the Frenchmenne vnto Dunbar The Queene departed froÌ„ Edenburgh the Duke of Chatelleraut the Erle of Huntley bring with hyr in company The Erle of Argile his coÌ„pany called the Lordes of the congregation were receyued into Edenburgh by the baylifes of the towne where the places of the blacke Grayfriers were suddenly ouerthrowen The Frier-houses ouerthrowen the Churche a Field and Trinitie college S. Giles church were reformed and the images and altares pulled downe The Lordes remayning thus in Edenburgh tooke the Abbey the coygning house the coygning yrons and seased vpoÌ„ the Queenes moueables which they found in the Palayce and kept the same Monsieur Doysell and the Frenchmenne came from Dunbar to the Linkes of Leith accompanied with the Duke of Chatelerault the Erles of Huntley Bothwell Mourton Two armies pacified and others and the Lordes of the Congregation came foorth of the towne of Edenburgh of purpose to haue gyuen battayle to the Frenchmen albeit they were not sufficiente partie to resist them but the Earle of Huntley trauelled betwixte them by whose meanes there mette twelue on euery side who agreed vpon certaine articles â—…eith fortiâ—…d so the Queene and FrenchmenÌ„ entred into Leith and forthwith began to fortifie it Shortly after this the Duke of Chatellereault Duke Chatelâ—…ault taâ—…h part with â—…he reformers 〈◊〉 the Churâ—… partly through perswasion of the Earle of Arguile his sisters sonne and the West lande Lordes and partly bycause he vnderstoode that his sonne the Earle of Arrane was fled forth of Fraunce to Geneua for the Religion hee tooke parte with the Lordes from that time forthe against the aduice of the Bishop of Sainte Andrewes and diuers other his friends This yeare in Iune Henrye the Kyng of France King Henry 〈◊〉 hurted and dyed at the trumph of the mariages betwixt the King of Spaine and his daughter and the Duke of Sauoy and his sister was wounded in Iustes at the Tourneillis in Paris by the Counte Montgomerie and dyed of the hurtes the tenth of Iuly nexte ensuing beeing the eleuenth day after he was wounded Then Francis his sonne that hadde married the Queene of Scotland â—…ancis the â—…phin succeeded his faâ—…er was crowned King at Sainte Denis and annoynted at Reymes in September following Herewith the Duke of Chatellereaulte and the Lordes of the congregation sent to the Queene besieching hir to leaue off from making of forts within the Realme but she would not graunt so to doe wherefore they assembled their whole forces in Edenburgh and besieged the Towne of Leith in October Leith besieged the Queene and Frenchmenne with the Bishops of Sainte Andrewes Glasquo Dunfreys the Lorde of Seton and diuers other Scottishmen beeyng within it but the FrenchmeÌ„ of war issued forth of Leith and the mette neere to the Abbey of Holy Roode house with the Scottishe Lordes and their company The Scottishâ—…ne are â—…quished where many ScottishmeÌ„ were slayne and the rest chased into Edenburgh the Frenchmen also following them to the gates of Edenburgh hadde entred if those within the Castell had not shot off the artillerie at them to stay the slaughter and pursute In the time of this siege the yong Larde of Lethington Secretary to the Queene beeyng with hir in Leith left the Towne and secretely departing gote him to the Lordes and holp greately afterwards to obteyne ayde forthe of England The Queene came to EdeÌ„burghe After this the Queene and FrenchmeÌ„ came to Edenburgh whiche was peaceably rendred to them where they remayned all that winter Newe men â—…e into Scotlande About the same time the Bishop of AmieÌ„s Monsieur de la Brosse and two Doctors of Diuinitie came into Scotland in September and La Brosse was made Leuetenaunt of the Frenche armye Monsieur Martignes coronell of the footemen and with them came a greate company of Frenche Souldiers to the Queene Regent so that then the Frenche power was thirtie fiue hundred good men of warre besyde two bands of Scottes souldiers vnder the leading of Captayne Anthony Kenedie Iames Steward of Cardonald The Lords of Scotlande perceyuing the Frenchmen encreased so that they by their owne forces onely The lords seÌ„d for aide vnto the Queene of Englande were not able to resist them sente to the Queene of Englande Elizabeth for assistaunce to expell the Frenchmen which the Queene of Englande graunted not onely for to serue the Scottishmens turne but specially for the suretie of hyr owne Realme and state whiche as then was thought stoode in daunger of trouble in case the Frenchmen were suffered to remayne in Scotland considering the euill dealing of the french King and his counsell in some pointes alreadye shewed They had theyr requeste graunted theÌ„ The Queene of England therefore sent the Duke of Northfolke to Berwike whither came to him the Earle of Argile the Prior of Sainte Andrewes the Maister of Maxwell and the yong Lorde of Ledington Secretarie and made agreement to haue ayde of Englande to the effect aforesaide And for sure keeping heereof Pledges sente into England the Scottish Lords deliuered pledges into England there to remaine during the life of the King of Fraunce and one yeare after his decease The pledges were these Dauid Hamilton sonne to the Duke of Chatellereault an other called Campbell Cousin to the Earle of Argile Robert Dowglas brother to y e Prior of S. Andrews and the Lard of Lochleuin and a sonne of the Lord Ruthuenne Aboute the same tyme Lorde Hammilton taketh parte with the erle of Argile Iames Hamilton Earle of Arraine eldest sonne to the Duke of Chatellereault and Captaine of the Scottishe Companie of meÌ„ of armes archers in France being fledde for Religion secretely to Geneua from thence came by the conuoy of M. Randall Englishman into England which at hys comming into Scotlande hee performed and ioyned himselfe with the Earle of Argile and other Lords in the cause aforesayd The Duke of Chatellereault the Earles of Arguile Arrane and others The towne of Glasquo is taken came to the towne of Glasquo and caused y e Images and Altares to be taken downe seising the Bishops liuing into their hands and tooke the Castell of Glasquo perteyning to the Bishoppe and put certayne Gentlemenne into it to keepe it whereof the Frenchmen beeing aduertised marched forward to Glasquo to the number of fiue thousande men the Bishop of Glasquo the Lordes Sempell Seton Ros and diuers other wyth them tooke the Castell againe and staying one night in the Towne returned on the next morrowe to Kickintulloch and froÌ„ thence to Lithquo and Edenburgh After their returne from Glasquo a certaine number of Frenchmenne went to Striueling and passing by the bridge ouer the water of Firth came into Fiffe in purpose to haue gone vnto Saint Andrewes and to haue fortified the Towne but they being in Kingcorne there assembled togyther in Fiffe the Earles of Arrane and
and bishop of saint Assaph wrote agaynste Erasmus for his Translation of the newe Testament to his small praise as he handled the matter Thomas surnamed Philomelus a Londoner an excellent Poet William Grocine verye experte in bothe toungs Greeke and Latine Thomas Spencer a Carmelite Frier born in Norwich Henry Bullocke William Latymer Young a Monke of Ramesey Arnolde of London wrote certayne collections touchyng Historicall matters Thomas Lupset a Londoner a learned young man departyng thys lyfe in the xxxvj yeare of his age aboute the yeare of our Lorde .1532 he wrote sundry vertuous treatises William Melton Chancellour of Yorke Iohn Sowle a Carmelite Frier of London and a Doctour of Diuinitie Iohn Batemanson a Chartreux Monke and Prior of his house at London Richard Whitford Thomas Attourborne in Norffolke and fellowe wyth Bilneye in sufferyng persecution vnder Cardinall Wolsey Henry Bradshawe borne in Chester where hee was professed a blacke Monke wrote the lyfe of saincte Werbourgh and a certayne Chronicle Iohn Paulsgraue a Citizen of London wrote Instructions for the perfecte vnderstandyng of the Frenche tong Iohn Skuyshe a Cornysheman wrote certayne abbreuiations of Chronicles wyth a treatise of the warres of Troy Anthony Fitzherbert a Iudge wrote an Abridgement of the lawe Iohn Litleton wrote also of the principles of the Lawe but hee lyued before thys season to wit in the dayes of Wilfride Holme wrote a treatise of the rebellion in Lincolueshire and in the Northe after the manner of a Dialogue Iohn Constable an excellent Poet and rhetoritian Iohn Hilier Edwarde Foxe student in the Kings Colledge in Cambridge was aduanced to the Bishoppes sea of Hereford and was imployed in dyuers Ambassades from Kyng Henry the seauenth both into Germanie and Italy Iohn Lambert alias Nichols borne in Norffolke of whome yee haue hearde in the Historie of thys Kyng howe hee suffered for the controuersie of the Sacrament George Fulberye Iohn Hoker Thomas Lanquet wrote an Epitome of Chronicles also of the winnyng of Bollongne Iohn Shepre Leonard Coxe he wrote dyuers treatises one in English rhetorike wherof Bale maketh no mention Thomas Soulmon borne in the yle of Gernsey verie studious in histories as by his writings notes it appeareth Iohn Longlande Bishoppe of Lyncolne Maurice Chauncy a chartreux Monke Cutbert Tunstall bishop of Duresme Richard Sampson Alban Hill a Welchman an excellent Physition Richard Croke verye experte in the Greeke toung Robert Whittington borne in Staffordshire neere to Lichfielde wrote dyuers Treatises for the instruction of Grammarians Iohn Aldrige Bishop of Carleil Iohn Russell gathered a Treatise intitled Superiure Caesaris Papae he wrote also CoÌ„mentaries in Cantica William Roye Simon Fish a KeÌ„tishman borne wrote a booke called the Supplication of Beggers Iohn Powell and Edwarde Powell Welchemen wrote against Luther Edward died in Smith field for treason in denying the Kings Supremacie in the yeare .1540 Iohn Houghton gouernour of the Charterhouse Monks in London dyed lykewyse for treason in the yeare a thousand fyue hundred thirtie and fyue Iohn Rickes being an aged man forsaking the order of a Frier Minor whyche he had first protessed imbraced the Gospell George Bulleyn lorde Rocheforde brother to Queene Anne wrote dyuers Songs and Sonettes Frauncis Bigod knyght borne in Yorkshire wrote a booke agaynst the Clergie entituled De impropritationibus and translated certain books from Latin into English he died for rebellion in the yere a thousand fiue hundred thirtie and seuen Richarde Wyse Henry Morley Lorde Morley wrote diuers treatises as Comedies and tragedies the lyfe of Sectaties and certain rithmes William Thynne restored Chancers workes by his learned and painful corrections Iohn Smith somtime Schoolemaister of Heyton Richard Turpine borne of a woorshipfull familie in Englande seruyng in the garnison of Caleys wrote a chronicle of his tyme he dyed in the yeare a thousande fyue hundred fortie and one and was buryed in Saint Nicholas churche in Caleys Sir Thomas Wiat knighte in whose prayse muche myght be said as wel for his learning as other excellent qualities mete for a man of his calling he greatly furthered to enriche the Englishe tongue hee wrote diuers master in Englishe mettes and translated the seuen Penitentiall Psalmes and as some write the whole Psalter Hee dyed of the pestilence in the West countrey bering on his iourney into Spayne whether hee was sent ambassadour from the king vnto the Emperour in the yeare a thousand fiue hundred fortie and one Henry Howard Earle of Surrey sonne to the Duke of Norffolke delyted in the lyke studies with Sir Thomas Wyat wrote diuers treatises also in Englishe metre he suffered at Tower his as in the historie of this King before ye haue hearde Iohn Fielde a citizen and Lawyer of London wrote sundrye Treatises as hys owne aunsweres vnto certaine articles ministred to him by sir Thomas More the Byshoppe of Rochester Raffell and others When hee was in prison for religion he wrote also a treatise of mans free-will de serno hominis arbitrio and Collections of the common lawes of the land c. Tristram Reuell Henrye Brinklowe a Merchaunt of London wrote a lyttle booke whiche hee published vnder the name of Roderik Mors also a coÌ„plaint vpoÌ„ London c. Robert Shinglaton 〈◊〉 of a good family in Lancashire wrote a treatise of the seauen Churches and other thinges as of certaine prophecies for the whiche as some write he settled at London being conuicte of treason in the yeare .1544 William Parrey a Welcheman wrote a booke entituled Speculum Inuenum Of strangers that lyued here in thys kings dayes and for their workes whiche they wrote were had in estimation these we fynd recorded by Maister Bale Bernarde Andreas a Frenche man borne in Tolouse an Augustin Frier and an excelleÌ„t Poet Adrian de Castello an Italian of CorneloÌ„ a towne in Thuscayne he was commended vnto Kyng Henry the seuenth by the Archebishoppe Morton and therevppon was fyrste made Bishop of Hereforde and after resigning that sed was aduaunced to Bath and Welles Andreas Ammonius an Italian of the citie of Luâ—…a secretarie to the K. wrote dyuers treaches Iames Caleo an Italian also of Paula in Lumbardie by profession a Carmelite Frier an ernest defender of the diuorce betwixt the Kyng and the Ladye Katherine Dowager disproouyng the marryage betwixt them to be in any wyse lawfull King Edwarde the sixthe Edwar. the sixt AFter it had pleased Almightie God to call to hys mercye that famous Prince Kyng Henrye the eigthe the Parliament as yet continuing and now by his death dissolued the executors of the sayd Kyng and other of the Nobilitie assembling themselues togyther did firste by sounde of trumpet in the palace at Westminster King Edvvard proclaymed and so through London cause his sonne and heire Prince Edward to be proclaymed king of this realme by the name of Edward the sixt King of Englande Fraunce and Irelande defender of the faith and of the churches
of EnglaÌ„d and Irelande the Supremehead he beyng yet but nyne yeares and odde Monethes of age Hee was thus proclaymed the .xxviij. of Ianuarie 1547 in the yeare of the worlde .5513 and after the birth of our Lord .1547 accordyng to the accompt of them that beginne the yeare at Christmasse but after the accompte of the Churche of England in the yere .1546 about the xxix yere of the Emperor Charles the fift the .xxxiij. of Frauncis the firste of that name king of Fraunce and in the fifthe yeare of the reigne of Mary Queene of Scotland Shortely herevpon the Earle of Hertforde with other of the Lordes resorted to Hatfield where the yong King thou laye from whence they conducted him with a great and right honorable companie to the Tower of London During the tyme of hys aboade there for the good gouernement of the realme the honoure and suertie of his Maiesties person his Vncle Edward Earle of Hertforde was by order of the Counsell The Earle of Hereford chosen protector and the assente of hys Maiestie as one moste meetest to occupye that roomthe appoynted gouernoure of hys royall persone and protectour of his realmes dominions and subiectes and so proclaymed the fyrste of Februarye by an Heraulte at armes and sounde of Trumpette thorough the Citie of London in the vsuall places thereof as it was thoughte expediente The sixthe daye of Februarie the Earle of Hertforde Lord Protectour adorned king Edwarde with the order of knighthoode remayning then in the Tower and therewyth the Kyng standing vp called for Henry Hubblethorne Lorde Maior of the Citie of London who commyng before hys presence the Kyng tooke the sworde of the Lorde Protectour and dubbed the sayd Hubblethorne knight he being the fyrst that euer be made The .xvij. of Februarie the Lorde Protectour was created Duke of Somerset the erle of Essex was created Marques of Northampton The Lorde Lisle high Admirall of Englande was created Earle of Warwike and hygh Chamberlayne of Englande Sir Thomas Wriothesley Lorde Chauncellour was created Erle of Southampton â–ª Syr Thomas Seymer was aduaunced to the honoure of Lorde of Sudley and high Admirall of Englande whyche office the Earle of Warwike then resigned Syr Rychard Riche was made Lorde Riche Syr William Willoughby was created Lord Willoughby of Parrham Sir Edmund Sheffield was made lord Sheffield of Butterwike The same tyme greate preparation was made for the Kynges Coronation The Kyng rydeth through London to VVestminster and so the foure and twentieth of Februarie next ensewing his maiestie came from the Tower and so rode thoroughe London vnto Westminster with as greate royaltie as myght be the streetes beyng hoong and Pageantes in dyuers places erected to testifye the good willes of the Citizens reioycing that it had pleased God to deale so fauourably with the Englishe nation to graunt them suche a towardly yong Prince to their king and soueraigne thus to succede in place of his noble father The morrowe after being Shroue Sunday and .xxv. of February King Edvvard crovvned his coronation was solemnized in due forme and order wyth all the royaltie and honoure whyche therevnto appertayned Shortly after the Coronation to witte the sixte of Marche the Earle of Southampton Lorde Chauncellour of Englande for his too muche repugnancie as was reported in matters of counsell to the residue of the Counsellours about the Kyng The L. Chancellor discharged of his roomth was not onely depriued of hys office of Chancellour but also remoued from his place and authoritie in counsell and the custodie of the greate Seale was taken from him and deliuered vnto Sir William Paulet Lord Saint Iohn that was lord great maister of the kings housholde 〈…〉 Also shortly after his Coronation the kinges Maiestie by the aduice of hys Vncle the Lorde Protectoure and other of hys pryuie counsell myndyng fyrste of all to seeke Gods honour and glorie and thervpon intending a reformation did not only set foorth by certain Commissioners sundrye Iniunctions for the remouyng of Images out of all Churches to the suppressing and auoydyng of Idolatry and superstition within his realmes and dominions â—…lies but also caused certayne Homilies or Sermons to bee drawen by sundrye godly learned men that the same myght bee redde in Churches to the people whythe were afterwardes by certayne of these Commissioners sent forth as visitours accompanyed with certayn Preachers throughout the Realm for the better instruction of the people published and putte in vre At Easter nexte followyng he sette out also an order thorough all the Realme The comâ—…â—… in bothe sides that the Supper of the Lord should be ministred to the lay people in both kindes These thinges done the Lorde Protectour and the reste of the Counsell calling to mynde the euill dealyng and craflye dissimulation of the Scottes concerning the matter of marriage beetwixte the Kynges Maiestye and the Queene of Scotlande whyche marryage as ye haue hearde in the fyue and thirtith yeare of King Henry the eygthe was by authoritie of Parliamente in Scotlande fully concluded thought it not to stande wyth the Kings honour to be in suche manner by them deluded and withall considering howe greatly it shuld tourne to the quietnesse and safetie of bothe Realmes to haue these two Princes conioyned in Matrimonie they dydde deuise sundry wayes and meanes howe the same myghte bee brought to passe Grafton and the rather as some doe write for that Kyng Henry before his death hadde giuen them in speciall charge by all indeuours to procure that the sayde marriage myghte take place but the Lordes of Scotlande were so inueygled and corrupted by the French Kyng and abused by Cardinall Beton Archebishoppe of Saincte Andrews and other of theyr Clergie that they not onely shranke from that whyche they hadde promysed but also sought to destroye those that fauoured the kyng of Englandes parte wherevppon a great and puissaunt armye was now prepared to passe by lande into Scotland and lykewyse a Nauie to passe by sea to attende vppon the same Whereof the greate Galeye and foure and twentie tall shippes were thorougly furnyshed with menne and munitions for the warre besides many merchantes shippes and other smaller vesselles whiche serued for carrynge of victualles and other necessities But nowe to shewe what noble men and other were ordeyned officers and assigned to haue the conduction as well of the ariuye by lande as of the fleete by sea Ye shall vnderstande Chieftaynes in the armye the firste the Duke of Somersette Lorde Protectour tooke vpon hym to goe him selfe in persone as generall of the whole Armie and Capitayne also of the battayle or middle warde wherein were foure thousande footemenne The Marsiall Earle of Warwike appoynted Lorde Lieutenaunt of the same army ledde the foreward conteyning three thousande footemenne The Lord Dacres gouerned in the rereward wherin were other three thousande footmenne The Lorde Grey of Wilton was ordeyned hyghe Marshall of the sayde armye and
