The names of the chiefe townes in Connaght Aloane Galuoy Anry Louaghryagh Clare Toame Sligagh Rossecomman Arctlowne The names of the chiefe townes in Meeth Trymme Doonshaghlenne Rathlouth Nauanne Abooy Scryne Taraugh Kemles Doonboyne Greenock Duleeke The names of the townes in Westmeeth Molingare Fowre Loughfeude Kylkenywest Moylagagh Deluynne In the xxxiiij 1542. yeare of the reigne of King Henry the eight it was enacted in a parliament holden at Desâ—…yeâ—…re before Syr â—…thouâ—…e Setitleger knight Lorde deputie of Irelande that Méeth shoulde be deuided and made two shyres one of them to bée called the countie of Méeth the other to be called the county of West méeth and that there shoulde be two shayeles and offycers conuenyent within the same shyres as is moâ—… exprest in the acte The names of the chiefe hauen townes in Irelande Loughfoyle The Banne Wolderfrith Craregfergus Strangforde Ardglas Lougheuen Carlingforde Kylkeale Dundalk Kylclogher Dunnany Drogheda Houlepatrick Nany Baltray Brymore Balbriggen Roggers towne Skerrish Rushe Malahyde Banledooyle Houth Dublynne Dalkee Wickincloa Arckloa Weisford Bagganbun The Passage Waterforde Dungaruan Rosse noua Youghylle Corck mabegge Corck Kynsale Kyerye Rosse Ilbere Dorrye Baltynymore Downenere Downesheade Downelounge Attannanne Craghanne Downenâ—…bwyne Balyneskilyliodge Daugyne â—…house Traly Senynne Cassanne Kylnewyne Lymmetick Innyskartee Belalenne Arynenewyne Glanemaughe Ballyweyham Bynwarre Dowrys Woran Roskam Galway Kyllynylly Innesbosynne Owran Moare Kylcolken Burske Belleclare Rathesilbene Byerweisowre Buraueis hare Ardne makow Rosbare Kilgolynne Wallalele Rabranne Strone Burweis now Zaltra Kalbalye Ardnock Adrowse Sligaghe Innes Bowsenne Camb. lib. 1. Top. dist 2. rub 3. 4. Cambriense obserued in his time that when the sea doth ebbe at Dublyue it ebbeth also at Bristow and floweth at Mylford Weisford At Wyckloâ—… the son â—…bbeth wheâ—… in all other partes â—…f commonly floweth Furthermore thâ—… he 〈◊〉 that the ryuer which â—…uÌ„â—…eth by Wâ—…ycklâ—… vpoâ—… 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 〈…〉 the next hauâ—… towne the ryuer 〈…〉 when the 〈…〉 wryteth 〈…〉 Archâ—…â—…â—…ethâ—… rocke and whâ—… the sea â—…eth inâ—… side therof it 〈…〉 the other 〈◊〉 â—…st Cambrienâ—…e â—…er with dyuers Philosophicall â—…lons 〈…〉 the 〈◊〉 by obseruing the 〈…〉 is the empresse of â—…yâ—…ure But the 〈…〉 leaue for the schoole streetes Of the estâ—… gâ—…nd wonderfull places in Irelande Cap. 4. I Thinke it good to begâ—…ne with S. Patrike his Purgatorie S. Patrike his Purgatorie partly bycause it is most notoriously knowen partly the more that some wryters as the auctor of Polichroâ—…icon and others that were miscaryed by 〈◊〉 séeme to make great doubt where they néede not For they ascribe the finding out of the place not to Patrike that couerted the countrey but to another Patricke aâ—… Abbat whâ—…̄ likewise they affirme to haue done employed in conuerting the Islande 〈◊〉 heatheâ—…rie to Christianitie But the auctor that broacheth this opinion is not founde to carie any such crediâ—…e wyth him as that a man may certainly affirme it or probably coniecture it vnlesse we relye to the olde wythered woorme eaten Legend loded with as many lowde lyes as lewde lines The better and the more certaine opinion is that the other Patricke founde it out in such wise as CambrieÌ„se reporteth Camb. lib. â—… Topog. dist 2. rub 6. There is a poole as lake sayeth he in the partes of Vlster that enuironneth an Island in the one part whereof there standeth a Churche much lightned with the brightsome recourse of Aâ—…gelles the other part is onely and gastly as it were a bedlem allotted to the visible assemblies of horrible and grisly bugges This part of the Islande contayneth nyne caues And if any dare be so hardye as to take one night his lodging in any of these Innes which hath béene experimented by some rashe and harebrayne aduenturers straight these spirites claw him by the back and tugge him so ruggedly and tosse him so crabbedly that nowe and then they make him more francke of his bumme then of his tongue a payment correspondent to his intertaynemeÌ„t This place is called S. Patricke his purgatorie of the inhabitours For when S. Patrike laboured the conuersion of the people of Vlster by setting before their eyes in great heate of spirite the creation of the worlde the fall of our progenitours the redemption of man by the blessed and precious bloude of our Sauiour Iesus Christ the certayntie of death the immortalitie of the soule the generall resurrection our latter dumbe the ioyes of heauen the paynes of hell howe that at length euery man small and great young and olde riche and poore king and keaser potentate peasaunt must eyther through God his gracious mercy be exalted to the one to floorish in perpetuall felicitie or through his vnsearcheable iustice tumbled downe to the other to be tormented in eternall miserie these and the like graue and weightie sentences wherewith he was aboundantly stored so farre funcke into their heartes as they séemed very flexible in condescending to hys behest so that some proofe of his estraunge preaching coulde haue béene veryfied Wherevpon wythout further delay they spake to the prelate in this wyse Syr as we like of your preaching so we dislyke not of our libertie You tell vs of many gye gawes and estraunge dreames You woulde haue vs to abandonne infidelitie to cage vp our libertie to bridle our pleasure For which you promise vs for our toyle and labour a place to vs as vnknowen so as yet vncertayne You sermon to vs of a dungeon appointed for offenders and miscredentes In deede if we coulde finde that to be true we woulde the sooner be weaned from the swéete napple of our libertie and frame our selues plyaunt to the will of that God that you reueale vnto vs. s Patricke coÌ„sidering that these sealy soules were as all dulcarnanes for y e more part are more to be terryfied from infidelitie through the paynes of hell then allured to Christianitie by the ioyes of heauen most heartily besought God sort stoode wyth his gracious pleasure for the honour and glorie of his diuine name to giue out some euident or glimsing token of the matter they importunatly requyred Finally by the especiall direction of God he founde in the North edge of Vlster a desolate corner hemmed in rounde and in the middle thereof a pit where he reared a Church called Reglis or Reglas Reglasse at the East end of the Churchyarde a doore leadeth into a closet of stone lyke a long ouen which they call S. Patricke hys purgatorie for that the people resorte thither euen at this day for pennaunce and haue reported at their returne estraunge visions of paine and blisse appearing vnto them Polichr lib. â—… 36.1138 The auctor of Polichronicon wryteth that in the reigne of king Stephane a knight named Owen pilgrimaged to this purgatorie being so appalled at the straunge visions that there he sawe as that vpon his returne from thence he was wholly mortyfied and sequestring himselfe from the worlde he spent the
Pontfret the seuen and twentith of August she reteyned the said Francis Diram in hir seruice to the intente shee mighte vse his company in such vnlawfull sorte the more freely and not satisfyed with him she also vsed the vnlawfull company of Thomas Culpeper Esquier one of y e Gentlemen of the kings priuie chamber At Lincolne saith Hall in August where she gaue to him a rich cap and a chayne as wel at Ponfret aforesayde on the nine and twentith and last daye of August aforesaide and on the firste of September as at diuers other times and places before and after wherevpon the thirtenth of Nouember sir Tho. Wriothesley Knighte the Kinges Secretary came to Hampton Courte vnto the saide Queene and called al hir Ladyes Gentlewomen and seruauntes into hir greate chamber and there openly in presence of them al Queene Katherin detected of incontinent liuing declared hir offences committed in abusing of hir body before hir mariage and therewith hee discharged hir houshold The morrow after she was conueyed to Sion the Lady Baynton and certaine Gentlewomen and some of his seruants being appoynted to wayte vpon hir there till the Kyngs pleasure might be farther knowen Culpeper Diram and others were hadde to the Tower Diram in his examination beeing charged with the familiaritie which had bin betwixt thē before shee was maried to the King confessed that he and the said Queene had made a precōtract togither and that he conceled it for hir preferment