong Duke by the hand said vnto the Lords My Lords quoth she al my Lords I neither am so vnwise to mistrust your wittes nor so suspicious to mistrust your truthes Of which thing I purpose to make you such a proofe as if either of both lacked in you mighte turne both me to great sorow the Realme to much harme you to great reproch For loe here is quoth she this GentlemaÌ„ whom I dout not but I could here kéepe safe if I would whatsoeuer any maÌ„ say I doubt not also but there be some abrode so deadly enimies vnto my bloud y â— if they wist where any of it lay in their own body they would let it out We haue also experience y e the desire of a kingdom knoweth no kinred The brother hath bene y e brothers bane may y â— nephewes be sure of their vncle Eche of these childreÌ„ is the others defence while they be a sunder eche of their liues lieth in the others body Kéepe one safe both be sure nothing for theÌ„ both more perillous thaÌ„ to be both in one place For what wise Marchant adueÌ„tureth all his goods in one ship Al this notwithstaÌ„ding here I deliuer him his brother in him to kéepe into your hands of whoÌ„ I shal ask theÌ„ both afore god the world Faithful ye be y e wote I
well I knowe well you be wise Power strength to kéepe him if you list neyther lack ye of your self nor can lack helpe in this case And if ye can not else where then may you leaue him here But only one thing I beséeche you for the trust which his father put in you euer for the trust y e I put in you nowe y â— as far as ye thinke y â— I feare too much be you well ware that you feare not as far too little And therwithall the saide vnto the child farewel mine own swéete son God send you good kéeping let me kisse you yet once ere you go for God knoweth wheÌ„ we shall kisse together againe And therwith she kissed him blessed him turned hir back wept went hir way leauing y e child wéeping as fast When y â— Lord Cardinal those other Lords w t him had receiued this yong duke they brought him into y â— star Chamber where y â— Protector tooke him in his armes kissed him with these words now welcome my Lord euen w t al my very hart And he said in y â— of O dissimulation likelihood as he thought Thervpon forthwith they brought him vnto the King his brother into the Bishops Palace at Paules and from thence through the citie honorably into the Tower out of y e which after y â— day they neuer came abrode ¶ When the Protector had both y â— children in his hands This that is here betvveene this marke ¶ and this marke * vvas not vvritten by him in english but is translated out of this Historie vvhich he vvrote in Lattin he opened himself more boldly both to certaine other men also chiefly to y â— Duke of BuckinghaÌ„ Although I know y â— many thought y â— this Duke was priuie to al y â— Protectors couÌ„sel euen froÌ„ the beginning some of the Protectors friends said y â— the duke was the first mouer of the Protector to this matter sending a priuie messenger vnto him straight after K. Edwards death But other againe which knew better the subtil wit of y â— Protector denie y â— he euer opened his enterprise to y â— duke vntil he had brought to passe y â— things before rehearsed But wheÌ„ he had imprisoned y â— Quéens kinsfolks gotten both hir sonnes into his owne hands then he opened the rest of his purpose with lesse feare to them whom he thought méet for y â— matter specially to the Duke who being woon to his purpose he thought his strength more than half increased The matter was broken vnto y e duke by subtill folkes such as were their crafts masters in the handling of such wicked deuises who declared vnto him that the yong king was offended with him for his kinsfolks sake if he were euer able he would reuenge them Who woulde prick him forward thervnto if they escaped for they would remember their imprisonment or else if they were put to deathe without doubte the yong King woulde be carefull for their deathes whose imprisonment was grieuous vnto him And that with repenting the Duke should nothing auaile for there was no way left to redéeme his offence by benefites but he shoulde sooner destroy himselfe than saue the king who with his brother and his kinsfolkes he sawe in such places imprisoned as the Protector might wyth a beck destroy them all and that it were no doubt but he woulde doe it in déede if there were any new enterprise attempted And that it was lykely that as the Protector had prouided priuie garde for hymselfe so had he spyalles for the Duke and traynes to catche him if he shoulde be agaynst hym and that peraduenture from them whom he least suspected For the state of things and the dispositions of meÌ„ were then such that a man coulde not well tell whom he mighte trust or whom he might feare * These things and such lyke beyng beaten into the Dukes mynde brought him to that point that where he had repented the way that he had entred yet woulde he goe forthe in the same and since he had once begunne he woulde stoutely goe throughe And therefore to this wicked enterprise which he beléeued coulde not be voyded he bent hymselfe and went through and determined that since the common mischiefe could not be amended he would turne it as much as he might to his owne commoditie Then it was agréed that the Protector shoulde haue the Dukes aide to make him King and that the Protectors only lawfull sonne should marrie the Dukes daughter that the Protector should graunt him the quiet possession of the â—ledome of Hertford which he claimed as his inheritance and could neuer obtayne it in King Edwardes tyme. Besides these requests of y â— duke y â— Protector of his own minde promised hym a great quantitie of the kings treasure and of his housholde stuffe And when they were thus at a poynt betwéene themselues they went about to prepare for y â— Coronation of the yong king as they would haue it séeme And that they myght turne both the eyes and mindes of men froÌ„ perceiuing of their drifts other where the Lords being sent for from all partes of y â— Realme came thick to y â— solemnitie But the Protector the duke after that that they had sent y â— Lord Cardinal the Archbishop of Yorke then Lord Chauncellour y â— Bishop of Elie y â— Lord Stanley the lord Hastings then Lorde Chamberlaine w t many other noble men* to common deuise about the coronation in one place as fast were they in another place contriuing the contrarie and to make the Protector King To which CouÌ„cell albeit there were adhibited very few they were secret yet began there here there about some maner of muttering among y â— people as though all should not long be wel though they neyther wyst what they feared nor wherefore were it that before such great things mens hartes of a secret instinct of nature misgiue them As the sea without winde swelleth of himself somtime before a tempest or were it that some one man happily somewhat perceiuing filled many men with suspition though he shewed few men what he knew Howbeit somewhat the dealing it self made men to muse on the matter though the Councell were close For by little and little all folke withdrew from the Tower drew to Crosbies in Bishops gate streete where the Protector kept his houshold The Protector had the resort the King in manner desolate While some for their businesse made sute to them that had the doing some were by their friends secretly warned that it might happily turne them to no good to be too muche attendant about the King without the Protectors appointment which remoued also diuers of the Princes olde seruaunts from him and set new about him Thus many things coÌ„ming togither partly by chaunce partly of purpose caused at length not coÌ„mon people
onely y ◠wound w t the wind but wise men also some Lords eke to marke the matter muse thereon so farre forth that the Lorde Stanley that was after Earle of Darbie wisely mistrusted it and sayde vnto the Lorde Hastings that he muche mislyked these two seueral Councels For while we quoth he talke of one matter in y e one place little wote we wherof they talke in the other place My Lorde quoth the Lorde Hastings of my life neuer doubt you for while one man is there which is neuer thence neuer can there be thing once moued that should sound amisse toward me but it shoulde be in mine eares ere it were well out of their mouthes This ment he by Catesby whiche was of hys néere secrete Catesbie counsell and whom he verie familiarly vsed and in his most weightie matters put no man in so speciall trust reckening himselfe to no man so liefe sithe he well wyste there was no man so muche to him beholden as was this Catesby which was a man well learned in the lawes of this land and by the speciall fauour of the Lorde Chamberlaine in good authoritie and much rule bare in all y e Countie of Leycester where the Lorde Chamberleynes power chiefely laye But surely great pitie was it that he had not had eyther more truth or lesse wit For his dissimulation onely kept all that mischiefe vp In whom if the Lorde Hastings had not put so speciall trust the Lorde Stanley and he had departed with diuers other Lordes and broken all the daunce for many yll signes that he sawe which he now construes all to the best So surely thought he that there coulde be no harme toward him in that Councell intended where Catesby was And of truth the Protector and the Duke of Buckingham made verie good semblaunce vnto the Lorde Hastings and kept him much in companie And vndoubtedly the Protector loued him well and loth was to haue lost him sauing for feare least his lyfe shoulde haue quaiied their purpose For which cause he moued Catesby to proue wyth some wordes cast out a farre off whether he coulde thinke it possible to winne the Lorde Hastings vnto their part But Catesby whether he assayed him or assayed him not reported vnto them that he founde him so fast and heard him speake so terrible words that he durst no further breake And of trueth the Lorde Chamberlayne of verye trust shewed vnto Catesby the distrust that other began to haue in the matter And therefore hée fearing least theyr motion might with the Lorde Hastings minishe his credence wherevnto onely all the matter leaned procured the Protector hastily to rid him And much the rather for that he trusted by his death to obtayne muche of the rule that the Lorde Hastings bare in his Coūtrey the onely desire wherof was the allectiue that induced him to be partner and one speciall contriuer of all this horrible treason Wherevpon soone after that is to wit on the Fryday the thirtéenth day of June many Lordes assembled in the Tower and there sat in Councell deuising the honourable solemnitie of the Kings Coronation of which the tyme appoynted then so neare approched that the Pageantes and subtiltyes were in making daye and night at Westminster and much vitayle kylled therefore that afterward was cast away These Lordes so sitting together communing of thys matter the Protector came in amongst them first about ix of the clocke saluting them courteously and excusing hymself that he had bene from them so long saying merily that he had bene a sléeper that day And after a little talkyng with them he sayde vnto the Byshop of Elie My Lorde you haue verye good Strawberies at your Garden in Holborne I require you let vs haue a messe of them Gladly my Lorde quoth he woulde God I had some better thing as readie to your pleasure as that And therwith in all the hast he sent hys seruant for a messe of Strawberies The Protector set the Lordes fast in communing therevpon praying them to spare him for a little while departed thence And soone after one houre betwéene x. and xj he returned into the Chamber among them all changed with a wonderfull soure angrie countenance knitting y e browes frowning fretting gnawing on his lippes so sat hym downe in his place all the Lordes much dismayde and sore maruelling of this manner of sodaine change what thing should him aile Then whē he had sitten still a while thus he began What were they worthy to haue that compasse and imagine the destruction of mée beyng so néere of bloud vnto the King and Protector of his Royall person and his Realme At this question all the Lordes sat sore astonyed musing much by whom this question shoulde be ment of which euery man wyst himselfe cleare Then the Lord Chamberlaine as he that for the loue betwéene them thoughte he might be boldest with him aunswered and sayde that they were worthy to be punished as heynous traytors whatsoeuer they were And all the other affyrmed the same That is quoth he yonder sorceresse my brothers wyfe and other with hir meaning y e Quéene At these words many of y e other Lords were greatly abashed y ◠fauoured hir But y e Lord Hastings was in his minde better content y ◠it was moued by hir thā by any other whō he loued better Albeit his hart somwhat grudged y t he was not afore made of counsel in this matter as he was of the taking of hir kinred of their putting to death which were by his assent before deuised to be beheaded at Pomfret thys self same day in which he was not ware y t it was by other deuised y t himself should be beheaded y e same day at London Then saide the Protector ye shall all sée in what wise that sorceresse and that other Witch of hir counsell Shores wife with their affinitie haue by their sorcerie and witchcrafte wasted my body And therewith he plucked vp his dublet sléeue to his elbow vpō his left arme where he shewed a werish withered arme and smal as it was neuer other And thervpō euery mans minde sore misgaue them wel perceiuing y ◠this matter was but a quarrel For they well wist y ◠the Quéene was too wise to goe about any such folly And also if she would yet would she of all folke least make Shores wife of counsell whom of all women she most hated as that Concubine whome the King hir husbande had most loued And also no manne was there present but well knew that his arme was euer suche since hys byrth Naythelesse the Lorde Chamberlayne which from the death of Kyng Edward kept Shores wyfe on whom he somewhat doted in the Kings lyfe sauing as it is sayde he that while forbare hir of reuerence toward the K. or else of a certayn kind of fidelitic to his friend aunsweared and sayd certaynly my Lord if they haue so
happe to heare more hereafter and I neuer in my life so mery nor neuer in so great suretie O good God the blindnesse of our mortall nature when he most feared he was in good suretie when he reckened himself surest he lost his life that within two hours after Thus ended thys honourable man a good Knight and a The description of the Lord Hastings gentle of greate aucthoritie with hys Prince of lyuing somewhat dissolute playne and open to hys enimie and secrete to his friend easie to beguile as he that of good hearte and courage forestudied no perilles a louing man and passing wel beloued very faithful and trustie ynough trusting too much Now flew the fame of this Lords death swiftlye through the Citie and so forth further about like a winde in euery mans eare But the Protector immediately after dinner intending to sette some colour vpon the matter sent in all hast for many substantial men out of the Citie into the Tower And at theyr comming himselfe with the Duke of Buckingham stoode harnessed in olde yll faring Briganders such as no man shoulde wéene that they would vouchsafe to haue put vpon their backes except that some sodain necessitie had constrained them And then the Protectour shewed them that the Lorde Chamberlaine and other of his conspiracie had contriued to haue sodainely destroyed hym and the Duke there the same daye in the Counsel And what they intended further was as yet not well knowne Of whiche their Treason hée neuer had knowledge before tenne of the clocke the same forenoone which sodain feare droue them to put on for their defence suche harneys as came next to hande And so hadde God holpen them that the mischief turned vpon them that woulde haue done it And thys he requyred them to report Euery man aunswered him fayre as though no manne mistrusted the matter which of trothe no manne beléeued Yet for the further appeasing of the peoples minde he sent immediately after dinner in al hast an Herault of armes wyth a Proclamation to be made throughe the Citie in the The Protectors proclamation Kyngs name conteyning that the Lord Hastings with diuerse other of his trayterous purpose had before conspired the same daye to haue slaine the Lorde Protectour and the Duke of Buckingham sitting in the Counsell and after to haue taken vpon them to rule the King and the realme at theyr pleasure and thereby to pill and spoyle whome they list vncontrolled And much matter there was in that proclamation deuised to the slaunder of the Lorde Chamberlayne as that he was an euil Counsayler to the Kings father inticing him to manye things highly redounding to the minishing of his honour and to the vniuersall hurte of his Realme by his euill companye sinister procuring and vngracious ensample as wel in manye other things as in the dicious liuing and inordinate abusion of hys bodie both wyth manye other and also speciallye wyth Shores wise whiche was one also of hys moste secret counsaile of thys heynons treason with whom he laye nightlye and namely the night last past nexte before his death so that it was the lesse maruayle if vngratious liuing broughte him to an vnhappy ending whiche he was nowe putte vnto by the moste dread commaundemente of the Kings highnesse and of his honorable and faythfull counsayle bothe for hys demerites being so openly taken in hys falslye conceyued treason and also leaste the delaying of his execution might haue encouraged other mischieuous persons partners of his conspiracie to gather and assemble themselues togither in making some greate commotion for hys delyueraunce whose hope being nowe by his well deserued death politikely repressed al y e realm should by gods grace rest in good quiet and peace Now was this proclamation made wythin two houres after that he was beheaded and it was so curiously indited and so faire written in parchment in so well a sette hand and therewith of it selfe so long a processe that euery childe might well perceyue that it was prepared before For all y e time betwéene his death and the proclayming coulde skant haue sufficed vnto the bare writing alone all had it béene but in Paper and scribled forth in haste at aduenture So that vpon the proclayming thereof one that was scholemaster of Paules of chaunce standing by and comparing the shortnesse of the time with the length of the matter sayd vnto them that stoode about him here is a gay goodly cast foule cast away for haste and a Merchaunt aunsweared him that it was written by prophecie Nowe then by by as it were for anger not for couetise the Protectour sent into the house of Shores wife for hir husbande dwelled not with hyr and spoyled hir of all that euer she had aboue the value of two or thrée thousande marke and sent hyr body to prison And when he had a while layde vnto hyr for the manner sake that she wente aboute to bewitch him and that she was of counsaile with the Lord Chāberlaine to destroy him in cōclusion when that no colour coulde fasten vppon these matters then he layde heynously to hir charge y ◠thing that hir selfe could not denye that all the world wist was true and that naythelesse euery manne laughed at to heare it then so sodainely so highly taken that she was nought of hir body And for this cause as a good continent Prince cleane and faultlesse of himselfe sente out of heauen into this vicious world for the amendment of mens manners he caused the Bishop of London to put hyr to open penaunce going before the Crosse in Procession vpon a Sonday with a Taper in hir hande In whiche she went in countenance and pace demure so womanly and albeit she were out of al array saue hir kyrtle onlye yet wente she so faire and louely namely while the wondering of the people caste a comely rudde in hir chéekes of which she before had most misse y t hir great shame wanne hir much prayse among those that wer more amorous of hir bodie than curious of hir soule And manye good folke also that hated hir liuing and glad were to sée sin corrected yet pitied they more hir penaunce ethan reioyced therein when they considered that the Protector procured it more of a corrupt intent than any vertuous affection This woman was borne in London worshipfullye friended The description of Shores vvife honestly brought vp and very wel maried sauing somwhat too soone hir husband an honest Citizen yong godly and of good substāce But for as much as they were coupled ere she were wel ripe she not very feruently loued for whō she neuer longed which was happily the thing that y e more easily made hir incline vnto the Kings appetite when hée required hir Howbeit the respect of his royaltie the hope of gay apparell ease pleasure and other wanton wealth was able soone to pierce a soft tender hearte But when the king had abused hir anone hir
the Duke of Clarence were lawfully begotten nor were not the very children of y e duke of Yorke but begotteÌ„ vnlawfully by other persoÌ„s by aduoutrie of the Dutches their mother And that also dame Elizabeth Lucy was verily the wife of King Edward and so the Prince and al his children Bastards that were begotteÌ„ vpon the Quéene According to this deuise Doctor Shaa y â— Sonday after at Paules Crosse in a greate audience as alway assembled great number to his preaching he tooke for his Theame Spuria vitulamina non agent radices alt as That is to say Bastarde slippes shal neuer take deepe roote Therevppon when he had shewed the great grace that God giueth secretly infundeth in right generation after y â— lawes of matrimonie theÌ„ declared he y â— coÌ„monly those children lacked y â— grace for y e punishment of their pareÌ„ts were for y e more part vnhappy which wer gotteÌ„ in base specially in aduoutrie Of which though some by the ignorance of the world and the truth hid from knowledge inherited for the season other mens landes yet God alway so prouideth that it continueth not in their bloud long but y e truth comming to light the rightfull inheritors be restored and the bastard slip pulled vp ere it can be rooted déepe And when he had laid for the proofe and confirmation of this sentence certaine ensamples taken out of the old Testament and other auncient histories then beganne he to descend into the praise of the Lorde Richarde late Duke of Yorke calling him father to the Lorde Protector and declared the title of his heires vnto the Crowne to whom it was after the death of King Henrie the sixt entayled by authoritie of Parliament Then shewed he that his verie right heyre of his body lawfully begotten was onely the Lord Protector For he declared then that King Edward was neuer lawfully marryed vnto the Quéene but was before God husband vnto Dame Elizabeth Lucie and so his children bastardes And besides that neither King Edwarde himselfe nor the Duke of Clarence among those that were secrete in the housholde were reckened verie surely for the children of the noble Duke as those that by their fauours more resembled other knowne men than him From whose vertuous conditions he sayde also that King Edward was farre off But the Lorde Protector he sayd the verie noble Prince the speciall paterne of Knightly prowes as well in all Princely behauiour as in the lineamentes and fauour of his visage represented the very face of the noble Duke his father This is quoth he the fathers owne figure this is his owne countenaunce the verie print of his visage the sure vndoubted Image the plaine expresse likenesse of that noble Duke Nowe was it before deuised that in the speaking of these words the Protector shoulde haue come in among the people to the Sermon warde to the end that those words méeting with his presence might haue bene taken among the hearers as though the holy ghost had put them in the preachers mouthe and shoulde haue moued the people euen there to crie King Richarde King Richarde that it myght haue béene after sayde that he was specially chosen by God and in manner by myracle But this deuise quayled eyther by the Protectors negligence or the Preachers ouermuch diligence For whyle the Protector founde by the way tarying least he shoulde preuent those wordes and the Doctor fearing that he shoulde come ere hys Sermon could come to these wordes hasted his matter thereto who was come to them and paste them and entred into other matters ere the Protector came Whom when he beheld comming he sodainely lefte the matter with which he was in hande and without any deduction thervnto out of al order and out of all frame beganne to repeate those wordes agayne this is the very noble Prince the speciall patrone of Knightly prowes which as well in all Princely behauiour as in the liâ—iamentes and fauour of his vsage representeth the verie face of the noble Duke of Yorke his father this is the fathers owne figure this is his owne countenaunce the very print of his visage the sure vndoubted Image the playne expresse lykenesse of the Noble Duke whose remembrance can neuer dye whyle he liueth While these wordes were in speaking the Protector accompanied with the Duke of Buckingham went through the people into the place where the Doctors commonly staud in the vpper storie where he stoode to hearken the Sermon But the people were so farre from crying King Richarde that they stoode as they had béene turned into stones for wonder of this shamefull Sermon After which once ended the Preacher gat him home and Preacher neuer after durst looke out for shame but kepte hym out of sight lyke an Owle And when he once asked one that had béene his olde friend what the people talked of him al were it that hys owne conscience well shewed him that they talked no good yet when the other aunswered him that there was in euery mannes mouth spoken of hym much shame it so strake him to the heart that within fewe dayes after hée withered and consumed away Then on the Tuesday folowing this sermon there came into the Guild hall in London the Duke of Buckingham accompanyed with diuerse Lordes and Knightes more than happily knewe the message that they brought And there in the East end of the hall where y e Maior kéepeth the Hustings the Maior and all the Aldermen beyng assembled aboute him all the Commons of the Citie gathered before them after silence commaunded vppon great payne in the Protectors name the Duke stoode vp and as he was neyther vnlearned and of nature maruellously well spoken he said vnto the people with a cleare and a loude voyce in this manner of wise FRiendes for the zeale and heartie fauour that we beare The Duke of Buckinghams Oration you wée be come to breake vnto you of a matter ryght great and weightie and no lesse weightie than pleasing to God and profitable to all the Reame nor to no part of the Realme more profitable than to you the Citizens of this noble Citie For why that thing that we wote wel ye haue long tyme lacked and sore longed for that ye woulde haue giuen great good for that ye would haue gone farre to fetch that thing we be come hither to bring you without your labour paine cost aduenture or ieoperdie What thing is that Certes the suertie of your owne bodyes the quiet of your wynes and your daughters the sauegarde of your goods of all whych things in tymes paste ye stoode euer more in doubte For who was there of you all that woulde recken him selfe Lorde of his owne good among so many grens and traps as was set therfore among so much pilling polling among so many taxes tallages of which there was neuer end oftentimes no néede or if any were it rather grew of royot vnreasonable wast thaÌ„