vntill hys embarquemente homewardes In the mayne Countreys he was accompanyed with the gouernoures and Nobles of the places aboute And in the good Townes where hee passed hee was presented by the chiefe Magistrates wherein theyr good wylles were to bee thankefully accepted though hys Lordshippes rewardes farre ouer valued theyr presents At his approche neere to Paris hee was encountred on the way for courtesie sake â–ª by two Marquesses of Trans and Saluâ—…es this beeing of the house of Sauoy and the other of the worthy family of Foix. These wanted not suche as accompanyed them and the â—â—me 〈◊〉 of the best sorte At the L. Ambassadors first audience which was at the Castell of Madrill otherwise called Boloigne neere Paris where the King then lay the Queenes Almayn Coches very brauely furnished were sente to Paris for him in one of the whiche his Lordship with the Marques of Trans rode towardes the Courte very narrowly escaping from a shrewde turne and great mischance by reason the same Coche was ouerthroweÌ„ by the Dutch Wagoners their negligence who in a brauery gallopping the fielde made an ouer short turne wherewith the Marques was sore bruised The Lord Ambassador at his arriuall at the place was right honorably receyued hee was banquetted by dyuers and that very sumptuously whiche by him was not left vnrequited to the vttermost and rather with the better for his liberalitie among the Frenche was verye large but hys rewarde at the Kyngs hands was only a chayne waying a thousand french Crownes At that present there was a great dearth and scarcitie of vittailes in Fraunce The riuer of Sayne that runneth through Paris was not passable with vessels by reason of the greate frostes and thereby not onely all kinde of vittayles but also hey and woodde hard to come by and not to be hadde but at excessiue prises the Countrey thereaboutes hauing before bin sore harried and spoyled by the ciuill tumultes by reason whereof not only the Lord of Buckhurst for the space hee remayned there but also Sir Henrye Norrice nowe Lorde Norrice and maister Frauncis Walsingham hir Maiesties Ambassadors ligiers successiuely were driuen to an increase in expenses paying for euerye thing they boughte an hygher price than ordinarily hadde beene accustomed After that the Lord Buckhurst had bin feasted and banquetted by the Kyng and other of the Frenche nobilitie and had accomplished the poyntes of hys Ambassage hee tooke leaue of the Kyng and departed homewardes arriuing heere in Englande a little before Easter The seconde of Aprill Parliament a Parliament began at Westminster wherein was graunted to the Queenes Maiestie towarde hir great charges Stow. in repressing the late Rebellion in the North and pursuing the sayde Rebelles and theyr fautors whiche were fledde into Scotlande by the Cleargy a subsidie of sixe shillings in the pouÌ„d and by the Temporaltie two fifteenes with a subsedie of two Shillings and eyght pence in the pounde Doctor Story executed The fyrst of Iune Iohn Story a Doctor of the Canon lawe who before hadde bin condemned of hygh Treason was drawen from the Tower of London to Tiborne and there hanged bowelled and quartered his head was sette on London bridge and his quarters on the gates of the Citie The .xviij. of Iune in Trinitie terme A combat appoynted at Tuthil there was a combat appointed to haue bin foughte for a certaine manour and dâ—…maine lands beloÌ„ging therevnto in the Isle of Hartye adioining to the Isle of Shepey in Kent Simon Lowe and Iohn Kime were plaintifes had brought a writ of righte againste Thomas Paramore who offered to defend his right by battail whervpon the plaintifes aforesayde accepted to aunswer his challenge offering lykewise to defende their right to the same mannor and landes and to proue by battail that Paramore had no right nor good title to haue the same mannor lands Herevpon y e sayd Thomas Paramour brought before the Iudges of the commoÌ„ pleas at Westminster one George Thorne a bigge broade strong set fellowe and the playntifes broughte Henry Nayler master of defence and seruaunt to the right honorable the Erle of Leycester a proper slender man and not so taule as y e other Thorne cast downe a gauntlet whych Nayler tooke vp Vpon the Sunday before the battaile should be tryed on the next morrow the matter was stayed and the parties agreed that Paramour being in possession should haue the lande and was bound in fiue hundred pounde to consider the plaintifes as vpon bearing the matter the Iudges should awarde The quarel of combat stayed The Queenes Maiesty was the taker vp of y e matter in this wise It was thought good that for Paramores assuraunce the order should be kept touching the combate and that the plaintifes Lowe Kime shoulde make defaulte of appearaunce but that yet suche as were sureties for Nayler theyr Champions appearaunce should bryng him in and likewise those that wer sureties for Thorne shoulde bring in the same Thorne in discharge of theyr band and that the Courte shoulde sitte in Tuthill fieldes where was prepared one plot of ground one and twenty yards square double rayled for the combate withoute the West square a stage beeyng set vp for the Iudges representing the Court of the common pleas All the compasse without the listes was sette with scaffoldes one aboue another for people to stand and beholde There were behinde the square where the Iudges sate two tentes the one for Naylor the other for Thorne Thorne was there in the morning tymely Nayler aboute seauen of the clocke came through London appareled in a dublet and galeygascoyne breeches all of Crimosyn satyn cutte and rased a hat of blacke veluet with a red fether and bande before him drums and fifes playing the gauntlet cast downe by George Thorne was borne before y e sayd Nayler vpon a swords poynt and hys baston a staffe of an elle long made taper wise tipt with horne with his shielde of hard leather was borne after him by Askam a yeoman of y e Queenes guarde â–ª hee came into the palace at Westminster and staying not long before the Hall dore came backe into the Kinges streete and so along thorough the SaÌ„ctuary and Tothill streete into the field where he stayed till past nine of the clocke and then sir Ierome Bowes brought him to his Tent Thorne being in the Tent with sir Henry Cheyney long before About ten of the clock the Court of commoÌ„ pleas remoued and came to the place prepared when the Lorde chiefe Iustice with two other hys associates were set then Lowe was called solemnely to come in or else he to lose his writ of right Then after a certayne time the sureties of Henry Nailer were called to bring in the sayde Nayler Champion for Simon Lowe shortly therevppon Sir Ierome Bowes leadyng Nayler by the hand entreth with him the lists bringing hym downe that square by which hee entred beeing on the lefte hande of the
dayes of this king Dauid within the bounds of Albion Straunge wonders In the .xvj. yeare of his raigne Crowes Rauens and Pyes in the Winter season brought foorth theyr broode and ceassed in the Sommer and Spring tyme contrarie to theyr kynde All the Yewes in the countrey the same yeare were barren and brought no lambes Yewes barren There was such plentie of Myse and Rattes both in houses and abrode in the fieldes that they might not be destroyed In the .xxvij. Great rayne yeare of hys raigne the Riuers and other waters rose on suche heigth throughe aboundaunce of rayn◅ that fell in the latter ende of Haruest Great rayne that breaking foorth of theyr common Chanelles wyth theyr violent streame manye houses and townes were borne downe and destroyed About thys tyme lyned diuerse notable Clerkes as Iohn Duns of the order of Saint Francis Richard Middleton and William Ocham Iohn Duns with other King Dauid beeing thus deade and buryed The assemble of the Lordes for the election of a new king the Nobles assembled at Lythquo aboute the election of hym that shoulde succeede in hys place The greater part of the Nobilitie and suche as were of the sounder iudgement agreeed vpon Robert Stewarde William Erle of Dowglas claymeth the crowne but William Erle of Dowglas being come thither with a great power claimed to be preferred by right of Edwarde Ballyoll and the Cumyn which right he pretended to haue receyued of them both and there ought to be no doubt as he alledged but that the crowne apperteined by iust title vnto them as all the world knewe and therfore sith he had both their rightes he mainteyned that he was true and indubitate inheritour to the crowne It appeared that the sayde Earle Dowglas purposed to vsurpe the Crowne by force if hee might not haue it by friendly and quiet meanes But neuerthelesse he was disappointed of his purpose by reason that George Earle of March and Iohn Dunbar Earle of Murrey with the Lorde Erskyne and others of whose friendly furtherance hee thought himselfe assured gaue theyr voyces with the Stewarde assysting his side to their vttermost powers He resigneth his right to the Stewarde The Dowglas perceyuing hereby that hee should not be able to mainteyne his quarel resigned therevpon his pretensed title which in effect was of no importāce nor worthy the discussing Moreouer that the fyrmer amitie and friendship might continue and bee nourished betwixt this King Robert and his subiect the Earle of Dowglas aforesayde it was accorded that Eufame eldest daughter to king Robert should be giuen in maryage to Iames sonne to the Earle of Dowglas aforesayde The first comming of the Stewardes to the Crowne Thus ye may perceyue how the Stewardes came to the crown whose succession haue enioyed the same vnto our time Queene Mary mother to Charles Iames that now raigneth being the viij person from this Robert that thus first atteyned vnto it He had to wife at the time of his atteyning to the crowne Eufame daughter to y e Erle of Ros by whō he had two sonnes Walter and Dauid But before he was maried to hir Elizabeth Mure king Roberts concubine he kept one Elizabeth Mure in place of his wife and had by hir three sonnes Iohn Robert and Alexander with diuerse daughters of the which one was maried to Iohn Dunbar Erle of Murrey and an other to Iohn Leon Lord of Glames The Erledome of Murrey continued in possession of the Dunbars onely during the lyfe of this Erle Iohn and his sonne in whom the succession failed touching the name of the Dunbars How the Dowglasses came to the Erledome of Murrey in the inioying of that Erledome for leauing a daughter behinde him that was maryed to the Dowglas the same Dowglas came by that meanes to the sayd Erledome of Murrey King Robert after his coronation made sundrie Erles Lordes Barons and Knightes Amongst other Iames Lindsey of Gle◅uish was made Erle of Crawford His wife Queene Eufame deceassed the third yeare after hir husband atteyned the crowne Eufame the Queene deceasseth and then incontinently hee maryed Elizabeth Mure his olde lemman Elizabeth Mure maried to K. Robert to the ende that the children which he had by hir might be made legitimate by vertue of the matrimonie subsequent Not long after by authoritie of a Parliament assembled he made his eldest sonne Iohn The preferment of the kings sonnes to dignitie begotten on Elizabeth Mure aforesayde Erle of Carrik his second sonne begottē on hir Erle of Menteith and Fife and his third sonne Alexander begotten likewise on the same mother he created Earle of Buchquhane and Lorde of Badzenocht Hys eldest sonne Walter begotten on Eufame his fyrst wyfe was made Earle of Atholl and Lorde of Brechin his seconde sonne Dauid begotten on the same Eufame was made Earle of Stratherne The sayde Walter procured the slaughter of Iames the first for that hee pretended a right to the crowne as after shall appeare Shortly after An Act for succession of the Crowne he called another Parliament at Perth where it was ordeyned that after the death of King Robert the crowne should discend vnto Iohn his eldest sonne and to his issue male and for default thereof vnto Robert his seconde sonne and to his heyres male and for default of such heyres to Alexander his thirde sonne and to his heyres male And in default of them to remayne to his sonne Walter begotten on Eufame his wife and to the heyres male of his body begotten and if suche succession fayled then it shoulde discende vnto his yongest sonne Dauid the Erle of Stratherne and to his heyres generall eyther male or female and all the Nobles of the Realme were sworne to perfourme this newe ordinance touching the succession to the Crowne and that in most solemne maner About this time The borderers desirous of warre the borderers which are men euer desirous of warres and trouble to the ende they may apply their Market wherby they most chiefely liue that is to witte reife and spoyle of their neighbours goodes through enuie of long peace and quietnesse vpon a quarell pyked slue certaine of the householde seruauntes of George Earle of Dunbar at the Fayre of Roxbourgh Roxbourgh Fayre which as then the English men helde Earle George sore offended herewith sent an Heralde vnto the Earle of Northumberlande Warden of the Englishe Marches requyring that suche as had committed the slaughter might bee deliuered to receyue according to that they had deserued But when hee coulde get nought but dilatorie answeres full of derision rather than importing any true meaning he passed ouer his displeasure tyll more oportunitie of tyme might serue The truce violated In the yeare following agaynste the nexte Fayre to be holden at Roxbourgh aforesayde the sayd Erle of March with his brother the Erle of Murrey gathered a power of men secretely togither Roxbourgh surprised
night the Earle of Lenox and the maister of Elencarne vndermyned the nether groundsoyle of the Castell gate of Dunbrytaine The Castell of Dunbrytaine taken and entred thereby into the castel and so tooke it putting out therof the Lorde Erskin Shortly after to witte the .xv. of that Moneth a greate assemble was made betwixt the Earles of Angus and Arrane the one to haue fought with the other which was the cause beginning of great trouble that ensued The Popes Bulles published The same day in Edenburgh were the Bulles published which the Bishop of Murrey Forman had purchased at Rome for the obteyning of the Archbishoprike of S. Androwes the Abbacies of Dunfermeling Arbroeth through supplication of the Queene and Duke of Albany frō whiche Bulles Contention about the en◅ying of the sea of Saint Androwes the prior of Saint Androwes appealed pretending title to the Archbishops See by election and generall gift of the Lordes of the Realme And herevpon gote togither his friends in Edenburgh as the Master of Hales and other And on the other parte the Lord Chamberlayne and diuers of y e Bishop of Murreys friēds gote the kings letters by vertue whereof they proclaymed the sayde Master of Hales and the prior of Saint Androwes rebells with al theyr assistants putting them to the horne wherevpon they were cōstreyned to depart out of Edēburgh And in May following the Prior wente vnto Rome there to iustifie his appeale All this while The Parliament began agayne the Parliament was not dissolued but vpon prorogation and so the same began agayne the first day of Iuly at what tyme the king of Englande at request of his sister the Queene of Scotland The king of Englands letters to the Lords wrote letters to the Lords now assembled in Parliament requesting them to expell the gouernor foorth of the Realme but all the Lordes and estates with vniuersall consente sente Albany the Heralde with letters to the sayd King excusing them that they myghte not in any wise satisfie his desire therein the same beeing againste reason and the lawes of theyr countrey The Erle of Lenox in warde The same time was the Earle of Lenox put in warde within the Castell of Edenburgh till he had caused the Castell of Dunbritaine to bee deliuered vnto one Allane Steward in the Cūstables name and then he was set at libertie In y e moneth of December Monsier de la Bautie made warden of the Marches Monsier de la Bautie was made Warden of the East marches in steede of the Lord Hume and kept dayes of truce whiche procured him suche hatred that it cost him afterwardes his life In the moneth of Ianuarie the gouernor wente to S. Iohns towne and there held his seat of Iustice where the Lord Fleming for the time was made greate Chamberlayne of Scotlande with all the fees thereof In the yeere 1517. 1517 Ambassadors from France there came Ambassadors from Francis the new French king to desire y t the auntient league might be renued betwixt him and y e K. of Scotland their Realmes Dominions and subiects for the which cause all the Lords of the Realme were assembled at Edenburgh where by them it was concluded that the gouernor himselfe shuld passe y e Seas into France An Ambassage into France also that the Bishop of Dunkeild the secretarie the master of Glencarne as Ambassadors should goe thither y e whiche the thirtenth of May went a Shipboorde and by the East seas sayled thither and the gouernor tooke Ship at Newmarke beside Dunbertayne the seuenth of Iune taking his course by y e West seas The gouernor goeth into France and so passed into France where it was agreed that he shoulde haue remayned but onely foure moneths he hauing appointed the Bishops of Saint Androwes and Glasgo the Earles of Huntley Argile Angus and Arrane to gouerne in his place whilest he was absent Also he ordeined Monsier de la Bautie Lieutenante of the bordures Gouernors appoynted to the kings person He also had caused the King to be brought into Edenburgh Castell within the whiche hee should remaine in the keeping of the Earle Marshall the Lords Erskin Borthwike Rithuen of the which two at least should be always present The Queene that remayned as then in Englād after she vnderstoode that the gouernor was departed towards France returned to Edenburgh the seuententh of Iune but she was not suffered to see the King till August following at what time for feare of the pestilence to be crept into the Castell The king remoued hee was remoued to Cragmiller where the Queene oftentimes came vnto him but at length The doubte which the Scottes had in the Quene through some suspition conceyued least the Queene might conuey him from thence into Englād he was eftsoones brought vnto the Castell of Edenburgh in whiche he was kept after according to the order taken in that behalfe The Lard of Wederborne other bordurers hauing conceyued no small grudge for the death of the Lord Hume and further to see De la Bautie exercise his office and to rule ouer them they conspired againste him and therevpon besieged the house of Laughton whervpon whē De la Bautie came foorthe of Dunbar to assemble the men of the countrey to rayse the siege as Lieutenant of the bordures he was chased by the sayde Larde of Wedderborne other so fiercely Monsier de la Bautie slaine by the Lard of Wedderborne that in the end he was slayne and foure Frenchmen with him his head was cut from the shoulders and set vp in the towne of Duns the ninetenth of Ianuary The Lordes regents were herewith maruellously offended and chose the Earle of Arrane to be warden of the bordures in De la Bauties place who was also chosen to be prouost of Edēburgh wherewith the Erle of Angus was highly displeased But the Erle of Arrane not seeming to passe muche thereof tooke George Dowglas the said Erle of Angus his brother and Marke Kar committing them to warde within the Castel of Edenburgh bycause of the fauor he bare vnto the said Lard of Wedderborne and his complices Moreouer for due punishmente of the murder of the foresayd De la Bautie A Parlament called there was a Parliament called the ninetenth of February nexte in y e which Dauid Hume Lard of Wedderborne his three brethrē William Cokborne and Iohn Hume with diuers other their partakers The Lard of Wedderborne indited were indited for the besieging of the Castell of Laughton the slaughter of Monsier de la Bautie and for the setting vp of his head intercomuning with the Englishmen and diuers other misdoings Immediately after the end of this Parliamente the Erle of Arrane came into the Mers The Erle of Arrane commeth into the Mers with a great Army and hauing with him the kings great Artillerie meante to haue besieged suche places as