in mariage to the King after he vnderstoode the K. began to cast a liking towards hir The firste of December Culpeper and Diram were araigned at the Gulld Hall in London before the L. Maior sitting there in iudgemēt as chief iudge hauing the L. Chācellor vppon his right hande and the Duke of Norffolke vppon his lefte hande the Duke of Suffolke the Lord priuie seale the Earles of Sussex and Hereford with dyuers other of the Counsayle sitting there also as Iudges in commission that day the prisoners in the ende confessed the inditement and had iudgement to dye as in cases of treason Culpeper and ◅ram exe◅d The tenth of December the sayde Culpeper and Diram were drawen from the Tower vnto Tiburne and there Culpeper hadde as head striken off and Diram was hanged dis◅bred and headed Culpepers body was buryed in Sainte Sepulchers Churche but both theyr heads were set on London bridge The two and twentith of December were arraigned in the Kings benche at Westminster the Lady Margaret Howard ◅yndors wife to the Lorde William Howarde Katherine Tilney Alice Restwold Gentlewomen Ioane Bulmer wife to Anthony Bulmer Gentleman Anne Howard wife to Henry Howard Esquier and brother to the late Queene Maleyn Tilney Widdowe Margaret Benet wife to Iohn Benet Gentleman Edwarde Walgraue Gentleman William Ashby Gentleman all these were condemned of misprision of treason for concealyng the Queenes misdemeanour And the same day in the afternoone the Lorde William Howarde and Damporte a Gentleman were likewise araigned and condemned of the same offence and as well these as the other were adiudged to lose their goodes and the profites of their lands during life and to remayne in perpetuall prison A Parliament 1542 The sixtenth of Ianuary the Parliament began at Westminster in the whiche the Lordes and commons exhibited certaine petitions to the King Firste that hee woulde not vexe himselfe with the Queenes offence and that she and the Lady Rochfort might bee atteinted by Parliament and to auoyd protracting of time they besought him to giue his royall assent thereto vnder his greate seale without staying for the ende of the Parliamente Also that Diram and Culpeper before atteinted by the commō law might also be atteinted by Parliament and that Agnes Duches of Norffolke and Katherin Countesse of Bridgewater hir daughter which for concealing the sayd offence were committed to y e Tower and indited of misprision and the Lorde William Howard arreigned of the same might likewise be atteynted Also that who so euer had spoken or done any thing in detestation of hir naughtie life shoulde he pardoned To these petitions the King granted The Queene and other atteynted by Parliament than king the commons for that it appeared they tooke his griefe to bee theirs wherevppon the Queene and the Lady Rochford were atteynted by both the houses On the tenth of February The Queene sent to the Tower the Queene was conueyd from Sion to the Tower by water the Duke of Suffolke the Lord priuie seale and the Lord great Chamberlayne hauing the conduction of hit The next day after beyng Saterday and the eleuent of February the King did send his royall assent by his great seale and then all y e Lords were in their robes and the common house called vp and there the acte was redde and his assente declared And so on the thirtenth daye She is beheaded those two Ladyes were beheaded on the greeue within the Tower with an axe where they confessed their offences and dyed repentant Before this The King proclaymed K. of Irelande on the three and twentith day of Ianuary was the King proclaymed Kyng of Irelande as it was enacted both by authoritie of the Parliament here and also of an other Parliamente holden at Dublin in Ireland there begun the thirtenth of Iune last past before Sir Anthony Saintleger Knighte and the Kinges deputie there where as till that time the Kyngs of England were onely entituled Lords of Irelande In the beginning of March dyed Sir Arthur Plantagenet Vicount Lisle basterde sonne to Edwarde the fourth in the Tower of London vnatteynted when he shoulde haue bin deliuered and set at libertie The occasion of his trouble for the which hee was committed to the Tower rose vppon suspition that he should be priuie to a practise whiche some of his men as Philpot and Brindeholme executed the last yeare as before ye haue hearde had consented vnto for the betraying of Galais to the French whilest he was the Kings Lieutenant there But after that by due triall it was knowen that hee was nothing giltie to the matter the kyng appoynted Sir Thomas Wriothsley his Maiesties Secretarie to goe vnto hym and to deliuer to hym a ring with a riche diamond for a token from him and to will hym to be of good cheare for although in that so weightie a matter hee woulde not haue done lesse to hym if hee hadde bene hys owne sonne yet nowe vpon through triall had sith it was manifestlye proued that hee was voyde of all offence hee was sory that hee hadde bene occasioned so farre to trie his troth and therefore willed hym to bee of good cheere and comforte for he should find that he woulde make accompt of him as of hys most true and faithfull kinsman and not onely restore hym to his former libertie but otherwise forthe be ready to pleasure hym in what he could Master Secretary set forth thys message with such effectuall words
ecclesiasticall thorough Christendome conferred the whole clergy of Scotland accordyng to the olde lawes vnder the iurisdiction of the Archbishop of Yorke In the yeare of our Lord 1185. in the month of August at Cairleil Roulande Talnante lord of Galway did homage and fealty to the said king Henry with all that held of hym In the 22. yeare of the raigne of king Henry the 2. Gilbert sonne of Ferguse prince of Galway did homage and fealtie to the sayd king Henry and left Dunecan his sonne in hostage for conseruation of peace Richard surnamed Coeur de Lyon sonne of this Henry was next king of england to whoÌ„ the same William king of Scottes dyd homage at Caunterbury for the kyngdome of Scotland This king Richard was taken prisoner by the Duke of Ostrich for whose redemptioÌ„ the whole realme was taxed at great summes of money vnto the which this William king of Scots as a subiect was contributory and payed two M. markes sterlyng In the yere of our Lord 1199. Iohn kyng of england sent to William king of Scottes to come do his homage which William came to Lincolne in the moneth of December the same yeare and did his homage there vpon an hill in the presence of Hubert Archbishop of Caunterbury and of all the people there assembleâ—… and there was sworne vpon the crosse of the said Hubert Also he grâ—â—â—ted by his charter conâ—â—â—â—ed that he should haue the mariage of Alexander hys 〈◊〉 as hys liegeman alwayes to hold of the king of england promising moreâ—â—er that he the sayde king William his soâ—…e Alexander should kepe and hold faith and allegeance to Henry 〈◊〉 of the sayd king Iohn as to their chiefe Lord against all maner of men Also where as William king of Scots had put Iohn Bishoppe of s Andrewe out of his Bishopricke Pope Clemente wrote to Henry kyng of englande that he shoulde 〈◊〉 and indure the same William and if néede were requyre by hys Royall power compell hym to leaue his rancour agaynst y e sayd Bishop and suffer him to haue and occupye his sayde Bishopricke againe In the yeare of our Lorde 1216. and fiue and twenty of y e reign of king Henry sonne to king Iohn the same king Henry and the Quéene were at Yorke at y e feast of Christmasse for the solemnization of a marryage made in the feast of s Stephane the Martir the same yeare betwéene Alexander king of Scottes Margarete the kings daughter and there the sayde Alexander dyd homage to Henry king of Englande In Buls of diuers Popes were admonitions geueÌ„ to the kings of Scottes that they should obserue truly kéepe all such appointments as had ben made betwéene the kings of england and Scotland And that the kings of Scotland should holde the realme of Scotlande of the kings of englande vpon payne of curse and interditing After the deathe of Alexander kyng of Scottes Alexander his sonne beyng nyne yeres of age was by the lawes of Edgar inwarde to king Henry the 3. and by the nobles of Scotland brought to Yorke and there deliuered to him During whose minoritie king Henry gouerned Scotland and to subdue a commocion in this realme vsed the ayde of v. M. Scottishmen but king Henry dyed during the nonage of this Alexander whereby he receiued not his homage