such due and lawfull forme as in such cases the law prouideth till they had compounded to paie great fines and ransomes line 60 Moreouer the kings wards after they had accomplished their full age could not be suffered to sue their liueries till they had paied excessiue fines and ransomes vnto their great annoiance losse and disquieting and to no lesse contempt of the said king And further whereas diuerse persons had béene outlawed as well at the sute of their aduersaries as of the said late king they could not be allowed to purchase their charters of pardon out of the chancerie according to the law of the realme till they were driuen to answer halfe the issues and profits of all their lands and tenements by the space of two yeares which the king receiued to his vse by the said Richard Empsons procurement who informed him that hée might lawfullie take the same although he knew that it was contrarie to the lawes and customes of the realme Wherevpon the people vexed and molested by such hard dealings sore grudged against the said late king to the great perill and danger of his person and realme and subuersion of the lawes and ancient customes thereof Also it was alleged against the said Empson that he had sent foorth precepts directed vnto diuerse persons commanding them vpon great penalties to appeare before him and other his associats at certeine daies and times within his house in S. Brides parish in a ward of London called Farringdon without where they making their appearances according to the same precepts were impleaded afore him and other his said associats of diuerse murthers felonies outlawries and of the articles in the statute of prouisors conteined also of wilfull escapes of felonies and such like matters and articles apperteining to the plées of the crowne and common lawes of the realme And that doone the said persons were committed to diuerse prisons as the Fléet the Tower and other places where they were deteined till they had fined at his pleasure as well for the commoditie of the said late king as for the singular aduantage of the said sir Richard Empson Moreouer whereas the said Empson being recorder of Couentrie and there sate with the maior and other iustices of the peace vpon a speciall gaole deliuerie within that citie on the monday before the feast of saint Thomas the apostle in the sixtéenth yeare of the late kings reigne a prisoner that had beene indicted of felonie for taking out of an house in that citie certeine goods to the value of twentie shillings was arreigned before them And bicause the iurie would not find the said prisoner giltie for want of sufficient euidince as they after alleged the said sir Richard Empson supposing the same euidence to be sufficient caused them to be committed to ward wherein they remained foure daies togither till they were contented to enter bond in fortie pounds a péece to appeare before the king and his councell the second returne of the tearme then next insuing being Quindena Hilarij Wherevpon they kéeping their daie and appearing before the said sir Richard Empson and other of the kings councell according to their bonds were adiudged to paie euerie of them eight pounds for a fine and accordinglie made paiment thereof as they were then thought well worthie so to doo But now this matter so long past was still kept in memorie and so earnest some were to inforce it to the vttermost against the said Empson that in a sessions holden at Couentrie now in this first yeare of this kings reigne an indictment was framed against him for this matter and thereof he was found giltie as if therein he had committed some great and heinous offense against the kings peace his crowne and dignitie Thus haue I thought good to shew what I find hereof to the end ye may perceiue how glad men were to find some colour of sufficient matter to bring the said sir Richard Empson and maister Edmund Dudleie within danger of the lawes whereby at length they were not onelie condemned by act of parlement through malice of such as might séeme to seeke their destruction for priuat grudges but in the end also they were arreigned as first the said Edmund Dudleie in the Guildhall of London the seuentéenth of Iulie and sir Richard Empson at Northampton in October next insuing and being there condemned was from thence brought backe againe to the Tower of London where he remained till the time of his execution as after yée shall heare This yeare the plague was great and reigned in diuerse parts of this realme The king kept his Christmas at Richmond The twelfe of Ianuarie diuerse gentlemen prepared to iust and the king and one of his priuie chamber called William Compton secretlie armed themselues in the little parke of Richmond so came into the iustes vnknowne to all persons The king neuer ran openlie before and did exceeding well Maister Compton chanced line 10 to be sore hurt by Edward Neuill esquier brother to the lord of Aburgauennie so that he was like to haue died One person there was that knew the king and cried God saue the king and with that all the people were astonied and then the king discouered himselfe to the great comfort of the people The king soone after came to Westminster and there kept his Shrouetide with great bankettings dansings and other iollie pastimes And on a time the king in person accompanied line 20 with the earles of Essex Wilshire and other noble men to the number of twelue came suddenlie in a morning into the queenes chamber all apparelled in short coates of Kentish Kendall with hoodes on their heads hosen of the same euerie one of them his bow and arrowes and a sword and a buckler like outlawes or Robin Hoods men Whereat the queene the ladies and all other there were abashed as well for the strange sight as also for their sudden comming and after certeine danses and pastime made they departed On Shrouesundaie the same line 30 yeare the king prepared a goodlie banket in the parlement chamber at Westminster for all the ambassadors which then were here out of diuerse realmes and countries The banket being readie the king leading the quéene entered into the chamber then the ladies ambassadours and other noble men followed in order The king caused the queene to keepe the estate and then sate the ambassadours and ladies as they were marshalled by the K. who would not sit but walked line 40 from place to place making cheare to the quéene and the strangers suddenlie the king was gone And shorlie after his grace with the earle of Essex came in apparelled after the Turkie fashion in long robes of baudekin powdered with gold hats on their heds of crimsin veluet with great rolles of gold girded with two swords called cimiteries hanging by great bauderiks of gold Then next came the lord Henrie earle of
at libertie and deliuered beyond Fonterabie so came safelie home into France Then a French herald appointed to accompanie the ambassadour Grandeuill brought the writing of the combat vnto the emperor bicause Grandeuill refused to medle with it To the which the emperor fiue moneths after line 30 or thereabouts sent an answer by one of his heralds who being arriued at Paris meant vpon the sudden to present his letters vnto the French king But the king getting intelligence thereof the tenth of September sitting within his great hall of his palace at Paris aforesaid before the table of marble in a roiall seat addressed and set vp for him sixtéene steps in height appointed to giue audience to the said herald On his right hand sate in chaires the king of Nauarre line 40 the duke of Alanson and Berrie the earle of Foix and Arminacke And on the same side sate also vpon a bench the duke of Uandosme a peere of France lieutenant generall and gouernor of Picardie don Hercules de Est eldest sonne to the duke of Ferrar duke of Chartres and Montarges who latelie before had maried the ladie Rener a daughter of France the duke of Albanie regent and gouernor of Scotland the duke of Longueuille great chamberleine of France And néere to them vpon line 50 another bench sate the presidents and councellors of the court of parlement and behind them manie gentlemen doctors and learned men On the left hand were set in chaires prepared for them the cardinall Saluarie the popes legat the cardinall of Burbon and duke of Laon a peere of France the cardinall of Sens chancellor of France the cardinall of Lorrain the archbishop of Narbon the ambassadors of the kings of England and Scotland of the segniorie of Uenice of Millan of the Cantons of the Suisses line 60 and of Florence On an other bench sate the bishop of Transiluania ambassador for the king of Hungarie the bishop and duke of Langres one of the peeres of France the bishop earle of Noion an other of the peeres of France th'archbishop of Lion primat of all France the archbishop of Burges primate of Aquitaine the archbishops of Aux and Rouen the bishops of Paris Meaux Lizeux Mascon Limoges Uabres Conserans and Terbe And behind them sate the masters of the requests and the councellors of the great councell On either side the kings seate stood the earle of Beaumont great master and marshall of France the lord de Brion admerall of France lieutenant generall and gouernor of Burgognie And behind the same seat were manie knights of the order that is to wit the earle of Lauall lieutenant generall and gouernor of Britaine the lord of Montmerancie the lord Daubignie capteine of an hundred lances and of the Scotish gard the earle of Brienne Lignie and Roussie the lord of Fleuranges marshall of France the lord of Ruffoie the lord of Genoilliac great esquier and master of the artillerie of France Lois monsieur de Elenes the lord of Humiers and the earle of Carpie Behind them was the earle of Estamps prouost of Paris and with him manie gentlemen of the kings chamber among the which was the earle of Tancaruill the lord of Guien the son of the earle of Rousâ—ie the son of the lord of Fleuranges the lord de la Rochpot the lord Donartie great master of the waters and forrests the lord of Lude the lord of Ianlie the lord de Uillebon bailie of Rouen the baron of Chasteau Morant the lord de la Loue the vicount de la Motheaugroing and the lord of Uertes And besides these the masters and officers of the houshold gentlemen waiters with the more part of the two hundred gentlemen or pensioners as we terme them At the entrie into the said throne or tribunall seat were the capteins of the gards and the prouost of the houshold And before the king knéeled the vshers of the chamber vpon the one knée and at the foot of the step that went vp to the kings seate were the prouosts of the merchants and escheuins of the towne of Paris Beneath in the hall the gates whereof were still open there was an infinite number of people of all nations and in presence of them all the king made this declaration The cause wherefore I haue made this assemblie is for that the emperour elect hath sent to me an herald of armes who as I coniecture and as the same herald hath said and as his safe conduct importeth hath brought me letters patents and autentike concerning the suertie of the field for the combat that should be betwixt the said elected emperour and me And forasmuch as the said herald vnder colour to bring the suertie of the field may vse certeine fictions dissimulations or hypocrisies to shift off the matter whereas I desire expedition and to haue it dispatched out of hand so that by the same an end of the warres which haue so long continued may be had to the ease and comfort of all christendome to auoid the effusion of bloud and other mischéefes which come thereof I haue wished it knowne to all christendome to the end that euerie one may vnderstand the truth from whence procéedeth the mischéefe and the long continuance thereof I haue also caused this assemblie to be made to shew that I haue not without great cause enterprised such an act for the right is on my side and if I should otherwise haue doone mine honor had béene greatlie blemished A thing which my lords that are of my bloud and other my subiects would haue taken in euill part And knowing the cause of the combat and my right they will beare with it as good and loiall subiects ought to doo trusting by Gods helpe to procéed in such sort therein that it shall plainelie appéere if the right be on my side or not and how against truth I haue béene accused for a breaker of my faith which I would be loth to doo nor at anie time haue meant so to doo The kings my predecessors and ancestors whose pictures are ingrauen and set héere in order within this hall which in their daies haue successiuelie atchiued glorious acts and greatlie augmented the realme of France would thinke me vnworthie and not capable to be their successor if against mine honor I should suffer my selfe to be charged with such a noâ—e by the emperour and should not defend my person and honor in the manner and forme accustomed And herewith he declared the whole case as it stood First how being taken at Pauia by fortune of war he neuer gaue his faith to anie of his enimies consenting to be led into Spaine caused his owne gallies to be made readie to conueie him thither Where at his arriuall he was committed to ward within the castell of Madrill garded with a great number line 10 of harquebuziers others Which vncourteous dealing found in the emperor so much gréeued him that he fell sicke
the prince she on the new yeares daie following made a new chancellor Nicholas Heath bishop of Rochester almoner to the king ambassador into Germanie bishop of Worcester president of Wales and archbishop of Yorke was vpon new yeares daie in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and fiue being the third yeare of the reigne of quéene Marie aduanced to the honorable dignitie of the chancellorship But quéene Marie deceasing the seauentéenth daie of Nouember in the yeare of grace one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and eight and the sixt yere of hir gouernement this Heath vpon the placing of the worthie quéene Elisabeth vpon the throne of the English gouernment was remooued from his office and maister Bacon aduanced Sir Nicholas Bacon esquier attourneie of the court of wards was made knight and lord kéeper of the great seale the two and twentith of December in the yeare of our redemption 1558 being the first yeare of the now reigning Elisabeth the Saba of England Which name of lord kéeper he still kept during his life and the time of his office In whose time there was an act of parlement established to make the power of the keeper of the great seale equall with the authoritie of the chancellor This man continued in this office and woorthilie executed the same being a man of rare wit and déepe experience during the time of his life which continued vntill the twentith of Februarie in the yeare of our saluation 1578 after the account of England being the one and twentith yeare of the rare and singular gouernement of the worlds woonder the famous quéene Elisabeth which place this man kept eightéene yéeres being as I suppose double as long time as anie other chancellor or kéeper of the great seale possessed that place except Rafe Neuill bishop of Chichester and Iohn Stafford bishop of Bath and Wels both which held it equallie eighteene yeares with him a strange thing that in the course of almost 600 yeares no such officer might possesse that place by twentie years togither Thomas Bromleie the generall solicitor of quéene Elisabeth a councellor of the law and one of the inner temple was aduanced to the dignitie of lord chancellor on the fiue and twentith day of Aprill in the yeare of our redemption 1579 being in the one twentith yeare of the reigne of the said quéene Elisabeth which office at this daie he beareth Thus although I maie be a little wetshod in passing ouer the deepe sea of this difficultie of the chancellors in which I am sure I am not ouer head and eares I haue at length brought my chancellors to end a worke of some labour and difficultie of some search and charge which I haue doone onelie of my selfe without the furtherance or help of some others who more inconsideratlie than trulie doo disorderlie report that I haue atteined vnto this in obteining line 10 those names by some sinister means from the priuat bookes of them who haue trauelled in the same matter In which as I said in the begining so I saie againe if anie imperfection for hast by reason of the printers spéedie calling on me haue now fallen out of my pen it shall hereafter God willing be corrected in the large volume of their liues Wherefore as I neither estéeme nor feare the secret reports of some others so for their countries good it shall be well that they would deliuer something to the world line 20 to bring truth to perfection if other men haue vnwillinglie set downe error and not as they doo for a litle commoditie gaine to themselues neither benefit their countrie nor speake well of such as would and doo helpe posteritie Thus this much by Francis Thin touching the chancellors of England ¶ Here though somewhat out of place for it should haue béene entered in 1578 it were better to record the receiuing of the quéenes maiestie into Suffolke line 30 Norffolke than making no commemoration therof at all to let it perish in thréehalfepenie pamphlets and so die in obliuion It maie also serue for a rest of recreation after so long an introduction of serious matters as also and that most woorthilie maie remaine in record to signifie what well affected subiects the quéens maiestie hath within hir dominions to whome goods lands friends kindred or life none of these seuerallie nor all iointlie are so pretious and deere but for hir sake they can find in their hearts to line 40 esteeme them as doong And now to the matter The truth is saith one that wrote the whole interteinment that albeit they had but small warning certeinlie to build vpon of the comming of the queenes maiestie into both those shires the gentlemen had made such readie prouision that all the veluets and silks were taken vp that might be laid hand on and bought for anie monie and soone conuerted to such garments and sutes of robes that the shew thereof might haue beautified the greatest triumph that was line 50 in England these manie yeares For as it was said there were two hundred yoong gentlemen clad all in white veluet and three hundred of the grauer sort apparelled in blacke veluet cotes and faire chaines all readie at one instant and place with fiftéene hundred seruing men more on horssebacke well and brauelie mounted in good order readie to receiue the quéenes highnesse into Suffolke which surelie was a comelie troope and a noble sight to behold and all these waited on the shiriffe sir William Spring during line 60 the quéenes maiesties abode in those parties and to the verie confines of Suffolke But before hir highnesse passed to Norffolke there was in Suffolke such sumptuous feasting and bankets as seldome in anie part of the world haue béene seene before The maister of the rolles sir William Cordall was one of the first that began this great feasting and did light such a candle to the rest of the shire that manie were glad bountifullie and frankelie to follow the same example with such charges and costs as the whole traine were in some sort pleased therewith And neere Burie sir William Drurie for his part at his house made the quéenes highnesse a costlie and delicat dinner and sir Robert Germine of Roeshbrooke feasted the French ambassadors two seuerall times with which charges and courtesie they stood maruellouslie contented The shiriffe sir William Spring sir Thomas Kidson sir Arthur Higham and diuerse others of worship kept great houses and sundrie either at the quéenes comming or returne solemnelie feasted hir highnesse yea and defraied the whole charges for a daie or twaine presented gifts made such triumphs and deuises as indéed was most noble to behold and verie thankfullie accepted The Norffolke gentlemen hearing how dutifullie their neighbors had receiued the prince prepared in like sort to shew themselues dutifull and so in most gallant maner they assembled and set forward with fiue and twentie hundred horssemen
that Peter de Mountfort was at Northampton assembling people to strengthen the barons part he got togither such men of warre as he could from all places and so he had with him his brother Richard king of Almaine his eldest sonne the lord Edward William de Ualence his halfe brother on the mothers side Iohn Comin of Ward in Scotland with a great number of Scots Iohn Ballioll lord of Gallowaie Robert Bruis lord of Annandale Roger Clifford Philip Marmion Iohn Uaux Iohn Leiborne Henrie Percie Philip Basset and Roger Mortimer Thus the king hauing these Noble men about him with his armie sped him towards Northampton and comming thither tooke the towne by force â—â—ue diuerse and tooke prisoners Peter Mountfort and Simon Mountfort the earle of Leicesters son William Ferries Baldwin Wake with Nicholas his brother Berengarius de Wateruile Hugh Gubiun Robert Buteuilein Adam of Newmarch Robert Newton Philip Dribie Grimbald Pauncefâ—et Roger Beltram Thomas Mansell and diuerse other to the number of 80 knights or as Matthew Westminster hath 15 barons and 60 knights besides a great number of esquires and burgesses the which were bestowed abroad in sundrie prisons The towne as some write was taken by this meanes Whilest diuerse of the capteins within were talking with the king on the one side of the towne towards the medowes the lord Philip Basset approched the walles néere vnto the monasterie of S. Andrew and there with his people hauing spades mattocks and other instruments prouided for the purpose vndermined a great paine of the wall and reuersed the same into ditches making such a breach that fortie horssemen might enter afront Some put the blame in such moonks of the abbeie as were strangers as though they should prepare this entrie for the enimie but howsoeuer it was the king got the towne out of his enimies hands This also is to be remembred that where by reason of variance which had chanced that yere betwixt the scholers of Oxford and the townesmen a great line 10 number of the same scholers were withdrawen to Northampton and there studied They had raised a banner to fight in defense of the towne against the king and did more hurt to the assailants than anie other band wherevpon the king threatned to hang them all and so had he doone indéed if by the persuasion of his councell he had not altered his purpose doubting to procure the hatred of their fréends if the execution should haue béene so rigorouslie prosecuted against them for there were amongst them manie line 20 yoong gentlemen of good houses and noble parentage Thus was the towne of Northampton taken on a saturdaie being Passion sundaie euen and the morrow after the daie of S. Ambrose which is the fift of Aprill On the monday following the king led his armie towards Leicester where the burgesses receiued him into the towne at his comming thither From thence he marched to Notingham burning and wasting the houses and manors of the barons and other of his enimies and speciallie those that belonged to the earle of Leicester Here he also gathered line 30 more people and so increased his power in somuch that diuerse Noblemen as Roger Clifford Henrie Percie Richard Gray Philip Basset Richard Sward and Hubert earle of Kent doubting the lacke of power in their companions reuolted incontinentlie to the kings side He sent his sonne prince Edward into Darbishire and Staffordshire with a strong power where he wasted the manours and possessions of Robert de Ferrers earle of Darbie and namelie he ouerthrew line 40 and defaced the castell of Tutburie Wheresoeuer the kings armie or that which his sonne prince Edward led chanced to come there followed spoiling burning and killing The barons on the other side sate not still for the lord Iohn Gifford with others that were appointed by the earle of Leicester to kéepe Killingworth castell which was furnished with all things necessarie maruellouslie and with such strange kind of engines as had not béene lightlie heard of nor seene in these parts tooke by a policie the castell of line 50 Warwike and William Manduit earle of Warwike with his wife and familie within it and leading them to Killingworth there coÌ„mitted them to prison The cause was for that they suspected him that he would take part with the king against them The castell of Warwike they raced downe least the kings people should take it for their refuge In the Passion weeke the Iewes that inhabited in London being detected of treason which they had deuised against the barons and citizens were slaine almost line 60 all the whole number of them and great riches found in their houses which were taken and caried awaie by those that ransacked the same houses After Easter the erle of Leicester hauing London at his commandement went to Rochester and besieged that citie but the capteine thereof Iohn earle of Warren did manfullie resist the enimies till the king aduertised thereof with the power of the marshes of the north parts and other came and remooued the siege This doone he left a conuenient garrison within the citie to defend it and comming to Tunbridge wan the castell and taking the countesse of Glocester that was within it permitted hir to depart This doone he repaired to the sea side towards France to staie there till his brethren Geffrey and Guie the sonnes of the earle of Marsh should arriue with some band of souldiers for whom he had now sent and reuoked into the realme being latelie before banished by the Nobles as before yée haue heard They shortlie after landed wherevpon the king hauing his power increased came to Lewes and pight downe his field not farre from that towne In the end of Aprill the barons hearing where the king was departed from London with a great multitude of the citizens whom they placed in the vantward and marched foorth towards the king and comming neere to the place where he was lodged set downe their tents and incamped themselues a little beside him Either here or by the waie as they came forward the barons deuised a letter and sent it vnto the king conteining an excuse of their dooings and a declaration of their well meanings both towards him and the wealth of the realme and heerewith accused those that were about him and with euill counsell misinformed him both against them against the publike wealth of the land and his owne honor This letter was dated the tenth of Maie and subscribed with the names of a great number of noble men of the which the more part doo here insue but yet not all Sir Simon de Montfort earle of Leicester and high steward of England sir Gilbert de Clare earle of Glocester Robert Ferrers earle of Darbie Hugh Spenser lord cheefe iustice Henrie Montfort sonne and heire to the earle of Leicester Richard Grey Henrie Hastings Iohn Fitz Iohn Robert de Uéepont Iohn Ginuile Robert Rops William Marmion Baldwine
two daies ithandlie be stremis of blude Now examine Graftons words by Bellenden and Bellendens by Boetius besides that marke what Grafton annexeth to the report of this slaughter who saith that he will not inforce the credit therof vpon any man but counteth it a Scotish lie rather than a matter of truth and then conclude according to equitie that Grafton is altogither excusable and fautlesse and Buchanans curious furious challenge reproueable But admit Grafton had fetcht his report from Boetius as he had it from Bellenden seemeth it a lie or an vnlikelihood that the bloud gushing out of the bodies of 25000 or as Hector Boetius saith 7000 would not increase to a streame sufficient able to driue a mill or two about without any water intermingled therwithall The Latine copie hath Riui sanguinis riuers of bloud noting by the word line 10 the abundance and also the streaming course of the same which was able with the violent current thereof to beare awaie the verie bodies of the slaine To conclude this matter to set our Englishman by the truth and let the Scot go with his lieng toong which I would he had had the modestie to haue tempered to haue proffered a practise of that which himselfe paraphrasticallie preacheth and teacheth others to obserue saieng line 20 Linguae obseraui claustra fraeno pertinax Obmutui silentio Ac temerè ne quid os mali profunderet Verbis bonis clausi exitum And now to the storie K. Edward remaind at Berwike 15 daies caused a ditch to be cast about the towne of 80 foot in breadth of the like in depth In the meane time about the beginning of Aprill the warden and reader of the frier minors of Rockesborough called Adam Blunt came vnto him with line 30 letters of complaint from king Iohn for the wrongs doone and offered vnto him and his realme as well in claiming an vniust superioritie and constreining him to doo homage by vndue and wrongfull meanes as also by inuading his townes slaieng and robbing his subiects for the which causes he testified by the same letters that he renounced all such homage and fealtie for him and his subiects as he or any of them owght for any lands holden within England The king hearing the letters red receiued the resignation line 40 of the homage and commanded his chancellor that the letter might be registred in perpetuall memorie of the thing The earles of Scotland before remembred being assembled togither with their powers at the castell of Iedworth entred into England the eighth of Aprill and with fire and sword did much hurt in the countries as they passed In Riddesdale they besieged the castell of Harbotell by the space of two daies but when they could not preuaile they remoued and line 50 passing foorth by the east part of the riuer of Tine thorough Cokesdale Riddesdale and Northumberland vnto Hexham they did much mischéefe by burning and harrieng the countries At Hexham they spoiled the abbeie church and got a great number of the cleargie as well moonks priests as scholers and others whom they thrust into the schoolehouse there and closing vp the dores set fire on the schoole and burned all them to ashes that were within it It is wonderfull to read what beastlie crueltie the Scots vsed line 60 in that road which they made at that time in two seuerall parts For the earle of Boghan with them of Galloway entred by Cumberland in like manner as the other did in Riddesdale burning and murthering all that came in their waie For whereas all those that were of able age and lustie to get awaie fled escaped their hands the aged impotent creatures women in childbed and yoong children that could not shift for themselues were vnmercifullie slaine and thrust vpon speares and shaken vp in the aire where they yéelded vp their innocent ghosts in most pitifull wise Churches were burned women were forced without respect of order condition or qualitie as well she maids widowes and wiues as nunnes that were reputed in those daies consecrated to God and when they had beene so abused manie of them were after also murthered and cruellie dispatched out of life At length they came to the nunrie of Lamelaie burned all the buildings there sauing the church and then returned backe into Scotland with all their pillage and booties by Lauercost an house of moonks which they likewise spoiled So that the cruell bloudie desolation whereof Lucan speaketh in his second booke of ciuill warres may aptlie be inferred here as fitlie describing the mercilesse murther of all states and sexes without parcialitie vnder the hand of the enimie for saith he Nobilitas cum plebe perit latéque vagatur Ensis à nullo reuocatum est pectore ferrum Stat cruor in templis multáque rubentia caede Lubrica saxa madent nulli sua profuit aetas Non senis extremum piguit vergentibus annis Praecipitasse diem non primo in limine vitae Infantis miseri nascentia rumpere fata Patrike earle of Dunbar came to the king of England and submitted himselfe with all that he had into his hands but the castell of Dunbar vpon saint Markes day being assieged of the Scots was rendred vnto them by treason of some that were within it of whome the countesse wife to the same erle was the chéefest for recouerie whereof king Edward sent Iohn earle of Warren Surrey and Sussex William earle of Warwike with a great power the which laieng siege to that castell a great host of Scotishmen came vpon them to the rescue of them within so that there was foughten a verie sore and terrible battell At length the victorie abode with the Englishmen and the Scotishmen were put to flight the Englishmen following them in chase eight mile of that countrie almost to the forrest of Selkirke the slaughter was great so that as was estéemed there died of the Scotishmen that day to the number of ten thousand The morrow after being saturdaie which was the eight and twentith day of Aprill at the kings comming thither the castell was surrendred vnto him There were taken in the same castell three earles Menteth Cassels and Ros six barons Iohn Comin the yoonger William Sanclere Richard Siward the elder Iohn Fitz Geffrey Alexander de Morteigne Edmund Comin of Kilbird with thirtie knights two clearks Iohn de Someruile and William de Sanclere and thrée and thirtie esquires the which were sent vnto diuerse castels in England to be kept as prisoners After the winning of Dunbar the king went to the castell of Rockesborough which incontinentlie was yeelded by the lord Steward of Scotland the liues and members of all such as were within it at the time of the surrender Then went king Edward vnto Edenburgh where he planted his siege about the castell and raised engines which cast stones against and ouer
of the said Robert Holland their side was much weakened it was concluded that they should go to the castell of Dunstanborough and there remaine till they might purchase the kings pardon sith their enterprise thus quailed vnder their hands and herewith setting forward that waie foorth they came to Borough bridge where sir Andrew de Herkley with the power of the countesse of Cumberland and Westmerland had forlaid the passage and there on a tuesdaie being the 16 of March he setting vpon the barons in the end discomfited them and chased their people In this fight was sâ—aine the earle of Hereford the lord William de Sullie with sir Roger de Bourghfield and diuerse others And there were taken Thomas earle of Lancaster the lord Roger Clifford son to that lord Roger which died in the battell of Bannockesborne in Scotland the lord Gilbert Talbot the lord Iohn â—owbraie the lord Hugh de Willington the lord Thomas â—anduit the lord Warren de Lisle the lord Phillip Darcie the lord Thomas Wither the lord Henrie de Willington the lord Hugh de Knouill the lord Philip de Beche the lord Henrie de Leiborne the lord Henrie de Bradborne the lord Iohn de Beckes the lord Thomas Louell the lord William fitz William Robert de Wateuille Iohn de Strikeland Odnell Heron Walter Pauelie of Stretton and a great number of other esquires and gentlemen This battell was fought on the fiftéenth day of March in the yeare 1322 after the accompt of them that begin the yeare at the Circumcision line 10 which was in the said fiftéenth yé ere of this kings reigne The bodie of the earle of Hereford was sent to Yorke two friers of the order of preachers being appointed to looke to it till the king tooke order for the burieng of it The lord Clifford also bicause he was wounded with an arrow was sent vnto Yorke At the same time the lord Henrie Percie tooke the lord Henrie Tieis and Iohn de Goldington knight with two esquires and within a few daies after Donald de Mar tooke the lord Bartholomew de Badelismere line 20 the lord Hugh Audelie the yoonger the lord Iohn Gifford the lord William Tucheâ— and in maner all those which escaped by flight from this battell were taken in one place or other by such of the kings seruants and fréends as pursued them Upon the one and twentith of March came sir Andrew de Harkley vnto Pomfret bringing with him the earle of Lancaster and other prisoners The king was come thither a few daies before and had the castell yeelded to him by the constable that not manie daies past was line 30 appointed to the kéeping thereof by the earle which earle now being brought thither captiue was mocked scorned and in derision called king Arthur On the morrow after being mondaie the two and twentith of March he was brought before these noble men Edmund earle of Kent Iohn earle of Richmond Aimer earle of Penbroke Iohn erle of Surrie Edmund earle of Arundell Dauid earle of Atholl Robert earle of Anegos the lord Hugh Spenser line 40 the father the lord Robert de Malmesthorp iustice and others with them associate before whome he was arreigned of high treason for that he had raised warre against the king and defended the passage of Burton bridge for the space of thrée daies togither against him and after when it was perceiued that the king had passed the riuer he with Humfrie de Bohun earle of Hereford and other their complices like traitors set fire on the said towne and cruellie burnt part of the houses and men of the same towne and after the said earle of Lancaster with his complices line 50 arranged himselfe in field with his armie and banners displaid readie to fight against the king till that perceiuing the kings power to be ouerstrong for him his partakers to resist he togither with them fled committing by the waie diuerse felonies and robberies till they came to Burrough bridge where finding certeine of the kings faithfull subiects readie to resist them they assailed the said faithfull subiects with force of armes and banners displaied slaieng line 60 diuerse of them till finallie the said earle of Lancaster was caught and other of his complices some taken some slaine and the residue put to flight so that there wanted no good will in the said earle of Lancaster and others whie the king should not haue béene vanquished Which treasons murthers burning of houses destroieng of the kings people being plainlie manifestlie knowne to the earls barons lords and other people of the land the said earle of Lancaster was therevpon adiudged to die according to the law in such cases prouided that is to be drawne hanged and headed But bicause he was the queenes vncle and sonne to the kings vncle he was pardoned of all saue heading and so accordinglie therevnto suffered at Pomfret the two and twentith of March. Thus the king séemed to be reuenged of the displeasure doone to him by the earle of Lancaster for the beheading of Peers de Gaueston earle of Cornewall whom he so déerelie loued and bicause the erle of Lancaster was the chéefe occasioner of his death the king neuer loued him entirelie after ¶ So that here is verified the censure of the scripture expressed by the wisedome of Salomon that the anger and displeasure of the king is as the roring of a lion and his reuenge ineuitable Wherefore it is an hie point of discretion in such as are mightie to take héed how they giue edge vnto the wrath of their souereigne which if it be not by submission made blunt the burthen of the smart insuing will lie heauie vpon the offendor euen to his vtter vndooing and losse perhaps of life In this sort came the mightie earle of Lancaster to his end being the greatest péere in the realme and one of the mightiest earles in christendome for when he began to leauie warre against the king he was possessed of fiue earledomes Lancaster Lincolne Salisburie Leicester and Derbie beside other seigniories lands and possessions great to his aduancement in honor and puissance But all this was limited within prescription of time which being expired both honour and puissance were cut off with dishonour and death for O mutable state Inuida fatorum series summÃsque negatum Stare diu On the same day the lord William Tuchet the lord William fitz William the lord Warren de Lisle the lord Henrie Bradborne and the lord William Chenie barons with Iohn Page an esquire were drawne and hanged at Pomfret aforesaid and then shortlie after Roger lord Clifford Iohn lord Mowbraie and sir Gosein d' Eeuill barons were drawne and hanged at Yorke At Bristow in like manner were executed sir Henrie de Willington and sir Henrie Montfort baronets and at Glocester the lord Iohn Gifford and sir William Elmebridge knight and at London the lord Henrie Teies baron at Winchelsie sir Thomas
second found means by intelligence had with sir William de Eland constable of the castell of Notingham to take the said earle of March with his sonne the lord Roger or Geffrey Mortimer and sir Simon Bereford with other Sir Hugh Trumpington or Turrington as line 10 some copies haue that was one of his chéefest fréends with certeine other were slaine as they were about to resist against the lord Montacute and his companie in taking of the said earle The manner of his taking I passe ouer bicause of the diuersitie in report thereof by sundrie writers From Notingham he was sent vp to London with his sonne the lord Roger or Geffrey de Mortimer sir Simon Bereford and the other prisoners where they were committed to prison in the tower Shortlie after was a parlement line 20 called at Westminster chéefelie as was thought for reformation of things disordered through the misgouernance of the earle of March But whosoeuer was glad or sorie for the trouble of the said earle suerlie the queene mother tooke it most heauilie aboue all other as she that loued him more as the fame went than stood well with hir honour For as some write she was found to be with child by him They kept as it were house togither for the earle to haue his prouision the better cheape laid his penie line 30 with hirs so that hir takers serued him as well as they did hir both of vittels cariages Of which mis-vsage all regard to honour and estimation neglected euerie subiect spake shame For their manner of dealing tending to such euill purposes as they continuallie thought vpon could not be secret from the eies of the people And their offense héerein was so much the more heinous bicause they were persons of an extraordinarie degree and were the more narrowlie marked of the multitude or common people line 40 nam lux altissima fati Occultum nil esse sinit latebrásque per omnes Intrat obtrusos explorat fama recessus But now in this parlement holden at Westminster he was attainted of high treason expressed in fiue articles as in effect followeth 1 First he was charged that he had procured Edward of Carnaruan the kings father to be murthered in most heinous and tyrannous maner within the castell of Berklie 2 Secondlie that the Scots at Stanop parke line 50 through his means escaped 3 Thirdlie that he receiued at the hands of the lord Iames Dowglas at that time generall of the Scots great summes of monie to execute that treason and further to conclude the peace vpon such dishonorable couenants as was accorded with the Scots at the parlement of Northampton 4 Fourthlie that he had got into his hands a great part of the kings treasure and had wasted and line 60 consumed it 5 Fiftlie that he had impropried vnto him diuers wards that belonged vnto the king and had béene more priuie with queene Isabell the kings mother than stood either with Gods law or the kings pleasure These articles with other being prooued against him he was adiudged by authoritie of the parlement to suffer death and according therevnto vpon saint Andrewes eeuen next insuing he was at London drawne and hanged at the common place of execution called in those daies The elmes now Tiborne as in some bookes we find His bodie remained two daies and two nights on the gallowes and after taken downe was deliuered to the friers minors who buried him in their church the morrow after he was deliuered to them with great pompe and funerall exequies although afterwards he was taken vp and carried vnto Wigmore whereof he was lord He came not to his answer in iudgement no more than any other of the nobilitie had doone since the death of Thomas earle of Lancaster Sir Simon de Bereford knight that had béene one of the kings iustices was drawne also and hanged at London vpon S. Lucies daie In this parlement holden at Westminster the king tooke into his hand by aduise of the states there assembled all the possessions lands and reuenues that belonged to the quéene his mother she hauing assigned to hir a thousand pounds by yeare for the maintenance of hir estate being appointed to remaine in a certeine place and not to go elsewhere abroad yet the king to comfort hir would lightlie euerie yeare once come to visit hir ¶ After that the erle of March was executed as yée haue heard diuerse noble men that were departed the realme bicause they could not abide the pride and presumption of the said earle now returned as the sonne and heire of the earle of Arundell the lord Thomas Wake the L. Henrie Beaumont sir Thomas de Rosselin sir Foulke fitz Warren sir Griffin de la Poole and diuerse other In the fift yeare of K. Edwards reigne Edward Balioll came foorth of France into England and obteined such fauour through the assistance of the lord Henrie Beaumont the lord Dauid of Strabogie earle of Athole the lord Geffrey de Mowbraie the lord Walter Cumin and others that king Edward granted him licence to make his prouision in England to passe into Scotland with an armie of men to attempt the recouerie of his right to the crowne of Scotland with condition that if he recouered it he should acknowledge to hold it of the king of England as superiour lord of Scotland The comming awaie of Edward Balioll out of France is diuerslie reported by writers some saie that he was aided by the French king whose sister he had married and other saie that he being in prison in France for the escape of an Englishman one Iohn Barnabie esquier which had slaine a Frenchman by chance of quarelling in the towne of Dampierre where the same Barnabie dwelled with the said Edward Balioll so it came to passe that the lord Henrie Beaumont hauing occasion of businesse with the French king that fauoured him well came ouer to France and there vnderstanding of Baliols imprisonment procured his deliuerance and brought him ouer into England and caused him to remaine in secret wise at the manor of Sandhall vpon Ouse in Yorkeshire with the ladie Uesci◠till he had purchased the kings grant for him to make his prouision of men of war and ships within the English dominions In the sixt yeare of king Edwards reigne Reignold earle of Gelderland married the ladie Elianor sister to this king Edward the third who gaue vnto the said earle with hir for hir portion fifteene thousand pounds sterling ¶ Isabell the kings daughter was borne also this yeare at Woodstoke ¶ After that Edward Balioll had prepared and made readie his purueiances for his iournie and that his men of warre were assembled and come togither being in all not past fiue hundred men of armes and about two thousand archers and other footmen he tooke the sea at Rauenspurgh in Yorkeshire and from thence directing his course northward he