aduised before they had ioyned w t him in a pight field but true it is that after y e Duke had remayned there so long as vitayles might be had recouered frō any part he retyred with his army backe into Englād not without some losse of mē horse spoiles which y e Scots vnder the Erle of Huntley others tooke fro the Englishmē in that their retire specially as they passed ouer the riuer of Tweede After the Englishmē were thus departed withdrawē home foorth of Scotlād king Iames being of an high manly courage in reuenge of the harmes done by the Englishmē within his countrey thought good y t his whole army should passe forwarde inuade England himself to go therwith in proper person And herein he requested the cōsent of his nobilitie who after long resoning good aduisement takē in the mater gaue answere to the king in this sort y t they could not thinke it good that they should passe within Englād to seeke battayle y e king himself being with thē considering y t his .ij. sonnes were lately disceased so y t he had no successiō of his body for in case that they lost the field as the chaūce of battell is most vncertaine then the king of England hauing great substance might therewith folow the victory put the realme of Scotlande in greate hazarde Therefore they thought it sufficiently to defend their owne boundes to constrayne the enimie for feare to leaue the inuasion therof as presently they had done and declared that they were determined to haue giuen battayle to theyr enimies if they had cōtinued within the realme and doubted not by the helpe of God they hauing so iust a cause and being inuaded in theyr countrey but that they shoulde haue obteyned the victory The King hearyng theyr determination albeit his high courage pressed him to inuade The king breaketh vp his army yet the approued witte of his nobles and Coūsellours caused him to follow their aduise and so returned with his army backe againe the first of Nouember the army of England being first discharged and the Duke of Norffolke in his returne towardes London The king goeth to the west borders Shortly after the kyng of Scotlande went himself in person vnto the West marches of his realme where the Lord Maxwell was Warden whom togither with the Erles of Cassels and Glencarne and certaine other Lordes there with him the king appointed to inuade the English marches on that side taking with them the power of the bordurers and sente also with them Oliuer Sincler Oliuer Sincler the residue of the Gentlemen of his housholde These Erles Lordes entring into Englande on S. Katherines euen beyng the .xxiiij. of Nouember began to burne certayne townes vpō the water of Eske but as soone as the scrye was raysed in the countrey The Lorde Wharton the Lord Quharton Warden of the west marches of Englande sodenly raysed the power of the countrey and came to a little hill where they shewed themselues in sight vnto the Scottishe army The Scottishe Lordes perceyuyng the Englishmen gathered assembled thēselues togither and enquired who was Lieutenaunt general there by the Kings appointmēt and incontinently Oliuer Sincler was holden vp on twoo mennes shoulders The enuy of the Lordes agaynst Oliuer Sincler where he sheweth foorth the Kings commission instituting him Liuetenant to the Kyng of that armie but how soeuer that was redde the Erles and Lordes there present thought themselues embased too much to haue suche a meane Gentleman aduaūced in authoritie aboue them all and therefore determined not to fight vnder suche a Captayne but willyngly suffred themselues to be ouercome The Scottes discomfited by the English men and so were taken by the English men not shewyng any countenaunce of defence to the contrary and without slaughter of any one person on eyther side The kyng being in Carlauerocke vpon the borders not farre from Soloway Mosse when this misfortune fell vpon his men after he heard thereof he was maruellously amased the more in calling to remembrance the refusall made by his Nobles assembled with him in campe at Fala vpon his request to inuade Englande The griefe of the king for the ouerthrow of his men Herewith such an impression entered his minde that he thought with himself that all his whole nobilitie had conspyred agaynst him and therevpon tooke such a vehement and high displeasure increased with a melancolious thought that he departed sodenly from thence to Edenburgh and after remoued to Faulkeland where he remayned as a man desolate of comforte beyng sore vexed in spirite and bodie and woulde not permitte any maner of person to haue accesse vnto him his secrete and familiar seruants only excepted And as he was thus vnquieted The birth of the Scottes Queene newes was brought him that the Queene his wyfe was brought to bedde of a fayre yōg Princesse the .vij day of December the whiche newes he lyked very euill and added the griefe thereof to his former displeasantnesse in so muche that he perceyued the ende of his lyfe to approche and withall sayde that hee sorsawe great trouble to come vpon the realme of Scotlande for the pursuit whiche the King of England was like to make therevpon agaynst the same to the end hee might bryng it vnder his subiection eyther by mariage or by some other meane It was reported that he was disquieted with some vnkindly medicine but how soeuer the matter was he yeelded vp his sprite to almighty God departed this worlde the .xiiij. of December in the yeare of oure redemption .1542 the .xxxiij. yeare of his age The death of the King of ◅tes and .xxxij. of his raigne Shortly after hys departure hys body was conueyed from Falkeland vnto Edenburgh in most honorable wife the Cardinall the Erles of Arrane Arguile Rothes Marshall and dyuers other noble men being present and with all funerall pomp as was requisite it was buried in the Abbey Church of Holy Roode house beside the body of Queene Magdalene daughter to the King of Fraunce his first wife There was greate lamentation and moue made for his death throughout all parts of his Realme for hee was very well beloued among hys subiectes Queene Mary THe Eternall God calling to his mercy Iames King of Scotland the fifth of that name Mary his only daughter and heire began hir raigne ouer the Realme of Scotland the eyghtenth day of December in the yere of our Lord .1542 1542 Frauncis the firste of that name then raigning in Fraunce and Henry the eyght ouer the Englishmen She was not past seuen dayes olde when hir father departing this life left vnto hir his kingdome hir mother lying in childbed in the Castel of Lithquo The Lorde Leuingston of which place y e Lord Leuingston being Captayne had the charge committed to him both of the daughter and mother with the mothers good
Armorike for aide 110.41 Britaines great earnestnesse to recouer their libertie 110.76 Britaines put to flighte and slaine 111. 27 Britaines flee from the Scots 114. line 100 Britaines sente to defend the borders are d◅nessed 115.52 Britaines put to flight and chased by the Pictes 117.4 Britaines require aide of Scottes and Pictes againste the Saxons 117. 89 Britaines constreyned to flee into VVales 119.71 Britaines refuse to receyue Loth or any of his sonnes to reigne ouer them ◅26 100 Britaines through rest and ease become vnapte to susteyne the paynes of vvarres 128.23 Britaines make suddaine inuasion into the Saxons camp and viterly discomfite and slay them 130. line 30 Britaines repēt thē of their league made vvith the Pictes 132.56 Britaines Scottes and Picts pitch their tentes to fight◅ neere the bankes of Humber 133.59 Britaines vvill not consente to haue peace vvith the Scottes and Pictes 134.11 Britains put to flight by the Scots and Pictes 134.43 Britaines and Scottes put the Saxons to flight 140.47 Britaines and Scots distressed by the Pictes and Saxons 140.84 Britaines and Scots depart secretly into Northumberlande and vvast it 141.37 Britaines buy peace of the Danes for money 194.38 Britaines require to ioine in armes vvith the Scottes agaynste the Danes 194 Aymouth Castell rased 480.94 Britaines enter into the Scottishe confines and carrie avvay booties 194.96 Britaines ouerthrovven by the Scottes 1◅4 115 Britaines sue to Scottes for peace 195. 15 Brian Frauncis an Englishe Captayne 467.63 Bribers to be hanged 180.103 Brigantia a Citie in Spayne novv called Compostella builded 2.39 Broken men are theeues and outlavves vpon the borders 438.65 Broughtie Crag Castell vvonne by the Englishmen 469.71 Broughtie Crag Castell besieged by the Lorde Gouernour 470.92 forsaken and the siege broken vp 472.27 Broughty Crag holden by the Englishmen 480.29 vvonne by the Frenchmen 480.40 Broningfielde or Brunenburgh battayle 201.84 Brookes Thomas 462.62 Bruce Roberte marrieth Martha daughter to the Earle of Carrike 295.17 Bruce Roberte aftervvard Kyng of Scotland borne 295.38 Bruce Roberte occasion of the ouerthrovve of the Scottes at Dunbar 301.48 Bruce Roberte submitteth hymselfe to King Edvvard 301.35 Bruce and Cumeyn conspire against King Edvvard 309.45 Bruce Roberte crovvned King of Scotland 311.28 Bruce Edvvard brother to Kyng Robert 313.114 Bruce Edvvard proclaymed King of Irelande 320.45 Bruce Mariorie daughter to king Robert Bruce 247.80 Brudeus K. of Pictes 137.13 Brudeus denieth to deliuer certain Scottish outlavves vnto Aydan 139. 23 Brudeus proclaymeth vvarre against the Scottes 140.9 Brudeus vntroth oftē notified 146 Brudeus entreth Northumberland vvith an army 151.79 Brudus slaine by his ovvne subiects 171.30 Brudus created King of Picts 171. line 50 Brudus hangeth vp certaine Scottish robbers vpō gibbets 171.55 Brudus sendeth to the Scottes to renevv their league 171.59 Brudus sendeth to Edvvin Kyng of Northumberland for ayd against the Scottes 171.70 Brudus entreth into Angus vvith an army 172.17 Brudus dyeth 173.30 Buerne an Englishman fledde to the Danes 189.66 Bulles head a token of execution 387. 50 Bulmer Raufe taken prisoner 468. line 36 Buriall of noble menne to bee solemnely fulfilled 181.105 Buriall of companions and friends in the vvarres commaunded 181. line 46 Burnt Candlemasse 353.62 Bute and Aran taken by the Norvvegians 289.40 Buthquhane vvhereof so named 99. 71 C. CAdallanus sent against Murketus 29.49 Cadallanus proclaymed Gouernour of the Realme 30.41 Cadall of Gallovvay created Gouernour of the Realme 25.30 Cadall made generall of an armye into Ireland 25 Cadals armye most part drovvned by a tempest 26.4 Cadall revvarded for his faythfull seruice 26.27 Cadall deceassed 26.77 Cadals Image erected in the market place at Epiack and honored vvith diuine ceremonies 27. line 11 Cadhard Thane of Meffen Castell 211.80 Cadvvall King of Britaynes vanquished and chased into Scotland 143.57 Cadvvall goeth into Fraunce and obteineth ayde against the Saxons 143 Cadvvall restored agayne to hys Kingdome 143.63 Cadvvall of Britaine and Penda of Mertia ioyne their povvers againste Edvvine of Northumberland 146.50 Cadore Duke of Cornevvall father to Constantinus 132.75 Cadane K. of Denmarke pretendeth title to the Picts lāds 187. line 101 Caesius Nasica entreth vvith an army into Gallovvay 42.52 Cayme a noble man of Britayne slayne 134.67 Calfe vvith an head like a Colte 385. 77 Calphurnius sent Lieutenant into Britaine 66.93 Calphurnius entreth into the bordures of the Scottes and Pictes 66. 105 Caldstreame vpō Tvveed 434.23 Calphurnius sente for home to Rome 67.33 Caldorus Captaine of the Britishe Rebels 67.100 Caldorus escapeth 67.108 Calene a noble man and hys vvise counsell 185.64 Calaice besieged by the Englishmen 349.41 Camus Captayne generall of the Danish fleete 233.49 Camus slayn by the Scots 234.80 Camelō chiefe seate of the Pictish Kings vvonne 29.17 Camelon vvonne by force 49.59 Camelon taken by force and sacked 102 31 Camestone vvhy so called 234.86 Camelō takē by the Romans 93.91 Candles seene burning vppon the toppes of hilles in the nightes 441. 39 Canute brother to Sueno landeth in Buchquhane vvith an armye of Danes 236.14 Camelon kept by the Picts against the Scottes 178.22 Camelō taken by the Scots 179.10 Camelon burnte and rased to the ground 179.50 Canute ouerthrovven by Malcol◅e King of Scotland 236.52 Canute returneth into Den. 237.13 Canute and Edmonde Ironside fight a Combate 24◅ 3◅ Canute receyueth Edmonde vnto halfe the Kingdome of England 241. 41 Canute King of Denmarke recouereth the kingdome of England to the Danes 241.26 Cādida Casa first instituted 94 11◅ Caraulius or Carantius brother to Findock and priuie to his murthering 77.54 Canulph Bishop of Durhā 261.42 Cannogate 264.1 Camus landeth his armye at Redbrayes in Scotland 233.66 Cantyre and Kile vvasted 39.63 Captaines of discorde apprehended and executed ◅49 76 Captaynes prohibited to buy lāds vvher their charge lyeth 246.54 Captaynes prohibited to mar◅e their children to anye vvhere their charge lyeth 246.59 Car Thomas a vvorthy Englishe Captayne 477 9◅ Camelon besieged by Vespasian 36. 41 Camelon surrendred 36.45 Camelō peopled vvith Romanes 36. 60 Caratake sonne to Cadallane proclaimed King 31.56 Carictonium Metropolitane of Scotland 31.66 Caratake borne in Carriek 31.72 Caratakes counsell agaynste the Romanes 31.95 Caratake chosen Captayne of the Britaine 's against the Romanes 53. 37 Caratake promiseth to ayde the Britaines against the Romanes 33. 57 Carell in Fife 444.88 Caratake returneth to Carictonium 34.14 Caratakes aunsvvere to the Romaine Ambassadoures 34.24 Caratake escapeth by flighte into his Countrey 35.69 Caratake assembleth an armye in Gallovvay 36.71 Caratake and his armye putte to flighte 37 2◅ Caratake refuseth the Romaines friendship 37.46 Caratake assembleth a nevv army 38. 8 Caratake seeketh reuenge for Ki◅e and Cantire 39.66 Caratake and his armye ouerthrovven by the Romaines 40 Caratake vvife children and breethren taken 40.32 Caratake betrayed by his stepmother 40.35 Cartamandua stepmother to Caratake 40.34 Caratake is sente to Rome 40. line 40 Caratake is shevved to the people in triumph 40 4◅ Caratake restored to libertie and sent home 40.56 Caratake
Realme and likewise to the Bishop of Durham and to the Iustice of Chester Beside this hee directed also other writtes to y e said Sherifes and others that although he hadde bin constreyned to passe in forcible wise through diuers parties of his Realme and the marches of Wales to suppresse the malitious Rebellion of diuers his subiects and that as yet hee was constreyned to continue his iourney in suche forcible wise neuerthelesse his pleasure was that y e peace should be maynteyned and kept throughout hys Realme with the statutes lawes and customes inuiolated and therfore he commaunded the sayd Sherifes that they shoulde cause the same to bee proclaymed in places where was thoughte most expedient Proclamatiâ—…s maâ—…le for the peace to bee kepte as wel within liberties as without inhibiting that any maner of person of what state or condition soeuer he was vpon pain that might fall thereon to atteÌ„pt any thing to the breache of peace but that euery maÌ„ shuld seeke to mainteine preserue y e peace and tranquilitie of the people with the statutes lawes good customes of the land to the vttermost of his power this alwayes obserued that y e Rebels wheresoeuer they myght be found shoulde be arrested and coÌ„mitted to safe custody The date of this writte was at Tutburie aforesaid y e twelfth of March. The Lorde Damorie departed this life The L. Roger Damorie lay sicke in his bed y e same time in the priorie of Tutburie who after he had heard what iudgement y e K. had pronounced against him departed this life within two dayes after But the Erles of Lancaster and Hereforde with other in their coÌ„pany that fled froÌ„ y e discomfiture at Burton lost many men and horses in their fleeing away by reason of such pursute as was maâ—…ter them Diuers of them that had takeâ—… with the Lordes against the King came 〈◊〉 submitted themselues vnto him amongâ—… which were sir Gilbert de Ellesfield The 〈…〉 sir Râ—… 〈…〉 king and â—…bert Holland Knightes The K. yet had 〈…〉 Holland in some suspition bycause hee haâ—…â—…mised to haue come to him before The 〈◊〉 Lancaster had sent him at this time to raâ—… hys tenauntes in Lancaster and to bring them vnto him but hee deceyued him and came 〈◊〉 to him at all wherevpon the Earles of Lancaster and Hereford with the other BaroÌ„s The 〈◊〉 Lanâ—… Heâ—… to Pâ—… being come vnto Pomfret they fell to counsell in the Friers there and finally after much debating of y e matter and considering how by the vntrue â—…ng of the said Robert Holland their side was muche weakened it was concluded that they shoulde goe to the Castel of Dunstanbortough and theâ—… to remaine till they might purchase the Kinges pardon sith their enterprise thus quailed vnder their hands R. Sâ—… Sir Aâ—… Hâ—… and heerewith setting forwarde thâ—… way forth they came to Borrough bridge wheâ—… Sir Andrewe de Hercley with the power of the Counties of Cumberlande and Westwâ—… had forelayde the passage and there on a Tewsday being the sixtenth of March hee setting vpon the Barons in the ende discomfited them and chased their people In this sight was slayne the Earle of Hereford the Lord William de Sulley The 〈◊〉 Heâ—… The 〈◊〉 Laâ—… with sir Roger de Bourghfield and diuers others And tâ—… were taken Thomas Earle of Lancaster the Lorde Roger Clifford sonne to that Lord Roger which dyed in y e battell of Bannockesborne in Scotland the Lord Gilbert Talbot the Lord Iohn Moubray the Lorde Hugh de Wiâ—…toÌ„ the Lord Thomas Manduit 〈…〉 the Lord Warine de Lisle the Lorde Phillippe Darâ—… the Lorde Thomas Wither the Lorde Henry de Willington the Lorde Hugh de Knouill the Lorde Phillippe de Beche the Lorde Henry de Leiborne the Lorde Henry de Bradborne The bâ—… of Boâ—… bridge the Lord Iohn de Beckes the Lorde Thomas Louell the Lorde William Fitz William Robert de Wateuille Iohn de Strikelande Oduel Heron Walter Paueley of Stretton and a greate number of other Esquires and Gentlemen This battell was foughte the fifteenth daye of Marche in the yeare 1322. after the accompt of them that beginne the yeare at the circumcision whiche was in the sayde fifteenth yeare of thys Kings raigne The body of the Earle of Hereforde was sente to Yorke two Friers of the order of Preachers being appoynted to looke to it till the King tooke order for the burying of it The Lorde Clifforde also bycause hee was wounded with an arrowe was sente vnto Yorke The same time the Lorde Henry Percy tooke the Lorde Henry Tyeis and Iohn de Goldington Knighte with two Esquires and within a fewe dayes after Donald de Mar tooke the Lord Bartholmewe de Badelismere the Lorde Hugh Audeley the yonger the Lorde Iohn Gifford the Lord William Tuchet and in manner al those which escaped by flighte from this battell were taken in one place or other by suche of the Kynges seruauntes and friendes as pursued them The one and twentith of Marche came Sir Andrew de Harkley vnto PoÌ„fret bringing with him the Earle of Lancaster and other prisoners The Kyng was come thither a fewe dayes before â—…e Castell of â—…et is â—…dred to 〈◊〉 King and hadde the Castell yeelded to him by the Connestable that not many dayes past was appointed to the keeping thereof by the Earle whiche Earle nowe beeing brought thither captiue was mocked scorned and in derision called king Arthur Thus the King seemed to be reuenged of the displeasure done to hym by the Earle of Lancaster for the beheading of Peeres de Gauaston Earle of Cornewall whome hee so deerely loued and bycause the Earle of Lancaster was the Chiefe occasioner of his deathe the King neuer loued hym entierly after And so this mighty Earle of Lancaster came to his end being the greatest Pere in the Realm and one of the mightiest Erles in Christendome for when he began to leuie warre against the K. he was possessed of fiue Earledomes Lancaster Lincolne Salisburie Leicester and Derby beside other siegniories lands and possessioÌ„s great to his aduauncement in honor and puissance And at Bristowe in like manner were executed Henry de Wilington and sir Henry Montford Baronets and at Gloucester y e Lorde Iohn Gifford and sir William Elmebridge Knighte and at London the Lord Henry Tyes Baron at Winchelsie sir Thomas Culpepper Knight at Windsor the Lord Francis de Aldham Baron and at Canterbury the Lord Bartholmewe de Badâ—…hsmere and the Lorde Bartholmewe de Ashbornham Baros Also at Cardeif in Wales sir William Fleming Knight was executed diuers wer executed in their countreys as sir Thomas Mandit and others Auesburie 〈◊〉 But nowe touching the foresayde Earle of Lancaster great strife râ—…se afterwards amongst the people whether hee oughte to be reputed for a Sâ—â—â—â—t or no. Some held that he ought to be no lesse esteemed for that he did many almes dedes in his life time honored men of Religion