into the which no houest man commeth to lye which honorable Preacher yée well remember substantially declared vnto you at Paules Crosseâ— on Sunday last passed the right title that the most excellent Prince Richarde Duke of Glocester now Protector of this Realme hath vnto the Crowne and Kingdome of the same For as the worshipfull man groundlye made open vnto you the children of King Edward the fourthe were neuer lawfully begotten for as much as the King leauing his very wyfe Dame Elizabeth Lucie was neuer lawfully married vnto the Quéene their mother whose bloud sauing that he set his voluptuous pleasure before his honor was ful vmnéetly to be matched with his and the minglyng of whose bloude togither hath beene the effusion of great parte of theâ— noble bloud of this Realme Whereby it may well séeme the mariage not well made of which there is so muche mischiefe growne For lacke of which lawfull accoupling and also of other things which the sayde worshipfull Doctor rather signified than fully explaned and which things shall not be spoken â—â—r mée as the thing wherein euery man forbeareth to say that he knoweth â—â— auoyding displeasure of my noble Lord Protector bearing as nature requireth a filiall â—â—â—â—reâ—â—â— to the Duches his mother for these causes I sâ—y before remembred that is to wit for lacke of other isâ—â—â— lawfullye comming of the late noble Prince Richarde Duke of Yorke to whose morall bloud the Crowne of Englande and of Fraunce â—â— is by the hyghe aucthoritie of Parliament entayled the ryght and title of the same is by the inst course of inheritaunce according to the common lawes of thys Lande deuâ—lute and commen vnto the most excellent Prince the Lord Protector as to the very lawfully â—â—â—â—tten sonne of the forere membred noble Dâ—â—â— of Yorke Which thing well considered and the great knightly prowes pondered with manifolde vertues which in his noble person singularly abound the Nobles and Commons also of this Realme and specially of the North part not willing any bastard bloud to haue the rule of the land nor the abustons before in the same vsed any longer to continue haue condiscended and fully determined to make humble petition to the most puissaunt Prince the Lord Protector that it may lyke his grace at our humble request to take vpon him the guiding and gouernance of this Realme to the wealth and encrease of the â—ame according to hys verie right and iust tytle Which thing I wote it well he will be lothe to take vpon hym as he whose wisedome well perceyueth the labour and studie both of minde and body that shall come therewith to whomsoeuer so will occupie the roome as I dare say he will if he take it Which roome I warne you well is no childes â—â—â—â—e And that the great wise man well perceiued when he â—aydâ— Vâ—â—â—gâ—o cuiuâ— rex puer est Wo is that Realme that hath a childe to their King Wherefore so much the more cause haue we to thanke God that this Noble personage which is so righteously intituled thervnto is of so sad age and therevnto so great wisedome ioyned with so great experience which albeithe will be loth as I haue sayd to take it vpon him yet shall he to our petition in that behalfe the more graciously inâ—lâ—â—â— if ye the worshipful Citizens of this the chiefe Citie of this Realme ioyne wyth vs the nobles in our saide request Which for your owne weale we doubt not but ye will and nathelesse I harâ—â—ly pray you so to doe whereby you shall doe great profit to all this Realme beside in chosing them so good a King and vnto your selfe special commoditie to whom his Maiestie shal euer after beare so much the more tender fauour in howe much he shal perceyue you the â—â—ore proue and beneuâ—lently minded toward his election Wherin deare friends what minde you haue â—â—â— requiâ—e you plainely to shew vs. When the Duke had sayde and looked that the people whom he hoped that the Maior hadde framed before should after this proposition made haue cryed King Richarde King Richard all was husht and mute and not one word aunswered therevnto wherewith the Duke was maruellously abashed and taking the Maior nearer to hym with other that were aboute him priuie to that matter sayde vnto them softlye what meaneth thys that thys people be so styll Syr quoth the Maior percase they perceyue you not well That shall wée mende quoth he if that will helpe And by and by somewhat louder hée rehearsed them the same matter agayne in other order and other wordes so well and ornately and naythelesse so euidentlye and playne wyth voyce gesture and countenaunce so comely and so conuenient that euery man muche maruelled that hearde him and thought that they neuer had in theyr liues heard so euil a tale so well tolde But were it for wonder or feare or that eche lookt that other shoulde speake first not one worde was there aunswered of all the people that stoode before but all was as styll as the mydnight not so muche as rowning amongest them by which they myght séeme to commune what was best to doe When the Maior sawe this hée with other partners of that Councell drewe aboute the Duke and sayde that the people had not béene accustomed there to be spoken vnto but by the Recorder which is the mouth of the Citie and happily to him they wyl aunswere With that the Recorder called Fitz William a sad manne and an honest Fitz VVilliam Recorder which was so newe come into that office that he neuer had spoken to the people before and lothe was wyth that matter to begynne notwithstandyng therevnto commaunded by the Maior made rehearsall to the Commons of y â— the Duke had twice rehearsed them to himselfe But the Recorder so tempered hys tale that he shewed euery thing as the Dukes wordes and no parte of hys owne But all this noting no chaunge made in the people which alway after one stoode as they had béene men amased wherevppon the Duke rowned vnto the Maior and sayde this is a maruellous obstinate silence and there with he turned vnto the people agayne with these wordes Deare friendes wée come to mooue you to that thing whiche peraduenture wée not so greatlye needed but that the Lordes of thys Realme and the commons of other parties might haue sufficed sauing that wée sache loue beare you and so much set by you that we woulde not gladlye doe without you that thing in whiche to be partners is your weale and honour which as it séemeth either you sée not or wey not Wherefore we require you giue vs answeare one or other whether yée be ininded as al y â— Nobles of the Realm be to haue this Noble Prince now Protector to be your King or not At these wordes the people beganne to whisper among themselues secretely that the voice was neither lowde nor distinct but as it were the sounde of a swarme of Bees tyll
at the last in the neather end of the Hall a bushment of the Dukes seruauntes and Nashfieldes and other longing to the Protector with some prentises and laddes that thrust into the Hall among the prease beganne sodainly at mens backes to crye out as loude as theyr throtes woulde gyueâ— King Richarde King Richarde and threwe vp their cappes in token of ioy And they that stoode before cast backe their heads maruelling thereof but nothing they sayde And when the Duke and the Maior sawe this manner they wiselye turned it to theyr purpose and sayde it was a goodly crye and a ioyfull to heare euerye man with one voyce no man saying nay Wherefore friendes quoth the Duke since that we perceiue it is all your whole myndes to haue this Noble man for your K. wherof we shall make his grace so effectuall report that we doubt not but it shall redounde vnto your great weÌ„ale and commodytie wee require ye that ye to morow go with vs and we with you vnto his Noble graced to make our humble request vnto him in maner before remembred And there with the Lords came dowâ—e and the company dissolued and departed the more part all sad some with glad femblance that were not very merrie and some of those that came thither wyth the Duke not able to dissemble their sorrow were faine at his barke to turne their face to the wall while the dolour of their heart burst out of their eyes Then on the morrowe after the Maior with all the Aldermen The Maiors comming to Baynards Castell and chiefe commoners of the citie in their best maner apparelled assembling themselues together resorted vnto Baynardes Castell where the Protector lay To which place repayred also accordyng to theyr appoyntment the Duke of Buckingham with diuerse Noble men wyth him besyde many Knightes and other Gentlemen And therevppon the Duke sent worde vnto the Lorde Protector of the being there of a great and honorable companie to moue a great matter vnto his grace Wherevpon the Protector made difficultie to come out vnto them but if he first knewe some part of their errand as thoughe he doubted and partly distrusted the comming of a number vnto him so sodenly without any warning or knowledge whether they came for good or harme Then the duke when he had shewed this vnto the Maior other that they might therby sée how little the Protector looked for this matter they sent vnto him by the Messenger suche louing message againe and there with so humbly besought him to vouchsafe that they might resort to his presence to purpose their intent of which they woulde vnto none other person part disclose that at the last he came forth of his Chamber and yet not downe vnto them but stoode aboue in a Gallerie ouer them where they might sée him and speake to him as though be woulde not yet come too néere them tyll he will what they ment And there vpon the Duke of BuckinghaÌ„ first made humble position vnto him on the behalfe of them all that his grace â—ould pardon them and licence them to purpose vnto his â—â—â—â—â— the intent of â—oâ—â— comming without his displeasure without which pardon obteined they durst not be bolde to moue him of that matter In whiche albeit they ment as muche honour to his grace as wealthe to all the Realme beside yet were they not sure howe his grace woulde take it whom they woulde in no wyse offende Then the Protector as he was verie gentle of himselfe and also longed sore to witte what they ment gaue him leaue to purpose what him lyked verily trusting for the good minde that hée bare them all none of them any thing woulde intende vnto him warde wherewith he ought to be grieued When the Duke had thys leaue and pardon to speake then waxed hée bolde to shew him their intent and purpose with all the causes moouing them therevnto as ye before haue heard and finally to beséeche his grace that it woulde like him of his accustomed goodnes zeale vnto the realme nowe with his eye of pitie to beholde the long continued distresse and decaye of the same and to set his gracious handes to redresse and amendment thereof by taking vpon him the Crowne and gouernaunce of thys Realme accordyng to his ryght and tytle lawfully descended vnto him and to the laude of God profite of the Lande and vnto hys grace so muche the more honour and lesse payne in that that neuer Prince raygned vppon any people that were so glad to lyue vnder hys obeysaunce as the people of thys Realme vnder his When the Protector had hearde the proposition he looked verie straungely therat answered that albeit it were y e he partly knewe the things by them alledged to be true yet such entire loue he bare vnto King Ed. and his children y â— so much more he regarded his honor in other realmes about than the Crowne of any one of whiche hée was neuer desyrous y â— he coulde not finde in his heart in this poynt to enclyne to theyr desire For in all other Nations where the truth were not well knowne it shoulde peraduenture be thoughte that it were his owne ambitious minde and deuise to depose the Prince and take himselfe the Crowne with which infamie he woulde not haue his honour stayned for any Crowne in which he had euer perceyued much more labour and payne than pleasure to hym that would so vse it as he that woulde not were not worthie to haue it Notwithstanding he not onely pardoned them the motion that they made him but also thanked them for the loue and heartie fauour they bare hym praying them for hys sake to gyue and beare the same to the Prince vnder whom hée was and woulde bée content to lyue and with hys labour and counsell as farre as should lyke the King to vse him he would doe his vttermost deuoyre to set the Realme in good state whyche was alreadie in this lyttle whyle of hys Protectorshippe the prayse gyuen to God well begunne in that the malice of suche as were before occasion of the contrarie and of new intended to bée were nowe partly by good policie partly more by Gods speciall prouidence than mans prouision repressed Uppon this aunswere giuen the Duke by the Protectours licence a lyttle rowned aswell wyth other Noble men aboute hym as with the Maior and Recorder of London And after that vppon lyke pardon desired and obteyned he shewed aloude vnto the Protector that for a finall conclusion that the Realme was appoynted King Edwardes lyne should not any longer raygne vpon them both for that they hadde so farre gone that it was nowe no suertie to retreate as for that they thoughte it for the weale vniuersall to take that waye althoughe they had not yet begonne it Wherfore if it would lyke his grace to take the Crowne vppon hym they woulde humbly beséeche him therevnto If he woulde giue them a resolute aunswere to
fast vpon the part of King Henrie while that parte was in wealth and naythelesse lefte it not nor forsooke it in woe but fledde the Realme with the Quéene and the Prince whyle King Edwarde hadde the King in prison neuer came home but to the fielde After whiche loste and that parte vtterly subdued the â—other for his fast fayth and wisedome not onelye was contente to receiue him but also woed him to come and hadde him from thenceforth both in secreate trust and very speciall fauour whiche he nothing deceiued For he being as ye haue hearde after King Edwards death firste taken by the tyrante for hys truth to the King founde the meane to set this Duke in his toppe ioyned Gentlemen togither in aide of king Henry deuising first the marriage betwéene him and King Edwardes daughter by which his faith he declared the good seruice to both his masters at once with infinit benefite to the realm by y e coniunction of those two blouds in one whose seueral titles had long enquieted the land he fled the realme went to Rome neuer minding more to meddle wite the worlde till the noble Prince King Henry the seauenth gate hym home agayne made hym Archebyshoppe of Canterbury and Chauncelor of Englande wherevnto the Pope ioined the honor of Cardinal Thus lyuing many dayes in as muche honor as one man mighte well wishe ended them so godly that his death with Gods mercie well changed his life This man therefore as I was aboute to tell you by the long and often alternate proofe as well of prosperitie as aduers fortune hadde gotten by greate experience the verye mother and mistresse of Wisedome a déepe insighte in pollitique worldly driftes Whereby perceyuing nowe thys Duke glad to commune with him fed him with faire wordes and many pleasaunt prayses And perceyuing by the processe of their communication the Dukes pride now and then balke oute a little bredde of enuie towarde the glorye of the King and thereby féeling him easie to fall oute if the matter were well handled he craftely sought the wayes to pricke him forwarde taking alwayes the occasion of hys commyng so kéeping himselfe so close within his bounds that he rather séemed to follow him then to leade him For when the Duke firste beganne to praise and boast the king and shewe howe muche profite the Realme shoulde take by his raigne my Lorde Morton answered Surely my Lord â—ollie it were for me to lye for if I would sweare the contrarie your Lordship would not I wéene beléeue but that if y â— world would haue gone as I wold haue wished K. Henries son had had the Crown not King Ed. But after that God hadde ordered him to loose it and King Edwarde to raigne I was neuer so madde that I woulde with a deade manne striue against the quicke So was I to King Edward a faithfull Chaplaine and glad woulde haue bin that his chylde hadde succéeded him Howbeit if the secrete iudgemente of God haue otherwise prouided I purpose not to spurre against a pricke nor laboure to sette vppe that God pulleth downe And as for the late Protector and now King And euen there he left saying y â— he had already meddled to muche wyth the world and would from that day meddle with hys Booke and his beades and no further Then longed the D. sore to heare what he woulde haue sayde bycause he ended with the King and there so sodainely stopped and exhorted him so familiarly betwéene them twayne to be bolde to say whatsoeuer he thoughte whereof he faythfullye promised there shoulde neuer come hurte and peraduenture more good than he woulde wéene and that himselfe intended to vse his faithfull secrete aduise and counsell whiche hée sayde was the only cause for which he procured of the King to haue hym in his custodie where he might recken himself at home and else had he bin putte in the handes of them with whome hée shoulde not haue founde the like fauour The Bishoppe righte humblye thanked hym and sayde in good faith my Lord I loue not to talke much of Princes as a thing not all out of perill thoughe the worde be wythout faulte for as muche as it shall not be taken as the partie meane it but as it pleaseth the Prince to consâ—rue it And euer I thinke on Esops tale that when the Lion hadde proclaymed that on payne of death there should none horned beast abide in that wood one that had in his forhead a bunch of flesh â—led away a great pace The Foxe that saw him run so fast asked him whether he made all that haste And hée aunswered In fayth I neuer wote nor recke so I wer once hence bicause of thys proclamation made of horned beasts What foole quoth the Foxe thou mayst abyde wel ynough the Lion meant not by thée for it is none horne that is in thine heade No marry quoth hée that wote I wel ynough But what and he call it an horne where am I then The Duke laughed merily at the tale and said My L. I warraÌ„t you neyther the LioÌ„ nor the Bore shall pike any matter at any thing here spoken for it shal neuer come to their eares In good faith Sir sayde the Bishop if it did the thing that I was about to say taken as well as afore God I meant it coulde deserue but thankes And yet taken as I wéene it woulde might happen to turne me to little good and you to lesser Then longed the Duke yet muche more to witte what it was wherevpon the Bishoppe saide in good faith my Lord as for the late Protector sith he is now King in possession I purpose not to dispute his title but for the weale of this Realme whereof his grace hath now the gouernaunce and wherof I am my selfe one poore member I was about to wishe that to those good abilities whereof he hath alredy righte many little néeding my prayse it might yet haue pleased God for the better store to haue giuen him some of such other excellente vertues méete for the rule of a realme as our Lord hath planted in the person of your grace and there left againe The Duke somewhat maruayling at hys sodayne This that follovveth is abridged out of Edvvard Hall pauses saide my Lorde I note your often breathing and sodayne stoppyng in your communication so that to my intelligence your wordes neyther come to anye perfecte sentence whereby eyther I mighte haue knowledge what your entente is nowe towarde the King or what affection you beare towarde me For the comparison of good qualities ascribed to vs both maketh me not a little to muse thinking y â— you haue some other priuie imagination imprinted in your hearte which you be abashed to disclose and especially to me which on my honor do assure you to be as secrete in this case as the deafe and dome The Byshop being somewhat bolder considering the Dukes promise but moste of all animated bycause he knewe
the Duke desirous to be magnified and also he perceyued the inwarde hatred whiche he bare towarde King Richard hée opened hys stomake to the botome and saide my singular good Lorde sith the tyme of my captiâ—itie whyche béeyng in your Graces custody I maye rather call it a libertie then a straight imprisonment in auâ—yding of ydlenesse mother of all vyces in reading Bookes and auncient Pamphlets I haue founde this sentence written that no manne is borne frée and at libertie of himselfe onely for one part of duty he oweth to his parents an other parte to his friends and kinsfolkes but the natiue countrey in the which he firste tasted this pleasaunte and flattering worlde demaundeth a debte not to be forgotten whyche saying causeth me to consider in what case this realme my natiue countrey nowe standeth and in what estate and assuraunce before this time it hathe coÌ„tinued what gouernor we now haue and what ruler we might haue for I plainely perceiue the Realme being in this case must néeds decay be brought to confusioÌ„ but one hope I haue that is wheÌ„ I consider youre noble personage your iustice and indifferencie your feruent zeale and ardent loue toward your naturall country in like maner the loue of your countrey toward you the great learning pregnant witte eloquence which so much doth abounde in your person I muste néedes thinke this realme fortunate whyche hathe such a Prince in store méete and apt to be gouernor But on the other side when I call to memorie the good qualities of the late Protector and nowe called King so violated by tyranny so altred by vsurped authoritie so clouded by blinde ambition I muste néedes say that he is neither méete to be King of so noble a realme nor so famous a realme méete to be gouerned by such a tyrant Was not his first enterprice to obtaine the Crowne begunne by the murther of dyuers noble personages Did he not secondarily procéed againste his owne naturall mother declaring hir openlye to be a woman giuen to carnall affection and dissoulute lyuing declaring furthermore hys two brethren and two nephewes to be Bastardes and to be borne in aduoâ—trey yet not contented after he had obtayned the Garlande hée caused the two pore innocents his nephewes committed to him to be shamefully murthered the bloude of whiche little babes dayly cry to God from the earth for vengeaunce what sure tie shall be in this realme to any person eyther for life or goodes vnder suche a cruell Prince whych regardeth not the destruction of his owne bloud then the lesse the losse of other but nowe to conclude what I meane toward your noble person I say affirme if you loue God your linage or your natiue couÌ„try you must your self take vpon you y â— Crown of this Realme both for y e maintenaÌ„ce of the honour of the same as also for the deliueraunce of your natural CountreymeÌ„ from the bondage of such a Tyrante And if your self wil refuse to take vpon you y e Crown of this Realme TheÌ„ I adiure you by the faith y â— you owe to God to deuise some way how this realme may be brought to some conuenient regiment vnder some good gouernour wheÌ„ the B had ended his saying the D. sighed spake not of a gret while so y â— night they coÌ„moned 〈…〉 ore The next daye the Duke sent for the B. vnto whom he sayd my L. of Ely I must néedes in hart thinke and with mouth confesse that you be a sure friende a trustie counsaylour and a verye louer of your Countrey And sith at our last communicatioÌ„ you haue disclosed the secrets of your hart touching y e new vsurper of the Crowne and also haue a little touched the â—â—auncement of the two noble families of Yorke and Lancaster I shal likewise declare vnto you my priuie entents and secrete cogitations and to beginne when King Edwarde was deceased I then beganne to studye and with deliberation to ponder in what maner this realme shoulde be gouerned I perswaded wyth my selfe to take part wyth the Duke of Glocester whom I thought to be as cleane without dissimulation as tractable without iniurie and so by my means he was made Protector both of the king and realm whiche auathoritie being once gotten he neuer ceased printly to require me other Lords as wel spirituall as temporall that he might take vppon hym the Crowne till the Prince came to the age of xxiiij yeares and were able to gouerne the realme as a sufficient king which thing when he saw me somewhat sticke at he then brought in instrumeÌ„ts autentike Doctors Proctors and notaries of the law with depositions of diuers witnesses testifying King Edwardes children to be bastards whiche depositions then I thought to be as true as nowe I knowe them to be fayned When the sayde depositions were before vs read and diligentlye hearde hée stoode vppe bare headed saying Well my Lordes euen as I and you would that my nephewes should haue no wrong so I praye you do me nothing but right for these witnesses and sayings of famous Doctours be true for I am onelye the vndubitate heyre to RICHARDE PLANTAGENET Duke of Yorke adiudged to be the verye heire to the Crowne of this realme by aucthoritie of Parliament Whyche thynges so by learned men for veritie to vs declared caused me and other to take him for our lawful vndoubted Prince and Soueraigne Lorde so agayne by my aide he of a Protector was made a King but when he was once crowned King and in full possession of the realme he caste awaye his olde conditions For when I my selfe sued to him for my parte of the Earle of Herefords landes which his brother Kyng Edward wrongfully detained from me and also requyred to haue the office of the highe Conestableship of Englande as diuers of my noble auncestours before this time haue hadde and in long descent continued in this my firste sute hée did not only first delay me and afterward deny me but gaue me suche vnkind wordes as though I had neuer furthered him al which I suffred pacieÌ„tly but wheÌ„ I was informed of the death of the two yong innocentes O Lord my heart inwardly grudged in so much that I abhorred y e sight of him I toke my leaue of the Court and returned to Brecknocke to you but in the iourney as I returned I had diuerse imaginatioÌ„s how to depriue this vnnatural vncle Frst I santiâ—ed y â— if I list to take vpon me the Crowne now was the way made playne and occasion giuen For I sawe he was dysdayned of the Lords temporall and accursed of the Lordes spiritual After diuerse cogitations of this matter As I rode betwéene Worcester and Bridgenorth I encountred with the Lady Margaret Countesse of Richmonde now wife to y e Lord Stanley which is the very daughter and sole heire to Iohn Duke of Somerset my grandfathers elder brother so that she and hir sonne the Garle