were The lords and knights of France came not to the assemblie togither for some came after in such hast and euill order that one of them troubled another There were of Genowaies crosbowes to the number of twelue or fifteene thousand the which were commanded to go on before and with their shot to begin the battell but they were so werie with going on foot that morning six leagues armed with their crosbowes that they said to their constables We be not well vsed in that we are line 20 commanded to fight this daie for we be not in case to doo any great feat of armes we haue more néed of rest These words came to the hearing of the earle of Alanson who said A man is well at ease to be charged with such a sort of rascals that faint and faile now at most néed Also at the same instant there fell a great raine and an eclipse with a terrible thunder and before the raine there came flieng ouer both armies a great number of crowes for feare of the tempest comming line 30 then anon the aire began to wax cleare and the sunne to shine faire and bright which was right in the French mens eies and on the Englishmens backs ¶ When the Genowaies were assembled togither and began to approch they made a great leape and crie to abash the Englishmen but they stood still and stirred not at all for that noise Then the Genowaies the second time made an other leape and huge crie and stepped forward a little and the Englishmen remooued not a foot The third time againe line 40 the Genowaies leapt and yelled and went foorth till they came within shot and fiercelie therwith discharged their crosbowes Then the English archers stept foorth one pase and let flie their arrowes so wholie and so thicke togither that it séemed to snowe When the Genowaies felt the arrowes persing their heads armes and breasts manie of them cast downe their crosbowes and cut the strings and returned discomfited When the French king saw them flee awaie he said Slea these rascals for they will let and trouble vs without reason line 50 Then ye might haue seene the men of armes haue dasht in amongst them and killed a great number of them and euer the Englishmen shot where they saw the thickest prease the sharpe arrowes ran into the men of armes and into their horsses and manie fell horsse and man amongst the Genowaies and still the Englishmen shot where they saw the thickest prease and when they were once downe they could not recouer againe The throng was such that one ouerthrew line 60 another also among the Englishmen there were certeine of the footmen with great kniues that went in among the men of armes and killed manie of them as they laie on the ground both earles barons knights and esquires The valiant king of Bohem being almost blind caused his men to fasten all the reines of the bridels of their horsses ech to other and so he being himselfe amongst them in the formost ranke they ran on their enimies The lord Charles of Boheme sonne to the same king and late elected emperour came in good order to the battell but when he saw how the matter went awrie on their part he departed and saued himselfe His father by the meanes aforesaid went so far forward that ioining with his enimies he fought right valiantlie and so did all his companie but finallie being entred within the prease of their enimies they were of them inclosed and slaine togither with the king their master and the next daie found dead lieng about him and their horsses all tied ech to other The earle of Alanson came right orderlie to the battell and fought with the Englishmen and so did the earle of Flanders also on his part These two lords coasted the English archers and came to the princes battell and there fought right valiantlie a long time The French king perceiuing where their banners stood would faine haue come to them but could not by reason of a great hedge of archers that stood betwixt them and him This was a perillous battell and sore foughten there were few taken to mercie for the Englishmen had so determined in the morning Certeine Frenchmen and Almaines perforce opened the archers of the princes battell and came to fight with the men of armes hand to hand Then the second battell of the Englishmen came to succor the princes battell and not before it was time for they of that battell had as then inough to doo in somuch that some which were about him as the earle of Northampton and others sent to the king where he stood aloft on a windmill hill requiring him to aduance forward and come to their aid they being as then sore laid to of their enimies The king herevpon demanded if his sonne were slaine hurt or felled to the earth No said the knight that brought the message but he is sore matched Well said the king returne to him and them that sent you and saie to them that they send no more to me for any aduenture that falleth so long as my son is aliue for I will that this iournie be his with the honor thereof With this answer the knight returned which greatlie incouraged them to doo their best to win the spurs being half abashed in that they had so sent to the king for aid At length when it drew toward euening and that the Frenchmen were beaten downe and slaine on ech hand king Philip as it were by constreint departed out of the field not hauing as then past three score persons about him of whome the lord Iohn of Heinault was one by whose persuasion he cheefelie consented to ride his waie for his owne safegard when he saw the losse was such as on that daie it could not be recouered The slaughter of the Frenchmen was great and lamentable namelie for the losse of so manie noble men as were slaine at the same battell fought betweene Cressie and Broy on the saturdaie next following the feast of saint Bartholomew being as that yeare fell the 26 of August Among other which died that daie these I find registred by name as chéefest Iohn king of Boheme Rafe duke of Lorraine Charles of Alanso brother germane to king Philip Charles earle of Blois Lewes earle of Flanders also the earle of Harecourt brother to the lord Geffrie of Harecourt with the earles of Ausserre Aumerle and saint Poule beside diuerse other of the nobilitie The Englishmen neuer brake out of their battels to chase any man but kept themselues togither in their wards and ranks and defended themselues euer against such as came to assaile them This battell ended about euening When the Frenchmen were clearelie ouercome and those that were left aliue fled and gone so that the Englishmen heard no more noise of them king Edward came downe from the hill on the which he stood
perceiuing that this was doone of purpose to spare vittels would not driue them backe againe to helpe to consume the same but rather pitied them and therefore did not line 20 onelie shew them so much grace to suffer them to passe through his host but also gaue them meat and drinke to dinner and moreouer two pence sterling to euerie person which charitable déed wan him much praise and caused manie of his enimies to praie right hartilie for his good successe and prosperitie A most notable example of pitie and compassion teaching other to be in like sort affected and also to know that Spernit coelorum regem spretor miserorum line 30 The French king meaning to raise the siege from Calis which the king of England kept there sent for his sonne the duke of Normandie which had line long at the siege of Aiguillon and now by commandement of his father left it sore against his will In this meane while the earle of Derbie remained in the citie of Burdeaux and there had held him during all the time that the siege laie before Aiguillon When he once vnderstood that the siege was raised and that the duke of Normandie had broken vp his line 40 campe he sent into Gascoigne for all knights and esquires that held of the English part Then came to Burdeaux the lord Dalbret the lord de Lespare the lord de Rosam the lord of Musident the lord of Pumiers and a great sort more of the lords and nobles of Gascoigne so that the earle had twelue hundred men of armes two thousand archers and three thousand other footmen They passed the riuer of Garon betwixt Burdeaux and Blaie and tooke their waie to Zanctonge so to go vnto Poictiers and tooke by line 50 the waie the towne of Mirabell by assault they wan also the towne and castell of Aunaie Surgieres and Benon Also they tooke Maraunt in Poictow by force they burnt also the towne of Lusignen but the castell they could not win Moreouer they did win the bridge towne and castell of Tailburge and slue all that were found within it bicause a knight of the English part was slaine in the assaulting From thence the earle of Derbie went and laid siege to saint Iohn Dangelie which was yéelded to him by line 60 composition At Niort he made thrée assaults but could not win it and so from thence he came to Bourge saint Maximent the which was woone by force and all that were within it slaine and in like manner the towne of Montreuill Bonin was woone and the most part of them within slaine that tooke vpon them to defend it which were 200 coiners of monie that wrought in the mint which the French king kept there From thence he passed forward with his host and finallie came before the citie of Poictiers which was great and large so that he could not besiege it but on the one side The third daie after his comming thither he caused the citie to be assaulted in thrée places and the greatest number were appointed to assaile the weakest part of the citie As then there were no expert men of warre within Poictiers but a great multitude of people vnskilfull and not vsed to any feats of warre by reason whereof the Englishmen entered in at the weakest place When they within sawe the citie woone they fled out at other gates but yet there were slaine to the number of seauen hundred persons for all that came in the Englishmens waie were put to the sword men women and children The citie was sacked and rifled so that great store of riches was gotten there as well of the inhabitants as other that had brought their goods thither for safegard of the same The earle of Derbie laie there ten or twelue daies and longer might haue laine if his pleasure had so béene for there was none that durst go about to disquiet him all the countrie trembled so at his presence At his departure from Poictiers he left the citie void for it was too great to be kept his souldiers and men of warre were so pestered with riches that they wist not what to doo therewith they estéemed nothing but gold and siluer and feathers for men of warre The earle visited by the waie as he returned homewards to Burdeaux the towne of saint Iohn Dangelie and other fortresses which he had woone in going towards Poictiers and hauing furnished them with men munition and vittels necessarie at his comming to Burdeaux he brake vp his host and licencing his people to depart thanked them for their paines and good seruice All this while the siege continued still before Calis and the French king amongst other deuises which he imagined how to raise the K. of England from it procured the Scots to make warre into England insomuch that Dauid king of Scotland notwithstanding the truce which yet indured betwixt him and the king of England vpon hope now to doo some great exploit by reason of the absence of king Edward intangled thus with the besieging of Calis he assembled the whole puissance of his realme to the number of fortie or threescore thousand fighting men as some write and with them entered into England burning spoiling and wasting the countrie till he came as far as Durham The lords of England that were left at home with the queene for the sure keeping and defense of the realme perceiuing the king of Scots thus boldie to inuade the land and in hope of spoile to send foorth his light horssemen to harrie the countrie on ech side him assembled an host of all such people as were able to beare armour both preests and other Their generall assemblie was appointed at Newcastell and when they were all togither they were to the number of 1200 men of armes thrée thousand archers and seauen thousand other with the Welshmen and issuing out of the towne they found the Scots readie to come forward to incounter them Then euerie man was set in order of battell and there were foure battels ordeined one to aid another The first was led by the bishop of Durham Gilbert de Uinfreuile earle of Anegos Henrie lord Percie and the lord Henrie Scroope the second by the archbishop of Yorke and the lord Rafe Neuill the third by the bishop of Lincolne Iohn lord Mowbraie and the lord Thomas de Rokebie the fourth was gouerned by the lord Edward Balioll capteine of Berwike the archbishop of Canturburie and the lord Ros beside these were W. lord d' Eincourt Robert de Ogle and other The queene was there in person and went from ranke to ranke and incouraged hir people in the best manner she could and that doone she departed committing them and their cause to God the giuer of all victorie Shortlie herevpon the Scots set forward to begin the battell and likewise did the Englishmen and therewith the archers on both parts began to shoot the shot of the Scots did little hurt
battell the next day being fridaie or else on saturdaie following at the Frenchmens choice but the constable of France and his companie continuing in their first offer refused both line 50 those daies Then the English lords accepted the daie by them assigned with condition that if they brought not king Edward to giue battell that day they would yeeld themselues prisoners so that the Frenchmen would likewise vndertake for their king The constable hauing no answer readie staied a while and after flatlie refused to make any such couenant Finallie when the English lords perceiued their aduersaries not to meane battell as their words at the first pretended line 60 they brake off and both parties returned home The king of England staied till the tuesdaie and paid the strangers their wages and so came backe into England On the sixt of Nouember whilest the king was thus abroad in Picardie the Scots verie earlie in the morning of that daie came priuilie to Berwike entred by stealth into the towne and sleâ—ing three or foure Englishmen tooke it with all the goods and persons within it those excepted which got to the castell In a parlement summoned this yeare the mondaie after the feast of saint Edmund the king the lords and commons granted to king Edward fiftie shillings of euerie sacke of wooll that should be caried ouer the sea for the space of six yeares next insuing By this grant it was thought that the king might dispend a thousand markes sterling a day such vent of wools had the English merchants in that season ¶ The parlement being ended the king about S. Andrews tide set forward towards Scotland and held his Christmasse at Newcastell About which time by letters sent from the prince the king was aduertised of his proceedings after his arriuall in Gascoigne where being ioifullie receiued of the nobles and other the people of that countrie as before yée haue heard he declared to them the cause of his thither comming and tooke aduise with them how to procéed in his businesse and so about the tenth of October he set forward to passe against his enimies first entring into a countrie called Iuliake which togither with the fortresses yeelded to him without anie great resistance Then he rode through the countie Armignac wasting and spoiling the countrie and so passed through the lands of the vicounts de la Riuiere and after entered into the countie de l'Estrac and passing through the same came to the countie of Commiges finding the towne of S. Matain void being a good towne one of the best in that countrie After this he passed by the land of the earle of Lisle till he came within a league of Tholouse where the earle of Armignac being the French kings lieutenant in those parts and other great lords and nobles were assembled The prince with his armie tarried there two daies and after passed ouer the riuer of Garonne and after ouer an other riuer the reabouts a league aboue Tholouse lodging that night a league on the other side of Tholouse and so they passed thorough Tholouse dailie taking townes castels wherein they found great riches for the countrie was verie plentifull Upon Alhallowes éeuen they came to castell Naudarie and from thence they tooke the waie to Carcasson into the which a great number of men of armes and commons were withdrawne But vpon the approch of the Englishmen they slipt awaie and got them to a strong castell that stood néere at hand The third day after the Englishmen burnt the towne and passing forth trauersed all the countrie of Carcassonoâ—s till they came to the towne of Narbonne The people there were fled into the castell in which the vicount of Narbonne was inclosed with fiue hundred men of arms The prince staied there two daies The pope sent two bishops towards the prince to treat with him of peace but bicause the prince would not hearken to anie treatie without commission from his father they could not get anie safe conduct to approch néerer The prince hauing aduertisments heere that his enimies were assembled and followed him he turned backe to meet them but they had no will to abide him for although the earle of Armignac the constable of France the marshall Cleremont and the prince of Orange with diuerse other néere to Tholouse made some shew to impeach the prince his passage yet in the end they withdrew not without some losse for the lord Bartholomew de Burwasch alias Burghersch sir Iohn Chandois the lord Iames Audeley and sir Thomas Felton being sent foorth to view them skirmished with two hundred of their men of armes and tooke of them fiue and thirtie After this they had no mind to abide the English power but still shranke awaie as the prince was readie to follow them and so he perceiuing that the Frenchmen would not giue him battell he withdrew towards Burdeaux after he had spent eight weekes in that his iournie and so comming thither he wintetered there whilest his capteins in the meane time tooke diuerse townes and castels abroad in the countrie ¶ And now to the end yee may haue more plaine information of the princes dooings in those parties I haue thought good to make you partakers of a letter or two written by sir Iohn Winkefield knight attendant on the prince there in Gascoigne The copie of sir Iohn Winkefields letters MY lord as touching the newes in these parts may it please you to line 10 vnderstand that all the earles barons baronets knights and esquiers were in helth at the making hereof and my lord hath not lost either knight or esquier in this voiage except the lord Iohn Lisle who was slaine after a strange manner with a quarrell the third day after we were entered into our enimies countries he died the fiftenth of October And please line 20 it you to vnderstand that my lord hath ridden through the countrie of Arminac and hath taken many fensed townes and burnt and destroied them except certeine which he hath fortified After this he marched into the vicountie of Rouergne where he tooke a good towne named Pleasance the chiefest towne of that countrie which he hath burnt and destroied with the countrie line 30 round about the same This doone he went into the countie d'Astrike wherin he tooke manie townes wasted and destroied all the countrie After this he entred into the countie of Cominge and tooke manie townes there which he caused to be destroied burnt togither with all the countrie abroad He tooke also the towne of S. Matan which is the cheefest towne of that countrie being as large in compasse as line 40 Norwich Afterward he entered into the countie of Lisle and tooke the most part of the fensed townes therin causing diuerse of them to be burnt and destroied as he passed And after entring into the lordship of Tholouse we passed the riuer of Girond and an other a league aboue Tholouse which is verie
cardinall returned to the French king and required of him that a truce might be granted till the next daies sun-rising which truce obteined he spent that daie in riding to and fro betwixt them The prince offered to render into the kings hands all that he had woone in that voiage as well townes as castels and also to release all the prisoners which he or any of his men had taken in that iournie and further he was contented to haue béene sworne not to beare armour against the French king within the terme of seuen yeares next following But the French king would not agree therevnto the vttermost that he would agree vnto was this that the prince and an hundred of his knights should yéeld themselues as prisoners vnto him otherwise he would not haue the matter taken vp But it was the French kings hap after notwithstanding his hautines to be taken captiue as Okland noteth saieng seruilia sub iuga missus Disceret vt domino regi parêre Britanno But the prince in no wise cold be brought to any such vnreasonable conditions and so the cardinall could not make them fréends although he trauelled earnestlie betwixt them all that daie When it drew towards night he returned toward Poictiers The Englishmen were not idle whilest the cardinall was thus in hand to bring the parties to some good agréement but cast great ditches and made hedges and other fortifications about the place where their archers stood and on the next morning being mondaie the prince and his people prepared themselues to receiue battell as they had doone before hauing passed the day before and that night in great defect of necessarie things for they could not stir abroad to fetch forrage or other prouisions without danger to be surprised of their enimies The cardinall came againe earlie in the morning vnto the French king and found the French armie readie in order of battell by that time the sunne was vp and though he eftsoones fell in hand to exhort the king to an agréement yet it would not be So he went to the prince and declared to him how he could doo no good in the matter and therefore he must abide the hazard of battell for ought that he could sée wherewith the prince was content and so the cardinall returned vnto Poicâ—iers ¶ Here is to be remembred that when as Thomas Walsingham writeth this cardinall of Piergort was sent from the pope to trauell betwixt the parties for a peace to be had and that the pope exhorted him verie earnestlie to shew his vttermost diligence and indeuour therein at his setting foorth to go on that message the said cardinall as was said made this answer Most blessed father said he either we will persuade them to peace and quietnesse either else shall the verie flintstones crie out of it But this he spake not of himselfe as it was supposed but being a prelate in that time he prophesied what should follow for when the English archers had bestowed all their arrowes vpon their enimies they tooke â—p pebles from the place where they stood being full of those kind of stones and approching to their enimies they threw the same with such violence on them that lighting against their helmets armor and targets they made a great ringing noise so that the cardinals prophesie was fulfilled that he woulde either persuade a peace or else the stones should crie out thereof The worthie prince like a couragious chiefteine when he saw that he must needs â—ight required his people not to be abashed at the great number of their enimies sith the victorie did not consist in the multitude of men but where God would send it and if it fortuned that the iournie might be theirs and his they should be the most honored people of the world and if they should die in that righteous quarrell he had the king his father and also his brethren in like case as they had freends and kinsmen that would seeke their reuenge And therefore he desired them that daie to shew themselues like valiant men of warre and for his part he trusted in God and saint George they should see in his person no default These or the like words did this most gentle prince speake which greatlie comforted all his people There were with him of earles Warwike Suâ—folke Salâ—sburie Stafford of lords Cobhain Spenser Andeley Berkley Basset Warren de la Waâ—e Bradeston Burwasch Felton Mallow and diuerse other also sir Iohn Chandois by whome he line 10 was much counselled sir Richard Stafford sir Richard of Penbruche and manie other knights and valiant esquires of England Moreouer there was of Gascoigne the capitall of Buz or Beuf the lords of Prumes Burguenrie Chaumount de Lespare Rosen Monferant Landuras the Souldich of Lestrad or Lescard and other and of Heinault sir Eustace Daubreticourt sir Iohn de Guistelles and other strangers All the princes companie passed not the number of eight thousand men one and other of line 20 the which as Iacobus Meire saith thrée thousand were archers though Froissard as I haue rehearsed before reporteth the number of archers to be more as in one place six thousand and in an other place foure thousand The French king hauing in his armie thrée score thousand fighting men wherof there were more than three thousand knights made so sure account of victorie as anie man might of a thing not yet had considering his great puissance in regard to the small line 30 number of his aduersaries and therefore immediatlie after that the cardinall was departed he caused his battels to march forward and approching to the place where the Englishmen stood readie to receiue their enimies caused the onset to be giuen There were certeine French horssemen to the number of three hundred with the Almains also on horssebacke appointed to breake the arraie of the English archers but the archers were so defended and compassed about with hedges and ditches that the horssemen line 40 of the French part could not enter to doo their feat and being galled with the sharpe shot of the English bowes they were ouerthrowne horsse and man so that the vaward of the Frenchmen wherein was the duke of Athens with the marshals of France the lord Iohn de Cleremont and the lord Arnold Dandrehen or Odenhen began to disorder within a while by reason of the shot of the archers togither with the helpe of the men of armes amongst whom in the forefront was the lord Iames Audeley line 50 to performe a vow which he had made to be one of the first setters on There was the lord Arnold Dandrehen taken prisoner and the lord Iohn de Cleremont slaine so that the noble prowesse of the said lord Iames Audeley breaking through the Frenchmens battell with the slaughter of manie enimies was that day most apparant The loiall constancie of the noble earles of Warwike and Suffolke that fought so stoutlie so
prouided readie with lists railed and made so substantiallie as if the same should haue indured for euer The concourse of people that came to London to sée this tried was thought to excéed that of the kings coronation so desirous men were to behold a sight so strange and vnaccustomed The king his nobles and all the people being come togither in the morning of the daie appointed to the place where the lists were set vp the knight being armed and mounted on a faire courser seemelie trapped entered first as appellant staieng till his aduersarie the defendant should come And shortlie after was the esquier called to defend his cause in this forme Thomas Katrington defendant come and appeare to saue the action for which sir Iohn Anneslie knight and appellant hath publikelie and by writing appealed thée He being thus called thrise by an herald at armes at the third call did come armed likewise and riding on a courser trapped with traps imbrodered with his armes at his approching to the lists he alighted from his horsse lest according to the law of armes the constable should haue chalenged the horsse if he had entered within the lists But his shifting nothing auailed him for the horsse after his maister was alighted beside him ran vp downe by the railes now thrusting his head ouer and now both head breast so that the earle of Buckingham bicause he was high constable of England claimed the horsse afterwards swearing that he would haue so much of him as had appeared ouer the railes and so the horsse was adiudged vnto him But now to the matter of the combat for this challenge of the horsse was made after as soone as the esquier was come within the lists the indenture was brought foorth by the marshall and constable which had béene made and sealed before them with consent of the parties in which were conteined the articles exhibited by the knight against the esquier and there the same was read before all the assemblie The esquier whose conscience was thought not to be cleare but rather guiltie and therefore seemed full of troublesome and grudging passions as an offendor alreadie conuinced thought as full well he might Multamiser timeo quia feci multa proteruè went about to make exceptions that his cause by line 10 some means might haue séemed the sounder But the duke of Lancaster hearing him so staie at the matter sware that except according to the conditions of the combat and the law of armes he would admit all things in the indentures comprised that were not made without his owne consent he should as guiltie of the treason foorthwith be had foorth to execution The duke with those words woone great commendation and auoided no small suspicion that had béene conceiued of him as parciall in the esquiers cause line 20 The esquier hearing this said that he durst fight with the knight not onelie in those points but in all other in the world whatsoeuer the same might be for he trusted more to his strength of bodie and fauour of his freends than to the cause which he had taken vpon him to defend He was in déed a mightie man of stature where the knight among those that were of a meane stature was one of the least Freends to the esquier in whom he had great affiance to be borne line 30 â—ut through their assistance were the lords Latimer and Basset with others Before they entered battell they tooke an oth as well the knight as the esquier that the cause in which they were to fight was true and that they delt with no witchcraft nor art magike whereby they might obteine the victorie of their aduersarie nor had about them any herbe or stone or other kind of experiment with which magicians vse to triumph ouer their enimies This oth receiued of either of them and therewith line 40 hauing made their praiers deuoutlie they began the battell first with speares after with swords and lastlie with daggers They fought long till finallie the knight had bereft the esquier of all his weapons and at length the esquier was manfullie ouerthrowne by the knight But as the knight would haue fallen vpon the esquier through sweat that ran downe by his helmet his sight was hindered so that thinking to fall vpon the esquier he fell downe sideling himselfe not comming néere to the esquier line 50 who perceiuing what had happened although he was almost ouercome with long fighting made to the knight and threw himselfe vpon him so that manie thought the knight should haue beene ouercome other doubted not but that the knight would recouer his feet againe and get the victorie of his aduersarie The king in the meane time caused it to be proclamed that they should staie and that the knight should be raised vp from the ground and so meant to take vp the matter betwixt them To be short such line 60 were sent as should take vp the esquier but comming to the knight he besought them that it might please the king to permit them to lie still for he thanked God he was well and mistrusted not to obteine the victorie if the esquier might be laid vpon him in manner as he was earst Finallie when it would not be so granted he was contented to be raised vp and was no sooner set on his féet but he cheerfullie went to the king without anie mans helpe where the esquier could neither stand nor go without the helpe of two men to hold him vp and therefore was set in his chaire to take his ease to see if he might recouer his strength The knight at his comming before the king besought him his nobles to grant him so much that he might be eftsoones laid on the ground as before and the esquier to be laid aloft vpon him for the knight perceiued that the esquire through excessiue heat and the weight of his armor did maruellouslie faint so as his spirits were in manner taken from him The king and the nobles perceiuing the knight so couragiouslie to demand to trie the battell foorth to the vttermost offring great summes of monie that so it might be doone decreed that they should be restored againe to the same plight in which they laie when they were raised vp but in the meane time the esquire fainting and falling downe in a swoone fell out of his chaire as one that was like to yéeld vp his last breath presentlie among them Those that stood about him cast wine and water vpon him seeking so to bring him againe but all would not serue till they had plucked off his armor his whole apparell which thing prooued the knight to be vanquisher and the esquier to be vanquished After a little time the esquier began to come to himselfe and lifting vp his eies began to hold vp his head and to cast a ghostlie looke on euerie one about him which when it was reported to the knight he commeth to him armed as
and to defend the said workemen that they might not be hindered in their businesse by the citizens ten thousand fighting men were appointed So that this fort was begun and ended in ninetéene daies space and called the Doouehouse bicause a doouehouse stood in the same place before Furthermore he stored this fort with all necessaries as vittels armour guns and other engins and he placed therin as capteine of the warriors the lord Iohn Maletret with a hundred and fiftie armed men and as manie other soldiors the whole number being thrée hundred The good duke of Lancaster hauing knowledge hereof directed his fléet or nauie towards the hauen of Brest where when he had arriued they all fled from the siege both by sea and land those onlie which were in the fort remaining behind Now the prior of S. Iames in Calis desired the good duke that he might giue the first assault against the fort who taking the repulse with his retinue he ceased and gaue ouer In like sort did manie more giue the assault to the same for the space of two daies and more in somuch that some digging vnder the wals and vndermining the foundations of one towre the same fell downe vpon sir Robert Swinarton a valiant knight of Staffordshire and manie more among whome was Iohn de Bolton a couragious gentleman and an esquire by degree of Yorkeshire As for those that were vpon the towre they also came tumbling downe and were presentlie slaine In the meane time the lord Maletret gardian of the fort sent word to the duke of Lancaster that he would yeeld and surrender the hold into his hands vpon condition that he and all his might freelie depart with such armour goods chatels and victuals as they had reposed and laid vp in store for their necessarie prouision wherevnto the good duke as he was alwaies good verie gentlie agréed vpon condition also that before their departure they should ruinate the said fort and laie it eeuen with the ground and should likewise allow and paie him towards his costs and charges defraied in the siege of the same twentie thousand sâ—utes of gold Then might you sée the people flocking from all parts of the countrie some with beires some with cabbins some with carts and some with crutches to fetch awaie the dead and the wounded in so much that there was not one either slaine outright or deadlie maimed for whome his freends did not mou e and lament Yea the lord Maletret himselfe was so mangled and hurt that he could not go on his legs but as he leaned on mens shoulders and was borne vp on either side It was reported that manie dead bodies were hidden in heaps of salt to the end that the Englishmen should not glorie and triumph in the multitude of the slaine of whome in sight the number amounted to aboue 150. Thus farre goeth Henrie Knighton whose report giueth no small light to the matter vnder hand After the duke had remained a moneth at Groigne he went to Compostella and there soiourned for a season during the which his constable sir Iohn Holland woone diuerse townes and fortresses which the enimies kept diuerse yeelded to the duke with better will for that the duchesse his wife was there with him whom they knew to be right inheritour to the realme ¶ At Mouson a towne on the confines betwixt line 10 Spaine and Portingale the king of Portingale and the duke of Lancaster met where they communed and tooke counsell togither for the more spéedie procéeding in their enterprise against their aduersaries of Castile Also there was a mariage concluded betwixt the said king of Portingale and the ladie Philip daughter to the said duke which marriage shortlie after was wholie consummated the said ladie being first married by procuration at Compostella and after sent into Portingale right honorablie line 20 accompanied The duke continued at Compostella all the winter season till towards March and then according to appointment taken betwixt him and the king of Portingale at their being togither at Mouson for their iournie to be made into Castile the said king assembled an armie of a thousand men of armes and ten thousand other souldiers with the which entring the confines of Castile he first tooke the towne of Feroule and after ioining with the duke who had line 30 in the meane while by his marshall taken the towns of Ruelles Uille Lopes Pounceuoide Dighos Baionne in la Maroll Ribadan Maures Besanses and Orens with others in the countrie of Gallis they marched foorth with their whole powers both togither and passing ouer the riuer of Dure entered into the countrie de Campo ¶ Here the English writers make mention of a battell which the constable of Castile should giue to the duke and that the victorie remained on the dukes line 40 side and the Spaniards chased out of the field But Froissard who liued in those daies and learned that which he wrote of those that were with the duke in his iournie maketh no remembrance of any such thing but that contrarilie the king of Castile folowing the aduise of such Frenchmen as were sent into Spaine to aid him caused all the riches of the countrie to be brought into the walled townes and fortresses which he stuffed with men of warre to defend them from the Englishmen and Portingales and line 50 further to cut off their vitels and to kéepe them from hauing forrage abroad in the countrie vnlesse such as were sent were garded with the greater troops for their suertie and defense Thus bestowing the most part of all such men of warre both Frenchmen and Spaniards as he could make in places most conuenient for that purpose he fullie determined not to giue battell till his enimies had wearied themselues in keeping of the fields and that a new power was come to his aid out of line 60 France which he dailie looked for By which means it came to passe that the Englishmen not vsed to such hot aire as they found in those parts in that season of the yeare for it was about Midsummer fell dailie into manie perillous diseases whereof no small number died and other became so faint that they were not able to helpe themselues that to consider the miserie in which they were it would haue rued the harts of their verie foes Herevpon was the duke constreined to fall to a communication for a peace which in the end was accorded though not at this instant Howbeit a truce was granted in such wise as it might be at the Englishmens choise to returne into their countrie either by sea or by land thorough France Such as passed through Spaine to France had safe conducts sealed and signed by the king of Spaine but scarse the halfe of those that came out of England with the duke returned thither againe they died so fast aswell after the breaking vp of their campe as before Amongst other there died before the breaking vp of the
in the beginning of this parlement were openlie called Robert Uéer duke of Ireland Alexander Neuill archbishop of Yorke Michaell de la Poole earle of Suffolke sir Robert Trisilian lord cheefe iustice of England to answer Thomas of Woodstoke duke of Glocester Richard earle of Arundell Henrie earle of Derbie and Thomas earle of Notingham vpon certeine articles of high treason which these lords did charge them with And forsomuch as none of these appeared it was ordeined by the whole assent of the parlement that they should be banished for euer and their lands and goods mooueable and vnmooueable to be forfeit and seized into the kings hands their lands intailed onelie excepted Shortlie after was the lord chéefe iustice Robert Trisilian found in an apothecaries house at Westminster lurking there to vnderstand by spies dailie what was doone in the parlement he was descried by one of his owne men and so taken and brought to the duke of Glocester who caused him forthwith the same daie to be had to the tower and from thence drawne to Tiburne and there hanged On the morrow after sir Nicholas Brambre that sometime had beene maior of London was brought foorth to iudgement and condemned although he had manie fréends that made sute to saue his life This man had doone manie oppressions within the citie of London as was reported In his maioraltie he caused great monstruous stocks to be made to imprison men therein and also a common axe to strike off the heads of them which should resist his will and pleasure for he was so highlie in the kings fauour that he might doo what he would And the report went that he had caused eight thousand or more to be indicted which before had taken part with the lords intending to haue put them all to death if God had not shortened his daies Manie other euill fauoured reports went abroad of him as that he meant to haue changed the name of London and to haue named it little Troie of which citie baptised with that new name he purposed to be intituled duke But these were forged rumors deuised and spred abroad in those daies as manie other were partlie by the vaine imagination of the people and partlie of purpose to bring those whome the king fauoured further out of the peoples liking But now touching sir Nicholas Brambre in the end being thus called to answer his transgressions he was found giltie and had iudgement neither to be hanged nor drawne but to be beheaded with his owne are which before he had deuised seruing him heerein as Phalaris the tyrant sometime serued Perillus the inuentor of that exquisite line 10 torment of the brasen bull wherein the offendor being put and the counterfet beast by force of fier made glowing hot hauing his toong first cut out through extreamitie of paine made a bellowing alwaies as he cried as if it had béene the verie noise of a naturall bull Of which strange torment Perillus himselfe first tasted suffering death by an engine of his owne deuising which he thought should haue purchased him a good liuing whereof the poet saith Vâ— Phalaris tauro violentus membra Perilli line 20 Torruit infelix imbuit autor opus After this sir Iohn Salisburie sir Iames Berneis both knights and lustie yoong men were by iudgement of parlement drawne and hanged Then folowed Iohn Beauchampe of the Holt lord steward of the kings house that had serued king Edward the third and his sonne Lionell duke of Clarence who likewise by decrée of this parlement was drawne and hanged Also Iohn Blake esquier who in an infortunate houre stood against the lords in the councell line 30 at Notingham was now drawne and hanged and so was one Thomas Uske Last of all or as some hold first of all was sir Simon Burlie beheaded although the earle of Derbie did what he could to saue his life by reason whereof great dissention rose betwixt the said earle and the duke of Glocester for the duke being a sore and a right seuere man might not by any meanes be remooued from his opinion and purpose if he once resolued vpon any matter Some spite he bare as was thought towards the line 40 said sir Simon Burlie both as well for the faithfull fréendship which was growne betwixt the duke of Ireland and the said sir Simon as also for that he looked to haue had such offices and roomes which sir Simon inioied by the kings gratious fauour and grants thereof to him made as the Wardenship of the cinque ports and constableship of the castell of Douer and the office of high chamberleine ¶ But now bicause of all these which were condemned and executed at this parlement in our common chronicles there is least written and in Froissard and line 50 diuerse priuate pamphlets I haue read most of this sir Simon I haue thought good to set downe some part of his life so largelie as this volume may well beare although a great deale more briefe than where I found it This sir Simon was the son of sir Iohn Burlie knight of the garter and brought vp in his youth vnder his kinsman doctor Walter Burlie who as in the latter end of king Edward the third you haue heard was one of the chiefe that had charge in line 60 the bringing vp of the Blacke prince eldest sonne to the said king Edward By this occasion he grew into such fauour with the prince that afterwards the said prince committed vnto him the gouernance of his sonne Richard of Burdeaux who as he was of a genâ—le and courteous nature began then to conceiue so great loue and liking towards him that when he came to the crowne and was king he aduanced him highlie to great honours and promotions in somuch that at one time other he was made knight of the gartâ—r constable of Douer lord Waâ—den of the cinque ports lord chamberleine earle of Huntington and also one of the priuie councell to the king Neither was there any thing doone concerning the affaires apperteining vnto the state without his counsell appointment and direction wherein he so much fauoured and leaned to the partie of the duke of Ireland that he was sore enuied and greatlie hated of diuerse of the rest of the nobilitie speciallie of the kings vncle the duke of Glocester who vpon malice that he bare to the man not so much for his owne demeanour as for his alies and peraduenture for desire of his roomes more than of his life caused him to be accused of diuerse offenses against the crowne realme and church namelie for that he had as they surmized against him spoiled and wasted the kings treasure and withholden the paie of the souldiers and men of warre wherevpon he was arrested called to account hauing no clerke allowed him to make vp the same was found in arrerages 250000 franks And although for one part thereof he demanded allowance of monie which be had