to sende them into Flanders there to remaine as pledges for money that he there ought or if they refused to go thither then to keepe them prisoners in the towne But when the Bishop of Chichester declared to him the danger of the Canon established agaynst such as imprysoned Byshoppes hee suffered them to departe but the Iudges to witte Iohn de Stonore Richard de Willoughby Wil. de Shoreshull Iudges and other officers command 〈◊〉 the towâ—… and also Nicholas or as other haue Math. de la Beche which was before gardian of his son lieutenant of the tower also Iohn de Pultney William de Poole Merchants and the chiefe Clearkes of y e Chancerie Iohn de Saint Paule Michaell de Wath Henry de Stretforde and Robert de Chikewel and of the Eschecker Iohn de Thorpe and many other were committed to diuers prisons but yet bycause they were committed but only vppon commaundements they were within a while after deliuered The Lorde Wake was also committed but shortly after â—…ewe officers â—…ade in place 〈◊〉 other that â—…re discharâ—…ed he was deliuered to his great honor as Walsingham writeth Robert de Bourchier was made Lorde Chancellor and Richarde de Sadington Lorde Treasorer all the Sherifes of Shires and other officers also were remoued and other putte in their places and Iustices appoynted in euery Shire to enquire vppon the defaultes of collectors and other officers so that few or none escaped unpunished howsoeuer they had demeaned themselues so straitely those iustices proceeded in their commissions The King indeede was sore offended with those whome he had put in trust to leuie money and to see it conueyd ouer to him into the lowe countrey bycause that for want thereof in tyme of neede hee was constreyned to take truce with his aduersarie the French King and leaue off his enterprise which he was in good forwardnesse to haue gone through with if he had not bin disappoynted of treasure whiche he had commaunded to be sente ouer vnto him whiche was not done but kepte backe â—…he K. offenâ—…d vvith the â—…chbishop of â—…nterbury in whomsoeuer the fault rested There were some of his Secretaries namely sir William Killesby which stirred him to take no small displeasure against the Archbishop of Canterbury Iohn Stratford who therevppon withdrewe him into the Priorie of Christes Churche at Caunterbury and there remayning for a season wrote his mind to the King 1341 The Archbis â—…iteth to the â—…ing exhorting hym not to giue too light credite vnto suche as shoulde counsell him to haue those in contempt that were faithfull and true to him for in so doing he might happely lose the loue and good will of his people Neuerthelesse hee wished that he should trie out in whose hands the wolles and money remained which was taken vp to his vse and that vppon a iust accomptes had at their handes it mighte appeare who were in faulte that he had not money broughte to hym whylest hee lay at siege before Tourney as he had appoynted and that when the trueth was knowen they that were in faulte might be worthely punished And as for his own cause he signified that hee was ready to be tryed by his peeres sauing alwayes the estate of holye Churche and of his order c. Further he besought the King not to thynke euill of him and of other good men till the trueth might be tried for otherwise if iudgement should be pronounced without admitting the partie to come to his aunswere as well the giltlesse as the giltie might be condemned The King neuerthelesse still offended towards the Archbishoppe An. reg 15. A letter sent to the Deane of Paules caused Adam Bishop of Winchester to endite a letter againste him directed froÌ„ the King to the Deane and Chapiter of Paules openly to be published by them the effect whereof was to burden the Archbyshoppe with vnthankfulnesse and forgetting of his bounden duetie towards his soueraigne Lorde and louing master namely in that where he promised the Kyng to see him throughly furnished with money towardes the maintenance of his warres when it came to passe none woulde be had which turned not onely to the hinderance of the Kings whole proceedings but also to his great discredite and causing him to runne greatly in debt by interest through borrowing of money for the paymente of the wages of his men of warre when through the Archbyshops negligence who had the chiefe rule of the lande the collectors and other officers slacked their duetie wherby there was no money sent ouer according to that was appoynted and whereas now sith his comming ouer he had sent to the Archbishop to come vnto him that by hys information he might the better learne who they were that had neglected their duety hee disobediently refused to come pretending some feare of bodily harme through the malice of some y t were about the King Wherevpon when Raufe Lord Stafforde Lord Stewarde of the Kings house was sente with a safeconduit for him to come in all safetie to the Court he flatly made aunswere that hee woulde not come The Archebishop refuseth to come to the courte except in full Parliament Many other misdemeanors was the Archbyshop charged with towardes the King in that letter as malitiously slaundering the King for vniust oppression of the people confounding the Cleargie and greeuing the Church with exactions leuies of money tolles and tallages therefore sith he went about so to slaunder the Kyngs royall authoritie to defame hys seruauntes to stirre Rebellion among the people and to withdraw the deuotion and loue of the Erles Lords and greate men of the lande from the Kyng hys highnesse declared that hee meante to prouide for the integritie and preseruation of his good name and to meete with the Archbyshops malice and heerewith diuers things were rehersed to y e Archbishops reproche which he should do procure and suffer to be done by his euill and sinister counsell whilest hee hadde the rule of the Realme in hys handes vnder the Kyng wherein he had shewed hymselfe not only an acceptor of giftes but also of persons in gratifying dyuers that nothing had deserued sundry wayes forthe and presuming to doe rashly many other things to the detrimente of the Kynges royall state and hurte of hys regall dignitie and to no small damage of the people abusing the authoritie and office to hym committed so that if hee persisted in his obstinate wilfulnesse and rebellious conâ—…umacie the King by those his letters signifyed that he meant to declare it more apparantly in due time and place and therefore commaunded the sayd Deane and Chapiter of Paules to publishe all those thyngs openly in places where they thought conuenieÌ„t according to their wisedome giuen to them by God so as hee mighte haue cause to commende therein their carefull diligence This letter was dated at Westminster the tenth of February in the fifteenth yeare of hys raigne ouer Englande and seconde ouer
no ende made betwixt these two Lords touching their title vnto the Duchie of Britaine they renued the warres right hotely in that countrey Froissart and procured all the ayde they might from eache side The King of Fraunce sent to the ayde of his Cousin Charles de Blois a thousande speares and the Erle of Mountford sent into Gascoigne requiring sir Iohn Chandos and other Englishmen there to come to his succour Sir Iohn Chandos gladly consented to this request and therevppon got licence of the Prince and came into Britaine wher he found the Erle of MouÌ„tforde at the siege of the foresaide Castell of Aulray In the meane time the Lord Charles de Blois being prouided of men and all things necessary for to giue battaile came and lodged fast by his enimies The Earle of Mountford aduertised of his approche by the aduice of sir Iohn Chandos and other of his Captaines had chosen out a plotte of grounde to lodge in and meant there to abide their enimies With y e lord Charles of Blois was that valiant Knight sir Berthram de Cleaquin or Gueselin as some wryte him by whose aduice Three thousand and sixe hundred fighting men as Wals hath there wer ordeined three battailes and a reregard and in eche battaile were appointed a M. of good fighting meÌ„ On the other part the Erle of Mountford deuided his men likewise into three battailes and a reregarde The firste was led by sir Roberte Knolles sir Walter Hewet and Sir Richarde Brulle or Burley The seconde by Sir Oliuer de Clisson Sir Eustace Daubreticourt and sir Mathew Gourney The thirde the Earle of Mountforde hymselfe guided and with hym was sir Iohn Chandos associate by whome he was muche ruled for the King of England whose daughter the Earle of Mountforde shoulde marrie hadde written to Sir Iohn Chandos that he shoulde take good heede to the busines of the saide Earle and order the same as sagelie as he might deuise In eche of these three armies were fiue hundreth armed menne and foure hundreth archers In the arreregard were appointed a fiue hundred men of warre vnder the gouernaunce of sir Hugh Calverley Beside sir Iohn Chandos and other Englishmenne recited by Froissarte there was the Lorde William Latimer as one of the chiefe on the Earle of Mountfordes side They were not past sixteene hundreth good fighting men on that side as Thomas Walsingham writeth When the hostes were ordered on bothe sides as before we haue saide they approched togither the Frenchmenne came close in theyr order of battaile and were to the number of fiue and tweÌ„tie hundreth men of armes after the manner of that age beside others Euery man hadde cutte his speare as then they vsed at what time they shoulde ioyne in battaile to the lengthe of fiue foote and a short axe hanging at his side At the firste encounter there was a sore battaile and truelie the archers shotte right fiercelie howbeit their shotte did little hurte to the Frenchemenne they were so well armed and pauesshed The 〈◊〉 acâ—… the Engliâ—… 〈◊〉 the archers perceiuing that being bigge men and 〈◊〉 cast away their bowes and entred in amongst the Frenchemenne that bare the axes and plucked them out of theyr handes wherewith they fought after right hardely There was don many a noble feate of armes many taken and rescued againe Againste the Earle of Mountfords battaile fought the battaile which the Lord Charles de Blois ruled and at the firste the Earle of Mountfords part was sore oppressed brought out of order in suche sorte that if sir Hugh Calverley hadde not in time relieued them the losse hadde runne on that side but finallie so long they fought that all the battailes assembled and ioyned eache to other except the reregarde of the Englishmen Sir Hugh Caluerley whereof as is said Sir Hugh Caluerley was chiefe He kepte alwayes his battayle on a wing and euer succoured where hee sawe neede At length the Frenchmen not able to endure the valiant doings of their aduersaries began to breake Firste the Earle of Auxerres battaile was discomfited and put to flighte and the saide Earle sore wounded and taken prisoner The Earle of Auxerre 〈◊〉 Prisoner but the battaile of sir Berthram de Cleaquin as yet stoode manfully at defence howbeit at leÌ„gth the Englishmen perforce opened it and then was the said Sir Berthram taken prisoner Sir Berthram de Cleâ—… vnder the banner of sir Iohn Chandos Heerewith also all the other battailes of the Frenchmen and Brittaines on the part of the Lord Charles de Blois were cleane discomfited and put out of array so that suche as resisted and stoode at defence were slayne and beaten downe and amongst others the Lord Charles was there slaine himselfe and all other either taken or slayne except those that escaped by flight amongst the which there were not many of y e nobilitie For as Thomas Walsingham saith there were slaine about a thousand men of armes and there were taken two Earles seuen and twentie Lordes and fifteene hundred men of armes The chase was followed to the Citie of Raynes an eight greate leagues from the place where the battaile began After this victory the Earle of Mountforde conquered many Townes and Castels in Britayne whereof the French Kyng being aduertised sente hys brother the Duke of Aniou vnto the wife of the Lord Charles of Bloys now deceassed to comfort hir in such an heauie case and to take order for things as shoulde bee thoughte expediente till further prouision might be made Also shortly after there were sent vnto the Earle of Mountforde Ambaâ—… lent to the 〈◊〉 of Moâ—… the Archebyshoppe of Reimes the Marshall Bouciquault and the Lord of Cran as coÌ„missioners to coÌ„â—…e â—…ith him of a finall agreement The variance for Britayne â—…compounded Whervpon after hee had signifyed the matter vnto the King of England and vnderstoode his pleasure therein thys treatie was so handled Fabian 1365 that peace thereof followed and the parties were agreed in the moneth of Aprill next ensuing An. reg 39. This yere as some haue written K. Edwarde finished his warres vpon S. Stephensday began the foundation of S. Stephens chappell at Westminster in memorie thereof Fabian which Chappell was afterwards finished by King Richarde the second that succeeded him Tho. VVals In the .39 yere of K. Edwards raigne and in the moneth of Februarie in the Citie of Angolesme was borne the firste sonne of Prince Edward and was named after his father but he departed this life in the seuenth yeare of his age The Lorde Couâ—…y maryâ—… the king of â—…nglandes â—…aughter Palithron Also this yeare the .27 of Iuly Ingeram de Guynes Lord de Coucy a Frenchman married y t Lady Isabel daughter to King Edward The solemnization of the marriage feast was kept at Windsor in most royall and triumphant wise The said Lord Coucy was created Earle of Bedford with an yeerely annuitie
the dayes of this vsurper and hys nephew king Edward the fyfth these we fynde recorded by Iohn Bale fieste Iohn Penketh an Augusâ—… Frier of Warlington in Lancoâ—…hire a right sâ—…tle fellow in disputation folowing the footesteppes of his Maister Iohn Dunâ—… whom he chiefly studied He wrote diuers treatifes and made that infamous sermon at Poules mâ—…st in fauour of the Duke of Gloucester then protector to the disenheriting of Edward the fifth his 〈◊〉 following and gouernour Iohn Kent or Cayleâ—…â—…ne in Southwales George Riplay first a Chanâ—…e of Bridlington and after a Caâ—…lite Frier in Boston a greate Matheâ—…atician Rhetorician and Poet Iohn Spyne a Carmelite Frier of Bristowe that proceeded Doctour of diuinitie in Cambridge and suche lyke King Henry the seuenth Henry the .vij. Anno. re 1. KIng HeÌ„ry hauing thus got the victorie at Bosworth slayn his mortal enemie there in field he sente before his departure from Leycester sir Rob. Willoughby knighte to the manour of Sheriffehuton in the couÌ„tie of York for Edward Plantagenet Earle of Warwik son and heire to George duke of Clarence then being of the age of xv yeares whom king Richard had kept there as prisoner during the tyme of his vsurped reigne Sir Robert Willoughby receyuing the yong Earle of the Constable of that Castel conueyed him to London wher he was shut vp in the Tower The Earle of Warvvicke set and heare to George duke at Clarence conuerted to â—…e Tovver for doubt least some vnquiet and euill disposed persons might inuent some occasion of newe trouble by this yong Gentleman and therefore king Henry thought good to haue him sure There was beside him in the castell of Sheriffehut in the Ladye Elizabeth eldest daughter to Kyng Edward the fourth whome Kyng Rycharde as yee haue hearde meant to haue marryed but God otherwyse ordeyned for hir and preserued hir from that vnlawfull copulation and incestuous bedde Shortly after she being accompanyed with a greate number as wel of noble men as honorable matrones was wyth good speed conueyed to London and brought to hir mother In the meane season kyng Henry remoued forwarde by soft iourneys toward London the people commyng in from all sides to behold him and exceedingly reioycing at his presence King Henrye â—…reth to London as by their voyces and gestures it well appeared At his approching nere to the citie the Mayre and his brethren with other worshipfull Citizens being cloathed in violet met him at Shordiche and reuerently saluted hym and so wyth greate pompe and triumph he rode through the citie to the cathedrall Churche of Saint Paule where he offred three standards In the one was the image of Saint George in an other was a red fyerie dragon beaten vpon white and greene sarcenet and in the third was paynted a Dunne cowe vpon yealow tarterne After his prayers sayd and Te deum song he departed to the Bishops palaice and there soiorned a season Anon after he assembled togither y e sage counsellors of the realme in which counsel lyke a Prince of iust fayth and true of promise to anoyde all ciuile discorde he apointed a day to ioyne in mariage with the Lady Elizabeth heire of the house of York with his noble personage heire to the liue of Lancaster whiche thing not onely reioyced the heartes of the nobles and Gentlemen of the realme but also gayned the fauours and good willes of all the commons After this with great pompe he rowed vnto Westminster and there the thirtith day of October was with all ceremonies accustomed anoynted and crowned king by the whole assent as well of the commons as of the nobilitie Henry the seuenth crovvned King and cleped Henry the seuenth of that name whiche was in the yeare of the worlde .5452 and after the birth of our Lorde .1485 in the .xlvj. yeare of Frederike the thirde then Emperour of Almayne Maximilian his sonne being newly elected K. of Romaines 1485 in the seconde yeare of Charles the eyght then king of Fraunce and in the .xxv. of king Iames then ruling the realm of Scotland For the establishing of all things as well touching the preseruation of his owne estate as the commendable administration of iustice and preferrement of the common wealth of his realme he called his hygh court of Parliament at Westminster the seuenth day of Nouember A Parliament at VVestmivster and a generall Pardoâ—… wherein was attainted Richarde late Duke of Gloucester calling and namyng himselfe by vsurpation King Richard the thirde likewise there was attainted as chiefe ayders and assistants to him in the battayle at Bosworth auaunced againste the present Kyng Iohn late Duke of Norffolke Thomas Earle of Surrey Francis Louell knyght Vicont Louell Water Deuereux knight late lorde Ferrers Iohn lorde Souche Robert Harrington Richarde Charleton Richard Ratcliffe William Barkley of Weley Robert Midleton Iames Harrington Roberte BrakeÌ„bury Thomas Pilkinton Walter Hopton William Catesby Roger Wake WilliaÌ„ Sapcote of the countie of Huntington Humfrey Stafforde William Clerke of Wenlocke Geoffrey Sainte Germaine Richarde Watkyns Herraulde of Armes Rycharde Reuell of Darbyshire Thomas Pulter of the countie of Kente Iohn Walche otherwyse called Hastynges Iohn Kendall late Secretarie of the sayde Richarde late Duke of Gloucester Iohn Bucke Andrewe Rat and Willyam Brampton of Burforde in whiche atteynder neuerthelesse there were dyuers clauses and Prouisos for the benefyte of their wiues and other persons that hadde or myghte clayme any ryghte title or interest lawfully vnto any castels manours lordships townes townships honors lands tenementes rentes seruices fee fermes annuities knightes fees aduousons reuersions remainders and other hereditaments wherof the said persons atteynted were possessed or seysed to the vses of suche other persons with a speciall prouiso also that the sayd atteynder should not be preiudiciall to Iohn Catesby knight Tho. Reuell and William Ashby esquiers in of and vpon the manor of Kirkeby vpon Wretheke in the Countie of Leycester nor in of and vppon any other landes and tenementes in Kirkby aforesayde Melton Somerby Thropâ—…eghfield and Godeby whiche they had of the gift feoffement of Tho. Dauuers and Iohn Lye And further notwithstanding this attainder dyuers of the sayde persons afterwardes were not only by the Kig pardoned but also restored to their lands liuings and moreouer in this presente Parliamente hee caused poclamation to be made that al meÌ„ were pardoned and acquited of their offences whiche woulde submit themselues to his mercy and receiue an othe to be true and faithfull vnto hym whervpon many that came out of Sainctuaries and other places were receiued to grace and admitted for his subiectes After this hee began to remember his especiall frends of whom some he aduaunced to honor and dignitie and some hee enriched with goodes and possessions euery man according to his deserts and merites And to begin his vncle Iasper erle of Pembroke he created duke of Bedford Tho. lorde Stanley was created erle of Darby the L.