which by reason and law was respited vntil his full age of xxj yeares Edward the first after the conquest sonne of this Henry was next king of england immediately after whose coronation AlexaÌ„der king of Scottes being then of ful age did homage to hym for Scotlande at Westminster swearyng as all the reast did after this maner I.D.N. king of Scottes shal be true and faithfull vnto you Lorde E. by the grace of God king of England the noble and superior lord of the kingdome of Scotland and vnto you I make my fidelitie for the same kingdome the which I hold and claime to hold of you And I shall beare you my faith and fidelitie of lyfe and limme and worldly honour against all meÌ„ faithfully I shall knowledge and shall doe you seruice due vnto you of the kingdom of Scotland aforesayde as God me so helpe and these holy Euangelies This Alexander king of Scottes died leauing one only daughter called Margaret for his heire who before had maried Hanygo sonne to Magnus king of Norway which daughter also shortly after died leauyng one onely daughter her heire of the age of two yeares whose custody and mariage by the lawes of king Edgar and Edward the confessour belonged to Edward the first whervpon the nobles of Scotland were commauÌ„ded by our king Edward to send into Norway to conuey this yong Quéene into England to him whom he entended to haue maried to his soÌ„ne Edward and so to haue made a perfite vnion betwéene bothe Realmes Hereuppon their nobles at that tyme considering the same tranquillitie that many of them haue sithens refused stoode not vpon shiftes and delayes of minoritie nor conteÌ„pt but most gladly consented and therupon sent two noble men of Scotlande into Norway for hir to be brought to this king Edwarde but she died before their comming thither therefore they required nothing but to enioye the lawful liberties that they had quietly possessed in the last king Alexander his tyme. After the death of this Margaret the Scots were destitute of any heire to the crown from this Alexander their last king at which time this Edwarde discended from the bodye of Mawde daughter of Malcolme sometyme king of Scottes beyng then in the greatest broile of his warres with Fraunce mynded not to take the possession of that kingdome in his own right but was contented to establish Balioll to be king therof the weake title betwene him Bruse Hastings being by the humble peticion of all the realme of Scotland committed to the determination of this king Edward wherin by autentique writing they confessed the superioritie of the realme to remaine in king Edward sealed with the seales of iiij Bishops vij earles and xij barons of Scotland which shortly after was by the whole assent of y e thrée estates of Scotland in their solemne Parliament confessed and enacted accordingly as most euidently doth appeare The Balioll in this wise made kyng of ScotlaÌ„d did immediately make hys homage and fealty at Newcastle vpon saint Freâ—â—â—â— day as 〈◊〉 likewise all the Lordes of Scotland â—â—he one setting his hand to the compoâ—â—â—ion in writing to king Edward of England for the kingdom of Scotland but shortly after defrauding the benigne goodnesse 〈◊〉 this king Edward he rebelled and did 〈◊〉 much hurt in englande Hereupon king Edward inuaded Scotland seaâ—â—d into his haÌ„dâ—… the greater part of the countrey and tooke all the strengthes thereof whereuppon Baliol king of Scottes came vnto king Edwarde at Mauntrosse in Scotland with a white 〈◊〉 in his hand and there resigned the crownâ—… of Scotland with all his right title and interest to the same into the
to LondoÌ„ From whence he sente messengers vnto all suche Lordes as hee suspected commaunding them to send vnto him hostages for more assuraunce of their fidelities The Lords durst not disobey hys commaundemente but sente their sonnes theyr nephewes and other their kinsmen accordingly as he required and so hys rancor was appeased for a time But Eustace de Vescy Roberte Fitz Walter and Stephen Ridell being accused and suspected of the K. for the saide treason were glad to flee the Realm Vescy departing into Scotland and the other two into Fraunce The Kyng vnderstanding the meaning of the messengers sent them backe againe to bring ouer the Legate Legate â—…ulph â—…meth ouer who incontinently transported ouer vnto Douer of whose arriuall when the K. was aduertised he went thither receyued hym with al due honor reuerence and after they had talked togither a little and courteously saluted eache other as the course of humanitie required the Legate as it is reported vttered his tale vnto the Kyng in this manner 〈◊〉 Legates â—…s to the â—…g I doe not thinke that you are ignorant how Pope InnoceÌ„t to do that which to his duety apperteyneth hath both assoiled youre subiectes of that oth whiche they made vnto you at the beginning and also taken from you the gouernaunce of England accordyng to youre desertes and finally giuen commaundement vnto certayne Princes of Christendome to expulse you out of thys Kingdome and to place an other in your roomth so worthely to punish you for your disobedience and contempte of Religion and that Phillippe King of Fraunce with the first being ready to accomplish y e Popes commaundement hath an army in a readinesse and with his nauie newly decked rigged and furnished in all poyntes lyeth at the mouth of the Riuer of Sayne looking for a prosperous winde that as soone as it commeth about hee may sayle therewith hither into Englande trusting as hee saith with the help of your owne people whyche neyther name you nor will take you for theyr Kyng to spoyle you of youre Kyngdome with small adoe and to conquere it at his pleasure for he hath as he sticketh not to protest openly to the world a charter made by all the chiefest Lordes of England touching their fealtie and obedience assured to him Therefore sith God for your iust desert is wroth with you and that you are as euill spoken of by all menne as they that come against you be well reported I would aduise you that whilest there is place for grace and fauour rather to obey the Popes iust demaundes to whose worde other Christian Princes are ready to giue eare than by striuing in vayne to cast away youre selfe and all others that take youre parte or are bente to defende your quarrell or cause These wordes beeing thus spoken by the Legate Kyng Iohn as then vtterly despayring in his matters when hee saw hymselfe constreyned to obey hee was in a greate perplexitie of minde and as one full of thoughte looked aboute him with a frowning countenaunce waying with himselfe what counsell were best for him to follow At length oppressed with the burthen of the imminent daunger and ruine agaynst hys will and very loth so to haue done hee promised vpon hys oth to stande to the Popes order and decree And therefore shortly after in lyke manner as Pope Innocent hadde commaunded hee taketh the Crowne besydes his owne head K. Iohn deliuereth his crowne vnto Pandulph and deliuereth the same to Pandulph the Legate neyther hee nor hys heires at any tyme thereafter to receyue the same but at the Popes handes After thys hee promised to receyue Stephen the Archbyshoppe of Caunterbury into hys fauour with all other the Byshoppes and banished menne makyng vnto them sufficiente amendes for all iniuries to them done and so to pardon them that they shoulde not runne into any daunger for that they hadde rebelled agaynste hym Then Pandulph keepyng the Crowne with hym by the space of fyue dayes in token of possession thereof at length as the Popes Vicar Pandulph restoreth the Crowne again to the Kyng hee restored it to hym againe By meanes of thys acte sayth Polidore the fame went abroade that Kyng Iohn willing to continue the memorie heereof made himselfe vassall to Pope Innocente with condition that hys successors should lykewise from thencefoorth acknowledge to haue theyr righte to the same Kyngdome from the Pope But those Kynges that succeeded Kyng Iohn haue not obserued any suche lawes of reconciliation neyther doe the autentique Chronicles of the Realme make mention of any suche surrender so that suche Articles as were appointed to Kyng Iohn to obserue perteyned vnto hym that hadde offended and not to hys successors Thus saith Polidor howbeit Ran. Higd. Ranulf Higden in hys Booke entituled Polichronicon sayth indeede that Kyng Iohn dyd not onely bynde hymselfe but hys heires and successors beeyng Kynges of Englande England became tributarie to the Pope to bee feodaries vnto Pope Innocente and