of Richmond be both betwéene me the gate to enter into the Maiestie royall and getting of the Crowne and when we had a little comoned concernyng her sonne and were departed I then beganne to dispute w t my selfe whether I were best to take vpon me by the election of the nobilitie and communaltie or to take it by power thus standing in y e wauering ambiguitie I considered first y â— offiâ—e dutie and pain of a King which surely I think that no mortall men can iustlye and truely obserue excepte hée â—ée elected by GOD as King Dauid was but further I remembred that if I once toke on me the gouernaunce of the Realme the daughters of King Edwarde and theyr Allies being bothe for hys sake muche helpned and also for the greate iniurye done to them muche pytied woulde neuer cease to barke at the one syde of mée Senâ—bâ—abye my coosin the Earle of Richemonde hys aydes and kinsfolke wyll surelye attempte eyther to â—yte or to pierse mée on the other syde so that my life and rule shoulde euer hang vnquiet in â—pubte of deathe or deposition And if the sayde two lyâ—ages of Yorke and Lancaster shoulde ioyne in one againste mée then were I surelye matched Wherefore I haue cléerelye determyned vtterlye to relinquishe all imaginations concerning the obtayning of the Crowne For as I told you the Countesse of Richmond in my returne from the newe named King méeting me in the high waye prayed me first for kinred sake secondly for the loue I bare to my grandfather Duke Humfrey whiche was sworne brother to hir father to moue the King to be good to hir son Hencie Earle of Richmonde and to license him with his fauour to returne againe into England and if it were his pleasure so to doe she promised that the Earle hir sonne shoulde marrie one of king Edwards daughters at the appointment of the King without anye thing demaunded for the sayde espousalles but only the Kings fauoure whiche request I sâ—â—ne ouer passed and departed but after seruice I called to memorie more of that matter I am bente that the Earle of Richmonde heire of the house of Lancaster shal take to wife Lady Elizabeth eldest daughter to K. Edwarde by the which marriage both the houses of Yorke and Lancaster maye be vnite in one when the Duke had sayde the Bishop Morton whiche fauoured euer the house of Lancaster â—â—s wondeâ—ous ioyfull for all his imagination tended to this effecte and least the Dukes courage shoulde swage oâ— his minde alter he sayde to the Duke my Lord of Buckingham sithe by Godâ— prouision and your incoÌ„parable wisedome thys noble coniunction is first moued it is necessarie to consider what persons we shall firste make priâ—â—e of this polliticke conclusion by my troth quoth the Duke we will beginne wyth my Ladye of Richmonde the Earles mother whyche knoweth where he is in Brytaine sith you will begin that waye sayde the Byshoppe I haue an olde friende wyth the Countesse called Reignalde Bray for whom I shall send if it be iyocâ—â— pleasure so the Byshoppe wrode for him to come to Breckeâ—â—â—ke who streight came backe with the messenger where the Dirke and Bishoppe declared what they hadde deuised for the prefermente of the Earle of Richmonde sonne to hys Ladye land Maistresse willyng hyr firste to compasse howe to obtayne the good wyll of Quéene Elizabeth and also of hir eldest daughter and after secretly to send to hir sonne into Britaine to declare what highe honour was prepared for him if he would sweare to marrye the Lady Elizabeth as soone as he was King of the Realme Reynold Bray with a glad heart returned to the Countesse his Ladie When Bray was gone the Byshoppe tolde the Duke that if he were in his Isle of Elie he could make many friendes to further their enterprise The Duke knewe this to be true but yet lothe to lose the companie of such a counseller gaue the Byshoppe fayre wordes saying he shoulde shortly departe well accompanied for feare of enemies but the Bishop or the Dukes company were assembled secretly disguised in a night departed and came to Elie where he founde money and friendes and so sayled into Flaunders where he did the Earle of Richmond good seruice when Reynold Bray had declared his message to the Countesse no maruaile if she were glad wherefore she deuised a meanes hold to breake this matter to Quéene Elazabeth then being in Sanctuarie at Westminster And hauing in hir family a certayne Welâ—hman called Lewes learned in Phisicke nowe hauing opportunitie to breake hir minde vnto him declared that the time was come that hir sonne should bée ioyned in marriage with Ladye Elizabeth daughter and heyre to King Edward and that King Richard shoulde out of all honour and estate be detected and required him to goe to Quéene Elizabeth not as a messenger but as one that came friendly to visite hir and as tyme and place should serue to make hir priuie of this deuise This Phisition with good diligence repayred to the Quéene and when he saw tyme conuenient he said vnto hir Madame although my imagination be verye simple yet for the entire affection I beare to you and to your children I am so bolde to vtter vnto you a secrete conceit that I haue compassed in my brayne When I remember the great losse that you haue sustayned by the death of your louing husband and the great sorow that you haue suffered by the cruell murther of your innocent chyldren I can no lesse doe than daylye studie howe to bring your heart to comforte and also to reuenge the quarrell of you and your children on that cruell tyraunt King Richard And first consider what battayle and what mischiefe hath risen by the disâ—ention betwéene the two houses of Yorke and Lancaster which two families if they may be ioyned in one I doubt not but y â— your line shall be againe restored to your great ioye and comforte You knowe Madame that of the house of Lancaster the Earle of Richmond is nexte of bloud and to the house of Yorke your daughters nowe are heyres If ye coulde inuent the meane howe to couple your eldest daughter with the Earle of Richemond in Matrimonie no doubt but the vsurper should bée shortly deposed and your heire agayne to hir ryght restored When the Quéene had heard thys friendly motion shée instantly besought hym that as he had béene the first inuenter of so good an enterprise that now he would not desist to folow the same requrring him further that he would resorte to the Countesie of Richemond mother to the Earle Henrie and to declare to hir on the Quéenee behalfe that all the friendes of King Edwarde hir husband should assist and take part with the Erle of Richemond hir sonne so that he woulde take an othe that after the Kingdome obteyned to espouse the Lady Elizabeth hir daughter c. After Lewes so spedde his businesse that he made a finalâ—enâ— of this
lefte on hys ryght hande and so doyng he hadde the Sunne at hys backe and in the face of hys enemyes When the King sawe the Earles companye was passed the marrishe he commaunded wyth all haste to set vpon them the terrible shotte on both sides passed the armyes ioyned and came to hande strokes at whiche incounter the Lorde Stanley ioyned with the Earle The Earle of Oxforde in the meane season fearing least while his company was fighting they should be compassed of the enemies gaue commaundement that no man should go aboue x. foote froÌ„ the Standard which commaundement once knowne they kniâ— themselues together ceased a litle froÌ„ fighting the enemies sodainely abashed at the matter mistrusting some fraude began also to pause The Earle of Oxford bringing all his band together on the one part set on his enemies freshly againe the aduersaryes perceyuing that placed their men slender and thinne before and thicke and broade behynde begynnyng agayne the battayle Whyle the two fore wardes thus mortally foughte Kyng Richarde was admonished that the Earle of Richmond accompanyed wyth a small number of men of armes was not farre of and as he approched to hym he perfectly knewe hys personage and béeyng inflamed with yre he put hys spurres to hys horse and rode out of the side of the range of his battayle leauyng the vauntgardes fighting and wyth â—earein wrest ranne towarde him The Earle perceyued well the King furiouâ—lye comming towarde him and bycause the whole hope of his wealth and purpose was to bée determined by battayle â—e gladlye prâ—fereâ—â—â— encounter with him body to body and man to man King Richarde set on so sharply at the first brunt that he ouerthrew the Earles standard and slew sir William Brandon his staÌ„derdbearer and matched hand to hande with sir Iohn Cheny a man of great force and strength which would haue reâ—â—sâ—ed him and the saide Iohn was by him man fully ouerthrowne and so he making open passage by dint of sworde as he went forwarde the Earle of Richmonde withstoode hys violence and kept him at the swords point longer than his companions thought which being almost in dispaire of victorie were sodainelye recomforted by sir William Stanley whiche came to succour with 3000. tall men at which very instaunt King Richards men were driuen backe and fled and he himselfe manfully fighting in the middle of his enimies was flaine In the meane season the Earle of Oxforde with the ayde of the Lorde Stanley after no long fight discoÌ„â—ited the fore ward of King Richarde wherof a greate number were slaine in the chase but the greatest number y t came to the fielde neuer gaue stroke In this battaile died fewe aboue the number of a M. persons and of the Nobilitie were flaine Iohn Duke of Norffolke Walter Lord Ferrers of Chartley sir Richarde Ratclife and Robert Brakenburie liuetenaÌ„t of the Tower and not many Gentlemen moe sir William Catesby learned in the lawes of the Realme and one of the thiefe Counsellours to the late King with diuerse other were two dayes after beheaded at Leicester Amongst them that ranne awaye were Syr Frauncis Vicount Louel and Humfry Stafforde with Thomas Stafford his brother which toke Sanctuarie in Saint Iohns at Glocester On the Erle of Richmonds part wer slayn scarce 100. persons amongst whoÌ„ the principal was sir William Brandon his standardbearer This battel was fought at Bosworth in Lecestershire the 22. of August in the yeare of our Lord. 1485. the whole conflict â—â—udured little aboue two hours When the Earle had thus obtained the victorie he rendered thankes to God and after in his souldiours for their â—â—â—litie then the people cryed King Henry King Henry When the Lord Stanley saâ—â— the good will of the people he tooke the Crowne of Kyng Richarde whiche was founde amongest the spoile in the fielde and sette it on the Earles head as thoughe hée had béene elected Kyng by the voyce of the people After this the whole campe remoued to the Towne of Leicester where he rested two dayes In the meane season the dead corps of King Richarde was as shamefully carryed to the towne of Leicester as he gorgeouslye the daye before with pompe departed out of the same towne for his bodyâ— was naked to the skinne not so muche as one clowte aboute hym and was trussed behinde a Pursiuant of armes like a hogge or calfe the head and armes hanging on the one side of the horsse and the legs on the other side and all sprinckled with myre and bloud was brought to the Gray Friers Church within the town and there homely buried when he had raigned two yeres two moneths and one daye ¶ Henrie Erle of Richmonde HEnry the seauenth borne in Anno reg 1. Penbrooke Castell began his raigne the xxij of Auguste in the yeare of oure Lorde God 1485. He was a Prince of maruellous wisedom policie iustice temperaunce and grauitie and notwithstandyng manye and greate occasions of trouble and warre he kept his realme in right good order for the which he was greately reuerenced of forraine Princes On the forenamed xxij of August was a greate fyre Parson of Saint Mildreds brenâ— in Bred-streete of London in the whiche fire was brente the Parson of Saint Mildreds and one other man in the Parsonage there King Henry before his departure from Leicester sente sir Robert Willoughbey knight to the Manour of Sherenton in Yorke for Edwarde Plantagenet Earle of Warwike sonne and heire to George Duke of Clarence then being of the age of fifteene yeares and sente him vppe to the Tower of London where he was put vnder sure custody In the meane season the Kyng remoued towards London and when he had approched the Citie on the 27. of August the Maior magistrates and companies all clothed in violet met him at Shoredich and with great pompe conueyed him through the Citie to Saint Paules Church where hée offered his thrée standards one of Saint George the seconde a red Dragon the thirde a dun Coweâ—after his prayers saide and Te Deum sung he departed to the Bishoppes Pallaice where he soiourned a season The Sweating beganne the one and twentith of September and continued till the ende of October of y e which sicknesse a wonderfull number dyed and in London besids other dyed Thomas Maior in whose place was chosen William Stocker who likewise deceased about seauen dayes after in which space departed other foure Aldermen Thomas Ilam Richard Ramson Thomas Norland and Iohn Stocker and then was chosen Maior Iohn Warde who continued til the feast of Simon and Iude. Iohn Tate Iohn Swan the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Sir Hugh Brice Goldsmith the 28. of October On the euen of Sainte Simon and Iude king Henrie came from Kenington his house vnto Lambeth and there dyned w t Thomas Bourcher Archbishoppe of Canterburie Cardinal of Saint Ciria in Thermis And after dinner with a goodlye company of the estates of this Realme both spirituall
at sixe pence the bushell Anno reg 10 Bay Salte for thrée pence halfe peny the Bushell Naâ—â—wiche Salte was solde for syxe pence the Bushell white hearring nine shillings the barrel red hearring at thrée shillings the cade red sprots sixe pence the cade and Gascoine wine for sixe poundes the tunne Nicholas Alwine Iohn Warner the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Richarde Chawry Salter the 28. of October Sir Robert Clifford bearing fauor to the house of Yorke had long since sayled ouer to the Lady Margaret Dutchesse of Burgoigne by whome he was there persuaded and broughte in beliefe that one Perken Werbecke a Fleming born was the verye sonne of King Edwarde the fourth but afterwarde béeyng sente for by King Henry and pardon promised him he returned into Englande and comming to the Kings presence in the Tower of London hée on hys knées moste humblye crâ—â—ed pardon which shortely he obtained and after accused manye amongest whome he accused sir William Stanley whome the Kyng hadde made his chiefe Chamberlaine and one of hys priuie Counsaile The reporte is that this was hys offence When communication was had betwéene him and Sir Robert Clifforde as concerning Perken Werbecke sir William Stanley affirmed there y â— he would neuer fight nor beare armor agaynst the yong man if he knowe of a trueth that he was the vndoubted sonne of King Edward the fourth For this offence sir William Stanly was apprehended araigned and on the xvj day of February beheaded on the Tower hill This sir William Stanley was the chiefest helper of King Henrye to the Crowne at Bosworth fielde againste King Richard the thirde He was a man of greate power in his Country and also of great wealth insomuch as the coÌ„mon fame ran that there was in hys Castell of Holâ—e founde in readye coyne plate and Jewels to the value of fortie thousand markes or more and his lande and fées extended to thrée thousand poundes by yeare In Lent white hearring being good were sold for iij. â— 1495 iiij â— the barrell at London Sir W Capel AldermaÌ„ of London was condemned to the king in xxvij C. and xliij pound sterling Croniclâ— of Lond. for the breaking of certain statuts made before times for the which he made his end with the King for xvj C. and fiftéene pounde sixe shillings eight pence Pierce or Perken Werbecke which by the counsaile of Margaret Dutches of Burgoigne named himselfe Richarde of Yorke King Edwards seconde sonne arriued at Deale in KeÌ„t the thirde daye of July where when he and his companye sawe they coulde haue no comforte of the Countrey they withdrewe to their shippes againe at which so withdrawyng the Mayor of Sandwich with certaine commons of the countrey bickered with the residue that were vpon land toke aliue of them an hundred thrée score and nine persons among the which were fiue captaines Mountford Corbert Anno reg 11 Whitbelt Quintine and Gemâ—â—e And the xij of July Iohn Peche Esquier Shriue of Kent brought vnto London bridge thosâ— 169. prisoners where the Shriues of London receiued them and conueyed them in cartes and long ropes vnto the Tower of London and to Newgate who were shortly after to the number of 150. hanged in Kent Essex Sussex and Norfolk the residue were executed at Tiburne Wapping in the Wose besides London Thomas Kneisworth Henry Sommer the. 28. of Septemb. Sherifes Maior Sir Henry Colet Mercer the. 28. of October The. xvj of Nouember was holden the Serieants feast at the Bishops place of Ely in Holborne where dined the King Quéene and all the chiefe lordes of England The new Serieants names were maister Mordant Higham Kingsmill Conisby Butler Yakesley Frowicke Oxenbridge and Constable In digging for to lay a new foundation in the Church of S. Mary hill in London the body of Alice Hackeney which had bene buried in the Church the space of 175. yeares was â—â—â—ud whole of skinne and the iointes of her armes pliable whiche corps was kepte aboue grounde foure dayes without anoyance and then buryed againe In Aprill was concluded an amitie and entrecourse betwéene this lande and the Countrey of Flaunders c. In September the Scots entred England by the setting on of Perkin Werbecke and did much harme to the borders but when they hearde of the Lorde Neuels commyng against them they sped them away Iohn Shawe Richard Haddon the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Iohn Tate Mercer the 28. of October This Iohn Tate newly builded and enlarged Sainte Anthonies Churche in London a goodly foundation with a Fréesâ—hoole and certaine almes houses for poore men Iasper Duke of Bedforde vncle to King Henry the seauenth dyed the eightéenth daye of December and was buried at Kensham By meanes of a payment that was granted to the king 1497 a new commotion was made by the commons of Cornewal whiche vnder the leading of Iames Tuchet of Audley Lorde Audley with Michaell Ioseph a horse farrer or Blacksmith of Bodman and other came to Blackeheath where the Kyng met with them and discomfited the rebels and tooke their Captains the two and twentith of June where were slain of the rebels about 300. and taken aboute 1500. the Kyng gaue to them that tooke them their goodes The Lord Audley was beheaded on the Tower hill the xxviij of June The blacke Smith and Flamoke a lawyer were hanged headed and quartered at Tiburne In July the King sente an army into Scotland vnder the guyding of the Earle of Surrey and the Lorde Neuell which made sharpe warre vppon the Scots At Bartholmewtide in Bedfordshire at the Towne of Haile stones hightene ynches aboute Saint Needes fell haile stones that were measured eightéene ynches aboute Perkin or Pierce Werbecke landed at Whitsondbay in Anno reg 13 Cornewall the seauenth of September hauing in his company not paste a hundred and twentie persons hée wente to Bodman where beyng accompanyed wyth a thrée or foure thousand rascalles and almoste naked men he proclaymed himselfe King Richarde the fourth second sonne to Edward the fourth from thence he wente to Excester and besieged it which Citie was valiantly defended by the inhabitants the Earle of Deuonshire being their Generall who hymself was hurt in the arme with an arrow of the rebels but many of the rebelles béeyng slaine they wythdrewe them to Taunton but sir Giles Dawbeney Lorde Chamberlaine approching with an armye the people fledde and Perkin got him to Beudley where he tooke Sanctuary but vppon couenauntes offered he came to the King and was pardoned his life Bartholomewe Rede Thomas Windought 28. of Sep. Sherifes Maior William Purchas Mercer the 28. of October The eight and twentith of Nouember Perkin Werbeck Perkin VVerbecke broughte vp to London was conueyed vppon horse backe through Cheape and Cornhill vnto the Tower of London and from thence back againe through Candleweeke streate to Westminster with many a cursse and muche wondering The one and twentith
Waltam-stow to Locke bridge towards London The vij of August a peace was proclaymed betwixt the Mary sister to King Henry married to the French King Kingdomes of England and of France And on the ninth day â—â— October King Lewes of France marryed the Lady Mary sister to King Henry the eyght in y e great Church of Abvile Richard Hunne hauged in Lovv lards Tovver Richard Hunne a Merchant Taylor of London dwelling â—â— the Parish of Saint Margaret in Bridgestreate who for deâ—â—ing to giue a mortuarie such as was demaunded by the Parson for his childe being buryed had bin put in the Lowâ—â—ds Tower about the ende of October last before passed was â—â—we the fift of December found hanged with his owne â—irâ—le of silke in the sayd Tower and after he was burned â—â— Smithfield This yeare dyed at Rome the Archbishop of Yorke Cardinall called Doctor Banbredge which was the Kings Embassador there And King Henry gaue the said Archbishopâ—â—ke to Thomas Wolsey then Bishoppe of Lincolne who â—â—rtly after gate to be Cardinall and Lord Chancellour On Newyeares euen dyed the French King Lewes the 1515 twelfth and the ninth of Aprill a new peace was concluded betwéene the King of England and Francis the new King of Anno reg 7. France In the moneth of May Charles Duke of Suffolke wedded Duke of Suffolke married he Kings sister the Lady Mary the Kings sister late Quéene of Fraunce And héere I thinke good to set downe some part of the procéedings of this so oft named Thomas Wolsey Archbishop his ascending vnto honorious estate and sodeiue falling againe from the same as I haue bin enformed by persons of good credite This Thomas Wolsey was a poore mans sonne of Ipswich The ascending of Thomas VVolsey 1516 in the Countie of Suffolke and there borne and being but a child very apt to be learned by the meanes of his parents he was conuayde to the Uniuersitie of Oxford where he shortly prospered so in learning as he was made Batcheler Anno reg 8. Batcheler of Art xv yeares old of Art when he passed not fiftéene yeares of age and was called most commonly through the Uniuersitie the boy Batcheler Thus prospering in learning he was made fellow of Maudelin Colledge and afterward appoynted to be Schoolemayster of Maudelin Schoole at which time the Lorde Marques Dorcet hadde thrée of his sonnes there aâ— Schoole committing vnto him as well their education aâ— Schoolemayster to the Marques Dorcets Children their instruction It pleased the sayde Lorde Marquesse a gainst a Christmas season to send as well for the Schoolemayster as for his children home to his house for their reâ— creation in that pleasant and honourable feast Then béeing there the Lorde their father perceyuing them to 〈…〉 right well employed in learning for their time he hauing a Benefice in his gift being at that time voyde gaue thâ— same to the Schoolemaister in reward of his diligence at his Thomas VVolsey gate a Benefice departure after Christmas to the Uniuersitie and hauing the presentation thereof repaired to the Ordinarie for hyâ— induction and being furnished of his instruments madâ— spéede to the Benefice to take possession and being there foâ— that intent one Sir Iames Paulet Knight dwelling there about tooke occasion against him and set the Schoolemayster Thomas VVolsey set in the stockes by Sir Iames Paulet by the héeles during his pleasure which after was neyther forgotten nor forgiuen for when the Schoolemayster mounted the dignitie to be Chancellour of England he sente for Mayster Paulet and after many sharp words enioyned him to attend vntill he were dismissed and not to depart out of London without licence obteyned so that he continued therewith VVolseys imprisonment reuenged in the middle Temple the space of fiue or sixe yeares who lay then in the Gate house next the stréete which hée reedifyed very sumptuously garnishing the same all ouer Gatehouse of the middle Temple nevv builded the outside with the Cardinals Armes with his hatte cognisances and other deuises in so glorious a sorte that he thought thereby to haue appeased his olde displeasure Now after the deceasse of the Lorde Marquesse thys Schoolemayster considering with himselfe to be but a simple beneficed man and to haue lost his fellowship in the Colledge which was much to his reliefe thought not long to be vnprogided of some other help and in his trauell thereabout he fell in acquayntance with one Sir Iohn Naphant Sir Iohn Naphant Treasurer of Caleis Thomas VVolsey his Chaplayne a very graue and auntient Knight who had a great â—â—me in Caleis vnder King Henry the seauenth this Knight hée serued and behaued hymselfe so discretely that he obteyned the especiall fauour of his Mayster in so muche that he committed all the charge of hys office vnto hys Chaplayne and as I vnderstand the office was the Treasureship of Caleis who was in consideration of hys greate age discharged of hys roome and returned agayne into Englande and through hys instant labour hys Chaplayne Thomas VVolsey vvas Chapleyne to Henry the vij was promoted to bée the Kyngs Chaplayne and when hée had once cast Ancker in the porte of promotion how he wrought I shall somewhat declare He hauing there a â—ust occasion to be in the sight of the King dayly by reason hée sayde Masse before hym in hys Closet and that béeâ—ng done he speÌ„t not the day in ydlenesse but would attend vpon those whome he thought to beare most rule in the Counsell the which at that tyme was Doctor Fox Bishop of Winchester Secretarie and Lord of the priuie seale also Sir Thomas Louell Knight a sage Counsellor Mayster of the Wardes and Connestable of the Tower these graue Counsellors in proces of time perceyued this Chapleyne to haue a very fine witte and thought him a méete person to be preferred to wittie affaires It chanced at a certayne season that the King had an vrgent occasion to send an Embassador vnto the Emperour Maximilian who lay at that present in the low Countrey of Flanders not farre from Caleis The Bishop of Winchester and Sir Thomas Louell whome the King counselled and debated with vppon this Embassage saw they had a conuenient occasion to preferre the Kings Chapleyne whose witte eloquence and learning they highly commended to the King the King commanded them to bring his Chapleyne before his presence with whome he fell in communication of great matters and perceyuing his witte to be very fyne thoughte hym sufficiente commaunding hym therevpon to prepare hymselfe to hys iourney and hauing hys depeach tooke hys leaue of the King at Richmond about noone and so came to London about four of the Clocke where the Barge of Graues ende was ready to launch forth both with a prosperous Thomas VVolsey Embassadour to the Emperour tyde and winde without any abode he entred the Barge and so passed foorth with suche spéede that hée arriued