in Yorkeshire where the people bare more fauour vnto king Richarde in his lyfe tyme than those of any other part of the realm had cōmonly doon He kept the feast of Easter at Lincolne where hee was certified that the Lorde Louell and Humfrey Stafforde and Thomas Stafforde his brother were departed out of the Sanctuarie at Colchester to what place or whether no man as yet could tell The King little regarding the matter kept on his iourney and came to Yorke where as soone as he was once setled it was openly shewed and declared for a truthe to the King hymselfe A rebellion made by the Lord Louell and others that Frauncis Lorde Louell was at hande wyth a strong and mightye power of men and woulde with all diligence inuade the citie also that the forenamed Staffords were in Worcestershire Humfrey Stafforde Thomas Stafforde had reysed a greate bande of the countrey people and commons there and hadde caste lottes what parte should assault the gates what men should scale the walles of the Citie of Worcester and who should let the passages for lettyng of rescues and aiders The Kyng coulde not beleeue thys reporte to bee true at the firste but after that by Letters of credence sente from hys friendes hee was fully perswaded that it was too true hee was put in no small feare and not without greate cause for hee wisely considered that hee neyther hadde any competent army ready nor conuenient furniture to arme them that were present And also hee was in suche place where hee coulde not assemble anye power but of those whome hee sore mistrusted as friendes to them that were moste his enemies the memorie of King Richarde as yet being not amongst thē forgotten nor worne out of minde But bycause the matter required quicke expedition hee appoynted the Duke of Bedforde wyth three thousande men not altogyther the beste armed for theyr breast plates for the most parte were of tanned leather to marche foorth agaynst the Lorde Louell and to sette vppon him without any lingring of tyme. The Duke hastyng forwarde approchyng to the Campe of hys enimyes and before hee woulde assayle them hee caused the Herraldes to make proclamation that all those that wold departe from theyr armure and submitte themselues as subiectes vnto theyr naturall Prince and soueraigne Lorde should be pardoned of all former offences The Lord Louel vppon this Proclamation eyther putting mystrust in hys Souldiours or fearyng himselfe in his owne behalfe fled priuily in a nyght from his companie and lefte them as a flocke of sheepe without a shepeherd which departure when his armie vnderstoode it put the souldiours in suche dispayre of atchieuing anye further enterprise that they immediatly put off their armour and came directly vnto the Duke euery man humbly submitting himselfe and desiring pardon of his offences So in this wyse was that dangerous storme and cruell rage of those furious rebelles appeased whiche was doubted to haue growne to the destruction of many a man The Lord Louell the procurer of this businesse escapyng awaye got him into Lancashyre and there for a certain space laye lurkyng in secrete with Sir Thomas Broughton knight which in those parties was a man of no small authoritie power Sir Humfrey Stafforde also hearyng what hadde happened to the Lorde Louell Sir Humfrey Stafforde taken out of Colnehā Sanctuary and executed in great displeasure and sorrowe and for feare lefte his enterpryse and in lyke manner fledde and tooke Sainctuarie at C◅ham a village not paste two myles from Abyndon But bycause that Sainctuarie was not a sufficient defence as was proued before the Iustices of the Kings benche for traytours hee was taken from that place and broughte to the Tower and after put to execution at Tyborne but his brother Thomas that was with hym was pardoned bycause hee was thought not to haue attempted anye thyng of hym selfe otherwyse than by the euill counsell and perswasion of his elder brother An. reg 2. After that the Kyng hadde quieted all these commotions and tumultes and reformed the rude brabblyng people of the North partes he retourned to London and shortly after he went to Winchester The birth of Prince Arthur where his wyfe Queene Elizabeth was brought to bedde of a fayre Prince named at his baptisme Arthur In thys meane tyme of a small matter and the same altogether false and fayned there was an open path made and beaten foorth for a greater inconuenience to ensue the whyche matter myghte seeme verye straunge howe suche trouble and myschiefe shoulde growe thereof if the tyme were not consydered in whyche it happened for in those dayes manye persons eyther borne in the wombe of continuall dissention or nouryshed wyth the mylke of Ciuile sedition coulde not forbeare theyr vsuall Custome of mouyng stryfe and sowyng debate euer gladde to haue any occasion thoughe neuer so small to styrre vprores of warre and slaughter of people Amongest other suche monsters and lymmes of the Diuell there was one Sir Richard Symond Priest a man of base byrthe Sir Richarde Simond a Prieste and yet well learned but not so learned as wyly nor so wylye as vngracious delightyng in fraude and deceyte euen from hys youthe vppe had a scholer called Lamberte Symenell Lambert ◅nell the co◅terf◅t Earle of VVarvvicke one of a gentle nature and pregnaunt witte to bee the organe and chiefe Instrument by the whych he might conueye and bryng to passe hys myschie◅s attempte The diuell chiefe maister of suche practises put in the venemous brayne of this disloyal and trayterous Prieste to deuyse howe hee myghte make his Scholler the foresayde Lamberte to bee reputed as ryght inheritour to the Crowne of thys realme namely for that the fame went that Kyng Edwardes chyldren were not dead but fledde secretely into some straunge place and there to be lyuyng and that Edward earle of Warwyke sonne and heyre to the Duke of Clarence either was or shortly shuld be put vnto death These rumors though they semed not to be grounded of any lykelyhoode to the wyser sor◅e of men yet encouraged this pienishe Prieste to thinke the tyme come that his Scholer Lambert might take vpon him the person and name of one of king Edwardes children and herevppon at Oxforde where their abyding was the said Priest instructed his pupil both with princely behauiour ciuill maners and good literature declaryng to hym of what lynage he should affirme himselfe to be descended and omitted nothing that might serue for his purpose Soone after the rumour was blowne abrode that the Earle of Warwike was broken out of prison And when the Priest sir Richarde Symonde hearde of this he streight intended now by that occasion to bryng his inuented purpose to passe and chaungyng the chyldes name of baptisme called him Edward after the name of the yong Earle of Warwike the whiche were both of lyke yeres of like stature and then he with his scholer sayled into
Irelande where hee so sette foorth the mater vnto the nobilitie of that countreye Thomas Gerardine Chaâ—…celor of Iâ—… that not onely the Lorde Thomas Gerardine Chauncellour of that lande deceiued through his craftie tale receyued the counterfaite Earle into his Castell with all honour and reuerence but also many other noble men determined to ayde hym with all their powers as one descended of the bloud royall and lyneally come of the house of Yorke whiche the Irishe people euermore hyghly fauored honoured and loued aboue all other By this meanes euery manne throughout all Irelande was willyng and ready to take his parte and to submit themselues to him already reputing and calling him of all hands king So that nowe they of this secte by the aduice of the Prieste sente into England certayn priuie messangers to get friendes here also they sent into Flanders to y e Ladie Margarete Margaret Duâ—…châ—… of Bâ—…â—…gne sister to â—…g Edvvard the fourthe sister to King Edward late wyfe to Charles Duke of Burgogne to purchase ayde and helpe at hir handes Thys Ladie Margarete bare no smal rule in the low countreys and 〈◊〉 verie deede sore geudged in hir heart that Kyng Henrye being descended of the house of Lancaster should reigne and gouerne the realme of Englande and therfore though she well vnderstoode that thys was but a coloured matter â—…t to woorke hir malicious intention against K. Henry she was glad to haue so fitte an occasion and therefore promised the messengers all the ayde that she should bee able to make in furtheraunce of the quarrell and also to procure al the frendes she could in other places to be aiders and partakers of the same conspiracie Kyng Henrye aduertized of al these doings was greately vexed therwith and therefore to haue good aduise in the matter hee called togyther his counsell at the Charterhouse besyde his manour of Richmond and there consulted with theÌ„ by which meanes best this begon conspiracie might be appesed and disappointed without more disturbaunce It was therfore determined that a generall pardon should be published to all offenders that were content to receyue the same This pardon was so freely graunted that no offence was excepted no not so muche as high treason committed agaynste the Kinges royall person It was further agreed in the same Counsell for the tyme then present that the Erle of Warwike should personally be shewed abroade in the citie and other publike places whereby the vntrue reporte falsly spred abroade that he shoulde be in Irelande myght be amongest the comminaltie proued and knowen for a vayne imagined lye In this solemne counsel diuers many things for the wealth of the realme were debated concluded and amongest other it was determyned Lady Elizabeth late vvife to King Edvvarde the fourthe adiudged to forfeit 〈◊〉 hir landes that the Lady Elizabeth wyfe to King Edward the fourth should leese and forfayte all hir lands and possessions bycause she had voluntarily submitted hir selfe and hir daughters wholly to the handes of king Richarde contrarye to hir promise made to the Lordes and nobles of thys realme in the beginnyng of the conspiracie made against king Richard wherby she did inough to haue quayled all the purpose of them that ioyned with hir in that mater But thoughe hir faulte was greeuous yet was it iudged by some men that shee deserued not by equitie of Iustice so greate a losse and punishement But suche was hir chaunce by that hir lightnesse and incoustancie she wanne the displeasure oâ—… many manner and for that causely pâ—… after 〈◊〉 the abbey of Beâ—…ndsey besyde Soâ—…hwarke a wretched and a miserable lyfe where not manye yeeres after she deceassed and is buryed with hir husband at Windsore Though Fortune thus ruleth many thynges at his pleasure yet one woorke that this Queene accomplished can not bee forgotten For in the lyfe tyme of hir husbande Kyng Edwarde the fourth Queenes colledge in Cambridge founded by the Lady Elizabeth Kyng Edvvarde the fourthe hys vvidovve shee founded and erected a notable Colledge in the vniuersitie of Cambridge for the fynding of Scholers and studentes of the same vniuersitie and endowed it with sufficient possessions for the long mayntenaunce of the same whyche at thys daye is called the Queenes Colledge When all thyngs in thys counsell were sagely concluded and agreed to the kings mynde he retourned to London giuing in commaundement that the next Sunday ensuyng Edward the young Earle of Warwike shuld be brought from the Tower thorough the moste publyque streetes in all London to the Cathedrall Churche of Saint Paule where hee wente openlye in Procession that euery man myght see him hauing communication with many noblemen and with them especially that were suspected to bee partakers of the late begonne conspiracye that they myght perceyue howe the Irishmenne vppon a vayne shadowe moued warre againste the Kyng and his realme But this medicine little auayled to euill disposed persons For the Earle of Lincolne sonne to Iohn de la Poole Duke of Suffolk and Elizabeth sister to king Edwarde the fourth thynking it not meete to neglect and omitte so ready an occasion of newe trouble determyned to vpholde the enterprise of the Irishmenne and other complices of this conspiracie Whervppon consultyng wyth Syr Thomas Broughton and certayne other of hys moste trustye friendes purposed to sayle into Flaunders so his Aunte the Lady Margaret duchesse of Burgogne trusting by hir helpe to make a puissant armie and to ioyne with the companions of the newe raised sedition Therefore after the dissolution of the Parliamente whiche then was holden he fledde secretly into Flaunders vnto the sayd Ladie Margarete where Francis Lorde Louell landed certaine dayes before Here after long consultation had howe to proceede in their businesse it was agreed that the Earle of Lyncolne and the Lorde Louell shoulde goe into Irelande and there to attend vpon the duchesse hir counterfaite nephue to honor him as a K. and with the power of the Irishemen to bryng hym into Englande and if their dooyngs hadde good successe then the foresayde Lamberte myâ—â—amed the Erle of Warwike shoulde by the consente of the counsell bee deposed and Edwarde the true Earle of Warwike to bee delyuered out of prison and anoynted king King Henry supposyng that no man woulde haue bin so madde as to haue attempted anye further enterprise in the name of that new found counterfayted Earle hee onely studyed howe to subdue the seditions conspiracie of the Irishmen But hearyng that the Earle of Lincolne was fledde into Flaunders he was somwhat moued therwith and caused Souldiors to bee put in a readynesse out of euery part of his Realme and to bring them into one place assigned that when his aduersaries shoulde appeare hee mighte sodeynely sette vppon them vanquishe and ouercome them The Marques Dorset committed to the Tovver Thus disposing things for his suretie he went towardes Saint Edmundes Burye and beeing certifyed that the Marques
shoulde county Perkyn Werbecke out of his Realme seigniories and dominions About the same time king Henrie receyued the Ambassadours that were sente to him from the French king and had bene stayed at Douer tyll the Cornish Rebelles were vanquished and subdued Also the lord of Camphire and other Orators of Philippe Archduke of Austriche and Duke of Burgongne came to him for the conclusion of amitie and to to haue the English marchantes to resort againe into their Countrey whche request being verie agreable to the quietnesse and wealth of his Realme and especially at that tyme The English marchaunts receyued into Anwerpe with generall Procession he did fauourably graunt and agree vnto And so did the Englishmen resort again into the Archdukes dominions and were receyued into Andwerpe with generall Procession so glad was that town of their returne Shortly after the concluding of the truce betwene Englande and Scotland Perkin Warbecke being willed of the king of Scottes to depart out of the Scottish dominions sayled with his wife and and familie into Irelande there determining with himselfe eyther to repayre into Flaunders to his firste setter vp the Duches of Burgongne or else to ioyne and take part wyth the Cornishmen But howsoeuer it came to passe whilest hee lay in Ireland he had knowledge from the Cornish men that they were readie to renue the warre againe Wherevpon he minding not to let passe so fayre an occasion hauing with him foure smal shippes and not aboue sixescore men Perkyn Warbeck arriueth Cornwell sayled into Cornwall and there landed in the Moneth of September and came to a Towne called Bodman and there did so prouoke the wauering people what with fayre wordes and large promises that bee gathered to him aboue three thousande persons which immediately called him their captaine promising to take his part and follow him to the death Then Perkin well encouraged Another rebellion by the Cornishmen made Proclamations in the name of king Richarde the fourth as sonne to king Edward the fourth And by the aduice of his three coūsailers Iohn Her◅ Mercer a bankrupt Richard Scelton a Taylor and Iohn Astely a Scriuener determined firste of al to assay the winning of Exceter and so hasting thither he layd siege to it and wanting ordinaunce to make batterie studyed all wayes possible how to breake the Gates and what with casting of stones Exceter assaulted by Perkyn and the Cornishmen heauing with yron barres and kindling of fire vnder the gates hee omitted nothing that could be deuised for the furtherance of his purpose The Citizens perceyuing in what daunger they stoode first let certaine Messengers downe by coardes ouer the wall that might certifie the king of theyr necessitie and trouble And herewith taking vnto them boldnesse of courage determined to repulse fire with fire and caused fagottes to be brought and layd to the inwarde part of the gates and set them all on fire to the intent that the fire being enflamed on both sides the gates might as well keepe out their enimies from entring as shut in the Citizens from fleeing oute and that they in the meane season might make Trenches and Rampires to defende theyr enimies in steade of gates and Bulwarks Fire repulsed by fire Thus by fire was the Citie preserued from fire Then Perkyn being of verie necessitie compelled to forsake the gates assaulted the towne in dyuerse weake and vnfortified places and set vp Ladders to take the citie But the Citizens with helpe of such as were come forth of the Countrey adioining to theyr ayde so valiantly defended the walles that they slue aboue two hūdred of Perkyns souldiers at that assault The king hauing aduertisement of this siege of Excetter hasted forth with his host in as much speede as was possible and sent the Lorde Dawbeney with certaine bandes of lyght horsemen before to aduertise all men of his comming at hande But in the meane season the Lord Edward Courtney Erle of Deuonshire and the valiaunt Lorde William his sonne accompanyed wyth sir Edmond Carew sir Thomas Trencharde sir William Courtney sir Thomas Fulford sir Iohn Halewel sir Iohn Croker Water Courtney Peter Egecombe William Saint Maure with all speede came into the Citie of Exceter and holp the Citizens and at the last assault was the Earle hurt in the arme with an arrowe and so were many of his companie but verie fewe slaine When Perkyn saw that he could not winne the Citie of Exceter sith the same was so well fortified both with men and munitions he departed from thence and went vnto Taunton and there the .xx. day of Septēber he mustred his mē as though hee were readie to giue battaile But perceyuing his number to be minished by the secrete withdrawing of sundrie companies from him he began to put mistrust in all the remnant In deede when the people that followed him in hope that no small number of the Nobilitie wold ioyne with him sawe no suche matter come to passe they stale away from him by secrete companies When the king heard that hee was gone to Taunton he followed after him with all speede And by the way ther came to him Edward duke of Buckingham a yong Prince of greate towardnesse and him folowed a great companie of noble men knightes and esquiers as sir Alexander Baynam sir Maurice Barckley sir Robert Tame sir Iohn Guise sir Roberte Poyntz sir Henrie Vernon sir Iohn Mortimer sir Thomas Tremaile sir Edward Sutton sir Amyse Pawlet sir Iohn Bickneil sir Iohn Sapcotes sir Hugh Lutterell sir Frauncis Cheyney and diuerse other At the kings approching to the Towne of Taunton hee sent before him Robert Lorde Brooke Lorde Stewarde of his house Giles lord Dawbney his chiefe Chamberlaine and sir Rice ap Thomas But as soone as Perkyn was informed that his enimies were readie to giue him battaile hee that nothing lesse mynded than to fight in open field with the kings puyssance dissembled all the day tyme with his companie as though nothing could make him afrayde and about mydnight being accompanied with threescore horsemen departed from Taunton in post to a Sanctuarie town beside Southampton Perkin flee◅ and taketh Beaudley Sanctuarye called Beaudley and there he and Iohn Heron with other registred themselues as persons priuiledged When king Henrie knewe that Perkyng was thus fled he sent after him the Lorde Dawbney with fiue hundred horsemen toward the sea side to apprehende him before he should get away Although Perkyn escaped as I haue sayde vnto Sanctuarie yet many of his chiefe Captaynes were taken and presented to the king Also the horsemen that were sent without astoppe or stay came to Saint Michaels Mount and there as chaunce was found the Lady Katherin Gorden wife to Perkyn and brought hir streight to the king At whose beautie and amiable countenance the king much marueyled and thought hir a pray more meete for a Prince than for the meane souldiours and sent hir incontinently vnto London to the