defraied and laid out in Almaine and in Boheme about the kings marriage and for the residue desired daies of paiment yet he could obteine neither Further he was accused that the duke of Ireland and he had gathered great summes of monie conueied the same to Douer and from thence sent it in the night by sea into Germanie Lastlie the archbishop forsooth and the moonks of Canturburie charged him that he sought the means to remooue â—he shrine of the archbishop Thomas otherwise called Thomas Becket from Canturburie vnto Douer vnder a colour of feare least the Frenchmen being assembled in Flanders to inuade England should land in Kent and take Canturburie and spoile it where indeed as they surmized against him he meant to send it ouer the seas vnto the king of Boheme Herevpon he was first committed to the tower and before the king or his other friends could procure his deliuerance he was without law or iustice before any of the residue as some hold brought foorth and beheaded on the tower hill by commandement of the duke of Glocester and other of his faction quite contrarie to the kings will or knowledge in somuch that when he vnderstood it he spake manie sore words against the duke affirming that he was a wicked man and worthie to be kept shorter sith vnder a colour of dooing iustice he went about to destroie euerie good and honest man The king was also offended with the duke of Yorke for his brothers presumptuous doings though the said duke of Yorke being verelie a man of a gentle nature wished that the state of the common-wealth might haue béene redressed without losse of any mans life or other cruell dealing but the duke of Glocester and diuerse other of the nobilitie the lesse that they passed for the kings threatening speach so much more were they readie to punish all those whom they tooke to be their enimies In deed the said sir Simon Burlie was thought to beare himselfe more loftie by reason of the kings fauour than was requisite which procured him enuie of them that could not abide others to be in any condition their equals in authoritie It should appeare by Froissard that he was first of all in the beginning of these stirs betwixt the king and the lords committed to the tower and notwithstanding all the shift that either the king or the duke of Ireland or anie other of his fréends could make for him by the duke of Glocesters commandement he was cruellie beheaded so greatlie to the offense of the king and those that were his trustie councellors that therevpon the king caused the duke of Ireland the sooner to assemble an armie against the said duke and his complices therby â—o râ—sâ—raine their presumptuous proceedings But whether he was thus at the first or last executed to please the king the better now at this parlement amongst others that were condemned in the same his lands were giuen to the king a great part whereof he afterwards disposed to diuerse men as he thought expedient But yet in the parlement holden in the one and twentith yeare of this kings reigne the act of atteindor of the said sir Simon was repealed and at an other parlement holden in the second yeare of king Henrie the fourth all his lands which then remained vngranted and vnsold were restored to sir Iohn Burlie knight sonne and heire of sir Roger Burlie brother to the said Simon of whom lineallie is descended Thomas Eins line 10 esquier now secretarie to the queenes maiesties councell in the north parts And thus far touching sir Simon Burlie of whom manie reports went of his disloiall dealings towards the state as partlie ye haue heard but how trulie the lord knoweth Among other slanderous tales that were spred abroad of him one was that he consented to the deliuering of Douer castell by the kings appointment to the Frenchmen for monie But as this was a thing not like to be true so no doubt manie things that the persons line 20 aforesaid which were executed had béene charged with at the least by common report among the people were nothing true at all although happilie the substance of those things for which they died might be true in some respect Sir William Elmham that was charged also for withdrawing of the soldiers wages discharged himselfe therof and of all other things that might be laid to his charge As touching the iustices they were all condemned to death by the parlement but such line 30 meanes was made for them vnto the queene that she obteined pardon for their liues But they forfeited their lands and goods and were appointed to remaine in perpetuall exile with a certeine portion of monie to them assigned for their dailie sustentation the names of which iustices so condemned to exile were these Robert Belknap Iohn Holt Iohn Craie Roger Fulthorpe William Burgh and Iohn Lokton Finallie in this parlement was an oth required and line 40 obteined of the king that he should stand vnto and abide such rule and order as the lords should take and this oth was not required onelie of the king but also of all the inhabitants of the realme ¶ In these troubles was the realme of England in these daies and the king brought into that case that he ruled not but was ruled by his vncles and other to them associat In the latter end of this eleuenth yeare was the earle of Arundell sent to the sea with a great nauie of ships and men of warre There went with him in line 50 this iournie of noble men the earles of Notingham Deuonshire sir Thomas Percie the lord Clifford the lord Camois sir William Elmham sir Thomas Morieux sir Iohn Daubreticourt sir William Shellie sir Iohn Warwike or Berwike sir Stephan de Liberie sir Robert Sere sir Peter Montherie sir Lewes Clanbow sir Thomas Coque or Cooke sir William Paulie or Paulet diuerse others There were a thousand men of armes and three thousand archers The purpose for which they were sent was to line 60 haue aided the duke of Britaine if he would haue receiued them being then eftsoones run into the French kings displeasure for the imprisoning of the lord Clisson constable of France But after that contrarie to expectation the duke of Britaine was come to an agréement with the French king the earle of Arundell drew with his nauie alongst the coasts of Poictou and Xaintonge till at length he arriued in the hauen that goeth vp to Rochell and landed with his men at Marrant foure leagues from Rochell and began to pilfer spoile and fetch booties abroad in the countrie The Frenchmen within Rochell issued foorth to skirmish with the Englishmen but they were easilie put to flight and folowed euen to the bariers of the gates of Rochell ¶ Perot le Bernois a capteine of Gascoigne that made warre for the king of England in Limosin and lay in the fortresse of Galuset came foorth the same time
Robert duke of Bauier and countée palantine of the Rhene had instituted about that season Richard Northall sonne to a maior of London as is said of that name he became a Carmelite frier in the same citie Thomas Edwardson prior of the friers Augustines at Clare in Suffolke Iohn Summer a Franciscane frier at Bridgewater an enimie to the Wickliuists Richard Withée a learned priest an earnest follower of Wickliffe Iohn Swafham a Carmelite frier of Lin a student in Cambridge who became bishop of Bangor a great aduersarie to the Wickliuists Finallie and to conclude William Egumond a frier heremit of the sect of the Augustins in Stamford Iohn Tissington a Franciscane frier a mainteiner of the popes doctrine William Rimston or Rimington a moonke of Salleie an enimie also to the Wickliuists Adam Eston well séene in the toongs was made a cardinall by pope Gregorie the eleauenth but by pope Urban the sixt he was committed to prison in Genoa and at the contemplation of king Richard he was taken out of prison but not fullie deliuered till the daies of Boniface the ninth who restored him to his former dignitie Iohn Beaufu a Carmelite of Northampton proceeded doctor of diuinitie in Oxenford and was made prior of his house Roger Twiford aliàs Goodlucke an Augustine frier Iohn Treuise a Cornishman borne and a secular préest and vicar of Berklie he translated the bible Bartholomew De proprietatibus rerum Polychronicon of Ranulph Higden and diuerse other treatises Rafe Spalding a Carmelite frier of Stamford Iohn moone an Englishman borne but a student in Paris who compiled in the French toong the Romant of the Rose translated into English by Geffrie Chaucer William Shirborne Richard Wichingham borne in Norffolke and diuerse other Thus farre Richard of Burdeaux whose depriuation you haue heard of his lamentable death hereafter to wit pag. 516 517. Henrie the fourth cousine germane to Richard the second latelie depriued WHen king Richard had resigned as before is specified line 40 the scepter and crowne Henrie Plantagenet borne at Bullingbroke in the countie of Lincolne duke of Lancaster and Hereford earle of Derbie Leicester and Lincolne sonne to Iohn of Gant duke of Lancaster with generall consent both of the lords commons was published proclamed and declared king of England and of France and lord of Ireland the last line 50 daie of September in the yeare of the world 5366 of our Lord 1399 of the reigne of the emperour Wenceslaus the two and twentith of Charles the sixt king of France the twentith and the tenth of Robert the third king of Scots After that king Richard had surrendered his title and dispossessed himselfe which Chr. Okl. noteth in few words saieng post breue tempus Exüit insigni sese diademate sceptrum Henrico Lancastrensi regale relinquens King Henrie made certeine new officers And first in right of his earledome of Leicester he gaue the office of high steward of England belonging to the same earledome vnto his second sonne the lord Thomas who by his fathers commandement exercised that office being assisted by reason of his tender age by Thomas Persie earle of Worcester The earle of Northumberland was made constable of England sir Iohn Scirlie lord chancellor Iohn Norburie esquier lord treasuror sir Richard Clifford lord priuie seale Forsomuch as by king Richards resignation and the admitting of a new king all plées in euerie court and place were ceased and without daie discontinued new writs were made for summoning of the parlement vnder the name of king Henrie the fourth the same to be holden as before was appointed on mondaie next insuing Upon the fourth day of October the lord Thomas second sonne to the king sat as lord high steward of England by the kings commandement in the White-hall of the line 10 kings palace at Westminster and as belonged to his office he caused inquirie to be made what offices were to be exercised by anie maner of persons the daie of the kings coronation and what fées were belonging to the same causing proclamation to be made that what noble man or other that could claime anie office that daie of the solemnizing the kings coronation they should come and put in their bils cōprehending their demands Whervpon diuers offices fees were claimed as well by bils as otherwise line 20 by spéech of mouth in forme as here insueth First the lord Henrie the kings eldest sonne to whome he as in right of his duchie of Lancaster had appointed that office claimed to beare before the king the principall sword called Curtana and had his sute granted Iohn erle of Summerset to whom the king as in right of his earledome of Lincolne had granted to be caruer the daie of his coronation and had it confirmed Henrie Persie earle of Northumberland and high constable of England by the line 30 kings grant claimed that office and obteined it to inioy at pleasure The same earle in right of the I le of Man which at that present was granted to him and to his heires by the king claimed to beare on the kings left side a naked sword with which the king was girded when before his coronation he entered as duke of Lancaster into the parts of Holdernesse which sword was called Lancasters sword Rafe erle of Westmerland and earle marshall of England by the kings grant claimed the same office and obteined line 40 it notwithstanding that the attornies of the duke of Norfolke presented to the lord steward their petition on the dukes behalfe as earle marshall to exercise the same Sir Thomas Erpingham knight exercised the office of lord great Chamberleine and gaue water to the king when he washed both before and after dinner hauing for his fées the bason ewer and towels with other things whatsoeuer belonging to his office notwithstanding Auberie de Ueer earle of Oxenford put in his petitions to haue that line 50 office as due vnto him from his ancestors Thomas Beauchampe earle of Warwike by right of inheritance bare the third sword before the king and by like right was pantler at the coronation Sir William Argentine knight by reason of the tenure of his manour of Wilmundale in the countie of Hertford serued the king of the first cup of drinke which he tasted of at his dinner the daie of his coronation the cup was of siluer vngilt which the same knight had for his fées notwithstanding the petition which line 60 Iuon Fitzwarren presented to the lord steward requiring that office in right of his wife the ladie Maud daughter and heire to sir Iohn Argentine knight Sir Thomas Neuill lord Furniuall by reason of his manour of Ferneham with the hamlet of Cere which he held by the courtesie of England after the decesse of his wife the ladie Ione decessed gaue to the king a gloue for his right hand and susteined the kings right arme
and sixtéene too without hearing any word of the gouernors comming Then the winter beginning to wax cold and foule weather still increasing caused the king to breake vp his siege and so returned without battell or skirmish offered In the meane time that the king was thus in Scotland the Scots made a rode into Northumberland and burned diuerse townes in Bamburrough shire At the kings comming backe to Yorke there were two strangers the one a Frenchman and the other an Italian requiring to accomplish certeine feats of armes against sir Iohn Cornewall and Ianico de Artois Their request was granted and the strangers were put to the woorst whereby sir Iohn Cornewall obteined the kings fauour so farre foorth that he married the kings sister the widow of Iohn Holland earle of Huntington Yet some said that the knight and the countesse were agréed aforehand without the kings consent In the kings absence whilest he was foorth of the realme in Scotland against his enimies the Welshmen tooke occasion to rebell vnder the conduct of their capteine Owen Glendouer dooing what mischeefe they could deuise vnto their English neighbours This Owen Glendouer was sonne to an esquier of Wales named Griffith Uichan he dwelled in the parish of Conwaie within the countie of Merioneth in Northwales in a place called Glindourwie which is as much to saie in English as The vallie by the side of the water of Dée by occasion whereof he was surnamed Glindour Dew He was first set to studie the lawes of the realme and became an vtter barrester or an apprentise of the law as they terme him and serued king Richard at Flint castell when he was taken by Henrie duke of Lancaster though other haue written that he serued this king Henrie the fourth before he came to atteine the crowne in roome of an esquier and after by reason of variance that rose betwixt him and the lord Reginald Greie of Ruthin about the lands which he claimed to be his by right of inheritance when he saw that he might not preuaile finding no such fauor in his sute as he looked for he first made warre against the said lord Greie wasting his lands and possessions with fire and sword cruellie killing his seruants and tenants The king aduertised of such rebellious exploits enterprised by the said Owen and his vnrulie complices determined to chastise them as disturbers of his peace and so with an armie entered into Wales but the Welshmen with their line 10 capteine withdrew into the mounteines of Snowdon so to escape the reuenge which the king meant towards them The king therefore did much hurt in the countries with fire and sword sleing diuerse that with weapon in hand came foorth to resist him and so with a great bootie of beasts and cattell he returned The emperour of Constantinople comming into England to sue for aid against the Turkes was met by the king on Blackeheath vpon the feast day of saint Thomas the apostle and brought vnto London with great honor The king bare all his charges presenting line 20 him with gifts at his departure meet for such an estate year 1401 After the feast of the Epiphanie a parlement was holden in which an act was made against those that held opinions in religion contrarie to the receiued doctrine of the church of Rome ordeining that wheresoeuer any of them were found and prooued to set foorth such doctrine they should be apprehended and deliuered to the bishop their diocesane and if they stood stiffelie in their opinions and would not be reformed they should be deliuered to line 30 the secular power to be burnt to ashes The first that tasted the smart of this statute was one William Hawtrée or Sawtrée a priest that being apprehended was burnt in Smithfield in time of this parlement About the same time king Henrie according to promise made as ye haue heard vnto the French ambassadors sent ouer into the countrie of Guisnes Edward earle of Rutland otherwise in king Richards line 40 daies intituled duke of Aumarle son to Edmund duke of Yorke Henrie earle of Northumberland and his sonne the lord Henrie Persie the lord Yuan Fitzwarren the bishops of Winchester and Lincolne where the duke of Burbon the lords Charles d'Albert Charles de Hangest Iohn de Chastelmorant the Patriarke of Ierusalem and the bishops of Paris and Beauuois were readie there to commune with them and so they assembling togither at sundrie times and places the Frenchmen required line 50 to haue queene Isabell to them restored but the Englishmen séemed loth to depart with hir requiring to haue hir married to Henrie prince of Wales one in bloud and age in all things to hir equall but the Frenchmen would in no wise condescend thereto without their kings consent who at that present was not in case to vtter his mind being troubled with his woonted disease The commissioners then began to treat of peace and at length renewed the truce to endure for six and twentie yeares yet to come wherevnto the foure yeares passed being line 60 added made vp the number of thirtie yeares according to the conclusion agreed vpon in the life time of king Richard Some authors affirme that there was a new league concluded to continue during the liues of both the princes The Frenchmen diuerse times required to haue some dower assigned foorth for queene Isabell but that was at all times vtterlie denied for that the marriage betwixt hir and king Richard was neuer consummate by reason whereof she was not dowable Neuerthelesse she was shortlie after sent home vnder the conduct of the earle of Worcester associat with diuerse other noble and honorable personages both men and women hauing with hir all the iewels ornaments and plate which she brought into England with a great surplusage besides giuen to hir by the king She was deliuered betwixt Bullongne and Calis to Ualeran earle of saint Paule the French kings lieutenant in Picardie who being accompanied with the bishop of Chartres the lord de Hugueuile the ladie of Monpensier sister to the erle of March the ladie of Lucenburgh sister to the said earle of saint Paule diuerse other ladies and gentlewomen which receiued hir with great ioy and gladnesse and taking leaue of the English lords and ladies they conueied hir to the dukes of Burgognie and Burbon that attended for hir not far off vpon a hill with a great number of people They first conueied hir to Bullogne after to Abuile from whence the duke of Orleance conueied hir to Paris vnto the presence of the king hir father and the queene hir mother she was after giuen in marriage vnto Charles sonne to Lewes duke of Orleance About the same time Owen Glendouer and his Welshmen did much hurt to the kings subiects One night as the king was going to bed he was in danger to haue beene destroied for
the flix and other feuers which sore vexed and brought to death aboue fifteene hundred persons of the armie and this was the cause that his returne was the sooner appointed and concluded But before his departing thence he entred into the towne of Harflue went to the church of saint Martines and there offered All the men of warre which had not paid their ransoms he sware them on the holie euangelists to yeeld themselues prisoners at Calis by the feast of saint Martine in Nouember next There were two strong towers standing on the hauen side at Harflue which looking for aid did not yéeld till ten daies after the towne was rendered When the king had repared the walles bulwarks and rampiers about the towne and furnished it with vittels and artillerie he remooued from Harflue toward Ponthoise intending to passe the riuer of Some with his armie before the bridges were either withdrawen or broken Such vittels and other necessaries as were to be caried wich the armie he appointed to be laid on horsses leauing the carts and wagons behind for lesse incombre The French king hearing that the towne of Harflue was gotten and that the king of England was marching forward into the bowels of the realme of France sent out proclamations and assembled people on euerie side committing the whole charge of his armie to his sonne the Dolphine and duke of Aquitaine who incontinentlie caused the bridges to be broken and the passages to be kept Also they caused all the corne and vittels to be conueied awaie or line 10 destroied in all places where it was coniectured that the Englishmen would passe The king of England nothing dismaied herewith kept his iournie in spite of his enimies constreining them within diuerse townes and holds to furnish him with vittels but yet as he passed by the towne of Ew the garrison of the towne issued foorth and gaue the Englishmen a skirmish who beat them into the towne with losse namelie of a right valiant man of armes named Lancelot Piers. There were manie Englishmen line 20 hurt with quarels shot off from the loops and wals as they pursued the enimies vnto the gates At length the king approched the riuer of Some finding all the bridges broken he came to the passage of Blanchetake where his great grandfather king Edward the third a little before had striken the battell of Cressie but the passage was now so impeached with stakes in the botome of the foord that he could not passe his enimies besides there awaie so swarming line 30 on all sides He therefore marched forwards to Arames marching with his armie and passing with his carriage in so martiall a maner that he appeared so terrible to his enimies as they durst not offer him battell And yet the lord Dalbreth constable of France the marshall Boncequault the earle of Uendosme great master of France the duke of Alanson and the earle of Richmont with all the puissance of the Dolphin laie at Abuile but euer kept the passages and coasted aloofe like a hauke though eager line 40 yet not hardie on hir preie The king of England kept on his iournie till he came to the bridge of saint Marence where he found aboue thirtie thousand Frenchmen and there pitched his field looking suerlie to be fought withall Wherefore to incourage his capteins the more he dubbed certeine of his hardie and valiant gentlemen knights as Iohn lord Ferrers of Grobie Reginald of Greistocke Piers Tempest Christopher Morisbie Thomas Pikering William Huddleston line 50 Iohn Hosbalton Henrie Mortimer Philip Hall and William his brother Iaques de Ormond and diuerse other but the French making no semblance to fight he departed in good order of battell by the towne of Amiens to another towne néere to a castell called Bowes and there laie two daies looking for their bidding of battell euerie houre From thence he came néere to Corbie where he was staied that night for that the common people and pezants mightilie there assembled hauing gotten them some line 60 head and hartening by meanes of their number that was great and by trust of a strength then ioined vnto them made of men at armes manie too tall and well appointed for fight all of the garrison of Corbie a strong towne well walled and warded Herevpon at a streict which they had preoccupied they stoutlie from our armie not onelie kept the passage but also vpon vs gaue a proud onset wherein sir Hugh Stafford knight lord Bourghchier chéefteine of a wing to the king vnder his standard of Guien and as then neerest to the enimie though far inferior in number yet with readie and valiant incounter receiued them The force and slaughter grew great both on the one side and the other by the French in especiall at first right fiercelie pursued in so much as with an hardie charge vpon our men they had both beat downe the standard and also from vs quite woone it awaie to their hie incouragement and our incredible despite and dismaie Whereat one Iohn Bromley of Bromley in Staffordshire esquier a neere kinsman vnto the lord Bourghchier was euen streight so pearsed at hart as he could not conteine him but by and by ran eagerlie vpon the French and with his souldiers in whom wrath and teene had alreadie inflamed furie and desire of reuenge did so fiercelie set vpon them that they were not onlie beaten backe but also forced to abandon the place At this push the capteine cutting through the thickest strake downe the champion that bare the standard and so gloriouslie recouered it againe and after during the fight where as manie of the French lost their liues couragiouslie ouer his souldiers auanced it himselfe The rest that fled awaie our people pursued in chasing slaughter vnto Corbie verie gates So in victorie honor and great ioy with our small losse in comparison thanks vnto Gods maiestie the cheefteine brought his host into his campe and order againe The singular prowes of this worthie capteine the noble man highlie regarding in an ample testimonie thereof and vpon his owne honorable consideration year 1585 by a faire ancient déed yet extant at these daies did giue him reward of fortie pounds annuitie for his life The monument so plainelie declaring the truth of the matter with the maner and dignitie of the feat as it was doone hath béene thought verie meet for the storie in hand here now to place it as followeth A copie of the said deed HOc praesens scriptum testatur quòd nos Hugo de Stafford dominus le Bourghchier concessimus per praesentes confirmauimus praedilecto consanguineo nostro Iohanni Bromley de Bromley armigero pro suo magno auxilio nobis impenso in oppugnatione contra Francos prope le Corbie praecipuè pro suo laudabili seruitio in recuperatione supportatione vexilli domini regis de Guien sub nostra conductione vnam annuitatem
duke of Clarence during his life the vicounties of Ange Orbe◠and Ponteau de Mer with all the lands of those that were withdrawne foorth of the same vicounties This gift was made the sixteenth of Februarie in this fift yeare of this kings reigne All the Lent season the king laie at Baieux with part of his armie line 10 but the residue were sent abroad for the atchiuing of certeine enterprises because they should not lie idle ¶ In this yeare 1418 and in the first yeare of the reigne of this victorious king Henrie the fift on Easter daie in the after noone a time which required deuotion at a sermon in saint Dunstans in the east of London a great fraie happened in the said church where through manie people were sore wounded and one Thomas Petwarden fishmonger that dwelt at line 20 Sprots keie was slaine outright as they vpon a good intent did what they could to their owne perill as vnfortunatlie it befell to appease the turmoile and to procure the kéeping of the kings peace Herevpon the church was suspended and the beginners of the broile namelie the lord Strange and sir Iohn Trussell knight betwéene whome such coles of vnkindnesse were kindled at the instigation of their wiues gentlewomen of euill disposition and at curssed hatred one with another that their husbands ment at their méeting in the said church to haue line 30 slaine one another were committed to the counter in the Pultrie Two wise gentlemen I wisse and well aduised no doubt who without regard of day place people preacher or perill that might insue were so forward to become the instruments of their mischieuous wiues malice the fulfilling wherof they would haue forborne if with discretion they had pondered the verdict of the poet concerning the said sex Foemina laetalis foemina plena malis line 40 The archbishop of Canturburie when he had intelligence giuen of this outragious prophanation of the church caused the offendors to be excommunicat as well at Paules as in all other parish churches of London Shortlie after to wit on the one and twentith of Aprill the said archbishop sat at saint Magnus vpon inquisition for the authors of the said disorder and found the fault to consist speciallie in the lord Strange and his wife So that vpon the first daie of Maie next following in Paules church before the said archbishop the maior of London and others the line 50 said offendors submitted themselues to doo penance and sware to doo it in such sort as to them it was inioined namelie as followeth That immediatlie all their seruants should in their shirts go before the parson of saint Dunstans from Paules to the said saint Dunstans church and the lord Strange bare-headed with his ladie barefooted Reignold Kenwood archdeacon of London following them Also it was appointed them that at the consecrating or hallowing of the said church which they had prophaned the ladie line 60 should fill all the vessels with water and offer likewise to the altar an ornament of ten pounds and the lord hir husband a pix of siluer of fiue pounds Which doone by waie of a satisfactorie expiation it is likelie they were absolued but the lord Strange had first made the wife of the said Petwarden slaine in the fraie large amends as Fabian saith though in what sort he maketh no mention Whilest the king of England wan thus in Normandie his nauie lost nothing on the sea but so scowred the streames that neither Frenchmen nor Britons durst once appeare howbeit on a daie there arose such a storme and hideous tempest that if the earles of March and Huntington had not taken the hauen of Southhampton the whole nauie had perished yet the safegard was strange for in the same hauen two balingers and two great carickes laden with merchandize were drowned and the broken mast of another caricke was blowen ouer the wall of the towne When the furie of this outragious wind and weather was asswaged and the sea waxed calme the earles of March and Huntington passed ouer with all their companie and landing in Normandie they marched through the countrie destroieng the French villages and taking preies on each hand till they came to the king where he then was In the sixt yeare of king Henries reigne he sent the earle of Warwike and the lord Talbot to besiege the strong castell of Dampfront The duke of Clarence was also sent to besiege and subdue other townes vnto whome at one time and other we find that these townes vnderwritten were yéelded wherein he put capteins as followeth In Courton Iohn Aubin in Barney William Houghton in Chambis Iames Neuill in Bechelouin the earle Marshall in Harecourt Richard Wooduill esquier in Fangernon Iohn S. Albon in Creuener sir Iohn Kirbie to whom it was giuen in Anuilliers Robert Hornebie in Bagles sir Iohn Arthur in Fresnie le vicont sir Robert Brent The duke of Glocester the same time accompanied with the earle of March the lord Greie of Codner and other was sent to subdue the townes in the I le of Constantine vnto whome these townes hereafter mentioned were yeelded where he appointed capteins as followeth At Carentine the lord Botreux at Saint Lo Reginald West at Ualoignes Thomas Burgh at Pont Done Danie Howell at the Haie de Pais sir Iohn Aston at saint Sauieur le vicont sir Iohn Robsert at Pontorson sir Robert Gargraue at Hamberie the earle of Suffolke lord of that place by gift at Briqueuill the said earle also by gift at Auranches sir Philip Hall bailiffe of Alanson at Uire the lord Matreuers at S. Iames de Beumeron the same lord After that the duke had subdued to the kings dominion the most part of all the townes in that I le of Constantine Chierburgh excepted he returned to the king and forthwith was sent thither againe to besiege that strong fortresse which was fensed with men munition vittels and strong walles towers and turrets in most defensible wise by reason whereof it was holden against him the space of fiue moneths although he vsed all waies and meanes possible to annoie them within so that manie fierce assaults skirmishes issues and other exploits of warre were atchiued betwixt the Frenchmen within and the Englishmen without yet at length the Frenchmen were so constreind by power of baterie mines and other forceable waies of approchings that they were glad to compound to deliuer the place if no rescue came to raise the siege either from the Dolphin that their was retired into Aquitaine or from the duke of Burgognie that then laie at Paris within the terme of thrée score and two daies for so long respit the duke granted but they trusting further vpon his lenitie and gentlenesse hoped to get a far longer terme Now were the Dolphin and the duke of Burgognie growen to a certeine agréement by mediation of cardinals sent from the pope so that the Englishmen suerlie
sides contrarie to their expectation with humble heart and small ioy they rendered vp the towne vnto the kings hands After this the king hauing no let nor impediment determined foorthwith to besiege the citie of Rone and first sent before him his vncle the duke of Excester with a great companie of horssemen archers to view the place thervpon with banner displaied came before the citie and sent Windsore an herauld at armes to the capteins within willing them to deliuer the citie vnto the king his maister or else he would pursue them with fire and sword To whome they proudlie answered that none they receiued of him nor anie they would deliuer him except by fine force they were therevnto compelled and herewith there issued out of the towne a great band of men of armes and incountered fiercelie with the Englishmen the which receiuing them with like manhood and great force draue the Frenchmen into the towne againe to their losse for they left thirtie of their fellowes behind prisoners and dead in the field The duke returned with this good speed and proud answer of the Frenchmen vnto the king who remained line 10 yet at Pont de Larch and had giuen the towne of Louiers to his brother the duke of Clarence which made there his deputie sir Iohn Godard knight After that the duke of Excester was returned to Pont Larch the French capteins within Rone set fire on the suburbs beat downe churches cut downe trées shred the bushes destroied the vines round about the citie to the intent that the Englishmen should haue no reléefe nor comfort either of lodging or â—ewell When the king heard of these despitefull dooings he with his whole armie remooued from Pont Larch and the last daie of Iulie came before the citie of Rone and compassed it round about with a strong siege This citie was verie rich in gold siluer and other pretious things in so much that when the same was taken and seized vpon by the English the spoile was verie great and excéeding aduantagable which the compiler of Anglorum praelia hath verie well noted in a few lines but pithie saieng Vltima Rothomagus restat quae mercibus auro line 30 Argento vasis pretiosis diues abundat Rothomagus capitur iámque Anglus adeptus opimas Praedas in patriam perpulchra trophaea remittit The king laie with a great puissance at the Chartreux house on the east side of the citie and the duke of Clarence lodged at S. Geruais before the port of Caâ—â— on the west part The duke of Excester tooke his place on the north side at port S. Denis betweene the dukes of Excester and Clarence was appointed the earle marshall euen before the gate of line 40 the castell to whome were ioined the earle of Ormond and the lords Harington and Talbot vpon his comming from Dampfront and from the duke of Excester toward the king were incamped the lords Ros Willoughbie Fitz Hugh and sir William Porter with a great band of northerne men euen before the port of saint Hilarie The earles of Mortaigne and Salisburie were assigned to lodge about the abbie of saint Katharine Sir Iohn Greie was lodged directlie against the chappell called line 50 mount S. Michaell sir Philip Léech treasuror of the warres kept the hill next the abbeie and the baron of Carew kept the passage on the riuer of Seine and to him was ioined that valiant esquier Ienico Dartois On the further side of the riuer were lodged the earles of Warren and Huntington the lords Neuill and Ferrers sir Gilbert Umfreuile with a well furnished companie of warlike soldiers directlie before the gate called Port de Pont. And to the intent line 60 that no aid should passe by the riuer toward the citie there was a great chaine of iron deuised at Pont Larch set on piles from the one side of the water to the other and beside that chaine there was set vp a new forced bridge sufficient both for cariage and passage to passe the riuer from one campe to another The erle of Warwike that had latelie woone Dampfront was sent to besiege Cawdebecke a towne standing on the riuer side betweene the sea and the citie of Rone A memorable feaâ— in seruice néere to that place was doone at that time by a well minded man then noted soone after in writing which matter vnable to be better reported than by him that had so well marked it nor like to be more trulie expressed than by the ancient simplicitie and yet effectuall of the selfe same words wherein they were written therefore thought méetest to haue them rehearsed as they were in order thus The truth of the said memorable feat as it was reported in writing MEmorandum that my lord the earle of Warwike did send out my cosin sir Iohn Bromley and my cosin George Umfreuile with an hundred archers and about two hundred soldiers a strett to keepe at a little castell called the Stroo neere to Cawdebeke where they wearen met with aboue eight hundred Frenchmen the fraie betweene them long yfought and the Englishmen in great dread and perill till at length by the might of God and saint George the feeld did fall to our Englishmen the Frenchmen wearen put to flizt and thear wearen yslaine aboue two hundred Frenchmen and as manie ytaken prisoners and their capteine who was ycalled the lord of Estrisles was thear also yslaine and thear wearen yslaine of our Englishmen my said cosin George Umfreuile and about twentie mo on whose solles Iesus haue mercie and thear wearen hurt in the face my said cosin sir Iohn Bromley my cosin Walter Audeley sore wounded and maimed in the right arme of his bodie he then being but of the age of eighteene yeares But thankes be giuen to the blessed Trinitee thear wearen manie noble victories ywoon by the said noble erle of Warwike and his folke as in his officiall booke written by Maister Iohn le Tucke then present with the said noble earle is amplie recorded My said cosin Walter Audeley died at Warwike the seauenteenth daie of Iulie anno Domini one thousand foure hundred and twentie and was buried at Acton in Cheshire neere the bodie of my said cosin sir Iohn Bromley on whose solles Iesus haue mercie By me sir Richard Braie chapleine to my ladie the old countesse of Warwike Iesus Maria Amen Pater noster Aue Maria. After this conflict this towne was so hardlie handled with fierce and continuall assaults that the capteins within offered to suffer the English nauie to passe by their towne without impeachment vp to the citie of Rone And also if Rone yeelded they promised to render the towne without delaie Héerevpon the English nauie to the number of an hundred sailes passed by Cawdebecke and came to Rone and so besieged it on the water side There came also to this siege the duke of Glocester
with his great ordinance to ouerthrow the wals And one day amongst other he determined to giue the assault and so did the which continued a long space verie hot and earnest The Britons Britonants were come downe into a low bottome where there was a little pond or fish-poole and they must néeds passe by a streict waie to come to the walles in great danger On that side of the towne was a little bulworke which sir Nicholas Burdet kept hauing with him a fortie or eightie fighting men and ouer against the same bulworke there was a gate well furnished also with English souldiers so that the Britons which came downe into the ditches in great number to giue the assault heard on either side them the Englishmen within the said bulworke and gate make a great noise in crieng Salisburie and Suffolke with the which crie the Britons being maruelouslie astonied began to recoile in great disorder And therewith the said sir Nicholas Burdet issued foorth vpon them and pursuing them right valiantlie sâ—ue them downe so that there died of them what by the sword and what by drowning in the said poole about seauen thousand or eight hundred and to the number of fiftie were taken prisoners And beside this those Englishmen gained eightéene standards and one baner Incontinentlie the newes hereof were reported to the constable of France who was busie at the assault on the other side of the towne whereof he was sore displeased and no lesse amazed so that he caused the retreit to be sounded for all the siege on that side toward the poole was alreadie raised After this vpon counsell taken amongst the Frenchmen it was determined that they should dislodge and so about the middest of the next night the constable and all the residue of his people departed toward Fougiers leauing behind them great plentie of artillerie both great and small with victuals and all their other prouisions as fourteene great guns and fortie barrels of powder thrée hundred pipes of wine two hundred pipes of bisket and flower two hundred frailes of figs and reisins and fiue hundred barrels of herrings Somewhat before this season fell a great diuision in the realme of England which of a sparkle was like to haue grown to a great flame For whether the bishop of Winchester called Henrie Beaufort sonne to Iohn duke of Lancaster by his third wife enuied the authoritie of Humfreie duke of Glocester protectour of the realme or whether the duke disdained at the riches and pompous estate of the bishop sure it is that the whole realme was troubled with them and their partakers so that the citizens of London were faine to kéepe dailie and nightlie watches and to shut vp their shops for feare of that which was doubted to haue insued of their assembling of people about them The archbishop of Canturburie and the duke of Quimbre called the prince of Portingale rode eight times in one daie betwéene the two parties and so the matter was staied for a time But the bishop of Winchester to cléere himselfe of blame so farre as he might and to charge his nephue the lord protectour with all the fault wrote a letter to the regent of France the tenor whereof insueth The bishop of Winchesters letter excusatorie line 10 RIght high and mightie prince and my right noble and after one lieuest lord I recommend me vnto you with all my hart And as you desire the welfare of the king our souereigne lord and of his realmes of England and France your owne health and ours also so hast you hither For by my truth if you tarie we shall put this land in line 20 aduenture with a field such a brother you haue here God make him a good man For your wisedome knoweth that the profit of France standeth in the welfare of England c. Written in great hast on Allhallowen euen By your true seruant to my liues end Henrie Winchester The duke of Bedford being sore greeued and disquieted with these newes constituted the earle of line 30 Warwike which was latelie come into France with six thousand men his lieutenant in the French dominions and in the duchie of Normandie and so with a small companie he with the duchesse his wife returned againe ouer the seas into England and the tenth daie of Ianuarie he was with all solemnitie receiued into London to whome the citizens gaue a paire of basins of siluer and gilt and a thousand markes in monie Then from London he rode to Westminster and was lodged in the kings palace line 40 The fiue and twentith daie of March after his comming to London a parlement began at the towne of Leicester where the duke of Bedford openlie rebuked the lords in generall bicause that they in the time of warre thorough their priuie malice and inward grudge had almost mooued the people to warre and commotion in which time all men ought or should be of one mind hart and consent requiring them to defend serue dread their souereigne lord king Henrie in performing his conquest in line 50 France which was in manner brought to conclusion In this parlement the duke of Glocester laid certeine articles to the bishop of Winchester his charge the which with the answers hereafter doo insue as followeth The articles of accusation and accord betweene the lord of Glocester and the lord of Winchester line 60 HEre insueth the articles as the kings councell hath conceiued the which the high and mightie prince my lord of Glocester hath surmised vpon my lord of Winchester chancellor of England with the answer to the same 1 First whereas he being protectour and defendour of this land desired the Tower to be opened to him and to lodge him therein Richard Wooduile esquier hauing at that time the charge of the keeping of the Tower refused his desire and kept the same Tower against him vndulie and against reason by â—he commandement of my said lord of Winchester and afterward in approouing of the said refusall he receiued the said Wooduile and cherished him against the state and worship of the king and of my said lord of Glocester 2 Item my said lord of Winchester without the aduise and assent of my said lord of Glocester or of the kings councell purposed and disposed him to set hand on the kings person and to haue remooued him from Eltham the place that he was in to Windsor to the intent to put him in gouernance as him list 3 Item that where my said lord of Glocester to whome of all persons that should be in the land by the waie of nature and birth it belongeth to see the gouernance of the kings person informed of the said vndue purpose of my said lord of Winchester declared in the article next abouesaid and in letting thereof determining to haue gone to Eltham vnto the king to haue prouided as the cause required my said lord of Winchester vntrulie and against the kings peace to the