hys successors Popes of Rome that is to saye that they shoulde holde theyr dominions of them in fee yeeldyng and paying yeerely to the See of Rome the summe of seuen hundred markes for England Mat. VVest and three hundred markes for Irelande Furthermore by reporte of the most autentique and approoued Writers Kyng Iohn Mat. Paris for to auoyde all daungers whyche as he doubted myghte ensue despairing as it were in hymselfe or rather most specially for lacke of loyall duetie in hys Subiectes condiscended to all the perswasions of Pandulph and so not withoute hys greate hartes greeuaunce he was contented to take hys othe togyther with sixteene Earles and Barons who laying their hands vppon the holy Euangelistes sware with him vpon perill of soule that hee shoulde stand to the iudgement of the Church of Rome and that if hee repented him and would refuse to stand to promise they should then compell him to make satisfaction Heerevpon they being altogither at Douer the King and Pandulfe with the Earles and Barons and a greate multitude of other people agree and conclude vpon a final peace in forme as here ensueth The charter of King Iohn his submissioÌ„ Johannes Dei gratia Rex Angliae Omnibus Christi fidelibus hanc chartam inspecturis salutem in domino Vniuersitati vestrae per hanc chartam sigiâ—…o nostro munitam volumus esse notum quod cum Deum matrem nostram sanctam Ecclesiâ—…m offenderimus in multis proiâ—…dè diuina misericordia plurimum indigeamuâ—… nec quâ—…d dignè offerre possimus pro satisfactione Deo ecclesiae debita facienda nisi nâ—…sinetipsos humiliemus regna nostra volentes nosipsos humiliare pro illo qui se pro nobu humiliauit vsque ad mortem gratia sancti Spiritus inspirante â—…on vi interdicti nec timore coacti sed nostra bona spontaneaque voluntate ac coÌ„muni consilio Baronum nostrorum conferimus libere concedimus Deo sanctis
against certayne of them that were his roâ—… sins as the Earle of Pembroke and others Finally when the Lordes were in doubte which way to worke for their owne safeties they caused the Parliament to be proroged The 〈…〉 till y e 〈◊〉 of Saint Barnabe then to begin againe at Oxforde In the meane time the Lords of the Realme as the Earles of Gloucester Leicester Hereforde and Northfolke with other did confederate theÌ„selues togither bycause they stoode in feare to bee entrapped by the Kings subtile sleightes and by the craftie wiles of those straungers which he reteyned against them The same yere by y e wind which continually certayne monethes togyther kept Northerly the floures with other growing things were so hindered that vnneth they appeared to any purpose A 〈◊〉 till y e most parte of Iune was past wherevpon the hope of receyuing the frutes of the earth was quite taken away A deâ—… accoâ—… with 〈◊〉 and so vppon the great dearth that happened a sore deathe and mortalitie followed for want of necessary foode to susteyne the languishing bodyes of the poore people They dyed so thicke that there were greate pittes made in Churchyardes to lay the dead bodies in one vpon an other About the feast of the Ascention Seâ—…l 〈◊〉 of Yâ—… pâ—…lâ—…e Seuall the Archbyshop of Yorke departed this life the which constantly had resisted the tyrannie of the Court of Rome in defence of his Churche suffering in this world many greeuous tribulatioÌ„s but now was remoued from thence vnto the Kingdome of Heauen Mat. 〈◊〉 to be Crowned with the elect for hys good deseruings as was then certainely belieued About this time also a great number of Poictouins were come into Englande by reason of their aliance and cosynage to the King the whiche by the Kings fauour being highly aduaunced began to waxe proude thereof and to require to be restored vnto such lands and liuings as beforetime they had possessed The Kâ—… halfe 〈◊〉 Namely the Kyngs halfe breethren Athelmare or Odomare that was a Priest with William Geffrey and Guy these were the sonnes of Hugh le Brun Earle of Marche by his wife Queene Isabell the mother of Kyng Henry and being come into England shewed themselues very loftie and high minded partly bycause of the Cousinage to the Kyng and partly by reason of his courteous entertaining of them in so muche that they forgetting themselues began to despise vpon a presumptuous pride the English Nobilitie looking still for prefermente of honor aboue all other And surely Odomare obteyned at the firste a great peece of his purpose beeyng made by the Kyngs gifte Byshoppe of Winchester and by that meanes bare a stout porte and greately holpe his other brethren The English Barons not well able to suffer such presumption in straungers who seemed to haue them in derision compleyned to the Kyng in so much that at length as well for a reformation heereof as in other things a Parliamente was called as before yee haue hearde fyrste at London and after reiorned â–ª to Oxeforde there to be assembled about the feast of Saint Barnabie in the moneth of Iune This of some writers is named Insanum Parliamentum â—…sanum â—…rliamentuÌ„ that is to say the madde Parliamente for at this Parliamente to the whiche the Lords came with great retinues of armed men for the better safegarde of their persons manye things in the same were enacted contrary to the Kings pleasure and his royall prerogatiue For the Lords at the firste determined to demaunde the confirmation of the auntient charter of liberties which his father Kyng Iohn had graunted and hee himselfe had so often promised to obserue and maynteyne signifying playnely that they meant to pursue their purpose and intent herein not sparing eyther for losse of life â—…e demaund the Lordes lands or goods according to that they had mutually giuen theyr faythes by ioyning of handes as the manner in such cases is accustomed Besides the graunt of the greate charter they required other things necessary for the state of the common wealthe to bee established and enacted â—…dinances â—…de It was therefore fyrste enacted that all the Poictouins should auoide the land togither with other straungers and that neyther the King nor his sonne Prince Edwarde shoulde in anye secrete manner ayde them agaynste the people â—…oth exacâ—… of the K. Moreouer that the Kyng and hys sonne should receyue an othe to stande vnto the decrees and ordinances of that Parliament and withall speede to restore the auntient lawes and institutions of ther Realme whyche they both did rather constreyned therevnto by feare than of any good will â—…nd so not only the Kyng himselfe but also his sonne Prince Edwarde râ—…d an oth to obserue the ordinances of that ParliameÌ„t But Iohn Earle Warren â–ª and the Kyngs halfe breethren namely the Earle of Pembroke refused that othe and likewise the Lord Henry sonne to the Kyng of Almayne excused himselfe by his fathers absence without whose consent he would not receyue it vnto whome thys aunswere was made that if his father would not consente to the agreemente of the Baronage hee shoulde not possesse one fourrough of lande within thys Realme Also whereas the Earle of Leicester resigned the Casâ—…s of Kenelworth and Odiham into the Kyngs handes the which he had lately receiued by his gifte and newly repaired them the Earle of Pembroke and his other brethreÌ„ sware deepely that they woulde for no mans pleasure giue ouer suche Castels rentes and Wardships of theirs as they had of the Kyngs gift The Earle of Leicester threatneth the Earle of Pembroke but the Earle of Leicester tolde the Earle of Pembroke flatly and playnely that he shoulde eyther render them vp or else he shoulde be sure to lose his head â–ª and thys saying was confyrmed by the generall voyces of all other the Barons bycause it was a speciall article concluded amongst other in that Parliament The Kings halfe breethren The Kings halfe brethren shift away perceyuing which way the worlde wente stoode in doubt of themselues and secretely therevpon departed froÌ„ Oxforde and firste withdrewe vnto Winchester â–ª where Odomare one of the same breethren was Bishop through whose support and by reason of the strength of such Castels as he held they trusted to be in more safetie but finally perceyuing themselues not to be so out of daunger sith the Barons minded to pursue them about the eightenth day of Iuly They departe the Realme they departed the Realme with a greate number of other of their countreymen and amoÌ„gst those William de Saint Heeman the Kyngs karuer was one Richard Gray Captayne of Douer Castell and Lorde warden of the portes In the meane while one Richard Gray Chateillayne of Douer Castell a right valiant man and a faithfull suffred no man to passe that ways vnsearched according to that which he hadde in commaundement wherevppon he tooke and seased into his