was but .xl. ss in siluer By reason of the good weight and lowe valuation of the Englishe coigne Merchauntes dayly carryed ouer great store bicause the same was much enhauÌ„ced there so that to meete with this inconuenience in September proclamation was made through all Englande that the angell shoulde go for .vij. ss iiij d the royall for .xj. ss and the crowne for .iiij. ss iiij d and the fift of Nouember following by proclamation againe the angell was enhaunsed to .vij. ss vj. d and so euery ounce of golde shoulde be .xlv. ss and an ounce of siluer at iij. ss ix d in value The king kepte a solempne Christmasse at Greenewiche wyth reuelles maskes disâ—…uisings and banquets The fourteenthe of Ianuarye came to the court Don Hugo de MeÌ„dosa 1527 An Ambassadour from the Emperour a man of a noble familye in Spaine he came as Ambassadour from the Emperor to the king with large commissioÌ„ for the Emperor put it to y e kings determinatioÌ„ whether his demauÌ„ds which be required of the French king were reasonable or not This noble man tarried here two yeres full 〈◊〉 taken 〈◊〉 In this mean time was Rome taken by the Imperioâ—…s and the Pope broughte into captiuitie wherwyth the Kyng was so intensed against the Emperour by the nauigation of the Cardinall that he had determined not to spare any â—…asure for the Popes deliuerance There rose a secret brâ—… in London that the kings coÌ„fessor Doctor LonglaÌ„d and diuers other great Clerkes had tolde the King that the marriage betweene hym The kings marriage brought in quoâ—… and the Ladye Katherine late wife to hys brother Prynce Arthur was not lawfull wherevpon the king shoulde 〈◊〉 a diuorse and marry the Dutchesse of Alan son sister to the Frenche King at the towne of Calais this SoÌ„mer and that the Vicount Rocheforte had broughte wyth hym the picture of the saide Lady The Kyng was offended wyth those tales and sente for sir Thomas Seimer maior of the erle of London secretely chardging him to see that the people ceassed from such a talke But whatsoeuer the commons talked it was determined that the Cardinall should go ouer into Fraunce as high Ambassador for the king and to take with him .xij. score thousand pound to be emploied on the warres to be made by the confederates against the Emperor if he would not condiscende to suche demaunds as the English Ambassadors on the kings behalfe shoulde exhibite vnto him When the armye was assembled the Cardinall deliuered y e mony which he had brought out of EnglaÌ„d with him in barrells with the which the armye was paide two Monethes beefore haÌ„d and y e surplusage was deliuered to sir Robert Iernyngham whyche was called Thrâ—…asourer of the warres The name of the army sent â—…to Italy This armye was called in latine Exercieus Anglia Gallorum Regumpro Pontifice Romano liberando congregaâ—…us that is to say the army of the kings of England and France gathered for the deliueraunce of the Byshoppe of Rome and so was it reputed In this meane time the English Ambassadors Sir Frauncis Pointz and Clarenceaux the herault were come into Spaine and there to the Emperor in the towne of Vale Doliffe the .vj. of Iuly deliuered the kings letters and further declared their message as they hadde in commaundemeÌ„t The Emperor made to them a courteous answer for that time and saide hee would take counsell in the matter then shuld they receiue further aunswer and in the meane time they might repose them Within a day or two after hee called to hym Doctour Lee that was the kings Ambassadour legier there wyth hym and the saide Syr Frauncis Pointz and said to them My lordes we haue perceiued the Kyng your Maysters demaundes whyche are weightie and of great importaunce Wherefore we intend with al speed to write to the K. our vncle and when we haue receiued answere froÌ„ him we shall deliuer you of such things as you require praying you in the meane time to take patience The Emperour protracted tyme of purpose bycause he was lothe to answer directly to such greuous and most irkesome complaints bycause he gâ—…ssed by y e course of things that the French king would shortly be coÌ„strained to agree to those conditions of peace whiche be at the firste had offered But the Frenche King and the Cardinall being togither at AmieÌ„s amongst other things determined there betwixt them in counsell deuised further what articles of offer shoulde bee sente to the Emperor which if he refused then open defyaunce to he made to hym in name of both the Kings The articles were these in effecte Fyrst that the French king shuld pay for his ransom 25000. crowns one writer called it .ij. millions 2. Also that hee shoulde release all the pensioÌ„ that he had in Naples Articles proposed to the Emperour with all the right of the same 3 Also that he shoulde neuer claime title to the Dutchie of Miâ—…lane .4 Also 〈◊〉 shulde release the superioritie of Flaunders foreuer and the right whiche hee had to the Citie of Tourney 5. Also hee shoulde release all the homages of all persones within those couÌ„tryes 6. Also to withdrawe his armye out of Italy 7. Also to forsake the ayde of the Switzers againste the Emperour 8. Also to take no more parte wyth Roâ—…ert de la Marche agaynste the Emperour .9 Also neuer to aide the Kyng of Nauarâ—… agâ—…sâ—… him althoughe he had married the King â—…ster 10. Also neuer to aide the Duke of Gelderâ—…and nor to chalenge the same Dutchie 11. Also to aide the Emperour wyth shippes and men to hys Coronation 12. Also to maâ—…y the Lady Elenore Quene of Portiâ—…gale sister to the Emperor 13. Also that the Dolphyne shoulde marrye the sayde Queenes daughter 14. Also that if the Frenche Kyng hadde anâ—…e children male by the said Queene then the Dutchye of Burgongne to remayne to the saide childe being male 15. Also that the Frenche King should be friende to the Emperour and hys friendes and enemye to hys ennemies These with manye other articles whyche were not openlye knowen were sente to the Byshoppe of Tarbe and to the Vicounte of Thuraine Ambassadours wyth the Emperor from the Frenche Kyng Other articles were also sente to the Englishe Ambassadours beyng in Spayne as to moue the Emperour to some reasonable ende with the Frenche King and that the Kyng of Englande woulde release to hym all the summes of money due to hym aswell by the Emperour Maximilian his Grandefather as himselfe and take the Frenche King as debter for the same If hee woulde not agree to these offers then was it accorded that the Frenche K. shuld marrie the Ladie Mary daughter to the kyng of Englande and they bothe to bee enemyes to the Emperoue When all these thynges were concluded The Cardynal retourne out of Fraunce the Cardinall tooke hys leaue of the Frenche Kyng and hys mother and wyth greate rewardes retourned
in suche sorte as hee can not pretende cause of ignoraunce After he had made an end of these words he called to him the said Robertet and with loud voice he commanded him to reade the said writing which was done worde for worde in maner as followeth WE Frauncis by the grace of God king of Fraunce Lorde of Genes c. to you Charles by the same grace chosen Emperor of Rome King of Spaine we do you to wit that being aduertised that in al the answers that you haue made to our Ambassadors and heraults sent to you for the establishing of peace in excusing your self w tout al reason you haue accused vs saying y t wee haue might you our faith and that therevpon besides our promise we departed out of your hands power In defence of our honor whiche hereby might be burthened to muche againste all truthe wee thought good to send you this writing by whiche we giue you to vnderstand that notwithstanding that no man being in ward is bound to keepe faith that the same might be a sufficient excuse for vs yet for the satiffiyng of all men and our said honor which we mynde to keepe and will keepe if it please God vnto the death that if ye haue charged or will chardge vs not only with our said faith deliueraūce but that euer wee did anye thyng that became not a Gentleman that had respect to his honor that yee lye falsly in your throte and as ofte as yee say it ye lye and do determine to defende our honor to the vttermost drop of our bloude Wherefore seeing ye haue charged vs agaynst all truth write no more to vs hereafter but appoint vs the fielde and wee will bring you the weapons protesting that if after thys declaration ye write into any place or vse any words against our honor that the shame of the delay of the combate shall light on you seeing that y e offering of combat is the ende of all writyng Made at our good Town and Citie of Paris the ◅8 daye of Marche Anno. 1528. before Easter Thus signed Frauncis After that Robertet had redde this writing there in presence of the Emperors Ambassador the king made further replie vnto the poynts conteyned in the Emperors answers to the defiance and withall to conclude tolde the said Ambassador that his maister the Emperor had constreined him by such message as he had sent to him to make y e answer in truth which he had made and further willed him to deliuer vnto y e Emperor y t writing which he had signed with his hand and to say to him that hee tooke him for so honorable a prince that cōsidering y e matter wherewith he chardged him the answere that he made he wold not faile but to answer him like a Gentleman and not by writing like an aduocate for if he otherwise do said the K. I will answer his Chaūcellor by an aduocate and a man of his estate and a more honest man than he Shortly after the Emperors Ambassadors returned home into Spaine in safetie and well entreated and vpō their returne the Ambassadors of France were set at libertie deliuered beyōd Fonterabie so came safely home into Frāce a French herault appointed to accōpanie the Ambassador Grandeuell brought the writing of the combat vnto the Emperor bicause Granduelle refused to medle with it to the which the Emperor v. months after or therabouts sent an answer by one of his Heraulds who being ariued at Paris mēt vpon y e sodain to present his letters vnto y e frēch K. but the K. getting intelligēce therof the .x. of September sitting w tin his great hall of his palace at Paris aforsaid before y e table of marble in a royal seat adressed set vp for him ◅ steps in heigth appointed to giue audiēce to y e said herald On his right hand sat in chaires y e K. of Nauarre the duke of Alanson Berry the erle of Foire Arminack on y e same side sat also vpon a bēch the D. of Vandosme a pere of Frāce lieutenāt general gouernor of Picardie Don Hercules d'Este eldest son to y e duke of Ferrare duke of Chartres Montarges who lately before had maried y e lady Renee a daughter of Frāce the D. of Albanie regent gouernor of Scotlād the duke of Longueuille great chamberlain of France nere to thē vpon an other bench sat y e presidents coūsellors of y e court of Parliamēt behind them many gentlemē doctors lerned men on the left hand wer set in chaires prepared for thē the Cardinal Saluarie y e Popes ◅gate the Cardinal of Bourbō duke of Laon a peere of Frāce the Cardinall of Sens Chancellour of France the Cardinal of Lorrain the Archb. of Narbōne y e ambassadors of y e kings of England Scotlād of the seigniorie of Venice of Milan of the cantons of y e Suysses of Florēce on an other bench sat y e bish of Trāsiluania ambassador for the K. of Hūgarie the Bishop duke of Langres one of the peeres of Frāce the bish erle of Noyon an other of the peeres of Frāce the Archb. of Lyon primate of al France the Archbish of Bourges primate of Aquitain y e archbishops of Aux Rouen y e bishops of Paris Meaux Lizeux Mascon Limoges Vabres Cōserās Terbe behind thē sat the masters of the requests the coūselors of the great counsel On either side the kings seat stode the erle of Beaumont great maister and Marshal of France the L. de Brion admirall of Frāce lieutenāt general gouernor of Burgogne behind y e same seat wer many knights of the order y e is to wit the erle of Laual lieutenant general gouernor of Britayn the lord of Montmorancy y e L. Daubigny captain of on C. launces and of the Scottish garde the erle of Bryenne Ligny Roussy the Lord of Fleuranges marshal of France the L. of Ruffoy the L. of Genoillyac great esquier master of the artillerie of France Loys monsier d'Elenes the L. of Humieres the erle of Carpy behind thē was the Erle of Estāpes prouost of Paris with him many gentlemen of y e kings chāber among the which was the erle of Tancaruille the L. of Guyenne the son of the erle of Roussy the son of the lord of Fleuranges y e L. de la Rochepot the lord Douarty great master of the waters forests y e L. of Lude y e lord of Aauly the L. de Villebonne baily of Rouē the baron of Chastean Morāt y e L. de la Loue the vicoūt de la Mothe an groing the L. of Vertes besides these the masters officers of the houshold gentlemen waiters w t the more part of y e ij C. gentlemen or pensioners as we terme thē At the entrie into the saide throne or tribunall
Capitayne generall of all the horsemenne beyng in number sixe thousand Syr Raufe Sadler knight treasourer of the Armie Syr Francis Brian knight capitayne of the lyghte horsemenne in number two thousande Syr Raulfe Auane Knight lieutenant of all the men of arms and Dymulances Sir Thomas Dartye Knyght Capitaine of all the Kings Maiesties Pencioners and men at armes Sir Rycharde Let Knight deuiser of the fortifications Sir Peter Mewtas Knight Captayne of the Harquebusiers whyche were in number sixe hundred Sir Peter Gamboa knyght Captayne of two hundred harquebusiers on horsbacke Sir FraÌ„cis Flemmyng Knyght Mayster of the ordeynaunce Sir George Blaag and Sir Thomas Holcroft Commissioners of the musters Edwarde Shelley the Lorde Gryes lieuetenaunt of the men of armes of Bollongne who was the firste that gaue the onset in the day of battayle and dyed moste honourablye in the same Iohn Brenne Captayne of the Pioners beeing in number a thousande foure hundrethe Thomas Audeley and Edwarde Chamberlaine Harbengers of the fielde The chieftaynes that commaunded in the nauy by Sea were these THe Lorde Edwarde Clinton Admirall of the fleete Sir William Woodhouse knight his Vice admirall There were in the army of greate ordeinaunce fifteene peeces and of carriages nine hundred Cartes beside many wagons whereof the Commissarie generall was George Ferrers As soone as the armye by lande was in a readynesse and set forwarde to come to Berwycke at a daye appoynted the nauye likewise tooke the Sea and by the helpe of Gods good guydyng hadde so prosperous speede in their passage that they arryued at Berwycke in tyme conuenient whyther vpon the thirtiethe of Auguste being Tuesday the Lorde Protectour came and laye in the Castell with Sir Nicholas Strelley knight Captain there The nexte daye commaundement was giuen that euery man shuld prouide himselfe for foure dayes victuall to be caried forthe with them in Cartes On Thursedaye the firste of September the Lorde Protectoure not wyth manye mo than wyth hys owne hande of horsemen roade to a Towne standyng on the sea coaste a sixe miles from Berwicke within Scotlande called Aymouthe whereat there runneth a riuer into the Sea which he caused to bee sounded and findyng the same well able to lerne for an Hauen caused afterwards a fortresse to bee reised there appoyntyng Thomas Gower that was Marshall of Berwike to bee Capitayne thereof On Fridaye all sauing the counsell departed the Towne of Berwycke and encamped a twoo flight shootes off by the Sea side toward Scotlande And the same day the Lord Clinton with his fleete took the seas from Berwike to the ende that in case the Winde shoulde not serue them to keepe course wyth the Armye by lande yet were it but wyth the dryuâ—…ng of tides they might vppon any neede of munition or victualls be still at hand or not long from them The same daye the Earle of Warwycke and Sir Raulfe Saddeler Threasouter of the armye came to Berwicke from Newecastell where they had stayed till then for the full dispatch of the reste of the army and the next day the Erle of Warwike encamped in field with the army On whiche day a proclamation with sound of Trumpette was made by an Herraulte in three seuerall places of the camp signifying the cause of the comming of the Kynges armye at that presente into Scotlande A proclamation whyche in effect was iÌ„to aduertise all the Scottish nation that their comming was not to depriue them of their liberties but to aduaunce the mariage already concluded and agreed vppon betwixte the kings maiestie of England their Quene and no hostilitie ment to suche as should shew themselues furtherers therof The fourthe of September beeing Sundaye the Lorde Protectoure came from out of the Towne and the army reised and marched that daye a sixe miles and camped by a village called Rostan in the Barourie of Coukendale The order of their Marche was this The order of the armie in marching forvvarde Sir Frauncis Brian Capitayne of the light horsemen with foure hundreth of his hande tended to the skowte a mile or two before The carriages kept a long by the sea coast and the men at armes and Dimylances deuided into three troupes aunsweryng the three wards ridde in arraye directly agaynst the carriages a twoo flyghtshote a sunder from them The three foote battayles kepte order in place betwixte them bothe The fore warde foremoste the battaile in the middest and the rereward vndermost eche ward hauing his troup of horsemenne and garde of ordinaunce hys ayde of Pyoners for amendement of wayes where neede shoulde be The fifte of September they marched an 8. miles till they came to the peathes The Peathes a clough or Valley runnyng for a sixe myles Weaste strayght Eastewarde and towarde the Sea a twenty score brode from banke to banke aboue and a fiue score in the bottome wherein runnes a little Riuer Steepe is thys valley on either side and deepe in the bottome The Scots had caste Trenches ouerthwarte the side wayes on either side in many places to make the passage more cumbersome but by the Pioners the same were soone fylled and the waye made playne that the armye carriage and ordinaunce were quite sette ouer soone after Sunne sette and there they pight downe their campe Whylest the armye was thus passyng ouer this combersome passage an Herrauite was sente from the Lorde Protectoure to sommon a Castell that stood at the ende of the same valley a myle from the place where they passed downe towardes the Sea Matthewe Hume Capitaine thereof a brothers sonne of the lord Humes vppon his sommons required to speak with the Lorde Protectoure it was graunted and hee came whome the Protectoure handled in suche sorte wyth effectuall wordes puttyng hym in choice wheather hee woulde yeelde or stande to the aduenture to haue the place won of hym by force that hee was contented to render all at his graces pleasure And so beeing commaunded to goe fetche hys companye out of the house hee wente and broughte them beeyng in all one and twentye persones The Capitayne and sixe other were staied and commaunded to the keeping of the Marshall the residue were suffered to departe whither they thought good After this surrender my Lorde Iohn Grey brother to the Marques Dorset beeyng Capitayne of a greate number of Demylaunces as for hys approued woorthynesse valiancie right well hee mought was appoynted to seaze and take possession of the house The spoyle was not rithe sure but of white bread oten cakes and Scottishe aâ—…e indifferente good store and soone bestowed among my lords Souldiers for swordes burklers pikes pottes pannes yarne linnen hempe and heapes of such baggage whiche the Countrey people there about hadde broughte into that pile to haue it in more surety the Souldiers would vnneth stoupe to take the same vp The Castell of â—â—glasse oâ—â—rowen In the meane tyme the Lord Protector appoynted the house to be ouerthrowen whiche by the Captayne of
they prouided for the Lazee to keepe him oute of the Citizen 〈◊〉 clapping of â—…ysshes and ryligion of â—…rtâ—…s to the great trouble of the Littâ—…s and also to the daungerous infection of manye that they shoulde bee remoued at home at their present with seuerall pensionâ—… Now after this godâ—… 〈◊〉 to taken the citizens by such means as may truised willing to further y e lande the report therof man made 〈◊〉 y e 〈…〉 hereof was not onely willing to graunt suche as shoulde be the ouersiers and gouernors of the said houses a corporation and authoritie for the gouernement thereof but also required that he might bee accounted as the chiefe sounder and patrone thereof And for the furtherâ—…unce of she sayde worke King Edwarde the sixth founder of the hospitals in London and continuall maintenaunce of the same he of his meere mercie and goodnesse graunted that where before certaine landes were giuen to the maintenaunce of the house of the Sanoy founded by King Henrie the seauenth for the lodging of pilgrimes and straungers and that the same was nowe made but a lodging of loyterers vagabondes and strumpets that laye all daye in the fields and at night were harboured there the which was rather the mayntenance of beggerie than the reliefe of the poore gaue the same landes being first surrendred into his hands by the Maister and felowes there whiche landes were of the yearely value of sixe hundreth poundes vnto the Citie of London for the maintenaunce of the foundation aforesayde And for a further reliefe a petition being made to the Kings maiestie for a licence to take in mortmayne or otherwise without licence landes to a certaine yearely value and a space left in the patent for his Grace to put in what summe it woulde please him he looking on the voyde place called for penne and ynke and with his owne hande wrote this summe in these wordes Foure thousande markes by yeare and then sayde in the hearing of his Counsaile A blessed king Lord God I yeelde thee most heartie thanks that thou hast giuen mee life thus long to finishe this worke to the glorie of thy name After whiche foundation established he liued not aboue two dayes Sir William Chester Iohn Calthrop Draper By example of whiche acte of this vertuous yong king sir William Chester Knight and Alderman of London and Iohn Ealthrop Citizen and Draper of the sayd Citie at their own proper costes and charges made the brickwals and want on the backeside that leadeth from the sayde new hospitall vnto the hospitall of Saint Bartholomewes and also couered and vanted the towne ditch from Aldersgate to Newgate which before was very noisome and contagious vnto the sayde Hospitall Richard Castel shoomaker This Hospitall being thus erected and put in good order there was one Richarde Castell alias Castellee shown mater dwelling in Westminster a man of great tâ—…ile and labor in his facultie with his owne handes and suche a one as was named the Edeke of Westminster for that both Winter and Sommer as was at his worke before foure of the clock in the morning This maÌ„ thus truly and painfully laboring for his liuing God blessed and increased his â—…hocâ—… so abundantly that heputt hâ—…sed lands and 〈◊〉 in Westminster to the yearely value of xliiij â—… And hauing no childe with the consent of his wife who also yet liueth and is a vertuous and good woman gaue the same landes wholye to Christes hospitall aforesayde to the reliefe of the innocent and fatherlesse children and for the succor of the miserable sore and sicke harboured in the other hospitals about London whose example God graunt many to followe About this time there were three notable ships set forth and furnished for the great aduenture of the vnknowne voyage into the East by y e north seas The great doer and encourage of which voiage was Sebastian Caboto an EnglishmeÌ„ Sebastian Caboto born at Bristow but was the sâ—… of a Genawaies These ships at the last arriued in the couÌ„trie of Moscouia not without great lusse danger namely of their captaine who was a worthie aduenturous gentleman called sir Hugh Willough by knight who being tossed and driuen by tempest hernous at the last founde in his ship frosen to death and all his people But now the sayde voyage and trade is greatly aduaunced and the merchants aduenturing that waye are newly by acte of Parliament incorporated and moued with sundrie priuiledges and liberties About the beginning of the moueth of Maye next following Three noâ—… mariages there were three notable mariages concluded and shortlye after solemnised at Durham place The first was betweene the Lorde Guilforde Dudley the fourth sonne of the Duke of Northumberlande and the Ladie Iane eldest daughter of Henrie Duke of Suffolke and the Ladie Frauncis his wife was the daughter of Marye seconde sister to king Henrie the eyght first married to Lewes the Frenche King and after to Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolke The seconde mariage was betweene the Lorde Harbert sonne and heyre of William Earle of Pembroke and the Ladie Katherine second daughter of the said Lady Francis by the said Henrie Duke of Suffolke And the thirde was betweene Henrie Lorde Hastings sonne and heyre of Frauncis Earle of Huntington and Katherine yongest daughter of the Duke of Northumberlande which three mariages were â—…mpassed and concluded chieflye vppon purpose to chaunge and alter the order of succession to the Crowne made in the tyme of King Henrie the eyght from the saide Kings daughters Marye and Elizabeth and to conuey the same immediatlye after the death of King Edwarde to the house of Suffolke in the right of the sayde Ladie Fraunces wherein the sayde yong King was in â—…most trauaylee in the time of his sickenesse and all for feare that if his sister Marie being next heire to the Crowne shoulde succeede that she would subuert all his lawes and statutes made conuerning religion whereof he was most carefull for the continuance whereof he sought to establishe a meete order of succession by the alliaunce of great houses by way of mariage which neuerthelesse were of no force to serue his purpose For tending to the disherison of the rightfull heyres they proued nothing prosperous to the parties for two of them were soone after made frustrate the one by death the other by diuorce In the meane whyle the King became euery day more sicker than other of a consumption in his lungs so as there was no hope of his recouerie wherevppon those that then bare chiefe authoritie in Counsayle with other Prelates and Nobles of the Realme called to them diuerse notable persons learned as well in Diuinitie as in the lawes of the lande namely Bishops Iudges and other fell to consultation vpon this so weightie case and lastly concluded vpon the deuise of King Edwardes will to declare the sayde Ladie Iane eldest neece to K. Henrie the eyght and wife to the sayde Lorde Gullforde