intent to trouble my said lord of Glocester going to the king purposing his death in case that he had gone that waie set men of armes and archers at the end of London bridge next Suthworke and in forebarring of the kings high waie let draw the chaine of the stoupes there and set vp pipes and hurdles in manner and forme of bulworks and set men in chambers cellars windowes with bowes and arrowes and other weapons to the intent to bring finall destruction to my said lord of Glocesters person as well as of those that then should come with him 4 Item my said lord of Glocester saith and affirmeth that our souereigne lord his brother that was king Henrie the fift told him on a time when our souereigne lord being prince was lodged in the palace of Westminster in the great chamber by the noise of a spaniell there was on a night a man spied and taken behind a tapet of the said chamber the which man was deliuered to the earle of Arundell to be examined vpon the cause of his being there at that time the which so examined at that time confessed that he was there by the stirring and procuring of my said lord of Winchester ordeined to haue slaine the said prince there in his bed wherefore the said earle of Arundell let sacke him foorthwith and drowned him in the Thames 5 Item our souereigne lord that was king Henrie the fift said vnto my said lord of Glocester that his father king Henrie the fourth liuing and visited then greatlie with sickenesse by the hand of God my said lord of Winchester said vnto the king Henrie the fift then being prince that the king his father so visited with sicknesse was not personable therfore not disposed to come in conuersation and gouernance of the people and for so much counselled him to take the gouernance and crowne of this land vpon him The answer of the bishop HEre insue the answers to the accusations made by my lord of Winchester chancellour of England vnto the causes and matters of heauinesse declared in the articles against him by my lord of Glocester 1 First as of the refusall made vnto my lord of Glocester of opening the Tower to him of his lodging therein by the commandement of my said lord of Winchester he answereth that in the presence of my said lord of Glocester before his comming out of his countrie of Heinault for causes such as were thought resonable it séemeth lawfull that the Tower should haue béene notablie stored and kept with vittels howbâ—it it was not foorthwith executed and that in likewise after that my said lord of Glocester was gone into his said countrie of Heinault for seditious and odious billes and languages cast and vsed in the citie of London sounding of insurrection and rebellion against the kings peace and destruction aswell of diuerse estates of this land as strangers being vnder the defense in so much that in doubt thereof strangers in great number fled the land And for the more sure kéeping of the said Tower Richard line 10 Wooduile esquier so trusted with our souereigne lord the king that dead is as well ye know also chamberlaine and councellor vnto my lord of Bedford with a certeine number of defensible persons assigned vnto him was made deputie there by the assent of the kings councell being that time at London for to abide therein for the safegard thereof and streictlie charged by the said councell that during that time of his said charge he should not suffer any man to be in the Tower stronger than himselfe without speciall line 20 charge or commandement of the king by the aduise of his councell 2 Item that soone after vpon the comming of my said lord of Glocester into this land from his countrie of Heinault the said lords of the kings councell were informed that my said lord of Glocester grudged with the said maner of inforcing the Tower and let saie to them of London that he had well vnderstand that they had béene heauilie threatened for the time of his absence and otherwise than they shuld haue beene if he had béene in this land Wherefore he line 30 was right euill contented and especiallie of the said forcing of the Tower set vpon them in manner of a chased villain considering the good equitie and truth that they had alwaies kept vnto the king offering them therevpon remedie if they would 3 Item that after this Richard Scot lieutenant of the Tower by the commandement of my said lord of Glocester brought vnto him frier Randolph the which had long before confessed treason doone by him line 40 against the kings person that dead is for the which knowledge he was put to be kept in the said Tower streictlie commanded vnder great paine giuen vnto the said Scot to kéepe him streictlie suerlie not to let him out of the said Tower without coÌ„mandment of the king by aduise of his councell The which frier Randolph my said lord of Glocester kept then with himselfe not witting to the said Scot as he declared to my said lord of Winchester soone after that he had brought the said frier Randolph to my lord of Glocester line 50 saieng to my lord of Winchester that he was vndoone but he helped him expressed as for cause of the withholding of frier Randolph and saieng moreouer that when he desired of my said lord of Glocester the deliuerance of the said frier Randolph to lead him againe vnto the Tower or sufficient warrant for his discharge my said lord of Glocester answered him that his commandement was sufficient warrant and discharge for him In the which thing abouesaid it was thought to my lord of Winchester line 60 that my said lord of Glocester tooke vpon him further than his authoritie stretched vnto and caused him to doubt and dread least that he would haue procéeded further And at such time as the said Wooduile came vnto him to aske his aduise and counsell of lodging my said lord of Glocester in the Tower he aduised and charged him that before he suffered my said lord of Glocester or any person to lodge therein stronger than himselfe he should purueie him a sufficient warrant therof of the king by the aduise of his councell 4 Item as to the said article of the foresaid causes of heauinesse my said lord chancellor answereth that he neuer purposed to set hand on the kings person nor to remoue him or that he should be remoued or put in any manner of gouernance but by the aduise of the kings councell For he could not perceiue any manner of goodnesse or of aduantage that might haue growne to him thereof but rather great perill and charge and hereof my said lord of Winchester is readie to make proofe in time and place conuenient 5 Item as to the third article of the foresaid causes and heauines my said lord chancellor answereth that he was oft and diuerse times warned by
persons meaning to reuolt to the Dolphins side aduertised him by letters of their whole minds which letters were conueied vnto him by certeine friers The Dolphin glad of those newes appointed the lords de la Breth and Faiet marshals of France line 40 accompanied with the lords of Mount Iehan of Buâ—ll Doruall Torsie Beaumanor the Hire and his brother Guilliam with fiue hundred other valiant capteins and souldiers to the accomplishing of this enterprise who comming thither at the daie assigned in the night season approched towards the walles making a little fire on an hill in sight of the towne to signifie their comming which perceiued by the citizens that néere to the great church were watching for the same a burning cresset was shewed line 50 out of the steeple which suddenlie was put out and quenched What néedeth manie words The capteins on horssebacke came to the gate the traitors within slue the porters and watchmen and let in their fréends whereby the footmen entered first and the men of armes waited at the barriers to the intent that if néed required they might fight it out in open field Hereby manie Englishmen were slaine a great crie and garboile raised through the towne as in such surprises is woont The cause of this line 60 mischéefe was not knowen to any but onelie to the conspirators for the remnant of the citizens being no partakers imagined that the Englishmen had made hauocke in the towne and put all to the sword The Englishmen on the other side iudged that the citizens had begun some new rebellion against them or else had striuen amongst themselues The earle of Suffolke which was gouernour of the towne hauing perfect knowledge by such as scaped from the wals how the matter went withdrew without any tarriance into the castell which standeth at the gate of saint Uincent whereof was constable Thomas Gower esquier whither also fled manie Englishmen so as for vrging of the enimie prease of the number and lacke of vittels they could not haue indured long wherfore they priuilie sent a messenger to the lord Talbot which then laie at Alanson certifieng him in how hard a case they were The lord Talbot hearing these newes like a carefull capteine in all hast assembled togither about seuen hundred men in the euening departed from Alanson so as in the morning he came to a castell called Guierch two miles from Mans and there staied a while till he had sent out Matthew Gough as an espiall to vnderstand how the Frenchmen demeaned themselues Matthew Gough so well sped his businesse that priuilie in the night he came into the castell where he learned that the Frenchmen verie negligentlie vsed themselues without taking heed to their watch as though they had béene out of all danger which well vnderstood he returned againe and within a mile of the citie met the lord Talbot and the lord Scales and opened vnto them all things according to his credence The lords then to make hast in the matter bicause the daie approched with all spéed possible came to the posterne gate and alighting from their horsses about six of the clocke in the morning they issued out of the castell crieng saint George Talbot The Frenchmen being thus suddenlie taken were sore amazed in so much that some of them being not out of their beds got vp in their shirts and lept ouer the walles Other ran naked out of the gates to saue their liues leauing all their apparell horsses armour and riches behind them none was hurt but such as resisted ¶ Hard shift was made on all hands for safetie of life happie was he that could find a place of refuge where to lurke vnspide and vnhurt of the enimie who in the execution of their vengeance were so peremptorie that it was a matter of great difficultie or rather impossibilitie to escape their force To be short there were slaine and taken to the number of foure hundred gentlemen the priuat souldiers were frankelie let go After this inquisition was made of the authors of the treason and there were found condemned thirtie citizens twentie priests and fifteene friers who according to their demerits were all hanged The citie of Mans being thus recouered the lord Talbot returned to Alanson and shortlie after the earle of Warwike departed into England to be gouernour of the yoong king in steed of Thomas duke of Excester latelie departed to God and then was the lord Thomas Montacute earle of Salisburie sent into France year 1428 to supplie the roome of the said earle of Warwike who landed at Calis with fiue thousand men and so came to the duke of Bedford as then lieng in Paris where they fell in councell togither concerning the affaires of France and namelie the earle of Salisburie began maruellouslie to phantasie the gaining of the citie countrie of Orleance This earle was the man at that time by whose wit strength and policie the English name was much fearefull and terrible to the French nation which of himselfe might both appoint command and doo all things in manner at his pleasure in whose power as it appeared after his death a great part of the conquest consisted for suerlie he was a man both painefull diligent and readie to withstand all dangerous chances that were at hand prompt in counsell and of courage inuincible so that in no one man men put more trust nor any singular person wan the harts so much of all men Herevpon after this great enterprise had long béene debated in the priuie councell the earle of Salisburies deuise therein was of them all granted and allowed so that he being replenished with good hope of victorie and furnished with artillerie munition apperteining to so great an enterprise accompanied with the earle of Suffolke and the lord Talbot and with a valiant armie to the number of ten thousand men departed from Paris and passed through the countrie of Beausse There he tooke by assault the towne of Genuille and within fiue daies after had the castell deliuered vnto him by them that were fled into it for their safegard 〈◊〉 also tooke the towne of Baugencie suffering 〈◊〉 man which would become subiect to the king of England to inioie their line 10 lands and goods The townes of Meun vpon Loire and Iargeaulx hearing of these dooings presented to them the keies of their townes vpon like agréement About Maie in this 1428 the towne of Naunts and territories there with a fearefull earthquake were shaken houses castels and strong buildings in such terrour as it was thought the end of the world had béene come After this in the moneth of September the earle came before the citie of Orleance and planted his line 20 siege on the one side of the riuer of Loire but before his comming the bastard of Orleance the bishop of the citie and a great number of Scots hearing of the earles intent made diuerse fortifications
comfort giuen to him by his faithfull louers and assured alies he remooued to Shrewesburie declaring to the inhabitants of that towne and to them of the other townes in those parties the murther of his father the ieopardie of himselfe and the present ruine of the common-wealth The people on the marches of Wales for the fauour which they bare to the Mortimers linage more gladlie offered him their aid and assistance than he could desire the same so that he had incontinentlie a line 10 puissant armie to the number of thrée and twentie thousand readie to go against the quéene and the murtherers of his father But when he was setting forward newes was brought to him that Iasper earle of Penbroke halfe brother to king Henrie and Iames Butler earle of Ormund and Wilshire had assembled a great number of Welsh and Irish people to take him he herewith quickned retired backe and met with his enimies in a faire plaine néere to Mortimers crosse not far from Hereford east on line 20 Candlemasse daie in the morning At which time the sunne as some write appeared to the earle of March like thrée sunnes and suddenlie ioined altogither in one Upon which sight he tooke such courage that he fiercelie setting on his enimies put them to flight and for this cause men imagined that he gaue the sunne in his full brightnesse for his badge or cognisance Of his enimies were left dead on the ground thrée thousand and eight hundred The earles of Penbroke and Wilshire fled but sir Owen Teuther father to the said earle of Penbroke line 30 which Owen had married king Henries mother as yee haue heard before with Dauid Floid Morgan ap Reuther and diuerse other were taken and beheaded at Hereford The quéene neuerthelesse incouraged by hir late victorie with a multitude of northerne people marched toward London intending to vndoo all that had beene ordeined in the last parlement These northerne people after they were once passed ouer the riuer of Trent spoiled and wasted the countrie afore them in maner as if they had line 40 béene in the land of forren enimies At length they approched to saint Albons hearing that the duke of Northfolke and the earle of Warwike with other whome the duke of Yorke had left to gouerne the king in his absence had by the kings assent assembled a great hoast and were incamped neere to that towne Those northerne lords and other that were with the queene made forward and entring into S. Albons meant to passe through the towne and so to coape line 50 with their enimies but finding a sort of archers ranged néere to the great crosse in the market place to defend their passage they were receiued with such a storme of arrowes which came flieng about their eares as thicke as haile that they were quicklie repellâ—d backe and with losse driuen to retire in hast vnto the west end of the towne where by a lane that leadeth northwards vp to saint Peters stréet they made their entrie and had there also a sharpe incounter against certeine bands of the kings people line 60 But after great slaughter on both parts they got through and vpon the heath that lieth at the north end of the towne called Barnard heath they had a farre greater conflict with foure or fiue thousand of the kings armie that séemed as they had beene auant courrers These gaue the onset so fiercelie at the beginning that the victorie rested doubtfull a certeine time so that if the easterne and southerne men had continued as they began the field had beene theirs but after they had stood to it a pretie while and perceiued none of their fellowes from the great armie to come and assist them they began to faint and turning their backes fled amaine ouer hedge and ditch through thicke and thin woods and bushes séeking so to escape the hands of their cruell enimies that followed them with eger minds to make slaughter vpon them namelie the northern prickers now in the chace pursued most hotlie and bare downe manie and more had doone if the night comming vpon had not staied them When the daie was closed those that were about the king in number a twentie thousand hearing how euill their fellowes had sped began vtterlie to despaire of the victorie and so fell without anie long tarriance to running awaie By reason whereof the nobles that were about the king perceiuing how the game went and withall saw no comfort in the king but rather a good will and affection towards the contrarie part they withdrew also leauing the king accompanied with the lord Bonneuille sir Thomas Kiriell of Kent which vpon assurance of the kings promise tarried still with him and fled not But their trust deceiued them for at the queenes departing from saint Albons they were both beheaded though contrarie to the mind and promise of hir husband Sir Thomas Thorp baron of the escheker was also beheaded the same daie at Highgate by the commons of Kent Such was the successe of this second battell fought at S. Albons vpon Shrouetuesdaie the seuentéenth of Februarie in which were slaine thrée and twentie hundred men of whom no noble man is remembred saue sir Iohn Graie which the same daie was made knight with twelue other at the village of Colneie Now after that the noble men and other were fled and the king left in maner alone without anie power of men to gard his person he was counselled by an esquier called Thomas Hoo a man well languaged and well seene in the lawes to send some conuenient messenger to the northerne lords aduertising them that he would now gladlie come vnto them whome he knew to be his verie fréends and had assembled themselues togither for his seruice to the end he might remaine with them as before he had remained vnder the gouernement of the southerne lords According to the aduise and counsell of this esquier the king thought it good to send vnto them and withall appointed the same esquier to beare the message who first went and declared the same vnto the earle of Northumberland and returning backe to the king brought certeine lords with him who conueied the king first vnto the lord Cliffords tent that stood next to the place where the kings people had incamped This done they went and brought the quéene and hir sonne prince Edward vnto his presence whome he ioifullie receiued imbracing and kissing them in most louing wife and yeelding hartie thanks to almightie God whome it had pleased thus to strengthen the forces of the northerne men to restore his déerelie belooued and onelie sonne againe into his possession Thus was the quéene fortunate in hir two battels but vnfortunate was the king in all his enterprises for where his person was present the victorie still fled from him to the contrarie part The quéene caused the king to dub hir sonne prince Edward knight with thirtie other persons
of the kings house sir Robert Constable sir Roger Hastings and sir Rafe Elderton with other gentlmen to be capteins In this second yeare the king being foorth on his progresse heard euerie daie more more complaints of Empson and Dudleiâ— set foorth and aduanced no doubt by the drift of their deadlie enimies Wherefore he sent writs to the shiriffes of London to put them to execution and so the seuentéenth daie of August they were both beheaded at the Tower hill and both their bodies and heads buried the one at the White friers and the other at the Blacke friers The king about this season was much giuen to plaie at line 10 teâ—isse and at the dise which appetite certeine craftie persons about him perceiuing brought in Frenchmen and Lombards to make wagers with him so lost much monie but when he perceiued their craft he eschued their companie and let them go ¶ On the first daie of Maie the king accompanied with manie lustie batchelers on great and well dooing horsses rode to the wood to fetch Maie where a man might haue séene manie a horsse raised on high with carrier gallop turne and stop meruellous to line 20 behold where he three other as sir Edward Howard Charles Brandon and Edward Neuill which were challengers with the king shifted themselues into coats of gréene sattin garded with crimsin veluet On the other part the earles of Essex of Deuonshire the marquesse Dorset the lord Howard were all in crimsin satin garded with a pounced gard of gréene veluet And as they were returning on the hill a ship met with them vnder saile the maister hailed the king and that noble companie and said line 30 that he was a mariner and was come from many a strange port and came thither to sée if anie déeds of armes were to be doone in the countrie of the which he might make true report in other countries An herald demanded the name of his ship he answered she is called Fame is laden with good Renowme then said the herald If you will bring your ship into the baie of Hardinesse you must double the point of Gentlenesse and there you shall sée a companie that will meddle with your merchandize Then said the line 40 king Sithens Renowme is their merchandize let vs buie it if we can Then the ship shot a peale of guns and sailed foorth before the kings companie full of flags and banners till it came to the tilt yard At after noone the king and his thrée fellowes entered into the field their bards and bases of crimsin and blue veluet cut in quadrant cuts embrodered full of pomegranats and all the waiters in silke of the same colour The other partie were in crimsin sattin and greene veluet Then began the trumpets to sound and the horsses to run that manie a speare line 50 was burst and manie a great stripe giuen and for a truth the king excéeded in number of staues all other euerie daie of the three daies Wherefore on the third daie the queene made a great banket to the king and all them that had iusted and after the banket doone she gaue the chiefe prise to the king the second to the earle of Essex the third to the earle of Deuonshire and the fourth to the lord marquesse Dorset Then the heralds cried My lords for your noble feats in armes God send you the loue of your ladies that line 60 you most desire The king euer desirous to serue Mars began another iusts the fiftéenth daie of the said moneth The king his band were all in gréene silke and the earle of Essex and his band in blue garded with gold and all the speares were painted of the same colours There was good running and manie a speare brust but for all the sport euerie man feared least some ill chance might happen to the king and faine would haue had him a looker on rather than a dooer and spake thereof as much as they durst but his courage was so noble that he would euer be at she one end In this meane time the lord Darcie and other appointed to the viage against the Moores made such diligence that they and all their people were readie at Plimmouth by the middes of Maie and there mustered their souldiers before the lord Brooke and other the kings commissioners The lord Darcie as capteine generall ordeined for his prouost marshall Henrie Guilford esquier a lustie yoong man wel-beloued of the king for his manifold good seruice On the mondaie in the Rogation wéeke they departed out of Plimmouth hauen with foure ships roiall and the wind was so fauourable to them that the first daie of Iune being the euen of the feast of Pentecost he arriued at the port of Calis in south Spaine and immediatlie by the aduise of his councell he dispatched messengers to the king whom they found beside the citie of Ciuill where he then laie and declared to him how the lord Darcie by the king their maisters appointment was come thither with sixtéene hundred archers and laie still at Calis to know his pleasure The king of Castile answered them gentlie that the lord Darcie and all other that were come from his louing sonne were welcome and hartilie thanked them of their paines requiring the messengers to returne to their capteine and tell him that in all hast he would send certeine of his councell to him ¶ Herevpon they departed from the king and made report to the lord Darcie which kept his ship in great estate and would not land but onelie suffered such as were sicke and feeble and few other to go aland The Englishmen which went aland fell to drinking of hot wines were scarse maisters of themselues some ran to the stewes some brake hedges and spoiled orchards and vineyards and orenges before they were ripe and did manie outragious déeds wherefore the chiefe of the towne of Calis came to complaine to the lord Darcie in his ship which sent foorth his prouost marshall who scarselie with paine refrained the yeoman archers they were so hot and wilfull yet by commandement policie they were all brought on bord to their ships Then vpon saturdaie the eight of Iune a bishop and other of the kings councell came to Calis and there abode till wednesdaie being the euen of Corpus Christi at which daie the lord capteine tooke land and was honorablie receiued of the king of Aragons councell and on the morrow was highlie feasted at dinner and supper And at after supper the bishop declared the king his maisters pleasure giuing to the lord capteine as heartie thankes for his pains and trauell as if he had gone forward with his enterprise against the Moores But whereas by the aduise of his councell circumspectlie considering the suertie of his owne realme vpon perfect knowledge had that the Frenchmen meant to inuade his dominions in his absence he had altered
wherevnto the said Luther answered verie sharpelie nothing sparing line 40 his authoritie nor maiestie ¶ Of which booke published by the king I will not for reuerence of his roiallic though I durst report what I haue read bicause we are to iudge honourablie of our rulers and to speake nothing but good of the princes of the people Onelie this bréefe clause or fragment I will adde least I might seeme to tell a tale of the man in the moone that king Henrie in his said booke is reported to rage against the diuell and antichrist line 50 to cast out his some against Luther to rase out the name of the pope and yet to allow his law c. I suppresse the rest for shame and returne to our historie In this meane time grudges and displeasures still grew and increased betwixt the king of England and the French king so that their gréefs rankled dailie more and more till at length the duke of Albanie returned into Scotland contrarie to that which was couenanted by the league The French king in déed alleaged that he was not priuie to his line 60 going thither and wrote to the king that the said duke was entered Scotland without his assent but it was otherwise iudged knowne that he had commission of the French king to go thither Herevpon the king was sore offended and prepared for wars Musters were made of able men and a note taken of what substance men were The king also sent six ships to the sea well trimmed manned and vittelled The admerall was one Christopher Coo an expert sea man His commission was to safe gard the merchants and other the kings subiects that were greeuouslie spoiled and robbed on the sea by Frenchmen Scots and other rouers The eight of Februarie the lord Dacres warden of the marches fore aneinst Scotland entered into Scotland with fiue hundred men by the kings commandement there proclamed that the Scots should come in to the kings peace by the first of March following or else to stand at their perils the duke of Albanie being then within fiue miles with a mightie power of Scots The eleuenth of Februarie the lord of Aburgauennie was brought from the Tower to Westminster and there in the kings bench confessed his indictment of misprisâ—on The lord Montacute was about the same time restored vnto the kings fauour ¶ On the second of March certeine noble men of the empire arriued in England to passe into Spaine who were honourablie receiued and in honour of them great iusts and triumphs were made which being finished and doone they tooke their leaue and departed on their iournie Duncan Campbell a Scotish rouer after long fight was taken on the sea by Iohn Arundell an esquier of Cornewall who presented him to the king He was committed to the Tower there remained prisoner a long season All the kings ships were put in a readinesse so that by the beginning of Aprill they were rigged and trimmed readie to make saile ¶ This yeare died the lord Brooke sir Edward Poinings knight of the garter sir Iohn Pechie and sir Edward Belknap valiant capteins which were suspected to be poisoned at a banket made at Ard when the two kings met last Wheat was sold this yeare in the citie of London for twentie shillings a quarter in other places for twentie six shillings eight pence In this yeare Gawan Dowglas bishop of Dunkell fled out of Scotland into England bicause the duke of Albanie being come thither had taken vpon him the whole gouernement of the king and realme there the sequele of whose dooings the bishop sore mistrusted The king assigned vnto this bishop an honest pension to liue on And shortlie after was Clarenceaux the herald sent into Scotland vnto the duke of Albanie to command him to auoid that realme for diuerse considerations if he would not then to defie him sith contrarie to the articles of the league concluded betwixt France England he was entered Scotland without his licence The duke refused to accomplish the kings commandement and was therefore defied by the said Clarenceaux The sixt of March the French king commanded all Englishmens goods being in Burdeaux to be attached and put vnder arrest and reteined not onelie the monie due to be paid for the restitution of Tornaie but also withheld the French quéenes dower The cardinall vnderstanding that he was euill spoken of for vsing his power legantine to such aduantage as he did in selling graces dispensations he thought to bestow some part therof amongst the people fréelie without taking anie thing for the same Wherevpon when Lent drew neere he appointed the preachers at Paules crosse to declare that it should be lawfull to all persons for that Lent to eat milke butter chéese egs And to the end that none should haue anie scrupulousnesse of conscience in so dooing he by his authoritie granted remission of sins to all those that did â—at white meats knowing as it were afore hand that the people giuen to the obseruance of their religious fast would not easilie be brought to breake the same contrarie to the ancient custome vsed in their countrie Neither was he deceiued therein for so farre were the people from receiuing or accounting this as a benefit that they tooke it rather for a wicked cursed déed in those that receiued it few or almost none could he induce to breake their old order and scrupulous trade in that behalfe The king vnderstanding how his subiects were handled at Burdeaux by the French kings commandement in breach of the league the French ambassadour was called before the councell and the cardinall laid sore to his charge that contrarie to his promise at all times on the French king his maisters behalfe affirming that he ment nothing but peace and amitie to be obserued in all points with the king of England yet now the English merchants had not onelie their goods staied at Burdeaux but also they and their factors were laid in prison in full breach of all peace and amitie afore time concluded line 10 The ambassadour in woords so well as hée could excused his maister but in the end hée was commanded to keepe his house and the French hostages that were appointed héere to remaine for the monie to be paid for the deliuerie of Tornaie were committed vnto the safe kéeping of the lord of Saint Iohns sir Thomas Louell sir Andrew Windsor and sir Thomas Neuill euerie of them to haue one Herewith also all the Frenchmen in London were arrested committed to prison and put to their line 20 fines but they were more courteouslie vsed than the Englishmen were in France For after they had béene in durance ten daies they were set at libertie vpon finding suerties to appeare before the maior or else before the councell at a certeine daie and to paie the fine vpon them assessed which fine the king pardoned to diuerse
the Blacke friers church where a masse of the Holie-ghost was solemnelie soong by the kings chappell and after the masse the king with all the lords of parlement and commons which were summoned to appeare at that daie came into the parlement chamber where the king sate in his throne or seat roiall and sir Thomas Moore his chancellor standing on the right hand of the king behind the barre made an eloquent oration In this oration he declared that like as a good shéepheard which not alonelie keepeth and attendeth well his shéepe but also foreseeth and prouideth for all things which either may be hurtfull or noisome to his flocke or maie preserue and defend the same against all perils that may chance to come so the king which was the shéepheard ruler and gouernour of his realme vigilantlie foreséeing things to come considered how diuers laws before this time were made now by long continuance of time and mutation of things verie insufficient and vnperfect and also by the fraile condition of man diuerse new enormities were sproong amongest the people for the which no law was yet made to reforme the same Which was the verie cause whie at that time the king had summoned his high court of parlement And hée resembled the king to a shéepheard or heardman for this cause for if a prince be compared to his riches he is but a rich man if a prince be compared to his honour he is but an honourable man but compare him to the multitude of his people and the number of his flocke then he is a ruler a gouernor of might puissance so that his people maketh him a prince as of the multitude of shéepe commeth the name of a shéepheard And as you sée that amongst a great sort of shepe some be rotten faultie which the good shéepheard sendeth from the good sheepe so the great wedder which is of late fallen as you all know so craftilie so scabbedlie yea and so vntrulie iugled with the king that all men must néedes ghesse and thinke that he thought in himselfe that he had no wit to perceiue his craftie dooing or else that he presumed that the king would not sée nor know his fraudulent iugling and attempts But he was deceiued for his graces sight was so quicke and penetrable that hée saw him yea and saw through him both within and without so that all things to him was open and according to his desert he hath had a gentle correction Which small punishment the king will not to be an example to other offendors but clearelie declareth that whosoeuer hereafter shall make like attempt or commit like offense shall not escape with like punishment And bicause you of the common house be a grosse multitude and can not speake all at one time therefore the kings pleasure is that you shall resort to the nether house there amongst your selues according to the old and ancient custome to choose an able person to be your common mouth and speaker and after your election so made to aduertise his grace thereof which will declare to you his pleasure what day he will haue him present in this place After this doone the commons resorted to the nether house and they chose for their speaker Thomas Audleie esquier and attourneie of the duchie of Lancaster and the same daie was the parlement adiorned to Westminster On the sixt daie of the same moneth the king came to the parlement chamber and all the lords in their robes And there the commons of the nether house presented their speaker which there made an eloquent oration which consisted in two points The first point was that he much praised the king for his line 10 equitie and iustice mixed with mercie and pitie so that none offense was forgotten and left vnpunished nor in the punishment the extremitie nor the rigor of the law cruellie extended which should be a cause to bridle all men from doing like offenses also a comfort to offendors to confesse their crime and offense and an occasion of amendment and reconciliation The second point was that he disabled himselfe both for lacke of wit learning and discretion to so high an office beseeching the king to cause line 20 his commons to resort eftsoones to their common house and there to choose an other speaker for that parlement To this the king by the mouth of the lord chancellor answered that where he disabled himselfe in wit and learning his owne ornate oration there made testified the contrarie And as touching his discretion and other qualities the king himselfe had well knowne him and his doings since he was in his seruice to be both wise and discreet and so for an able line 30 man he accepted him and for the speaker he him admitted When the commons were assembled in the nether house they began to commune of their griefes wherewith the spiritualtie had before time greeuouslie oppressed them both contrarie to the law of the realme and contrarie to all right and in speciallie they were sore mooued with six great causes line 1 The first for the excessiue fines which the ordinaries tooke for probats of testaments insomuch that sir Henrie Guilford knight of the garter and controllor line 40 of the kings house declared in the open parlement on his fidelitie that he and others being executors to sir William Compton knight paied for the probat of his will to the cardinall and the archbishop of Canturburie a thousand markes sterling After this declaration were shewed so manie extortions doone by ordinaries for probats of willes that it were too much to rehearse The second was the great polling and extreame line 2 eraction which the spirituall men vsed in taking of line 50 corps presents or mortuaries For the children of the defunct should all die for hunger and go a begging rather than they would of charitie giue to them the séelie cow which the dead man owght if he had but onelie one such was the charitie then line 3 The third cause was that priests being surueiors stewards and officers to bishops abbats and other spirituall heads had and occupied farmes granges and grasing in euerie countrie so that the poore husbandmen could haue nothing but of them and line 60 yet for that they should paie déerlie line 4 The fourth cause was that abbats priors and spirituall men kept tan-houses and bought and sold wooll cloth and all maner of merchandize as other temporall merchants did line 5 The fift cause was bicause that spirituall persons promoted to great benefices and hauing their liuings of their flocke were lieng in the court in lords houses and tooke all of the parishioners and nothing spent on them at all so that for lacke of residence both the poore of the parish lacked refreshing and vniuersallie all the parishioners lacked preaching and true instruction of Gods word to the great perill of their soules The sixt cause was to sée one priest little learned line