shoulde the other giue place He receyueth an othe not to infringe the statutes of Oxforde On the Morow after the king of Almaine receiued the othe in the presence of Richard Erle of Gloucester and others within the Chapter house of CaÌ„terburie And on the day of the Purification of our Ladie the two kings with their Queenes and a great number of other noble personages made their entrie into the Citie of London Richarde Gray Conestable of the Castell of Douer and Lord Warden of the fiue portes was this yeare remoued by the Lorde chiefe Iustice â—…hard Gray â—…harged of â—…fice of â—…d Warden Hugh Bygod who tooke into his owne handes the custodie of the sayd Castell and portes The cause why the sayd Richard Gray was discharged we finde to haue fallen out by this meanes He suffered a Frier minor called Walascho â—…scho a 〈◊〉 sent froÌ„ Pope coÌ„ming from the Pope bycause he had the kings letters vnder the great seale to enter the land not staying him nor warning the Lordes of his coÌ„ming coÌ„trary as it was interpreted vnto the articles of their prouisioÌ„s enacted at Oxford This Frier in deed was sent from the Pope to haue restored Athilmarus or Odomarus as some write him the kings halfe brother vnto the possessions of the Bishoprike of Winchester to the which he had bene long before elected but the Lordes were so bent agaynst him that vpon such suggestions as they layde forth Walascho refrayned from doing that which he had in commaundement returned to make report what he vnderstand so that Odomare was nowe as farre from his purpose as before About the feast of Saint Michael The Bishop of Bangor sent froÌ„ the Prince of Wales to king Henrie the Bishop of Bangor was sent from Llewellin Prince of Wales vnto the King of Englande to make offer on the behalfe of the sayd Llewellin and other the Lordes of Wales of .xvj. thousande poundes of siluer for a peace to be had betwixt the king them and that they might come to Chester The WelchmeÌ„ offer to resort vnto Chester and there haue their matters heard determined as in time past they had bene accustomed But what answere at his returne was giuen to this Bishop by the king and his nobles it is vncertaine In the .xliiij. of king Henries raigne the Friday following the feast of Simon and Iude An. reg 44. A Parliament in Parliament holden at Westminster were read in presence of all the Lordes and commons the actes and ordinaunces made in the Parliament holden at Oxford The statutes of Oxford read and the breakers of the same denounced accursed with certaine other articles by the gouernours there vnto added and annexed After the reading wherof the Archbishop of Canterburie being reuested with his Suffraganes to the number of .ix. Bishops besides Abbots and others denounced al them accursed that attempted in word or deed to breade the sayd statutes or any of them In the same Parliament was granted to the King a taske called Scutagium Escuage graunted or escuage y t is to meane .xl. shillings of euery knights see throughout England the which extended to a great summe of money For as diuers writers do agree Knights fees how manye were then in Englande there were in Englande at that time in possession of the spiritualtie and temporaltie beyond .xl. thousand knightes fees but almost halfe of them were in spirituall mens hands Fabian A Folkemore The 〈◊〉 day of Nouember the king came vnto Paules where by his coÌ„maundement was the Folkemote Court assembled and the king according to the former ordinances made The king asketh licence to passe the seas asked licence of the comunaltie of the Citie to passe the sea and promised there in the presence of a greate multitude of people by the mouth of Hugh Bygod hys chiefe Iustice to be good and gracious Lorde vnto the Citie and to mainteyne the lybertyes thereof vnhurt Herewith the people for ioy made a great shoute Mat. VVest The king sayleth ouer into Fraunce The .viij. day of Nouember hee rode through the Citie towards the sea syde and vpon the xiij day of Nouember he tooke the sea at Douer and arriued at Whitsand and so from thence hee rode vnto Paris where of the french king he was most honorably receyued The cause of his going ouer was chiefly to conclude some assured peace with the French king that he should not need to doubt any forraine enimies if he should come to haue warre with his owne people wherof he saw great likelihoodes 1260 He coÌ„pouÌ„deth all differences with the FreÌ„ch king and therefore he made suche agreement with king Lewes as in the French historie more at large appeareth which to be short I here omit This one thing is here to be noted that besides the money which king Henrie had in hande amouÌ„ting to the summe of an hundred fiftie M. Crownes for his resignation then made vnto Normandie Aniou and Maine it was accorded Polidor that he should receyue yearely in name of a trybute the summe of ten thousand crownes Nic. Triuet VVil. Risang Other write that he had three hundred thousande poundes of small Turon money which he receyued in readie payment and was promised restitution of landes to the value of .xx. thousand pounds of yearely rent And that after the decease of the French king that then was Mat. VVest the Countrey of Poictou should returne vnto the English dominion Some write that immediately after King Henrie had concluded this agreement hee began to repent himselfe thereof and would neuer receyue penie of the money nor leaue oute in hys stile the tytle of Duke of Normandie But it is rather to be thought that such an agreement was at poynt to haue beene concluded or at the least wise was had in talke but yet neuer concluded nor confirmed with handes and Seales as it ought to haue beene if they had gone through with it Dissention betwixt Prince Edwarde and the Erle of Gloucester In the meane time that king Henry was thus occupied in Fraunce dissention fell in Englande betwene prince Edward Richard Erle of Glocester for the appeasing whereof a Parliament was called at Westminster to y t which the lords came with great companies specially the saide Prince and Erle They intended to haue lodged within the Citie But the Maior going vnto the Bishop of Worcester to sir Hugh Bigot and to sir Philip Basset vnto whom and to the Archebishop of Canterburie the king had committed the rule of the laÌ„d in his absence required to know their pleasure herein Wherevpon they thought it good to haue the aduice of Richarde the king of Almaine and therevpon went to him where they concluded Pâ—… and the 〈◊〉 of Gâ—… are not 〈◊〉 to coâ—… 〈◊〉 in the Câ—… of Lâ—… that neither the sayde Prince nor Erle nor any of their partakers shoulde come within the
taken in the same ships with a greate quaÌ„tity of powder y t was more worthe thaÌ„ all the rest Gâ—…es vvas inuented 〈◊〉 more than 〈◊〉 yeâ—…es being this time to vvit An. â—… About the same time or rather somwhat before the englishmeÌ„ also tooke certaine hulks and .vj. cariks of the Genewes ladeÌ„ with great riches but bicause they were marchaÌ„ts they fouÌ„d such fauor at the kings haÌ„ds through means of Michael de la Poole theÌ„ L. Chancellor whom they had made their friend y t they had their vessells Restition of man chanâ—… goodes takenâ—… all their goods restored streighte wayes they passed with the same vnto Sluise where y e enimies laye to make sale of their wares there Wherevpon much murmuring rose among the kings subiectes taking it in euill parte y t they shuld be suffred so to goe their wayes to releue the enimies of the realme with such goodes as were once brought into the englishmeÌ„s possession speciallie the L. ChauÌ„cellor was very euill thought of for shewing so much fauor vnto those strangers The freÌ„ch K. still remaining in Flaunders tarying for the comming of the duke of Berrie also for a conuenieÌ„t winde at length on the euen of All saintes The french â—…eâ—…te â—…ering forvvarde tovvardes Englande is 〈◊〉 backe by comâ—…ly vvâ—… the wind came about very fauorably for the frenchemens purpose wherevppon they weyed Ancres and lanched from the haueÌ„ of Sluse but they were not past twentie miles forwarde on theyr way The French â—…leete letting forward towards England is driuen â—…ande by contrary windes when the winde suddaynely turned contrary to their course againe and brought them back with such violence that diuers of