and returned The Duke of Albany in Scotland began to enter this land Iohn Skelton with a great Armie but hearing that the Earle of Shrewsburie was comming he tooke a truce for sixe monethes Iohn Rudstone Iohn Champneis the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Sir Iohn Mundy Goldsmith the 28. of October Iohn Champneis was Secretarie of the Counter The Lord Rosse and Lord Dacres of the North burned the Towne of Kelsey in Scotland with fourscore Uillages and ouerthrew eyghtéene Towers of stone The Emperour Charles King Henry and Ferdinando Duke of Austrige the Pope the Citie of Venice and diuers other in Italy were confederate against the Frenchmen The Turkes beséeged the Isle of Rhodes and on Christmas The Turkes tooke the Rhodes day tooke it to the great shame and rebuke of all Christendome The twentith of Februarie the Lady Alice Hungerford Register of the grey friers Lady Hungerford hanged a Knightes wife for murthering hir husband was ledde from the Tower of London to Holburne and there put in a Cart with one of hir seruants and so caried to Tiburne and both hanged she was buryed in y e grey Friers Church at London The Earle of Surrey burned xxxvtj Uillages in Scotland dispoyled the Countrey from y e East marches to the West and ouerthrew diuers holdes Sir Henry Marney was created Baron Marney at Richmond The fiftenth of Aprill began a Parliament at the Blacke 1523 Friers in London and on the nine and twentith of Aprill the Cardinall with diuers Lords spirituall and temporal Parliament at the blackâ—friers anno reg 15. A great subsidy declared in the common house that for diuers causes the King required a Subsidie of 800000. pound to be reysed on goodes and Lands foure shillings of euery pound against the which demand many obiections wer made by the commons one was that the King had already by way of loane two shillings of the pound which was 400000. pound and now to demaund four shillings the pouud it should amount in the whole to 1200000. pound and the third part There vvas not then 10000. parishes in England as I haue prooued by search of Records of euery mans goodes whiche in coyne coulde not be had within the Realme c. Among other arguments for the King it was sayde that there were in England more than 40000. parishes and if euery parish should pay suche a summe as was there named it could be no great matter But it was by the Commons answered and proued that there was not in England thirtéene thousand parishes After long debating the Commons granted two shillings of the pound of euery mans goodes and lands that were worth twentie pound or might dispend twentie pound by yeare and so vpward and from fortie shillings to twentie pound twelue pence of the pound and vnder fortie shillings of euery head sixtéene yeares and vpward four pence to be paid in two yeares This Parliament the xxj of May was adiourned to Westminster among the blacke Monkes and ended in the Kings Palace at Westminster the fourtéenth of August at nine of the clocke in the night Christerne King of Denmarke and his Quéene arriuing The K. and Qu. of Denmarke arriued in England at the Downes besides Douer the xv of June came to London on the xxij of June and were lodged in the Bishop of Bathes place The fifth of July they returned agayne to Caleis The Duke of Suffolke with many other Lords Knights were sent into France with an army of 10000. men who passing y e water of Some without battayle tooke diuers townes and Castels destroying the Countrey before them Michaell English Nicholas Iennings the 28. of Septemb. Sherifes George Monex was chosen Maior but would not take Maior elected it vpon him wherefore he was condemned in a thousande Marke for a fine in discharge whereof he gaue vnto the Citie a water Mill by the Horse Downe in Southwarke to grind the corne for the Bridgehouse Sir Thomas Baldrie Mercer the 28. of October Maior This yeare the Kippiers of Rye and other places solde their fresh fish in Leaden hall Market at London In December at the Citie of Couentry Francis Philip Conspiracy aâ— Couentrie Schoole mayster to the Kings Henxmen Christopher Pickering Clearke of the Kings Larder and Anthony Manuile Gentleman intended to haue taken the Kings treasure of his Subsedie as the Collectors of the same came toward London therewith to haue reysed men and to haue taken the Castell of Killingworth and then to haue made battayle agaynste the King for the whiche they were drawn hanged and quartred at Tiburne the eleuenth of Februarie the other of their conspiracie were executed at Couentry The Earle of Surrey brent Iedworth in Scotlande and 1524 tooke diuers holdes The Duke of Albany beséeged the Castell of Warke and had in a readinesse a great Armie to inuade Anno reg 1â— England but when he heard the Earle of Surrey was comming he fledde into Scotland The fiue and twentith of May deceassed Sir Thomas Louell Knight of the Garter at Endfield and the same moneth deceassed Thomas Lord Howard Duke of Norffolke The souldiers of Guisnes tooke a great bootie at a faire in the Towne of Morguison and Sir Robert Iernegan wyth certayne dimilances of Caleis tooke diuers French prisoners The first of September Doctour Hanyball Mayster of A golden Rose sent froÌ„ Rome E. Hall the Rolles was receyued into London as Embassadour from Clement the seauenth Pope whiche brought with him a Rose of Gold for a token to the King which was presented to him at Windsore This Trée was forged of fine Golde and wrought with branches leaues and flowers resembling Roses set in a potte of Golde which potte had thrée féete of Aâ—tike fashion of measure halfe a pinte In the vppermost Rose was a faire Saphire leape pearced the bignesse of an Acorne The Trée was of height halfe an English yard and in breadth a foote Ralph Dodmer William Roche the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Sir William Bayly Draper the 28. of October It chanced in the yeare passed a grudge to breake out betwéene the French King and the Duke of Burbon in so much that the Duke for the safegard of his life fledde out of the French Kings Dominions whereof the Cardinall Wolsey hauing intelligence comprised in his head that if the King our soueraigne Lord could obteyne him to be his Generall in the warre against the French King and considering further that the Duke of Burbon was fledde vnto the Emperour to inuite him to a like purpose wherefore he hauing this imagination in his head thought it good to moue A policie of Cardinall VVolsey that in the end turned against himselfe the King in the matter and after the King was once aduertised héereof and conceyuing the Cardinals inuention at last it came to a consultation among the Counsell so that it was concluded that an Embassade
might haue oppressed and how by hys pitie he had reléeued them wherefore he would héere after that for kindnesse they shoulde shewe hym none vnkindnesse but inuiolably kéepe that league which was coÌ„cluded In the moneth of May was proclamation made against Proclamation against vnlavvfull gâ—â—es all vnlawfull games and commissions awarded into euerie Shire for the execution of the same so that in all places Tables Dice Cardes and Bowles were taken and brent but when yong men were restreyned of these games and pastimes some fell to drincking some to ferretting of other mens Conyes and stealing of Deare in Parkes and other vnthristinesse The sixth of September was proclamation for Golde Gold ennaunced the French Crowne foure shillings sixe pence the Angelet seauen shillings and sixe pence the Riall xj sÌ„ iij. d. c. Stephen Peacocke Nicholas Lambart the 28. of Sept. Sherifes Maior Sir Thomas Semer Mercer the 28. of October In the monethes of Nouember December and Januarie Great raynes and land vvaters fell such rayne that thereof ensued great fluddes which destroyde Corne fields Pastures and Beastes then was it drie till the twelfth of April and from that time it rayned euery day and night till the third of June whereby Corne fayled sore in the yeare following After the deliuerie of the French King out of the Emperours 1527 bondage and his sonnes receyued in hostage for the Emperours and the King of Englands securitie of all Anno reg 19. such demaundes and requestes as should be demaunded of the French King The Cardinall Wolsey lamenting the French Kings calamitie and the Popes great aduersitie who yet remayned in the Castell Angell trauelled all that he could with the King and his Counsell to take some order for the quietnesse of them both At last it was thought good that the sayde Cardinall shoulde take vppon him the Kings commission to trauell beyond the Seas in this matter Cardinall sent Embassador into France and by his witte to compasse a perfect peace among those potentates wherevpon he was commanded to prepare himselfe to this iourney which he tooke vpon him He had with hym the Earle of Darby the Bishop of London Lord priuie seale Sir Henry Gilfort Knight of the Garter comptroller of the Kings house the Lord Sands Knight of the Garter Lord Chamberlayne of the Kings house Doctor Taylor Mayster of the Rolles Sir Thomas Moore Knight Chancellour of the Duchy of Lancaster the Bishop of Deuelin the Lord Mountegle the Lord Harrenden Sir Iohn Dudley Knight Mayster Ratclife Maister Willowby Mayster Parker Mayster Sturton Uicounts and Baroâ—â— sonnes and heires Sir Francis Brian Sir Edward Semer Sir Robert Gernigam Doctor Stephen Gardener Secretarie Doctor Peter Vannes Secretarie Of the priuie Chamber Maister Hennege Maister Arundell Maister Kneuet Maister Alford Phisitions Doctor Frances Doctor Smith Gentlemen Ushers of the priuie Chamber Maister Walgraue Maister Elles Sir Thomas Denis high Chamberlen Maister Sentâ—lere Uizchamberlaine Gentlemen Ushers M. Wentworth M. Hansard M. Pemercy M. Constable M. Werren Of houshold M Cade Steward sir Wil. Gascoigne Treasurer M. Gostike Comptroller M. Broughton Mayster of the Horsse Doctor Allen Doctor Benet Doctor Duke Deane of the Chapell Doctor CapoÌ„ Almoner y â— Archdeaâ—â— of Canterbury the Archedeacon of Carleile sir Iohn Sent-Iohn sir Richard Sands Knights c. in al to y e number of 900. horses Then marched he forwarde from hys owne house at The pompous ryding of the Cardâ—â—aâ— Westminster throughe London ouer London bridge hauing before hym all the Gentlemen thrée in a rancke in Ueluet Coates and the moste of them greate chaines of Golde aboute their neckes and all hys Yeomen followed hym with Noblemens and Gentlemens seruants al in Orenge tawney coates with the Cardinalles Hat and a T. â— for Thomas Cardinall embrodered vpon all the Coates aswell of hys owne seruants as of al the reste of Gentlemens seruantes and hys Sumpter Mules whyche were twentie or more with all his cariage of Cartes and other of hys traine were passed before He rode like a Cardinall verye sumptuouslye on hys Mule wyth his spare Mule and spare horse trapped in Crimosin Ueluet vpon veluet and stirrops guilt folowing him And before hym he had his twoo great Crosses of siluer his two great Pillers of siluer the Kings broade Seale of Englande and hys Cardinals Hat and a Gentlemanne carying hys Ualence otherwise called his Cloake bagge whyche was made of fine Scarlet altogyther embrodered very richly with Golde hauing in it a cloake Thus passed he forth throughe London and all the waye euerye daye in his iourney he was thus furnished hauing hys Harbengers in euerye place before whych prepared lodging for hys traine The first iourney that he made was twoo myles beyond Dertford in Kent vnto sir Thomas Wiltshires house and the reste of hys traine were lodged in Dertford and in the countrey there-aboutes The nexte daye he marched to Rochesâ—â—â— where he was lodged in the Byshoppes Pallaice and the rest of his traine in the Citie in Strowde The third day he rode to Feuersham and there was lodged in the Abbey his traine in the towne there and some in the Countrey there-aboutes The fourth daye he rode to Caunterburie where he encountred wyth the worshipfull of the town and Country and lodged in the Priorie of Christchurch and all hys traine in the Citie where he continued thrée dayes in whiche season there was a greate fayre in the Towne by reason it was the feast of Thomas of Canterburie At whych daye there was a solempne Procession wherein the Cardinal then went apparelled in hys Legantine Ornamentes with hys Hat on his heade who commaunded the Monks and the Quéere to sing the Letany after this sorte Sancta Maria or a pro Papa nostra Clemente the Cardinall knéeling at a Stoole before the Quéere dore all the while the Monks and their Quéere stoode in the body of the church singing the Letany The eleauenth of July the Cardinall arriued at Calleis who was receiued with all the Officers and Counsell of the Towne the Maior of the Towne and the Maior of the Staple in Procession and in the Lauterne Gate he knéeled and made his prayers that done they passed on before vntill he came to Saint Maries Churche from whence he repayred with a greate number of Noblemen and Gentlemen béeing Péeres of the Towne vnto a place called the Checker where he was lodged and kepte his house as long as he abode in the Towne When all his traine and carriage was landed and euery thing prepared for his iourney he called all hys Noblemen Gentlemen beyng seruants vnto him into hys priuie Chamber where they being al assembled before hym he sayde I haue called you hither to the intent to declare vnto you that I consider the duetie you beare me and the good will that I semblably beare to you séeing your intendment to further the aucthoritie that I haue by Commission whiche your
Porter at the Gates to deliuer him y e keyes therof who would in no wise obey his coÌ„mandement although he were roughly threatned streightly coÌ„manded in y e Kings name to make deliuery of theÌ„ to one of the Earles seruants Sir quoth he seeing that ye do but intend to set one of your seruants in my place to kéepe the Gates I knowe no seruant that ye haue but I am as able as he to do it and kéepe the Gates to your purpose whatsoeuer it be and also the keyes were deliuered me by my Lord and Mayster wherefore I pray you to pardon me for whatsoeuer ye shall commaund me to do in the ministratioÌ„ of mine office I shall do it with good will with that quoth the Earle hold him a Booke coÌ„maunded him to lay his hand theron thou shalt â—weare quoth he that thou shalt well and truly kéepe the Gates to the Kings vse and to doe all such things as we shall commaund and that ye shal let passe neither in nor out at these Gates but such as ye be commaunded by vs and with this oth he receiued the keyes at the Earles hands Of all these doings knewe the Cardinall nothing for they stopped the steire 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 wherat the Cardinall maruelled would not beléeue him but coÌ„maunded a Gentleman to bring him the truth who going downe the staires saw the Earle of Northumberland and returned and said it was very he then quoth the Cardinall I am forâ— that we haue dined for I feare our Officers be not prouided of any store of good fishe to make him some honourable chéere let the Table stande quoth he with that he rose vp and going downe y â— staires he encountred the Earle coÌ„ming vp with all his tayle and as soone as the Cardinal espied y â— Earle he put off his â—ay said my Lord ye be most hartily welcome so embraced each other then the Cardinall tooke the Earle by the hand â—â—â— had him vp into the Chamber whome followed all the number of the Earles seâ—â—ants From thence he led him into his bedchamber and they being there al alone the Earle said vnto the Cardinall with a soft voice laying his hande vpoÌ„ his arme my Lord I arrest you of high Treason with which words y e Cardinal being maruellously astonied staÌ„ding both stil a good space at the last quoth the Cardinall what authority haue you to arrest me forsooth my L. quoth â— Earle I haue a coÌ„missioÌ„ so to do where is your coÌ„mission quoth he that I may sée it nay sir that you may not sayde the Earle well then quoth the Cardinall I will not obey your rest But as they were debating this matter betwéene them in the Chamber so busie was M. Walsh in arresting Doctor Augustine at the dore in y e pallace saying vnto him go in Traytor or I shal make thée At the last M. Walsh being entred the Cardinals Chamber began to plucke off his hoode and after knéeled down to the Cardinall vnto whom the Cardinal said come hither gentlemaÌ„ and let me speake with you Sir héere my Lord of Northumberland hath arrested me but by whose authoritie he sheweth not if ye be ioyned with him I pray you shew me Indéede my Lord quoth M. Walsh he sheweth you the truth well then quoth the Cardinall I pray you let me sée it Sir I beséech you quoth M. Walsh hold vs excused there is annexed to our coÌ„missioÌ„ certaine instructions which you may not sée well quoth y e Cardinall I trow ye are one of the Kings priuie Chamber your name is Walsh I am content to yéeld to you but not to my Lord of Northumberland without I sée his commission the worst in the Kings priuie Chamber is sufficieÌ„t to arrest the greatest péere of the Realme by the Kings commandement without any commission therefore put your commission and authoritie in execution spare not I will obey the Kings will I take God to Judge I neuer offended the Kyng in worde nor déede Then the Earle called into the Chamber diuers Gentlemen of his owne seruauntes and after they had taken the Cardinalles keyes from him they put him in custodie of the Earles Gentlemen then they went about the house to set all things in an order theÌ„ sent they Doctor Augustine away to London with as much spéede as they could who was boune vnto the Horsse like a Traytor but it was Sunday toward night ere the Cardinal was conuayd from Cawod lodged that night in the Abbey of Pomfret The next day he remoued towarde Daneaster and was there lodged at the blacke Friers The nexte day he was remoued to Shefilde Parke where the Earle of Shrewsburie with his Lady and a traine of GentlemeÌ„ and Gentlewomen receyued him with much honor then departed all the great number of Gentlemen that conducted him thether and the Cardinall being thus with y â— Earle of Shrewsburie coÌ„tinued there xviij dayes after vpoÌ„ whome the Earle appointed diuers Gentlemen to attend coÌ„tinually to sée that he should lacke nothing béeing serued in his owne Chamber as honourably as he had in his own house and once euery day the Earle would repaire vnto him commune with him After the Cardinall had thus remained with the Earle of Shrewsburie aboute a fortnight it came to passe at a certaine time as he sate at his dinner in his own chaÌ„ber hauing at his boords end a messe of Gentlemen and Chaplaines to kéepe him company toward y â— end of his dinner when he was come to eating hys fruites his colour was perceyued often to change whereby he was iudged not to be in good health where vpon one of The Cardinall â—ickneâ—â—â— his Gentlemen said Sir me séemes you are not well at ease to whome he answered with a loude voice forfooth no more I am for I am quoth he taken sodâ—inly with a thing about my stomacke that lyeth there along as colde as a whetstone which is no more but wind I pray you go to the Poâ—icarie and enquire of him â—â— he haue any thing that wil breake winde vpward Then went he to the Earle and shâ—wed him what estate the Cardinall was in and what he desired with that the Earle caused the Poticarie to be called before him and demanded of him if he had any thing that would breake wind vpward in a mans body he answered he had such geare Then quoth the Earle fetch me some theÌ„ y â— Apoticary fetched a white coÌ„fectioÌ„ in a fair paper shewed to y â— erle who coÌ„manded one to giue y e assay therof before him then y â— same to be brought to the Cardinall who receiued it vp al at once into his mouth but immediatly after surely he auoided much wind vpward â—o quoth he ye
waye at Sandingfielde mette by the Frenche King and many Nobles of France who rode al to Boloigne and were there lodged On the xxv of October King Henrie returned againe to Calleis accompanied with the Frenche King the King of Nauarre the Cardinall of Loraine and many other Dukes Byshoppes and great estates of Fraunce Gasâ—oine Brytaine and Normandie And the xxviij of October Kyng Henrie made the King of Nauarre Knight of the Garter and the nexte daye the Frenche King with the King of Nauarre and all the greate Lordes of Fraunce rode againe to Boloigne and King Henrie of Englande rode wyth them to Sandingfielde where he made to the Frenche King a costlye banquet and there the thrée Kings departed like louing brethren in great amitie the xiiij of NoueÌ„ber King Henrie landed at Douer Richard Reynold Nicholas Pinchon the 28. of September Sherifes Iohn Martin Butcher Sir Stephen Pecocke Haberdasher the 28. of October Maior Kyng Henrie kepte hys Christmasse at Greenewiche and after Christmasse sir Thomas Audeley Lord Kéeper of the great Seale was made Lord Chauncelor of England and then beganne a Parliament in the whiche it was enacted that no person shoulde appeale for anye cause oute of thys Realme to the Court of Rome and also that Quéene Katherine shoulde from thenceforth be no more called Quéene but Princesse Dowager of Prince Arthur The twelfth of Aprill being Easter euen the Ladye 1533 Anno reg 25 Anne Bolleine who hadde béene priuily marryed to Kyng Henrie wente to hir Closet openly as Quéene and was proclaymed Quéene of Englande The sixe and twentith of Aprill Arthure Plantagenet sonne illegitime of Kyng Edwarde the fourth was created Viscount Lisle at Bridewell The twelfth of May Pauier towne Clearke of London hung himselfe The Kings highnesse addressed his letters to the Maior and Communaltie of London signifying vnto them that his pleasure was to solempnize the Coronation of his most deare and welbeloued wife Quéene Anne at Westminster on Whitsonday next ensuing willing them to make preparation as well to fetche hir Grace from Greenewiche to the Tower by water as to sée the Citie garnished wyth Pageants in places accustomed for the honor of hir Grace when shée shoulde be conueyed from the Tower to Westminster Wherevppon a common Counsell was called and commaundement gyuen to the Haberdashers of whiche Craft the Maior was that they shoulde prepare a Barge for the Bachelers wyth a Wafter and a Foyste garnished wyth Banners lyke as they vse when the Maior is presented at Westminster on the morrowe after the feast of Saint Simon Iude. Also all other Craftes were commaunded to prepare Barges and to garnishe them not onely with their Banners accustomed but also to decke them with Targets by the sides of the Barges and to sette vppe all suche séemely Banners and Bannerets as they hadde in their halâ—es or coulde get to furnishe theyr sayde Barges and euery Barge to haue Minstrels according to whych commaundement greate preparation was made for all thyngs necessary for suche a noble triumph The nine and twentith daye of May béeing Thurseday the Maior and his brethren all in Scarlet and such as were knightes hadde collars of Esses and the residue hauyng greate Chaines and the Counsell of the Citie assembled with them at Saint Marie hill And at one of the clocke descended to the newe steire to their Barge whyche was garnished with manye goodly banners and streamers and richly couered in whiche Barge was Shalmes Shagebushes and dyuers other Instruments of Musicke whiche played continually After that the Maior and hys brethren were in their barge séeing that the companies to the number of fiftie barges were readye to waite vppon them they gaue commaundement to the companies that no barge should rowe nearer to another than twice the length of the barge and to sée the order kepte there were thrée Whirries prepared and in euerye one of them two officers to call on them to kéepe their order After whyche commaundement giuen they set forth in order as hereafter is described Firste before the Maiors Barge was a Foiste for a wafter full of Ordinaunce in whyche Foyste was a greate reddâ— Dragon continuallye â—â—â—â—ng and casting wilde fire and rounde aboute the sayde foiste stoode terrible monstrous and wild men casting fire and making hideous noise nexte after the foiste a good distaunce came the Maiors Barge on whose righte hande â—â—â— the Bachelers Barge in the whyche were Trum 〈…〉 and dyuers other melodious Instrumentes the 〈…〉 of the sayde Barge and saile yardes and the toppe â—â—â—â—elles were hanged wyth ryche cloth of Golde and 〈…〉 at the Fore-shippe and the Sterne were two greate banners ryche beaten wyth the armes of the King and the Quéene aud on the soppe castell also was a long streamer newly beaten with the saide armes the sides of the Barge was sette full of Flagges and Banners of the deuices of the companyes of Haberdashers and Merchaunt Aduenturers and the lasserers or cordes were hanged wyth innumerable Penselles hauing lyttle Belles at the endes whyche made a goodlye noyse and was a goodlye sighte wauering with the winde on the out side of the barge were thrée dozen Scutcheons in mettall of the Armos of the Kyng and Quéene whiche were beaten vppon square Buckeram deuided so that the righte side hadde the King colours and the lefte side the Quéenes whyche Scutcheons were fastened on the clothes of Golde and siluer hauging on the deckes on the lefte hand of the Maior was an other Foyste in the whyche was a mounte and on the mounte stoode a white Faulcon crowned vppon a roote of Golde enuironed wyth white Roses and redde whyche was the Quéenes deuice aboute whyche mounte sate Uirgins singing and playing melodiouslye Next after the Mayor followed hys Felowshippe the Haberdashers nexte after them the Mercers then the Grocers and so euerye company in hys order and laste of all the Maiors Sheriffes officers euery company hauing melodie in their Barge by them selues and goodly garnished wyth Banneâ—s and some couered wyth Sylke and some wyth Arras or suche like which was a goodly sight to beholde and in thy â— or â—er they rowed by Greenewiche to the pointe beyende Greenwiche and there they turned backward in an other order that is toâ— wéete the Maiors and Sherifs officers firste and the meanest Crafte nexte and so ascencendyng to the vpper moste Crafte in order and the Maior laste as thy goe to Paules at Christmasse and in that order they to wed downe warde to Greenewiche towne and there caste ancker makyng greate melodie At thrée of the clocke the Quéene apparelled in riche cloth of Golde entred into hir Barge accompanyed wyth dyuers Ladyes and Gentlewomen and incontinent the Citizens set forward in their order theyr Minstrels continually playing and y â— Bachelers barge going on the Quéenes right hand whyche shée tooke greate pleasure to beholde Aboute the Quéenes barge were manye noble menne as the Duke of