the point next beyond Gréenwich and there they turned backeward in another order that is to wit line 10 the maior and shiriffs officers first and the meanest craft next and so ascending to the vttermost crafts in order and the maior last as they go to Paules at Christmas and in that order they rowed downeward to Gréenwich towne and there cast anchor making great melodie At thrée of the clocke the queene appéered in rich cloth of gold entring into hir barge accompanied with diuerse ladies and gentlewomen and incontinent the citizens set forwards in their order their line 20 minstrelles continuallie plaieng and the bachelors barge going on the quéens right hand which she tooke great pleasure to behold About the quéenes barge were manie noble men as the duke of Suffolke the marques Dorset the erle of Wilshire hir father the erles of Arundell Darbie Rutland Worcester Huntington Sussex Oxford and manie bishops and noble men euerie one in his barge which was a goodlie sight to behold She thus being accompanied rowed toward the tower and in the line 30 meane waie the ships which were commanded to lie on the shore for letting of the barges shot diuerse peales of guns and yer she was landed there was a maruellous shot out of the tower as euer was heard there And at hir landing there met with hir the lord chamberlaine with the officers of armes and brought hir to the king which receiued hir with louing countenance at the posterne by the water side and then she turned backe againe and thanked the maior and the citizens with manie goodlie words line 40 and so entred into the tower After which entrie the citizens all this while houered before the tower making great melodie and went not on land for none were assigned to land but the maior the recorder and two aldermen But for to speake of the people that stood on either shore to behold the sight he that saw it not would scarse beleeue it On Fridaie at dinner serued the king all such as were appointed by his highnesse to be knights of the bath which after dinner were brought to their chambers and that night were bathed and shriuen line 50 according to the old vsage of England and the next daie in the morning the king dubbed them according to the ceremonies thereto belonging whose names insue the marques Dorset the erle of Darbie the lord Clifford the lord Fitzwater the lord Hastings the lord Mounteagle sir Iohn Mordant the lord Uaur sir Henrie Parker sir William Winsore sir Francis Weston sir Thomas Arundell sir Iohn Halston sir Thomas Poinings sir Henrie Sauell sir George Fitzwilliam sir Iohn Tindall sir Thomas line 60 Iermeie To the intent that the horsses should not slide on the pauement nor that the people should not be hurt by horsses the high stréets where the queene should passe were all grauelled from the tower to temple barre and railed on the one side within which railes stood the crafts along in their order from Grace church where the merchants of the stillâ—â—rd stood till the little conduit in Cheape where the aldermen stood and on the other side of the stréet stood the constables of the citie apparelled in veluet and silke with great slaues in their hands to cause the people to kéepe roome and good order And when the stréets were somwhat ordered the maior clothed in a gowne of crimsm veluet and a rich collar of SSS with two footmen clad in white and red damaske rode to the tower to giue his attendance on the quéene on whome the shiriffs with their officers did wait till they came to tower hill where they taking their leaue rode downe the high stréets commanding the constables to sée roome and good order kept and so went and stood by the aldermen in Cheape Now before the quéen and hir traine should come Cornehill and Gratious stréet were hanged with fine scarlet crimsin and other grained cloths and in some place with rich arras tapistrie and carpets and the most part of the Cheape was hanged with cloth of tissue gold veluet and manie rich hangings which made a goodlie shew and all the windowes were replenished with ladies and gentlewomen to behold the quéene and hir traine as they should passe by The first of the queenes companie that set forward were twelue Frenchmen which were belonging to the French ambassador clothed in coates of blew veluet with sléeues of yellow and blew veluet and their horsses trapped with close trappers of blew sarsenet powdered with white crosses after them marched gentlemen esquires and knights two and two after them the iudges and after them the knights of the bath in violet gownes with hoods purfled with miniuer like doctors after them abbats then barons after them bishops then earls and marquesses then the lord chancellor of England after him the archbishop of Yorke and the ambassador of Uenice after him the archbishop of Canturburie and the ambassador of France after rode two esquiers of honor with robes of estat rolled and worne bauldrike-wise about their necks with caps of estate representing the dukes of Normandie Aquitaine after them rode the maior of London with his mace and garter in his cote of armes which maior bare his mace to Westminster hall After all these rode the lord William Howard with the marshalles rod deputie to his brother the duke of Norffolke marshall of England which was ambassador then in France and on his right hand rode Charles duke of Suffolke for that daie high constable of England bearing the verder of siluer apperteining to the office of constableship and all the lords for the most part were clothed in crimsin veluet and all the queenes seruants or officers of armes in scarlet Next before the queene rode hir chancellor hareheaded the sargeants and officers of armes rode on both the sides of the lords Then came the quéene in a litter of white cloth of gold not couered nor bailed which was lead by two palfries clad in white damaske downe to the ground head and all led by hir footmen She had on a circut of white cloth of tissue and a mantell of the same furred with ermine hir haire hanged downe but on hir head shee had a coise with a circlet about it full of rich stones Ouer hir was borne a canopie of cloth of gold with foure guilt slaues and foure siluer belles For the bearing of which canopie were appointed sixtéene knights foure to beare it one space on foot and o ther foure another space according to their owne appointment Next after the quéene rode the lord Borough hir chamberleine next after him William Coffin maister of the horsses leading a spare horsse with a side saddle trapped downe with cloth of tissue After him rode seauen ladies in crimsin veluet turned vp with cloth of gold and of tissue and their horsses trapped with cloth of gold after them two chariots couered with red cloth of gold In
might make account of and further to haue the armor and weapons séene and viewed Nothing left he vndoone that tended to the foreséeing and preuenting of a mischiefe to insue line 10 which in a prince is counted a vertue because such prouidence and circumspection is reputed no lesse in a priuat ordinarie man as the poet Plautus saith Virtus est vbi occasio admonet dispicere Sir William Forman knight at that present maior of London was commanded to certifie the names of all the able men within the citie and liberties thereof betwéene the ages of thrée score and of sixtéene with the number of armors and weapons of all kinds of sorts Wherevpon the said maior and his brethren ech one in his ward by the oth of the line 20 common councell and constable tooke the number of men armor and weapons And after well considering of the matter by view of their bookes they thought it not expedient to admit the whole number certified for apt and able men and therefore assembling themselues againe they chose forth the most able persons and put by the residue speciallie such as had no armor nor for whom anie could be prouided But when they were crediblie aduertised by line 30 Thomas Cromwell lord priuie seale to whome the citie was greatlie beholden that the king himselfe would see the people of the citie muster in a conuenient number and not to set forth all their power but to leaue some at home to kéepe the citie then eftsoons euerie alderman repaired to his ward and there put aside all such as had iacks cotes of plate of maile and brigandines and appointed none but such as had white armor except such as should beare morish pikes which ware no armor but sculles and line 40 there was no stranger although he were a denisine permitted to be in this muster Euerie man being of anie abilitie prouided him selfe a cote of white silke and garnished their basenets with turues like caps of silke set with owches furnished with chaines of gold and feathers or caused their armor to be guilt and likewise their halberds and pollaxes Some and especiallie certeine goldsmiths had their whole armor of siluer bullion The lord maior the recorder the aldermen and euerie line 50 other officer beside were gorgeouslie trimmed as for their degrees was thought séemelie The maior had sixteene tall fellowes on foot attending on him with guilt halberds apparelled in white silke doublets and their hose and shooes were likewise white cut after the Almaine guise pounsed and pulled out with red sarsenet their ierkins were of white leather cut and chains about their necks with feathers and brooches in their caps The recorder and euerie alderman had about him foure halberders trimmed line 60 also in warlike sort The chamberleine of the citie the councellors aldermens deputies were appointed to be wiflers on horssebacke which aloft on their armor ware white damaske cotes mounted on good horsses well trapped with great chaines about their necks and proper iauelins or battell axes in their hands and caps of veluet richlie trimmed The wiflers on foot being in number foure hundred proper light persons were clad in white ierkins of leather cut with white hose and shooes euerie man with a iauelin or slaughsword in his hands to kéepe the people in arraie They had chaines about their necks and fethers in their caps The minstrels were in white with the armes of the citie and so was euerie other person at this muster without anie diuersitie the lord maior recorder and aldermen onelie excepted who had crosses of veluet or satin pirled with gold The standard bearers were the tallest men of euerie ward for whome were made thirtie new standards of the deuise of the citie beside baners Euerie alderman mustred his own ward in the fields to sée that euerie man were in furniture prouided as was requisite The eight of Maie being the daie appointed for to shew themselues before the king euerie alderman in order of battell with those of his ward came into the fields at Mile end and then all the gunners seuered themselues into one place the pikes into another and the archers into an other and likewise the bilmen and there cast themselues in rings and other formes of battell which was a beautifull sight to behold for all the fields from white Chapell to Mile end and from Bednall greene to Ratcliffe Stepnie were all couered with armour men and weapons and especiallie the battell of pikes séemed to be as it had béene a great forrest Then was euerie part diuided into thrée battels a for-ward a midle-ward and a rere-ward About seauen of the clocke marched forward the light péeces of ordinance with stone and powder After them followed the drums and fifes and immediatlie after them a guidon of the armes of the citie Then followed master Sadler capteine of the gunners on horssebacke armed and in a cote of veluet with a chaine of gold and foure halberders about him apparelled as before is recited Then followed the gunners foure in a ranke euerie one going fiue foot in sunder which shot altogither in diuerse places verie liuelie and in speciallie before the kings maiestie which at that time sat in his new gatehouse at his palace of Westminster where he viewed all the whole companie In like maner passed the other companies of all the three battels in good and séemelie order The foremost capteine at nine of the clocke in the morning by the little conduit came and entered into Paules churchyard and from thense directlie to Westminster and so through the sanctuarie and round about the parke of S. Iames and vp into the field comming home through Holborne and as the first capteine entered againe to the little conduit the last of the muster entered Paules churchyard which was then about foure of the clocke in the afternoone The number beside the wiflers and of other waiters was fiftéene thousand ¶ The eight of Iulie Griffith Clearke vicar of Wandsworth with his chapleine and his seruant frier Waire were all foure hanged and quartered at S. Thomas Waterings The tenth of Iulie sir Adrian Fortescue and Thomas Dingleie were beheaded The ninth of September the nunnerie of Clerkenwell and diuerse others were suppressed This yeare the sixtéenth of September came to London duke Frederike of Baniere the Palsgraue of the Rhine and the eightéenth of the same moneth came to London the marshall of Hans Frederike prince elector of Saxonie and the chancellor of William duke of Cleue Gulicke Gelderland and Berghen The Palsgraue was receiued and conducted to Windsore by the duke of Suffolke and the other were accompanied with other noble men and the thrée and twentith of the same moneth they all came to Windsore where eight daies togither they were continuallie feasted and had pastime shewed them in hunting and other pleasures so much as might be The Palsegraue shortlie after departed homewards
euerie craft with his barge garnished with banners flags streamers pencels and targets painted and beaten with the kings armes some with hir armes and some with the armes of their craft and mysterie There was also a barge called the bachellors barke richlie decked on the which waited a foist that shot great peeces of artillerie and in euerie barge was great store of instruments of diuerse sorts and men and children singing and plaieng altogither as the king and the ladie Anne passed by on the wharfe When the king and she were within the vtter court they alighted from their horsses and the king louinglie imbraced hir kissed hir had hir welcome to hir owne leading hir by the left arme through the hall which was furnished beneath the harth with the gard and aboue the harth with the fiftie pensioners with their battell axes and so the king brought hir vp to hir priuie chamber where he left hir for that time Assoone as the king and she were entered the court a great peale of artillerie was shot off from the tower of Gréenwich and there about When the kings companie and hirs were once come within the parke as before yée haue heard then all the horssemen on Blackeheath brake their araie and had licence to depart to London or otherwhere to their lodgings On the tuesdaie following being the daie of the Epiphanie the mariage was solemnized betwixt the king and the said ladie She was fetched from hir chamber by the lords so that she going betwéene the earle of Ouersteine and the grand master Hosconder which had the conduct and order to sée the mariage performed she passed through the kings chamber line 10 all the lords before hir till shée came into the gallerie where the king was readie staieng for hir to whom she made thrée low obeisances and courtesies Then the archbishop of Canturburie receiued them and married them togither and the earle of Ouersteine did giue hir When the mariage was celebrate they went hand in hand into the kings closet and there hearing masse offered their tapers and after Masse was ended they had wine and spices And line 20 that doone the king departed to his chamber and all the ladies waited on hir to hir chamber the duke of Norffolke going on hir right hand and the duke of Suffolke on hir left After nine of the clocke the king hauing shifted his apparell came to his closet she likewise in hir haire in the same apparell she was married in she came to hir closet with hir sargeant at armes all hir officers before hir like a quéene so the king and she went openlie in procession and offered and dined line 30 togither After they had supped togither there were bankets and maskes and diuerse disports shewed till time came that it pleased the king and hir to take rest On the sundaie after were kept solemne iusts which greatlie contented the strangers This daie she was apparelled after the English manner with a French hood which became hir excéeding well When the earle of Ouersteine and the other lords and ladies which had giuen their attendance on hir grace all that iourneie had béene highlie feasted line 40 and interteined of the king and other of the nobles they tooke leaue and had great gifts giuen to them both in monie and plate and so returned toward their countrie leauing behind them the erle of Waldecke and diuerse gentlemen and damosels to remaine with hir till she were better acquainted in the realme The fourth of Februarie the king and she remooued to Westminster by water on whome the lord maior his brethren with twelue of the chéefe companies line 50 of the citie all in barges gorgeouslie garnished with baners penons and targets richlie couered and furnished with instruments sweetlie sounding gaue their attendance and by the waie all the ships shot off and likewise from the tower a great peale of ordinance went off iustilie The twelfe of Februarie the duke of Norffolke was sent in ambassage to the French king of whome he was well interteined and in the end of the same moneth he returned againe into England line 60 After Christmas the priorie church of S. Marie Oueris in Southworke was purchased of the king by the inhabitants of the Borow D. Gardener bishop of Winchester putting to his helping hand they made thereof a parish church and the little church of Marie Magdalen ioining to the same priorie was made all one church and saint Margarets in Southworke a parish was admitted to the same parish ¶ The twelfe of March Henrie Bourcher erle of Essex riding a yoong horsse was cast brake his necke at his manour in Essex he was the eldest earle in England The nintéenth of March Iohn Uere erle of Oxford high chamberleine of England deceassed at his manour in Essex The tenth of Aprill sir William Peterson priest late commissarie of Calis and sir William Richardson priest of S. Maries in Calis were both there drawne hanged and quartered in the market place for denieng obstinatelie the kings supremacie The third sundaie in Lent one doctor Barnes preched at Paules crosse and in his sermon inueighed against the bishop of Winchester for doctrine by him preached in the same place the first sundaie of that Lent intreating of iustification Among other taunts that Barnes vttered against the bishop this was one that if he the bishop were both at Rome he knew that great sums of monie would not saue his life where but for the bishop there was no great feare but small intreatance would serue The bishop offended herewith complained of Barnes to the K. and had him examined at length by the kings commandement he came to the bishops house where the matter was so handled at this time that Barnes with two other preachers the one named Hierome and the other Garret of whom hereafter more shall be said were appointed to preach at S. Marie spittle by London in the Ester wéeke In that sermon which Barnes made before all the people he asked the bishop forgiuenesse for speaking so vnreuerentlie of him in his former sermon and required the bishop if he did forgiue him in token thereof to hold vp his hand which like as it was long before he did so as manie thought afterward it was but a frigned forgiuenesse The twelfe of Aprill began a parlement and sir Nicholas Hare was restored to the office of speaker who togither with sir Humfreie Browne knight and William Connesbie esquier the three and twentith of Februarie last past had bincalled before the lords into the Starchamber for being of counsell with sir Iohn Shelton knight in making a fraudulent will of his lands to the hinderance of the kings prerogatiue and contrarie to the statute of Anno 27 for the which offense they were all at that time dismissed of their offices and seruices to the king and the two knights were
thousand tall yeomen and seruing men well horssed which on their knees made their submission by the mouth of sir Robert Bowes and gaue to the king nine hundred pounds On Barnesdale the archbishop of Yorke with thrée hundred priests and more met the king and making a like submission gaue to him six hundred pounds The like submission was made by the maiors of Yorke Newcastell and Hull and ech of them gaue to the king an hundred pounds After he had béene at Yorke twelue daies he came to Hull where he deuised certeine fortifications This doone he passed ouer the water of Humber and so through Lincolneshire returned toward the south parts and at Alhallowen tide came to Hampton court About the same time the king had knowledge that the quéene liued dissolutelie in vsing the vnlawfull companie of one Francis Diram with whome she had beene too familiar before hir maraiage with the king not meaning to forgo his companie now in time of hir marriage without regard had either to the feare of God or the king hir husband the last summer being in progresse with the king at Pomfret the seuen and twentith of August she reteined the said Francis Diram in hir seruice to the intent she might vse his companie in such vnlawfull sort the more freelie and not satisfied with him she also vsed the vnlawfull companie of Thomas Culpeper esquire one of the gentlemen of the kings priuie chamber as well at Pomfret aforesaid on the nine and twentith and last of August aforesaid and on the first of September as at diuerse other times and places before and after Wherevpon the thirtéenth of Nouember sir Thomas Wriothesleie knight the kings secretarie came to Hampton court vnto the said quéene and called all hir ladies gentlewomen and seruants into hir great chamber there openlie in presence of them all declared hir offenses committed in abusing of hir bodie before hir mariage therwith he discharged hir houshold The morrow after she was conueied to Sion the ladie Bainton and certeine gentlewomen and some of hir seruants being appointed to wait vpon hir there till the kings pleasure might be further knowen Culpeper Diram and others were had to the tower Diram in his examination being charged with the familiaritie which had béene betwixt them before she was married to the king confessed that he and she said quéene had made a precontract togither and that he concealed it for hir preferment in marriage to the king after he vnderstood the king began to cast a liking towards hir The first of December Culpeper and Diram were arreigned at the Guildhall in London before the lord maior sitting there in iudgement as chéefe iudge hauing the lord chancellor vpon his right hand and the duke of Norffolke vpon his left hand the duke of Suffolke the lord priuie seale the earles of Sussex and Hereford with diuerse other of the councell sitting there as iudges in commission that daie the prisoners in the end confessed the indictement and had iudgement to die as in cases of treason The tenth of December the said Culpeper and Diram were drawen from the tower vnto Tiburne and there Culpeper had his head striken off and Diram was hanged dismembred and headed Culpepers bodie was buried in S. Sepulchers church but both their heads were set on London bridge The two and twentith of December were arreigned in line 10 the Kings bench at Westminster the ladie Margaret Howard wife to the lord William Howard Katharine Tilneie Alice Restwold gentlewomen Ioane Bulmer wife to Anthonie Bulmer gentleman Anne Howard wife to Henrie Howard esquier and brother to the late queene Malein Tilneie widow Margaret Benet wife to Iohn Benet gentleman Edward Walgraue gentleman William Ashbie gentleman all these were condemned of misprision of treason for concealing the queenes misdemeanour line 20 And the same daie in the afternoone the lord William Howard and Damport a gentleman were likewise arreigned and condemned of the same offense and as well these as the other were adiudged to lose their goods the profits of their lands during life and to remaine in perpetuall prison The sixtéenth of Ianuarie the parlement began at Westminster in the which the lords and commons exhibited certeine petitions to the king year 1542 First that he would not vex himselfe with the quéenes offense line 30 and that she and the ladie Rochford might be attainted by parlement and to auoid protracting of time they besought him to giue his roiall assent thereto vnder his great seale without staieng for the end of the parlement Also that Diram and Culpeper before attainted by the common law might also be attainted by parlement that Agnes duches of Norffolke and Katharine countesse of Bridgewater hir daughter which for concealing the said offense were committed to the towre and indicted of misprision line 40 the lord William Howard arreigned of the same might likewise be attainted Also that who soeuer had spoken or doone anie thing in detestation of hir naughtie life should be pardoned To these petitions the king granted thanking the commons for that it appéered they tooke his griefe to be theirs wherevpon the quéene and the ladie Rochford were attainted by both the houses On the tenth of Februarie the quéene was conueied from Sion to the towre by water the duke of Suffolke the lord line 50 priuie seale and the lord great chamberleine hauing the conduction of hir The next daie after being saturdaie and the eleuenth of Februarie the king did send his roiall assent by his great seale and then all the lords were in their robes and the common house called vp there the act was read and his assent declared And so on the thirtéenth daie those two ladies were beheaded on the greene within the towre with an ax where they confessed their offenses and died repentant line 60 Before this on the thrée and twentith daie of Ianuarie was the king proclamed king of Ireland as it was enacted both by authoritie of the parlement here and also of an other parlement holden at Dublin in Ireland there begun the thirteenth of Iune last past before sir Anthonie Saintleger knight and the kings deputie there where as till that time the kings of England were onlie intituled lords of Ireland In the beginning of March died sir Arthur Plantagenet vicount Lisle bastard sonne to Edward the fourth in the towre of London vnattainted when he should haue béene deliuered and set at libertie The occasion of his trouble for the which he was committed to the towre rose vpon suspicion that he should be priuie to a practise which some of his men as Philpot and Brindholme executed the last yeare as before ye haue heard had consented vnto for the betraieng of Calis to the French whilest he was the kings lieutenant there But after that by due triall it was knowne that he was nothing
lord Maxwell or rather of Oliuer Sincler as the Scots affirme boasting to tarrie as long in England as the duke of Norffolke had tarried in Scotland And so on fridaie being saint Katharins euen they passed ouer the water of Eske and burnt certeine houses of the Greues on the verie border Thomas bastard Dacres with Iacke of Musgraue sent word to sir Thomas Wharton lord line 60 Warden for the king vpon the west marches to come forward to succour them But in the meane while the Scots entring verie fierclie the aforesaid two valiant capteins bastard Dacres and Musgraue manfullie set vpon the Scots with one hundred light horsses and left a stale on the side of a hill wherewith the Scots were woonderfullie dismaied thinking that either the duke of Norffolke with his whole armie had béene come to those west marches or that some other great power had beene comming against them when they saw onelie sir Thomas Wharton with three hundred men marching forward toward them But so it fortuned at that time vndoubtedlie as God would haue it that the Scots fled at the first brunâ— whome the Englishmen followed and tooke prisoners at their pleasure for there was small resistance or none at all shewed by the Scots Amongst others that were taken we find these men of name the earle of Castill and Glencarne the lord Maxwell admerall of Scotland and warden of the west marches the lord Flenung the lord Sumerwell the lord Oliphant the lord Greie sir Oliuer Sincler the kings minson Iohn Roâ—â—o lord of Gragie Robert Erskin son to the lord Erskin Carre lard of Bredon the lord Maxwelles two brethren Iohn Leslâ—ie bastard son to the earle of Rothus George Hume lard of Hâ—mitton Iohn Maieland lard of Wike castell Iames Pringell Iames Sincler brother to Oliuer Sincler Iohn Carmell capteine of Craiforth Patrike Hebborne esquire Iohn Seton esquire son in law to the lord Erskin William Seton esquire Iohn Steward cousin to the king Iohn Morrowe esquire Henrie Droumont esquire Iames Mitton esquire Iohn Cormurth esquire capteine of Gainsforth Iames Mitton esquire and other esquiers and gentlemen beside the earles and lords before mentioned to the number of two hundred and aboue and more than eight hundred other persons of meaner calling so that some one Englishman yea some women had thrée or foure prisoners They tooke also foure and twentie peeces of ordinance foure carts laden with speares and ten pauilions with other things of price so that this might well be said to be the handie worke of God and the verse of the psalme verified Contemplans dixi Haec est mutatio dextrae Numinis excelsi mortalia cuncta gubernans The king of Scots tooke such griefe and inward thought for his ouerthrow and also for the murther of an English herald that was slaine at Dunbar by one Léech an Englishman the which for the rebellion in Lincolnshire was fled into Scotland that he fell into a hot ague and thereof died although manie reported that he was at the bickering and receiued there his deaths wound and fled there with into Scotland But of his death and of the birth of his daughter ye may see more in the historie of Scotland Of these prisoners before named one and twentie of them were brought to London and on the ninetéenth of December entred into the citie by Bishops gate and so were conueied to the tower where they remained for the space of two daies and vpon saint Thomas daie the apostle being the one and twentith of December they were conueied to Westminster sir Iohn Gage constable of the tower riding before them and the lieutenant of the same tower riding behind them They rode two and two togither and eight of them being earls and lords had new gowns of blacke damaske furred with blacke conie cotes of blacke veluet and doublets of sattin with shirts and other apparell bought new for them at the kings charges Thus being solemnelie conueied through the stréets of London vnto Westminster they came before the councell sitting in the Starchamber and there the lord chancellor declared to them their vntruth vnkindnesse and false dissimulation declaring further how the king had cause of war against them both for denieng of their homages and also for their traitorous inuasions made into his realme without defiance and for keeping his subiects prisoners without redemption contrarie to the ancient laws of the marches for which dooings God as they might perceiue had scourged them Howbeit the K. more regarding his honor than his princelie power was content to shew them kindnesse for vnkindnesse and right for wrong And although he might kéepe them in streict prison by iust law of armes yet he was content that they should haue libertie to be with the nobles of his realme in their houses and so according to their estates they were appointed to dukes earles bishops knights and gentlemen which so interteined them that they confessed themselues neuer to be better vsed nor to haue had greater cheere in all their life times line 10 The earle of Cassils was appointed to be with the archbishop of Canturburie the earle of Glencarne with the duke of Norffolke the lord Fleming with the lord priuie seale the lord Maxwell with sir Anthonie Browne the lord Sumerwell with the lord chancellor the lord Oliphant with sir Thomas Lée Oliuer Sincler with the duke of Suffolke Robert Erskin with the bishop of Westminster the lord Montâ—th with sir Antonie Wingfield the lord Montâ—th with sir Rafe Sadler George Hume with the line 20 earle of Hertford the lord of Gragie with sir Thomas Cheincie the lard of Gredon with maister Gosâ—wike Henrie Maxwell with sir Richard Long Thomas Craâ—ford with sir Arthur Darcie Patrike Hebborne with sir Thomas Wriothesleie Iames Pringell with sir Richard Rich Iohn Matland with sir Edward North the lord Greie Iames Sincler and Iohn Lisleie were appointed to men of such credit as were thought méet to answer for their safe keeping The two and twentith of December tidings line 30 came of the king of Scots death and vpon S. Iohns daie in Christmas weeke the foresaid lords of Scotland were brought to the court which was then at Greenwich where they had great cheare and went before the king to the chappell and were lodged within the court Herevpon ye must consider that whereas the king of Scots had left no issue behind him in life but onelie one daughter the king and his councell perceiuing a meane now offered whereby without line 40 warre the two realmes might be vnited these Scotish lords hauing first made the motion themselues for a mariage to be had betwixt prince Edward and their yoong queene the king required their helpe vnto the furtherance of that matter which might be a great benefit to themselues their countrie This they promised faithfullie to doo and aswell by themselues as by their friends to bring the same so effect so much as the
account of their enimies forces Herevpon within few daies after the Scots fiue or six hundred light horssemen onelie excepted brake vp their campe and returned home After this my lord Greie remaining at Berwike ment to make a voiage himselfe in person for the reliefe of them that line 50 were thus besieged in Hadington Now when all things were so farre in a readinesse as the next daie he ment to haue set forward letters were brought that night from the court willing him to performe that seruice by a deputie and to staie himselfe till the comming of the earle of Shrewesburie who was appointed with an armie to come verie shortlie as generall into those parties My lord Greie herevpon appointed in his stead sir Robert Bowes and sir Thomas Palmer to go line 60 thither who comming to Dunglas left there certeine bands of footmen and with the horssemen being in number thirtéene hundred whereof seuen hundred lances were appointed vnder the charge of sir Thomas Palmer they rode forward to accomplish their enterprise but the French capteins hauing knowledge of their comming they prouided the best they could to repell them appointing foure venlins or ensignes of lanceknights to kéepe a standing watch that night in the trenches and the like number of French ensignes to watch about their campe All the other of their bands were commanded to take rest but yet with their armour on their backs Their generall monsieur de Desse himselfe monsieur de Mailleraie admerall of their fléet monsieur Dandelot coronell of the French footmen Piero Strozzi coronell of the Italians the Reinsgraue coronell of the lanceknights and all other the noble men and capteins of honour among them were all night long in armour trauelling vp and downe some on horssebacke and some on foot to visit the watches and scouts set in places and waies by the which they suspected that the Englishmen ment to come The lord Hume riding abrode to learne what he might of the Englishmens demeanour earlie in the morning returned to the campe and certified monsieur de Desse that they were at hand Herewith were the Scotish and French horssemen that kept the scout called in and monsieur Dandelot with great expedition ranged his battell of footmen in order and so likewise did the Reinsgraue his Almans The Englishmen diuided into two bands came and shewed themselues in the sight of the towne and charging such Scots and Frenchmen as came foorth to incounter them gaue them the ouerthrow at two seuerall charges but finallie presuming too farre vpon their good lucke thus chancing to them in the beginning followed in chase those that fled before them vntill at length they were inclosed and shut vp betwixt the French footmen on the one side and the Almans on the other And herewith the Scotish horsmen vnder the conduct of the lords Humes Dune the French horssemen led by monsieur de Etauges their generall being assembled togither eftsoones after they had beene so repelled were now readie to come forward againe and perceiuing their footmen so to haue inuironed the Englishmen that they were not able to recouer themselues nor to get out of danger but by disordring their ranks to take them to flight followed amaine so that those which escaped the Frenchmens hands were taken by the Scots that pursued them in chase so that few were saued that were not either slaine or taken My lord Greie lost thréescore and twelue great horsses and an hundred geldings with all the men vpon them armed with his lordships owne furniture onelie foure or fiue of his men came home of the which Thomas Cornwallis now groome porter to the quéenes maiestie was one and Robert Car esquier an other then page to my said lord Greie The vnaduised rashnesse of sir Thomas Palmer was thought to be the chiefe occasion of this distresse of those horssemen who after they had doone sufficientlie for that time would needs haue them to giue a new charge and so were discomfited After this ouerthrow and chase of our horssemen the armie that was leuied to passe into Scotland was hasted forward with all spéed possible for although before the comming of the English horssemen the French vpon aduertisement giuen that they meant to come had plucked backe their great artillerie and sent the same vnto Edenburgh kéeping onelie with them six field-péeces and herewith remooued their campe further off from the towne yet by forestalling vitels and all other necessarie things from them within they were driuen to such distresse that they must of force haue left the towne to the enimies if some power had not come within a while to remooue the siege that laie thus to annoie them When therefore the armie was come to Newcastell the earle of Shrewesburie generall lieutenant of the same was there arriued they passed forward to Berwike and from thense marched streight towards Hadington The number of the Englishmen and strangers was reported at the point of fifteene thousand whereof thrée thousand were Almans vnder the conduct of a right woorthie and expert chiefteine named Conrad Phenning commonlie called Cortpenie Beside this armie by land there was also furnished foorth a fléet by sea vnder the conduct of the lord Clinton high admerall of England and other capteins of great experience in affaires and seruice by sea This fléet was appointed so to kéepe course with the armie by land that the one might be euer in sight of the other Monsieur de Desse aduertised of the comming forward of this armie durst line 10 not abide their comming but raised his field and retired with his armie toward Edenburgh howbeit they were no sooner dislodged but that a great troope of the English horssemen were got within sight of them and coasted them all the waie as they marched for the space of seuen or eight miles in maner to as farre as Muskelburgh where the Frenchmen staied and incamped in a place chosen foorth to their most aduantage The earle of Shrewesburie and the lord Greie line 20 with the armie comming vnto Hadington were ioifullie receiued of the capteins and soldiours within where it might appeare how valiantlie they had defended that towne during the siege being so destitute of all things necessarie for their reléefe and the fortifications so weake that if the noble prowesse of their woorthie generall sir Iames Wilford and the incomparable manhood of the rest of the capteins and soldiours had not supplied all other wants it was thought impossible that they should haue defended the place so long a time against such forces as had line 30 beene there imploied against them But such was the vndanted valiancie of that noble crue and garrison that euen the verie enimies themselues could not but yeeld high commendations to the capteins and soldiours for the hardie forwardnesse and manhood which at all times they had found and tried in them at all points of seruice when
were led and carried and who did humble themselues he was pitifull and mercifull and did dailie pardon infinite numbers And his lordship thinking verelie that all things were now quieted the rebels pacified suddenlie newes were brought vnto him that there assembled at Sampford Courtneie both Deuonshiremen and Cornishmen and who were fullie bent to mainteine their quarrell and abide the battell These newes so troubled and tickled my lord that all businesse set apart he commandeth foorthwith the trumpet to be sounded and the drumme to be striken vp and all his armie to be foorthwith mustered which was then the greater by reason of the Welshmen and gentlemen of the countrie and of the commoners who vpon submission had obteined pardon and increased to the number of eight or ten thousand men and foorthwith he marcheth towards Sampford Courtneie where sir William Herbert requested to haue the fore-ward for that daie which was granted him And being come thither albeit the great companie of so manie good souldiers and well appointed might haue dismaied them being nothing nor in order nor in companie nor in experience to be compared vnto the others yet they were at a point they would not yéeld to no persuasions nor did but most manfullie did abide the fight and neuer gaue ouer vntill that both in the towne and in the field they were all for the most taken or slaine At which time one ap Owen a Welsh gentlman more boldie than aduisedlie giuing the aduenture to enter the rampier at the townes end was there slaine by the rebels and after carried backe to Exon where after the maner of wars he was honorablie buried in the bodie of saint Peters church few of the kings side besides him then slaine and so of a traitorous beginning they made a shamefull ending Neuerthelesse manie escaped and they fled towards Summersetshire after whom was sent sir Peter Carew and sir Hugh Paulet then knight marshall with a great companie attending vpon them and followed them as far as to King Weston in the countie of Summerset where they ouertooke them and ouerthrew them and also tooke one Coffin a gentleman their capteine prisoner and brought him vnto Excester The lord Russell himselfe minding to make all things sure taketh his iorneie and marcheth into Cornewall and following his former course causeth execution to be doone vpon a great manie and especiallie vpon the chéefe belwedders and ringleaders but the cheefe and principall capteins he kept as prisoners and brought them with him to Excester And when this lord had set all things in good order he returned to Excester remained there for a time but after departed towards London where he was receiued with great ioy and thanks and being come before the king he forgat not to commend vnto his maiestie the good seruice of this citie in this rebellion which as is before said was liberallie rewarded and considered After his departure and according to his order and appointment the chéefe capteins and principall heads of this rebellion whome he left in prison in the kings goale at Excester were caried to London and commanded to the tower and in their due time were afterwards executed to death namelie Humfreie Arundell esquier Wineslade esquier Iohn Berrie and Coffin gentlemen and Holmes yeoman which Coffin and Holmes were seruants to sir Iohn Arundell knight Of the number of them who were slaine there is no certeintie knowne but manie more be found lacke then numbred howbeit it was accounted by such as continued in the whole seruice of this commotion to be about foure thousand men But what number was of the contrarie side dispatched nothing is reported albeit it be well knowne that they escaped not scotfrée and especiallie the Burgonians who were abhorred of the one partie and nothing fauoured of the other Thus much line 10 concerning the description of the citie and of the sundrie inuasions and assaults against the same and especiallie of the last rebellion or commotion in the yeare of our Lord 1549 wherein much more might be spoken but this may suffice for this matter And for as much as the cathedrall church of this citie called by the name of S. Peters is a parcell of the citie and compassed within the wals of the same though in respect of certeine priuileges distinct from the iurisdiction thereof I thought it good to subnect herevnto line 20 the description of the said church and of the antiquitie of the same The antiquitie foundation and building of the cathedrall church of saint Peters in Excester AFter that corrupt religion and superstition was crept and receiued into the church and the people become deuout line 30 therein then began the erecting of religious houses and monasteries in euerie countrie And as this was vniuersall throughout all christendome vnder the gouernement of the Romane bishop so also was it generallie doone throughout all England in which generalitie this citie was of a particularitie for in this citie from time to time as opportunitie serued sundrie religious houses and monasteries were erected and builded of which there were thrée within the site circuit and line 40 place now called the close of S. Peters and which in time accrued and were vnited into one The first was a house for women called moniales or nuns which is now the deanes house or Kalendar haie The other was a house of moonks supposed to be builded by king Ethelred the third sonne to king Ethelwolph and these two were vnited by bishop Leofricus vnto the cathedrall church The third was a house for moonks of the order of S. Benet which was builded and founded by king Athelstane about the yeare of line 50 our Lord 932 and this is that part of the cathedrall church now called the ladie chappell For the said king hauing driuen out of this citie the Britons then dwelling therein and minding to make a full conquest both of them and of this their countrie which they then inhabited did so fiercelie follow and pursue them euen into Cornewall that in the end he conquered them and had the victorie After which he returned to this citie and here staieng and soiourning for a time did reedifie the citie incompassed it with line 60 a stone wall and founded the cathedrall church which he then appointed for a monasterie for moonks of S. Benets order For so is it written Hanc vrbem rex Adelstanus primus in potestatem Anglorum effugatis Britonibus redactam turribus muniuit muro ex quadratis lapidibus cinxit ac antiquitùs vocatam Munketon nunc Exester vocari voluit ac ibi sedens mansum quoddam dedit ad fundandum monasterium pro monachis Deo sancto Petro famulantibus Besides the charges which he was at the building of the said church he gaue also lands and reuenues vnto them sufficient for maintenance and liuelihoods whereof Morkeshull and Treasurors béere are parcell and which now are appendant