them as they should enter the Hauen were broken and bruised and so by this occasion and the Counsell of the Duke of Berry togither the French King brake vp his iourney for that yeare and returned into France Yee haue hearde what was done by the states assembled in Parliamente againste the Earle of Suffolke whome the most parte of the Realme so greatly hated but yet neuerthelesse the Kyng had such an affection towardes him that immediately after the Parliamente was dissolued hee vndid all that had bin enacted againste him receyuing him into more familiaritie than before and caused him to coÌ„tinue with the Duke of Irelande The kings inâ—…te afâ—… 〈◊〉 towardes the Duke of Ireland and the Earle of Suffâ—…lke and Alexander Neuill Archbyshoppe of Yorke which two lords trauelled most earnestly to moue the K. against the other Lords and to disadnull all that had bin done in the last Parliament There encreased therefore in the King an inward hatred whyche hee conceyued agaynst the Lordes these men putting it into his eare that hee was lyke no King but rather resembled a shadowe of a King saying it woulde come to passe that hee shoulde bee able to doe nothing of hymselfe if the Lordes myght enioy the authoritie which they had taken vpon them The King gaue credite to these tales and therefore had the Lordes in greate iealosie notwithstanding they were thought to bee his most true and faithfull subiectes and the other craftie deceitfull and vntrustie but such an affection had the King to them that no informations nor accusations though neuer so manifestly proued could bring them out of his fauoure in so muche as at the feast of Christmas nexte following 1387 he caused the Earle of Suffolke to sitte with hym of his own table in robes accustomarily appointed for Kings to weare and not for meaner estates which was much noted and no little encreased the enuie against him About the beginning of Marche in this tenth yeare Richarde Erle of Arundell being appointed Lorde Admirall and Thomas Mowbray Earle of Nottingham the Earle of Deuonshire and the Bishop of Norwiche as Froissart hathe The Earle of â—…undell goâ—… in the Sea 〈◊〉 C. â—…e of armes â—…nd a thouâ—…and archers â—…roissart â—…eth went to the Sea with a warlike power of men of armes and archers so well trimmed and appointed as was possible for the Lorde Admirall vnderstanding that the Duke of Gloucester and many other noble men woulde see the musters of his menne vsed all diligence and spared for no costes to haue the most choysest and pikest fellowes that mighte be gotten not following the euill example of others in times past whiche receyued tagge and ragge to fill vp their numbers A greate abuse in choyse of Souldiers whome they hired for small wages and reserued the residue to their purses and when to the aduauncement of the Realmes commoditie they shoulde haue encountred the enimies they shifted off all occasions thereto and onely prolonged time withoute atchieuing anye enterprice auaylable to the ende they mighte receyue the whole wages and keepe themselues from daunger whiche they shoulde hardly haue auoyded when they had not about them suche able men as were lyke to matche the enimies but the Earle of Arundell contrarily gote the ablest menne hee mighte not sparing his owne purse to the ende that by theyr seruice hee mighte atchieue some worthy enterprice to redounde vnto the commoditie of hys Countrey After the Duke of Gloucester had behelde so faire and chosen a power of men of warre they were straight wayes appoynted to gette them a Shippebourd and so beeing embarqued y e whole nauie passed foorth to the Thames mouth where they stayed to watch for the fleete of Flaunders that was ready to come from Rochelle with wines At length vpon a Sunday being the euen of the Annuntiation of oure Lady the Flemishe fleete was discouered a good way off by one that was mounted into one of the â—…oppes of a Shippe of the Englishe fleete The Earle of Arundell greatly reioycing at those newes forthwith with his whole fleete made to the Sea When y e Flemings approched neere to our Nauie they made sayle as if they woulde sette vpon the same A good policiâ—… and our menne of purpose made countenaunce as if they woulde haue retired as mistrusting themselues to be able to match their aduersaries who coueting rather a safe passage than battayle A great victorie of the English nauie against the Flemish fleete Ia. Meir Tho. VVals passed by but the Englishmen hauing once gote the winde fitte for their purpose suddaynely set vppon the Flemish Shippes and fought with them right fiereely at length after a sore conflict whiche endured foure houres the victorye fell to the Englishemen There were taken fourescore Shippes with diuers Captaynes and menne of armes namely theyr chiefe Admirall named Iohn Euyche a perfect good Seaman and one that had aforetime done much hurt to the English nation Diuers of their Shippes were bougth and some escaped yet from the battell but the Earle of Arundell purâ—…ed them so agrely for the space of two dayes togither that at length hee tooke them and broughte them 〈◊〉 to his â—…uie so that what in the battell and in the châ—…sâ—…
Cromwell promissing and belighting by y e faith of his body and word of his princehood and kings son to do kepâ—… obserue and fulfill for him and his behalf all that shall be declared ordeined arbitred by y e forsaid Archb. dukes bishops erle keper of y e priuy seale lord Cromwell in all matters quarels abouesaid GrauÌ„ting also and promising ouer that to be coÌ„prehended in the foresaid arbitrement as toward putting away all heauinesses displeasures in any wise conteined by my L. of Gloucester against all those that haue in any wise assisted couÌ„selled or fauored vnto his said vncle of Winchester and as toward any matters that bee touching my Lorde of Gloucester remitteth it and the gouernaunce thereof vnto the King and his counsell they to deeme it by the aduise of his counsaile as hym thinketh it to be done In witnesse of the whiche thing to this preseÌ„t compromise my said L. of Glocester hath subscribed his name with his owne hand Humfry Gloucester A decâ—…te â—…r order taken by the kings counsell or the pacâ—…ying of the quarrells and varâ—…cestaâ—… vver beâ—… the duke of Gâ—…ncedâ—… the Bishopâ—… VVâ—… And in like forme my lord of Winch. in an other coÌ„promise hath subscribed with his owne hand vnder the word of his priesthoode to stand at the aduise ordinaÌ„ce arbitrement of the persoÌ„s abousaid mutatis mutaÌ„tis The causes aforesaid and quarrels by vs sene heard diligeÌ„tly examined decreed by the assent of the saâ—…â—…iâ—… 〈…〉 woulde that my Lords of Gloucester â—… Winchester for any thing done or 〈…〉 by that â—…xâ—…tie agaynst that other or by anâ—… 〈…〉 â—…ye other person or persones aforâ—… 〈…〉 day of this present Moneths of 〈…〉 â—…ter take causes quarels dispâ—… 〈…〉 â—…ses that one agaynst the other notwithstanding 〈◊〉 alâ—… the Counsailers adherents or 〈…〉 â—…her for any thing or things 〈…〉 to â—…hat my sayde Lorde of Gloustâ—… 〈…〉 to my sayde Lorde of Wyâ—… 〈…〉 in loue and affection as his 〈…〉 And that my sayde Lorde of Wynchester 〈◊〉 my sayde Lorde of Gloucester our and 〈◊〉 loue and affection do and his 〈…〉 to him suche seruice as apperteyneâ—… of 〈…〉 in 〈◊〉 sayde Lorde of Wynchester and his 〈…〉 And that eche of them be gâ—… 〈…〉 adherents country 〈…〉 and to 〈…〉 other and shew them at al â—…yuses fauourable loue and affection as for any thing 〈◊〉 by 〈◊〉 or sayde before the seuenth day of March. And we decree ordeyne and vnto thiâ—… my sayd Lord of Winchester in 〈…〉 the King our soueraigne Lord my Lorde of Bedford and my Lord of Gloucester and the residue of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and admons being in this present Parliament say and declare in manner and forme that foloweth My soueraigne Lord I haue wel vnder 〈◊〉 that I am nolled amoÌ„g the states of your 〈◊〉 how that the King our soueraigne Lorde â—…hat was that time beeing Prince and â—…oged in the great chamber at Westminster by the 〈◊〉 of a spanyelâ—… there was on a night taken 〈◊〉 a tapet in the same chambee a man that shoulde haue confessed that he was thereby mine exciâ—…tion and procuring to haue slaine the foresayde Prince there in his bedde whereuppon hee was sacked and forthwith drowned in the Thames And furthermore I am acâ—…used howe that I should haue stirred the K. that last dyes the time also that hee was Prince to haue taken the gouernance of this Realm the Crowne vpoÌ„ him liuing his father y e same time being K. Through which language and noising I feele my name same greatly enblemished in diuers mens opinions wherevpon I take first God to my witnes and after all the worlde that I haue beene at all times am true louer and true man to you my soueraigne Lord and shall be al my life And also I haue bin to my soueraigne L. y t was youre father all time of his raigne true man and for such he tooke me trusted me and cherished me to his liues end and as I trust no man wil affirme the contrarie nor neuer in my life procâ—…ng nor imagining death nor destructioÌ„ of his person tie 〈◊〉 meane suche thiâ—… or like therto y t thâ—… 〈◊〉 was â—…cor Prisâ—… that herin other 〈◊〉 〈…〉 to Kyng Henry the fourthe al thâ—… 〈◊〉 was my foâ—…esâ—… 〈◊〉 and raigned vpon â—… In whiche maâ—…teâ—… 〈…〉 that it liketh to yâ—…â—…ng 〈◊〉 onâ—… Lorde 〈…〉 making mâ—… I am moâ—…â—… 〈…〉 furtherâ—… where 〈◊〉 and when of shall â—…ady one the yoâ—…â—…ice of 〈◊〉 faiâ—… â—…togâ—…ence wherfore I beâ—… thaâ—… my saint agâ—… 〈◊〉 huâ—…ribly I 〈◊〉 â—…ousidering that their isâ—… groundâ—… princesse by the whiche â—…uring 〈◊〉 lawfully of these matâ—…s â—…saide has on â—…est blessed be â—…od to 〈…〉 me by 〈◊〉 of al y e lordes spiritual â—…poral beeing with â—… present 〈◊〉 〈…〉 than to you 〈…〉 giue Lordes fâ—…itâ—…ll 〈◊〉 statâ—…usly louâ—… againe 〈◊〉 y e were you w t all wageâ—… and further 〈◊〉 man slâ—… to manâ—… here aâ—… all â—…iches 〈…〉 further wasâ—…easths 〈…〉 rise manye thereâ—… the â—…diâ—… vnder and 〈…〉 nothwithstanding and this same declaration to be enacted in that your saâ—… preâ—…al 〈◊〉 The Whicâ—… worde destâ—… maner an it is chancsâ—… it sieâ—…ueth to â—…y sold Lords the aâ—…beâ—…ators that â—…ges were sâ—… there my saide Lorde of Winchester drew here apare and in the meane time the lords being present bee singularly examined othervpon say three aduice And if it hee 〈◊〉 â—…hy them in â—…ner as my said Lorde of Winchester desireth let him be called again and that then my Lord of Bedford haue these words in effect that followe Faire Vncle the King my Lord by y e aduice of his â—…ounsaile hath commaunded me to saye to you that he hath well vnderstand and considered all the matters whiche yet haue heere openly declared in his presence and therevppon ye desire a petition that hee will declare 〈◊〉 and by the aduice and assent of the Lordes spiritual and temporal being in this present ParliameÌ„t he declareth you a true â—…an to him and that ye haue so biâ—… to my Lorde his father Grandfather also it he man to my lord his father while he was prince or else in any other estate the fold distandâ—… and noiâ—…ng notwithstanding and will that the faâ—… declaration be so enacted in this present ParliameÌ„t After the which worâ—… thus said as before is declared it was deâ—…teth also by the sayde Lords arbitrators that y e saidlord of Winchester shoulde haue these worâ—… that followeth to my said Lord of Gloucester My Lord of Gloucester I haâ—…ie conceyued to my great heauinesse than yet should haue teetyued by diuers reportes that I shoulde haue purposed and imagined against your person â—…or and estate in diuers maners for the whiche yee haue taken against me great displeasure Sir I take God to my witnesse that what reportes so euer haue bin to you of me perâ—…e of such as haue had no great affection to me God forgiue it
Kyng at length was deposed and his sonne slayn and his Queene sent home agayne with as muche myserie and sorrowe as she was receyued with pompe and triumph such is the instabilitie of worldly felicitie and so wauering is false flattering fortune This yere after the deceasse of Henry Chicheley Archbishop of Canterbury succeeded Iohn Stafford in gouernment of that sea being translated from Bathe and Welles He was the .lxj. Archbishop as Polydore noteth During the tyme of the truce Richard duke of Yorke and dyuers other capitaines repaired into Englande both to visite their wyues children and frendes and also to consult what shuld be done if the truce ended For the whiche cause a Parliament was called An. reg 24. in the which it was especially cōcluded that by good foresight Normandie mighte be so furnished for defence before the ende of the Truce 1446 that the Frenche king should take no aduantage through wante of tymely prouision for it was knowne that if a peace were not concluded the Frenche kyng did prepare to imploye his whole puissance to make open warre Herevppon money was graunted The Duke of Somerset made Regent of Normadie an armye leuyed and the Duke of Somerset appoynted to be Regent of Normandie and the Duke of Yorke therof discharged I haue seene in a Register booke belongyng somtime to the Abbey of S. Albons that the D. of Yorke was established Regent of France after the decease of the duke of Bedford to continue in that office for the terme of .v. yeres which being expired he returned home and was ioyfully receiued of the king with thanks for his good seruice as he had full well deserued in tyme of that his gouernement and further that now when a newe Regent was to be chosen sent ouer to abide vpon safegard of the countreys beyond the seas as yet subiect to the English dominion the said duke of Yorke was estsoones as a man most mete to supplie that roomth appointed to go ouer again as Regent of Fraunce with all his former allowances But the Duke of Somersette still maligning the Duke of Yorkes aduauncement as hee had soughte to hinder his dispatche at the firste when he was sent ouer to be regent as before ye haue heard he likewyse nowe wrought so that the king reuoked his graunt made to the duke of Yorke for enioying of that office the terme of other fiue yeares and with helpe of Williā Marques of Suffolke obteyned that graunt for him selfe Whiche malicious dealing the Duke of Yorke mighte so euill heare that in the ende the heate of displeasure burst out into suche a flame as consumed at length not only bothe those two noble personages but also many thousandes of others though in dyuers tymes seasons as in places hereafter as occasion serueth it shal more euidently appeare But nowe to returne to the Parliament The Marques of Suffolke supposing that all men had as well lyked his doinges duryng the tyme of hys Legation in Fraunce as the same pleased himselfe The Marques of Suffolkes requestes the seconde daye of Iune in the fyrst Session of this Parliamente before all the Lordes bothe Spirituall and Temporall in the hygher house assembled openly eloquently and boldly declared his payne trauaile and diligence susteyned in his sayde Legation as well for the takyng and concluding an abstinence of warre as in the making of the marriage opening also to them that the sayd truce expired the firste of Aprill next comming except a small peace or a farther truce were concluded in the meane season and therfore he aduised them to prouide and forsee things necessarie for the warre as though no concorde shoulde succede least happly the Frenchemen perceyuing them vnprouided wold take theyr aduantage and agree neyther to peace nor amitie saying vnto them that syth hee hadde admonyshed the Kyng and them accordyng to hys duetie if anye thyng happened otherwyse than well hee was therof innocente and guyltlesse and hadde acquyted hymselfe like a true and louyng subiecte and a faythfull counsayloure praying the Lordes to haue it in remembraunce Lykewyse on the morrowe after he descended into the common house accompanyed with certain Lordes and there declared the same matter to the Knyghtes Citizens and Burgeses praying the Commons for hys discharge that as well all hys dooyngs and proceedyngs in the Kyngs affaires beyonde the sea as also his aduertisemente and counsell opened to the Lords and Commons nowe together assembled might bee by the Kyng and them enacted and enrolled in the Recordes of the Parliament Wherevppon the morrow after the Speaker William Burleye and the company of the lower house repayred vnto the Kyngs presence then syttyng amongst the Lordes of the vpper house and there humblye required that the request of the Marques myght be graunted and so likewise the Lords made the like petition kneling on their knees in so muche that the Kyng condescended to their desires and so the labors demeanors diligences and declarations of the sayde Marques together wyth the desyres not only of the Lordes but also of the commons as wel for the honor of him and his posteritie as for his acquitall discharge were enacted enrolled in the records of the Parliament By y e