Suffolke the Marques Dorcet the Earle of Wiltshire hir father the Earles of Arundale Darby Rutland Worcester Huntington Sussex Oxforde and many Byshops and Noble men euerye one in hys Barge whyche was a goodly sight to beholde shée thus being accompanyed rowed towardes the Tower and in the meane waye the Shippes whyche were commanded to lye on the shoare for letting of the Barges shotte dyuers peales of Gunnes and ere she landed there was a maruellous shotte out of the Tower I neuer hearde the like and at hir landing there mette wyth hir the Lord Chamberlaine with the officers of Armes and brought hir to the King whych receyued hir with louing countenance at the Posterne by the water side and kissed hir and then shée turned backe agayne and thanked the Mayor and the Citizens wyth manye goodly wordes and so entred into the Tower After whyche entrye the Citizens all this while houered before the Tower makyng greate melodie went not alande for none were assigned to lande but the Maior the Recorder and two Aldermen but to speake of the people that stoode on euerye shoare to beholde this sighte hée that saâ—e it not will not beléeue it On Friday at dinner serued the King all suche as were appoynted by hys Highenesse to be Knights of the Bathe whiche after dinner were brought to their Chambers and that nighte were bathed and shriuen according to the olde vsage of Englands and the nexte daye in the morning the King dubbed them according to the ceremonies thereto belonging whose names here after ensue ninetéene in number The Marques Dorcet The Earle of Darby The Lord Clifford sonne and heire to the Earle of Comberland The Lord Fitz Walter sonne and heire to the Earle of Huntington The Lord Mountague The Lorde Vaux Sir Henrie Parker sonne and heyre to the Lorde Merle Sir William Winsore sonne and heyre to the Lorde Winsore Sir Iohn Mordant sonne and heyre to the Lorde Mordant Sir Frauncis Weston Sir Thomas Arondale Sir Iohn Hudlestone Sir Thomas Poynings Sir Henry Sauell Sir George Fitz William of Lincolnshire Sir Iohn Tindale Sir Tomas Ierney On Saterday the one and thirtith of May the Quéene The conueying of Queen Anne through the Citie to VVestm was conueyed through London in order as followeth To the intente that the horses shoulde not slide on the pauement nor that the people shoulde be hurte by horses and the highe stréetes where throughe the Quéene should passe were all graueled from the Tower vnto Temple barre and rayled on eche side wythin whiche raile stoode the Craftes along in their order from Grace Churche where the Merchauntes of the Stiliarde stoode vntill the lyttle Conduite in Cheape where the Aldermen stoode and on the other side of the stréete stoode the Conestables of the citie apparelled in Ueluet and Silke wyth greate staues in their handes to cause the people to giue roume and kéepe good order and when the stréetes were somewhat ordered the Mayor in a gowne of Crimosin veluet and a riche collar of Esses with two footemen clothed in white and red damaske rode to the Tower to giue hys attendaunce on the Quéene on whome the Sherifes with their officers did awaite till they came to the Tower hill where they taking their leaue rode downe the high stréetes commaunding the Conestables to sée roume and good order kept and so wente and stoode by the Aldermen in Cheape and before the Quéen with hir traine should come Grace-streete and Cornehill were hanged with fine Scarlet Crimosin and other grayned clothes and in some places with riche Arras and the moste part of Cheape was hanged with cloth of Tisshew Golde Ueluet and many riche hangings whyche made a goodlye shewe and all the windowes were replenished with Ladies and Gentlewomen to beholde the Quéene and hir traine as they shoulde passe by The firste of the Quéenes company that sette forwarde were twelue French men belonging to the Frenche Embassadoure clothed in contes of blewe Ueluet wyth sléeues of yellow and blew Ueluet their horses trapped with close trappers of blewe sarsenet powdred with white Crosses After them marched Gentlemen Esquiers Knights two and two after them the Iudges after them the Knights of the Bathe in violet gownes with hoods purfled with Miniuer like Doctors after them Abbots then Barons after them Bishoppes the Earles and the Marquesses then the Lorde Chanceloure of Englande after hym the Archebyshoppe of Yorke and the Embassadoure of Venice after them the Archebyshoppe of Caunterburie and the Embassadour of Fraunce after rode twoo Esquyers of honor wyth robes of estate rolled and worne Bauldrike-wise aboute their neckes wyth Cappes of estate representing the Dukes of Normandie and Aquitaine after them rode the Mayor of London wyth hys Mace and Garter in hys Coate of Armes whyche bare also hys Mace of Westminster hall after them rode the Lorde Wyllyam Howarde wyth the Marshalls rod deputy to hys brother the Duke of Norffolke Marshall of Englande whyche was Embassadoure then in Fraunce and on hys righte hande rode Charles Duke of Suffolk for that daye highe Conestable of Englande bearing the warder of siluer appertayning to the office of Conestableshippe and all the Lordes for the moste parte were clothed in Crimosin Ueluet and all the Quéenes seruauntes or officers of Armes in Scarlet next before the Quéene rode hir Chancelor bare headed the Sergeaunts and Officers at Armes rode on both the sides of the Lords then came the Quéene in a white Litter of white cloth of Golde not couered nor bailled whyche was ledde by twoo Palfreys clad in white Damaske downe to the grounde heade and all ledde by hir footemen shée hadde on a Kertle of white cloth of Tissue and a Mantle of the same surred wyth Ermyn hir haire hangyng downe but on hir heade shée hadde a coyâ—e wyth a Circlet aboute it full of ryche stones ouer hir was borne a Canapie of Cloth of Golde wyth foure guylte staues and foure siluer Belles for bearyng of the whyche Canapie were appoynted sixetéene Knightes foure to beare it one space on foote and foure an other space according to their owne appoyntment nexte after the Quéene rode the Lorde Browghe hir Chamberlayne nexte after him Wyllyam Coffim master of hir horses leading a spare horse wyth a syde Saddell trapped downe wyth cloth of Tissewe after hym rode seauen Ladies in Crimosin Ueluet turned vppe wyth Cloth of Golde and of Tissewe and theyr horses trapped wyth Golde after them twoo Chariots couered wyth redde cloth of Golde in the firste Chariote were twoo Ladies whyche were the olde Dutchesse of Norffolke and the olde Marchionesse of Dorcet in the seconde Chariot were foure Ladyes all in Crimosin Ueluet after them rode seauen Ladyes in the same sute their horses trapped and all after them came the thyrde Charyot all in white wyth syxe Ladyes in Crimosin Ueluet nexte to them came the fourth Chariot all red with eyghte Ladyes also in Crimosin after whome followed thirtie Gentlewomen all in
Martin Abboy Straâ—ford Abbey Lewis and Abbeys suppressed other were suppressed to the Kings vse The Images of our Lady of Walsingham and Ipswich were brought vp to London with all the Iewels that hung aboute them and diuers other Images both in England and Wales wherevnto any common Pilgrimage was vsed for aâ—oyâ—ng of Idolatrie all which were brente at Chelsey by the Lord priuie seale The ix of August Edmond Conisby one of the groomes of the Kings Chamber was executed at Tiborne for counterfeting the Kings Seale manuell The firste of September being Sonday one Gratnell Hangman hanged Hangman of London and two other were hanged at the Wrestling place by Clarken well for robbing a Booth in Bartholmew Faire The second of September Edward Clifford GentlemaÌ„ was executed at Tiborne for counterâ—etting the Kings priuie Signet This moneth of September Thomas Cromwell Lorde priuie Seale Uizgerent to the Kings highnesse sente foorth The Bible in euery Church to be redde iniunctions to all Bishops and Curats through y e Realme charging them to sée that in euery parish Church the Bible of the largest volume printed in English were placed for all men to reade on and that a Booke of Register were also Register booke in euery Church to be kept prouided and kept in euery parish Churche wherein shall be written euery Wedding Christning and Burying within the same parish foreuer Saint Austiâ—â— Abbey at Caâ—terbury was suppressed and the Shriue and goodes taken to the Kings it â—easurie as also the Shrine of Thomas Becket in the Priory of Christ Church Thomas Becket â—â—ent was likewise taken to the Kings vse and his bones scull and all which was there found with a péece broken out by the wound of his death were all brent in the same Church by the Lord Cromwell The Monkes there were commanded to change their habites c. The xxj of October the Churche of Thomas Becket in London called the Hospitall of Saint Thomas of Akers was suppressed William Wilkinson Nicholas Gibson the 28. of Septem Sherifes Maior Sir William Forman Haberdasher the 28. of October This Nicholas Gibson Grocer Sheriffe of London builded a frée Schoole at Radcliffe néere vnto London appoynting Free Schoole and Almes houses at Radcliffe to the same for the instruction of thréescore poore mens children a Schoolemayster and Usher with a stipend of tenne pound by the yeare to the Mayster and sixe â— xiij â— iiij â— to the Usher He also builded there certayne Almes houses for fourtéene poore and aged persons who quarterly receiue sixe shillings eyght pence the péece for euer The fifth of Nouember were Henry Marquesse of Excester Earle of Deuonshire and Sir Henry Poole Knight Lord Moâ—ntacute and Sir Edward Neuill sent to the Tower who were endited for deuising to maynteyne promote and aduance one Reignald Poole late Deane of Excester enemie to the King beyond the sea and to depriue the King The xvj of Nouember the blacke Friers in London was suppressed the next day the white Friers the grey Friers Friers suppressed and the Monkes of the Charterhouse and so all the other immediatly The xxij of Nouember Iohn Lambert was brente in Lambart brent Smithfield The xxiiij of Nouember the Bishop of Rochester preached at Pawles Crosse and there shewed the bloude of Bloud of Hales shevved at Pavvles Crosse Hales and affirmed the same to be no bloud but Honey clarified and coloured with Saffrone as it had bin euidently proued before the King and his Counsell Also â—â—urâ— Anabaptistes thrée men and one woman all Dutch bare Anabaptistes â—aggots at Paules Crosse the same day The xxix of Nouember a man and a woman Dutch Anabaptistes were brent in Smithfield The ninth of January were Henry Marquesse of Excester Earle of Deuonshire executed Earle of Deuonshire and the Lord Mountacute and Sir Edward Neuill beheaded on the Tower hill Two Priestes Croftes and Colins and Holand a Mariner were hanged and quartered at Tiborne Sir Geffrey Poole was pardoned On Ashe wednesday were Iohn Ioanes Iohn Potter and Execution in Poules Church-yard William Mannering hanged in Paules Church-yard for killing of Roger Cholmeley Esquier in the same place The third of March Sir Nicholas Carew of Bedington in Surâ—ey Knighte of the Garter and mayster of the Kings Horsse was beheaded at the Tower hill for béeing of counsell with Henry Marques of Excester and Henry Poole Lorde Mountacute The ix of March the King created Sir WilliaÌ„ States created Pawlet Knight Treasurer of houshold Lord Saint Iohn and Sir Iohn Russell Comptroller of his houshold Lorde Russell Sir William Parre Lord Parre The new Abbey of white Monkes at the Tower hill and the Minories Nunnes without Aldgate were suppressed â—n the last of March. The xxviij of Aprill beganne a Parliamente in the 1539 which Margaret Countesse of Salisburie Gertrude wife to the Marquesse of Excester Reignold Poole Sir Adrian Anno reg 31 Fortescue and Thomas Dingley Knight of Saint Iohns and diuers other were attaynted and all the Religious houses in England suppressed and not suppressed were graunted to the King for euer The viij of May the Citizens of London mustered at the Great muster aâ— London Miles end all in bright harneys with coates of white silke â—â— cloth and cheynes of gold in thrée great Battayles the number was fiftéene thousand beside wyfflers and other awayters who in goodly order passed through London to Westminster and so through the Sanctuary and round about the Parke of S. Iames and returned home through Holborne No watch at Midsomer Doctor Shakston Bishop of Salisburie and Doctor Latimer Bishop of Worcester resigned their Bishoprickes into the Kings hand the first of July The viij of July Griffith Clearke Uicar of Wandsworth Vickar of VVandsvvorth and other executed with his Chapleine and his seruant and Frier Waire were all four hanged and quartered at Saint Thomas Waterings The tenth of July Sir Adrian Fortescue and Thomas Dingley were beheaded The ninth of September the Nunnery of Clarkenwell Clarkenvvell and other suppressed was suppressed The xij of October the Nunnery of Halywell and forthwith the Priorie of Saint Mary Oueries in Southwarke and Saint Barthelmewes in Smithfield were suppressed and al their lands and goodes taken to the Kings vse The seauenth of September deceassed Doctor Stokesley Bishop of London and was buryed in Paules Church Iohn Feire Thomas Huntlow the 28 of September Sherifes Maior Thomas Huntlovv his charitie Sir William Holleys Mercer the 28 of October This Thomas Huntlow Sheriffe gaue to the Haberdashers certayne tenementes for the which they be bound to giue to tenne poore almes people of the same company euery one of them eyght pence euery Friday for euer And also at euery quarter dinner kept by the maisters to be giuen to euery one of those tenne poore people a penny loaâ—e a pottell of Ale a péece of béefe worth four pence in
Castell where they firste called before them the Mayor and Alderman c. And bycause Richard Read Alderman would not agrée to pay as they set hym he was commaunded vpon paine to serue the King in hys wars of Scotlande who departed from London the thrée and twentith of January Also sir William Roâ—â—â— Alderman for words â—â— displeasure taken by the Kings Councell was by them sent Sir VVilliam Roche sente to the Fleete to the Fleete where he remayned till Passion Sondaye The sixe and twentith of January there camped on the Weast side of Boloigne beyond the Hauen an army of French to the number of eightéene thousand where they laye tenne dayes and the sixth of February were put to flight by the Earle of Hartford and sir Iohn Dudley Lord Admiral then being Deputie of Boloigne The thirtéenth of February a Priest was set on the Pillorie in Cheape burnt in both chéeks with the letters F A. a paper on his heade wherein was written For false accusing whyche iudgement was giuen by the Lorde Chancelor in the Starre Chamber a notable example of Justice great cause haue I to wishe the lyke to the lyke accuser who neuer yet repented but coÌ„trariwise sweareth and forsweareth that he neuer did any suche acte againste his brother In the beginning of March a roade was made into Scotlande towarde Gedworth by the Englishemen who at the firste gote greate praise but they were so gréedy and went so far that a greate army of Scottes beset them with thrée battels where the Englishemen for the moste part were slaine and taken at Panyer Howghe among whome sir Ralph Eure Lorde Alderman of London taken prisoner Eure and Warden of the East Marches was slayne and Richard Read Alderman of London wyth other taken prisoners by the Scots Trinitie Terme was adiorned bicause of the warres 1545 Anno reg 37 About the xxv of June was great tempest of wind in Darbishire where through trées were ouer-turned and dyuers Churches Chappels and houses were vncouered Also in Hailestones fâ—gured lyke menâ— heades Lancashire there fell hailestones as big as mens fists which had diuers printes in them some like mens faces some like Gunne holes c. The ninetéenth of July the French kings nauy comming Frenchemen arryued in Susseâ— out of Newhauen and Deepe arriued on the coaste of England in Sussex afore Bright Hamsteade where they sette certaine of their souldiours alande to burne but the Beacons were fyted and the men came downe so thicke that the French men fledde and did little hurte The xix of July by misfortune of shooting a Gun in one of Men brent in the 〈…〉 y â— Hedgehogs a ship afore Westminster a â—irken of gun-poulâ—â—â— fyred slew 7. men and the eight leaped into the Thamis and was drowned The xx of July the king being at Portsmouth a goodly ship Mary Rose vvas drovvned of Englande called the Mary Rose with sir George Carrowe the Captaine and manye other Gentlemen were drowned in the middest of the Hauen by greate negligence The xxj of July the French Galleis nauye came afore Frenchmen landed in the I le of VVight Portsmouth Hauen and landed certaine of their army in the I le of Wight at Saint Helens Point there burned encamped about two thousande men but they were soone driuen away with losse of their Captaine many souldiors Within few dayes after the whole fléete remoiâ—ed from the Wight Frenchmen landed at Nevvhauen in Sussex to a place in Sussex called Newhauen four miles from Lewes and there landed many Captaines souldiors who by the valiantnesse of the Gentlemen and Yeomen of Sussex were slaine and drowned in the Hauen a great number of them the reste hardly recouered their shippes and Galleis In the moneth of August deceassed at Guilforde Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolke and Lorde greate Maister of the Kings housholde who was honorably buryed at Windsore In August the Earle of Hereforde was sent into Scotland Erle of Herford sent into Scotl. with an armye of 12000. menne where he destroyed dyuers Townes and greatly endaâ—uaged the Scottes The ninth of September sir Iohn Dudley Lorde Lisle Lorde Admirall brene Treyport Lorde Adinirall of Englande landed with 6000. men at Treyport in Normandie and there brente the Towne and Abbey with other houses about it and thirâ—â—e ships with a Barke that laye in the Hauen with losse of fourtéene Englishmenne and so reâ—urned The twelfth of September the Churche of Saint Giles S. Giles churche brent without Criplegate of London was brent The eightéenth of October the Procession was firste begon in Paules Church to be sung in English and so commanded by Iniunction through the whole realme George Barnes Ralphe Allen the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Sir Martin Bowes Goldsmith the 28. of October The xxliij of Nouember began a Parliament wherein was graunted to the Kyng a subsedie of two shillings eight Chauntres Colledges and hospitals giuen vnto the King pence of the pound in goods four shillings of the pound in lands Also at Colledges Chauntries and Hospitalles were committed to the Kings order to alter and transpose whyche he promised to do to the glorie of God and the common profite of the Realme In the latter ends of March the Stewe in Southwarke was put down by the Kings commandement In May the kings 1546 The Stevves put dovvne Anno reg 38 VVilliam Foxley slepte more than fourteene dayes and as many nightes vvithout vvaking ships tooke one of y e French Kings Galleis with gret riches The xxvij of Aprill being Tuisday in Easter wéeke William Foxley Potte maker for the Mint in the Tower of London fell asléepe and so continued sléeping and coulde not be wakened with pricking cramping or otherwise burning whatsoeuer till the firste day of the nexte Tearme whyche was full fouretéene dayes and as many nights or more for that Easter Terme beginneth not afore seauentéene dayes after Easter The cause of his thus sléeping could not be knowen thoughe the same were diligently searched for by the Kings Phisitions and other learned menne yea the King himselfe examining the saide William Foxley who was in all pointes found at his wakening to be as if he had slept but one night and is yet liuing in the Tower of London this present yeare of oure Lorde God 1579. The thirtéenth of June being Whitsonday a peace was proclaymed betwéene the Kings of England and France with a generall Procession in London The seauen and twentith of June Doctour Crome recaÌ„ted at Paules Crosse The xvj of July were burned in Smithfied for the Sacrament Anne Askevve and other brent Anne Askew alias Keime Iohn Lassels Nicholas O 〈…〉 tleâ— Priest Iohn Adlam Tailour and Doctour Shaxton 〈…〉 time Bishop of Salisburie preached at the same fire and 〈…〉 erecanted perswading them to doe the lyke but they â—oulde not The xxj of August came