Almayne In the vij yeare of Henrie the seconde of that name king of Fraunce and in the xj of Marie Queene of Scotlande The Duke of Northumberland arrested The xx of Iuly the Duke of Northumberlande being come backe vnto Cambridge beard that the Proclamation of Queene Marie was come thither whereof he being aduertised called for a trumpetter and an Heralt but none could be founde Wherevpon he ryding into the market place with the Maior and the Lorde Marques of Northampton made the Proclamation himselfe and threwe vp his cappe in token of ioy The Lorde Marques after this wente to Queene Marie but the Duke for that he was appoynted generall of the armie in the quarrell of the Ladie Iane of Suffolke was by the Maior of Cambridge and a Sergeaunt at armes arrested of treason and the xxv day of the sayde Moneth he with Frauncis Earle of Huntington Iohn Earle of Warwicke sonne and heire to the sayde Duke and two other of his yonger sonnes the Lorde Ambrose and the Lorde Henrie Dudley Sir Andrewe Dudley Sir Iohn Gates Captaine of the Garde to king Edwarde the sixth sir Henrie Gates brethren Sir Thomas Palmer Knightes and Doctor Sandes were brought to the tower by the earle of Arundell But as they entered within the tower gate the Earle of Arundell discharged the Lord Hastings taking him out of the tower with him The xxvj of Iulye the Lorde Marques of Northampton the Bishop of London the L. Robert Dudley and Sir Robert Corbet were brought from the Queenes Campe vnto the Tower The xxviij of Iuly the Duke of Suffolke was committed to the tower but the xxj of the same Moneth he was set at libertie by the diligent suite of the Ladie Frauncis grace his wife After that Queene Marie was thus with full consent of the Nobles and Commons of the Realme proclaymed Queene shee being then in Norffolke at hir Castell of Framingham Queene Marie commeth to London repayred with all speede to the Citie of London and the thirde day of the sayd moneth of August she came to the sayde citie and so to the tower where the Ladie Iane of Suffolke late afore proclaymed Queene with hir husbande the Lorde Guilforde a little before hir comming were comitted towarde and there remained almost after fiue monethes And by the waye as the Queene thus passed she was ioyfully saluted of all the people without anye misliking sauing that it was much feared of manye that she woulde alter the religion set forth by King Edwarde hir brother whereof then were giuen iust occasions bicause notwithstanding diuers lawes made to the contrarie shee had daylye Masse and Latine seruice sayde before hir in the Tower At hir entrie into the Tower there were presented to hir certaine prisoners Prisoners discharged namely Thomas Duke of Norffolke who in the last yeare of king Henrie the eyght as you haue hearde was supposed to be attainted of treason but in the Parliament holden in this first yeare of Queene Marie the sayde supposed attaindour was by the authoritie and acte of Parliament for good and apparaunt causes alledged in the sayde acte declared to be vtterlye frustrate and voyde Also Edwarde Courtney sonne and heyre of Henrie Marques of Exceter cosin germaine to king Henrie the eyght and Cuthbert Tunstall Bishop of Durham with other persons of great calling but especiallye Stephen Gardiner bishop of Winchester whome she not onely released of imprisonment Stephen Gardiner made L. Chancelor but also immediately aduaunced and preferred to bee Lorde Chauncelor of Englande restoring him also to his former estate and Bishopricke and remoued from the same one Doctor Poynet who a little before was placed therein by the gifte of King Edward the sixth And touching Edwarde Courtney she not aduaunced him to the Earledome of Deuonshire Edward Courtâ—…y created Earle of Deuonshire but also to so muche of his fathers possessions as there remayned in hir hands whereby it was then thought of many that she bare affection to him by way of mariage but it came not so to passe for what cause I am not able to giue any reason but surely the subiectes of Englande were most desirous thereof Vpon the receyuing of this newe Queene all the Bishops which had bene depriued in the time of King Edwarde the sixth hir brother for the cause of religion were nowe againe restored to their Bishoprickes and such other as were placed in King Edwarde his time remoued from their seates and other of contrarie religion placed Amongst whome Edmonde Bonner Doctor of the lawes late afore depriued from the sea of London and committed prisoner to the Marshalsee by order of King Edwards Counsayle was with all fauour restored to his libertie and Bishopricke maister Nicholas Ridley Doctor in Diuinitie late before aduaunced to the same sea by the saide King was hastily displaced and committed prisoner to the tower of London The cause why such extremitie was vsed towardes the sayde Bishop Ridley more than to the rest was for that in the time of Ladie Iane he preached a sermon at Paules crosse by the commaundement of King Edwardes Counsayle wherein he dissuaded the people for sundrie causes from receyuing the Ladie Marie as Queene The xiij of August Doctor Bonner restored nowe to his Bishopricke againe appointed one late a chaplaine of his called Doctor Borne Doctor Borne to preach at Paules crosse who was then promoted to the Queenes seruice and not long afterwarde was made Bishop of Bathe the sayde Doctor taking occasion of the Gospell of that day spake somewhat largely in the iustifying of Bishop Bonner being present at the Sermon whiche Bishop as the sayde Preacher then openly sayde for a Sermon made vpon the same Text and in the same place the same day foure yeares afore passed was most vniustly cast into the vile dungeon of the Marshalsee among theenes and there kept during the time of king Edwardes reigne This matter being set forth with great vehemencie so muche offended the eares of part of the audience that they brake silence and began to murmure and throng togither in such sort as the Maior and Aldermen with other of the wiser sort then present feared muche an vprore A dagger throwne at the preacher During which muttering one more feruent than his fellowes threwe a dagger at the Preacher but who it was came not to knowledge by reason of which outrage the Preacher withdrewe himselfe from the Pulpil and one maister Bradforde at the request of the Preachers brother and others standing there tooke the place and spake so mildely to the people that with fewe wordes he appeased their furie and after the sayde maister Bradforde and maister Rogers although men of contrarie religion conueyed the sayd Preacher into Paules schole and there left him in safetie The next Sundaye following for feare of a like tumult or worse order was taken that the Queenes garde shoulde be present in the place to defende the Preacher with weapons
by the Cōmissioners of both parts Doysell answered that they were no souldiours but poore people which went to gather Cockles for their reliefe and sustenance The Drumme said that if they kept not themselues within their appoynted limits my Lorde Lieutenant ment to send them backe not greatly to their ease whervnto Doysell replied that if he so did he woulde do the best he could to ayd them ◅chmen ◅oones bea◅s they ga◅d cockles Herevpon the English horsmen and footmen out of Montpelham gaue a charge vpon them and slue of them to the number of fiftie and tooke certaine of the residue prisoners Friday the sixt of Iune about six of the clock in the after noone issued out of Lieth .xiiij. horsmē and C. footmē which offred the skirmish but vpon the shooting of the great artillery frō Mōtpelham they retired home again into the towne Scattergood Gunner The night following about .xij. of the clocke one Scattergood an Englishman that was a Gunner and had feyned himselfe to flee from the English campe for manslaughter into Lieth and was receyued of the Frenchmen beleeuing that he had ment no deceyt came out of the towne after he had remayned there about seuen dayes in which meane while he had vnderstoode fully the state of the towne and now vpon hys returne made relation thereof as he knew Saterday the sixt of Iune the Lord Gray L. Lieutenant maister Secretarie Cicill and sir Raufe Sadler betwixt three and foure of the clocke in the after noone gaue order that there shoulde no peece be shotte nor shew of hostilitie made till seuen of the clocke the same night and herewith sent sir Gerueys Clifton vnto all the souldiours that warded in the Trenches Bulwarkes on the west syde of Lieth to cōmaunde them to obserue the like order and sir Iohn Neuill was sent with like commaundement vnto the souldiours that lay in Somersets Mount The peace concluded The peace now in the meane time being concluded on the morrow being Sunday and .vij. of Iune sir Francis Leake sir Gerueys Clifton accompanied with two French gentlemen were sent to the towne of Lieth to signifie vnto Monsieur Doysell the Bishop of Amiens La Brosse Martigues and other the French Lords and Captaines that they were come thither by commaundement from the Commissioners to cause the peace alreadie concluded to bee proclaymed which accordingly was done in maner as followeth The peace pro◅ed The most mightie princesse Elizabeth by the grace of God Queene of England France and Ireland defender of the fayth c. and the most christian king Francis and Marie by the same grace of God king and Queene of Fraunce and Scotland haue accorded vpon a reconciliation of a peace and amitie to be inuiolably kept betwixt them their subiects kingdomes coūtries and therefore in their names it is straitly commaunded to all maner of persons borne vnder their obeysances or being in their seruice to forbeare all hostilitie either by sea or land to keepe good peace eche w t other frō this time forwards as they will answere thereto at their vttermost perils Immediatly after this proclamation was ended Sir Francis Leake and sir Gerueys Clifton banketted by M. Doysel sir Francis Leake and sir Gerueys Clifton were brought to Mon. Doysels lodging where was prepared for them a great banket of .xxx. or xl dishes and yet not one either of flesh or fishe sauing one of the flesh of a pouldred horse as a certain person hath written that tasted thereof as he himselfe auoucheth Thus haue I bin more large in this matter concerning the siege of Lieth than maye bee thought peraduenture necessarie sith the thing is yet fresh in memorie but bycause there came to my handes certaine notes of one or two persons that were there present and for help of their own memories wrote the same I haue thought it not impertinent to insert the effect of thē that the same may serue to further those that hereafter shall write the Hystorie of this time more at large sith my purpose is not to cōtinue the same otherwise than I finde things noted in the Abridgemēts of Iohn Stow and Richard Grafton except in some recitall of expeditions and iourneis made as this and other into Scotland and that same of the right honourable the Earle of Warwike into Normandie whiche I haue thought good to enlarge according to such notes as haue come to my hande beseeching the readers to accept the same in good part and if any thing be omitted eyther in this place or any other y t were as necessarie to be spoken of as those poynts which I haue touched or afterwardes may touch to impute the fault to the want of good instructions and not to anye neglygence or lacke of good will in me to aduaunce euerie mannes worthie doings according to his merites But nowe concerning the Articles of the peace being about .xiij. in all The articles of the peace at the siege of Lieth the chiefest maye seeme to rest herein that the French souldiours and men of warre should depart out of the realm of Scotlande within a short time limitted .xx. dayes as Ludouico Guiciardini hath noted sixe score of them only excepted as .lx. to abyde in Insketh and .lx. in the Castell of Dunbarre they to be answered theyr wages at the handes of the Estates of Scotlande and to bee subiectes vnto the lawes and ordinaunces of that realme That the fortifications about Lieth shoulde bee razed and demolished and likewyse the Fort which had beene buylt and raysed before the Castell of Dunbarre by the French for a strength thereto That the Frenchmen should not conuey into Scotland any men of warre or munitions without consent of the Parliament assembled of the three estates of that realm That the King and Queene of Fraunce and Scotlande shoulde not from thencefoorth beare the armes of Englande sith the same apperteyned only to the Queenes Maiestie of England and to none other person These and other articles were comprised and established in the conclusion of thys peace as well to the honour and suretie of the Queenes Maiestie of Englande hir Realmes Dominions and Subiectes as also for the wealth and preseruation of the Realme of Scotlande See more here of in Scotland the Nobles and other Subiectes of that Realme After that this peace then was fully established agreed and concluded the Frenchmen were embarked at Lieth in Englishe vesselles those onely excepted that were appoynted to remaine as pledges with the Englishmen tyll the Shippes came back againe and a few other that were permitted to passe through Englande into their Countrey Thus were the French forces remooued out of Scotland a matter so much importing to the confirmation of peace betwixte vs and that Realme and also to the auoyding of further perilles that this iourney ended with so honourable and profitable a peace concluded by the highe industrie and prudente policie of oure
as followeth The Articles of the agreemeÌ„t touching surrender of Newhauen Firste that the Earle of Warwike shoulde 〈◊〉 agayne the Towne of Newhauen into the handes of the Connestable of Fraunce with all the artillerie and munitions of warre then beeyng in that Towne and belonging to the French King and his subiects Item that hee should leaue the Shippes that were in the sayde towne at that presente belonging eyther to the King or hys subiects with all their furniture and generally all such merchandise and other things being likewise at that present within that Towne as either belonged to the King or his subiects Item for the more suretie of the premisses the sayd Earle should presently deliuer into the hands of the sayde Connestable the greate tower of the sayde hauen so that the Souldyers that were placed therin enter not into y e towne and that the sayde Earle of Warwike shoulde cause the gates there towardes the Towne to be warded till it were in the possession of y e sayd Connestable without planting any ensignes on the sayde Tower according vnto the sayde agreement and also that the sayde Earle shoulde deliuer foure such hostages as the sayde Connestable should name Item that the next day by eight of the clocke in the morning the sayd Erle should withdraw his Souldyers whiche are in the forte to deliuer it immediately into the hands of the sayd Connestable or such as should be by hym appoynted to receyue the same at the sayd houre Item that all prisoners that haue bin taken before the sayde Hauen shoulde bee delyuered on eyther side without paying any raunsome Item that the Connestable shoulde for hys parte suffer the saide Earle of Warwike and all those that are in garnison in the sayde Newhauen to departe with all thyngs 〈◊〉 that belonged to the Queene of Englande and hir subiects Item that for the departure as well of the sayd Earle as the 〈◊〉 of hys Souldyers and other things before rehearsed y e sayd Connestable agreed to gyue them sixe whole dayes beginning the morrow there nexte following to 〈◊〉 the .xxix. of Iuly during whiche sixe dayes they mighte â—…ly and freâ—…ly take and 〈◊〉 away all the sayde things 〈◊〉 wythe or foule weather shuld hinder that their passage coulde not be made within the sayde 〈◊〉 in this case the sayde Connestable should graunte them suche further time of delay as might bee though 〈◊〉 Item the sayde Connestable dyd likewise permite that 〈…〉 Shippes and English vessels and all other that shoulde be appoynted for the portage and conueying away of the sayde things should safely and freely passe into and fro the sayde Hauen without any stay or impeachment eyther by the Frenche army of anye other The sayde some hostages were appoynted to bee maister Oliuer Maners brother to the Earle of Rutlande Captayne Pelham Captayne Horsey and Captayne Leighton In witnesse whereof the sayde Lordes the Connestable of Fraunce and Earle of Warwike signed these articles the eyght and twentith of Iuly Anno .1563 Thus the Earle of Warwike Additions to Lanquer as he had during the whole tyme of hys abode there in that Towne of Newhauen shewed himselfe a right hardy and valiaunt Captayne so nowe in the ende hee proued himselfe to be both prudent and politike for by accepting of these honorable coÌ„ditions to goe with all armour munition Shippes goodes bagge and baggage in anye wife apperteyning or belonging eyther to the Queenes maiestie or to any of hir graces subiects he saued the liues of a great number which otherwise escaping the scourge of the infectiue plague must needes haue fallen vnder the edge of the sword The Connestable during the tyme of the parley sente hys yongest sonne Monsieur de Thorree to the King and Queene mother to aduertise them of the recasie of this peace and after it was once concluded and signed by the Earle of Warwike he sent his eldest sonne the Marshall Montmorencie to presente the same vnto them at Criquelot halfe way betweene Newhauen and Fefeanip The French King coÌ„meth to the Camp before Newhauen who were right ioyful of the newes and the nexte day they came to the Campe shewing greate signes of theyr contryued gladnesse for the recouering of that Towne thus 〈◊〉 of the Englishe mens handes The Saterday the most part of the English men tooke shippe and departed homewardes for glad might be thinke himselfe that could get soonest out of that vnwholsome and most vnsouerie 〈◊〉 Many sicke persons yet were left behinde impotent and not able to helpe themselues The miserie where of Edward Randolfe Esquier high Marshall of the towne who was appoynted to carrie and see the vttermost of the composition accomplished perceyuing moued with naturall pitie of his Countreymen relinquished without comfort caused the sayde sicke personnes to be caried aborde not sparing hys shoulders at that tyme feable and full of the plague himselfe and his men still bearing and helping the poore creatures on shipboorde Arane fact worthie rewarde and no doubt in remembraunce with God the true recorder of mercifull deserts Thus was the Towne of Newhauen reduced againe into the hands of the French more vndoubtedly through the extreeme mortalitie that so outragiously afflicted the souldiours and men of warre within the same than by the enimyes enforcementes although the same was great and aduaunced to the vttermost of the aduersaries power Beside the meaner sort of those that dyed of the pestilence during the siege these I find noted as chiefe Cutbert Vaughan Comptroller of the towne Frauncis Somerset cousin to the Earle of Worcester Auerie Darcie brother to the Lorde Darcie Iohn Zouch brother to the Lorde Zouch Edwarde Ormesby Thomas Drurie alias Poignard Richard Croker Iohn Cockson Thomas Remishe Iohn Prowde William Saul Wilfreid Antwisell Besyde these being Captaynes in chiefe dying there in that towne or else sickning there and dying vpon theyr returne into Englande there were dyuerse other gentlemen and such as had charge whiche likewise ended theyr lyues by force of that cruell and moste grieuous pestilent infection There were diuerse also that were slaine as well by Canon shotte as otherwise in the fielde in skirmish as both the Tremaynes brethren of one byrth Nicholas and Andrew Captayne Richard Sanders with maister Robynson maister Bromfield of which two before ye haue heard also one Leighton a Gentleman and diuerse moe whose names I knowe not worthie neuerthelesse to be remembred and placed in ranke with such worthie men as in their countreys cause haue lost theyr liues and are therefore by Wryters registred to liue by same foreuer But now to passe to other matters at home As ye haue heard Stow. Pestilence the plague of Pestilence being in the towne of Newhauen through the number of souldiours that returned into Englande the infection thereof spread into dyuerse partes of this realme but especially the Citie of London was so infected that in the same whole yeare that is to say from