Quenes meanes shortly after also was the said Marques aduaunced so in authoritie that hee ruled the Kyng at his pleasure and to his hyghe preferment obteyned the wardships both of the bodye and landes of the Countesse of Warwike and of the Ladie Margaret sole heire to Iohn Duke of Somerset whiche Ladie was after mother to King Henry the seuenth and beside that caused the kyng to create Iohn de Foys sonne to Gaston de Foys Earle of Longvile and the Captaw de Bueff Earle of Kendall whiche Iohn had maryed his neece and by his procurement the king elected to the order of the garter the sayde Gaston and Iohn his sonne giuyng to the sonne towards the mayntenaunce of hys degree landes and castelles amounting to the summe of one thousande poundes whiche landes name and style the issue and lyne of the sayde Earle of Kendale at this daye haue and enioye These things being thus in doing the French king seeyng that the Towne of Mans was not deliuered accordyng to the appoyntement taken by force of the mariage raysed an armie for to recouer the same Wherof the king of England beeing aduertised least the breache of the truce should come by him caused the towne to be deliuered without any force A commotion in Norvviche This yeare was a great commotion in Norwiche agaynst the Prior of the place At length the Citizens opened the gates to the Duke of Norffolke whiche came thyther to appease the matter though at the fyrst they woulde not suffer hym to enter The chiefe offenders were accordyng to their demerites The liberties of Norvviche seased into the kings handes greuously punished and executed and the Mayre was discharged of hys office Sir Iohn Clyfton
Englande and Fraunce but the merchants shippes were taken and robbed on both partes and at length merchantes goodes were seazed and the Ambassadors of both Realmes stayde Howbeit shortly after the Ambassadors were deliuered but the merchants stil were robbed and no warre proclaymed In the ende of this yeare came from the Gouernor of Scotlande as ambassadors Ambassadors from Scotland sir William Hamelton â—… Iâ—…es Leirmouth the secretarie of Scotlande wâ—… message was so meanely liked that they were â—…yne to sendâ—… He cals into Scotlande for other Ambassadors and so hither came the Earle of Glencarne and Sir George Douglas that whatsoeuer their answere was sir George returned in poste and within xx dayes came backe agayne with an aunswere that was well liked off But shortly after they brake promise and went from that which they had couenâ—…ted greatly to their reproche Woode was solde very deare in the Winter season of this yeare A dearth and likewyse vitayles both fâ—…he and fishe growe to an high price towardes the Spring by reason as was thought of the vnteâ—…perate wette Summer last past causing great death among cattayle A quarter of Merton was solde for two shillings and .vij. groteâ—… A lambe at three shillings and three shillings and foure pence Which afore that him was esteemed scant worth sixtene pence Against Easter at a Court of Aldermen kept in the Guylde hall the xx of Marche 1542. it was enacted by the Lorde Maior and his brethren A necessarie and hoâ—…esome ordinance that the Maior and Sherifes shoulde be serued at their tables and with one course at dinner and supper in their houses the Maior to haue but seuen dishes at the most at one meate for his owne table and the Sherifes and euery other Alderman but vj. dishes vpon payne to forfeyt for euery dishe fortie shillings at euery time when they offended in this ordinance Also that the seruants and yeomeÌ„ of their houses should haue but thre dishes at diuer or supper the sword bearers messe only excepted which should be alowed to haue one dish more Moreouer it was enacted that from the feast of Gaster then next ensuing neyther the Maior nor his brethren should 〈◊〉 any Craue Swan or Bustarde vpon payne to forfer to for euery towle by them so bought xx.s the offence to be tried by othe if it shoulde be presented An. reg 35. In the beginning of this yeare on Trinitie Sundaye was a newe league sworne betweene the King and Emperour at Hampton Court A league betwixt the king of Englande and the Emperour eyther of them to be frendes to the others frends and enimie to the others enimies The thirde of Iune came to the Court from the Realme of Irelande three Irishe Lordes Obrin Mack William a Burgh and Mack Gilpatrik Creations In Iuly the sayde Obrin was created Earle of Townon Mack William a Burgh Earle of Claurickford and Sir Dunon Obrin was made Baron of Ebranky and so with rewards they tooke leaue and returned The same Moneth also the Scottishe Ambassadors returned with great rewards The king marieth the Lady Katherin Par. The xij of Iuly at Hampton Courte the King married the Ladie Katherine Parre widowe late wife to the Lorde Latimer deceased and then she was nominated Queene and so proclaymed In the Parliament holden this yere at Westminster a subsidie was graunted to the king to be payde in three yeares Euery Englishman being worth in goodes xx s. and vpwarde to fiue pounde payde foure pence of euery pound From fiue pounde to ten pounde eyght pence From ten pounde to twentie pound sixtene pence FroÌ„ twentie pounde and vpwarde of euery pounde two shillings Straungers aswell Denizens as other being inhabitants doubled this summe and euery straunger not being an inhabitant that was xvj yeares of age and vpwards payde â—…oure pence for euery poll Corporations fraternities communalties payde more as well of their landes as gods as appeareth by the statute And for landes fees and annuities euery one borne within the kings dominions payde eyght pence of the pound from twentie shillings to fiue pounde And from fiue pounde to ten pounde sixtene pence From ten pounde to twentie pounde two shillings And from twentie pounde and vpwardes three shillings Straungers still doubling this summe The Clergie graunted a subsidie of sixe shillings the pounde to be payd of their Benefices in perpetuities in three yeares ensuing and euery priest hauing no perpetuitie but an annuall stipende payde yearely during the sayde three yeares sixe shillings and eyght pence About the same time the King and the Emperour sent Garter and Toysondor Kings at armes Articles demanded of the French king to demaunde the performance of certaine Articles of the French king which if he denyed they were commaunded then to defie him but he woulde not suffer them to come within his land and so they returned Where the king caused the sayde demaundes to be declared vnto the French ambassador at Westminster And in Iuly the king sent ouer sixe thousande men vnder the leading of sir Iohn Wallop appoynted to haue the generall conduction of them accompanied with diuerse other Knights Esquires and gentlemen right hardie and valiant Sir Thomas Seymor was Marshall of that armie sir Robert Bowes treasurer sir Richarde Cromwell Captayne of the horsemen and sir George Carewe his Lieutenant There were likewise sir Thomas Palmer sir Iohn Reynsforth sir Iohn Saint Iohn and sir Iohn Gascogne knights that were Captains of the footemen They were appoynted to ioyne with the Emperours power and so to make warre into Fraunce They departed from Calais the xxij of Iuly The thirde of August open war was proclaymed in London betwixt the Emperour and the king of Englande on the one part and the French king on the other as enimie mortall to them both and to all other Christian princes beside as he that had confederated himselfe with the Turke The armie that was sent ouer vnder the leading of sir Iohn Wallop passed forth from the marches of Caleis and keeping alongst betwixt the borders of the French and Burgonion pales and confines and ioyning with the Emperors forces Spanyards Wallons and Dutch came at length before Landersey a towne lately fortified by the French within the borders of the Emperors dominions to the which they layd a strong siege At length the Emperor or hauing dispatched his warres against the Duke of Cleue who had submitted himself vnto him Landersey besieged came now to the siege of Landersey with a mightie power of sundrie nations so that the towne was sore constreyned in danger to haue bene lost if at that present the French K. had not likewise with an huge armie of FrenchmeÌ„ Swisers The French king cometh to the rescue of Landersey LaÌ„tsquenets Italians other come to the reskew pitching downe his campe making countenance as if he ment presently to giue battaile verily it was thought that two such powers as were