downe the Roode in Paules Church with Marie and Iohn all other Images in y e Church then y e liâ—e was done in al Churches in England Also Easter folowing began the Communion and confession in Englishe but no manne constrained thereto excepte Anno reg 2. 1548 they woulde but after Easter beganne the Seruice in Englishe in dyuers Parishe Churches and at Whitsontide at Paules by the commandement of the Deane Barking Chappell nighe the Tower of London and Saint Martins Le Graund nigh the Shambles were pulled down Also the parish Churches of Saint Nicholas in the Shambles and Saint Ewyns within Newgate were pulled downe and the Parishioners appointed to the late dissolued Grey Friers Churche whyche is now named Christes Church founded by King Henrie the eight The watche whiche hadde béene accustomed in London at Midsommer of long time laide downe was nowe againe vsed both on the euen of Saint Iohn and of Saint Peter in as comely order as it had béene accustomed whych watch was greately beautified by the number of more than thrée hundred Dimilaunces and light horsemen that were prepared by the Citizens to be sent into Scotlande for the rescue of the Town of Hadington and other kept by Englishmen in Scotland On Saint Peters euen Monsieur Dassey Lieuetenant to The siege of Hadington the French King and the Reingraue of Fraunce wyth the number of x. thousand French and Almaines besides Scots besieged the Towne of Hadington in Scotlande defended by the Englishmen vnto whose aide shortly after came from Barwike iij. E. horsemen which were 700. men of armes and Dimitances the Captaines whereof were sir Robert Bowes and sir Thomas Palmer whych horsemen not long after by the Frenchmen were enclosed and the moste part either slaine or taken with their Captaines before named neuerthelesse our Englishmen defended the Town often skirmishing wyth the French and putting them to the worse vntill the twentith daye of August and then came an army out of Englande of sixetéene thousande of the whiche foure thousande were Almaines the Kyngs Lieuetenant was the Earle of Shrewsburie the General of the Almaines was Captaine Courtney At the comming of this armie the Frenchemenne and Scottes in peaceable manner departed from before Hadington giuing our Captaynes and Souldiers great commendation for their seruice Francis Earle of Sâ—râ—wshurie after he had séene the Towne victualled and stored with fresh Souldiers and munitions departed into England and our meÌ„ kept the Towne of Hadington oftentimes skirmishing with the Frenchmen and Scottes till the twentith day of September Hadington rased by Englishe men and then came with the Earle of Rutland with thrée thousand Almaynes and as many Borderers who caused the Toâ—ne to be razed and so brought their Ordinance and carriage to Berwike and returned without battayle On Saint Peters day Stephen Gardiner Bishop of Winchester Bishop of VVinchester sent to the Tovver preached at Westminster in the Courte before the King for the which Sermon he was on the morrow after sent to the Tower of London The vij of July a Priest was hanged and quartered in A Priest of Cornevvall executed Smithfield for that he and other in Cornewall had slayne Mayster Body one of the Kings Commissioners the others of his societie were put to death in diuers other partes of the Realme This yeare a great mortalitie by the pestilence was in Great Pestileuce in London London wherefore commaundement was giuen to all Curates and other hauing to do therwith that no corps should be buried before sixe of the clocke in the morning nor after sixe of the clocke at night and that there should at the buriall of euery corpse be rong one bell at the least by the space of thrée quarters of an houre In September dyed Quéene Katherine late â—â—â—s to King Queene Katherine dyed Henry and after marryed to Sir Thomas Seymer Lorde Admirall William Locke Iohn Aâ—liâ—e the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Sir Henry Aâ—â—ots Fishmonger the 28. of October The xvj of Nouember Saint Annes Church within Aldersgate Saint Annes Church brent Anno reg 3. Lord Thomas Seymer beheaded of London was brent The xvj of January Thomas Seymer Lord Admirall and brother to the Lord Protector was sent to the Tower of London the xx of March he was beheaded on the Tower hill The â—â—â—th o◠〈◊〉 Proclamation was made for the 1549 â—â—â—â—e to be put downe through the whole 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tenth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the â—loysten of Paules Church in 〈◊〉 â—alâ—â—â— Pardon Churchyard with the Daunce of Death commonly called the Daunce of Paules about the Daunce of Paules pulled dovvâ—â—e same Cloyster costly and cunningly wrought and the Chappell in the midst of the same Church-yard were all began to be pulled downe Also the Chernill house of Paules with the Chappell Charnill house of Paules there after the Tombes and other Monuments of the dead were pulled downe and the dead mens bones buryed in the fields were conuerted into dwelling houses shoppes About the same time the Stéeple and most part of the Church of Saint Iohn by Smithfield blovvne vp Church of Saint Iohn of Hierusalem néere vnto Smithfield was vndermined and ouerthrowne with Gunne powlder the stone whereof was applyed in the building of the Lorde Protectors house at the Strand The xxiij of Aprill sixe houses at Broken Wharffe were Fire at Broken VVharffe brent In the moneth of May by meanes of a Proclamation for eâ—â—losuâ—es the Commons of Somersetshire and Lincolneshire made a Commotion and brake vp certayne Parkes Commotion in Sommersetshire and Lincolneshire of Sir William Herberds and Lord Sturtons but Sir William Herberd â—lew and executed many of those Rebels In July the Commons of Essex and Kent Suâ—â—â—ke and Norffolke rose agaynst inclosures and pulled downe dyuers Parkes 〈◊〉 Also the Commons of Cornewall and Deuonshire rose against Commotion in Cornevvall and Deuonshire the Nobles and Gentlemen and required not only that the inclosures might be disparked buâ—â— also to haue their old Religion and Acte of sixe Articles restored these â—â—sée god the Citie of Excester which was valiantly defended Against these Rebels was sent Iohn Lord Russell Lord priuie Seale with a number of Souldyers who entred the Citie of Excester the fifth of August where they â—lew and â—ooke prisoners of the â—â—eâ—â—â—s more than four thousand and Rebels subdued after hanged diuers of them in the Towne and Countrey about The Lorde Gray was also sente with a number of Strangers horssemen who in diuers conflictes sâ—ew many people and spoyled the Countrey The last of July William Lorde Marques of Northhampton Commotion at Norvvich Lord Sheffield slayne Marciall Lavv. entred the Citie of Norwich and on the next morning the Rebels also entred the Towne burned part thereof put the Lorde Marques to flighte and sâ—ewe the Lorde Sheffeld In this meane time diuers persons were apprehended as ayders of the foresayde
Rebels of the whiche one was hanged within Aldgate and another at the Bridge foote toward Southwarke both on Mary Magdalens day In the beginning of August the French King determining to take the Isles of Garnesea and Iersea did set there sodeinly The French Kings Galleys inuaded Garnesea and Iersea vpon our Shippes with a great number of Galeis but they were so manfully encountred by the Kings Nauie that with the losse of a thousand men and great spoyle of their Galleis they were forced to retire into France and deâ—iâ—t from their purpose The xvj of August a man was hanged without Bishopsgate of London and one other sent to Waltham and there executed and diuers other in many places The viij of August the French Embassadours gaue a Frenchmen apprehended defiance to the Lorde Protectour wherevpon all Frenchmen with their goodes béeing no Denizens were apprehended The Rebels in Norffolke and Suffolke encamped theÌ„selues at Mount Surrey in a wood called Saint Nicholas wood néere vnto Norwich agaynst whome Sir Iohn Dudley Earle of Warwike went with â—n Armye where both he and a great number of Gentlemen méeting with the Rebelles were in suche daunger as they had thought all to haue dyed in that place but God that confoundeth the purpose of all Rebels brought it so to passe that as well there as in al other places they were partly by power coÌ„streined partly by promise of their â—arâ—â—n perswaded to submitte themselues to their Prince the Earle of Warwike entred the Citie of Norwich the xxvij of August when he had â—â—aine The Earle of VVarvvicke vvent against the Rebels at Norvvich aboue fiue thousand of the Rebels and taken their chiefe Captayne Robert Ket of Windham â—anner whiche mighte dispend in Lands fiftie pound by yeare and was worth in moueables aboue a thousand Markes when he had put to execution diuers of the Rebels in diuers places about Norwich and returned The xxviij of August tidings was brought to King Edward Nevvhauen by Boleyne vvon by the French and the Lord Protector that the Frenchmen had taken Blacknesse Hamiltew and Newhauen by Boleyne and had slayne all the Englishmen and taken the Kings Ordinance and victualles which was reported to be begunne by one Sturton a Bastard sonne of the Lord Sturtons which had betrayed Newhauen and went himselfe to the French Kings seruice héere vpon the Captayne of Bulleyne Barke for feare of the French Army conuayed all the Ordinance Uictualles goodes and men of that Fort to the high Towne of Bulleyne and after their departing with Gunpowder blew vp the Fort. About this time also a Commotion began at Semer in Commotion in Yorkeshire the North riding of Yorkeshire and continued in the East riding and there ended the principall raysers whereof were William Ombler of Easthesâ—eâ—â—on yeoman Thomas Dale parish Clarke of Semer and Steuenson of Semer being preuented by the Lord President from rising at Wintringham they drew to a place at Semer by the Sea coast and there by night rode to the beacon at Staxâ—oâ— and set it on fire and so gathered a rude route then they went to Mayster Whites house and tooke him and Clopton his wides brother Sauage Merchant of Yorke and Bery seruant to Sir Walter Mildmay which four they murthered a mile from Semer and there left theÌ„ naked their number increased to thrée thousand On the xxj of August the Kings pardon was offered which Ombler and other refused who were shortly after taken and brought to Yorke where Thomas Dale and other Rebels executed at Yorke were executed the xxj of September The first of September Edmond Bonar Bishop of London preached a Sermon at Powles Crosse for the which he was accused vnto the Counsell by William Latimer Parson of Saint Lawrence Pountney and Iohn Hoper sometime a white Monke and so conuented before the Archbishop of Canterbury and other Commissioners at Lambheath on the twentith day of that same moneth and sente to the Marshalsea on the first of October he was depriued of his Bishopricke for disobeying the Kings order in Religion Richard Turke Iohn Yorke the 28. of September Sherifes The viij of October after a common Counsell in the Guild hall at London whether all the Lordes of the Counsell came the Lord Chauncellor and other declared diuers abuses of the Lord Protectour desiring the Citizens to bée ayding and assisting with them for the preseruing of the Kings Maiesties person which they greatly feared béeing in his aduersaries hands The Lords dined with Mayster Proclamation against the Lord Protectour Yorke one of the Sheriffes and in the afternoone Proclamation was made in diuers places of the Citie with Trompets Heralts and Kings at Armes wherein was conteyned diuers Articles touching the euill gouernement of the Lord Protector The tenth of October by a common Counsell at the Guild hall was graunted fiue hundred men of the Citie one hundred to be horssemen to be readie on the next morrow and this day the Lordes dined wyth Mayster Turke the other Sheriffe The xj of October the Lordes sitting at the Lord great maisters Sir Anthony Wingfield Captayne of the Garde was sent to the King at Windsore and seuered the Lord Protectour from his person and caused the Gard to watch him fiâ—â— the Lords comming On the morrow the Lord Chancellour with the rest of the Counsell rode to Windsore to the King and that night the Lorde Protectour was put in ward into Beauâ—champs Tower in the Castell of Windsore The xiiij of October in the afternoone the Duke of Sommerset Lord Protector brought to the Tovver was brought from Windesore riding through Oldborâ—e in at Newgaâ—e and so to the Tower of London accompanyed with diuers Lordes and Gentlemen with thrée hundred horse the Lord Maior Sir Ralph Warren Sir Iohn Gressham Mayster Recorder Sir William Locke and both the Sheriffes and other Knightes sitting on their Horsses against Soper Laâ—e with all the Officers with Halbards and from Holburâ—e bridge to the Tower certayne Aldermen or their deputies on Horssebacke in euery stréete with a number of housholders standing with billes as he passed There was with him committed to the Tower Sir Michaell Stanhope Sir Thomas Smith Sir Iohn Thin Knightes Wolfe of the priuie Chamber and Grey of Reading The xvij of October King Edward came from Hampton Court to his place in Southwarke and there dined and after King Edvvarde rode through London dinner he made Mayster Yorke one of the Sheriffes Knight and then rode through the Citie to Westminster Sir Rowland Hill Mercer the 28. of October Maior This Sir Rowland Hill caused to be made a Causey Charitable deedes of Sir Rovvland Hill commonly called Ouerlane pauement in the high way from Stone to Nantwich in length four miles for horse and man with diuers Lanes on both sides the same Causey He caused likewise a Causey to be made from Dunchurch to Bransen in Warwickeshire more than two
manye Merchaunt Aduenturers vnto whom by the Councell was seâ—â—daâ—â—y declared the death of King Edwarde and also hoâ—e he hadde ordained for the succession of the Crown by his letters Patents to the whych they were sworne and charged to kéepe it secrete The tenth of July in the afternoone aboute thrée of thâ— Lady Iane proclaimed Queene clocke Lady Iane daughter to Frauncis Duchesse of Suffolke 〈…〉 Ianâ— was maâ—â—â—â—â— to the Lord Gilford Dudley fourth â—â—nne to the Duke of Northumberlande was conâ—â—eyed by water to the Tower of London and there receyued as Quéene After fiue of the clocke the same afternoone was proclamation made of the death of King Edwarde the â—â—â—th and howe he had ordained by his letters Patents bearyng baâ—â— the 〈…〉 and twentith of June laste past that the 〈…〉 Iane as is afore saide shoulde be heyre to the Crowne of Englande and the heire males of hir bodye c. The eleauenth of July Gilbert Potte Drawer to Ninion Gilbert Potte punished in Cheape Saunders Uintner dwelling at Saint Iohns head wythin Ludgate who was accused by the said Saunders his Maister was set on the Pillorie in Cheape with both hys eares nayled and cleane cutte off for wordes speaking at time of the proclamation of Lady Iane at which execution was a TruÌ„pet blown and a Harrault read his offence in presence of one of the Sheriffes c. Aboute fiue of the clocke the same day in the afternoone Men drovvned at Lon. bridge Ninion Saunders Maister to the said Gilbert Potte and Iohn Owen a Gunner comming from the Tower of London by water in a Whirrie and shooting London bridge towardes the Blacke Friers were drowned at Saint Mary Locke and the Whirrie men saued by their Ores The twelfth of July worde was broughte to the Councell beyng then in the Tower with the Ladye Iane that the Lady Marie eldest daughter to King Henrie the eighte was at Keninghall Castell in Norffolke and wyth hir the Earle of Bathe sir Thomas Cornwallis and other and also that the Earle of Sussex and Maister Henrie Ratcliffe his sonne were â—â—mmyng towardes hir wherevppon by spéedy Councell it was there concluded that the Duke of Suffolke with certayne other Noblemen should go towards the Lady Mary to â—â—â—che hir vp to the Tower thys was firste determined but by night of the same daye the saide voyage of the Duke of Suffolke was cleane dissolued by the speciall meanes of the Lady Iane hys daughter who takyng the matter heauily wyth wéepyng teares made request to the whole Councel that hir father might â—arry at home in hir company Whervppon the Councel perswaded with the Duke of Northumberlande to take that voyage vpon him saying that no man 〈…〉 so â—â—t therefore bycause that he hadde atchieued the victorie in Norffolke once already and was therefore so feared 〈…〉 none durste once liâ—â—e vp their weapon against him be 〈…〉 that he was the beste man of warre in the Realme as well for the ordering of his Campes and Souldicures bothe in battaile and in their tentes as also by experience knowledge and wisdome he coulde bothe animate his army with wittie perswasions and also pacifie and alay hys ennimyes pride wyth hys stowte courage or else to dissuade them if néede were from their enterprise Finally said they this is the short and long the Quéene will in no wise graunte that hir father shall take it vpon him wherefore quoth they we thinke it good if it may please your Grace it lyeth in you to remedy the matter Well quoth the Duke then since ye thinke it good I and mine will go not doubting of your fidelitie to the Quéenes Maiestie whych now I leaue in youre custodie so that nighte he sente for bothe Lordes Knightes and other that shoulde goe wyth hym and caused all things to be prepared accordynglye then wente the Councell in to the Ladye Iane and tolde hir of theyr conclusion who humblye thanked the Duke for reseruing hir father at home and beséeched him to vse hys diligence whereto he aunswered that he woulde doe what in hym laye The morrowe following greate preparation was made the Duke early in the mornyng called for his owne harnesse and sawe it made ready at Durham place where he appointed all his retinue to méete The same daye Cartes were laden with Munition and Artillerie and fielde péeces were set forwarde The same forenoone the Duke moued efte soones the Counsell to sende their powers after hym as it was before determined the same to méete wyth hym at Newe Market and they promised they woulde He sayde further to some of them My Lordes I and these other noble Personages with the whole army that nowe goe forth as well for the behalfe of you and yours as for the establishing of the Quéenes highnesse shall not only aduenture our bodies and lyues amongest the bloudy strokes and cruell 〈◊〉 of our aduersaries in the open fieldes but also wée do leaue the conseruation of our selues chyldren families at home here with you as altogyther committed to youre truth and fidelities whome if we thoughte ye woulde throughe malice conspyracie or dissention leaue vs youre friendes in the Bryars and betraye vs wée coulde as well sundry wayes foresee and prouide for our owne safegards â—â— anye of you by betraying vs can doe for yours But nowe vppon the onelye truste and faithfulnesse of youre honors whereof we thinke our selues moste assured wée do hazarde oure liues whyche truste and promise if ye shall violate hoping thereby of lyfe and promotion yet shall not God coumpt you innocent of our blouds neyther acquite you of the sacred and holy othe of allegeaunce made fréely by you to thys vertuous Lady the Quéenes highnesse who by your and our enficement is rather of force placed thereâ—â— than by hir ownséeking and request Consider also that Gods cause whyche is the preferment of hys worde and â—â—aâ—e of Papistes entraunce hathe béene as yée haue here before alwayes layde the originall grounde wherevpon ye â—â—en at the firste motion graunted your goodwils and conâ—â—â—ts therevnto as by your handes writing appeareth and â—â—inke not the contrarye but if yée meane deceyte thoughs not forthewyth yet hereafter God will reuenge the same I can saye no more but in thys trouble some tyme wysh you to vse constant heartes abandoning all malice enuye and priuate affections and therewithall the firste course for the Lords came vp wherefore the Duke shut vp his talke wyth these wordes I haâ—e not spoken to you in thys sorte â—ppon anye mistruste I haue of youre truethâ— of whyche alwayes I haue euer hitherto conceiued a trusty confidence but I haue put you in remembrance thereof what chance of variance so euer might grow amongst you in mine absence and this I pray you wish me not worse good spéede in this iorney than ye woulde haue to your selues My Lord saith one of them if ye mistruste anye of vs in this matter your Grace is farre
therewith he committed the charge of him and of other to the Guarde and Gentlemen that stoode by The xxv of July the Duke with other were brought vp to the Tower of London vnder the conducte of Henry Earle of Arundale and thus was the matter ended without bloudshed whiche men feared woulde haue brought the death of many thousandes ¶ Queene Mary MAry the eldest daughter of King Henrie the eyghte beganne Anno reg 1. hir raigne the sixth of July in the yeare 1553. when shée dissolued hir camp at Framingham whyche was to the number of thyrtie thousande menne the Earle of Sussex béeing Liuetenant of the armye victualles were of suche plentye that a Barrell of Béere was solde for sixe pence wyth the Caske and foure greate loaues of bread for a peny Afterwarde being accompanied wyth a goodlye bande of Noblemenne Gentlemen and Commoners gathered out of all partes of the Realme she came to London and entred the Citie through Aldgate vppe to Leaden hall then downe Grasse streete Fenchurche streete Marte Lane Tower streete and so into the Tower the thirde daye of Auguste where Thomas Duke of Norffolke Doctoure Gardener late Byshoppe Prisoners pardoned of Winchester and Edwarde Courtney sonne and heyre to Henrie Marqueâ— of Excester prisoners in the 〈…〉 knéeling â—â—â— the hill within the saâ—â— â—ower were pardoned and discharged The fifth of August Edmond Bonner late Byshoppe of London prisoner in the Marshalsea and Cutbeâ—t Toâ—â—â—all the olde Bishop of Durham prisoner in the Kings bench had their pardons and were restored to their Seas Shortelye after all the Byshops which had bin depryued in the time of king Edward the sixth were restored to their Bishoprickes and the other which were placed in King Edwardes time remoued Bishops restored and other displaced also all beneficed men that were married or woulde not forsake their opinion were put out of their liuings and other knowen to be â—â— the contrary part were set in y â— same especially if any were alyue that had of late bin put out of the same as Bishop Day of Chichester Heath of Worcest c. The 9. of August in the afternoone the Quéene helde an Obsequie in the Tower for King Edwarde the Dirge beyng sung in Latine on the morrow a Masse of Requiem whereal Buriall of Kyng Edvvard the Quéene with hir Ladies offered The same daye the corps of King Edward was buried at Westminster the Lorde Treasurer the Earle of Pembrooke and the Earle of Shrewsburie being chiefe Mourners with dyuers other Noblemen and other Doctour Day Byshop of Chichester preached at the said buriall and al the seruice with a Communion was in Englishe The 11. of August certaine Gentlemen minding to passe Men drovvneâ— at London bridge vnder London bridge in a Whyrrie were there ouerturned and seauen of them drowned one was Maister T. Bridges â—onne The 13. of Auguste Maister Bourne a Chanon of Paules preaching at Paules Crosse not onelye prayed for the deade but also declared that Doctour Bonner Byshoppe of London late restored and therein presence for a Sermon by hym 〈…〉 in the same place vpon the same Gospell was about foure yeares â—â—uce vniustly caste into the vile prison of the Marshalsea and there kepte during the raigne of King Edwarde whyche saying so offended some of the audience that they breaking silence saide the Bishoppe had preached abhomination other some cryed meaning of the Preacher pull him oute pull hym oute and some béeing neare the Pulpit beganne to clyme wherewith the Preacher stepped backe and one Maister Bradforde a Preacher of King Edwardes tyme stepped into his place and gentlye perswaded the audience to quietnesse and obedience alleadging Saint Paule to the Romaines Let euery soule submitte himselfe to the authoritie of the higher powers c. neuerthelesse Maister Bourne standing by Mayster Bradford one threwe a Dagger at hym whych hit a side poste of the Pulpit and A Dagger throvvne at the Preacher rebounded backe againe a greate waye where vppon Mayster Bradford brake off hys speach and forced hymselfe with the helpe of Iohn Rogers an other Preacher to conuey Maister Bourne oute of the audience whyche wyth greate labor they broughte into Paules Schoole The xviij of August Iohn Dudley Duke of Northumberlande William Parre Marques of Northampton and the Erle of Warwike sonne and heire to the Duke were arraigned at Westminster hall before Thomas Duke of Norffolke high Steward of Englande where the Duke of Northumberland wyth greate reuerence towardes the Judges protested hys faith and allegeance to the Quéene whome he confessed gréeuously to haue offended and saide that he meante not to speake anye thing in defence of his tact but requested to vnderstand the opinion of the Courte in twoo poyntes First whether â— man doing anye acte by aucthoritie of the Princes Councel and by warrant of the greate Seale of England and doyng nothing without the same might be charged with Treason for any thing whiche he might doe by warrant thereof Secondly whether any such persons as were equally culpable in that crime and those by whose letters and commaundementes he was directed in all his doyngs myghte bée hys Judges or passe vppon hys tryall as hys Péeres Wherevnto was aunsweared that as coÌ„ncerning the firste the greate Seate whiche he layde for hys warrant was not the Séale of the lawful Quéene of the Realme nor passed by aucthoritie but the Seale of an Usurper and therefore coulde be no warrant to hym As to the second it was alleadged that if anye were as déepely to bée touched in that case as hymselfe yet so long as no atteynder were of recorde agaynste them they were neuer the lesse persons able in Lawe to passe vppon anye tryall and not to bée chalenged therefore but at the Princes pleasure After whyche aunsweare the Duke vsed fewe wordes but confessed the inditement by whose example the other prisoners arraigned with him did the like and therevppon had iudgement And when iudgement was gyuen the Duke said I beséech you my Lords all to be humble futers to the Quéenes Maiestie and to graunte mée foure requestes whyche are these â—yrâ—â—â— that I maye haue that death whyche Noble 〈…〉 haue hadde in tymes paste and not the other Secondartly that hir Maiestie will be gratious to my chyldren whyche maye hereafter doe good seruice consyderyng that they wente by my commaundement who am theyr father and not of their own trée willes Thyrdlye that I maye haue appoynted to me some learned manne for the instruction and quiet of my conscience And fourthlye that shée will sende twoo of the Councell to commune wyth mée to whome I will declare suche matters as shall be expedient for hir and the common weale and thus I beséech you al to pray for me On the ninetéenth of Auguste were arraigned at Westminster sir Iohn Gates sir Henrie Gates sir Andrew Dudley and sir Thomas Palmer where wythout anye Quest they pleaded guiltie submitted themselues to