easilie haue béene auoided But neuerthelesse vpon this their humble submission he granted them all the kings mercifull pardon and commanding them to prouide themselues of armour and weapon appointed them to march foorth with the armie wearing certeine laces or ribons about their necks for a difference that they might be knowne from others There were in this armie vnder the earle of Warwike diuerse men of honor and great worship as lords knights esquiers and gentlemen in great numbers First the lord marquesse of Northampton and sundrie of them that had béene with him before desirous to be reuenged of his late repulse the lords Willoughbie Powes and Braie Ambrose Dudleie sonne to the line 10 said earle and at this present worthilie adorned with the title which his father then bare of earle of Warwike and his brother lord Robert Dudleie now erle of Leicester also Henrie Willoughbie esquier sir Thomas Tresham sir Marmaduke constable William Deuereux sonne to the lord Ferrers of Chartleie sir Edmund Kneuet sir Thomas Palmer sir Andrew Flammocke and diuerse other knights esquiers and gentlemen all which plaid their parts line 20 as time and occasion was ministred vnto them to giue triall of their manhood The earle of Warwike and such as were come with him to Cambridge marched directlie from thence towards Norwich and came vnto Wimondham the two and twentith of August where and by the waie the most part of all the gentlemen of Norffolke that were at libertie came vnto him The next daie betimes he shewed himselfe vpon the plaine betwixt the citie of Norwich and Eiton wood and line 30 lodged that night at Intwood an house belonging to sir Thomas Tresham knight a two miles distant from Norwich Héere they rested that daie and night following not once putting off their armour but remaining still in a readinesse if the enimies should haue made anie sudden inuasion against them The earle of Warwike in the meane time sent the afore remembred king of armes Norreie to summon the citie either to open the gates that he might quietlie enter or else to looke for warre at his hands that would then assaie to win it by force and such reward line 40 as rebels that wilfullie withstand their souereigne ought to receiue When Ket vnderstood that the herald was come to the gates he appointed the maiors deputie Augustine Steward and Robert Rug two of the chéefest citizens to go to him and to know his errand They passing foorth at a posterne and hearing his message made answer that they were the miserablest men that were then liuing as they themselues beleeued sith that hauing suffered such calamities as they line 50 could not but tremble at in calling to remembrance they could not now haue libertie to declare the loiall dutie which they bare ought to beare to the kings highnesse so that they accompted themselues most vnfortunate sith their hap was to liue in that season in which they must either ieopard losse of life or the estimation of their good name although they trusted the kings maiestie would be gratious lord vnto them sith they had giuen no consent vnto such wicked rebellion as was thus raised against his line 60 highnesse but with losse of goods and perill of life so farre as in them laie had doone what they could to kéepe the citizens in good order and dutifull obedience One thing more they would humblie desire of my lord of Warwike that whereas there was no small number of Kets armie in the citie without armour or weapon and as it should seeme irkesome and wearie of that which had béene alreadie doone it might please him once againe to vouchsafe to offer them the kings pardon and if he should thus doo they had great hope that the rebels would gladlie accept it and so the matter might be pacified without more bloudshed Norreie returned to the earle of Warwike and declared what answer he had receiued The earle desirous of nothing more than to haue the matter thus taken vp as well for other considerations as for feare least the gentlemen remaining prisoners with the rebels should be vnmercifullie murthered by their kéepers if they came to the vttermost triall of battell he resolued to prooue if it would thus come to passe And heerevpon was Norreie with a trumpet sent to offer them a generall pardon who being entered the citie met about fortie of the rebels on horssebacke riding two and two togither verie pleasant and merrie and so passing from S. Stephans gate vnto Bishops gate the trumpetter sounded his trumpet and with that a great multitude of the rebels came thronging downe togither from the hill to whome the horsmen spéedilie riding commanded that they should diuide themselues and stand in order vpon either side the waie And as Norreie and the trumpetter with two of the chéefe citizens entred betwixt them they were receiued with great noise and clamour for euerie of them putting off their hats or caps cried God saue king Edward God saue king Edward Norreie and the two citizens highlie commending them herein requested them to kéepe their place and order wherein they stood for a while and then Norreie passing foorth about two hundred and fiftie pases came to the top of the hill and putting on his coate armour staied a while for Ket was not yet come and at length began to declare vnto them in what maner diuers times since first they had taken armes in hand the kings maiestie by sundrie persons as well heralds as other had sought to reduce them from their vnlawfull and rebellious tumults vnto their former dutie and obedience and yet neuerthelesse they had shewed themselues wilfull and stubborne in refusing his mercifull pardon freelie offered vnto them and despised the messengers which his grace had sent vnto them to pronounce the same He willed them therefore to call themselues now at length to remembrance and to behold the state of the common-wealth which they so often to no purpose had still in their mouths and neuerthelesse by them miserablie defaced brought in danger of vtter ruine and decaie And herewith discoursing at large of the horrible wicked and heinous murthers riots burnings and other crimes by them committed he willed them to consider into what sea of mischeefes they had throwne themselues and what punishment they ought to looke for as due to them for the same sith as well the wrath of God as the kings armie was hanging ouer their heads and readie at hand which they were not able to resist For his grace had resolued no longer to suffer so great and presumptuous a mischéefe as this to be fostered in the middle of his realme and therefore had appointed the right honourable earle of Warwike a man of noble fame and approoued valiancie to be his generall lieutenant of that his roiall armie to persecute them with fire and sword and not to leaue off till he had vtterlie dispersed and scattered
as well sundrie waies foresee and prouide for our owne safegards as anie of you by betraieng vs can doo for yours But now vpon the onelie trust and faithfulnesse of your honors whereof we thinke our selues most assured we doo hazzard our liues Which trust and promise if yée shall violate hoping thereby of life and promotion yet shall not God count you innocent of our blouds neither acquite you of the sacred and holie oth of allegiance made fréelie by you to this vertuous ladie the queenes highnesse who by your and our intisement is rather line 40 of force placed therein than by hir owne séeking and request Consider also that Gods cause which is the preferment of his word feare of papists entrance hath beene as ye haue here before alwaies laid the originall ground wherevpon ye euen at the first motion granted your goodwils and consents therevnto as by your handwritings appeareth and thinke not the contrarie but if ye meane deceit though not foorthwith yet hereafter God will reuenge the same line 50 I can saie no more but in this troublesome time wish you to vse constant hearts abandoning all malice enuie and priuat affections And therewithall the first course for the lords came vp wherefore the duke shut vp his talke with these words I haue not spoken to you in this sort vpon anie mistrust I haue of your truths of which alwaies I haue euer hitherto conceiued a trustie 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 praie you wish me not worsse good spéed in this line 60 iorneie than yée would haue to your selues My lord saith one of them if yee mistrust anie of vs in this matter your grace is farre deceiued for which of vs can wash his hands cleane thereof And if we should shrinke from you as from one that were culpable which of vs can excuse himselfe to be giltlesse Therefore herein your doubt is too farre cast I praie God it be quoth the duke let vs go to dinner and so they sat downe After dinner the duke went in to the quéene where his commission was by that time sealed for his lieutenantship of the armie and then tooke his leaue of hir and so did certeine other lords also Then as the duke came through the councell chamber he tooke his leaue of the earle of Arundell who praied God be with his grace saieng he was sorie it was not his chance to go with him and beare him companie in whose presence he could find in his heart to spend his bloud euen at his féet Then the earle of Arundell tooke Thomas Louell the dukes boie by the hand and said Farewell gentle Thomas with all my heart Then the duke with the lord marquesse of Northampton the lord Greie and diuerse other tooke their â—â—rge and went to Durham place and to White 〈◊〉 where that night they mustered their men and the next daie in the morning the duke departed with the number of six hundred men or thereabouts And as they rode through Shordich said the duke to the lord Greie The people prease to see vs but not one saith God spéed vs. The same daie sir Iohn Gates and other went out after the duke Now as the duke went forward on his waie with his commission from the whole councell and his warrant vnder the broad seale of England without mistrust of that which after fortuned to his owne destruction as in the historie of quéene Marie shall appeare accompanied with no small number of lords and gentlemen hauing notwithstanding his times prescribed and his iourneies appointed by the councell to the intent he would not seeme to doo any thing but vpon warrant what a doo there was what stirring on euerie side what sending what riding and posting what letters messages instructions went to and fro what talking among the souldiers what hartburning among the people what faire pretenses outwardlie inwardlie what priuie practises there were what speeding and sending foorth ordinance out of the tower yea euen the same daie that quéene Marie at euen was proclaimed quéene what rumors and comming downe of souldiers as there was from all quarters a world it was to see and a processe to declare enough to make as saith master Fox a whole volume euen as big as an Ilias The greatest helpe that made for the ladie Marie was the short iourneies of the duke which by commission were assigned vnto him before as aboue is mentioned and happilie not without the politike forecast of some in fauour of the ladie Marie for the longer the duke lingered in his voiage the ladie marie the more increased in puissance the hearts of the people being mightilie bent vnto hir Whervpon she in the meane time remaining at Fremingham and hearing of this preparation against hir gathered togither such power of the noblemen other hir fréends in that countrie as she could get And first of all the noblemen that came vnto hir aid were the earles of Sussex Bath and Oxford the lord Wentworth sir Thomas Cornewallis sir Henrie Ierningham sir William Walgraue with diuerse other gentlemen and commons of the counties of Norffolke and Suffolke Here as master Fox noteth the Suffolke men being the first that resorted to hir promised hir their aid and helpe to the vttermost of their powers so that she would not go about to alter the religion which hir brother had established and was now vsed and exercised through the realme To this condition she agréed with such promise as no man would haue doubted that anie innouation of matters in religion should haue followed by hir sufferance or procurement during hir reigne but how soone shée forgat that promise it shall shortlie after plainelie appeare In this meane season the lord Windsor sir Edmund Peckham sir Robert Drurie and sir Edward Hastings raised the commoners of the shire of Buckingham vnto whome sir Iohn Williams which afterward was lord Williams of Thame and sir Leonard Chamberleine with the cheefe power of Oxfordshire And out of Northamptonshire came sir Thomas Tresham and a great number of gentlemen out of diuerse parts whose names were too long to rehearse These capteins with their companies being thus assembled in warlike manner marched forward towards Norffolke to the aid of the ladie Marie and the further they went the more their power increased ¶ About this time six ships well manned that were line 10 appointed to lie before Yarmouth and to haue taken the ladie Marie if she had fled that waie were by force of weather driuen into the hauen where one maister Ierningham was raising power on the ladie Maries behalfe who hearing therof came thither Whervpon the capteins tooke a bote and went to the ships but the sailers and souldiers asked master Ierningham what he would haue and whether he would haue their capteins or no and he said yea Marrie
with them for that purpose at the breach which was made the summer before by the duke Daumale and entring by the same came downe into the base court Which thing when the French soldiors that kept talke with them within at the castell gate perceiued they began to laugh The capteine of the castell therwith turning his face beholding as good as thrée score armed men within the castell at his backe he suddenlie said Ha ie suis vostre I am yours sirs and so yéelded with his ten soldiors And in this sort was the castell taken the capteine brought prisoner to Newhauen line 10 On the twelfe of December at ten of the clocke in the morning the earle of Warwike monsieur de Beauuois and monsieur de Bricquemault with all their horssemen thrée thousand footmen passed foorth of Newhauen vnto Harflue out of which towne there issued seauen hundred Reisters of the retinue of the counte Reingraue and thrée hundred footmen who fell in skirmish with the French and Englishmen verie hotlie but at length the Englishmen draue them to the verie gates of Harflue line 20 and slue them euen at the same gates and vpon the walles of the towne insomuch that they were constreined to shut their gates and off went the ordinance from the gates and bulworks discharging bullets amongst the English soldiors freelie But yet there were not slaine past seuen of the English part albeit diuerse were hurt and wounded amongst other was monsieur de Beauuois shot into the side of the necke through his gorget and capteine Antwisell through the arme Moreouer whereas they carried foorth with them foure barrels of gunpowder to line 30 mainteine the skirmish through negligence by setting fire in the same there were to the number of twentie gréeuouslie burned Of the enimies were slaine that daie aboue thirtie and hurt aboue fiftie Manie of their horsses were also slaine in this skirmish which continued aboue thrée houres As the Englishmen were returning backe the Reingraue with two hundred horsses and a certeine number of footmen was laid fast by in an ambush thinking to haue cut off part of their men but he failed of his line 40 purpose For the lord lieutenant marching with his men in battell araie brought them home in safetie without other impeachment The seauentéenth of December the counte Montgomerie and sir Hugh Paulet arriued at Newhauen in one of the queenes ships called the Aid The ninetéenth of December a proclamation was made for orders to be obserued concerning the imbarking of such soldiors as were licenced to depart by passeport or otherwise and likewise prohibiting line 50 the taking into anie vessell anie drie fish wine sugar or anie houshold stuffe without speciall licence of the lord lieutenant Whilest things passed thus in Normandie at Newhauen thereabouts where the earle of Warwike other valiant capteines were readie to make proofe of their high prowesse in time place as occasion might serue there ended his life at home that honorable baron and right famous capteine in his daies William lord Greie of Wilton line 60 knight of the most noble order of the garter and at that present gouernor of Berwike and warden of the east marches against Scotland He deceased the fiue and twentith of December in the yéere 1562 at Cheshnut in Hertfordshire then the house of Henrie Denie esquier that had married mistresse Honor Greie the said lord Greies onelie daughter ¶ The six and twentith of December the counte de Montgomerie tooke shipping at Newhauen rode accompanied with foure hundred harquebutters Frenchmen and sailed to Déepe there to be gouernor of that towne He went in an English barke belonging to Nicholas Malbie secretarie to the earle of Warwike lord lieutenant The third of Ianuarie a shallop that was sent the same morning from Newhauen year 1563 laden with béere and other vittels to passe vnto Tankeruille was assailed about Harflue by a shallop of Hunflue which droue the hoie to the shore so as the Englishmen forsooke their hoie and came running to Newhauen to declare what had happened Herevpon the lord lieutenant sent foorth foure French shallops by water and the horssemen with six hundred footmen passed foorth by land and vsed such diligence that they came euen as the Frenchmen were haling vp the hoie towards Harflue and skirmishing with the Frenchmen being foure score good harquebutters for the space of a long houre at length recouered the hoie and tooke thrée of their shallops with their ordinance which they brought to Newhauen with the losse of one onelie man an harquebutter of capteine Zouches band The fourth of Ianuarie in the morning the English scout being thirtie good harquebutters were set vpon by the enimies that droue them vnto the verie gates They shot also with their harquebusses into the towne and ouer the mount roiall among the English soldiors They hurt at that present thrée of the scouts but when they perceiued the Englishmen were in a readinesse to approch them they departed being in number thrée hundred horssemen and a thousand footmen soldiors of Mondeuille and Harflue The fift of Ianuarie were apprehended capteine Blondell capteine Moucombell monsieur Dimenee and Uitanna with others for some conspiracie or traitorous practise which they went about and had maliciouslie contriued The same daie capteine Edward Horseie with his two hundred soldiors capteine Francis Blunt with his hundred tooke shipping at Newhauen rode and sailed to Déepe there to remaine with the counte Montgomerie whose wife the countesse Montgomerie went also with them to hir husband the same time On the saturdaie following the twelfe daie after Christmasse being the ninth of Ianuarie a great tempest of wind and thunder happened in the towne of Leicester which vncouered two and fortie baies of houses and ouerthrew manie renting and tearing them in péeces in a strange and maruellous maner The people that were assembled that daie in the market place to buie and sell their vsuall chafer wares and commodities were sore amazed and astonied with the hidiousnesse of that most outragious violent tempest On thursdaie the 14 of Ianuarie at one of the clocke in the morning there issued forth of Newhauen thréescore horssemen and a thousand footmen all English comming to Mondeuille where the Reingraue laie gaue to them within an alarum but neither the Reisters nor the Almane footmen nor French that were within that towne would come foorth and therefore after the Englishmen had tarried there the space of foure houres they returned backe againe to Newhauen The fifteenth of Ianuarie at one of the clocke in the afternoone there issued foorth of Newhauen threescore horssemen and fiftéene hundred footmen which comming to Harflue gaue a like alarum to that towne but none of the garrison there would come foorth wherevpon the Englishmen returned home againe to Newhauen The sixteenth of Ianuarie the castell of Tankeruille was surrendred to the
the world at all times But you in denieng it haue both falslie and vniustlie lied in your throte and dare neither defend nor disproue that in deeds which in words you haue doone Whereas you write that our generall passed Dunglas by your appointment which you suffered therein you doo manifestlie saie vnhonorablie and vntrulie for that you had no knowledge of our first comming but saluted vs with your shot and we likewise skirmished with your men euen at their owne strength vntill we viewed the ground about at out pleasure And touching the appointment of six of either part easilie that maie be knowne to be a plaine lie séeing we had neither parlée nor conference with you before to appoint place or méeting But whereas you saie you could doo no lesse but present vs with such as you had therein you confesse and acknowledge the dishonour and treason that I charged you withall taking vpon your selfe that fault which I supposed to haue bin of your seruants for our generall retired his companie farre from him And his trumpet being with you approched himselfe alone to haue parled when vnder trust you discharged two harquebusses against him an act rather séemelie for a cowardlie traitor than one that professeth to be a souldier Finallie whereas you let me wit that you haue gentlemen of honour seruant souldiers vnto you that maie be my fellowes which should defend the chalenge that toucheth so néere your selfe as with honor you should not haue refused it First I thinke scorne to be anie waies inferior to you though but a souldier too honourable a name for you being better in birth and vnsteined with reproch as you haue béene Secondlie I haue more and as good gentlemen vnder my conduct as your selfe haue vnder your charge which shall answer as many as you can bring if with number ye meane to combat and will put them to that which you dare not doo your selfe line 10 But assure you my quarell shall remaine euerlasting except the proofe of your owne person against mine maie end it and when you shall dare come out of your crowes nest I will be readie to ride an hundred Scotish miles to méet with you in anie indifferent place And vntill that time I shall account you deuoid of honestie honor vnworthie to march vpon ground or keepe companie with men From Hamilton the 29 of Maie 1570. Subscribed George Careie line 20 Though manie waies were sought by message and otherwise to mooue the lord Fleming to defend with battell the fault and follie committed yet it would not be for he shifted off the matter so as it well appered it was but lost labor further to attempt him therein The two and twentith of Maie the earle of Lennox accompanied with the earle of Glencarne the lord Simple and other his friends feodaries alies mustered on the moore before the towne line 30 of Glasco the number of foure thousand horssemen and footmen that were there assembled to serue him in presence of sir William Drurie and other of the English capteins The thrée and twentith of Maie sir William Drurie the earle of Lennox and other the Scotish lords and the whole armie marched towards the castell of Hamilton and sending a trumpettor and one with him to parlée with the capteine named Andrew Hamilton he agreed to come foorth and one other with him to talke with sir William line 40 Drurie and one other gentleman such as he should thinke good to bring with him to a place somewhat distant as well from the castell as the campe Herevpon sir William Drurie with his sword and target and sir George Careie with a case of pistols went foorth to the appointed place whither the capteine of the castell also with an halbert and one other with him hauing likewise a case of pistols came according to appointment But after they had talked togither and that the capteine would not in anie line 50 wise consent to deliuer vp the castell he with his associat returned to their hold againe the English generall with sir George Careie came backe to the campe and therevpon the English ordinance was presentlie placed about the castell and shot verie sore all that night but did no great hurt by reason they were but field péeces and not fit for batterie They in the castell likewise shot verie sore at the Englishmen but did no great harme sauing that there were thrée of the footmen hurt In the palace which was a line 60 pretie house the duchesse of Chatellerault was at that time resident to whom sir William Drurie did repaire offering hir all the courtesie he might with all that to hir apperteined willing hir not to feare anie thing and for hir more assurance he committed hir to the charge of sir Thomas Maners The foure and twentith of Maie the generall gaue summons vnto the castell And bicause they within stoode stiffelie in deniall to make surrender thereof vnto him he was driuen to send to Striueling for some great peeces of ordinance méet to make batterie In the meane time the earles of Lennox and Morton with the horssemen and some shot marched into the countrie to a verie faire house of the abbat of Kilwinnings neere adioining whose name was Gawen Hamilton which house they burnt and vtterlie defaced spoiling it and rasing it downe to the earth They burnt and spoiled also seuentéene houses more belonging to men of that surname situate néere thereabouts wherof one belonged vnto a lard that had married with the sister of Iames Hamilton of Bodweie haugh which slue the regent There were also burnt seuen other faire houses belonging to others that were not of that surname but yet were of their friends and alies Moreouer there were diuerse other of their kinred and alies that came in with humble submission and assured themselues firmelie promising from thensefoorth their obedience to the king The fiue and twentith of Maie sir William Drurie the generall retired his people vpon a policie from the castell and left it without either watch or ward for that night The next daie he sent sir George Careie to the castell with a trumpettor to know if they within would deliuer it vp before the great ordinance should come which the capteine vtterlie refused to doo Wherevpon the small shot clapt suddenlie round about the house and kept them within occupied till that a whole culuering a demie culuering came to them from Sterling the which with foure of the English small field péeces were in the night following planted against the castell and being shot off a bullet of one of the great péeces passed through the walles into the castell The seuen and twentith of Maie about foure of the clocke in the morning the generall sent a trumpettor to giue summons againe to the castell vnto whome the capteine answered that he cared not for them so bad them doo their
Peter king of Castile and sister by the mother to Constance second wife to Iohn of Gant duke of Lancaster brother to this Edmund who was about the twentith yéere of Richard the second protector of England while the king was in Ireland which Isabell died in the yeere of Christ 1394 being about the eightéenth yéere of Richard the second by the kings commandement was buried in the friers of Langleie This Edmund had issue by his wife Isabell Edward earle of Rutland and duke Albermerle Richard earle of Cambridge and one daughter called Constance married to Thomas lord Spenser he died the second as some haue or rather the third as others haue of Henrie the 4 in the yéere of Christ as hath Ypodigma 1402 and was buried at Langleie Edward Plantagenet son and heire of Edmund of Langleie duke of Yorke was in the fouretéenth of Richard the second created erle of Rutland in his fathers life in the yéere of Christ 1390 and in the twentith yeare of Richard the second or rather the 21 of the same king being the yeare of Christ 1397 he was made duke of Albermerle or Aumerle and after his fathers death he was duke of Yorke he was slaine at the battell of Agincourt in the third yeare of Henrie the fift being the yeare of Christ 1415 he married Margaret or rather more trulie Philip the ladie Fitzwater and widow to sir Iohn Gollafer knight bastard sonne to sir Iohn Gollafer of Cercedone or Saresdone knight in Oxfordshire And here because I haue mentioned the name of Gollafer although it be digressing from my first purposes onelie to treat of the dukes of England I thinke it not amisse to saie somewhat of these two knights of the Gollafers sir Iohn the father and sir Iohn the sonne This sir Iohn Gollafer the father line 10 being the sonne of Iohn Gollafer esquier whose ancestors as farre as I can learne had their first originall from Roger Gollafer of Cercedone in the time of king Iohn and was buried in Domo capitulari de Bruera in com oxon married Anne the daughter and heire of sir Thomas Langleie lord of Langleie in Oxfordshire now at this daie in the yeare 1585 by grant of quéene Elisabeth in the possession of Robert Sutton or Dudleie earle of Leicester which Anne died shortlie after without anie issue by him line 20 After whose death this sir Iohn Gollafer married Isabell the ladie of Missenden dwelling at Missenden and of Queintone in Buckinghamshire she being daughter to sir Barnard Brocas But this sir Iohn Gollafer hauing no issue by the said Elisabeth and desirous by some meanes or other to continue his name which yet he could not make perpetuall nor of anie long continuance made choise in the life of his wife Isabell of another woman whome he vsed for procreations cause and by hir had issue two line 30 bastards one called Iennet Pulham after prioresse of Burneham by Windsore and an other bastard called after the father Iohn Gollafer who in following time became a knight Afterward this sir Iohn the father died at Queintone in the yeare of our redemption one thousand three hundred seauentie and nine falling partlie in the second and third yeare of Henrie the fourth and was buried at the Graie friers in Oxford whose wife Isabell was after buried in Missenden priorie line 40 After the death of this sir Iohn the father sir Iohn Gollafer knight his base sonne being lord of Langleie married Phillip ladie Fitzwater after maried to this duke of Yorke as before is said which sir Iohn Gollafer died at Wallingford in the yeare of our redemption one thousand three hundred ninetie and six being the twentith yeare of Richard the second and was buried at Westminster néere vnto the toome of Richard the second Which ladie Philip died in the time of Henrie the sixt and was line 50 buried at Westminster néere vnto hir husband whose statelie toome is yet extant on the south side almost directlie oueragainst the toome of Richard the second Thus this much for the name of Gollafer and so againe to the dukes of England Thomas Plantagenet otherwise called Thomas of Woodstocke sixt sonne to king Edward the third was created earle of Buckingham the first yeare of Richard the second in the yeare one thousand thrée line 60 hundred seauentie and seauen the daie of his coronation before dinner This man was high constable of England and created duke of Glocester in the eight yeare of Richard the second of whom is more especiall mention made in the treatise of the constables of England pag. 867. Thomas Holland brother by the mothers side to king Richard the second and sonne to the lord Thomas Holland earle of Kent in the right of Iane daughter and heire to Edmund Plantagenet surnamed of Woodstocke earle of Kent was aduanced to the title of duke of Surreie in the two and twentith yeare of king Richard the second being the yeare of Christ one thousand thrée hundred ninetie and seauen he maried Alice the daughter of Richard Fitzallen earle of Arundell He had issue six daughters heires Margaret married to Iohn Beaufort earle of Summerset and marquesie Dorset Alice maried to Thomas Montacute earle of Salisburie Elisabeth married to Iohn lord Neuill sonne to Rafe Neuill the first earle of Westmerland and after his death to Edward Chareleton lord Powis Ioane married to Edmund of Langleie duke of Yorke and Bridget a nun at Barking This man with others at a parlement held the first yeare of Henrie the fourth in the yeare of our redemption one thousand thrée hundred ninetie and nine was depriued of his name of duke of all honours togither with the dignities belonging to a duke was after in the same yeare rebelling against king Henrie the fourth taken by the men of Circester and beheaded in the same towne after that he had caused the towne to be set on fire Iohn Holland full brother to Thomas Holland and halfe brother to Richard the second was created earle of Huntington in the fourtéenth yeare of king Richard the second and made duke of Excester at a parlement holden in the one twentith yeare of the same king though some attribute that to the twentith yeare of king Richard This man at a parlement held in the first of Henrie the fourth in the yeare of Christ 1399 was disgraded from his title of dukedome and was after taken at Pritewell in Essex in a mill and beheaded at Plassie in the said shire in the said first yéere of the said king Henrie the fourth he married Elisabeth the daughter of Iohn of Gant duke of Lancaster and had issue Iohn Holland earle of Huntington Iohn Holland earle of Huntington was as it seemeth made by Henrie the fourth after the death of the duke of Excester his father admitted to be duke of Excester he married Anne the daughter of Edmund earle of Stafford he had issue Henrie Holland duke
duke of Summerset earle of Hertford vicount Beauchampe lord Seimor vncle to the kings highnesse of England gouernor of his most roiall person and protector of all his realmes dominions and subiects lieutenant generall of his maiesties armies both by sea and land treasuror and earle marshall of England gouernor of the iles of Gerneseie and Ierseie and knight of the most honorable order of the garter c. This stile he had which I haue béene the more willing to set downe because I doo not remember that anie subiect did with like shew publish anie such stile before his time Which honors he did not long inioie for were it for malice of some of the nobilitie disdaining such honor or for cause in him offending the laws or for his ouer carelesse good disposition that suspected no such euill from his enimies he was the second time on the sixt of October in the fift yeere of king Edward the sixt being the yeare of Christ 1551 committed prisoner to the tower and the two and twentith daie of Ianuarie folowing he was beheaded at tower hill and buried in the tower chappell He had two wiues wherof the first was Katharine the daughter of sir William Filioll of Woodland knight by whome he had a son called Edward his second wife was Anne the daughter of sir Edward Stanhope by whom he had issue Edward earle of Hertford Henrie now liuing and Edward with Anne married the third of Iune in the fourth yéere of the reigne of king Edward the sixt in the yéere one thousand fiue hundred and fiftie to Iohn lord Dudleie eldest sonne to Iohn earle of Warwike and duke of Northumberland Ione Marie Katharine and Elisabeth Henrie Greie marquesse Dorset lord Ferrers of Groobie Harrington Boneuile and Asleie was at Hampton court created duke of Suffolke on the eleuenth of October in the fift yéere of the reigne of king Edward the sixt being the yeere of our redemption one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and one who in the first yeere of quéene Marie being the yéere of Christ one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and thrée supposing that the quéene would marrie a stranger did flie into Leicester and Warwikeshires with a small companie making proclamation against the quéenes marriage with the prince of Spaine but the people inclined not vnto him Wherevpon a companie being sent out after him vnder the leading of the earle of Huntington the first daie of Februarie proclamation was made at London that the duke was discomfited and fled with his two brethren After which the tenth of Februarie the duke with his brother sir Iohn Greie was brought from Couentrie where he remained three daies after his taking in the house and custodie of Christopher Warren alderman of that towne by the earle of Huntington attended with thrée hundred men to the tower Where remaining a certeine space he was on the thrée and twentith of Februarie beheaded at tower hill and buried in the chappell of the tower as I haue heard He married Francis one of the daughters to Charles Brandon duke of Suffolke by whom he had issue Iane married to Gilford the sonne of Iohn duke of Northumberland and died without issue Katharine and Marie Iohn Sutton of Dudleie created by king Henrie the eight vicount Lisle being admerall lord great chamberleine lord great maister and earle of Warwike was after on the eleuenth daie of October the fift yéere of king Edward the sixt being the yeere of our redemption one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and one created duke of Northumberland He after the death of king Edward tooke armes and proclamed quéene Iane daughter to Henrie duke of Suffolke meaning to exclude quéene Marie But shortlie after perceiuing quéene Marie to be proclamed at London this duke did also proclame hir at Cambridge Notwithstanding all which he was arested in the Kings college there by one maister Sleg sergeant at armes and after anew arrested by the earle of Arundell Henrie Fitzallen sent thither for that cause who brought him to London where this duke was the fiue and twentith of Iulie in the said first yeare of quéene Marie commited to the tower Shortlie after which he was the eightéenth of August following arreigned at Westminster there condemned and beheadded on tower hill the two and twentith of the same moneth whose bodie with the head was buried in the tower he being the last duke that was created in England He maried Iane the line 10 daughter of sir Edward Gilford knight the sister and heire to sir Henrie Gilford knight of whose children I will not speake bicause they are yet fresh in memorie And thus farre Francis Thin touching the creation and the succession in lineall descents of all the dukes of England since the conquest About the ninth of Iune Francis duke of Montmorencie chiefe marshall of France gouernour and lieutenant of the I le of France generall to Charles the ninth king of France and Paule de Foix of the line 20 priuie councell of the said king and Bertrand de Saligners lord de la Mothfenelon knights of the order of S. Michaell ambassadors for the same king arriued at Douer The fourtéenth daie they shot London bridge toward Summerset house at the Strand where they were lodged The fifteenth daie being sundaie the said ambassadors repaired to the White hall where they were honourablie receiued of the quéenes maiestie with hir nobilitie and there in hir graces chappell about one of the clocke in the line 30 after noone the articles of treatie league or confederacie and sure friendship concluded at Blois the ninteenth of Aprill as is afore shewed betwixt the quéenes maiestie and the French king being read the same was by hir maiestie and his ambassadors confirmed to be obserued and kept without innouation or violation c. The rest of that daie with great part of the night following was spent in great triumph with sumptuous bankets The eightéenth of Iune the feast of saint George line 40 was holden at Windsor where the French ambassadors were roiallie feasted Francis duke of Montmorencie was stalled knight of the most honourable order of the garter The eight and twentith daie of Iune the forenamed ambassadors departed from London toward France ¶ The fourtéenth of Iune Thomas lord Wharton deceased in his house of Chanon row at Westminster The thirtéenth daie of Iulie the quéenes maiestie at Whitehall made sir William Cicill lord of Burghleie lord high treasuror line 50 of England lord William Howard late lord chamberleine lord priuie seale the earle of Sussex lord chamberleine sir Thomas Smith principall secretarie and Christopher Hatton esquier capteine of the gard A treatise of the treasurors of England set downe out of ancient histories and records as they succeeded in order of time and in the reigne of the kings line 60 THis adorning of sir William Cicill knight lord Burghleie with the honour of lord treasuror of England hath rowsed my enuied
hundred and thirtéene after the account of such as doo begin the yeare at Ianuarie He rebelled against king Henrie the fift and was beheaded at Southhampton in the third yeare of K. Henrie the fift being the yeare of our redemption one thousand foure hundred and fiftéene the last of Iulie Of which Henrie so conspiring against Henrie the fift I find these verses in a written booke of parchment intituled Extractum breue line 20 de chronica Thomae Helmham prior Lenton de tempore regis Henrici quinti. In which verses by the capitall letters are set down the names of the principall conspirators the yere of our Lord wherein the same was doone being the yeare of our redemption one thousand foure hundred thirteene the greater Romane capitall letters in the third verse seruing for the yere of Christ for the name Zorc deriued of this word COR in the fourth verse the English capitall letters onelie seruing for the names of the persons in this sort couched togither for common capacitie line 30 Mox rex nauigium parat vt mare transeat armis Scrop furit Henricus proditione fremens SCrVtans ConspIrat RIMatVr OLenCla PLebi Rumpe Iugo COR Auens Res Dabit Ultra Sonum EIA Ruit Gens Auita Malis Opus Hoste TriuÌ„phat Vota voluntatis sic sacre Christe tuae Versious his quinque praetactis traditionem Lector scire potes hinc repetendo stude Hitres Richardus Zorc Henri Scrúpque Thomas Gray In regem surgunt proditione pares Munâ—re Francorum corrupti terga dedere line 40 Iusto munus habet vindice quisque suum Thomas Fitz Allen earle of Aundell and Surreie was aduanced to the honorable office of the lord treasurorship of England in the yeare of our redemption one thousand foure hundred and thirtéene being the first yeare of the reigne of the most victorious prince K. Henrie the fift in which office it séemeth that he continued the first second and third of Henrie the fift He in the yeare 1405 being the seuenth of Henrie the fift on the next daie of the feast of saint Katharine married Beatrice the bastard line 50 daughter of the king of Portingale by whom he had no issue hauing his sisters his heires and died in the yeare 1415 being the third yeare of Henrie the fift and was buried in the college at Arundell Sir Roger Lech whom some call but not rightlie as I suppose sir Philip Lech being brother vnto the said sir Roger was treasuror of England in Michaelmas and Easter tearme in the fourth yeare of king Henrie the fift being the yeare of our redemption line 60 one thousand foure hundred and sixteene He was at the séege of Rone with this king Henrie in the sixt yeare of his reigne being also treasuror for the warres in that voiage Henrie lord Fitz Hugh was aduanced to the office of the lord treasurorship of England in the fift yeare of Henrie the fift being the yeare of our redemption one thousand foure hundred seuentéene in which office he continued as I gather vntill the death of the said king Henrie the fift which happened in August in the yeare of our redemption one thousand foure hundred twentie and two Iohn Stafford clerke was made lord treasuror of England in the first yeare of king Henrie the sixt being the yeare that the word became flesh 1422 in which office he continued in Michaelmas terme and fourth of the said king Henrie the sixt falling in the yeare of Christ 1425 he was chosen bishop of Bath in the third yeare of king Henrie the sixt in the yere 1424 he was chancellor of England and remooued to the archbishoprike of Canturburie of whome is mention made hereafter in the discourse of the chancellors of England touching whom I will for this time onelie set downe héere what Matthew Parker writeth of him in the life of Henrie Chicheleie an archbishop of Canturburie Archiepisâ—opus saith he in the yeare of Christ our redéemer 1424 Cantuariensis 12. Octob. clerum in ecclesia Paulina conuocauit in ea Henricus Beauford Winton episcopus regni caÌ„cellarius Iohannes Stafford BathonieÌ„sis electus episcopus regni thesaurarius ad belluÌ„ Gallicum opeÌ„ à clero petiuit interposit a paucorum dierum deliberatione Wilhelmus Lindwood officialis curiae CaÌ„tuarieÌ„sis de arcubus hoc responsum ab inferiori cleri synodo acceptum episcopis declarauit non esse penes cleri procuratores potestatem subsidium concedendi Nam cùm in dicta synodo in singulis diocoesibus coÌ„stituti essent clerus his solutionibus consentiendi licentiaÌ„ expressè ademit quia tantis tributis diu pendendis ad magnam inopiam egestatem deuenit Itaque cancellarius à superiori synodo ad inferioreÌ„ transiens longa diserta oratione ac regis iam minoris necessitate ac de instanti in Gallia bello egit ac nequicquam suasit Walter lord Hungerford knight of the garter the sonne of sir Thomas Hungerford knight was made lord treasuror of England in the fourth yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the sixt being the yere of Christ 1425 in which office he continued about six yeares vntill some part of Michaelmas tearme in the tenth yeare of king Henrie the sixt falling in the yeare that the sonne of God tooke on him the forme of a seruant one thousand foure hundred thirtie and one He was also one of the councell to the said king of whome is mention made by Matthew Parker in the life of Henrie Chicheleie archbishop of Canturburie in these words Proximo anno which was about the yeare of our Lord 1425 synodus sub eodem archiepiscopo 15 Aprilis inchoata est Qua Iohanne Kempo EboraceÌ„si archiepiscopo Waltero Hungerfordo milite regijs conciliarijs illo cancellario hoc thesaurario regni regis nomine postulantibus regi decimam concessit Ac eisdem his petentibus triennio post in recenti synodo media decima regi à clero data est This lord treasuror maried Katharine the daughter and heire of Thomas Peuerell knight by whom he had issue Walter lord Hungerford of Hatchberie knight of the garter that died without issue sir Robert lord Hungerford of Hatchberie Edmund Hungerford knight that died without issue Margaret maried to sir Walter Rodneie knight and Elisabeth maried to Philip Courtneie knight which Robert lord Hungerford and Margaret his wife Iohn Cheineie of Pim esquier Iohn Meruin esquier and others did by the kings licence granted vnto them in the eleuenth yeare of king Edward the fourth build the hospitall of Hatchberie in Wilshire Iohn lord Scroope of Upsall and Masham made lord treasuror in the tenth yeare of king Henrie the sixt being the yeare of our redemption 1431 in which office he continued vntill some part of the twelfe yere of the said king as I for this time doo gather Of whom thus writeth Matthew Parker in the life of Henrie