the person of the eldest Page 1335 col 1 line 16 and in skirmishing put out and. Page 1340 col 2 line 20 for Loustrother reade Longstrother Page 1344 col 1 lin 7 for reademption rede readeption Page 1345 col 1 line 54 for Bathe reade Booth Page 1348 colum 1 line 30 for Lorde Haward read Howard and so in other places Page 1381 col 1 in the margente ouer againste thē 14. line note this was Thomas Burder of Arrowe in the Countie of Warwike esquier who suffered about the .xvij. yeare of K. Edwarde the fourth and no Citizen of Lōdon as some haue wrōgly enterliued this place Page 1426 colum 2 line 9 for in this time reade in the time The same page colum line 28 for did rede he did Page 1429 col 1 line 38 and shortly after hee went put it out and the three next lines for Prince Arthur was not borne till September in y e third yere of his fathers raigne as after it appeareth Page 1435 col 1 line 22 for lend rede lewde The same page and colum in the Margent ouer againste the eight and twentieth line write the yeare of the K. thus Anno Regni 5 Page 1436 col 2 line 24. for helding reade heading Page 1437 col 1 line 2 for with good reade with his good Page 1440 col 2 line 44 the birthe of King Henry the eyght there noted should haue bin placed before the Kings going to Boilongne Page 1442 wher Anno Regni is placed ouer againste the 37 line of the firste colum it ought to be ouer against the seauēth line of the same page and colum Page 1454 col 1 line 43 for woulde make reade would not make Page 1457 col 1 lin 12 for went rede and therevpon to goe The same page col 2 line 51 The yeare of our Lord 1502 is to be referred to their accompte that begin the yeare the 25. of March Page 1465 col 2 line 49 for after with reade after which Page 1472 col 2 line 18 for Haward reade Howard and so in all other places Page 1477 col 1. line 4. for trapped reape grapled The same page second col sir Edwarde adde Howard Page 1484 col 1 line 3 nexte vnder the picture for those reade for whē those Page 1495 col 1 line 38 for two and thirtie Crownes reade ◅2000 crownes Page 1504 col 2 line 5 for Campe is reade Campeius Page 1510 col 2 line 58 for aunswers reade aunswerers Page 1515 col 2 lin 36. for the dukes words rede the Monkes wordes Page 1522 col 2 line 18 and in October put out and. Page 1527 col 2 line 34 and 35. for fiue hundred reade two or three hundred Page 1529 col 1 lin 17 their hauntes rede their hands Page 1540 though wrōg noted 1548 colum 1 line 1 for Cardinals reade Cardinall Page 1542 col 1 line 5 besieching reade besiech The same page col 2 line 29 is of rede is one of Page 1544 col 2 line 51 no longer put out no. Page 1567 col 1 line 41 for Rebells rede Rebellious Page 1590 col 1 line 15 for Townon reade Towmond The same page and col line 12 for Claurickforde reade Clanrickard Page 1591 col 2 line 23 for Iuano reade Ariano Page 1594 col 1 line 16 for Lanceston reade Laureston The same page and col line 30 for Minees reade Mine◅s The same Page and colum line 45 for Mary rede Margaret In the register of their names that were made Knights at Leith anno 1544 for Sir Iohn Cleere reade Sir Thomas Cleere Page 1601. col 2 line 2 for Halidon rigge reade Panner Hugh and likewise in the Margent Page 1648 col 1 line 34. by the aduice his Vncle reade by the aduice of his Vncle. Page 1656 col 1 line 52. Ye shal here note for the further vnderstāding of the suppression of this Rebellion in Deuonshire that there were diuers skirmishes and encounters betwixte the Kings army vnder the Lord priuie seale and the said Rebelles as fyrste at Honington bridge before the comming of the Lord Grey of wilton and after his comming at a place casted Grendones Mille in woodbury parish and then at Clift where amongst other sir william Frauncis seruing verye forwardlye againste the Rebels caught suche hurtes that he dyed therof shortly after when the Rebels had bene here repulsed and put to flighte the Lord priuie seale with the armye remoued first to Topesham where they buried Sir william Francis and the nexte day beeing the syxth of August they came to ◅xcete◅ where they encamped without the walles and immediately thither came the Maister of the Horses Sir William Herbert with a thousand Welchmē They remayned heere at Exeter about a twelue dayes and hauing sette things there in some order they marched forthe towardes Sampford Courtney and at their comming thither found a great number of the Rebelles there assembled and wilfully bente to trie their quarrell by hazard of battel so that no small number of them were there slayne and taken the rest fledde after whome were sent to pursue them Sir Peter Carow Sir Hugh Paulet Sir Gawen Carewe and others who ouertaking them at kings weston easily ouerthrowe them and thys was the last fyght whiche was had against the Rebels of Deuonshire and Cornewall The number of them that were slayne in this Rebellion in those seuerall places afore specifyed was esteemed to bee about a three thousand persons Page 1677 col 1 line 7 for whyche reade with Page 1714 col 2 line 38 for Ladye Francis his wife was the daughter reade that was daughter Page 1726 col 2 put this note in the Margent ouer against the .51 line Nicholas Laurēce as some write but for the more perfect knowlege hereof and of some other thynges likewise by Gods helpe I trust to get suche instructions and deliuer the same vnto those that shall set forthe the nexte Summarie or abridgement of the English chronicles as maye herein better satisfie the reader Page 1734. col 2. line 6 for sir Iohn Rogers read sir Edward Rogers Page 1749. col 1. line 23. by procurement read by my procurement Page 1751. put in the mergent ouer againste the 31 line Burdet no marchant but an Esquier in the countie of warwike although some that printed sir Thomas Moores hystorie of Edwarde the fifth haue glosed it with a wrong parentisis Page 1766. col 2. line 16. and 17. for Hargill read Hartgill Page 1775. col 2. line 31. for grated read graysed Page 1789. col 2. lin 56. for pressa read pressae in some copies it is amended Page 1827 col 1. lin 16. put out Morron for he was not in that skirmish The horsemen were of Nicholas Tremaynes band whose lieutenant Nicholas Erington was shotte through the bodie and three of hys companie were slaine Moreouer it is not to be forgotten that captaine Read had the general conduct of the field that morning who shewed such prouf of his approued forwardnesse as it well appeared the erle of warwike vsed good iudgemente in making choise of him and others for the execution of that enterprice Page 1836. col 2. line 52. for Longfoille read Loughfoille Page 1841. col 2. for George Henrie and Michaell read Henrie Iohn and Michaell Page 1842. col 1. line 5. for xxvij read xvij Page 1843. col 1. line 10. for Tiuidale men read Tindall men Page 1865. col 1. li. 7. for .xij. yere read xlij yeares Page 1867. col 2. line 46. for Canons read battring peeces Page 1873. col 1. line 5. for the Marques reade and the Marques Page 1876 col 1. line 5. for Thomas Bishop read Iohn Bishop These and diuerse other ouersightes and faultes gentle reader I trust than doest consider may easily escape in so large a volume as this and therefore beseech thee of pardon and that it may please thee to correct the same as in reading it may fortune thee too meete with them or any other the like For the Table this I haue to aduertise the Reader that as it was gathered by sundrie persons so is there some disorder in the placing thereof which leysure would not permit to dispose so as wee coulde haue wished by reason of the printers hast And where as in the pictures of battails ther are in sundrie places gunnes before the inuention of that kind of engine whereby the reader may esteeme some error and desirous peraduenture to know when they came first in vse he shal vnderstand that we read not of any to bee put in practise till the yeare 1380 in the warres betwixt the Venetians and Genoweys at Chiozza FINIS
and that same daye in the Parliamente by the Queenes Maiesties Writtes Barons made Sir Henry Compton Knight Lorde of Compton in the hole Sir Henrye Cheyney Knyght Lorde of Todington Sir William Paulet Knyghte of Basing and Sir Henrye Norres Knyght Lorde of Ricote were called Barons into the higher house In this Parliament Roages brent through the eare for somuch as y e whole Realme of Englande was exceedingly pestered with Roges Vagabonds and sturdy Beggers by meanes whereof dayly happened diuers horrible murthers theftes and other greate outrages it was enacted that all persons aboue the age of fourteene yeares beeyng taken begging vagrant and wandring misorderly shoulde bee apprehended whipped and brente through the gristle of the right eare with a hote yron of one ynch compas for the first time so taken The foure and twentith of May Martin Bullocke hanged at the well with two buckettes Martin Bullocke was hanged on a Gibbet by the well with two buckets in Bishoppes gate streete of London for robbing and most shamefully murthering of a Merchant named Arthur Hall in the Personage of S. Martin by the saide well This Martin had procured the said Arthur Hall to come to the saide Personage to buy of hym certaine plate but after the said Arthur had wel viewed the same he said this is none of your plate it hathe Doctor Gardners marke and I knowe it to be his That is true saide Martin Bullocke but he hath appointed me to sell it c. After this talke whilest the saide Arthur was waying the plate the same Martin set out of the Kitchen a thicke washing beetle and comming behinde him strake the said Arthur on the head that he felled him with the first stroke and then strake him againe and after tooke the sayde Arthurs dagger and sticked him with his knife cutte his throte and after woulde haue trussed him in a Danske chest but the same was too shorte wherevppon hee tumbled him downe a paire of staires and after thinking to haue buried him in the seller his legges being broken with the first fall and stiffe he coulde not drawe hym downe the seller staires being winding wherefore he cut off his legges with an hatchet and in the ende trussed him with strawe in a drye fat and saying it was his apparell and Bookes caused the same to be caried to the water side and so shipped to Rie but as God would haue it there was suspition gathered against the murtherer whereby hee was examined before Alderman Branche then one of the Sheriffes of London but so small likelihoode appeared that he shoulde be giltie that there was an honest man dwelling in Saint Laurence Pontney named Roberte Gee a Clothworker supposing the offendor to bee cleere in the matter vndertooke for hys forthe commyng wherevppon Bullocke beeyng suffered to goe at libertie slipte away fyrste to Westminster and there takyng boate passed vppe the Riuer and commyng a lande beyonde Kyngston passed forthe tyll hee came to Okingham in the forest of Windesore an eyght myles beyond the Towne of Windesor and from thence what moued hym I leaue to the secret iudgemente of God hee came backe againe vnto London lodging at the redde Lion in Holborne In the meane time the foresayd Gee vppon knowledge hadde that Bullocke was withdrawen out of the way was not only hadde in some suspition but also committed to warde albeit so as hee hadde libertie to take order to sende abroade suche as shoulde make sute after Bullocke And amongst other that went forth one of hys seruauntes was sent to Rie whither the drie fatte was conueyd and comming thither the same drye fat was opened where the mangled corps of Hall was found whereby the trouth of the matter came to lighte and by the good prouidence of God the reuealet of suche euill factes Bullocke was at the very same tyme discouered at the place in Holborne aforementioned and there apprehended did receyue as ye haue hearde due punishmente for hys heynous and most wicked offence Earle of Lin◅olne and other Ambassadors into France The sixe and twentith of May the right honorable Earle of Lincolne departed from London towards France Embassador being accōpanied with the L. Dacres the Lord Riche the Lord Talbot the Lord Sands and the Lorde Clinton Sir Arthur Chambernowne Sir Hierome Bowes and Sir Edward Hastings Knightes with diuers other Gentlemen who taking Shippe at Douer cut ouer to Bulloine where they were very honorably receyued and from thence conueyed by iourneys to Paris where they were lodged in a house of the kyngs named Le chasteau de Louure being attended on of the Kings officers Fiue dayes after they went to the King at a house called Madrill where the King with hys two breethren the Admirall and the most parte of the nobles of Fraunce mette them a distance from the place and brought them into the house where they dyned and remayned tyl Sonday following from whēce the King and his nobles with the nobles of Englande came to Paris the King hys two breethren and our Ambassadour riding in one Couche togither and the nobles of Englād and Fraunce beyng so placed also in Couches came to the sayde Castell of Louure and there dyned After dynner the Kyng oure Ambassadoure with the nobilitie of both Realmes went to a Churche named Sainte Germaine where the French Kyng hys breethren and nobilitie heard Euensong the noble men of Englande withdrawing them into a Chappell till Euensong was done were then fetched thence by the nobles of Fraunce to the King and hys breethren that awayted theyr commyng League with Fraunce confirmed in Fraunce where was confirmed the league which had bin concluded at Blois the ninetenth of April deputies being there for the French party Francis M◅morēcy Rainold Birago Sebastian de Laubespine and Paule de Foix. And for the Queene of England Sir Thomas Smyth and Maister Walsingham Embassadors This being done they departed withoute the walles of Paris to a gardeine of pleasure where they supped After supper the King departed to his place of Madrill and the Nobles of England to the Castell of Loure On Monday the Admirall feasted the Nobles of Englande On Tewsday the Duke of Aniou the Kings brother and on Wednesday the Duke of Alanson his yonger brother and so passed in feasting and banquetting with riche giftes on both partes On Friday the Nobles of Englande tooke leaue of the King and on Sonday came to S. Denis and after to Boloine where they tooke Shyppe and returned into England the fourth of Iuly The seconde of Iune in the morning beetweene the houres of seauen and eight Duke of Norffolke beheaded Thomas Howard Duke of Northfolke was beheaded on a Scaffold new set vp on the Tower hill Aboute the ninth of Iune French Ambassadors Francis Duke of Mōtmorency chiefe marshal of France gouernour and Lieutenant of the Isle of France generall to Charles the ninth K. of Fraunce and Paule de Foix of
the priuie Counsell to the sayd King and Bertrand de Saligners Lorde de la Mothefenelon Knightes of the order of Sainte Michaell Ambassadors for the same King arriued at Douer The .xiiij. day they shot London bridge towardes Somerset house at the Strand where they were lodged The .xv. daye being Sonday the saide Ambassadors repaired to the white hall where they were honorably receiued of the Queenes Maiestie with hir nobilitie and there in hir graces Chappell about one of the clocke in the after noone y e articles of treaty league or confederacy and sure friendshippe concluded at Bloys the .xix. of Aprill as is aforeshewed betwixt the Queenes Maiestie League with France confirmed at Westminster and the French K. beeing read the same was by hyr Maiestie and his Ambassadors confirmed to be obserued and kept without innouation or violation c. The rest of that day with great parte of the night following was spente in greate triumph with sumptuous banquets The eyghtenth of Iune Saint Georges feast at Windesore the feast of Sainte George was holden at Windesore where the Frenche Ambassadors were royally feasted and Fraunces Duke of Mōtmorency was s◅aulled Knight of the most honorable order of the Garter The eyghte and twentith daye of Iune the forenamed Ambassadors departed from London towards Fraunce The fourteenth of Iune Thomas Lorde Wharton deceassed in his house of Chanō row at Westminster Lord Treasorer Lorde priuie seale Lord Chamb◅rl◅yne with other officers The thirtēth day of Iuly the Queenes Maiestie at White Hall made sir William Cicill Lorde of Burghley Lord high Treasorer of England Lorde William Howard late Lorde Chamberlaine Lord priuie seale The Earle of Sussex L. Chamberlaine sir Thomas Smith principall Secretary and Christopher Hatton Esquier Captaine of the garde c. Englishmen sent to Vlstar in Irelande In thys moneth of August Sir Thomas Smith one of the Queenes Maiesties priuie Counsell carefully tendering the reformation of Irelande sente hys sonne Thomas Smith Esquier thither with a certayne number of Englishmenne to inhabite the Ardes in Vlster after the manner of a Colonie vsed by the Romaynes An. reg 51. A strange Starre appeared The .xviij. of Nouember in the mornyng was seene a Starre Northward very bright cleere in the constellation of Cassiopeia at the backe of hir Chaire which with three chiefe fixed starres of the said constellation made a Geometrical figure losengewise of the learned men called Rombus This starre in bignes at y e first appearing seemed bigger than Iupiter and not much lesse than Venus when she seemeth greatest also the sayde Starre neuer changing hys place was carried about with the dayly motion of Heauen as all fixed Starres commonly are and so continued by little and little to the eye appearing lesse for the space of almost sixteene Monethes at what time it was so small that rather thought by exercises of oft viewing moughte imagine the place than any eye could iudge y e presence of the same And one thing is heerein chiefely to bee noted that by the skyll and consente of the best and most experte Mathematicians whyche obserued the state propertie and other circumstaunces belongyng to the same Starre it was founde to haue bin in place Celestiall farre aboue the Moone otherwise than euer anye Comete hathe beene seene or naturally can appeare Therefore it is supposed that the signification thereof is directed purposely and specially to some matter not naturall but celestiall or rather supercelestiall so strange as from the beginning of the worlde neuer was the like The four and twentith of Nouember Earle of Derby deceassed Edwarde Earle of Derby Lorde Stanley and Strange of Knocking Lord and gouernour of the Isles of Man Knyghte of the noble order of the Garter and one of the Queenes Maiesties priuie Counsell deceassed at hys house called Latham in Lancashire Hys lyfe and deathe deseruing commendation and crauyng memorie to bee imitated was suche as followeth Hys fidelitie to two Kynges and two Queenes in daungerous tymes and great Rebellions in whyche tyme and alwayes as cause serued hee was Lieutenaunt of Lancashire and Cheshire and lately offered tenne thousande menne to the Queenes Maiestie of hys owne charge for the suppression of the last rebellion His godly disposition to his tenants neuer forcing anye seruice at theyr handes but due payment of theyr rent His liberalitie to strangers and such as shewed themselues gratefull to him His famous houskeeping and .xj. score in checkrol neuer discontinuing the space of twelue yeare His feeding especially of aged persons twice a day .lx. and odde besides all commers thrice a weeke appoynted for his dealing dayes and euery good Fryday these .xxxv. yeares one with another two thousande seuen hundred with meate drinke money and money worth There was neuer Gentleman or other that wayted in his seruice but had allowance from him to haue as well wages as otherwise for horse and man His yearely porcion for the dispences of his house foure thousand pounde His cunning in setting bones disioynted or broke his chirurgerie and desire to helpe the poore His deliuerie of his George and Seale to the Lord Straunge with exhortation that he might keepe it so vnspotted in fidelitie to his Prince as he had and his ioy that he dyed in the Queenes fauour Hys ioyfull partyng this worlde his taking leaue of all his seruantes by shaking of handes and his remembrance to the last day The .xxviij. of Nouember Iohn Hall late of Battell in Sussex Gentleman Hall and Wilkinson executed and Oswolde Wilkinson late of Yorke and Gallour of York Castel being before arraigned and condemned of treason were drawne from the Tower of London to Tiburne and there hanged bowelled and quartered Great frost a sharpe winter This yeare a greate and sharpe frost almost continually lasted from before the feast of all Saintes till after the feast of the Epiphanie of our lord with somtime great and deepe snowes and sometymes raines which freesed as fast as the same fell to the grounde wherethrough at Wrotham in Kent and many other places the armes and boughes of Trees being ouercharged with Ice brake off and fell from the stockes of the same Trees Also the wynde contynued North and East till after the Ascention day with sharpe frostes and snowes whereby followed a late spring 1573 L. priuie seale deceassed The twelfth of Ianuarie William Lorde Howarde Baron of Effingham Lorde priuie seale knight of the noble order of the Garter and one of the priuie Counsaile deceassed at Hampton Court Erle of Worcester sent into Fraunce The .xviij. of Ianuarie William Lord Somerset Earle of Worcester began his iourney toward Fraunce to the Christning of the kings daughter there in stead of the Queenes Maiestie of Englande who sent with him a Font of Golde for that purpose weying .326 ounces The sayde Earle with many of his companie were robbed vpon the sea by Pirates of muche of