to haue coÌ„sented to Wiats conspyracie The xviij of Marche being Palmsonday the Lady Elizabeth the Quéenes sister was by the Lord Treasurer and the Earle of Sussex conueyed to the Tower of London from Parliament Westminster by water The tj of Aprill the Parliament beganne at Westminster whyche was appoynted to haue béene kepte at Oxforde Barons created The v. of Aprill sir Iohn Williams was created Baron of Tame and Saint Iames. The vij of April sir Edward North was created Baron of Chartlege at Saint Iames. The viij of Aprill sir Iohn a Bridges was created Baron Chondoys of Sudley Saint Iames. Catte hanged in Cheape The same viij of Aprill then being Sonday a Catte with hir head shorne and the likenesse of a Uestment caste ouer hir with hir fore téete tyed togither and a round péece of paper like a singing Cake betwixte them was hanged on a Gallowes in Cheape neare to the Crosse in the Parish of Saint Mathew whyche Catte being taken downe was carryed to the Bishoppe of London and he caused the same to be shewed at Paules Crosse by the preacher Doctor Pendleton The x. of Aprill Doctor Cranmer Archbyshop of Canterburie Disputation at Oxforde Doctour Ridley Byshoppe of London and Hugh Latimer once Bishop of Worcester were coÌ„ueyed prisoners from the Tower of London to Windsore and after from thence to Oxforde there to dispute wyth the Diuines and learned men of the contrary opinion The xj of April sir Thomas Wiat was beheaded on the Thomas VViat beheaded Tower hill and after quartred hys quarters were set vppe in dyuers places and hys head on the Gallowes at Hay hill neare Hyde Parke from whence it was shortly after stolne conueyed awaye The xxvtj of Aprill Lorde Thomas Grey brother to the late Duke of Suffolke was beheaded The xiiij of May Gerrard Fitz Garret was created Erle of Kyldare and Baron of Ophelley for him and his heyres at Saint Iames. William Thomas Gentleman and other were apprehended for conspyring Quéene Maries death the same William Thomas for the matter was drawne to Tyborne and hanged and quartred the xviij of May. The xix of May Ladye Elizabeth was conueyed from the Tower of London by water to Richemonde from thence to Windsore and so by the Lord Williams to Ricot in Oxfordshire and from thence to Woodstocke The xxv of May Edward Courtney Earle of Deuonshire The Erle of Deuonshire sent to Fodringaye was deliuered oute of the Tower by sir Ralph Chamberlaine of Suffolk and sir Thomas Tresham Knights who conueyed him to Fodringay Castel in Northamptonshire there to remaine vnder their custodie The x. of June Doctoure Pendleton preached at Paules A Gunne shotte at the preacher Crosse at whome a Gunne was shotte the pellet whereof went very neare him and lighte on the Churche wall But the shooter coulde not be founde The xxtj. of June was Proclamation made forbidding the shooting in handgunnes and bearing of weapons The fiftéenth of July Elizabeth Croft a wenche aboâ—â—â— Anno reg 2. A Spirite in a vvall the age of eightéene yeares stoode vppon a Scaffolde at Paules Crosse all the Sermon tyme where shée confessed that she being moued by dyuers lewde persons therevnto hadde vppon the fouretéenth of Marche laste before passed counterfaited certayne speaches in an house withoute Aldersgate of London thoroughe the whyche the people of the whole City were wonderfully molested for that all men mighte heare the voice but not sée hir person Some saide it was an Angell and a voyce from Heauen some the holy Ghoste c. Thys was called the Spirite in the Wall she hadde laine whistling in a straunge whistle made for that purpose whiche was giuen hir by one Drakes then were there dyuers companions confederate with hir whiche putting theÌ„selues among the preasse tooke vppon them to interprete what the Spirite saide expressing certaine seditious words againste the Quéene the prince of Spaine the Masse and CoÌ„fession c. The xix of July the prince of Spaine arriued at Southampton the fourth day after he came to Winchester in the euening and there going to Churche was honorably receyued of the Byshoppe and a greate number of Nobles the nexte daye he met with the Quéene wyth whome he had long familiar talke On Saint James daye the marriage was solempnized betwéene him and Quéene Mary at whyche time the The marriage of King Philip and Queene Mary Emperors Embassadour being present pronounced that in consideration of the marriage the Emperor had giuen vnto his sonne the Kingdome of Naples The solempnitie of thys marriage being ended the King of Harraults proclaiâ—â—ed their Tytle as foloweth Philip and Marie by the grace of The Kings stile God King and Quéene of Englande Fraunce Naples Hierusalem and Ireland Defendors of the Faith Princes of Spaine and Sicile Archdukes of Austrich Dukes of Millaine Burgundy and Brabant Counties of Aspurge Flaunders and Tyrroll whyche being ended the Trumpets blewe the Kyng and Quéene came forth hand in hande and two Swords borne before them Shortly after King Philip and Quéene Marie remoued froÌ„ Winchester to Basing froÌ„ thence to Windsore then to Richemont from thence by water to Southwarke acompanyed with the Noble men Ladies the King in one barge the Quéeniâ— an other and landed at the Bishop of Winchesters staires neare to S. Mary Oueries Church so passed through that place and parke into Suffolke place where they rested that night And the next day being the xviij of August they rode thorough Southwarke ouer the Bridge and so thorough London where they were with great prouision receiued of y e A man slyding from Paules steeple citizens passing through Paules Churchyard a man came â—lydyng as it were flying vpon a rope from Paules Stéeple The second of September sir Anthony Browne Maister of the Horse was put by and made Marques Mountague for him and his heires Males with the gifte of xx markes the yeare of Surrey at Hampton Court Dauid Woodroffe William Chester the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Sir Iohn Lion Grocer the 28. of October The xxvj hâ— October a Spaniard was hanged at Charing Crosse for killing of an Englishman there was offered A Spaniard hanged for his life by other strangers 500. Crownes but all that woulde not stay Justice The xij of NoueÌ„ber the parliament began at Westminster The xxiiij of Nouember Cardinall Poole came out of Brabant into England and was receiued with much honour he was by Parliament restored to hys olde dignitie that he was put from by King Henrie and shortly after came into the Parliament house where the King Quéene and other states were present Then he declared the cause of his Legacie first exhorting them to returne to the Communion of the Churche and restore to the Pope hys due aucthoritie Secondly he aduertised them to giue thankes to God that had sent them so blessed a King and Quéene Finally he signified
Edwarde After he had bin carried aboute Westminster ball before the Judges he was whipped about the Pallaice and then through Westminster into Smithfielde and then banished into the North in whyche Countrey he was borne and had bin sometime Lackey to sir Peter Mewtas The firste of Julye Iohn Bradford was burned in Smithfielde Bradford brent Anno reg 3. this Bradford was a man of very sober and honest life and therefore the Bishops woulde gladly haue had him recant and abiure his opinions The xij of Auguste was a terrible fighte on the sea betwéene the Dutchmen and Frenchmen néere to Romney Marsh whereas xj ships were brent and suncke In thys moneth of August in Suffolke at a place by the Sea side all of harde stone and pibble called in those parts a Shelfe lying betwéen the towns of Orford and Alborough where neuer grewe Grasse nor anye earth was euer séene there chaunced in this barraine place sodainely to spring vppe without anye tyllage or sowing great abundaunce of Peason whereof the poore gathered as men iudged aboue The necessity of the poore by God releeued an hundred quarters yet remayned some rype and some blossoming as many as euer there were before to the whiche place rode the Bishop of Norwich the Lord Willoughbey with others in greate number who found nothyng but harde rockey stone the space of thrée yardes vnder the roots of those Peason whyche rootes were greate and long and â—erye swéete c. On Bartholomew euen after the Lorde Maior and Aldermen of London hadde ridden aboute Saint Bartholomews Disputation at Christes Hospitall as had bene accustomed at S. Bartholomevvs in Smithfielde faire they came to Christs Hospital within Newgate where they heard a disputation betwéene the Schollers of Paules Schoole Saint Anthonies Schoole and the Schollers of the said Hospitall for whom was prouided thrée games which was thrée Pennes the best Pen of siluer and guilte valued at v. sÌ„ wonne by a Scholler of Saint Anthonies Schoole the Maister of that Schoole had vj. sÌ„ viij d. the second a Pen of siluer parcel guilt valued at iiij sÌ„ wonne by a Scholler of Paules Schoole and hys Mayster had v. sÌ„ in money the thyrde a Pen of siluer valued at iij. sÌ„ wonne by a Scholler of the saide Hospitall and his Maister had iiij sÌ„ and there were two Priestes Maisters of Arte appointed for Judges whyche had eache of them a siluer Rule for their paines valued at vj. sÌ„ viij d. the péece The disputation beyng ended the Maior and Aldermen entred the Hall where the chyldren of the Hospital vse to dyne and hadde fruite and wine and so departed King Philip wente ouer seas and landed at Callais on King Philip vvent ouer into Flaunders the fourth of September where he was honorably receyued by the Lorde Deputie and the Maior of the Staple of Callais an Alderman of London named sir Andrew Iudde who presented his Maiestie wyth a Purse and a M. Marks of Golde in it that night the Kyng was lodged in Staple Inne and on the morrowe he departed from Callais towards Brussels in Brabant to visite the Emperour hys father he gaue at his departing among the souldyours of the town of Callais M. crowns of gold and there accompanied him in his iorney of English Lords the Earle of Arundale Lorde Steward of the Quéenes house the Earle of Penbrooke the Earle of Huntington and others On Michaelmasse euen the prisoners that laye in the Nevv Counter in VVoodstrete Counter in Bredstreete were remoued to a newe Counter made in Woodstreete of the Cities purchase and building the whiche remouing was confirmed by a common counsell assembled at the Guild hall for that purpose On the laste of September by occasion of greate winde Great lande vvaters and raine that had fallen was suche greate floudes that that morning the Kings Palaice at Westminster and Westminster hall was ouerflowen wyth water vnto the Stayre foote goyng to the Chauncerie and Kings Benche so that when the Lorde Mayor of London should come to present the Sheriffes to the Barons of the Exchequer all Westminster hall was full of water and by reporte there that morning a Whirrie man rowed with his Boate ouer Westminster Bridge into the Pallaice Courte and so through the Staple gate and all the Wooll Staple into the Kings stréete all the Marshes on Lambeth side were so ouerflowen that the people from Newington Church coulde not passe on foote but were carryed by boate from the said Church to the Pinfold neare to Saint Georges in Southwarke Thomas Leigh Iohn Machil the 28. of September Sheriffes Ridley and Latimer brent The xvj of October Doctor Ridley and Maister Latimer were brent at Oxforde Sir William Garrard Haberdasher the 28. of October Maior First fruites and tenths restored to the Cleargie In October and Nouember a Parliament was holden in the whych the Quéene yéelded vp vnto the Spirituall men the first fruits and tenths of all Bishoprickes Benefices Ecclestasticall liuings In this Parliament was graunted A subsedie to the King and Quéene a subsedie of the Layty from v. l. to x. l. viij d. of the pound from x. l. to xx l. xij d. of the pound and from xx l. vpwarde xvj d. of the pound and al strangers double and the Cleargie granted vj. sÌ„ of the pounde Doctor Storie and other were appointed by the Cardinal to visite euery Parish Churche in London and Middlesex to sée their Reliques repayred and the Images of the Cruciâ—â—â— wyth Mary and Iohn thereon to be fixed Stephen Gardener Byshoppe of Winchester Chauncellor Doctor Gardner deceassed â—â— Englande dyed the ix of Nouember and was buryed at Winchester On Newyeres day the Quéene gaue the great Seale to Doctor Nitholas Heath Archebyshoppe of Yorke and made him Lorde Chauncellor shée likewise gaue the priuie seale to the Lorde Paget and made him Lord priuie Seale these were bothe Londoners borne In thys moneth of February the Lord Maior of London and the Aldermen entred into Bridewell and tooke possession thereof accordyng to the gifte of King Edward nowe confirmed by Quéene Marie The xxvj of February William Conestable alias Fetharston The Millers son fayning to be King Edvv. was arraigned in the Guild hall of London who had caused letters to be caste abroad that King Edward was aliue and to some he shewed hymselfe to be King Edward so that many persons both men and women were troubled by him for the which sedition the said William had bin onte whipped and deliuered as is aforesaide But nowe he was condemned and the thirtéenth of March he was drawne hanged and quartred at Tyborne A Blazing Starre was séene at all times of the nighte the sixth seauenth eight ninth and tenth of Marche The xxj of March Doctor Cranmer Archbyshop of Canterburie Doctor Cranmer brent was burned at Oxfolde and the same day Cardinal Poole sang his firste Masse at Greenewiche in the
this Maiors yeare Corne rose to fourtéene shillings the quarter and wood waxed scant in London and was sold for thirtéene and fourtéene shillings the thousand of â—illets and coles at tenpence the sacke by reason of the great death and sicknesse the last Sommer for lacke of heÌ„lp and carriage King Philip being absent out of the Realme and Quéene Mary being dangerously sicke ended hir life at hir Manour of Saint Iames by Charing crosse the xvij of Nouember in the yeare 1558. when she had raigned fiue yeares four monethes and odde dayes The same daye deceassed Cardinall Poole at Lambheath and a little before two of hir Phisitions besides diuers Bishops and noble men Quéene Mary was buryed at Westminster and Cardinall Poole at Canterbury ¶ Queene Elizabeth ELizabeth our most gratious Anno reg 1. and soueraigne Lady second daughter to King Henry the viij to the great comfort of Englande was with full consent proclaimed Quéene of England France and Irelande Defender of the Fayth c. on the xvij of Nouember in the yeare of oure Lorde God 1558. Forthwith the Portes and Hauens were stopped and none suffered to passe out of the Realme without licence Proclamation was made forbidding all men to Preach saue such as should be appoynted also to alter any rytes or Ceremonies vsed in the Church saue as it was in hir graces Chappell The xxiij of Nouember Quéene Elizabeth came from The Queene commeth from Hatfild Bishops Hatfield in Hertfordshire vnto the Lord Northes house in the late Charterhouse of London the Sheriffes of London méeting hir Grace at the farther ende of Barnet Towne within the Shere of Middlesex and so rode before hir till the came to the Charterhouse Gate next Aldersgate where hir Grace remayned On Monday the eyght and twentith of Nouember about The Queene â—emoueth to the Tovver two of the clocke in the after noone Quéene Elizabeth rode from the Lorde Northes house along by the Barbycane in at Creeplegate then along by the wall to Bishopsgate which Gate was richly hanged where the Waytes of the Citie playde and ouer against the Kings head Tauerne a Scholler of Paules Schoole made a short Oration to hir Maiestie in Latin Uerses the company of the Mercers standing in theyr rayles next the Scholler and so all the other Companyes of the Citie in order from thence to Mart Lane ende nexte vnto Barking Church in Tower streete the Lorde Maior of London riding wyth Mayster Garter King at Armes bearing a Scepter before hir Maiestie whiche Lorde Maior mette hir at the Charterhouse Gate nexte Aldersgate where Mayster Recorder saluted hir Grace in the name of the Lorde Maior and the whole Citie and so with Lordes Knightes and Gentlewomen richly apparelled brought hir to the Tower of London but when hir Grace entered at Mart Lane a peale of Gunnes beganne to be shotte off at the Tower whiche continued almost halfe an houre The fifth of December the Quéene remoued by water from the Tower to Somerset place néere to the Strand The xiij of December the corpse of Quéene Mary was honourably conuayed from Saint Iames to the Abbey of Queene Mary buryed Westminster and there placed vnder a rich Hearse decked with penons banners and Schutchions of the Armes of Englande and France where she remayned that nighte and on the morrow after the Masse of Requiem and a Sermon preached by Doctor White Bishop of Winchester was ended she was buryed in the Chappell of King Henry the seauenth on the North side The xxiiij of December was solemne obsequie kept in Obsequie for Charles the Emperour the Abbey of Westminster for Charles the fifth late Emperour which deceassed in Spayne in the moneth of September last past Quéene Maryes herse yet standing altered with the Armes of the Emperour and richly hanged with a rich pall-cloth of gold lying on the hearse the Emperours Embassadour being chiefe mourner with other Péeres and Lords of England assistant with him c. The first of January the Lord Maior and Aldermen gaue in commandement to euery warde in London that the Procession Epistle and Gospell in English Parson or Curate in euery Parish Church in London should reade the Epistle and Gospell of the day in the Englishe tong in the Masse time and the English Procession then vsed in the Quéenes Chappell according to a Proclamation sent from hir Maiestie and priuie Counsell proclaymed in the Citie of London the xxx of December which commandement was that day obserued in most parish Churches of the Citis The ninth of January in the morning the Image of Thomas Becket which stoode ouer the dore of the Mercers Image of Thomas Becket throvvne dovvne Chappell in London toward the stréete was found broken and cast downe and a bill set on the Church dore deprauing the setters vp thereof The xij of January the Quéenes Maiestie remoued from hir place of White hall to the Tower by water the Lorde Maior of London and his bréethren the Aldermen in their Barge and all the Craftes of the Citie in their Barges richly decked with targets and banners of euery mysterie The Batchelers of the Maiors companie in their Barge with a Foyst hauing thrée toppes trimmed and richly decked to wayte on them which shotte off gunnes all the way all these awayted on hir Maiestie who tooke hir Barge about two of the clocke in the after noone the Lord Maior folowing after and euery company in order with great melodie of musicall instruments till hir grace was through London bridge and landed at hir priuie staire of the Tower Wharffe and then the Maior after leaue taken and thankes of the Quéene returned through the Bridge with the floud and landed at the Three Cranes Wharffe in the Uintrie The xiiij of January at which time the Londoners had made sumptuous prouision the Quéenes Maiestie passed through the Citie of London to hir Palace at Westminster Coronation the next day she was Crowned by Doctor Oglethorp Bishop of Carelile The xxv of January began a Parliament at Westminster Parliament before the States whereof Doctour Coxe late come from beyond the Seas and sometime Schoolemayster to King Edward the sixth made a learned Sermon In this Parliament the first fruites and tenthes were granted to the Crowne and also the supreme gouernemeÌ„t ouer the state Ecclesiasticall Likewise the Booke of commoÌ„ Prayer and administration of the Sacraments in our vulgar tongue was restored to be done as in the time of King Edward the sixth In the Easter Holydayes preached at the Spittle Doctour Bill the Quéenes Almoner Doctour Coxe and Doctour Horne the two last came lately from beyond the seas On Lowsonday the seconde of Aprill Mayster Sampson made the rehearsall Sermon at Paules Crosse The iij. of Aprill the Quéenes Maiestie appoynted a coÌ„ference or disputation to be had at Westminster Church betwéene 1559 the olde Bishops and certayne learned men late A conference at VVestminster come
from beyond the Seas concerning matters of Religion but the matter came to small effect The seauenth of Aprill was a peace proclaymed betwixt England and France And the like betwéene hir Maiestie and the King and Quéene of Scotland The xix of Aprill was kepte the Serieants feast in the â—â—ner Temple and nine Serieants were there made Maiâ—â—er Reignald Chamley Recorder of London being one of y â— ix A Subsidie of ij sÌ„ viij d. the pound of moueable goods was Subsidy granted granted and the Parliament dissolued the vij of May. The seconde of July the Citizens of London had a muster The Citizens of London mustered at Greenevvich afore the Quéenes Maiestie at Greenewich in the Parke of fourtéene hundred men whereof eyght hundred were Pikemen all in fine Corselets foure hundred Haquebuts in shirtes of mayle with morians and two hundred Halberters in almanriuets which were furnished and set forth by the companyes of the Citie of London they had to euery hundred two wiffelers richly apparelled and twelue wardens of the best companyes riding in coates of blacke Ueluet to conduct them with drommes and fifes and sixe Ensignes all in Jerkins of white Bridges Satten cutte and lined with blacke Sarsenet with cappes hosen and skarfes according the Captayne 's Robert Constable and Mayster Saunders brought them in battayle ray afore the Quéene euen as they should haue fought which made a goodly shewe before hir Maiestie the Emperoures and French Kings Embassadours béeing present In the moneth of July the olde Bishops of England then liuing were called and examined by certayne of y e Quéenes Bishops depriued Maiesties Counsayle where the Bishops of Yorke Ely and London with other to the number of thirtéene or fourtéene for refusing to take the oth touching the Quéenes supremacie and other Articles were depriued from their Bishoprickes And likewise were diuers Deanes Archdeacons Parsons and Uicars depriued from their Benefices and some committed to prison in the Tower Fléete Marshalsea and Kings bench Commissioners were likewise appoynted for the establishing Commissioners of Religion through the whole Realme For London were appoynted Sir Richard Sackuile Knight Doctouâ— Horne a Diuine Doctour Huicke a Ciuilian and Mayster Saluage who called before them diuers persons of euery parish and sware them to enquire and present vpon certayne iniunctions Iniunctions Also the houses of Religion erected by Quéene Mary Houses suppressed as the Monkes of Westminster Nunnes and bréethreâ— of Sion and Sheene the blacke Friers in Smithfielde and the Friers of Greenewich were all suppressed On the euen of Saint Barthelmew the daye and the Church ymages burned merrow after c. were burned in Paules Church yarde Cheape and diuers other places of the Citie of London all the Roodes and other Images of Churches in some places the Coapes Uestments Alter clothes Bookes Banners Sepulchers and Roode loftes were burned The fifth of September about midnight fell a greate tempest at London in the ende whereof a great lightning with a terrible clappe of thunder strake the Spire béeing stone of the Stéeple of Alhallowes Churche in Bredstreete Churches in London striken and broken by tempest about a tenne foote beneath the toppe out of the which fell a stone that slew a Dogge and ouerthrew a man playing with the same Dogge and the Spire of the Stéeple was so perished that not long after the same was taken downe with lesse charges to the Parish than the repayring woulde haue cost And at the same instant by the same tempest one of the South dores of Saint Dionise Churche in Fenchurch streete with the dore of the Reuestrie of the same Churche were both stricken thorough and broken The eyght and ninth of September a solemne Obsequie Obsequy for the French King was kepte in Paules Churche at London for Henry the French King departed who dyed of a wound giuen by the County Mountgomerie at a triumph iusting in the Citie of Paris whereof he dyed about the tenth daye of July About the last of September Iohn Duke of Finland seconde Embassadour from Svvethen sonne to Gustabus Kyng of Swethen was sente by hys father to treate a marriage for hys eldest brother Ericus with the Quéenes Maiestie of Englande he arriued at Harwich in Essex and was there honourably receyued enterteyned by y e Earle of Oxford which said Earle the Lord Robert Dudley with a goodly baude of Gentlemen and yeomen conueyed him to London where he was receyued of diuers Knightes and Gentlemen of the Court on the fifth of October and was with his trayne of about the number of fiftie persons well horssed conuayed to the Bishop of Winchesters place in Southwarke where he was lodged during his abode héere and remoued from thence two dayes before Easter homeward and sped on his message as may appeare by that which foloweth takeÌ„ out of Iohannes Lewenclaij comment de bellis Moscorum Ericus King of Sweden sonne of Gustabus late King of the sayde Kingdome hauing committed to prison his brother Iohn Duke of Finlande whome a little before he had employed into England on an Embassage to the Quéenes Maiestie whome he sued to for marriage and had his sute reiected agayne the second time solicited hir Maiestie in the same suite notwithstanding to his great dishonor and as it fell out his iust disgrace he attempted the same matter with the yongest daughter of Phillip Lantgraue Vanhessen at whose hand hauing the seconde tyme bin reiected of hir Maiestie héere the matter béeyng knowne there he also not onely receyued a denyall but the Lady was by hir Father bestowed vppon Adolfe Duke Van Holst Unckle Iohannes Lewenalaij of Frederike Kyng of Denmarke then enemie of the sayde Erice Thus farre Iohannes Lewenclaij Thomas Lodge Roger Martin the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Anno reg 2. Sir William Hewet Clothworker the 28. of October About this time many men of warre were conueyed out of France into Scotlande and there placed in Townes and Fortresses as in the Towne of Leeth Dunbarre Inskith and other whereby it was to bée suspected that they would sodeynely inuade thys Realme wherevpon the Quéenes Maiestie sente the Duke of Norffolke towards Duke of Norffolke sent into Scotland Scotland as Generall with an army who remayned at Berwike In the moneth of Aprill the Lord Grey Wilton entred 1560 Scotland with an army of tenne thousand and beséeged the towne of Lâ—th where betwéene the French and the English Lord Grey beseeged Lieth were often skirmishes and many slayne on both sides for few were taken prisoners In May a noble man of France by licence of the Quéenes Maiestie passed through England into Scotland to talke with the Quéene Dowager and the Frenchmen for the appeasing of this matter who at his returne agayne into England obteyned of the Quéenes Maiestie to send Sir William Ciuill Knight hir Maiesties principall Secretary with Mayster Doctour Wootton to treate with the