Chichelie archbishop of Canturburie touching a synod holden in the yeare of our Lord 1430 at what time of the clergie he saith that Iohannes Stafford episcopus Bathoniensis cancellarius D. Scrope thesaurarius regni necnon Wilhelmus Lindwood custos priuati sigilli pro rege subsidium postularunt mediam decimam tandem aegrè impetrarunt Rafe lord Cromwell the son of Rafe Cromwell lord of Tatershall possessed the place of the lord treasurorship of England in Easter terme in the twelfe yeare of the after deposed K. Henrie the sixt being the yeare of Christ 1434 and so continued in that office about ten years falling as I suppose in line 10 the yeare of our redemption 1444. This man being knight was created lord Cromwell by the said king Henrie the sixt and was lineallie descended of one of the heires of Robert lord Tatershall that maried one of the daughters and heires of William Dalbinie earle of Arundell This Rafe lord treasuror died without issue and made his testament in the yeare of Christ one thousand foure hundred fiftie and foure being in the thrée and thirtith yere of king Henrie the sixt after whose death the inheritance line 20 came to the three aunts being his heirs whereof the first was married to the lord Bardolfe slaine at Brancehome moore in Northumberland the second was married to sir William Fitzwilliams knight of the sepulchre the third Elisabeth to sir Iohn Clifton knight after his death to sir Edmund Benested knight Of one Rafe lord Cromwell I find this note set downe by Leland Dominus Radulphus Cromewell Matildis vxor eius fundatores collegij sanctae trinitatis de Tatershall quúmque Roberti ordine domini erant de line 30 Tatershall hos sequutus est Radulphus Cromewell Sir Rafe Butler knight of the garter lord Sudleie descended from Iohn lord Sudleie and William Butler baron of Wem which maried Ione daughter and heire to Iohn Sudleie lord Sudleie did possesse the honorable place of the lord treasurorship of England the seuenth of Iulie in the two and twentith yere of king Henrie the sixt being the yere of our redemption one thousand foure hundred fortie and foure which office he kept about thrée yeres line 40 for in the fiue and twentith yeare of the said king was the bishop of Carleill lord treasuror This Rafe lord Sudleie builded the castell of Sudleie in the time of king Henrie the sixt and of Edward the fourth who in the time of the said Edward the fourth was committed to prison by the king first sending for him to come to his presence Wherevpon he going to the king and resting on an hill from whense he did behold Sudleie castell said It is thou it is thou Sudleie castell and not I which am the traitor line 50 After which comming to king Edward the fourth he resigned the said Sudleie castell into the kings hands Which castell came after to Iasper duke of Bedford and is now in the yeare 1585 in the possession of Giles a Bridges lord Shandois This Rafe being made baron in the twentith yeare of Henrie the sixt maried Elisabeth the daughter of sir Iohn Northberie by whome he had issue Thomas his son that died without issue leauing his two sisters to be his heires wherof the eldest daughter called Elisabeth was maried to sir Iohn Northberie whose heire line 60 generall was maried to Iohn Halwell of Deuonshire who had issue Ione his daughter and heire maried to Edward lord Braie of whome the lord Cobham now liuing is descended The other sister maried to sir Hamond Belknap of whome is descended the woorthie gentleman Thomas Wootton of Bacton Maleherbe in Kent esquire now liuing The which Rafe lord Butler of Sudleie was Vexillifer and high Butler of England and steward in house to king Henrie the sixt Marmaduke bishop of Carleill was made lord treasuror of England in the fiue and twentith yeare of king Henrie the sixt in which office he continued about two yeares in the seuen and twentith yere of king Henrie the sixt being about the yeare of our redemption 1448 or as some haue 1449. Iames Fines created at Burie baron of Saie and of Sele on the third of March in the fiue and twentith yeare of king Henrie the sixt being the yeare of our redemption according to the English account 1446 was constable of Douer castell and lord treasuror of England in the eight and twentith yeare of the said king Henrie the sixt and was from thense remooued as some haue in the nine twentith yere of the said king was by the rebels of Kent Iacke Cade and his felowes taken out of the tower to the Guildhall where he was areigned before the maior and other the kings Iustices who desiring to be tried by his péeres was by the rebels forceablie taken from the officers and beheaded at the standard in Cheape The maner whereof shall be more fullie set downe hereafter in my large booke of the liues of the lord treasurors Which his beheading some doo attribute to the eight and twentith yere of the said Henrie the sixt being the yeare of our redemption 1450. He had issue sir William Fines knight and one daughter maried to sir William Cromer knight shiriffe of Kent beheaded at that time also with his father inlaw Of which Cromer is Iames Cromer of Kent now liuing descended Iohn Lord Beauchampe a person of great woorthinesse possessed the place of the treasurorship of England the nine and twentith and thirtith yeares of king Henrie the sixt Iohn Tiptost earle of Worcester possessed the place of the lord treasuror in the one and thirtith and two and thirtith of king Henrie the sixt Of whome is more mention made hereafter Iames Butler the sonne of Iames earle of Ormond being earle of Wilshire and Ormond possessed the office of the lord treasuror of England in Easter tearme the thrée and thirtith yeare of king Henrie the sixt falling in the yeare of our redemption 1455. Of whom is more spoken hereafter Henrie vicount Bourchier borne of the noble house of the Bourchiers the sonne of William Bourchier earle of Ewe in Normandie was lord treasuror of England in the thrée and thirtith yeare of the reigne of the deposed king Henrie the sixt in which office he did not long remaine Iohn Talbot earle of Shrewsburie the sonne of Iohn Talbot the first earle of Shrewsburie of that name possessed the place of the treasurorship of England in the fiue and thirtith and six and thirtith yeres of king Henrie the sixt and then gaue place to the earle of Wilshire This earle was slaine at the battell of Northampton in the eight and thirtith yeare of king Henrie the sixt being the yeare of our saluation 1460. He maried Elisabeth the daughter of Iames Butler erle of Ormond and had issue Iohn erle of Shrewesburie Iames Gilbert Christopher and George Anne maried to sir Henrie
this Iohn Sitsylt and had by hir sir Iohn Baskeruile knight 11 Sir Iohn Sitsylt knight tooke to wife Alicia the sister of the said sir Roger Baskeruile and sir Roger married his sister as is aforesaid This sir Iohn Sitsylt had Iohn Sitsylt and Roger Sitsylt In the time of the warres that king Edward the third made against Scotland at a place called Halidon hill néere Barwike anno 6. of Edward the third there arose a great variance and contention betweene sir William de Facknaham knight on the one side approuant this sir Iohn Sitsylt knight on the other side defendant for an ensigne of armes that is to saie The field of ten barrets siluer and azure supported of fiue scutcheons sable charged with so manie lions of the first rampants incensed geuls which ensigne both the parties did claime as their right But as both parties put themselues to their force to mainteine their quarrell and vaunted to mainteine the same by their bodies it pleased the king that iustice should be yéelded for triall of the quarrell without shedding of bloud and so the bearing of the ensigne was solemnelie adiudged to be the right of the said sir Iohn Sitsylt as heire of blood lineallie descended of the bodie of Iames Sitsylt lord of Beauport slaine at the siege of Wallingford as before is declared The finall order and determination of which controuersie is laid downe by Iohn Boswell gentleman in his booke intituled The concords of Armorie fol. 80. This sir Iohn Sitsylt had a charge of men at arms for the custodie of the marches to Scotland in the eleuenth yeare of king Edward the third 12 Iohn Sitsylt the sonne of sir Iohn Sitsylt knight tooke to wife Ione daughter of sir Richard Monington knight and had by hir Iohn Sitsylt that died his father being aliue and Thomas Sitsylt 13 Thomas Sitsylt married Margaret the daughter and heire of Gilbert de Winston and had by hir Philip Sitsylt and Dauid Sitsylt This man was a great benefactor to the moonks of Dore and forgaue them great sums of monie which they did owe him 14 Philip Sitsylt married Margaret the daughter of Iohn Philips and had by hir Richard Iohn and Margaret 15 Richard Sitsylt or Cecill married Margaret the daughter of Philip Uaughan and had by hir Philip Cecill Margaret Cecill Iohn Cecill Dauid Cecill and Iames or Ienkin Cecill * These pedegrées descents I gathered faithfullie out of sundrie ancient records and euidences wherof the most part are confirmed with seales autentike therevnto appendent manifestlie declaring the antiquitie and truth therof which remaine at this present in the custodie of the right honourable sir William Cecill knight of the noble order of the garter lord Burghleie and lord high treasuror of England who is lineallie descended from the last recited Richard Sitsylt father to Dauid Cecill grandfather to the said sir William Cecill now lord Burghleie And at this daie William Sitsylt or Cecill esquier coosen german to the said lord Burghleie remooued by one degrée onelie is possessed of the foresaid house of Halterennes in Ewyas land as the heire male of the house of Sitsylts and is descended of Philip Cecill elder brother to the said Dauid This sir William Cecill lord Burghleie liuing at this instant in the yeare of Christ one thousand fiue hundred eightie and six to the great support of this commonwealth dooth worthilie inioy the place of the lord treasuror of England of whome for auoiding the note of flatterie I may not saie that good which we the subiects of England doo féele by his meanes and all the world dooth sée in his rare and wise gouernment And therefore leauing what may be said of him for his honorable deserts from his countrie his prince and his countriemen as well for rare gouernement at home as for graue managing of the matter of state abroad I beseech the almightie Lord to lengthen his yeares with perfect health and happie successe of all his good desires to answer the worth of those his honourable deserts Thus knitting vp this discourse of the treasurors with no lesse honorable person of the temporaltie in this our age than I began the same discourse with a rare person of the spiritualtie in that their age this being knowne as singular in policie as the other line 10 was supposed to be in prelacie I here set end to that which with much labour of bodie trauell of mind and charge of pursse I haue brought to this forme what so euer it be Thus this much by Francis Thin touching the treasurors of England The 22 of August Thomas Persie earle of Northumberland late of Topclife who had beene before attainted by parlement of high treason as one of the principall conspirators in the late rebellion and line 20 now brought out of Scotland whither he had fled was beheaded at Yorke about two of the clocke in the afternoone on a new scaffold set vp for that purpos◠in the market place In this moneth of August sir Thomas Smith one of the quéenes maiesties priuie councell carefullie tendering the reformation of Ireland sent his son Thomas Smith esquier thither with a certeine number of Englishmen to inhabit the Ards in Ulster after the maner of a colonie vsed by the Romans The eighteenth of Nouember in the morning was line 30 séene a star northward verie bright and cléere in the constellation of Cassiopeia at the backe of hir chaire which with thrée chéefe fixed stars of the said constellation made a geometricall figure losengwise of the learned men called Rhombus This starre in bignes at the first appeering séemed bigger than Iupiter not much lesse than Uenus when she seemeth greatest Also the said starre neuer changing his place was caried about with the dailie motion of heauen as all fixed starres commonlie are and so continued line 40 by little and little to the eie appearing lesse for the space of almost sixtéene moneths at what time it was so small that rather thought by exercises of off vewing might imagine the place than anie eie could iudge the presence of the same And one thing is herein cheefelie to be noted that by the skill and consent of the best and most expert mathematicians which obserued the state propertie and other circumstances belonging to the same starre it was found line 50 to haue beene in place celestiall far aboue the moone otherwise than euer anie comet hath béene séene or naturallie can appéere Therefore it is supposed that the signification therof is directed purposelie and speciallie to some matter not naturall but celestiall or rather supercelestiall so strange as from the beginning of the world neuer was the like The foure and twentith of Nouember Edward earle of Darbie lord Stanleie Strange of Knocking lord and gouernor of the Iles of Man knight line 60 of the noble order of the garter and one of the quéens maiesties priuie
it as I said before meritorious Good cousine said I when you shall shew it line 30 me I shall thinke it verie strange when I shall see one to hold that for meritorious which another holdeth for damnable Well said Parrie doo me but the fauour to thinke vpon it till to morrow and if one man be in the towne I will not faile to shew you the thing it selfe and if he be not he will be within these fiue or six daies at which time if it please you to méete me at Chanon row we may there receiue the sacrament to be true ech to other and then I will discouer vnto you both the partie the thing line 40 it selfe Wherevpon I praied Parrie to thinke better vpon it as a matter of great charge both of soule and bodie I would to God said Parrie you were as perfectlie persuaded in it as I am for then vndoubtedlie you should doo God great seruice Not long after eight or ten daies as I remember Parrie comming to visit me at my lodging in Herns rents in Holborne as he often vsed we walked foorth into the fields where he renewed againe line 50 his determination to kill hir maiestie whom he said he thought most vnwoorthie to liue and that he woondered I was so scrupulous therein She hath sought said he your ruine and ouerthrow why should you not then seeke to reuenge it I confesse quoth I that my case is hard but yet am I not so desperat as to reuenge it vpon my selfe which must néeds be the euent of so vnhonest and vnpossible an enterprise Unpossible said Parrie I woonder at you for in truth there is not anie thing more easie you are no line 60 courtier and therefore know not hir customes of walking with small traine and often in the garden verie priuatlie at which time my selfe may easilie haue accesse vnto hir and you also when you are knowen in court Upon the fact we must haue a barge readie to carie vs with spéed downe the riuer where we will haue a ship readie to transport vs if it be néedfull but vpon my head we shall neuer be followed so far I asked him How will you escape foorth of the garden For you shall not be permitted to carie anie men with you and the gates will then be locked neither can you carie a dag without suspicion As for a dag said Parrie I care not my dagger is enough And as for mine escaping those that shall be with hir will be so busie about hir as I shall find opportunitie enough to escape if you be there readie with the barge to receiue me But if this séeme dangerous in respect of your reason before shewed let it then rest till hir comming to saint Iames and let vs furnish our selues in the meane time with men and horsse fit for the purpose may ech of vs kéepe eight or ten men without suspicion And for my part said he I shall find good fellowes that will follow me without suspecting mine intent It is much said he that so manie resolute men maie doo vpon the sudden being well appointed with ech his case of dags if they were an hundred waiting vpon hir they were not able to saue hir you comming on the one side and I on the other and discharging our dags vpon hir it were vnhappie if we should both misse hir But if our dags faile I shall bestirre me well with a sword yer she escape me Wherevnto I said Good doctor giue ouer this odious enterprise trouble me no more with the hearing of that which in heart I loth so much I would to God the enterprise were honest that I might make knowne vnto thée whether I want resolution And not long after hir maiestie came to saint Iames after which one morning the daie certeine I remember not Parrie reuiued againe his former discourse of killing hir maiestie with great earnestnesse and importunitie persuading me to ioine therein saieng he thought me the onelie man of England like to performe it in respect of my valure as he termed it Wherevpon I made semblance as if I had beene more willing to heare him than before hoping by that means to cause him to deliuer his mind to some other that might be witnesse thereof with me wherin neuerthelesse I failed After all this on saturdaie last being the sixt of Februarie betwéene the houss of fiue and six in the after noone Parrie came to my chamber and desired to talke with me apart wherevpon we drew our selues to a window And where I had told Parrie before that a learned man whom I met by chance in the fields vnto whom I proponed the question touching hir maiestie had answered me that it was an enterprise most villanous and damnable willing me to discharge my selfe of it Parrie then desired to know that learned mans name and what was become of him saieng after a scornefull maner No doubt he was a verie wise man and you wiser in beléeuing him said further I hope you told him not that I had anie thing from Rome Yes in truth said I. Wherevnto Parrie said I would you had not named me nor spoken of anie thing I had from Rome And therevpon he earnestlie persuaded me eftsoones to depart beyond the seas promising to procure me safe passage into Wales and from thense into Britaine whereat we ended But I then resolued not to doo so but to discharge my conscience and laie open this his most traitorous and abhominable intention against hir maiestie which I reuealed in sort as is before set downe Edmund Neuill After this confession of Edmund Neuill William Parrie the eleuenth daie of Februarie last being examined in the Tower of London by the lord Hunsdon lord gouernour of Berwike sir Christopher Hatton knight vicechamberleine to hir maiestie and Francis Walsingham knight principall secretarie to hir maiestie did voluntarilie and without anie constraint by word of mouth make confession of his said treason and after set it downe in writing all with his owne hand in his lodging in the Tower and sent it to the court the thirtéenth of the same by the lieutenant of the Tower The parts whereof concerning his maner of dooing the same and the treasons wherewith he was iustlie charged are here set downe word for word as they are written and signed with his owne hand name the eleuenth of Februarie 1584. The voluntarie confession of William Parrie in writing all with his owne hand ¶ The voluntarie confession of William Parrie doctor of the lawes now prisoner in the Tower accused line 10 of treason by Edmund Neuill esquier promised by him with all faith humilitie to the queenes maiestie in discharge of his conscience and dutie towards God and hir Before the lord Hunsdon lord gouernor of Berwike sir Christopher Hatton knight vicechamberlaine sir F. Walsingham knight principall secretarie the thirteenth of Februarie 1584. Parrie IN the
till after supper but remained alwaies there with sir Thomas Scot in continuall businesse extreme charge not onelie in respect of their owne table but also in regard of strangers who came to sée them and the workes whose charges they commonlie defraied Besides that they did not seldome line 50 times bestow rewards bountifullie vpon the poore workmen who vpon sundrie occasions were driuen to worke longer than the rest and with more difficultie for some at some times wrought in danger of life ofttimes in the waters vp to the wasâ— or shoulders And among the rest to whome I could rather wish a liberall recompense than a due praise there was in these workes a poore man named Iohn Bowle borne and brought vp in Romneie marsh whose dexteritie of hand fine and excellent inuentions in executing difficult works and whose willing line 60 mind and painfulnesse for his owne part with furthering and incoraging of others ought in some calling to haue beene honored and in his poore estate should not be forgotten As touching the residue of the commissioners they for their parts if they were in health did almost dailie visit the works with as great care for the good procéedings thereof as was possible Sir Iames Hales was this yeare chosen by the generall voice and consent of the commissioners and with the good allowance of the lords of the councell treasuror for the works as sir Thomas Scot was the two yeares precedent and did not onelie discharge the office and dutie thereof with commendation and iust account which amounted almost to fiue thousand pounds but beside his often repaire at other times during the works he did continue there by the space of one whole month while sir Thomas Scot by meanes of a sicknesse taken vpon the wals was absent and all that time kept a bountifull table and vsed great diligence in continuall ouersight and furtherance of the works whereof Thomas Digs esquier was generall surueior commended thervnto by the lords of the councell who although he made his chiefe abode then at London yet did he often repaire to the works and seriouslie bent himselfe to set forward the same there being also a carefull sollicitor in that behalfe Certeine of the iurats chiefe magistrats of the towne were by two at once dailie assigned to be directors and setters foorth of the carriages and to sée the courts well filled these also did refuse their allowance being eight pence the daie and did neuerthelesse verie diligentlie attend vpon their charge their names were Iohn Watson Iohn Garret William Willis Thomas Brodgat c. There were eight men called guiders standing at eight seuerall stations or places of most danger to guide and helpe the driuers distressed or troubled with their cattell or courts and to hasten them forward for the default of one did make staie of the whole companie and these had eight pence the daie There attended also at the wals eight men called vntingers to loose and vndoo the tackle of euerie court immediatlie before the vnloding or sheluing thereof and were allowed eight pence the daie Then were there eight sheluers which pulled downe the courts as soone as they came to the place where it was néedfull to vnlode and these were chosen of the strongest and nimblest men hauing ten pence the daie There were also eight tingers whose speciall office was to lift vp the courts immediatlie after they were vnloden and to make fast their tackle for the driuers hasted foorth without making anie staie otherwise all the companie must haue â—arried for them these had eight pence the daie The number of the laborers which were to shouell abrode and laie euen the earth chalke and sléech as soone as it was vnloden was vncerteine they had six pence and eight pence the daie A great manie marshmen were assigned to laie the sléech vpon the sides of the wals and were called scauelmen and had twelue pence the daie The number of béetlemen also were vncerteine who serued to beat or driue the sléech to the sides of the wals and to breake the great stones of chalke laid on the wals as also to leuell the earth and to worke it close together hauing for their wages eight pence the daie Manie marshmen also were appointed to arme the sides of the wals after they were sléeched had twelue pence and some sixtéene pence the daie The order of arming was in this maner First beginning at the foot of the wall they laid downe a row of fagot through euerie one of the which they driue a néedle or stake about foure foot long hauing an eie or hole at the great end Then doo they edder it with thorne and other prouision for that purpose and lastlie driue a keie or woodden wedge being one foot and a halfe long through the eie of the néedle to kéepe downe the edder which staith downe the fagot Also there was an inferiour purueior for fagot thorne néedles keies c who for his horse himselfe was allowed for euerie daie he trauelled two shillings The clerke of the works who kept all the reckonings of the expenditor through whose hands all the monie passed he at fiue a clocke in the morning togither with the expenditor called euerie one that wrought that daie and saw euerâ—e court furnished and recorded all this in his booke and such as were absent had no allowance that daie if they came late their wages was totted at the expenditors good discretion There was one Iuline appointed to attend vpon Poins his groins he was a Dutchman and more expert in those kind of water workes than Poins himselfe his wages was first I meane in Poins his time two shillings a daie afterwards to wit whilest these workes were in hand and better husbandrie was vsed he had but foure grotes a daie line 10 And thus much touching the offices and officers duties Euerie court was most commonlie filled ouer night and in the morning at six of the clocke they all approched orderlie to the place where the wall should be made The first driuer for good consideration was chosen to be a sufficient and a diligent person and that court to haue a good gelding for as he lead â—he danse so must they all follow line 20 When the first court came nigh to the place where he should vnlode one vntinged it and the driuer procéeded with his court either into the ouze or water or as néere therevnto as they could and bringing his horsse about in his returne when the taile of the court was turned to the water side the sheluer plucked downe the lode as far into the chanell as he could The driuer neuer staied but went foorth for a new lode the tinger runneth after and pulleth vp the court and fasteneth the tackle and goeth presentlie line 30 with spéed to doo likewise to another and so dooth the vntinger When
letters reuocatorie disfranchised 437 a 10 Letters fo manumission called in 438 a 10 Boner bishop of London emploied about the controuersie of Henrie the eights vnlawfull marriage 923 b 30. Beareth with the enimies of the L. Elisabeth 1160 a 10. His god was the rood of Paules 1121 a 60. Writeth to cardinall Poole concerning persecution 1164 a 10. Head broken note 915 a 60 b 10 Bookes anie waie imparing the popes dignitie are forbidden 1131 a 60. Seditious scattered and the offendors executed 1353 b 40. Printed the printer executed 1357 a 40. Popish dangerous and damnable to read or listen vnto 1391 b 50. Seditious published against the state and the offendors executed 1413 a 50 ¶ Sée Libels Boorne doctor preaching at Paules crosse hath a dagger throwne at him 1089 a 60 b 10 Bosworth field ¶ Sée Battell Bounarme with his ten spears all at once about him 834. a 50 Bowes Rafe ¶ Sée Iusts triumphant Bow stéeple builded 815 b 60 Brabanders and the reason of their name note 98 b 50 60 99 a 10. Ouercome by earle Richard Henrie the seconds sonne 98 b 50. The number of 20000 reteined by Henrie the second to beare armor 87 a 50 Braie knight of the garter commended 791 a 10 Brambre knight executed with an ax of his owne deuise 464 a 10 Brandon knight standardbearer to the earle of Richmond slaine 759 a 50. Knight his pompe at a iusts 807 b 60. He is created vicount Lisle 816 a 30 Bread made of bran puffens 1022 a 10. Made of ferne rootes 616 b 60. ¶ Sée Assise Breame ¶ Sée Bruistar Brest yéelded vp to the duke of Britaine 487 b 30. Besieged by the duke of Lancaster and the maner how 449 b 10. Force intended against it 1149 b 50 Brethren at deadlie hate pursuing one another 32 b 40. Set at variance by factious persons 32 a 60. In armes one against another 19 a 10. Forces vnited how valiant effectuall in warre 6 b 50 7 a 20 Brereton capteine of the aduenturers taken and slaine 882 b 20 Briake in Britaine assaulted taken 534 b 30 Bribe of fiue hundred markes giuen to come to the popes presence 80 b 30 Bribes the ouerthrow of lawes good orders note 862 b 40. Of a iustice seuerelie handled for taking them 243 b 50 244 a 10. Hinder the execution of good orders statutes note 380 b 30 40. Refused 18 b 60 Briberie how it tempteth mens minds note 361 b 50. ¶ Sée Gifts and Rewards Bridges made with hard shift 1138 b 60. In England borne downe with landflouds 38 a 40. ¶ Sée Flouds Bridgenorth besieged 30 a 60 Bridewell a place which Henrie the eight put to vse of plesure 894 a 20. Henrie the eights new palace a place receiuing noblemen 873 b 30. The maior and aldermen enter and take possession thereof 1130 b 40. When it became a place to punish vagarant and lewd persons 1082 b 10 Bristow taken by the earle of Glocester 48 b 60. ¶ Sée Faire Britaine was the first name of England Scotland 1000 a 10. ¶ Sée Earles Britains plagued by the lord admerall 814 a 10 c. Bromleie esquire his manhood 551 b 10 Bromleie knight his decease 565 b 40. Made capteine of Dampfront 563 b 30. The old armes of their house 564 a 30. Knight lord chancellor 1272 a 20 1286 b 60 Brotherton Thomas K Edward the first his sonne 309 a 60 Browne his seditious bookes procure losse of life 1353 b 40 Browne ¶ Sée Murther Brunkard Henrie ¶ Sée Iusts triumphant Bruse crowned king of Scotland in armes against prince Edward and the English power put to flight by the erle of Penbroke fled into Kentrie his wife and brethren taken his words to his wife he is executed his lands giuen awaie by the king Edward the first wherein note the end of disloialtie 314 a 10 40 60 b 20 40 50 Bruse inuadeth England 332. His ill dealing with Welshmen 95 b 30. His wife whose daughter she was 314 b 20. Pronounced accursed 324 a 50. Chriueth in his successe inuadeth England raiseth his siege 322 a 10 b 30 40 Bruistar and Marie Breame smoothered to death 1353 a 60 b 10 Bucchanan reprouing and reproued 112 a 30 Buckhurst lord made of the priuie councell 1434 b 60. ¶ Sée Sackuill Buggerie committed by a lord and punished 952 b 20 Buieng and selling on the sundaie a law against it 624 a 20. ¶ Sée Selling. Buildings of William Rufus verie great and famous 23 a 60 b 10 Bull seditious hanged on the bishop of Londons gate and the partie executed as a traitor 1221 a 20 c. 1222 a 30. ¶ Sée Felton and Pope Bullen besieged assalted deliuered vp the number of them that went foorth of the towne 964 a 40 b 30 60. Manie seats of armes exploited betwixt the English French 972 a 40. The Frenchmen busie to build a fort there 970 a 60 b 10. To be restored to the French king by accord note how 973 b 20. And Bullenois restored to the French vpon certeine conditions note 1061 b 60. Deliuered vp and entered into a 10 20 By the French king 1062 a 10 c. Besieged by the Englishmen the king himselfe being present 775 a 10. The bas◠a canuasado giuen vnto it the French haue an ouerthrow 967 a 20 c. Bullocke a mercilesse murtherer hanged within Bishopsgate note 1228 b 20 c. ¶ Sée Murther Bulmer knight rebuked for refusing K. Henrie the eights seruice and taking the seruice of the duke of Buckingham 852 b 60 853 a 10 Burchet gentleman of the middle temple hanged note 1259 a 30 Burdet knight his valiantnesse against the enimie note 590 b 40 Burdet knight slaine 618 a 40 Burdet for a word spoken beheaded 703 a 10 Burdeux yéelded againe to the French king 641. a 30 Burgesse of the parlement arrested and what mischéefe thereof insued note 955 b 40 c. 956 a 10 c. Burgognians ioine with the English host make it stronger 875 a 30 Burlie knight and the earle Uéere in faithfull freendship 464 a 40. What the same Burlie was note a 50 c. Buriall of duke Williams bodie not suffered without satisfaction to the lord of the soile 15 a 50. Of more than two hundred ded corpses in the Charterhouse yard 379 b 30. Christian forbidden préests concubines 207 b 30. Of nobles and great men in a moonks cowle note 195 b 10 20. Neglected note 157 a 10. Of the dead doone with honor and reuerence 576 a 60. For the dead 1211 b 10. Of dead bodies within their owne parishes 31 a 10. Of the Iewes at London 101 b 20. ¶ Sée Churchyard new Burning in the hand when inacted 787 a 60 b 10 Bursse ground purchased to build it the first stone thereof laid 1209 a 40 50. Finished named The roiall exchange by the now quéene Elisabeth 1224 a 60 Bushie knight 495. ¶ Sée Flatterie Butcher
10. For the valuation of benefices perteining to strangers 236 b 40. For offendors abusing clergie men strangers 214 b 40 Insurrection about the taking vp of corâ—â— 944 a 60. O◠〈◊〉 at 1093 b 10. wherein note what mischefous hurlibuâ—â—es do chance in a commâ—tâ—â—â— or rebellion 1094. ¶ Sée Rebellion Interdiction 175 a 10. Threatned by the pope against the king his clergie 171 a 10. Of the land solemnlie relâ—sâ—d 183 a 20 360 a â—0 Interteinment vnfit breedetâ— malcontentment 20 b 60. Of the emperor Sigismund strange note 556 b 40 50. ¶ See Fréendship and Hospâ—talitie Interuiew ¶ Sée Edward the fourth other kings of England as French king c. Inuasions punished and other offenses against the kings peace 312 b 60. ¶ Sée England and Scots Inuestitutes of churches thrée daies togither argued vpon 34 a 30. Of prelats ¶ See Bishops and Consecration Iohannes Cremensis alecherous legat note 42 b 40 Iohn of Gaunt borne 357 a 60 Meried 392 a 20. Duke of Lancaster 395 b 30 Buried and his daughter Blanch 405 a 1â— Iohn the king proclamed king of England 157 a 20 b 40 158 a 10. Made king of Ireland 109 a 20 101 a 30. Married 117 a 30. His impatiencie to sée himselfe brideled by his subiects 186 b 20. Taketh diuerse castels 189 all Aided by forren souldiors against his barons 187 b 60. Disquieted departeth into the I le of Wight 186 b 50. Crowned K. of England the second time 165 a 60. From whome the Poictouins reuolt 164 b 10. Commeth vpon his enimies vnloked for 164 b 40. Diuers waies molesteth the whitâ— moonks 163 a 10. Diuorsed from his wife Isabell the daughter of earle Robert of Glocester 161 b 60. He the French king come to a parlée 160 b 10. Passeth ouer into Normandie 160 a 40. Returneth out of Normandie 161 a 40. Inuested duke of Normandie 158 b 20. Commeth out of Normandie into England 158 b 50. Wanting aâ—d against the French K. commeâ—h backe to England 16â— b 60. Prepareth an armie to go into France 168 b 40. Goeth to the sea returneth chargeth certeine of his nobles with treason 169 a 10 20 30. Taketh the sea maketh was against the French king 170 a 10 20. Repareth Angiers 170 b 30. Writeth to the pope touching the archbishop of Canturburies election 171 a 40. Threatned with interdiction he his realme put vnder the popes cursse 171 a 10. Passeth into Ireland 174 a 50. Goeth into Wales with an armie 174 b 60. Punisheth diuerse that refused to go with him into Wales 175 a 40. His destruction put in practise by means of the popes legat the French king 175 b 40. Deliuereth his crowne to Pandulph and hath it againe restored 177 a 60 b 10. His words of fealtie made to the pope 178 a 60. What caused him to agree with the pope 180 b 10. His lords refuse to folow him into France 181 a 10. Commended to the pope for an honorable prince 182 a 10. Remooueth to Angiers 183 a 60. Inuadeth Britaine 183 a 40. Taketh vpon him the crosse to go into the holie land 184 Subscribeth to his barons notwithstanding his oth 186. b 10. CoÌ„meth to his lords to talke of some pacification 185 b 50 Left desolat of fréends 185 b 30. Maketh hauocke on the possessions of his aduersaries 193 b 50. His noblemen reuolt from him to K. Lewes 192 a 10. His children male and female the description of his person his fortune his saiengs dooings 196 a 10 c. Incestuous couetous note 184 b 20. The popes vassall 191. a 10. Assembleth a great armie against the French K. 176 b 40. Knéeleth downe to the archbishop of Canturburie besought him of forgiuenes 810 b 40. His son named Oliuer Fitzâ—oie 202 a 50 By whose means his nephue Arthur lost his life whie 7 b 30. Falleth sicke of an ague his raging 194 a 50 60. His death diuerslie reported by writers 194 a 60 b all Reported to an ill purpose 190 b 20. His buriall and corpulencie 194 b 60 Iohn Ball. ¶ Sée Ball. Iohn a Chamber a notorious northerne rebell 769 b 40 c. 770 a 10 c. Hanged like an archtraitor 770 a 10 Iohn Tiler ¶ Sée Tiler Ione de Are pusell de Dieu 600 10 c 603 b 50. Taken prisoner c note 604 a 50 60 b 10. Ioie immoderat the cause of death 955 b 20 Ipswich beséeged 60 b 40 Ireland diuided into seuerall estates or kingdoms 80 a 50. Mostlie conquered by Henrie the second 109 b 60. Foure Irish kings submit themselues to Richard the second 481 b 30. The yearelie reuenues thereof in Edward the thirds dais 481 a 50. Englishmen sent thither to inhabit the Ards in Ulster 1257 a 20 Soldiors transported thither 1314 a 30. Inuaded by the popes meanes 1366 b 60 ¶ Sée Iohn and Soldiors Irish doo destroie Angleseie 237 b 50. Rebelling kill the English 275 a 10. Frier appeacheth the duke of Lancaster of treason 445 b 40. Miserablie tormented and put to death 446 a 10. To auoid into their owne countrie by proclamation 481 a 40. With the lord of Kilmaine arriued at Harflue 565 b 60. Their good seruice 566 a 10. Wild spoile the earle of Kildars countrie 914 a 10. Nobilitie submit themselues to Henrie the eight in England 957 a 10. Seuen hundred in warlike manner passe thorough London muster before king Henrie the eight note 963 b 20 30. Bowes bagpipes and darts among them 1259 a 10. Iron gret want within Scotland 323 a 20 Isabell daughter to the earle of Glocester maried vnto Iohn K. Richards brother 117 a 30 Isabell the second wife of king Iohn what issue she broght him 161 b 60. Crowned 162 a 30 Isabell Henrie the thirds mother deceaseth 239 a 50 Isabell countesse of Cornwall deceaseth 225 b 60 Isabell wife to emperor Frederike deceaseth 229 a 10 Isabell de Boulbec ¶ Sée Countesse Isac ¶ Sée Cipriots Isleie knight all his apparell not woorth foure shillings 1099 b 20 Isoldune where seated 146 b 10 Iudge Morgan fell mad note 1099 a 60. ¶ Sée Iustice. Iudges and other officers committed to the Tower note 360 b 40 c. ¶ Sée Iustices Iudgement rash in an holie father 109 a 20 Iudgement secret of God vpon Banister his children after the attaching of the duke of Buckingham 744 a 50 60 ¶ Sée Reuenge Iudith duke Williams néece whose daughter to whome married how indowed 11 b 10 Iurie of twelue men ancient when instituted how matters by them should be tried 8 b 20. That went vpon sir Nicholas Throkmorton appeére in the starchamber excessiuelie fined 1121 b 40. Extremelie dealt withall 1122 a 10. ¶ Seé Throckmorton knight At Excester assise eleuen dead note 1548 a 60 Iustice chiefe of England giueth ouer his office becommeth a canon 103 a 50. An office imposed vpon prelats ¶ Sée Archbishop Iustice of Henrie the fift note
b 10. Tripartite 572. a 40 Taken for a moneth 68. a 40. The benefits insuing from the same 906. a 60. ¶ See Leguâ— and Peace Trust in treson note 743 b 50.744 a 52. ¶ See Treson Truth purchaseth hatred 513. â— 60 Tunstall doctor meister of the rolles 849. a 10. Made bishop of Durham 909. b 50. Made bishop of London 872. a 10. His oration and sermon in the parlement house 876. a 20. Described and commended his armes the offices he bare 1185. b 30.40.50.60 Buildings by him founded 1186. a 1â— Depriued of his bishoprike 30. Restored 40. His death 50. He and â—udeus compared b 20 Turke is mortallie hated of the pope 847 a 10 c. His victories against the Soldane his ambition hath no bounds 846. a 60. b 10 c. Turks warred against by the earle of Flanders and others 164. a 20. At the siege of Uienna how manie slaine 913. b 40. Ouerthrowne and vanquished by the christians principall men slaine 1226. b 40. 60. 1227. a 10 c. ¶ See Ottoman Rhodes Saracens Soliman Turketillus guider of the Danish armie against the Normans 7. b 40 Turnaments ¶ See Charter and â—urrâ—es Turnham Stephan committed to prison 117. a 20 Turnies wherein earle Marshall of Penbroke was hurt and died 228. b 60. Exercised for the training vp of souldiors 145. b 60. At â—lie betwixt the southerne and northerne men 221. b 60. ¶ See Iusâ—s Tweed a troublesome and dangerous streame 992. a 10 Tyrannie of duke William against the English note 8. a 10.40.15 b 30. Of Richard the second 489. a 10 c. ¶ See Crueltie and William duke of Normandie Tyrant ¶ See Richard the third or Duke of Glocester Tyrants estate vnquiet note 735. b 50 V. VAgabonds and rogâ—s by proclamation to auoid the citie of London 1121. b 10. â—0 Increased by rebellions 1050. a 40. ¶ See Roges Ualdois profession their examination protestation stoned to death 68.60 b 10. ¶ See Dutchmen Ualiantnesse and manhood 534 a 40 c. Of king Stephan 53. a 60 Uandement besieged 606. b 50 Uandosme taken by king Henrie 90 b 10 Uannes besieged by king Edward the third 364. a 40 Uariance betweene the lord chamberleine and the ladie Elisabeths seruants 1154. b 50. Betweene one Iohn Courtneie and Philip Duffeld 1021. a 10. Betwixt the lords and the Spensers and whie 325 b 50.326.327 note all Betwixt the students of Oxford 26â— b 40. Betwixt the earle of Penbroke and others â—57 b 30. Betweene the duke of Lancaster and the earle of Arundell 481. a 10. Betweene the lord Latimer and two esquires and to what a bloudie issue it grew 420. b 10 c. Betwixt the bishop of Durham and earle Patrike 161â— a 10. Betweene sir Iohn Hollands seruants and the lord Richard Stafford 447. a 40. Uerie roiallie debated note 459. b 30.40.50 Betwixt the scholers of Oxford 466. a 30. Betwixt the Londoners and the constable of the Towre 263. b 60. Betwixt Henrie the third and the earle of Penbroke 223. b 20. Betweene the two kings of England and France 872. a 60. b 10. Betweene the Lord Paule Tiptost and Rice ap Meridoc 283. b 60. Betweene the bishop of Elie and the ladie Wake 392. a 10. ¶ See Archbishop Contention Debate Discord and Strife Ueere Henrie constable of Gisors 110. b 10 Ueere brother to the earle of Oxford slaine 772. b 10. ¶ See erle Ueere of Oxford Uenlow besieged by the English 810 b 40 Uernueill besieged and obteined by the French 88 a 10.60 Gotten from the English by crediting a lie 588 a 60 Uernon sir Warren baron of Shipbrooke 20 a 30 Uictorie of the English against the French at the battell of Agincourt their reioising note 555. a 20 c. Against the Turks by the Christians note 1226. b 40.60.1227 a 10 c. Of king Iohn against his rebels 188. a 40. Of the English at the battell of Slinse 358. b 10. Bloudie gotten by the Frenchmen 294 b 10. Against the Irish and others in Ireland 1314. b 40. Good of them of Calis against the French king 448. a 30.40 c. Of the English nauie against the Flemish fleet 454. b 10. Of the English against Scots signified with a great shout 988. b 50. Against rebels and what is to be doone after the same 1023. b 60. 1024. a 10. Of the English against the French note 997. a 60. b 10 c. What is to be doone after the obteinment thereof 760. Consisteth not in multitude but in manlinesse 758. b 10. Rich and honourable against the French 201. b 10. What is to be doone after the getting thereof 885. b 30. Obteined and God praised note 153. b 10. Without bloudshed 33. a 60. Used with rigor feared note 167 a 10. To whome the same is to be ascribed note 373. a 10. What is to be doone after the obteinment thereof 767. b 30. The Spanish manner of thanksgiuing after the getting thereof 773. a 60. Generall processions after it 589 b 50. Three within a short time falling to the English 566. b 10. Of Edward the sixt against the Scots 1161. b 10. ¶ See Battell Crueltie and Warre Uintiesme a kind of collection gotten in Ireland for the pope 226. a 40 Virginia an English colonie ¶ See Raleigh Uision of Richard archbishop of Canturburie 108. a 40. Of a Iew become a Christian 27. a 50. Strange appearing to Henrie the second 83. a 10. Of diuerse likenesses 484. b 10. ¶ See Dreames Uisions of admonition are to be esteemed 83. b 10 Uittels plentie sold good cheape 778. b 10. â— See Derth Ulster in Ireland a kingdome 100. a 30. Umfreuill knight his exploits in Scotland 536. b 10. Surnamed Mendmarket 536. Uniuersitie college in Oxford when founded 13. a 50. ¶ See Cambridge Oxford Unthankefulnes a vice vnnaturall and abhorred 1506. a 20. Noted in earle Stephan 43. a 10.20 Of Gaston de Bierne 240 a 20. Uoiage denturous of sir Hugh Willoughbie to the losse of his owne and his peoples liues 1083. a 60. of sir Francis Drake atchiued with extraordinarie honor and successe note 1567. a 50. c. ¶ See Frobisher Gilbert Greenfield Raleigh Sebastian Uow inuiolablie kept note 793 a 50. Professed of a nun broken 29. a 10. Of chastitie broken note 222. b 30. Of king Henrie the first whereof the pope offereth to discharge him 40. b 50. Of Parrie the traitor to murther queene Elisabeth 1385. b 30. And of other traitors to the same end note 1583 a 60. Of the Scots noisome to themselues note 988. a 40. Uowes absolued 257. b 60. ¶ See Oth and Promise Urswike king Henrie the seauenths chapleine ambassadour into France 768. a 30. c. Usurie for the lone of monie forbidden note 1062 a 60. Of the Iewes the cause of hating killing them note 122. all Usurers goods seized 145 b 10. Came from Rome into England vnder the name of merchants note 211. a 40. Called Cauisini note 211.
Walsin Hypod. pag. 164. The Frenchmens demand of the I le of Wight The answer of the Ilandmen The duke of Orleance his challenge The answer of king Henrie The duke of Orleance besiegeth Uergi in Guien The lord du Chastell slaine Owen Glendouer wasted the English marches Crueltie of the Britains Flemings The â—â—untes of Oxford K. Richard once againe aliue Serlo one of K. Richards chamber The countesse of Oxford committed to prison Hir secretarie executed The earle of Northumberland coÌ„meth to the king Sir William Clifford bringeth Serlo to the king Serlo examined for the duke of Glocesters death He is drawen through euery good towne He is executed at LoÌ„don Anno Reg. 6. The lâ—ymens parlement Strife betwixt the laitie and spiritualtie The archbishop of Canturburie answereth for his brethren Sir Iohn Cheinie speaker of the parlement The archb chafeth He spake like a â—ord The kings answer to the archbishop Abr. Fl. oâ—t of Thom. Walfi Hypod. pag. 167. Two fiftéens granted Letters patents reuoked A tenth and â— halfe granted by the cleargie Ouer 〈◊〉 of the sea The death of WilliaÌ„ Wickham He was also at one time treasuror of England as Leland gathereth The earle of Marches sonnes Thom. Walsin The ladie Spenser coÌ„mitted to ward She accuseth hir brother the duke of Yorke WilliaÌ„ Maidstone esquier offred to fight in his ladies quarrell The earle marshall accused The K. wanteth monie can get none of the lords Abr. Fl. out of Thom. Wals. Hypod. pag. 159. Iust. lib. 1. Herod lib. 1. Val. Max. lib. 8. cap. 7 The castell of Marke besieged about the middest of Maâ—e as Iac. Meir saith Sir Philip Hall The earle of S. Paule put to flight Ia. Meir Arde assaulted by Englishmen The marques du Pount An armie sent to Calis and to the sea Chr. Fland. Ia. Meir The English men besieged the castell of Sluis A great fight by sea Threé caricks are taken Townes in Normandie burnt The duke of Burgognie prepareth to besiege Calis The chéefe 〈◊〉 of the malice betwixt the dukes of Burgognie Orleance A new coÌ„spiracie against king Henrie by the earle of Northumberland others The archbishop of Yorke one of the cheéfe conspirators The archbishop in armor The estimation which men had of the archbishop of Yorke The earle of Westmerland and the lord Iohn of Lancaster the kings sonne prepare themselues to resist the kings enimies The forest of Galtrée The subtill policie of the earle of Westmerland The archbishops protestation why he had on him armes The earle of WestmerlaÌ„ds politike dealing The archbishop of Yorke and the earle marshall arrested Eiton The archbishop of Yorke the earle marshall others put to death Abr. Fl. out of Thom. Walsin Hypod. pag. 168. * Archiepisâ—â—â—â— The archbishop reputed a martyr The lords executed The earle of Northumberland Berwike castâ—ll yéelded to the king The sonne 〈◊〉 the lord Greistoke and others put to death Exton The castell 〈◊〉 Alnewike yeelded to the king The K. paâ—seth into Wales He looseth his cariages He returâ—â—â—â— Hâ—ll The marshall MoÌ„tmeraÌ„cie sent to aid Owen Glendouer Carmarden woone by the French Hereford west manfullie defended Enguerant de Monstrelleâ— saith they burnt the townes but could not win the castell The suburbs of Worcester burnt French lords slaine The Frenchmen returne home Anno Reg. 7. Abr. Fl. out of Thom. Walsin Roiston burned A parlement A fiftéenth graÌ„ted by â—he temporaltie A new kind of subsidie granted by the cleargie The lord Fleming lost his life for giuing knowledge to the earle of Northumberland of that which was meant against him Dissention amoÌ„g the Scotish nobilitie Eleuen years saith Harding The prince of Scotland staid here in England Hall Robert Halome archb of Yorke The king and the queéne brought hir to Lin where she tooke shipping Tho. Walsi Anno Reg. 8. The duke of Yorke restored to libertie The earle of Kent in fauor with the king He marrieth a daughter of Barnabo lord of Millane Abr. Fl. out oâ— Thom. Walsi Hypod. pag. 161. Roger of Waldens variable fortune Ouid. lib. â—â— Pont. 4. An additiâ—â— of Franâ—â— Thin * Coniers * Ogle The duke of Orleance besâ—â—geth towns in Gascoigne Henrie Paie â— valiant sea man k. Richard still aliue as was â—eigned The king in danger to be taken by French pirats Sir Thomas Rampston taken The king escaped through swiftnesse of his ship The lord Camois put in blame Henrie Bowet archbishop of Yorke Abiruscwith Owen Glendouer Sir Robert Knols departeth this life Bermondsey S. Albons He was buried in the White friers He built Rochester bridge commonlie called Knols bridge Thom. Wals. Anno Reg. 9. Thom. Wals. A subsidie The lord Camois arreigned acquited The earle of Northumb. the lord Bardolfe returne into EnglaÌ„d The shiriffe of Yorkeshire His hardie corage to fight The earle of Northumberland slaine Abr. Fl. out of Tho. Walsin Hypod. pag. 172. The abbat of Hails hanged The earle of Kent sent to the sea Briake in Britaine assaulted by the Englishmen The earle of Kent wouÌ„deâ— to death Briake taken by force The countes of Kent maketh hir owne choise of hir second husband A disputation betwixt diuines of Oxford Cambridge for their obedieÌ„ce to the pope Anno Reg. 10. The cardinal of Burges coÌ„meth into England in disfauor of pope Gregrie The resolutioÌ„ of the French king concerning the two pâ—pes A coÌ„uocation at S. Paules in London Ambassadors appointed to go to the councell at Pisa. The contents of the kings letters to the pope Abr. Fl. out of Thom. Wals. Hypod. pag. 159. Wicklifs doctrine mainteined by the learned SenteÌ„ce pâ—â—nounced against Wicklifs books Fabian Iusts in Smithfield Owen Glendouer endeth his life in great miserie Anno Reg. 11. Officers made A paâ—lement Tho. Walsi Fabian Thom. Wals. King Henrie a â—â—uorer of the clergie Iohn Badbie burnt Tho. Walsi The prince being present at the execution offereth him pardon Notable constancie of Badbie The kings demand in the parlement A long parlement A fiftéenth granted Earle of Surrie deceasseth Preparation made to win Calis Thom. Walsi Abr. Fl. out of Thom. Wals. Hypod. pag. 175. The engines of the duke of Burgognie against Caliâ— that shot out barrels of pâ—â—â—son Sir Robert Umfreuill viceadmerall Harding His 〈◊〉 Scotland His surname Robert Mendmarket By what occasion he came by that surname The earle of Angus Umfreuill coÌ„monlie called erle of Kime 1411 Anno Reg. 12. A great death by the flix Iohn Prendergest and William Long. Long committed to the Tower The archbishop of Canturburie not suffred to visit the vniuersitie of Oxenford France disquieted with two factions The duke of Orleance murthered The earles of Arundell and Angus with others sent to aid the duke of Burgognie Anno Reg. 13. Saint Clou taken by the helpe of the Englishmen Sir Manserd de Bos put to death Harding Recor. Turris Creations of noblemen Hall The Orleantiall factioÌ„ sueth to the K. of England for aid The confederates of the Orleantiall
Or rather Goche * Or rather Goche The skirmish betweene the citizens and the rebels vpon London bridge Matthew Goche famous for his acts abroad now slaine on LoÌ„doÌ„ bridge A staie by assent ProclamatioÌ„ of pardon dispersed the rebels Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 661 662. in Quart Capteine of Kent taken beheaded Abr. Fl. ex I. St. 663 664. The bishop of Salisburie murthered A fray in LoÌ„don against the maior The 〈…〉 Arminack a open 〈◊〉 Through dissention at home all last abroad All lost in France Abr. Fl. ex 〈…〉 sub Heâ— 6. Anno Reg. 30. Iohn Hooker alià s Vowell The king receiued into Excester The bishop his cleargie against the K. and the duke of Summerset c. in defense of their ecclesiasticall priuilege The duke of Yorke maketh claime to the crowne 〈◊〉 Stow. WhethaÌ„sted The duke of yorke raiseth a power for recouerie of his right to the crowne Whethamsted The dukes answer to the kings mesage Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 666 667. in Quart Whethamsted The duke of Yorks reconciliation to the king The duke of Yorke accuseth the duke of SuÌ„merset A mutuall charge betweene the two dukes Yorke Summerset of hiâ— treason Destinie cannot be auoided Occasion that set the duke of Yorke frée Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 671 672. in Quart Anno Reg. 31. 1453 The French people soone wearie of the French gouernment The valiant earle of Shrewesburie and his son 〈◊〉 fullie slaine Burdeaux yeelded againe to the French Aquitaine lâ—â—t The dignitie and state of that dukedome The quéene deliuered of hir son prince Edward Abr. Fl. ex I. Sâ— pag. 673. The maior shiriffes and aldermen resisted and abused in a â—raâ—e neére Clerkenwell Fr. Thin Anno Reg. 32. 1454 * In a tretise hereafter following The duke of Yorke séeks the destructioÌ„ of the duke of Summerset He banded himselfe with the Neuils The issue of Richard earle of Salisburie W. P. Anno Reg. 33. The duke of Summerset aâ—rested The king sicke Whethamsted The duke of Summersâ—t set at libertie Made deputie of Calis The duke of Yorke assembled an armie Whethamsted The king with two thousand The duke with thrée thousand Abr. Fl. 〈…〉 pag. 〈…〉 677. in 〈◊〉 Whethamsted The duke of Buckingham sent to the duke of Yorke The duke of Summerset burdned with all things that had happened aâ—isse w. P. The first battâ—ll of saint â—â—bons Whâ—thamsted Edw. Hall The duke of Summerset slaine Thomas lord Clifford saith Whethamsted The kings part vanquished Abr. Fl. ex I. S pag. 678 679. in Quart Battell of S. Albons on thursday the 23 of Maie Anno Reg. 33. Foure of theÌ„ to wit the duke of SuÌ„merset the earle of Northumberland and the lord Clifford were buried in our ladie chapell Whethamsted Iohn Hooker alià s Vowell A parlement Whethamsted Collaterall A letter kept from the king of purpose The duke of Yorkes comming against the king iustified The duke of Yorke made protector of the realme The king to reigne in name but noâ— in authoritie WhethaÌ„sted An act for the K. to râ—uoke certeine grants Shifting of officers Henrie duke of Summerset The duke of Yorke discharged of his office In vprore in the citie of London A foule disorder A common councell called Abr. Fl. ex I. S. 681. Fabian Anno Reg. 35. Sandwich spoiled by the French Fulnaie The Scots inuade England The lord Egremond committed to Newgate He made an escape A practise to haue intrapped the duke of Yorke Anno Reg 36. 1458 The bishop abiured for moouing against the popes extortion W. P. Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 682 68â— 684 685 686. in Quart The quéene atturni◠〈◊〉 〈…〉 the Tower of London The péeres of the realme called to a 〈◊〉 The prouidence of the citie for safegard of peace The lords are brought to agree The clergie were sure in those daies to loose nothing by these contentions how soeuer the world went The lord Egremonâ— They were shiriffes an 1456. A solemne procession at Paules Anno Reg. 37. W. P. The earle of Warwikâ— assaulted The quéenâ—â— purpose Whethamsted The earle of Warwike lord admerall A rich prise Abr. Fl. ex â—â— pag. 686 687. Printing 〈◊〉 inuented It rained bloud Anno Reg. 38. The earle of Salisburie gathereth a power Thrée thousand â—aith Whethamsted The lord Audelie Whethamsted Bloreheath The 23 of September Policie oft times passeth 〈◊〉 The lord Audelie slaine The number slaine in the battell of Bloreheath The earle of Salisburies sonne apprehended The duke of Yorke assembleth an armie Andrew Trollop Iohn Blunt The king raiseth an armie Whethamsted The bishop of Salisburie sent to the duke of Yorke and others Their answer touching the pardon offred A letter from the lords to the king A proclamation Andrew Trollop forsaketh the lords Whethamsted The estimation of Andrew Trollop The duke of Yorke and his complices 〈◊〉 The lords proclamed traitors The duke of Summerset made capteine of Calis â—â—stie heading Iohn Dinham The lord Riuers taken Iohn Stow. Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 692. Sir Baldwine Fulford his enterprise Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 688 689 â—â—â— 691. A parlement at Couentrie Duke of Yorke and others attainted Ludlow spoiled Whethamsted The kings inclination to mercie Abr. Fl. Ouid. de Ponto â—â—b 1. Osbert MoÌ„tford esquier saith Whethamsted who should also haue gone ouer to Guines with fiue hundred souldiers to the aid of the duke of Summerset The lord FaucoÌ„bridge was chiefe of this enterprise saith Whethamsted Thirtéene beheaded at once Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 692 693 694 695 â—â—â— 697 in 〈◊〉 The earle of Wilshire and other spoiled Newberie The earle of Wilshire state ouer the seas Priuie seales for monie Abr. Flem. Abr. Fl. ex I. S pag. 697. The men of Kent sent to Calis for the earles Whethamsted Couentrie the quéenes secret harbour The quéene the better capteine Whethamsted The battell of NorthamptoÌ„ Whethamsted The L. 〈◊〉 of Ruthen Edw. Hall The kings part discomfited The K. takâ—â— The Tower deliuered 〈◊〉 the earle of March. The lord Scales 〈◊〉 Thomas Thorpe 〈◊〉 â—l ex I. S. pag. 7â—0 Anno Reg. 39. Whethamsted The duke of Yorke commeth foorth of Ireland Whethamsted A strange deâ—â—nor of the duke of Yorke Hâ—s bold speâ—ch Edw. Hall in Hen. 6. fol. clxxvij c. Prodigious tokens The castell of Roxburgh besieged The king of Scots thorough misfortune slaine The determination of the parlement coÌ„cerning the entailing of crownâ— Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 700 701 c. in Quart The oth of Richard duke of Yorke The duke of Yorke proclamed heire apparant protectour of the realme The parlemeÌ„t 〈◊〉 Couentrie 〈…〉 The battell at Wakefield The duke of Yorke slaine Onelie seauen hundred southerne men saith Wheâ—hamsted The cruell murther of the yoong earle of Rutland Whethamsted A purchase of Gods cursse with the popes blessing The prisoners beheaded The earle of March now duke of Yorke The earle of Penbroke The battell of Mortimers crosse The cognisaÌ„ce of
ruffian Marke how the diuâ—ll will noâ— let his organs or instruments let 〈◊〉 either occasioÌ„ or opportunitie to conâ—â—â— most heinous wickedâ—â—sâ—e â— desperat 〈◊〉 An honest man is ashamed to renew old acquaintance with a knaue The match made to murther Arden Simplicitie abused Blacke will maketh no conscience of bloudshed and murther Why Ardens man conspired with the rest to kill his maister One murthering mind mistrusting another doo hinder the action whereabout they agréed The fourth attempt to make Arden awaie disappointed Blacke Will misseth his purpose Ardens wife visiteth succoureth emboldâ—eth and directeth black Will c how to accomplish his bloudie purpose Note here the force of feare and a troubled conscience Blacke Will yet againe disappointed A prâ—pensâ—d quarel against Arden by the conspirators Ardens wiâ—e blacke Will the knot of vilans meet and conclude vpon their former prepensed mischiefe O importunate bloudie minded strumpet The practise to kill Arden is now set abroch Here the confederats wâ—ne their practises The watch-word to the principall murtherer Arden â—lainâ— outright â—lacke will râ—â—â—â—ueth ten pounds for hâ—s reward of Ardens wife 〈◊〉 murdering 〈◊〉 husband 〈◊〉 what 〈…〉 after he mâ—rdeâ—â—ng of hir husband The workers of this mischiefe carie out Arden â—laine into the 〈◊〉 This she did is colour hir wickednesse which by no meanes was â—â—â—â—seable Arden a coueâ—â—â—â— man and â—â—â—â—errer of his priuat 〈◊〉 bâ—fore common 〈◊〉 Ardens dead bodie is descried by one of his acquaintance Footsteps 〈◊〉 alongst from the dead bodie of Arden to his dwelling house A péece of Ardens heare and his bloud spilâ— in the house espied as also a bloudie knife and a clouâ— found Some of Ardens bloud vpon Mosbies pursse The principals of this murder fled awaie Bradshaw as vniustlie accused as his simplicitie was shamefullie abused Innocencie no barre against execution Note how these malefactors suffered punishment Blacke Will burnt aâ— Flishing A wonder touching the print of Ardens dead bodie two yeares after he was slaine God heareth the teares of the oppressed and taketh vengeance note an example in Arden A parlement Fooke of common praier confirmed Abr. Fl. ex I.S. pag. 1049. Sweating sickenesse Iohn 〈◊〉 Of this 〈◊〉 died Henrie â— Charles 〈◊〉 of Charles Brandon the elder first 〈◊〉 the yoongâ—â— after so thâ—â— they both 〈◊〉 dukes of Suffolke Rich. Graâ—â—â—â— Remedie â—gainst the danger of the sweating sicknesse The imbâ—sing of the coine Two â—aâ—les of moniâ— Creation of honorable estates I.S. pag. 1050. The duked Summerâ—et againe apprehended and committed 〈◊〉 the toâ—â—â— The duke arreigned both of treason and â—â—lonie The people â—â—pposing the duke to be â—â—â—â—re gaue a great showt 〈◊〉 ioie The duke condemed to 〈◊〉 for felonie The duke of Summerset condemned returneth to the tower The people murmur at the dukes condemnatioÌ„ Policie Abr. Fl. ex I. Stow 1055. The shiriffeâ— lord of misrule The executioÌ„ of the duke of Summerset Meanes to restraine the multitude from the dukes execution Iohn Fox The dukes behauiour as his death Great feare among the people assembled on the tower hill Rich. Grafton Iohn Stow. Abr. Fl. ex Io. Foxi martyrologio A sudden noise feare of the people at the death of the duke 〈◊〉 Summerset * Namelie Iohn Fox the writer of theâ— report The like storie you shall read of Caius Marius in Valerius Maximus the second booke and fift chapter The great fauour of the people to the duke oâ— Summerset Doctor Cox the dukes 〈…〉 â—x Fl. out of 〈◊〉 Fox in 〈…〉 and Monuments The godlie 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 of Sumâ—erset The duke of Summerset described * Who as it is supposed and proued since saith Sleidan was vniustlie condemned The collectioÌ„ of FraÌ„cis Thin in the yeare 1585. Guendoline Martia Eldred Emma Harold Odo bishop of Baieux and William Fitzosborne earle of Hereford Lanfranke archbishop of Canturburie Sir Richard Lucie chéefe iustice of England Hugh Pudsie bishop of Durham Walter de Constantijs archbishop of Roane Hubert archbishop of Canturburie Eleanor the widow of Henrie the second Geffreie Fitzpeter earle of Essex 〈…〉 Marshall earle of Penbroke Peter de lâ— Roches Hubert de Burow earle of Kent Walter Greie archbishop of Yorke Eleanor wiâ—â— to king Henrie * 〈…〉 religious â—â—use in â—â—â—pshire as 〈◊〉 by some â—â—pposed Boniface archbishop of Canturburie Boniface archbishop of Canturburie Gilbert de Clare Edmund 〈◊〉 of Corneâ—â—â—â— Edward prince of Wales Piers de Gauestone erle of Cornewâ—ll Iohn de Drokensford Henrie Lacie earle of Lincolne Gilbert de Clare earle of Glocester Edward prince of Wales Walter Reinolds archbishop of Canturburie Iohn of Eltham earle of Cornewall Edward the Blacke prince Iohn Stratford Lionell duke of Clarence Henrie lord Persie Thomas of Woodstocke Iohn of Gant duke of Lancaster William Courtneie bishop of London Thomas Beauchampe earle of Warwike Thomass Arundell bishop of Elie. Edmund of Langleie duke of Yorke Ione de Namures widow to Henrie the fourth Iohn de Plantagenet duke of Bedford Humfreie duke of Glocester Thomas Beaufort duke of Excester Richard Beauchampe earle of Warwike Richard Plantagenet duke of Yorke This was doone 1561 counting the yeare to begin at Christmas as some doo or at Ianuarie as others dâ—â— George Plantagenet duke of Clarence Richard Plantagenet duke of Glocester A digression concerning the conestables of England nor mentioned before in pag. 865. Nigellus de Oilie conestable of England The foundation of the cathedral church 〈◊〉 Norwich Robert de Oilie constable of England The foundation of the abbeie of Osneie or Orosneie in the yeare of Christ 1129 being about the thirtih yeare of Henrie the first as some write Katharine quéene of England Abr. Fl. ex I. S. 1051. Curteis alderman of London committed to ward for vnreuerend words and signes to the lord chancellor Anno Reg. 6. Sir Rafe Uane other executed House blowne vp with gunpowder Muster of horssemen before the king in Gréenwich parke Dukes Marquesses Earles Lords Rich. Grafâ—on Doctor Ridleie preached before the king mercie and charitie The verie report of bishop Ridleie wherin we may 〈◊〉 what fruits followed vpon his sermon Ergo the hearing of the word preached is profitable A most noble and vertuâ—us saieng of king Edward to bishop Ridleie The citizens of London mooued to be assistants in this charitable action The readines of the lord maior to prefer this good déed Degrées of poore Christes hospitall S Thomas hospitall Bridewell Reliefe for the decaied householder and lazer K. Edward the sixt founder of the hospitals in LoÌ„don A blessed king Allusio ad etymon nominis Eaduerdi Sir William Chester Iohn Calthrop draper Richard Castel shoomaker I. Stow. 1053. A monster Great fishes Sebastian Gabato Thrée mariages betwéene great estates The euill end whereto the knitting of these couples in mariage tended The kings feare fell out to be true The kings sickenesse increaseth An euill minded consultation of councellors Sir Iames Hales the od man The death of king Edward the sixt The commendation
persecutor 〈◊〉 inuenting new 〈…〉 for the martyrs Storie apprehended Storie conueied himselfe ouer the seas where he continued a bloudie persecutor Storie â—bteined a commision to search for English bookes Storie intendeth the ouerthrow of England A platforme laid to apprehend Storie Storie searched the English ships for bookes and is apprehended and brought into England Storie a traitor hanged drawne and quartered A combat appointed at Turhill but not tried Thorne and Nailer comâ—â—ttants The quarell 〈◊〉 combat 〈◊〉 by the quéenes maieâ—tie The maner of all things 〈◊〉 redinesse for the combat The lord chiefe iustice set and his associats with 〈◊〉 Nailer prepaâ—eth himselfe 〈◊〉 the incounâ—â—â— against Thorne The lord chéefe iustice toucheth the present case Nailer chalengeth Thorne at a few blowes A woman burnt at Maidston for poisoning Duke of Norffolke sent to the tower Bishop of Salisburie deceassed A sermon in Paules church for victorie against the Turkes The assemblie at this sermoÌ„ Contareno Principals among the Turkes slaine The whole number of the slaine Bizari Contareno Bizari Persons that escaped from this discomfiture Booties that fell into the christians hands The number of the christian gallies the Turkes Christian captiues set at libertie 14000. Contareno The number of christians that died Bizari Contareno The space how long the battell continued A common fault among christians Good counsell if that faith be the faith of Christ his true church Anno Reg. 14. Reinold Greâ—â— earle of Kent I St. pag. 115â— Sir Willia Peter decâ—â—â—sed His charitable déeds 157â— Duke of Norffolke arreigned Mather Barneie and Rolfe executed I.S. pag. 1â—55 Conueiers of bels lead and other church goods are to bâ— punished to the example of their too manie followers Sir William Paulet lord treasuror deceassed His ancient and honorable seruice Thrée thousand chosen persons for pikemen and gunners out of halles Training vp of yoong solâ—â—â—â—s in the fâ—â—ld â— muster at Greenewich 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 Earles of 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 created Barons made Roges burnt through the eare Martin Bullocke hanged at the well with two buckets Fellonie and murther combined The maner of the murther committed Ah mercilesse murtherer The murtherer examined He hath libertie notwithstanding his offense The drie vat wherein the murthered man was put to be transported descried Earle of Lincolne and other ambassadors into France The maner of the ambassadors interteinement League with France confirmed in France The ambassadours returned out of France The duke of Norffolke beheaded Schaerdius in reb gest sub Maximil imperat secundo pag. 2513. Forren nations heare and write of the quéenes vnbloudie gouernement The 〈◊〉 behauiour gesture of the duke at his execution Maister Nowell deane of Paules the dukes ghâ—stlie father The duke confesseth his offense against the quéenes maiestie He is sorie for the violating of his promise made to the quéene He maketh shew to cléere himselfe in diuerse points He meaneth confession of his religion He confesseth himselfe much â—â—und to the quéenes maiestie â—e exhorteth 〈◊〉 beware of â—â—â—ons He putteth the people in mind of Latimers words vttered before king Edward He praieth and manie more with him the effect of his praier He asketh all the world forgiuenesse c. He iustifieth himselfe against the 〈◊〉 sâ—nne of â—â—â—terie He knéeleth downe and submitteth himselfe to the axe The collectioÌ„ of Francis Boteuille aliâs Thin in the yeare of Christ 1585. Edward the blacke prince duke of Cornwall Henrie Plantagenet duke of Lancaster Iohn of Gant duke of Lancaster Henrie Plantagenet duke of Lancaster and Hereford king of England LionellPlantagenet duke of Clarence Edmund Plantagenet duke of Yorke Edward Plantagenet duke of Albermerle and Yorke Thomas Plantagenet surnamed of Woodstocke duke of Glocester Thomas Holland duke of Surreie Iohn Holland duke of Excester Iohn Holland duke of Excester Henrie Holland duke oâ— Excester Robert Uere duke of Ireland Margaret Segraue duchesse of Norffolke Thomas lord Mowbreie duke of Norffolke Iohn Mowbreie duke of Norffolke Iohn Mowbreie duke of Norffolke Iohn Mowbreie duke of Norffolke Thâ— Plantagenet duke of Clarence Iohn Plantagenet duke of Bedford Humfreie Plantagenet duke of Glocester Sée pag. 106 Iohn Beaufort duke of Summerset Thomas Beaufort duke of Excester Edmund Beaufort duke of Summerset HeÌ„rie Beaufort duke of Summerset In the yeare of Christ 1460. The battell of Ferribrig the thirteenth of March in the yeare 1461 according to the â—â—â—empt of theÌ„ that begin the yeare at Ianuarie Aboue 20000 〈◊〉 wherof 〈◊〉 knights â— gentlemen a King Edward the third b Lionell duke of Clarence third sonne to Edward the third c Iohn of Gant fourth sonne to Edward the 3. d Henrie the fourth e Henrie the fift f Henrie the sixt g Edward the fourth h Henrie the sixt i Henrie the sixt k Edward the fourth l King Henrie the sixt his disposition described m Henrie the fift n Henrie the sixt o Edward erle of March after king Edward the fourth The 17 of Februarie 1461 after the account of such as begin the yeare at Ianuarie * Southerne men Edmund Beaufort duke of Summerset Richard PlaÌ„tagenet duke of Yorke George Plantagenet duke of Clarence Richard PlaÌ„tagenet duke of Glocester Henrie Beauchampe duke of Warwike Humfreie Stafford duke of Buckingham Henrie Stafford duke of Buckingham Edward Stafford duke of Buckingham William de la Poole duke of Suffolke Iohn de la Poole duke 〈◊〉 Suffolke Richard Plantagenet duke of Yorke George Plantagenet duke of Bedford Iohn Howard duke of Norffolke Thomas Howard duke of Norffolke Thomas Howard duke of Norffolke Thomas Howard duke of Norffolke Henrie Teuther duke of Yorke Iasper of Hatfield duke of Bedford Charles Brandon duke of Suffolke Henrie Fitz Roie duke of Richmont Ad illustrissimum Henricum ducem Richmontanum Edward Seimor duke of Summerset Henrie Greie duke of Suffolke Iohn Sutton of Dudleie duke of Northumberland French ambasadors froÌ„ Charles the ninth came into England League with France confirmed at westminster S. Georges â—east at Windsor Sir William Cicill lord treasuror lord priuie seale lord chamberleine with other â—â—â—ers Collected by Francis Thin in this yeare of Christ 1â—â—5 Saint Dunstane Hugoline Odo bishop of Baieux Geffreie lord Clinton Ranulph bishop of Durham Roger bishop of Sarisburie William de Pontlearch Nigellus bishop of Elie. Richard of Elie. William of Elie. A deane of Paules treasuror Walter Greie bishop of Worcester Geffreie archdeacon of Norwich Iohn Ruthall Eustace de Fauconbridge bishop of London Iohn de Fontâ—es or Founâ—â—s Walter Malclerke bishop of Carleill Ranulph Briton Peter de Oriall Robert Passâ—lew whether treasuror of England or no Hugh Pateshull Galfridus Teâ—plarius William Hâ—uerhull * Pariturâ— * Poâ—uâ— Richard de Barking Philip Louell Iohn Crakehall Iohn abbat of Peterborow Nicholas de Elie. Thomas de Wimundham Iohn Chisull Philip de Eie Ioseph de Chancie William bishop of Bath Robert Burnell Ioseph de Chancie Thomas Becke Richard de Ware Anno Domini 1268 Henricus tertius vrbs Roma Odoricus
〈◊〉 and affâ—ction of the lord lieutenant to performe the premisses sigâ—nified and by good proofe 〈◊〉 stified The states agnise the pâ—â—â—emptorie authoritie put into the lord lieutenants hands in respect of his gouernment Like authâ—â—â—tie giuen to the lord lieutenant as other gouernours his 〈◊〉 â—â—â—decessors 〈◊〉 had in the 〈◊〉 countries â—n acknowledgement and performance of dutie and elegiance inioined to all persons of the low countries vnder paine of punishâ—ent to the lord lieutenant All pretense of ignorance cut off least the course of obeâ—â—ence might be hindered Councellors 〈◊〉 matters of late elected by the lord â—â—eutenant â—â—wes for capteinâ— and souldiours The lord lâ—eutenant commeth from the Hage to Harlem how he was receiued Utricht people commended for their great kindnes shewed to the Englishmen S. Georges feast solemntlie obserued at Utricht S. Georges feast solemnlie obserued at Utricht L. lieutenant inuested in the robes of order Martin Skinke knighted who promised Portcullis to shew him seuentie ensignes that he had now in the field Seminarie préests execâ—â—tâ—d at Tiburne A wench burnt in Smithfield Archbishop Canturburiâ— lord Cobhaâ— lord Buckâ—hurst of the priuie councell Pag. 1435 〈◊〉 The numâ—â—â— of archbishâ—â— of Canturâ—â—â—rie from thâ— first to the 〈◊〉 Considerations whie the building of Douer hauen is here recorded Douer the néerest place of England to France Douer the most conuenient place of England for a hauen Reasons whie a harbor at Douer would be so beneficiall A true commendation of quéene Elisabeth The 〈…〉 Douer wâ—ll mainteine a hauen there for euer In peramb. Cant. 〈◊〉 Douer Douer castell reedified by queene Elisabeth Edward the fourth bestowed ten thousand pounds vpon reparations of Douer castell The situation of Douer harbour A naturall rode for ships at Douer The hauen of Rie decaied whereby more néed of a harbour at Douer Ships lost for lacke of sufficient harbour at Douer The first benefit bestowed on Douer harbour Little paradise In the reigne of Edward the Confessor Sir Iohn Thomson préest his supplication Fiue hundred pounds giuen by Henrie the eight towards a beginning of Douer works The maison de Dieu of Douer Surueiors ouerséers Sir Iohn Thomsons deuise discouered The Molehead Douer pierre when it was taken in hand and whereof it consisted A notable dâ—uise to carrie great rocks by water Foure pence a daie A Gaboth The charge of the pierre The kings care for Douer pierre The kings repaire to Doâ—er The cause of the decaie of the pierre Officers about the pierre The ruine of Douer pierre Stone called beach or bowlder choked vp Douer hauen Two causes of the decaie of Douer pie rre Someâ—iâ—e no harborough at all at Douer How Douer was made desolat That beach which destroied the pierre helpeth now the hauen A bountifull gift of quéene Elisabeth towards the reparing of Douer hauen The patent of the quéenes gift sold vnto two merchants The act of parlement for Douer hauen 23. Elisab Thrée pence the tun of euerie vessell allowed towards Douer hauen The tunnage amounted to 1000 pounds yearelie The tenure of the quéens commission for Douer hauen Iohn True suruâ—ior generall of Douer hauen The deuise of Iohn True Stone heâ—ed at Folkestone amounting to 1288 pounds Infinit charge to accomplish the stone wall Iohn True had ten shillings a day for his fée Iohn True is dismissed Ferdinando Poins Poins his groine The pent 16 acres The length of the long wall The crosse wall The rode for ships One thousand pounds to Ferdinando Poins Customer Smith Uarietie of deuises Sir W. Winter sent to Douer to surueie the harbor c. Sir Thomas Scot. The wals of Romneie marsh subiect to the raging seas All the commissioners ioine with sir Thomas Scot and allow his deuise Seuen inuincible reasons against the woodden wall The lord treasurors resolution Of Woolwich and Erith breaches Secretarie Walsingham the chiefe director and furtherer of Douer hauen No dealing by great in matters of excessiue charge and danger Sir Thomas Scots notes Douer pent finished in thrée moneths Reinold Scot and Rafe Smith examined by maister secretarie about the wals of the pent Questions propounded to Poins and the Plumsted men Sir Thomas Scots deuise allowed by the lords of the councell The resolution at a conference at Douer Officers elected at Douer The commoditie of the pent Woolwich breach recouerable Euerie degrée willing to set forward this worke Six hundred courts imploied at once in these works Iohn Smith the â—â—penditor Iohn Keies gentleman chiefe purueior A horsâ—e a court and a driuer for twelue pence the daie The quantitie of one court or tumbrell A benefit to 〈◊〉 â—east The 〈◊〉 substance of the walâ—s The disposing of the works Henrie Guilford esquier capteine of Arcliffe castell The beginning of the great works at Doâ—â—r Reasons for the difficultie of the crosse wall This worke vndertaken and other reiected by sir Thomas Scots means Bowle a notable good workman Commissioners Treasuror Two iuraâ—â— called directors Eight guâ—ders Eight vntingers Eight sheâ—uers Eight â—â—â—gers Laborers Scauelmen Béetlemen Armors The order of arming Inferior purueiors Clerke Expenditor The groine kéeper The maneâ— of the wall worke How the wall was saued from being wasted The inconuenience which would haue folâ—owed the diuerting of the riuer another waie A sluse made for diuerse good purposes A difficult and dangerous worke Gods blessing and fauour shewed to the works of Doâ—er Dangers happilie escaped Boies plaie The flag of libertie * Or six A commendation of them which wrought or had anie charge about Douer works Sir Thomas Scot fell sicke in Douer works The death of the ladie Scot. The bredth depth length and charge of the long and crosse wall with the â—â—â—ming c. A necessarie remedie if water draine vnder the wall Expedition necessarie and profitable The state of the wals A sure triall latelie made of the good effect of the pent A gaâ—e of the â—â—use broken Edward Wootton esquire ambassador into France The effect of the pent Of the sluse The lord Cobham remaineth at Douer one whole moneth Sir Francis Walsingham principall fréend to these works Of the latâ— works The note of Iohn Hooker aliâs Vowell concerning the sudden and strange sickenesse of late happening in Excester The originalâ— cause of this infection whereto imputed Barnard Drake esquier The mischiefe of nastie apparell The assise at Excester appointed to be quarterlie kept This sicknes was contagious mortall Principall men that died of that infection Sir Iohn Chichester and sir Arthur Basset bemoned and commended Eleuen of the iurie with other officers die of this â—â—ckenesse Affliction draweth men to God c. An introductâ—â—â— to the historicall remembrance of the Sidneis the father and the sonne c. The note of Edmund Molineux touching sir Henrie Sidneis life and death His education in his youth His â—â—â—â—â—â—ment in ambassage Foure times lord iustice thrise lord deputie of Ireland He suppressed by force and policie