Glastenburie brent Pag. 213 Gorbodug king Pag. 24 Gorbomanus king Pag. 29 Gorbonian king Pag. 30 Gospell preached in England Pag. 57 Godwin Sands Pag. 173 Good Parliament Pag. 467. euil Parliament Pag. 519. lay mans Parliament Pag. 559 Golden Rose sent from Rome Pag. 933 Gold enhaunsed Pag. 941 Grantham builded Pag. 29 Grantbridge or Cambridge Pag. 122 Grey Friers in England Pag. 259 Grifithe of Wales brake his necke out of the Tower of London Pag. 269 Grauesend Bishop of London Pag. 315 Groates halfe groates coyned Pag. 420 Grey Friers in LondoÌ„ an Hospital Pag. 1053 Great and wonderful tempestes Pag. 1106 Gardner made Lord Chauncellour Pag. 1071 deceased Pag. 1099 Great Hary a slip brent Pag. 1071 Great seale taken from the Lord Riche page Pag. 1050 Greenewich Towne builded Pag. 240 Giles Church brent Pag. 1032 Great flouds Pag. 1099 Great fishes Pag. 1053 Great muster in London Pag. 1015 Gwindolen Queene Pag. 19 Gurgustus king Pag. 23 Gurgustius King Pag. 28 Guinthelinus king Pag. 28 Gurguinus king Pag. 30 Guinouer wife to Arthur Pag. 81 Gurmondchester builded Pag. 88 Guy Earle of Warwicke slew Colbronde Page 131 Guisnes gotten by the English Pag. 421 Gunnes muented Pag. 480 Guilde Hall in London builded Pag. 573 Gunne shot at the Preacher Pag. 1091 H. HAdrianus a Romaine Pag. 54 Hadley in Essex Pag. 124 Harold a Dane King Pag. 141 Hardicanutus king Pag. 142 Harold king Pag. 146. slaine Pag. 147 Hartes leapt into the Sea Pag. 240 Hales Owen reedified Pag. 251 Halfepence and farthings round Pag. 299 Handes of men cut of for rescuing of a prisoner Pag. 306 Hastings brent Pag. 472 Harlow Castel wonne Pag. 721 Hayle stones Pag. 18. ynches about Pag. 870 Hayle in Northamptonshire did muche harme Pag. 1174 Hailestones figured like meÌ„ heads Pag. 103 Hangman hanged Pag. 1013 Helius king Pag. 31 Helen mother to Constantine Pag. 69 Hengest Saxon. Pag. 80. king of Kent Pag. 83 Hengest first king of Kent Pag. 190 Hereforde Bishoppes Sea founded Pag. 106 Hereford brent Pag. 164 Henâ—ie the first Pag. 176 Hereford brent Pag. 189 Henrie the seconde king Pag. 200 wenteagainst the Welchmen Pag. 201 Hergelius Patriarke Pag. 214 Hedges burned Pag. 237 Henrie the third King Pag. 252 Herdesmen go toward Ierusalem Pag. 340 Hugh Spencer executed Pag. 349 350 Henrie Percy created Erle of Northumberland Pag. 471 Henrie bastard of Spaine Pag. 475 Herfleete besieged Pag. 589 Henrie sonne to Iohn of Gaunt created Duke of Hereforde Pag. 527 accufeth the Duke of Norffolke Pag. 528 banished Pag. 529 returneth into Englande Pag. 532. chosen king Pag. 540 crowned â—42 conspiracie againste him Pag. 544. entreth Scotlande Pag. 547. in great daunger Pag. 549 marieth the dutches of Brytaine Pag. 553. conspiracie against him Pag. 563. writeth to the Pope Pag. 571. ended his life Pag. 576 Henrie Beauchamp created duke of Warwicke Pag. 648 Henrie Lord Bourcher made Earle of Essex Pag. 713 Henrie son to Henrie the seauenth borne Page 865 Henrie sonne to Henrie the fourth made prince of Wales Pag. 541. his demean of at his fathers deathe Pag. 576. crowned king Pag. 583. entreth Normandie Pag. 588. Pag. 599. returneth home Pag. 597. deceased Pag. 614 Henrie the sixth borne at Windsor Pag. 612 King of England and of Fraunce Pag. 618 crowned Pag. 633. at Paris Pag. 635. fled into Scotlande Pag. 712. disherited Pag. 713 taken Pag. 717 â—estored Pag. 725. sent to the Tower prisoner Pag. 727. murdered Pag. 729. his coÌ„mendation Pag. 730 his Colledge Pag. 731. his death Pag. 756. buried at Windsor Pag. 84â— Edward Prince borne in Sanctuarie Pag. 726 Pag. 807. King of Englande Pag. 7â—â— his aunswere to his mother Pag. 805 murdered Page 828 Henrie Earle of Richmonde landed at Mylford hauen Pag. 851. proclaymed king Pag. 858 drowned Pag. 861. besieged Buloigne Pag. 866 builded a Chapple at Westminster Pag. 875. Hospitall of the Sauoy Pag. 891. deceased ibidem his sepulchre Pag. 892 Hingwer the Dane slayne Pag. 123 Honorius Emperour Pag. 73 Hokenorton a towne Pag. 129 Houndsdich Pag. 139 Hofen a payre for a king three shillings Page 168 Howses blowne down in Cheape Pag. 170 Hospital of Saint Leonard at Yorke fouÌ„ded Pag. 175 Hospitall of Saint Giles Pag. 183 Hospital of Saint Crosse builded Pag. 185 Hospital of s Thomas in Southwark Pag. 244 Hospitall at Oxford Pag. 263 Hospital of Saint Marie at London Pag. 265 Hospital at Lecester founded Pag. 365 Hogges in Normandie brent by Edward the third Pag. 394 Hospitall at Kingston founded Pag. 461 Housekeeping of the Earle of Warwike Page 722 House at London bridge fell into the Thames Pag. 748 Humber a Riuer Pag. 18 Humfrey Duke of Glocester chalengeth to coÌ„bat with Philip D. of Burgoign Pag. 625. marieth Elianor Cobham Pag. 631. dyed at Bury Pag. 650. debate betwene the D. of Glo. and the Bi. of Winchester Pag. 627 I. I Ago King Pag. 23 Saint Iames in Bristowe builded Pag. 181 Iames Churche at Garlike Hithe builded Pag. 349 Iaqueline Dutchesse of Henalt Pag. 623 married to the Duke of Gloucester Pag. 624 Iames son to the King of Scottes taken Pag. 567. released of his imprisonment Pag. 629 Iacke Cade a rebel Pag. 652. Pag. 653 entred London Pag. 659. pardoned Pag. 661. beheaded Page 663 Iames house purchased by the king Pag. 798 Ida firste King of the Northumbers Pag. 107 Iewels haÌ„ged and left in the high wayes not touched but of the owners Pag. 127 Iewes robbed Pag. 220. imprisoned Pag. 238. spoyled Pag. 246. their Synagogue Pag. 262 Iewes borne in Englande Pag. 273. hanged Page 275 Iewe drowned Pag. 277. Iewes spoyled Pag. 278 Iewes executed Pag. 298. their Synagogues destroyed Pag. 301. banished Pag. 304 Iewes and Leapers poysoned waters Pag. 341 Iedworth in Scotland brent Pag. 933 Iewels and Church Plate called into the Kings hande Pag. 10â—7 Ioseph of Aramath â—7 Iohn the Kings sonne made Lord of Irelande Pag. 294 Iohn the Kings brother rebelled Pag. 221. 223 Iohn King Pag. 230. diuorced Pag. 231. sommoned to the Frenche Courte Pag. 232. resigned the Crowne and absolued Pag. 243. crossed to Hierusalem Pag. 245. fled Pag. 249. hys treasure drowned Pag. 250 Iohn Eure helde landes in Scotlande Pag. 319 Iohn Kirby hanged Pag. 480 Iohn Ball hanged Pag. 489 Iohn Wraw hanged Pag. 491 Iohn Philpots worthinessâ— Pag. 476. Pag. 479. deceassed Pag. 495 Murder in Westminster Church Pag. 477 Iohn Northamptons sedition Pag. 493 Iohn Holand created Erle of HuntingtoÌ„ Page 507 Iohn Duke of Lancaster entreth Spaine Pag. 500. made Duke of Aquitaine Pag. 510 marryeth Katherine Swinford Pag. 518. dyeth Pag. 530 Iohn Gower Pag. 548 Sir I. Oldeastel coÌ„uict Pag. 584. executed Pag. 599 Iohn Beaufort made Duke of Somerset Page 647 Iohn Dauy loste hys hande in Cheape Page 713 Iohn Duke of Bedford regent of France married Anne daughter to the Duke of Burgoigne Pag. 619 Saint Iohns in Smithfielde suppressed Page 1019 Ione Butcher brent Pag. 1047 Ile of Shepey Pag. 115 Ile of Wight
England and his Quéen were lodged in the Castell of Lowre and the King of France and his Quéene were lodged in the pallace of Saint Paule King Henrie hearing that the Dolphen with a great power besieged the Towne of Guisney he determined to goe himselfe to the raysing of the siege and so came to the town of Corbeil and so to Senlis where he waxed so sicke that hée was constrayned to tarry and send his brother the Duke of Bedforde to rescue theÌ„ of Cosney but the Dolphin raysed hys siege and departed thence King Henrie his disease increasing he departed this life in the Castell called Boyes de Visceme not far from Paris on the last of August in the yeare 1422. when he had raigned nine yeares fiue monethes and odde dayes There was present at his death King Charles of Fraunce and the two Quéenes but before his death this most prudent King disposed the guarde of the yong Prince his sonne and the defence of the realme of Englande to hys brother Humfrey Duke of Glocester but the custodie of the body of this yong Prince the King committed to his vncle the Duke of Excester and the reuenues of the Dutchie of Normandie he bequethed to his brother Iohn Duke of Bedforde for the gouernaunce of the same Dutchy and of the Realme of France In his life time he reedified his royall manour that then was called Shine nowe Richmount hée founded two Monasteries vpon the Thamis not farre from Richmount the one of Carthusians whiche he named Bethlem the other of religious men and women of Saint Bridget and that he named Sion He founded Gartar principal Kyng at armes of all Englishmen and also the brotherheade of Sainte Gyles without Creple Gate of London Shortlye after hys departing his bowels were enterred in the Church of Sainte More de Fosses and his corps well enbaulmed and seared was closed in leade and accompanyed with all the Lords Enguerant estates and commons of England that were there presente with also many Lords and great estates as well of France Normandie Burgondie and Picardie was brought with greate honour to Paris and set in the Churche of our Ladie where were done for him right solemne exequies with distributioÌ„ of mony and great almes to the poore From thence he was broughte to Roane where he aboade long When all things necessarie were prepared for the conueyaunce of the deade King into Englande hys body was layde in a Chariot whiche was drawen by foure great horsses and aboue the dead corpes they layde a figure made of boyled hydes or leather representing his person as nyghe to the semblaunce of him as could be deuised painted curiously to the similitude of a liuing creature vpon whose heade was set an Emperiall Diadem of golde and precious stones and in his right hand he helde a Scepter royall and in his lefte hand a ball of gold And in this manner adorned was this figure layde in a bedde in the sayde Chariot with hys vnsage vncouered toward the heauens and the couerture of hys bedde was of red silke beaten with golde and besides that when the body shoulde passe through anye good Town a Canapie of maruaylous great value was borne ouer the Chariot by men of great worshippe In this manner accompanyed of the King of Scottes and of all Princes Lordes and Knightes of hys house he was broughte from Roane to Abeuile where the corpse was set in the Churche of Sainte Offrâ—ne From Abuile he was broughte to Hedin and from thence to Menstreull so to Bulloigne and to Caleis In all thys iourney were many men about the Chariot clothed al in white which bare in theyr handes torches burning after whom followed al the housholde seruauntes in blacke and after them came the Princes Lordes and estates of the Kyngs bloud adorned in vestures of mourning and after all thys from the sayde Corpse the distaunce of two Englishe myles followed the Quéene of Englande righte honourably accompanyed In thys manner they entred Caleis from whence after a fewe dayes they departed and continued theyr iourneys by water and lande vntyll they came to London where they arriued about the tenth of Nouember so were conuaied by London bridge through Cheap to the Cathedrall Churche of Saint Paule vppon the couering of the for moste of the foure horsses that conuayed the Chariot wer imbrodered the auntient armes of EnglaÌ„d vpon the couerture of the seconde horsse were the armes of England and Fraunce in one shielde quarterly vppon the couerture of the thirde horsse was imbrodered the armes of Fraunce without any maner of difference and on the fourth horsse were the armes of King Arthur When his exequies were solemnized at Saint Paules Church in London hée was brought from theÌ„ce to be enterred in the Abbay of Saint Peter at Westminster amongst hys noble auncestoures Thus thys most victorious and renoumed Kyng entred the way decréed for euery creature in the floure most lustie time of hys age to witte but sixe and thirtie yeares olde ⸪ ¶ King Henry of Windsor HEnrie the sixth being an infant of eight moneths old beganne Anno reg 1. Titus Liuius his raigne the last of August in the yeare 1422. Continuing the time of his youth the gouernance of the Realme was committed to y e Duke of Glocester and the gard of his person to the Duke of Excester and to the Duke of Bedford was giuen the regiment of France who right wisely and nobly ruled the same so long as he liued This Henry was of witte and nature simple gentle and méeke he loued better peace than warre quietnesse of mind than businesse of the world honestie than profite rest and â—ase than trouble and care all iniuries that euer happened to him which were many he suffered patiently and reputed them to be worthely sent of God for his offences William Gastfield Robert Tatarsale the 28. of Septem Sherifes Maior William Walderne Mercer the 28. of October The xxj of October Charles King of France passed out of this world and was buried at S. Denis in France after he haâ— History of Loys Duke of Orleance Charles le bievv King of France dyed bin Crowned King 46. yeares He was greatly beloued of his people all his life time and therefore was called Le Roy Charle le biew ame but yet he had a sicknesse the more part of his raigne that being out of his witte he woulde strike all that came néere him it tooke him first in the Citie of Mans shortly after he had bin in Flanders to reduce the Flemings to obedience There was by reason héereof great trouble in France bycause those that were néere to him in lignage sought euery one to haue the chiefe gouernement in theyr hands When he thus dyed the Realme was left in miserable state for people of each strange nation were gouernoures in the Realme First the Englishmen had conquered a great parte and sought to haue the rest and the Duke of
was buried at Westminster King Henrie remayning still in Fraunce the Earle of Arundale accompanyed with two thousand Englishmen sente a certaine of his company vnto a Towne called Bealmount to prouoke she Frenchmen to issue out of the towne which smal coÌ„pany when Boyssycant Sentrales theÌ„ Captains behelde they with their souldiours sped them forth to take the sayd Englishmen y â— which by little little gaue backe till they had tolled the Frenchmen a good space from the Towne and then sette vpon them with a stoute courage and helde them on hand tyll the Earle with his company rescued them then betwixt them was a cruell fighte but in the end the Frenchmen were chased and the sayd Sentrayle with many footmen of the sayde Town were slaine Iohn Aderle Stephen Browne the. 28. of September Sherifes Maior Iohn Wels Grocer the. 28. of October Thys IOHN WELLES Maior of London caused the Conduite commonlye called the Standarde in Cheape to bée builded On the seauenth day of December Kyng Henrie was Crowned in Paris by the Cardinall of Winchester at the which Coronation was presente the Duke of Burgoigne the Duke of Bedforde Regente and diuerse other Nobles of France After the solemnitie of thys feaste was ended the King departed from Paris and so came to Roane where he helde hys Christmasse and that done he returned to Caleis where when he hadde soiourned a season he tooke shipping and returned into England and landed at Douer the eleauenth of Februarie and then rydyng towarde London he was mette on Barham Downe betwixte Douer and Canterburie by a greate companye of Gentles and Commons of Kent all cladde in a liuerie wyth redde hoods the whiche accompanyed hym tyll he came to Blacke Heath which was on the one and twentith day of February where he was mette by the Maior of London who rode in a gowne of Crimson Ueluet his Aldermen in Scarlet the Citizens al in white gownes and red hoodes with diuerse works or Cognisances brodered vpoÌ„ their sléeues after y e facultie of their misteries or crafts after due obeysaÌ„ce and saluting of the king they rode on before him towards y e City And when the King was come to the Bridge there was deuised a mightie Giaunt standing with a sworde drawen in his hande hauing written certaine spéeches in metre of great reioycing and welcoÌ„ming of the King to the Citie on the middest of the Bridge and in diuerse other places of the Citie were diuerse faire and sumptuous pageants replenished with goodly and beautifull personages the order and spéeches whereof are sette downe by Robert Fabian in hys cronicle Thus being coÌ„ueyed to his pallace at Westminster the Maior with the Citizens returned to London and on the xxiitj day of Februarie the Maior and Aldermen yode to the King and presented him with a Hampire of Golde and 1433 therin a thousand pound of nobles This yeare by reason of the souldiours of Caleis a restraynte was made there of the Woolles for they were not content of their wages wherefore the Regente of Fraunce came downe thyther in Easter wéeke at which time many souldiours wer arrested and rode again to Tirwine And hauing not long buried the Lady Anne his late wife sister to the Duke of Burgoigne he married there the Earles daughter of Saint Paule and shortly after returned to Caleis where he caused foure of those souldiours to be beheaded on the. xj of June and. 110. souldiours to be banished the towne besides 120. that were banished before that tyme. And vpon Midsommer euen the Lord Regent with his new wedded spouse came to London and remayned there till the Anno reg 11 Sherifes Maior latter end of August Iohn Olney Iohn Peddesley the. 28. of September Iohn Perneis Fishmonger the. 28. of October On the. xxv day of Nouember was the Lord Fitz Water drowned on the sea and much other harmes were done by tempest 1433 Parliament On the eight day of July King Henrie began his Parliament at Westminster continued it till Lammas and then adiourned it vntil Saint Edwards tide This yere in the South-Weast appeared a blasyng star During the raigne of this King Henrie the sixth were lieutenaunts ouer the realme of Irelande Edmond Earle of March and Iames Earle of Ormond his deputie Iohn Sutton Knight Lorde of Dudley and sir Thomas Straunge hys deputie sir Thomas Stanley and sir Christopher Planket his deputie Lyon Lorde Welles and the Earle of Ormonde his deputie Iames Earle of Ormonde the Kings Lieuetenaunt by himselfe Iohn Erle of Shrewesburie and the Archbishop of Diuelin Lord Justice in his absence Richard Plantagenet Anno reg 12 Duke of Yorke Father to Edwarde the fourth and Earle of Vlstar had the Office of Lieutenaunt by letters patents during the space of tenne yeares who deputed vnder him at seuerall times the Baron of Diuelin Richarde Fitz Eustace Knight Iames Earle of Ormonde and Thomas Fitz Moris Earle of Kildare to this Richard then resident in Diuelin was borne within the Castel there the seconde sonne George Duke of Clarence afterward drowned in a Butte of â—almesey Thomas Chalton Iohn King the. 28. of September Sherifes Maior Iohn Brokeley Draper the. 28. of October The ninth of Nouember the tormente of the Earle of Saint Paule Father to the Dutchesse of Bedford was solemnly holden in Paules Church of London where the more parte iâ— estates of this realme were present The ninth of Marche the Lorde Talbot with a goodlye companye passed throughe the Citie of London towardes Fraunce where he wrought much woe to the Frenchmen The 1434 Towne of Saint Denis which is within two English myles of Paris was gotten by the practise of one Iohn Notice a knight of Orleance from Matthew Gouglye and Thomas Kiriel Captaines they slewe there many Englishmen and toke many prisoners but soone after the sayde Captaines with strength taken from Paris layde such a strong siege aboute Saint Denis that finally they agréed to deliuer the Town to the Englishmen In thys season also the earle of Arundale which in Normandie had manly born him hearing that one Hirus â— Frâ—ch Captaine had fortifyed a strong Castell named Gerborym before destroyed of the Englishmen toke with him a certaine number of souldiours and belaied the Castel with a strong siege and assaulted it sundry times manfully but Gagwine sayeth the saide Hirus with his companye issued out of the Castell and gaue vnto the sayde Earle a cruel skirmish in the which the sayde Earle receiued a deadly wound and dyed shortly after Anno reg 13 Sherifes Maior Thomas Barnewel Simon Eyre the. 28. of September Roger Otley Grocer the. 28. of October Through a great Froste that lasted from the fiue and Great Frost twentith of NoueÌ„ber vnto the tenth of Februarie the Thamis was so frozen that the Merchandice which came to the Thamis mouth was there landed and carried through Kent to London When the Pope Eugeny the fourth
order of the Garter one of the Quéenes Maiesties priuy Counsell and Lorde high Treasorer of England at his Manour of Basing Thys worthy man was borne in the yeare of our Lorde 148â— the firste yeare of King Richarde the thirde and lyued aboute the age of 87. yeares in sixe Kings and Quéenes dayes He serued fiue Kings and Quéenes Henrie the seauenth Henrie the eight Edwarde the sixth Quéens Marie and Quéene Elizabeth All these he serued faithfully and of them was greately fauoured Hymselfe did sée the chyldrâ—n of hys childrenâ— children growen â—o the â—â—â—ber of â—03 Aâ—â—â—â— blessing gyuen by God to men of hys â—â—â—â—ing The xxv and xxvj of March by the commaundement of the Quéenes Maiestie hir Councel the Citizens of London assembling at their â—â—â—â—â—all Halles the Maisters chose oute â—he moâ—â—e 〈◊〉 â—â—◠〈◊〉 persons of euerye their companies to 〈…〉 eâ— of thrée thousande whom they appoynted to be Pikemen and 〈◊〉 â—hâ— Pikemen were forthwith armed in â—aâ—â—â—â—â—râ—eâ—â— and â—â—â—â—r furniture according there vnto the Gunners had euery of them hys Callyuer with the furniture and 〈◊〉 on theyr heaâ—es To these were appoynted dyuers valiant Capitaines who to â—â—aine them vp in warlike â—eaâ—◠〈◊〉 them â—â—râ—ce euery wéeke sometimes in the Artillery yarde teaching the Gunners to handle their péeces sometime at the Miles end and in Saint Georges fielde teaching them to skyrmishe In the whyche skyrmishe wythe Miles end the tenth of Aprill one of the 〈◊〉 of the Goldsmiths company was shot in the 〈◊〉 wyth a péece of a scowring sticke lefte in one of the Calyuers whereof he dyed and was buryed the twelfth of Aprill in S. Paules Churcheyarde al the Gunners marching from the Miles end in battaile ray shotte off theyr Calyuers at hys graue On May day they mustred at Grenewich before y e Quéens Maiestie where they shewed manye warlike feates but were hindred by the weather whych was all day showring they returned that nighte to London and were discharged on the nexte morrowe The fourth of May Walter Deueroux Lorde Ferrers of Earles of Essex and Lincolne created Chartley and Viscount of Herâ—fonde was created Earle of Essex And Edwarde Fines Lorde Clinton and Say hyghe Admirall of Englande was created Earle of Lincolne The eight of May the Parliament beganne at Westminster Barons made and that same daye in the Parliament by the Quéenes Maiesties Writtes sir Henrie Compton Knight Lorde of Comptâ—n in the Hole sir Henry Cheyney Knight Lorde of Tudington sir William Pawlet Knight of Basing and sir Henrie Norrice Knight Lorde of Rycote were called Barons into the higher house In this Parliament for so muche as the whole Realme of England was excéedingly pestred with Roags Uagabonds and sturdy beggers by meanes wherof dayly hapned diuers horrible murders theftes and other greate outrages it was enacted that all persons aboue the age of fourtéene yeres beyng taken begging vagrant and Roags brente through the â—are wandring misorderly shoulde be apprehended whipped brent through the griâ—â—le of the right eare with a hote yron of one ynch compasse for the firste time so taken The foure and twentith of May Martin Bulloke was hanged on a Gibbet by the Well with two Buckets in Bishoppes gate stréete of London for robbing and most shamefullye murdering of a Merchaunt named Arthure Hall in the Personage of Saint Martine by the saide Well Thys Martin hadde procured the saide Arthure Hall to come to the sayd Personage to buy of hym certaine Plate but after the saide Arthure hadde well viewed the same he saide this is none of your Plate it hathe Doctor Gardeners marke I knowe it to be his that is true said Martin Bullocke but he hath appoynted me to sell it c. After thys talke whyles the said Arthure was weighing the Plate the same Martin fetcht out of the Kitchen a thicke washing Béeâ—le and commyng behinde hym strake the saide Arthure on the head that hée felled him with the firste stroke and then strake hym againe and after tooke the saide Arthures Dagger and sticked hym and wyth hys knyfe cut hys throate and after woulde haue trussed hym in a Danske Cheste but the same was too shorte wherevppon he tumbled him downe a paire of stayres and after thinking to haue buryed hym in the Seller hys legges being broken with the fyrst fal and stiffe he coulde not drawe hym downe the Seller staires béeyng wynding wherefore he cutte off hys legs wyth an Hatchet and in the ende trussed hym with Strawe in a drye fat and saying it was his apparell and Bookes caused the same to be carryed to the water side and so shipped to Rye The sixe and twentith of May the right honorable Earle of Lincolne departed from London towardes Fraunce Embassador being accompanyed with the Lords Dacres the Lord Riche the Lord Talbot the Lord Sandes and the Lord Clinton sir Arthure Chambernowne sir Ierome Bowes and sir Edwarde Hastings Knightes wyth dyuers other Gentlemen who takyng ship at Deuer cutte ouer to Bolongne where they were very honorably receyued from thence conueyed by iorneys to Paris where they were lodged in a house of y e kings named Le Chasteau de Loure being attended on by the Kings Officers Fiue dayes after they wente to the King at a house called Madril where the Kyng wyth his two brethren the Admirall and the moste parte of the Nobles of Fraunce mette them a distance from the place and broughte them into the house where they dyned and remayned till Sondaye followwyng from whence the Kyng and hys nobles with the nobles of Englande came to Paris the Kyng his two brethren and oure Embassador ryding in one Coche togither and the Nobles of England and Fraunce being so placed also in Coches came to the saide Castell of Loure and there dyned After dinner the King our Embassadour with the Nobibilitie of bothe Realmes wente to a Churche named Saint Germaine where the Frenche King his brethren and Nobilitie hearde Euensong the Noble men of Englande withdrawing them into a Chappell til Euensong was done were then fetched thence by the Nobles of Fraunce to the Kyng and hys brethren that awayted their commyng where was League vvith Fraunce confirmed in Fraunce confirmed the league whyche hadde bin concluded at Blois the ninetéenth of April deputies beyng there for the French partie Frauncis Momorencie Reignold Virago Sebastian de Lanbespine and Paul de Foix. And for the Quéene of Englande sir Thomas Smith and Maister Walsingham Embassadors Thys being done they departed without the wals of Paris to a Garden of pleasure where they supped after supper the King departed to his place of Madrill and the nobles of Englande to the Castell of Loure On Monday the Admirall feasted the Nobles of Englande On Tuisday the Duke of Aniow the Kings brother and on Wednesday the Duke of Alanson hys yonger brother and so passed in banquetting and feasting wyth riche giftes on bothe partes On Fridaye the Nobles of